← Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry
Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry
Week 4 Takeaways: Dak Prescott, Drake London, Ashton Jeanty + Malik Nabers, Lamar Jackson injuries
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September 29: Matthew (@MatthewBerryTMR) and Jay (@croucherJD) recap player performances in Packers-Cowboys, Chargers-Giants, Eagles-Bucs, Commanders-Falcons, Bears-Raiders, Ravens-Chiefs, and Colts-Rams. They also highlight injuries to Malik Nabers and Lamar Jackson, big days from Woody Marks and DK Metcalf, and unveil their favorite bets in Jets at Dolphins and Bengals at Broncos.
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Matthew Berry
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Matthew Berry
Three, two, one, go.
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Field Yates
Wait, no, no, no. What are you doing?
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Matthew Berry
I will count as him.
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Field Yates
Three, two, one, go. I'm keeping up. I'm keeping up. Yeah, thank kind of an indictment award.
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Matthew Berry
It was surprising that he was so close to us like that.
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Field Yates
Keeping up with you guys. That's why we had you grab the mic for the commentary.
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Matthew Berry Intro
Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry.
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Matthew Berry
Welcome to the fantasy football happy hour to an intimate date with me and Matthew Barry. The rig attorney will be here shortly, but we are here in Claude Monet's restaurant now. We're in Dallas, the Ritz Carlton Hotel. That video was not Matthew golden, it was us. Yes, at AT&T Stadium.
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Field Yates
Very easy to get confused. We, we did our show live yesterday from. From AT&T Stadium Fantasy football pregame and somebody this, you know, and I blame myself because I was the one who immediately said like, hey, we shouldn't, we should be live on YouTube. We should involve the comments, we should follow the, we should involve the listeners, the viewers. And so far it's worked out usually pretty well. But yesterday somebody said, oh, you guys should do a 40 yard dash. And that person, whoever that is, is evil, is mean, is cruel. Who, who knew that? You know, at my advanced age, like, you know, like making me without any warm up in jeans and like full makeup and gear and you know, whatever. But you know what? I feel like the real losers of that weren't me. Even though I finished last. It's the, a lot of you that some of you are 20 years younger than me. Everyone there on the set is at least 10 years younger than me. And I was, I don't know, three or four steps behind. Yeah, like it was closer than it should have been. Jay Croucher.
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Matthew Berry
Yeah, it was. So there's two things. One, there was a first, second, third and fourth. But really everyone was a loser. Everyone was a loser in their own way. But the loser, the real loser was George Severicis, who, who was, who was immediately in rationalizing everything mode where he was saying, well, I got a bad get off off the jump. Once you adjust for get off, I probably won. Which is the most loser behavior possible to, to get into that.
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Field Yates
It was, it was, he was down bad. George Severicus was absolutely down bad. But I don't want to mock him too much because him and I are in a tight, tight battle.
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Matthew Berry
Yes.
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Field Yates
For, for our show league as well. I desperately need, uh, Chase Brown and Cortland Sutton to somehow outscore Bo Nixon Breece Hall. So yeah, like he's got a one point lead of me heading into it. Once again, Darnell Mooney leaves the game early. Fourth week in a row. One of my players, like, leaves the, leaves the game early. Derek Henry. Brutal again. We'll brutal again. We'll get into all of it. But we were at AT&T Stadium last night as well, Jay.
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Matthew Berry
Yes.
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Field Yates
For an epic showdown between the Cowboys and the Packers.
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Matthew Berry
Yeah, I didn't have a 4040 tie on my bingo card. The first tie in the NFL in three years. It was a magnificent game. Really. A lot of players played at an extremely high level. Chief among them Dak Prescott and George Pickens. George pickens goes for 33.4 yards. Also had a bad drop in there. Could have been even higher. Josh Jacobs, who left the game hurt at one point, came back in. He was incredible. I thought Dak Prescott, though Matthew was the real story. I thought Dak continues to play real life like a top five seven quarterback. And fantasy wise, it's coming along as well.
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Field Yates
Look, 31, 31 of 40, 319 passing yards, three touchdowns. The rushing touchdown also impressive. Like that's something we've seen from Dak in a long, long time. And to your point, against one of what we think is one of the better defenses in the NFL. Like, you know, my, my bet, my best bet for football night in America was Rashawn Gary, you know, to get half a sack, right. He had had three straight sacks. I'm like their backup offensive line. They were missing two starters from the offensive line. The Cowboys were. And he didn't get home. You know, Micah got one sack late, which was a very generous ruling on a sack like it looked more like a tackle, to be honest with you.
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Matthew Berry
Yeah, it was someone who's got a lot of Micah Parsons to win defensive player of the year. I was very happy with that stat allocation where I'm pretty sure Dak gained a yard on that run, but it was a bad spot. So the stat stance. But yeah. And also Dak like he was very close to running in that one for a second rushing touchdown for the game, but he was magnificent. And we heard from Dak specifically on how well George Pickens has stepped up as a wide receiver.
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Dak Prescott
One that that's what he does, that's who he is and that that's what allows that chemistry to grow is when I, I get a guy who I've seen on film make play after play and then, you know, he shows up here and he's not missed a beat and he's getting better. He's getting, excuse me, he's getting older through experience and more mature. That trust just only grows more and the chemistry is just going to expedite that whole process. And he's a hell of a player and he loves football and that's the most, that's what I love most about George. He's a guy who loves football. He's a hell of a teammate and he's always locked in whether he's getting the ball or not. In the past games when Ceedee was here or now, you know, he's the number one and he's being called upon. He embraces that role and that responsibility and as I said, just the language and the things he was talking in the huddle. Proud of him.
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Matthew Berry
Yep. I think the.
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Field Yates
So that Stack Prescott on George Pickens.
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Matthew Berry
Yeah. And I think the thing is that I think I was expecting this offense to be kind of stuck in the mud without CD Lamb because it didn't look great against Chicago. But Pickens was awesome. Dak played an incredibly high level. So how much do you buy the idea that Dak Prescott can be a legitimate QB one until CD comes back?
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Field Yates
Yeah, I mean, I think a low end QB one. I mean the problem is, is there's just not a lot of margin for error because yes, he got the rushing touchdown here and he was a little bit more spry than we've seen, but that's not a part of his game. So he needs to, he needs to have high volume in terms of his passing and you know, a lot of passing touchdowns for him to be, you know, a top 12ish fantasy quarterback. But their defense is going to be terrible. Continue to be terrible. And yeah, Dak looks dialed in. He's fully healthy. He looks great. To your point, he was incredibly efficient last night. He looked the part of a franchise quarterback and you know, getting the production they're getting from Pickens and Ferguson. Tolbert made an unbelievable catch down the sideline at the, at the end of the game as well.
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Matthew Berry
The best throws I've seen in my life. He's fading away with the game on the line basically and he's able to hit Tolman the one spot where he can get it. It was incredible. Incredible pass and incredible catch.
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Field Yates
Yeah, I mean Tolbert made a great play to come back for the ball, but still like I thought he was throwing when he first threw the ball. I'm like, oh, smart like Dak could play to get away from just to get rid of the ball and throw it out of bounds and didn't realize there was anyone down there to catch the ball. So unbelievable play. So yeah, so that's what I think he's, I think we may, you know, he's, he's. As we head into Monday Night Football, he's the number one quarterback in fantasy. But I think we've probably seen his best game of the year. But the question was can he be a QB1 this year? Can he be a top 12 fantasy quarterback? And I think he can. Now again, as many touchdown passes in this game, three that he had in the first three games combined. But I do think it is somewhat sustainable because the defense is that bad. Do I think they're putting up 40 every week? No. And again, I don't think the rushing is going to be something that's consistent. So I think more to the lower tier. But yes, I do think he's a. I'm buying into Dak is what I would say. And I'm also. Jay, I'm also buying into George Pickens. Now this is the second best fantasy game of his career. He's only had three where he's been north of 25 fantasy points. He, he's the number two wide receiver in fantasy. 33.4 as we head into Monday Night Football. But one of the reasons why we liked him so much in the preseason, it was on my preseason love list. He was, he was a sleeper for me. He was. You know, other people were bullish on him coming to Dallas as well, which is that he's in an offensive system where and a quarterback that can use his skill set the best. Like he's not in a run heavy offense with Mason Rudolph quarterbacking It or the ghost of Ben Roethlisberger, whatever. I mean like he's got a, he's got a real quarterback in Dak Prescott and they're going to want to throw. This is the thing that's most encouraging to me. So far this year, he's got nine end zone targets that is tied for the most in the NFL. Like, and they're, they're obviously going to use him deep. Getting CD Lamb back will help. But like in his first game where he's an Alpha wide receiver one, I mean, you know, eight for 124, two touchdowns, he gets the 11 targets. Again, we're not expecting 40 points but you know, he, he did what he did, George Pickens type things. He won jump balls. He, he won, he won matchups. He got off the line of scrimmage as well. Aloha Bricks, our old friend Aloha Bricks says, do you think George Pickens will finish as a top 20 wide receiver? Should I sell high or keep him? I would keep him. Yes. I do think when we're, I would rank him probably, if I was ranking for the rest of the season, I'd probably put him somewhere in the wide receiver 15 range. Jay. So I do think he's a top 20 wide receiver. I think he's, there's, there's more volatility with him just because so much of his, so many of his targets are down the field. He's got a, you know, a higher depth of, higher depth of target than a lot of wide receivers. So there's more variance there. But at the end of the day, good quarterback, good offense, talented player in a system that I think is made for him. I do think he's, you know, somewhat volatile. Legit wide receiver too.
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Matthew Berry
Yep, agreed there. I think maybe the more interesting wide receiver question coming out of last night is what, what is Romeo Dobbs? Because Romeo Dobbs looks like Jordan Love's number one target. Jordan Love is a guy who airs it out. He scores the three touchdowns last night, which is not going to sustain, but what could sustain is Romeo Dobbs being the number one wide receiver in a potentially elite offense. So how much you buying that Romeo Dobbs can be not perhaps not a wide receiver too, but like a really high end wide receiver. 3.
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Field Yates
I think he's more of like a mid tier wide receiver. Three with, with some real variants. Look, three touchdowns is three touchdowns, man. You know what I mean? And he finishes, you know, with 29.8 fantasy points. But think about that. He scored three touchdowns and he still couldn't crack 30 fantasy points. He had 58 yards. Yeah, like, I mean six for. In a game in which the packers put up 40 points and Romeo Dobbs had, you know, had three touchdowns, he still had under 60 yards receiving. You know, he had a 22% target share in this game. It's not like he had like some massive 35 even 32% target share. Like 22 target share, which was nice. And on the season he's got a 17% target share. So I, like, I will say that I think he is the. Him and Tucker Kraft are the two clear cut red zone and end zone threats that Jordan Love get likes. You know, when they get in close, if they're not giving it to Josh Jacobs, they're going to throw to Tucker Graft or Romeo Dobbs. But again, like he's had two different games under 30 yards. He's had, he's been under 70 receiving yards in every game this season. And so I don't, I'm more of the like, if somebody wants to give you like, you know, a more consistent, usable piece for Romeo Dobbs, like I would sell high.
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Matthew Berry
Yeah.
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Field Yates
On Romeo Dobbs, like I think it's, I think he's, yeah, I think he's a shaky wide receiver. 3. They're on a buy this week, by the way. If there was one positive, they're out of the buy. Home to Cincinnati, at Arizona, at Pittsburgh. So three straight games where you feel like a pretty, pretty good offense, pretty good matchups, I should say.
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Matthew Berry
Yeah. I would almost think of Dobbs as like a touchdown dependent tight end.
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Field Yates
Yeah.
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Matthew Berry
Because it's like end zone based and he needs touchdowns to score. Let's go.
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Field Yates
I think that's right.
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Matthew Berry
The Cowboys NFC east rival, the New York Giants, who got their first win of the season. As we look at the notable fantasy performances, Marion Hampton, who we're going to talk about, he leads the way with not a lot of volume because they were training the whole time, but he made IT work. And 27 and a half fantasy points. But I think the most interesting aspect of this game, the debut of Jackson Dart goes for almost 20 fantasy points. Doesn't do a lot through the air, Matthew, but Jackson Dart, there is going to be a delta between his real life value and his fantasy value. And the fantasy value is pretty high.
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Field Yates
This is the point I was trying to make. I mean like we said it last week as well, like as soon as the news broke, like he's going to be a top 12 fantasy quarterback from moment one. People like, Ah, The Chargers offensive line, blah, blah, blah. And a game in which he also loses Malik Neighbors. We'll talk about that in a second as we head into Monday football. He's QB8. Unless all four quarterbacks tonight go, you know, completely crazy. And I don't think that's going to happen. Jackson Dart's going to finish his debut in a game in which he didn't have Malik Neighbors for much of it. And he played against what we think is a pretty good defense in the Chargers. He's going to finish as a top 12 fantasy quarterback and I don't think that's a fluke. He had 10 rushing attempts. Right. Including three in the red zone and two on the goal line. 57% of his points came as a runner. But by the way, that's part of it. That was part of the argument. We saw this in the preseason, like he's going to run around and use his legs. And we did the Football Night in America podcast last night and we were doing the speed round and they were like, you know, what's one word to describe? And one of the questions was Jackson starts debut. And I said encouraging. There's some stuff to clean up from both a professional, from a real football and fantasy football perspective. But like I'm encouraged. If I was a Giants fan, I'd be thrilled this morning. Like you won a game you probably shouldn't have. Right. Against a team that I think is better than you. But. And assume if you told me like, hey, you're playing the Chargers with a rookie quarterback and you're going to lose your best offensive weapon, you know, pretty early on, I'd be like, well there you go. That's a lot. And, and the Giants won that game. And so I would be, I do think while there's going to be kind of a longer growing curve with Dart from a real life NFL perspective, he's a QB1 fantasy wise moment one.
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Matthew Berry
Yep. And not every week he's not going to have to face as good or well schemed the defense as the charges week in, week out.
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Field Yates
They play the Saints next week.
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Matthew Berry
Yeah. Which is, which is much easier despite the Saints being quite plucky. We heard from Jackson.
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Field Yates
Now we will say, we will say then after the Saints it's Eagles at Denver at Philadelphia. So again Eagles in two of the next three after, after the Saints. But still again I just think the rushing elevates his floor.
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Matthew Berry
Yep. Okay. We heard from Jackson yesterday on winning in his debut and where he can improve.
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Player Interviewee
Obviously this experience was a special one. You know, being my first one and I'm just grateful to have the guys around me that I had. I obviously want to give a big shout out to Russ. I know that this week probably wasn't the easiest thing, but he handled it like a professional and just was a mentor for me. So obviously I just have a ton of respect for him. I was just waiting for it to hit zero because obviously that Dallas game, in my mind I thought we were going to have that one. So I was just staring at the clock, just waiting for it to count down. But John Runyon was right next to me and that was a cool moment to have with him. And yeah, it was just, you know, special to get the first one.
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Matthew Berry
Jackson talking about Russell Wilson. So I think one of them maybe the more interesting fantasy aspect of the Giants now is Cam Scatterberry is getting an insane amount of workload. He's, he's a, he's a must start when he's getting this type of workload. But like how high is the ceiling? Is Kemp scattered like a wide running back one at this point?
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Field Yates
I don't think so. I'm nervous about the passing game usage. He's a must start at least until Tyrone Tracy comes back. But they need to figure out the offensive line and he needs to, you know, the passing game usage isn't significant. I do think again the double edged sword with having a mobile quarterback like Dart, it's going to open up some rushing lanes but it's also going to there's a chance that he gets vultured the goal line a few times as well. And so touchdown opportunities may be maybe up and down. But look, I mean you know, I think this is right like his stat line I think in this particular case is right like 25 rushes. Okay. And, and two targets. So ultimately like he got 27 attempts. Insane usage to your point. And yet 79 yards rushing, hit 11 receiving yards, didn't get a touchdown. He finishes as running back 19 as we had the Monday Night Football and that sounds about right to me. I think he's a low end RB2 because of the lack of the passing game us but for the NE for the next however many weeks, Tyrone Tracy is out. It's clear the backfield is his and this offense especially like like he'll probably be on the love list next week against the Saints.
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Matthew Berry
Yep. All right, let's jump to the charges lad McCon is the story here. He's probably the guy I get more texts about than anyone else is like what to do with this super Weird.
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Field Yates
Because the person I get the most text about is you, actually. Yes.
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Matthew Berry
That's strange. Yeah, lad. McConkey for me, J. Crouch for Matthew. I almost did as much as Laconkey did at Giant Stadium yesterday. He has one catch for 11 yards, six targets, which is also weird. Like, he's not a deep ball guy. Like, why are you getting one catch from six targets? So what are we doing with live McConkey?
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Field Yates
Yeah, he was so terrible. I'm surprised you don't have a large bet on him.
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Matthew Berry
Yes, yes.
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Field Yates
Like, like, you're like, I'll try to find one.
- [17:28]
Matthew Berry
Yeah, I'll try.
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Field Yates
If you could. Look, last week we said I own, like, I own this. Like, like. No, no, no. I think this is the week that McConkey gets off the Schneider. I'm not panicked. I'm a little panicked. Like Quentin Johnson look like whenever there's a performance, whether it's, whether it's elite or not, it's like, ok, why did this happen and can it repeat? And so the concern with McConkey is, is that like the reason it's happening is because they're getting such good production from Quinton Johnson and Kenan Allen and you're like, can that repeat? And you're like, clearly it can be like, it's, it's like the first game against the Chiefs, you were like, I, well, you know, he just got loose for one bust on coverage. But like now they're actively targeting, they actively target him last week against Pat Certain Adam and like. And so this is now back to back games from McConkey where he's had less than a 16% target share. And McConkey is somebody, he's not a big touchdown scorer. He needs that volume. Like he. And the other weird part is, is that this is somebody that we think is talented. He caught. He got 17% of his targets. It's his first career game with a catch rate below 50%. Third straight game with less than 50 receiving yards. He does not have one end zone target this year. And so I'm, I'm nervous on McConkey, to be honest. I think I will say this, that going into this week, going into this week, into week five, for the first time all year, I will have Keenan, Quentin Johnson and Keenan Allen ranked ahead of him. I will. The last thing I'll say I'm a cocky though is that for our purposes, I don't know that there's anything you can do you don't want to. He's got no value right now. You can't sell him. Right. So I think you just have to keep him. And then it obviously depends on what your options are in terms of whether you start him. We'll talk about that as the week goes on. But I think unfortunately, right. Right now you just have to sort of hang tough and lower expectations because I don't think he's this bad. I think he's a talented player and I think. But like, if you said to me, all right, pick one Chargers wide receiver for the rest of the year, I don't know that you're necessarily picking lad McConkey. QJ looks great.
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Matthew Berry
Yeah, that's the problem. It's like it's, it would. It was always going to have to take a massive outlier for lad McConkey to really fail in this offense from a fantasy perspective. And the massive outlier is that Quentin Johnson now looks very much like a first round pick and a number one option. And he's played amazing. And also he just gets, he gets more deep volume and he gets more touchdown volume, so. And Keenan Allen also overlaps a lot with McConkey's role and McKinnon Allen looks very good overall. So yeah, I would still, it's hard to buy low on Ladman Conkeys. I don't think people want to sell him at his current value. But yeah, I think that the Hope for lad McConkey now is like high end wide receiver three type of stuff.
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Field Yates
All right, let's move the hope, let's.
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Matthew Berry
Move to Philadelphia at Tampa Bay. Strange game that seemed completely done and then it wasn't done. Bucky Irving is the highest scorer, 25 and a half points. Macro Bucha an insane 70 yard touchdown bomb. Baker Mayfield doing Baker Mayfield stuff all day. Lots of highs and lows. But I think one of the big stories out of this game is just the continued struggles of Saquon Barkley to be efficient on the ground. And we heard from Saquon on his early season concerns of the run game.
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Player Interviewee
You see a lot of pressure into runs. They're trying to muddy it up. They're doing a good job. You know, that's what happens when you have the year that we have last year and you got a year tape. We gotta do a better job of adjusting to that and, you know, having. Having answers to that. And I gotta do a better job. I got the running game always starts with me, so. And I'm a big believer in that. And when the running game's going good, you know, when the running game going bad, I gotta own it. And that's gotta be better. But the beauty of it is we're not running the ball too great. And we're four now.
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Matthew Berry
Pretty incredible that the, arguably the two least efficient high volume running backs or plays in the NFL. The past two guys have won offensive player of the year. Christian McCaffrey who's like three yards per carry. And Saquon Barkley is 3.1 yards per carry on the season as well.
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Field Yates
Yeah. You know, averaging 2.3 yards per carry, as you mentioned. Right. Like, so he's been, he's been under 85 yards from scrimmage in three of the four games so far this season. You know, and it's, it is so funny. Right. And we'll get to the AJ Brown tweet in a second that like you, like you'd have thought Saquon Barkley lost the game. Like he's, you know, he's like, he's somber, he's sad. Like he, you know, they won the game.
- [21:39]
Matthew Berry
This is, this is the Eagles legacy. The defending champ, super bowl champions with 4 0. And they just seem in perpetual, on the edge of crisis at all times. It's like everything's blowing up, but they, they just win games.
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Field Yates
Yeah. I mean the problem here with, with Saquon, one of the Kerns, the concerns we had last year was like, listen, he needs. Last year he's not involved the passing game. He gets vultured at the goal line. He needs these long crazy runs to, to bolster his production. And last year he got him. This year he's not. The positives are is he is getting the touchdown. He gets into the end zone on this one as well. He's 17.4 fantasy points. He's gonna, he's an RB15. Not what you drafted him for, but you'll take it. Speaking of somebody who has, you know, Derrick Henry on his team, like I'd, I'd be killing for Saquon Barkley right now. But you know, the, the fact is, is not particularly efficient as you mentioned. If there's a positive here they are involving him in the passing game more. Right. He on the season. He's got a 17 target share. The problem is they just don't pass. 17 of nothing is still kind of nothing. Like, I mean they're throwing for under 150 yards a game. They had minus one yards of offense in the second half. The Eagles did. Jalen Hurts was over eight in the second half of this game. And yet somehow they still end up winning. I don't know that there's a big takeaway here other than the fact that like you hope that they are. They're aware of it and they're going to address it. The positives of Saquon is that he's just, he's not super efficient but you know, he's still. He had 23 touches in this game. He's still going to continue to get massive workload on one of the better offense on the. One of the better teams, not one of the better offenses, but on one of the better teams in the NFL. So. But probably more. More high end RB2 than elite RB1 at the moment.
- [23:15]
Matthew Berry
Yep. You mentioned that the Eagles do not throw the ball very much. The other players of that effects in a negative way. AJ Brown, devontae Smith who continue off the shot. AJ Brown was phenomenal against the Rams. And then just back to really the first couple of weeks for AJ Brown.
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Field Yates
And then he sends out a tweet. You know, our colleague Dr. Denny Carter has a very famous.
- [23:33]
Matthew Berry
His great legacy.
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Field Yates
Yes, that is his great legacy. But had a tweet. This is Denny who. Who basically posted like the, the typical tweet from every position like a quarterback, running back, wide receiver and a tight end. And, and the typical wide receiver quit is a quote is. Is something like, you know, that the enemy speaks softly and carries a big knife or something insane. Right. Something cryptic and weird. And of course AJ Brown did exactly that for. For not the first time in his career.
- [24:00]
Matthew Berry
I think A.J. brown's a little bit in on the joke that he tweeted basically Denny's tweet. So I think he's kind of in on it now and he's having a little bit of fun. But still it's still weird and it's. And it's not good.
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Field Yates
And like he goes by the way, he got nine. But yes, he was two of seven in this game, so. But he got nine targets. Yeah, like, I mean it's just the, like the issue is, is that Jalen hurts is not super accurate. You know, how does A.J.
- [24:22]
Matthew Berry
Brown have more targets than yachts since Completely ridiculous.
- [24:25]
Field Yates
That is correct though. Two for seven. He had seven receiving yards and nine targets. Like each of the last three games he's got over a 30 target share. So like they're not throwing a ton but when they do throw Jay, you know, like they are trying to throw to A.J. brown. I. I will say that he, you know, just whatever. Bad day at the office. He had a 22% catch rate on Sunday. That's the third worst of his career. Some of it was on him, some of it was on Jalen Hurts. Credit the Buccaneers for. For also playing them tough. I. I don't know that there's a fantasy takeaway other than I actually think A.J. brown might be a little bit of a buy low just. But there's going to be volatility.
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Matthew Berry
Yep.
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Field Yates
Agree. He's more of a. Yeah. More of a volatile wide receiver too than the low end wide receiver one that you drafted him. Devonte Smith is like a wide receiver four at this point.
- [25:08]
Matthew Berry
Yep. Another guy and I don't think you.
- [25:09]
Field Yates
Can start him going forward until we see some consistency which is crazy for.
- [25:13]
Matthew Berry
A guy who won the Heisman and that was so good in his first couple of years. But just such a low volume offense. Another guy might be a buy low. Matthew is Chris Godwin who did not fill up the box score traditional stats but was out there a ton for his first game back from a serious injury. And just that usage forward suggests that there are very good things in Chris.
- [25:31]
Field Yates
Goldwyn's future 10 targets which led the team a 91% route participation and they also, they also tried to get it to him deep a few times. He had four different targets on deep passes. His average of the target in this one was just south of 15 yards 14.6. So like they're throwing to him deep and Abuka had the big game obviously. But like if you're telling me Chris Godwin's out there for 91% of the routes in first game, like better days are ahead for the Tampa Bay offense and for Chris Godwin who if you could somehow acquire because somebody feels like a book has taken over this passing attack, I would 100% do it. The Buccaneers are going to continue to be one of the better offenses in the NFL. Bucky Irving, just a monster day at the office. And what's crazy is to me the biggest thing here, he's had at least four receptions every game.
- [26:16]
Matthew Berry
Yeah.
- [26:16]
Field Yates
Like the argument was oh well, Rashad White's the passing down back. No, no, it's like it is all Bucky Irving.
- [26:22]
Matthew Berry
Draw that. Bucky Irving, the Saquon Barkley. Yep, Agreed. All right, let's jump to Washington, Atlanta, another guy.
- [26:29]
Field Yates
I'd also rather have Bucky Irving than Derek Henry. Yeah, I'm very frustrated with Derek Henry. Like I'm. I got a good shot of being 0 and 4 and it's all Derek Henry's fault and all the injuries.
- [26:38]
Matthew Berry
I tried to tell you.
- [26:39]
Field Yates
Yeah. Keaton Mitchell.
- [26:39]
Matthew Berry
Yeah, I actually called that one.
- [26:40]
Field Yates
Yeah.
- [26:41]
Matthew Berry
One of my Red hits.
- [26:42]
Field Yates
Well played.
- [26:42]
Matthew Berry
All right, let's get to Washington.
- [26:43]
Field Yates
We are in a. We really aren't like a restaurant. It's the most random thing in the world. It does feel like you and I are on a date. It is. Yeah, it is.
- [26:50]
Matthew Berry
It's very confusing. But. But we push on as the Atlanta Falcons push one night in Dallas against the Commanders where Bijan Robinson.
- [27:00]
Field Yates
A filibuster until we didn't have to get to this game.
- [27:02]
Matthew Berry
No, no. We got to talk about Marcus Mariota and his friends. Not his friends. Bijan Robinson, who was just. Who was doing the Christian McCaffrey thing where he's basically like a wide receiver too, just on receiving yards. Then he's also one of the top four or five running backs in the NFL. Drake London had an incredible game. Debo Samuel had a great game, too, and we'll get to him. But start with Drake London. And we heard from Raheem Morris on Atlanta. Following Drake London's lead, we were able.
- [27:27]
Raheem Morris
To exploit some things down the field today. We were able to get open. We were able to throw the ball out there and put it up there and give him a chance. Some things. There was some. Some definitely trust built over the first couple of weeks and being able to let some of those things go and the timing of the play, you know, these things aren't open a lot in the NFL and sometimes you got to let it go and let Drake make some plays, and he went out there and made them today. It's always great to see Drake play well. You know, when Drake goes out and he plays with that type of physicality and he plays with that type of energy, our team is just different. It's just across the board. So, you know, being able to see those things and Drake, be able to get out there and get some receptions and have some success is absolutely awesome. And to stop you guys from writing about, you know, receivers not having touchdowns is beautiful.
- [28:03]
Matthew Berry
Signs of life from Atlanta's passing game.
- [28:05]
Field Yates
Well, they fired I Killiard as the wide receivers coach.
- [28:07]
Matthew Berry
It's all fixed.
- [28:08]
Field Yates
Yeah, there you go. Detective Drake London.
- [28:10]
Matthew Berry
Gotta say, I don't think Michael Pennix looked great in this game regardless. But he was able to support Drake London and this stat line. 8 for 110 receiving touchdown, 10 targets. This is the type of line I thought we'd see much more often from drake london.
- [28:20]
Field Yates
So 60% of his targets also came in the slot, which I think is important. Something we've talked about a lot with Detective Drake London that they try to move him around and get him kind of those easy catches. You know, credit to Dan Quinn's offense for defense for like you know, elevating Michael Panick. So a week after getting shot up by Carolina, they light up, light the commanders up. So this is a tough loss for Washington and a bad look for Dan Quinn's defense. But I will say this, I will say this. I thought London obviously looked awesome. 38% target share. But also for all the fun we've had about Kyle Pitts on this show, I think Kyle Pitts is back to being a tight end one wow. I mean like 75 for 70 and a touchdown. He looked good. They are looking for him again. Especially given the fact that Darnell Mooney cannot stay on the field like another draft pick. I regret in our deep league. So yeah, fourth straight week that I've lost somebody, you know, during the game that somebody has injured and left the game here. But I'll save my excuses for tomorrow, you know when after George wins by.
- [29:14]
Matthew Berry
Half a point and the curse continues.
- [29:16]
Field Yates
Oh my God. Really cheering for the curse to rear its head tonight the group chat will just go off and just brutalize me. Luckily I'm a back to back champion of the league. But anyway I just, I think this is a good sign. Like after last week which such a disaster against Carolina, it was good to see Atlanta get back to looking like what we thought the Falcons would, would look like which is, you know, Bijan and Drake London and also I think Kyle Pitts like, like till further notice he is a tight end one on the other side of the ball here, Jay. I have to believe that until Terry McLaurin comes back and maybe even when he does, Debo Samuel is now a must start.
- [29:51]
Matthew Berry
Yeah, I mean he goes 6 for 72, gets a receiving touchdown. They give him the ball on the ground three times as well I think as well. Just aesthetically he looks leaner, he looks more explosive. I'm not sure he's back to like 2021 Debo but he looks much better than 2024 Debo where he's dealing with injuries and he was being forced to play as an ex receiver because Brandon Ayuk was out. So yeah, I think Debo Samuel as a must start and perhaps a borderline wide receiver two until Terry McLaren comes back.
- [30:16]
Field Yates
Yeah, I mean or low and wide receiver one. He finishes this heading into Monday night football he's the ninth best wide receiver fantasy. He's had at least 17 fantasy points and at least six receptions now in three or four games this year like the role is sort of there. We sort of when, when this trade happened we thought listen, if Debo can get in shape, right, he's a perfect fit for the kind of offense that Cliff Kingsbury runs in terms of all the motion stuff and you know, all the, you know, trying to get guys in space and just the gadgety stuff he likes to do. So Debo has been for a season that's been up and down for the commander's offense and in fairness, Jaden Daniels only played two of the games. Also on my team, also another injured guy. Not that I'm bitter. Debo Samuel has been a bright spot for an otherwise, you know, shaky offense. It is a full blown committee in the backfield by the way. Corey Crosby, merit, Chris Rodriguez basically both get seven touches. Rodriguez has the big run, he has the one big run. But like this is a committee in the backfield so they're all still prefer, I guess cross key merit, you know. But it's a, it's a three headed committee.
- [31:17]
Matthew Berry
Yep. Well it's not a committee in Las Vegas. No sir. So we jumped to Bears Raiders which wasn't the greatest played game of football but it was very exciting and it was mainly exciting because the one man who was on the losing side, that wasn't his fault. Ashton Genty finally explodes. Yeah. In week four goes for 33 and a half fancy points, long rushing, touchdown, two receiving touchdown, 138 rushing yards. And we heard from Ashton Genty on what sparked this breakout and returning to a standing stance.
- [31:47]
Player Interviewee
Just feel like I seen the run game a little better. I seen my reads and all that stuff a little better. And I mean o line doing what they do, I mean moving guys up front.
- [31:59]
Matthew Berry
It looked like you were getting back.
- [32:00]
Ad Read Announcer
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- [32:02]
Field Yates
Is that something that you kind of brought back into this game?
- [32:06]
Player Interviewee
Yeah, I mean just that's how I naturally feel good standing in the backfield. So she's how I'm going play.
- [32:18]
Matthew Berry
Ashton Genti, look at his per game averages without the Michael Myers stance. 17.3 touches, 49 total and yards became 0.3 TDs with with the stance, 23 touches, 155 yards total and three touchdowns. So this is the new deal.
- [32:37]
Field Yates
And by the way, it wasn't even like he got amazing blocking, he just didn't get horrific blocking. I mean they were still coming in but they were still getting in into the backfield. And it's not like they used a massive target share. Just was better than, you know, we've talked about this. Why are they not throwing him the ball? And so he had a 10 target share in this game but you know under 6% through the first three weeks of the season. So I thought that was positive. But he just, he was just making people miss. He looked better. He looked like the guy we all drafted in the first round. So exciting to see. They're at Indianapolis next week. The other piece of this game other than the fact that just Gino was back to being bad Geno and you, you've attached your previously good name to Geno Smith more often than not.
- [33:16]
Matthew Berry
Yeah, I'm on the fence with Gino. I think my name is more attached to men like Brock Purdy who did not have a good gamma yesterday either. I go back and forth with Gino. I like Gino. I think that he is a competent quarterback. I also think he'll just never see the linebacker dropping back into coverage. He's just never going to say it. It's never going to click. This is not a very good team in Las Vegas by the way but Ashton Genti, I think he proved yesterday he is a guy who is so good that he can overcome a subpar context. Brock Bowers who has been disappointing, very disappointing from a fantasy perspective but he's been dealing with this injury Yesterday he goes 5 for 46 but great target share and it seems like he's going to get healthier. So do you think Brock Bowers is now by law I do.
- [33:57]
Field Yates
Season I 30% target share and so the injury is one of these things that like he's still not 100% healthy but it's also something that can't get worse. So he is going to get healthier and you know again if he produced with Gardner Minshew and Aiden o' Connell I find it I would be shocked if he can't do it with Geno Smith. So I actually do think I'm more bullish on Brock Bowers and I think you can buy low on him. I do think we will see you know a top three fantasy tight end top five fantasy tight end season from Brock Bowers before all is said and done. I know he went as tight end one but like better days are ahead for him again the underlying usage is very encouraging. I think Bowers is a buy low.
- [34:34]
Matthew Berry
Yep. All right, let's jump to Baltimore Kansas City which was certainly builders the game of the afternoon slate at least certainly didn't have it on my bingo card that in this matchup of various superstars the Justice Hill would be the Leading fantasy score with 28.7 points.
- [34:50]
Field Yates
Not Derek Henry, but at least Derek Henry made the sheet right. He's on the. He's on the graphic. He's there at the very bottom. You have to keep scrolling all the way down, but there is at the bottom, 7.8 fantasy points. Just yet another just absolutely brutal game.
- [35:02]
Matthew Berry
Patrick Mahomes, I think is, is in a way the story of this game. Just the first time in what feels like forever that he put up just a monster Patrick Mahomes type of stat line. We heard from Mahomes on the Chiefs turning a corner. Plus the impact of Xavier Worthy being back on the field.
- [35:17]
Patrick Mahomes
Yeah, I mean, obviously when you have success, it's just we've been working extremely hard and we want to have success and we've been just making little mistakes here and there and that causes frustration. But at the same time, we've been learning from them and we'll learn from this game. I mean, I think early in the game you saw the one that juju that got tipped to the line of scrimmage and then the other field goal that we had. I mean, there's stuff that you can learn from, from every game, win or loss. And I think I've been proud of the guys and how they've responded and wanted to be even better every single week. And then with Xavier being back, it's just that threat of being able to win over the top. It's scary for defenses when they're going to bring pressure knowing that you can get it to that guy short or deep and then he can make plays happen. And so we had good answers. There's a couple here and there that I think I could have been better on as far as some of my answers. But overall I thought we had a good game plan and we executed it well.
- [36:04]
Field Yates
By the way, I agree with you, Patrick. I think you did have a good game plan and I do think you guys executed well.
- [36:08]
Matthew Berry
Yeah, it hasn't really felt like it. But Patrick Mahomes, four weeks in, he's had Xavier Worthy for basically one game. Yeah. And he's not had Rashid Rice for any games in these QB3. Matthew, is he back to being just an elite fantasy option?
- [36:20]
Field Yates
Yeah, he has 22 fantasy points in three or four games this season. To your point, without, you know, a bunch of different weapons, Taekwond Thornton and Hollywood Brown catch catch touchdowns in this. And so now Xavier Worthy, who had a 23% target share, a 71% route participation, could have had a much bigger day. You Know my home's mentioning like a couple throws he would have liked back, right. That he missed him on a couple could have been an even bigger day for Xavier Worthy. But like they look. You're like, oh yeah, this is the Chiefs. This is what we expect. Now I think that the Ravens defense helped. Like the Ravens defense heading into this game were bad. They suffered a bunch of injuries during this game. By the end of this game, they had nine different defensive starters that were out for injury. You know, some that missed the game at the start. But then guys like Roquan Smith like, you know, missed left the game in the middle of it and so that definitely helped. But you know, he, he just, he looked Mahomes and just I mean like again. And so having, having Worthy in there and they, they got two games until they get Rashee Rice back. But having Worthy in there just open it up and so, so you see like Tyquan and like Kelsey looked more open and you know, just. Yes. I think Mahomes is back to being a wide receiver one and I think Xavier Worthy high end wide receiver too. We'll see what happens when Rasheed Rice gets back. But Worthy looked like the guy we all drafted, including me. It's good to finally get some production out of Xavier Worthy. It's been three games without so absolutely. I'm gathering my, my gathering all my excuses, all my insults. Evidence already. It's like a, it's a mountain of evidence here. Yes.
- [37:52]
Matthew Berry
It's tough saying for Matthew Barry. You'd love to see it. Hopefully the losing continues tonight. There's no losing for Pukinakua Matthew as we jump to Colts Rams Puk Nakura's been the other Mahomes.
- [38:04]
Field Yates
Real quickly before we get to Puka Nagua is they can't run the ball. That's the other thing. So it's all going to be on my homes. His arm.
- [38:09]
Matthew Berry
Yeah, absolutely. And they're seeing the lightest boxes in the league and they still can't run the ball.
- [38:14]
Field Yates
Yeah, Pacheco and Hunt like Colts rams.
- [38:16]
Matthew Berry
Which was in a way I think the game of the day just with the wild swings at the end. But the story was Puka Nakua who is wide receiver one in a tier by himself at this point. What's crazy about Nakua Matthew is that so he goes 13 for 170. He gets a. Finally gets a receiving touchdown, 15 targets. It just feels incredibly sustainable. Like he's not dependent on deep throws. It's just. It all comes in rhythm. He can't be Stopped because he's so good against zone and he beats man and he lines up in the slot north of 40% of the time. So just can't contain him. So is there a player in fantasy, not just wide receiver, anyone that you would want over Pukinaku going forward?
- [38:53]
Field Yates
No. Yeah, he'd be if we drafted today. He's the number one overall player. The only concern with him is health.
- [38:58]
Matthew Berry
Yeah.
- [38:58]
Field Yates
Can he stay healthy? Because you know, obviously he's missed time, but he's had at least 22.8 fantasy points in every game so far this year. Here's his current 17 game pace. Just to give you an idea of how INSANE this is.179 receptions for 21, 33 receiving records and by the way, he has 42 catches so far this year. That has tied an NFL record in history of all players for the most receptions in the first four games of a season. And that's with devonte Adams still getting his.
- [39:25]
Matthew Berry
Yeah, seems good. Less good. Daniel Jones, who has come down to earth a little bit, he just didn't seem to have the radar on the deep ball at all Yesterday. After averaging 26 points in his first two games. He's just fallen off a cliff lately and ends the game with a bad pick yesterday. Do you think it's. The hype was too premature? Where do you think Jones settles in?
- [39:46]
Field Yates
I think a high end QB to a usable, you know, low end. I'm not as. This is a, this is a tough game. By the way, if AD Mitchell doesn't fumble at the one yard like just a complete boneheaded penalty, it costs them.
- [40:00]
Matthew Berry
The game as well. It takes back a Jonathan Taylor 60 yard touchdown.
- [40:03]
Field Yates
Yeah, I just think the narrative is different but just specifically to, you know, that's a he right now. Daniel Jones 10.4 fantasy points, QB 24. But A.D. mitchell gets in there, that's an extra four point. Like it just suddenly like QB 15 and you know, like you're, you're not as concerned. Shout out to you. By the way, on fantasy football pregame where you said, hey, your desperation play was AD Mitchell filling in the Alec Pierce the deep ball role. And again, you can't predict the guy's going to have like a brain fart and fumble as he's crossed the goal line.
- [40:32]
Matthew Berry
Fantasy. He's actually had a good fantasy day. Mitchell. It's just he had the worst possible football game that you can imagine. I agree. Better days out for Daniel Jones. Pass rush for the Rams is out of its mind that a backup lineman the Colts, Alec Pierce was out. It'll get better for Daniel Jones, by the way.
- [40:45]
Field Yates
And by the way, Raiders and home games to the Raiders and the Cardinals are the next two. So Daniel Jones should get better and better quick. Yep. All right.
- [40:52]
Matthew Berry
Let's take a look at some of the notable injuries we're tracking. There's a lot of them. Matthew Lamar Jackson with a hamstring injury and some doubt for this weekend's game against the Texans. Josh Jacobs came out with the knee, came back in. I'll see what the reporting is there. I'll finish with the Malik neighbors. But Ricky Pearsall dealing with a knee and some doubt for Thursday night. Juwan Janice took a huge hit to his ribs. Darnell Mooney hamstring. Cedric Tillman hamstring. Calvin Austin looks like he's going to be a while out of the shoulder. But the big story Matthew Malik Navis test as I said.
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Field Yates
Yeah. Cedric Tillman club set unfortunately might be closed for a little bit. Isaiah Bond Interesting. We'll talk about a lot of these guys in the replacements tomorrow on the waiver wire show but we have to talk about Malik neighbors who, you know, it's being reported obviously by NFL that an MRI has confirmed a torn ACL for Malik neighbors. He is done for the year. This is, this is brutal. And you feel awful for for Malik for the Giants especially when they finally and Giants fans especially when they get some hope with Jackson dart. We hope he comes back. We'll talk more about the impact tomorrow because a lot of those guys, Wanda Robinson, Darius Slayton, Theo Johnson who got a touchdown like their pass catchers all get elevated now with a massive target share out. But you know, we, we feel bad for for Malik, his family, his fans and his fantasy managers.
- [42:04]
Matthew Berry
Indeed. Okay, we're going to hit our first break as the pastor comes in with the cream shallots and we'll come back talk weekend warriors and Sunday scaries.
- [42:13]
Field Yates
Yeah, I think you secretly like this, Jay. You say you don't but just time alone with me. How lucky are you?
- [42:19]
Matthew Berry
Yeah, arguable the degree of luck.
- [42:25]
Field Yates
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- [43:10]
Matthew Berry
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- [43:27]
Field Yates
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- [43:35]
Dak Prescott
Really big fan of Woody in college when he was at usc.
- [43:38]
Field Yates
Thought he was really elusive, really, really crafty. I thought he did a good job.
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Player Interviewee
You know, since those days in that Lincoln Rally offense. And I thought today we kind of use him in that light, you know.
- [43:49]
Field Yates
Sped him out, gave him some familiarity, you know, running the ball and some plays that he's ran before. And he's a very dynamic pass catcher. But yeah, he did great.
- [44:02]
Matthew Berry
Texans get their first win of the season. Headlining weekend warriors as prophesied obviously before before the season will be leading a Segment Woody marks for 17 for 69, a touchdown, four catches for 50 yards and a touchdown. Matthew, it seems like this is his backfield now.
- [44:15]
Field Yates
Yeah, look, we talked about this last week. We've talked about this for a while about how, you know, that Nick Chubb was not back to being a full chubby is more of like kind of a semi chub and that, you know, we were excited about Woody. Yeah, about. About a full Woody. A young Woody. You know, like a lot of people, a lot of people out there prefer a young, an explosive than a semi Chubb. And of course we're talking about Nick Chubb and Woody Marks here. Those of you who are pure of heart would understand that season I 21 touches here after 14 touch the first three games. But the thing we talked about all last week was like in terms of and why Woody Marks was on the love list this week and why Nick Chubb was not like Woody Marks had one less snap than Nick Chubb last week. And so we were like, look, it's Woody Marks is like the Woody Marks era is coming and I believe it is now here 18% target share saw the team's only red zone target for an offense that has seemed for much of the year moribund and dead. Woody Marks gave a spark as well. They're at Baltimore next week and so that's a pretty Good matchup. We will talk more about Woody Marks tomorrow, but I don't think this is a fluke.
- [45:21]
Matthew Berry
Yep, good use of the word moribund. Very appropriate for a sophisticated restaurant where we are at the moment. Two guys just want to quickly mention and pay them their dues. Kenneth Gainwell and DK Metcalfe were both phenomenal. Gainwell goes 19 for 99. Two touchdowns gives you some pass game usage as well. DK goes 5 of 5 for 126 and a touchdown. Both great. I sell it a little bit because DK only had the 5 catches and with Kenneth Gainwell, Jaylen Warren will return.
- [45:46]
Field Yates
Yeah, DK had the one big catch which is great and that's part of his game. But like that's what made that particular day. It was a Dublin game. Hopefully you were up early enough to see that Jalen Warren was a surprise and active and had the guts to start Kenneth Gainwell who we talked about. We talked about Kenneth Gainwell in the preseason. Like you will be amazed at how much Kenneth Gainwell plays. They love him here. This is why Caleb Johnson was on the hate list. It's why Kenneth Gainwell was on the others receiving votes in my preseason. Love, hate. All that said to your point, they're on a buy this week so the Steelers on a buy this week and Jalen Warren should be back. I don't mind a deeper league grabbing Kenneth Gainwell, but you've seen his best game of the year. One guy who's who you saw his best game of the year so far. But I'm not convinced it's the best game we're going to see from him is Quinton Judkins who absolutely looks the part of a true lead down back season high in touches and target share in this game. 25 touches, 12% target share. His touches have increased every single week as he continues gets more and more familiar with this Browns offense back to back weeks with 16 or more fantasy points and now he gets the Minnesota Vikings who Kenneth Gainwell just ran all over at home. I think Judkins Judkins is a is a low end RB1 the rest of the season.
- [46:53]
Matthew Berry
Yeah I think he's in the same kind of tier. It's like Gentian Hampton I think is in terms of the lead running. He got 21 carries for 82 yards and game. They got blown out like he's just getting usage rest of the year.
- [47:03]
Field Yates
Who would you want Derek Henry or Quincean Judkins?
- [47:06]
Matthew Berry
It's a great question. I'd rather have Quinton Judkins but it's very close just because of the Lamar injury concerns as well which is same.
- [47:12]
Field Yates
But by the way you have Judkins, I have Henry on my team. I was going to offer you a trade on air if you went the other way with that answer.
- [47:17]
Matthew Berry
I think you have Drake.
- [47:18]
Field Yates
Maybe I do have Drake.
- [47:20]
Matthew Berry
May is a of one positive spot for your team. Yes, he was awesome and his game lends itself very well to fantasy production. He goes with three carries for 11 yards and a touchdown and then super efficient through the air as well.
- [47:32]
Field Yates
It like he's been a really good fit for what Josh McDaniels wants to do on offense. He's had at least 19 fantasy points in three or four games this year. He's using his legs. He rushed for a touchdown in this one. Again didn't have a ton of rushing yards, only 11. But again like the scramble for the touchdown around the left side like just sort of showed you the ability he has and they're getting other guys involved like a very efficient day. 14:17,203 passing yards. He plays at Buffalo next week which I think it's going to continue like he's a. It should be hopefully. By the way that game on NBC and Peacock Sunday Night Football. I am a company man. Drake May is a low end QB1.
- [48:07]
Matthew Berry
Yep.
- [48:08]
Field Yates
One of the few bright spots of my team and and others as well.
- [48:11]
Matthew Berry
Yep. Let's run through Sunday. Scary. Starting off with the guy who's come to define this segment, Calvin Ridley. Just another week of doing nothing. Should he be on rosters? No, no.
- [48:21]
Field Yates
The whole. I mean. Right. What Cam Ord said. Keeping it. Keeping it a buck we ask. Yeah, I believe that was the quote. I. I'm paraphrasing but I think that's. That's fairly accurate. And by the way Cam, you are correct.
- [48:32]
Matthew Berry
Yes.
- [48:32]
Field Yates
The Titans offense is in fact ass 13 target share for Calvin Ridley. Just three targets. That was his fewest in the last 17 games. Like they haven't been on the same page but at least he was getting somewhat of the volume. He's not even getting the volume anymore. Under 10 fantasy points in every single game this year. If you saw him on the waiver wire, would you pick him up in any league? Exactly. Yeah. Next week. You know we'll talk tomorrow but welcome to Dumpsville. Calvin Ridley, tough game for Juwan Johnson, a favorite of the show. We love him but his first game was below 20% this season. 0 red zone targets for the first time this game in a game in which The Saints offense actually looked pretty good and Spencer Rattler looked good. I think he got banged up a little bit in this game. I'm not, I'm not really worried about Joanne Johnson going forward.
- [49:13]
Matthew Berry
He should be okay. A bit worried about Juwan Jennings. It's banged up every week. He goes 2 or 4 for 24 yards. Gets absolutely crunched. Some doubt about his availability for Thursday night. Have to track that from health's perspective. Also, Brock Purdy is banged up again.
- [49:25]
Field Yates
Ricky banged up again with a toe. It's a short week. They're on the road to Los Angeles. Down, just down the state but still just down the freeway. But it's like a four or five hour drive but still you're nervous about this. 11% target share is lowest since week 15. I think we have to like this Jaguars defense is better than they get credit for Jay.
- [49:43]
Matthew Berry
I think so. And that could also be a problem for Trevor Lawrence, who's the last name on our list where the idea was this is going to be a bad defense and Trevor Lawrence is going to be airing it out all the time. He's not playing well and the defense is giving him game scripts where he doesn't have to do that much under.
- [49:56]
Field Yates
12 fantasy points in three or four games this season. The other thing is the two arguments for Trevor Lawrence was like, you know, you know he's got btj, the addition of Travis Hunter, this past first guru in Liam Cohen and also like they're gonna be bad on defense and we chucking a ton. He gets you a little bit of points with his legs. He isn't. He's averaging eight rushing yards per game. They're not using his legs. He doesn't look good and the defense has played a lot better than people expected. So like he's QB22 heading into Monday Night Football. I can't imagine in a one quarterback league rostering him. And to me he's merely at this point a QB3, like a backup quarterback in a two quarterback league. I don't even know that you're starting him in super flex if you can avoid it.
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Matthew Berry
Agreed. All right, we're going to hit our last break. When we come back to last call, a little Monday Night Football double header pre.
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Field Yates
Bye.
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Field Yates
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Field Yates
But I like that bad.
- [53:15]
Matthew Berry
Yep, JK Dobbins as well. He's having a great start to the season, but my best bet Matthew it's not a prop. I'm just gonna go old fashioned spread and take the Cincinnati Bengals, the Mighty Fight and Bengals Who? Day plus seven and a half in Denver against the Broncos. I just can't reconcile that the Bengals with three point dogs in Minnesota and now they're seven and a half point dogs in Denver. I think that's an overcorrection off of one really bad game where it just all went wrong. They'll be fired up. They will play better. I think Denver's offense been very shaky so far. Benix does not look great.
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Field Yates
Yeah I mean the NFL is just this way. Think about Atlanta who got blown out 30 to nothing Carolina and then dominate the commanders this week. I'm taking Chase Brown. I've said this before, I think tonight is the night that Chase Brown gets off the schneide. I think he can run on Denver. That's a weakness of their defense. So give me over. Under give me over. I should say give me over 76 and a half rushing and receiving yards for Chase Brown. Remember the Broncos given up at least 89 yards from scrimmage to a running back in every single game this year. We know Chase Brown gets massive usage. So over 76 and a half rushing and receiving yards to Chase Brown tonight. That's my best bet for tonight. Let's look at we have some rankings as well. Here you go. First game. First game. I do think Fields has a big game. Obviously you're starting a chan. I really hope Breeze hall does not have a good game for George Severica. Sadly I think he will. You're starting Tyreek Hill Jalen Roddle merely a wide receiver three who's a little dicey. It'll be interesting to see what Ali Gordon's role is here as well. Garrett Wilson always a massive target share. I think Justin Fields has a big game in his return.
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Matthew Berry
Yeah I hope the jets win for Connor Rogers sake after what happened to the Mets yesterday we may never see him again. Matthew and I both riding with the Bengals. Jake Browning what could possibly go wrong against the Broncos elite defense? Bonix has not had a good season to date football wise but fantasy wise Matthew still must start because of the.
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Field Yates
Rushing he is again. I'm hoping desperately that it doesn't have a good game for George Severicas but Bo Nicks like you're starting all the obvious guys here. I do think Cortland Sutton as well. We have one more question Monday night miracle half point PPR down 5 versus Hill I'm starting Sutton for others part. Do I start Jamar Chase or Jalen Waddle? The answer is Jamar Chase. Stop it.
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Matthew Berry
It's Jamar chase last week.
- [55:19]
Field Yates
But yeah, and I get it, you know, waddle, but stop it. Just. You're getting way too cute from Raise the Flags.
- [55:25]
Matthew Berry
Recreating one night in Buffalo.
- [55:27]
Field Yates
Not recreating so much as just celebrating.
- [55:29]
Matthew Berry
You know, adding another chapter to the story. Yeah, yeah, a more high end chapter.
- [55:33]
Field Yates
Before the show, Jay was saying to our producer, Stephen, he goes like, you know, I can't believe I don't enjoy spending this much time alone with Mat. And the truth is he does. The truth is he does. He just protects. He protests too much.
- [55:45]
Matthew Berry
Yes.
- [55:45]
Field Yates
We've got, you know, we've got kind of a Brokeback mountain thing going over here. It's kind of Brokeback happy hour.
- [55:49]
Matthew Berry
Hey, fledgling Australian counterpart, you can be Jack Gyllenhaal.
- [55:53]
Field Yates
Deal? Deal. I like that role. Good job with that. I've been called much worse than Jake Gyllenhaal in my life. All right, we're back tomorrow in the studio with Connor. It's close in time. You don't have to go home, but you can't stay in this Italian restaurant for Jay and Matthew. Peace out from Dallas. We love you. See you tomorrow. Good luck with your Monday night miracles.
- [56:13]
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Field Yates
Bye.
- [56:43]
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