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The special Thanksgiving Megalodon combines the Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday shows into the longest, biggest, most-listened episode. The hosts recall Dinner Butter nearly trending with Thanksgiving, promise a new tweet-to-enter hashtag, ask Brooks about the prizes, and announce two signed jerseys plus an A.J. Brown mini helmet before declaring themselves broke.
Monday Punday processes Week 11 through Perfect Passer, Jalen Soren, Tank Delicious, Breece Hallelujah, Scam LaPorta, Devon I.R. Chan, Hollywood Brown Pants, Quentin Dropston, and Jared Gawful. Garrett Willstocks fails because of an accidental T and extra S, so another host interprets it as Garrett Will Suck for the week and Will Stuck for his managers.
After Mike is directly asked about his weekend injuries, his reply lists Mark Andrews as the loss that likely tanked the League of Record, Joe Burrow as the dynasty loss that also removes Jamar Chase, and Kenneth Walker as another casualty. Asked whether he can predict the next injuries, Mike offers to read off his roster.
Jason anticipates a Week 12 matchup against Andy's Dak-CeeDee stack by projecting 150 combined points and a difficult emotional week for the company. The hosts say they thought Jason had improved but that he proved them wrong and is going backward; Jason says he genuinely may not be able to remain in the studio and hopes only for a fun, playful rivalry that he wins.
An unlabeled host says Andy did him dirty while that host was in the kitchen: Andy yelled 'Ferg touchdown' from the studio, causing the unnamed host to celebrate Jake Ferguson. The actual score belonged to Luke Schoonmaker, whose number 86 sits beside Ferguson's 87.
The hosts launch a petition because Detroit's 9, 6, and 8 forms connect too close to the bottom, making Jameson and Josh Reynolds in adjacent numbers hard to distinguish. Solutions include treating them as one fantasy player and crediting both, adding long dreads, putting an orange headband over a helmet, or inventing a helmet-sized sweatband that likely does not exist.
Brooks answers a direct Broxie question from Deucer's Alley and says he beat Josh in dynasty while Josh is happy to tank. A nearby unlabeled reply says Achane's injury helped the tank. The hosts then say Papa Josh had nearly regained a Thanksgiving invitation, but he ran up that morning, hugged an unlabeled host against his will, and thanked that host for the Burrow-to-Justin-Fields-and-DJ-Moore trade that won his week; Mike tests whether hugging his own family would also earn disinvitation.
Kyle asks the desk to make clear that he was not quoted as saying 'man-beater.' The hosts immediately insist that those were exactly Kyle's words and answer the attempted correction with 'Check the tape.'
The show previews its largest annual episode: Megalodon combines the Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday shows into a single Thanksgiving marathon, hides a completion hashtag, recalls Dinner Butter nearly trending with Thanksgiving, and promises a DK Metcalf jersey, Javonte Williams jersey, and A.J. Brown mini helmet while joking that the prizes will leave the company broke. Monday Punday turns the weekend into Perfect Passer, Jalen Soren, Tank Delicious, Breece Hallelujah, Devon I.R. Chan, Hollywood Brown Pants, Quentin Dropston, Jared Gawful, and a failed Garrett Willstocks construction that another host repairs into Garrett Will Suck/Will Stuck. Mike's weekend is summarized by his own roster: Mark Andrews tanks the League of Record, Joe Burrow's dynasty injury takes Jamar Chase with him, and Kenneth Walker also falls. Jason then anticipates facing Andy's Dak-CeeDee stack with such intensity that the hosts say his emotional state is going backward; Jason says he genuinely may not be able to remain in the studio and only hopes for a playful rivalry that he wins. An unnamed Fantasy Faceoff participant separately celebrates avoiding a turkey Wheel-of-Shame punishment for a third straight week. Near the close, an unlabeled host says Andy did him dirty by shouting 'Ferg touchdown' from the studio while that host was in the kitchen; the score actually belonged to Luke Schoonmaker, whose number sits beside Ferguson's. That launches a petition against Detroit's similarly ambiguous 8, 9, and 6 typography: the Reynolds players should merge for fantasy scoring or wear dreads, an orange helmet headband, or an impossible giant sweatband. Kyle then asks to be cleared of the phrase 'man-beater'; the hosts say that was exactly his wording and order the tape checked. Finally, Brooks speaks from Deucer's Alley and says he beat Josh in dynasty while Josh is hardcore tanking; a nearby unlabeled reply says the Achane injury helped the tank. Papa Josh later hugs an unlabeled host against his will and thanks that host for the trade that moved him from Burrow into Justin Fields and DJ Moore, which appears to revoke a tentative Thanksgiving invitation. Mike asks whether hugging his own family will get him uninvited too.
production coming into the fantasy playoffs is even better than this baseline. It should be. It's his second game in this offense. Yeah, I mean, my view on Kyler was that you just can't come back without some rust after missing that much time. And it's not meant good things for Hollywood so far. No. You know, Hollywood's had two complete, I mean, Jason this morning, you're saying, do I bench him? Yeah, I mean, I'll be a discussion for this week. I'm going to be looking at Josh Downs or Hollywood this week, and that feels like something I didn't want to have to look at.
Justin Fields came back. 16 for 23, 169 and 1, 104 rushing yards for Josh. An incredible meltdown at the end of the game. Oh, yeah. By the bears. Well, I believe they were up 12. 13 points with four minutes left. Yeah, that's. Hey, they found a way to get it done. Yeah, they did. That one, NFL needs to look into that one. They're like, well, I mean, why? Their pick goes to the Carolina Panthers, right? No. It's the other way around. Oh, yeah. Now I see what you're saying. The bears, I believe the bears have the number one pick. Like, their own pick is now number one. Really? I think so. I don't think so. I think that's got to be Carolina. Or is that just odds? They have three wins, don't they? Yeah. Oh, is that the Carolina one? Yeah, that's the Carolina. Okay, the Carolina one. Okay. Okay. Number one running back on the week. Sequin.
Barkley. 14 for 83 on the ground. By the way, he's been in this Tommy DeVito insulted offense. Let me read you his yards per carry the last three weeks. 5.6, 5.1, 5.9. Also had 57 receiving yards and two touchdown. Yeah. Yeah. He was absolutely outstanding. And what was crazy is two of the big. touchdown throws were to Saquan. They were using them downfield. This wasn't a screen pass that Saquan took 30 yards. This was, you know, a 20 air yard target into the end zone. I think they're like, well, if we don't have wide receivers that are good, let's just use Saquan as a wide receiver. And it's been great. Mike, I think you missed it on this last week. But we were looking at the playoff primer, the schedule between schedule.
Yeah, and Barclay. Yeah. I know you had made some decisions to move away from Barclay because of that schedule in our dynasty league. And so Andy offered me, I don't know if you're aware of the offer. I turned down this last week. He offered me Saquan. Live on the air. Saquan and two twos. Wow. For Echler. And I struggled with that and I turned it down. And now this morning, I offered him Echler for a two and a three. So it's an even better deal for Andy. Yeah, we play each other this week. I don't think he's thrilled with the fact that Austin Echler looked like Mike Tolbert out there this week. I mean, I'm not joking. There were multiple times we watched Austin Echler and we were like, is that Echler or is that a fullback? That's a new game. You want to play down? The play fell down was funny, but not. It was actually the play where he had a really nice run.
read the hole right, bounced it outside nicely, and then had no breakaway speed, which we have seen from him earlier. So I don't know. I haven't seen anything about an injury. He's had in a long time. Yeah, that was a weird game in the sense that they just kept throwing the ball. He was out there, and they just Herbert. Not to him, though. No, no, no, but Herbert just was, Herbert was running a lot, but I'm just saying like they would snap back and. plays where you should be handing the ball off against a beatable Packers rush defense, they decided, I'm not going to do that. So Take Juan is getting so much work. That's the beautiful thing about saying. And he generally, even in the, you know, later in the Dallas game, I think he had negative three yards in that game. He had some big runs in the second half and managed over five a carry against Dallas. I know the matchups aren't great, but when you're playing every snap in the entire game, I mean, we're talking about the Breece Hall situation.
like Sequin's playing every snap in the same vein, and normally it works out. Jalen Warren, also known as the new Austin Echler with Juice, 9 for 129 at a 70-something yard run, three targets. Another great game from Jalen Warren. Yeah, I mean, it was really all on the back of that 74-yard touchdown, but this is a player who can do that. And can do that against the Browns. I don't imagine many people were playing Jailen Warren because of how bad the matchup was, but if you did, You got, you were blessed. Gus, boss, two touchdowns on, you know, and he's playing a Chargers team that literally can't stop. They can't stop the run. So he's going to score more. Christian McCaffrey doing McCaffrey stuff. Another touchdown. Nothing wrong with his schedule. Nothing you're going to worry about. This was a really, really tough matchup for him. And so it just makes you realize that doesn't exist. It does not exist for Christian McCaffrey.
Devin Singletary, another 100-yard game, another touchdown. 22 for 112 against Arizona as Jacksonville this week. I expect Damien Pierce to be back. He rejoined practice on Friday before being ruled out. I don't think he was ruled out due to a setback. I think it was just a matter of not having enough practice time in. How do you stop the heater, though? If you're Houston. Yeah, I mean, I would play Singletary over Pierce, whatever week Pierce comes back. But, you know, it's going to be, I mean, their offensive coordinator came out and said it's going to be the same thing as before Pierce left. So, you know, I don't know if Singletary can be a league winner with Pierce as part of the backfield. Yeah, I don't think he will be a league winner. You hope, though, that Houston, I mean, Singletary has just played significantly better than Pierce did. And you hope that they can make that transition to say, hey, he's giving us a better chance to wait, because this is a team now playoff bound.
The Houston Texans are six and four. Six and four, they are looking to be their best win games, make the playoffs, start the career of C.J. Stroud, you know, off the right way. And Singletary gives them a better chance every time he's out there than Pierce does. Jemir Gibbs. We did it again, six for 59 through the air. Another touchdown. So the street continues. Montgomery, the late game winner on the ground. Also. You know, great yards per carry again. Both players every week, including Green Bay on Thanksgiving. Oh, that'll be a great matchup. Joe Mixon had another big week. He's been very good. Where are we adjusting Joe Mixon in light of the injury to Joe Burrow? I would imagine he sees an uptick and work, but a decline in offense. But he's still in every week play until we see something else. James Cook, 17 for 73 on the crown.
Most important for James Cook was he was involved a little bit in the red zone a little bit more. This was a different offensive. It's a trap. Well, it was a different offensive coordinator. That's true. That is true. So I don't know. Ty Johnson got involved immediately with the new offensive coordinator as well. So that'll be something to monitor. Brian Robinson, 7 for 58 through the hair was a monster. 17 for 73 on the ground. Another big game for him. Tony Pollard got into the end zone. He did it. I think he was the tackle that he got into the end zone. He began on about the 10 and then ran through people. He's like, I need it. Yeah. They keep talking about me, not scoring. There were so many flags on that play. I can't believe that none of them was an offensive hold. I saw the play and I just assumed, oh, that's coming back. But it was a good run. Now he's playing against Washington and Seattle, good matchups. I am not bullish at all on him. I think this is where.
you sell high off of the touchdown and the upcoming schedule. Breeze Hall, five for 50 and a touchdown through the air, salvaging a day. That was it. That was it. We don't need to talk about the running stats. Running the 10 for 23. No, no. Calvin, really huge game, seven for 103 and two. I think a lot of people out there are like, man, he was on my bench. Why didn't you tell me to play him? I'm sorry? As we didn't know that Zay Jones was going to play. Yeah, I mean, even with Zay Jones playing, I don't think I would have had the confidence to say, hey,
That one time earlier in the year, when Zay Jones played, he was good. Now I might, but, but I mean, you just go with what you've had. He was the wider receiver 59, 89, 30, and 69. Not nice. Not nice. Tyree Kale, 10 for 146, unstoppable. Does play the Jets on Black Friday. I don't care. You're playing? Tank Dell. Goodness gracious, man. Tank Dell 10 for 1, 49, and 1. This is the third consecutive week that Tank Dell has double-digit targets. Not that you would find this to be a reasonable sample size, but if you were to take the last three games of Tank Dell and stretch it out over a season, that'd be 200 targets, 1,800 yards, and 23 touchdown. So he's on a bit of a heater. He's a rookie superstar, and that's how you need to view him. He did not have the first round draft capital that.
Zay Jones and Quentin Johnston and Jordan Addison and Jackson Smith and Jigba had. But this is a rookie who had the production that those guys had. He had more production in college than those guys. To come out and in his rookie year flash this well, you have to buy in. You have to be in. The combination of C.J. Stroud and Tank Dell is going to be a long-term future star connection here. Now, there has been. some injuries to Nico Collins during this stretch. Then once he comes back, Noah Brown leaves. So I don't, obviously this three game sample, he's not going to be an 1,800 yard 23 touchdown type of player. And the matchups have been really good. But what he has shown on the field is really important to buy into early. I mean, I bought it. I bought in and went to trade for him because I thought he could be a league winner. And apparently Andy had that idea before me.
You know, it was tough this week because I had the chance, I thought, to go aggressively try to pick up Stefan Diggs for the stretch run or stick with Tank Dell. And I originally made an offer, including Tank Dell, and I retracted that. And then I just looked at it and I said, you know, it was just like, buy weeks really matter right now. That's one thing I want to throw out there because, like, if you're navigating, getting to the finish, like week 13 is brutal. It's ridiculous. Week 13 is an absolute huge problem. Diggs is on by that week, along with Devante Adams, along with Sequin, along with Vikings, the Ravens. Yeah, I mean, it's a week 13, when you're fighting for the playoffs is a big problem. And the idea of trading a guy passed his buy for a guy with a buy, if you can't afford to do it, that has to be factored in. Brandon Ayuk, oh, do we have three straight start of the weeks that are delivering here? Tankdale, Brandon Ayuk, six for, or five for one, 56 and one, he's been an absolute, like he's number one in yards per catch.
And it's not hard to watch what happens. They just run it with, they run it, run it underneath, underneath play action, Iyuk for 25. I mean, they just do it over and over again. But he had a 70, he had the longest reception for a touchdown this year of any player. That's the longest one? Yeah. That's sad. I think it's 76 yards, 73 yards. That's a fantastic touchdown, but at this, well, that's what they said on the broadcast. So I'm going to blame it on the broadcast if they're wrong. Mike, by the way, I don't know if you knew this.
Or if you paid attention, but I did survive the turkey for the Wheel of Shame. I did not get Wheel of Shame the third straight week. Yes. Because. Because Breece Hall didn't get played. Because Breece Hall didn't get played. Well, I lost Cooper Cup. Yeah. And I thought I was, I thought it's over. And then luckily I snuck by. So I was getting real nervous. Yep. No, I get to do it on the middle. The only reason I thought about that is I chose to save a little cash on Debo. And you guys both went Ayuk, and that was a bad decision. Keenan Allen, 16 targets, 10 for 1, 16, and 1. When all your other receivers are injured or can't catch, Keenan is going to be a machine. Yep. DJ Moore, nine targets seven. Is that a Keenan machine and joke? It's really not. Boston. It's really not. I whispered it. You're not supposed to respond. It was machine and Alan. Oh, I do have breaking news. The Shakir.
touchdown that happened a little bit later past Brandon Ayuk's 76 yard touchdown. There we go. So that's now the longest at 81. Are you happy with 81? I'll accept that. Yeah. DJ Moore now that Justin Fields is back. Really, really nice to see this because DJ Moore was on a heater with Justin Fields before the injury. That seems like the new phrase right now. Yeah, it is. It's fun to say. You wanted to, you wanted it to be true. You know, you wanted him to, Fields come back and be like, oh, yeah, Fields is good. DJ Moore is good, and he's going to target him a lot, and that's what happened. So it's great news for Chicago Bears fans, Chicago Bears managers, and DJ Moore managers. Well, we knew DK Matt Cap would break out eventually if he got healthy. Five for 94 in a touchdown. Look to the part for the first time in a while. Amon Ross St. Double digits. Every game, this entire season he's played.
He has been in double digits, eight for 77 and a touchdown. You know, he's not the downfield guy, but he sure as heck fills the stat sheet. He is so, so good. He's just unstoppable. I mean, if you look at his season, he's just, he is dominant. Every single week, there's no downside to playing him. No schedule, no worries. He's just, I mean, he is a young Keenan Allen. And Keenan Allen is dominating, but still not as good as Amin Role. Well, I think you said something kind of important there, which is that you don't need to worry about matchups. Like if you go look at, like he was the number seven wide receiver on the week with 19 targets against Baltimore, right? Like this, back in week seven. Like it doesn't matter. Tougher matchups might be better for him. Right. It's like they need the pass rushes there. Him. Yeah.
Yeah. So he's very kind of invulnerable to a bad game, which is rare for a player. Shout out to Jaden Reed, the best Packer wide receiver. Once again, looked apart. This time he scored on the ground, contributed through the air. So the Packers wide receivers as a whole had a pretty good day. Yeah, that's true. If you played any of the three, you would have been. Four. Wicks had a decent day. Dobbs had a touchdown. Watson had a touchdown. I love Michael Keaton. Puka Nakua was shut out until the last moments of the first half. But then with Cooper Cup going down, he's back, baby. Five for 70 and a touchdown. Seven plus targets in every single game. He just finds a way to get it done. I am not thrilled that he plays Arizona next week because I have to play Jason. And Cortland Sutton can't stop scoring. It's not fair.
It is not fair. Where was this last year? Do you know how many? The meme of he can't keep getting away with it. And they're five and five now and good. So like the offense isn't bad. It's okay now, although Javante will talk about. But, you know, scored again. There's one wide receiver in the NFL with more touchdowns than Cortland Sutton. His name's Tyreek Hill. Crazy. Since heaters is, uh, yeah, we got another heater. We got, we got George Kittle. who has been the tight end one in total points. He is on a heater. Thanks, Mike. No, he's legitimately been absolutely on fire. I mean, number eight, number three, number two, number one. Can't go higher than one though. But he's been great. Oh, does that mean he has to reset? Oh, because he was three and then two and then one. Now he's got to go back down to like 18 or something. Kelsey could still pass him tonight and fix that problem. But George Kettle has been very, very good.
that's kind of the end of the tight ends. I mean, we didn't have anybody. Stone smart. Stone smart, Josh Oliver. Now, what have I told you, David Najok who had 15 targets with Dorian Thompson Robinson? I think that's worth discussing. 15 targets is, that's a lot of targets. That's a lot of targets to end up with 56 total yards. But those are the targets that Dorian Thompson Robinson is able to. throw like they're short their screens they're three yards down the field when you watch him target amari cooper and he's throwing it 20 yards down the field cooper's got no chance at that ball because it's not near him just so many bad targets to marie cooper the targets that go to nojoku are catchable because they're close he is an explosive violent runner after the catch too like he he's definitely in play right now
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That's not great from Tua either. But I'm saying that that's... I think against Chicago, you'd hope you would get in the top 12. You would hope you would not throw three nasty interceptions. Those were nasty. It was crazy. I mean, Jared Golf's been so good this year, especially at home against a weak defense. It's like, what happened? I know one of the balls was... One Lepora has been bad now for a couple weeks. Yeah. Something, you know, you get Jameson Williams running around out there. Everyone gets confused. CJ Straub was great. This is stupid to have him in here. He was, he was, he wasn't great. He was super great. He just had some ugly interceptions, but, yeah, there weren't really any quarterback duds this week of people you counted on. Yeah. Not the same for the running back position. I mean, Burrow. Sure. Do you have more to say? Are you mad at him? I just wish he would have gutted it out.
Here's the truth, and I know people are making a big, there's like Portnoy and them are making a big deal out of it, probably for notoriety's sake. Oh, yeah, okay. The fact that, like, he had an injury that wasn't disclosed, and the NFL has to, they have to crush Cincinnati for that. Crush them. Because you're out here proliferating sports betting, sports betting, sports betting. We talk about it. Everybody talks about it. There's books going everywhere. You have major segments sponsored by sports betters or sports betting. Right. Books. Companies, yeah. And then you don't tell the public of an injury. And then people put huge money down on players. Like, that is a major issue. Like, if I was the NFL, I would be, that would be a monstrous penalty, like a pick or something. They've been looking into it, though, and I believe that despite the fact that it was a compression sleeve on the wrist, it was a completely different injury. So, I mean, TBD, they are looking into it, but I don't think it was a reaggravation of something that.
he had pre-existing. Austin Echler was real bad. Two for six through the air, fumbled after he fell down. He was 10 for 64 on the ground and looked like he was running about a 6-2-40. I don't know what was going on in this game. Jason was constantly worried that he was injured. I'm worried. That's why I haven't clicked accept on any trades. I wondered. He's sitting over there. I'm just letting you. I'm just letting you. Stu. Stu. I'm, I almost canceled it because I got about the week 13 by for. Sure you did. For Sequin. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's a thought. Travis ETN, 14 for 52. I feel a little bit validated in the Travis ETN thing because I kept saying it was the, you can't keep getting away with it. The touchdowns for Travis ETN were out of this world and not going to keep happening.
The last two weeks, it's been pretty bad. He had a really tough matchup against Kansas City early in the year, wasn't good in that game. The matchups were just beautiful for a long run. Houston, Atlanta, Buffalo, Indianapolis, who's the worst. New Orleans, okay, that one's kind of tough, but he got bailed out by, I think, a reception. Two touchdowns of that. Oh, two, yeah, okay. So that was good. But, you know. His upcoming schedule is a real problem, too. He's got Houston this week, which is great. Yeah. He'll get two more touchdowns. But after that, the stretch run, including the fantasy playoffs, you're talking about weeks 14, 15, and 16 against Cleveland, one of the most difficult, Baltimore, one of the most difficult, and Tampa Bay, one of the most difficult run defenses. Two of those on the road. Yeah, it's, he doesn't look like a playoff superstar. So the reason he's not on my league of record team right now. And that's why. Because Travis E.T.N is a monster, but you have really tough matchups, and that's hard.
Derek Henry, 10 for 38. You know, I'm worried about this. I really, last week we talked about this big trade that Josh did for Derek Henry. The playoff schedule is great, but I mentioned on the show, you have four weeks to get there. The rest of the schedule is great. I mean, we got Carolina and then we got Indianapolis next two weeks. That's what I'm saying. From here on out, I talked about this early in the week. I was saying maybe let. Derek Henry played this one more difficult matchup against Jacksonville and then trade for him at this point? Because Carolina, Indianapolis, Houston, Seattle, Houston left on the schedule is great. Houston's been really good against the run. I'm going to throw that out there. They've been great. If you looked at the numbers, the James Connor matchup was not good this week. Like Connor underperformed, but if you go look at the last five weeks, they had been really slowing running games down with the Miko Ryans. And my point last week was that if Henry...
And this team, which Will Lovis isn't getting it done right now, they got hammered. If they're out of it and Houston's playing for everything, I just don't think that those are smashed matchups. I would agree that the Houston Texans double up in the playoffs is not going to be as good as it has been in years past because obviously what happens if the Titans get down big is really, really bad for Derek Henry, which is why the matchup against the Texas has been so good because. The Texans aren't good, but now they're good. So I see that point of the two Houston matchups. Well, and look, he has every ability to dominate for the rest of the season. I just, we're at a point with Derek Henry where you don't know that is to be sure. Like, you don't know that he can't give you a bad game. Like, he never used to be able to give you a 10 for 38 game, no matter who the matchup was. It seemed like. So there's just a little bit of trepidation there. Like the wheels are clearly.
Like this is it, right? Derek Henry's done after this year in Tennessee. Yeah, which is, again, why would you not trade him? Josh Jacobs, big dud game. Kind of unexpected. You know, he'd been getting 20 plus carries, went 14 for 39, only one target. That would be something I'd be a little bit. One target, two targets against the Jets last week, zero the week before. I mean, he dominated the Giants on the ground, but. Aiden O'Connell not throwing him the rock. Yeah. Giovante Williams, huge disappointment last night. Kind of a problem when you see P. Rine caught seven of seven targets, which is the second really good performance by P. Ryan in the passing game where he's available to Russell Wilson. Possibly. That was, I believe, four of them were that final drive in which P. Ryan gets the two minute. But, I mean... It was the week before, too. I'm just saying, like, P. Ryan's delivering in the passing game. Like, if he was not getting the targets and
Catching them? I mean, I don't know. Sure. They are using a three-headed monster. He only played 49% of snaps. And I thought that this, honestly, I thought that this week was the week that Giovante would kind of secure himself as the RB1 workload-wise. Were you guys surprised with 11 for 37? Yeah, yeah. This looked like over the last month, he had the second best utilization rate and expected fantasy points. So I really, really thought that this would be. a continuation of that and it wasn't. Now he's got a very difficult Cleveland matchup coming up. So a little bit more trepidation instead of excitement towards Giovante. So tell me what's going on with James Connor because it's weird. He's really good. So he has been 4.4, 4.6 to carry for two weeks. He's had explosive runs. Hasn't scored. And not being involved enough in the passing game. Yeah, just two for one is what it was this week. So.
You know, is this a ramp up a bit? He played 69% of snaps. He played 63% the week before. I don't think so. I think this is how they want to use him. He's still got the bulk of the carries, the bulk of the snaps. They're not overdoing it. He played well, like you said, 4.6, 4.4.4. He looks good. He's breaking tackles, looks explosive. But if you're not getting touchdowns and you're not getting the four or five receptions he's capable of getting in a game, Which right now, this is the first example of the Kyler led this offense with James Connor. I'm now very skeptical that he is going to get back up to the five, six targets, a game that we've seen him do in the past. And then it becomes touchdowns. Like if he doesn't get a touchdown, you're going to be pretty disappointed, even if he's playing well. It could just be the offense. In week one, he had five targets, but that was also, that was when Josh Dobbs was just.