Starts of the Week + Week 6 Games, Hurts Hurt! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/15

They looked much better as a defense. They should be a good defense. Are you going to dance with this devil though? Absolutely. Oh, you are? Yeah, absolutely. Carnell Tate against Indianapolis. The match. What about your start of the week, Trey Tucker in that match? I would play Carlis Tate. Without a doubt. I mean, there should be some doubt. There should be a little doubt based on four fifths of his games. Yeah, I mean. Yeah. And then last week was, I know Houston made some changes, but wide receivers have been torching Houston.

Are you saying that you think that this is a bad play that you should bench Carnell Tate this week? I'm saying that the fantasy football process. I would not play Tate this week, no. The fantasy football process says you should play Carnell Tate. Let me give you, Romeo Dobbs against the Jets or Carnell Tate. Dobbs. I've got both of them on my team. I'd probably lean Dobbs by a hair. D.K. Metcalf against Tampa Bay. Tate.

And Trey Tucker, your start of the week. I said that. Oh, I'm sorry. Foof. I mean, I don't have Tate. Right now, I've got Carnal Tate as my wide receiver 21. So he's not like some must-start player. But, I mean, he's a low-end wide receiver two. Josh Downs. I've got him ahead of Josh Downs. Okay. I'm just going to move Cornell Tate down a little bit. That's what I'm doing. I'm doing that right now. I'm making sure he's appropriately in the spot that he's going to be this week.

I play Xavier Worthy over him. Ooh, that's, I don't know that I would do. We've got a new, we got a new bet. There's a hundred. There we go. Xavier Worthy versus Carnal Tate this week. We still got to hit that pot. I know it's not a water bed, but it's fun. Waterbed. Yeah, I, I mean, you can make it rain the cash. Well, that's a good idea. You could, uh, yeah, there we go. There we go. Uh, well, we have differences of opinion on Carnell Tate.

this week. I think the Colts are going to handle their business in a big way. Only 18.8 implied points for the Titans. Jonathan Taylor should really do some work. He's had kind of a down week last week where he only had two plays in that game against Pittsburgh that were of any real substance. He had a below average game against them. I think he had a 20-yard run. But, yeah, Daniel Jones has not been good. He said quarterback 23 has been the best finish he has this year.

I don't have any confidence in downs because he's been dealing with a hamstring injury and underperforming. Honestly, it's like the targets last week were Treadwell and Keenan Allen. Those guys had more targets than downs. You watched Daniel Jones talk about that and say that the last two weeks, teams have been double teaming Josh Downs on all third downs. And they've been scheming. And so they are going to move Josh Downs around more for this matchup. The issue I have with that is,

Even if they move him around and have a plan to get him involved and it's a good plan and it works, this is still one of those games where you don't need your wide receivers a lot. Jonathan Taylor is going to run all over them. And even if Josh Downs has, you know, a 40% target share and a great piece of the pie, I think it's going to be a very small passing pie. I agree with that. I think you probably log out of the wide receivers and log into Tyler Warren and Jonathan Taylor.

and I think you're in good shape there. Keenan's nine targets his last two games. It's the same argument against Josh Downs for Keenan. Low receiving volume, but not targets. I mean, you'd play trade Tucker over Keenan. You'd look for upside. I'm going to play Kendrick Boren over Keenan. I made that choice this week. We'll take a break. We'll talk more matches. This message is brought to you by.

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Well, a few weeks ago, we might have thought the Jets going to Foxborough to take on the Patriots would be a competitive matchup where the Patriots are struggling and the Jets have a good defense. But right now, the Jets are two and three. They go to face the three and two Patriots in their building. And the Vegas line has the Patriots seven and a half point favorites over under 43 and a half. Drake May's last two weeks after Al Borland dropped him. Quarterback two, quarterback one.

And guess who Al Borland gets to play in that same league this week? Drake May. Drake May. Drake may hurt you. He's going to. The Jets have been, they've done a couple things well this year. They've played good defense. Do you know how many sacks they had last week? I don't. Eight. Whoa. They had eight last week. David Bailey is breaking out right now for the Jets defense. They're the dominant fantasy defense. It was a, it was a bit of a mucky muck game. It was, but.

They got it done. They slow the game down enough to where, look, their strategy is run the football, manage the clock, play good defense. Maybe we get away with a win. Like it's a, like they sneak a win. Braylon Allen, your start of the week, Mike, even, you know, you want to keep this, I guess both running backs in this game or Andre started the week for Jason. Garrett Wilson's a must start every week. If AJ Brown happens to be active for this game, are you willing to play him immediately?

Yeah, I think so. I think that they are going to wait to get him back. I mean, they've taken their time with this ankle injury. And I think if he's not ready to go, he won't play this week. So my opinion is that when he comes back, he's going to be the full go. And he might not be at 100% strength. Like, he might not be his peak for a couple weeks after he gets back. But as far as utilization, routes.

snaps. I expect when he's back for him to have the full allotment. So I'll be playing him. In a game where they're so heavily favored with a 25 and a half point implied point total, if Brown is out, which running back or sorry, which wide receiver would you be willing to start? Douglas with two touchdowns last week. Kyle Williams was 90 yards. It would only be Dobbs. Yeah. I think it's I think I'm trying to pivot out. Just entirely. Yeah. And it's harder and harder with all the bye weeks and stuff going on. But like the.

The targets were not there for Dobbs. The utilization of a guy that they gave so much money to is very strange. You have the one game of nine targets, week four against Buffalo, but everything else is three or four. I mean, they're just. They're treating them the way the Cardinals would treat the number four overall pick. Yes. It's weird. Hunter Henry got into the Inzel last week. He's a, he's a break glass type of tight in, especially if Brown is out.

Last couple weeks he had 62 yards receiving on five targets. Last week, 44 yards receiving in a touchdown and was the tight-in nine. So if you need it, he is an option since they aren't willing to target Dobbs even with Brown now. So one thing to note, Gino Smith through five weeks, zero interceptions. Hey. He had, I think, 100,000 last year. Jason, your guy. He is on pace for only 3,600 yards and 20 touchdowns.

only 3,600 yards. I think their team threw for 2,300 last year. Yeah, I mean, he's an okay quarterback when you can protect him. And their offensive line has been much better. I just wish they didn't play so slow because they have pieces we like. You know, the Brees Hall or Braylon Allen, obviously Garrett Wilson, the hopeful breakup for Kenyon Sadiq. They just play so slow that they ruin games for fantasy. You look at Drake May as a must start at this point.

Yeah, after the two weeks, I would. All right, the Saints are one and four. They take on the three, one and one. New York Giants after that disaster of a tie last week. Oh, man. Disasters for both teams last week in a way. The funniest part about this is it ended in a tie, but the Giants got a win and the commander's got a loss. Like that is actually like the Giants are coming off of a win. Yes, they're coming off of a win. Cam Scadaboo who fumbled the game away is like,

yes we got a tie you know it means like emotionally that was not I I think that's like the first tie I can remember where it's so clearly usually at the end of a tie that's that means you went through the whole game and all of overtime and no one could outscore the other and it's like oh it's grueling this was we lost you won oh no we won you know what it reminds me what in pickleball whenever you're down 10 nothing and you're about to get pickled yeah

If you score that point and you lose 11 to 1, you won that game because that guy didn't get his pickle. You stopped the shutout? Yeah. Yeah, I agree. It makes sense. Tyler Shuck, first three weeks was on pace for 5,100 yards, 45 touchdowns. Last two weeks on pace for 3,200 yards, 8 touchdown, 17 picks. Rough 4 and 5 for Tyler Shuck. It's happened.

It's coincided with the loss of offensive line performance with Travis A. Chan's disappearance, or I should say injury, and they don't have a running game that intimidates anybody. I also think there's been an adjustment by the league. I mean, the league is going to look at what they've done on offense. They're not stupid defensive coordinators, certainly not Brian Flores last week, but even the week before with Atlanta, you're going to look at what the successful parts of their offense are, which has been hyper-targeting, you know, Alave.

A lot of the route concepts. And you're going to make adjustments. And now it's up to Tyler Shuck to, you know, he has to go on the road here and face the Giants and try to kind of right to ship. Because, you know, they're one and four now in that division and not going the right direction. I think Chuck is, he's playable this week. I have him as a top 10 guy right now. The Giants are not a scary matchup at all. I think that we get back to, you know.

The offensive line is the largest problem. And just then it was tougher matchups for him. So Shuck, I think he has the ability in this one. We'll be back. I think the question that I have when I look at my rankings, because I would start Caleb Williams and Jaden Daniels ahead of Tyler Shuck. But Tyler Shuck or Trevor Lawrence against Houston, where are you at? Like, are you moving Shuck down past?

Lawrence because of the last couple weeks. I have Lawrence set seven as of right now. So that is higher than I have Shuck. Man, I feel like the upside is the Tyler Shuck play, though. Like if you're like, man, I need points. I think that's where I would go. James Winston and Shuck could end up just going crazy. But it's like I have him, you know, I have Shuck ranked higher than Jalen Hertz this week. So I'm... You expect a bounce back. I do.

Crystal Lave didn't practice on Wednesday, but it was due to an illness, so he should be back out there. Are you playing Joanson? Yep. Okay. Zay likely has been a dominant monster of a tight-in. Tight-in one finish in weeks one and five. He is, the targets have been out of this world. I mean, the targets for him and neighbors with James Winston have been what Winston does. Yes. Even though in these games, I am multiple times in these games that he ends up with amazing performances, I'm like, they're about to pull him.

They're about to pull him. That's the risk. That's when he thrives, man. And then he looks so funny on the sideline after he makes a good play. You know, in videos? In games where he's like Kevin Garnett face. Your health bar gets real, real low. So you get.

all of these buffs and it's like all of a sudden you're like oh he's got to throw those 20% more powerful under 10% health that's what happens with james feels like every time he throws a pick he gets like a reward some power up from that so the more picks he throws then he the charging charging charging uh the the team did come out and talk about game planning with winston how different it is from when he you know they obviously had a mobile quarterback and jackson dart and so they've had to shift their their scheme