Week 9 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Red Dead Dickson

And then Melvin Gordon touchdown, then a Todd Gurley touchdown. It was just like, oh, yeah, the big guys, they just always get touchdown. If I could trade hunt for Camara, I'd do it in a heartbeat because you avoid a buy and you've got a better playoff schedule for the Saints. So those two pieces. Absolutely. The buy week, if you're talking about the same caliber of player, both great, don't lose them for a week. Yeah, and Tampa, Carolina, Pittsburgh for Camara to finish the season seems a little better than Baltimore, the Chargers for.

Hunt. But I mean, look, you're splitting hairs. Both are great. How about this? Have both. Oh, what a great idea, Andy. Find a way to get both. This is why you win. Title? Yeah. Christian McCaffrey, big game. He was actually my number one ranked running back on the week. Ended up with two goal line carries. Sometimes those go to Cam. They didn't. Sometimes they go to the fullback. Yeah. That's the funny thing about it is you had two.

other carries from the one that didn't go to McCaffrey, but he was dominant. Cam pulled out a decent day by the end, but it was so frustrating, you know, his Cam was super highly rated by just about everybody. When in that game, they're up like 30 to nothing in the blink of an eye, and Cam Newton, like, everything was a long run. Right. And it's like, what? Come on, Cam. James White, Cordero, Patterson. Hey, Patterson. That was fun.

A lot of that production came when James White left the field with an injury, and Patterson came in and ran like the monster he is. He's so big. Kevin Coleman, James Connor, Duke Johnson, Fluke Johnson. Is it a fluke for Duke? Here's what we had talked about for Duke Johnson was the new OC. He keeps it hot because he's Freddie Kitchens. It's always hot in the kitchen. We had talked about he's from the Bruce Aryan system. The, uh,

Do you guys remember, what did Ariens call that? It's something like running gun, but it had to do with how... There's a lot of vertical passing game, no fullback. But they utilized passing to the running back a lot. Now, game script certainly helped that they were playing against the chiefs and they really needed to catch up. But this is a very positive sign that Duke Johnson was actually being utilized and it was in the passing.

work. I mean, he got one carry. Who cares about that? It's the targets. Yeah. Last season, Duke Johnson in PPR leagues was a running back one. Everyone forgets because he doesn't get the carries. It's all in the passing game. He is over talented there and it's not going away. He's going to put up back-to-back great weeks. It's not going to be a fluke. Next week, Atlanta is his matchup. They're going to score on them and you're going to have to dump it off to Duke again. I will chase those points with Duke this week. Interesting.

Interesting. I wish. Last week I was laughing on the show about picking up Austin Echler and the opportunity I had to find a running back. And so if Austin Echler hadn't been dropped, I wouldn't have picked him up, and Duke Johnson was in my lineup, and I would have won my game. That's fantasy football for you. Austin Echler was disappointing. Well, you've got him next week. You can take a healthy Duke against Atlanta.

No, I get Sequin and mixing back, so I think I'll be all right. Melvin Gordon, he was back in a big way and looked fine. I mean, that was the important thing. Coming off the injury, 16 for 113 and a touchdown. And then Jordan Howard, what are those Harry Potter characters, the ones that suck the souls out of people? Dementors. Dementors, right? I've seen these movies, right? The Dementors are haunting.

Jordan Howard did a soul-sucking move on all Tariq Cohen owners this week. Yeah. Two touchdowns. Tariq Cohen basically was a crystalline, just invisible, just frozen. This is another game where it's 30 to nothing in the blink of an eye. Buffalo didn't show up. The Bears did. And at that point, when you're just clock killing and doing that, you know, you're not down. It's too, but it doesn't. Nobody sat.

Cohen, that's the problem. Because you expect, you normally count on those guys and you say, hey, maybe they're the ones that get me that 30 point lead. Two defensive scores will destroy all fantasy output for an offense. And is somehow too few for Nathan Peterman. He likes to get that up to four? Yeah. Maybe next week, buddy. I wonder how many touchdown passes Buffalo Bills quarterbacks have thrown to their team versus the other team.

How close are they? I guarantee you that the pick sixes exceed the total touchdown passes by the quarterbacks. I guess it's easier. That's a very good question. I'm almost positive. We've got to research that. Yeah. All right. Wide receivers, hello Michael Thomas. Yeah. He was already having a monster game over 100 yards when he put up a 72 yard touchdown. Help Drew Breeze out there. Adam Humphreys. Oh, it's pronounced with an Humphreys. Eight for 82 and two on eight targets. It seemed to be what?

The opposing team was given him. You want to talk about soul-sucking. Adam Humphreys. If you own D-Jax, Mike Evans. Was the bane of all fantasy players. Look, I'm sure there's a few people out there that played Humphreys, and this was like... Pronounced with an Humphrey. Thank you. This is like the best win you've ever gotten because you're... You called your shot that Humphreys was going to have a good game, but he's... Evans, nothing. We had D-Jax, basically nothing. We have a one of our...

People that work here in the office, he has a five and two record in our Dynasty League. And his team is the worst team of all time that you've ever visually seen. Like if you're, the optics are bad. They were five and three. Five and three. So this week I played him.

and his team is terrible, and he left Adam Humphrey's on his bench. Whoops, yes. So he could have had that surprise game. Julio Jones, the Andre Hopkins, Brandon Cook. How dare you? How dare you, sir? I didn't skip them. I've just, they're lumped together. No, no, no, no. You choose what you want to say about him. You cannot lump Julio Jones, and we must celebrate. Yes. Touchdown. It was right there, Jason. First touchdown since, what, week 12 of last year?

Since forever. It's been 87 years. It was hard to get in there. If you didn't see the play, the entire Falcons came together and celebrated like they just won a Super Bowl. And I thought Julio was going to cry. You could tell when he's staring at the ref going, did I get it? Did I get it? And the ref put his hands up. He's like, yes! I've done it!

What is this? How can one of the best, if not the best wide receiver in the NFL, not ever scored touchdowns? I don't know, man. Atlanta started rioting in the streets. Atlanta. Atlanta started riot. I almost traded Beckham for Julio a couple weeks ago because I just didn't believe it could keep going. Like it's just impossible. You can't catch that. He was on pace for 1,800 yards. Some of those yards crossed that end zone. I mean, it's just inevitable. Brandon Cook's.

Big game, 614, revenge game. Yeah. What do you make at Josh Gordon's game? Five for one, 30 on 10 targets? I hate it. I mean, it's just a personal note because I was playing against him. Look like I had it locked down. His hand was hurting. He had done very little on a lot of targets. I'm like, I got this in the bag. That hurt you too, baby Josh, right? Baby Josh is hiding over there. I can't see him. Are you even here? Oh, yeah, it hurt him. It hurt him. The targets were good, but I don't...

feel like Josh Gordon, like watching this game, paying attention to it on a personal level, I didn't feel like he had a very good game outside of that one play. Except he did, because that was a 55-yard touchdown, right? How far? I was looking right at him. Fifty-five! Oh! I think it was 55. Whatever. It was a 22-yard touchdown. No, but I mean, even if you removed that, he still had a nice yardage game, and this was the thing about Josh Gordon.

They were taking so many shots to him. Eventually, you knew the touchdowns were going to come. You just had to keep the faith. Little flea flicker right off the bat to give him a deep shot after a couple runs. They went after him quick. Bills have three touchdowns to their team and three pick six. Oh, man, the race is on. I understand that the Pack 12 is interested in picking Buffalo up. Oh. No?

No. I mean, they're probably interested in that because they would dominate. That would feel good. That would feel really good for them. Oh, man. See, that's my kind of gaming is. Yeah, that's what you're the kid. Rose versus college. You would have gone, you wanted to enter the, uh, the little league with your younger brother. Yeah. If I, you're the oldest on the team. If I could go back right now and like.

Join an eighth grade team. Oh, eighth grade. You're not even going high school. Well, high school guys, they're pretty big now. They'd probably get you. They'd run past me like gazelles. But eighth grade, I mean, you shaved your face the other day. You could have passed for an eighth grader. I mean, I'll just block the heck out of these little kids. Laying out all the little ones, Billy Madison style. Tight end. Oh, I think we got. Yeah, before we jump with the tight ends. I want to thank today's sponsor.

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Travis Kelsey did Travis Kelsey things. O.J. Howard had a monster week, two touchdowns. O.J. Howard will talk about in a moment. We know about George Kittle on Thursday night. But Jeff, Greg Olson, six for 76 and a touchdown. Hey, Greg. Mike's tight-in start of the week. Yeah. O.J. Howard was my start. We did all right with tight-ins. Yes. That came through. But Jeff Hirman.

Yes. That's the one to talk about. He needs to be talked about because of the 11 targets. And it was Demarius Thomas was shipped out of town. Where are those targets going to go? Well, we're only one week in. And this could just be a complete fluke. But right now, they're going to the tight end. I mean, he's, he's filling that void as the third pass catcher taking the underneath routes. Yeah, I think his target count will go up. But.

I don't want to overreact in this game because this is when you play against the Houston defensive line and JJ Watt and Jadaven cloud, you have to have extra tight ends on the field and you've got to beat them. The commentators were talking about this in the game too. A lot of screen passes. They have to beat. You've got to beat the pass rush by throwing to the tight end on those little screens to keep them honest. So I think there's a little bit of that going on with the target count here. I do think Hireman will have.