Starts of the Week + Week 6 Breakdown, Dart Throws - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/9

Summary

Fantasy Footballers Podcast – Episode Summary

Episode: Starts of the Week + Week 6 Breakdown, Dart Throws
Date: October 9, 2025
Hosts: Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, Mike "The Fantasy Hitman" Wright

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Episode Overview

This episode dives deep into Week 6 of the NFL season, serving as a must-listen for fantasy football managers. The hosts deliver their "Starts of the Week" at each position, break down key fantasy matchups, analyze news and injury updates, and offer strategic advice on dart throws and navigating backfield uncertainties. Listeners are treated to a perfect blend of detailed analysis, informed predictions, and the trademark humor and banter of the Fantasy Footballers.

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Key Episode Segments & Timestamps

• Intro, Announcements & Tools (01:29–04:10)
• News & Injury Updates (04:10–15:21)
• Starts of the Week (15:38–29:27)
• Fantasy Forecast / Matchup Analysis (32:43–72:43)

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Major Discussion Points & Insights

1. Injury and News Round-Up

Timestamp: [04:10–15:21]

• Baltimore Ravens: Lamar Jackson unlikely to play before the bye due to injury; hosts note this spells trouble for the Ravens' offense.
  • “I think they’re not going to have a good time without Lamar Jackson.” – Andy Holloway [02:23]
• Tampa Bay WRs: Both Chris Godwin and Mike Evans absent from practice; optimism is tempered, and TE Cade Otton is highlighted as a streaming option if either WR can’t go.
• Alvin Kamara: Day-to-day with an ankle injury, rumored trade potential, Kendre Miller viewed as a critical waiver add, especially in case Kamara is moved.
  • “Kendre Miller should be picked up if he’s not in your league. He’s earning more and more playtime.” – Jason Moore [10:07]
• Breece Hall: Trade rumors circulate; the guys debate value impacts if he lands on teams like the Chargers, Chiefs, or Texans—none of which excites them for Hall’s upside.

2. Starts of the Week: Trusted Confidence Plays

Timestamp: [15:38–29:27]

Quarterback

• Jason: Jordan Love vs. Cincinnati – Strong matchup, fourth-best for QBs this week.
  • “I’m starting him over Patrick Mahomes.” – Mike Wright [16:21]
• Andy: Drake Maye vs. New Orleans – Has looked sharp, rushing upside and “touchdowns will come.”
• Mike: Matthew Stafford vs. Baltimore – Riding hot with Puka Nacua and Davante Adams in an exploitable matchup.

Running Back

• Jason: Bill Krauski vs. Chicago – Snap count and usage trending up, league-leading efficiency.
  • “This is the game that solidifies Bill as a top running back.” – Mike Wright [19:24]
• Andy: Breece Hall vs. Denver – Bad feelings about situation, but passing and carry count are bullish.
• Mike: Rico Dowdle (Rico Suave) vs. Dallas – A revenge game, capitalizing on Chuba Hubbard's absence.

Wide Receiver

• Mike: Chris Olave vs. New England – Volume machine, labeled as “the PPR scam of the year” but due for positive TD regression.
• Andy: Tet McMillan vs. Dallas – Massive target share, Dallas defense is a smash matchup for WRs.
  • “They are the worst of the worst… 14.4 points per game above opponent’s average at WR.” – Andy Holloway [24:39]
• Jason: A.J. Brown vs. Giants – High target share, “Touchdown guarantee.”

Tight End

• Jason: Jake Tonjes McBasketball (NE) – In as a “nasty boy” deep option, 19% target share, excellent matchup.
• Andy: Juwan Johnson – Bounce-back candidate despite two dud weeks, strong TE matchup.
• Mike: Tucker Kraft (GB) – Cincinnati is “the worst team in the NFL against tight ends,” huge TD upside.

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Notable Quotes and Moments

• On Breece Hall Trade Rumors:
  “If he gets traded it’s probably like, I don’t know, 4-6 swap… the cost for these guys is so low.” – Jason Moore [11:01]
• On Bill Krauski’s Primetime Opportunity:
  “This is your chance… go out and show the world you’re a top running back.” – Mike Wright [20:02]
• On Chris Olave:
  “Sometimes you gotta scam the system and the system rewards you with… receptions.” – Jason Moore [23:02]
• On Juwan Johnson as a Start:
  “He’s been on the field for 85 to 90 percent of snaps on a fast paced offense… I think Juwan Johnson is easily 5 receptions this game.” – Andy Holloway [28:14]
• On the Dallas Skill Positions:
  “Right now on the season: Dak is QB3, Javonte RB4, Pickens WR5, Ferguson TE1… top 5 in all four positions.” – Andy Holloway [64:28]

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In-Depth Matchup Analysis & Advice

1. Thursday Night & International Games

• Cam Skattebo vs. Tyrone Tracy (NYG): Skattebo is the recommended play barring a dramatic reduction in workload post-Tracy comeback.
• Bears vs. Falcons, Broncos vs. Jets (London):
  • Bo Nix and Stafford are preferred starts over boomer-bust options like Justin Fields.
  • Breece Hall is a start even amid trade speculation.

2. Trending Waiver & Flex Targets

• Kendre Miller: Must roster in all leagues, especially if Kamara is moved.
• Cade Otton: If TB’s WRs sit, “he would be in prime position.”
• Mason Taylor: The hosts support Taylor as a solid 12-team TE starter with a multi-week target trend.

3. Navigating Difficult Backfields

• Chargers RBs: Debate over preference between Haskins and Vidal—no clear answer, situation called a “dart throw.”
• Patriots RBs: Ramondre Stevenson’s job security analyzed; Travion Henderson is “on the watch list, maybe a spot start.”
  • “They are throwing it to both players and they're doing it well.” – Mike Wright [55:54]

4. Defensive and Team Context

• Saints & Patriots: Both tough defenses, but offenses scoring enough via volume to keep skill players (Olave, Juwan Johnson, Ramondre, Kamara) in startable tier.
• Ravens without Lamar: Avoid all Ravens except maybe Zay Flowers and Derrick Henry (if desperate).
• Dallas Offense: Every core skill player is a must-start due to both talent and defensive support.

5. Trade and Buy-Low Targets

• Brian Thomas (Jaguars): “Still a trade-for candidate; I hope some teams are getting impatient…” – Mike Wright [69:17]
• Chris Olave and Tet McMillan: Both noted as volume hounds, strong WR2s at minimum; McMillan “already on pace for 1200 yards, just no TDs yet.”

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The Fantasy Footballers’ Week 6 Confidence Meter

| Position | Start with Confidence | Cautious Start / Sit Decision | Dart Throw / Monitor | |----------------|------------------------|------------------------------------|---------------------------| | QB | Stafford, Love, Maye | Herbert (low), Bo Nix, Fields | Mac Jones (matchup only) | | RB | Breece Hall, Bill Krauski, Rico Dowdle | Chargers RBs, Travion Henderson, Kareem Hunt | RG Harvey (wait and see) | | WR | Olave, McMillan, Pickens, A.J. Brown | Pittman, Josh Downs, Courtland Sutton | Xavier Legette, Malik Washington | | TE | Tonjes McBasketball, Juwan Johnson, Kraft | Hunter Henry, Cade Otton | Travis Hunter (dart), Ferguson (stash) |

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Signature Humor & Banter

The episode features the usual Fantasy Footballers wit, with self-deprecating jabs about age (“Would get Blockbuster Video back, baby!” – Mike Wright [08:37]), bits about overheating in the studio, and running gags about “booms, busts, and pointing arrows”—often slipping into tangents about the 1990s, throwback uniforms, or “the vibes in the locker room being dope” [39:04].

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Rapid-Fire Takeaways

• Trust volume metrics: Start players with target and snap share, even if the fantasy output hasn't matched the underlying usage yet.
• Caution on RB committees: Play the presumed starter, but don't expect magic from backfields with poor offensive lines or split usage.
  • “You want to play the running backs against Miami, but we don't know if it's Haskins or Vidal.” – Andy Holloway [46:54]
• Monitor injury updates into the weekend: Several pivotal skill guys are game-time decisions; check social media and the fantasyfootballers.com tools.

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Final Word

Week 6 is loaded with opportunity if you track usage and move fast on emerging trends, but don't overreact to one-week blips—stick with verifiable volume. The hosts’ Starts of the Week are built on matchup and usage data, giving fantasy managers a reliable edge (plus a few laughs).

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“Enjoy the football!” – Jason Moore [72:57]

Transcript

[Andy Holloway]

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[Mike Wright]

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[Andy Holloway]

Is sponsored by Walmart. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike Wright.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, welcome in.

[Andy Holloway]

It's football time.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. Sounded a little bit like the snap of a whip. Yeah. Welcome in Thursday, October 9th. Somehow, October 9th and we have a great show for you today. Andy, Mike and Jason, the Fantasy Footballers podcast back with you. Big show starts of the week today. The forecast, we'll get into it, all the matchups and news to talk about and yeah, it's, it's go time week six. Any upset predictions for the evening?

[Andy Holloway]

Nope.

[Jason Moore]

How about the Baltimore Ravens?

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, I think they're going to struggle.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, you're not going to pick them again.

[Mike Wright]

I'm not going to drop. A huge drop.

[Andy Holloway]

A huge lessons have been learned bankroll on them. No, I think that they're not going to have a good time without Lamar Jackson.

[Mike Wright]

No. And Lamar Jackson unlikely to play before the bye week. Which seems smart. Except the part where you're one in four, that's the part that makes it very, very complicated. Like the commanders were without Jaden Daniels for two weeks, right? Yes. And they managed to grab a win with Mariota in the first one and they had a nice record. It's much easier that way. But we want to remind you here at the top, check out the website, the fantasy footballers.com weekly rankings, our start sit tool. We get bombarded with questions on Twitter and on Sunday live. And there is a start sit tool available. You can plug the players in and if you are a [e-mail] just import your team and it will customize all the scoring settings. It will give you a start sit decision based on your specific league. We just launched our rest of season rankings as part of our premium tools. @jointhefoot.com we have the ultimate dashboard available with the lineup optimizer. We are beta testing our trade analyzer tool. It's coming so it's not there yet, but the trade. You've asked for trade tools for years. Our trade analyzer will be part of, you know, just an additional feature within the foot clan so you can support the show and get access to literally a growing library of premium tools and resources to give you an advantage every week. You can learn all about those because there were a lot that we didn't [e-mail] because you also get an extra episode every week as well. So we'll be recording the footcast later this afternoon and dropping it to the community there. It's time for some news.

[Andy Holloway]

News and notes from around the league presented by Progressive Insurance.

[Mike Wright]

Al wants me to thank the Foot Glan or the FootClan to thank me for an extra AC turbine sound in today's show. In the last six months, occasionally I've been menopausal.

[Andy Holloway]

It's pretty wild.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, you got that. You got that perimenopause right now.

[Mike Wright]

We had. Jason spent most of his career as a human. Is that what they call it? Your life career?

[Andy Holloway]

My life career.

[Mike Wright]

Just always hot.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

And I guess it was correlated slightly.

[Andy Holloway]

He's carrying a lot of extra weight.

[Mike Wright]

With the extra weight. Because you famously ran through the streets of I think Nashville in 40 degree weather, perhaps without a top.

[Jason Moore]

I had the. The uncontrollable jaw of shivering where your teeth are clacking because you're so cold and you can't stop it no matter what. And Jason's just rolling. Cisco.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

He had the ball steam coming off the chest.

[Mike Wright]

So that was the way it used to be. And Mike and I were normal people and you ran hot. Now you are the one turning the AC up.

[Jason Moore]

Dude.

[Andy Holloway]

You are control.

[Mike Wright]

You occasionally am running a little warmer. Al, would you agree that occasionally. Yeah. How cold is it back there for you guys?

[Andy Holloway]

67.

[Mike Wright]

Okay. Not. Not cold enough. All right, into the news. Thursday Night Football. Tyrone Tracy is back. He is in. Darius Slayton is out. It'll be how much do you care about the Tracy.

[Andy Holloway]

I mean, I care about it a little bit. I said this before. I am not going to not start Cam Scatter Boo until, you know, like, if tonight Tracy comes and is 60% of the carries and all of a sudden Cam Scatter Boo ends up with 12 total opportunities, then I'll adjust. I don't expect that to happen, and I'm not going to preempt that happening. Like he.

[Mike Wright]

What are your odds of being really bummed tonight because of the matchup with Phillies D and the Tracy return for scoutaboo, though? You're like, you want to get off to a good start. Do you think that there's a chance you get, you know, sub eight points?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I think there's a chance. But my only hope here is about opportunities. How many times does he touch the ball and how involved is he in the passing game? Because I think that's. That's really for fantasy purposes on this version of the Giants where you're not really going after touchdowns. So if you don't have touchdowns, you want this, you want the games with seven, eight targets.

[Mike Wright]

He's the better player.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

He's the better running back. He's probably the better pass catcher. He's the better blocker.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, the number two search on the site right now. Start sit tool. Is Cam Scatter Boo or Bill Crosky Merritt.

[Mike Wright]

Well, I would go. I like Bill.

[Jason Moore]

I would go Bill.

[Andy Holloway]

I have Bill ahead.

[Mike Wright]

Now. I will definitely go Bill. All right. Chris Godwin.

[Jason Moore]

Washington's like, in on that now.

[Mike Wright]

They are embracing the bill.

[Andy Holloway]

We were here first.

[Mike Wright]

Do you remember when he retweeted.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Yes. And then he pulled it because he's like, oh, crap, I don't know what I'm doing.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. I had like a million views in. You know who would have been.

[Jason Moore]

You know who had been the. The bell cow of Washington sooner had not deleted that tweet.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, that was on you. Jcm.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

All right. Chris Godwin. Mike Evans did not participate in Wednesday practice. Godwin. I had seen it reported as a fibula. So, I mean, maybe that's correlated to the ankle.

[Jason Moore]

There was a quote that he came out of the game with soreness.

[Mike Wright]

So he's not been himself yet. It's not. No, not yet a surprise, but we'll see if he gets there. I've watched so much tape of the Buccaneers Seattle game because it's delightful tape to watch. I mean, on both sides, both teams played so well. They're wearing those sick jerseys.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, they were beautiful.

[Andy Holloway]

Just Bring those. Just make those full time jerseys, dude.

[Mike Wright]

I posted that because it's like that generation. I love like most of the jerseys.

[Andy Holloway]

The creamsicle on the buckle and then I don't know what they call that beautiful blue.

[Mike Wright]

Kelly green should come back for Philly and then the blue for Seattle should come back and we should probably renovate a lot of them. But the response I got grunge music. Oh, you want grunge music back?

[Jason Moore]

I mean, if we're just Talking about like 90s stuff that we want to come back.

[Mike Wright]

Okay, landlines, here we are. No, but I posted that thinking I.

[Jason Moore]

Would get Blockbuster Video.

[Mike Wright]

Blockbuster is back, baby. We're opening the first Blockbuster. Most people did not respond that way. No, people our age, they. I guess they. The Tampa Bay jerseys were like unanimously hated, but now they're beloved. But like, that's why they changed.

[Jason Moore]

Brooksy said both of those Bucks wide receivers have not yet been spotted at practice this morning.

[Mike Wright]

It's a book of versus the world, baby. I mentioned Kate Otten.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I was going to say Kate Otten is a good pickup. I said, who's that?

[Mike Wright]

I don't, I don't have the drop in here.

[Andy Holloway]

What?

[Jason Moore]

Goodness gracious.

[Mike Wright]

Producer. Oh, here it is.

[Andy Holloway]

Someone watched that wrong.

[Mike Wright]

Let me try that again. Why did it play 55?

[Andy Holloway]

Because I accidentally hit 55. I was trying to find it. Hit the wrong button.

[Mike Wright]

Well, we lost ourselves there. Kate Otten was a mention on the backup options, but if Godwin were to miss, he would be in prime position. He's far more interesting to get some touches. Alvin Camara, day to day ankle injury.

[Jason Moore]

This one was the report was it happened on Wednesday is what I saw.

[Mike Wright]

Yes. The actual injury.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. And the day to day. This is one of those. Well, we need more information. But of course the conspiracies are going to come out of like, oh, is Alvin Camara hurt right now or is Alvin Camara about to be traded?

[Andy Holloway]

Making sure he's not going to get hurt.

[Jason Moore]

Correct. Either way, Kendra Miller should be picked up if he's not in your league. Like, he's. He's one of those guys that I think is not rostered enough for the way that he's performing on the field. He's earning more and more playtime.

[Mike Wright]

Yep.

[Jason Moore]

Snap counts have gone and you have that. That whispering from the bushes that maybe Camara gets traded.

[Mike Wright]

There's another name being rumored, by the way.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh. In the trade world.

[Mike Wright]

Trade world at running back.

[Andy Holloway]

Let's hear.

[Mike Wright]

And I, I'm curious how you react to trade rumors for the players themselves. Because I. I don't know if it can get better for Elvin Camaro leaving. And I don't know if it can get better for this guy leaving.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I agree.

[Mike Wright]

It's Breece Hall. Breeze hall. Trade rumors. He is not under contract for next season.

[Jason Moore]

Right.

[Mike Wright]

He's a rental team is. I mean, of all the. I think he's more likely to be traded than. It's a preemptive strike. Right. A team can trade for him and then potentially extend him.

[Jason Moore]

He would cost more, but.

[Andy Holloway]

He would cost more. But you'd have a younger player costing.

[Jason Moore]

More is probably like what the trading for veterans is insane of. It's like Breeze hall, who we love in the fantasy world. If he gets traded, it's probably like, I don't know, four, six, swap. Like the cost for these guys is so low.

[Mike Wright]

The teams rumored around Breeze Hall, Chargers, Chiefs, Texans.

[Andy Holloway]

Man, that would suck if the Chargers.

[Mike Wright]

The Chargers would be the.

[Andy Holloway]

That would be terrible.

[Mike Wright]

That would be devastating for two players.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, exactly. That's like. I know, right?

[Mike Wright]

Unless Hampton's injury was somehow more long term.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. You would end up in a worse spot than you had when it was Hampton. Hampton and Najee.

[Mike Wright]

I don't think it's amazing. It's not amazing to go to the Chiefs. You're going to have a committee situation.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, you will.

[Mike Wright]

And the Texans, you're also going to have a committee situation there.

[Andy Holloway]

I don't know for sure that you would have a committee situation of the Texans, but you've got an offense that's struggling, a bad offensive line. You know, if Joe Mixon was there work still. And I think if Joe Mixon was healthy, we would never see Chubb. We would never see Woody Marks.

[Mike Wright]

There's rumors about mixing coming back to the ankle. Making progress was what was reported. Brock Bowers didn't practice on Wednesday. Michael Mayer practiced in full. He should be their starter. Bowers will probably miss another week, but we don't know. We'll see. It's just Wednesday.

[Andy Holloway]

Matthew Betts did basically say that this is an injury he's playing through, that he can actually aggravate it, make it worse. So he expects a multi week absence for Brock Bowers.

[Mike Wright]

Almond Ross St. Brown didn't practice on Wednesday. They play Sunday Night Football. I'm not super worried yet. And Terry McLaurin. It was first reported. Was that the one where the arrow is pointing?

[Jason Moore]

No, no. That was Tomlin saying that the arrow pointed up for Jalen Warren.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, I'm sorry. What. Whatever the arrow was doing for McLaren, it has flipped to the not looking good category.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Because I thought there was a report by Dan Quinn that he was optimistic there was Terry McLaren playing. It's a Monday Night Football game. You can basically just cross Terry McLaren off your list this week because I don't think you've got a great Monday night pivot option for the commanders at wide receiver that you can pick up. And it's looking like you don't want to play a Monday Night Football game with a guy that might not play.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, you'll probably. What you're saying is Sunday you're going to need to start someone else.

[Jason Moore]

There is. We have two Monday night games, right?

[Andy Holloway]

Correct.

[Jason Moore]

So I can't recall who the second one is. Let me look it up real quick.

[Mike Wright]

I'm just nervous about McLaurin. I mean, he's not like he was playing well for fantasy. I'd be nervous around him anyways.

[Jason Moore]

So Bear, it's Bears commanders and Bill's first Falcons.

[Mike Wright]

So Bears, you're talking up a key.

[Andy Holloway]

On Coleman, Loser, Burden or I mean.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, Darnell Mooney, who I get. I think Darnell Mooney was not at practice.

[Mike Wright]

No, he's not. So you can pick up one of the 75 bears or bills wide receivers is what you're saying.

[Jason Moore]

Sure.

[Mike Wright]

Juan Jennings did not practice and the team is not counting on Ricky Pearsall. So, I mean, we, we, we miss him. He was leading the league in receiving yardage before the injury. Brock Purdy didn't practice on Wednesday with the turf toe working to get back, but wants to get back at full strength, which maybe Mac Jones gets another opportunity. But he was also limited on Wednesday.

[Jason Moore]

But John lynch said he should be okay.

[Mike Wright]

I feel like Mac Jones is going to start again.

[Andy Holloway]

I think he is. And it's a really good matchup against Tampa Bay right now. The, you know, Baker is scoring and while the Tampa Bay Buccaneers don't have a bad defense, they have been beat. I mean, Darnold had a great game last week and right now Mac Jones, in his three starts two times has been a top 10 fantasy quarterback.

[Jason Moore]

Which the San Francisco system.

[Andy Holloway]

Weird.

[Jason Moore]

It gives us fantasy goodness.

[Mike Wright]

Joe Flacco has been announced as the team starting quarterback. That would be the Bengals starting quarterback for Week 6. Joe Flacco is famous for being very fast to pick up an offense. Play calls, play designs. I think that's what motivated Cincinnati to make the switch to him. Instead of maybe James Winston or Russell Wilson. It's just Flacco is Very quick.

[Andy Holloway]

If you brought Jameson and had him start, you would take the playbook and you would light it on fire. You'd say, okay, just figure it out. You guys go out and run like Jameis.

[Jason Moore]

It's a screen pass to the running back. Screen pass, the running back. Go deep.

[Andy Holloway]

Got it.

[Mike Wright]

Joe Flacco is fast at processing offenses as he is slow in an offense physically. That was good luck, Joe. Yeah, good luck. That was today's news. They don't play the packers or anything, do they?

[Jason Moore]

No, don't worry about it.

[Mike Wright]

Okay. That was today's news and notes sponsored by Progressive Insurance. Quote [e-mail] Progressive Casualty Insurance Company affiliates and third party insurers not available in all states or situations. Coverage subject to policy terms, limits and conditions. Get into it.

[Andy Holloway]

Starts of the week presented by US Bank.

[Mike Wright]

All right, these are our confidence plays, our confidence picks for the week. Looking for those great matchups and opportunities starting at the quarterback position.

[Jason Moore]

Mike, kick it off my quarterback. Start of the week, I'm going with Jordan Love. We're going against the Cincinnati Bengals. They're allowing 4.2 points above expectation for quarterbacks. Talking about the Bengals, that's fourth. So as in, it's the fourth best matchup right now for quarterbacks Josh Jacobs and crew. They're going to get theirs, but I think that they're going to end up throwing. They will still throw and get some points. Jordan loves averaging 252 and he's giving you, you know, I am a tiny little bit of rushing.

[Mike Wright]

I'm starting him over. Patrick Mahomes. Okay, so I made that call in one of my leagues earlier yesterday, actually. But it's, it's a good matchup. I agree with it. Jason.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm going to go with Drake May. Drake May has been playing really, really good football. I know last week he didn't have a good fantasy day, but he was outstanding. You saw this earlier in the year with games like from Dak Prescott where he was playing great. You watch a film, you're like that. That's he's playing good ball now. He was the quarterback 29 and. But if you just know someone's playing good, the touchdowns will come and then this matchup is fantastic. The, you know, the Saints have literally only held one of their opponents below their average and that was Jackson Dart, who doesn't really have an average. You know, it's like that. So you can't even say whether he was above or below. You're getting digs healthy. You have three weeks right now already inside the top 10 for fantasy finishes for Drake May. He's on pace for almost 400 rushing yards. I think he's a really good play in a dome against the Saints.

[Mike Wright]

And I am going to go with the adjusted expectations I now have for Matthew Stafford. Yeah, Taking on the Baltimore Ravens. He already has the best wide receiver in football this year in Pukinakua. We knew how powerful that was. But it's time to just admit the fact that Devonte Adams is a big upgrade over Cooper cup and what Cooper cup was doing at this juncture of his career. He's got two plus passing touchdowns in four straight games. He's been a top five fantasy quarterback in two straight weeks. Not something you usually say about Matthew Stafford. And you can't just say, hey, it's just lucky touchdown games because he's leading the NFL in yardage. So Matthew Stafford is actually cooking right now. So let's not underestimate these two wide receivers and the power that they have in the offense. Oh, and they play the Baltimore defense, who's beat up and forgotten how to play defense. They're giving up 262 yards a game to opposing quarterbacks on average, which is the second worst in the league. Matthew Stafford's a great start.

[Jason Moore]

My running back start of the week.

[Andy Holloway]

Bill Krauski.

[Mike Wright]

I like it.

[Andy Holloway]

Jason.

[Mike Wright]

He has not built a new list.

[Andy Holloway]

I haven't built a new list. You might have your start of the week. You didn't come in with one.

[Mike Wright]

No, I actually expected it from you too, Michael.

[Jason Moore]

You're the. You're the guy. Okay. Well, now that all the steam is gone, Bill Crosby takes on Chicago. Last week, we hit a 47% of the offensive snaps, but his workhorse usage in that time was 31%. So 31% of the carries the targets ends up with a big breakout running back. Four on the week. And the arrow is pointed up. As Mike Tomlin would say, I am so bad. And this is the Bears team that just gave like, Ashton Jantzy, who could do nothing, plays the Bears. Look who's great.

[Mike Wright]

First of all, very split on the pointed pointing debate on Twitter. A lot of people were totally fine with it. Some people were in your camp. This game is equally exciting and scary for me.

[Jason Moore]

For Bill, Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

I think this is the game that solidifies Bill. If he's the start of the week and he's deserving of it. And the snap counts are where they were last week, and he has the. I mean, he's leading the league in yards per Carry and he has the breakaway runs and he has a big play.

[Jason Moore]

I think he's the highest graded. He is the running back. So his, his tape is coming back.

[Mike Wright]

His numbers right now I believe are similar to Saquon's with half the opportunities. Did you know that?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Like it's running at 6.6 a carry.

[Mike Wright]

To me this is the game, this is the solidification. This is prime time. Right. Oh, is it Monday Night Football. Right. So this is your chance. Like Bill on Monday Night Football. You go out and you show the world that you're a top running back.

[Andy Holloway]

Then I will have. Then I will have jokes on Tuesday.

[Mike Wright]

He will.

[Andy Holloway]

Jason will have a brand new list. Jason will be prepared.

[Mike Wright]

You're still researching, aren't you? No comment.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Dvd.

[Mike Wright]

But to me it's a. It's a season defining moment for Bill. So I think so if you believe it will happen, I promise you he's cheaper now than he will be after.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Jason.

[Andy Holloway]

All right. My running back start of the week is currently.

[Mike Wright]

This is outstanding. You guys have my two running backs for a league of record.

[Andy Holloway]

Breece, Hall, Kirby, running back for the jets before he is possibly traded. Denver has a good defense so you might be scared about that matchup but you can run on Denver. Amari and Hampton's breakout game was against Denver. Jonathan Taylor was literally the number one running back on the week when he played Denver last week. Saquon, he only got six carries. Still had a good fantasy game because of his work in the receiving game. And Breeze did not lose receiving work with Justin Fields two games without Braylon Allen. Breeze has had 19 opportunities and 20 opportunities with five and six targets in each of those. So I'm.

[Mike Wright]

While being miserable.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh yeah.

[Mike Wright]

While being absolutely depressed.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. He doesn't. I don't think he wants to be there. No, I don't think he wants to be there. Only because I don't. I think he thinks that the jets don't want him to be there. Like he knows he's not their future. The way that the jets have treated him is I think kind of crappy.

[Mike Wright]

I mean he's for fantasy purposes. Like you said, it's lined up. I'm going to go with yeah.

[Jason Moore]

This is. How dare you.

[Mike Wright]

How dare me? Because you should have taken it.

[Jason Moore]

How you. You got in the dock and you just threw me.

[Mike Wright]

You didn't even show up on Monday. You had your moment to victory lap.

[Jason Moore]

Dare you.

[Mike Wright]

Rico Suave himself our guy. Rico Dowdle, our always our guy.

[Andy Holloway]

No.

[Mike Wright]

What's wild is These were, these are the three running backs I had in league of record to start the week. How did I lose to you last week, Jay?

[Andy Holloway]

I'm too good.

[Mike Wright]

Rico Dowdle revenge gain Dallas. Oh, guess what. Dallas sucks. The Dallas defense is 28th against the running back position. Chuba's not practicing. He's running with a vengeance. And the thing that's been so strange, like to broaden the discussion around Rico, we've spent a year and a half or maybe two years now just repeating the fact that Chuba Hubbard is underrated. Which means like the Carolina ability to run the football under Dave Canales has just, it's just worked really well. Even though the team has struggled at times. Like Chuba just always got his. Even in these games where they were struggling. Rico's got all the opportunity this week. I had to trade him. Rico was a dog and it's killing me because I wanted to play in this week. I traded him because it's not going to be a long term thing for Rico, but he is. He may ruin some Chuba.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

So. All right, we, we're going to turn the page here, Mike.

[Jason Moore]

We got a wide receiver at the wide receiver position. I want to shout out Christian Olave who is just quietly.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, please be right. Please be correct, Mike.

[Jason Moore]

And I mean the, the. He is being classified on the Internet as the PPR scam of the year, which is not. Look, sometimes, sometimes you got to scam the system and the system rewards you with just getting receptions. And Olave is doing that. Currently, four wide receivers in the NFL have seen 30 plus percent of the team's targets. Puka JSN Garrett, Chris Olave, who is just soaking up so many targets. They're not as valuable as obviously as the Jason about targets, man.

[Mike Wright]

Targets don't matter, but they are, they are nuanced.

[Jason Moore]

The Patriots have done a bit better against wide receivers over the past two weeks, but it's just they're at, they're at home the way that they're. They're playing. I think that Crystal Lave is a very solid start. Like he has one touchdown with 244 yards. That is not a normal thing. Like that is a. He should have regression and have some touchdowns in his future. Yep.

[Andy Holloway]

Speaking of touchdowns in their future, Tetaroa McMillan still waiting for his first one. He's waiting for his first one and Dallas is like, come on down, baby. Because the Dallas defense sucks, period. Full stop. They are the worst of the worst. They are giving up 14.4 points per game. Above their opponent's average at the wide receiver position. Just at the wide receiver position. For context of how outlandish that is. The rams are the third worst and they are giving up 4.8 more than their opponents average from 4 to 14.4.

[Jason Moore]

The Ravens number two. Are they.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes, they are. They're around eight or nine above. Replacement terror is awesome. I mean period, full stop. He has looked like exactly what they.

[Jason Moore]

Grammar, punctuation going on in this.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, you always got to say your punctuation.

[Andy Holloway]

He's looked exactly like what they hoped when they drafted him. He has been mossing people. His yardage is there. His targets are there. I mean he's five games into a career. He's already on pace for 145 and 1200 yards. Just no touchdowns. And so you put a great player against a terrible defense and I'm going to take that every day of the week.

[Mike Wright]

He has been so good. Exclamation point.

[Jason Moore]

Stop.

[Andy Holloway]

I look, I return space indent. Now I hear you voice.

[Mike Wright]

He's starting his second paragraph. No, I'm in on this week in the matchup. I don't know what I'm. I don't know where I would put Ted. Like let's just say it out loud real quick. Rest of season, I guess we have those rankings.

[Jason Moore]

We do.

[Mike Wright]

Where do you see Tech? Because I don't see him as a wide receiver. 1.

[Jason Moore]

I don't have him in my top 12 but he's in my top 20 with I'm waiting on this week. I think that this could be a momentum shifting, a moment that could shift his season.

[Andy Holloway]

I have him right now at 13, one spot behind Cortland Sutton and I.

[Mike Wright]

Have my 13 as well.

[Andy Holloway]

So if I had. If I had Cortland Sutton, you trade him for 10. I would trade him for 10. Okay, so I need a flip, flop, flop, flop.

[Mike Wright]

Period. Full stop. All right.

[Andy Holloway]

A.J. a.J.

[Mike Wright]

Brown, you're going to love to hear this.

[Jason Moore]

Jason. Oh my goodness.

[Mike Wright]

I'm taking AJ Brown and I'm doing it on an island game tonight. Start of the week. A.J. brown.

[Andy Holloway]

It's going to go well because I trade guarantee. Oh, come on man. Seriously.

[Mike Wright]

Me and Matt already took that one. Guaranteed. Did you really? Yeah. Yeah. Touchdown guarantee for AJ Brown tonight against the Giants 30th against the pass like.

[Andy Holloway]

The first one or.

[Mike Wright]

AJ Brown is on pace for 150 targets over his last four games. So it's not been an isolated target onslaught. They're passing more in neutral game scripts sake. One's not Been as efficient or effective. It is coming and it's coming tonight.

[Jason Moore]

All right, my tight end start that we hold on, I got a. Oh.

[Mike Wright]

You'Re putting on some. We got.

[Jason Moore]

It's low level. Low level. I think.

[Andy Holloway]

Steel underpants.

[Mike Wright]

You haven't worn underpants very often.

[Jason Moore]

Well, yeah, I got to get more, more data. Well, first off, the pants have been flying off, right?

[Mike Wright]

Oh yeah. You had been. No pants store. Yes underpants though.

[Jason Moore]

But because I needed more information here because this is when you start finding matchups, you start finding some nasty boys. Jake Tonjas, McBasketball back to back 13 point games with Mac Jones a 19% target share over that time. The wide receivers, we went over it. They're banged up. I give Juwan plays. I think he's very interesting. I would like to play him. Kendrick Bourne, a nasty boy you can maybe play. But Tonjas McBee, he's getting it done. And the Bucks have been a plus matchup for tight ends, especially the past two weeks.

[Mike Wright]

All right, Jason, you are. I feel like one of the themes this year is you've been able to isolate situations that people would hyper react to as negative and then maybe say, hey, let's just, let's just calm down. Right? Like the stock's going down and you're like it's not going to go down forever. Let's just chill out.

[Andy Holloway]

That's when you buy, don't sell. Right.

[Mike Wright]

You did it with lad McConkey last week and you're coming back here with dud. Dud.

[Andy Holloway]

Yep. Two dud games in a row for Juwan Johnson. And so people are dropping them and moving on thinking, oh well, you know, he sucks. The thing is is he doesn't suck. He's been on the field, he's on the field for 85 to 90% of.

[Mike Wright]

The snaps was banged up.

[Andy Holloway]

On a fast paced offense, Rattler is on pace for over 600 passing attempts. This is part of the olave, right? Like Rattler is dropping back and throwing at a bunch. They're not the best targets in the world, but he's throwing at a bunch and sometimes it goes one way and sometimes it goes another. The last two weeks dud games for Joanne Johnson, but this is a player who, well, I mean we've already seen he was the tight end three and the tight end four in two different weeks this year and now he's playing the Patriots fourth worst against the position. Camara is a little bit banged up. So those short yardage type of targets, I think Joanne Johnson, you know, is like easily 5 receptions in this game.

[Mike Wright]

If you want to guarantee very few points of the tight end position, what you can do is just play who played well last week.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes, exactly.

[Mike Wright]

Because if you just chase it like that, you will always set yourself up for a couple points. Just play the touchdown.

[Jason Moore]

Jake Chandra's McBasketball well yeah, he's unstoppable.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, there are some elites. Mike. Hall of Famers. Tucker crafts my start of the week at tight end against Cincinnati. Had the big breakout game. Got hurt. Disappointing. Ish.

[Jason Moore]

He feels like he's been gone forever.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. He's our consensus tight end one this week.

[Jason Moore]

Oh my goodness. Which I just probably because he's a dog.

[Mike Wright]

I just learned by looking at the screen.

[Jason Moore]

He's number one on my board.

[Mike Wright]

Cincinnati is the worst. It's because Cincinnati is the worst team in the entire NFL against the tight end position. They are dub last and he plays every down. I think he's got a great shot at a touchdown this week. So that was Starts of the week presented by US bank smartly signature Visa card visit usbank.com smartly card to learn how you can earn cash back on every purchase. The creditor and issuer of this card is U.S. bank National Association. Pursuant to a license from Visa USA Inc. Some restrictions may apply. We'll take a break. We'll get into the matchups. What's up Foot Clan? We want to thank Viori for supporting the show. If you're not familiar with Vuori, I've been buying their clothes for a really, really long time, well before they were a sponsor and it's what I go to when I want to upgrade my workout gear with something versatile and ridiculously comfortable and just clothes that I love wearing on a regular basis. You know, we play the pickleball around here and Vuori, they have pieces designed to look great whether you're hitting the gym, whether you're heading to the office or maybe running errands. I try to make an excuse to wear them as often as I can, including their brand new Meta Pant. The Meta Pant is made from durable four way stretch fabric and it gives you that all day comfort. It's moisture wicking. It's got multiple fits and inseam options so you can find the one that works for you. Absolutely. The most comfortable pants that I've ever worn. I'm happy when winter comes around and we're wearing more pants because of the Meta Pant. Absolutely Love the look, love the feel, love the variety and the different choices. We wear them in the office, we wear them everywhere we go. Viori is an investment in your happiness. For our listeners, they are offering 20% off your first purchase. Get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the [e-mail] footballers that's v u o r I.com footballers exclusions apply. Visit the website for full terms and conditions. What's going on? Foot clan Running a business? Well, that's complicated. I mean, especially when you have to hire guys like Al Borland and Papa Josh. But there's probably about 55 programs that you need. Also expensive. And since they come from different companies, they don't always play nice with one another. What can you do, right? Odoo. That is what. Odoo has all the business software that owners need. We're talking sales, CRM, manufacturing websites, literally every kind of software and it's all on one platform. So it all works together seamlessly. I know firsthand what it's like to have everything all in one and you're not bouncing between different applications. It's quality software. You're not sacrificing and it's just a better experience than that hodgepodge of different programs that you're using right now. And what is the most amazing part of Odoo? It's that you're not paying that premium you'd expect to be paying for it. Why spend more on software programs that are less efficient when Odoo, simple software platform, can handle everything for a fraction of the price? Discover how Odoo can take your business to the next level by visiting odoo.com that's o d o o dot com. It's time.

[Andy Holloway]

Fantasy forecast presented by prize picks.

[Mike Wright]

We get the Bears, Falcons, packers and Steelers back from the by. Texans and Vikings taking a break this week. Set your alarms. We're playing in London again.

[Jason Moore]

All right.

[Mike Wright]

Why don't they ever do it the other way?

[Andy Holloway]

I mean, like, play it in Hawaii.

[Mike Wright]

No, no, I mean in London. Like, why not? Couldn't you do it later?

[Jason Moore]

I feel like they've done that once where we had the morning slate and one of them was a London game. Like, I don't know what the time difference is.

[Mike Wright]

No, I probably sound stupid not knowing the times over there. What time is it when they start in London? Can we get that information? Because we're starting at 6:30 Pacific, right?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, 6:30.

[Mike Wright]

I want to know what time it is in London and then I'm going to.

[Andy Holloway]

There's no way to find that out.

[Mike Wright]

I'm going to make the Proper adjustments to their schedule for them. But it's the Denver Broncos at 3 and 2 playing the oh and 5 2:30pm yeah, there's no problem. We can start a primetime game.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, you can. You can just start that game at 4:30. Like that seems just really okay.

[Mike Wright]

Start it later.

[Jason Moore]

There's no rules anymore. We just start two Monday night games and just started an hour later.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, now we're talking.

[Jason Moore]

Goodness gracious.

[Mike Wright]

Denver's three and two. The jets are on five. Denver seven and a half point favorites here in London. Over under is 43 and a half. That's not a lot. Gives The jets just 18 points. The Broncos at 25 and a half. You know, Bo Nix has been a popular start sit question this week. Just looking at the players outperforming like Stafford, like Stafford plays Baltimore. Bo Nix plays the jets in London. Bo Nicks has been. What's like the one word? Goodish. Good Ish.

[Jason Moore]

Good ish.

[Mike Wright]

I mean he's had a couple of nice weeks. Really one super week. Yeah, the past attempts are, you know they're pretty high up there on pace for almost 600. So you like that. But the, you know, the touchdowns, three games with one touchdown. That's why it's hasn't turned it over as much.

[Jason Moore]

Good ish. Stafford or Bo Nicks? I'm probably going to go Stafford. But like for my personal league of record team, I have bone. I have both of these quarterbacks, I have Bo Nix and I have Justin Fields. Justin Fields has in our scoring format he has literally been 30 plus points except for the one awful, awful week against Buffalo and I will not be playing Justin Fields.

[Andy Holloway]

I was really curious which one you.

[Jason Moore]

Were going to say. I'm going to. I will take the championship of the jets who are 25th against quarterbacks at this moment.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, the defense of the jets has not been good despite the fact that they were supposed to be a good defense. Got a defensive mind, a head coach. They have given up a lot of fantasy points. And when you look at Bo Nicks like his big bada boom week that he had that was against the Cincinnati Bengals. It was like okay, if you've got a little bit easier of a defense, we just saw him play well but not fantasy great against a tough Philly. So yeah, traveling over to London playing against an easy defense, I think Bo Nix is a. Is a fine start. The question to me is like do the passes go to Troy Franklin or Marvin Mims A little bit more. We, you know, we have seen with certain teams ironically with these two teams with certain. And with Sauce Gardner, where the wide receiver twos usually are the guys that kind of have to step up right in this game. So does that give you a little bit of concern with the Cortland Sutton side?

[Jason Moore]

I think Sutton's too good. Like and they're. He just, he gets enough targets. He's at 22% target share on the season. So that, that's not an elite number. But I mean the, the week two was a disaster. But 118, 81, 99, like 99 yards against Philly. They just, they, they found a way to get him the ball.

[Mike Wright]

I would play Stafford over Fields if I had Stafford. I think the Fields risk is there. He is eight.

[Jason Moore]

It is.

[Mike Wright]

He's eighth in points per game. So he had the injured game, but he's eighth in points per game. Obviously missed that fourth quarter where apparently he does all of his work.

[Jason Moore]

That is correct.

[Mike Wright]

He has some ridiculous stats about the percentage of his fancy points in the fourth. But that's part of the, that's part of the terrifying prospect of playing him is yeah, you don't get a little bit of garbage time. Something goes wrong, you throw another pick and you've got a pretty bad game. Jason mentioned the argument for Breeze hall as a start of the week. J.K. dobbins, you got to keep playing. He scores all the time. And RG Harvey, I don't think you have to play at all.

[Jason Moore]

No, no. The last week was extremely disappointing. Of you had the two weeks ago where it was just the J.K. dobbins, R.J. harvey show. Harvey got a bunch of targets, had the nice, you know, touchdown at the end of the game and then the snaps just the floor. The rug got pulled on us for Harvey for last week. So it's. Until you see multiple games in a row, I don't think you're going to be confident starting hard.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I mean, I think it's going to be game by game, not just a trend line. I think we want it to be a trend line where it's up and up and up and up. And I believe that the truth is last week they were in a really close game against one of the best teams out there, the super bowl champions. They won the game and against a really tough Philadelphia Eagles team. They.

[Mike Wright]

Not the rookie.

[Andy Holloway]

Exactly.

[Mike Wright]

It's not the rookie.

[Andy Holloway]

That was where it's like, we need, we need Dobbins on the field. We need that in this match. I was like, let's, let's test out Harvey a little bit yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Garrett Wilson, you play him. Mason Taylor, I think, is a start. I think Mason Taylor is in there. 12 targets last week. I don't think it's just chasing one week of production either.

[Jason Moore]

No, I'd blame.

[Mike Wright]

He's had a couple weeks in a row.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, he's had a couple weeks. It does scare me, though, with just.

[Mike Wright]

The passing defense, like, how long will it take you? If I say, name another pass catcher, then for that team goes, meow, meow, meow.

[Andy Holloway]

Alan Lazard.

[Mike Wright]

Okay. All right. You didn't say that.

[Andy Holloway]

No, it was a question mark at the end of that.

[Mike Wright]

Good Joy. Evan Ingram has retired. Right.

[Jason Moore]

Until you stop looking at him. Then he scored through the touchdown. Yeah. No, thank you. Oh, gosh.

[Mike Wright]

The Cardinals are playing football?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Arizona.

[Jason Moore]

No, no. The vibes are dope, bro.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, my gosh.

[Jason Moore]

Hello, fellow kids.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, my gosh. Gannon is the cringiest head coach of all time. So he was asked a question, you know, at a press conference, because the.

[Mike Wright]

What are the vibes like in the locker room after last week and the close losses?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Oh, great. The vibes are dope. Come on, man.

[Mike Wright]

I mean, you.

[Andy Holloway]

We had. I think he went on to say something like, we had to start the meeting late because everyone was so happy or something.

[Jason Moore]

It's too dope.

[Andy Holloway]

Is too dope to start on time.

[Jason Moore]

Things Jonathan Gannon should never say again.

[Andy Holloway]

All things.

[Mike Wright]

Who's the character from Succession that he looks like?

[Andy Holloway]

I don't remember, but I just started. Yeah, yeah, it's Kendall Roy. Yes, Kendall Roy. I see him a lot, but I'm starting to see Mer more and more.

[Mike Wright]

A combination of Kendall Roy and Mer from Impractical Jokers.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

All right, Enough personal.

[Jason Moore]

What's that?

[Mike Wright]

Hey, this might be a practical joke.

[Jason Moore]

That makes so much sense if they were like, what do I got to say, guys? Yeah, you got to say it's dope. And he's like, no, guys.

[Mike Wright]

No, no, no.

[Andy Holloway]

You had.

[Mike Wright]

It's the punishment. You got to do it. Say it's dope in that locker room. I dare you. You're a grown man.

[Andy Holloway]

Say it's dope, man.

[Mike Wright]

All right. The Cardinals are two and three. They take on the four and one Indianapolis Colts, Colts, seven point home favorites. The over unders 46 and a half. And here we go. Kyler Murray didn't practice on Wednesday. We need an update on him. It could be Jacoby Brissette. The quote I saw from Marvin Harrison was kind of funny around Brissette. Like something that kind of alluded to Like I'm excited if he gets that opportunity or something like that. It kind of insinuated he was totally fine with the switch, but because Marv.

[Jason Moore]

Doesn'T care about anything not football.

[Mike Wright]

Michael Carter, regardless of the starter at quarterback, what do you do with Michael Carter? You play him.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Michael Carter. The volume is there. The matchup is subpar here. It's on the road against a very good Colts team who they are seventh right now against fancy running backs. But in this running back economy that you.

[Andy Holloway]

You got to take that volume, the really nice thing. And obviously a quarterback change could affect this, but I would expect it to maybe even affect it more positively than negatively. But last week we saw Michael. Michael Carter with five targets. And so in a game when you're going to be down, that is 23 opportunities, you really want to make sure that you've got the pass catching back. Which at least last week gives us some indication that. That it would be Michael Carter.

[Jason Moore]

Despite the vibes being dope. Does D Markado receive any?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, he'll get work. No punishment.

[Andy Holloway]

No punishment. Already came out and said there's no punishment.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I don't think he punishes him at all. I think he overcompensates.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, that's my wor.

[Mike Wright]

If DeMarcado had more catches than Michael Carter, it would not shock me. By the way, Marvin Harrison, dope league or his season high 98 yards last week. But I guess he's a player you play and you just hope it works out.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Let's go to the Michael Pittman whisperer. Jason.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, this week I think he is a fine like flex option. He's someone that you just need to look at what other options you have available. The, the Cardinals passing defense has been actually pretty good.

[Mike Wright]

Number one rated corner in the league is Will Johnson.

[Jason Moore]

Pittman has scored in four or five weeks.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, Will Johnson has been really, really good. So I expect Will Johnson, I don't think he's shadowing, but the primary receiver he'll be on more than anyone will be Michael Pittman. So I expect Michael Pittman to have an average to subpar game. But obviously Jonathan Taylor, the running back one on the season, the running back one on our hearts, the running back one on our redraft yesterday against the Cardinals who aren't fantastic at stopping the run at home, favored by a touchdown. You're good. I think the biggest question mark in this game is Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones has been pretty good.

[Mike Wright]

It seems like a start to me.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay.

[Mike Wright]

Tyler Warren is as well and Then Josh Downs did have his best game of the year last week. Eight targets for Josh Downs, six catches. PPR leagues. You can monitor it. Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

It sounds like Alec Pierce will be back, so I wonder.

[Mike Wright]

He doesn't bother me with Josh Downs, though.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, that's more of an AD And I Mitchell.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. Yeah. Or at this point it's, oh, gosh, who took over for AD And I Mitchell last week, whose name is completely escaping me. You guys have it over there.

[Jason Moore]

Let me pull up the depth chart because it's not.

[Mike Wright]

Gosh, why can I not pull his name out of my head?

[Andy Holloway]

Eugene Levy.

[Mike Wright]

No, no, it's not Eugene Levy. You can keep trying, Anthony.

[Jason Moore]

No, no, no, no. Ashton Doolin. Thank you.

[Mike Wright]

I knew I wasn't going to find it. Yeah. Josh Downs is out there on the field all the time and he had been a little banged up coming into the season. So we'll see. We'll see if he gets more snaps.

[Jason Moore]

I mean, yeah, it's 50%.

[Mike Wright]

He's always 50%.

[Jason Moore]

He's the slot wide receiver. And if you have a. Your good number two back, I don't know if they're going to want to have more slot snaps or not.

[Mike Wright]

Chargers are three and two. They take on the Miami Dolphins, who are one and four. Vegas line here. Chargers minus four and a half over unders 44 and a half. Okay.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, yes.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, yeah. Andy's almost upset of the week.

[Jason Moore]

I didn't want to say it, but I was thinking it.

[Andy Holloway]

I got bad news for you. I got bad news.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, you agree?

[Andy Holloway]

I agree.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, that can be bad. That's bad news for me.

[Andy Holloway]

Usually when I'm shocked, you do better.

[Mike Wright]

But it only happens when you get to the line. The line is what it is. And it hits you. This is one of them. The Dolphins are at home. The Chargers are reeling their running game. Who knows if they have one this week?

[Andy Holloway]

Their offline is trashed right now. And the Dolphins have added their best weapon to the. To the roster that wasn't there to start the year, which is Darren Waller.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. And they're. Yeah. I just think this game is going to be, at a minimum, very, very close. And that's a pretty heavy road favorite there at four and a half. The Chargers offense, you mentioned it. The offensive lines allowed the third most pressures in the entire league. We'll see if the Dolphins, who don't normally get a lot of pressure on the quarterback, can do that. But Justin Herbert, he's not top 20 fantasy points since week one. I'd play Stafford over Herbert. I'd play Fields over Herbert.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, I wouldn't go that.

[Jason Moore]

I don't blame you.

[Mike Wright]

It's a lot easier for Fields to pick up the points. I would just with the low lakes.

[Andy Holloway]

My counter argument here is that Justin Herbert has been running a ton and in this game they're not going to have success.

[Jason Moore]

Why isn't he not topping 20 fantasy points, Jason?

[Andy Holloway]

Because they've had a great running game with Amarian Hampton, Najee before he went down. There's been a lot of rushing touchdowns since Hampton's breakout. I don't expect those to be coming.

[Jason Moore]

60 rushing yards and last week for Justin Herbert and 14 fans, who was the quarterback twice.

[Mike Wright]

Well, he's turning the ball over. I mean, that is happening every week right now. He said four picks in the last three games. I just don't really want to play Herbert on the road with the offensive line and the running game that it is right now.

[Jason Moore]

Still good with the wideouts, though.

[Mike Wright]

Look, you really need to monitor the hamstring injury for Quentin Johnston. So that started getting flagged yesterday. He was limited in practice, Couldn't practice in full, which is another way of staying limited. I wonder how many ways I could have said that. Well, he played the whole practice. He partially practiced, partially practiced, played some of the practice. But lad McConkey last week, McConkey ended up getting back into the end zone. He was 5 for 39, though. I would have loved to have not. You know, that's not great. You know, his yardage the last four weeks, 48, 41, 11 and 39. The touchdown saved his week last week. Otherwise he was going to be in the same boat he's been in. I. I feel okay with Keenan Quentin Johnson if he's healthy. Lad McConkey in a pinch.

[Andy Holloway]

It's so tough here with the running game because this is a great matchup. You want to play. Oh, you mean. Yeah, exactly. You want to play running backs against Miami. We don't know for sure whether it's Haskins or Vidal.

[Jason Moore]

Did you see the Harbaugh quote? I tweeted it out. It was.

[Andy Holloway]

I did see it.

[Jason Moore]

But Jim Harbaugh quote. They both played well in the game and I think their time to shine.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes.

[Mike Wright]

Thank you, Jim. That's the. Wait.

[Jason Moore]

That was the.

[Mike Wright]

I think their time to shine.

[Jason Moore]

They both played well in the game and I think their time to shine. I don't have.

[Mike Wright]

It's in there.

[Jason Moore]

No, no.

[Mike Wright]

Period stop. Is there a period stop. At the end?

[Jason Moore]

There is a comma. I mean, I don't know.

[Mike Wright]

You didn't say the comma when you were reading. Oh, I couldn't follow.

[Jason Moore]

So I didn't hear the quote. I just read it from a beat reporter.

[Mike Wright]

I like Vidal more.

[Andy Holloway]

You like Vidal more?

[Mike Wright]

I do.

[Andy Holloway]

I like Haskins more. But I understand, like, I'm not by any means bullish.

[Mike Wright]

I like neither a lot.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, that's. But like Kareem Hunt, who's.

[Mike Wright]

I play him over these guys against Detroit. Yep.

[Jason Moore]

I'd call my shot on a Chargers guy.

[Mike Wright]

That's fine.

[Andy Holloway]

This is why. This is why it was tough where we said if you spend a lot of money on Fab, you're going to feel, you know, really committed to starting them. And you might need that first week, this week to figure out how the depth chart breaks down here. And neither guy is really good. And they're playing behind a banged up offensive line.

[Mike Wright]

So Devon Achan is a lock.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Waddle is a lock. Waller is a lock.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Miami's.

[Andy Holloway]

I love teams like that. It's like, just check out, you know. Oh, do we want to play with Malik Washington? No. No, we don't. Oh, what about Ollie Gordon? Shut up. Just put the three guys in in all your lineups and I do.

[Jason Moore]

I didn't fully see what happened there with Malik Washington. How does a man with a long reception of 8 yards on the day end up 4 for 0?

[Andy Holloway]

You run backwards screen game garbage. Yeah, he. So I watched rewatched every snap of the Dolphins offense. And Malik Washington, he's very, very fast. He will end up getting some screened open long touchdown probably a few times this year. But outside of those individual plays, he's not a very good wide receiver. He's not developed enough.

[Mike Wright]

You're talking about Malik. Yeah, Malik. Malik would have been interesting if Waller didn't emerge.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I agree with that.

[Mike Wright]

They would have had to.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, they would need someone. But Waller looks like their best weapon. Right.

[Mike Wright]

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[Mike Wright]

All right, the New England Patriots, fresh off the big victory last week against the Bills. They're three and two. They go to New Orleans to take on the Saints, who are one and four. Vegas line, New England minus three and a half. The overrunners 45 and a half. I will say this, there are bad teams in football, and the Saints are one of them. But they play harder than the other bad teams.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, they do. They really do.

[Mike Wright]

They like Spencer Rattler.

[Andy Holloway]

They seem like they're having fun.

[Mike Wright]

He gives it a college try every single time he's out there. They try hard. They play well for their coach. They make games even if they lose them. They've been close. They were close against Arizona, they were close against San Francisco, they were close.

[Andy Holloway]

Against Buffalo, and they're more fun to watch, which, maybe that's not relevant for NFL purposes, but for fantasy purposes, the pace of play that Kellen Moore has always instituted is fast. You get more plays in, you get more points scored. That's, you know, that's why we've got Olave and Joanne Johnson in this kind of mediocre matchup from a bad team where you're like, yeah, you can start these guys because they're going to drop back and throw it a lot.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, no, it's true. And they won last week going for the winning streak.

[Jason Moore]

What do you do with Alvin Camara this week?

[Andy Holloway]

I think you play him if he plays. Really personally. Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

I mean, the Patriots defense is great against the run, but I can. Dre Miller's. He's both. He's a receiver and a runner.

[Jason Moore]

And I. Andre, snaps are going up. He just, he. He freaks me out.

[Mike Wright]

We saw the injury last week. Like, if you were watching that game and you watched it, Camara, it happened in the game, like the injury that I saw. So that's why you mentioned the Wednesday one.

[Jason Moore]

Right.

[Mike Wright]

If it's the same injury, he definitely got banged up in the game because he limped off the field. I don't know if that's why, but.

[Andy Holloway]

He was playing 70, 80% of the snaps all year. And then this last week he played 56% of the snaps.

[Mike Wright]

I'm sure I'm with Jason on the. I would start him for sure if he was active, but not with a high ceiling.

[Jason Moore]

He scares me.

[Mike Wright]

Everybody on the Saints offense is. Their ceiling has been limited. Like Olave is a player you can play but it's PPRs.

[Andy Holloway]

The ceiling is 15 points.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah and it's the same with Camara, really is. He's been kind of capped. They're not, you know, they're trying hard. It's all I'm saying. Juwan Johnson's your start of the week. I'm not going to say that that's an easy start. No, that's a very hard thing to do after a couple of down weeks.

[Andy Holloway]

He's a lower in start to me.

[Mike Wright]

But like is it two down weeks or three? Two.

[Andy Holloway]

I've got him ahead of Najoku who just had a good game ahead of Mason Taylor who's getting targets.

[Mike Wright]

Oh really?

[Andy Holloway]

That's kind of where I would slot him in. He's still not a high end start. He's my tight end 10 right now on the week. So nine other guys I'd play ahead of him. But yeah, I think he's. I think he's going to get, you know, five receptions.

[Mike Wright]

Drake May on the other side, your start of the week at quarterback. Jason, I am going to say something here on the show that I'm not proud of. Oh, you know we've been together a long time. The Foot Clan, the producers, everybody here. I'm not proud of this but I actively and intentionally, you know, I'm not going to blame ignorance here. I went out and I did it on purpose. I traded for a Montre Stevenson. I traded for the Fumbler, the great Fumbler. And I did it because I think that his role is going to be extremely secure rest of season. I do not think. I was never a Travion Henderson truther right. When it came to the collegiate tape and where he was going to go in the draft and whether I thought he was a three down back. I fully respect the talent, the big playability. He's electric. I love the dude but I am convinced that this team is hyper committed to Ramon Ray Stevenson enough so to where I went and tried to get him. You know Mike Vrabel had a an interview yesterday.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I saw that one.

[Mike Wright]

Did you watch that? Yeah. Where he's talking about the fact that like and this it's not. It wasn't showmanship. He wasn't trying to give you a line about forgiving a guy that made a mistake. He basically was just saying like, like if I thought Ramon Dre wasn't trying to improve in this area of his game and get better and we. Then, then I, it would be one thing. But he's like, this is not just Ramondre's fault. This is. There's guys standing around that weren't blocking players. You know, he was talking about the fact that basically this is a non issue right now for, for this team. And you can see it because he fumbled in the beginning of last week, which was his third fumble and they immediately get him back in there for two red zone opportunities. To me, this is a great matchup for Andre Stevenson against the Saints and I think he's going to be a better player in this game.

[Andy Holloway]

I think he's going to be, you know, a top 24 back rest of season. He'll. He'll get enough work. He is still involved in the passing game. He is involved near the goal line. When he gets there, I think Travion Henderson will get more and more workload. Obviously with Antonio Gibson going down, these two guys are going to split. So it's kind of a. The arrow is pointed up on both. But Ramon Dre, I agree with you. He's. He's secure. People kind of wanted to laugh about him, wanted to just punt him off a bridge, but the Patriots didn't, don't and aren't going to. And, and the thing is, is his contract that he has like he is a massive part of this franchise for at least the next two years. He's got him. You know he is this year. Next year they couldn't cut him unless they wanted to take on an $8 million dead cap. And there's no reason to cut him because he's, he's a valuable player for them. So this is not someone that is not part of their plans.

[Mike Wright]

What's interesting is they are passing to the running back position extremely well in New England this year. Ramondre has caught 13 of 14 targets. Travion's caught 15 of 16 targets. So both of those guys in the 90th percentile, which is, you know, that's that Rashad White from a couple years ago number. They are throwing it to both players and they're doing it well. Henderson is still on that RJ Harvey watch it situation. Maybe a spot start. Mike, I would.

[Jason Moore]

I'm not going to disagree with any of the Stevenson stuff. There is.

[Mike Wright]

What are you doing with Ramondre this week in terms of the start sit his Highest finish this year. He was at 26 in week four.

[Jason Moore]

I mean he started, he was the name I was going to bring up for Camara was like, oh really?

[Mike Wright]

I couldn't get there.

[Jason Moore]

They're, they're very, very close in my rankings. I don't, like I said, I don't disagree. It, you know, we're only what, what, five weeks in.

[Mike Wright]

Yep.

[Jason Moore]

It reminds me of to a lesser, to a degree, not apples to apples, but Jameer, when Jameer Gibbs started and we were all so frustrated at the Detroit Lions of how do you spend that draft capital on a running back? And then you're just, you're not utilizing him a lot. You're splitting him. And then though, and then Austin Eckler had a video there where he came out and he's like, I watched Gibbs, he's like, he's, there's things that he's doing wrong because he's still new to the NFL and it's, you know, we, we want these guys as just ready, game day, ready. And they're, they're kids coming from college and they're making a big transition into a professional game. So it, to me it just says Henderson's not where he needs to be. And until he gets there, Ramondre will be disgustingly playable for fantasy football.

[Mike Wright]

That's the whole feeling right there. No one's rooting for Ramondre and they're rooting for Travion Henderson.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, that's true.

[Mike Wright]

But Travion has not been some incredible runner so far. Even if he's making mistakes in the past. Protection, that hasn't happened. And it's hard for a 200 pound running back to be the guy.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

And happen very often.

[Jason Moore]

I don't know if he will take over at this point now with what we've seen, but we saw, you know, his highest snapshare of the season of his young career, 50% last week, nine opportunities. So he is like, he is playable as a, like a double flex.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. And five weeks into any of these rookie careers that you haven't seen it yet. Like it's still kind of just like you said, 43% of the snaps were the first month of, of Jameer Gibbs career.

[Mike Wright]

It's, it's a good argument, but it's also there's players like Quentin Johnson or Quinton Judkins.

[Andy Holloway]

You want them to break out immediately. Oh yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Well, I mean you just see it instantaneously is all I'm saying. So it's, it's a tough balance. Do you. I mean where do you think he gets to this year? Jay, you think at any point this year you're going to want to start Travion over Ramondre?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I think. I think there will be a point in this season where they are both getting enough work, where the explosive plays will be on the Henderson side.

[Mike Wright]

Hunter Henry. I feel very comfortable still playing him because he's out there a lot.

[Jason Moore]

He is the. It has been different. It's been different. Stefan Diggs, like, was all of a sudden healed. Was it Stefan? What's that all about after I dropped you?

[Mike Wright]

It takes time. Yeah, but it was. Would you play Henry or no.

[Jason Moore]

In a. I'm okay with it. But it. Stefan Diggs is just. He is taking all the targets.

[Mike Wright]

Henry or Joanne Johnson.

[Andy Holloway]

Weird.

[Jason Moore]

I'd play. I think that Juwan is a safer guy to get you like six to seven. But where Henry can be ten plus or zero.

[Mike Wright]

Cleveland's one in four. They take on the Pittsburgh Steelers at three and one in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh off the buy. So you got two weeks of resting and preparation for Mike Tomlin in Pittsburgh at home, a defense that has been sacking the living crap out of the opposing quarterback the last couple of games.

[Andy Holloway]

Dylan Gabriel.

[Mike Wright]

Come on, Gabriel. You are now the next man up. I think quarterback 41 for the Browns in the last, oh, handful of years. Yeah, well, yeah, it's going to go how we expect. Pittsburgh minus five and a half. The over under is 37 and a half. Cleveland's a great defense. You want to respect that. You know, I would think that if Cleveland's defense wasn't what it was, Pittsburgh would be favored by a lot more than five and a half. Can they slow down, you know, Aaron Rodgers enough to make this a close game? It's possible. It definitely is.

[Andy Holloway]

I think they can. Their defense is great and I don't look at the Pittsburgh Steelers offense as something anywhere near unstoppable. So.

[Mike Wright]

No, it could be close.

[Andy Holloway]

I think that if the Browns win, it'll be from, you know, a sack. Fumble returned. And in a game that, you know, doesn't hit 25 total points in the game.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, the over unders 37 and a half. If I didn't say that.

[Andy Holloway]

You did.

[Jason Moore]

Blarf.

[Mike Wright]

That's 16 points for Cleveland, 21 for Pittsburgh. Who will get Jalen Warren back. Full practice for Warren. The Kenneth Gainwell experience, while brief, was amazing, but Jalen Warren's back in there. DK Metcalf. I haven't been happy with the target totals yet. I don't know if I'm going to be.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm surprised by him too.

[Jason Moore]

So strange. So DK Metcalf feels a little bit like Marv is at a 21% target share. You sent picks and gave him the bag and you're giving him 21% of the targets. That is like, that's unacceptable football management.

[Mike Wright]

It's unacceptable and yet completely in line with Arthur Smith and the willingness to use backs and tight ends. They have two valuable tight ends. They have two pass catching running backs and it's just. It's Arthur Smith, man.

[Jason Moore]

Sure, it's gross.

[Andy Holloway]

Are you playing Jalen Warren who looked really, really good, but he's coming off of an injury. Let's just assume he plays. He was a full participant on Wednesday and he is the actual one that had the arrow pointed up.

[Jason Moore]

Right.

[Andy Holloway]

So if he's starting and he was so good beforehand, but you're playing against the Cleveland Browns who are completely shutting down any running back they face.

[Mike Wright]

Well, Jaylen Warren had 24 opportunities before he got hurt, right? Jason, we talked about Scatterboos touches, Tyrone Tracy, Kenny Gainwell. Which of those two would you play Jaylen Warren in this matchup against the Cleveland defense while he's at home or tonight?

[Andy Holloway]

Scatter Boo, man, that's really tough. I lean the Scatter Boo side simply because while we saw a lot of opportunities for Jalen Warren, I don't know if after the game we saw from Kenneth Gainwell mixed with him. With Jalen Warren coming off of an injury, I don't expect him to just be that dude that he was a couple of weeks ago.

[Mike Wright]

80% snaps.

[Andy Holloway]

Exactly. I don't think that's going to happen this game against.

[Mike Wright]

No, I probably agree with you on that one.

[Andy Holloway]

Is there any pass catcher you can start from the Browns?

[Mike Wright]

You can dart, throw the tight ends.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, sure.

[Mike Wright]

It's an area where the Steelers are struggling.

[Andy Holloway]

Gabriel, sign the terms of terms of.

[Jason Moore]

Service if you're going to play them.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

You know what you're signing up for?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Is there refunds?

[Andy Holloway]

No, no. No refunds. No refunds. It's pretty much a scratcher, but yeah, I mean last week targeting the tight.

[Jason Moore]

Ends, but you could scratch it and then a fist just comes through and punches you in the face.

[Andy Holloway]

Gabriel was 10 of 13 for 80 yards and two touchdowns targeting the tight ends. So it's a position that, that at least we know he likes.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, that was against Minnesota last week. Judkins is the. The one that you auto start.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, you do.

[Mike Wright]

It always works out for you with Judkins, he's just, he's just really, really good.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

You watch him play Animal. It takes like, it took like two snaps. That's the wild thing. Two snaps. For you to know that Judkins was way better than anything that they had.

[Andy Holloway]

Do you guys remember Dylan Sampson?

[Mike Wright]

No. No, I don't.

[Andy Holloway]

Neither do the Browns.

[Mike Wright]

Dallas is two. Two and one taking on the Carolina Panthers, who are now two and three. The Vegas line. Dallas on the road minus three over under 49 and a half. I like that. I like that. Dak. Yep. You play him, George Pickens. Uh huh. Absolutely. Jake Ferguson, the number one tight end in fantasy. Yep.

[Jason Moore]

Against the 31st ranked team against fantasy tight ends.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. He can't be a start of the week because he's just like, you know, you always got to play him now. But Dak, Javante Pickens, Ferguson sign out.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Well, then it's the.

[Andy Holloway]

What are you doing? Okay, hold up. So do you real. I just want to point this out. Right now in the season, Dak is the quarterback. Three. Right now in the season, Javante Williams is the running back. Four.

[Jason Moore]

Okay.

[Andy Holloway]

Right now, George Pickens is the wide receiver. Five.

[Jason Moore]

Yes.

[Andy Holloway]

And Juwan is the. Is the tight end. One. Jake Ferguson is the tight end one. Like they're top five in all four positions.

[Mike Wright]

And let's give us.

[Andy Holloway]

That's because their defense.

[Mike Wright]

Give a round of applause to the defense. Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, yeah. Cowboys. Even Micah Parson Jones. Get out of here.

[Mike Wright]

We'll give a thumbs up to Jerry Jones.

[Jason Moore]

Whoa, careful, careful.

[Andy Holloway]

Is this my thumb?

[Jason Moore]

It's Look, I've given Mike. I've given thumbs up to people. It's just, it's a confusing thing to do.

[Mike Wright]

It's hard to know.

[Andy Holloway]

And then you want to point, right?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep.

[Mike Wright]

250,000.

[Jason Moore]

Is that my middle finger? Is that my thumb? I don't know. I'm too old.

[Mike Wright]

I'm a general manager.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. But also I can make really, really good decisions.

[Mike Wright]

Well, Bryce was your stream of the week this week. Carolina, they are at home. They've had stretches where they've looked okay. Stretches where they've looked real bad. But you've got starts of the week throughout this game. Rico Dowdle, Ted McMillan brought them both up. I don't think you go anywhere else. I mean, last week, you know, there were some whispers. Maybe Tommy Trimble does something. He was Tommy terrible. It was not good. He had one catch, so you don't do that.

[Andy Holloway]

And Xavier Leggett, I got a bunch of tweets because he had a, you know, he had a.

[Mike Wright]

He was a nice catch.

[Andy Holloway]

Nice catch on a touchdown. Very good 24 yard touchdown.

[Jason Moore]

Is that his only catch of the week?

[Andy Holloway]

No, he had one other one for seven yards. Okay, so this is, you know, I mean I still hope the man develops into something. It's just he won't.

[Mike Wright]

And there you go, there's that matchup. Seattle's three and two taking on Jacksonville. It seems like a fun game. 47 and a half point over under Jacksonville - one and a half at home. Both teams implied point totals 23, 24 and a half. You know Sam Darnold right now leading the NFL dude in yards per attempt.

[Andy Holloway]

What a story.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, he looks great and JSN looks like his puka Nakua, you know what I mean? It's his go to can count on him at every turn. You have explosive play potential and Tory Horton every week you've got Cooper cup there to be your solid veteran receiver Barner and Arroyo weapons in the passing game. It's looked very, I mean they are, you know a Baker Mayfield game winning drive which every team seems to be one of those away from a win. But they could be four and one right now. Playing great on the offensive side, a good defense, very impressive altogether. And then Jacksonville, you can't say enough about their defense and how they've played. And while not always looking perfect on offense, still winning ball games four and one.

[Andy Holloway]

These are two fun teams. These are two really, really fun teams. Jacksonville's favored by a point and a.

[Mike Wright]

Half and I love Seattle's been bet a lot.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I think, I love that for Seattle. This is a fun game. Travis ETN has looked very good. Bashel Tuden has taken a step or two backwards and he is.

[Jason Moore]

He didn't get his toot.

[Andy Holloway]

No, he didn't.

[Jason Moore]

Are we done?

[Andy Holloway]

He needs, he needs to eat some more beans. But yeah, I mean you can confidently start ETN I think rest of season. He looks like he is established. They got rid of Tank and we thought it was going to be a 50, 50 time split with ETN and Tutinus.

[Jason Moore]

Are you going to jump in with Travis Hunter with the Brenton Strange injury and the words of optimism that he will receive more work.

[Andy Holloway]

No, he's an extremely talented wide receiver and athlete and I'm fine if you need a dart throw. I put him in my lineup last.

[Mike Wright]

Week and it worked out tomorrow.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, there you go. But it really is to me it's a dart throw. I don't think he is Josh Downs Involved Travis Hunter. I would go Josh Downs.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, I think I'd go Hunter.

[Mike Wright]

I'm feeling all right about Hunter in this one.

[Jason Moore]

What about A.J. barner, who quietly has been in the top 10 three of five weeks?

[Andy Holloway]

Are all those touchdowns.

[Jason Moore]

Not last week. Seven for 53. With two of them.

[Andy Holloway]

With two. Okay, so.

[Jason Moore]

But seven for 53.

[Andy Holloway]

Sure, sure, sure.

[Jason Moore]

With the, with the.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm just saying all of the weeks where he had a good fantasy output. He had touchdowns.

[Mike Wright]

Yes, that is correct. Yeah, yeah. He's, he's in that, you know, Kate Otten category.

[Jason Moore]

Keep an eye on him with Garner.

[Andy Holloway]

I feel like I would rather play someone that I'm confident in the targets like Kate Otten and not necessarily requiring the touchdown. But I'm definitely keeping an eye on him and he's a young tight end who is looking good.

[Mike Wright]

There's officially too many tight ends in this weird category. There really are. Because you can make a kind of little case for almost every single team's tight end and it's not. It will make you feel very good unless you have a big guy. Etn you talked about Brian Thomas though. Five receptions in just one of the five games. So the tar. The reception totals haven't been there. To me, he is still a trade for candidate. I'm going to keep him in that category. I hope some teams are getting impatient and will trade him.

[Andy Holloway]

He is definitely as he falls off a lot of people's trade for target lists. That is when he becomes actually available if you want to trade for him. It's been a rough ride.

[Jason Moore]

It has.

[Andy Holloway]

You know, he's looked okay.

[Jason Moore]

He finally hit 10 points.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, he did finally hit 10 points but you know, 80 yards. I agree with you, Andy. I would, I would go after him.

[Mike Wright]

And Britain Strange is on IR so we don't have that option anymore. The Rams are 3 and 2. They take on the Baltimore Ravens who are failing each and every week right now. They've been the wildest story of football because it seemed, it just seemed automatic. Like they just win. That's just what they do. The rams favored those seven and a half point road favorites over under is 44 and a half. Lamar Jackson unlikely to play. So we can kind of blitz this game.

[Jason Moore]

The Ravens are wild because the Rams are number two against fantasy running backs right now. Derek Henry in games that Baltimore does not lead or win is pretty much a disaster like Derek Henry.

[Mike Wright]

Are you making the start sit decision with him this week?

[Andy Holloway]

You are? Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

He is not a must start.

[Mike Wright]

Ramon Dre Stevenson or Derek Henry.

[Andy Holloway]

I mean that.

[Jason Moore]

That one. I have enough self respect to play.

[Mike Wright]

Okay. Like Trayvon Henderson or Derek Henry.

[Jason Moore]

I. Ooh, I think I might go. I might go Henderson Cam.

[Andy Holloway]

Scatter Boo or Derek Henry.

[Jason Moore]

I think I'd play Scatterboo.

[Mike Wright]

Oh my gosh. Michael Carter or Derek Henry?

[Jason Moore]

Michael Carter, I think.

[Mike Wright]

How low can your voice get?

[Jason Moore]

Real low.

[Mike Wright]

Zay Flowers has been limited with a shoulder injury. Are you. Do you have any pass catching confidence without Lamar there? Mike?

[Jason Moore]

No, I was fine with Cooper Rush. Yeah, that was clearly not great. Zay Flowers ended up okay by the end of that game. But they. The injury combined with. Who is the quarterback Zay Flowers is. He's a scary player.

[Mike Wright]

There's a world where you just don't want to play any Raven this week.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I mean if I were to play a Raven, it would be Zay Flowers. As far as like.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I agree with that.

[Mike Wright]

I think he of the past catchers he. Or do you mean even with Henry?

[Andy Holloway]

I'm saying he would cycle in among wide receivers higher than Derek Henry would cycle in among.

[Mike Wright]

What if he had a flex spot and you had to start one of the two?

[Andy Holloway]

I would feel more confident in Zay Flowers. I expect the Rams to be up. I think that the. That the Ravens are going to have to throw the ball.

[Mike Wright]

I'm going to. I'm going to stick on the slightly more optimistic around Henry side of things. He still managed to get into the end zone last week in spite of a awful, awful game. They'll give him the touches, so I'm going to just lean on that. Stafford is my start of the week for the Rams. You play Kyron. You play Puka. You play Devonte Adams.

[Jason Moore]

Yep.

[Mike Wright]

This is an easy one.

[Jason Moore]

Yes, sir.

[Mike Wright]

There aren't question marks there. I will say this. Tyler Higby didn't practice been banged up. Ferguson I think got into the end zone last week. Just keep an eye on him. Terence Ferguson is a prospect tight end. A draft pick that we really like. The film on the team actively went out and really looked at him as a future pass catching tight end. I'm not saying to do it. I'm just saying deeper leagues, dynasty leagues. Make sure he's not sitting there. Yeah, he had a sick catch last week. That was Fantasy forecast presented by prize picks. Join millions of users and Sign up for America's number one fantasy sports app. Use the code footballers and get $50 in lineups when you play. $5 more matchups on tomorrow's show and the fantasy face off with the Wheel of Shame. We'll spin it again. I won't.

[Andy Holloway]

I won't.

[Mike Wright]

No, no, no, no.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

There's the troll. And stick with us through Sunday, Sunday Live. Mike will be with you over on YouTube so you can check that out. YouTube.com the fantasy football goodbye.

[Jason Moore]

Enjoy the football.

[Andy Holloway]

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