Week 5 Studs & Stinkers + Dak Fallout, Fumble Jones - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/12

Yeah, Adam Thielen is outstanding. Always open. I always wonder how he can just target him on every play he wants to. And it's because he's always open. He's the wide receiver one. Is he really? Wow. Unless Brooks is lying to me. I'm on it. I wouldn't do that to you. He is. He has three top five finishes in five games this year. If you look at his bad game, it came against the very stout.

Colts defense. But Atlanta next week, is that going to stand in his way from a continuing the streak? No, he's been great. He's always been a underrated great wide receiver. Yeah. And, you know, as long as Cousins shows up, Thielen shows up. Matt Caff. He's good. He is incredible. And if you look at his games this year, he's got, I think, four catches in.

like four out of five of them. He's above 90 yards in every game. He has 300-yard games. He caught two touchdowns last night, five touchdowns in five games. He is maturing into the alpha. He is. That you look at for future, like Dynasty. I saw J.J. Zacharisen talk about this. He just tweeted it boldly. D.K. McCaff, the Dynasty number one pick. Do you agree with that? He's attached to Russell for the next.

10 years of his career? I mean, I would probably take Tyreek Hill and maybe Devante Adams, probably Devante Adams. But, I mean, he's in the conversation for sure. I think he's worthy of it. Only, you know, does Devante Adams have two years with Rogers? I don't know. It's just interesting when you're 22 and you're dominating in your second season. 22.5 yards per reception.

My son was watching this game. He's got D.K. Metcalfe. So he's just a monster fan. And so he's calling for him to be targeted on every single play. But it feels like a player you can target on every single play because he's too big to, you lose the risk of throwing an interception when he can out jump you or push you to the ground as a DB. So Metcalfe won Chase Claypool, too? Not sure about that. DeAndre Hopkins.

Great game. Six for 131 and one. He's the wide receiver four on the season. And I just did the math here on that, the drive where he scored the touchdown in two receptions, he had 82 of his yards. So like on that drive, they were, the Cardinals were buried and two just monster passes to DeAndre Hopkins. I was actually really happy to see the downfield targets for Hopkins on both those throws because he had been a PPR underneath kind of player.

So it was nice to see him get downfield targets. Jason, you've got Jameson Crowder in our League of Record. Oh, man. Jameson Crowder. I love it. I love him. He's great. All he's done so far has had three great games. He missed two to injury. And outside of that, he has yet to have a game under 100 yards, a game under double-digit targets. What more do you want than someone who's?

Just, I mean, he was the wide receiver 8, the wide receiver 20, the wide receiver 7 in his three games played. It's not going to stay there because he's already got two touchdowns at three games. And he's not a, I don't think the scores are going to be coming that way. But if you're telling me, 10 targets, 100 yards, yes, please. Buy, sell, hold, hold. Hold. Hold. I don't think you want to buy. You're going to have to pay up and maybe.

I don't know. If you can get him cheaper than you should, then, yeah, absolutely. I'm curious how many of the games came on people's benches because of perception, named Joe Flack. I mean, look, he's had two great games before this week. Jason, you started him, but you've kind of been backed into it. I've been backed into starting James and Cratter both the last two weeks. Delightfully. Yes. It's been great. All right. Henry Ruggs had two for 118 and one.

One touch guy. I mean, he's going to be somebody that you can throw out there. And like, I would say greater sign McCle Hardman because he's more important to the offense. He's going to be running more rounds than Hardman. But same type of fantasy situation. He's on a buy this week. Are you willing to drop him? I am. Oh, absolutely not. No way. No, no. Henry Ruggs is a just as viable of a pickup to me as Chase Claypool is. Through a buy.

Where you can't play. Oh, absolutely. Okay. Yeah, I think he's somebody that you're going to want on your roster. Someone hasn't been hit as hard by COVID over here. I'm like, my bench spots are worth gold right now. Yeah, I mean, if you're in a position where you can't roster a bi-week player, then you have to drop him. But I think he is worthy of rostering. I thought he was last week. Preston Williams, five targets, four for 106 and one. Nice to see him have a game.

Calvin Ridley, 10 targets, 8 for 136. DJ Moore, Mike. He finally got into the end zone. He finally did it. Yeah, but let's look at this disparity here. Five targets for DJ Moore, 13 targets for Robbie Anderson. Anderson with 8 and 112 again. We know who the favorite receiver is for Teddy Bridgewater. Chicago next week. What do you do with DJ Moore?

DJ Moore is a flex play who you can look at the matchup so maybe you don't want to play him against Chicago. I don't blame you. I have DJ Moore in our League of Record and I will be, you know, I'll be looking at my bench players. Maybe I have someone who has a more preferable matchup, but he is a flex player who he can do this on a regular basis.

I completely agree with you. He's a flex player who can do this. He's going to have several more great games because he's an athletic freak who's involved in what looks to be a good offense. And I would sell high. I would sell because he on the back of a good game with draft capital still, you know, we're only a month into the season where people drafted him high, I would see if you can capitalize and upgrade because he's the wide receiver two for the team.

He has scored in four games over the last two seasons. So if there was a time to cash in, you might as well do it now, if you're in that camp, if you believe what Jason is. Robbie Anderson is on pace for over 150 targets. He's a volume guy, which has never been what Robbie Anderson. Yeah. Well, yeah, we already knew he had the big play potential. That's why we assumed his role was going to be downfield and, you know.

less involved in the volume. But so far, I mean, we've got five weeks now where he's the clear number one for Teddy. I will tell you this. I mean, fantasy football, look, we look at it all day long every day. We watch every game. The Robbie Anderson situation, as a fantasy football manager of Robbie Anderson in a dynasty league, this has been one of the most surprising things that I've seen happen.

I didn't think I had a player of value in a dynasty league. Then he went to Carolina and I go, oh, great. Teddy B. DJ Moore, Curtis Samuel, Christian McCaffrey. Oh, great. This was not the destination I wanted for Robbie Anderson. And I was wrong. Dead wrong. Darius Slate and Jason, you said taking it to 100. He was great. 11 targets, 8 for 129. Touchdown called back. Yeah, he did. And he would have had an even bigger game. So that was great to see.

See the wide receiver you start in New York? Yeah, I mean, he's another one of those volatile players, but in a good matchup, I think you'll be happy to start Dary Slate more often than not. And then you've got the big boys, Kelsey, Andrews, Waller, big tight-in weeks. That's... And that's the order of the season. That's the fan... That's just fantastic. I hate... This is how it's supposed to be. It's how it's supposed to be. You drafted them to do this. Good job.

Keep it up. Be the first, second and third tight ends. You guys are great. Well, there's a name missing. Yeah, I mean, Zaggertz. Zagertz is not one of the big names anymore. Darren Fells, two targets, two for 57 and 1. I think Brooks put this in there because I tweeted five minutes before the game started that Darren Fells was going to have a game. Also 57 and one is a great game for a tight end. Yeah, that's what's shocking. It's a top five game and he had two catches. But, uh,

Anybody else who want to talk about in the studs that we missed? Nope. All right. Let's move on. Stinkers of the week. Presented by odor eaters. Jimmy Groplo, Matt Ryan, Joe Burrow, Daniel Jones, stink, stunk. Look, man, Matt Ryan, this, I highlighted this on the Sunday Live. I've been down the road with Matt Ryan when Julio Jones is not on the field. Nope.

Nope. Calvary Lee's excellent. Calvary Lee's incredible. He had a good game. He had a great game. But until I see Matt Ryan can actually play without Julio Jones, no thinking. Nope. Hard pass. I saw so many people. So I couldn't believe how many people were upset they played Joe Burrow. I'm like, who's who? Why are you, why were you playing Joe Burrow? He's a rookie against Baltimore. Nobody recommended to play Joe. I, like, hundreds of.

Twitter comments of like, man, I knew I shouldn't have, but I did. And it's like, it's an icarus situation here. You flew too close to the sun. No, this was, the writing was on the wall all week long. This is not the kind of matchup you want for a rookie quarterback. And he was disastrous. Yeah, he's going to be great. He is great. But it's going to take a while. He's a rookie. And play the matchups. Yeah, Daniel Jones. Hoof, man. Hoofda.

The Giants scored 34 points, and Daniel Jones didn't seem to get any of those. Fumbled again. Fumbled in four straight games. He loves fumbling. Fumbling is his thing. At Fumble on Twitter is his handle. His middle name is Daniel Fumble Jones. That's not a nickname. That's what his parents gave them. Yeah, his parents probably should not have done that. I think set him up for failure or for Fumble. Sometimes James Winston fumbles and calls it a Daniel Jones. That's where we're at with Daniel Jones. Yeah, Daniel Fumble Jones. Sorry.

Clyde Edwards-Alaire showed up. It was 10 for 40. I think that was one of the surprising pieces. The involvement wasn't really there. Eight targets, though. I mean, I don't feel like we need to do anything with Clyde Edwards-A-Layer. You don't need to apologize for him, and you don't need to pretend it's better than it is. It's just he's going to have good games. I'm still trading for Clyde Edwards-A-Layer. Lev Bell, 13 for 60. And one target.

One target for Levi-on-Bel. What is happening? Which was egregious in Mike's mind. I mean, we knew this already. This isn't shocking. He wasn't good last year with the gay system. He wasn't good this year before the injury. I thought that he would fire him this week if he lost. And they didn't. They really won that number one pick. Does your opinion change heavily on Love Bell if gazed is out the door? Yeah. Yeah. I did watch this game and said to myself, man, he just.

The player that Lev Bell is needs a different system. Yeah, I totally agree. But the fact that Leveon Bell is getting one target is completely egregious. Yeah, you're wasting the talent. You still had nine carries Frank Gore. Like, what are you doing? Nine too many. James Robinson. This.

It wasn't a great game. 13 for 48, 5 for 22 through the air, though. So in PPR, you were okay. Stay the course. The volume is there. Yeah, I like the targets. They keep coming. Antonio Gibson. This was so insane and bizarre because, so Antonio Gibson, one of his player props out there was an over under of 18 and a half receiving yards. And it was, this is the easiest player prop of smash the over.

I think I've ever seen with Kyle Allen coming in. Antonio Gibson hits 24 receiving yards in the first quarter. And that's what he ended up with. Five for 24. 11 carries 27 yards. I believe the stat was as soon as Alex Smith came in, Antonio Gibson had one touch. I don't know what happened with the game plan when Smith was in and not getting Antonio Gibson in the ball.

You know who he got the ball to, though? McKissick. That's the part that's concerning. It would have been really easy to say the second the Kyle and switched to Smith, okay, he just didn't look Gibson's way. But Gibson wasn't on the field. Right. And so it was bewildering. I don't know what happened. Every time I looked up, it was J.D. McKissick getting a target or some involvement in the offense. I don't know. It was a bad game. I mean, he ends up 11 for 27 with five targets in the first quarter.

nothing else. Yes, really obnoxious to see a player on his way to a fantastic game and then just stall out in the first quarter. Jerich McKinn Nunn. Yeah. None. I mean, so let me ask you. This, one carry. That was shocking to me. What? Shocking. He only was in on 25% of snaps. Yeah. Okay. So he was pretty much just not really a part of this game. Do you throw this game?