Week 6 Matchups + Lev Bell to Chiefs! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/16

Matt Rule said to him and said, told him what to do. Was it murder? Oh, job rule getting it done, man. The best, there are people who don't get that joke. And it, it tickles me. Yeah. Like, if, if you don't know who job rule is, he's the coach of the Carolina Panthers. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it's, uh, it's kind of crazy to see Mike Davis have this level of success because.

He was a Chicago bear. Jordan Howard was a Chicago bear. And here we are with David Montgomery. But Mike, you love him this week. Yeah, yeah. Mike Davis is in. Just the opportunities are there for him. Robbie Anderson, he is the Carolina Panthers number one wide receiver. He's in for me.

The volume is just too great. And this is a matchup where I'm trying to pivot away from DJ Moore if I can. Yeah, the matchup isn't good for Teddy or for the wide receiver core. I agree with you. Robbie is someone who's had such target volume. You could play him. But I have seen some lineups where I've recommended benching Robbie Anderson because they have other really good options. This is not a great matchup. On the bear's side of the ball, it's easy. It's easy every week. Here's, it doesn't matter the matchup.

David Montgomery is going to get enough volume. You pretty much got to start him. But this week is in particular. This week is fantastic. If it's bad, okay, you're still probably going to start him. Alan Robinson is just a phenomenal wide receiver. Next, I mean, maybe there's questions on Jimmy Grandpa. But I feel like it's a two-man show. I'd be playing Jimmy Grandpa over Irv Smith. I'll tell you that. That's fair. That's all I'll tell you, though. That's all I got for you. And Irv Smith, to be clear, was not.

on your roster, watching from the sidelines, not from your bench. Yeah, yeah, which is also the case for Jimmy Grandpa in all of my leagues. But I will say this, the target volume for Robbie Anderson has been just to highlight it. It's been incredible. He had 11, 2 weeks ago, 12 last week, 8 receptions each week. He will get the targets in this game, whether they turn into, you know, yards after they catch at 12 and 14, like the past couple weeks, maybe not.

I am still confident to play him, especially in PPR formats. He has really been outstanding for fantasy purposes. And while DJ Moore came through last week, it was one big score. Yeah. He still only had five targets. Oh, Arthur. The Detroit Lions at 1 in 3, taking on the Jacksonville Jaguars, who are 1 in 4 now on a bit of a tailspin. Lions are 3.5 point road favorites. It's a 54.5 point over and under.

Jacksonville's been struggling on the defensive side of the ball. After that kind of surprise week one where we're like, okay, maybe they're not the worst team in football. Maybe this defense is, you know, the youth that they have. They're putting it together. Not this time. No, no. So, yeah, I really like the Detroit Lions in this game. I like Matthew Stafford. He's my start of the week. And I love Kenny Gawaday. We haven't got to see a ton of Kenny Gulladay so far this year.

But he is an elite-wide receiver, a top-five type of talent. And I think the bigger question mark, if you have Goliday, you're playing him. One of the question marks I have is, look, we retired Marvin Jones. And then Marvin Jones hit waiver wires. And then I saw Marvin Jones signed by brand new fantasy managers. And they want to know, is this a Marv Week? The absolute truth is you can never know when the Marv Weeks happened. But you can always plug Marvin Jones into your starting lineup.

and take that shot. I will speak from experience. When I look at my opponent and I see Marvin Jones is on the bench, I don't get excited. I'm not happy about that. I don't go, oh, thank goodness. Martin Jones, he stinks. I go, oh, no, please don't let this be the three touchdown game. Okay, makes sense. Running backs on the Detroit side, Adrian Peterson had not practiced with an illness on Thursday. Do we have anything new on Adrian Peterson Brooks? I know that you are a member of his fan club, right?

Nothing yet. Okay. Give him a call. Let me know. Nothing new. If Peterson missed, are you taking a shot with the Army Swift? 100%. Yeah, the matchup is so good. If Peterson was out and it was just a two-headed running back core, I think I'd put Swift in my lineup. Hawkinson is Mike's start of the week at the tight-in position. We have them at six on the week. Great matchup. Jacksonville giving up 14 points a game to the opposing tight-in position or opposing tight-in. Gardner, I...

I'm not excited about Gardner in general week to week because I feel like we haven't seen very much ceiling. But you mentioned if Charks out, you're really off of Gardner. The matchup is, it is super juicy. And it's not that Gardner has been bad. I mean, he is, he's like a fringe QB1, 13th, 9th. Then he bombed against Miami. But then he's been QB 13 and back-to-back weeks. That's not submarining your team by any stretch.

You just, Gardner's a streaming option. And if his number one guy, number one guy, DJ Chark, is out, then I just, it caps the ceiling of what Gardner can do. And I would be going over to Kirk Cousins. Levisca Chanel has been an incredible rookie. He has been, his opportunity is jumping up each and every week. There just isn't the high end wide receiver play between him and Keel and Cole, who was also in play in this matchup for me.

But those two guys combined don't make me want to stream Gardner over the other options. And both, if Chark misses, Chanel and Cole are break glass emergency starts. I think to me, Levisca's not even a break glass. He's a wide receiver three. Who should be played or flexed in this week? Eight targets last week, seven catches the previous two weeks. It was six targets each week. So you're going to get something out of him. Yes.

Which is nice. And you've seen him more and more incorporated into the passing game. If you look at the game logs for him in the beginning of the year, he was getting a lot more carries and being utilized as more of a, you know, a gadget type of player. Now he's just one of their most important wide receivers. All right. Let's move to the next matchup. The Miami Dolphins are hosting the New York Crowders and the dolphins are nine and a half point favorites. So 47 point over under. Can we see if we can break a record here?

For the least amount of time talking about a team. Oh, yeah. Start James and Crowder. Uh-huh. Nothing else. Done. Miami Dolphins, though. Ryan Fitzpatrick, I like that someone wrote revenge game in here. That is very true for very many games for him. I, uh, from what I know of Ryan Fitzpatrick, he's not a revenge guy. No, he doesn't care. He's willing to. Buy guns or by guns. Play wild and free against anybody. Well, Ryan Fitzpatrick, this is a man who has no.

No cares or worries in the world. 11th, 6th, 10th, 3rd, the last four weeks for Ryan Fitzpatrick. Let me remind you, he played Buffalo in that stretch. He played San Francisco in that stretch. Still ended up a top 12 quarterback in those matchups, including eviscerating the 49ers last week. Fitzpatrick is... We've already talked about several middling quarterbacks. You know, do you start Matt Ryan without Julio? Do you start Gardner who's been, you know, quarterback 13, 13, 13.

I would take Ryan Fitzpatrick here over the lot of those middling guys. Oh, absolutely. And the third most popular start sit question on the website is Gardner or Ryan Fitzpatrick. That's not even close to me. Yeah, I'd go Fitz. Do you not love Ryan Fitzpatrick? Is there anyone out there that is annoyed by, like, he's so. It feels like it's always a one week.

situation. He could poof disappear at any moment. The way it feels is like you're like, I'll get by with him this week. You never feel a permanence. We highlighted earlier, I think it was maybe in the draft season, talking about Ryan Fitzpatrick. Because at the time, you couldn't feel confident drafting him. The team had just picked up to, and it was the, but what if they go with Ryan Fitzpatrick? Because the dude over the second half of last year was the quarterback too.

And since- Yeah, but Mike, he's only the quarterback six this year. He's just, he's, yeah, he's great. Give him his respect. He's not going to demand it and he's not going to go for revenge, so we're going to demand it for it. That's right. He's a player that if he was missing his football helmet, he would still go out there and play quarterback. He would. And that's what I'm looking for in a quarterback. If someone else was missing their helmet, he'd give him his. That's right. And he'd play without it. And then he, he ain't sliding.

It's going in first. But he makes Devante Parker a guaranteed lock every week, which is outstanding. You know who would help you move? Oh, Fitzpatrick. Alex Smith. Alex Smith would, because he's reliable. But Ryan Fitzpatrick would do it. You wouldn't even have to get him pizza. No. Ryan Fitzpatrick would just do it. He'd bring the pizza. He'd be like, what's up, dude? Yeah. He'd pick you up from the airport at 4 in the morning with the coffee there for you. Yeah, that's the type of man, Ryan Fitzpatrick is. You probably weren't even ready to move until the next day, and he'd show up a day early and be like, let's get this done.

And you would show up and your entire house has already moved. And you know he'd bring Tua with him. Tua would help him out. Tua loves him. All right. Miles Gaskin, start of the week at the running back position for me against this Jets defense giving up almost 28 a game. And he's just establishing a bigger role, not a smaller role in this offense. Devante Parker, of course. Give me the lay of the land on your Mike Gisicki situation here because it could get better. It could get worse. At the tight-in position, he's had a couple big weeks,

bad weeks. Gassiki to me is great. I mean, in the sense that all tight ends outside of the top guys have good weeks and bad weeks. He has enough targets, has enough talent, has enough athleticism to have great weeks. I'm pretty much always going to be starting Gisiki if he's one of, you know, if that's the guy that's on my roster, I'm not looking to the waivers. What about Preston Williams, Jay, after he finally had a big game this year? I love Preston Williams. I think he's a talented wide receiver.

He is a flex possibility, but I would prefer to not. Keel and Cole or Preston Williams. Ooh, that's a good one. Keel and Cole. Yeah, I mean, I don't think DJ Chark plays. So Keel and Cole. If Chark was playing, then I would go press. Snap counts on Preston Williams last couple weeks, 61%, 60%. It was a nice week last week, but had a 47-yard catch, so that'll help. Yeah, my final note here, you aren't playing him.

But from the New York Jets, La Michael P. Ryan, he is a... How dare you, Mike. I told you. I mean, come on. I was looking forward to asking the judge if we did it. Nope. Nope. This is happening. If you have an extra spot on your roster, I would throw the Michael P. Ryan on your bench and just in case. I know why you would say that, but you are forgetting the head coach. Number two. I get it. I get it. All right, the Green Bay Packers at 4. I'm not going to let you keep talking about the Jets anymore.

I'm not going to let you do it. Next week we'll get it. We'll get the record. The Green Bay Packers at 4 and O taking on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers sitting at 3 and 2. The Packers are one point road favorite. It's a 55.5.5. Over under. And, you know, that says something about where the Packers are right now. Going on the road to Tampa still favored. It's a tough road for Tom Brady right now with these matchups. This is such a good game.

I can't wait. Forget fantasy. Like, I can't wait for this football game. I mean, Brady and Rogers, both teams playing well and in the hunt. This is awesome. It's a battle of the bays, too. I mean, you got Green Bay and you got Tampa Bay. Oh, Bay dominance. You want the cold or the heat? Is Michael going to be there? Michael, I hope not. A lot of slow-mo explosions. Explosions. Explosions everywhere. Transformers all over the place.

Was that your transformer? Can we hear that again? That's a car shop. That's not a transformer. No, I didn't mind it. I mean, my transformer is a car. I know, but that sounds like more like you're changing the tire. Well, he was. He was changing the tire on one of his transformers. He did to a leg. All right, Aaron Rogers. We haven't met quarterback five on the week.

He leads the NFL in percentage of 20-plus yard attempts because he's Aaron Rogers. He loves it. He's back, baby. Yeah, and even with Alan Lizard leaving, he gets back Devante Adams this week. That is spectacular. And the points should be flowing in this game. Brady's been a little up and down. Last week was the quarterback 19. We talked about Chicago slowing them down. But the weeks before, the past two weeks, second, ninth at the position. Ronald Jones is Jason's start of the week.

For good reason. Yeah, he's been great. And now he also doesn't have to deal with Love Bell. That was a little bit of a what if situation. Kishon Vaughn, are you still putting him on your bench kind of waiting and seeing? It wasn't anything special last week. Well, it was in fact. The opposite? The opposite of special because he finished with negative fantasy points. I don't mind that if you have that. If it's a deep league, I wouldn't drop him.

That was bad. What about Fournette? What are you doing roster-wise with Leonard Fornett? He is expected to be active again. See, I would be rostering Fournett and not rostering Kishon Vaughn. In truth, I don't really want to roster either of them. Right now, you're happy with Ronald Jones because Leonard Fournett's been gone. But if, you know, Fornett is active and just takes 15 carries.