Speaker 1: Wow, everybody, It's Thursday, October tenth, twenty twenty four. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. But we're angry at technology.
Speaker 1: Me and your man, MG Marcus Grant, joined by Michael F.
Speaker 1: Florio and Lakwan Jones. Before we talk any football things. Florio,
Speaker 1: congratulations to your New York Metropolitans. A big series. Not
Speaker 1: it was a series win, but you got to take
Speaker 1: out your hated rivals at Philadelphia Phillies.
Speaker 2: All the same time, Oh my god, I saw so
Speaker 2: many Phillies fans before this series being like we want
Speaker 2: the Mets, same old Mets, little brother Mets, like disrespecting
Speaker 2: this team.
Speaker 3: You wanted the Mets. You got what you asked for,
Speaker 3: And now I'm seeing a narrative like the fan base
Speaker 3: deserves better. No, you don't. You boot your players in
Speaker 3: their only playoff win this year. You got exactly what
Speaker 3: you deserve.
Speaker 1: I love I love Mets Phillies heat like it's the greatest,
Speaker 1: It's so great, it's so funny. But so the Mets
Speaker 1: through the Nation League Championship series. We will wait to see.
Speaker 1: I wait for you guys too. Look the Didger just
Speaker 1: pulled one out. They got a big game five coming
Speaker 1: on Friday nights, so we'll find out how things go.
Speaker 1: I'm just happy that they're still alive. They're still playing.
Speaker 1: That's all I care about. All Right, let's talk to
Speaker 1: fantasy football, because we are gonna do it through our
Speaker 1: Week six calls, and also, you know, the guys who
Speaker 1: were up, the guys who were down, that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: But I was gonna start with a few fantasy headlines
Speaker 1: as well. All three real revolving around wide receivers. All
Speaker 1: three kind of concerning. First one, Nico Collins on injured
Speaker 1: reserve or a hamstring injury that means he is out
Speaker 1: for at least the next four weeks. Lakwan, Does this
Speaker 1: mean it's Tank Dell season? I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 4: Man. We haven't really seen Tank Dell be itself, and
Speaker 4: I think it might be the injury that's kind of
Speaker 4: slowing him down on his routes and production. But you're
Speaker 4: hoping that he can step up, you know, in light
Speaker 4: of Nico Collins being out, it just has not been
Speaker 4: fun starting him. So it's one of those things that
Speaker 4: you're hoping fingers cross, but who knows what happens.
Speaker 1: Does this mean the Floyo that it's maybe Dalton Schultz season.
Speaker 3: I have both Tank Dell and Dalton Schultz as sits
Speaker 3: in stardhom sit him this week because I agree with Lakwan.
Speaker 3: I think it for Tank Dell it's injury related. Let's
Speaker 3: also not forget he got shot in the offseason which
Speaker 3: delayed his rehab process. And then for Dalton Schultz, there's
Speaker 3: potential there for him to do something, but I want
Speaker 3: to see it first with both of these players, because
Speaker 3: even last week when Nico Collins left early, he had
Speaker 3: thirty four yards in a good matchup. So this is
Speaker 3: a game where I don't know if the Texans will
Speaker 3: have to throw a bunch. I kind of want to
Speaker 3: look Adam to your roster if you want. If they
Speaker 3: play well, you could start him next week. For Schultz,
Speaker 3: Dell's already on rosters, but you know.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Some was also concerning to see Xavier Hutchinson outsnap him
Speaker 4: last week as well, Like what was that about? And
Speaker 4: likek didn't see his first target until Nico Collins went
Speaker 4: out of the game, So what is happening?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Man, weird times in Houston for sure.
Speaker 1: More wide receiver news in the AFC South, Michael Pickman
Speaker 1: with a back injury out for multiple weeks. There is
Speaker 1: some talk that he could end up on injured reserve.
Speaker 1: As of us doing this show, he has not been there,
Speaker 1: but we'll see what happens. Florida looks it's been hit
Speaker 1: or miss. I mean, the success or failure of the
Speaker 1: Colts wide receivers has depended on who is at quarterback.
Speaker 1: At some point we're getting Anthony Richardson back. Is it
Speaker 1: just Alec Pierce in nothing else or maybe is there
Speaker 1: some room for Josh Downs.
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think. Look, it's been up and down for
Speaker 3: everyone but one wide receiver, because Alec Pierce has led
Speaker 3: them in receiving yards in four or five games.
Speaker 1: And I know.
Speaker 3: Last week for three and seven eighths of a quarter
Speaker 3: it looked like he was going to do nothing and
Speaker 3: then he absolutely exploded and finished as a a top
Speaker 3: wide receiver of the week with three catches. So I think,
Speaker 3: regardless of the quarterback, Alec Pierce is who you should
Speaker 3: be investing in right now, especially though if it's Anthony Richardson,
Speaker 3: because if the floor is low with Richardson for all
Speaker 3: of their pass catchers why not go with the guy who,
Speaker 3: if he hits, could completely alter your week and potentially
Speaker 3: win you the week. Whereas the other guys if they hit, yeah,
Speaker 3: they're they're solid contributors, but they're not gonna hit like
Speaker 3: Alec Pierce does. And I jumped on board pretty early
Speaker 3: this year with Alec Pierce, but Marcus, you were even
Speaker 3: ahead of that. You were on it since the start,
Speaker 3: So shout out to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was. I like to say I was on
Speaker 1: it last year was just a year too early. They
Speaker 1: didn't happen last season. It seems to be happening this season.
Speaker 1: Admittedly he's more of a better and bestball guy just
Speaker 1: because the usage is so inconsistent, but what it hits,
Speaker 1: it's look really good so far this year. Another thing
Speaker 1: about wide receivers that is concerning Elie Nighbors still in
Speaker 1: concussion protocol, Flooria, this has been your guy for a while.
Speaker 1: How worry are you at this point?
Speaker 3: Very because this happened two weeks ago today, Like when
Speaker 3: it happened, we were like, oh, all right, Mini buy
Speaker 3: every player who has suffered a concussion. I believe last
Speaker 3: season on Thursday played the next week. Okay, Neighbors didn't play.
Speaker 3: Now we're another week into this and this is still
Speaker 3: carrying on. So yeah, I have teams that need neighbors,
Speaker 3: but even more importantly than that, like I want to
Speaker 3: see this guy healthy and back out there and everything.
Speaker 3: So definitely concerning, especially concerning for me because I bought
Speaker 3: a Melik Neighbors shirt that I'm waiting to break out,
Speaker 3: but I can't wear it until he returns.
Speaker 1: So we needlak Neighbors to get healthy. One for the
Speaker 1: New York Giants, but also for Florio's wardrobe choices too,
Speaker 1: just to help out with that. So Malik, if you
Speaker 1: could somehow get right, we would all certainly appreciate it.
Speaker 1: But still definitely we'll see it seem good, healthy, get
Speaker 1: back on the field. In all seriousness because obviously having
Speaker 1: a great rookie season in progress as into our week
Speaker 1: six calls the things that we think are gonna happen
Speaker 1: for your fantasy squads in week six. People start with
Speaker 1: Club Dub, but let's go the guys think you're gonna
Speaker 1: be the top scores none quarterback edition, of course, because
Speaker 1: that would be cheating otherwise. So who is the non
Speaker 1: quarterback Lakwan that you think is going to be the
Speaker 1: top scorer this week.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't have my loud shirt on and I'm
Speaker 4: not prepared to go to the club dub, but I'm
Speaker 4: going to be riding with DJ Moore against the Jaguars.
Speaker 4: Now we know how that defense is very generous two
Speaker 4: wide receivers to forethmost fantasy points, but more so looking
Speaker 4: at Kayla Williams and this bears offense of how they've
Speaker 4: been playing like. Therefore, I'm looking at DJ Moore to
Speaker 4: capitalize on his season high and yards and fantasy points
Speaker 4: last week and get it done against this Jacks defense
Speaker 4: who've been allowing a ton of deep passes to teams
Speaker 4: so far this season. I mean, the fourth highest completion
Speaker 4: rate you know on deep balls this season. And we
Speaker 4: saw last week Kayler Williams get some time in the
Speaker 4: pocket man, because they're establishing the run and there's gonna
Speaker 4: be a lot of times where Kayla Williams, he's gonna
Speaker 4: be out there dealing if he has time in that pocket.
Speaker 4: So DJ Moore or let's go.
Speaker 1: I mean, DJ Moore always a candidate today. A ton
Speaker 1: of targets, you know, sort of inside information heard from
Speaker 1: a friend of a friend that being Adam Rank talking
Speaker 1: about Mathew talked about his podcast, but some of the
Speaker 1: other guys said that they think this could be a
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen week as well, So we will see. But
Speaker 1: Kayla Williams getting hot. Great matchup this week against the
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars. Florio, who do you like this week to
Speaker 1: go big?
Speaker 3: We said quarterbacks would be cheating the number one wide
Speaker 3: receiver and drafts also might be cheating, but I don't care.
Speaker 3: He's not a quarterback, so give me c d Lamb.
Speaker 3: Because the Detroit Lions struggle mightily against wide receivers. They
Speaker 3: are in the top two only the Jaguars, so I
Speaker 3: love your call as well. Lakwan have allowed more fantasy
Speaker 3: points per game two wide receivers than the Lions have.
Speaker 3: But the best part about the Lions is of facing
Speaker 3: when your receivers play them, the Lions offense is going
Speaker 3: to put up points. We know that they are probably
Speaker 3: going to run all over the Cowboys this week, but
Speaker 3: even if they can't, they'll they'll find ways. They have
Speaker 3: a lot of different weapons they can get the ball
Speaker 3: to and when they score points, their opponents need to
Speaker 3: put their foot on the gas. Play fast, throw more
Speaker 3: and try to match those points, and I think this
Speaker 3: could be a high scoring game. I want Cede Lamb obviously,
Speaker 3: you want him in as many lineups as you can
Speaker 3: get him in. But I think this we've been waiting
Speaker 3: for the vintage CD Lamb game. I think it's this week.
Speaker 1: You know what, the way the Cowboys are running the ball,
Speaker 1: which is to say not at all, that means plenty
Speaker 1: of opportunity for targets. And what you say, I agree,
Speaker 1: it could be a very high scoring game, So plenty
Speaker 1: of opportunity there, Florida, we might want ear must for
Speaker 1: this one because I like Breis Hall.
Speaker 3: I agree with your call.
Speaker 1: Okay, we got Breece Hall as a chance to go
Speaker 1: really really big Florio. It's the thing that you have
Speaker 1: talked about that the secondary, the pass coverage has been
Speaker 1: very good for Buffalo. The linebackers have been a problem.
Speaker 1: Running backs have had a field day against this defense
Speaker 1: so far this year. And I think with the change
Speaker 1: in play, it's been stripped from Nathaniel Hackett, it has
Speaker 1: been given to Todd Downing. I think you're gonna see
Speaker 1: a difference in the way the Jets offense operates, and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it is going to be
Speaker 1: We're going to feed our really talented running back with
Speaker 1: a lot of opportunities here. So I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: see Breese Hall carry it a lot. I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna see him get a lot of targets. Especially keep
Speaker 1: in mind Aaron Rodgers has been limited in practice so
Speaker 1: far this week, so it might not be a situation
Speaker 1: where they let him, you know, take these drop backs,
Speaker 1: stand in the pocket and try to go downfield. It
Speaker 1: might have to be him getting the ball out quick,
Speaker 1: which works in the favor of Breeze Hall. So everybody
Speaker 1: who's been frustrated trying to start Breeze Hall and not
Speaker 1: getting those big games, I think this is a week
Speaker 1: that you can feel a little bit more confident that
Speaker 1: the guy you spit probably a top three pick on,
Speaker 1: is going to produce for your fantasy squad over to
Speaker 1: these snorel acts our favorite Week six sleepers. So in
Speaker 1: the words of ash ketchum, who are you choosing up?
Speaker 4: I love this sleep like that was a great call, Floria.
Speaker 4: But anyway, I'm going to Eagles DST this week. Man,
Speaker 4: I know they're not really the sexiest DST, you know,
Speaker 4: Team to have in your starting lineups. This season, they've
Speaker 4: been really on the low side of like four to
Speaker 4: five points. Not really the team to go out there
Speaker 4: and get a lot of sacks right now, and they've
Speaker 4: been getting cooked in that secondary. But going against this
Speaker 4: Browns offensive line, I think they can feast and get
Speaker 4: some turnover, some sacks and be out there and be
Speaker 4: able to build on those standard ten points you're able
Speaker 4: to get because right now the Browns offense is got
Speaker 4: awful and getting after Watson is something that I think
Speaker 4: they can do. So the standard ten points to maintain
Speaker 4: the low scoring points this week is definitely on the
Speaker 4: table for them. So the Eagles team might be on
Speaker 4: the wire for you. Go pick them up, put them
Speaker 4: in your starting lineup this week.
Speaker 1: I got an interesting notes from our research squad earlier
Speaker 1: on Thursday that last season there were five or three
Speaker 1: fifth round quarterbacks who started a game in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: None of them threw a touchdown pass in their first
Speaker 1: career start. So Spencer Rattler getting his first career start
Speaker 1: this week for the New Orleans Saints going against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: do not necessarily like the situation for him there, So
Speaker 1: I do like that call as a sleeper start this
Speaker 1: week a Florida who do he likes a sleeper?
Speaker 3: In my leagues, the Eagles defense were going for there
Speaker 3: was bidding wars in.
Speaker 1: Fab to get them race.
Speaker 3: I like Calvin Ridley though this week because if not now,
Speaker 3: it might never happen in Tennessee. But I know it's
Speaker 3: been rough for Calvin Ridley outside of the one game
Speaker 3: against the Jets, where you probably sad them because they
Speaker 3: were facing the Jets. But the Colts have struggled every
Speaker 3: which way this year.
Speaker 1: On defense.
Speaker 3: They've given up a lot of rushing yards, even though
Speaker 3: they have improved in recent weeks against the run, they
Speaker 3: have really struggled against the pass, and they particularly struggled
Speaker 3: against out wide wide receivers and on deep passes against
Speaker 3: wide receivers who plays out wide and could win downfield.
Speaker 3: The best on the Titans Calvin Ridley. So uh, this
Speaker 3: is just a pure upside shot. And if you're in
Speaker 3: a deeper league, DeAndre Hopkins is even someone that I
Speaker 3: would consider taking a shot on this week. And Marcus,
Speaker 3: I know you have been talking about Will Levis and
Speaker 3: his male loving as a sleeper this week, So let's
Speaker 3: get his past catchers in there.
Speaker 1: Hey, look, I don't hate that at all. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get the ball downfield to somebody. Why not
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley. Let me creak myself. By the way, it's
Speaker 1: not the Eagles in the Saints this week. It's the
Speaker 1: Eagles in the Brown. So you're picking on Deshaun Watson, yes,
Speaker 1: who has been also awful all season all but I
Speaker 1: guess you mean that means that you can stream the
Speaker 1: Bucks defense against the Saints if you want to this week.
Speaker 1: That is not my sleeper. My sleeper is another defense,
Speaker 1: because apparently defense is the order of the day. I'm
Speaker 1: going to Houston, Texans taking on the New England Patriots
Speaker 1: this week. Drake May making his first career regular season
Speaker 1: start for New England. I think Drake May is going
Speaker 1: to have a very bright future. I liked what I
Speaker 1: saw out of him in the preseason. Do not like
Speaker 1: him this week. This is the same Texans defense that
Speaker 1: harassed Caleb Williams to no end pressure on him. They
Speaker 1: sacked him seven times as well. I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: see them really try to heat things up for Drake May.
Speaker 1: This is a Patriots offense that has not been very
Speaker 1: good with Jacoby Brissett's second fewest point score of any
Speaker 1: team in the NFL so far, so maybe it gets
Speaker 1: incrementally better with Drake May. Perhaps this is not the
Speaker 1: week that I would test that we talked about. Jalen
Speaker 1: Polk is the guy you want to add. I don't
Speaker 1: think you're starting him this week. I want to see
Speaker 1: what happens with this Texans defense first before I have
Speaker 1: any thoughts of starting any Patriots skill position guys. But
Speaker 1: I would slide into Texans as a streaming option. If
Speaker 1: you are looking for a defense, it's time to drive
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Speaker 1: Let's look forward. Can I get an encore? Who are
Speaker 1: the guys who went big last week? Who go big
Speaker 1: again this week? Lakwan, who do you like?
Speaker 4: I'm going Kirko Chains?
Speaker 1: Is that where we're still calling? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean he's still Swacksurf and I'm pretty sure going
Speaker 4: into this week coming off a career high of five
Speaker 4: hundred passing yards, and I think he can keep the
Speaker 4: train rolling in this matchup. He's a top five quarterback
Speaker 4: in major crack category, so he is bowling right now.
Speaker 4: This Panthers defense that are allowing thirty three points per game.
Speaker 4: That's the most in the NFL right now, and Kirk
Speaker 4: Cousins is responsible for eighty eight percent of the Falcons
Speaker 4: offensive touchdowns. So if there's going to be some scoring
Speaker 4: in this game against one of the worst defenses, it's
Speaker 4: coming from Kirk Cousins hand. So another QB one week
Speaker 4: coming for Kirk co Chains, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, does mean we get to see him swagsurfing flags.
Speaker 4: Yes, it was a little awkward, but he got it
Speaker 4: down after the beat starts.
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins it was it was never not going to
Speaker 1: be awkward watching him swag surf, like there was only
Speaker 1: one way they found the beat, though, it was never
Speaker 1: not going to be awkward for sure. This dude buys
Speaker 1: his close it coals Man, which no shot at Coles.
Speaker 1: But like you just you just know if I'm buying
Speaker 1: Khaki's at coals, I'm not swagsurfing. Ether just don't go together.
Speaker 1: The correlation there is very low, right, Come on there
Speaker 1: it is Florida. Who's who's your guy? Who goes big again?
Speaker 1: In Week six?
Speaker 3: Uh Za Flower coming off of not just his best
Speaker 3: game of the season, but arguably the best game of
Speaker 3: his career for the Ravens, but he leads them in
Speaker 3: every category targets, receiving, yards, catches, and he gets the
Speaker 3: Washington Commanders this week, who not only have allowed the
Speaker 3: most touchdowns to wide receivers, they've allowed the seventh most
Speaker 3: fantasy points. A wide receiver has gotten twenty fantasy points
Speaker 3: against them in all but one week, and in that
Speaker 3: one week they got eighteen against them. So very safe floor,
Speaker 3: high ceiling. And the best part, just like with the Lions,
Speaker 3: about having wide receivers go against the Commanders, is with
Speaker 3: their offense being good. Now, it's not like you're hoping
Speaker 3: that like I need my receiver to get a touchdown
Speaker 3: in the first half, otherwise they're just gonna run the
Speaker 3: ball Like no, You're gonna have to keep scoring to
Speaker 3: keep Jayden Daniels in this Commander's defense offense down. So
Speaker 3: could be a shootout. This is going to be the
Speaker 3: game that you said yesterday, Marcus. Everyone in the early window.
Speaker 1: Is going to have their eyes on this game. Why
Speaker 1: not get exposure to it? And Zay Flowers I think
Speaker 1: should eat this week. Yeah, man, I mean, obviously they
Speaker 1: didn't know how good Jayden and Daniel's gonna be when
Speaker 1: the schedule came out. But man, if this were like
Speaker 1: a Sunday night game, there's'l be a lot of fun
Speaker 1: if it were a kind of an Island game situation.
Speaker 3: No, we got to get Bengals Giants on Sunday night.
Speaker 3: Come on?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah for me, Look, we all jumped off
Speaker 5: the DeAndre Swift train after the first few weeks of
Speaker 5: the season.
Speaker 1: It was understandable. He was bad, right, he just hadn't
Speaker 1: produced anything. It was getting hard to sort of wait
Speaker 1: on him to produce. So everybody jumps ship. I get it.
Speaker 1: But he put together two solid games in a row,
Speaker 1: and now he gets another good matchup this week against
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. They have been bad against the run.
Speaker 1: They have been bad against pass catching running backs. We
Speaker 1: know Swift's gonna do a little bit of both of
Speaker 1: those things. You know you had we talked earlier about
Speaker 1: DJ Moore in that passing game for Chicago. DeAndre Swift's
Speaker 1: gonna be involved in that as well. He's gonna get
Speaker 1: some opportunities to get some targets there. We know he's
Speaker 1: going to get the majority of the rushing attempts as well.
Speaker 1: You can find the end zone. I think it becomes
Speaker 1: a really huge day. But even without that, I expect
Speaker 1: enough touches and enough production that he's a solid RB
Speaker 1: two for a whole lot of fantasy managers and continuing
Speaker 1: that run of really playing well after we pretty much
Speaker 1: all pulled the shoot Andre Swift after the first two
Speaker 1: or three weeks of the season. So there it is.
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Speaker 1: that we end our show with a positive thing. Yes,
Speaker 1: we've been doing better, because it feels like we had
Speaker 1: been ending with a lot of negatives and that was
Speaker 1: kind of a downer way to leave our own players.
Speaker 1: Do we hate this week? Yes, let's talk of the
Speaker 1: guys that are gonna stink in your lineup this week. No,
Speaker 1: let's not do that. Instead, let's let's end on this
Speaker 1: pro hate Award. The Silkie Johnson Award this week in
Speaker 1: Week six goes to we gotta work out. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: make that a thing for a future shows going forward.
Speaker 1: But let's end this on a happy note, So there
Speaker 1: you go. That'll do it for this should have the
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