Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, it's Monday, October sixteenth, twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 1: This was a not a fun week of fantasy football.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of points, a lot of guys getting hurt.
Speaker 3: It was a very weird week all around, just like
Speaker 3: great teams losing to bad teams. It was kind of
Speaker 3: we said that about last week too, so the last
Speaker 3: two weeks kind of too to forget.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we no longer have any undefeated teams in the
Speaker 1: National Football League with both the forty nine Ers and
Speaker 1: Eagles losing, and then.
Speaker 2: Just a whole lot of weirdness.
Speaker 1: We will have our biggest takeaways from Week six, plus
Speaker 1: the top performers and biggest disappointments of the week. Let's start,
Speaker 1: as we always do, with some fantasy headlines and injuries.
Speaker 2: Were the big story for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: A couple of big ones, Christian McCaffrey and Deebo Samuel,
Speaker 1: both left the game as the Niners ended up losing
Speaker 1: to the Cleveland Browns. Now we wait to see how
Speaker 1: serious they are. Deebo had an X ray on his
Speaker 1: shoulder that was negative. An MRI is coming. McCaffrey had
Speaker 1: an oblique injury. He came back in for a play
Speaker 1: or two and then left to go to the locker room.
Speaker 1: So at this point, if you have one of those guys,
Speaker 1: you are probably looking for some backup options. Who are
Speaker 1: the waiver wire targets you might be looking at.
Speaker 3: Jordan Mason would be the top running back that I'm
Speaker 3: interested in right now. He played more snaps than Elijah Mitchell,
Speaker 3: had more carries, more yards, scored a touchdown. But I
Speaker 3: do think Elijah Mitchell is worth targeting as well because
Speaker 3: I don't think one single back replaces McCaffrey. Hopefully he
Speaker 3: is able though, to suit up this week. From the
Speaker 3: passing game, I don't think there's a wide receiver there
Speaker 3: that I really want to pick up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think the next man up is
Speaker 1: probably Juwan Jennings, but I don't know that he's gonna
Speaker 1: get enough love to really make it worthwhile. I do
Speaker 1: wonder if Deebo is out, does this mean George Kittle
Speaker 1: sort of comes back to life, because aside from the
Speaker 1: one big game he had with the three touchdowns against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, George Kittle really hasn't offered much in fantasy.
Speaker 1: I think he's got three or four games with fewer
Speaker 1: than five fantasy points. So if Deebo can't go, maybe
Speaker 1: this means George Kittle gets some of those short targets
Speaker 1: and gets a whole lot more work in the passing game.
Speaker 2: Brandon ayukal just keep being awesome.
Speaker 1: Well, he's going to keep Brandon ayuk is just going
Speaker 1: to eat like that I think has been well established
Speaker 1: at this point. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Justin Fields suffered a
Speaker 1: hand injury to his right hand, a dislocated thumb in
Speaker 1: the game against the Vikings. Now the good news is
Speaker 1: there are no fractures. X rays were negative. He will
Speaker 1: have an MRI I also on Monday to determine if
Speaker 1: there's any additional damage. Tyson Beagent came in and I
Speaker 1: think the first play he had he got blitched and sacked,
Speaker 1: fumbled and scooped and scored. It was all bad for him.
Speaker 1: I would put that on him. There's just nobody blocked
Speaker 1: for him on that play. But can we trust Dj
Speaker 1: Moore if it's Badge that's at quarterback for this team.
Speaker 2: I watch a lot.
Speaker 3: Of football, and when Badging came in, I was like, who,
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think you don't have a choice. Like
Speaker 3: the Bears next week at the Raiders, that is not
Speaker 3: a matchup that you're gonna to be avoiding. There's six
Speaker 3: teams on by next week because there was only two
Speaker 3: this week. Why not make it four and four? But
Speaker 3: six teams on buye. We keep talking about the injuries
Speaker 3: that continue to pile up right now. I just don't
Speaker 3: see a league where, unless you're in a very shallow league,
Speaker 3: I find it hard to believe that you have a
Speaker 3: better option than Dj Moore sitting on your bench.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean twelve team leagues. It's certainly deeper than
Speaker 1: at you are. You can't really get away from Dj
Speaker 1: Moore ten team leagues. Depending on your situation, you might
Speaker 1: not be able to get away from him. Let's just
Speaker 1: hope that in the week to come, if justin fields
Speaker 1: can't go badge it gets enough work. But he somehow
Speaker 1: builds a rapport with DJ Moore and they start getting
Speaker 1: the football to him more consistently. It was good to
Speaker 1: see Darniel Mooney kind of get involved a little bit
Speaker 1: on Sunday as well. But you know, who knows how
Speaker 1: deep this passing game is gonna go or if they
Speaker 1: trust him to throw the ball a lot at all.
Speaker 2: We will find out more.
Speaker 1: Injury news, we knew that Anthony Richardson was already out.
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew got the start against the Jaguars. He did
Speaker 1: not look good, but there are reports that Richardson is
Speaker 1: considering having surgery on his shoulder, which would end his season. Now,
Speaker 1: the good news is there are reportedly no torn ligaments
Speaker 1: in the throwing shoulder. But in terms of whether he
Speaker 1: wants to just rest and see how it heals up
Speaker 1: or just go on and get it fixed, we still
Speaker 1: sort of are waiting to find out. So in that case,
Speaker 1: should we still be holding on to Anthony Richardson?
Speaker 3: If you are, That video hurts my heart so much
Speaker 3: like Anthony Richardson was my guy at the quarterback position.
Speaker 3: I have a lot of teams with Richardson this year.
Speaker 3: If you have an IR spot, easily hold on. If
Speaker 3: you're in a two quarterback format, I would hold on.
Speaker 3: Even in one quarterback. I guess it depends on the
Speaker 3: rest of your team. If you have a lot of
Speaker 3: other injuries, you can go ahead and get rid of him.
Speaker 2: But I think I would try to hold.
Speaker 3: On until we get word that he is officially undergoing
Speaker 3: this surgery, because then you could let him go. But
Speaker 3: if he ends up coming back and playing football again,
Speaker 3: I want him on my fans.
Speaker 1: Somebody's going to snatch him up if you put him
Speaker 1: out there on the waiver wire and there's even a
Speaker 1: slight chance that he's going to come back. I guess
Speaker 1: this is more an advertisement for why you should have
Speaker 1: an IR spot in your fantasy league. If you don't
Speaker 1: have him in your league, you beg your commissioner, harass
Speaker 1: the commissioner, and get yourself an IR spot so you
Speaker 1: can just put him there.
Speaker 2: You can hold on to him and it's all good. There,
Speaker 2: So there, it is all right. So those are the headlines.
Speaker 1: Now we got the things that we learned, our biggest
Speaker 1: takeaways from week six. We have a couple each, and
Speaker 1: you're staying in Indianapolis for your first one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Colts running backs with Gardner Minshew are going.
Speaker 2: To get targeted a whole bunch.
Speaker 3: And that's something that I wasn't banking on with Anthony
Speaker 3: Richardson because he can run, he also has a laser
Speaker 3: of an arm and could throw downfield like he could
Speaker 3: throw fifty yards while falling down. So he's not gonna
Speaker 3: be looking to dump it off all the time, but
Speaker 3: Minshew will be. Yesterday, Zach Moss played forty nine percent
Speaker 3: of the snaps to forty three percent. They both had
Speaker 3: just seven carries from us eight carries for Taylor, it
Speaker 3: did not matter. Seven targets for Zach Molls, twenty five routes,
Speaker 3: six targets, twenty one routes for Jonathan Taylor. I think
Speaker 3: these are two backs markets that you could just keep
Speaker 3: starting moving forward, Like I do think we will eventually
Speaker 3: get to the point where Taylor overtakes too much of
Speaker 3: the work and Moss is not someone you feel great starting.
Speaker 2: But until we get there, keep starting both of these guys.
Speaker 2: Might as just keep starting both of them.
Speaker 1: I do know yesterday I think Gamescript kind of got
Speaker 1: away from Indianapolis. They fell behind kind of big and
Speaker 1: at some point had to kind of abandon running the football,
Speaker 1: and Minshew just was the struggle bus yesterday throwing three interceptions.
Speaker 1: So uh, you know that I think had an impact,
Speaker 1: but it is, you know, I think it's interesting that
Speaker 1: I think Minshi was.
Speaker 2: Going to work those guys into the passing game.
Speaker 1: For me, Drake London is back and like kind of
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts two, it's been amazing the last few weeks.
Speaker 1: You know, we go back to Week one when Drake
Speaker 1: London had one target and no catches. Since then, he's
Speaker 1: been targeted at least six times in every game. Had
Speaker 1: a huge game this past week against Washington where he
Speaker 1: went over one hundred yards. Meanwhile, Kyle Pitts has had
Speaker 1: six or more targets in three of his last four games.
Speaker 1: He had a touchdown this week after having the eleven
Speaker 1: targets last week. So finally it looks like I don't
Speaker 1: know if you know Arthur Smith has been shamed into
Speaker 1: it or he just came this decision on his own.
Speaker 1: I don't care, but the targets are going to the
Speaker 1: main pass catchers. The last two weeks between Drake London
Speaker 1: and Kyle Pitts, they've had more than forty five percent
Speaker 1: of the targets, they've had nearly sixty percent of the
Speaker 1: air yards.
Speaker 2: So it's finally.
Speaker 1: Looking like what we want to let Ben Robinson still
Speaker 1: getting his targets as well, so all the playmakers finally
Speaker 1: getting involved. You know, we're seeing less of mac Hollands.
Speaker 1: You know, they traded for Van Jefferson. I think he
Speaker 1: had two targets. So, like, the offense is looking the
Speaker 1: way we want it to. I hope he sticks with
Speaker 1: us because like, you know, look, I know they're not winning,
Speaker 1: so I hope he doesn't just abandon this.
Speaker 2: But you know, it's looking good right now.
Speaker 3: Arthur Smith is Circe and this podcast mean you were
Speaker 3: like Rebecca Shame just walking behind her shame.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But Jame, it's not like we're doing this just because
Speaker 3: we have a personal vendetta against him.
Speaker 2: We're like, these two guys.
Speaker 3: Are very good at football, please just throw them the ball.
Speaker 2: And it's worked. It's worked.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because they didn't. The next thing
Speaker 1: is to get Kyle Pits more yards. You know, I
Speaker 1: saw the stat last week that when Pitt's has eighty
Speaker 1: or more receiving yards.
Speaker 2: They're six and zero.
Speaker 1: He only had forty three yards this week, so you
Speaker 1: just got to bump that number up a little bit.
Speaker 2: Maybe that won't help you.
Speaker 3: They also lost a home which, now Desmond Ritter, we
Speaker 3: can stop saying that he's never lost at home, and
Speaker 3: now maybe we actually, you know, maybe get that quarterback
Speaker 3: change if he doesn't start playing better, get a little
Speaker 3: Taylor Heineke action in there.
Speaker 1: I think would be okay with that, you know, fit
Speaker 1: Drake Lenson's down there somewhere. I'm speaking of quarterback play.
Speaker 1: We had a quarterback kind of come back to earth
Speaker 1: a little bit this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I learned that brock Party is immortal, just like
Speaker 3: the rest of us. I had two weeks ago, was like, hey,
Speaker 3: he's playing the Dallas Cowboys defense. Let's let's exercise caution.
Speaker 3: And then he had his best fantasy game of the year,
Speaker 3: and I was like, cool, this guy's matchup.
Speaker 2: We could just go ahead and start him.
Speaker 3: And he struggled yesterday one hundred and twenty five yards,
Speaker 3: one touchdown, one interception.
Speaker 2: But what worries me?
Speaker 3: Look, the Browns defense is awesome. We were talking before
Speaker 3: the show. This is the first bad weather game. He's
Speaker 3: played in the NFL a lot of reasons to be like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna overlook this for Brock Party, it's one game.
Speaker 3: What concerns me is the fact that Trent Williams is out,
Speaker 3: Christian McCaffrey, Deebo, Samuel. I've been the person a lot
Speaker 3: of the time saying like, hey, Brock Purty on the
Speaker 3: forty nine ers, amazing you take away all the weapons
Speaker 3: and everything. Probably not so much. So that is something
Speaker 3: that I'm definitely keeping a close eye on moving forward.
Speaker 1: I think everybody's gonna be watching to see how healthy
Speaker 1: the Niners are going into this week, because that's gonna
Speaker 1: have a big impact on Purdy and a lot of guys,
Speaker 1: you know, and just that whole offense and who you're starting,
Speaker 1: because you know, losing players always stinks. When you're losing
Speaker 1: your best players on offense, it's going to have an impact.
Speaker 2: I don't care. Three and like a quarter, Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: it was just rough for me.
Speaker 1: We spent all week debating whether it was Keyante ingram
Speaker 1: or Amari de Mercado. Maybe the answer is none of
Speaker 1: the above. It was not great for the Cardinals backfield.
Speaker 1: They spread the opportunities around between three different guys. I mean,
Speaker 1: you had Ingram with ten carries, Williams with eight carries.
Speaker 1: De Mercado played the most snaps, only had two carries.
Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs ran the ball seven times. Nobody was particularly
Speaker 1: efficient with their opportunities, and in the end, all three
Speaker 1: of those guys, all three of the running backs, turned
Speaker 1: out to be really underwhelming for fantasy And I get
Speaker 1: the sense that's what this is going to be for
Speaker 1: the next few weeks until James Connor comes back.
Speaker 2: He was the guy getting most of the work. He
Speaker 2: was doing very well with it.
Speaker 1: And I don't know that the Cardinals are gonna trust
Speaker 1: any one person to be efficient enough or productive enough
Speaker 1: to just give them a whole big workload. So sometimes
Speaker 1: the answer is none, and apparently that's the case with
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals running backs.
Speaker 2: We do have.
Speaker 1: Answers to some other things, including the guys who boosted
Speaker 1: you up or maybe let you down. We'll also talk
Speaker 1: some waiver wire picks coming up a little bit later
Speaker 1: on in the show. Stick around for plenty more merriment
Speaker 1: and information, all of it in one here on the
Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy Football Show. Dive into the top performers for
Speaker 1: Week six heading into the Monday night football game to
Speaker 1: a tongue of Ioloa continuing to put up big at
Speaker 1: numbers twenty two and a half points for him, three
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns Raheem Mostert aka Hereheem must start two rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns also are receiving score thirty four point two points
Speaker 1: as he ran over the Panthers Almon Ross Saint Brown
Speaker 1: Big Day twelve catches, a buck twenty four and a
Speaker 1: touchdown that was good for thirty plus points. Travis Kelce
Speaker 1: going back to Thursday night nine catches one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty four yards twenty one almost twenty one and a
Speaker 1: half points for him.
Speaker 2: Justin Tucker made.
Speaker 1: Six field goals that was good for eighteen points, and
Speaker 1: the Vikings defense going against the Bears five sacks, three takeaways,
Speaker 1: a touchdown score gave up thirteen points that was good
Speaker 1: for twenty one fantasy points. Let's break this down with
Speaker 1: some of the guys that maybe were on the list
Speaker 1: and some of the guys who maybe were just off
Speaker 1: the list of top performers, and Tyreek Hill had a
Speaker 1: lot of great things he did. Maybe the best thing
Speaker 1: he did was take a selfie doing a backflip.
Speaker 3: Though on Sunday, everything he does is cool, like he
Speaker 3: might be the coolest human walking the planet right now,
Speaker 3: it is insane, but I know some of you are
Speaker 3: out there, like, oh, he won me my Week six
Speaker 3: catches one hundred and sixty three yards and a touchdown,
Speaker 3: twenty eight fantasy points. Yeah, that's an average game so
Speaker 3: far for Tyreek Hill because he has top twenty eight
Speaker 3: fantasy points in four of his six games, one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty or more yards in four of his six games.
Speaker 3: He scored a touchdown in five of those six. He
Speaker 3: has given you double digit fantasy points in all of them.
Speaker 3: And currently he is averaging twenty seven fantasy points per
Speaker 3: game and is on pace for two thousand, three hundred
Speaker 3: and six yards and the greatest wide receiver fantasy season,
Speaker 3: like blowing out what Cooper Cup did two years ago.
Speaker 3: It is insane right now. The production on a weekly basis,
Speaker 3: Tyreek Kill is given.
Speaker 1: He is less than two hundred yards away from one thousand,
Speaker 1: and it's week six, Week.
Speaker 2: Six cheap code. That's insane.
Speaker 1: How good he has been this year, it was like
Speaker 1: everybody's like you left Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2: There's no way you're gonna be as good. He's better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, stats wise, he is better now away from Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: which is an amazing thing to say. Michael Pittman Junior
Speaker 1: continues to have a very good season, and we weren't
Speaker 1: sure what to make of Pittman.
Speaker 2: Or the Colts passing game.
Speaker 1: I mean, Florio mentioned Anthony Richardson with the big, strong arm,
Speaker 1: but accuracy was going to be an issue. Plus he
Speaker 1: was going to run a lot of people, myself included,
Speaker 1: were off of Michael Pittman. But he continues to get
Speaker 1: looks in targets and it hasn't mattered who the quarterback is.
Speaker 1: When Richardson was there, they were throwing to Pittman. When
Speaker 1: it's Gardner Minshew, they've been throwing to Pittman. So he
Speaker 1: is the bonafied wide receiver one. By the way, Josh
Speaker 1: Downs if you haven't gone to get him, if he's
Speaker 1: out there in the waiver wire, go get Josh Downs.
Speaker 1: Because's starting to get some more opportunities, but Michael Pittman
Speaker 1: continues to ball out. So from a veteran receiver to
Speaker 1: a rookie who's having himself quite a year.
Speaker 3: Right now, Yeah, Zay Flowers found pay dirt for the
Speaker 3: first time yesterday this season. But what I care about
Speaker 3: is the consistent volume that he gives us. In the
Speaker 3: consistent fantasy production, he is good for double digit fantasy
Speaker 3: points every single week. But in six games so far
Speaker 3: this season, Zay Flowers has led the Ravens and targets
Speaker 3: four times, and specifically, in the five games that Mark
Speaker 3: Andrews has played, Zay Flowers has led them in three
Speaker 3: of those five games in target and in just as
Speaker 3: a whole. With those two both on the field, Flowers
Speaker 3: is averaging seven point six targets per game to six point.
Speaker 2: Eight for Mark Andrews.
Speaker 3: There is a new top target in Baltimore. It looks
Speaker 3: like right now, obviously you're still starting Mark Andrews each
Speaker 3: and every week, but you should be doing the same
Speaker 3: for Jay.
Speaker 1: Flowers, I think moving forward, Yeah, I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: pretty much the Flowers and Andrews show. I know Beckham
Speaker 1: had a nice play, a couple of nice plays, but
Speaker 1: he's been banged up.
Speaker 2: Rashad Bateman, Yeah, it might be over for Rashad Bateman. Yeah. Oh,
Speaker 2: he barely gets on the field at this point.
Speaker 1: Travis Etn has blossomed into a playmaker. I mean, we
Speaker 1: thought he could be that when he was drafted out
Speaker 1: of Clemson, but it's taken a couple of years. But
Speaker 1: now it seems like it's happening. He's had four games
Speaker 1: at least seventeen Fantasy points. He's playing about eighty percent
Speaker 1: of the snaps, getting about sixty five percent of the
Speaker 1: rushing attempts, and when it comes to catching the ball
Speaker 1: out of the backfield, he's pretty much it. He's got
Speaker 1: twenty four targets. The next closest Jaguar running back has
Speaker 1: I think three. It's pretty much the Travis Eats show
Speaker 1: there in the backfield. And he's starting to score touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Four touchdowns in his last couple of games. So he's
Speaker 1: a guy that you know, very quietly has become an
Speaker 1: RB one for fantasy and should be in your lineup
Speaker 1: every week. Before it was like a Hey, do I
Speaker 1: start Etn or this guy? At this point you're starting
Speaker 1: Travis Etn. That's great. There's another guy that is looking
Speaker 1: like an RB one right now too that I'm happy
Speaker 1: that he's back for us.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Breeze Hall is back in a big way.
Speaker 3: And two weeks ago they came out and they were like,
Speaker 3: all right, training wheels are off, no more snap count.
Speaker 3: We're letting Breeze go. And then he went off against
Speaker 3: the Broncos and you're like, cool, it was awesome to see,
Speaker 3: but it's the Denver Broncos. They give up a career
Speaker 3: high a running backs on a weekly basis. Then he
Speaker 3: gets the Eagles, who had been the exact opposite. They
Speaker 3: had allowed the fewest yards, fuse fantasy points, all of
Speaker 3: that to running backs. Breeze Hall in Week six, sixty
Speaker 3: eight percent of the snaps, twelve of sixteen RB carries,
Speaker 3: twenty three routes, five targets led all running backs there
Speaker 3: in receiving usage, ninety three yards, touchdown, and twenty fantasy points,
Speaker 3: by far the best performance any running back has had
Speaker 3: against the Eagles.
Speaker 2: Prior to this, it was Raheem I'm.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Remandre Stevenson, who was around fourteen fantasy points in
Speaker 3: Week one. So Breese Hall is back and potentially looking
Speaker 3: like a league winner down.
Speaker 2: The stretch, which is kind of what we were hoping
Speaker 2: for from him.
Speaker 1: I know, we knew he was dealing with the injury,
Speaker 1: and they had Dalvin Cook there, but we were hoping
Speaker 1: that he would start to get that opportunity, and he has.
Speaker 2: He's doing the most with it.
Speaker 1: Speaking of doing the most with their opportunities, Kyen Williams,
Speaker 1: who had a big day against the Cardinals on Sunday,
Speaker 1: twenty carries for one hundred and fifty eight yards and
Speaker 1: a rushing touchdown. I think the issue for Kyron Williams,
Speaker 1: aside from the fact that he looks like he's got
Speaker 1: an ankle injury that's getting checked out via an MRI,
Speaker 1: is that Sean McVeigh sometimes forgets to run the football.
Speaker 1: I mean, two weeks ago he had twenty five carries
Speaker 1: against the Colts, went for one hundred and three yards
Speaker 1: and a couple of rushing touchdowns. Last week against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: just thirteen carries still went for more than four yards
Speaker 1: of carry. It's that Philadelphia defense and then the big
Speaker 1: game on Sunday.
Speaker 2: He is the guy.
Speaker 1: Yes, every once in a while they sprinkle Ronnie Rivers
Speaker 1: in there when Williams needs to catch his breath, but
Speaker 1: this has been the Kyn Williams show. He's the reason
Speaker 1: that cam Akers now collects his male in Minneapolis. These
Speaker 1: when they get him the ball. He is being productive,
Speaker 1: and this is a guy that, look, we talk about
Speaker 1: there have been a lot of really great waiver wire
Speaker 1: pickups in the early season. Two of them are in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles between Pooka and Akua and Kyen Williams.
Speaker 2: Williams has become an RB.
Speaker 1: One now and he's a guy that I can't see
Speaker 1: how you get him out of your lineup unless you
Speaker 1: somehow have just you know, been blessed with good running backs.
Speaker 1: Karen Williams needs to be started pretty much every week
Speaker 1: for a lot of people.
Speaker 3: And on Pooka, I've seen people yesterday be like people
Speaker 3: were tweeting me like, oh, it's over for Pooka.
Speaker 2: It's one down week.
Speaker 3: And he had a touchdown go through his hands just.
Speaker 1: Week and he still saw targets. I mean, look, he
Speaker 1: still had had seven targets. Like, why are we freaking out?
Speaker 1: It was a bad game. It happens for everybody. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of actual disappointments in fantasy, we do have a couple.
Speaker 1: I want to believe in Damian Pierce. It's getting harder
Speaker 1: to believe in Damian Piers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it wasn't to me yesterday the fact that
Speaker 3: he didn't give you like three point four fantasy points.
Speaker 3: Is obviously big and disappointing, but you could justify that
Speaker 3: at times while being like it was a tough matchup.
Speaker 3: Their O line isn't completely healthy yet. But what worries
Speaker 3: me is one, for the first time all year, he
Speaker 3: lost volume, and two he got straight out outplayed by
Speaker 3: Devin Singletary yesterday, fifty two percent of the snaps went
Speaker 3: to Singletary, just thirty five percent for Pierce. They split
Speaker 3: carries twelve for Singletary, thirteen for Pierce. It was Singletary
Speaker 3: that was running the routes and getting the targets thirty
Speaker 3: four yards for Damian Pierce, sixty two for Devin Singletary.
Speaker 3: It is highly, highly concerning because volume is what had
Speaker 3: been propelling Damian Pierce and keeping him in the conversation
Speaker 3: as a fantasy starter. They're on by this week. Then
Speaker 3: they get the Panthers, which is the old get right spot.
Speaker 3: I think both of those running backs are in play
Speaker 3: in week eight. I know we're getting ahead of ourselves here,
Speaker 3: but if you have Damian Pierce right now, I think
Speaker 3: outside of that one run where he took the entire
Speaker 3: like D line down to the one yard line. It's
Speaker 3: been a rough season and it was a rough game.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I just I you know, I really believed
Speaker 1: I draft him in a lot of spots, but so
Speaker 1: far the early returns have not been great. And it's
Speaker 1: time to get really worried because, as you mentioned, Devin
Speaker 1: Singletary starting to show up in that offense. Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: I know he didn't have Justin Jefferson, but they were
Speaker 1: playing the Bears and it felt like you could still
Speaker 1: at least believe that you're gonna get some decent production
Speaker 1: out of Kirk Cousins. Instead, you get fewer than nine
Speaker 1: Fantasy points from Kirk Ochains. Look, it was nice to
Speaker 1: see Jordan Addison get in the in the end zone,
Speaker 1: but this was not what I was hoping for for him.
Speaker 1: And I think what we're seeing is Kirk Cousins sort
Speaker 1: of turning into Kirk Cousins right where you get those
Speaker 1: big blow up games, those high ceiling games, and yeah,
Speaker 1: games like this where the floor kind of falls out
Speaker 1: from underneath in a matchup that you feel like should be,
Speaker 1: you know, a positive one, and now makes you wonder
Speaker 1: because the rest of the schedule gets a lot tougher
Speaker 1: over the next few weeks. Can you trust Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: without Justin Jefferson? And the answer is, I really don't know.
Speaker 3: The funny part about Kirk Cousins is, by far, his
Speaker 3: two worst fantasy games are the two that the Vikings
Speaker 3: have won.
Speaker 1: That's very true. I don't know what that means. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess I don't have any stake in the Vikings
Speaker 1: winning or not, so I just want Kirk to play well.
Speaker 1: So sorry, Minnesota fans if that If that hurts your
Speaker 1: potential for winning football games, that'll do it for this
Speaker 1: edition of the NFL Fantasy Football Show. Be sure to
Speaker 1: listen tomorrow for all our top waiver wire targets. Plus
Speaker 1: we're hitting up the fan mail bag to answer your questions.
Speaker 1: Stay happy, safe and healthy, do good and live well,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you again real soon.
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