Week 5 Matchups + Tuesday Night Football, Dr. Mike - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/9

I'm not in love with that as a start. It is a good matchup. So it's not the end of the world. Don't play Devon Singletary. But if there's another good option, I'm going to assume Zach Moss is back and that his opportunity is cut in half. I'm pretty impressed with Singletary the last couple of weeks. He's super good. We've never got to talk him up. But as a player, I think he's phenomenal. Yeah, I would take it. I probably wouldn't take your approach. I would probably play Singletary regardless.

Because I don't think that Moss is going to walk back in after being limited this week and get half the opportunities. And Singletary's production is not touchdown dependent. I mean, that's not what we know with Singletary. So if you tell me he's going to get 15, 16 opportunities against the Titans, are you feeling good about that? I guess not. Maybe. Well, just like week one was 16 opportunities against the Jets that turned into running back 38. Yeah.

13 opportunities against the Miami Dolphins that turned into running back 35. And then the next two weeks with Zach Moss out, you saw the snaps rise from, you know, averaging 58% to a 90% snap player. So it's... Sounds like you're more on... I side more with Jason that I, if Zach Moss is healthy, I think he comes back in and he gets that 40% of work, gets passing work, it's goal line work. Stefan Diggs, yep. He's the wide receiver 6 on the year. John Brown...

I saw the play in practice. Where he tweaked his cap. Yeah, he came up. It didn't look great, but they said he's okay. So do we expect him to play in this game? I watched him. He was not okay. Well, he wasn't okay after the immediate moment, but didn't he come back for a limited practice the next day? I do not know. Well, I don't want to misreport that, so you can double check that for me. He's currently listed as questionable. We have them outside the top 30 at the position. So.

Probably have better options. I worry about the health of John Brown because this is a re-aggravation of the calf. So let's say he's active and he goes out there and then another play happens and he's pulled from the game. I'm not going to take that risk. If he is not active, though,

Gabriel Davis is, you know, a rookie that has been really surprising. The bills love this guy. And if John Brown's gone, he will have the opportunity to be an important piece of the offense for Josh Allen's fire that he's been on. So, you know, I doubt you're picking him up on a Tuesday night football.com to play him. But if you're playing DFS, that's a name I think that would...

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Bring you one of our favorite props. I'm probably like us all. Monkey knife fight for week five. I'm going Darren Waller. The more or less numbers at 5.5 receptions. To me, this feels like one of the biggest gimmies on the week. Darren Waller, he had 12 receptions two weeks ago. He was hurt for the other game. I throw that one away. And then he had nine last week. So the last two times we've seen him on the field healthy.

It's been well above that number. And with the line in this game, the Raiders passing all game long, he could have five and a half garbage time in the fourth quarter alone. This feels very similar to my Devante Parker layup last week that we discussed because you've got a heavily targeted player. But it was a dunk, though. I thought it would. Well, it turned into a 360. Well, remember you had to convert it because you can't do layups.

Right. But you want to know who can finish a layup with a dunk, Darren Waller. So I do like that one a lot. I'm going with Michael Thomas on the Monday night game. He's listed right now at seven and a half receptions. And I'm going less than that because you're not sure how involved he is. I know. It's hard. It's hard to go less on receptions for the guy that just broke. Seven and a half is a lot.

That is. We're not sure how healthy he is, you know, how involved he would be. You know, and are the charges, is the charges off, it's really going to push them to need to be throwing the ball a ton in the second half of that game where you get over seven and a half? You know, last year, he broke the NFL record and he only had two games with less than seven and a half reception. So you'd say, okay.

But now with a hobbled, you know, Michael Thomas, with Trey Kwan and Emmanuel Sanders looking like they're involved and the Chargers' offense, I think it's more like what you see in 2018 with Michael Thomas, which he was great, but nine of his games he finished with less than seven and a half reception. So I'm taking less on the Michael Thomas. And I cannot get enough of this Carolina-Atlanta matchup. So I'll...

Let's get some more skin in that game. Robbie Anderson, the more or less is five and a half receptions. Robbie Anderson has been under that number once. He averages. Over the first four weeks, he is averaging seven receptions per week. So I am taking the more. The game line is 54.5 points. I'm in with Robbie Anderson getting more than five and a half. All right. This has been a fun segment each and every week. And you can check out all of the player props. You can prop a leg of tight yourself over at.

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Ballerspicks.com. Lamar Jackson, one update. He did return to practice on Friday. So if you were worried, even though we said we thought he'd be fine, it's even more helpful to know he's out there on the practice field. Good luck in week five, like I said, Sunday live one hour before kickoff. Dr. Mike will be available to you. That's Mr. Doctor, sir. Mr. Doctor, that's right. See you Sunday. Goodbye.

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