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

Pooping in big boy pants. This was an opportunity against the defense that somehow got better without JJ Watt. Dude, what the heck? This is the fourth time this year. I'm sorry, but I like.

The process, the analysis of when you're a struggling defense and you lose a superstar defensive player. This happened to Denver when they lost Bradley Chubb and all of a sudden the next week they were great at stopping the run. Same thing happened to Kansas City who was struggling and they lost Chris Jones. And then the next week they're like, oh, look how great we are. The Texans are a terrible defense this year. They lose JJ Watt, who's been really good this year. And then they're like,

This great deal. What is happening? Well, the Jets tried to do it. They traded away Leonard Williams to see if they could get better on defense. That's not how the magic works. You'll just trade them. It's got to be injury because it's morale. It's like the other teams, the other players are, we got you. Yeah, maybe. What does feel extra bad about this? If I was like, guys, Gardner last week, he threw for over 300 yards and he ran for 34 yards. That's a good week. Yeah. But it wasn't. Because instead of touchdowns, they were turnovers. Yeah. And

Turnovers. Very nice. This is a very stinky show. Here's the thing. We had Alan Robinson and the CNC Music Factory, Chris Connolly and DJ Chark. Those were problems for your fantasy team. But if you take the car into the mechanic and they go, we need to find the source of the problem. Welcome to Gardner Minshu and Mitch Trubisky. Mitch Trubisky was 10 for 21 for 125 yards. It was as if...

a mist, a ghost of a quarterback was standing behind center. At this point, Chase Daniel would be an improvement for the offense, but do you think that there's any possibility that they come to their senses and do that? I think there is a possibility. Not as far as starting this next week. I don't think they're going to make that transition. But Trubisky, I don't see him getting better. And so if you go into next game and at halftime,

your quarterback has been Trubiskiing the whole game. I think they'll make an in-game change at some point. And if that actually turns things around for that game and they win, then you're going to have a big conversation in Chicago. If you want to know what I think, it's that Ms. Trubisky has a really sore quad, real sore, like might miss the weak kind of quad. That's how you get a little beta test on the Chase Daniel.

Mitch, you look beat up. No, I'm fine. I'm fine, coach. No, no, no, you're not. You're not fine. Oh, what? I just ran into you with a golf cart. I'm so sorry, Mitch. We're getting a, well, he said he was fine. I got to make sure that those quads get a little bruised up. Oh, my gosh. He's so bad. Well, the thing is, is, you know, Alan Robinson is a great player. That's why he was picked. It doesn't matter. If you're attached.

I mean, this is like sitting next to a person who farts. You're going to get blamed for it. All right, because I'm staying on brand for this show. I hope you enjoy. The stinkers of the week. The stinkers of the week. All right, running back stinkers. What happened to Aaron Jones? Oh, you could say the whole Green Bay Packers. What happened to the Green Bay Packers? Well, they were waiting to get Devante Adams back.

What happened to Devante Adams? Man, that was crazy. The Los Angeles Chargers, they fire their offensive coordinator, and the whole team takes a step up as far as just real football. The defense looked great. Aaron Rogers looked lost. Aaron Jones didn't even get the opportunity to do much. Eight carries. It was just a complete implosion by Green Bay. One catch. That's where he was making his money.

Yeah, say the carry count actually is not that surprising to me. It is the first time he's been below double digit carries, but him and Jamal have been splitting time. It was the, it was the receptions that were making the difference. He still had four targets, but that was, man, that one feels real bad. I wanted to walk out there an open hand slap, Jamal Williams, across the face. Why? When he.

Did a monster touchdown dance scoring at 19-0 and he does this long super celebration in the end zone. I would have respected if Rogers walked out there and just slapped him and said, what are you doing? Yeah, the game was pretty much over. He lost and he's celebrating his touchdown. Well, I don't mind like, oh, he spiked the football, but this was like full on. I plan this in front of a mirror. When you have something planned and you get the opportunity.

Yeah. I wonder what Al Borland thought of that because he's back there gazing up. He's shaking his head. No, he's not a, he's not a happy man. Because he's a huge Packer fan. As, you know, the analysis here to me is to mostly throw this in the trash. I'm not going to overreact to any of these performances. I'm not going to worry that Aaron Rogers has lost it or that Aaron Jones can't get it going or that Devante Adams, you know.

This was just a bad game. Teams have bad games, and they're going to bounce back. What about Keenan Allen? Now, that one is a little bit more scary. We have not seen a, like, a good game for him in, what, a month and a half? Why? Is this because of Hunter Henry's return? That's a part of it. Is this because of having Austin Echler has leveled up as a weapon in the offense? He's not just this peripheral piece. He's actually featured, and then you're talking about, okay,

Hunter and Keenan and Mike Williams and Gordon and Eckler. Well, it's wild is two weeks ago it was 11 targets. Last week it was 10. I mean, and he still didn't put up a huge performance. That plummeted to four. And that with a new OC change and four targets, similar shaky ground feeling beneath you. Are you not in the camp then as a fantasy owner approaching trade deadlines of?

Ooh, I should go buy Keenan Allen low. You said last week people might. You still would buy. Low. I mean, I'm not trading away my great players for Keenan Allen. You would not trade. Okay, so you said nobody in the upper echelon? Correct. Well, so last week, I think the trade that we said we would make was moving juju to Keenan Allen. Right. Does that level change now where you say, well.

Have you seen Juju 3 for 16? So we'd stick with that. I'd rather have Keenan with. I would rather have Keenan with Phillip Rivers. It's been horrifically bad for six weeks, but Keenan Allen is a top-level talent. It could turn around, and then he could just have great games the rest of the way. That's in the range of outcomes. I'm not projecting that, but just saying that I want to get a player who's...

been real bad. I think it is also worth having context to the games where he has not performed, right? Pittsburgh's defense has been great since they got Minka Fitzpatrick. The Tennessee Titans defense is very tough. Chicago is great against quarterback and wide receiver. And then this game was a game where they were winning, didn't need to throw the ball much because Green Bay didn't show up. The next two matchups against Oakland and Kansas City.

Those look like matchups that I think you're going to get more out of Keenan. And there were quite a few disappointing wide receiver performances this week. Stefan Diggs. Despite Thielen leaving, Diggs goes one for four. Wild, man. Yeah. We talked about Chark and Conley, two starts of the stinkers of the week. Sorry. And then Terry McLaurin. Oh, they have the bye week. Come on, Case Keenum.

Yeah, I mean, heal up, buddy. At least, at least on this one, this was, you know, we set a must bench situation with no Case Keenham against Buffalo, you can't play Terry McLaren. And he did, he did what was expected. So if Case Keenum comes back, even with the quarterback change, they're not throwing, or the head coach change, and they're not throwing the ball as much. If Case Keenum is back, I think Tara McLaurin is still going to have, you know, fine games. I need to hear from the resident Robbie Anderson, Truther. Sure.

Two for 33 on 4 targets. Have you, where are you with Robbie Anderson? This is a Miami game. In a dark place because Jameson Crowder was the target machine. He was open frequently and that's where Sam Darnold went. We're a long ways away from Robbie Anderson's 125 yards and a touchdown against Dallas four weeks ago. I'm not playing him.

I thought he would have, he would show signs of life, not necessarily explode in this, but give us 60, 70 yards. It feels like New England permanently scared Sam Darnold. Like he's, you know what I mean? He does seem like he's regressed. I mean, he comes out. He looked great against Dallas. And then, you know, when he was seeing ghosts and struggling, now it's, it's a bunch of targets to Crowder and to Lev Bell all right by the line of scrimmage. And that's just not Robbie Anderson's game.

I think that something interesting is starting to make its way into my mind for fantasy football, and that is that, you know, there are certain teams where your confidence on range of outcomes, you know, your confidence has been punched in the mouth. And so, you know, juju is a good example, right? Like anything that happens in Pittsburgh right now, you don't know what the week-to-week Rudolph experiment is going to be like, right?

probably translates over to a team like the Jets, right? You just don't know what the outcomes can be. You look at the schedule and you say, my goodness, the Giants, Washington, Oakland, Cincinnati. That's the next four weeks for Robbie Anderson. Those are the like low-hanging fruit that you think he can just jump up and grab four apples off the tree. But what? We'll be lucky to get one maybe. Yep. That stinks.

There are certain teams that are in that boat right now where you just, you could roll the dice, you can get lucky. But I don't have a lot of confidence. Darren Waller finally had a kind of a, I mean, only got two targets. What are you doing, man? There were a lot of. The Walleris is starving. Feed him. Yeah, there were at least five targets to stay full. That really disappointed, which the good news there is that, you know, if you had to play one of those, there's a good chance you played against one of those.

Because Darren Waller and Mark Andrews, we've talked about him. Joe New Smith, the guy that, you know, I was rolling with places, and I liked them last week and this week. He was my start of the week. He sucked. Cameron, break, goose. Greg Olson. I mean, three for 40. Here's what's crazy. Those are like right off the bat. That is a, that's a terrible line. That's not too bad. It's, you know what I mean? I mean, it's sad. Hopefully you didn't start Chris Herndon.

If you followed the news heading into the weekend, you found out he was active, but there was also the talk of this was a emergency active. This was a token, hey, ma, I'm active. This was not a, hey, ma, I'm going to play. This was Adam Gaye saying all week, I doubt it. He's not going to be active. And then Herndon's like, no, dude, I'm good to play. Yeah, I mean, I didn't want you to be. So, yeah, it's weird. It gives you hope for the future next week. He should be able to play.

while being active. But what you've seen from the Jets, you just brought it up, Andy, gives you no confidence in anything there. It's the Giants! I know, right? Like the matchup is great. Yeah, but Ryan Griffin could have two touchdowns against the Giants. I'm just, this is more like a, this stinks. Herndon should be balling out right now. Dude, I, you know, I, I've, I had picked up the Jets defense a couple weeks ago for this stretch run because they're not playing.

Bad teams. They're playing the bottom of the barrel teams. But they just lost it. It's a mirror match. Exactly. And so, yeah, I'm dropping the Jets DST, uh, not confident in any of their weapons. Man, stinkers of the week presented as always by odor eaters. Otor eaters the best in foot odor defense. Yeah.

Get those feet. You don't want those stinky feet. Remember when people are worried about Deandre Hopkins and Mike Evans? All those. It's almost like they're really good players and the first couple weeks really sting. Yeah, but I could say that about, remember when people worried about Keenan Allen and they were very correct so far? Yeah, I mean, he started stronger than he's been. Yeah, but here's the thing. What Andy is bringing up, I think, speaks to that point. He's...

He's a really good wide receiver. Keenan Allen. People are worried right now about Keenan Allen. It's been a longer stretch. But he's a great wide receiver. One of the best. In the end, that will win out on an NFL field. That's why we're still confident in Keenan Allen. That's why you said he's trade for him, right? His fantasy production because he's just a great wide receiver. All right. I want to thank today's studio sponsor, Pristine Auction, a signed.