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

David Johnson, while he's being given some practice off and missed practice last week, he wasn't limited in pretty much any way last week. The matchup is good, though. I mean, the only position that the Giants are good against is tight end. Cardinals barely even sniff their tight ends. Is that a phrase? It just put a real strange image into my head. They're just gathered around.

Hmm, you never want to sniff the tight end. That's, I'll get you in trouble. Flagrant sniffing on the defense. Larry Fitzgerald, we've got him as our consensus number 18, five or more receptions in every game, a near 23% target share. You can play him. Christian Kirk, we don't know for sure if he is playing, but if he is in, is he right back into your lineup, Jason. If he, yeah, I mean, if he's practicing and active this week, which we'll, we'll know more tomorrow.

then I would plug him in. This is a juicy, juicy matchup for all the Cardinals involved. The latest report from Cliffy Kay is he wants Kirk at 100%. Sure. So, I mean, that's the thing. If he's active, then you know, okay, he's ready to go and they're not going to limit him because they're going to limit him by not playing him. This is a game, I believe.

The reason that I was higher on Daniel Jones and some of these other quarterbacks that you were asking about other than Wince, despite Patrick Peterson coming back is the Cardinals defense is trash and the Giants defense is trash. This is one of those games where I fully expect a bonanza. A back and forth, high rate of play.

I think there's going to be a ton of fantasy points of this game. And I think that Golden Tate is a fine start. Arizona is giving up the second most points to the slot position. That's what Golden Tate is. You said it. Patrick Peterson is back. That's helpful for other matchups. But considering that the best two wide pass catchers on this team right now are Golden Tate in the slot and Evan Engram, who Patrick Peterson will not be guarding. No one will be guarding.

Fair, very, very fair. Evan Engram is going to go off against the worst ranked defense against fantasy tight ends. Jason, we're going a little bit long the day, but those things happen. We're going to get into our starts of the week. Starts of the week. I'll kick it off right away with Kyler Murray as my start of the week. He's going to go nuclear this week. That's three nuclear references in this show for those counting at home. Bomb.

The Giants have allowed 285 passing yards per game. Kyler Murray is on pace to be one of the highest passing yard rookies of all time. We've been saying if the passing touchdowns can come, then he takes himself from already being a top 12 quarterback to being a top three type of quarterback for fantasy. And the big difference is because he's been rushing the ball. That's why his baseline is just so good.

The first two weeks of his season, you know, his career, he didn't run the ball. And you were like worried, oh, is he going to not use one of these guys? Use that skill set in the NFL. Well, that's been out the window. Who's got the skills? Come on, man. If you got the skills, you got to pay the bills. Yeah. I mean, that did not last the last month, the last four games. He's on pace for.

If that was a 16-game stretch for 884 rushing yards and eight rushing touchdowns, this is a perfect play. I expect points back and forth. Kyler-Marie is, you know, there's very few players I would start over. I mean, you know, you got Mahomes, you got Watson, but Kyler Murray should be thought of almost in that tier, I believe. And now, dear it, Jared Garf.

My quarterback started the week playing against the Atlanta Falcons defense. They've given up five QB1 weeks. The fourth most passing guards, the lowest sack percentage in the league. I have Carson, Winston, Jared Gough. And I played Jared Gough last week. Whoops, thankfully I still want. You have to convince me right now. These are start of the week. I just did. You think you did with just that? Five QB1 weeks? Jason, we're on week seven.

Okay, that's fair. But Wince, Wins has, I mean, would you start Jared Gough over Wins? Yes. Okay. Wince has five QB1 weeks. So, Goff has, you want me to look at golf? No, he was the, don't look at it. Okay. Don't look at it. It's hard to, it's so hard. I just, like, this is selfish. I'm not thinking about the foot clean. I'm just thinking about my lineup. I need to know.

Who has started those two? I've been toiling and I can't make a decision. It's like when you're looking in the mirror and you see what's actually there. But playing the Atlanta defense, that's like looking in a fun house mirror. Things get very distorted. It's not a normal reflection. Your head gets all gigantic. Jared Goff is going to ball out. My running back start of the week is Matt Barita. He's also going to ball out.

San Francisco has the number two run blocking offensive line, according to football outsiders. Meanwhile, Washington, their D-line ranks 24th against the run. It's a match made in heaven, a run-heavy team. And on top of that, a...

Great matchup. I think Matt Breeder can be locked in and should have a monstrous week. Who you got, Jay? My start of the week is Philip Lindsay. The Kansas City Chiefs without Chris Jones, who isn't going to play this week, have not been able to stop the run, and this is the recipe for beating them. That's why they've lost the last two games. And Philip Lindsay is electric. He's a great running back. Boogie, boogie. He was a top 12 back last year. He got off to a slow start, you know, but he's been a top 12 guy three of the last four weeks.

He has rushed for 20 plus yards on about 5% of his carries. That's the best of all qualifying running backs in the league. And you know how my league of record opponent has just been? Yes. Let's say. They're the magic eight ball. Nuclear. Yeah. Oh. Four. My opponent has Philip Lindsay. So start your Philip Lindsay. My wide receiver start of the week.

Michael Gallup, he gets to Philadelphia secondary at home. Marry Cooper is projecting to be out. Currently, Michael Gallup is seventh in yards per game. He is eighth in big play percentage. That's going to happen to this team. And then my honorary, because I struggled with this, I was wrestling myself all night. That sounds really, really bad. Well, well, well. This is a family show, Mike. Oh, Jay Gris.

It does not approve, but it is DJ Chark. Do, do, do, to do. Oh, goodness. He's taking on the Bengals, and there will be without their starting corners. Their secondary is just depleted. So I'm good. DJ Chark is a great play this. Okay. All right. Well, then I'll give two as well. I'm going to at wide receiver because this is. Wait, you're going to because I went to? Yeah. Because I wrestled with, I wrestled with this. There were, there were two guys I originally had in before I had John Brown.

The player that I was going to put was Brandon Cooks. I mean, we've been talking about this matchup against Atlanta. And when I go, you know, for the start of the week and you're looking for a big blow-up play, you want speed, you want depth of target, you want air yards. And John Brown and Brandon Cooks are those type of players. And the matchup for both of these guys, the dolphins and Atlanta, respectively, are great. So I think you've got huge blow-up potential from those two.

super fast guys. So John Brown and who's your tight end? My tight end is Jason Witten. Yuck. I get it. But the thing is, is this is an extraordinarily important game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles.

They have to move the ball. They have to score. I mean, the Cowboys are at home, and Jason Whitten is a safety valve. They don't have Amari Cooper in this game. The Philadelphia Eagles are good at stopping the run, and I think that when you get to just about every third down, you're going to have these Jason Whitten leakouts, and Philly has not been great against tight-ins. So this is just one of those plays where the targets are going to be there.

for Jason Witten. I think he's going to have seven plus targets, and at tight end, that's all you can hope for. Tight end is difficult at the start of the week. It's a problem for us every single week, and it's crazy. I'm looking at my rankings right now. There's eight must start tight ends. Normally we look at tight end and go, oh, it's disgusting, but let me go through this list for you. Travis Kelsey, George Kittle, Evan Engram.

Yep. Thet Kurtz. Four. Austin Hooper. Five. Darren Waller. Six. Mark Andrews. Seven. Hunter Henry. Eight. I mean, those are must-start guys. And Evan Engram is being very selfish and hogging the Arizona matchup. So you can't just go with that. And because of that, I just want to mention this tight end. It's, it would be a 100% glory play, but things are trending in the right direction for Dallas Goddard. Since we.

He's at about 70% of snaps. And if you remember, he was hurt early on in the season. There was a whole bunch of talk in the offseason that the Eagles are going to go two tight-in sets. Then that got ruined because Goddard got hurt. Last, he is still third in yards after contact at the tight-end position. Last week he had the third-most targets at the position. I'm just saying things are trending in the right direction for him. You may want to look at him. And in a world,

where there are eight, at least this week, eight must-start guys. If you're reaching for the bottom of the barrel, Dallas Goddard has upside. He has upside every week, and he has upside if Zacharts were to miss time. Jason, are you prepared? Oh, me, me, me. Jason Moore's, ironclad, locked and loaded. 100% guaranteed boom, boom kicker of the week.

Oh, go ahead and take this one to the house cause. Coming off the by, I'm going with the bills, Stephen Hauskus. Housecus. Did you multiply his name? I had to to make him work. I did my best. That's your best? That, you look. People are relying on you for your kicker analysis, Jason. For my kicker rhymes. And you got a hot one right there.

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