Week 9 Studs & Stinkers + Weekly Rewind, MUSCLE Wilson!

What do you do with Kenyon Drake with 10 touches in Arizona? You could probably roll him out there as a flex against Tampa. So I'm bought into the fact that if he gets enough work, he'll be good. I just, David Johnson is going to be back in that game. Yeah, David Johnson should be back. Tampa is a surprisingly good team against the run. But what Cliff Kingsbury has done has really opened things up for running backs for fantasy. I think as the season goes along. I mean, San Francisco wasn't stopping running back.

I mean, they had been. Sorry. Yeah. So, yeah, I think you can utilize Kenyon Drake going forward, but certainly not to the workhorse role that he was when he was the only guy in town. Let's throw it back to you, Mike. Kenyon Drake versus David Johnson against Tampa. If David Johnson, he should be healthy and active, which of those two guys do you play? David. Okay. Yeah, I do agree with that.

I had to think about it. But, yeah. If he's healthy and back, I'll play DJ. We had that same decision back to back weeks with Edmonds and David Johnson. And one week you were right and one week you were wrong. Right. If you pick David. Also on the Josh Jacobs side before we move on from him, the amount of carries that he was getting, we couldn't believe it while we're watching. This is like going into the fourth quarter, late in the third or something. I think it was early in the third. Yeah. He was already at the 20 carry mark. I mean, they were just, they were just using them like crazy.

Here's another back that had a good game, and I am really excited about because it finally looked different. It looked like he caught up to the season. Melvin Gordon, is he back? 20 for 80 and 2, also had 30 receiving yards on four targets. He looked so much better in this game to me than he had the previous few games. And I'm talking film-wise, not just outcome.

Well, it's a commitment to the run. We've seen this benefit Adrian Peterson, and they dropped Ken Wisenhunt and committed to Melvin Gordon in this game. They obviously played incredible defense that lent itself towards 20 carries, but I'm 100% with you, Jay. And I kind of laughed when I listened to Melvin Gordon talk about this game because they said, hey, are you back? And he says, yeah, I'm getting there. And then they go, do you think that the change in offensive coordinator helped a running game? He goes, yeah.

I mean, it was just like, it was basically like, yeah, that really helped us. So I'm excited about this guy. Devin Singletary. Yeah. Oh, yeah. 20 for nine. Did you hear that? 20 for 95 and a touchdown. Another three, four 45 on four targets through the air, which is ironic because he had a 49-yard reception. Can you, woof, double check that? The other two must have been behind the line of scrimmage and just didn't turn into anything. But Devin Singletary, this is why in Dynasty.

I'm sorry, in our Keeper League, two weeks ago I traded Alshan Jeffrey for him. I wanted the shot. In the second half, you're looking at the Montgomery's, the Singletary's. You're saying, can I find a diamond in the rough? And maybe we did with Singletary. Cleveland, Miami on the schedule coming up. You know, we knew the breakout game was going to come. Obviously, we did not know it would be this game.

It was still a worthy, I mean, a lot of people started him. He was in all my lineups that I had. The matchup was great against Washington. And like you said, Cleveland and Miami coming up. I'm not petrified of either of those. Single, single, I have a hard time not saying single carry because that's how Andy referred to him every play yesterday. But look, he's a really good back for a team that is.

going to be in positive game scripts more often than not and really wants to run the ball. The fact that he took over as the lead ball carrier, you knew it was going to happen at some point. You're not going to stay with Frank Gore. How did Frank Gore do, Mike? Poorly. I don't know. 11 for 15. That's more than a yard of carry. For 15 stuffed five times that I saw with a one yard to go. Referring to the.

First and goal on the foot line and Frank Gore three times in a row. Well, that's why I threw it to you is because you were making a big deal about that goal line stand situation. And Gore couldn't get it done. It was very funny. It was very funny. Yeah, it was incredible. David Montgomery had the worst first half you could imagine. Ends up with another. Really not a good game. Ends up with another good game on the stat sheet in terms of fantasy points. Fantasy.

14 for 40 and 2, but had a big catch, three total catches. Chicago is burning. They need a quarterback change, man. Everybody in the world knows it. Yeah, this team can play top level best in football defense, but you wonder if that defense, this happens all the time. I mean, do they believe that what they're doing on the defensive side of the ball is going to make a difference?

Or do you become discouraged if you get stop after stop and your offense has nine yards in the first half? Right. Man. Matt Nagy is not a visionary. Mitchell Trubisky is not a quarterback. And here we are with a flop of a season in a tilting Matt Nagy. And look, if you're a Chicago fan, where do you go from here? To the draft. To the draft. Mike, Damien Williams, 12 for 125 and 1. Yes.

And his starting job back. Or is it? I get, look, it is. It seemed like it was back, and then Shady took it, and then Shady fumbled it away. But Damien, the same way Jason was talking about, Melvin Gordon, this is what Damien looked like last week. When he finally got in the game, you're like, oh, there's the Damien Williams that they gave the extension to. Looks like he's bawling out, hit a 91-yard touchdown run, which...

Tyreek caught up to him. It was very, like, it looked like the scene, it looked like the, uh, in, the guys watched Angry Birds anytime recent. I've seen it.

but the yellow bird who's the speed and like everything else slows down. That's what happened when Tyreek Hill was running up to Damien, who Damien is very fast. Damian is fast and Damian looked like me running out there while Tyreek was streaking to catch up with him. But the reality is... Moving forward, what is Damian Williams? Moving forward, he's the starting running back for the Chiefs. It's been very hard to tell and you don't want to get...

hoodwinked by this, you know, because Bill Belichick of old, you'd say, oh, now we know, and then you'd come into, and the next game plan is just completely the other way. But when you talk about 12 carries to three carries and you look at the snap percentages where Damian Williams was the guy pretty much always on the field, I don't know how you could then say, okay, next week, I'm going to take another week with him on my bench and wait. Because if you can start.

the lion's share of the Kansas City Chiefs backfield, that's a good thing for fantasy. Yeah, I don't want to take anything away from Damien Williams. But if he did take away the 91-yard run, he was 11 for 34 on the game. So Damian Williams is still going to have a floor that is ugly. And that's what's going on in that backfield. You know, with Patrick Mahomes back, you'd hope he does more than two for three on two targets. That's kind of where we expected Damien Williams to make his haze in the passing game. Lev Bell.

Garbage manned his way to a fine game. Yeah. That was, that team is another one that you got to be really worried about. Jordan Howard had a nice game. One of the good starts of the week this week. Philip Lindsay was nine for 92 and won. He's so fast. I couldn't believe. Like I feel like every time towards the end of that game, I'd look up and I'd go, oh, Lindsay's, you know, breaking off a run. And then to go to go back and realize,

He only had nine carries. He's just, he's so electric. Tyler Lockett and D.K. Metcalf at the wide receiver position number one and three on the week. Mike Evans, 12 for 180 and 1 on 16 targets. He is bigger, faster, stronger, open all the time. Monster. Do you remember when everybody was really worried about Mike Evans? He did put up a zero. Right. No, no, no. I'm not saying he hasn't had a bad game, but I'm just saying people were like,

You know, it's the Chris Godwin show now. Right. And Mike Evans is the number two. He's the clear number two. But the air yards didn't say that. The targets said that they were tied. And now, I mean, you finally you're getting from Mike Evans what you drafted Mike Evans to be. I mean, more than that, right? Way more than that. He's been insane. I believe he's the wide receiver won on the season.

It makes sense when you go for 180. That's pretty high. He had a zero and a buy week. He's 198 yards and two, 180 and 1 the past two weeks. That's ridiculous. Tyreek Hills really, really good. Six for 140 and one. Kenny Gallaudet, Monster Week again. Marvin Jones and Kenny Gallaudy both had huge weeks on the same week. So that's friendly of them. Yeah. What do you make of...

The Emmanuel Sanders, seven for 112 and a touchdown. Nine targets. I think he's looked very in sync with the handsome one. I think it means a lot for Jimmy Garoplo as a streaming option to have Emmanuel Sanders. And I think Emmanuel Sanders is certainly a flex to wide receiver.

two type of guy, right? And you have phenomenal matchups going forward. You get Arizona again in two weeks, which you could say, oh, Patrick Peterson, but Arizona with Patrick Peterson has been beat on the reg. And then Seattle, Seattle's such a good matchup for... Well, there's three straight home games, right? Yeah. And, yeah, so it's Seattle, Arizona, Green Bay. I'm really happy with Emmanuel Sanders in my lineup.

All right, Noah Fantastic had a breakout performance, really a breakout play. Three for one, 15, and one on four targets. You have to watch the play. It's incredible. It's Gronkian, very Gronkian. No offense. Truck sticks a defender and appears to not lose any momentum whatsoever. It was a bug. Like.

It was the same way of when you, a bug on the windshield. Noah Fant did not know that there was someone trying to tackle him. That guy bounced off of him like a helicopter. And you were right. It was so weird. It was like no momentum lost. He's just running and then this guy smacks into him like it's a brick wall. But no offense is unaware. It was very fun. Although terrible tackling with the other. He broke two more tackles, I believe. You got a bye week coming up. I'm.

I'm happy to see it from a rookie tight-in. Big play. We had big week from Hawkinson, week one. I'm not excited about Noah Fant. Every week we've kind of had one of the big guys do their thing, and then there be a bunch of kind of no names that stepped up. The big guy this week was at Gertz, the big nickname. Nine for 103 and 1 on 11 targets. We had Jacob Hollister with two touchdowns for Russell Wilson. Okay.

He's not Will Disley athletically. He's not going to be as involved, but Russell Wilson is a benevolent man. And Jacob Hollister benefited from it. And then George Kittle is six for 79 and one. Again, I think six for 79 and one, they could just write it in for the rest of the year. I feel like that's what he's going to do every game. I would be very happy with that.

All right. Any other big time performers you guys want to talk about or do you want to get into the stink, Mike? Do you buy into Mohamed Sanoo's targets? I was pretty impressed with it, to be honest with you. Okay. Yeah. 14 targets. I mean, this was Mos Sanoo coming in. 10 receptions, right? Yeah, 10 for 81 and a score. I mean, it was, it was Edelman and Mos Sanoo. I know they were in a negative game script, but is it like, okay, Sunu, I'm playing him every week now. I'd play him over door set.

Yes. That's for sure. I think most of the new is the two. Yes. All right. Let's move on. Stinkers of the week. Presented by odor eaters. Oh, Gardner. Oh, Gardner. This may legitimately be the last you see of Gardner this year. 27 for 47, 309, two picks, no touchdowns.

two fumbles took a big fat dump overseas is what is in my notes from kyle i choose to look at it that the gardener had to fertilize his soil oh sweet mercy dude that soil is going to be so fertile that the the strawberries that will grow out of this land record breaking will be the size juiciest of my foot oh my goodness i mean if you want to talk about