0:00It's Mitch Anderson and you're listening to Player Profiler I'm going to wake up, we're going to turn the camera on, turn
0:07the microphone on, we're going to get Justin the producer in here and we're going to do one of our live reaction, real-time reactions to the games.
0:15So I will give you my thoughts on the box scores of each of these games from Sunday is like 12 games.
0:22Justin's going to put them up on the screen.
0:25I will react to what happens. I'm guessing because it's the NFL there are some surprises.
0:30I'm guessing because it's the NFL there's some controversies and I'm going to be pleasantly surprised.
0:35And I'm also going to be very angry about some things and that's all coming up here on the Top 10 Takeaways.
0:42And we have Justin here with me. He is vigorously taking notes, figuring out which games to show.
0:48Lay it on me. I'm excited. I could tell you, Justin, that I was paying attention to a couple things.
0:54My daughter and I are in a monster league together where you capture players depending on who you're matching up against.
1:00And so I'm very locked in. I beat her.
1:03And so I'm very excited. So if you can beat your son or daughter in fantasy, that's always the best feeling.
1:10Everything else is secondary to that. I was we were locked in on that.
1:14We were like refreshing and I captured Xavier Worthy.
1:17It was a great, great week to capture Xavier Worthy because they didn't need to throw in that game.
1:23I knew they wouldn't need to throw. So there's only one thing I know.
1:27There's only one thing I can tell you with definitive certainty without looking at any box scores, having no access to any information whatsoever, no Internet, no nothing.
1:36I know the Chargers lost glasses on the Mike McDaniel sunglasses.
1:39They go on every show until Mike McDaniel is fired.
1:43The most overrated offensive coordinator, the most overrated coach in the history of football.
1:47It's looking that way. And so I'm I am very interested to see the Chiefs Chargers box score and to see how that game played out.
1:55I have a very strong feeling that the Chiefs went up, got a lead, kept that lead and extinguished the Chargers, which
2:02is what every team does to the Chargers and the Chargers couldn't get anything going.
2:07I am guessing that's what happened only because that is the only reality we know as people who consume football and are
2:14familiar at all with the Chargers and that they are the worst team and that there's never a chance like no matter
2:20who they're going up against, if that team is any good, what in any way we know the Chiefs are very good.
2:27So that was a game where I was like, all right, that that's that one.
2:32We don't really even need to cover. I can tell you, I'm sure the Chargers lost that I know.
2:38And then the clock is ticking on Mike McDaniel.
2:41But I am interested in what the exact outcome was, who scored what for fantasy.
2:45I am interested in that. So we will we will cover that.
2:49And I did follow along. I beat Billy in the staff league.
2:53So I do know a couple of players did well.
2:56Certainly Basial Tootin did well. We know that we talked about buying high both on the trade God show and the Sonic Truth show.
3:04So two dynasty programs back to back within like a five day period on the player profiler podcast network covering the acquisition, the buying high on Basial Tootin.
3:12Why? Because he is one of these downhill runners, explosive downhill runners that is just walking into extreme TD equity because the team situation is so good.
3:21The team construction, the team building that you're seeing in Jacksonville, where they're like, we're going to invest in the offensive line.
3:28We're going to invest in the defense and you see it actually playing out.
3:32They're staying healthy as a team and they're rolling over people.
3:35I'm assuming Jacksonville one. We'll see what happens. I know that Basial Tootin had that one.
3:40They couldn't hide from me because I just traded for him.
3:44Remember, there was a trade we covered on trade gods involving Lamar Jackson.
3:48I gave up Lamar Jackson. I gave up Christian McCaffrey.
3:51I acquired Jackson Dart. I acquired Basial Tootin. I acquired a bunch of picks and the more time that goes by because
3:58I was also shipping out guys like Michael Pittman.
4:01It's looking more and more like I won that trade.
4:04I'm very happy to have as much Basial Tootin in dynasty as possible.
4:08So that is a bit of information that I know.
4:11Generally speaking, my fantasy teams had a good day.
4:14I just checked the high level box scores of my fantasy teams and that's it.
4:19I want to dig into the specific box scores today of these games and Justin, you're going to get my live reaction to each one of these games.
4:27How are you going to start us off? Let's do it.
4:31Let's let's start in London. Let's start with the London game.
4:34Okay. This was from a viewer. It was a really good game.
4:38This was in my opinion, the Travis Hunter breakout game.
4:41Oh, he was he was involved in offense and every week he looks better on defense.
4:46He's going up against these big time wide receivers and just man and them up, man.
4:51He looks every bit of the draft capital that they spent on him.
4:55So this was a breakout game for Travis Hunter as a cornerback at Allen offense, too.
5:00He looked good. He had a touchdown. They look at four receptions for 59 and a touchdown.
5:05Like, that's pretty good. I'll take that on my fantasy team.
5:09Oh, wait. Oh, Brian Thomas got a zero. Well, that's that's that's now five targets in two games and zero fantasy points for Brian Thomas.
5:17I'm assuming that what they're doing is they're pulling Brian Thomas off the field and inserting Travis Hunter because they trust Travis
5:24Hunter, who is a less refined wide receiver than even Brian Thomas.
5:27Brian Thomas, not refined. Travis Hunter can't spend any time practicing wide receiver because he's investing most of his time with the defense.
5:35And yet Jacksonville is telling us we would rather have Travis Hunter out there than Brian Thomas.
5:40Brian Thomas is a zero. Brian Thomas is going to zero in dynasty even.
5:44So he's a he's a he's been a drop in seasonal leagues.
5:48We knew we know that. But now he's he's trending toward being a drop in dynasty.
5:53We are going to crunch the numbers on Brian Thomas.
5:56Look back at historic comps for wide receivers that broke out with thousand yard seasons and then just went to zero very quickly.
6:03I'm thinking about Mike Williams on Tampa. So maybe 15 years ago, there was a Mike Williams on Tampa had a great
6:10rookie season broke out over a thousand yards and by his third year, fourth year, he was out of the league like this.
6:17This has happened. This is not unprecedented that you would post eleven hundred yards and then be flushed out of the league within five years.
6:25That has happened. It's very rare, but it has happened.
6:28And all that's going to get factored into the Brian Thomas lifetime value rating on the player profiler dynasty rankings.
6:35So stay tuned for that as the season goes along.
6:38Just keep watching that Brian Thomas dynasty value. It's been going down as fast as any player.
6:43No surprise. Brian Thomas is the big faller just based on percentage of lifetime value lost this season.
6:49No surprise by that at all. But I mean, I'm just it's going to continue and it's only going to gather steam
6:56as it's one thing if he's not getting targeted.
6:58But when he stops running routes, when he's no longer on the field, then it's definitely catching a fallen knife right now.
7:05I wouldn't be trying to buy any dip or I wouldn't try to be galaxy braining any move.
7:11They're always going to be traded to this team.
7:14So let's get. No, thank you. All right. Now that you.
7:17Yeah, that's exactly right. This is not a time to say, oh, buy low on invest in the profile.
7:23It has happened before. This is not unprecedented that a guy on talent right on his raw talent comes into the league
7:30is in the perfect situation with a quarterback who's in the midst of breaking out.
7:35First overall pick in Trevor Lawrence has the passing game to himself.
7:38Essentially puts a thousand yards up on the on the board and then suddenly target competition starts to come in and he starts to fade.
7:46Right. So they add target competition. The team's getting better and he doesn't raise his game.
7:51Instead, he gets complacent. This looks like complacency 101 from a rookie breakout in Brian Thomas.
7:56And I am upset by that. I'm also seeing two touchdowns for Basial Tootin.
8:01Yeah, baby. That's what I'm talking about. He wasn't even the leading rusher.
8:05It was Chris Rodriguez. But he's what is he doing?
8:08Getting touchdown scoring in the passing game as a receiver for targets.
8:12I don't care as much about the two touchdowns.
8:14We know the Bulls case for Tootin is TD equity.
8:17That was what we talked about back to back dynasty shows.
8:21The open question has always been, will he get the targets or are they going to keep going to LaQuint Allen and
8:28his target share going to continue to be below average for starting running back?
8:32Now we're talking about four targets, four out of 24.
8:35That's significant percentage. That's a significant target share. So it's the Basial Tootin target share I'm zeroing in on as a takeaway
8:42here, as well as the Travis Hunter snaps and routes versus Brian Thomas.
8:46Oh, my God. Shocking. And this could be a little buy low opportunity on Parker Washington.
8:51Right. This is a good excuse. Oh, four for 64.
8:54Parker Washington is going to be volatile this year because there are these games where Jacksonville is going to have a lead and they lost this game.
9:03They lost by three great game. Right. And so they were in comeback mode in the second half.
9:08And still, even in comeback mode in the second half, we're talking about only 41 pass attempts, 24 total catches.
9:15This would have been the game. Right. This was looking like as it played out where Houston goes up 1714 and they were up throughout the game.
9:23Right. They were they were leading the entire game.
9:26You have a team like Houston leading the entire game.
9:29All that negative game script that is supposed to lead to a much more extreme pass to run ratio.
9:35And that's not what we saw. They still ran the ball 27 times.
9:39My goodness. You just don't expect that. So even more reason to love tootin here that this was a negative game script game from start to finish.
9:47And tootin still gets there. Tootin still putting up 20 fantasy points and doing almost all of his his damage, his production coming as a receiver.
9:56I'm just I'm just soaking this in, man. This is amazing.
9:59This is great to see. Yeah. No, Houston's Houston's box score was good, too.
10:03It was a good game. That's back to back London games that were entertaining and scoring and everything.
10:09Jalen Knoll with the big game at his first career 100 yard receiving game.
10:13It seemed like Nico was a little bit angry in the beginning of the game.
10:18I don't know what was going on. It looked like he was yelling on the sideline from the viewer.
10:24It looked like they were really trying to get Marvin Harrison involved.
10:28He was looking at him on third down. He was looking at him in the need to get, you know, let's go get five yards right here.
10:36It was it looked like it was a Harrison thing.
10:39Nico still got his, you know, Nico still got his work, mostly because he had a 54 yard catch to start the
10:46game or 45 one or the other. But besides that, nothing.
10:50So that was kind of a weird game. By the way, very helpful that you were watching these games.
10:56I mean, you actually are bringing like all that.
10:58I love the the minutiae from the individual game flow that you're bringing to the table.
11:03Like, hey, he did all his pretty much produced everything in the first quarter.
11:08Like I know because I was following on monster leagues against my daughter that all of Ashton Jenty's fantasy points came in the first quarter that I know.
11:17But everyone else, no idea what happened here. This is absolutely a sell high moment for Jalen Knoll.
11:22His first, maybe last 100 yard game. He did it on only four targets, had a long 50 yard catch.
11:28I mean, this is variance at its most extreme.
11:31I was not nearly as bullish on players in this game because the game total was driven down close to 40 and it was a London game.
11:40And these are two teams where their defenses are arguably better than their offenses.
11:44Certainly Houston's defense better than their offense. Jacksonville also a great defense.
11:48Whenever you have a game with two top 10 defenses, I'm not that excited to play players in that particular game.
11:54And the one player that I think was most degraded by being in one of these contests where there are two quality
12:01front sevens facing off against each other was Woody Marks.
12:04Right. Woody Marks. He needed to do it as a receiver, just like Basial Tootin, because these are two elite front sevens
12:11and he only had three targets and didn't turn those targets into much fantasy production.
12:16So that's why. What? What do you do? 10 fantasy points for Woody Marks?
12:20Yeah. Jawar Jordan had the better game. He looked better too.
12:24So that was definitely not expected. So it was a good idea to stay away from this game.
12:29There's a lot of unexpected names that popped off.
12:32Yeah. It's very interesting. Look at the score. What if I told you the score was 34-31 Texans, but you got the
12:39bare minimum from Parker Washington, the bare minimum from Nico Collins, the bare minimum from Woody Marks, the only elite fantasy producer
12:46really among the skill position players was Basial Tootin.
12:49That you would have started. Right. Of the players that it was just basically Basial Tootin and Trevor Lawrence and of course,
12:56CJ Stroud, but they really spread the ball around.
12:59I mean, you look at Houston, they're going to keep spreading the ball around.
13:03This is why I'm not bullish on Jalen Knoll.
13:06They added Marvin Harrison, Marvin Harrison getting four targets.
13:09It's Keishon Booty also getting three targets, three targets to Hutchinson.
13:12They have a strong receiving core. And this is going to be the theme of the year where Nico will likely eat.
13:19We've seen multiple seasons of Nico Collins being a wide receiver one and eating.
13:23And then it's just going to be who gets what's left.
13:27Is it going to be Tank Dell when he returns?
13:30He's going to be running some of those routes that Jalen Knoll is running.
13:34So for a lot of reasons, this is the ultimate sell.
13:38This is not a waiver wire ad for me in Jalen Knoll, unless there was an injury I'm not aware of.
13:44The other request that I have is if there's a big injury and I'm missing something from a game, please let me
13:51know because I don't even know who was hurt or not hurt.
13:55I don't know anything unless it happened in the Patriots game.
13:58So it's at the Patriots game. All right. So Jawar Jordan, he's interesting.
14:02But David Montgomery will be back in a week or two.
14:06Woody Marks dominated him in terms of snaps, routes, carries.
14:09Did he have any targets? Jawar Jordan did have one target.
14:12But otherwise, this was a touchdown. He had a 25 yard run.
14:16This will happen. This is not a guy I'm going to get way out over my skis on, especially because this is not a strong offensive line.
14:25This is one of the worst run blocking offensive lines in the sport.
14:29Jawar Jordan needs that. He got lucky, right? He's not a better athlete than even David Montgomery at this point.
14:35So it's unfortunate that a more fantasy relevant player did not get that particular carry in that particular game situation.
14:41But we're not going to get overly excited to add Jawar Jordan or overly excited to add Jalen Knoll.
14:47I will say that remember the trade that we did, this now famous trade where I traded Lamar Jackson and I traded
14:54Christian McCaffrey and I got Tootin and I got Picks and I got Jackson Dart.
14:59Do you remember the other player I also acquired just the pure upside play for my bench that I acquired in that deal?
15:06Travis Hunter. Oh, there you go. Travis Hunter was in that deal.
15:10I have been actively in these for these orphans where I am multiple seasons from being able to compete.
15:15I'm like, I might be able to compete in 2028.
15:19Those are the types of teams where I've been trying to get Travis Hunter because anything can happen between now and then.
15:25We know he has the skills. We know he has the ability to be a big time producer on offense if he's called upon.
15:33So if they go out and they draft a cornerback next year, let's say they draft a cornerback in the first round
15:40and it turns out he's really good like Christian Gonzalez.
15:43Well, then what happens? They might. Okay. Brian Thomas shipped out.
15:46We need a playmaker on the outside. We need or we need a queen chess piece wide receiver to move all around
15:53the formation and to take carries on reverses and design screens and all these things.
15:58We're going to ramp up the routes and the touches for Travis Hunter.
16:02Three years from now, he could be back to being a full-time wide receiver.
16:06We'll see. We'll see. So why not? Right. If you're if you're taking over an orphan and it's a long-term investment strategy, why not?
16:14Right. Why not? And by the way, we've got to go a lot faster.
16:18If we're spending this much time on this game now, it was a very interesting game, clearly, but that's the that's the thing with the NFL.
16:26A lot of these games are very interesting. So I'm going to try to do my best to analyze these games in
16:33a much more rapid fire fashion as we go along.
16:36Okay, cool. Well, we'll move to a little more of a boring game here.
16:41We got Baltimore Ravens losing to the Cleveland Browns.
16:441310 classic AFC North boring game with backup quarterbacks.
16:46And it was not an entertaining one to watch.
16:49Even Henry looked kind of boring, but that's just because Baltimore can't really do much.
16:54The interesting thing with this game is the five sacks from Deshaun Watson and that Deshaun Watson is starting to be put back into the bottle.
17:02I was like, oh, Deshaun Watson. He's back. He looks like the old Deshaun Watson.
17:07No, he's not. His legs are fried. His arm is toast.
17:10His arm wasn't strong coming out of Clemson. Right.
17:13So he absolutely lollipops it out there. There is a ticking time clock on Deshaun Watson that that time clock hasn't changed
17:20just because he posted some impressive fantasy performances. He was usable in fantasy.
17:24Doesn't mean that they're not going to bench him for Shadur Sanders in a few weeks.
17:29Very much could happen. And this game was a reminder of that home game.
17:33They did win. They are four and two. They're three and oh at home.
17:38That's going to be the thing. That'll be the thing that keeps him under center.
17:42It's not going to be his performances. It's going to be the fact that they keep winning.
17:48And Jerry Judy was the leading receiver. I mean, this is just disgusting.
17:52This is gross. And the fact that Deshaun Watson fundamentally does not have a strong deep ball, even though it looked like
17:59he did, especially in his connections with Denzel Boston this year.
18:02Denzel Boston, these performances are out there when your quarterback is Deshaun Watson and you're a Brown and the quarterback on the
18:09other side of the matchup is Tyler Huntley. And the game total is under 40.
18:14This is the week to bench a player like a Denzel Boston.
18:17And I am interested to see Jacoby Lane was four for five.
18:21He put up eight fantasy points and it was four for five.
18:25Very efficient performance from Jacoby Lane. Josh Cueves. Wow.
18:28Five targets. That's interesting. I think Hibner was out.
18:31And so Cueves comes in. But what I'm seeing here is Baltimore is very interested in getting their rookie tight ends involved
18:37in addition to Mark Andrews, because these guys are essentially replacing Isaiah Likely.
18:42And Isaiah Likely is clearly breaking out all over the place in New York and is now an elite top five tight end in all formats.
18:50Check out player profiler. You can see there's Isaiah Likely top five everywhere.
18:54And his target share is as good as anybody.
18:57It's like Brock Bowers level target share. It's unbelievable.
18:59Isaiah Likely. Really impressive. They're trying to get another Isaiah Likely ramped up here in Baltimore.
19:04I don't think Cueves is the answer. I still think it's Hibner.
19:08Hibner has a stronger profile and was not 100% coming into this game.
19:12So not going to get too excited. I know a lot of you are in deep dynasty leagues that are tight end premium.
19:19I probably will add some Cueves here and there where I have room, but my chips are still down on Hibner.
19:26And in a way, this performance is encouraging for Hibner as well.
19:30Harold Fannin's a big bust, by the way. Notice how big of a bust Harold Fannin's been this year?
19:36Yeah, that's been that was a tough one. I mean, you can kind of see it last year when he was the only thing on their team.
19:44And so he's just going to get every one of the good targets.
19:48But, you know, now they add a couple of rookie wide receivers and they're both legit.
19:53And so and then you have Deshaun Watson throwing the ball.
19:57So sorry, Fannin. Sorry, Fannin owners. Fannin has been leaking value.
20:00He's now down to tight end nine. So he starts the season at tight end five and in just getting past.
20:07Right. It's like Laporta is better. Likely is better.
20:09Kraft is healthy. Demonstrating health. Dalton Kincaid. Like, I'd rather have all those guys in dynasty than Harold Fannin.
20:15And he's a drop in redraft seasonal leagues. He's not producing at all.
20:19And he's got all this target competition now with these rookies, Casey Concepcion and Denzel Boston.
20:24Even when they're not producing, they are they are commanding targets.
20:28What's next? Let's see. We got an upset, a big upset.
20:31Oh, yeah. A weird one that led to firings.
20:34Was this a big upset? Really? I mean, maybe not the biggest upset, but the Colts just beat Houston last week.
20:41They looked like they were kind of turning the page a little bit, but then they come into this game a little
20:48banged up with, I think, who is one of their best players, Tyler Warren.
20:52He's not in the game. But Daniel, it's Daniel Jones.
20:55Daniel Jones isn't fully healthy, obviously. And that's what's holding them back.
20:59What do you mean? Obviously. What do you mean?
21:02Obviously, he's not healthy. He's not scrambling like he used to.
21:05He's not the deep ball. He's not throwing it as much.
21:08The deep ball. Yeah, so it's like about him driving like on that, on the foot and stuff.
21:14Whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you talking about a different Daniel Jones that I'm familiar with?
21:19Daniel Jones was never a driver of deep balls.
21:22That's never been Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones has always been a guy who, like Alex Smith, comes out, big arm, great body, athlete, right?
21:29Great athlete. And then throws so many interceptions early that they just can't come back from it.
21:34Mentally broken by the NFL. The NFL broken, right?
21:37Now, maybe it's possible to come back from that.
21:40Sometimes they come back from that. The NFL bent but did not break Jared Goff.
21:45It bent but did not break Sam Darnold. Though you could argue that by not breaking under that pressure, like he's almost
21:52too much of a gunslinger for what that team needs.
21:55But that's a nuanced conversation for another day. The NFL did break Carson Wentz.
21:59And you could argue that Daniel Jones was never unbroken.
22:02That this is what he has always been, at least since his first couple years in the league.
22:08And if he's not able to scramble, because it's not that he's not healthy.
22:12It's just that his legs, his lower body has been ravaged by numerous injuries, not just the ruptured Achilles.
22:18And that if he doesn't offer rushing production, that's the whole point, right?
22:22That was part of the thesis for Daniel Jones.
22:25He did post 30 rushing yards. That's more than I'm sure what the line was on his rushing total this week.
22:32So he did beat his rushing total. He had one big long run.
22:36He had one long run, I'm sure, like 17 yards.
22:39And but just three rush attempts. He had fewer rush attempts than even Seth McGowan.
22:44So you're right. I'm not interested in Daniel Jones.
22:46I think that I'm not actually that interested in even like the news about Chris Ballard getting fired.
22:52I know that he was fired. I assume they lost the game when I saw he was fired.
22:58It was probably not to look at the box score, but I assume, but it wasn't surprising at all.
23:04The Colts came into this game two and three, and this is the exact type of game you got to watch out
23:10for because Tennessee, they are still spunky. When you watch these games, Tennessee is not laying down.
23:16Like these are professional players that are trying to earn their next contract.
23:20And I know Cam Ward, this line looks horrendous, looks awful, a hundred yards, but he won the game.
23:26He won the game and they have not yet decided we're going to bench him.
23:30He needs a substitute. We're going to give him a break.
23:34We're going to give him a breather. The coach has been, Salah's been supporting him every step of the way and just
23:41getting that win for Cam Ward, no matter how ugly it was, absolutely huge for dynasty super flex leagues.
23:47Cause I have, I have Cam Ward in a league where I also have Jalen hurts and I need him badly.
23:53Like I have burrow hurts and cam ward. And if I don't, and also Daniel Jones, if I don't get cam ward
24:00to become at least 80% of what he was projected to be as the first overall pick, I'm fried in that league.
24:07And Carnell Tate got there on seven targets, man, a nice, efficient six for seven week for Carnell Tate with the touchdown.
24:14This is what you love to see. Imagine Carnell Tate on a team where he's not accounting for 62% of the receiving yards.
24:21I mean, my God. I mean, we said by low on Carnell Tate for weeks, this was his first touchdown.
24:27As soon as he scores that touchdown, the, the by low window is going to be closed.
24:33I think the by low window is still open on Carnell Tate.
24:36I, I, I know I said a few weeks ago that as soon as he scores a touchdown, it'll close, but I think this team is bad enough.
24:45Cam ward has been bad enough and has not yet posted an impressive performance yet.
24:50Still some time to get Carnell Tate, but really it was, it was a couple of weeks ago when you needed to
24:57really put your chips in the middle to try to get Carnell Tate in all formats.
25:02So that, that ship is sailing, hasn't quite sailed yet, but that ship is sailing.
25:06Josh Downs four for 40 on eight targets. So the targets were there.
25:10Keenan Allen is looking like a preferred option in the short intermediate routes to Josh Downs.
25:15I did not see that coming. If you asked me a few weeks ago, how this would play out, I would have said the opposite.
25:23I said it would have been Josh Downs going eight for 80.
25:27Sure enough. It's actually Keenan Allen. So I'm wrong about that.
25:30Somehow this guy, he's, he's getting pulled over by the cops or, you know, potentially being, or at least looking as if
25:37allegedly he was intoxicated in a park car. I mean, I just imagine him just getting through the season, cashing these checks
25:44and moving on with life, but no, no, he came to Indianapolis to play.
25:49So bravo to Keenan Allen. And this was also not the game where you're going to be, uh, going out of your way to play Jonathan Taylor.
25:57He posted something like what? 15, 20, 22 fantasy points.
26:00This was one of those games where it's a home game for Jonathan Taylor against a team that hasn't won a game yet.
26:07All this positive game script, you know, he's going to be getting all the care.
26:12He's going to be getting all the touches and he's going to completely smash.
26:16So the theory of the case was strong, except the game total was so low that that was the one thing it
26:23was like, we're not going to get much of a shootout here.
26:27So Jonathan Taylor might get a touchdown and that's about it.
26:30And that's exactly what he did. I mean, I think he hit his projection on the nose.
26:36This just wasn't a big upside game for Jonathan Taylor because this was supposed to be a muddier game.
26:42This was supposed to be a more underwhelming game than it even was.
26:46So I'm impressed that he went over 20 fantasy points.
26:49It just goes to show, man, there's only certain types of games where you don't play Jonathan Taylor aggressively in DFS.
26:56This was not one of them because it was a home game.
26:59Even when the Colts lose, doesn't matter. He's going to get there one way or the other.
27:05Didn't get there with catches, only two catches, but one of those catches went for 38 yards.
27:10So he just finds a way, man. He finds a way to score a touchdown.
27:15He finds a way to break a bunch of tackles on a screen pass and get you 20 plus fantasy points.
27:21I love Jonathan Taylor, man. Can I tell you I love Jonathan Taylor?
27:25Me too, man. He's a, he did get vultured a couple of touchdowns there at the goal line.
27:31You see Mo Alley Cox and Pharaoh Brown with a touchdown.
27:34Like those are, those were Jonathan Taylor drives. He had gotten them there.
27:38And then just that weird offensive thing when they're like, okay, let's get tight end six, a touchdown today.
27:44Whatever. Yeah. This game was not supposed to be this high scoring.
27:48So they weren't even supposed to be in those situations as much as they were.
27:53And then he got vultured one way or the other.
27:56Like he, he was locked into a particular band of fantasy points scoring like 15 to 25 fantasy points was a very tight band for Jonathan Taylor.
28:04One of the least volatile running backs among the elite running backs, B.
28:08John Robinson, much more volatile than Jonathan Taylor. Even Jameer Gibbs, much more volatile.
28:13The one thing about Jonathan Taylor is that unless they're going on the road as significant underdogs, which happens unless it's one
28:20of those game situations, he is the most reliable of the elite running backs.
28:24I mean, you could argue that because Jameer Gibbs floor is so much higher than his and his ceiling is the outer space, right?
28:31It doesn't much matter. Like he is more reliable.
28:34I guess technically Jameer Gibbs, because his range of outcomes is so much greater than Jonathan Taylor, even though he's more volatile,
28:41he is also more reliable than Jonathan Taylor just because it's so hard to find a scenario where Gibbs doesn't get there.
28:48It's amazing. Gibbs is amazing. Why are we talking about Gibbs?
28:52He's on a buy. What's next? Here we go.
28:54Speaking of Mr. Bijan Robinson, we have Atlanta losing to the Bears and it was a good game.
29:00Atlanta didn't look as good as the score suggested, but Chicago sure did.
29:04Caleb's back and he looked full under control. He looked like it was his offense.
29:09Looked like he didn't just get carted away a couple of weeks ago.
29:13So they're back. Can we just take a moment of silence to remember Caleb Williams getting carted off with a towel on
29:20his head, giving the thumbs up to the crowd as if he barely survived a play, right?
29:25I mean, they were close to bringing in an ambulance and a helicopter, medevac helicopter, and now he's back and he looks like it.
29:32Look at me. Look at the efficiency. 30 for 36.
29:36Wow, man. It gets that defense. That defense has looked good.
29:39The Atlanta defense has been spunky. Mm-hmm. Jahan Dotson, not dead yet.
29:43Not dead yet. Jahan Dotson. He's available in so many deep dynasty leagues.
29:47I mean, of course, he's available in seasonal leagues and redraft, but he's available in deep dynasty leagues.
29:52If you need a fill in, he is running starters routes, right?
29:56He's got the 80 plus percent snap share. He's got a relatively high route inventory and route participation rate.
30:02He runs a lot of different types of routes and he is the one.
30:07I mean, four targets for Olamide Zaccheaus, no catches.
30:09Five targets for Jahan Dotson because they're vying for wide receiver two versus wide receiver three.
30:14It's clearly Dotson now. Interesting. Jahan Dotson, Penn State, getting there.
30:18We have a Roma Dunze problem is what I'm seeing here.
30:21What I'm seeing is as expected with the Bears, we have kept going back to Colson Loveland and plays the week.
30:28So that's so good. God, it feels so good.
30:31To have the conviction play, to keep Colson Loveland posted up top of the plays of the week, week after week.
30:37Of course, Caleb Williams comes back and all is right in the world.
30:41Also with Luther Burden, just didn't get the score.
30:44So still buy low opportunity on Luther Burden for now.
30:47There's also a buy low opportunity on Roma Dunze, but Roma Dunze just might not be that good.
30:53This foot injury that he complained about in the offseason saying it's never going to be the same and I have to learn to manage it permanently.
31:01That was concerning. And then sure enough, like he has been underwhelming this year when Caleb Williams plays and when he doesn't play.
31:08So I hate this for Roma Dunze. He is dropping in the dynasty in the rankings.
31:13You've seen this, this growing disparity between Luther Burden and Roma Dunze.
31:17And that is going to expand greatly after this week.
31:20I mean, this is only four targets on 36 attempts.
31:23So the target share is just not there for Roma Dunze.
31:27It doesn't matter what the game situation is. Very concerning.
31:30I love seeing, by the way, a little Roshan Johnson.
31:33We talked about Roshan Johnson on plays of the week.
31:36Who are these RB2s that can come in? We mentioned Corey Kiner because Trevion Henderson wasn't supposed to play.
31:42It was a high ankle sprain, but that was a lie.
31:46It was not a high ankle sprain because we know it wasn't a high ankle sprain because Trevion Henderson played last night, yesterday.
31:53He was out there in the last game. So come on, man.
31:57Enough with a high ankle sprain. It wasn't a high ankle sprain.
32:00We have to put together a plays of the week show and a post on Patreon, patreon.com slash podfather to let people know the plays of the week.
32:09And of course, I'm going to, I'm going to write up Corey Kiner.
32:13If I think that Trevion Henderson has a high ankle sprain when they're going to play the jets at home.
32:19And then sure enough, Henderson plays, but guess who was still in at the end of the game?
32:25Guess who was still in to burn all that clock?
32:28And then they still almost lost because of the banana hands that, that AJ Brown has.
32:33I think of AJ Brown as having bananas for fingers, right?
32:37Cause you know, you slip on a banana peel, right?
32:40But what if you had banana peels for hands?
32:43So that's what it looked like as a person watching the game.
32:46It was embarrassing. The crowd was groaning. The, there was some very rude things said about AJ Brown in the stands in Foxborough.
32:54I'll just say that right now. Uh, and I think I was yelling banana peel hands or something like that.
33:00That's what it felt like. Banana hands. Brown is what's happening.
33:03And, uh, they said, no, thank you to Ramadre Stevenson.
33:06No, thank you to trivia and Henderson to salt the game away.
33:10They brought in Corey Kiner. So Corey Kiner still got touches.
33:14I know that because I was at the game.
33:16So I still feel good about, Hey, fringe RB that could get in there.
33:21Corey Kiner almost scored a touchdown. Also Roshon Johnson.
33:24If my nun guy doesn't play Roshon Johnson is a, is a nice, nice option.
33:28Fringe option in deep leagues in the flex position.
33:31And he outproduced Deandre Swift as a runner. The conviction paid off on Loveland, but it's paid off even more because the
33:38conviction on Roshon Johnson goes, goes back years with us.
33:41And we keep talking about him and even people that were bullish on Roshon Johnson two years ago, a year ago, they've since moved on.
33:49We have not moved on every week in the plays of the week.
33:53When men, men, men, guys out, we talk about playing Roshon Johnson.
33:57Why? Because he's also commanding targets out of the backfield two more targets.
34:01And, and they went for what? 34 yards on two catches.
34:04He was really efficient and produced. Thank you to Roshon Johnson.
34:08I'm so happy about that. This is not quite Roshon Johnson dance party worthy, but if he has, I can promise the
34:14audience this on the top 10 takeaways, Roshon Johnson has another big week at some point ever because we just have continued
34:21to believe, continue to keep the conversation alive. This is a player with size and an all purpose skillset.
34:27He's just not explosive. Do you know how many players are like that?
34:31From David Montgomery on down that have had very productive seasons in the National Football League and have been fantasy assets that
34:38people want on their fantasy team, help fantasy teams win championships.
34:42That guy could be Roshon Johnson. I mean, we are an injury away to DeAndre Swift.
34:47And if it's turf toe, right? We're talking about a problem for Manungi, a lower body problem that is going to haunt
34:54him for the rest of the year. Roshon Johnson is healthy.
34:57He is clearly there. They're trusting him in a game where they're just, Hey, we just need to secure the football.
35:04We can't fumble, right? They were up 21, seven against Atlanta.
35:07They just need to secure the football, secure the game, salt it away.
35:11Who do they call on? Roshon Johnson and the Patriots called on Corey Kiner.
35:15That was interesting to me. Not, not letting up the box score like Roshon did, but there was trust shown in Corey
35:22Kiner that I thought was interesting and noteworthy. What's next?
35:25Uh, we got Jets and Patriots. If you want to talk about it a little bit.
35:30Well, we've talked about Corey Kiner. We've talked about AJ Brown.
35:34I'm not selling AJ Brown because he can't catch anymore.
35:37He can't catch onside kicks. And by the way, shame on all the people that left the game.
35:43I'm like, game's not over guys. Game's not over.
35:45They could, they could drive down score onside kick.
35:48How many games have we seen as Patriots fans go one way or the other in these situations?
35:54Everybody leaving. Come on, man. It was exciting. That was an exciting game.
35:58The player that made the game maximum exciting for me was Braylon Allen.
36:02Actually, it was Braylon Allen because I mean, Dobbs caught a touchdown and then left the game.
36:07I think he might've fallen on the ball. I think that maybe the ball somehow got stuck between his shoulder and the ground and his hand.
36:15And he was uncomfortable after that cradled the ball up.
36:19And then I think it landed when I was cradling it, it might've hit, it might've got pinned against his shoulder in the ground.
36:26I don't know what happened to him. Anyway, he left.
36:29And that, that opened up more route share for Efton Chisholm and for Kyle Williams.
36:34I want to see more Kyle Williams. That's the bottom line.
36:37I want to see more Kyle Williams. I liked what I saw.
36:41I want to see more. And we, as a fantasy public are going to be seeing more and more and more Braylon
36:48Allen, either he's going to earn more touches and it's bad for Brees Hall in New York, or he's going somewhere else to be a bell cow.
36:56I mean, he, he has looked as good or better than any running back in the 2027 class.
37:02And so when you're evaluating the 2027 picks and those 2027 picks are losing value, we're going to be updating the 2027
37:09pick values on player profile or the dynasty deluxe, but also our app, the dynasty dominator app, where you have a trade
37:16analyzer right on your app right on your phone value of those 2027 picks is going down.
37:21And we're going to be posting the top 25 players prospects in the 2027 class on player profiler very soon.
37:27Look for that. Working with Maddie on that. Very excited about that.
37:31I just as soon have Braylon Allen on the trade God show.
37:35We talked about a failed trade that did not happen.
37:38And the reason it didn't happen was I was essentially trading up 10 to 12 spots from the late second round to
37:45the early second round or actually late first round.
37:48So it would have been a late second trading up to a late first because I had the guy's second round pick
37:55and I was going to give him back his second round pick and then get his first round pick to make that deal happen.
38:02My league mate wanted Terry McLaurin and I'm willing to talk about Terry McLaurin on a rebuilding team for a rebuilding team.
38:09Terry McLaurin's 30. He's been incredibly healthy and productive and efficient.
38:12He hasn't shown signs of slowing down, but I'm willing to talk to Terry McLaurin.
38:17It's when he added Braylon Allen, that deal became a non-starter because I was like, what am I going to accomplish here?
38:24I'm trading up 10 spots to get a guy worse than Braylon Allen at running back.
38:29Why would I do that? Yeah. Braylon looks so good out there.
38:33It's, it's like every single one of his runs goes for five yards minimum.
38:37It's he just, he's just a monster Mack truck out there.
38:41He's creating, he is creating on his own. And by the way, just when you thought he was dead, Kyle Pitts with two touchdowns.
38:48We have to make sure we mentioned this, right?
38:51Kyle Pitts going off for 25 fantasy points. Almost.
38:54That made me happy because the projections are very difficult with Kyle Pitts.
38:58So the hardest projections to create both the lifetime value rating for dynasty and seasonal projections and weekly projections for Kyle Pitts.
39:05It's, it's, it's as hard as it gets, but we have refrained from moving him outside the top 12 dynasty tight ends.
39:12And I'm very proud. I mean, that took some real courage on our part and with that, because I don't even have that much conviction.
39:19I have a lot of conviction in Colson Loveland.
39:22I don't have that much conviction in Kyle Pitts, but he's only 26 years old and he has a very impressive resume
39:29for a 26 year old tight end. So very difficult to move him outside the top 12.
39:34We didn't do it. Others did shame on them.
39:37Good for us. And Drake may's making great decisions out there.
39:41Very proud of Drake may. That was his game drops all over the place.
39:45It wasn't just AJ Brown, AJ Brown dropped like three passes in a row at one point.
39:50And that's before he, he, he just spilled the, the onside kick.
39:54And yet still they won still is because Drake may what you see with Drake may is he has a guy open
40:01over the middle for an eight yard game. Drake may does not take that throw all the time.
40:07He loves to roll out and see if he can get a 15 yard game, see if he can get a touchdown.
40:13And I love that. I mean, he's best comparable to Josh Allen and he looks very similar to Josh Allen in person,
40:20the way he's, he's a little smaller, but he's making those decisions where he knows he has guy over the middle and
40:27he chooses to roll out and try to go for more.
40:31And it gets him in trouble sometimes as a guy, Josh Allen in trouble for years early in his career.
40:37It's been getting Drake may in trouble, especially early this season.
40:40He made one of those throws in this game.
40:43And I was like, what was he looking at?
40:46We don't know, but the picture that he sees when he's rolling out is, is definitely becoming more clear with Omar Cooper.
40:53I was not necessarily wowed by Omar Cooper. This was a situation where Christian Gonzalez was often finding Garrett Wilson and shadowing him.
41:00And then naturally, Omar Cooper was the guy that wasn't seeing the, the alpha coverage and was getting the targets.
41:06So we'll see what happens. The game situation was absolutely perfect where it was, we're in comeback mode and Garrett Wilson's getting smothered on the other side.
41:15So it was a perfect setup for Cooper. I want to see more from him.
41:19So he's not going to be vaulted up our rankings, like maybe some others.
41:24The theory was Sadiq would also eat in that situation.
41:27Oh, so I talked about him on the plays of the week.
41:31Unfortunately, he dropped a very easy out route and then he stopped getting playing time after that.
41:36So he was being used early, had a drop, a lot of drops.
41:40It was a game of drops. And then they decided to punish him.
41:44And the thing is, the problem with Sadiq is they have Mason Taylor.
41:48They have another option. And they were even playing Taylor in some of these wide splits formations where that would normally be Sadiq.
41:55But I was like, as soon as I saw Taylor out there, I'm like in the slot.
42:01I'm like, oh, that drop is going to cost him, man.
42:04And then I looked down and there's number 16 on the sideline.
42:08I'm like, God, God, this is just the fickle nature of NFL coaches.
42:12And they can affect fantasy outcomes, fringe fantasy outcomes, right?
42:15The fringe fantasy outcomes don't come through as often as say Jonathan Taylor, because they're susceptible to these kinds of scenarios playing out.
42:22So that's what happened. I still believe in Kenyon Sadiq, but that was a bad drop.
42:27And Mason Taylor is a solid player. And it's going to be a problem for him this year.
42:33Still bullish on him in Dynasty. Certainly he's still ahead of, say, Kyle Pitts in Dynasty.
42:38But it was cool to be at a game and see how things played out, why they played out, instead of just
42:45looking at the advanced box scores and seeing routes run and not knowing exactly why.
42:49Being at the game, at least he gave you more context.
42:53Okay. This is exactly why. So not necessarily good news, but I think better than just, hey, they came into the game
43:00plan and they didn't feel like they needed Sadiq.
43:03No, it looked more like he was being relegated because of a bad drop and they like what they saw from Mason Taylor.
43:10I don't think that's going to hold in the long run.
43:13What's next? Definitely not long run. Totally agree. Okay.
43:16Um, okay. We got, this was kind of a stinker, um, just mostly because of just backup quarterback play by the Eagles
43:23and didn't really, it seemed like Carolina had the game in hand the whole time, but it was still a one score game the whole game.
43:31So I don't care about this game. I really don't care at all about this game.
43:36This game is exactly what we thought it was.
43:39As soon as Jalen hurts is ruled out, this becomes the Chuba Hubbard show, even though it's a road game, what are they going to do?
43:47I mean, you would, you would need Tanner McKee to be better than advertised.
43:51And he was, he took care of the football, but wasn't able to offer anything downfield and the Eagles can't run block.
43:58So this was the, this was the, the bet of the year where soon as a hurts goes out without hurts, they
44:05can't do a thing because of their offensive line.
44:08If they can't run and you know, Tanner McKee is going to be a game manager, then they can't really score.
44:14So taking the, taking the Panthers, what was the line on this game?
44:19There's no way the Panthers were 10 point favorites.
44:21I think that the Panthers was such a smash against the spread in this particular game, just because you think about how can the Eagles possibly score points?
44:30The fact that he scored even 14, I'm shocked.
44:33What a gross game. And notice Jalen Coker out targeting McMillan, another 13 target game for Jalen Coker.
44:39Not that he's like putting up exactly 13 targets, but we're talking about 10 plus targets on the regular for Jalen Coker
44:45is something you need to get used to. And I know that some in dynasty are not comfortable with where we have
44:52Coker, where we have him ranked for seasonal leagues and our seasonal rankings, where we have him weekly.
44:58When I go on with Chuck Bass starter stream show, it seems like the audience just isn't ready for us to say,
45:05Hey, play Jalen Coker over elite wide receiver X, but we're here.
45:09Like this is the reality. He's that good. It took us a little while to get there with Adam Thielen undrafted late breakout.
45:16Coker was undrafted, but wasn't a late breakout. So remember at one point we had Thielen and Diggs on par with each other in that Minnesota passing game.
45:25Well, that's where we're headed. That's where we are.
45:27I think we're, we're almost there where Coker is Thielen and McMillan is Diggs.
45:32That's what I'm seeing. And Chuba Hubbard, he's Dalvin Cook.
45:35I mean, doesn't this look like a Dalvin Cook stat line for you?
45:39I mean, 120 yards and a touchdown with a few catches, one catch.
45:43Yeah. This is, this is like, this is a throwback Minnesota Vikings team back to the Diggs Thielen, Minnesota teams.
45:49That's what we're seeing right here. And Jalen Hurts may never play again.
45:53This is a Chris Bosch situation with blood clots.
45:56So Devante Smith, he's going to come down and dynasty, even though he put up an impressive stat line, 20 plus fantasy points.
46:03He's going to come way down because he, as the number one receiver, he is going to be fed.
46:09We know that, but the TD equity comes down.
46:12That's, that's, I'm just explaining the mechanics of how he comes down.
46:16How does, how does his lifetime value rating and dynasty and his projection in seasonal leagues and weekly rankings fall?
46:22It's a share of less touchdown equity is going to be the reason why he's still going to get targets.
46:28Wicks is gone. Wicks is dead. Everyone's dead. I like Darius Cooper.
46:32He's a fun player. Dead. Makai Lemon. You don't need to trade for him now.
46:37Like you might say, Oh, buy low on Makai Lemon.
46:40Uh, no, you can buy low on Makai Lemon at any point next year.
46:44Like he is going to finish the year as a bust, right?
46:48A busted rookie year. And then it'll be an open debate of like Jordan Tyson, what he does when he comes back.
46:55If he comes back this year versus Makai Lemon and, and how underwhelming he was and, and, and, and just reinforce like,
47:02Oh, being all in and trying to trade up, a couple of spots to make sure you can get Carnell Tate and rookie drafts.
47:09That advice is looking as prescient as ever. I mean, I know that's like a six month old told you so, but like so true.
47:17The more I look at this, like Philadelphia team, the more I think, wow, so glad I was zeroing in on Carnell
47:24Tate among the wide receivers in this class. My goodness.
47:27And by the way, another player that I shipped out in that deal.
47:31Remember that I talked about the players we, we, I shipped out in that deal to get Tootin and Jackson dart.
47:38One of the players I sent in addition to McCaffrey and Lamar Jackson was done Davian Wicks because that was very much
47:45a moment in time that we had in dynasty with done Davian Wicks.
47:49He is a, he is a long-term zero. What's next.
47:52Okay. We got a back and forth shootout that started at 10, zero giants were winning then 34 straight points for the
47:59saints and then 17 straight points for the giants.
48:01Wow. Wow. That is amazing. Yeah. Make sure we scroll past the toothpaste ad on ESPN.
48:06Love ESPN. Great. ESPN is helping us out with these box scores.
48:10We can get some box scores on player profile.
48:13We will soon. In the meantime, our, our good friends over at ESPN providing us with box score information and JJ McCarthy comes in and relief.
48:21Was this an injury or just getting pulled because of lack of performance for Jameis Winston?
48:26I'm not a hundred percent on that, but I think I saw Jameis Winston finished the game.
48:31So there must've been some sort of middle of the game injury.
48:35Not a hundred percent though. McCarthy's rising in dynasty, man.
48:38All it takes in super flex is just a little, a little glimpse into some upside 11.6 yards per attempt.
48:45So McCarthy's going to jump up, probably jump up over a guy like Tyson Badgett.
48:49I think they're similar players. Actually. I would trust Badgett more than McCarthy, but McCarthy does have the draft capital.
48:56It's very difficult to build the case for McCarthy, given that he was traded for what a fifth rounder.
49:02I know that we have him below club Nick right now in the dynasty rankings and club Nick was a fourth rounder
49:08and McCarthy was just traded for a fifth rounder and McCarthy is behind Nick's club Nick is not behind a franchise quarterback.
49:15So that was the argument for having McCarthy below club Nick.
49:19But if McCarthy is going to get any kind of traction whatsoever, you got to boost him up.
49:24Malik neighbors, 12 more targets, elite, just an elite, elite, elite player.
49:28You're doing it with all backup quarterbacks. I mean, Bravo, take your hat off to Malik neighbors.
49:33Isaiah likely still continuing the breakout as well. Followed his coach to New York.
49:38And that was a great decision. Wow. Just wow.
49:41Isaiah likely just, he's a receiver. He's, he's getting a full snap share essentially as a receiver.
49:46There's only a couple tight ends that, that have that, right?
49:49If you look at their profiles, look at their advanced profiles, where they're lining up Bowers McBride and likely are the tight
49:56ends that are lining up on the majority of their routes off the line.
50:01And their snap shares are well over 80%. They're like, that's the list.
50:05Okay. That's the list. So typically what happens is you have a guy like Sadiq who's lining up in the slot a
50:12lot or out wide a lot, but his snap shares below 50% or you have a guy who's got a 90% snap
50:18share, but a lot of those snaps are in line and he ends up blocking on a lot of routes.
50:25Best case scenario is what you're seeing with likely McBride and Bowers.
50:28My goodness. And Laporta is in that, but just not quite Laporta.
50:32Kincaid, these guys are not quite in that tier where they're getting the elite down to down usage and running wide receiver routes.
50:39The majority of the time, it's really cool to see.
50:42And Camara is not dead yet. By the way, Camara had another very usable performance, like 13 plus fantasy points, had a
50:49nice big play out of the backfield, catching the ball.
50:52That's what he does. I think he's going to continue to have weeks like this throughout the season.
50:58So he is interesting. He had a back injury.
51:01I think he'll continue to get better and better as the season goes along.
51:05As more time goes by, he can heal that back up.
51:09And as long as he doesn't pick up another injury, I do like the fact that this team throws so much.
51:15The heaviest pass volume team in the league. And that's where Camara thrives.
51:19Camara, seasonal leagues, weekly. He's interesting. He's an interesting guy.
51:23He might be on the plays of the week at some point soon.
51:27What's next? Okay. Here we go. We got a battle of pirates.
51:30Are there? We got a Steelers at bucks and Steelers win this one by a touchdown in overtime.
51:36Wow. Wow. Jeremy Bernard, dude. Jeremy Bernard breakout game, baby.
51:39What do we know about Jeremy Bernard? Jeremy Bernard is a, is a slot receiver.
51:44He's an inside sort of a slot flanker prototype.
51:47He is absolutely not an X receiver. Is that fine?
51:50Yes. Is he a Buka? No, he's not at that level of talent.
51:54I mean, a Buka, what? 16 targets. Got the bare minimum on 16 targets.
51:58Why Jalen Daniels? I mean, throwing for 164 yards with like a 50% completion percentage.
52:03That's exactly what we were signing up for. We knew this would be a week to pivot off of Bucky Irving, even though it was a home game.
52:12The Steelers, man, they're, they're, they're an interesting team.
52:14Their defense is, is improved. Their front seven is, is walling off running backs.
52:19They're making plays when they need to. It was a down week for Jalen Warren, but also very interesting to see Jalen
52:26Warren doubled the carry count over Rico Dowdle, right?
52:28And no other running back had a carry. So that was very interesting.
52:33I know that Pat Friermuth was a popular sleeper.
52:35Whoops. Right. Whoops. DK Metcalf getting 11 catches on 15 targets.
52:39This is a sell high moment for DK Metcalf.
52:42I am not a believer. I'm more of a believer in Jeremy Bernard than I am on in DK Metcalf.
52:48I'm not a big believer on either. I think this is a sell window moment for both these guys.
52:54I think that this entire team is going to get turned over in the next year or two.
52:59And the guy that might, the one guy that's going to still be on the team and producing in a couple of
53:06years, Bernard certainly as a slot receiver or a flanker, but as a number two.
53:11And then also Jalen Warren. I think Jalen Warren is a young 27 and I like him.
53:16I don't agree with trading him for picks right now.
53:19I he's not the type of older running back that I'm trying to trade because he's so dynamic.
53:25And now that they're feeding him as a runner, even with doubtful active getting 14 carries with doubtful active that that's the number one takeaway from this game.
53:34What's next? We got that. This is an upset.
53:37This isn't a surprise or this would be a surprise.
53:40This is the Rams just something like they can't wake up or something this week, man.
53:45They were anemic. Nick. What? Okay. This is a genuine surprise.
53:48Yes, this is. I am genuinely surprised. This is, this is the surprise game on the slate.
53:54I'm sure. I mean, there's no way there's a more surprising game that they lost to the Cardinals.
53:59What? How? Wait, Stafford was 25 of 33. What?
54:02For nothing though. You know, it's in the running backs.
54:05Kyron Williams was not happy after the game. They asked him like, what do you think about the offense?
54:11Not going. He said, I don't know. Don't ask me.
54:14I wasn't out there. And so maybe a little trouble in paradise.
54:18Obviously their season has not started out good. Two and four.
54:21Oh man. No, I did not like that. This was a tough week.
54:25I tried to capture Michael Wilson in monster leagues this week because I knew this would be a tough week.
54:32It's a smothering secondary. The Rams, they just don't allow points to opposing wide receivers.
54:36So this is an unbelievably perfect time to trade for Michael Wilson in fantasy football.
54:41He got the seven targets. You knew he wasn't going to produce against the Rams.
54:46It's going to happen for him. There's no more Marvin Harrison Jr.
54:49It's Kendrick Bourne. Kendrick Bourne. I mean, whenever I watch him, he looks kind of good.
54:54I've always thought that. Kendrick Bourne is one of those tricky, even back when he was on the Patriots.
55:00Always like he was on the 49ers. I'm like, I like Kendrick Bourne.
55:04So I'm a Kendrick Bourne fan. Bam Knight runs hard.
55:08Right? Not a lot of daylight between Bam Knight and Tyler Algiers.
55:11You should look at their talent profiles. One very interesting thing here, and this is for tight end premium dynasty leagues.
55:18Elijah Higgins with the three targets. That's the thing that I think is very interesting.
55:23Elijah Higgins is getting more and more involved. They're using him like the Giants are using Malachi Fields.
55:28That's in a good way though. Right? Malachi Fields is getting like three targets a game.
55:33He's not breaking out. I thought he would. He's not.
55:36Okay. But they're using him like a pumped up power forward wide receiver, not a tight end.
55:42So, because Elijah Higgins is interesting that he is a converted wide receiver.
55:46Like neither, neither Higgins nor McBride are really blocking tight ends.
55:49McBride's better at it than he is, but they don't ask McBride to do that.
55:54And now they're, they're, they're running essentially like a de facto 12 personnel where there's a lot of McBride and a lot of Higgins out there.
56:02And then they have two receivers they can trust in Bourne and Wilson.
56:06And they're like, Hey, it just makes sense. It doesn't look like traditional 12 personnel because there's not two inline tight ends.
56:13But that is essentially the personnel groupings. And they're basically running 11 personnel plays with two tight ends on the field, treating
56:20one of McBride or Higgins as a receiver. It's very interesting.
56:23I have Higgins everywhere. His efficiency numbers is advanced efficiency numbers are terrific.
56:27He's going to end up going somewhere. And because he was trapped behind McBride, he's going to go somewhere and have a productive career.
56:35Probably not in Arizona, but I'm very interested in him and deep tight end premium dynasty leagues stash Higgins.
56:41What's next. Okay. We've got the one that we will spend the least time on.
56:45And that is the Los Angeles chargers and your boy, Mike McDaniel, just not even showing up first.
56:51Casey Casey, like didn't even try in the second half.
56:54I had this pegged as a Kenneth Walker game.
56:57What happened in this game? Was it Kenneth Walker?
57:00Okay. 128 yards and two touchdowns for Kenneth Walker.
57:03Yeah. Kenneth Walker. I had him as like the RB one this week, just because this is the specific game scenario that
57:10he was built for at home against a team that's already giving up on the season.
57:15Xavier worthy. It looks good. He was seven for seven and I captured Xavier worthy somehow in monster leagues against a Buka because a Buka got the touchdown.
57:23That's the only reason I captured Xavier worthy against my daughter.
57:27I'm extremely excited about capturing Xavier worthy and having him on my fantasy team.
57:31I'm going to be playing him. Certainly. I mean, I have Brian Thomas on that team.
57:36So let's just say not, not, it's not a stretch to like, Oh, it'll put in worthy.
57:41It's a tough decision. No, I'm excited about worthy.
57:44No, Rashi rice worthy goes seven for seven. If they needed my homes at all in this game, they didn't even need him right.
57:52Get 30 attempts. They didn't even need that. And a lot of those attempts where they go worthy worthy.
57:58Look at the target share seven out of 30.
58:01That's a high target share. My friend, let's go.
58:03Let's do this. The worthy is the new number one in Kansas city.
58:07And I hope you sold high on Travis Kelsey.
58:10Like we told you to interesting to see Jalen Royals and Cyrus Allen, both getting two catches, but Royals doubling the targets.
58:17So that was interesting too, to see both Royals and Allen getting on the field.
58:22Royals moving up. Remember we had the debate. Cody and I had the big debate Royals versus Torrey Horton.
58:28And what did I tell him? I said, you could, you can argue that Torrey Horton's a better receiver all day and all week and twice on Sunday.
58:36And that's all fine. But what's needed in terms of a JSN injury and a Shahid injury for me to care about Torrey Horton?
58:44Because I don't care about Rashid Shahid now. And Rashid Shahid's the number two.
58:48So what's it going to take for me to care about Torrey Horton?
58:52It's a pretty low bar to care about Jalen Royals in Kansas city, knowing that it's Rashi Rice.
58:58Rashi Rice is rehabbing an injury in jail. And then who plays that position in Kansas city?
59:03His like for like in Kansas city is Jalen Royals.
59:06So Jalen Royals might not be as good as Torrey Horton, but he's going to get opportunities with Patrick Mahomes.
59:13So that was the argument for like dynasty stash.
59:16Who's better. It's looking like Jalen Royals. You look at the dynasty rankings this week.
59:20He's going to probably well ahead of a guy like Torrey Horton and a bunch of other guys, a bunch of other wide receivers.
59:28I don't know about Kendrick Bourne though. I mean, I want Kendrick Bourne, but yeah, he's moving up.
59:33Jalen Royals moving up and there's going to be a convergence of Royals and Allen in dynasty.
59:39You're going to see them probably around. I'm guessing when this all shakes out in the 18 to 20 lifetime value rating
59:46mark in the dynasty rankings, and then let the chips fall.
59:49It'll be a meritocracy with the chargers. I'm seeing Kamani, but all splitting with a Marion Hampton, no Keaton Mitchell, right?
59:56We talked about it. The way that they could actually score points is to drop plays for Keaton Mitchell.
60:02That's really the only way to do it. And they got Keaton Mitchell two touches, two touches for four yards.
60:08Thank you, Mike McDaniel, for continuing to reinforce your incompetence in proving us right again and again and again.
60:14It's an embarrassment. It's an absolute embarrassment because it's not hard.
60:17It's not hard to know. With Trey Harris out, with David Njoku out, with Lad McConkie.
60:22I mean, what happened to Lad McConkie? I'm guessing he left with an injury.
60:27Did he limp off the field? Did Lad McConkie limp off the field?
60:31I'm guessing. Concussion. I think it was the first quarter, but it was definitely first half.
60:36Apologies to Lad McConkie. I didn't see the game.
60:38Maybe it was a vicious hit. I'm sure it was awful.
60:42Whatever happened, I'm sorry that you had a concussion.
60:45And I did not know, but he did leave the field with an injury.
60:49That is a thing that just happened. I don't think it would have changed anything.
60:54The reason I was expecting it to be a lower body injury was because he rushed back from a foot injury.
61:00Because they need him. And so he's letting them talk him into playing.
61:04And he leaves with some injury, whether it be a concussion or aggravation to the foot injury like Alec Pierce suffered.
61:11Or another injury, a hamstring. Whatever it was, I did not expect Lad McConkie to finish that game.
61:17If he didn't leave with a concussion, he would have left with something else.
61:21Because he shouldn't be out there. But this is a desperate organization that doesn't know what kind of plays to call, what kind of personnel they need.
61:29They don't know anything. I feel so bad for Justin Herbert.
61:33A lot of people are blaming Justin Herbert for this.
61:36Justin Herbert's not to blame. Justin Herbert is a victim of circumstance here.
61:40But because he has this well-known girlfriend who is capturing a significant attention share around him, then there's blowback onto him for
61:47that because he's being distracted and he's too interested in getting his picture taken for Instagram.
61:52And he's not focused on football. Nonsense. He's a great quarterback.
61:55He's in the worst possible situation. They are squandering his career.
61:59Shame on them. Shame on everybody in Los Angeles.
62:02This is gross. And I feel bad for Justin Herbert.
62:05I feel bad for Marion Hampton. I feel bad for Kamani Vidal.
62:08I feel bad for Keaton Mitchell. Keaton Mitchell's the one guy.
62:12And a Marion Hampton. But definitely Keaton Mitchell. It is mandatory.
62:15You drop at least five plays for him, given their personnel.
62:19Come on, man. Mike McDaniel. What a joke. Next.
62:22This one was a fun one. We have a high-scoring game.
62:25You called this high-scoring game as well. This was one of the games that we had to focus on.
62:31We have 33-30. Buffalo narrowly beats Las Vegas. One small note from the game.
62:35I saw on the sideline. You were kind of touching on this earlier.
62:39Of the difference between Brock Bowers, the tight end.
62:42And as a tight end would be played in the NFL.
62:46Or Brock Bowers, the wide receiver. So sideline coaches.
62:48And a player who was hurt, I believe. Would hold up 11.
62:52The number 11 personnel. When there was 11 personnel on the field.
62:56But when it was 11 personnel with Bowers on the field.
62:59They would hold up a B sign as well.
63:02So it was 11B. So really what they were doing was putting one of their main cornerbacks on Brock Bowers.
63:08And treating him like a wide out. To try to take him out of the game.
63:13That's how they have to do it. It's 11 personnel in terms of the grouping.
63:18But it's not 11 personnel. Traditional 11 personnel formations.
63:21That's the difference. And I want to look something up briefly.
63:24Just to make sure that we're on the right page here.
63:28Make sure that we have it right. Yep. The matchup play in the plays of the week.
63:33Guess who we touted in plays of the week.
63:36As the matchup play. Again, the plays of the week.
63:39Just to be clear. The plays of the week are mostly sleepers and streamers.
63:44Guys that you can take a shot on. That have upside.
63:47And one of my favorite types of players to stream.
63:50Is a wide receiver in flex. Who has the ability to score on long touchdowns.
63:55And the guy we wrote up was Trey Tucker.
63:58We wrote, Tucker is a de facto wide receiver.
64:00He's over one in Las Vegas. And has generated 412 air yards on 28 targets.
64:05He was only getting five and a half targets per game.
64:09But his vertical deployment gives him the ability to win on deeper routes.
64:13And post chunk plays. That was the analysis of Trey Tucker.
64:16And why I need to play him this week.
64:19So that's a takeaway. That's a takeaway. And also, just like we're seeing in Arizona.
64:24The two tight end sets are being deployed as, as you mentioned.
64:27Traditional 11 personnel plays. Who does that also help?
64:30Michael Mayer. Right? Michael Mayer. It's interesting. Michael Mayer can.
64:33And we've. This is not the first time. Most famously, Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez were both productive in fantasy.
64:39Basically, you have Bowers playing the Aaron Hernandez role.
64:42And you've got Michael Mayer in the Gronk role.
64:45That's what's happening. So that's absolutely interesting. Did Ashen Gentry leave with an injury?
64:49Why did Mike Washington get nine carries? I didn't hear anything.
64:53Did Gentry limp off at any point? I didn't hear or see anything.
64:57But you know that he was. This whole year, he's been hurt.
65:00You know, coming off that high ankle sprain in the preseason.
65:04Was it a high ankle? I heard it wasn't a high ankle sprain.
65:08It was a mid ankle sprain. Wait a second.
65:11They started a prayer circle for him. Just like we moved down Jeremiah Love.
65:15All these guys. Alec Pierce. We were. I mean, we were probably two rounds behind with our Alec Pierce seasonal ranking for 2026 behind consensus.
65:23Because we're like, we're not. We don't want anyone that subscribes to play a profile or drafting injured guys.
65:29And that also went for Ashen Gentry. We're about five spots behind consensus on Gentry.
65:34At least 10 spots behind consensus on Jeremiah Love.
65:36Just for that reason alone. Just for that rule of thumb.
65:40And then. And then. So you're like, yeah. Big surprise.
65:43You know, he wasn't even healthy to start the season.
65:46Yeah. No kidding. Because this is what could happen.
65:49This is the type of performance that could happen.
65:52Where you're like, he was teed up. Right. Didn't he have like 15 fantasy points in the first quarter?
65:58Yeah. He's still. He's still finished. You know, as someone who you would like on your fantasy team.
66:03But just disappeared. You know, you. You just wonder where.
66:06You wonder why they're doing it. If he is hurt.
66:10Why don't just sit him for a couple weeks.
66:12And then get him back full health. Fully. You know.
66:15I don't get it. It's a no win situation in fantasy.
66:19Either you sit him. The team sits him. And then you have to sit him.
66:24Or you have to suffer through this. Drought. Spike week drought.
66:27He hasn't scored 20 fantasy points since week one.
66:30He's been consistent. He was getting in the teens.
66:3310 fantasy points here. 10 fantasy points there. 18 fantasy points.
66:3615 fantasy points. But this is the type of running back that he is.
66:40That's not a one-two turn running back. I hate this.
66:44I hate this box score. I hate it, Justin.
66:46I hate it so much for Gentry. Oh. Keon Coleman.
66:50Is this right? Am I seeing this right? Keon Coleman.
66:5316 fantasy points. Why? Target conservation. The law of the conservation of targets.
66:57This is why you play Keon Coleman. We even wrote him up at the Plays of the Week a couple weeks ago because of this.
67:05This is just, it's just what has to happen.
67:07You have to just close your eyes on a guy like Keon Coleman and play him and sell him where you can.
67:14Just like Dontavian Wicks. Sell him when and where you can in Dynasty before the floor drops out.
67:20So, yeah. I mean, I don't think Gentry was healthy in the second half because even Dylan Lowby got a carry.
67:26So, that's a bit of a giveaway that I don't think Gentry was 100%.
67:31And also, I love, it doesn't matter how we get there.
67:34We just need to get there. I love Kirk Cousins losing because the countdown is on.
67:39I got to see some Fernando Mendoza this year, man.
67:42I want to see Mendoza. So, okay. What's next?
67:45Okay. We have one last one. It was Sunday night game.
67:49Dallas. Just be in Dallas, man. We love to see them lose.
67:52But Jordan Love, he played well like he always does.
67:56This year seems like a real breakout year for him.
67:59He seems like he's really under control even though they have one of the worst offensive lines in the league.
68:05He still goes out there and makes all the plays.
68:08Love to watch him play. What? Did Marshall and Lloyd get hurt?
68:12I don't think so. No, I just think that they just relegated him knowing that they have, what's his name back next week?
68:19Josh Jacobs. Oh, no. Wait, what happened? He wasn't hurt.
68:22Pierre Strong looked good last week. And so I think they just believed in him.
68:27And so, you know, a lot of the third down.
68:30I think Pierre Strong had two third down conversions in the first half on a catch.
68:35It was like third and eight and third and 11 or something.
68:39What is happening here, man? Most weeks. No, most weeks are plays of the week.
68:43The running backs we get right because it's basically just a math problem with running backs.
68:48Matchup versus opportunity share. Likely game script. It's not that hard to pick running backs week in, week out.
68:54It's very difficult to pick fringe wide receivers to start.
68:57And we nailed it with Flournoy and Trey Tucker this week.
69:01Patreon.com slash podfather. That's where you get our plays of the week.
69:05We talked about Flournoy. Flournoy got the touchdown. Seven targets.
69:08Nine targets. Seven catches. Nine targets. CeeDee Lamb, not 100%.
69:11My daughter captured CeeDee Lamb in monster leagues. Oh, my God.
69:14Oh, God. I can't believe this. CeeDee had a weird game too.
69:18Oh, my God. I can't believe she got him.
69:21Golly. She had neighbors going against Lamb. If neighbors outscored Lamb, she captured Lamb.
69:25She's going to kill me. I got. See, this is the thing.
69:29This is classic. I'm somehow winning week in, week out.
69:32And like she's capturing better players. Like one of these weeks, the shoe's going to drop and I'm going to be buried because I'm capturing Xavier Worthy.
69:41She's capturing CeeDee Lamb. And that's just not sustainable.
69:43It's not sustainable. But yeah, Lamb is not 100%.
69:46So and we knew this was going to be a shootout.
69:50We knew it was going to be two passing teams going against each other.
69:54And so you got to you got to play Flournoy.
69:57Boom. It happened. Love that. And look at 13 targets for Matthew Golden.
70:01Only six catches. He is doing the absolute bare minimum with the air yards and targets that he's getting.
70:07So again, please continue to be bullish on Matthew Golden.
70:10But just know that he has been highly inefficient.
70:13I'm sure he dropped a pass in this game.
70:16How many drops did he have? He had a nice touchdown drop about a 40-yard bomb that he went right through his hands.
70:23Okay. I didn't even know. I just assumed that was the case.
70:27That is the Matthew Golden experience. I'm not saying he's Romeo Dobbs.
70:31He's better than Romeo Dobbs. But we've been through this before.
70:34We've been at this movie. Okay. We've watched it in the theater.
70:38We've watched this movie before. Be very careful with Matthew Golden.
70:41I know that Christian Watson had a very strange play that could have been a touchdown.
70:46And probably the strangest non-touchdown, could have been touchdown play of the year.
70:50I want to show that. But I want to come back to the larger point I was making, which is we didn't
70:57cover this because he wasn't in the box score.
71:00But now I'm realizing that we need to talk about, wait, this is the danger of just looking at box scores.
71:07If a player's name isn't in there, you don't even think to mention him.
71:11The player we haven't mentioned because he wasn't in the box score.
71:15And this was an hour ago that we brought up this game was Cam Scadaboo.
71:19What the hell happened to Cam Scadaboo? Was he hurt?
71:22No, there was a report about an hour before kickoff.
71:26It was Jordan Ronan. So that's their New York Giants most trusted reporter.
71:30When he says something, that's one to believe. He said that about an hour before game time that Cam Scadaboo is going
71:37to be relegated and Najee Harris was going to be the starter.
71:40I guess he only played six total snaps and it was in the second half.
71:45But there was a post-game interview where he talked about, oh, something happened and I know they were punishing me for it.
71:52But they asked Harbaugh the same question. He was like, oh, no, we just have four running backs and it's hard to get four running backs touches.
72:00Ask me that question if we should have four running backs.
72:04He was pretty pissed after the game. But yeah, that was, you know, so the tweet came out and said that he's
72:11not going to be the starter and that Najee is going to be the starter.
72:15But they didn't say that he's only going to play five snaps, you know, six snaps.
72:20Okay, because that was a great spot to play Cam Scadaboo.
72:24We talked about this and I'm hoping that everybody got the news that he would be relegated.
72:29My, what? I mean, why? So it had to be something that happened.
72:33If you listen to the press conference after specifically Scadaboo's press conference, he said, like, I know that they were punishing me for something.
72:41And if they wanted to punish me for, like he brought up something happened.
72:45There was an event, but he's, he's been falling out of good graces with them for months now.
72:51Is that true? I remember. Yeah. About a month ago, I would say maybe even right before the preseason, right before the
72:58season started, something happened in practice where Cam Scadaboo, Cam Scadaboo was sliding instead of getting tackled.
73:03And he would do it aggressively at defensive players.
73:06And they were like wanting to like fight them and stuff at practice because it was real push league stuff.
73:12And, uh, Harbaugh even said it in a press conference thereafter.
73:15Like, yeah, like we like that he's so eccentric, but we also have to keep him in a box kind of deal.
73:22So, so there, there've been signs on, on Cam, uh, and him falling out of good graces with the coach.
73:29Um, but, but I think that was an all summer thing too.
73:32I think the backflips on the, on the stage when he's still coming back from injury, that's no, thank you.
73:39I, I, that was one of my stayaways this year.
73:42Well, in the last game he had, he had 13 of the 21 carries in the game before, and they were facing negative game script the entire game.
73:50Right? So, I mean, of course, of course he's only going to put whatever he posted.
73:55He posted like 10 fantasy points, but when you're at home against the saints, that's a game where you need Scadaboo to be in, to produce.
74:04He would have produced more. You can't just add up the fantasy points that Tyrone Tracy scored.
74:09Plus Najee Harris scored. Cam Scadaboo is a better player.
74:12He would have scored more fantasy points. Had he been in there at all?
74:16I had no idea they were going to relegate him.
74:19And obviously no one did until an hour before kickoff.
74:23I still believe Cam Scadaboo is a good player.
74:25He is explosive. He is a great all purpose talent.
74:29They, they actually had a home game against the saints.
74:32I mean, that was the, that if there was a moment a week to play Scadaboo, it would have been week six
74:39and then they relegate him and then you get, and you get a bunch of nothing from Najee Harris.
74:44Hope no one played Najee Harris. Tyrone Tracy has a second life.
74:48I mean, get out of here. Would have been better off playing Roshon Johnson to Najee Harris.
74:54Uh, that that's a banana tailpipe move. Uh, and I just want to apologize to anyone that might've played Cam Scadaboo because of my advice.
75:01I like Scadaboo. And if this is what's happening with Scadaboo, I mean, he's already been, you're right.
75:07He has been dropping in the dynasty rankings. Uh, he's probably injury related though.
75:11Like it's, you know, it seems like it seemed like people still love them out there.
75:16I don't know. I, I have a hard time seeing someone banging their head against the wall and wanting to have that player on my dynasty team.
75:25So, you know, in redraft and when he's out there and he's healthy and he's getting the carries.
75:30Wait, you're, you're saying you, you wouldn't draft or acquire Cam Scadaboo in dynasty because you're worried that he plays too hard.
75:37I'm worried that he does not have care for his own personal wellbeing.
75:41I, I, I, there, there's something with players that do stuff like that, that.
75:46I thought you said he was sliding. So yeah.
75:49So that's, he was sliding against his defensive players in practice.
75:52He, to me, I don't, whatever you could learn something from everyone.
75:56You know, don't judge, don't judge a fish on how it can climb a tree, but I think he's just stupid.
76:02I think he's just a stupid guy. I don't, I don't like the things that he does outside the field.
76:09I don't like what he does in the practice field.
76:12I don't like how he denies that CTE is a real thing.
76:15I just, no thanks on that guy. Uh, uh, I'll, I'll let others draft him and win that's, but I've been right
76:22this year, but you know, whatever, I could be wrong.
76:25Eventually. I just don't love your logic here. I thought that we like players that want to leave it all in the field.
76:33Isn't that a, that, that is the, that is the trait that we're looking for here.
76:38We're not trying to find players that are, are, uh, in self-protection mode when the lights are on.
76:43Yeah. So I agree. There's, there's a happy medium though there, right?
76:47What is the happy medium? How do you measure the happy medium?
76:51I don't agree with what you're saying. Not banging your head against the wall just for fun.
76:56How does, whether or not a guy bangs his head against walls, how does that change how you value that player for his career and dynasty?
77:04These are things you can eat. Some things you can measure.
77:08Some things can't. The things that we look at are efficiency metrics, opportunity share metrics.
77:12Those were all going up. Those were all green lights, blazing green lights, because when dark comes back, suddenly Scadaboo is the
77:19workhorse in a Jackson dart offense with a healthy Malik neighbors and the TD equity goes up and it's on for cam Scadaboo.
77:26Something is happening. I don't think that he's any more injury prone than another guy just because he plays hard and he
77:33has a, you know, he has a little bit of a crazy factor to him.
77:38It's just like, I don't think that George Pickens, George Pickens has an element of crazy.
77:43He brings that to the table, but that's not a reason to fade in because you think he might hurt himself because
77:50he's going to karate kick up an opponent or something like that.
77:54I'm not that concerned about cam Scadaboo getting injured at a higher rate than some other running back.
77:59I am concerned that coaches are just outright relegating him and not giving a reason for it.
78:05And that it's some kind of shrouded in secrecy, uh, sort of scenario that's been playing out or controversy scandal, whatever it is.
78:12It's bizarre. And we have an uncertainty quotient that we apply to players in dynasty.
78:16And so what's going to end up happening is even though on paper, he looks like a bell cow, you want to build around.
78:24And I have, I mean, I drafted cam Scadaboo in at least one dynasty startup during the summer as my RB one
78:31to build around also Chuba Hubbard that team's doing better.
78:34The team where I built around Chuba Hubbard as my RB one is doing a lot better than the team where I
78:41built around cam Scadaboo dynasty lesson right there. Bottom line is there is a lot that we can gain.
78:47If Scadaboo can recapture the starting role, there's a lot of fantasy points to be gained from that.
78:52So I don't think he's going to collapse. He's certainly basically, he is a lesser version of a Marion Hampton right now
78:59where Marion Hampton's losing touches to come on, but all and cam Scadaboo is losing touches to Najee Harris.
79:05So he can't be ahead of Hampton. Okay. He's can't be ahead of tootin at this point.
79:11So then the question is, who would you rather have a guy that's not produced at all this year because of lower
79:17body injuries and terrible team situation in Quinchon Judkins, or would you rather have cam Scadaboo?
79:22I think that's going to be the great debate because these guys are a similar age.
79:27Judkins is like a year and a half younger.
79:30So because Judkins is a year and a half younger, when I'm laying it all out here, I think that Judkins will
79:37be preferred to Scadaboo, but that's going to be the tier that Scadaboo is in.
79:42He's going to be in the Judkins, Brees Hall tier of players because Brees Hall also now has a Braylon Allen problem.
79:49Judkins is going to lose touches to a healthy Dylan Sampson.
79:52Dylan Sampson is a high quality player. Of all the RB twos around the league, Braylon Allen's the best.
79:58Dylan Sampson's one of the best, one of the top RB twos and come on even at all.
80:04Right. And so all these guys like they're, they're the one guy that doesn't have quality RB to touch competition is actually
80:11cam Scadaboo and he's going to get Jackson Dart back.
80:14So if we can just, it's, this might be a blip where he drops into that, that Judkins Hall tier and then
80:21digs himself out as the season goes along. We're going to put that challenge to him, but that's, what's going to happen in dynasty.
80:28And certainly you can't play cam Scadaboo in seasonal leagues and in DFS next week.
80:33We have to, no matter what the coaches say, we have to see it now.
80:37Now it's like a reset button. We have to see him back in a workhorse role for a week before we play him again in fantasy football.
80:46That is just, that is a damn shame. That is a damn shame.
80:50And we're not going to, we're not going to end on that.
80:54I do want to circle back to the Packer game.
80:57Dak Prescott left the game without shaking hands. Dak Prescott has a lot of risk.
81:02Now we have him rated in that Justin Herbert zone in, in, in dynasty.
81:06And we've had him as a top 12 option in seasonal leagues.
81:10I'm a little bit worried. I got to say, I'm a little bit worried what his future is.
81:15I think that week in, week out with those weapons.
81:18And in fact, these are high scoring games. These are the Dallas games always have a 50 plus point total.
81:25Seemingly you're going to keep playing Dak this year, but longer term, I'm starting to have concerns.
81:30Yeah. You just never know which way the Cowboys are going to go.
81:34Right. I mean, they have this George Pickens question and it's not like they're even winning.
81:39And you know, they called themselves a Superbowl team and they're losing every week in the same Dallas Cowboy way.
81:45So, you know, like you said, what's the future look like for a Dak?
81:50You don't know because what's the future look like for the Cowboys?
81:53Oh man. This is, this is bad, man. This is, we don't need to put it.
81:58Do we need to put the video up? I don't think we need to.
82:03Do we need to show the, did everyone see the Christian Watson play?
82:07Should we put it up on the screen? If we play it briefly, you want to play it briefly?
82:13Sure. This is, this is, this is, this is wild.
82:16This is wild to see. I got to see this again.
82:19I saw this once before the show. This was the one thing we prepped that I did take a look at before we started the show.
82:28Look at this play. Oh, that green grass. He gets up, no one touches him.
82:32And so he could have absolutely just taken it in for a touchdown.
82:36In practice, they drill into these players over and over and over again.
82:40You always finish with a touchdown. You always take it to the house, no matter what you see, it's comical how these
82:47wide receivers are just running an extra 40 yards because they must score on every rep that they catch a ball in
82:54practice and they can't be taken down. So they have to take it to the end zone.
82:59It's just part of the culture of the NFL.
83:02Every practice is like this. And it's just weird.
83:05It's like, why did he have to run for no reason?
83:08Try over and over and over again to drill into these players that you must always finish every play until the whistle and no whistle was blown.
83:17Just a bunch of people giving up on the play.
83:20He looks around and you can tell he has that moment of uncertainty and they get, they drill this in practice.
83:27If there is any uncertainty, you just keep running and score a touchdown.
83:31Why he decided to stop. I do not know.
83:33He gave himself up right in that end of the play.
83:37They then blew it dead. Yeah. It's just because everyone else gave themselves up.
83:41He, his instincts took over and got up and started running and they even showed an angle looking at the green Bay sideline.
83:49And there are some coaches like go, go, keep going.
83:52Why did he stop though? It's just, that's that human thing.
83:55When you look around and you see others like doing something and then you just like decide to do what they do.
84:02That's like exactly what happened. That's he, he was, he wanted to go.
84:06His instincts told them to go. And then, oh, no one else is playing.
84:10Okay. I won't either. It's funny. Cost me a fantasy matchup.
84:14No one cares. No one cares. No one cares about your fantasy matchup.
84:18No one cares about my fantasy teams. I think some people might actually care because they're cheering for my daughter to beat me in these monster leagues.
84:26I think that's the one I want to keep coming back to that.
84:30I always mention that because I think there, there are absolutely hate listeners that want me to lose to my daughter.
84:37So I think that, and it's the way she's compiling her roster and, and just, it's, it's just like an arms race of talent, mostly on her side.
84:46I'm losing that arms race every week. Lamb versus worthy.
84:49The most recent example of me losing this arms race.
84:52She's probably going to take me down. I built this lead and she's just, it's now going to be a rabbit in
84:59the hair against the turtle, the tortoise versus the hare who wins.
85:03And it's probably going to be her, but that's the one, I think that's the one real life fantasy team that people
85:09don't mind listening to me talk about and have some intrigue about.
85:13Certainly none of my actual fantasy teams, the staff league, they don't care.
85:17And I, and if there's one thing I know for, for damn sure, Justin is they don't care about your fantasy team.
85:24I think of AJ Brown as having bananas for fingers.
85:27But that's the one thing. And I'll make a mistake.
85:30I mean, for those of us, that are the first one.
85:34That's not a place where you're running, but you have to be a bit busy.
85:39So I know that there's some fantasy teams in the way.
