Starts of the Week + Week 5 Games, Smooshed! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/8

But the other guys, Shuck, Camara, Velae, Juan Johnson, I think that there are probable pivots in most situations for those guys. The Vikings' defense has just been too doggone good. They're number one against quarterbacks, number one against running backs, number six against tight ends. They're just, they're awesome. There's a reason why Minnesota's four and a... And what's crazy here is the Saints... Because of the defense. The Saints who have looked really good this year. Like, they're...

They're passing my eye test other than getting boat raced at home on prime time this last week. Yeah, they failed the eye test on that one. It feels like they're about to be one and four. Yes, they will be. Yeah. And it's, you know, John Johnson, is he a start this week? Do you stay in the flames? Minnesota is so good against the tight-in position. Pretty much. I don't know. He is, to me, like, he's okay. Colson Loveland, I would play over him. I'd play him over Sadiq. What about?

Fanon. No, I would play Fanon. Yeah, I would try to stay. I would play Gassiki. I would play Isaiah likely. And then after those guys, that's basically where I go, Juan Johnson. He's my 12. We do have the precedent of last week. Oh, the garbage man can. Yeah. Even if they're down, there may be opportunities there. I wouldn't touch a running back on New Orleans with a thousand-foot pole right now against Minnesota. And we'll monitor the Oliva situation. Chuck, I'd be trying to find another option because. I agree.

He could have an okay game, but his ceiling is very capped by Minnesota. Aaron Jones has been a top 24 back in all four weeks, guys. He's just sneakily part of this operation, right? You don't have the best quarterback in football. You do have a great defense. Run the ball. Yeah, I mean, with Jordan Mason on IR, they really don't have, they don't believe in Claiborne to come in as a rookie and protect the quarterback and do those things. Aaron Jones.

We talk about these older veterans getting off to pretty hot starts to start the season. Maybe they fade down the stretch. It's still early. I think Aaron Jones is just a fantastic start. It was almost my start of the week. Kyler's on the Malik Willis plan right now. One touchdown and three starts. So, you know, he's not an option. No. And the question I have for you is with Jefferson potentially returning, how do you view Jefferson in the grand scheme of the rest of the season? Like,

Like, Kyler, I don't think, maybe he gets a little bit better as he acclimates and they figure out what he does better. You take a big breath and you hope and you pray. I mean, whatever you thought in draft season is what, you know, when we were looking at the back of the first with Justin Jefferson, we were a little bit more hesitant because we knew that it could go poorly with Kyler. Now, early in the season, it was like, okay, obviously Justin Jefferson is still him.

And when Carson Wentz was there, he was fantastic. But with Kyler, I do think you're going to have a nerfed version of the best wide receiver in football. And then Hawkinson, if Jefferson's back, are you benching him? Are you playing Loveland? Are you playing Jo Watson? Yeah, I would play those guys over him. Just not chasing 13 targets if Jefferson's back in there. Correct. And then Addison is a full bench. Yeah. And that being said, if Jefferson doesn't play this week.

then Hawkinson is a must start. Yeah, I would agree with that. And then Jordan Addison is a DMP right now with a hamstring. So it could be Hawkinson. It could be Hawkinson. There is a third scenario where Addison's out. Yeah. So something to kind of keep an eye on. If there's consolidation there, don't, you know, you probably, I think a lot of people went and spent on Hawkinson. Yes. If Addison is out. So coming in this morning, T.J. Hawkinson was my start of the week. He was who I was, I like the matchup. I like what we saw last week. We know how Kyler plays.

But with, oh, the Skeeter's back. Are you getting a mosquito bit? He's trying. I'm, I must be delicious. At least you started slapping. You're not like flicking around like a weirdo. But really good podcasting here. But the matchup, the matchup is, uh, is very good for Hawkinson. I just don't want him to be the third target. If Addison or Jefferson are gone, he, he moves ahead of that, that other tier of the Juan Johnson. You see that, uh, video that is going around?

on Instagram out in Arizona with that spider coming out of the oh you know I have not yeah come out of not will not I seen it about you don't want to see it's climbing out of the vent of a car you don't want to see it remember you had a spider in your car and you had to pull over in the okay you took your headphones off Cleveland three and one New York one and three even I'm not a no I have no problem with spiders even that video was like that was a bad video yeah

Can you call AAA for that? That was like the one years ago. You got to call Jeremy. It crawled out of the girl's mouth. Huh? It was like the one years ago where the spider just crawls out of this girl's mouth. Oh, yeah. Don't click that link in slack. Cleveland, 3 and 1, New York 1 and 3 of the Jets. The Vegas line here, Jets minus 1 and 1.5. Over under 39 and a half. In a battle of slow.

you want to take the Frank Reich led offense of the Jets that's 29th in pace of play and combine it with Todd Munkins 25th in pace of play this game will be this game might be over before you know it seriously I mean the clock it will be a full running clock yeah the good clock will never stop so under 39 and a half what are your choices here Denzel Boston been so impressive Garrett Wilson he's an auto start for your team

Is Boston entering that category of Auto Start with the amount of shots they take to him? He's entering it. I watched all of his film this last week, and he's doing a little bit of everything, but he's got plays on film as a blocker. Like this team has to be just doing handstands about their excitement over Denzel Boston. And even though they drafted Concepcion first and he's good, it feels like Boston is their wider receiver one. I think he should be started.

going forward week in and week out he should be he should be in there now the matchup isn't great simply because very similar to the dolphins and then you add in the pace of play you just don't need a lot against them but i mean maybe the browns will yeah the jets have been a run funnel so or i mean a running back funnel so you're like judkins it was a nice the targets the targets really really helped

last week. I don't know if those will continue. I'll probably still play Judkins, though, in this matchup. And then Braylon Allen, we saw the good and the bad. The opportunities, the good. The bad was how slow and incapable of the offense was. Wilson had a tough game last week. I'm still taking the volume. 94% of the snaps. Jacorri Croski, Merritt, or Braylon Allen? So he got four snaps? Was JCP or Braylin Allen?

returning jaden daniels probably still brailing i would go jacium this is a battle of a 60 and 64 year old play caller what um that's some front porch rocking chair off malone um harold fanning keep playing him if you've been playing him yeah i guess and just like live with the slow colts two and two steelers two and two vegas line pittzerg minus two and a half over under 44 and a half

You know, this is Indianapolis. They had to play in Europe last week. Now, you got to play a road game in Pittsburgh. You know, that's only happened twice in history where you have a team with that bad of a draw where you go from international to a road game. How the other two teams do? They did bad. They lost both of the games. And the Steelers have an extra three days rest. They come off Thursday night game. Kind of not matching up there. Dude, that's not. That's disgusting. That's mean. Yeah. You get extra time and you get to stay on the road. So. That got.

The thing that's... It can't be that hard. The thing that's funny right now for Pittsburgh. It can't be what? It can't be that hard to, like, get an actual fair schedule. That's a lot of teams, a lot of moving parts, Mike. Yeah. I mean, I've never tried, never sat down and tried to figure it out. I'm just... Do you think they get to the end of it and then they just go like, they see a couple problems and they're like, well, the rest... I don't really do this math. I guess that's okay. Have you ever numbered something?

Yeah, it'd be like putting a list together and then you find out you missed 18. Yeah. And you're like, well, what do I do now? And you're like, whatever. 17B it is. I guess this one that I, that would have been 18 is now 38. Yeah. It's funny because I don't, we haven't liked the Pittsburgh offensive like potential. And yet they should be okay in this one. The turnstile defense of the Colts, the fact they're at home.

Jalen Warren's been on fire. We don't know if Rico will even play. Either way, you play Warren, you don't play Rico. And then the wide receivers, I mean, I still think Metcalf is somebody you can keep playing because the targets have been there. It's disgusting. Right. But it just kind of is what it is. And Rogers, top 10 quarterback two straight weeks. When you add in the matchup, when you add in the fact that the, you know, you don't, the Colts defense has just been really bad. I don't know, Sauce Gardner.

I know he was coming off of an injury, but he's just, he has not changed this defense at all. There's still a defense you target. So I think DK Metcalf is an okay play this week. Would you play him over Josh Downs? Because Downs, yes. Yeah, see, I would too. And we thought Downs would break out last week. He was on the field for almost every snap. But, you know, Aaron Jones or Daniel Jones doesn't look like the Daniel Jones of last year. His fantasy points?

It's not just fantasy points. 9-11, 7.9. It looks like a guy who's coming off of an Achilles. They, I mean, it's not even like they won last week. They won because of Zach Galfinacus. Absolutely. They won an easy blowout victory and it masked. I can't remember his real name. Yeah, because you'd love to correct me, wouldn't you? And I wanted to say the right name, but I couldn't remember it either. It just masked how bad Daniel Jones was on a. I know it's a thing. His accuracy was awful. Just.

Missing guys. He's looked terrible. 56%. So you're going to have to try to run the ball with Jonathan Taylor as much as you can. That's your only path to winning this game. I thought Kyle was giving me the pronunciation of Afan Calliachmanus, but he just spelled Gallifid-Nakis. So, yeah, Josh Downs is a really scary start. I kind of, like there's nobody to target in the receiving game. And then Tyler Warren.

It's just wild. You'd be like, okay, well, Tyler Warren's going to blow up last week. I mean, 13, 21, 55, and 41 yards. But he did not. He did not blow up. This offense, other than Johnny Taylor, this thing is. It's kind of stinky. Does Tyler Warren feel like the oldest 24-year-old on the planet? Yeah, he does. Yeah. He's aging like Hawkinson did. Just wrap dog. Dog gears. Because he's too, you got too much dog. He's got too much dog. I love Tyler Warren. His hair is the opposite of Bowers, though. Oh, yeah. Selecious?

Yeah, Bowers is aging as well. Some updates on the injury report, Lamar Jackson, not seen participating again, but Zayflowers is bad. That's good. Because if you miss that Zayflowers didn't practice, this one was not hamstring. It was foot, aka new injury. Yeah. Stefan Diggs, hamstring working on the side field. Don't see McLaren out there. Terry McLaren may miss another week. Antonio Williams is a sneaky start.

I think he actually is. I actually moved him into one of our, we got our Scotty Fish lineup, Mike. We got some biweek situations. I put Antonio in there. I don't hate it. No sign of Breece Hall and A.D. Mitchell at practice for the Jets as well, should be Brailleen again. That was fantasy forecast presented by prize picks. Make sure to follow our account at the FF Ballers in the app to see our best picks every week. Prize picks run your game. Tomorrow we have, well, we'll recap this, the big breakout performance by Pickens, Mike. Look, give me a stat line. Statline for Pickens tonight.

I'm going to give you for George Pickens. Yeah, yeah. The other Pickens. Yeah, George Pickens. George Pickett. Well, I just was trying to think. Yeah, I know you are. Let's go, we're going to go five catches. Okay. For one, 17 in a score. Okay. And how many targets? Is that eight? Yeah, probably eight targets? I got seven targets, four for 84 in a touchdown. Oh, so you guys both have them in the end zone? Yeah. Do I have to do this now? Yeah. If you want.

Um, we'll go, uh, we'll go five targets. We'll go four catches, 74 yards, no touchdown. Okay. Like this, I, I'm sorry. This week, the Cowboys tonight should put on an absolute show. Yeah. They really, really should. Dak is playing great. Sea, Lamb, I've, great. Well, we talked about it. We just need a little bit of George. They've been much more meticulous of an offense than a big play offense. So we need to get a big play from that team.

you can roll your eyes into the back of your head when it ends up being not pickings but turpin tonight or something no if it's anyone who'll end up being turd ferguson that could be yeah stealing the touchdowns so we'll talk about thursday night we got more matchups tomorrow fantasy face off the wheel of shame and we head into week five doing our best to help you win the foot clan mighty and strong you can check it out at join the foot dot com otherwise jason your job

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