Week 7 Matchups + In-or-Out, Ballers on a Budget

This week. This is a terrible week for him. Okay. And then project him moving forward. People need to know what to do with David Montgomery.

So I still believe that David will get my opportunity as the season goes on. He has established himself as the main guy. He just hasn't looked great doing it. But he still looks better than the counterparts, right? I'm not worried about Mike Davis. So the opportunity will be there. He's a starter for a team that is going to be in winning game scripts because of the defense. I still like David Montgomery rest of season. This is a really, really tough matchup. You have a low score.

scoring projection from Vegas. And then you expect most of the success to come in the passing game because over the last couple of years, the Saints have been one of the most difficult teams to run against. And I don't see that changing. You know, last year, they were top five against the run for fantasy. This year, they're top five against the run for fantasy. So I think that's going to continue. And because you don't have Drew Brees to go out and score on the

on the Bears, I think Teddy, two gloves is going to have a really difficult matchup. So, I mean, I would take the under in this game. You've got two good defenses and two bad quarterbacks. It's the exact opposite of the Arizona Cardinals, New York Giants game. Two bad defenses, two good quarterback. What about this guy?

Will we see Alvin Camara, aka Super Camario, the player with the most broken tackles over the last month? I do not believe we will. Agumba got him? Yeah. Al Borland, will you see if we can get an update on if he's practiced today or what the latest? Because this is obviously a massively important player for your teams. I still don't believe that he will be in there. Did we not have Alvin Camara in or out? Possibly.

Possibly. And if it was overlooked, I don't want to point any fingers. Yeah, he deleted it out because they're playing the bears. Yeah, he tried to move away, but we caught him. Don't worry, we got that news. He did not practice yesterday, but I haven't heard on today's practice yet. Yeah, the addition of Zach Zinner, the team is preparing to be without him. We were saying that you should be prepared to be without him. But if he's in, you play him. That's just what happens with Alvin Camara. Latavius Murray, though.

If Alvin Camara is out, the one place the Bears are a little susceptible for fantasy purposes, 20th against fantasy running backs. Is Latavius Murray a free square, a plug-in-play for you? He's definitely not a free square. No, he's a guy you can plug in because he'll get volume, and he could be okay. But really, when Latavis Murray is going to be okay, it's going to come on the back of a touchdown.

And I just don't see very many touchdowns in this game scored on the offensive side of the ball. If this hits the over, it's going to be because of defensive scoring, in my opinion, from each side. The only player that I really like in this game at all is Michael Thomas. He's still a trustable, necessary, super high target market share type of player. His ceiling is, you know.

tempered because of the matchup, but, you know, he's just too good to ever sit him. Jared Cook, if he plays, you can play him, even though the matchup isn't great. Bears, Seahawks. I apologize. Ravens. Seahawks got the Bears on my money. Oh, Jay Gras. Ravens coming in at four and two, Seahawks, five and one. And over under, not bad. 49 and a half points. The Seahawks are favored by three and a half. We could have some drizzle. Oh, yeah. Because we're in Seattle.

So we could have a drip of fantasy points as well. Lamar Jackson takes on Russell Wilson. This is going to be a delight to watch these two quarterbacks. Go at it. You're playing them both. As of right now, they are my number one.

And my number two quarterback on the week. Ooh. So I've got Russell. Who is who? Oh, I've got Russell number one. Oh, scandalous. He's Russell Wilson, Lamar Jackson, number two. This is a really good game. It's, it's in between, you know, I talked about the Cardinals and the Giants matchup where you've got two bad these, two good quarterbacks. This is you've got two great quarterbacks, two middle of the pack defenses. You think of the Seahawks and Ravens, like the scary defensive matchup. It's not.

Neither defense is great. They are literally, I mean, across the board, they're so similar. The Ravens are 13th to quarterback, 13th against running back, 12th at tight end, 22nd against wide receiver, and the Seahawks are the same. 17, 16, 12, they're all in the teens. This is just NFL defenses that aren't terrible, aren't great. And you've got quarterbacks that are great. They're going to beat an average defense. Mark Ingram.

averaging nearly 15 rushing attempts per game. Gus, the Gus bus did out snap Ingram this past week, but I think that, I think Ingram is still a safe running back to play. Chris Carson averaging 23 plus opportunities per game. He is the workhorse and he is delivering. He's the new Marshawn Lynch. 100 plus rushing yards and three straight games. Yeah, I mean, they, you know, look, they found success with Russell Wilson and Marchon.

Lynch. They won a Super Bowl with that. And now that's what they're replicating now. They've got their Marshawn Lynch back. They've found him. If he stays healthy, they're going to be a great offense. And Chris Carson helps Russell Wilson. Sure. So, you know, he opens everything up. You know, what are you going to stop? You can't, you can't just focus on Russ because Chris Carson will eat your lunch and be a real bully. I'm taking your sandwich.

So, I mean, you're going to start most everybody in this game. We don't know whether or not. Which Tyler Lockett shows up, Jason, because it's either five or fewer targets or double digit. In this game, I'm going to guess it's the double digits. Oh, what a pivot. Yeah. I saw it happen. Well, the thing is, is it's irrelevant because on these low targets, he gets a touchdown. I mean, he's going to be good.

on almost every week. Right now you've got him just dominating. Tyler Lockett is, let's see here. He is currently, give me 10 minutes. Wow, what is happening over there? I wanted to see where he is. He's the wide receiver 12 right now on the season. So he is, he's a wide receiver one, and he's pretty consistent. He's had four of his six games as a top 24 wide receiver.

Obviously you're going to start him, but I think it's pretty irrelevant whether he has few targets or more targets. It's kind of like the arguments we made in the offseason about Russell Wilson. I don't care how he does it. If he's up against a really good passing D, he's going to run the ball and he's going to score rushing touchdowns. If it's the opposite, he'll just, if he only throws the ball 19 times this game, guess what? He's going to have a great game. That's just what happens with Russell.

Then how about his other weapon, D.K. Metcalf, who's actually put together a pretty nice rookie season, only has the one really bust of a game, which was Arizona, which was shocking, because that was the only time Arizona hasn't given up a top 10 quarterback performance.

Other than that, though, he's living right in that 60-yard range with the opportunity to score touchdown. DK Metcalfe as a wide receiver three. You in? Yeah, yeah, I'm in on that. I mean, I don't have Russell Wilson and Lamar Jackson as my number one and number two and then not want their receiving options. Marquis Brown, we're looking for a practice update. Hopefully we'll get it before the end of the show. If he's active, are you playing him? If Marquis Brown is active, I did not practice today. He did not.

No. All right. He's probably not playing then. Yeah. Yeah. And then that means if he's playing, I'm less inclined to play him because the re-injury factor or the just the decoy factor. Sunday night. Eagles 3 and 3. Cowboys. Three and three. Cowboys favored by 3. 49 point over under. This should also be an excellent game.

Carson Wentz, he just keeps coming through as a top 10 guy, five of six weeks, sixth highest air yards per completion rate in the league. He's in. Dak Prescott, I think he's more questionable, even though the matchup is great. He's a bigger question to me than Carson Wentz. Jason, are you playing Dak Prescott as a quarterback one this week? I have Dak Prescott as quarterback 11, so yes. My rankings, though, few.

That was my relief. Oh, okay. I didn't know if that was like there are a few of something. No, that was a pH few. Oh, okay. It really sounded like an app. Few. Thank you. What's, how would you pronounce them differently? Few, like I have a few things. That's a real. Okay. And if, if it's a, whew, it's more. Oh, it's a hue? It's like, whew.

So you're really going after that age. Yeah, because... The hue. You know, it's like you're wiping the sweat. Well, that was now you added a W. Well, but it's closer to that. It's closer to having a W than few. Like, have you ever... I don't wipe my forehead and go, few. Have you ever grown in like a few men's shoe? Facial hair. I have not. But, uh...

Back to the game. So I've got Carson Wince and Dak Prescott both as quarterback ones. I agree with you that there's a little bit more risk on the Dak's side. I mean, there shouldn't be. There shouldn't be because the Philadelphia secondary is terrible. But Dak is missing Amari Cooper. Dak could be missing Randall Cobb. If he's not missing Cobb, he's got a hobble cop. Mm, Cobbler. Yeah. He's missing his left tackle.

He's missing his right tag. That's the bigger issue for me. Zach Martin was downgraded in practice this week. He's still expected to play. But if the offensive line against the Eagles really good D-line is giving DAC pressure, I think you're going to see another one of those games where he might get off to a slow start, have to battle his way back, air it out, and be fine. That's why we love Michael Gallup. That's why if you want to take a shot on Devin Smith, who should be active this week, I'm fine with that. But Carson Wins just...

has been getting it done too often. And I really hope, oh, I'm trying to will it into existence that DJX plays. You know what we need to bring up, though, Jason. Oh, yes. Waterbed. We made an off-air water bed. Well, it was on air. It was all. Did we do it on the series show? So we have a water bet this week. I am taking Jared Goff against the hapless Atlanta Falcons. You are taking Carson Wentz, who.

is the much better performer on the year, and Dallas could be in their own secondary trouble. Yes, but so I believe they are missing two of their cornerbacks. Byron Jones, who's such a good player, is not expected to play as right now for this weekend. So, you know, this is such an important game for these two teams. And when that happens, you're either going to be really happy or really sad, because either the defense has come to just have this interdivisional, low scoring,

rugged affair or the quarterback start catching fire. And I think because of the lacking of secondaries for both teams, that's what I'm expecting this week. I think you're going to beat the over and have a really nice game. So that means we're playing the wide receivers. Michael Gallup in a smash situation here. Either he's the number one and he'll get it done or he's the number two and he'll get it done. I like Michael Gallup a lot this week. Alshan Jeffrey.

Can we please stop doubting Alshan Jeffrey in his target volume? You have to stop doubting him at this point. Thank you. I mean, now, let me test that. So these last three games, nine targets, eight targets, 12 targets. That's phenomenal. That would be a target pace of 155. Oh, my goodness. Wow. Wow. But no Dijex, no Degs, no Degs in those games.

The only game that D-Jax was there in week one, you only had six targets for Al-Shawn. And five for 49 with a touchdown. Terrible outing. You're right, Jason. I'm only talking targets here. So I do think, you know, D-Jax coming back is bad news for Al-Shan. If D-Jex is out, Al-Shon will eat again. On the running back side for the Philadelphia Eagles.