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Speaker 1: the King, Scott Angle, I am Frank Stance. We want
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Speaker 1: No Greg Stoft have been for now. Because of that, Scott,
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Speaker 1: to get the show started here Greg, because I can't sing,
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Speaker 1: what better way to introduce the King than, you know,
Speaker 1: a little a little nice metallica. Let's go a little heavy,
Speaker 1: you know, I can play a little acts here, you know,
Speaker 1: do a little air guitar I'm more used to that.
Speaker 1: But it's good to be here. You know, I've uh,
Speaker 1: you know, i've kind of felt that left out of
Speaker 1: the loop for a long time, like I was never like,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the best friends, you know, is
Speaker 1: it's something I said. You know, but I guess I guess, uh,
Speaker 1: I guess the cloud has been lifted. Yeah, we've heard,
Speaker 1: we heard, we heard some chirping behind our backs. So
Speaker 1: you know we had to uh, we'll alleviate that. Will
Speaker 1: say it to your face, to say it to my face. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: I will welcome you in. Well, you know, we'll do
Speaker 1: a special, a little special here. King Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I just wanna to be honest, I just want to
Speaker 1: jump into the games. I want to jump into the
Speaker 1: games here. Well, we'll talk about the early games to
Speaker 1: get started here. And there's a lot going on. But
Speaker 1: and we spoke about this yesterday, Scott, and I think
Speaker 1: it was interesting that, you know, a lot of people
Speaker 1: have questions regarding quarterbacks who are in tough spots this week,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking at a guy like Matt Ryan. I'm
Speaker 1: getting a lot of questions about Matt Ryan. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at this game. It's the Falcons against the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: right now, and the Falcons are favored big time in
Speaker 1: this matchup right now and it's in Atlanta. But the
Speaker 1: Cardinal has been very, very stout against quarterbacks recently, and
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan has been up and down the offense with
Speaker 1: Seves Arcasion. So we're getting a lot of questions with
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan. What are you doing with Matt Ryan? Are
Speaker 1: you starting guys like Josh Allen, Are you starting guys
Speaker 1: like Lamar Jackson, missil Trobiski, Because we're getting a lot
Speaker 1: of those questions right now, Scott, all of those guys
Speaker 1: my line of branks who roto experts dot com right now,
Speaker 1: I have the ranked ahead of Matt Ryan, and check
Speaker 1: out check out my ranks because I did the Luxe
Speaker 1: ranks because it's important. Week fifty. I wrote player not ouside,
Speaker 1: every single player this week, every skill asan player, and
Speaker 1: one that I came up with when you talk about
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan is that the Cardinals are actually third best
Speaker 1: on ESPN. Uh you know, using that as a guide
Speaker 1: against opposing fantasy quarterbacks and with Ryan be up and down. Now, look,
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson may play some shadow coverage on Julio, and
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that he's going to win all of
Speaker 1: those battles. But the point is where else is Matt
Speaker 1: Royan gonna go with the ball? Calvin really has basically
Speaker 1: been mostly non existent since Week four. Mohammedson to new
Speaker 1: he's mediocre. He's he's good enough to lose a fantasy
Speaker 1: game with. That's what Mohamedson new is. Austin Hooper has
Speaker 1: been disappointing. The running game has been disappointing. So look,
Speaker 1: they're back home. And sometimes people tend to look at
Speaker 1: whether a team is good or not when when evaluating
Speaker 1: the matchups, that's not what it's about. You know. The Cardinals,
Speaker 1: like you said, like like I just laid out with
Speaker 1: the stat they're better against opposing fantasy quarterbacks and people
Speaker 1: get credit for I'm with you, So you know guys
Speaker 1: like Josh Allen, Glamar Jackson, I have them ranked just
Speaker 1: ahead of Matt Ryan. That's for me, So you know,
Speaker 1: I'll go in that direction. Some rookie quarterbacks who are
Speaker 1: providing safe floors because of their rushing potential. Scott and
Speaker 1: now let's keep it on the Falcon side for now.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Julio Jones, even if Patrick Peterson shadows him,
Speaker 1: there's no question you're keeping Julio Jones in your lineup.
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley, he's a guy who you know, he's popped
Speaker 1: off the screen a few times this year, and he
Speaker 1: you know, he's had big games in sometimes of touchdowns,
Speaker 1: but the yardage that targets, the receptions, the floor hasn't
Speaker 1: necessarily been there for him. So he's kind of touchdown
Speaker 1: or bust wide receiver three. And I think that there
Speaker 1: are some wide receivers who are ascending at this point
Speaker 1: right now, Guys like the Panthers wide receivers Curtis Samuel,
Speaker 1: Guys like uh like Dante Pettis who are are are
Speaker 1: playing well right now. I don't know that I want
Speaker 1: to trust Calvin Ridley with my you know, my fantasy
Speaker 1: season online in Week fifteen in the Fantasy playoffs, Scott, Look,
Speaker 1: you look at his game blog. I don't remember the
Speaker 1: last time that you know, the guy went over like
Speaker 1: sixty yards, you know, maybe woods like the last seven
Speaker 1: or eight games. That's just off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: But look, that's unofficial. You look at the game blog,
Speaker 1: it's it's not pretty. You know, I'd rather use Tim
Speaker 1: Patrick right now than use Calvin Ridley, because watching that
Speaker 1: Denver game last week, I watched it again after seeing
Speaker 1: it the first time, and every time Case Heatam seemed
Speaker 1: to have like a key passing down. It looks like
Speaker 1: Tim Patrick was his first reading. You talk about the
Speaker 1: Carolina receivers right now, Cam Newton is taking and dunking
Speaker 1: and taking everything underneath. But he's going to these guys.
Speaker 1: He's trying to be high percentage. He's not throwing down
Speaker 1: field right now. I mean, like, uh, Curtis Samuel. He's
Speaker 1: had at least eight yards are touched on in five
Speaker 1: of his last six games, four consecutive games. You talk
Speaker 1: about the last two he's got double figure PPR points,
Speaker 1: and then the two before that he scored a touchdown
Speaker 1: in each game. If you go outside about say the
Speaker 1: top twenty wide receivers right now in fantasy football, I
Speaker 1: don't think a lot of people are talking about it.
Speaker 1: They're not comfortable start right there. A lot of these
Speaker 1: wide receiver three positions right now is like you look
Speaker 1: at it, unless uh, I'm saying, for the most part,
Speaker 1: everybody is a different situation. But you look at those
Speaker 1: wide receiver three sort of situations you say to myself,
Speaker 1: you know, did I start Robert Foster or Larry Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1: That's what we're looking at. Yeah, I think Larry Fitzgerald
Speaker 1: is another one too. We'll talk about in this game.
Speaker 1: I think there's there's a group and you know, I
Speaker 1: wrote about this on road or experts dot Com as well.
Speaker 1: There's a group of low end wide receiver threes that
Speaker 1: I just don't really want anything to do with their
Speaker 1: touchdown or bust. Even in good matchups, they haven't been
Speaker 1: able to perform. It's guys like Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Ridley,
Speaker 1: that's like to Marrius Thomas, right who all right? They
Speaker 1: might have helped us earlier this year, they might have
Speaker 1: helped us in years past, but they're not the same
Speaker 1: you know, fantasy producers that they were, and for various reasons.
Speaker 1: I mean, for Fitzgerald it's you know, Josh Rosen, the
Speaker 1: offense is not playing well right now. To Marrius Thomas,
Speaker 1: the target share hasn't necessarily been there. He has to
Speaker 1: compete with DeAndre Hopkins Lamar Miller getting touches for the Texans.
Speaker 1: So I think you're right. I mean, outside of really
Speaker 1: the top fIF team, maybe twenty wide receivers, and you know,
Speaker 1: going and digging through the rankings like it's a crap shoot.
Speaker 1: It is a crapshoot out there. So in that same game,
Speaker 1: I don't really love Larry Fitzgerald. I'll keep it on
Speaker 1: the Falcons side for one more here. I think the
Speaker 1: Falcons running backs are in play as flex options. And
Speaker 1: I know that they've let a lot of people down
Speaker 1: when it comes to Tevin Coleman and Edo Smith. But
Speaker 1: the Cardinals have just bled fantasy production to running backs
Speaker 1: all season long. And with the Falcons favored by eight
Speaker 1: and a half points at home this week, Scott, you
Speaker 1: have to imagine they'll be playing with the lead. The
Speaker 1: Cardinals have allowed the most rushing attempts per game to
Speaker 1: opposing running backs. That's because opposing teams are constantly playing
Speaker 1: with the lead. I could see Edo Smith and Tevin
Speaker 1: Coleman in play as flex options this week. Scott. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing is, we don't know that the lad is
Speaker 1: gonna play with the lead like the Cardinals did with
Speaker 1: Green Bay. You know, they walked in there and they
Speaker 1: played a really good game. You don't want to rely on. Look,
Speaker 1: there's matchups and Ken Kitty opposed to take advantage of
Speaker 1: the matchup. I don't have any confidence, especially in Tevin Coleman,
Speaker 1: that he could take advantage of this matchup. And Edo
Speaker 1: Smith it's actually been out producing him the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: I'm in my fantasy playoffs. I want to go to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. I'm avoiding this situation. You're avoiding the
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I can't. I can't just I can't. Just
Speaker 1: look at the matchup. And here's here's another examples of
Speaker 1: the Raiders are against tight ends, right, and people say, oh,
Speaker 1: let's start C Jose, and people recommend C Joy every week.
Speaker 1: The guy has has not had a game over fifty
Speaker 1: five yards and just two touchdowns this year. Sometimes there's
Speaker 1: a good matchup, but can the player take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: I can't have confidence in these guys that they can't.
Speaker 1: It is seasonal league now, now, Frank, if you want
Speaker 1: to run those guys out in DFS, I'm both for
Speaker 1: the risk, but in seasonal I need something safer, alright.
Speaker 1: So I mean, look, I have them ranked ahead of
Speaker 1: guys like Marlon Mack Josh Adams. It's just Marlon Mack
Speaker 1: going up against the Cowboys. You look at it's the
Speaker 1: complete opposite situation here, and he's been banged up. He
Speaker 1: hasn't been putting up a lot of yards either. So
Speaker 1: just me personally, I'm looking at those Falcons running backs
Speaker 1: and I will trust the match up a little bit
Speaker 1: more than guy's life. I don't, I don't, I don't look.
Speaker 1: I don't like Marlon Mackie don't running back this week.
Speaker 1: I have Mawboys did their left five games have allowed
Speaker 1: one rushing score and no running back to go about
Speaker 1: seventy yards, and they get shortly possibly back this week.
Speaker 1: So I mean we're in there. We're in that vicinity though,
Speaker 1: Like the Falcons running backs are in that flex discussion
Speaker 1: right there inside like that. But I'm not comfortable about
Speaker 1: using any of those guys. I agree. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just like, you know, when we get to this point
Speaker 1: in the season, it's like you really do get to
Speaker 1: that point, when you get to that point your rankings too,
Speaker 1: It's like I'll use any of those over Adrian Peterson
Speaker 1: this week, but I might take jayleb Richard over them.
Speaker 1: That's I mean, that's that's totally different stories. Scottie. Uh.
Speaker 1: Last thing I'll touch on on this game. The Falcons defense,
Speaker 1: they haven't been very good. But again this is what
Speaker 1: we're talking about. Does the matchup outweigh the fact that
Speaker 1: the Falcons defense is not very good. Would you trust
Speaker 1: the Falcons as a streaming defense this week against the
Speaker 1: Cardinal Scott. I don't think I could use the Falcons
Speaker 1: against anybody. Yeah. To me, there were three main streaming
Speaker 1: defenses this week. It was the Lions and the Bills
Speaker 1: who were facing each other. I like the Giants to
Speaker 1: the Giants have been playing good giants going up against
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans, even without Landing Council, you would use
Speaker 1: you would use the Giants, would use the Lions and
Speaker 1: the Bills over the Falcons as well. The Bills are
Speaker 1: like one of my top three this week. You know,
Speaker 1: they've been playing, they've been playing well, they've been getting
Speaker 1: good at matchups. You know, just go just going through
Speaker 1: my ranks. So for for ratification about what I'm talking
Speaker 1: about here, I have Marlon mc number thirty. I have
Speaker 1: Chris Ivory right ahead of him. I have Jaylen's, I
Speaker 1: have Jilt's uh, I have JAYL. Richard just a few
Speaker 1: spots ahead of them. But I have Edo Smith and
Speaker 1: Tevin Colban five spots behind Marlon Mack. Hm, I I
Speaker 1: trust the Falcons, guys, that's just kid, How could you
Speaker 1: trust them? Tevin Goldman has been a huge disappointment. He has,
Speaker 1: he definitely has. But this is this is where I'm
Speaker 1: looking at Marlon Mack. I mean, Nihim Heinz is still
Speaker 1: getting some touches here for the Indianapolis Colts, and you
Speaker 1: reference how bad the matchup is against the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: so bad to take a shot on him trying to
Speaker 1: get the end zoded. Trust either one of those factor
Speaker 1: parting back. But then again we get to this whole
Speaker 1: point in ranks we should be using the word trust. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly right. I mean these are flex options in
Speaker 1: deeper leagues. Let's keep it going with getting a lot
Speaker 1: of questions about Aaron Rodgers as well. Obviously going into
Speaker 1: Chicago and facing the Bears this week. We spoke about
Speaker 1: them as well earlier on in the week, but if
Speaker 1: you weren't around for that, we had a big debate.
Speaker 1: You know, look at what look at what the Bears
Speaker 1: defense has done at home this year, Scott, and they
Speaker 1: even shut down that Jared Goff led. You know that
Speaker 1: Todd Durley led Rams offense in Chicago one week ago,
Speaker 1: So you know, how are you handling the Packers offensive weapons?
Speaker 1: I think Davante Adams. I mean, he's in your lineup.
Speaker 1: There's no question about that. One of the most consistent
Speaker 1: fantasy wide receiver seasons I've seen in a long time,
Speaker 1: at least eighty one receiving yard, at least eighty one
Speaker 1: yards or touched on in every single game this season.
Speaker 1: He's got tied for the NFL lead with twelve touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I don't care who he faces. How are you? How
Speaker 1: are you handing Rodgers Rogers? People still say and Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones because the Bears are very stout against run. Oh
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers, people are saying, is it crazy to
Speaker 1: start Josh Allen over Aaron Rodgers. No, I have Josh
Speaker 1: Allen six spots ahead of Aaron Rocks. I have Rodgers
Speaker 1: the seventeen. The Bears the best against forty fantasy quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: They allow only thirteen and a half points per game
Speaker 1: the opposing fantasy quarterbacks. So I can't use Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: with any confidence. Strip the name off the back of
Speaker 1: the jersey's right Scotty joined the club at this point
Speaker 1: of the season, shrift the name off the back of
Speaker 1: the jersey. Aaron Jones, I still have the top seventeen
Speaker 1: because the workload to free be there. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: sort of mid range RB two. But you can't you
Speaker 1: can't have a lot of confidence. Look, I Rodgers have
Speaker 1: one of the Packers and Aaron Rodgers Packers team could
Speaker 1: have one of the lowest score games of his era.
Speaker 1: This is a team that held the Rams the six
Speaker 1: points and this is not the same Packer's offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it hasn't been looking at Rogers the past three games,
Speaker 1: hasn't thrown for more than two or than thirty three
Speaker 1: yards and any of those doesn't have anybody but Davante Adams.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Grave has been a huge bust, and the rookies
Speaker 1: have not stepped up. But Marcus Valdes Scantley was like
Speaker 1: a cobbin here already's gone. And I'm sure you're not
Speaker 1: saying that. Jimmy Graham has been a huge disappointment because
Speaker 1: he left your people love at Seahawks. That's got nothing
Speaker 1: to do with it. The guy has been a massive,
Speaker 1: massive but he definitely Yeah, Ted touchdown catches last year? Yeah,
Speaker 1: how many does you have this year? I don't know,
Speaker 1: the top of the top of my head. I think
Speaker 1: he's got two or three. Yeah, I think he's got
Speaker 1: two off the top of my head. But I don't
Speaker 1: think he's had a red zone target like the last
Speaker 1: five games. So within this game, Scott Rogers, you mentioned
Speaker 1: you mentioned Josh Allen that you'd start him over Aaron Rodger.
Speaker 1: Would you start Trabiski on the other side? Travisky? You
Speaker 1: didn't look good against the Rams a week ago, but
Speaker 1: you know he is one of these guys who makes
Speaker 1: plays with his legs and on paper, it's a better
Speaker 1: matchup going up against the Packers defense in their secondary
Speaker 1: than it is for Aaron rodd I have top ten
Speaker 1: this week. I got alright. You know the pack the
Speaker 1: Packers have given up three touchdown passes in three of
Speaker 1: their past four games. Uh, so you can throw on
Speaker 1: this team. It's a second week back. He'll I think
Speaker 1: he'll be in a better, better rhythm. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: I like the match up for Trubisky. I know he's
Speaker 1: been he was trending a little bit down before he
Speaker 1: got hurt. It wasn't a good game. But you know
Speaker 1: I I like this match up against Green Bay. I
Speaker 1: think you can throw in three green Bay. So if
Speaker 1: you like Trabisky, I'm gonna ask you about the pass
Speaker 1: catchers here, Trey Burton. Look, the definition of insanity is
Speaker 1: doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. Beak.
Speaker 1: When it comes to trade Burton, please just drop the guy.
Speaker 1: Like I know Scott doesn't like use on the this week,
Speaker 1: like I'm using cj Use over Trede Burton. I don't.
Speaker 1: I would do that. I could, I couldn't use see
Speaker 1: I could use c j use alma over over a
Speaker 1: lot of guys. He's right nineteeth me again. Two touchdowns
Speaker 1: and not over fifty same boat anything either. Tray Burn
Speaker 1: has been a big disappoint Davis Anthony ferks it over
Speaker 1: those guys. Would he was already Scot he was, he
Speaker 1: was getting stuff done when Jona Smith was still on
Speaker 1: the lineup, and he also played a season to see
Speaker 1: end and then you're insane. No, I don't like Trey Burn.
Speaker 1: He's not inside my top ten, okay, not inside my
Speaker 1: top twelve. Mean, once you get past the top, you're
Speaker 1: rolling dice. But at least he was healthy earlier in
Speaker 1: the year, he got in the end zone. There's no
Speaker 1: way I'm using c J Zonba. Maybe it's complete insanity.
Speaker 1: C J. Gaziba has been nothing for seven weeks. At
Speaker 1: least the matchup is there, Scott. The matchup is better,
Speaker 1: but he can't take advantage of the matchup. But it's
Speaker 1: one thing to have the matchup, it's another to have
Speaker 1: a player that can't take advantage of the matchup. C
Speaker 1: Joziba has not existed. Tree Burton hasn't taken advantage of
Speaker 1: anything either either. Scott. Earlier the season. At least we
Speaker 1: saw earlier in the season we were talking about. We
Speaker 1: haven't seen anything from c jab all year. Let's look
Speaker 1: at Trey Burton the last four weeks. Scott one reception
Speaker 1: for nine yards, four receptions twenty yards a guess the Giants,
Speaker 1: one target, zero donuts across the board, zero reception, zero yards,
Speaker 1: zero everything against the Rams. Two receptions to his gay
Speaker 1: blog earlier this season, but Trabisky was healthy. You could
Speaker 1: look at cj Ozba's entire game blog and you will
Speaker 1: not see a single good game. I agree to disagree.
Speaker 1: I'll take your sama over what Scott. If you if
Speaker 1: you like like Mitte Trobisky, you have to like the
Speaker 1: pass catchers right for the Bears. Allen Robinson, he's inside
Speaker 1: my top twenty. I'm very excited about him this week.
Speaker 1: I think he's a mid range wide receiver too. Are
Speaker 1: you in on Allen Robinson because he's let a lot
Speaker 1: of people down? I like I like Tarkhen as well.
Speaker 1: Those two right there, Tarik Cohen and Allen Robinson, you're
Speaker 1: buying out of both of those. Anybody else on the
Speaker 1: side like a wide rechie The three Robinson I like
Speaker 1: is a wide receiver. I'm a little bit higher on
Speaker 1: him this week. I think he's inside the top twenty four.
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Speaker 1: Let's jump right back into it. You're you know you
Speaker 1: you appreciate music like I do. You're all over the place.
Speaker 1: You appreciate you know, the freestyle nineties stuff, that stuff,
Speaker 1: you know Metallica. You know Scott's a huge Kiss fan obviously,
Speaker 1: so I appreciate that. You know, you can I can
Speaker 1: jump all over the place musically with you and have
Speaker 1: no issues. Whereas you know, I get Greg over here
Speaker 1: and he's like, I want to listen to I don't
Speaker 1: want to play violin, listen to Taylor Swift and appreciated Scotty.
Speaker 1: Let's keep it moving here. We just spoke about the
Speaker 1: Packers and the Bears game. I guess, just like let's
Speaker 1: put a bowl on that. You mentioned the running back
Speaker 1: position outside. You know, once you get into that flex discussion,
Speaker 1: it's grossed. Jordan Howard actually ran pretty effectively against the
Speaker 1: Rams last week nineteen for over a hundred yards. Are
Speaker 1: you trusting him as a I know in PPR he
Speaker 1: doesn't catch any passes, but in standard or even half PPR,
Speaker 1: you're trusting him as a flex option. No, it's his
Speaker 1: first hundred yard game of the season. Maybe they try
Speaker 1: to play some ball control here. But there's certain guys
Speaker 1: you just if you're still at your fantasy playoffs, I
Speaker 1: mean Howard your second or third round probably George Jordan Howard.
Speaker 1: You know you're probably saying, Okay, looks good at Daily
Speaker 1: rodo a DFS NBA tonight. You're not wrong, say all right,
Speaker 1: let's keep it moving here. Then the Miami Dolphins going
Speaker 1: up against the Minnesota Vikings. Another early start here. I
Speaker 1: guess let's start on the Minnesota side of things. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they fire their offensive coordinator, John de Filippo was not
Speaker 1: doing a great job by all accounts across the board.
Speaker 1: That's a tough one. That's one that's when you have
Speaker 1: to have the Google tab open next to it so
Speaker 1: you can just look and like spell check his name
Speaker 1: while you're writing it out. Oh yeah, but he was.
Speaker 1: It was a huge disappointment for him. I mean, given
Speaker 1: the weapons that they have on this team, Scott, and
Speaker 1: I know Kirk Cousins is somewhat to blame. You know,
Speaker 1: in that game against Seattle, down on the goal line,
Speaker 1: they go for it on fourth down, He's looking Kyle
Speaker 1: Rudolph's way, and Adam Feeland is wide open. I realized
Speaker 1: that's like a split decision. You have to make that
Speaker 1: that call right there as soon as you snap the ball.
Speaker 1: But Kirk Cousins has not plaid well either. With that
Speaker 1: being said, I do think that this is a better
Speaker 1: spot for him, coming back home facing a Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: defense which over the past month has a lot of
Speaker 1: the second most Fantasy points to a close opposing quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins is back inside my top twelve this week. Scott.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go as far to put him into the
Speaker 1: top twelve. I have ring sixte this week because I
Speaker 1: think you see a decent floor this week with no
Speaker 1: upside because what I think you know, watching that gave
Speaker 1: extensively last week. I was surprised that Minnesota run the
Speaker 1: ball more than they did because whenever Dalvin Cook got
Speaker 1: his hands on the ball, he kind of looked explosive.
Speaker 1: And to offset that that past rush, since they were
Speaker 1: getting into double TV, they were getting into secondary, they
Speaker 1: needed to either a run the ball or throw the
Speaker 1: ball board to Dalvin Cook out of the backfield to
Speaker 1: help the receivers, and De Filippo just didn't see that,
Speaker 1: probably one of the reasons why he got fired. I
Speaker 1: think there's gonna be more offensive balance from Minnesota because
Speaker 1: you could really run a Miami like especially a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago, like running backs were like around mid seas
Speaker 1: were really tearing them up. Their linebacker cruise not too good.
Speaker 1: So I think you see more offensive balance I think
Speaker 1: from Minnesota, and I think it's steadies Cousins don't doesn't
Speaker 1: really have any upside this week, but I think he
Speaker 1: won't hurt me either. So for for those at home
Speaker 1: who were watching and saying, well Tom Brady. Was this
Speaker 1: quarterback one last week's got going up against that same
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins defense. What would you say to those Well,
Speaker 1: that was Tom Brady Cousins, you know it's quarterback. You know,
Speaker 1: actually I like the like classic Tom Brady last week?
Speaker 1: Would you use Cousins or the rookie quarterbacks Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: or and Josh Owen. I would definitely use for sure.
Speaker 1: I have five spots head of Cousins. I mean, this
Speaker 1: guy has been going twenty points and above each of
Speaker 1: the last three weeks. The lines are vulnerable to uh,
Speaker 1: the rushing quarterbacks as well, and uh, you know they're
Speaker 1: they're not too good against fantasy quarterbacks either. I think
Speaker 1: they're like below the middle of the pack. There's somewhere
Speaker 1: like eighteeth or something like that. I can't remember off
Speaker 1: the top of my head. But you know Josh Allen
Speaker 1: right now, if he's not running the ball, he's not
Speaker 1: afraid to throw it down field either, And that works,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes against him, sometimes for him. He's he's dynamic.
Speaker 1: And I can't say that about Kirk Cousins and Baker
Speaker 1: big Fields. Bill playing great football right now, and I
Speaker 1: like his matchup right now. Kirk Cousin is not a
Speaker 1: starting consideration for me, because hey, he was horrible last week.
Speaker 1: But I think they want to get him back to
Speaker 1: the point where he's respectable, and that's not enough for me.
Speaker 1: All right, another agree to this Moreevie. I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit higher on kirk Cousins this week, but you mentioned
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook. He's inside my top twelve at the running
Speaker 1: back position because I do think that the Dolphins could
Speaker 1: be run on. This season, They've allowed a hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty keen rushing yards per games to opposing running backs.
Speaker 1: That's fourth highest in the NFL. I know that the
Speaker 1: Vikings have struggled to run the football this season, but
Speaker 1: I think that this is a spot where they get
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook back on track. Don't allow him to get
Speaker 1: the rhythm and maybe because they're worried about getting hurt.
Speaker 1: I'm just speculating. There, feed him the ball, that's that's up,
Speaker 1: that's a play. Actually throw the ball out of the backfield.
Speaker 1: You know, it makes the defense pay attention to something
Speaker 1: else in the passing game. Dalvin Cook is the key
Speaker 1: then re established the offense. I think so is he?
Speaker 1: Is he a low n RB one for you high
Speaker 1: in two RB two for me and RB two. You know,
Speaker 1: but everybody has been so disappointed with Dalvin Cook that
Speaker 1: you know, you just you say his David, people curl
Speaker 1: their lip. You know it's yeah, they just want to
Speaker 1: you know, they want to write him off because you know,
Speaker 1: he's done a lot of fantasy owners dirty this year.
Speaker 1: Scott and people, you know, they can they keep that
Speaker 1: taste in their mouth when when a fantasy player, when
Speaker 1: a player in the NFL does a fantasy owner wrong,
Speaker 1: they keep that they remember that like fantasy owners, they do,
Speaker 1: but they have to let go of it at some point,
Speaker 1: especially what you consider somebody, your other options that you
Speaker 1: might have, you know, take the bad taste out of
Speaker 1: your mouth. Otherwise start Tevin Colman and I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I look I like the Falcons running
Speaker 1: back says flex options. I'm not starting either one of
Speaker 1: those over Dalvin Cook. Not even close on the on
Speaker 1: the Miami side of things, Scott, I don't really know
Speaker 1: what to say here because it's just a crapshoot of
Speaker 1: from the passing game. You want a stat in the
Speaker 1: last eight games, no quarterback who has faced the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings is cracked fifty fantasy points. Yeah, so I think,
Speaker 1: you know, outside of two quarterback leagues, people weren't really
Speaker 1: relying on Ryan Tannehill anyway. But you know people were
Speaker 1: starting for those who have like, you know, hitched on
Speaker 1: to Kitty Still. Yeah, they were. That's exactly where I
Speaker 1: was leading with that. They were buying. You know, it's
Speaker 1: not a good outlook, not even a low end wide
Speaker 1: receiver three for you. You're out? You want to go
Speaker 1: in a different direction? Yes, all right? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I'd rather start Tim Patrick than Ketty Stills. I could
Speaker 1: get I could get behind that Scott because Patrick top
Speaker 1: twenty six this week. Kenny Stills yet tough matchup. You know,
Speaker 1: he's the guy who plays on the outside. They're not
Speaker 1: typically gonna use him on the slot. So he could
Speaker 1: see Xavier Roads Roads not having the same season that
Speaker 1: he did last year, but still has been serviceable, and
Speaker 1: they've you know, they've limited production to wide receivers, and
Speaker 1: in the running situation, it's like, okay, how many how
Speaker 1: many random fifty yr touch on are gonn dif from
Speaker 1: Brandon Bolden this week? We need we need Kenyan Drake
Speaker 1: to have a miracle, Uh, a miracle play at the
Speaker 1: end of the game in order to meet fantasy value.
Speaker 1: Like his usage with Adam Gaze as the head coach
Speaker 1: has just been baffling this year in my opinion's got
Speaker 1: I know Frank Gore has run effectively for for the
Speaker 1: rhetor for the veteran that he is, but the the
Speaker 1: usage between Dolphins running backs has been extremely frustrating. And
Speaker 1: you know, we we keep talking about these flex running backs.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't even really want to trust Kenyan
Speaker 1: Drake or or Frank Gore in that range either trust
Speaker 1: Kenny direct, but he's explosive score from anywhere in the
Speaker 1: field at any time. I think it'd be tough for
Speaker 1: against Bennesota. Uh. The subcompy week. The thing is with
Speaker 1: the Dolphins there seven and six, nobody ever wants to
Speaker 1: use their players. But then, uh, you know, they always
Speaker 1: find a way to be made competitive and put points
Speaker 1: on the board. It's just it's hard to predict who's
Speaker 1: going to contribute to any given week. It's like all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you go about it. Kenny Steeles at
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker catch two touchdowns. You know, you just you
Speaker 1: don't know because there's no rhyme or reason about I
Speaker 1: don't like the past the game this week. I would
Speaker 1: use Key Drake over the Atlanta running back style. You wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I would come on, I thought I was gonna get
Speaker 1: you into the Falcons running backs at least over one player.
Speaker 1: I'll take the upside of a dy Drake over either
Speaker 1: either of those guys. All Right, it's a little bit
Speaker 1: harder for me because the matchup against the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying. He coun score from anywhere
Speaker 1: on the field. But you know, as you reference, there's
Speaker 1: no rhyme or reason when it comes to Adam Gates
Speaker 1: and his usage with the Miami Dolphins running backs. With
Speaker 1: that being said, I do want to sign off for
Speaker 1: the Pursuit Network at this time. We appreciate everyone for watching.
Speaker 1: Will be back same time next week. Thank you for watching.
Speaker 1: All right, Scotty, Now we can we can talk a
Speaker 1: little bit more. We can open it up a little
Speaker 1: bit more. Now here um talk about obviously Thursday night football,
Speaker 1: huge matchup tonight. I want to preview this game. Will
Speaker 1: have doctor A coming up next of inside injuries. We
Speaker 1: can talk about all the you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: that there's ever been a Thursday night game, Scott which
Speaker 1: has with as many fantasy implications in the fantasy playoffs,
Speaker 1: involving this many questionable play I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: that this many players that it makes such a huge difference. Rivers,
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon, Justin Jackson, Austin Neckler has already been ruled out,
Speaker 1: Spencer Ware doubtful, Damian Williams, Tyree Kill, Travis Kelsey. It's
Speaker 1: everybody in this game tonight is is you know, is
Speaker 1: gonna be fantasy viable? And we have so many questions.
Speaker 1: So we'll get that up next with dr a of
Speaker 1: inside injuries. But before that, Sky that Gordon was not
Speaker 1: expected to play. I I saw the report from Schefter
Speaker 1: in the morning as well, so um I was last
Speaker 1: night from the NFL network Antony lib Would saying that
Speaker 1: they did not expect him to play. Jeffter went on
Speaker 1: someone's radio show this morning and was talking about Melvin Gordon.
Speaker 1: They're gonna give him an opportunity to to uh to
Speaker 1: work on the field, pregame to see if he can
Speaker 1: get UH, if he if he can play and health.
Speaker 1: He did say last night that it's not looking good though. Bivona,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're around, but whoever's down there
Speaker 1: producing the show, can you you get that clip ready
Speaker 1: that I sent you because it has to do with
Speaker 1: tonight and previewing. The came in that we could have
Speaker 1: a little bit of fun with this. Uh and with
Speaker 1: that being said, we can't have fun without Mr Fun himself,
Speaker 1: Greg Susman, Greg Susman, who will be joining the show
Speaker 1: in just a few moments. Here with myself, the King's Scott.
Speaker 1: Somehow I got Battis to recorder this. This is what
Speaker 1: you Battist to the corner. The King takes over your spot.
Speaker 1: It's his throne. So the King just walks in. I
Speaker 1: was beaten down. I felt like Corey right, I was
Speaker 1: beating down on the floor. And next thing I know,
Speaker 1: I walk in here. I finally revived myself and there's
Speaker 1: this old guy sitting in my seat, Like I get like,
Speaker 1: I get like I'm supposed to be the old guy
Speaker 1: on the show. I'm just sitting there like this is
Speaker 1: like a ridiculous I was supposed to be the old
Speaker 1: guy on the show, am I not? So? Now that
Speaker 1: this guy comes what old guy listens to Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: Not you don't. That's a mistake. That is where I
Speaker 1: listen to. That's probably all right. Well, we're not gonna
Speaker 1: sit gender roles here. Let me ask you, Scot. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you this, Scott, would you prefer to listen
Speaker 1: to the Dave Matthews Man or Metallica? I have nothing again,
Speaker 1: Stave Matthews should be prefaced that, but I much rather
Speaker 1: listen to the metall No, Scott, stay as long as
Speaker 1: you want. I'm gonna bena. I'm gonna be I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm in between like my parents. You're like, no, stay, Scott, stay,
Speaker 1: don't leave Dre there because mom listens to Taylor. Well,
Speaker 1: he has two dads, you know. Treat to be idea
Speaker 1: with Greg because it's been too long. It's been quite
Speaker 1: a while, man, I don't. I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: heard or listen to this yet, Scott. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've heard listen to this yet, Bovona if you
Speaker 1: have that clip ready, guys, we're gonna talk about this
Speaker 1: game in a second. But you know, I'm very very
Speaker 1: I'm very excited about Hunter Henry tonight. I think Hunter
Speaker 1: Henry is gonna have a huge game for the for
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Chargers some things. I'll keeping my eyes.
Speaker 1: I'm keeping my eyes on this matchup right here. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: wears out. I'm sorry, absolutely he is out. But I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: I'm Thinken Patrick behold. I'm also looking at the San
Speaker 1: Diego charges on offense, and I'm thinking about hunts Henry
Speaker 1: and the way that he's playing. He's been. He's going
Speaker 1: up against Derrick Johnson, and I got to keep my
Speaker 1: eyes on that because I'm looking at it from the
Speaker 1: standpoint his way on at with all of this, that's
Speaker 1: good enough. That was earlier today, and Stephen A. Smith
Speaker 1: is getting roasted on Twitter. He's already kind of like
Speaker 1: responded to it and saying like he's got like a
Speaker 1: million things going on, so it's hard for him to
Speaker 1: prep for the show. But he he likes Hunter Henry
Speaker 1: Tonight Scott for the San Diego Chargers who are traveling
Speaker 1: to Kansas seat Tonight to face the Chiefs. What do
Speaker 1: you think about Hunter Henry? I almost feel guilty about
Speaker 1: roast and Steven A. Smith. Him and I just went
Speaker 1: to the same high school. But you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta getta do better. Than that. If this this
Speaker 1: was an NBA player, Stephen would would have not gotten
Speaker 1: it wrong. And uh, you know, Hunter Henry has been
Speaker 1: out all season. You know. Look, I like Steven A. Smith,
Speaker 1: you know him, and I say all of the matter.
Speaker 1: But to me, Steven's a basketball all guy who just
Speaker 1: knows about the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Yankees.
Speaker 1: Outside of the NBA guys. This gets worse for Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 1: Derek Johnson doesn't even play for the Chiefs Anymoyeah. Derick
Speaker 1: Johnson has not played a single snap for the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs this year. Scott's talking about his mad franchise
Speaker 1: or something. I don't know. At first, I thought it
Speaker 1: was a clip from last year and he's talking about
Speaker 1: San Diego and he didn't even know they moved. It's crazy, Greg,
Speaker 1: I love Hunter Henry dynasty leagues for next year. What
Speaker 1: do you think? What do you think about that clip?
Speaker 1: What do you think about So? I'm not going to
Speaker 1: defend Stephen A. Smith. He makes lots of money. He
Speaker 1: probably should know who's on the teams that are playing
Speaker 1: like I do. Probably as a researchers consisted too. Several secondaries,
Speaker 1: secretaries assistant. You know, I get killed when I get
Speaker 1: miniscule things wrong on this program, as I should write broadcaster. Sure,
Speaker 1: but ultimately it's ridiculous. You cannot get that wrong. You
Speaker 1: cannot get that wrong. But in regards to tonight's game,
Speaker 1: off to the Charges of the Chiefs. Right, this, this
Speaker 1: is what we've been waiting for all year. Right, your
Speaker 1: team versus Mica Scott. Right, you should know that before
Speaker 1: the season started, we both picked the Rams and go
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. Before the season started. Admittedly I
Speaker 1: had him against the Chiefs. Frank had him against the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Swear to god, we have audio recordings of this. Tonight
Speaker 1: our two teams do battle in Kansas City. The Chargers
Speaker 1: have not beaten Kansas City in like seven years in
Speaker 1: jan It's ridiculous, you know. And the wonderful thing about
Speaker 1: this is is that it kicks off fantasy football playoffs,
Speaker 1: set up semi finals. And I always say, like you
Speaker 1: look at Derrick Henry last week, people overreacted and thought
Speaker 1: they lost her one day game. I said, one player
Speaker 1: in one game doesn't make a difference. You had a
Speaker 1: Mari Cooper on Sunday that match, Derrick Henry, if that
Speaker 1: happen against Didn't that happen for you once where you
Speaker 1: put up like the game with Peyton Manning had like
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns and beat you. Yeah, And then we also
Speaker 1: had that was like that was like one of the
Speaker 1: few times that he got lucky. But it happened to
Speaker 1: be a Dave Martinez this this year he had fifty
Speaker 1: points from Roethlisberger for me on Thursday night. I end
Speaker 1: it upbeating them. But the thing about this game is, though,
Speaker 1: is you could have seven, eight guys you know, going
Speaker 1: on both sides total. So this will give you a
Speaker 1: better map of where you may be headed into Sunday.
Speaker 1: Whereas I always tell people one player, one game doesn't
Speaker 1: decide anything, there could be a lot more context given tonight.
Speaker 1: And what a way to kick off Week fifty, the
Speaker 1: semifinals of your fantasy football playoffs when you gotta have
Speaker 1: this many guys going on both sides. And you'll notice
Speaker 1: I haven't referenced any of the injured players that we
Speaker 1: haven't talked about them at length because it's coming up next.
Speaker 1: We have doctor, we have inside injuries, so we'll get
Speaker 1: more from the good Doctor after the break to find
Speaker 1: out about Melvin Gordon and you know, Spencer, we're not
Speaker 1: expected to go what the effectiveness will be of Damian
Speaker 1: Williams just me personally, and this is a speculation. I
Speaker 1: would not expect Melvin Gordon to play tonight. I think
Speaker 1: he is a bigger key to them for a playoff runt,
Speaker 1: a deep playoff run. I think they need him to
Speaker 1: be completely healthy for that. Scott, and if he's out,
Speaker 1: Justin Jackson is inside my top twelve. He's an RB one.
Speaker 1: Let me go the other way, Frank, because I I
Speaker 1: agree Justin Jackson's awesome, and Judy is starting him tonight
Speaker 1: over mark Ingram on Monday night. As Melvin Gordon doesn't play.
Speaker 1: It's the other side that I think is more interesting
Speaker 1: because I agree, no Austin Natla, no Melvin Gordon against
Speaker 1: the Kansas City defense that I was the second most
Speaker 1: fantasy points to opposing running backs all season long. Justin
Speaker 1: Jackson's and must start. I agree Justin sides. On the
Speaker 1: other way, we already going into question Mark dr Ay
Speaker 1: and said injuries or tweeting about that earlier. We'll hear
Speaker 1: from them in about a minute. But with Spencer, where
Speaker 1: let's just say beaning out he's doubtful right being out,
Speaker 1: Everyone's asking where does Damian Williams fall? Where does Damian
Speaker 1: Williams fall? Who do you bench for Damian Williams? At
Speaker 1: what point do you put him in your lineup? And
Speaker 1: then you're hearing port uh, you're frank. You were tweeting
Speaker 1: about this yesterday, You're like, I can't wait till Damian
Speaker 1: Williams scores. But it's not really him. It is Darryl Williams. Like,
Speaker 1: there's another d Williams. Like is that going to be
Speaker 1: a guy that people should know about going into tonight
Speaker 1: that they should be starting Like, would it shock you
Speaker 1: of all of a sudden that guy scores a touchdown? No,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise me one bit. And I tweeted about
Speaker 1: this yesterday. A lot of you were asking, well, what's
Speaker 1: the usage gonna be between Damian Williams and the rest
Speaker 1: of the chiefs backs? We don't know, just me personally,
Speaker 1: I think he plays around fifty of the snaps. But
Speaker 1: Andy Reid has said he wants us to be a
Speaker 1: running back by committee, So I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 1: Darryl Williams and Charke Hendrick West are involved as well, Scott.
Speaker 1: I want to thank you so much for day to
Speaker 1: day for the rest of the show for Dr Ray,
Speaker 1: We'll be back inside Injuries right after this Thursday Night
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Speaker 1: missed a lot of graces, miss a lot, Greg, Welcome
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Speaker 1: only for those who like to dance. Those elected party
Speaker 1: the King Scott Angle is one of those people. I
Speaker 1: am Frank stamp Well. I mentioned Greg Susen also joining
Speaker 1: the program. Have it have you Greg? Pleasure to be
Speaker 1: first time time the first time long time? And with
Speaker 1: that we've talked about it all show. I don't know
Speaker 1: that there's been a bigger week in terms of questionable players,
Speaker 1: in terms of we don't know what's going on right now.
Speaker 1: A Thursday night game between the Chiefs and the Chargers,
Speaker 1: that it just involves a massive amount of fantasy um
Speaker 1: potential tonight and with that I will bring in dr
Speaker 1: a of Inside Injuries. Doc, what's going on, man, I'm good,
Speaker 1: I'm good. I just I just pictured Scott at a rave,
Speaker 1: just kind of picked it was it was. It was
Speaker 1: been lightening. It was a very enlightening picture of Scott
Speaker 1: lightning Seattle. Like two weeks ago they had a seventies
Speaker 1: disco night. I was like, I closed that place seventies
Speaker 1: disco fire. Yeah, Doc, we have a lot we gotta
Speaker 1: get to. So as much as I love talking about
Speaker 1: the King and dancing and seventies night, let's start it
Speaker 1: off with Melvin Gordon tonight. I saw the tweets from
Speaker 1: Inside Injuries as well, and I agree wholeheartedly. I don't
Speaker 1: think that Melvin Gordon should go tonight. We know that
Speaker 1: they're going to test him out before the game to
Speaker 1: see if he could play. They need this guy for
Speaker 1: the playoff run. So I'll pose two questions to you.
Speaker 1: Do you expect Melvin Gordon to play tonight? And if
Speaker 1: he does play, how effective will he be? Because I've
Speaker 1: seen a number of people tweeting that even if he plays,
Speaker 1: he's not even close to We're talking like sixties seventy
Speaker 1: here at best. So you know, a lot of people
Speaker 1: are asking us, you know, if Melvin Gordon plays, do
Speaker 1: we have to have him in your lineups? Let's say
Speaker 1: you dr uh no, Let's you know, uh, this is classic.
Speaker 1: This is what we call the decoy alert. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's not I mean, if he does play, I think
Speaker 1: it's a very very poor decision on the Chargers. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're not playing for the fantasy playoffs, They're playing for
Speaker 1: the real playoffs, and they really really need to rest
Speaker 1: this guy. We've always said that week sixteen is the
Speaker 1: time that he needs to come back. If he does
Speaker 1: come back, now, it's it's too early. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day's overall injury risk is
Speaker 1: gonna be high because just of everything that he's to
Speaker 1: sustain this year, and it's sort of like having an
Speaker 1: impact on him towards the end of the season, and
Speaker 1: so um, you know, if he does play, he's not
Speaker 1: going to really generate a ton of fantasy points some
Speaker 1: and so this is definitely a week not to start
Speaker 1: or used Melvin Gordon. Yeah, Melvin Gordon fantasy owners just
Speaker 1: in this conundrum. Like I talked to Melvin Gordon owner
Speaker 1: UM this morning and they basically said to me, I
Speaker 1: don't even want him to be active because if he's
Speaker 1: limited on snaps or he re injures himself, fantasy owners
Speaker 1: get crushed, right, they get absolutely crushed by that. So
Speaker 1: he's like, I'd rather just leave on the bench. And
Speaker 1: this poor guy Owen spencer wear. We'll get through in
Speaker 1: him in just a second. When spencer Wear own, Melvin
Speaker 1: Gordon own Austin Ekeler, when you have to ask what Eily,
Speaker 1: we know the deal he's out. Um, But the fact
Speaker 1: is it's a question if not only can he play,
Speaker 1: but will he play the entire game? And at that
Speaker 1: point he's just like, let me start justin Jackson and
Speaker 1: hope for the best of I mentioned spencer Ware, Yeah,
Speaker 1: doc continue Yeah no. So one of the things that
Speaker 1: if to tell everybody on on our metrics is that
Speaker 1: when we predict when we have an health an htr
Speaker 1: of let's say the next week, and there's all this
Speaker 1: question about you know, them playing one week earlier. Um,
Speaker 1: that for us, when we look back and look at
Speaker 1: all the data, that has been a classic decoy alert
Speaker 1: that we tell everyone in the fantasy world is that
Speaker 1: the guy if he if like like I said. If
Speaker 1: he's out, it's easy for everybody. If he's gonna play,
Speaker 1: he's not going to rack up fantasy points. I mean,
Speaker 1: he could be out there just as a decoy. So
Speaker 1: this is our classic decoy alert. This is what we're
Speaker 1: calling it right now, classic decoil alert. That is the
Speaker 1: deal with Melvin Gordon tonight, let me go to the
Speaker 1: other side. I mentioned Spencer Ware, he's doubtful. What is
Speaker 1: his injury doc? And we knew he We know he
Speaker 1: played through in the second half. Adrenaline was kicking. Um,
Speaker 1: we know he played through it in the second half
Speaker 1: on Sunday, Quick turnaround No One Thursday. What's going on,
Speaker 1: spencer Ware. Yeah, it's a Grade one hamstring injury. So, um,
Speaker 1: it's not obviously torn, but there is a mild strain
Speaker 1: of the hamstring. Um, that's why, I mean they were
Speaker 1: very like hamstrings and wide receivers didn't practice all week.
Speaker 1: That's a good sign. However, Um, we still have him
Speaker 1: at week sixteen. I mean, Spencer where you know the
Speaker 1: full thickness pcl Tare last year missed all of US
Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen season and his player nucleus has a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of other injuries, etcetera. All it took was
Speaker 1: this grade one hamstring injury to knock our expectations down
Speaker 1: from a metric standpoint. I mean, guys, he's at on
Speaker 1: our books right now. Um, if he starts, there's no
Speaker 1: we can't foresee him really really, um, you know playing
Speaker 1: He's doubtful for Thursday night and it's a short week.
Speaker 1: Next week, the best he'll get is creeping into above
Speaker 1: average charactor. He is not going to be at peak
Speaker 1: heel for the rest of the season, so that's something
Speaker 1: to consider. But for certainly this week, you know, he's
Speaker 1: it's good that he's going to be out because he
Speaker 1: needs a full two weeks to get over this injury.
Speaker 1: We have an article up on rotal Experts dot com
Speaker 1: right now from you Got is about Tyreek Hill comprehensively
Speaker 1: detailed the injury. He is going to play tonight, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know that's important for fantasy owners. And the chief said,
Speaker 1: you guys break down exactly what it affects and what
Speaker 1: it does it effect. Yeah, heel injury. It's a Grade one,
Speaker 1: which is classic grade one plantar fasciitis. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: wide receivers, a lot of guys do a lot of
Speaker 1: forward and backward running, and you know, they have these
Speaker 1: types of injuries on the football field and so it's
Speaker 1: not torn, you know, but this is a it's not
Speaker 1: a debilitating injury, but it's a nagging injury. So that's
Speaker 1: why you're seeing him after a long run he kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of you know, sort of tentatively lifts
Speaker 1: up that heel, etcetera. Because he does feel it at
Speaker 1: the end of certain long runs, and so they can
Speaker 1: manage it with pain management, etcetera. But here's the problem.
Speaker 1: As the intensity gets going, you know, later on in
Speaker 1: the season, that grade one can easily become a grade two.
Speaker 1: That's why I we strongly believe that he needs one
Speaker 1: more week of rest, uh in terms of this type
Speaker 1: of particular injury, and then he will be good to
Speaker 1: go from an injury prevention standpoint through the playoffs. But
Speaker 1: if he plays, and it looks like he will be,
Speaker 1: you know, he's a injury risk right now. And at
Speaker 1: fifty when he gets to UM I believe they play
Speaker 1: on Sunday, So when he yeah, when he gets to Sunday,
Speaker 1: you know, he should be back up to above average.
Speaker 1: But I mean, he's not going to be anywhere near
Speaker 1: peak health this week. Last week though, we saw like
Speaker 1: lived through that injury catch a forty eight yard touchdown
Speaker 1: reception that was very key in winning that game. And
Speaker 1: you guys also lay out and it's not gonna affect
Speaker 1: his running. It's not gonna affect his cutting because it's
Speaker 1: not that type of arch injury or toe injury. But
Speaker 1: you know it will affect it what he lands or
Speaker 1: tries to decelerate. Correct that's exactly right after a long run, um,
Speaker 1: And that's it's not just it affects him with pain.
Speaker 1: If there's a little tweak, a little here and there
Speaker 1: with a different type of motion, you know, there is
Speaker 1: a chance, if it's not completely healed and it's been
Speaker 1: pumped with a bunch of pain medication, that he could
Speaker 1: injure it and not know about it because of that
Speaker 1: pain medication. And so that's the fear, is that he
Speaker 1: has a good game, he comes off and then lo
Speaker 1: and behold, he's on the injury report. Uh that he
Speaker 1: has a great to heal injury. Now he's out for
Speaker 1: the rest of the regular season. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, these are the types of injuries
Speaker 1: that you have to worry about when it comes to
Speaker 1: plant our fascia as I just want to put a
Speaker 1: bow on this game. We mentioned Damian Williams and Spencer
Speaker 1: wear so for everyone listening and watching at home, me personally,
Speaker 1: I have Damian Williams as a mid range RB two
Speaker 1: and I think he's right behind those guys that you trust, uh,
Speaker 1: you know Aaron Jones. I know it's a tough matchup
Speaker 1: against Chicago, but I trust Aaron Jones more right now,
Speaker 1: Lamar Miller playing very well. Good match up against the Jets.
Speaker 1: David Johnson, you gotta find out what's going on with
Speaker 1: him in terms of injury, uh and in Terrico And
Speaker 1: those are the players that have just ahead of Damian Williams. Scott.
Speaker 1: Do you think that's a fair ranking. I think it's fair.
Speaker 1: But I do have the head of Aaron Jones because
Speaker 1: it's a good matchup. He's an explosive offense and as
Speaker 1: we sold last week, I think Davy Williams will be
Speaker 1: that goal line runner and receiver for the kids the
Speaker 1: City Chiefs, and they're going to be in that area
Speaker 1: much more offer and I think that the Packers, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: Damian Williams scored two touchdowns from inside the five last week,
Speaker 1: a one yard rush and a five yard receiving touchdown. Greg,
Speaker 1: are you in agreement here? Let's just put a bow
Speaker 1: on this. Damian Williams midrange RB two with Spencer were out,
Speaker 1: so I think he is a midrage RB two. But
Speaker 1: I don't agree with Aaron Jones being behind Damian Williams.
Speaker 1: I'd rather start Aaron Jones this week. Damian Williams not
Speaker 1: somebody that is built to have the amount of carriage
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones is. I realized Jamal Williams wound up starting
Speaker 1: that game four Green Bay. I know the match up
Speaker 1: certainly not good for Green Bay this weekend either, but
Speaker 1: I just trust Aaron Jones ultimately to find the end zone.
Speaker 1: Um when I don't trust Damian Williams do that. I
Speaker 1: know he scored two touchdowns this past week. He's not
Speaker 1: a big guy, He's not. I can just see Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes playing the well fifty times tonight and Damian Williams
Speaker 1: just not being the recipient of enough to make it work.
Speaker 1: I'd rather start Aaron Jones, who I just trust more
Speaker 1: than Damian Williams. Let's keep it moving here and Aaron
Speaker 1: and Aaron Jones, by the way, is on our board.
Speaker 1: I just checked our app here. He is at nine
Speaker 1: peak health and he's at eight point three percent injury
Speaker 1: is low and peak, So it's a good pick in
Speaker 1: our mind. Absolutely there. I want to keep it moving.
Speaker 1: We gotta get to a couple other players here, Doc,
Speaker 1: and I gotta talk about my Jets. I gonna talk
Speaker 1: about my j E T S Jets. Jets, Jets playing
Speaker 1: on Saturday, and I think it's relevant right now for once.
Speaker 1: They're relevant for fancy because because Isaiah Crowell is dealing
Speaker 1: with a foot injury. He was seen in a walking
Speaker 1: boot earlier on in the week. He hasn't practiced this week.
Speaker 1: I know Elijah McGuire has been limited in practice. But
Speaker 1: if Isaiah Crowell can't go, we just saw Elijah McGuire
Speaker 1: twenty touches up over eighty total yards and he scored
Speaker 1: a touchdown in that game, so I think he would
Speaker 1: garner some flex consideration if Isaiah Crowell can't go, Doc,
Speaker 1: what do you have on Isaiah Rowell? Yeah? Now this
Speaker 1: is this isn't This is one of those debilitating type injuries,
Speaker 1: especially with the history of foot and ankle injuries that
Speaker 1: this guy has had. I mean, he's at thirty seven
Speaker 1: percent right now, and he's at an injury risk of
Speaker 1: thirty thirty. His HPF is almost equal to his injury risk.
Speaker 1: So it's a very bad uh sort of he I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of his injury history, and this
Speaker 1: injury specifically will at least take him to weeks for
Speaker 1: you know, week sixteen before he actually gets uh somewhat
Speaker 1: close to recovery. So yes, Isaia Roel is not you know,
Speaker 1: we're the metrics for him look pretty poor for this week.
Speaker 1: We're talking to Dr A from Inside Injuries Doc. Last
Speaker 1: week we were asked all about the same guys. We
Speaker 1: were asked all about the same guys. What do we
Speaker 1: do with with Spencer ware who wound up getting hurt? Right,
Speaker 1: what do we do with Justin Jackson now Melvin Gordon
Speaker 1: and Austin Ekeler both hurt? And what do we do
Speaker 1: about Jeff Wilson because Matt Brito was hurt. Marida return
Speaker 1: to practice yesterday's battling an ankle injury all season long,
Speaker 1: we all have the questions with do with Jeff Wilson.
Speaker 1: I want to be able to start him in my
Speaker 1: stifinal like going to get that opportunity. What's the deal
Speaker 1: with Matt Rida? Yeah, you gotta start him. This is um,
Speaker 1: Matt Brita is nowhere near ready. UM. You know, even
Speaker 1: though he started practice, et cetera. The kind of ankle
Speaker 1: injury that he has um, you know, and because he
Speaker 1: had a he had this aggravation after the week thirteen game,
Speaker 1: you know, and put some sets him back all the
Speaker 1: way to week seventeen in our books, and so you
Speaker 1: know this is not you know, you you have the
Speaker 1: opportunity here Greg to start at Jeff Wilson because this
Speaker 1: is not a UM. You know, this is a stay
Speaker 1: away for week fifteen and sixteen when we talk about
Speaker 1: Matt Breda according to inside Injuries from an injury person.
Speaker 1: Right there you go. So I get the opportunity to
Speaker 1: start here Jeff Wilson this week. And with that we
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Speaker 1: We'll talk to him for the next five minutes or so. Scotty.
Speaker 1: You know you had a question, of course about your
Speaker 1: favorite team. Yeah, Doug Ball wasn't able to play last week.
Speaker 1: Listed his day to day, miss practice yesterday. Uh, you
Speaker 1: did catch a touchdown past two weeks ago. Well, get
Speaker 1: San Francisco and uh, you know is a short yard
Speaker 1: red zone target, but he's been bagged up all year. Uh,
Speaker 1: should we see him this week at all? If we
Speaker 1: can get at San Francisco past defense, you might be
Speaker 1: able to plug a bit um. You know, maybe in
Speaker 1: spots like that, Scott, But you know I would definitely
Speaker 1: keep him off the field for week fifteen. Week sixteen
Speaker 1: is when we have seen we we have him coming
Speaker 1: back at optimal recovery time from this particular injury. However,
Speaker 1: you know, Uh, he's had most of them. He missed
Speaker 1: most of the preseason, if you guys remember, with a
Speaker 1: specific knee injury and an mcl S brain to the
Speaker 1: opposite knee. And now he's got a growing hip train.
Speaker 1: He has a history of growing injuries in the last
Speaker 1: couple of years as well, So you know, this is
Speaker 1: not looking good for Doug Baldwin finishing you know, the
Speaker 1: year unfortunately, and bad you know for us, it would
Speaker 1: be bad news for the Seahawks. Um he's at right now.
Speaker 1: If he waits, uh and come back Week sixteen, he'll
Speaker 1: probably be at SEV which is as pie as he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna get, which is maybe maybe good enough for
Speaker 1: a lot of fantasy folks, but right now is And
Speaker 1: with that, I think Tyrel Lockett just sloss right back
Speaker 1: in as a wide receiver to again this week, Scott,
Speaker 1: just based on the matchup against the San Francisco forty Niners.
Speaker 1: You mentioned that they've given up a lot of fantasy
Speaker 1: production to wide receivers this season, so I do think
Speaker 1: it's a favorable spot for Tyl Lockett, who scored a
Speaker 1: touchdown last time out against It was only catch at
Speaker 1: the game, but it was just a fifty two yard
Speaker 1: touchdown reception. Tyre Locket's touchdown depended a good way. He's
Speaker 1: having a career year. He's got that nine touchdown receptions
Speaker 1: and it's real easy to get to line up against
Speaker 1: that forty defense just avoid the Richard Sherban's side. You
Speaker 1: can throw old Day against the other side and run
Speaker 1: on that side too. I know the names that I've
Speaker 1: kept bringing up this week to you. Frank's in Buffalo,
Speaker 1: and that's going on with their running game with the
Speaker 1: Shawn McCoy and Chris Ivory. Uh. We're all desperate, right,
Speaker 1: We're desperates the time of the year, certainly for running
Speaker 1: back help and league winners. And while you don't necessarily
Speaker 1: don't necessarily want to start the Buffalo running back, if
Speaker 1: someone's gonna get a ton of carriers during the game,
Speaker 1: you will. Chris Ivy was great when Lashaw McCoy last
Speaker 1: missed an outing. But we don't know what Ivory's health
Speaker 1: is either. Doc. What's going on with the Buffalo running
Speaker 1: game this week? Yeah, this is a can we finally
Speaker 1: talk about some good news about a player. So Chris
Speaker 1: Ivory Uh is looking good, I mean from an injury perspective,
Speaker 1: how he's healing you know. Um, you know, he full
Speaker 1: practice on Wednesday, which is a great sign um his injury.
Speaker 1: He's right at peak health right now. He's at which
Speaker 1: is peak health in our in our books, and he's
Speaker 1: at elevated injuries, but he will be by game time
Speaker 1: that thirteen percent will drop down below ten percent, and
Speaker 1: you know he'll be right at low end and peak,
Speaker 1: and so he's recovered. They you know, they've you know
Speaker 1: a week fifteen is when we slated for him to
Speaker 1: come back. So yeah, if you if if you have
Speaker 1: to choose between these two and they were both ready
Speaker 1: to play, I would definitely take Chris Ivy over la
Speaker 1: Shawn McCoy. Well, Shaw McCoy is not scheduled be back
Speaker 1: in our books until week sixteen. He's at thirty nine
Speaker 1: percent and he's not going to be anywhere close to
Speaker 1: above average, you know, for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: You know, our opinion from an injury perspective on Lashawn McCoy,
Speaker 1: especially now with this Grade one hamstring injury. Last two seasons,
Speaker 1: he's had multiple injuries, a growing ankle, knee, wrist, head,
Speaker 1: rib injuries, and so Chris Ivy is your guy. I'd
Speaker 1: be surprised if Lashawn McCoy suits up this week. Guys,
Speaker 1: And I'll just throw this out there. The last ti
Speaker 1: time he missed the game was in Week three. In
Speaker 1: that game, Chris Ivory had a hundred and twenty six
Speaker 1: scrimmage yards, three touches, and played of the snaps. So again,
Speaker 1: we're all desperate this time of year. But if Chris
Speaker 1: Ivory is the workhorse back and Saw McCoy is out,
Speaker 1: I think he's another running back that just kind of
Speaker 1: slots into that flex discussion. Yesterday, Doc, we got some
Speaker 1: kind of breaking news about about Carson Wentz and I
Speaker 1: just want to I just want to ask you about
Speaker 1: him real quick. We only have about one minute left
Speaker 1: here on the show. He popped up, I went for
Speaker 1: an m r I, which was inconclusive. I'd be surprised
Speaker 1: if he plays this week. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: plays again the season. It obviously affects the pass catchers.
Speaker 1: What are we expecting from Carson? Before we asked answer that,
Speaker 1: it just came out that he's a small fracture in
Speaker 1: his back, which they don't need surgery. He doesn't need surgery,
Speaker 1: but it's very weird's going on in Philadelphia. So we'd
Speaker 1: love to hear what use that like used to have? Well? Well, great, yeah,
Speaker 1: well no, he had a turn Roman had a transverse
Speaker 1: process fracture. Uh. And we don't know exactly where the
Speaker 1: fracture is right now with Carson Wentz, it could be
Speaker 1: a transverse process fracture that that would be good news
Speaker 1: that it's not like an actual vertebra fracture. UM. But regardless,
Speaker 1: we had him at a great two back injury, which
Speaker 1: is three levels above a really minor tweak. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of in line with UM, you know what that is,
Speaker 1: and so we don't we did. We don't see him
Speaker 1: basically if they make the playoffs, we see him his
Speaker 1: HTR right now for US as January the fifth, and
Speaker 1: so you know, we don't really even have him close
Speaker 1: to coming back anytime soon, so that kind of coincides.
Speaker 1: All I have to say is Nick Foles make full
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