Week 7 Matchups + Funny Bones, Wheel of Shame - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/22

The Buccaneers pass rush is going to do a number on him. That being said, you can't run against the Tampa Bay Buccaneer. So, you know, you're hoping that fields in limited amounts of passing attempts, finds Alan Robinson and Darnell Mooney and gives you... This is the week for him, man.

I think so. I think Alan Robinson has his best game of the year this week. I do too. I'm fine starting Alan Robinson. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are going to be down four cornerbacks. Carlton Davis, who is awesome, is gone. Their free safety is gone. The bucks are going to score, and you can't run on them. So with a really injured secondary, I have to imagine that.

that Donnell Mooney and Alan Robinson are fine. I think that they're decent plays here. And that's why Mike likes Cole coming out, getting involved, maybe protect him from the pass rush. Khalil Herbert, Damien Williams, you know, it's going to get really murky. Let me put it this way. I think Williams will probably get cleared on Saturday. And if he does, I would. Bench them all? I would bench both. Okay. That makes it easy.

We did just get some breaking news. Somebody have that button? Here we go. Breaking news. Rob Grankowski, Antonio Brown, out. Really? Out. Oh, my goodness. That means I wish I'd bid $2 on Brandon and I. You come in a minute ago as I am Antonio Brown manager. He's available for trade. I'd rather be dead, Mike.

Then, uh, but yeah, I mean, just, just two fab dollars. Wow. Another, you know, you, uh, you, uh, you were hoping Brown would be back out there. He's been so good and you need him this week. That's wild on a Friday. Yeah. So no AB and no, no, no, no, Gronkowski again. So, Mike, I know you moved on from Gronkowski in one of our leagues. I mean, you're in a different situation, but, but there is still like.

If I could trade Gronkowski on the promise of the first few weeks, which were touchdown dependent, obviously is Gronkowski, but he's not the old Gronkowski. If I could do that, you know, we talked about how overdue Chris Godwin is around the red zone. If I could cash in on Gronkowski and go pick up a Dalton Schultz, a long-term, you know, make him, package trade him for Kyle Pitts, put myself in a position to have a younger...

healthy tight end, I would do it. Oh, yes. At this point, you would. You got to look at the schedule where he's out this week. And if I'm not mistaken, let me pull up the schedule just to be correct. So next week, the Buccaneers will be taking on the Saints and then it's a bye week. So you may have, maybe Gronk is active next week, but.

Is it Gronk right back into your lineup? Do you make sure he's going to play a full amount of snaps? Does the team choose, hey, we're kicking butt here. Our record looks good. Let's give Gronk two more weeks of rest because we're in this for the long haul. And then all of a sudden you don't have Gronk until week 10. Like this stinks. I was expecting that Gronk would play this week. Yeah, and now he's missed four games. Yeah. Tom Brady, of course, you play him.

Same with Leonard Fournett. I mean, he has turned into an every week start, right? Yeah, he has. He is actually really valuable. And the fact that they've been using him so much in the passing game with Antonio Brown out, you would expect Chris Godwin to step up with, you know, that kind of intermediate routes and probably a few more dumpoffs available to Leonard Fournett. Leonard Fornett's a very good play. Okay. Any other matchups in this game you want to talk about?

No. How about Sunday night football then? The Colts, two and four against the two and three, San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco minus four and a half, the overrunners 44. That's not a high one. When they were booking this game, they weren't like, there's no way that both the Colts and the 49ers will be sub 500 teams, right? Two Super Bowl contenders. Man, what a good game. Hoops. Jimmy G. Making his return. Horray. Carson wins.

leads the NFL in interception percentage in terms of the least amount. He has been pretty good recently. Yes, he has looked solid the last couple weeks. He has one interception on the year, and that was back in week two against the Rams. He has not a fantasy option. He's managing the offense, had a nice pass rating last week, won the ball. You know, they won 31 to 3 last week.

He finishes the 14th best fantasy-wide quarterback. And now you have likely no Ty Hilton in this game, did not practice again. You lost Paris Campbell, who was a big play threat. This is going to be a game in which they're going to ride Jonathan Taylor. They're going to do what they do, which is try to slow down Jimmy Garoppolo and Debo Samuel, which they'll probably not have a lot of success doing, and try to run the ball.

Where are you at with Michael Pittman, Jr. for the Indianapolis Colts? The target share has gone down. Fine with him. Okay. With Paris and T.Y. Hilton out, I would expect the target share will go back up. Greater than, you know, better than Ayuk as an option. That was the name I was going to bring up. Michael Pittman or Alan Robinson? Michael Pittman. One comment on I yuk. I was.

You know, we've been talking about the San Francisco beat riders. But see, I didn't lean on them. I leaned on Joey Bosa and some logic. And if there's a week for them to come out and do something, 21st ranked against wide receiver, they're favored by week. So you have an opportunity to integrate them into the offense a little bit better. Maybe another week to get even healthier. And Joey Bosa came out and he said, look, we're expecting big things from Ayuk in the second half of the season. There's certainly an opportunity here, although Debo is a must start each and every week.

You know, his role in the offense is guaranteed. Ayukes could emerge. Do you mean Nick Bosa? I do. Okay. I was like, why are we getting San Francisco information from Joey? I didn't say Joey, did I? You did. Did I say Joey? Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Well, Joey told Nick and then Nick, Nick, Nick told Joey. Get that guy involved, man. He's on my fantasy team. The Bosa family. I called them in.

No. Okay. Okay. Yeah, there we go. A conference call. The whole, I wanted him all the way in. Elijah Mitchell, confidence level this week. I think he's going to be the dude. This is not a good matchup for him. You launching the missile? I am launching the missile. Certainly on a week like this week, he's going to be in my lineups. I don't expect massive things for him. I think he's going to be a solid R2. Is that a homing missile? This week? Yeah, because he's playing a home. Okay. Okay. No.

Probably not. But I, there it is. I think he's going to be a solid running back to not a spectacular week, but I do expect him to be the dude when it comes to the primary runner, the most opportunities to have fantasy relevance. And I think he'll be good rest of season. One of the most, well, yeah, I mean, anybody else from this game that you have any confidence in?

Moali Cox, you want to step back into that world against the 49ers fifth-ranked tight-in defense? Preferably not. Not a great matchup. Peanut butter dwelly time? Preferably not. Never. Ooh. The New Orleans Saints at 3 and 2 take on the Gino Smith led Seattle Seahawks at 2 and 4. The D.K. Sportsbook line Saints road favorites by 4.5. Overrunters, 42 and a half. Ew. Worried we're going to see another exact replica of what we saw last night.

with Teddy Bridgewater. And, you know, that game where it was 17 to 14, I will not be surprised if that's the exact final score of this game. This game might be like 10 to 3. Sunday and Monday night. Indianapolis cold San Francisco 49ers. They could do it. New Orleans Saints and the Seattle Seahawks. I mean, they set this up for two awesome games. And these look like two crap fest. We got to believe. Who are the New Orleans Saints? I would like to know. Yeah, I mean, they're a team that has the.

James Winston is attempting the second fewest passes per game of any quarterback in football. So you need him to have a touchdown game against Seattle in Seattle. Don't see that happening. You don't have the return of Michael Thomas that we hoped and heralded. You have Marquez Calloway, which is fine. I think he's a fine play. Tony, Tony, James Jones, Brooks, Jr.

Went down to injury, went to IR a couple of weeks ago. I was curious. Obviously, this is a team that's not throwing the ball a lot. They want to run the ball because they've got a good defense and they've got James Winston a quarterback. So I went to look at who's being involved now that Tony, Tony James Jones, Brooks, Jr. is gone. And it's nobody. They didn't have another handoff to anyone not named Alvin Camara. This is...

This is his show right now. So obviously you're going to start him, but it was just surprising to me to see that like it was 100% of the carries to Alvin Camara. And I don't think they have another option. Yeah, I agree. So it's kind of clear. It's Camara. And then you're taking a chance, right, on the same side of the football. Yeah. I mean, it's one of those things where you cannot, I can't with intellectual honesty, say.

that James Winston's going to have a good game or that Marquez Calloway or any receiving options. They could. They've done it several times, but you just can't rely on that. I think it's Alva Camara and look to the other side of the ball. We've talked at length about Tyler Lockett. He's the wide receiver 64 over the last month. He has fewer points than Jamal Agnew or Chris Moore. Oh. And, you know, he's a source of tremendous discomfort for fantasy managers. You know.

Is he a sit against this defense? Probably. Probably, but. I mean, there are some people that are all in on this week. I say in most cases, if this were an average week, you're probably able to get away with benching Tyler Lockett. But this particular week, I think you play him. Just because you're not going to the waiver wire and playing an inferior wide receiver over Lockett. At least I'm not. Brandon Ayuk.

or Tyler Lockett. That's like the barometer check for me. Okay. And I would play. I guess I would play Iyuk with George Kittle out. I think I would as well. George Kittle out. Jimmy Garoppel back. Gino Smith in Eileen Ayuk. I couldn't be more unhappy with the fact that Mike took Brandon Ayuk from me. Yeah. I told you. He's available for trade. Gross. The running back room, it's a tough one because it's a questionable mess.

and the game's Monday night. So you don't have pivot options on the other side of the ball where you can grab a backup to Alvin Camara. Yeah, Dwayne Washington is not going to get it done for you. No, and Alex Collins, you know, if he starts, he's starting against a really good run defense in a game with a game script that Gino Smith's probably going to have to throw the football. I mean, if you're down a couple touchdowns, you don't even get the choice to hand the ball off to DJ Dallas, Travis Homer, shot Penny, and Alex Collins.

Yeah, it's a shame. The injury, the Monday night football and the matchup all make me avoid Alex Collins. That being said, Alex Collins, he has been a good running back. He is a talented player. The last three weeks, he's been good for fantasy. So you could do worse than Alex Collins, and he could end up just showing out the way that, you know, Deeris Johnson just said, I'm good. I am talented. But do you think it's worth it to go Alex Collins and throw?

DJ Dallas on the back of your bench just for the receptions. After Collins left the game last week, you saw five receptions pile up real quick for DJ Dallas. Yeah, I mean, that's a solid pivot. If you can get DJ Dallas and have that as your pivot for Alex Collins. If Alex Collins is out, DJ Dallas might be better than Alex Collins if he's in because like Andy said, the passing game will be. You presume that the Seahawks will be there.

Yeah, and don't forget, you can get all of our StartSit information on the website, the Fantasy Footballers.com, the StartSit tool. I'll be here with you on Sunday live, trying to sort through all this mess. An injury update here, Sterling Shepard, Darius Slate, both participated in the open port of portion of practice. Okay. I think they're both going to end up in the game time decision category that was insinuated by Joe Judge about Darius Slayton at least.

And you can also catch the Injury Blitz podcast over at Jointhefoot.com. Brooks, about what time of date does that normally hit? Late afternoon? I would say, yeah, probably like 5 Eastern we'll throw out there. And are we out of time now before this segment? Al, do we? We got time. Just enough. You don't want me to cut out? Just hit the button. Fantasy face off, presented by Draft Kings.