October 20, 2023 • 28 mins
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It's Fox Sports Radio's Official Fantasy Football Podcast! Dan Beyer, Mike Harmon, and Ryan Burschinger preview Week 7 in fantasy football with positional rankings, hot plays, cold sores, fantasy ninjas, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ladies and Jules.
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Ond Here's Dan Bayer and Mike Harmon.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Welcome into the Friday edition. If I want your flex,
you know Harmon is waiting in the wings with his
rankings and hot plays, cold sores and ninjas. Our executive
producer Ryan Berschinger is here. I am as well. Hit
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Week seven again, major buys this week Bengals, Cowboys, Titans, Jets, Panthers,
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Texans all off. So you'll want to get those players
on any of those teams out of your lineups, and
you'll want to get these players in your lineups. Mike
Carmon take it away. Your top five quarterbacks for Week seven.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Let's get it on and some of the usual suspects.
Just let's jumble them up for good measure. You got
my homes going against the Chargers' worst defense against quarterbacks
for fantasy purposes. No, I don't expect suddenly a massive
re emergence of McCole Hardman running around out there. But
you do look at the Chargers. If you can avoid
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the oncoming pass rush mac and Bosa, if he's ready
to go, then you've got plenty of time against that secondary.
And I'm expecting them to get right in this one
downfield Lamar Jackson in the matchup everybody wants to watch
against Detroit. Eventually the receivers will get the stick of
I sent them in Baltimore and make some plays. Middling
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defense fantasy wise thus far, the Lions again pass rush
and men, so expect the escapability of Lamar Jackson to
help you out from a fantasy perspective. Jalalen Hurts going
up against the Miami Dolphins. They given up about nineteen
fantasy points per game. Again, this one might be a
little bit of a track meet. We've got a lot
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of low over unders over the course of the week,
not this one. Fifty one The total as we sit
down to record this, which means we get to the
other side of it. In Tua, I need a suit
and a seven figure income to tell you, hey, you
know when a guy gets the ball in his hands,
he runs fast and he goes away. No, that does
not diminish the system the player. I like McDaniel getting
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ready to throw down a podium when the suggestion was there.
Philadelphia fifth most fantasy points allowed per game. Two quarterbacks
and finally a little bit of a shocker. Why cause
I'm looking at their schedule and suddenly ub scratching my head,
going this could get fun team that we thought was
gonna be left for dead. How about matt Stafford going
up against the Steelers secondary has been beatable. You got Cup,
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you got Nikou. Well, we will have to worry about
what happens with no Kiron Williams, but we'll get to
that a little later here. But for Matthew Stafford, an
opportunity to go put up some numbers, and sometimes you
gotta outthink the room. I'm gonna do it here, all right.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
You got that great Sunday night showdown Eagles and Dolphins
from Philadelphia. Two of those quarterbacks making up forty percent
of Mike's top five, and you have Pack and Patrick
Mahomes a top the rankings because you know, chiefs charges
is usually pretty entertaining.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, you'll notice there's gonna be a lot of mentions
to that Eagles Dolphins game throughout this episode. It's a
fifty one point total. Obviously, it's two of the best
offenses in the league with secondaries that you can throw on.
So yeah, it hurts to a great plays. I'm also
very high on matt Stafford. I'm hoping to see a
good production out of him this week, and so I
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like the inclusion of him here in the top five.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Rams need some help at running back and maybe they
can get helped by Matthew Stafford's arms. Speaking of running backs,
let's get to the top five running backs Harmon has
for Week seven.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
All right, at the running back position, this has been
a mass quarterbacks. I've been nails through the first six weeks,
feeling pretty good. I did not have a twelve to
two to one record against the spread, you know, looking
to unders at all. But when we look at the
running back position this week, you got Kenneth Walker the
third going up against Arizona. Opportunity knocks the Arizona Cardinals.
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We love the try hard, play hard kind of squad
that they are. But you've got an opportunity here, the
third worst fantasy defense against opposing running backs, an opportunity
for Walker to make some hay here. Raheem Mostert has
been unstoppable. He's running wild. Dare I say it like
nineteen eighty five era Hulk Hogan right now? More touchdown
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runs than well, a bunch of teams have touchdowns through
this point in the year. How about DeAndre Swift? He
let us down last week. See, we're just gonna go
flip them and go the other way. Look for a
workload going up against the Miami Dolphins, middling against opposing
running thus far, given about nineteen and a half fantasy
points per game. Look for him to get involved and
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that offensive line to get back in full effect. And
we look at Brian Robinson going up against the Giants.
Did they have their Super Bowl last week? Maybe? Maybe not,
but they are the team most sixth most generous to
opposing running backs. And let's face it, last week with Buffalo,
you don't really expect a whole lot of anything. We
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saw suddenly James Cook wasn't on the field for large
chunks of time, confusing Brian Dable riddled me this and
then the last one because it's a bit of a
price shot and it stings me in the heart to
watch Josh Jacobs have one of those breakout games against
the Chicago Bears. Look, it's the anonymous quarterback battle. Although
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Tyson Bagents is really making himself some friends at the
podium and with his rape techniques. But for the Raiders,
you're looking at an opportunity here to make some Hey,
what has been a terrible Bears defense. Fourth mores generous
against opposing rushers. Josh Jacobs will make people remember twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
All right, Josh Jacobs makes sense. No Jimmy garoppolo for
the Raiders in that game against the Bears where you
should get something. But how about Brian Robinson making an
appearance as that you have a divisional matchup between the
Commanders and Giants coming up on Sunday. Robinson appears in
this top five.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
And of course a very strong omission here, and that is,
of course because of the health status of one Christian McCaffrey.
We're not seeing him in this top five because we
quite frankly, don't know in terms of what amount of
workload we're going to even see. And if it's not
CMC getting the heavy amount of workload, is it Elijah Mitchell,
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Is it Jordan Mason. It's been Jordan Mason for the
last couple of weeks, but that's because Mitchell's health has
also been in question. Apparently ahead of last week, you
saw Jordan Mason get the reps instead of Christian McCaffrey
because the that Mitchell only practice one day after coming
back from his injury, so Mason was the first man
up there. I anticipated Elijah Mitchell to be the first
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man up now that he seems to be fully healthy,
but we will see in terms of just how much
he's used. He's probably still startable even if Christian McCaffrey
does give it a go.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I just thought Mike was really high on that stout
Vikings run defense being sarcastic.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Sorry, Vikings fans, there is no justin Jefferson. He's hurt,
so you're not gonna hear any Vikings in this Wide
Receiver top five rankings. You may later on in the episode,
Mike gets your top five wideouts for week seven.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
All right, well, continue to love. As you can tell.
I'm really excited about that fifty one total in that
Miami in Philadelphia game, one of your games of the week,
and AJ Brown has been on a heater. Let's continue
it here against Miami. Miami has top ten as in
tenth most fantasy points burg to opposing wide receivers. You've
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got DeVante Smith a little bit banged up, so kind
of looking to see where the other threats in the
receiving game are. Dallas Goddard. I'd just be force feeding
AJ Brown and doing everything I can to get him
the ball. Cooper Cup going up against Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh the
fourth most fantasy points allowed to wide receivers. Now you
got a little bit of a pick your poison going
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on with him in Nikua, but the target count remains.
And then's Tyreek Hill going up against Philly. Notice the theme.
They're just top five all across the board. Philly six
month fantasy points allowed to wide receivers. Hill and Waddle
should feast in this one. Stefan Diggs going up against
New England. Yeah, the New England's got I think I
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might get called up to run some snaps I've got
a pretty good first step backward anyway. The number of
people on the injury lists for New England stagger at
this point, and Stefan Diggs, Josh Allen still working on
that rapport opportunity here against a wounded New England squad.
And finally I mentioned Josh Jacobs. In the running back side,
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DeVante Adams is piping up about wanting his numbers, wanting
to be great, and all this other stuff which means
feed me the damn ball. He might as well have
been holding up Keishawn's book poster size in his pressers
this week, trying to get himself some love, and against
the Bears secondary that has just been abysmal. See I'm
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being kind. Abysmal's not too terrible a word. It's an
opportunity for Adams. Doesn't matter who's winging the ball out
there in this one, get it into his hands early
and often.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
There it is. So you are right, there's eagles and
dolphins in all of these bursts. We had it in
the quarterbacks. We had it in the running backs with
most dirt and swift, And now you're sitting there, you've
got a j Brown atop the rankings. Tyreek Hill is third.
No surprise with that matchup on Sunday Night.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It's gonna be interesting to see what the Raiders do
with DeVante Adams this week. Of course, coming out talking
yesterday about how he wants to be more involved in
the game plan. He wants to see more looks. He
understands that sometimes secondaries are are more focused on him,
but he wants to help the team win, and quite frankly,
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he wants his own stats to be what helps the
team wins.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Would you start if you're the Raiders, would you start
Aidan O'Connell or would you start Brian Hoyer.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I'd probably go with O'Connell just to continue to give
him a look. Yeah, yeah, just because of pure potential. There.
You know what you have with Brian Hoyer. He's the
career backup at this point.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
So this is the dilemma because it has changed. It's
changed throughout the weeks. I mean, honestly, Aid O'Connell got
to start against the Chargers a couple of weeks ago,
and Jimmy G was out, Jimmy G returns and then
Jimmy G leaves the game against the Patriots. Well, Brian
Hoyer was listed as the backup quarterback and O'Connell was
the emergency. So then Hoyer goes into replace because he
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had the backup role. It wasn't like O'Connell was put
into that spot. So it is and now you've got
a week of practice, knowing that Jimmy g is not
going to play, do you go back to Aidan O'Connell.
The other question is this team right now at three
and three is actually in the playoff Hunt's true, so
do you even risk I don't know if it's not
that much of a risk to play Aidan O'Connell. It's
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just the point of I'm curious on how they will
approach it if they feel that Brian Hoyer will be
the guy just to write the ship, or they just
don't like Aidan O'Connell not coming in without a full
week of reps in practice. And so I would think
O'Connell would start against the Bears, And at the time
of this recording, we don't officially know, but that seems
to be the plan that they're not going to put
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O'Connell in there unless he's fully prepared to make that start.
All right, Raiders and Bears, that barn Burner bagent against O'Connell.
If we have our Druthers coming up on Sunday, you
may hear popcorn arm later on in this episode. Mike's
words not mine. It's all next here and I want
your flex time now for Arbyn's top plays for week seven. Again,
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if you're just new to the podcast, these are guys
that you don't have in your top five, but you
may want to play this week because of favorable matchups.
Mike Carmon, take it away.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Let's go. Sam Howell going up against the Giants mentioned
it before they had their Super Bowl last week. We've
seen them give up chunk plays all over the place.
Now you have an opportunity to get after it here.
From a quarterback standpoint, fantasy wise, they're mid lower mid
in terms of points allowed per game, but we're seeing
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how he's comfortable winging it around to get Curtis Samuel
back involved. Didn't think you'd be thinking about him on
a waiver wire pickup, now, did you, But certainly all
sorts of opportunities there. Gino Smith going up against Arizona
fifth most generous against opposing quarterbacks. Gino is one of
those guys that has become a polarizing force once again
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here in Fantasy twenty twenty three. Although at the quarterback position,
how many guys do you really trust? That's a whole
larger discussion, and maybe we could do it, Robert Stackwise.
You know, like unsolved mysteries where it's in an alleyway
and it's black and white. Now we're in the trench coat.
We'll solve those problems another time. Isaiah Pacheco going up
against the Chargers, we know about their woes against the
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Ron Jerome Ford going up against Indianapolis, yep, opportunity. We're
not sure about Deshaun Watson just yet or whether it's
more of the PJ. Walker show, but we know the
defense will be there in full force, and Ford with
a heavy workload, even with Kareem Hunt creeping in, still
remains one of our top plays this week. Aaron Jones,
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if you're ever going to get it right, this is
not to do the old Hey He's due. It's more
just opponent based and an opportunity here against the Denver Broncos,
a couple of wide receivers real quick, Brandon Ayuk going
up against Minnesota and their secondary and then Zay Flowers
going up against Detroit, starting to get some run. Another
game over under only forty three in this one, but
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he is the most trusted target outside of Mark Andrews
for Lamar Jackson looking for that Baltimore offense to start
to click.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Aaron Jones appears on this list, and we've talked about
throughout the pod. Ryan Berschinger that Aaron Jones is the
difference maker in the Packers. It's why I pick the
Packers in a survivor pool if he's healthy, because I
think that he is the difference to them. If Aaron
Jones wouldn't play against Denver, I would not pick Green
Bay in that scenario. But shows how valuable he is.
He got some Gino Smith, some Sam Howell, some Pacheco,
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but Aaron Jones is the name that stands out for me.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yes, yeah, I think Jones is borderline top five, Like
you can make a case that you can you can
put him into Harmon's top five even I think the
matchup is there, the offense is going to try to
get it going through him. Absolutely so love the Aaron
Jones plays a Flowers. We've talked about plenty on this podcast,
and he is steadily taking over that number one receiving
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option alongside Mark Andrews for the Raiders. For the Ravens,
excuse me, so I expect him to fully still get
a very strong workload, and with all the buys this week,
he's an easy wide receiver two for me.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Let's get to the cold soars, the guys that you
don't want to touch, you don't want to see, You
may want to get out of your lineup. The cold
source for week seven in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
You know what's the old saying, you get no Laurel
Crown for out running a burrow. Yeah, we got to
go big game hunting here, and we've got three quarterbacks
right off the jump, you're gonna start them and the
entire time you're gonna sit on the edge of your seat.
We talked a bunch on the Baltimore side of the
offense and plays there. Jared Goff's a guy. I'm a
little nervous this week going against Baltimore. Thus far, through
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six weeks, they have been the stingiest defense against opposing quarterbacks,
giving up a little more than ten fantasy points per game.
How about Justin Herbert against Kansas City, Kansas City, we
talk about Mahomes and Kelsey and Swift and all of
this fun stuff. Never mind what that defense has been
able to do. And slowly but surely the guys they
let go they're bringing back for the cost of spare parts.
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It's brilliant Veach and company getting it done. But for
Justin Herbert, it's keenan Allen and what and what not
a whole lot of faith in the secondary options. And
even going back to Monday night with the injury. On
the offhand, some struggles with the handling the football, and
then Herbert air mailing several big wide open throws. I'm
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nervous here in a game against Case, even though you've
got a robust over under a forty eight and a half,
this one, I'm a little nervous about what I've got.
And then Josh Allen against New England, because well, New England,
even with injuries, even with the losses of a couple
of big defensive players, Bill Belichick still knows defense. He
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may have picked a lot of the wrong groceries, but
once they're air he makes some pretty decent gulash when
it's all said and done. How about Naji Harris, because
I don't trust him. Jalen Warren, the better back going
against the Rams. Ten against running backs, Zach Moss against Cleveland.
We see what Cleveland can do to erase you, and
fearful that we start seeing more of Jonathan Taylor and
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we see a little bit of a flip there. But
certainly we watched that Cleveland defense. I think everybody against
San Francisco got a taste to what we've been talking
about on the podcast for weeks and on I are
at Fox Sports Radio. They're good now, they just need
an offense to match them. Finally, a couple of wide
receivers Mike Evans against Atlanta, their fifth best against opposing
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wide receivers, and then Jordan Addison, who we've loved against
the aforementioned San Francisco forty nine ers. Lots of issues,
lots of injuries, but all on the offense, so a
difficult task for Captain Kirk to navigate this week.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Jared Goff, one of the hottest quarterbacks for the Lions
going up against that Ravens defense. Not necessarily surprising there.
I'm a bit surprised to see Justin Herbert. A lot
of big names on this list, we think Chargers and
Chiefs big time numbers in their previous matchups. Herbert seemed
to be tied up by that Cowboys defense on Monday Night.
Mike thinks it could carry over to Sunday.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah yeah, really big names on this list, especially looking
at Goff. Last week was really the first time where
he had a very strong performance on the road this season.
Throughout the entire season, it's been tough to start him
on the road, but at home he's been a smash play.
I expect him especially given this matchup. The Ravens are
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a very difficult team for fantasy quarterbacks, so I would
expect him to definitely take a step back this week,
but then you know he's back home the following week,
so he's a smash play then. Naji Harris, I mean,
talk about a cold soar for the season. It's I
see so many teams in pretty much in all of
my leagues, everybody who has Naji Harris is not starting
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him this week. Even with all the teams that are
on by, even with the secondary running backs you're having
to go to, it is really tough going for Naji Harris.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I feel in in normal leagues, and when I say
normal there are some like my longtime league where we
only have ten teams, and honestly, there's some weeks where
you don't play George Pickens, But in pretty much most
leagues you're playing George Pickens. And I don't know if
i'd want to play any Steeler. I got to play
Deontae Johnson. He's coming back. It's great news, but I
don't think that so I know, Naja Harris is not
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the great running back that we thought he would be
as a first round pick. But honestly, the entire Steelers
offense really does nothing for me at all.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, and I don't blame you. There's really nothing exciting there.
Pat Fryermuth has gotten ya nothing at tight end. It's
been you know, even with Jalen Warren's kind of a
surgence in the backfield, he's still not really a fantasy
viable starter in.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
The good news is is if you don't play any Steelers,
you don't have to watch their games, So that's even better. Sorry,
Steeler fans. Let's get to the Ninjas. Mike Harmon's secret
plays four. Week seven, we go.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
To the Ninjas and this is where we start. You know,
bye weeks and injuries and ineffectiveness. And let's face it,
if you're teams toward the bottom. I've actually got a
team that's yet to win yet. How about that? And
I said the word yet multiple times. Is the fact
that you start getting desperate and the waiver wire, depending
on your league settings, could be Well, we did that
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podcast earlier in the week. Go back and look at
that one. But we find some strange bedfellows, shall we say?
First off, Jordan Love the opportunity against Denver immense. Also
for Christian Watson, let's go start them up and have
an opportunity. Here on the other side of that, Javonte
Williams getting his job back. We're looking at a Green
Bay defense for all the steps forward they may be
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taking and Burshinger maybe laughing at this, they still are
very generous against opposing running backs. And Williams, with his
job full in tow and we can look for fifteen touches,
should get some results. Tyson Pagent does a guy have
to put out there in Chicago? I had to leave
the dramatic pause because you said what and you wanted
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to hit rewind. Look, you saw a couple of big
throws to Scott Obviously, the pop gun bailing out at
the end for the interception to DJ Moore leaves you
a little concern. Did stick the ball into tight spots
a couple of times, but against Las Vegas an opportunity.
Let's face it, if you have justin fields on your squad,
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you went in early on a quarterback, and maybe you
didn't draft a backup, or you're in a two QB
league or one of these super flexes or whatever else. Desperation.
We did see that he can run a little bit.
You got the comet push from behind that got him
into the end zone. But against Vegas you might have
an act of desperation here that gets you over enough
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about that, Maybe I'm just selling myself. Maybe you should
just ignore that altogether. Zach Evan's going up against Pittsburgh's
seventh most fantasy points per game allowed to opposing running backs.
How about Wilson the Cardinals going up against Seattle tied
for the worst against wide receivers, and Rashid Rice going
up against the Chargers. We talked about him earlier in
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their struggles defensively in the back seven Mahomes still looking
to find some continuity with receivers downfield Rice, one of
those throw it up because remember you've got Cincinnati, Dallas, Tennessee,
the Jets in Carolina on buys and yes, you say
some of those names and you start to chuckle, and
then you think about it's like, no, there are actually
some fantasy viable players that have to sit this one
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out for fantasy purposes. Hopefully we see more love, more
end zones than we did a week ago.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Now Here we go, Rashi Rice making a name for himself,
Mike's last Ninja, but Zach Evans good old popcorn arm
Tyson Bagent. That's Mike's words again if you listen to
the podcast earlier, I am not but Mike likes him
this week against the Raiders. And then you got a
bunch of love specifically Jordan Love and others from that
Packer Broncos game.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah, yeah, you're you're hoping for a lot of points
there in Packers Broncos. Hopefully the Broncos also are in
a situation where they can start to get that moving
pretty well. You know, you can definitely run on the Packers.
So I would expect to see Williams to move back
into startable running back territory. I like Zach Evans a lot.
I'm hoping that he does in fact be their belcow
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in Kyron Williams's absence. Of course, they've got other options,
but none of them Royce Freeman, even Darryl Henderson's back
on their practice squad. Like, there's really not many other
exciting options there, so you might as well give the
ball to the rookie and see what happens. And Rashi
Rice is steadily improving, and he's steadily climbing up as
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a very strong wide receiver option. By the end of
the season, he could be an every week starter, given
of course it's the Chiefs offense and he's been acclimating
to that offense rather well.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
There they are Harmon's rankings and I plays Cold Soores
and Ninjas for Week seven in the NFL. When we
come back, we'll wrap up this podcast. I'll give you
one reason to start in, one reason to bench one
player in week seven. That's next year, and I want
your flex. All right, let's wrap this up so we
can get to the games in week seven, or at
least get to your weekend. My final portion of the podcast,
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he's Mike Carmon, get him at swollen Dome. That's Ryan
bersching our executive producer at Ryan Berschinger. You can find
me at Dan Byer on Fox. I'll give you one
reason to start a guy in one reason to bench
a guy, and I am going to Barry Horowitz this
pat myself on the back from last week's picks. Told
you to start Jacoby Myers got into the end zone
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against his former team. Five catches, sixty one yards and
a touchdown. I told you to bench George Kittle one reception,
one yard against the Cleveland Browns. We told you we
did not like that matchup offensively for San Francisco, and
I think it paid off. So now let's make it
back to back weeks, and I'm giving you one reason
to start. And I can't believe I'm going to do this,
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but I am going to tell you to start Dk
Metcalf of the Seattle Sea Eawks. Now, you normally would
do this, but let's be real. DK's numbers have been overwhelming.
You now have a situation where his personal foul penalties
have become a problem. Yet defiant towards the media this week.
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There is also some questions about if Gino Smith is
hitting his guys hitting Jackson Smith and Jigba getting the
ball to DK Metcalf. Because DK Metcalf is continuing to talk,
I think the Seahawks try to play nice and say,
guess what, squeaky wheel gets the oil. So this week
I think the Seahawks will make a conscious effort to
try to get DK Metcalf the ball they should against
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the Arizona Cardinals. So expect DK Metcalf to break out
of his funk this season in this Sunday's game against
the Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I like it. I'm hoping for a strong performance from
DK personally and Harmon had Gino Smith in his Ninjas.
I know I talked up the Rams Cardinals last week
as a game that I thought was gonna be pretty
high scoring, and it wasn't as high scoring as we
hope for. But I'm running it back with Josh Dobbs
again this week, so I am hoping for another high
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scoring affair for the Cardinals Seahawks here.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
I know that the Seahawks are going to be a
popular pick and the survivor pool portion of this it
scares me a little bit. Just division game again. I
think the Seahawks defense will be okay. I don't think
they're gonna shut down Dobbs completely, but I think they'll
be okay. But I do think that this number of
eight is the spread is something that I would jump
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all over. Arizona on might give you one reason to
bench a guy. I just it's more of I mean,
the opportunities are really starting to be there. Seven targets
a couple of weeks ago, nine targets this past two
weeks ago, twelve targets this past week. But I think
defensively in their matchup, this is gonna be the toughest
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one they're gonna face. I'm benching Drake London of the
Atlanta Falcons going up against Tampa. I know Tampa wasn't
great against Detroit. It's more of a Detroit thing. I
still believe in Tampa's defense, and I believe in that
defense against Desmond Ritter. So, despite coming off of that
one hundred and twenty five yard game off of nine
catches against the Commanders, even though I feel that the
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Falcons could trail in this game, I just don't think
they're going to get a lot against Tampa. So bench
Drake London this week against the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, on the flip side of that Cardinal Seahawks game.
This Falcons Bucks game feels like a game that's going
to be pretty low scoring, that feels like neither offense
is really truly going to get things going. Harmon agrees.
You know you had Mike Evans and the Cold soars
and yeah, so I think that, Yeah, I would not
be surprised to see a very low output from that game.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
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Speaker 4 (00:34):
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Week seven again, major buys this week Bengals, Cowboys, Titans, Jets, Panthers,
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Texans all off. So you'll want to get those players
on any of those teams out of your lineups, and
you'll want to get these players in your lineups. Mike
Carmon take it away. Your top five quarterbacks for Week seven.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Let's get it on and some of the usual suspects.
Just let's jumble them up for good measure. You got
my homes going against the Chargers' worst defense against quarterbacks
for fantasy purposes. No, I don't expect suddenly a massive
re emergence of McCole Hardman running around out there. But
you do look at the Chargers. If you can avoid
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the oncoming pass rush mac and Bosa, if he's ready
to go, then you've got plenty of time against that secondary.
And I'm expecting them to get right in this one
downfield Lamar Jackson in the matchup everybody wants to watch
against Detroit. Eventually the receivers will get the stick of
I sent them in Baltimore and make some plays. Middling
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defense fantasy wise thus far, the Lions again pass rush
and men, so expect the escapability of Lamar Jackson to
help you out from a fantasy perspective. Jalalen Hurts going
up against the Miami Dolphins. They given up about nineteen
fantasy points per game. Again, this one might be a
little bit of a track meet. We've got a lot
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of low over unders over the course of the week,
not this one. Fifty one The total as we sit
down to record this, which means we get to the
other side of it. In Tua, I need a suit
and a seven figure income to tell you, hey, you
know when a guy gets the ball in his hands,
he runs fast and he goes away. No, that does
not diminish the system the player. I like McDaniel getting
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ready to throw down a podium when the suggestion was there.
Philadelphia fifth most fantasy points allowed per game. Two quarterbacks
and finally a little bit of a shocker. Why cause
I'm looking at their schedule and suddenly ub scratching my head,
going this could get fun team that we thought was
gonna be left for dead. How about matt Stafford going
up against the Steelers secondary has been beatable. You got Cup,
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you got Nikou. Well, we will have to worry about
what happens with no Kiron Williams, but we'll get to
that a little later here. But for Matthew Stafford, an
opportunity to go put up some numbers, and sometimes you
gotta outthink the room. I'm gonna do it here, all right.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
You got that great Sunday night showdown Eagles and Dolphins
from Philadelphia. Two of those quarterbacks making up forty percent
of Mike's top five, and you have Pack and Patrick
Mahomes a top the rankings because you know, chiefs charges
is usually pretty entertaining.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, you'll notice there's gonna be a lot of mentions
to that Eagles Dolphins game throughout this episode. It's a
fifty one point total. Obviously, it's two of the best
offenses in the league with secondaries that you can throw on.
So yeah, it hurts to a great plays. I'm also
very high on matt Stafford. I'm hoping to see a
good production out of him this week, and so I
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like the inclusion of him here in the top five.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Rams need some help at running back and maybe they
can get helped by Matthew Stafford's arms. Speaking of running backs,
let's get to the top five running backs Harmon has
for Week seven.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
All right, at the running back position, this has been
a mass quarterbacks. I've been nails through the first six weeks,
feeling pretty good. I did not have a twelve to
two to one record against the spread, you know, looking
to unders at all. But when we look at the
running back position this week, you got Kenneth Walker the
third going up against Arizona. Opportunity knocks the Arizona Cardinals.
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We love the try hard, play hard kind of squad
that they are. But you've got an opportunity here, the
third worst fantasy defense against opposing running backs, an opportunity
for Walker to make some hay here. Raheem Mostert has
been unstoppable. He's running wild. Dare I say it like
nineteen eighty five era Hulk Hogan right now? More touchdown
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runs than well, a bunch of teams have touchdowns through
this point in the year. How about DeAndre Swift? He
let us down last week. See, we're just gonna go
flip them and go the other way. Look for a
workload going up against the Miami Dolphins, middling against opposing
running thus far, given about nineteen and a half fantasy
points per game. Look for him to get involved and
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that offensive line to get back in full effect. And
we look at Brian Robinson going up against the Giants.
Did they have their Super Bowl last week? Maybe? Maybe not,
but they are the team most sixth most generous to
opposing running backs. And let's face it, last week with Buffalo,
you don't really expect a whole lot of anything. We
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saw suddenly James Cook wasn't on the field for large
chunks of time, confusing Brian Dable riddled me this and
then the last one because it's a bit of a
price shot and it stings me in the heart to
watch Josh Jacobs have one of those breakout games against
the Chicago Bears. Look, it's the anonymous quarterback battle. Although
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Tyson Bagents is really making himself some friends at the
podium and with his rape techniques. But for the Raiders,
you're looking at an opportunity here to make some Hey,
what has been a terrible Bears defense. Fourth mores generous
against opposing rushers. Josh Jacobs will make people remember twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
All right, Josh Jacobs makes sense. No Jimmy garoppolo for
the Raiders in that game against the Bears where you
should get something. But how about Brian Robinson making an
appearance as that you have a divisional matchup between the
Commanders and Giants coming up on Sunday. Robinson appears in
this top five.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
And of course a very strong omission here, and that is,
of course because of the health status of one Christian McCaffrey.
We're not seeing him in this top five because we
quite frankly, don't know in terms of what amount of
workload we're going to even see. And if it's not
CMC getting the heavy amount of workload, is it Elijah Mitchell,
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Is it Jordan Mason. It's been Jordan Mason for the
last couple of weeks, but that's because Mitchell's health has
also been in question. Apparently ahead of last week, you
saw Jordan Mason get the reps instead of Christian McCaffrey
because the that Mitchell only practice one day after coming
back from his injury, so Mason was the first man
up there. I anticipated Elijah Mitchell to be the first
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man up now that he seems to be fully healthy,
but we will see in terms of just how much
he's used. He's probably still startable even if Christian McCaffrey
does give it a go.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I just thought Mike was really high on that stout
Vikings run defense being sarcastic.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Sorry, Vikings fans, there is no justin Jefferson. He's hurt,
so you're not gonna hear any Vikings in this Wide
Receiver top five rankings. You may later on in the episode,
Mike gets your top five wideouts for week seven.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
All right, well, continue to love. As you can tell.
I'm really excited about that fifty one total in that
Miami in Philadelphia game, one of your games of the week,
and AJ Brown has been on a heater. Let's continue
it here against Miami. Miami has top ten as in
tenth most fantasy points burg to opposing wide receivers. You've
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got DeVante Smith a little bit banged up, so kind
of looking to see where the other threats in the
receiving game are. Dallas Goddard. I'd just be force feeding
AJ Brown and doing everything I can to get him
the ball. Cooper Cup going up against Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh the
fourth most fantasy points allowed to wide receivers. Now you
got a little bit of a pick your poison going
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on with him in Nikua, but the target count remains.
And then's Tyreek Hill going up against Philly. Notice the theme.
They're just top five all across the board. Philly six
month fantasy points allowed to wide receivers. Hill and Waddle
should feast in this one. Stefan Diggs going up against
New England. Yeah, the New England's got I think I
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might get called up to run some snaps I've got
a pretty good first step backward anyway. The number of
people on the injury lists for New England stagger at
this point, and Stefan Diggs, Josh Allen still working on
that rapport opportunity here against a wounded New England squad.
And finally I mentioned Josh Jacobs. In the running back side,
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DeVante Adams is piping up about wanting his numbers, wanting
to be great, and all this other stuff which means
feed me the damn ball. He might as well have
been holding up Keishawn's book poster size in his pressers
this week, trying to get himself some love, and against
the Bears secondary that has just been abysmal. See I'm
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being kind. Abysmal's not too terrible a word. It's an
opportunity for Adams. Doesn't matter who's winging the ball out
there in this one, get it into his hands early
and often.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
There it is. So you are right, there's eagles and
dolphins in all of these bursts. We had it in
the quarterbacks. We had it in the running backs with
most dirt and swift, And now you're sitting there, you've
got a j Brown atop the rankings. Tyreek Hill is third.
No surprise with that matchup on Sunday Night.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It's gonna be interesting to see what the Raiders do
with DeVante Adams this week. Of course, coming out talking
yesterday about how he wants to be more involved in
the game plan. He wants to see more looks. He
understands that sometimes secondaries are are more focused on him,
but he wants to help the team win, and quite frankly,
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he wants his own stats to be what helps the
team wins.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Would you start if you're the Raiders, would you start
Aidan O'Connell or would you start Brian Hoyer.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I'd probably go with O'Connell just to continue to give
him a look. Yeah, yeah, just because of pure potential. There.
You know what you have with Brian Hoyer. He's the
career backup at this point.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
So this is the dilemma because it has changed. It's
changed throughout the weeks. I mean, honestly, Aid O'Connell got
to start against the Chargers a couple of weeks ago,
and Jimmy G was out, Jimmy G returns and then
Jimmy G leaves the game against the Patriots. Well, Brian
Hoyer was listed as the backup quarterback and O'Connell was
the emergency. So then Hoyer goes into replace because he
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had the backup role. It wasn't like O'Connell was put
into that spot. So it is and now you've got
a week of practice, knowing that Jimmy g is not
going to play, do you go back to Aidan O'Connell.
The other question is this team right now at three
and three is actually in the playoff Hunt's true, so
do you even risk I don't know if it's not
that much of a risk to play Aidan O'Connell. It's
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just the point of I'm curious on how they will
approach it if they feel that Brian Hoyer will be
the guy just to write the ship, or they just
don't like Aidan O'Connell not coming in without a full
week of reps in practice. And so I would think
O'Connell would start against the Bears, And at the time
of this recording, we don't officially know, but that seems
to be the plan that they're not going to put
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O'Connell in there unless he's fully prepared to make that start.
All right, Raiders and Bears, that barn Burner bagent against O'Connell.
If we have our Druthers coming up on Sunday, you
may hear popcorn arm later on in this episode. Mike's
words not mine. It's all next here and I want
your flex time now for Arbyn's top plays for week seven. Again,
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if you're just new to the podcast, these are guys
that you don't have in your top five, but you
may want to play this week because of favorable matchups.
Mike Carmon, take it away.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Let's go. Sam Howell going up against the Giants mentioned
it before they had their Super Bowl last week. We've
seen them give up chunk plays all over the place.
Now you have an opportunity to get after it here.
From a quarterback standpoint, fantasy wise, they're mid lower mid
in terms of points allowed per game, but we're seeing
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how he's comfortable winging it around to get Curtis Samuel
back involved. Didn't think you'd be thinking about him on
a waiver wire pickup, now, did you, But certainly all
sorts of opportunities there. Gino Smith going up against Arizona
fifth most generous against opposing quarterbacks. Gino is one of
those guys that has become a polarizing force once again
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here in Fantasy twenty twenty three. Although at the quarterback position,
how many guys do you really trust? That's a whole
larger discussion, and maybe we could do it, Robert Stackwise.
You know, like unsolved mysteries where it's in an alleyway
and it's black and white. Now we're in the trench coat.
We'll solve those problems another time. Isaiah Pacheco going up
against the Chargers, we know about their woes against the
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Ron Jerome Ford going up against Indianapolis, yep, opportunity. We're
not sure about Deshaun Watson just yet or whether it's
more of the PJ. Walker show, but we know the
defense will be there in full force, and Ford with
a heavy workload, even with Kareem Hunt creeping in, still
remains one of our top plays this week. Aaron Jones,
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if you're ever going to get it right, this is
not to do the old Hey He's due. It's more
just opponent based and an opportunity here against the Denver Broncos,
a couple of wide receivers real quick, Brandon Ayuk going
up against Minnesota and their secondary and then Zay Flowers
going up against Detroit, starting to get some run. Another
game over under only forty three in this one, but
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he is the most trusted target outside of Mark Andrews
for Lamar Jackson looking for that Baltimore offense to start
to click.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Aaron Jones appears on this list, and we've talked about
throughout the pod. Ryan Berschinger that Aaron Jones is the
difference maker in the Packers. It's why I pick the
Packers in a survivor pool if he's healthy, because I
think that he is the difference to them. If Aaron
Jones wouldn't play against Denver, I would not pick Green
Bay in that scenario. But shows how valuable he is.
He got some Gino Smith, some Sam Howell, some Pacheco,
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but Aaron Jones is the name that stands out for me.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yes, yeah, I think Jones is borderline top five, Like
you can make a case that you can you can
put him into Harmon's top five even I think the
matchup is there, the offense is going to try to
get it going through him. Absolutely so love the Aaron
Jones plays a Flowers. We've talked about plenty on this podcast,
and he is steadily taking over that number one receiving
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option alongside Mark Andrews for the Raiders. For the Ravens,
excuse me, so I expect him to fully still get
a very strong workload, and with all the buys this week,
he's an easy wide receiver two for me.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Let's get to the cold soars, the guys that you
don't want to touch, you don't want to see, You
may want to get out of your lineup. The cold
source for week seven in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
You know what's the old saying, you get no Laurel
Crown for out running a burrow. Yeah, we got to
go big game hunting here, and we've got three quarterbacks
right off the jump, you're gonna start them and the
entire time you're gonna sit on the edge of your seat.
We talked a bunch on the Baltimore side of the
offense and plays there. Jared Goff's a guy. I'm a
little nervous this week going against Baltimore. Thus far, through
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six weeks, they have been the stingiest defense against opposing quarterbacks,
giving up a little more than ten fantasy points per game.
How about Justin Herbert against Kansas City, Kansas City, we
talk about Mahomes and Kelsey and Swift and all of
this fun stuff. Never mind what that defense has been
able to do. And slowly but surely the guys they
let go they're bringing back for the cost of spare parts.
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It's brilliant Veach and company getting it done. But for
Justin Herbert, it's keenan Allen and what and what not
a whole lot of faith in the secondary options. And
even going back to Monday night with the injury. On
the offhand, some struggles with the handling the football, and
then Herbert air mailing several big wide open throws. I'm
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nervous here in a game against Case, even though you've
got a robust over under a forty eight and a half,
this one, I'm a little nervous about what I've got.
And then Josh Allen against New England, because well, New England,
even with injuries, even with the losses of a couple
of big defensive players, Bill Belichick still knows defense. He
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may have picked a lot of the wrong groceries, but
once they're air he makes some pretty decent gulash when
it's all said and done. How about Naji Harris, because
I don't trust him. Jalen Warren, the better back going
against the Rams. Ten against running backs, Zach Moss against Cleveland.
We see what Cleveland can do to erase you, and
fearful that we start seeing more of Jonathan Taylor and
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we see a little bit of a flip there. But
certainly we watched that Cleveland defense. I think everybody against
San Francisco got a taste to what we've been talking
about on the podcast for weeks and on I are
at Fox Sports Radio. They're good now, they just need
an offense to match them. Finally, a couple of wide
receivers Mike Evans against Atlanta, their fifth best against opposing
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wide receivers, and then Jordan Addison, who we've loved against
the aforementioned San Francisco forty nine ers. Lots of issues,
lots of injuries, but all on the offense, so a
difficult task for Captain Kirk to navigate this week.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Jared Goff, one of the hottest quarterbacks for the Lions
going up against that Ravens defense. Not necessarily surprising there.
I'm a bit surprised to see Justin Herbert. A lot
of big names on this list, we think Chargers and
Chiefs big time numbers in their previous matchups. Herbert seemed
to be tied up by that Cowboys defense on Monday Night.
Mike thinks it could carry over to Sunday.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah yeah, really big names on this list, especially looking
at Goff. Last week was really the first time where
he had a very strong performance on the road this season.
Throughout the entire season, it's been tough to start him
on the road, but at home he's been a smash play.
I expect him especially given this matchup. The Ravens are
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a very difficult team for fantasy quarterbacks, so I would
expect him to definitely take a step back this week,
but then you know he's back home the following week,
so he's a smash play then. Naji Harris, I mean,
talk about a cold soar for the season. It's I
see so many teams in pretty much in all of
my leagues, everybody who has Naji Harris is not starting
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him this week. Even with all the teams that are
on by, even with the secondary running backs you're having
to go to, it is really tough going for Naji Harris.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I feel in in normal leagues, and when I say
normal there are some like my longtime league where we
only have ten teams, and honestly, there's some weeks where
you don't play George Pickens, But in pretty much most
leagues you're playing George Pickens. And I don't know if
i'd want to play any Steeler. I got to play
Deontae Johnson. He's coming back. It's great news, but I
don't think that so I know, Naja Harris is not
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the great running back that we thought he would be
as a first round pick. But honestly, the entire Steelers
offense really does nothing for me at all.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, and I don't blame you. There's really nothing exciting there.
Pat Fryermuth has gotten ya nothing at tight end. It's
been you know, even with Jalen Warren's kind of a
surgence in the backfield, he's still not really a fantasy
viable starter in.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
The good news is is if you don't play any Steelers,
you don't have to watch their games, So that's even better. Sorry,
Steeler fans. Let's get to the Ninjas. Mike Harmon's secret
plays four. Week seven, we go.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
To the Ninjas and this is where we start. You know,
bye weeks and injuries and ineffectiveness. And let's face it,
if you're teams toward the bottom. I've actually got a
team that's yet to win yet. How about that? And
I said the word yet multiple times. Is the fact
that you start getting desperate and the waiver wire, depending
on your league settings, could be Well, we did that
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podcast earlier in the week. Go back and look at
that one. But we find some strange bedfellows, shall we say?
First off, Jordan Love the opportunity against Denver immense. Also
for Christian Watson, let's go start them up and have
an opportunity. Here on the other side of that, Javonte
Williams getting his job back. We're looking at a Green
Bay defense for all the steps forward they may be
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taking and Burshinger maybe laughing at this, they still are
very generous against opposing running backs. And Williams, with his
job full in tow and we can look for fifteen touches,
should get some results. Tyson Pagent does a guy have
to put out there in Chicago? I had to leave
the dramatic pause because you said what and you wanted
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to hit rewind. Look, you saw a couple of big
throws to Scott Obviously, the pop gun bailing out at
the end for the interception to DJ Moore leaves you
a little concern. Did stick the ball into tight spots
a couple of times, but against Las Vegas an opportunity.
Let's face it, if you have justin fields on your squad,
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you went in early on a quarterback, and maybe you
didn't draft a backup, or you're in a two QB
league or one of these super flexes or whatever else. Desperation.
We did see that he can run a little bit.
You got the comet push from behind that got him
into the end zone. But against Vegas you might have
an act of desperation here that gets you over enough
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about that, Maybe I'm just selling myself. Maybe you should
just ignore that altogether. Zach Evan's going up against Pittsburgh's
seventh most fantasy points per game allowed to opposing running backs.
How about Wilson the Cardinals going up against Seattle tied
for the worst against wide receivers, and Rashid Rice going
up against the Chargers. We talked about him earlier in
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their struggles defensively in the back seven Mahomes still looking
to find some continuity with receivers downfield Rice, one of
those throw it up because remember you've got Cincinnati, Dallas, Tennessee,
the Jets in Carolina on buys and yes, you say
some of those names and you start to chuckle, and
then you think about it's like, no, there are actually
some fantasy viable players that have to sit this one
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out for fantasy purposes. Hopefully we see more love, more
end zones than we did a week ago.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Now Here we go, Rashi Rice making a name for himself,
Mike's last Ninja, but Zach Evans good old popcorn arm
Tyson Bagent. That's Mike's words again if you listen to
the podcast earlier, I am not but Mike likes him
this week against the Raiders. And then you got a
bunch of love specifically Jordan Love and others from that
Packer Broncos game.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah, yeah, you're you're hoping for a lot of points
there in Packers Broncos. Hopefully the Broncos also are in
a situation where they can start to get that moving
pretty well. You know, you can definitely run on the Packers.
So I would expect to see Williams to move back
into startable running back territory. I like Zach Evans a lot.
I'm hoping that he does in fact be their belcow
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in Kyron Williams's absence. Of course, they've got other options,
but none of them Royce Freeman, even Darryl Henderson's back
on their practice squad. Like, there's really not many other
exciting options there, so you might as well give the
ball to the rookie and see what happens. And Rashi
Rice is steadily improving, and he's steadily climbing up as
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a very strong wide receiver option. By the end of
the season, he could be an every week starter, given
of course it's the Chiefs offense and he's been acclimating
to that offense rather well.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
There they are Harmon's rankings and I plays Cold Soores
and Ninjas for Week seven in the NFL. When we
come back, we'll wrap up this podcast. I'll give you
one reason to start in, one reason to bench one
player in week seven. That's next year, and I want
your flex. All right, let's wrap this up so we
can get to the games in week seven, or at
least get to your weekend. My final portion of the podcast,
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he's Mike Carmon, get him at swollen Dome. That's Ryan
bersching our executive producer at Ryan Berschinger. You can find
me at Dan Byer on Fox. I'll give you one
reason to start a guy in one reason to bench
a guy, and I am going to Barry Horowitz this
pat myself on the back from last week's picks. Told
you to start Jacoby Myers got into the end zone
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against his former team. Five catches, sixty one yards and
a touchdown. I told you to bench George Kittle one reception,
one yard against the Cleveland Browns. We told you we
did not like that matchup offensively for San Francisco, and
I think it paid off. So now let's make it
back to back weeks, and I'm giving you one reason
to start. And I can't believe I'm going to do this,
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but I am going to tell you to start Dk
Metcalf of the Seattle Sea Eawks. Now, you normally would
do this, but let's be real. DK's numbers have been overwhelming.
You now have a situation where his personal foul penalties
have become a problem. Yet defiant towards the media this week.
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There is also some questions about if Gino Smith is
hitting his guys hitting Jackson Smith and Jigba getting the
ball to DK Metcalf. Because DK Metcalf is continuing to talk,
I think the Seahawks try to play nice and say,
guess what, squeaky wheel gets the oil. So this week
I think the Seahawks will make a conscious effort to
try to get DK Metcalf the ball they should against
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the Arizona Cardinals. So expect DK Metcalf to break out
of his funk this season in this Sunday's game against
the Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I like it. I'm hoping for a strong performance from
DK personally and Harmon had Gino Smith in his Ninjas.
I know I talked up the Rams Cardinals last week
as a game that I thought was gonna be pretty
high scoring, and it wasn't as high scoring as we
hope for. But I'm running it back with Josh Dobbs
again this week, so I am hoping for another high
(26:06):
scoring affair for the Cardinals Seahawks here.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
I know that the Seahawks are going to be a
popular pick and the survivor pool portion of this it
scares me a little bit. Just division game again. I
think the Seahawks defense will be okay. I don't think
they're gonna shut down Dobbs completely, but I think they'll
be okay. But I do think that this number of
eight is the spread is something that I would jump
(26:31):
all over. Arizona on might give you one reason to
bench a guy. I just it's more of I mean,
the opportunities are really starting to be there. Seven targets
a couple of weeks ago, nine targets this past two
weeks ago, twelve targets this past week. But I think
defensively in their matchup, this is gonna be the toughest
(26:52):
one they're gonna face. I'm benching Drake London of the
Atlanta Falcons going up against Tampa. I know Tampa wasn't
great against Detroit. It's more of a Detroit thing. I
still believe in Tampa's defense, and I believe in that
defense against Desmond Ritter. So, despite coming off of that
one hundred and twenty five yard game off of nine
catches against the Commanders, even though I feel that the
(27:12):
Falcons could trail in this game, I just don't think
they're going to get a lot against Tampa. So bench
Drake London this week against the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, on the flip side of that Cardinal Seahawks game.
This Falcons Bucks game feels like a game that's going
to be pretty low scoring, that feels like neither offense
is really truly going to get things going. Harmon agrees.
You know you had Mike Evans and the Cold soars
and yeah, so I think that, Yeah, I would not
be surprised to see a very low output from that game.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
So there, it is my reason to start DK Metcalf
and bench Drake London for you here, and I want
your flex. We appreciate your loyalty. We love hearing from
you on social media again. Hit me up at Dan
Byer on Fox, get Mike, get swollen dub and Ryan Bersinger,
executive producer at Ryan Bersinger Best of luck a week seven.
I'm gonna be gone for a couple of days version
and Mike will end up taking the reins. But I
(28:03):
can't wait to talk to you again right here, and
I want your flex
Speaker 3 (28:10):
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