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

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That's a little Janet reference for you, Jason. Oh, a little Jana Jackson reference. Yes. Okay. Okay. As for what the people want, so the people will get it. Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast. I'm your host. Mike, the fantasy hitman right, joined per usual of the week by my goodness, bestest fantasy friend of all time, Jason Moore. You know, you have this beautiful intro, but you missed it.

Oh, crap. What did I miss this time? It's football time. Oh, man. It's Thursday. It's football time. You're embarrassed now, aren't you? I am a little bit. Well, I'm in a different seat. I'm in a different state of mind. Certainly. So I wasn't in the groove of it's football time. What? It's football time. Thank you for picking up where I have left or let everybody down. Jason. On today's show.

Got the quick question go through the news and it's fantasy forecast time. Break down these matchups, give our starts of the week. And then, ladies and gentlemen, make sure you stick around. Oh, you don't want to miss. The boom boom kicker of the week is on today's show. And I have inside sources that have told me the research, the depth of knowledge, like ancient texts were involved. The prophecies were.

Red astrological signs have been consulted. But most importantly, this might be my worst rhyme of all time coming up. I was not used. Should have been. Let's get into the quick question. Who is the sneakiest snart for the uninitiated? That's the sneakiest start of the week. So who, Jason, is your sneakiest start of week seven? If you're in a PPR league,

And you are, you were just bringing it up right before the show your League of Record team. You have four wide receivers and basically they're all on by or injured. Yes. So you're, you're scraping the waiver wire for multiple ads. If you're a team that is good, you know, good elsewhere and you just need like that PPR plug-in guy, Tavon Austin. That's tough. He's on the field non-stop right now. The Eagles, if the Eagles are good at anything, though, their slot coverage is better than usual.

Like comparatively to where you can beat them, and you saw it last week. Yes, Adam Thielen came away with a touchdown, but the monster game was the outside receiver, Stefan Diggs. Yeah, this is why I say I would rather have Devin Smith. And also, I would never actually want Tavon Austin to be on my, like, I feel like that's just bad juju for your roster. Sure. All right, who you got, Mike? Well, actually, I'm going to pass it over to our cardboard bear extraordinaire, Jay Gris. He wants to chime in.

That's right. Wow. He says Anthony Miller, and this time we will not chastise him for being a homer. It's actually a great sneaky snart. Because there is a sound process here for Anthony Miller. He plays against the Saints. They're already bad against slot wide receivers. And that's when, PJ Williams, he was a player, a cornerback that we've loved to target for quite some time in fantasy football, knowing that if you get a good slot wide receiver,

Great things are going to happen against PJ Williams. Up! PJ Williams has been suspended by, for a few games here. He is out. So apparently, apparently they will be starting Patrick Robinson? That's what I see. Patrick Robinson. Now, you might be saying, who's Patrick Robinson? Cuckoo, Coo. Yeah. And by when I say, you might be saying who's Patrick Robinson, I'm talking to Sean Payton.

He's like, who's Patrick Robinson? Well, PFF has him graded in the 30s, which is the lowest score I've ever seen. And the score goes to 100, I believe. Right. Yes. When you're bad, you're in the 50s. I was like, wait, this can't be right. So, yeah, Anthony Miller, I mean, look, we don't love the quarterback situation or the passing volume, but we're trying to go deep, sneaky starts. These could also be players for, you know, if you're making a fan dual lineup, playing DFS, and you want the.

very non-chalk, the hidden gyms that are super cheap, could blow up. Those are some names for you, and Mike, who you got? So, and just to follow up, Anthony Miller has shed his shoulder harness, so it looks like, looks like we'll get all systems go. We'll see. And my sneaky snar of the week, the newly crown. Oh, this is my favorite one. The newly crown, because, look, heavy is the head, right? Yeah, and the lizard king could not handle it.

Oh, the Lizard King. The Lizard King has had to take over. Part of the news section will cover it, but I'll move it up to now. The Green Bay Packers, they didn't practice, but you still have to submit your report. And of their projections, Devante Adams did not participate. Marquis Valde Scanling did not participate. Geronimo Allison did not participate. I project that MVS will play, but Geronimo is going to be out.

Devante Adams is going to be out. That means Lazard is going to be on the field. See heavy snap counts. And whether he can do anything with that or not, that's up for debate. But you've got Aaron Rogers, who's spoken highly of him, who targeted him heavily when he came in the game. You have opportunity. And then if that one's too gross for you, I'll match Jason's slot-wide receiver with another one that I like. I like Cole Beasley against Miami. I, it...

They're going to be able to run all over them, yes. But Cole Beasley has been seeing very, very solid target volume in Miami's very beatable, as you would say. I think that's the kind of... I was trying to pull the punch a little bit. That was the kind of thing someone has said about the dolphins this season. They are very beatable. All right, let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league presented my sleeper. You're very excited for this one? I'm very excited. Just play the drop.

I'm trying to find it. The Raiders have signed Darren Waller to a contract extension through 2023. I read that it's about a $9 million per year situation. And look, this not just fantasy storylines of this coming to life, you know, where we all bought into Darren Waller said before week one, it's like, go pick up Darren Waller just in case something happens. The process is,

very strong saying that the target volume is going to be there. He's an athletic guy. But the positive news story about Darren Waller and these troubling times of a guy who, he almost lost his entire career to off the field issues, addiction, battling all that stuff. He came back. He recovered. He is just doing well as a man. So this is a story that really should be celebrated.

by everyone. It's a great feel-good story. Congratulations. Darren Waller. Yes. On the Saints side of the football, Alvin Camara, he is dealing with that high ankle type of issue. But the Saints have signed, Zined. Zined. When it's Zach Zinner, you say Zine. We have signed? We've signed. Zach Zinner. Nine? Yeah, look, it's never good news when a team goes out and just adds depth to a position when the starter is.

injured, but is, you know, look, he's got a good shot to play. You just don't usually go out and sign the depth. Because in order to sign the depth, you have to cut someone. They had to cut someone from their roster in order to make room to add Zach Zinner. And that just means it's, you know, I don't expect Alvin Kamara to play. That's not to say, you better prepare for it. Exactly. He is not like he's ruled out or anything yet, but you have to prepare.

as if you're not going to have him, and then get better news if you do. I mean, obviously, Latavius Murray is a fine play. If you are the, if you're the Camara owner, you already had both, you'll be all right. By fine play, Jason, he does play the Chicago Bears. So volume-wise. Volume and volume and scheme, I think, are good. Obviously, not a good match-up.

Raiders wide receiver Tyrell Williams remains sidelined. We have reports from Gruden, Coach Gruden, that it is theitis, the plantar fasciitis. Usually the itis when you say it is a fumbling problem, is the fumbleitis.

Yeah, it's a very... You can't have two different ituses. I can have so many idises. I've got theitis, Jason. And whichitis is this? That's the diverticulitis. Oh, fantastic. I'm so sorry to hear about it. I have my old man disease in my bowels. Okay.

All right. I just can go everywhere. Mason Rudolph has cleared the concussion protocol I would expect him to play. Sean McVade, speaking on Todd Gurley, quote, he's going to participate in a limited fashion. I think he's on a good pace to hopefully be able to play on Sunday. I think he's on a good pace to hopefully play Sunday. Sounds promising. I had tweeted out yesterday that we hadn't seen the practice reports yet, but we knew Todd Gurley was dealing with his own thing.

And then it came out later that Malcolm Brown was dealing with an ankle injury. Malcolm Brown did not practice on Wednesday. So I had tweeted out, ghost, go look. Maybe Darrell Henderson's on your waiver wire. You don't know for sure right now if you're going to be able to play him with full confidence. But if Gurley's out, it looks like Malcolm Brown is training to be out. Holy goodness. Darrell Henderson this weekend is going to go.

Benannis against the Atlanta Falcons. He's a great back. It's a great matchup. We love them coming out of college. I mean, I am so scared of this offensive line issue that I, you know, I temper some of the upside. But he's a hard stash because he's the third guy and there's two guys ahead that aren't necessarily ruled out by any means. You know, they're hopeful that both of them are going to play. It's difficult because a lot of times it's the girly owner.

that has the Malcolm Brown. And then you're like, oh, now I need Daryl Henderson. Well, now you're taking up three roster spots in one team. And that's a difficult task when nobody's ruled out. You can't move anybody to the IR yet. And speaking of, I tweeted it out, make sure you're following us on Twitter. Because look, we got the podcast coming up five times a week, but we recorded once. And then when lay breaking news happens,

I'm sorry, we can't alter the podcast. It's just not part of what we can do. So follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. I am at FF Hitman. Follow Jason, which congratulations to Jason. He was a top 10, top 10 inaccuracy this past week, crushing yet again. Thank you, sir. You follow him at Jason FFL. Follow the cardboard bear extraordinaire at J. Gris FFL1Z. That's right. I was wondering if you were going to know.

And Andy, if you want to follow his ice cream escapades that have been happening at Andy Holloway and our Instagram handles are the same as our personals. This man eats way too much ice cream. I mean, there's just no other way to put it. Andy eats ice cream on a daily basis. Like, that's like a child's dream. I want, it's a day, so I get ice cream. He grew up and went, I can have ice cream every day.

thought he could survive, he would be an ice creamitarian and eat only ice cream. He'd have the ice creamitis, as you would say. Well, that's a problem. If you eat only ice cream. And then he would have dieticulitis? No, you're going to get the beatis. If you go with that route. Mitchell Trubisky was a full participant in Wednesday's practice. He will likely be back. Chris Herndon, reading the tea leaves of his activation, maybe a bit. Presumptive.