Been efficient with it. The best news for Ash and Gentie is that this is a team that looks like, I mean, it's too early in the season to know, but we have assumed the whole year at some point. That's the worst team of the league in the league last year would not be a great team. There would not be a great team. And then and then.
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156 passagesAt some point, you would transition to Mendoza. Yeah. There is now a realistic outlook where maybe Mendoza does get to redshirt the whole season, which I think would be great for him. I put that at 95%. It would also be great for Ashen Gently because when Mendoza comes in, the offense is going to slow down a little bit. He's not going to target Ashen Gently as much as Kirk Cousins is. So if Kirk can keep the job and...
You know, if you've got Gentie, keep rooting for the Raiders to be in these games and win games and keeping those. Injury to Kirk is the more likely way that switches, I think. Yeah. But the top three wide receiver scores outperformed any week that they had last year for the entire season. Tatt McMillan, 38 points. CD Lamb, 32 points.
It's very weird to get 32.8 points with one touchdown, by the way. Yeah, 17 receptions will do that. Nico Collins. Ah, Nico. Big game on the return. Poor one out for Tyquan Thornton. Yeah. Wide receiver four on the year. On the week. I was like, sorry. He's out probably for the year. We'll see. Puka Nakua back in business with 23 fantasy points. Yeah. And it was a down week for Devante Adams as a result who dropped the touchdown.
But Adam's had his worst year. Or worst. I can't. Weeks years. What are they? You guys talk. Well, I know who doesn't listen to our show. And that's Mark Ingram. Mark Ingram went on a tirade on X talking about how he hates fantasy. He's into fantasy now. He clarified that. It was because he's got Teterola McMillan on his bench. He's very sad. That's a strange decision there. Mark? Yeah. Jason's start of the week. Yes, sir.
Nice when the start of the week puts up the greatest game in his career. That's helpful. That's helpful. Romeo Dobbs into the end zone two touchdowns. Keon Coleman keeps looking good guys, six for 11-16. Yeah. I didn't, I'm looking, I didn't realize C.D. Lamb crossed all the way to 21 targets. Yes. It's just. It reminds me of the Brandon Marshall days. That's the one that I remember with with Jay Cuddy. And Fitzpatrick. Yeah, he had a couple games where he was in the high 20s. But yeah, Romeo Dobbs, you know.
Pay attention here. If he's on waiver wires, he might be. You have an injury to Mack Hollins now. So Romeo Dobbs is looking pretty spicy until AJ Brown gets back. I'm going to make a prediction right now. I think AJ Brown plays before Jordan Tyson plays. Okay. So I think that's going to happen this year. Carnell Tate, Malik Neighbors, some other guys getting it done. Darius Cooper, Red Zone. Red zone reindeer? What was that? That was Kyle Rudolph back in the day? What, five receptions for Darius Cooper on the season?
Three have been four touchdowns. Yeah, it's tough. There are zombies trying to break into our building right now, by the way. Did you guys hear that? I did. That is a zombie apocalypse. Should we be concerned? It is probably, but I don't think we should be concerned. That door locks. Is that door? Yeah, it's locked. Matt's slow. They'll get him first. Oh, that's true. That's true. We watched him in a race, and he was so much slower than I thought he'd be. You cool if they eat you first for us? No, not really. I could beat you in a race, too.
I still gave Josh way too much grace on that race. I was new. I was taking it easy on him. Uh-huh. You just, we didn't even bring up that it was Papa Josh that beat you. We left that one out and you're like, yeah, just let the world know that Papa Josh. I wanted to take it easy. Yeah, baloney. I heard it all. You wanted to annihilate him. He didn't have the right shoes.
Something else happened. Papa Josh doesn't have one of his ACLs. If you put an old man in a track suit, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't beat him. You know what I mean? What if you put him in old man jeans? Yeah, he ran an old man jeans. And I do mean old man jeans. Like these things are so, you at your age, in hiking boots. Yes. Yeah. Versus Josh. Maybe high heels. Josh could be in the most aerodynamic. What's the age gap? Could you be his father?
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Oh, just the man. Yeah. Just the men, yes. It would be Jalen Hertz by himself, because I do think there's a lot to blame with Herbert. Herbert deserves blame, but McDaniel, I'm mad of him, the offensive line, I'm mad at them. I'm not really mad at anyone else. Oh, Harbaugh. I'm mad at him. Okay, good. There's, I just didn't want to go on forever. There's really no one I'm mad at. Well, I guess a little Sean Mannion. I'm disappointed in Sean Mannion over for Philly, but it's Jalen Hertz. Jalen hurts.
Jeline Hertz completed 12 passes. Are we ready? CD Lamb had 21 targets. Are we ready for the TJ Hawkinson return to glory? 18 fantasy points, 13 catches. That's crazy. I brought him up last week in one of our ridiculous start sit questions because he had been in a 19% target show. Well, I know Jefferson. And no Jefferson. And T.J. Hawkinson, 13 for 119.
And on 13 targets. And denied a touchdown. A bank loan. Like he did the human torch. No, he, like he did the NFL move of, he could have scored. He could have ran it up. Oh, that's right. But they were the, but Miami was at a timeout. So he just went down on the one to like guarantee the, the victory over personal glory. Uh, Kyla Murray sucks. Yes. Thank you for saying. The menace, like this was, I think. But, but, but.
But my, yeah. No, they're 4-0. They are 4-0. They beat the Dolphins. They have like, I don't. 15 points. Kyle, what are the stats about like not scoring touchdowns? It's the first time. I mean, they have two wins out of their four that are no touchdown scored. No offensive touchdown. The offense is horrible. It's so disgusting. But in the meantime, because of how disgusting it is, Hawkinson will just get targets. Yeah, certainly while.
I can't even dunk on Hawkinson. He played well. Yeah, and I would guess we don't know for sure what's going on with Justin Jefferson. If he's back this week or not, he very well might be. However, they do have a buy the following week. So if they can get away with not having Jefferson out there for week five against the Northern Saints, T.J. Hawkinson should be a great play for at least one more week. Everybody clicked the drop button on Kyler this week because if you play Tampa and Miami.
and their defenses, and you can't score 12 fantasy points in either game. Ew. Dude. I mean, maybe Jefferson will help him. Please get Minnesota a quarterback. They have one. This is, this is, Carson Wins is fine for fantasy purposes. He's not fine for the Minnesota Vikings. This is a team that should be hotly talked about of. This is a Super Bowl contending team.
And yet I don't either at 4 or no and be like, oh, should, are you think the Vikings that wins Super Bowl? No. No, I don't. So what's wild is I'm like, there's part of me like, why do the Cardinals have Jacoby Brissette? It's like, Jacoby Brissette is 2 and 14 with the Cardinals. They never win. I think he's a better quarterback from Minnesota than Kyler would be. Probably. Sam LaPorte a big week. Brock Bowers, of course. You know, it was Michael Mayer and then it was not. It was Brock Bowers.
George Kittle, the machine. Look at us. Tucker Kraft climbing into the top five. Even dropped a touchdown. He should have had two touchdowns. You like the targets. But the drop was on one of the easiest touchdowns you've ever seen. That is correct. It was just it floated. Just a gentle butterfly kiss. All he had to do was accept it. And he's like, I don't want it. I mean, I still try to. It was so bad. I try to give Tucker Kraft a little bit of a pass because he missed with the ACL and it's coming back to form.
They gave him arthritis. They did give them a little bit of a pass on that one, and it was easy. It was funny because Mike and I were playing each other this week. And like, I obviously ended up running away with it. But the first half of my games were atrocious. They were just the worst. Same. I just got the second half. You had Zay Flowers. Yes, you just had the second half. But Tiger Craft and Devante Adams dropped touchdowns simultaneously on two different screens while Zay Flowers is fingertip catching everything. Dude.
Oh, man, he's so good. Zayflowers is so good. It's, oh, he's so fun. It's scary how good he is. Yeah, well, he's now his quarterback got a problem. Still got a pro bowler in there. Snoop dog. That joke will just, that joke will keep giving for it. Whenever, uh, he starts. Yeah, that one in, uh, Shadour, it's pro bowlers. Oh, I forgot that Shadour was a pro bowler. That's right. That's, he, he, he,
He got rid of the Pro Bowl. Like, Shadour is the reason that they got rid of the Pro Bowl. I want to call attention to one more tight end, Brent and Strange. Yeah. Target share in weeks one and two for Brent and Strange, 10%. Target shares in week three and four, 26%. So his receiving yardage and stuff has been going up, more involved. They've been doing a lot more 12, and we'll say the Bengals. Yeah.
You can't, so seven for 95 against the Bengals. Just don't get over excited because over the last year, that's just what people do. Years. Except for a friarmuth two weeks ago. And I, yeah, and I don't think Parker Washington's only getting three targets regularly. Yeah, Parker. People tried really hard to give me some Parker Washington bad puns this week and they weren't good enough to make the show. But they wanted to share their sadness. I don't, I'd, Parker.
washed yeah washed washington yeah but he's okay that's all right they're stupid um he'll be fine don't work for washington from papa josh honestly that would have been good parked washington okay that's not bad either our team is good our team is do we need to do this is off the top of our heads this is just seconds i mean we are this is kind of what we do
It is the only thing we do. 20% analysis, 80% stupid jokes. Martha Washington. What? Okay. They can't all be winners. I mean, that's a little bit. Why you got to bring Martha into this? That's a historical. She was a saint. That's a historical gold mine of a joke. Well done. Let's get into the duds. Poopped in his big boy pants. Thank you for setting the tone for the duds, Kyle. Martha Washington.
Uh, Matthew Stafford, no touchdowns in this one, two picks. Ew. Uh, Jalen Hertz, Justin Herbert. How about T-Law, Trevor Lawrence against Cincinnati? That whole game was a big time bummer. That was. It was not fun to watch. That was one of the 50 plus over unders and it, it didn't deliver. How do you feel so it's really surprising, right? You would expect a shootout in that game, obviously very disappointing fantasy.
output but now you've got Philadelphia who just shut down Matthew Stafford and Houston who maybe gets it together by then and then a by week so the next three weeks are you feeling about Trevor Lawrence are you still fine believing that we'll see what we saw the first three weeks more out of him or are you hesitating with these matches fair I think against Philly I'll he'll be like a lower he'll still be a QB1 but lower in Houston it uh
