Week 5 Matchups + Cowboy Collapse, Wheel of Shame - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/9

healthy enough you have like Pat Bryant is now he won't be a part of of this game and this game plan so I I feel I think I feel pretty good about Jalen Waddle I even think if he like desperate times Cortland Sutton is not the worst play this week yeah I think Waddle is a good play you you saw I mean obviously Sean Payton went out and he

sent Sun Moon and Stars paid the man and talked about how he was going to use Waddle. Waddle has not been utilized in that way. He's taking over play, calling duty. I think we're going to see a big game from Jalen Waddle here. Yeah, I think four weeks in, you've been disappointed, so you'd like to see the breakout start to happen. The offense as a whole has been bad. I mean, everything's been a checkdown from Bo Nix. He has not been pushing the ball down the field, certainly not successfully. And that's what...

I mean, when Waddle was joining this team, you know, late in this offseason, it was like, wow, they really need them. Going back and watching Bo Nix on Ditchuts, they needed Waddle, and it still hasn't worked. Hopefully the play calling change helps and the matchup against the Chargers helps. Just the decisions. RJ Harvey, the running back for the Denver Broncos, is currently being targeted on 44% of his routes. Too much. That's way too much. Paul, what are you doing? If that's what's.

It's going to be happening. Then take those fantasy points. How bad has the LA offense been? Deadlassen EPA per play. 30 first and points per drive, barely ahead of the Dolphins. And this is a tough defense. It's a very tough defense. Denver. So I expect the offensive line for Herbert to part the ways and allow him to get schmooshed all game long. Well, in that case, I don't think it's the best matchup for the Hampton trifecta of.

backfield situations. So, like, Emmanuel Wilson should be starting for the Seahawks, right? And Harvey's on the other side of this one. And Braylon Allen, like, are you taking Hampton over any of those three? I would play Braylin Allen. Who were the other names? Emmanuel Wilson? I would play Wilson. Harvey? Your start of the week? I would play Harvey. If you're on a standard, maybe... Jeremiah Love over him? Over Hampton?

Yeah, I think so. He's against Detroit. He's looked better with the ankle injury at practice recently. I still think Hampton is a low-end starter. I've got him as my running back 24. Yeah, he's not a bench. He's more like a, I haven't met running back 23 right now. Losing two offensive linemen on an offensive line that was already not performing sucks. Trey Harris, I mention him because you're not playing huge anymore. Lad's probably missing. Gadsden is.

He got eight targets last week. Maybe he benefits from missing pieces. But Trey Harris has been a little bit more involved on a snap count basis. You remember him from last year, 93% of snaps last week. He's a good wide receiver. It's just a really difficult matchup. And if you don't have the other guys and you can focus on someone, I'm not really excited to start any charger, to be honest.

The Detroit Lions at 2 and 2 take on the 1 and 3 Arizona Cardinals in one of the games of the week here. Vegas line is Detroit minus 5 and a half on the road. Overrunners 54.5. We round up. 55. We do. We do. 30 implied points for the lions. The highest of the week. The blobfish. Yeah, he's back. Can the blobfish get revenge? I think so. Yeah. Arizona. Here's what I don't know.

I don't know if the blobfish is calling plays all year. Oh, I agree with that. I don't know if that's going to happen. It certainly feels like Dan Campbell might have to pull a Dan Campbell this year. I feel like this entire conversation was confusing for some people. It might be. But it would have been more confusing if we had said, look, at some point Guns Mahoney is going to take over play calling from the blobfish. Thank you. All right. Perfect. We're talking about Drew Petzing, offensive coordinator. Mike, I would have said it earlier if I had remembered.

I couldn't place this real name because I've called him the blobfish for so long. You did start that. I did? Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, that was you. You started it. Well, have you ever seen a blobfish? I've seen true pets. All right. The Cardinals are real, real bad on defense. But guess what? So are the lion. Yeah, they are. Did you see their defensive coordinator press conference where? Oh, yeah. I called the right plays.

It was like they blitzed eight times and seven of the eight plays were great for the opposing offense. And then he's like, they were the right calls. And then he's like, well, what, what do you explain the fact they didn't work? Well, they were the right calls. Okay. Cool, man. They didn't seem that way.

I mean, the only way that you can justify is the players, yeah. The players didn't execute on the correct play call. And sometimes that can happen. But I will say if you do it eight times. At some point, you're not executing on your personnel groupings. So we have starts of the week littered in this matchup. High over under. Jacoby Resett's in there as Mike's start of the week. Jason, you've got golf. Michael Wilson is your start of the week at wide receiver. Jamo is mine. As is Sam Laporta.

If you look at the... Just start anyone in this game. I mean, the defenses are atrocious. This is why Jeremiah Love, even if they said he's fine, but even if he's a little limited, the opportunity is going to be there. And Tyler Algier is a break glass in case of emergency type of back that could easily score a touchdown here. Who's got a higher chance of scoring a touchdown this week? Hampton or Algier? I think Hampton, because if they get around the goal line...

It should go to him, whereas here it could still go to love. I mean, the get around the goal line part for Arizona, there are five more points implied for that offense. I think it'd be interesting. But Michael Wilson, yeah, he's 30 targets in the last two weeks. He's an auto start. If you're wildly desperate, Marvin Harrison Jr., plays for the Cardinals. He does. He runs a lot of routes in a high over-under game. Marv or Trey Harris, Marv.

I'm doing Marv. Marv or Darius Cooper. I have that choice. I have that choice in our chop league. What about Darius Cooper who has... For Philadelphia. For Philadelphia. That is the worst because he's got three touchdowns, right? Marv does score. Like, Marv has like 14 touchdowns in his career. Now, it's one for 11 in a touchdown. Mm-hmm. But Cooper's probably playing 30% of snaps, and Marv's going to play 95%. No, Cooper's going to be probably up near 100% of snaps if Dantavian Wix is out and Devonte Smith is out.

Kyle has asked the question, if not now, when for Marv? I can, the answer is never. Did you see that Marv? I am not going to do this, Mike. I'm not standing by Mike was the blobfish originator. What? Because in the slack, he said I started it.

Be quiet. Let Andy take the credit. He doesn't want to go down as the blobfish inventor. It's so mean. It is mean. That's why I assume it wasn't you. Listen, those at home that are like, oh, you're calling a person a blobfish. He was our offensive coordinator. Yes. If I called my kid a blobfish, that's okay. You can't call my kid a blobfish. No, that's rude. Do you understand the rules of names? Anyway, I do dislike him. I don't know how he got.

How did you get that job? I don't know. It's nonsense. They're like, yeah, that team that can't win games and sure they put up yards, but they didn't really score any points. That's the offense I want. I mean, just start everybody in this game. Obviously McBride, I'm and Ron Gibbs are your best start. Did you guys see that Marvin Harrison hired agents? Yeah, he didn't have one. That's why the NFPA contract thing with his jersey didn't work. Yeah. He did hire an agent. Strange timing.

Could be. I mean, I don't, I will not be shocked at the deadline if this continues. I think that's the implication. Why did you get an agent now when a trade or something might be going on? Yeah. Yeah, we'll see. I mean, do you want him out of Arizona? No, I want him to play well. That's what I want. I want him to develop into what he.

He was legitimately a great prospect. I wish I could grow lollipops in my garden, Jason. He was legitimately a great prospect. All right? He played different in college. You could have picked anything in your garden? You could have said like cash? You went lollipops? Just something that can't happen. I wanted it to be fanciful. Okay. Blobfish is throwing me off. All right, the 49ers 4-0 against the 3-1 Seahawks. Here's a game. Yeah, and it's got a decent over-under. Seattle minus 3.

Over under 45 and a half. I mean, the 49ers have been lights out. The efficiency, the success of Brock Purdy. I would say that, you know, I've watched the Seahawks. They have a, their defense is ranked very well. And I had this philosophical question with Mike this morning. Jason, I'll let you answer real quick. Where do you lean more often when you're choosing a defense for fantasy, when it's a mid-tier to lower-tier defense with a great matchup? Example being Bengals.

Their middle tier facing the Dolphins who haven't scored more than 13 points. Yeah. Versus, I mean, you've got Seattle who at home very good. They're second against quarterback, second against wide receivers. They're six in fantasy points scored. But you're playing in offense has been pretty much carving people up in the 49ers. How do you generally lean in this situation? Generally I will take my great defense like the Seahawks are and I will bench them and pick up.

I'll roster two for the week that they're in a really bad matchup. If the Seahawks were playing against the bills. So you lean towards the opposing offense more than your defense. Correct. Which Mike kind of talked about, it depends on the week, but he kind of sometimes goes the other way. Obviously, it saves you a roster spot versus rostering two. But I was just curious what your inclinations are on a normal basis. Yeah, sometimes it, like I gave the Andy, my example. Right now I have the Baltimore Ravens in the League of Record.

against the Falcons because look a couple weeks ago yeah that felt like it was going to be a great matchup now it feels not like a great matchup and Tyler Huntley is starting but the Ravens play the Cleveland Browns next week and I don't really have the spot to put a second defense so as of right now I don't know by Sunday what I'll do but right now I'm probably just going to gamble and and throw the Ravens out there do we have to hit this button if we're in between matchups we should we're not in between matchups

Well, let's finish. You want to finish this one? Yeah. Breaking news on the way soon. We've never had a teaser for breaking news. That's usually interjected. Emmanuel Wilson will be the starting running back for the Seahawks this week. His prize picks projection has him at 78 and a half rushing yards with receiving. Wow. Rushing pluses. rushing and receiving. He's a solid play. The San Francisco 49ers are giving up so many receptions to the to the

to the running back position. So I'm very interested in Wilson. Jason is an auto start every week. How are you feeling about Darnold right now in terms of, you know, is he just on the back burner in terms of starting options for the moment? Yeah, he's a low-end streamer for this week. It was wild because that game he had against Washington, right? They lost the game, 33 or 31. Do you know what he finished on the week for that game? Fantasy-wise? Well, didn't he end up with like four touchdowns or something? He was the number one quarterback. Yeah.

So the game they lost he was number one last week back down to 17 in a game they won. Brock Purdy, do you temper expectations going on the road to Seattle? Yeah. Yes, you do. Do you play Bo Nix over him against the Chargers? No. I think I do. It's funny, the San Francisco 49ers have, like, Shanahan just has McVeigh's number. We saw that, whether it was the jet lag, you know, Australia thing to start the season, but they always, they always.

kick the crap out of the Rams. The Seahawks always kicked the crap out of the 49ers. And so I think that the Seahawks are going to, despite the fact that the Niners have been awesome, they're undefeated. They've looked like one of, if not the best team in the league. I think the Seahawks at home are going to handle this pretty well. On the other side. The divisional round last year, 41 to 6. Mike Evans, didn't practice on Thursday, still managing the rib injury seems to be willing to play through it.

Is he an active, then start always situation right now? I mean, last week with the injury, he still put up double-digit fantasy points. Really tough match. But he's right around 10. Like, would you prefer just go same team? Mike Evans with the looming ribs or Debo. I think I go Debo. Debo's looked really good. I, you know, I don't love either of these players, but if I had both of them on the roster, one of them could go out at any second in this game.

So I would lean deep over there. You guys remember that tease for the breaking news? Yeah, I do. We'll get to it right after this break. Oh, no! How much time has to pass before it's no longer breaking and it's just news? Oh. Are we still good? Yeah, we're definitely still good. What do you call it? Broken? Broken news. Broken news. So the news that we're getting...