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

You can stream Joe Flacco. Joe Flacco is averaging 296 passing yards and two touchdowns a game right now. And the Steelers secondary, it's a tertiary or something. It's not what they need. Joe Flacco has been very fantasy relevant now for a pretty solid stretch of games and dating even into back to last year. Look, early in the offseason, as soon as the draft was over, you know, we brought up.

that Lamar Jackson might just light a little bit of a fire under Joe Flacco to throw. Joe Flacco used to have a great deep ball. That was like he was a one-trick pony. He was just a deep ball thrower. And every year, he just went shorter and shorter and shorter and became Alex Smith and was fantasy irrelevant. But now they got some weapons that can get down the field like John Brown. And Lamar Jackson, similar to Pat Mahomes coming in last season behind Alex Smith.

forcing Alex Smith to throw the ball deeper. I think Joe Flacco is, you know, he's a decent play this week. It's crazy. I agree. Monday night football. We're all excited for this one that three and no chiefs, Pat Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes, taking on the two and one Denver Broncos. Broncos are four and a half point home underdogs, which is wild considering it just tells you how well the chiefs are playing. This is a 55 and a half.

That's the highest over under I can remember seeing in a long time. Of the number of times we've hit the 55 drop? Yeah, that's true too. How many of those points are the Chiefs is the question? A lot of them. Yeah, I mean, this is going to be a fun. The fact that there are so many fantasy relevant players on Monday night football, the matchups aren't going to be done on Sunday because the swings that can happen in this game are going to be great. At home.

assuming you're down as the Broncos, I think Philip Lindsay projects to be a phenomenal play. Would you say like start of the week? Yes. So would I. I'm into it. Yeah, the chiefs have given up 111 receiving yards to running backs. That's their average. So they don't really, they don't pay attention when the receivers are, when the running backs run out and catch the ball. We talked quite a bit about Cream Hunt earlier this year. You obviously starting him.

But maybe your expectations for him over the next few weeks. If he doesn't get the targets, it's probably going to pull down his baseline. That's a low base. Boom, boom, boom, boom. No, tiring.

Look, and reasons like that, the passing yards that can go to the running back in addition to Emmanuel Sanders and all those, that's why Case Keenham is my stream of the week. Emmanuel Sanders is my start of the week. I really believe that the Broncos are going to be able to keep up. You know, they're going to keep up behind, but they're going to...

pace and try to come back and they're going to have yards and scores. This is just going to be a fun fantasy game. I want to start everybody. Demarius Thomas, who's been very disappointing. You want to start Royce Freeman? Yeah, I think you, I think in this game you could start both Royce Freeman and Philip Lindsay. And you were talking about Demarius just now? Yeah, Demarius has been disappointing. You're going to start him. And I think he's going to rebound this week. I mean, there's, is there a player here?

that you wouldn't start. I mean, does the Broncos defense on the road, does that give you hesitation? Like, okay, let's not start Sammy Watkins. Well, they're at home. Denver's at home. That's what I'm saying. Oh, okay. I'm saying the chiefs are on the road. Sammy Watkins. Yeah, I'm starting. No. No. That's like those, there are those out there that said, man, Robert Woods can't do it again. Brandon Cooks, Cooper Cup, you can start them all. Mm-hmm.

And the fire is wide enough and hot enough to deliver. Case Keenham, though. There's a lot of absorption. Now, let me bring up, let's see, a name Jeff Hirman. What do I mean. Because Jake Butt is on the IR again. He has another season ending injury. So he's the only tight end in town. He had four targets last week.

Yeah, I agree. I don't. Jake butt at eight catches in three games. I mean. Yep. I completely agree.

All right. Case Keenham, your stream of the week, Jason. Chief's defense, look, they're out there on the field so much. I mean, it takes one or two plays for the Chiefs right now on offense. Some injury updates since the show started before we jump in a daily dose. Bill Belichick said, we'll see when talking about Josh Gordon today and whether he'll be ready to play against the Dolphins. Leonard Fernette was a full participant in practice today, Friday, but it's still efficiently questionable for the game. Joe Mixing is out.

officially and Gio Bernard will be in and then AJ Green has practiced in full. So that's great news for AJ Green owners. Oh, and this one, Doug Baldwin will be ready to go Sunday against the Cardinals. This comes from Pete Carroll. I feel like we missed a really opportune spot here for the news drop. Oh, you mean?

During his weekly radio interview today, Pete Carroll indicates Seahawks' wide receiver Doug Baldwin will be ready to go Sunday versus the card. Quote, he looked great. He looked great. He was explosive. We're really excited for him to play in this game. There's a little stranger things feel to that. You notice that when that comes in? A little synth. It's a synth. Yeah. So are we ready to get into the Daily Dose? We are. All right, let's do it.

The Daily Nose. Brought to you by draft. I want to let the Foot Clan know as we head into yet another QB-only draft. I don't just want to let him know that I won last week, which, I mean, I do want to let him know that. Maybe, more importantly, Mike lost again, and we owe him three waters. But we're taking the steps necessary to put some more of those water bets out there on the YouTube. Yeah, like I got a scuba suit. Yeah, Mike is going to be. I've got a snorkel.

Let me ask you this question. You ever been drowned before? At least three times. Oh, okay. So you know what it's coming. Yeah. But we're going to do that. We're going to put those videos out there. We're going to pay out the water bets. Who gets first pick? I believe that's you, Jason. And you're saying that to brag.

Yeah. But when you randomly get selected as first, you are bragging. I'm just saying I get Pat Mahomes. I mean, you know, the draft hasn't started yet necessarily, but I, you know, you know who the number one quarterback is going to be right now. You stay in those magma lava, just particles and you, you get scorched by the heat that is Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, you're a word smith. That's what they call you. Thanks. All right. I was in the, I'm in the middle.

Um, the meat of this draft sandwich. Yeah. And I was sticking with Drew Breeze. Love that over under. I also love Drew Breeze. Unlike Jason Moore. I'm going to go with a couple of tried and trues. Aaron Rogers, Tom Brady. I like the matchups. They both at home. They both have opportunities to give you big solid weeks. And I'll take. And I'm grabbing Matt Ryan. Yeah, I'm really upset about that one. Talking about staying in the flames. Matt Ryan's been fantastic.

Yeah, Matt Ryan has been great. That's who I was hoping gets back to me. Unfortunately, he didn't. So I'm going to go with a pack of players that have also been great. Ben Rathlisberger at home is phenomenal. Love him. I'm taking him. I'm also going with Philip Rivers against San Francisco. I think I'm fine with those. And I'm taking the ceiling of Deshaun Watson. He gets to play the Indianapolis Colts. That defense does not scare me. Watson was finally performing.

for fantasy and Will Fuller should be active, so I like him. Am I allowed to draft Jared Gough? Unfortunately not. You can, but you would take zero points because he's not playing on. By the way, you can play with us on draft.com slash ballers each and every week. I'm taking Andy Dalton. Mike started the week. And then I'm just going to, you know, why not? Why not a little Fitzmagic? Yeah. I'm going to throw him in there even though it's the Bears. I know that Fitzpatrick will throw the ball D. He may have to do it in two seconds, but he's going to do it. And I'm going to.

I'm going to complete the New York Giants versus Saints match. Oh, I love that. So if that game goes off, this, this matchup will be over. Yeah, look, with the news of Doug Baldwin coming back, I am going to snag Russell Wilson against Arizona. I think he's going to have, have himself a good time. He should have a nice mediocre game. Yes. No, I think Russell Wilson, if Doug Baldwin is healthy, is going to do well. Would you play?

Doug Baldwin, based on that news, over Keelan Cole this week? Yeah, easily. Would you play them over Marvin Jones this week? That one's questionable. Hey, guys, I just finished our draft and added Joe Flacco to my roster. Yeah, because I hit. I took Baker Mayfield because I want to have fun on Sunday. Yeah, so that is it for the draft.

That's funny. They have a new snake draft recap page here. Top pick Patrick Mahomes, Mr. Irrelevant, Joe Flago. Nice. They throw that in there. So that's kind of funny. Yeah, I got Pat Mahomes, Philip Rivers, Ben Rothesberger, Russell Wilson, and Carson Wince was my final pick. Rogers, Brady, Dalton, Fitzpatrick, Flacco. I got Drew Brees, Matt Ryan, Deshawn Watson, Eli Manning, and...

Baker Mania himself. Yeah, might as well have some fun. He took Baker Mania. Hey, if you want to watch these quarterbacks play and see every game on your time, the replays available after the games are finished, get...

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