The Halloween Show! + Week 8 Matchups, Candy Comps - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/29

Well, we're splitting them. I mean, right now, I think until they're by week in a couple of weeks, you're just going to see more of what you've seen. Melvin Gordon, Giovante Williams are going to have similar touches, similar opportunities. This is a week you can play them. This is the Jacksonville, or Washington football team. This is the Washington football team that's defense has been very poor. I expect Denver, who's been peep.

You trid the last month just so bad. I think this is their get right game. They're at home against Washington with Jerry Judy Beck. If they have a lead and their defense can stop a hobbled, injured Washington football team's offense, then this is where Giovante Williams can have a good game. Melvin Gordon can have a good game. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 6 and 1 traveling to New Orleans to take on the Saints, who are 4 and 2.

The DK Sportsbook line has the Buccaneers favored by four and a half points, and the over under is at 50 and a half. Jason, it's time. James Winston. Does he get his revenge? No. Against Bruce and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. No. You didn't let me finish. Well, I didn't want to lend too much credence. James Winston has been an enigma.

When they show the touchdowns, the interception rate, it's unbelievable. There's a playing card in my water. Oh, nice. What a magic trick. I should have just. Oh, incredible work magician. Oh, now it's dripping all over me. Oh. Yeah, that seems right for the costume. Matt Nagy accidentally doing things that he finds. He's like, oh, this could be cool. No, this backfired. Yeah, I mean, I honestly went.

Who put a playing card in my water and I didn't see it happen? But it was me. That's the answer. Yeah. So what do you make of this game? The Saints defense has been locked down. They've given up a little bit through the air. And, you know, they lost Marsha on Latimore for a time. And so that factors in. But Latimore is back. And then outside of that, they've just been absolute. They're top five against quarterback, top five against running back, top five against tight end.

Um, they're a brutal matchup. Yeah. But they're going against one of the best offenses in the league with Tom Brady. Any hesitation to start, Tom? Mm-mm. Would you like, would you pivot to Kirk Cousins? No, I wouldn't. Okay. I would not either. Uh, his weapons, Leonard Furnett, it doesn't matter if the, the matchup is terrible. He is one of four running backs with 90 plus rush attempts and 25 receptions. The other being Najee Kamar and Aaron Jones. So.

I mean, the Leonard Fournet RB one season is real, and it's going to continue to happen for the foreseeable future. When you talk about Alvin Camara, Aaron Jones, Najee Harris, and Leonard Fornett, it just feels like one of these things is not like the other. But it's important to realize that's the utilization he's getting. He's a must start locked in guy because he's so involved in the passing game as well. That's what puts him over the top. This is a terrible matchup, but if he.

catches five passes, which is in his range of outcomes, he's going to be fine. His career is so bizarre. Because he was drafted to be great. Where was he drafted? Like number four? I think it was four. Someone vet that. But he was a top ten pick. And he was drafted to be a...

quote, generational running back. He was the best, oh my gosh, the best player since Adrian Peterson. Yes. The amount that that was thrown around when he was coming into the league, obviously went ahead of Christian McCaffrey, right? I'm zapping the television on it off of them. But yeah, and so he went to Jacksonville.

He's solid for fantasy football because he's getting so much volume. But he sucked. But he was, yeah, he wasn't not, he wasn't great. He was inefficient, ineffective. And then he got cut. And now he is the player that Jacksonville thought they drafted, but he's doing it on a different team. Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, they are absolutely locked into your starting lineups with Antonio Brown out for we don't know how long, but at least.

Sounds like at least three weeks. I will say if somehow you had to choose between the two, maybe it's for DFS. I'm going with Chris Godwin this week as there is a history of Mike Evans and Marchand Latimore. Not that Mike Evans can't get it done, but historically Latimore has gotten the better of Mike Evans. Gronk is expected back. Is this right in?

I would love to take a wait and see approach because there's, look, Gronk's been great when he was out there, and he certainly has a chance at a touchdown. However, there's two things working against him. One is the defense, very difficult. Like I said, top five against tight end and his injury. He's just coming back. He takes a hard hit to the ribs again and has to exit. I would rather wait one week and play him starting, you know, going forward. Marquez Calloway for the New Orleans Saints. He has seen seven and eight targets respectively the past couple weeks.

With this matchup against Tampa Bay, they're going to want to control the clock, but they will have to throw. And you can't, because that's, you can, you can throw on the bucks. Is there any chance you're playing Callaway as a desperation flex? I mean, as a desperation flex, the math checks out. Now, I will say that Treyquan Smith was back last week. Seemed like they were trying to get him involved unsuccessfully, very unsuccessfully. Yes. But he's my worry here. You know how many snaps he played or the percent?

Oh, I'm going to guess 50. Very nice. Yeah, so he's a desperation play. But I would really prefer to not have him. Like I talked earlier about I don't want to play Jacobi Myers. I would play Jacobi Myers. Okay. Okay. That's good context. Alvin Camara is in. Mark Ingram newly acquired running back that they just traded for. He does have a good chance to play.

I can't imagine in maybe if somehow, like they're playing Washington. They're playing the Chargers. They're playing one of these teams that you can run on. Maybe then Mark Ingram can go right in as he changes teams, but not here, but not here. You're just going to hold and see what happens. Sunday night football, the Dallas Cowboys, five and one. Minnesota Vikings three and three. DK Sportsbook line has currently Minnesota favored by two and a half.

If Dak Prescott is in fact out, that line is going to change. It's going to get larger. But the over and under right now is 53.5 points. So we kind of have to let's start in Minnesota because that's easier. We know what's going on. Kurt Cousins is Andy's start of the week. Adam Thielen is my start of the week. Dalvin Cook.

is everybody's start of the week on a weekly basis? Honestly, the Kirk Cousins, Adam Thieland stack takes a massive hit here if Dak Prescott is gone. Part of the reason why... Interesting, because they won't have to, you mean? Exactly right. Part of the reason that I picked Adam Thieland as my start of the week is when you look at certain matchups and you say they're going to need to pass the ball. They can't just rely on Dalvin Cook in this matchup. That's the Dallas Cowboys with Dak Prescott. That's not the Dallas Cowboys without Dak Prescott. Now...

Adam Thieland still has a history of torching. You're not pivoting away from the Dallas Cowboys. No, I'm not pivoting them away. No, I'm not. But it is, they are affected by it. So I think just the whole world, everyone outside of Vikings fans are hoping that Dak Prescott plays. Justin Jefferson is locked in. Tyler Conklin. Conk. I mean, he's interesting. He is targeted on 17% of his routes.

And that's a higher number than Dawson Knox. That's a higher number than Tyler Higby. And the matchup says it's not a terrible streaming option here. So Tyler Conklin is he's not out for me. He's a DFS option for me because, you know, you could save. In DFS, you're going to save money by going lower than you want to go to put to other players. You don't get that in a redraft league. In a redraft league, you're just choosing a lower tight end than others you would start.

On the Cowboys side of the ball. All right. Let's go through it. Dack is playing. Okay. Okay. Great. Awesome. No, this is the hypothetical. I heard you. He's active. Break. Bada, dun, dun, dun. Dack is active. All right. If DAC is active, it's actually very easy. Zeke is in. Amari is in. C.D. Lamb is in. Dalton Schultz is in. Michael Gallup is practicing. He has not yet been activated. We're not sure if he will be or not. I don't bring that up for.

that I'm super excited to play Michael Gallup. I bring that up that Dalton Schultz has been seeing a very healthy target share in the absence of Michael Gallup. And I think that could be affected. It doesn't destroy it because, look, Dak.

He likes those matchups. He likes finding his big tight end to target, and that is Dalton Schultz this year. So I'm not downgrading him to like, he's not a tight end one anymore. It's just something that you should probably keep your eye. Yeah, there will be a target or two in the middle of the field that might go to a healthy Michael Gallup wide open over, you know, the bigger, slower tight end. But DAC has always, DAC used Jason Whitten. Yes, he did. There was a reason you liked Blake Jarwin so much before he went down to his knee injury.

Schultz will get his, but it's worth monitoring to see if any of the routes run changes. That's the one thing I'm curious about because the targets, you're not going to know if one or two would have been there or wouldn't have been there. But if he ends up running fewer routes, if Michael Gallup is active, that'll be more telling. Tony Pollard, since week two, is averaging nearly 14 opportunities a game.

Are you playing him as a low-end running back two or a flex? Are you avoiding that? Now, week two was the, that was the huge game where it was Zeke is dead. All hail Tony Pollard hasn't really worked out because since then he has not finished inside the top 24, but he still has a floor of points that he can give you and he can explode like he did in week two. Yeah, if Dak is playing, I think he's someone that you can put in.

for that 8 to 10 point range and hope for the touchdowns to come. So, you know, if you're in a pinch, if you're in a bind, that's what you can expect out of them. Look at your roster and see if that works for it. Okay. Deck is not playing. Oh, no. Now what are you doing? Is everyone still in and you're just adjusting your expectations? Zeke is in. Lam is in. Those two are locked.

Um, Amari Cooper, I would probably have a very difficult time benching Amari Cooper. Do you see this quote here? Cooper says, I feel healthy as close to 100% that I'll be. Yeah. Now, if you're as close to 100%, either you are 100% or you can never, if you're as close as you can be, it means you can never ever be 100%. That means that your ceiling is like,

92%. That's what he's saying. He's saying this is football. I'm not getting back to 100%. Oh, the magic trick. Oh, the magic trick is here. There it is. And I break my one into two. Wow. Wow. Matt and Aggie doing incredible work on the YouTube. Yeah, I mean, Amari Cooper is.

You know, he knows his limitations. He's not getting back to 100%, which is a shame because we saw week one, the dominant upside of Mario Cooper. I think I'm going to play him. The matchup, it's prime time, even without DAC. I'm not going to go with Tony Pollard. I'm not going to go with Michael Gallup. And Dalton Schultz becomes iffy without DAC. All right. The Monday night matchup, we have the New York Giants at 2 and 5 taking on the Kansas City Chiefs.

who are three and four. Oh, sub-500. Still getting the respect from the sportsbook, though. The Drafking Sportsbook line is Kansas City favored by nine and a half, over under at 52. If you don't want to do the math, that puts the Kansas City Chiefs at an implied team total of over 31 points. One of these quarterbacks leads the league in turnovers, and the other has only thrown interceptions of two of his seven games this year. No. Both.

have two top six performances on the season. I mean, they're basically, I mean, that's got, Mahomes is leading the league? Yes, he is. Were you unaware that Mahomes is leading the league? I guess I hadn't really thought about it. Or in interceptions, I should say, yeah. Interceptions bouncing off of people's hands? Yes. And that's what happens when you are forced to play from behind. Like, when you're playing from a lead and throwing the ball a lot, it is very different. The defenses that you're seeing are very different than when you're