Week 7 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Walk of Shame

But you had to pivot out of a stalwart on your roster. And then Sony Michelle, really unfortunate, carted to the locker room during the first half of the game against the Bears, downgraded out, and where you're waiting for injury news on Sony Michelle. Yeah, right off the bat, pro football doc came out and said that he believes it is not a...

serious season ending injury, that it'll be probably a short-term injury to the knee a couple of weeks. That is so far in the early reports, they haven't got the MRI back, but the early reports confirm exactly that, that they don't believe it's a season-ending injury, perhaps some kind of sprain to the MCL, but we'll know more, either by the end of the show or tomorrow. Here's an interesting thing that was brought up because, look, you've got your opportunity to make moves right now. Somebody asked, would you trade James Whiteaway?

the last man standing in that backfield, electric PPR machine. Would you trade him for David Johnson? No. No. No. I said no because he's such an established piece of a great offense as opposed to the upside of David Johnson with a terrible offense. It's one of those names going to get you moments. Yes. But if you could convert David Johnson into James I would do that.

I would rather have James White for sure. I got a brain bruise just thinking about that trade. It made my heart hurt. Yeah. For sure. But that's the name of the game. You cannot bury yourself in old narrative and expectation if you want to win as the season progresses. There's too many injuries. You don't win a championship at the draft. It has been, if it's, it has been proven. Well, maybe you grabbed Todd Gurley. Okay. You probably won your league.

I mean, lots of news. We can also move into some Love Bell news. Jason Lockenforah says that the Steelers executives believe it's more likely he returns in week nine. Did not report this morning. There you go. It looks like you'll get at least another week of James Connor. So if you held out, congratulations for one more big week, at least.

It looks like it's playing out to Levi-on-Bel is trying to control absolutely everything about his future, which includes the Steelers, the rumors at least, of them trading him. The team has come out and said, Ironclad, we are not trading Levi-on-Bel. I don't know if they're telling the truth or not, but if he signs his franchise contract before the trade deadline, they can trade him. Exactly.

We'll try to fly through some more of this news. Jacksonville. Fournette's going to sit out through the buy. Do you think you get one week of relevance from Carlos higher and no because this offense is struggling so much? One week of mediocrity. I think he'll split with T.J. Yeldon instead of really being an asset to be used, it'll probably ruin T.J. Yeldon. Thanks, Carlos. Oh, yeah. Blake. Thanks for getting traded, you dummy. Sorry for your family having to move. Blake Bortles.

Binched. I heard rumors this morning about Derek Carter Jacksonville because this will fix it. What are they doing? No. No, they can't possibly do that's got to be just speculative, right? Well, it's based on the yard sale mentality of John Gruden and, you know, we've heard about Amari Cooper to the Cowboys. I think that Amari Cooper trade would have been more likely had they won this week against Washington. I still think it could happen.

I mean, that's going to a garage sale and looking at two lawn chairs like, oh, that one's got a tear. This one will make due for my house furniture. Yeah, I mean, we can agree to disagree on that. Derek Carr is a much better quarterback than Blake Bortles. He is. He is a much. He's still on that. I would much rather have him. I think the word much is the problem with the sentence. I believe he is a slightly better version of Blake Bortals. Bortles West.

Sure. Yeah, I don't, but what happens with Blake Bortles? I mean, no player is. Best game in his career against New England and week two, now bench for Cody Kessler. This team is in shambles right now. Yeah, we'll have to wait. Nobody knows who it's going to be this week. I would guess that it'll go back to Bortles, but if they make the switch, won't be shocked. You just have to wait until Doug Marone tells you who's starting. Matt Breda played five snaps. Heard his ankle, limped off the field, came back for a snap, limped off the field.

Welcome to A Week with Matt Berita. Brita. Look, we're... Take some time. We all, we all admire the courage and the pain tolerance that you, in fact, have. My dynasty team does not admire it. I do not doubt at all the severity of your injuries. Just take a week off, man. Just like a week. Jump in a hyperbaric chamber. Maybe two. Spend the whole week there with two. A chamber inside of a chamber.

And then just rest up, man. Just rest up. We need the colonel to get some action. Colonel Mustard? Colonel Mustard. You're not on the trajectory to the playoffs. Take a week. Yeah. And no. But Rahim Mostert would be a beneficiary of Breed of Misses a week. Bilal Powell was ruled out with a neck injury. This could be Isaiah Crowell time. We don't know the length of the injury for Bilal Powell. We'll keep you up to date. LaShawn McCoy left the game with a head injury as well. I had somebody DME this morning. They said, uh,

Do you drop Lashon McCoy now? No, this was not a, I think he looked at the box score and saw no points and thought McCoy played. He didn't play. You don't drop him. He had 200 plus yards the previous two weeks. And then Marshawn Lynch is going to be out at least a month with the groin injury. If you have to play someone in Oakland, you play. Rashard right now. I would lean to Jalen Rashard. Okay. You don't want to say crampus, but you want to say crampus. I just think that he's, like, I've still lean Richard.

But Martin in deeper leagues is worth the speculative ad. And it's disgusting. Don't do it. There's no reason to do it. He did not get signed in our league of record. He's just sitting there, as he should. If he gets the work, he's someone you're not going to want to start. Here's the, and look, Mike is not wrong with the deeper league speculative ad because if a player starts, they start. But he's going to get the work that Marshaun lunch gets.

He is much worse than Marshawn Lynch. He also, Marshaun Lynch was also very irrelevant because of the Oakland offense. So you're talking about the worst of a worse situation. Richard will spell him and others will take it for what you will. You want to sign him and play him. Be our guest. But don't blame us. Our guest, be a dog. You can't say that around me, man. I get triggered. We're Disney guys. Before we get into the stud muffins, I want to think.

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A little jaunt through the river. Through the river, because that's where people take their jogs. They go, you know where I'm going to jog? You know the word I was looking for? Inside of that river. I was looking for the meadow. That's what I was looking for. There you go. And it came out with river. Okay, sure. Look, he could jaunt through the river if he wanted to. He sure could. He could do it every one. A lot of people might think he could jaunt on the river. Just walk right on that water. Yes. Andrew Locke.

Andrew Luck, 17 for 23, very efficient. He had four touchdowns on 156 yards. Playing the bills is fun. Oh, yeah. I mean, get your patriots. Get them ready. Yes. Yeah, next week. Cam Newton, the comeback, 25 for 39, 269, and 2. That sucked. I mean, that just, if you were playing. Why did that suck exactly? Here's why it sucked. It sucked if you were playing against.

Cam Newton, and it was great if you were playing Cam Newton, because when you watched the first three quarters of that game, you saw a trash quarterback play. They were down 17-0. Carolina hadn't scored a point. I was playing against Cam Newton, and it was like, oh, great. My opposing quarterback has one point, and the game's almost over.

He finished his, like, the third best quarterback. Yeah, that's Cam Newton for you. Yeah, it is. And I knew it the whole time. I'm like, uh, Booty scooting. At what? Oh, yes, he is. Scooting that booty. Bouty scouting. Next week he has to play Baltimore. You were trying to, you were trying to help my mood. When you pointed out, you're like, hey, he's only, the quarterback. Yeah. When your game was going on, I was like, hey, your opposing quarterback barely scored. And I knew. I was like, yeah. Cam finds a way he did again. Mitch Trubiskey. Jason.

Hey, he was my stream of the week. Look, I know I put Mitch Trubesky on blast. And I, he's responded. He's responded. You're welcome Bears fans. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You, I mean, what more can I have? You cremated him. I put him, I put his urn near. And you launched him up into space. Yes. And then he, writing down fantasy points. Yeah. From that. He is converted and you're welcome. But.

Here's the thing. You're taking credit? Yes, I am the reason for Mitchell Trubisky playing well, because I called his mother. Very similar to Deshaun Watson last year. He took credit for that too. Got the post-it note on the mirror that says, always remember what Jason Moore said about me. You is darn right. You adapt and you change, and you don't do that just after. I mean, he was my stream of the week going into this week.

Not out of. He is a fantasy relevant option. Just everything you said, Mike, earlier about the Bears' offense is coming true. I still, I still 100% do not believe that Mitchel Trubisky is going to be a great NFL quarterback. I believe that. Now, will he be valuable for fantasy in this system? Sure, it looks like he's going to have plenty of good games. Okay, so let's answer this question. You picked up Mitch Trubisky to stream him. Yes.

He's got the Jets. He's got Buffalo, got Detroit. Are you holding on to Mitch Trubisky and just letting it ride? Yeah, I'm starting him in all three of those matches. Papa needs a new parachute. I mean, those aren't scary matchups. And while you're in these flames, you know, you stay in them. He is NBA Jam officially on fire. Yeah, three straight games. He can John through a river. I guarantee it. Cream Hunt. Let's move on to the running backs. He is a man.

He is a man, 15 for 86 and a touchdown. Caught two touchdowns. He's turned to season around with the target share. Yeah. He started to catch passes again. And look, he is. He's a solid boy. He's ferociously, ferociously good. Marlon Mack. Oh, hey. 19 for 126 and one, two for 33 and one on three targets. I want to speak to Mac briefly because he is not. I do not believe in pumping the brakes on Marlon Mac.

I think that'd be foolish. Yes. But look, I just read to you the recipe against Buffalo and Andrew Luck threw for a hundred and something yards. This is not what you're going to get every single year. You do not get. Every single week. I love Michael Keith. You do not get 156 yards passing from Andrew Luck in a game where the Colts are leading from the 32nd mark and.

and just get to run the football the entire game, where Mack is going to be that guy as opposed to Naeem Hines getting reps. So you cannot expect this for Marlon Mack every single week. No, I absolutely, I said before the season, I'm so excited to have watched and what I feel been proven that he's the best running back on the roster. I really think Marlon Mac is a good player. I like this, but I agree with your take, Andy, that...

I mean, if they're getting boat race, if they're down multiple scores like they were the week prior against the Jets, it's going to be Naim Hines. And if they're up multiple scores, it'll be Marlon Mack. So he is still somewhat of a matchup play, but coming forward, he's a flex player for me. Did we say that next week they play Oakland? No, so Marlon Mack. Marlon Mack will be a great start next week. He will. James White.