Week 7 Matchups + The Rumble Bumble Stumble - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/23

prior to drafting him. And I mean, and then I stupidly drafted him. And I quickly got out. I mean, I don't, he hasn't hurt my fantasy roster at all this year because I realized what a mistake I made early on and said, not this time. It never happened. Jacksonville at one in five, the Los Angeles Chargers at one and four, Chargers seven and a half point favorites in this one, a 49 point over under. I find that line a little bit interesting. It seems.

Maybe a bit excessive. I'm excited for this game. Yeah, it should be a fun one. We've had, we've talked about a lot of the players in this one from Justin Jackson to DJ Chark, Hunter Henry. I mean, now that Ryan Fitzpatrick. Hunter Dragon Rider. That's exactly. I actually went from Viking to like how to train a dragon real quick. Like that's my exposure to.

I mean, those are like Vikings, right? Yeah, they wear them. They're just dragging Vikings. Yeah, okay. Absolutely. Climb a board on tour. Now that Ryan Fitzpatrick is no longer a starter, this is like your two favorite quarterbacks in the league. You're all about that Herbert life right now. Yeah. And, I mean, you're always going to be on Team Minchu. And this is more than just because I love him. I mean, Justin Herbert, 300 yards or multiple touchdowns in four or five games. Yeah, including two.

incredibly tough road matchups with Tampa Bay and the Saints. And what's insane is as a rookie, he's doing this on third downs. His third down passing touchdowns, yards per completion, 74% completion rate on third down, they are leading the NFL as a rookie. It's incredible. Yeah, and I like what the coaching staff is doing. They're trusting him. They're letting, they're not just, oh, it's third and 12 draw play. It's,

Let's let him throw the ball down in the field because we have Keenan Allen. We have Mike Williams. We have players that can compete at the point of the cat. We have Hunter. Throw to Hunter. But I love Mike Williams opportunity in this game. Imagine your catch radius if you could be on a dragon. It would increase. I don't think the dragon can catch. No, when you...

The dragon doesn't have to catch, Jason. I'm riding the dragon. Do you think the dragon's riding me? I think that if someone threw you the ball behind you while you're flying in one direction, you're not going to catch that ball just because you're on a dragon. I'm just saying it's vertical. Vertical catcher. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. I've derailed us. We haven't really spent a lot of time on dragon catch radio. I.

Radii? Yeah. Yep. Justin Jackson, my start of the week at the running back position, he was limited in practice on Thursday, which makes me feel a little uncomfortable. But if he's out there, he's the better player. So with him being limited and the matchup still being, you know, solid, the Jacksonville Jaguars are 27th against fantasy running backs right now, is Joshua Kelly move into more of a stronger flex consideration? Yes. Okay.

assuming Jackson is limited again today. He would. All right. Keenan Allen, you start him. Mike Williams, I think you should. He is undervalued right now. I know that he has an extreme kind of range of outcomes historically, but what more do you like? I mean, he's got a great matchup in this game. He's coming off a great game. He seems to be a better target for what Justin Herbert's gifts seem to be. Jason, Mike Williams or Jerry Judy?

Mike Williams. The range of outcomes is obviously, as Andy just said, they're very wide. He could be the wide receiver four on a week or the wide receiver 104. But that's the role that he plays. And there are always fantasy options. Years past, it was Marvin Jones, where you need a big time performance. You put that type of a player in your lineup. There's not a lot of guys that can walk away with the upside that Mike Williams has. And with Justin Herbert throwing a

an absolute beautiful deep ball. I really like what Mike Williams has been doing with him. Yeah. And this is very much like a Minnesota situation from last year where it's like the ball's going to Thielander Diggs. I mean, the ball's going to Mike Williams or is going to Keenan Allen. And when Williams was out there in week one, he had a 30% target share. Last week I know Alan got hurt. It was 24%. Those are the two players that are going to get the ball. And then the question is, you know, Mike, you've talked about Gardner. You like Gardner this week. DJ Chark being back, it raises Gardner ceiling.

This game should be competitive. It should be a game that isn't, you know, the Patriots game at a 43 point over under. I think we get to that 49, 50 points or more, and we need it to. I mean, if you want Herbert to throw the football, you need Jacksonville to do its job. Right. James Robinson, you've been playing him? Yeah, he's a weekly start. Chark, Jason's start of the week. So, yep. And then are you taking a shot with any other deeper, you know, if this game is, if Gardner's going to be good?

Do you take a shot with Chanel to Cole? I think you can if you project this game to be back and forth and Gardner to have a good game. They've had fantasy relevant weeks and you would, you know, there's certainly players that you could find that are not as good as Keel and Cole and Chanel from what they've been producing. I would also throw out James O'Shaughnessy as a, if you are really struggling at tight end, you have just garbage in there.

I know it's a name you probably aren't familiar with, but Tyler Eifert might miss. The matchup is great. And I could, you know, we talk about those rando waiver wire pickup tight ends that have the highest chance of touchdowns. And maybe this is more for a DFS type of pick. I know that our DFS pod with the Borgogan, they like James O'Shaughnessy as that DFS punt play of the week.

So you might want to throw him in the lineup? Yeah, it's who I used when I did the cage match with Smith. I used O'Shaughnessy to afford some bigger players because he is like $2,600. It's your free. Sunday night football. The Cardinals are at home taking on the Seattle Seahawks. Off a bye. Who are 5'0. And the Cardinals get to play primetime a couple weeks in a row here, 56 point over under. Seahawks, three and a half point road favorites.

I think that we're going to see some fireworks in this ball game. That's fun, which is great for fantasy because you're playing Kyler, you're playing Russell, you're playing Carson, and I think you're playing Kenyon Drake, the opportunities. They've been there, and his production has been there in several games. So, you know, whether he's the butt of jokes or not, I don't know if you heard his mom, his mom, you know, weighed in. Wade in and had the same thoughts, we did. You're running side to side too much, Kenyon.

You should go towards the end zone. It's a good piece of advice. Yeah. If Daniel John's mom had called in, she would have said finish the run. Finish the run. She would have said slow down. He could have too. That's the worst part. He ran so fast. He had a nice lead. He could have slowed down. Do you think he thought he could start skipping? And then he was like, I don't know how to skip. I've made a bad mistake. I wish he had just committed to the roll because if you come out, if you fall and you roll, he could have rolled all the way into the end zone.

That's a good point. Before he was touched. Just roll, roll, roll. I think he was... The coolest touchdown of all time. Just somersaulting. Like a judo roll? Yeah. He could have somersaulted and got back up. I think he was pretty surprised of how open the run actually was. Yeah, that was special. We've all outrun our legs before. That is, that is accurate. It's not a fun feeling. No.

And for days. You're going to be sore for days. Yes. All right. Hopkins didn't practice Wednesday and Thursday. I think this was one we could have brought up in news. We'll bring it up now. It's the ankle injury. He has, he had three straight do not practices before suiting up in week four. It's the Sunday night game, and they played Monday. They played Monday night. So you knew he was going to get some time off after the Monday night game. Doesn't worry me in the slightest. Yeah, I'll say this. I mean, as a Hopkins manager, I added.

an insurance policy to my bench today. Was it Kirk? It wasn't because Kirk wasn't available. It was Andy Isabella. Just an emergency. What happens at the last minute? You know, Hopkins getting this game flexed out, gets a few more hours out of it. I don't imagine he's going to miss a primetime game when we have the precedent that he's played without practicing. Do you guys have any other expectations? No, I think you just laid it out great. This injury he didn't practice last week played and then.

He's not practicing. He's going to play. Tyler Lockheedee, K. Metcalfe, they're in your lineup. There's really not a lot to kind of debate in this matchup outside of maybe Kirk being a flex play. That's the question is should people put Kirk in your lineup? Do you feel like you're chasing points or have they finally got it together? This is a game with a very high over under. Seattle has been giving it up to wide receivers. I think Christian Kirk projects.

as a pretty decent play. And if you look at, you know, some of the other options we've been talking about, Leviska-Cenault, Keel and Cole, I would rather play the matchup here with Christian Kirk as the wide receiver two with a somewhat hobbled or, you know, limited DeAndre Hopkins against Seattle, then I would play Leviska or Keen and Cole. Yeah, I could see that. I mean, Kirk, Kirk had the big play last week. They didn't have to complete a lot of passes.

He seems like he's healthy. You still have to get the big play. I mean, his usage is just, it's not at a level that you want. 13% of the targets against Dallas. His high on the year is the 19% against the Jets. So I'm, I feel like Kirk is, he's a siren this week and I'm not going to crash my boat into the rocks. Well, well said. Look, people stop by for the mythological jokes. If you, if you.

Drop a mythological kind of metaphor. I am willing to, I won't fight back against it. All right. It wins. I love. Yeah, I don't think that was. I didn't realize that you had gone mythological, Jason, with your Jerry Judy take? It would have been far better. I would have totally. I mean, that wasn't a joke. That was a metaphor. It was beautiful. Like when I saw Jerry Judy's, like, fantasy finishes, it was like a Medusa situation. Oof. I had to look away or turn to stone. I get to. I'm just staring at him because I want to see what is. Oh, look.

You know, when Hercules was a baby. There we go. You saw the talent, but he couldn't realize it yet. He still had to grow up. He was a young man. But once he was, you know, older, then he dominated. Hercules. Hercules. All right. You're not messing around with tight ends in this game, are you? No. All right. That's one, one bit of advice there. The Bears 5 and 1 taking on the Rams Monday night football. Rams are 4 and 2.

The Bears just keep winning football games. The Rams. The Bears are a good team. I know they are. They really are a good team with a poor quarterback, whoever it is leading the way. Yeah. And the Rams have had a good season so far as well, four and two. They are favored by five and a half at home in this game. Nick Ful's Revenge. It's a 45 point over under.

Oh, no. Oh, no. Your eyes are telling me something. You know what? No. Yeah. Andy's almost upset of the week. I didn't know if we'd have one this week, but five and a half, that's too much here. I actually agree with you. And if Darrell Henderson is beat up, hurt, and the running game, you know, everything's been predicated on that success. I think Malcolm Brown against the Bears' defensive front is going to set up the passing game that hasn't really existed this year?

No, I don't. So I'm not playing Jared Gough. How surprised were you last week at how the Rams, who had looked so good, were getting drubbed by San Francisco? San Francisco just completely dominating both sides of the ball in that game and that boring, boring game. And that's when I came to realize, like, three of their previous four games were against the NFC East. They played Philadelphia, New York, Washington,

I think that they might not be as good as they looked in that, you know, previous month. And the 49ers sort of exposed them. So I like this almost upset. All right. Robert Woods, Cooper Cop. You've been playing them. You'll keep playing them. Tyler Higby, I think he's out of lineups at this point. Gerald Everett could be that surprise start if Higby's.

inactive, even if he's not. I mean, if he's questionable, the amount of blocking he's done, if you need a dart throw it tight in, I don't think Everett's the end of the world here in a game where Henderson could be banged up. The running game might not be productive. The one place that the bears have been more vulnerable is against the tight-in position. I made the choice last night in our dynasty league. I benched Evan Engram for Gerald Edwards. How do you feel about that? TBD. After that drop. Oh, I know. It felt a little bit better. If he would have caught that pass, I would have.

I feel pretty bad. Yep. Yeah, it's funny how one play, right? I mean, it defines the entire perception of the game. Evan Ingram catches that ball. What is that? A 25-yard catch? Probably runs a little bit with it afterwards. He certainly would have. Boston Scott catches that one pass. I know. Well, it's funny. We were talking before about the Boston Scott catch. He does that in the first quarter. You know, you're not happy as an opposing fantasy manager.