Starts of the Week, Week 7 Breakdown & Tight End Sniffing

Like, I don't know. I'm so terrified of this situation because, and we'll talk about it later. Let me comfort you with this. Okay. I'm going to tell you about a quarterback. This was a line he just put up on the Atlanta Falcons three weeks ago. He completed 67% of his passes through for 227 yards and three passing touchdowns, a passer rating of nearly 130. Does he have alliteration in his name? That quarterback doesn't have a job anymore. It's Marcus Mariotta. That's real helpful.

Jared Goff is a great start this week. You just got to deal with it. Moving on to the next game. Look up a little peek behind the curtain. I'm playing Alan Lazard in our League of Record right now, and I'm playing him in our Dynasty League. So if you want to go down with that ship, come with me. Go get cold-blooded. Come with me. Dolphins, bills. That was the over-under, actually, that I just vomited out. 39.

But the bills are... No, is this... Yeah, the bills are favored by... They're favored by 17? 17 points that is... That's just unbelievable. Because the bills, usually when a team is favored by that much, which is not common, right? That's a Patriots spread. It's pretty much exclusive for the Patriots or when the chiefs are on fire in a... But the point is, it's a prolific offense mixed with a...

good matchup. But this is not a prolific offense, but Vegas is saying they're going to score a lot. 28 points. Now, I do temper that, you know. How many defensive scores are included? That's what I was going to say. I temper the Vegas line when you're, if you're, if you make your own rankings or whatever and you're looking at projected team totals, you can't give the bills offense the projected team total of 28 points. Quarterbacks have scored.

24 or more fantasy points against Miami in every game except for last week with, and that was Case Keenham. Josh Allen is a mighty fine start. Ryan Fitzpatrick will be taking the helm for the now bench Josh Rosen by the second half. Yeah, Josh Rosen will be in. Josh Rosen might be back in at the running back position.

Kenyon Drake, the possibly traded Kenyon Drake. Do you have any interest against the Buffalo? No, there's no single player on the Dolphins. Let's just get this out of the way. Okay. Dolphins running back. So you playing him? Nope. What about the wide receivers? Nope. Okay. Even with Gunslinger Fitzpatrick? Devante Parker is actually exciting to me if Fitzpatrick can make it through this game and retain the starting role.

But I don't think this is the matchup where I'm going to take the shot. Nor am I. All right. The bill started the ball. Running back. Devin Singletary. It looks like he's going to be back. He is, wow. He's tied for eighth among running backs with five runs of 15 plus yards. And he hasn't played since week two. He is electric. He was my week two start of the week where he got a touchdown and everything. Look like the arrow was pointing up. And then.

He pulled the ham. Got theitis. The hamitis? I'm going to say that one don't work. The ham. Come on. Look, he came down with a terrible case of muscleitis. Okay. Better, still bad. He's electric. I've tried. Thitis? Al, Al Borland, can you mute his microphone? That was terrible. It's a play on words. It's for the sophisticated. Thitis? Yeah.

Okay. I like it. Are you still working on muting his microphone? All right. So I've been trying to scoop up, and by scoop up, I mean trade for Devon Singletary everywhere. I have failed. I've not gotten an owner to be able to trade him to me. But I do think he is, I feel like in general, in leagues out there, you should be able to get him. He hasn't really done anything. He hasn't broken out. If you look at his carry numbers.

They're pretty terrifying. I mean, he's really not touched the ball much. He has 10 attempts on the season. Right. So, I mean, you should be able to trade for a guy that going into week seven has 10 career rushing attempts. According to the football outsider's metrics, Buffalo ranks number one in adjusted line yards. Meanwhile, Miami is allowing the second most rushing yards per game. I think you can start Singletary. And I think you can start Frank Gore if you're in a desperate spot.

John Brown, Johnny B. has been getting it done. He's been all right. Nothing explosive yet, but he at least has a connection with Josh Allen. What's your temperature on John Brown? Look, my temperature is if you, he is a must play this week. We're going to talk about him a little bit later because, I mean, you've got a guy who is leading, he's got a great market share for the team. His depth of target is fantastic. He's got big blowup potential. I forgot he blew up week one.

Right. 123 in a touchdown. But after that, it's just been real steady, though. 7 for 72, 4 for 51, 5 for 69, and 5 for 75. So he's getting enough targets in every game to be a startable asset. Yeah, he's a weekly, yeah. And then you get the matchup against the Dolphins. That's what you're taking to the bank and hoping for a big game. I would really not want to bench John Brown in this matchup. Cole Beasie, like I said, he's a sneaky start. I'm not expecting huge things, but maybe you're in a tough position.

Dawson Knox, tight end for the Buffalo Bills. He's sort of interesting. The dolphins are 22nd against fantasy tight ends. I don't think you need him here. I mean, I don't think the bills need him here as a pass catcher. You know, usually when you've got a difficult defense, you need to scheme things and sneak the tight end out for the touchdown or something. I think they're just going to beat, you know.

beat the tar out of the dolphins with base, with their base offense just, you know, their main weapons are just going to succeed. And so I'm not totally into Dawson Knox in this matchup. All right. Crazy question, because here we are. Buffalo defense or the New England defense. Somehow you've got both. Somehow you were tearing it up with New England. You saw the Buffalo schedule and you said, I'm going to leverage this. I'm going to pick them up. You've got both now. You can only play one.

This would be the first time I think you can actually recommend benching the Patriots defense. I would play Buffalo. I would rather have the Bill's defense over the Patriots this week. Rams, Falcons, the Rams are coming in at 500. The Falcons are 1 in 5. But we do have a delicioso 54 point over under. The Rams are favored by three.

We've kind of talked about Jared Goff a little bit. We're going to cover him even more because he has my start of the week. I ain't scared to play golf in this matchup. Matt Ryan leads the league in attempts, completions, air yards. He's doing his thing. Matt Ryan is tearing it up. He's a weekly must play. Let's get into more interesting questions than the quarterbacks. Well, before we move on from the quarterbacks, I do want to point out one thing because my big worry with Goff and with the whole Rams office is the offensive line.

Their offensive line has been trashed, and then they lost their left guard. They traded for a bust and have nobody to plug that hole. And when you put a bust on your starting lineup, they don't move around very much. Right, because they are... Because they're in fact made out of stone. Yeah, or stone, for sure. That's a great point, Mike. Thank you. But what I was saying is that my worry with Goff is pressure. He doesn't do well under pressure, and he has nobody to protect him. But then...

the Falcons are like a soothing balm because an ointment. An ointment. Kyler Murray and DeShon Watson were on record pace, both of them for sacks. And then both of them, collectively the two guys over the last two weeks, have only taken one sack between four games.

But each one of those guys got to play the Falcons. Right. And so it's like... Because the Falcons have five sacks on the year. Yeah, they don't pressure anybody. Not scared. At the running back, if Todd Gurley plays, do you play him? Yes. What do you expect? Are you hoping for that 90% snapshot we saw before he had to miss a week? Or you think he's like a...

more of a time share with Mr. Henderson. I think he's definitely more of a time share. There's no way he's coming in and getting 90% of the snaps. He come in, get 65% of the snaps. But the matchup with the Falcons is pretty good. I think especially if they're using him and the passing game the way they were before he went out, that's where you're going to beat the Falcons. The Falcons have been in the entire Dan Quinn era so incredibly bad at stopping.

passing to the running back position. And Sean McVeigh is smart enough to realize that and get Todd Gurley or Malcolm Brown or Darrell Henderson the ball in space. If you watched, there was a play last week where David Johnson snuck out. They just ran all their wide receivers. Oh, yes. Just nine routes. Just run to the end zone. And the entire Falcons defense went. And then here's David Johnson catching the ball. And there's nobody within.

His separation was, I think, 30 yards. Yeah, no exaggeration. It was at least 15 yards. And some of the players was 30. It was unbelievable. It was like, that's not an NFL defense. Right. Delightful. Now, on the other side of the field, Devonta Freeman, Jason, I keep trying to tell you that you can start Devonta Freeman. And four straight weeks, he has been very fantasy relevant. Can you finally acquiesce and agree that it's time to play Devonta Freeman with confidence?

Um, no. What does the man need to do? He needs to retire. I don't, I just, he hurt me. Over 100 yards, two receiving touchdowns last week, two weeks ago, 70 total yards of receiving touchdown. Three weeks ago, 100 total yards, four weeks ago, almost 100 yards. Like, you are a crazy person. Look, okay.

I've got to give good analysis for the listeners. You are, the pen is blue right now. Yes, no. You start Devante Freeman. I know you start Devon to Freeman. Right now I've got him ranked as a clear cut starter. He's my running back 15. But you ask the question, can I trust him? And no. Okay. So you personally, I personally. What about the collective view as in the listeners? The listeners should put him in the lineup. I mean, he's, he's my running back 15.

It's a fine matchup. The Rams aren't terrible. They're not. 20 second against fantasy running backs. Yeah, but exactly. They're not great either. So it, yeah, go ahead and start him. I want you to know while you do start him that I will never trust him again. Fair. Julio Jones was waltzing. He was doing the tango into a delicious matchup. And then the Rams traded for Jalen Ramsey, who I.

have to assume we'll be out there. It seemed that all the back ailments, they disappeared when he put on a Rams jersey, healing powers. They, they were incredibly, uh, powerful. That jersey. Did you see, did you see the, the introduction when he met Sean McVeigh? Oh, the hand, the.

The professional high five, like these guys have been best friends for... That couldn't have been the first... Multiple years? That couldn't have been the first take, right? No. They did that a couple times. We watched take five. Like, we're... We've been friends for a decade. There's no way. There's no way we could go in for that good of a high five. That was a whip crack. It was unbelievable. So obviously he's going to shut down, uh, Julio... He won't shut down Huli Jones. It just, it stinks that...

The matchup was going to be great for Julio, and now it's a little bit more concerning, but you're still playing him. Well, now that brings like to the other options. Your Calvin Ridley, Mohamed Sunnu, obviously Austin Hooper is locked and loaded in there. But if you had to choose between Mohammed Sunu and Calvin Ridley, who bizarrely keeps coming off the field, he's, you know, he should be pretty much in every snap player. And his utilization has, he was on the field last week for,

59% of offensive snaps against Arizona while they're throwing the ball. I was at the game and I was like, why do they keep bringing them out of the game? So who do you choose between those two players? Floor ceiling. If I want safety, I'll go with Mosanoo. If I want to have an actual real impactful fantasy game, we'll go with Calvin Ridley. So go with Calvin Ridley. That's your answer. Fair.

The Rams wide receivers, meanwhile, will take on the Falcons defense, who they are ranked 30th against fantasy wide receivers. I think this is a get right game. But can Jared Goff, the king, Jared Goffrey, can he support all three of these guys in this matchup? The Falcons are going to say yes. The Falcons are going to say, do whatever you want to us. So all three are in play. What about...