Starts of the Week + Week 4 Breakdown, Confidence Canoe

With the knee, didn't practice. T.Y. Hilton, Mike Williams, didn't practice. Chris Godwin with a hip injury. This was a surprise. Didn't practice. He's listed his day to day. Also was not spotted on Thursday's practice as of this recording. Rashad Penny didn't practice. That one's interesting. We'll see what happens today. If he doesn't show up today, then you can reason that he's not.

quite rebounding as quickly as head coach Pete Carroll. That was a devastating walkthrough. You can't walk too fast on those, Mike. You ever done power walking? I've never done power walking. It's one of my proudest accomplishments. No, it's too bad. Wait, you have not power walk. Oh, I've done power walking in my day. Now, that's different than just walking fast, Mike. Of course it's. Okay. It's different because it's exercise walking. He's like sometimes I really got to go to the bathroom.

So I power walk there. You never power walk. The potty power. But like, are you holding little weights? No. Like, let's do this. And do you roll, is it heel to toe, heel to toe on the part? Of course it is. On the quick power walk. My mechanics are sound. My shorts are short. And I'm power walking. I believe that part for sure. Okay. Devin Singletary, Mark Andrews didn't practice. Mark Andrews has been. Um,

not practicing yeah he's getting managed he's yeah so as you say he's being he's being managed uh i i'm i've just got pictures in my head of mike power walking now and i think he's wearing the 80s 90s yes uh jazzer size type of outfits of course in the headband yeah i was going to say headband has the high white socks yeah didn't susan summers you you look like suzan summers in this situation yeah after i power walk then i get on the thigh master okay all right

The MRI was negative. There is an update to the Amari Cooper news that we just got in. So it was a negative, negative for anything bad, I guess. In or out tomorrow. The verbiage of that, like we all know what it means, but it's still strange. What were the results for the MRI? Negative. Oh, no. Yeah. What was the result? Positive for something negative. Right. All right. News and notes is always brought to you by the sleeper app. Don't miss a single piece of impactful fantasy football news.

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They were specific about that? I was going to correct you. Yeah. Well, you would have been corrected. So is Donagie? Yeah. Maybe that's where his problems began. Yeah. He was misunderstood. His whole life being called the wrong name. I told you it's important to get people's names right. All right. Yes. They start betting on games. Yep. That's what happens. Yesterday, it was like if your fantasy season goes wrong, you're a looter in the streets. Now if someone mispronounces your name, you're allowed to

Well, that's the way it came out. I don't know if you guys heard this, but it's actually Pete Rose. I disagree with you. Two teams on by this week, the 49ers and Jets. If you play them, zero points coming your way. So don't. Thursday night football, Deshawn Jackson officially out. Al Sean Jeffrey officially in Packers, Eagles. We previewed the game yesterday.

if you want to listen to that Thursday night preview. But I'm excited for that. Is it a Thursday night game that I'm primed for? I want to see if the Packers can go to 4 and O. All right. Let's start with the weekly matchups here. The Panthers at 1 and 2 take on the Texans. They're 2 and 1. This game has a 47 point over under. The Texans are 4.5 point favorites. Kyle Allen v. Deshaun Watson. We have Watson as our quarterback 2.

on the week consistency or on our consensus rankings. So Watson's obviously in. Kyle Allen, the question that people have as fantasy owners, fantasy quarterback streamers, was last week a fluke. I will say it was not a fluke. Kyle Allen is surrounded by incredible talent at every skill position that he needs to be a successful fantasy quarterback and real life quarterback. However, definitely inflated by...

the defense of the Arizona Cardinals. Kyle Allen, I'm not looking to play him in one quarterback leagues, but if you're in a two-quarterback and you scooped him up, I think he's a fine in a Superflex. Man, I would want one more. I would scoop him up for sure if you're in a Superflex, have that third quarterback. He's already gone. No, no, no. I'm saying I would have, but I'm not going to start him. I think the fact that you come out against the Arizona Cardinals who don't have any DBs, you know, Patrick Peterson suspended. Robert Alford was gone.

Going to the Texans, now with a game of film to watch, I would want a week off. But your point is well taken. The weapons are great. Between Greg Olson, DJ Moore, Curtis Samuel, Christian McCaffrey. This is the reason I loved Cam before the season. If he was healthy, he'd be bawling out. This was almost my answer for the most difficult players to rank this week. Kyle Allen? Not Kyle Allen, DJ Moore and Curtis Samuel because of Kyle Allen.

Sure, it makes sense. Kyle Allen did have, we've seen a couple of good games from him in the pros. It was against New Orleans at the end of last year, three touchdowns, had a nice game. I look at Kyle Allenville, very similar to how I would try to rank Daniel Jones. And like you said, last week they had a pretty easy matchup, you might say, but the Texans are an easy matchup too for fantasy quarterbacks so far this year, 27th in the league.

and points given up. So it just depends on the options you have. We have them at QB19 by consensus ranking. So if you have somebody that's a better option, you go there. Carlos Hydeuke Johnson. We already know on the Carolina side, Christian McCaffrey is going to ball out. He does it most every week. I would start him. Now, he only played 92% of snaps last week. Only. Oh, wow. They gave him, they gave him a breather. He had played every single snap on the season up until last week.

That dude's cardio is insane. That dude's everything is insane. Fair point. He's a player with a lot of natural talent that has taken it to the next level by working his butt off year in and year out and leveling up. Carlos Hyde, Duke Johnson. We said on the show yesterday, these guys are just players. You just don't really want to play them, right? I mean, it's a tough situation to be able to count on them. If you have to pick one, Carlos. It's Carlos Hyde just from a...

reliability standpoint, right? I think Duke Johnson is just, you can drop him. Like, he, uh, you make room on your roster. Carlos side, I don't blame people if they, if they don't want to play him, but he's still a bench player to me with buy weeks coming up. I think Duke Johnson, I mean, I'd rather have Chris Thompson than Duke Johnson. Oh, 100%. It's far more explosive and, uh, we've seen more over time from him. And they, they utilize the past catching running back in Washington, whereas John Watson doesn't.

You know, that's just not what he is used to doing. Did have a season high five targets last week, Duke Johnson did. Curious if this team starts to give him more opportunities that they don't think Hyde is efficient enough. DJ Moore, Curtis Samuel, you said they're hard to rank this week. We have them at the kind of RB, or wide receiver three range. Both playable. Both playable. DeAndre Hopkins, obviously out there. You know, Will Fuller? He's also difficult to rank.

Because we know what he can do, and it's not that he's off the field. I mean, he's week one, 97% of snaps, week two, 91, week three, 97% of snaps. He's out there all the time. Stills is hurting him. Yes, that's a fair point, that they have another speedster that they can go to. Stills had a pretty nice game last week. Will Fuller just has, it's not hit yet. And when you're...

He's okay to throw out there as a flex play as that that Nitro button, so to speak, for your starting roster. But it's really unfortunate that through the first three weeks, we're not seeing the big, you're not seeing the big play that you had hoped when you drafted him. And we know that Kiki is kind of working himself back in. He's sitting behind stills right now on the rotation, but he did get out there a little bit last week. You wonder if that starts to.

even further muddy, the kind of wide receiver 2 landscape for those guys? And then tight-in-wise, thoughts on Greg Olson having another solid week. Greg Olson is, he's a weekly play at this point. The matchup technically through three weeks is not great with the Texans giving up points to the tight-in position. But in this landscape of tight-end, Greg Olson gets targets and has upside every single week. Yeah, you start them, but you're not going to get anything like what you got.

No, certainly not. I think this is going to be an interesting game. I think Kyle Allen will be able to keep up against this Texans defense the way that they're playing this year. Panthers have the fastest pace of play in the NFL now after last week. So that's just good for the fantasy options. Yeah. Now, who would you rather have between DJ Moore and Curtis Samuel, rest of the season? It's still more. Yeah, I would lean DJ Moore as well. But they haven't really separated.

Yeah, it was just more explosive plays from more thus far. More explosive. I see what you did. It was just one of those things weird where he only got two targets last week with Kyle Allen. So you wonder if it switches with him in there. All right. The Cleveland Browns at 1 and 2 traveled the Baltimore to take on the Ravens at 2 and 1. Interesting fact here. The game's a 45 and a half point over under. So if you look at the implied point totals.

The Browns are at 19.5 points. The Ravens are at 26.5. That's what Vegas expects from this game. Ravens are six and a half point favorites. The Browns have yet to hit their team implied total this season. That is a product of an offense that is overhyped. Yeah, clearly over the expectations have been much higher. I think in this game being six and a half point dogs, we're starting to get closer to what we're actually seeing.

Baker and Lamar, what do you do here? Lamar is automatically in this matchup at home. I'm not playing Baker against the Ravens. No, that would not be a wise decision. No. In 2018, he had a touchdown every 2.7 pass attempts in the red zone. This year, 20 touchdown zero. I'm sorry, that was last year. 20 touchdown zero interceptions. This year in the red zone, it's been trash. Three or 14. That's how the game ended last week. So.

I think we're all saying the same thing. We need to see more from Baker before he becomes a streaming option in any capacity. Nick Chubb, volume is supporting Nick Chubb throughout this season. Yep. And he was receiving those targets this past week. Seven targets. I don't expect seven to keep up, but Nick Chubb, he's out there. He's going to get a ton of volume. Unfortunately, this matchup sucks. He's been an RB2 or better all three weeks.