Week 7 Studs & Duds + Field of Screams, Ja’Marvelous Chase - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/25

four or five drives, they give him the ball, he gets six, seven, eight yards, and then they run another play that doesn't work, run another play that doesn't work a punt. It's like, what are you doing? This guy had like almost 100 yards at halftime and finished 18 for 107 and a touchdown. And he should have, he should have been 28 for.

175 and 2. But as a Cardinals fan, I'm happy that they did not do that. And they dropped the game. Yeah. But going forward, he's the dude. Yeah, he is. At least until Jeff Wilson gets into the mix. But even after that, I think he'll still be involved. Yeah, I mean, Jeff Wilson could come in and kind of... Third down. Yeah, exactly. Play that third down role. Maybe goal line, too, though. I mean, Elijah was...

I don't have the stats in front of me, but if it was that Elijah didn't play a single third down snap, I wouldn't be surprised because every single time that I saw third down, it was Jamichael Hasty out there. Yeah, it was. What if I told you Jonathan Taylor put up the identical line as Elijah Missile? 18 for 107 and 1. Both players, the same line, in the same game, in the rain. Jonathan Taylor, you don't need us to tell you that he's good, but what you do like is the team improving.

and the fact that they're going to be competitive in games lends itself to Jonathan Taylor being active in games. You know, if the Washington football team was competitive in games, Nintendo Gibson wouldn't be sitting with a 40% snapshot. 100%. I mean, Gibson isn't allowed to play in the fourth quarter because he isn't the passing downs guy and you are down so big. Do you want to know what else I love about Jonathan Taylor? I love...

the Tennessee Titans, the New York Jets, and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Those are his next three matchups. Oh, baby. Yeah, he's automatic right now. Leonard Fournett managed to give you another good game despite the blowout, 15 for 81 and 1. He has the fifth most running back targets on the year as well. He's a great fantasy option. Like, I would rather have him than Cordero Patterson, who's been obviously awesome. Would you rather have him than Antonio Gibson?

I think I might rather, yes, I would rather have him than Antonio Gibson. You've got a much higher powered offense, more security in the game. He's been a top 15 back the last month, four games in a row, and currently sits as the running back nine on the season. Leonard Fournette, old Lenny, which is so funny because he's not that old. No. Unless he's just, he seems old, but he's been great. 26 years old and.

crucial to the offense. And you definitely felt like the Ronald Jones snaps yesterday were like, we're up by a lot. Let's get him some work. Let's see if he can not fumble. And good news. He didn't. Yeah, Khalil Herbert. Oh, man. This is like burying the lead here. Yeah, he's the one shining star for you, Jay. I'm going to give Mike credit. I mean, Mike called out this name in the offseason, in the scouting season, and then.

You know, he doesn't land in a situation that looked very good. Tumbled to the sixth round, and it's, okay, when you fall to the sixth, you're just irrelevant. And that happens. We always like guys that they don't get drafted high and you just move on. But he got an opportunity and has shown that he's really, really, really good. Five targets, five catches, 18 for 100 against the team you don't run against. Yeah, I mean, the advice, the process is Damien Williams was back. You're not going to play the...

I don't think we knew whether he, whether Khalil Herbert was the starter or backup in that situation, but he's going to split work against the best run defense in the league. No, thank you. I wouldn't have started Khalil Herbert under any circumstance because you just didn't know if he was even going to get the ball. And when he did against a tough D, he got the ball. He looked good. 23 times and was unstoppable. So what happens when David Montgomery comes back? I.

You're going to have a player coming off of an injury that historically has ceded some amount of work to either Damien Williams or Tariq Cohen in the past. Who knew that the Chicago Bears would draft a great offensive weapon in the draft this year? Oh, no. I mean, we all knew they were going to get some great offensive rookie. The Bears fans right. And it's Khalil Herbert. The Bears fans are really edgy right now. I know. I'm sorry. He's just.

They're either defeated and sad in a puddle and need our encouragement or they're defensive and want me to believe that Justin Fields is still the greatest quarterback in the history of the world. Whoa. Okay. Those are the two bears fans that I've met. Or they just want to eat you alive. Right. Jay Gris. I've gotten that too. Three Bears fans. Yeah. What do you believe? I don't believe Justin Fields is going to be good.

I mean, I loved them coming out of college. I thought it was legit. And hopefully this is all a Matnaggy problem because the offense that they run is comically stupid. Can I be a Bears fan for a minute? Put your Bears hat on. I don't know. Yeah, that's fine. Turn it around. I can't tell. Turn my Cardinals hat around. I'll be a Bears fan and respond to you. Okay. And you tell me. We'll have a dialogue. Listen.

Beyond the fact that Matt Nagy is the worst play caller in the world, look, Mitch Trubisky struggled there, Nick Folles struggled there, and Andy Dalton struggled there, so Justin Fields is going to struggle. Maybe it's not the quarterback. Yeah, no, it very well might not be, because the throwing it to the flats over and over by design is bad. How many plays have you seen, Bears fan, whether it was the arms, the legs, the brain, that Justin Fields has made some special happen so far. Does this count the preseason?

No, no, no, no, because that would be a lot. Just in the regular season. That's the problem that a Bears fan would objectively or should objectively have is that you want to see flashes of, you know, sometimes superior talents. Wait, maybe I've got to put my regular hat back on. Yeah, it sounds like it. Superior talents generally usurp bad play calling to show you something three or four times in a game. And that's what I would like to see from him. You had, let me be clear, Bears fans out there.

You have an elite wide receiver in Ellen Robinson, an elite up-and-coming receiver in Darnell Mooney, and you had fifth and sixth string DBs for Tampa Bay's DBs were injured. And I'm, I still put a, I lay a lot at the feet of Mad Nagy. He is the worst. But you still want to see flashes from your quarterback. So a drive here or a drive there where it's like you just, okay, we see it. We see this guy. He looks afraid.

He looks outmatched, outclassed right now. And hopefully he is outmatched and outclassed because of no discernible system that can move the ball and be productive. And maybe that change will come after the season and he'll be good. I am rooting for Justin Fields. No doubt about it. But I'm not betting on him anymore. Did you see how dejected Alan Robinson was again? Oh, it looked like it. This dude looks like he's.

walking on the field. I think he could have stopped one of the ugly interceptions, which was ugly by Justin Fields, but he was just dead inside. I think he's got one goal, and that's make it through this season healthy. And move on. Yeah. I mean, move on. Derek Henry threw a touchdown pass to make up for not running for one. Miles Gaskin had a nice game with the touchdown 15 for 67. He's tough because they have Buffalo next week, but he, I would play him.

What are you laughing at? I just, it's a trap. I know. I know. I would play him because of the Malcolm Brown injury and the fact that, you know, he catches passes. I get it. Two out of three games. He's been awesome. But if you start him and he has a bad game, do you realize what he has done to his fantasy managers? That means you started him, got an awful game, benched him for a great game, started him got an awful game. There will be nicknames for him.

That won't be. Appropriate on this show. Wide receiver studs Cooper Cup. We talked all about it. He is by far the wide receiver one on the year. Keep being great. Jim Marvelous Chase himself, wide receiver two on the year. Keep being great. Mike Evans, the wide receiver seven on the year. Three touchdown passes in a half. Yeah, I mean, this is, you know, we've talked about it all year with the Tampa Bay wide receivers. These are guys who are going to have bad games, all of them. Mike Evans.

Last week was the wide receiver 71, only had two receptions for 27 yards, whatever. He's not bad. The offense isn't bad. You keep starting these great wide receivers on a great offense, and you're going to end up with these type of games from time to time. Let me put you in a situation here. Mike Evans has New Orleans on the road in the buy week. Would you trade him for this next guy, A.J. Brown, who was 8 for 133 and 1.

finally back, target share going up. The team is cruising right now with the return of A.J. Brown and the, you know, the return of Hamstring Jones. Yeah, heck yeah, I would. I would absolutely trade. You trade Evans for A.J. Brown. Yeah, because I think, you know, what I just said about Antonio Brown is going to be back and when, and Gronk will be back. And then you've got Godwin, you've got.

Evans, you're going to have more games with a disappearing act. You're going to have them for both players, but I think more with Mike Evans than you will from AJ Brown. And even though AJ Brown started the year slowly, he kind of did that last year. And then if you look at the end of the season when they got it going, and that seems to be happening right now, he was a top like three wide receivers. So yeah, I would definitely rather have AJ Brown.

Terry McClellan, Chris Godwin, Michael Pittman, Big Weeks. Michael Pittman was probably the most impressive of the three because he did it in a rainstorm. And we kind of begged the team to do what they did on that last throw. Yeah, make him the dude. And throw the ball deep like a normal alpha wide receiver. Right. And then he went up like a normal alpha wide receiver and embarrassed the backup who had just come in, grabbed it out away, and jumped into the end zone and won the game.

That was like when we play football in the backyard with my 10-year-old. Anytime that type of catch happens, he just screams, you mossed him. Oh, yeah. I mean, that's the verb. And then I say, have you ever seen Randy Moss before? And he said, no, that's just what you say. The analyst? Yeah, I've seen him. But Pittman was great. And the path is clear for him to stay consistent. Mike, you know, not here today, but Mike the fantasy pitman would approve this message.

in Tennessee, New York, Jacksonville, like you said. Debo. Debo is unstoppable unless he gets hurt. He's going to be great. I still am waiting for, you know, that 700th injury. But so far, he's been unbelievable. And his market share is unhealthy for their team. Like, it's bad. It's bad. Even Al Michaels was talking about it. He's like. They grew an interception because of it. Maybe it was Collinsworth. One of them were talking about how, like, you have got.

to get another wide receiver involved, you cannot just throw it to one guy over and over because what's going to happen is exactly what happened on Q. With the Xavier Rhodes pick. Yes. You forced the ball to him. Here's what I will say. I might trade Debo high right now. I love it because eventually you're going to have the switch. I think you might be this week. And, you know, we said the secret of the transition to.

maybe a not ready, Trey Lance was going to be losing ball games. And Jimmy Garoppolo is an elite play action passer. And they draw these plays up to fake the handoff and to hit Debo on these deep crossers or deep, you know, these dig routes. And what happens when the offense changes? The whole system is going to change. And if that happens, Debo, he's still going to be all right.

But he's going to be all right in the way that you get. He's not seven for a hundred and one. He's like four for 67 and one or something like that where the guarantee of less variance is going to be gone. Right now, if everything's status quo, Debo will do this every week. Yeah. Also, I don't know if this plays into it or not. But the trade deadline of November 2nd is swiftly approaching. And I do think that, I mean,

there's no question who the future starter is here. It's Trey Lance. They traded their entire future for him. That is their play. Oh, like they did for Brandon I.U.? Well, they traded actually their entire future versus a little bit of capital, but good point. I know. But if that's the case, then they want to get something for Garapolo. They don't want to be paying for a backup. My point is they've maybe got another week or two, but after November 2nd, there is no...

active benefit of upping the value of Garoppolo. So if you're down, if you're two and five, and the trade deadline is passed, you're making the switch to Lance. I think it could happen this week, and I don't know what that will mean for fantasy quite yet. So I don't know if Tray Lance is ready to be a quarterback, but you know what? It might not matter for fantasy. It doesn't matter for Jalen Hertz. Yeah, if you can run, you're going to be fine.