Week 4 Matchups, In-or-Out, All Hail The King!

He's a touchdown absorber. Yes. You did it. That was right. Yeah. I mean, I would, I love Marshawn. I think in this matchup, the Browns right now, they're averaging almost 25 points per game giving up to the running back position. At home, favored. You have to start. I mean, Marshawn Lynch, I feel like it's a must start. Yeah, I think the game script will be one that Marshaun Lynch should see plenty of volume with an opportunity to score.

What do you guys think about Callaway, my start of the week? I think he's extremely interesting. He's out since Josh Gordon Gate, whatever happened there where he was inactive and then he was going to be cut and then he was traded. Antonio Calloway is the wide receiver too and he is the big play wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns. It's a huge upgrade getting Baker Mayfield here. We talked about last week when Tyrod was in the first half.

Callaway was running free on at least two plays where Tyrod threw an errant pass. These were sure-fired touchdowns that I think Baker can make the throw a little bit better. So Calloway is very interesting to me. Jason has Jared Cook as the start of the week. Do you like David and Joku to have an improved performance with Baker? I mean, both his catches last week with Baker. The middle of the field is someplace that Tyrod was avoiding, but Baker was...

diving into. Yeah, I think that Injoku gets a bump up. This isn't necessarily the perfect matchup for him, but it's not a bad one. So, I mean, Injoku is in that group with Ebron and with, you know, all those guys where it's like, you can start him, but you're just not excited and you're your touchdown dependent. But there's 20 of those type of tight ends, and there's only four or five that aren't.

Injoku for me, much like Christian Kirk, I want to try and stash him if I can. I don't like having two tight ends on my roster, but if you have one of those. Burner spots. Unfortunate suboptimal situations with your tight end, I would try to get Injoku on the back of my bench. He's available in over 30% of leagues over on ESPN. So it...

Take a peek. He might be out there. He's a lot like Howard in as much as he's got all the physical talent in the world, just needs that opportunity to do it. So I don't mind stashing him and seeing what happens with Baker. I mean, you have unknown situation there. Can you handle the amount of sideline camera views of Hugh Jackson and John Gruden in one game? No, no, I can't. Oh, it's going to be great. No, it's going to be fantastic. I'm going to be wearing blackout glasses. This is must-watch television. Who can out-maneuver the other?

Look, Amari Cooper, we make all the jokes in the world. You can start Amari Cooper. He had 10. You're pulling him out of this spot. I will speak for myself. You're speaking because he's on your team and you're going to start him. No. No. Look, I have actually benched Amari Cooper because I had other options. Are you playing him this week? No.

what I just said. I have benched him this week because I have other better options. So when you said you're always dependent. And what are those options? When you said you can, did you mean it more as like the system will allow it currently?

Here's what I mean. I mean that Amari Cooper, everyone wants to bench him because he sucked last week. But this is what Amari Cooper does. He zigs and he zags. He has big games and he has bad games. He had five targets last week, 10 the week before. He's at home. This is not a tough matchup. And if you're just chasing whatever happened last week, you're never going to get the big blowup games. So what I'm saying is that if you're, if you're, you know, toiling and you're going, man, I don't have a good option, but I don't want to play him.

Then just play him. He still has the ability to have a good game. We're going to move on, but who is the flex that you're playing over Cooper this week? Who is the... Tyler Lockett? No, I... Who is the flex that I...

basically played over. Well, now it's Alex Collins. Alex Collins is the one that's in my flexa. Gotcha. One and two 49ers against the one and two Chargers. Chargers are 10 point favorite. CJ Beth, they're behind center for the 49ers. This is a 46.5 point over under. The Chargers defense has been eviscerated this year without Joy Bosa and their elite cornerbacks. This could be an interesting game. I don't want fantasy owners to be afraid of 49ers.

players that you would ordinarily start. So George Kittle, I'm still okay with. Yep. Matt Brita, who right now is 8.4 yards per touch, best in the league amongst running backs. Yeah, and we talked about earlier in the week how Carlos Hyde was getting over eight targets a game when C.G. Bethard was the starting quarterback last year. Marky's good one. What do you feel like can you start him as a wide receiver three this week? I'm not. I would prefer to know.

Whoa. I'm dying over here, man. Look, I would prefer not to start George Kittle. He's, again, in that group of tight ends. I would definitely prefer to not start Goodwin Garsohn. So you're Matt Barita only. You disagreed with my statement. That is what I was pulling up is that I actually do, I do not want to play 49ers not named Matt Brita. However, I very much want.

to play Matt Breda. So it's kind of one of those situations where I don't want, I don't feel like I'm anti-49ers because I'm so in on Boreda. But yeah, I mean, Bethard, he doesn't improve things for good, for any pass catchers other than Boreta. He doesn't improve it. And they haven't been that good already. So what are you really hoping for here? Didn't it? I mean, he did. He was good for Kettle.

He was okay, yeah. I mean, they were college buddies. Yeah. Yeah. Last season, Bethard played, I believe, six games, completion percentage of 54%. Yuck. Four touchdowns in six games. Yuck. Six interceptions. Yuck. And a pass a rating of 69. Yuck. Well, nice. But no, his completion percentage was nice. Oh!

We already talked about Keenan Allen. We expect him to play. You're going to play Melvin Gordon, Philip Rivers. You're going to play Mike Williams in this matchup. There aren't a lot of question marks at home for the Los Angeles Chargers when you are 10-point favorites. Being 10-point favorites, I think that you might be able to play Austin Echler. Yeah, I guess that's the question.

Uh, he's been pretty solid this season and this could be the type of situation where, you know, maybe Melvin Gordon gets two early touchdowns and he's got a lot of work and they're ahead to three scores and you say, hey, let's, uh, let's give Melvin Gordon a little bit of rest. Or Melvin Gordon goes, oh, I got a headache. I need to come out. I agree. I agree that Echler's sneaky this week. A sneaky Echler. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's just like, uh, Echler. Look, Echler has.

Five carries, four carries, and 11 carries. The 11 carries came when they were playing Buffalo and they had the big lead. It's basically what I'm describing. He's had decent games and he looks great on the field. If Keenan Allen is out, we've already spoke of our love for Mike Williams, but what about the other Williams? Tyro Williams, are you interested in playing him as a wide receiver three if Keenan Allen is unfortunately out? If he's out, then sure. I'm not happy, but I'm

I'm willing. I mean, the targets will be there. All right. The two and one Saints take on the one and two Giants. The Giants are three and a half point underdogs at home, but this over under is 50 and a half points because the Saints can't stop anyone right now. This matchup is juicy. Giving up a solid. It's a heavy 55 game. They're just coming to me, but 55 fantasy points a game to the wide receiver position for the Saints.

that's dead last in the league. They're also dead last against quarterbacks. That's why I like Eli. Obviously, Beckham, but I love Sterling Shepard in this matchup. I think you can start him. You have no Evan Ingram who is out. So Shepard, Beckham, and Barclay are going to be the offense for Eli Manning. And being that it's at home, I think you're going to see very good performances. Now, is Eli going to outperform cousins? Last night, probably not anymore. So if you played Eli over him, like I told you to,

I don't think you're going to be disappointed. I think Eli's going to give you a good game, but I probably won't be as good as Kirk. This matchup is crazy. It should have a lot of points. I'm buying into the 50 point over. I'm firing up Giants if I can. The biggest question for me on the same side of the ball is Benjamin Watson. Jason would, so you're not super interested in George Kittle. Would you play someone deeper like Benjamin Watson over Kittle?

No, I don't think I would play Benjamin Watt. 71 yards last week. Right. Look, he can get it done. But last week was the Atlanta Falcons, a much, much, much better offense. And I think that the over is going to happen. I think this is going to be a high scoring game, and I like it. But the Giants aren't the same high-powered offense that Matt Ryan's Atlanta Falcons were in Atlanta. And so the need for him to have 70-plus yards isn't going to be there. I don't think he has the...

down the field ability quite the same as he did a couple years ago. I love Benjamin Watson, but he's, I think he's just such a limit. He reminds me in a matchup like this of a few years ago, Dennis Pitta, where he led the league in receptions. He was at the tight end position, and he was pretty irrelevant for fantasy. Sure. And Ted Ginn's worth a flyer, too. That's what I was going to ask you on that side of the ball. Ted Ginn, you feel okay about it? Yeah.

Yeah, and Sterling Shepard, I know we briefly mentioned it, but I love him. I'm starting him over a lot of guys that I like. You know, I have him ahead of Kenny Goliday, who I like. I have him ahead of Tyler Boyd, who I like. I think Sterling Shepard is a really good play this week. I think the, I'm not going to, I already made an almost upset yesterday. I think the Giants win the game. Whoa. I think the Giants win the game. I like what I saw from them last week.

So I think they win the game. For what it's worth, in 2015, when these two teams met, New Orleans, 152 to 49. And these two quarterbacks had a golf cousin's game. They combined for 855 yards and 13 touchdowns. I remember it well. It was a lot of points. If that happens again, Benjamin Watson will be absolutely fine. Yeah, Watson's very interesting. I mean, we brought him up. He's interesting. All right, the two-and-one Ravens. Take on the one-one-one Steelers.

Steelers are three-point favorites at home, 51 point over under. And there are a lot of players in this game that are interesting. You're starting Big Ben, James Connor, Antonio Brown, Juju Smith-Schuster. There are decisions to make on the Pittsburgh side regarding Vance McDonald and Jesse James. Are you confident enough after this monster performance by Vance McDonnell to throw him out there? Clearly the Steelers utilized them. He did what they hoped.

you know, he could do, but we haven't seen it for an extended period of time. Where's your confidence level in Vance? And the Vance dance. I think he's a fine streaming option. Kiddle or Vance? I would still go with George Kittle. I'm going to take the snap. Watson? Ben Watson in that matchup against the Giants or Vance? Ooh. I'd probably take Watson. Yeah, I probably would as well. For all the damage you did, Vance McDonald's still only played on 48.5% of the snaps last week.

Crabtree or Brown on the other side of the ball? John Brown is I was talking to you. Yeah, we were talking this morning. At the gym. It's awesome to see it happen. I'm hesitant. Like I don't want to say how much I love John Brown this week because it's, that's one of those fires I just want to keep covered because it could certainly burn me. But I mean, how do you not start John Brown? He's playing.

outstanding football. Joe Flacko's averaging 300 yards and two touchdowns a game. The Pittsburgh Steelers have been terrible. They're, you know, John Brown's got the most deep targets in the league. 18 and a half yards per completion. It seems like a perfect matchup. How perfect? Is it more perfect than Kenny Goliday this week? Yes.

I prefer John Brown to Kenny Gallaudet. That's, I actually, I mean, I just get it. I just listed some. I'm trying to decide. I'm trying to decide between Galladay and John Brown this week. I get it because of the matchup, but I would still go with Goliday. Yeah, I mean, this is why I was saying. I'm hesitant to say it because it doesn't feel good. And, and I mean, John Brown has a history of, you know, kind of disappointing when he's. You know what else doesn't feel good? Joe.