Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Monday, September twenty third, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. We want to
Speaker 1: just unplug the season and plug it back in again.
Speaker 1: It's me your man, nam G Marcus Grant, joined by
Speaker 1: Michael Florida and Lakwan Jones.
Speaker 2: All right, man, I'm gonna give you the space.
Speaker 1: You're rocking the Colors today. Your team came from behind
Speaker 1: and beat my team. They absolutely earned the win. My
Speaker 1: team deserved every little bit of that loss. The forty
Speaker 1: nine ers gagging one up. So yeah, talk to your
Speaker 1: talk man, because you know the Rams earned it yesterday.
Speaker 3: I know I said we did a truce, but in
Speaker 3: my best Dave Chappelle voice, psych no way Ram for
Speaker 3: the w baby at the crib and I'm so mad
Speaker 3: I didn't go to that game to see those moments.
Speaker 4: Man, But I'm gonna let you live.
Speaker 5: MG.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna let you live.
Speaker 1: Well, based on the videos, you'd have been the only
Speaker 1: one wearing blue and yellow there.
Speaker 4: Forty nine jerseys are just cheaper, that's sure.
Speaker 2: Sure it was truly Levi's out there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the rams last fourteen point win, comes from behind
Speaker 6: win was against Washington when Shanahan and McVeigh were both
Speaker 6: on that staff.
Speaker 1: Logan look at that time is a flat circle the
Speaker 1: whole deal. All Right, we gotta let to get into
Speaker 1: on the show, we'll have our biggest takeaways from week three,
Speaker 1: plus some guys that we're breaking up with. It's been
Speaker 1: three weeks, uh, and you know the trends are trending.
Speaker 1: We'll figure out guys that we might have to say
Speaker 1: goodbye to. Plus we'll give you some Waiver Wire love
Speaker 1: as well. But as we always do about this time,
Speaker 1: let's start with some fantasy headlines and a couple of
Speaker 1: big ones. I mean, there have been injuries all throughout
Speaker 1: uh the NFL, But on Sunday we saw DeVante Smith
Speaker 1: leave the Eagles win over New Orleans with a concussion.
Speaker 1: Took a really big hit in that game. Dallas Goddard
Speaker 1: had a huge day. But yeah, we'll see what the
Speaker 1: status is going to be for Smith going into this week.
Speaker 1: You know, AJ Brown still dealing with an issue like
Speaker 1: he may not play next week.
Speaker 2: We will see about that as well.
Speaker 1: So, I mean, Florida, if we go into this and
Speaker 1: there's no Aj Brown and there's no DeVonta Smith, what
Speaker 1: are we doing with Jalen Hurts, Because even with those guys,
Speaker 1: it hasn't looked great for Hurts this season.
Speaker 6: No, well, the first two games haven't looked great, but
Speaker 6: at least we got like solid fantasy production out of him.
Speaker 6: My hope is that maybe aj Brown could come back
Speaker 6: for this but even if he doesn't, you'd have to
Speaker 6: have another really good option I think to get away
Speaker 6: from Jalen Hurts. Quarterback is a little bit thinner than
Speaker 6: we had maybe hoped it would be coming into the season.
Speaker 6: Guys like Justin Herbert Kirk Cousins just aren't really usable
Speaker 6: right now in fantasy. So it would depend on your
Speaker 6: other option. But because of what he can give with
Speaker 6: his legs still, because he stills like Dallas Goddard Saquon
Speaker 6: there and I still think he would probably be a
Speaker 6: QB one and start like I have him the league,
Speaker 6: I would be starting him. My bench quarterbacks aren't anything
Speaker 6: to write home about, but it very much sow as
Speaker 6: it depends on your options type of scenario.
Speaker 2: I mean, right now, he is the QB six.
Speaker 1: We still have a two Monday night games left to
Speaker 1: be played, and two of the three Lakwan have just
Speaker 1: been kind of He hit sixteen but just under sixteen
Speaker 1: and a half in Week one, under eleven points in
Speaker 1: Week two he had or and we three I should say,
Speaker 1: had the good Week two game with twenty four Fantasy points,
Speaker 1: but lak.
Speaker 2: When we go back to late.
Speaker 1: Last year where the Eagles often sort of struggled, well,
Speaker 1: what do we make of Jalen Hurts?
Speaker 2: I mean, is this who he is?
Speaker 1: Is it going to be kind of rocky from week
Speaker 1: to week or can we expect better?
Speaker 3: It's gonna be rocky as long as this Eagles offense
Speaker 3: has injuries. You know, aj Brown is a huge piece
Speaker 3: to that offense, So not having him and then possibly
Speaker 3: having concussed Devonte Smith possibly missing a game next week
Speaker 3: against the Bucks, it's it's gonna.
Speaker 4: Be hard for Jalen Hurst to be the Jailer Hurts.
Speaker 3: That we known and love, you know, be able to
Speaker 3: get out of that pocket, roll out and extend to
Speaker 3: play with his legs, of course, but it's more so
Speaker 3: we're seeing Jalen Hurts struggle going out of the pocket,
Speaker 3: extending the plays and a lot of these interceptions are
Speaker 3: just unacceptable. So when you're taking away pieces, core pieces
Speaker 3: from this Philadelphia Eagles offense. I start to look at
Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts as a fantasy asset to where it's like
Speaker 3: I might have to bench you, dude, I might have
Speaker 3: to bench you when your team is fully healthy. Just
Speaker 3: having Saquon Barkley, unless he's catching twenty balls, doesn't really
Speaker 3: help Jalen Hurts well.
Speaker 1: And I think Floria you tweeted earlier in this season
Speaker 1: that Jalen Hurts looks slower than we have seen in
Speaker 1: the past.
Speaker 6: He then ran forty yards after shortly after.
Speaker 2: So congratulations on being a motivator. That's what you did.
Speaker 2: Just motivated it right there.
Speaker 1: Speaking of quarterbacks and their feet, Justin Herbert started the
Speaker 1: game for the Chargers against Pittsburgh on Sunday, did not
Speaker 1: finish the game.
Speaker 2: He left the.
Speaker 1: Stadium in a walking boot. I mean, lakwan, look, the
Speaker 1: passing game in Los Angeles, almost at San Diego, the
Speaker 1: passing game for the Chargers is not been great. We
Speaker 1: sort of expected that, I guess, with Greg Roman and
Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh at the controls. But now if there's no
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, can we start any Chargers? And I include JK.
Speaker 1: Dobbins in that, because if there's no Justin Herbert. If
Speaker 1: I'm a defense, I just scheme to take away the
Speaker 1: run game and force the Chargers to beat me through
Speaker 1: the air.
Speaker 4: I think you still start JK. Dobbins.
Speaker 3: This research is in by accident, the news ball, and
Speaker 3: he's efficient. You could stack the box all you want.
Speaker 3: He's one of those guys that can get through those tackles.
Speaker 3: So I'm definitely thinking about the other options the pass catchers,
Speaker 3: and I'm not quite sure like Quentin Johnson QJ. He's
Speaker 3: going out there bawling out right now, but two of
Speaker 3: his touchdowns are on blown coverages. So I'm not really
Speaker 3: sold one hundred percent. And if you take Justin Herbert
Speaker 3: out of that equation, I'm not too sure what this
Speaker 3: passing game is going to look like. It's already low volume,
Speaker 3: it's already a little bit boring through the air, but
Speaker 3: you're taking out the captain of this offense and Justin Herbert,
Speaker 3: So I'm not quite sure if I can depend on
Speaker 3: aladd mcconfey. I'm not quite sure if I could depend
Speaker 3: on the Josh bom or where he's at. And you
Speaker 3: know in QJ, so it's looking at you know, the
Speaker 3: rest of the pass catchers that I'll probably sit and
Speaker 3: look for other options and pivot to other positions at
Speaker 3: the flex position because none of these guys are your
Speaker 3: wide receiver one or two. So JK Domins seems like
Speaker 3: the safest bet if you're gonna be looking at these
Speaker 3: Chargers players in your starting lineups.
Speaker 2: I mean real quick Florida, Quentin Johnston, Real, and Mirage.
Speaker 6: I think he's real. I was saying he was real
Speaker 6: last week. I was a believer of his both coming
Speaker 6: into the NFL draft, and I kept saying all summer
Speaker 6: not to write him off. But what I think he's
Speaker 6: real is one, he is massive, so he's a good
Speaker 6: run blocker, so that keeps him on the field a
Speaker 6: whole bunch. Plus he is their go to guy in
Speaker 6: the red zone, like so that alone. Also, like if
Speaker 6: Justin Herbert sits next week, yeah, I think you get
Speaker 6: away from QJ. Even if he plays, you might want
Speaker 6: to get away from him because the chief secondary is
Speaker 6: still really tough and who knows how Herbert will look.
Speaker 6: But yeah, if I picked up Quentin Johnson in a
Speaker 6: number of leagues last week, and I'm feeling good about it,
Speaker 6: there's not many players that will hate off the waiver
Speaker 6: wire with they chance to be their team's wide receiver
Speaker 6: one and top target, and he clearly has that opportunity
Speaker 6: so far.
Speaker 1: The passing game is Quinton Johnston Lad McConkey. They both
Speaker 1: have ten catches, Johnston a few extra yards and a
Speaker 1: couple more touchdowns. But it's gonna be low volume pretty
Speaker 1: much all year long. All right, Let's take a look
Speaker 1: at some of the week's top scorers heading into Monday night.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott three hundred and seventy nine passing yards, a
Speaker 1: couple of passing touchdowns, also ran for a score nearly
Speaker 1: thirty points for him. Sakuon Barkley continuing to give John
Speaker 1: Merra insomnia one hundred and forty seven rushing yards, a
Speaker 1: pair of rushing touchdowns, also four catches for nine yards
Speaker 1: thirty three point six points in there.
Speaker 2: Juwan Jennings, I say he's gonna be a sleeper.
Speaker 1: I didn't think he's gonna give you forty six and
Speaker 1: a half points though he looked like. Jerry Rice and
Speaker 1: Randy Moss all rolled into one eleven for a bucks
Speaker 1: seventy five and three touchdowns. Dallas Goddard had a day
Speaker 1: ten for a Bucks seventy that was twenty seven points.
Speaker 1: Will Lutts four field goals, a couple of pats that
Speaker 1: was good for fourteen. And the Packers defense. I liked
Speaker 1: them as a sleeper this week. Eight sacks, three takeaways,
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Will Levis keeping fantasy defenses in business. But
Speaker 1: let's look at some of our other fantasy heroes, guys
Speaker 1: who may not have made this list this week.
Speaker 2: And for you, lakwanra sip a little Charbonna huh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a little Sharbonne.
Speaker 3: Zach Charbonne Man is definitely a fantasy hero for me
Speaker 3: man because he is one of the two handcuffs that
Speaker 3: all summer we were saying to go grab and they're
Speaker 3: actually performing at a high level. Jordan Mason being the
Speaker 3: other guy, look at me giving love to the NFC
Speaker 3: West way, you know it happens sometimes. But Zach Sharbonnay
Speaker 3: is running like this should be his backfield. You know,
Speaker 3: ken Walker, I think there is no rush for them
Speaker 3: to get him back because these bye weeks are going
Speaker 3: to start coming early, and you want to take players
Speaker 3: like ken Walker and kind of let him rehab to
Speaker 3: fully come back. But Zach Sharbonnay, he's got the keys man.
Speaker 3: He is running hard, he's running great, and a lot
Speaker 3: of fantasy managers are happy that they were able to
Speaker 3: get him in those later rounds basically for free.
Speaker 1: No one of my fantas lineup says you should rush
Speaker 1: Kin Walker back like please yea healthy road to.
Speaker 2: Go, Florio, your hero is a guy that you have
Speaker 2: been looking.
Speaker 1: You're not the only one, but you have been very
Speaker 1: big on this guy pretty much from the beginning.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Melik Neighbors continues to be my guy. And look,
Speaker 6: there was so many big names that were playing after
Speaker 6: the early slate of games yesterday, it was so nice
Speaker 6: in a couple of spots to be able to just
Speaker 6: sit back and be like, I don't even got a sweat.
Speaker 6: Melik Neighbors has me covered. And two weeks ago or
Speaker 6: last week, I should say, it was like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 6: he had this monster game, but it came in the
Speaker 6: best possible matchup a wide receiver could have. This was
Speaker 6: a big test now going up against the Cleveland Browns,
Speaker 6: and he came through once again. You see there over
Speaker 6: twenty eight fantasy points, youngest wide receiver in NFL history
Speaker 6: with a two touchdown game. First player in NFL history
Speaker 6: with over twenty catches and three touchdowns in his first
Speaker 6: three career games. I know people coming into the year
Speaker 6: were like, quarterback play might hurt quarterback proof matchups. I
Speaker 6: hurt matchup proof. He is one of the elite wide
Speaker 6: receivers in the league. I am already willing to say
Speaker 6: he is the best wide receiver that plays in New
Speaker 6: York right now. There's not a whole lot of wide receivers.
Speaker 6: I'd rather have the rest of the way than Malik Namors.
Speaker 1: Wow, all respect, I'm not Garrett Wilson. He's pulling the
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 2: What is it about.
Speaker 1: LSU guys trying to upstage Garrett Wilson have no idea?
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 2: It's the beef? What is the beef? Indeed, Sam Donald?
Speaker 1: Because we all would have predicted that, you know, through
Speaker 1: nearly the end of week three that Sam Donald was
Speaker 1: going to be the QB two overall, just slightly behind
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. But that is where we are. And Kevin
Speaker 1: O'Connell has this offense humming. This Vikings team looks like
Speaker 1: they are going to be a problem all year long.
Speaker 1: Donald the four passing touchdown to see that the twenty
Speaker 1: three zero point twenty four fantasy points. And look, he's
Speaker 1: doing it pretty much with just Justin Jefferson. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's getting Jalen Naylor, but they didn't have Jordan Addison
Speaker 1: in week three. They still aren't gonna have TJ. Howkinson
Speaker 1: for a while. But he's making things happen. He's getting
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones involved in the passing game, which you'll love
Speaker 1: to see.
Speaker 2: So right now.
Speaker 1: Donald has become one of those guys that has gone
Speaker 1: from kind of a punchline to a guy like, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe we should maybe we should check him out. Next
Speaker 1: week they're on the road at Green Bay. I still
Speaker 1: think he can be successful there. Now, we'll see because
Speaker 1: they got the Jets coming up in week five. But
Speaker 1: right now, there's no reason that Sam Donald shouldn't be
Speaker 1: rostered everywhere. Right now at NFL dot Com, res rostered
Speaker 1: in just fifteen percent of leagues. I suspect that is
Speaker 1: going to change dramatically by the time we get to
Speaker 1: Wednesday morning, because Sam Donald needs to be in lineups
Speaker 1: as long as the Vikings offense is going this hot,
Speaker 1: So we should.
Speaker 6: Put those c in the same convos with like McVay
Speaker 6: and Shanahan.
Speaker 1: I think that's we might have to I mean, it
Speaker 1: might start happening as long as they keep winning and
Speaker 1: keep being successful offensively.
Speaker 2: Let's get to some of our other.
Speaker 1: Big takeaways though from week three three and uh Lakwan,
Speaker 1: I don't know Raider fans ear muffs man, because it
Speaker 1: was not a good day for you, But for the
Speaker 1: folks who decided to keep pounding down there, Charlotte, it
Speaker 1: seemed pretty good.
Speaker 3: I am back in on the Panthers offense, Ladies and
Speaker 3: gentlemen like I can't believe I'm going to be spinning
Speaker 3: the block to go get a Chewba Hubber.
Speaker 4: I can't believe that right now.
Speaker 3: Deontay Johnson's rossed in less than seventy percent of leaks,
Speaker 3: like Andy Dalton came in, showed up, showed out, and
Speaker 3: put up three hundred yards in three touchdowns. The red
Speaker 3: rifle went in on the Raiders defense, and listen, I'm
Speaker 3: honestly super excited for Jonathan Brooks to be coming back
Speaker 3: to a structured, well productive offense where we can see
Speaker 3: some type of light out of this run game. I
Speaker 3: really feels though, Chuba Hubert Man. He showed up and
Speaker 3: showed out with his opportunities as well, putting over one
Speaker 3: hundred yards.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 3: He looked really good this week, and I think, you know,
Speaker 3: we need to be running to the waiver wire Man
Speaker 3: to go get a Chuba Hubber if our running backs
Speaker 3: are going to keep getting banged up, because I want
Speaker 3: a guy that's going to be able to take the opportunity,
Speaker 3: because this isn't something for from Cuba.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: He's been able to have one hundred yard games. He
Speaker 3: has four of them in the last three seasons. So
Speaker 3: it's looking like Tuba Harbert has the keys right now
Speaker 3: to Jonathan Brooks comes back. But this is a healthy
Speaker 3: Panthers offense that I think has a lot more in
Speaker 3: store for us coming next week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm very curious to see how much of this was,
Speaker 1: you know, Andy Dalton taking over and making that offense
Speaker 1: look functional. How much of it was the Raiders sort
Speaker 1: of raidering a little bit. We'll find out. They got
Speaker 1: the Bengals, the Bears, the Falcons coming up in the
Speaker 1: next three weeks. But it's worth taking a shot on
Speaker 1: those guys just because of what we saw yesterday Florida.
Speaker 2: What was a thing that you learned from Week three.
Speaker 6: Yeah, as a Deontay Johnson huge supporter, I loved what
Speaker 6: I saw yesterday there. I also was a huge supporter
Speaker 6: of Anthony Richardson coming into this year. I'm starting to
Speaker 6: worry about him a little bit. In his first three
Speaker 6: full NFL games he was averaging twenty six Fantasy points
Speaker 6: per game, and his last two full NFL games combined
Speaker 6: he does not have fifteen Fantasy points. And the thing
Speaker 6: turnovers six interceptions on the year, five in his last
Speaker 6: two games. And if you watched the game yesterday and
Speaker 6: I was locked in very closely on this game, there
Speaker 6: could have been a one. It's the way the turnovers
Speaker 6: are coming. They are like Will Levis s some of them.
Speaker 6: But two, there was a couple of near interceptions that
Speaker 6: he got away with that could have made this day
Speaker 6: look even worse. So that has me concerned. They get
Speaker 6: the Steelers this week. I look, I'm not telling you
Speaker 6: to drop him or anything like that. In fact, I
Speaker 6: think you should try to buy low right now. But
Speaker 6: a little peak behind the curtain for Week four, I
Speaker 6: have him as a sit against the Steelers.
Speaker 1: It's not a good situation and part of it is
Speaker 1: that he's not scrambling like when he's getting yards, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of undesigned runs. He's not doing it as
Speaker 1: much as a scrambler. We talked about Sam Darnold and
Speaker 1: the Vikings offense. I'm gonna tell you about the Vikings
Speaker 1: defense and maybe don't start guys against.
Speaker 2: Them right now.
Speaker 1: It has not looked good for anybody going up against
Speaker 1: Brian Flores's defense.
Speaker 2: They shut down the Houston Texans yesterday. They had CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud just kind of locked up. It was not a
Speaker 1: great day for a lot of the Texans receivers. The
Speaker 1: week before that it was the forty nine ers. Brock
Speaker 1: Perty going over afterwards is just like telling Brian floor
Speaker 1: Is your scheme is a nightmare. I just you know,
Speaker 1: in the highest compliment possible, it has been just a
Speaker 1: disaster for any offense going against the Minnesota Vikings. So look,
Speaker 1: you may have some studs that you're just not going
Speaker 1: to get away from, but after three weeks, it is
Speaker 1: fair to say that this Vikings offense or defense rather
Speaker 1: is going to be a problem for any opposing offenses.
Speaker 1: And if you've got guys going against Minnesota in any
Speaker 1: week in fantasy at best, lower your expectations if any
Speaker 1: If you have any other options, possibly get away from them,
Speaker 1: because right now we always find off defens is to
Speaker 1: pick on. We got to find ones to get away from,
Speaker 1: and right now that looks very much like the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: So got plenty more to do here on the show,
Speaker 1: We'll get you some waiver wire guys plus some folks
Speaker 1: that you know what it's over that's coming up next
Speaker 1: on the NFL Fantasy Football Show.
Speaker 2: Let's take a look at this week's waiver wire options. Florida.
Speaker 2: Who should we be looking at this week?
Speaker 6: Gino Smith in a good matchup this week against the Lions.
Speaker 6: Aaron Rodgers is starting to look like Aaron Rodgers again.
Speaker 6: And then we talked a lot about Sam Darnold. Brayln Allen.
Speaker 6: We told you to pick up last week. Do not
Speaker 6: make the same mistake of leaving him out there this week.
Speaker 6: Emmanuel Wilson is getting more and more work there for
Speaker 6: the Packers. Justice Hill continues to get all passing down duty.
Speaker 6: And then Rosehawn Johnson looked good and was playing a
Speaker 6: whole lot more than anticipated this week. And then some
Speaker 6: pass catchers, Quentin Johnson if he was still left on
Speaker 6: your waiver wire, change that now. Juwan Jennings obviously needs
Speaker 6: to be added after what he just did. Alan Wizard
Speaker 6: and Wandel Robinson some wide receiver twos for the New
Speaker 6: York teams. Jalen Naylor just scores a touchdown every week,
Speaker 6: it seems to Mario Douglas very sneaky next week against
Speaker 6: the forty nine ers, and then Tyler Conklin and Cole
Speaker 6: Comet are coming off of big games and look tight
Speaker 6: end as such a wasteland right now that you could
Speaker 6: do a whole lot worse than one of those two.
Speaker 2: Out about it.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Jawan Jennings though, real quick. I mean, look, Lakwan,
Speaker 1: it was obviously a huge day for him. Uh in
Speaker 1: the losses for the forty nine ers. I'm four touchdowns
Speaker 1: or three touchdowns. You know, we can't count on that
Speaker 1: every single week. But it feels like though as long
Speaker 1: as Deebo Samuel is banged up and George Kittle is
Speaker 1: sort of banged up, looks like Jawan Jennings is going
Speaker 1: to have a role in this offense.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. I mean, the dude's gonna eat six to three.
Speaker 3: He's a long body, he catches the ball at the
Speaker 3: highest point, like he's available in the middle of the
Speaker 3: field a lot of times.
Speaker 4: Like you see that he's a deep threat.
Speaker 3: I mean none of the dbs you know, for the Rams,
Speaker 3: were able to keep up with him. Man Like he
Speaker 3: was just out there doing anything and everything he wanted
Speaker 3: to do, and like he was showing he could be
Speaker 3: a deep threat and catch everything underneath short as well.
Speaker 3: Like he's going to be a huge ad on the
Speaker 3: waiver wire this week.
Speaker 1: Good to see the Niners extended their wide receiver wins
Speaker 1: l Brandon Ayuk.
Speaker 2: So you know there was that.
Speaker 6: I don't doubt you could have this game.
Speaker 2: I was I'm not having there are a lot of
Speaker 2: people who did.
Speaker 1: I actually thought he would too, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: you mentioned flour Lu with the tight end position, which
Speaker 1: is really a problem right now. Cole Comet, I know
Speaker 1: the Bears haven't been great offensively, but he does look
Speaker 1: like he's going to get some opportunities there even with
Speaker 1: the three.
Speaker 2: Well we'll see. Does it happen when the three wide
Speaker 2: receivers come back, I guess is the question.
Speaker 6: In Week one, the only time we really saw all
Speaker 6: three play, Comet only had one target, so I'm not
Speaker 6: sure if it'll sustain. But right now, who knows what
Speaker 6: Keenan Allen. This is a heal in issue, going back
Speaker 6: to something he was dealing with last season, So I
Speaker 6: don't know if we could really bank on Keenan's availability.
Speaker 6: If he does suit up, then the expectations for comet changes.
Speaker 6: But eleven targets this past week is something you just
Speaker 6: simply cannot ignore. Not at the tight end position. There's
Speaker 6: very few usable options right now, and even fewer on
Speaker 6: the waiver wires, So you got to take a chance.
Speaker 2: At this point.
Speaker 1: If you get seven to nine points out of your
Speaker 1: tight end, you gotta kind of feel good about that.
Speaker 2: That else is kind of a bonus at this point.
Speaker 1: So, speaking of guys that maybe are frustrating for us,
Speaker 1: get to the segment we're calling.
Speaker 2: It's over.
Speaker 1: It's been three weeks. These guys haven't produced the things.
Speaker 1: The situations look bleak. So for you, LaQuan, who's somebody
Speaker 1: where it's like, I'm just done Now.
Speaker 3: I'm so dumb with Will Levis, man, he just he
Speaker 3: needs some bonehead mistakes. Man, Just stop playing so reckless
Speaker 3: like he shows us flashes that he could be a
Speaker 3: elite quarterback at times where he's able to get out
Speaker 3: of pocket, see the vision and make the d pass.
Speaker 4: But then there's mistakes where it's just like what are
Speaker 4: you thinking?
Speaker 2: Like this, what are you doing?
Speaker 3: Like I can't say what was really said, but man,
Speaker 3: this is one of those things.
Speaker 4: We all were in sync watching this mistake, like what
Speaker 4: are you there? You got what is he doing? But
Speaker 4: it's like, come on, man, you gotta play better.
Speaker 3: And my fantasy roster cannot wait around for him to
Speaker 3: be playing reckless ball for the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: He is great though.
Speaker 1: If you're streaming defenses, you can target Will Levis there
Speaker 1: you go, pick Ali Florida.
Speaker 2: Who are you done with now? So?
Speaker 6: I mere whit? I faded him coming into the year.
Speaker 6: I have him on one team and I want him
Speaker 6: all Like, I understand if maybe you can drop him,
Speaker 6: but there's no way you could start him right now.
Speaker 6: Through three games, he has thirty two carries and six targets.
Speaker 6: That's good for just under eleven carries per game and
Speaker 6: two targets per game. He's played under forty percent of
Speaker 6: the snaps in two of the three games, and what's
Speaker 6: even worse is he is getting the most low value
Speaker 6: touches you can get. He is used on the ground
Speaker 6: between the twenties. When they get into passing down situations,
Speaker 6: they bring in Alexander Madison and when they get on
Speaker 6: the goal line, they're like, you know what, Zamir White.
Speaker 6: I know you're six foot two fifteen, but we're gonna
Speaker 6: call you out. We're going to bring in Alexander Madison
Speaker 6: to vulture these touchdowns from you. It is a nightmare.
Speaker 6: I don't care how many times Antonio Pierce says he
Speaker 6: wants to get him the ball more. It is not happening.
Speaker 6: It didn't happen against the Panthers. You cannot trust him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Panthers situation was sort of a if it
Speaker 1: doesn't happen, now, when is it going to happen?
Speaker 2: And it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: It didn't help that the Raiders got themselves behind by
Speaker 1: multiple scores. They had had to abandon the run game
Speaker 1: as well, but even when they were still close. I
Speaker 1: just was looking bad for Zamir White. Similar situation for
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift. And you saw Roshan Johnson's name pop up
Speaker 1: there on that list of waiver options. I thought this
Speaker 1: was going to be a good week for DeAndre Swift
Speaker 1: going against the Colts. Their run defense had been awful
Speaker 1: all year long. Instead, it turned into a very pass
Speaker 1: heavy game for Chicago. You saw Caleb Williams go over
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty passing yards to get his first
Speaker 1: NFL passing touchdown as well. The Bears really didn't try
Speaker 1: to run it, and when they did it was not effective.
Speaker 1: I think no play epitomizes the week more than a
Speaker 1: fourth down pitch near the goal line where they're trying
Speaker 1: to stretch Swift out to the edge and the blocking
Speaker 1: was atrocious. It looked like it looked like a big
Speaker 1: box store on Black Friday. The guy's just running through
Speaker 1: the offensive line and getting to DeAndre Swift to take
Speaker 1: him down. Now you're seeing Rashawn Johnson get more opportunities.
Speaker 1: The Bears still cannot score a ton of points. They
Speaker 1: can't run it effectively. So DeAndre Swift was the guy
Speaker 1: that you were getting in the mid rounds. The upside
Speaker 1: is that you weren't necessarily pinning a lot of hopes
Speaker 1: on his production. But what he's doing right now doesn't
Speaker 1: give you any hope. The Bears offense with Shane Waldron
Speaker 1: looks like a mess, and he's going to be very easy,
Speaker 1: I think in a lot of fantasy leagues to get
Speaker 1: away from DeAndre Swift. I suspect we're going to see
Speaker 1: him very heavily on the waiver wire in the few
Speaker 1: weeks to come.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: It wasn't all bad for running backs across the NFL.
Speaker 1: In fact, there's a guy in Kansas City who had
Speaker 1: a pretty good weekend, had a lot of folks living
Speaker 1: like curiously through him.
Speaker 2: In fact, now let's talk about one of our favorite
Speaker 2: moments from the past week.
Speaker 5: Carson Steele's sister Kessler and her now husband Jack just
Speaker 5: sent us this video from their wedding reception taking place
Speaker 5: as we speak. Watching Carson make his first ever NFL
Speaker 5: start wasn't great timing. Today was the only day the
Speaker 5: venue was available, as sister set out to save the
Speaker 5: date over a year ago, and Carson was supposed to
Speaker 5: be a groomsman. But luckily they have the big screen.
Speaker 6: He's there in.
Speaker 1: Spirit, all right, So I mean like that, it's a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. You have the family together, they're watching
Speaker 1: Carson steel one. Is he kind of like upstaging his
Speaker 1: sister's wedding.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, Also a wedding is watching a football game
Speaker 6: on TV, like like.
Speaker 2: Yes, the other part of it is okay. I know.
Speaker 1: Look, I know that apparently the venue was not available
Speaker 1: very often. They only had certain number of dates. But
Speaker 1: he was supposed to be a groomsman. Like his family
Speaker 1: really didn't have a lot of faith that he was
Speaker 1: going to be on an NFL roster. Huh, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's kind of nasty work right there, Like, oh, you
Speaker 1: would be available, don't worry about it.
Speaker 6: There's in the fall like that would keep you busy.
Speaker 6: That's true though he almost wasn't on an NFL roster.
Speaker 2: Very true. He was an undrafted free agent. He was
Speaker 2: an undrafted free agent out of U C.
Speaker 3: L A.
Speaker 1: He signed with the Chiefs, and I think it was
Speaker 1: a little bit of a surprise that he actually did
Speaker 1: end up making uh the final roster. So I mean,
Speaker 1: good for it. Look good for Carson Steele. I hope
Speaker 1: that his sister and her new husband. I wish them
Speaker 1: all the best of luck in their lives and in
Speaker 1: their marriage. But yeah, man, U, fall weddings, especially when
Speaker 1: your brother plays football, maybe.
Speaker 6: Don't or works for the NFL. I have to say
Speaker 6: no to a lot of weddings in the.
Speaker 1: Fall because of that. Yeah, yeah, it's tough. You know,
Speaker 1: we also have friends. Just look at you have from
Speaker 1: basically from February to July. You can get married then
Speaker 1: and then you know, after that it gets a little
Speaker 1: bit tenuous.
Speaker 2: It depends how much we like you.
Speaker 4: It's probably cheaper.
Speaker 2: There you go anyway.
Speaker 1: Carson Steel, though, guy who you should pick up off
Speaker 1: the waiver wire, looks like he's gonna get a lot
Speaker 1: of work in Kansas City.
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