Fantasy Football - Week 4 Studs & Duds + Jason Goes Full Tilt - Podcast for 9/29

Anyway, Jack Prescott. Very, very good at football. So who knows what happened? Top five this week. Dak, Stafford, Mahomes, the last week, Jordan Love, Josh Allen. Green Bay. I don't know what's going on of how the NFL is wild of the first two weeks. You looked at the Green Bay Packers and you said that team is on their way to the Super Bowl. They might be the best team in the league. They might have the best defense in the league. And then they go and lose to the Cleveland Browns because they can't do anything on offense. And then they go against Dallas, whose defense is horrifically bad.

And Dallas lights them up. This was a wild week. And this is what makes the NFL so fun. All my pain aside. Andy, you brought this up. Yes, I was about to say. Middle of the day. Like, if you can bring up some of the examples. Oh, yeah. There was, you know, the... I mean, Carolina won 40 to nothing against Atlanta last week. And they got boat raced this week. Yeah. They're just completely trounced. The Saints, nobody gave them a shot. They played harder than the Bills played. And they almost beat the Bills. They were in that game. They were about to go up on the Bills late in the game on a Philly special.

That changed the game. Turned it around a lot when Olave threw an interception. And you... Thanks for my minus two. The... Yeah, that Olave didn't help. That was on you, huh? Yeah. No, I mean, first of all, two weeks of the NFL season is not enough. We all want it to be enough. We all spent the... How about three? Because we were going into week four. Okay. Three weeks of the NFL season. But I guess I was saying two because last week the Packers had that surprise loss. Right. So the first two weeks of the year, you're like, this is the best team that's ever played football.

But it's just not enough. We spent the entire offseason talking about these teams. And we're like, okay, let's make our conclusions. But that's the kind of thing that happened with Ashton Gentry and Amari and Hampton. Right? The conclusions were made. But it's a couple of weeks. It's two or three weeks. Like, the NFL changes. And it's so interdependent. You can't... You know, the 72-win bowls or whatever. The 70-win bowls... I don't remember how many of the one. No one knows what you're talking about. You can't... In basketball, there's five players on the court. It's just very, very hard to surprise somebody.

But in the NFL, it's 11 on 11. Yeah. Right? It's just like sometimes you can play harder. A play, a turnover. You know, it was... Dallas played really, really good football on the offensive side. They did. And it was predicated on an incredibly effective running game. Yeah. Javante was great. They kept chunking away yards on the ground, giving their passing game opportunities. And, you know, Dak looked amazing. He was... He was so good. He's been good this whole season. Like, he really has been. The touchdowns have come on the ground. But, like, play just where he's putting the ball, his decision making...

He's completing 73% of his passes. Yeah, he's been... Without CeeDee Lamb now for a game and a half. Yeah, he's been great. So, validation on your Dak excitement. Yeah, I love having him. I'm happy I've got him on many, many leagues. I'm not happy I had him on many, many benches. I am so thrilled for you to play Dak everywhere next week. Oh. And find out what happens. He will be in 100% of my lineups. Start of the week, Dak. What could go wrong? This whole episode needs, like, a special disclaimer. I want to put this in my neck. No, no, man.

Put it down. We're good. You're okay. Patrick Mahomes. He was great. Quarterback 6, quarterback 8, quarterback 20, QB 4. Well, he got Xavier Worthy back. Yeah. And we underestimated the impact that he could make. Or at least I did, personally. I thought the week... Oh, same. Coming back... I did not. The reports on Worthy were so all over the place. But, I mean, it was essentially, like, in the same sense. They're like, hey, Worthy's going to play a normal matchup. 9 of snaps. But we are pretty concerned about re-injury. It's like, wait. Wait, what? And, I mean, he played 59%.

It was, you know, it turned into the blowout at the end. But 5 for 83. Really helping... And a couple carries for 38 yards. So, I just mean, like, for Mahomes here, what are we doing? We're just... We're a couple weeks away from him getting his actual number one wide receiver back. Yeah, he's pretty good. Like, are we... They still can't run. Is Mahomes going to be back? Like, he was top 10 in three or four weeks, where last year he was in the top 10 four times. Yeah. He's top 12. Hmm? He's top 12. Rest of season? Yeah. I just...

I mean, like, so... He's start-worthy. Okay, so you're not ready to be like, yeah, we're so back? I don't know. I think Baltimore might have some real problems. Yeah. I think Baltimore has given up a ton of points. I think their defense is the problem. Yeah, they've given up a ton of points. And also, we brought this up last week, but, you know, the last couple of years, the week after you play the Detroit Lions... Seriously. I mean, they play a brand of football that takes a toll on human bodies, and the Ravens looked a little shellacked. Jordan Love, 31 for 43, 337 and 3 and 1.

Devilishly risky attempt into the back of the end zone to Matthew Golden that almost ran the clock out. That was horrifically bad at the end of the game by the Packers. It's amazing how often, like, bad clock management happens in the NFL, because I don't know if it's just a communication challenge of just, like... When you're in it, and I totally get, like, it's the game show thing, right? You can watch a game show on television, and you could think so clearly of how dumb are these people. Go participate in one. Yeah. Be the person who's in the hot seat, and all of a sudden, your brain just turns into mush,

and you're like, why can't I think of these answers? So, we need... I've said this for years. We need the kid who plays Madden up in the booth who is just... Like, they're not emotionally locked in. They're just watching the game. Yeah. But they know exactly what the protocol should be. Don't let it be a fan of your team. Yes. No, no, no, no, no. Just a kid. Just a teenager who's really, really good at game managing in Madden. You can't get in enough reps playing football. Exactly. Playing video games, you get in so many reps. You get in almost every game.

Well, we had problems with three different games. We had problems with the Cardinal game on Thursday. Cardinal's not taking up enough time. We had problems with the... Basically, almost repeated itself in the radar game, but they blocked the kick. Problems in this game, for sure. But Jordan Love was very, very good. 3-37-3. Didn't throw an interception. Ran for 28 yards. We'll take a break. We'll come back and talk about some more studs. All right. Are we done with quarterbacks? I just wanted to... No, no, we're not done. We're not done. Okay. It's just a break. Okay, good. We're getting Jason...

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Drake May was very good this week and has been very good the last three weeks. Probably the best sophomore quarterback. Better than Bo Nix. Better than Michael Pinnock so far this year. Wait. Time out without looking. Look away from your computer. How many passing attempts did Drake May have? I already saw. Oh, all right. I bet it was 17. It was only 17. Yeah. The Panthers got whooped. But I didn't want to move off of quarterbacks without the highlighting of Jackson Dart. 13 for 20. 111 and 1. That's not special. 10 for 54. And a rushing touchdown. And this dude, I mean.

Felt like it was every play. We'll see if you can. Can he do this every single week and take that type of punishment? But he was calling his own number and he looked good running the ball. He's going to break himself. It did look a bit like that. But for the time being. He needs to learn to slide a little bit more. But the scrambling 10 rushing attempts. Yeah. He completed 13 passes. So, like, 13 completions. 10 rush attempts. That is a wild. It was like, I'm going to look to throw on the ball. Well, he lost Malik Neighbors in the middle of the game.

That didn't help. No, it did not. So, we'll see. They go to New Orleans next week. We're looking at the running back position. Top five of the week. Ashton Gentry and Josh Jacobs. Which. I hope you traded four. Those were both the top two trade four candidates this week. That window is. Oh, it's completely closed. Yeah. Door has been locked. Yeah. Bored. Yeah. I. We got lasers. Hopefully, they're now on your roster. It was really. It was really a split reaction by me. Because I had been pushing really hard for Gentry in our league of record. And then he scores the first one.

And we're like, all right. Trade four candidate. But then I'm like, yeah. But I wanted one more week. You're right. You wanted another chance to get him. One week to solidify. And he went back to his. The Jameer Gibbs stance. I don't know if you knew this. Oh, I saw that. Remember Chip Kelly made him not stand the way he used to stand in college? Don't. Why? I. I'm not going to rule out that that had an effect. The Chicago Bears definitely have an effect. 32. But he caught two passes. They involved him in the receiving game. Why would you draft a guy at number four in the NFL draft?

And then be like, hey, the way you played in college. Don't do that. Yeah. You were at Boise State. Let's show you how you do it in the pros. If you lean over. And he went sixth. Jason. It is. Oh, I apologize. I. We want to be correct. Sincerely apologize. I said four. It was. It was great to see. Is this a superpower? Because the only two players I can ever remember that just stand like that are Jameer Gibbs and Ashton Gentry. It's so weird. If you haven't paid attention and you don't know this, go watch. You don't realize how weird it is until you look for it.

And then you go, why is Jameer Gibbs just standing like he's like, like he's just hanging out outside of a village. You know what they call it, right? No. What do they call it? The Michael Myers. Oh, yes. Yes. Because you just stand there. You have no idea. I mean, we were all tall and dead. We all learned in kindergarten, like when you go to PE, they're like, okay, this is the athletic ready position. Three point stance. Knees are slightly bent. Hands on knees. Ready for athletics. No, no, no. Pencil. Yeah. You want to be. Limp pencil. Do not be prepared at all.

The nice thing is, though, if you do have that stance, like let's say you have the Michael Myers stance, no tells. No tells in your game because you're just like completely unprepared. But it works. Josh Jacobs was awesome. Really was. Four for 71 through the air. Two touchdowns on the ground. Josh Jacobs owes Tucker Craft. He was hurt, though. I was going to say, did he get hurt at the end of that game? Because he kept going in and out. Something with his knee. But I mean, Tucker Craft, monster plays to go down right at the one. Thank you, Tucker.

Yeah. Hunter Henry did one of those, too. Yeah. That sucked. Kenneth Gainwell, third best running back on the week. Justice Hill with the gorbagiest breakaway touchdown ever. We're listing him in here? Well, he's number four on the week. Okay. He gets listed because he was number four. Bijan, 26.1. So good. And got caught on another breakaway touchdown somehow. For the record, he was running the fastest he had run all year on that play and still got caught. In his career? That's not great. But that's never been the Bijan experience. Here's a real headline from the week. And it's not going to make Jason happier.

It's going to make him much more unhappy than he already was. Woody Marks, 17 for 69 and a touchdown. 17 carries? Yeah. But also five targets, four for 50 and a touchdown. Mike brought him up a couple weeks ago. And I might have traded Jason Travis Hunter for Woody Marks this week. Yeah. You did. You said might, but it was real. Yeah. I did. You made the offer. And Woody Marks, I've got three good running backs. And then Woody Marks was just kind of a bench back. And I'm like, man, it's so weird to hold on to a day three pick on a bad offense versus

the number two overall pick in the NFL draft. So I took the deal. And I traded for Travis Hunter, who is pretty irrelevant. And barely played. Did you see there was some personal stuff going on there? On the defensive side. Well, no. He didn't play as many offensive snaps either. He was on 56% of the snaps, which is pretty much in line with what he's done the last. Which is not enough. Oh, I see. He only played wide receiver in the second half, not defense. Oh, okay. I don't know. It's weird. The Travis Hunter stuff is weird. Oh, no, it's not.

It's not at all. Shane Waldron. Oh, okay. Just wait until next year. I just mean that. No, no. It's very weird. Of course. You mortgage the future. You move up. You draft him over the other guys. Which, look, in the NFL draft, that's what everyone was clamoring for. Everyone was calling for it. He's a unicorn. Yeah, two for one deal. It feels like they just don't know what to do. Well, they had a big win, and their defense was the key to that win. Their defense is good. They managed it right. Amari and Hampton. Without moving on, though. Woody Marks, the rookie running back for the Texans, is someone that really needs to be on your radar.

He's probably rostered now. We've been saying to pick him up for the next couple weeks. I bet he's not. But he is available in enough leagues where you have to. I mean, this is a guy who he played more snaps than Nick Chubb. He has so much more to give the team than Chubb. Chubb's not going to go away. Sleeper has him listed currently. Let me guess. Okay. I bet it's 50%. You want to guess, Jay? You're the guess, man. Maybe less. I'm going to say 58%. 37%. Yeah. Woo! No, he wouldn't have been picked up. He wasn't a high-profile running back.

That's why he was a backup waiver picker. Yeah, Mike's been flagging it for a while, and Chubb's just not. Chubb just doesn't. He doesn't. He doesn't have enough. When you are an aged veteran who has lost the sauce, you've lost the juice, and if a backup has it, those are guys that you want to put on your bench. It doesn't always work out, but that's the type of situation you want to go after. And Woody Marks is on the rise. Yes. Hampton, CMC, Irving, James Cook, Judkins, ETN once again. Huge weeks. Javante Williams looks really good. Yeah. Against a really good defense.

All those backs looked good. Bucky's been amazing. James Cook, the running back, won. Quinshawn is the dude. And Travis ETN, genuinely... Looks like his own self. I think he's back. It's been a month now. And not only has he looked good on breakaway runs with speed that he just was not showing last year... And would not have made that run. Right. But the utilization of Travis ETN has... You know, it was like... We had some concerns. I had some concerns that Tootin was going to get more and more involved. And then, you know, he had 21 opportunities. We have held Liam Cohen, you know, to the fire over Brian Thomas Jr. and Travis Hunter and these other players.

But he has definitely transformed Travis ETN to the positive side. Sure. Wide receiver studs of the week. Puka Nakua continues the onslaught on everybody. He's probably... If we redrafted today, he'd probably be the number one pick. Number one or number two. Yeah. I would think so. Puka, Pickens, Dobbs with the three touchdowns. I don't know what the Dobbs yardage was. It was not very much. 58. Amon Ross St. touchdown continued. And then Metcalf with the huge touchdown on the doubling game. Looking at the Metcalf line, it's disappointing to me. It seemed like in the beginning of the game, they looked at what they had done with him.

And said, we got to make sure that we're getting him the ball. It was, you know, two pretty quick receptions. And I believe the third one was the 80-yard screen... Or not, slants to the house. And then he had two more catches in the rest of the game. Yeah, they were really playing from ahead. The defense was driving things. And then Kenny Gainwell was gaining so many... Yeah, maybe. ...first downs. It just didn't feel like it was very necessary. It does not need them at all. Utilization is frustrating. I don't think it should be frustrating. They were out to a big lead.