Starts of the Week + Week 7 Breakdown, Hot Potato - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/20

I mean, you know, you got to. There are a lot of fantasy relevant players in this matchup. I mean, you have, uh, Dak Prescott, who I think if you were waiting for him to come back, you know, I know teams that had Stafford or Russ. And look, just put Dak back in your lineup. Agreed. Against Detroit, who is, uh, poopy against all positions. 31st best against quarterbacks. Yes. And then, um, You know, Zeke. Oh, 31st best against running back. The battle plan. I can't help but feel like it's some sort of trap. I don't. Don't. I don't think it's a trap. I don't think. Kyle, look this up for me. What's Zeke's highest scoring game? Probably last week. Oh, in the last two years? Oh, I thought you were saying this year. I just like, when's the last time you scored two touchdowns? I don't know. This week.

Yeah, this week. So Zeke is going to be talked about here. Tony Pollard, I think you can shoot your shot with him. Tony Pollard, Eno. Eno. I'll take the volume. Tony Pollard. Okay. Yeah. I mean, he's getting like, what, eight carries? Jamal Williams in the same game. Oh. With DeAndre Swift expected to be back. Yeah. Jamal Williams is still the, I mean, he's still the goal line running back. I think even with DeAndre Swift back. So you could go for it. Dallas is such a tough defense. I think I'd go Pollard. I'd go for the home run. C.D. Lamb. Yep. Michael Gallup. Is he a flex consideration for your roster this week? Yes, he is. With the amount of buy weeks and injuries that are happening, I do think he is in flex consideration. I have to unfortunately start him in our league of record. So that's kind of where I am on him. He's not someone I'm trying to push in my lineup, especially I'm a little bit more worried about the DAC injury.

than you and not because of any historical or analytical issue. I just fear the first game back in the what-ifs. But the matchup is certainly nice to Dax's thumb here with the Detroit Lions on the other side. So yeah, you can start, you could start Michael Gallup. I think that Dalton Schultz is actually going to have a big game. That's where I wanted to get here because I'm excited for everyone in Dallas. Dalton Schultz is very interesting because week one, When you had a healthy Dalton, you had a healthy deck, he was what he was last year, which is just a necessary piece of this offense. And Dak gives a good target share to the tight end position here. And last week he got, he kind of re-agravated that knee injury right before the game was at late scratch. But he had a full practice on Wednesday. Is Dalton Schultz somebody that if you are in a tight-end purgatory?

would you be interested in trying to go get him right now? I think it's about that rapport with Dak. And I think that if he's fully healthy, he practices all week, he's going to start the ascension towards being a reliable tight end. Like if I'm moving forward, you know, I'm looking at him like the Tunyan range, maybe better than Tunyon? I'd say better than Tunyon. Yeah, I mean, second half of the year, Dalton Schultz should be a really good... volume, you know, he should be nervous about whether it happens week one when he's back out there in the field. Like personally, I would absolutely not play Dalton Schultz. I,

Almost every other tight-in we've talked about, I would personally would. And that's why we have different voices here. The knee issue is my 100% only fear with Dalton Schultz. If I knew he was actually healthy, and look, he practiced in full, but that doesn't mean that you're healthy. When you get out there, he's already re-agravated this injury. Since he had the injuries, he's missed two different games, two different times, and in between... those games was not good. I have to wait until I see him healthy on a field before I put him back in my fantasy lineup. That's very fair. But for the trade, if you're going to go get Dalton Schultz, I think you've got to make your decision of, will, do you think that he's good to go and you think Dak is good to go? Because if so, then you need to go get Dalton Schultz right now. Because if you are wrong and Dalton has, if Dalton has 50 in a touchdown, you're,

That trade window, I think, is slammed shut. Absolutely. If you want to trade for Schultz now, I'm fine with that. But you have to be trading to put him on, in my opinion, you trade to put him on your bench and wait and see. DeAndre Swift, limited on Wednesday, pushing towards playing in week seven. I don't think it's a guarantee. It's not. Which means, you know, Jamal Williams could get the start again. We're expecting Amman Ra Saint-Brown to be healthy, which means. Production? Absolutely. Amon Ra is right back into your lineup. He's been too good to question whether, look, it's not a great matchup, but half of the matchups in the league aren't great. You start your studs and Amman Ra's a stud. Now, Hawkinson is not necessarily a stud. Four targets, one for six before the buy, tough defense. Dallas has given up about 5.9 points a game to the tight-in position. And, uh,

You know, they're a top 10 defense even in schedule adjusted against tight ends. It seems a little nerve-wracking to throw Hawkinson out there. Yeah, it does, especially when- Amman Ra's back. Yeah, Amman Ra's back. And against this defense, how many times are they going to want him in line, chipping, blocking, helping out there and not getting those sweet, sweet targets? Would you play Tunyon over him? Because I would. I think I would, yeah. Hawkinson or Hayden Hurst against the landing. Oh, you dog. I'm playing Hawkinson. Yeah, I'll go Hawkinson. Okay. Yeah, I do pretty much anything to not play Hayden Hurst. Really? Hayden Hurst been okay, but I think part of Hayden Hurst's kind of ascension has been T. Higgins injury. If T. Higgins is at full strength, that's where I'm avoiding Hurst. The three, two, and one. Indianapolis Colts. Blast off.

I hope that's what it is for Jonathan Taylor. They take on the Tennessee Titans again. They played just a couple weeks ago. Titans are three and two. The Draft King Sportsbook line here, Titans minus two and a half. The overrunners 42 and a half. And the winner takes control of the division. Now, did you say the winner or did you say winter? Oh, winter taking control. Vermont weather report on Derek Henry. Oh, boy. Is there snow on the ground now? I've been looking deeply into this. I feel like we should have lighting with snow flurries. You got to work on this out. We need a snow machine. All right. Well, now we're just ridiculous. Yeah. And some jingle bells. Look, if you're talking Cranberry Lake up in, you know, the northern. Oh, yeah. The world renowned.

Cranberry Lake. Yeah, in the northern parts of New York, very close to Vermont, it does appear that snow will be coming. But across the Vermont state line, right now, it does not project to have snow by Saturday night. That's not great. That is not great. Well, weathers can surprise us. Oh, absolutely. People in Vermont keep a surprise to the snow on the ground. Well, it's a repeat because these two teams played, like I said, a couple weeks ago. Week 4, Tennessee won 21 to 17. That's the game that Jonathan Taylor got hurt in. Just moments ago, Kyle shared a tweet from Stephen Holder about Jonathan Taylor saying he is the one that drove the decision to sit out last week's game. He said, quote, you just know your body. That's, I mean, that's impressive. And that he's feeling pretty good for this week. It's a big game. Henry went for 114 and a score against the Colts. This one's in Tennessee.

But the Colts office showed some signs of life. On the Spotify live show yesterday, we talked about the fact that the Colts just start slow. They just seemed to start slow. Last year, John the Taylor, the first three weeks, it wasn't, it was right before he went on that massive run. I think we all would prescribe to the Taylor active Taylor play. Yeah. Yes. It's not a perfect matchup. The Tennessee Titans seemed like it the first time around. Yeah. I mean, the Titans have more of a pass funnel. defense where they're tough against the run and they're so bad against the pass. What you saw last week, the kind of, look, Matt Ryan had a like legitimately good, maybe great game last week when he was slowing in it around. I think he had three passing touchdowns, no interceptions, 300 plus yards. So, you know, the match up here against the Tennessee Titans, I think that you're talking, Alec Pierce is in play.

Obviously, Petty City is out there. What about 11 targets seven for 57 in a hush down chasing? Oh, you're not going to do it. The wide receiver 11 last week. No. No? No. Played on 100% of the snaps for the Indianapolis. Is this Paris Campbell? This is Paris Camble. Yeah, we don't chase the awful tower. We watch it from a distance. Make sure it's not a mirage. It's interesting. I will point out when we talked about this game after Taylor struggled, it was massive surprise because everybody thought that Tennessee was the worst run defense in football. You remember that? It was the first couple, three weeks into the year, we thought it was a disaster that Taylor struggled against them. Now they're ninth against the run, eighth against the run and schedule adjusted. So things change, is my point. Like maybe our perception of that run defense was wrong.

It seems that it was. Is Matt Ryan? He's streamable. Okay. He's streamable. A big difference from the last week from the other games, they were throwing it even shorter than Matt Ryan had been previously. So that's the only reason why, like, do you in the darkest of hours consider playing Paris Campbell? Because if they're going to do the quick pass and short stuff, that that's where Paris Campbell is. I can't do it. I don't blame you. I can't do it because I would play pity before him and I would play. Of course. And I would play Alec Pierce before him. So then you're saying, do I want Matt Ryan's third option? And the answer is no, especially with Jonathan Taylor dependency. It's returning. They can actually use what they want to do. Fair. And they threw the ball a lot to Dion Jackson last week. So if Jonathan Taylor is back, I expect him to be involved in the passing game as well. That would be a delight. Can he please come back and be himself? It would be great.

I haven't gotten a lot from him since my trade. Understand. No, no, no, me. I'm drafting him. It's about me. I've gotten less from him since my trade. Robert Woods has had fab spin on him two different times this year. The first time was after the Trailingberg's injury and he went out for four receptions. I'm sorry, he went out and disappointed. Yeah. Then he had a buy week, so a lot of people dropped them. And then he got picked up again. Now. His first shot without Trailing Berks was four for 37, no score. Are we just? No, thanks. I mean, if you have to start one. If I have to start one, Titan wide receiver, I don't think that's a rule. No, if you, I mean, if, if I have to start one, I'm certainly going to throw Robert Woods. You'd start him over Paris Campbell, right? I don't know. Yes, I would start Robert Woods over Paris Campbell. In a PPR, I think I might go Paris.

How many points per deception did Paris get on all the other games? Yeah. When he had 30242. Yeah, I mean, he had a big week with 11 targets last week, but that is one out of six. And five out of six are bad. I was going to say, don't include that. That was the best game of Paris Campbell's career. Entire career. Yes, it was. Paris Campbell had never had a top 24 finish. You know who does not have a top 24 finish on this year? Robert Woods. So break out, break out, start of the week, Paris? I'm just saying I like it more than Robert Woods. That's fine. Robert Woods was 26th a couple weeks ago. So you're right. Green Bay, three and three, taking on the two and four Washington commanders. The Draft King Sportsbook Line Packers minus four and a half over under is 41 and a half. That's not a lot. Taylor Heineke's going to get the start for the commanders. Brian Robinson will undoubtedly get all of the work for the commanders.

And that... Are you sure? I mean, you had... Like, I'm not just trying to be like a Gibson apologist, but they did say after the game, Ron Rivera said, we got away from Antonio Gibson. That's on us. We need to get him out on the field a bit more. Is that concerning it all for Bert Robinson who... The story is sensational of him returning from his assault and getting shot. It's a great story. But he's been incredibly inefficient. He was gifted a touchdown last week. And if they do, if he has to split more of that early down work with Antonio Gibson, does that concern you? So as the person in the middle here, obviously Gibson's been your champion and Andy's been touting Brian Robinson for a while, I lean more with what the evidence we've seen than the verbiage that's been spoken in the, you know, in the press conferences. Brian Robinson, they clearly love this guy. They've.

played him well ahead of Gibson, and he is the one that I think will get the vast majority of work in this game. He'll get all the goal line, too. Even if he will get the goal line opportunities if they come. I mean, for this team with Taylor Heineke, you could say, oh, you get all the goal line, but it's kind of like a target market share of a low pass volume team. It doesn't really matter. You can get. You know, what was the stat? A.J. Dillon has 100% of the carries inside the five on the season. He has all two. From week one. Yeah. And so it's like, if you don't get them, you don't. Well, let's talk about those two guys in the same match. Because the one area of the Packers are not great against. It is the running game. And that is an area where Washington schedule adjusted. They're seventh in the league. I imagine we'd go Brian Robinson over A.J. Dylan. Yes.

Aaron Jones, I think this will be a very good game for Aaron Jones. It's time that they rotate their offense back to him. Randall Cobb and all of those targets will not be a part of this offense. I don't think they're going to put it all on Romeo Dobbs. And so I think Aaron Jones is going to be the beneficiary, and we're going to talk about him later along with Robert Tunyon, who I also think you can play this week. due to the absence of Randall Cobb. Yeah, Alan Lazard is a great start. This matchup against the Washington Manders. Pretty juicy. It's great. They are the worst schedule adjusted against wide receivers. With Randall Cobb out of the way, there's a little bit more target clarity for Alan Lizard and Romeo Dobbs. Romeo Dobbs was shut down last week by Sauce Gardner, but he had the targets. So I think both of those players are in play. Alan Lazard is someone you should start. Romeo Dobbs is someone you can start if I had to make that Dobbs versus Gallup decision.

Dangerous? Not too dangerous. No. I feel like that reference went, is that just a callback to Russell Wilson's Danger Witch? Yeah, dangerous. If you say it like that. I thought we were just talking about the sub. Yeah. The sub does look good. Yeah. It's hard to look past Russell Wilson to see the sandwich, but the sub actually does look kind of delicious. What's the sub? It's a little spicy. It's got bacon. It's got a ton of meat on it. It's dangerous. It's a little spicy. Oh, man. Oh, there it is. I can't hear it. I tweeted out. I don't have enough cringe left in me. He's taking all my cringe out. I feel like my cringe meter is, is it like one percent? And I'm going to die if I see another Russell Wilson cringe marshal. So Romeo Dobbs last week. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Was shut down in production, but did have nine targets. Christian Watson, who.

Should have been benefiting here from the Randall Cobb missing games, but Christian Watson did not practice on Wednesday. He's still dealing with that hamstring injury. So I think that Lazard and Dobbs are both safe and in play. Do you want to touch the heinie? Terry McLaren, Curtis Samuel, John Dotson, probably not playing. He's, Dotson came back to a limited practice on Wednesday. I think that. The thing to talk about here is Terry McLaurin. Last year, he had a 25% target share with Taylor Heineke. This year he's... Yeah, but he didn't have Curtis Samuel. Yeah, that's fair. I was going to say. That's that, which is a fair counterpoint. But this year, he has seen more than 20% of Washington's targets in just one game. And I mean, to the, okay, well, they didn't have Curtis Samuel last year. Does Taylor Heineke have a rapport?

with Curtis Samuel that they've been able to build up. He has it with Terry. He knows he trusts him. He's going to go to him. So I think we have a little bit. He'd be the one to start of them all. Yeah. We have a little bit more hope, I think, for Terry this week. Do you disagree with that? Would you start Curtis Samuel over McLaren? Curtis Samuel over McLorn. I think if it's a full PPR, yes, because Curtis Samuel is going to get manufactured touches that are less about rapport. But I don't think he's going to do much with it. This is not a good defense to go up against. And honestly,

I would prefer to go away from Terry McLaur and Curtis Samuel. I would play both Alan Lazard and Romeo Dobbs over the Washington Mander's wide receivers with Heineke. So we have an update. John Dodson left practice early today with the trainers. Are they just going out for drinks? Maybe. Maybe we can hope, or this is the Keenan Allen and now Dodson has reagravated. And if it's a reaggravation, which it is. Yes. That's now a longer timetable. That means he's not playing next week. This is why Keenan Allen's thinking about not playing. Exactly. You come back and re-aggravate a hamstring issue. It's a much more major problem. Tampa Bay 3 and 3 taking on the 1 in 5 Carolina Panthers, the Draft King Sportsbook line. Buccaneers minus 11 on the road over under his 40. That gives the Panthers under 15 points, which makes perfect sense.

PJ Walker had a negative A dot. A dot is average depth of target. For the whole game. For the whole game, his average depth of target was. Was Christian McCaffrey? It was like there was a strong wind. And if you threw it forward, it would go backwards. He didn't. It's one of the most impossible stats I've ever heard of. How is it even? Because everything went to Christian McCaffrey. It did behind the line of scrimmage. He threw the ball 16 times. Oh, that's delightful. And there's been talk this morning about the McCaffrey trade rumors. They're really picking up steam, not necessarily where, but the teams are digging deep on being able to pull this off. Oh, please be good for me. If it's, if I'm just, I'm not, I'm not saying that this is going to happen at all, but I'm saying that it would happen if I was the general manager of the Carolina Panthers. If I'm in legitimate trade talks for Christian McCaffrey, I do not put him on the field. I, I,

I do not. We don't need to highlight Christian McCaffrey anymore, you know, to convince them to pull off a trade. I get him healthy. I say, here's a buy week. Get a fresh player. But I don't want to put those fears out there because I'm not the general manager. I mean, I don't disagree with the logic. And also. shame on you for even putting that into the universe. What if they put them out there in one of those big bubble suits? They just said, no, we're playing them like normal. This is the new uniform protocol here. It's his new helmet. It just covers this whole body. He's the RB3 on the year, by the way, 21 opportunities per game. On an offense that's been this bad, McCaffrey has been that good. DJ Moore, however, not good. Goodness. And you can't play him. Please don't. No. And on the other side, Jason.

You like Tom Brady this week? I think we all would start Tom Brady against the Panthers. Yep. Leonard Fournett is the RB5 on the year right now and should continue to see a lot of dumps from Mr. Thomas Brady. He's going to dump like a truck. I feel like we're setting them up. I mean, I gave him a lot of time, right? You gave him so much time that I put the ball in the tea. You put the ball in the tea. I picked it up and I said, hey, look. The ball is on the T and then I put it back on the T. Yeah. I even tried to make some eye contact. Yeah. He was over there sports betting or something. Yeah. What were you doing over there, Al? Are you taking down a danger witch? I was checking in for a flight.

Oh. See, I knew there was something going on. There's no way. You're on those ones and twos. Yeah. Yeah. I knew it. Those are time sensitive, man. Yeah, no. That is true. That is true. Is this a boarding group situation? Yes, sir. Yeah. What'd you get? Oh, that's not worth it. You didn't even get what you wanted. Oh, man. All right. You're late to both parties, buddy. That drop hit on the C group. All right. All right. Well, twice. Why not? Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, play them. Yep. You want to dart throw it tight in. Kate Otten is there, but the Panthers are fifth in schedule adjusted against the tight end position. And it's just a, it's a little nerve wracking. Kate Otten is nothing more than a DFS dart throw for a cheap salary. You're not going to play. Is he yours?

He is not, no. This matchup isn't the right one. And there's a couple. There's actually a handful of tight ends that I quite like this week. Yeah, the good news is in week five, he saw 14% of the targets with camera braid out. And you expect camera braid to be out with that second concussion. The New York Giants are five and one. We'll let that sit out there in the air for a moment. Okay. And the underdogs. against Jacksonville in Jacksonville this week, the drafting sports book line, Jags minus three. Come on. Really? I mean, I'd hit the button for my almost upset, but I feel like that's, is that even count? Sure. I'll take a layup, whatever. I don't need to bomb from three. Andy's almost upset of the week. That is the line, right? Yeah, no, it is for sure. Yeah, it's probably one of the most mystifying lines of the week.

Well, we'll find out why we're wrong very soon. When I see a line like this that is so surprising, I know that... Yeah, we'll be wrong. That the sports books know something I don't. Jacksonville three-point underdogs. The over-underers, 42 points. No, Jacksonville's three-point favorites. The over-underers 42 points. The Giants can't get no respect. They're 34th or sorry. 31st and passing yards per game, 18th and points per game. Their defense has been outstanding. Number one, in fantasy points given up against wide receivers. Schedule adjusted, not as good, but still top half. Their schedule has been helpful. Fortuitous. Yes, but you can't do anything but play your schedule. Sure. And they've managed to win. That being said,

offensive starting options for the Giants, there's not a lot of them. There's two of them. There's Sequan Barkley. He is obvious and in your lineup. And then the other one that I am very, very curious about, I am 100%. It's too late now, but picked him up wherever he existed on waivers. And hopefully you grabbed him as Wondale Robinson. I don't think I'm starting. No, I'm not going to start Wondale Robinson. You know, on Draft Kings, he's only 4,500. If you're looking for a cheap option and a full PPR, they could come out in surprise. I think Wondale's a good way. Wondale, Rondale. You'd go Rondale. I'd go Rondale. I would go Rondale right now because Wondale, what did he have? Did he have 30% of snaps or fewer than that last week? It was very little. His targets per route. 23% of snaps. Targets per route run was sensational. It was like the signs were fantastic of moving forward, but.

I still need, I need to see him above that 50% snapshot. What about Wondale or Zay Jones who leads the Jacksonville Jaguars in receptions? Give me Zay Jones. Yeah, Zay Jones is the safer option. This is calling your shot. When I talk about Wondale and starting him this week, if you're going to put on the iron underpants to do that, that's just calling your shot saying what we saw and knowing that he was a starter to start the season. Now that they worked him back into the rotation, they have another week. He's just going to be the starter this week. If he is the starter, he should actually be a good play. The problem is he has not been a full-time starter yet in his career. So you're calling your shot here. I think it's above 50% that the shot comes through and that he is good. But that's, it's a gamble you don't need to take. When you have guys like Zay Jones that you just know our.

playing, you know, all the snaps and running all the routes and getting a bunch of targets. Mike, you like Evan Ingram this week. Yes, I do. Revenge game. We're going to talk about him in a little bit. I shouldn't have said it like that. I should have said, Mike, you like Evan Ingram all the time. I do. He's your Valentine. Maybe. It's in consideration. Sequin has been amazing. You're obviously starting him, but just to throw it out there. He leads the NFL and carries touches in total yards. The running back position in Jacksonville, that's where it gets real frightening because, yes, Travis E.TN, he's out snapped James Robinson in three straight games. I mean, but what do you do against this Giants defense? I'd prefer. Are you willing to flex Travis E.T.N. Of the two, yes, because it's you're just, you're hoping at some point Travis E.T.N. Rips off a 40-yard carry, and that's his production for the day. The last two games.