Starts of the Week, Wk 4 Matchups, Mark Wahlberg Weighs In

About 11% of the snaps and do literally nothing. He had no carries? Correct. I mean, we've seen this before. Gio, when an injury happens ahead of him, and Gio gets the chance to be at workhorse, he's very productive. I mean, it was a mean thing to do to Mark Walton for him to say that. As you know, Mark Walton got super hyped. Yeah. He's like, I'm going to play. He's like, hey, yes. Hey, coach. Hey, coach, I'm going to play. Say, howdy a mother for me? Is that Mark Wahlberg? Not Mark Walton? Yeah, but that's his voice now. Now and forever.

Hey, hey, Joe, put me in. Hit me the ball. I'll be good. Say how to your mother for me? Mark Walton. Mark Walton is Mark Wahlberg now. That's great. Two and one Buccaneers, two and one bears. Hey, Gio. Hey, Gio. Get out of the way. Get out of the way. Hey, Joe, you did a great job. Can I have a turn? So how do your mother for me? All right. What team now? Oh. Buccaneers. Buccaneers and bears. The red, bears. Well, not red hot. They lost.

But they're team color. Oh, yeah. The red hot, fire engine red. Were you guys Red Hots fans? Like the candy? No. I hated Red Hots. They're the worst. Who's into Red Hots? You know who's into Red Hots? People who like scary movies. I hate scary movies. I hate Red Hots. I like scary movies. Who goes to scary movies? You go to horror movies? A lot of people. I used to, but the wife is not about it. But what kind of animals go to those movies? What kind of human beings?

Who wants to be scared and pay money for? We all want to have emotion. You hate being scared, Jason. I do. You don't go to horror movies. I do not. So you're just... I'm just supporting the people that choose to do it. I get the allure. I don't want it. Here's $12. Make me feel uncomfortable for an hour. Yeah. Yeah. Say, how do you mother for me? All right. Hey, Pennywise. Pennywise. Say, how do you mother for me? Boom.

We need Mark Wald, or not Mark Wall in the room? No, I'm confused. Mark Wahlberg. Mark Wahlberg's scary movies. And I'm not talking about the happening. Hey, that was just scary for me to watch because it was so bad. The trees. All right. Ryan Fitzpatrick, he's supposed to get the start. He's getting the majority of reps at Wednesday's practice. If you listen to James Winston, James said, look, everybody's happy. I'm happy. They're happy. The city's happy. Oh, you're happy, James? You're happy, James?

Uh, Peyton Barber, sit him, right? Yeah, against the Bears defense is legit. The Bears defense has the number one, uh, are number one in the league in sacks by a three sack margin. How did that happen? Uh, Khalil Mack. So the Bears' defense has been special. The Buccaneers defense has been atrocious. Ryan Fitzpatrick has been special and Mitch Trubisky has been atrocious.

Something's got to give. Something's got to give in this matchup. The overrunners, 46.5 points. I think what gives in this matchup is I believe that this is actually a Mitch Trubisky playable game. Now, I'm not wanting to play him. I'm not suggesting you start, but two quarterbacks. That sounds like a horror movie. My point is I think what gives is not going to be, I mean, look at it this way. Tampa Bay.

They've allowed a league high 25 catches and 329 yards to the tight ends. Trey Boo Boo, Trey Burton has been okay, not great, not terrible for tight ends so far. But this is the perfect matchup with their personnel. I think they match up well against Tampa Bay and Mitch could move the ball a little bit better than what we've been seeing the last few weeks. I'd rather endure a...

Transformers Marathon. You have to understand. Mitch Trubisky. You have to understand this. Mitch Trubisky, I am super confident now. He is a bad quarterback. He will never be a great quarterback ever. Sorry Bears fans. But that is a really strong lifetime declaration you made. No, I just mean like the rest of eternity. He will never be a great quarterback forever. I got it.

I got it. Like as long as if he played for 20 years, he'd never be great. But there are a lot of poor quarterbacks who have put up plenty of great games before. And this is a matchup where I think that a terrible quarterback can have a decent game. All right. Let's focus on the, a little bit of shade on Trubs. Yeah, but while you, while I tell Mr. Bissie to get bodied, I actually do like Alan Robinson.

a lot in this game. And Trey Burton, I agree with you, Jason. The weapons for Chicago are playable far more than the quarterback is. Yeah. What do you think about the two top five wide receivers that Tampa has in this game? Number one in the league right now, wide receiver Michael Thomas. Also known as Michael Thomas. Mike Evans is number two, Tyree Kill number three, Deshaun Jackson, number four, Adam Thiel and number five. Two Tampa receivers. Right.

This is going to be a game in which Ryan Fitzpatrick has to be smart against the pass rush. Do you start Mike Evans and Deshaun Jackson? Evans is a locked-in. Evans is locked in. Deshaun Jackson. I think he's still, he's a flex guy. I understand he's a top five wide receiver, but he's not one of those guys where you feel great about plugging him in as your wide receiver, too. I feel less confident in starting him this week because...

because of the pass rush of the Bears. I know Deshaun Jackson is fast, but his deep balls, the play takes a little bit more time to develop. You've got to protect Ryan Fitzpatrick in the pocket and give him time for D. Jacks to break loose. And I don't think that that's going to, there's not going to be as many opportunities in this game against this Bears pass rush. So I would rather start Chris Godwin over Deshaun Jackson in this game. Yeah, the game's in Chicago.

Tampa has allowed the second most rushing touchdowns and six most fantasy points to running backs. Jordan Howard has the seventh most touches in the league at the running back position. He's an auto start here. Jordan Howard is also a good trade for Canada. He is. Because people are disappointed in Jordan Howard. I don't know why. I mean, because he hasn't done anything great. He hasn't blown up. He hasn't given you any, you know, 25 point game. Running back 14 through three weeks, which is fine. Yeah, which is fine. And over the course of the season, he looks.

pretty much guaranteed, barring injury, to be a top 12 guy. His workload, his usage has been great. We'll move on to the next matchup, but I want to ask a quick one. Jordan Howard and Mark Wahlbert. What are the stakes? On the field, not Hollywood. On the field? I don't know. I saw him in, what was that? Invincible? What was the name of that movie? It's invincible, man. He was the undrafted guy. Even I take Jordan Howard, though. He's got a great mother.

Say howdy a mother boy. He's got a great mother. One and two. That's the lion's record taken on the one and two. Cowboys. Cowboys are three-point favorites. At home. 43.5 point over under. And Andy's almost upset of the wig. That call does not make me upset. Yeah. I'm with you. It doesn't make you upset, almost upset. Nope. You're with me. Yep.

Look, last week, the Lions were impressive. You have three startable fantasy-wide receivers on the Lions' offense. Yes. And some people want to know how did we get here. Part of how we got here was Eric Ebron leaving. Exactly. Targets. Yep. That we thought maybe, you know, Luke Wilson or something. Look, they went away from that. Kenny Golliday's out there being all Kenny Gawaday every minute of the day.

He looks in the mirror and he's still Kenning Gallagia. And dropping them smooth. Oh, growl. It's so smooth. Yeah. Luke Wilson was one of my favorite dynasty stashes over the offseason at the tight end position because the lines vacated over 100 targets between Darren Fells and Eric Ebrun. And so the thought process is, okay, Luke Wilson signed to be the past catching tight end. But they said, bollocks to that.

We're just going to go three wide. Where do you think Carry on Johnson ends the week? I think he ends the week as an RB2. Has north of 15 touches in the 15 carries in this game and is an okay asset. But until he gets a touchdown, you're never going to say he's great. He's a great start. To me, he's a flex option.

where I might, I find benching him for another better option if one is out there. And from here on out, rest of season, I think you can be okay starting him as well. He just doesn't have a very high ceiling. Sean Lee for the Cowboys is out. Oh, ooh. Yeah, and when Sean Lee is out for the Cowboys, bad things happen to them. No doubt about it. The Lions defense is actually emerging under Matt Patricia over the last couple of weeks.

They've given up the seventh fewest points to the quarterback, the fifth fewest to the wide receiver position. They've got a problem. What? They have a problem, though. Yeah. Yeah, the lines have allowed the most rushing yards. Well, it's not like they have to go up against Zeke in Dallas. Yeah, but the problem that you run into is what Dallas had last week, which is, yes, Zeke is great. So what? Who cares? It doesn't matter because they lose.

And they have to throw the ball when they're down. Look, they're at home, and I know the game script is conducive to a Zeke type of game, 43.5 point over under. I like the lines in this matchup. Now, Brooks, when you pry your eyes open to watch the Dallas offense, I know they're your team, and you hook up that contraption that keeps the eyes open, and you look elsewhere. Other than Zeke, what do you, I mean, where's your hope? There is none. There is none. Cole Beasley, Alan.

Alan Hurons was complaining this morning. He's come out now. He's stubbed his toe. I mean, complaining about targets. Too many? He thinks he can get open any time, but, you know, they're throwing for under 200 yards a game and he's not getting targeted. Yeah, I mean, I would be complaining if I was a cowboy wide receiver as well, that I'm not good as a wide receiver. You would complain that.

I wish I was good. I wish I was not good. I wish I was better as a wide receiver, but I'm a cowboy wide receiver. Weren't you guys telling me that Alan Hurons is all that in a bag of chips? We were saying he was going to be the number one for the cowboys, and it appears that he still might be. Yeah. It's irrelevant. Now, all that says, look, I love the lions. I am a big fan. I'm rooting for them hardcore. Obviously, as a carry-on Johnson, truther, you know, shout out to Ninja.

The big giant Lions fan who is with me loving Carry On Johnson, but I pumped the brakes on Marvin Jones because I do. I disagree with the almost upset. I hope for the upset here. I hope the Lions come in and win the game because that's going to mean more fantasy points everywhere. Kenny G. Marvin Jones, Golden Tate, Carry on. But I believe this game.

will be a lower scoring, Zeke running the ball. I think Zeke has a great game. And, you know, unfortunately, if the clock slows down like that, I worry about this being a not as productive as one would hope. You look at two mediocre teams with a lot of offensive fantasy relevant talent. That's usually a recipe for success. And I just worry here. Both of these teams, man, can you imagine being in this game, right? One of these teams is coming out. One and three.

Two and two and one, their season's over. So they're going to be playing for everything. I think they're going to just give the ball to Zique every single play and play scared because that's kind of how the Cowboys play. But I think it's going to work this week. Yeah, we'll find out. Go ahead, Mike. I just wanted to bring up the name. The name of Jeff Swain. No. Okay. I mean, he had seven targets.

Last week, five receptions, 47 yards. Like, are they from Dak Peska? They certainly are. Okay. What position is that, Mike? Who's that? Did I say tight end? No, you just said, no. Oh, look at the listeners. You didn't even say his first name. I did. Yeah, Jeff. Jeff Swain. My name is Jeff. Look, he's a tight end. And we know that Jason Went was, was incredibly productive despite Dak Prescott's shortcomings. I just, I'm not picking them up, but I do have my eyes on him.

possibly emerging. Somebody has to catch a pass or two. A lot of people are going to catch passes, but that's the problem. A lot of people are going to catch passes. It's spread around. You know, he could end up, he could overtake Alan Hearns and be the leader of this offense. I don't think it matters from a pass catching. Well, yeah, he has more yardage on the year than Alan Hurts. Gross. We need to move on. The one and two bills take on the one one and one.

Packers in Lambo. Packers are 10-point favorites in this one, despite Josh Allen's masterful performance last week. Guess who has the second most rushing attempts in the league? Josh Allen? Yes. Josh Allen. For a quarterback. Of course. And look, the Packers defense is 24th in the league when it comes to stopping fantasy quarterbacks. Is there hope for Josh Allen in this matchup? Are you staying far, far away? Now, we know the rushing floor.