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

He's good for your fantasy football team, but you have to find the right places to play him. Against Dallas, coming off of a chest injury, even if we don't know if he's going to suit up, but this is not the week. But next week, he gets the New York Jets. Yeah, I'll play Damien Harrison that matchup. And I do think, because I picked him up. I overpaid a lot in Fab to pick him up yesterday. But to pick who up? To pick who up? To pick a Remandre Stevenson who.

to me is worth a stash and see what's going on. Because this running back room is in transition. It's in turmoil. We don't know exactly what's going on. And Remandre, by the end of the year, could end up being the primary ball carrier. And he actually has a decent skill set at catching the ball better than Damien Harris. So he could see an uptick in usage there. He's one of my favorite stashes. You're not picking them up and.

putting them in your lineup and expecting great things right now. But Ramandre Stevenson at running back is a good pickup and stash. Wait and see what you have here. He has the talent. And I think he could have an impact as the season goes on. The hardest thing about New England is how many years has it been since we've seen an explosive offensive performance? How many years has it been since they've had Tom Brady? Yeah, I mean, it's like the ceiling. If any player achieves their pinnacle.

goals for this team, you still are going up against the bottom third scoring team. Yeah, you're still disappointed. That's why Jacobi Myers is okay. Because his pinnacle is what he's been doing, which is like...

Eight for 80. And that's a fine fantasy, you know, day. This is a game. He was tackled at the one last week. We're getting closer. Well, he got to the force field. He's not allowed to break through the force field of the end zone. It's like the dome. Yeah. Absolutely. There's an invisible dome for Jacob. He was tackled with no defenders. Did you guys see the play?

I did see the play. It was a screen pass. It was like 100%. We're calling this to get Jacobi's first touchdown. It was like, oh, this should work. We'll get him that quick touchdown. Still didn't work. Hunter Henry has a play, though, to me. I think Hunter Henry in this matchup against Dallas, Dallas should put up points, and Henry has separated himself running more routes than Janu. And so I would look that direction. You saw 29% of the targets last week. That was wild.

The two and three Seahawks take on the two and three Pittsburgh Steelers in Pittsburgh. The Draft King Sportsbook Line Steelers minus five and a half. The over under is 43. Pittsburgh should get back to 500 in this game. They get the benefit of not facing Russell Wilson. Gino Smith will be the quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks. And by the way, the practice reports yesterday for Seattle were ridiculous. You know who is limited in practice? Everyone. Russell Wilson.

That's what he was listed at. Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, he's, well, he can do everything on the football field except throw a football. Right. Well, he can run just fine. If there was one player, one ever to pull a Larry Bird, they come out here and try to play quarterback left-handed, just like, dude, I'm still better than. Is a left-handed Russell might be better than Geno Smith. Yeah.

This is a tough thing, right? Because you face a pretty good defense, especially against the run, against tight ends. Pittsburgh seemed to figure some things out last week. I'm laughing at this comment because the note I have under Big Ben Rothersberger from Kyle was that he used to play football professionally. Oh, man. But Pittsburgh should win this game. I mean, you've got to like Naji, Vente, Claypool. Yep.

Is there any chance that you would play Big Ben? No. We've never said that out loud, but Seattle's defense struggling. Short fields, touchdown opportunities maybe? Yeah, touchdown opportunities for sure. You know, you would assume higher odds for Najee than for the wide receivers. This is one of those games where when you look at the defense and what Seattle has given up, they're a poor defense. You can't really fact, you know, like.

The Kansas City Chiefs, they're a bad defense. They give up a ton of points. But part of the reason they do is because Patrick Mahomes goes out there, it puts up so many points that you have to go for. Are they mad at him? On every fourth down. Is the Kansas City defense upset with Patrick Mahomes? They're like, slow down, man. They're like, you make the other team always want to score so much. But, you know, similar things here with Russ. With a worse offense for the Seahawks, there will be, you know, more.

potential for the game clock to run out early, run Najee, not have to try to put up 40 points to win the game. Any chance you're pivoting from the wide receivers on Seattle? On Seattle, Lockett is someone that I'm a little bit scared of. His mind meld with Russell Wilson is otherworldly, and I, you know, I'm not pivoting from him to, you know, a Jacoby Myers.

But if I've got another good option... Julio? Yeah, if Julio's active... I'd play Julio. I would play Julio as well. Because of the quarterback... Tyler Boyd versus Tyler Lockett? I'd play Lockett. I would go locket there. It will be interesting to see what this offense does for Seattle. Because the new quarterback, you can't just say, hey, go do what Russell Wilson does? So do they bring shorter targets in here? And the Seattle-wide receivers actually become a little bit more consistent. Maybe not the...

as explosive, but gets more consistent production. Well, Pat Friamuth, I did see a stat that, that big bin. Is he Luth? Uh, his passerating, throwing the ball to Pat Friamuth is like 125. That makes sense. Yes. I mean, let him loose. Just, just let him loose. It's just Luth in the rain. Just Luth in the Rains and let Mewth go everywhere. Pittsburgh. Let him, let him loose.

Yeah. Oh, man, I love Pat Friar Muth. I can hear Al Borland, just cackling like a little kid in the background. That gets me, man. Yeah. Just what gets you exactly? Just what a moot? The mooth is loose. Yeah. Yeah, say it at home. Say it with us. Now, Brooks, does that make you cackle at all? Oh, yeah. What is that? Gives me a good chuckle. What does? What does? The mooth is loose. The mooth.

Oh, fantastic. All right. Monday night. Thank you for letting us not gloss over the music. Once I saw that tweet, I knew I'd bring him up in the matchups. Buffalo, four and one, Tennessee, three and two. Drafking sportsbook line for Monday night football. The bills, minus five and a half. The over and under is 53. I don't think everybody's playing better than the bills right now. And the Tennessee defense, frankly, there are two outcomes for this game. Tennessee's offense figures it out or Tennessee gets blown out.

I mean, those are the outcomes, right? That is what it seems like. The overrunners 53. Now there's a good, I mean, there's a chance that they figure it out and it doesn't matter because Buffalo has been the best defense in football. But at least you got a shot at it, right? Like fantasy players would like to see last Monday night. Yes. So are you confident with the running backs on Buffalo because of the matchup with Tennessee? Just Zach Moss. He's become the guy.

You know, the last few weeks, we saw it happening where after the weird week one situation, Zach Moss has looked good on the field. He was getting end zone, he's getting goal on carries. And then we saw the snaps jumped up to 74% against Kansas City. So is that, to me, that's just a sign of things to come, that they're going to make the move to Zach Mosson.

And that's great. Like if Zach Moss can become a reliable fantasy option for a very high-powered offense, like that's great for fantasy football. I agree. And the truth is they're going to be in these positive games, because the majority of the time that they play football. And so that gives me more confidence in Moss. Four targets for Moss last week. I mean, that's good stuff. I expect big things from Stefan Diggs this week.

Tennessee is dead last in the NFL against opposing fantasy wideouts. They're giving up 40 points per game to the wide receivers, fantasy points per game in a half point. That is great. And I would, so Emmanuel Sanders is back in there. The only area they've been strong against so far, and I haven't looked at all their opponents, but it's been the tight end position, but you're still putting Dawson Knox back out there. You have to. He's running so many rounds and really seems like they have marginalized Cole Beasley.

I mean, between Sanders and Dawson Knox, Cole Beasley's been far less important. Like Emmanuel Sanders or Tyler Lockett, that's a question coming in from. I would play Emmanuel Sanders for sure. Yeah, I mean, I think there's a good consideration. It's not locked and loaded, clear and obvious. But if it was my roster, I would play Emmanuel Sanders. The matchup is fantastic. The quarterback is a known commodity. He's been very good. I don't see why I would.

pivot other than just hoping that they'll have some new game plan for Gino where they throw it to Tyler Lockett short all the time. Yeah. Josh Allen greater sign, Gino Smith, I think. Josh Allen has increased his average depth of target from last year to this year. He's second in the league. He's 137.6 passer rating on 10 plus yard throws. It's the best in the NFL. We just saw a graphic that went up on Twitter that showed the last 21 games, yeah.

between Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen, and they're indistinguishable in terms of touchdown to interception ratio, win-loss record. It's incredible what Josh Allen has been able to do and then sustain it. You know, Josh Allen is here to stay, and the bills are here to stay because of it every year for a long, long time. So on the other side of the ball, though, Derek Henry is always in your lineup. Tanahill, it's a tough sell on Tana Hill. You just need to wait and see if you get...

Two healthy whiteouts at the end of this game moving into next week against Kansas City. 100%. I'm benching Ryan Tanna Hill here. There are two many really good options to stream at quarterback that are easy and obvious that I would put ahead of Ryan Tanna Hill this week. But again, have him on your bench for next week against Kansas City. Yep. And then A.J. Brown, I mean, I don't have a tremendous amount of confidence in him this week.

I don't have confidence for upside, but I'm still starting him as like a low-end wide receiver two. Yeah. It's tough because you've had injury, but you also had like the bad performance, right? Like four of eight targets, three of nine targets to start the year, three of six targets last week. You haven't seen it this year yet, which is just unfortunate. You probably don't have a better option. Yeah, I mean, you're right. You haven't seen it this year. But the fact that.

He's caught 40% of his passes over the course of this season so far, 10 out of 25. He's not a 40% catch rate guy. I mean, nobody is. This year he is. He has been, but he's a 65% catch rate player with Tanna Hill over the course of his career. So I'm not too worried about the bad performances. He'll write the ship. All right. Lamar Jackson did return to practice on Friday. So that's good news if you were.

You probably weren't scared. Terry McLaurin spent time with the training staff on Friday. They also said he rejoined his teammates on the main field. So we're not. Good, good, good. We're not exactly sure what's going on. It's never a good tweet to read that someone's on the side with the training staff. But as of now, I would think he's okay. Brooks, how long is the Injury Blitz podcast on average when Betsy puts out there like 15 minutes?

Yeah, right around. Breaking news. Brown's running back Nick Chubb has been ruled out. Wow. For Sunday's game against the Arizona Cardinals. So should I feel good about playing somebody that has Cream Hunt right now? Uh, no. It's funny, though, because Cream Hunt. Should I think about trading for Cream Hunt last week? Oh, yeah, you did, didn't you? I did. It also appears that Christian McCaffrey is not at practice again today. Sorry, continue. You doing okay? I just, I've had two. I get, I've had.

Christian McCaffrey for two years. Yeah. It's been a bad two years. You haven't got to enjoy nothing. Nothing. What does it cost you? You keep everything. You get on the bus. You drive into town. You go. You try to open the door to the candy store. Oh, there we. And the candy store is always closed and you've got to get back on the bus and drive back home. Someone keeps stealing the wheels off my Lamborghini. I haven't been able to drive it. I've got a beautiful Lambo.

And I just, every, I shouldn't park it outside, but I want people to see it. And they come by and they take the wheels and I can't drive it. You can never drive it. Oh. All right. It's time to move on. By the way, I was, I think I was saying the Injury Blitz podcast again. There's so much going on right now. That is crucial for this week. Question is how quickly can I get Cream Hunt into my Draft Kings lineup before we go? Nope. Nope. Nope.