Week 4 Studs & Stinkers + Picture-in-Picture - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/5

DeAndre Hopkins, I don't, it's hard to say it was a stinker. That's not a stinker. Get out of here. Seven catches, nine targets. Yeah. It's the Jets, Dallas and Seattle. Robert Woods, seven targets, six catches, 35 yards. It was another Cooper Cup week. Cooper Cups had a couple big ones in a row. Offense was struggling. Golf was struggling. Gallup, we talked about, worried about him. There is a geriatric stinker section on today's show. Oh, no. This is pretty much the, uh,

the players that fit them then. We'll save them. You know who they are. We'll save it for the retirement ceremony. All of them are in that list. Tight ends. Tyler Higby, just three for 21 in this game for targets. Are you worried about Tyler Higby? Absolutely. I mean, Gerald Everett has been on the field just as much as getting targets, is getting handoffs. And some days it's going to be an Everett game. Some days it's going to be a

what you've seen from this offense, and they're going to make the defense keep guessing, right? I mean, we thought it was going to be a Darrell Henderson game. They can go to different wide receivers. Is it Cooper? Is it Woods? They can go to different tight ends. They can go to different running backs. And that is not fun for fantasy. So the tight end I am worried about. I brought it up to you guys right before the show started. I have him on quite a few fantasy teams, but Zach Ertz. Zach Ertz so far has been.

a top 10 tight end once all the other three games he has finished 15th or worse a player you drafted in the fourth or the fifth round and the situation for Zach Kurtz is exactly what it has been for him when he has thrived before it was Zach Kurtz is a volume guy if the wide receivers around him are hurt the offense funnels through Zach Kurtz he becomes the main guy and I relayed to you guys

I'm watching Zach Gertz because he's on my team. I think he's washed. And I know that's, he's a bold statement for a player of his age. But he is, he doesn't get open. The reason of the volume is not going his way is because he's simply not getting open. And they had Carson wins has to find somebody else, which often translates into the tight end two on the team. So I, like, what?

Let's, okay, I need some therapy here. I drafted Zach Gertz in the fourth of the fifth round. He has given me one performance out of four. Yeah. How do I keep just banging my head against the wall with Zach Gertz when guy, because you don't have a choice. And that, this is what I mean, you can't start. Look at some of the potential starts of this past week. Rob Grunkowski, one for 29. Jimmy Graham Pooh, four for 33.

Mike Gassicki, one for 15. It's the tight end position. Oh, what about Evan Ingram? He had 10 targets. What did he put up? Six for 35. Look, when you're, when Zachertz is putting up four receptions for nine yards. I guess everybody else is better. That Jimmy Graham line of four for 33 looks pretty sweet. It is, I know that you were watching with the close eye, and it's almost impossible to argue with you. When you look at the depth chart at wide receiver, these are the four games that Zachert should be taking advantage of it.

And you end up with four for nine. And now we get Pittsburgh and Baltimore. Yeah, I was going to bring that up. It's a rough couple of weeks here. But you're, but I mean, tell me. I did try to reverse the curse last night. And it looked like you did a valiant job. Yeah. That's as far as you can reverse a curse with this many injuries with that wide receiver court. Yeah. Curs and wins. Oh. Stinkers of the week. Presented by odor eaters, odor eaters, the best in foot odor defense.

Brooks would like it known that DeAndre Hopkins 7 for 41 is officially a stinker by his standards, which I suppose if you are not in a full point PPR league, that is a stinker. 41 yards for the presumptive number one wide receiver out there. All right. We'll give it to you. We'll give it to you. Yeah. Okay. We want to thank pristine auction for supporting the show. They've got a special auction for NBA Finals week.

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