Week 1 Start Sit Advice (Part 2) | Sneaky Starts & Players to BENCH (09/11 Fantasy Football Podcast)

This is Fantasy Football Today from CBS Sports. Swallow Play! Can you believe this? It's a no again. It's time to dominate your fantasy league. Go to the races, play states, play states, play states, play states, play states. Now, here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. [Music] I'd have to dust off the old worry-outer here on this Friday. Happy Friday, everybody, September 11th, and we are recapping San Francisco's 27-7 stomping of the Los Angeles Rams. I think this would qualify as a stomping. It was the seventh biggest regular season crowd in NFL history. More than 100,000 people there to see Matthew Stafford's worst fantasy game in almost two years. Can you guys believe that Matthew Stafford in 2024 had seven games of single-digit fantasy points? That was surprising to see. And this time, he scored 4.1. Good morning, Jamie. He looked bad. He looked old. He looked bad. Him, where are you talking about like six other guys in that game? [Laughter] Yes. There were several players that looked like they were washed up. Hello, Dave. I would agree that it wasn't his best game, but I thought he had a few good throws in there. Not ready to say, and I'm not accusing you of saying this, Jamie. I don't think he's washed by any stretch, but. No, first game, Rusty, maybe the trip, there's reasons for pessimism there. I'll give you a reason for optimism for Matthew Stafford. Giants, Broncos, not so good, Philly. Oh, that's not so good. Okay, I guess I just don't have much optimism since after week two. No, I mean, look, that's not overreact. It was a bad game for him. Who are you most worried about here? It could be goes, "Look, 27-7 was the score, Brock Purdy had a great game. He scored 27.1, fantasy points, he threw three touchdowns. George Kiddell played about half the snaps, but Devatee Adams didn't play that much. Christian McCaffrey was splitting too much with Kaelin Black. Jamie, who are you most worried about in this game, from this game?" I guess probably would be Adams just because two things, one, not only the playing time, but also when they were in their 13 personnel, that was a big part of what made him successful last year. We saw the switch toward the end of the season when they put Pukka in that role, and I don't know why you would take Pukka out of that role. He just has more upside, so I don't think Adams is going to be this bad. I don't think he's going to be this uninvolved or continue to be not a huge part of the game plan, but you're counting on him to score touchdowns, and when he doesn't score touchdowns as we saw last year, it was bad, and this was bad. The touchdowns will come, they'll probably come in bunches, don't expect 14, eight plus is probably still on the table, but this was the concern going into the air. If he doesn't score, he's going to be bad, and he didn't score. So I want to talk a little bit more about that and give you some numbers. Adams still had a 24% target share, only 25% pass attempts from Matthew Stafford. Nothing really went right for them. Time of possession, 26 minutes and 10 seconds for the Rams. You talk about that 13 personnel, that's one, that's a three tight ends, and one wide receiver is going to be in this mix. Now, looking at just, I think it was weeks one through 15 when Adams played, Pukka Dukua did run more routes than him in 13 personnel. However, 13 personnel in goal to go situations when Adams was healthy last year, first 15 games of the season. He ran 13 of the 15 goal to go routes. So other parts of the field, Pukka was in there a lot, but when they got near the end zone and had one wide receiver on the field, it was almost always Adams last year. Last night, they ran five plays in 13 personnel goal to go, and Pukka Nakuwa was in on all of them. So I thought that was a huge, potentially huge development for Davante Adams in a negative way, and a good development, obviously, for Pukka Nakuwa. And would have been great if he, you know, is a foot inside the end zone. Yeah. Pukka. Pukka, yeah. Yeah. A little slant on the pick plan. Yeah. And that was right before the, the sneak that didn't work. Right. The Matthew Stufford. Matthew Stufford. Matthew Stufford still has one rushing touchdown in his last, well, going into this year, one rushing touchdown is last nine seasons. All right. What did you think of the Christian McCaffrey usage, Dave? He had 10 carries, Kalam Black, who's 61% roster had 14 carries, obviously McCaffrey played more snaps. He had the five catches, but this was weird. They almost split first and second down snaps evenly. It was 50% to 46% with CMC having a slight edge coaches were lying to us. They said that they wanted to take some work off of Christian McCaffrey and they did exactly that. McCaffrey still had nearly every single high value touch that you could ask for, including all three of their snaps inside the five, nine of 10 snaps on third down. I don't think this is changing. I think we're still going to see, I think Black has earned himself the right to continue splitting those first and second down reps with CMC. It's not a reason to panic on Christian McCaffrey. He's still going to be working near the goal line and catching a lot of passes. But it's not, I think the case for him to be RB1 is out the window if he's not getting the majority of the first and second down carries because you're just taking a potential opportunity for him to break off a long run off the table, those can go to Black and Black ad plenty of them. He looked great too. I agree. And so to McCaffrey, which was good because he didn't really look that great running the ball last year. No. Awesome efficiency in this game. Well, that's hopefully what you get from him is that fresher legs that gives him some more bigger runs. I think it just speaks volumes. Two things. One, K-1 Black should be 1,000% rostered because you see what the upside could be if there's no McCaffrey. And two, Jordan James was an active. So if you have any questions about who the number two guy is, it's definitely K-1 Black. Do we know the roster ship for K-1 Black? Yeah, he just said it 61%. 61% here. I'm sorry. 61% rostered. 1% started. And he's probably, he could be a lot like Blake Korum. Blake Korum had, he had 10 carries. Kyron Williams had 11, but Kyron Williams played on all the third downs, played on all the goal line. And that was actually encouraging. And by the way, I would not necessarily expect that to continue. The third down thing, yes, the goal line thing, not necessarily. But this was an encouraging issue. You knew he was going to split with Korum. But the fact that he got, it's actually pretty crazy how similar the rules were for McCaffrey. And for the, you know, it's the two back fields with like third down and goal line stuff going to one guy. And it was, it was Kyron, yesterday. I see Gamer Eric Postardows about say, "Korum, look better than Williams." I agree. I agree. It was, it was dramatic. Yes. Like, we saw a far more explosive running back in Blake Korum. There were a couple of plays where I think he left yards on the field, but he also created a bunch of plays. I think he had like 34 yards, 34 of his yards on four straight plays in the first half. And I agree with you, Jamie. He looks a lot better. Wouldn't be surprised if this became a situation where Korum had more of the, between the 20s carries and Kyron handled third downs and goal lines. He is a more explosive player than Kyron Williams. One thing Kyron is great at though, as I recall, try to confirm is he just doesn't have negative place. And I don't know if Korum will, but that is one thing that, I mean, last year was his best year, maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit, but he's pretty good at avoiding the negatives. I think you got to be a little bit concerned about what happens to Korum, not from a high-end stamp. Well, yes, my high-end stamp. But if Kyron gets hurt, will they use him as a pass-and-downs guy? Because they seem very reluctant to do that, even in tandem with Williams. So do we see Ronnie Rivers maybe taking over some of those third-down roles, third-down opportunities if there was a Kyron Williams injury? That one bothered me as much, as long as Korum was the guy who they used at the goal line. Which I think is what they would do. All of Korum's bad runs, I think you can attribute to bad blocking. He did not seem indecisive at all. The Rams have two good running backs, but I'm very happy to have Korum on my bench in a bunch of leagues. Deepo Samuel, 10% started. We'll see what that looks like next week for the 49ers who have the Dolphins, and they should be able to. The Dolphins, Mike Wright, they have Miami and Arizona, their next two games, or is that. Thanks. They have Miami. Okay. They. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They have Miami and Arizona with their next two games. Miami, Arizona. And then they've got Denver and then that Seattle, Washington, Atlanta after that. So most of these games coming up for San Francisco are really good. Cool. All right. And then, yeah, we'll talk about these guys more later. I think Evans with a good game, but I guess on Wednesday's show, I'll bring up maybe a sell high opportunity because you didn't have much from Kittle. You know, there's. Stribbling though. We should talk, you know, just real quick. Stribbling hurt his ankle and could miss some time. Got lucky. But if I could get leads for sure. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I thought too at first. Do I drop? Stribbling. I think he definitely dropped. Stribbling. I mean, come on. First of all, he's hurt. He's not. Don't do it in a dynasty league, but he's hurt and. I wouldn't drop him yet. I. He didn't get a single target. I mean, you can't drop him. Yeah, but. He got two separate ankle injuries. They probably shouldn't have put him back out there after the first one. His usage early in the game was amazing. So that's what I think you're hanging your hat on here is that they clearly wanted to get him involved. You're right. Debo played well. Most of that came after Stribbling was out. Evan's not going to go away. And, you know, this was. Look, this is a really good defense, though. So just like the fact that they put out 27 points, it's still, you know, one of their tough opponents. gonna do this against the Rams. Imagine what they could do against Dolphins. I think the biggest reason why you hold on to struggling is if he goes on short term, I don't want to drop him and then have the ability to stash him. So let's just see how this plays out next week. They have some extra time to figure out what they're gonna do. But yeah, I wouldn't be dropping him just yet. - I want to tip my cap to Jamie for his call on George Kittle. Kittle played 46% of the snaps. He was in there, he was a frequent target on their first. He had four targets on the first drive. - And I thought sure that was good. - Really, they really buy into Kittle. But I didn't think he looked that great and I wonder if the coaching staff kind of realized the same thing and they wanted to attack further down field. He got one long target and he didn't catch it. It was in the end zone. But I would expect better things from Kittle. So if you started him and you're disappointed, I don't think the games will be this bad moving forward. But as long as Evans is healthy and they've got Debo in there too and they ran the ball well in this game. There could be a little bit of a target crunch there. - Yeah, I would buy low for sure on Kittle. What the way I viewed it was, let's get him involved early and see how he looks. And if he's doing a lot and having some success, continue it or just get him some targets early and then get him out of the game. I thought it was interesting and clearly at that point, they were winning, they just weren't blowing them out. But when Todd just tried to trip Miles Garrett and maybe broke his leg because Garrett is just so big. But on the leg whip that okay, now maybe Kittle comes back in and gets some more opportunities. They went right to Farrell. So it was clear that they're just gonna be smart with Kittle. So you have now 10 days 'til their next game, they have an opportunity to get him healthier again. Hopefully no setbacks. I think there's a huge by-law opportunity for him here. - Okay, well unfortunately for them, they have to play the soon to be one in New York Giants Monday night week two. - Oh no, that'll be the Rams, the 49ers. - Oh you talking about the Nomsaw. Okay, well I was gonna say Miles Garrett had zero pressures last night or morning, whatever the heck it was. And that was his first time since 2018 with zero pressures in a game. And he is not fully healthy. He kind of acknowledged that after the game. And that's it for Thursday night football. No, no, no, no. We got a live stream on Sunday. I have a goal, a goal for our Sunday live stream. YouTube.com/FantasyFootballToday, 11 AM Eastern. I wanna set a record, our most viewed live stream. Our most viewed Sunday live stream ever. I think we can do it. Let's get there, join us. YouTube.com/FantasyFootballToday. We started 11, we end just before kick off all times Eastern, the best time zone. Not really though, just personal pride. But let's set a record. Got the mailbag coming up later where we're gonna do some fantasy cops and all that good stuff. News and notes, Sam Darnold is expected to miss week two, but he thankfully avoided a long-term injury. Might only miss one game, two games. They are at Arizona and at Washington the next two games. We'd love for him to be there. That'd be great for everyone. But obviously, Drew Locke can do enough. To a tongue out by Loa has an oblique injury and Cooper Rush could start. And David and I talked about this on Express yesterday. We previewed this game yesterday, but let's talk about it and how this would change. Jamie, I'll give you the first word for Drake London and Kyle Pits, if Cooper Rush is starting instead of two at tongue out by Loa. - I mean, it's gonna impact Beach on as well. You're still starting all three of these guys. I don't think you're gonna bench them. I don't think there's much of a significant drop off for Pits. He's gonna run the same routes and probably get a lot of still dump off passes. So, Stifanski will do a lot of things to scheme up his tight ends. It's what he's always done and that's why we like Kyle Pits. In the case of London, are you really gonna bench him? So, you see how this all plays out and hopefully Cooper Rush just continues to feed him, just lower expectations, not a great DFS play clearly. And Beach on again, you're not sitting him. So, nothing really changes. - Okay, Cooper Rush is, you know, not that good. But, like last year, he was terrible with Baltimore. He made one start and it was against Houston and he threw three interceptions. The next week, against the Rams through for 72 yards on 19 pass attempts and got benched. 2024 with Dallas, his 17-game pace was not that good, but it was not much worse than Atlanta's 17-game stats last year. So, if that gives you any confidence. It doesn't give me. At running back, Josh Jacobs pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of battery and criminal damage to property. Dave and I broke this down on Express yesterday and just to sum it up, you know, we don't know what's going to happen here but he absolutely needs to be rostered. You might end up with a steal on your fantasy team if you took him with a late round picket. There's definitely going to be some time missed. But anytime he's on the commissioner's exempless will count toward any suspension that he gets in the future. Jeremiah Love was limited. It's looking like he'll play. We'll talk about that game today. Both Carolina running backs are looking like they'll play. Sean Tucker got in a limited session for the Bucks. Alvin Camera and Kendrick Miller. Looks like Camera is going to play this week. At Detroit, we'll see how that impacts Travis H. Ann. Chikori Kroski Merritt was limited in practice. They're at Philadelphia. A wide receiver, AJ Brown is expected to miss at least four weeks. So that's probably going to be an IR situation for AJ Brown. And that's a bummer. Chikobie Myers, Chikobie Myers was limited with a thumb injury and I don't think it's really. I feel like you guys aren't ranking the Jaguars. Well, Dave, I'll ask you how much would it change your rankings of Parker, Washington and Brian Thomas Jr. and Trevor Lawrence, I guess. And Brent and Stranger, I guess. If Chikobie Myers were out. If it were out, I don't think it would change that much. I don't, I don't see Myers being a focal point in a game where they might not throw a lot anyway. Malik neighbors has been practicing in full. Apparently looking good, feeling good. But he is not committed to playing. And he says it will be his decision, Malik neighbors, for Sunday night. No, he said, no, he said it'll be his decision. He meant Harbaugh. Did he? I think he said it will be my decision. Now he said Harbaugh. Well, it doesn't really matter because Harbaugh already said that he's ready to go. I'm almost, but I could be right. I thought he said Harbaugh. Oh, okay. Well, whatever. Tune in Sunday morning. Zachariah Branch for the Falcons limited with the hamstring. Ameco Bukka's looking good. He's practicing full, Jaylin McMillan's still limited. Oh, this is cool. And this isn't a surprise. I'm kind of new to this. But Matt LaFlor, the head coach of the Packers, says he wants to get his top three receivers on the field as much as possible. Don't want to rotate as much as they have in the past. So that is good stuff. Let me ask you this. If we're assuming Jacobs is coming back, when a Packers wide receiver has a big game at some point this month, are they sell high candidates? Because the Packers could revert back to being more run-heavy. And let's call it November and December. Yeah, maybe. But let's talk about that then. But it's a good thought, it's a good thought. But you are correct, I apologize. He said it says decision. Oh, and by the way, Jamie, not to pick on you, but to pick on you. I got three emails yesterday that said, I said Josh Allen. When you accused me of saying Josh Downs, instead of Josh Allen. I apologize. We're going to get the fantasy cops out on, Jamie. For correcting. Did you get the DJ Turner news? Yes. He's limited. So is Shamar Stewart. That'd be good news for Ameco Bukka if DJ Turner did not play that's Cincinnati's top cornerback. Meanwhile, Alex Pierce was limited with a heel injury. Dave, how much do you like you can get to talk about this game yesterday? How much do you like the Colts wide receivers against Baltimore mentioned the Ravens gave up the most big plays last year? What do you think about the Colts wide receivers? The Ravens defensive scheme is changing under Jesse Minner. I fully expect Josh Downs to be the book. That's the game of the week, yeah. That's just the game of the week, okay? The Colts and the Ravens. Daniel Jones, Revenge Tor, not Revenge Tor, but whatever. It's the game of the week. Hey, maybe the worst game of the week choice you've ever had. It's a pretty bad slate. I was expecting it to be a bad slate. We had to, we had to, like, Canada. I mean, all right. Saints, Lions, Bengals, Bucks. Yeah. You know what? You know what? Better games. I still think it could be a double or triple game of the week. No. For Adam this week. Those two teams didn't make the playoffs last year. So what? I was going to, I was going to go Giants Cowboys, to be honest with you. I'm sorry. The two playoff teams involved some more in and in apples, right? Those teams would have made the playoffs. Oh, they would have. Gotcha. They're a quarter back. They are kickered in. These A's are standing the playoff. So wait, I'm sorry. So the Bengals and the Bucks would not have made the playoffs last year if their quarterbacks weren't hurt. Correct. How many teams make the playoffs in the A's are? Gotcha. I actually know. I actually really think it's going to be a very good game. I think Bucks colds going to be, but Bucks. Oh, yeah. That's the one that everybody's tuning into. I believe it's colds. They should be. Come on. They should be. I agree that it's going to be an interesting game and there's a lot to look for in that game. I don't think it's going to be the fantasy game of the week. All right. Ro Maduins, they was limited. I'm done with the injuries here. Let's take a break. One question for each game and previewing seven games when we come back on fantasy football today. I'm going to talk to you right now about Omaha stakes. And this is a perfect time for me to do it because just last night I cooked four Omaha stakes for my family and they were awesome and we completely devoured them. And tonight Omaha stakes burgers and hot dogs for the family. They also have seafood and side dishes. 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I'll give Marvin the nod. Give me one second. I'm sorry, I don't have a pulled up. I'm sorry, I don't know this. I am in mid season form for this by the way. Oh, yeah. No, that's tough because you have Quentin. Oh, yes. I've got Quentin Johnson, a Nudge ahead of Marvin Harrison and Marvin Harrison and Michael Wilson back to back. Yeah. But lads at that. Very interesting game to me. The Chargers were second best against wide receivers last year. The Cardinals weren't really that bad. Only three times all season did two wide receivers score 13 or more PPR fantasy points in the same game against them. But I'm looking forward to getting your thoughts on the game script here because of heath and Jamie both have Quentin Justin Herbert in their top three and you have him ninth. So we'll talk about that in a bit. And none of the only lab at hockey was in the top 24 for Dave, the other guys number three receivers. Yes. Green Bay, at Minnesota, start or sit, Marshawn Lloyd. Did you know that in two games against the Vikings, Jamir Gibbs last year scored a combined 11.8 PPR fantasy points. Do you see what a manual Wilson did to the Vikings in one game last year? Yes. He had that was like 24 carries and 27 points or something, right? Yeah. He had a monster game. And then the next game, the Packers couldn't run the ball with a lick. I'm not ready to concede that Marshawn Lloyd is going to be great or bad. And so I'm couching it with him as a low end number two fantasy running back. I want to see this Vikings run defense with the changes that they made with their defensive line before I declare them awesome. Yeah. Because they've got some younger players up front. I know the Packers offensive line isn't great, but I wonder if it's enough for Lloyd to still handle a decent amount of work. I know he's going to be working running down. So don't expect him on third downs. I still think he's their goal line guy. I don't have high expectations, but he's in that mix of low end number two running backs. It's the same mix that I would have with basaltuton price was in that mix. The Steelers running backs. Jeremiah Love is at the top of that list. I made a change in one of my lineups last night and I put Lloyd in for DJ Moore and half PPR league. So we, you know, we'll see how that goes, but I don't because I look at, you know, Minnesota's defense was so good last year and the year before that they were really good too. And I said it yesterday, one touchdown pass allowed in their last eight games. But I don't think their personnel is all that. It's not like a star-studded defense. So yeah, I don't know. I think maybe they're not quite as good as I thought. But anyway, Chicago at Carolina, starter sit, Roma, Dune's AFP plays. Sit. I am most worried about how Panther's secondary will line up against perimeter wide receivers this year. I think they've got some good outside corners. They play a lot of zone, a lot of cover three, and that's not going to be conducive to a Dune's AFP, particularly in an offense that has multiple weapons that can win over the middle of the field, which is, which is great when it's not deep against cover three, when it's that short and intermediate area. Lovelin can win there, Luther Burton can win there. I just, I don't see Roma Dune's AFP having a big game, especially if he's not at 100%. I think he's easy to sit down. Washington at Philadelphia, which quarterbacks would you start over Jaden Daniels other than obvious ones? I don't know if it like is Caleb Williams obvious? No, I guess at this point. Are we talking about maybe, are we talking about quarterbacks that were drafted after Jaden Daniels? That's a better way to do it. Yeah, right. So Dak Prescott for sure, Trevor Lawrence for sure, I would have said Stafford, I would have said May, so don't know if you want to listen to this. Goff, Herbert, all of them ahead of Jaden Daniels. Caleb Williams, one spot ahead of Jaden Daniels. Would you go to like Tyler Schuck or Baker Mayfield? No, I'm not there. Jaden Daniels is 12th for me. Not expecting huge things, but we know what the upside is, and I do think Washington will throw a good amount in the game. Dallas is at the giants. Why isn't Jackson Dart in your top 12, especially you, Dave? Because I think this Cowboys defense is going to be better than expected. I know people look at what the Cowboys gave up last year and said, oh, they stink, but they've replaced half their defense. Their defense already got better last year once Quinn and Williams got there. And this is a different giants offense. I'd be surprised that they took to the air in this game a ton. When they do, it's going to be mostly neighbors and likely. And I don't even know how much of it is going to be neighbors. Is it going to be eight targets for neighbors? His first game back, they don't want that caps the upside of him on the ground. I don't think they want him rushing for touchdowns either unless he's just scrambling in the red zone, and he did that last year, but they don't even want him scrambling. So I'm going to try and take a different approach to my quarterback this week and leave Dart on the bench. Okay. I'm missing one quarterback, but the Cowboys last year obviously faced 17 quarterbacks, and at least 13 of them finished top 12. There's 13 or 14 finished top 12 against the Cowboys. I know it's a different scheme, but they were the worst defense in the NFL last year. So they have a lot of improvement to do. This is the defense that I'm really looking forward to because there's been a lot of hype about their defense coordinator. He's come from the Vic Fanjo tree, but he's not doing Vic Fangio things with the defense. So I'm I'm really excited to see what they do, and I'm kind of optimistic. Like if I'm a Cowboys fan, I feel kind of good about where this team could go this year. These Saints are at the lion. Start or sit Jamison Williams. Start. You like New Orleans. Then the Packers guys. Yes. You like him better than obviously Odunze. How about Jamo versus Luther Burton? I've got Burton two spots higher and full PPR. If it's non-PPR, I think you can make the case for Jamo. For what it's worth, Scott Turner said on reality versus fantasy that he's expecting a big year from Jamison Williams, and he thinks it's going to be the the efficiency of what he does downfield that carries him won't see the same type of target volume as St. Brown, but we'll do a lot of damage on the catches that he does get, which is part of the course for Jamison Williams, but he expects his role to evolve even more and be a big part of that Detroit offense. Okay, and finally, Jets at Titans again, but we didn't preview it yesterday. Tony Pollard or Carnell Tate is a better flex. Tate, especially if catches count. I am not at all excited about Tony Pollard. I am expecting a split and running back reps. It could be rundowns, pass-downs between him and Taijay Spears, but the offensive line looked terrible in the preseason. I don't see any reason to be optimistic about it. The Jets really did improve the middle of their defense from the D-line all the way to the secondary, and I can't say for sure that this game script is going to be favorable for Tennessee. And even if it is, there were plenty of games last year where Tony Pollard had a bunch of work and still didn't do a lot with it. I know that there's this five game stretch last year when Tony Pollard was good for fantasy. I feel like there are only two games there that were particularly good. And I'm just, it's week one. I know I can find a better running back than Tony Pollard. He's not in the top 24 for anyone, but Dave is the lowest on Tony Pollard by far. Jamie hasn't 27th, he's 26th. Dave 33rd on Tony Pollard. All right, breaking down Arizona at the chargers. It's that of the game. Jacobi Preset had a nine game stretch where he scored at least 20.7 fantasy points in all nine games and six point per passing touchdown leagues. And that included at Seattle. And that included at Houston. In fact, Jacobi Preset scored the most fantasy points of any quarterback at Houston. And why did he do it? Because he threw about 43 times per game in that stretch because the Cardinals defense was terrible. And guess what? Nothing's changed. And now he's got everyone healthy. So I understand the hesitation, especially in a tough matchup, but maybe a DFS play for Jacobi Preset. New defensive coordinator for the chargers. He was their safety coach two years ago. Then he was Western Michigan's defensive coordinator last year. Yep. Jesse Mentor disciple. So they're, they're keeping Jesse Mentor's playbook, but having Chris O'Leary run it. And O'Leary did great things. This is, I don't know if this is worth anything at him, but Chris O'Leary did some great things at Western Michigan last year. Well, he knows, he knows how to defend a Hail Mary. I'll tell you that. Only he had been there. I don't know what he does. All right. So who are you? Other than McBride? Are you just being kind of patient? Would like to like to avoid love and the receivers? I'm always looking for love, but it's in the wrong places. And this week it's as a number two running back in a low N1. I've moved him down. There has to be some trepidation with him coming back from a high ankle sprain. And if it was truly a high ankle sprain, then you've got a question just how explosive he'll be. And that's his most defining trait, his explosiveness, his acceleration. I do think he can do a lot in the passing game for Arizona. So just because they're going to fall behind, doesn't mean that Jeremiah Love is going to be taken off the field. In fact, I think he'll be on the field way more than Tyler Algier and those types of situations. And I wouldn't rule out four catches for Jeremiah Love in this game. Wouldn't rule out necessarily him finding the end zone, but I don't think it'll be from the goal line. So when number two, fantasy running back this week, you know there's going to be better weeks ahead for this guy. Some of it has to do with the matchup, but usually it's going to be game script with him and it's just how it's going to be for Jeremiah Love where you might not get a ton of carries. It gets a few catches. You're hoping he breaks a couple of big plays. It's what he did in college. And that's how you get your fantasy points from him. And this was a really good run defense by the end of the year. Pretty similar personnel I'd have to say. So it could be a very tough matchup. You are actually the high guy on love. You have them 19th. I moved him down. He's 20. Third. Okay. Okay. Okay. So would you start? Would you move him behind Quenchon Judkins? You did. Right behind him. He's behind him in full PPR. I believe he's ahead of him in non-PPR. Judkins is. Well, who's it? Wait. I don't know. I might put Love Ahead of Judkins, because I don't really love the matchup for Judkins. All right. I'm going to put Love Ahead of Judkins. There it is. The receivers are like in the 30s, Harrison and Michael Wilson. They have like, Quentin Johnson, better than them, start Tramick Bride. So Justin Herbert, third for Jamie, second for Heath, ninth for you. You like him, but not as much. Just worried about him doing enough to help you get 20 plus fantasy points and not 30 plus fantasy points. Are the Cardinals going to be competitive enough to force Justin Herbert into throwing 33 times in the game, totaling three touchdowns in the game? Of course, it's possible. This is Arizona. They're defensive terrible. If they don't have Josh Sweat, then he's going to have all day to throw. The offensive line's going to be significantly better than how it was for most of last year. But I'm not ready to say that he's going to go out there and be the best quarterback in fantasy or close to it in a week where Joe Burrows taken on the box and he's got sub receivers. Lamar Jackson's back and he's healthy. There's a bunch of other quarterbacks where you can make a better upside case than Justin Herbert. But you'd start him over Jayden Daniels. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Cardinals allowed 21.6 or more fantasy points to a quarterback in seven of their last eight games. Start. O'Marion Hampton. I'm assuming that's the only one of them are in Hampton. Chargers running back. You're going to start. Start Lab McConkey, Quentin Johnston. How about Quentin Johnston or Jeremiah Love? I believe I have Quentin Johnston higher. Okay. I do. Okay. And you're not going to start a tight end, are you? Cardinals. Only the bangles. Well, I mean, there's that guy on Arizona. No, no. I mean, we already talked about him. Only the bangles were worse against tight ends than Arizona last year. Mm-hmm. But now Charlie Kohler is an interesting DFS start throw. How is it? I mean, I, how is it not in a joke? Because I don't think the joke moves as well as he used to. But Charlie Kohler. I don't want to say anything bad about my guy because last time I said anything remotely close. He was ready to deck me. So the hurricanes have to stick together. I'm just saying what I said. Yeah. I just feel like, let me see the most routes that Charlie Kohler's ever run in a season. They like it. 102 last year. They like him. All right. I'm going to, you shouldn't start any of these guys. The dart throw is for DFS purposes only. Your lineup will be different with Charlie Kohler in it. He might get one catch for 12 yards. DST is top seven for everybody. Good start for them because the Cardinals could put up points. It really wouldn't surprise me. But they'll probably turn the ball over. All right. That's a game. I definitely have my eye. I just want to see, again, you know, I just give this stat last time. This is something to keep in mind, right? So Michael Wilson, he broke out in week 11. Marvin Harrison Jr. played in weeks 13, 16 and 17. Didn't play full games, but he played weeks 13, 16 and 17. In those three games, after Michael Wilson had established himself, when Marvin Harrison Jr. was on the field, he, McBride and Wilson all had an 18 to 19 percent target share. It wasn't that many routes. It was about a game's worth of routes, I think, but it was an 18 to 19 percent target share for all of them. Meanwhile, Marvin Harrison Jr. had three end zone targets. Michael Wilson had one and Tramick Bride had zero. I can't wait to see how things unfold there. Green Bay at Minnesota, stat of the game, Christian Watson scored single digit PPR fantasy points in all four games that he played last year against teams that were top 10 at finish top 10 against wide receivers. One of those games he left early with an injury, so not fair. But the other three, single digit PPR fantasy points, the Cardinals and other than Maconkey. The Cardinals and Quentin Johnson receivers, would you like them better than Christian Watson? I already asked that. I don't think you did, but I do have Watson ahead of Quentin Johnson, and I have Quentin Johnson ahead of the Cardinals wide receivers. Can you say that one more time? Watson, Quentin Johnson, and then back to back Marvin Harrison, Michael Wilson. Okay. All within six spots of each other as high-end number three wide receivers. The reason why I like Watson is because we, Jacob's is not back. We don't know what Marshal Lloyd is going to be as a running back, and yes, the Vikings defense was lights out last year against the pass. I think Jordan Love and Jamie alluded to this on our show yesterday that he could take more ownership of the offense. They are trying to trim down who gets targets in this offense. I think Watson and Tucker Kraft are going to be the two guys that get the most. And he's just got huge upside because that's what his game is. He's a boomer bus type of wide receiver who can win down field. He can win with speed. He won with other things last year. His game improved. So to me, he's a high-end number three wide receiver, and a candidate for seven targets in the game against the Vikings. I just think it's, you know, it's kind of weird, like obviously you just look at Brian Flores and he's so good, but Minnesota's past defense, they were 12th in yards per attempt. They were 20th in yards per attempt to wide receivers. Last year they saw the fewest pass attempts per game in the NFL, and they also did a great job allowing, you know, not allowing big plays. But again, they saw the fewest pass attempts. I've gotten a little more optimistic about the Packers as the week's gone on as I look at the Vikings defense. Like, who's a great player for them? They have the Dallas Turner, maybe you can start with Turner and Van Gingel. And I, I don't know if Harrison Smith is like still, yeah, I don't know. Oliver at safety, especially after he missed all of camp, but he's pretty good. Right. They're, you know, looking at PFF and Sharp football and where they rate their, their them up front and in the secondary, they're not elite in these in terms of the way people think of them. I know they're going to be better than the sum of their parts. I guess I'm just saying that if the Packers offense is really like a great offense, I think they should be able to score some points in this game. And I really am wondering where they're going to get their past rush pressure from besides Turner and Van Gingel, because they, like I said earlier, they got younger at the defensive line. Caleb Banks was their first round pick, if he's healthy, he can absolutely be a terror. But I don't know how healthy he is and how much he's going to play and how effective he'll be in his first game. I think the, the reason why the Vikings are so dangerous is because they're aggressive. And Brian Flores does a lot of aggressive things. He'll win by the sword and he'll lose by the sword. That's what they say. Right. That's the phrase. So we'll see how love does. It hasn't always been great when he's been blitzed and pressured. But I think they're going to throw a decent amount. I think it's Minnesota that actually ends up being more balanced in this game and runs a little bit more again, giving a nod to Scott Turner and what he said on reality versus fantasy that he expects that to be the case and that Jordan Mason leads the way for Minnesota's run game. All right. Jordan love is a sit. I'm certainly not sitting here saying that this is a good matchup for the Packers. I just don't know that it's a terrible one like it was last year. You talked about Marshawn Lloyd. He's, you know, borderline. He's like 24th, 25th for you and Jamie. He's 17th for Heath. He talked about him as a player. He loves. I think it's kind of in the Ramondra, Stevenson. Well, it's not really because he's not going to be the passing down sky, but he'll catch a few balls. He might catch two. All right. He never had a 20 catch season in college. I double checked it yesterday. I thought he actually did more than that, but he didn't. He was a long time ago at the senior ball. I mean, this is two injuries ago for Marshawn Lloyd, but I remember him looking very good and past catching drills then. I think he might have made some progress. He had two catches in the preseason. I mean, if he pencil men for two catches, I think he'll give it to you. Dave is willing to start Christian Watson. Heath and Jamie are a little more hesitant. They have him as a number three receiver. Well, I mean, he's a number three receiver for me too, just a high-end one. Okay. I'm sorry. I thought he was 23rd. 25th. 25th. Not that there's a big difference there. No. On the other hand, we'll try to avoid this week and just see what happens. Tucker Kraft is a start. Start or sit, Kyler Murray? I would try and avoid him, and I know that people are excited about him going up against Green Bay. And this is another defense that really on paper, like who are their good players? Because Michael Parsons is out. I don't know. Their past rush is probably going to be worse than Minnesota's. But I also wonder just how good their run defense is going to be. And I really loved what I saw and what I read about Minnesota's offensive line in the last month. And that encourages me for them to protect Kyler Murray, but also to open up lanes for their running backs to pick up chunk yardage. So I think they want to try and ease Kyler into things. Jonathan Ganon knows Kyler Murray very, very well. Gan, again, I'm pointing back to the reality versus fantasy show that we recorded on Wednesday. But Ganon's going to know some things about Kyler Murray and what makes him uncomfortable. And I would buy into that as a reason to stay away from Kyler Murray and expect him to have a huge game. I think he can be okay, but I can find at least, I don't know, 14 other quarterbacks that are going to be better than that. Maybe I should say 12 because some of them have already played. But I'm starting acre out of Kyler Murray. I'm going to start Jane Daniels. I'm not going to get cute there. Gough is ahead of Kyler. But if you want to start Kyler over, shock, dark, Malik Willis, I'm not going to fight you on that. In fact, I haven't ranked that way. What do you think about their running backs? I am going to take the chance on Jordan Mason. I think he's in that range of high end number three running backs. But I would start him over Jonathan Brooks. I would start him over Jaylen Warren running backs in Denver, running backs in Washington, running backs in Tennessee. Absolutely think that there's room for him. He's going to be a touchdown or bust running back all year. But if he's going to end up getting 15 carries against the Packer's defense that we're just not sure if they're any good, I think he can end up finding the end zone. And it sounds like he's going to get a lot of work. Okay. Number three running back. Jordan Mason. I got a lot of questions in the chat about the last two games. I'll get to them in a minute. Jordan Addison, the second best wide receiver in this game. I'm sorry. Third best. He's ahead of Reed and Golden, but not Watson. Jordan Addison. That's how I have it ranked. Okay. I like him as a number three receiver. And one reason for optimism, I don't know how much Kyler Murray is going to throw, but Murray and Addison did work out together this off season. They seem to be on the same page in camp. When they do have to throw, I could see both Jefferson and Addison being very good. And that's easy to say for Jefferson, but Addison shouldn't be discounted. I don't want to start him this week, but I'm very excited to have him on my bench. We'll see if I still feel that way come Sunday night. Okay. And Addison. Addison or Jordan Mason? What's the format? Half PPR. I knew you'd do that. Give me Addison. Okay. Here are some questions from the last two games. Jayden Reed or DJ Moore? Moore. Quentin Johnston, Jameson Williams or Marshawn Lloyd? Jamo. Jeremiah Love or Luther Burton? Burton. Chris Godwin, Marvin Harrison, Jr. or Quentin Johnston. I believe I have Quentin Johnston ranked the highest of the three over Godwin. I've got, yeah, I've got Godwin behind the Cardinals wide receivers. Chargers or Eagles? DST. I believe I have the Chargers higher. Algier or Rico Doudel? Rico Suave. Um, Marshawn Lloyd, Jaylin Waddle, Christian Watson, instead. Do the youngsters get that reference? Probably not. But if you want to get a taste of the '90s, go on YouTube and search for Rico Suave. Lloyd Waddle or Christian Watson, standard exploring, standard, packers or Vikings, DST. Vikings. Jordan Mason or Rico Doudel? I don't love either of them, but Vikings. Rico over Mace. Yeah, that's a good question there. Lloyd or Montgomery? Montgomery. Mason or, you know, we have Lloyd or Mason? I have Lloyd higher than Mason. Murray or Shuck? I have Murray over Shuck. Addison or Sutton? That's a good one. I believe they're really close in my rankings. I am looking right now. I have Sutton at 32. Addison at 34. Ooh, okay. Sutton, slightly ahead of Addison. Marshawn Lloyd or Kenneth Gainwell, PPR? Lloyd. All right. We're going to take a break. James left when we come back. Chicago at Carolina on fantasy football today. Chicago is at Carolina. And Rico. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's Jamie's intro music. Jamie's back to the. Did you change the game of the week? No, I did it. I mean, that's just. [laughs] He left, he's outy. JB tweeting, "The game with a weak choice by Adam, he was so bad that I left the show." Is it really that bad? I mean. So bad. It's a three and a half points break. This is a whole question for the chat, for sure. 47 and a half points total. So that's a good game, you know? That's a good game on paper. Okay, Chicago, Carolina. You know, Dave talks about Odunze being a sit, somebody wants to avoid this week. What does that look like, Dave? Like, who have we talked about in the previous games, the Minnesota Green Bay game, the Arizona Chargers game that you'd start over Odunze? Almost everybody that we talked about, it's probably easier for me to say the players that I wouldn't start over Odunze. And that would be Jaden Reed, Matthew Golden, Ty Felton. Okay. All right, and Jamie's even low. Running out of players here. He has him 39. So I think you're going to start your bears other than Odunze. I'm just curious, Jamie. I almost wish they would sit in. Yeah. They might. He was limited in practice two straight days. Are you thinking this is going to be a big game for their offense or just we just have to start them and you know, what happens happens? A big game for the Bears offense. I mean, you're not benching Colston, Loveland. You're most likely starting Luther Burton. You're most likely starting the Andre Swift, like huge games. No, I just do like, what do you think about you think they're going to have a huge like a, I mean, if Odunze is out, then that's probably in the neighborhood of eight plus targets for both burden and Loveland. So that's great opportunities for them. And Swift gets downgraded a little bit because of Menongai. I always just see how much they use Menongai, but I'm still starting him as a number two running back. Yeah, I understand. He's a pretty high at number two running back. Okay. So Caleb Williams is about about 10th in the rankings. Ninth for Jamie, 11th for Dave, 8th for Heath. And then on the other side, Chicago struggled last year defensively, but Jalen Johnson played only seven games. They did add Kobe Bryant at safety, but he's on IR. They had the fourth lowest pressure rate. So I think you got not that you're starting Bryce Young, but this was a great matchup for quarterbacks last year. It was a great matchup for wide receivers. Tederall McMillan. Tederall McMillan or Luther Burton, do you like better? I've gone back and forth. I have burden as of now. Ted, if Odunze plays burden, if Odunze is up. Is Jalen Coker or Jalen Coker Devon Vale this week, if you were for whatever reason, desperate for a wide receiver? I'd go Coker, but I like both. Coker. Okay. And then we'll talk about, I don't think we just are just the Panthers running backs, right? That's the last thing. He's had them as sits. And Jamie, you agree, sit the Panthers running backs? I try to avoid it, just not knowing how healthy Jonathan Brooks is and what the split will look like. I don't think it's a matchup that you fear necessarily, but similar to the Pittsburgh situation, but on a much different scale because the matchups better for the Steelers. We just want to see what this looks like. We want to see how these guys are used, what roles they have, who plays more than the other. If there's an answer, then we'll be happy about it. If it's a 50/50 split, and they're alternating drives, then it's going to be frustrating. If I had to pick one, I guess I'd lean from a floor standpoint, Hubbard from a ceiling standpoint Brooks. Okay. And would you start Jordan Mason over those guys? Yes. Would you start Romo Dunesay over those guys if he plays? I would in PPR, yes. I think you have to. Okay. All right. So that gives you an idea of how we feel about Carolina. And, you know, honestly, I thought Darren Waller played pretty well last year. You can see how much he plays. He was like a top five or six tight end last year on a per game basis. He's 10% rostered. So just maybe he's on the waiver wire show on Tuesday. There definitely is a world where he takes the thunder away from both TET and Coker. And does it play a George Kitalesque 46% of the snaps? Washington's at Philadelphia, streak of the game. The commanders allowed 70 yards or a touchdown to a tight end in six straight games to end the 2025 season. This team looks very different up front, but should still be pretty bad in the secondary. That's Washington I'm talking about. Meanwhile, it doesn't look like Philadelphia is going to have Jonathan Grinard this week. They still should have a great defense. Have they ruled him out? No, they have not not that I've seen if he obviously makes a big difference like takes their past rush from good to very good. By the way, I will read the questions about the previous game after we do Washington, Philadelphia. But Jamie, what would you say is the general feel here like big game for the Eagles could be tough for the commanders? I mean, should be a big game for the Eagles. This really comes down to just how many opportunities are we going to get, which should be plentiful for both Davante Smith and Dallas Goddard. Now that we don't have a daybrown part of the Eagles. So those Davian wicks eat into too much of what those guys are looking to do, or is there somebody else? but we really haven't heard much about Marquis Brown and McCuy lemon clearly is going to have a role to what degree we'll see, you know, is he going to be heavily involved? Or is he going to just be a role player to start? So there's a lot of just moving parts, I think, with this receiving options, but you're starting Smith and you're starting Goddard. And obviously Barclay has a chance to have a big game here against a commander's defense that I think will, I think the Eagles should be playing with the lead, so that should help Barclay and hopefully, you know, the offensive winds fully intact. So that's a great situation for him. Really, the commanders, it's Jane Daniels is the only probably, I guess McCormick, those only must start guys, I think, that you're looking at from your lineups. You know, you maybe have better receivers than McCormick, I doubt it, but, you know, you're probably starting him. In most cases, and I don't think you're going the streaming route yet for Daniels because of the offensive line. Like, you know, it might be a bad game for him, but I'd still start. He's McLaren, who's a player that, 'cause this seems like a bad matchup. He could get shadowed by Quinion Mitchell. I went back and looked at some history there. And like 16 last year, he did not get shadowed by Quinion Mitchell, but he could. I think there was two years ago, if I recall, there was a stretch where McCormick was just amazing. And then he played the Eagles and had an absolutely horrible game. But who's some players that were drafted after him? I'll just throw out some names. You start Marshawn Lloyd or Terry McClaurne. McClaurne. McClaurne. Quentin Johnston or McClaurne. Johnston. Chris Godwin or McClaurne? Godwin. McClaurne. Okay. Luther Burton or McClaurne? Burton. LB3. David Montgomery against the bills who were horrible against the run last year or McClaurne. Montgomery. Montgomery and non-PPR probably in half PPR and full PPR. I've got McClaurne two spots higher. Here's the thing that I would caution you with McClaurne is just assuming that everything that the commanders offense did last year is going to be exactly the same this year. It's not going to be. They're going to move him across the formation. They're going to design targets for him. They're going to scheme him up. If Quinion Mitchell's following him, that's a pretty hefty change for what Vic Van Jo's defense is usually are. So if they put him in the slot, for example, Mitchell could follow him into the slot. I don't know if that's going to happen, but they're also just going to get him out in space and pepper him with targets. I could see him having like an OK game of seven catches and 80 yards, something like that. And that's what a good number three receiver can do. That'd be a great game. Yeah, that'd be really good. All right, Jayden Daniels. We already talked about him. He's just just inside the top 12 for Jamie. It's important that I hate him. The chloriner, Daniels. But more than Daniels. Stefan Diggs is a number four receiver. And we're avoiding Jacobi Kroski-Marit this week. I would. Again, you're just looking at potentially bad game script for a one-dimensional running back. So if he doesn't score, you're going to be in trouble. Yeah, for what it's worth, the Eagles allowed the fifth most receiving yards per game and the third most receiving touchdowns per game to running backs last year. So maybe Rashad White can get you some points. He's sneaky. If you need him. Sneaky, sneaky. Is White going to be who plays in the fourth quarter if the commanders are down 20 to 13 or 23 16, something like that? And if he is, then yes, very, very sneaky running back. And there is to make the sneakiness. All right, let's read some questions here and what we'll get to some Goddard questions as well. Remember, this is from the last two games. Pick two in PPR, Swift, Breeze Hall, Luther Burton. All sorts of different parts with the pairs. So I think Hall is the easy one. And then I still probably go burden no matter what. I think I'm going to take the running backs. Burton or T Higgins? T. Burton, only if a dunes aes out. Bears, defense, or Raiders defense? These are your choices. I go Raiders. I might go Raiders too. I'm just going to double check where I have them. Swift or Travis H Ann? Assuming both backups are playing, I can't go H Ann. I think I'd go Swift. Travis H Ann, Swift or Hall? Hall, Breeze. Dallas Goddard or Isaiah likely? likely. Love Goddard this week. I've got Raiders one spot ahead of the bears. Dallas Goddard or Michael Mayer? Goddard, love Goddard this week. Jayden Daniels or Jared Goff? Jared Goff, Goff over JD. All right, that's it for that game. Philadelphia DST is the start. Dak Prescott's top seven. You can start him. Start Javante. Start the Cowboys. What about Jake Ferguson? No, you guys are saying let's wait on him. I think he averaged what? I think about 8.3 points per game when CDLAM and George Pickens were healthy late in the year. So we'll see. Easy to start Mayer, John Johnson, and even Greg Doltzich ahead of Jake Ferguson. OK, so the Cowboys are pretty easy here. Giants had a terrible defense last year. Their secondary could be one of the worst in the NFL. They could have one of the best pass rushes in football. They got some guys. And they drafted Arvel Reese in the first round. They brought in a few like old defensive tackles. They've done a lot to try and improve. But start the Cowboys, and we'll see how this happens. And left tackles out for the Cowboys. Left guard, right? Left guard. Left guard. Left guards out for the Cowboys. Yeah, that's the Giants chance of finally beating the Dallas Cowboys with Dak Prescott. I don't know the last time it's happened. Other than week 18, where he played a half a game. Jackson Dart, Jamie, you are higher on him. David Davis. Last I saw 20 second on Dart and Jamie-- He's 18th. He's 18th, but he's not close to top 15. Jamie's got him 13th. Let's go, man. How much would you drop him, Jamie, if Malik neighbors does not play? Oh, probably you were Dave Hasen. Dot 18th, OK. Starters it, Kim Skataboo, Dave. I'd start on number two fantasy running back. I expect him to be the lead back for the Giants. I expect him to be the goal line back for the Giants. And I don't expect Jackson Dart to take work away from him at the goal line. Over the course of the season, there will probably be times where Dart does. I don't know if this is that game with Quinn and Williams front and center on that D line for Dallas. But Skataboo should lead the way here in terms of carries and catches for the running backs. And just rumbles for a touchdown. He's got a decent touch on chance. I don't know what his touchdown prop is, but I can't imagine it's that high of odds. It's one of those things where this is going to be an interesting backfill to figure out as well. Because I don't know who's going to get the goal line touches. I don't know who's going to play on passing downs. I don't know if the Giants know yet fully what they're going to do because of just the potential of four guys getting opportunities here. And this Cowboys defense is dramatically better. It's not just Quinn and Williams is everybody else that they've added this off season as well. And so you look at last season's numbers. This is where you get in trouble by seeing what the fantasy points allowed were when looking at upgraded personnel. And the last time he played them was week two. And he had a touchdown and did well. Skataboo did that was the start of his stretch of being a good fantasy option. And things are just dramatically different since then. And so I think when you look like right now, you see 21, he's going to be a few spots lower. I had-- I don't know. I had to in behind him. I'd rather start to in over Skataboo. This is just one of these games where I think based on-- you drafted a player, you probably don't have anybody better to play over him. But I don't think this is going to be a great game for Kim Skataboo. If you look at when Quinn and Williams joined the Cowboys, first game, Ashton Gentie had six carries for seven yards. Then Saekwan Barkley had 10 carries for 22 yards. Then Karim Hunn had 14 for 58. Then Jamir Gibbs had 12 for 43 and three touchdowns. But Dave Montgomery had a good game. Then Aaron Jones had 12 for 34 and Jordan Mason had 10 for 29. Then he missed a game, I think, when Williams came back. And week 17 and 18, they struggled against the run. But the first six games that he played-- I think at five or 16, whatever it was, before his injury-- they were great against the run. So this really could be a tough match-up for Skataboo. Now, neighbors is one of the biggest question marks here. If he plays, where are you ranking Malik neighbors? We haven't ranked as if he's playing. So for me, it's in the 20s. I think you've got to view him as a number two receiver, based on the upside, based on the fact that he's been, for the most part, no setbacks. So healthy through camp and leading up to this. George Kiddles, a perfect example of a player coming back from injury that they could take their time with and be cautious about. So just keep that in mind. I think if you have great options, you play somebody else over him. So burden, if there's no, Odunzee is an easy one. If you buy into Chris Godwin's opportunity with maybe limited a Mecca Buka, especially no DJ Turner-- Well, we don't know that, no DJ. Well, I mean, getting downgraded with a hamstring injury on Thursday is not good. But sure. Again, there's a handful of situations that you can say, OK, maybe this guy over Malik neighbors, but just understand that what he's capable of doing still, even in a limited snapshot, could still be great. And he said he doesn't want to be on a limited snapshot. He said, if I play, I want to play my basically a full snout. He didn't say those words. But he's like, why would they limit me? And then that's there to start. decision. It's my decision. Maybe that's what I saw. Yeah, so he doesn't want to be limited. Um, all right. So that so number two receiver, you know, and it's obviously you have to approach it a little bit cautiously. And Isaiah likely is a top eight tight end seventh or eighth for everybody, and that is with the expectation that Malik neighbors is playing. So likely or mayor. Likely. Likely, but that's a close one. Question in the chat. Likely in likely or Juan Johnson. Likely. I have likely higher. Here's a good one. Goff or DAC. Love both would take DAC. Goff for me. Ferguson or concade. Concade. DK. Dacker Lawrence. Dacker Lawrence. Uh, I go DAC was close. I agree. Neighbors or Quentin Johnston. Hello, Dan. Uh, neighbors. Dan's face there. I agree, neighbors. All right. Let's get two more games left. Cowboys, DST by the way is right around 12. Very excited to kill the dance in that game. Okay. Two games left. I'd say eight minutes. You think we can do it? I don't know. You're the one keeping time and driving the show. Start all your lions. Right? Yep. Okay. Jamie, real quick, rattle off some names. You'd start Jared Golf over as he's your start of the week. Um, I would have started over a party so that probably could be a bad one, but Lawrence, DAC, um, Caleb. That works. How we feeling about the Saints? David? Yeah. Okay. Jamie, I'll stay with you. Achan and Alave are must starts. Oh, Juan Johnson. Who would you start? John Johnson over. I would have started more for Kittle. Um, start him over Mark Andrews. I'd start him over Kinkade. I'd start him over Schultz. Would you start him over Kelsey? I would not. Hmm. Okay. I would. And you wouldn't start him over mayor. David, would you? No. I've got him back to back. Juwan 11, mayor 12, Kelsey 13. And the stat I gave that I don't know if this is going to, you know, hold up because they have the Troy has two new safeties this year. That's going to start there to start. Yeah. They're going to replace Brian Branch and Kirby Joseph. But when Branch and Joseph were out last year's five games, you had Kade Aughton have seven catches for 65 yards. Colby Parkinson had five catches for 75 yards and two touchdowns. And then you had the Steelers and the Vikings, whatever. And then Colson Lovlin had 10 catches, 91 yards and a touchdown. He was killing everyone. I get it. But three, three tight ends, Aughton, Parkinson and Lovlin all had 65 or more yards when those two safeties were out. They have different personnel this year, but they don't have those two safeties. It's a replacement level personnel, maybe a little bit better than that. But not, not guys to fear. And I'm sure that New Orleans is going to look at that and say, let's chase after them. Let's see what they've got. And then you throw on their, their high pace approach, their fast pace approach on top of that. And there could really be some binds in that Detroit sector. And it's not just the safeties, Adam, their corners are a question mark, too. Yeah, absolutely. And that's why we think this could be a high scoring game. Tyler Schuck is about 16th in the rankings. And Tyler Schuck, well, Dave would take Schuck over Dart. Jamie would take Dart over Schuck. Tyler Schuck are Baker, Baker Mayfield. Baker. Baker. I love Baker this week. Tyler Schuck or I just did two DFS lineups though, with those in my two quarterbacks. Tyler, okay. Tyler Schuck or Kyler Murray? Kyler, but it's close. Schuck has a little more upside, but I do have Kyler. I don't know about that. Higher. Tyler Schuck or Bonix? Schuck. All right. For the lines and mohons. It's all systems go for the Lions. There's just everyone's playing this week. So James and Williams, we like even though New Orleans, they were actually pretty good against receivers last year. And there were a lot of big time busts against New Orleans, but, you know, it's the Lions at home. We think they're going to have a big game. So one other thing that's in Goff's favor is that Cam Jordan's not expected to play. That was arguably their second best pass rusher last year. So it's chase young. It's both teams are almost a mirror of each other. New Orleans secondary, obviously healthier and probably better than Detroit's at this point. But there's definitely room for this to be the game of the week. I think you messed up at them. A lot of games can be the game of the week, including Baltimore at Indianapolis. Sam LaPorta or Michael Mayer? The door. The door. Okay. All right. Moving on to our last game, Jetser Devon Veile, you should probably talk about it. Oh, okay. Yeah. Devon Veile is, the head is roster percentage. Probably like 10. It's low. 7% as of, yeah. This is going to be one of these guys you're going to want to pick up after this game because last year he averaged over six targets per game and his final four after they traded to heed averaged over 11 PPR points per game. There's no Jordan Tyson. This game has shoot out potential. So somebody's going to step up. It might not be him, but he's the most logical one. No, he's the reason he could ruin Joanne Johnson. Yep. And he's got a good schedule. He might want to pick him up now. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Oh, okay. He's got to Troy this week. Baltimore next week, Raiders Falcons. Some good opportunities there for Veile. You know, not like he's an amazing player, but yeah, he is now, yeah, he's still 7% roster. Okay. Lastly, we have the Jets and the Titans. Both teams were bottom. Why did you say, when did you put this game last? This should have been first. Both teams were bottom five in defense since 20 to 25. I try, I don't always, I don't order the games based on like, oh, this is the best game. I order them in the ones that have the toughest calls and we need to talk the most about at the top of the show. This one doesn't really have, in my opinion, tough calls here. Like, Breeze Hall is a must start and Garrett Wilson is a must start. And he's being sarcastic. Okay. No, no, no, I just want to call it and take your tough calls, probably with some people. They are. We did actually talk about them in one question for each game, but yeah, Dave prefers Tate to Pollard. Who do you like better as a Flex? Pollard. Yeah, Dave's a low guy on Pollard, 33rd. You haven't 27th. He hasn't 26th. What do you, I guess, like more about Pollard? You're not saying he's a start, but he's a Flex. Yeah, I think anytime that they're going to have a favorable game script, which isn't going to be very often, but this is one of them is that you're going to see that Pollard will get probably more playing time and more touches than Taijay Spears. I don't know if that's necessarily the case in losses that could clearly still happen that they favor Pollard, but he closed last season playing, well, I don't think the Jets' run defense is going to be great. It'll be better than it was after they tried to quit in Williams, but I just don't think it'll be great. And so, take some pressure off of Cam Ward, run the ball. This is going to be an interesting game just based on how whatever is left of the personnel that Robert Sala knows, he'll find ways to hopefully give Bryant Abel some opportunities to attack that. I think just Pollard is in that range of running backs for me, which starts with like Scad of Boon-Jutkins, so guys that can get in the neighborhood of 15 touches. And if you're looking at matchups, his matchup is more favorable than Judkins and more favorable than Scad of Boon. And someone had a comment, like, "Sit them all or something like that this game is going to be bad." And it's possible, but also remember that these defenses could be bad. So you might have more points, only a 38-and-a-half point total. That's super low. Well, it's like you said yesterday about we wish the Jets, Titans, Raiders, and Dolphins were all playing different teams. Six hundred percent, yeah, exactly. We wasted the good surprise on you. And yeah, so the Jets were second worst against running backs last year, but they added to Vandry Sweat. They added to Mario Davis. They should be an improved unit there. And Karnell Tate or Michael Wilson? Wilson. Karnell Tate or Devon Vale? That's the range where I have him, but I would still go Tate with the upside. Tate. Oh, this is a good question. Leverneus Coals are Reshard Matthews. I mean, that's a disrespect to Coals. He had a much better career. I actually sold my Leverneus Coals rookie card collection this offseason. Nice. Yeah, did you go to the Vending Machine afterwards? I don't get it. People bought that. I was thrilled that somebody bought it. As I'm saying, you got changed. Oh, I went out and I got the the best fast food burger I could get with the money I made from the Leverneus Coals. Well, I went to a fast food place last night, and it was 15 dollars for a burger. Oh, yeah, I can't even get that. That's insane. Jamo or Parker were Leverneus Coals rookie card collections, the equivalent of Adam's game of the week choice. We'll end the show with questions from the last two games. Jamo or Parker Washington? Parker, but I would like to start both. I would love to start both. Parker, if it's full PPR. Breeze Hall or Drake London? Breeze. Yeah, let's go Breeze. Adonai Mitchell or Michael Mayer? Mayor. Mayor's safer. DeAndre Swift or Breeze Hall? Breeze. Vailay over Harvey and Concade? Yes. I might consider Concade over Vailay. If it's full PPR, Vailay is safer. Titans DST or Eagles DST? Eagles. I appreciate you guys letting me be excited about Breeze Hall because it's been a long time since I've been excited about them, but I've said all offseason. He's going to have a good week one. Okay. Well, you know, we probably should mention that there's been a lot of times over the last few years where Jeffrey Simmons has anchored a great Titans run defense. - It's not gonna be easy for all. - It didn't really happen last year, but he did anchor a great run defense at a lot of times. Pollard or Marvin Harrison Jr. in PPR. - Marv. - Harrison. - Wondale or Coker. Oh God, I have to talk about Wondale or Robinson. Yeah, Wondale or Coker. - Good Coker. - I have Wondale higher in full PPR. - Wondale or Tate? - Wondale's probably safer, but Tate has more upside. - I don't know. - I have Wondale higher. - If this game were on Monday night, and which would be bad. And I was down by seven and a half points, and I had both Wondale Robinson and Carnell Tate. I think I'd probably start Wondale. - Yeah, great. - If I were down by 13 points, I'd start Tate. - Yeah, great. - Okay, we are out of here folks. 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