Snap Count Risers + Jason's Confession?! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/7

to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Wednesday, October 7th. Welcome into the show, the fantasy footballers podcast. Mike, the fantasy hitman, Jason Moore, Andy Holloway. Got a great show for you today. Waivers going through this morning. Desperate people in our chopped league trying to survive.

Which is, I mean, that's the fun of guillotine chopped leagues is watching people squirm. I mean, Mike doesn't have to. They suck. Mike doesn't have to watch them anymore. What a terrible league format. Moving on. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody's, somebody's recently departed. Are you still around, Papa Josh? I am indeed. You are? You're not cut? Oh, I thought you meant at work. I'm like, I'm here. We know you are here. And we are recording.

Okay. That's step two. How about the Chop League? Are you still in it? No, I'm not in that at all. What about you, Matt? Are you still in it? Yep. Okay. Nice to see you still have not adjusted your volume for public consumption. We have... Hey, it's me, Matt. Hey. Blah. Blue. What do we got at the top here? We've got our top five people in the Megalibol. We're four weeks into the year. Oh. Pretty strange flowers. Up at 670 points in the Megal Bowl, Stephen.

And then it looks like Delta, DJ, and RR, I can't pronounce that. Ruff. Rux. Oh, that looks like Rau-F-F-F. Well, there's an X in there, Mike. Yeah, but the X, wouldn't that X be silent X? I don't know. Jason was nodding with me. I think you might be right there. Rao. Rao. Is there a lot of, there's a lot of silent X's out there? There's a few. Yeah. Instagram.com. Have heard of the word xylophone? I have. I have heard of that word.

Starts with a Z. Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers on X at the FF. Ballers of Communities Join the Foot.com. We do have, we got a little fun segment here at the top. Make it snappy. Oh, that finish. It felt scary. Here we go. We're looking at players. I manipulate your emotions. You do. You do.

We are looking at players with rising snaps and opportunities going through a number of positions. Just taking a look at a few guys, starting with Kairn Williams. Kyrin Williams, the breakdown, in week one, it was a lot of Kyrin, 39 snaps of 14. In week two, it was really close, 34 to 28. That was against the Giants. And then in week 361.25 last week to survive on the comeback trail.

You saw where the team put their priorities. 70 snaps for Kyron, 13 for Blake Corum. Jason said something yesterday I thought was dead on, which is you're going to see a lot more Blake Corum in games where we thought the team would be, which was ahead and trying to protect leads, and they'd split some of that work. But when this team needs a play, a drive, a two-minute drill, a comeback, their main man not only is out there on the field, but performed.

Like, he won the game for them. I mean, Kyron consistently made plays last week, and you saw the snap counts diminished for Blake Corum. You know, is he still one of the top priority insurance backs? Of course. Of course he is. Yeah, but, like, what level are you trying to get him if you have Kyron or are you just riding dirty? I mean, I'm trying to get him. Because he represents, like, if he's alone, it's a massive...

It's a massive fantasy output. Yeah, I mean, I would say that usually most of the time when you have an insurance back, if your starter goes down, okay, good, I've got someone I can play, but they don't get better. Your team doesn't get better when that happens. The team gets worse. So it's like, oh, I go from my starter down to my second tier player. This is one of the rare situations where I think if Kyron were to go down to injury, Blake Corum by himself without Kyron.

would be even better than Kyron is right now. So I would definitely, if I'm the manager of Kyron Williams, I would be going pretty aggressively to try to secure Corum. RJ Harvey. Let's talk about the 10 target man. Is this something you're going to have to just accept as a reality here, Mike? J.K. Dobbins is not, I mean, frankly, he just hasn't looked that good. No, he has not looked very good. He's out snapped Harvey.

two times, one time when Harvey was out. And then in week three on the return, 33 to 24 this past week, RJ Harvey 29, J.K. Dobbins, 21, Tyler Paday, 12. Yeah, the snaps have not shaken out the way I thought they would. Now, the Broncos schedule probably does factor into that, but also the way that this offense is running.

where it's just real, real small, real short a dot. I mean, it's a pretty, it's a pretty disgusting offense to watch. It is not aesthetically pleasing. And RJ Harvey is currently the benefit. What do you blame for that? Why are the, why do we have no predictability when it comes? And this is going back a year. I mean, we had a Thursday night game against the hapless Raiders in which the, you know, the Broncos look terrible.

So who do we blame? Do we blame Bo Nix? Do we blame? I don't. Sean Payton took the blame off himself, gave it to Davis Webb. I mean, I don't even know. Like, I don't, is this, is it a Bo Nix? Is, like, are the plays being set out in front of him for him, for him to accept and take care of? Or is this just how Sean Payton wants it to run? I really don't feel like I have a good gauge on it. But it just is what it is. I mean, I think the first and second half of the Rams games were,

maybe as like indicative of what the like oh man i i don't know what to do here man i this has been this has been real it's just been too funny uh we uh we frequently on the show pause on the show we we had to pause yesterday we can't pause go to my camera okay so you see the corner of mike's laptop oh everything's good man you see the corner of mike's laptop in my camera now go to

Go to Mike's camera. You see the corner of my laptop, right? So we've got these little things on here. Go ahead and go to Mike's camera. It's a screen protector. I know that this is not good for the audience at home. So it blocks what's on the screen. So we have these every single day. Yeah. And we get in here and I mean, yes. Well, hold on. Hold on. We have them every single day. We use them every single day. Right. But every day they're just like on the table, you know, like.

like pre-production happened. We're ready. It's sitting out here and we grab them. It's like, oh, hey, the reminder. And then we were going. And I didn't have mine. And they were like, oh, guys, you need your thing. And I'm like, I don't. Yeah, you don't want to know where I found mine before the show, Mike?

Well, under your butt? Under my butt. Yeah, I was told to look under my butt. It wasn't there. But then... But it was to my back. It was behind your back. So I'm trying to talk and Mike is sneaking... Yeah, YouTube.com slash Steve Fantasy Footballers. Mike is sneaking out his screen protector from behind his back. Every day this week, there's been something weird that happens. And I don't want to blame Josh, but it is...

He's the exact now. This, you know, Jeremy's on a cruise ship. Josh wasn't the, uh, the chewer. Yesterday we had the loudest chewing on camera, which was Kyle. And Kyle is now, he said he heard from many friends about his guilt yesterday. Um, as we put the social media. Let's see. You don't want to know it? You want to know the difference? What? Kyle stand up man. He was like, oh, took responsibility. He was like, we looked immediately at Josh because that's the most likely culprit. And then Kyle's like, no, guys, it was me.

It was me. Yeah. I don't hear anything about the screen protectors right now. I mean, is your butt to blame at all? No, my back. Okay. Also, the complete blending into the chair. Yeah, I think the final thought I was getting to there was the first and second half. I don't know, man. First and second half of the Rams game where the Broncos looked hapless and stupid on offense. And then the second half, they kind of put it together. That's basically the 50-50 coin flip I feel like I'm playing with. I feel like I'm doing that with Waddle. I feel like I'm doing that with any running back.

I feel like Bo Nix. Spoiler alert, he's going to be a start of the week this week. Do I feel good about it? Oh, man. 50, 50. I feel like I think I feel good about it. Yeah, there's another, we're talking about a guy who's the start of the week for me. Are we? Who? Harvey. Oh, Harvey's your start of the week? Oh, that feels like such a brother. You got to accept what's going on. That's better than, yeah. I'm not putting my head in the sand and just being like my preseason. I love Dobbins. I thought.

because Dobitz has always been a good running back on the ground. He just doesn't look like it right now. Yeah, he has not been very good. I mean, he was 17 carries for 49 yards two weeks ago. You know what I bet he's doing right now? Fighting through injury. Yeah, he's like, it's not working. Generally speaking, when he gets this level of injury, he just shuts it down. He's like, if I don't go out there, remember what I said? I said I'd be healthy. No, and the truth is, is with Harvey, if you pick him up, trade for him, whatever.

You do get the, I mean, Dobbins could get knocked out. And then Harvey's getting more work. Coleman is in the shadows like a boogeyman. On the way back. And he can catch the ball too. But right now, Harvey, the snap counts, which is what we're looking at, they're going up. And then take a look at this. The number one wide receiver in snap counts for the Packers, clear as day through four weeks. It's not Christian Watson. Clear as. Last week was.

The other difference is like... So three or four weeks... Like, oh, snap. I wouldn't call that it clear as day. Yeah, week four is 53 to 41. Yes. That one's clear as day. But he's at or surpassing the level of Watson and every other week. It's just... And we've seen it. Like, he actually looks good. He's a league leader in penalties drawn. 97 pass interference yards...

that was more than double second place in terms of like that's just not even on your fantasy statute that is matthew golden did we say matth i might not have said his name his name is matthew golden yeah but matthew golden has looked great like if you bought low in dynasty if you yeah congratulations i mean like this is a key point or a key player for the packers moving forward he had the goal line play after tucker craft dropped the ball he scored last week on like kind of a fade route brought it in

You know, Christian Watson has that inherent fear of injury. Maybe we're getting past that with the workouts and stuff, and he's been out there. But, yeah, the snap counts are awesome. The production is awesome. I think the trade window for Golden might have closed at this point. I don't. At least the, like, trying to get like, where if a manager doesn't fully.

believe or buy into what's happening? The question is, what do you think he is? Because I think you got... What tier? Like, yeah, exactly. Is he the absolute full-time starting wide receiver for the Packers? Yes. Is he getting opportunity? Absolutely. Do you like the Packers' offense? Maybe. But what is what is his talent level? You know, he's drawn the most pass interference yards. Some of that is really, really good. Sometimes the fact that you're getting past interference yards, you know, you're not separating enough. You're...

You know, if you come down with that ball, you know, the pass interference is declined. Right. He's still catching less than half of his passes. You know, last week, double digit fantasy points because he caught a touchdown, but he also had 21 receiving yards. So I would not put him in my mind to, like I definitely think he is a worthwhile weekly start. I just don't think he's really broken out.

And so do you guys think he's going to break out? At the end of this year, do you think he's a top 15 wide receiver? Because I don't. I already think the breakout has definitely happened because the target totals, the production level, multiple touchdowns when he didn't score it all last year. He's 13th in fantasy right now. In points per game. Let me take a look and see where he's at there. He's 18th in points per game. I mean, I think that's about where he's going to finish, probably 18 to 22. But like, would you rather have?

Let me give you some other names. Like, would you rather have Matthew Golden or Debo? I think we'd all say Golden. Yes. Yeah. Would you rather have T. Higgins than Matthew Golden? I'd rather have T. Higgins than Matthew. Yes. Would you rather have Garrett Wilson, yes. Would you rather have Michael Wilson or Matthew Golden? Oh, Michael Wilson. I think, yeah, I'll go Michael. So, you know, they're pretty close. 12.3 for Golden, 11.1 for Michael Wilson so far. Parker Washington is down at 10.8.

Parker. No, I'm just laughing of the, like, just fancy football is funny. Would you rather have burden or golden? I think I'd take golden. I'll take golden in that situation. Like, a me Mecca, Abuka, give me Matthew Golden. For sure. Great. Ladd-McConkie. Give me Matthew Golden. Like, all the metrics for Golden are at or surpassing Christian Watson except for touchdowns. Yes. And I think that's what's going to happen. Like, at this, the way that things look through four weeks.