Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, it's Monday, October twenty eight, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show where we need
Speaker 1: to sit down and catch our breath. It's me your man, NAMG.
Speaker 1: Marcus Grant, joined by Michael F. Florio and Lakwan Jones.
Speaker 1: Fellas Week eight pretty much in the books. We still
Speaker 1: have a Monday night game left to be played between
Speaker 1: the Giants and the Steelers in Pittsburgh. But Florio, you
Speaker 1: were pointing this out before the show. It's one of
Speaker 1: those rare weeks, but it seems like all three of
Speaker 1: our teams gotta win. I didn't dig back to see
Speaker 1: I feel like it has happened at some point this season.
Speaker 2: But we can definitely all. You know, we're all on
Speaker 2: the good side of things this week.
Speaker 3: Yay. I guess like I'm hopeful that it's happened already.
Speaker 3: Maybe did it happen in Week one or something like that.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but we're all feeling good. Marcus, your
Speaker 3: baseball team, yeah, yeah, they've been winning and stuff.
Speaker 2: So yeah, lots of.
Speaker 3: LaQuan your favorite soccer team, fired a guy or something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 4: We're all feeling good, yes, he's been sacked. We're gonna
Speaker 4: use the terms he's been sacked. Get him out of here, man.
Speaker 3: That's what they say when someone gets fired.
Speaker 2: He gets saack. Yes, yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Don't think you guys have been noticing like for a
Speaker 4: couple of shows now. I've just been putting like soccer
Speaker 4: terminology off. There's like bottom of the teak.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you kind of caught it. Yeahs over my head.
Speaker 1: I definitely you're not. You're not slipping these by me.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I just choose not to acknowledge it. That's all
Speaker 1: there is. That's it. I've got a lots to do
Speaker 1: on the show today, as always have, our biggest takeaways
Speaker 1: from what we have seen in Week eight. We will
Speaker 1: dive into the waiver wire and we'll get to some
Speaker 1: of our hot takes for the second half, some things
Speaker 1: that you know, might be a little bit outlandish, but
Speaker 1: kind of what we're feeling about what we expect to
Speaker 1: see for the last few weeks of the fantasy regular season.
Speaker 1: But now let's get started, as we always do, with
Speaker 1: some fantasy headline, starting down in Houston, where Stefan Diggs
Speaker 1: left the Texans game against the Colts with what looks
Speaker 1: like a knee injury, was running arout non contact, limped
Speaker 1: off the field. Now, as of us recording this show,
Speaker 1: we don't have an update on what Diggs's situation is
Speaker 1: going to be. But I mean Florida, look, I know
Speaker 1: Nico Collins hopefully is going to be back soon, but
Speaker 1: he is still injured right now. Now, Stefan Diggs is out,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, Tank Dell had a touchdown, which
Speaker 1: is great, but where else can we look to get
Speaker 1: some help in this in this Texas passing game?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know we're waiting for the word on Stefan Diggs,
Speaker 3: but non contact and they play on a short week
Speaker 3: on Thursday, so I look speculation on my part, I
Speaker 3: would plan on being without Steph Diggs this week. And
Speaker 3: if that is the case, it's Tank Dell and Dalton Schultz,
Speaker 3: I would say, because remember last season when either Nico
Speaker 3: Collins or Tank Dell missed time and it was only
Speaker 3: one of them there, then that's when Dalton Schultz really
Speaker 3: stepped up and got utilized more. This season. The difference
Speaker 3: is it took two injuries to get to that point.
Speaker 3: Because they had two OUTFA target Hogs Nico Collins. They
Speaker 3: are hopeful can be back in week ten. I think
Speaker 3: the Texans, with their record, are going to play the
Speaker 3: long game here. They're not going to rush back. Especially
Speaker 3: after seeing the Jets loose to the Patriots. They're probably thinking,
Speaker 3: we could beat this team without you guys. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it pushes Dell and Schultz into players that
Speaker 3: you could get into your starting lineups this week. And
Speaker 3: obviously Joe Mixon is the other text in there that
Speaker 3: you can start.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because Collins was placed on IR you have to miss
Speaker 1: at least four games. The earliest he can come back
Speaker 1: is week ten, so they have to get through at
Speaker 1: least one week. Theoretically, it looks like without Collins and
Speaker 1: probably without Digs. Again, we're still trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what the official diagnosis is on it, but as you said,
Speaker 1: Florida did not look good the way he went down
Speaker 1: and left the game on Sunday. Meanwhile, Lakwan over in
Speaker 1: Green Bay, Jordan Love suffered a growing injury he had
Speaker 1: to leave that game. Malik Willis came in and helped
Speaker 1: lead the Packers to a win in that one. I'm
Speaker 1: now the early reports that I saw were that they
Speaker 1: think he could be back by weeks in, but they're
Speaker 1: very doubtful that he's going to be available for the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions coming up this week, big game in the
Speaker 1: NFC North. Now we see Malik Willis, you know, have
Speaker 1: some good games when we saw him early in the
Speaker 1: season when Jordan Love was hurt. Because of what we
Speaker 1: saw early in the year, do you still have faith
Speaker 1: of starting any Packers wide receivers against this Detroit defense.
Speaker 4: I think he will honestly just be a headache trying
Speaker 4: to figure out which wide receiver we could put into
Speaker 4: the starting lineups. I'm not sure if elite Willis can
Speaker 4: really support like a Christian Watson and Jayden Ree and
Speaker 4: Ana Romeo Dobbs all at once, because I think what
Speaker 4: we saw a little bit when Jordan Love was out
Speaker 4: is that they move more into a run heavy offense.
Speaker 4: So I think outside of that fifty one yard you
Speaker 4: know catch from Jayden Reed last game, there really wasn't
Speaker 4: much you know, bursting, like really excitement out of Malik
Speaker 4: Willis that I think that this pass offense is going
Speaker 4: to be on the same standard as Jordan Love. So
Speaker 4: I think when you look at the three wide receivers,
Speaker 4: the three headed guys here, Dobbs. When you look at Watson,
Speaker 4: you look at Reid. Jayden Reid seems to be the
Speaker 4: most safest option. So a lot of Jayden Reed managers
Speaker 4: out there shouldn't merely be panicking with Jordan Love missing
Speaker 4: time because Jayden Reid, they're going to get the ball
Speaker 4: in his hands at all calls. He's going to get
Speaker 4: rushing attempts, he's going to get screen looks, he's going
Speaker 4: to get you know, played deep downfield like, he's going
Speaker 4: to be utilized all over this offense. So you feel
Speaker 4: really good at the most point that you know, Jayden
Speaker 4: Reid does have some upside with Malik Willis.
Speaker 1: In the three games where Willis has played a significant
Speaker 1: number of snaps, he has exactly one touchdown pass and
Speaker 1: no interceptions in all three of those games he did play.
Speaker 1: In Week one, he had two snaps at the very
Speaker 1: end of the game. That seems like a sort of
Speaker 1: unfair comparison for him in that circumstance. News out of Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: so the Packers played the Jaguars. Some significant news out
Speaker 1: of Jacksonville. Florio Christian Kirk has a collarbone injury. He
Speaker 1: is out for the remainder of the season, and then
Speaker 1: reports surfacing on Monday morning that Brian Thomas Junior is
Speaker 1: dealing with a chest injury and he could miss anywhere
Speaker 1: from two to four weeks. I guess the easy answer
Speaker 1: is that it's Evan Ingram season. Is there anybody else
Speaker 1: potentially we should keep an eye on down there in Jacksonville?
Speaker 3: Evan Ingram is the big winner, like you said, because
Speaker 3: last season he went from averaging seven and a half
Speaker 3: to ten and a half targets per game and averaging
Speaker 3: eleven and a half to over nineteen fantasy points per
Speaker 3: game without Christian Kirk. And I was all ready to
Speaker 3: say sit him because of a tough matchup this week.
Speaker 3: Then these injury news came out, and now I'm saying
Speaker 3: to start him. I think he is the only must
Speaker 3: start pass catcher here. But if you're in a deeper
Speaker 3: league or you're in a pinch with all of these
Speaker 3: wide receivers being hurt, Gabe Davis is boom or bust.
Speaker 2: We know that.
Speaker 3: But with more volume and more just plays kind of
Speaker 3: running through him a little bit, the chances of him
Speaker 3: hitting do increase. So I'm not telling you to like
Speaker 3: run out there, grab Gabe Davis and start him or
Speaker 3: something like that. But if you're in a pinch, and
Speaker 3: I have been in a lot of leagues, I think
Speaker 3: then that that is an option you could go. But
Speaker 3: the real winner is probably the running backs as well,
Speaker 3: because they're going to run the ball more and I'm
Speaker 3: sure they'll dump the ball off more. We even seen
Speaker 3: Tank Bigs beginning involved as a pass catcher this week.
Speaker 1: So this obviously means that the Brenton Strange is going
Speaker 1: to have the big game because that's that's just how
Speaker 1: the season has gone.
Speaker 2: So far this year, which you know, we'll see how
Speaker 2: that is.
Speaker 1: But definitely a big hit for the Jaguars offense and
Speaker 1: for Trevor Lawrence for anybody who's trying to start him
Speaker 1: as well. So I joked about Brenton Strange, but it
Speaker 1: seems like a good way to get into I don't
Speaker 1: know if you heard, guys, yesterday was National tight Ends
Speaker 1: Day and the tight ends had a day. I'll put
Speaker 1: together a list of all the guys who scored touchdowns
Speaker 1: and we see Kate Ott and Kyle Pitts with a couple,
Speaker 1: but look, no shock. Travis Kelcey gets in the end
Speaker 1: of George George Kittle's special days. Of course, he was
Speaker 1: going to have a nice day. Six catches for one
Speaker 1: to twenty eight and a touch down. But go down
Speaker 1: the list. I mean Adam Trautman got in the end zone.
Speaker 1: We can all rejoice because Sam Laporta scored a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Final It too a huge true. I got trolled because
Speaker 1: I thought he had caught it and ended up being
Speaker 1: brock Right, and then he got tackled at the one
Speaker 1: and he finally got in, so he scores a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews stays hot, Evan Ingram with a pair of touchdowns,
Speaker 1: Conklin and j Josh Oliver. Going back to Thursday night,
Speaker 1: I mentioned brock Right there, who fooled me into thinking
Speaker 1: it was Sam Laporta. Nate Adkins. His only catch was
Speaker 1: a touchdown. It was a huge day. Fifteen tight ends
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown on National tight End Day. It was fantastic.
Speaker 1: If you had a guy, hopefully you had him in
Speaker 1: your lineup, because it ended up working out pretty well
Speaker 1: for you on National tight End Day. All right, let's
Speaker 1: take a look at some of the week's top scores.
Speaker 1: Of course, the Monday night game is still to be played,
Speaker 1: but Jalen Hurts thirty five point one four points, a
Speaker 1: passing touchdown, three rushing touchdowns doing the job there. James
Speaker 1: Cook with twenty eight point three points. Sorry tythem, Klanie,
Speaker 1: We told you maybe to not start him because you
Speaker 1: had three other good running backs there, So that's that
Speaker 1: sort of are bad. One hundred and eleven rushing yards
Speaker 1: to rushing touchdowns, twenty eight points there.
Speaker 2: Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 1: Big game against the forty nine ers and right now
Speaker 1: looks like the only real weapon in the Cowboys offense.
Speaker 1: One hundred and forty six yards on thirteen catches, two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: nearly a forty burger for him. Kate Ott is part
Speaker 1: of National tight End Day nine for eighty one and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. Enders Carlson three made field goals because Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan loves himself, a field goal attempt and three pats
Speaker 1: fourteen points for the forty nine ers, and the Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions defense a sack, four takeaways and a touchdown gave
Speaker 1: up just fourteen points against the Titans.
Speaker 2: That was sixteen points there.
Speaker 1: But for a look around at the rest of the
Speaker 1: league and maybe go off menu a little bit.
Speaker 2: Lakwan, who is your Fantasy hero.
Speaker 4: For the week, Calvin Ridley. Man showed up and showed
Speaker 4: down one hundred and forty three receiving yards. I mean
Speaker 4: season high obviously, but this is the most productive, you know,
Speaker 4: offense that we've seen out of the Titans all season long,
Speaker 4: I mean season high in total yards, yards per play,
Speaker 4: rushing yards, etc. So it's good to see that he
Speaker 4: was able to show up and show I know a
Speaker 4: lot of people might have dropped him, you know, because
Speaker 4: I might have said that on Twitter, but whatever, we
Speaker 4: forget things. But yeah, but he showed up man. I
Speaker 4: feel it really feels though. In my homelane. I took
Speaker 4: a shot of him in my flex position because de
Speaker 4: Hop is out of the way. So now it looks
Speaker 4: like this game plan every single week could be getting
Speaker 4: Calvin Ridley involved very early on. And honestly, he might
Speaker 4: be a guy that you could play based on matchups
Speaker 4: because the quarterback is still Mason Rudolph. But I like
Speaker 4: the Patriots. Next week you could throw on them as well.
Speaker 4: I don't like the Chargers. But weeks eleven, twelve, and thirteen,
Speaker 4: this is like towards playoff time, and I think this
Speaker 4: is where you could really find the group where Calvin
Speaker 4: Ridley can be a weapon into your starting lineups. I
Speaker 4: mean these teams that he's going to be seeing later on,
Speaker 4: they're all averaging twenty fantasy points per game allowed to
Speaker 4: the position. So I like the matchups for the future
Speaker 4: for Calvin.
Speaker 1: Ridley said he needed first quarter targets, and you see
Speaker 1: what he did with him. Florida, Are you are you
Speaker 1: are supporting the guy that you have here on your
Speaker 1: chest today.
Speaker 3: Jaydeen Daniels because the dude is just simply amazing. Look
Speaker 3: I put on Twitter yesterday he is a lot like
Speaker 3: Puka Nakua. This week, there was clear risk and I
Speaker 3: won't lie. There was a play in the first quarter
Speaker 3: where he got hit. He was on the floor and
Speaker 3: I was like, oh man, his day could potentially be over.
Speaker 3: But I also put out that there was clear upside
Speaker 3: with Jayden Daniels, and that is what we got. Three
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty six yards a touchdown, fifty two rushing yards,
Speaker 3: twenty two point two four fantasy points. And the thing
Speaker 3: is what he gives you with his legs is why
Speaker 3: he is so good for fantasy purposes. Over twenty yards
Speaker 3: in every single game this season. But it has become
Speaker 3: routine where he is running for forty plus yards. That
Speaker 3: is a free one hundred plus passing touchdowns, passing yards
Speaker 3: in a fantasy game. And for those of you who
Speaker 3: are like, oh, he did nothing until this one play, No,
Speaker 3: he had sixteen Fantasy points scored before this Hail Mary
Speaker 3: play in a game against a tough defense where we
Speaker 3: did not know if or when he would play. He
Speaker 3: didn't practice for most of the week and he still
Speaker 3: went out and before this play had a safe floor
Speaker 3: type performance. So I think he is a mustart. I
Speaker 3: think we need to stop doubting him. He is the
Speaker 3: runaway rookie of the year right now. He is an
Speaker 3: MVP candidate for fantasy and real life.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, Yeah, he really is very much in
Speaker 1: the mix for all of those things. And in the
Speaker 1: matchup of one versus two, two came out on top
Speaker 1: both in playing and on the scoreboard as well. For me,
Speaker 1: as Cedric Tillman and we all thought he had some
Speaker 1: sleeper vibes to him this week. Noah, Maari Cooper in
Speaker 1: the offense anymore, a change at quarterback with Jameis Winston
Speaker 1: taking over, and Cedric Tillman had himself an absolute day
Speaker 1: and now you'll get it back to back solid games.
Speaker 1: Ford Tilman. You see the seven catches for ninety nine
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns. I look, it's not going to be
Speaker 1: this easy or this productive for the remainder of the season,
Speaker 1: but it is apparent.
Speaker 2: Cedric Tillman looks like he.
Speaker 1: Has surpassed Jerry Judy as the number one target, at
Speaker 1: least among why receivers. I think David and Joku still
Speaker 1: is going to be a big part of this. But
Speaker 1: Tilman doing some big things and he's still out there
Speaker 1: on some waiver wires. I doubt that's going to be
Speaker 1: the case after this week. So if he's available, you
Speaker 1: got to put in that waiver claim for him. I
Speaker 1: know we'll get to waiver wire a little bit later
Speaker 1: in the show. He's going to be a very popular
Speaker 1: ad coming up this week.
Speaker 3: What changed because the Browns passing attack suddenly very very reliable.
Speaker 2: It's good for sure. Who knows? Get to our week
Speaker 2: eight takeaways. What did you learn from this past week?
Speaker 4: Lukwon oh Man, Anthony Richardson's on Benro he should be
Speaker 4: Onventro until further notice. And what Bentro is is basically
Speaker 4: you're on the bench, you're on punishment, and you don't
Speaker 4: get off until you show some life. You're going to
Speaker 4: be a zombie collecting dust on my bench and you
Speaker 4: will be closer to the door out. And Anthony Richardson
Speaker 4: just needs to find a way to get him rhythm
Speaker 4: and games.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, only one game so far this season
Speaker 4: where he's completed more than ten passes. I mean only
Speaker 4: one rushing touchdown, which came in Week one, and is
Speaker 4: completing less than forty five five percent of his passes.
Speaker 4: There's not real good here. There's no real good knee
Speaker 4: here that you want to digest. There is no real
Speaker 4: good spark coming from him on this offense. So it's like, man,
Speaker 4: I just feel as though, like I'm not waving the
Speaker 4: white flag on him as a fan of him, but
Speaker 4: for fantasy I am completely done.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been rough for sure. What did you learn
Speaker 1: from this past week?
Speaker 4: For you?
Speaker 3: I have to go all the way back to Thursday
Speaker 3: for mine. And in the past I've had to tell
Speaker 3: Lakwalm like you might want to ear muffs. I think
Speaker 3: you want like the opposite of that, turn your volume
Speaker 3: up or whatever. I think the rams offense is going
Speaker 3: to win people fantasy leagues. Let's go back all the
Speaker 3: way to last season. Remember the first half of the year,
Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford was putting up yards but no touchdowns. Cooper
Speaker 3: Cup was hurt, Kien Williams was hurt. Puka Nakua was
Speaker 3: usable for fantasy purposes, but he was the only one.
Speaker 3: We have the exact same scenario, just a little different
Speaker 3: this year. Kien Williams has been the only one you
Speaker 3: could start every single week. Stafford has struggled. He's put
Speaker 3: up some yards in some games. The touchdowns haven't been
Speaker 3: there at all. But now, once this team got healthy
Speaker 3: in the second half last year, they went on a run,
Speaker 3: They got hot, they made the playoffs. They played the
Speaker 3: Ravens better than any d any offense did last season
Speaker 3: in the rain in Baltimore. We have that offense back now.
Speaker 3: When Stafford, Kyrin Puka, and Cooper Cup are healthy, this
Speaker 3: Rams offense is elite. It is one of the best
Speaker 3: in the NFL. And all four of them are healthy. Now, Now,
Speaker 3: if any of them get hurt, change everything I'm saying here,
Speaker 3: But as long as these four stay healthy, this team
Speaker 3: is going to win people. Fantasy Championships and hopefully you
Speaker 3: bought low on these guys or something like that, because
Speaker 3: I think Stafford is someone you could start moving forward
Speaker 3: and the other three year all must starts.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, this is kind of where we thought
Speaker 1: we'd be at the beginning of the season. Injuries sort
Speaker 1: of derailed that temporarily, but now the band is back
Speaker 1: together and the Rams getting a win means I don't
Speaker 1: think they trade any of those guys because they're still
Speaker 1: very much in the race in the NFC West. For me,
Speaker 1: now you heard Lakwan talk about Anthony Richardson being on
Speaker 1: bench row.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you about net right now.
Speaker 1: Is the fantasy quarterback we thought Anthony Richardson was going
Speaker 1: to be. You know, he's not a spectacular passer, but
Speaker 1: he's good enough. And when you combine that with him
Speaker 1: running the football. Because Richardson not running I think the
Speaker 1: way we hoped he would, that is what makes him
Speaker 1: a guy who is putting him over the top in
Speaker 1: terms of his fantasy production right now.
Speaker 2: For rushing touchdowns for Bonnicks so far this season. Over
Speaker 2: the last four.
Speaker 1: Weeks, he is the QB three, the third highest scoring
Speaker 1: quarterback over the last month and in large part because
Speaker 1: he is running the football.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't care that he's had good matchups. That's
Speaker 2: what we want.
Speaker 1: If he was failing in these good matchups and we'd
Speaker 1: be upset with him. But he is getting it done
Speaker 1: against some bad defenses. Took advantage of the Carolina Panthers
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and right now, he is that guy. And look,
Speaker 1: I admit I sort of mocked bo Nicks at the
Speaker 1: start of the season. I am apologizing I was wrong.
Speaker 1: He's playing some really good football and he is a
Speaker 1: real true fantasy asset right now.
Speaker 2: All right, we are still got pointed.
Speaker 1: We are still got we still got pointed to go
Speaker 1: here on this show against the waiver Wire. Coming up
Speaker 1: in just the stick Around for more are the NFL
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Show. Let's take a look at this week's
Speaker 1: waiver wire options.
Speaker 3: Florio go just spoke about Matthew Stafford. You need to
Speaker 3: add him justin Herbert not only passing better, running more
Speaker 3: as well. So take note of that Jamis Winston because
Speaker 3: he is the best quarterback on the Browns and put
Speaker 3: up some fantasy numbers. Alexander Madison had a real rough week,
Speaker 3: but it was about the matchup, still getting all the
Speaker 3: volume there, so he is in play, Ray Davis. These
Speaker 3: are all handcuffs that because it was not a big
Speaker 3: week of running backs, so Ray Davis, Braylan Allen, Julia McLaughlin,
Speaker 3: Blake Krum, Tyler als Year, Rosehawn Johnson all guys that
Speaker 3: are an injury away for becoming players that you just
Speaker 3: get into your lineup each and every week. And then
Speaker 3: pass catchers Cedric Tillman obviously needs to be picked up
Speaker 3: right now. Ricky Piersoll looked really good on Sunday Night football.
Speaker 3: Jalen McMillan had the most targets of Bucks receivers. Xavier
Speaker 3: l Ye not only played well, but there's a lot
Speaker 3: of reports that Deontay Johnson could get traded. Rashan Bateman
Speaker 3: probably wants to red you on yesterday, but the volume
Speaker 3: still keeps him in play.
Speaker 2: And then Browns.
Speaker 3: More Browns receivers Jerry Judy and Elijah Moore the first
Speaker 3: third and fifth most yards by a Browns pass catcher
Speaker 3: came in yesterday's game for the season. And then Hunter,
Speaker 3: Henry kate Aten and Dalton Schultz. Some tight ends because
Speaker 3: everyone needs a tight end unless it's National tight End
Speaker 3: Day and then every tight end goes off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much. You know, Kate Otten fantastic. I mean, look, Lakwan,
Speaker 1: we look at this. You know, Mike Evans out for
Speaker 1: a while, you know, Chris Godwin gone for the season.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know we sort of want Jayleen mcgillan
Speaker 1: to be a thing, but it does feel like Kate
Speaker 1: Otten is the guy until further notice in Tampa Bay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's the most comfortable in the system, and he's
Speaker 4: good at football, Like this isn't just some random tight
Speaker 4: end scoring touchdowns or making plays like this is a
Speaker 4: guy that's been working his butt off these last two
Speaker 4: seasons trying to find his way and fit into this
Speaker 4: Tampa Bay's offense. And he's been such a huge fantasy
Speaker 4: gym for a lot of fantasy managers like myself, coming
Speaker 4: off the waiver wire and putting up elite tight end
Speaker 4: one numbers. He's getting the volume and he's producing every week.
Speaker 4: So I definitely think for the rest of the season,
Speaker 4: Kate Odden shouldn't be questioned or not. If he's going
Speaker 4: to be in your starting lineup or not, you should
Speaker 4: not be benching him for the rest of the season
Speaker 4: because Baker Mayfield is going to need that security blanket
Speaker 4: because there's times where he gets wild and gets crazy
Speaker 4: and those are when the interceptions happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, But the kodd has been fantastic. All right.
Speaker 1: So now we got the second half of the fantasy
Speaker 1: regular season on tap as we had toward week nine,
Speaker 1: we got some hot takes for what we think is
Speaker 1: gonna happen for the remainder of the season.
Speaker 2: Mcwan will stay with you. What is your hot take
Speaker 2: for the next few weeks.
Speaker 4: We're gonna stay in Denver, Man, bo Nicks is going
Speaker 4: to finish as a top five fantasy quarterback and I'm
Speaker 4: saying that just based on the rushing upside and his
Speaker 4: ability that he has shown to go out there and
Speaker 4: put out points. He's currently the QB eight, so it's
Speaker 4: not that crazy. But the hot take, Man, this schedule
Speaker 4: is going to get harder. These matchups are going to
Speaker 4: get more difficult. But bo Nicks has been a rushing
Speaker 4: storm that you have to worry about getting out of
Speaker 4: that pocket to extend the place.
Speaker 1: Uh Yeah, bon Nick's fantastic. I'm starting to buy in.
Speaker 1: Adam Rank was on him early.
Speaker 2: I sort of laughed, Bye in get your ticket, man,
Speaker 2: I'm in.
Speaker 1: I'm a bowliever now for sure, Floyda, you got some
Speaker 1: running back you got right now.
Speaker 3: Look, James Connor was my biggest running back target coming
Speaker 3: into the year, and I'm not changing course or anything.
Speaker 3: I think James Connor is going to be the running
Speaker 3: back that we look back after the season and we're like,
Speaker 3: he won people the most championships, he was the league
Speaker 3: winner because he is so guaranteed for save volume each
Speaker 3: and every week routinely is putting up eighteen plus carriers
Speaker 3: and getting used as a pass catcher. But now look
Speaker 3: at this schedule. He gets the Bears this week. That
Speaker 3: is tough. Maybe this is the week you try to
Speaker 3: go out and acquire James Connor. Then he gets the Jets,
Speaker 3: who we know can be ran on, then the Seahawks.
Speaker 3: The Vikings are okay, the Seahawk again, this Seattle has
Speaker 3: been ran all over this year. And then in the
Speaker 3: fantasy playoffs, the Patriots, who we know can be ran on,
Speaker 3: the Panthers, who are the best matchup for a running back,
Speaker 3: and then the Rams, who again we know can be
Speaker 3: ran on. So the schedule opens up so much it
Speaker 3: has been tough up until this point, and Connor has
Speaker 3: still been productive. But now it opens up, and as
Speaker 3: long as he stays healthy, fingers crossed that he does,
Speaker 3: I think he is going to run wild.
Speaker 2: In the second half. I would absolutely love it.
Speaker 1: James Connor is one of those guys that's sort of
Speaker 1: I won't say it gets overlooked, but I think he
Speaker 1: sort of gets underdrafted a little bit because we want
Speaker 1: other guys who maybe seem more explosive or sexier names,
Speaker 1: and James Connor doesn't really fit into that a whole lot.
Speaker 1: So I think sometimes he kind of slips through the
Speaker 1: cracks but continues to be productive, you know. And now
Speaker 1: he's actually staying healthy, he's staying on the field. That's
Speaker 1: a big, big game of success. Mention it stop. I
Speaker 1: mean it's already out there, al already in the atmosphere.
Speaker 1: Now already put that evil on you, Ricky Bobby. It's
Speaker 1: too late, I mean, there is. Let's come back to
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks here, because my hot take is that Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson is going to be a top twelve quarterback for
Speaker 1: the remainder of the season.
Speaker 2: It's not going to be pretty.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some rough weeks there with Russ, but
Speaker 1: the schedule really looks nice for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2: Down the stretch.
Speaker 1: They have some really positive matchups and he is elevating
Speaker 1: all the other pass catchers around him. We already kind
Speaker 1: of knew what George Pickens was, and Pickens was finding
Speaker 1: a way to be productive even with justin fields on
Speaker 1: the on the field right there. But now I think
Speaker 1: Russe is gonna throw a little bit of a nicer
Speaker 1: deep ball. He's not gonna look to run as much,
Speaker 1: which means he's going to get the ball out, he's
Speaker 1: gonna deliver it, and you're just gonna see an elevation
Speaker 1: in the Steelers passing game for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: And so it's not going to be exciting, you know,
Speaker 1: like you're not. This is not the Russ Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: that we saw all those years in Seattle. But I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be a quality, sort of steady guy.
Speaker 1: If you're looking to stream quarterbacks, I think Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: is going to be a nice matchup bass play for
Speaker 1: you for good stretches of the year. You're gotta be
Speaker 1: surprised and in the back half of the season, you're
Speaker 1: gonna look around and say, Man, Russell Wilson's kind of
Speaker 1: a fringe QB one. Not something that I was expecting
Speaker 1: this year. That's the thing that we love. Now, let's
Speaker 1: talk about one of our favorite moments from the past week.
Speaker 1: We are loving the fact that a change in quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in Cleveland has elevated a lot of the Browns past catchers.
Speaker 1: But also we just love listening to the guy who
Speaker 1: has taken over as the quarterback for the Browns.
Speaker 5: There's a white boy from Detroit that I am. And
Speaker 5: he said, you only get one shot. Do not miss
Speaker 5: a chance to blow this opportunity last once in a lifetime.
Speaker 5: And I know I got a quote, you know, eminem
Speaker 5: he from Detroit, he right up the road. But man,
Speaker 5: I'm just grateful. I'm grateful that the Lord provided me
Speaker 5: with this opportunity. I'm grateful for my teammates, my coaches,
Speaker 5: and he's amazing fans.
Speaker 1: Oh, Jamis dropping some Marshall Mathers there the postgame press.
Speaker 1: Look while we were jugging for the show, we had
Speaker 1: like three different Jamis quotes to pick from in this way.
Speaker 4: Yes, oh my god, how he just starts white boy
Speaker 4: up the street from Detroit.
Speaker 3: Like man, Jamis as an eminent. This was world's colliding
Speaker 3: for me. Look, James, you watched the lyrics a little bit,
Speaker 3: but I still loved it.
Speaker 1: Oh Man, absolutely, Next, you got to get him some
Speaker 1: some mac miller. Maybe when they play the Steelers or something.
Speaker 1: If they played the Steelers again, right, you can drop.
Speaker 3: Some quarter miller. I'd buy his jersey immediately.
Speaker 1: During Jais the gauntlet has been thrown down, but the
Speaker 1: absolutely a moment that we loved from this past week.
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