Week 6 Studs & Duds + Ridley's Prison, Ready to Roll - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/14

Conklin? Yeah, conk, conk. That was today's, we came up with a new ABC. Always be conking. Always be conking. Always be conk. Kongk, baby. That was today's news and notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com slash insurance. We'll take a break and come back with the studs and dugs. Now, I have it on good authority that Al Borland, a very own producer over there, executive pro producer. He just told me he would like. Cook to be a surprise inactive. Now that seems biased. That seems like someone playing against Cook. Is that accurate? That is accurate. I have a 12 point lead and I'm playing against Cook and the Jets defense. So if Cook was out, that'd be great. If Cook does what this week has done, he'll probably be active and then leave shortly after the game starts. Also something that Al would be totally fine with. Yeah, I don't want him to get hurt, but maybe a little sniff will keep him out of the game. Oh, cold. Get the cold. Yeah.

All right, Studs. We talked about it. Caleb Williams, who was Mike's start of the week, 226 and 4. Had a fifth touchdown called back. It was to DJ Moore. Would have fixed DJ Moore's whole week. But DJ Moore's arm went down. I don't know if you heard it on the broadcast. Kurt Warner had DJ Moore in his fantasy league. Oh, really? And was calling that game and was like, dang it. But his arm went down and ended up with a DeAndre Swift touchdown. He's been outstanding. They go into the buy. They get Washington, Arizona coming out. Oh, it's amazing. It's amazing. Honestly, he's a good trade target, maybe? Trade four, you're saying? Well, it's hard to trade for someone off of the number one. It's on the buy week, though. Somebody else is starting for that team. I will say this. Caleb Williams is still on a good amount of waivers, and he might not be picked up because of the buy. He might be dropped because of the buy even after a good performance. So he's someone that just needs to be.

glanced at your waiver wire. And while you say that, let me mention another start of the week, Cole Comet, because he's on waiver wire in our league of record. So he didn't get picked up and played. He was great, two touchdowns. And he goes into the buy. So people might not pick him up this week because you can't play him. Yeah. He'd be a good stash at tight end. Well, yeah, if you lost Dallas Goddard, well, I guess you're going to need someone to play this week. So you know how I would have scored a lot more points in my dynasty league, Jason? If I played.

the best quarterback in the history of the universe instead of Kyla Murray, that would be Baker Mayfield. Who? Sorry. Yeah. Laser Mayfield, which I think has only, like, imbued him with more power. It really, ever since we've named. I think we did this. I think this is us. I think we healed Laser Mayfield. 24 for 36, 325 and four. And three picks, but they were awesome. I mean, the picks or the, no, the, the, the bucks. They. They're playing some really good football. I will happily say I was wrong. I thought that they were going to be more of a mirage team from last year squeaking into the playoffs. They look like one of the better teams out there right now. Obviously, their record is that way, but it's not just their record. Is it the 530 yards on offense? Did that help? Yeah, it's both sides of the ball. I think they're playing well. But Baker specifically looks legitimate. Now, they're playing against Baltimore this week.

And Baltimore is a good defense, but their offense is great. They're going to score and you can't run on them. So we have seen, even though they're a good passing defense for fantasy purposes, by the end of the game, you're probably going to have a lot of fantasy points here. They're using Godwin so well. He was incredible. Baker is the number one in the NFL in touchdown passes, and the bucks are number one in points. Wow. So, I mean, if you want Todd Bowles, like, Todd Bowles is a defensive coach. So, like, get your defense going, and this team can go.

Go places. Baker Mayfield is the quarterback two on the season right now. I mean, it's not like he's been occasionally good. He's good every week. Like he's legitimately like I have to start Baker Mayfield over Kyler right now. You get to start Baker Mayfield. Sorry. I'm sorry. Who? Sorry. Laser. Jordan Love, 22 for 32, 258 and 4 Cardinals defense was inept. And Jordan Love. I don't think you can qualify that to defense. I think the Cardinals were inept. When you say Cardle's defense, that implies that other parts of their team weren't in that. I guess their offense also helped Jordan Love with Shortfield. Yes. You're right. Jared Goff 315 and 3. He's been cooking. Brock Purdy. He could do anything. Anything he wants. That offense is a machine. That offense just looks like they could, they just get to pick. Like they go to the sideline and they huddle up and they go, all right, all right. Who wants to touchdown this time? All right. Tim Patrick, you're going to get it. And then he, you know, he almost got it and it got called, you know, short. Yeah.

But they could do anything they want right now. Good call on the, that was your Super Bowl winner, right? Yes. Yeah, because you knew. You knew for sure that the Lions were going to win. We'll see. We'll see. I thought I'm looking pretty good. Brock Purdy, 255 and three, Justin Fields got it done with two rushing touchdowns. Jalen Hurst looked good with his combo of wide receivers. It's nice to have them. As a Jalen Hertz manager in a lot of places, it is nice to have his wide receivers. And Adrian Brown just makes catches that are. They're one of one. And I'm going to be honest, while he has his wide receivers, it was nice to not have Dallas Goddard, because those are hollow passes. He should just focus on the two main guys. Jaden Daniels still getting it done, 269 and 2. He's one of my top non-Calvin Ridley, my guys. He's been a revelation. Only 22 rushing yards, still a great game. And it was against Baltimore. So it was quite the challenge. They were in it for a lot of the game. Bo necks, Drake May, the rookies.

Getting it done? What do you think about Drake May prescriptive-wise? Was it a performance that makes you think? This is why I had Demario Douglas in my draft Kings lineup until five minutes before reading it on air. It's because Drake May, I was just like, you know, Mike's hungry for more was Jalen Polk. And to me, DeMario Douglas was the more friendly to the quarterback option. I think Drake May is going to have the opportunity to sling it. That is something that we didn't get. which it could be reset, nor was he capable of. The defense is fine. They're going to be losing a lot of games. They're going across the pond. They're playing against this imploding Jaguars team. Who just gave up a million. He had 38 rushing yards. Is Drake May someone that you think legitimately you could stream this week? Yeah. Was that a yeah? That was a yeah, I'm thinking. And yeah, if you're desperate, I guess. Man.

Sean Tucker and Bucky Irving. I went back and watched every... They ran wild. Yep. Both of them 14 carries. Sean Tucker, 136 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown. Also 56 receiving yards and a receiving touchdown. I went back and I watched. The majority of Sean Tucker's work did come four minutes left in the game. His rushing baseline was four minutes left in the game. He had that whole drive, which was almost all him because they're running the clock out. He looked great. Every time he ran to the left side, they had big holes. I think he will be involved going forward. It's just Rashad White dependent. Right. That's what I'm saying. If Rashad White is not active, it will be Tucker involved. But early in that game, it was more Irving than Tucker. And Baltimore is a very tough run defense. So we'll talk about him in waivers tomorrow. You're saying maybe not fight for him. Yes, that's what I'm saying. Joe Mixing. Welcome back, friend. So nice to have you back.

Yeah, yeah. I'm so really, really good. I'm so thankful for you, Joe, and you were outstanding. Damien Pierce had a long touchdown run in this game, too. Mixon could have scored more. He had another carry on the one. He didn't get in. He scored twice, one through the air, one on the ground, had a 60-yard run. Scoring twice. They call that a Derek Henry. Yeah, I mean, Mixon, I've been waiting for him to come back so much. I know. I was playing Cam Acres and just Joe Mixon saved me this week. Yeah, Joe Mixon was great. And I think he really actually helps the passing game for the Texans. I mean, the Texans are a better offense with Joe Mixen. That's not rocket science. Yeah, he's just versatile. Yeah, he's very helpful. Derek Henry's all right. In his wins, listen to his stat lines in Baltimore wins. 25 for 15 for 15 for 191 and 1, 24 for 132 and 1, 24 for 132 and 2. So if you look,

And you say, hey, I think the Baltimore Ravens win this game, which most games. Most games are going to. Derek Hoover is going to be very good. What was that? Derek here's going to be very good. Bejohn Robinson, two touchdowns. Also yanked from my lineup moments before our podcast. For real? Yeah, because I was worried about the report. I actually put in Tyler Algiers, so it was fine because Algeria was incredible, 18 for 105 and 1. But Bijan scored twice, looked good. But the hamstring worried me. I didn't want to get stuck with a hamstring injury, but he was fine. David Montgomery, 12 for 80 and 2. Swift was great for the third straight game. Tyrone Tracy, 17 for 50 and 1, or more impressively, 6 for 57 through the air. That was during the draft season. It's the receiving work that excited you with Tyrone Tracy because they need a receiver. And this was a converted wide receiver to running back. So.

You knew he has the ability in the receiving game, but 82% and 85% of the running back rush share over the last two weeks without Singletary plus an 11.5% target share. Like the utilization is great. Singletaries just retire. Just retire. Keep your body healthy and walk away. I really think the Giants are like three plays this season from being a surprise team. They are a good team. Good defense. Their defense is very good, and their offense is, I think, well, coach. How do they not win yesterday if they have a league neighbors? Yeah, I mean, Daniel Jones is still a liability. I know he's been not the worst. He's not going out there and Will Levesing, but he's also not that good. He's just not that good. Ranked that division right now, top to bottom. What's the best team? Eagles. Second best team? Commanders. Then Cowboys.

Then Cowboys, then Giants, yeah. Okay. Talked about Naji already. J.K. Dobbins, 25 for 96 and 1. They looked very good against Denver. Jumped all over them early. At wide receiver, the player of the day was Chris Godwin, 11 for 125 and 2 on 13 targets. Had one of those Jamar Chase-style touchdowns that he just bounced off a defender, slipped through them, and then went for many, many yards. You love to see the rapport with Baker in... those slot screens where it's just kind of automatic. Even if he's got a backpack of a defender on, Baker just puts it right out of his reach. I mean, 11 of 13, laser. 11 of 13, that's, it's not, it's not going to go away. Let me test something. Laser. Yep, you always say laser if I hit that button, don't you? That wasn't me. That's part of the drop. Laser. No, it's not part of the drop. I don't know. I heard it again.

Godwin's been great. A.J. Brown, six for one, 16, and one. Welcome back. Terry McLaren, he's been awesome. He has been really good after those first two weeks of just putrid, where he had 17 yards and 22 yards. This is where you can't react too quickly. I mean, like, first two weeks, I mean, six, six for, six catches in week two, but it was only for 22 yards and you freak out. And then he's just been, he's been outstanding. His air yards are out of control. He's scoring. It's awesome. Carolina this week. So wheels up. Debo. Got it done on Thursday night football. Gabe Davis. Yeah, Gabe Davis. I don't want to talk about Gabe Davis because he dropped the touchdown. I guess he could have had three. He had two touchdowns, so he's in the studs of the week that nobody played. Kenan Allen, two touchdowns. Do you care about Keenan right now?

Not a ton. I mean, obviously they're going into their buy week. After that, they've got a good schedule. We talked about that with Caleb Williams. You know, it's great. But I mean, he had 41 yards. It's just one of those, which was his season high. Yeah. So I don't know how much you can rely on him or not. I don't want to chase two touchdowns when over the course of the season so far, he has not done hardly anything. I still think DJ more. is the guy that I want. For sure. For sure. Dobbs, two touchdowns. It's nice to see. DeMario Douglas got in the end zone six for 92 with Drake May and should be talked about tomorrow on the Waverwire show, knowing that they might throw for more than 50 yards. Zay Flowers, Deonte Johnson also had big weeks. Cole Komet at tight end was the start of the week, five for 70 and two. They have moved on from Gerald Everett. And Komet has been an every week viable option. In fact, it'd be hard for me to flex.

keen and over Commet. I mean, like, if it was a flex spot, I'd probably play Commet. If you had to tell me who's more likely to get a touchdown, I would definitely think Commit. George Kittle continues his assault on the tight end position, number one. Is he? Yeah, he's the number one tight end, right? He is, he is. That makes sense because he's been great every week. What did you make of Mr. Four target, three for 66 and a touchdown? Oh, yeah. Mark Andrews. He had the same amount of targets as Isaiah likely in this game, four of them each.

And he actually scored. He touched the painted area. He calls it the painted spot. The painted spot. And he got there. Yeah, I mean, I know it's been not fun to say, and I've been saying it, which is he's not bad. And this offense is going to still throw the ball. And they don't need him as much anymore. He's not the clear and utter number one target that's taking, you know, 25% target share. Let me ask you a difficult question. No. All right. All right. Let's wrap it up. David Najoku or Mark Anders, you have to lock one into your tight-in spot and never take them out. Rest of season? I would, man, that's tough. Consistency-wise, it's going to be Najoku because you just expect more targets. But how many touchdowns is Deshaun Watson going to throw? I think I'm going to stick with Andrews. I know it was a horrific back-to-back week of Goose Goose.

But he has been great for a career. He's not old for a tight end. He's on a great offense. There might be more target competition with likely. But I, you know, I'm not going to completely abandon ship on Mark Andrews. Like, you know, people were dropping them like crazy. And I, you know, I was saying I just don't. In this economy, in this tight end economy, Mark Andrews can do what a lot of other people can't do. Trey McBride 8 for 96. Evan Ingram came back to 10 receptions. Oh my goodness. Just right off the bat, his hammies fine, 10 for 10 each, 100 yards and a fumble. That's about the normal Ingram. Yeah, a lot of targets, about 10 yards per each of them. Laporta, one target. One great target. One great target. He's in the studs category. 52 and a touchdown. Now, Laporta with the ascension of Jameson Williams, has really not been.

heavily targeted. Do you know what his target paces? You add in Tim Patrick, who Tim Patrick's a good receiver. You're talking about Fireball Jones? Fireball Jones. Yeah. He's a good wide receiver and he fits this offense because he's a strong blocker. So he's going to be out there. I have no idea what his target pace would be. I would guess. What do you know how many targets he had last year? Last year probably around 90. 120. Ouch. Ouch. I don't know what's he on pace for this year. 51. Holy moly, I was going to guess low was 70. 51. Yeah, I mean, you know. This is not a lack of talent. No, this is a Mark Andrews, remember the conversation there? Of like, yep, they've got target competition now. Too many good players. Yeah, they don't need him. That doesn't make Sam LaPorte a bad. Ho-hum, Brock Bowers, 10 targets, 9 for 71, and no touchdowns. He's the best.

Brock Bowers has a really good chance to finish this year as the number one tied in, like a really good chance. Super good without touchdowns. He doesn't need him. He could finish number one. If he finishes number one, that will be two consecutive years that a rookie tied in is number one overall. The truth is it will be actually very, very difficult for him to finish number one without touchdowns. Those have to come. He only has one on the season. We saw this with the thousand-yard season from Kyle Pitts' rookie year where he looked really, really good, but he only had, I think,

two touchdowns over the course of the season. That being said, the floor is very high for him. He's so important to this offense. I mean, 12 targets last week, 10 targets this week. Obviously, that'll go down when Devante Adams comes back, but Devante Adams might not ever come back. George Kittle is eight points ahead of him on the season. So he's the tight-in, too, and you know that McCaffrey shall return. So I would bet on Bowers and just hope he scores sometimes. I will say that they're... You know, if you're like what tight end, you can just get to pick them. I know you guys did a redraft. Yeah, a draft redo. Did any tight ends go in those first couple rounds? Probably not. I believe Bowers went. Was he the number one tight end drafted? Yes. Interesting. I think he went around 19 or something like that. We took 24 repicks. I think I would probably go Kelsey one. Did you listen to that? No, I haven't. Do you know who went number one? I do not. Who do you think? Mike had the number one pick. Mike Rico Dowdell.

This is my guess was, did I get it? No, no, surprisingly not. I think Derek Henry. You see, he did not. He took Jamar Chase. Oh, really? Jamar Chase. Yeah, he took Jamar Chase. I think Henry went four. Interesting. I'm looking at three dudes that don't know I'm talking to them. Just glossy eyes. No, don't worry about it. Let's get into the duds after we take a quick break. Got any intel over there? Those dozers seemed like the kids in class that weren't paying attention. And then the teacher goes to the class and they're just praying in their head. Please don't call him. It wasn't. Please don't call him. Yeah. They were all just staring at. Are you guys like doing a land party? Like you playing wow over there on those computers. Where did Henry go? I don't know. You told me not to look it up. Okay. All right. Let's, speaking of the deucers.

pooped in his big boy pants. Professional segue. All right. No one disappointed fantasy managers more this week than Dak Prescott. I know this because I read every Monday Punday and I read every reply to my Calvin Ridley tweet and somehow every reply to the Calvin Ridley tweet was about Dak ruining the week. He did not throw for 200 yards against a Detroit team where you usually can throw on them. At home. At home. I mean, they were. No touchdowns. Shell shocked. And two picks. And they really, I mean, you said it earlier. The Cowboys look broken. So thank goodness there's a by week right now. I think they're going to regroup. I mean, this is a. Then they go to San Francisco. They go to San Francisco. That's not an easy game. But I don't think we're going to see this version of the Cowboys coming out of the buy. I think they're going to get some players back on defense. And.

figure some stuff out on offense. They just have to, and they've got the personnel to do it. All right. Kyler Murray was awful, but he also lost Marvin Harrison, and they got behind the sticks early. He just couldn't get it going. They could not get a first down, and it was pouring rain. Do you care about this going against the Chargers, Miami, and Chicago the next three weeks? I wasn't listening to you. I was looking up the picks. Derek Henry went eight. Yeah, in retrospect, I would have taken him in two. Okay. You know what I mean? Yeah. No, in retrospect for sure. After the two touchdowns this week. Yeah, after he kept it going this week, he probably belonged there. Sequin had a dud of a week too. So who were you talking about? Kyler. Oh. Are you worried about Kyle? I'm petrified about, I mean, Monday, was Kyler worried? Yeah. That's the right name. I mean, you have to be worried. He has two out of four games that you were happy. Yeah, and the others are shockingly low. They're really bad. For a guy with the mobility.

that he has, you should have a high floor where it's okay if he doesn't throw for three touchdowns this game because he ran for 56 yards and that kind of just, that's an extra touchdown. He's, you know, 14 rushing yards this past week, three, two weeks ago. What are you doing, Cardinals? Although I know what they're doing. They're failing. I mean, they are failing in every aspect. I'm petrified. And now you don't have Martin Harrison. Now last week they beat San Francisco and we were all sunshine and rainbows. I don't think it was all sunshine and rainbows. It wasn't a, it wasn't like they went in there and, and, you know, I guess the 49ers kind of, 49ers beat themselves. They just kind of stink, huh? Yeah. Person in division. All right. We're back. Kirk Cousins was really disappointing. This was because Tyler Algier and Bison Robinson got the touchdowns. Kirk was, Kirk was fine. Let a great victory. He just, when they got down to the goal line, they ran it in. James Connor, who has been one of the most consistent running backs in football this year,

had a huge dud of a game, seven for 24, barely got work in the fourth. They were blown out. And when the Cardinals get going bad, it hurts everybody through and through. I mean, like the Kyler-Connor combo of disappointment has happened in conjunction a couple of times. They just sometimes don't have this offense going, and then sometimes you're like, oh, nice script. Saquan Barkley against the Cleveland Browns. Very disappointing game. Yeah, very disappointing. He got the work, 18 carries, but only 47 rushing yards, no touchdowns, and very few targets, which was surprising, especially after Dallas Goddard went out so early. I think you just, it's water off your back. You don't worry about it at all. Former number one redraft picked Rico Dowdell. Oh, yeah. Five yards a carry. Five for 25. Yeah. I mean, it's tough for teams to run against Detroit, so oftentimes they abandon it. And they did here.

Yeah, and a lot of his little dump off work was coming from the backup quarterback in the end of a 47 to 9 game at that point. Tank Bigsby. No one saying thanks to Biggsby this week. No, it was very, very surprising, upsetting. I've been trying to search for news on Tank Bigsby this morning. I haven't seen anything substantial, but it was. That's where we normally ask the Ducers, but. Yeah, their eyes are still glossy. I don't know that they can hear us right now, Andy. This last week in London, you would expect if a hamstring injury takes out, you know, Travis E.TN early in the game that Tank Bigsby would be the guy. But no, it was Dearnis Johnson who played 56% of the snaps. Tank Bigsby, only 27% of the snaps. He barely played more than Travis Eton. So I'm like, did Tank get hurt?

wrong there i think it's it's hard to find information right now because they're they're in london they're staying there um this week so i don't know how much we'll hear but i wish we knew maybe he can't run on the other side of the road ah that's you know i mean yeah yeah javanti william six for 23 he is who we know he is jack moss stunk chase brown had the big touchdown ntonio gibson here's your opportunity Why don't you take 13 carries and turn it into 19 rushing yards? That seems impossible. I want to say I could do that, but I could never do that. I could never get 19. If they gave me 13 times, if they gave me a ball 13 times, I would get probably negative 45 rushing yards. That's my guess. I don't know. I wish that there was a way. Can AI give us the ability?

to just generate a game where Jason's in there? Oh, that would be so fun. Can I watch a game where Jason's a quarterback? If I get like six months to work out like crazy and get to my best athletic peak at this age. And all you're going to do is fullback stuff, right? You're just getting, you're just running straight into the back of someone. No, no, no. I want them. Are you trying to juke? Oh, for sure, brother. They're going to do like tosses to me and I'm going to grab out. I'm going to give these, I'm the big shimmy. You know what I mean? I'm going to give a shimmy shake.

And then I'm going to get laid out. The legs are moving, but the upper is shaking. I can't. I wonder what we would look like. Like you watch an NFL player and you go, oh, he looks so slow. Like Austin Eccler when he was a fullback last year and you're watching him in open field. Oh, yeah. So slow. How slow would we look? It would be incredible. It would look like we're not moving. Yeah, that's true. Wide receiver duds. Mike Evans did not participate in the route. Yeah, he actually got banged up, right? Yes, he did get banged up and he got Chris Godwin. Don't worry about him. No, no, of course not. Mike Evans has been very, very good. No wide receiver is great every single week. Most of the weeks, Evans has been good. Three touchdowns in the last three games, just none. Calvin Ridley eight targets, zero catches. 59% of the team's air yards, or as Mike calls them, prayer yards.