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

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Monday, October 25th, the fantasy footballers. Jason Moore is here. Oh, yes, I am. Jay Grizz is present. I am so sorry, Jay Gris. I'm Andy Holloway. Welcome into a Monday episode of the show. Mike Wright is on by this week, along with everybody else. Yeah, it was a good week to take off. He's not gone this week. He'll be back tomorrow, right? That's the word on the street. Yeah. Coming back tomorrow.

So he's probable. They don't have that anymore. He's still questionable. Oh, okay. You have to be questionable. They got rid of probable. A lot happened this weekend. Judge Giamati, Al Borland in the building as well. Heyo. What's up, Fookland? And lots to talk about. I mean, there. It was a crazy week. The wheels have fallen off for several teams and players. And we're in, you know.

Some people said it was like Brandon Ayuk's funeral last night. Yeah, that was, I think there are a handful of players who are going to get it today. Yeah. They're going to get it. No question. And a lot of drop questions. We'll have waivers on tomorrow's show. We'll go through studs and duds today. But we always begin in the most sophisticated of fashions as we react to the weekend. Oh, how delightful. Was that Mike Evans?

Good start, good start. We have Fields of Screams. Hmm, Sam Darnet. Same Darnet. Same old Darnold. Yay, Mian Harris. Oh, he was great. Yay, J. Brown as well. Patrick, my homeless. Yes, and, go ahead. My personal favorite, Patrick Mappartments. Oh, my goodness. So bad. Yack Ertz, longest touchdown of his career. 47-yarder.

Chuba scrubbered. Chuba hubarf. Oh, CJUs. Oh, my gosh. I like that. Where's Waller? Oh, and of course, Super Jamario. And we'll do a reprise here. Jamarvelous Chase. Yes, he is. Yes, he. Jamarvelous Forever.

Jamar Chase has Jamar Chase is the single greatest seven game stretch to begin a career in NFL history. That's right. And I think he beat our boy. Wasn't it? Didn't that belong to Anquan Bolden? It did. Oh, yeah, I believe Anquan Bolden's first game in the NFL was like 202. Yeah. It was unbelievable. But Jamar Chase is really unstoppable right now. So he'll be part of the, they'll be part of the studs.

I think he will. Yeah, he, and he looks so effortless. And those are those players, like when you watch it, it just never looks like he's giving it his all because he doesn't need to, but he is. Chill, chill dominance. Yes. Yeah, he's outstanding. The fantasy footballers.com. Head over there, rankings, tools, everything you need. And you can find us on Twitter at the FF ballers.

Let's talk news and then we'll get into those stats. News and notes from around the league presented my sleeper. I mean, this isn't, I mean, it might be news to the listeners, but I mean, I won again in League of Record. And I've become convinced that it's more important to Al Borland that I lose than he wins. Like he is, you were on tilt this weekend. I was. You are the one team that I'm afraid of. Yeah. And so you just won't want me to get any doubles.

You want me out of the playoffs? Accurate. Okay. Well, if it makes you feel any better, unless Alex Collins gets 30 tonight, I will lose yet again with my hodgepodge of backup running backs for my injured starters. It was a weird week. I mean, there were a lot of starts at decisions, had Sunday live, and there were plenty of questions I didn't want to try to answer. I mean, just disgusting options out. When Dante Pettis is part of a conversation for a week,

That tells you everything you need to know about your options. Yeah, but a win is a win. I mean, you called the Dante Pettis as a decent start, and it felt like it's redemption. It felt bad to do it, but I can't wait to see Brandon Ayuk's second team and how good he will be for them someday. See, we could talk about that. Yeah. We could talk about trading up for Brandon Iyuk and trading up for Dante Pettis and trading up for Trace. Yeah, yeah.

We could talk about that. We could talk about that, but I do not want Kyle Shanna-Hanagan's to get that publicity. So Darren Waller missed the game. Ankle injury, late in the week, wasn't feeling good. Raiders on by, clearly didn't need them. And it was an afternoon game, which made it, if you weren't prepared, that was one of the more difficult ones because we hadn't seen a ton of news about that early on in the week kind of happened.

felt more out of the blue. Yeah, you would have had to just throw Foster Moreau in there or pivot to a matchup tonight, Gerald Everett. I mean, if you threw Foster Monroe in there, you were fine. Yeah. Miles Sanders was ruled out ankle injury in the first half. Matthew Betts weighing in, our injury expert, similar to the mechanism of Saquan Barkley's ankle injury a few weeks ago, unlikely to be a lengthy recovery, but could certainly miss week eight against Detroit.

which is a juicy running back matchup, which means that Bart Scott, Kenneth Gainwell, there'll be some combination of those players. Bart Scott. I'm pretty sure you threw out a Bart Scott, who was in his own linebacker. He was a great football player. He may factor in the street. But Boston Scott, I think, would be the one playing against the Lions. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, fair point. I got part of it, right. Josh Jacobs exited with a chest injury.

Yeah, Josh Jacobs was on his way to having a great game. Already had a touchdown. So the nice thing is, if you did play him, you didn't have a bad week, but unfortunately it could have been much better. In fact, you saw that with Kenyon Drake having a pretty good game in his stead. Yeah, and Kenyon Drake, you might have reacted and said, oh, it's a great waiver pickup, but they're on pie and they're not expecting Jacobs to miss time. So if you pay up for him, you don't get to play him.

Oh, I'm not paying up for Kenya Drake. I would expect that Kenyon Drake goes into the Kenyon Drake role two weeks from now, which is a borderline rostered role. You're talking about behind Jacobs? Behind Jacobs, yeah. He's been, yeah, he's been relevant for a couple weeks. Zach Wilson suffered a knee injury in the second quarter. He's going to miss two to four weeks. Yeah, the backup came in and threw an immediate touchdown. Is that you forgetting his first name? His.

Yeah, it's white is his last thing. Yeah, and let's just leave it there. There you go. Johnny Smith exited with a shoulder injury. AC joint sprain is what Matthew Betts believes. Could miss a couple weeks. You had Hunter Henry score for the fourth consecutive week. Yeah, I mean, if he's almost twice. If he, obviously he's been utilized and he's been scoring and he's obviously had a great career for fantasy. If he's alone, I think he's probably one of the best pickups.

Malcolm Brown quad injury. Availability for Week 8 in doubt. This would mean you'd have added confidence in Miles Gaskin. Who got into pay dirt again this week because people benched him. Washington football team, Diami Brown knee injury. Tyrod Taylor will be practicing. Still unsure if he's back, it will be another chance to, you know, you could look at Brandon Cooks.

Tyrod represent, you know, they were playing a lot better with him at quarterback. Yeah, I don't know about a lot better. They were playing better. They won a game with him at quarterback. That's true. But I think that some of that is the Jacksonville Jaguars fault. I wonder if Davis Mills, because Davis Mills almost beat the Patriots. Yeah. So what's more impressive, barely losing to the Patriots or beating the Jaguars? Probably barely losing to the Patriots. What was Cook's line this week? He was.

Ooh. Yeah, I don't think it was... Five for 21. Five for 21. That seems hard to do if you're Brandon Cooks. Yeah, I mean, catching five passes, did he, like, lose 20 yards on a pass? Nico Collins led the team in receiving with two for 28. Okay. Come on, Tyrod. So, yeah, maybe we want him back. That was today's news and notes brought to you by our friends at Sleeper, the leader in Breaking News Alerts. Grab the app. Get the Breaking Alerts channel. Let's talk studs.

This week's fantasy stud muffins. So you're talking about Mike White, who outscored Patrick Mahomes. Yes, yes, I am talking about Mike White, clearly the better option this week than Patrick Mahomes. But we can't talk about Pat yet because we're talking studs. Yeah. Matthew Stafford, 28 for 41, 334 and 3. Jason's start of the week, Houston next week. Stafford is a locked and loaded starter in fantasy football. Yeah, and as is his.

Best friend Kupa Kappa Kappa touchdowns again. Four times this year. Four times he has had two touchdowns. And what is the, was it receptions? There's a combo stat there. But yes, four times he's had double touchdowns. He's at nine so far on the season. I watched every one of his touchdowns on the coach's film this morning. And I mean, this is not.

People have known Devante Adams is good for a long time. Is that fair? Very fair, yes. And have they been able to stop him ever? No. Even when there's no other pass catching options. No, you know it's going to be him. Yeah. So my point is Cooper Cups is just not going away. He is very good at beating a defense. And I think it's the combination of.

You see it with certain quarterbacks and wide receivers. They've got a really good mind sink. You know, you're just, you know what they're going to do. And so that's really helpful. Combined with Sean McVeigh, you know, it's when you watch, it's not like Jamar Chase, who's so much bigger, stronger, faster that he guys can't tackle him, breaks away, and you can't catch up to him. It's just, he's always open.

And it always seems like a blown coverage. But when it happens this many times, it's designed. It's like they are figuring out how to confuse the defense and make them blow the coverage. We were talking you and I when we watched the games this weekend about, you know, the physical tools of Mark Andrews compared to Travis Kelsey and that there's not really a difference, right? But one of the things that makes Kelsey elite is Rita's own defense.

He turns this way instead of that way. It's not quantifiable in the statistics. He's not quantifiable in the analytics. It's just something a player does that makes them better than everybody else. Football IQ. Cooper Cup has always been able to do that. But now you have a quarterback that combines with that skill. And so he finds Cooper Cup when he finds the open zone coverage 80% of the time where maybe Jared Goff was finding him 40% of the time before.

And so it's not going anywhere. I don't even think the touchdowns are going anywhere. I would expect two more, at least two more games where he doubles up. Oh, yes. And I know you care because you may or may not have a prop bet on him leading the league in touchdowns. I may or may not have that happen. But let's just say everyone root for Cooper Cup to get touchdowns. Yeah. What, do I get a cut? If I root for him? Yes, you do. Okay. Joe Burrow, 416 yards, three touchdowns. Joe Burrow.