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Quick break. Let's talk about some pizza. You want to bring restaurant quality pizza home this football season? Get Frigidaire's stone baked pizza oven fresh pizzas go from dough to done in just two minutes right from your kitchen and ready before halftime. Perfect for watch parties or just upgrading pizza night without the delivery delay only from Frigidaire game ready pizza. Get it today at the Home Depot. How doers get more done fantasy. You're in the whole 601 0.
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Fantasy.
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Fantasy Focus. What's good friends welcome on in to Fantasy focus Football alongside the incomparable Stefania Bell and the ageless field G8 because you still look like you're 12 years old. Oh, thank you.
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I'll take that. I very much appreciate that. It's good to be on with you guys.
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It's great to be here today. Pumped to be here for fantasy focused football Week six is in the books officially.
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That's crazy.
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After two Monday night football games. I gotta tell you, I love watching two football games. But also Monday night gets real late when there's two football games on at the same time.
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Well, last night wasn't so bad.
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Yeah, because last night was late.
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Get ready, get ready for next week. Yes, next week's gonna be even worse.
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Yeah, it is going to be a whole lot worse. We also have happened to have one room in our home where the people that previously owned our home when they were moving, it was a family that was now empty nesting. And they left some things behind, including one TV on a wall that was so perfectly attached to the wall that I convinced my wife to like not take it down. But I had a separate TV I really wanted in that room. So I do have a dual TV room in my house. That's what I did. Last night was awesome.
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Now they're just bragging I only have one tv.
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Well, multi view also works.
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I know, but I have the multi view where it's like six things. So I'm usually on my app. I am a big supporter of the ESPN app. I'm usually on my app and my tv, but I have a hard time cause I want to see all the details. So I'm not a huge fan of the overlap.
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Okay.
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All right.
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I brought in a second TV as well to be able to watch football. So definitely there's a lot of football going on last night. We're going to dive into it here in a little bit. But first and foremost, today's show is presented by Little Caesars. Hopefully you enjoyed the 15% off that you got Yesterday a Little Caesars for that Sam Darnold call. Also, shout out to our buddies over at trophy smack. Get 10% off with the promo code. Focus 10@trotro smack.com Go buy something fun for your league. We got a big show today, Monday Night Football recap. We're doing all the week seven waivers. Stefania. We're going to dive into a few more injuries and at the very end of the show, we're also going to talk about some guys that you can drop. We're far enough into the season that I feel like we've established a few trends. Things that are no longer just like, boy, I wonder if this is something you now can make some decisions to move on from a few players a.
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Third of the way through the regular season. NFL. Which means we're like halfway to the playoffs for fantasy football. Yeah. So you got some decisions to make if you are struggling and, oh, I don't know, the fantasy focus show leagues.
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Oh, yikes.
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All right, well, Stefani, let's talk about that too. That's coming.
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We might. By the way, just a quick apology. We're working through some technical, technical things, technological things.
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Technical, I think is.
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I think both would apply probably in this sense. But for those that watch us Normally live at 10:00am Eastern Time, we're getting some things straightened out. We'll be back tomorrow. We understand that there were some technical issues yesterday as well. Adam. We are working diligently to make sure that by tomorrow's show or sometime soon we have things back on track. Sort of like the Atlanta Falcons offense.
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By me working on it.
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It.
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Let's be clear, it's not the three of us because that would be no whatsoever.
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That would be people that are actually smart at that side of the business because defying is very smart in lots of ways. And Daniel is also very smart. I think dummy smart.
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If you started Bijan Robinson last night, this dude is the closest thing that we have to a modern day Greek God in the NFL right now.
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Yeah.
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And more humble than a Greek God. So unbelievable personality is the icing on the cake. He's a lovely young man who I'm just telling you, this was my takeaway. I don't know. There was for me, this was my takeaway of the game. Was Bijan Robinson on the ground through the air career high total yards last week. Oh, let's see if we can top that. Do it again this week with 238 yards from scrimmage. That beautiful 81 yard touchdown run that I thought really that was everything. About Bijan.
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Right. He.
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And it was a scamper at which he still broke a tackle, but it looked effortless.
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Oh, yeah.
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All the way to the end zone. I just love him. I had the pleasure of sitting down for an interview, Interview with him last year when I was looking at the state of. The state of running backs, and he was like, you know, I feel like if I just go out there and perform, I'll. I'll get what's coming to me. Well, yes, you will, because he has proved how valuable he is to that franchise.
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He. If you decided to use the 1.01 or 1.02 pick on Bijon Robinson rather than Jamar Chase, that has been the pick that has absolutely worked out. You mentioned the 238 yards. It's not just that he also had six catches. Unbelievably involved in the passing game. He also had a touchdown vultured away from him by Tyler Algier, and he still had 35 points.
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I think I'm gonna. I'm gonna give that one legitimate credit.
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It wasn't actually a vulture. You're right. You're right.
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So, like, you know, credit to Tyler Algier there because it was a long line scamper. Yes. But Bijan, you know, was amazing. I think the story of the night last night was that Bijan and Drake London orchestrated Monday Night Football comebacks. Right. You were talking about how you needed Bijan to outscore Mike. I'm sorry, James Cook by 15 to beat Mike Clay.
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Guess what happened?
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He outscored him by 28.
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Yes, he did.
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27. So Bijan certainly held up his end of the bargain. Let's not overlook Drake London. His monster night last night, much of which came in the first half. He had nine catches for 147 yards and a touchdown. In the first half, he had just one catch for 11 yards. In the second half, he goes for 31.8. Fantasy so good. He probably helps some Monday night miracles. And it could have been even better. At the end of the first half, with six seconds to go, the Falcons were trying to run one more play to make it a more manageable field goal attempt for Parker Romo.
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Yep.
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Drake London receives a pass from Michael Penix Jr. Breaks a tackle. He is off to the races. He is, at least on first blush, in the end zone for a touchdown. He ended up being down at the one yard line, which stinks for him because that ended up costing an opportunity to kick a field goal. Still worth the attempt by Drake London. Obviously worth that. I thought he did score at first. It very clearly was not a touchdown. I also thought at that moment I was like totally convinced. I was like, what are the chances the Falcons of all teams potentially blow a lead because they miss out on an opportunity to go up 21 versus the Buffalo Bills as opposed to only being up 14. But yeah, straight London was amazing last night. If you had those two guys, you certainly feel good about it. Josh Allen was ho hum last night. I think the most interesting thing from the Bill standpoint because we can stop talking about the pass catchers with great depth at this point. They are, they are right. Like you might get lucky with a Khalil Shakir every once in a while. Maybe Dalton Kincaid was out, but maybe Dalton Kincaid, when he's healthy, has a decent number, has a decent night and.
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A Dawson Knox replacement.
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Yep, he had a 19 yard touchdown. Did Dawson Knox. The part that I think is interesting is we've seen this on a couple of occasions and I believe back to back bad games now for James Cook is zero involvement in the past. I'm just going to pull this up specifically right now. James Cook had zero involvement in the passing game last night. Zero targets for James Cook, which now means over the past two weeks he has zero receiving yards, zero catches for zero receiving yards. Through six games. James Cook is averaging two receptions and less than 15 yards per game. Coming into the NFL, James Cook was billed correctly as the standout receiving back. We have seen that role change over the past couple of seasons. 44 catches back in 2023. He's now on pace for 3:36 in 2025, which isn't dramatically different. But he was also averaging 10.1 yards per reception that year. He had four receiving touchdowns. He's down to 7.4 receiving yards per sorry yards per reception and he has zero receiving touchdowns through six games. Mike will tell you that predicting receiving touchdowns for running backs is very difficult to do. I only make this point to say that James Cook was red hot to begin the year with insane, insane rushing production. He's cooled off a little bit. That was one of the reasons why coming into the season we weren't talking about Cook as quite as likely to be a top five running back. It was a guy who he's only playing with 28 snaps. Last night did James Cook there was a little bit more of a peek in a pit for James Cook versus guys like Bijan, Jonathan Taylor that have emerged to the very top of the running back food chain. So still very much a top 15, top 10 running back going forward. But a couple of down nights for James Cook when he doesn't find the end zone because of the lack of consistent pass game involved, which is crazy.
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Because Ray Davis found the end zone, by the way, through the air in the passing game. James Cook and I mentioned this was one of my takeaways coming into the weak field was you may be asking yourself, why do you have the guy that's ranked RB4? If you remember, he's had at least 20 fantasy points in each of his first four games. Had a hundred yards in each of his first four games. And then he played the Atlanta Falcons, who had been really, really good against running backs and literally the best 8.7 fantasy points again tonight or last night, unfortunately for James Cook. So now they into a bye week. Now they got a week to be able to stew. James Cook has a week. Yeah, the Bills do. To be able to stew and sit and be like, I can't believe I had those two back to back games. And they come out and they're going to play the Carolina Panthers when they get back. And I'm going to hope that James Cook can get back on track in week eight when that happens.
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You know, the Falcons, they traveled to San Francisco next week for Sunday Night Football. So primetime game. Everybody get prepared to watch the Falcons run all over San Francisco. I was coming into this game looking for Drake London to, you know, have another emerging performance. And obviously last night I think he was the only receiver to actually catch a ball. Drake London is going to be solid as long as Mooney is out. I'm just curious when Mooney comes back if there's any of that volume.
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I think you're literally the only wide receiver to catch it.
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Stefania, the stat person on the show, obviously, so.
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That's right, the 20 passes, it was.
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Weird because I noticed they weren't going to the receivers.
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Yeah.
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10 to Drake London, six to Bijan Robinson and the rest to other running backs slash tight ends. So Kyle Pitts got minimally involved, but more involved than any other wide receiver, that much is for sure. But a big, big game. Shout out to the Falcons. That's a huge win. This team made a big bet this off season on revamping its pass rush. It has paid off so far. They were excellent.
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Unbelievable.
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They really were night football.
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And this is. We love this football team because from a fantasy perspective, it's just like we know that we can count on Bijan and Drake London. It was very chalky for the Falcons. We was hoping that with no Darnell Mooney, maybe we'd see a little bit more. Kyle Pitts didn't come to fruition unfortunately. And you already mentioned on the other side field the Bills again, very chalky from a from that perspective. James Cook still had a lot of volume. Josh Allen, we're going to start every week and then the pass catchers. I am good to be without, to be honest. Let's talk about the Bears and commanders. This was a wet, sloppy, messy, had a couple of turnovers. Wasn't as fun as I wanted it to be because of the rain, a little bit of the wet. It was fun. It was back in the fourth, little.
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Excitement down at the end.
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Dude down at the end got really intense for sure. I was just hoping for more fantasy points like I wanted to see more explosive plays.
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Well, if he had DeAndre Swift, you got those a season best game for DeAndre Swift. It was the best that he's looked by the way as well. He continues to lead the way in that Bears backfield. He's got a even if largely unsexy output. He's just got a really solid role for Chicago. He had 14 rushes, 14 rushes last night. He also had two catches, one of which went for 55 yards and a touchdown. The offensive design once again under Ben Johnson, no surprise was really good. The numbers across the board for the bears beyond DeAndre Swift, not anything to really write home about. Nope. I will note one thing and I'm not going to go on this like angry rant, but I do want to bring this up. So Roma dunes a catches an 11 or 12 yard touchdown last night. An amazing catch by Roma. Yes, beautiful throw, unbelievable catch.
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Clearly the number one.
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He has just two catches last night and that touchdown's taken off the board is rooms. And the call was that the Bears left tackle, Theo Benedict, this is this call that we've seen a lot from the NFL was not close enough to the line of scrimmage. They went back and they looked at it and even Troy Aikman is like, I don't know what's going on here. Right. The NFL, so just give me maybe a minute here. So the NFL has been cracking down on these penalties where offensive linemen are not close enough to the line of scrimmage. Chiefs fans know that Joanne Taylor, their right tackle, has been a frequent violator of said rule. But the NFL in cracking down on that they used to sort of work in concert with the players. If a player was too far off, the ref give them the signal, move up a little bit or Shoo it back a little bit if you're a wide receiver.
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That was the origin of the big. Remember when the. I forget who it was, but there was a player who was like, well, they didn't warn me. Remember that with the penalty. And so it became like. But they were counting on the refs because. Because they knew they would give them the signals.
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Yeah, we saw Travis Hunter who was called offsides on a Brian Thomas Jr. Touchdown. This Roma Dunes thing, which, I'll be honest with you, I didn't think that Theo Benedict was too far back. He looked totally fine to my eye. And I think most people who was watching their eye as well. The problem I have with this if I'm the NFL or for NFL fans is that if you're going to crack down on this, I want you to also give the players a little bit of a nudge and, and a heads up. Because the truth is that these alignments are so often inconsequential, it so rarely actually impacts the play. The difference between Caleb Williams and Roman Dunes, a hooking up for this beautiful touchdown was not Theo Benedict maybe, maybe being an inch and a half further back than he needed to be. Just tell the player, if you give him a warning and he does not adhere to the warning totally, by all means, throw the flag. There was another play. DJ Moore was called offensive offsides last night. Like, guys like, it has nothing to do with the play. Too many plays are being called back because of these dumb ticky tack fouls. Like nobody really wants to see the ref show. And I'm not blaming the refs, by the way. They're doing their job. This is how they are supposed to do it. I just think the NFL will be a better product if they advise the refs. You give the players a heads up, you give them one, just one. And if they don't take it, but we move on and you flag them, it just feels like too many plays are being thrown by the wayside. And if you have Roma Dunes a, that was 11 fantasy points taken off the board or whatever. Eight and a half.
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Eight and a half. Yeah, it was. Unfortunately there have been a handful of situations like that and it's. Sometimes you watch the game. This is nothing to do with fantasy, but like you just watch the game and you're like, this just like impacts the game in such a negative way that we don't need. You don't need to like interrupt the game like this. It's not like, and I'm taking a shot but like it's not like he was Jawan Taylor, like, clearly like a yard and a half back at the right tackle.
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He's doing every single snap exactly.
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Like it's different every snap.
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He's looking to game the system a little bit. And by the way, if they don't call it, you should keep doing that. But I just felt like, you know, it's. DJ Morris called for an offensive offsides on the left side of the formation. The pass, it's like Caleb gets the snap, throws the ball to the right side for like a 10 yard gain. Bring it back. Because some guy on the left side was an inch further than he should have been. Yeah, those are the kind of delays in play that as a fan, I find a little bit cumbersome and kind of unsavory. So anyways, end rant.
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How about Luther Burden leading this wide receiving core in receptions, huh?
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Did he have the most?
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He did. He had four of them. Yeah. Honestly, like, we saw a little bit of him come on. And like Roma Dunes again, this was a. It was a wet game. It was a sloppy game. You saw some fumbles, you saw some, like, mishandling of the football. And so it was just. Honestly, when I looked at the bears, it was DeAndre Swift, and that was my takeaway. When I look at the commanders, it was Zach Hurts. Not on a buy. Very grateful for that this week.
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Yeah, back. He's back.
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Yeah, he's back this week. And Jaden Daniels. And that was honestly it. I didn't have any major takeaways over there.
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DJ Moore did stay in a local hospital overnight last night. Did you see that?
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I did not.
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So he was for precautionary reasons. I saw that. So we'll obviously with that, we'll monitor if anything. He was banged up early in the game and he was playing through it for much of the game. So we'll see whether that impacts his availability. And we can talk more about Luther Burden in waivers a little bit later on. Last thing that I'll say, and I actually am curious what Stefania thinks about this. I'm guessing she thinks she's very happy for the player. Great moment for Jake Moody.
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Great.
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I was just that. So my takeaway from last night, from this game was DeAndre Swift and sort of like in. In two games, we saw the running backs do it through the ground, through the air. But DeAndre Swift's last play set up Jake Moody for that kick. That play needed to happen from DeAndre Swift to get him into a range. But then the elements of the rain and the wind, that was no easy kick for him. And he had had the blocked kick earlier. So what you, you can imagine what might be going through his mind after that was such a big deal when he was released from the 49ers because obviously third round pick, which Shanahan took a lot of heat for and probably stuck with Moody for longer than he otherwise would have given that. And there was even rumblings of him potentially retiring from football because he was saying it was too stressful. And I was surprised that he ended up. And he ended up on the practice squad with Chicago and then all of a sudden, boom, he's elevated and now he has to kick. So I thought what Caleb Williams said in the post game interview too was super classy on that front because he really highlighted, you know, Moody just got here then being put in that position, then the elements. I mean, he, he went on and said, I'm really happy for him that he was able to do that. And I thought that was just a nice, you know, BO on the package for them for the Bears. And I thought, what a, what a great closing out of the game.
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Yeah. So if you did for some reason start Jake Moody in fantasy, which you. It's probably pretty unlikely you did because we didn't even know he was going to kick. And he was at Monday Night Football options.
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Yeah.
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And by the way, they're playing in the elements. You're like, do I really want to go back? But just as I think about what I love about sports, it's moments like that where players can, you know, come back from personal adversity and help meaningfully. And if not for Jake Moody last night, the Bears don't win that game 100%. Nothing else for me on Monday Night Football other than Bill Crosky. Merritt has remained the lead back for the commanders. He had just 6.5 fantasy. I'm sorry, 5.8 fantasy points last night. Not super involved in the passing game. And he fumbled for the second straight game. They're so thin there. I don't know whether it's going to matter those fumbles, but we know coaches hate their fumbles.
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And that fumble was an actual fumble, not the exchange fumble that him.
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And later one where Jaden was trying. Yes. And late in the game, Jaden Daniels did fumb.
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That was tough.
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Which my only other takeaway, and this is from both games, was just for fantasy purposes. You know, we often talk. We were talking about who did you draft first overall and where were you looking at the value of running backs coming into the season. And I think what both games showed us last night is that a high volume pass catching running back is the position of most scarcity. Right? You have elite wide receivers like a Jamar Chase or Justin Jefferson. What now they've had circumstances around them, but the most valuable player on your team right now is a Bijan Robinson.
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Is Christian McCaffrey, Jameer Gibbs.
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And I think that there are so few of them who do both so well that it makes me think maybe that's really what I'm angling for as my top draft pick when I come into next year.
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Quick break. Let's talk about some pizza. You want to bring restaurant quality pizza home this football season? Get Frigidaire's stone baked pizza oven fresh pizzas go from dough to done in just two minutes right from your kitchen and ready before halftime. Perfect for watch parties or just upgrading pizza night without the delivery delay. Only from Frigidaire Game ready pizza. Get it today at the Home Depot. How doers get more done. Talk about stepping up. Bang bang. It's time to level up your game. Introducing the all all new ESPN app. All of ESPN all in one place. Your home for the most live sports and the best championship moments. The electricity is palpable. Step up your game with no annual contract required. It's the ultimate fan experience. Level up. For More on the ESPN app or at stream.espn.com Sign up now. All right. I love it. Let's dive into the fantasy focus show league. Coming out of Monday Night Football as we had a close game we have to really quickly. Stefania, I'm so sorry. I don't want to do this either but Miller like might ended up beating Stefania Bell because he had both Caleb Williams and Bijon Robinson. As if he needed both of them last night.
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Seriously, I scored 133 points. My team is trying so hard. This is a try hard team. My team's in the bottom of the barrel, right?
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Terrible.
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But we were trying to hang in there despite some injuries Made some roster moves, put my squad together. 133 point.
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That's not bad.
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Stefania, I really did try.
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Two of your receivers left the game early because of injury. Marvin Harrison Jr. And A. Mecca Buka. As far as I'm concerned.
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Yeah, you won that.
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You actually beat Mike. As far as I'm concerned.
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You certainly covered the spread at least.
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Yeah.
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There are moral victories and.
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Absolutely. Yes. And by the way, I think you're only.
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Am I going to make the victory points? That is a big question.
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Yes, you did. You want victory.
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So you were five and seven in ninth. Mike is seven and five and fourth. So there's not. I mean, we're right in the middle. There's a lot going on.
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Take a look at the scoreboard and pull this up. Right.
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Take a look at the scoreboard and the standings from this last week to be able to dive into what the league looks like. So this is scoreboard from last week. I got crushed. I scored 69 points this week, guys.
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But not nice.
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Not great.
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That hurts.
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No. Eric Moody dominated team Lowe's field. You crushed the producer who was in first place.
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Was that his first loss?
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He's had a tough couple weeks, has producer Dave. He's got a great team, though. He's still.
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He's now in buried me the first week.
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Our producer Tyler Kiss the baby ended up beating Micah is a packer because DeAndre Swift went off in that game. If it was not for DeAndre Swift, Tyler would not have won that. And then Christina the bus ended up taking down trophy smack. We love Anytime anyone beats trophy smack.
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I know.
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They've been good for too long. They're like the Chiefs right now. So let's dive into the standings and look at that really quickly before we move on. Jamar Mageddon. Wow. Jamar Magedon. Nine and three. Our buddy Zach. Our producer Zach up at the top.
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Yeah.
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The producer and Trophy Smack up there, as well as Miller. Like Mike, a bunch of guys right.
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In the middle, down in third.
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Yeah, a lot of. I mean, we're five and seven. Six and six. Seven and five. Honestly, there's only two teams that are really just a lot of parody.
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We're pretty much NFL is what we are.
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Yeah.
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We look like the NFL is starting to come together a little bit. So I would say nobody is fully out of it yet. And we're still. I still think there's a possibility this is just one person's opinion, and I understand it would take at least a majority vote to confirm this, but I still Think that we should consider the loser of this league, dfl having to do the Waffle House punishment. We do a video and we run it during week 18.
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I'm too afraid.
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I love that idea.
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I still think we should do it.
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I'm not. Listen, there has to be a punishment for the loser. There's got to be something here.
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I'm in eighth place. I could very easily lose this league. Correct. I'm willing to play with. Play with fire a little bit here.
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All right. All right.
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Nervous, but standing in Waffle House overnight.
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No, no. We'd come with you.
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10:30 exactly.
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Bed at midnight last night.
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You staying up late? Look at you staying up all late.
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That was big for me.
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Big kid. I bet your parents didn't even know. All right, let's dive into the week seven waivers. Here we got a handful of teams on by Baltimore Ravens and Buffalo Bills. Two best quarterbacks potentially in the NFL. Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson. They're unbelievable running backs. Derek Henry and James Cook, they're both really good wide receivers. Zay Flowers and Call. And then tight end is Mark Andrews and Dalton Kinkay. Yeah, not really anyone else there. Yeah.
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And Lamar Jackson hopefully returning in week eight when they come off the bye week. So get lots of rest. Lamar, rehab. Well, all right.
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As we go through this, I'm going to bring up a few injuries. Stefan, you can jump in and let me know what we need to do to pivot. I'm going to start with my priority pickups, guys that you must add, I believe, regardless of what level or style or depth of league that you were in, guys that I think are just priority pickups here heading into week seven, running back is Kymani Vidal. That's where it starts. It's the number one guy rostered in 27.2% of leagues. He had a monster game. For those of you that did not watch the Chargers game, 21 touches, which included three receptions, 138 total yards, and a touchdown for 21.3 fantasy points. And when you look at the way that this backfield worked out, there's a reason why we are now more on Kymani Vidal than we were on Hasan Haskins. It's the time on the field. Kamani Vidal had 67% of the snaps, Haskins only 31% the workload. Kamani Vidal had 21 touches. Hassan Haskins only had seven. And then the eye test. The dude was explosive. Had carries of 13, 19, 27 and 38 yards, ripping off big runs. Had a ton of juice. They play the Chargers in week, excuse me. Chargers play the Colts in week seven. So I think he's going to be a low end RB2 for me. If you grab him on waivers and you need a run running back because you've got a James Cook or a Derek Henry or any one of the injured running backs that you have, you can put them right into your starting lineup.
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Just be grabbing him in general.
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Yes, of course.
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Whether you need one or not. If you've got a high priority, I.
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Would at least block somebody else, keep someone else from getting him. Do what you can to be able to get that. So I like him there. Good call at the wide receiver spot. This one's a little bit scarier. How I'm going to say this. It's Kendrick bourne rostered in 37.7% of leagues. Not every priority AD needs to be a 14 week league winner. I just want to say that, right this is one of those priority ads where he may only have a few weeks of really good production and fantasy relevance. But fantasy football is a weekly game. Those weeks are going to matter when we're trying to make the playoffs second week in a row as a fill in wide receiver Stefania because this team has just been devoid unfortunately of talent because of the wide receiver issues that we have at injuries.
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Yeah, wide receiver and quarterback. But starting with the wide receivers, you have Brandon Aiyuk who started the season on the PUP list. Still no timeline for him to return. You've got George Kittle as a pat, fast catcher, tight end, obviously injured in Week one. They're hoping to get him back in practice. May be available Sunday night against Atlanta, we don't know yet. And Ricky Piersol with the knee. Also Kyle Shanahan hoping to get him back in practice. Ricky Pierce hall, obviously a stud when he's been out there, but the knee issue is limiting him as far as who's going to be throwing to those wide receivers. Sounds like they're going to evaluate Brock Purdy on Wednesday and make a decision about when he can return to practice. You saw that Mac Jones was very banged up with the oblique and the knee injury. Mac Jones and Kendrick Bourne obviously have a history together. Great chemistry. Mac Jones instrumental and part of the reason why Kendrick Bourne wanted to sign with the 49ers. So if Mac Jones is again under center, you love that potential with them. At least for the coming week. They're probably going to have to throw the ball because they're going to be down a lot because 49ers of course lost Fred Warner this week. They lost Nick Bosa earlier in the season. So defensively I think Atlanta has has a good chance to have their way with the team.
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Did Kyle say anything about Juan Jennings at all yesterday? If he did he yeah, nothing notable.
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So Juan Jennings talked about him. I was he's we're talking about who to drop later so I'll say a little more about him then. But Joanne Jennings made it known that he was playing through five broken ribs and obviously had the ankle injuries from before, had the shoulder injury before that. So clearly at his best.
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So when I look at this, for me, like Kendrick bourne Last week 9 targets, 5 catches for 142 19.2 fantasy points. This week 11 targets, 10 catches for 142 24.2 fantasy points. I know a lot has been made about that Mac Jones connection. That's a thing that we have talked about. Even if Brock Purdy is the starting quarterback right now, the 49ers just need healthy, dependent, consistible, consistent bodies in their wide receiving.
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If Ricky Piersoll's out again this week, which Stefania said there's a chance he could be in but he's not a guarantee then I think Kendrick bourne will be a 30ish wide receiver. For me. If Ricky Piersoll was back then it'll be a little bit less optimistic. But I agree with the take again.
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All right, let's talk about the tight end position because unfortunately David and Joku got banged up. We've been dealing with more tight end injuries. Brock Bowers didn't play this last week. How about Harold Fannin? I feel like we're at a point where we got to actually really like legitimately start paying attention. Rostered in 29% of leagues, took over as the main tight end, pass catching tight end. Excuse me once and Joku got banged up, eventually left the game, had 10 targets for seven catches and 81 yards. Good enough for 15.1 fantasy points. Did you know Harold Fannin Jr. Actually leads all Browns wide receivers and tight ends in receptions, receiving yards and fantasy points. He's the like he is the pass catcher that is leading this squad right now. As a rookie tight end, he's second on the team in targets. He plays Miami in week seven. He's going to be a top 12 fantasy option for me. I do want to know and continue to monitor the David and Joku situation.
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Anything there is. I'm assuming we'll get more information tomorrow.
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But Tuesday's a big day when a lot of the details come out, so.
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We'Ll monitor that more On David and Joku, I agree on Fanon. It's such a hard position to find players in general. The only note that I would add to this past week's performance some context. Dylan Gabriel threw the football 52 times in that game. On top of that, a lot of Fanon's production game super late in that game. Junk time, which you can say that will probably count on junk time from the Browns week in and week out. But because of how good their defense is, like, it may not be a guarantee like it is for a team like until last week, the jets defense.
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Since Dylan Gabriel took over as the starting quarterback of the Cleveland Browns, he's second in the NFL and pass attempts and dead last in completion percentage two games. Correct.
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52 attempts will definitely put you near the top of the leaderboard there.
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And they are not. It's just. It doesn't look good. The completion percentage thing looks not. It's not great. So we're trying to figure that thing out. Speaking of quarterbacks, if you need a streaming quarterback, boy, I feel uncomfortable with this, but I'm going to put it out there. If you need a streaming quarterback. I think Jackson dart versus Denver is where I would throw a dart. I don't want to play quarterbacks against Denver, though. It's either. To me, it was either Jackson dart. I'd love to ask you guys, would you rather have Jackson dart against Denver with everything he's done with his legs the last couple of weeks, or would you rather have Sam Darnold against the Houston Texans who have allowed 47 fantasy points to form to fantasy quarterbacks?
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Probably neither.
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I know that's the hard part. If and if you've got Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson, you've got to make a decision probably on like if you didn't grab some earlier, you're going to have to grab somebody.
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Okay, so good.
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Is there someone else that you would rather have at streaming as a streaming quarterback in week seven?
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Yes. I'll have to. I'll have to look at some of the names that would qualify in that regard, but I want to pass something along from Jared Small over at Draft Sharks, who I think is just an exceptional fantasy brain who notes the following that against the Broncos this season, here are the quarterback rushing lines. You guys tell me whether you think Cammore's athletic or not. Not.
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Yes.
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Okay. Zero rushes for zero attempts for zero yards.
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Yep.
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Daniel Jones, athletic or no?
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Yes.
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Two rushing yards.
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Yep.
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He found the Enzo, but he had two rushing yards on six attempts. Justin Herbert, good athlete. Yes. Or No. Y Y two rushes for six yards. Y Jake Browning, meh athlete, three rushes for four yards. Yep. Jalen hurts. We agree on him, right? Y two rushes for three yards.
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Yep.
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Justin Fields, who as we know, outstanding athlete, seven rushes, 31 yards. So Justin did the best out of.
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Those guys line was at 35 and a half. I brought. I talked about that leading into the week, how good they have been against rushing quarterbacks. Only up until Justin Fields they had only allowed 15 rushing yards to quarterbacks. Now they've allowed still under 50.
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So I'm a little. A little cautious on Jackson Dart even though I think the Jackson could easily have the most designed rushing attempts against the Broncos so far this season. So I probably would lean there over Sam. But I think there might be an even better option. I have to just look closely at the.
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I would love for you to give me a better option because I looked at all the quarterbacks, I didn't feel good about anybody could be.
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Could be talking. I could be talked into that one. Against that Seahawks defense, missing a couple of key secondary players last week, Seattle.
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The thing I love about Jackson dart and you're right about all the rushing stuff and, and by your right, I mean Jared Small is right. Who took that from me from the previous week. So I was right.
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I forget you're recalling it.
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That's all right.
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You guys are both, both awesome.
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But this is one of those things where Jackson Darts has 30 rush attempts over the last three weeks. Now, mind you, over that time. Oops, sorry. Over that time we had stuff around Lamar Jackson and Jaden Daniels both missing time. Like we had a bunch of rushing quarterbacks. But like if I'm looking, more often than not, if I'm looking for a streaming quarterback. I love the idea of rushing upside.
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Totally. Yeah.
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Because it's just the passing game is so volatile and it's a tough one, so don't love it. Not a great streaming quarterback this week as evidenced by this back and forth with us talking about it.
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Derek Goff, is he. I mean, is he available in enough weeks to be a streamer?
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Maybe. I think he's rostered over 50%.
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What's interesting is I've noticed this in a lot of the leagues that I play in. So many people just double up at quarterback now. The idea of streaming quarterbacks become harder, much rarer. In leagues that I play in, almost everybody has insulated their quarterback room.
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Didn't used to be like that.
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No. I feel like back in the day, if you drafted Josh Allen, it's Like ah, fine. I'll just ride Josh for 17 out of 18 weeks.
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Yep.
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And now it's like I have Josh, but I also am just stashing Caleb Williams on the bench.
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Yeah.
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You might not love it, but Michael Penix Jr. 49ers defenses.
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C
That's a good one. Yeah.
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Non existent.
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You're right. I don't love it.
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Atlanta's coming in hot, so that's interesting.
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I feel like. Didn't we just. Didn't I just trust Michael Penix Jr. Against the Carolina Panthers and then you did.
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C
Yes. And that one spectacularly failed.
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Yes. That was okay.
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You are gambling. I didn't say you weren't. But you're desperate, right? You're streaming because you can't find a lot of available quarterbacks.
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Speaking of streaming, let's talk about some deeper leagues or some streaming targets specifically at the pass catcher position like Iron man are rostered in 27% of leagues right now. Calvin Ridley dealing with a hamstring injury. He would be the wide receiver one if Ridley misses any time. Stefania, any updates or are we going to watch that as the week progresses?
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Yeah, that's another one where they're not saying much. But he exited the game.
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Okay.
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And obviously the Titans have been busy for the past 24 hours.
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Yes, they have. They haven't been fired.
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The head coach for those that are not paying attention. Yes. Brian Callahan no longer has the fight.
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Focused on the other reports just.
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But Alec, I am manor. If there is no Calvin Ridley, but will be the wide receiver one of that squad. I still think he's worth being on the end of benches. Jordan Whittington rostered in 0.2% of leagues unfortunately with Puka Nakua. Did I say it wrong?
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No.
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Okay, good. I want to make sure. Rostered in 2.2% of leagues with Puka Nukua getting banged up. Stefania, do we need to be worried about Puka missing time?
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Yes. I mean in the immediate sense you need to be worried about this week. So Puka for just refresher left the game with an apparent ankle injury. Did come back in, wasn't targeted again. I didn't didn't do much else in that game. Ended up going for some imaging. And Sean McVeigh we said they were really pleased to see that there was nothing that suggested a long term injury with him. Which sounds to me like they didn't see anything significant structurally wrong. Doesn't mean there wasn't an injury there just nothing that they're saying. Okay, we got to put him on ir. They are in doubt about his status for this week. The Rams are staying on the east coast in Baltimore because they travel to London for a game, so they're going to monitor him. But this is my favorite Sean McVay quote. I I look, I love Sean McVeigh because he gives us what we need. When you're paying attention like me for injury stuff, he said. The Rams will take into account Nakua's quote style of play, the way and the nature in which he plays to determine his readiness to play. Now just watching Puka Nakua, what does that tell you about the things that they're going to factor in before they decide if he's ready?
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When he gets aggressive, run after catch, power player, runs through guys, blocks aggressively.
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He's not going to change the way he plays so he's not going to be delicate.
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He's not going to like step out about. He's not going to do those things. And guess what? The Rams have a buy the following week. So don't be surprised even if they allow him to work with the potential to play if they end up holding him out. Which again would make Jordan Whittington more.
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Last year when there was no Pukinakua, Jordan Whittington had his three best games and I realize it's not a lot but 12.2 fantasy points, 6 for 62 in Week 47 for 89 in Week 5 15.9 fantasy points and in Week 183 for 86 plus 2 carries for 12 yards for 12.8 fantasy points. All three of those games there was no Puka Nukua so he was playing that wide receiver two role. I would assume that he would play that role with Devonte Adams stepping in the wide receiver. 1. You probably don't need a wide receiver because we don't have a lot of them on by. But if you are banged up or just dealing with the injury bug, a guy that if you know Puka is going to miss time here in week seven could be an option for you a couple other guys here really quickly to bang through. Taj speers rostered in 23% of leagues out touched Tony Pollard this last week. I don't know if you guys noticed that but he if you may remember I said that you needed to add him last week. Again when you look at all of the backup running backs, I think he just needs to be on rosters and the benches. Tyler algier rostered in 32% of leagues. I said it last week. I'm going to Keep saying it until he eventually gets rostered. Over 50% of leagues insurance running backs that have an unbelievably clear path to touches if the guy in front of them go down. Need to be in one of those final bench spots on your roster. Drop a wide receiver that you're never going to play and add one of those running backs because they are more valuable.
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Maybe in a minute we can give you guys some names.
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A
Oh, hey, that's not a bad idea. Field good tease. All right, I got a couple more really quickly. Kayshawn Booty rostered in 7% of leagues. We've seen this before where, like, he had the big game, right? Week one, nine targets, six catches, 103 yards, 16.3 fantasy points. And then weeks two to five, he didn't top three targets in any of those games. And then now in week six, five for five. Excuse me, five for 93 and two touchdowns, 26.3 fantasy points. He's a dart throw. If you need a chance at a big game, like, you can throw a dart at Kshawn Booty, not someone that needs to be rostered, though. That is why he's a handmade player.
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He's fun to have him on your team.
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Yes, exactly.
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Because you get puns like that. Like, that's why you want booty on your roster.
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You can never get enough Booty. All right, and then the last one here, Kate otten, roster in 8.9% of leagues. Everyone is hurt. Mike Evans is dealing with a hamstring. Chris Godwin returning from that serious ankle injury. Stefania Ameca Buka we talked about yesterday. Joey Galloway is old. There's literally no one else.
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Wow.
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To be able to.
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Galloway kitchen strays.
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A
Who else is going to catch passes in this squad? Kate Otten might be a guy that if you need someone at the tight end spot, maybe could get some looks this week.
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Let's talk a little bit about those guys. Mike Evans injured in week three. They're hoping. Todd Bowles said they're hoping that he'll return to pract this week in, quote, some capacity. Doesn't sound like they're totally convinced that he's going to go yet. Chris Godwin considered week to week with a fibula injury. I've said my piece about that. I'd be very concerned. They're insisting it's not an IR situation. It is week to week. I would make sure you had insurance. Mecha Ibuka expected to miss time. Undergoing an MRI today. Reportedly to check on the severity of that hamstring injury. So. Yeah, yeah, they. Oh, and then don't forget. I mean, we're talking wide receivers, but don't forget Bucky Irving.
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Irving.
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Yeah, the foot and the shoulder issue. So they're. They're. They're banged up. Yep.
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Right now, top wide receivers for that squad is going to be Sterling Shepard, Tez Johnson.
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C
Team Jarrett.
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Rakeem. Jarrett. That's why K. Like, I don't love.
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B
The idea flips in the end zone. Like, I say, give.
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A
He's so fun.
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B
Give him. Like, that's fun for me.
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A
I played him in DFS this week. He found his way in the end zone. You got to love that.
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B
They'll play. You know who they play next week?
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C
Daniels. Lions.
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A
That's right.
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Monday night.
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Monday Night Football. That's right.
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C
Also a depleted lion safety room.
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Yeah, that was my joke when I came in. I was like, at least we're playing the Bucks. We don't have a secondary. They don't have any wide receivers. So, like, we're just going to run the ball 80 times for both squads.
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C
Exactly.
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B
Right.
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A
Last two things here. Bam Knight and Kareem Hunt. I think both could be end of bench guys.
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B
Bam, Bam, Bam, bam, bam. Did you ever get to see that cartoon?
- [40:14]
A
Of course I did. That one was in my. Yeah, I was in that demographic.
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B
So it's not Keystone.
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A
No, it's not Keystone Cops. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not. Not quite. All right, let's dive into. Drop it like it's hot. This is the opposite of all the fun stuff that we've talked about so far. Let's gonna pretend that there's a player on your squad that's so bad that he's burning your hands, and you're like, I don't want him on my squad anymore. Actually, he's just so cold. You don't want him. So we're each gonna bring a couple players to the table that here heading into week seven, we believe you can drop off your fantasy roster.
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C
I would look at it this way, is that I just don't principally believe, like, none of the players that I picked are bad enough where, like, I'm telling you, you need to drop them.
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Just drop them to drop them. Correct.
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DeAndre Hopkins would be one that, like, he's probably rostered than he should be because of his name. But there's no reason to be rostering DeAndre Hopkins right now. Guys for me are 55% or higher.
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So we're each going to give our first one, and then we'll talk about it. So let's Go.
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Who wants Leela Weiss? Vanya.
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Yeah, sure, I'll start. Because I kind of teased it already, which is Juan Jennings. I think you drop him. Listen, you got 31.6 fantasy points on the season. You might say, oh, hey, that sounds pretty good for the amount. But let me tell you about his scoring 3.6 points the first week when he was coming off of being injured in camp and not practicing a whole lot. Next week, 19.9. And you're like, oh, hey, Juan Jennings back? Nope. Then he's out with another injury the following week, but he comes back 6.4 fantasy points. Oh, then he's out again with another injury, but then he comes back 1.7 fantasy points. And now he's telling you broken ribs, two bad ankles, it's not good. And Ricky Pierce all getting closer and Kendrick Bourne lighting it up. I. I think it's time to move on from Juwan Jennings.
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A
Eight years ago, I blew my football career.
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C
He dropped it at the one yard line.
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A
Chad Powers has arrived on Hulu. If I can't play as Russ, I'll play as someone else.
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B
My name's Chad and last name.
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A
From executive producers Eli and Peyton Manning. Remember, been wearing a prosthetic mask. This is acting and starring Glen Powell.
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B
He thinks you're a rubber chew toy.
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A
Not rubber. I'm a man made of flesh. The Hulu Original series Chad Powers is now streaming on Hulu and Hulu on.
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C
Disney plus for bundled subscribers. Terms apply.
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A
New episodes Tuesdays. Yikes. That doesn't feel good. Don't love that. But I appreciate the updates. Stefania. For me, I got Kean Coleman not developing in the wide receiver one that we had hoped for. I was watching last night to see like, did we see him kind of become an Alpha? This isn't a Buffalo Bills receiving core that has an alpha pass catcher. It just hasn't materialized. You're throwing a dart at a boom game if you're playing him. And then even more often than not, you're honestly missing on those boom games. So Keon Coleman is my first drop.
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Okay, good answers all the way around here. I'll continue with the wide receiver theme. Jerry. Judy hey now has 9.3 or fewer PPR points in five straight games. Best finish this season is wide receiver 32. The Browns are totally stuck in the mud offensively. As Daniel referenced just a few moments ago, he has zero touchdowns this year. Does Jerry Doody Jerry Judy. He has one end zone target. He has been duty, some would say, and he now has a target share under 20%. So one of the thought processes for Jerry Judy coming into the season was, hey, even if the Browns stink, if you're seeing the 30% target share that has real value, it's now at 19.7. So Jerry Judy makes the drop list for me.
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Jerry Judy with Dylan Gabriel, mind you, it's only been two games. Yeah, but he's 10th in the NFL and targets 61st in fantasy points. And with the way that that offense is running, they just look so out of sync even with that kind of volume of targets. Jerry Judy is actually my number two on this list. Feel J. So I wanted to piggyback off of that. So I had Jerry Judy as well. Stefania, who was your other player, so your second player.
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Just to comment on the way we're doing this, I too was looking at it as like, you know, this is just a guy. If you need to make room for something else, you can't be waiting around anymore. Calvin Ridley, who I touted in the preseason is like, hey, he's going to be the number one there for Cam Ward. And boy, that Tennessee offense has led to nothing. His fantasy points every week, 6.7, 8.7, 3.7, 5.0, 18.1. When you saw a spark of hope. And then last week down to 2.8, they've got, the coach has been fired. You don't know what exactly is going on there. I can't, I can't have this in my roster.
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A
Do you think that he, I mean, that roster is going nowhere. That team's going nowhere right now. Right. They're, they're looking already to next year. He's a 30 year old wide receiver. Do you think there's, you know, potentially draft or, excuse me, trade scenario here?
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I think teams will call. Okay. I just think it's too logical for a team. And he's, he's not this game changing player like he was paid to be when the Titans signed him. That was a couple of regimes ago. That being said, like he's good enough that if the Tennessee Titans were willing to eat a big chunk of his salary and the team was willing to give Tennessee a draft pick in return, I think they would be open to that.
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Yeah.
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I'm just, you know, the surprising part for me with Tennessee is that there's not more garbage time production so far. Yeah. So let's see if we can get some of that if they do fall behind to the Patriots up upcoming weekend.
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All right. Well, I told you I had Jerry Judy as my number two. Who is your number One feel js why don't you give me your number two.
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C
My number two. And this one actually really hurts. Travis Hunter. Travis Hunter, who scored 9.4 or fewer points every single week, guess his best weekly finish at wide receiver.
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Wide receiver 26.
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Oh, I was gonna say 25th.
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C
I wish. 44.
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Yikes.
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Wide receiver 44 is best finished. Now there are some encouraging signs. The two encouraging signs that we have seen recently. Three, one, when he does touch the football, man, is it electric?
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Yep.
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Two, he's coming off of a season high in snap percentage on offense. Three, he's also coming off of a season high in route percentage. But again the concede here is if you're struggling and Kamani Vidal is available for you, then yes, I would be willing to drop Travis Hunter there. I understand the temptation to hold on to him because. Because the upside of Travis Hunter is still very appealing but in a part time role for an offense that even with a better day From Brian Thomas Jr. Last week is definitely not humming in the passing game. Hard to justify Jerry Travis Hunter as an absolute must hold.
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B
I think the hardest thing, and we just need to acknowledge it is it's the buyer's remorse. Even though you're not buying. But you know, it's like that I'm going to let him go, someone else is going to pick him up and he's going to go nuts for their league. And I made the decision to let him go. And so you just, you hang on because you're like it's going to turn. But to your point, Kymani Vidal is available and if that's where you have a need and this is just a hanger on, then it's time to let go. Even as painful as it might be.
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A
I have Travis Hunter as my third player. So field you. And I have two of the same three because I had Jerry, Judy and Travis Hunter call each other. No, we did not share. But I agree.
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C
Too easy drinking Mountain Dew to stay up until midnight for the first time in six months.
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A
I did not, I did not want to put Travis Hunter on this list though, in part because of the things that you just said. Stefania, I feel like if there's someone I want to give up on, it's the number two overall pick in a, in a situation in which like you.
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B
Can watch him from the bottom of your face.
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A
Agreed, agreed. So like, but everything that you said makes a ton of sense. Like I don't want to. And we led into this. I don't want to drop Travis Hunter, but if I'M at a spot where like, my roster needs it. He is droppable for me.
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C
I think we're talking about, like, I could have come up with 20 names of guys that are, that are rostered and 35% and higher. Just like, why are you doing this? Like, it makes no sense whatsoever. Right? That's not the point of this exerc. If you're really, really in a roster crunch and you absolutely must drop someone, you have one of these guys, I believe they are droppable. Do you have any more stuff on your own?
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B
Yeah, I went with Tyrone Tracy, my.
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C
Third and final pick. Yeah, look at that.
- [47:39]
A
Did you guys call each other last.
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C
Night or what again? We were drinking Mountain Dew. Okay, okay.
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A
All right, all right. That's.
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B
It's just the Cam Scatter Boo show. Between Tyrone Tracy's injury, the way Camp Scatterbo is being utilized, I just think that you're holding out for something that you might get once in a while. But in the Jackson Darts looking for scoutaboo, I just, I don't think that Tyrone Tracy is going to pay off in the way that you would have hoped. And it's time to go find someone else.
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C
I put him third for me because I felt interesting enough. I felt least compelled to make this one of my picks. Even though he's rostered in the lowest percentage of leagues out of my three picks, he's available in like 45% of leagues. So he's rostered in like 55% of league. 30% of snaps. Last weekend, last Thursday for Tyrone Tracy, 30% of the snaps. I should say no targets. And that's kind of the secret sauce here. Right. This is a four year college wide receiver turned college running back. He ran just six routes. Part of the value here for Tyrone Tracy is, hey, Scatter Boo still may lead with 15, 18 rushes in a game. Yep, he's a great pass catcher too. But can Tyrone Tracy get some of that third down work, couple of screen opportunities per week? That has not been the case or was not the case last week in his first game back from action.
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A
There are a handful of names field that you mentioned where you're like, I could give you guys that are 35% rostered. And it was actually pretty easy when I was going through, it was like, man, there's a bunch of guys in like the 30 to 40% range. Juwan Johnson as a tight end, I don't think you need a roster Juwan Johnson anymore. Like that. Yes, that, that came in when Taysom.
- [49:06]
B
Proved that this week.
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A
Is Taysom Hill somebody that we need to pay attention to with how bad.
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B
The tight end position is going to drive you crazy? It's going to be the same.
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C
What did Taysum Hill do in terms of.
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A
It wasn't a lot. It wasn't.
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C
I feel like.
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B
No. But didn't he get in the end?
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A
He did get in the zone, I believe.
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B
I think it's just enough to teach.
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A
You one carry for one yard and a touchdown. 6.1 fantasy points.
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C
So.
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B
Yeah, but. So you know, when you've got. I just. It's enough to tease you. Every single year. Taysom Hill will be a tease.
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A
Don't need it. Don't need it.
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C
Don't need it.
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A
There's still a bunch of guys. I want to say this, too. Like, there's a handful of guys that we've mentioned before. I'm going to mention again. Joe Mixon still rostered in 53% of leagues. Please drop. Joe Mix and Malik Neighbor rostered in 49% of leagues. We know for a fact, like, at least Joe Mixon, there's like a. Maybe he would come back. He's not going to, but maybe he would. Malik Neighbors is definitively out for the season. We need to. We need to do some of this.
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C
I'll take some of America off the hook here. You know, I do play in a couple of leagues where it's people that, you know, truly are just in a league to be a part of something. So I'm guessing that that 49% is reflective of a lot of people that, you know, a lot of leagues where it's the office league and someone drafted Malik Neighbors and they haven't seen the lineup.
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A
Sure. Dynasty leagues. Right.
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C
So. But it should not be that high. You are correct there. Yes.
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A
That's all. I just want to say there's plenty of guys that you can go out and drop to be able to ask for.
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C
But I think the names, like, I think all the names have been really good so far like that. Like, some of these take some stones to drop them. And so I think. But that's important because, you know, the way that you win fantasy leagues is typically not the easy decisions you make. It's usually the hard decisions that you make that end up paying off. Because fortune does favor the bold anymore.
- [50:42]
A
Not from that perspective, no. I was just thinking about a couple.
- [50:44]
B
Other situations this week at roster percentage, but I was just like, Marvin, man, that's a name who's on a bunch of, you know, rosters that I just don't Think is doing anything for you.
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A
Pretty much everyone not named Courtland Sutton on that squad you could drop. So yeah, there's a bunch of people I did want to ask you this week. We're supposed to get. Supposed to get Rasheed Rice back.
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C
We're getting him back. Yeah.
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A
Not coming back from injury.
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B
Right.
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A
So there's no ramp up period.
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C
Well, he is coming back from an injury, but he's had a longer period than others returning from injury because it.
- [51:13]
B
Wasn'T the injury that was keeping him off the field, shall we say.
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A
So any concerns with that, Stefania? And when you look at that pass catching core just, you know, while we wrap things up here, Xavier Worthy, we've now had a couple of games of him looking pretty good. Feels pretty nice if you're a fantasy manager.
- [51:26]
B
Yeah, well, I think the Chiefs are as good as anyone when it comes to the rehab front. And Rasheed Rice looked really good in just how he was moving in the preseason. I mean, there was nothing. He had a pretty rough injury, knee injury that he had. But other than the rustiness, you know, there's no reason he can't keep up his conditioning, but just football rustiness. There's going to be some of that.
- [51:48]
C
Yeah. The Chiefs very optimistic about Rashee Rice. I've got him as wide receiver 12. My initial week 7 rankings.
- [51:54]
B
They do like to make these big splashes. Somebody comes back and then all of a sudden they're a big part of the game plan, you know. Yeah.
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C
So wouldn't surprise me if they want to get Rasheed Rice, you know, involved in the red zone this upcoming weekend. So looking forward to seeing how that Chiefs offense shakes out with now he and Xavier Worthy. Worthy was quiet on Monday night. He was Sunday night, excuse me. He had a touchdown, but he had just two catches and one rushing attempt. I thought there'd be more meat on the bone there for Xavier Worth.
- [52:18]
B
I remember he had that ankle issue. I think that was the thing, you know, he was not able to be quite himself. Not quite as fast. Just a little, you take a little of the sauce off.
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A
Speaking of, I just last thing here and then I'll close it out. But I, I thought about putting Isaiah Pacheco on my drop it list and I just thought to myself, as bad as it's been, it's a running back. And if Kareem Hunt gets hurt or something happens, he is now like the full time starting running back of his squad. And as bad as he is, as much as I cannot start him, I just, I feel like running back. I just can't drop in the same way that I can other positions just because of how bad it is. So I thought about Pacheco as one of them.
- [52:57]
C
Yeah, those are guys that might be like if we did an unstartable care category right now. He would.
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A
He would be in there for sure.
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C
For sure.
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A
Yeah. All right. That's going to do it for us today. Thank you so much for hanging out with us. Today's show was presented by Little Caesars. Make sure you come back and hang out with us tomorrow for Wednesday. Mike is going to be here is going to be a ton of fun. I get to tell him why he's wrong about Dak Prescott. Everyone loves this.
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B
That.
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A
All right. Make sure you get your waiver claims in and don't forget to love each other. Be kind to yourself. You deserve it. We love you guys. We'll see you on Wednesday.
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B
Peace. You're in the.