Fantasy Football - Week 5 Studs & Duds + Cardinals Choke Job - Podcast for 10/6

I believed in him going into the season. Right now, I'm sure he'll show up on a cut list for waiver day. Yeah. It's really tough. You want him... He's a good wide receiver on a great offense, and that's usually a recipe for success. But the way that he is utilized, he is not... He has one game in his career with more than five receptions. And so we're pretty far into a career for that to be the case. You know, in the studs section, you know, we're talking about old man Stefan Diggs with 10 catches. We're talking about Kendrick Bourne with 10 catches.

You know, it's like we got one game with six catches in his career and nothing more than that. It's scary from a consistency. You're just waiting on a big play, and it's not a good place to be. A.J. Brown is the wide receiver at 39 right now. Jamison Williams is the wide receiver at 43 right now. Yeah. So if you play... I mean, A.J. Brown, Jamison Williams, that could have been your... I mean, I've got A.J. Brown. I've started him every single week in the League of Record. Yeah. And it has been a not fun process. Not fun. That's a good way to describe Chris Godwin right now.

Three for 26 in a game that Ibuka dominated. Godwin, this was the worry. Like, people wanted to start him because of the name. You know, he's coming off a major injury. Not the same dude. Yeah. When you... You can't play him. No. I mean, when you come back from an injury, it's often hard. Look at Stephon Diggs. Stephon Diggs was ready to start the season, but not really. Right. It took some time for him to work himself back in. You know, last week, Chris Godwin had 10 targets and ended up with three for 26. He's not... You know, he's not the Chris Godwin of old right now.

No Brock Bowers. No Michael Mayer. Geno Smith still couldn't do anything with his receiving group. Geno Smith has been probably, to me, to my eyeballs, like, the biggest disappointment in the NFL. He's looked horrible. He's looked awful. And he didn't. He didn't until all of a sudden this year. He goes to the Raiders and it's like... He makes the Seattle Seahawks look so smart. Making the swap. Don was looking great. Jacoby Myers, four for 32 in a game where I thought... Like, I mentioned this. I don't know if you saw it, Jay. His seven-plus reception line was minus 103 on the sportsbooks.

He ends up with six targets, four for 32. Managed to survive my prize pick projection for the Friday by getting over three and a half. But it was gross. I thought he'd be a great start this week. The target share is non-existent. Trey Tucker got a bunch of targets again. This team is pretty darn bad. They're a really, really bad team. No Brock Bowers right now. The targeting of Ashton Gentry is encouraging because the offensive line is so beat up. Gentry was heavily involved in the receiving game again this week. Yeah, he had seven targets. I was going to say, yeah.

It was five for 42 through the air. Fourteen carries on the ground. I mean, seven targets. Yeah, that's... That's outrageous. Well, it's great. And it's the first time we've seen it this season where he's like hyper-targeted in the run game. And I think it was... Passing game. In the passing game. And he was... You know, this probably was due to the fact that they were missing their left tackle. Yeah, and no Brock Bowers. Trey McBride. Where are you with McBride? It's actually been... It's been rough. Like, Trey McBride on the season, still the tight end five, but you've had, I would say,

three games that you were just kind of bummed out. A little disappointed. He's only got one receiving touchdown. Yeah. He's still that guy. He's... Yeah, I mean, he's still the guy. He's still the number one target in this offense. The offense is just... He's drafted so high. ...terrible. Honestly, you look at the highest drafted tight ends, right? Brock Bowers just crushed people. Well, Trey McBride has not returned value there. George Kittle looked like he was going to smash it, but got injured. Right. So those high tight end selections have not worked out so far. Yeah, no, that's a good point.

In our chopped leagues, the Brock Bowers manager has been chopped twice, and the Trey McBride manager this week is looking like he's going to get chopped. So it's... And what's his name? Mike the Fantasy Hitman Wright. So you were last week. Yeah. Hmm. The early tight end's not working out so far. How about Zach Ertz not working out? Oh, that's unfortunate for me. One target, zero receptions. A full goose. Jawan Johnson, two for 17. He got injured, right? He was limited or something? He was questionable coming into the game. He played. Okay. But, I mean, the Jawan Johnson experience is slowing down because we've had the, basically,

three for 28, two for 17. So, you know, ew. Hunter Henry did. He was second on the team in receiving yards, but just two for 46 in this game. Drake may didn't throw a passing touchdown. Mark Andrews, Isaiah Likely did nothing with Cooper Rush. And that was Studs and Duds presented by Lowe's. Lowe's knows Sundays are for NFL football. Earn your Sunday with Lowe's official partner of the NFL. Lowe. We did it. We got through it. Any news on Cardinals firing people? I have not seen Bidwell. It would make me feel better. I've not seen any of the Bidwell step aside yet.

That's not going to happen. They own the team. Yeah, but just step aside. You thinking about picking a new team? I'm thinking about it every minute. Or giving up football, maybe? No, I love football. Yeah? You were so excited to have the Cardinals as a team you could care about this year. I said so many times going into the season, like, it's been so long since I thought we had a chance to root and care about home games, about the home team. And no, we don't. We don't. Grosser performance. Cardinals this week. Josh's trade offer. This was a historically, epically bad trade offer.

Yeah. So, I'm going to take the. I just improved it. You just sent me another one? Oh, Josh getting the screen time today. Oh, man. Let's go ahead and. It is such a Josh trade offer, man. I know. All right. Let's take a look. And anything you offer them, you get made fun of that it's like this terrible offer. But it's never terrible. He's up there. Kyle Pitts for a third was a terrible offer. Kyle Pitts for a third? Yeah. I mean, the tight end position is pretty rough. We just talked about it. He upped it. He included Torrey Horton and upped it to a four.

So, I'm going to hit the outro. Yeah. That is going to do it for this morning's show. We've got a waiver wire episode tomorrow. Big names to get into. Good luck in your Monday night football game unless your name is Travis Etienne or Travis Hunter. All the Travis's. Go Travis! Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Join our fantasy football community on jointhefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter at the FFBallers.