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

It's a shame that the trade deadline is passed. They need a Golden Tate. I was going to say they should go after that Golden Tate guy. I mean, it really looked like they missed him big time. He did not have a clear-cut first read to go to that he was comfortable with. And, you know, I guess he just hoped. What are you doing? I mean, what are you doing, Detroit? Why are you trading Golden Tate? What's crazy about that? And maybe I don't get it. Maybe I've got it wrong, right? They're going to lose them in the offseason, so they want to get something for him. But is...

It's my understanding that if they would have lost him, they probably would have got a third round compensatory draft pick. Yeah, based on the, based on if they bring anybody in and the contract. Right. Things like that. They're three and four when they make the trade. But your division leaders were at four and three at that point. So you're like a game out of a first place tie. It just seems strange to me because sometimes you look in the mirror and you see who you really are and you just accept it. That's what it seems to be.

That's what it seems to be. All right, running back poopers, there were plenty that disappointed you. Yeah. Adrian Peterson. Big time. That one was shocking. Bad. Only nine carries. This is why didn't you just endorse someone up against Atlanta next week? Like you said, Duke Johnson. I'm going to chase Duke against Atlanta. Yeah, the past catcher. The past catching running backs are who are really valuable against Atlanta. You know, that's why, you know, I was making the...

the somewhat case for Capri Bibbs this last week. You know, those past catchers, Atlanta is terrible against them. Tariq Cohen, six carries five yards. One catch for eight yards faces Detroit, Minnesota, Detroit the next three games. Do you just chalk this one up to defensive scores and problems? And then you get Detroit next week at home and we're rolling back out there? I would. Got to make a...

Call here, Mike, Jason. Mark Ingram, 9 for 33. And fumbled, didn't he? Yeah, I saw somebody wrote one of their puns was Mark Ramm it up the middle and gained no yards. It's not bad. Not great, though. Nine for 33, though, and here's the thing. He doesn't have, you know, he had a bad fumble. Alvin Camara is another tier above him in talent in all capacities. He's a better pass catcher?

He seems to be a better goal line back. He's a better between the tackles runner. He has big playability that Ingram doesn't seem to have right now. And Ingram is an impending free agent. We all hoped the Mark Ingram would come back and be the Mark Ingram of last year. Right. But now, what is he? Because he's killing people. I have. Especially on the buy weeks. He, the way I am looking at him moving forward is he has a low end running back to. But he.

He at least carries some upside. I mean, his snap percentage has been consistent. So it wasn't a drop in snaps. He just had lost opportunities this week instead of the double-digit carries and a couple more receptions. His touch total went down. Yeah. Yeah, I realize this was a putrid game out of Ingram. And, you know, it didn't work well. I'm still not.

off of Ingram from this. Like you said, the snap percentage has been there. The offense is there. Mark Ingram or Matt Breda, rest of season, because Breda, no mustard. I would still take Mark Ingram. I would take Brita, even with the injury risk. Okay. All right. Let's move on to Carry on, 12 for 37. Lamar Miller. Oh, Lamar Miller. Mike and I were, our eyes were rolling in the back of our heads because he was out.

Touch, after two straight 100-yard games, he's out-touched by Alfred Blue 16 to 15. And the quote from Bill O'Brien was, essentially, we don't want to run them into the ground like we've done in years past. So they snuck a win out against Denver, but it was, if you can't predict that type of thing, that hurts. I mean, Lamar Miller, it was super 12 for 21. Kenyon Drake, terrible game, whereas Gore is infinite.

Had 20 carries. Well, I mean, he was just tearing it up. You got to keep giving that guy the ball. That was a weird game, though, too. 2.6 yards of carry. It was a weird game. The bad field. Maybe they felt more confident just giving Gore the ball on the bad field. And, you know, they won it. So, but yes, Kenyon Drake, three for nine, four for 26. A lot of these players, Cohen, Peterson, Drake, Drake, Miller, who have all been on fire slowed down this week.

They were all constipated. And they had to let one go. All right, Isaiah Crowell included 13 for 49. Yeah. Has Buffalo next week. That's been brought up. And then carry on with Riddick back and Riddick getting, what, seven carries? Or is it seven catches? Brooks. Is it seven carries or seven catches? That's seven catches on eight targets. Yeah, that's a problem. Carry on. That was the problem because Detroit was down. They had to throw the ball and...

Theo was back and he took over that role again. Yeah, Kerry-on saw his snaps drop almost about 30% from two weeks ago. That's trash. It's a big problem. That's a big problem. Yeah. I mean, when I look at the future of Carri-on and, you know, in a dynasty league format, I'm excited because we know LeGarup Blunt. He's, look, even if he's, for some reason, comes back next year, he's going to be nothing. Carry-on will take over that role, but it's really Theo Riddick that is the problem.

He's the guy you've got to get rid of because Carri-on is so capable in that pass-catching role, and they're not using him while Theo is there. They should have thrown Theo in with the Tate deal. Because we know that Philadelphia could use a running back. Yeah. That would have been nice. Theo is under contract for next year, and he's super cheap. Do you believe? I don't think he's going anywhere. Do you believe that we've reached the stage, you know, the Foot Clan supporting us, the show's very, you know,

influential now do you think we can put in calls to these gms and they'll listen to us probably brooks i don't even think we need to call them we know they're listening to the podcast oh they're getting their hot tips yeah from us you don't know it would be smart it would be super smart oh yeah uh

everything is you only need one running back on your team yeah it's all of our and it's like the uh do you remember the commercial with breeze where he was at the fantasy school and they're like okay what what do you do on this play drew go long go deep that's right everything you go deep you're darn right um wide receivers that poop their pants mike evans the john jackson chris godwin also known as non adam humphreys

A total of five catches between the three of them. Mind you, five catches on 17 targets. That is a quarterback problem. Yeah, it certainly was. One would say that Tampa has a quarterback problem. Big time. In general. Big time. Do they have like a system where they can take both guys and like melt them down into one? Put them in a pod chamber like the fly? Yeah, and just.

Create and make one guy. I actually think they are the same guy. I was saying if you combine them, do you know how many interceptions you would have? If you combine them, you'll just have the exact same player, a guy who's going to throw a ton of picks, a ton of deep balls. I mean, the thing is for fantasy is just fine. For fantasy, as far as the quarterback. I'm picturing James Winston with a big old beard now, though. Oh, that would be sweet. James, grow with a beard.

That's your only chance. You've got to trick them into the fact you're Ryan Fitzpatrick. Jamon Winst Magic. Oh. That's a weird name. John Brown against Pittsburgh, three for 17 on six targets. That was a huge disappointment. Kenny Galladay being the guy meant nothing. Three for 46. And then the Broncos wideouts, Emmanuel Sanders had nine targets. Coral and Sutton had five targets. But, look, Houston's just playing well right now. They've won a number of games in a row. They shut them down.

And the majority of targets went to the tight end to avoid the pass rush and to avoid running the ball. So Devin Funches, disappointment. DJ Moore, disappointment. Yeah, that's all Kurtz Samuel. Yep. And then, ooh, don't buy into Devante Parker. Kenny Stills returned. Devonty Parker went the way of the one for eight. Which was crazy. Hopefully people are paying attention on Sunday. This is why we have the Sunday live stream so you can get all the breaking news because this thing happened. Kenny Stills was.

was reported out by Adam Schaefter. And then? And then he warmed up, and apparently that was good enough. And he played. And Devante Parker saw a downturn because of it. Got to avoid all the targets for Sam Darnold at this point. Quincy and Neumar, Robbie Anderson, and Jermaine Curse combined for, what, three for 40, four for 32, three for 20 on 19 total targets. No, thank you. Bye next week. You can dump them all. Yep.

Tyler Lockett 3 for 22. It's just the fourth straight week where Lockett only has four targets or fewer. Look, he's touchdown or bus guy. 100%. He does score. I was going to say, it's worked out pretty well on searching for the touchdown. In fact, in this game, he really almost had the touchdown, but the pass interference call and really the pass interference took it away. He's a fringe guy, though. I mean, before this week, he was barely on the wide receiver 2 edge.

Ed Dixon, Jason, speak to Ed Dixon for as long as you'd like. Red did nothing to see here. Let's talk about Jared Cook. Yeah, he stunk. Kyle Rudolph did his thing, two for 28. Loves it. He loves two for 28. Van's McDonald, disappointing game. Recover a fake touchdown. Yeah, he did. He got a touchdown for like 10 minutes. Yeah, and then they took it away. Jordan Reed, four for 34. Look.

That one is really concerned. Vernon Davis looks better than Jordan Reed. End of story. Yeah. He just looks better. And then Austin Hooper 3 for 41. He has returned to Earth. He had a couple nice games. That was fun talking about him. Mm-hmm. I want to answer a couple mailbag questions before we leave. You guys up for it? Yeah. Sure. All right. Mailbag. Mailbag, yeah!

Got a couple questions for tonight. Oh, then no. No, I've changed my mind. Well, if you have a question, you go to the website, the fancy footballers.com, click to submit a question button. You can also dial our voicemail hotline 302464 TFFB. That's 302464 TFFB. First question, Anthony, in Long Island. He is down eight and a half points and a half point per reception league. Does he start Corey Davis tonight or Amari Cooper in his Dallas debut? Cooper. I side with Cooper.

at home they want to feed him yeah i mean it's yeah i do i do too you can't give a first round pick for a wide receiver on basically an expiring contract we saw the beginning it's like demarius i was going to say the beginning of the houston game featured damaris thomas left right and center they're like hey let's come out get this new weapon involved this is coming off a by week for dallas and if you look at cori davis if you need if you're down by eight points

only twice this year, assuming you're in a half point or better league, would you have gotten that from Cory Davis? So here's hoping Cory Davis does nothing. This is a ridiculous situation. Chris in Baltimore, I need 1.1 points to win my match. Gronk went out. Which tight in do I play in Monday night football? Wow. Now, has Joni Smith caught a pass lately? Yes. Lately? So here's the problem.

Because I think you could have easily accomplished this if Jeff Swain were healthy, but he's doubtful for tonight. That could be good news, though. It could be, but now you have to, like, guessing games. Swain was easy. He's going to. Jonu Smith. Swain would catch my call. At least two or three passes, and you'd be, you'd be easy. I think I would play Blake Jarwin. That's, that's who I would go with as well. I would play Blake Jarwin. I mean, Blake Jarwin has two receptions. I believe in his career.

So this is not... I would not play Blake Jarwin. I would not lean into the... Because the strategy for Dallas isn't so tight and heavy to where just because Swam is down, they're going to hit Jarwin up. I think I'd play Joni. Joni would have won you the past two weeks. Rico Gathers? Can I get a Rico? Oh, gosh. Rico would win you a game once every 36 starts. Yeah, you know what? With Amari Cooper in tow, I'm pivoting. I'm going to go to... Ah, Jonu.

Maybe two catches, Joan. That is the funniest question. I feel like that's the coolest, the funniest, and the grossest question we've ever received because it's so legit. I mean, it's, you only need one point one points, so you should be able to do this. Well, and yesterday, it's the three grossest options of all time. We knew that Gronk was going to miss. Pretty much knew that the odds were likely. I had to, I pivoted to Chris Herndon.

in one of my leagues. Mike, you pivoted to Ben Watson. So look, I want to know how this ends for you. Yes. We'll check the box score for the whole tight-in position and see if anybody would have won you the week after the night. Last question here, Bryce and Tampa. Andy Dalton or Carson wins, rest of season. That's Carson wins for me with the injuries. And with Golden Tate being added. With or without the injuries. That's fair.