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you're just crossing your fingers for a rushing touchdown. Because the Eagles defense is just that, I mean, it's the worst matchup for running back. Their defensive line is so good. Yeah, it's unstoppable. And it just doesn't match up with, it's like what you said with nausea in the ground and pound. That's Brian Robinson's M.O. So I don't expect success there. Brian Robinson last time in week four against this team had 12 fantasy points, which you would be happy with. But he did fall into the end zone. If you take those six points out, it was bad. And if you look at his other games, the game before it, seven total points. The game after it, six total points. The game after it, 12, okay, and then eight, eight point three. So, I mean, he really hasn't. And the two games in that whole stretch where he has 12 points, both of those games, six of those came from a touchdown. So, dude, he had eight points against the Giants and he scored.

That's some good work. That's incredibly inefficient. I don't want to play Brian Robinson this week. And yet he is the running back 10 on this season. Yeah, well, he started the year with some monstrous games. But I think, you know, if you're talking about Darnell Anderson, a.k.a. Daryl Henderson or Brian Robinson, I'm going Henderson. Got you. Hertz, Swift, A.J. Brown, and Goddard are locks. Devante Smith has been. struggling. I feel like Jason is single-handedly trying to muster a good game from Devante Smith. This is the week. It's been rough. This is the week. The Washington Manders on the season are giving up the most fantasy points to wide receivers. I thought it was the week for him earlier. Well, he got injured. No, he got. Remember the start of the week earlier?

He wasn't. He was going to be, but then he... Oh, you pivoted him? I pivoted on him because of the injuries. So you didn't lose that power, the start of the weak power. Correct. Not that that's what you're going to do in a minute. No, I'm holding. He was seven for 78 in week four against Washington. Yeah. So this is the week, Jay. This is the week. You heard it here. Yeah. So a touchdown guarantee. I mean, you wouldn't be happy without a touchdown. Oh. Absolutely. Absolutely. Touchdown guarantee. It wouldn't be the week if he didn't score. You got fired up right there. Yeah. Well, I had to think about it. And it just dawned on me. Whoa, he's getting a touchdown this week for sure. I love it. All right. Let's move on. Welcome to starts of the week presented by Purina Pro Plan. You know what? I think we should start at the wide receiver position. Okay. And why don't you kick it off, Jay? I'll kick it off.

Devante Smith at Washington. It has obviously been rough four of his last five games. He's had fewer than seven fantasy points. I get the desire to say, should I pivot? Should I bench him? But this is the get right week. First off, We already know he gets a touchdown this week. That's guarantee. But Washington's secondary, they are a print fest for opposing passing games. They're 29th and scheduled adjusted fantasy points to wide receivers. They're 29th in yards per attempt. And his last three games against the commanders, Mike, you brought up the 7 for 78 earlier this year. That was on nine targets. He had six receptions at a touchdown last year in week 10. And in week three last year, eight.

for 166 and a touchdown. Okay. So he has, he has destroyed the commanders. It's a great matchup for him. Um, he's my start of the week. My wider series start of the week is rookie Zay Flowers taking on the Arizona Cardinals. Uh, the Ravens, uh, are set up to slaughter the Cardinals. Yeah. It's a much more aggressive bird. The raven. Oh, in a bird fight? My money is on the raven. We are. Welcome to the bird podcast yet again. I mean, like, Ravens, I believe they protect like the London Tower. Hmm. So, I mean, these are mean, birds. I mean, you could have just made that up. And I would have been like, yeah. Ravens come wrapping at the door. That tower needs, uh, do that too. Protecting. Flowers has a 27% target share. Consistent floor every week. Part of the offensive design.

and the Cardinals are 27th against Whiteouts. And I'm going to go Christian Kirk against the Pittsburgh Steelers since the week won Dudd, which was so bizarre because that matched everything that they said they were, or that they were showing us that Kirk is only the slot guy. I'm sure that Zay Jones injury has factored in, but Kirk is the guy. It has not been Calvin Ridley. It's been Christian Kirk averaging nearly nine targets and nearly 80 yards per game since week one. wide receiver 10 in that time span. And the Steelers dead last in schedule adjusted fantasy points to the wide receiver. Christian Kirk is a must start. And speaking of the Zay Jones injury, he didn't participate in practice Wednesday. We brought that up, but they have a bye week next week. So I think it's heal up Zay Jones and go bananas. And that's why I'm saying like pick Zay Jones up just in case. Yeah. At quarterback, I have DAC.

Prescott against the Los Angeles Rams. He is at home. Mike, you mentioned him as your second half sleeper because of the schedule that is coming up for him. And the Cowboys have a 25.8 team implied total as six point home favorites that comes by scoring touchdowns. Over the last month, the Rams are 28th and schedule adjusted fantasy points to quarterbacks. Dax should have his healthiest offensive line that he's been struggling with that this year. They're coming off of the buy. The Rams ranked 29th and adjusted sack rate. This should be a get right game for that coming off of a quarterback one performance. I'm going to go with the same player I put as my quarterback streamer of the week. CJ Stroud against the Carolina Panthers. Been so impressed with Stroud gets one of his weapons back. Let's not forget. Like when we say, oh, he slowed down a little bit. Well, part of it was like Tankdale's not there to help him. And he's back. Carolina's 27th and fantasy points allowed to quarterbacks.

He has been picking people apart. And I think that you're going to have a pretty fun game between Carolina and Houston. I'm going Jared Garf. Really? Jared Garf Monday night action against the Las Vegas Raiders. Hey, announcing. Sir. We have a 27 implied points for the Detroit Lions, eight and a half point home favorite, at least the last time I had looked. Still not expecting David Montgomery. That should be more passing, more passing touchdowns. And since the beginning of the 2022 season, Gough is averaging over 27 fantasy points per game when he is at home. And the Raiders allowing a Jason, very nice, 69% completion rate. All right. I'm going at the running back position with Kareem Hunt.

He is on the road in Seattle with Jerome Ford out. Hunt is going to be a really solid week. He's a really, really good player. He's been surprising. Like when you watch it, he's got the juice. I worried when he wasn't signing anywhere this offseason that maybe he just has lost a step and doesn't have it, but he looks well. He's been a top 12 running back each of the last two weeks on just 31% of the snaps. And he should see 15 plus touches in this game against Seattle. running backs this year who see 15 plus touches average 14.7 fantasy points per game. You ever look at your team in the league of record and just say sometimes it just doesn't go your way. My opponent this week is like that injury, the injury storylines all bend towards his roster. It's like Cream Hunt's on the roster. I wouldn't have been afraid of Cream Hunt. Now I'm afraid of Cream Hunt.

Dalton Kincaid's on his roster. I wouldn't have been afraid of Dalton Kincaid. Now I'm afraid of Dalton Kincaid. Yeah. Gets Tankdale back. Sometimes it just goes that way. He's siphoned my luck. He's siphoned your health. We're at running back, right? Yeah. You just went Cream Hunt. I went Gus Edwards against Arizona. It's time to hop on board. Do we have that? The Gus bus. Apparently two people had it. Oh, that's... Give me a clean one because that was terrible. Beep, beep. He's the preferred running back over Justice Hill. When Baltimore gets inside the red zone, it's even juicier, and they will. He's seen a touch on 40% of his snaps. So when he's out there, they use him, the Cardinals. I mean, it's kind of funny. They are also the 27th against running backs. All three of my starts, the opponent is 27th against that position. We see what you target. I think it's going to be a very big week for Gus Edwards. Yep, at the tight end. Excuse me.

Oh, you've got one? Yeah, I have a running backs. I mean, we can bypass. Yeah, probably should. It's, uh, I want to give some confidence to still starting Chuba Hubbard against the Houston Texans. I know that Miles Sanders is back, but Chuba over the, over the season has been the better running back. Frank Reich came out and he talked about, if we're going to look at a committee approach, then the quote, Chuba's been doing pretty well. And again, it's more rotation and more play by play. This is not a coach saying. As soon as Miles Sanders is back with his big old contract and big bag of money, he's the starting running back. This is appropriately, we're going to go with the hot hand. And I think that Chuba can still have it. It's the Texans, one of the worst run defenses in the NFL, 25th, schedule adjusted points, and 31st in PFF's rush defense and tackling grades. I'm still willing to play Chuba. Okay, dokey.

at tight-end position. I'm going with Tayson Hill in that Colts game. I like targeting Colts games as of right now. As of this recording, Juan Johnson is not practicing in full. And you can no longer, I mean, here's the craziest thing about Tayson Hill as a tight-in start of the week. He's playing tight-end. He's actually for the first time in his 70-year career is actually playing tight-in. Last week, he ran 42 routes. That was the second most at the tight-in position in the NFL. He is also still a goal line running back. So if you get a tight end plus a goal line running back, last week, five rushes, 18 yards and a score over the last two weeks, 13 targets, 11 receptions, 99 yards, and this game could go.

bonkers. You know, the Colts are allowing 27.3 points per game, 30th in the NFL. So why didn't you bid more than three fab on him? I didn't have much fab and I liked Ferguson quite a bit this week. This week. And so I thought I would take the cheaper option between two worthy starts of the week. All right. I'm going with. Nice. Gooku. I just want to highlight that this is the tight-in five on the year. This is Mike's my guy that had a rough start. You know, it wasn't looking good. Seven for 98 and one last week on eight targets. If you want to answer the question of what happened to Wondale, there's part of your answer. He got eaten by a walrus. He got eaten, which look, I don't know how many humans, walruses eat on the regular basis. But at least just a few. Just one. This is the one. This is the wide receiver one. So Mike, close us up. I'm going with Jake Ferguson, the guy that Jason just talked about, Mr. Fergalicious.

It's still the second best matchup for the tight-end position. That includes a dud against the Pittsburgh Steelers. It's one of the higher over-unders of the week. He's still averaging five targets per game. And his home team, everything, I mean, six-point home favorites, 25-point team-implied total. And I think that Fergalicious is still in play as a tight-end streamer. Thanks again to our sponsor, Purina ProPlan Sport. ProPlan Sport provides a fine-tuned nutrition. For strength and stamina that enables dogs and owners to take on life's adventures together, pro-planned sport high-performance fuel for active dogs. It all starts here. Jason Moore's Ironclad, locked and loaded, 100% guaranteed boom-boom kicker of the week. Last week on the boom-boom kicker. I went full Mark McGuire tricked by a poisoned baked potato skin.

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