Week 7 Recap! Rashee Rice, George Pickens, Bo Nix, Winners, Losers and Injuries (10/19 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Summary

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Fantasy Football Today: Week 7 Recap (October 20, 2025)

Host: Adam Aizer | Analysts: Dave Richard, Jamey Eisenberg, Heath Cummings

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Episode Overview

In this spirited, info-packed Week 7 recap, Adam, Dave, Jamey, and Heath break down the week’s fantasy football highs and lows with their trademark banter. The show focuses on standout performances (notably Bo Nix and Matthew Stafford), underperformers, injury fallout, waiver wire strategies for an upcoming “Mega Bye” week, and actionable advice for managing risers and fallers—including stars like Rashee Rice, George Pickens, Jordan Addison, and Quinton Judkins. Tight end volatility, shifting running back workloads, and reactions to NFL chaos (including the Giants’ historic collapse) are all in play.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. Giants’ Historic Collapse – Setting the Tone

• Adam kicks off venting about the Giants blowing an 18-point lead—a 1-in-1,603 statistical improbability (01:36).
• The crew uses this to segue into the unpredictability of fantasy and the NFL.

2. Biggest Winners & Losers

• Bo Nix, QB: Unanimously picked for his massive 44-point performance—a season-high tie (02:01).
  • Heath: “He was terrible for three quarters.” (02:24)
  • Jamie: “And then he gets Dallas this week. It’s a great time to be a Bo Nix fan.” (02:28)
• Ramondre Stevenson, RB: Heath’s winner due to workload surge; Travion Henderson is the “biggest loser,” potentially droppable in most formats (03:25–04:17).
  • Jamie: “They just don’t trust him. They obviously have no faith in him…” about Travion (04:17)

3. Rookie Surge & Tight End Turmoil

• Aronde Gadsden, TE (Chargers): Dave touts his breakout (06:20).
  • “His route rate went down…but his targets went up, his yardage went bonkers.” (05:20)
• General skepticism about relying on mid-tier TEs:
  • Heath: “Every week we have tight ends do stuff that we didn’t project...” (26:18)
• Set-and-forget list: McBride, Kittle, Ferguson, Kelsey, Warren. Gadsden possibly entering the “second tier.” (27:37–28:54)

4. Buy or Sell – Contenders, Quarterbacks, and WRs

• Eagles’ Offense: “The Eagles are back?” (08:00)
  • Jamie: “Hurts has been a good fantasy QB…AJ Brown (and) Devonta Smith—Smith is a sell high.” (09:36)
• Matthew Stafford, QB: Hot streak—must-roster/must-start? (11:41)
  • Heath: “Probably in that top 10 conversation for the rest of the season.” (11:41)
  • Dave: “He’s a top 12 quarterback rest of season…can trade for him dirt cheap.” (12:30)

5. Injury Updates & Waiver Wire Preview (17:49–22:55)

• Major QB injuries: Bryce Young, Jaden Daniels, Geno Smith, Justin Fields, Tua, Mahomes (rested).
• RB injuries: Kendre Miller, Bam Knight, Kareem Hunt, Breece Hall dinged up.
• WR/TE injuries: Brian Thomas Jr., Darren Waller, Cole Kmet, plus key OL issues.
• Waivers: Jamie notes superflex streamers (Mariota, Dalton, Flacco, Rodgers), few appealing adds at other positions for “Mega Bye” week (21:20).

6. Winners and Losers: Detailed Analysis (23:04–37:06)

• Travis Hunter, WR/CB: Big breakout (101 yards, TD, 14 targets), but under-rostered and rarely started (23:32).
• Jordan Addison, WR: Consistently rising, benefits from Jefferson coverage (24:26).
• Daniel Jones, QB: Quietly effective, possibly a must-start option in some leagues (29:26).
• Travis Kelsey & Kamani Vidal: Disappoint; Kelsey’s targets down on Rashee Rice’s return, Vidal inefficient despite big workload (30:31–31:18).
• Justin Fields & Xavier Worthy: Trending downward; Fields possibly lose his job, Worthy back in low-end WR3/4 territory (32:55).

7. Rapid Reactions – Game Recaps & Notable Stats

• Rashee Rice, WR (Chiefs): Emerges as target hog with Kelsey down (30:31).
• Quinton Judkins, RB: Flirts with top-5 ROS status due to consistent scoring (48:07).
• Saints/Bears: Ground game dominates (over 200 rushing yards for Bears); Camara still viable, Olave rising (57:43–59:14).
• Rams: Stafford takes what defense gives; Kyron Williams vs. Blake Corum—analysis of RB split (42:09–43:27).

8. Strategic Debates & Listener Questions

• WR/Tight End Dilemmas: Frequent “who would you rather have” debates (Pickens vs Waddle, Addison vs Devonta Smith, etc.)
• RB Backfields: How to treat ambiguous splits like Carolina (Chuba vs Rico Dowdle), Green Bay, and Washington (61:04–62:37).
• “Set It & Forget It” TE Reality: Defining the threshold of trust for tight ends (27:37–28:54).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “He was terrible for three quarters.” — Heath, on Bo Nix (02:24)
• “You just don’t have to pick, because Nationwide is so much more than a great insurance company.” — Adam, mocking sponsor’s famous slogan over Giants collapse (01:18)
• “Every week we have tight ends do stuff that we didn’t project them to do...” — Heath (26:18)
• “I think when there are only five or six set-and-forget-it [tight ends]... Kincaid is close to that because there aren’t that many.” — Adam (27:26)
• “It was one of the most ridiculous performances I’ve ever seen... The Chiefs had 30 first downs, the Raiders: 30 offensive plays.” — Heath, about the Raiders offensive futility (37:14)

Timestamped Segment Highlights

• [03:05] Jamie: “This is arguably the worst loss in NFL history.” (re: Giants)
• [06:20] Dave: “Aronde Gadsden, the rookie tight end with the Chargers... yardage went bonkers.”
• [11:41] Heath: “I would say [Stafford] is probably in that top 10 conversation for the rest of the season...”
• [17:49] Adam: “Bryce Young left in the third quarter with an ankle injury...”
• [21:20] Jamie: “You have Mariota and you have actually a lot of QB streamers...”
• [23:32] Heath: “This is... we’ve been waiting to see this [from Travis Hunter]...”
• [24:26] Jamie: “Jordan Addison... three straight solid games since coming back from the suspension.”
• [27:37] Jamie: “Set it and forget it tight ends are who? I think it’s McBride. It’s Kittle... Ferguson for sure. Warren for sure. Kelsey probably.”
• [31:03] Adam: “Your other loser is Kamani Vidal... nine carries for 20 yards... started in 76% of leagues.”
• [37:20] Jamie: “Just terrible... buy low on Brock Bowers.”
• [43:27] Adam: “Kyron Williams has a Blake Corum problem.”
• [51:08] Adam: “He just doesn’t have a good enough role [on Pacheco]. He doesn’t play third down, he doesn’t play short yardage.”
• [57:14] Dave: “Swift is like the clear one. If you’ve got him, you should feel great... He is currently RB11.”

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Key Takeaways & Actionable Advice

Quarterbacks

• Bo Nix: Must-start, matchup-proof after Week 7 heroics—even after sloppy start.
• Matthew Stafford: Must-roster and top-12 QB ROS; trade target with easy schedule.
• Jackson Dart: 67% rostered; viewed as “must-have,” borderline starter especially during bye weeks.

Running Backs

• Ramondre Stevenson: Secure as lead; Travion Henderson droppable in 10-team leagues.
• Kamani Vidal: Potential concern; inefficient and game-script dependent but still flexible based on matchups.
• Quinton Judkins: Booming; considered over Barkley ROS by some.
• Ambiguous Backfields: Prefer to roster both options where possible (e.g., Dowdle/Chuba).

Wide Receivers

• Jordan Addison, Devonta Smith: Addison is a weekly top-24; Smith is a “sell-high.”
• Travis Hunter: Trending up after first 100-yard game; finally saw usage downfield.
• Xavier Worthy: Downgraded; too many mouths to feed in KC, target-share inconsistent.

Tight Ends

• Aronde Gadsden: Rising TE2; favorable for managers streaming/rotating TEs.
• Set-and-Forget-its: Limited group, making mid-tier TEs even more valuable.
• Drop Candidates: Mayer, Goddard (in some cases), Hunter Henry are all streaming fodder.

Waiver Wire & Strategy

• Prepare for Mega Bye: Prioritize QB streamers (Mariota, Dalton, Flacco), consider holding RB handcuffs, don’t overspend on volatile WRs.
• Sell-High / Buy-Low Alerts: Devonta Smith, Genty, Brock Bowers (upon return).
• Monitor injury fallout: Adjust rankings for Pacheco if Hunt out; Steelers/Rams/Patriots RBs for volatility.

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Speaker Attribution & Tone

The rapport is fast-paced and irreverent—lots of direct trash-talking, playfulness around player names, and on-the-fly analysis. The banter is balanced with detailed breakdowns and consensus-building on key strategy points. Adam drives segments, Jamie and Dave provide depth analysis, Heath interjects with humor and contrarian takes.

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Final Word

Week 7 belonged to boom and bust—especially for QBs (Bo Nix ascendant, Justin Fields on the brink), resurgent WRs, and chaotic RB backfields. The take-home: stay aggressive with the waiver wire, don’t chase every breakout, and be ready to pivot at QB, TE, and RB as the season (and unpredictable NFL chaos) continues.

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Transcript

[Adam]

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[Adam]

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[Jamie]

Can you believe.

[Heath]

No, I can't. It's time to dominate your fantasy league.

[Dave]

This is gonna go the distance.

[Heath]

Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie and Heath.

[Adam]

All right, let's recap week seven. Welcome to Fantasy Football Today presented by BetMGM. Make it legendary. Legendary. Like the pathetic collapse of the New York Giants. Most pathetic franchise in the world. Unbelievable.

[Dave]

Heath, you won. He was under a minute 15 on that.

[Adam]

Unbelievable. Do you. Did you hear the stat? Did you hear the stat at the end of the game? 1602 consecutive times a team has led by 18 points with 6 minutes left in a game and won 1602 times. That is unbelievable. This team. Who's the biggest winner today, guys?

[Jamie]

Bo Nix.

[Adam]

Oh my God. He. I was doing buy or sell and I have two in the notes. The third one was Bo Nix is a huge bust and we should drop him. And all he did, he. All he did was score 44 fantasy points which is tied for the most in the NFL this season with Jared Goff.

[Dave]

You put the kibosh on it.

[Heath]

He was terrible for three quarters.

[Adam]

Three and a half quarters. Three and a half. Yeah.

[Jamie]

And then he gets Dallas this week. It's a great time to be a Bonicks fan.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Yeah, no kidding. All right, well, anyway, welcome to the show.

[Jamie]

Hope everybody's doing great.

[Adam]

Had to get that off my chest.

[Jamie]

So which loss was worse.

[Adam]

About that, you know, Jamie. At least Jamie's doing it to my face instead of texting a friend of mine.

[Jamie]

Listen, I didn't text me on Friday night. This was not. This was not me rubbing it in. You beat my team. I can't talk any started and I Can't say anything but which loss was was worse.

[Adam]

This is the worst. This is unbelievable. This is the worst. This is arguably the worst loss in NFL history.

[Jamie]

Let's get so this loss is worse.

[Heath]

Than Americans for you it was no loss when you are basically already eliminated from the playoffs. 602 like who give. Who cares.

[Adam]

All right. Biggest winner.

[Heath]

You have a better draft pick.

[Adam]

Who wants to get the I'm so tired of that. Who wants to get the biggest winner today? Anyone?

[Heath]

I'll say Ramandre.

[Jamie]

All right.

[Heath]

Good go good for good Ramandre Stevenson like just making Traviana Henderson irrelevant ran through over and around the Titans. His maybe was it his best day of the season in terms of dominating workload? I believe I only had two rush attempts. He scored a touchdown I think especially with with the Mega Buy coming up. Oh no. He plays the Browns.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Well Jamie has Travion as a loser and I think you could look at this as whether or not Ramondre is a big winner or not because he played the Titans. They have a bad run defense. They lost Jeffrey Simmons. They have even worse run defense. Obviously he's a winner. Travion is such a loser right now. So Jamie, do you think Travyon Henderson is droppable and furthermore shouldn't he play for the Giants if he's this big of a loser?

[Jamie]

Unfortunately he's droppable in 10 team leagues. We'll see 12 team leagues. How many managers can afford to drop him Was still with the potential of what he hopefully can be. But at this point what's that hope? You know, what are you waiting for? It's. It's bad. It's. It's really bad. I you know you have the fumbles for a Mandre. Nothing changes. You have the injury to Antonio Gibson. Nothing changes. You know it's just they don't trust him. They obviously have no faith in him to do the things that he needs to to do to get on the field and be productive. And at this point, you know we're going to see what injuries occur unfortunately and you know what teams need to do from a bye week situation to help fill some rosters next week. And he's probably going to be cut. You know I would guess if his what's his roster percentage right now? 92, 93 in that range.

[Adam]

I think it's actually I'll double check for you. It's. Well, it's over 90. Whatever it is, I'm going to get 96.

[Jamie]

Yeah. I'm going to guess it's mid-80s by next week. Yeah.

[Adam]

All right, so that's Patriots backfield Dave. Give me a winner or a loser.

[Dave]

Well, I have a winner queued up. It's not the biggest winner of the week, but it is the best tight end or tied for the best tight end of the week. And it's a Ronde Gadsden, the rookie tight end with the Chargers. His route rate went down in week number seven, but his targets went up, his yardage went bonkers. It was a game that the Chargers A, couldn't run the ball worth a lick, and B, fell behind early. So Herbert had to throw a ton, and he was just making all sorts of plays in the short and intermediate range. He was really, really good. And he was good last week. He was obviously better this week. But I wonder if this is now going to be the next tight end that fantasy managers can gravitate toward. Anytime the Chargers have a matchup where you think they're not going to be able to run the ball, and that might be every matchup they have from here on out because their offensive line is in such rough shape and their run game, clearly we got a fool Jew from Kamani Vidal after his huge game in Week 6, and he did bupkis in Week 7 against a better Colts defense.

[Heath]

I thought you were going to say the next tight end that fantasy analysts can rank in the top 10 and everyone can start and they can score three fantasy points.

[Dave]

No, I think he'll be better than that. I, I But can he be like, 13 PPR points? That's where I get a little trip.

[Adam]

13.

[Dave]

Yeah, that would, that would still be good. No, I get it.

[Adam]

That would be amazing. Amazing.

[Dave]

Yeah. There's going to be some weeks along the way where Gadson doesn't even get to 10, but for now, he looks good. He's a big part of this Chargers offense. And there's not going to be very many weeks where Herbert's swing 55 times, but north of 35, I think we can see that pretty frequently.

[Jamie]

You know who's gonna end up being the second best rookie tight end? Whoa.

[Adam]

Oh.

[Dave]

I mean, Gadsden is certainly in a position to be that guy.

[Heath]

I'd still say Fanon Fannin led his.

[Adam]

Team in targets, catches and yards today, but they had very weird game. They barely threw the ball, and it just didn't really work for fantasy. All right, so those are some winners and a loser. Treveon Henderson. We'll do more of those a little bit later. We've got beyond the box score tomorrow. In this feed, but then a few other times throughout the week in its own beyond the box score feed, we have plenty of other great podcasts covering plenty of other great sports. CBSSports.com podcasts. Go ahead and check it out. You like, you know, combat sports? You like soccer? Great soccer podcasts. We've got fantasy baseball, obviously. NBA. Just check it out. All right, let's do a little buy or sell here. Buy or sell? The Eagles are back. Jamie.

[Jamie]

Which Eagles?

[Adam]

The Boston College Eagles.

[Jamie]

Doesn't feel like he's back. Feels like he's very much lost.

[Heath]

Like Dallas Goddard. I guess it's back to being on our bench.

[Jamie]

Yeah, I don't know what you mean here by the Eagles are back. Yeah.

[Adam]

So the Eagles, they put up how many points? They put up 28 points today at Minnesota. Jalen Hurts with three touchdown, 326 yards. We get.

[Jamie]

I don't know.

[Adam]

It felt like a. Obviously disappointing for. For Barkley, but do you feel good about the Eagle? The whole storyline of the NFL season be like, what's wrong with the Eagles? How do you feel about them right now?

[Jamie]

I mean, I obviously feel good about the quarterback and the two receivers. It's hard not to coming off of this game. And.

[Adam]

Oh, yeah, big night. Big night for Jamie. Birthday Jamie. We even waited till 8 o' clock for him. Sort of.

[Jamie]

First off, you forgot this morning, so don't even try to play.

[Dave]

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, sir. He knew and insisted we say nothing on the show this morning to make you think we forgot.

[Adam]

Yes, only to smash it in your face on the live show tonight.

[Heath]

I had no idea.

[Adam]

How old are you?

[Jamie]

49.

[Dave]

Wow.

[Adam]

All right.

[Dave]

Like a. I just want to say we're eight minutes into our show and we've already gotten like three different faces of Adam Azerbaijan.

[Adam]

I got angry Adam.

[Dave]

We've got interrupting Adam. We've got bold.

[Adam]

You have not gotten interrupting Adam yet.

[Dave]

I haven't. I get it every week during the season.

[Adam]

It was a joke. I was interrupting him. All right, Jamie, sorry. There's your thoughts on the Eagles.

[Jamie]

Yeah, it's great. Look, Hertz has been a. A good fantasy quarterback the entire season. Despite the ups and downs, he has the ability to be great as we see today, whether it's his rushing totals or his passing totals. When these type of things arrives, but they're not always consistent. I think in the case of A.J. brown, this is what you're waiting for yardage and touchdown wise. But we've seen the targets be a little bit better and Certainly the receptions be a little bit better at times. Look, devonte Smith, this is a sell high situation right now. Like he has these spike games every now and then. It's the third time he's been good this season. If you can flip him at some point, if you can flip him for something, you know that somebody thinks this is going to be consistent, then I would do that.

[Dave]

Okay?

[Adam]

Saquon Barkley, by the way, averaged something like 0.27 yards, 0.17 yards before contact per carry, which is, believe it or not, not even his low for this season. It's just been a huge problem. He's getting hit in the backfield all the time. He actually got hurt on a play where he spun away from a tackler in the backfield. But at least Jalen Hurts came through. He was. He threw for 215 yards on deep balls today, the most in his career. I got another buyer sell for you. It's about Matthew Stafford. But before we do that, football fans, picture this. You bet on your favorite player to score the first touchdown in the game, but his teammate scores instead. Well, that's a bummer. But if this happens, BET MGM wants to give you another chance at the end zone with BET MGM second chance promotion, promotion. You're going to get your stake back if your first touchdown score scores second instead. So you bet on any pro football player to score the first touchdown of the game. If you're right, you win. If your player scores second, you get your stake back in cash. With BET MGM's second chance offer, you have a chance to keep the fun going after the first play crosses the goal line. Try a first touchdown scorer wager with confidence today. BET MGM make it legendary Heath Buy or sell Matthew Stafford with three games in his last four with more than 30 fantasy points and six point for passing touchdown leagues. Buy or sell? Matthew Stafford is a must start quarterback going forward. I know they have a buy but.

[Heath]

After that I don't think he's a must start quarterback every week of the remainder of the season. But he is someone that I would say is probably in that top 10 conversation for the rest of the season. And if he doesn't have a terrible matchup then you're going to start him. He's playing great football now today like he's played some really, really good football earlier in the year. Today was a lot about they got inside the five yard line and they struggled to score running the ball and so they threw a lot of touchdowns. 1832 yards on 33 attempts is not exactly fantastic but he's going to come back from the buy and probably have Puka and Devonte Adams and probably score a lot of fantasy points.

[Adam]

Anybody think he's a must start, must roster through the buy. Let's say that would you must roster Stafford through the buy.

[Dave]

If I didn't have a rock solid quarterback on my team and I saw Matthew Stafford on my waiver wire, I would add him in a heartbeat because they're having a tough time running the football in LA and he it's five touchdowns without Puka Nuku on the field. He's having a great year. The big worry that you have to have with Stafford is that he's old so he could break at any point. But you're. I think you ride this out. I think he is a top 12 quarterback rest of season and I think he's also someone if you're struggling at quarterback that you can trade for dirt cheap because people they're. I don't think they're going to ask for a ton in trade for Stafford even though he's been so great the past few weeks. But I think he's playing great. I think the Rams are playing great. This is he's. Yes. The answer is yes. He should be on your fantasy roster.

[Jamie]

What a week for, for old quarterbacks.

[Dave]

Seriously.

[Jamie]

Joe Flacco, Aaron Rodgers. I think at this point, you and me, I'm not a quarterback at, at this point you'd rather have Stafford than Fields. Clearly you'd rather have Stafford than Kyler Murray. I'm trying to think like any of the guys that were drafted as starters like he's going to be in the same range rest of season of guys like you know, probably Jared Goff just based on his up and down scenarios and performances.

[Adam]

How about bonus huh. How about Bo Nix?

[Jamie]

I think that would probably be a matchup situation on a week to week basis but Stafford feels safer.

[Adam]

So Jordan Love, yeah, Love's Love is struggling right now.

[Dave]

Let's, let's dude his Stafford schedule rest of the season is really enticing. The two games against Seattle are tough. Atlanta and week 17 could be tough but otherwise I look at it and I see a lot of good numbers.

[Jamie]

All right.

[Adam]

He is, he's pace for 41 touchdowns. That's how many he threw in 2021 when he was the number eight quarterback per game in six point. Number 11 quarterback per game in four point and they won the super bowl that year. All right, so. And that just goes to show you like he that year he was the number eight quarterback. He threw for 4,886 yards and 41 touchdowns. When you get, when you get nothing as a rusher, you have to have that kind of year to be a must start quarterback. Quick break news and notes, early waiver wire and more. Winners and losers. Plus we'll recap every game when we come back. Football season is fun. I love every minute of it. But it's busy and I get tired sometimes and all of us are busy and all of us get tired and we all need energy, focus and recovery. So let me tell you about Quicksilver Scientific, a US Company that makes advanced liposomal supplements your body can use fast. And I recently got my supplements delivered. Quicksilver Scientific is a leader in cutting edge supplement science. Quicksilver has a lot of great products. I ordered the Ultra Vitamin, a highly absorbable daily multivitamin in liquid form. It has vitamins for mood and energy, plus immune and bone support. It makes me feel energized and balanced every day. Quicksilver Scientific makes advanced liposomal supplements so you can actually feel the difference. Energy, focus, calm recovery. Get 10% off and free [e-mail] FFT that's tryqs.com FFT these statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or or prevent any disease. Let me tell you about the best food I've had in a long time. It was thanks to Gold Belly. Gold Belly is this amazing site I order from where you can get the most iconic famous food from all across the country and they will ship it right to your door. And by the way, you can get 20% off with the promo code FFT. More on that in a minute. Now, I had never had Lou Malnati's Deep Dish Pizza from Chicago or Joe's famous barbecue in St. Louis. Well, now I have. I ordered them on Gold Belly, got it delivered, devoured those meals and they were incredible. You want Joe's Stone Crabs from Miami, Junior's Cheesecake from New york? Go to goldbelly.com just browse, see for yourself. So many great options that you can get there. And if you're feeling fancy, Gold Belly has meals from world class chefs. So if you're looking for that perfect gift or you want to impress your friends and family with an epic meal, the next time you host, go to goldbelly.com and get 20 off your first order with the promo code FFT. That's goldbelly.com code FFT for 20 off your first order.

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[Adam]

So Bryce Young left in the third quarter with an ankle injury. They have Buffalo next week. Jaden Daniels left in the third quarter with a hamstring injury. And we've seen Marcus Mariota twice and he scored 20 fantasy points or more both times. So they have the Chiefs on the road next week. Got a few quarterbacks who were benched. Geno Smith was benched, Justin Fields was benched, and Tua Tonga by Loa was benched. Two of those could have been just.

[Heath]

Patrick Mahomes was benched.

[Adam]

Two of those could have been scores.

[Jamie]

Is there anything better than that for you? Like your team's up big and then you see Gardner Mitchell come in like that.

[Heath]

You get to watch Gardner Minchu play football as like for the fourth quarter. Yeah.

[Jamie]

Have you got to mention your chief stirs yet? Like, this is the greatest thing.

[Heath]

Yeah, no, I don't know that I've ever actually bought myself a jersey. I don't really buy myself clothes.

[Dave]

Are you asking us to buy you?

[Heath]

No, I'm just saying, like, whatever clothes happen to show up here, that's what I wear.

[Adam]

And Justin Fields was bench for Todd Taylor. And that one did not seem like it was for the score from, you know, because of the score. So we'll see what happens going forward. But yeah, Cincinnati next week could be starting to Rod Taylor running back news. Kendra Miller left with a knee injury. Bam Knight, I guess came back he was evaluated for concussion. Kareem Hunt hurt his ankles. This was an interesting one. Cause he did come back in the game. Got hardly any work. We'll see how that ankle looks throughout the week. They get Washington next week. And Breece hall is also dealing with an injury, so we'll see what his status is. He came back in the game, but these are just guys who got nicked up. Sometimes they come back, the adrenaline's there, and then throughout the week, it gets worse. Brian Thomas Jr. Was dinged up late. Luckily, he's going into a buy. Sean McVay is optimistic about getting Pukinakua back after the buy. And Don Tavian Wicks left with a calf injury. Tight end news Darren Waller left with a pectoral injury. Cole Comet left with an injury. And then Loveland had two of his three catches after Kemet left. And on the offensive line, the Eagles lost center Cam Juergens in the first half. Saint center Eric McCoy left the Chargers. So I know Makai Becton got hurt in the second half. I saw that their offensive tackle got hurt very early. Did he come back? Do we know? Was he out? Whatever. They're obviously super beat up. Chargers, more offensive line injuries and Chiefs guard Trey Smith left with an injury and right tackle Juwan Taylor hurt his shoulder. So we'll keep an eye on them Sauce Gardeners in the concussion protocol. Let's see. The Colts are a little beat up on defense. Oh, yeah. Jeffrey Simmons is a big deal. So I think Jonathan Taylor is going to be a safe start next week. If Jeffrey Simmons doesn't play. Max Crosby is a huge deal. They're going into their buy, but Max Crosby got hurt for the Raiders. The Eagles had some. Some kind of rotational players get hurt on defense. Bears cornerback Tyreek Stevenson left with an injury. They're at Baltimore next week, then at Cincinnati, so they're going to want him back. Tennessee cornerback Legarius Sneed left with an injury and the Giants. This, to be quite honest with you, is a big reason they lost. They lost two defensive backs in the second half, I think actually one of them in the first half and fell apart defensively. So that's good news for Philly. If Javon Holland and Paulson Adibo, two offseason additions for the Giants, are not back next week against the Eagles. All right, anybody jump out as an as we look at early look at the waiver wire. Jamie, I'll usually throw this one to you first. I don't think you've had really time to work on the column yet, but. Any names? There's quarterback injuries, but anything come to mind.

[Jamie]

You have Mariota and you have actually a lot of QB streamers. So Mariota and probably Andy Dalton. So two QB super flex options, which is pretty big going into a week with 16s on a buy that you may have guys that you could pick up and start. Obviously Joe Flacco has to be taken into account. Aaron Rodgers has to be taken into account as well. Jacoby Brissette, I mean like we're looking at guys that are, you know, coming off of strong games this week that you may need to start for this upcoming week. But for the most part at the other positions, I don't have the list in front of me. We'll have that Monday for the fancy football text press.

[Dave]

I'm. I'm looking up Gadsden's roster ship right now.

[Jamie]

Oh, he's definitely.

[Dave]

Yeah, 90 available.

[Adam]

I always struggle buying into any player when his quarterback just threw 55 passes. You know, that's. That's a big part of this with.

[Dave]

No, I get it. But. But it is two weeks in a row, three of the last five where he's seen a pretty nice target share.

[Adam]

I'll give you one.

[Jamie]

This was the interesting week mostly because last week you didn't have Quentin Johnston. So Johnson comes back and I think this is going to be the issue with this team. Like lad McConkey really did much of nothing. Right. So Keenan Allen, big game. Quinn John scored touchdown. Rhonda Gaso is great. Like who's going to be the odd man out on a week to week basis? Are we going to keep guessing wrong? Yeah.

[Adam]

Donovan Knight. I'd say he kind of solidified his role. They are going into a buy Unfortunately. But he's 57 rostered. It's hard to find a starting running back on waivers.

[Jamie]

One more week of those guys hopefully. Because I would rather see Trey Benson back.

[Dave]

Oh yeah? Yeah. Week 10 or week 11 when he's due back.

[Jamie]

He's eligible to play in week 10.

[Dave]

Okay.

[Jamie]

All right.

[Dave]

So here. And. And they. The Cardinals added another running back into the rotation today. The Ernest John is back in the NFL.

[Adam]

Oh, okay. Sorry Dave cut you off there. So let's do some winners and losers and let's start with Heath. He had Ramondre Stevenson. We talked about him. How about Travis Hunter going into his buy? What are we doing with Travis Hunter? 101 yards on 14 targets and a touch. Oh, you're muted.

[Heath]

Did that to Dave and then you did it to me.

[Adam]

I didn't do that to you.

[Heath]

Holding or buying this is. We've been waiting to see this. Did not play any defense in the first half. Made a good defensive play in the second half too. But they finally used him further downfield as his first 100 yard game, his first 20 point fantasy game. I know a lot of people were going to be saying the same thing we're saying about Trivian Henderson, about Travis Hunter if this was another disappointing week and thankfully we didn't have to wait that long.

[Dave]

All right.

[Adam]

He's 70% rostered. Travis Hunter started in only 13% of leagues. Big game for him. Jamie, your winners are Jordan addison, who's had three good games out of three. Nine catches, 128 yards on 12 targets. And Devonte Smith, also in that game, nine catches, 183 yards and one touchdown. Eleven targets. You said Smith is a sell high. What do you think about Jordan Addison?

[Jamie]

He's playing great. You know, Dave and I disagreed on this one so great. Call Dave to, you know, stick with him and start him. Just, just awesome. See he got off to a great start. Had another one of those big broken plays where nobody was near him on a play to the sideline, but just continues to be a go to option. And with teams, you know, putting so much attention on Justin Jefferson, he's benefiting in a big way. I am curious to see what's going to happen with the quarterback situation if J.J. mcCarthy gets his job back. Which if you watch the start of that game, it was like why are they still playing Carson Wentz? He looks so bad but recovered nicely to at least make this an interesting game. So we'll see what happens there from a quarterback standpoint. But clearly Jordan Addison deserves to be in the top 24 conversation on a week to week basis. Three straight solid games since coming back from the suspension.

[Adam]

All right, Dave, ready for your winners?

[Dave]

Sure.

[Jamie]

All right.

[Adam]

Say hi to Rhonda Gadsden. He's 10% rostered. Why don't you just throw out a few tight ends? You think you would drop for Gadsden?

[Dave]

Well, Mayer would certainly be one of.

[Jamie]

Those guys, especially Mason Taylor or Rhonda Gatson.

[Dave]

Taylor gets Mason Taylor next week. Yeah, I don't know if I can trust Mason Taylor, but Gadson, I certainly.

[Jamie]

Would trust Fanon or Oranda Gaston next week.

[Dave]

Fannin's got New England kind of like Gadsden. I'm just, I'm looking at the teams that are on where's the meme you're to get away from them.

[Heath]

Where's the alien meme. Like, I'm not saying anything negative out of Ronnie against. I think you were right to call him a huge winner, Dave. But it's just like every week we have tight ends do stuff that we didn't rank or project them to do. And the next week we hope they'll do it and somebody else does it.

[Jamie]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Dave]

Meaning a different tight end on a different team or a tight end on the same. Like. Are you saying Tyler Conklin is going to have a.

[Heath]

No, I'm saying.

[Dave]

For the Chargers.

[Heath]

No, I'm just saying. No, I'm saying we put.

[Jamie]

A big week for Fanon and for Mason Taylor and they did not do anything.

[Heath]

And Michael Mayer.

[Jamie]

And Michael Mayer. And we'll see what happens with Kate Otten. And we'll see what happens. I get your point. We're talking about these. These French tenants. What I was going to ask is like at this point, the set it and forget it. Tight ends are who. I think it's. It's McBride. It's Kittle. Now that he's back. I would put craft in that conversation. Ferguson for sure. Warren for sure. Kelsey probably.

[Dave]

But I don't know. He's a loser for me this week. So Ferguson. Did you mention Ferguson?

[Jamie]

It's certainly fair. Yeah, Ferguson's there.

[Dave]

So what about Kincaid?

[Jamie]

I mean. No, I don't think he said. And forget it.

[Dave]

Interesting.

[Jamie]

Okay.

[Heath]

I mean he had. He had. Because he had two good target games and he's got a couple of games.

[Jamie]

Where he targets once.

[Heath]

Okay.

[Adam]

Yeah, I. I think. I think when you. When there are only five or six. Set it in. Forget it. So whatever. It does make someone like Kincaid close to that because there aren't that. Well, I mean, trust.

[Jamie]

But again, like you're. You're tearing it essentially. Right. So when you get past that group, it's okay. Then there's guys that I feel comfortable with that I don't necessarily. I'm gonna start chasing the Arande Gastons. Or you might be, but I. I like Sam Laporta. You're not dropping laporter to get around to Gaston. You're. You're not dropping. Well, I can. K is different. You probably would drop Kincaid for. For him if you feel that way. But like that next group of guys. Goddard had such a great stretch and then he disappears today.

[Dave]

How about Waller? Waller's somebody that came on the scene like gangbusters and now. Well, he's hurt now, but if you. Right. So maybe not the best example of someone that.

[Adam]

Right.

[Jamie]

And Dropping.

[Dave]

It's much easier to drop him because he's hurt. But he's an example of a guy that came out of nowhere, had a big game, followed it up with another big game, and then you buy in hoping that he ends up.

[Jamie]

In the case of Gadson, has Gadsden now moved into that group?

[Dave]

For you, Dave, of set it and forget it. Tight end.

[Jamie]

No, no, no, no. The next group. You know, the second group. Right.

[Dave]

I don't have a sud. Tight end. Here's a tight end that's given me at least eight targets each of the last two games. He's on a team that can't run the ball. He's on a team where the quarterback's running for his life. Anytime they're in a game where it could be moderately high scoring, he could end up getting north of six targets. That's a number that I'm looking.

[Jamie]

Okay, so they get, they get Minnesota next week. They get Minnesota next week.

[Dave]

On a short week too. Yeah, short week.

[Jamie]

So they get Minnesota. He, he goes, he goes 4 for 50 on six targets. Are you sticking with him the following week?

[Dave]

Potentially.

[Jamie]

Okay.

[Adam]

All right. Your other winner was Daniel Jones who scored 26.2 fantasy points at the Chargers in six point per passing touchdown leagues. And he still, this time he actually overcame a three touchdown game from Jonathan Taylor. But pretty damn good game for Daniel Jones.

[Dave]

I agree. And I don't know if I love him as a top 10 type of quarterback next week because he's taking on Tennessee. But then again, like he. It's seven weeks into the season, he's had a couple of games where he doesn't get that second touchdown. That puts his numbers over the top. He really hasn't played poorly in any game. You can, you can correct me if I'm wrong if you think he's had a real stinker.

[Jamie]

No.

[Dave]

Through the first seven weeks. But this Colts offense seems legit. They've got a good line, the receivers are making plays. I, I kind of think we just have to say that Daniel Jones has come around and he's having a good year. He's. This year, Sam Darnold. By this time last year, we were pretty much all in on Sam Darnold as a must start fantasy quarterback. I feel like we're, we're pretty close to that point with Daniel Jones.

[Adam]

All right, let's get to the losers here. You said Travis Kelsey was a loser. He had three catches for 54 yards on three targets. Remember Mahomes? Mom's only played three quarters in this game. However, he did have basically a full stat line at 35.

[Dave]

35 pass attempts.

[Adam]

Yeah. In three quarters.

[Dave]

Not even a 10 target share for Kelsey and Rashee Rice's first game back.

[Jamie]

Yeah. Would you drop Kelsey for Gadsden if that's the only move you can make to get Gaston?

[Dave]

No. You were gonna.

[Adam]

No, you can't. I won't let you. If I were the commission, I'd reverse it.

[Dave]

I think it's tough to do that, but I would love to carry both tight ends, because if we see another game next week where Kelsey's doing nothing and Rice is getting a 30 target share, whatever it ended up being, then I think you might be able to have the guts to make that switch.

[Adam]

Your other loser is Kamani Vidal. He was started in 76% of leagues. He had nine carries for 20 yards, four catches for 15 yards. Dave, could I make the case that commodity by dog is actually a winner, though, because Hassan Haskins only had one carry?

[Dave]

Maybe. But the. The lack of efficiency really reared its ugly head along with the fact that game script went against him really quickly. And maybe that's why it ended up being what it was for the Chargers and. And why Herbert threw a ton and why Gadsden ended up having a bunch of targets and catches. But I don't know, man. Like, played about two thirds of the snaps, split third downs with the other running backs there. Haskins had a slight edge inside the 10. I'm. I'm. How do you weigh it? How do you look at him? Anywhere close to the same way from where he was last week. And we sat here last week saying that Vidal wasn't as good as the Dolphins made him look. We said it, but this is really. It's 2.2 yards per carry. And I think the Chargers identity on offense is what it is. I think it's Justin Herbert, and I think they'll lean into that pretty often.

[Adam]

All right, Heath, you ready for your losers? Here we go. Justin Fields. Mike is dismayed that Heath is dissing Drake May. Mike wants to send you a shirt that says I heart Drake May in white.

[Heath]

As I said just about 15 minutes ago, I don't buy any clothes for myself. So if Mike wants to send me a shirt, I will wear an I heart Drake May shirt on the show. I'll wear it on tv. I'll wear it to the mall. I'll wear it in the fall.

[Adam]

He wants to know what size.

[Heath]

I will wear that shirt wherever he would like. I'll wear that shirt on a bike.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Heath]

Are you a large?

[Adam]

He wants to know.

[Heath]

I am a large. Don't call me March.

[Adam]

All right. Yeah. So Justin Fields and Xavier Worthy are your losers.

[Heath]

Yeah, it might be over for Justin Fields. Like, he probably gets another chance to start this year because to Rod Taylor's terrible also. And nobody was going to be good with Josh Reynolds and the rest of that wide receiving room, but he was just almost petrified to throw the football. A lot of times he's frozen in time. He doesn't turn the ball over, but he can't process to do anything other than not turn the ball over right now. So we'll see if he plays again. If he does, we'll probably rank him as a borderline QB one because he might score 30 fantasy points. But this was also a guy you took in round eight, nine, 10 or later. And we told you to draft another quarterback with him, and you're just starting that guy from now on.

[Adam]

All right, and. And your thoughts on Xavier Worthy? Are you as. Are you as low on Worthy as Dave is on Kelsey?

[Heath]

Well, I'm not dropping him for Aronda Gadsden, but yes, this was a very discouraging game for him because nobody, like we knew Rashi Rice was coming back and he's the wide receiver one. Nobody disappeared. Juju was still involved early in the game. Marquis Brown was still involved and scored a touchdown early in the game. Travis Kelsey, yeah, he only had three targets, but he was still involved in making plays. Rashard Smith is still seeing four or five targets at the line of scrimmage, and Worthy really wasn't. Now he was dinged up and the same shoulder was bothering him again when he got pulled down by it. So maybe that had some. A little something to do with it. But I think right now you have to move him into the. Whoever's in that low end, boom, bust wide receiver three range for you. And those guys are probably borderline wide receiver twos next week because everybody's on a buy and everybody else is hurt. But it. It did not look like a. It's just Rice and Worthy and we can definitely start them both, right?

[Adam]

Well, Jamie, we'll get to your losers. You know, it was a. A week of. Of returns, right? We had Chuba Hubbard return, and they both kind of look like losers. You could argue, right? Nobody stood out in that backfield. Doddle was a little bit better, but Hubbard played more. We had Xavier, we had Rasheed Rice return, and Rice is back to being the man. It looks like we did have CD Lamb return and that was fine. I mean it wasn't. I don't think anybody thought Pickens was going to get, you know, double digit targets. But that was still good for Lamb and Ferguson and Pickens had a solid game. So at least we had that. If you, you can talk about that if you want or you can talk about the Las Vegas Raiders who are a collective loser for you.

[Jamie]

Just terrible. I mean, absolutely terrible. There's a buy low window on Genty because they're on a buy. So if you can get him cheap, you should try to explore that because he'll still have some good moments moving forward. And I still think, as we've said for the last couple of weeks, buy low on Brock Bowers. So with the hope that he comes back. But like Geno Smith has been terrible since the Bears game and continues to look worse. You know, you wonder what they're going to do during their bye week. From a quarterback perspective. The offensive line continues to struggle. I do think that, you know, you want to talk about a waiver wire guy like Jack Besh is somebody that I have some interest in in deeper leagues because we may not see Jacoby Myers play for the Raiders again if they decide to trade him. This is that perfect opportunity, you know, going into their bye week. So he, what is the one I would think would benefit the most, you know, Trey Tucker and maybe Deontay Thornton get boosts if there's no Myers there. But I think just Bash playing more is a guy that they had, you know, a lot of high hopes for coming out of the NFL draft. But really it's just at this point like Genti will be, I would think when everybody's off bye weeks and, and you get some guys coming back from injury more of an RB2 than an RB1. Bowers will still be a must start tight end, but will he ever be back to what we thought he was going to be? You know, who knows at what point he'll get 100 healthy. But really it's more about Gino and, and just this offense being as inept as it looked like they went definitely one series, it felt like maybe the entire game it was just screen, screen, screen, screen, screen. Like there was no challenging down the field at all. And that's just awful to watch. Like their offense just looks lost.

[Heath]

It was one of the most like ridiculous performances I've ever seen. They ran 30 offensive plays.

[Dave]

30? Yeah.

[Heath]

The Chiefs had 30 first downs. No.

[Jamie]

Oh my God.

[Heath]

I believe that is correct. That's 31st down, 30 first downs for the Chiefs 30 offensive plays for the.

[Dave]

Raiders that beats my stat from that game which was the Raiders didn't run a play closer to the end zone than the Chiefs 46 yard line oh.

[Adam]

Yeah, that's a great stat normally but today that is a garbage stat.

[Heath]

He's their time of position I did, I did destroy you in that they had 17 minutes and 52 seconds of.

[Adam]

Time of possession yeah 30 plays is unbelievable. What's league average like in the low 60s?

[Heath]

Yeah, yeah right around 60 most years.

[Adam]

Yeah yeah they played a half 31st.

[Dave]

Cents looking right at it on the, on the NFL game feed Incredible.

[Adam]

All right so we, we have some, we have some games to get dude before we do that let's take a look at the almost touchdown so close. Justin Jefferson had an almost touchdown and then two plays later Jalen Naylor had a touchdown called back Romeo Dobbs was open would have been about a 45ish yard touchdown slightly overthrown Bo Nicks could have had an even better game well probably not because when I had that frantic comeback effort but he missed a wide open Garrett Bowles their left tackle in the end zone so if you.

[Jamie]

Started Garrett Bowles stupid, stupid, stupid play call he was wide open okay And Bonix got crushed on the play because his offensive lineman was out running routes he couldn't throw it to him. The guy's got a brace on his arm I mean like what are you trying to do here? You're down 13, nothing that's a play you're on when you're up 13 points.

[Adam]

Yeah well they had him right where they wanted them and it worked out great lab McConkey was. No, I mean they had the Giants right where they wanted him Lamb account he was wide Open actually had two almost touchdowns in this game and he.

[Heath]

Still scored 15 fantasy points didn't he?

[Adam]

That sounds about right. And then I didn't really notice anything too major at the goal line. Kyle Manangai got a goal line touchdown it kind of followed up his own almost touchdown. He got stopped at the one they let him score. That's pretty much it wasn't a eventful day at the goal line so let's take a break because it was an eventful day around the NFL and we'll recap all the games beginning with the London game with The Rams statement 35:7 over Jacksonville. We'll talk about it after this.

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[Adam]

All right, we're back. Rams 35, Jaguars 7. Heath. Let's do it.

[Heath]

Kyron Williams has a Blake Corum problem.

[Dave]

Don't quite believe it.

[Jamie]

Don't believe it.

[Heath]

They had the same. Same number of rush attempts in this game.

[Dave]

They did. But in the first three quarters, Kyron played two thirds of the snaps. Six of seven on third down, four or five inside the five if you'd like. I'll tell you how many fourth quarter carries Corum had because how about all.

[Jamie]

Those great replacement options for the Rams passing him?

[Dave]

Yeah, half of Quorum's runs came in the fourth quarter.

[Adam]

I think two two. Outlow ran seven or eight routes. Gosh, what a horrible call I made. I thought I loved 22 Outlook.

[Dave]

Me too.

[Heath]

Yeah, I told you Jordan Whittington would be better, you idiot. That's 2.9 fantasy points I got.

[Adam]

Oh, man. And he threw five touchdowns and like none of them were good. Devonte had, well, three.

[Dave]

Yeah, Devonte kind of came through. Stafford really played a great game too. In the first half, he. He was the definition of taking what the Jaguars would give him. He had a lot of check downs. And speaking of almost touchdowns, Colby Parkinson had an almost touchdown on a screen that ended up with devonte scoring from a yard out. But it was really Stafford not really getting pressured that much. And then when he was pressured, he was just finding an open guy underneath. It was easy for him.

[Adam]

All right, to the Jaguars. Who. Who are you guys more worried about? Travis etn. I believe he said three bad games in a row. Or is that right? Travis etn. Yes. What's that?

[Jamie]

It's definitely two bad games in a row.

[Adam]

Yeah, it's three games in a row with single digit PPR fantasy points. Yikes. That's against Kansas City, Seattle, and now the Rams. It's a tough slate. Yeah. ETN or Brian Thomas Jr. Who followed up his great game with three 33 catches, 31 yards on seven targets. Who you Jamie more concerned about?

[Jamie]

More concerned about etn, I think. And there's definitely a buy low window here. So take advantage of it with him on his buy and coming off these three bad games because I still think there's a lot of potential there. But I think in the case of Brian Thomas Jr. Despite the fact that Travis Hunter is. Is getting or at least got going in in this game, they need him to be special. And I hope that that's what comes out of their bye week is what we saw the two games prior to this is Brian Thomas being more like Brian Thomas, at least the guy that we thought he can be. So they just can't run the ball right now. Like this is a team that's really struggling to get going and I think based on their defense, like we could see them in a few more shootouts. So I'm a little bit more concerned about ETN and getting back to the level he was at. I was more encouraged by Brian Thomas coming this game. This is just bad game overall for, for the Jaguars. They just look lost and their offensive line for two weeks in a row really look bad.

[Adam]

So who would you rather have rest of season? Slightly different question. I said who are you more worried about? But all three of you will go. Jamie, Dave, Heath, who would you rather have rest of season? ETN or Brian Thomas Jr. Thomas.

[Dave]

Agreed.

[Adam]

Interesting. Okay, next game. New England 31, Tennessee. A lot of crappy games today. My goodness.

[Jamie]

Was as awful as I've ever seen today. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

[Adam]

Brutal. All right, what do we got for New England and Tennessee?

[Heath]

At least the Broncos and Giants game was good. You should just drop any Titans you're rostering and save yourself the heartache.

[Adam]

Bro. I am thinking about dropping Cam Ward in a super flex league. Oh, it's like what's the point?

[Heath]

I mean, that was so exciting when he threw that touchdown, wasn't it?

[Dave]

Yes.

[Adam]

Yeah, exciting. Except I'm starting shimmery DK in the, in the league I'm tanking in. Don't worry, I still lost. But. All right, so that's a good one.

[Dave]

That's.

[Heath]

That's like the Giants, right? Yeah, we get to call out a Giants. If you, if somebody does really good on your team when you're tanking but then you still pull out the loss at the end.

[Adam]

Yeah, sure.

[Jamie]

It was pretty pathetic for them is Will Levis was playing better than. Than Cam Waters right now.

[Adam]

I don't know. It's a pretty good fumble.

[Jamie]

I mean statistically he was.

[Adam]

Well, it's a good question though. Would you drop every Titan that you have?

[Dave]

I think you've got to hang on to Pollard. Just position scarcity. The fact that he can at least give you double digit PPR points. He did that today. But otherwise, yeah, kind of. Spears maybe is a bench guy, but what's he really going to do for you during the bye weeks? We've talked about him every week as someone that you can add and stash and what we've gotten out of him so far has been like belly button lint.

[Adam]

Would you rather.

[Dave]

I don't think you can trust the receivers. 16 PPR points for Spears in his last two games combined. So maybe better than belly button lint. I apologize for that. But it's still rough offense, tough to watch, and there. There isn't anybody that's got a ton of upside.

[Adam]

Would you rather have Brian Thomas Jr. Or Stefan dig? So it's seven catches on oh in a Pokemon game. Seven for seven, seven for 69 on seven targets for Stefan Diggs. Diggs or Brian. No, I didn't mean Brian Thomas, jr.

[Jamie]

Sorry.

[Adam]

Diggs or Travis Hunter? Rest of season digs.

[Dave]

I'll lean. Diggs. Yeah.

[Heath]

I'd go Thomas, Diggs. Hunter.

[Dave]

Okay.

[Adam]

Let's go to our next game. Let's see we have another crappy one on the schedule. Yeah.

[Jamie]

Really though, Heath, What'd you say? Does he really dig Hunter?

[Adam]

Oh, I see. Dan would be like. See, I don't get it. That's a dad joke. Is that supposed to be funny?

[Jamie]

Is that.

[Adam]

That's funny.

[Jamie]

That's.

[Adam]

That makes it Cleveland 30.

[Dave]

You can drop Hunter Henry for a ronde Gadsden.

[Jamie]

There we go.

[Dave]

Are we done with Hunter Henry? Are we done with.

[Jamie]

To be fair. To be fair. Three straight road games. He is not bigging on the road. That goes back home next week against Titans.

[Heath]

I. I'll promise you if you drop him for a run against and he's gonna score 18 fantasy points.

[Jamie]

Yeah. He gets Cleveland.

[Heath]

I promise you.

[Adam]

Let's just take a look at the most drop tight end every week and rank them in the top 12.

[Heath]

Perfect.

[Adam]

All right. Cleveland 31 and Miami 6.

[Heath]

Oh, the Dolphins. Let's be positive. Believe it or not, Quinshawn Judkins is a top five running back rest of season.

[Dave]

I don't believe that.

[Adam]

I don't believe that. Too far. You went too far.

[Heath]

Where do you think he ranks in points per game for the season?

[Adam]

Six.

[Heath]

I don't know.

[Jamie]

Eight.

[Dave]

I do know. Do you want to know?

[Adam]

Yes.

[Heath]

Of 14.

[Dave]

Correct.

[Adam]

So Barkley or Judkins rest of season.

[Heath]

Judkins.

[Jamie]

Judkins.

[Dave]

Wow, man.

[Heath]

You want to know where Saquon Barkley ranks?

[Adam]

No. All right. I don't need that nausea. What do you. So I guess it's worth noting that the. The two bad weather games and Caleb had a horrible game. There was no passing in this game. Rattler threw three picks but actually did have some decent throws.

[Heath]

Two or three? Three picks.

[Jamie]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Oh man. And to have fumbled three times and didn't lose any of them.

[Heath]

Did anyone throw a passing touchdown in either game?

[Adam]

Yeah, Rattlers are one.

[Jamie]

Oh, no.

[Adam]

Either.

[Heath]

Judo. Love it.

[Adam]

Yeah, but we poo poo the weather. I don't know that that was the factor, but I do think it's just worth noting that the passing was really bad in those games. But what do you make of this Waddle game? Are you going to go right back to him? He had one catch for 15 yards. Next week they have Atlanta, which is tough.

[Jamie]

We gotta see the coaches. I Mike McDaniel survives this, I'd be shocked.

[Heath]

I Regardless, there's six teams on a buy and 18 wide receivers are hurt. If Jalen Waddle is playing football in a dome, I'm going to start him.

[Dave]

Yeah, I'm a hundred percent going back to Waddle next week. Maybe not if they bench to it, but I don't think that's in the cards.

[Adam]

Kansas City 31.

[Jamie]

Lethal.

[Adam]

Cards would have been. I would have been so good if the Cardinals game was next, but it's not Next. Kansas City 31, Las Vegas 0 Hear that?

[Jamie]

So he's not, he's not.

[Dave]

No, he didn't hear that, but I did.

[Adam]

What? What did you say?

[Dave]

No, no, it's, you'll hear it on the play.

[Jamie]

I made the same joke you did. I just used the college version.

[Adam]

No, that's why I, I was piggybacking off of your joke.

[Jamie]

Oh, okay.

[Adam]

Yeah, yeah, I, I, I felt that.

[Jamie]

All right.

[Adam]

Chiefs 31, Raiders nothing.

[Heath]

I'm gonna try to muster the same enthusiasm. Isaiah Pacheco is back. Isn't that how you said it about the Eagles?

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Dave]

I want to know if Adam believes it.

[Adam]

No, if Kareem Hunt is hurt, then I would think he's a starter. But short of that, again, six teams on a buy.

[Jamie]

He's playing Washington next week. They're going to dominate time of possession if Marcus Mario is the quarterback and that receiving core looks the way it does again, like he's going to be in the borderline number two running back range.

[Adam]

Yeah, but that doesn't make him back.

[Heath]

Well, I mean he spent a about five minutes as definitively more than that.

[Adam]

Oh really? You mean the entire 2023 season when he was good? When he was like a top 16 running back or something and a second round pick the following year? No, he's not back to that. No, seriously, he just doesn't have a good enough role. He doesn't play third Down. He doesn't play short yardage. So corrects Kareem Hunt. If Kareem Hunt's hurt, then he's. Then I think we're all going to be. If Cream Hunt does not play, I assume it would be a big impact on Isaiah Pacheco's ranking.

[Jamie]

Right.

[Heath]

They continue to try to get Richard Smith. He's not showing very well running between the tackles yet. But that they. They are trying to push that envelope. They want that, but not.

[Dave]

Pacheco played 62% of the snaps with Mahomes today. I don't know if he's had a game. He's had one game this year. Two games this year where he's had over 62% of the snaps.

[Adam]

It's his two most recent games, right?

[Dave]

It is. So maybe there is a little bit of light at the end of this tunnel, but it's really hard when Kareem Hunt's there. And even today in the snaps with Mahomes, Hunt bogarted on third down and inside the five.

[Adam]

Would you guys rather have Quinton Judkins or Rasheed Rice rest of season?

[Dave]

Bryce, what's the format?

[Adam]

Half ppr.

[Dave]

Probably Rice. If it's non ppr, you might talk me into Judkins, but it. I'd have to think about that.

[Adam]

Do you think Rice is a top 10 receiver going forward?

[Dave]

Yes. Yeah, he was. He was ranked that way for me going into the week.

[Jamie]

All right.

[Adam]

Philadelphia 28, Minnesota 22.

[Heath]

You should drop Dallas gutter for a ronde Gadsden.

[Dave]

You picked the wrong tight end to do that with.

[Adam]

I think. I don't know how much you care about this, but the last time he faced the giants, he had nine catches, 110 yards at a touchdown.

[Jamie]

So you had the Hawkinson almost touchdown, right?

[Adam]

Oh, that's right. Hawkinson did have a touchdown overturned.

[Dave]

Yeah, he. Yeah, and he had nine targets, too.

[Heath]

I've decided I'm just going to trail Dave and whatever tight end he drops for Rwanda gets. And I'm start. I'm picking him up and I'm starting him next week. I don't care who it is.

[Jamie]

Hunter Long, baby. Here you go.

[Heath]

Yeah, I don't think Dave's got him on any rosters.

[Jamie]

I started him today. I would love around the Gaston.

[Dave]

I want to know what league you started.

[Jamie]

Hunter Burger Dynasty League.

[Dave]

Are you tanking? No, he's probably.

[Adam]

No, he's good.

[Heath]

Yeah, He's. Well, he was 500.

[Adam]

He. He has Tua on his team and he has the consecutive letters. T u A in his team name. No, no, no.

[Jamie]

He has.

[Adam]

He has to attack it by lower his tag in his team name because I always search for tag and if I gotta go by is Jamie's team name. It has tag in there. It's very.

[Jamie]

I will say I got to 500 with and getting him back is a nice gift. I may be Thomas's week. I don't know if it's gonna happen but we're close.

[Adam]

Look at that.

[Jamie]

All right. If I can only be Dan, maybe he'll.

[Heath]

Dominant Dan some. Some. I think he is having a close match this week and if I might just change. Change my team name to dominant Dan lost if he loses.

[Jamie]

Adam. Adam. Earmuffs. Ear muffs. Earmuffs. Take off your heath. I'm gonna.

[Heath]

He's not. He's still listening.

[Jamie]

I'm gonna give Tim all of my good players the week that he plays Dan so he could beat Dan.

[Heath]

There you go. I like it.

[Jamie]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Am I good now?

[Dave]

Should we just tell Adam to not put his headphones back on?

[Adam]

All right, let's get. Let's move on here. We caught talked about Jordan Addison. I don't know if there's anything you guys want to say about Jordan Mason. He didn't have a catch, but he did. Let's talk about Jordan Mason. Aaron Jones should be back pretty soon. How are we feeling about Mason, Dave? Rest of season I don't love him.

[Dave]

I think he does make the cut as a top 24 running back by default, especially if it's non PPR. But I don't know if he's done enough to distance himself from Aaron Jones when Jones is back.

[Jamie]

But wasn't that the case when they were playing together that he was the lead runner?

[Dave]

He was the lead runner, but I don't know if that means that he's going to get. What did he have today? Had 15 carries. Did he even have three catches today?

[Adam]

He had zero.

[Dave]

Okay, so 15 touches for Jordan Mason when Aaron Jones comes back seems like close to the max that he would get. Unless it's a game that Minnesota just builds a huge lead in.

[Jamie]

High end flex, I think.

[Adam]

Would you rather have Jordan Mason or a Panthers running back rest of season?

[Jamie]

That's a great Rico because I think. I think it's a similar situation. You're talking about two shared. Two tandems.

[Adam]

Would you rather have AJ Brown or Cortland Sutton? Because AJ Brown had a great game, but he only had six targets. He's had eight or more targets, I think in four straight games before this. So it just went to devonte Smith today. I don't want to be discouraged on AJ Brown, but he's had a tough season. I don't know if you'd consider selling him after this. So we'll start with that Sutton question. Sutton or A.J. brown?

[Dave]

I think it's really close. I'd lean Sutton.

[Jamie]

I lead Sutton also.

[Heath]

I'm gonna say A.J. brown.

[Jamie]

Okay.

[Heath]

The Eagles are back.

[Adam]

Hope so.

[Dave]

I mean, Hertz deserves credit. He threw the ball really well today. It's.

[Heath]

He's a very good quarterback.

[Adam]

All right. Chicago 26, New Orleans 14.

[Dave]

He was today.

[Heath]

Oh, Dave.

[Jamie]

Yeah.

[Heath]

Oh, I want to fight you so bad. You should drop a Ron's Day. Gadsden, Alvin Camara.

[Dave]

I know.

[Heath]

Believe it or not. Chris Olave.

[Adam]

Well, it worked though.

[Heath]

Maybe Chris Olave is better than any Bears wide receiver rest season.

[Dave]

I don't believe it. I still believe in Odunse.

[Adam]

That's a good one, though.

[Dave]

It was a good one.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Dave]

This was the Heath Dave Bet bowl because we had Swift versus Camara. Oh, I'm dead in the water. And so is the Saints run defense because the Bears absolutely crushed them on the ground. I. I don't know if I can remember the last time the Bears were this dominant on the ground. Last week, this dominant 200 plus rushing yards.

[Adam]

No, because Swift's big play was in the passing game last week. Not that he was bad as a rusher, but.

[Jamie]

Yeah.

[Dave]

No, no, he had over 100 yards. Heath. Right. Last week. Swift?

[Heath]

I think so.

[Dave]

Yeah. He's putting it together. The offensive lines starting to do better. As far as run blocking goes, there's still some times where they can't get the snap right, which has got to be frustrating for Ben Johnson. But Saints came into this game with a really good run defense over their last three or four games and the Bears just stopped them. It was impressed. Manangai looked great. It's the best he's looked. They've got a one two punch here, but Swift is like the clear one. And if you've got him, you should feel great about having him. He's having a terrific year. He is on pace. What?

[Jamie]

What.

[Adam]

Where.

[Dave]

Where does he rank? Heath?

[Heath]

He is currently RB11.

[Dave]

Look at that. He's ahead of Saquon Barkley. We could have done Barkley versus Swift and I would have lost. He deserves credit, man. You do too, Heath. It's a great.

[Jamie]

I think in. In just to Heath's point or, or believe it or not, if they are running the ball this well, this could clearly hurt Odunze in the passing game.

[Adam]

Right.

[Dave]

Hurt Caleb.

[Jamie]

They're going to be chasing points every week, so Olave may be better.

[Adam]

I know.

[Heath]

And they are. They are back to back for the season. Adunze has wide receiver 17. Chris Olave is wide receiver 18.

[Dave]

Where were they coming into the week, though?

[Jamie]

Well.

[Heath]

Right, but.

[Jamie]

Right.

[Dave]

It's huge. I know. I know this week happened, but I don't think Olave is going to be. He's. He's already been very good for ppr. I don't know.

[Jamie]

Very.

[Adam]

No, he hasn't.

[Dave]

He's been good for people.

[Heath]

He's averaged 14.9 PPR fantasy points per game.

[Adam]

Yeah, now, but before. I meant before this week, he was not that good.

[Jamie]

The targets have been consistent. That's. That's nice.

[Dave]

Yes. That's huge.

[Jamie]

You have to wonder, do they make a quarterback switch at some point just because that could come and then does that help him or does that hurt him? I would think it hurts him. So you have to factor that in, I guess.

[Adam]

I mean, based on merit, you wonder.

[Jamie]

You wonder if he's traded, too.

[Dave]

Oh, that's a good call.

[Adam]

All right, welcome back.

[Dave]

Olave came into the week averaging 12.9 ppr points per game, and Odunze was at 16. He was at 17 ppr.

[Adam]

Jeez. The gap closed that much after this game.

[Dave]

Man, two touchdowns and 98 yards versus nothing. Almost for Odunse. Of course it's going to close.

[Adam]

Well, I get it, but that's a lot of points. I think it's. One thing that's good is that I mentioned a few weeks ago that the. The Saints were so bad with explosive plays in the passing game, they just were getting nothing. Well, last three weeks, you had the long shaheed touchdown against the Giants, yet Olave first play of the game against the Patriots with a big play. Yet Olave with at least one. I think two big plays today. So they're starting to hit on some big plays. It's making a big difference and hopefully it can last. You like Odunze better than Olave. Who would you rather have rest of season, Odunze or DeAndre Swift?

[Jamie]

I'll take Swift.

[Dave]

Maybe Swift. Like, that's how impressed I've been with their. Their run game now, two straight weeks.

[Jamie]

All right.

[Adam]

Carolina 13, jets 3, 6, jet 6. I mean, really say something about the Panthers running backs.

[Heath]

The Panthers don't. I don't know. Literally no idea.

[Jamie]

Okay.

[Adam]

Buy or sell? Rico Dowdle and Chuba Hubbard are not. Believe it or not, oh, my bad. True or false. Rico Doddle and Chuba Hubbard are not top 24 running backs rest of season.

[Jamie]

Each or together like.

[Adam]

No, each. Neither one of them is a top 24. Run it or not.

[Jamie]

Oh, I think that'll. Camby.

[Adam]

It's a soft answer.

[Heath]

No. If I get either, then I'll take. I'll say one of them will be.

[Jamie]

Okay.

[Adam]

But how do you compare that? Are they a better version of Pollard and Swift?

[Jamie]

Yes.

[Heath]

Pollard and Swift.

[Adam]

No. But. But they're. It's an even.

[Dave]

No. I don't think they're better than Swift.

[Adam]

Swift Spears. My bad.

[Jamie]

I know.

[Heath]

Yeah, they are a better version.

[Adam]

They're obviously better. But. But is that the kind of backfield you're seeing? No. Pretty even split? Yes.

[Dave]

I wonder if they take a look at the film and see that chuba, who averaged 2.2 yards per carry, just isn't giving them what they want right now. They know that he's coming back from the calf injury. Dowdle ran hot the two weeks prior, but they gave Chuba more work. They gave him more of the high value touches. He played way more on third down. Both of their snaps inside the 10. I don't know what they're thinking by. By putting so much more on Chuba's plate, even though, like, yes, doubt will have more carries, but the snaps went Chuba's way.

[Jamie]

They've.

[Dave]

If, if this happens again, they're going to make a shift toward Dowdle and I almost think they have to do it. Like, I don't know what more he has to prove.

[Jamie]

Yeah. It's also, they, you know, he's coming off an extended absence with a calf injury and, you know, he may be better.

[Heath]

Listeners are going to respond to that interjection there.

[Jamie]

Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Interesting. I. I mean, I. I'm gonna guess most people are going to prefer Daddle. They're going to start Daddle and I would still want to roster Chuba because.

[Adam]

It was so loud.

[Jamie]

He.

[Heath]

It was. It was very loud.

[Adam]

I didn't realize.

[Dave]

Not only that, do you know how many people started Rico Dowdle this week expecting him to go off again? And then. And then on the show, wrapping up the week we're talking about, we're trying to, like, feel our way through this dumb backfield and you're going to break down a rock ballad of Happy birthday.

[Jamie]

Wait.

[Adam]

If you think. Dave, I'm sorry, since you're going to insult me, I'm going to throw it right back at you.

[Heath]

There we go. If you.

[Adam]

By all Means if you started Rico Dowdle thinking he was going to go off this week, you were insane. You should not have thought that. You should not have ranked it that way. We knew Chuba Hubbard was going to have a role. This was not a surprising outfit.

[Dave]

He was going to be this big of a role.

[Adam]

I didn't know what it was going to be, but I certainly didn't think Rico D was going to go off this week. I wanted to get him out. I was hoping I could bench him for Emmanuel Wilson.

[Heath]

I was just hoping Adam was going to go off this week.

[Dave]

Different version of Adam we've seen on show.

[Heath]

You shouldn't have thought Adam.

[Dave]

You just insulted 85 of our.

[Adam]

No, there's no way people thought he was gonna go off the.

[Jamie]

I'm not saying starting him.

[Dave]

It was 85.

[Adam]

Okay, thank you. Jamie, please, voice of reason.

[Jamie]

Starting him and expecting him to quote, unquote, go off.

[Adam]

Where'd you have him ranked, Dave?

[Jamie]

That's fine.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Jamie]

Okay.

[Adam]

I think you poor word choice.

[Dave]

It was a little bit of an exaggeration, but everybody started him with expectations that he'd be a number two running back. I had him ranked as a number two running back.

[Jamie]

It wasn't that bad.

[Dave]

This was a surprise and it was disappoint.

[Adam]

He wasn't that bad. I mean, he had a solid game.

[Jamie]

He just didn't score.

[Adam]

Yeah, he was okay. All right, let's move on to.

[Jamie]

Oh, like this.

[Adam]

Stand up. Let's move on.

[Jamie]

If you're gonna do this, I'm gonna do this.

[Adam]

By the way, we're not real quick. We don't care about Xavier league. It's big game, do we?

[Jamie]

No. Okay.

[Dave]

Number two. I'm happy for him.

[Adam]

Against the Jets.

[Jamie]

Should we talk about number two receiver Bump? I thought it would be Jalen Coker. Unfortunately, it was legit.

[Heath]

Yeah, like if. If you picked up. Believe it or not, if you picked up Jalen Coker or had him stashed, you should drop him and pick up Xavier legged instead.

[Jamie]

You. Oh, you missed such a good joke opportunity.

[Dave]

You should have said around the Gatston. And you know what? I might.

[Jamie]

That I would be on board with you.

[Dave]

I think Coker's plenty droppable.

[Jamie]

Oh, yeah? Yeah, yeah. Well, especially if. If it's Andy Dalton.

[Dave]

Are you panicking if you have Ted or McMillan.

[Jamie]

Oh, no, I expected this. I did not expect him to go off. I thought he was going to stink and he did.

[Adam]

It's. He's sauce is pretty good.

[Jamie]

Okay.

[Adam]

He's got a concussion he didn't play. I think he missed basically the entire fourth quarter at that point they had the lead. They barely threw the ball. So McMillan didn't really have a chance. And then Dalton came in and we can talk about that on Tuesday. Dallas 44. We get to the late window here. Dallas 44, Washington 22. Heath, what do you got?

[Heath]

George Pickens did just enough that you can still sell high.

[Dave]

Nope, don't believe it.

[Adam]

In what respect? Don't sell high on him.

[Dave]

No, I don't think you can sell high on him.

[Heath]

Send along a highlight package of the catches he made because if you got extra fantasy points for style, George Pickens would have had a fantastic day.

[Adam]

He had a 20 target share. That's higher than either of the first two games. Only 30 pass attempts for Dak, which is unusual. Six catches. No, I'm sorry, how many Cat, six targets, four catches, 82 yards on six targets for Pickens. So are we encouraged or discouraged?

[Jamie]

I think he's going to be a number two receiver rest of season.

[Heath]

I think he's, I think he's going to be a, probably a boom bust number three. Probably gonna be a number two this week.

[Adam]

Well, I mean, if you're talking that way about Pickens, how do you feel about Jake Ferguson? He had seven targets, caught all of them Pokemon, 29 yards, two touchdowns for Jake Ferguson.

[Heath]

I would not drop him for a run to guess.

[Adam]

Valid you put it, you guys did put him in the set of it and forget it category.

[Jamie]

So of course he is. I, I, I wonder just based on the question you asked earlier and the response about, you know, there was all the receivers on a buy, etc, who would you rather have rest of season? Heath, Jalen Waddle or George Pickens?

[Heath]

There's another good one. I'd probably still take Waddle.

[Jamie]

I think I would too. But like there's going to be so much more volume with a better quarterback and a guy who's been much more productive in his role or not much more productive. Excuse me, because roles have changed for both of them. I think I'd rather have the guy attached to Dak Prescott right now.

[Adam]

All right, so last question in this game. Bill, not so good. Disappointing. Jacquary Crosby. Merit. Dave, how are we feeling about him?

[Jamie]

Awful.

[Dave]

I'm not sure how, how confident I would be to start him when he's had two very good matchups on paper each of the last two weeks and he's been miserable.

[Adam]

Yeah, Pickens are, I don't know.

[Dave]

I don't know. Else I Can really add to that. He's got Kansas City next week. That's going to be very difficult. I, I don't see how you start him unless you're just like Plum out of running backs.

[Adam]

Just rest of season. Pickens or Bill, what do you think?

[Dave]

I'm ready to go. Pickens.

[Jamie]

Pickets. All right.

[Dave]

Could you make the case for Cross Gamer? It is a buy low.

[Adam]

Yes.

[Dave]

Because I'm sure the way I feel is the way that everybody who has him feels.

[Adam]

I just think you have to recognize that he's probably not going to catch. I mean, maybe two catches a game. You know, he's going to be one of those running backs. So that's a problem. It works for Quinn. Sean Judkins, it's not working for him. But maybe if they actually, maybe they actually had McLaurin and Debo and Jaden Daniels healthy, that would be good for him. You know, they would just have a great offense.

[Heath]

I, I take it back. I don't think I can make the case for currently buying low on Bill because I think you're Multiple opportunities in the next three weeks.

[Adam]

Okay. Colts 38, Chargers 24.

[Dave]

And said with such like a, like a macabre voice, you know.

[Heath]

We did Daniel Jones.

[Jamie]

Oh.

[Heath]

Believe it or not, Quentin Johnston is back.

[Jamie]

Oh, come on.

[Heath]

Multiple. I think he had multiple drops. They may not have called him. Drops on six targets. Fourth on the team in targets.

[Jamie]

Yeah, he, he's not in an almost touchdown category, but Justin Herbert's first interception was such a bad throw in the end behind Quinn Johnston. Like he might have dropped it, but could have given a better opportunity. But you, how do you miss the Rhonda Gasson joke?

[Adam]

Yeah, I know. How did you not do it over on the Gats that year?

[Heath]

You can't overplay it. You guys are ruining it. You just let it sit, let somebody just almost forget about it and then boom.

[Adam]

I, I look, I obviously have a lot of Quinton Johnson and the thought has certainly occurred to me that I just made a huge mistake by not selling him. But, you know, I don't know that people were really going to buy into it. So whatever we can get, I'm still going to start him. You know, he had caught a touchdown. He gets a lot of end zone targets. I'm still going to start Quentin Johnson.

[Heath]

But I'm Keenan Allen or Quentin Johnston. Rest of season.

[Adam]

Quentin Johnson.

[Dave]

But it, it got a lot closer.

[Adam]

Does anybody think skiing and Allen.

[Jamie]

I'll take out.

[Heath]

Yeah, I'd probably take Ellen.

[Adam]

Let's take A second to talk about Jonathan Taylor. I believe he has four games this year with 29 or more fantasy points. It's unbelievable what he is doing. Is there anything to say about Jonathan Taylor?

[Heath]

I would take him quite Edward to layer over him.

[Adam]

I mean, he just deserves.

[Dave]

He.

[Adam]

We just take him for granted. And he wasn't a first round pick and, you know, there were reasons to be a little fearful of him. Everything has gone so much better for this offense than we ever could have anticipated. But this guy is arguably the MVP of fantasy right now. Amazing.

[Jamie]

They have the best offensive line in the NFL.

[Dave]

It's up there for sure.

[Jamie]

Yeah.

[Dave]

But part of it is because it's the healthiest.

[Heath]

So the. The perfect start to a draft was McCaffrey, Taylor, JSN.

[Jamie]

It's pretty good. Yeah.

[Dave]

I mean, I would have liked to have had Pukinakua.

[Adam]

Yeah. But you either had to take that out a week. No, I think it would have been.

[Jamie]

Yeah.

[Adam]

You would have to either take Puka or Taylor.

[Jamie]

Yeah.

[Dave]

Could I have Puka and Taylor as my reach for one, grab the other?

[Heath]

Puka over McCaffrey.

[Jamie]

I would take Bijan over both.

[Dave]

I would take Bijan over. Oh, yeah.

[Heath]

But he was at one and the back end. I guess maybe Taylor was going to be there.

[Adam]

McCaffrey's obviously playing right now going into this game. Week seven, six straight games with, I want to say, 22 or more PPR fantasy points. He had never done that in his career.

[Dave]

It's true.

[Adam]

All right, Green Bay 26. Weird game here. Green Bay 27, Arizona 23.

[Heath]

Yeah, it was. It was a really like one of three, like, close competitive games and it was just gross to watch.

[Jamie]

Yeah.

[Heath]

Believe it or not, you should try to hold on to Bam night through the body.

[Jamie]

Don't believe it.

[Adam]

I will.

[Dave]

He's droppable, but he's. I would try to hang on.

[Adam]

Let me check one thing real quick. All right, so week eight, he's out with the buy. Let's see.

[Dave]

At Dallas, week nine.

[Adam]

Yeah. So that's good. But who's on by week nine?

[Jamie]

Cleveland.

[Dave]

Four teams. It's Cleveland, it's the jets, it's the Eagles, it's the Bucks.

[Adam]

So we got four. Must start running backs there.

[Jamie]

Right.

[Adam]

So I think it's a case to be made at least for keeping Bam Knight, Marvin Harrison Jr. Still roll him out there or what? This was two catches for 58 yards on six targets from Jacoby Brissette.

[Heath]

If you sit him, he's going to score 25 points.

[Adam]

It's frustrating, but.

[Jamie]

All right.

[Adam]

And then Romeo Dobbs. So do you. I think that, like, the savvy fantasy manager is not going to buy Romeo Dobbs because they expect Jane Reed back soon. Christian Watson, whatever. But would you guys try to sell Romeo Dobbs? Do you think he is a sell high? If anyone's buying, sure.

[Dave]

But I don't know if anyone's buying.

[Heath]

I think he's a wide receiver three.

[Dave]

He's in that mix for sure.

[Jamie]

Plus targets. Right. So you keep saying Jane Reed. I mean, I don't know when Jaden's coming back. Christian Watson could return soon, and Jaden.

[Heath]

Reed's pretty much never earned as many targets as Romeo Dobbs.

[Jamie]

No, but it'll impact his targets, right? I mean, you know, Dobbs wasn't doing this when Reed was healthy at the start of season. I, I do think that there's, like, if I'm making a trade and this goes both ways, whether I'm selling or buying, like, Dobbs is a perfect, like, trade chip to put into each side of the deal because, like, you're getting somebody that. I agree with you. He's a wide receiver three. But this is. This is a pretty good floor because the targets that he's getting right now. Jordan Love is not playing very well.

[Dave]

All right, well, is Matthew golden in the same boat as Travion Henderson?

[Jamie]

No.

[Heath]

No. I. I feel much better about Matthew golden than I travel on Henderson.

[Jamie]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Heath]

But I'm not dropping either one.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Dave]

Well, I don't think I am either.

[Adam]

I want to thank everybody for watching and listening. This was an excellent show.

[Dave]

And did we get to every game?

[Jamie]

We did.

[Adam]

Every game. There was not a single game that we missed.

[Heath]

We missed the game of the week.

[Jamie]

We did.

[Heath]

Here come the Giants.

[Adam]

Stupid Giants. I was going to write a poem for them.

[Jamie]

Oh.

[Adam]

But now it was going to be like, G is for G. I can't believe how bad you are. I is for. I can't believe how bad you are. I was, but I decided not to do it. Just the G and the.

[Jamie]

I guess, I mean, but you're. You're 30% of the way there. So why don't you just continue?

[Adam]

Yeah, I don't know. I don't really have anything else. Good.

[Heath]

They have two awesome, awesome fantasy football players. They do. And Wondale's pretty good. Look, Jackson, I'm really, honestly, like, you want to know how I really feel about it? They would have been lucky to win that game. They had so many dumb things go their way. It was a completely Bogus pass interference call in the Broncos that gave them the last touchdown, the touchdown before they. Before that one. Dale Robinson bobbled it into the air and somebody else caught it and ran for 40. It was a complete. Yeah, the complete fluke. I mean, they didn't deserve to be in that game.

[Adam]

They were winning 13 nothing at halftime. They dominated for three quarters. I agree. They were.

[Heath]

Bonick slept walk for like 45 minutes and he's like, oh, yeah, we should.

[Jamie]

Probably win, but, oh, it's the Giants. We can't do this.

[Adam]

I mean, look, Jackson Dart. I did not take Jackson Dart seriously as a 1 QB league fantasy option. He just scored 34 points at the Denver Broncos. 2. Two quarterbacks were better than that last year against Denver. Jameis Winston and Joe Burrow. Nobody's come even close to that this year.

[Jamie]

So without rushing.

[Dave]

Right, right, right.

[Jamie]

Yeah.

[Heath]

I think Drake May, Daniel Jones, Jackson Dart. Those are your top three quarterbacks rest of season.

[Adam]

But Jackson Dart's like 67 rostered. Is he a must have guy?

[Dave]

Must have, yes. Must start kind of sorta. I mean, how do you.

[Jamie]

19 or more fantasy points than all of his starts so far. Like, and. And he gives you what we like, which is the rushing potential, you know, so Prior to this, three straight games with at least 50 yards on the ground. And for what it's worth, he's been over five fantasy points with just his rushing totals alone in every start. So he's giving you that potential there with whatever he can do as a passer. And I know it's not anything to write home about, but maybe when Slayton comes back, there's just another little bump because it's another player that can make some plays. So, you know, again, we had 16s on a buy next week. He already scored 25 fantasy points against the Eagles last week. I know it was the injuries and whatnot that the guys that were missing there for Philadelphia and now you got to go to Philadelphia. So a little different situation, but top 15 quarterback at worst. It's hard. It's hard to look that. Oh, God.

[Adam]

Go ahead, Schaefer. Is that.

[Dave]

Oh, that's the alien guy. What is that with Azer's face?

[Heath]

It looks like a. An AI mix of Azer and Dan's face.

[Dave]

I don't see any of that.

[Adam]

Where are we supposed to be the.

[Jamie]

Alien guy if Adam and Dan had a baby?

[Adam]

I don't know what that is. Doesn't look anything like Jason. Alex.

[Dave]

There's no way there's there. That there's.

[Heath]

Thank you for sharing.

[Adam]

Thomas, Bo, Nicks, or Jackson.

[Heath]

Dart.

[Adam]

Rest of season.

[Dave]

I kind of want to say dart.

[Jamie]

I'll take dart.

[Adam]

All right.

[Dave]

The. The Philly game on the road is going to be tough for him because he's seeing them again for a second time. So it could be rough, but a bad game for him is like 19 or 21 fantasy points.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Dave]

And then after that, it gets really easy. Plays the Raiders in week 17 like he's gonna end up being. Yeah, no, I mean, do you really want to hear me read off the schedule for the rest of the year?

[Adam]

All right, I'm gonna play us out. Happy birthday, Jamie. I hope it was a great day, man. Oh, he left.

[Dave]

What the hell?

[Adam]

I was gonna sincerely wish him a happy birthday. Well, thanks for watching, people.

[Dave]

Don't ruin their birthdays.

[Adam]

Thanks for watching. Have a great night, everybody. We'll talk to you next time. Paramount Podcasts.

[Dave]

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[Heath]

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[Dave]

Shh.

[Heath]

Hush up back there. Wow. I might have just set the hushing record. Well, almost. For your insurance and financial needs, Nationwide is on your side.

[Adam]

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