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Speaker 1: Greg Sussman as he's out gallivanting the streets. Maybe a
Speaker 1: rehearsal dinner, maybe a last minute tuxedo fitting for his wedding,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be. Greg Susman is not here. What
Speaker 1: I am? Frank Stanfeld joined live in studio buy our
Speaker 1: special guest Nick Ercolano following on Twitter at Nick Underscore
Speaker 1: Big Dog's Gotta Eat Nick? What's going on in I'm
Speaker 1: glad to be back here. I haven't been back since
Speaker 1: the summer, and I usually I would swept my entire
Speaker 1: way through the show. And now it's about twenty five
Speaker 1: degrees in uh in New York City, so you're gonna
Speaker 1: need to have me back in like during a neutral
Speaker 1: time of the year. I would enjoy that a lot
Speaker 1: more a neutral time of the year. Yeah, it's gotten
Speaker 1: cold today, man. I know e y We is joining
Speaker 1: the show here as well, and he was talking about
Speaker 1: how out in Nashville it's randomly become winter. So we're
Speaker 1: all feeling the cold right now. We're really feeling the
Speaker 1: brunt of it. Ey. I heard you joined the show
Speaker 1: just as we were getting started here. You also referred
Speaker 1: to your laptop as something that you quote need to
Speaker 1: get cleaned out. So I hope that everything is going
Speaker 1: on well for you technology wise, uh and weatherwise as well.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Eway? Um? This is not a face
Speaker 1: of a technical technological mastermind. I can't even say the
Speaker 1: word apparently, so yeah, I don't know. I did the update,
Speaker 1: and as usual, now the computer doesn't work properly. What
Speaker 1: a sweet update. Thank you Apple, Thank you again for
Speaker 1: your amazing updates. Excellent I know that you've you've had
Speaker 1: some fun with Apple products as well. Nick tell us
Speaker 1: a little bit of about what happened last night to you. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: first I'd like to touch on the update for the
Speaker 1: for the MacBook that also ruined my life for about
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. I got the new AirPod pros, the
Speaker 1: Max and AirPod Max. I don't know. They just throw
Speaker 1: a lot of words max, pro, awesome, super, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Being a huge tech nerd, I had to get them
Speaker 1: like immediately, and I got them and they're fantastic. I
Speaker 1: love the product, except they have a little silicone piece
Speaker 1: at the end so if they don't fit your ear
Speaker 1: as well, which the Apple products normally don't for me,
Speaker 1: they made the silicone piece so that it does if
Speaker 1: it's everybody's ear. Except for when I popped it out
Speaker 1: last night, the silicone piece stayed all the way in
Speaker 1: my ear and it was making its way like into
Speaker 1: my into my brain. So I took a video of
Speaker 1: it and I posted it on Twitter, UH tagged Apple
Speaker 1: in it, and I went to their page and realized
Speaker 1: that they don't follow a single person. They haven't tweeted ever,
Speaker 1: but they have like three point six million followers. I'm like,
Speaker 1: they're never gonna answer me. But I asked them for
Speaker 1: a new MacBook Pro. I thought it was Um. I
Speaker 1: thought it was a good deal considering the damage that
Speaker 1: they did to me. Yeah, I think that's fair to say.
Speaker 1: And we were talking about this before the show. You're
Speaker 1: there like trying to get it out, but at the
Speaker 1: same time you're jamming it further into your ear. And
Speaker 1: you know, when I saw your video on Twitter, I
Speaker 1: was thinking the same exact thing, like that would likely
Speaker 1: happen to me. I would be one of those guys
Speaker 1: where you know, I don't like when the headphones go
Speaker 1: all the way into your ear. Like the normal air
Speaker 1: pods and and Apple headphones are find the way that
Speaker 1: they are, they don't have to go all the way
Speaker 1: into your ear, So I too would also be freaking out.
Speaker 1: So I feel your pain. Uh, And we're we're all
Speaker 1: feeling the pain of our Apple products right now. Um,
Speaker 1: But we also have Apple products, so I guess it
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter overall. Last night, the Autumn Wind is
Speaker 1: a pirate. The Oakland Raiders pull off the Wind twenty four.
Speaker 1: Before we get into all the Week ten matchups, I
Speaker 1: did just want to talk about this game real quick
Speaker 1: and what we saw last night. So Nick will start
Speaker 1: off with the Chargers side of things. We got bad
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers last night. We got the bad shot put
Speaker 1: last night. Two touchdowns, seventeen thirty one, three interceptions. I
Speaker 1: had the over on the receiving prop for Keenan Allen,
Speaker 1: which was sixty seven and a half. He had sixty
Speaker 1: eight receiving yards, so I feel pretty good about that.
Speaker 1: Mike Williams fifty nine and a half. Really, it can
Speaker 1: give you one more catch against this secondary. I don't
Speaker 1: know what happened last night, Nick, but for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, maybe he was seeing ghosts, I don't know
Speaker 1: what it was, but ultimately he did not look like himself.
Speaker 1: Three turnovers in this game. He fumbled another time, and ultimately,
Speaker 1: outside of Hunter Henry, you were let down once again,
Speaker 1: why by their past catchers. Yeah, Philip Rivers is a problem,
Speaker 1: it seems like for the Chargers long term, and they
Speaker 1: mentioned it during the broadcast last night. How you know
Speaker 1: those quarterbacks came into the league together. It was Eli
Speaker 1: who is now benched. You have Big Ben who is
Speaker 1: out for the year with his injury. We don't know
Speaker 1: what we're gonna see come next year. Rivers is the
Speaker 1: last remaining guy, uh, and I don't know that he
Speaker 1: should be. I mean, they're not gonna bench him, obviously,
Speaker 1: but there's a problem with his with his passing game.
Speaker 1: The whole shop with thing is is not working anymore.
Speaker 1: And maybe when he was a little younger and he
Speaker 1: had some more strength behind it, but that hurts a
Speaker 1: guy like Mike Williams whose main um you know, his
Speaker 1: main form of attact, especially for fantasy purposes, is those
Speaker 1: deep balls. And Mike Williams is the guy who people
Speaker 1: get excited about because he's got the air yards and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But if you can't put it together consistently and you're
Speaker 1: not getting those accurate deep throws from River his weekend
Speaker 1: and week out, then he's not going to have a
Speaker 1: lot of value for you, because you have to have
Speaker 1: consistency from those mid round wide receivers like Mike Williams
Speaker 1: in order to return some value. Uh. And it's hurting
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen of course too, because they are so heavily
Speaker 1: involving their running backs, which I think is a good
Speaker 1: game plan. Considering the tandem of Gordon and Ekeler is
Speaker 1: really talented. They give you everything you need. They give
Speaker 1: you the strength of receiving, the ability, all everything in between.
Speaker 1: And we're starting starting to see Melvin Gordon kind of
Speaker 1: come into his form. So if you drafted him late,
Speaker 1: you looks like you gotta steely. Looks like a guy
Speaker 1: who's gonna be a twenty touch guy that we're kind
Speaker 1: of used to. UM. I will say a lot of
Speaker 1: the a lot of the calls that they had were questionable.
Speaker 1: Some of the picks were a little bit unlucky, guys
Speaker 1: falling on the ground whatever, um. But when they got
Speaker 1: to the goal line man, some of the play calling
Speaker 1: was so suspect. They kept were throwing it to Lance
Speaker 1: Kendricks and they're they're fullback. Lance Kendricks are fullback and
Speaker 1: when they're trying to run the ball, they did the
Speaker 1: same play three times. They would motion one of the
Speaker 1: wide receivers right into the middle of the box. All
Speaker 1: that does is throw more defenders right into the box.
Speaker 1: And it's like when you're just trying to power a
Speaker 1: guy up the middle, get the defenders out of the box.
Speaker 1: Goal four wide, go go from shotgun and then get
Speaker 1: your best matchup numbers wise, but they kept running awful
Speaker 1: play calls, so that was terrible. On the flip side,
Speaker 1: I mean, we gotta give Gruden some credit. He's looked
Speaker 1: like a really, really, really good coach despite all the
Speaker 1: you know, the buffoonery that we saw in the preseason.
Speaker 1: He was I don't know, moving players that shouldn't have
Speaker 1: been moved. He couldn't get anything going. Um from the
Speaker 1: outside world, we all looked like it was a joke,
Speaker 1: but they're putting things together. Josh Acup looks fantastic, a
Speaker 1: guy that I was not on whatsoever, but he looks
Speaker 1: like a beast um And I don't know, I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't really trust too many pieces outside of their
Speaker 1: Waller has been very good but has shown that he
Speaker 1: has somewhat of a low floor. I still like him
Speaker 1: as a clear cut, tight on one going forward. But
Speaker 1: the game altogether was it was an exciting one down
Speaker 1: to the wire. It seems like this the Oakland Raiders
Speaker 1: are starting to spread the ball out a ball around
Speaker 1: a little bit more here with Tyrelle Williams five targets.
Speaker 1: You see onto renfro with his five targets, Darren Waller
Speaker 1: the same thing, So we're starting to see some of
Speaker 1: that floor of Darren Waller. Josh Jacobs, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: has been awesome at least fifteen carries in every game
Speaker 1: since Week four season high five targets last night. That's
Speaker 1: what I love to see from Josh Jacobs. But when
Speaker 1: we get back we jump into week ten, we're doing
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Speaker 1: E Big Dog's gotta eat E y as well at
Speaker 1: the Eric Young. Let's jump right in, guys, because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of talk about this week, this upcoming slate.
Speaker 1: It's the bye bye bye bye bye bye. Six teams
Speaker 1: on a bye this week. So let's start it off
Speaker 1: with the Cardinals at the Bucks, a likely bonanza this week.
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay laying forty four four and a half points,
Speaker 1: not forty five points. They're laying four and a half
Speaker 1: points at home. We've got the big total in this game,
Speaker 1: and Nick, I'll let you start things off with the
Speaker 1: Cardinals side of the ball. Here. Look, Kyler Murray looks
Speaker 1: like he's in a really good spot, uh, coming off
Speaker 1: one of his better games of the season, twenty three
Speaker 1: Fantasy points against the San Francisco forty Niners. I assume
Speaker 1: you gotta like Kyler Murray obviously here in the spot
Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay, which means you've got to like some
Speaker 1: of his past catchers. You gotta like somebody. I have
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk Crank inside of my top twelve this week.
Speaker 1: I might be crazy, I probably am, but I think
Speaker 1: he is the guy that they're gonna look at here.
Speaker 1: He is leading the team in target share in are
Speaker 1: yards since he has returned from injury. I think Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk has a big game. Do you have any interest
Speaker 1: in any other past catchers for the Arizona Cardinals. Tell
Speaker 1: me what you think about Kyler Murray as well. I
Speaker 1: think I think you're getting a little cute there with
Speaker 1: top twelve, although it wouldn't surprise me if he did
Speaker 1: finish in the top twelve. I mean, you look at
Speaker 1: this Bucks defense, and if you're not trying to attack
Speaker 1: them weekend a week out, you're doing fantasy football wrong.
Speaker 1: They I believe I've allowed the single most fantasy points
Speaker 1: to wide receivers on the year. So you're looking at
Speaker 1: a game where you have the Cardinals and the Bucks
Speaker 1: and all they do is pass the ball. They're both
Speaker 1: very fast paced teams, so they're gonna get a lot
Speaker 1: of snaps, a lot of plays, tons and tons and
Speaker 1: tons of past attempts. So you're you're firing up pretty
Speaker 1: much everyone in the passing game, at least from the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay side of things. When I'm looking at Arizona, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got you have to love Kyler Murray just because
Speaker 1: he'll have passing success obviously has the rushing ability to
Speaker 1: This is not a team that could slow you down whatsoever,
Speaker 1: So they want to have that fast paced offense running
Speaker 1: that's like their main goal weekend and week out. A
Speaker 1: lot of the times it gets stopped because you know,
Speaker 1: for one reason or another, they take away the deep
Speaker 1: passes and they have trouble running the ball sometimes. But
Speaker 1: this is a game where they will not have trouble
Speaker 1: getting the ball downfield. So I love Kirk this week.
Speaker 1: I love Kyler Murray this week. Uh, and he love
Speaker 1: for fits No, I mean he's been so bad. I agree.
Speaker 1: I'm just starting out there because someone's gonna see this
Speaker 1: matchup and say, oh, well, I could jump back into
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald here, and you say to that, no you can't.
Speaker 1: It's just like, why why do you feel that way? Other?
Speaker 1: I mean, I understand the matchup, but he's done absolutely
Speaker 1: nothing to prove it. I agree with you. I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna see DJ come back, and I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna run a lot of um routes from the slot,
Speaker 1: so he's going to be the guy that they're probably
Speaker 1: targeting over the middle of the field. So I would
Speaker 1: rather not that you're gonna have a choice Bee DJ
Speaker 1: and Fits. But if I'm gonna say why Fits, it
Speaker 1: will probably not have a good game over the middle
Speaker 1: of the field. It's probably because DJ is coming back
Speaker 1: and we'll take a lot of those targets away. Speaking
Speaker 1: of DJ, David Johnson, why I'll throw it to you.
Speaker 1: You get the aizure of breaking down the Cardinals backfield
Speaker 1: here in this one. I said on the Fantasy Football
Speaker 1: Frenzy that I think we see close to a fifty
Speaker 1: fifty split here with David Johnson and Kenyan Drake, And
Speaker 1: like Nick is saying, I think that we see both
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake and David Johnson used as wide receivers here
Speaker 1: in this game. How are you breaking down this Cardinals
Speaker 1: backfield way? I mean, look, it's gonna gonna be confusing, um,
Speaker 1: but but I think it's going to be a nightmare
Speaker 1: for whether you're a Drake owner or David Johnson owner.
Speaker 1: I'm an owner of both guys in separate leagues, and
Speaker 1: I think Drake's kind of coming out party last week
Speaker 1: is going to to rain on David Johnson's return. Look
Speaker 1: at but I think everybody, uh, we've definitely talked about
Speaker 1: Kenny and Drake on the show a whole bunch, and
Speaker 1: we could never understand why this guy wasn't getting used
Speaker 1: in Miami. He was never considered the number one back.
Speaker 1: Kellen Bolage started over him. No one could figure that out.
Speaker 1: Anytime we saw Kenyan Drake used or or given an opportunity,
Speaker 1: he usually sean even on a bad team. I believe
Speaker 1: that the Arizona Cargos are a better team than the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, specially offensively. UM David Johnson coming back off
Speaker 1: an injury, they're gonna want to like, you know, they're
Speaker 1: not going to want them to touch the ball five times.
Speaker 1: So I believe it is probably a fifty fifty split,
Speaker 1: and Kenyan Drake could be used as as the running
Speaker 1: back in the running back role and David Johnson as
Speaker 1: the pass catcher. That wouldn't be UH, wouldn't be sad
Speaker 1: at that this is a weird offense. Uh. Early in
Speaker 1: the year, I think game three or four, they had
Speaker 1: lined up with four wide receivers more time than all
Speaker 1: of the rest of the teams in the NFL combined.
Speaker 1: So there's just no way to predict this. What what
Speaker 1: uh They're going to do? And and it's it's cool
Speaker 1: to see, but it can be frustrating for the fantasy owner. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I mean that's the difference, right, real life football versus
Speaker 1: fantasy football. It's gonna be fun to watch, but it's
Speaker 1: hard for fantasy owners to figure out which way this
Speaker 1: one's gonna break down. Personally, I think we get twelve
Speaker 1: to thirteen touches each for David Johnson and Kenyan Drake,
Speaker 1: which makes them flex options again. Tampa Bay has been
Speaker 1: really good against the run, but they are a past
Speaker 1: funnel defense, so that's why their run numbers look a
Speaker 1: little bit better than they are on the other side.
Speaker 1: I know Jameis Winston turns the ball over a lot.
Speaker 1: He's actually been really good for fantasy this season. Um
Speaker 1: and the Arizona Cardinals are allowing three plus passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: in three of their last four games. So I'm in
Speaker 1: on Jamis and Kyler. I have them both inside my
Speaker 1: top six this week. At the quarterback position, Nick tell
Speaker 1: me about Ronald Jones because he's been named the starter.
Speaker 1: He played a career high fifty three percent of the snaps.
Speaker 1: It's a good matchup here, going up against the Arizona Cardinals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you have to like Ronald Jones. I think
Speaker 1: he'll be super chalky this week, especially in DFS touch game. Right,
Speaker 1: he finally played over fifty of the snaps, which is
Speaker 1: the first time that he's done that all year. Uh,
Speaker 1: and they don't like to use one back, which still
Speaker 1: makes me skeptical. I do like to hear that Bruce
Speaker 1: Arian says, you know, he earns the starting role and
Speaker 1: he's going to be the guy there. Bay and Barber
Speaker 1: has been absolutely nothing so far in terms of you know,
Speaker 1: successful on the on the ground, and Ronald Jones is
Speaker 1: finally giving them a little bit of a spark. The
Speaker 1: problem is, though, I just think they're always going to
Speaker 1: go back to the passing game, and Jon Jones is
Speaker 1: not someone that you could trust in the passing game.
Speaker 1: He's not anyone that was successful in college at the
Speaker 1: passing level. Yeah, he catches one or two Polls balls
Speaker 1: a game. Sometimes he takes him four big games. You get, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, he can't catch the ball, But like, realistically,
Speaker 1: we've never seen him historically do it before, so that
Speaker 1: troubles me a little bit. I mean, would anyone really
Speaker 1: be surprised if Ronald Jones gets fourteen carries and paint
Speaker 1: Barbara gets ten paint Barbara gets the goal line carry.
Speaker 1: That's that's my concern. Um. If you have Ronald Jones,
Speaker 1: I think he is a very very good flex play
Speaker 1: Given that, I think he's probably established afore like twelve
Speaker 1: to fifteen touches for the game. What that will surmount to,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm assuming Jamis is going to continue
Speaker 1: to throw the ball upwards of forty five times a
Speaker 1: game like he's done in the last three four games consecutively.
Speaker 1: I'm on Ronald Jones as a low wind RB two
Speaker 1: this week, just coming off that game where you had
Speaker 1: eighteen carries. I think it's a good spot here going
Speaker 1: up against Arizona. When it comes to Mike Evans and
Speaker 1: Chris Godman, you're gonna continue to roll these guys out there. Understand,
Speaker 1: Mike Evans upside has been considerably higher than Chris Godwin
Speaker 1: over the past month, and I met in this before.
Speaker 1: There's only been two games all season where both Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin and Mike Evans have gone off together. So one
Speaker 1: of these guys is likely going to I'll use the
Speaker 1: word disappoint you. But again, it's a good matchup, so
Speaker 1: I think both guys are still gonna be really good.
Speaker 1: It's probably one guy is going to be much better
Speaker 1: than the other. And when it comes to the tight ends,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just not getting involved. I'm not doing
Speaker 1: it anymore. O. J. Howard, Cameron Bright. It's a great
Speaker 1: matchup going up against Arizona, but good luck trying to
Speaker 1: figure out which which Tampa Bay tight end to use
Speaker 1: in this game. Let's move over to the Atlanta Falcons
Speaker 1: going up against the New Orleans Saints. The Saints big
Speaker 1: favorites in this game, the total up over fifty points
Speaker 1: here in the super Dome. Nick Matt Ryan coming back
Speaker 1: off of the ankle injury. Can you trust him in
Speaker 1: the spot? I mean, you could trust Matt Roy. You're
Speaker 1: playing Matt Ryan if you own him. But this game
Speaker 1: is going to be a disaster. I'm a Falcons fan,
Speaker 1: and I was not optimistic about them going into the year.
Speaker 1: I didn't think they'd be this bad. But I imagine
Speaker 1: the Saints are going to just washed the Falcons. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be embarrassing. They're gonna dominate times of possession, which
Speaker 1: is what makes me nervous about Matt Ryan. I think
Speaker 1: he will be like almost like a Jameis Winston light
Speaker 1: where they forced a bunch of turnovers on Matt Ryany
Speaker 1: there's a couple of picks, but at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, hands up with Renger plus passing yard's a
Speaker 1: touchdown or two with some turnovers. So on the Falcon
Speaker 1: side of the ball, I'm not optimistic if Um someone
Speaker 1: who owns any other the skill players besides Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, not even like Austin Hooper I'm too happy about.
Speaker 1: I think he presents probably a lower floor than people realize,
Speaker 1: but the same team is just so much better than
Speaker 1: the Falcons. I think they just dominate on the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball and don't give them Um too
Speaker 1: much time. Vonta Freeman, it's a tough match up here
Speaker 1: in the New Orleans States, allowing just three points seven
Speaker 1: eight yards per carried to opposing running backs, but he
Speaker 1: is being used in the past game, so I think
Speaker 1: in PPR leagues you're still looking at him as a
Speaker 1: low end RB two. But in standard leagues, this guy
Speaker 1: has not scored a rushing touchdown all season long, so
Speaker 1: it's a tough spot here for Devonte freeman Julio Jones
Speaker 1: four game average against Marshall Lattimore in his career seven
Speaker 1: for one, three has not already touchdown against him. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you're still using Julio Jones, e y. When it comes
Speaker 1: to Calvin Ridley, we saw before the bye he had
Speaker 1: seven targets, which was tied for fourth on the team.
Speaker 1: They started using Russell Gage Moore as well. Do you
Speaker 1: trust Calvin Ridley in the spot as let's say a
Speaker 1: high end wide receiver three thirty seconds, real quick way.
Speaker 1: A lot of it's gonna depend on on Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: and his health, and you know, I think he's going
Speaker 1: to start. Kelvin Readley as a guy that was drafted
Speaker 1: very high, a person that I was relatively high on.
Speaker 1: But the Saints, I mean, their defense has been up
Speaker 1: and down, but I think it's pretty solid. It's going
Speaker 1: to be tough for them to throw the ball and
Speaker 1: do much of anything without offensive line. So if you
Speaker 1: can avoid Golvin Readley, I would, But if you stuck
Speaker 1: with him in a flex, I mean there are worse
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Speaker 1: Nick Big Dog's gotta eat e y as well my
Speaker 1: buddy Eric Young. Let's jump right back in, boys, because
Speaker 1: to be honest, I am moving on a terribly slow pace.
Speaker 1: So we've got to up this thing a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I think we're just gonna try and avoid the
Speaker 1: players that it's pretty obvious you're gonna start right Drew
Speaker 1: Brees in this spot. The Atlanta Falcons Defense thirty one
Speaker 1: and past defense DV A way, they're not good. You're
Speaker 1: starting Drew Brees. Michael Thomas very good in this spot.
Speaker 1: It's a great matchup. You're gonna use Michael Thomas. Alvin
Speaker 1: Kamara coming back from the ankle injury. He has been
Speaker 1: upgraded to full practice, So me personally, I'm viewing Alvin
Speaker 1: Kamara as still a top ten running back here in
Speaker 1: this spot. I understand that the Falcons have better against
Speaker 1: pass catching running backs this year. It's probably just because
Speaker 1: they've been terrible against wide receivers. But Nick tell us
Speaker 1: about Lottavius Murray because people might have questions about him.
Speaker 1: What do we expect from Latavius Murray based on Alvin
Speaker 1: Kamara being back? And what about those peripheral pass catchers
Speaker 1: the Ted Gains de Trait, Kuan Smiths, de Jared Cooks
Speaker 1: in this spot. Yeah, so, I like a lot of
Speaker 1: the players on the same side of the ball outside
Speaker 1: of Kamara and Breeze and Michael Thomas, the obvious ones.
Speaker 1: I'll go right back to Ottavious Marie if I own
Speaker 1: him in uh in a flex spot of mine. He's
Speaker 1: gotten so much work. And I think again, like I said,
Speaker 1: the Saints are just so much better of a team
Speaker 1: than the Falcons, and I think they dominate them in
Speaker 1: terms of time, time of possession, yardage and scoring. Uh So,
Speaker 1: I think with Kamara coming to this game, I don't
Speaker 1: believe he's a d percent. I still think he's Probably
Speaker 1: they'll use Hi Mountain space slot like they usually do,
Speaker 1: maybe six to eight carries up the middle, which will
Speaker 1: leave you know, twelve to fifteen touches for Otavius, maybe
Speaker 1: some of the goal line work, which I imagine will
Speaker 1: be pretty plentiful against the Falcons. Uh. In this in
Speaker 1: this matchup. Um I also like Ted Gain as someone
Speaker 1: that I think probably in deeper leaves. He's not someone
Speaker 1: I'm excited to get into my lineup, but he's someone
Speaker 1: that you could definitely use because he's been in the clear.
Speaker 1: Number two. I know tray Kuan Smith is back, but
Speaker 1: even in the times when tray Kuan had the field
Speaker 1: to himself, the wide receiver two role he had all
Speaker 1: summer to usurped Ted Gain, who's, you know, thirty years
Speaker 1: older than he is. He's the second year player who
Speaker 1: should have you know, jumped over Ted again if we
Speaker 1: really were going to see anything out of him at
Speaker 1: this point. Um, So I like Ted Ginn. Also like
Speaker 1: Jared Cook coming back. He had two touchdowns in a
Speaker 1: row coming off a small a slow star, excuse me,
Speaker 1: in the beginning of the year, has a couple of touchdowns,
Speaker 1: then gets hurt. Now he's coming back against again the
Speaker 1: Falcon seem that you could throw against. So I like Latavius,
Speaker 1: I like Tedgain, I like Jared Cook. Fire up all
Speaker 1: your saints. Jared Cook a streaming tight end. This week.
Speaker 1: Atlanta has allowed four touchdowns over their last four games.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it. I swear I'm done with the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons in New Orleans Saints over to the Ravens
Speaker 1: and the Bengals. The Ravens big favorites in this spot
Speaker 1: at forty five and a half point total right now.
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, last time he faced the Cincinnati Bengals, had
Speaker 1: a season high one fifty two rushing yards. You're firing
Speaker 1: up Lamar Jackson. Same when it comes to mark ingram Here,
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals are very bad against running backs. He allowed
Speaker 1: the second most fantasy points to the position. E y.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about the pass catchers for
Speaker 1: the Ravens here. Hollywood Brown, his first game back, played
Speaker 1: fifty percent of the snaps he has seen of the
Speaker 1: target share in games that he's played. I'm not really
Speaker 1: worried about the Cincinnati Bengals secondary. Uh, tell me how
Speaker 1: you feel about both Hollywood Brown and Mark Andrews, who,
Speaker 1: while the targets have been there, the production has been
Speaker 1: a little bit inconsistent. For Mark Andrews. It seems like
Speaker 1: it's been coming back down to earth a little bit.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about the Ravens pass catchers here? Euy.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty obvious that the Ravens want to
Speaker 1: run the ball, and that's with their running backs and
Speaker 1: with Lamar Jackson. He is maybe my favorite player to
Speaker 1: watch right now. Um, he's kind of changing football. Look,
Speaker 1: the quarterback position has never he's you know, never really
Speaker 1: been played like this in the NFL, where h a
Speaker 1: guy has relied so much. I would say if he
Speaker 1: was a running back, he would be a top ten
Speaker 1: running back. He's so elusive. Um, even when they're guy
Speaker 1: guys spying on him, guys down low. Uh. And really
Speaker 1: the raality is is it should open up the passing game,
Speaker 1: but they're just not a team that wants to pass.
Speaker 1: I don't think they trust him that much to pass.
Speaker 1: And I get that he can make passes. He is
Speaker 1: a quarterback, but that's not his that's not his number
Speaker 1: one skill set. His number one skill set is play
Speaker 1: action and and option plays and and and passing the
Speaker 1: game the ball short to the tight ends where there's
Speaker 1: three So Andrews I think is the number one guy.
Speaker 1: I think if you got him, you start him. Hollywood Brown. Um,
Speaker 1: I think last week was them easing him back in.
Speaker 1: And I think if you have him, you start him
Speaker 1: as well. Because the Cincinnati Bengals are a rotten football
Speaker 1: team and the whole offenses can have Finley itis, the
Speaker 1: only guy I think you can maybe trust a little
Speaker 1: bit and flexes mixing. Uh. And that's just me being
Speaker 1: hopeful because I'm starting him e Y being hopeful with mixing.
Speaker 1: You know, nothing bad has ever come of being hopeful
Speaker 1: of mixing. Apparently that's what they say. I do love
Speaker 1: when e Y uses the word rotten to describe football teams.
Speaker 1: But that is the Cincinnati Bengals. They are winless on
Speaker 1: the season. Uh. And now you have the pleasure of
Speaker 1: talking about the Cincinnati Bengals here, Nick, What are you
Speaker 1: expecting from Ryan Finley? I know we had the high
Speaker 1: completion percentage in the preseason, a lot of dump off passes,
Speaker 1: a lot of short throws as well. Does that favor
Speaker 1: of Tyler Boyd? How do you handicap these Bengals pass
Speaker 1: catchers in this game? And is there a chance that
Speaker 1: we could see more targets for Joe Mixon because to me,
Speaker 1: that has been the most frustrating part about Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: season so far. Yeah. I don't think you could pay
Speaker 1: me to start a single Cincinnati Bengal this week. My
Speaker 1: problem with even a guy like Tyler Boyd, who's seen
Speaker 1: so many looks, none of them are further than seven
Speaker 1: or eight yards down the field. I imagine. I don't
Speaker 1: know much about Ryan Finley, admittedly, but I can't imagine
Speaker 1: he's gonna be throwing it further than you know, a
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph guy who's averaging like five point five yards
Speaker 1: per time. The guy doesn't look downfield. So I think
Speaker 1: we'll get a lot of that from Ryan Finley. This
Speaker 1: Ravens defense is coming into its own right now. Right
Speaker 1: with Jimmy Smith back. Marlin Humphrey has been a shut
Speaker 1: down cornerback over the last two months. Jimmy Smith now
Speaker 1: back as well. Yeah, exactly, And I don't know if
Speaker 1: you're listening, but I actually just said that I pulled
Speaker 1: the Greg sus but I'm sorry. Well, you know, I
Speaker 1: was thinking of Marcus Peters, so they acquired Marcus Peters
Speaker 1: and then Jimmy Smith is backs now as well. But
Speaker 1: the secondary, you're right, it's healthy and they're playing well.
Speaker 1: And Marlon Humphrey shut down Tyler Boyd in their first
Speaker 1: matchup and he shouted him. So I had imagined that's
Speaker 1: going to be the same thing and this one uh mixing.
Speaker 1: I mean I I I have him sitting on my bench. Four.
Speaker 1: I started both charges running backs over him, and I
Speaker 1: will probably be starting either Damian Williams or Matt Braid
Speaker 1: over Joe Mixon. So he is far down the total poll.
Speaker 1: I can understand if you're a little bit desperate during
Speaker 1: a six team by week, but there's nobody on Cincinnati
Speaker 1: that I am excited to, uh excited to start, and
Speaker 1: I can't argue with that, which I think that means
Speaker 1: we're done with the Ravens and the Bengals. Let's move
Speaker 1: over to the Bills at the Browns. Kind of a
Speaker 1: sneaky spread here, right, Does Vegas knows something we don't.
Speaker 1: Cleveland is still favored in this game despite being two
Speaker 1: and six coming in and favor facing the Bills who
Speaker 1: are six and two. Josh Allen has been a safe
Speaker 1: quarterback this year. Doesn't have the same upside and I've
Speaker 1: seen you tweeting about this before in the past. Doesn't
Speaker 1: have to say and rushing upside as he has has
Speaker 1: he had last year, But overall he has been pretty
Speaker 1: safe from a fantasy football perspective. He's barely inside my
Speaker 1: top twelve. I think that we see a lot of
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary in this spot. The question is, e y,
Speaker 1: how high is too high for Devin Singletary. Looks like
Speaker 1: he took over this backfield last week six or six
Speaker 1: percent of the snaps he had twenty carries. He had
Speaker 1: four targets. Cleveland is allowing four point nine yards per
Speaker 1: carried of running backs. They give up the ninth most
Speaker 1: Fantasy points. I currently have Devin Singletary as my RB sixteen,
Speaker 1: ahead of Jalen Samuels, Todd Gurley, Tevin Coleman. I'm very
Speaker 1: excited about Devin Singletary. What say you, E Y yeah?
Speaker 1: I think I think um last week is an indication
Speaker 1: of what's going to happen. Frank gore Is has been
Speaker 1: an amazing player's entire career. You can't take away the
Speaker 1: fact that he's like seventy five years old and still
Speaker 1: was a starting running back at some point this year
Speaker 1: bone on bone and both knees and still getting it
Speaker 1: done somehow. But Singletary had his coming out party last
Speaker 1: week that him and standards they were kind of both
Speaker 1: in the same thing as like you you know that
Speaker 1: at some point this year. It's going to become their
Speaker 1: their backfield. But having Howard or Gore there is going
Speaker 1: to kind of slant their their production because they're not
Speaker 1: going to have as a massive opportunity. This is what
Speaker 1: the NFL is. They're going to share the backfield. I
Speaker 1: believe Gore will still play. Um. Buffalo is another team
Speaker 1: that that wants to run the ball and control the clock,
Speaker 1: play good defense. Um, They're a good team. And the
Speaker 1: fact that Vegas has got Cleveland winning doesn't make any
Speaker 1: sense to me, but they do. They usually know something
Speaker 1: that we don't know. That's why those casinos look like that.
Speaker 1: They Vegas is a city that was built in the
Speaker 1: desert because they know what they're talking about. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, for me, Devin Singletary is probably a must
Speaker 1: start and and uh, I'm excited to see what this
Speaker 1: kids are gonna do going forward. I'm still trusting John
Speaker 1: Brown in this spot as well. Playing of the snaps
Speaker 1: on the season for the Buffalo Bills leads them with
Speaker 1: of their targets share fifty yards or a touchdown in
Speaker 1: every single game. Again, upside because of Josh Allen has
Speaker 1: not been massive like we were expecting for John Brown
Speaker 1: but he's actually been a little bit more consistent than
Speaker 1: I think most people were expecting coming into the season.
Speaker 1: The Browns have allowed five touchdowns to wide receivers over
Speaker 1: their last three games. Nick. I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: ever done a show where halfway through the show you
Speaker 1: start shaving your facial hair or your mustache. But it
Speaker 1: seems like Baker Mayfield right now, UH is more interested
Speaker 1: in his mustache and shaving it at halftime rather than
Speaker 1: actually playing good football here. So you get the pleasure
Speaker 1: once again of breaking down the Browns. Everyone wants to
Speaker 1: know what's going on with Nick Chubb versus Kareem Hunt.
Speaker 1: I like both guys in the spot. I don't think
Speaker 1: that Freddy Kitchens should overthink this, but of course all
Speaker 1: Freddy Kitchens does is overthink things. The Buffalo Bills are
Speaker 1: allowing four point five yards per carried the running backs.
Speaker 1: They have allowed an RB to score or rush for
Speaker 1: a hundred yards in five straight games. So I think
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb is still a really good play And if
Speaker 1: you ask me, I think we see a sixty five
Speaker 1: thirty five split between Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt. What's
Speaker 1: a you? I'm with that I'm fine with that too.
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of people realize that Chubb
Speaker 1: has really only been playing on about six of the
Speaker 1: snaps up to this point in the season, all that
Speaker 1: extra work to Dontrell Hilliard and those random pass catchers
Speaker 1: in there. I'll go over to cream Hunt. Let him
Speaker 1: get his five targets a game. That's not where Chub
Speaker 1: eats up his fantasy work it anyway, he hasn't had
Speaker 1: a game over thirty five receiving the yards yet this year,
Speaker 1: hasn't got in the end zone via receiving. So the
Speaker 1: fact that he is like RB six or seven right
Speaker 1: now in fantasy without that receiving production makes me not
Speaker 1: nervous about Cream Hunt if I am a Chub owner.
Speaker 1: The passing game, though, it is crazy how the NFL
Speaker 1: has them as three point favorites two and six versus
Speaker 1: the Bills six and two, three and oh on the road.
Speaker 1: It's you know, that's I guess the product of playing
Speaker 1: in the NFC East. Um, but I'm not looking forward
Speaker 1: to starting Baker Mayfield O. B J is probably right
Speaker 1: around a borderline wide receiver two if that at this point.
Speaker 1: With Trdavious White coming up on the schedule. But yeah,
Speaker 1: something that people shouldn't overlook is what you brought up
Speaker 1: there built. The run defense is not what's keeping them,
Speaker 1: you know, at this record right now, it's the past
Speaker 1: defense that's really really vital to their success. It's Nick
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Speaker 1: Fantasy BFS right here on the Sportscreed TV Network. I
Speaker 1: am Frank Staffeld, joined by Nick Lano, Big Dog's gotta
Speaker 1: eat e y Eric Young as well. Uh does this
Speaker 1: bring up any memories for you? The Bajables? Why are
Speaker 1: you upset? Scenes not to play it? And now everybody's fired?
Speaker 1: Now everybody has fired. Uh sorry, Danny, someone else is
Speaker 1: gonna have to take over the board downstairs. All right, Enough,
Speaker 1: enough of the chit chat. I gotta try to get
Speaker 1: in eight games in a matter of I don't know
Speaker 1: how many minutes we have left, but I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: my best. It's the Detroit Lions going up against the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears here. I am worried about Matthew Stafford in
Speaker 1: this spot. I understand that he has played well. The
Speaker 1: past volume is up. They have not been able to
Speaker 1: run the football. The Bear secondary has played really well.
Speaker 1: Matthew Staffords a little banged up here in this spot.
Speaker 1: He had twenty one touchdowns in sixteen games last year.
Speaker 1: So far this season, he has nineteen touchdowns in eight games.
Speaker 1: He is playing very well. With that being said, I
Speaker 1: am very worried about Matthew Stafford in the spot. I
Speaker 1: have him outside of my top twelve. I really don't
Speaker 1: want to fool around with the Detroit Lions running backs
Speaker 1: Ty Johnson played six. You pretended the snaps, but of
Speaker 1: course j D McKissick scored the touchdown last week. The
Speaker 1: way to attack the Bears right now is on the ground.
Speaker 1: Since they lost a Cheam Hicks, they haven't been the
Speaker 1: same defense. But I can't trust any of these Lions
Speaker 1: running backs, Nick, I mean, who are you trusting? If
Speaker 1: anybody on the Detroit Lions. I'm worried about Stafford? Are
Speaker 1: you worried about him? Does that make you worried about
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay and Marvin Jones as well? Yeah? This this
Speaker 1: seems like a spot where Stafford is going to be
Speaker 1: a big letdown because he's coming off with so many,
Speaker 1: you know, strong performances in a row and people are
Speaker 1: getting excited about him, and then he's gonna throw up
Speaker 1: a dud um. That said, though, I still like Kenny Golladay.
Speaker 1: If you look at his last few times playing at Chicago,
Speaker 1: he has had no trouble finding success. Six for seventy
Speaker 1: eight in a touchdown last year, five for nine d
Speaker 1: in another game. So I'm not really worried about Kenny Golladay.
Speaker 1: I think he's he's who talented to kind of fail
Speaker 1: at this point. Yes, we've seen him have a couple
Speaker 1: of low floor games, but for the most part, he's
Speaker 1: been over twenty receiving yards and three out of the
Speaker 1: last four games, and I think well, and those have
Speaker 1: been against good secondaries for the most part, Green Bay Minnesota.
Speaker 1: So I'm not worried about nny G. I am worried
Speaker 1: about the rest of the passing offense. I'm worried about
Speaker 1: the team. I think this game is just gonna move
Speaker 1: out like a snail pace. I think the Chicago is
Speaker 1: obviously gonna try to establish a run with David Montgomery.
Speaker 1: The Lions will try their best to do something on
Speaker 1: the ground, but like you said, they've been horrible since
Speaker 1: Karen Johnson's kind of been out of the way. So
Speaker 1: I will start Matt Stafford. I'm not gonna like it,
Speaker 1: and I also will start Kenny Golladay. But that's all
Speaker 1: I want from the Detroit side. Missile Trobinsky stinks hashtag analysis.
Speaker 1: He has five TD passes in six games he has
Speaker 1: started and finished this season. That is not good. But
Speaker 1: you know who is good. David Montgomery. Over the past
Speaker 1: two weeks, forty one carries sixteen point seven percent of
Speaker 1: the target chair for the Bears, and he's going up
Speaker 1: against the Lions, who allow four point five yards per
Speaker 1: carry to running backs and they give up the most
Speaker 1: fantasy points to opposing running backs. I love David Montgomery
Speaker 1: this week. I have him just barely outside my top twelve.
Speaker 1: He's a high end RB two for me e y.
Speaker 1: When it comes to Allen Robinson, he let us down
Speaker 1: last week. Darius Slay is practicing in full. I am
Speaker 1: actually very worried about Allen Robinson in this spot, are
Speaker 1: you e y pays? For sure, He's have been one
Speaker 1: of the top quarterbacks all year. Uh and maybe he's
Speaker 1: a little bit banged up. But the reality is that
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson is a great receiver, but he's got a
Speaker 1: quarterback that doesn't know how to play quarterback. Mittell Brisky
Speaker 1: by far is my worst call ever in fantasy sports.
Speaker 1: I thought he would take a step forward. I thought, certainly,
Speaker 1: there's no NFL team that could be this wrong about
Speaker 1: a player, and I was more wrong than them. I thought.
Speaker 1: I didn't think he was going to be a top
Speaker 1: twelve or anything, but I thought that he would at
Speaker 1: least take a big step forward from what he was
Speaker 1: and he's regressed. He's been He's maybe the worst quarterback
Speaker 1: in the NFL right now, which is tough to say.
Speaker 1: Chicago has everything. They have a good defense, they have
Speaker 1: a great running game. They have talented wide receivers with Gabriel,
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson and uh, oh my god, I can't think
Speaker 1: of the other guy. But anyways, Anthony Miller there low there.
Speaker 1: He's been a massive letdown. But the thing is is
Speaker 1: is Anthony Miller letdown or is it Rabinsky can't get
Speaker 1: him the ball? I don't know, but Trabinsky has got
Speaker 1: to go. Uh For me, I would rather see Daniel playing.
Speaker 1: I think he gives them a better chance. So but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a running game and I think I'm probably gonna
Speaker 1: avoid Alan Robinson the Chiefs at the Titans. You see
Speaker 1: the flag flying right there behind Eric Young's head. Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes will play in this game, which means, guess what.
Speaker 1: You're firing up Tyreek Hill and you're firing up Travis Kelsey. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I like Sammy Watkins personally as a high end wide receiver. Three.
Speaker 1: The targets have been there for him the past couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. That was with Matt Moore as the quarterback.
Speaker 1: This is the first game, assuming that they all make
Speaker 1: it through healthy, that Mahomes, Tyreek Hill, and Sammy Watkins
Speaker 1: are going to play together this season, so I am
Speaker 1: interested to see how the target share breaks down here. Nick,
Speaker 1: you mentioned you're starting Damian Williams in a league. How
Speaker 1: do you think that the Chiefs backfield shakes out here? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's another guy that I'm I'm probably gonna start this week,
Speaker 1: and again I'm not gonna like it because we've just
Speaker 1: seen them run with a committee the entire season. Um,
Speaker 1: I think Williams, had he not gotten hurt in the
Speaker 1: beginning of the year, would ran away with this job.
Speaker 1: And we saw last last week what he brings to
Speaker 1: the table in terms of explosiveness compared to a guy
Speaker 1: like Shady at this age. So I do like Damian Williams.
Speaker 1: I think the Titans defense got off to a really
Speaker 1: strong start in the beginning of the year, so people
Speaker 1: still have that in their minds, but they're not really
Speaker 1: that great of a defense anymore. It's definitely one that
Speaker 1: I think you can exploit both on the ground and
Speaker 1: through the air. They'll be without Malcolm Butler, which I
Speaker 1: don't even know if that's really a positive um for
Speaker 1: the opposing offense because it puts someone else on the
Speaker 1: on the field as opposed to him. But it's it's
Speaker 1: just not a team that you really need to fear.
Speaker 1: I think you can start Um Watkins. I'm also not
Speaker 1: too high in him. I think if you just keep
Speaker 1: feeding targets to a guy who's not good, then the
Speaker 1: outlook will continue to be not good. He's I mean,
Speaker 1: he's not really putting up more than like nine or
Speaker 1: ten Fantasy points a game, even with tense targets a game. Um,
Speaker 1: So I'm not too high on Watkins. But obviously Tarry
Speaker 1: kill your firing up Mahomes top three Kelsey, you get
Speaker 1: him in there, um and I do like I do
Speaker 1: like Damian Williams as someone who can explode. And he
Speaker 1: gets a few more targets in the passing game, they'll
Speaker 1: be a legit RB two rest of the season. E Y,
Speaker 1: you get the Tennessee Titans. I like Ryan Tannehill as
Speaker 1: a bye week replacement at least nineteen Fantasy points in
Speaker 1: each start he has made so far this season, and
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs have allowed three. They have a
Speaker 1: lot of ton of touchdowns recently. Um. So they were
Speaker 1: really good against the past earlier on in the season,
Speaker 1: but we're starting to see a little bit of cracks
Speaker 1: in the armor here. Obviously you're firing up Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1: They can fall behind in this one, but he's seen
Speaker 1: so much volume. I think you gotta go with him.
Speaker 1: E y. How do you feel about Tannehill? Uh? And
Speaker 1: are you starting anyone in the receiving game? I think
Speaker 1: John hu Smith is an interesting tight end stream this week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think Tannehill is probably the number one
Speaker 1: stream this week. Uh. Kansas City's defense is not good. Um,
Speaker 1: if you've been paying attention to them, they kind of
Speaker 1: just pin their ears back and blitz uh that they
Speaker 1: come after the quarterbacks. So if Tannehill can get rid
Speaker 1: of it quick, um, I think John new Smith could
Speaker 1: be a really really sneaky play at tight end. Uh.
Speaker 1: And another guy to look over that's been super explosive
Speaker 1: but hasn't done much as A. J. Brown. Davis is
Speaker 1: banged up and I think he's practicing today, but has
Speaker 1: a still carrying the questionable tag. A J. Brown has
Speaker 1: looked really good in his opportunities. They haven't been many.
Speaker 1: For some reason, Taj Sharpe has been starting over him,
Speaker 1: which doesn't make any sense to me. Um, but a
Speaker 1: j Brown Uh, it could be a really sneaky play
Speaker 1: this week. Move over to the Giants at the Jets.
Speaker 1: I did. I filmed a fan duel video with Gabe
Speaker 1: earlier today and he said that this game is going
Speaker 1: to be quote messier than a Port Authority bathroom. And
Speaker 1: you know, I can't really disagree with him as a
Speaker 1: Jets fan myself. Evan Ingram and Sterling Shepherd ruled out
Speaker 1: in this one. Obviously you're using se Kwon Barkley. I
Speaker 1: think Golden Tate for me in PPR League's top twenty
Speaker 1: wide receiver this week. This New York Jets secondary is
Speaker 1: not a good one. Uh, Nick, Can I interest you
Speaker 1: in anyone else? Darius Slayton as a sneaky start. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I want to go. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I want to go towards six teams many I get,
Speaker 1: I get the appeal he's She's shown a lot of,
Speaker 1: I guess flashes of the type of upside he brings
Speaker 1: to the to the field for Dania Jones, but Dana Jones.
Speaker 1: I saw a stat somewhere earlier today that he's completed
Speaker 1: five of thirty passes that were I think twenty five
Speaker 1: yards down the field, and that's where Slaton kind of eats.
Speaker 1: So in terms of guys that I'm looking for, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm more looking forward to the tailgate of this game
Speaker 1: than I am the actual game. I have a lot
Speaker 1: of friends are I think many people are. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got a lot of friends are gonna be there. I
Speaker 1: know you said it's gonna be messy. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: messy inside and outside of the stadium. Uh So on
Speaker 1: the giant side of the ball, I'm really excited about Tight.
Speaker 1: He's probably bordering the top twelve PPR receivers for me.
Speaker 1: He's your Christian Kirk this week. Yeah, I guess so,
Speaker 1: even though I like, I mean, Christian Kirk is also
Speaker 1: my Christian Kirk this week. So we can I mean,
Speaker 1: we cant. Fine, we can get both of them inside
Speaker 1: of there. Um. But yeah, I mean, Golden State is
Speaker 1: probably the only past catcher I'm looking forward to in
Speaker 1: this um. In this on the other side of the ball,
Speaker 1: looks like Levian Bell is going to play if he's
Speaker 1: out there. Sure you're gonna want to use him if
Speaker 1: you're real desperate if Levian Bell doesn't play, but all
Speaker 1: Powell time, Monk Gomery, I don't think that you want
Speaker 1: to fool around this. But again I understand there are
Speaker 1: six teams on a buy. Um e y Robby Anderson
Speaker 1: let us down. Last week, Jamison Crowder was awesome. I
Speaker 1: like Tamison Crowder. Once again, it seems like he has
Speaker 1: been Sam Donald's go to guy. Uh any trust in
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson. This week again with six teams on a buy,
Speaker 1: I feel it's just the you know, more of the
Speaker 1: same as Robbie Anderson is. If if you're a guy
Speaker 1: that that drafted him high, I feel like you made
Speaker 1: a mistake. Um, he's a boom or bus guy. He's
Speaker 1: either gonna you know, give you, you know, ten to twelve,
Speaker 1: fifteen points where he's gonna give you none to three points.
Speaker 1: So that's who he is, That's who he's always been. Um.
Speaker 1: I think there were some people, and I mean I
Speaker 1: was interested in him if you could get him a
Speaker 1: little bit later, because I think this is a contract
Speaker 1: year for him. But the New York Jets, sorry Frank,
Speaker 1: had been rotten uh, and uh the quarterback play. This
Speaker 1: is another guy that everyone thought, including myself, that he
Speaker 1: would step forward, and he's definitely been not as good
Speaker 1: as he was or not as good as he showed,
Speaker 1: especially near the end of the year last year. So
Speaker 1: I'm avoiding him Crowder as a guy and Hernan's gonna
Speaker 1: play is what Gay said, and that that could be
Speaker 1: another guy that's interesting. So this is uh, this is
Speaker 1: a game that I I'm probably not going to watch
Speaker 1: a single down of because it's not going to be good.
Speaker 1: Dolphin at the Colts. We are now to the portion
Speaker 1: of the show where I will literally give one person
Speaker 1: a game and I'll give the other person a different game.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins at the Colts. Marlon Mack, You're obviously firing
Speaker 1: up him against the Miami Dolphins here, Nick, I want
Speaker 1: to ask you how high is too high for DeVante Parker,
Speaker 1: Zach Pascal, and Mike Kasecki, because all three of those
Speaker 1: were very popular waiver wire editions this week. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: like the Miami side of the ball a lot more
Speaker 1: than the Indie side because if you look how this
Speaker 1: game flow is probably gonna go. I think they're ten
Speaker 1: point favorites, right now I'd imagine Marlon Mack will get
Speaker 1: somewhere close to thirty touches or so, and uh, that
Speaker 1: will obviously kill the passing offense for the Colts. And
Speaker 1: you have Jacoby said, who's a little bit banged up.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna ask them to roll out of the pocket.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna ask them to do much in the pocket. So, uh,
Speaker 1: that is gonna hurt Zack Pascal's target share. It's gonna
Speaker 1: hurt everyone on that team's target shair um. So I'm
Speaker 1: nervous from the Indie side of the passing situation. When
Speaker 1: you go to the Miami side of things, you have
Speaker 1: to kind of like Parker and Gisiki just because the
Speaker 1: target funnel is gonna be ridiculous going and Caleb bloged, right,
Speaker 1: I love Calen Blage. I I honestly wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell, if you're being sarcastic or not, how
Speaker 1: many total yards you think, uh Kalen Blage will end
Speaker 1: up within this game over under of like sucks? Wait
Speaker 1: wait wait who is that? I mean told that we
Speaker 1: have a special guest. I still have four games that
Speaker 1: I gotta get to. Who is our special guest who
Speaker 1: is on the BFF hotline right now. Kalen Blage sucks.
Speaker 1: Caleen Blage sucks. That is, Greg sucks Fad Gregg and
Speaker 1: getting ready for his wedding. Greg, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: And how much do you like DJ More this week? Oh?
Speaker 1: D J Moore? Man love J Moore last week? I
Speaker 1: love him this week? Why why you're getting ready for
Speaker 1: your wedding and yet you're talking about calin Balage. I
Speaker 1: cannot think of a worse way to get ready for
Speaker 1: a wedding. I mean, that's just an omen that everything
Speaker 1: bad that can happen will happen. Greg, So I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: that's very nice, Frighten. Everyone wish you happy birthday. Nobody
Speaker 1: wished me a happy birthday yet, because it's not my birthday.
Speaker 1: I understand that. But Heick's not gonna see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Well maybe Nick didn't know that it's my birthday tomorrow.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't just start to show off by saying, hey,
Speaker 1: it's my birthday tomorrow. You call him your BFF. He's here,
Speaker 1: he's hosting. He doesn't even wish you happy birthday tomorrow. Well,
Speaker 1: he's an honorary BFF. He's a special guest BFF, and
Speaker 1: thank you for coming in and taking over the show, Greg,
Speaker 1: because now we're not going to complete the rest of
Speaker 1: the games that we had. Partially that's my own fault
Speaker 1: because I only talked about two games in the first
Speaker 1: segment because I'm hashtag dumb uh, and I also spent
Speaker 1: a lot of time recapping last night, So I'm sorry
Speaker 1: to the audience out there. Sounds about right. It sounds
Speaker 1: about right. Greg. Are you excited for your wedding? I'm
Speaker 1: ready to rock, man, I'm excited. I'm here in the hotel,
Speaker 1: was waiting for everyone else to get here. I will
Speaker 1: be there tomorrow, so have some shots lined up for me?
Speaker 1: E y, do you have any parting words for Greg Susman,
Speaker 1: who is getting ready to tie the knot no and
Speaker 1: enjoy it. As a person that never thought he would
Speaker 1: be married, I met my wife. We've been together for
Speaker 1: over fifteen years, we've been married for four and I
Speaker 1: can honestly say it's the probably and not even arguably,
Speaker 1: the best decision I've ever made. Congrats to you guys.
Speaker 1: Hopefully to see in Nashville. When you're here, it's freezing.
Speaker 1: Bring a jacket, congrats to Greg Suspen for Nick or
Speaker 1: Guano for e Y. I am Frank Standfeld. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: we didn't get to the other games, tweeted me at
Speaker 1: road underscore, Frank, I'll send you my breakdown for all
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Speaker 1: What did that happened? Man? What? Here's what you missed
Speaker 1: on the BFFs. I don't know what happened last night, Nick,
Speaker 1: but for whatever reason, Philip rivers, maybe he was seeing ghosts.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was, but ultimately he did
Speaker 1: not look like himself. Three turnovers in this game. He
Speaker 1: fumbled another time and ultimately outside of Hunter Henry, you
Speaker 1: were let down once again, why by their past catchers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers is a problem, it seems like for the
Speaker 1: Chargers long term. And they mentioned it during the broadcast
Speaker 1: last night. How you know those quarterbacks came into the
Speaker 1: league together. It was Eli who is now benched. You
Speaker 1: have Big Ben who is out for the year with
Speaker 1: his injury. We don't know what we're gonna see come
Speaker 1: next year. Rivers is the last remaining guy, and I
Speaker 1: don't know that he should be. I mean, they're not
Speaker 1: gonna bench him obviously, but there's a problem with his
Speaker 1: with his passing game. The whole shop with thing is
Speaker 1: is not working anymore. And maybe when he was a
Speaker 1: little younger and he had some more strength behind it,
Speaker 1: but that hurts a guy like Mike Williams whose main
Speaker 1: um you know, his main form of attactus for fantasy
Speaker 1: purposes is those deep balls. And Mike Williams is the
Speaker 1: guy who people get excited about because he's got the
Speaker 1: area yards and whatnot. But if you can't put it
Speaker 1: together consistently and you're not getting those accurate deep throws
Speaker 1: from rivers weekend and week out. Then he's not going
Speaker 1: to have a lot of value for you because you
Speaker 1: have to have consistency from those mid round wide receivers
Speaker 1: like Mike Williams in order to return some value. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it's hurting Keenan Allen of course too, because they
Speaker 1: are so heavily involving their running backs, which I think
Speaker 1: is a good game plan considering the tandem of Gordon
Speaker 1: and Ekeler is really talented. They give you everything you
Speaker 1: need to give you the strength of receiving, the ability,
Speaker 1: all everything in between. And we're starting starting to see
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon kind of come into his form. So if
Speaker 1: you drafted him late, you looks like you gotta stee
Speaker 1: He looks like a guy who is gonna be a
Speaker 1: twenty touch guy that we're kind of used to. UM.
Speaker 1: I will say a lot of the a lot of
Speaker 1: the calls that they had were questionable. Some of the
Speaker 1: picks were a little bit unlucky, guys falling on the
Speaker 1: ground whatever. Um. But when they got to the goal
Speaker 1: line man, some of the play calling was so suspect.
Speaker 1: They kept were throwing it to Lance Kendricks and they're
Speaker 1: they're fullback. Lance Kendricks are fullback, and when they're trying
Speaker 1: to run the ball, they did the same plate three times.
Speaker 1: They would motion one of the wide receivers right into
Speaker 1: the middle of the box. All that does is throw
Speaker 1: more defenders right into the box. And it's like, when
Speaker 1: you're just trying to power a guy up the middle,
Speaker 1: get the defenders out of the box, go four wide,
Speaker 1: go go from shotgun, and then get your best matchup
Speaker 1: numbers wise. But they kept running awful play calls, So
Speaker 1: that was terrible. On the flip side, I mean, we
Speaker 1: gotta Gi Gruden some credit. He's looked like a really, really,
Speaker 1: really good coach despite all the you know, the buffoonery
Speaker 1: that we saw in the preseason. He was I don't know,
Speaker 1: moving players that shouldn't have been moved. He couldn't get
Speaker 1: anything going. Um from the outside world, we all looked
Speaker 1: like it was a joke, but they're putting things together.
Speaker 1: Josh Acupp looks fantastic, a guy that I was not
Speaker 1: on whatsoever, but he looks like a beast um And
Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean, you can't really trust too
Speaker 1: many pieces outside of their Waller has been very good,
Speaker 1: but has shown that he has somewhat of a low floor.
Speaker 1: I still like him as a clear cut, tight on
Speaker 1: one going forward, but the game altogether was was an
Speaker 1: exciting one down to the wire. It seems like this
Speaker 1: the Oakland Raiders are starting to spread the ball out
Speaker 1: ball around a little bit more here with Tyrell Williams
Speaker 1: five targets, you seeandra renfro with his five targets. Darren
Speaker 1: Waller the same thing, So we're starting to see some
Speaker 1: of that floor of Darren Waller. Josh Jacobs, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: has been awesome, at least fifteen carries in every game
Speaker 1: since Week four, season high five targets last night. That's
Speaker 1: what I love to see from Josh Jacobs.