Waiver Wire! Injury Replacement WRs and TEs, Kimani Vidal, Aaron Rodgers (10/14 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Summary

Fantasy Football Today – Waiver Wire! Injury Replacement WRs and TEs, Kimani Vidal, Aaron Rodgers (10/14/25)

Hosts: Adam Aizer, Dave Richard, Jamie Eisenberg
Date: October 14, 2025
Episode Theme:
Dominating Week 7 fantasy football waiver wire amidst a brutal injury landscape – actionable advice on priority pickups, FAAB strategies, injury replacements, and preparing for upcoming bye weeks.

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Episode Overview

This episode delivers a no-nonsense guide to navigating one of the strongest (and strangest) waiver wire weeks so far in 2025. With an explosion of injuries to star receivers and tight ends, Adam, Dave, and Jamie run through essential pickups, FAAB spending, stash-and-stream strategies, and position-by-position priorities. They also highlight the domino effect of team injuries (especially with wide receivers), discuss backup plans, and forecast the treacherous Week 8 bye-pocalypse.

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Key Topics & Segments

Setting the Scene: The Brutal WR Landscape

• [01:08] Adam: Sets the tone: "The Week 7 waiver wire is a doozy."
• [02:21] Jamie: “It’s an interesting waiver wire week… The receiver rankings this week are awful. No one's healthy. There’s like seven good receivers and everybody else is a giant question mark.”
• [03:06] Jamie: Reads out a mammoth list of injured WRs – including Puka Nacua, Garrett Wilson, DJ Moore, CeeDee Lamb, Mike Evans, and more.
• [03:48] Adam: Adds the context of byes and even more names missing.

Notable Quote:

“I don't think I've ever had a list this long.” – Jamie ([03:08])

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Top Waiver Wire Priorities: Running Backs

• [04:13] Jamie: “Vidal would be one, Harold Fannin would be two, and three would be Donovan ‘Bam’ Knight.”
• [04:26] Dave: Flips priorities, emphasizing Knight second.
• [05:12] Jamie: Warns about limited upside for Bam Knight due to timeshare and potential for Kyler Murray’s return to steal carries: “It’s a rental… a timeshare that may not be that great. So just don’t go crazy with your fabric.”

FAAB Guidance:

• Kamani Vidal: 30–45% if desperate, less if stable at RB ([09:01])
• Donovan Knight: 8–15%, only if very needy at RB ([13:19])
• Other positions: Not more than 8% for streamers/injury guys.

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Targeting Replacement WRs: High Risk, High Uncertainty

• [11:14] Jamie: “Receivers… you’re looking at a lot of ‘maybe this, maybe that.’”
• [24:48] Adam: Zeroes in on the Lions-Bucs game for possible shootout value but notes the difficulty in knowing which Tampa WR will matter if Evans plays.
• [24:56] Jamie & Dave: Tez Johnson, Cameron Johnson, and Sterling Shepard are all lottery tickets at WR. Prefer Otten (TE) to all TB WRs if Evans/Godwin are out.

Analyst Tips:

• If you don’t need a WR this week, stash Darius Slayton or Luther Burden for possible future upside ([12:50])
• Josh Downs, Jalen Coker, Kayshawn Boutte (NE) floated as the best widely-available WRs, but all with uncertainties.

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Streamer Tight Ends: Harold Fannin, Cade Otton, Mason Taylor

• [08:37] Dave: Najoku’s status unclear, but “Harold Fannin is the priority.”
• [08:58] Adam, [28:12] Dave: Otton & Mason Taylor both viable if streaming; Otton especially if Evans is ruled out for TB.
• [28:12] Dave: “Fannin one, Otten two, Taylor three. Let’s just end it there.”

Available Streamers: Michael Mayer, Arandae Gadsden also in the mix, but “all potentially one-week rentals.”

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Quarterback Help: Short & Long-Term

• [20:29] Jamie: Top 3 QBs to add:
  1. Aaron Rodgers (CIN match-up) – best for immediate stream
  2. Jackson Dart – rough NYJ match-up Week 7 but set for great schedule Weeks 8–10
  3. Bryce Young – streaky, matchup-dependent
• [21:19] Adam: “There is no matchup that’s even in the ballpark of the Dallas Cowboys.”
• [34:51] Jamie: Darnold (Sam) is also discussed as an under-rostered steady option with upside.

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News & Notes: Injury Round-Up and Team Updates

Key Player Statuses (selected, full list at [17:17]):

• Lamar Jackson: Back after Week 7 bye.
• Titans Coach Change: Expect possible Tajie Spears usage uptick ([16:07]).
• Kyler Murray: May be back, which would affect AZ RB distribution ([16:37]).
• Garrett Wilson, Puka Nacua, DJ Moore: All likely OUT Week 7.
• Mike Evans: Trending to play, but unclear if full snap count ([27:04]).
• George Kittle: Expected to play.
• David Njoku: Not considered severely hurt.

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Waiver Wire by Position (highlights & analysis)

Quarterbacks

• Top adds: Rodgers (immediate), Jackson Dart (stash), Darnold.
• Deeper leagues: Carson Wentz, Jacoby Brissett, Joe Flacco as desperation streams ([38:08]).

Running Backs

• Kamani Vidal: Clear top pickup, workhorse opportunity, good matchups, but rental ([04:13], [10:21]).
• Donovan Knight: Flex play-level, timeshare risk, add but don’t expect heroics ([05:12], [13:19]).
• Tajie Spears: Could gain usage if coaching changes stick ([22:10]).
• Deep handcuffs: Tyler Allgeier, Isaiah Davis, Emmanuel Wilson, Jayden Blue.
• Stashes: Trey Benson IR return coming ([07:00], [61:48]).

Wide Receivers

• Boutte, Coker, Downs: Ranked highest for upside + role ([23:09]).
• Bucs WRs: Tez Johnson, Cam Johnson, Shepard—only useful if Evans, Godwin, and Buka are out; GLs on Evans status ([27:04], [43:26]).
• Kendrick Bourne (NE): “If available, he’s the number one receiver to get” ([29:58]).
• Others: Darius Slayton (stash), Zay Jones (deep leagues), Wondale Robinson, Matthew Golden, Jerry Judy.
• Ultra-deep:
  • Bears: Luther Burden (if DJ Moore out).
  • Cardinals: Zay Jones, Michael Wilson.

Tight Ends

• Harold Fannin Jr.: Priority pickup, but monitor Najoku status.
• Cade Otton, Mason Taylor: Good streamers, especially if TB injuries.
• Michael Mayer, Arandae Gadsden: Viable deep league flyers.
• Bengals TEs: Good schedules, but avoid spending much.
• Others: Zach Ertz (shallow leagues), Evan Engram (PPR), Jake Tongas as possible fill-in if Kittle sits.

DSTs & Kickers

• DSTs: Chiefs vs. Raiders (recommended), Seahawks, Vikings, Bears/Dolphins as desperation streams ([30:56], [69:21]).
• Kickers: Chris Boswell, Jason Myers, Josh Carty ([32:05]).

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Deeper League & Bye Week Preparation

• [40:38] Dave: Urges setting Week 8 lineups before waivers—6 teams on bye, be proactive!
• Best deep-league WRs: Tez Johnson, Cam Johnson, Sterling Shepard, Luther Burden.
• RB stashes: Xavier Scott, Sean Tucker.
• TE deep dives: Otten, Mayer, Gadsden.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Jamie ([03:08]): “I don't think I've ever had a list this long [of injured WRs].”
• Dave ([09:03]): “If you’re really desperate, go to 45% [FAAB] on Vidal.”
• Adam ([24:48]): “When I look at WR, I’m really circling that Lions–Bucs game. The total is 52.5. You could see so much potential… for Baker Mayfield to be throwing a lot.”
• Jamie ([29:58]): “If [Kendrick] Bourne is available, he’s the number one WR to get.”
• Dave ([38:08]): “The deep league targets at QB are gross.”
• Jamie ([40:04]): “If you don’t have to play anybody this week, [Luther Burden’s] a great WR stash.”
• Dave ([41:48]): “You need to go and make sure that you’re covered. Week 8 is a ‘Binato’—six teams on bye.”

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Strategic Takeaways

• Don’t overspend FAAB: Outside of injury-replacement RBs (Vidal, Knight), most options are short-term or lottery tickets—spend 8% or less except for desperation needs.
• WR landscape is wild: Play floor over ceiling unless you’re desperate; the Bucs/other injury-replacement WRs may not be worth the gamble if the injured starters play.
• Tight End is deep: Stream for matchup, don’t chase single-week upside.
• Plan ahead: Set Week 8 lineups before waivers, stash handcuffs and bye-week fill-ins now.
• Monitor news until kickoff: Final WR/TE value hinges on injury clarity through the weekend.

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Wrap Up

This episode highlights the chaos of Week 7—brutal injuries, unreliable replacement WRs, and key bye weeks. The hosts provide actionable, prioritized waiver pickups at every position, with strong context for both short- and long-term tactics. Take their advice: don’t panic or blow your FAAB except for true difference-makers.

Essential priorities:

• RB: Kamani Vidal, Bam Knight (RB)
• WR: Kendrick Bourne, Kayshawn Boutte, Jalen Coker, Josh Downs, Darius Slayton, Luther Burden
• TE: Harold Fannin Jr., Cade Otton, Mason Taylor
• QB: Rodgers (for this week), Jackson Dart (for coming weeks), Sam Darnold (if available)
• DST: Chiefs, Seahawks

Above all: Survive the injury storm, plan for the bye-pocalypse, and leverage this week’s waiver opportunities without overcommitting resources.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:08] Episode opens: The Week 7 injury crisis
• [04:13] Top waiver priorities: RBs Vidal, Knight, and Fannin
• [09:01] FAAB strategies for top pickups
• [11:14] WR replacement chaos begins
• [20:29] Quarterback streamer priorities
• [28:12] Tight end streamer rankings
• [30:56] DSTs and kickers for Week 7
• [40:38] Preparing for Week 8 byes (six teams!)
• [43:26] Inside scoop on Bucs WRs with Fox’s Greg Auman
• [53:12] & [54:08] Debating Rodgers versus other QBs for streaming
• [60:15] “Beat the waiver wire”: Week 8 forward-looking advice

Memorable quote:

"You need to go and make sure that you’re covered. Week 8 is a ‘Binato’—six teams on bye. Set your lineup for Week 8 before you set your waivers!” – Dave ([41:48])

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Listen to the full show or tune in to the CBS Sports Network’s special Waiver Wire episodes for ongoing updates and news. Good luck weathering the fantasy football storm!

Transcript

[Jamie]

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[Adam]

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[Dave]

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[Jamie]

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[Adam]

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[Dave]

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[Jamie]

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[Dave]

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[Adam]

And he Week 7 waiver wire is a doozy.

[Jamie]

Woo.

[Adam]

Welcome, everybody. This is Fantasy Football today presented by BetMGM. Make it legendary. Give me another word, Jamie, to Describe the Week 7 waiver wire.

[Jamie]

Stupendous.

[Adam]

Stupendous. Dave, how about you?

[Dave]

It's there.

[Adam]

It's there. It's those, it's those injury replacement wide receivers that make your, you know, make you scratch your head. How much do we commit to them? Because, you know, Mike Evans could be back. But boy, those Tampa Bay wide receivers have great opportunities. Who's going to step up for the Rams? Is anybody going to step up for the Titans? You know, so that, that makes things pretty interesting. A lot of jets. Well, and then the injury replacement tight ends who are gonna get those targets that the wide receivers are leaving behind, like maybe a Ronde Gatson again, like Mason Taylor. Mason Taylor. His next two matchups are against teams that ranked 31st and 32nd, against tight ends, Carolina and Cincinnati. Obviously, you've got Harold Bannon as well. So is it, is it a good waiver wire week? I feel like it's. I feel like it's kind of a good waiver wire week.

[Jamie]

It's, it's a, it's an interesting waiver wire week. It's not. You said this yesterday when we did the, the early look at it that there are two potential starting running backs, one for sure and one maybe. And the tight ends are good and the receivers and quarterbacks are kind of like, I may need some help there, but I don't necessarily want to trust it. Like, the receiving. The receiver rankings this week are awful. Yeah.

[Dave]

No one's healthy. Yeah, there's like seven good receivers and then everybody else is a giant question mark.

[Jamie]

So I, I list. I list the receivers in the waiver wire column for anybody that does not read it. And this is the list of injuries at the position. I've never.

[Dave]

Oh, this is going to be depressing.

[Jamie]

I don't think I've ever had a list this long. This includes guys that are on IR. So it's Puka Nakua, Marvin Harrison, Jr, Garrett Wilson, DJ Moore, CD Lamb, Mike Evans, Emeka Buka, Chris Godwin, Quentin Johnston, Terry McLaurin, Ricky Piercel, Juwan Jennings, Calvin Ridley, Tutu Atwell, who is spelled wrong? Darius Slayton, Darnell Mooney, Calvin Austin, Kevante Turpin, Devon, Dantavian Wick, Cedric Tillman, Jaden Reed, Brandon Ayuk, Jalen Coker, Alec Pierce, Christian Watson and Jalen McMillan. Like, it's just absolutely brutal. And that's not.

[Dave]

Hold on, though. Hold on, though. Yeah.

[Adam]

That's not including the two teams on a buy who only have one good wide receiver and an injured one in Josh Palmer. It's Buffalo and Baltimore on by this week. Yeah.

[Dave]

Two.

[Adam]

Two. Atwell might play. Or as it's typed column right now, toot Atwell. Or at least JB's notes. Yeah. No, it's bad. Mike Evans might play this week. Ricky Pearsall has a chance to play this week. George Kittle is going to play this week. Right?

[Jamie]

That's what our understanding is. Yes.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Okay, so let's get to our top waiver wire priorities. We haven't said Kamani Vidal's name yet, but we're going to say that. Jamie, who are the top three priorities?

[Jamie]

Yeah, I mean, Vidal was, you know, a guy we were promoting last week, so hopefully everybody took advantage of that. But Vidal would be one, Harold Fannin would be two, and three would be Donovan. Bam Night, Dave.

[Dave]

What a crazy, crazy list you just gave Jamie. How could you say such a list? I've got Bam night. Second, Vidal. Knight.

[Adam]

Fannin Vidal is pretty obvious, so he stands out. Knight. Let's talk about him real quick. He got 11 carries and one catch. He got the goal line touchdown. But he basically split the carries evenly with Michael Carter. Now he plays A much better run defense, although one that's struggling a little bit lately in Green Bay. Their whole defense is struggling a little bit lately with Green Bay, but. And then, and then it's a buy for Knight and then it's Dallas, which is great, you know, but is Donovan Night even going to be in your top 24 this week?

[Jamie]

He is not, no. But I do think when you're looking at flex options, he's got a chance to be helpful for you, you know, so you said it like the. The split is still there. You know, Carter can easily be a better play this week because if they're trailing, which you would probably expect them to be trailing, then there's an opportunity for Carter to be the better of the Cardinals running. So I don't have them that far apart. I, I think, you know, what you kind of got from a workload standpoint for both of them is probably somewhat predictable. And then you factor in that Kyler Murray can play. Jonathan Gannon didn't rule that out. So if Kyler's back, there's some rushing opportunities that they both likely lose. So I don't want to trust him. But I think again, looking at what he could provide to the position, he should be added.

[Adam]

Okay, yeah, for sure he should be added. But you could see a scenario where if he gets 12 touches, I mean, just what would happen if he didn't score last week? He could score six fantasy points.

[Jamie]

Correct.

[Adam]

Bam Night. Right.

[Dave]

He could do what Kenneth Walker's done in like half of his games this year.

[Adam]

You could say. Yeah, but less efficient. Okay, so Kamani Vidal, Harold Fanning, there.

[Dave]

Were style points in fantasy.

[Adam]

No, no. Yeah. But Kamani Vidal, Harold Fanning Jr. Zonovin Knight for Jamie, Kamani Vidal's on of a night, Harold Fannin Jr. For Dave. And we're going to talk about it more at 1pm Eastern on CBS Sports Network. Please join us there. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Every Tuesday and Thursday, 1pm Eastern. We're on CBS Sports Network. Tuesday is waiver wire. Thursday is a rankings show and really good stuff. And, you know, just we have time to talk about things that we don't necessarily get to on the morning episode.

[Jamie]

All right, so just one thing. Somebody brought this up in the chat. I want to make sure I give them credit. Edo Billions that, yes, Trey Benson is coming back. At least that's the expectation. And he will be eligible. I said this wrong. On. On yesterday. So he's eligible to play in week 10. So week five, week six, week seven, week eight is thereby week nine is the four game window that Benson is expected to be on IR. Now, he may be on IR longer than that, as we found out with Amari Hampton. Right. We got the news that he's going to be on IR longer than the four weeks. We don't know when Benson is exactly coming back. So just keep that in mind when you're spending your fab. Like, this is a rental. And this is a rental. It's on the timeshare. It's a rental in the timeshare that may not be that great. So just don't go crazy with your fabric.

[Adam]

By the way, before we get to Fab, have we heard an update on David Najoku? Because obviously a fan and is such a high priority.

[Jamie]

We don't.

[Adam]

I don't know yet that Najoku is definitely out.

[Jamie]

No, we have not heard anything yet.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Dave]

Our Matt Zenitz reported yesterday that he's not expected to miss a lot of time. Let me find the. The actual report. Give me one second.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Dave]

Give me one second. Come back to me in like 30 seconds.

[Adam]

Yeah. Tight ends just so interesting from a waiver wire perspective because there are so many options that you could throw in as a streamer. And if you miss out on Fanon, you know, you could pivot to Kate Otten.

[Jamie]

Right.

[Adam]

If Mike Evans is out. Kate Otten, in those four games without Evan Evans and Godwin last year, he was, I want to say, 18 or more points in three or four games.

[Jamie]

Yep.

[Adam]

He had a good game.

[Jamie]

That includes the game that they left, though.

[Adam]

So does it. I thought it was even. Oh, maybe it was. Only missed three games.

[Jamie]

It started in week seven. Okay.

[Adam]

Yeah. So Otten could be good. And I just told you Mason Taylor could be good, and he's got no Garrett Wilson. So, Dave, back to you. Yeah.

[Dave]

Then it's his update. Zenitz's. Zenitz. The update on Najoku is it's unclear if he's going to play this week, but the belief is that the injury isn't anything significant.

[Jamie]

Okay.

[Adam]

All right, so how much Fab are we spending on Kamani Vidal, who is rostered in, let's see, 56% of our leagues. I'll check his roster percentage on other websites. But, Jamie, are we breaking the bank for Vidal?

[Jamie]

I mean, you're probably going to come close to that at this point. You know, just from the standpoint of a. You've now seen it. So last week it was, hey, don't go crazy, because we don't know that Hampton's gonna Miss more than the four weeks. We don't know who the split is, how the split's going to work between him and Haskins and are they still going to potentially bring somebody else in? Well, now we have a week of data, we have a week of watching this all unfold and it's clearly Kamani Vidal as the lead guy and he looked awesome. It was against Miami. Don't expect it to look this easy. So I think you look at it this way, like if you're 500 or worse and your running back situation sucks, you're probably going to spend as much you need to do to get somebody that can help you through what could be week seven, eight, nine or not more than that week 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. You know, like we don't know when Hampton's coming back. So yes, spend north of probably 30. If you are looking at it as I don't need somebody and I want to wait to see what the next player may be because your team is great. Like, we're going to have more of these scenarios unfortunately develop in front of us. So it's one of those things. I think you got to look at your roster and say, what do you need?

[Adam]

Dave, any thoughts on. On how much to spend on Videl? He's got the Colts, he's got the Vikings. These defense, those run defense actually have not been that good against running backs. Tennessee. No.

[Dave]

And then the Titans after that.

[Adam]

Pittsburgh.

[Dave]

So yeah. Yeah. Some good matchups coming up for Vidal.

[Jamie]

He's.

[Dave]

He's not going to be. I. Jamie's right. Like, I don't want to like overrate him based on how he played against Miami, but at least the roles there. If he's still on your waiver wire in your league, though, I'm not sure there's going to be more interest in him. Of course, I think 30% is where you start and just if you're really desperate, go to 45%, something like that. Close to 50%. Wrangle and Videl, you've got a starting running back who's got good matchups in the next three weeks.

[Adam]

Okay. Commodity. Vidal is rostered in fewer than 25% of leagues on the other three sites, Yahoo, ESPN and Sleeper. And I'm going to try to look for some players that are just widely available on those websites that we're probably not going to talk about. But okay, so. And then any. Would you spend more than 8% of your original budget fab on any other players this week?

[Jamie]

So I think for the receivers, no, because you're you're looking at a lot of like maybe this, maybe that, hopefully this, hopefully that, you know. So I think if you're desperate, you're going to spend a little bit maybe on booty with the hope that that is something that is going to be different than the previous four weeks. But he does play the most snaps of the Patriots wide receivers and he does now have two of six games with over 16 PPR points. And the quarterback is playing absolutely fantastic. So maybe there's something sustainable there. But it's hard to say that that's anything of significance because again, four weeks prior to that he did nothing. In the case of the replacement options, you know, you mentioned several of these guys. So you have the replacement situation in Arizona. We don't know if Marvin Harrison's even going to miss this week. We have the replacement situation in Tampa Bay. We don't know if Mike Evans is going to come back or not after being out for three weeks. And he had a three or four week window. So it sounds realistic like he could return. We have the situation with the Jets, I don't know if anybody wants to go that route. We have the situation with the Titans that's been miserable to begin with. So, you know, you're, you're looking for a hope of this, you know, a 2, 2 at will here, you know, maybe as a secondary option for the Rams. And it might be Tyler Higby as the best secondary option for the Rams. So there's nothing really I think of I need to spend a lot on that particular player. So I just have it ranked in the priority list of who I think has a chance to play well. And now Luther Burden comes into play as well because DJ Moore went to the hospital last night. We don't know what's going on there. You said this, and I totally agree with you this I wrote it, is that if you don't need a receiver for this week, maybe just go get Darius Slayton because there's a big opportunity still for him. Remember we thought about that when Malik Neighbors was initially injured and then he suffers a hamstring injury. Jackson Dart's playing well, you know, so you could see a situation where, especially after this week when they don't play Denver anymore, where Darius Slayton could be a really good option for, for fantasy managers. So Josh Downs is playing well. Like, I don't think he spent a lot at the receiver spot tight end. I think there's just, you know, a lot of options. So don't go crazy with it.

[Dave]

The only other player who's going to get more than 8% fab is Donovan Knight. That's it. And it shouldn't be that much more than 8%. Like, desperate for running back, he's your second option. Or maybe you can only get him because someone picked up Vidal. Then maybe you go to like 12, 15% on night. But otherwise they're just. There are too many other receivers. All the receivers have question marks. All the tight ends have question marks. A lot of the quarterbacks are okay, like Jackson. Dart's pretty exciting, but it's more long term than short term. I don't think you need to spend 8% of fab.

[Adam]

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[Dave]

I'm sure they'll try and you know, change a few things about how they are operating. They if they're without Calvin Ridley for a long time that's going to hurt their passing game game a little bit. Not that it was good with Ridley. They had some moments. I wonder if we start to see more of Taje Spears in neutral game situations meaning not when they're chasing points in the second half. And I I wonder if they kind of lean into him a little bit more because he brings an explosive element to the offense.

[Adam]

Jonathan Gannon said Kyler Murray is the starting quarterback when he's healthy and Jamie already said he hasn't been ruled out for this week against Green Bay and Jets head coach Aaron Glenn is not benching Justin Fields. Okay, that was a great answer he.

[Jamie]

Gave if you saw it.

[Dave]

Yeah, I saw that.

[Jamie]

Yeah.

[Adam]

You want to talk about it? Because I think I have to sneeze.

[Jamie]

He just said, you know, we're not going to judge him based on one game and he thought that the totality of his play has been at least above subpar standards. I don't know if you know, saying it was good, but he did. But in any event, not benching him based on one thing and giving him the, the, the body of work as the example more so than the game against the Broncos. So at least for now he's safe.

[Adam]

Oh gosh. I mean losing a sneeze is just so frustrating. You know, I just wanted that satisfaction. I'm be searching for it for the rest of the show. Bucky Irving is out this week. Blake Corum is day to day. Amari D. Mercado's got the ankle injury. Wonder if he messes things up if he plays this week. Wide receiver Garrett Wilson has a knee injury. He avoided serious injury but we don't know when he'll be back. We're not expecting him this week. They have Carolina, then Cincinnati and then a buy that's Garrett Wilson. So he has a knee injury that's, you know, fairly serious but not terrible. Puka Nukua, Like I said yesterday, I think you guys would probably agree. I think the safest way to think about Puka is he's going to miss this week and then hopefully back after next week's buy. Right? We just shouldn't plan on having Puka this week, we're not ranking them a Mecca. Buka hamstring Mike Evans could practice this week and Chris Godwin is already out. He's been ruled out. Marvin Harrison Jr. Concussion CD Lamb and Cavante Turpin could play this week, so that'd be cool. Let's, let's get. Let's get Turpin back. I know. Let's get Lamb back. Calvin Ridley, hamstring Josh Palmer left with an ankle injury. They're going into their buy and Calvin Austin, who really hasn't been that bad, he could play this week. And we like Aaron Rodgers against the Bengals, so maybe Calvin Austin could be sneaky little sleeper tight end David Najoku, who's got a thigh injury. Brock Bowers doesn't seem like he's going to play this week based on what Pete Carroll said, so they've got to buy next week as well. Kind of like the Rams situation. Brock Bowers at Kansas City, then a buy. And again, if you miss out on Harold Fanning Jr. Maybe you can pivot to Michael Mayer. Mike Kasicki has a pectoral injury. I told Dave before the show, if you go to I love this on cbs, if you go into your league and you go to a guy's player page, you can see where all of his upcoming opponents for the rest of the season rank against that position. So if you went to Noah Fant's player page, he's got the Bengals tight ends have to have the best matchups of any player at any position. They've got one matchup rest of season against a team that currently is inside the top 20. Against tight ends, the tight end, you know, team versus tight end position rankings, they change a lot. But good. Not that it really matters, but good, good matchups for the Bengals tight ends.

[Dave]

Now spend all your fab on Noah fan.

[Adam]

Nope. Don't even say that as a joke. You don't want to be on record.

[Dave]

That was a joke.

[Jamie]

Yes.

[Adam]

George Kittle hopefully playing this week, right? Oh, you know what, Atlanta boy, they were looking so good. You cannot, you cannot deny the impact that losing their left tackle had in that game. Jake Matthews played much of the first half, didn't play in the second half, and their backup left tackle really struggled and Michael Pennock scored almost all of his points in the first half. It really seemed to make a difference there. So that's a left tackle we'll be looking at. Jack Conklin, right tackle for Cleveland. He left in the second half. They've got Miami this week. Right.

[Jamie]

Atlanta has San Francisco.

[Adam]

No, no, Cleveland. Cleveland.

[Jamie]

Oh, Cleveland. Yeah, I'm sorry. Cleveland has Miami. Yes.

[Adam]

All right, let's get to our top three players at each position. And Jamie, who are the top three quarterbacks this week?

[Jamie]

Top three quarterbacks for this week are. The great. Aaron Rodgers would be number one with his matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals. Jackson Dart is a long term play, not a short term play because I don't like him this week against the Denver Broncos. But after that he gets the Eagles again, who he just scored 25 fantasy points against the 49ers, which we know the defense very depleted and then the Bears. So that three game stretch, you'll want to have Jackson Dart as a potential starter especially we know we gave all the bye weeks. And after Dart, it's Bryce Young. Adam, I said this to you yesterday, that you're one for two so far. You're batting.500 against Bryce Young with his three game stretch that you called Dolphins, Cowboys, now Jets. So we'll see if you're above.500 or below.500 as Bryce Young on the jets matchup of this three game magical stretch that you talked about.

[Adam]

Yeah, there. There is no matchup that's even in the ballpark of the Dallas Cowboys. And he only threw 25 pass. I mean, they're running the ball so well that he's not throwing that much. 25 pass attempts in a shootout against the Cowboys. He still turned it into 24.5 points. But yeah, the jets are kind of interesting. They've only given up 20 or more fantasy points to two quarterbacks this year. So take that.

[Jamie]

But they've been kind of living at that 20 points threshold.

[Adam]

Yeah, yeah, but that's, you know, that's Josh Allen, Baker Mayfield Tua and Bo Nicks didn't score 20 fantasy points. So is Bryce Young gonna do that? Aaron Rodgers and Dak Prescott had huge games against them. Yeah. Is he in your top 15 this week, Bryce?

[Jamie]

No. Okay.

[Adam]

All right, so it's not like last week where we were. There was some enthusiasm for him. All right, running back Dave, top three running backs.

[Dave]

Videl's number one, Knight is number two. Tajie Spears is number three. All three of them are available in at least 40% of CBS Sports leagues. Bam. Knight is at 88%. So even in your deep league, he's going to be available.

[Adam]

What do you think the chances are of. Of Tajie Spears leading the Titans in carries going forward?

[Jamie]

Dave?

[Dave]

I don't love his chances of doing that as long as Pollard stays healthy. But it wouldn't surprise me if there were some games where it's close, where it's like 12 for Pollard, 8 for Spears, but Spears can make up for it a little bit in the passing game.

[Adam]

Someone in the chat asks and it's a little off subject but are we expecting Aaron Jones just to give an update on that he has to miss one more game this week, will be his fourth on IR and then hopefully back after that in week eight. Wide receiver Jamie who are our top wide receivers?

[Jamie]

Buckle up. I have Case on booty at the top just you know, coming off the game that he had and again the fact that he plays the most snaps of the Patriots receivers. Drake Mace playing well, hopefully it's something that could be sustainable. Josh Downs back to back games with at least six catches and getting more involved. So we'll see if there's something that happens there with him moving forward. Obviously, you know, with what Tyler Warren does and what Michael Pittman has done, it's hard to expect consistent performances from Josh Downs. But at least the last two weeks have been encouraging and this could be a little bit of a difficult game for Warren. You're not benching him but as Heath alluded to last week with Darren Waller like the Chargers just great against tight end. So could be a little tough for Warren to be at the same level of production and maybe we see a little bit more for Downs and then I just hoping, you know, I mean I've said this now since draft season, I've said this now for the last couple weeks when he was eligible to return that I think Jalen Coker is going to make an impact. I'm hoping you make an impact. We know the schedule is favorable at least for this week. He seems like he's going to be eligible return. So for me I'm going to avoid a lot of the replacement options and kind of hope that Coker plays this week and start him over. The the best non Mike Evans Tampa Bay receiver assuming a book is out as well. The best non Marvin Harrison Cardinals receiver like all that mess. I hope Coker plays right because we.

[Adam]

See it a lot like McMillan could have a bad week this week against the jets, but the other guy, hopefully it's Coker could do well. It's a lot to ask a guy first game of the season. But you know Dave, when I look at wide receiver, I mean I'm really circling that Lions Bucks game. The total is 52 and a half. It's in Detroit. You could see so much Potential for Baker Mayfield to be throwing a lot.

[Jamie]

But who is it, though?

[Adam]

It's tough. I, I, that's the thing.

[Jamie]

It's like, who is it?

[Adam]

Well, what do you guys think?

[Jamie]

I have Cameron Johnson first and then shepherd second, and then Tez Johnson third. And you flip that and I'd be like, yeah, cool. Sure, that's exactly what it'll be like. There's no rhyme or reason to it. You know, Cameron Johnson had more targets than Tez Johnson. They both had big plays. They're both fast. They're both going to be on the field potentially a lot. I, I think as we discussed this yesterday, Adam, like, if you're talking about give me Tampa Bay best cat pass catcher non Evans, non Godwin Nanabuka. I'd rather have Odden and just, you know, forget about the receivers.

[Dave]

That's not a bad call. Here's what I like best about this matchup. The lion secondary is banged up. Brian Branch might not play, and I don't think Tampa is going to be able to run the ball very well because not a lot of people can run the ball very well against Detroit. So they're going to have to take to the air. Tez is my favorite of the three. He's the fastest of the three. He had an 84% route rate to lead the Bucks last week. Obviously, it might not have been as high if a Mecca Buka had played the whole game. A Buka probably would have had the highest route rate, but Tez is going to be my favorite of the three, and he is one of the three receivers that I would look at. He's probably going to be third on my list, and then I would have Shepard second and I would have Cam Johnson third. But I feel the exact same way you do, Jamie, if you've got him listed the opposite way. We're just taking shots and, and it's because of Baker, how well he's played and where. The matchup is favorable for the Bucks this week against the depleted lion secondary.

[Jamie]

Right.

[Adam]

I didn't even mention that. Terry and Arnold's going to be out, I would think. And Brian Branch is suspended. He can appeal his suspension.

[Dave]

Kirby Joseph is banged up, and DJ Reed's been on the shelf for a while. Like, this is a tough spot for, for the Lions to even try and, you know, run with some of these fast receivers that the Bucks have. Here's the other wrinkle. If Mike Evans plays, he's going to take one of the Johnsons off the field.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Dave]

Which one is it? Going to be. Is it going to be Cam or is it going to be Tez? That's going to be a question that we're gonna have to answer later in the week. But it's another reason why you shouldn't spend a bunch of fab or make your priority one of those Bucks receivers.

[Jamie]

It's also, you gotta assume not a full a typical Mike Evans probably snap count. You know, coming back from a hamstring injury. They know what they're looking at from their season. Like do they want to risk him getting hurt again, especially with Godwin maybe out for a majority of the season, how this is sounding and who knows how long a book is going to be out. So they may be a little bit cautious with Evan. So it could work out where we get the fool Jew of, you know, the best of Mike Evans. He you're still starting him obviously if he plays. But like we may not get typical snapshare for him and then one of these guys steps up and has a big game.

[Adam]

Man, could you imagine if both teams were fully healthy offense? Well, the Lions are, but if the Bucks were fully healthy offensively, the shootout we would have would be so good for fantasy.

[Dave]

We might be getting the Shootout anyway.

[Adam]

Might be.

[Jamie]

I still, honestly, I still may make and this is nerve wracking, but the matchup is I still may make Baker Mayfield start of the week should make.

[Adam]

Jameson Williams the start of the week. Yeah, he should have a big game, you know. Oh, hopeful. There's some, some encouraging trends for for Jameson Williams we'll get to later in the week. All right, who's getting tight ends? Dave, top three tight ends.

[Dave]

Harold Fannin, you're back in our lives and you're the number one tight end to claim off of waivers. And I don't necessarily feel great about the other names on this list. There's Mason Taylor, there's Michael Mayer. That's probably the top three. But you can make the case for Evan Ingram. You can make the case for Arande Gadson. You can make the case. Well, Kate Otten should actually be on this list. Let me start over. Fannin one, Otten two, Taylor three. Let's just end it there. Those are your top three.

[Adam]

Okay. And you did mention Mayer and he's, he's been good. Gadsden had a good game without Quentin Johnson.

[Dave]

Mayor is a one week rental for sure. And Otten to a degree is as well because we know that eventually they'll get healthy in Tampa. We know eventually Brock Bowers will be back. The Raiders I Believe are one of the teams that's on by in week eight. So you've only got one week of mayor against Kansas City.

[Adam]

Right. Kansas City's been a pretty tough matchup. But also I think Harold Fannin is a, is potentially a one week rental. You know, it's possible.

[Dave]

Yeah. These are all potentially one week rentals.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Jamie]

Okay.

[Adam]

Well this is a good, you know, call it blockbuster. A lot of good rentals. I need to throw one more name in the wide receiver mix just because he's available in a decent amount of leagues and he's available in a lot of leagues. On the other sites, Kendrick Bourne, you know, how are we feeling about him? Because Kittle coming back potentially maybe Pierce all Jennings is so beat up right now. He's got, he's like the operation guy. He's got a lot of things going on right now. Jamie, if Kendrick Bourne were out there, where would he rank on the waiver wire?

[Jamie]

So you, I, I put guys like this that are rostered basically in like the 80 to 66 range in the check to see if they're available in shallow leagues. What I said about Kendrick Born, if he's available, he's the number one receiver to get.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Jamie]

So still based on everything you said, Kittleback, Pierce all look likely back. Jennings may still play. I still think you're looking at him better than all of the rest of these guys just given the uncertainty about all of them. So it may not have as much upside, let's say as the Tampa Bay guys if everybody's there. And look, the quarterback change may hurt Born because Mac Jones has just been feeding him. So we'll see how that goes. But I think just as we see sit here right now, Mac Jones expected to start and Bourne has just been fantastic the last two weeks.

[Adam]

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[Jamie]

The Chiefs, they get The Raiders, they're 47% rostered. We know Geno Smith has been a turnover machine. He's got I believe six, seven interceptions in his last three games or six interceptions last three games. Like he's just turned the ball over at such an unbelievable rate and going into Arrowhead, I think it's going to be a nightmare for him. So Chiefs DST should be rostered and started across the board.

[Adam]

Any other DSTs you like? It's not a great week. I feel like for DSTs Seahawks are.

[Jamie]

Still available in 36 of leagues and the Vikings coming off their buy. I know they're playing the Eagles but it's not the same version of the Eagles. So Vikings DST still. We're starting this week. Okay.

[Adam]

Yeah. And the Seahawks have been really good in five of six weeks so far. Houston, that's. That's a winnable matchup for the Seahawks dst.

[Jamie]

Yep.

[Adam]

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[Jamie]

Stream this week would be Chris Boswell. What you know should be a good matchup for him against Cincinnati. Jason Myers just continues to play well at home. And Josh Carty. I know we had a little concern last week about the weather. Hopefully no issues in London. I don't think so. So you can go back to Cardi this week.

[Adam]

All right, good stuff. So why don't we do some shallow leaguers and some deep leaguers. So Kendrick Bourne is definitely on this list but who are some of the other shallow league players? Jamie? That would be even better than most of the guys we've talked about so far.

[Jamie]

So I'll go backwards from tight end Zach Ertz, you know ended his three game slump last night with 6 for 43 and a touchdown. So I think you can go back to him if you're looking for tight end help. I'm still going to go to Kyle Pitts even though he had a bad game last week but worst game of the season. Still don't know if Darnold Mooney is going to be back. And just in the unlikely event that George Kittle does not play, don't give up on Jake Tongas just yet because he's been awesome for the last three weeks and clearly that position on that offense is is worth using based on what we saw from Tongas at receiver. Besides Kendrick Bourne there's there's several guys here that you can maybe not start this week but you definitely want to roster Matthew Golden. Best game of the season so far coming off their by you always like to see that for rookie wide receivers after their by playing well in and getting a little bit more involved and so golden somebody should be rostered I'm going to go back to Jerry Judy. I initially was going to have him on the drop list but 13 targets gets Miami this week. Maybe no David Najoku this could be his best game to date so I actually will use Jerry Judy once again in three receiver leagues. Cooper cup not a great game last week scored his first touchdown. I don't fear the matchup for him so much against the Texans we could see you know JSN get Stingley so maybe cup gets a few more targets especially if they throw the ball more. Trey Tucker we kind of alluded to Sunday night is he the best Raiders receiver Wandell Robinson obviously coming off a strong game and back to back games with seven targets with Jackson Dart Rashid Shahid is still worth rostering. And then you mentioned Kendrick Bourne running backs we have Kenneth Gainwell should be rostered obviously based on what he we discussed on Sunday can be a flex option with the six catches and this receiving core is beat up right now and then Kendrick Miller you still want to roster him just in case we see more work and maybe a trade happens with Alvin Camara and a quarterback you have. Brock Purdy is worth rostering still just in case he plays and Sam Darnold has been fantastic so don't leave him on your way to yeah.

[Adam]

Darnold. How do you feel about Darnold this week because he's 67 rostered, he's available in a number of leagues and he's got Houston. They're number one against quarterbacks so far they've faced Baker Mayfield who had a good game, Stafford, Trevor Lawrence, Cam Ward, Cooper Rush. I know they have a good defense but they haven't really been tested. Darnold's playing out of his mind. Darnold or Aaron Rodgers this week.

[Jamie]

I would go Rogers this week just based on the matchup but I can understand if somebody wants to go Darnold. I'm probably have Darnold as the bust alert for this week just because the.

[Dave]

Matchup I have Darnold higher Do you.

[Adam]

Feel like if do you feel like Darnold or Jackson Dart is a better stash?

[Jamie]

Darnold.

[Dave]

Darnold is the better Sash this guy's.

[Adam]

Playing really really well.

[Dave]

Yes. I mean it's got one of the best receivers in the game this year. Yeah.

[Adam]

Unlike last year. But.

[Dave]

But it's worked out like it's it's the same premise like he's he's making it work with an amazing receiver and the numbers he's the production is good.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Dave]

And I Get that it's a really tough matchup against Houston. You can't love Sam Darnold this week. Would you be shocked if he had 22 fantasy points?

[Adam]

Anyway, so just to wrap up the shallow league stuff, if there's a dream scenario. Oh, I can't believe this guy is available on waivers. Who is this guy?

[Dave]

Patrick Mahomes?

[Adam]

Is it Born? Is it Darnold? Is it Gainwell of that whole group? Yeah, Born.

[Jamie]

It would be Born.

[Adam]

I don't know. But Born. It could be such a trap. He could. He could not play soon, you know, or barely.

[Dave]

A guy who's been as productive as he's been the last couple of weeks, when the other receivers and stud tight end are not at 100%, is just going to head to the bench and not be a part of the 49ers game plan. 49ers are looking for players who are good at this point. They're so beat up, especially on defense, but certainly on offense as well. We know this because of the quarterback being out, receivers being not 100% like Bourne's been good. They've got to keep him on the field. It would be silly if they didn't. It wouldn't be like Kyle Shanahan to not utilize players who have been productive for them.

[Adam]

They do throw a lot, so. All right. Make it work. All right, well, none of these guys are taking a quick break and then we'll come back with the deep league guys. Be right back.

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[Adam]

Savor Responsibly okay, well I picked up Kendrick Bohr during the preseason. Why are you talking about these guys, Dave? None of these guys are available in my league. Who's the deeply? Who are the deep league targets?

[Dave]

The deep league targets at quarterback are Gross. It's Carson Wentz, it's Jacoby Brissette, it's Joe Flacco, Dylan Gabriel, Spencer Radler. You are hoping that one of Mack Jones, Bryce Young, somebody like that's available. And even in the case of Bryce Young, Aaron Rodgers should be on that list too. That one of those guys is available that you can use them this week as a bye week replacement for Josh Allen and and potentially pivot off of whoever you've been using as a replacement of Lamar Jackson. I have no idea who everybody's been using. Use your best judgment at running back. Bam Knight is the prize 88 available. The other running backs that are available in deep leagues, they're more stashes than anything else. It's Xavier Scott, Isaiah Davis, Sean Tucker, Burchard Smith. They're all available in 75 + of CBS Sports leagues. That wide receiver Tez Johnson I think is the best one. 97 available. You've got Sterling Shepherd, 91 available. Let's keep it going with the Bucks receivers because Cam Johnson is 99 available. Those three guys are all great. Jamie's talked a lot about K Sean Booty. I don't like that booty was under 10 PPR points in the four games prior to last week. You're hoping that he builds on what he did in week six and doesn't go back to what he did in weeks two through five. But he's available in 85% of leagues. If you need a one week rental. 22 atwell we've talked about him. Looks like he's going to play looks like he's going to play a lot. He's available in 98% of leagues. A couple of Bears receivers Luther Burden, Alameda Zakias. I'd rather have Burden but if there's no DJ Moore, those are two guys.

[Jamie]

That are out there.

[Dave]

You could use them in a pinch. At tight end Kate Otten 87 available. Michael Mayer 97 available. Around A. Gadsden 97% available.

[Adam]

Yeah, this D.J. moore situation is so, so odd. Just admitted to the hospital that we don't really know why. Hopefully he's fine. But yeah, Luther Burden. We've seen the the flashes from Luther Burden. DJ Moore getting five targets or six targets in every game this season.

[Jamie]

I think the thing with Burden I'LL go back to what I said about Darius Slayton, like, if you don't have to play anybody this week, he's a great wide receiver stat. And look, he may have a great week. You know, he just was coming off a game where he led them in receptions and was second and receiving yards. So clearly coming out of the bye week, they're trying to get him more involved, and now more is not there. But I also think, again, if you're looking at it from this, the situation of I don't need somebody this week, I'm not going for the desperation play of a Bucks receiver or any other injury replacement. And D.J. moore does play. Like, I want to stash Luther Burton more so than I would if I don't need any of these receivers.

[Dave]

Right. Like you would take him over the Bucks receivers if you're thinking long term. And we need to talk about preparing for week eight because week seven's coming up and two big teams are on by. But week eight, there's six teams on by. Everybody need before you set your waivers tonight, set your LineUp for week eight and find out, oh, man, I'm gonna need a running back, or, oh, man, I might need two receivers for week number eight. You need to start to plan ahead. It's going to be the. The bad fantasy manager that doesn't plan ahead. Now for week eight, it's a Binato. It's six teams on by. If you need the names of the six teams, I can tell you, but it's. It's not going to be easy to set a lineup. The week eight teams on by, Arizona, Detroit, they've got a couple of good players. Jacksonville, the Rams, the Raiders, the Seahawks. Who am I missing? Because that's not six, right? That's five.

[Adam]

Yeah, I think that was five.

[Dave]

Okay. Cardinals, Arizona, Detroit, Jaguars, Rams, Raiders, Seahawks.

[Adam]

Arizona, Detroit, Jacksonville, Las Vegas, Rams, Seahawks. Yeah, sorry.

[Dave]

All right, good. We spent 45 seconds figuring out the six teams that were on by. That's great. But the point is, is that you need to go and make sure that you're covered. This is a week. We've talked about it twice already on the show. There's some good depth on the waiver wire. Well, good is a relative term at wide receiver and tight end. And honestly, running back, like, at least there's names. You should try and get ahead of week eight if you can this week.

[Adam]

Okay. If you're in a deep league and two super flex league, you might want to pick up Shader Sanders. That could be happening at some point.

[Jamie]

Yeah. It's a good call. So I just been, I've been texting with Greg Almond who covers the Bucks for Fox Sports. He's covered them for many, many years. He covers the NFC south for Fox Sports, but covered the Bucks for many, many years. So I asked him, I said, in your opinion, who do you think would be the best Bucks wide receiver? He says Evans should be back, so expect that. That's. That's a good thing. He thinks he would go with Shepard based on the volume. He said Tez had the touchdown last week, but it was only catch. Cameron never caught a pass before Sunday. Keep that in mind. Line secondaries mess, so there's opportunities everywhere behind Evans. And then he said Odden is definitely going to be involved. So this is a, you know, writer covers the team again, knows them as well as anybody there every day. And, and that's just his, his opinion. So I think if you're looking at it, the safe play might just be Shepard because we know he's going to be on the field no matter what happens. As Dave alluded to, you know, Evans comes back and one of these guys is off the field. You know, if you're looking for the, the floor could be Shepard, but again, there, there could be a touchdown or two for one of the two. John and Otten is going to be involved. So just keep that in mind from a priority standpoint.

[Adam]

Yeah, I, I think the fact that Evans is expected to play is, is obviously going to change my, my enthusiasm about these guys for sure. All right. Chicago 25, Washington 24. The game turns on a late fumble. Jaden Daniels in a wet game couldn't get his. Couldn't get control of the ball and turned it over and they played for the field goal at the end and they kicked it and it was good. And The Bears win 25, 24. On a walk off Romo Dunes, they had a touchdown called back, so he had a pretty bad game. He was called back on like a senseless penalty, too. But Dave, any major takeaways from Chicago 25, Washington 24.

[Dave]

I think people are disappointed in what we got out of Crosby Merit. As far as production goes, the workload was great. 17 carries is exactly what we were hoping for. You would think that 17 carries against the Chicago Bears would lead to huge numbers. It just didn't. He didn't have a run longer than 11 yards. It was unfortunate. And obviously the, the fumble wasn't any good either. So I, I'd still, I'm still relatively optimistic that cross game merit is going to be at least a number two running back right now. And what, what else are the commanders going to do? Unless they make a trade, they're not going to put Chris Rodriguez in a prominent role again. And we know that McNichols is the third down back so discouraging numbers from merit but at least the opportunities are there and we know that he's fast. It's too bad he couldn't take advantage of a good matchup. And then on the other side for Chicago, DeAndre Swift looked amazing.

[Adam]

Yes.

[Dave]

And I think Chicago doesn't need to add another running back if they don't want to. And if Swift's going to continue to play like this, then one Heath Cummings is going to win at least half of a bet against me because he's been, he's been better than Camara going into this week and now he's certainly better coming out of it. I think he's an easy must start. And Yeah, I think DeAndre Swift just continues to be a good, capable number two fantasy running back.

[Jamie]

Right.

[Adam]

And the thing with Swift was we looked at his upcoming schedule and said well he's got a really good and I think we talked about this on the by low show on, on Wednesday. He's got a great schedule after Washington. Washington would be a. Had been a great run defense but then New Orleans, Baltimore, Cincinnati, the Giants. Great run defense or great run schedule for Swift and then he kind of got ahead of his schedule. Oh, okay, here we go. Oh, I lost it again. I gotta stop talking before the sneeze. So annoying. But Swift, who would you guys rather have rest of season, Swift or Bill?

[Dave]

I think you gotta lean Swift at this point.

[Jamie]

Yeah. Although I mean here we go. He gets Dallas this week. I'll. I'll still take Rosky, Merritt but it's close.

[Dave]

I would take Merritt for this week but it's, I'm thinking rest of season that Swift is probably a little bit better.

[Adam]

You know Swift gets about three or four catches most games. Only had two yesterday but he took one of them to the house. I am a little concerned about your Corey Cross Gamer. It's catches because he, he is not playing on third down at all. And he just, you know he had two catches last week. He had one in week six but he's really talented. I think if you like Bill this is the chance to buy low on him. Did we miss a sell high window on Romo Dunesay? You know I had been talking about it and the yards weren't great. He was scoring touchdowns. He did almost score another touchdown this game or are we just totally fine with him?

[Jamie]

He's great. Totally fine with him. He's great. DJ Moore may not play, so maybe a couple more opportunities for him. I mean like I love him this week against the Saints. Okay.

[Adam]

Atlanta 20. Yeah. Atlanta 24. Buffalo 14. Really impressive game from the Atlanta Falcons and the Bills lost Josh Palmer early. No Kincaid. And you had Terrell on Coleman a lot. Really taking him out of the game. Wouldn't call it a shadow necessarily, but he really took. Took out Coleman for a chunk of.

[Jamie]

The game at this point. Coleman's shadow may take out Coleman.

[Adam]

Well, you know, you thought it was a great opportunity, but here he is matched up against AJ Terrell who's been really good this year when he's played. So Jamie, your takeaways from this game.

[Jamie]

I mean Drake London, whenever Darnell Mooney does not play is an absolute monster. He's my number one receiver this week. You know just what he continues to get target wise. Think about what this offense was like. They beat Buffalo with two players. It was Bijan Robinson and Drake London. You know my obviously Michael Pennants was, was a part of that but like there was no second wide receiver. There was I, I guess you got to give Algiers some credit. He is worth picking up. By the way, he now has three of his last four games with 10.6 PPR points or more. So in that flex conversation with how they use him, I think just from the standpoint of you know what you're getting with the, with with the Falcons, I wouldn't panic about Michael Pitts. His. Michael Pitts, Kyle Pitts his. His worst game of the season I think will go back to being a low end starter. I, I wouldn't shy away from using him this week against San Francisco with their injuries, especially if Mooney's out again. So kudos to the Falcons. You know, we, we were wondering what this team looked like after that loss against the Panthers and they bounced back in in a big way with their last two games.

[Dave]

Their defense played great. Four sacks, a couple of turnovers of Josh Allen, one late. That doesn't really matter. But it was, it's another strong defensive effort from the Falcons. I wish that they were a little more consistent because you talked about it before the break. They, they've had some, they've had some stinkers but rising up to use their term to slow down Josh Allen and the Bills. I thought that that was great. I was a little surprised by the lack of usage in James Cook as far as workload goes, I know seven or not workload, snapshare. Because he got a lot of work. He just didn't play a lot. He only had two snaps in the fourth quarter. That was a little bit surprising. The Bills defense was really bad. I think the Bills defense kind of beat themselves in this game. The missed tackle on Bijan on his long run, obviously they couldn't contain Drake London whatsoever. Algier on his run, it wasn't as long as Bijan's, but it was a good strong run. They couldn't slow him down. I'm thinking that they're gonna have to make some changes on defense and especially against the run if they're going to come back and, and try and be a stronger version of themselves after their buy.

[Adam]

Very injured on defense. They were missing Milano. A couple guys got hurt and I think came back, but they, they had. They're pretty beat up defensively and they have a well timed bye week here. James Cook has one target in his last two games. Guys, you know, we know.

[Dave]

Yeah, if you can.

[Jamie]

Yeah, I mean you're talking about not his best two game stretch and on a buy, you know, so you might be able to see somebody that if you have, you're lucky enough to have receiver depth and the James Cook manager does not turn a receiver into like if you have Rice, Rashi Rice coming back and you love your receiving core and your running backs are just trash right now and that Cook manager has trash at wide receiver. Like that's a great trade.

[Adam]

You'd trade Rice? You'd cook Rice?

[Jamie]

I would cook Rice, yes.

[Adam]

Okay. Would you rather have Saquon Barkley or James Cook? Rest of season, Cook?

[Dave]

I still Cook.

[Jamie]

Okay.

[Adam]

Dave and I thought about that a couple weeks ago and still no tight end is more than four targets against the Bills. So they're, they're a tough matchup for tight ends, no doubt.

[Jamie]

Yeah. Would you like to know two stupid things I did with start set this week? Yes. I took Kendrick Bourne and Kyle Pitts both out of the column.

[Dave]

You had born as a sit and Pittsburgh. Oh, oh.

[Jamie]

And I had Pitts as the bustler.

[Dave]

I know what you.

[Adam]

Yeah. Now we, we got some heat for the Juwan Jennings thing. I mean Jennings played most of the snaps. He just did nothing. All right, drop o meter real quick. Zero to ten. Bo Nix to drop. Yeah.

[Jamie]

Zero.

[Dave]

Agreed.

[Adam]

RJ Harvey, two one, Justin Fields, zero.

[Dave]

Yeah, low, but I'm not a zero. I'd put him at like three.

[Adam]

I just don't know what he's Going to do without Garrett Wilson.

[Jamie]

Right.

[Adam]

Because the next two matchups, Carolina and Cincinnati are amazing. And if he had Garrett Wilson, I could see him scoring 30 points in those two games. But yeah, I'm assuming no Wilson for those two games. I don't know that for a fact. And then he has a buy.

[Jamie]

I mean, they may set a record for rush attempts between the running backs and the quarterback.

[Dave]

I think they tried to do that against Denver and did not nearly won.

[Adam]

They did nearly win. We were on the air. We were on the air for our, you know, starters at pregame show and was watching the game, I was like, how are the jets winning right now? They were up like 10 to 9 or something like that. Yeah, it was.

[Dave]

They played. Never let them hang around for sure. But after the buy, let's say that Garrett Wilson is out against Carolina and Cincinnati. After the buy, the jets have the Browns at New England, at Baltimore, Atlanta and then Miami in week 14. How many of those games would you feel good starting fields with Garrett Wilson back? Cleveland, New England, Baltimore, Atlanta. No, maybe two of them. I don't know what Baltimore's defense is going to look like at that point.

[Adam]

All right. Michael Carter on the drop o meter.00. Drop him for night if you had to.

[Jamie]

I guess if that's the only movie you can make.

[Adam]

Hunter Henry on the drop o meter.

[Dave]

He's droppable.

[Jamie]

I would drop him for almost all the tight ends that we talked.

[Dave]

Right? Yeah.

[Adam]

Let's see what we missed with the waiver wire quarterback. Check to see if available. How about Brock Purdy, 82% rostered. They throw a ton of. He should be good. Would you rather have Purdy or Darnold rest of season?

[Jamie]

Is Purdy 100%?

[Adam]

I don't know.

[Dave]

Is his receiving core 100%?

[Jamie]

That I think is more likely than his health being 100 right now. So I would. I would rather have Purdy than Donald.

[Dave]

They both have good schedules the rest of the way. I'll take. I'll take Darnold over Purdy, but it's close.

[Adam]

All right. Aaron Rodgers, last time, you know, we kind of talked about him on the waiver wire show. He had this supposedly good matchup against New England, which we later learned is not that good of a matchup. The Bengals, I feel pretty confident are a good matchup. But my concern, Jamie, the Bengals, the last two quarterbacks to face the Bengals have thrown 23 and 26 passes. Golf and love those two teams run the ball really well. Obviously the Steelers not as much, but this Team can't score Cincinnati. So, you know, what's your confidence level in Aaron Rodgers? He's your number one quarterback for this week, but it's not exactly the best waiver wire quarterback week.

[Jamie]

Correct. It's low. I mean, I don't think he's, he's a slam dunk, must start quarterback, but you know, good matchup and he's coming off again. Look, he's the, he's the second quarterback to go over 16 fantasy points against the Browns this season, you know, so he's playing very, you know, it's almost like a poor man's version of, of Darnold, what we were talking about, right where he'd been playing well, but the fantasy production hadn't exactly been there. And then he started to have these bigger games. I don't think that's going to happen for, for Rogers, but it could against the Bengals and we're talking about him in a primetime game. And then, you know, if you want to play narratives, then he gets the packers after this. Well, I'm sure he's going to want to come out and have a big game there if he can now. Not going to be easy. But I also think to your point about the Bengals, like they started to show a little bit better with Flacco as the game went on. Obviously Jamar Chase did with his, you know, heroic play. So I do think that they can make this game a little interesting. The way that they're talking, it's almost like they feel like this could be a season saving game for them. Division game, home, prime time, you know, if they can win this and sort of get back on track. I don't know if they will, but obviously we've seen a lot of crazier things happen already this year. So if they make this a game and Rogers has to throw a little bit more, then I think that comes into play. But really your point though, I think is the most valid. They can't run the ball like the teams that have faced the Bengals have lately. And so while I like Jalen Warren, I think he'll have a good game. He's clearly a starting running back for this week. I do think that Rogers will lean on his running backs in the passing game. I think this could be a 252 type of game. So we're talking about a low end starting quarterback at best.

[Dave]

We did see the Steelers run the ball really well against Minnesota two games ago. It was with Gainwell as the exclusive back. And then last week they didn't, but they Played Cleveland. That's a tough defense and this isn't nearly as tough of a defense. I wonder if both of those running backs can end up being okay this week. And I do, really, I, I have some concern about Aaron Rodgers having a monster game. I think he can have an okay game. And so I, I think it really comes down to do you want to take the quarterback that can have an okay game in a favorable matchup on a short week, or do you want the quarterback, and this is the battle in my mind between Rogers vs Jackson? Darth, do you want the quarterback who's probably going to stink this week against Denver? Because that defense is really good. But after Denver, he's got a nice schedule. Do you need that guy long term? And if you need a guy long term, I think I'd probably find a way to get Dart first. If you need a guy for this week, though, I agree. Aaron Rodgers is the better get.

[Adam]

I'm not going to just sit here and say that. The Eagles, by the way, are an easy mat or a good matchup, you know, so they were playing when Jackson Dart scored 24 fantasy points against the Eagles. They were playing without Carter and mostly without Quinn and Mitchell. So if those guys are back in two weeks and Carter, I, I don't know. I assume he will be, but I don't know. But I don't know how Jackson Dart can keep doing this. He hasn't thrown for more than 202 yards. Is he going to run for 10 or more, 10 or more attempts every, every week? Is he going to run for 50 or more yards every week? He's the third quarterback in football history to do that. It just, it feels like smoke and mirrors a little bit. So I, I don't know, man, but.

[Jamie]

But he doesn't have a good enough.

[Adam]

Receivers, you know, like there's, there's not that much upside. Is he ever going to score more than 24? 24 is good, but.

[Dave]

Yeah, go ahead.

[Jamie]

Good to that point though. This feels very similar to the Daniel Jones run with Dable as well.

[Adam]

Like, it wasn't that good, but he.

[Jamie]

Was a good fancy quarterback though. He was like he was hovering around that 20 point per game range. He ran for 700 yards that season.

[Adam]

Right, but I've already got quarterbacks on my team that can do that, you know, I mean, you know, but look.

[Jamie]

At the list we're talking about here though. It's not like it's, you know, first off, you're down Josh Allen, you're down Lamar Jackson. Bye. Week Injuries, whatever you want to call it, they're not playing this week. So that's two managers in every league that's been either chasing quarterback in the last two weeks with, with Jackson or certainly chasing quarterback this week with Josh Allen. And so where do you want to go with it? And then as Dave pointed out, you know, we get to week eight, you have a lot of situations dealing with as well. So you have a quarterback and Dart at least if you're looking ahead taking on that Eagles defense, you're 100, right. They were not at full strength when he, he played them. But what he's given you so far with 19 or more points in three straight games, what he's done with his legs, what and, and to be fair, I don't think that this is a difference making type of player, but he didn't have Darius Slayton as well, who might be his best receiver at the current state of what it looks like right now. So I just think that if you're, if you're trying to manage this, because that's what we're doing, you're not expecting, at least for me, I'm not expecting Jackson Dart to be 24 points because I do think that the Eagle defense clearly going to be pissed off after losing to the Giants in prime time. I would be that. And now you're back in their building for that long road trip, you know, so Dart to me is, is a low end starter, but that's what Rogers is. That's at best what Bryce Young is. And let's give Trevor Lawrence some credit.

[Adam]

I'm just saying. Sorry, I just want to wrap it up. I mean, I'm just wondering if he's the, you know, what he's going to be rest of season. Is Jackson Dart going to be a top 12 quarterback rest of season?

[Jamie]

No, I, again, I don't think anybody should be viewing it that way. I think you're viewing it as can you get me to that 18 to 20 point threshold and not make my team suck? Because I started you. And you get the Mac Jones performance from last week, who threw the ball three for 347 yards but no touchdowns and two picks, you know, and you got 10 fantasy points out of it. Like that's the thing you want to avoid, you know. So I think Dart because of his rushing, so it's probably not going to be 50 yards every week, but he started three games and he's rushed for two touchdowns and he's been over 50 yards in all three of those outings. So can he get you 30 to 45 rushing yards. I think that's realistic. Can he score every other game? That's probably going to be the potentials there for that. And so I think just based on how they're using him, he may get hurt.

[Adam]

All right, we gotta, you know, wrap up here.

[Dave]

Sorry here.

[Adam]

We gotta move on.

[Dave]

No, there's one last thing. I don't think anybody's going to be excited to start Jackson Dart this week and nobody probably should unless it's a super flex league. If he has a good game, if he scores 18 points against Denver, you're going to feel okay starting him against Philly and then the opponents after Philly for the Giants moving forward. Okay.

[Adam]

So I got to say, if you don't need anyone this week, remember Arizona, Detroit, Jacksonville, Raiders, Rams, Seahawks, all on a buy in week eight. There are a couple of quarterbacks that you should, that you should seriously be considering. You got C.J. stroud against the 49ers and you've got Michael Penix against the Miami Dolphins. And that might be the play to pick up Penix now.

[Dave]

And the night's call.

[Adam]

Beat the waiver wire, get ahead of the game for week eight. Running back. Okay, Gainwell and Kendry Miller are the sort of shallow league guys. Kamani Vidal, Donovan Knight, Taj Spears, those are the best options. And then you've got the handcuffs. Jaden Blue, Emmanuel Wilson, I mean it's crazy. Emmanuel Wilson to me I think is one of the best handcuffs and he's only 8% rostered. And you know, I, I think he'd move into a pretty big role if Jacobs got hurt. I don't know that for sure. Isaiah Davis is also on the handcuff list because not only do you have a potential injury, but a potential trade of Breeze hall and then obviously Tyler Algier. He just has got to be handcuff number one.

[Jamie]

Yeah, I, I just in, in the order just because I did this last night. So Algier would be ahead of Blue and Davis and when Wilson Agreed.

[Dave]

He's 38 available on CBS though. And I think if, if you've been living with Bijan and you don't have Algier, I would find a way to lock up that backfield here. One more thing. I noticed that Trey Benson is available in 36 of CBS leagues. Yeah, I, I don't know if there's an easier IR stash than Trey Benson.

[Jamie]

I would guess most of the. I always struggle with this when I look at it because that's kind of the number that you see for a lot of the IR guys is in that 60 to 70 ish range. And so my guess is those are all the IR leagues that we have.

[Adam]

Yeah, I mean that's a good point. But I think Benson, you know, probably could, could be worth, should be worth a stash. Even if you can't put him in an IR spot, he's getting closer to a return.

[Jamie]

Right. So when we get to that number, those are usually the 10 team leagues and depending on how deep your bench is without an IR spot, it's just tough. So I get it. I mean if he's available, you should, you should be stashing him. And if you have an IR spot, for example, like and you're looking at it and you have Christian Watson in an IR spot versus Trey Benson, like that's an easy swap.

[Adam]

There you go. All right. A wide receiver, you can see if Matthew golden or Jerry Judy or Cooper cup or Trey Tucker. Tucker's been pretty damn solid. Wondale Robinson, see if he's available. You know, he might be the guy who has some success against Denver. Rashid Shahid, bad week, but usually, you know, pretty consistently gets eight or more fantasy points. And then there's Kendrick Bourne, who would be the number one wide receiver if available. Kshawn Booty is Jamie's favorite this week. Josh Downs, I wish he just played more. He just, just does not play well, play, play much. Jalen Coker, hopefully back this week would be a good matchup against the Jets. Tutu Atwell scored 11 or more fantasy points in all four games last year without both cup and Puka. We think no Puka this week. Adams will play so. But the Jaguars give up a lot of deep balls. They give up a lot of big plays and that is what does you put Alec Aisle Manor on here. What about Van Jefferson? Is I am Manor your favorite Titans receiver?

[Jamie]

I, I, yeah, I don't want to trust Van Jefferson. I hope with the coaching change, you know, let's focus on the future Titans mentality that this could be a game where I owe Manor gets a lot of targets and, and, and chances and so not an easy matchup clearly. But I think if you're stashing somebody, we don't know how long this Ridley injury is going to be.

[Adam]

And the Patriots, that's their matchup this week. They've actually allowed double digit PPR fantasy points to 11 wide receivers in six games. Darius Slayton's kind of the long term look and then we got the Bucks wide receivers on there. Whether it be Cameron Johnson, Tez Johnson, Sterling shepherd. Earlier, you know, Jamie said Cameron Johnson, then Shepard, then Tez. Dave said Tez, then Shepherd, then Cameron. But then we find out that a reporter for the Bucks, Greg Allman, expects Mike Evans to play this week. So it does put a bit of a damper on things. And there's Zay Jones. Zay Jones with a big game last week. If Marvin Harrison's out, you know Zay Jones, would he crack your top 36?

[Jamie]

No. But he's somebody that you should look at in deeper leagues.

[Dave]

There is somebody who is watching our show right now who plays in a three wide receiver triple flex league and I suggested Zay Jones to him a couple weeks ago. It wasn't because I thought that Marvin Harrison was going to get hurt. It was because I thought that he would give the Cardinals some speed and it worked out last week because Marvin Harrison got hurt. If Harrison misses the game, he's kind of a Hail Mary type of wide receiver to add in those deepest of leagues.

[Jamie]

I will say this just in regards to the Cardinals. Michael Wilson left the game briefly with a finger injury and then came back and finished the game. He kind of left right before Marvin Harrison suffered the concussion. So it could be Wilson as the better option than Zay Jones. But you just have to base it on what we saw and Zay Jones could have the better ceiling and higher opportunity. Higher.

[Dave]

There's also the wrinkle of who's throwing the ball to them.

[Adam]

Yeah, there's that. Trey Harris is a super deep league guy. He played most of the snaps, led all Chargers and snaps receivers and had five targets. Calvin Austin again is someone I'll highlight. Just got a. Got a chance against this terrible Cincinnati team.

[Dave]

Would you, Adam, is it worth. Is it worth bringing up Josh Reynolds?

[Adam]

Yes. Yes it is. Any faith in Josh Reynolds?

[Dave]

Minimal. He should be added 99 of leagues. He's. He's in this conversation of guys to add in the deepest of leagues at wide receiver. We should have brought him up for that Josh Riddle because he should be stepping into a big time role for the jets and he did last week.

[Adam]

What about Hollywood Brown? He's 53 rostered. We just kind of thinking Rice is back out with Hollywood.

[Jamie]

It's hard to trust. Yeah, I, I would. I'm. I'm very curious because they're probably going to make one of these guys inactive. So is it going to be Thornton? Is it going to be Juju? Is it going to be Brown? I would very be. I'd be very surprised With Brown. So is it juju or is it Thornton?

[Dave]

I think you'll see Brown as the third receiver. Rice will play in the slot the most. That's bad for juju and Hollywood Brown. So every game this year he's giving you at least eight PPR points. I feel like that should be a reasonable expectation with Rice back, but nothing like what we saw last week.

[Adam]

Oh, wow. Someone just threw out a name. He's 80. Roster, this is Adam. What about Nick Chubb? You could do worse if he's out.

[Dave]

There and you need somebody.

[Jamie]

This is a Woody Marks game coming up.

[Dave]

I hope so. Especially against Seattle and the way that they've played running backs this year.

[Jamie]

You could do terrible against pass catching running backs and you can't run on them. Right?

[Adam]

All right. But you know, you don't have to start him this week, but there could be times where you want to start Chubb. I mean, we were hoping it was Woody Marks, but. All right. Tight ends. A lot of them.

[Jamie]

See?

[Dave]

Would you start them against. Where are they? The 49ers in week eight?

[Adam]

Maybe they could. They could have a terrible defense without Warner.

[Dave]

Denver in week nine?

[Adam]

Probably not. Well, all right. Can we move on? This is not just. Nick Chubb is a running back that gets carries. Would you rather have Kyle Pitts or Harold Fannin?

[Jamie]

Fanon.

[Dave]

Fanon. But it's not with long term thoughts in mind.

[Adam]

Kyle Pitts or Kate Otten?

[Dave]

Otten. But it's not with long term thoughts in mind.

[Jamie]

Pits.

[Adam]

Okay, there's Michael Mayer. There's a Ronde Gadsden if Quentin Johnson plays. I don't think you want to mess with a Ronda Gadsden. Evan Ingram. We haven't talked about him. He's got six.

[Dave]

Okay.

[Adam]

He's got six or more targets in three straight games. And now he's got a revenge game against the Giants. He's interesting. Mason Taylor or Evan Ingram? Who'd you rather have this week?

[Jamie]

Taylor. Long term, I.

[Dave]

Right. I think I'd rather have Ingram this week. Taylor, rest of season.

[Adam]

Okay. I mean, look, if Mason Taylor is not going to be good this week against the team that gives up the second most fantasy points to tight ends without Garrett Wilson, then why would I even bother rostering Mason Taylor?

[Dave]

I get it.

[Adam]

And then any interest in the following players? A.J. barner.

[Dave]

No, not with all the other tight ends that are out there. He's been good, but I'd rather have Fanon Otten like those dudes.

[Adam]

Ingram, a Bengals tight end?

[Dave]

No, no.

[Adam]

Taysom Hill?

[Jamie]

No.

[Dave]

Non PPR leagues. Maybe if I'm desperate.

[Adam]

Theo from Die Hard, AKA Theo Johnson.

[Dave]

Is that his last name?

[Adam]

No, no.

[Dave]

The tight end from the Giants.

[Adam]

Oh, yeah.

[Dave]

You're wrong, Adam. No, I'd rather have a bunch of the other names.

[Jamie]

You know where I went first when you said that. It took me a second because I know you met Theo, the. The. The hacker. The computer hacker, but that's who it is. The what? The FBI guys were Agent Johnson and Johnson.

[Adam]

Oh, that's right.

[Dave]

Yeah, he's all three of those guys wrapped up into one giant tight end.

[Adam]

Yeah, I'm in charge now.

[Jamie]

All right.

[Adam]

Dsts. We like the Chiefs, the Seahawks. The Vikings have been pretty terrible this year, but they get the. They get the Eagles. We'll see. I wouldn't want to start. We don't want to start. The Vikings do.

[Jamie]

We are a mess right now.

[Adam]

They're a mess.

[Dave]

Their guys are healthy and they can come out of it.

[Jamie]

But think about this week. You said it. This is a crappy week of dsts.

[Adam]

Yeah, it is. And the. About the Falcons at San Francisco.

[Jamie]

Yeah, I mean, maybe. Yeah, maybe.

[Dave]

There's a lot of maybes. I think you can make the case for the Bears as a. Maybe the. Maybe the Giants, based on how the Broncos offense looked last week.

[Jamie]

I mean, you can make a case for the Dolphins against Dylan Gabriel.

[Adam]

All right, kickers. Chris Boswell, Jason Myers, Josh Carty. Have a great day, everybody. We'll talk to you at one o' clock with the waiver wire show on CBS Sports Network. And tomorrow by Low so High. Goodbye.

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