0:00I'm going to be honest, this felt like a phenomenal day in fantasy football.
0:04Maybe it's because I scored the most points in my league or it looks like I'm going to. I'm going to win $5,000. We're
0:10going to take it to a local animal shelter and give it to them. So, I'm freaking pumped about that. But, also we
0:18didn't have that many injuries. We had a ton of incredible performances and it feels like over the past month I've been
0:25just crying non-stop about injuries and duds that we don't have to deal with right now. But, let's go game by game
0:31starting with the Baltimore Ravens Atlanta Falcons game that we just watched. So, here you had no Lamar Jackson. Obviously, that's going to
0:40change things. Tyler Huntley, you're never starting him in fantasy. The only thing that's relevant about Huntley is can he provide enough points to Derrick
0:49Henry and Zay Flowers. Now, Derrick Henry has 24 carries. Derrick Henry has two targets including the receiving touchdown. Henry didn't do much at the
0:59beginning of this game. It really was fueled a bunch especially with the rushing volume of the trip to overtime that this game had. But, regardless we
1:09clearly saw that you lower your expectations a bit with Tyler Huntley under center in comparison to Lamar Jackson. But, Derrick Henry still a
1:17low-end RB1 with Huntley. And then with Zay Flowers, he actually could have had a bigger day in the box score. He had
1:23eight receptions for 53 receiving yards.
1:25Had like 13 fantasy points, 14 fantasy points. But, one of the big catches he had um they actually accepted a defensive pass interference play to save
1:34a couple seconds off the clock. So, in the box score it's not showing up exactly how big of a day he did. But,
1:40again like Zay Flowers for me, I know we talked about this in the sell high video. I think with the Lamar injury you
1:45have to reset expectations. I know we mentioned like hey he's still a top 10 wide receiver in my rankings. He's still
1:50incredible. But, if you could pivot over to like a Drake London, if you could pivot over to like a Nico Collins, um
1:56that would be a little interesting for me, but obviously, not much changes. Derrick Henry, Zay Flowers still absolute smashes. Maybe we get Lamar Jackson back
2:05this next week. Now, going over to the Atlanta Falcons, Michael Penix gets banged up in this game. We end up seeing
2:11Tua come in in overtime. I'm sitting there in the Flock League live stream thinking that Tua is about to do something, and the man throws the worst
2:19meatball sub I've ever seen.
2:21Overtime, you're supposed to be driving down. He drops back to pass, no pressure at all in his face, and he throws it
2:29straight to the defender. Literally, right in his like if he was trying to throw it to Drake London, he threw it 10 ft too short.
2:38Horrific. So, you better hope that Michael Penix is starting next week for the sake of Drake London, but London, obviously, nothing's changed. He is
2:48still an absolute beast. 11 targets out of 34 potential targets you could have had in this offense. So, we know he's
2:53going to have like a 33% team target share. He's going to be a wide receiver one when this offense is functional. So,
2:58you're hoping Penix will be the QB. And then going over to Bijan Robinson, nothing really changes here. Bijan had 17 carries, 86 rushing yards. He had
3:08seven targets as well. So, he had 24 total opportunities. Doesn't score a touchdown in this game, but we know he's still a top two player in fantasy
3:16football. And then Brian Robinson, we talked about it last week. He's very much just Tyler Allgeier from last year.
3:22He's a premium handcuff running back that will randomly have usable weeks, but there's no way in hell you could ever put him in your lineup. I know we
3:29had like Rome in the Flock League put Brian Robinson in his lineup this week.
3:33Don't fall for the random touchdowns.
3:35It's not going to work out for you. He scores 1.6 fantasy points in this game.
3:40And yeah, again, he's just going to be the premium handcuff to Bijan, but big thing for Atlanta is making sure Penix
3:46is going to be good to go. Now, let's move over to the Tennessee Titans Houston Texans game. So, here the Titans
3:52offense markets had the Titans as the worst offense in the NFL coming into this week. They projected only score about 14
4:02fantasy points, which obviously, if we can look at an offense projected out to be the worst offense in the NFL, it's a
4:08pretty easy spot to avoid all of them.
4:10Can board, you're obviously not starting. Tony Pollard is still clearly the guy here in this backfield. He had 14 carries in comparison to Spears had
4:20two, but you're not starting him. The offense isn't good enough.
4:23Here, Carnell Tate has five targets. He doesn't get there. Again, he had a big, big week last week. He's an incredible
4:31player, but the offense is horrific.
4:33Wan'Dale Robinson leads the team in receiving. I have Wan'Dale on my team.
4:37I'm going to have Justin Jefferson on by next week. There's a world in which I have to consider putting him in, but you
4:41do not want to start any of these Tennessee Titans unless you are in massive desperation mode with your buys and injuries. Then going over to the
4:50Houston side.
4:51The big storyline, there are actually two of them.
4:54Um one, we know that Marvin Harrison Jr.
4:59is getting traded to the Houston Texans.
5:02The cost is about a second-round NFL draft pick, which to be honest with y'all, I thought that Marv would have cost a little bit less.
5:12I didn't know the Texans were going to have to spend that kind of draft capital on him, but nevertheless, with this,
5:20you have to assume it boosts the offense overall a little bit. Now, obviously, I'm not going to sit here and say like
5:26Marvin Harrison is some incredible talent that everybody thought he was coming out of Ohio State. Like Marvin Harrison has not generated separation.
5:33Marvin Harrison has been horrific so far this season. But the change in scenery can only be a good thing for Marv. Marv
5:40can't be worse than he was. So, I think before the trade, I had Marvin Harrison ranked at about wide receiver 57. He is
5:47going to slide up in my rankings, but he's going to be more so like a wide receiver four. And he's still going to
5:53be somebody that you bench every single week until you see otherwise. I don't think this negatively impacts Nico Collins because Nico's still the alpha.
6:02What it's going to do is it's going to take away the targets from like Xavier Hutchinson. He's just going to play the
6:07Jayden Higgins role of what you thought Jayden Higgins was going to do. And then looking at the running backs, David Montgomery gets injured. Sounds like
6:15from what I can tell right now, David Montgomery is going to be missing some time. And with no Montgomery, Woody Marks will project out as a top 24 RB.
6:24So, nuke Montgomery in your rankings, move Woody Marks up dramatically. We'll talk about Woody Marks more in the waiver wire video that will come out on
6:31Tuesday. And we'll also talk more about Marvin Harrison in our rest of season wide receiver rankings video that will come out tomorrow morning. So, please
6:38just make sure you are subscribed to the channel.
6:41And you won't miss that. Now, we probably should have led off with what we have for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Obviously,
6:48this was the game super early in the morning. Funny enough, markets had the Eagles projected out score 17 points as one of the worst offenses in the league.
6:58That's exactly what happened. They scored 17. Jalen Hurts does not look usable.
7:04Is it his fault? Uh, probably not. The Eagles have no offensive line left.
7:09And on top of this, they have no Devonta Smith in this game, right? So, I don't think you blame Jalen Hurts for the fact
7:15that he's now a QB2 in fantasy. Going over to the running back position, we're going to have to talk about Damien
7:20Pierce a ton in the waiver wire video, but if Will Shipley and Saquon Barkley are both going to miss this next week,
7:26like Damien Pierce will be in play for you.
7:31Like realistically, I'm not going to sit here and say that he's some week-winning running back cuz the problem is this Eagles offense is
7:41horrific. So, Damien Pierce may be like Tony Pollard in a way to be completely honest, but Pierce will project out as
7:48the starter if Shipley misses this next week with Saquon Barkley. And my team, I definitely need help at running back. I
7:54just started Alvin Kamara at running back, too, with my Travis Etienne injury. So, I will be most likely placing a waiver wire claim for Pierce.
8:02Um Darius Cooper, big touchdown, obviously super exciting. If you picked up Darius Cooper after his big week last week and you played him right now, I'm
8:11incredible. I don't know how you did that, but definitely don't play him next week. He only had three targets. Really, the only pass catcher I'd feel
8:17comfortable playing here in Philadelphia, obviously DeVonta Smith when he comes back. But, on top of that, Dallas Goedert had nine targets, and you
8:25just have a ton of tight end check-downs since this offense doesn't have the ability to wait for um things to develop
8:31deep downfield. So, Goedert looks playable yet again coming back from this injury. Now, going over to the Jacksonville Jaguars side, Trevor
8:39Lawrence remains quarterback. Don't need to discuss it. Beasha Tuiton, here he is getting squeezed for touches. Laquon Allen again gets some work as a
8:48receiver. He has two targets. Chris Rodriguez also has a few carries, as well. So, Beasha Tuiton doesn't have a massive role as a receiver.
8:58Um but he's the lead running back in a good offense. So, you got to play Beasha Tuiton every single week.
9:07I know obviously we had him as a sell-high candidate a few weeks ago. I think two weeks ago or so.
9:12And he realistically is only averaging like 10, 11 points per game. But, so I I'll stand by like if you could sell
9:18Beasha Tuiton and maybe move over and get to like Breece Hall, I think it'd make sense. But, if you got him, you play him. He's the
9:28starting running back in a good offense.
9:30And then Parker Washington is just a freaking alpha.
9:33Nine targets.
9:35Now, yes, Lawrence threw the ball 39 times, but two touchdowns, one of the touchdowns was so damn impressive. Like, as soon as Parker Washington had the
9:45second TD, I thought my odds of winning the $5,000 in the Flock League, I thought they were gone entirely. My team's been horrific over the past few
9:54weeks with my injuries. I was getting Justin Jefferson back this week. So, my team actually projected to score the second most points in the league coming
10:00into today. Um the team that was at number one was Avery. He has the Lawrence and Parker Washington stack.
10:06So, until until um before Drake Maye and Christian Watson popped off, once I saw that Parker Washington second touchdown, I was like, I have no chance
10:14at winning 5,000 this week as the highest scoring team in the league. Um now, I will say my team popped off. So,
10:20here's what we need to win um the $5,000, which I will be sweating out this on the Flock League live stream tomorrow night.
10:28Again, if I win the $5,000, I'm going to donate it to a local animal shelter here in Austin. What I'll probably do is I'll
10:36probably go to PetSmart, buy a ton of toys, buy a ton of food, whatever they need. I'll talk to them beforehand. But,
10:42looks like the matchups right now um I have 172 with Dalton Kincaid. He has 160 with Davante Adams. So, I can't have
10:52Adams outscore Kincaid by 12 or more points. Let me pull up the markets that we have for tomorrow night. This is the
10:59um Polymarket odds right now have the Rams at a 62% chance of winning. We go over to the player props for the PPR.
11:09Actually, looks like a lot of these markets are down right now. Do we have anytime touchdowns? We have Davante Adams with a 48% chance of scoring a
11:16touchdown and Kincaid with only a 33% chance. Realistically, we just can't have Adams score like two or more touchdowns or we're cooked. But,
11:23obviously, if you want to check out any of these markets, you can find the link to Polymarket US in the description, in
11:29the comment section, in the live chat.
11:30If you sign up with promo code Flock, you'll get $25 out of your account after you deposit your first 10. Available in
11:36every state outside of Nevada. But, Parker Washington locked and loaded top 10 wide receiver rest of season.
11:43Nobody else is startable other than Parker Washington based on Trevor Lawrence. Um I will say I think Brian Thomas had the funniest non-touchdown
11:51catch ever. He like caught the ball 5 ft in bounds and still wasn't able to get his two feet down. It was insane.
11:59Now, going over to the Miami versus Cincy game. Technically, the score of this was only a seven-point win by the Bengals, but it really wasn't a close
12:09football game, right? The Dolphins scored a bunch of points at the very end. Um Malik Willis looked really bad, whether you want to blame it on the fact
12:16he doesn't have any weapons, whether you want to blame it on the fact of the offensive line, blah blah blah. None of
12:20that matters. Malik Willis, you don't play him in fantasy. The only guy startable in Miami is Ollie Gordon. Now, Ollie Gordon doesn't have any receiving
12:29work in this game, which that's going to be the problem here is Ollie Gordon is shaping up to be the lead running back
12:35in Miami, but it's a touchdown or bust situation in one of the worst offenses in the league.
12:42So, Ollie's the only guy you could consider starting. Malik Washington gets eight targets, but again, the rookie Chris Bell's probably going to get better as
12:49time goes on. And once they get Caleb Douglas back in, there will be some target competition. Going over to Joe Burrow, I had to play against Joe Burrow
12:58this week in a six-point passing touchdown league, so. Um if my team didn't lay the hammer, it would have been a little scarier cuz Burrow has
13:04four passing touchdowns. Obviously, very weird game environment in which we didn't know if Ja'Marr Chase or Tee Higgins were going to be playing coming
13:12into this.
13:15Looking at the running back usage, this is the weirdest thing. Now, obviously, it's a game against the Miami Dolphins, and I know everybody in their mom is
13:27going to be spasming about this Samaje Perine 14 carries to Chase Brown with 13. And on top of this, Samaje Perine
13:35did have the receiving touchdown at the goal line.
13:39That is the big thing that Samaje Perine was in the goal line package instead of Chase Brown, which is a horrific sight.
13:49Here's my deal with it.
13:51Chase Brown had 13 carries and four targets. He had 17 opportunities and what is still a very good offense.
14:00So, it sucks that Samaje Perine got this usage in what wasn't really a close game.
14:06It sucks that Samaje Perine scored a touchdown and Chase Brown didn't.
14:12Just like Brian Robinson scored three rushing touchdowns last week, right?
14:18I would use this personally as a buy low opportunity for Chase Brown. I will send an offer right now live on this live
14:27stream to try to give you all a gauge of how I would be viewing Chase Brown rest of season after he just dropped seven total fantasy
14:37points. Like, let's see what I would like to do is I wonder what a Chase Brown to Jefferson pivot could upgrade
14:46me elsewhere.
14:47I'm a send something where I'm going from like Actually, never mind. Bush is not going to be able to do that cuz he just lost
14:56Quintez Cephus. We'll have to talk about Cephus in a second. But yeah, he lost Cephus and Shipley, so Yeah, never mind. Let me pass on trying
15:05to send him an offer right now cuz I can't send him Taylor. But we'll circle back around to that. Ja'Marr Chase gets
15:09the 10 targets. Ja'Marr Chase had a phenomenal receiving day.
15:13Ja'Marr was a top-three receiver before this. He's top-three receiver after this. This doesn't matter. Tee Higgins only had four targets.
15:19Deal with Higgins is he probably shouldn't have played this game. He's going to have the bye week next week, and then he's going to be coming out of
15:25the bye week fully rested. So, I think Higgins is also probably a buy low candidate in this offense as well.
15:32But, I don't think much changes here in Cincinnati. Maybe Chase Brown falls a spot or two in my rankings, but I don't
15:38want you to overreact and like completely spaz about this.
15:43Now, going over to the Indianapolis Colts Pittsburgh Steelers. Daniel Jones, he never start, now we're talking about him. Jonathan Taylor, disappointing spot. I had JT in my
15:54lineup. He had 19 total opportunities though. He had the 15 carries. He had the three receptions. What sucks with JT is we just haven't had the big rushing
16:04touchdowns like we saw last season, but just cuz they haven't come yet doesn't mean they're not going to come in the
16:09future. So, as somebody who has Jonathan Taylor, I'm not panicking here. I'm still viewing him as a mid running back one in fantasy. What we need is we need
16:17the Indianapolis Colts to win some football games in the future, and we need Jonathan Taylor to be able to play in a positive game environment where we
16:24can break off long runs. Let me go through and pull up what we have with the upcoming schedule for the Indianapolis Colts here.
16:32Um this next week they get the Tennessee Titans, which I absolutely love, but then we do have really tough spots against Minnesota in week seven and
16:40Jacksonville in week eight. So, those are not the most exciting, but at least this next week hopefully we can treat it as a get right spot for JT.
16:48Tyler Warren had the rushing touchdown at the goal line, which was frustrating beyond get out. They did give JT a couple carries that he just got stuffed
16:57at the goal line.
16:59Um but I'm not worried about JT's goal line usage going away. Tyler Warren had nine targets, 83 receiving yards. Tyler Warren's had a ton of receiving volume,
17:08and this is in a game in which Keenan Allen was back. Now, the big note here is Keenan Allen has nine targets in
17:14comparison to Josh Downs with six. If Keenan Allen's playing, Josh Downs may not be startable. Josh Downs may be somebody that you have to put on your
17:22bench. He's obviously Downs had a ton of target volume 2 weeks ago, but that was a game in which Keenan did not play in.
17:28Now, going over to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Jaylen Warren looks like the best player on this offense. Jaylen Warren 101 rushing yards and at the same
17:36time 87 receiving yards, both lead the team. He scores a touchdown on both ends.
17:42So, Jaylen Warren has been a top 10 running back every single week in the weekly rankings over the past three.
17:49But, that's been because he is playing 90 plus percent of the snaps every single week you have no Rico Dowdle. The
17:57problem that we may run into here is if Rico Dowdle comes back this next week, which he should. Right now, they are
18:05telling us that Dowdle was close to playing in this game.
18:08Do I expect this to be a 50-50 backfield split? Of course not. Jaylen Warren has proven he's probably significantly better than what Rico Dowdle is.
18:18But, do I expect Jaylen Warren to continue to see 90 plus percent of the snaps and 90 plus percent of the
18:24opportunities? No.
18:27Like, Warren instead of him being a locked and loaded set it and forget it top 10 running back every week, probably
18:32come back down to earth a bit. Will probably still be a high-end running back two, somebody you're starting every week regardless. You're just going to
18:39have to lower your expectations a little bit. Um with Pat Freiermuth, he scores a couple touchdowns. The big thing we're going to have to discuss on the waiver
18:48wire video is going to be the Jeremy Bernard pick up because obviously Pittman's already hit the IR. Then, you sprinkle on the fact that Roman Wilson
18:57just got injured. And Bernard, the guy they just took in the second round of the draft, had nine targets in comparison to Metcalf with four.
19:04Okay.
19:05Now, let's go over to the most exciting thing to me and the reason why I am probably going to win $5,000 this week
19:14and have the highest scoring team in the league again.
19:17Drake May goes nuclear.
19:20Drake May four passing touchdowns, 374 passing yards, the rushing touchdown on top of this and an absolute blowout
19:30where the Patriots beat the Raiders 45 to 17.
19:35Chef's kiss.
19:37Now, this isn't a one-week occurrence.
19:39Drake May last week also scored the most points in fantasy football at the quarterback position.
19:47This is now back-to-back weeks where Drake May has been the number one quarterback in fantasy.
19:53Now, I'm very biased.
19:55I have Drake May on my team and I'm I'm loving life that he's in my lineup.
20:04But, I want to make excuses for why he was so bad at the beginning of the season.
20:08Week one, really tough match-up against Seattle, right? We saw him fail miserably against the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl.
20:16Week two against the Steelers, the Steelers can't move the ball down the field, the Patriots just run over and over and over again.
20:23Week three against the Jags, like keep in mind, I started Drake May all three of those weeks.
20:28I After the two duds, I was believing in the Drake May bounce back. I was still putting him in my lineup. I sent him out
20:34week three and said, "Hey, man, I trust you."
20:37And the Patriots got blown out by the Jacksonville Jaguars.
20:41Patriots scored three points. Drake May had more interceptions than touchdowns on the year.
20:46It's horrific.
20:47But, if I'm coming up with excuses, I can't come up with an excuse for the Jags game outside of maybe the shoulder
20:54injury Drake May was dealing with early in the season.
20:58Maybe it was a serious injury and maybe he's now just over it.
21:02Maybe it took him a little bit of time to gel with the new receivers. They obviously built this offense around A.J.
21:07Brown. Um A.J. Brown leaves with the high ankle sprain.
21:13He's then having to figure out, "Oh, okay, my receivers. We got like Romeo Dobbs instead of Kayshon Boutte now."
21:21I don't know. After back-to-back weeks of Drake Maye being the QB1 overall and the fact that we probably get A.J. Brown
21:27back in a few weeks here, I'm starting Drake Maye every week regardless of the matchup now. Maybe it's a boom-bust play, but there's no
21:36way I can put this dude back on my bench after I benched him last week for Bryce Young against the Lions.
21:41The running back usage, TreVeyon Henderson gets injured. So, when TreVeyon's out, that is going to make Rhamondre Stevenson a must-start running
21:49back.
21:50Do I think Rhamondre Stevenson's an incredible talent? No.
21:54But, I think Rhamondre Stevenson's going to get an insane amount of volume.
21:59Then going over to the receivers, they're spreading the ball out so much that each one of these guys are going to
22:06maybe have individual big weeks, but I don't know if you can trust any of them until A.J. Brown comes back.
22:14We'll talk about like Kyle Williams, Demario Douglas a little bit more with the waiver wire video.
22:20But, obviously Matt Collins on the IR, A.J. Brown out for the time being, I would understand why you'd want to look
22:25at them. Going over to the Raiders, they get absolutely blown out.
22:29You actually see Sam Darnold and Osa at the end of this game. I don't know if they made any official statements. My
22:35base expectation is Cousins is definitely starting next week.
22:38Maybe maybe I I'm an idiot. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd be surprised if Cousins wasn't starting when they're three and two.
22:44Going over to the running back stuff, how Gainwell was active, and while he had 50 receiving yards and the three receptions,
22:54dude can't get anything going.
22:56I don't know how seriously injured he is.
22:59I would say Gainwell's probably still a must-start running back while he is good to go.
23:05But at this point you would maybe hope that they rest him a couple weeks, let him get to be 100% so you don't have to play him and he
23:16just duds in your lineup in comparison with the ceiling really is. Brock Bowers, obviously the elite tight end one.
23:24And then going over to what we have with the receivers, no wide receivers are interesting in Las Vegas.
23:33You play Gente, you play Bowers, you pray to God that Gente gets healthy, but nothing else to discuss.
23:39Going over to the Browns, obviously we had the Browns as big sell candidates on the sell high video just as the thought process, hey, Deshaun
23:48Watson's probably not good after he was the worst quarterback in the NFL and then tore his Achilles twice.
23:54Um Here Casey Conception gets injured.
24:00So maybe that opens up an opportunity for Isaiah Bonds.
24:04It doesn't. May- maybe I mentioned his name in the waiver wire video and to just remind y'all don't pick him up. Um
24:10Dinzel Boston's now looking more like a clear start though if Conception's going to miss.
24:17And then Quinshon Judkins was also seen with a boot after this game. I will talk about Raheem Sanders on the waiver wire
24:25video. It does seem like he is going to be the running back that you want to pick up. It will be an interesting note
24:32though on if we end up getting Dillon Sampson activated off the IR anytime soon because if he does, then it's probably a running back by committee in
24:40a Cleveland Browns offense I don't want to be excited for.
24:43Going over to the Jets, Braelon Allen was a very clear start this week just because the dude played 90 plus percent of the
24:51snaps last week. So he comes through and yet again he has all the work.
24:57So Bralon, if Breece misses next week, we'll see what the Jets project out as.
25:02I don't know if they're again, another reason Bralon was a big start is the Jets were favored in this game over the
25:06Browns.
25:08But, I would assume that Bralon is somebody that you just got to jam this next week as well. Garrett Wilson, you
25:13know you're going to jam him. He had 11 targets over under receiving yards and a receiving touchdown.
25:18And Kendre Miller did get a banged up in the game. But really, you only start whoever the starting running back is and
25:24Garrett Wilson for New York. You already know that.
25:26Now, let's move over to Justin Jefferson and the Saints offense. So, first we'll start with the Saints. Taysom Hill shock and blowed
25:34is this a Taysom Hill shock problem?
25:38Yeah, I'm going to be honest. I don't think Taysom Hill shock's the best quarterback in the NFL.
25:42But, it's primarily you have to go up against maybe the best defense in the league or a top three defense with the
25:47Minnesota Vikings, right?
25:49Like markets had the Saints as one of the worst offensive plays in the league this week.
25:55So, I don't think it's that big of a surprise.
26:02But, with the running back usage, this is probably the worst thing for me. I started Kamara thinking that he could give me running back two production and
26:11obviously it's not cutting it. Let me see if I can pull up the exact snaps that we had between Kamara, Miller, and
26:19Donaldson.
26:25Because Miller ended up scoring the touchdown. I also have Miller on my bench.
26:35I need to figure out if I am cutting blah blah blah. This is a chart from PFF.
26:42So, it looks like Alvin Kamara played 12 plays, C.J. Donaldson played 19, Kendre Miller played 14. The big note is C.J.
26:52Donaldson had everything on third down.
26:56So, it looked like Miller was the goal line running back. Miller was the early down running back. CJ Donaldson was the
27:03third down running back. And Kamara was god knows what, injured with a back injury.
27:09So, I need to find a different play at running back two this week myself until ETN comes back.
27:16But, looks like maybe a three-man running back by committee for the Saints and you can't start anybody.
27:24Going to the receivers, Chris Olave has six targets. Here's the deal with Olave, you can't blame him for what just happens. He had 46 receiving yards out
27:33of 96 total passing yards.
27:36He had almost 50% of the passing offense here in New Orleans. So, this was just very much a one weird off where the
27:43lesson to take away is the Minnesota Vikings have a great defense. Don't play guys against them. And then also, if you're planning on starting a Saints
27:53running back, look elsewhere.
27:55Now, going over to the Vikings side of things, this was the first game that we got from Kyler and Jefferson playing
28:02together throughout the entire thing.
28:04Jefferson had one of the best touchdown catches all year.
28:09Absolutely love to see it. You had no Jordan Addison in this game and Hockenson got knocked out immediately.
28:16So, very weird in the distribution of targets here. Aaron Jones, obviously, has 25 carries. He looks really good.
28:24Has the rushing touchdown as well. And he had three targets. But, the problem that you're going to get with Aaron Jones is Jordan Mason will probably be
28:32back in week seven after the bye. And this is going to turn into a running back by committee. And while Aaron Jones
28:39alongside Jaylen Warren have been top 12 running backs must start names every single week.
28:48Well, Jaylen Warren, I think he's going to remain a must-start running back once you get Rico Dowdle back in.
28:54I don't think that same thing's going to happen with Aaron Jones. I would expect going into the future, it's a running
28:59back by committee here.
29:01Jefferson, locked and loaded, top 10 wide receiver, you jam. Kyler, you play him in good match-ups, avoid him in bad match-ups.
29:09And then, if Addison's good to go, I don't think Hockenson's going to be interesting.
29:15Obviously, this Gavin Berfole the mule, blah blah blah. I've never heard of this dude before. He was only filling in for
29:21the Hockenson concussion that Hockenson suffered um immediately.
29:25Now, going over to the Bears-Packers, so Chicago looked terrific.
29:32Horrible.
29:33Once Monangai got ruled out, I thought De'Andre Swift may have been a top five running back.
29:38And it just frankly didn't matter how much of this backfield Swift was going to get. The offense collapsed. It was just a runaway freight train by the
29:47Green Bay Packers here.
29:49De'Andre Swift will be a must-start running back next week though if you have no Khalil Mungai. Um big thing is, it's tough to take anything away from
29:56this when you had Case Keenum for half the game, you had Tyson Bagent for half the game, and we're probably getting
30:01Caleb back next week. So, um Romeo Doubs had a considerable amount of target volume. Luther Burden had six targets as well, led the team in
30:10receiving.
30:11The only thing that I'm willing to take away in terms of like, "Hey, this dude is just probably unstoppable." I'm literally now looking at
30:20Colston Loveland in comparison to guys like Hunter Henry.
30:25Colston Loveland in comparison to guys like Dalton Schultz.
30:32I'm like, "Damn, could you put Loveland ahead of him?" Like, please let me know in the chat right now.
30:38If you have Colston Loveland, next week, are you starting Colston Loveland or are you starting a waiver wire tight ends?
30:47Loveland or waiver wire, please let me know.
30:53Loveland or waiver wire.
31:01Yeah, we got most people on the waiver wire.
31:08I think you can't cut Loveland. He's still somebody that you need a roster.
31:14Just cuz maybe Caleb comes in, maybe he fixes this.
31:19But yeah, like Loveland's looks like he just maybe straight up cooked.
31:27Cooked cooked. Like Loveland's like the new Kyle Pitts essentially.
31:35Going over to the Packers, Jordan Love balled. Marshawn Lloyd had two rushing touchdowns, but Marshawn Lloyd did not look good in this game. Don't play
31:43Marshawn Lloyd going into the future unless you're like incredibly desperate.
31:48Like me as an example, if it's like, "Oh, Marshawn Lloyd versus Alvin Kamara." I may have to think about something there.
31:54Then going over to the receivers, Christian Watson, Matthew Golden, Go Ham. And here's the deal with this Packers team.
32:02Like y'all know I love Christian Watson.
32:04Y'all know how much we've talked about him so far this season.
32:07And I know we've said this a thousand bajillion times and you're rolling your eyes and you're annoyed, but I'm really excited about it. We are going to get to
32:15win 5,000 this week in the Flock League.
32:17We're going to get to donate that to the Austin Animal Shelter, so I'm freaking pumped. Christian Watson's a big reason for that. And looking ahead to the
32:26matchups, week six, Christian Watson and the Green Bay Packers play the Dallas Cowboys.
32:33Week seven, they play the Detroit Lions.
32:36There's a chance this dude's a borderline top five wide receiver in my rankings over the next two weeks.
32:42I absolutely love to see it. Love, love, love to see it.
32:49Okay.
32:50And then Kraft does get five targets.
32:52Kraft is startable as well.
32:54Now, going over to the Commanders. So, I This isn't just a regular NFL talking show, right? Where I know the main
33:03conversation in this game is the decision or the lack of decision to um spike the ball, kick the field goal
33:13at the very end of the game.
33:18By Jayden Daniels.
33:20I'll be honest. Obviously, it's silly.
33:23Obviously, it was a horrible call. It makes literally zero difference for fantasy football. It doesn't matter in the slightest. What matters for me with
33:30Jayden Daniels is I didn't know how much he was going to be running with this elbow injury and with this brace on.
33:36But, the man was running like crazy. And he was willing to take on contact as well.
33:45So, like Jayden Daniels looks like he has yet again back to being a top 10 quarterback in fantasy. Over 100 rushing
33:52yards and multiple rushing touchdowns as well.
33:57Jacory Cross Kamara gets the rushing touchdown, but he's not going to get anything as a receiver. So, he's a boomer bust touchdown player where the
34:06floor is five points and the ceiling's 14. So, I would rather not start any of the running backs in this backfield. A
34:13Terry McLaurin obviously injured coming into this game. I think probably both Terry and Diggs will be startable with Daniels under center.
34:25Like, Daniels looked good, especially once we get Diggs and Terry back in.
34:30Now, one thing that I do want to point out here, I'm going to be real brief with this.
34:35Antonio Williams. I have noticed a trend in fantasy football as of late with people for whatever reason trying to get cute with it and trying to play wide
34:46receivers that have never proven to really be anything at the NFL level, that don't have pedigree or at least a ton of pedigree either
34:57and trying to get cute when they don't need to be.
35:00Like if you played Antonio Williams this week, if you played Trey Harris this week it's obviously different if you're playing salary cap DFS and you're like,
35:09"Hey, I got to find a dumpster waiver wire wide receiver just to fit my lineup just to get the salary." But if you're in
35:18like a 10-team league don't get cute with it.
35:23Don't be playing like Antonio Williams, Trey Harris. I had a zillion questions in our live stream this morning about those guys. Um again, you can play them
35:33after or like the reason you would have played Antonio Williams is if both Terry and Diggs were going to be out.
35:43Now, going over to the Giants the worst call of the week by far by me was me saying, "I don't think James has it."
35:53I think this situation's going to be really ugly and I'm worried about the injury stuff with Malik Neighbors. Sell high from Neighbors, see if you can
36:00pivot over to Nico Collins, see if you can pivot over to Drake London.
36:04Neighbors looks like he is back. James looked like vintage James in this game.
36:09We got 60 dropbacks from James Winston.
36:15Now, obviously all these numbers are inflated. It goes to overtime. 60 dropbacks from wins, but it doesn't matter. 20 targets is 20 targets.
36:23Neighbors hell, he may be ahead of Nico Collins at this point. He may be ahead of Drake London.
36:30I'm going to have to redo our rankings and look at that for the video that's going to drop tomorrow morning.
36:38But, Neighbors looks like he is uh fully back, looks incredible.
36:45Scat fumbles at the very end. That doesn't matter as much as this is still being a running back by committee where
36:52none of these RBs are super super enticing. Like Tyron Tracy had ball security problems, too, I believe.
37:00Um I doesn't show up in the box score that Tracy lost the fumble, but I'm almost certain that he did.
37:06And then yeah, Isaiah Likely 13 targets as well. Very similar to Neighbors.
37:10Obviously, 60 dropbacks, game that goes to overtime, numbers are going to be a little bit inflated. But, 13 targets is 13 targets.
37:19So, both Neighbors and Likely look like absolute smashes as long as James can hold on to the starting job from McCarthy and keep up this type of
37:29passing volume.
37:32Now, what game do we need to discuss next? The Denver Broncos Los Angeles Chargers.
37:38So, Bo Nix has 123 passing yards in this game. Dobbins gets you the rushing touchdown. Is Dobbins still not startable? He's the same as Justice Hill
37:45and Gus Edwards. Cool if he scores a rushing touchdown, he'll have 13 points.
37:49If he doesn't score a rushing touchdown, he'll have five. He's not going to give you like big plays.
37:56He's not going to have any work as a receiver. So, Dobbins, decent game, but not interested in starting him going into the future, not
38:04interested in starting Bo Nix, passing volume's not there. And to be honest with you, I may not be interested in starting Jaylen Waddle, either.
38:12Like this is a large sample now of Jaylen Waddle being just not I mean, he's technically the wide receiver he had five targets technically the wide
38:24receiver one but he's not an alpha in this offense right now they're spreading the ball out to so many different players.
38:31Again the leading target owner Waddell five targets out of 27 total Bo Nix pass attempts.
38:42So I would say the only guy that I'm starting in Denver would be Waddell and he is a borderline flex play.
38:53Okay.
38:55Now going to the Los Angeles Chargers Justin Herbert if he's not already on your waiver wire send him there right now. Again you can come up with a ton of
39:03excuses whether you want to blame the head coach the offensive coordinator the offensive line the fact that all the receivers are injured blah blah blah run
39:09through the entire list. This is one of the worst offenses in the leagues.
39:13Like obviously there are offenses coming into the season people knew they were going to be bad. Like Tennessee Titans New York Jets Cleveland Browns Miami
39:21Dolphins. People knew those offenses were going to be bad. There were offenses that people thought were going to be bad that are decent like the
39:28Arizona Cardinals and then there are two offenses that people thought were going to be good that you need a reset expectations and understand they're not
39:36just bad they suck.
39:39Chargers suck Eagles suck.
39:43Herbert send him to the waiver wire the running back usage here Amari and Hampton has 14 carries but Kamani Vidal's out there
39:52Keaton Mitchell is as well like he gets 14 out of 28 total.
39:59And the big problem with Damarion Hampton is he's getting absolutely nothing as a receiver.
40:05So nobody is startable here in Los Angeles.
40:11Like you know people were asking a ton about Trey Harris this morning and Trey Harris did look like he was going to be
40:16heavily involved before he got injured.
40:18But the big thing with Trey Harris this morning is like, hey the Chargers are garbage. Why would you want to start an
40:23unproven player for the Chargers?
40:26It'd be different if this was the Chargers offense people thought it was going to be coming into this season. But again, you need to reset expectations
40:33that nobody's startable here in Los Angeles.
40:37Marvin I mean, Marquez Valdes-Scantling's going to be the wide receiver one this next week. And he's probably going to be ranked at like wide
40:43receiver 45 for me.
40:46Okay.
40:47Now going to the Arizona Cardinals offense, this was the matchup of the week. We have Jacoby Brissett three passing touchdowns. What's a big
40:57surprise here is while you knew Brissett was going to crush, I also thought Michael Wilson was going to crush. We had Michael Wilson ranked
41:04at like wide receiver 12 this week. This game had an over/under of like 54 points. It actually went over. It went
41:11to 66 points scored in this game. But um the running back usage it's tough to read into because this team had to
41:20abandon the run immediately. Detroit scored 24 points in the second quarter.
41:26The entire second half is just garbage time. I mean, you ended up having 50 plus Jacoby dropbacks and you had 16
41:33total carries that weren't Jacoby Brissett. So, the usage looks really tough for the running backs here.
41:41I still think Jeremiah Love's going to be a good running back in the second half of the season. Going over to the
41:47receiving options, Kendrick Bourne led the team in receiving yards, but Jaylen Brooks actually had a ton of routes here as well. Realistically, I think Trey
41:57McBride and Michael Wilson will be your must-start names for now. Jeremiah Love probably needs to be ranked as a low-end RB2, playable based on matchup, team,
42:07and format.
42:10And yeah, there are a bunch of other miscellaneous wide receivers here like Bourne, like Brooks that I'm not really interested in.
42:21Now, I mean, is the person I played against in the Flock League this week, Azupha, started Kendrick Bourne. And it was smart for him to start Kendrick
42:29Bourne. Kendrick, if anybody played Kendrick Bourne this week, because the Cardinals projected to score so many points against the Lions here. Like,
42:37Kendrick Bourne was probably a better play than Trey Harris, to be honest.
42:40Um I think you made a good call probably playing him this week, but I'm not super excited about Kendrick Bourne in future
42:46matchups.
42:48Now, going to Detroit's, we had three passing TDs here from Goff. The garbage Jahmyr Gibbs touchdown at the very end.
42:57Like, Jahmyr Gibbs just the number one player in fantasy. It's not even close.
43:00He's averaging over 30 fantasy points per game right now. But, it's pretty simple. This Lions defense is garbage.
43:06This Lions offense is elite. You start Goff. You start Gibbs. You start LaPorta.
43:12You start St. Brown. And how I'm starting Jamo cuz I play in a 12-team double flex format. If you're like in a
43:1810-team single flex league, Jamo would be more like a bye week fill-in where you send up a prayer that you get a big
43:23touchdown like we got this week. But, we already know the Lions are great. Going to the Niners, Niners end up taking down
43:32the Seahawks here.
43:34This was the first game in which the Niners were projecting out pretty poorly on the offensive side of the ball just
43:41given the fact that this Seattle defense is elite. Purdy still has himself an okay fantasy day, definitely much worse than what he has been. Christian
43:51McCaffrey gives you the rushing touchdown, but McCaffrey's usage is still nothing like what it was before.
43:59Like, Christian McCaffrey had 14 total opportunities in this game.
44:04Mike Evans looked phenomenal from the very jump, from the very beginning of the game. George Kittle, like he doesn't really score many fantasy points.
44:12Hell, he had six targets. It was just a tough match-up, so. I think San Fran, I am still probably I'm sorry, this mosquito
44:28flying here.
44:30Ooh, I just got that mosquito. Perfect.
44:32Um still ranking McCaffrey as a top 10 running back, but again, he's just not the true elite Gibbs Bijan-level player that we're used to McCaffrey in the past
44:42being.
44:44Mike Evans is moving up my rankings.
44:47Now that he's fully healthy, dude looks like an absolute beast. And George Kittle is still a top five tight end.
44:52Deebo Samuel gets injured, so if anything with the Deebo injury, I think that Kittle may get a bump in the future.
44:59But the Kittle injury looked pretty serious. Like I honestly thought he got like knocked out with a concussion. Cuz he was just
45:08laying laid out face in the grass like not moving. I thought he was like absolutely destroyed
45:21and like knocked out night-night mode.
45:24And instead it's like a lower body injury that's
45:37probably going to keep Deebo out a while. So, I think you got to bump Evans, you got to bump Kittle as well.
45:44Now, going to the Seattle Seahawks.
45:49DeeJay Dallas had like the worst fumble ever.
45:53I would be surprised if DeeJay Dallas ever sees the field again. Emanuel Wilson is going to be an absolute jam until we get Zach Charbonnet back. And
46:04even when Charbonnet is back, it's probably going to be a committee at first. Charbonnet's going to take over in the long run, but it's going to take
46:09a while. JSN remains an elite wide receiver. So, yeah, JSN startable, Emanuel Wilson startable. Long run, we'll get Sharbs, but obviously nothing right now. And then we
46:21already talked about the Baltimore-Atlanta game, so I think we'll probably call the live stream here. I need to go through and
46:28update all my rankings on the site, but I absolutely loved today. I had one hell of a day. I am super excited. My team is
46:36back, and we are getting healthy, and we look damn good again.
46:40Um So, I'm excited. Felt like we didn't have a ton of injuries in fantasy today.
46:45We had the Deebo injury. We had the Judkins injury, the Montgomery, the Henderson, but like no big injuries to any stars
46:53like what we had with the Devon Achane injury um previously, so I feel like this is a pretty good setup
47:05for us to roll into what should be a phenomenal game tomorrow night, where I will be rooting for Dalton Kincaid.
47:13Again, for me to win the 5K, I need Dalton Kincaid to not be outscored by Davante Adams by 12 fantasy points. So,
47:24which I think I got a good chance, probably like a 75%, 80% chance of that happening.
47:31But, much love, ladies and gentlemen. I really appreciate you. Um I will say on the Flock League YouTube channel, we just dropped a video as well, where I
47:40did the Milk Miles, Zuff did the Milk Miles. So, um if you want to see that, search the Flock League on YouTube. It's
47:45already uploaded and public. But, yeah, much love. I hope you had a phenomenal Sunday. I hope you won your week, and I
47:51hope I get to see you out in the live stream tomorrow night, or with the videos we'll upload on the channel
47:57tomorrow as well.