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

in the garbage. This is a game where you got you got kicked in the teeth by the dolphins. You bench your quarterback at halftime. You take the L on the chin because that is the way I look at it. Like I hate this, that he went out and had a bad game. But I'm not going to, like this game was gone as soon as it started. If you were tracking the game, it was like half time was, didn't the dolphins have more than 30 points?

It's like 30 to 7 or something. It was a dominant performance by the Dolphins. It is really hard to extrapolate any information moving forward. I don't throw the game away. Jared McKinnon is probably on my bench now. Yeah, I mean, this was a game. Mostert was coming back in anyways. So I don't throw it all. I mean, you're right. The game script was not one where you were going to see their running offense get going. But that is something that is going to be Mostert-centered.

not McKinnon-centered. So I was worried about McKinnon with Moster coming back to begin with. I am worried moving forward on any type of reliability with McKinand with Moster back in the game. And you've got Donald next week and then the Patriots. So a couple weeks of probably benching him and seeing what happens. Mark Ingram 11 for 57. Yeah, par for the course these days. What, Dobbins got one carry looked incredible on the one carry. Why isn't he getting more carries?

They're giving everyone a chance. Marty Cooper, Tyler Lockett. The sentiment I saw most often when I went through all of the puns this morning was frustration with Tyler Lockett because two great games and then not a lot of involvement last night. Well, it got compounded by the fact that both Tyler Lockett and D.K. Metcalfe had nothing, nothing going into halftime.

I had messaged our company Slack. Like if you had the combination of the two players, it was something like two receptions for 20 yards between the two players. But then D.K. Metcalf goes out, blows up.

ends up having a great game, and Tyler Lockett was left in the dust. Which I think compounded the perception, but I wouldn't be worried about him. No, no, no, I'm not worried. Just saying the frustration. If people are frustrated or worried, I think you go and trade for Tyler Lockett if you could get him cheap. He's on a buy, too. It was a rainy game. And at the end, if you remember, I mean, look, Tyler Lockett dropped the ball. He shouldn't have. He should have caught that right on the one yard line might have scored the touchdown.

for the game winner, and then you're like, oh, yeah, he, you know, then he would have been 65 yards in a touchdown, and D.K. Metcalf doesn't get that last touchdown. Right. He's, you know, this wasn't a great game for Russell Wilson in general. You, you saw the, I mean, that first half just getting sacked like crazy. I'm not worried about him at all. I'll bring up some names. You guys just tell me if you are worried. Terry McLaurant, seven targets, three for 26.

Quarterback lack of continuity there. Like I said, weird game for Washington with the going from Kyle Allen to the triumphant return of Alex Smith. We need to see some normalcy before we react. Tyler Boyd, six targets. This was the Baltimore game, whatever. Nope. Yeah, but they've got indie this week. Yeah. I mean, Boyd was probably more of the James and Crowder contingency plan for people than a plan. Sure. Juju.

Five targets, four for 28. He's been touchdown dependent. And Deontay Johnson's the number one. Maybe Chase Claypool is the number one if Deontay is going to miss time. Yeah, I would be a little bit more worried about Juju than the rest of these people that you're talking about. Justin Jefferson, who I thought would have a much better game. Stunk it up. Are you worried about Jefferson? I'm not. He's a rookie. This is going to happen. Debo had eight targets, just two catches, probably stand by and see what happens at quarterback.

Yeah, absolutely. The eight targets is actually... Nice to see. That's very positive to me. Debo was still not in the consideration to play. He was a bench stash. You saw 35% of the snaps last week. It was okay. Let's let him work his way back from injury. But to come back to eight targets, all right, all right. All right. Deciding on certain tight ends for rest of season is something that's kind of important around week four, five, six, who you can depend on.

We talked about Zach Ertz at the top. I mean, this was terrible. Six targets, one for six. Don't need to talk about him anymore. But, you know, Dalton Schultz just one catch. Tyler Higby, Higby was 2 for 12. Everett was 4 for 90. Not a lot of routes run by either player. What are your thoughts right now?

Yeah, they're using them to block. I worry about both of these players. We knew this was a good matchup for tight ends. We said it could be Higby, but it could very easily be ever had a great game for a tight end. 90 yards for a tight end is fantastic. I'm not super excited about either of these guys. Only one top 20 finish through five weeks for Higby. I have to adjust thoughts on him. Dalton Schultz, not confident moving forward. Hayden Hurst. That experiment seems to be.

Look, Haydenhurst, Russell Gage, Zakias, if you don't have Julio, Matt Ryan is like, Ridley is okay, but without Julio, you think these other guys step up. You think, okay, this is where Russell Gage is going to be more involved in the offense. It doesn't work. Matt Ryan just isn't as good when Julio's out of the game. Yeah, it's like marked. I mean, like a very obvious difference.

All right, we might have to retire him, guys. Mo Ali Cox got only one target, only ran nine routes. And unfortunately, Trey Boo Boo. Trey Burton has led the team over the last two weeks in terms of targets and routes run. Well, Ali Cox is too big to share. And when he's in a three, you know what I mean? Like when he is in a three-headed tight-in group, that's, first of all, unnecessary.

You don't need him at all to be out there with any other tight ends. Just get rid of them. But if the coach is making the clear wrong decision of having other tight ends other than Moecocks, then I think you obviously can't use him for fantasy. Can I please say something out loud, Jason, that you will love? Oh, boy, that sounds great. There is no offense. I hate watching more this season.

Than the Indianapolis, Cole. And why, Andy? Because Philip Rivers sucks. He sucks. Every catch, I mean, T.Y. Hilton had his best game of the year, which was still not even double digits in most formats. Maybe if you're in PPR. Every catch that T.Y. Hilton made in that game was sliding to the ground to catch the ball before it hit the ground. The running game can't get going.

Rivers can't score touchdowns because Rodrigo Rocket Ship is the leading score in all of football because all they do is kick field goals. It is the most boring, hard-to-watch offense in football. Now, they have a defense and they could make the playoffs and yada yada, but for fantasy purposes, I look away. I have a message. I need to speak directly to Frank Reich right now. Please do. I just want to point something out.

We're silly fantasy football players, fantasy analysts. Yes. You know, living in mom's basement. Yeah. You know, just looking at the stats. Love it down here. Stats are for nerds. Right. Losers. Week one, Mo Ali Cox was the tight-in 28 against Jacksonville. That was a loss for the Indianapolis Colts. Okay. Tight-in 10. Okay. That's pretty good. They won. All right. Tight-in five. They won.

Tight end 12, Moe Alley Cox against Chicago. That was another big win. Tide for dead last among fantasy tight ends. A loss to Cleveland. I'm not saying, I'm just saying. Can you, Brooks, can you fax that over to Frank? Oh, oh, if you're, Frank Reich has a fax machine for sure, probably three of them.

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