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

That is wild. So it's JCP, White, and Echler. You know, in some regards, it's kind of kind of more secures JCP for that first and second down roll because if anybody was going to be able to beat him for that, it would have been Ketron. And it's not happening. But Bill right now is not playing well. 37th and yards per carry, 39th and percentage of runs stuffed at the line of scrimmage.

The offensive line was a major concern coming into the year. You already have an injury to your quarterback because of that in part. And you have an inefficient running game. I also think the absence of McLaurin and the absence of Diggs, if they're both out for this game, they're going to focus on the run and make Jane Daniels have to really beat him through the air, which is... Yeah, with Antonio and Diomi Brown. Yeah, exactly. It's going to be difficult. We've seen that with, you know, the inefficiencies for the...

Houston Texans running game when Nico's not there, the defense can really just focus on a bad offensive line and take advantage. Yeah, that's that's why Montgomery was bad. Sneaky, sneaky DFS play this week is Chigga Conquo. Sure. Because he's coming back and they don't have receivers. And so much like we were liking Gassiki with maybe when we thought maybe Jason Higgins wouldn't play, it's something to pay attention to, not something to count on. Denver at two and two taking on Jason's Los Angeles Chargers.

Oh, don't do that. Don't do that. The Vegas line is Denver minus three and a half over under is 41.5. This puts Denver, yeah, I mean, three and a half road favorites here against the Chargers. I mean, this is one of the games in the Gauntlet, gauntlet schedule for the Chargers that you're like, well, they might be able to get that thing done. It's not, I mean, this week against Denver is a lot better than in Kansas City next week. Or.

technically at home, but on the road against the Rams the next week. So this is another chance they have. This is the first time the Broncos have been favored on the road against L.A. since 2017. Man, here we go. Fantasy football starts in this one. Mike, and I have some Denver Broncos this week. We do. I have Bo Nix is my start of the week. It's more of a Chargers thing. Mike is R.J. Harvey. Our start of the week is the Chargers suck.

So what other decisions are you doing? What does the wide receiver room for Denver feel like to you right now? So Jalen Waddle, his prize picks projection is sitting at six and a half targets. Healthy enough, you have, like, Pat Bryant is now, he won't be a part of this game and this game plan. So 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 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. Man. 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 off season, it was like, wow, they really need them. Going back and watching Bo Nix on deep shots, 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 going to be happening, then take those fantasy points. How bad has the LA offense been? Dudlass and EPA per play. 30 first in 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 Braylon Allen. Who were the other names? Emmanuel Wilson? I would play Wilson against San Francisco. Harvey? Your start of the week? I would play Harvey.

If you're in 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. Ladd'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 know, 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, over under's 54.5. We round up. We do. We do. 30 implied points for the lions. The highest of the week. The revenge of 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 Drew Petson. All right. The Cardinals are real, real bad on defense. But guess what? So are the lions. 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. 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 Brissette'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. I was going to say, 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.

Marva 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. Mm-hmm.

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 starts. 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'm going to 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 uh 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. No. 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, uh,