Week 6 Fantasy Football Reactions & Injuries + Early Week 7 Waiver Wire (Ep. 2274)

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So the injuries, it's funny because in my notes, this is the third Sunday recap stream that I've done. And the first two were just bloody Sundays. I mean, we're talking just injury after injury. But like you said, not a terrible injury day. And we'll just get right into it. So Deepak, you're here to talk about injuries. We'll just get into it. We see on the graphic here. So Hurts, we got a lot of players that missed this week, like Saquon, Jalen Hurts, and Tyler Warren. Hurts is obviously the big news with the blood clot and the fact that he's a quarterback. Tyler Warren tweaked his groin in practice. On Friday, ended up missing today. And then Romeo Dobbs left early with the shoulder. Ladin McConkie left early with a concussion. And obviously, Saquon's been out the last couple of weeks, including this week. Then we got some quick hitters at the end as well. But we'll start with the big names on the graphic. So what do you got for Hurts? I know he was just put on IR yesterday, whatever day it was, after he said it wasn't going to happen. But anyways, what do we got on Hurts and the blood clot? Yeah. So with Jalen Hurts' blood clot situation, they haven't released some of the key details in order to really. Determine the timeline. The best case here is that the blood clot stays small and superficial, which is what they reported initially, and that the body dissolves it over the course of about six weeks. Now, if that happens, you'd kind of be scanning him along the way to make sure. However, if the clot goes deeper, that is a much more serious issue. And that requires blood thinners. And you can't play football on blood thinners because you could bleed, especially if you get hit in the head. So the idea being that this, if you do end up. On blood thinners, usually six to 12 weeks as a standard regimen, and it usually leans a little bit higher, closer to the 12. So we would potentially see him end his season. If that were the case, they just haven't released a whole lot of info and nor do they owe us that. But right now, obviously out four weeks and the potential here is that this could be much longer. Gotcha. And we'll talk about Scott. We'll ask you some questions about the Eagles, but just curious, Deepak. So if it ends up being the six week one and he doesn't go on blood thinners, is there any risk of it? Is it happening again? Or is it kind of like he's back and it should be good to go? There is risk, but it's probably not that high because the, if there wasn't any explanation for why did he get this blood clot in the first place, then I would say that risk is probably higher, but he was cleated. He also went on a long flight to and from London. So that also adds to that risk. I wouldn't anticipate this being like a career threatening or career ending type of injury. I would anticipate him regardless of what happens this year, probably back week one of next year. Next year without a problem. Gotcha. Yeah, that makes sense. And then for the Eagles, I mean, like the players you started, you didn't have a terrible performance from, from Goddard. Obviously Devante Smith got the late touchdown. Pierce got in, but Scott, I know I saw a question that we can talk about in a little deeper, but let's say it hurts, you know, he's out for four weeks. What are we doing with the Eagles? That's the big question here. I mean, I think you're downgrading all the secondary guys, right? Like Devante and Saquon are still going to have their roles. Saquon when he's back, obviously, um, Goddard, maybe not. Maybe a little bit just because, you know, uh, the, the tight ends are doing okay this year. So, uh, but like, I don't want anything to do with Makai Lemon at this point. Uh, Dante being Wicks, I think can probably go. Uh, I mean, he, I think he left and came back, but he seems to be okay. But, um, same thing with Lemon. I think he did the same thing. Let's get back. But I think those secondary guys, I'm downgrading with Tanner McKee, but McKee wasn't terrible today in his first start. Um, and he played a team. I'm coming off a buy that had, uh, you know, time to prep for the Eagles as well. So, uh, you know, maybe those guys come back if you're in a super deep league, obviously you're not getting rid of them if there's no one on the wire for you to add. But, uh, I, I do think in most scenarios, you could probably start looking towards a waiver wire if you're rostering Makai Lemon and Dante being Wicks and guys like that. Yeah. And they have a great schedule coming up. They got Dallas next week. They have the commanders and the giants are next three games. I forget the order of the last two, but, um, yeah, I mean, Eagles fans love Tanner McKee, but the issue is a lot more than the quarterback with that team offensive line, um, play calling. Like it's just a lot of stuff going on, so we don't need to spend a ton of time on the Eagles, but while we're talking about them, I'll, I might as well ask about Saquon Barkley. So he got injured the first like drive a couple of weeks ago has now missed two games. Uh, what do we, what are we seeing hearing on Saquon Barkley? Yeah. So it's the data would favor him returning either this week or next with week eight being slightly more likely, uh, the reasoning for that is that it. It looked like at least a moderate severity type injury on the video. It's kind of stopped him in his tracks. So somewhat similar to what I would anticipate with like a Caleb Williams injury return here. Usually when running backs do come back, they don't have a huge performance or efficiency dip, but you do tend to see their usage a little bit, take about two weeks to ramp up. So about a little bit of a dip there, uh, the re-injury risk is the real concern. And you know, from an Eagles management standpoint, if it were me, I would consider slow playing this with Saquon. I would consider it a risk of re-injury and basically trying to not, uh, tank his trade value if you were to reactivate this in season. So I, again, this week may be a possibility, but the data was slightly favored the next. Yeah. I mean that running back room, Saquon, obviously Bigsby's on IR will Shipley's on IR. The other guy, Carson steel, not a huge name, but he was getting some passing work. He left with a shoulder injury, so, um, not a great, it's not, it's not always sunny in Philadelphia. I'll tell you that, but we can, but we can move on. Um, so. Tyler Warren, the next name on our graphic here, tweaked his groin in practice. Didn't play today. What, what do you have on that? Yeah, this happened just on Friday. So we don't have a clear indication of severity because that quick of a turnaround, most players wouldn't play. Uh, with that being said, he did have a groin injury in the preseason. This is presumably a re-aggravation and re-aggravations of groin strains average about three weeks out. So this would most K in most cases be a multi-week injury we're looking at. Okay. Cause yeah. So it's a game time decision. They worked him out. You think that, oh, maybe he'll be good in a week, but you're saying it's probably looking like a couple of weeks. Just the nature of re-aggravations is that they tend to be a little bit more severe, severe than the original injury. And secondly, that they, they tend to have a high re-aggravation risk going forward. So I would think that he would miss another week. We'll kind of see how practice reports line up for him. But at this point with limited info, most players would miss the following week. Yeah. Got it. Yeah. That makes sense. And then for the Colts, I mean, definitely not seeing the same Daniel Jones that we saw last year. I personally have been disappointed in Josh downs. I was expecting more from him, especially with, um, with Warren now out this week. So, um, Scott, I mean, are you, are you upping Keenan Allen in your rankings or Josh downs or lean heavier on Johnny Taylor? What are we doing? If we know that, uh, Warren's going to miss a couple of weeks. Yeah. I mean, I think I want it to be downs too. Uh, I wasn't the biggest downs guy coming in. Yeah. I mean, it's almost like everything is there for him to succeed. Right? No Alec Pierce. Uh, now we have Tyler Warren down the guy that's like kind of clears the middle for him a little bit. So you would think that maybe we would see an uptick here, but Daniel Jones and just this offense is not working very well right now either. So it's all kind of Jonathan Taylor and nobody else. So, um, Keenan Allen, maybe, you know, I'll move him up a little bit of course, because he's their main guy at this point, but I'm not like super excited to do it. It's almost begrudgingly, you know? Sure. Yeah. Let's hope Alec Pierce is good to go as soon as he's eligible off of IR. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. All right. So next one, Romeo Dobbs left after, at least he scored a touchdown. So people that I believe he scored a touchdown, people that started him, at least that they didn't get totally cooked by, by the injury, um, left with a shoulder. What do you have on him? Yeah. It looks like he fell pretty hard on the tip of his shoulder. That's classic for an AC joint sprain. A lot of times these get played through about a quarter of, of wide receivers do play even the following week, usually with an injection. Some degree of a performance hit. And we saw this with DJ Moore. He came back the following week, but then re aggravated it from falling on it again. So that's the concern by rushing back, uh, with that being said, these, these tend to be short-term injuries and the, the three-fourths of players who miss one week usually returned within the next two. So, uh, it would, should be a short-term injury. Got it. And I mean the Patriots receivers, AJ Brown, do you have more drops than catches? Um, I think he did the Mario Douglas scored again. So if, if Dobbs misses, I mean, you're not bench and AJ Brown, obviously. Um, and I'm, I mean, Douglas is probably in your lineup. Would you agree with that, Scott? Yeah, I think so. I'm going to lose a league this week because I didn't have him in my lineup. So I scored a couple touchdowns last week. I think he's better than Romeo Dobbs anyway. I just think they need to feed him the ball a little bit more. And they've been doing it the last two weeks. So, yeah, I think that is the absolute guy here. And obviously he's going to go more to A.J. Brown pretty soon. But the dude, he's shaking the rust off at this point. So I know people are upset. He'll be okay moving forward, I think. I would say 90%. But you watch A.J. Brown a lot. I know you like that guy. Yeah, I love A.J. Yeah, I mean, first game back, got some drops. Probably got in his head a little bit. He'll be fine. He even dropped the onsides kick, which was just – At least they recovered it because that would have been tough if the Jets got it. And then who knows what happens. Brutal luck. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure we'll have questions about A.J. So we don't need to go too deep on him. And then Ladd. I mean, so it was the rib in week one. Then it was the foot. Now he's got a concussion. The guy just can't stay healthy. So what do you have on Ladd? Yeah, so these concussions on average do take a little over a week. We've seen actually three notable players, Concepcion, Sadiq, and Jamar Chase, all come back without missing any time. Fortunately, they have the bye coming up. So I would expect him back. Week eight. And it may be good timing because those ribs from week one and two to now should be close to healed. That foot injury could use probably two weeks rest anyway. So this actually may be a buy low candidate. I don't know about staying healthy, but maybe a buy low candidate going forward. Scott, you agree with that? Buy low? Yeah, I do. I think if he was in college, it would be a red shirt season. But at this point, especially because they're playing so bad. I think, like Deepak said, it's a nice buy low opportunity if you can afford it, right? If your bench is deep enough for you to add a guy like this and you can deal from depth to add him and your wide receiver room is already good. I think it would be a really smart move to go and get a guy like Ladd, specifically with the entire team playing bad, right? The whole team playing bad means they're going to probably be playing catch up in a lot of games. And we like that garbage time for guys like Ladd. So, you know, moving forward, it would be nice, but I would. I would assume he's going to be out again this week, too. Yeah. I mean, just another loss season. They're on a buy anyway. Yeah. Yeah, right. They're on a buy. So week eight, you would expect him back. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, good. And then we have some quick hitters here. Some names bigger than the others, but the two that I wanted to get your thoughts on individually, Lamar Jackson obviously missed the last two weeks and the Ravens lost to the Browns today. Fumble from Derek Henry. But what do you think? Do you think he'll be back next week? What do you got on Lamar? Yeah, I think there's a pretty solid chance he plays. This coming week, they talked about it early in the week, but then he never even logged any practice time. So he was ruled out. Not super surprisingly, but the average on these mild high ankles is about two weeks. Now, Lamar, you would expect him to come back at a pretty high level, especially wouldn't anticipate any degree of dip in his passing game production. The rushing. Sometimes you'll see kind of that elusiveness decrease, and that's key to Lamar's game. But, uh, the. The main thing is, you know, the Ravens, if he's on the field, obviously every that affects everybody around him too. So I would, I would say probably this week or next, but I would lean this coming week. Got it. Yeah. And Scott, so Lamar, you think, okay, when he's back, he's in your lineup, but we did see last year, Lamar, this was, it was a hammy diff different injury, obviously, but when he came back, he was not the same Lamar. He had some tough performances last week. So do you, if, do you dare not start Lamar Jackson if, if he's back next week, I'm, I'm, I'm this season, I'm going to be prepared for it. So I'm going to have a backup, you know, just in case. And, uh, you know, I, if the backup has a very good matchup the week that Lamar comes back and he doesn't, then, you know, maybe we get him in there. So, uh, I, I'm, I'm cautiously optimistic, but we saw a lot of this last year from Lamar as well. And you got to start wondering if this is a pattern in his career, you know, uh, he's run a lot, but the whole thing was for a long time, it was a guy that could, would slide or. Get out of bounds without getting hit. It was a lot of runs without taking extra damage. So, uh, slowing down a little bit, he's been being hit more specifically with a worse offensive line. So, um, you at least need to have a plan. If you're rostering Lamar Jackson, even with a short bench, if you can afford to grab a quarterback and S and sit on them as a backup, I think I'm doing that. Yeah. And obviously like you've had to have a plan for him the last two weeks. So depending on what that plan was, then you could probably just keep rolling, rolling with that. Like if you can. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, all right, we got some, some, some quick hitters here that we'll do quickly so we can move on. Um, and I'll just go, I'll just go one by one and then I Deepak, you can just tell us if you have anything, but Duncan Cade left and came back with a rib injury, DJ Moore missed with a shoulder and the bills have a buy next week. So you can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm guessing we'll see him, um, next or when their next game is. So in two weeks and then shoulder for Rashad Bateman neck injury for Donald Mooney. Then we talked about Carson steel with, with the shoulder. Yeah. I think the big ones there, uh, Don Kincaid, now the ribs you're often seeing players play through this. Mike Evans, lad, McConkey, uh, both returned without any missed time. Uh, you often do see a production hit that lasts about four weeks. So Dalton Kincaid, they're coming up on their buy. So I would anticipate him probably being out there in week eight, but you may not see full strength with DJ Moore. I would anticipate him being close to full strength by week eight. Uh, he'd logged a limited practice on Friday and you would sort of there. Four, expect his trajectory to play week seven if they had a game, but of course with the buy week eight, uh, then regarding Bateman, a little unclear, uh, truthfully, we have to kind of just see on the practice reports in terms of the mechanism for him and, uh, and Carson steel didn't look good. He was walking. He was kind of holding the shoulder. Uh, sometimes that can be a reflection of a stinger, but it didn't really release any info yet. So, uh, I think we hit the quick hits for you. Yeah. Let's see it. He POC real quick. Uh, Davante Adams going down at the end of the Rams game. Did you catch that one? Cause I didn't even see it. Oh, I saw him. I saw him hobble over to the sideline and kind of get checked, but it wasn't, uh, I'm not sure if he had extra time, like would he have been able to come back in? It's just, it was towards the end of the game. So a little bit hard to say for sure on that. Cause it was such a fresh. Yeah. Gotcha. Um, and then real quick and not on the, not on the, um, the doc, but just cause I'm curious Baker Mayfield back next week. I think so. Uh, at least there's a very good chance and if it's not next week, it should be the week after. Okay. Got it. Cool. All right. Well, um, as always appreciate you for joining us, going to show you guys a quick video and then Scott and I will be back talking about, um, storylines talking about storylines, but yeah, real quick. This is Pat Fitzmaurice. I hope you enjoy this episode of the show, which is sponsored by accredited debt relief. Accredited debt relief specializes in one thing, helping you find a real workable solution to your debt. 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Seven targets in this one, six catches, 70 yards and a score against Indianapolis. Colt secondary has been, Colts haven't been good. Obviously there's a lot of hot seat talks about the Colts this week. I think I'm like lukewarm on Carnell Tate. I think if someone has rage dropped him and you're sitting on Makai Lemon or Wicks, like we were talking about before, those are the type of guys that I would drop for Carnell Tate. I don't know that he is a buy in every single scenario though. So, but good things from Carnell Tate, even though, I mean, Cam Ward just looks so bad and I was a buy in him too. Like, uh, he just has not worked. So, um, it looks like he is not long for that job after this season, but, uh, Carnell Tate has looked good when given the opportunity. So I do like it. I love the talent of Carnell Tate. I do not love the quarterback situation. Honestly, I wouldn't mind selling high on, on Carnell take is, I mean, Cam Ward threw for like 102 yards or something in this game. And Tate had 70 of 70% of the past. That was the same thing in his other career. I mean, he's a good player. He's a good player. He's a good player. He's a good game too. It was like 212 yards and he had like 110 of them or something. Yeah. And then last, but then sandwiched in between that, the meat of the good game sandwich was, uh, he did nothing against, um, I mean, Texans good defense, but also not really this year. So I love Carnell Tate, the talent and a dynasty league. Obviously you're not doing anything with him, but, uh, for redraft, I wouldn't mind seeing what you can get for him. Not that I think he's going to be terrible every single week, but the whole point of selling high is you're getting something good back. Right. I would rather do that. If someone's buying on Carnell Tate, I would rather sell him. But, um, if he's on the waiver wire, there's probably if you have Brian Thomas, yeah. Well, bye. Uh, yeah, we'll talk about why you would, but yeah. Yeah. And then, um, so DK Metcalf, two Steelers receivers, we're going to talk about them in a little more detail, but we can just do a quick one here. Uh, 15 targets for DK Metcalf, 11 for 93, Jeremy Bernard, Jeremy Bernard, Jeremy Bernard. I'm honestly not a hundred percent sure. Okay. It's just spelled different. It's supposed to be Jeremy. Jeremy Bernard, 12 targets, 11 receptions, 87 yards. Yeah. 12 targets, 11 receptions, 87 yards in a touchdown. What are we thinking about the Steelers receivers? You're a Steelers fan, right? What do you, what do you got for us? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I really liked Jeremy Bernard and I think he is making more and more of an impact to kind of steal time away from Michael Pittman. My initial assessment of this last week was I had him like fourth in the waiver wire, not up near the top because yes, Michael Pittman's probably going to miss a month, maybe five weeks, six weeks. But when he comes back, he's going to be a little bit better. He's going to be a little bit better. When he comes back, he will be out there to block. That was kind of my initial assessment. Jeremy Bernard blocks pretty well, right? Started his, uh, pop Warner as a offensive lineman. So the dude knows how to block. Um, and even though he doesn't have the same type of frame as Michael Pittman, but he's been making plays out there. So I think he's going to have sustained success and DK Metcalf. It's just nice to see him getting targets, getting more involved and winning in some contested situations. Uh, him and parish had a nice battle parish one. Most of it, I would say the first three quarters. And that last quarter in overtime, it was DK Metcalf kind of bodying him. So, uh, just nice to see the Steelers offense getting in more of a rhythm. And I think both these guys are viable. Yeah. I've never been a huge DK Metcalf guy, but the utilization has been fantastic for him all year. It hasn't always worked out, but you kind of get that with somebody like him, a big play guy, but I love Jeremy Bernard, the way Aaron Rogers talked about him. It's for me, it's if Aaron Rogers trusts you, you're going to get targets. And for whatever reason, he did not like Michael Pittman did not like him. And Roman Wilson just went on the IR. He did love Roman Wilson, but someone, uh, got stuck on the IR. I think the same day Jalen did. So, uh, he's going to be out for at least four. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll talk about them in a little more detail, but just did want to mention them. And then Omar Cooper jr. Six, uh, seven targets, six receptions, 103 yards and a touchdown first game back from IR. So you, you'd love to see that after a long stint off. Is it real? What do you think? I think it can be. And I always was kind of on the Omar Cooper side over Adonai Mitchell. Now I had dropped Omar Cooper and a couple of my leagues after Adonai Mitchell went weeks here, but then he had the finger injury, the broken finger. And we didn't really get a lot of good information on how long he was going to miss. And then they said he had surgery. Cause I was kind of expecting him back this week. So I ended up dropping Adonai in one league and with Omar Cooper looking this good and they already have Garrett Wilson and, uh, Brees hall is still going to come back at some point. There's a lot of moving pieces there. So, uh, I'm, I think I'm rather have the three guys above him on this list. Sure. I think if you're in a deeper league or if you have, you know, just an, uh, an empty spot, I think Omar Cooper is absolutely a guy we can add and, and might be able to, you know, if he keeps performing like this, we'll be able to count on him. I don't think it's going to be like this every week, but a nice performance from the rookie. Yeah. You like to see that from a rookie. And what we know about rookies is they always get better the second half of the year. The biggest issue for me is that Jets offense, they just play so slow. They're going to have games or they don't do anything. And then you're going to have to play so slow. And then you're where Garrett Wilson gets 15 targets and it's just not. And there's, so yeah, I'm not, I'm not that I disagree with you. I just think that, um, just to, to maybe be a little bit more cautious. Um, but we can move on the next one. We got some tight end. So who's back of the week. We got some tight ends that might be back Kyle pits, three touchdowns, the last two weeks, Loveland and Caleb Williams first start almost had a second touchdown, but he had a touchdown 65 yards, six receptions. Do you think that these guys are back? Yeah, I do. I mean, Loveland, I think was you know, it's easy to be mad at Loveland. You spent such a high pick on him and, uh, he was so miserable. And it was one of those things where I even had him low in my rankings for this week because it was like, all right, well, let's see it. I'm tired of having you in my top 12 and I'm not doing anything. So I think I had him at like 14 or 15, but he got Caleb Williams back and boy, did Caleb look pretty good. Right. So, uh, right back there and, uh, throwing the ball to Loveland. So I think he's back. And then Kyle pits usage. Really improved this week. That was the big thing because it was like a lot of Charlie Warner and we're seeing him less and less specifically on 11 personnel. But this week he played a lot last week, um, against Baltimore. He had five catches for 42 in the score and then five or 16, two scores this week. So, uh, yeah, I'm, or that was pits. I'm sorry. Uh, Loveland today, six for 65 in the score, like you said, just barely missed the second one. So yeah, I mean, I think I'm back in now that Caleb is back and that offense is humming a little bit. Yeah, I agree with you on, on, on both counts. The thing with pits is you just, you forgive the first two weeks of the year. Like Drake London didn't do anything. The Cooper rush starts. We don't, we don't talk about the Cooper rush starts. So with Pennix, it's, it's definitely been better. Um, but next one we can talk about is the giants and in crazy game for the giants, Cam Scadaboo benched. He gave you a nice big goose. If you started him, then we saw Jameis Winston get benched for JJ McCarthy, who proceeded to throw for 243 yards in like 11 minutes of game time. He threw a pick to start too. It was like, Oh God, what are we doing? Yeah. And it's funny because Jameis is normally the one that does that. He comes in in the fourth quarter and starts bombing away. So there was a little bit of a freaky Friday situation, but we saw huge performances from not huge. We saw, uh, yeah, we can say huge, big performances from Malik neighbors and Isaiah likely, but then the other, the downside of this is the giants running back snaps 14, Devin single 30, 13, Tyrone Tracy, 11 for Najee Harris and six for Cam Scadaboo. I don't even know where to begin with Harbaugh after two. Yeah. That like, it wasn't, it wasn't our plan to, to, it wasn't by design. And then he said, we were down a bunch of points. So we have our third down guys in there. And then they, you know, they interviewed Cam and he was like, I'm being punished for what I did last week. It's completely understandable. And, uh, you know, I just want to be ready when my name's called by coach again. And that was, that's the correct answer. That's the only answer you can give and still, you know, stay in favor with a quarterback as well. So I don't know how this is going to work out. Like we got word, uh, about, you know, 30 minutes before kickoff that Najee Harris was going to be way more involved and it was going to be at the expense of Cam Scadaboo, which makes sense, right? After the big fumble that you were on a game winning drive and then, you know, probably should have lost, but then Jane Daniel screwed that up. So, uh, I, I understand like the punishment aspect of this, but I think it is at the detriment of your team when you're bending. Benching in really you're not, but you are, you gave him six snaps. Like when you're benching the best player in the backfield, I just think that's stupid. Like, yes, he fumbled. It was a big time fumble is a huge mistake, but you got to let the guy pick it up and move on from that. So yeah. Um, Harbaugh being, uh, uh, a hardo about this is not going to be great in the long run. I do wonder which quarterback starts next week though, as well. Uh, would you lean towards JJ McCarthy? Marthie or Jameis here? I feel like you got to go JJ, but then I feel like we're going to get, you know. 13 completions on 27 attempts for 119 yards if he starts next week but i don't know how you i mean i don't know i don't know how you go back to jamis after and i mean mccarthy i've never been after like i thought he's gonna be good then he missed his rookie year then he was terrible then i was like then i i was out and i didn't think he had in him what he did today um but a lot of times you see like weird garbage time stuff happen in the fourth quarter that doesn't necessarily jamis has made his career in garbage time um joey bursette was kind of like last year with so much garbage time garbage time work that it doesn't in like when teams up big they play defense different differently and then sometimes they can't so i don't know i i think you start jj but i would definitely be cautious with my with my job at houston at houston next week so and their defense has been terrible right supposed to be good uh it's been awful this year so yeah and they're coming back i know it makes no sense and they're coming back from london too yeah so yeah i don't know i mean you're not obviously not benching malik or isaiah likely but i'm definitely expecting those type of performances from them next week which you've gotten i mean likely it's been awesome this year but anyways we can move on so we hinted at this aaron rogers at 41 42 years young playing the best football that he's played since he tore his achilles his last four weeks 22.6 21.96 so basically 22 exactly 22 and 16 points now the 16 is not great but three straight 20 point performances we talked about the receivers for the steelers performing well you know this offense we thought was going to be gross i thought was going to be gross heading into the year but they've been good yeah you take the last four weeks and i think uh if you just average that out he'd be like fourth among quarterbacks right behind alan purdy and golf that's it at this point just ahead of joe burrow as well so that's kind of crazy uh i didn't expect this to work like this but um you know the offense has been working for the steelers specifically after last week right it was i i told you about it i didn't expect it to work like this but boy seth who is also a steelers fan uh from pennsylvania and he said um or he was texting like hey at least the steelers won this was after my longhorns lost to oklahoma of course yeah and i said uh i said yeah it was weird to win a game without like four turnovers and six sacks and all of that like the steelers typically do just to win with an offensive game so uh aaron rogers is humming right now and if you've had problems a quarterback he might be your answer at this point so um you know uh i i think it's going to be a great game and i think it's going to be a great game i think uh i think he's absolutely viable like better than like tyler shuck who's apparently playing with a broken hand yeah so uh you know that's kind of weird he's been better than patrick bahomes obviously jalen hertz is out justin herbert's been a mess so is bo nicks right so there's a lot of down here in the quarterback market and aaron rogers is one of the few guys moving up it seems like yeah next week we got josh allen on by trevor lawrence on by jayden daniels on by also justin herbert but hopefully nobody's starting him anymore so uh yeah i mean you can definitely stream i don't know the matchup next week uh but you could definitely stream and rogers assuming he's not playing like i don't know the whatever the worst whatever the worst defensive matchup would be um saints in paris this week oh that's right that's right it's the parrot yeah the paris game um if they keep okay yeah you can start them if you got a qb on bar week or you got a jalen hertz injury and you're you're trying to figure it out um and then the last one we have here this was the london game so let's not forget about it huge day for travis hunter i mean he has a nine offensive snaps but they were meaningful offensive snaps but the flip side of that is no no btj i don't he didn't play at all in the second half he needs to have the marv treatment sent to whoever his college quarterback is um and see if he can he can um but yeah i mean are we starting travis hunter um i'm and by the way you'd be sending him to cleveland uh for shador but uh but uh i do think that uh i don't think that we can start travis nine snaps right like he got you in it and i had to go look it up too because uh usually i follow uh uh nate yankee who does on pff he does like all the snap breakdowns and everything but because hunter plays on defense he doesn't show up on the wide receiver one so i had to go hunt it down through uh the other way so uh and i saw it was nine snaps on uh offense and 62 on defense he's still primarily uh defensive player but if they are going to start using him i think travis hunter is the best wide receiver on the parker washington if they moved him to that side this is a heisman winner right incredible athlete unbelievable but they need him more in the secondary so i think he's going to stay mainly playing on defense he'll have a couple nice plays and big games on the offensive side but with nine snaps that just guarantees you close to nothing so it's just really hard to uh to pick him up and then also be willing to start him so if you you have a really deep bench and you want to add him just to see if he's going to be able to start him so i think he's going to be able to start him if he starts to you know tick up those offensive snaps then i'm all for that but if you're in a normal league with a normal bench i think you probably let somebody else uh use their fab on him yeah i think you put in a zero dollar claim and then you try to trade him that's that's my plan see if somebody just wants the big name um but all right we we can move on the next segment that we're going to do here is panic meter where you guys in the chat will give us your players and then scott and i will give us your our panic meter on those players but before we do that i want to talk to you guys about the waiver planner so you can take the guesswork out of the waiver wire with the fantasy pros waiver planner get a complete customized waiver plan for every league including suggested fab bids and backup options in case your top targets are taken once your plan is set you can submit your waiver claims to most major league sites with just one click save time stay prepared maximize your chances of landing the players your team needs build your personalized waiver plan today at fantasypros.com slash plan that's fantasypros.com slash plan and now we're talking panic meter so like i said get those names in the chat and we will give you our uh panic on those players one it means we're not panicking at all 10 it means we're in full-blown panic mode and while you guys are doing that um i put some in the chat here or in our in our notes here just to get us started cam scottaboo we just talked about him one to ten what's your panic meter on cam i how could it be lower than like an eight and a half or a nine right like he had six snaps today and didn't have a touch so uh i mean unless we hear different from the coaching staff specifically like we are going to get cam scottaboo more involved he has to stay on your bench i wouldn't recommend dropping him yet because he's still the best running back by a lot on the giants right like naji is older hasn't been that good and is coming off an injury uh tyrone tracy scored the touchdown here i know but i still don't trust him and i don't know why single terry was active this week right it was because cam scottaboo fumbled i think they're making a big production out of uh nothing which is dumb but uh i i expect him to be back involved but until i see it it's really hard to start him so yeah and they play the texans this week they should be using him but i don't know if they will i am totally in total agreement that it's bad coaching you i mean like you see the best coaches go back to their go back to their guys and put faith in them like you think he knows that he shouldn't fumble but anyways that's not what we're talking about so i'm with you i'll go nine on uh cam scottaboo you can't drop him probably can't trade him can't start him so you just wait it out at this point but uh we got from trizzo sam two saints players olave and in juan johnson shuck has not been tearing it up like he has the past couple or the beginning of the week or sorry beginning of the year he has not the past couple weeks obviously some tough matchups like the vikings a couple weeks ago he's got the broken hand he's got an offensive line injury that i think is probably the most important of all of that so anyways what is your what is your panic meter on olave and juan yeah i think it's probably like a six on on these guys like there's nothing you can really do you're not gonna bench olave you're still gonna start him next week and uh roll with them i would say that if the terrible play continues from shuck they'll probably go to rattler i guess uh we'll see that's not uh great but crystal olave is uh fairly qb proof not completely i don't know that anyone is completely but fairly qb proof and uh i think that he'll be okay juan johnson i would be more concerned i would say that probably the same uh you know ballpark i would be more concerned maybe i'm less concerned because i feel like there's tight ends on the wire that you can add um and i don't think if you are starting juan johnson you've probably never really been married to him so uh less for juan just because of the nature of where he is a little more panicky on olave but i do think it'll get straightened out fairly quickly and i think the whole offense will be better when that gen comes back agreed yeah agree with you i'm a little bit lower on the panic i think that they'll be fine i think they play so fast that they're gonna have games where they're just running up and down the field so i'm like probably a three on olave a little bit higher on juan johnson because i mean at this point he's like 30 years old it's not like there's that the upside there and i think it might have just been a hot touchdown start for him that it's kind of just gonna fade um but we can we can go um here to sir sir dinesh what do i do with aj brown so panic meter one to ten on aj we kind of talked about it but what do you got um i'm i'm not panicking about him i think we talked about this a little bit like knocking the rust off the hands are the hands are not great right like uh obviously that's not a good thing but unless you start to get benched like cam scataboo for the mistakes that you're making it doesn't really matter that much to us so uh you know i do i I do think that AJ Brown is going to be fine. and you're just gonna leave him in your starting lineup i totally agree yeah not 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comment below on any of our videos and that's it we'll be announcing a winner right here on the channel so make sure to turn on notifications don't miss your chance to claim your prize and let's talk questions so get your questions in the chat we got about 10 minutes before sunday night football starts so um like i said yeah get your questions in the chat we'll go through as many as we can before we have to get on out of here and we'll just go through it so um we talked about scataboo so we can do this one one quickly mr aaron is yeah great name um is scataboo cooked yes or no i don't think he's cooked uh like like we talked about before i still think he is the best running back on the giants and i think at some point seeing how this run game was today they are going to have to put him back in so not panicking not dropping i don't think he's cooked yet agreed we can move on from michael sullivan uh do you sell high on davante smith and full transparency i didn't watch that game um what do you think you sell high on davante i don't know that you can sell high on davante smith right now right like he's still performing well so if someone you know if you're in a reuben boob league and you can trade him as someone that doesn't pay as much attention as you then great but i think most people are paying attention most people understand that jalen is gone i don't know that this hurts him that much jalen wasn't great at passing the ball anyway so uh i think i'm okay with holding on uh to davante smith and seeing what he does with tanner mckee i think you send some offers like the worst people say is no that's the cut that's like how how i like to kind of go about things i don't necessarily think like i've always been like i don't think i like jalen hurts but i don't necessarily think that going from him to to tanner mckee is a huge downgrade for davante smith because what you like about jalen is a lot other than being a dropback passer which is what tanner mckee is so um their offensive line and dealing with pressure is is a bigger issue than the quarterback so he had a lot of targets today he scored the touchdown he's got great matchups coming up so if you can get a haul for him then sure but i'm not trying to sell him um and we can move on axel gonzalez do you think milton will start a game this year bazooka joe i don't think i would put it completely out of the realm of possibilities specifically if jalen does have to miss the entire year as deepak kind of alluded to blood clots and all that stuff being a 6 to 12 week timeline with most taking more closer to 12 than 6 so i wouldn't completely rule it out but i think mckee's been there for a long time he knows this offense i would expect mckee to start most of the games unless he's just looking really terrible yeah barring injury i don't think that we're going to see milton i i mean he's fun he's not that great of a quarterback unfortunately that's the problem with he can throw it 900 yards but i don't necessarily i mean we haven't seen him so maybe we don't know but in the limited time we have it hasn't been great so i would say barring injury i would i would guess no and i don't think he's worth picking up and stashing or anything like that um from j red 97 99 my horrible running backs in ppr are irving pollard and ramondre stevenson do i pick up roshan johnson no uh like i think common on guys back next week so i don't think i would pick up roshan had nice usage today so i'm not going to say it's completely a no if you're in a super deep league then uh maybe i i look at throwing a couple bucks on roshan and just seeing if i can get him but i think for the most part i don't i don't see you starting him over any of the guys that you listed so uh i'm probably going to leave him on the wire for someone else that yeah i would if you have a spot i think he's probably worth picking up in the off chance that monunga doesn't play i also think that he plays maybe we could have asked deepak that but maybe maybe you start him over ramondre but probably not but like i said he's he's at least worth picking up in case that monunga misses again because toe injuries can be can be a little weird from jp tay bogman what is going on with the rams they barely score 32nd yeah that green was crazy they they i mean losing to the cardinals is wild uh yeah it really is so what's going on with the rams i i think the rams are going to be okay but obviously uh it has not looked good yet this year and um kyron has still been good like most of the pieces have still been good i think this was like the first down game for puka where he played the full game uh davante getting hurt at the end of the game we're gonna have to see what happens there but blake corm has been in and out he's been in the last two weeks he was out before that so i i think they're gonna be okay you know this was a division rivalry game so you know these typically play a little bit closer and i think i think they made some coaching mistakes right it's tough to lose to six field goals that's not something that typically happens so uh i think they'll be okay moving forward but it's less and less of a guarantee every single week um matthew stafford matthew stafford isn't even looking crazy old yet i think they're going to be okay moving forward but he is looking like he's not moving very well so uh i think it'll get better um you know beyond this week but that was a really terrible performance and you are right to be a little concerned for sure yeah i mean from like a fanhood perspective for sure from a fantasy perspective you're right i mean like you're happy with with the players on the rams they're just also two and four so it's like yeah you know i don't know where i don't know what you can really do other than you're obviously playing those guys and you just hope that they the team themselves gets better um corn's the only guy that waivers everybody else you're rolling for sure yeah fair yeah fair so funny awesome person 90 should add humble in there as well um we talked about him so we don't have to go super long here but thoughts on davante without jalen should i i'm guessing trade him taking advantage of from his good fantasy performance i mean if you can trade him uh i i get it but uh i i think like we said before tanner mckee might i i don't think much changes so i'm i'm gonna roll with davante smith if i'm rostering him yeah see if you can like package him for like him plus another player for an upgrade see if like maybe somebody had a down week this week um but yeah other than that you're not you're not i don't think you're getting a hall for him anyway so i'm kind of with you jeremy padden 58 57 do i trade or bench lad mcconkey or amari and hampton well this week you're lucky you don't have to play them you don't have to make that decision but moving forward do you trade or bench lad mcconkey and amari and hampton i don't trade uh lad i don't think you can trade amari and hampton but if you can i would see what type of offers you get because they've been splitting up this backfield three different ways i think mitchell was the guy out of the loop this week and hampton has always kind of been there but he hasn't looked good right videl has looked better than him for the most part so uh i don't think there's much you can do with hampton i don't think there's a lot of guys that i would cut him for specifically this week um and lad uh you know he should be back the next week and like deepak said if he does have to miss another week it's probably good to rest these other injuries that he's had but they're on a buy so he should be back uh in week eight so we should be fine with him yeah i don't know what you could get for them so you probably just have to i mean this week obviously you're not playing but you probably just have to hold um but so we got two questions from will freaking power but this one i thought was a little bit better because it's a little more like an easier yes or no um question to answer would you trade a buka or burden straight up for chase brown this is a pretty clear yes for him and i think it's a pretty clear yes for him and i think it's a pretty clear yes for me uh do you disagree yeah not at all no and i don't i don't love what's happening with chase brown in the backfield and then giving us some ajp ryan more but you know these are wide receiver two to threes like flex guys and chase brown has a chance to be a game changer for you so if you can do those trades i'd absolutely do them yeah and it's you know it's we've seen two straight years heading into this year chase brown's being significantly better the second half of the year than the first half it happens a lot with the bangles offense but i agree with you the utilization is what's this is what's the scary part with chase brown the first half of the round like you could explain away the rough start the last two years splitting time with zach miles two years ago last year it was um jake browning was the quarterback so either way i am doing either i would i'm doing out of the one of those trades and if if you had to choose which receiver like who do you like better between a buka or burden meaning i like a buka better oh interesting okay i i would say i would say burden um but see whoever the chase brown manager likes better either one of those we're both good with yeah i'd be good trading either one of them yeah yeah um all right this will be the last question because then you guys got to watch Sunday night football but i thought this was a good one uh from saquon ftw what do we think about warren now that dowdle is back and i thought about adding this sorry to interrupt you i thought about adding this to the when we talked about the steelers um but yeah so yeah what do you think i think warren is still the guy and specifically i think the reason i think he's going to be the guy is what we saw in overtime right was at the end they just they they used him pretty much was he had the he took the ball he bled the clock led the steelers down the field rogers is looking to dump it off to him all the time because he's looking for those short routes so he doesn't get hit So I think it's still Warren, but Dowdell is going to eat in, right? And might be annoying occasionally near the goal line as well. So this gets more complicated than it was, but I still think Jalen is the guy in Pittsburgh. Yeah, I agree with you. And he was never going to continue to play 90% of the snaps. That was just kind of like, hey, we're just going to run you into the ground until Dowdell comes back. It was always going to be more of a split, but Warren's awesome. Rodgers likes him. Dowdell has not looked good even before the toe injury. Looked good today. Yeah, he did. Better today. Better today. Yeah. A couple big rip runs. So he looked better, but I was kind of hoping he was going to Dowdell, you know, he was going to do to Dowdell what Dowdell did to Chuba last year, because I have a lot of shares of Jalen Warren, but we didn't get that lucky. No, no, we didn't. But cool. All right. Well, thank you everybody for joining us. Thank you for spending some time with us tonight. 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