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

Oh, I don't need your applause. The people love you. No, I just was trying to figure out. Hold you. Well, thank you. Oh, Falcon gave it a ten at ten. That's terrible. I'm with you guys. What a terrible joke. All right, Eli writing in, what do I do if I'm o' and four? Do I make a crazy trade or stay the course? I mean, it's not somewhere in between there. It's not always just record. It's how is your team doing?

Points score. Yeah, like points. Where are you in points for game? Are you making bad decisions? Could you have won with bench players? Yeah. All of that stuff needs to be evaluated because luck is part of fantasy football. It just is. And sometimes you score the fourth most points every week. And you just happen to be up against the juggernaut of the week. So you have to evaluate. That's where you got to start. I've had a really funny year in my, like I'm in a CBS league for St. Jude's.

and I lost to the highest score in week one. I was the second highest score. I lost in week two another tough luck loss where I scored a bunch of points, right? So I'm sitting O and two in that league. I'm now two and two with two cheap wins. I mean, it's just the universe balanced in that league in a funny way where, you know, I'm like, oh my gosh, if I lost these two, I'm losing all of them. And it just evened out. Oh, and four, like we had this conversation on the show. People brought it up on social media.

We've had people 04, 05, 06. We had an 07 win a title. Staying the course might not be your answer because of all those variables. You may need to, you know, like right now, you probably can't afford to absorb buy week situations, right? Like if you're 0 and 4 and then you've got guys going into buy, maybe that's where you can make a trade for another player whose buys down the line. You can get a couple wins right now while other people's teams are on by. Think about it through that lens.

Kyle, who is the player that has surprised you the most given his preseason projections? Is it a player like Golden? I don't know if he was looked at as necessarily going to flop. For Golden, it was the opportunity is there. Does he have the player? Can the player come through with the opportunity he is given? I wasn't so sure. I was skeptical, but he has looked great. The biggest one for me is Chuba.

Yeah, like that's like that feels like probably my biggest miss. I wanted absolutely nothing to do with that situation. I hated him. I hated him as a fantasy football player, not just because of what Jonathan Brooks could or could not do. I just, I wasn't into the Panthers environment, but Chuba has been awesome. Yeah, I would say the Chargers top to bottom. All of.

All of that team? Oh, yeah, those guys. All the chargers. His own thing. Dude. We normally do this. I like, I mean, I have. They intended to be better, Jason. They did intend. Yeah, if they could award points on intentions. I always love taking a glance at the quartermark for where players are finishing in terms of like the positional rankings. Here's your top five quarterbacks. Do you want me to let you try to guess or just read them to you?

just read them uh wow i mean that like are you trying like the surprise is in there no i just want to read you the top five okay at each position all right so are you starting a quarterback starting a quarterback well it's like bryce and and shuck does shuck hold on to top five i think so i think josh allen will be in there lamar should still be in there no really no um shuck yep bryce is in there bryce so josh allen is one shuck is three bryce is four

Two more names. Oh, Kirk Cousins. He's six. Oh, I was so close. Number two is who you're missing here. All right. Who is it? Brock Purdy. Oh, of course. And number five right now is Jared Goff. Your top five running backs, this is not a shock. If you want to talk about like drafting predictability. Let's go Gibbs. Kimbone Walker. Bejohn. Who else is? Who is James Cook? Oh, Derek Henry. Derek Henry. Derek Henry's four. James Cook is 10. Jonathan Taylor.

Then Taylor's five. Cook was headed down. There's your top five. And then wide receivers. This shouldn't be too hard. Jason. Jason's one. Amanrah. Number three. Who's your other? Cedys number two. Just think about my team. I'm just thinking about your team. Four and five, though. Four and five are names that have not normally been there. We have a weird breaking news. Breaking news. The Philadelphia Eagles who just lost a tackle.

are sending two-time Pro Bowl Center Cam Jurgens to the Ravens in exchange for picks. Are they folding? What are we doing here? That's a little surprising. Shouldn't they like be acquiring all the offensive linemen? Well, they brought Damien Pierce up to the active roster so they don't. Oh, so Damien Pierce will be the guy. Remember what we talked about? We didn't know who of the three practice squads it would be. That's a weird one.

I think, I think Nick Siriani's odds to get fired midseason are going up by the minute. Nick Searani's in trouble. Philly is impatient. Philly's impatient. And also, despite the Super Bowls and Super Bowl victory as well, I'm pretty sure everyone there hates them. Dave wanted him out. I love, I just love the part where it's always another OC or another this or another that. Wow. Jason, Cidi Lammonra. The next two at wide receiver, do you got them? You should be a whole lobby is four. Mike.

Oh, I think, yeah. Oh, it's eight flowers? No. No. Because he missed. I don't know. It's going to be one of your guys. One of your guys. Oh, Christian Watson. Yeah, he held on. All right. Six is, six is tat, seven is Devante Adams. And then tight ends. You know who the number one tight ends is right now? George Kittle? Yes. Oh, man. Yes. Dude. That dude is.

That dude is awesome. Stop bad against George. He has the most touchdowns of the position. And then Trey McBride. Yeah. I want to know. Number three, Mike. Oh, number three. Do you want to do you want to know where Brock Bowers is. He's eight. Yeah. Dang. Juwantz is the La Porta Potty. Okay. Yeah. And then number five is Travis Kelsey.

Yeah. Oh, that makes sense. So there you go. There's your top scores. Juan Johnson. Good for you, man. I also enjoy the fact that so the top five quarterbacks are the top five scores altogether. And then Jumeir Gibbs and Walker break in. There's quite an overlap of quarterbacks and then it's all quarterbacks. Yeah. Because you said golf is in there, right? Yes. So Gough LaPorte, Purdy Kittle. Yeah. Shuck Jowanson. And Mahomes is not far behind, by the way. Mahomes is number nine right now in fantasy. So.

So throw to your tight end. But like Cousins is up there too. Yeah. Let's go ahead and jump into another question here. Start sick question from Devin. Do I start Zay Flowers with no Lamar? Or do I start Matthew Golden? It's us. Ravens are Sunday night games. So we may have, we may have answers on Lamar. We probably will, but we might not. Oh, he's not going to play. The most recent report I saw was like he's not. The most recent thing I saw was that he's got an unconventional. I did see that. Yeah. What does it even mean?

It means it's not conventional. Yeah, it just seems pretty obvious. It's the opposite. I mean, the doctor looked at it. It was like, this is the weirdest ankle sprain I've ever seen. I haven't seen anything like this. Usually ankle sprains either go this way or that way, and this one is totally different. I mean, look at it be. It's like, you're a doctor. You have to have seen this. Whoa.

Whoa, buddy. Your ankle injury is in your knee. It's neither high nor low. Is it really? That's what Brooks just posted. It's a report from Rappaport. Okay. It's unconventional. The fact that he might be able to play, even if he doesn't, is a good sign for the long term. But I play Golden against Chicago. That should be a high scoring game. The Packers' defense is not getting it done. Atlanta's defense is getting it done. I mean, look at Atlanta. Atlanta should win that game.

Atlanta's looking a lot better. Let's see. I mean, they should win the division. I think I'm going to still stick with flowers. I'm going to go golden. I'll bet you that one. You want to do a $100 bet on that one? Yeah. All right. Well, you're not going to want to hear this, Jay. Oh, wait, hold up. Oh, all right. No.

Let's see. My numbers that I'm seeing in the second half, Huntley threw the completed eight of nine passes. Oh, that's fantastic. For 63 yards. I'm showing flowers with a negative yard. You remember that they were up by a bunch and they'd like stop running them out there. Yeah, well, but he caught two passes for negative yard. And that's at least what I'm seeing. It'll be for a good bet. Yeah, it'll be fun. Would you trade George Pickens and Jalen Coker to get Chris Oliva? Yes, I would. Easily.

Uh, yeah, I think I'm okay with that. Alave is. Alave is awesome. When you combine the pace of play, the lack of a running game, and the Shuck capabilities. Full DGAF at the end of the game. They're just like, we're going to put up points. I mean, if you had Jefferson, I'd trade Jefferson for Alave in a heartbeat. Yeah. Um, now where is, where's Drake London on your rest of the season rankings? Very high. Very high. Because that feels like, I mean, he feels like he's going to be top five. As long as Michael Pennix keeps that job.

Drake London is going to be amazing. Their play action game just makes whatever they do. I just love hearing this Drake London and Oliva talk. You're two Dynasty guys. Yeah, whatever they do with the running all over the place thing, when you play action, Drake London just gets, he's so wildly open in that second level. They're not even close together. He just looks so good. Starts the question from El Dandy 40. All right. That's the Dandy.

The dandy, the dandy 40. So that do not oblo. Who should I start this week? Tyler Shuck against the difficult Minnesota defense. I'm assuming you're playing yourself some DAC this week. I currently have DAC in. Or Drake May against Las Vegas. I would go, May. I don't want to mess with Minnesota because I don't think you can get the kind of week you want, the three touchdown kind of week. Yeah, I lean Drake May. Thankfully, he came back to life. Didn't look like a bum last week.

Well, this one, we'll end with this one because this is a wild question. I'm curious Mike's thoughts. I think I know them. Morrison says, I'm one and three right now. I have Ken Walker. Oh. Which that's a hard accomplishment. That's hard to be one of three with Ken Walker. Goodness. Should I consider selling high for help right now? So you sell Walker at the, I believe Walker has the 14th highest points of all time through four weeks.

He is not playing football this week because the Kansas City Chiefs is run by. This is actually kind of what you were just talking about, where if you are a team that is 0 and 4, 1 and 3, and maybe you can't deal with a buy week. The question is just. It has to be an offer you can't refuse, though. Yeah, like if you can go get Jonathan Taylor to play this week and something. Plus. Then I don't think that's a problem. Would you trade Ken Walker? Let me give you this one. Would you trade Ken Walker for a package that was like,

Derek Henry and Golden. At one in three, I might be open. I'm very... I probably wouldn't do it. I don't think I do it. I think Ken Walker is worth more to your comeback from weeks six through the rest of the season than he is missing a week right now. I'm worried about Henry against Atlanta this week. With Tyler Huntley, like, this is, this is, this doesn't shape up to be the weeks, one of the weeks where he turns into the Yeti.

Fair. I mean, he has one of the largest splits of all time in wins versus losses, which makes complete sense. He's not a pass catching back. He's the four-minute run, you know, run the game out type of back. So tough for him this week. I would say that you need to explore how much you could get for Walker and try your best not to trade him. Yeah, that's a good way to put it. And if something happens where it's like, wow, okay.

I mean, you've got to just be overwhelmed. Yeah, you could always, that's the one situation where you probably want to put the name out there to everybody. If you want to explore it, let the bidding begin and see what kind of crazy stuff you get back because, you know, there's a world where, you know, there's a world where Walker's won overall this year for sure. Yes. Like it's not. He's barely behind Gibbs. Barely. And give, I mean, that's the 13th and 14th highest four week stretches to start a season for.

running backs in history. Going back to Jim Brown, who had the best one ever. It's wild. All right. We're going to say goodbye for today. Starts of the week tomorrow. Matchup previews. Thursday night recap, we'll talk about that. And we got Wheel of Shame this week as well. Hooray. Hooray. Ha-ha. Thank you for joining us. The communities over at Jointhefoot.com with the ultimate dashboard, your tool each week to get better. Check it out. Goodbye.

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