Week 5 Matchups + In-or-Out, Iron Lungs

Yes. No, seriously, give me, I have Patrick Mahomes, and I'm facing Russell Wilson, and Russell Wilson got off to a hot start. So I need that, I need vintage Mahomes, Jason. Right. What are my odds? Well, the nice thing is this game is not in a dome. And so what we know is that in Patrick Mahomes' career, he has, he has not thrown touchdowns inside of a dome, right?

Didn't he? You're on your own here, man. I'm not really following. Yeah, I heard that that was his first indoor game. Yeah. Last week was his first indoor game. And clearly he's just not the same Pat Mahomes indoors. Wow. Yeah, we could take that to the bank. I didn't hear. I thought you were going lizard king. I did. I did. We had heard some rumors that if Sammy Watkins is indeed the lizard king himself, then.

He's had some problems in night games when he's not exposed to the sun. I mean, he's because he's got to moderate the temperature. Let's get real about Sammy Watkins for a second, though. Let's get real. Okay. He's been terrible. He has been very bad for fantasy. Yeah. So what do you do with him? I think you're 100% play him. The question here written into our show doc as we prepare this thing is the saddest question ever.

in the way it's posed. Is this the week he doesn't disappoint you? Yes. Isn't that the story of the life of Sammy Watkins? The question we've asked since he was drafted. Is this the week he doesn't disappoint you? It's at home a 56 point over under with Pat Mahomes. You don't have a choice, right? You don't have a choice. He's in the last three games. Take away the monstrous week one. In the last three games, he is on pace for 144 targets through those three games.

I know that it hasn't happened, but also he had that touchdown punched out last week. I mean, nobody's complaining if last week instead of three for 54 was four for 62 and a touchdown, he has a fine week. And so I think the amount of targets that are coming his way, you have to start Sammy Rock. I'm off for the following the volume because he's been leading the team in targets. I'm all for that. It doesn't speak.

Like I don't want to give him credit for dropping a touchdown. But I'll give him credit for getting a lot of targets. He's running 70% of his routes right now to the slot. Damien Williams will be back. He's a must start if he's back, right? 100%. I've seen a lot of Damien Williams questions of can you start. He came back to practice as full participant. I expect him to be the starter. Now it does move Darrell Williams back to the bench, right? Yep. And then Patrick Mahomes obviously lined up to...

explode in this one, 11 point favorites. And I think Darrell goes back to the bench. Shady McCoy to me is still a play. The way it's, this is a different Andy Reed offense where he is using the two guys. Shady and Darrell were splitting work. Darrell was actually getting that passing work that that Damien will be seeing. But I think that they're both perfectly fine to start this week. I agree with you on that. I also know what this Colts defense wants to do, which is to funnel the

funnel the ball to the middle of the field, keep it in front of you. They don't want to give up big plays. Travis Kelsey, I think this is the breakout week for Travis Kelsey. It's lined up to be at a minimum. What do you want Patrick Malmes do? You want him to score on 10 plays or one play? I mean, more time off the clock means that you are in this game longer against an explosive offense. And the Colts are actually really good at preventing those big plays.

whether they can keep up on the offensive side. I don't know. Now, Sequin Barclay officially ruled out. We do have breaking news on that. Officially ruled out of the game. Not that we expected him in. Sanity prevails. You just don't know. So what do you do with, real quick? Don't want to leave him yet. But DeMarcus Robinson, McCall Hardman. Robinson, yeah. And then Hardman is just, he's that flyer if you think a 50-yard touchdown is coming, which it certainly could. But goose is you if he doesn't get it. Right.

Jason, any thoughts on Hartman? Yeah, I echo the same thoughts. If you want a home run play, he is that, but he's hot or cold. I mean, you're not going to end up with a six-for-60, you know, regular 10-point game. And DeMarcus was disappointing because he was four for 35 this past week, but once again, like Sammy Watkins, it was nine targets for Robinson. It was, it's that indoor.

The indoor narrative got to Patrick Mahomes. I didn't even know that. I had no idea what you were talking about because Patrick Mahomes, I just assumed, has played in a dome game before, but he hadn't. Yeah. He'll adjust. I think he'll really adjust. I think he'll be okay in his next dome start. Now, Mike, you have Jacoby Brousset as your start of the week. I think that is, I think that you do have a wider range of outcomes than maybe you, okay, so you do acknowledge that on the road at Arrowhead, but having to keep up.

You hope T.Y.Y. Hilton's out there to help out. He's been great when he's been active. But even head coach Frank Reich has come out and said, that biweek's just sitting right there. T.Y. Hilton's been fighting through re-injury. The biweek is sitting there next week. If he doesn't go, now I think he fights through and plays because that's traditionally what Hilton does, especially missing last week, got two weeks off. But if he doesn't go, that's still a possibility. Sure. And I'll say, speaking to Jacoby.

I mean, three of the four games, it has worked. The other quarterback against the Kansas City defense, or yes, against the Kansas City defense. The one who didn't pan out, it was Derek Carr. But, I mean, Gardner Minshu was able to put up points. Lamar Jackson and then recently Maddie Stafford. So it's, yes, it's a, it's a bit of a volatile play to go with Jacoby Brissette, but I think he's got it in him. And before we leave this game, I just want it known. Travis Kelsey.

is going, you want to talk about a get right game. Like the matchup here is so perfect for him to destroy worlds. I think he's going to have the biggest game of the year this week. Marlon McHiv's out, do you play Jordan Wilkins? I mean, right now the Chiefs are giving up 22.4 fantasy points per game to the running back position. I like Naeem Hines over Jordan Wilkins if Mac misses the game. Yes, but Wilkins would become a flex.

He would for you? Yeah. Because of the run-heavy attack and the need to slow that game down. That's how every team tries to start against the Chiefs is we're going to run the ball, keep it away from their offense. And it works for a while. So six carries for Wilkins. It works until the second quarter when Pat Mahomes goes nuclear. The Cleveland Browns take on the San Francisco 49ers in San Francisco on Monday night. The 49ers are three and a half point home favorites. Vegas giving them a tip of the cap with...

this great start that they've had. And I think that they have every chance of keeping it going in this one. Two weeks removed from their last game, players getting a little healthier. Now, I don't think Tevin Coleman plays in this game, but Matt Breda, Rahim Mostert are must-plays. Is Baker-Mayfield going to continue moving this offense forward? We saw them impressively win on the road last week, completing 67% of his passes last week.

Looked a lot better. This is a tough match. I believe in the 49ers defense. What we've seen the first three weeks of the season was they look like they're a legit, great defense. And when you have two weeks to prepare with a really good defense, I am not starting Baker. All right. Not starting Baker. You've got to start Nick Chubb, though. Yes, you have to. 20 for 165 and three last week. San Francisco.

He is only allowing 75 rushing yards per game right now, fifth best in the NFL. Yeah, a small sample, though. I'm adjusting my expectations and my hopes for Nick Chubb. Are you really? Yeah. Like, I don't think he's, it'll be a longer stretch to get him into the top five than to not, which Nick Chubb should be a locked and loaded type of guy in there. Interesting, interesting. Yeah, I mean, I've definitely been impressed, like you said, with the run defense. Nick Chubb just seems to.

be a machine right now. Yeah. A machine. All right. Odell Beckham. You have to start him. Jardis Landry. Would you start him if he's active? I feel like I'm chasing those points if I start Jarvis Landry. But obviously, you watch him last week. He was unbelievable. You know, and that was in their first win. So it worked. But I have a hard time chasing what happened last week when the first three weeks.

You know, he wasn't inside the top 45 wide receivers. He had fewer combined yards week one through three than he did in week four. And this isn't a great match. I would like to pivot off of Jarvis, which sounds crazy after what happened last week. But I don't expect, you know, Odell Beckham to be this silent observer on a weekly basis. So I'm going to stick with what I saw the first three weeks over what we saw last week.

Odell's in Jarvis is not. You guys buying to Ricky Seals Jones at all? Is the streaming tight in play this week? Yeah, a little bit. Really? Well, just look, I mean, Injoku had a role, a role that we were all excited for. It's three targets for Ricky Seals Jones. It was downfield. It was, I mean, it was very busted plays. I mean, three, like, if you had shown me, okay, Ricky Seals Jones got seven targets. I would say, okay, I'm maybe interested in, even though the match. Eric Ebronn or Ricky Seals Jones.

Ebron. Jason Whitten? Ricky Seals Jones. Probably Whitten for me. I'd probably go upside of... Jason's face says it's Whitten, so he's... Oh, his face says it's Ricky. Yeah, my face says it's Ricky. No. I mean, they just got Ricky Seals Jones involved there. Yeah, with limited potential James... Or, yeah, I must have said Jameson Crotter. Jarvis Landry banged up.

There's opportunity there. But Jarvis is not banged up. He's either playing or he's not. Yeah, he didn't he officially clear? So he's in. Antonio Calloway coming back from suspension? That's interesting. I think that helps the offense as a whole. I feel like Brooks should be forced to start Dante Peders every week because of what he's done to this show. I think he could be happy if he does that. Well, we haven't ranked wide receiver 66. So we'll see. I said could. Good, good.

George Kittle, are you excited about this matchup coming off the buy? The Browns have been pretty vulnerable to the tight end. Is this a get right game for Kittal? Are we going to see the Kittle in Kelsey in week five that we've been wanting all year long? Yes. This week starts what you drafted these two guys to be. All right. Like I said, Sequin officially out. Let's go ahead and move on. Ballers on a budget. Presented by Fandul.

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play is naeem hines this week yeah naeem hines i think will uh win the day in terms of snap count at the running back position he's as cheap as it gets at the running back spot on fanduel right now facing kansas city he's only $4,800 so i like naeem hines i'm going to go with auden tate i like this one the second golden tate uh look auden tate over the last two weeks has been on the field like week one

He was only on the field 35% of the time. It was some other bum out there trying to play the AJ Green Roll. And then they're like, wait, what about that giant man? Should we put him on the field? And now the last two weeks he's been on the field, 88% and 91% of the snaps. He has 16 targets in the last two weeks, and he's played pretty darn well against two good defenses.

Buffalo two weeks ago. He had 10 targets, six receptions, 88 yards, and was pretty good last week. Four for 50. Now you lose John Ross. And you have the Arizona Cardinals matchup where you've got two bad defenses, two offenses that want to play fast. There should be a lot of fantasy points scored in this game. And he is extremely cheap. You want to talk ballers on a budget for Fandual? I mean, he's $5,300. I like...

putting out, you know, Christian McCaffrey and the great running backs of the world that are really expensive, but I know what I'm going to get. You can't do that unless you've got some Audent Tates in your lineup. And the hopes and dreams for Tyler Eifert this weekend, that could just go to Audentate. Because he's a tight end size. Yes, and he will run some routes out of the slot where the tight end has really killed the Cardinals. My pick here.

It looks sometimes when you're on a budget, this is crazy. You got to clip the coupons and you're trying to find a player that, that, like, part of DFS and part of Fandle is you want a low ownership. The ownership, I project to be very low. Zero point one percent and the point one is going to be you. Listen, we kind of trashed him during the match of breakdown, but Kirk Cousins.