Fantasy Football - Starts of the Week + Week 10 Breakdown, Get Squished! - Podcast for 11/6

So four games since his concussion. I feel like he's averaging something like 78, but I have no idea. It would be 82 and a half, so that would be 1,400 yards on the season. He has somehow not scored, but yet been pretty relevant for fantasy. So if you catch that touchdown pass, you're going to be even happier. Mike, do you feel the same about that situation? Yeah, I think he's playable. The Atlanta defense might match up okay with Pierce's. role and his skill set. So you can't sit Pierce down after what he's doing, but if he has a average to below average game, I wouldn't be surprised. Darnell Mooney on the other side hasn't shown up since training camp, so we haven't had him. Drake London's been the dominator. I shared the video of all of Drake London's place from last week, and I loved the person that replied and was like, oh yeah, once the number one DB went down for New England, he started taking off. I'm like, did you watch this?

One-handed catches, high pointing the ball. Three touchdowns, nine for one 18. Also, did you watch how the number one cornerback went down? Drake London moths him and fell right on top of him and said, squish. We had a good time talking about. Yeah, I mean, the injury must have sucked. He's like he's questionable to return due to being squished. Yeah, no, it's. He was put in, I can't believe they didn't have to peel him out of the ground. Yeah, like a, like a looney tune. Yes, like a looney tune. Just, we're going to have to bring some dirt filling that hole. Yeah, it's like, Drake London looks, he looks great. Yeah, he fell from very high in the air. Totally safe. Huge. Yeah, nice soft landing. Thank you for breaking my fall, Christian.

Kyle Pitts was your start of the week, Bijon. Yeah, you play. That would have hurt so bad. Not for London. Oh, yeah. It's like a pillar. Michael Pennix. We talked about him as maybe an emergency spot start situation here. The Colts defense. They're going to have Sauce Gardner for the first time. He's starting. He's through the concussion protocol. Is that, I mean, you're going to play Drake London no matter what. It does. It adjusts my, look. They got one wide receiver, and now they got one elite cornerback who's not giving up a lot of receptions this year. I'm not going to stop playing Drake London, obviously, but it does make me a little bit more hesitant, thinking that, you know, maybe the ceiling isn't 9 for 118 and 3. Yeah, I mean, Drake, if you're, you've got a long flight, if you're tuning in on the flight over there, I recommend the squeeish. So it worked last week. Go go with that again and knock out the number one DB. Yeah.

Turn him into sauce. Oh, my goodness. See, because it's his name. No, no, no. You don't need to explain it. Yeah. We're good. We're up. We got it. Put him in the lawn. See, he's a gardener. Oh. Okay. I can't say it. I really wanted to say it. It wasn't worth it. The New York Giants are two and seven. Yes, let's. The Bears, five and three. Games in Chicago, Vegas line, Chicago minus four and a half at home. The over under is 48 and a half. Okay, I'm excited for this game. I like this game. It's going to be fun. I love watching Jackson Dart play. I love seeing the evolution of the Chicago Bears. Monongai was just a highlight reel last week. Caleb and Colston Loveland. These teams are, they're kind of similar in some ways where there's a lot of young talent. You know, Jackson Darts lost a few of those pieces alongside him, but.

He's making the most with what he's got. I mean, I think he's the number three fantasy quarterback since he started as, you know, a dual threat in New York. Caleb balled out catching touchdown passes to boot. Both quarterbacks seem fine to play this week. There's a lot of, a lot of juicy plays in this match. I love this game. I think this could be one of the most entertaining games. My only fear in this game and we just need to monitor it. Might be snowing and it might be windy. The snow is fine. Snowing? Like some light flurries. But yeah, the 17 mile an hour winds being reported right now could be a little bit concerning. I mean, not as much for, you've got Jackson Dart and Caleb who can run the ball. So that is nice scramble ability. I just really want this to be fun and exciting. You know what I mean? I don't want the weather to impact it negatively. Okay. Well, yeah. Oh, man.

I didn't know it was going to be so windy. It's a bummer. We got some time. We got some time. DeAndre Swift, if he plays, how confident are you? Like, if you had both guys, because I think a lot of people will have Swift and Monongai. I'd play Swift. You would play Swift? I would. Yeah, if I had both, I would play Swift. Adunze, your start of the week, Jason, DJ Moore, not practicing right now. If for some reason... We didn't have DJ Moore back out there. We didn't have Luther Burden out there. How are you feeling about both Zakias and Loveland? Zikaas is an emergency start and Loveland is just a have we arrived? Loveland. So before Cole Comet went down to concussion, he really had not done very much. His target share wasn't great. As soon as Cole Comet went down and he became the guy, it was great. So if Comet, who was a limited participant on Wednesday with a concussion, which feels like he is, he is at least progressing in the protocol.

We'll have to monitor that. But if Commet was out, I think Loveland is really good. And with DJ Moore and Burden banged up, you could end up with a game where it's like, oh, it's O'Donzee and Loveland, which would be great. The irony is two of our top three start sit questions right now involve Jackson Darden, Caleb Williams, and another starter who people seem to want to make a decision on for tonight. Jackson Dart are Bo Nix, Caleb Williams, or Bo Nicks. Two of the top three questions. I think Nick is at the bottom of the list for me. Nix is at the top for me. Oh, wait. Oh, the Raiders. Yeah. So it, man. It's a good question between all you're right of those guys. A lot of people have been trying to pivot from Nix this week, from what I've noticed. No, I've, I, I've spoke at a turn. I like Bo Nix a lot this week. You, I just, I like DART and Caleb this week. So I got a little too excited for that. Yeah, I mean the.

With Certan being out, there's more hope, I think, for a bit of a shootout with Bowers being healthy tonight. I think all three are great starts. And I think if you have a strong conviction, you're not wrong to go with any one of them. Yeah. Play who you want to play who you believe in. The reasons that I would choose Knicks would be fear of potential weather that I can't know yet when I have to make a start tonight along with the fact that I get to start him tonight and get a little head start on how did my week, you know.

Did I have a big awesome performance and now I can play the safer guy or did I, you know, not, you know, did Bo Nix go out there and score 13 points and now I've got to swing for the fences type? Don't want to talk about it. Have to talk about it. Tyrone Tracy Devon, Singletary split going up against the Bears defense that is 26th and schedule adjusted against running backs. I'm not impressed with nor desire to play either player. And yet somebody will probably have some. productivity of some sort. It's worth noting that... Or Mike disagrees. It's worth noting that Singletary got more work than Tyrone Trace. Tyrone and Tracy was the pickup. You know, Scataboo's gone for the season. And it might have been Devin Singletary who we should have picked up. If he remains the starter going forward, and he didn't look bad. He rushed for 5.4 yards a carry. Did he start? Or do he... I think he just ended up with more work. He just ended up with more work, as my memory says. But if he's the better player...

and getting more work. Maybe he does start this week. If I had to choose between the two of them, I'd still go with Tracy. But it's a, it's a full-time share. And Jackson Dart is almost the running back. Yeah. No, it's a good point. Buffalo's six and two. They go to Miami to take on the two and seven dolphins. Buffalo nine and a half point road favorites over under 50.5. All right. 50. That's a 30 to 20. implied point total. Buffalo has whooped up on Miami eight consecutive times. It's going to be nine. It's hard not to see it being nine. Josh Allen in particular, just, you know, 14 and two against the dolphins in his career. 43 passing touchdowns. Buffalo beat him in week three at home by 10. You know, right now the dolphins, I don't know what they really are.

I know I like playing Devon A-chan. He feels very safe. Maybe the safest running back in fantasy. Ever since Tyreek's gone down, his target share is always guaranteed. And then Jalen Waddle... He's been great. They didn't trade him. No. I mean, those two guys, A. Chan and Waddle, are, I believe, both great plays this week. You've got a high over-under. You've got a lot of implied points. You have needs for both of those players. That's it. Would you put on some... Adamantium underpants for Greg Dulcich. I wouldn't simply because, like, he is worth looking at that his routes run, his targets from last week. But this matchup is terrible. Buffalo shuts down the tight ends. So no. Maybe for the future? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Keep an eye on it for sure. Darren Waller came right in and had an impact. Maybe Dulcich would do the same. And that's off of Jono Smith last year. Like I do think that the targets for this role for this team for Tua and the tight end, great. But he is definitely in the streaming category.

And so you play the matchup, and it's not the right matchup. Two active games. So the first week, only 28% of the snaps, no targets. 36% of the snaps. Five targets in that time, though. So, yeah, I wouldn't play him because of the matchup, but you could keep an eye out. We'll probably be talking about them on Tuesday. We do not have an update that I can find on James Cook. On James Cook. I don't want to speculate too much, but I will say this. I think adding Ty Johnson and Ray Davis would be very wise. It's that time of year. You should always be. I have some concerns about James Cook being out there this week. I'm not sure it's going to happen. I think this is an ankle sprain situation, but we don't have an update on Thursday. I was really hoping by now, and maybe by the end of this show, we'll be able to give you an update. He didn't practice is the headline there. He didn't practice yesterday.

Where are you out with this, Jason? I'm a little scared, but by the way you're talking. You need to be prepared if you are the James Cook manager to pick up whoever you believe is the guy. Which we had some. We had a little bit of debate in the office. I still like Ray Smith. Ray Smith. I wouldn't like Ray Smith. What? Why am I blank? Ray Davis. Ray Davis. You're thinking about the, the Mecca Bull Commission. Think about Todd Bowles? Yes, yes. Shout out to the Megalovulcumish, who I was just slacking with. That might be why you called him. That might be why that name was in my head. But this is one of those situations where Ray Davis has had a smaller portion of the pie, you know, where he's the third string running back essentially in the three-way timeshare there. And the question is if James Cook goes down, does Ty just keep his role? And, and, you know, Davis.

usurps him or is the number two running back tie and not Ray Davis so I mean both would play I like the passing game work there so that's why I lean the tie side you like I mean I like the touchdown opportunities I think if they got around the goal line it would be Davis I you're probably right but I would be a little bit nervous about James Cook this week make sure you have a backup plan which is important He's been so good, and they have big goals, right? Buffalo is not in this short term. I hope I can beat Miami this week goal. It's the big picture, and I don't know, maybe we'll find out he's practicing in full, and all of this will be just garbage. Okay, question. Keon Coleman or Ricky Pearsall?

What? Forward? Yeah, no, just this week. Ricky Pearsall not playing. Or Keon Coleman. Or Keon Coleman. So this is your start, sit question. Yeah. It's one of the most popular start sit questions on our way. No, it's not. No, of course it's not. Ricky Pearson's not playing football. But that's the level where it's like Keon Coleman or Jamari Thrash. Talking about Keon Coleman anymore is a disservice to our show. Yeah, he's getting double touch. What a trick? What a trick. Eight for one, twelve. I traded for him this year. Yeah, because of week one, man. His highest yardage total since week one. He had 112 yards. Here's his yardage since then. 26, 20, 45, 23, 11, 30, and 17. He was cold-blooded, man. He lizard kinged us. He has 172 yards from week two on. Yeah. So, no, that's called irrelevance, and that's why I'm not going to bring them up again. Khalil Shakir, you'll get targets. If I was playing Shakira Shakir in this game or.

Alec Pierce, I would go Pierce. I agree. I think those hips are lying. Yeah, there you go. Dalton Kincaid, though. He's their number one wide receiver, or he's their number one pass catcher. He's their number one part-time player. If you had, I mean, he went right back to, yeah, because he played 35% of snaps and still ended up as a tight in three with 100 yards. His snap, his highest snapshot on the year is 55% once. Yeah. That's okay. If you score all the time. Yeah, it's just that's a house of cards. Well, if James Cook is hurt, then it's even better. For tight ends, if you're not the run blocking tight end and you're wanting to be using in routes, I would be more interested to see what his route participation is. It's just, man. Yeah, I do think if they're more limited and they have to throw the ball more, you know, Kincaid, maybe you see him out there, but a little bit more often. But that doesn't make you comfortable, does it?

in terms of just the snaps counts. I mean, I have accepted it in terms of like ranking Dalton Kincaid high and just being like, yeah, I would play him if I got him. Right. But it feels like a light breeze is going to come knock over your house. I will say that a lot of the reason, you know, Josh Allen, second year in a row, he's the leading MVP candidate without a top 30 wide receiver. Part of the ability to do that is how good the running game has been. So if James Cook is gone and you don't have a guy that can go out there and rush for 200 yards and two touchdowns and just completely take over the game on the ground, that might require a little bit more from Shakir or Coleman or Kincaid. We'll take a break. We'll talk Ravens Vikings. From Curtis 50 Cent Jackson and the executive producers of power comes the final season of force. Tommy Egan.

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Mike's team happy with Justin Jefferson rest of the season. We need to see hopefully the, you know, the progression from JJ. But last week was encouraging in terms of McCarthy's play. I mean, what is? Four starts or wherever we are for him. That was the best we've seen him play. No, not four. Three? This will be his fourth. So, I mean, it's not the numbers you need for elite fantasy performance, but to actually see. some positive momentum and a better game. I'm hopeful. I think that the Ravens are going to dominate this game, though. So you're fully in on the line and the... Yes. So not impressed, though, that Minnesota was able to beat Detroit last week? No. I think... Detroit beat themselves a little bit? Yeah, I think things are changing here for Baltimore. So then if you think Baltimore is going to dominate the game,

Addison. Where does he slot in? He had been very good. I think last week was a Satison week. It was. Kind of two in a row. He just, I mean, he's two for 40. He just missed on a touchdown. Then the drive it turned into a Jefferson touchdown. So it's not impossible. Pierce or Addison? Pierce. I'd be on the Pierce side as well. Parker, Parker Washington or Addison? So that's a good example of what do you need? Because I think if you need a high floor, no, if you're an underdog, I would go Addison. I don't think Parker Washington has the chance to go out and score touchdowns at the same rate. And that's really when you get those big Bada Boom games, a big long touchdown, that's Addison. But Parker Washington will have more guaranteed targets. So if you just need a floor play that's going to be like, I have to get eight points. I can't get a goose. Parker Washington, I would be shocked in this.

current version of the Jaguars. If he doesn't get, you know, seven, eight targets, Addison could go out and get four targets or he could dominate. So just a wider range of outcomes. You play Lamar, you play Henry. The Zay Flowers every year is the exact same thing. Yeah, we know what he is. There's a reason that I traded him away, even though he had a number one overall finish in week one. And it's that when they need him to be really good or he can be. But we're talking about a pretty long run now. I know that he just got Lamar back, but he hasn't finished inside the top 27 wide receivers since week one? It's just safe for like nine points last week, 10.6th, right before that. He'll be right around there. He'll have, before the end of the year, he will have two more spike weeks, I would project. But that's...

probably yet. And then, but eight to ten points is that, that's nice to have there. Jason, you've been the magic man when it comes to the moments to sign and start Mark Andrews and then you cut him and released him for a while. And then you picked him up again and played him at the perfect moment. He has two games in which he scored this year. You played him in both of them. Both were with Lamar Jackson. The four games without Lamar Jackson were, you know, just absolute poopy diaper duty. That's been his keyword this week. I knew I was getting another diaper gravy comment. I didn't go gravy though. I didn't go diaper gravy. What did you go? Diaper duty. Okay. Much different. Yeah, very different. You've got to change things up. I think Mark Andrews is a fine play. The matchup, the Vikings are 26 against tight ends. But he is kind of a touchdown or bust guy. So Lamar looks for him around the red zone.

The matchup is fine. Yeah, I would say... Play him over Hawkinson in the same game. Oh, yeah. Hawkinson is almost unplayable. He had a touchdown last week and was the tight end 18. Would you go Dallas Goddard against Green Bay or Mark Andrews? I think you'd have to go Dallas Goddard. All right. What about the running back situation for Minnesota, the last piece of the puzzle here? Aaron Jones didn't practice on Wednesday. They could be managing the veteran. Jordan Mason. It hasn't been good, man. Yeah, it has not. It's been very disappointing. And if Jones plays, he will get a lot of snaps, at least the way I'm projecting it, because Jordan Mason will not be the negative game script running back for. Yeah, any more versatility. So if Jones plays, I'm happy to plug him in. If he's out, then I guess you can try and get away with Jordan Mason. You hope you get that touchdown, but it has not been what.

Any of us has hoped for. It's not what the Vikings have hoped for in Mason. Do you remember how excited you were for that, like, Jackson Dart game with Caleb Williams? Mm-hmm. The Cleveland Browns at 2 and 6 take on the 1 in 7 New York Jets. So... The Vegas line, Cleveland minus 1 and 1 half with a nice over under of 37.5 points. Well, because we don't know... The competitive advantage? We don't know who the quarterback is going to be. As soon as we know... The Jets are just picking which quarterback will throw interceptions. Or be sacked. They're just deciding who they want Miles Garrett to sack. Now Cleveland only one and a half point favorites because they are inept in their own right. I know that Shadur is practicing. Do you expect at this point to see him at all? Or do you think they will not give him an opportunity? I think it's a long enough season where it just a matter of do the Browns win enough games to keep Dylan Gabriel on the field? And they probably don't because Dylan Gabriel will be on the field.

And so do they win this game? Yeah, probably against the Jets who just got rid of their defense. Got to love that. So Dylan Gabriel has started four games. They have lost three of them. And then the game that they won, he had 13 completed passes for 116 yards. So it's like they won not because Dylan Gabriel didn't have to do anything. They just won. Yeah, it's, it's. exactly what happened. Their defense is good enough to win every week. I mean, they occasionally he's going to get lucky and be able to do, you know, throw the ball to Harold Fanon three times. It will, it'll start getting pretty loud in a couple weeks. They should do her. They basically go in and out of easy game, hard game. So like this week is the Jets easy game. Then Baltimore that they're going to get smoked. Then the Raiders, they could win that. Then San Francisco, they're going to lose.

then the Titans. So it's like if Gillen Dabriel and the... Oh my gosh. Gillen Dabriel? Oh my goodness. Wow. Too much coffee this morning. Too little. Or too little. If Dylan Gabriel loses one of the easy games, then you expect three losses in a row. And I think, yeah, it'll be really noisy for Shadour. Gally, who would say something like that? Have you guys seen that head coach for Tampa? On the Cleveland, I mean, Quin Sean Judkins. Not on the injury report. He is in a very, very good situation. Like it was already good, and then the Jets traded away to defensive players. So he's in. It sucks that he does have the variability that he has right now. Like I saw somebody, you know, talking about, you know, the Gentie and Judkins in a trade. And because of Dylan Gabriel and the offense in Cleveland and the passing game work is so much better for Ginty, those are just not comparative to me.

But I think in some circles, you're like, hey, trying to find the schedule and how good Judkins has been on the ground. Judkins has gone from, you know, running back 48 to 4 to 45, I mean, the last three weeks. You can have these games where he's irrelevant because they're down by so many points. Yeah, you put Judkins on a, like put Judkins on the Baltimore Ravens. And he's just destroying for fantasy football. Every week. I mean, I will say that when he was the running back 45, the last one you threw out there, he got injured in that game. Yeah.

He only played 33% of the snaps. And the week prior, the game that you were talking about, Mike, that Dylan Gabriel won where he only threw for 116 yards. It was because Judkins said, this is my game. I'm going to score three touchdowns. You like it more than Brees in this one. Oh, man. In this game, yeah, I like him more than Brees. I think if he's off the injury report. My only fear is the shoulder. This matchup against the Jets defense that has now been downgraded, I expect like two touchdowns in this game from Judkins. It's convenient for the Jets. They lose their star cornerback, but they don't need one because they play Jerry Judy and Isaiah Bond. So see if they can cover Harold Fanon. I would still play Fanon, Judkins, Breece. And then if Garrett Wilson is active, I'm playing him. Yeah. You are playing him? Yep. I would. I would as well. I wouldn't have.

massive expectations, but the volume should be there. I get that, but he's just, his target share is, it is outrageous. Do you have a quarterback you're rooting for for Garrett, that you want it to be? Do you want it to be Justin Fields? I think still Fields, yeah. I think Fields is going to get the start. I do too. New England, seven and two, they take on the six and two Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Let's see what Baker can do at home, off the buy, two and a half point favorites. Over Under is 48 and a half. There's a lot to be looking forward to in this game. The Buccaneers defense is one of those defenses I'm targeting over the second half of the year. I wanted to throw that out there. Nice playoff matchups. They bring a lot of pressure. What has changed with Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers? We're seeing a lot of man coverage against them. We're seeing them having, you know, they've had Godwin and Evans go down on the offensive side. And Bucky.