Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, everybody, It's Thursday, October seventeenth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show where the breakfast
Speaker 1: burrito was probably a bad choice. It's me and rand
Speaker 1: MG Marcus Grant, joined by Michael f. Florio and Lapwan Jones.
Speaker 1: I didn't well, okay, I did get the breakfast breedo.
Speaker 1: I only ate half of it because I knew eating
Speaker 1: a whole.
Speaker 2: Thing would be a bad choice.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, absolutely better breakfast choices please.
Speaker 1: You know, but a little like, okay, I gut as
Speaker 1: is there like is there a condiment of choice for
Speaker 1: burritos for you guys?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: I'm not eating burritos much these days.
Speaker 3: What Nope, listen, come on, I'm still getting into the
Speaker 3: la culture.
Speaker 5: Man. I just don't I get it if you're like,
Speaker 5: I'm not a big breakfast burrito guy, but just burrito
Speaker 5: in general.
Speaker 1: Just how many times are we gonna have this show
Speaker 1: derailed by Lakwan free takes? Like?
Speaker 2: How how does I didn't? I didn't think do.
Speaker 5: You eat Cadz like? I love case?
Speaker 4: I make him at home.
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, it's just a Mexican grilled cheese sandwich. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like why wouldn't you. Okay, I didn't really, I really
Speaker 1: didn't mean for this to happen. Let's get this is
Speaker 1: the answer. Yes, also Verde very very good. A little
Speaker 1: bit of chilula also helps as well. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: through our Week seven calls, the tops and the bottoms
Speaker 1: and everybody in between as well. But let's get started
Speaker 1: with a few fantasy headlines. A really notable one, Molik
Speaker 1: Neighbors has returned to practice after missing the last couple
Speaker 1: of games with a concussion. Florida, you have been the
Speaker 1: biggest Melik Neighbors champion on this show. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: we all like Thelak Neighbors, but Florida you have been
Speaker 1: a next level Milik Neighbors.
Speaker 2: Stand.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it's as simple as if he plays, you
Speaker 1: are starting him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not wearing it, but I could pull a
Speaker 5: LaQuan and bring out a dope T shirt as well. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I have. Every team that I have Malik Nighbors on
Speaker 5: the last three weeks have all started the same by
Speaker 5: me pushing him into my starting lineup and hoping that
Speaker 5: I don't need to remove him, and this week I
Speaker 5: don't have to. So yeah, he's a must start option.
Speaker 1: I really have gone by the premise that if I
Speaker 1: put my players in the lineup and then hopefully that
Speaker 1: makes them magically healthy.
Speaker 2: It is yet to work, but I'm gonna.
Speaker 4: Keep I do that too. I just did it with
Speaker 4: Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 2: Right, it's me.
Speaker 1: It's me expressing a vote of confidence in my guys
Speaker 1: that they're gonna be ready to go for the week.
Speaker 2: That's all it.
Speaker 1: In Indianapolis, things not so clear. The Colts backfield dealing
Speaker 1: with some issues. Jonathan Taylor did not practice on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: There were reports on Thursday morning that he's not sure
Speaker 1: if he will practice this week, but he does say
Speaker 1: his ankle is feeling better. Mean while Trey Sermon dealing
Speaker 1: with an injury of his own Lakwan, The Colts went
Speaker 1: out and signed Savon Ahmed. U If Savon Ahmed plays,
Speaker 1: do you start him? I mean, it just seems like
Speaker 1: right now the Colt I guess we're just waiting for
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, right, is that the answer? We're just keeping
Speaker 1: our fingers cross that Jonathan Taylor can play.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, that's the answer. Just got a minor turn.
Speaker 3: They don't know if he's going to practice this week.
Speaker 3: And it's kind of frustrating because we need him out
Speaker 3: there man to get the best you know, points on
Speaker 3: our rosters, and I don't want to go and pick
Speaker 3: up another guy off the street trying to put him
Speaker 3: in my starting lineup, because I don't think that would
Speaker 3: be really productive.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: And I know they got Miami and the match is
Speaker 3: probably in his favor, but I still would like to
Speaker 3: pivot to their options if I can, because we've been
Speaker 3: going for this long without Jonathan Taylor, so I'm sure
Speaker 3: people have gone out there and got their replacements.
Speaker 4: So just stick with your replacements.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know Jonathan Taylor come back one because
Speaker 1: he's very good at football, but also because my one
Speaker 1: of my team names is Jonathan parentheses Taylor's version, I
Speaker 1: really need him to play just so I can keep
Speaker 1: going with that team name down in Tampa. Equally, Murky
Speaker 1: with the running back situation, Todd Bowles saying that looks
Speaker 1: like he's gonna go with a three man backfield of
Speaker 1: for Shad White, Bucky Irving, and Sean Tucker, and they
Speaker 1: are going to ride the hot hand. Florio, Please tell
Speaker 1: me if there's a scarier phrase in fantasy football, then
Speaker 1: ride the hot hand.
Speaker 2: In that case, who do we trust if we can
Speaker 2: trust anybody.
Speaker 5: There is no scarier words for a running back in fantasy.
Speaker 5: And it's even worse when it's three backs. Like when
Speaker 5: it's two and it's like, all right, we're gonna go
Speaker 5: with whichever one is running better that week, it's like,
Speaker 5: all right, we could still take a shot because it's
Speaker 5: a fifty to fifty chance it'll be that guy. But
Speaker 5: when it's three, you're talking about it being an absolute
Speaker 5: nightmare for fantasy. The one I trust the most is
Speaker 5: Bucky Irving because he has been the best, like, like Marcus,
Speaker 5: you were saying this before we started recording, like he
Speaker 5: has consistently been the best one of this bunch. I
Speaker 5: know Sean Tucker had the big game last week, but
Speaker 5: week by week, Bucky's been there and he's been getting
Speaker 5: goal on work for them. He's been getting the he's
Speaker 5: the lead guy, and when it comes to carries for
Speaker 5: them and Rashan White, what propped him up last year
Speaker 5: was volume and specifically targets, and if he's not getting that,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be real tough for him to be useful
Speaker 5: in fantasy. And Tucker is still someone that I think
Speaker 5: there's upsite there. I definitely would be willing to put
Speaker 5: him on my rosters, but I kind of want to
Speaker 5: see what this three back committee looks like before I
Speaker 5: get him in my lineup.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just you know, again, I think we all
Speaker 1: sort of agreed, like Rashaan White really hasn't been the
Speaker 1: guy there, Bucky Irving was pushing him for opportunities, then
Speaker 1: Sean Tucker has the blow up game last week, and
Speaker 1: now the Bucks, I guess are seems like an open
Speaker 1: audition in the backfield to see who's gonna get the
Speaker 1: majority of the opportunities.
Speaker 2: And until we have any sort of clarity.
Speaker 1: On things, it's gonna be really really hard to sort
Speaker 1: of figure out, you know, what's what, and just again
Speaker 1: gonna be a mess. We'll see what happens this week,
Speaker 1: and then we'll kind of make some adjustments once we
Speaker 1: get a better idea of how things are gonna go there.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get a two hour look at week
Speaker 1: seven some of our superlatives for the week.
Speaker 2: We will start as we always do with Club Dub
Speaker 2: the guys.
Speaker 1: We can go to the top score non quarterback edition
Speaker 1: and Lakwan, who do you like to go big in
Speaker 1: Week seven.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm going big in the Tennessee mosh fit that
Speaker 3: they got going on there with Tony Pollard against the
Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 4: Your muffs, Glorio, But yeah.
Speaker 5: I think you agree.
Speaker 3: You already know, you already know what's gonna happen. But
Speaker 3: Tony Pollard has been producing beyond expectations with this Titans
Speaker 3: oh line. They have not been the greatest O line
Speaker 3: out there, but being that, he's just been so explosive
Speaker 3: and lurioal touched this own in previous prob This is
Speaker 3: what we wanted from him last year, but we're getting
Speaker 3: it now and I'm very thankful, you know, for the
Speaker 3: shares that I do have. But this is a matchup
Speaker 3: where I think he's gonna go big. He's always been
Speaker 3: these last couple of weeks where he's right there at
Speaker 3: that one hundred yard mark, where he's right there at
Speaker 3: that big twenty point you know, game for fantasy. So
Speaker 3: it's like, I think he gets it this week. So
Speaker 3: I'm rolling to the club with Tony Pollard.
Speaker 2: I love Tony Pollard.
Speaker 1: I put him in the Sleepers column this week, and
Speaker 1: I sort of debated, like, should he go in the column.
Speaker 1: Not because I didn't think he'd have a good game,
Speaker 1: because I'm like, does he really qualify as a sleeper.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he does, But I just wanted
Speaker 1: to write about him because I think he's gonna have
Speaker 1: a big game. I'm your guys, I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: have a really good game. Also, I sort of wanted to,
Speaker 1: you know, repair my bruised ego after like, you know,
Speaker 1: going not all in but going big on Will Levis
Speaker 1: last week and him letting me down. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I got to redeem myself. We're gonna talk about Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard Florio. I'm not disagreeing with you, but you're going
Speaker 1: with the guy who is arguably the best receiver in
Speaker 1: the NFL right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I look, I don't even want Justin Jefferson this week.
Speaker 5: I want Jettis right.
Speaker 2: Like, that's who we be.
Speaker 5: We need the chains and the grill and all of
Speaker 5: that swag that he brings, because this is a week
Speaker 5: where he should absolutely eat And I don't think this
Speaker 5: is just a good Justin Jefferson week. Like I think
Speaker 5: this is his best game of the year so far
Speaker 5: and potentially could be the best game of his season
Speaker 5: when we look back at the end of the year,
Speaker 5: because in his last three games against the Detroit Lions,
Speaker 5: he has averaged one hundred and eighty five yards per game.
Speaker 5: He is a touchdown in two of those three games.
Speaker 5: The Lions have been getting torched through the air this year,
Speaker 5: and now Hutchinson is out, which obviously doesn't help like
Speaker 5: a receiver per se, but it does help Sam Darnold
Speaker 5: get more time to find Justin Jefferson and locate him
Speaker 5: and stuff like that. So I think what is going
Speaker 5: to be a high scoring divisional matchup. Justin Jefferson could
Speaker 5: go for two hundred plus in this one. I think
Speaker 5: he's going to score over twenty five Fantasy points top
Speaker 5: scorer of the week, and like I keep saying, maybe
Speaker 5: his best game of the twenty twenty four season this week.
Speaker 1: That game's going to be really fun between the Lions
Speaker 1: and the Vikings, a big deal obviously, and what is
Speaker 1: a very competitive NFC North Division, but looking forward.
Speaker 2: To keeping an eye on that one.
Speaker 1: Both of those are really good answers, but the correct
Speaker 1: answer this week is Saquon Barklay going against the New
Speaker 1: York Giants in a game going against the owner who said,
Speaker 1: if Saquon goes to Philadelphia, I'm going to have trouble sleeping.
Speaker 1: I would imagine that John Marra is going to be
Speaker 1: a raging insomniac after this week because Saquon is going
Speaker 1: to run all up and down the field. He's going
Speaker 1: to run the football, He's going to catch the football.
Speaker 1: I do sort of appreciate Saquon trying to downplay it,
Speaker 1: and you know, like there's no hard feelings and in
Speaker 1: him saying that, I think the fans have forgotten about it. No, Saquon,
Speaker 1: the fans have not forgotten about it, not even a little.
Speaker 1: You haven't even played against them yet, like you, they
Speaker 1: haven't had a chance to see you in person in
Speaker 1: the Eagles colors. No, they have not forgotten about it.
Speaker 1: You were going to hear about it when you step
Speaker 1: on the field, when you touch the football. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's going to matter. It is going to be
Speaker 1: the fuel to his fire this week. Saquon is going
Speaker 1: to have an enormous game against the Giants.
Speaker 4: I could be so many Saquon Barkley jerseys in that stadium.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of lot of twenty six
Speaker 1: is if I both colors. Yeah, you're probably right, both
Speaker 1: colors in that stadium coming up this week.
Speaker 2: But he's going to have a I was a huge game.
Speaker 5: I was in New York the day that he signed
Speaker 5: with Philly, and the first thing I did was turn
Speaker 5: on the fan, like local radio there sports talk radio,
Speaker 5: and my god, was it entertaining. So yeah, there's a
Speaker 5: lot of hard feelings in this wood.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're like, I don't think it's gonna be a
Speaker 2: big It's gonna be a huge deal, says and believe.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So Week seven red flags the guys that we should
Speaker 1: be aware of this week, Laquand who's got you nervous?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: Jordan Love has me nervous against his Texans defense, who've
Speaker 3: been pretty good with the past. They're a top five
Speaker 3: pass defense, but they also have the highest QB pressure
Speaker 3: rate in the NFL right now, and they have the
Speaker 3: capability to get in that pocket and make him uncomfortable
Speaker 3: and make the mistakes. I'm not saying that Jordan Love
Speaker 3: is going to be a total dud this week, but
Speaker 3: I'm just being very cautious about how many leagues I'm
Speaker 3: going to be going out there to start him because
Speaker 3: you cannot sleep on this Texans pass rush. You can't
Speaker 3: sleep on this secondary at all. So I really think that,
Speaker 3: you know, we might have to have our expectations tempered
Speaker 3: going against his Texans defense because a lot of people
Speaker 3: are out there drinking this Jordan Love, you know kool aid,
Speaker 3: that he's going to be like this big, big, top
Speaker 3: five quarterback. I'm not saying he's not, but this week
Speaker 3: we might have to pull it back, pump the brakes, and.
Speaker 1: You know, here's the on the one side, like, I
Speaker 1: totally get that against the Texans defense. On the other side,
Speaker 1: he's been really good at throwing multiple touchdown passes in
Speaker 1: a game.
Speaker 2: So I'm not sure where I fall on that.
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, it's hard to have a
Speaker 1: better option, so you're probably starting him, but you know,
Speaker 1: who knows how this thing is going to turn out
Speaker 1: this week?
Speaker 3: Lakwan, would you play Love or golf, golf Gough, Jared
Speaker 3: goof whatever, because I know I.
Speaker 1: Know how you feel about it. I know how you
Speaker 1: feel about Jared Go. That's a that's a big that's
Speaker 1: a big statement coming from the quand for sure.
Speaker 5: Is hilarious.
Speaker 2: I've ever heard that before. Who are you who are
Speaker 2: you concerned about this week?
Speaker 6: Jared goof No, Look, I know the move to Russell
Speaker 6: Wilson could be a good one for George Pickens.
Speaker 5: I'm not saying it can't. I am just worried about
Speaker 5: week seven for this move because, uh, like Russell Wilson
Speaker 5: got hurt in August and then it was all justin
Speaker 5: fields getting the first team reps. All season long. It's
Speaker 5: been justin fields getting the first team reps. So if
Speaker 5: these are the first like live practice reps that these
Speaker 5: two were seeing since early August, that to me seems concerning.
Speaker 5: Plus there's always a concern of like, hey, this is
Speaker 5: Russ's first game and over in since December, Like maybe
Speaker 5: there's a little bit of Russ to shake off there
Speaker 5: with the new team, new players that he hasn't played
Speaker 5: in a game with yet, So that is concerning. But
Speaker 5: then also equally concerning is the matchup against the Jets.
Speaker 5: They are in the bottom five and fantasy points allowed
Speaker 5: to wide receivers, and they really eliminate out wide wide receivers,
Speaker 5: which is what George Pickens does. And Pickens, while he
Speaker 5: bounces around side to side, the bulk of his work
Speaker 5: comes on the left side, which is Sauce Gardner territories.
Speaker 5: So he seems very boom or bust to me in
Speaker 5: this week plus everything, I know, all the reports are
Speaker 5: that Russell Wilson is starting this week, but like every
Speaker 5: time Mike Tomlin's been asked about it, he's been noncommittal
Speaker 5: to both of them. So I think there's a chance
Speaker 5: Justin Fields could still start this week, and then that's
Speaker 5: kind of trending down for George Pickens as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think it.
Speaker 1: Look if it's Russ I feel better about Pickens, but
Speaker 1: you're right that Fields could start. I even saw something
Speaker 1: that they could use two quarterbacks as though they were like,
Speaker 1: you know, the Mid American Conference, Like what are we doing?
Speaker 1: Like why are we trying to start both these guys?
Speaker 1: Or play both these guys?
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, can we not? Please? So I'm keeping
Speaker 2: an eye on this one, you know.
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of consternation about the Steelers
Speaker 1: making a change when they're sitting at four and two
Speaker 1: right now, so who knows. I'm gonna go with Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray and this has not been the Kyler Murray season
Speaker 1: we thought it was going to be. I mean, he
Speaker 1: had a couple of good games early, but really it's
Speaker 1: it's quieted down since the first couple of weeks of
Speaker 1: the season, averaging less than two hundred passing yards per game.
Speaker 1: This week, they got the Chargers, and that Chargers defense
Speaker 1: has been tough. They have allowed sixty six points all
Speaker 1: season long. Now, mind you, they've also had him by
Speaker 1: so they've had one fewer game than most of the
Speaker 1: teams out there, but still they are locking down on opponents,
Speaker 1: not giving a lot of opportunity to quarterbacks and not
Speaker 1: allowing quarterbacks to run. They held justin fields to six
Speaker 1: rushing yards this season. I think they've given him ninety
Speaker 1: rushing yards total to quarterbacks, So that takes away potentially
Speaker 1: another big avenue for Kyler Murray to score fantasy points.
Speaker 1: I know Marvin Harrison Junior was back at practice, so
Speaker 1: that is encouraging to have him back in the offense potentially,
Speaker 1: But just I'm worried about Kyler, who has not been great,
Speaker 1: and this doesn't really feel like a week where suddenly
Speaker 1: he's about to get back on track.
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Speaker 1: this final portion of the show. So Lakwan, who are
Speaker 1: we sleeping on?
Speaker 2: In Week seven?
Speaker 3: Give me Lad McConkie man against the car and they
Speaker 3: allow a ton of production the slot wide receivers. So
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to this matchup because honestly, we understand
Speaker 3: it's a low pass byum offense, but when they are
Speaker 3: throwing the ball, they're more likely going to Lad McConkie.
Speaker 3: He's the only one that has a twenty percent target
Speaker 3: share on the team. And I think the Cardinals are
Speaker 3: going to have to focus on a lot more on
Speaker 3: this run game with the Chargers have because the Cardinals
Speaker 3: have been completely cooked, I'm talking crock pot cooked the
Speaker 3: entire season on the ground when it comes to the
Speaker 3: running backs. So they're going to have a lot of
Speaker 3: distractions with JK. Dobbins in that run game. And this
Speaker 3: is where I think Ladd McConkie shows up with a
Speaker 3: big game this week.
Speaker 1: I feel like we should start like a fan club,
Speaker 1: but we can all be like lads, lads or something
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 4: Dads lads.
Speaker 1: You know, we need some sort of clever name for
Speaker 1: the Ladd mcconkee high.
Speaker 3: He has to have these big games, he has to
Speaker 3: keep them consistent.
Speaker 4: But we'll see.
Speaker 1: He's got to keep playing well. But we can have
Speaker 1: lads and lads. We can get T shirts and stuff too.
Speaker 1: We can all like walk around like that's always cool,
Speaker 1: Like jerks with a T shirt that say lads lads
Speaker 1: on them.
Speaker 2: Who's your sleeper for the week?
Speaker 5: A guy that I know, Lakwan, likes a whole lot
Speaker 5: as well. The Mario Douglas sir look nine targets from
Speaker 5: Drake May last week. I don't think that should be ignored.
Speaker 5: And the Steeler Patriots offense looked, at least stat wise,
Speaker 5: they were putting, they were moving the ball better, they
Speaker 5: were scoring touchdowns at a higher rate than they had
Speaker 5: with Jakobe Brissett. I think Drake May injects some life
Speaker 5: into this offense. Plus it is a fantastic matchup. The
Speaker 5: Jags have allowed the second most fantasy points to wide receivers.
Speaker 5: They struggle against slot receivers, so Douglas can make his
Speaker 5: hay there. And yeah, look he's not a mustard or
Speaker 5: anything like that, but you're gonna be watching this game,
Speaker 5: You're gonna be waking up early to throw on a
Speaker 5: little football. It's a way for you to get some
Speaker 5: exposure there. And he just feels like a safe floor,
Speaker 5: kind of safe volume guy. This stealing though, is in
Speaker 5: play this week and a good matchup if the Patriots
Speaker 5: are in ketchup mode as well.
Speaker 2: I like to Mario Douglas a lot this week.
Speaker 1: I know we keep trying to make Jalen Polk a thing,
Speaker 1: and at some point I think he will.
Speaker 2: Be a thing, but for now, it's to Mario Douglas.
Speaker 1: I mean, he is the leading receiver there, was the
Speaker 1: leading receiver last year, leading receiver again this year. Good
Speaker 1: matchup this week against Jacksonville. I'm all in on to
Speaker 1: Mario Douglas. For me, I'm going with Andy Dalton because
Speaker 1: obviously things brightened up a lot in that Carolina offense
Speaker 1: once he took over as the starting quarterback. Good matchup
Speaker 1: this week against Washington. The Commander's defense has gotten incrementally better,
Speaker 1: but still giving up.
Speaker 2: A whole lot of yards through the air.
Speaker 1: Last week it was Lamar Jackson going for over three
Speaker 1: point fifty against them. I don't think Dalton gets quite
Speaker 1: to that number, but I do think he's going to
Speaker 1: be effective multiple touchdown passes in three of the four
Speaker 1: games that he's had since he became the starter in
Speaker 1: Carolina because neither defense can stop anybody. I think there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of points scored in this one.
Speaker 1: It's gonna go back and forth with a lot of
Speaker 1: Dalton throwing the football.
Speaker 2: So for sure, in two QB super flex leagues, Andy
Speaker 2: Dalton is a starter.
Speaker 1: I think even he's a low end QB one in
Speaker 1: like fourteen team or deeper leagues, the red rifle man.
Speaker 2: I think this is a.
Speaker 1: Good week for him going it's going against Washington, for sure.
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Speaker 2: I feel better. We ended this on a happy note.
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