November 17, 2021 • 46 mins
Marcas Grant and Michael F. Florio are back for a new edition of the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast to preview every game on the Week 11 schedule! First, the hosts react to the latest fantasy headlines: Cordarrelle Patterson is expected to be a game-time decision on Thursday night, Elijah Mitchell’s status is uncertain this weekend, and Saquon Barkley returned to practice this week. Then, the experts recap their takeaways from Monday Night Football and try to answer 3 Big Question for Week 11. After that, Marcas and Michael preview every Thursday and Sunday Week 11 matchup, highlighting one fantasy player of note for each game. Finally, the hosts wrap up the show with their favorite sleeper picks for this weekend.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
What is Welcome to another edition of the NFL Fantasy
Football Show. To me your man, m G. Marcus Grant,
still fully vaccinated, still dodging variants like Neo in the matrix.
Big show for you on this Wednesday. On the other
side of the glass there, we've got producer Justin and
the specialist. Everybody, way, what's going on? I know we
need a camera shot of you guys so people can
like see you in there at some point, so so
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they know what's going on, so they know. And I'm
not just making it up. And I'm not just you know, fabricating, uh,
you know, fake people. I'm like birds, birds aren't real anyway.
I just wanted to me of course here to my left,
we wanted only Michael f. Florio and uh, welcome to
to Wednesday. We are. We're in week eleven now, so
we're rapidly closing in on the end of this season.
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Yeah for real, and uh it's week eleven already. I
can't believe that. I can't believe that there's people out
there who believe birds are in fact real, because we
all know that they are not. But oh yeah, fun
fun Wednesday morning. So far with you, Planny to talk
about on the show today. We have, as always are
three big questions four week eleven that we'll get you
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the game previews as we go through the Thursday and
Sunday schedule, and of course we'll finish off with some
sleepers for the upcoming week. But let's get started, as
we always do, with some fantasy headlines. Uh. Maybe one
of the biggest ones of this week so far, Corderyl
Patterson is dealing with a sprained ankle and is very
likely to miss the Thursday night game against the New
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England Patriots. Um I would have said in August, there's
no way we'd be talking about Corderoll Patterson in a
you know, serious fantasy relevant capacity, But here we are.
He's been amazing all year long, and so losing him
gonna be a big blow to a lot of fantasy rosters.
That moves Mike Davis up the pecking order. It does
bring Wayne Gallman into effect. But I guess for for
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Mike Davis, I mean, how much do you trust starting
him because he's had a atty big role and he
hasn't done much with it this year. Yeah, I as
of right now, I in my rankings, if you go
and check on NFL dot com. I have him Gallman
and Mike Davis both as flex options, but I did
see this morning. I haven't got to update the rankings
yet put that. Arthur Smith basically said that Wayne Gollman
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saw so much usage last week because the Falcons were
getting blown out and they knew they had a game
Thursday night, so they wanted to rest the starters and
keep them fresh. So I am gonna be lower in
Golment a bit and raising Mike Davis. I think when
it's all said and done, though, he'll still come in
as like a high end like around RB like because
I think I after like RB twenty three this week,
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it gets gross extremely fast, So he'll come in that
range like as a high end flex option, but not
someone that I'm super excited to get into my starting lineups. Yeah,
I mean Wayne Golman. I do think it's funny that
we're like, hey, Wayne Goldman, you're you're gonna be the
innings eater right now. You know what, we just needs
you to run some clock for us. Uh, So that
that is not encouraging just the way Mike Davis has
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performed as still technically the lead running back there in Atlanta.
UH is not really encouraging. The Patriots have been pretty
good against opposing run games. So I don't and here
in a pinch, I get it. I don't know that
I'd be super excited about starting Mike Davis this week.
UM in San Francisco. It's been a different story with
Elijah Mitchell. He's been fantastic all year long. He has
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been the forty Niners rookie running back that we should
have been talking about, uh instead of people like hyping
up Trey Sermon. He has a broken finger. His status
for this week is uncertain right now. So this means
it's Jeff Wilson Jr. Time. If Mitchell can't suit up. Yes,
Jeff Wilson Jr. Is the next in the pecking order.
We know it is not Trey Sermon. I mean Wilson
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was the backup running back last week. He got you know,
with Ja Michael Hasty sideline like it was Wilson. They
turned to not Sermons. So the Sermon thing is gone.
But I still cannot rule out Elijah Mitchell because Kyle
Shanahan came out and said like, yeah, you know, yeah,
I broke his finger. But we're hoping he could practice
and play this week. My question is, like, in a
game where you had such a big lead, why did
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Elijah Mitchell gets twenty seven? Maybe it would have been
good to get the other backs a little bit more involved.
But we were joking before the show. This guy's basically Wolverine.
It feels like every week he's dealing with the severe
injury and then he's just out there playing. So if
Mitchell suits up, I think you start him. If he sits,
then I think you start Jeff Wilson Jr. I mean,
if we're going with the X Men team, he apparently
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absorbed by he most its powers, because that's what where
he most was all those weeks where it's like, hey,
most dire it is is doubtful, and he hasn't practiced
all week, and suddenly on Sunday he suits up and
he you know, runs for like eight yards in a touchdown. Um,
maybe Eli Mitchell is that Although I do have concerns, Uh,
your job is to hold onto the football, it seems
like it would be more difficult to do with a
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broken finger. That's just me. These players are are different beasts,
they really are. You know, they're a different breed from
from you know, us Mortals, sitting here in a studio
with headsets on doing the show. Look, if he's playing,
obviously you're playing Eli mitchell I. You've got Jeff Wilson, though,
you know, hang on, keep an eye on the news reports,
keep an eye on the practice reports as we get
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through Friday and Saturday, and we'll get a better idea
of the situation because the matchup is not bad. I mean,
they got the Jaguars this week, so I would say
just check your waiver while real quick in case Jeff Wilson,
he might still be out there. So if you have
Mitchell or even if you don't, you just need a
running back this week. He's a good stash candidate just
in case. Right now, absolutely more running back news this
in the New York sit, Kwon Barkley could be back
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for this week's game for the New York Football Giants.
It looked like what a couple of weeks and we
thought maybe he'd be back. He caught COVID, then he
came off the COVID list, but it was still the
injury issue that kept him out. Hopefully he's back. I mean,
there's not much to say here. Right, if he's back,
you're starting right. Yeah. Like I have him ranked as
my RB twenty this week because of the matchup and
because it would be his first game back. But even so,
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like there's running back drives up so fast this week
that yeah, if stake one's there, you start him all right.
Uh go back to Monday Night right. Uh. Last week
we talked about the Monday Night game. This week, it
also is worth sort of kind of rehashing a little
bit one because I think it caught just about everybody
by surprise with the Niners kind of ambushing the Rams
and getting a big win there. But for the second
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straight week, it was a rough night for Matthew Stafford
through an interception very early. It was interesting because on
the very first play they completed a short pass to
Odell Beckham Jr. Then a couple of plays later it's
this long pass down field where Odell was I guess
the intended target, but there were two forty Niner defenders
back there. Uh. Stafford ended up throwing a pick six.
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He just had another rough night. So after two bad
games in a row, and mind you, the Rams are
on a bye this week, Um, what is your concern level?
For Matthew Stafford, it's still low as of now. I
think part of it is because the bye week. I
think it allow the offense to reset um like a
division game against a team like San Francisco. Weird stuff
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happens in those games, and San Francisco is still a
pretty good defense, so I'm not holding that one against him.
And the Titans defense has been red hot, so I
think he's just kind of found too hot teams right now.
And on Monday Night there was a lot of drops.
I will say though, Stafford just looked off on Monday
Night like he was thrown behind receivers. He was throwing
high all night. I have a little bit of concern
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because a couple of weeks ago we started to hear
that his back was getting tight, and we know that's
been an issue for him. But I think I'm expecting
the Rams to look like the Rams again after the bye.
If they don't, then I'd have a very different answer
to this question. Yeah, I would say my my concern
level is mild. It's growing a little bit. It's growing
in part because the thing we've heard the last couple
of weeks from the teams they've played is that there's
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this feeling that the Rams aren't ready for physical football games,
that they can be kind of pushed around and beat
up a little bit. It seems like the Titans kind
of did that. The Niners certainly went out and did
their best to do that and rattled them a little bit.
So I'm curious to see if the Rams can take
this by a week to sort of get right, if
they can retool something. So I'm not ready to panic
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on Matthew Stafford just yet, but it is something that
I'm I'm kind of keeping an eye on, uh to
see elsewhere. Cooper Cup Fantasy m VP, Like, is it over?
Is the race done? At this point? It feels like
it like I want to make a case for like
maybe Dee Bill Samuel or something, and I know they
the Rams haven't had their buy it so Cooper Cups
had an extra game. But as of right now, Tyreek
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Hill is the only receiver within sixty Fantasy points of
Cooper Cup and he is well over forty behind him.
So like Cooper Cup is just lapping the position right now,
I think, and especially for where you were getting him,
because he was he was the cheapest he has been
in years. This year. So yeah, I think he is
the runaway m v P as of now. He is
right now about thirty six points ahead of Patrick Mahomes.
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Mahomes scored thirty six points this past week. That was
his high for the season. Right, thirty six points is
a ridiculous total in for anybody in any given weeks.
So basically it would take my Homes having another bananas
week against the Cowboys to catch Cooper Cup. Uh So yeah,
I assume that Cooper Cup is still going to be
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the top scoring player in fantasy when Week eleven is done.
Which is I mean we always say like, oh, there
the top score of non quarterbacks because quarterbacks shot always
lap everyone. Cooper Cup is lapping every quarterback. I mean,
this is a season unlike one that we've had recently, Like,
when's the last time receiver was this much better than
the field. It's it's insane what he is doing. And
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he did it on Monday with having not really a
great game. The Rams are kind of awful, but he
still put up twenty three points. That's the thing, Like
if when you watch this isn't the first time this
year where like I've watched the Rams play and be
like oh, Cooper Cups had a down game, and then
you look and it's like, oh wait, he had like
Clay yards. Look at that didn't feel like it. But
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but there we are. Uh. There are a couple of
teams on by here in week eleven. It's the Broncos
and the Rams who get the week off. So that
means there are some notable players that will not be
available to you. Uh. The quarterback spot Teddy Bridgewater, who
has apparently been answering questions about his is uh willingness
to tackle whatever. Um, He's gonna be off this week.
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Matthew Stafford, we just talked about he's gonna be off
this week. Uh. Some running backs of note, definitely, Melvin Gordon,
Javonte Williams, and Darryl Henderson. Your wide receivers you got
Jerry Judy. I guess you could say Courtland Sutton. I
don't know, Uh, on do the side Obviously, Cooper cup
is off this week, no Odell, no Van Jefferson. Uh
in a tight end of missing Noah Fans and Tyler Higbee.
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All right, we've got three big questions for Week eleven
to help you not mess up your fantasy football lineup.
So let's start. We talked about the Rams and their
recent struggles. Let's talk about the forty Niners though, because
we mentioned this last week about Jimmy Garoppolo sort of
making us wait for Trey Lance and fantasy wise, he
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wasn't spectacular on Monday Night, just bought fifteen and some change. Uh.
They didn't really need him because they ran the ball
so effectively. But at this point, it feels like Jimmy
Garoppolo is a long ways of from getting bitched. Right,
He's doing enough and is playing well enough that he's
going to stay on the field. So since he's gonna
be on the field, do we need to think about
starting him in right matchups? I think so. And that's
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what this week is like. It's a favorable matchup against
the Jacks. The only concern I have is like, are
they Is it gonna be similar to last week where
they get a little lead and then they just run
the ball the entire second half. But last week I
was like speculating that if the Niners lost to the Rams,
maybe they turn to Trey Lance. They are definitely not
going to be doing that right now. At four and five,
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there are half a game out of the seventh seed
and a game out of the six seeds, so they're
very much still in this race. I don't know if
we when we see Trey Lance at this point, but
I know that it's not coming anytime soon. This is
Jimmy G's team still in Yeah. I think he's a
streamable option this week and in favorable matchups. The thing
that is helping the forty Niners is hurting fantasy managers
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in that, as you mentioned, they are half a game
out of the last playoff spot. They are a game
out of the sixth seed. Uh in the NFC. So
the fact that the n see a sort of top
heavy with a whole bunch of middling teams kind of
hanging around, that's good for San Francisco. That means they're
still in this race and they don't have to maybe
make a whole lot of changes. We want changes, we
want trade Lance, uh, and that's not happening anytime soon.
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So I do think, you know, I think at this point,
let's just this is chalk it up, right, Jimmy Garoppolo
is going to be a matchup based quarterback. Over the
last month. He is the QB seven and he is
available in about nine of NFL dot Com League's. Uh so,
you know, if you're especially if you're in a two
QB league, the super flex league, he should definitely be
on rosters. And um, I don't know if this is
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mean re dropping train Lance now, like what do we
do with trade Lance. I've been holding Trade Lance all
year in a just a ten team two quarterback league,
and I dropped him this past week because I was like,
I don't know when it's gonna happen, but I don't
anticipated coming, especially if the Niners win this week against
the Jags like we're expecting them to, like they are
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a hundred percent right back in the race then, and
so I dropped him there. The only spot of hole
thing him is in a super flex keeper league, because
I'm thinking, like someone might trade him, trade me for him.
But besides that and just regular seasonal leagues, I think
you can can drop trade Land. Think, especially as you're
starting to make a playoff push like that, that roster
spot becomes valuable and it just doesn't make sense to
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hold it for a guy that doesn't look like he's
getting on the field anytime soon. Speaking of getting back
on the field, Clyde Edwards. Hilaire is expected to be
back this week for the Kansas City Chiefs. They got
a huge game against the Dallas Cowboys. We'll get to
that in just a little bit. But in his absence,
Darryl Williams has stepped in and played well. We've seen
Derek Gore step in and do things. So if C E.
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H Is back, what do we do about the Chief's backfield? Uh,
it's not great at all now. I just I think
it's better honestly when c H was out because and
then we knew at least the bulk of the work
was going to Darryl Williams. I think right now it's
a big question mark because what I am anticipating at
least is a lot of c EACH on the ground
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with Darryl Williams getting the bulk of targets, which is
not what we thought when they drafted Clyde Edwards. Were like,
this guy is gonna unlock the Chiefs passing game, and
it's actually been Darryl Williams. I mean, we saw that
catch at darry Williams made in the end zone the
other day. So I think as of right now c
H is like an RB two maybe even a flex option.
But I think Daryl Williams is as well until we
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get clarity, because Williams, when they were both healthy, was
also getting the work near the goal line. So I'm
not ready to say yet that he can just fully
be benched. Yeah, I mean, I think you're definitely holding
onto Darrell Williams. I guess I would probably play him
as a flex if I depend me on my situation
what it is. I'm just very curious as to how
this is going to work out, um, because I think
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even before the injury, I think the Chiefs sort of
were feeling like maybe they need to kind of give c. E.
H some help or arrest him a little bit because
he just he was fine, he wasn't great. So I
do think there's going to be a role for Darryl Williams.
I'm curious as to what that is, how big it's
going to be, um, and so like, don't drop him,
don't give up on him just yet, but you know,
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to take away and see do you think there's a
chance that that Williams could be the lead back now
even with c H back, I don't. I feel it's
gonna be like a one one a sort of thing
where I don't know that we have a clear definition
of who the lead, which is that's the worst actually,
like that's even worse, Like just give us a one
and a two. But I don't think that they're gonna
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do that. So, um, this is gonna be a big week,
I think to kind of figure out how things are
gonna go in that offense. Um staying in the division.
Darren Waller a guy that that a lot of us,
myself included, spent up in drafts to go get. I
mean he was a second round, third round pick and
a whole lot of drafts and at this point has
been pretty underwhelming right now. I mean, he is a
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top tin tied end. He's actually uh you know, is
hanging around there, but it's not pretty. Uh in the
last few weeks especially have not been pretty. He's your
tight end seven right now. How worried are we about
a guy though, who hasn't scored a touchdown since Week four?
I'm I'm starting to get pretty worried about him, not
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in the sense where like you're dropping him or even
benching him, because he's still giving you pretty much double
digit fantasy points each week, and that is enough to
make him a tight end one. Plus, we know the
upside that he brings, like we saw it in Week
one where he had twenties nearly twenty seven Fantasy points.
But Week one and Week nine are the only games
this year where he has more than eight targets in
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a game. To me, it feels like defenses are like, Okay,
we know this is there one big piece that we
had to defend. Like there was a play against the
Chiefs this past week where they had three defenders on him,
And to me, it feels like the Raiders are content
being like, Okay, he's gonna draw all the defensive attention
and we're just gonna give the ball to like Hunter
renfro instead of being like, hey, let's design place to
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get Darren Waller open and in space. So that is
kind of frustrating. But I still think, yes, he's not
living up to the price we paid on draft day
and and I was super high and Darren Waller coming
into the year. But you're still starting him. I don't
think you're dropping him or anything like that. I mean
that's the thing. You're still starting him because the rest
of the tied end there's you're not gonna find options
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with a higher ceiling than Darren Waller out there on
the waiver wire. But the Raiders are spreading the ball
around more. I mean, I think when they changed play
callers after they lost John Gruden and Greg Olsen took
over the play calling. Um, you've seen more people get
involved in this offense, right, We We have seen more
Hunter renfro, We have seen a lot more of Kenyan
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Drake u involved in this offense. And so they're finding
other options. As you mentioned. Also, defenses are sort of
scheming to take Waller away. And and I don't remember
who I saw tweet this, and so I apologize for that.
But what we're getting out of Darren Waller this year
is sort of what a lot of people, myself included,
thought we would see from him last year. Right two
years ago, he had the big breakout year and a
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lot of us were like, Okay, well, touchdown regression is
going to hit. He can't keep this up. And then
last year he did it again, and so we're like, oh,
so maybe this is just how it is with Darren Waller. Uh,
And then we're learning that this year is that's that's
not just how it is with Darren Waller. Uh, they're
finding other ways to to move the football. So I'm
very concerned, but I'm also with you, Um, I'm not
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not starting him. It's just another year with Trevis kill
This is gonna be the sixth straight year which Trevis
Kelsey is to tight end, and even Travis Kelsey isn't
having the kind of Travis Kelsey here that we anticipated.
But at some point we just gotta be like, this
is the greatest fantasy tight end every right. I mean, hey,
he is. He's he's knocking on the door of gronk
Man for that title. Um, Kyle Pitts, he might be coming,
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he might be what's next? So I mean, look, here's
we didn't plan to talk about Kyle Pitts, but here
it is. He's he's been Okay, he hasn't been anything special,
but he's the tight end six right now. So uh,
once he gets comfortable next year in drafts. I know
this is way off topic, but he's probably going to
be the tight end two off the ball here. I
think he really will be acause Wallers having a down year.
Kid will miss a lot of time. Again, I think
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the fans and fantasy players love hype kid's gonna Pitts
gonna have all of that He's we haven't as a
fantasy tight into right now. By the time we get
the August, he'll be coming off the board. I know
it's gonna happen. Time for a break when we come back.
Some game previews that stunned the NFL Fantasy Football Show.
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All right, that gets us to the start of our
game previews for week eleven. Let's start with the Thursday
night football game, Patriots at Falcons. I heard once upon
a time they played a game against each other that's
sort of counted for something big, and one team coughed
up a big lead. I don't know if that's true.
That could be a conspiracy theory, like you know, the
whole like powdered doughnut thing. I don't know um anyway,
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as we're looking at this game, and I don't know
what the By the way, I don't know what the
powder donut theory is. It just showed up in my mentioned.
If it's something I'm scene that don't didn't. I didn't
mention it at all. I didn't say it. I'll have
to go YouTube it later. Anyway. Patriots at Falcons, what
are we looking at fantasy wise, I think you could
start the Patriots starting running back, whether that is Damian
Harris or Ramond Stevenson this week. Uh. Harris returned to
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practice this week, he was limited. He's still very up
in the air with it being a short week. But
the Falcons have allowed the third most fantasy points to
running backs on the season, behind only the Jets and
the Seahawks. So I think the lead back for the
Pats is definitely a mustart option. Stevenson looked like a
beast the other day. I'm actually even thinking, even if
Harris plays, I think you could use Stevenson as a
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flex option because it's looking like he'll get work in
the passing game, and maybe they want to ease back
the the workload of Damian Harris. I don't know. I'm
having a hard time, Marcus envisioning how the Patriots can
get away from Stevenson given how good he has looked. Yeah,
I don't. I don't think he's completely going away. I mean,
I think I still think Damien Harris uh is the
lead back there, but but Stevenson has been so good,
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and and we know that Bill Belichick likes to use
more than one running back, So I think he definitely
has some you know, kind of some low end RB
two potential. Uh if Harris for whatever reason can't go,
then that that rockets up even more against a bad
Falcons defense. Um Cowboys at Chiefs. We sort of hinted
at this game that is, to me, the marquee game
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on the schedule this week, two teams with aspirations of
a Super Bowl this year. I would say, you know what, though,
kind of beware of Dalton Schultz and this is maybe
sort of a Darren Waller situation where you're not not
starting him because you're not going to find a better option,
but one. His production over the last few weeks has
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been down, and the Chiefs have been just sort of
middle of the road like that. The numbers say that
they have been kind of bad against tight ends. They
gave up a huge game to Dawson Knox early in
the season where he had a hundred and seventeen yards
and a touchdown but only three catches. Beyond that, most
of the tight end performances have been kind of middling,
where you know, one of the better ones has been
maybe ten and a half eleven points sort of thing,
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and when you're talking about the Cowboys getting their offense going,
spreading the football around. We saw Seedee Lamb have the
big game last week. Marii Cooper is still there. We
know that Tony Pollard and Ezekiel Elliot is still gonna
work in Um. This is a situation where it could
be another sort of mediocre at best week for Dalton Schultz.
So you're starting him. I get it. I just might
not be great again this week for him. Yeah. I
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know it was one game, Marcus, but this guy was
like the leading target for weeks and in the first
game with Michael Gallup back, Dalton Schultz had a six
percent target share that was behind Lamb, Pollard, Gallup, Cooper,
and Zeke. I'm pretty worried about him after that week.
It just it has not been the same for him
over the last few weeks. So something just to keep
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in mind. This is the portion of the show where
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I said TikTok enough for you? TikTok. Let's get back
to my game previews though. Saints and the Eagles a
couple of teams that you know, there's a lot going
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on at running back. We know hopefully Alvin Kamara is back.
We know mark Ingram had the big week last week.
The Eagles look like they're more interested in running the
football all lately. Where are you going? What should people
be paying attention to in this one? I think you
should be aware of the Eagles running backs who whoever
it may be. Miles Sanders was activated. He's off the
i R, so now he could be active in the
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next three weeks. I know they're kind of saying they
expect him back this week. Just monitor that. But even
if Sanders is back this week, I'm saying be aware
of him. The Saints have given up the third fewest
fantasy points to running backs this year, and that includes
just fifty four rushing yards per game. Plus if it
is sanders first game back, Marcus I still have some concern,
like are they gonna get Jordan Howard or Boston's got
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a little bit more utilized. Especially concern that I have
is like, is Jordan Howard near the goal line gonna
go away because he has been very effective there and
if that's the case, it becomes a fantasy nightmare for
the Eagles running backs. I know a lot of people
are excited to have Miles Sanders back. I just think
this is a week to be a little weary of him. Yeah,
I definitely would be be very concerned about Eagles running
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backs this week. Are we still holding onto Jordan Howard
even with Miles Sanders back? I think you could drop
him alright, but a borderline, he's a good backup in
case anything happens to Sanders. Yeah, I just this is anything.
Like we talked about, watching what happens with the Chiefs backfield,
I would keep an eye on how the the Eagles
are using their running backs to This is the time
of year two where buys are starting to be behind us,
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where your handcuffs become important to have on your roster.
So if you have Sanders especially, I think you hold
on to Howard all right. Beingals at the Raiders. And
remember those days not all that long ago, when we
were plugging c j u sama as a streamable option.
They're back. We're back to streaming c j uzama. We
can do it against the Raiders. They have been one
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of the worst defenses against tight ends all season long.
And look, we have said this repeatedly and it remains
true if you are streaming tight ends, if you're playing
the waiver wire at the position, you just want a
guy who has the potential to score or a touchdown,
and Usama does that, especially against this Raiders defense. Uh. Look,
we know that in the passing game, Jamark Chase is
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getting most of the work. Pri C. T. Higgins, Tyler
Boyd has been mostly a no show. So I think,
you know, you could even make a case that Usama
maybe the number three option in the passing game, depending
on where you put Joe Mixon. But either way, you
just need a couple of catches. Maybe he breaks the
tackler too, he ends up in the end zone and
uh that's all you did. You see right there? Fifth
among tight ends in points per game since Week four.
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So CJ Usama back in our lives? Who would have
thought it? Uh, Packers at the Vikings, big big matchup
in the NFC North, What are we doing here? I
think A J. Dillon is a must start option. With
Aaron Jones out this week, it's a favorable matchup. But
A J. Dillon just showed us last week why we
should all get so excited. From twenty three touches over
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twenty seven fantasy points, he scored two touchdowns. What I
love is he's getting unilas in the passing game as well.
He nearly it's many receiving yards as rushing yards this
past week. So I think that he is an RB
one Marcus with Aaron Jones line. I think his upside
it's like top five. If he's gonna be getting like
close to twenty three touches, we know Quadzilla he could
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break those a long plays. So I really like him.
I think if you were lucky enough to either have
him money roster, get him off the waiver wire, you
put him in your starting line up right away. This
has been one of the I think fantasy industry consensus
picks for the week. Uh and a lot of us
love A J. Dillon before. That's what's not like he
just popped up on our radar. But I think everybody
has sort of loved him. I know what we say
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when everybody loves a player, that it somehow goes sideways.
I think this is gonna be okay. I'm with it.
I think you gotta start a J dealer this week
Ravens at the Bears. And if we're gonna stay on
the tight end train, let's go with a deep sleeper
of Cole Commet. Uh. And I get it that the
Bears passing game has been not great. It has been
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inconsistent at best, but it seems like Justin Fields is
starting to turn a corner. The last time we saw him,
you know, it was ugly at the start, but but
there were some moments in that last game where it
looked like he was actually kind of figuring some things out.
The Ravens have been consistently bad against the tight end position. Um,
they're not the worst anymore, that's the Eagles, but the
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Ravens aren't too far away. So I'd say if you're
looking for a deep sleeper, this is probably more of
a DFS play than maybe in a a more traditional
league sort of thing. But Colt Comet has a chance. Again,
all he wanted a touchdown a couple of couches that
a touchdown that could happened. Justin Fields loves throwing his
way too, so I like this call a good amount.
Yeah all right, Uh, then we got the forty Niners
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at the Jaguars. That one is next up. We talked
about Jimmy Garoppolo, uh and what we're doing with him.
We talked about their running back situation. Anything else we
should be talking about. Yeah, I did with the Niners.
Their offenses kind of straightforward. You know who to start,
So I'm gonna focus on the Jaguars here, and I
know it's it's James Robinson and then not really many
others you want to start, but I think you could
start Dan Arnold this week against the forty Niners. Dan
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Arnold has just been consistent as of late. He's got
at least five targets in each of the last five
games with seven or more, and four of those he's
top double digit fantasy points in every game that he's
had at least seven targets in. And he is actually
their top target since they traded for him. I know
when they made that move, none of us thought it
was a big, really fantasy impact type of move. It
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has been. He is their wide receiver one right now.
Slight hiccup for him as James oh Shaughnessy is set
to return this week, but I think he is purely
depth I don't see how the Jaguars get away from
dani Arnold right now. So basically, um, between Robbie Anderson
and Dan Arnold, Sam Donald seems to be the the
there's a common a common uh yeah, I mean it's
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just uh, you know, he had the Donald had rap
Robbie Anderson locked up, apparently had Dan Arnold locked up
in fantasy football jail too, So I guess good for
Dan Arnold. Anyway, we got some starts that sits for
you here. We also have some starts and sits for
you every week on the Stardom Sidham Show. Wow, interesting title.
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of the chairs during an episode of Fantasy Live. So
fairly it's going well. A week or two ago, it
was like two weeks ago they we didn't actually shoot
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off the money guns and people were not happy. So
we we have to continue. We will make sure to
shoot off the money guns. People want their money guns. Uh,
you know, I guess you know. We do make an
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a couple of weeks ago. It won't happen again. Uh,
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what will happen is a break though. We're gonna come
back and we are going to dive into our pack
of Panini trading cards and uh, are there things that
should make us a little bit worried about? Christian McCaffrey
will ask that question and attempt to answer it next
on the NFL Fantasy Football Show. Let's talk about the
Bills and the coltson Let's focus in on Stefon Diggs
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of the big breakout game last week, his biggest game
of the season, so questions will he go over a
hundred yards for the second straight game this week? I
think this is a favorable spot for him to do so.
The Colts have struggled against receivers all year, but they're
really good against the runs, so we know the Bills
will abandon the run if the past game is going
I think it comes down to usage like that last
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week thirteen targets. It was a highest season high, but
the air yards was by far a season high from him.
In this game, the air yards per target was up dramatically.
So I think it kind of comes down to, are
they gonna just be willing to be like, hey, instead
of trying to spread the ball out like we've been
doing all year, can we just admit that Stefon Diggs
is our best piece and be like, hey, you guys
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can't stop him. So I think we're gonna like, we're
just gonna keep targeting him until you do. I like
his chances of doing so, But I think that's kind
of the determining factor. The Bill is gonna look to
spread the ball out as much as they have been.
I think that's the thing. And and I've been saying
it like, I don't think that somehow Stefon Diggs has
become worse at football. It's just that the Bills have
found other options. Uh, And so I think that's been
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the big thing. I'm gonna say, yes, I'm gonna say
he gets over a hundred yards this week. Uh. You know,
I think they found something that they sort of like,
I think, you know, Josh Allen remembered, Hey, I enjoyed
throwing into this guy, and we're productive and successful when
we do it, So I think I think it's going
to happen potentially. Um, but you know, again, they don't
necessarily need that in order to be successful. So we'll
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see if they decided to find some other options coming
up in week eleven. All right, next on our our
little cavalcade of fund here, Christian McCaffrey c m C
a guy who finds a way to score twenty plus
points even when he's not scoring touchdowns. Cam Newton is back.
Hooray for that, except for the part where Cam Newton
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scores rushing touchdowns there the goal line. Should we be
worried about CMCs touchdown upside with Cam back? Yes, But
I also think it gets overblown because, uh, Cam Newton
is just the greatest rushing quarterbacks, at least touchdown wise
during the goal line ever, Like since he's been drafted.
He leads the NFL and rushing touchdowns and it's not
even close. No quarterback ever has nearly as many rushing
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touchdowns as Cam. But I went back to Christian mccaffreck's
eighteen season, the rushing touchdowns were down compared to twenty nineteen,
which is when he had his other worldly season, but
inside the five yard line that season with Cammy at
six touchdowns. The season after where he was the greatest
running back ever outside of most six lt he had
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just eight. So it's only a difference of two. I think, naturally,
Cam when he we get near the goal line, we
have to worry about it. But it's not like cam
is gonna take all of the touchdowns and Christian McCaffrey
is gonna get none. So it is a concern, but
I also think it's one that gets way overblown. I mean,
I think what what helps make up for it? It's
just the volume of of one of touches. But if
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targets he gets Yeah, And it was the thing that
you know, Rank was talking about on Fantasy Live the
other day. It's like you can almost pencil in tin
catches for for Christian McCaffrey. You can get like eight
to tin catches a game, which you're starting at a
floor of like eight points just on him catching the football.
That's before you factor in any receiving yards, any rushing yards,
and you know the idea that maybe he breaks a
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rushing touchdown from twenty yards out, or on the off
chance he gets, you know, a short receiving touchdown, or
maybe even gets a short rushing touchdown. So I mean,
I don't think it's a fluke that Christian McCaffrey consistently
can score you twenty plus points without getting in the
end zone. So any touchdowns you get are sort of
gravy on top of everything else he gives you on
a weekly basis. I think this past week was just
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a reminder that when healthy, Christian McCaffrey is still the
best fantasy I mean, there's a reason that even despite
injury concerns, he went number one in a lot of
leagues because of what he can do. So back to
the game previews. We go back to the NFC West.
The Arizona Cardinals head up to Seattle to take on
the Seahawks. Uh, some potentially good news. Kyler Murray is
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back and practicing in Cliff Kingsbury right now sounds optimistic
about Kyler getting back on the field. We wait to
see what this means for DeAndre Hopkins. But you know,
if Kyler's back, you're starting him. Who else potentially are
you starting in this game? I think Christian Kirk is
a solid start, and that's whether d hop plays or not.
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Christian Kirk the last couple of weeks, I know, there's
been no Kyler or no DeAndre Hopkins, but he has
been out performing Rohn del Moore and A. J. Green
and looking like at the very least, he is the
second best receiver there in Arizona. Since Week five, he
is just one game with single digit Fantasy points and
that was eight point six. So he shows us that
he brings a safe floor. We know the ceiling is
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pretty high. He could give us like fifteen to twenty
Fantasy points. So I think, in what is a pretty
good matchup here, I think that you could start Christian
Kirk at the very least is like a wide receiver
three or flex options. Yeah. You know it's funny too,
because it's like I do. I I sort of put
this on myself because I said that I was I
was giving up on Christian Kirk this year, that I
was gonna let go of the rope, and now he's
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doing the things that I anticipated him doing for years.
Uh so you're welcome, um, but he's gonna start this week.
I think, even even if DeAndre Hopkins is there. I
think Christian Kirk is a pretty good start against Seattle
Dolphins at the Jets um. First off, Jets, what are
you doing? Uh you you're you're reportedly starting Joe Flacco
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this week, and I just want to know why. I don't.
I get Mike White was bad last week, I understand,
but he was also playing against the really, really good defense,
so sometimes that happens. Zack Wilson, I mean, look, he's
back and practicing again. He's the quarterback in the future. Uh,
Joe Flacco is literally just a seat filler. Why you're
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starting him? I don't know. I don't think anyone knows,
outside of maybe whoever made that decision for They say
it's because of his experience in Miami rushes a lot,
but so basically they're like, our offensive line is bad.
Sweep a guy who's used to getting the ball out quickly. Anyway,
I think, I mean, as though you can start to
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a tongue of ioloa because the Jets defense it is bad,
but also because to himself, before the finger injury, was
starting to play some good football. And you know, you
want to talk about a guy who has the weight
of the world on his shoulders. I mean, this poor
dude can't ever stop hearing criticism no matter what he does.
Apparently he's just never gonna be good enough for the
Miami Dolphins. But I do like what I'm seeing out
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of two in recent weeks. It's an excellent matchup here.
So uh, you know, especially two quarterback leagues, especially if
you're playing DFS, but even you know, depending on your
quarterback situation and what your matchups might be too, it
could be an interesting option. I personally, just outside of fantasy,
I'm just rooting for this dude to be successful because
it just feels like nobody wants to give him a
legitimate chance. Same, I'm I'm rooting for two of pretty
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hard now and I have him as a QB one
this week. He has shown us that he could take
advantage of good matchups, and that's exactly what this is alright.
Uh last one for this section, uh Texans and the Titans.
It's not great on paper, but if we're looking for
somebody baby to put in a line up, who are
we looking at? I think Deonta Foreman is a sleeper
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year last week I was saying, like, take a shot
on him because the like Ap kind of look washed.
The Titans, it seems, feel the same way. This past week.
Foreman led their backfield and snaps and carries, and he
led them in yards. He also saw some usage in
the passing game, which was new for him. The Houston
Texans are a good matchup. We know that this is
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a team that the Titans could quickly establish lead in
and then look to run. It's surprising in the last
two weeks they've actually ran a little bit more than
they did when they have Derrick Henry, showing that when
they have a lead, they're not gonna just continue to
throw the ball. And it's kind of a revenge game.
And what is a good matchup against the Texans for Foreman?
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So I think this could be a game where maybe
he gets an even larger share of the work. And
if that's the case, I think then he's a pretty
nice sleeper this week. I'm expecting at some point in
the very near future that the text the Titans rather
start to sort of de emphasize Adrian Peterson just because
he just hasn't been effective. He doesn't look man age
cat says, catches up just about everybody, right. He just
looks like a guy who is older at the end
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of his career. Uh, and so maybe we start to
see more Foreman in that offense. For for Tennessee, I
got a couple more game previews to get through. The
Lions at the Browns doesn't sound all about appealing, but
you know, it's a game and people will watch it
and it will be played. I will say you should
start Deernest Johnson. Uh, in part because the status of
Nick Chubb is still somewhat up in the air right now.
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But even if Chubb plays, I think I think Johnson
is going to have a role in this offense. That
guy has just been too effective when he gets opportunities
to see him completely go away right now. Uh. And
the Lions, yeah, they're they're still not good. They still
don't have a win. H They're not gonna go in
six t r O and seventeen this year. I should say,
so good for them, hooray. But deones Johnson again, like
his spots starts, he's been amazing in both of those.
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But I think, even uh with Nick Chubb there, I
still see him having a pretty good game, especially us
hearing the news that Baker Mayfield admits that he's kind
of beat up right now, so maybe maybe they'll let
him throw the ball thirty times. I'm just saying, this
could be a game where they run like forty plus times.
Just we know that they could run all over Detroit
and Baker, I mean, every game, Baker basically like has
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to carry himself off the field with a new body
part being heard. So this could be a game for
him to not take a beating for a change. They
should make one of those insurance commercials with him where
he's at home. And at home is him like being
in the cold tub or something like that. It's just
like hanging out in the trainer's room, uh, getting treatment,
because that's been that kind of year for him. Last one,
it's the Sunday night football game. It is these Steelers
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and the Chargers are our neighbors next door. They're gonna
be kind of getting after it on Sunday nights. What
are we doing fantasy wise for this one? I'm saying
you could start justin Herbert and I know a couple
of weeks ago that might have sounded obvious, but in
three of the last four games he has scored fewer
than fourteen fantasy points and people are starting to get
a little concerned. Plus, the Steelers defense, I know, looks
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like they're trending in the right direction because earlier in
the year they were struggling against quarterbacks and then the
last six weeks or so it's gotten better. But when
you take a look at who they have faced, Teddy Bridgewater,
Genal Smith, Baker Mayfield, Justin Fields, who had his best
passing game of his career against them, and Jared Golf
that is a big reason why. So Herbert is more
like the quarterbacks that we're lighting up the Steelers in
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the first month than he is these other quarterbacks and
second best schedule moving forward amongst fantasy quarterbacks. So I
think this is a buying opportunity. With Herbert playing a
little bit down as of late, I think you start him,
and I'm recommending trading for him as well right now.
The other thing about this matchup too, uh t J
Watt very well may not play this week's dealing with
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some injuries, so that that takes a lot of potential
pressure off from that Steelers pass rush for for Justin Herbert.
All Right, as we always do on Wednesday, close out
the show with some of our sleeper picks for the week.
Who is your first one? Mac Jones. I like the
quarterback on Thursday night. Uh. I'm streaming him in a
few leagues myself where I've been just you know, streaming
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quarterbacks each week. Mac Jones has been playing well. At
least the last week he he threw for three touchdowns
had almost twenty fantasy points. He has shown us that
he could take advantage of good matchups like his other
like a couple of weeks ago when he played the Jets,
he went off for over twenty two fantasy points. So
the Falcons give up the third most fantasy points to quarterbacks,
and we know the Patriots are gonna game plan against
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the Falcons weaknesses, which the secondary is a big one
right now. So I like mac Jones. I think he's
trending in the right direction. I like him as a
streaming option in Week eleven. Yeah, I like it as
well too. Uh. I think the thing about mac Jones it's, uh,
it's maybe a lower ceiling, but it's a pretty high floor.
And I think that's that kind of keeps He was
a safe option, especially if you're looking to stream the
quarterback position. I have Kenyan Drake as a sleeper, and
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last week was not good against the Chiefs. I mean
that game just got away from the Raiders pretty quickly.
But before that, Drake was starting to become more of
a factor in the offense and he's looking kind of
like the guy we thought he would be win the
Raiders first signed him in the off season. The first
part of the season, he really was kind of persona
on Garratta. Since they've made the switch to Greg Olsen
as the play caller, we have seen more opportunity for
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Kenyan Drake. We have seen him kind of get some
more more touches, some more targets in this offense. So
I think this is a very good matchup against a
Bengals defense that has given up a ton of receiving
yards to the running back position. So I think Drake
has a really good opportunity here this week. Yeah. I
like Drake as well. And Marcus this next sleeper. He
this is a deep sleeper, like I also wrote about
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him in my Sleepers. Adam Troutman of the New Orleans
Saints like he has been getting more volume as of late.
He has six or more targets in three straight games.
He has the second most targets on the year from
Trevor Simeon and then he's got at least eight Fantasy
points and two straight plus. It is the best possible
matchup for a tight end. As the Eagles give up
the most fantasy points, They're up there in yards and
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touchdowns and catches allowed to tight ends towards the top
of the list. So I think in a good matchup
with a quarter tight end that has been getting safe
volume as of late. This is a little bit of
a deeper sleeper here, but who doesn't need tight end sleepers?
I mean the position is grows, so if you're looking
for one in a little bit of a deeper league
or something, Troutman is a name I think for you.
I I liked him before the season as a deep sleeper.
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I like him this week as a deep sleeper. I'm
gonna close this out with Miles Gaskon, I know jokingly.
The whole thing about Miles Gaskin has been that he
is good in odd numbered weeks. Uh, this is week eleven,
so it stands the reason and he's going to be
good right. The other part of it is just the
matchup against the Jets. You have been pretty abysmal all
the way around. I mean I talked about using to
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as a potential starting quarterback this week. Um, it's been
sort of hard to figure the situation when Miami is
going to use Gasking, But this seems like a week
where he gets a whole lot of usage, especially if
the Dolphins, uh you know, the way they've been playing
defensively the last couple of weeks. It feels like they
can keep the Jets from scoring, and if they can
put some points on board, this could be a game where,
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especially in the second half, we see a lot of
Miles Gasking usage. He's been frustrating at times, uh in
in this season, but this seems like a week where
it seems like it's worthwhile to put him in the lineup.
I can't figure out the Dolphins, man, I can't either.
The only thing you see their consistent touches for guests,
and like, I have him as my RB sixteen as
of now, and that might even be going up depending
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on how some of these injuries and stuff shake out.
But I agree with you, Marcus, I love I love
Gasking this week, So we'll see how this turns out.
If you want more sleepers, you can check out my
weekly column. It's at NFL dot com. Slash Sleepers usually
comes out on Tuesday afternoon or evening, depending on I
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What is Welcome to another edition of the NFL Fantasy
Football Show. To me your man, m G. Marcus Grant,
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Big show for you on this Wednesday. On the other
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I just wanted to me of course here to my left,
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to Wednesday. We are. We're in week eleven now, so
we're rapidly closing in on the end of this season.
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Yeah for real, and uh it's week eleven already. I
can't believe that. I can't believe that there's people out
there who believe birds are in fact real, because we
all know that they are not. But oh yeah, fun
fun Wednesday morning. So far with you, Planny to talk
about on the show today. We have, as always are
three big questions four week eleven that we'll get you
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the game previews as we go through the Thursday and
Sunday schedule, and of course we'll finish off with some
sleepers for the upcoming week. But let's get started, as
we always do, with some fantasy headlines. Uh. Maybe one
of the biggest ones of this week so far, Corderyl
Patterson is dealing with a sprained ankle and is very
likely to miss the Thursday night game against the New
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England Patriots. Um I would have said in August, there's
no way we'd be talking about Corderoll Patterson in a
you know, serious fantasy relevant capacity, But here we are.
He's been amazing all year long, and so losing him
gonna be a big blow to a lot of fantasy rosters.
That moves Mike Davis up the pecking order. It does
bring Wayne Gallman into effect. But I guess for for
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Mike Davis, I mean, how much do you trust starting
him because he's had a atty big role and he
hasn't done much with it this year. Yeah, I as
of right now, I in my rankings, if you go
and check on NFL dot com. I have him Gallman
and Mike Davis both as flex options, but I did
see this morning. I haven't got to update the rankings
yet put that. Arthur Smith basically said that Wayne Gollman
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saw so much usage last week because the Falcons were
getting blown out and they knew they had a game
Thursday night, so they wanted to rest the starters and
keep them fresh. So I am gonna be lower in
Golment a bit and raising Mike Davis. I think when
it's all said and done, though, he'll still come in
as like a high end like around RB like because
I think I after like RB twenty three this week,
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it gets gross extremely fast, So he'll come in that
range like as a high end flex option, but not
someone that I'm super excited to get into my starting lineups. Yeah,
I mean Wayne Golman. I do think it's funny that
we're like, hey, Wayne Goldman, you're you're gonna be the
innings eater right now. You know what, we just needs
you to run some clock for us. Uh, So that
that is not encouraging just the way Mike Davis has
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performed as still technically the lead running back there in Atlanta.
UH is not really encouraging. The Patriots have been pretty
good against opposing run games. So I don't and here
in a pinch, I get it. I don't know that
I'd be super excited about starting Mike Davis this week.
UM in San Francisco. It's been a different story with
Elijah Mitchell. He's been fantastic all year long. He has
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been the forty Niners rookie running back that we should
have been talking about, uh instead of people like hyping
up Trey Sermon. He has a broken finger. His status
for this week is uncertain right now. So this means
it's Jeff Wilson Jr. Time. If Mitchell can't suit up. Yes,
Jeff Wilson Jr. Is the next in the pecking order.
We know it is not Trey Sermon. I mean Wilson
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was the backup running back last week. He got you know,
with Ja Michael Hasty sideline like it was Wilson. They
turned to not Sermons. So the Sermon thing is gone.
But I still cannot rule out Elijah Mitchell because Kyle
Shanahan came out and said like, yeah, you know, yeah,
I broke his finger. But we're hoping he could practice
and play this week. My question is, like, in a
game where you had such a big lead, why did
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Elijah Mitchell gets twenty seven? Maybe it would have been
good to get the other backs a little bit more involved.
But we were joking before the show. This guy's basically Wolverine.
It feels like every week he's dealing with the severe
injury and then he's just out there playing. So if
Mitchell suits up, I think you start him. If he sits,
then I think you start Jeff Wilson Jr. I mean,
if we're going with the X Men team, he apparently
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absorbed by he most its powers, because that's what where
he most was all those weeks where it's like, hey,
most dire it is is doubtful, and he hasn't practiced
all week, and suddenly on Sunday he suits up and
he you know, runs for like eight yards in a touchdown. Um,
maybe Eli Mitchell is that Although I do have concerns, Uh,
your job is to hold onto the football, it seems
like it would be more difficult to do with a
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broken finger. That's just me. These players are are different beasts,
they really are. You know, they're a different breed from
from you know, us Mortals, sitting here in a studio
with headsets on doing the show. Look, if he's playing,
obviously you're playing Eli mitchell I. You've got Jeff Wilson, though,
you know, hang on, keep an eye on the news reports,
keep an eye on the practice reports as we get
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through Friday and Saturday, and we'll get a better idea
of the situation because the matchup is not bad. I mean,
they got the Jaguars this week, so I would say
just check your waiver while real quick in case Jeff Wilson,
he might still be out there. So if you have
Mitchell or even if you don't, you just need a
running back this week. He's a good stash candidate just
in case. Right now, absolutely more running back news this
in the New York sit, Kwon Barkley could be back
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for this week's game for the New York Football Giants.
It looked like what a couple of weeks and we
thought maybe he'd be back. He caught COVID, then he
came off the COVID list, but it was still the
injury issue that kept him out. Hopefully he's back. I mean,
there's not much to say here. Right, if he's back,
you're starting right. Yeah. Like I have him ranked as
my RB twenty this week because of the matchup and
because it would be his first game back. But even so,
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like there's running back drives up so fast this week
that yeah, if stake one's there, you start him all right.
Uh go back to Monday Night right. Uh. Last week
we talked about the Monday Night game. This week, it
also is worth sort of kind of rehashing a little
bit one because I think it caught just about everybody
by surprise with the Niners kind of ambushing the Rams
and getting a big win there. But for the second
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straight week, it was a rough night for Matthew Stafford
through an interception very early. It was interesting because on
the very first play they completed a short pass to
Odell Beckham Jr. Then a couple of plays later it's
this long pass down field where Odell was I guess
the intended target, but there were two forty Niner defenders
back there. Uh. Stafford ended up throwing a pick six.
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He just had another rough night. So after two bad
games in a row, and mind you, the Rams are
on a bye this week, Um, what is your concern level?
For Matthew Stafford, it's still low as of now. I
think part of it is because the bye week. I
think it allow the offense to reset um like a
division game against a team like San Francisco. Weird stuff
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happens in those games, and San Francisco is still a
pretty good defense, so I'm not holding that one against him.
And the Titans defense has been red hot, so I
think he's just kind of found too hot teams right now.
And on Monday Night there was a lot of drops.
I will say though, Stafford just looked off on Monday
Night like he was thrown behind receivers. He was throwing
high all night. I have a little bit of concern
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because a couple of weeks ago we started to hear
that his back was getting tight, and we know that's
been an issue for him. But I think I'm expecting
the Rams to look like the Rams again after the bye.
If they don't, then I'd have a very different answer
to this question. Yeah, I would say my my concern
level is mild. It's growing a little bit. It's growing
in part because the thing we've heard the last couple
of weeks from the teams they've played is that there's
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this feeling that the Rams aren't ready for physical football games,
that they can be kind of pushed around and beat
up a little bit. It seems like the Titans kind
of did that. The Niners certainly went out and did
their best to do that and rattled them a little bit.
So I'm curious to see if the Rams can take
this by a week to sort of get right, if
they can retool something. So I'm not ready to panic
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on Matthew Stafford just yet, but it is something that
I'm I'm kind of keeping an eye on, uh to
see elsewhere. Cooper Cup Fantasy m VP, Like, is it over?
Is the race done? At this point? It feels like
it like I want to make a case for like
maybe Dee Bill Samuel or something, and I know they
the Rams haven't had their buy it so Cooper Cups
had an extra game. But as of right now, Tyreek
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Hill is the only receiver within sixty Fantasy points of
Cooper Cup and he is well over forty behind him.
So like Cooper Cup is just lapping the position right now,
I think, and especially for where you were getting him,
because he was he was the cheapest he has been
in years. This year. So yeah, I think he is
the runaway m v P as of now. He is
right now about thirty six points ahead of Patrick Mahomes.
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Mahomes scored thirty six points this past week. That was
his high for the season. Right, thirty six points is
a ridiculous total in for anybody in any given weeks.
So basically it would take my Homes having another bananas
week against the Cowboys to catch Cooper Cup. Uh So yeah,
I assume that Cooper Cup is still going to be
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the top scoring player in fantasy when Week eleven is done.
Which is I mean we always say like, oh, there
the top score of non quarterbacks because quarterbacks shot always
lap everyone. Cooper Cup is lapping every quarterback. I mean,
this is a season unlike one that we've had recently, Like,
when's the last time receiver was this much better than
the field. It's it's insane what he is doing. And
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he did it on Monday with having not really a
great game. The Rams are kind of awful, but he
still put up twenty three points. That's the thing, Like
if when you watch this isn't the first time this
year where like I've watched the Rams play and be
like oh, Cooper Cups had a down game, and then
you look and it's like, oh wait, he had like
Clay yards. Look at that didn't feel like it. But
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but there we are. Uh. There are a couple of
teams on by here in week eleven. It's the Broncos
and the Rams who get the week off. So that
means there are some notable players that will not be
available to you. Uh. The quarterback spot Teddy Bridgewater, who
has apparently been answering questions about his is uh willingness
to tackle whatever. Um, He's gonna be off this week.
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Matthew Stafford, we just talked about he's gonna be off
this week. Uh. Some running backs of note, definitely, Melvin Gordon,
Javonte Williams, and Darryl Henderson. Your wide receivers you got
Jerry Judy. I guess you could say Courtland Sutton. I
don't know, Uh, on do the side Obviously, Cooper cup
is off this week, no Odell, no Van Jefferson. Uh
in a tight end of missing Noah Fans and Tyler Higbee.
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All right, we've got three big questions for Week eleven
to help you not mess up your fantasy football lineup.
So let's start. We talked about the Rams and their
recent struggles. Let's talk about the forty Niners though, because
we mentioned this last week about Jimmy Garoppolo sort of
making us wait for Trey Lance and fantasy wise, he
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wasn't spectacular on Monday Night, just bought fifteen and some change. Uh.
They didn't really need him because they ran the ball
so effectively. But at this point, it feels like Jimmy
Garoppolo is a long ways of from getting bitched. Right,
He's doing enough and is playing well enough that he's
going to stay on the field. So since he's gonna
be on the field, do we need to think about
starting him in right matchups? I think so. And that's
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what this week is like. It's a favorable matchup against
the Jacks. The only concern I have is like, are
they Is it gonna be similar to last week where
they get a little lead and then they just run
the ball the entire second half. But last week I
was like speculating that if the Niners lost to the Rams,
maybe they turn to Trey Lance. They are definitely not
going to be doing that right now. At four and five,
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there are half a game out of the seventh seed
and a game out of the six seeds, so they're
very much still in this race. I don't know if
we when we see Trey Lance at this point, but
I know that it's not coming anytime soon. This is
Jimmy G's team still in Yeah. I think he's a
streamable option this week and in favorable matchups. The thing
that is helping the forty Niners is hurting fantasy managers
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in that, as you mentioned, they are half a game
out of the last playoff spot. They are a game
out of the sixth seed. Uh in the NFC. So
the fact that the n see a sort of top
heavy with a whole bunch of middling teams kind of
hanging around, that's good for San Francisco. That means they're
still in this race and they don't have to maybe
make a whole lot of changes. We want changes, we
want trade Lance, uh, and that's not happening anytime soon.
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So I do think, you know, I think at this point,
let's just this is chalk it up, right, Jimmy Garoppolo
is going to be a matchup based quarterback. Over the
last month. He is the QB seven and he is
available in about nine of NFL dot Com League's. Uh so,
you know, if you're especially if you're in a two
QB league, the super flex league, he should definitely be
on rosters. And um, I don't know if this is
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mean re dropping train Lance now, like what do we
do with trade Lance. I've been holding Trade Lance all
year in a just a ten team two quarterback league,
and I dropped him this past week because I was like,
I don't know when it's gonna happen, but I don't
anticipated coming, especially if the Niners win this week against
the Jags like we're expecting them to, like they are
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a hundred percent right back in the race then, and
so I dropped him there. The only spot of hole
thing him is in a super flex keeper league, because
I'm thinking, like someone might trade him, trade me for him.
But besides that and just regular seasonal leagues, I think
you can can drop trade Land. Think, especially as you're
starting to make a playoff push like that, that roster
spot becomes valuable and it just doesn't make sense to
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hold it for a guy that doesn't look like he's
getting on the field anytime soon. Speaking of getting back
on the field, Clyde Edwards. Hilaire is expected to be
back this week for the Kansas City Chiefs. They got
a huge game against the Dallas Cowboys. We'll get to
that in just a little bit. But in his absence,
Darryl Williams has stepped in and played well. We've seen
Derek Gore step in and do things. So if C E.
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H Is back, what do we do about the Chief's backfield? Uh,
it's not great at all now. I just I think
it's better honestly when c H was out because and
then we knew at least the bulk of the work
was going to Darryl Williams. I think right now it's
a big question mark because what I am anticipating at
least is a lot of c EACH on the ground
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with Darryl Williams getting the bulk of targets, which is
not what we thought when they drafted Clyde Edwards. Were like,
this guy is gonna unlock the Chiefs passing game, and
it's actually been Darryl Williams. I mean, we saw that
catch at darry Williams made in the end zone the
other day. So I think as of right now c
H is like an RB two maybe even a flex option.
But I think Daryl Williams is as well until we
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get clarity, because Williams, when they were both healthy, was
also getting the work near the goal line. So I'm
not ready to say yet that he can just fully
be benched. Yeah, I mean, I think you're definitely holding
onto Darrell Williams. I guess I would probably play him
as a flex if I depend me on my situation
what it is. I'm just very curious as to how
this is going to work out, um, because I think
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even before the injury, I think the Chiefs sort of
were feeling like maybe they need to kind of give c. E.
H some help or arrest him a little bit because
he just he was fine, he wasn't great. So I
do think there's going to be a role for Darryl Williams.
I'm curious as to what that is, how big it's
going to be, um, and so like, don't drop him,
don't give up on him just yet, but you know,
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to take away and see do you think there's a
chance that that Williams could be the lead back now
even with c H back, I don't. I feel it's
gonna be like a one one a sort of thing
where I don't know that we have a clear definition
of who the lead, which is that's the worst actually,
like that's even worse, Like just give us a one
and a two. But I don't think that they're gonna
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do that. So, um, this is gonna be a big week,
I think to kind of figure out how things are
gonna go in that offense. Um staying in the division.
Darren Waller a guy that that a lot of us,
myself included, spent up in drafts to go get. I
mean he was a second round, third round pick and
a whole lot of drafts and at this point has
been pretty underwhelming right now. I mean, he is a
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top tin tied end. He's actually uh you know, is
hanging around there, but it's not pretty. Uh in the
last few weeks especially have not been pretty. He's your
tight end seven right now. How worried are we about
a guy though, who hasn't scored a touchdown since Week four?
I'm I'm starting to get pretty worried about him, not
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in the sense where like you're dropping him or even
benching him, because he's still giving you pretty much double
digit fantasy points each week, and that is enough to
make him a tight end one. Plus, we know the
upside that he brings, like we saw it in Week
one where he had twenties nearly twenty seven Fantasy points.
But Week one and Week nine are the only games
this year where he has more than eight targets in
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a game. To me, it feels like defenses are like, Okay,
we know this is there one big piece that we
had to defend. Like there was a play against the
Chiefs this past week where they had three defenders on him,
And to me, it feels like the Raiders are content
being like, Okay, he's gonna draw all the defensive attention
and we're just gonna give the ball to like Hunter
renfro instead of being like, hey, let's design place to
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get Darren Waller open and in space. So that is
kind of frustrating. But I still think, yes, he's not
living up to the price we paid on draft day
and and I was super high and Darren Waller coming
into the year. But you're still starting him. I don't
think you're dropping him or anything like that. I mean
that's the thing. You're still starting him because the rest
of the tied end there's you're not gonna find options
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with a higher ceiling than Darren Waller out there on
the waiver wire. But the Raiders are spreading the ball
around more. I mean, I think when they changed play
callers after they lost John Gruden and Greg Olsen took
over the play calling. Um, you've seen more people get
involved in this offense, right, We We have seen more
Hunter renfro, We have seen a lot more of Kenyan
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Drake u involved in this offense. And so they're finding
other options. As you mentioned. Also, defenses are sort of
scheming to take Waller away. And and I don't remember
who I saw tweet this, and so I apologize for that.
But what we're getting out of Darren Waller this year
is sort of what a lot of people, myself included,
thought we would see from him last year. Right two
years ago, he had the big breakout year and a
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lot of us were like, Okay, well, touchdown regression is
going to hit. He can't keep this up. And then
last year he did it again, and so we're like, oh,
so maybe this is just how it is with Darren Waller. Uh,
And then we're learning that this year is that's that's
not just how it is with Darren Waller. Uh, they're
finding other ways to to move the football. So I'm
very concerned, but I'm also with you, Um, I'm not
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not starting him. It's just another year with Trevis kill
This is gonna be the sixth straight year which Trevis
Kelsey is to tight end, and even Travis Kelsey isn't
having the kind of Travis Kelsey here that we anticipated.
But at some point we just gotta be like, this
is the greatest fantasy tight end every right. I mean, hey,
he is. He's he's knocking on the door of gronk
Man for that title. Um, Kyle Pitts, he might be coming,
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he might be what's next? So I mean, look, here's
we didn't plan to talk about Kyle Pitts, but here
it is. He's he's been Okay, he hasn't been anything special,
but he's the tight end six right now. So uh,
once he gets comfortable next year in drafts. I know
this is way off topic, but he's probably going to
be the tight end two off the ball here. I
think he really will be acause Wallers having a down year.
Kid will miss a lot of time. Again, I think
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the fans and fantasy players love hype kid's gonna Pitts
gonna have all of that He's we haven't as a
fantasy tight into right now. By the time we get
the August, he'll be coming off the board. I know
it's gonna happen. Time for a break when we come back.
Some game previews that stunned the NFL Fantasy Football Show.
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All right, that gets us to the start of our
game previews for week eleven. Let's start with the Thursday
night football game, Patriots at Falcons. I heard once upon
a time they played a game against each other that's
sort of counted for something big, and one team coughed
up a big lead. I don't know if that's true.
That could be a conspiracy theory, like you know, the
whole like powdered doughnut thing. I don't know um anyway,
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as we're looking at this game, and I don't know
what the By the way, I don't know what the
powder donut theory is. It just showed up in my mentioned.
If it's something I'm scene that don't didn't. I didn't
mention it at all. I didn't say it. I'll have
to go YouTube it later. Anyway. Patriots at Falcons, what
are we looking at fantasy wise, I think you could
start the Patriots starting running back, whether that is Damian
Harris or Ramond Stevenson this week. Uh. Harris returned to
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practice this week, he was limited. He's still very up
in the air with it being a short week. But
the Falcons have allowed the third most fantasy points to
running backs on the season, behind only the Jets and
the Seahawks. So I think the lead back for the
Pats is definitely a mustart option. Stevenson looked like a
beast the other day. I'm actually even thinking, even if
Harris plays, I think you could use Stevenson as a
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flex option because it's looking like he'll get work in
the passing game, and maybe they want to ease back
the the workload of Damian Harris. I don't know. I'm
having a hard time, Marcus envisioning how the Patriots can
get away from Stevenson given how good he has looked. Yeah,
I don't. I don't think he's completely going away. I mean,
I think I still think Damien Harris uh is the
lead back there, but but Stevenson has been so good,
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and and we know that Bill Belichick likes to use
more than one running back, So I think he definitely
has some you know, kind of some low end RB
two potential. Uh if Harris for whatever reason can't go,
then that that rockets up even more against a bad
Falcons defense. Um Cowboys at Chiefs. We sort of hinted
at this game that is, to me, the marquee game
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on the schedule this week, two teams with aspirations of
a Super Bowl this year. I would say, you know what, though,
kind of beware of Dalton Schultz and this is maybe
sort of a Darren Waller situation where you're not not
starting him because you're not going to find a better option,
but one. His production over the last few weeks has
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been down, and the Chiefs have been just sort of
middle of the road like that. The numbers say that
they have been kind of bad against tight ends. They
gave up a huge game to Dawson Knox early in
the season where he had a hundred and seventeen yards
and a touchdown but only three catches. Beyond that, most
of the tight end performances have been kind of middling,
where you know, one of the better ones has been
maybe ten and a half eleven points sort of thing,
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and when you're talking about the Cowboys getting their offense going,
spreading the football around. We saw Seedee Lamb have the
big game last week. Marii Cooper is still there. We
know that Tony Pollard and Ezekiel Elliot is still gonna
work in Um. This is a situation where it could
be another sort of mediocre at best week for Dalton Schultz.
So you're starting him. I get it. I just might
not be great again this week for him. Yeah. I
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know it was one game, Marcus, but this guy was
like the leading target for weeks and in the first
game with Michael Gallup back, Dalton Schultz had a six
percent target share that was behind Lamb, Pollard, Gallup, Cooper,
and Zeke. I'm pretty worried about him after that week.
It just it has not been the same for him
over the last few weeks. So something just to keep
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to my game previews though. Saints and the Eagles a
couple of teams that you know, there's a lot going
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on at running back. We know hopefully Alvin Kamara is back.
We know mark Ingram had the big week last week.
The Eagles look like they're more interested in running the
football all lately. Where are you going? What should people
be paying attention to in this one? I think you
should be aware of the Eagles running backs who whoever
it may be. Miles Sanders was activated. He's off the
i R, so now he could be active in the
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next three weeks. I know they're kind of saying they
expect him back this week. Just monitor that. But even
if Sanders is back this week, I'm saying be aware
of him. The Saints have given up the third fewest
fantasy points to running backs this year, and that includes
just fifty four rushing yards per game. Plus if it
is sanders first game back, Marcus I still have some concern,
like are they gonna get Jordan Howard or Boston's got
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a little bit more utilized. Especially concern that I have
is like, is Jordan Howard near the goal line gonna
go away because he has been very effective there and
if that's the case, it becomes a fantasy nightmare for
the Eagles running backs. I know a lot of people
are excited to have Miles Sanders back. I just think
this is a week to be a little weary of him. Yeah,
I definitely would be be very concerned about Eagles running
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backs this week. Are we still holding onto Jordan Howard
even with Miles Sanders back? I think you could drop
him alright, but a borderline, he's a good backup in
case anything happens to Sanders. Yeah, I just this is anything.
Like we talked about, watching what happens with the Chiefs backfield,
I would keep an eye on how the the Eagles
are using their running backs to This is the time
of year two where buys are starting to be behind us,
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where your handcuffs become important to have on your roster.
So if you have Sanders especially, I think you hold
on to Howard all right. Beingals at the Raiders. And
remember those days not all that long ago, when we
were plugging c j u sama as a streamable option.
They're back. We're back to streaming c j uzama. We
can do it against the Raiders. They have been one
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of the worst defenses against tight ends all season long.
And look, we have said this repeatedly and it remains
true if you are streaming tight ends, if you're playing
the waiver wire at the position, you just want a
guy who has the potential to score or a touchdown,
and Usama does that, especially against this Raiders defense. Uh. Look,
we know that in the passing game, Jamark Chase is
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getting most of the work. Pri C. T. Higgins, Tyler
Boyd has been mostly a no show. So I think,
you know, you could even make a case that Usama
maybe the number three option in the passing game, depending
on where you put Joe Mixon. But either way, you
just need a couple of catches. Maybe he breaks the
tackler too, he ends up in the end zone and
uh that's all you did. You see right there? Fifth
among tight ends in points per game since Week four.
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So CJ Usama back in our lives? Who would have
thought it? Uh, Packers at the Vikings, big big matchup
in the NFC North, What are we doing here? I
think A J. Dillon is a must start option. With
Aaron Jones out this week, it's a favorable matchup. But
A J. Dillon just showed us last week why we
should all get so excited. From twenty three touches over
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twenty seven fantasy points, he scored two touchdowns. What I
love is he's getting unilas in the passing game as well.
He nearly it's many receiving yards as rushing yards this
past week. So I think that he is an RB
one Marcus with Aaron Jones line. I think his upside
it's like top five. If he's gonna be getting like
close to twenty three touches, we know Quadzilla he could
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break those a long plays. So I really like him.
I think if you were lucky enough to either have
him money roster, get him off the waiver wire, you
put him in your starting line up right away. This
has been one of the I think fantasy industry consensus
picks for the week. Uh and a lot of us
love A J. Dillon before. That's what's not like he
just popped up on our radar. But I think everybody
has sort of loved him. I know what we say
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when everybody loves a player, that it somehow goes sideways.
I think this is gonna be okay. I'm with it.
I think you gotta start a J dealer this week
Ravens at the Bears. And if we're gonna stay on
the tight end train, let's go with a deep sleeper
of Cole Commet. Uh. And I get it that the
Bears passing game has been not great. It has been
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inconsistent at best, but it seems like Justin Fields is
starting to turn a corner. The last time we saw him,
you know, it was ugly at the start, but but
there were some moments in that last game where it
looked like he was actually kind of figuring some things out.
The Ravens have been consistently bad against the tight end position. Um,
they're not the worst anymore, that's the Eagles, but the
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Ravens aren't too far away. So I'd say if you're
looking for a deep sleeper, this is probably more of
a DFS play than maybe in a a more traditional
league sort of thing. But Colt Comet has a chance. Again,
all he wanted a touchdown a couple of couches that
a touchdown that could happened. Justin Fields loves throwing his
way too, so I like this call a good amount.
Yeah all right, Uh, then we got the forty Niners
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at the Jaguars. That one is next up. We talked
about Jimmy Garoppolo, uh and what we're doing with him.
We talked about their running back situation. Anything else we
should be talking about. Yeah, I did with the Niners.
Their offenses kind of straightforward. You know who to start,
So I'm gonna focus on the Jaguars here, and I
know it's it's James Robinson and then not really many
others you want to start, but I think you could
start Dan Arnold this week against the forty Niners. Dan
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Arnold has just been consistent as of late. He's got
at least five targets in each of the last five
games with seven or more, and four of those he's
top double digit fantasy points in every game that he's
had at least seven targets in. And he is actually
their top target since they traded for him. I know
when they made that move, none of us thought it
was a big, really fantasy impact type of move. It
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has been. He is their wide receiver one right now.
Slight hiccup for him as James oh Shaughnessy is set
to return this week, but I think he is purely
depth I don't see how the Jaguars get away from
dani Arnold right now. So basically, um, between Robbie Anderson
and Dan Arnold, Sam Donald seems to be the the
there's a common a common uh yeah, I mean it's
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just uh, you know, he had the Donald had rap
Robbie Anderson locked up, apparently had Dan Arnold locked up
in fantasy football jail too, So I guess good for
Dan Arnold. Anyway, we got some starts that sits for
you here. We also have some starts and sits for
you every week on the Stardom Sidham Show. Wow, interesting title.
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It's Rank, it's Florio, it's Kimmy, it's money. It's a
whole bunch of fun stuff, four pm Eastern on Thursday,
the NFL Fantasy at the NFL at NFL dot com
and YouTube. And I know the other day, I think
Kimmy found some some fake dollar bills stuffed in one
of the chairs during an episode of Fantasy Live. So
fairly it's going well. A week or two ago, it
was like two weeks ago they we didn't actually shoot
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off the money guns and people were not happy. So
we we have to continue. We will make sure to
shoot off the money guns. People want their money guns. Uh,
you know, I guess you know. We do make an
aes central central portion of this promo. So I'm apologizing
for those of Peo who were deprived of money guns
a couple of weeks ago. It won't happen again. Uh,
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what will happen is a break though. We're gonna come
back and we are going to dive into our pack
of Panini trading cards and uh, are there things that
should make us a little bit worried about? Christian McCaffrey
will ask that question and attempt to answer it next
on the NFL Fantasy Football Show. Let's talk about the
Bills and the coltson Let's focus in on Stefon Diggs
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of the big breakout game last week, his biggest game
of the season, so questions will he go over a
hundred yards for the second straight game this week? I
think this is a favorable spot for him to do so.
The Colts have struggled against receivers all year, but they're
really good against the runs, so we know the Bills
will abandon the run if the past game is going
I think it comes down to usage like that last
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week thirteen targets. It was a highest season high, but
the air yards was by far a season high from him.
In this game, the air yards per target was up dramatically.
So I think it kind of comes down to, are
they gonna just be willing to be like, hey, instead
of trying to spread the ball out like we've been
doing all year, can we just admit that Stefon Diggs
is our best piece and be like, hey, you guys
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can't stop him. So I think we're gonna like, we're
just gonna keep targeting him until you do. I like
his chances of doing so, But I think that's kind
of the determining factor. The Bill is gonna look to
spread the ball out as much as they have been.
I think that's the thing. And and I've been saying
it like, I don't think that somehow Stefon Diggs has
become worse at football. It's just that the Bills have
found other options. Uh, And so I think that's been
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the big thing. I'm gonna say, yes, I'm gonna say
he gets over a hundred yards this week. Uh. You know,
I think they found something that they sort of like,
I think, you know, Josh Allen remembered, Hey, I enjoyed
throwing into this guy, and we're productive and successful when
we do it, So I think I think it's going
to happen potentially. Um, but you know, again, they don't
necessarily need that in order to be successful. So we'll
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see if they decided to find some other options coming
up in week eleven. All right, next on our our
little cavalcade of fund here, Christian McCaffrey c m C
a guy who finds a way to score twenty plus
points even when he's not scoring touchdowns. Cam Newton is back.
Hooray for that, except for the part where Cam Newton
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scores rushing touchdowns there the goal line. Should we be
worried about CMCs touchdown upside with Cam back? Yes, But
I also think it gets overblown because, uh, Cam Newton
is just the greatest rushing quarterbacks, at least touchdown wise
during the goal line ever, Like since he's been drafted.
He leads the NFL and rushing touchdowns and it's not
even close. No quarterback ever has nearly as many rushing
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touchdowns as Cam. But I went back to Christian mccaffreck's
eighteen season, the rushing touchdowns were down compared to twenty nineteen,
which is when he had his other worldly season, but
inside the five yard line that season with Cammy at
six touchdowns. The season after where he was the greatest
running back ever outside of most six lt he had
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just eight. So it's only a difference of two. I think, naturally,
Cam when he we get near the goal line, we
have to worry about it. But it's not like cam
is gonna take all of the touchdowns and Christian McCaffrey
is gonna get none. So it is a concern, but
I also think it's one that gets way overblown. I mean,
I think what what helps make up for it? It's
just the volume of of one of touches. But if
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targets he gets Yeah, And it was the thing that
you know, Rank was talking about on Fantasy Live the
other day. It's like you can almost pencil in tin
catches for for Christian McCaffrey. You can get like eight
to tin catches a game, which you're starting at a
floor of like eight points just on him catching the football.
That's before you factor in any receiving yards, any rushing yards,
and you know the idea that maybe he breaks a
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rushing touchdown from twenty yards out, or on the off
chance he gets, you know, a short receiving touchdown, or
maybe even gets a short rushing touchdown. So I mean,
I don't think it's a fluke that Christian McCaffrey consistently
can score you twenty plus points without getting in the
end zone. So any touchdowns you get are sort of
gravy on top of everything else he gives you on
a weekly basis. I think this past week was just
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a reminder that when healthy, Christian McCaffrey is still the
best fantasy I mean, there's a reason that even despite
injury concerns, he went number one in a lot of
leagues because of what he can do. So back to
the game previews. We go back to the NFC West.
The Arizona Cardinals head up to Seattle to take on
the Seahawks. Uh, some potentially good news. Kyler Murray is
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back and practicing in Cliff Kingsbury right now sounds optimistic
about Kyler getting back on the field. We wait to
see what this means for DeAndre Hopkins. But you know,
if Kyler's back, you're starting him. Who else potentially are
you starting in this game? I think Christian Kirk is
a solid start, and that's whether d hop plays or not.
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Christian Kirk the last couple of weeks, I know, there's
been no Kyler or no DeAndre Hopkins, but he has
been out performing Rohn del Moore and A. J. Green
and looking like at the very least, he is the
second best receiver there in Arizona. Since Week five, he
is just one game with single digit Fantasy points and
that was eight point six. So he shows us that
he brings a safe floor. We know the ceiling is
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pretty high. He could give us like fifteen to twenty
Fantasy points. So I think, in what is a pretty
good matchup here, I think that you could start Christian
Kirk at the very least is like a wide receiver
three or flex options. Yeah. You know it's funny too,
because it's like I do. I I sort of put
this on myself because I said that I was I
was giving up on Christian Kirk this year, that I
was gonna let go of the rope, and now he's
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doing the things that I anticipated him doing for years.
Uh so you're welcome, um, but he's gonna start this week.
I think, even even if DeAndre Hopkins is there. I
think Christian Kirk is a pretty good start against Seattle
Dolphins at the Jets um. First off, Jets, what are
you doing? Uh you you're you're reportedly starting Joe Flacco
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this week, and I just want to know why. I don't.
I get Mike White was bad last week, I understand,
but he was also playing against the really, really good defense,
so sometimes that happens. Zack Wilson, I mean, look, he's
back and practicing again. He's the quarterback in the future. Uh,
Joe Flacco is literally just a seat filler. Why you're
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starting him? I don't know. I don't think anyone knows,
outside of maybe whoever made that decision for They say
it's because of his experience in Miami rushes a lot,
but so basically they're like, our offensive line is bad.
Sweep a guy who's used to getting the ball out quickly. Anyway,
I think, I mean, as though you can start to
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a tongue of ioloa because the Jets defense it is bad,
but also because to himself, before the finger injury, was
starting to play some good football. And you know, you
want to talk about a guy who has the weight
of the world on his shoulders. I mean, this poor
dude can't ever stop hearing criticism no matter what he does.
Apparently he's just never gonna be good enough for the
Miami Dolphins. But I do like what I'm seeing out
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of two in recent weeks. It's an excellent matchup here.
So uh, you know, especially two quarterback leagues, especially if
you're playing DFS, but even you know, depending on your
quarterback situation and what your matchups might be too, it
could be an interesting option. I personally, just outside of fantasy,
I'm just rooting for this dude to be successful because
it just feels like nobody wants to give him a
legitimate chance. Same, I'm I'm rooting for two of pretty
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hard now and I have him as a QB one
this week. He has shown us that he could take
advantage of good matchups, and that's exactly what this is alright.
Uh last one for this section, uh Texans and the Titans.
It's not great on paper, but if we're looking for
somebody baby to put in a line up, who are
we looking at? I think Deonta Foreman is a sleeper
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year last week I was saying, like, take a shot
on him because the like Ap kind of look washed.
The Titans, it seems, feel the same way. This past week.
Foreman led their backfield and snaps and carries, and he
led them in yards. He also saw some usage in
the passing game, which was new for him. The Houston
Texans are a good matchup. We know that this is
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a team that the Titans could quickly establish lead in
and then look to run. It's surprising in the last
two weeks they've actually ran a little bit more than
they did when they have Derrick Henry, showing that when
they have a lead, they're not gonna just continue to
throw the ball. And it's kind of a revenge game.
And what is a good matchup against the Texans for Foreman?
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So I think this could be a game where maybe
he gets an even larger share of the work. And
if that's the case, I think then he's a pretty
nice sleeper this week. I'm expecting at some point in
the very near future that the text the Titans rather
start to sort of de emphasize Adrian Peterson just because
he just hasn't been effective. He doesn't look man age
cat says, catches up just about everybody, right. He just
looks like a guy who is older at the end
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of his career. Uh, and so maybe we start to
see more Foreman in that offense. For for Tennessee, I
got a couple more game previews to get through. The
Lions at the Browns doesn't sound all about appealing, but
you know, it's a game and people will watch it
and it will be played. I will say you should
start Deernest Johnson. Uh, in part because the status of
Nick Chubb is still somewhat up in the air right now.
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But even if Chubb plays, I think I think Johnson
is going to have a role in this offense. That
guy has just been too effective when he gets opportunities
to see him completely go away right now. Uh. And
the Lions, yeah, they're they're still not good. They still
don't have a win. H They're not gonna go in
six t r O and seventeen this year. I should say,
so good for them, hooray. But deones Johnson again, like
his spots starts, he's been amazing in both of those.
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But I think, even uh with Nick Chubb there, I
still see him having a pretty good game, especially us
hearing the news that Baker Mayfield admits that he's kind
of beat up right now, so maybe maybe they'll let
him throw the ball thirty times. I'm just saying, this
could be a game where they run like forty plus times.
Just we know that they could run all over Detroit
and Baker, I mean, every game, Baker basically like has
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to carry himself off the field with a new body
part being heard. So this could be a game for
him to not take a beating for a change. They
should make one of those insurance commercials with him where
he's at home. And at home is him like being
in the cold tub or something like that. It's just
like hanging out in the trainer's room, uh, getting treatment,
because that's been that kind of year for him. Last one,
it's the Sunday night football game. It is these Steelers
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and the Chargers are our neighbors next door. They're gonna
be kind of getting after it on Sunday nights. What
are we doing fantasy wise for this one? I'm saying
you could start justin Herbert and I know a couple
of weeks ago that might have sounded obvious, but in
three of the last four games he has scored fewer
than fourteen fantasy points and people are starting to get
a little concerned. Plus, the Steelers defense, I know, looks
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like they're trending in the right direction because earlier in
the year they were struggling against quarterbacks and then the
last six weeks or so it's gotten better. But when
you take a look at who they have faced, Teddy Bridgewater,
Genal Smith, Baker Mayfield, Justin Fields, who had his best
passing game of his career against them, and Jared Golf
that is a big reason why. So Herbert is more
like the quarterbacks that we're lighting up the Steelers in
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the first month than he is these other quarterbacks and
second best schedule moving forward amongst fantasy quarterbacks. So I
think this is a buying opportunity. With Herbert playing a
little bit down as of late, I think you start him,
and I'm recommending trading for him as well right now.
The other thing about this matchup too, uh t J
Watt very well may not play this week's dealing with
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some injuries, so that that takes a lot of potential
pressure off from that Steelers pass rush for for Justin Herbert.
All Right, as we always do on Wednesday, close out
the show with some of our sleeper picks for the week.
Who is your first one? Mac Jones. I like the
quarterback on Thursday night. Uh. I'm streaming him in a
few leagues myself where I've been just you know, streaming
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quarterbacks each week. Mac Jones has been playing well. At
least the last week he he threw for three touchdowns
had almost twenty fantasy points. He has shown us that
he could take advantage of good matchups like his other
like a couple of weeks ago when he played the Jets,
he went off for over twenty two fantasy points. So
the Falcons give up the third most fantasy points to quarterbacks,
and we know the Patriots are gonna game plan against
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the Falcons weaknesses, which the secondary is a big one
right now. So I like mac Jones. I think he's
trending in the right direction. I like him as a
streaming option in Week eleven. Yeah, I like it as
well too. Uh. I think the thing about mac Jones it's, uh,
it's maybe a lower ceiling, but it's a pretty high floor.
And I think that's that kind of keeps He was
a safe option, especially if you're looking to stream the
quarterback position. I have Kenyan Drake as a sleeper, and
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last week was not good against the Chiefs. I mean
that game just got away from the Raiders pretty quickly.
But before that, Drake was starting to become more of
a factor in the offense and he's looking kind of
like the guy we thought he would be win the
Raiders first signed him in the off season. The first
part of the season, he really was kind of persona
on Garratta. Since they've made the switch to Greg Olsen
as the play caller, we have seen more opportunity for
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Kenyan Drake. We have seen him kind of get some
more more touches, some more targets in this offense. So
I think this is a very good matchup against a
Bengals defense that has given up a ton of receiving
yards to the running back position. So I think Drake
has a really good opportunity here this week. Yeah. I
like Drake as well. And Marcus this next sleeper. He
this is a deep sleeper, like I also wrote about
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him in my Sleepers. Adam Troutman of the New Orleans
Saints like he has been getting more volume as of late.
He has six or more targets in three straight games.
He has the second most targets on the year from
Trevor Simeon and then he's got at least eight Fantasy
points and two straight plus. It is the best possible
matchup for a tight end. As the Eagles give up
the most fantasy points, They're up there in yards and
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touchdowns and catches allowed to tight ends towards the top
of the list. So I think in a good matchup
with a quarter tight end that has been getting safe
volume as of late. This is a little bit of
a deeper sleeper here, but who doesn't need tight end sleepers?
I mean the position is grows, so if you're looking
for one in a little bit of a deeper league
or something, Troutman is a name I think for you.
I I liked him before the season as a deep sleeper.
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I like him this week as a deep sleeper. I'm
gonna close this out with Miles Gaskon, I know jokingly.
The whole thing about Miles Gaskin has been that he
is good in odd numbered weeks. Uh, this is week eleven,
so it stands the reason and he's going to be
good right. The other part of it is just the
matchup against the Jets. You have been pretty abysmal all
the way around. I mean I talked about using to
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as a potential starting quarterback this week. Um, it's been
sort of hard to figure the situation when Miami is
going to use Gasking, But this seems like a week
where he gets a whole lot of usage, especially if
the Dolphins, uh you know, the way they've been playing
defensively the last couple of weeks. It feels like they
can keep the Jets from scoring, and if they can
put some points on board, this could be a game where,
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especially in the second half, we see a lot of
Miles Gasking usage. He's been frustrating at times, uh in
in this season, but this seems like a week where
it seems like it's worthwhile to put him in the lineup.
I can't figure out the Dolphins, man, I can't either.
The only thing you see their consistent touches for guests,
and like, I have him as my RB sixteen as
of now, and that might even be going up depending
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on how some of these injuries and stuff shake out.
But I agree with you, Marcus, I love I love
Gasking this week, So we'll see how this turns out.
If you want more sleepers, you can check out my
weekly column. It's at NFL dot com. Slash Sleepers usually
comes out on Tuesday afternoon or evening, depending on I
guess what time zone you live in, of course, So
we've got the Sunday show for you as well. NFL
(44:45):
Fantasy Game Day, it'll be Florio, it'll be Kimmy Checks.
I think this week it will be Adam Rank and
See and ire on kind of a rotation program. But uh,
there's no money guns there, but there's a lot of fun.
There's there's buckets of like fake chicken and crocs with
with like little drumsticks on them. It's wild. They only
appear for a minute, but you gotta you have to
watch closely otherwise you missed them. But check us out.
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It starts at noon Eastern on Sunday. And you know
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and you should probably remember it by now. It's week eleven.
So there it is that gets us through our show.
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