Week 6 Matchups + Ertz Traded, Wheel of Shame - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/15

That's good. It's a good little tap on the booty for Cadarius, Tony. Like, it's all right. It's all right. You can, you can. Don't tap too hard or he'll hit you back. That's a good point. T.J. Hawkinson limited on Thursday. He should play. Christian McCaffrey didn't practice Thursday. This is the big news. He was limited Wednesday and then didn't practice Thursday. Whenever that happens, it is either someone's birthday.

which, you know, maybe, maybe I don't know the, I don't know the, I don't know is DOB or something bad happened. And that's probably the case here. You know, I would expect if you don't practice on a Thursday after being limited Wednesday with the hamstring injury, you're not playing this week. And I just, I'm like staying away from Twitter because I don't want.

To see any kind of new news that goes the wrong direction? You cannot escape your sleeper alert, Jason. Yeah. Ian, you know, McCaffrey and Dalvin Cook were the two that were looking 50-50 coming into the week. McCaffrey trending not to play. Cook will play. He was a full participant and Alexander Madison is limited. So fist pumps from Mike. Let's go, Delvin. Dalvin Cook's going to be back out there. Adam Thielen and Justin Jefferson did not practice.

on Thursday. I don't have any worry myself about these two guys, but keep your eyes on Friday's reports. Joe Mixen did not practice Thursday, but he is practicing on Friday, or at least going through warm-ups with the team. This one's weird. This one is, I know we talked about Joe Mixing. Pick up Chris Evans. And Jason, you had the confidence in Joe Mixon after the low snaps last week, you know, partially because Samajap, Ryan, is likely not going to play because he is also on the COVID list.

Are you still starting Joe Mixing with full confidence based on the news that we have?

If Joe Mixon starts, I will be starting Joe Mixon. It is certainly not with full confidence. I would pivot my start of the week, Joe Mixon, right across the field. Give me DeAndre Swift. Okay. You know, both of these running backs are in a good matchup. If Joe Mixon doesn't play, then Captain America is, you know, the matchup is very good for him. Chris Evans. Yes, correct. Yeah.

I mean, the joke is great, but he's so unknown that I feel like I have to say the name again. Yeah, that's fair. I mean, somebody else has played Captain America probably. Well, yeah, not my lifetime. You want to call him the human torch? No, no, no, no, no. Oh, I guess Captain America now has like shifted, right? He played the human torch. Yeah, Falcon is the new Captain America. Okay, all right. Well, Chris Evans then. All righty. Big news. Nick Chubb did not practice. And.

calf and from what i saw wednesday thursday and friday i was going to say from what i saw today he was not out there kareem hunt who had been missing was out there so this one is a hold your breath i mean are you worried most people nick chub don't have kareem hunt and so you need a full pivot at the running back position the hardest position to do that so maybe that's chris evans

I think you could do it because regardless of mixing status. Like mixing proved last week he can come in and get 30% of the snaps, do a little bit and they'll manage him. And then Chris Evans would get most of the work. But it's a mess. I mean, unexpected for Nick Chubb. We didn't have really reason to be fearful until recently. Chris Carson didn't practice. Yeah, your pivot could be Alex Collins. We'll see if Carson.

is ruled out. He is the Sunday night game, which makes it very difficult for him to be your pivot because you probably won't know until in the afternoon on Sunday if Chris Carson is trending to playing or not, but he's someone you could pick up. Yeah, unfortunately, last week, last week they did the game time decision thing and they waited until, you know, they wanted to see how he felt before the game. I can't imagine that a week of more rest says they're going to decide earlier. And this is a terrible, like my situation where I've got.

Christian McCaffer, David Montgomery, and Clyde Edwards-Zalier. I have Alex Collins. I have him. And I think he would be a good play, but I don't have any other pivot option because it's Sunday night. And I don't. I mean, the Monday game, you could go McNichols. You could go Singletary. I mean, those would be kind of backup pivots. Yeah. D.K. McCaff didn't practice on Thursday with the foot. He has a Sunday night game. I was doing some reading on this.

Seems like it's just managing the situation. I got a little worried, so I wanted to dig in, and I'm not as worried as I was. Damien Harris, limited practice on Thursday. He still may not play, though. Yeah. Josh Jacobs didn't practice due to illness. Julio practiced in full. That's great. And Jarvis Landry was designated to return from IR, not been activated yet. The Julio Jones one is great. You have far more confidence now in Ryan Tannenhill.

especially, we brought him up on the never-not working segment of last week. Looking forward to the bypocalypse of next week, Ryan Tannenhill against the Kansas City Chiefs with both of his weapons, you should feel pretty good about that option. Delicious. Yes. Yeah, I believe that those two guys, the big two, A.J. Brown and Tullio. And Tullio Jones, have...

not been out there for, I think they've been out there, 142 snaps together out of 384 on this season. So very limited amount of time playing together so far. There was not a lot of definitive final news in that injury report. And so it's one of the reasons we have the injury blitz podcast from our injury expert Matthew Betts available to you at Jointhefoot.com. It's why we put game day alerts out. It's why Mike sits in the chair that I'm in right now on Sunday live to break it all down.

to tilt with you, to make pivot suggestions. You can check all that out so you're ready to go. But use today to pick up some guys on the waiver wire if you have a cue next to the name, plan ahead. Any other news, Brooksie, that has come in while I was giving news? That's it for now, but we're watching. All right. Definitely check out the Sleeper app, get the breaking news alerts, and you'll be aware of what's going on.

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Some of the matchups from yesterday's show. Here's what we talked about then. The Dolphins, Jags, Packers, Bears, Bengals, Lions, Texans, Cults, Rams, Giants, Chiefs, and Washington, and the Vikings Panthers. Those were yesterday's matchups, so click over to that episode and check them out. Today, six more games to talk about starting with the, maybe my favorite team right now. The Los Angeles Chargers at 4-1 taking on the Baltimore Ravens who have battled back to 4-1.

Ravens feel weird because of the close, narrow win against Detroit and then losing to the Raiders and then, you know, up and they had to come back from a big deficit. They don't feel like they're kind of... Their defense is not Ravens of old. No, they're not in the groove right now, but the Drafking Sportsbook line does have the Ravens as two and a half point home favorites. The over-under is 51 points. And look, maybe Ravens fans don't like the fact their defense is in the groove.

But fantasy fans like that, especially if you have Justin Herbert, Austin Ackler, Mike Williams, Keenan Allen, Jared Kuk. I mean, is there anybody that you're lacking confidence in right now? The only notes here for me on the charges would be that Mike Williams has not practiced or didn't practice Wednesday or Thursday. So hopefully we at least get a limited on Friday. But otherwise, I mean, this is wheels up. You're playing.

You're playing everybody, and you're even willing to stream Jared Cook as the Ravens are 30th against fantasy tight ends. Yeah, so pay attention to Mike Williams' injury news today. Austin Echler has been outstanding of late. Herbert obviously has been great. And for what it's worth, I mean, this could be really great. Your default gut reaction when you see Baltimore in Baltimore is to kind of suppress the value of the quarterback. Yes. And yet Baltimore has given up.

435-yard game to Derek Carr, huge game to Mahomes. A huge game to Carson wins. 402 yards to Carson wins. That's embarrassing. So the confidence that you need in this game, yeah, fourth most passing yards allowed for Baltimore. And they've got some injuries and they're dealing with that. Lamar, assuming he plays. I mean, he had the illness, missing practice. He's going to be in your lineup. As is Hollywood Brown, you're going to stay in those flames.

as is Mark Andrews. So the real kind of confidence question regarding the Ravens is the running game. Is Tyson going to get more work magically? I doubt it. I don't think, I think the experiment with Love Bell is over. Do you agree with that? Yes. Yeah, it'll be the three-headed monster with Latavius Murray at the front. And I talked about him as my start of the week. Not that I'm not calling for Latavius Murray to have a, to be a weak winning running back here.

Just saying, I have the confidence that if Murray's on your bench, he is absolutely worth a flex play against the team giving up over 25 points a game to the running back position. And I have a really hard time wanting to start these guys. Watching these games, it's just like, I feel like if Latavius Murray doesn't get a touchdown, he won't be good. Like, you know, what's his, he's not involved in the passing game.