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

50 plus point over under. His target share is growing every single week. The snap counts in the mid 60%. I'm interested in Tyler Eiffords as a deeper play. All right, wide receiver. I'm going to go with another deeper name. Antonio Callaway, wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns facing an Oakland defense that has given up in their last matchup. Four touchdowns. Giving up is correct.

It has given up. Four touchdowns, 72 fantasy points given up to the wide receivers for the Dolphins. Now, I get it. Maybe it's a little funky because you had a couple trick plays in there. Don't care. Four touchdowns is a lot. And Calloway is going to be the primary outside option. For Baker, I think that rapport is going to prove itself valuable.

this week, and I like Calloway as I started the week. I want to give you confidence to flex them in there. I'm going to go with Emmanuel Sanders, a guy we were very high on entering into the draft, saying that we'd much rather have him than Demarius Thomas because he was going several rounds later, and either one could finish as the wide receiver won here for the team. Manuel Sanders being used from the slot works great with Case Keenham, the matchup.

on Monday night football against at home against the Kansas City Chiefs, who are a team that can score on anyone, including Denver. The Kansas City Chiefs have obviously been giving up a lot of points because they've been scoring a lot of points and they don't have a great defense. You remember those first two weeks with the Chargers and the Steelers where, you know, I mean, you had 198 yards and two touchdowns week one, 216 yards and two touchdowns week two to the wide receiver position.

I mean, it's one of those things where I believe that Emmanuel Sanders is the number one for Denver, and you want a receiving option in this game against Kansas City. Right now, the bottom five teams in the league in terms of points given up, Saints, Chargers, Chiefs, Steelers, Falcons. It's ironic because two of those teams played the Chiefs, and then the Chiefs are right in the middle of it.

So I like the call. Also, Sanders has been very explosive this year. He's, he's been great, but my start of the week is Juju Smith-Fuster. Oh. I can't let that. You can't hear you. I got a grandfather rule. I got to get grandfathered in. So I've got two. Every week, though, right? Every week. It's Ju-Ju-Smithsher because he's so good. A start. A start. A start. No. Oh, I'll allow it. Mike, who's your wide receiver start of the week? I'm going with Alan Robinson. Really?

versus Tampa Bay. The bucks were allowing the most, well, they're tied technically, but for allowing the most passing yards per game in the league. I mentioned I don't like Trubisky. I don't, actually, I don't want to play Trubisky this week. Chris Conti has gone now too. Yeah, but I like the weapons for Chicago in this matchup. So Alan Robinson has no fewer than seven targets. He had 14 against Seattle. I think we are.

A breakout game for Alan Robinson is coming at some time soon, and I think that this is a great opportunity against the bucks. I mentioned it earlier this week. Tribisky is only thrown a touchdown every 40 passes this year. I've wanted to trade for Robinson due to the target numbers in almost every league I'm in. And what has stopped me is my feeling that he's going to be desperately reaching for the touchdowns and never is never going to happen, but maybe it doesn't matter. And if it does happen, then it's a big week. This is where.

Again, it's usually not going to happen because of how bad Mitchell Trebisky is. But this matchup, it really is good. I like Alan Robinson. I like Trey Burton. My running back start of the week, staying with the give you confidence theme here. Philip Lindsay, running back for the Denver Broncos after the ejection last week. Maybe he's off the radar. Maybe you're thinking about starting somebody else in the flex position. And you don't have confidence. But I say, start him.

Chiefs giving up the third most yards per rush to running backs this season. It does not feel like a Royce Freeman type of game to me. I think this is a solid flex matchup for Philip Lindsay. I think he's going to end up in the top 15 at the position at the end of week four as they play catch up against a very, very good Chiefs offense.

Yeah, my start of the week, we talked a lot about him in the matchup for good and obvious reasons. But I want to make sure that if you have him, if you picked him up off of waivers, he wasn't your starter. And so you might not think you should start Geo Bernard because maybe you've got a good running back core. You need to start.

Gio Bernard in this matchup. I've got Gio Bernard pretty much as an RB1 this week. I'd play him over the other really good options like Marshaun Lynch. I said I like Lamar Miller this week. I'd play him over to Lamar Miller and Alex Collins and Taven Coleman in the same game. Kevin Coleman's a great start. Start Kevin Coleman. But I think Gio Bernard, if you leave him on your bench, you're going to be like, ah, man, shoot. I should have seen it coming. I should have listened.

So put Gio in the lineup and watch him. Mother for me. What? It's the hiding mother for me. Mark Martin's on the bench. All right. My running back start of the week is Carlos Hyde taking on Oakland. We just seem to like the Cleveland Browns against the Oakland Raiders. I think it's a solid matchup. Baker changes everything for this running game. You saw what happened to Cleveland in the second half. Carlos Hyde was energized. He ended up coming away from the game with two scores.

directly related to Baker Mayfield being, he's actually able to move the offense down the field, increase those scoring opportunities, keep the defense honest. So this is a confidence play that Carlos Hyde is a very strong running back play this week. All right. Going with Hyde. I like it. Just traded for him in one of our leagues. I'm going to give you one more. Oh, hey, wait a minute. At the quarterback position.

Oh, okay. Yeah, that makes sense. My quarterback start of the week is none other than. Nope. Eli Manning quarterback for the New York Giants. He is facing the worst past defense in the entire league. He's at home. Yes, the Saints have given up 50 plus fantasy points to two of the three opposing quarterbacks they faced in 2018. And Eli had a good game last week.

25 for 29 with 300 yards passing against the Texans. He's actually a good start this week. Yeah. And I would play him over Kirk Cousins. I disagree with that. I get all of what you're saying. I like Eli this week. This is really a matter of what you believe about Kirk Cousins more so than what you believe about the great match of At Home for Eli. I believe Kirk Cousins is going to have a good game.

And that's why my start of the week is Jared Goff on the other side of the ball. If you're a Jared Goff owner. Are you sure about that? I am sure about that. All right. Because week one, a little bit disappointing against Oakland. Week two, a little bit disappointing against Arizona because it was just King Gough. You know, because it was against Arizona and Todd Gurley takes over. And Minnesota's got a good defense. But I think Minnesota also has a good offense. And they're going to be able to somewhat keep up. And Jared Goff.

is going to have to sling the rock. What I saw last week was... He's just looked great. He's put the ball exactly where it needs to be. He's so good at fitting it over, you know, some defenders and under the safeties. Brandon Cooks has really changed what he's able to do from a speed standpoint. Robert Woods has looked great. His weapons are just too good. And while he's not going to always be a startable asset...

because a lot of times they won't need him to do much. I believe that Kirk Cousins can get the job done. And if Kirk Cousins is doing what he needs to do to try to get the Vikings a win and succeeding, then Goff will have to. And I believe that Jared Goff has a good game. So yes, I am starting Jared Goff this week with pretty good confidence. Mike, round us out. I'm doubling down here with Andy Dalton.

He's the reason why I have Tyler Eifford as my tight end start of the week. I'm going with that, the well-known quarterback tight-end stack. I hope you don't end up with red greets this week. We need to add a crickets drop on the soundboard. That would be great for this. Just when we all pause, you hit the crickets. I apologize for nothing. Look, that joke was good.

Thank you. Brooks, Brooks, did you, Chaco? Can I get a ruling? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, that's in. Yeah. The pause over here was I had my own red greets for not coming up with that joke. It was very good. It was very good. Andy Dalton, same reasons I like Tyler I for it. Andy Dalton, multi-touchdown game, multi-touchdowns every single week this season. He's getting it done. He has.

He actually has weapons now. And that's Andy Dalton and Matt Ryan are very similar that they're capable quarterbacks, but they are only as good as their weapons allow them to be. And right now he's locked and loaded. I mean, so I like Andy Dalton. All right. Those were our starts of the week. One more segment before we close it out.

Jason Moore's Ironclad. Locked and loaded. 100% guaranteed boom boom kicker of the week. My boom booms have sucked. I'm going to need some luck here. So I'm going with the Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker. You rhyme, Butker. I was just going to ask. I'll allow it. The only thing I can come up with was highly inappropriate. So I went with luck here.

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