Fantasy Football Takeaways: Fact or Fiction + Week 6 Waiver Wire & Trade Advice | Out of Bounds (Ep. 1757)

Summary

FantasyPros Fantasy Football Podcast - Out of Bounds (Ep. 1757)

Episode Date: October 7, 2025
Hosts: Joey P. (Joe Pisapia) & Welsh (Chris Welsh)
Episode Theme: Week 6 Takeaways, Fact or Fiction, Waivers & Trade Advice

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Overview

In this lively episode, Joey P. and Welsh break down all the chaos in the NFL heading into Week 6, with insights on waiver wire pickups, trade targets, and fact-or-fiction rapid-fire takes on the week’s biggest fantasy storylines. With Scott Bogman "on a bye," the duo also dives deep into listener questions live from Twitch, giving actionable and entertaining advice for every fantasy football manager.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

NFL Parity and League Overview

[00:31–03:24]

• Parity Rules: No undefeated teams remain; only one winless team (Jets), which is the second fastest in NFL history.
  "This is tied for the second quickest in NFL history... no undefeated teams. We have one winless team, the jets. And a lot of parody in the league going on." – Joey P. [00:31]
• Welsh on Parity: Welcomes parity, albeit joking it's ruining gambling.

Twitch/YouTube Community and Giveaways

[03:24–04:16]

• Devon Achane Autograph Jersey Giveaway (Twitch subscribers get odds boost).
• Emphasis on interactivity, answering live questions, and jokes about "questions with asses" (hosts being 'asses', audience asking the questions).

Early League Notes: Patriots/49ers/QB Questions

[04:16–04:51]

• Patriots optimism: Joey P. excited for Drake May and the Patriots’ new franchise QB.
• 49ers QB Situation: Joey P. teases a "counterback controversy" with Mac Jones vs. Brock Purdy.
  "One of the dumbest things you've said in a long time is that anybody thinks there's a controversy with Mac Jones..." – Welsh [03:24]
• Welsh shuts down any “controversy” talk—Purdy is the starter.

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Waiver Wire & Player Drop Questions

[04:51–06:44]

• Droppables: DiMarcado, Christian Kirk, and Keon Coleman.
  • Welsh: Strongly recommends dropping DiMarcado after a critical fumble cost his team a win:
    "DiMarcado is one of the dumber players I've seen in a long time... he literally cost his team the game." [05:00]
  • Kirk: Can be dropped if waiver options are available; Coleman is a hold due to target share.
    "Keon Coleman... is the non cuttable player." – Welsh [06:09]

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Trade Value & Buy/Sell Advice

Justin Jefferson Trade Value

[06:44–09:55]

• Jefferson is Elite: Both hosts say Justin Jefferson remains top-tier despite who is at QB.
• Buy/Sell Logic: If trading him, it must be for a legit RB1 and comparable WR (e.g., Judkins + Adams). Joey P. is not looking to "sell low."

Derrick Henry Panic Meter

[09:55–11:47]

• Panicking Henry Managers: While Henry has struggled, both see him as a buy-low, not a panic sell. "I hate massively talented players on a two week bad turn, then talking about how we have to sell them..." – Welsh [11:02]

Ravens in Crisis?

[11:47–14:52]

• Ravens Defensive Woes: Allowed 35+ points in four games.
• Not Beyond Repair: Offense is potent enough if Lamar is healthy. "Their defense feels like it's beyond repair, but they are not beyond repair..." – Welsh [12:25]
• Better as Chasers? Joey P. floats the idea Ravens could thrive chasing, not leading the pack.

CMC vs. Jamar Chase Trade

[14:52–16:11]

• CMC Workload: Despite heavy usage, Welsh prefers Christian McCaffrey to Jamar Chase for rest of season. "CMC also looks great... he's super efficient... give me CMC over Jamar." – Welsh [14:52]

A.J. Brown/Ferguson/Chase Brown for Diggs/Cook Trade

[17:02–18:51]

• Fair Trade: Favors Diggs/Cook side; Ferguson's volume will drop when Lamb returns, and Diggs with Drake May presents WR1 upside.

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Key Takeaways & Moments of the Week

Baker Mayfield, aMecha Egbuka, and Analytics Beef

[19:13–21:28]

• Baker Mayfield: "Road dog" magic continues, defies expectations.
• Egbuka’s Emergence: Draft steal, stats defy poor analytics grades (notably criticized for “worst open score”).
  "He always finds a way to get open in big spots. Baker Mayfield's looking for him and it's just awesome." – Joey P. [21:18]
• Challenging Analytics: Disputes stats discrediting Egbuka and Jamar Chase.

Stefon Diggs Is Unleashed

[21:28–23:08]

• Diggs’ REMARKABLE Week: Finally fully integrated in Patriots offense, massive target share, mid-tier WR2 with upside. "We are now in unleashed Stefon Diggs territory. This week alone he had the third highest first read percentage..." – Welsh [21:28]

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Listener Q&A: Fact or Fiction Lightning Round

[30:47–41:54]

• Calvin Ridley “Back”? Adjacent, but not fully; closer to WR3/4 range.
  "He's adjacent to back.” – Welsh [31:17]
• Carson Wentz Should Start ROS for Vikings? Fiction—J.J. McCarthy eventually needs to start.
• Dowdle Stole the Starting Job? Not a "bell cow," but now in a firm timeshare; should be picked up.
• QJ > AJ Brown rest of season? Welsh: Fact, Joey: Fiction—Eagles’ offense too run-heavy for AJB’s upside.
• Jameson Williams droppable? No (Bigger play at home, flex only).
• Kyle Pitts or Darren Waller rest of season (TE)? Split: Welsh leans Waller’s volume/upside; Joey hesitates but sees argument.
• Raiders QB Change Week 6? Joey: Fact, Welsh: Fiction.
• Cowboys good enough offensively for playoffs despite bad D? Both: Fiction.
• Egbuka 1st round pick (2026)? Fiction, likely 2nd round but with upside.
• Derrick Henry RB1 finish (season)? Both: Fact due to injury attrition/Tennessee volume.

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Notable & Memorable Quotes

• "I think this is the dumbest play in the NFL in the last five years..." – Welsh, on DiMarcado’s goal-line fumble [29:58]
• "We are now in unleashed Stefan Diggs territory." – Welsh [21:28]
• "Always trust Baker Mayfield on the road as an underdog. It never fails." – Joey P. [19:13]
• "Analytics model isn't Very good if you have a Mecha Egbuka that far down." – Joey P. [23:49]

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Other Noteworthy Moments

• Mac Jones eating a banana while being worked on (lighthearted, mentioned as ‘moment of the week’).
• Banana handed to Mac Jones ALREADY PEELED: “You know you’ve made it when someone hands you a banana already peeled…” – Joey P. [27:29]
• Audience now dominates show flow: “I’m loving this show more and more every week because … the audience is basically dictating the entire show.” – Joey P. [36:15]

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Week 6 3-1-1 Predictions

• Joey P.: Dak Prescott (passer) vs. CAR, Saquon Barkley (rusher) vs. NYG, Mecha Egbuka (receiver) vs. SF [43:28]
• Bogman: Josh Allen, Josh Jacobs, JSN
• Welsh: Matthew Stafford, Ashton Genti, Puka Nacua – specifically highlighting the Ravens’ poor defense

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Waiver Recommendations / Trade Advice Recap

• Top Waiver Interest: Rico Dowdle (“Now a firm timeshare, flex potential”)
• Trade Targets: Buy-low on Derrick Henry, AJ Brown (per Bogman), Stefon Diggs (rising value)
• Drop Candidates: DiMarcado, Christian Kirk (if better options exist)

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Listener Engagement

• Fact or Fiction: Audience-driven segment, live questions major focus.
• Discord, Twitch, YouTube: Continuous push for audience to join, interact, and subscribe (Devon Achane jersey giveaway).

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Final Thoughts

• Parody and unpredictability rule 2025 NFL, making fantasy plays less certain but loaded with opportunity.
• Hosts encourage leaning into player talent over two-week slumps, hunting value in waivers/trades, and not overreacting to recency bias.
• Next episode will build on more audience-led show structure, emphasizing interactive fact-or-fiction, Q&A, and live trade debates.

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For more insights, head to FantasyPros’ Discord, Twitch, and YouTube channels to join the growing interactive community and get your questions answered live.

Transcript

[Joey P.]

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[Joey P.]

Welcome in, everybody, to fantasy pros. This is out of bounds. It is me, Joey P. Joe P. Zapia. With me, of course, is the Welsh. Scott Bogman is out this week. He's on a buy, which is a good thing for him. He's just kind of relaxing. Do we have a live clip right now? Scott Bogman on his bi. Oh, there it is. There's Scott Bogman enjoying the bye week. There you go. Just like the Pittsburgh Steelers were watching. The Cincinnati Bengals, the Browns, and of course the Ravens lose again. Crazy times in the league, Welsh. Because we have no more undefeated teams, this is tied for the second quickest in NFL history. 2005, I believe, was the last time this happened. By the time we got to this week in the NFL, no undefeated teams. We have one winless team, the jets. And a lot of parody in the league going on. So how is that treating you? How you liking the parody with where everybody's gonna be, I don't know, three and three after next week?

[Welsh]

I'm pretty much here for parody. I like. I like a little bit of a mix. I don't like anybody taking it over. It's ruining a lot of gambling. There's some other stuff that's ruining a lot of gambling as well, but I'm here for it. And I like that live picture of Bogman on some bagawaska out there.

[Joey P.]

So hit him hard.

[Welsh]

By the way, you 100%. As we were gonna start the show, you almost called this leading off. I know you did. You. Because it's just you and I. You like. I could feel it in your soul that you were about to call this show leading off with just you and me.

[Joey P.]

Maybe it's not impossible. It's not impossible. And of course, we're here on our Twitch, Twitch TV Fantasy pros. That's the place to be. So we want you to drop your comments, your questions. We're gonna do some questions with asses right here at the top of the show, we being the asses, you being the guys asking the questions and the gals asking the questions. And of course you're watching back on our YouTube channel on fantasy Pro. So subscribe over there. And remember we've got a new giveaway. Check this one out. Welsh. It's a doozy. Look at this. Boom. Devon a Chan autograph jersey. Oh yeah. From pristineauction.com. yeah, this is where you get it from. Yeah, you're gonna go to pristineauction.com for all the autographs that you need. Dig it. So 8chan is the jersey up for grabs right now? Subscribers to the Twitch, by the way get one and a half times odds boost of winning this very giveaway. So if you want to enter, just leave a comment on any of our Twitch streams this week at Twitch TV fantasy pros. And again, if you're watching on YouTube, just pop over there and try to win this jersey. It's pretty sick right there. Even if it is a Dolphins jersey. And speaking of sick, the Dolphins are sick. Not in a good way though. Not in a good way. However, my Patriots have a franchise quarterback, Welsh. And I'm very excited about that. I watched Drake may become a man on prime time Sunday night football. It was great to watch deaf on Diggs back to back hundred yard games. I'm feeling pretty good about the future of the Patriots. We got a coach, we have got a quarterback. And Your San Francisco 49ers have a counterback controversy. You don't think so? I do. Matt Jones is one of the guys leading the leagues in passing and he hasn't even played every single day. How do you to Brock Pie.

[Welsh]

Hey, you're. You're one of the smarter people that I know and you usually say a lot of smart things. One of the dumbest things that you've said in a long time is that anybody thinks there's a controversy with Max Jones. I. I'm trying to remember who it was. It might have been Ericson actually. This was the dumbest thing I've heard. I affectionately say stupid. Somebody said they didn't think the ners wanted M. Jones to go all out because they didn't want him to start a quarterback controversy. This is the first time that's a stupid statement.

[Joey P.]

That's. That's a.

[Welsh]

This is stupid. There is no quarterback controversy. Mac Jones is a great backup. Good teams get backups. Brock Purdy's got the quarter of a billion dollars. He. When he's healthy, he's better. He's the quarterback. But guess what? The Niners are not absolutely done when Mac Jones is in at quarterback because they're all hurt. Wanda is still sucking in all the powers of all the players so Christian McCaffrey can stay healthy. There's no controversy.

[Joey P.]

All right, no controversy. Walsh says. All right, let's open things up here for the questions over on the Twitch here. Let's see, where should we start with today? And remember, no start sick questions. I just want to say that because. Start sick questions again for tonight. This is going to air tomorrow. Nobody wants to watch that. Let's go with Worth Lake. Seems like a lovely place to vacation in the summertime. Safe to drop D. Markado and Christian, Kirk and Coleman. Is it safe to drop these guys? I think it depends on your league, boy. D Markado. If only somebody this year had already dropped a ball before the end zone to remind everybody, hey, make sure you finish the play. If only that had happened this year already, Welsh. But how about these guys? D Markado, Kirk, Coleman. Do you want to drop these guys right now? Yeah.

[Welsh]

I mean, this is. This is another us getting ahead of the show sheet. My moment for this week and since we're doing it because I'm not going to just redo it later. DiMarcado is one of the dumber players I've seen in a long time. Like, I feel bad. I feel bad like as a human being for what happened, but it's beyond repair of like actually caring like you cost your team the win. Another player had done it the week before. There's nothing dumber than that. He should be cut. And there's. There's. I guess there's be some controversy today. I think a local radio is going to have on the coach, like kind of shoved him and got pissed and stuff. And DeMarcusado is very apologetic. There's no chance I'm saying all this. There's no chance he should be involved in this offense moving forward. Michael Carter was great. They like Bam Knight. I think they should cut D. They won't. He'll probably kind of sit in the wings. I don't think you have any real big need for DeMarcado if there's nothing to cut for. I don't make those moves. I know a lot of you guys out there, you're like, sure, I'll throw one out.

[Joey P.]

I just did a million waiver wires. This show. Show today. Let's. Would you cut. Pick up Tori Horton for Keon Coleman.

[Welsh]

Oh, for. Oh, you're going to Coleman. No, I'm Keon Coleman had an almost 30% first read share. Even though the touchdown Coleman. Coleman is the non cuttable player there. Kirk, you can go. Higgins had more usage. Noel gets getting usage. I don't think you have to hold on to Kirk. If there's something nice out there, I would cut Kirk. If you needed a one week push for a guy like Kendrick Bourne this week, I would do that. But, but I also think like I just, I don't see DeMarcato getting a run in this offense. It was all Michael Carter. They had some bam night and D literally cost this team the game. Not even like jokingly, figuratively, like he literally cost his team the game.

[Joey P.]

All right, Pancake, I see your baseball question and I love you for it. Maybe at the end of the show we'll try to sneak it in there. Let's go to a cheer question. Let's cheer. Let's cheer baby. Let's go. Here's one from Ajax pay. I don't know how you say that. What do you think would be fair one of these running backs to trade for Justin Jefferson and a half ppr, maybe a guy buy high option and a buy low option. I compare with a lower end replacement wide receiver. So let's talk about Justin Jefferson's trade value because I think that is the question here. Justin Jefferson still, no matter who's playing quarterback, gets open better than anybody else in the league. Justin Jefferson is still elite. Justin Jefferson put up numbers with Kirk Cousins, with Josh Johnson, he's put up numbers with JJ McCarthy with Carson Wentz. I'm not looking to certainly trade Justin Jefferson. But let's talk about trade value for Justin Jefferson just in a vacuum here because I think people are going to be looking around on it and people are wondering, hey, when you know J.J. mcCarthy comes back, does he take a hit? I say no. But let's put this out here for, you know, running backs are dropping like 5. So trying to get a running back here. Would you take Quinshon Judkins and Drake London for Justin Jefferson? Is that a fair trade or is that too much on one side?

[Welsh]

It's too much on the Judkins London side. I do that in a heartbeat.

[Joey P.]

Okay, so let's, let's go a notch below then how about let's stay with Judkins and let's say Debo Samuel. That's not enough, right?

[Welsh]

I don't love that. I mean Debo like absolutely dominated this week because he was like the number one option. So when he's the number one, he gets a lot of those shares. I think if, that. If. I don't know if they said this. If you're like, you know, 04 or whatever, I guess you'd be like 1 in 5 now. So if you're like one of those, I think you can make this for more depth. I think you could do that. Just Judkins is an RB1. He's RB1 adjacent. Like if he's not an RB1 yesterday.

[Joey P.]

I know it was early for you on the Westy coast side.

[Welsh]

Yeah, I watched the second half. Not waking up at six o' clock in the morning to watch.

[Joey P.]

Great. Of course, you know, it's funny because I made this comment on another show earlier today and it feels like the Browns are slowly, quietly, silently kind of remaking themselves into a much more athletic and interesting team. Like, you have Quinton Judkins and Fannon and Isaiah Bonds running all over the place and like, oh, maybe the Browns are kind of on to something here. Maybe they're starting to turn things around and now they pivot to Dylan Gabriel. And you know, it wasn't all bad with Dylan Gabriel. There were some good moments there from him. Certainly more athletic moments you're going to see from Joe Flacco at this stage of his life. But I think. I think what you're looking for is you're looking for a Judgins level running back and a wide receiver in that Devonte Adams is kind of realm. That's what it's got to be. But again, I'm not looking to move off Judd. Excuse me.

[Welsh]

I don't know if you. I just don't even get that. I think. I agree. I'm not trying to get off of Jefferson. If you're going on the high end, you still have to get something back. I think. Because I'm not even sure if like the, you know, I mean a Marion Hampton would have a good, good one, but he got banged up. You're not going to get Jonathan Taylor. So it's like the, the, the borderline there is like a cook or breeze, but you probably just have to settle lower. So I think the bar for the other, you know, if you get really Kim scatter boo as a running back, the bar for the wide receiver has to be up. I think it's just really tough. I wouldn't be selling Justin Jefferson like he's being sold at a low. I think that's the most important thing.

[Joey P.]

Here's one from It's Mason panic meter on Derrick Henry. This we got to talk about because I'm not sure if we're going to get Lamar Jackson back or not this week. It's early here. It's a Monday, we're recording this and the Ravens clearly have imploded. The offense with Cooper Rush yesterday was a disaster. The defense has nobody healthy on it and even when they were healthy, they weren't playing very well. You've lost so much in a short period of time. I know there's a lot of people saying, hey, there's still plenty of time because that division is soft. But you know what, like all the Steelers have to do is basically handle their business and split with the Ravens here in the season in order to win that division right now. But at Derrick Henry in terms of asset right now, I don't know if the fumbling got into his head there or if it's just a matter of like this offense just can't run the way it's currently constituted. I think it's more the latter. But he's an interesting buy low for me because at some point Lamar is healthy and at some point when you're making that stretch run, I'm actually the mind of buying Derrick Henry now. So the panic meter I think is real. I think it's pretty high for the Derrick Henry manager because outside of that first week it's been kind of rough. Welsh, you think, is he a buy or a sell right now?

[Welsh]

Think it's a bad time to sell just because like he's had two weeks and you're selling at a low. We know he can be a high volume running back. I think this week they're going to try to lean back into him. They've got a tougher matchup against the Remy Rams. Defense can be pretty tough. If Lamar is out, I think you're going to have to lean back on Derek Henry as much as possible. When Lamar Jackson's back, I think that puts him in a much better spot. We clearly know how he can thrive in there. I'm a buy. I really, really hate like massively talented players on like a two week bad turn, then talking about how we have to sell them. Imagine after the two weeks Jamar Chase just had and then this week happened and you're just like, oh man, oh.

[Joey P.]

He was one of the most traded players this week.

[Welsh]

Of course he was.

[Joey P.]

And we took more on the trade streams about Jamar Chase and what do I do? Is this enough to get for Jamar Chase? And we kept saying the same thing. It's like you can't do it and don't do it. Now when they're finally going home and look, I know it was garbage time and I know it's not pretty, but elite wide receivers, elite players will still be elite even during bad stretches. Just they can't be elite every game. And then that brings me to this question too, because I had it in the show sheet to ask today, are the Ravens beyond repair because they've allowed allowed 35 or more points in four games. That's the most in a season in team history. Do you think the Ravens are beyond repair or is there enough time left in the season for them to get healthy, get right and find a way into the playoffs?

[Welsh]

I think their defense feels like it's beyond repair, but they are not beyond repair. Like they can win games going toe to toe, you know what I mean? Like they can do that. They can't do it without Lamar. They're not going to do it with Cooper Rush. Clearly. I think they could go and improve offensively. Can they put band aids on some of the defense? Sure. They could go make moves. You got to get a little bit of healthy. But they're the worst. I mean one of my. You, Joe, you were on the show. I had a great betting week this week and one of those bets was going up against the Ravens. You know, going up as far as as the past defense goes, because what was that one? It was my.

[Joey P.]

I have to go back and look. But we had a good week. I was five zero. You had a week.

[Welsh]

I was four and one with a touchdown and go follow you know what it was.

[Joey P.]

That's what you do.

[Welsh]

Fields was my one, but it was also Stroud. I'm sorry I had this mixed up on the rank show I talked about. I've got. I had Stroud higher than most people because I thought like Stroud's going to dominate these guys now. He didn't get my 300 yard marker, I don't think if I remember correctly, but he had the four touchdowns. Their defense feels like it's beyond repair, but this team can still bounce back. We don't have to get a weekly Stavi video. Like they can do this because their offense can be so powerful, but they have to have Lamar, Jackson, Cooper.

[Joey P.]

Are they more interesting as guys who are chasing for a change? You know, like we've seen the Ravens have great seasons, win 14 games, then lose home playoff games to Patrick Mahomes and stuff. Like we've seen this story before. You think maybe it's better for them to be the chasers once and like maybe now maybe Though the weight of everything was so bad. It's kind of funny because it was like a couple years ago, the Chiefs were kind of like this. Remember where the Chiefs were kind of like a slow start, whatever, and then they kind of got hot late and then they became the Chasers. And that was the year that Mahomes went in and beat Lamar Jackson on the road when as an underdog and we made all that money every single game when he was the underdog on the road. It just feels like maybe the Ravens should be looking around and starting to, to reconsider. And here we go. Here's a perfect question. We could just talk about this from 6Zonzo should I trade Jamar Chase for CMC? Now that's interesting. CMC leads the league in touches. Right now he's 130. That's 20 more than Jonathan Taylor. I don't know if that's a good thing. I've been telling everybody, pick up Brian Robinson Jr. Just because. Because that's a lot of touches through a, through five week period. Who would you rather have rest of season? I assume it's cmc, but does the workload of the first five weeks bother you at all?

[Welsh]

Nope. I mean, sure, like he's got all the touches. Like I, I think the, the concern is like in your face. But CMC also looks great. They're also doing this without all their offensive pieces, so they don't have to give him 72 touches per game. Once we get Kittle back, once we've got if I you comes back. But really, once you get Jennings and Purasol going, they're still winning games. They are incorporating Brian Robinson a lot. It's an. It's a necessity when you're starting. Wide receivers are DeMarcus Robinson, Kendrick Bourne and Sky Moore. You're going to have to give Christian McCaffrey the ball quite a lot. But no, I think he's super efficient. He's an insane wide receiver right now. As good as Lamar as Jamar Chase was in that game. That first half of the Bengals, if you watched, it was exactly like all of the other Jake Browning games. Some of the worst football ever. No offensive line help, Browning throwing at his feet, doing wrong reads. There was one. Chase was wide open. He missed. The offense looked bad. They made really good adjustments on the back end here, but the Bengals are in for it and it's still in a rough spot. So if you get a team that's going to shut down Jamar Chase, they got nothing. So Jamar can still be Great. He's a super talented player. Their offense is so bad. Christian McCaffrey, you have an injury risk, of course, but he is the high touch guy. Once an offense against humming even more, you're going to have more rushing touchdowns. Give me CMC over Jamar.

[Joey P.]

Chase Browning. And the Bengals, by the way, they head to Green Bay this week. Over under three and a half sacks of Jake Browning in that game. Over.

[Welsh]

Is that. Is that something I can bet?

[Joey P.]

I'm sure. I don't know, but I'm sure going to try. And it's weird because you look at that matchup on paper and you say, oh, the corners aren't great. Jamar, Chase, D. Higgins, you should actually be all right. But I just don't know if he's gonna be upright long enough with that offensive line to do anything about it.

[Welsh]

I don't bet defensive stuff. I'm a yard.

[Joey P.]

It's more me and Bogman.

[Welsh]

I don't bet defensive stuff. Whatever the Micah Parsons sack number is this week, I'm going over and if they'll let me, he might have five sacks this week. Like the offensive line might be the worst in the NFL and Jake Browning doesn't know what to do. Micah Parsons is going to have a multi sack week. I have no question about it.

[Joey P.]

I would bet the multi sacks are Parsons. All right, Fahey's got a question. Should I trade A.J. brown, Ferguson and Chase Brown for Diggs? And I assume James Cook is what we're talking about here. So let's.

[Welsh]

What other Cook would it be?

[Joey P.]

I. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Dalvin Cook, is he still.

[Welsh]

It's not like it was Smith. Like, like.

[Joey P.]

No.

[Welsh]

Which Smith or Brown is that this week?

[Joey P.]

By the time you get to like week five, six in the season, your brain just starts to, you know, mold over when you people just throw last names in.

[Welsh]

You gotta. Wait, put that back up.

[Joey P.]

I gotta.

[Welsh]

I don't. I don't remember the names already, so. All right. Diggs and Cook. Well, he's dying. What? I mean, Diggs is also on a piece that I want to talk about here. I actually think Diggs and Ferguson could be a lot closer than we're giving credit for. I think Brown is. I'm sorry. Brown and Diggs.

[Joey P.]

I think Brown. I love this week against the Giants. Like that. That is a great matchup. Like all this like chirping and stuff. It's really hard to get him the football against the secondary of the Denver Broncos.

[Welsh]

Well, great Receivers can great offenses.

[Joey P.]

They should get the ball to the.

[Welsh]

Receivers no matter who's covering them.

[Joey P.]

But apparently AJ Brown's also a great defender because he kept that ball away from Devonta Smith at the end. Sorry. Too soon. Too soon.

[Welsh]

Dude, I'm really torn on this one.

[Joey P.]

I want. I'm not. I thought the Diggs and Cook side and I'll tell you why. Because Ferguson, I think with CD Lamb comes back in a few weeks and he will. Is there any rumors that he might ramp up this week? We'll see if that's true or not. But I think Ferguson falls back a little bit once you have that. And then you've got Diggs, who I think ask yourself this question. The way these offenses are going to run the rest of the year, you want Drake May slinging the football to that one target of Stefan Diggs where there's not a lot of competition or the run heavy offense that. That works for the Philadelphia Eagles. And I don't want. Look, I. I like A.J. brown. I still like buying on him, but I think Cook and Diggs gives me a lot more on a weekly basis than the other. It's a good deal for everybody. Let me say Fahey, I think that's an all right deal for everybody.

[Welsh]

Yeah, I'm down with that. I think Diggs has taken another level. James Cook is like either 1A or 1B of the best player in there. AJ Brown is just super talented. But that offense, I don't know when to get going. I'm. I'm fine actually doing that trade because James. I think James Cook is a huge get here. Chase Brown is. You know, if you play in a 2.5 receptions for running backs behind the five yard line, then Chase Brown's the best.

[Joey P.]

So good there. Yeah, that's really where he shines. All right, let's talk about takeaways and favorite moments of the week here and I'll start with my big takeaway. Always trust Baker Mayfield on the road as an underdog. It never fails. It was upset special twice now this year because it's only happened twice, which makes me terrified because this week against the 49ers at home, he's a favorite and I can't. I want to bet on him. I want to like it. I can't do it. So you know, Baker Mayfield, probably the game of the day, I think, you know, besides the night game, which was very entertaining for me personally. But if I told you back in 2018. Yeah. Sam Darnold to Baker Mayfield are going to have an amazing fun game on a Sunday afternoon in 2025. I bet you wouldn't think they'd be playing for the Buccaneers and the Seattle Seahawks doing it, but they were and it was fun. And Baker Mayfield just finds a way to get it done. And I'll tell you what a mechanic Buca is an absolute stud. And then they did. Everybody was second guessing them in the draft when they made that pick. Why are they doing this? They've got Godwin, they've got Evans, They've just took McMillan the year before. Why? Because if you just take the best player on the board, good things happen. And what a terrific job by the front office there for me.

[Welsh]

Did you see too all of the people this week? I mean like, listen, we all love analytics and we break down a lot of stuff, but every just mouth breather, just being like, book has got a book has got a zero NFL score, blah blah blah. He looks like Baker Mayfield loves him. Looks like one of the best wide receivers in the league.

[Joey P.]

Wait, what were people saying? Negative against him.

[Welsh]

If I could find it. What is it?

[Joey P.]

It was like he's +115 leading the pack for rookie of the year right now. Ashton Genti's + 380 dart is 650. I. I don't see a word. This might be the last time to get in on this egg Buka at this price before it goes minus like.

[Welsh]

I don't know, separation score. Someone can help out. But it was like I think they were saying like he has. He's like the worst in the NFL in separation score. And people were like sell now get him out of here. Egbuca worst separation score, you got to get out. And it's just like he just continue. He's Chris Carter. All he does is catch touchdowns. He always finds.

[Joey P.]

Yeah, he does. He finds a way to get open in big spots. Baker Mayfield's looking for him and it's just awesome. It's just fantastic. What was. Let's do a takeaway for you here. What was your takeaway from this week?

[Welsh]

We've kind of talked about both of mine. My takeaway though is that Diggs is now official. So it started off slow. So we were talking about Stefan Diggs a little bit earlier. You know, he talked about his comfortability in the offense. We saw like booty the first week. We saw some Douglas. We would see day. I remember, remember my very first bet of the season was the Stefon Diggs over receiving yard prop which did hit but it was super tough. Because he wasn't playing all the snaps. They're getting him in in weird spots. Kind of learning. Things have started to progress. What I'm getting at is, is kind of like in the, this is how I feel. The Judkins was unleashed territory. We are now in unleashed Stefon Diggs territory. This week alone he had the third highest first read percentage. He had a great air yard score. He ended up having 60 air yards, a bunch of receptions, one of the highest target percentages of the week. All the things are there. Drake May has talked about how fun it's going to be to let Stefon Diggs do the thing. Well, guess what, we're there. He's doing the thing. He's comfortable in the offense. May loves him. He's. He had, I think it was six and a half yards per route run, 12 to 13 yards after the catch. Maybe, maybe I inflated that. Maybe it was like 8 yards but tons of yards after the catch. Per yards route run targets, first read percentage. Drake May loves him. So when we look at that trade, that's why I said when you look at A.J. brown versus Stefon Diggs, ladies and gentlemen, it's not that far off here. Diggs is a number one in this offense now with Drake May who is moving this and I think Diggs is going to should sit somewhere is like a mid tier wide receiver too and he's got wide receiver upside like you saw this week. So that was a big takeaway that I, I think he has, I think he finished off.

[Joey P.]

I, I don't think, I don't think that's a hot take. I think he finishes the top 20 wide receiver and September was kind of like that slow ramp up coming off the injury. Right. He looks fantastic and I know he was super motivated but look, it's a good match. The rest of the season schedule is pretty good for the Patriots. Why we talked about that over for the win total for them because it's pretty good. Here's a fun thing too. This is a great job by our folks here and our producer. So according to PFF, the highest passer rating when targeted this season. Mecca Egbuca 145.3 per PFF. That's insane.

[Welsh]

Great. It's a great. I always wonder if that's one. I mean because there's always a battle, especially as a baseball person, there's always a battle of like analytics versus like real world.

[Joey P.]

The ESPN analytics has him way far down and I'm like, like maybe your analytics model isn't Very good. If you have a mech egg buca that far down.

[Welsh]

But what I was saying is, is I won. The NFL pays attention, or anybody pays attention to that specific stat where it's like they have the highest quarterback percentage when throwing the ball. If that's something that people are really lined into. Because, like, guess what? He's a great possession receiver. Talking about, like, separation scores and stuff like that. Like, it doesn't matter. Like, you can get him the ball. And by the way, I was going to say this earlier. How about the whole, like, Baker Mayfield will never repeat last year. There's a huge narrative around.

[Joey P.]

There was a lot of that.

[Welsh]

Significantly, I got him in multiple spots because he ended up being outside the top, top 10. And he has all the weapons and he looks great. He's still making it happen. Like, maybe he's not gonna throw 40 touchdowns or whatever, but, you know, with a Mecca, you never know. Sky's the limit.

[Joey P.]

This same metric, by the way, on ESPN has Jamar Chase as the 67th wide receiver by this metric or whatever it is.

[Welsh]

So what is it like the shredder? Like, they do.

[Joey P.]

Shredder. It's open score, which is actually one I'm not familiar with.

[Welsh]

I think that's the one I was talking about. That's the open score they gave. They're like a Mecca.

[Joey P.]

Ibuka is the.

[Welsh]

He has the worst open score in the NFL. You should trade him.

[Joey P.]

Maybe you should close the open score. Yeah. All right, let's talk about. Now, Bogman's not here, but he likes to have his presence felt on the show today. His takeaway was buy low on AJ Brown, and I agree. So I will reiterate that for Bogman as well. He's got a great matchup Thursday.

[Welsh]

You just sold him.

[Joey P.]

No, I. I sold him because I was getting Diggs and Cook. And I think that's pretty good because Ferguson again, right now, tight ends, there's guys like Mason Taylor on the waiver wire, Theo Johnson on the waiver wire. Darren Waller still available on some waiver wires. I'll figure that out. But let's not be crazy here. When CD Lam is back, CD Lam's going to get the lion's share of these targets. Jalen Tolbert disappears. Pickens will be a guy. And again, we're just going to pick up where we were before that.

[Welsh]

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[Joey P.]

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[Welsh]

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[Joey P.]

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[Joey P.]

His moment of the week was Mac Jones eating a banana while being worked on, which also was pretty damn good. The you know you've made it when someone hands you a banana already peeled like that. He didn't even have to peel his own banana. That's when you're a star. Welsh. That's. Did you see.

[Welsh]

Did you hear too outside of him also being dressed like Harley Quinn in the episode. Did you see that? He. He like was this a real story about the. The, the, the. The person in the water? Did you hear about this? I don't even want to like know if I should say this on here.

[Joey P.]

I haven't. I don't know but it seems like we shouldn't so let's talk about it.

[Welsh]

It's. No, I mean like he said he like I don't know if this is true. Like I could have been getting got out There, but like he's eating bananas, he's dressed like Harley Quinn. And then it was something like he saw, like he saw like someone floating in the water. Like, not like having a great time.

[Joey P.]

Wait a minute.

[Welsh]

I mean, floating.

[Joey P.]

Did he see. Did he see this person floating in the water?

[Welsh]

No, no, wait, can you.

[Joey P.]

Seth, do you have the picture? Can we bring that picture back up? Was it this person?

[Welsh]

Oh, no, I. I think unfortunately the person was on the other side. So I don't know what is in.

[Joey P.]

That banana, but I don't know.

[Welsh]

Yeah, I don't know. I could have been God about that. Mac Jones is having like a really weird time right now.

[Joey P.]

Whatever, man. He looks good. He looks good in the system. All right, let's get to the moments for me in Welsh here. Obviously mine was digs. 146 yards against his old team. That was the moment of the week for me. And it's funny because I had a massive parlay that I cashed out of because I just got a feeling at the end. And the last leg of it was just the Bills to win. And then somewhere in that middle of fourth, I was like, I got a cash out of this because I could have won a couple hundred dollars. I had to settle for just like, like 65, 70% of it. And I was like, you know what? Because I hit the Carolina Panthers. I hit the team total of the Lions. I hit every everything. It was like a five leg parlay. The last thing was the stupid Bills that just win a football game against my lowly Patriots and they couldn't do it. And I just had this weird. Feels like Mac Jones can't be denied. Mac Jones, right after he made that play, you know, when the guy was pulling him by the, by the collar and he stood up and he threw that one ball to Diggs. I cashed out. I was like, this is not happening. Something has gone on here. And Mac, Judy, Mac, Joe, Drake, May is just going to now become a guy and he is going to take off from this game and look, he's played well this year, but prime time in Buffalo, that's a tough spot. So that was my moment for sure. Welsh, you already kind of touched on your moment of the day, but let's touch on it one more time. Time. How dumb is it? It's one thing when you're the first guy to do this and it's an accident, but isn't there something that goes around and reverberates through the league where it's like, hey, everybody, just before we start practice today. When you score a touchdown, make sure you cross the goal line before you drop the ball. Right?

[Welsh]

Yeah, I, I would tell me otherwise. I think this is the dumbest play in the NFL in the last five years. I don't know if I would say it all time, but it might be because it is not like this just accident. Like you broke. Yeah, you broke a 70 yarder. You cost your team the win and it literally just happened like every NFL team should have. Talking about it. Should be talking about it. I think it is the single stupidest play in the NFL this year and that I can remember. And you can't be like, oh, the guy fumble. When guys fumble, like it is dumb. It sucks. If guy fumbles two or three times, it's heartbreaking. It's not as stupid as what this was. This was the dumbest play in the NFL that I can recall. Simply with the extra little like sauce on top because of it happening last week. It's crazy.

[Joey P.]

All right, let's do a little factor fiction. If you've got factor fictions you could drop them in and we'll try to give our best answer. Here's one from the legend. Fact or fiction? Calvin Ridley is back after last week's performance. Welsh, you know what it takes for the Titans to win a football game? It takes them making a mistake where they throw a pick. Somebody then fumbling that pick and Tyler Lockett, probably the only way he's going to score this year by picking up that fumble and recovering it for a touchdown. That's what it takes for the Titans to win. And guess what, they might win this week too. I'm just telling you right now. I got a weird feeling about that game. But anyway, fact or fiction, is Calvin Ridley back?

[Welsh]

Yeah, I think he's like backish. He's. I'll do use this again. He's adjacent to back.

[Joey P.]

I love that show.

[Welsh]

Is he fully back? That's not the same show. Is he fully, fully back? No, because I think he kind of stinks a little bit but like things readjusted himself. He had the top 15 first read percentage. Over 30% first read percentage. They were able to get him the ball. They got him out a little bit deep maybe. You know, I minors helping this out even though he just kind of continuously doesn't do a whole bunch. Like I think Ridley, Ridley is back into the graces where we can talk about starting him. I think that, I think he's going to be a waiver wire priority for some people because people cut Him, I think he more needed to be a player that was on a lot of benches. Now I think he can push wide receiver, wide wide receiver, three or four territory. But does that back, like, I don't know. So that's why it's adjacent to back to me.

[Joey P.]

Yeah, I. I don't want to say back, so I'm going to say fiction. That's where I'm going to go. All right, I got another factor. Fiction for you. Carson Wen should stay a quarterback for the Vikings rest of season, even when J.J. mcCarthy is ready. Fact or fiction?

[Welsh]

Fiction. I mean, I think I know what we're doing. This is similar to your. Like, there's a controversy. Mac Jones and Brock Purdy, like, not like wince can be efficient. He throws the tight ends like he gets it. He's a veteran. This is what they do. But he's not spectacular. If JJ McCarthy is garbage, then yes, but you are going to. You're going to break them. You're going to break this talent level of this guy who missed all of last year needs to come in, get adjusted to the offense. Like, I think he needs to be the quarterback. But it's a totally, like, fair question because Wentz is being efficient. But I'll say fact or fiction?

[Joey P.]

Triland has one. It's very personal, though. Fact or fiction? We will get Joe as Dr. Evil again this Halloween. Now, I didn't do it last year because I figured I did it twice. People get sick of it, but apparently not because I guess it upset people that I didn't do it last year. Now, we don't have a show on Halloween. We have a Halloween adjacent show. So I could do. It's a Friday, but, like, I'm not gonna dress up for the betting pro show, you know.

[Welsh]

Yeah, we have the prop show.

[Joey P.]

Then Erickson's got to dress up and, you know, he doesn't know who anybody is.

[Welsh]

I'm also on the show, so I might have to dress up too, if you forgot.

[Joey P.]

But. But what do you think? Fact or fiction? Should. Should we bring back Dr. Maybe we should put a poll up. Can we put a poll up here? We do that over here on the Twitch. We'll get a poll going.

[Welsh]

Well, you know what?

[Joey P.]

Should I bring back Dr. Evil this year for the live stream on the Thursday start? Sit.

[Welsh]

You're pretty. I loosely say this. You're. You're flamboyant with your acting and stuff like that here. You got a lot of costumes. I don't. You are at a comic con.

[Joey P.]

Why don't Everybody. I was. My Bane was so good. People screamed at cars from the sidewalks, from me, like I was walking on the sidewalk. People driving down the street, literally. Women in cars screaming at me.

[Welsh]

Joe, you should be.

[Joey P.]

I was born in the darkness.

[Welsh]

I think you. Every Monday for. I was about to call it leading off out of bounds the rest of October. You should. You should dress up. You should dress up and be. Because I know you've got more than two costumes. You could be Dr. Evil. You could be Bane, and then surprise us.

[Joey P.]

Yeah. All right, let's go to fact or fiction here. Dowdle stole the starting job factor. Fiction. That was a 201 yards from down. That was stunning. And I'm so annoyed because Derrick Brown picked him up and played him against me in our league this week, and I was just like, you're a jerk.

[Welsh]

I don't think he took the job because in my eyes, taking the job means that he now gets 15 to 20 touches per game and Chuba Hubbard gets what's left over. But what I do think is this is now a charbonnet Ken Walker situation. You got to get them touches. I think Dowdle is going to have some spots where he might be more efficient. He looked awesome in that game, so I don't think he stole the game. But what he did take away from Chuba is being like a bell cow. And I think that has to be dead because there's no chance that you could just, like, be like, all right, get back to doing nothing, Rico, moving forward. Like. Like, you can't do what the Niners would have done when McCaffrey was active, when they had Jordan Mason and just said, see ya. You know, like, this is going to be a split situation now. So Dowdle has some flex, some, you know, some flex potential here, and you should pick him up if he's available. I don't think he's available in wires.

[Joey P.]

No roster. Because I was looking at the waiver wire shows, like, how many people did actually pick up Dowdle? And I was shocked. It was like 79% on sleeper. By the way, trial and thanks for resubbing with Prime. You should resub with prime or sub for the first time, too, because if you do, you get rid of those nasty commercials on Twitch. So use your Amazon Prime 5 bucks to get rid of those. Subscribe to Fantasy pros on Twitch. Twitch tv Fantasy pros. We got a lot of other factor functions here. I want to ask you.

[Welsh]

I want to ask you. All right. Who would you rather rest of season, Rico Dowdle or Michael Carter.

[Joey P.]

Michael Carter. Okay, I got zero chill on that one because I'm worried that Benson doesn't come back for a very long time.

[Welsh]

Clearly.

[Joey P.]

And I think that's. That's good enough for me there. Let's get to. Here's another factor. Fiction factor. Fiction. QJ will have a better rest of season than AJ Brown. I say fiction. I say fiction. I'm loving this show more and more every week because we have to do very little. The audience is basically now dictating the entire show.

[Welsh]

I actually love that you guys are doing the fact and fiction. Fact.

[Joey P.]

Yeah.

[Welsh]

This is a new.

[Joey P.]

Somebody started it and I'm just let you guys do it. I'm just going to sit back. We're just going to show up and let you guys do this every week. So fact or fiction? I say fiction. I think QJ tails off here. I think that Chargers offensive line is showing some problems. Amari and Hampton's going to miss some time now. Chargers went from Owen from three zero and they could be facing three and three right now. They could lose three in a row here very easily this week.

[Welsh]

I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say fact actually.

[Joey P.]

Okay.

[Welsh]

I hate doing this because I think AJ Brown is talented and they could adjust, but I just don't think the Eagles will adjust. They just want to pound the ball and they'll find a couple games where they can pass. And look at this game. A.J. brown got taken out. It was all Devonte Smith. A.J. brown's still going to have a couple big weeks, but so is Quentin Johnson and he's still going to get involved. Like I know people are going to be celebrating like, oh look, glad he got lad didn't have a great. He had the touchdown.

[Joey P.]

He had a touchdown. He had the touchdown.

[Welsh]

And then he was back to doing exactly what he does every single week. This has been one of the most pass heavy teams. Hampton might be banged up. They can't run at the same rate. I'm gonna say it's Quentin Johnston.

[Joey P.]

All right. Fact or fiction? Jameson Williams is droppable in most leagues. I don't. I say no. When he's at home, he explodes. When he's on the road, he's just not this whatever reason the way the offense operates. But the problem is he is a player that is a flex player and I kept trying to drive this home to people and because they would look at the raw stats and they would go, oh wow, look at what he did last year. If he could only do more. But the problem is he's never going to come close to the target share that goes to guys like Amon Ross ain't Brown or even guys like J. Gibbs or Laporta to a certain extent because Amon Ross St. Brown is so good at what he does. He is such a master of route running of of ski. He's such a fantastic wide receiver and Jameson Williams is the guy that takes the top off the defense. He didn't have some big games and some quiet games. He is much more of a flex play than he is anything else and I think people overrated him but I wouldn't drop him. So I'd say fiction, don't drop him. What do you say?

[Welsh]

Yeah, I agree. I don't he's why would he be the guy to drop it? Like he's droppable in maybe 10 man leagues if there's something cool out there. But I would say no. He's just like better team Christian Watson right now and that has some play.

[Joey P.]

All right factor fiction Darren Waller will be a better tight end option over Kyle Pitts rest of season.

[Welsh]

No, I think I'm going to say.

[Joey P.]

Darren Waller prisoner of the moment.

[Welsh]

Well okay, so listen that team has nobody else. I don't know why they went to Darren Waller like it was John who Smith from last year in the first half and then completely disappeared. But what I know is Malik Washington's not the answer right now. Dude had three, four catches. Three of them were for negative yards. Like they can't spread the ball up. But guess what Darren Waller can do. He can get down the middle of the field just like Jono was doing. I think Darren Waller is going to be a 4 to 6 catch guy and maybe one of the number one red zone options for a team. Kyle Pitts is doing okay like Michael Penck is making him valuable. I just think they're super close. I don't know if I'm. I'm going to drop my Kyle Pitts necessarily for him because I do think both of these guys are right there. But I'm not going to be shocked when it's Kyle Pitts has, you know, 50 catches for 600 yards and three touchdowns and Darren Waller has 40 catches for 500 yards and nine touchdowns. You know like I think Darren Waller we have to consider is a. Is a tight end one rest of season. You clearly don't you freaked out about it.

[Joey P.]

I think he can be but I don't know. I think Pitts has gotten off to a pretty decent start this year and I just older and I just. I don't know. I just. I just. You're right. You make a good argument for it, but I just. I can't get there right now.

[Welsh]

Listen, Theo Johnson could outperform Kyle Pitts at this point. Possible loves him.

[Joey P.]

Dart also has very little options. And if Darius Slayton's gonna miss time with a hamstring, it's more Theo Johnson all day.

[Welsh]

You want to know who had the most end zone targets in the NFL this weekend? Theo Johnson. Yeah, Dart loves him and he's going to keep doing that stuff. So like Theo Johnson has the potential to as well. But that's the state of tight end. The state of tight end is it went from last year to everybody lol ing all over everybody. If you didn't have one of the top four or five tight ends because everything sucked to just a plethora of options week in and week out to stream at tight end. Mason Taylor got 12 targets this week. Theo Johnson is involved. There are so many tight end. Guess what if you were. We did. Me and Bogman did a top five on the waivers this weekend. At least two of them got to be tight ends. That's. I mean that's also a bad waivers kind of looks right now pinning your league. But you got to take a look at those guys. So I think it's like a thin line. That's why I'm comfortable just saying like.

[Joey P.]

Sure, I want to lightning round a couple of the ones that we had to talk about too because I want to get your take just so we'll go to these real quick and then we'll get to the 4311 and we'll get out for the day. Raiders will be making a quarterback change in week six because Geno Smith keeps throwing picks. I say fact. What do you say?

[Welsh]

I'm going to say in week six. I'll say fiction.

[Joey P.]

Okay, Cowboys offense is good enough to make them a playoff team even though the defense sucks. Fact or fiction?

[Welsh]

Fiction.

[Joey P.]

Okay, let's go to Emeka. Buka will be a first round pick in 2026 drafts. Fact or fiction?

[Welsh]

You should have done like top two round. I'm gonna say fiction but like sneak.

[Joey P.]

In at the turn.

[Welsh]

I think he'll be like. I think it'll be like a mid. Mid ish second round pick. Something like that.

[Joey P.]

We'll finish one for Mason. Derek Harry finishes an RB1 this year. I think he might just because of all the injuries that have happened. He still might backdoor his way in there. I think I'll say Fact.

[Welsh]

Yeah, it's going to be tough because guys like Judkins and ETN and Cam Scatter Boo might make a late run with all the players in there. I'm gonna say fact because of its touchdown equity, but I also wouldn't be surprised if he didn't.

[Joey P.]

All right, let's take a look at the 311 contest. I've still got Patrick Mahomes alive for tonight and Xavier Worthy for Bogman Welsh is done. He got shut out this week. So I am on the board with five. I can get to six. Bogman could get to five. But Worthy is questionable tonight. So we' he plays. Let's turn our attention to next week to week six in the NFL. 300 yard passer. Well, I. I know his name. His name is Dak Prescott and he's taking on the Carolina Panthers defense. It's in Carolina. It doesn't clearly need CD Lamb to throw for 300 yards. So I'm gonna go ahead and take Dak Prescott. I'm also gonna take Saquon Barkley. To rush for 100 yards against the Giants in New York is nothing. Saquon Barkley loves to do more than remind the Giants of how good he was and how dumb they were to let him go. And then it's been the theme of the show, a mech egg Buka against your 49ers to put up another hundred spot. He's the guy right now and I don't care when any open stat, open, whatever the hell metrics tell me. Buka is a stud and he showed up every single week making big plays, making the ones that count, getting touchdowns. And Baker Mayfield clearly has confidence in him in big spots. So Dakota Saquon and Mecha Buka Bogman next week is going to go with Josh Allen at Atlanta, Josh Jacobs in Cincinnati and Josh Sn no JSN at Jacksonville. It would have been nice if he had all Josh's. That would have been.

[Welsh]

He gets credit for the Triple J.

[Joey P.]

It was the J. So triple J's Allen Jacobs and JSN Welsh. Where are you going for your 300 yard passer, 100 yard rusher and 100 yard receiver this week in the NFL.

[Welsh]

Did. Did Jeff Jerry become Triple J or was it always double? Just Double J.

[Joey P.]

He was double Jared. Well, Jerry Judy could have gone Jerry Judy, but that would be asking a lot of Dylan Gab.

[Welsh]

Yeah, well, that'd be just not winning like me. That would be mine. I am not. You were close though.

[Joey P.]

You were close. You were not close with Devon Achan, I believe that was one of your picks. Not so much with the rushing Devon Hn, but a hell of a touchdown cap.

[Welsh]

Yeah. Hey, you know what? You want your first touchdown bets. I cashed out mine this week. Killed those. You want your 300? 100. I'm not your guy. I have not been doing it well. But I am going to continuously go against Baltimore and you got Matthew Stafford this week. So give me a break. Matthew Stafford and the Rams, unfortunately they might be able to just run down their throat. But if this game is close whatsoever, the Rams are just going to be slinging the ball. Puka and Devonte Adams should eat them up. Which by the way, I'm gonna just pair him. I'm gonna stack with puka as my 100 yard receiver because Baltimore a garbage garbage if they had to. They had just needed to throw a little bit more to Nico. Nico could add 150 yards if he wanted. They just were able to efficiently get the ball around.

[Joey P.]

That game was over in the first quarter.

[Welsh]

Yeah, this offense runs through Puka and then I'm gonna go with Ashton genti. Ashton Genti vs Tennessee Technically, before DeMarcado was a big dumb idiot, you know, that was like a 70 yard burner. Michael Carter was getting some efficiency in there and this team, what does Raider needs to do? Get the ball out of Geno Smith's hands, get it into Ashton Genti. So I'm going to go with Genty for 100 yards. I affectionately say with D. Markado I would be devastated if I did something like that. And he was apologetic by the way and he deserves credit for taking ownership for it. But how you could do that after someone just did it, it is. It is unprofessional. That's what it is. Objectively dumb.

[Joey P.]

Objectively unprofessional I think is even it. Let's go take a question from Jay here. One last trade question. Would you trade Debo for AJ Brown? I'm gonna say no. I want Debo in that offense, especially Jane Daniels back healthy. How about you?

[Welsh]

That's a pretty close one. I mean when McLaren's back it kind of takes off the. I would probably. You know what, I would probably go with A.J. brown there for the upside. But you know, when McLaurin's not there, Debo, I mean Debo was a dog this week. He looked like back to being number one. But you know they got like the rushing upside doesn't exist. Bill Crosby looks really good. Jaden Daniels will spread the ball around. So I'll go with A.J. brown.

[Joey P.]

All right, there you have it everybody. Make sure also you keep the conversation going on our discord fantasybros.com chat. It's free. It's fun. We got shows going over there. Welsh does a show with Erickson on Thursdays at 2. So be part of the shows. Be part of the community. Go join our Discord. Also make sure you check out our Twitch again. We're giving away the Devon HN jersey signed by Devon HN from pristineauction.com if you're a Twitch subscriber you get 1 1/2 times odds boost of winning. So go subscribe to our Twitch Twitch TV Fantasy Pros and make sure that you make sure you hang out with us over on the YouTube channel too. Subscribe to the YouTube channel. Trying to get to 300, 000 this year. We can do it with your help. And what a fantastic. Oh there you go. Sent the trade. There you go Jay. Let's go baby. Let's send that trade. So good job on there. So yeah, we are really loving this because I love that you guys are now dictating the show. This is like the People show. I like this. I like where we're going with this. You guys took over the questions last week. You took over the fact or fiction this week. I like this. You know why I like it? Less work for me, Welsh. Less work for me late on a Sunday night. So we are the People Show. Subscribe to Fantasy Pros out of Bounds. We'll be back next Monday again live on the Twitch Twitch TV fantasypros. That'll do it for us. But the story of the game goes on for the Welsh. I'm Joey P. We'll see you next time. Bye, kids. Thanks for listening to the Fantasy Pros Fantasy Football Podcast. If you love the show, the best free way to support us is by leaving a positive review on apple [e-mail] review or on the Spotify. Follow us on X Instagram and TikTok at fantasypros and subscribe to our YouTube channel at YouTube.com fantasypros. Foreign.

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