Week 5 Studs & Stinkers + Weekly Rewind, Kerplunk!

huge missed opportunity for Kelsey. You could see him leave his body, completely go up into his brain and go, oh, crap. Yep. He's stuck there now. Yeah, unfortunately, some of the best players in the world are going to be the most competitive in the world and you kind of lose your head a little bit. Let's move on. Stinkers of the week, presented by odor eaters. Aaron Rogers is not what he once was. No. Because.

Part of it's him. I'm going to give three parts. There's three parts. Part of it's him. Not the same player. Part of it's his weapons, not the same weapons. And part of it's LaFleur and what this team can do to win the game because they won the game again. Aaron Rogers is on a team as 4-1, right? And they're 4-1, and he's not the Aaron Rogers that is your champion of fantasy football. And that's just...

That's what it is now. Yep. He's a guy that on most weeks. I mean, I'm, you know, I hate to say it. I'm happy that he failed because I told a lot of people do not play him this week. He's not a guy you should be playing on a weekly basis. I mean, yeah, he was the number two quarterback last week against Philly, but he was. I think he still fits into that must play. I'm not going to. Must play? Absolutely. Okay. This game was very reminiscent to the Patrick Mahomes game last week where they got down and it was just.

Darrell Williams, Darrell Williams is rushing touchdowns from Aaron Jones. I think he's a must play because I still think he's a top 12 quarterback. So week one, he was the quarterback 24. Week two, he was quarterback 19. Week three, he was the quarterback 25. This week, I don't know where he's at, but I'm sure it's around 25. He's not. Well, those are some low numbers, Jason. Yeah, I don't think he is a must play at all. That's not to say. I was speaking of a 30-team league.

Oh, well, yeah, then I would play him every week. I still think that you could do a lot worse than Aaron Rogers from a potential standpoint. I still think he can go out there. I mean, he doesn't have Devante Adams. That was what I was going to bring up. And didn't he play one game? What's his schedule been before this? It was Chicago, Minnesota the first two weeks. Chicago, Minnesota and no Devante Adams game. I'm still going to give him a pass. Not as a top five guy. I began this saying this is who he is now. I think he's a six through 12 type of quarterback.

upside. That's as high as you're going to get on a week. So maybe that means you do stream them in the right situation. Yeah, as long as Adams is playing. If Adams is not playing, I don't, I really don't want to stream them unless the matchup is just unbelievable. These guys are doing nothing for. MVS, Allison, they're doing nothing for them. They're missing over and over again, not getting open. Yeah, I'm certainly not saying that you should never play Aaron Rogers. Aaron Rogers is obviously going to have big monster games. Those are compelling numbers. He needs to be a quarterback. If you're

You drafted him. You drafted him high. You need to be willing and able from the waiver wire to bench him to say, I've got a better option. I will admit if Aaron Rogers name, if it was the same situation, Jared Gough. You would be done. You would be moving on. But it's not. And he could give you five touchdowns, but right now he's not that guy. Lamar Jackson, another kind of stinker of a game, snuck by Pittsburgh and their third string quarterback.

worried it all about Lamar Jackson. I mean, Hollywood Brown's banged up. Mark Andrews is banged up. Or do you just keep on going because he's going to run that football? Yep. Okay. Philop Rivers. That was... You know, he... Bad performance. Really bad performance. Yeah, and he's got Pittsburgh this week, which the defense is just... They've rallied around the defense. I would not want to play Phillip Rivers. Then Tennessee and then Chicago. Oh, goodness.

Can we see some Tyrod Taylor? No. I'm kidding. No. I'm kidding. But if they keep losing, this team's window will be closed. All right. Running back stinkers on the week. Chiefs running backs, all of them. McCoy got. Chiefs players. I mean, yeah. Yeah, that's fair. I mean, Damien Williams, nine for 23, three for 15. Mahomes was somewhat inaccurate after the ankle stuff missed on plays down the field. You felt the absence of Sammy Watkins.

They also never had the ball in the second half. If you look at the time of possession, I came out of the exact numbers. It was like 20 minutes to three minutes. It was disgusting. So I'm not concerned about Damien Williams and Shady. Yeah, I mean, if... I'm worried about Shady. If you could... Because he got zero rushes in this game total, and Damien Williams, off an injury, had 100% of the rush and carries him and Darrell Williams, so I would be worried about Shady. Okay, that's fair. That's fair. This is a team that I think...

I doubt you can, but if you can, off the heels of this left to right, top to bottom, poor performance. Buy? I would go by all the chiefs. If you can get Tyreek. Houston, Denver, Green Bay. Pat Mahomes, you know, any of those pieces. I mean, I'm not going to trade for McColl Hardman because I think he takes a backseat when Tyreek comes back. But yeah, I would, I'm not scared of the Chiefs. I think that's the point you're making. Yeah, they were just out of rhythm in this game.

And the Colts to their credit. You guys, you're not, you're not understanding what a kerplunk does. To an ankle? To fantasy. To fantasy points in general. Well, he curplung, all the chiefs are plunk to my team. Exactly. This is my point. Thank you, Mike, once again. Very scientific. Mike Evans. What? What? What? Mike Evans. Good grief, man. Mike Evans is a weird player this year.

Mike Evans is leading the NFL in air yards. He's leading the NFL in air yards. That was the metric that just showed us. Will Fuller was about to break out. Now, Godwin's in the top 5-2. Godwin, 7 per 125 and 2 on 12 targets. We had this excuse Mike Evans had a stomach virus, weeks 1 and 2, and then he's been a machine. And then how do you goose, though?

It's really upsetting and difficult. Well, you don't get the targets and then you don't catch the targets. That's how you goose. Now I understand. Mike Evans is someone that you 100% have to start every single week. You're terrified of, but I think you're going to be happier more often than you're not. I loved Matt Harmon's tweet, though. Yeah. Letting us know that Chris Godwin and Mike Evans combined for 7 for 125 and 2.

this week, which is true. That's vicious. Yeah, I mean, he had to deal with Latimore in this game. They chose to go away from him. And I didn't think that I, we joked the window closed to buy Mike Evans low. I think it opened again. It cracked open. It cracked open. So would you buy him? Yes. Yeah, I would too. In a heartbeat. Yes. As long as the goose doesn't come with it. I don't want a little buy Evans get a goose. I don't need that. Keenan Allen, four for 18.

We kind of knew this. The matchup was bad for him. Yeah, with Chris Harris. Yeah, the history against that corner. So it's just a blip. See, I think they lost this. I think they lost the game not going to Keenan Allen. I think that's how they lost this game. I would buy Keenan Allen. Yes. Julio Jones. I will buy Julio Jones as well. T.Y. Hilton 4-37. Buy. That is a buy because this. He's on by. He's on buy. So don't play him in the buy. No. But he'll be healthier.

And the game script, look, they're not going to do this to every team. We saw this to start the year. They didn't have to throw the ball. Jacoby Brissette was a bust, a big bust. He looked like he was going to have a great game. And then... Then he didn't see Tyran Matthew. Well, I think the issue with... I think the issue with Jacoby Brissette and having a bad game is that the Chiefs had a bad game. The fact that Pat Mahomes didn't get the ball, couldn't score a bunch. I mean, the whole game script idea for playing Brissette, which has worked against Chiefs three out of the first four weeks.

is the fact that the chief score a ton of points. Well, they game planned that away. You know, that's the first game in Patrick Mahomes' entire career that they didn't score 26 or more points. Yeah. Ever? I mean, that... That's insane. Yeah. Just a stinker. And they were right there at the end. Mahomes almost saved his whole day on that last drive. If they had gotten the ball into the end zone there, he still puts up 30 points, managed to go over 300. He's not human. That play he made to Byron Pringle getting out of the pocket. Oh, my gosh.

All right, Emmanuel Sanders, stunk it up. I was wrong on this one. Sanders, one for nine. The game script in this was complete flip from what we expected. They got up to a huge lead. Philip Lindsay, which we should have mentioned earlier, had a monstrous game. Sutton had a huge play, and then the office didn't do anything else. I mean, Sutton and Sanders combined for four catches in this game.

Sutton had a monstrous breakaway after he cut across the field, broke a tackle, went in on a 70-yard touchdown, and then Joe Flacco disappeared. He didn't throw the ball again. It was all Philip Lindsay, Royce Freeman, and they won the game. So Sanders stunk it up, Diggs stunk it up. What do you do with Stefan Diggs? I would throw this game out of your consideration. Now, if you want to...

Okay, well, which games are you considering then? All of the rest. But this game you throw out a little bit because this was a tumultuous week. We didn't even know if he was going to play. You look at the interview. Stefan Diggs did not know if he was playing until five minutes before the game. It was kind of like, I'm just going to go as is and it was in doubt. He had seven catches the week before. I'm not saying you go sign him. I'm saying I'm just not considering this game in my analysis. I like seeing the team throw the ball more.

So I would. If he's active, he's going to be involved in the offense. If it's possible and it very well might not be possible, but I would try to package trade him. I would try to take two players and trade up for someone else with the name of Diggs. I don't want him, but you can't drop him because of the name. But we've talked about in the past, there are landmine players. Players that, like, they're going to convince you because of the name or because of some situation to start them.

and you're going to end up hurting yourself because of this. Now, that's not to say Diggs doesn't have good games in the future. They play Philly this week. That looks great. Diggs or Emmanuel Sanders rest of season. Sanders. Jarvis Landry or Stefan Diggs rest of season. That one's tough. I would probably go Diggs. Jarvis, maybe. So we're kind of entering Wider Series 3 territory, so you should be roster, but you're not excited about anything he's done, and I don't blame anybody for that. It's...

They won. I think he might be happy when they win and sad when they lose. I think that's how it works. Maybe. Nothing from Shepard or Golden Tate against Minnesota. Nothing from DeMarcus Robinson and the Chiefs. We talked about it. Curtis Samuel, another stinker, Nelson Aguilar, basically disappearing with the return of Alshon Jeffrey. Yep. Tight-in stinkers, Greg Olson. Hello. A lot of gooseing going on. Darren had a stinker. O.J. Howard.

Darren Waller is on a buy week with the rest of the Raiders. I personally, if you can somehow buy Darren Waller on the cheap because of this, because of the bad performance plus the buy week, I would be willing to do that. He's been such a target machine. It was a weird game. It was an overseas game for Darren Waller, and the game script got out of control. But you know what happens, all the...

He has to throw all the passes left-handed or something like that, right? Doesn't it spin the wrong way over there? Yes. I don't know. Same hemisphere. Never mind. Yeah. O.J. Howard, I'm letting him go. I'm done. Yeah. This is the... I won't call it a swan song. It was almost a goose song. Oh, man. Oh, this goose. One for 10 on two targets. The one for 10 was to remind you he exists, but I don't think he should exist on your team anymore. And that stinks, because I just believe talent.

would win out here. But when O.J. Howard catches one pass and Mike Evans catches zero in a game. I mean, that's shocking. Yeah. O.J. Howard, I said it last week. I think he's the biggest bust of the season that's not due to just an injury or an injury to another player on his team, like a quarterback or something. This is just he was a highly drafted guy. You thought one thing. He was the number one time I had taken after the top three. Like, you know, when the three were gone and you had the field, it was like,

O.J. Howard was the highest ADP guy. They were taking the shot on the breakout, and he has his worst season, imagine him. I mean, he's been irrelevant every single week. I'm worried about Delaney Walker. Two straight weeks with one catch on two targets. Well, they found a new tight end, man. A.J. Brown is a beast of a man. Yes, he is.

He gets a little bit bigger every week. Like, I don't remember him this big in college. Maybe it was because he was next to D.K. Metcalfe playing alongside him. Probably was. But I genuinely, like, I know he's a somewhat bigger guy. But when I watch A.J. Brown out there, I'm like, this guy's a monster. He's 6 foot 226, according to pro football reference. Hogwash. Yeah. That's pretty big, though, for a wide receiver. But Delaney Walker used to be a guy with no ceiling but the reliability. I'm just disappointed to see back to back.

This is the inverse NBA jam rules here. This is cooling down, cooling down, about to go on ice. You don't have a lot of options that tied in. You can see that based on the stinkers of the week. But he's got Denver next week. If you need him, I guess you can play him. You're going to have, you know, dumping O.J. Howard and Darren Waller on by and things like that. Disappointing game from Jimmy Graham. Only three targets caught all three of them for 41 yards on the week. Didn't destroy you, but at the same time, not what you hoped.