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Let's get into some buy or sell. Buy or sell presented by pristine auction. Now, Jay, before we get into this week's buy or sell, I thought we should go over what happened last week. I'll bet you do want to go over last week. So last week we had the AFC North edition. We had James Connor, 75 total yards, buy or sell. Jason, I bought. As did I. And we were correct. Juju.

75 receiving yards, we both sold. That is correct. Oh, we got it right. Joe Mixin tops 100 total yards for the second straight week. You and I sold that one, Andy bought it, our score. Mighty nice. Odell Beckham will beat his combined receiving stats. This is so fart-smelly. I'm loving it. Loving every minute of it. OBJ will beat his combined receiving stats from week four and five.

He ended up with 6 for 101, which makes you and I... Uh-huh. But then... Here's where things were different. Yeah. Mark Andrews returns to the top five at tight end. I bought. You sold. I sold, and I... Five for five. I disagree. I think I won that one. The numbers say no.

I would like to hear your justification. My justification is that he was a top five startable tight end. Ricky Seals Jones and Cameron Brate were in the top five pushing him to number seven. Nobody's starting. Yes. Thank you. We're all winners here. All right. Let's get to this week's buy or sell. All right. We're going with the AFC South Edition. DeAndre Hopkins. Who boy. Who boy.

Will he be a top 10 wide receiver this week against the Indianapolis Colts? Just for review, his finishes, wide receiver 5, 57, 41, 16, 1921, a little bit better the past two weeks. Been around the wide receiver 20. Usually a guy that is in the top 10. And by usually I mean career wise, not this season. I'll let you kick it off. Since you're the winner, you should answer these first, Mike. I have no problem doing that. And I'm going to.

sell as am i you don't you know look when a guy has not even been in the top 15 for the last five weeks it's hard to say okay this is the week he's top 10 you know if this was a matchup against kansas city something like that you might do which he has already had and still failed to get top 10 obviously it is in his range of outcomes to be a top 10

wide receiver. You're going to start him still like a top 10 wide receiver. But if you have to bet on the outcome, it's difficult to say that a guy who's been averaging like the wide receiver 30 something since week one, that he's going to be top 10. So we're both selling. Marlon Mack on the other side of that ball. Will he hit the 75 rushing yard Mark Houston is allowing 73?

rushing yards per game. They are beatable. Marlon Mack has been on fire, and I am going to buy this. I don't like at all that we are in agreement so much this week as we were last week. I want to destroy you, but I'm buying it as well. The rushing game has been outstanding, just absolutely unbelievable for the Colts for Marlon Mack. And while Houston's defense, you think of it as...

You know, JJ Watt. Right. They lost Clowny, who was great in the run game. I think Marlon Mack top 75. Now, this one, I want to alter it. Okay. Because what was suggested here, I believe that our good friend, Judge Diamati Brooks, who was currently out of the office, he put Gardner Minshew top 10. It could have been Kyle put this in here. I'm not 100% sure, but Gardner Minshew is a top 10 quarterback. I think that's too easy for us to sell.

Right. But what's your line? Are you going top 12? This is a matchup against Cincinnati. He's had finishes already of 13, 15, 15, 8. So top 12 to me. I'll set the line at top 12. So he's a quarterback one because I will buy it. Cincinnati is already a fantastic, a delicious matchup.

for Gardner Minshue. Then you throw in the fact that they are struggling health-wise with their secondary. In fact, I regret. Gardner Minshue should have been mentioned in the streaming quarterback section of yesterday's show. Let's say you're looking to stream and the waiver wire got stripped clean. I think Gardner's in play for you. I'm going to buy that he's a top 12 guy this week. This is our first disagreement. I will sell.

He certainly has the capability. Obviously, we've seen him as a top 12 already, and the matchup is very good as well. Give me all the DJ Chark this week. Sure. I mean, and that's how he's going to be a top 12 guy. It's a nice DJ Chark bomb, which could easily happen. But you could also have the game script where Leonard Fournett is crushing. They're up. They don't need much, and they rely.

More on the running game, and he's just, you know, quarterback 15, 16, which is what we've seen a lot. That's been his home. And that's, I don't believe Gardner Minshu is a great quarterback. I think he's good. Sure, he's good. He's very surprising and good for being a first, you know, a first year sixth round rookie, shockingly good. But then when you take that, you know, barometer away and you just say stack him up against the other quarterbacks.

You know, he's performed admirably, but I don't think he's a great quarterback. All right. We got Derek Henry 100 rushing yards versus the charges. The charges are allowing 109 rushing yards per game. They suck at stopping the run. Would you like to go first or second? I would like to go first. I'm going to sell.

I am going to say he does not hit the 100 yards rushing. Interesting. This is clearly a matchup where he could. He should. But if you look at how Henry does, I mean, this could be a matchup where he goes out and gets 212 yards rushing. Henry has hit the 100 yard mark once and he hit it exactly. At 100. One time this season. Last season where he had a, you know, a great top finish. Do you know how many times he hit it last year?

twice in 16 games. He only hit 100 yards twice. This is why I'm selling. I hate that I have made my complete argument before you... But I'm buying. Oh, nice. I am buying. This is the type of matchup for Derek Henry where if it's a porous run defense, he beats you with a few chunk plays. A lot of the time he's just going to be stuffed and nothing's going to happen.

But I think this is the type of defense. He'll rip off, you know, at least a handful. I'll go two, like 20 plus yard runs and that'll get into the 100 yard mark. And last one, Darren Fell's five receptions. I am selling. Darren Feld's five receptions. I am selling this. I think that number is too high for a tight end. He's been utilized. He's a guy that, you know, I think he's a top 12 tight end right now. That's not saying much. So I'm going to sell.

I am also going to sell. Now, Owl Borland wants us to bring up, Jason. We have DeAndre Hopkins ranked in the top five, and we're selling him as a top 10 wide receiver. So just run through that a little bit so people understand where we're at. Sure. So when you are, and this is a great question, right? You're saying, well, why do you rank him there if you're now saying he's not going to finish there? Everything in fantasy is.

probability is odds, and you're comparing them against other players. So, for instance, right now, you've got DeAndre Hopkins, Cooper Copp, Julio Jones, Michael Thomas, Tyreek Hill, these big star names at the top. And the reason that you end up doing that when you make rankings is because this is who you're going to start. And even though DeAndre Hopkins could end up finishing, and we're saying he might and probably will end up finishing below top 10, there aren't people that I'm necessarily going to start

That way. I just brought up, right? Cameron Brate and who was the other tight end that was Ricky Seals. They were top five. I'm not going to rank people that could be there. I'm going to rank based on probability, odds, history, all of that. Should DeAndre Hopkins be a top 10 wide receiver this week? Yes. He should. He's great. He's talented. He's done it a million times before.