Week 6 Matchups + Wheel of Shame - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/16

or an implied point total of 17. And they've failed to hit their implied total in 4 or 5 anyways. The Chiefs are 4-0. The game's in Arrowhead. The Chiefs are 7.5 point favorites. The overrunners 41. I mean, the NFL surprises us all the time. Yeah, yeah, 7.5 surprises me. This is a divisional matchup, a very important game, obviously, for the Chargers, for the coaching staff, for the human beings pride. And they're going to give it all they got.

Now with that out of the way, they are about to have their pants pulled down and spanked on their bottom so hard by the Kansas City Chiefs. It's unbelievable. They're coming off of a buy to a team that is an atrocious disaster of a mess with no offensive line other than rookies. And I mean, they're just, they're going to embarrass them is how I see this happen. The Chargers will play very hard in this game because it's a divisional game.

They don't have the personnel. I am the contrarian who wants to click buttons. I want to click buttons and say the chargers are going to find a way. I just don't see the path because you, look, if you told me that the bet is on one quarter, I think the chargers could have one quarter. I don't think you can do it over the course of this game. And I think the start-sit decisions in this game are beyond painful. I mean, there's...

not you shouldn't play chargers you shouldn't play chargers you shouldn't play any of them you shouldn't play lad because he's injured if he's active he's not healthy you shouldn't play hampton because maybe he's not even the running back you should play on this team you're gonna laugh so hard when we get to the fantasy face off because i have a player from this game and align a number from this game and you're going to crack up when i when i read it to you i can't wait to hear if it's more or less i can't wait yeah you will laugh but

I don't think you start a single one. And Charlie Kohler ran more routes than Gadsden. Just forget it. Just forget it. Mike, do you have any disagreement there? No. Forget it. No. Play Mahomes. Play Ken Walker, who has 16% of his runs over 10 yards, which is insane. Oh, man. The Seahawks could have used him, huh? The receivers. I think it's the Seahawks scheme, man. Like, I know Holani kind of had a couple things here or there last night. But.

Watch, that was my overall takeaway from the running background, is watching that, watching how Kenneth Walker is used on the, on the Kansas City Chiefs, because he's the same guy. And, and like, I still think he was good for Seattle. He wasn't, he wasn't ripping off 16% of his runs for 10 or more yards. Oh, you have my homes. It goes a long, it goes a long way. I mean, well, there was Super Bowl champs and Darnold and JSN. I mean, look, it goes a long way the scheme. And to your point about, like, we had this conversation on the footcast yesterday.

which is our extra episode for the Foot Clan about Hampton's bottoming dynasty value. The scheme is not right for Hampton in Los Angeles. If you look at what he was successful at, compared to what they're doing with him in Los Angeles, it's not right. So if you say redemption at 22 years old, you know, he's 21, 22 years old, get to a different scheme. Yeah. Get to a different play caller. But here's the question of the game.

The question of the game is, who would you take a shot at to get some value at wide receiver for the chiefs? Because Rashi Rice won't be there. Xavier Worthy coming off the by. They have injuries throughout this offense. Like, Worthy's going to get his opportunities in this game. Tyquan Thornton had his ankle injury. Yeah, he's done for the year. So you are down basically two of your three starters. So then the next guy up who has the most experience is definitely Xavier Worthy.

It seems like if we're looking at how things worked last week, you had Jalen Royals come in for the Rashi Rice role, and you had rookie Cyrus Allen come in for the Taekwuan Thornton rule. Now, that was midgame. Things changed. They've had a buy week. So they have a new plan and a new scheme. So I'm going to bet on the best player. Like that's, you know, it's like, why don't you tell me who that is? I think it's Cyrus Allen.

I know that that's a late round rookie pick this year, but he's a quality wide receiver. He had a bunch of drumbeat in camp. And, you know, we said, like, don't draft guys like this because they don't get on the field to start their career. But they do get on the field if they're good. And it usually takes something like this. So I think higher odds is Xavier Worthy has the most fantasy points of these guys. And all of these guys are pretty irrelevant for fantasy points. They run the ball like crazy against the chargers. I'm not excited to start any wide receiver.

But I think the upside play is Cyrus Allen because I don't think Xavier Worthy is like a great wide receiver. Listen, I made this decision this week. I had Xavier Worthy. I could have played him. I have biweeks. I need a guy. I went with Kendrick Bourne of the Cardinals. I took Kendrick born over Z. Because I think Xavier Worthy is kind of now in a position. You don't expand what his like strengths are because of an injury. He does the gadgetry stuff, the end arounds, the screens, the occasional deep pass.

And to go back to Cyrus Allen, he is a great player. If you're looking for someone to stash, you've got an extra bench spot. You know, sometimes sometimes you can't, you're like, oh, I have nobody to drop. Sometimes it's like, I got to pick someone up. If that's the case, Cyrus Allen is available in like 92% of leagues. Interesting. Yeah, and Kelsey, I mean, he should benefit from the wide receiver, you know, injuries and stuff. Would you play Xavier Worthy or Jeremy Bernard, mate? I think I'd play Bernard.

I think Kelsey is the real true winner here. Yeah, he should have a lot of opportunity. And then also possibly the passing work to Kenneth Walker. Yeah, can we get that up, please? Or even in Johnson. The bills are 4 and 1. They take on the 3 and 2 Los Angeles or Las Vegas Raiders. Formerly the Los Angeles Raiders. The Vegas. The Vegas line is Buffalo minus 4.5. The over and under is a beautiful, majestic 53.5.

Because ain't nobody believing in the Buffalo defense doing nothing. Doing good work. That's fun. This game should be like, do you love this game? I love this game. I love the Buffalo Bills. The Buffalo Bills offense has been absolutely indestructible. It doesn't matter who, so long as Josh Allen is there, they're going to put up so many points. And their defense, I mean, it's wonderful. I feel like this is the bangles. There's a lot of green.

They're not good. There's a lot of green in these different charts here. Yeah, if you want to wonder if Josh Allen will have to he-man himself over and over this year, it's looking like it. It's looking like that's... So great. A potential way he stays tippy top of the board. I mean, we don't talk about Alan and Cook. Their auto starts every week. I don't think DJ Moore's on the field. So, you know, Mike, you're taking your shot. That Dalton Kincaid rises from the depths of the grave. We're going one more.

I understand it. I don't know if I do it, but I understand why you do it. Keon Coleman, Khalil Shakir, Shakir last week was the most productive wide receiver. The Coleman has more of an upside play between the two of them. There's this tier of guys. So Trey Tucker, my start of the week on the other side in this game, I would start over Keon Coleman. I would start over Xavier Worthy from the chiefs like that tier of guys. Just because I feel more confident that.

he will be the wide receiver of the team versus like, is it Coleman? Is it secure? I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. So I think on the other side, there are a lot more questions. Jason, you brought up trade Tucker because of the defensive, the lack of defense for the bills and the opportunity for him. Obviously Bowers is your luck. But what are you doing with these? I mean, what do you do with the rest of these guys? Like the running back room who, you know, I don't know if Mike Washington was banged up. And that's why he got one opportunity. It was confusing. But now he's off the board for me.

Like, I don't see a healthy genty not being played by a fantasy manager. No, you still play him. Yeah, definitely. In this matchup, you have to. Yeah. Any other thoughts on, like, Cousins is a streamer? He's definitely there. It's like the Cousins is in that. Cousins are Rogers this week. Cousins. This game has a high over under. I think I'd go Cousins. I mean, they're very similar archetypes. You're not going to get rushing yards. You're looking for passing yards and passing touchdowns. One of them is playing a good...

Tampa Bay team on the road in Tampa Bay as far as defensively. And one is playing a great Buffalo Bills team that's going to score on you. You're at home. And also they are bad at defense. I think Kirk Cousins is a fine play. Dallas, two and three, taking on the Green Bay Packers and Lambos with a big win last week. Three and two now. Vegas line Green Bay minus one and a half. So that's fun. Also the over under is 53 and a half. That's fun. I think this game might just be fun. Sunday night football?

53 and a half point over under, almost a pickham game. Yeah, this is awesome. I see three starts of the week on the Packers side. We did Jordan Love, Marshawn Lloyd, and Matthew Golden in our starts of the week segment yesterday. Christian Watson's an auto play as is Tucker Kraft. And I think Kraft is coming around. The thing I wanted to see that I said for a few weeks is everything was like screen passes and short stuff. I wanted to see a downfield target. I caught a 49-yard pass that it was almost a 70-yard touchdown last week.

I want to see that progression. It's exciting. Also, the dependency on the passing game helps him in Golden Watson. Do you guys, I didn't get a lot of thoughts from you on whether you disagreed on the Lloyd opportunity this week. I don't disagree on the opportunity. He was the back that received the work when the game was in hand. And so if you're going to take a bet, Marshawn Lloyd is the bet. You're doing that against the Dallas Cowboys team that gives up a lot of points. Doesn't have a great run defense.

Everything makes sense. I am happy that I am not the one that made him the start of the week. Yeah, I'm not proud of the name. He hasn't looked good outside of one run. But I get it. I mean, it's process versus results, and hopefully the results come from the process. Process says Lloyd should be a good start. Lloyd should get around 15 touches in this game, and against the Cowboys, that should be a lot of fans. The Cowboys are the single worst team against running backs.

in adjusted fantasy. Oh, dude, I mean... They give up 25.6 a game, and they don't have a lot of guys on the Green Bay side. It's going to be a lot of Lloyd. That Bucky Irving game. A lot of Lloyd. Of like, it just him... Oh, yeah, Bucky. Like, a video game. Just running horizontally back and forth until it opens up. Stamming buttons. Like, this doesn't... This doesn't work in the NFL. Oh, wow. Against the Dallas Cowboys, it did. Yeah. I mean, the, you know, every week we talk about Dallas. It's pretty easy to tell you to start. It's the big four. Dak.

Giovante CD and George. Yep. Yeah. What was your oh wow? My oh wow was wrong. I was looking at the I was looking at the price. Oh no. Projections 65 and a half receiving yards for Matthew Golden. But I thought I was still on Lloyd and I thought it was 65 and a half rushing yards for Lloyd. I was like, what is it for Lloyd? Wow. I can't be that. It can't be that. All right. We'll take a break. You can tell us on the on the other side. We'll talk Monday night football. This message is brought to you by.

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42 and a half. Yeah, that makes sense. Which is why I was like, oh, wow, 62. Well, we're going to get into fantasy forecasts and your, or face off, and you're going to, you're going to laugh at one of the numbers that I found. Monday night football is the Washington commanders who are one three and one, taking on the undefeated San Francisco 49ers who are seven and a half points. The over under is 51.5. So the last three games we've talked about over 50 point over under. Mike, you have Brock Purdy as your start of the week. Oh, man. He's.

He's going to score a lot of points this week. You have... Now, do you feel the same way about Purdy if I told you that, like, Evans was out this week? No. Really? I do. See, I don't. I don't think they have... No, you take Evans away. He's the magic key to making this all work so far this season. I'm, like, if Mike Evans is out, I'm still playing Brock Purdy, but where... I don't know if I'm, like, a start of the week confidence. Jason, you feel good about it? I feel good about it in the matchup. The, you know, the commanders are...