Week 5 Studs & Duds + Knox Knox Jokes - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/11

It's worth noting because obviously, you know, he was in the second half as soon as the game, the second half started, which was after a 10-year break in action, he was on the drive and he wasn't rotating every single play the way that he was the first half. But he is, you know, week one, he was like a 90-plus percent snap guy. And every week it's gone down. And then Jerich McKinnon.

Darrell Williams and Clyde Edwards-Alaire were in a three-man rotation before the injury. So when he comes back, he's not coming back to immediate belcow gameplay at all. Tom Brady dealing with a thumb injury, he should be good to go, just shove that thing in some soil, and I'm sure he'll heal up right away. Damien Harris running back for the New England Patriots. He was having himself a game. He had a rib injury. He tried to fight his way through it,

he ended up getting knocked out. Juju Smith Schuster of the Steelers, he exited with a shoulder injury, and this one, we're told, is worrisome, where he's expected to go on the IR, and they are concerned that this will be a rest of season injury. That sucks a lot for Juju on the contract. He was on a one-year deal, right? Yeah, where he's trying to earn his big payday, where the-betting on himself, as they say. Where the salary cap goes up.

So hopefully he's okay. And that will, that changes the entire dynamic of the Steelers. Maybe like where Juju wasn't prolific this year, but he is still important to the way that Big Ben plays football these days. So we will see how that changes. Curtis Samuel. He tried again and his, this groin injury. If you have nuts.

It will not go away. If you've not cut Curtis Samuel yet, join me and say goodbye. This has been half a year groin issue. I would expect that he's going to need some kind of core muscle surgery soon because this won't heal. He didn't practice Wednesday and Thursday. I was worried I cut him before the week. Then he goes out there and disappears. In a maneuver, I don't know that I've seen in all of my years watching football.

Jacobi Brissette, the Miami Dolphins quarterback, which, I mean, I know that the score of the Dolphins, Tampa Bay, it ended in a blowout. This game was close for quite a while. But anyways, Berset is carted away with a hamstring injury. Not good. But then he was carted back. Right, he didn't come back. No, no, he was, he rode the car to get back onto the field like a, this is a, not Ricky Bobby, who am I? Waterboy.

A situation where they got to drive him up. I don't know. We'll see what's going on there with Jacoby, Beef, Briscoe. What it said to me is that him on one leg was better than whatever option was behind him. Do we have that drop anywhere? Here we go. Hey, where's the knee? He's coming back. He's on the cart. The Cardinals said in Max Williams, who was having what looked like a breakout season. He exited with a knee injury. From the look of it, it was a.

strong shot to a planted knee, and the knee did the sideways movement. Cardinals, again, not a doctor, but that looks like a season-ending knee. Yeah, they fear it's season-ending, and I think that's the expectation. So rumors that they might be looking to trade for a tight end, we will see. If they do, if they trade for a...

Tight-in, I think it's... It could be interesting. Yeah, you've got to pay attention to it. It could be interesting. And the Lions Wide Receiver, Quintas, he exited after suffering a shoulder or a clavicle injury. Like I said, there was a lot of injury situations that's unfortunate. They didn't overshadow, but I know we're a fantasy football show, but those games, you know, like the Green Bay Cincinnati game, if you did not get to enjoy the end of that game,

of just how many miss kicks were I think it was four or five I thought and kicks that were we're game winning kicks and no one wanted to win this game fortunately for Mason Crosby he made the last one yeah otherwise home a winner he was a new resident of Cincinnati because I can't imagine

You can't get back on the team plane. You can't travel with the plane. After that many misses. That's, yeah, not welcome. So that was today's news and notes presented by Sleeper, the leader in breaking news alerts. Download the Sleeper app right now. Join the Breaking Alerts channel. It's faster than every other source. Let's get into some actual good stuff. This week's fantasy stud muffins. Big herbs. Big herbs.

Holy crap. Justin Herbert 26 of 43 for almost 400 yards and four through the air. First ballot? He added a, what, first ballot hall? He is. We're already doing this. He added a rushing touchdown. He has 10 games of 300 plus passing yards. That's already a record for the first two years in the NFL. Herbert, unbelievable. The.

The player from Oregon and him transforming into this Justin Herbert, I don't think even the Chargers believed that that was going to happen where he was in this dink-dunk offense. You know, he had the physical tools, but Justin Herbert is emerging into an elite player.

And the play calling of the Chargers. Yes. Yes. We have our champion. We do. We have our analytics champion. They're going for it on fourth down all the time. Oh, it's fourth and seven. So what? If you get four plays to get a first down,

You have a better chance of getting it than if you only have three plays. And apparently one of the head coaches in the NFL has finally figured that out. Yeah, so a massive hat tip to Brandon Staley. And like some of these fourth down calls, even I was blushing going, oh, Mr. Staley, are you sure you want to be doing this? But if you looked at how the game was going, short.

Let's say he fails to convert on one of these fourth downs, and then the Browns is in a very positive situation, and then the Browns win. If he didn't keep going forward on fourth down, their Chargers were not going to win the game regardless of the outcome of the call in fourth down, and yet the intestinal fortitude here, the analytic calls of Staley, turned into a big comeback win for the Chargers. The Chargers came back from behind to win the game,

against all odds they did it and then they missed the extra point yes to no longer tie the game and then still we're like well got to have more justin got the ball back and he did it again can you imagine how good the dolphins would have been if they if they drafted justin herbert instead of oh don't say those things sorry uh city cannot handle that at this moment

Josh Stallion, the excellent one, had another monster day against the Kansas City Chiefs. The Buffalo Bills. I feel good about my preseason Super Bowl champion Buffalo Bills take. And they get the Tennessee Titans and then a bye week and then Miami. They're going to keep cruising along. Josh Allen is absolutely crushing. Tom Brady, the plant man, threw another five touchdowns and 400 yards at home. At home, I think it's five games in a row.

with four or more passing touchdowns for Tom Brady. And the nice thing is we talked about, like there's going to be a rotation with these wide receivers. And every week, one of them is going to be bad. And you just don't know who it's going to be. With gronk missing, it's like they're all three fine. Chris Godwin had himself a very nice game. And he was easily the worst. And then you had two touchdowns for Evans, two touchdowns for Antonio. James. Yes, thank you. James Winston.

He did it again. Hope you have them in baseball. Fifteen, 15 completions, four touchdowns. Who are the New Orleans Saints? I don't know. I don't think that they know who they are. No one could possibly know who the Saints are. Do they have a good defense might? I don't know. Maybe. Yeah. How about their offense? Is it really good? Maybe. I don't have a clue. Who knows? This is the best, worst team I've ever seen.

Davis Mills of the Houston Texans. Oh, man. I, look, Sunday live, I do my best to project how I think Sunday is going to go. I may have talked a lot of crap about the Houston, Texans and Davis Mills, and he made me look like a fool as they should have beat the Patriots. Now, I'm guessing that the coaching of Bill Belichick is what turned things around.

But Davis Mills had himself a game 21 for 29 over 300 yards and three passing touchdowns. He is one of four rookie quarterbacks to throw for 202 in a game against Belichick since the year 2000. So kudos to you, Davis Mills. What a game. That was mind-blowing. And this will be the last time we celebrate Davis-Mills. But great job. Probably. Dak had another great game, 303. He gets the Patriots next week. Jalen Hertz.

Goodness, Jaylen Hertz. From the depths, I don't know how we ended up here. This is what we, I mean, we say this every single week all the time. Mobile Russian quarterbacks. Yep. They're a cheat code because here's the truth. Jalen Hertz sucked. He played terrible. He played a bad game. And it will some of it. You mean week winning?

Quarterback Jalen Hertz? Oh, yes. I mean the quarterback five on the season, Jalen Hertz, who's... And they beat the Panthers. Who had a great... Yes, won the game, helped you in fantasy, had a great fantasy line. This is a sell... We're talking with stud muffins right now. And I have Jalen Hertz everywhere. And I'm watching this game just grossed out. The Panthers just shutting them down. The play calling of the Eagles, I can't even... I can't even verbalize how Barf it was.

And then somehow at the end of the game, I think he had like five fantasy points, like halfway through the fourth quarter, and then he has two rushing touchdowns, 30 rushing yards, and has himself a good game. Trevor Lawrence had himself a fine game, 270 plus with a touchdown, and he also ran one in. The game plan of the Jaguars, I get it. Like, they played well, but.

Marvin Jones Jr. Leviska Chanel. They're probably in the in the in the poopy pants section. Well, they were in the Monday Punday section at least. Because I don't know how you're not getting these guys involved. But Trevor Lawrence, he still had himself a fine game. Yeah, it was.

And it could have been better. He had a touchdown call back, which same with Jalen Hurts. Are we at five on the season now? Five on the season that he has scored and called back by silly stupid penalties like, you know, illegal formations and offensive, you know, the pick plays that are. Greg Ward, not knowing how to run a pick play. Yeah. So that's upsetting. Well, before we get to the running back studs want to thank today's sponsors. And I want to thank Heelick's sleep because I.

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