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0:53Welcome into Fantasy Focus Football Monday morning rapid reaction.
0:56My name is Daniel Dopp alongside Liz Loza. Liz, how are you doing right now?
1:01I'm good, but man, everything we thought was up is in fact down.
1:05I think this week, to me, the takeaway immediately in terms of a feeling is patience.
1:10A lot of people that we had written off started to come to life a little bit.
1:16Now we have to decide this is the fun part and you and the rest of the focus crew will do this throughout the week.
1:24How much of it is real and how much of it is a mirage?
1:28Yeah, we're four weeks in the sample size is big enough now that we can kind of take a full look at
1:36everything that we've seen from a player. But with that, Liz, right now, we are just going to talk about the week four games.
1:43I'm with you. Make sure you hang out with us the entirety of the weekend and hang out with Liz and I
1:50on facts versus feelings, which will come out every single Thursday throughout the season.
1:55But tonight we're going to do a rapid reaction.
1:58Liz and I are recording this while I have the Sunday night football game on in front of me.
2:04Amon Ross St. Brown is currently on my screen, Liz, which means I'm sure you're also watching this game.
2:10But let's dive into everything that is week four from the NFL slate.
2:14Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast.
2:19The first player from WCF, Liz, what the fantasy?
2:21CeeDee Lamb had 17 catches, 17 catches, not targets, 17 catches for 189 yards, one touchdown and 21 targets, 41.3 fantasy points.
2:29This dude was unbelievable. There is no like question about the wide receiver one in Dallas between him and George Pickens.
2:35It's clearly CeeDee Lamb like he is him in this situation.
2:39100 percent. I mean, for context, his 17 catches are the most by any player since Keenan Allen in 2023.
2:45He was an absolute ball hog in this game.
2:48You mentioned George Pickens. He had a couple of clutch plays, but much more important for real football than for fantasy.
2:55CeeDee Lamb continues to ascend and he is getting fed.
2:58Yes, he is. He is unbelievable. Unbelievable. Let's also talk about a couple of running backs with hat tricks.
3:04Liz Loza, Javante Williams found the end zone three times.
3:08Another cowboy. Yeah. 62 yards and three touchdowns. Plus, here's the great part.
3:12Five catches for 21 yards, 31.3 fantasy points. I love the three touchdowns, but I also love the seven points from the receiving game for Javante Williams.
3:21Absolutely crushed in this one. Taking on Tampa Bay next week.
3:24If you are a Javante Williams manager, you're feeling good here after week four.
3:29I also love that he did this in this matchup.
3:32Now, we've learned that the Texans secondary much more generous than we were anticipating heading into the season as evidenced by CeeDee Lamb and the prior weeks.
3:41We'll get into those stats a little bit, but also the run defense for the Texans had been pretty stout.
3:47And yet, Javante Williams continues to truck. This Dallas Cowboys offense is finding a groove and these two players are benefiting tremendously from it.
3:55There's also, you mentioned two running backs that had a hat trick.
3:59Should we move on to Kyron Williams of the Los Angeles Rams?
4:0316 carries for 80 rushing yards and two rushing scores.
4:06Plus, you mentioned it with Javante Williams. We love extra production through the air.
4:10Williams converted 10 of 13 for 66 receiving yards and that got him 36.6 fantasy points.
4:15I'm sorry. Did you say 10 of 13? He had 13 targets and 10 receptions.
4:20With Puka Nakua back. That's unbelievable. I mean, this is one of the things.
4:25You and I were both in on Blake Corum to start the season.
4:29I still am in on Blake Corum as a guy that needs to be on rosters in fantasy football.
4:35From a rushing perspective, sure. Yes, but the one thing that Blake Corum will not do is this.
4:41He will not get 13 targets in the receiving game the way that Kyron Williams does.
4:46Unbelievable game from him. Two hat tricks. By the way, Liz, do you know where the term hat trick comes from?
4:53Hockey. Everyone thinks it came from hockey, but no.
4:56Our producer, David Presley, definitely knows that it came from...
4:59No, it is not even soccer, which is called football.
5:02In 1958, excuse me, 1858, a bowler named H.H.
5:05Stevenson took three consecutive wickets with three successive deliveries in a match in Sheffield, England.
5:10And impressed fans took up a collection to buy the cricket player Stevenson a hat, H.H.
5:15Stevenson, as a brand new prize, which is where the term hat trick came from.
5:20So it actually came from cricket. What in the Willy Wonka are you talking about?
5:25I had no idea. I thought it was a hockey thing.
5:28I always thought hat tricks was a hockey thing.
5:31I had no idea. It came from cricket. Just another thing that we found out.
5:36By the way, I hope they didn't steal bowling, but we have an unbelievable Pete Weber player of the week this week, Liz Loza.
5:44Excellent transition. Are you kidding me? Kyle Manungay. Holy smokes.
5:47Take a bow, Liz. Part of this happened, 30 carries, 146 yards and two touchdowns, one catch for four yards, 28 total fantasy points.
5:55A big part of this was because DeAndre Swift fumbled in this game, and it kind of felt like the shifts turned there in that backfield.
6:03Kyle Manungay, unbelievable, though, this week here in week four.
6:07Well, he did Manungay out snap DeAndre Swift, 47 to 29.
6:10That was the first time that happened all this season.
6:13And here's a little fun fact about Manungay. And frankly, you could extrapolate it out to the rest of the Bears offense.
6:20Manungay was the third different Bears player with multiple rushing scores in a game this season.
6:26The aforementioned DeAndre Swift and Caleb Williams, who remain sidelined, each had multiple rushing touchdowns in week one.
6:31So we know that while we really hoped it was going to be Colston Loveland or one of the, quote, big three
6:39in Chicago to get that sort of volume, that someone in this offense is scoring multiple touchdowns on the regular.
6:45Yeah, it just feels like it hasn't been the guys that we thought it was going to be to start the season, Liz Loza.
6:53I feel like a lot of... Like you flexed Manungay because of the...
6:57Of course. Remember we had a DM, somebody called into fantasy therapy on facts versus feelings looking for a flex question.
7:04And we both agreed that you should flex Manungay because of the upside.
7:08And here it showed up. Here it showed up absolutely this week.
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8:55And here we go. Girl, Jonathan Taylor, 20 fantasy points again this week.
8:59Jonathan Taylor, 20, carries 95 rushing yards and two touchdowns.
9:0222.7 fantasy points. He's had at least 22 fantasy points in three of four weeks this year.
9:07And that was including against really tough defenses. Baltimore and Kansas City earlier on in the season.
9:13This feels like a really great spot for Jonathan Taylor where as much as I love the Colts and all the things
9:20that I was hoping Tyler Warren was going to turn into, it just feels like the receiving game is not playing out.
9:27And Jonathan Taylor just keeps delivering week in and week out.
9:31And he is the one thing that you can count on from Indianapolis from a fantasy perspective.
9:36I mean, London games are always a little bit wonky.
9:39It was concerning, though, that without Alec Pierce or Keenan Allen in the lineup, Josh Downs had fewer than five fantasy points.
9:47The passing game was not clicking. And so that meant running it all through the ground.
9:52And therefore, Jonathan Taylor, even Seth McGowan got a couple of carries in there, which was interesting.
9:57But yes, Jonathan Taylor continues to cook. He's got he's traveling actually to Pittsburgh from London.
10:02That's going to be a trek right in week five.
10:06Not for nothing. The Steelers gave up two different scores to the running back position just this past Thursday night.
10:12Yes, it looks like you want to say something.
10:15By the way, yes. No, I just wanted to say Daniel Jones scored a rushing touchdown, which is six fantasy points for us.
10:22But he finished with like seven point two fantasy points.
10:26Everything else about this Indianapolis Colts team right now, including our guy Tyler Warren, just is not playing out the way that we had hoped.
10:34But if you have Jonathan Taylor, he has been crushing and looks to continue doing that.
10:39Moving forward. I hope Carly's taking notes about all that.
10:42I want to know what she's writing down, but I hope that's included in the pad.
10:47Next. Did you take notes on Nico Collins? Because when he came back, he was just like an obvious set it and forget it.
10:55Girl looked unbelievable this week. 11th consecutive game played with 50 or more receiving yards, extending the longest streak in the NFL.
11:02Now, obviously, if he wasn't bothered by lower body issues in that time, it would be even better.
11:08But yes, seven catches, 118 yards, two touchdowns, over 30 fantasy points for Nico Collins.
11:13What a return. That's what you're looking for. And we had asked, is there a pass catcher when Nico is out that
11:20you maybe want to consider in fantasy? Nope. It is Nico or bust from this perspective right now for the Houston Texans.
11:27That is very much how it feels from a wide receiver standpoint.
11:31By the way, for the Baltimore Ravens, it's a flowers or bust like he is the guy unless they flowers is out.
11:38He is the obvious and clear wide receiver one of this squad.
11:42Ten targets again this week, Liz. Eight catches for 118 yards, 25.8 fantasy points.
11:46I know that Lamar got banged up in this.
11:49You'll talk about that a little bit later on in the show.
11:53But Zay Flowers is a legit wide receiver one.
11:56I think there's still some people with like this scar tissue of the boom bust Zay Flowers that we saw to start his career.
12:04He's kind of changed since he signed this new deal here in 2026.
12:08Isn't he a different player? Well, I think the knock against him, right, was that he couldn't score touchdowns.
12:14And we're seeing him do that exactly. He's cleared 25 fantasy points in two out of the three weeks in which he's played.
12:22And remember, he in week one left early with an injury.
12:25In week three in Brazil was on a limited snap count and in some like midfield conditions, frankly, but still abroad and and continue to produce.
12:34And this week he was limited in practice on Thursday and Friday.
12:37I was getting questions in my DMs and on X saying like, oh, should I start Zay?
12:43Is he going to be able to go? Girl, I don't care if Zay Flowers has a little Q next to his name.
12:50You are starting him because this is what you will often receive.
12:54I agree with that. If he is going to be out there and I know he will be on the field, he will be in my starting lineup.
13:03I did not necessarily feel that way, though, Liz, about Drake May.
13:07I did not feel that way about Drake May.
13:10And in fact, I think most of us didn't feel that way about Drake May.
13:15Rightfully so, though. Listen, he went off this week 26 fantasy points, but three straight weeks scoring under 10 fantasy points gives
13:22fantasy managers a reason to doubt whether or not they should start you.
13:26After what you saw this week, though, do you feel like, OK, maybe I need to reconsider.
13:32And Drake May still does exist. That top 10 guy does still exist here within the Drake May that we're seeing in 2026.
13:39I think we need to contextualize with the matchup against Buffalo.
13:43We know that defense is very generous. Now, maybe that helps light a fire and may find some momentum, even if Mike
13:50Clay does not believe that momentum is a real thing.
13:53I do. And I think it could contribute to the engine turning over, right?
13:58Finding something here. It is worth mentioning that May did have eight carries for 54 rushing yards in this.
14:04So we like to see that extra production on the ground.
14:07I personally, you know, I always like to remind everyone that we as analysts take our own advice.
14:13We're not just out there trolling you who are listening to us.
14:17I benched him across multiple leagues for Marcus Mariota, who exited the London game, what, on the second drive.
14:23Pain. So that was complete pain. I was there with everyone.
14:27I did not drop Drake May, and I also advise people not to do that.
14:31But he had to prove it before I went and started him.
14:35Next week, he is facing the Raiders. That is a trickier defense than a lot of people think.
14:41I think the Raiders have this reputation for being quite easy.
14:45But that defense has stiffened. That offense, in fact, has gotten much better under Mike McDonald as well.
14:50Why don't you talk about the team's QB? Mike McDonald, please.
14:54It's gotten better under Kirk Cousins. This dude has come in and looked unbelievable.
14:59Three straight games to start the season with three passing touchdowns, and then this week against Kansas City.
15:04365 passing yards, another two touchdowns, 22.6 fantasy points.
15:07He has scored 20-plus fantasy points in three straight games, Liz.
15:11And I understand he doesn't do a lot of the stuff that we want in fantasy football.
15:16He doesn't run the football. He doesn't do a whole lot.
15:20He's not valuable at the goal line. He's not going to get rushing touchdowns.
15:24None of that stuff. But with the way that they are utilizing him within this Raiders offense and how much he is
15:31slinging it out there coming up this next week.
15:34Well, the way he's utilizing the offense. I think this is where experience is really showing out, and he is providing a
15:42great learning experience, a great education, if you will, for Mendoza sitting here and just slinging it.
15:47He has been so pinpoint accurate. We know that he loves a tight end.
15:52He would talk about it when he was in Minnesota.
15:55He referenced Kyle Rudolph, frankly, back in the day as his mattress to throw to.
16:00That is helping not just Brock Bowers, but the team has two other tight ends that are producing.
16:05Ian Thomas found the end zone in this week against the Chiefs here.
16:10So I have a question to pose to you.
16:13Knowing that May and Cousins will face each other in week five at New England, who are you ranking higher, Cousins or May?
16:20Oh, gosh. Just a little peek ahead. Just a little spin forward, if you will.
16:25So Kirk Cousins has three straight games scoring 20-plus fantasy points.
16:28Multiple touchdowns, yes. Yes, and multiple touchdowns. Drake May had his first game over like nine and a half fantasy points this last week.
16:36Mm-hmm. Gosh, that's tough. There's a part of me, Liz.
16:39Listen, like you said, we take our own advice.
16:42There's a part of me that just finds it emotionally difficult to bench Drake May for Kirk Cousins.
16:48But right now... There you go. If I need a win...
16:52Tell him. And there are a couple of leagues in which I definitely need a win, I think I have to roll
16:59with the guy that has shown me on the field he can deliver what I need from a fantasy perspective.
17:05Because as much as this is a season-long game, if you're 0-3 or 1-4 or 1-3, excuse me, coming into week four,
17:12you're in a situation in which you need to win, I think Kirk Cousins might give you the best option this week
17:19or next week to be able to make that happen.
17:23But gosh, how tough is that? That here we are in week five talking about Drake May and Kirk Cousins.
17:29Liz Loza. I mean, just like we anticipated. You know, there was a player that we did anticipate, frankly, coming out of the NFL draft.
17:37We expected him to be polished and to produce.
17:40And it's finally starting. Carnell Tate is finally making the turn into being fantasy relevant.
17:45He converted 9 of 12 looks for 145 receiving yards, a career-high effort for the rookie in week two.
17:51Five targets. Week three, nine targets. Week four, 12 targets.
17:54Now, I watched him start to pick up steam in week three, and I thought, well, it's a matchup against the Giants.
18:01We know that secondary is a bit banged up, kind of generous.
18:05Girl, he did it again this week. And we love his matchup in week five versus Houston.
18:11Tell the folks why. Houston, as a defense, has given up 18-plus fantasy points to a wide receiver in every single game.
18:18Game so far this season. I would pick Carnell Tate over Wondell Robinson, even though Wondell found the end zone.
18:24We loved that this last week. Yeah, we love being able to see that.
18:29But it does feel like Carnell Tate has started to unlock.
18:32We were so out at the beginning of the year because it just frankly did take a couple of weeks, Liz, for Cam Ward and him.
18:41I mean, evolution takes time. It takes time. He's a rookie, right?
18:45Yep. They have to find their footing. And we are so impatient.
18:49Inpatient? We are so impatient in fantasy often. And here is an example of hopefully patience starting to take form.
18:55And now we can play him in a plus matchup in week five.
18:59Probably not in the wide receiver two range just yet, although with two buys starting next week, maybe.
19:05But he's probably more of a flex for me.
19:08Yes, we will have two teams on a buy in the Panthers and the Chiefs here in week five.
19:14So definitely something to keep in mind as we start moving.
19:18Now we got buy weeks to factor into all of our conversations.
19:21Liz, another guy that looks really good. Malik Neighbors.
19:24Seven, excuse me. Finally. Six catches, 112 yards and a touchdown, 23.2 fantasy points.
19:29Here's the thing. It had been a little bit with Jameis Winston.
19:33I just want to say this. Like, I was feeling not great because Jameis came in, didn't look good when he took
19:40over in that game when Jackson Dart got hurt.
19:43He just looked unprepared. He didn't look like the backup quarterback that was ready to take over if his team needed him.
19:50And then the next game that he played was against your Chicago Bears, but it was a terrible weather game.
19:56But you still have a game and a half of bad taste in your mouth of like, is Jameis not as good
20:03as I thought he was going to be at making sure that my guys get fed from a fantasy perspective?
20:10At least in this one. Here in week four, seven targets with what I said, 23.2 fantasy points.
20:16I'm feeling a lot better about both Malik Neighbors and Isaiah Likely as passing game options here for the Giants.
20:22Took a little bit of time coming into form.
20:25Got to find their flow. It is happening. We know also the good thing about Malik Neighbors now is that if he
20:32had continued to not be good and if Jameis had continued, like we know that there's going to be interceptions thrown, right?
20:39He had three touchdowns and two interceptions, a three to two ratio.
20:43We know that that is Winston's game. But we also know now that Neighbors is still good, right?
20:49Like that even as a rookie, we were like, he's going to get a ton of volume.
20:54He'll drag the quarterback into production and you don't have to worry about him.
20:59And now we're starting to see that initial analysis, despite the momentary hiccup, if you will, start to take fruit and bear fruit.
21:06I love that. I love that. And I'm hoping that this continues here with Malik Neighbors because as a guy that you
21:14probably drafted maybe at the beginning of the third, maybe the back end of the second, but beginning the third, but yeah,
21:21this is the guy that like he could really outperform his ADP for you because the reason why he dropped was the injury in a situation.
21:29And now with Jameis Winston, it feels like he'd still be a clear wide receiver one.
21:34Can I talk about the next player? Please. Thank you.
21:37I was going to say, can I ask you about Ali Gordon?
21:41Please jump in with this one. I want to talk to you about Ali Gordon because last week as a Devon Achan
21:48manager, investor, if you will, you had some very big feelings about Gordon coming in immediately after Achan left the field and finding the end zone.
21:57And now he's done it in back-to-back games, nine carries for 100 rushing yards and that touchdown.
22:02He ripped off one long run for over 50 yards, looking explosive in an otherwise listless offense.
22:08And in a Brian Flores revenge game in which Flores called up the blitz like 800% of the time.
22:14Yes, correct. Normally we don't see an 800% blitz rate, but in this game here before we in fact did.
22:20That is actually factually correct. Here's the thing. If I was an Ali Gordon manager because I added him off of waivers,
22:28I would immediately take this game to start fielding offers.
22:31And I don't think that anyone is interested, but I would absolutely sell high.
22:35Nine carries for 100 yards and a touchdown. Did you see what the rest of the offense?
22:41I know. No, that's the thing. Against this defense, he basically had that one big rip for a touchdown, which was great.
22:48Scored 11 points on that play, but then scored seven points on everything else that he did the entire rest of the game.
22:55So if I am an Ali Gordon manager and I dumped a ton of my fab, by the way, it means I
23:02at least got the first laugh because I got the first game that's going to be good for him.
23:09But I would absolutely be trying to sell because this Miami Dolphins offense just still looked bad.
23:14Chris Bell, notwithstanding. Oh, dude, if his big toe was a third of an inch smaller, he would have had a huge touchdown.
23:21But still, I'm moving on from Ali Gordon. I don't think nine for 100 and a touchdown is a sustainable rate.
23:28Well, and I also think that week five versus Cincinnati, people are not going to believe that the Bengals defense has improved as much as it has.
23:37And they're going to think about the Bengals defense from last year and assume it's a gettable matchup, but I'm with you.
23:44Sell high as well. If Ali Gordon was someone that people spent a lot of fab on, Emmanuel Wilson might have been
23:51as well after Jadarian Price was officially ruled out.
23:54Is Wilson, though, who we wanted Price to be?
23:57Yes! This is exactly what we wanted the first round draft pick to be.
24:01This is why I touted him, Jadarian Price, not Emmanuel Wilson, Jadarian Price, as potentially the best RB2 in football, because this
24:09role exists for the Seattle Seahawks starting running back.
24:12This has been there the entirety of the start of the season, the whole first month.
24:17And we just haven't seen it from Jadarian Price, unfortunately.
24:20Now on IR and in this game, Emmanuel Wilson goes off 21 carries, 81 rushing yards and a touchdown, plus three catches
24:27for 39 yards and a receiving touchdown for 27 fantasy points.
24:31It's so difficult for me as someone that advocated so hard for Jadarian Price, because what I was advocating for was the role in the Seahawks offense.
24:39And I thought it was obviously going to be him as the first round pick.
24:44And instead, we saw it here with Emmanuel Wilson in week four.
24:48Do you think, I mean, Liz, I want to ask you this.
24:52We've been talking about Zach Charbonnet as a guy that you need to add off of waivers.
24:57He's still not ready to come back yet. Do you believe that Emmanuel Wilson moving forward at maybe in week five against
25:04San Francisco, is he at least going to be in the flex conversation after what you saw here in week four?
25:11I'm it might be only because I think Emmanuel Wilson's performance allows the offense to slow play Charbonnet if they want to.
25:18Right. Like they don't feel like they have to throw Charbonnet in.
25:22And if it were Price and the efficiency numbers were what he was posting, then they might feel like they have an urgency issue with Charbonnet.
25:31That doesn't exist right now with Wilson. Not for nothing, Wilson entered this contest leading the team in rush attempts with 32.
25:38He also had the most inside the five yard line with five.
25:42So I said on FFC this morning, if you were going to chase touchdowns in this backfield, which isn't always advisable, although
25:49it did work out in this situation, then Wilson would be the back to chase with.
25:54And, you know, it worked at least this time.
25:57You know who else is chasing touchdowns right now?
26:00Oh, girl, I cannot believe. Go, go get into it because I have some I have some thoughts.
26:06Christian McCaffrey. Let's be honest. Christian McCaffrey has become a touchdown dependent running back.
26:10And I'm going to talk about this with Field and Mike throughout the week.
26:15I promise you that. Oh, wow. 15 carries for 52 yards and a rushing touchdown.
26:19Three receptions for 18 yards. A total of 16 fantasy points.
26:23Only had five targets in this game. He's got two games with 16 or fewer fantasy points.
26:28And I know 16 is a big number. But the idea that Christian McCaffrey has become a touchdown dependent running back when
26:36you look at his box score is not that crazy.
26:39Liz Loza. Also, I mean, but one of the biggest points that I tried to make heading into this season was that
26:46Christian McCaffrey was kind of a mid rusher, at least at this point in his career, because he was coming off of
26:53a career low 3.9 yards per carry in 2025.
26:56His efficiency stinks. 15 carries for 52 rushing yards.
26:59It was the touchdown that saved his day. And, you know, the rebuttal to that, understandably, was like, well, yeah, but his
27:06receiving game work makes up for the vast difference in that statistical valley.
27:10And so, all right. But now he's entering week five at Seattle, one of the best defenses in the league.
27:17Are we imagining that he's going to be efficient in that outing?
27:20No. I don't think so. And when you look at all of the four rushing touchdowns, he only has four touchdowns this year.
27:28I shouldn't say only. Four touchdowns in four weeks is a good number.
27:32Yeah, that's a very good number. So I'm not trying to, you know.
27:36But week one did not have any touchdowns. Week two had two one-yard rushing touchdowns.
27:41Week three had another one-yard rushing touchdown. Week four had another one-yard rushing touchdown.
27:46He's not having big plays from this standpoint right now.
27:49If I was going to – if I was a CMC manager, Liz, and I recognized I was already out to start
27:56the season, I would be looking to sell right now before you get into a situation in which he's not able to
28:03find the end zone, and you're losing value on who CMC is.
28:07I doubt my other colleagues will agree with that, but I am very much in on that after I have seen him
28:14through the first four weeks of the season. And that the grind of the season in his age 30 campaign doesn't start
28:21to wear, and his efficiency wanes even further. Right now he's the RB8 in terms of fantasy on the season.
28:28That's not how you drafted him. Potentially as like what, the fifth overall pick probably?
28:32You could have had JSN. You could have had Amon Ross St.
28:36Brown. There's a handful of guys that would have been really good in that conversation right there.
28:42So we'll see how it works out with CMC.
28:45Obviously he has not been bad. Still very good.
28:4816 fantasy points is fantastic. However, when you look at the numbers and dive in a little bit deeper, there are reasons
28:55why we were a little bit concerned, and I think there might be some reasons why I would want out if I
29:02were to happen to be in the CMC game as of right now.
29:06And if the 49ers continue to win like they have been, what is the motivation to change it?
29:12A lot of K-LON Black. We've seen way more K-LON Black this season than I ever thought we would based on how
29:19they've utilized third-round running backs in the past, Liz.
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31:14Varies by state. All right. With that being said, Liz, our least favorite part of the show, but very informative for us moving forward.
31:22Let's dive into all of the injuries that happened here in week four.
31:26Ouch, baby. Very ouch. Let's start with Marcus Mariota, who we mentioned earlier in the program.
31:31He left, I believe, on the second drive of the game in London with a knee issue.
31:37Now, it is being reported that Jaden Daniels is expected back next week.
31:41We obviously have to monitor that throughout the week, but Mariota probably wouldn't play if Daniels couldn't start in week five.
31:48Saquon Barkley. Oh, this one stung. Yeah. For the entirety of the Eagles' offense, frankly, I mean, who do they have?
31:55Paxton Begleiter, the flag football seventh grade QB, might be scouted by the Eagles at this point.
32:00That's my son, by the way. He entered the medical tent.
32:04Barkley did. Not Paxton. During the first quarter of Sunday's game against the Rams.
32:08Did not return. And then Tank Bigsby left the game with an undisclosed injury in the fourth quarter.
32:14So the Eagles just getting the injury imp biting all over the place in Philadelphia.
32:19Jamar Chase also exited with a concussion. It is worth mentioning that in Chase's absence, T.
32:24Higgins went off. He's now recorded 20 or more fantasy points in back-to-back games, and he gets Miami in week five.
32:31Higgins does. DJ Moore, this one stung. Oh, I hated this one.
32:35He seemed to re-aggravate the shoulder injury that messed him up in week two.
32:39And we really thought, especially with Christian Gonzalez sidelined in this game, that Moore would have a big effort.
32:45Didn't happen, so we'll monitor that. Lamar Jackson was on a tear.
32:49He was producing. It was looking fantastic. I think he was at about 18 fantasy points when he left with an ankle issue, adding insult to injury.
32:58He was seen wearing a walking boot on his left foot after the game.
33:03Lad McConkie, who's been gutting it through this chest issue, picked up a foot injury in the Chargers loss.
33:09So that's not great. McConkie now feeling less and less of a priority.
33:13I don't know patience-wise whether managers are going to be able to deal with it.
33:18Rasheed Rice and Taequann Thornton both left the Chiefs game.
33:21Rice very early with a hamstring issue, and Thornton a little bit later with an ankle issue.
33:26I'm sure that you and the guys will talk about Xavier Worthy.
33:30He's going to be a waiver-wire pickup. Eric Moody should probably mention him.
33:34Might be someone you want to target if neither of these guys can make it to the field in week five.
33:41All right, Liz Loza, thank you so much for that.
33:44Honestly, this isn't a part of our show, but I want to bring it up to you anyways.
33:50We should have this in here. Dalton Kincaid, you mentioned DJ Moore was out.
33:55I would have thought Dalton Kincaid would have been a larger part of this offense.
34:00One catch, seven yards, only two targets, 1.7 fantasy points.
34:03It feels like we've seen this story from Dalton Kincaid.
34:06After the first two weeks where he scored 18 fantasy points in week one, 22 fantasy points in week two, he is
34:13at back-to-back weeks under four fantasy points, and there has been no DJ Moore in either of those situations.
34:19All right, Liz, thank you so much for hanging out with me on this Sunday night.
34:25Hopefully you have fun watching what is left of this Sunday night football game, and thank you to all of you guys
34:32for hanging out with me as well. Doing another five episodes of fantasy.
34:36They hung out with us for the record. You're right.
34:39I didn't mean to say me. You're right. I apologize.
34:42But I know that I can stop you and say that because we are so close.
34:47That's right. You know what is great? Being able to do another five episodes of this stupid show, fantasy focus, and a bonus episode, Facts vs.
34:56Feelings, coming out on Thursday as well. Liz, it's always great to be here with you.
35:01I appreciate you, kid. And for everybody else here, don't forget to love each other and be kind to yourself.
35:08I'll see you guys a little bit later on this week.
35:11Adore you, Dob. And I'll see you in person next week.
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