Week 4 Buy or Sell + PANIC ROOM Players - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/30

for a top-tier wide receiver. So that would put him at 2-3 range if you're looking at it in terms of hoping the injury problems fixed O'Dell Beckham and he would be a top-tier guy. And this is a big week, though. Dallas is bleeding points to the wide receiver position. If Beckham can't get it done in week three in Dallas, where Dallas will put up points against Cleveland, that would be.

I think it's going to be a good week for Beckham. Yeah, I agree. After saying we're super worried and over the course of the season, it's not going to be good for Beckham. It is going to be good this week because Dallas doesn't have any kind of locked down corner that scares you at all. And they'll be able to score on the Brown's defense. So they will need Odell Beckham this week despite the fact that they want to be a run first team.

Let me put you on the spot here. You have to lock a wide receiver into your roster for the rest of the season. Their name is either Odell Beckham, Jr. or Robbie Anderson. Lock them in. Robbie Anderson. Jason, who you're putting in? Wow. Oh, man. That was quite the sound you made with your mouth. That was an elephant. It was. I never forget. And there's a lot that I want to forget with both of these players. If I had to lock one in,

rest of season, it would be Robbie Anderson. Okay. I would luck. I would go back on. Would you? Yeah. All right. But it's close. I'm not saying it's a, you know. Yeah, I get that. And this is the wild thing about fantasy football. In three weeks in, you've got to start making some adjustments, some expectation adjustments. And I like Robbie Anderson's outlook moving forward. Hollywood Brown. This is a big time.

This is the big one. There's a lot to unpack here. Marquis, Hollywood Brown. It has not been good. Wide receiver 57 on the season. No fantasy finish in the first three weeks above 25, which was week one, 62 96. That is a, whatever the opposite of heating up is, he's doing it right now. 25, 62, 96. Cooling off. Nice, Mike. Genius. Genius.

What's the opposite of hot? Anybody? Anybody out here? Somebody. Brooks, can you look that up? I'm working it out. Very nice. It's been terrible. Snaps are up from last year. But the more to unpack is that Lamar Jackson is 32nd in the NFL in passing yardage. Lamar Jackson hasn't looked the same. We knew regression was coming because it comes for all. Whether you're Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rogers, Lamar Jackson.

But I think we thought, hey, the snap count increase, the maturation in the passing game for Lamar would equate to a lot more than Hollywood. I am a full, I mean, where are you drafted? I guess I'm a level three. I'm a level three getting freaked out with Hollywood Brown because he's, we hope more consistency and you've got no consistency. Yeah, Jason, where are you at? Yeah, I look, he's a my guy. I love Hollywood Brown. And obviously I have hated the first three weeks.

You know, but I did not ever view him as someone that was going to be a consistent wide receiver. He's going to have monster games and then go away for some games like most wide receivers do. He's much more in the young Deshawn Jackson vein than someone that's just a PPR machine. He's got a 24% target share. He's got the seven most.

deep targets in the league. You look at, you know, week one, he was involved, he had over 100 yards by halftime, and then they didn't really need him. Week two was disappointing. And then this last week, we all watched that game against Kansas City. He connects on that deep ball touchdown towards the end of the game, and all of a sudden he's probably has his best week of the season.

So I'm not, you know, I'm a two. I'm not liking, I'm not not worried at all. I am a little bit worried. My worry is more on Lamar Jackson. I haven't seen anything from Marquise Brown that's made me think he's not the player I hope he is. What's going on is Lamar hasn't looked as crisp. Like you said, he's 32nd passing yards.

He's the 32nd best, and I would hope for... I have a correction on that. He's 27th, not 32nd. Oh, fantastic. We're... Kyle the Morgoghung was super wrong. He's actually 27. We're warming up. So, yeah, I'm worried, but I think at the end of the season, you're going to have plenty of games that are outside the top 50. Yeah, but you're going to have... Do you know when to start him? That's the problem. Every week.

Every week, this is the type of player that you have to take your lumps with. It depends on how you construct a roster, but I have very commonly had, you know, really reliable my Robert Woods and my Julio Jones type players, and I supplement them with a Hollywood Brown type where, yeah, I mean, he might disappoint or he might win you a week, but you pretty much have to take the lumps if you want the good games. I mean, I'm not benching Hollywood.

because he's not great every single game. Any games yet. Yeah. Unfortunately. How about this, Jason? I've got a real novel, incredible question for you. You ready? You have to lock a wide receiver into your roster the rest of the season. Hollywood Brown or Robbie Anderson. I would go Hollywood Brown. That one is easy for me. And maybe it's maybe it's a little bit of, you know, hoping because of my.

passion for Hollywood. But I, you know, if you told me rest of season, who scores more total fantasy points, I'll take a bet with you on Hollywood versus Robbie Anderson. I'll take a bet with you on Hollywood versus O'Dell Beckham Jr. rest of season based on the fact you answered Robbie on one and Hollywood on the other. Let's go. Waterbed. More bets with Beckham. Great.

What are you doing to yourself, man? More bets with Beckham. Well, I just think it just seems a little bit wild where we've had a good game from Beckham. We haven't had one from Hollywood. And Hollywood was really inconsistent last year. I just know as a fantasy manager, you have to have some Cahones to lock a player into your lineup that just gave you a two-point game and a six-point game before that. Are you viewing it as he's a must start still, Mike? I view him the same way Jason does, yeah, that if you have Hollywood Brown.

You're not playing matchups. You aren't saying, well, they've got a great corner here. Maybe I don't play him. Oh, I want to play him here. No, you have to play him every single week. Or you're just, you will chase the dragon and you'll be wrong and more often than you'll be right. You just got to deal with it. Okay. I mean, it's tough. Hollywood's really tough because I feel like there isn't evidence yet in his career of him being worth.

playing consistently. Like even last year, even though he missed some time, he had three games in all of last year when active, where he was the top 12 wide receiver. So I'm trying to figure out what is the foundation for putting them into your lineup. Let me ask you. Let me ask you.

this because I think, you know, we're about to talk about a teammate, and it really comes down to what do you believe about Lamar Jackson? Not him as a fantasy asset, as a mobile quarterback, but as a passer, do you think what we've seen through these first three weeks is what we'll have for the season from Lamar Jackson, the passer? Or do you think Lamar Jackson will get it together, you know, not be the 27th ranked passing yards guy, throw...

for, you know, around a 30 touchdown pace. What do you guys think about Lamar Jackson's passing ability in 2020? I do not think it comes down to that. I certainly think it's going to be much, much better. But it doesn't come down to that for me because he was outstanding last year and Hollywood was not a consistent play nor a person you could. He hasn't proven to me. I don't understand why you wouldn't take the prove it to me approach with Hollywood Brown. I'm really not trying to be difficult, but I'm looking at his game log last year.

Not the games he missed, the games he played. And I see three times in the last eight, nine weeks that you would have wanted to play him. So I think Lamar gets a lot better, but I would rather put somebody in that I know is going to produce.

Yeah, the context of that game log is part of why I liked Hollywood Brown. Comes on, was great, got injured, was very limited snap counts. When they needed him towards the end of that season, looking at the playoffs, he was just outstanding. It's kind of a talent plus quarterback situation. So the next player we're talking about, Mark Andrews. What's the panic? Are we panicked about Mark Andrews? Because you look at both of these players, Mark East Brown and Mark Andrews, they're week two and week three.

stunk three points in week two for Mark Andrews, three points in week three for Mark Andrews. And I get it. We saw last year great consistency. Mark Andrews has that baseline we don't have with Hollywood. But it's Lamar Jackson's lack of passing in the offense that's really bringing these Ravens receivers down. I'm not panic on, I'm a level one on Mark Andrews.

Yeah, I'm level one for Mark Andrews as well. The opportunity is there. He's getting, he's getting targets in the end zone. We saw it happen. He just, he didn't come down with the tight ends right now. He didn't come down with the couple shots. So, no, I'm not panicked on Mark Andrews, especially when you factor in like the landscape of tight ends. You got to be in on Mark Andrews. Okay, let me ask you this. Let's say you have, you have Noah Fant.

Are you trying to go after Mark Andrews? Are you trying to buy low package, no offense with some other option and get Mark Andrews? Because that's what I would be doing. Yes, absolutely. Agree with it completely. I'll be ripping deals right now because I don't want to lean on the roulette of Denver quarterback situation. That's the biggest reason I would be making that. Going with that, go ahead, Jay.

Fant was just an example. If you've got, you know, Hawkinson, if you've got Gassicki, if you've got Jono Smith, if you've got a tight end that looks like they could be something, you're not sure. Would you be trying to package them to buy low on Mark Andrews? It's more the question. Yeah, those other guys, absolutely. Fant is interesting to me specifically. I don't know. My confidence in Noah Fanta player is absolutely sky high. But.

the unfortunate circumstance he has found himself in with the quarterbacks. That's why I would make the move. Now, if you're like... It's called the Dwayne Haskins effect to Logan Thomas's target share. If Drew Locke had never gotten hurt in that week, would I be packaging Noah Fant plus something for Mark Andrews? Probably not. I agree with you. I would be keeping my depth piece with Cortland Sutton out, no offense with consistent quarterback playing opportunity. No Fant will be...

Great. And I still think that Noah Fant is, he's a locked in like top eight, probably even a top five guy to me. That's how I see him if he had Drew Locke never get hurt. So he's a little bit different to me than when you're comparing Gisicki and Johnny Smith. Jason, he's the best example because he's the player you can craft the narrative to acquire Mark Andrews with. All you do is tell somebody, do you want Noah Fan? He's the number three tight end.

So, by the way, NFL statement on the Titans Steelers game. I'm going to read this to you. The Steelers Titans game originally scheduled for Sunday at 1 p.m. Eastern will be rescheduled to allow additional time for further testing and to ensure the health and safety of the players. Details on the new game date and time on either Monday or Tuesday will be announced as soon as possible. So we should have, we should have.

an opportunity very soon to know when that game is locked in, which could really change the equation quite a bit. So I think at this point, we should maybe jump into the Thursday night preview and spend as little time there as humanly possible. Thursday night breakdown. All right, Mike, Mike, we are contractually required to speak about this due to it being considered a quote-unquote

NFL game. Alleged. Allegedly. We have... You know what? I'm going to change my tune on this. I'm going to change it right now. You want to know why? I like it. Here's what I'm going to change my tune. Positivity. Give it to me. We would have climbed a mountain to watch this game five months ago. You're darn right. We would have... Because we didn't think we'd have football. But we've got football. And this is called football. It's Thursday night football. Are you going to say football time tomorrow, Mike? Uh, yeah.