Starts of the Week + Week 9 Breakdown, Boom Boom! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/5

Mike, I need you to weigh in, though, Taylor or Wilkins. If you're staring that down, you picked up Wilkins because you were the Taylor manager, and you said, hey, I need both. I'm monitoring the injury reports. Taylor was limited on Wednesday. If I see any sort of. Limited. If I see a full practice report from Johnny Taylor, I'm putting him in. Okay. Over Jordan Williams. I think it's real tight. I think it's close. And I would go Taylor, too, if that was the case. If it was healthy.

I would go Taylor and just hope, like last week, he had one goal line opportunity. He gets in there. He's similar production to Wilkins, even though he was banged up. So Lamar Jackson in this game, are you pivoting from Lamar Jackson against the Colts? Lamar is our quarterback nine on the week. And a lot kind of came out this week about, you know, targets to Hollywood Brown. Squeaky wheel. Look.

Here's his. If he tries to, it's not like he hasn't targeted him ever, right? When you try to target Hollywood Brown, you still have to get it in the vicinity. Still have to give him a catchable ball. And that's what's been so infuriating because Hollywood is open. Hollywood's frustrated. He wants more targets, but he wants the targets to hit him in the hands. And that's not been happening. If you look at Lamar Jackson. Three out of seven weeks for Lamar Jackson inside the top 10, by the way. Sorry, go on. Yeah. You say three out of seven inside the top 10.

I'm going to go with four of those seven outside the top 16. He's not been. He's been someone that has hurt your fantasy. Exactly. He's this mobile quarterback. He's supposed to be a top 10 baseline and it's not happening. This is a bad matchup. So the question is who would you pivot? Who would you be willing to pivot? Because you obviously know the ceiling of Lamar Jackson is just about unmatched. Would you play, let's say, Lamar Jackson or like?

Ben Rothersberger against Dallas. You are asking a very specific question towards me. In our League of Record, I picked up Big Ben over the weekend, which I hope you follow us on social media. I advised if you are a quarterback streamer, you should pick up Ben because he has three juicy matchups coming up. I picked him up. I didn't know I was going to be able to trade for Lamar Jackson. I traded low, hoping that he returns to being a weak winning type of a quarterback.

I am going with Lamar Jackson over Ben Rothlessberger. I'm hoping the squeaky wheel for Marquis Brown pays off. Here's a tweet from Jared Smola pointing out Marquis Brown has seen 16 targets, 20 plus yards down the field, 16 targets. Five have been catchable. This is what Hollywood Brown has been dealing with with Lamar Jackson. One catch, right last week? One for three yards. Yeah, it was the touchdown.

Almost had another touchdown, but it got overturned. I believe in Lamar Jackson, the player, and hoping that they kind of had, you know, the meeting of we need to get Hollywood Brown some of those easier targets and figure that out. And Philip Rivers has been playing great. If there's anybody missing on the defensive side for the Ravens, this game...

it has the potential to be higher scoring. I'm with you, Andy, that it's probably going to be the under, but the world does exist where this game has more points on the board than you're expecting. I would still be, because of what I see Big Ben's ceiling being now, which is not very high. I mean, Big Ben traditionally, his entire career has been a not, you know, huge ceiling type of player, except for kind of the heyday. Every once in a while. Every once in a while. And then the Antonio Brown year where he had 5,000 passing yards, I would be with you. I'd be playing Lamar Jackson for the ceiling.

Because, you know, he can win you a week. He won so many fantasy players weeks last year. Ingram's not practicing. Dobbins is a cautious start. Oh, Dobbins is in. But both Dobbins and Gus Edwards are starts for me. Yeah. It's just if the Colts do what they've done, which is 17 fantasy points, and you break it up between the two of them, it is not great. Pittsburgh, same story. The Ravens can run.

I agree with you. Mark Ingram has been really, really bad, and Mark Ingram has been hampering this run game. These two players, Dobbins and the Gus Bus, they're getting it done. They did lose Ronnie Stanley, which will hurt their offensive line. Granted, they looked good without him for the second half of that game. I would start J.K. Dobbins. Gus Edwards is a, you can, but I don't want to. Who wins the game? Do you guys have a prediction in this one? I've got Baltimore.

Yeah, I'll take Baltimore. I think the Colts hold on at home. Interesting. They've been playing really good. My final quick note here is good. Yeah, playing well. My quick note here for the Colts. Pay attention to the wide receiver court. T.Y. Hilton is heard. T.Y. Hilton has been retired ceremoniously on this show for fantasy purposes. Michael Pittman, their second round rookie pick, returned. He didn't see much action this past week. But pay attention to him.

The schedule for the Colts wide receivers moving through the rest of the season is very, very advantageous. So pay attention. I know it's crazy to even say Zach Pascal, but if you're picking one, that's who I pick. I'm saying keep your eye on one of those guys. You might want to stash one for the upcoming schedule. All right. Panthers Chiefs, Panthers at 3 and 5 heading to Arrowhead, taking on the Chiefs who are 7 and 1.

Chiefs are 10.5 point favorites. It's a 52.5 point over under. Yeah, I mean, I would probably pick the chiefs here. All right. But, you know, Mahomes, in your lineup, running back sadness in Kansas City for a lot of people trying to, you know, have confidence. Are you flexing? Are you starting Clyde as a top 24 guy this week? I'm still starting Clyde Edwards as a top 24 guy. It's the Carolina Panthers.

ravaged by fantasy running backs. Levi-on-Bel is worth a flex. We still haven't seen an actual what the real-time share will be in a regular game. A 10-and-a-half-point spread says this game might not be. There are no regular games for the Chiefs. We've had a few this year. We've had a few of them, but I'm playing Clyde Edwards-A-Layer. He still ran 24 routes last week compared to Bell's 11.

I know that the carries were split, but I'll go one more time. I'll take one more punch to the face with Edwards. Yeah, I mean, I think I think Edwards, you could start him as a top 24 guy. I don't think his ceiling is very high, but he should be good. Carolina is a good matchup. Now, Carolina's been, when they've been beat on the ground by running backs, it's been in the end zone, touchdowns.

And I think that's more Lev Bell than Clyde Edwards Aller. We don't have enough evidence other than to say Clyde Edwards Aller has not been able to get it down on the goal line very well so far in his rookie year. And we historically, when Lev Bell gets around the end zone, you know, he's got a nose. So I think that both of them you can start as kind of that running back 24, 25, 2, 3. You can play Tyreek Hill each and every week. He's consistently...

been involved and then Travis Kelsey obviously is in your lineup. Beyond that, we talked about Hardman earlier. You know, trusting him, you can't. Can you take a flyer on him any week? There's no difference between Hardman and taking a flyer on somebody like Hollywood. In fact, you know, very similar in terms of, you know, make a big play. You know, you've got speed. You've got big playability. Hardman was very involved last week. You can take the shot. Chris McCaffrey should return in this game. Do you expect him to be eased in? Like are there...

reasons to believe that McCaffrey is not a top 12 type of player in his first week back due to just trying not to overload him. I think that would just be guesswork. That would be saying I'm guessing that they're going to ease him in. Have you listened to our show? But the fact that they have taken their time with this injury, the timeline, this is on the longer end of the timeline, I think they've waited until he's ready.

They're not in a position where they're wanting to get him back early and re-enter him. So I expect him to come in and probably have 75% of the work, which is enough when you're Christian McCaffrey to have a great game. Yeah, there's the concerns of maybe he's worked in slower. You're playing Christian McCaffrey. But then there's also the Mike Davis has been very, very good. The coaching staff has thrown their endorsement behind Mike Davis as he earned.

Davis is still going to get some touches in this. What does that turn into, though? Is that six opportunities for Davis? Is that 12 opportunities for Davis? That adds up and takes away from McCaffrey, but you're still playing CMC as a top 10 guy. DJ Moore, Robbie Anderson. Are you playing both in this matchup? Are you playing? Yeah, I'll play both. Okay, we have them both on the back of the wide receiver two category, although last week was,

It wasn't nice for DJ Moore. Correct. Two very late catches in that game after being kind of goose. Yeah, but how many yards? Oh. What's his catch rate this year? What? You didn't know that? No. You didn't know that? DJ Moore is a boom bust. How many total catches will he have this here? How many times are you going to hit that button? But he has been, he's been performing more than he hasn't.

I have faith in him, and I'm playing him. Okay. I mean, how many, do you have like three? It's 50-50. He's a 50-50 guy. Not 55, but he's 50-50. What is his current rank? Because he's like a, he's a top 15 wide receiver on the season right now, I believe. If he is, that would shock me. He's only been inside the top 15. I think he's right. DJ Moore is the wide receiver 15. 15 on the dot. Yeah. But I'm just saying, I'm looking at his game log right now.

And he's had four startable weeks, and he's had four complete bust. Like his bad weeks are bad. They're very bad. Yeah. I'm not saying you can't start him. I'm just trying to look at him and say, what are we getting? And he can always break a big play. The game script says they're going to have to throw the football a ton. And so there you go. Curtis Samuel's been sneaky lately. They've used them in the backfield. If Christian McCaffrey's back, that won't happen.

I don't think any of us are chasing the points on Curtis Samuel. He's worth a speculative ad, but I can't imagine playing him. Okay. Let's move forward with our starts of the week. We'll get to the rest of the matchups on tomorrow's podcast. Starts of the week. All right, volunteers to kick it off. I'll kick it off. Anybody else. Anybody else? With Big Herb.

Justin Herbert is my start of the week. We've been talking about, look, he's a rookie sensation. He's been on fire. And the shoe's going to drop. He's not going to be great forever. And I'm saying the shoe's going to drop next week against Miami. But not this week. This is my second favorite game of the week where I want a lot of pieces in. They are favored with a 51.5 point over under. Over the last five weeks, this is this is.

Pretty fascinating stuff. Over the last five weeks, the team that has given up the most fantasy points per game to the quarterback position is the Chargers. The second most to the quarterback position is the Raiders. And that includes being the second most, despite last week's Weather Bowl where Baker did nothing, adding that in. These are the two worst teams over the last, you know, over a month of football at, you know, fancy points to quarterback. So I love. That is fascinating.

I know. It just, it projects to be a real high-flying affair. And over that same five-week span, of course, Herbert is the quarterback two. He's only 0.9 points per game behind Kyler Murray. Justin Herbert, someone that you, if you've been having fun starting him, keep doing it. Also, just throwing it out there before Mike brings you his quarterback start of the week. Unlike last week, we don't have, at least from what I can tell, any games that are, as Jason would say, weathery concerns. You have.

Little bit of wind maybe in the Saints Buccaneers game, but it's looking. Oh, the weather is great. A lot nicer, yeah. I'm just going to jump on Jason's shoulders here. I'm taking the quarterback on the other side of the ball. Derek Carr. Jason laid some things out, but I want to send in the car. Send in the car. I will send him in. And I just wanted to highlight before Weatherigate of last week. He was averaging 23 fantasy points per week. And over the past five weeks, the Chargers have been giving up.

Nearly 26 points of the quarterback. As Jason said, it's a great matchup. I want pieces. I feel really robbed of my car support because last week I was all in on car before the weather started breaking. And I was like, man, I wanted to see that happen. And it looks like it's going to be another week until it does. And I'm in with you guys. All right. Josh Allen's my quarterback start of the week against Seattle. He has four consecutive weeks outside the top 15 at the quarterback position, which.

You know, that gives you wobbly knees as a fantasy manager of Josh Allen. But this is a Seattle defense that's given up a top 10 performance in all but one week of the season. I think he gets back on track in this high-scoring barn burner. I agree. This should be the start of the century. Josh Allen, we're talking to you. Yeah, come on, Josh.