The Halloween Show! + Starts of the Week, Week 9 Breakdown

Compiling. Hey, why don't we do this? We've got it. We've got to find the video and tweet it out. Yeah. Because it's like a seven minute long video. Jonathan Frakes. You're pronouncing Will Riker incorrectly. Yeah. It's so funny. I just searched for William Riker to find it. So, uh, because there's this great video. Um, Ebron, Ebron, you type his name and did you mean Will Riker? Will Riker says, did you mean Will Riker? Yes.

I think Ebron is definitely in the group of guys where if you don't have the starting, you know. It's called Beyond Belief. That was the show he did. Beyond Belief. Oh, not this time. Not this time. Your mistake. Wrong. Wrong. Just go watch the video. You will love it and this bit will make so much more sense. I think Ebron, like I would rather start Ebron than Darren Fells. I think Ebron is.

more talented and has the same touchdown upside than Felstus. All right. The Jets take on the dolphins. All right. One in six versus O and seven. The Jets are three point favorites in Miami. It's a 41 point over under. It seems like the dolphins are willing to string together approximately 11 to 14 minutes of good football. And that's it. Well, I mean, it might be at the beginning. It might be at the end.

That's kind of Fitzpatrick's thing, though. 11 to 14 minutes of good football. He's like, check this. Look how good I am. Now turn away. Look away. So we have talked a lot more about Miami fantasy options recently. Mark Walton is getting the majority of snaps. Mark Walton is in play. Yeah, against this, you know, at home against the Jets. Mark Walton is a, Mark Walton versus Adrian Peterson.

I'm going to take AP there, but I think both are in play. Both are startable fantasy assets this week. I think my heart would just rather play Walton. Devante Parker, you guys have talked about him as a potential flex guy. Would you rather play Devante Parker or Danny Amandola? That's close. I think that's a matter of your platform because Danny Amandola is a...

is a PPR machine. If you're in standard, I think the upside of a touchdown is there with Parker. But Devante Parker is a perfect name to bring up. Terry McLaren, okay, you don't have. You got Haskins in there. You're worried about McLaren. You got Haskins in there. I would way rather play Devante Parker than Terry McLaren. Even though Terry McLaren's great, and Avanti Parker's not, just because Devante Parker's been getting it done. He gets a lot of air yards, and they're better now because they're not coming from Josh Rosen.

He's got touchdown upside. And this is a game like, this is one of the few games on a team like the Dolphins schedule where they look at and say, we can win. We have a chance. And so those teams get up. They compete. And, you know, I haven't seen anything from the Jets. I still think you can play the Jets DST because eventually the Dolphins implode. Oh, Fitzpatrick will turn it over. Yeah. I mean, that's just in his contract. I like that Judge Giammati put in here.

Revenge game narrative for Ryan Fitzpatrick. That's like every game he plays. He's played on everybody in the league. That's like Josh McCown having a revenge game narrative. But, you know, it's interesting because if on the other side of the ball, if Lev Bell, if Robbie Anderson, if Sam Darnold, and maybe even if Chris Herndon, if they can't make the most of a Dolphins matchup.

Mike, are you willing to break up with Robbie Anderson here on the air if Robbie Anderson puts up a pure unadulterated stinker against a Dolphins defense that ranks 25th against wide receivers that gives up the highest percentage of 20-plus yard targets in the league? If he doesn't do it now, how will you have confidence moving forward? I will break up with him until next week's matchups where we break down the New York Jets versus the Giants and then I will be back.

It's probably true, man. I mean, that's what you get. I'll be mad. Even with a Deshaun Jackson, who's a known proven vet, who is great for fantasy and at the end of the year has monster years, you still get hot and cold. You've got to take those starts. When you've got a deep ball player, you want these matchups. In a plus matchup, you're going to play them, and you know before the game that it could not work out. I mean, this is not, you're not going to be surprised if Robbie Anderson ends up with, you know, two for.

I like him in this game. I'm playing him in my dynasty league. I think there's tons of upside. But he's entering that category of if he doesn't perform here, I'm just really scared of him. I would agree more with Lev Bell. Like if Lev Bell doesn't get it done in this game, then there's real worries about has he lost the step? Is he not able to perform with this offensive line? He should be comfortable. He spent all of last year in Miami.

Right. It's going home? Yeah. Coming home game. Mike's going to talk about Love Bell more shortly. Yes. As well. So outside of Parker, Preston Williams, 20% target share back of your mind, maybe? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, he's Devante Parker Light, which I guess is something you don't usually want to hear that. You guys want this new diet diet soda? Exactly. It tastes like air.

Okay, let's move on. Starts of the week. All right, week nine starts of the week, Mike. Why don't you kick it off with your running back? I will. It's Lev Bell. Oh, let's do it. And I know some of you at home are like, of course I'm going to play Levi-on-Bel, but this is it. This is the moment we have.

waited for this walrus face. Just to readjust your tusks, Mike. The run begins now. Miami is allowed the third most points to the running back position. Combined points to the running back. They've allowed top 10 in five of seven games. They've given up the most 20-yard runs to running backs. This is the time. The buy low, if you haven't taken advantage of it, I am trying to do it. Yes, the world that we've

scarily talked about exists of if Levy on Bell doesn't perform, it's in the realm of possibility. But I have, like, I'm setting it at 80% that Levy on Bell has a top five game this week. Ooh. It starts to run. He crushes. And you forget what happened in the beginning of the season. Because it's, it's, it's, it's so, I think the same way about Robbie Anderson, where it's, this is, I'm, I'm, I'm wiping the board clean.

This week, because at the beginning of the season, you had the mono man, you had a third string quarterback, you had a match up against the Patriots. This is a whole new season for me, for the Jets. You could very well be right, but I would say you need to be right because should that, should this not turn out in this game, the vibes in New York for the Jets are.

terrible. Players trying to get traded or by the team that there's, you know, the other day there was a report, Jamal Adams wouldn't answer the phone call from Adam Gase or their GM. He wasn't ready to talk to them yet. So the vibes are bad. So that can all be washed away. You're 100% right. They come out, they crush.

It's water under the bridge. Let's go show that we're a good team. But if they fail this week, I do. Cataclysmic. Demise. Terrible. Now they're going hard after the number one pick. What does an Adam Gay's apology sound like? That's very literal. That is his need of time. I'm sorry. My bad. All right. My start of the week at the running back position. Oh, my gosh.

Oh, man. Another week removed from the shoulder injury. No love lost on Adam Gaze on this show. No. Or by any of the people that know him. Yeah, or including potentially his wife. Oh, man. Who he galed. Yeah. Did you ever hear that story where Adam Gaze?

showed up at a meeting like an hour after his wife gave birth because he just said, you're good and left and wanted to go talk to Peyton Manning. Yeah. Forerific. All right. All right. So my start of the week this week at running back is Josh Jacobs rookie running back for the Oakland Raiders. This matchup, I want pieces in it. I believe, you know, this week doesn't have a whole lot of high.

Vegas totals. But this is one of those games where I actually think... I'm so excited for this game. I think it's going to be a high output, an exciting game. Look, if you're looking at how defenses do against certain positions, there's not a single team in the NFL that's given up a top 12 every single week to running backs. And the reason is because week one...

To the Arizona Cardinals, it was running back 13 from the Lions. Otherwise, the Lions would have given up top 12 weekly performances to the running back position as a team every single week of the season. Now you've got the Raiders at home. Josh Jacobs getting healthy. You know, he had a somewhat down week this last week. I think he's an absolute great play.

All right, I'm going to go Jordan Howard. I said it earlier. I'm going to go Jordan Howard against Chicago, which means I've gone, starts of the week against Chicago, back-to-back week, something I never thought I'd do. Last week, Jordan Howard, 23 carries. We've talked about Miles Sanders. He's banged up. Look, Jordan Howard's had a very solid season. He's actually running for a nice clip per carry. He has seven rushes of 15-plus yards, which is ninth in the NFL. The Bears did not give up a ton of yardage to Melvin Gordon, but nobody is right now. Gordon did score.

That means that there are seven touchdowns against Chicago's defense in the last four weeks given up to opposing running backs. Games at home. I think Jordan Howard is a must start this week. They should just paint his whole body green so he can like Hulk out. Jordan Howard? Yes. With the revenge narrative of Hulk out of Hulk out of Hulk.

straight weeks. Gardner has been consistent and now he's turned the volume up to 11 where he's actually crushing with his new best friends. The C&C Music Factory DJ Chark and Chris Conno. Oh, okay. Okay. I was connecting the dots here. There's a lot to take in. Because their names start with C. There's a lot to take in with Gardner Minchu altogether, whether it's facial hair, jorts. That's a lot of man. He's playing better than Baker Mayfield. Oh, yes. He's a better quarterback right now.

Yeah. So is Josh Rosen. Oh, stop. Sorry. Josh Rosen doesn't play better than anybody. That's true. That was too low. So you got Gardner as your start of the week. Yep. Jason, I, it's the guy I had last week and I don't blame you. Yeah. I mean, look, Matthew, when you said Kirk Cousins in real NFL has been the best quarterback over the last little while, I'm thinking, well, I think Matthew Stafford would have something to say about that because he has been awesome.

They don't have a running game. They have like 16 running backs that you've never heard of now that Carriott Johnson went down. And their passing game is on fire. They've got T.J. Hawkinson as a fourth option. It looked like he was going to be, you know, someone they had to rely on. Now they found out where he belongs. Fourth behind Kenny Gallaudet and Marvin Jones and Danny Amandola stepping up.

Hawkinson is actually a good play this week because the Raiders are susceptible against the tight end. So all together here, I think Matthew Stafford, I said it earlier. I want pieces in this game. I think it's a high scoring game. And if you look at what the Raiders have given up to quarterbacks, we've got eight weeks in the book, four of the eight weeks, half of those weeks, they have given up a top five.

performance. Not just a top 12, but like a, you know, when you're a top five quarterback, you help win your week. I expect the top five week out of Matthew Stafford. All right. I'm going to go the quarterback on the other side of the ball in that matchup because I love that matchup. I think it's going to be a high-scoring affair. And that's Derek Carr against Detroit. He's actually playing good football again. And Detroit is giving up a ton of points to the fantasy points to the quarterback position. Derek Carr hasn't been sacked since week five.

All right. Impressive. He's leading the NFL in completion percentage. Last week he was 18 for 30 for 285 and 3. He's thrown just four interceptions on this season. Like the problem in Oakland, if there's a problem, is not Derek Carr right now. And he's got Tyrell Williams back. And he's got, you know. Oh, me. He's got Mike. So Derek Carr and Matthew Stafford. I love them both. Let's go to the wide receiver position. Mike.