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Week four gave us a Monday 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:53.680 night doubleheader, gave us a coaching change in the National 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.040 Football League, and gave us a bunch of points in 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.200 the National Football League, which seems to be the theme 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.320 for the first four weeks in the season. But Week 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.760 four absolutely positively no different. Even on a night where 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.000 offenses weren't necessarily sharp on Monday night football, we still 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.520 got points from teams, right, We still got o our 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:15.600 big performances. And look, Patrick Mahomes gets credited with two 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:20.240 touchdowns that were extended handoffs. All right, gadget plays, but 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.919 they all count just the same. We watched Aaron Rodgers 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.799 move up and down the field. We'll talk about the 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:30.320 hero of the day. Uh, they're a little known tight 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.240 end who becomes a superstar. No DeVante at like the 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.080 star power was out right, No Cam Newton because of 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:40.519 COVID in in one game and then you talk about 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:44.920 the nightcap. Juleo Jones is in and then he's out. 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.480 All the all the stars were on the injury list. 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:52.320 Some made it, some didn't, some didn't finish and it 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.480 just a crazy week. And the Bill O'Brien thing, I 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.280 could do ninety minutes on that standing on my head. 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:02.840 But point scolore and once again, penalties are non existence. 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:06.399 Teams are allowed to have fourteen to twenty play drives 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.120 and we're not seeing the holding calls and other things 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.840 that were used to be setting those those efforts. They 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.000 just keep moving forward. It's kind of fun to watch, 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.680 but frustrating as hell. If you're a former player, I'm 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:20.760 sure going you know what they used to call hold. 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.080 They gotta play like that. I lost touchdown after touchdown 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:29.280 and opportunities and you know, blood pressure checks. B O 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.720 B is b y E out of Houston. We will 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.959 get into that, but I do have to say this? 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:39.800 Someone on this show recommended playing Robert Tonyan on our 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.560 last episode and with the week that I had, I 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:47.200 know it's sure's heck, wasn't me you on this episode 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.680 or on this podcast in our last episode, episode eight 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.400 leading into into week four with the majority of the 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:57.000 games outside of the Thursday Night contest, you said get 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:02.640 Robert Tonyan, and Robert Tonyan came through big time for 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.320 the green Bay Packers. And if you listen to Mike, Uh, 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.200 congratulations to you. But why were you high on Tanyan coming? 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.160 And just for the lack of Green Bay receivers or 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:17.000 what gave you the Robert Tonyan bug? I think the 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:21.080 two factors right, receivers hurt the core injury to Lazard 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.800 at Davante Adams being a game time decision. As we know, 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.440 he took his shot at the training staff on Twitter 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:31.080 on Monday morning uh and quickly deleted said tweet. But 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.479 Tanya had scored back to back weeks for all of 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.360 the attempts down field, and Rogers has pushed the ball 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.760 down field a little more than we have seen the 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:44.039 last couple of years. The running backs and tight ends 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.040 have been the focal point right. I mean, Davante Adams 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.919 is always gonna grab his fifteen targets when he's on 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.159 the field, but when it comes to the red zone, 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:57.320 and certainly tonight with the injuries, you've just seen the 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.800 running backs and tight end play a huge role. And 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.560 for Tanyan, could you expect six and three? Hell no, 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.520 this is a guy that at Indiana State Dan they 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.720 couldn't have a pro day because he's the only guy. 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.359 So he went up to Northwestern. It was training with 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.200 the Northwestern guys for on their pro day. I kid 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.760 you on. I was a bunch of Chicago writers had 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.280 written about it at the time, and those articles were 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.760 popping up, and then a bunch of the scribes in 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.400 real time going I just remember looking at him like 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.159 he didn't fit in right, he was just all right, 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.040 what's he doing? Who is this guy? And sure enough 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.320 there he is a star on Monday Night Football? And 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:37.080 now George his friendship with George Kittle was made mentioned 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.839 on the broadcast as well, and he put up Kiddle 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.919 like numbers in week four. One other point from Monday 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.080 Night and then then we'll move on to to what's 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.080 happening in the National Football League in the loss. We 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:51.880 know the Patriots obviously Brian Hoyer was atrocious, especially with 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:53.680 the decision making on the sack at the end of 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.320 the first half, and a lot of stuff, and they 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.400 moved to Jared'stidham. The question is, and it has been 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.440 for the last one of years and in fantasy football, 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:06.240 is that Patriots backfield Sony Michelle not playing? You know, 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.880 Rex burkehead at the big game a week ago, in 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.919 a week three, but now it's Damian Harris? Is it 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:16.760 still buyers buyer beware when it comes to Damian Harris 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.159 now with the New England backfield, because as a buyer 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.320 that just not only is the last name, but someone 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.400 who's also looking for a running back in one of 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:28.160 my fantasy leagues. I still just have buyers beware when 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.920 it comes to New England Patriots. And I'm not necessarily 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.320 buying Damien Harris just yet. No, that's it. Seventeen for 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:38.760 a hundred owned in thirty one of leagues as of 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:42.520 now before the next waiver period finishes. But you got 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.200 James White came back right after his absence. Only three 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:50.159 carries but seven catches out of the backfield, so you 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.640 know he's going to leach off whatever it is eight 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.320 five touches depending on game script and how it's flowing. 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:01.000 And then Sony Michelle comes back. You look, even tonight, 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.400 Rex Burkheads still had eleven carries, right, They still true 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.799 to the run games. So should he be rostered? Sure, 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.280 if your bench is deeper and you're playing with multiple 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.120 I R and COVID spots and all these other things, 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:19.119 because this is this year has really changed how people 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.920 are adjusting roster's right, it's not just bench spots. You're 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.360 seeing I L, I R whatever it's designated, depending on 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.360 your service. That you could slide a guy in there 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.200 if he's declared out for a game and go pick 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:35.360 up someone on waivers, which is former fantasy baseball thing 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:39.200 now come to football. So if you can roster Harris 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.240 and just play defense and see how it shakes out, 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.240 then cool. But otherwise I'm with you. The New England 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.000 backfields one, I don't want to have a lot of 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:51.520 person and especially with Cam Newton whenever he does come 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.960 back from the COVID nineteen, there's also another person that's 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:58.520 taking up the rushing opportunities to goline carries to have 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.360 any value. So as great at a night as Damien 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.680 Harris needs. Even if you're desperate for a running back, 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.520 I'm not sure that's where you need to go. I 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.640 do love week four in the NFL and Week five 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.440 in the National Football League, and I love it in 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:14.400 fantasy football because this is the time to get cooking. Now. 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.480 We have a trade deadline in our league. It doesn't 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:20.040 come up until week twelve of our fantasy season, but Mike, 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.680 I know that there are owners that will want to 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.000 do a trade, their owners after the draft is done, 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:28.080 that will send out trade proposals like they're just NonStop. 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.760 People love to trade, but for the people who are 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.520 maybe apprehensive in doing so. And I don't mind that. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.760 I don't like to do trades in the first two 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.560 or three weeks unless absolutely have to or really just 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.439 get a sense that, boy I I really messed up 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:43.720 this draft. I like to see how the team plays 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.120 out and week four, if you're one in three, you're 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.360 not out of it. And so I just think at 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.440 this point in the season, over these next two or 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:55.040 three days, try to make a deal. Try to make 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.600 a trade, Try to find out the value if somebody has, 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.760 you know, got a bunch of wide receivers that they're looking, 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.280 you know, to to maybe uh add another running back. 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.640 I'm always high in trying to get running backs more 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:08.840 so than wide receivers. But look for deals out there. 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.199 This is the absolute prime time to do it before 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.680 a trade deadline, because now you're enough into the season 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:18.680 to not be married to your draft and it's still 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.560 early enough, I think to get get in on some 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.400 guys that maybe have potential for the rest of the season. 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.560 So I love this time of year in fantasy. No, 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.960 it's it is. It is the best right because now 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.559 you're you're recognizing what teams are right. You come in 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.920 blind to it, and you know the thing we always say, hope, 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.840 I grab it out of Shawshank redemption. Right. They use 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.880 hope in two ways. Hopes the best of things, run 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.920 night and move forward whatever, And then you've got red 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:49.200 Saying hopes a dangerous thing because you know, you make 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:54.040 bad decisions sometimes on either either end of the spectrum. 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.040 But you know, after four weeks we know who these 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.520 teams are, at least most of them. I think there's 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.440 still a handful that you put into a bucket going 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:04.480 I really don't know which way this is gonna go. 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:08.559 But for the most part, we know Dallas defense is bad. Right, 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:13.080 nobody's walking through that door. I keep suggesting, at son 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.559 of bum uh, let's get Wade Phillips back in the mix. 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:20.600 See if he cobblesome magic there. But in terms of 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.080 free agent players, and we see a couple of guys 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:28.080 that are potentially going to get signed, are they difference makers? No? Right, 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.600 so you know they're going to continue to throw the ball. 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.360 So if you're an Ezekiel Elliott owner, I'm sorry, it's 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.280 gonna be a long year for you. They're gonna be 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:39.280 the ball a ton, right, But you have certain other circumstances. Right, 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.839 Carson Wentz gets a big win over San Francisco, they 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:46.040 still have all their division games to go, and I 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.240 guarantee whoever drafted him in their lead in your league 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.920 hates him hates him right now, even with back to 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.800 back solid efforts. So I mean there's certain players just 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.480 from a schedule watching perspective, you do a little bit 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.960 of the due diligence, Maybe you can get a nice 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.960 by low opportunity, but sitting in standing pat forget about it. 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:08.600 Your trash someone else may find as gold. And if 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.200 you can build a case for them, get after it, 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:16.920 practice your sales skills. Yeah, I I you mentioned Ezekiel Elliott. 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.760 I think it's a great point because on Fox Sports 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.400 Radio on Sunday in the Red Zones show that I 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.480 do with George Rice Stir five o'clock Eastern time to Pacific, 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.439 just a little plug there, we had Darryl Johnston on 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.800 Moose Johnston and he was on the call of the 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:35.440 Cowboys Browns game and basically just said that his team 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.680 doesn't run through Zeke anymore and that this team runs 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:42.640 through Dak Prescott and you know Zeke and people are 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:44.720 just gonna have to realize that that is the case. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:48.040 So if you are at Ezekiel Elliott owner, I'm not 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:49.880 saying give up on him, Mike, just because of a 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.400 certain value of running backs, but that is a name 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.320 that could probably get you a pretty good haul and 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.320 get you some other maybe running backs that aren't as 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:02.320 flashy name wise, but could give you similar to maybe 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.360 even better production than what you could get from the 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.960 Cowboys running back. Yeah. I think that there's this is 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.040 one of those opportunities. Right look at the guy in 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:14.480 your league who's got the handcuff to another back right, 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.120 that maybe is worth a price shot for later on 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.160 in the season, and you can upgrade your receiving cores 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:24.000 or your quarterback position because the name value and the history. Right, 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:28.160 just flash the numbers and you'll say, over time it 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.960 will come, will it? I don't know, but again playing 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.920 that same thing as I mentioned with wins, perhaps once 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.600 you get into division that division stinks, uh, you may 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:42.160 have some opportunities, you know whereby they can get back 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.880 to that script because uh something Jason Smith and I 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.400 talked about quite a bit on our Monday show coming 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.680 out a week four uh seven to eleven Pacific, Fox 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.959 Sports Radio, the I Heart Radio app series, XM Channel A, 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.920 D three and four D plus affiliates nationwide, and the 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.199 Voice in your head. But one of the things as 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:04.120 the impressiveness by which, whether you buy or don't, what 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.640 Cleveland's doing their three and one right and their identity 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.080 right now is to run the ball and not let 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:14.920 Baker Mayfield screw it up for Dallas. While you want 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.320 to use the wide receivers you have, and it's a 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:21.720 great stable add waiver wire guy ind Schultz off your 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:25.000 fantasy world, it would behoove them to run the football 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.880 again to keep that defense off the damn field seeing 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.480 how terrible they're Do you want to keep playing forty 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:36.240 five thirty eight games or thirty eight like you were this, No, 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:37.920 that's not how you want to win or try to 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.760 win football games. So the only way to do that. 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.920 And then even if you do hire a new defensive consultant, uh, 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.920 he can't play the games. So maybe they flipped the 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:51.080 script a little of how they how they will run 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.920 their offense going forward. But for the short term, you've 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.480 got four four games worth of data to start making 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:01.800 those trades. I like the way you think. Get out there. Yeah, 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:03.959 you got to swing a deal. Did you just try 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.760 to one up my plug with your plug of the 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:10.560 Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon because you added you 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.360 added the channels where they could hear it. I just 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.760 gave the times to my show, so you kind of 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.200 like you kind of cranked it up a notch. It well, 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.080 but it helps both of us because she can be 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.200 heard out of the same venues for those out of wares. 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:27.120 We're both Fox Sports radio people. But but it was 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.160 it was a discussion we'd had before the season when 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:34.000 the Browns had brought back Kareem Hunt, right, and they 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.040 signed him to that deal. Was all right, there's a 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.600 shifting here if they're going to invest that much. Not 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.920 that Nick Chubb's making a ton of money still on 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.440 his rookie deal, but the idea that you now have 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:49.160 both those backs. 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On the same day he 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.640 announced that he was going to take over the play calling, 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.960 which is still get You still get to do that, 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:17.760 which is so awesome. What you know, what always annoyed 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.159 me about Bill O'Brien. You wanna you wanna know what 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:23.680 annoyed me? And it's not the chin, It's not that, 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:28.520 It's not the arrogance or how he would answer certain questions. 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:32.800 What annoyed me about Bill O'Brien was he always wore 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:36.720 a black Texans hat and their colors were navy, and 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.359 I didn't know, I couldn't find out. Maybe like sometimes 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:41.919 you do it for a cause you're trying to, you know, 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:45.720 bring recognition to something. But it always annoyed me that 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.080 he would wear that black cat because there was no 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:51.960 black in the Texans uniform or color scheme, and it 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:55.720 just was so annoying because black and navy also just 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.520 don't work. Maybe a different type of Navy, but the 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.360 Navy that the Texans had. So I'm glad I don't 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.240 get to see the black hat again. But I don't 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.240 know how different we're gonna see the Texans with even 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:10.520 Bill O'Brien not being there. I don't know if they'll 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.120 play looser. I don't think that, because honestly, I don't 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.240 think that they were trying to say Bill O'Brien's job. 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:17.800 Maybe just having him out of the building could free 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:19.840 stuff up, but I don't even think that that's it. 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:21.600 I think we're just gonna get more of the same, 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:25.880 and unfortunately that's not good news for the Houston Texans. Yeah, 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:29.320 I mean, Deshaun Watson right now is still a QB 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:32.679 one for fantasy purposes through the first quarter of the season, 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.200 which is pretty impressive since he doesn't have a damn 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:38.240 guy to throw to right the on on again, off 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:41.879 again love affair that fantasy owners and the media have 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:45.680 with Will Fuller until I see him play a full 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:49.159 quarter of a season healthy and not a he's on 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:51.880 the sideline for this series because of a hammy or 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:55.480 all of these things. Look, I'm sorry the guy gets hurt. 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:59.080 It's no disrespect to him. It's just reality. It's like that. 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:03.399 We always talk availability being your best ability, right, Deshaun 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:08.080 Watson's gotten nothing of talent, of consistency. Randall Cobb. They 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:11.320 paid a king's ransom to come in Johnson and Johnson 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:16.080 in the backfield. Are you kidding me? No, it's yeah. 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:21.600 Brendan Cooks three target zero catches against the Vikings. Yeah. 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:24.200 And the Willfuller thing, it's funny because you didn't mention 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:27.120 him as one of your uh A guy to play at. 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:30.240 Will Fuller cashed in six catches and eight yards and 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.040 a touchdown. But it was also what he popped up 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:35.360 on the injury list on Thursday. So when when you're 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:38.280 talking about it was cleared on Friday and taking off 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:40.720 the injury list. But when you're trying to figure out 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:42.679 how to fill out your lineup and you have that 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.760 sort of history, yeah, it's right there. There's just there's 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:48.280 not much in Houston. Here's the sad thing about it 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:50.920 on a personal level for me, is I picked a 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.920 Shawn Watson to be the m v P, and I 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:57.240 was considering between three guys Watson, Murray, and Russell Wilson. 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:00.160 And I thought that if the Texans had any sort 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:03.680 of success because of the lack of talent around him. 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:07.000 Like this is such a backwards uh way of thinking, 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:11.840 but that Watson would be elevated where you would say, wow, 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:14.199 look at what Houston has done. They didn't even have 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:17.879 DeAndre Hopkins anymore, and here they are ten and six 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:20.520 winning the a f C South. What I should have 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:24.560 said is they've got nothing around him. It's not gonna 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:26.480 work out in Houston, because that's what's happened through the 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:28.320 first four weeks of the season. And now Bill O'Brien 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:30.239 doesn't have a job. Yeah, I mean, and when we 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:32.639 when we break it down, right, the schedule makers didn't 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.520 do them any favors. Right, This is the Big ten 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:40.199 Nebraska equivalent for the national Right, Hey, you want to 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:43.119 leave Blake here, here's your schedule. Same thing here with 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:46.320 the with the Texas. Obviously you win the division, your 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:48.440 schedule is gonna be harder. But they gave them a 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:51.720 murderers row in the first four weeks, right, Not that 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:55.280 Minnesota has been world beating to this point, but they 0:21:55.359 --> 0:22:00.200 came in with expectations. Yeah, right, and can still put 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:03.320 up some points defensively. They still have their issues. But 0:22:03.680 --> 0:22:07.000 for the first four weeks. I don't know. You probably 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:11.000 go strength the schedule who's had it harder than they have, right, 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:15.399 But personnel wise, I mean, they certainly don't have the 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:19.160 horses to get that done either. Uh And and we've 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:22.480 talked about that that schedule a bunch of times on 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:26.000 this podcast. And the only issue that I will bring 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:29.440 up to say that I think is indefensible is there 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:32.960 was never a game where they play Texans football Like, 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:35.480 there's never a game where you're like, okay, they've got 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:38.680 things rolling, maybe a little bit in that Pittsburgh game 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:42.200 where it's like, okay, this is but they seem to 0:22:42.280 --> 0:22:44.919 be from behind from Kansas City. They seem to be 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:47.440 playing catch up against the Vikings on Sunday. They were 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:50.280 never in the game against the Ravens. There was never 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:53.280 that point where, at any point, and this was a 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:55.560 team that I thought was gonna win the a f 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:58.399 C South, that even with that murderer's role, there was 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:01.240 never a point where they were able to put their 0:23:01.280 --> 0:23:04.320 stamping on anything. And that just tells me that they 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:06.720 just aren't at the caliber of those teams. Well, we've 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:10.760 we saw it. Gutted Trader, Bill had made his mark right, 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:14.480 and even going forward, Miami's got a bunch of their 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:17.880 picks going forward, so the Cavalry is not walking through 0:23:17.880 --> 0:23:21.760 that door, right. Bill O'Brien had already made his his 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:26.000 mark as GM. Uh, and it's a disaster. So we'll 0:23:26.040 --> 0:23:28.560 be you'd be curious to see what the next generation is. 0:23:28.680 --> 0:23:31.280 I'm just feeling bad for Deshaun Watson, but by the 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:34.320 same token, between him, Tunsil and j J. Watt, you've 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:37.320 got three guys making a ton of cash that's really 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:40.199 not gonna help you rebuild this roster whomever comes in 0:23:40.320 --> 0:23:45.800 as GM next, you've got Jacksonville coming in next week, 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:51.359 and then you've got the Titans and Packers, so you 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:54.959 better get that win against Jacksonville because it could uh, 0:23:55.080 --> 0:23:57.760 it could be getting worse. The rest of the schedule 0:23:57.840 --> 0:24:00.280 does lighten up a little bit where you you do 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:03.640 have the Lions on your schedule. But point being, well, 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:06.879 we'll talk. If we talk Texans Lions, it's gonna be 0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:08.800 one heck of a podcast, I'll tell you that much. 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:11.320 All right, let's talk about the two big injuries that 0:24:11.480 --> 0:24:15.080 happened in the National Football League. We're gonna talk Austin 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:17.840 Ekeler first, because this was a guy that was a 0:24:17.960 --> 0:24:21.720 high draft pick and now out four to six weeks. 0:24:21.720 --> 0:24:24.679 Because in the hamstring with the Chargers, how does that 0:24:24.720 --> 0:24:26.920 trickle down in the Bolts back field? What does it 0:24:27.000 --> 0:24:30.280 do for everybody else? Justin Herbert Keenan Allen and those guys. 0:24:30.680 --> 0:24:33.159 But Austin Ekeler not going to be around for Anthony 0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:35.840 Lynn squad. Well, the hardest part is still determining what 0:24:36.240 --> 0:24:39.720 what Anthony Lynn is gonna do with the quarterback position. Right, 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:43.280 that's a side issue, but it certainly informs a lot 0:24:43.320 --> 0:24:45.880 of the performances that we see in that receiving corps 0:24:46.119 --> 0:24:49.760 because remember Mike Williams hasn't been available either. But for 0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:53.280 Austin Ekeler to go down just awful. Uh, Fantasy owners 0:24:53.320 --> 0:24:56.600 really bet him big. I didn't think he'd hold up 0:24:56.640 --> 0:25:01.440 over a full season. Uh, hamstring injury, you know, obviously 0:25:01.480 --> 0:25:04.720 something you can't quite predict, and it's severe enough that 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:09.200 we're talking missing some games. So Joshua Kelly already on 0:25:09.320 --> 0:25:12.399 about half of fantasy rosters. He'll be a hot waiver 0:25:12.480 --> 0:25:16.359 wire pick up. My guy Justin Jackson from Northwestern gets 0:25:16.400 --> 0:25:19.720 back in the mix some Uh So I would say 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:22.960 probably sixty forty would be my guests off the jump, 0:25:23.320 --> 0:25:27.760 maybe seventy thirty. Because Jackson had some injury issues coming 0:25:27.800 --> 0:25:29.600 into the year, maybe they don't want to give him 0:25:29.600 --> 0:25:31.960 a huge role. But I think a lot of it 0:25:31.960 --> 0:25:34.399 will be informed by what Anthony Lynn wants to do 0:25:34.480 --> 0:25:37.520 at QB. Right, is he still married to the idea 0:25:37.640 --> 0:25:41.400 that because of the injury to to Rod Taylor, that 0:25:42.000 --> 0:25:45.000 he's got to give him another shot when he's healthy, 0:25:45.160 --> 0:25:49.560 because that's gonna change Keenan Allen value, Hunter Henry's value 0:25:49.560 --> 0:25:52.080 and what that passing game is. Not to mention the 0:25:52.160 --> 0:25:54.280 run game, I think right you'll see a little more 0:25:54.680 --> 0:25:58.000 of a bonus for them because they'll want to run 0:25:58.040 --> 0:26:00.560 the ball and play defense and not necessarily pushed down 0:26:00.600 --> 0:26:03.480 field with to Rod Taylor, whereas justin Herbert, as we 0:26:03.520 --> 0:26:06.840 saw with a couple of beautiful deep strikes. I mean, 0:26:06.880 --> 0:26:09.439 that kid's got an arm and he's not afraid to 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:12.520 use it and winging around for better or for worse. Right, 0:26:12.560 --> 0:26:14.520 that's gonna that comes back to bite you in the 0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:18.159 ass as a ruggie too. But at least that willingness 0:26:18.200 --> 0:26:20.439 to push down field, I don't know that that's the 0:26:20.480 --> 0:26:23.400 game Anthony Lynn was looking to call, but it's at 0:26:23.440 --> 0:26:28.280 his disposal, so long as Herbert's there. I thought it interesting. 0:26:28.280 --> 0:26:31.399 Bruce Harrians even made a point of saying after the 0:26:31.440 --> 0:26:36.040 game that he spoke with Anthony Land and just basically said, 0:26:36.119 --> 0:26:38.800 you got you gotta you got a kid there with 0:26:38.800 --> 0:26:43.320 with Justin and Herbert making a Patrick Mahomes like throw, 0:26:43.400 --> 0:26:45.440 and then Arians talked about it in the post game. 0:26:45.520 --> 0:26:48.240 So there's I know that Anthony Lynn addressed the issue 0:26:48.240 --> 0:26:51.320 on Monday when he talked with the media. There's you know, 0:26:51.359 --> 0:26:53.920 if I'm Keenan Allen and those guys, I'm in coach's 0:26:53.960 --> 0:26:56.600 office being like, all right, we love to Rod and everything, 0:26:56.680 --> 0:26:59.360 but let's stick with the rook I think more damage 0:26:59.440 --> 0:27:05.240 can be on by allowing to Rod Taylor to come 0:27:05.240 --> 0:27:08.879 back and take the starting job. More damage can be 0:27:08.880 --> 0:27:11.879 done to Justin Herbert than the positive that can be 0:27:12.000 --> 0:27:14.840 gained by starting to Rod Taylor. And that's I think 0:27:14.840 --> 0:27:17.160 what you have to weigh if you're the Chargers in 0:27:17.280 --> 0:27:21.560 their situation. I just I mean, it's without Austin Ekeler there, 0:27:21.720 --> 0:27:25.119 you know, with the with the triple J backfield that 0:27:25.160 --> 0:27:29.080 you basically have now with with the Justin Jackson and 0:27:29.160 --> 0:27:35.120 Joshua Kelly and now Justin Herbert Um. Yeah, the Chargers 0:27:35.160 --> 0:27:37.520 were the perfect team that were, as I said, sixteen 0:27:37.520 --> 0:27:39.280 to twenty points a week, and I think that's probably 0:27:39.280 --> 0:27:40.960 gonna be this the way that it goes out. I 0:27:40.960 --> 0:27:43.480 don't see too many thirty one games like that against 0:27:43.480 --> 0:27:45.679 the Buccaneers. Well, and let's call it what it is. 0:27:45.920 --> 0:27:48.960 As it stands, they've got a laundry list of injuries 0:27:49.040 --> 0:27:52.720 to key personnel as well. Right, offensive line is really 0:27:52.760 --> 0:27:58.600 banged up, and we look defensively, you've already right bouncing 0:27:58.720 --> 0:28:02.560 missing is ments and then you had what both tackles 0:28:02.560 --> 0:28:06.159 were banged up this week, right, And then defensively, well, 0:28:06.280 --> 0:28:10.439 Derwin James isn't there, uh, and Ingram isn't there. So 0:28:10.480 --> 0:28:12.840 I mean, you're missing a couple of your top playmakers. 0:28:12.840 --> 0:28:15.720 So you're probably gonna be needing to push the ball 0:28:15.760 --> 0:28:17.600 a little more than maybe you would have liked to 0:28:17.720 --> 0:28:20.720 on your script, right, because you're not gonna be able 0:28:20.760 --> 0:28:23.240 to control as many because you don't have the the 0:28:23.480 --> 0:28:26.520 killer safety coming up to stop the run game and 0:28:26.560 --> 0:28:29.440 everything else like Derwin James was able to. So you're 0:28:29.440 --> 0:28:32.639 gonna get yourself probably into more of these shootouts, and 0:28:32.680 --> 0:28:35.440 I don't know that Torod Taylor's equipped to be that 0:28:35.480 --> 0:28:39.160 guy in those spots. I like him, but when the 0:28:39.200 --> 0:28:42.560 strongest thing is you know, he he doesn't turn the 0:28:42.560 --> 0:28:46.960 ball over and he calls a good game under center. Okay, 0:28:47.000 --> 0:28:48.920 what does that mean? Like, if you're down, is he 0:28:49.040 --> 0:28:51.920 the guy to quarterback you're back in. I don't think 0:28:51.920 --> 0:28:53.640 he's the guy to do it right. If your defense 0:28:53.720 --> 0:28:56.520 isn't up to the task and the pass rushers aren't 0:28:56.520 --> 0:29:00.600 getting home and you're down, we atle saw from the 0:29:00.680 --> 0:29:04.680 kid he's gonna keep winging it and you know there 0:29:04.720 --> 0:29:07.320 there's bad habits that can be formed there, but also 0:29:07.360 --> 0:29:09.760 a lot of confidence about being able to play in 0:29:09.800 --> 0:29:13.120 this league. Let's get into the Browns just a little 0:29:13.120 --> 0:29:15.080 bit more than that we did earlier because of the 0:29:15.160 --> 0:29:18.960 Nick Chubb injury. He's now out six weeks expected because 0:29:19.000 --> 0:29:23.200 of the calf strain. You mentioned Kareem Hunt taking over 0:29:23.400 --> 0:29:27.320 the the the rushing load, but it wasn't Nick Chubb 0:29:27.400 --> 0:29:30.080 and it wasn't Kareem Hunt that actually led the team 0:29:30.200 --> 0:29:35.000 in rushing on Sunday. It was de Ernist Johnson. So 0:29:35.240 --> 0:29:37.520 so the the brown still didn't miss it. Beat with 0:29:37.560 --> 0:29:40.560 all of their stars. And I'm not saying I'm not 0:29:40.640 --> 0:29:43.960 trying to make fun of de artist Johnson's effort because 0:29:44.000 --> 0:29:47.720 it was thirteen carries ninety five yards for for Cleveland, 0:29:47.760 --> 0:29:52.040 but without Nick Chubb it seems to be the Kareem 0:29:52.120 --> 0:29:54.640 Hunt show. Is the Ernest Johnson a guy that you're 0:29:54.640 --> 0:29:56.800 gonna be looking at the pickup? How do things shape 0:29:56.800 --> 0:29:59.880 out of Cleveland now with Chubb on the bench. Damn right, 0:30:00.040 --> 0:30:02.960 Let's go Dernis Johnson because it's gonna be a workload split. 0:30:03.160 --> 0:30:05.840 And I don't think Kareem Hunt because right now you 0:30:05.880 --> 0:30:08.680 can't expose him, not to say that he won't have 0:30:08.720 --> 0:30:12.280 a game or two where he's in that touch category. 0:30:12.440 --> 0:30:15.840 But I think, you know, if if my read on 0:30:15.880 --> 0:30:19.800 this is right of the identity and not wanting Mayfield 0:30:20.520 --> 0:30:23.000 half ass winging it around as he was wont to 0:30:23.000 --> 0:30:26.240 do a year ago, then they stick to this plan. 0:30:27.080 --> 0:30:30.959 And whether Dernis Johnson can do this consistently, I don't know. 0:30:31.560 --> 0:30:37.200 I uh is a pretty pretty strong effort. We take 0:30:37.200 --> 0:30:39.200 it with a grain assault because it's the Cowboys, and 0:30:39.240 --> 0:30:42.800 we know how bad UH and sieve like that defense 0:30:42.920 --> 0:30:46.760 can has been. But I think the identity is to 0:30:46.840 --> 0:30:51.840 run the football and control clock, and I mean defensive backfield. 0:30:51.840 --> 0:30:54.320 They haven't been able to get healthy yet, so that's 0:30:54.360 --> 0:30:56.480 that's certainly something to hang a star on, which is 0:30:56.480 --> 0:30:59.840 why Dak Prescott, once they actually started connecting, was able 0:30:59.880 --> 0:31:02.400 to make Hey, the front part of their defense has 0:31:02.440 --> 0:31:06.320 been solid, but the back end struggles. And while that's 0:31:06.480 --> 0:31:10.120 still in effect, keep that defense off the field as 0:31:10.160 --> 0:31:12.480 best you can. Go to the ground game. So I'll 0:31:12.480 --> 0:31:15.520 pick up Johnson and you know he may only be flexworthy. 0:31:15.600 --> 0:31:18.200 And again it's a defensive play. With Nick Chubb down 0:31:18.360 --> 0:31:21.320 six weeks and Kareem Hunt came into the game being 0:31:21.360 --> 0:31:24.440 on the injury list, you know the next man up. 0:31:24.720 --> 0:31:27.640 And this goes back to our handcuffing strategy from before 0:31:27.680 --> 0:31:30.520 the season, right in addition to trade, this is where 0:31:30.560 --> 0:31:33.000 you start looking around to say, all right, which of 0:31:33.040 --> 0:31:34.960 the backups, even if they haven't gotten a ton of 0:31:34.960 --> 0:31:37.680 work yet, are still unowned and do I have an 0:31:37.680 --> 0:31:40.280 opportunity to add them to the my bench because of 0:31:40.320 --> 0:31:43.640 the I L spots being added, so I can play 0:31:43.680 --> 0:31:48.360 defense that way. The Browns, I am, I I am 0:31:48.400 --> 0:31:52.160 not with you, I am about eight with you. I'm 0:31:52.200 --> 0:31:54.320 kind of just like at two o'clock while you're at noon. 0:31:54.840 --> 0:31:56.920 I agreed, like at the start of the season, you 0:31:57.040 --> 0:31:59.000 run the ball with with Chubb and you run the 0:31:59.000 --> 0:32:01.840 ball with Creme hunting that your best way of success, 0:32:02.280 --> 0:32:05.960 and you want to limit Baker Mayfield's mistakes that that 0:32:06.040 --> 0:32:09.920 he can make. I find it interesting and this is 0:32:10.120 --> 0:32:13.560 the best part about what Sunday was was that Kevin 0:32:13.600 --> 0:32:17.680 Stefanski took the pressure off of Baker Mayfield and still 0:32:17.680 --> 0:32:20.000 find a way to get the ball to Odell Beckham Jr. 0:32:20.560 --> 0:32:23.880 Because the force feeding of O. B J. Last season 0:32:24.040 --> 0:32:26.480 is what I think did Baker Mayfield in and even 0:32:26.520 --> 0:32:28.320 at the start of this season because of all of 0:32:28.360 --> 0:32:30.840 the weapons that they do have with Jervis Landry, with 0:32:30.880 --> 0:32:33.840 Austin Hooper, to be able to run a play where 0:32:33.880 --> 0:32:36.720 Jervis Landry throws a touchdown pass too too oh b J. 0:32:37.160 --> 0:32:39.040 To have that sort of thing, to run an end 0:32:39.040 --> 0:32:42.800 around with him, none of that was you know, really Baker. 0:32:43.040 --> 0:32:45.160 You know Baker's doing in that aspect, and so that 0:32:45.240 --> 0:32:47.800 was That's what I thought was brilliant about it was 0:32:47.920 --> 0:32:50.920 they were still able to take the pressure off of 0:32:50.920 --> 0:32:53.560 Baker but still get the ball in Odell Beckham Jr's hands, 0:32:53.600 --> 0:32:58.040 and that is a huge positive sign feeding everybody, making 0:32:58.080 --> 0:33:00.520 them feel a part with Baker not having any pressure. 0:33:00.720 --> 0:33:05.480 So that's a good forward for you. And I mean 0:33:05.800 --> 0:33:09.680 the years we've done the Fantasy Show and myriad you 0:33:09.720 --> 0:33:14.040 know spots on Fox Sports Radio chopping up football. I mean, 0:33:14.040 --> 0:33:17.120 how many quarterbacks have we talked about and the struggles 0:33:17.120 --> 0:33:20.800 of having to force feed a singular receiver right to 0:33:20.880 --> 0:33:22.840 where you get my opic? I mean, look at what 0:33:22.920 --> 0:33:25.479 happened in Detroit all those years with Calvin Johnson, as 0:33:25.520 --> 0:33:28.560 great as he was. Should Matthew Stafford have been looking 0:33:28.600 --> 0:33:31.920 somewhere else? Sure? Should Jake Cutler have been looking somewhere 0:33:31.960 --> 0:33:36.400 more than Brandon Marshall. Yes, not that they had receivers 0:33:36.480 --> 0:33:39.680 anywhere near that talent level, but with the amount of 0:33:39.680 --> 0:33:43.320 attention that the number one was getting, go somewhere else. 0:33:43.600 --> 0:33:47.600 But that myopia ended up becoming problematic for both of 0:33:47.600 --> 0:33:50.240 those guys in terms of locker room and wins and 0:33:50.320 --> 0:33:54.400 losses and everything else. And the media you know, feasted 0:33:54.920 --> 0:33:57.360 on both of them through the years. And we could 0:33:57.360 --> 0:33:59.560 go through there's a ton of other examples. I take 0:34:00.280 --> 0:34:04.360 NFC North because well, I painfully watch all those games 0:34:04.640 --> 0:34:08.879 uh and the Chicago fandom is on my sleeve. 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See what's going on. 0:36:22.680 --> 0:36:25.320 It's Nick Lash, Daryl Hall, and this is John Oates 0:36:25.520 --> 0:36:31.120 see is snook Deagle double gene rack them, we rack up. 0:36:31.400 --> 0:36:36.960 It's celebrity selections, alright, our celebrity selections four weeks four 0:36:37.400 --> 0:36:39.680 and a guy with a lot of hardware. Some of 0:36:39.719 --> 0:36:44.560 that hardware is a Heisman Trophy, Trophy Wommer winner, former 0:36:44.600 --> 0:36:47.280 first round pick of the New York Giants. College Football 0:36:47.320 --> 0:36:50.879 Hall of Famer Ron Dane was our celebrity picker four 0:36:50.960 --> 0:36:55.560 week four. Ron went with Patrick Mahomes Jonathan Taylor. That 0:36:55.680 --> 0:36:57.600 seemed to be a match made in heaven. Both went 0:36:57.640 --> 0:37:00.759 to Wisconsin, both guys from Jersey, and then and then 0:37:00.800 --> 0:37:02.800 he went Julio Jones who had the question mark with 0:37:02.840 --> 0:37:06.160 a hamstring. It was a tough go for Mahomes didn't 0:37:06.160 --> 0:37:08.800 even have the Mahomes like game against the Patriots to 0:37:09.080 --> 0:37:11.960 thirty six two touchdowns and did have twenty eight yards rushing, 0:37:12.440 --> 0:37:15.800 Jonathan Taylor just sixty eight yards on the ground, added 0:37:15.840 --> 0:37:20.680 another eleven receiving, and then you had Julio Jones with 0:37:20.760 --> 0:37:23.799 the four catch thirty two yard performance but had to 0:37:23.880 --> 0:37:26.640 leave against the Green Bay Packers. So it was a 0:37:26.840 --> 0:37:30.680 quiet week for Ron Dane in our standings and right now, 0:37:30.800 --> 0:37:35.759 unfortunately for Ron is in last place at thirty six 0:37:35.840 --> 0:37:39.640 point nine behind a thirty some points, just under thirty 0:37:39.760 --> 0:37:44.120 points behind Josephine Scriber, who remains in first place with 0:37:44.320 --> 0:37:49.160 sixty five point five points. Top performance tough week. Talk 0:37:49.200 --> 0:37:52.560 about the Mahomes touchdowns that in my book, they don't count. 0:37:52.560 --> 0:37:55.000 Those are handoffs. Just because it went in the air 0:37:55.080 --> 0:38:00.000 for point four seconds doesn't count. But the Julio Joe 0:38:00.000 --> 0:38:02.920 One's injury certainly huge. We we talked about Monday Night 0:38:02.920 --> 0:38:05.680 Football before. I'd be remiss if we didn't at least 0:38:05.680 --> 0:38:09.279 mention that Calvin Ridley got shut out right nice play 0:38:09.360 --> 0:38:12.000 by Amos in the in the end zone to keep 0:38:12.040 --> 0:38:15.440 him from at least getting a saver touchdown towards the end. 0:38:15.520 --> 0:38:18.320 Three targets on the first series and then very quiet 0:38:18.680 --> 0:38:21.319 until the end and we'll almost had the touchdown, but 0:38:21.480 --> 0:38:24.960 Ryan was a beat too slow and getting the ball. 0:38:25.000 --> 0:38:28.120 They're allowing Amos to recover. But for Ron Dane, just 0:38:28.160 --> 0:38:30.640 a tough go. The Bears defense did a good job 0:38:31.320 --> 0:38:33.840 of stiffening up in the red zone. You saw a 0:38:33.880 --> 0:38:37.640 lot of Rodrigo blanket ship over and over again. Uh 0:38:37.680 --> 0:38:40.400 in that game. Philip Rivers with some great smack talk 0:38:40.520 --> 0:38:44.200 that's become gift worthy across the world. But for Jonathan 0:38:44.239 --> 0:38:47.400 Taylor didn't didn't get any of that red zone glory 0:38:47.520 --> 0:38:50.000 that you love. Uh. And again the early exit from 0:38:50.080 --> 0:38:55.080 Julio Jones. That's stuff, man, That that is just a tough. Yeah, 0:38:55.600 --> 0:38:57.400 especially at a game where they were throwing in a 0:38:57.440 --> 0:38:59.440 budget at the end where you could have picked up something. 0:38:59.680 --> 0:39:02.040 I ordered Ron a point, he has thirty seven point 0:39:02.120 --> 0:39:06.200 nine points, Josephine Scriber still at first, sixty five point five, 0:39:06.200 --> 0:39:10.120 Alicia Sacrimony, Quinn sixty five point four, Jeff Sceario in 0:39:10.239 --> 0:39:12.239 third at sixty point seven, and then you got Ron 0:39:12.320 --> 0:39:15.719 Dane in thirty and fourth with a thirty seven point nine. 0:39:15.760 --> 0:39:18.120 All right, Hey, Ron had a rough week, so did I. 0:39:18.120 --> 0:39:22.040 I almost burnt off my eyebrows grilling on Saturday. Completely 0:39:22.040 --> 0:39:28.600 suffered story just green egg got a little bit too 0:39:28.600 --> 0:39:31.480 hot forgot that the events were all open. Came back, 0:39:31.560 --> 0:39:34.719 it was like eight hundred degrees, closed the vents. It 0:39:34.760 --> 0:39:38.000 immediately dropped the six hundred, tried to burp it, then 0:39:38.160 --> 0:39:40.680 opened it up. Didn't even see the flame. All I 0:39:40.719 --> 0:39:45.000 heard was my bangs like starting to crisp, and yeah, 0:39:45.080 --> 0:39:49.880 the the yeah, it's nothing big, no burns, but just 0:39:49.880 --> 0:39:52.439 just a little off the top courtesy of the Big 0:39:52.440 --> 0:39:55.360 Green Egg. On Saturday, I figured it was kind of 0:39:55.400 --> 0:39:57.239 our last day of summer because it was hot here 0:39:57.239 --> 0:40:00.759 in southern California, you know, went up some ribs on 0:40:00.800 --> 0:40:03.160 the grill, and uh yeah, I got a little out 0:40:03.160 --> 0:40:06.000 of hand. But other than that, and me and other 0:40:06.040 --> 0:40:08.239 than that, and me going three at eleven against the 0:40:08.280 --> 0:40:11.080 spread on picks this week, it was a dandy weekend, Mike, 0:40:11.120 --> 0:40:14.439 It it really was. I can't even I can't even 0:40:14.480 --> 0:40:17.640 do this. We usually do our epic fails, and I 0:40:17.760 --> 0:40:20.480 used and I on our Friday episodes, do to give 0:40:20.480 --> 0:40:23.200 me one reason to start, and give you one reason 0:40:23.239 --> 0:40:26.359 to bench. The two guys that I picked would have 0:40:26.480 --> 0:40:29.200 the same exact amount of points, so I don't even 0:40:29.239 --> 0:40:31.520 know if I wonder lost on them. I said to 0:40:31.600 --> 0:40:34.520 start Tyler Boyd, he had seven catches for ninety yards 0:40:34.520 --> 0:40:36.919 and at a four yard carry. And then I said, 0:40:36.960 --> 0:40:39.560 bench Tyreek Kill. Well, he had four catches for sixty 0:40:39.600 --> 0:40:42.799 four yards and a touchdown against the Patriots. That came 0:40:42.800 --> 0:40:44.880 out to sixteen point four points if you're in a 0:40:44.920 --> 0:40:47.120 PPR league. So I didn't even get that right. So 0:40:47.160 --> 0:40:49.640 that was my week four in a nutshell for you? 0:40:50.000 --> 0:40:51.640 What did you hit out and what did you miss 0:40:51.719 --> 0:40:54.760 or have an epic fail for in week four? Because 0:40:54.840 --> 0:40:58.520 mine was a dandy Let's see, uh, I was slightly 0:40:58.560 --> 0:41:01.320 better against the spread, so my one nine d lose 0:41:01.440 --> 0:41:05.880 my ass challenge. I went eight and eight, So I 0:41:06.160 --> 0:41:09.319 do forty miles this week. That's pretty amazing since there 0:41:09.320 --> 0:41:11.920 were fifteen games, Mike, I don't know how you picked 0:41:12.920 --> 0:41:15.360 so well. No, because I looked at the other sorry, 0:41:15.400 --> 0:41:18.040 so eight and seven, I gave myself the loss on 0:41:18.080 --> 0:41:20.800 the other one, I guess, so like a winning week 0:41:21.719 --> 0:41:24.520 A rarity these days in terms of pick. Sorry, I 0:41:24.520 --> 0:41:27.640 immediately gave myself credit for that sixteenth game, which is 0:41:27.680 --> 0:41:31.400 postponed a week seven. As we know, uh Kenyan Drake 0:41:31.520 --> 0:41:34.600 did me nothing. Ever, since he cursed out, Fantasy Owner's 0:41:34.640 --> 0:41:39.560 karma has been against him, so he's been invisible. As 0:41:39.600 --> 0:41:45.360 you go through, I looked at when Matthew Stafford didn't 0:41:45.360 --> 0:41:49.719 give me the monster numbers. I anticipated the cold still 0:41:49.760 --> 0:41:52.560 gave you three scores, though I gave you three touchdowns. 0:41:52.560 --> 0:41:55.719 I know the yard iss just weren't there. But yeah, 0:41:56.040 --> 0:41:58.600 as we go through, you know he finished tenth. I 0:41:58.680 --> 0:42:01.719 was expecting better the way I hyped him up, So 0:42:01.960 --> 0:42:06.839 I'll take the l there I had. In terms of positives, 0:42:08.040 --> 0:42:10.400 they were a few and far between. I mean, you 0:42:10.400 --> 0:42:13.359 know what Tanyan that we talked about, but you know 0:42:13.480 --> 0:42:18.000 the I guess David Montgomery not being a factor. It 0:42:18.200 --> 0:42:21.439 wasn't he was. He was not a no go uh 0:42:21.440 --> 0:42:23.920 and nor nor did I think that you'd end up 0:42:23.960 --> 0:42:28.120 with a huge fantasy day from Philip Rivers and he didn't. 0:42:28.200 --> 0:42:31.160 They won, but it certainly wasn't for anything he did. 0:42:31.200 --> 0:42:35.799 They had the touchdown to mo Ali Cox, but beyond that, 0:42:36.280 --> 0:42:40.719 it was again the blanket ship show. I'll just say this, 0:42:41.160 --> 0:42:43.760 I don't care about what you missed. You nailed Tanyan 0:42:43.880 --> 0:42:46.919 on the head. And if anybody listens to this podcast, 0:42:47.360 --> 0:42:51.080 that Trump's everything. That's That's the queen of clubs in 0:42:51.160 --> 0:42:54.160 a game of Shaska if you want beats every card, 0:42:54.520 --> 0:42:57.319 I think Tanyan Trump said, we're gonna leave it at that. 0:42:57.320 --> 0:42:58.880 We're gonna get to your bears. By the way, in 0:42:58.920 --> 0:43:02.239 a seconds, they played Thursday night football against the Buccaneers. 0:43:02.440 --> 0:43:04.520 Will get your look ahead to that, But let's look 0:43:04.560 --> 0:43:07.919 ahead to the immediate future. Waiver wire is out there. 0:43:08.080 --> 0:43:10.520 What are some names people need to target, especially because 0:43:11.080 --> 0:43:14.200 real buys are here, not just Titan Steelers because of COVID, 0:43:14.239 --> 0:43:16.520 but Lions and Packers not playing in Week five? Who 0:43:16.560 --> 0:43:19.239 should we target on the waiver wire heading into this week? Well, 0:43:19.280 --> 0:43:21.719 if you're having trouble at the quarterback position, you've got 0:43:21.719 --> 0:43:26.360 the opportunity of opportunities. Teddy Bridgewater virtually unowned. He's got Atlanta, 0:43:26.880 --> 0:43:28.959 it's on the road. But I don't see Dan Quinn 0:43:29.040 --> 0:43:32.799 suddenly figuring this thing out. I don't know about you, 0:43:32.920 --> 0:43:36.520 but it's been pretty painful to sit through the twelve 0:43:36.560 --> 0:43:39.840 hours that I've given any time two of my life 0:43:39.840 --> 0:43:44.080 watching Atlanta Falcons football. That's pretty miserable as you go 0:43:44.640 --> 0:43:46.359 out of this game as well, though. I mean, even 0:43:46.360 --> 0:43:48.640 though the Week five by we've got Detroit and Green 0:43:48.680 --> 0:43:54.799 Bay or off, Jamal Williams is only owned right in 0:43:54.840 --> 0:43:58.640 the receiving game, Uh tonight or I should say Monday 0:43:58.719 --> 0:44:02.920 Night football eight carries ten yards? All right, to hang 0:44:03.000 --> 0:44:06.360 a star on that, But I don't think Aaron Jones 0:44:06.400 --> 0:44:09.560 is gonna be the only back they use because if 0:44:09.600 --> 0:44:12.560 they've got aspirations and they should looking at the way 0:44:12.560 --> 0:44:16.000 the division sets up of a long term run, they 0:44:16.040 --> 0:44:18.080 can't be using him thirty times a game. So I 0:44:18.080 --> 0:44:22.319 think Williams right now at owned offers some value to 0:44:22.440 --> 0:44:26.440 you going forward. Uh. You had Zachaeus as well, with 0:44:26.480 --> 0:44:30.600 everybody banged up, eight eight catches, nine targets for eighty 0:44:30.680 --> 0:44:34.640 six yards uh for Atlanta. So while you can say, 0:44:34.680 --> 0:44:38.040 hey it's garbage time, targets are targets. And if Jones 0:44:38.080 --> 0:44:41.160 and is going to be banged up and not available 0:44:41.200 --> 0:44:42.840 to them, certainly, so I want to look for I 0:44:42.880 --> 0:44:46.000 mentioned Dalton Scholtz a little bit earlier. Uh, twenty four 0:44:46.040 --> 0:44:50.080 targets the last three games. He's gone over seventy yards twice, 0:44:50.080 --> 0:44:53.400 a couple of touchdowns. And again Dallas defense isn't getting 0:44:53.400 --> 0:44:56.040 any better, so they're gonna keep chucking. We already talked 0:44:56.080 --> 0:45:00.640 about the the Chargers situation. Scotty Miller, who we talked 0:45:00.680 --> 0:45:03.160 about to start the season, he went back to the 0:45:03.200 --> 0:45:05.479 waiver wire in a lot of leagues for Tampa Bay. 0:45:06.320 --> 0:45:08.400 We'll get into the Thursday night game in a moment, 0:45:08.480 --> 0:45:11.719 but they've got injuries all over the place. Right now. 0:45:11.760 --> 0:45:15.160 You lose O. J. Howard. You're already talking about be 0:45:15.920 --> 0:45:20.080 the availability of Godwin and Evans week to week. Here's 0:45:20.120 --> 0:45:23.560 a steady, set it and forget it ronco product uh 0:45:23.600 --> 0:45:26.839 Tim Patrick and Denver another guy wanted to highlight really 0:45:26.920 --> 0:45:30.960 quick as well, because you're looking at UH six six 0:45:31.000 --> 0:45:35.440 out of seven for touchdowns back to back games. A 0:45:35.560 --> 0:45:39.480 big target for Denver, all the injuries that we know 0:45:39.560 --> 0:45:44.600 of and where we're at with the quarterback situation. He's 0:45:44.640 --> 0:45:46.279 a guy that would have been working with all the 0:45:46.320 --> 0:45:50.719 backups to start things back, and even as disjoining the 0:45:50.840 --> 0:45:53.960 training camp was, that's still a couple of weeks. So 0:45:54.000 --> 0:45:57.160 whenever you get into deeper in your quarterback depth chart, 0:45:57.600 --> 0:46:00.400 you start looking for that guy who has an action 0:46:01.080 --> 0:46:05.080 going back to training camp, going back to preseason, and 0:46:05.200 --> 0:46:07.080 right now Patrick looks like a guy who could be 0:46:07.120 --> 0:46:09.879 that guy. And Jerry Judy, for whatever reason, was still 0:46:10.000 --> 0:46:13.239 unowned in thirty percent of leagues. That doesn't make much 0:46:13.280 --> 0:46:17.680 sense to me. He won't be after this week. Bucketeers 0:46:17.680 --> 0:46:20.640 and Bears will start Week five on Thursday night. Obviously 0:46:20.760 --> 0:46:24.359 we we we hope that we have the schedule as 0:46:24.400 --> 0:46:27.400 it is for Week five. Things could change. Titan situations 0:46:27.400 --> 0:46:29.120 still up in the airs. They take on the Bills 0:46:29.120 --> 0:46:32.680 but let's look ahead to Thursday. It is Buccaneers at Bears. 0:46:32.719 --> 0:46:35.000 You mentioned a bunch of Buccaneers. Don't think that Chris 0:46:35.000 --> 0:46:38.800 Godwin is going to go just because of the short 0:46:38.880 --> 0:46:41.879 week as it is. But who do you guys need 0:46:41.920 --> 0:46:44.480 to play and look out for for Thursday night? Well, 0:46:44.520 --> 0:46:47.640 I think on the Bear side it's outside of Allen Robinson. 0:46:47.680 --> 0:46:50.719 I don't know that there's anybody you truly trust. Right 0:46:50.719 --> 0:46:52.799 you look at the running back position. We talked about 0:46:52.880 --> 0:46:56.560 David Montgomery and the struggles against Indianapolis front seven of 0:46:56.680 --> 0:47:00.960 Tampa on no slouches, and look at Naggi's trying to 0:47:00.960 --> 0:47:04.000 find the needle in the haystack. At this point, you're 0:47:04.000 --> 0:47:07.440 seeing a lot more of cor Darrel Patterson and Gadgetree 0:47:07.560 --> 0:47:10.279 and and trying to be creative. Nick Foles looked like 0:47:10.360 --> 0:47:14.080 he hadn't played quarterback in five years. Watching him play 0:47:14.560 --> 0:47:18.879 with some of you, I think it didn't get help. 0:47:18.920 --> 0:47:22.080 But he wasn't. I mean there were some drops as well, 0:47:22.120 --> 0:47:25.279 but yeah, he wasn't good on Sunday. Yeah, I was 0:47:25.320 --> 0:47:28.040 actively leading to charge of Hey, is this where we 0:47:28.080 --> 0:47:30.920 call from Mitch Drabinsky? You know, in halftime? Is this 0:47:30.960 --> 0:47:33.520 where we want the quarterback. Sorry, you know it goes 0:47:33.600 --> 0:47:36.920 both ways, especially with as erratic as he was. But 0:47:37.120 --> 0:47:41.080 Robinson bailed him out, big catch, uh for a touchdown. 0:47:41.600 --> 0:47:43.880 But I can't trust him right. If you're in a 0:47:43.920 --> 0:47:48.640 two QB league, fine, otherwise No. As for the the 0:47:48.719 --> 0:47:51.319 bucks we mentioned, Scottie Miller, I'll take him, especially if 0:47:51.320 --> 0:47:54.600 I'm in a PPR league from the running back position. 0:47:55.760 --> 0:48:00.160 Difficult necessarily to go any higher than a low were 0:48:00.280 --> 0:48:03.240 RB two For Ronald Jones. You saw what the Bears 0:48:03.239 --> 0:48:06.280 were able to do Taylor with just the sixty eight yards, 0:48:06.320 --> 0:48:08.319 So I mean, you might pile up some yardage, but 0:48:08.520 --> 0:48:12.200 I think they stiffen and you're gonna see the red 0:48:12.320 --> 0:48:16.120 zone go awry. And dare I say Brady's outside my 0:48:16.200 --> 0:48:19.160 top twelve as I sit and look at it, you know, 0:48:19.280 --> 0:48:21.799 right coming out a week four, it's a tough, tough play, 0:48:21.920 --> 0:48:25.040 especially with the big guys out. And and the other 0:48:25.040 --> 0:48:27.279 thing about Ronald Jones, I'll just add to this. He 0:48:27.320 --> 0:48:30.640 had six catches for seventeen yards, so that's not even 0:48:30.680 --> 0:48:32.319 three yards of catch, and he had a bunch of 0:48:32.480 --> 0:48:34.880 a couple of drops to dump off, so he's not 0:48:34.960 --> 0:48:37.440 that much of a threat out of the backfield when 0:48:37.480 --> 0:48:39.800 they when they take on the Bears on Thursday. Alright, 0:48:39.880 --> 0:48:42.239 let's four though, Dan, I mean at two yards of 0:48:42.320 --> 0:48:47.640 pop and six catches, six catches along of seven, that's 0:48:47.680 --> 0:48:50.680 what it was for Ronald Jones receiving wise uh for 0:48:50.920 --> 0:48:53.080 that Yeah, his you know, with his status, he'll want 0:48:53.080 --> 0:48:55.480 to check that out. But Jones likely to get the nod. Alright, 0:48:55.480 --> 0:48:58.080 three point good version. Uh. Three things that you need 0:48:58.120 --> 0:48:59.759 to know for these next couple of days before we 0:48:59.840 --> 0:49:03.960 met it again Buccaneers Bears Thursday night. Let's wrap this 0:49:04.080 --> 0:49:06.879 baby up as we get ready for week five. Here 0:49:06.920 --> 0:49:09.839 are my three things. Number one, make a deal, look 0:49:09.880 --> 0:49:12.080 to trade, Try to shake up your team if it 0:49:12.120 --> 0:49:13.919 needs it. If it's sitting there at one and three, 0:49:14.440 --> 0:49:17.319 this is the prime opportunity to do it. Number two, 0:49:17.560 --> 0:49:20.120 don't expect much to change in Houston even though Bill 0:49:20.120 --> 0:49:23.520 O'Brien is out. I don't know if it will provide 0:49:23.520 --> 0:49:26.359 a huge boost that he's out of the building. I 0:49:26.400 --> 0:49:29.520 just think that the Texans right now are just shorthanded, 0:49:29.800 --> 0:49:33.279 even though they're playing against Jacksonville. I just don't see 0:49:33.280 --> 0:49:36.360 a huge boost with Bill O'Brien out of the building 0:49:36.680 --> 0:49:40.239 and number three, don't open a green egg when it's 0:49:40.280 --> 0:49:43.760 six hundred degrees if you want to keep your eyelashes 0:49:44.239 --> 0:49:47.440 and your bangs. That's the three things that you need 0:49:47.520 --> 0:49:50.600 to know in my three point conversion this week. Mike, 0:49:50.719 --> 0:49:52.960 go ahead and wrap up yours alright really quick. We 0:49:53.160 --> 0:49:55.000 we say do it for the kids. We talk a 0:49:55.080 --> 0:49:58.960 lot about young wide receivers breaking through. Targetcounts are big. 0:49:59.080 --> 0:50:01.759 They're not a raid of playing these guys like it 0:50:01.920 --> 0:50:05.560 used to be in your grandfather's or your father's fantasy leagues. 0:50:05.960 --> 0:50:08.799 Start schedule watching right, Get a week ahead on your 0:50:08.800 --> 0:50:11.239 waiver wires because we're getting into the bys and you 0:50:11.280 --> 0:50:14.240 don't want to be competing for players in those stop 0:50:14.280 --> 0:50:17.000 gaps situations. Yes, that means you may want to add 0:50:17.040 --> 0:50:19.920 a defense a week early. Yeah, that's kind of scary. 0:50:19.920 --> 0:50:23.880 It's kind of going off your trade remarks. And and finally, 0:50:24.160 --> 0:50:26.680 the points are gonna keep flying as long as they're 0:50:26.719 --> 0:50:29.239 not calling penalties. We talked about it at the start 0:50:29.239 --> 0:50:32.040 of the show. There's fifty points going up seemingly in 0:50:32.120 --> 0:50:36.240 every game, no matter how poor the teams are, points 0:50:36.239 --> 0:50:38.799 are being scored. There's one or two outliers a week, 0:50:39.120 --> 0:50:43.120 so for fantasy purposes, maximize, look for those bad matchup. 0:50:43.239 --> 0:50:46.400 We now know who those bad defenses are. Get aggressive, 0:50:47.719 --> 0:50:49.480 and if you've got a packer alliance, sit them on 0:50:49.480 --> 0:50:52.120 your bench. 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