0:00Super fun game. I'll be honest. I have a
0:02little
0:04mixed emotions on how it ended, but
0:06regardless, let's go position by
0:08position here and talk about the fantasy
0:09football update and
0:11adjust some rankings going into the
0:14future. Now, starting off with the New
0:16England Patriots, I was starting Drake
0:19Maye coming into this game. If y'all had
0:21seen our prediction market TikToks and
0:23stuff, we went through and we actually
0:25took Drake Maye to have over 20 fantasy
0:27points in this game as well. As Drake
0:29Maye we have seen over a large sample at
0:32this point, he is back to the
0:33quarterback that he was last year when
0:35last year in his first season ever
0:37starting, he was the quarterback two in
0:40fantasy points per game. This is now
0:42four straight games where I'm sure at
0:44this point if you're going to look at
0:46weeks four through seven, he will be the
0:49QB1 in fantasy points per game unless
0:52something crazy happens on Sunday. He's
0:54been absolutely incredible. He looks
0:57great. The rushing upside's there. He
0:59even got the rushing touchdown today.
1:01So, yeah, Drake Maye, um
1:03I am super happy to have him on my team.
1:05He is a set it and forget it top three
1:06quarterback. I really have no idea what
1:09the hell happened that made him so bad
1:11at the beginning of the season, but I am
1:12very happy that we are far past that.
1:15Now, going over to where we stand with
1:18the running back usage.
1:21I was so happy. You have no idea
1:25to get the receiving touchdown from
1:27Rhamondre Stevenson at the very end of
1:30the first half, right? It is a
1:32completely busted play. The Chicago
1:35Bears should be embarrassed that they
1:37let it happen. And within like 38
1:41seconds, um Drake Maye drove down the
1:43field with two balls, one to A.J. Brown,
1:46one to Rhamondre that he ended up taking
1:48to the house.
1:50I love to see it. I am ecstatic about
1:53it. And going into the future, it's not
1:55something that we can predict to
1:57continue to happen. Is if we do look at
1:59the underlying usage, while Ty
2:01Montgomery Patterson has essentially not
2:03been used at all over the past 2 weeks,
2:06we've seen Corey Clement out there on
2:08the field. Ramondre Stevenson has
2:11operated as the lead of a three-man
2:13running back by committee. But what I am
2:16maybe a little bit concerned about here
2:18is is there reason to believe when we
2:21were told 2 weeks ago that Ty Montgomery
2:24Patterson was going to be out for
2:27multiple weeks with a high ankle sprain,
2:29that he is straight up dealing with a
2:31high ankle sprain, and that's why he's
2:33not getting on the field. Now, don't get
2:34me wrong. I think no matter what,
2:36Ramondre Stevenson is the starter at
2:38this point. But I am concerned that
2:41Corey Clement seeing the field at all,
2:43and if we get another 10 days rest here
2:45from this New England Patriots offense,
2:47maybe Ty Montgomery Patterson does take
2:49a little bit more. So, I am not super
2:51excited about starting any New England
2:54Patriots running back. Again, it's a
2:56three-man running back by committee
2:57where I don't know if any of these guys
2:59are incredibly talented, but thank you
3:01so much Ramondre for that touchdown at
3:03the end of the first half. It's kind of
3:05a scam touchdown, but I am so thankful
3:08you did it as somebody who started Drake
3:09May.
3:10Now, going over to the pass catchers,
3:12Hunter Henry leads this team with seven
3:15targets. He continues to be a viable
3:18streaming tight end, a viable guy that
3:20you can look at at the tight end
3:22position. Eli Ruckus, who is the second
3:25tight end, this is player that they
3:27drafted in the third round of the NFL
3:29draft this year.
3:30Um he scores the touchdown, and he also
3:32almost had another touchdown. That's
3:34what led to the Drake May interception.
3:35It was just a bad ball by May. But I
3:37think Hunter Henry is still more like a
3:39streaming low-end tight end one,
3:41high-end tight end two. The big thing to
3:44talk about with the pass catchers here
3:45in New England will be A.J. Brown.
3:49Now, I personally tried to trade for
3:52A.J. Brown before this game. I sent a
3:54trade offer to last night in my league
3:57as somebody who has Drake May. I really
3:59like Drake May. I wanted to be able to
4:01root for the Drake May A.J. Brown stack.
4:03I sent an offer of Jameson Williams and
4:07Egbooca for A.J. Brown and Jakobi
4:10Meyers. I was looking at
4:11flockfantasy.com. Trade calculator said
4:13it was the Jameson Williams and Egbooca
4:15side easily. And I was like, "You know
4:17what? I think A.J. Brown has a higher
4:19ceiling if you were to get right than
4:21either of these two guys." So, I sent it
4:23to the owner in my league who has A.J.
4:26Brown, and that was actually the Dev
4:28Team. And the Dev Team, they pretty much
4:30use flockfantasy.com for everything for
4:32their team. So, I sent them the trade
4:34calculator screenshot as well, where it
4:36said, "Hey, um you 100% should trade
4:39away A.J. Brown." They said they didn't
4:41like Jamo, and they helped me dodge an
4:45absolute bullet. Because A.J. Brown at
4:48this point, where I was trying to go
4:50through and trade for him, seeing that
4:51he had 10 targets last week, thinking
4:54that all of a sudden he was going to be
4:56able to turn things around here. He
4:58doesn't look right.
5:00He's not able to generate separation.
5:03He looks slow. He doesn't look like the
5:06young, big, explosive playmaker that he
5:08was early in his NFL career.
5:10He looks like he's too big. I I mean,
5:13obviously, I wish I was built like A.J.
5:15Brown. That goes without being said. The
5:17dude looks like he could lose 15 lb.
5:19Get a little bit faster. I don't know if
5:21you need to be this big, A.J. Brown.
5:24Um regardless, I am still going to be
5:26starting A.J. Brown going into the
5:28future. I think you can very easily make
5:31an argument that this is just a small
5:34little setup that you have where
5:38he came back from the high ankle sprain.
5:39These were his first two games. He's
5:41going to get 10 days to rest. Maybe he
5:43does get better as time goes on. But,
5:47he's definitely not nearly as good as I
5:49was initially thinking that he was.
5:52Now, let's move over to the Chicago
5:54Bears end of things.
5:57And looking at Chicago, Caleb Williams,
6:01very similar to Drake May, he looks
6:03incredible, right? In my quarterback
6:04rankings, we had Lamar at number one
6:07this week, and then we had Caleb and May
6:10back-to-back at two and three.
6:12Caleb
6:14He has the rushing upside. We haven't
6:16seen him at the NFL level rush as
6:18frequently as Drake May, but regardless,
6:21this is a great Ben Johnson offense.
6:24Caleb Williams has some of the most
6:27explosive weapons in the NFL with Luther
6:30Burden and Colston Loveland. The problem
6:33that you'll have here is this is a team
6:35that just runs the ball so so much, then
6:39maybe it caps the overall passing volume
6:41just a smidge.
6:43Frankly, um it doesn't matter cuz Caleb
6:46Williams is going to be one of the most
6:47efficient quarterbacks in the entire
6:49NFL. He looks incredible. This offense
6:50looks incredible. Caleb Williams is a
6:52top-five QB that you are starting pretty
6:55much every week.
6:56Now, going to running back, De'Andre
6:58Swift absolutely dominates. Obviously,
7:01De'Andre Swift projected out to be a
7:02top-10 running back in fantasy this
7:04week, and it was very simple why. You
7:06have no Khalil Mondon guy, right? So, no
7:08Khalil Mondon guy, De'Andre Swift is
7:10going to be getting absolutely
7:13everything in this backfield, and he is
7:15going to smash. Now, I do think in the
7:16long run, once Khalil Mondon guy comes
7:19in, this is going to transition a little
7:20bit more over to a running back by
7:22committee, and that'll be something that
7:24does concern me just a bit.
7:27And going to the receivers,
7:30Luther Burden goes nuclear, right?
7:33Luther Burden, 130 receiving yards and a
7:37receiving touchdown.
7:39If you started Luther Burden in fantasy,
7:42you are over the moon.
7:45Now, if you look at the underlying
7:46usage,
7:48he had four targets.
7:50Right? So, he continues to be a
7:53low-volume,
7:55hyper-efficient wide receiver, right?
7:57Where when he is on the field,
8:00his yards per route run, his yards per
8:02target, going to be the best in the NFL.
8:06But, he didn't have a single ball in the
8:07second half. It is a little bit
8:09concerning that, again, he seems like he
8:12is very scheme-dependent, almost. And if
8:15this team decided to prioritize getting
8:17him the ball, he could be a straight-up
8:18league winner in fantasy. But, I have
8:20him ranked back-to-back with Jameson
8:22Williams, and I think they're very
8:24similar. They're big-play wide receivers
8:26that the floor is going to be low
8:27because the volume's not consistently
8:29there, but they have crazy-high
8:31ceilings, and you probably just got to
8:33start them every week and roll with the
8:34punches.
8:35Um Roma Odunze, had some balls at the
8:38very end of the game. Roma Odunze does
8:39not look good.
8:41Um
8:42He hits double-digit fantasy points for
8:44the second time this year, but I'm
8:46pretty sure this dude's still averaging
8:47like eight fantasy points per game.
8:49The big, big thing that changes from
8:52this game for me, cuz I don't really
8:54change my mind much on Caleb. I don't
8:55really change my mind much on May or the
8:57running backs. Um the two things that
8:59change. One, I should not be this
9:01optimistic about A.J. Brown. Me going
9:04out there and trying to trade for A.J.
9:05Brown last night, I dodged a bullet that
9:07my trade offer didn't get accepted, and
9:09I probably need to lower A.J. Brown down
9:11in my rankings. The second thing that is
9:15changing for me is Colston Loveland
9:19is
9:20skyrocketing up my rankings.
9:25Two things. One, Colston Loveland
9:27already had the usage in this game
9:31that was better than anything we had
9:33seen at any point this season for him.
9:37He was incredible. 12 targets and he had
9:41already moved up dramatically in my
9:44rankings
9:45um before we even had
9:48at the very end of the game, Cole Kmet
9:51go down and Cole Kmet get carted off.
9:55So, if Kmet's done,
9:58reason to believe that they are going to
10:00lean even heavier on Cole Kmet Loveland
10:03going into the future. And whereas
10:05Loveland so far this season had only
10:07averaged 7.1 fantasy points per game and
10:10he was the tight end 25 in fantasy
10:13points per game coming into this.
10:15After this New England Patriots game
10:17where he has 12 targets, 69 receiving
10:19yards, seven receptions and a receiving
10:21touchdown, he is the biggest riser of
10:24anybody in this game for me and it's not
10:26close. Again, Luther Burden looked
10:27incredible, talent off the charts, the
10:30volume just isn't consistently there.
10:32Loveland, talent off the charts, looked
10:34incredible, but
10:36we're starting to see the targets funnel
10:38his way. Over the past four games now,
10:40he has had nine targets, five targets,
10:42seven targets and now 12 and with no
10:45Cole Kmet, it's going to be even better
10:48going into the future. So, yeah. If you
10:51have Loveland, you should be ecstatic.
10:54Again, Caleb May, elite quarterbacks.
10:57De'Andre Swift, an elite running back
10:59until the young guy comes back. Once the
11:00young guy comes back, turns a little bit
11:02more into a committee. And then with the
11:04New England Patriots, it's a big running
11:06back by committee that Rhamondre is the
11:08leader of, but while I'm very thankful
11:11for the Rhamondre touchdown as somebody
11:13who started Drake May and I'm sure if
11:15you started Rhamondre, you were going
11:16crazy just like I was. I'm going into
11:19the future, I don't know if we can
11:20project this out consistently.
11:22But, it is Thursday night and you know
11:24what that means. That means we get to
11:28open up some packs from Arena Club,
11:31which I have been legitimately waiting
11:33to do this all week long. Let me see,
11:36can I move my screen like this? Let's do
11:38it this way. That way it's a little bit
11:40bigger here for today's stream. But, let
11:43me go ahead and pull this around. We get
11:47to open up two Emerald Football packs. I
11:50have yet to pull a grail on or off the
11:54live stream, and I have yet to pull a
11:55chase on or off the live stream, as
11:58well. So, hopefully, tonight's our lucky
12:01night. This one, what I'm going to be
12:02looking for is I already have purchased
12:05a decent amount of these cards myself.
12:06Like, I already own this Jonathan Taylor
12:08downtown. I already own this own this
12:10Lamar Jackson downtown. I already own
12:12this Calvin Ridley. I already own this
12:13Quinton Johnston. So, I'm going to be
12:15wanting one, a player that's I do not
12:19already have that same card. Again,
12:21y'all can tell with the wall behind me.
12:22I've been going crazy with the cards as
12:24of late. And two, an offensive player
12:27that I have seen play. I am not somebody
12:30who is very excited about getting
12:32players that are from the '70s and '80s
12:35that sadly I did not get to see. I'm
12:37sure a lot of other people would like
12:38that. That's just not necessarily for
12:40me. But, we get the option to sell it
12:42back if we don't like the card. So,
12:45let's go ahead and let's see if we get
12:49anything that we like here. This is a
12:53Garrett Wilson card. I actually really
12:55like this Garrett Wilson card.
12:58I bought it before the season started,
12:59though. So.
13:01I already have this one. This one I am
13:02going to have to be selling back just
13:05cuz I again, I already have it. But, um
13:08decent little value on that. So, not the
13:11end of the world there.
13:13But, let's open up another one, and
13:15let's see if we can get one that's I
13:17have not already bought.
13:21Let's see if we can go ahead and get
13:25this. Yeah, we have been going crazy
13:28with the cards already. So, a lot of
13:30these I already own, but let me see if
13:33we get one here. This is Derek Carr,
13:36Brock Bowers. This is actually a rookie
13:38Brock Bowers as well. And this is
13:40probably going to be a hold for me just
13:42with how well Brock Bowers has been
13:43playing this season. I wouldn't be
13:45surprised if this goes up. I think that
13:47is most likely going to be a hold.
13:50But, let me pull over. We get to do one
13:53more. And this next one we get to do is
13:56the bigger one between the two. This is
14:00going to be a diamond pack, and there is
14:04one card in this that
14:06I have been wanting to buy, but it's
14:08just not for sale anywhere. So, if I
14:10were to be able to pull it, I would
14:12legitimately lose my mind. Um but, the
14:15sad thing is it is under one of the
14:17chase cards, I believe. And again, I
14:19have never pulled a grail. I have never
14:21pulled a chase. Like, you only get a
14:230.21% chance to pull one of these chase
14:26cards. It's like 1% total. So, 99% Not
14:2999% of the time, but about 98% of the
14:32time, you are pulling one of these. I
14:34would love the Trevor Lawrence downtown
14:36or the Baker downtown, either. Um based
14:39on tonight's game, anything but this
14:40TreVeyon Henderson card. I'll tell you
14:41that much. Um but, let me see if we can
14:46go ahead and get it. If we get the
14:47Stafford 2018 downtown, I will
14:51legitimately lose my mind cuz it's just
14:53a card that isn't anywhere. There's one
14:55for sale on eBay right now for like
14:57$20,000, but
15:00um obviously, I cannot do that. So, let
15:02me move this over. This is the big one.
15:05Please, please, please, please, please.
15:10Jordan Love. Which Jordan Love has been
15:12balling. This is a rookie ticket card,
15:14PSA 10.
15:15Honestly, with how Jordan Love has been
15:17playing, this is probably going to be a
15:18hold as well. This This actually a
15:20really good get.
15:22But, um I'll leave the link to Arena
15:24Club in the live chat description
15:26comment section. If you sign up with
15:27code flock, you'll get 20% off of your
15:30first pack. Um and again, you get to
15:32decide if you want to ship them to your
15:33house, just sell them right back. But, I
15:36think that should be it for tonight's
15:38live stream. Really appreciate y'all
15:39hanging out with us, and I really hope I
15:41get to see y'all in the live stream
15:43tomorrow night.
