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

Shanahan has at least come out and said that Jimmy Garoppolo is going to be the guy. Garoppolo did some on-field workout doing the stuff with the exercise band. They were hoping he would be good to go. We knew he wouldn't start this week. But with the bye week, he reasonably could be healthy and starting again. Are you buying into what Shanahan is saying that it is him? Or what do you do with Tray Lance at this point?

You drop Trey Lance and you drop Trey Sermon. If there was a third tray, it would be really nice, but there's only two of them. But those two guys, to me, are 100% drops. I'm not holding them through a buy and then coming out of the by two weeks from now when I'm very confident, I can't play either one. So I know I can't play them for a fact this week. And then two weeks from now, I can't play them because the other two actual starters are going to be ahead. You don't need to hold on to...

players like that, especially obviously buy weeks are here. So they're not the only guys with buy. You might have to, you might need a roster position. I'm moving on from, from both of those players. At the wide receiver position, DJ Moore, uh, five for 42. This, it was much uglier, uh, towards the end of the game. I don't even, I don't, I don't know when he jumped up to five receptions, but so, but not what you were hoping for with more. Stefan Diggs.

Two for 69. Really think he could have had the touchdown, but he did not. That's pretty nice. Maybe I read the situation wrong. I don't know. But it really looked like that. AJ Brown, three for 38 on his return. Terry McLaurin, he saw 11 targets, but only four for 46. And they were bad targets. Taylor Heineke was, was bad. Yeah, he was. He was bad, bad this week. He's had, it's so funny because he's had games where his accuracy is.

why he's on the field, like pinpoint, just in stride hitting. And this game, you could see the receivers just throw on their hands up. Like, dude, like they were open and he just kept overthrowing them or underthrowing him or just, he had a bad game. And I think that's, you got to just chalk it up as a bad game next week against Kansas City, who I think they, after the Super Bowl, they got rid of their defense. Is that what they did?

They just said, we need to invest in the offensive line. We're going to let our defense go. So it's a get right game. I'm not worried about Terry McLaurin at all. Adam Thielen, three targets, two for 40. The receptions have dropped every single week, every single week since week one, where he had, he was the wide receiver four, the monster performance. Ten targets, then seven, nine, eight, three. And the last three weeks, the Minnesota Vikings have scored 17 or fewer points.

So it's three straight weeks. That's not good offensive output. Are you concerned about Adam Thielen or is this just a slump and he's going to bounce back? I'm concerned about the short-term outlook because the Carolina defense, while Carolina and Sam Darnold looked horrific on offense, their defense is absolutely legit. They weren't completely like Chuba had a fine game. Sure, all the dumpoffs. He had the Christian McCaffrey workload, which was nice.

But their defense is absolutely legit. And with what we've seen over the last couple of weeks from the Minnesota puttering offense, they've got Carolina in Carolina this coming week, followed by a by week. So I think it's going to be rough sledding for a couple of weeks. If you could move Adam Thielen, I would be willing to do that just to manufacture wins. But I do think Adam Thieland is going to be fine rest of season. I'm not concerned with, you know,

his two for 40 game that that's the new normal. Brandon Cooks, you could have seen it coming against the Patriots, but when Davis Mills goes nuclear, you would have expected that Brandon Cooks got involved. However, he didn't, but the Indianapolis Colts, the Arizona Cardinals up next for Brandon Cooks. I think better games are ahead. Odo Beckham.

Three targets, two for 20, a terrible drop on fourth and two. I mean, Beckham gets Arizona next week. I, no, thank you. Yeah. No, he's, he's. Are you, is Beckham a drop for you or is he just going on to your bench? No, you trade Beckham. He's got too big a name to drop. He's absolutely drop a bowl in the sense. Look, the Browns just scored 42 points. Jarvis Landry.

Not on the roster. Right. Odell Beckham had 20 yards. You don't want to play with that. But you can always, I mean, you know, getting a Michael Pittman or someone like that trying to trade for a young stud that's up and coming. Maybe the Jerry Judy manager is needing someone now. I would trade Odell Beckham for some up and coming young guy rather. And if I can't.

If I absolutely can't and there's a good, you know, I've got the chance to pick up Devante Booker. Sure, I would be willing to. But his name is big enough where you got to cash in on that value. T. Higgins and Tyler Boyd of the Cincinnati Bengals. While Jamar Chase was the man, Higgins and Boyd did not come through with a game. Higgins got injured as well during that game again. You saw him kind of writhing in pain. I don't know if it was.

a re-aggravation of the shoulder. It seemed like it would have been. We'll have to stay tuned for news on that. Marvin Jones and Leviska-Cenault, they had terrible games because when you have a chance to target Tavon Austin and Jamal Agnew, you got to take that chance. You cannot throw that away. No, those guys are just superstars. And it really helped them lose this game. Like, if Urban Meyer had any chance to...

like build some, uh, some status or some trust up with the fantasy football community. He sure threw that in the dumpster. Yeah, I'm looking through the schedule and I'm trying to find some Ws. They're playing Miami. They could beat Miami. They could. Uh, the Jets in week 16. Goodness gracious. Back number one picks. Uh, speaking of the Jets, they.

Corey Davis, Jamison Crowder. It was bad news. The hopefulness we had for the Jets that they showed against the Titans. That was swiftly removed by the Atlanta Falcons. Alan Robinson, five targets, four for 32. What are we doing with Alan Robinson? Well, we had a couple final straw players we brought up on the Spotify Green Room show on Wednesdays, Robert Woods, Robbie Anderson, Alan Robinson, all the robs. And one third.

Pass the test? Yeah, Robert Woods. Good job. And two-thirds, Alan Robinson and Robbie Anderson didn't. They failed. I don't know. So, Robbie Anderson's easy. Robbie Anderson's cut. You're not going to get anything. You're not going to be able to trade him away like Odell Beckham. He had seven targets, but Christian McCaffer is going to come back. And he was missed on, you know, a couple bombs. It doesn't matter. He sucked. So cut him.

So Alan Robinson is the biggest question. Like, Alan Robinson is an impossible situation. If Mike Williams is the best draft pick in fantasy this year, I think Alan Robinson might be the worst draft pick in fantasy because of how high you invested in such a safe, secure asset who is now a torturous. And you keep playing him. Exactly. He's a torturous situation because.

This is someone that you can't possibly cut. You can't cut him, right? I mean. You can't play him. I, so I trade, Alan Robinson on my highly publicized, much maligned league of record team, which is just in shambles. Alan Robinson was the biggest piece of my destruction. And I traded him away.

And I traded him in my division to one of my rivals. And I was willing to do that because I thought, I think I'm trading a landmine to my opponent who put him right into the starting lineup. And Alan Robinson was terrible. So I don't blame me if you want to hold on to Alan Robinson on the bench and see if things can get turned around. I guess maybe the same prescription as Odell. Yeah. Maybe you try to trade him for.

a Jerry Judy, a Cortland Sutton, Michael Pittman. Sure. T.J. Hawkinson, Jason, what do we do here? Oh, my goodness. What do we do here? Three targets. Where's the panic button? I want it. Producers hit it for me. Yeah. What is happening? The first two weeks of the season were a guarantee. It was locked. You sold me the Brooklyn Bridge, Jason. And I loved the money.

that I received for the Brooklyn Bridge. Ten targets, eight receptions. Nine targets, eight receptions. The centerpiece... But the defense is queuing in on me. I can't help it. The centerpiece of this offense was T.J. Hawkinson. So here's what we do know. We know it can't happen. We know that this team can feature T.J. Hawkinson. The last few weeks have been a grand total of...

10 yards, 42 yards, 22 yards. So we also know that this can happen. Right. It is definitely scary because now the majority of his games are bad. We've shifted from him being a locked in great play to he's had more bad games than good ones. And what do you do if I have T.J. Hawkinson, I continue to play him.

Okay. If I don't have a tight end, if I am someone that was out there in the Jared Cook sphere, living with the same kind of boom bust, I'm trying to trade for him still. He had the knee concern that kept him out of practice this last week.

So he was not as involved, played the lowest snaps of the season. Still 80% of the snaps, but that was low for him. That's right, because he had a chance to play. Right. Yeah. So I think brighter days are ahead of him, but he has not a guarantee the way that it appeared after two weeks of the season. Darren Waller didn't give you what you had hoped for. No offense, this one was extremely disappointing. Three for 20. The guys up in Philadelphia,

Dallas Goddard and Zach Ertz. They continue to cannibalize each other's production. There's nothing there. And then, I mean, that's really it of the note for the tight ends. Monday night, Jason. Monday night. Here's what I need, okay? Yeah. Play with me, fuck clan. I need either a great game from Hollywood Brown or a horrific game from Hollywood Brown, okay? I need them to score fewer than five fantasy points.

to win like that's most important is fewer than five or he needs to explode and have like a 20 point week okay so if he just goes out and goes you know six for 60 i lose both i'm just don't no mediocrity hollywood give me an absolute collapse or a wonderful performance that is the worst place to be yeah oh i already know what's happening i mean he's gonna be right down the middle road

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