Speaker 1: Wow, everybody, It's Wednesday, October thirtieth, twenty twenty four. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the NFL Fantasy Football Show, where we've accepted the
Speaker 1: idea of the family costume. Your man, MG. Marcus Grant,
Speaker 1: joyed by Michael Florio and Lakwan Jones. I know Halloween
Speaker 1: is here. Any what have you figured out your costume
Speaker 1: for this year? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I went to a party on Saturday and we went
Speaker 2: costume shopping on Saturday morning. Bad decision, don't do that,
Speaker 2: So me and my wife ended up going as I
Speaker 2: was a red solo.
Speaker 1: Cup and she was a pongball. Okay, all right, all right, Lakwan,
Speaker 1: any ideas of what you are dressing up as?
Speaker 3: If anything, I'm doing a deep cut where you know,
Speaker 3: I'm a man eating shark, but I'm gonna go find
Speaker 3: like a basically like a swimming diving gear and b
Speaker 3: Samuel Jackson from Deep Blue Sea when he get seen
Speaker 3: by the track.
Speaker 1: That is a deep cut. But I look forward to
Speaker 1: seeing photos. Does that go with your family or is
Speaker 1: this just like you're yes, No, I.
Speaker 3: Went rogue because they were no costumes left, so I
Speaker 3: kind of was on your God.
Speaker 1: As for me, I'll be wearing a onesie. I'm going
Speaker 1: to be Tigger. We're doing a whole winning the pood things,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna be in a big tiger outfit.
Speaker 3: It looks warm.
Speaker 1: That's the best thing I got to say about it.
Speaker 1: So anyway, we got a lot to do on the
Speaker 1: show today. We're gonna preview the week nine Slate also
Speaker 1: give you some fantasy hot takes, as we always do,
Speaker 1: but let's start with some fantasy headlines. There was a
Speaker 1: lot of movement happening earlier in the week. The trades
Speaker 1: continue around the NFL, the Carolina Panthers moving on from
Speaker 1: Deontay Johnson. They just get him in the offseason. Now
Speaker 1: they ship him over to Baltimore and basically a pick
Speaker 1: swap between the Panthers and the Ravens. So, I mean, look, Florida,
Speaker 1: we all love Deontay Johnson. He's like your favorite fantasy analysts,
Speaker 1: favorite wide receiver. He is now in Baltimore. What does
Speaker 1: this mean for Johnson and the Ravens offense. It means good.
Speaker 2: Things for Lamar Jackson, who gets another weapon at his disposal.
Speaker 1: He could continue to spread.
Speaker 3: The ball around.
Speaker 2: I don't love it for the individual pass catchers though,
Speaker 2: because Jay Flowers and Rashan Bateman were already there and
Speaker 2: there's talks that they might remain the top two options.
Speaker 1: Who knows.
Speaker 2: I think if you trade for Deontay Johnson, you have
Speaker 2: plans of getting him involved there, but then there's two
Speaker 2: tight ends. This puts Look, this is the now on
Speaker 2: the coffin for Isaiah Likely's fantasy value. I would say,
Speaker 2: but like Mark Andrews, now becomes a lot.
Speaker 1: More touchdown dependent.
Speaker 2: I think you could still start him. Flowers and Zaiya
Speaker 2: and Deontay Johnson, I think are probably in that wide
Speaker 2: receiver three or flex range until we see otherwise. Because
Speaker 2: I do believe that Deontay Johnson, who gets open at
Speaker 2: a very high rate, is going to see targets. I
Speaker 2: don't think they're gonna get him just to make him
Speaker 2: a backup option or.
Speaker 1: Something like, Oh, Isaiah Likely, we'll always have week one.
Speaker 1: On the other side of things, Lakwan, what does this
Speaker 1: mean for the Carolina Panthers offense.
Speaker 3: Well, they do lose, you know, an Alfa wide receiver
Speaker 3: out of their offense, but they still have some young
Speaker 3: talent over. I mean, you guys, Xavier really get and
Speaker 3: then you have Jalen Coker, who's been buzzing on anasty
Speaker 3: streets you know, the last twenty four hours. But the
Speaker 3: only problem is that this is not a great offense
Speaker 3: that the proline Panthers have put together. I mean, I'm
Speaker 3: really worried about, you know, going out there and being
Speaker 3: bullish on the Jalen Koker, who's still you know, is
Speaker 3: trying to find his way into these offense. But he
Speaker 3: did look good with Bryce Young connecting with him, and
Speaker 3: we did get news that Bryce Young it's going to
Speaker 3: be starting this week, so hopefully they can build some
Speaker 3: chemistry there. But it's going to always worry me of
Speaker 3: having any of these guys in my starting lineups. You know,
Speaker 3: with Bryce Sjung at quarterback, just based on there's not
Speaker 3: really much touchdown upside. There's not much upside in the
Speaker 3: passing offense. And then you know you have Chuba Hubber,
Speaker 3: who's a productive running back and be able to get
Speaker 3: the things done, but we have not seen him shine
Speaker 3: with Bryce Young back there at the starting quarterback position.
Speaker 1: Went back and watched a lot of that game last
Speaker 1: week for the Panthers against the Broncos, and man, it's
Speaker 1: just they're struggling to get guys open. Some of it
Speaker 1: obviously has to do with the defense they were playing,
Speaker 1: but man, you's just just not a lot of open
Speaker 1: receivers in that passing game for Bryce Young. Speaking of
Speaker 1: quarterbacks who have been having their struggles, Anthony Richardson now
Speaker 1: going to the bench for the Indianapolis Colts. Joe Flacco
Speaker 1: named the starter for the foreseeable future. Look, Florio, I
Speaker 1: don't know for starting Joe Flacco, but we're super excited
Speaker 1: about the Colts wide receivers start them all, right, Like
Speaker 1: even Alec Pierce at this point, not Alex Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Alec Pierce still remains just very boom or bust.
Speaker 2: I think Josh Downs is the biggest winner here. I
Speaker 2: think Michael Piman Junior is a win. You know, Michael
Speaker 2: Piman Junior has played three games with Joe Flacco, double
Speaker 2: digit Fantasy points in all three, even though one of
Speaker 2: them a lot of the production came from Anthony Richardson
Speaker 2: before he got hurt. In five full games with Anthony Richardson,
Speaker 2: single digits in every single one of those games, I
Speaker 2: think Flaco is a better fit for the style of
Speaker 2: offense they are trying to play the you know, like
Speaker 2: be accurate and we'll pick up yardage short and slowly
Speaker 2: move our way down the field, which is not what
Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson is built for.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of thoughts on the benching of
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson, but that is for a different time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's for a different time and a different show. I know.
Speaker 1: The internet was a buzz with thoughts on how this
Speaker 1: benching was going to other issues in the AFC south
Speaker 1: over to Houston Stefan Diggs when they torn ACL he
Speaker 1: is going to be at for the remainder of the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty fourth season, LaQuan. It has not been a
Speaker 1: great fantasy year for CJ. Stroud. Now he's gonna be
Speaker 1: without Stefan Diggs for the rest of the year. He's
Speaker 1: with me without Nico Collins for at least one more week.
Speaker 1: How much are you downgrading Stroud now? A lot?
Speaker 3: Now? Man, losing Diggs was like the nail and the
Speaker 3: call for me for CJ. Stroud to have upside every
Speaker 3: single week. I mean, look, you lost Joe Mixon early
Speaker 3: in the season. He comes back, it's great that he's back.
Speaker 3: Then you lose Nico Collins and now you lose Stefon Diggs.
Speaker 3: I don't know if all that weight can be put
Speaker 3: on Tank Dell to make CJ. Stroud back to that
Speaker 3: fantasy QB one that we know he can be. It's
Speaker 3: just that too many nicks and dings to this offense
Speaker 3: where I don't think that he's going to go out
Speaker 3: there and light it up like we know he can.
Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, losing Stefan Diggs was heartbreaking for me
Speaker 3: because man wide, receivers are dropping like flies. But you're
Speaker 3: taking a hit at c J. Stroud when he's most
Speaker 3: likely your best quarterback on your roster right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, one of the things with CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud is air yards. He was a big air yards guy.
Speaker 1: Last year. He was taking shots downfield, averaging about two
Speaker 1: fewer air yards per attempt this year versus last year.
Speaker 1: Now he's lost the two guys, at least temporarily, the
Speaker 1: two guys who were the top targets. I mean about
Speaker 1: fifty percent of the targets were funneled through Collins and Diggs.
Speaker 1: Now we know no Digs the remainder of the season.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's a good player, but there's
Speaker 1: only so much he can do with the guys that
Speaker 1: he's going to be left to work with for the
Speaker 1: next future. Let's get to our Week nine previews. Two
Speaker 1: teams on by the Steelers and forty nine Ers get
Speaker 1: the week off. So definitely some pieces, especially wide receiver
Speaker 1: tight end, missing for a lot of fantasy managers this week.
Speaker 1: But we'll start with Thursday night preview. We mentioned CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud the Texans heading to Metlive Stadium to take on
Speaker 1: the Jets. You can see that eight to fifteen pm
Speaker 1: Eastern on Amazon Prime Florio. Look, it has not been
Speaker 1: great for the Jets offense. They went out and they
Speaker 1: added DeVante Adams, still hasn't really improved. Do you still
Speaker 1: believe in the combination of Adams and Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they're so uber talented. But and I spoke
Speaker 2: about this on Fantasy Live a bit as well. I
Speaker 2: really love it for Garrett Wilson because we are now
Speaker 2: seeing him play in a role that I think is
Speaker 2: great for fantasy purposes, because like, just look at what
Speaker 2: the Patriots in the two games against them. In the
Speaker 2: first game, eighty three percent of his snaps Christian Gonzalez
Speaker 2: was just shadowing him. This past week when they played
Speaker 2: two snaps, he was on him. So we are seeing
Speaker 2: DeVante take away that defensive attention. It is allowing Garrett
Speaker 2: Wilson to move out wide and in the slot, and
Speaker 2: I think it is going to lead maybe not as
Speaker 2: much volume, but a lot more efficiency and just better
Speaker 2: fantasy results than we were getting early in the season.
Speaker 2: And DeVante, look, I think you have to practice patients here, right.
Speaker 2: I know he knows the quarterback, but it is a
Speaker 2: new offense, it is a.
Speaker 3: New team all of that.
Speaker 2: The more games that they get to play together, the
Speaker 2: more I think we will see him look like Davante Adams.
Speaker 1: I just have this feeling and this is just as
Speaker 1: no stats vibes that this is gonna be a Devonte
Speaker 1: Adams game that you know, last week he had Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers out here talking to you know, like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: channeling bane like I've been in the darkness, You've just
Speaker 1: adopted it or whatever. This just feels like a game
Speaker 1: where he just tries to force feed Devonte like fifteen
Speaker 1: targets and then if they win, he's gonna say something
Speaker 1: snarky after the game. I have no actual war and
Speaker 1: dark I have no stats to back this up. It's
Speaker 1: just a feeling I have about the Jets this week.
Speaker 1: Uh Lakwhan Rams at the Seahawks. A big game for
Speaker 1: both these teams. Everybody in the NFC West sitting on
Speaker 1: four losses right now, so it's still incredibly wide open.
Speaker 1: But the Rams look like they're getting hot at the
Speaker 1: right time. I'm gonna ask you about running backs though,
Speaker 1: which of the two kws do you want this week?
Speaker 1: Kyron Williams or Kenneth Walker. Try to be Try to
Speaker 1: be objective, please, sir. I will not We're going man.
Speaker 1: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. This dude only
Speaker 1: knows the end zone. Man.
Speaker 3: Eight touchdowns so far this season. I understand that.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: kW. On the other side, Kenneth Walker has been productive,
Speaker 3: but they cannot figure out if they want to run
Speaker 3: the ball or throw the ball. It's back and forth, man.
Speaker 3: But I love watching this Seahawks offense fall apart. It's
Speaker 3: like watching a very good show for the first time,
Speaker 3: Like the Office. Their sniff snap, snip, snap, back and forth.
Speaker 3: They want to run the ball or not if they
Speaker 3: want to use him. So therefore, I'm going to go
Speaker 3: with what's been consistent in this run game, and it's
Speaker 3: been Kien Williams finding the end zone being involved, sprinkled
Speaker 3: in the passing game as well, and this Rams offense
Speaker 3: is near good health. We are the most dangerous team
Speaker 3: out the West, and we already know how Matthew Stafford
Speaker 3: is going to go out there and put them in
Speaker 3: the end zone as well.
Speaker 1: I think you said you're watching a good TV show.
Speaker 1: I thought you could say one that fell apart, so
Speaker 1: I thought you're gonna talk like, you know, Dexter was
Speaker 1: great at the start and by the end we're all like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's no.
Speaker 3: It's like I love watching them fall apart. It's like
Speaker 3: watching your favorite, you know, TV show.
Speaker 1: Got it all right, entertaining, all right, I see, I see,
Speaker 1: I see how you're going there? All right? Lions at
Speaker 1: the Packers. The other big divisional matchup, this one in
Speaker 1: the NFC North. Looking more and more like Jordan Love's
Speaker 1: not going to be available for this one. It was
Speaker 1: Malik Willis taking the QB one snaps on Wednesday. So Florio,
Speaker 1: can you start a Packers receiver without Jordan Love on
Speaker 1: the field.
Speaker 2: I don't think so, not ideally, at least maybe if
Speaker 2: you're in a pinch or something like that, which the
Speaker 2: timing couldn't be worse, because this is a fantastic matchup
Speaker 2: for the Packers. Receivers lines struggle against slot receivers. That's
Speaker 2: where Jayden Reid operates. They play a lot of man
Speaker 2: Romeo Dobbs has been their man coverage beater this year,
Speaker 2: but Malik Willison is two. He started three games, well,
Speaker 2: two starts, one touchdown, passing each one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: two yards and one two hundred and two in the other.
Speaker 2: There's four wide receivers and a tight end vying for targets,
Speaker 2: so just not enough production to go around. And I
Speaker 2: can't tell you with any sort of confidence like this
Speaker 2: is the guy they're going to go to if you
Speaker 2: have to start him. Reid is my favorite, followed by
Speaker 2: Dobbs this week, but yeah, I don't love them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was trying to try to figure out how
Speaker 1: to make Romeo Dobbs a sleeper and put him in
Speaker 1: the column this week, and I just I can't. I
Speaker 1: couldn't really figure out a good argument for it because
Speaker 1: there's just so much inconsistency there, especially if it's not
Speaker 1: Jordan Love one. It's hard enough with Jordan Love on
Speaker 1: the field to figure it out. Without Jordan Love, it
Speaker 1: feels nearly impossible to try to decipher Dolphins at the Bills.
Speaker 1: I should have let Florio talk about this one st
Speaker 1: that you talk about the Rams. In fact, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna switch it up and I'm gonna change
Speaker 1: this anyway. So Dolphins at the Bills, Florio, you have
Speaker 1: said repeatedly on this show that how the secondary is
Speaker 1: the strongest part of this Bill's defense. It's hard to
Speaker 1: throw on them. Two is back. We were super excited
Speaker 1: about what that means, but it didn't really mean a
Speaker 1: lot for Jalen Wattle. How much do you need to
Speaker 1: see something from Waddle this week? If you want to
Speaker 1: keep starting him.
Speaker 2: I think you really need to see something out of him.
Speaker 2: And then when they played in Week two, and remember
Speaker 2: I know two, that's the game where Tua got hurt,
Speaker 2: but that happened late in the game, he had four targets,
Speaker 2: four catches, forty one yards, and you look at his
Speaker 2: game log. Week one was lovely one hundred and nine
Speaker 2: yards five catches. All that he is fewer than fifty
Speaker 2: yards in every game since week one. He has two
Speaker 2: games three games all year with more than five targets.
Speaker 2: Like Wattle is not a mustard option. He is far
Speaker 2: from that. In fact, I think he's more like a
Speaker 2: wide receiver three flex. We know the upside that he
Speaker 2: brings every week. That is what's keeping him in play,
Speaker 2: because nothing he has done from week two on would
Speaker 2: make you want to start this guy.
Speaker 1: In this matchup. And I keep saying we like the
Speaker 1: idea of Tua in fantasy more than the reality of Tua,
Speaker 1: and I think you're starting to see that spread itself
Speaker 1: around Tyreek Hill. We're still okay with Jalen Wattle needs
Speaker 1: to actually, I think, perform before we can start to
Speaker 1: trust him again.
Speaker 3: All right, ben Roe benchro.
Speaker 1: There it is Cowboys at Falcons, Lakwan, Can we actually
Speaker 1: keep starting Dak Prescott at this point?
Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't be looking to start him this week
Speaker 3: if I can get away from my wood And it's
Speaker 3: honestly looking at this whole offense as a hole for
Speaker 3: the Cowboys. They don't really have a run game to
Speaker 3: support this offense. To take the pressure off for Dak
Speaker 3: to go out there and try to play hero ball.
Speaker 3: I mean Honestly, this Falcons defense, they haven't been really
Speaker 3: you know, allowing much fantasy points to the quarterbacks. To
Speaker 3: his position. Only Hurts and Bakers were able to put
Speaker 3: up twenty plus fantasy points, and a lot of that
Speaker 3: was supported by having a strong run game. This Cowboys
Speaker 3: offense is ranked dead last when it comes to rushing
Speaker 3: yards per game. They're not on the positive side of
Speaker 3: having a productive offense. And this Falcons defense they pretty scary,
Speaker 3: you know, every other week. But I feel like this
Speaker 3: may be the game that you want to sit Dak
Speaker 3: Prescott just based on the lack of production of this
Speaker 3: Cowboys offense.
Speaker 1: I mean, here's the Cowboys offense right now. It's short
Speaker 1: run to Dalvin Crookerrico dawdle uh, throw a CD Lamb,
Speaker 1: throw to CD Lamb, maybe convert the first down or not,
Speaker 1: and then punt. I mean that's pretty much it's it's
Speaker 1: throw a CD Lamb, throw to Cede Lamb, maybe throw
Speaker 1: to someone else. But that's kind of the whole Cowboy offense.
Speaker 1: Time to talk about some sleepers for the week, LQ.
Speaker 1: Who you got.
Speaker 3: I'm going to Denver with de von Vley. He's a
Speaker 3: huge sleeper for me this week just based on the
Speaker 3: Ravens defense, they allowed the highest pass EPA to wide
Speaker 3: receivers line up in the slot, and that's primarily where
Speaker 3: Veyle plays. And look, their Ravens defense are allowing a
Speaker 3: lot of completion percentage tds and yards per tenth when
Speaker 3: it comes to wide receivers in the slot. And look,
Speaker 3: he's come along as bo Nicks' most reliable target, I
Speaker 3: mean Josh Reynolds on IR now. So he steps up
Speaker 3: as a guy that could potentially play a huge role
Speaker 3: in this game because we know we could pass. On
Speaker 3: the Ravens defense, they have allowed the most completions of
Speaker 3: twenty plus yards as well, and he's creating a lot
Speaker 3: of separation in the high rate and bo Nick's completing
Speaker 3: eighty percent of his passes towards him, So he's giving
Speaker 3: off huge sleeper vibes this week.
Speaker 1: All right, So dvn vele, I get to know that name.
Speaker 1: When we said a whole lot this year, who's your
Speaker 1: sleeper this week? Florio, I like.
Speaker 2: Bo Knicks, who I'm not sure if he even I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: that's the next question I like get in this one.
Speaker 1: Who is a sleeper?
Speaker 2: And I know we touched on the Panthers a little bit,
Speaker 2: but no Deontay Johnson there anymore. Someone is going to
Speaker 2: have to catch the ball, and I think they're for
Speaker 2: round wide receiver is one that not only is their
Speaker 2: best pass catcher and who should step up, but I
Speaker 2: believe the Panthers have incentive to try to prioritize and
Speaker 2: get him the ball as much as possible.
Speaker 3: So while he is not someone that I think you need.
Speaker 2: To like plug into your lineups with confidence or anything
Speaker 2: like that, he is someone that I want on my
Speaker 2: roster because he brings upside the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: And look, I always.
Speaker 2: Love watching a young quarterback and wide receiver kind of
Speaker 2: build chemistry together. I'm hopeful that that could happen in
Speaker 2: Carolina with Bryce Young and leeget.
Speaker 1: I certainly hope. So I also kind of like Jalen
Speaker 1: Cocher as a deep sleeper this week for the Carolina Panthers. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: on the other side of things, I like Derek Carr
Speaker 1: with some sleeper vibes this week. He is expected to
Speaker 1: be back for the New Orleans Saints after missing a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks with an oblique injury. Couldn't come at
Speaker 1: a better time for the Saints. They have been struggling
Speaker 1: offensively since those first two weeks of the year. They
Speaker 1: have had ten points or fewer in back to back games.
Speaker 1: They've had fewer than fourteen points several times over the
Speaker 1: last six weeks or so. Look the card not necessarily
Speaker 1: a guy who's going to light it up in terms
Speaker 1: of overall passing yardage, but should be able to get
Speaker 1: in the end zone a few times against a Carolina
Speaker 1: defense that started bad has been bad all year long.
Speaker 1: These teams played earlier in the season, and Carr had
Speaker 1: over twenty fantasy points in that one through three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I think he can do something similar again this week.
Speaker 1: All Right, we still have a few more games to
Speaker 1: get through, plus some hot starts and some hot takes
Speaker 1: as well. That's coming up after the break. Here on
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Speaker 1: who you like this week Lakwan.
Speaker 3: The aras pointe enough for lad McConkey Man. I love
Speaker 3: the adjustments that the charges made out of the buy
Speaker 3: because honestly, the pass increase game. The game has been wonderful. Man.
Speaker 3: They went from the first four games of averaging twenty
Speaker 3: two pass attens for a game. Coming out of the buy,
Speaker 3: they're up to thirty five pass at ten per game,
Speaker 3: which is making lab McConkey be a valuable wide receiver
Speaker 3: one in this offense. Man. He's been a top five
Speaker 3: wide receiver in Fantasy and points per game with fifteen
Speaker 3: points per game. And the Browns right now they're allowing
Speaker 3: the top five defensive points to points per game to
Speaker 3: wide receivers. To wide receivers line up outside and in
Speaker 3: the slot, there was a lot of mismatch opportunities for
Speaker 3: Lad McConkie this week against his Brown defense.
Speaker 1: Do love Lad McConkie and great to see him getting
Speaker 1: that post by rookie bump that you see for a
Speaker 1: lot of players. So, Floria, you sort of let slip
Speaker 1: who you're going with hot starts this year. About to
Speaker 1: explain yourself at this point it.
Speaker 2: Is bow Nicks and like, look, I'll copy from you
Speaker 2: and rank sign me up as a bowl leiaver here
Speaker 2: because what he does with his legs one separates him
Speaker 2: from a lot of other quarterbacks and fantasies. He is
Speaker 2: four rushing touchdowns this season, five games with at least
Speaker 2: twenty five or more rushing touchdowns, which is a three
Speaker 2: hundred passing yards right there.
Speaker 1: He also has some.
Speaker 2: Games with like over sixty rush so the ceiling is
Speaker 2: very high. Coming off his best game as a passer
Speaker 2: with two hundred and eighty four yards and three touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Now he gets the Ravens, who have allowed the most
Speaker 2: passing yards and touchdowns, third most fantasy points per game
Speaker 2: to quarterbacks. I would play him over a number of
Speaker 2: big name quarterbacks this week, like Jared Goff being one
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 1: Bo Nicks one more passing touchdown than Jaden Daniels has
Speaker 1: so far this season. Yeah, I mean one less Hell Mary,
Speaker 1: though one less Heill Mary. That's true, That's absolutely fair
Speaker 1: for me. I'm gonna go with Josh Downs. And we
Speaker 1: like Josh Downs anyway. He's sort of been the Colts
Speaker 1: receiver you could count on regardless of who's that quarterback.
Speaker 1: But now we get a quarterback upgrade with Joe Flacco
Speaker 1: taking over for Anthony Richardson, and so that's even more
Speaker 1: reason to be excited about Josh Downs. We have seen
Speaker 1: a heavy target share for him over the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: and the routes he tends to run sixty percent of
Speaker 1: his routes are within ten yards of the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: It is those short and intermediate routes that have really
Speaker 1: killed the Vikings this year. I mean, Brian Flores's defense
Speaker 1: has done a great job of putting pressure on quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: They're also giving up a lot of yards and catches
Speaker 1: to wide receivers. And this feels like with Joe Flacco
Speaker 1: standing back there and throwing darts that Josh Downs is
Speaker 1: ready to really take off. Look, I know we like
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman, Floria said, pretty much everybody except Alec Pierce,
Speaker 1: the Josh Downs. I think a name it should be
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Speaker 1: Now back to some more games on the Week nine
Speaker 1: slate Broncos at the Ravens. And so you heard Florio
Speaker 1: talk about bo Knicks as a start for you, Lakwan,
Speaker 1: what has to happen for you to put Bo Nicks
Speaker 1: in a lineup this week.
Speaker 3: I just love everything. Since he's gone back and forth
Speaker 3: with Sean Payton, he's been playing great ball at eighteen
Speaker 3: fantasy points per game. But a lot of success has
Speaker 3: come from that old line being one of the best
Speaker 3: in the NFL. I mean, there's been a couple of
Speaker 3: games where they've had some clean sheets of where he's
Speaker 3: not getting sacked and he's able to moon walk out
Speaker 3: of that pocket and there's rushing upside there. So more
Speaker 3: so you're looking at this Ravens defense. They don't have
Speaker 3: a lot of pressures their bottom of the table, so
Speaker 3: I don't really have any worries of bout Nicks getting
Speaker 3: off of his game. I expecting to keep playing good football,
Speaker 3: keep getting the get down in the pocket and getting
Speaker 3: some fantasy points for a lot of fantasy managers this week.
Speaker 1: Clean sheets bottom of the table that they're not playing
Speaker 1: this game at Old Trafford. Okay, let's let's calm down
Speaker 1: a little bit there, all right it, Yes, I caught
Speaker 1: them all Lauria about Sunday Night Football, Colts and the Vikings.
Speaker 1: We've talked about Anthony Richardson, We've talked about Josh Downs,
Speaker 1: those look at the other side of things, Florio. TJ.
Speaker 1: Hawkinson trying to get back and play. He missed, He's
Speaker 1: missed all of this season after recovering from an ACL tear.
Speaker 1: Was close last week, couldn't quite get on the field.
Speaker 1: If TJ. Hawkinson plays, Are you confident enough to start
Speaker 1: him this week? Uh? Me, personally no.
Speaker 2: But before I go into Hawkinson that you mentioned Josh downs.
Speaker 2: His quote was that he was asked if he played
Speaker 2: with Richardson again. He said, at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: Joe's like forty years old.
Speaker 1: Made me cry. TJ.
Speaker 2: Hockinson, I wouldn't because he's only literally yesterday Tuesday, the
Speaker 2: twenty ninth was nine months removed from when he had
Speaker 2: the ACL surgery, and we always hear that nine months
Speaker 2: is the mark where players can really start letting loose
Speaker 2: and be and like getting back to it again. So
Speaker 2: I'm always questioning, like, is it going to be Russ
Speaker 2: Is he gonna be on a snapcount? Will it take
Speaker 2: him a little bit of time to get fully reacclimated.
Speaker 2: It's a new quarterback. All of that, You've gone eight
Speaker 2: weeks without him already.
Speaker 1: What's one more like?
Speaker 2: My approach with this is to practice patience, but I
Speaker 2: know we are not on the same page.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Yolo, let's go. I've been waiting all day
Speaker 1: for Sunday night. We're starting to start TJ Hockinson this week.
Speaker 1: I didn't look. I think everything you said actually has
Speaker 1: some merit to it. I just feel like, yeah, like,
Speaker 1: let's get him in there. I'm ready to go. I'm
Speaker 1: ready to go. That's it Monday. I Football Bucks at
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, Lakwi. Can you finally start Patrick Mahomes yes? Weekend.
Speaker 3: Man, this is gonna be a blow up game for
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes. I mean, honestly, having the support from DeAndre
Speaker 3: Hopkins is gonna help as well. But quarterbacks this season
Speaker 3: have been having fantasy uh career season highs against his
Speaker 3: Bucks defense. I mean, you look at Kirk Cousins blow
Speaker 3: up game, Lamar Jackson, Jayden Daniels all season high fantasy
Speaker 3: performance from these guys, and I think Patrick Mahomes fits
Speaker 3: that bill to be one of those guys this week
Speaker 3: to go up there and put up some points.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't really see much from DeAndre Hopkins last week,
Speaker 1: but Mahomes still did enough to put up his first
Speaker 1: nineteen point fantasy game in a while, so he's it
Speaker 1: seems like things are happening. Things are coming around. The
Speaker 1: matchup is really good for Mahomes this week, so we
Speaker 1: can get excited about it. I have a lot. Look,
Speaker 1: I have a roster with Gino Smith and Mahomes. I've
Speaker 1: been riding Gino. I'm gonna make the switch this week.
Speaker 1: I have the same situation that I'm doing the same thing.
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Speaker 3: Oh, we're going hot man. I'm going to Jacksonville Duvall
Speaker 3: for Parker Washington having a top fifteen wide receiver performance
Speaker 3: in his second career start, because he's going to be
Speaker 3: fitting the bill, fitting the part ins a plug and
Speaker 3: play slot wide receiver. With Christian Kirk basically shut down
Speaker 3: for the season, the Eagles man there allow on the
Speaker 3: most eighth most Fantasy points per game t to wide receivers,
Speaker 3: and they've have allowed eight touchdowns to the slot wide
Speaker 3: receiver position. So I'm going to go out there and
Speaker 3: put in Parker Washington to have a big blow up
Speaker 3: game this season.
Speaker 1: That is red hot, top fifteen finishes, red yes, less,
Speaker 1: all right, Florio, get spicy, my. I mean that's a
Speaker 1: hard one. I mean that's the topper.
Speaker 2: Really, But I think Calvin Ridley runs wild this week
Speaker 2: and in the second half of this season, starting with
Speaker 2: this week against the New England Patriots. You saw what
Speaker 2: he did last week, but don't overlook the fact that
Speaker 2: in the two games prior to that he had eight
Speaker 2: and nine targets. So eight nine to fifteen targets in
Speaker 2: his last three games combined.
Speaker 1: The Patriots are in.
Speaker 2: The top ten and fantasy points per game allowed to
Speaker 2: wide receivers. They've allowed the third most yards on deep passes,
Speaker 2: and we know really could win downfields. But it's not
Speaker 2: just this week I'm excited for. He has the best
Speaker 2: wide receiver schedule the rest of the season, with games
Speaker 2: against the Vikings, the Commanders twice I'm sorry once, the
Speaker 2: Jaguars twice, the Bengals, the Colts. Like he could make
Speaker 2: up for his slow first half with a huge second half.
Speaker 1: I said is the first quarter targets. He got them,
Speaker 1: and he prospered, complaining and he got it, got it
Speaker 1: right for me. We talked about Patrick Mahomes finally being
Speaker 1: a start. I'm telling you that Patrick Mahomes this week's
Speaker 1: gonna have his first twenty point fantasy game since last Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: It's been that long for him. I mentioned the nineteen
Speaker 1: points he had last week against the Raiders. Now has
Speaker 1: maybe an even better matchup against the Bucks secondary that
Speaker 1: has been torched all seas long. Maybe this is the
Speaker 1: week we see DeAndre Hopkins fully integrated. You talk about
Speaker 1: post buy rookie bumps. They're figuring out how to get
Speaker 1: Xavia Worthy more involved in this offense as well. Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: he's playing good football, it just hasn't translated into good
Speaker 1: fantasy football. I think this is the week you see
Speaker 1: it finally look more like the Patrick Mahomes you probably
Speaker 1: spent an early round pick on. So there it is.
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