Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, Hey everybody, It's Wednesday, October fourth, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's me and
Speaker 2: your man named g Marcus Grant, joined by Michael f. Florio.
Speaker 2: We are previewing Thursday Night football and the early Sunday
Speaker 2: games from Week five plus we're asking what to do
Speaker 2: about some key fantasy names returning to the field. So
Speaker 2: here we are. We are through four weeks. I'd say
Speaker 2: this is a quarter point of the season, but with
Speaker 2: a seventeen week season, like, the math doesn't quite work out.
Speaker 3: You hear a lot of times like, oh, the seasons
Speaker 3: is played in quarters, and it's like, yeah, it was
Speaker 3: perfect for that analogy. And then we added the seventeenth Yeah,
Speaker 3: the seventeenth game.
Speaker 2: And now it's weird. You know, you made it weird, NFL.
Speaker 2: You made it weird. We're gonna try to not make
Speaker 2: it weird. Today.
Speaker 3: We got plenty to talk about on this show. We
Speaker 3: got some fantasy heroes.
Speaker 2: We are previewing the entire Week five slates, and we're
Speaker 2: asking about what to do about some key names that
Speaker 2: are returned to the field. But let's get started, as
Speaker 2: we always do, with some fantasy headlines. The ongoing headline
Speaker 2: out of Cincinnati has to do with Joe Burrow and
Speaker 2: that calf injury that is very obviously limiting him right
Speaker 2: now now. According to both Burrow and head coach Zach Taylor,
Speaker 2: the quarterback is going to continue to play through injury. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: t Higgins has a broken rib now. He said earlier
Speaker 2: in the week that he wants to try and play
Speaker 2: through it. He also said that he can't sleep on
Speaker 2: that side. And I'm like, bro, you can't sleep on it,
Speaker 2: but you're gonna let somebody like hit you. Terrible idea.
Speaker 2: It's a terrible idea, but you're a different person than me.
Speaker 2: But either way, we know the quarterback is going to
Speaker 2: try and get it out. We'll see whether or not
Speaker 2: t Higgins tries to gut it out. Would we and
Speaker 2: when I say we, I mean the Bengals and fantasy
Speaker 2: managers be better off if these guys just sat and
Speaker 2: rested and got healthy.
Speaker 3: I think for the Bengals were past that point, Like
Speaker 3: I think you should have listened to Jamar Chase and
Speaker 3: let Joe Burrow rest the first month of the season.
Speaker 3: They're up coming schedule after this week against the Cardinals,
Speaker 3: they get the Seahawks, the forty nine Ers, the Bills,
Speaker 3: the Texans, and the Ravens. Yeah, good luck in that
Speaker 3: stretch with they compromise Joe Burrow for fantasy, though, we
Speaker 3: gotta do what the Bengals are not doing. We have
Speaker 3: to sit Joe Burrow. And I also think it's okay
Speaker 3: to sit T Higgins because he's a risk of leaving
Speaker 3: early and they've als also been struggling to get him
Speaker 3: the ball right now. The only must start Bengal I
Speaker 3: would say, is Jamar Chase.
Speaker 2: I mean jam Archez definitely is. And even he was frustrated.
Speaker 2: You heard that last week when he said I'm always
Speaker 2: bleeping open. I don't think this was any sort of
Speaker 2: him having beef with Joe Burrow. Those guys go way back.
Speaker 2: I think this was just him being frustrated with an
Speaker 2: offense that can't move the football right now. And I
Speaker 2: definitely do think if the Bengals were in a different situation,
Speaker 2: if they weren't one in three and really looking up
Speaker 2: at everybody else in the AFC North, they probably would
Speaker 2: try to sit Joe Burrow. But as you mentioned, they
Speaker 2: don't really have that luxury you, my dear friend, and
Speaker 2: fantasy you do have that luxury. Hopefully you have another option,
Speaker 2: because Joe Burrow right now not the guy you want
Speaker 2: to rine with. Speaking of riding, Arthur Smith says the
Speaker 2: Atlanta Falcon is gonna keep riding with Desmond Ridder. Look,
Speaker 2: there are a lot of people this past week that
Speaker 2: were tweeting out gifts and tweets about Taylor Heineke. Hi,
Speaker 2: it's me, I'm people. I was tweeting out Taylor Heineke
Speaker 2: gifts because it just seemed like they couldn't keep going
Speaker 2: with Desmond Ritterer. But here they are.
Speaker 3: So as long as Ritter as the quarterback, are any
Speaker 3: Falcons pass catchers startable?
Speaker 2: Nope?
Speaker 3: Right now, Kyle Pitts has the lowest the highest rate
Speaker 3: of uncatchable targets in the NFL, and Drake London is third.
Speaker 3: So there are two top pass catchers that they use
Speaker 3: top eight picks on. They cannot get the ball. And
Speaker 3: yet despite the fact that all Falcons fans and everyone
Speaker 3: here is saying like, hey, maybe you should make the
Speaker 3: quarterback switch, Arthur Smith's doing exactly whatever he wants to do,
Speaker 3: which is what he did last year, and stick with
Speaker 3: a struggling quarterback until the season was really over. You
Speaker 3: would never guess that Arthur Smith grew up a billionaire, right.
Speaker 2: It's still is amazing to me that, you know, the
Speaker 2: son of the founder of FedEx refuses to work through
Speaker 2: the air. It just doesn't really make any sense to me.
Speaker 2: I can't figure that out. At this point, the only
Speaker 2: startable Falcon is b Jon Robinson. Yep, that's it. There
Speaker 2: are no other Falcons players that I feel comfortable having
Speaker 2: in my lineup. And we have reached the point of
Speaker 2: the story where Kyle Pitts is not only benchable, he
Speaker 2: is droppable in a lot of leagues. That's how bad
Speaker 2: it is. And look, maybe it's not all on him.
Speaker 2: He is dealing with an injury and he's trying to
Speaker 2: fight through that. But between the injury, between the scheme,
Speaker 2: between the lack of catchable targets, Kyle Pitts once again
Speaker 2: has has let us down. I mean it's again, it's
Speaker 2: not all on you, Kyle. We love you. It's the
Speaker 2: people you hang out with that's the problem.
Speaker 3: It seems like, take your parents tell you when you're
Speaker 3: a kid.
Speaker 2: Right, he'd be careful of the company you keep because
Speaker 2: right now it's a bad reflection on you. That's all.
Speaker 2: In some other news folks who are coming back calling
Speaker 2: this welcome back. Now what we are. They're a handful
Speaker 2: of guys, three in particular, that are set to, if
Speaker 2: not make their debuts this week very is very soon.
Speaker 2: The first one Jonathan Taylor, who's been on the pup list,
Speaker 2: he is back. He's expected to be practicing again this
Speaker 2: week for the Indianapolis Colts. In the meantime, Zach Moss
Speaker 2: has been playing really well. Anthony Richardson is back, He's
Speaker 2: running the football really well. If Taylor can come back
Speaker 2: and play in Week five, what does this mean for
Speaker 2: the Colts backfield?
Speaker 3: I think Jonathan Taylor, if he plays for the Colts,
Speaker 3: he plays for your fantasy team, unless we hear that
Speaker 3: he's on like a heavy snapcount or anything like that.
Speaker 3: If we don't hear that and we hear its full
Speaker 3: systems go you start him. And then for Zach Moss,
Speaker 3: I think he's a player you want on your roster,
Speaker 3: preferably not in your starting lineup. We know that if
Speaker 3: anything happens to Jonathan Taylor, and look, it's not like
Speaker 3: he hasn't been dealing with an injury. It's not like
Speaker 3: he hasn't been pretty vocal that he does not want
Speaker 3: to be here right now. So if anything was to
Speaker 3: happen to Taylor, we know that Zach Moss is an
Speaker 3: RB two with RB one upside. As for Anthony Richardson,
Speaker 3: I think this only helps him right Like, he's gonna
Speaker 3: keep getting to run the option. He's gonna continue to
Speaker 3: be heavily used near the goal on. He's a must
Speaker 3: start quarterback.
Speaker 2: The thing about the Colts backfield is that they really
Speaker 2: have been a one back offense. In Week one, it
Speaker 2: was Deon Jackson that got most of the work. He
Speaker 2: played seventy plus percent of the snap. Since then, Zack
Speaker 2: Moss ninety eight percent of snap, seventy six percent of snaps,
Speaker 2: eighty one percent of snaps. It has been the Zach
Speaker 2: Moss show. Now, if they in turn is that they're
Speaker 2: going to do that with Jonathan Taylor, the upside is huge.
Speaker 2: I mean, let's not forget this is a guy that
Speaker 2: two seasons ago we were drafting as the number one
Speaker 2: overall player in fantasy football. Obviously it didn't work out.
Speaker 2: Injuries and things sort of conspired against him. But it's
Speaker 2: not about talent. If he's getting this opportunity, he is
Speaker 2: talented enough to really take advantage of this and goes
Speaker 2: back to being a high high end RB one. Cooper
Speaker 2: Cup is eligible to come back. The twenty one day
Speaker 2: window on him being activated is now in progress for
Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Rams, Pukaakua is they're already fitting him
Speaker 2: for a gold jacket for Canton, apparently after the first
Speaker 2: four weeks of his career. Obviously, when Cup comes back,
Speaker 2: that means they're going to have to share some targets.
Speaker 2: Pooka Nakua does not go away, But how much do
Speaker 2: you downgrade him when we get a healthy Cooper Cup.
Speaker 3: Look, he goes from being a top five wide receiver
Speaker 3: to more of a wide receiver two I would say
Speaker 3: for fantasy purposes, But if there's any team that can
Speaker 3: keep two wide receivers afloat, it is a Sean McVay offense.
Speaker 3: We right now have pukaaku as a top five fantasy
Speaker 3: tight end, but two two out Well is a top
Speaker 3: twenty wide receiver. Tyler Higbee is a top ten tight end,
Speaker 3: And for years we had two top fifteen wide receivers
Speaker 3: with Cooper Cup and Robert Woods. Coming into the year,
Speaker 3: I thought Puka Nakula would play the Robert Woods role.
Speaker 3: He's been playing the Cooper Cup role with him sideline.
Speaker 3: I think Cup comes in and obviously becomes the number
Speaker 3: one target again, but Pooka can still do a whole
Speaker 3: bunch of good things. He will still be heavily involved,
Speaker 3: and you still want to start.
Speaker 2: Him in fantasy. And you talk about Matthew Stafford supporting
Speaker 2: two wide receivers in LA with Cup and Robert Woods,
Speaker 2: you can go back even further. He did it in
Speaker 2: Detroit when he had Calvin Johnson and Golden Tate, and
Speaker 2: then after Calvin Johnson retired, he had Golden Tate and
Speaker 2: Marvin Jones and made both of those guys really successful.
Speaker 2: So we know that Matthew Stafford can support multiple pass catchers.
Speaker 2: This is a team that runs a lot of free
Speaker 2: wide receiver sets too, and I'm wondering who the odd
Speaker 2: man out is. I think at this point probably Van Jefferson.
Speaker 2: In those sets, it's it becomes a you know, Cooper
Speaker 2: Cup Pukakakua two two at well, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: a Cooper Puka two two lineup is a I mean,
Speaker 2: it's like a Disney Channel show. That's all I know.
Speaker 2: It's amazing. So I'm with you, though. I think Pooka
Speaker 2: come comes back and becomes a wide receiver two. But
Speaker 2: you're not putting him on your bench because he's just
Speaker 2: been too good at this point.
Speaker 3: Apparently the three of them, Puka, Cooper and Matt Stafford
Speaker 3: have been eating breakfast together.
Speaker 2: See, this is the This is the information we need
Speaker 2: to know. If we had known this a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago with Cooper Cup, he would have been like
Speaker 2: the number one overall pick. We didn't find out till later.
Speaker 2: Now we need to know this. Jamison Williams is eligible
Speaker 2: to return for the Lions. He was serving a suspension
Speaker 2: for violating the gambling policy. Now Dan Campbell has said
Speaker 2: that he is going to play a fairly limited role
Speaker 2: at least early on when he returns. We have expectations
Speaker 2: for Jamison Williams. We hope he can do well. We
Speaker 2: haven't really seen him play that much football his rookie year.
Speaker 2: He was injured most of the year, played six games
Speaker 2: at the end of the season, was injured all of
Speaker 2: this preseason, and then was suspended. I mean, would you
Speaker 2: feel confident putting him back in your lineup right away.
Speaker 3: No, it is no secret that I love Jamison Williams.
Speaker 3: I'm very high on him and I want him on
Speaker 3: as many fantasy teams as I can get him. But
Speaker 3: like you said, he's coming off the injury. He hasn't
Speaker 3: been with the team for a month. We don't know
Speaker 3: how healthy he is. He could be on a snap count,
Speaker 3: like they're saying, I want to take a wait and
Speaker 3: see approach. I think the upside is sky high. I
Speaker 3: keep saying it during draft season, like he brings league
Speaker 3: winning upside. But the beauty is you didn't have to
Speaker 3: draft him as a starter. You were drafting him as
Speaker 3: a backup anyway. So unless you're desperate because of buys
Speaker 3: or injuries, just leave him on your bench for now
Speaker 3: and kind of let's see him do it before you
Speaker 3: plug him in.
Speaker 2: Very much taking wait and see attitude with Jamison Williams,
Speaker 2: especially because the Lions offense is sort of rolling along nicely.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm on Ross, Saint Brown is still doing
Speaker 2: his thing. Sam Laporta has been great, Josh Reynolds has
Speaker 2: been making plays in this passing game, and they still
Speaker 2: haven't exactly figured out how to completely integrate Jamiir Gibbs
Speaker 2: into what they're doing yet. So there's a lot of
Speaker 2: places for Jared Goff to go with the football. So
Speaker 2: I'm with you. I'm not just gonna jam Jamison Williams
Speaker 2: back into the lineup. I'm gonna wait a week or
Speaker 2: two see how the Lions are using him before I
Speaker 2: go on and make that decision. Gonna step away for
Speaker 2: a quick break. Stick around for more of the NFL
Speaker 2: Fantasy Football Show. Time nowt to jump.
Speaker 3: Into the Week five game previews.
Speaker 2: We have started the buys. This week. Four teams are
Speaker 2: on a bye. We got the Cleveland Browns, the Los
Speaker 2: Angeles Chargers, the Seattle Seahawks, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Speaker 2: all taking the week off. Teams that are not taking
Speaker 2: the week off and getting things started. On Thursday, the
Speaker 2: Chicago Bears head to Washington or Maryland or the DMV
Speaker 2: somewhere in that part of the country and they're gonna
Speaker 2: take on the Washington Commanders. You can see that game
Speaker 2: at eight fifteen pm Eastern Time on Prime Video. The
Speaker 2: Bears still looking for their first one. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you've seen the meme. There's a meme going around
Speaker 2: it is, you know, has your team won a game
Speaker 2: since Elon Musk. I'm over Twitter and it has the
Speaker 2: logos of every North American pro sport major Pro Sports
Speaker 2: league team, and all of them are grouped in the well.
Speaker 2: Of course it happened in October twenty twenty two. And
Speaker 2: off to the side, all by themselves are the Chicago
Speaker 2: Bears in the no column because they have not won
Speaker 2: a game in a really long time. We're gonna get
Speaker 2: into winsor losses here, but we are gonna get into
Speaker 2: Dj Moore, who's playing some good football right now. So
Speaker 2: more or less seventy five receiving yards for Dj.
Speaker 3: Moore, I think he's gonna have more in this game.
Speaker 3: He's playing really good football, and last week we saw
Speaker 3: him kind of explode and he was putting up numbers
Speaker 3: before the Bears offense really started clicking. I think, justin fields,
Speaker 3: I still think better days are coming for him. I
Speaker 3: don't think last week was just a product of playing
Speaker 3: the Broncos. But Dj Moore right now on pace for
Speaker 3: a career high in receiving yards. I think that continues
Speaker 3: with more than seventy five this week.
Speaker 2: I think it continues with more than seventy five as well.
Speaker 2: The passing game for the Bears is pretty much Dj
Speaker 2: Moore and Cole Comet. I mean, that's been it for
Speaker 2: most of the season. And where once upon a time
Speaker 2: we sort of tried to avoid the Washington defense, this
Speaker 2: year they have been vulnerable. I mean, they have given
Speaker 2: up a ton of yards to wide receivers. They've given
Speaker 2: up six receiving touchdowns to the position, that's tied for
Speaker 2: most allowed in the NFL. So again, I'm with you.
Speaker 2: I don't think it was just the Broncos. Playing the
Speaker 2: Broncos help, but it's not just playing the Broncos that helped.
Speaker 2: Justin field, I think they're starting to turn a corner offensively,
Speaker 2: and I think you're gonna see Dj Moore have another
Speaker 2: nice game on the other side, more or less than
Speaker 2: zero point five receiving touchdowns for Terry mclauren. Claaren has
Speaker 2: one touchdown this year. It was on a fumble recovery
Speaker 2: in the end zone. So will he actually score a
Speaker 2: receiving touchdown this week?
Speaker 3: I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful that this is the week. And
Speaker 3: part of the reason I've been critical on Sam Howe,
Speaker 3: besides the fact that he has five interceptions in twenty
Speaker 3: four sacks through four games. Is that he's struggling to
Speaker 3: get Terry McLaurin and Johan Dotson the ball. And I
Speaker 3: think that this is one of the best young receiving
Speaker 3: groups in the NFL, and if you can't get them
Speaker 3: the ball, that's a problem. So I am hopeful that
Speaker 3: in this cakewalk of a matchup against the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 3: that they emphasize getting Terry going. I have a lot
Speaker 3: of Terry McLaurin, so I'm definitely in need of a touchdown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they get him one. I think they
Speaker 2: are really trying to emphasize getting him in the end zone,
Speaker 2: getting him going. There are a lot of places that
Speaker 2: are going with the ball though, because Johan Dotson's getting targets,
Speaker 2: Curtis Samuel starting to get work. Even Logan Thomas every
Speaker 2: once in a while is sort of working in there.
Speaker 2: But I do think for this offense to be successfu
Speaker 2: full long term, Terry McLaurin has to kick it into gear,
Speaker 2: and so I think this is a week that they
Speaker 2: can really emphasize trying to make that happen. Turn out
Speaker 2: to the Sunday Slate starting early morning in London. That
Speaker 2: game kicks off at nine to thirty am Eastern Time.
Speaker 2: You can see it on NFL Network and on NFL Plus.
Speaker 2: Jaguars at the Bills been a rough start for the Jaguars.
Speaker 2: Did we overhype Trevor Lawrence this year?
Speaker 3: I think so, and I'm as guilty as anyone. I
Speaker 3: thought he would be an MVP candidate this season and
Speaker 3: that has not been the case. So far this year,
Speaker 3: he's averaging fourteen and a half fantasy points per game
Speaker 3: and one touchdown per game. But this goes to last
Speaker 3: season as well. Per our great Joel Smith, in his
Speaker 3: last eight games since Week fifteen of last season, Lawrence
Speaker 3: is averaging thirteen Fantasy points per game QB twenty five
Speaker 3: in that span, behind Baker Mayfield, Josh Dobbs, and Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2: I think that's the thing that we sort of ignored.
Speaker 2: We saw the big comebacks, we saw the way the
Speaker 2: Jaguars were playing and winning games, were like, hey, man
Speaker 2: is going to be great, They're getting Calvin Ridley's going
Speaker 2: to be amazing, and we sort of overlooked the fact
Speaker 2: that when you broke down Trevor Lawrence's season on a
Speaker 2: week two week basis. It was kind of up and down,
Speaker 2: and there were more sort of meh weeks than there
Speaker 2: were great weeks for Trevor Lawrence, and so I think
Speaker 2: we sort of tried to push that aside and just
Speaker 2: think that at naturally everything progresses. So maybe we did
Speaker 2: get a little bit too high on Trevor Lawrence. I'm
Speaker 2: with you. I was very much in that camp as well.
Speaker 2: Maybe not MVP, but I was very big on him
Speaker 2: having a good good season Texans. At the Falcons, we
Speaker 2: talked about Bijon and him being the only Falcon worth starting.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to go back to Tank Dell after
Speaker 2: he sort of let you down in week four?
Speaker 3: I think I am at least, and I know some
Speaker 3: people out there might be like, oh this guy, look,
Speaker 3: he didn't give you much production at all last week.
Speaker 3: I'm getting away. But Nico Collins had a down game
Speaker 3: two weeks ago and a lot of you were like,
Speaker 3: I'm pulling him from my starting lineup? How'd that work out?
Speaker 3: One hundred and sixty eight yards and two touchdowns later.
Speaker 3: This is the thing. Wide receiver is a position with
Speaker 3: a lot of week to week. These guys are going
Speaker 3: to have the high highs and sometimes low lows. But
Speaker 3: he is on a Texans team that passes the ball
Speaker 3: a whole, bunches a shout. Is maybe the best rookie
Speaker 3: quarterback ever. He is playing out of his mind good
Speaker 3: right now. Second most passing yards through four games for
Speaker 3: a rookie that is, and he has not thrown an interception.
Speaker 3: I think you just you continue to roll with the
Speaker 3: top two wide receivers there.
Speaker 2: I think you do. And to your point, look outside
Speaker 2: of the Justin Jeffersons and Stefan Diggs's and you know,
Speaker 2: in a healthy Cooper Cup, aside from those guys, you
Speaker 2: are going to have the highs and lows. That is
Speaker 2: just the nature of the position, especially in fantasy. So
Speaker 2: give Tank Dell another shot. Don't just quit on him
Speaker 2: because he had one down week. It's going to be fine.
Speaker 2: There will be better weeks for Tank Dell. It's coming.
Speaker 2: Panthers at the Lions, Jamier Gibbs has not been what
Speaker 2: we wanted him to be. Is it time to put
Speaker 2: him on the bench?
Speaker 3: Unfortunately? I think so. Unless you know you're desperate because
Speaker 3: of injuries and buys and all that.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you don't have it better option. But Jamir Gibbs
Speaker 3: is playing really good when he gets the opportunity. On
Speaker 3: a per touch basis, he clears David Montgomery in almost
Speaker 3: every stat but it doesn't matter because David Montgomery's getting
Speaker 3: all the volume. He's getting the goal on work and
Speaker 3: against the Panthers, I think this is a game where
Speaker 3: the Lions are at home, they're going to have the lead,
Speaker 3: and when we saw last week when they're playing from ahead,
Speaker 3: it is David Montgomery times. So I question if Gibbs
Speaker 3: will even see the volume this week.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go semi contrary and say that you
Speaker 2: can start him as a flex this week, mostly because
Speaker 2: the Panther run defense has not been good. Now, this
Speaker 2: could again blow up in my face and it's David
Speaker 2: Montgomery scoring another three touchdowns on the ground, But the
Speaker 2: fact that the Panthers have struggled against the run gives
Speaker 2: me a little bit of hope that if they decide
Speaker 2: to give Gibbs some touches, that he can turn that
Speaker 2: into something. I think it's weird and frustrating that we
Speaker 2: got so excited because they're like, we're gonna use Jamiir
Speaker 2: Gibbs in ways you couldn't imagine, and I never thought
Speaker 2: that one of those ways would be like, you know,
Speaker 2: sideline cheerleader.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just not you. But I agree with you. I
Speaker 3: think if you do play him this week, you're hoping
Speaker 3: that he the big players are eventually gonna come. You're
Speaker 3: hoping that it starts now. Hopefully it starts now. Titans
Speaker 3: at the Colts. As we get back to our Week
Speaker 3: five game previews, we talked about Jonathan Taylor and if
Speaker 3: he does come back and play in Week five, is
Speaker 3: he a must start against a good Titans run defense. Yeah,
Speaker 3: one of the hardest matchups for a running back. But again,
Speaker 3: if he's playing for the Colts and there's no word
Speaker 3: of him being on a limit, especially with four teams
Speaker 3: on by and all the injuries to the running back position,
Speaker 3: I find it hard to believe that you have two
Speaker 3: options that you feel confident in starting over Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I just again, if they're really gonna give him
Speaker 2: that kind of workload that they've been given to Zach Moss,
Speaker 2: I don't know how you don't start Jonathan Taylor. I
Speaker 2: don't care what the matchup is, if he's gonna get
Speaker 2: ninety percent of the snaps, he's gonna be in your lineup. Plus,
Speaker 2: if you drafted him, you have been holding onto him,
Speaker 2: sitting there for four weeks waiting to use him. What
Speaker 2: are you waiting for? Put him back in your lineup.
Speaker 3: I have a team with him, and I've already put
Speaker 3: both of them in there.
Speaker 2: No, it's just like slide them in right now and
Speaker 2: then if you gotta make a change on Sunday morning,
Speaker 2: and make the change on Sunday morning. Whatever. Giants at
Speaker 2: the Dolphins. I mean, look, we know the Dolphins you're starting.
Speaker 2: You're starting to You're starting Devon a Chan, probably Raheem Moster,
Speaker 2: Tyreek kal Jalen Watnall. They're starting a whole bunch of Dolphins.
Speaker 3: Their defense, their defense.
Speaker 2: Are you starting any giants?
Speaker 3: This sounds gross to say, but you don't have to
Speaker 3: love it. But I do think multiple giants are in
Speaker 3: play this week as a streaming option, Like I think
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones is a streaming option because they're gonna be trailing.
Speaker 3: He's gonna have to throw the ball a whole bunch.
Speaker 3: We've already seen he could put up points with his
Speaker 3: legs and then the Dolphins get pressured below league average rates,
Speaker 3: so hopefully he has time there to get the ball
Speaker 3: to Darren Waller, who I still think you could start
Speaker 3: as a tight end. And then Wandel Robinson. I think
Speaker 3: he is a deep a little bit of a deeper
Speaker 3: streaming option because he's just the number one go to
Speaker 3: wide receiver right now. I love that we have no
Speaker 3: b roll because there's no good highlights to show.
Speaker 2: I means, what are we going to show him? Just
Speaker 2: Daniel Jones running for his life and taking sacks and
Speaker 2: the throwing pick six is like, that's kind of it. Look,
Speaker 2: if Saquon Barkley plays, I think you can start Saquan.
Speaker 2: Will you kind of keep an eye on on his
Speaker 2: his ankle situation and whether or not he's going to
Speaker 2: be available this week. If he plays, I think you
Speaker 2: can start him. I'm with you on Wandale and he's
Speaker 2: a guy that I sort of have been liking and
Speaker 2: riding up as a sleeper the last couple of weeks
Speaker 2: just because they just want to get somebody the ball
Speaker 2: in space, and Wandale is that guy. I was trying
Speaker 2: it with Jalen Hyatt. They just Jalen Hyatt is sort
Speaker 2: of on the Marvin Mims plan where he just can't
Speaker 2: get on the field, and I don't really understand it
Speaker 2: because the Giants are bad, and so why wouldn't you
Speaker 2: try something else, anything else? But you know what, that's
Speaker 2: why I sit here and talk about fake football for
Speaker 2: a living. In Brian Daboles on the sideline with a
Speaker 2: headset throwing tablets, throw tablets at his quarterback. Good job,
Speaker 2: Saints at the Patriots. Mike Stommay got queasy thinking about
Speaker 2: the offense in this game. The Saints passing attack has
Speaker 2: not been great. Last week, Derek Carr was played despite
Speaker 2: a shoulder injury, and it showed in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2: It's hurting. It's hurting. Chris o'lave, it's hurting. Michael Thomas,
Speaker 2: what do you do about this Saints passing game in fantasy?
Speaker 3: I think it's well. Alvin Kamara is a mustard. And
Speaker 3: I know it's weird to talk about a running back
Speaker 3: when we're talking about the passing attack, but he was.
Speaker 3: He led them in every receiver. He had more points
Speaker 3: on catches than anything else in week. In his first
Speaker 3: game back, Chris o'lave had his work. He hit one
Speaker 3: catch for four yards last week, it's a Derek Carr problem.
Speaker 3: Derek Carr was clearly not healthy, but I still think
Speaker 3: you roll with him because the upside is far too high.
Speaker 3: It giving you at least fourteen and every game before that.
Speaker 3: Michael Thomas right now is outside the top forty wide receivers.
Speaker 3: Rashid Shaheed is as well. I actually think I would
Speaker 3: play Shaheed over Thomas because the upside is high. He
Speaker 3: just needs one long catch. But it's pretty much a
Speaker 3: lave or buss.
Speaker 2: It's just a lave for me at this point. It's
Speaker 2: funny because at one point in the game, I think
Speaker 2: Derek Carr went out, Jamis came in. He threw one pass,
Speaker 2: it was intercepted in the Saints are life. All Right,
Speaker 2: that's enough of that, so they went back to Derek
Speaker 2: Carr again. But it's it's kind of brutal in New
Speaker 2: Orleans when it comes to that passing game. Ravens and
Speaker 2: the Steelers. Speaking of brutal passing games, the Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 2: likely without can you Pickett for several weeks as he
Speaker 2: has a knee injury, so the Mitch is back? Which
Speaker 2: Steelers do you feel confident in starting with Mitch trubiskyit under.
Speaker 3: Center none zero zero, like you probably still't have to
Speaker 3: start George Pickens, and starting him is hoping for a
Speaker 3: long play in this one. We know that he's capable
Speaker 3: of taking a catch and breaking a tackle and going
Speaker 3: the distance, but if he doesn't do that, you might
Speaker 3: be looking at single digit fantasy points. Nause. Harris had
Speaker 3: his best game of the year last week, and he
Speaker 3: still got outscored by Jalen Warren. If I'm starting a
Speaker 3: Steelers running back, it's Jalen Warren. And it's sad to
Speaker 3: say right now, but I'm trying to avoid all all
Speaker 3: the Steelers if possible.
Speaker 2: I mean, Jalen Warren hasn't been great. I mean, you're right,
Speaker 2: he's been the better of the two backs. He hasn't
Speaker 2: been great. I think I can ride with Pickens simply
Speaker 2: because last year and Trubisky had to play, he actually
Speaker 2: had a decent connection with George Pickens. He was able
Speaker 2: to get the ball to Pickens and Deontay Johnson. We
Speaker 2: know there's no Deontay right now, so I think Pickens
Speaker 2: does have a little bit of value this week. But
Speaker 2: it's not pretty. It's ugly there. People are wondering whether
Speaker 2: or not Matt Canada has a Twitter burner at this point.
Speaker 3: That's how things are going in Pittsburgh right now.
Speaker 2: Not great, not great. That'll do it for this edition
Speaker 2: of the NFL Fantasy Football Show. Stay happy, safe and healthy,
Speaker 2: do good and live well. We're back tomorrow to preview
Speaker 2: the rest of the Week five matchups.