October 29, 2025 • 25 mins
Marcas Grant, Michael F. Florio, and LaQuan Jones preview the NFL’s week eight slate They start the show with the latest news, including the Saints naming Tyler Shough their starting quarterback (1:19), the Panthers plan for Rico Dowdle (3:03), and an update on Carson Wentz's injury (5:16).
Then they preview the Thursday night game between the Ravens and Dolphins (7:11), and debate whether or not to start Mark Andrew and Jaylen Waddle. Next, they preview Chiefs at Bills (10:02), Colts at Steelers (11:47), and Viking at Lions (12:53).
After the break the guys play fantasy trick or treat (14:24). Then they finish their game previews with the Panthers at Packers (17:26), Broncos at Texans (18:54), and Falcons at Patriots (19:57). The guys wrap the show with their sleepers of the week (21:2).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wow, Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of the NFL
Fantasy Football Show. It's me your Man, MG. Marcus Grant,
joined by Michael left Florio and Lakwan Jones. We are
pretty much the halfway points of the NFL regular We
(00:22):
passed the halfway point of the fantasy season. We're the
half way point of the regular season.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I know it feels weird like we were jurring for
football to come back, and we are. We halfway through
the thing.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Like what I.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Say it every year. Man, You blink your eyes and
it is Halloween. Like it's just the way the NFL
season goes.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, so we are in spooky season. If you can't
tell by the decorations and the jar of candy corn.
Candy corn is an insults both candy and corn. Please
remember that you feel like you'd like candy corn.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Absolutely not. Oh that's disgusting, Lee. I'm egging the house
and get candy corn. That was my rule back then.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It would have been totally on brand though for you
Tony Corny, No Jesse would have been Anyway. We're gonna
preview some of the compelling Week and nine matchups on
the show today, which running backs with tough matchups. Can
you believe in? Which ones will ghost you here in Halloween?
Plus some either or options, spooky starts, and more little
trick or treat along the way. Here on this show,
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let's start, as we always do, with some fantasy headlines
and something we talked about earlier in the week but
is now official. Tyler Schuck will be the Saints starting
quarterback when they come to Sofi Stadium to take on
the Rams in Week nine. Hey, so Florida, when you
look at this, you look at crisol Lave, Rashid Shahed,
you even Alvin Kamara. I guess with Shuck add quarterback,
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which Saints do you want for the rest of the season?
Is it any of them? Ideally know?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
But I do think Chris ol Lave remains someone that's
in play just because of volume. Like last week, Shuck
came in and he did two things. He locked in
on Rashiit Shaheed and Christal Lavay, and he doesn't have
to be great for those guys to be good in
fantasy if he just continues to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So take the Joe Flakau approach. Just nowhere twelve is
supposed to be on the field and put the ball
in that vicinity.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Alvin Kamara, I'm I'm done. I think the best is
behind him. I think we're starting to see the quick
decline that happens for NFL careers. But if you have
a lave in Shaheed, it's look obviously a lava you're
not dropping. But even Shaheed like it's worth just waiting
to see if they get traded in the next week.
But even if not, I do think volume could keep
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them afloat as wide receiver three's or flexes.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Sorry, by the way, I know, I know Spenser Rally,
I know how much to see you.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It's annoying the see I mean, how do you bench
a quarterback that's completing over seventy percent of his passes
in a game like the Jets train. I mean, it's
disgusting to see. Like Suk came in, there was no
difference of the offense. I mean, the spark that Kellen
Moore was looking for. Man, it wasn't there. This weekend.
You already know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Well, it's not gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It's rams DST startup.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, absolutely, one hundred percent. Do that for sure. Down
in Carolina, Dave Canalis was talking about the Panthers running
back situation and how they're distributing the football, and he said, quote,
we cannot ignore Rico Dawdle with what he has done. Really, look,
since Cheba Hubbard got heard, Rico Dawdell stepped in. He's
been pretty good last week. Neither one of those guys
was particularly good this week. They got a really tough
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matchup going against the Green Bay Packers. But Lakwan, if
you have Tuba Hubbard on your roster, what are you
doing with him now? Scared?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I'm scared of definitely having him right now. But honestly,
Dave Canal's going back to the lab and saying you
can't ignore Rico. You sure can't.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
On tape.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
The stats everything these last two games have been terrible
for Chuba Hubbard two point five yards per carry. When
you're looking at the opportunities, how valuable are Chuba hubbard opportunities?
What is his actual impact on offense? But when you
look at Rico dwell that every opportunity he's had, he's
made a big splash five point three yards per carry,
and you look at the yards before contact, Rico Daddell's
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able to identify where the holes are at. I like
looking at this stat because it shows which running back
is operating behind the same old line and functioning at
a high level. You have Cheuba Hubber on the season
with fifty yards before contact. That is bottom of the table.
Look at ric o'daddle gets two hundred and thirty eight
yards before contact. That's more than Jamier Gibbs, more than
Saquon Barkley, Mordan Derrick Henry and Devon a Chan When
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on a perk carry basis before contact, he's number one
in the league. The gap between the two is so large.
If Dave Canalis goes out there and give Chuba Hubber
a chance in the first half like he's been doing
these last two games, He's not trying to win the game.
You're trying to go out there and played the nice guy.
This ain't the first time this guy has lost his job.
I've been saying this for weeks now. We saw him
lose as John de Deontay foreman, and then they put
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that pressure on that boy when they drafted Jonathan Brooks.
So obviously they're okay of having a paid running back,
say as the backup, because we've seen Miles Sanders do
it for a couple seasons as well.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, I mean, look, Cuba had a decent little run,
but it seems like it might be over at this point.
I wouldn't drop him because look, if something happens three Godowdell,
he goes back to getting that full workload.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Now again, you're not dropping Kareem Hunt. Like he it
comes like a handcuff at this point, like he becomes
one of those handcuffs that should be treated and utilized
as if a guy that's on your bench and the
guy that gets hurt, you could slide him into your flex.
But my expectations rest of the season not looking good
for him.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, I don't know if I'm big on either of
the Panther's running backs this week though, against Green Bank
in Minnesota. Carson Wentz is going to have a shoulder
surgery on his non throwing shoulder, but he will miss
the remainder of the twenty twenty five season, so that
can eliminate all doubt that JJ McCarthy's going to come
back and be the starting quarterback when he's ready to go.
But Flora, I'm going to ask you, can JJ McCarthy
elevate multiple pass catchers. I think we all still sort
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of at least believe in Justin Jefferson, But you know,
Jordan Addison, TJ Hawkinson? Can you believe in those guys? Now?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I think it's possible that he could elevate Jefferson and Addison,
and I will admit I thought it would be Howkinson
before the season.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It's just not happening for him.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
The thing is, though, like we don't know what the
floor is like with JJ McCarthy, but we knew the
ceiling was very low with Carson Wentz, So JJ brings
more upside than Carson wins had. I know, we've only
seen him play eight quarters, and seven of them haven't
really been that great. That's why, like for fantasy purposes,
I want no part of starting JJ until we see
any signs of life. And I think it's okay to
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get away from the Viking secondary weapons until.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
We see him elevate them.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
But obviously Justin Jefferson is a mustard, and I've been
advocating for people like go out and trade for Justin
Jefferson now because I think his value is low because
of a lack of touchdowns. But I'm expecting him to
go like touchdowns coming bunches. I wouldn't be surprised if
he had like six seven in the second half. So
I thought one of you guys were going to make
the joke. Oh sorry, yeah, no, I'm happy you did it.
(06:38):
Those are like I don't know if like news people.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Came together and we're like, we need to kill this trend.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
As quickly as possible, but they are succeeding, So we're
going to run this thing into the ground.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It's what everybody's been working on it at home. I've
been purposely setting up lailor for the sixth seven years.
She's so annoyed now when I do it, because it's
not cool.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
It thanks everybody parties over now. Four teams on a
buy this week. It's a good old fashioned four team
bye week, like the Fantasy gods intended as the Browns,
the Jets, the Eagles, and the Bucks all have the
week off. But that does allow us to get to
our Thursday night football preview. The first touchdown odds for
this Thursday's game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Miami Dolphins.
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Dereck Henry with the best odds, followed by Devon A. Chan.
The real surprise there. Then you got Zay Flowers, Lamar Jackson,
who we're all hoping is back for this week, and
then Jalen Wattle, who very quietly has been pretty good
over the last few weeks. Everything we've talked about with
the Dolphins has been chaos and bad vibes, but Jayleen
Waddell actually playing okay. As we look at this game
a little bit deeper, of course, you can see it
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on Prime Video eight fifteen pm Eastern on Thursday. Florio,
if Lamar Jackson is back, we know you know starting Lamar,
You're starting Derrick Henry, probably starting Zay Flowers. Would you
start Mark Andrews against the Dolphins?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I would I have Mark Andrews as a start in
stardom Sidham, But understand I'm not starting him over any
tight day. But like with four teams on buy and
stuff like that, and tight end being what it is,
I do think he is in like streaming capability or
something like that. He has not been good. I'm not
gonna try to argue that he's been putting up numbers
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or anything like that, but one Lamar's back, and obviously
that means more scoring opportunities, more yard opportunities stuff like
that for the Ravens, and Andrews is still one of
the more trusted targets for Lamar.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Plus it's a good matchup.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
The Dolphins have allowed the six most yards, eleventh most
fantasy points per game two tight ends, and on top
of all of that, both of these defenses are bad.
So this has like potential score fests written all over it.
And if you're going a little bit deeper at tight end,
you're hoping for a touchdown, and I think Andrews has
a good chance of doing that.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
We mentioned the four teams on a buy. I mean,
like Harold Fan and David and Joku are off, Dallas
Goddard is off, Kate Odden if you're into that sort
of thing. Mason Taylor and those guys are off this
week as well. On the other side, look on, I
mentioned Jalen Waddle very quietly playing well over the last
few weeks. Is it enough that you can feel good
about starting him on Thursday Night?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I gotta say this, man, like the Dolphins still has
some fight in them. Like, I know I called them
a circus in the past, but like because they were
a circus, they were, But this is a good circus.
It's the Ringling Brothers, right, This isn't your circus that
pulls up in your mall parking line and set up
shot with the sketchy clowns and stuff. But like, they
had a great game against one of the best defenses
in the NFL, very tough against the wide receiver position,
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and we saw flashes of maligue Washington, who's shown that
he could be dangerous in space. Sixty percent of this
guy's targets last week were three plus yards away from
the nearest defender. So other guys were showing up in
this offense, allowing Jalen Waddle to get loose, get open,
take the attention off of him. And again they did
this against one of the toughest defenses at a wide
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receiver position. I absolutely am going to be starting Jayleen
Walla this week because the Ravens defense is still bad
last time I checked it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It has not really shown this a whole lot. I mean,
they had the one game out of the by against
the Bears. Kind of a frustrating day I think for
the Chicago offense more than anything. So Jalen Waddle in lineups,
let's lock it walking, soft seated lock it in. Looking
further into week nine, a handful of interesting games on
the slate, none bigger than the Chiefs heading to Buffalo
to take on the Bills, and the afternoon slate not great.
(10:13):
It's not great, and they pretty much I think, set
everything up so that you have to watch watch game
of it's gonna be most watch game of the week.
But on the Kansas City side, I know, I said
on this show while a week ago, they're like, I
don't know how I feel about the Kansas City pass catchers.
There's too many guys, too many miles to feed. I
would say after Monday night, Rashi Rice is easily the
wide receiver one, the target number one there, But can
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you trust any of those guys after Rashi Rice.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
My thing that I said on Fantasy Live today was
Rashid Rice top five, top three wide receiver. The rest
of the way. I'm that high on him. The rest
of them, Like, I didn't quite have it in me
to put Travis Kelce as a sit this week just
because of how thin tight ends are, but I really
considered it, and then Xavier Worthy to me, would be
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the only the receiver that I even consider getting in
the lineup. But he becomes a lot more boomer Bus
because since Rasheie Rice has been back, he is nineteen targets.
No one else has more than eleven. Worthy and Kelsey
are tied for second with eleven each. They're also really
not airing the ball out at a high rate, at
least the last two weeks because now everything is kind
of built for underneath with Rashid Rice, so Worthy to
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me becomes like a boomer bust flex option. It always
depends on your league, right, Like I have a league
where I have Worthy, where you start two wide receivers
and a flex, and I'm sitting him in that league.
But then I have another league where it's three wide
receivers and two flexes, and I have no choice but
to start Worthy there. So it kind of depends on
your league set up and your options. But he is
far from a mus start.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's kind of boomer bus, as
you mentioned with everybody else. So you plug him in,
you cross your fingers, you sort of hope for the
best there. Colts at the Steelers, look on, can you
start any Steelers running backs? Anybody you feel good about? There?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Like gamebo is like unstartable with a healthy Jalen Warren
like to be honest and like Warren, to me, I
have low expectations in terms he still has flex appeal,
like in the low teens is where I kind of
see his numbers living. But the Colts have actually had
like these ram spurts of running backs like Tadj Spears
last week putting up big points, and like he is
cut from that same flass, I can say where Jalen
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Warren can get involved in the passing game, Like my
expectations are just this backfield is going to be a
one to two punch. Both of these guys make equal
impact on the offense when't given opportunities. But Jalen Warren,
to me, he's a guy that feels like a safe
floor type of guy, just based on the volume and
snaps that he's getting. He's kind of like a Kalochhakir
honestly when you think about it, like a safe floor
not a high ceiling type of guy. But I really
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feel like if you have higher ceilings at the running
back position and other options, I probably lean that way
then rather gambling with you know, the fantasy streets boogeyman
Arthur Smith.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah, I mean just that this Pit'sburgh backfield is just
so annoying. It's just wow. Yeah, it is interesting one
in the NFC north of the Vikings trying to get
right a little bit. Then they're going to Detroit, which
isn't really an easy place to go get right against
the Lions. There one thing that surprised me last week
on Thursday Night Florio was the lack of Jordan Mason,
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Like how much they used Aaron Jones in his return.
So now going against a good run defense, can you
trust Jordan Mason at all? It's really no. I don't
think you can this week.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Because the other thing is it's not even like Aaron
Jones was running like crazy last week. He had five carries.
That was one more than Jordan Mason did. Because we
know how this backfield operates when they're both out there,
Jordan Mason is your lead runner. Aaron Jones, though, will
get some carries and he is going to get a
whole lot of passing downs. He had four targets last week.
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Jordan Mason had just won, and that was a game
that they were trailing throughout. I wouldn't be surprised at
all if this is a game where they are trailing
throughout and the lines are a tough run defense. So
if I was playing either of them, it would be
Aaron Jones. But it's kind of a situation where they're
both eating off of each other's plate. It's gamescripts not
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going to be favorable. I think I would try to
avoid if possible.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, I'm definitely thinking. I'm not I wouldn't play Jordan
Mason this week. I'm not even sure how excited I'd
be about Aaron Jones, Jenison, Jefferson or Buss. That's kind
of it. That's pretty much it for the Viking, So
we'll take a quick break, come back. We got some
fantasy trick or treats and a few more Week and
nine previews. That's all coming up here on the NFL
Fantasy Football Show. It is Halloween, so figure we do
(14:26):
a little bit of trick or treat. I'm gonna name
a player, give you his matchup, and you guys tell
me whether that guy will be a trick as in
you probably want to avoid him or a treat, and
then you definitely want to start him. So lakwan, we
will begin with Travis et and the Jaguars off the
by heading to Las Vegas to take on the Raiders.
Is etn a trick or a treat?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
He's a treat. I think he can bounce back Raiders.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Not that great.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I think he's had a hard schedule the last couple
of games against the run I think he's a trick.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
This week, all right, So let's see James Cook going
against the Kansas City Chiefs Floria. I think I know
what you're gonna say, but I'm gonna ask you a
trick or treat.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
One time we did this on Fantasy Live and I
yield up was a trick and Patrick Claibun lost it
for the rest of the.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Same He's a Treat's James Cook.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
He's coming off of his career day. He scored a
touchdown and I think it's three of their last four
games and multiple and two of those and the entire
offense right now is running through James Cook, even though
they refuse to throw him the ball.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I don't know why, but yeah, he's gonna go off.
Can't do all of the things you have to share.
LaQuan DK Metcalf going against the Indianapolis Colts. Trick or treat, treat?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I like DK Metcalf and Aaron Rodgers and him been connecting.
They've been getting together in the end zone, so I
actually they love him against the Colts this week, where
he remains to function on this offense.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I mean, the yardist numbers haven't really been great for DK,
but he's scored a lot of touchdowns, so that doesn't
help keep him afloat all. Right, Let's go to the
Rams Dvante Adams at home against the New Orleans Saints,
who've been okay against wide receivers. Florio trick or treat
for Davante. I think he is a treat.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Look, Lakwan could speak on this, but like people talk
a lot about how him and Stafford aren't on the
same page yet, and I'm like, what's it gonna you like.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
When they are?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Because right now, I here, Vonce is a top twelve
wide receiver. He leads the league and end zone targets.
Just that opportunity alone, I think you started him each
and every week, all right?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, I mean if he have DeVante Adams, you're not
not starting just the way you think. It's just what
kind of numbers you're gonna get from him? Okay, I'm
gonna ask you this look on George Kittle against the Giants.
Trick or treat.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Trick, absolutely trick. You know it's on brand, But I'm
honestly believing this. There's gonna be more impact again with
him helping out the run game. This is gonna be
a very run heavy game where CMC is going to
go off for another one hundred yards like we saw
sa Quon Barkley kind of Stamford that he hates the Giants.
I mean, you see how crazy he went. So I
do think at the end of the day, you got
a good matchup for Christian McCaffrey, but not Kiddle.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I appreciate your level headed analysis of that.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
He thought I was gonna go left.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I really did. I I was on brand. I was like, wait,
you're not a George Kidd and then I was like,
oh yeah, So all right, last one for you, Florio
Ronde Gadston going against the Tennessee Titans. Trick or treat.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
He is going to be a treat this week because
the Tennessee Titans they play zone at almost eighty percent
of the time. In the last month, Jadson leads the
Chargers in yards against zone coverage and it's not even closed.
So I do think this is a good week for
him as long as Lakwan reaches out to his dad
and tells him not to play him.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, please please drop them. Let's see Urphis, do not
start your son in fantasy this week for sure. Let's
get back to our week and nine previews. We sort
of touched on this a little bit, the Panthers at
the Packers. We talked about the Carolina running back situation,
but Lakwan, let's talk about the Packers wide receivers because
Watson is back the shart to spread the ball out more.
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Do you trust any one of those Packers wide outs.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I think we've talked on this show many times how
we can trust Romeo Dobs like he gives you that
floor and snaps an opportunity. In three of his last
four games, he's had eight plus targets. He's the first
read on seventy six percent of the play so he's
the guy say floor with him. But looking at Christian Watson,
I don't know if I'm really moving towards trusting him
as a star. He did show up last week with
double digit Fantasy points, but the real hitter here, the
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guy that took a huge blow was Matthew Golden. I'm
really worried about rostering him moving forward because if Christian
Watson comes in taking all these deep targets, because if
you look at Matthew Golden's aid dot last week, it
was less than a yard and a half. He doesn't
have a game this season less than eight yards. So
we're not going to get that high upside ceiling for
yards with Matthew Golden. So Watson and Golden are on
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watch for these next couple of weeks. So I don't
feel safe outside of starting Tucker Kraft or Romeo Dobbs,
dealing with the Packers and Jacobs.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Obviously, Matthew Golden has been really hard to figure out. Yeah,
you know sometimes he use him as a deep threat.
You mentioned his low A dot last week. I just
I can't quite.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Wrap my head around with him getting more excited for
Christian Watson because Matthew Golden hasn't been a thing like
he gets that opportunity.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
That was what Watson's job was before he got hurt.
For sure, Broncos at the Texans Florida. What does R. J.
Harvey have for an Encore?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Not three touchdowns on eight touchdoes at six before they
gave him you know those garbage.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Time last two carries.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I will say I really like what I've seen out
of r J. Harvey, like runs like this JK.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Dobbins. He does not have that capability.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Dobbins has the capability to turn those runs into like
fifteen or twenty yard runs he gets chased down.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Though RJ.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Harvey doesn't. He's also the better pass block or pass catcher.
I think this offense would be at its best if
they utilized r J. Harvey more. But until they do,
until Sean Payton does, I don't think he's trusted like
I want him on my roster.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I don't want him in my lineup. It's not that
I don't trust RVE r J Harvey so that I
don't trust Sean Payton exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
He hates fantashing, just he doesn't like him. He must
have went to the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
R J. Harvey. That explosive run. I'm sure that Sean
Payton touches a sign that says nobody cares about your
fantasy team every single This is a good week to
get away from most Broncos. Though most Broncos, probably most
Texans like a nine to six games, just stay away
from that one. Falcons at the Patriots. Mike Penix right
now still day to day lakwanas he works his way back.
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So depending on what his situation is, there may or
may not be more Kirk Cousins in the offing. Can
you start any Falcons pass catchers if it's Kirko chains
this week, Well.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Drake London's a lock if he's available, that's one hundred
percent Kyle Pitch start, etcetera, etcetera. But can we go
back to last week, like what do we honestly expect
from Kirko change three hundred and fourteen days removed from
being a starter without his number one wide receiver and
also a defense that we knew were tough at the
wide receiver position. So honestly, I think Michael Pennance would
have had a similar game without Drake London last week.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
So going into this.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Week, there's a little wiggle room for Kirk Cousins to
get on track, make that trade value, go off and
go elsewhere, maybe go back to Minnesota, But anyway, I
think going against the Patriots, they're allowing seven point two
passing yards for attempt, which is twenty seventh in the NFL,
but when Christian Gonzales came back, there's still bottom the
table at twenty third in that stat So I think
there's wiggle room for upside for Kirko Chains to get
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back what he used to do back in Atlanta in
the early seasons and get these wide receivers on track.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Going back to Minnesota. You wonder the the Vikings reach
out and try to bring him home the backup JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I mean, hey, I mean, why not bring Stefan Diggs there,
Let's make it all reunion.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Already brought back at them feeling, why not just get
the whole gang back together there it is, It's time
to see who will deliver. Presented by Uber Eat, we're
going with our Spooky Starts of the week. These would
be just sleepers, that's what we're calling this week. It's Halloween,
we're calling him Spooky Starts of the Week. So I
guess it wouldn't be the Snorlas. I don't know if
there's a ghost themed Pokemon that I'm not thinking of
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right now, but who would that be? I know that's
one of the best pokemon. It is, all right, who's
the who's your ging Gar this week.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Kesean BOUDI now, I know he's been one of the
most sketchiest starts all season long, and I know it's scary.
Looking at his game log in terms of receptions per game,
it's one of the scariest things you'll see. And I've
seen Lebron and Shack act in movies, so I do
think Drake may is matchup proof. So this gives me
the opportunity to slide in. Kaysehwan Boody in these last
three games, he's getting double digit Fantasy points. I know
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the catches aren't there. He only has two games this
season with three over more than three catches. But honestly,
looking at that cliff last week with Josh Daniels breeding
confidence saying that he looks at the details and execute
on every opportunity, Kaysehan Boody this week has opportunity to
showing up and showing out again.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
All right's a Kaysehwan Boody there. Look, he's got touchdown upside,
even if the target Sharre is not necessarily Floria. Who's
your spooky stars?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I looked up Gengar and it says he's eighty nine pounds,
although he's a ghost, So.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I don't know how that does that.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Work at all minus Bam Knight, and I would I
would say he's not even a sleeper.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I think he is just a straight up start this week.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
It might be a one week only thing, but he
He's gotten a lot of the work the last couple
of weeks. He had eighteen opportunities. Last game they cut
Michael Carter and brought.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Him back to me. That shows that he is the
one there.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And then the cow Boys their top five in like
every category against running backs this year, so they struggle
against him in the past game on the grounds, keeping
them out of the end zone. So it might only
be a one week thing with Trey Benson do back
next week, but I do think this is a week
you could start Bam Night and I'm doing so in
a number of leagues myself.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, he really is just taking over. Michael Carter is
not really a thing down there in Arizona. He pulled
a snip snap on him. Released. For me, my sleeper
of the week is gonna be Burshard Smith there in
Kansas City, because if you are the grass in Buffalo,
you can breathe sigh of relief because Isaiah Pacheco may
not be around to go trample on you this week.
He is week to week with an MCL sprain, which
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means this could be a backfield of Kareem Hunt and
Bershard Smith. And as much as Andy Reid in this
offense keeps feeding Kareem Hunt, the explosiveness is just not there.
I know Smith has not been great running the football,
has not gotten a lot of opportunities, but even when
he has is averaging about two and a half yards
per carrie. But he does get a lot of work
in the passing game, and he gets more snaps, more opportunities.
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That could mean more targets, and since we live in
a PPR world, could be a good way for him
to pile up fantasy points in a fairly quick manner.
So I wouldn't advise us outside of deeper leagues, but
if you need a flex option, I like Bishard Smith
against the Buffalo Bills coming out.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Speaking of scary, Scary Terry has been ruled out for Sunday.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
That's no good. I don't like that at all. So
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Wow, Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of the NFL
Fantasy Football Show. It's me your Man, MG. Marcus Grant,
joined by Michael left Florio and Lakwan Jones. We are
pretty much the halfway points of the NFL regular We
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passed the halfway point of the fantasy season. We're the
half way point of the regular season.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I know it feels weird like we were jurring for
football to come back, and we are. We halfway through
the thing.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Like what I.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Say it every year. Man, You blink your eyes and
it is Halloween. Like it's just the way the NFL
season goes.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, so we are in spooky season. If you can't
tell by the decorations and the jar of candy corn.
Candy corn is an insults both candy and corn. Please
remember that you feel like you'd like candy corn.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Absolutely not. Oh that's disgusting, Lee. I'm egging the house
and get candy corn. That was my rule back then.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It would have been totally on brand though for you
Tony Corny, No Jesse would have been Anyway. We're gonna
preview some of the compelling Week and nine matchups on
the show today, which running backs with tough matchups. Can
you believe in? Which ones will ghost you here in Halloween?
Plus some either or options, spooky starts, and more little
trick or treat along the way. Here on this show,
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let's start, as we always do, with some fantasy headlines
and something we talked about earlier in the week but
is now official. Tyler Schuck will be the Saints starting
quarterback when they come to Sofi Stadium to take on
the Rams in Week nine. Hey, so Florida, when you
look at this, you look at crisol Lave, Rashid Shahed,
you even Alvin Kamara. I guess with Shuck add quarterback,
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which Saints do you want for the rest of the season?
Is it any of them? Ideally know?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
But I do think Chris ol Lave remains someone that's
in play just because of volume. Like last week, Shuck
came in and he did two things. He locked in
on Rashiit Shaheed and Christal Lavay, and he doesn't have
to be great for those guys to be good in
fantasy if he just continues to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So take the Joe Flakau approach. Just nowhere twelve is
supposed to be on the field and put the ball
in that vicinity.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Alvin Kamara, I'm I'm done. I think the best is
behind him. I think we're starting to see the quick
decline that happens for NFL careers. But if you have
a lave in Shaheed, it's look obviously a lava you're
not dropping. But even Shaheed like it's worth just waiting
to see if they get traded in the next week.
But even if not, I do think volume could keep
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them afloat as wide receiver three's or flexes.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Sorry, by the way, I know, I know Spenser Rally,
I know how much to see you.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It's annoying the see I mean, how do you bench
a quarterback that's completing over seventy percent of his passes
in a game like the Jets train. I mean, it's
disgusting to see. Like Suk came in, there was no
difference of the offense. I mean, the spark that Kellen
Moore was looking for. Man, it wasn't there. This weekend.
You already know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Well, it's not gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It's rams DST startup.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, absolutely, one hundred percent. Do that for sure. Down
in Carolina, Dave Canalis was talking about the Panthers running
back situation and how they're distributing the football, and he said, quote,
we cannot ignore Rico Dawdle with what he has done. Really, look,
since Cheba Hubbard got heard, Rico Dawdell stepped in. He's
been pretty good last week. Neither one of those guys
was particularly good this week. They got a really tough
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matchup going against the Green Bay Packers. But Lakwan, if
you have Tuba Hubbard on your roster, what are you
doing with him now? Scared?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I'm scared of definitely having him right now. But honestly,
Dave Canal's going back to the lab and saying you
can't ignore Rico. You sure can't.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
On tape.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
The stats everything these last two games have been terrible
for Chuba Hubbard two point five yards per carry. When
you're looking at the opportunities, how valuable are Chuba hubbard opportunities?
What is his actual impact on offense? But when you
look at Rico dwell that every opportunity he's had, he's
made a big splash five point three yards per carry,
and you look at the yards before contact, Rico Daddell's
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able to identify where the holes are at. I like
looking at this stat because it shows which running back
is operating behind the same old line and functioning at
a high level. You have Cheuba Hubber on the season
with fifty yards before contact. That is bottom of the table.
Look at ric o'daddle gets two hundred and thirty eight
yards before contact. That's more than Jamier Gibbs, more than
Saquon Barkley, Mordan Derrick Henry and Devon a Chan When
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on a perk carry basis before contact, he's number one
in the league. The gap between the two is so large.
If Dave Canalis goes out there and give Chuba Hubber
a chance in the first half like he's been doing
these last two games, He's not trying to win the game.
You're trying to go out there and played the nice guy.
This ain't the first time this guy has lost his job.
I've been saying this for weeks now. We saw him
lose as John de Deontay foreman, and then they put
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that pressure on that boy when they drafted Jonathan Brooks.
So obviously they're okay of having a paid running back,
say as the backup, because we've seen Miles Sanders do
it for a couple seasons as well.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, I mean, look, Cuba had a decent little run,
but it seems like it might be over at this point.
I wouldn't drop him because look, if something happens three Godowdell,
he goes back to getting that full workload.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Now again, you're not dropping Kareem Hunt. Like he it
comes like a handcuff at this point, like he becomes
one of those handcuffs that should be treated and utilized
as if a guy that's on your bench and the
guy that gets hurt, you could slide him into your flex.
But my expectations rest of the season not looking good
for him.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, I don't know if I'm big on either of
the Panther's running backs this week though, against Green Bank
in Minnesota. Carson Wentz is going to have a shoulder
surgery on his non throwing shoulder, but he will miss
the remainder of the twenty twenty five season, so that
can eliminate all doubt that JJ McCarthy's going to come
back and be the starting quarterback when he's ready to go.
But Flora, I'm going to ask you, can JJ McCarthy
elevate multiple pass catchers. I think we all still sort
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of at least believe in Justin Jefferson, But you know,
Jordan Addison, TJ Hawkinson? Can you believe in those guys? Now?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I think it's possible that he could elevate Jefferson and Addison,
and I will admit I thought it would be Howkinson
before the season.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It's just not happening for him.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
The thing is, though, like we don't know what the
floor is like with JJ McCarthy, but we knew the
ceiling was very low with Carson Wentz, So JJ brings
more upside than Carson wins had. I know, we've only
seen him play eight quarters, and seven of them haven't
really been that great. That's why, like for fantasy purposes,
I want no part of starting JJ until we see
any signs of life. And I think it's okay to
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get away from the Viking secondary weapons until.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
We see him elevate them.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
But obviously Justin Jefferson is a mustard, and I've been
advocating for people like go out and trade for Justin
Jefferson now because I think his value is low because
of a lack of touchdowns. But I'm expecting him to
go like touchdowns coming bunches. I wouldn't be surprised if
he had like six seven in the second half. So
I thought one of you guys were going to make
the joke. Oh sorry, yeah, no, I'm happy you did it.
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Those are like I don't know if like news people.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Came together and we're like, we need to kill this trend.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
As quickly as possible, but they are succeeding, So we're
going to run this thing into the ground.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It's what everybody's been working on it at home. I've
been purposely setting up lailor for the sixth seven years.
She's so annoyed now when I do it, because it's
not cool.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
It thanks everybody parties over now. Four teams on a
buy this week. It's a good old fashioned four team
bye week, like the Fantasy gods intended as the Browns,
the Jets, the Eagles, and the Bucks all have the
week off. But that does allow us to get to
our Thursday night football preview. The first touchdown odds for
this Thursday's game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Miami Dolphins.
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Dereck Henry with the best odds, followed by Devon A. Chan.
The real surprise there. Then you got Zay Flowers, Lamar Jackson,
who we're all hoping is back for this week, and
then Jalen Wattle, who very quietly has been pretty good
over the last few weeks. Everything we've talked about with
the Dolphins has been chaos and bad vibes, but Jayleen
Waddell actually playing okay. As we look at this game
a little bit deeper, of course, you can see it
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on Prime Video eight fifteen pm Eastern on Thursday. Florio,
if Lamar Jackson is back, we know you know starting Lamar,
You're starting Derrick Henry, probably starting Zay Flowers. Would you
start Mark Andrews against the Dolphins?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I would I have Mark Andrews as a start in
stardom Sidham, But understand I'm not starting him over any
tight day. But like with four teams on buy and
stuff like that, and tight end being what it is,
I do think he is in like streaming capability or
something like that. He has not been good. I'm not
gonna try to argue that he's been putting up numbers
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or anything like that, but one Lamar's back, and obviously
that means more scoring opportunities, more yard opportunities stuff like
that for the Ravens, and Andrews is still one of
the more trusted targets for Lamar.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Plus it's a good matchup.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
The Dolphins have allowed the six most yards, eleventh most
fantasy points per game two tight ends, and on top
of all of that, both of these defenses are bad.
So this has like potential score fests written all over it.
And if you're going a little bit deeper at tight end,
you're hoping for a touchdown, and I think Andrews has
a good chance of doing that.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
We mentioned the four teams on a buy. I mean,
like Harold Fan and David and Joku are off, Dallas
Goddard is off, Kate Odden if you're into that sort
of thing. Mason Taylor and those guys are off this
week as well. On the other side, look on, I
mentioned Jalen Waddle very quietly playing well over the last
few weeks. Is it enough that you can feel good
about starting him on Thursday Night?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I gotta say this, man, like the Dolphins still has
some fight in them. Like, I know I called them
a circus in the past, but like because they were
a circus, they were, But this is a good circus.
It's the Ringling Brothers, right, This isn't your circus that
pulls up in your mall parking line and set up
shot with the sketchy clowns and stuff. But like, they
had a great game against one of the best defenses
in the NFL, very tough against the wide receiver position,
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and we saw flashes of maligue Washington, who's shown that
he could be dangerous in space. Sixty percent of this
guy's targets last week were three plus yards away from
the nearest defender. So other guys were showing up in
this offense, allowing Jalen Waddle to get loose, get open,
take the attention off of him. And again they did
this against one of the toughest defenses at a wide
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receiver position. I absolutely am going to be starting Jayleen
Walla this week because the Ravens defense is still bad
last time I checked it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It has not really shown this a whole lot. I mean,
they had the one game out of the by against
the Bears. Kind of a frustrating day I think for
the Chicago offense more than anything. So Jalen Waddle in lineups,
let's lock it walking, soft seated lock it in. Looking
further into week nine, a handful of interesting games on
the slate, none bigger than the Chiefs heading to Buffalo
to take on the Bills, and the afternoon slate not great.
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It's not great, and they pretty much I think, set
everything up so that you have to watch watch game
of it's gonna be most watch game of the week.
But on the Kansas City side, I know, I said
on this show while a week ago, they're like, I
don't know how I feel about the Kansas City pass catchers.
There's too many guys, too many miles to feed. I
would say after Monday night, Rashi Rice is easily the
wide receiver one, the target number one there, But can
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you trust any of those guys after Rashi Rice.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
My thing that I said on Fantasy Live today was
Rashid Rice top five, top three wide receiver. The rest
of the way. I'm that high on him. The rest
of them, Like, I didn't quite have it in me
to put Travis Kelce as a sit this week just
because of how thin tight ends are, but I really
considered it, and then Xavier Worthy to me, would be
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the only the receiver that I even consider getting in
the lineup. But he becomes a lot more boomer Bus
because since Rasheie Rice has been back, he is nineteen targets.
No one else has more than eleven. Worthy and Kelsey
are tied for second with eleven each. They're also really
not airing the ball out at a high rate, at
least the last two weeks because now everything is kind
of built for underneath with Rashid Rice, so Worthy to
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me becomes like a boomer bust flex option. It always
depends on your league, right, Like I have a league
where I have Worthy, where you start two wide receivers
and a flex, and I'm sitting him in that league.
But then I have another league where it's three wide
receivers and two flexes, and I have no choice but
to start Worthy there. So it kind of depends on
your league set up and your options. But he is
far from a mus start.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's kind of boomer bus, as
you mentioned with everybody else. So you plug him in,
you cross your fingers, you sort of hope for the
best there. Colts at the Steelers, look on, can you
start any Steelers running backs? Anybody you feel good about? There?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Like gamebo is like unstartable with a healthy Jalen Warren
like to be honest and like Warren, to me, I
have low expectations in terms he still has flex appeal,
like in the low teens is where I kind of
see his numbers living. But the Colts have actually had
like these ram spurts of running backs like Tadj Spears
last week putting up big points, and like he is
cut from that same flass, I can say where Jalen
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Warren can get involved in the passing game, Like my
expectations are just this backfield is going to be a
one to two punch. Both of these guys make equal
impact on the offense when't given opportunities. But Jalen Warren,
to me, he's a guy that feels like a safe
floor type of guy, just based on the volume and
snaps that he's getting. He's kind of like a Kalochhakir
honestly when you think about it, like a safe floor
not a high ceiling type of guy. But I really
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feel like if you have higher ceilings at the running
back position and other options, I probably lean that way
then rather gambling with you know, the fantasy streets boogeyman
Arthur Smith.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah, I mean just that this Pit'sburgh backfield is just
so annoying. It's just wow. Yeah, it is interesting one
in the NFC north of the Vikings trying to get
right a little bit. Then they're going to Detroit, which
isn't really an easy place to go get right against
the Lions. There one thing that surprised me last week
on Thursday Night Florio was the lack of Jordan Mason,
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Like how much they used Aaron Jones in his return.
So now going against a good run defense, can you
trust Jordan Mason at all? It's really no. I don't
think you can this week.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Because the other thing is it's not even like Aaron
Jones was running like crazy last week. He had five carries.
That was one more than Jordan Mason did. Because we
know how this backfield operates when they're both out there,
Jordan Mason is your lead runner. Aaron Jones, though, will
get some carries and he is going to get a
whole lot of passing downs. He had four targets last week.
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Jordan Mason had just won, and that was a game
that they were trailing throughout. I wouldn't be surprised at
all if this is a game where they are trailing
throughout and the lines are a tough run defense. So
if I was playing either of them, it would be
Aaron Jones. But it's kind of a situation where they're
both eating off of each other's plate. It's gamescripts not
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going to be favorable. I think I would try to
avoid if possible.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, I'm definitely thinking. I'm not I wouldn't play Jordan
Mason this week. I'm not even sure how excited I'd
be about Aaron Jones, Jenison, Jefferson or Buss. That's kind
of it. That's pretty much it for the Viking, So
we'll take a quick break, come back. We got some
fantasy trick or treats and a few more Week and
nine previews. That's all coming up here on the NFL
Fantasy Football Show. It is Halloween, so figure we do
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a little bit of trick or treat. I'm gonna name
a player, give you his matchup, and you guys tell
me whether that guy will be a trick as in
you probably want to avoid him or a treat, and
then you definitely want to start him. So lakwan, we
will begin with Travis et and the Jaguars off the
by heading to Las Vegas to take on the Raiders.
Is etn a trick or a treat?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
He's a treat. I think he can bounce back Raiders.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Not that great.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I think he's had a hard schedule the last couple
of games against the run I think he's a trick.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
This week, all right, So let's see James Cook going
against the Kansas City Chiefs Floria. I think I know
what you're gonna say, but I'm gonna ask you a
trick or treat.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
One time we did this on Fantasy Live and I
yield up was a trick and Patrick Claibun lost it
for the rest of the.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Same He's a Treat's James Cook.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
He's coming off of his career day. He scored a
touchdown and I think it's three of their last four
games and multiple and two of those and the entire
offense right now is running through James Cook, even though
they refuse to throw him the ball.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I don't know why, but yeah, he's gonna go off.
Can't do all of the things you have to share.
LaQuan DK Metcalf going against the Indianapolis Colts. Trick or treat, treat?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I like DK Metcalf and Aaron Rodgers and him been connecting.
They've been getting together in the end zone, so I
actually they love him against the Colts this week, where
he remains to function on this offense.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I mean, the yardist numbers haven't really been great for DK,
but he's scored a lot of touchdowns, so that doesn't
help keep him afloat all. Right, Let's go to the
Rams Dvante Adams at home against the New Orleans Saints,
who've been okay against wide receivers. Florio trick or treat
for Davante. I think he is a treat.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Look, Lakwan could speak on this, but like people talk
a lot about how him and Stafford aren't on the
same page yet, and I'm like, what's it gonna you like.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
When they are?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Because right now, I here, Vonce is a top twelve
wide receiver. He leads the league and end zone targets.
Just that opportunity alone, I think you started him each
and every week, all right?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, I mean if he have DeVante Adams, you're not
not starting just the way you think. It's just what
kind of numbers you're gonna get from him? Okay, I'm
gonna ask you this look on George Kittle against the Giants.
Trick or treat.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Trick, absolutely trick. You know it's on brand, But I'm
honestly believing this. There's gonna be more impact again with
him helping out the run game. This is gonna be
a very run heavy game where CMC is going to
go off for another one hundred yards like we saw
sa Quon Barkley kind of Stamford that he hates the Giants.
I mean, you see how crazy he went. So I
do think at the end of the day, you got
a good matchup for Christian McCaffrey, but not Kiddle.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I appreciate your level headed analysis of that.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
He thought I was gonna go left.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I really did. I I was on brand. I was like, wait,
you're not a George Kidd and then I was like,
oh yeah, So all right, last one for you, Florio
Ronde Gadston going against the Tennessee Titans. Trick or treat.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
He is going to be a treat this week because
the Tennessee Titans they play zone at almost eighty percent
of the time. In the last month, Jadson leads the
Chargers in yards against zone coverage and it's not even closed.
So I do think this is a good week for
him as long as Lakwan reaches out to his dad
and tells him not to play him.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, please please drop them. Let's see Urphis, do not
start your son in fantasy this week for sure. Let's
get back to our week and nine previews. We sort
of touched on this a little bit, the Panthers at
the Packers. We talked about the Carolina running back situation,
but Lakwan, let's talk about the Packers wide receivers because
Watson is back the shart to spread the ball out more.
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Do you trust any one of those Packers wide outs.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I think we've talked on this show many times how
we can trust Romeo Dobs like he gives you that
floor and snaps an opportunity. In three of his last
four games, he's had eight plus targets. He's the first
read on seventy six percent of the play so he's
the guy say floor with him. But looking at Christian Watson,
I don't know if I'm really moving towards trusting him
as a star. He did show up last week with
double digit Fantasy points, but the real hitter here, the
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guy that took a huge blow was Matthew Golden. I'm
really worried about rostering him moving forward because if Christian
Watson comes in taking all these deep targets, because if
you look at Matthew Golden's aid dot last week, it
was less than a yard and a half. He doesn't
have a game this season less than eight yards. So
we're not going to get that high upside ceiling for
yards with Matthew Golden. So Watson and Golden are on
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watch for these next couple of weeks. So I don't
feel safe outside of starting Tucker Kraft or Romeo Dobbs,
dealing with the Packers and Jacobs.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Obviously, Matthew Golden has been really hard to figure out. Yeah,
you know sometimes he use him as a deep threat.
You mentioned his low A dot last week. I just
I can't quite.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Wrap my head around with him getting more excited for
Christian Watson because Matthew Golden hasn't been a thing like
he gets that opportunity.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
That was what Watson's job was before he got hurt.
For sure, Broncos at the Texans Florida. What does R. J.
Harvey have for an Encore?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Not three touchdowns on eight touchdoes at six before they
gave him you know those garbage.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Time last two carries.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I will say I really like what I've seen out
of r J. Harvey, like runs like this JK.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Dobbins. He does not have that capability.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Dobbins has the capability to turn those runs into like
fifteen or twenty yard runs he gets chased down.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Though RJ.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Harvey doesn't. He's also the better pass block or pass catcher.
I think this offense would be at its best if
they utilized r J. Harvey more. But until they do,
until Sean Payton does, I don't think he's trusted like
I want him on my roster.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I don't want him in my lineup. It's not that
I don't trust RVE r J Harvey so that I
don't trust Sean Payton exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
He hates fantashing, just he doesn't like him. He must
have went to the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
R J. Harvey. That explosive run. I'm sure that Sean
Payton touches a sign that says nobody cares about your
fantasy team every single This is a good week to
get away from most Broncos. Though most Broncos, probably most
Texans like a nine to six games, just stay away
from that one. Falcons at the Patriots. Mike Penix right
now still day to day lakwanas he works his way back.
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So depending on what his situation is, there may or
may not be more Kirk Cousins in the offing. Can
you start any Falcons pass catchers if it's Kirko chains
this week, Well.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Drake London's a lock if he's available, that's one hundred
percent Kyle Pitch start, etcetera, etcetera. But can we go
back to last week, like what do we honestly expect
from Kirko change three hundred and fourteen days removed from
being a starter without his number one wide receiver and
also a defense that we knew were tough at the
wide receiver position. So honestly, I think Michael Pennance would
have had a similar game without Drake London last week.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
So going into this.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Week, there's a little wiggle room for Kirk Cousins to
get on track, make that trade value, go off and
go elsewhere, maybe go back to Minnesota, But anyway, I
think going against the Patriots, they're allowing seven point two
passing yards for attempt, which is twenty seventh in the NFL,
but when Christian Gonzales came back, there's still bottom the
table at twenty third in that stat So I think
there's wiggle room for upside for Kirko Chains to get
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back what he used to do back in Atlanta in
the early seasons and get these wide receivers on track.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Going back to Minnesota. You wonder the the Vikings reach
out and try to bring him home the backup JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I mean, hey, I mean, why not bring Stefan Diggs there,
Let's make it all reunion.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Already brought back at them feeling, why not just get
the whole gang back together there it is, It's time
to see who will deliver. Presented by Uber Eat, we're
going with our Spooky Starts of the week. These would
be just sleepers, that's what we're calling this week. It's Halloween,
we're calling him Spooky Starts of the Week. So I
guess it wouldn't be the Snorlas. I don't know if
there's a ghost themed Pokemon that I'm not thinking of
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right now, but who would that be? I know that's
one of the best pokemon. It is, all right, who's
the who's your ging Gar this week.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Kesean BOUDI now, I know he's been one of the
most sketchiest starts all season long, and I know it's scary.
Looking at his game log in terms of receptions per game,
it's one of the scariest things you'll see. And I've
seen Lebron and Shack act in movies, so I do
think Drake may is matchup proof. So this gives me
the opportunity to slide in. Kaysehwan Boody in these last
three games, he's getting double digit Fantasy points. I know
(22:11):
the catches aren't there. He only has two games this
season with three over more than three catches. But honestly,
looking at that cliff last week with Josh Daniels breeding
confidence saying that he looks at the details and execute
on every opportunity, Kaysehan Boody this week has opportunity to
showing up and showing out again.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
All right's a Kaysehwan Boody there. Look, he's got touchdown upside,
even if the target Sharre is not necessarily Floria. Who's
your spooky stars?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I looked up Gengar and it says he's eighty nine pounds,
although he's a ghost, So.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I don't know how that does that.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Work at all minus Bam Knight, and I would I
would say he's not even a sleeper.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I think he is just a straight up start this week.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
It might be a one week only thing, but he
He's gotten a lot of the work the last couple
of weeks. He had eighteen opportunities. Last game they cut
Michael Carter and brought.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Him back to me. That shows that he is the
one there.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And then the cow Boys their top five in like
every category against running backs this year, so they struggle
against him in the past game on the grounds, keeping
them out of the end zone. So it might only
be a one week thing with Trey Benson do back
next week, but I do think this is a week
you could start Bam Night and I'm doing so in
a number of leagues myself.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, he really is just taking over. Michael Carter is
not really a thing down there in Arizona. He pulled
a snip snap on him. Released. For me, my sleeper
of the week is gonna be Burshard Smith there in
Kansas City, because if you are the grass in Buffalo,
you can breathe sigh of relief because Isaiah Pacheco may
not be around to go trample on you this week.
He is week to week with an MCL sprain, which
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means this could be a backfield of Kareem Hunt and
Bershard Smith. And as much as Andy Reid in this
offense keeps feeding Kareem Hunt, the explosiveness is just not there.
I know Smith has not been great running the football,
has not gotten a lot of opportunities, but even when
he has is averaging about two and a half yards
per carrie. But he does get a lot of work
in the passing game, and he gets more snaps, more opportunities.
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That could mean more targets, and since we live in
a PPR world, could be a good way for him
to pile up fantasy points in a fairly quick manner.
So I wouldn't advise us outside of deeper leagues, but
if you need a flex option, I like Bishard Smith
against the Buffalo Bills coming out.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Speaking of scary, Scary Terry has been ruled out for Sunday.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
That's no good. I don't like that at all. So
not a great week for the Commander's offense, potentially without
their top wide receiver that was who will deliver presented
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