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Hey, this is Austin Ekeler and you're listening to the Fantasy Football podcast. Welcome to the fantasy football podcast with your host. Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike Great. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the podcast, the fantasy football podcast, if you missed it. Thank you for getting in on that bedsprings friend Jason Moore. Oh, man. I'm always in on them. Nasty jokes, all them nasty jokes. Welcome to the Fantasy Football podcast. I am Mike the fantasy hit man.

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Right, joined by Jason Moore.

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Ho, brother. It's Friday, wrapping up an excellent week of shows. Want to start it off? We will. So if you've noticed, Andy Holloway, our fearless leader, has been absent. I had not noticed. I mean, we began along so well. Well, yes. Show's been running smooth. Nothing off the tracks going a little long.

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But Andy is fine. Andy is doing well. He did have a a possible contact with covid from family. And so we've simply been waiting on the results. We thought the results would be in before before now. And he will just be back. But as of now, we have we feel like we have nothing to worry about. NFL protocols dictate high risk, close contact. He's on the covid i r right now, but he could come off very soon and our Boyland really wants everyone to know it was not the smelling salts that our Borland was in charge of purchasing.

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He did not take Andy out.

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And so on today's show, we will be going through the rest of the match ups. We got product like it's hot, bringing you our favorite props of the week for Monkey Knife Fight.

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And so congratulations, Jack. We'll get you your DJ Chark signed Jersey in shut up. Pristine auction dotcom best sports memorabilia site of all time. Use the registration code ballers if you're going to check them out, get ten bucks off of your first item. Jason, there was a football game last night. There was. It was pretty good. It was fun. It was a good watch. Yes, it was a good watch for real football. It wasn't necessarily what people wanted for fantasy.

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I would say most of the relevant players let you down. Derrick Henry let you down. He had one hundred yards. You looked fine. He was good. Certainly let you down for what you hope to get out of Henry. The backfield of the Colts. Yeah. So here is the snap counts. We have the starter, the presumed starter, Jonathan Taylor Thomas coming in with twenty four percent of the snaps. Those aren't starter snaps.

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No Jordan Wilkins, you know, he has been the thorn in the butt cheeks of Jonathan Taylor. Manager stealin work. Yeah. I mean, if you only get twenty four percent of snaps, obviously, Wilkins was the right guy.

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Oh, no, he only had twenty percent of snaps. But coming in with that.

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Of the of the Snapp's name, Hynde's had himself a day, a birthday, yes, apparently we missed the birthday narrative. I apologize to everyone that we did not get that into our breakdown. I blame everyone else but myself anyways. Nijem Hynde's 12, Careys seven yards and a touchdown five four forty five. And it was down through the air on six targets. Incredible game for Heine's. Anyone watching the game could see there was a difference when Hines was on the field, she was inflicting his will upon the other team.

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Meanwhile, Johnathan Taylor and Jordan Wilkins were not know and they were used mostly until like the last drive of the game, they were used.

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The vast majority short yardage situations you saw right off the bat from the first time. Ninety pounds got on the field, you're like, whoa, he is, he was, he's got it. He was, he had it. He was on fire. He had the salts. Yes. He got salted. He had a little, you know, that warm pouch in front. It was just full of salts. Every play he's smelling them salts and going nuts.

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This is the team is a true hot hand approach. You saw this a couple of weeks ago with Jordan Wilkins when we were worried. What you know, what happened?

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He actually looked good for the first time in his career and had a good game. And they ran with him and then he looked great and they ran with him. So it's going to make it very difficult to trust. It is. And we do have we have some footage. We have sound from from the game from Johnathan Taylor. Jason. Oh, OK.

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Oh, that's not the sound of what that does not sound like someone running into their offensive line. That sounds like someone running slow in the open field. And that is not what Jonathan Taylor does. He runs into his offensive line. All right. We've had the Jonathan Taylor conversation many times on the show, another game. So we have another piece for the sample size. How are you feeling about Johnny Taylor right now?

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Not great, Bob. Yeah, I mean, look, he he did what he was asked to do. He didn't you know, he had to pick up to fourth in shorts, got them both. Wilkins tried to fourth and shorts, missed them both and missed a goal line. Catch on, you know, opportunity. So I didn't see any seven for twelve. Well, right. But I mean, literally half of his plays were like and one where you're running for a yard or two.

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So you can't criticize that too much. But I think I can see there were plenty of plays. There were plays like when he had his goal line opportunity where if he made a jump cut to the left, he's in. Instead, he runs right where he thought he was supposed to run. That didn't open up. It's a vision problem for him when you got him the ball in the open field on a little screen and he goes and murders.

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Yeah, he did ran. He run that player. He's clearly the most athletic guy. But the the reality is he's got a vision problem and a scheme problem. He's not fitting their scheme very well.

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I mean, what's crazy is I didn't you don't want to believe it, but. The narrative that running backs out of Wisconsin going into the NFL and they disappoint. I mean, look, I'm not throwing in the towel in on Jonathan Taylor's career by any stretch.

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He's he's very, uh, he's still green.

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He's he's just a few games into his career, which is hopefully long and very, very productive, but.

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Melvin Gordon has been fine and, you know, fine, he's so good and he's the shining example. He's the worst example you could go with because he's actually been he's been good, even though disappointing efficiency on the table. I mean, it's it's just wild. It's wild how that has worked out. Very positive news here. Michael Pittman, junior, eight targets. He was the shining star of the receiving game for the Colts, seven four one on one.

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This is what we talked about. This is why a couple of weeks ago when Michael Pittman was just coming back, I said, go grab Pittman right now because he has the skills and his schedule moving forward. The passing schedule for the wide receivers of the Indianapolis Colts is very favorable. Hopefully you grabbed him because now you're going to have to fight for him off with the waiver wire. And even with Ty Hilton available and healthy, Michael Pittman played 81 percent of snaps.

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Nobody else played more than 67 percent of the wide receivers. So he was running as their as their one. Now, that could be working Ty Hilton back into health. But this is what they drafted Pittman to be. Yes. To be there one. And it was nice to see he had himself. Great game on the Tennessee side. Corey Davis came through with a pretty with a with a decent game, five for 67, unfortunately. AJ Brown.

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Oh my one for twenty one, including a drop of a sure. 770 yard touchdown. Touchdown. I'm playing him in our league of record and I'm going up against who I would say we would all agree has the best roster. There's a juggernaut game and then I think it might have been the first play for Tennessee, it might have been the second play, but I think it was the first play where they throw to AJ Brown. It was great, great, great route.

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He I don't know how AJ Brown managed to not go out of bounds. It looked like the defender was going to be able to box him out. AJ Brown stays in, juggles the ball off his hands three times, super unfortunate for fantasy football. And then on top of that, these coaches hit us with, uh, it is November 13th. It is Friday the 13th right now. They gave us a little a little preview of Friday the 13th by giving us a Deontay Foreman touchdown.

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They gave us a Johnny Smith rushing touchdown. It was Jacoby, a rushing touchdown for Jacoby Brissett Frank Reich. What are you doing to us.

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But it was a good game. I don't think there's much else to take away from this other than the Colts defense that you know, there's been a lot made about. They've had an easier schedule. They might not be as good as advertised. They they said no, we are. This is primetime. We're shutting down a great offense. And the Tennessee Titans had had a very difficult time, especially even though the Ronde is is in these super strength.

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It was the pastie that really got shut down.

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News & notes from around the league. The Browns announced that a player test results have come back positive for covid-19 they're going to have to shut down, the player will quarantine, they will close down. Contact tracing will be conducted. We'll see, I mean, it's been a while, you know, when was that game moved? Was that week two or three? Yeah, it was very early in the season for the Tennessee Titans. And it hasn't no other game has been rescheduled and moved since they have been able to stop outbreaks.

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I mean, people are coming out positive with the with the virus, unfortunately, but they have been able to stop outbreaks. So there's nothing at this point that leads us to believe that the Browns game will not be happening. But you need to pay attention, need to monitor. Joe Mixon did not practice Wednesday. He did not practice Thursday. He is coming off a bye week. He is coming up two missed games. You can't expect Joe Mixon to play.

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No, they're not going to throw him out there without testing the foot. In practice, you have to view him as out. It would shock me if if he played Ravens running back.

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Mark Ingram did not practice on Thursday after a limited practice on Wednesday. Now, his teammate Gus Edwards believes that Mark Ingram will play.

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I would just wait and see with Mark Ingram. You might have gotten the alert. The marking room is set to play this week. That is not a guarantee. And it does. It affects things like, you know, Dobbins and Gus Edwards are playable. If Mark Ingram is to miss Lions wide receiver Kenny Golladay remains absent, don't expect him back. Both David Montgomery and David Johnson running backs remain sidelined on Thursday because of the concussion that is not trending in the right direction for the weekend.

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No, you usually see them progressing through the protocols if they're going to play. So I would lean that they are out. It is not a guarantee. We saw last week with Allen Robinson. He did not, you know, didn't progress through the week and he still played. So you've got to pay attention on Saturday. We will know before it really matters whether there will be, you know, through it or not. But as of right now, they're not practicing.

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And going back to the lines, T.J. Hawkinson. Oh, yes. Thank you. On Thursday, due to a toe injury, that's something to monitor because he practices on Wednesday. Whenever someone gets downgraded through the week, it's not a great sign. Broncos head coach Vic Fangio said that wide receiver Jerry Judy suffered a shoulder contusion during Sunday's game. He's limited. They are hopeful that he will play. I would expect him. Debo Samuel, San Francisco 49ers, unfortunately, remain sideline on Thursday.

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He you he had a hamstring strain a couple of weeks ago. He's dealing with the Hammie from a couple of weeks ago.

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If he's he can still make it in. But at this point, plan that he is sitting on your bench yet again and then he has a bye week. So that is also in there. San Francisco, you just traded him away. Did I league? Because, you know, you're not going to happen this week and you're not going to come next week and you want to manufacture wins? That is correct. So I made the unfortunate decision or of course, is the wrong word, but I like Tebow a lot.

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I think that down the stretch, he's going to be very valuable. But if you don't have for two weeks at this point of the season, you got to figure it out. Wide receiver D.J. Chaak from the Jacksonville Jaguars, he was held out Thursday with an illness. It is not covid related. Devonta Freeman reactivated his ankle injury and he thinks he's going to play. I don't think so. I don't think so either. The player always wants to play, but if you haven't been able to play for multiple weeks because of an ankle and then you reactivate it, I'm doubting he gets out there and Austin Ekeler Our Boy.

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He opened up the show. Awesome. Excellent. He tweeted Thursday that time draws near. So, look, maybe maybe you have some chumps in your league who are not paying attention. He's a trade for Turkey and you can go get him right now. Yeah, I think, you know, we we are doing wheeling and dealing in our league of record and two players that I was trying to target a little bit wary, Moster and Austin Ekeler guys who are currently injured.

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On top of that, let's get into the matchups. Fantasy forecast. The Chargers are two and six taking on the Miami Dolphins, sitting at five and three, shout out to Miami, getting it done, the transition to two criticized by many, criticized by myself. I was very skeptical for for that transition. But so far it has worked out and they are still in that division, the division hunt finding out of Tewa is their guy and getting it done.

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Man, that's the turnaround. Miami is a feel good story for this year. This game is a forty eight and a half point over under. The Dolphins are favored by a point and a half. Speaking of Tewa. Jason, great matchup here. The Chargers, the last six weeks are ranked twenty eighth against fantasy quarterbacks giving up over twenty three points a game is to in consideration for streaming. And we'll take that a step further because the answer is yes.

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I was trying to lead you with the question, but where does he rank amongst your streaming options?

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So he's my quarterback. Fifteen right now on the week he ranks behind other options that I think are better. Obviously, if you've got Goff, you're going to put him in. But Big Ben, some of those pieces I would play over to. One of the things you have to I mean, it's kind of it's interesting because of this week's matchup, you have to realize or to how that one is so, so close.

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I would say Drew Lock, unless Jerry Judy does not play Jerry Judy's out, then that's a major piece. True lock has down. And you'd go to to a to a looked great against Arizona last week. But it is worth noting that Arizona, while they have Patrick Peterson last week had this crazy series of events where their second cornerback got put on covid. They are their third cornerback was injured. So they were playing their fourth quarter cornerback who then got injured in the in the game.

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So it was playing against half of a secondary.

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But, you know, the Chargers second, there has been pretty bad this year.

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So I think he is still Streambed, Justin Herbert, big Erb's, the herbivore, whatever we want to call him, he is in. Jason, is the shoe going to drop against the Miami Dolphins?

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No, no, that I thought it was going to, but then they lifted it a little higher and the system got to take more time. Look, I will say this. The Dolphins have been pretty good against quarterbacks, you know, the last six weeks, their top ten defense and fantasy points given up their secondary has been great.

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I expect them to have plenty of penalty markers flying around that secondary as they hold and pass interference on Keenan Allen and Mike Williams, which do not go to the quarterback, even if it moves the offense. I think the shoe could drop this week, but if I had to bet I would, I would stay in the flames on her. That is how you hedge professionally. Thank you. The wide receivers Keenan Allen is in. I think Mike Williams has approached weekly starting territory.

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He's going to he'll hit you with some variance every once in a while. And it's going to suck when it does. But he is in my every week start where for you 100 percent. He has to be in your lineup. You can't get the game like two weeks ago where he was a top ten wide receiver or two weeks before that when he was top five wide receiver.

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If you're doing that, well, I'm afraid he's going to have a big he's going to have bad games and he's going to have monstrous games. You have to start him. Man. I'm reading this note here from Kyle, all six of the Chargers losses this season, one score games. Isn't that exactly what happened last year? Yeah, I think so.

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And what's crazy is I want to say the year prior they were doing they won them. Yeah, they actually they were they were winning all their close games, but they have they've been in games. You just don't know how to manage the clock. And really if you have looked at some of these losses. I give credit to the coaching staff for letting Justin Herbert really open it up. They are not playing with baby gloves, but in game management has been Andy Reid levels of bat.

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And that's saying something you can still Andy Reid has showed us so you can still succeed.

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Oh, absolutely terrible at managing the second best coach in the entire league. And I would love to have him on my team, even though he does not know how to manage a clock.

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Somehow the running backs in this game on the Chargers side, it is difficult. What we know is that Joshua Kelly will likely be the running back to what what in the world just happened over there, Jason?

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I saw you flinch.

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That's called squeezing in a sneaky squeeze. You squeeze the sneeze. That's right. My eyes almost came out of my body. But I am wondering, do you ever hear that as a kid? Oh, yeah. If you guys open, they're going they're just playing out of your body. Were you ever brave enough to do it? I don't I don't think it's possible, Mike. I think I tried, but I don't think you can sneeze. We've got to hold them open.

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Yes, but you don't want to do that because. Because what I hear they're going to fly out of your skull. Uh, Joshua Kelly, he will be the running back to Justin Jackson. Is he going to play? I don't know if they're not being very forthcoming with their information. What we do know is he did not practice on Thursday. We assume Justin Jackson is going to be out. They said he needs rest. They talked about resting him for this game.

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Then he didn't practice Thursday. I'm going to I'm going to say Justin Jackson is out for the purpose of projecting this game and how it's going to go. Assuming he is out. The question is, who is the one and is it Caitlyn Blazers at Trymaine Pope or does Joshua Kelly somehow does he become the one? I was declaring him the two, but yeah, he's the two. OK, so it is very difficult if you picked up Caitlyn Blogg after watching him have success, hoping for an incredible revenge game against his former team, Miami Dolphins.

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He's not on the roster right now, it's remained pope came through a couple of weeks ago, unfortunately, he got hurt, so he missed. Yeah, when you say he's not on the roster, he's on the practice squad, but he is one of two protective players on the practice squad, which means he is essentially a third man on the roster. They could bring him up at any time. There's no fear. No other team can sign him off the practice squad.

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That's why he's there. It gives them more wiggle room. I would not be surprised if it's a Trymaine Pope and Calan show. The only way Joshua Kelly isn't the RB two to me is if he's the RB three.

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I can't imagine him taking over that running back one role when he's looked as bad as he is. The dolphins running backs also highly questionable. Jordan Howard was involved. You had armed kind of getting some work last last week. They want Matt Berita to be the guy, but he's been limited in practice. This matchup is super juicy. Jason, are you taking a risk on any dolphins running back because the Chargers last six weeks twenty ninth against fantasy running backs?

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No, I'm not going to take I'm not going to take a shot on them with the Buraidah puzzle piece slipping in here. Yeah. The Buraidah puzzle piece. And even if it's just Jordan, Howard and Ormat, then which one is it going to be? Who's going to get goal line? Jordan Howard is not going to get all of the work they have. They have fully committed to that. If I had to pick one, I would pick Ahmed Ahmed, but I don't want to play either of them.

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All right. Real question to me in this game is Devante Parker, because we saw last week a lot of it was pass interference, penalties, you know, but we saw eleven targets, six for 64.

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Now you have Preston Williams on the air. Yeah, I think Parker will have to get the ball thrown his way. And the matchup is pretty good, and I think Miccosukee is in play, the matchup dictates it. And on top of that, Preston Williams is out. I mean, you can get you can feature Miccosukee as the big slot guy that he is, Buffalo seven and two, taking on the Arizona Cardinals who are five and three.

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What are the Cardinals? Is this line up, David Brooks? The cardinals are favored. Yeah, the they opened favored, but they opened shorter than this, which means people are betting on the Cardinals. Two very interesting game. All right.

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Well, this game is going to be fantastic. Full of fantasy. Goodness. Kyla Murray, the quarterback, won nine rushing touchdowns this year. That is more than 17 other NFL teams. Just calamari. Yeah.

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When you get so good, when you get down near the goal line and you've got Larry Fitzgerald with shorthands, you've got Hopkins on the other side of the field, and you have usually a Kenyan Drake in the backfield that can run it up the middle. You just don't have enough guys to stop the quarterback from scrambling out. And it's going to continue to happen all year. This game is the one you want for fantasy, 56 and a half point over under.

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And I will take the over who because of this guy, Josh Dalyan has been excellent, especially in games with John Brown, who is my start of the week at the wide receiver position games where Josh Allen and John Brown have both played the full game quarterback three. Quarterback three, quarterback two. Yeah.

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I mean, I think the biggest question here is who's the quarterback? One on the week and who's the quarterback. Two on the week between these two guys like it, is Cuyler going to be better than Josh Allen or Josh Allen going to be better than geiler at the running back position position? Chase Edmunds is Andy Start started the week. Twenty eight opportunities last week. Kenyan Drake has been getting in limited practices. We talked about this in the office, Jason.

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You said you tell other people what you believe about Kenyan Drake. Yeah, he's back at practices. He's been in pads. But I think the expectation is that he's not going to play. That's what I'm hearing from the local beat reporters here. So I would say Chase Edmunds is going to be a great start. It was very disappointing last week, but the bills have not been good against the run. They've they've been beat a lot on the ground with another week to kind of design Chase Edmunds.

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And I think he's a a guy you should start on the other side of the ball.

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Zach Moss, to me is a must start running back to this week. He's been evening up the snaps, in fact, taking the lead of that over Devin Singletary.

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He gets the high leverage touches, as we've talked about, all all off season at the beginning. He's the one who will score the touchdowns between these two running backs. It's a decent matchup. The Cardinals are seventeenth against fantasy running backs the last six weeks and there's just a lot of points that will be scored. Zach Moss is in for me. He was a running back fourteen last week, running back five in week eight. He has been producing it mostly because the touchdowns.

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But I think the touchdown opportunity is fantastic this week. Singletary. My policy is I don't play Devin Singletary. I think that's a strong policy if you're talking about fantasy football, which yeah, that's what I am. Singletary is great. Yeah. I just can't play him for fantasy football, unfortunately. Yeah.

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If you're not getting the targets and you're not getting the going work and you're only use between the 20s, you can be good and still hurt. Help you lose a week. Stefon Diggs, he is in DeAndre Hopkins in John Brown. And I told you he's in for me. Christian Kirk at this point three top twelve weeks in a row. I have been skeptical of him and I don't want to start him. But he's in I mean, I haven't wanted to start it, but you got to buy in at this point.

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This is the type of game where those second wide receivers are. John Brown in your Christian Kirks, those are get them into your lineup, because, you know, if this is a game with 60 plus points going on the board, there's going to be some deep touchdowns and it will probably be John Brown and Christian Kirk getting that done. It could always be in the izabella the ball could go to Cole Beasley, who's had to back, going to say, what about the wide receiver?

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Twenty nine on the season J The Beatles. No, I think he's fine. This is a five combine targets the last two weeks.

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Still he's a he's a good wide receiver and a matchup projected for a lot of points to be scored. But exactly what you just said, John Brown is the wide receiver too. And you know, you look three weeks ago, four weeks ago, that's when Cole Beasley was really doing well. And that's when it wasn't John Brown being healthy. The tight ends are out in this matchup. Do not play them. Seattle six and two, the Los Angeles Rams, five and three.

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We have an NFC West showdown for divisional dominance. Fifty four and a half point over under. That's healthy. We like it. The Rams are favored by one by just a point and a half. And I think they're just giving the edge to the home team here. This is another great matchup.

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We're we're blessed this week, Jay. Yeah. Is the fantasy football community is hashtag blessed right now? Well, these are the two best games in for fantasy purposes, the two highest over unders of the week. And you expect big things. I mean, if you have been playing the and you've been doing the whole let's target the Seattle Seahawks game approach. You've been printing money. Yes, you have. So, you know, this is one of those games where I've got Cooper Kupp is my start of the week.

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Robert Woods is an auto star. He has to be started in this game. And I you know, I think Josh Reynolds is in play. Fourteen targets in the last two games in a matchup like this. I'm starting everybody I can in the receiving game. I'm a little bit worried in the running game. We don't know the health of Darnell Anderson, but it's been too long since I brought that name up.

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Darrell Henderson. Yes, tomato, tomato. But Darnell Anderson left the game two weeks ago, had the bye week has been limited in practice. Sean McVay says he's expecting him to be good to go. We've said this before. Sean McVay is a liar. He not. He is a filthy, lying liar. Yes, very handsome, filthy rich, handsome. But those that's why he's so good at it.

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Because you look at that face. Yeah. That's that's a trustworthy face, I trust. Yeah. Sean, why are Sean why are your pants on fire. I don't understand. Liar. Liar. And that's when he says they're not. Oh. And you believe him because he's so mean so but yeah. You can't trust him.

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So if you're going to start a running back, assuming that Darnell Anderson, a.k.a. Darrell Henderson is active, if he's active for the game, that has to be who you plug in, right?

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Yes, it would be where I go. I have too many times we've we keep trying to believe it's going to be carmakers.

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Who was a second round pick. It looked like it. The the lying liar Sean McVay keeps saying it's going to be Cam Acres and Acres did produce went went. And when you got me to say it. Yes, well, that's his name. When Anderson left the game a couple of weeks ago, carmakers came in and was much better than Malcolm Brown. But if you're starting one, is Darrell Henderson. The best hope here is that Henderson is inactive.

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And then you can actually start with confidence.

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Carmakers on the other side, Chris Carson questionable. Carlos Hyde questionable. D.J is questionable as a running back. Travis Olmer Limited on Thursday. He did a full practice on Wednesday. It is, unfortunately, a really tough decision in weeding through the murkiness over here. I mean, I suppose you keep rolling with Dallas, who gets the he gets the touchdowns while Chris Carson is away, Dallas will play, but Carson could be back. And if Carson's back, then he's back in my lineup.

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We didn't really touch on the quarterbacks because guess what? You're playing above, you're playing both with. It is interesting, I don't think the Rams defense has been talked about enough this year. We've they are dominating for fantasy purposes. They are allowing the the fewest amount of quarterback points, the fewest amount of wide receiver points and the second fewest amount of running back points in the last six weeks. And over the course of the season, it's the second fewest at quarterback and wide receiver in the sixth fewest at running back.

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They are shutting down fantasy options. So but at the same time, you're not going to bench your Seahawks, you're not going to bench DK Metcalf or Russell Wilson or Tyler Lockett. But be aware, this is a this is a really difficult matchup. And, you know, this is two strengths coming together. We're going to see who's stronger. Yes, we will.

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Jared Goff, the last four games versus Seattle is averaging over or is averaging three hundred thirty two passing yards. You're you're going to hear about that again later. Jason, you touched on the wide receivers. This one's easy. Everybody is in play, including Josh Reynolds. At the tight end position. Tyler Higbee has become a massive fantasy bust. Gerald Everett, the guy who we've talked about, maybe he comes in and usurps Tyler Higbee. He himself has done essentially nothing and he ran for more routes then as Kyle puts him, Higgie.

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Yeah, we are now calling Tyler Higbee Higgie so we can get jiggy with it. Yeah, I don't I don't think you're going to start either Higbee or Everett in this matchup. You're going to focus on the wide receivers, throw that three pack into your lineup and call it a day. San Francisco four and five. The New Orleans Saints six and two. I put a little flowers on it. Yeah. I mean, wow, look, sometimes you got it's jazzy.

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How was that?

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New Orleans? Oh, very nice. It's the jazz man. Oh.

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Some sometimes got to improvise. They are in New Orleans and the Saints are nine and a half point favorites. We have a forty nine point overorder that gives the Saints and applied team total of twenty nine points. Very nice. That is very nice. Drew Brees and he started the week top twelve for four straight weeks. Nick Moreland's. You would have to be a desperate human being to start him this week though. Running backs. Alvin Kamara, Super Mario, he is in play.

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I don't know if you know that. Yeah, well, you might look and see that the San Francisco 49ers on the course of the season are the number one. Just let it ride.

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Look, sometimes you I mean, you hear that all the time, right? The star power up. But sometimes you forget that that's that's that thing. Slaps Yeah. No star power. Yeah.

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And while the San Francisco 49ers are the number one against the run on the season. Yeah. That doesn't sway you. You don't have stars. Sit decisions with Alvin Kamara.

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I do not believe that you can that you want to flex Latavius Murray in this match up. The running the 49ers are stout against running backs. Murray is sometimes a play, just not in this one. Here is the real question, the 49ers running backs. You have Michael Hastey, who really didn't see the field the last time we saw the 49ers, Jerick McKinnon.

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I got tired legs, Jerick, McKinnon. At least we were told by another lying liar, Kyle Shanahan.

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I mean, we'll learn that all coaches are just filthy, lying low. But these two were on the same coaching staff back in Washington. Oh, yes, they learned it together. They made a pact, never tell the truth, go, Jerick, McKinnon, Jay, are you playing him this week? Uh, yeah, I, I probably am playing him if I have been getting Coleman is not expected and he Mostert was already ruled out.

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Yeah. This is Michael Hasti and Jerick McKinnon. Now Jerick McKinnon was OK last week. He wasn't great until the touchdown kind of saved his week. Well he's got a tie. He likes the matchup. It was over for a so it wasn't it wasn't outlandishly bad. It was just nothing special. And the matchup here is very difficult. The New Orleans Saints are great against the run. So Jerrick McKinnon isn't somebody I'm wanting to start, but you can start him.

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I have more confidence in him. Overhasty. Obviously, last week's outcome kind of makes the recency bias be there. But if I had to pick a reason, it's because he's involved in the passing game and I don't expect either running back to really get it going against the Saints. So give me the PPR bump of whoever's getting a little dump offs, if they're down, which they are projected to lose by almost double digits. I just had to vet something.

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And it depends on your scoring system here. But Jerick McKinnon was in fact a top six running top five and a half point.

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That's why I mean, depending on your scoring format, that wasn't MacKinnon's doing. That was the rest of the leagues doing. That was such a bad week. He scored fourteen fantasy points, which was like, hey, I'm happy with that. You score fourteen and half PPR. I'm I'm very happy with that on my roster. I don't expect that to be a top five performance debone. Samuel did not practice. I'm not expecting him to play Richie.

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James had a monster game last week. Now Bourne was not there. Bourne was on the Khancoban. Yeah, Kendrick Bourne was on the move and I are dbo Samuel was hurt with a hamstring injury. Rookie sensation Brandon Eisuke. Ah, UConn was also out because he was a close contact of Kendrick Bourne. George Kittle was out. So if all of those things happen again, maybe you can play Richie James. Well, maybe it's still a hard maybe.

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All jokes aside, almost everything you named is going to happen again. I don't think DBO is going to be there. Obviously, Kittles not going to be there. If they're down, they're going to be throwing the ball and the Saints can be beat through the air unless it's Tom Brady playing against them. Jason Moore is starting Richie James in his deep leagues. Apparently, I think there's better options. I would rather start, you know, Josh Reynolds, Brandon, I you know, I will play him, though.

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The New Orleans Saints. Twenty fifth the last six weeks against fantasy wide receivers, over thirty six points a game. And we look, oh, I'm falling into the trap of the lying liar again, Kyle Shanahan. But he talked about before the last Thursday's matchup, we said about 80 percent is what he was saying, that a very, very high percentage of the game plan was to go through Brandon IUE. And honestly, I believe him there.

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The passing attack with the weapons you have, you go to Brandon Eisuke, you got Nic Mullins. You got to manufacture yards here and you're going to run the offense through Brandon IUC. Yeah, I'm playing you. He's in a fuckin.

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Oh, man. I got to. Do we have anything for that, is there.

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Yeah, there we go. All right. The tight ends. Jordan Reid, Rustaveli, Jason. No, I'm going to wait until Jordan Reid is healthy. I do think Jordan Reid will. Is that an oxymoron if you have ever said one?

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Yes, it is, because I'm going to be waiting until I'm dead for him to be fully healthy. But the reality is, while he's on the field, more running, more snaps, because Jordan Reid was very, very limited last week, I think he'll get more and more integrated. And as he does so, it's going to take away from peanut butter jelly time. And I want to see it first from read before I put him in my lineup.

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I do think before the end of the season, it could be this week, it could be next week. I think Jordan Reed becomes a thing again if he progresses towards health, which is no guarantee. Cincinnati, two, five and one. The Pittsburgh Steelers. Are you playing real quick? Are you playing Jared Cook? Yes. Yes. And what about Emmanuel Sanders? I don't really want to play him, that's how I feel. I mean, how many weeks have we actually seen Sanders do something?

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So he was the wide receiver. Thirty last week against Tampa Bay and he had a touchdown mean three touchdowns on the season. We have one top twenty performance from him.

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So this is just this is just a start. Alvin Kamara, Michael Tomasky can move on. Yeah. I mean, you can flex Sanders if you have to. There's there's worse things in the world. Cincinnati, two five and one. Pittsburgh eight in oh. The Steelers are seven point favorites. We have a forty five and a half point over under monitor. The winds right now it is is projected to be just above the marker that starts impacting fantasy.

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So as of right now, I'm not going to alter my projections, but that's just something to pay attention to. I'm sure. I'll get to talk about more weather on this Sunday live the if you join me on our Sociales this Sunday, an hour before game time. Well, you just told them to. So they will join us on our Sociales an hour before kickoff on Sunday morning. The biggest question in here is how many touches will James Connor receive?

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Oh, my goodness. Because last week it was it appeared to be game plan specific for the for the Cowboys. We thought James Connor would have an awesome week. He was very underutilized and extend an extreme disappointment. Does that trend continue or did they learn their lesson by almost losing to the Cowboys and change? What's your projected stat line for James Connor this week? I'm projecting that is a blip on the radar last week for James Connor, meaning I think he goes back to being the starter.

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This is I mean, based off of week one. You had you had an even worse situation, week one where James Connor was bad and then he got nicked up again. While the entire narrative of the of the off season was James Connors, our guy. But he needs to stop getting hurt so much with him. It's an interesting thing to say to somebody, but it came to fruition. Week one in James Connor got hurt, left the field week to right back to James Connor, Mike Tomlin, not as much as a liar, liar.

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Pants on fire to me. I love Mike Tomlin. I love Mike Tomlin as well. And so I think that James Connor will be back and play. I'm going to play him with confidence as a running back one on the other side of the ball, Joe Mixon with the nonpracticing that is set as some sketchy stuff. But Giovani Bernard against the Pittsburgh Steelers, it's not the matchup you were hoping for. If you are filling in with Giovanni Bernard, where is he in your confidence in your rankings?

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He is a solid RB two. I mean, if you look at the last three weeks where he's had the opportunity, who's the running back? Twenty, the running back seven on the running back to you know, it's it's on the back of being a three down running back. Giovani Bernard or DeAndre Swift versus Washington.

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I will go with G.O. hesitantly. The talent is obviously more with Swift, but the touches should be more with Geo. You've got three receptions, five receptions, three receptions in the last three games for GIO. And while I'm pretty sure the other SWIFT has matched those numbers, I'm confident that we'll continues to get passes this week. The Lions can come out. You know, Matt, Patricia loves his magic and he'll go out and switch things up. But I like both players.

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I think you can confidently start both of them, battle the backups, Giovani Bernard against Pittsburgh or Duke Johnson against Cleveland, presuming that David is out with the concussion. I would go Duke Johnson, I think he's got more juice, Jill has not looked great on the ground. Ben Roethlisberger is in play. Brooks, what did you say about the covid test? Are we good to go with Ben now?

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He's still on the list, but kind of like Stafford last week. Yes. Has to keep testing negative.

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Yeah, we we expect him to play in. Cincinnati has allowed at least two passing touchdowns of seven of eight games. And Ben Roethlisberger is surrounded by talent at the wide receiver position. Joe Burrow, he is a bit of a tougher play. We have him ranked right now just inside of our top 20. We need to remember sorry to cut, you know, your good. Please go. But do you remember when they played against the Baltimore Ravens?

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Yes, I do.

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And what happened in that game? Bad things for Joe Burrow. Bad, bad things for his future health. Your offensive line versus the defensive line was what nightmares are made of for Joe Burrow. A good point. And he finished the game with one hundred and eighty three passing yards. An interception. Terrible game. He was the quarterback. Twenty nine. And I absolutely love what I've seen from Joe Burrow, Joe Burrow, someone I want to start in good matchups, but this defensive line, it's about to take his lunch money and they're not a nice.

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And his dinner money. Yeah, they're not in there. They're giving him a straight up swirly in the toilet. I mean, they're going into the bathroom and Joe Burrow is going to have to transfer schools after this one.

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I'm not playing Joe, but, you know, the pressure rate of the Steelers defense against this offensive line is troublesome for Joe. But Pittsburgh has the most sex. Cincinnati allows the second most sex.

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Oh, how is that not the owl boyland in the trenches? Whatever made up stat that Al Borland put in there so that we were talk? I think the owl cares more about running games.

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I see.

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I see. I see that. But that news is not going to stop me from joining us because owls fly.

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Why wouldn't the owl care about the running game?

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We can deepen the analysis on this one. All right. It's not going to stop me from playing the wide receivers from Cincinnati. Tyler Boyd is in. He's on pace for one hundred and eight receptions, Tee Higgins at least 60 yards or a touchdown in six straight games. Those guys are both in for me. Jay, where where do you lean on AJ Green, who we had too high volume games. We had two very productive games and then versus Tennessee, it all fell apart.

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Yeah. And that's a plus matchup for those who forget. Right. So I would roster Green. I would not put him in. I expect that the ball is going to have to come out of Joe Burrowes hands rather quickly. That to me, says Tyler Boyd will get his targets. That being said, that Slote matchup is not a good one. So I'm actually not very confident in any of these receiving options. So I'm going to bench AJ Green.

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And if he ends up being the short route, you know, eight targets with seven receptions and sixty five yards, I could take that. What about your boy, Drew sample? No superstar at your words, your words, my word. Superstar. Best of all time you sample. No, thank you.

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All right, let's play the game ranked the Pittsburgh Steelers wide receivers spin that wheel Deontay Johnson for healthy games this year. He's seen double digit targets in all four of them. Chase Claypoole, Maple Tron Rookie Sensation leads the team with eleven point eight average depth of Target Juju Smith Schuster, who has yeah, rose like the Phoenix.

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It feels like over the last couple of weeks. Twenty nine targets has been a top thirty six receiver in all three of those weeks. Jason Reinke, the Pittsburgh Steelers wide receivers. Oh my word.

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Boop boop boop. Oh, this is disgusting. I'm going to go I'm going to take my shot because usually when I'm ranking wide receivers, I'm going targets.

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First I'm going with who's going to get the most targets. And I'm going to actually take the guy who I think gets the fewest. I'm going to put Chase Claypool up top because Cincinnati's allowing the third most twenty plus yard pass attempts.

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Place plays, not just attempts. Yes, completions. And, you know, what's the chances Chase Claypoole gets a touchdown in this game? I put it over 50 percent, right, and so if that happens, he's going to end up as the number one, I want him in my lineups, but I think you could play all three. Deontay Johnson has the targets. Juju Smith. Schuster has been good. I would order them, uh, Chase Claypoole, Juju Deontae.

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And the reason I do that is because what's the reason I do that is because Juju, I still don't think has been very good this year, but where he has beaten up on teams has been in the easiest of easy matchups. It's it's the Giants week one. It's the Cowboys this last week. And I think that Cincinnati is going to be a team he can actually break some tackles on and and score. All right. I want all three.

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All right. Sunday night, Baltimore six and two. The New England Patriots, three and five. We have a forty three and a half point over under.

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The Ravens are favored by a touchdown. Man, it's tough in the streets for the New England Patriots right now, they have been home underdog just three times in the past 15 seasons. They went three no. Now, that was a very different situation. That was Mr. Thomas Brady at the helm. Now, they pulled it out of the New England Patriots. They dug deep. They dug deep last week. They fought back. They were trailing.

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It was an unbelievable matchup, a rarity overall, just so much harder.

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Yes. Against the New York Jets. They had to walk off with a field goal against the Jets. And let me tell you, the postgame press conference with Cam Newton said everything. They were so happy and relieved. And I mean, it was like they won the Super Bowl because I feel like that was the Super Bowl for them. They're not going to compete that well against the Baltimore Ravens on either side of the ball. I would take the Ravens cover in this game and I don't expect a lot of points to be scored, to be honest.

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But, you know, right now you've got the Ravens is seven point favorites, which puts the New England Patriots at eighteen point scored. I'm not sure they get there. I'm not sure they get there either.

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So pretty good. I mean, he's good at that booty right. In the end zone last week against the New York Jets hasn't thrown a touchdown. This is why week three, this is why fantasy scoring is broken.

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Three quarterbacks, he hasn't thrown a touchdown since week three and in seventy five percent of his game since week three. So while never throwing a touchdown, he's been a quarterback one. Three out of four times, that's so stupid, it's wild Lamar Jackson on the other side of the ball. We do have him ranked as a quarterback, one right now. Reluctantly, he's taken on the New England Patriots who have been pretty tough against fantasy quarterbacks. Fourth on the season, second in the last six weeks.

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If you just roll in Lamar Jackson out there, are you actually considering like if you had Jared Goff, if you had Ben Roethlisberger. Are you playing those guys ahead of Lamar? It's funny because you look you look at this match in the you know, right here and over the last four weeks, Cam Newton on the other side of the ball while throwing no touchdowns, has been better for fantasy than Lamar Jackson has. I'm still putting Lamar Jackson out there because of his rushing baseline.

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But again, I expect this to be a lower scoring game. I don't think this is going to be one where the Baltimore Ravens go ham. And so, you know, Lamar Jackson, when I play Lamar Jackson or Justin herbut. Sure, I'll throw I'll throw Herberton. He's he's been on fire. I'm going to throw the Deshaun Watson to the you know, the people that have been playing well and put them in ahead of Lamar Jackson. But if you drafted him, you've you've got a you know, you've got to wait until they figure that out and maybe they won't.

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I mean, there's been a lot said this last week of Lamar Jackson talking about on the Rich Eisen show that the defense are calling out their plays. Yes, they know what they're going to do. They're extremely predictable right now. In the same thing happened. Yes. When the offensive coordinator was back when Greg Roman was in San Francisco with Colin Kaepernick, where Colin Kaepernick looked like he was revolutionizing the quarterback position. And you're going, holy crap, how many Super Bowls is Colin Kaepernick going to win?

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And then the next year enrollment system, it kind of fell apart. So hopefully they can figure things out. Hopefully that is not what is happening, that it's clearly that's what Lamar thinks is happening. The Baltimore Ravens running backs. This is pretty easy for me. If Mark Ingram is out, Dobbins and Gus Edwards are in. Gus Edwards is touchdown dependent. I get it. Jake Dobbins will see more volume. Both Gus Edwards has scored in three straight games.

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If there is a golden opportunity, it's probably going to go to Gus Edwards. And if marketing firm is in, then they're all out for me. I'm not taking a chance on any of them. Over on the other side, though, the Patriots running backs. This is interesting. Damien Harris is getting in limited practices. He did go down. If you are watching the game against New York Jets, he went down in a heap.

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This is so easy for me. They're all out. Damian Harris. You don't want that. Rex, go ahead. Action. Sexy Rexy. This is the time.

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If Sony and Damien Harris are both inactive for the game, they are ruled out, then then you could put Rexburg running back seven on the week.

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Last week we talked about how bad it was for running back. Yeah, but running back seven J. Yes. I don't think that the New York Giants defense is quite as good as the Baltimore Ravens defense, who on the course of the season, their top five against the running back position. I'm not because I don't I don't think Damian Harris will be inactive. So I'm out on the whole, the whole patriots running back.

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All right. Jacoby Meyers. Twenty two targets. In the last three weeks, he has emerged as the number one guy for the Patriots. This is what he has been seeing target wise three weeks ago when he finally got back into the starting lineup against San Francisco. Twenty four percent of the targets and then against Buffalo and the New York Jets, a forty percent target share. Now, that's a target share from Cam Newton, who has not thrown a touchdown since week three.

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But is Jacoby Meyers in play for you as a flex?

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Only if Kill Harry is out. OK, you know, and he is questionable, right? Right. So we don't know for sure yet. But in week seven, that was where, you know, six targets for Jacoby Meyers. Nikil Harry was there and they kind of split those the last two weeks is when the kill has been out. And so, yeah, ten targets, fourteen targets. You can you can flex at him. But this is, again, a good defense.

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And if the kill here, he's out there and they're splitting those targets, then I'm pretty much I'm willing to play Cam because he runs the ball and not another player. Unless you've got the inactive that running back and wide receiver that say there's one player left, Mark Andrews is in. You have to start him it. It has felt really bad, but you're starting him at the tight end position, but Maki's Brown 12th and targeter third in areas share number one in Jason Moore's heart.

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Are you playing him against this Patriots defense? If you have if you are, you're looking at your bench going, yep, I'm getting Hollywood brown in there. Are you forcing him in?

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No. No, I'm not. I mean, do you want Josh Reynolds?

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Uh, I'm Josh Reynolds is in play. I mean, seven targets each of the last two weeks against the Seattle Seahawks and high overunder game where you project for a ton of passing yards to happen. Or do you want whatever market share that Hollywood brown gets of the 170 passing yards? That questions. It sucks, man. I mean, this is a my guy. I believed in Hollywood Brown. I take full responsibility for those who have had a hard time walking away because and I stand firmly behind my take that he's awesome.

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I think Hollywood Brown is a great wide receiver. I really, really do. I watch the film. I don't see anything to make me think he wouldn't thrive if he had passing volume. And until that comes, it's going to be touchdown or bust.

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Hollywood Brown or Staying the Flames with Curtis, Samuel Curtis, Samuel Hollywood Brown or Marvin Jones, who should be alone as the number one against Washington. He could be alone to the degree that T.J. Hawkinson and Kenny Golladay are both out. I would probably go Marvin Jones there. I mean, this is this is a bad matchup. New England, you know, New England is not what they once were, but who Stephon Gilmore going to be, Gordon?

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Yeah, good. I'm not really wanted to play Hollywood Brown this week, which means it'll be his big blowup Monday night. Minnesota, the Minnesota Vikings are three and five, taking on the Chicago Bears at five and four. We have an NFC North divisional battle here, the Vikings.

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What is going on? You know, I was like I saw by a field goal in a forty three point over on the road, to be fair to Minnesota, they have been playing much better, much better the last few weeks.

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They're projected to basically sweep the division these three weeks in a row. I mean, they they beat Green Bay. They beat Detroit after their bye week. They have looked like a good team. And of course, that is because they have turned into the Minnesota David Cooks. Now we have a date with destiny. Jason, Matt Nagy, the magician is for no versus the Vikings. Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins is oh and nine on Monday Night Football, the most consecutive losses by a starting quarterback to begin a career.

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Oh, my gosh, that stat poor Kirk Cousins, who, by the way, if you've not seen the the video that has gone viral of Kirk Cousins in his High School Musical. Oh, it is. It's a delight. It will bring a smile to your face. So let's do you might have to watch behind your fingers, though. We will.

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We're going to break it down for Fanis with Jay, who wins the game, a Chicago.

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I picked them outright, forgetting the fact that they're being given points. OK, Kirk Cousins, he's been averaging twenty six pass attempts per game. Would you rather play Kirk Cousins or Nick Foles? Oh, that's interesting, because you don't want to play either of them. You don't want to play either. If I a single quarterback. If I took my shot on one, I would take it on Nick Foles. I could see big plays happening and touchdowns going against the Vikings defense.

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Look, the Bears defense has been fully legit. You know, we talk about the Rams not getting enough credit. The Bears have been they have received the credit. We know what they are. Every single game that it goes out with the Bears. It's a low scoring defensive game because and and they've been tested. They've played against some good offenses and those offenses have struggled. What I'm really interested to see is, can the bears shut down Dalvin Cook at all enough to win the game?

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That's that's what they're going to have to do. That is a great question. But you are playing double cook. Meanwhile, David Montgomery, the plodder, the king of the volume, the king of Opportunity is still in the concussion protocol. So this is a problem for the Chicago running game. Ryan Noll might be the next man up. Cordarrelle Patterson will probably see some more touches. It's probably a situation to avoid. Adam Thielen The last two weeks has been the wide receiver 65 and the wide receiver seventy two it and I mean it's really that's Dalvin Cook's fault.

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That is not out of the Thielen's fault.

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Yeah Thielen hasn't looked any different than he has. His entire career is just when you can run for 200 yards easily with very little hesitation.

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That being said in this game, this is a very difficult matchup for wide receivers. They're going to try to run the ball. I don't think this is a, you know, an Adam Thielen game either. Would you be willing to pivot, though, from someone whose ceiling is as high as Adam Thielen? No, I would not be permitted. No, I'm not pivoting away from Adam Thielen or Justin Jefferson. Those types of players with the variance am I smack in the face?

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But I'm still going to play them. Allen Robinson. I'm going to play him. The matchup is pretty good. Darnell Mooney is the big question. We saw eleven targets I believe it was. Let me vet that. But last week we saw a lot of opportunity for Darnell Mooney. It did not come through. Yes, it was eleven targets, which was a twenty one percent target share for Mooney, Minnesota, allowing the fourth most twenty plus yard plays.

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Jay, you like Maple Tron because the Bengals are giving up big plays. Do you like Mooney here? The rookie, the super fast rookie. You like him with an opportunity for a big touchdown? I certainly think he will have an opportunity for a big touchdown. He'll have a deep pass thrown his way.

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What's the odds that he can do that? It's a catchable target. I'm going to say fifteen percent so I don't put him in the same category as people try and getting the ball thrown to him by Big Ben. But he's certainly someone where you could take your shot on him. And it's a fun. I mean, look, if you're if you're scrapping off the waiver wire and scratch the corn for some points, it's fun to have that big play ability on a Monday Night Football game where after Sunday you're not out.

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Yeah, you still have hope.

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It is fun. Jimmy Granpa, that side and six on the year. Yeah, he's in play. The matchup dictates that. Meanwhile, the Bears defense where they actually give up points is two fantasy tight ends bigger Smith coming off. You know, we've seen him score a few touchdowns the last couple of weeks. Are you willing to play him? I'm not willing to play him.

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I mean, news for targets in receptions, two touchdowns. I mean, in DFS. I think you could take a cheap shot if he's still, you know, a cheap option. I just because it's Kyle Rudolph and Irv Smith splitting, it's it's very difficult to know. I mean, I think one of those two has a good game, but I. You couldn't predict who it's going to be. Yeah. You've seen him. He hasn't separated from Kyle Rudolph.

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Fifty percent of the tight end targets the last two weeks. Yeah. They're splitting almost identical targets. Yeah. So it it would be it's a shot you can take but it's a it's a bit of a Hail Mary.

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Nope. I will not give you my favorite prop. Oh, OK. We'll give you my favorite prop of the year of the year. Yes. This is I mean, I am I am so confident in this pic that, OK, gref me on Twitter. If I am wrong, I will gladly accept it. But Baker Mayfield right now has two hundred and seventy four and a half passing yards is his moralization is his more or less.

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He will not throw for more than two hundred and seventy five. You will throw for less than 275 on the season.

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Baker Mayfield is averaging one hundred and eighty nine passing yards per game, almost a hundred passing yards per game less the reason he's being given, you know, such a high expectations because well, it's the Houston Texans, but we're heading into week ten and he's literally only thrown for two hundred and seventy five yards one time on the entire season. Now you lose all Bekim and you might say, well, maybe he's better that way. But the big play that will be necessary to take you up over two hundred and seventy five yards.

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It's not coming from a broken rib. Jarvis, he's going to be doing it and I'm going to run. But I don't think there's any way. Plus, you add in the weather. This is you know, this projects to be the worst weather game of the week right there off of the Great Lakes. And you're going to end up with some high winds. They're going to want to run the ball. No way, Baker throws for 275, I'm taking less.

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Announcing Geor, King Joffrey, his more or less on monkey, nullified his two hundred eighty nine and a half yards, he is taking on the Seattle Seahawks. I already gave you the stat the last few games. Jared Goff is averaging well over 300 passing yards a game. Seattle continues to give up three hundred passing yards a game. This was this was my prop last week. And in fact, the the average yards passing yards that Seattle is allowing went up last week.

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They are averaging they're giving up three hundred sixty two yards a game. Jared Goff could throw three hundred. He's already done it three times this year.

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