Week 6 Studs & Stinkers + Monday Punday Extraordinaire - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/19

Like, would you just shift right now if you could get Gabriel Davis? Would you just put Gabriel Davis in there? Because he's kind of giving you a baseline as opposed to the risk, or would you put John Brown in? I would probably put John Brown in. You know, you temper your expectations, but he's been so important to the offense. Okay. Anything else we should talk about here in the news? No, let's get into the studs. This week's fantasy stud muffins. Deshawn Watson, have yourself a game.

That game was insane. It was a wonderful game. We have, just for some context, we have eight televisions at the studio and then one middle TV. So we have nine TVs. And because the NFL is so amazing, they chose to front load the entire, there were nine games. So ridiculous, man. And we run Red Zone in the middle. So we had to choose one game to not show. And we're like looking at all the matchups and we're like, yeah, it's just not show the Tennessee Houston one.

And that quickly changed. It was the right choice for like half the game. And then no, then it was, then it was insanity. Was Deshaun Watson sandbagging for a while to get Bill O'Brien out of there? Because he looks great all of a sudden. Conspiracy theory. This was the schedule. I mean, we set it before the season began. Kansas City, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Minnesota to start the year, you know, at the time we didn't know Minnesota would be quite as bad on defense. But.

Casey, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, sandbagging or not, the result would be the same in those games. But this is back-to-back monster performances from Deshaun Watson. It's wonderful news for Will Fuller managers. It's wonderful news for Brandon Cook's managers. Darren Fells, David Johnson even had a nice week. Randall Cobb, everybody. It was, yeah, there was plenty to go around, 28 for 37, 335 and 4. Big plays, sustained drives. It was what you wanted to see, minus the victory.

Big week for Watson, confidence levels rising. Matt Ryan. Matt Julio Jones, Ryan. I don't. I mean, it's like, we have Rule 86 from days gone by. Matt Ryan needs Rule 11. I mean, it's, if Julio's not out there, Matt Ryan is not comfortable. I agree. But when he is out there, he's absolutely great. You look at this season as a whole. Matt Ryan started the year on fantasy fire.

And then all of a sudden, Julio gets banged up, goes out, and Matt Ryan stinks. And now he's back and there you go. So it's really simple. Sometimes fantasy is difficult and sometimes it's easy. If Julio's out there, Matt Ryan's A-OK. Detroit, Carolina, the next two weeks for Matt Ryan, suddenly looking very strong in those matchups. Carson Wince, we talked about the game. He was ugly. It was also not that ugly for Wins in the end. Tannahill.

continues his dominant performances. My goodness. 30 for 41, 364 and 4. I don't know about you guys. There's nothing I enjoy watching more than a play action pass offense, to be honest. Like when you have an established running game and you can, I mean, with Gurley and the Rams a couple years ago, you know, the defense has to make a decision on every play. And you lose or you lose against Tennessee right now. If you don't.

Double down on Derek, he's going to go down the field. And then if you do, Ryan Tannahill can pick you apart with A.J. Brown. So this was an impressive performance, 364 and 4. I think for a lot of fantasy players, this was the game that's maybe cemented Tana Hills in every week's start no matter what's going on. Now you got Pittsburgh next week. That's tough. What are you doing? Is he locked into your lineup? Nope.

2BD. Never mind about what I previously said. It's one of those things where, you know, it depends on the alternative. But if I had a good alternative, I would use it. But, you know, I think he's going to be a low end one, probably quarterback 1314. So I'm hoping that I can pivot. But we'll see. It's a tough matchup, man. Yeah, Pittsburgh was dominant this week, making an injured baker more.

Injured. And the Titans sounds like they did lose their left tackle, Taylor the Juan, to an ACL tear. That is a devastating loss. Lamar Jackson, Philip Rivers.

Kirk Cousins, Jimmy Garoppolo. Jason, are you shaking your head at Philip Rivers? No, I'm shaking my head at Lamar Jackson, having 186 passing yards. Now, he had a phenomenal fantasy game because he rushed for over 100 yards, scoring his bonkers for quarterbacks when you do that. But I'm so disappointed in this Ravens offense as a whole, Mark Andrews, Hollywood, Brown. If you're passing for 186 yards, it doesn't matter if you're good.

It's such a tiny pie. On the year, his average right now is... Jack Doyle disagrees. 189 passing yards per game. 1.7 touchdowns per game. Distribute among all your pass catchers, those bountiful numbers. Yeah, that's a bummer. So I might have to change some expectations there across the board. Kirk Cousins, this was garbage time. I mean, this was pure and utter... Did I hit 55?

I didn't. Can I blame a producer for that? Sure. Oh, wow. How dare you? How dare you back? Maybe that was 55 minutes worth of garbage time? That was the tie-in. That was on purpose. Pretty much was. Kurt Cousins came out and he had negative fantasy points for quite a bit of this matchup. Three early interceptions will usually do that. He was awful. But then it was like, oh.

He's going to have to throw for the rest of the game and had a great fantasy output. Justin Jefferson. Oh, my. Jefferson's very good. And then Rivers did have a nice game. 29 for 44, 371 and 3 against Cincinnati. Had to actually come back. Yeah, and did it. Got it done. All right. At the running back position. Derek Henry. Winter came early. There was report of snows in Minnesota. That means the Yeti.

Was unleashed. So wait, if there's snow just anywhere in the country. That's right. Well, because snow means that winter is here. It fuels him even if it's thousands of miles away. Yes. I didn't know that. You need to research on Yetis. I clearly do. Learn up. I'm sorry, Mike. 22 for 212 and 2 says you're right. Says it's statistically accurate. Monster game for Derek Henry. Just unbelievable performance. Mm-hmm. Caught a couple passes. The overtime play.

How well coached is that team, too? Oh, Brable's so good. I'm just so impressed with them. And then taking the shot, you know, it's easy for us in hindsight to criticize every play call, right? Super easy. I mean, it's cake. And so when you have third and goal from the five and you direct snap to Tannenhill.

all the refrain. You can hear them all. If that fails, it's... To Henry? To Henry. To Henry. What did I say? To Tanner. Oh, sorry. That usually do directs that. That makes sense. To Henry. And I can hear it all. What a decision. He fails there. And it's... Right. Gimmicky plays and stupid. Why don't you have... Tentils have this great game. And how are you not throwing on third down? And then he scores and you're a genius. But great play call. Great player. And we'll see how great next week against Pittsburgh because Pittsburgh is playing...

outstanding football, but they lost Devin Bush. So maybe it's not like you're benching Derek Henry. I don't even know why it's a conversation. What do you make of DeAndre Swift? It's tough. He was a player that I highlighted on Sunday Live of, you know, just don't forget what happens a lot with rookies, especially a rookie running back. He was in a timeshare. The vet, Adrian Peterson was the guy. But then they had the buy week. The

where their young players can fit in and do more. Now, the snap carries were, or snap totals were very, very close between DeAndre Swift and AP, 29 for Swift, 27 for Adrian Peterson. But we saw DeAndre Swift get a lot of work on the snaps. He was actually on the field, 18 total opportunities. And then he came through in a big way. Hopefully, hopefully this is a great sign for more DeAndre Swift moving forward. But this isn't like,

I don't think he just took over the job. The fact that this comes after a by week is very important to me. You've got three carries, five carries, zero carries, four carries, by week, and then 14 carries. This is a player they are, you know, actively getting more involved. It's the future of the running back for that. So you've got to keep your eyes on them. Nice to see the opportunities jump up to 18. Yes. A couple starts of the week had nice weeks. Ronald Jones, Miles Gaskin. Jones, if you're not starting him at this point,

You're missing out on 100-yard games each and every week, and he's running ferociously. That's how I would describe it. The question is when Fournette comes back, has Ronald Jones cemented the job, or will all of a sudden he lose 10 carries a game to Fournet? There is only wet cement in Tampa Bay at the running back position. There is no cementing. He could have run for 23 for 800 yards, and it would still be like.

You don't pick up a blitz pickup and let Brady get hit in the back of the knee and you get pulled off for two drives. So there's always that risk, but I don't know what else you could have done over the last three weeks for Ronald Jones to earn that role and the confidence of fantasy players. Yeah, I think you have to continue to start Ronald Jones, even if Fournet is active and healthy until proven otherwise. And James Connor keeps being James Connor 24-101 and 1. Not really involved in the passing game, but didn't need to be. This team is playing.

Great. So at that point, you know, you can lean on James Connor. And Miles Gaskin. Oh, the gas man. I think he looked the best he's looked in this game. Thank you, Jets. But he did what he was supposed to do. I credit Levy on Bell for that performance for Miles Gaskin. He's like, oh, man, they were trying to get someone to replace me. I better play a little stronger. Huh?

Oh, oh, oh, because when they were, yes, I followed him. Yeah, they were flirting with the dolphins were replacing him. I think you threw us off because they were playing against the jet, so we kind of got a little confused, but you were right on point. Yeah. Yeah. Great work, Jason. Great works, sir. Before we move on to the wide receiver studs of the week, want to take today's sponsor, Mac Weldon, fellas. Mac Weldon is where it's at. They got all kinds of. The Mac attack. Oh, the Mac attack is back, Jack. Look, the.

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