Week 4 Matchups + Swedish Hamstrings, In-or-Out - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/2

in this week that I had missed, but it was from head coach Bruce Ariens. Speaking about Kishon Vaughn says, your time is coming. So I'm not calling for Kishon Vaughn to break out this weekend, just saying if you got that empty space and you're looking forward for a strategy early pickup, the...

There's no guarantee that Ronald Jones is the safe and great play. I would throw Kishamvon on the back of your bench if you have that spot. One of the most common strategies I utilize, I'm sure a lot of listeners do, and if you don't start doing it, if you have IR spots, what will happen is every Sunday morning, there will be certain players that are ruled out. You know, the last couple weeks, it's been Jameson Crowder, who's been questionable, and then, okay, they rule them out. So I throw them to my IR and I pick up a backup running back. I pick up some running back that

If an injury happens, I get him before the waiver wire, Kisham Vaughan Vaughan is a name to look for. Hard part there is that we've been completely avoiding the backfield in general. I get it. So I just don't know what his upside is. G.O. Bernard, back to pick up. All right. Brooks, can you do me a favor? No more injuries, please. Can you sort that out? I'm working on it, man. I'm trying. You want good news? George Kittle. Yeah. Ian. Yeah. He's back, baby.

And Derek McKinnon. Yeah, in practicing in full. He's back. Yeah, everybody's healthy. Yeah. All right. Matchup time. Fantasy forecast. Arizona Cardinals at 2 and 1 take on the Carolina Panthers at 1 and 2. The Cardinals are three and a half point favorites. It's a 51 point over under. As Cardinal fans, Arizona residents, I don't want to see the Cardinals' offense without DeAndre Hopkins. That would be a significant. Agreed.

downgrade. I think anyone in who's an NFL fan or fantasy football fan does not want to see that happen. Outside of the Panthers fans. I don't think the Cardinals win the game without DeAndre Hopkins. So that'll be interesting. They are favorites right now. It's a 51 point over under. Okay, Jason, you brought up Kenyon Drake as your start of the week. Great opportunity here against the 31st ranked run defense in terms of fantasy points allowed to the running back position. Carolina.

They have struggled. This is the game that if you could have any confidence in Kenyon Drake, it has to be this one. You have to start Kenyon Drake. You're going to make a mistake if you don't. I realize he's been disappointing. He's gotten a lot of touches, hasn't done enough with them. But if you look at the Carolina defense, okay, they're the 31st rank on the season. And you go, well, it's only been three weeks. So that can be really skewed.

Well, let's look back to last year where they were the 32nd ranked rush defense. They've gotten a lot better. This is a lot of games running where they just give up a ton of fantasy points to the running back. If DeAndre Hopkins is in or out and hobbled or less than 100%, they're going to need to rely on Kenyon Drake. He's a must start, and that's why he's my start of the weekend. I will say this. I will be very concerned if at the end of this week, Kenyon Drake is the running back, you know, 28 and has.

15 touches for 46 yards, I will start to get worried. I will be worried. Yeah, fully worried? Yeah. You'll move the panic alarm up a little bit. Yeah, but it's not happening. Every single, I feel like this is a make or break week for so many players. And another one is DJ Moore. Mike started the week at the wide receiver position in this game. Real quick, though, Mike Davis, the other running back. Oh, he's a must play. Is he a must start as well? Yeah, absolutely. They're treating him like Christian McCaffrey.

He's getting the usage. He's getting targets. Don't you mean Miles Gaskin? They're treating him like Miles Gaskin. Sure. All right. DJ Moore has the solid matchup. I think this is another week where you look at DJ Moore and you adjust your opinion of him if he cannot put up a good performance in this game against Arizona. That's fair. Yeah, that is fair. But, you know, I'm with Mike on this.

We drafted these players high for a reason. And what they've shown so far this year is not that they are busts. It just hasn't happened, but they've been involved. And there's a lot of behind the scenes metrics that say, yeah, just stick with it. And the matchup is great. Yeah. Yeah. We'll see what DJ Moore can do. If Hopkins misses, if he decides to sit it down. Yeah, that's the big one. Arizona, Kyler Murray, the passing game. We know the pace of play. Arizona runs a lot of no huddle. They get a lot of offensive production.

from that wide receiver position. Who is the potential start there outside of DeAndre Hopkins? Is it Andy Isabella, who's had a couple of okay weeks? Larry Fitzgerald, who was basically ignored last week. Christian Kirk could be back with the groin injury. It's truly, we were talking about this at lunch the other day, and we each picked one of those three guys, which leads me to believe.

that you probably want to stay away. I mean, if you're looking at one of those players or MVS, I probably lean, I do lean towards MVS. If I were to take one of these players, I think it would be Andy Isabella for the deep big play hope, because I think that the range of outcomes for all three of these players is a really bad game. So I'm going to take who I think has the highest upside.

Robbie Anderson? Is he a solid wide receiver two in this matchup? Yeah, Robbie Anderson is getting the volume to be a wide receiver two, three every week. Does he deserve to be ranked ahead of DJ Moore on a weekly basis? He could. He absolutely could. Working his way there? The thing is they're both really, we have a very, very small data set, but their numbers are close. Robbie Anderson has scored, though. So that's the bigger difference between the two of them.

Kyler Murray is the QB7 on the week in our rankings. He was the QB 5, 5, and 10 through the first three weeks. He seems very safe at the quarterback position right now. What if Hopkins misses? Are you pivoting off of Kyler or because of the legs? Not against Carolina. Yeah. I mean, Kyler was a great, he didn't have Hopkins last year and he was a great fantasy quarterback. So here's a number that, a stat that speaks to the variance of the Carolina Panthers and DJ Moore. Teddy Bridgewater, seventh and passing yards, 30th.

in passing touchdowns. Like there's Teddy Bridgewater and the receivers are getting it done in yardage. We just haven't seen the scores coming. Do you think that that's a result of garbage time for them or being a team that's constantly giving it up on the other side? That's a good question. It's a good question. But I do believe that DJ Moore comes through with a touchdown this week. All right. Before we talk about the Minnesota Vikings and the Houston Texans, want to remind all the footclan, if you play DFS, the DFS, the DFS pass has been.

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The DFS Pond. The Minnesota Vikings, O and three, taking on the Houston Texans, O and three. Texans are three and a half point favorites. It's a 53 and a half point over under. I do think Houston wins this game. They haven't had very much success or an easy schedule thus far. Minnesota, it's just not been pretty. Both of these teams need a win really bad. And it's a pretty nice over under. Deshaun Watson, you're going to play Deshaun Watson in this game. Dalvin Cook.

Yes, absolutely. David Johnson. The tough schedule, you've got to keep that in mind with David Johnson. He is the RB21 through three weeks. So you're saying, okay, maybe not what you hoped. Well, he's played Baltimore. He's played Pittsburgh. He's had difficult situations, found his way into the end zone a couple of times. David Johnson's in your lineup. Yeah, he very easily could have been a start of the week this week. This is one of those, you know, King and Drake, David Johnson, these two guys are.

Bad couple of weeks, disappointing, I should say, not really bad for either, and the matchup is very good for both. And Alvin Cook is set up for success this week. He's our RB4 by consensus ranking. I think he's my number one overall on the week. Justin Jefferson is one of the big questions in this game. You have a kind of a philosophical view where you don't want to chase points in fantasy. But chasing points for Cedric Wilson.

is different than looking at a completely changed opportunity for a rookie-wide receiver when they break out. Will Justin Jefferson be one of the top-scoring receivers of the week? Probably not. But I do believe that what they did fundamentally last week, which was shift his role in the offense, increase his snap count target share, and then saw the results that they saw from it. Look, this team has to throw the football. They're not going to win with Dalvin Cook and defense. They're going to win throwing the ball.

has been historically a very competent, accurate passer. I think Justin Jefferson is a player you can start this week against this Houston defense. I agree. 78% of snaps last week, nine targets, and they were one point away from winning the game. I mean, it was a very, very close game with that. When you have a breakout to the tune of 175 yards as a first round draft pick,

You don't go away. You don't move from that. Obviously, he's not going to do this week in and week out. But yeah, I'm starting Justin Jefferson. If you grab Justin Jefferson, you paid a lot of fab or you burned your highest waiver priority to get him. So yeah, he's in my line. Mike, if you had to choose Terry McLaren, we have that injury tweak. We've got Baltimore or Justin Jefferson. Terry McLaren. But I was going to bring up a couple names for you, Andy. Okay. AJ Green versus Jacksonville.

Or the rookie Justin Jefferson. I'll probably play Jefferson. Brandon Cooks on the other side of the ball from Justin Jefferson. Great matchup against Minnesota. Will Fuller, variance, hamstring. I'll play Justin Jefferson. Okay. I would go Cooks, Jefferson, AJ Green. Cooks is sitting one for three right now, which is the same thing Justin Jefferson is doing. But, yeah, I understand people going either way there. Justin Jefferson is so tough.

We don't know the floor for him right now yet. Well, the floor is two for 26. I don't like chasing points, and I really don't like chasing rookie points. But the situation is there. He is supposed to be this guy. He was drafted to be the Stefan Diggs replacement. The New York Giants at 0 and 3 take on the Los Angeles Rams at 2 and 1. Rams are heavy favorites, 13 points. It's a 48 point over under.

It gives the Rams a 31 point implied point total. The Giants just under 18. I don't really see this game going against the script right now. The script question marks are Daniel Jones. I fully believe the Rams will do on offense, whatever they want to do on offense. I think that Darrell Henderson is going to have a great game. Mike's start of the week. And if...

They need or early enough if Woods and Cup can get involved. I think, look, I'm starting all my Rams because right now, Sean McVeigh has gotten this team. They're the number one in pass and rush success rate. They're just playing great. So the question marks to me are on the New York Giants side of the ball. Are, you know, the Daniel Jones in a multi-quarterback league. Can you start him in this matchup?

you know, DeVanta Freeman, you picked him up. How bad does it have to be in order to play him? And then you've got guys like Slayton and Golden Tate. I mean, if you're down 13 points and you're throwing the ball, there should be fantasy relevance here. James and Crowder last night got it done. Who gets it done for the Giants? Nobody. Someone will get it done. Not necessarily. I mean, I get it with the Crowder. Crowder is easier. There's one man. Right.