Starts of the Week + Week 4 Games, Cat Fight! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/1

Get healthy, Caleb. Yeah. Come back and score 59 points. He's working on his health. His health and his wellness. He's staying Zen in his robe. Andy can give him all the guffes. He's one of his three. My guys. Obviously loves Caleb. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm allowed. I have a license to make fun of him. All right. The Cardinals, one and two taking on the two and one New York Giants, Arizona. Favorite on the road by two and a half. That is your, if you want to check in on the James Winston meter.

I didn't know that until just now. That's crazy. The overrunners 44 and a half. But I have. That's why you traded for McCarthy. I have gone so back and forth on this one and been thoroughly convinced that both teams are going to figure out how to lose. But it's like both of their defenses are not great right now. The Giants lost one of their superstars and Brian Burns. But the Cardinals can't get pressure.

And if you can't get pressure on James, he will figure it out. Like he's not that incompetent that if there's no pass rush coming, he will find Malik neighbors. But you're like, well, but they're the Cardinals offense with Jacobi. How do they not outscore the Giants? It's a crazy game. I mean, 44 and a half is not a lot. Jeremiah Love is going to be the story of this game. I mean, he should get pretty much all of the work like he did last week. They talked about it. They said it was just a hot hand.

But his hand is going to be on fire here. The matchup is great. And the fact that you lost Ryan Burns, your defense is beat up. That's usually where you beat the Giants is on the ground. I think that Jeremy Love, you know, he could be the running back five on the week easy. Yeah, I think this is a very significant Vegas line to tell you the story of this game. Like Winston is statistically the worst quarterback in EPA per play in the league so far. So.

It does not give me any confidence. Statistically and visually. Visually speaking, he's the worst. And, you know, for the team to go trade for McCarthy, who's not exactly headline-making talent, right, so far. But that gives me, I like have no confidence in anybody but SCAT on the New York side. Yeah, I mean, the Scataboo start should be good. They're going to give him a billion opportunities in this game. So how far down are you with Malik? Malik or Terry McLaurin?

Let me see. I think it's Terry. I think it's definitely Terry, actually. I think it's Malik here. Last week was, you know, that crazy weather game. What he had like 30 yards, but five targets. The Arizona Cardinals coming to town, I think, will be a salve for Malik. And I expect Malik to have 10 targets. And if you give Malik 10 targets and you're not in some kind of crazy stormy game against the Cardinals.

There's a good chance that he has a big play. Are you positive that he's the same guy right now when, you know, there was an expectation even if Jackson Dart was here that the beginning part of this season would start slower. I always thought that the beginning part of the season. I mean, this is the normal ramp up that is usual for coming off of an ACL. You know, we said when you drafted him that it would be a slow start, like you said, even with Jackson Dart.

I think the Cardinals' defense is just the difference here. Will they be able to tackle him? I mean, their number one corner, Will Johnson, is gone now. So who's guarding him? Maybe Buda Baker can try to break his ribs like he did Mike Evans, but take it easy. He also missed a easy tackle on Debo and let him score 80-yard touchdown to your point about, you know, a big play. But yeah, I don't personally, like I have neighbors quite at.

quite a ways down the list. Like, I'd play Josh Downs, my start of the week. Over Malik Mabors. He's still in my top 24. I'd play Burden. I'd play Golden. Here's the most interesting one. He's at 25 for me. He's at 22 for me. So we're not too far apart. But the most interesting one is on the other side of the field. Michael Wilson. Oh, easy. Coming off of 17 targets. Yeah, easy Michael Wilson. And the Cardinals are favored in this one. They have the better quarterback by a wide margin. I mean, I'm taking the quarterback.

I don't trust James at all right now. Yeah. I think he's going to be okay. He seems like he's not taking football very serious. I think he's so ready to be a broadcaster. He's going to be an awesome commentator or a broadcaster. Wherever he's talking, I'll be watching. He's got to be the sideline, dude. Oh, yes. I don't think you can trust him to talk for the entire game. I think you need him to have these select moments. The sideline, the pregame, the post game.

I think he could be a color commentator. No, it's too much. No way too much. What about like what Booger did? That's the sideline. He wrote the Booger Mobile. You can get a Winston Mobile. That's fine. He was actually the color commentator. And then we were like, we got to get this out of the booth. Yeah. And then they put him in the Boogermobile and we're like, we got to get him out of his Booger mobile. There is nothing wrong with having a role to play. And I think Winston's rolling in the media will be amazing for the next 20 years. But.

Seems like we have a difference of opinion, though. I very much believe Arizona wins this football game. I saw. And I believe their offense is much better than the Giants in this game. I saw a stat. I don't have it in front of me. Don't know where it came from. Don't know the specific stat. I don't even know the stat. The stat itself is actually a mystery to me. But it was. Someone find that. It was first read. It was first read targets for Michael Wilson. Could I be thinking? For Michael Wilson and Marvin Harrison Jr.

And they were shockingly, it was shockingly close. For career? No, no, no. I think it was last week only. And you look at 17 targets for Michael Wilson. So it was like, first read, they looked. So he looked at Marvin. He was like, nope. Like an active no. Yeah, it's like, we're trying, man. You're not. Does he just kind of giggle when he looks over? He's like, oh. I think it might just be. Gotcha again, Mark. I think it might be a fake from the get-go.

It's like, it's really just to make defenders go, I'm totally looking at this side of the field. Sike! Michael Wilson. Um, first read target share? No. No, you, the stat that you didn't know where it came from or where it's gone. Is this the whole? This was, it looks like last week. Yeah, I thought that's what he was talking about.

That is what I was talking about. I'll find what I was looking at it. So the stats that you didn't know is. You didn't know where it came from, where it was from. It would have been fun. It would have been super fun. Here's a stat I made up. But think about how fun that is. If it was real. I'm going to find what I was looking at. Well, we have the numbers that we have is 45. I know, but I want to know. 45% Michael Wilson, 18% training bride. 15% Marvin Harrison. I will say this. By one of those satire accounts again.

We'll find out. We'll find that. I did disagree with the one thing you said yesterday about Michael Wilson, which was like this contention that he's never going to be the first receiving target for Arizona. I think that there's a place where Michael Wilson and Tray McBride really share that at the tippy top of the team's depth chart. I found it. Michael Wilson, like the targets last week told me he could be a number one target.

Yeah, for sure. I found what I was looking at. And it was not a, it was a very great account from Jared Smola. This is why when I said, I don't remember what I say. I prefaced it properly because I was letting everybody know. I don't know what I'm about to talk about. Yeah, yeah. Well, no, because we got to the truth here. That's what we do. Right. Okay. The winding road.

It was a real close first read targets between Michael Wilson and Trey McBride. Oh. Martin, Martin Harrison was down to 9%. So it's basically like, yeah, the offense is not running. They do not care about getting Marvin Harrison. Gotcha. But yeah, I think Wilson is a definitively, like, great start every week. And obviously you play McBride. And a very good wide receiver. And he's very Parker Washington. It turns out that, you know, we. When you're good, you're good?

the fancy time machine where we had, who's this year's Michael Wilson? Right, it's Parker. No, it's Michael Wilson. Oh, yeah. That often happens. I'm like, who is the JSN? Yeah, we just don't believe. I couldn't believe that Jason could have a more perfect season than last year. It just, it was not statistically an outcome that could ever happen. And he's like, yes, I can. Yes, actually I can. I like somebody was saying that this year's Jason is Brock Bowers. And I'm like, based on what I saw in that game,

You might be right. Like Brock Bowers, I played against him last week. I was terrified on every play. And every play is open. And there's no way to cover him. It's a cheat coat. It was the old Kelsey games where you're like, you know they're going to throw the ball to Travis Kelsey. Why is no one guarding him? You can't guard a tight in that's that like that. That's the truth. Who guards him? Buda Baker? You bring the safety down to guard him? It's just so. A linebacker can't guard him. And you don't line up a corner against them because they're too small. Like anecdotally, maybe it's not true. But what I was seeing of like the.

It's like short stuff where he's kind of leaking out a little bit later. And then the defense is like, oh, he did it again. It's not possible. Not Brock. You can't do that again. We're not going. And then the next play, slow, just leak out, turn around. And it's funny because I never, I mean, when have you ever had, you've had these lockdown corners, you know, Patrick Sertan goes up against somebody, they get one catch? When have you had one of the elite of the elite tight ends going to a game and then it's like, we just shut him down? I can't remember. Kelsey never got shut down? Not in his day. Not in his day. Yeah.

And McBride never gets shut down. They just, they're too big. Oh, that McBride. Oh, the face mask. It wasn't a stiff arm. It was a spike. He football spiked the human. Yeah, it was awesome. It was amazing. All right, we got to move on. The Rams 1 and 2, taking on the 2 and 1 Eagles. Vegas line here, Rams minus 3 on the road. So again, that is going on the road to Philly and being favored.

The one and two team. Not common. Favorite on the road by three. Yeah, the Eagles wins this year. Commander's Titans, so we're not proud of that yet. Over under 43 and a half, very low. I mean, if you watched the Eagles defense last, or offense last week, and then you said, okay, let's go ahead and upgrade the defense you're playing against. And now go score. What is the, I mean, how does that happen? They're going to need to run the ball more.

which I don't know why they got away from it. It was working with Sequin last week, and then they put the ball in Jalen Hertz's hands, and he's just not. He has looked really simple, really unspecial. He's targeting Devante Smith too much, and I love Devonte Smith. I've got the Hertz Devonte Smith stack, but when I go back and I watch film on this team, it is just like, there are wide open players. You know, we've talked about, Mackay Lemon is getting wide, not like,

Oh, he's got a step on a guy you could have thrown on the ball. It's like, did you not see the dude that no one was guarding? And then you threw to Devante Smith and double coverage. And I don't know, man. It's like he's not, he's not. It's got to make AJ Brown so mad. Like, because he just wanted you to throw him the ball in triple coverage over and over again. I'm still hopeful that they figure this out, specifically with Mackay Lemon, a rookie first round talent, first round pick who.

You know, should get more involved, should get more, you know, connection with Jalen Hertz as time goes on. It's not going to be in this game. I mean, I can't imagine anything good for the Eagles offense against the Rams defense. Players like McKay Lemon are the very hardest players in fantasy to just keep holding on your team because you kind of, when they're not producing yet, you just want to rotate through the young guys that have a good week. You know what I mean? It's like Ted Hirsch is getting 75% of snaps. Oh, maybe it would be his week. And then maybe it'll be Antonio Williams. And then maybe it'll be.

this rookie or that rookie. I just think those guys are hard when you need a player. Like, I'm not saying he's not going to develop. I think he will. I just don't know when, and it's hard to keep those guys on the bench. Yeah. But in this game, like, Sequin, sure, he ran well last week. He gets to face the six best rush defense that has Aaron Donald back. I have a hard time believing that it's going to be a big game for him. Devonty Smith's dealing with the hamstring. You know, Dantavian Wicks, he's okay. I mean, he's okay.

The like, it's just not going to be. They're implied point total is 20. Okay. And these are two good defenses. Absolutely. Well, on the Eagles, on the Eagle side, I'm, I think it's very shaky. Barkley is in play just because of who he is. He's the superstar. One run can make the whole week and have volume. The rest of the team very scared of, including Jalen Hertz. So would you play Jalen Hertz or Bryce Young against Detroit?

My goodness. Disgusting. I think I pray Bryce. I mean, I told you, are we playing against each other in the Dynasty League? Wherever it is, I finally made the move where I put Shuck in above Hertz and it feels real good. That feels like an easy move. No, it was very easy. That one's easy. But how about Jalen Hertz or C.J. Stroud against the Dallas Cowboys? I don't like this.

Because you know the answer is CJ's trout. I think I go hurts. I'll play C.J. Stroud. Yeah, I get it. Like, Jalen Hertz right now is not doing anything that you wanted for fantasy. The last two weeks, he would be on pace for 348 rushing yards. Not good. 3,500 passing yards, not good. 17 passing touchdowns, not good. How many rushing touchdowns? Eight and a half. Okay. Hurts or the other guy on the other side? But he's on pace for 26. Interceptions. Matthew Stafford or Jalen Hertz?