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Mike says he spent the weekend at a punk music festival, where spotty service spared him the live Cardinals collapse while messages from the hosts, school friends, and his father exploded his phone.
The hosts sarcastically claim to be above early-season emotion, immediately followed by one wanting to knock down the Chase statue in front of him. Published frames show several desk football figures, but the exact Chase object is identified by dialogue rather than safely resolved visually.
Rather than benching a player and hurting the team, the hosts propose discipline through carrying luggage, taking out garbage, serving as a butler, doing socks, and washing laundry. Direct video confirms no punishment is performed on the show.
The Cardinals collapse sends everyone—including Kyler and Marv—into the sun. A play that no coach or quarterback can change makes the staff qualified to run a whole Chick-fil-A, while the fandom debate says Arizona natives were born on the Titanic: Jason's side must go down with the ship, and Mike is accused of cowardly future bandwagoning before Tampa Bay is selected as a second team.
The sight of Brett Rypien on a depth chart immediately revives Brett Rippin' Farts. Minutes later Jacoby Brissett becomes Jacoby Beef Brisket after the hosts ask where the beef is.
After Cam Skattebo pancakes a lineman, the hosts say something is wrong with him in the best way, call him a crayon eater who found his sport, and add that he definitely ate paint chips as a child.
Papa Josh audibly confirms trading Ja'Marr Chase for Quentin Johnston while the camera stays on the hosts. Later Kyle performs a ten-year day-two-running-back lookup and puts the statistic in the shared show document without a producer cutaway.
Mason Taylor's twelve targets trigger meows and 'disgusting, cowardly kitty cat points.' Because the Jets play in London, the hosts imagine his pet-transport requirements: certificates, rabies proof, Benadryl, quarantine, and the climate-controlled luggage compartment.
The waiver block ends with the recurring Full Stream Ahead cue. Direct video audit confirms animated tracks, the hosts riding a train through smoke, and a Full Stream Ahead monitor graphic when the desk returns.
All three hosts are at the desk. Mike reports missing the Cardinals game while attending a weekend punk festival with unreliable service and an exploding phone. The show's claim to emotional level-headedness immediately collapses when a host wants to knock down the Chase statue in front of him; direct published frames show several football figures on the desk but do not safely isolate which one is Chase, so that identification remains dialogue-based. The hosts reject benching useful players as discipline and instead imagine luggage duty, garbage, butler service, socks, and laundry; direct video shows this is talk at the desk, not an enacted punishment. Arizona's loss sends everyone into the sun, turns the Cardinals staff into a Chick-fil-A crew that cannot change a doomed play, and revives the hosts' fandom as a Titanic: Jason and another loyalist insist they must go down with the ship while Mike is accused of cowardly future bandwagoning and nominates Tampa Bay as a second team. Brett Rippin' Farts returns, Jacoby Brissett becomes Jacoby Beef Brisket, and Cam Skattebo's crayon-eater persona is reinforced. Papa Josh audibly confirms trading Ja'Marr Chase for Quentin Johnston; direct frames remain on the three hosts, so he is an off-camera producer voice. Kyle supplies a day-two-running-back lookup through the show document without a visible cutaway. Mason Taylor becomes a meowing cowardly kitty cat who needs rabies papers, Benadryl, quarantine, and luggage-compartment travel for London. Full Stream Ahead closes under its confirmed published train animation.
But I don't know if I do that. I would do it. I think. For Devante Adams? For Devante Adams. I think I'm actually a no on that one and I want to say yes. Okay. George Pickens? Um, boy, I guess it's harder to trade Jamar Chase than I thought it was. It's really hard to let go of something so beautiful. That's what you'd have to do, probably. And I don't know if the Pickens manager does it, but maybe you leverage the return of CeeD Lamb to do it. So, yeah, Papa Josh, you traded Chase for Quentin Johnston? I did. Yeah.
I would have done it too. So, yeah, I think that could still be fine for you. It's just a tough week. Kyler Murray's foot will be monitored throughout the week, says Jonathan Gannon. He actually left that game to go to the locker room for a second and came back and I think he'll play, but he might not. And if he doesn't, it's Jacoby Brissett. Snoop Huntley. Where's the beef? Yeah, I don't know where the beef is. We don't get a lot of Jacoby Brissett talk on this show. Jacoby beef brisket. There it is. He's earning with the start. Snoop Huntley might be the starter for Baltimore.
Whoop. Okay. See you, Cooper. Yeah. Cooper Rush. Yeah. Lamar Jackson, if he can't play, it might be Snoop Huntley. Antonio Gibson out for the year with a torn ACL. It's a bummer. Tyrone Tracy, limited. He may be back this week. I was a little bummed at the production from Cam last week. Scatterboo. Did you see his block? His block was amazing. He pancaked alignment. Dude, there's something wrong with him. Yes, I agree. In the best possible way. He's a crayon eater. He found his sport. Yeah. He did find his sport. Did you eat paint chips as a kid? Yeah. Yeah, he definitely did.
Saquon Barkley did not practice on Monday. They estimated. Yeah, because they play Thursday. Every report I've seen is that he's just general soreness and going to play on Thursday. So I think they play the Giants on Thursday Night Football, but you got to monitor that. You could always toss somebody on your bench. We'll talk about who it might be. And that was news and notes sponsored by Progressive Insurance. Quote today at Progressive.com. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company affiliates and third-party insurers. Not available in all states or situations. Coverage subject policy terms, limits, and condition. We'll take a break. We'll talk waivers.
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The Texans. Did you really? And the Vikings. Dadgummit. Go on by. Yeah, he did it while complaining the whole week, too. Yeah, I thought he must have had a terrible week based on messages. I did. Based on all the complaining, I assumed he didn't score the most in the league. The Texans, you won't have to choose Woody Marks, Nick Chubb this week. They're going on by. The Vikings. You lose Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, and company. Going on by. No Jordan Mason. But those are the only two teams on the week six bye, so it's a little bit more manageable. We're going to dig into the running back position to kick things off.
Amazingly, the two-touchdown Kareem Hunt, still just 33% rostered in leagues. Michael Carter, 59% rostered. And then we can talk about the Chargers backfield. But those three situations seem to be the leaders in the clubhouse for running back. Yeah. Michael Carter is my number one by a lot. And Demarcato kind of got the spotlight because of the play. But it's like Carter played way more. Way more. Way more snaps. Got five targets. So he's at the top of my list. Because I think that you should stick. What if they want to punish Demarcato? Well, Gannon already came out and said that they will have no punishment for him.
Did he really? Yeah, he did. He came out and said there will be no punishment for him. He came out and apologized for how he treated him on the sideline. It was unbelievable. That was wild. Which he yelled in his face. That was wild. I think he hit him a couple times. And then he came out and apologized. That's not how he wants to act. He wants to be more level-headed. Like, Demarcato was destroyed there. And you just went and got in his face? Like, I don't know what help that's doing. I don't think football fans are happy in any situation.
Yeah, there is no right answer here. Because, honestly, part of me wants you to take Demarcato, yell at him on the sideline, and say, please go to the locker room, pack your bags, so you are no longer an Arizona Cardinal. Yeah. And then part of you wants to be like, hey, you got to build your players up. You got to do the right thing and not hurt your team. Right. Out of anger. And he has decided to do neither and both. So, he's like, I'm so angry. I hate you. No, I'm just kidding, baby. You're fine. You're not going to be punished at all.
He's probably the starter now. Michael Carter probably doesn't touch the ball. Overcompensate? Yeah, just overcompensate. That's my guess, because Gannon doesn't know what he's doing. He's like, don't sue me? Yeah. So much of it depends. Dude, dude, dude. Dude, it was not assault. Look, you got the start. You were wearing pads. So much of it has to do how the player reacts to it, too. And we don't know that. That's all behind closed doors. You know what I mean? What is Amari DiMarcato's attitude about what happened? And I know my attitude. He's moving on. Personally, so you've got Trey Benson, who is on the IR.
His seems like it will be longer than four weeks, but eligible to return in four weeks. So, maybe that pushes Carter ahead. But the Amari and Hampton, obviously, Trey Benson has already been one week into the IR. The situation with the Chargers, I feel like the Chargers are still a better offense, a better team, even though they've been struggling and they have the O-line issues. They are a better team, a better offense, and have a better quarterback. And so, that situation is very similar to the Cardinals with Hassan Haskins and Kamani Vidal Sassoon. But I think I want Haskins more than Carter.
Really? Oh, boy. You're that confident that Haskins is the guy? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I am not. So, when you watch the game live with the Chargers, what you saw was towards the end of the game, Hampton got injured, wasn't able to make it back, and then it was Vidal Sassoon getting the work. But when you actually look at how the game flow went, Hassan Haskins was involved early. Hassan Haskins was the backup. Yes. And then, later in the game, I mean, they literally, it was Trey Lance out there. Yeah, yeah, they had pulled everyone. That was when Vidal Sassoon was playing.
So, I think it's definitely Haskins as the starter. Sure. My counter to that would be literally Michael Carter, who was not active for the Arizona Cardinals. DeMarcado was the backup, and then he remained the backup. That's where I'm saying Michael Carter is by far my number one because I know he's the guy. Yes. Where the Chargers situation is at Haskins. Do they, or like, do they go the Tampa Bay route where we thought Sean Tucker might get more play, but they went all to Rashad White. I don't think either of those players is good enough for it to be just them.
Well, yeah, yeah, it'll be the platoon. That's the biggest issue I have. It's figuring out. Like, I'm Carter by so much more. Well, Carter's not going to be all just him either. I mean, DeMarcado will be involved just like he was. We've already seen it. Yeah. I mean, Michael Carter got all but seven touches in the entire game. I think 15 carries with targets is the recipe for Carter. It was 18. Oh, you're saying going forward? I'm saying like a baseline. I think Vidal's the better player than Haskins. And we have seen. And he did run better in that game.
And that's the problem is it's like they're not just going to play Haskins out of some loyalty or depth chart. They're just going to play the player that plays the best. And I have a hard time investing enough fab in that situation personally. But Jason has conviction around Haskins. And I don't think it's wrong, Jay, to be like what we saw on Sunday leans to Haskins. And that's how I would lean my priority and my fab. But I don't feel real confident that it won't end up being Vidal. Yeah, I will say that neither one of those players are very good.
And the offensive line now with the injuries does not look good. It's just a matter of still scoring opportunities. I will say this. The Cardinals around the red zone over the last couple of years, they have been. They rushed the touchdowns in. And we've seen it, whether it was DiMarcado, whether it was Michael Carter, Benson Conner of old. Bam Knight last week. Bam Knight got one. And so, you know, how many touchdowns each team scores, I feel like the Chargers will score more. But maybe this has put the ball in the hands of Justin Herbert more. And the running game doesn't work.
Maybe you swayed me to the Michael Carter side. My order would be Carter, Hunt. And then I probably would take the lower fab. I would go low fab on both of the Chargers guys personally. And just try to see whoever ends up on my team as a dart throw. Outside of that, pay attention to the snap counts going up for Kendra Miller. They've gone up five consecutive weeks. If they were to trade, I know you guys don't think it's likely. Well, I just, not to Arizona, but I think there's a chance that Kamara does to move. Yeah, I mean, to me, it's like you also defer to the veteran that wants to.
Like if your season's lost and the veteran wants to go and he's paid his dues, there's a chance he asks to go do that. Yeah. You know, it didn't work out for Sean Tucker this week. I don't think it's going to work out for Sean Tucker at this point with such a limited role. They just didn't give him very much work at all. It was disappointing. Pay attention to Brashard Smith still if the Chiefs want to keep getting him involved. But again, not a lot of work. Bashaw Tootin, not much going on there. Chris Rodriguez didn't get almost any work in this game, which Mike, we talked about it yesterday with JCM on the studs.
But like he had not practiced, JCM had not practiced the week that Rodriguez had played. And then now it was the JCM breakout game. We expect that Saquon is fine, but it's worth noting like at least a little tiny discussion in case all of a sudden something gets worse as the week goes on. How do you order that back? Because right in the beginning of the season, it was like, oh, Will Shipley looks like that guy. He looked great. Then he broke his ribs. They traded for Tank Bigsby. And then AJ Dillon's been fine. I don't know that he ever actually broke his ribs.
Like that might have just been an unconfirmed report. He came back way too soon. But like. And they call it an oblique. There's now three running backs there. How would you just order them? And I personally, if I'm going after these guys, it's like zero dollar bids. Yeah, yeah. Yes. And I don't because I don't think this is a high priority. The problem is, is I think Tank Bigsby's had zero opportunities with this team. But he very much looks like the Michael Carter of the situation to me. Could be. Where if you traded significant capital for him, if an actual injury knocked Saquon out,
not mid game, but for weeks, I think Bigsby gets the most work. He certainly could. For this week, if I'm just trying to prepare for that emergency situation, I would put Dylan at the top. But I don't feel super confident about it. Yeah, this is great because I think I've got Shipley at the top. So we all pick one. Yeah, this is more of a, I mean, like Michael Carter, if he still happens to be out there, is a great add. But otherwise, it's a lot of stashing of players. The drop candidates at running back that people are asking about, Woody Marks goes on
by. No, no. Isaiah Pacheco with a couple of better weeks. Him and Kareem Hunt, it's so tough because Pacheco's the one who's playing a lot. Kareem Hunt got the two touchdowns and had the big play. Probably always will get the two touchdowns. He probably will. RJ Harvey. No, no, no, no. Do not drop RJ Harvey. If RJ Harvey was on waivers, I would pick him up. I would too. But you wouldn't play him. No, I would not play him. JK Dobbins looks excellent. He is the starter. RJ Harvey might be irrelevant the entire rest of the season. But this is a rookie with high draft capital who has looked fine in his opportunities.
Amazingly, I can't even count over the course of the season how many have been called back. If you look at his box score, it's like he didn't do anything. It's like, well, he did a lot of things. They said in college, his college report is he needs a few holds to make a big play. Yeah. Well, he's good when they hold. They just got to get the flags not going right. But I wouldn't drop a rookie. Travion? No. I would not drop him. No, same. Same. Especially with Antonio Gibson. I know that Ramondre remains the guy, but they like to use multiple backs there.
This was like last week. There was a lot of Bill Krosky drops. And he was on our Wednesday episode was my pick him up if he got dropped. Rookies that have shown a little bit, they might get opportunity as the season goes along. You don't want those guys on waivers. You want them on your roster. I, um, Kyle shared something. I'm trying to find it. Yeah. Do you have it? Yeah. So Kyle looked it up. Oh, it's in our showdown. Of the 52 running backs drafted in rounds two or three over the last decade, 46% of them failed to have a 12 point week within their first five games.
And 67% of them had just one or fewer. So they don't all progress this fast. Yes. So, you know, Henry, Mixon, Javante, Miles Sanders, James Cook. Those were all names in that category. Day two, three or round two, three running backs that had not broken out at this point. And I mean, it's like there are scenarios. Jason's right there. There is a scenario where Harvey ends up not working out at all. And that will be a big time bummer because he looks like he has juice, but it's like Nick Chubb was drafted in the second round, did nothing for eight or nine weeks.
And then they traded Carlos Hyde. And then Nick Chubb was a league winning running back. It's just the. J.K. Doug has never been hurt before, right? No. Right. He is. He's got two strong legs, man. Yeah. Both of those guys are just keep them on your roster. Keep them tucked away in a safe space. Kyle pointing out at this point, Bucky had Bucky Irving of last year. League winning Bucky Irving at this point had one 12 point game through his first five weeks. Again, not to say that they will become those things, but we don't have enough time to throw
them away. Well, and if anyone's going to all of a sudden catch a hot streak to finish the season, it's these guys. Exactly. It's not a veteran who's been playing for four or five years. Yeah. Hassan Haskins has had his opportunity to kind of show he could do something special. And he has shown he can't. Now, he will have opportunity and opportunity can override that and be worthy of fantasy, you know, goodness, but not greatness. Greatness will come from these guys who have not yet earned their NFL opportunity. And when they do, they show that they've got something special. Wide receivers.
We want to let you know Jalen Coker also eligible to return. Uh, in week five, I don't know how much we care, but at least a little bit, a little bit. Yeah. Christian Watson eligible to return in week six, Jaden Reed week eight, Cedric Tillman week 10. Uh, Mike, uh, I don't know if you saw, but Isaiah Bond had eight useless targets. I did. I, yeah. Those Cleveland, Cleveland, I did see a good amount of the Gabriel throws. If we want to call, are those targets you're talking because they're short area. Yeah. Well, I, and just flying over people's heads.
I mean, he had two touchdowns. Yeah. He was okay. He didn't turn the ball over and they almost won. So, Hey, look, listen, there's a math equation. Every three Cleveland targets is one real target. Okay. That's fine. That's good. That's fine. So it would, so targets matter. If you get 30 of them, if you get 30, if you get 30, uh, all right, wide receiver pickups. Uh, let's talk about some names that are out there. There are a few names that we've talked about repeatedly week over week names that have been floating around like Trey Tucker and Troy Franklin that are just sitting there and they're
just kind of, you know, you know, okay. You can add them, you can spot start them, but they haven't been consistent. But the, the bigger names you had the huge week from Kendrick Bourne in San Francisco. I do want people to make sure that Juwan Jennings is not on waiver wires or have been cut because he will return to this team and will be more necessary. Kendrick Bourne, but he was targeted on almost 30% of his routes last week. Speaking of Kendrick Bourne 142 yards, you can't ignore that. Romeo Dobbs is coming off of a bi-week after his three touchdown game.