Week 6 Studs & Duds + The Impossibles - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/18

It felt so bad. As I've got Lamar on my League of Record team. I've been trying to support Tyson Williams the whole season and just getting punched in the face by Harbaugh. Latavius Murray was my start of the week because the process of the running backs are going to do well, which they did. The running backs did incredible. He did score, right? Yes, Latavius got a touchdown. I think Freeman got one too. Yeah. It was like all the touchdowns went to.

the running backs, which if you're going to give him to Murray, fine. I could accept this as a fantasy football player. But Lev Bell, Harbaugh. Come on, man. A brilliant call. Taylor Heineke was worse than both of them. Quarterback 23 on the week. A disaster. To be fair to Heineke, which, I mean, he was in a, he's a backup quarterback. He's just, he's been fun. He has been producing for fantasy. But, I mean, no, he'd.

His weapons were gone. Gibson got hurt in this game. And Terry McLaurin was a, we don't even know if he's going to play. And now there were a couple big shots that the receiver needs to make it happen. McLaurin had an opportunity. He didn't come down with the ball. The Emmy Brown had an opportunity. Didn't come down with the ball. So tough game overall for Washington's offense. And if they're missing Gibson, it's going to be tough for them. It's going to be a mess. And they might. I mean, from what I understand on the Gibson injury, he needs rest. Yeah.

He might need a week off, which would be Jady McKissick time. I mean, this game went, I mean, no Curtis Samuel, McLaren, limited, no Logan Thomas, and J.D. McKissick was involved in every play, which is just, that's not a key to victory. All right, running backs. We talked about Ackler, six for seven on the ground. What? Oh, man. He's still the running back two on the season. Is that right, Brooks?

Yes, sir. Currently. Because, I mean, he's been dominant. It was top eight the last month. Unexpected. But like you said, the offense is just dead. I was thinking about coming out with a new series for the show. Okay. And maybe they're the Impossibles. Maybe it's a new set of. Okay. Aren't they making the Eternals movie? Yeah. So the Impossibles are players. Wasn't there a mob show?

The Impossibles? There's the untouchables. Oh, that's what I'm thinking of. But the Impossibles, Miles Gaskin is like one of the leading. I mean, this was, Tyler Lock at Miles Gaskin are the first two members of the Impossibles. They're impossible to start. You don't know. Like, you're rolling a die. And Miles Gaskin, five for nine, two for five in the passing game a week after scoring 30 plus points. Can you play him? He did have the six targets. No, I don't, at least not.

In Bipocalypse next week, yeah, you could play him. But he did have six targets. He also, he had a fumble early on, and it seemed like he got dog housed for the fumble, because you saw a lot of Ackman after that. Ockman has juice. He also dropped the wide open first down pass. Yes, but I don't fault the coaching staff for wanting to get Ackman on their involved. The Malcolm Brown stuff is very bizarre. But yeah, at this point,

The gas man is, he's just, he's refueling and permanently. Uh, here's, here's one I'm really curious about. Jamal Williams. What, what do we make? What do we make of this where he has 30% of the snaps, Swift has 78%. He only had four carries, two targets, basically was not involved. Is this, the trend? Are they just getting Swift more involved? Oh, he's injured.

Yeah, he was beat up, which, I mean, Swift is always on the interview report, too. Maybe Jamal Williams is just more hurt than DeAndre Swift. When you were talking about Campbell referencing Jared Goff's play in my head, because I had to start Jamal Williams as a running back too. It was, you didn't give Jamal Williams any carries, man. What do you talk about Jared Goff? Give Jay Willie the ball.

Yeah, he came in limited with a hip injury. And you wonder if that had something to do with it. I'm sure it did. Game script. Miles Sanders, he's a member of the Impostibles as well. He was so good. Miles Sanders was so good against Tampa Bay on the ground. I mean, he didn't get the opportunities. It's like he's charging up. Right, yeah.

for all of the plays that he doesn't get to go. He's just holding the turbo button down or something and charging up. But you obviously can't, you can't play a guy running back who's getting so few touches. Wide receiver duds, Mike Williams, Keenan Allen. I expected this to be a big game for Allen with Williams hurt and just the way that this team's been playing. But I think you just have to throw this one out. It was a stink fest. Mike Evans.

Chris Godwin both fell well behind Antonio Brown in terms of targets. It's going to happen. Yeah, it's the roulette you play. Terry McLaurin eight targets, just four for 28. I mean, the eight targets you'd be happy with. He just didn't produce. I guess he'd a couple plays that I think healthy McLaurin makes was just unfortunate. Didn't come down with him. All right. Hollywood Brown in the first game for Rashad Bateman ends up only four for 35. I believe Bateman was six for 39 or something. And, you know,

A lot of signs to be optimistic for Ashad Bateman's involvement in the first game. Hollywood, with a little bit of a down game here, are you worried about it? I'm not worried about it. He's been good enough. We talk about the inconsistency of wide receivers, and he dropped another touchdown. So he had the opportunity. I don't, it wasn't like the other game where he had three egregious drops. This one, I feel, was a difficult catch, but the opportunity was there. Like we said, the running backs took all the points. Yeah. For the Ravens.

Chase Claypool, two for 17. Very disappointing performance. I know he left hurt. He did. He left early. Came back in for some offensive PI. I have to wonder if that injury was a huge part of it because still saw seven targets, but two for 17. I did not see. I did not realize that his line finished that low at two for 17. Mike needed basically some.

thing that just can't happen, which is basically a full goose from Claypool. I needed that Sunday Night Miracle, even though I couldn't root for it because I love Chase Claypool. Yeah, you don't want him to get hurt. You just needed him to score zero. But he scored just enough almost zero. Just enough. Still enough. Just enough. The reason why, you know, it's awful. You just want him to explode and like, you know, make it quick. Just go straight for the throat. No, he's like, you're bleeding out on this one.

There's still just an up and down feeling with Claypool. And part of it is Claypool himself, but part of it is like, I mean, Big Ben missed him on a wide open play later. He wasn't an injury that held Claypool back. He broke open down the sideline. Safety was late getting over. It was a touchdown, but Big Ben airmailed him by 40 feet. I mean, it didn't make any sense. But Big Ben right now, everything's close to the line scrimmage. It's, let me take you into the mind of Big Ben right now. Snap the ball. Cheeseburger.

That's so mean. I think that's part of the problem. That's so mean. Double, double. Yes, I'll take onions. Grill them? Sure. Oh, shoot. Throw them all. I'm surprised you can't hear Al laughing as loud as he's laughing from behind the producer's desk. Why, they just submarine any time. Real point I could make there. You were saying. I was saying he's going to Deontay. Yes.

And then if Deante's covered, he looks for Deonte one more time. And then Najee. And then he looks for Najee and that's the problem. But anyways, Metcalf and Lockett. This was exactly how we thought this would play out. Metcalf is bigger. Bigger equals less chance of throwing an interception. And Gino Smith could find Metcalfe on a few plays. Six for 58's not going to kill you. Certainly not going to win you a week. Yeah, I'm going to keep playing Metcalf. I'm going to not be playing Tyler Lockett.

I think Russell will be back on the shorter side of the estimate, though. If you watch this psychopath Russell Wilson before the game, he ran through the whole game with an invisible football. We'll see. I think it comes down to can you actually grip and throw a football. They're talking about the degrees with which he can bend his finger. You're only supposed to be at 10 degrees now. He can bend it 70 already. Oh, 70 degrees. I mean.

This guy is going to fight himself back. He is on IR. So unlike Chubb, we're sure of that one, right? So two more weeks at least. Yeah, I think what happened is live on the show, Nick Chub got declared out. And we actually got to announce that. And for some reason in my mind, I conflated that with IR in the same moment. So certainly not on IR. Yes. On my apologies for any analysis. And it is not in consideration either, according to what I just saw. Well, yeah, because he might play this week.

Aren't they the Thursday night game? Yes, they are. I'm getting nods from eyeballs back there. Yeah. Look, I got something right. T. Higgins, three for 44, you know, the one for, the only wide receiver you can play confidently on that team is Jamar Chase. Yeah, and you can play him super confidently. Yeah, they have Baltimore in Baltimore next week. That's going to be a struggle. These are the top two teams in the division. You know, Cleveland, not looking great.

and Cincinnati's 4 and 2. Wow, 4 and 2. Good for you guys. I'm a big fan. I am too. Joe Burroughs great. Love me some Burrow. Cheeseburger. DeVantza Smith, Michael Pittman, Alan Robinson. Alan Robinson had a great game. I don't know. He doesn't deserve to be here. This was incredible. Sliding scale. 4.53. Yes, we're grading on a scale here. Seven targets, four for 53. I mean, that.

That a boy, Alan, I remember when you didn't just give me one fantasy point. Yeah, I mean, this, he's unplayable. Worryed about the Pittman game. I mean, I was going to compliment wins. He's been going down field. I mean, found Paris Campbell, but we just talked about two injuries, right? Campbell and Hilden are hurt. That's why I'm not concerned. Maybe you can trade for Pittman cheap right now. Maybe. And then Randok Cobb Guest. So not always going to hit. Nope. Waller.

Five for 59. I mean, he has not nine or fewer points in every game since then. And Henry Ruggs has had an okay season. I mean, is this the point where six weeks in, you have five disappointing weeks for Darren Waller compared to... Yeah, like, as you're watching, if you drafted Darren Waller, first it was, oh, wow, I mean, I avoided George Kittle, because that would have been a decision if you were taking Darren Waller. You're like, well, do I go Kittle?

And you bypass Mark Andrews, which Andrews had the slow start. Now Andrews is just is taking off and his season is really exploding. Meanwhile, Darren Waller has... 9, 7.9, 13, 6.5, 8.4. Here's another way to look at it. Since week, take week one out of the equation, okay? So that's the last five weeks. Darren Waller is the tight end eight behind Noah Fant, behind Hunter Henry.

Behind Mike Gisicki. I'm Knox. Well, obviously, Knox, Schultz, Kelsey, and Andrews ahead of him. You don't really have choices here, though. Nope. Are you trying to trade? You're in a good spot. You are, you know, you got two losses or whatever. Do you go pay up for Darren Waller? Because I don't think you can trade low for him. Even with all these down games, the team that has Darren Waller is going to want a premium for him? Do you go get him? If you've got... I'm okay with that. I think that if you've got...

Someone like Dalton Schultz who looks to be, you know, the real deal. He's very involved in this offense. I think you can work a trade. If you're giving a piece back like a Schultz or a Knox, you might be able to get.

Do you really want to trade Dalton Schultz for Darren Waller? I would rather have Darren Waller, yeah. He's just a more talented, more central piece of the offense. Even in those down weeks, he's on a thousand-yard pace. The fact that you would ask the question that you do have to say, man, do you really want him? You know, he's the worst quarterback. He hasn't been as good the last month. Those are the reasons why you can actually, in not every league, certainly, but there are going to be leagues out there where if you've got Schultz, you might be able to swing an affordable.

you know, package deal to get Waller on the cheap. Yeah, you want the reliable proven commodities at tight end, which is what Mark Andrews has shown, right? Like you had a couple weeks where you're like, eh, and then Mark Andrews was Mark Andrews, and Waller will be Waller. Now, he's going into the buy after the Philly matchup, so that might be the week to target that manager. Schultz is on by this week. Perfect. Last month, he is.

He's averaging at least six catches. He's averaging. How many? Six catches. And over 70 yards per game. Some touchdown sprinkled in there. It's been great. I mean, this is not anti-Scholtz. It's just to say that if you want to take a bet on the rest of the season. What were those numbers that you said? I just closed it. But he's had, he's averaging, you know, about six receptions over about 74 yards over the last month.