WEBVTT - NFL Fantasy Football Podcast: Week 9 Matchup Previews Continued + Who Will Deliver 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:14.680 Wow, Hey everybody, It's Thursday, November two, twenty twenty three. 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:18.279 Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's me your man, MG, 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.279 Marcus Grant with my guy Michael f Floria. Coming up, 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:24.160 we're previewing the rest of the Week nine slate, plus 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:27.800 we're giving you our fantasy heroes. Continuing our look at 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:32.080 the Sunday early slate, we got the Rams at the Packers. 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.800 Now the Rams trying to wait to see what the 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.080 status of Matthew Stafford is going to be as he 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.080 injured his thumb last week and the loss to the 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:44.040 Dallas Cowboys. Do we keep riding with Cooper Cup and 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:46.440 Pooka Nakula And on the other side, what do we 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.040 do about Christian Watson and Aaron Jones and a Packer 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.479 offense that has been just straight up bad. 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.800 I know they've been They've let you down a little 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:56.760 bit as of late, but I still think with Cooper 0:00:56.760 --> 0:01:00.000 Cup and Pooka Nakula, the upside is far too high, 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.800 especially with four teams on by in every place that 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.800 I have those two, I'm not even considering sitting them, 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:09.880 so I would not wreck even if Matthew Stafford doesn't 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:11.640 play this week. I still think the upside is too 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.280 high for these two guys that I'm gonna put them 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:16.240 in my lineup and understand that the risk might be 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:19.520 single digits, but the upside is twenty plus. As for 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.560 the Packers, Watson is a sit right now. Half of 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:25.440 his targets this year have been uncatchable. It's more on 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.080 Jordan Love than on him. But we're getting no big 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.600 plays out of this Packers offense. It's been a grind 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.319 just to get anything going. He has not reached twelve 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:34.320 Fantasy points. 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:34.840 In a game this year. 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.560 Aaron Jones, I don't know what to do with him. 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.840 Every week he suits up and it's like, Okay, he's playing, 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.759 but he's playing less snaps than AJ Dillon. They're splitting groundwork. 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.280 He's not really getting used in the passing game. I 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.960 think because of the status of the running back position 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.560 right now, you probably just got a roll with Aaron Jones. 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.120 But I feel worse about him than I have in years. 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:56.920 Yeah, I don't know what to do with Aaron Jones. 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:58.880 Christian Watson. I could figure out how to bench and 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.840 put him in just at him and not really worry 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:03.960 about that. I would say I'm with you. You're riding 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.040 Cooper Cup, you're riding with Pooka Nakua. Since Cup came 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.680 back in week five, those two guys combining for about 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.600 two thirds of the targets about seventy five percent of 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:18.520 the air yards. The floor obviously is lower now, the 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.000 ceiling probably a little bit lower. But just because they're 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.200 so good and they're so focused in the offense, there's 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.160 the potential for them to still have a good game 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.480 regardless of who the quarterback is. And you know, we'll see. 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.000 We'll see if it's Stafford somehow, or if it's going 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.600 to be Brett Rippon, or you know, maybe if John 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:37.000 Wolford comes riding to the rescue. We'll see how that goes. 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:40.040 The upside to that is that, hopefully with Stafford, this 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.760 is a short term thing, so you're only having to 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.240 muddle through for a week or two before you have 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:49.000 to really make any real decisions there Buccaneers at the 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:54.720 Texans two running backs who have been meh or worse. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:56.959 You got Rashad White on one side, you got Damian 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:58.720 Pierce on the other. I think at this point we 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.240 can sort of wash our hands of Ian Pierce after 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.880 a bad game against the Panthers. But Rashad White's playing 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.920 pretty well lately. Do we stay with the hot hand here? 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:08.920 I think so. 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.960 He's given you over fifteen fantasy points in two straight 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.400 He's getting used more in the passing game, which goes 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.320 a long way. And the Texans they're not what they 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.600 were last year in terms of struggling against the run, 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.720 but you can beat them on the ground a whole 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:24.600 lot easier than you can through the air. They've only 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.120 allowed five passing touchdowns this season after allowing the fewest 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.720 last year. So, yeah, Rashad White, as you guys know, 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.120 I didn't like him coming into the year, and I 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.280 had him as a sid a whole bunch. His schedule 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.840 was insanely hard the first six weeks or so of 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.080 the season. It started to open up, and we're getting 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:40.800 better results. 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.760 We are getting better results, and I think he actually 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.200 has sort of elevated himself in value because of the 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:50.640 way the offense has changed. The Bucks could not run 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:52.600 the football, and that was the big knock on him 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.080 is that he was incredibly inefficient running the football. He 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:58.400 wasn't getting a whole lot done there. So lately it 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.240 seems like Tampa has sort of changed and Dave Canalis 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.880 has gone to a short passing game instead of really 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.360 just trying to run the football, which means what White 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.200 has lost in carries. The carries are down over the 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.240 last few weeks from where they were earlier in the season, 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:14.440 but the targets have picked up. And you know this 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.400 as well as anybody. A target is worth so much 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:19.880 more than a carry. So if he's gonna get fewer 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.360 rushing attempts but get more targets, then into being maybe 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.520 a better back than we envisioned at the start of 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:27.200 the season. So I think you stay with him as 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.360 long as this is how the Bucks are going to operate. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.840 You keep getting those targets from Rashad White. You look 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.680 at the last two weeks, thirteen targets, it's turned into 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:38.320 thirteen catches for one hundred and thirty five yards. They 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.000 may not be able to run it, but if they're 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.720 throwing it to him, then I like Rashad White even better, 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:48.239 and I think you stick with this. Commanders at the Patriots. Look, 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.640 the big upset in the NFL last week was not 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.960 the Broncos over the Chiefs. It was Sam Howe getting 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.640 sacked just one time against the Philadelphia Eagles. But Matt 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:00.840 Jones very quietly been I won't say good, but less 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.679 bad over the last couple of weeks. Can we stream 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:07.880 him against the Commander's defense that is incredibly toothless right now? 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.120 And do we trust any of his pass catchers. 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.320 I think you can stream Mac Jones this week, And 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.320 I'm not telling you to play him over your regular 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.159 You know you're Dak Prescott's or anyone like that, But 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:20.200 Dak is the name that keeps coming to my mind. 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.679 I try to think of a quarterback, but like Jared 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.040 Goffson by this week, Trevor Lawrence is on by, Brock 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.359 Pardy is on by. So if you need a replacement 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.359 for one of those guys or in two quarterback leagues, 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.440 Mac Jones is in play because of the matchup. Commanders 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.280 have allowed the third most passing yards, most passing touchdowns, 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.960 second most fantasy points per game, and they allow a 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:41.200 whole bunch of deep passes as well, so a chance 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:44.760 for big plays in chunks. As for the pass catchers, 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.440 I don't have a ton of confidence in any of them, 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.200 but if I was to play anyone, it would be 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.279 Dmario Douglas, who last week led them in. 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.440 Routes and targets. I think I feel bad because Kendrick 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.240 Bourne was starting to play well tears the ACL He's 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:00.840 out for the year, so Douglas does sort of like 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.760 the next man up. Maybe there's some Devonte Parker, maybe 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.200 there's a Juju Smith Schuster in there somewhere, but I 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:10.080 would try to stream mac Jones if you can. The Commanders, 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.200 as we learned on Fantasy Live a couple of days ago, 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.719 they have allowed a top ten fantasy quarterback every week 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.600 since Week two, so that means they are just getting 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.800 crushed every single week. On top of it, they trade 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:28.120 Montese Sweat to the Chicago Bears. They trade Chase Young 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.720 to the San Francisco forty nine ers, so now they 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.360 have even less of a pass rush than they did before. 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.280 Their secondary is getting cooked on the regular. So mccorkel 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.440 Jones might have some fantasy value for you this week. 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:45.960 Bears at the Saints. How worried should we be about 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:50.960 Chris o'lave in the New Orleans offense? Very unfortunately? 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.120 Like I believe that Chris Olave is one of the 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:59.719 best wide receivers in the NFL. Unfortunately the Saints. Derek 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.239 Carr doesn't seem to agree. If they're throwing the ball short, 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.080 it's going to Alvin Kamara. If they're throwing the ball deep, 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.160 it's going to Rashid Shahid, who has like seventy I 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.960 think it's seventy one percent of the Saints passes on 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.720 deep balls this year and all of their touchdowns. And 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.840 last year we were calling Chris Olave mister air Yards 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.000 because we were like, hey, all he does is rack 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.360 up air yards and put up big numbers on those 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:26.600 deep passes. But that hasn't come to fruition. It's been 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.600 a bit of an up and down year for Chris Olav. 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:31.840 He's not at the point where we can't start him 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.200 for fantasy or anything like that, but it's just at 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.400 the point where it's like, yeah, he's not going to 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.720 live up to the lofty expectations. It's the ability that 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:41.200 I truly believe he could play at. 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.720 It's just one of those things where everything seems to 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.280 be trending toward him having a big game and it 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:51.560 just doesn't happen. The very smart, very talented, very funny 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.880 Ian Harditz, who you can find over at fantasy life. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.360 He keeps track of what he calls unrealized air yards, 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.800 where it's you know, they're air yards that just don't 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:06.800 connect for whatever reason. And Chris o'lave is far and 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:10.080 away leading the world in unrealized air yall. 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:11.200 You led them in that last year too. 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.040 They're just they're trying to get him the ball downfield, 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:17.360 but for whatever reason, he and Derek Carr just can't 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.600 connect in that regard. And you mentioned somehow it's working 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.680 out with Rashid Shahed. They're getting the short passes to 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.400 Alvin Kamara, they're working the intermediate part of the field 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:30.640 with Mike Thomas and Taysom Hill. But just for whatever reason, 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.760 car and Olave just can't get it going. And I 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.400 keep trying. I keep believing that one of these weeks 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.400 it's just going to click. Hopefully it does. I mean, look, 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.400 there's still a lot of ballgame left in terms of 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.880 the regular season. It's only week nine, right There are 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.880 still including this week, there's still ten more weeks left 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.480 of the of the NFL regular season. You gotta believe 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.000 at some point it's gonna come together. It hasn't yet. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.320 It's incredibly frustrating. I'm not willing to give up though 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:01.040 a Chrys o'lave in twenty twenty three, I just can't. Ah. 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:02.800 We still got a whole bunch of games left to go. 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:04.960 We got the later part of the slate, plus Sunday 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.160 Night Football, Monday Night Football, and our Fantasy Heroes. As 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:14.360 we come back on the NFL Fantasy Football Show, looking 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.280 at the late slates of games from Week nine, We'll 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.320 start with the Colts at the Panthers. Do we start 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.760 Zak Moss? Do we start any of the Panthers running backs? 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.800 Yeah, you start Zach Moss one hundred percent. I don't 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.679 think people fully realize that in the four games that 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:34.240 Jonathan Taylor has played, Zach Moss has outscored him in 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:38.000 three of them. They continue to split opportunities, like, yeah, 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.160 last week Taylor played more snaps, but they it was 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.400 fourteen opportunities to Moss's thirteen. Moss is the one that 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.440 gets used near the goal line a bit. They're both 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.480 used in the passing game, and in this grade of 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.280 a matchup, you start them both. And I think on 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.920 the other side, Chuba Hubbard is in play as a 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:57.160 sneakier option. Sixty six percent of the snaps this past week, 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.920 fifteen carries, two targets, got all the work near the goal. 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.679 Miles Sanders had two touches. So the Colts they struggle 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.600 against running backs. If I'm going anywhere in Carolina, it is. 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.880 Chuba Hubbard for sure, starting Zach Moss. You mentioned the 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.760 run that Zach Moss has been on lately. He is 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.880 the running back four over the last month, so he 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.280 is still getting it done. Even with Jonathan Taylor there. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.839 The Panthers are awful at stopping the run. On the 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.000 other side, I guess you can start Chuba Hubbard. I 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.439 don't want any part of that backfield because the worst 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.760 thing to happen last week was that you had three 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:34.240 guys getting opportunity. Now, granted, Miles Sanders only had two carries, 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:38.080 which he turned into zero yards and zero points the 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.600 old Bluto blue Tarski for anybody old enough to remember, 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:45.720 Animal House zero point zero. I just it's a bad offense. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:47.959 They can't run the football. Even if the Colts aren't 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.480 great against against running backs, I am terrified to get 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.680 behind any one of them down there in Carolina. So 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.600 I guess Cuba Hubbard. But that would be about it 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.080 giants at the Raiders mentioned at the top of the show, 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.640 a lot of changes in Las Vegas. New head coach 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.960 at least interim, a new play caller on offense, any 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.920 new starting quarterback. We sort of talked about DeVante Adams, 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:14.680 so they rehash we can trust Davonte Adams this week, right. 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.360 Yeah, I think this week you could trust DeVante Adams squeet. 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.320 This is the ultimate squiky wheel narrative, right, Like, he 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:25.360 got his coach fired, he was so upset. I think 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:27.400 they're gonna come out and just the game plan. If 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.079 you watch Hey Arnold where they're like give the ball 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:30.600 to Tucker, it's just gonna be like, give the ball 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.520 to DeVante Adams. And I think Josh Jacobs is the 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:37.120 other Raider you could trust with confidence this week. Jacoby 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:38.840 Myers depends on your options. 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.600 Yeah, I'm not really big on Jacoby Myers just yet. 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.480 I want to take a wait and see. One of 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.960 my other bold predictions for the week is that Davante 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:47.959 Adams is gonna get like fifteen targets. I might even 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.120 bump that up to twenty. I came up with that 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.880 thought before Josh McDaniels was fired. Now that he's fired 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.320 and they've got a new It might be twenty targets 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:59.520 for DeVante. It might just be hey, Aiden, look at 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:03.160 number seven and throw him the ball, don't care. I 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.520 think this is very much the Squeaky wheel situation, and 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:09.360 DeVante Adams is going to get quite a bit of 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.680 Greece to help move that offense along. Cowboys at the 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.480 Eagles definitely one of the more fun games on the 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:20.000 schedule this week, Big one in the NFC East. Tony 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.320 Pollard has not had a great season. He has not 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.800 been super efficient, and the Eagles are good against running backs. 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.880 But you can't sit Tony Pollard right, and you can't 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.320 sit DeVante Adam or Devontae Smith right. You can't sit 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.840 Devonte Adams either, but you can't sit DeVonta Smith right. Yeah. 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:36.760 I don't think you could get away from either of them. 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.920 And it has been disappointing this year. Like Tony Pollard 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:43.440 right now is the RB sixteen on this season. He 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:48.240 has not scored a touchdown since Week one. Yeah, like 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.839 that is is very disappointing. The receiving numbers isn't what 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:53.920 I had hoped they would be coming into this year. 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:57.480 I thought he had RB one overall upside, but still 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.480 in this match. I know it's a tough matchup against 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.559 the Eagles, but I cannot get away a lot of 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.680 points could be scored in that one. And on the 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:07.319 other side, DeVonta Smith like, yeah, he's taking a back 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.600 seat because aj Brown after the first two weeks was like, 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.520 throw me the ball more and then he's gone on 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:12.839 the greatest. 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.040 Six week run in wide receiver history. 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.080 But DeVante showed us last week that the upside is 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.480 far too high. It just takes one long play for 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.200 him to have a really nice fantasy game. 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.560 So I'm starting him. I'm starting him because of the 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.480 potential for the ceiling, understanding that the floor has been, 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:29.520 you know, lower than we thought it would be, and 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.439 they've got a tough matchup against that Dallas secondary. Deron 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.800 Bland has been great this year. He's got three pick sixes. 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:39.280 The NFL record for a single season is four, so 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.840 he's still got a handful of games to tie or 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.120 break that record. So I think you stick with DeVonta Smith, 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:46.920 hoping that he gets closer to the ceiling than to 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.920 the floor. Same with Pollard. Look, I know he hasn't 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:54.160 been really efficient in his opportunities this year, but it's 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:55.800 hard to get away from him, just because of the 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.240 potential volume, the fact that he's always on the field. 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.720 He's still getting targets for the most part, he's still 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.400 getting carries. I can't I can't get away from Tony Pollard. 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:06.920 I just I'm hard pressed to believe that people have 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.000 a better option out there sitting on their bench at 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:13.000 this point. Sunday Night Football, the Bills at the Bengals, 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:14.840 I mean, I guess, of course, the last time we 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.400 saw this matchup, we had the really terrible and scary 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.360 moment with Damar Hamlin on Monday Night Football last year. 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.760 So the Bills and Bengals will meet again this season 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:28.280 in Cincinnati. James Cook, sort of like Tony Pollard, has 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.960 not been what we hoped he would be. Is it 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:32.840 time to back away from James Cook? 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.200 James Cook is very much so a it depends on 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:40.160 your options type of player. Now, in his last four games, 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.680 the three without a touchdown, he's scored less than nine 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:45.600 Fantasy points, so more. 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:46.760 Of a low floor. 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.320 Early on in the year, he had looked really good, 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:53.880 was giving you double digits very consistently. But now Leonard 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:57.480 Fournette is there. They clearly for some reason want to 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:01.520 get a bigger back more involved. I watch their games 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.800 and I'm just like, just use James Cook. He is 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.120 getting the job done, He's better than Latavius Murray. And 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.720 they're just like determined to get a big power back 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.120 heavily involved. So to me, James Cook is more of 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.960 a low end RB two or flex option. Now pains 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.400 me to say it, but it solely depends on your options. 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:21.320 I I don't know, Maybe I'm just being too optimistic 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.440 about it right, Like, I can't quit James Cook in 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:28.200 part because it feels like his role itself hasn't really changed. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.880 Now the guys they bring in to sort of give 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.280 him rest have changed. You know. It was Damien Harris 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.680 for a little bit. He's gotten hurt. We see more 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.280 Latavious Murray. Now there's Leonard Fournette there, so we'll see 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.760 how that sort of works in there. But James Cook's 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.640 role has always been James Cook's role. The thing that 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.840 might hurt him more than anything is if Josh Allen 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.840 is really committed to running the football again, because that 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.600 takes away some of those rushing opportunities from Cook. It 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.680 also means a lot of those short targets that he 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:56.960 might have otherwise gotten aren't going to be there because 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.360 Josh Allen's just gonna take off and run with the 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.080 ball a lot of times out of structure. So that 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.200 concerns me a little bit. But in other words, his 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.520 role has sort of been his role. We'd love for 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.920 him to score more touchdowns, but you know, I think 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.560 he is who he kind of has been all season long. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.480 That part hasn't changed. So I think you know, if 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.680 you've been starting him and as long as you've been successful, look, 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.840 if you're losing and you need, if you need to 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:21.680 swing for the fences and try to get a high 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.680 ceiling play, I understand that. But if you're doing okay, 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:26.440 I think you just kind of keep rolling with James 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:28.640 Cook at this point. I know it's disappointing, but you know, 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.440 sometimes life is disappointing. It's a lesson for all of 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:35.240 you out there Monday night football. To wrap things up, 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:39.520 it's the Chargers and the Jets from New Jersey. The 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.240 Chargers got a much needed win last week against the 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:46.040 Chicago Bears. Any worries about some of your Chargers against 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:47.440 a pretty good Jets defense. 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.600 Yeah, I think Justin Herbert is still in play. I 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.320 think that Keenan Allen and Austin Eckler are too good 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.320 to get away from. But like Josh Palmer Quinton Johnston, 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.280 your secondary options there yet you could get away actually, 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:04.040 because Johnson exclusively plays outside and Josh Palmer runs over 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.960 two thirds of his routes outside, which means you're gonna 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:08.960 get a whole lot of who this man dressed up 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.520 as Halloween for and Saft Garden Ohs and DJ Reid 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.920 and the Jets allowed by far, it's like sixteen fantasy 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.600 points per game to opposing wide receivers. Every other team's 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.280 over twenty one. Like it is by far the toughest 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.080 matchup for a receiver. So yeah, you start your studs 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:24.600 and that's it. 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.440 You talk about Sauce Gardner and I went and looked 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:31.159 this up on PFF. He has been targeted on just 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:35.000 eleven percent of his coverage snaps this year. Wide receivers 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.879 against him have caught twenty passes for one hundred and 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:40.800 eighty three yards and I think one touchdown, which I 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.719 was looking at the equivalent if you were looking at 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:48.520 wide receivers who have that number. Braxton Barrios has legend 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:54.240 twenty catches for one hundred and one hundred and ninety 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:58.040 four yards and one touchdown. Braxton Burios is the wide 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:02.879 receiver sixty seven on the year, so Sauce Gardner is 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.399 allowing the equivalent basically of the wide receiver sixty seven 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.359 for the season. DJ Reed has also been very good 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.080 back there. I get it. You're starting Keenan Allen, right, Like, 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:14.960 you're not going to get away from Keenan Allen because 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.879 he's a guy with a high ceiling. But understand that 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:20.040 this is a week that might not be great for 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.480 Keenan Allen. You know, I think you can get away 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:27.040 from Josh Palmer. I'll say this though, I like whoever 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.320 starts it Tighten, whether it's Donald Parham or Gerald Everett. 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.919 I sort of like that player as a sleeper this week, 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.399 so maybe you can start them and feel okay about it. 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.320 You're starting Austin Eckler as well, but the ceilings are 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:42.120 lower for a lot of your chargers this week against 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:47.960 the Jetropolitans. That is the end of the Week nine slates, 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:49.800 but we are not done yet. It's time to see 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:52.960 who will deliver presented by Uber Eats. These are the 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.960 guys who are going to rescue you from a burning 0:18:56.200 --> 0:19:00.240 fantasy building and whisk you off to safety. So who 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:01.560 is your hero for Week nine? 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:04.959 Don't ever call me a homer, because I'm going with 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:09.720 Joe Burrow against my Buffalo Bills. Joe Burrow looked healthy 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:11.400 this past week. Not only did he throw for two 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.440 hundred and eighty three yards and three touchdowns, what really 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:16.760 stood out to me was he ran for forty three yards, 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:19.439 which puts any concern about his calf and that injury 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.280 that was holding back this offense early on, that's all 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.399 behind us now, and then we know that that Joe Burrow, 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:28.080 a fully healthy Burrow, is a top five fantasy quarterback. 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.200 Now he gets the Bills I knew. I know they 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:33.840 added Douglas yesterday, but they still have allowed over nineteen 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:36.720 fantasy points to Mac Jones and Baker Mayfield in back 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:39.399 to back weeks. So, yeah, Joe Burrow is gonna have 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:40.720 a monster week, I think. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.399 Yeah, Joe Burrow looks like Joe Burrow again, and the 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:48.280