Adams Trade Talks, Burning Questions + TNF Preview - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/2

to not have those options. Yeah. And then you would go for the upside of Richardson running the football, getting into the end zone. Do they even do? I mean, I'd be shocked if they had the same design run game plan for Anthony Richardson a week off of no practice in the injury. I don't know. They told him to run immediately after an injury. And relying on him as a passer is very difficult. The first three weeks, Michael Pittman averaged 29 yards a game. Nice. But again, week two and week three, tough matchups. Yeah. No, I mean, no thanks. No thanks for me. Yeah. Stay tuned because Sunday live, I'm sure you'll get to talk about those guys. Christian Watson, a mild high ankle sprain, which is the second, quote, mild high ankle sprain that we've heard of. Actually, the third. This is the, was Joe Mixing a high ankle? Yeah. So Mixing, Taylor.

Watson. We're now putting the word mild in front of it to try to calm the fears. Stop it. Mixing just missed the last two games. And he's day to day this week. It might miss another. I'm happy it's mild. I mean, I've brought this up a handful of times. The data usually says on high ankles, you miss zero games. You miss three. So mixing this week would make sense. But maybe because it's mild. Maybe because it's mild we go to two. We got a new designation. This is Christian Watson and he's not playing this week, which means zero or three. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

He's doubtful, Andy. Yeah, I mean, he's unlikely. When the news report is you're unlikely to land on injured reserve, you're missing time, which is why Don Tavian Wix is worth at least 42, 43 FAB. Yeah. I need him so much. Yeah, I did. Not enough. I spent 40. Got to get your guy, man. I thought I did. That's why I asked you how much fab you had. All right, Khalil Shakir will not practice on Wednesday dealing with an ankle. They play Houston. The Cowboys will be without Brandon Cooks. We got word this morning that he is dealing with an infection in his right knee following a procedure he had earlier this year against the Giants. So you want a dart throw. Jalen Tolbert is a dart throw there. He's looked good to me. I've watched his film. He's looked like he's made some steps as a pass catcher and they can't run. And they're not going to run this week against Pittsburgh.

Ferguson. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. Jake Ferguson is a must play. So if you were in a league with Kelsey, would you trade Kelsey for Ferguson right now? No. Would you keep Kelsey with where you know this team is headed? No, with the rice injury. Yeah, I would keep Kelsey. I think he's about to, he's about to moonshot. Yeah, I would agree with that. So Tolbert or Lazard, like hypothetically speaking. You're just asking for a buddy. Just you like, no, you know, people out there might be like, Scraping the bottom of the barrel. Jets play who? Gosh, who? I'll look it up. Okay. Garrett Wilson. Minnesota, right? Yeah, it's not. It's not Lazard. All right. All right. Tyler Huntley. Congratulations, Waddle and A. Chan and Tyreek fans. Tyler Huntley is getting another start against the Patriots this week. What else are they going to do? You know what they should have done? This is just, I'm just throwing this out there. If they had had any idea.

whatsoever. Just that Tua was prone to concussions. I'm just saying like if you knew your quarterback, like obviously they had no idea with TWA. They couldn't have seen a fifth concussion coming. No chance. But if they had, if they had the amazing foresight to know that maybe you, maybe you, I don't know, maybe a little Joe Flacco's on this roster, James Winston's on the roster, or Taylor Heineke's on the roster, or Andy Dalton's on the roster, or like anybody. who was on the roster, and they'd have them on there for more than two weeks like Tyler Huntley. This is a gross mismanagement at the general manager level of this Dolphins team because it undermines everything they want to do to have incompetence of quarterback when you have elite talent wide receiver. That's the mistake. The mistake, the general manager made the mistake. Yeah, which that's a, hey, shout out to the Colts. They're franchise quarterback. They're literally in it right now. Their franchise quarterback.

was coming off of a season-ending shoulder injury of his throwing arm. And they went, no, let's get a player who we feel confident that if we put him out there, we have a really good chance to win. The Cleveland Browns, their quarterback, was coming off his shoulder injury. James Winston's the backup at Cleveland. And last year, the backup was Joe Flacco. Because backup quarterbacks play. What is the number we always have? 40 plus. 40 plus quarterbacks get a start every year. No, 40. It's 40 plus quarterbacks end up as a... as a top 12 fantasy option at least one time. And about 60 of them, sorry. Yeah, it's crazy. And I would agree it's gross negligence. And I wanted to take a look because Mike McDaniel, when things are right and he's got two and he's got Tyreek and he's got Waddle, I mean, the offense is great. Tua literally led the league in passing yardage last year. But you've got, you know, pro bowler, Tyler Huntley coming here. And he went to the pro bowl for a reason. He was okay once before the different team. So I'm sitting there thinking like,

And like five dudes dropped out. Yeah, well, right, right. That was really the- How can you even blame him? He's barely been there. But I went back to when he was starting, and he did win three games, lost two as a starter, and his wins were 17 points scored, 16 points scored, and 10 points. Yardage, 187, 88, 138, 115, 130. Yeah, and he's never thrown for 200. It's in the Pro Bowl year, I believe. This is where, you know, I know it's scary and it'll feel stupid when some big play happens, but I don't mind benching Tyree Kill right now. I'm still playing Hill because I just, I can't do it. I get it. I can't do it. I can't put, I mean, I would love to play Tyree Kill right now. Let me give you names. Let me give you names. Darnell Mooney on Thursday or Tyree Kill. Mooney.

I mean, Mooney catches three or four balls of balls a game. Tyreek Hill can do that. Yeah, but Tyreek hills balls that he catches are going to be six yards. About six yards behind the line of statured. No, I'd still go. I would go. I would go Hill because of the bad matchup. I mean, that's just, that's really tough. So, I mean, what about Devon A. Chan? What are you doing with Devon A Chan with the news of Tyler Huntley? A Chan 10 carries, 15 yards, no passing work, which is supposed to be the equalizer for the inefficiency on the ground. Do you trust Mike McDaniel?

in what he said, which is we've got to just, we're going to rethink everything. Yeah, I mean, that has to be what they're doing. At least you're saying that. They can't go out there and, you know, score, barely score 12 points and not rethink things. Obviously, Andy, you brought up, he said afterwards, like, that wasn't how practice went. They thought they were okay. You've got a shot that McDaniel can figure some stuff out here going into New England. I think New England is a top half defense, but they're not as good as Tennessee was last. I can tell you I have A-chan in our listener league. It's a super flex, and I had stashed Trey Sermon. I just, I had picked him up because I had an empty spot, so I didn't even have to fight for him on the waiver wire. Trey Sermon is in my lineup right now over Devon A-chan.

Here we are. Welcome to fantasy football. This is why you don't win your league at the draft. We say that. You set the foundation. This is when you win your league. The decisions you're making between now and through the byweeks. I mean, it's not just injuries. It's like we're entering biweek territory. It starts decisions from this point on. So a couple more updates. I mean, we've got a lot of news to talk about. I'm glad it fell on a Wednesday. Brian Dable said Malik Neighbors is in the early stages of the concussion protocol too soon to forecast his status. That's not great on a Wednesday. He won't be on the field and neither will Devin Singletary. Wait, what? That's news. Wait, what? Beud-do-bo-do-bo-do-boo. Devin Singletary will be, he's missing practice today, which, you know, one player I think I've been impressed with, at least in a Bucky Irving style. Yes. It's Tyrone Tracy. Yeah.

who is being written down by my cohorts here because they want to make some moves. You better spend that fab, bro. So Tyrone Tracy. Let me know what you're spending. I'll spend $1 less, okay? So something to pay attention to for New York. You know, Singletary, I don't have any other news. I don't know if the deusers can get more context to just not practicing for us. Feel free to break in, Al, if you get anything. It does look like when I go to groin index.com. that that's where. That's where we track groin injuries. That's where we track groin injuries. Devon Singletary has a groin injuries. Is that what it's confirming? Now, what is his reaction to it on there? I believe it was, ah! Okay. If, I mean, that would explain a lot of things about last week against the Cowboys. He was very banged up in that game. He left kind of injured. He also, I mean, they haven't played.

since last Thursday. So him not being out there. Yeah. That's a problem, right? Yeah, it is. That's concerning. All right. Gerard Mayo on whether he would consider starting Antonio Gibson over Romandre Stevenson, who has fumbled four times in four games. Not Antonio. Just to be clear that we're talking about remandre. Yes, Antonio would be in the future tense. He said that's definitely under consideration. We can't preach ball security, his job security and still have him out there the majority of the time. Last week, we discovered on the show. or talked about fumble, fumble, fumble. Like, remandre had three games, three fumbles. He was like, channeling his inner Chris Carson. And then all of a sudden, game four comes. And it's not in the late part of the game. It's right the beginning. Right off the bat. He's like, here you go, other team. So four games, four fumbles for remandre. And it sounds like Gerard Mayo is basically saying, look, this is what we teach. We say, ball security is job security. So we got to live by what we say. Now, whether that's a, you know, a disciplinary cursory.

first drive for you know for gibson or not you know we saw rich we saw remandre come back out on the field last week he was great for the first two weeks of the of the year efficiency wise he was not great the past two he did catch four passes and gibson has been incredibly efficient as well so i think that that i'm not i think remandre is i think this is safe this is just a this is a warning shot of like remandre You have four fumbles on the season. And, like, for some context of that, Antonio Gibson has also had a fumbling problem, but it was like this huge deal. His sophomore year, he's out of control with the fumbles. He had six. In the full season. In the full season. Remandre's already at four. Remandre's pacing for 17. I haven't looked it up, but my math says he's on the way for 17 fumbles. And here's the real headline to me. Like, like, um,

Antonio Gibson is worth having on a roster because running backs are hard to come by and you never know. But the other thing is whether Remandre is in the doghouse or how long he spins there or whatever, he still has to play football and not fumble. That's the risk. And I remember this with Chris Carson. It was like, oh, cool. Pete Carroll has a lot of trust in you. You're back out there. But you know what I did? I watched every game with the fear in my belly that the next play and the next play and the next play, there'd be a fumble and you're gone.

So that is now a risk in the equation. Now, I do have an update on the Devante Adams news, Diana Rossini, good follow on Twitter, confirming that the Steelers are interested in trading for Devante Adams. That one is the most like smoke, fire of all the situations because the Steelers already were here. They were willing to pay $30 million a year to Brandon Ayyuk. So they said with their pocketbooks, we need another guy and we need a big name. So the prescription here for fantasy players, guys, we just talked about George Pickens a couple weeks ago as a trade for candidate. You got to make your move now, right? Like, if I have George Pickens, I'm trying to move him. Really? Yes, because I, because when you trade a player, you're trying to just get equal value back and lose a risk factor. And to me, if I get what I should get back from George Pickens and that risk factor is gone from my team, like if he.

They don't throw the ball enough. Like Pickens as a wide receiver 2 in Pittsburgh would be a big problem to me. I'm just saying of the idea of getting back what you should get back from Pickens. Like Pickens has been very good this year. He's been really good on the NFL field. Fantasy-wise, it was this past week. He was seven for 113.13. But before that, wide receiver 26, 63, 45. Like, if I hit the trade market or if you hit the trade market coming to me with Pickens, I'd be like, I'm not giving you very much. Yeah, but you could go get Terry McLaren. You can go get Terry McLaren for George Pickens. I don't think you can. Maybe before last week. That would be tough. I mean, before last week, I was saying trade for George Pickens. I hope you did because it wouldn't have cost you much and he had a good game. I also think he is incredible the rest of season if Devante Adams doesn't come. So that's the fear as if you're not getting a lot for Pickens.

And then Devante Adams goes to the Jets. Well, now you're like... It gives me, it just makes me scared. I get it. I get it. There is definitely risk there. You see teams that go after players, you know, that when they're rumored and the, you know, whether it's rumored in the draft, rumored in free agency, and then they trade for someone. I mean, that was what we saw with the Texans, a bunch of rumors about wide receivers. And then they go trade for Stefan Diggs. So... Yeah, I mean, obviously this is a team in Pittsburgh that wants to add someone. You just can't do it after. So you have to make your own call whether the upside of Pickens' rest of season with potential outcomes is worth going and try to swap him for somebody else that, look, not everybody is going to be following this news in a, you know, this could be three weeks away. This could be two or three weeks away. I would go, the cursory move I would make right now is even if I'm good at quarterback.

Justin Fields on Sleeper is available in over half of leagues. Yeah, and that would be such an upgrade. It would be a mobile running quarterback. They're still not going to just air it out all the time, but last week was a negative game script. And Justin Fields had over 300 passing yards. Not every week is going to go as good as when they played Atlanta, Denver, and the Chargers. Yep. Like game scripts will be more competitive for the Steelers moving forward. I think Justin Fields should be rostered regardless. And now if you have a slight hope of getting a superstar on this team, if you look at what we think of the Pittsburgh defense and then you saw what happened last week in Indianapolis, it starts to make you say, oh, well, they got Kirk Cousins first game off in Achilles in week one. They got Bow Nix in week two. And they got an injured Justin Herbert in week three.

And then they got Joe Flacko, and they gave up some points. They lost the ball game. So, yeah, maybe we don't. And you guys, I know talked about it on the special Ready to Roll segment on Monday, looking at the defenses. But this is why you don't react to just one week or two weeks. You know, they're great against the run right now statistically. But the passing games, you might have more of these shootouts. Yeah, Fields upside is enormous when you have a mobile rushing quarterback with two good wide receivers. The only fear I have there is we'll have to see how the work day goes for Russell Wilson, who is sure, you know, going to get back to work now. Gosh, Russell Wilson. What if he's the pickup? Nobody needs, nobody really needs Russell Wilson in their life. Yeah, just let he's cash and checks from the Broncos, man. Let Fields do it. Just retire.

All right, that was today's news and notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com slash insurance. We got some Thursday night football. Thursday night breakdown. Well, this should be a fun one. Tampa Bay, three and one, taking on the Atlanta Falcons, two and two in Atlanta, where Draft Kings has their line, Atlanta minus one and a half. So tight ball game over under a 43 and a half. I'm hoping for some good Thursday night football football on the field. Last week we didn't get that. Oh my gosh. We got. Don't bring that up. A really difficult to watch football game. But this is a divisional game here. We're sending the Borgogan there. We're getting to have boots on the ground. Kyle will be at the game. And based on recent reports this morning, he should be able to watch Bijon Robinson play football because it looks like he said he is fine.

Yeah, he says he's got little nicks and bruises, but he's ready to go for tomorrow. So that's great news when you see him pop up on the limited participant in practice. You're just, you worry a little bit. So winner of the game through five weeks will take control of the NFC South Division. Both the road teams won in this matchup last year. One was, this is not the one I'm rooting for for Thursday night. It was 1613. But the one in Atlanta last year was 29, 25. And that I... That I'm all about. Yeah, it's temperature controlled. You know, you got a dome in Atlanta, so I presume it will be another 29 to 25 game. That's how math works. I will say the way that Laser Mayfield has been playing. Uh-huh. I think. Okay, we need a laser sound effect immediately. Oh. Oh, yeah. I want, bo, pew, pew. Yeah, we can work on that. Give you something for Laser Mayfield, because that name just rolls off the tongue. I heard you guys break it out on Monday. Was that a Monday Punday? It was. Whoever.

That was courtesy of the Food Clan, but Laser Mayfield is... I think that could be our first ever nickname that came from Monday Punday. I don't know if we've ever had Monday Punday be the Genesis. I don't know. That's a Kyle question. That is a real question. But the Atlanta Falcons, you adjust for schedule this season. They're giving up roughly 29 and a half points to wide receivers for fantasy. So I think this is a good matchup for Mike Evans, Chris Godwin. Not that you wouldn't have been playing them already with how they've been playing. But that also says that I think Baker is in consideration. I'd much rather start Baker than Kirk in this same game. So, all right. So Baker, Kirk, I haven't heard very many folks consider Kirk cousins right now in the streaming conversation in general from week to week. Is that, you know, we're just waiting for a game where it all comes together? Yeah, we're waiting to see him really air it out, utilize his weapons, have.

The type of, you know, he hasn't thrown for 300 yards yet. His yardage has been not Kirk Cousinsish, and they're still winning some of these games. I mean, he's thrown for 155, 241, 230, and 238 yards. That's just not getting it done for a mobile quarterback. And his, for a non-mobile quarterback. Yes. And his only top 10 performance of the year was week two against Philadelphia, which took the miracle. come back at the very end of the game. The drive he shouldn't have had. Those numbers are why I'm still Tyree Kill over Darnell Mooney is because Mooney is going to be a happy if he scores player for you. He looks great. He is doing everything he needs to do. He's leading them in yardage. But at the same time, he's got one top 36 finish. And like if I'm, if I've got a chance of being outside the top 36, I'd rather have it with Tyree Kill. But I mean, I have Mooney on my team.

He's going to be a flex during a byweek situation for me. He's going to play for me. But that's the reason why I'm more scared of that situation. Yeah, I certainly wouldn't tell everyone you must bench Terry Kill for Darnel Mooney in any way, shape, or form. But you have games with 88 yards and 66 yards. You've got games with a touchdown for Mooney. So he is in flex consideration. And you just wonder what the, what can be done right now with Tyler Huntley at quarterback. No, I wouldn't want to have to watch that game. Drake London. Drake London, what is the, you know, we talked about Gary Wilson. We talked about Chris Oliva. Where are we with Drake London last week? He was six for 64 on 12 targets. It was his target high of the year, which is great. Previous two weeks he got into the end zone, finished inside the top 20. Like, Drake London feels kind of safe right now. I think he is. The targets are trending up, which is that's.

That's fantastic. That's what you want to chase. When the production's not there, is Drake getting the opportunities that he deserves as the number one wide receiver for this team? And it looks like we are getting there. You would expect as the season goes along, the rapport between Cousins. As Cousins gets healthier and the rapport strengthens, he becomes the clear number one alpha. I mean, the targets, you said they're going up, three targets, seven targets, nine targets, 12 targets. If these trends continue. Can I get the camera on me real quick? Can I listen. I want one more. I got to talk about the last guy here on Atlanta in the receiving game. I'm going to say it right. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, this is serious. Get out of the Kyle Pitts business. I told you I got out in week one. Get out. Get out. This guy is not good. All right. You can take it off. To be fair to you, he's really been bad. 80th by the ESPN Open score out of 80.

Yeah, that's incredibly bad. That's worst. And to be... Go watch the film. The film is so much... Bring a bag with you. The film is so much worse than saying that he is 80th out of 80th. There was a really important play, just a little slant off the line of scrimmage. He's in the slot to the left. I mean, this guy is giving a... F for effort out there. Putting the F in effort? I mean, he was just. Kyle F. Pitts, as you would say. He was jogging, barely turns around, gets his hands kind of out there. I could have, I could have defended that pass. And that defender did very easily. He is. He's on pace for 34 catches for 400 yards. That is not a rosterable player. Somebody sent me a message. They said, would you pick up Tyler Kraft and play him over Jay. Tucker Kraft? Yeah, Tucker Kraft to play him over Kyle Pitts. I said, yes.

Yeah, of course. You don't want to be in the Kyle Pitts business. Drop them. You'll go bankrupt. Sorry. Sorry. I just, he's still a name. He's still a tantalizing name, but he's not playing good football. And I feel bad because I don't, this is not the player that came out of college. It's not the player that put up 1,000 yards. No, no, no, no. You need to separate in order to not just a broken play here or there. Any tight-in can get a broken play here or there. Elijah Higgins for the Cardinals caught a 30-something yard touchdown from Kyler Murray. He's not the future. Yeah, and then as far as the running game goes, you know, Vita Vez should be back. The Buccaneers are very, very different with and without Vita Vaya. So you've got not enough games where when you had him gone and they gashed him on the ground, it looks like you can run on the bucks pretty easily. I don't think that's true, which obviously is not great news.

for Bijon, but he gets it done enough in the passing game. What do you guys think on the Bucky Irving, Rashad White's split? Well, look, I think Rashad White's involvement in the passing game is important. And I think Buck Ehring played really well last week. I think both of them played well last week. It was a good game for Laser Mayfield. Oh, okay. Okay. The volume was a little high. No, that was tremendous. That's perfect. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's good stuff. Tell me you don't want to start Baker if you get to hear that. Al, good work over there. Thank you, sir. That's a short notice laser order that we put in and you delivered. We got you back here. Now, did you adjust the volume at all? No, keep now. Keep. Yeah, turn it up. See, that unlike the old hype chain, nobody can be worried while they're driving.

that somebody's really shooting lasers out that an imperial star destroyer is on your tail quickly looking at my rear view here the volume's fine yeah the volume's fine because there's no real danger that's a that's a hype sound is that the emperor yes oh man um that's good that's good stuff all right what what's your take on those two guys because i feel like you know week to week we're we're scared about the kind of committee backfield i think if like If you're willing to play Rashad White, you should be willing to play Bucky Irving. That's kind of how I feel about it. They're both, unfortunately, the true high value touches are going to be split where, like, White's getting the receiving work. Did they, let's, I'm trying to check the, the red zone usage here. So, uh, Rashad White had no carries inside the five. Did Bucky have any last week? He had three?

Oh man, it's all, this is all Caddy Wampus over here. White ran for 4.9 yards per carry, which was nice to see, only two catches. I think your statement is right. I'm going to go with that. If you're willing to play White, you're willing to play Irving, and I think that's a good place to go. You're definitely willing to play Evans, and you're definitely willing to play Godwin. Evans had some maintenance days dealing with a knee, calf, and being old. Yeah, and Jalen McMillan has been ruled out. Yeah, you want your DFS dart throw, man. I'm telling you. What, Palm. No, not Palmer, no, because he's out of concussion. Blast from the past, Sterling Shepard. Wasn't he Thursday night football? No, I think he put up numbers last week. What? Yeah, he was activated from the practice squad again. Okay, that's what it was. Three for 51 last week for Sterling Shepard and Trey Palmer and Jalen McMillan are going to miss.