Speaker 1: It is Friday.
Speaker 2: That means it's time for another edition of the Stardom
Speaker 2: Sidham Show.
Speaker 1: Glad you could be with us?
Speaker 2: I am Marcus Grant, Joy by Michael left Floya, who
Speaker 2: every week wit writes the start Sit column. You can
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Speaker 2: joined by Lakwan Jones, who does not write the start
Speaker 2: or sit column, but he does have a RAMS podcast
Speaker 2: where the photo of him looks like Little Rel Howry
Speaker 2: and that's good enough for him to get on the show.
Speaker 1: I mean, I.
Speaker 3: Love how you're cooking me early on the pod.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed Little Rell and get Out. He was a
Speaker 2: great part of the movie.
Speaker 1: Like what are we seeing on here? He was fantastic.
Speaker 2: Uh anyway, Uh, you gotta you should see get Out?
Speaker 2: May we gonna make that part of the film festival
Speaker 2: for next tu I'm down absolutely all right, let's dive
Speaker 2: though into the start since here I thart a quarterback Florida.
Speaker 1: Who do you like? Who do you not like? This week?
Speaker 4: Russell Wilson I love as well this week He's been
Speaker 4: playing well and the matchup literally could not get.
Speaker 1: Any better than the Ravens this week.
Speaker 4: I think Jared Goff and the Lions are going to
Speaker 4: take out all of their frustrations from last week on
Speaker 4: this Jacksonville defense, So I want to get him in
Speaker 4: bow Knicks. Look, the Falcons defense hasn't been as strong
Speaker 4: as of late. They've given up a lot of rushing
Speaker 4: yards to quarterbacks, and we know Knicks can run Lakwana
Speaker 4: like this one. Matthew Stafford, I don't know touchdowns last week,
Speaker 4: but just around three hundred passing yards. Keeps saying it.
Speaker 4: He's just that offense is different when Pooka and kupp
Speaker 4: are out there, and then this one more of a
Speaker 4: streaming option. But I do believe Drake May continues to
Speaker 4: bring a lot of upside, a little bit less than
Speaker 4: bow Knicks, but in that same range. And then the
Speaker 4: six Gino Smith who just does not have a lot
Speaker 4: of success against the forty nine ers in his career,
Speaker 4: Sam Darnold, who has kind of been trending down as
Speaker 4: of late, and the Titans have allowed the fewest passing yards.
Speaker 4: Kirk Cousins because unless he is playing the Tampa Bay Bucks,
Speaker 4: you do not want to start him in fantasy. He
Speaker 4: does not play the Tampa bay Bucks again this year.
Speaker 4: Haleb Williams, like, how can you trust him or any
Speaker 4: of the Bears right now outside of DeAndre Swift and
Speaker 4: then Aaron Rodgers in so touchdown, the dependent needs three
Speaker 4: probably to have a shot at getting twenty points. So
Speaker 4: that's a quarterback I tend to want to avoid in fantasy.
Speaker 1: All right, So there you go. Those are the start
Speaker 1: sits there, Laqua. I want to ask you about Russell Wilson.
Speaker 2: I don't know what side of the ledger you fell
Speaker 2: on when the Steelers made that change. I mean a
Speaker 2: lot of people were very upset about it. I think
Speaker 2: those people owe Mike Tomlin an apology. I don't know
Speaker 2: which side you sorry about on. And you know whether
Speaker 2: whether or not you believe that Russ can cook going forward.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 3: I did have my question so on how he was
Speaker 3: going to cook and way he was going to cook.
Speaker 3: I knew it will open up the offensive playbook to
Speaker 3: get George Pickens more involved as a dynamic player that
Speaker 3: we know he is that we're seeing. It's just more
Speaker 3: so that you know, Justin Fields was drafted in so
Speaker 3: many leagues and like the rushing upside was so juicy
Speaker 3: and like a lot of people kind of fell into
Speaker 3: how he was playing those first couple of weeks. But
Speaker 3: then you know, Russell Wilson's in now, and I feel
Speaker 3: good about having George Pickens in starting lines. I feel
Speaker 3: good about having Russell Wilson in starting lineups as well.
Speaker 3: Now he's kind of elevating that offense that we're seeing now.
Speaker 3: So you know, yeah, sorry, Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 2: So the thing about Russ, for me, at least is
Speaker 2: I wanted him to be the starter, and I actually
Speaker 2: was sort of on board with the change, but mostly
Speaker 2: because I just felt like it was gonna help the
Speaker 2: pass catchers. I didn't really ever imagine Russ being a
Speaker 2: viable starter on his own. We've kind of reached that
Speaker 2: point at least, you know, the way he's played, and
Speaker 2: certainly with the matchup this week, that Russ is actually
Speaker 2: a startable asset. And so you know, hey, look, man,
Speaker 2: there's a reason Mike Tomlin has been successful for as
Speaker 2: long as he has.
Speaker 1: He has a process, He trusts the process.
Speaker 2: Which I know is a scary thing to hear for
Speaker 2: people who are basketball fans in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Coach of the y, but certainly in football and Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: it works.
Speaker 4: He's something like thirteen and four in their last seventeen games.
Speaker 4: And the quarterbacks are Russ Fields and Mason Rudolph got nice.
Speaker 2: I mean, man, he's absolutely working for them for sure.
Speaker 2: All right, running backs starts since who you got?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna keep starting James Cook this week despite the
Speaker 4: tough matchup. I just think he is going to see
Speaker 4: a lot of targets this week for the Bills.
Speaker 1: I know Kenneth.
Speaker 4: Walker has a tough matchup against the forty nine ers,
Speaker 4: but he scored over twenty Fantasy points with a career
Speaker 4: high eight catches earlier this year against the Niners. Too
Speaker 4: good to get away from either of those two. I
Speaker 4: think I'm gonna continue to start Chase Brown because he
Speaker 4: has gotten so much work and been so good, but
Speaker 4: also the Chargers have allowed a lot of explosive runs
Speaker 4: this year. Kareem Hunt because look, he had a season
Speaker 4: high ten target last week and now he gets the Bills,
Speaker 4: who lead you pick a stat receiving wise for running backs,
Speaker 4: the Bills have given up the most in that category.
Speaker 4: And then my six Nase Harris because I think Jayalen
Speaker 4: Warren really hurts Harris in the sense of he takes
Speaker 4: more of those passing opportunities away, and the Ravens are
Speaker 4: elite at stopping the run. I'm sorry stopping sitting. I
Speaker 4: mean the Jaguars running backs, because the Lions are elite
Speaker 4: against the run and against pass catching running backs, and
Speaker 4: that offense looked really rough with Mac Jones last week,
Speaker 4: similar approach with Rico Dawdle. You're gonna notice a trend
Speaker 4: in this week. I'm avoiding a lot of Jags, Cowboys,
Speaker 4: and Bears for obvious reasons. Aldrick Estimate and Javonte Williams.
Speaker 4: I'm excited about Estimate long term, but I don't love
Speaker 4: the matchup this week. And even more than that, if Javance'
Speaker 4: is sticking passing opportunities away, it makes Estimate more of
Speaker 4: a floor play. And then Alexander Madison, I have hoped
Speaker 4: that he can be the guy in this backfield again,
Speaker 4: but until we see that, you gotta.
Speaker 1: Stay away, all right.
Speaker 2: I do want to ask you a quite about this
Speaker 2: object estimate thing, right because last week we finally see
Speaker 2: him get his opportunity played really really well.
Speaker 1: Am I weird? Because I just don't trust Sean Payton.
Speaker 3: No, that that's where you should be at. I mean,
Speaker 3: I honestly think for the last couple of weeks him
Speaker 3: like trying to drop little seeds that he wanted to
Speaker 3: get him involved. It was kind of like, this dude's lying,
Speaker 3: like I'm picking up all your estimate. I'm dropping all
Speaker 3: your estimate, and now we're picking him back up this
Speaker 3: week because we know he's talented, I mean coming out
Speaker 3: of college.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: I've spoke on this before earlier in the week in
Speaker 3: the podcast. This dude's hard to bring down. This is
Speaker 3: the body type running back that Sean Payne wants to
Speaker 3: run the rock with. And Floria made a huge point
Speaker 3: that Javonte Williams still has that upside in PPR formats
Speaker 3: getting involved in the passing game, because I do think
Speaker 3: he is a better pass catcher.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I don't even really care at this
Speaker 2: point who they go with. I just want them to
Speaker 2: pick a guy. Just pick somebody, right, somebody that we
Speaker 2: can all just sort of be like, Okay, we're onto
Speaker 2: estimate or or we're on to Javonte.
Speaker 1: Way or mcle I don't really care who it is.
Speaker 2: You can bring back Sammy Winder from the eighties, Like,
Speaker 2: I don't care, Just pick a brought those running back.
Speaker 2: Let's just go with it. That's all I really am,
Speaker 2: That's all I'm asking for. I don't feel like that's
Speaker 2: too much. Let's move with the wider series before I
Speaker 2: before I pop a gas, get here?
Speaker 1: Who are your stars? Who are your sis? This week?
Speaker 4: I've spoken up George Pickens enough this week. You know
Speaker 4: you should know by now that you should be starting him.
Speaker 4: I know someone that you've been talking up a lot
Speaker 4: this week, Marcus Courtland Sutton. I completely agree. I love
Speaker 4: the volume he's gotten as of late. The matchup he
Speaker 4: has Cedric Tillman, I think is just must start.
Speaker 1: He was top three in.
Speaker 4: Targets, yards, air yards, touchdowns in the three weeks that
Speaker 4: he has replaced Amari Cooper, so much opportunity eighteen or
Speaker 4: more Fantasy points in all three of those games. Calvin Ridley,
Speaker 4: I know you. Lakwan has spoken him up on earlier
Speaker 4: shows this week. I love Calvin Ridley, the volume that
Speaker 4: he has been getting and the production he's been giving.
Speaker 4: Plus fantastic matchup. And then Juwan Jennings led the forty
Speaker 4: nine ers receivers last week and snaps targets, catch his
Speaker 4: yards two games this year without one of Deebo or Ayuk,
Speaker 4: and he has exploded in both of them and in
Speaker 4: the six. This reads like an early draft round from
Speaker 4: drafts this past summer. But c Lambs, I think he
Speaker 4: is someone that you don't Yeah, you don't have to
Speaker 4: get away from CD Lamb, but if you have the capability,
Speaker 4: I would suggest that you do so. DJ Moore is
Speaker 4: averaging six Fantasy points in his last four games. His
Speaker 4: Bears offense looks rough and the Packers have been extremely
Speaker 4: tough as of late. Brian Thomas Junior has a good
Speaker 4: matchup on paper, but he's averaging less than five targets
Speaker 4: per game in his last five games. I don't trust
Speaker 4: Mac Jones. Jalen Waddle hasn't scored double digital Fantasy points
Speaker 4: since Week one. Jordan Addison gets way too little volume
Speaker 4: and now he has to worry about TJ. Howkinson being back,
Speaker 4: and then Deontay Johnson. I'm not giving up on Johnson
Speaker 4: just yet, but I need to see him in this
Speaker 4: Ravens offense and playing a lot of snaps before I
Speaker 4: get him back in.
Speaker 1: My starting lineup. Yeah, I mean the Deontay Johnson thing.
Speaker 1: At this point, I'm I'm waiting.
Speaker 2: I'm willing and ready to just sort of wait until
Speaker 2: we actually see something.
Speaker 1: Something happened with him over there for sure.
Speaker 3: The cryptic tweets man, that's got me worried.
Speaker 2: He is he is, you know, enemy, speaks softly and
Speaker 2: carries a knife like he's been heavy into that recently.
Speaker 1: So I mean, we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 2: Where do you Where do you fall on Ceede Lamb
Speaker 2: this week time? Where do you fall on Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 2: this week?
Speaker 1: Lakwan?
Speaker 2: Because I mean obviously the volume in theory is gonna
Speaker 2: be there, but the quarterback play is bad?
Speaker 1: I mean, what how are you approaching this?
Speaker 3: I mean, didn't those guys have like less than thirty
Speaker 3: yards each of them receiving? Like, I feel like I
Speaker 3: can't really trust Ceedee Lamb in starting lineups this this
Speaker 3: Cowboys offense, this team is like just in the gutter, man.
Speaker 3: I mean, I just don't see him finding the end zone.
Speaker 3: I don't see him find valuable targets. I don't see him,
Speaker 3: you know, being explosive. Like I just feel as though,
Speaker 3: like the morale there is just down. They're down bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, what was it the I think you
Speaker 2: had the stat earlier this week, Floria that the Jake
Speaker 2: Ferguson led the team in receiving last last week with
Speaker 2: twenty four yards.
Speaker 1: What it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, their quarterbacks combined twenty nine pass attempt sixty six
Speaker 4: passing yards, one interception.
Speaker 1: That's bad. That's just that's just bad. I mean there's
Speaker 1: really no way.
Speaker 3: That's like if I suit it up, if I suit
Speaker 3: it up today, went out there and did that, Like, jeez,
Speaker 3: that's the stat line right there.
Speaker 1: That's bad. I wouldn't pay money to watch that.
Speaker 2: Honestly, if any of us threw for sixty six yards
Speaker 2: in the NFL game, that would be kind of an accomplishment.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna put that out there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would talk about it till the end of
Speaker 4: my life.
Speaker 1: I would never shot up about it.
Speaker 2: If I threw for sixty six yards in an NFL game,
Speaker 2: I would. I would mention it in the conversation that
Speaker 2: had nothing to do about football, like, uh, yeah, I
Speaker 2: take your order, sir. Do you know I threw for
Speaker 2: sixty six yards in an NFL game?
Speaker 1: Awesome? Would you? Like? No one would be impressed by that, Nobody, nobody.
Speaker 1: It would be like only sixty six all right, you
Speaker 1: try it, jerk, All right, Let's move on to tight ends.
Speaker 1: He's where your starts in the sints. I think it
Speaker 1: took two weeks for t J.
Speaker 4: Hawkinson to become my must start tight end again. I
Speaker 4: like Sam Laporta if he suits up this week. I
Speaker 4: know that's a little up in the air, but last
Speaker 4: week I think was such a step forward for Sam Laporta. Uh,
Speaker 4: Tucker Kraft. The volume isn't great, and I don't love
Speaker 4: the matchup, but he's the upside has been so high
Speaker 4: where in the leagues where I have him, it's too
Speaker 4: tough to get away. Hunter Henry just looks like Drake
Speaker 4: May's go to guy right now, and the Rams have
Speaker 4: had struggles at times against tight Ends, and then we
Speaker 4: spoke about him on yesterday's show. But I do think
Speaker 4: Dawson Knox is a great streaming option this week against
Speaker 4: the Chiefs and then my sits again. I told you're
Speaker 4: gonna notice a theme here with Jags, Cowboys and Bears.
Speaker 4: Evan Ingram, Jake Ferguson, Coole Komt. Evan Ingram is the
Speaker 4: only one I would even consider starting of those three.
Speaker 4: But even he the Lion's been so tough against tight
Speaker 4: ends that I would try to get away Dalton Schultz
Speaker 4: just wasn't doing much when dall Nico Collins that it
Speaker 4: looks like Collins be back and then and that is
Speaker 4: it for the tight ends this week.
Speaker 2: All right, So Laquad, I've been on this whole like,
Speaker 2: no stats, just vibes thing with Cole Comett, just because
Speaker 2: I think Thomas Brown, now that he's taken over as
Speaker 2: the play caller, is gonna start getting him involved because
Speaker 2: they had that stretch in the middle of the season when
Speaker 2: they were really productive offensively, a lot of it and
Speaker 2: not all of it, but yeah, Cole Comett was heavily
Speaker 2: involved in that one.
Speaker 1: Plus Brown uses Titans in Carolina.
Speaker 2: I again, I have no statistical analysis to back this up.
Speaker 2: It just feels like a thing the Bears have to
Speaker 2: do to get this offense on trap.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and honestly, you know, with Thomas Brown taken over
Speaker 3: former Ram as well, you know, he was an assistant
Speaker 3: head coach and he was also the running back coach
Speaker 3: for the Rams for some time. But he's definitely knows
Speaker 3: what a productive offense looks like. He's able to, you know,
Speaker 3: display someone of that over there. In Carolina as well
Speaker 3: with the tight ends. And I think Cole Comet, man,
Speaker 3: he seems like just a guy, but he always surprises
Speaker 3: us some weeks. He's always randomly just popping up, throwing
Speaker 3: up you know, yards and catches and putting up fantasy
Speaker 3: point on the waiver wire or on somebody's bench. But
Speaker 3: you know, it is what it is, man. I still
Speaker 3: believe in Caleb, you know, and this new change maybe
Speaker 3: a right step forward, you know, with Shane Roldron out
Speaker 3: on the streets right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, I get it.
Speaker 2: If you're waiting and you're not going to start Cole
Speaker 2: Comett this week, I totally understand that.
Speaker 1: I just I just have this feeling again he's good.
Speaker 3: He's a good football player. Like that's the most annoying part.
Speaker 3: It's just always target competition around him that's slightly better
Speaker 3: at the other position.
Speaker 2: And they just stopped going to him for weeks. Like
Speaker 2: I don't really understand it. So again, no stats, just vibes.
Speaker 2: I just have this feeling that Cole Comett is going
Speaker 2: to be involved this week against the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 2: So not telling you to start him, I'm telling you
Speaker 2: to force him in a line up. Just telling you
Speaker 2: how I feel about how this thing potentially.
Speaker 1: Might not tell you.
Speaker 3: Start cole comet.
Speaker 2: All right, fine, I'll jump in there, start cole comett.
Speaker 2: We are unified on this one, so uh we'll click this.
Speaker 2: They can't they can't take all.
Speaker 1: Of us down anyway.
Speaker 2: What we should take down is the rest of this show,
Speaker 2: because that's gonna doing for this edition at the Stardom
Speaker 2: Sidham Show.
Speaker 1: Glad you could hang out with us.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it is a good and prosperous and fun week
Speaker 2: eleven for you, everybody, for Florio, for the Quanta and Marcus.
Speaker 2: Thank you for hanging out with us, and we will
Speaker 2: talk to you again next week.