Starts of the Week + Week 6 Breakdown, Prayer Yards - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/10

You know, there's been some comments right now. I mean, the head coach came out. As long as it's Will Levis, who was back at Prex, I would go Calvin Ridley. Yeah, there's some comments from them. We'll talk about that game. Kyla Murray, yes. James Connor? Yep. Yep. Marvin Harrison. Yeah, Alexander has missed the last two games. He was limited on Wednesday. Harrison, you play. Trey McBride is your start of the week. So not a lot of tough decisions beyond the wide receiver room in Green Bay. And Michael Wilson, if you're desperate. His usage has been really strong. The last three weeks, a 26%, 32% and a 20% target share. Like he is, he's seeing basically just as much work as, as Marvin. Yeah. The Colts are two and three and they take on those Tennessee Titans that we were just talking about who are sitting at one and three. Games in Tennessee and the Titans are two and a half point home favorites, according to the DK Sportsbook. The over under is 43 in this game. Not a lot. Pollard is your start of the week.

matching up against the 24th ranked Colts fantasy points allowed defense against running backs. Their defense across the board has been a sieve. And Brian Callahan, like I was just talking about, came out in the presser, said, I got to do a better job of finding ways to get Calvin the ball. We need his speed. We need his explosiveness more. I'm going to find a way to get him going. We've only got to see three games, really, with Calvin Ridley and Will Levis. So. I know there's a lot of judgment out there. One of those games he was the wide receiver eight and in two of them he was invisible. It's three games. We have a lot more games to play, right? So I would not, I'd be willing to play him in this game in a great matchup. I agree. And I would expect good things. The targets need to go up to be consistent. But I think Calvin Ridley will get them in this game as long as Will Lovis is starting and they don't try to turn the entire game out on the ground. They've had a great defense. They have to be the most.

frustrated one and three football team because they've been because will levis by himself lost multiple games yeah he's given games away where their defense has played well they've gone down to the you know to the wire in a couple of them they're they're not a good team but they're not one and three either i think they're about a 500 football team and will levis just needs to figure things out on the other side i have a smattering of did not practices i mean we have Michael Pittman's going to be out. Jonathan Taylor's not practicing. Anthony Richardson, we don't know if he's going to be back. They've said he's the starter when he's healthy. I'm presuming he'll play this week. How discouraged does that make you? Well, I don't have to worry about Michael Pittman anymore, so I don't care. You're on your own. The notes here of like Jonathan Taylor didn't practice, that one we expected. But Trey Serman was a full D&P as well for the Colts.

He, you know, kind of split time with Tyler Goodson the past week. But Tyler Goodson will be the next man up. And this is the, like I, I just stashed him in our league of record just in case. Goodson? Yeah. Did you? I did. Oh, yeah, you did. Look, the match of stinks. You picked up multiple stashes. I saw you got Tia Johnson for Buffalo too, which, you know, is a just in case of James Cook. Yeah, with the toe. But like, Tyler Goodson, should he be by himself, which he won't. of course be by himself. They'll probably bring Evan Hole up. The matchup is not great, but look, the volume should be there. That's what you can say for this matchup. Yeah, the Colts offense with Anthony Richardson going up against the Titans defense on the road, it's not a good matchup. No. If Richardson had slid out there last week, you could have played him against Jacksonville. This week feels like, you know, you've got an injury that he could pull him back out of a game.

I will not be surprised if they sit him down another week at all. I think there's a chance Joe Flacco starts and that makes him even in this matchup, Joe Flacco feels like a streaming candidate because he's a 303 type of guy. Tennessee is facing the largest target share to the slot receiver this year because Legerius Sneed is a shutdown guy on the outside. So I wouldn't be dart throwing Alec Pierce no matter who's the starter. Josh Downs is playable. assuming he's good to go because he was a did not practice. I know. I know. The Colts are hurt. The Colts offense right now is beat up. I definitely think Tennessee is going to win the ball game. All right. So we'll see. Houston, four and one taking on the one four New England Patriots. The drafting sportsbook line here, the Texans minus six and a half. The overrunner is 38. This game is going to be my almost upset. Andy's almost upset of the week.

My reaction is not to the almost upset. My reaction is to the line is seriously like a basically a touchdown. What is your reaction to the almost upset? It's a six and a half point line for Houston. They're going to be without? I think that's perfectly fine. Without Nico Collins, Drake May will get his start for the first time. And I get, that's where the over under 38. That's where the spread is coming from because it's Drake May's first game. But the Pat's defense is, it's fine. Yes. And they're at homes. That's wild. And without Nico Collins, I do worry about C.J. Stroud and Company moving the football consistently. We don't have Joe Mixing. So the running game has been non-existent without him. I don't know what's wrong with Joe Mixson. I mean, I do. I do know. His ankles hurt. It's his ankle. But I don't know how long this is going. How can day to day be four weeks? Right? We'll be four weeks. Yep. This will be a fourth. He played the first game, played the second game, got hurt.

and missed three weeks, and this will be four. And if you've been rolling with Acres or a Gumbawale, Damien Pierce was back to a limited practice on Wednesday. So this thing is, this is some mucky muck of sorting through who, does Damien Pierce, after missing that much time, go right back to being the actual number two? I don't know. I'm going to avoid that backfield if I can. I am with you there. Now, everyone wants to see Tankdale get it done. Is it going to happen? Because no Nico Collins means that it's Tankdale, Stefan Diggs, and then Xavier Hutchinson, maybe some Dalton Schultz, who I think, by my eyeballs, is the slowest player in the NFL. I have been utterly mesmerized at the lack of speed and acceleration from Dalton Schultz. I don't know. He plays football like a man.

who already pooped his pants and is trying to shuffle to a bathroom. And he can't find it? Is that too strong? I mean, hey, look, we're here to give strong opinions. Dalton Schultz is not a startable player. Dalton Schultz's yardage high this year is 34 yards and they've needed him in several games. Think Dale missed the game. We got Nico missing time. The doctor is out for the weekend. The doctor needs new knees. I mean, that's been embarrassing. Watch him. blow up this week, but no, I'm not starting him. The question for Tinkdell is Nico leaving almost immediately in that game against the bills, and then Nico being, or I'm sorry, Tink Dell being four for 38 is very disappointing. Now, he still only played 68% of snaps in that game with Nico leaving at the beginning. Yeah, it's, so that's weird. The, we kind of.

mused about what is wrong with Tankdale from the injury to all these of the other things with the full week of the game plan being able to say Tankdale we need you to step up there's optimism but and he's he's going to I'm playing him as a flex but is this the week it happens I don't know oh my gosh just to make you feel bad oh man if if Watson is out I would play Wix What about Tankdale or JSA? Oh, man. I mean, that's tonight, right? Yep. You got to make that call now, San Francisco tonight. I think I'd shoot for the upside of Tankdale there. Ridley or Tankdale? Ridley. Okay. There is a chance. I mean, this is what makes this game exciting. You get to watch Drake May play football. It could open up a door for Jalen Polk. It could open up a door for Demerio Douglas, you know, who is...

kind of a quarterback's best friend near the line of scrimmage, Hunter Henry. Hunter Henry has done things in the past. Can he do them with Drake May? We'll find out. Were you trying to recall if hunters had more than one good game? Yes. It's only one. It's one. It always is. It was great. And when it happened, guess what we said, that he does this every year. Yeah. He shines every once in a while. Oh, we thought that it was, hey, maybe Hunter Henry's okay to start in this tight-end landscape. And then they were like, yeah, we're like probably not. No, no. What about it? What if we throw the ball to Austin Hooper? So Al, Al Borland here, you have the JSN Tankdale decision? Yes, sir. And you are going with? We currently have tanking. I think that's what we'll go with. Yeah, if you have it that way through about, what, five o'clock tonight, you're locked. That's right. Okay. Tampa Bay is three and two. They take on the New Orleans Saints who are two and three. The Saints cannot get another W to force Jason to shave his head.

Ever since we put that on the wall, they can't get a W. Yeah, it's a shame. And look, they're at home in this game. And the drafting sportsbook line, Buccaneers minus three, the overrunners 41. And I just have a hard time. See, that's, how is this game just the bucks are favored by three against Spencer Rattler, who, what round was he drafted in? I'm going to try and find that real quick. He was a fifth round draft pick. I'm not saying that Spencer Rattler can't be a good player. I'm just saying calling the game from the pedigree of where this person was drafted. Rattler, fifth rounder. Drake May, what, the third overall pick? And they're saying Houston's a full touchdown in Tampa Bay's playing great. I don't know. I'm getting off track. I get it. I mean, look, Spencer Rattler is a, I mean, it's his first game in the NFL. It gets to play at home. Tampa's a great defense. I'm with you. I think Tampa.

I don't know how Norland scores enough points in this game. The Saints do have a defense that, you know, they kind of stick around. They make a big play here or there. They stuck around in the Kansas City game for a while, and then they didn't. But Spencer Rattler. I got a snake, man. You know, you can't feel confident at all with Rashid Shaheed. He's not been practicing. He doesn't have his best friend. Shaheed is like a bench to me. Olave, you can take the shot. Camara, of course. But they're a beat up team as well. They've got a lot of DNPs this week. I just feel like the Saints are like try to stay away from players not named Alvin Camara. Even Oliva is scary, very scary. He is. I would still play him. I'd still play Olave. I wouldn't play him over Ridley, I don't think. Oh, that's a tough call. Tampa Bay's defense right now, it's not being good this year. If you want to make the argument that they'll handle things at home and Olave, I'll have some big plays.

And Spencer Rattler will throw it to the right guy. You can make that argument. So Olave and Camara, though, those would be the only two you consider. Yeah, Camara, again, he didn't practice Wednesday. I don't think he practiced last Wednesday either. They're probably just going to be how it will be for the season. But Ken Ray Miller was a full practice. I don't care. I don't care. Okay. He's third in the depth chart. People are like, who's King Ray Miller? He's number one in Dennis Allen's heart of hatred. Yeah, he's the only coach with a heart of hatred. Dennis Allen went from making Jason look dumb to two and three real quick. Yeah, so he is who we thought he was. So Baker Mayfield's the top five fantasy quarterback. Is he this week against the Saints fifth ranked defense against quarterbacks? They're giving up just 12.3 fantasy points per game to quarterbacks. Oh, Laser Mayfield. I, so he's only had one bad game right. So he had a,

a really bad game against the Denver Broncos. This is like the Sam Darnold decision of last week, and I backed Darnold. I thought Darnold would be okay against the Jets. He was not. Got that one wrong, so that's the, I think we're in the same exact scenario of a pocket passer who has been running very hot with touchdowns. Baker Mayfield has 11 passing touchdowns already. That's fantastic. So. I would probably shy away from him. There might be better options on the waiver wire. He is at 14 in our consensus rankings this week. Yeah. So ahead of him, Stroud, Fields, cousins, Alan, Murray, Caleb Williams. Yeah, I think Caleb Williams is like, that's the question. Caleb Williams, and I'll throw Justin Fields in there as well, they might be on your waiver wire. If you had Baker, are you just going to stay the course, or would you?

I just don't think the upside is going to be tremendous on the road. For Baker. And the Saints are probably going to try to control the football a little bit with the running game. They already run the ball so much. And the matchup of even if the Saints are able to run the ball, I can't see them scoring a bunch of points. No, no. Maybe that's why this line is where it's at. No, the more we break this game down. Rashad White or Bucky or Ring, if you had to start one? You're Rashad White. And then Evans and Godwin? We get to see a Lattimore Evans battle, right? Mike Evans did talk about it, saying he's got to be more mature. Oh, yeah? Yeah. If you haven't seen them, like if you're newer to football, Mike Evans is like they have, they have gotten into it. Yeah, they have had a lot of very special matchups and I don't think Evans really gets the best of Lattimore very often. Am I wrong about that? No, I think that is correct.

So Godwin might be the... He also gets Mike Evans kicked out of games. Yeah. He just gets under his skin. Yeah. Is there anybody else in this game you want to talk about? Let me see. Is Kate Otten or Joanne Johnson in play? Kate Otten is. K'd on 44 plus yards and three straight games. He is out there all the time. And while it's not... Kate Otten is never a... It's not a ceiling play ever. If you're just like, dude, I got to get like five points from the tight end position. Kate Aughton can do that. Yeah, Kelsey's on by this week, right? Yeah. So sometimes you need to do something like get Zach Ertz, you know, to start for Kelsey in your dynasty league. I like Joanne Johnson. I like the player. I like what's happening with his usage, his route percentage, his snaps. Everything is going up. But with it being Spencer Rattler, I would go Ked on over Juan.

Let's take a break and we'll come back and cover some more matchups. The Cleveland Browns are one and four, and they get to travel to Philly to take on the two and two coming off the buy, Philadelphia Eagles. And dear goodness, the Draft King Sportsbook line here, Mike. Oh my goodness. Eagles minus nine and a half. The over under is 42. That gives Cleveland 16 points. Philly has 26 implied point total. The Browns have not scored. I went over some of this stuff in our. Footcast, our bonus episode for the Foot Clan yesterday. They haven't scored 20 points in a game this year. Deshawn Watson is taking piles and piles of sacks. He's not completing downfield passes. He is, he's a mess. Like, there's not many ways out of Deshaun Watson right now for the Cleveland Browns. They will owe him $172 million in Dead Cat next year. If they tried to move on? If they tried to move on or cut him.

So there's all these rumors about could they just, could they try to trade him to a team that has cap space so that that team, and you'd have to send your first round pick, which right now that's pacing to be what, four overall? I don't think. To get rid of $172 million. He hasn't completed one pass longer than 30 yards this year. The last two weeks he hasn't completed one over 19 yards. And you watch the game and you see open players and he misses them. Yeah. But you feel. You feel the confidence in Amari Cooper, number one in air yards, aka prayer yards. And then the running back here. I feel confident in Cooper because you're facing an Eagles defense that gives up 37 and a half fantasy points to wideouts. 31st right now. And he is, you know, number four in targets. And I think that you've saw that workout in week two and you're going to see it work out this week. And they're going to be down. Yes, they will be playing catch up.

The running back position has been kind of all over the place, but Deontoforman didn't practice on Wednesday. Nick Chubb will not be back yet. Are we backed into another Jerome Ford is the workhorse running back? You're backed into Flex Jerome Ford, yeah. Okay. That's what I'm not saying. Yeah, I think he's not a priority start. You know, David Najoku, I spoke yesterday about the fact that they were really encouraged. He's going to practice and he's not going to be on the injury report. That's a lie. That was all the lie. He didn't practice. The team said they were optimistic. He didn't practice at all. He was completely off the field. So now you've got to monitor that. And I don't think I'd have the guts to throw him out here this week anyway. The Eagles shut down the tight end position in general. And we just don't need to mess around with an injured David Njoku who got back from injury, left early from injury. Let's just press pause on that. He should be rostered but not played. What do we do then with Dallas Goddard?

because the Eagles should be back to full strength. Devante, A.J. Brown, they were both full practices on Wednesday, so they're going to play. Dallas Goddard is getting the invisibility cloak from Harry Potter. He's sized for him. Because weeks one and two, Goddard was five points, five points, and then had the huge games because of necessity. Dalton can cater Dallas Goddard. I feel like that would be a real decision for people. I'm going Donald Kincaid there. Yeah, I think Goddard, you know, if you look at his last 17 games played, 35% of the time he scores eight or more points. That's including the last two illustrious weeks. He was a beneficiary of opportunity. Cade Otten or Dallas Goddard. Yeah, I'd probably just try to get Goddard in there at that point. Get some upside. AJ Brown, Devante Smith, the story is those two guys returning for Jalen Hertz, which makes him.

a much more confident start. They're at home. It's against Cleveland. Sequin, Hertz, Brown, Smith, put them in? Absolutely. Yeah, that becomes a lot easier. They're also getting their right tackle superstar Lane Johnson back. Kind of a big deal. Good luck, Cleveland. All right. Washington is four and one. The Ravens are three and two. The games in Baltimore and their heavy favorites. The Draft King Sportsbook line Ravens minus six and a half. The overrunner is a beautiful. No, majestic. 51 points. No respect for the four and one commanders. Is there snow in Vermont? That's what Google AI is telling me. Google AI is telling you that not that there is, you didn't just search for is there ever snow in Vermont, right? Like active snowing? Active snowing. Okay. Someone wrote it into. That is a problem. If, uh, if you're new to the fantasy footballers, uh, the boys from the DFS betting podcast, Borg and Betts, they had.

They discovered the secret of Derek Henry somehow. I don't know what the- It's a snow model. I don't know what the correlation is, but somehow if it's snowing in Vermont, that always led to great games for Derek Henry in Tennessee. Now, does that transfer? The Baltimore? Yeah, do the powers just move along or do they stay in Tennessee? Like it's Tony Pollard? Is he the new snow model guy? Well, it's snowing in Vermont, so Tony Pollard just started the week. I don't think that was a coincidence. That's how I do all my analysis. Yeah, we're really Tom Notching. No, Derek Henry is a start no matter what. He's got a rushing touchdown in every game. He's averaging 21 carries a game. That's carries, not touches. Carries in their wins. They're heavily favored. And they're playing great football. He looks just like. He looks like. He just looks like Derek Henry. Just with a different jersey. He's this. The man is, the man is 30, almost 31 years old. He keeps himself in decent shape. He's wild. He's

Yeah, it was like 150, what he spends per year? Yeah. Like a couple million dollars a year or something? Oh, I don't know if it was that high. Maybe it wasn't that much. No, I was going to say like 45,000, but maybe that's way too low. That's way too low. But there was a story about how Derek Henry spends. We are really, it's a quarter million dollars. Okay. It's a quarter million dollars. Somewhere in the middle. Per year on body maintenance. That's wild. But if you're Derek Henry, that's, that's, that's money well spent. That's an investment. Can you play any other player on this entire team than Derek Henry and Lamar Jackson? On a team that is an implied point total of 28 and a half. I think that Zay Flowers is okay. It's not exciting. He's had double-digit targets in three or five games, a 27% target share. And Washington, like... They can score. They can't, but I'm saying they also can give up a lot of points to the wide receiver position, 27th right now. And Zay Flowers...

should his play style should mix very poorly for Washington because flowers should be okay. The Washington defense is not good and that is the team that Deshawn Watson could do nothing against. Yeah. That was what made last week so demoralizing. So this week do you believe that Jaden Daniels will do enough for your fantasy roster? Yeah. So you're good with Daniels? I am. The Ravens are, they're weird. Their defense is very, very weird. I mean, you go an entire half of the Bengals could do nothing really on offense. They just shutting them down. And then they give up tons and tons of points in the second half. It's the second half. What's going on with the cardio here? The training. We've got to up it for the Ravens. I think the controversial take for me in this game would be sitting Brian Robinson down. And that's what I would do.

I would not play him. I don't think that's a wrong decision. He's also, he's still banged up. He would, yeah, he scored twice. Like, if he played him last week, you got super bailed out by two touchdowns. I mean, because he, and then they sat him down. But the, his injury is, it's a, it's a real deal in the matchup of while the Ravens are giving up tons of points. It's not to the running back position. No, they give up points to the running back in the receiving game. That's an area you could target with Austin Echler who has looked awesome. He has. I don't think you were here Monday, but like, you know, number one, number one in yards per carry in the NFL right now. Do you know who that is? No. Oh, Bigsby's up there. Pink Bigsby. Yeah. Number two is Echler. So if Brian Robinson's limited, it only played 34% of snaps and Echler catches the football, which is what they need to protect against the pass rush, I think that's interesting. Yeah. So I think Echler could be a flex type of play.

Tara McLaren, I mean, he's in your lineup. And then Zachert is always a desperate, eight targets for Zachertz. How did he turn eight targets into 10 yards? Can someone explain this to me? I don't think it was all his fault. I watched the game because I needed him to have 25 yards. He got eight targets. Yeah, I mean, he got missed on a couple plays. But eight targets are tied in in this economy? Like, here's the real question. Mark Andrews or Zacherts, Mike? This week, for sure, Zach Hertz. Okay. Isaiah likely or Zach Hertz? That is much harder. I mean, I likely had the huge game again, two touchdowns on three catches and 13 yards. So, I mean, again, Zach Hertz is not giving you a ceiling. I think I feel confident saying that, but I'll probably just take the points I could get from Hertz. Okay. That's so gross. Yeah.

I understand. It's going to be an interesting game because obviously if Washington competes in this game, that will be a statement. Yes, it will. This is a big boy time. All right. Do we have any injury updates, guys? Do we have the lights back on in Ducers Alley? We do have the lights on. We do not have any updates. I still think there's one forehead that's lit up over there like the sun. Like that's not just a white t-shirt. Yeah, that's healthy skin. That's like the lighting is just, are you on, are you hot right now? It's bright. It's bright. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, now, now he's in the dark again. Yeah, looking good. All right, listen, we, we normally, we normally celebrate slash dish out a parley partay at this point in the show, which this past week, Mike was very crowned up. Oh, yeah.

And then Jason over here, which is Jay Gris. Jay Rizzler wearing the clown outfit the whole day. We don't have a parley parquet for you today because we wanted to. But right at this moment in time and before the show, unfortunately, Drive Kings is dealing with some, I guess, technical difficulties. So we don't have game lines. Yep. We'll be back tomorrow, though. But we're going to try to get you that tomorrow. So just hang in there. And we will do that. That was fantasy forecast presented by Draft King's Sportsbook. New Draft King's customers can bet $5 and get $200 in bonus bets. Instantly, download the sportsbook and use the code ballers. Only a Draft King Sportsbook. The crown is yours. Tomorrow, more matchups, Mike. More matchups, the fantasy faceoff. But somehow I lost. I thought my team was doing so good. Were you surprised? Because you got out of town that way, right? Yeah, I wasn't, I was not able to, like, track after, like, the...

The morning games? Yeah, you got beat. You got beat. The big difference for me and you was I had upgraded the defense. Yeah. And our defensive gap was 19 points. So not to be underestimated. But you get to spin the wheel tomorrow. Congrats. Yeah, I deserve it. And I'm trying to dodge this thing all year long. I'm fine. I'm doing okay so far. We'll see how it goes tomorrow. We'll hit the fantasy face off the rest of the matchups. We'll catch you up on any of these important injury related. pieces of news and of course you can go to the website the fantasy footballers.com for a ton of free resources, awesome articles from our writing staff. StartSit tool. Slight update here. Brian Dable said Malik Neighbors is in the same stage of the concussion protocol yesterday. That's not great. No, it's not. Man, that sucks. He did get knocked straight out. Yeah. And they didn't do the Josh Allen treatment and just give him like a.

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