Week 8 Studs & Duds + Monday FUNday, Ready to Roll - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/28
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Monday edition, Jason Moore, Mike Wright, Andy Holloway back with you. What a weekend. That was awesome. Bears fans looking like the D Wade statue this morning. Oh, a gas at the Hail Mary. That was, um, it's fun to be on the winning side of that, but it's devastating. If you're on the other end, I mean, uh,

I remember the Cardinals in the, was it the playoff game or the Packer game where Aaron Rodgers and Jeff Janis and, I mean, you just feel like you've been cheated. Yeah, because you won the game, but then you didn't. However, in that specific game, it really felt like the commanders, they were going to beat the tar out of the Bears. And it was like unfair that the Bears were going to sneak out a win. So I kind of was okay with it, especially considering that the commanders were at home. If there is a,

If there is a Hail Mary changed a loss into a victory, I always want that to be at the home. For the people? Yeah, because otherwise it's like, you know, just 80,000 people just destroyed. Just go home sad, everybody. All you family members and kids that came out here to watch this lovely game you love, eat it. Go home. No, I want them to do what they did and go home and have a lifelong memory of I was at that.

Yeah, yeah. It was – and you had the screenshots afterwards and the video afterwards of – Stevenson. Of Stevenson, the Bears cornerback, mid-play taunting the Commanders fans. Now, to his credit, he came out early this morning, apologized, you know, didn't double down on nothing there. But then he's the one that ran over and tipped the ball up in the air in the most comeuppance moment of –

If you haven't seen it, what happened on that play is there's like, you know, personal recordings from the stands of people watching. He is walking back towards the end zone. Facing away from the play. Facing away from the play, pointing at the crowd. And all of a sudden, you see the wide receivers from the commanders running towards the end zone. So he's like, oh, I should be part of this play. Then he runs over.

Tips the ball up in the air, which is a no-no. That's the no-no on the Hail Mary. You've got to bat it down. You don't tip it up. That's how you lose. But that was just one play of many this weekend. This was by far the most positive reaction to the weekend. Like the studs on today's studs and duds episode were

There's so many of them. Yeah, because we had actual offense. There was tons of offense. The Monday-Punday submissions, which are normally entirely marked by people's fury and disappointment and sadness, to like an 80-20, flipped the other direction completely this morning. A lot of people happy. I really think we should petition the NFL to make –

National tight end week, like every week. What about other positions? That's a good point. Yeah, national. Quarterback day, wide receiver day, running back day. National running back reception day. Oh, okay. Let's take it to the next level. You want to nuance this thing. Well, I want to fantasy this thing. I don't care about handoffs. No kicker day? Yeah. All fourth downs? I like it. The national go for it on fourth. Yeah. Yes, sir. But yesterday, 17 touchdowns to tight ends.

For the record, we had been averaging 7.4 touchdowns to the tight end position every week. So it's all fixed? I guess so. Every tight end is good? Yeah, no, it's great. Cool, cool. I'll definitely consider the position settled on my roster. Yes, we fixed it. All right, like I said, you guys submitted your reactions to the weekend via pun, and we were happy to see how many positive ones there were. Let's jump in.

I'll start it. Yes. With Ridley, believe it or not. Oh, I don't like this one. Cedric Thrillman destroyed me everywhere. Oh, Darnell Money. And Jason, I'll give you one of these. But Rad McConkie. Glad McConkie, baby. Oh, Cade Awesome. Cade Awesome. That's pretty good. I also saw Ottenheimer. Oh. Not bad. Oh. To Infinity. To Infinity.

And Devon. How about Jameis Winston? Or, whoa, Nix. And yay, Flowers. But they weren't all good. No, no. You had Breece Small. Jack Poopscott? I like that. And Troy Stanklin. Oh, Jason. And this week, it was the no bone zone.

Another one? Hey, Poop Douglas. Am I just all the poop? Tyler locked up. Yeah, you got Jordan Battison. Fake London. And my personal favorite of the day, Rico Dayquil. Rico Dayquil. Oh, man. Oh, that is. The stadium was fresh out of Dayquil. That is a mystery what's going on over there. Yeah, Dallas tried to come back.

They gave me a shot in our league of record. You mean CeeDee Lamb did? Yeah, I mean, I went into the night needing 35 points or 34 and a half points from CeeDee Lamb. So I was passively watching the game. And all of a sudden, every time I looked over, CeeDee was in the end zone. I lost by .9. Yeah. With the second most points scored in the league. So for those of you out there, because it was a big week fantasy points wise. So there were a lot of high scores, which means there were people that

We're in that boat, the same boat that I was in, where you scored a ton of points and you still took an L. So I'm trying to focus on the fact that my team scored a lot of points and there's a lot of football left. So there you go. Instagram at FantasyFootballers. Twitter at TheFFBallers if you want to submit your Monday Pundays for next week. Let's get into Ready to Roll. Welcome to Ready to Roll, presented by Nissan.

Eight weeks into the season, two months into the season, we have some data. We have some information. We know how things are going based on this draft strategy you might have selected. And one of the more popular, I guess, what would you call it? Like a detour strategy-wise? I mean, it's a contrarian strategy from the...

The general thinking and consensus, at least for how fantasy players have played historically, and I would say still for the most part they do. So we're talking about zero RB strategy, a theory that became in vogue years ago. Sean Siegel talking about avoiding fragility at the running back position, trying to find wide receivers, difference-making tight ends in the first six rounds, and then...

Looking to the running back position later on in the draft. Yeah, and there are... This is a method of drafting that absolutely can win. Has won many huge tournaments. A lot of times when you look at the big, massive tournament plays, 0RB sometimes wins because the positive outcome on the best case scenario is massive. But some years, it works really, really well. Some years...

It doesn't. And this year was very interesting leading in because there were so many wide receivers drafted in the first round. And usually it's the inverse. Usually it's all running backs and a couple wide receivers or a quarterback here or a tight end there. It's often the pendulum swings based off of what happened last year. And last year, the running backs, the early round running backs were extremely disappointing.

Our commentary on 0RB today, reflecting on the data through two months, is not meant to be any sort of decisive commentary on whether it's a good or bad strategy each and every year, but rather point out a little bit of the vulnerability of the strategy. Because we had several mock drafts that were run, and I'll point to one that Papa Josh did where he

navigated the zero RB. And, you know, you looked at a draft that we did in the off season where Harrison and Puka Nakua to start the draft, Kyler Murray, Sam Laporta, and then Amari Cooper, Terry McLaurin. So you go six rounds, no running back. And then you turn your attention to, you know, starters that have opportunities. And at the time when he made this draft, this was a really well executed zero RB example of trying to get the late round running backs that

Might be better than you think. But if you ended up with, like he went four running backs at that point, rounds seven through 11, Zemir White, Zach Moss. Nope. Jerome Ford. It started okay for Zach Moss. Jerome Ford, obviously, kind of dealt with injury, some oddities with the playing time, and then Rico Dowdle. And so I guess the point being,

The way it's worked out this year, like if you look at running backs taken round seven or later and the fantasy points per game, there are a few, the Chuba Hubbards, Brian Robinson, Tony Pollard's been okay. J.K. Dobbins you found late and found some opportunities. And Jordan Mason, if you happen to be drafting late enough to know, you know, Elijah Mitchell was injured and Jordan Mason was going to be the guy. The...

The reality is that it was a little bit more threading the needle this year to get it right. And, you know, it's tough because it's the hardest position to find

on the waiver wire throughout the season to find, you know, long-term viability. Now it looks like maybe Chuba will be that, right? Chuba, Jonathan Brooks may not come back this year. Maybe Chuba Hubbard will be one of those few, but think about all the other names that people invested into that thought they might find that opportunity. You can look to rookies, right? You can look to Blake Corum and Trey Benson who haven't been able to produce. You can look at

Ty Chandler, who you thought was maybe going to get a 50-50 shot with Aaron Jones, hasn't happened. Marshawn Lloyd, another rookie. Jalen McLaughlin, a committee back that didn't work out. Jalen Warren hasn't been able to get it going. Eckler not really getting it going. Tajay Spears. A lot of these zero RB running backs this year, around seven or later, it hasn't worked out. And on the other side of the coin, the teams that are winning right now,

They've got those foundational backs that were invested into the Saquon Barclays, Jameer Gibbs, Henry, Kyron, Jacobs, the top tier running backs for the most part have stayed healthy. There have been misses. Yeah. I mean, a lot of the injuries at the top, AJ Brown missed a month. Puka was bad. Harrison has been a disappointment. It's just kind of flipped this year, but I would say if we want to be prescriptive a little bit and

They talk about when it works versus when it doesn't. I want to remember how the whole point, the entire point of what allows 0RB to really smash, like if five people in your league are doing 0RB, it's not going to work.

The thing is, is while everyone is loading up on these running backs and allowing superstar wide receivers to drop and you can take stud stud and you just mash the button on incredible depth at that position and then and then fill it in later. That's helpful. But this year it wasn't that way. People weren't letting stud wide receivers drop.

to the one-two turn. You know, the guys that on previous seasons we were getting at the one-two turn were like the wide receiver four or five or the wide receiver four and five there. And then this year is like,

You're getting the wide receiver 9, 10 by ADP. So I would say, look, like you said, Mike, usually next year's ADP is going to be based on what happens this year. The running backs are going to, they will rock it up. And so if next year it flips, ironically, people will not want to do zero RB.

because of the failure of this season, and that's when you probably want to take your shot. And we did have, I mean, some of the anti-fragility stuff, it didn't work out in the wide receiver's favor this year. A.J. Brown, Puka Nakua, Cooper Cup, those were top-tier wide receivers. Tyreek Hill lost his quarterback. Marvin Harrison started slow.

maybe is still starting slow. A lot of those big names didn't offer you the consistency you hoped for. Yeah, at the top of the wide receiver draft is wild. I'm going to be excited at the end of the season to look at the actual bust rate, the consistency rate of these early wide receivers who are

historically an early wide receiver is a, is a, it's a great bet. You know, a slightly higher hit rate than the early round running backs, but it feels like it is completely upside down on top of that, the early round tight ends. It's like,

If you took Kelsey, Laporta, Andrews, Kincaid, those are the early tight ends. Those guys are not providing a positional advantage. At least Kelsey, it's a lot better now. But they're just saying, over the course of the season, you're not happy with those draft picks. And the same for the quarterback where...

Like, Allen has been very hot-cold. Jalen Hurts had a lull at the beginning of the year. Mahomes is a catastrophe. It's like if you got Lamar out of that fourth bag, then you're super pumped that you went that direction. So it's just – this year is really strange that the early running backs are crushing and the early other positions are not. And the truth is, if it goes bad for ZRB, it can go really, really bad.

Because you need to be able to buy – like it gains strength as the season goes on, so you need to be able to buy some wins early on the back of the wide receiver and tight end and those –

piecemeal players before you can go and acquire. You can invest a lot of fab in solidifying your running back position or trying to. Could have gone out and spent for Kareem Hunt or somebody like that. But if you start two and five, that's a tough battle back into contention. So we just wanted to illustrate kind of what happened this year and shine a light onto the way zero RB has panned out for a lot of people this year. End of season is going to be very interesting to see what it looks like compared to a couple years ago.

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The weekend was not without its injuries. Stephon Diggs, non-contact right knee injury. Have you heard any updates? I haven't heard any updates, but usually when you see that, that's, I mean, I could think of one example, you know, where I remember it looked like it'd be season end or it wasn't, but this is usually. Yeah, we've seen this play before. Yeah, I mean, it's so common. When you're not contacted and your knee goes out, that's.

That means you probably tore an ACL. We don't have reporting on that yet, but as of this moment, I am assuming Stephon Diggs is done for the season. Christian Kirk out for the year with a fractured collarbone. Brian Thomas Jr. left early in the game against the Packers with a rib injury, having an MRI. They're looking for fractures.

Gabe Davis, their other wide receiver, exited in the second quarter with a shoulder injury that he re-aggravated. He didn't return. Jacksonville's wide receiver court potentially wiped out in one week. Evan Ingram is the new David Njoku. That Jags-Packer game. And that went down to the wire. For fantasy purposes, I mean...

Things really screwed up there. Things did not go according to plan. Jordan Love, unfortunately, he got hurt. And he got hurt early in the game. We were watching. I know he was playing poorly before he left the game and didn't come back. But he was injured early.

early in that game. I mean, we saw it and his passes, his throws, his mobility while he was playing what little of the game left before he exited, he was not himself. And so, like, you know...

He missed like almost the second half, right? Yeah, yeah. I mean, he missed a bunch, but I know people were upset that he hadn't done much to that point. And it was like he got injured. And I mean, we were watching the whole game was like, oh, my gosh, he is. He is dealing with someone in the big divisional matchup with the Lions. He's probably he's in jeopardy of missing next week. Drake May left with a concussion, did not return.

Kendra Miller left with a hamstring injury. Oh my goodness gracious, I hadn't seen that yet. No, for real? Oh man. Dennis, Dennis, your favorite guy got hurt again. I noticed that the Saints thermometer behind you that threatened your head. My luscious locks? Your luscious locks. It was supposed to fill up to 10 wins and then we'd shave your head on the air. It is still at the point where we stuck it on the wall. So here's the thing. They got two wins on the season.

And they need eight more to shave my head. There are nine total games left for the Saints. Now, I got good news for you, Saints fans. You play the Panthers this week. What if we combine it? So maybe you get one more. Can we combine it with the Jets and see if both teams combine for 10 wins? Yeah, sure. We're going to have to tear this thing off the wall. Remember last week when I said on the show, what if they lose this game?

The Jets. Do you remember that? I was like, what if they lose this game to New England? It happened. It happened in unbelievable fashion where they held the opponent under 250 yards. They did not turn the ball over. I believe that is something like 750-0 when those two statistics are true since 1970. I don't know what happened. They still lost the game. It's a mystery to all. Jets fans know what happened.

What happened?

They're the Jets. They're cursed. It's like some franchises. Ah, yes. You just know. You're pessimistic. As a Cardinals fan, I know we're sitting top of the division, but we suck. We're number one in the division. I'm fully expecting everything to go bad because I know it will. Some franchises are just meant to lose. I'm sorry, Jets fans. Can they move on to another team?

Like, cause there's gotta be, this has gotta be the most painful season. No, you're, if you're a Jets fan, you gotta stay a Jets fan. You gotta keep hoping and riding the wave. I mean, the older Joe name it though, you know, that was cool. Yeah. He predicted it. The only thing I'm happy about, cause I am sad for Jets fans. Jets fans deserve some happiness. I know I dunk on the Jets a lot.

But that's really, I mean, that's really an Aaron. It's not a Jets thing. That's an Aaron Rodgers thing. I like dunking on Aaron Rodgers and his whiny, whiny face. And I think if Jets fans are being honest with themselves, they get it. They're like, yeah, I get it. I watch him. Whose fault was this one, you think, Rodgers thinks? Everyone else's. Kendrick Miller, like I said, he left early. He'll probably be in the doghouse for that. What a loser.

He looked great on two different runs that did not count and were both called back. Jordan Mason aggravated his shoulder injury. They said maybe he could have come into the game. At this point, it doesn't matter. Christian McCaffrey is expected to practice during the team's week nine bye, so they are gone. They're on bye. So if you had Mason, say bye. That was so brutal of him leaving the game two weeks ago with a shoulder injury. Then he plays after –

Feeling really uncomfortable about the start. Makes it through. You got to feel great going against the Dallas Cowboys rushing defense. Look at Isaac Garendo, the rookie who dominated them. I started Mason in multiple places in that

That was brutal. Well, yeah, who wouldn't have? Yeah, that's... That's just brutal. That's the process. I think there's going to be a lot of questions now with either picking up Guarindo or just dropping Jordan Mason because the expectation is Christian McCaffrey is going to be back in Week 10. That is the expectation. That is not a guarantee. And then they're on bye this week. And I would say, in general, unless you absolutely have to have a roster spot and you're going to basically...

I would try to not move on. We do not know. I'm not dropping Mason. Yeah, exactly. We do not know that Christian McCaffrey, despite the fact that they also said that he would be ready for week one. Yes, remember that. Ready in the utilization levels. And we've had seasons in fantasy where Elijah Mitchell was still getting work with Christian McCaffrey on the field. Mason should be rostered and stay rostered. Debo Samuel left early due to a rib injury.

So don't, you know, Juwan Jennings missed this week. He gets the bye week to recover. Ayuk is not coming back. Just keep that in the back of your head because I would have a hard time believing if somebody spin up on Juwan Jennings this past week, he ends up out.

They've got another week they've got to worry about. He's going to hit a lot of waiver wires just and under the radar. If you're already in contention, you don't need to start somebody. Pay attention to him, and we'll talk about it on the waiver show tomorrow. And, Mike, Rico Dotto left. No, he didn't leave. He was inactive due to an illness. Wink. He didn't have the – You don't think he was an illness? I –

I only say that because of what's coming out from Cowboys beat reporters on Twitter. They're all like, they're all saying it without saying it. I was like, Rico Dotto was here. He was signing autographs like,

I didn't see anything. It must have really happened in the locker room. Was he drinking on the sidelines? No, he wasn't. Like Dalvin Cook? I'm not really sure. We don't know what he was drinking. Yeah. Look, that could have been hydration. That could have been 99 bananas. That came straight from the minibar, man. It could have been a little juice shot. Yeah. A little juice shot in a glass bottle? Yeah.

Show me one of those. We're not sure what that was. No, it was clear. But the point being. Clear juice. Plenty of them. Plenty of beat reporters. Strong arguments. It was white grape juice in a little glass bottle. Plenty of beat reporters just saying it was a weird situation. They didn't see him being any sort of ill. And then he. Look, Dalvin Cook played great, guys. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, but Zeke played really, really well too. Zeke actually did look pretty good on the couple. No, he did not. Yes, he did. No, he did. There were a couple carries where he looked all right. Yes, when it's like second and long and they're like, there's no way they're going to run this ball. And then they run it and he gets a six-yard gain. You're like, well, yeah, of course. They both looked awful. The Cowboys run game is non-existent. They need a real player in there. That real player probably still isn't Rico Dowdle, but he is the best of the three.

But they're probably not going to use him. Going back to Dalvin Cook's drinking. Do you guys remember the video where Peyton Manning is interviewing Marshawn Lynch? Oh, yes. Oh, yes. So Peyton Manning is interviewing Marshawn Lynch. This is post-career. And he's just like, you know, what was your pregame warm-up or whatever? He tells Peyton Manning, he's like, well, you know, every day before the game I take a shot.

And Peyton, I think it seemed like he genuinely thought like a needle. He's like, tortoror. He's going to be throwing out all the medicines that the pain juice that they get. People get an injection. I think it was like Hennessy. Yeah. He's like, well, where do you get that? And he's like, from my backpack. Marshawn, man. One of a kind. Oh, my gosh. All right. That was today's News and Notes presented by USA Insurance.

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I'm pretty sure Cowboys fans were just like past the bottle. You know what I mean? Right. It's like watching that team. That offense was broken for three quarters. I kept messaging our company Slack. Like, what is this offense? It's just dumping the ball off to Jake Ferguson, who's two yards away from him, and then getting throttled. I did agree with the commentator last night.

That pointed out the fact that Dak cannot move the way he used to move. And I think that that has played a role right now in moving in the pocket, getting outside the pocket, taking the five or six free yards. To me, he just looks bigger. Does he look like he's not sleeping well? Uh...

Not sleeping well? Is this a sleep number? I'm just asking questions. Man, maybe the sleep number's not doing the job, huh? Gotta go pod four. I ask questions over here, guys. Listen. He is on pace right now through...

through six games. I don't want to count this last week because he had negative one rushing yard. Okay, so I'm going to take that out even though that should exist. This week? Yes. You're taking out the one he just played? I'm taking out the one he just played prior to this week because you talked about, I mean, you saw in that game he didn't run. He was immobile. The previous six games, what do you think Dak Prescott's

What 17-game pace of total rushing yards is, and to give you context for his career, like last season he was at 242. Yeah, he's a couple hundred yards guy. I would have guessed, having no context because I wasn't paying attention, I would have guessed like 200. Yeah, same. I probably would have as well.

Without the negative one rushing yard yesterday, he was on pace for 70 total rushing yards. In the course of a season, that's Big Ben. So that just adds more fuel to what we were seeing. This was my fear about them not being able to repeat what they did as an offense last year, is that there seems to be more...

dysfunction to the offense right now than there was last year from a play calling functionality like frustration standpoint. I will say this.

They did play a very good San Francisco 49ers team on the road. This is, you know, it's not always going to be easy. I mean, Dak Prescott this season against Baltimore was the quarterback one on the week. It's not like he's going to disappear. Going forward, Atlanta, Philly, the Texans, the Commanders, I think there's a good stretch run ahead of passing defense. They are. I don't know if I like those last three, though. They're two-and-a-half point dogs right now on the road against Atlanta for this season.

All right, let's talk about some of the good that happened this weekend.

This week's Fantasy Stud Muffins. It's not going to be possible for me to get into every name of every player that did well. No. Go ahead. Yeah, I was just saying this week there's too many people that went nuclear. But I want you to focus on some of the names that might be prescriptive or interesting. The top five scorers at the quarterback position were Jalen Hurts, Bo Nix, Kirk Cousins, Brock Purdy, and Matthew Stafford.

Hurts was such a slow start to this game. Ends up with three rushing touchdowns. Three rushing touchdowns and a bomb touchdown that was awesome to Devontae Smith. He ended up having just an outstanding game. I really wanted to discuss Bo Nix because Bo Nix has been...

really good on the season. He's the quarterback 10 right now, and that's despite starting really poor. Like the first month of the season, he didn't look good. He couldn't connect on anything down the field. Three of the last four weeks,

The second month of his career, he's been a top 10 quarterback, barring Monday Night Football, although he's the quarterback two right now. He's going to stay in the top 10, I think. He's going to stay in the top 10. Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Carolina. So I would point out that if you want to find a trend there, home games. Yes. Those were his three top 10 games were at home.

And not the hardest defenses. No, and what's wild is like, and this is anecdotal from watching the games every week, I feel like Denver has the ball the entire game. That's how it's felt. Like the past attempts this past week, 37-34.

I just feel like they have the ball the whole game. Their defense is very good. He has to go on the road against Baltimore, Kansas City the next two weeks. Yeah, Kansas City I am definitely afraid of. Baltimore I'm not. Baltimore is actually – Yeah, they're giving it up to the quarterback. They really are. They're 30th on the season of fantasy points given up to quarterbacks. So I'm not too worried. And I do think we need to – the reason I bring up Bo Nix is because people don't –

view him enough as the dual threat that he is. You know, we don't have any problem playing Jaden Daniels from before week one coming in because we know he's a crazy dual threat guy that could run for north of 500 yards. Maybe he runs for 700, 800 yards. That's amazing. And Bo Nix is not the runner that Jaden Daniels is. Jaden Daniels is starting to look like he's in the Lamar Jackson tier of like four people in history. But

Right now, Bo Nix is on pace for over 550 rushing yards. Even with a down week. Even with a down rushing week. So this is a dual-threat quarterback, and that's going to raise your floor quite a bit. Yeah.

He does have to throw it to Troy Franklin, though. Papa Josh. He doesn't have to. He didn't really do that. He didn't throw it to Troy Franklin yesterday, and it didn't bother him at all because he was slinging it to anyone and everyone. But Papa Josh, mad props this week. You traded for Anthony Richardson from my team. I got rid of that fool for $2 of FAB.

But then, despite doing that, you went to the waiver wire, picked up, and played Bo Nix over Anthony Richardson. Very good move. He wanted to play my stream against me. That is fair. That was your stream of the week.

And Cousins was Jason's, and Cousins had a great game. We finally got another big-time game from Kirk Cousins, 23 for 29. Does he play Tampa anymore? You know what? I guess that's – I'm going to have to apply that. He does get to play Dallas' defense. Brock Purdy, Matthew Stafford, Lamar. It was a struggle for Lamar. They lost the game, but he put together a good fantasy week. Herbert threw for almost 300 again. Wait.

Baltimore didn't lose the game. They played against the Browns. The Browns can't score 20 points this season. They're 1-5. They had to rely on their backup quarterback, a little-known quarterback named Jameis Winston, who I like this. Somebody pointed out that Jameis Winston, when he gets to speak to the media, always looks like he is

he's like reading a line from an inspirational movie that he's been practicing really hard in the mirror. Yeah, he is a character, man. I love that guy. He is his... Play for the name on your helmet. Oh, wait, there's no decal on my helmet. I mean, I love him, but it is so interesting that the team that was 1-5 hadn't scored 20 points this season puts up 29 against Baltimore as soon as

Uh, they moved to the backup due to injury. And now you've got, you've got the Browns and you're going, they're interesting. They're in, I mean, they lose Amari Cooper and it was fine because they had such an improvement at quarterback.

It just shows you how good Amari Cooper would have been on the Browns. Really? He probably, he could have been sent to like a purgatory right now. Like we'll see. Yeah. I I'm telling you as someone who has Dalton Kincaid, who praise God, he got into the, he got into the end zone, but as somebody who has watched this team week after week after week, if they could throw it zero times, I swear they would. I swear they would. They do not. It like, uh, it hurts them to throw the football or something. And,

Amari Cooper had a disastrous week. We'll talk about it later. Now, going into the week, I think a lot of people were off of Baker Mayfield. But if I had told you before the week began that he would have 50 passing attempts, I believe that that narrative would have changed. It would. Yeah, we did say that we thought he'd be better than people expected. You know, the headline is you lose Godwin and Evans.

But Baker has been good independent of them. Yeah, he's been a top eight quarterback in all but one game. And this game, the first one we've seen without those two star wide receivers, he puts up 330 and three. Now, he did throw two picks, but 330 and three with backups is amazing because laser has been awesome. I would bench him against Kansas City. Yeah, on the road against the Chiefs is...

Jaden Daniels, Hale married his way to a productive day. He fought through an injury. And then Kyler Murray on the road winning back-to-back games for the first time. Good for you, Kyler. And one thing to point out, Arizona's offensive line has not given up a sack for three consecutive games. Now to finish your sentence, for the first time in like 25 games. Yes, sorry. Kyler had not won back-to-back games in years.

And going east, the Cardinals have struggled. And then they end up winning another game and lead the division and have a better seed than the Packers. Well, the Packers right now, they're not a division winner, but the Cardinals are. So how does that make you feel, Al?

Okay, he can't talk. He can't talk. Very good audio. Falcon, how about your Niners would not be in the playoffs right now while you look up at the awesome Cardinals. Yeah, look straight up. Long season. Look straight up. Long season. I got to dunk now because I can't dunk later. Yeah, enjoy this. Running back studs this week. Top five scorers. James Cook, two touchdowns. Josh Jacobs.

Getting it done. Devon A. Chan, welcome back. Baby, that's my guy. That's exciting. Ramondre, two touchdowns. Ramondre's in this list. It's so stupid. I moved Ramondre into my lineup and placed at Chuba Hubbard moments before kickoff. Which I agreed with. I answered that one on Sunday Live. I'm like, I'm not playing Chuba. I'm going to play these gross running backs. And Ramondre had 23 opportunities. He carried the ball 20 times on the ground.

for 40 80 yards zeke's like what's wrong with that yeah no it's like what are you talking about that's that is amazing joe mixon baby 21 joe mixon is just unstoppable so i think hn is the headline there like 10 for 97 eight targets with tua the offense had meaningful you know

fantasy players once again. We are back. Yeah, I mean, the running game opens up. I talked about this ad nauseum. And most are two touchdowns. Yeah, most are two touchdowns. The fact that you're not

The running back behind the line of scrimmage is not running against 11 people when Tua is there with the weapons they have in Tyreek and Jalen Waddle. It's a completely different defense, and Devon Achan is not meant to go up against stacked boxes. What he's meant to do is catch the ball running full speed, and if you just look at his three starts with Tua,

Forget the rushing work, which he's been very good. I mean, he's... Just give me his fantasy points. His reception pace in the three starts with Tua would be 113 receptions for 1,100 receiving yards and 11 receiving touchdowns. That's a wide receiver one. And then you add on the rushing work. He's basically averaging 23.1 touchdowns

PPR points per game with Tua. And look, you can make fun of Ramondre, but the opportunities were there on a team that has proven they're going to give them to Ramondre. For the third consecutive game, Antonio Gibson was under 1.5 a carry. Yeah, he was atrocious. Shut up.

I'm still mad at Andy for having Raheem Mostert, Ramondre Stevenson, and Cedric Tillman put up. That was the trash part of his lineup. They put up six touchdowns on me. Mike, I'm not sure you're aware, but Jason and I played each other in Dynasty. I am aware. And, you know, things went the way they went. Ramondre with that line, it's unbelievable. What was Gibson running at?

Five carries for six yards. 1.2 a carry. Yeah. So that's atrocious. And Ramond Ray's at what? Like 2.4, 2.6 or 2.4? Nearly. Oh, that's double. It is. They have a problem. So look, DeAndre Swift, it was a slow start. It was a fast finish. He keeps...

dominating. Jason started the week. DeAndre Swift plays Arizona next week. You can start him up. And then Jonathan Taylor back from the waiver or back from the injury. He is so good. He looked amazing. I mean, there were plays that just there was not the play was not there. And he's just he made the play. He chunked 10 or 11 yards here. They're all over the place. He was the best part of this offense. Anthony Richardson looks amazing.

The fact they were three points away from a win when Richardson went 10 for 32 from the pocket. I thought for sure they were going to win when that fumble recovery ran back for a touchdown. And on the field, I believe it was not blown dead at the fumble spot. On review, they brought it back. But at that point, it looked like the Colts were going to win and Anthony Richardson was going to win another game he did not deserve to win.

Anthony Richardson, we'll talk about him. I promise. Yeah. Isaac Garindo, 14 for 85 and a touchdown. Mason went out hurt and most are two touchdowns. Not efficient on the ground, but it says something that he's the goal line back there in Miami. It does. From a week-to-week standpoint. Here we go. Wide receivers, top five of the week, CeeDee Lamb, Ladd McConkie, Cedric Tillman, Josh Downs,

This feels like a magic trick to put up 20-plus points on 10 completions from your quarterback. Marvin Harrison, baby, number five. Nice to see. Josh Downs, I think it's important for people listening that you've seen good stat lines from Josh Downs.

for the majority of the time he's been playing, and now you watch him with Anthony Richardson put up 20.2, and you're going to say, I need to start him. You do not need to start him. His stat lines, like his big bomb touchdown was... Can you start him? I think I would. Man, his... I'm willing now. Did you see the big bomb touchdown? Um...

It was basically a broken play where he was, yes, Anthony Richardson connected with him, but he had half of the field to himself. Yeah, he did. He could have got a wheelchair out and wheeled himself in the last 20 yards. Here's the only reason why I said that is because they get to play the juiciest pass funnel defense in National Football League this next week.

I agree with you in principle on the year round. I think on a one-week basis, you could go back to him. It was nine targets, right? You can have a broken play, but nine targets against the number one pass funnel defense. He is a good player. Yeah. I mean, he's their best receiver by a lot, in my opinion. Yeah. I mean, he can actually get downfield. Well, and he's just separation, constant separation. Ladd McConkie, six for 111 and two. My lad.

They're throwing the football a lot right now, and McConkie got it done, had a big touchdown, like a long one in this game. He's sitting at wide receiver 20. This is exciting because you have rookie wide receivers that it normally takes time to get going, and if this team can't run like they want to, which they can't right now, like J.K. Dobbins, he's

Like he's not having a big play anymore. Right. And so it means they're throwing the football a little bit. Their defense is giving up more points.

Marvin Harrison, 6 for 111 and a touchdown. Hello. And he caught his passes. That was the big thing. It's one of the keys. It's super important, but over the course of the season leading up to this, he was like a 50%, maybe even below 50% catch rate. He was out of sync with Kyler, and some of the catches that were in sync were just dropped. This game, I guess, I mean, he told himself he has to catch these because there were some difficult catches earlier.

It felt like, why does every Marvin Harrison catch have to be so hard? Look at superstar wide receivers around the league. Yep, they make those, but it doesn't have to be every catch. That being said, it is nice to see him have a big game, catch passes, be more in sync. And so, you know, it's arrow up for a great rookie. If it wasn't for Malik Neighbors doing what he had done to start the season, I don't, you know, and the draft cost of where you spent Malik

up for Marvin Harrison. He's having a very good rookie season. It just doesn't feel like it because of those other two factors. And I think it's going to feel more like it soon. Cardinals have a couple home games. Marvin and him getting on the same page. 15 targets, 10 catches, 143. Who's that, Andy? Superstar Calvin Ridley, everybody. With Mason Rudolph.

You just had to get DeAndre Hopkins out of the locker room. That locker room cancer DeAndre Hopkins. Look, I will dance while I can dance. But 15 targets is going to get it done every single week. I can tell you that. You had 100 yards in the first quarter.

I, it was a very, it was not, it was really in my heart, not a dance party. It was an exhale. Yeah. It was not, it was not a victory lap. It's one week. It was an exhale because. Hey, it's possible. I didn't have to bring the name up as the second half sleeper.

And I'm thankful that, look, from my mentions, people did pick him up and play him. That was the cool thing to see is that some people benefited from this. They didn't just all have him on the bench. It was a week where a lot of wide receivers performed. But this is important for the confidence level of Calvin Ridley, the $90 million man on this team that got boat raced by Detroit. Maybe Calvin Ridley will be consistent for you.

Maybe without me, I would say without Hopkins there, just like we saw at the very beginning of the season where he was a heavier target. Bright days are ahead for Calvin Ridley. It's all going to still come down to the quarterback play. And I don't know if Mason Rudolph, who started the game looking really, really good. This was a game where it was tied 14 to 14. I mean,

I mean, it was like, oh my gosh. What did it end? What was the final score? Are the Titans going to win this game? Are they going to make it better? It was not 14-14. Well, it was 14-52. I believe that the Lions had 40-plus points when Jared Goff had 30 passing yards.

For real? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whoa. I think he was at 40. Do you not know the Goff line? I think he was at 42 passing yards. Goff completed 12 passes for 85 yards. With 52 points. And three passing touchdowns. Oh, yeah, those passing touchdowns were annoying because they were –

They use the, you know, where the Lions and we're going to run the football against the opposition. And they were at the goal line multiple times. And it was Brock Wright. It was Sam Laporta. It was Khalif Raymond. And they would just fake it to the Montgomery Gibbs who could have had even bigger games. I forgot Montgomery through one of the touchdowns as well. That's true. Yes. Yes. Um,

Devontae Smith, big bounce back game. Jason's been really loud in reminding you that he's going to be fine. There were people that

After one bad week, wanted to give up on Deontay Smith, which was wild. In half PPR, last week was terrible. Last week he had one catch. He did nothing. But outside of that single week, he hasn't been single-digit fantasy points at all. He's double-digit or better in half PPR. That's a great barometer. He's literally, on our consistency score, he's an A. So don't move off of an A.

Tight end studs this week. Kate Otten, 24.6 points. Looked great.

It was a big week for the tight end. Scott Hansen said it over 4,000 times during red zone that it was national tight end day. Scott Pianowski pointed out in week one, a 4-for-45 line would have made you the tight end seven on the week. This week, that would have made you the tight end 24. That's how many big performances there were. Kyle Pitts, 23.1, almost made the biggest mistake. One and a half touchdowns. Almost made the biggest mistake ever going into the end zone. Not almost.

He definitely did. Got lucky. The mistake is that the multi-billion dollar corporation that is the NFL, they can't possibly

possibly have a camera down the line. Just point it down the sideline. What in the heck are you doing? Four cameras. Spin up NFL. Four cameras. One from each direction on the side. You know where the goal line is. It's not moving. You can tripod this thing. Where's the other two cameras?

I'm saying each goal line, you can have them going down the line in both directions. Yeah. At the end of your camera. You think we were suggesting only pick one of the end zones? No, I'm saying it's not even good enough. Only the north side. Because they only put a camera, even when they have the goal line camera, they only have it on one side of the field. I want every time I look at the goal line down the line angle, I want to see a camera on the other side. They should have lasers on the cameras.

Yes. And they should have the high-speed ones that they use. And what's the TV show where they just test stuff all the time? Mythbusters. Mythbusters. Give me high-speed, high-resolution. Get Nolan out here to film. Christopher? Yeah, get him to film the goal. I mean, we have lots of money. We have you guys...

can spend we've been in headquarters you got bidets on every toilet gosh it's on it's your nfl headquarters you're doing great work there outstanding property atms there don't require a pin code yeah you're just like hey you need some money yeah yeah go buy some cameras yeah all right listen for per stadium kyle pitts has been great he has um

He was already the tight end four before this week. George Kittle keeps getting it done. Kelsey, the big game. Super glad it was against me finally. That was fun. Trey McBride. Can we get Trey McBride a touchdown? He was awesome in this game. For crying out loud. No, we cannot. He was awesome. He was a go-to target. 11 targets, 9 for 124. Absolutely outstanding game. Did McBride.

Maybe the best performance of the week, except no touchdowns. The dude is currently, at least what I'm seeing here, he's missed a game.

So some teams have had a bye week, but he has played seven games, zero touchdowns, and is the tight end four on the season. Just give him a couple. He would be crushing everybody. He's definitely third in the packing order around the red zone right now because Connor, they like to hand the ball up and then Harrison. But he's going to get in there. Michael Wilson got hurt this week. It didn't look great to me. Could have been a multi-week ankle sprain. I don't have an update there.

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footballers terms and conditions apply you need to hire you need it indeed uh breaking news by the way mcbride still didn't get into the end zone over the break no he didn't but before you move on you have to read the name that's right after trey mcbride i knew you weren't letting him move on no absolutely not um four for 85 and a touchdown oh he took advantage of the injury to the uh to the starter

Adam Troutman. Yeah, baby! Four for 85. Woo! Yeah, they did. Four years too early. I believe Kroll, Lucas Kroll, went out hurt. Lucas Kroll had been getting some snaps. Yeah, but he's not putting up four for 85 in a score. Against Carolina. Unleash the fish, man. Oh, my gosh.

Take a walk. All right. Very funny. Also, on the course of the season prior to this game, he had a 17-game pace of 77 yards. Well, he beat that in one game now, didn't he? Okay, he sure did. Pooped in his big boy pants. Look, this could not have been more appropriate for Caleb Williams. The big boy pants had been fitted, and he went out there and had a stinker of a game against Washington. 10 for 24, 131 yards.

It was a regression type of game. Washington's defense, though. That's the question. We mentioned this. I mean, they have been getting 5% better per week. They might have gone 10% better in this game. You know, he just, he was not leading drives, not getting first downs.

It was 33 passing yards in the first half. What was crazy, so the drive to take the lead and win, he looked pretty good. It was like the only time in the entire game he looked. Most of his stats came from that. I think it was like fourth quarter, and we were talking about how he had three completions. Like what? That seems impossible. It was a putrid game for him. And so the nice thing is we've seen the flashes of brilliance. We've seen great games put together.

I know it's really, really tough because a lot of people started him in this matchup. You expected that high over under, and instead this game was so important between Caleb and Jaden. The defense has stepped up, and it was a slugfest. Joe Burrow without T. Higgins, solid start to the game, and then it went south quickly. He only ended up with 234-1. C.J. Stroud, one touchdown, 285 yards. What do you do now? Like –

Well, now you've lost Diggs. Next week is on the road against the Jets. There will be no Nico, which we've heard Nico's on track for week 10. Have people been playing Stroud? Of course people have been playing Stroud. I had him as a start of the week this week against Indy, where, you know, against Indy early in the season, he was the quarterback eight. I mean, this is –

This is not a player that's been consistent at all going back to last year for fantasy. I mean, he's an F in our consistency ranking. He has two games you've been happy with this year, both with Nico. Yeah, I don't think you can. In weeks one and four, you've got a.

You've got to push him to the side right now. I agree. I don't think you can start him right now, especially this week. You look at him as a streaming option, but this week without Stephon Diggs, without Nico Collins, you put Sauce Gardner on Tank Dell by himself, and all of a sudden that's a matchup you don't want to watch. And don't forget they have the slowest player in the NFL not contributing on a weekly basis. Dalton Schultz, what's up? So on the web portal. I can say anything I want about him, by the way, because he can't catch me. Yeah.

On the web version of Sleeper, I see numbers of C.J. Stroud is 98% rostered and 79% started. Yeah, that's 79% too many. I'm just saying, like, next week is a bench first. Here's a hot tip. Don't start somebody from that division. Just don't start him at quarterback. Everybody in the division should not be starting at quarterback. I've got a better question for you. Rest of season. Bo Nix.

So, no, that's easy. I'm making it hard. C.J. Stroud or Patrick Mahomes? Mahomes. Yeah, I'd take Mahomes. My stream of the week, by the way. That's not hard. Superstar Patrick Mahomes. No, that's not hard for me. He's been so bad. I mean, if Nico comes back, Stroud will be better. But look, this team, they won the game. They have Joe Mixon. They are a running football team. Joe Mixon has been a top five running back. Every week he started. Joe Mixon is the running back two in points per game just behind Derrick Henry.

Anthony Richardson, 10 for 32, passing. 31% completion rate, huh? Yeah, and you need to be 60 plus percent to be a top 10 fantasy quarterback. He's almost there. He's at 31%.

His efficiency and performance at the position. By the way, he took a playoff because he was tired in this game. That was unbelievable. Unbelievable to me that afterwards Anthony Richardson came out and they asked like, you know, because he missed a play and we thought maybe he hurt himself on a run. He said he called himself out and told the coach he's tired. He needs a play. You're a quarterback. You see Lamar Jackson after a big long run being like, I need a breather.

Give me a freaking break. This is the biggest quarterback bust in the league. This is the biggest dynasty freak out that you're ever going to have. This is a quarterback that has been outside of the top 20 at the position five straight weeks.

He ranks two. Look, he has two good passes on the year. They were both in week one. That's my opinion on Anthony Richardson. Hitting downs this week was pretty good. Meaningful for fantasy. I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, the downs play, yes. You're right. You're right. Anthony Richardson ranks 222nd in completion. Let me write this down. 222. 222 out of 225 quarterbacks that have 250-plus dropbacks.

Since the year 2000. You cannot. Has your opinion changed on the debate? Because you say you have to develop Anthony Richardson. Now that can be done on the field.

but that would be the argument for every player that's played too soon in history. Yes. My, my opinion has changed. You, you develop him on the side because yeah, 44% completion percentage cannot be a starting quarterback. I mean, that's what he is. And here's what you do. You don't, you don't develop him with, um, you know, you're, you're not, you're not watching film and, and breaking that down as, as much as maybe you need. What I would do is get him target practice. Uh,

I'd build a field over to the side where you can take snaps and hit a target. And I genuinely, I'd love to see him succeed. His physical gifts and tools are amazing. I'm not trying to, like my agenda here is not to talk ill of this person forever. Like I hope he can develop, but he wasn't ready to be a quarterback. Mike, during the draft season, we talked about him as a prospect.

I hated it. There's just some basic lines you have to cross to be able to stay quarterback in the NFL. And a 44% completion percentage, it doesn't matter how much you run. We've seen this now. Justin Fields has lost his job in two places. Justin Fields can run the football, right? Deshaun Kaiser could run the football. There were players that are mobile players.

But, I mean, he is one spot ahead of Tim Tebow on that list. Tim Tebow was 223. Oh, that's not even a joke. You're saying that's a factual, real thing. Out of 225. Hey, Tim Tebow won games, won a playoff game. Yeah, and Richardson can win a game with one big play and running the football. Jeremy brings up a good point here. Like,

where jayden's vr jayden daniel set up his vr to practice yeah are other people it are they just really loud about it and other people are doing it or they're the only team like it's obviously it's not just the vr but you can't rule out that this thing is helping i'm not sure the vr is gonna fix the mechanics it'll fix processing but i don't think it's gonna fix your mechanics and the

Processing, I think, is the hardest thing to fix, though. Being able to read the defense really fast. What about throwing the ball to that spot over there? That's something that I think you can actually... Good coaches can fix that, where processing is... I thought accuracy was not the thing that you can fix. That's been the story with... That's what made Josh Allen so wildly surprising in Lamar Jackson's attention. It's extremely difficult to fix it. But I don't know. I don't know enough about quarterback play to tell you what...

Like, read what Anthony Richards is doing, and this is what's wrong. What if he just, after practice, goes Dave and Busters, and just works on the little machine where it's got the holes? Those are tiny footballs. You need a machine like that, but it's the big one. He can bring his own footballs. It would break the machine. It would not be bad. He could break the machine with the small ones.

I did ruminate on something. You know how we've had these discussions about the scripted plays and the jokes about why don't we script more? I think I finally figured out, and this is not rocket science here, but I figured out why they can't do that. They can't practice enough. Right. Because the script is not what I've written down on a piece of paper. It's what I've practiced. Yes. They go out there and they execute the 20 plays or the 15 plays because that's all they have time. They don't let them practice that much. You know what I would do then?

I'd run those 20 plays again. No, just repeat it. All right, we're going back to the beginning. Until they catch on. Five, six, seven, eight. Snake draft it. Just do the plays in reverse order on the way back. Exactly. Just flip them all. You know what I mean? Do the same thing, but now mirror it. Audible, right trigger, and then you hit the mirror. Gino had a horrible game. It was not going to be good without DK. We knew it. This was predictable. We said it. Buffalo's game.

Good defense. Also, a lot of bit rain in that game. So throw that one out. Do we have a boo button? Because I'm not seeing a stat line this bad. Kenneth. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No bone zone, baby. Nine for 12. It was terrible. No.

He did the right thing on a play where the center snapped the ball way over Geno's head. Way over. It was awesome. Like 30 yards or so. Right. Kenneth Walker has to be the one to go pick it up, and he gains – he gets 10 yards back. Right. Oh, but he lost like 20. Yes. But on the play – It was a negative 19-yard run. Look, nine carries though.

Did we not read the no bone zone? No, here's what happened in this game. So yes, Mike is right. He got a negative 20 yard play where he had a good play. He picked up extra yards and it just counted against him. So that stinks. What else happened is this game got out of hand.

pretty quickly and later in the game they just went to Charbonnet. They charbed it up and they said you're going to be healthy for the next game. I was playing against Kenneth Walker in two leagues. I was paying very close attention and they just said yeah don't worry about it. Take the rest of the game off. Well look

It was disappointing because he had some opportunities around the bone zone. Javante Williams did too. Five targets, four catches for eight yards. He had two carries inside the five for negative one yards against Carolina. What do we do with this information? I don't know. I thought we were trending to a place that we could be... Like trustworthy? Yeah, we could be okay going with Javante, but this was...

It was weird. There was so much play action. I know by the end, Javante got 17 carries. We'll absolutely take what he got, 17 and five targets. But they kept play actioning. I mean, they were really featuring Bo Nix. Oh. Breaking news. What do we got?

I just wanted people to know that the Falcon showed up to work today. Oh, no, they know. Look at that overinducer, Sally. It's more of a he's still at work. Yeah, he's still at work. They know he's usually showing up. You got coffee in that mug? Yep. Okay, well. Sweating. Sweating? He's like, this show's running long, guys. I'm on a timer. Let's wrap this up. Oh, man. Wide receiver duds, tight end duds. We'll run through them real quick. In the...

The whirlpool of New York, Devontae Adams, 4 for 54. Dude, that's pretty wild here of 30 yards in the first week, 54 in this particular week. And do you guys know who the wide receiver 5 on the season is right now? Is that Garrett Wilson? Garrett Wilson.

He has certainly been, even if you look at expected fantasy points since Devontae Adams has showed up, he has been the primary. He's been the one, and Adams has been being worked into the two. I don't know if that's going to stay for the full season. But honestly, I mean, there's been a couple plays where Adams and Rodgers seem strangely out of sync. I think Rodgers is, like, do you think he plays football for them next year? Yeah. I don't know. I haven't thought about that one. Okay.

Jalen Waddell just four for 45. Yeah, that's a big bummer. Amari Cooper just one for three, where Keon Coleman was great. Keon Coleman was awesome. He made some amazing plays. And then Khalil Shakir is just – he reminds me of what Cole Beasley was doing for them a few years ago. He is just a release valve.

I don't like the way that they call this offense for Dalton Kincaid. The plays that Kincaid's involved in are never high-value plays. But Shakir gets the PPR points. Coleman's been getting the contested catch points. He deserves a ton of credit because we were pretty hard on him to start the year.

but he almost had another big one down the sideline too. He could have caught. He's been good. Coleman was great in this game, and the targets were early and often because the Bills didn't run or didn't throw a lot later in the game. But, you know, the first two drives was like Keon Coleman, Keon Coleman, Keon Coleman. He was the number one read.

Couple of players. We hoped for more from Cole. Come out. Just one target. I, I'm going to correlate the lack of commit involvement to the lack of completion percentage for Caleb Williams. That's a bad game plan. Yeah. I mean, you could throw in DJ more Keenan Allen, everybody. That's fair. But, um, one target though. Gross. Jake Ferguson, eight targets, just six for 23. That's what I'm saying. They're dysfunctional man. The show of like the, there were so many plays where it was, he had time. Like,

Like it's Dak is moving around the pocket for what I think is a very fair, adequate amount of time. And then it's just check it down to Ferguson. Who's in the flat. Yeah. And he gets immediately hit. Something's something's weird, man. Yeah. Something's weird there. And in New York tomorrow, we've got waivers and streaming quarterback options on Wednesday. Hungry for more. The Thursday night preview and Thursday, Thursday's Halloween. Are we still doing that?

I think so. I mean, we do have some updated news here. Brian Thomas Jr. could miss two to four weeks with a chest rib injury suffered on Sunday, and Christian Kirk's out for the season. Gee whiz, man. I guess we'll talk about that on the waiver show tomorrow. But that's a bummer for Brian Thomas. He's been playing some great football.

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