Unsolved Mysteries + Georgie Porgie, Ride the Snake - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/22

be an excellent fantasy quarterback. I think the mystery is. There's a lot of mysteries in the mystery, just like the breaking news and the news. I think the mystery is, it seems like the Raiders are great, are they? To which I say, sorry. I'll say they're good, but unfortunately. Are they going to make the playoffs, Mike? 63% of teams that go two and I'll make the playoffs. Great question. They will not win the division. But that's not saying much. I know, but that's still huge. They are winning the division.

I don't mean over the year. I mean like right now, right now. Because the chiefs are one in one. I will say that the Raiders don't make the playoffs. I would say the same. I think they do. And I'll say this. If they're a good team, remember the implications. Josh Jacobs is amazing when they win ball games. Sure. So, I mean, every single victory. Week one. He was amazing and they won.

Yeah, well, I know. He was terrible, but he scored a bunch of points. But he came off the field, not a lot of opportunities. No, it was the Ravens D. But haven't you made that point like all offseason? Like, as the Raiders go, Josh Jacobs goes. 100%. It's chicken or egg back and forth. So if you do side with me that they're legitimate, then it may have implications on, like you could probably pick up Jacob's soups cheap. You can get Jake right now. Yes, very, very cheap. Thursday night breakdown.

They are going to play this one. The Carolina Panthers traveling to Houston to take on the Texans. Drafking Sportsbook Line Panthers minus 80. No, that's not true. That's not true. They are going to dominate this game. I thought that was a joke in there from Kyle, but I saw Brooks deleting the zero. Yeah, it's a decimal missed. Yeah, you're fired, Kyle. Minus eight, but it feels like 80. Over under is 43.

I mean, honestly, that says something to me. Like, eight is not, I mean, that's by far not the biggest favorite of the week. That says to me that, look, the bookmakers, they're asking the question we asked about the Panthers as a whole that we asked about their defense. They're saying, okay, we've got a couple weeks sample size. It's been a little hot and cold on offense at times. But we're not going to go crazy here. Like Houston won a game. They actually competed.

long into the Cleveland game. Mm-hmm. And that was due to punting on third down, basically. Oh, my gosh. That was the key to victory. Oh, my gosh. Punting. Oh, no, no, no. It was, yeah, they declined. They declined a third and ten chance instead to punt on fourth and two. Which is, oh, my gosh. To play the field position game when their punter then kicked it into the end zone. You lost a bunch of field position. Would you have given them credit if he punted it down to the one? None. No. Okay. The.

Yeah, I know. He gave the other team the ball. Yeah. Which is the way to win if you are. Right. He's like, well, our offense can't get it done. Let's just take it. The implied point total 25 and a half for the Panthers, 17 and a half for Houston. We don't have to linger too long in this matchup, but. Thank God. Because we're fantasy football players. General Mills was 8 for 18 last week. You don't touch him with a 10 foot pole. No lucky charms this week?

No, you're getting whatever. You're getting tricks? No, you're not getting, I mean, tricks is fine. I'm just throwing, I don't even know if these are meals. Trix is more exciting than, then, Davis Mills. There's only two questions even on the Houston side of the ball. It's can you flex in Brandon Cooks, who has been great? Of course you can. For the first two weeks, with General Mills.

And yeah, you can. I, oh, man, I want to hold my breath. And I would prefer to. OBJ or Brandon Cooks. That is a great example. I think I would rather go O'Dell Beckham. And that's me taking that. I don't know that General Mills is going to be able to do anything in this game. And then the other question is, will Mark Ingram get more than nine and a half carries? It is a very important question. Let's get that. Why is that so important? I can't even remember.

Um, well, I, uh, I think that, uh, I think that Andy and I are, are in on him getting more. Would you say we're banking on it? I would say we are, well, we're baking on, uh, that. And let's talk about Christian McCaffrey. And 45 and a half receiving yards from Christian McCaffrey. Well, uh, root for us. I mean, look, it's going to overflow into Twitter Thursday night, no matter what. Like, yeah, we got.

We got a few bones on that happening. Let's put it that way. But ride or die together, brother. That's right. We're in it. Christian McCaffrey is an unbelievable football player. Since week 8 of 2018, he's finished outside the top 10 at the running back position four times. That is 31 games. That is not normal unless you're Christian McCaffrey. So heavily involved in the receiving game.

No matter. This is three quarterbacks now, right? We've been through this with Cam. We've been through this, you know, last year when he left. And then here we are again with Sam Darnold. Can you play DJ Moore, Robbie Anderson in this one? Yes, you can. Can you start Sam Donald in this one? I think would be an interesting question for.

Fantasy players looking for a spot start. I think that you can, but as a quarterback, too, he's not in my QB1 streaming. I agree. There's some really good options that we gave yesterday that I would much prefer over Darnel. Like Teddy Bridgewater. Yeah.

I mean, I do like the options. This is a great week for streaming. That's all I mean. I would put Sam Donald in that mix and the fact that you can get him ahead of the week and Thursday and, you know, get out ahead of it to see, you know, maybe you've got some safe options and some boom bust options. I would be fine streaming Sam Donald. I don't see him having fewer than two touchdowns. I mean, it's possible if Christian McCaffer gets...

two rushing touchdowns of the defense gets a touchdown. It could go sour, but in general, looking at this defense and what the offense has been able to do, I would imagine that Sam Donald will get two plus touchdowns. So I think he's fine for streaming. And obviously, every dump off to Christian McCaffrey goes to Sam Donald. He's been good for fantasy so far through two weeks, and this is a great matchup. I expect this to be a Thursday night game.

like we sometimes bemoan in the sense that the Texans have proved that they're in established the run offense. It's all the more needed when you have Davis Mills. The last times he throws the ball, the fewer times that you have Carolina with the opportunity to sack him, which they've done to both quarterbacks they've faced, and cause turnover. So whether that's Ingram, Lindsay, David Johnson, or all of them, it's going to be a slogging.

Let's Grind It Out type of game for... If you had to start one of those running backs, and I apologize to anybody in that situation, who would it be? It would be Mark Ingram to fall into the end zone on a pass interference play that brings them down to the one-yard line. That's probably what it is. Right? I mean, it's that or David Johnson. I get that Phil Blenzie had the touchdown last week. It was a long one. Yeah, you know, it was a good play, but that was Phil Lindsay with...

Five total opportunities on the, or five attempts, six total opportunities on the week. Let's play Robbie or. Yeah. Robbie or Marvin Jones against Arizona? Marvin. That's a Marvin for me. Yeah, Marvin. Robbie or Ron Dale Moore against Jacksonville. Depends what I need, but probably Ron Dale. I'll ride the snake on that one.

I'm riding it this week. I'm riding the snake this week. Riding the snake this week. Rondale is in my lineup. I found out that you are the devil. Robby or Pittman. I would go Robbie with the ankle worries. Yeah. If I knew right now that it was Carson Wentz for sure, I would go Michael Pittman, but we don't have that luxury. Robbie or Kenny G. Robbie. I think I'll go Kenny Gaudy there against the Falcons. Yeah. This is your.

Big Kenny Gulliday weak explosion, right? Didn't you predict that he's going to have a good game this week? Maybe I did say that out loud. The Falcons secondary is so bad. You, if you want to go narrative. What about Cory Davis? Squeaky wheel. Robbie Anderson, Corey Davis for our friend Al Borland. I would go. Who did the Jets play? Denver. Give me Robbie. Yeah. Yeah. I'd go Robbie. Robbie. Any other. It sounded like it's any other breaking news. Oh. Oh, and play the Panthers D.

And remember to take your Thursday night players out of the flex. Oh, that's good. We have not really brought that up a lot this year. Shame on us. Not that Christian McAfee was in your flex. Right. But like if you're starting Robbie Anderson, he's probably, you know, someone that you'd have in your flex, move him out of your flex, into the wide receiver spot, leave your flex position open so that later in the week, if you need to pivot to a different position, you have that ability.

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