Starts of the Week, Wk 9 Matchups, Facturate!

When you start, when you start, right. I mean, it's tougher this week with all the buys. The reason I say you could start Vance McDonald is, sure, he might be pretty worthless. He's been pretty worthless, I think the last three weeks. But seven, seven for 68, and then three, he only played the 30, the high 30s and snap percentage, but still was three for 47, which, which three for 47, I would not be mad at that. You're going to be disappointed. You're going to be like, ah, that's, that's kind of crappy. But here's what I'm saying.

half of the tight ends you're going to start this week are going to be pretty crap. You're going to be disappointed with them. There are not many players out there that have the chance, the opportunity, the talent to actually have a big blow-up week. Vance McDonald has that in his range of outcomes, and we've seen some big games that the Ravens have given up to the tight-in position. You know, the last two weeks, over 70 yards and a touchdown, two tight-in. So I think Vance McDonald, I don't...

I don't want to start him, but if I'm in a bad situation where I go, I don't like any of these guys, then he's probably the one I pick. It's a bit of roulette at the tight-in position outside of the top options. Jason, Mike has Big Ben as the pump the brakes this week. So I imagine that makes you less excited a bit of Vance, but does that, you know, does that affect your view of?

You know, Juju Smith-Schuster, the second option? No, it doesn't. It doesn't change how I'm playing Antonio Brown, Juju, the past catching weapons. It's just I think that the upside of the team and Big Ben is limited. I'm still going to play the skill position players, though. It's like James Connor, who's a full three-down guy that he is everything that you want in a fantasy running back.

I'm still playing all of those guys, just not Big Ben. Yeah, I would take the under on this game, a divisional matchup. I'm going to ask you who do you think wins. It's on the road. I think Baltimore wins this game. They're coming off a loss. You've got Big Ben. I know it's his non-throwing hand, but he's fractured his finger. He's on the road. We always talk about Road Big Ben is not as good as Home Big Ben. Baltimore sacks people. This is a really tough matchup. So I...

I don't like, I mean, I completely agree with you, Mike. I'm not going away from Antonio Brown or Juju. I'm starting those guys in almost every fathomable situation because they're just so talented. They can, you know, they'll be fine for fantasy. But overall, I think this is going to be a disappointing game. On the Raven side, though, John Brown, he torched them the last time they played earlier this year. The Steelers are not good against the fantasy wide receiver position.

Especially deep targets. Yeah, 35 and a half points a game. He was three for 116 and one in week four against them. And, you know, 50% of Brown's targets are 15 plus yards. He's easily my favorite start from the Ravens. Agreed. I mean, we'll talk about him later. Four and three bears. The four and three bears take on the two and six bills. The bills are 10 point underdogs at home. The overrun in this game is a...

Very painful, 37.5 points. 37 and a half points. And the bears are 10-point favorite. With double-digit dog. Well, I mean, and this, look, you stay away from all bills, not name LaShawn McCoy right now. McCoy, through volume, it's enough to get you a baseline. But I mean, he's only averaging seven and a half fantasy points per game. It's not good.

The Bears haven't allowed a rushing touchdown the entire season, and yet the last three weeks, LaShawn McCoy's put up 108, 94, 95 total yards. So we talked about it last week. He's doing it through the passing game. But you stay away from all bills outside of that. Yeah, the bills are, they're implied total from this Vegas line is not even 14 points. Yeah, that's not good. And we don't even know. I mean, Derek Anderson's out. Nathan Peterman's in. You're probably going to see more Wildcat.

Hey, and we should just say, I mean, because they're not waivers. They're not someone you can pick up, but congratulations to anyone playing the Bears defense this week. This is going to be very good for you. I will say this, Khalil Mack, I can't imagine starting him in this game. If you're the Bears? Yeah, he's still dealing with the ankle injury. This is one where you go, we're going to take our, we're going to take our chances. Did either of you get a chance to watch the miced up?

segment, not on the broadcast, but they had a whole full online miced-up segment on Matt Nagy from last week. It was awesome watching him coach, watching him talk to his players, how positive and encouraging he was. There was this really cool thing. I saw this from Reddit. After the Jordan Howard touchdown, he grabbed Jordan Howard and he said, I'm going to get you going. I promise. I promise I'm going to get you going. Great run. So that's

It's cool to see that, that the coach cares. Yeah, I'm buying in, believing Matt Nagy right now is an offensive mind. I mean, obviously, we knew he was a good coach. He was... He's turned Mitch Chibisky into an every week 30-point fantasy score right now. Mitch Chibisky running the ball. I love Tariq Cohen, which maybe... That doesn't necessarily mean you don't love Jordan Howard. You don't like Jordan Howard. I think Tarek Cohen is one of the biggest beneficiaries of Alan Robinson potentially missing this game. Cohen has been electric. Love Cohen.

question marks at the wide out position. Anthony Miller did score last week, but it was low target totals, low receptions. And Trey Burton, he's the tied in six on the year, but he's had four fewer receptions in every game but one. This offense, the Matt Nagy offense, has been spreading the ball around. It's been doing things.

efficiently, and it's cost some of these players that have been formerly very volume dependent, like a Jordan Howard, right? Even a tight end that doesn't get four or more receptions a week is going to be a little up and down, even if you get the big, you know, the big games from Trey Burton. So, you know, what's the confidence level in this matchup where the bills are such heavy underdogs, but they've surprised from week to week on the defensive side of the ball, including last week. Look, the final score in the New England game.

betrayed the entire reality of that game. That game was a 12 to 6 game until about, you know, five minutes left. I was just going to bring up, despite me saying all that kind stuff about Nagy and his, his offense of mind and what he's done with Trubisky, I would not, I'm not starting Trubisky this week. I don't see him as a weekly must start option. I mean, you've got the bills who have had a really surprisingly good defense against some great quarterbacks. I mean, here's the quarterbacks that they've had.

You know, not get to 20 points in a six point per passing touchdown league. They did that to Kirk Cousins. They did that to Aaron Rogers. They've done that to Tom Brady. Deshawn Watson. Sean Watson. So, I mean, look. Aaron Rogers, yeah. They pretty much shut down the quarterback position after the first two weeks of the season. And I don't think Tribisky is going to be the one that just torches them. And it's interesting because you would, like, I think I'm with you.

Sweet. I think I'm with you despite the fact that, look, Turbisky's been on fire. Yes, he has. He's the number seven overall fantasy quarterback, and you tell, you know, you tell fantasy owners he's playing Buffalo as a 10-point favorite, and you just, now, look, I think you can do worse than rolling him out there. But last week, 45 pass attempts for Brady didn't throw a touchdown pass. I would take. Mike's got a weird grimace on his face. I was, I was miss from.

Miss hearing what Jason was saying. Mitch remembering? Yeah, but I would play Trubisky. It's all about the rushing for Ms. Trubisky. That is absolutely a good point. He has the second most rushing yards at the quarterback position. He has 13 fewer yards on the ground than Cam Newton. And this is nearly about 25 fewer attempts. I mean, Mr. Bisckey's running for A to carry. So it's, I'm not, I'm not enamored with Mr. Trubisky, the passer.

But the runner at the quarterback position, absolutely. I think that he's, I think he's a safe play. Yeah, last thing I'll say here, I think Jordan Howard is a good play this week. Whenever you've got a 10 point favorite in a low, you know, scoring affair, that usually favors a running back. And I think if I had to pick between Jordan Howard and Tariq Cohen for this week, I would, I would look towards the Jordan Howard side. Before we move into our next matchup, I want to thank today's sponsor.

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slash fantasy footballers and listen to our DFS podcast to give you a couple extra tips to help you win this week and have an awesome time doing it. All right, the three and four Buccaneers take on the five and two Panthers, Panthers six and a half point home favorites, and it's a beautiful, wonderful, exciting, 55 point over under. It's games in Carolina. How many points? Oh, thank you, Brooks. I was waiting for it. Oh, I'm sorry, Brooks. And I appreciate you.

I appreciate you. And you haven't shaved your face. So you're living large. You look great. Looking grizzly. Thank you. You look great. Look, is Ryan Fitzpatrick an upgrade for the entire offense? The wide receivers, yes. What about the tight ends? Yeah, I don't think it's an upgrade for tight ends, but I still, O.J. Howard. Yeah, it's not the end of the world. They were still producing in the first three weeks with Fitzpatrick, but I have so much more confidence in Deshaun.

Jackson and Chris Godwin, even Mike Evans. I like Fitzpatrick in there to produce. I mean, he's just proven it. We've got enough, we've got enough games with him, even going back, if you look at him in New York with the Jets, of how productive he can be for a couple really good, if you've got good wide receiving options, he can get the job done. You don't hear it crazy stat? The Tampa Bay quarterbacks, whether it was Fitzpatrick or Winston, they have the second most

Fantasy points in the league behind Pat Mahomes. Yeah, that's bananas. So the combined Tampa quarterback is the number two fantasy quarterback. And look, I wanted to take Fitzmagic and the Bucks as my almost upset this week. But, you know, I just couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it. But I do think it is a very high-scoring, exciting fantasy.

producing game. So Mike Evans, interestingly enough, did not practice on Wednesday. We need to monitor that. Obviously tomorrow we have in and out. We think he's okay. We don't know for sure. He's getting, he's gotten shook a few times throughout the season. So I'm guessing this is just the vet day off for him. But, you know, Deshaun Jackson, he put up huge games with Fitzpatrick.

and then Chris Godwin relevant again. Peyton Barber should be alone in the backfield. Jaquiz maybe on third downs, but Barber is going to get a lot of work with Ronald Jones out for a few weeks. If you are in one of those positions, I've seen people where they have no running back to start. They have none. And they've got to go to the waiver wire now. Jaquiz is a guy that's 100% available that could end up used in the passing game, especially if the Panthers.