0:00Hey, my name is Michael Wilson and you're listening to The Podfather.
0:04We've got some quarterbacks you can play with confidence that you can stream.
0:08We've got some great plays at running back this week.
0:12We've got some desperation guys you can flex in deep leagues that I think are sneaky with some touchdown equity.
0:18We've got some target conservation plays. We've got some breakout rookies ready to rock.
0:23And of course, some tight ends that we think could catch touchdowns coming up on the plays of the week.
0:30Unlike Top 10 Takeaways, this is the opposite show.
0:33This is the sister show to Top 10 Takeaways during the season and they're very different.
0:38These are two opposite polar opposite shows. These two siblings do not get along.
0:43Top 10 Takeaways is a robust monologue that may never end.
0:46This is a sleek, tight 20 minute show rat-a-tat-tat.
0:49It is the opposite. We dig in on the Top 10 Takeaways and we make sure that we can see.
0:56We marinate, right? This show, we just sizzle and go.
0:59Sizzle and go. One show comes out on Mondays and on Mondays you have all week to consume it all and sink in, dig in.
1:08And I might rant if you're lucky. Probably will.
1:11Most weeks. This show, no rants, no nonsense, just the plays you need.
1:15Let's go. At quarterback, this might be the most efficient show of my life.
1:20Here we go. Matchup proof quarterback number one, Tyler Shuck.
1:23Tyler Shuck, oh, it's Minnesota. I don't know. Might have to bench him.
1:27There's some other quarterbacks I like. Not this week.
1:30And probably not any week. I mean, if you're not going to bench Tyler Shuck against Minnesota, you're never going to bench him.
1:38And I don't think you should be benching him.
1:41There might be some road game. If he plays at Seattle, there might be some scenario where you bench Tyler Shuck.
1:48Not at home. Not ever at home. Not Tyler Shuck.
1:51Given the incredible volume that the Saints are delivering to this particular quarterback.
1:5645 pass attempts per game is like four more than the next team, the Los Angeles Rams.
2:01So Shuck is officially matchup proof. He's proof four weeks in.
2:05We now know with certainty he is matchup proof.
2:08And it's also a past first team just based on personnel.
2:12I mean, look who the running back is. The starting running back is Alvin Kamara.
2:17He is a satellite back plus. So no Travis ETN.
2:20The only grinder that you might want to hand the ball to for short yardage or just grind out clock is Kendra Miller.
2:28And no team wants to give Kendra Miller too many touches.
2:32And that just means when you're thinking about calling a play and you're a coach for the Saints, you're probably calling a pass play.
2:40And then Shuck has weapons that he can throw to at every level of the field from Kamara and Juwan Johnson and short intermediate routes.
2:48And then you've got a lava over the top.
2:51It's just it's it's perfect. I don't care how good the defense is.
2:55If Shuck is at home, you're playing him. Now, a player that is not matchup proof by any means, but is getting
3:03the best possible matchup this week is Jacoby Brissett.
3:06Brissett is actually our QB seven. So if you go to player profile or go to our rankings, we're as aggressive on
3:13Brissett this week as you could possibly get. I would even play Brissett over Joe Burrow because Joe Burrow's in one of
3:20these games can get dragged into the mud against Miami Brissett.
3:24This is going to be without question a shootout.
3:27There's no scenario where this game doesn't shoot out unless it doesn't, but it probably won't.
3:32Right. It's probably going to shoot out. The idea that this gets dragged into the mud, it's just it could, but it probably won't.
3:40It most likely won't. This is setting up to be a top five game of the year in terms of fantasy point scoring.
3:48So you want to get Jacoby Brissett in your lineup even over studs.
3:52This is why I exist. I'm here. I have a job because it's not obvious to everybody that you should be playing
4:00Brissett over a high drafted quarterback, potential stud quarterback.
4:03Right. Depending on the week. Depending on the game situation, depending on how everything will flow.
4:08You may actually play a guy off the waiver wire over a bona fide stud, a guy that's at the top of
4:15his game right now, like Brock Purdy or a superstar first overall pick franchise quarterback making $300 million.
4:21Guy like Joe Burrow doesn't matter. Jalen hurts NFL MVP doesn't matter.
4:25You're playing Brissett over these guys. Do it. If you're tuning in just because you need that level of confidence, you need someone to tell you it's okay.
4:35Follow your instincts. Go with Brissett this week. I'm here to say your instincts are dead on push the button on Brissett.
4:42And if he's on your bench, just because you like, you just can't bring yourself to putting him in over a guy
4:49like Joe Burrow over a guy like Jalen hurts.
4:52Then just know that you're not playing the game at the optimal highest level.
4:57If you're desperate, super flexors. Okay. Tyson Badgen. We're going back to Tyson Badgen.
5:02Last week we said Tyson Badgen. He played really well.
5:05He was efficient. Put up the yardage. Just didn't get the touchdowns this week.
5:10No Manungai. And that means more throwing, right? If there's no Travis Etienne in New Orleans, that means there's going to be
5:17a little more throwing in New Orleans. If there's no Manungai, there's going to be a little more throwing with the Chicago Bears.
5:25So Badgen has Keenum's arm and Caleb Williams legs.
5:28That's what we said last week. And that still stands.
5:31That all still stands with the Bears primary running backs banged up.
5:35It is going to fall on Tyson Badgen shoulders to win the game.
5:39That is what they need this game. They want to win this game.
5:44It would be great to win this game before Caleb Williams returns.
5:48The Bears are already three and one for Badgen to help them go four and one would also just solidify Badgen being
5:55one of the best backup quarterbacks in the league and eventually becoming a starting quarterback somewhere in the NFL.
6:01You need to get Badgen in your lineups in these deep leagues, especially super flex leagues.
6:07Play him. You can play him. If you're if you have injuries, if you have Jackson Dart, I have Jackson Dart, a
6:14bunch of dynasty leagues, and I am playing Tyson Badgen this week with confidence.
6:19This is a this is a quarterback that you can stream in super flex with confidence.
6:24That's what I'm here to tell you. Now at running back, the lock button running back of the week is Aaron Jones.
6:31Remember, Aaron Jones is comparable to Christian McCaffrey. There's no other running back in the league more comparable to Christian McCaffrey than Aaron Jones.
6:39He still has some juice left, just like Kamara still has some juice left.
6:44Take advantage. This is the week. If you have Aaron Jones, you're playing him.
6:49You can be overweight. And DFS on Aaron Jones.
6:52He projects to be a top 12 running back in fantasy football this week on the player profile rankings.
6:58Go to player profile or subscribe to the rankings and you can see some contrarian plays that will help you win your matchups this week.
7:06This is a critical week, critical week five for fantasy football.
7:10And there's just no touch competition. Was it DJ Dallas?
7:13Yeah, DeMond Claiborne. No, those guys either they're irrelevant or they're not ready.
7:18It's all about Aaron Jones. He's going to be a bell cow this week.
7:22Speaking of bell cows, it's all about Basial Tootin.
7:25Basial Tootin. Basial Tootin. I wanted Basial Tootin to prove it to me.
7:30Prove it. Prove it. You can be a bell cow.
7:33Prove it. And then last week he did it.
7:3676% opportunity share last week for Basial Tootin. He is explosive.
7:40And what he had 19 touches. And it's going to be Basial Tootin again.
7:45The Eagles are officially a run funnel defense. Jacksonville is a team that is just a dominant force.
7:51Jacksonville's defense is too good. It's too good for fantasy.
7:54It's too good to play Trevor Lawrence week in, week out with confidence.
7:58You can't. But the Jacksonville defense is too good.
8:01That just means they're going to be playing with leads more.
8:05And that means more feeding of Basial Tootin. So when you have these teams that are dominant on both sides of the
8:12ball, typically what that means is that the quarterback gets a little less volume.
8:17And whoever the starting running back is gets more work.
8:20And Basial Tootin is explosive. I mean, the guy's best comparable to CJ Spiller runs a 4-3-2-40.
8:26So he's not only going to get the volume, but he has these breakaway runs in his range of outcomes.
8:33So it's just, it's the perfect setup for a guy like Basial Tootin this week.
8:38It's not like you were thinking about not playing him.
8:41I'm sure you were going to play him. Everyone has him in their lineups.
8:46He's Jacksonville's at home. Of course you're playing him, but he's in the plays of the week because you want to be overweight in DFS.
8:54You want to take the over wherever you can on a guy like Basial Tootin.
8:59That's really why we highlighted him because it was only one weekend where he has established himself as a bell cow, but
9:06it's important to go back to the usage report from week four, find these guys like Basial Tootin that have been just chipping away, chipping away, chipping away.
9:16And then it's, you get the big reveal all of a sudden.
9:20It's like, oh, oh, oh, this guy goes from primary back to bell cow back.
9:25And that's when you can start really taking the over on a player like that and playing them aggressively in DFS.
9:32It's happening. It's all happening for Basial Tootin. So get him in lineups and play him aggressively this week.
9:38It's a home game against a run funnel defense.
9:41It's the perfect setup. It's also the perfect setup for Braylon Allen.
9:45This is one of those conviction plays where we talked about him last week.
9:50We're going to go right back to him, had a hundred percent opportunity share as good as that, that Basial Tootin opportunity share was last week.
9:58Well, Braylon Allen's was even better because a hundred percent is as good as it gets.
10:04And Braylon Allen's also explosive. He's just bigger. So he's basically playing the Basial Tootin role.
10:09He's just a bigger back. So we're just going right back to Braylon Allen, not letting last week's PTSD for him, not
10:16scoring and not delivering for fantasy affect us. You have Braylon Allen on your team, so you can play him against the Browns at home.
10:25It is the perfect setup. And again, I'm here to highlight some contrarian moves like Brissett over Burrow.
10:31And I'm also here to ease your concerns about players that you're not quite sure about because they didn't deliver for you last time.
10:39Don't worry, go right back to them. Have that conviction.
10:42I sure do. And if you just look at the profile, I just want to highlight a player profile on player profiler.
10:49Will Shipley, he was a primary back and a true workhorse at Clemson.
10:54And he goes to the Eagles and is viewed as just a satellite back, but he's not just a satellite back.
11:01The guy's like 207 pounds. He's not 190 pound back.
11:04He can handle a 60% opportunity share because well, so they have there it's Damian Pierce.
11:09It's like you have these players on your roster, especially in dynasty.
11:13You have them stashed just in case there's multiple injuries ahead of them in the depth chart.
11:19All of a sudden, boom, this guy's, this guy's a bell cow with an all-purpose skillset and you can play him with confidence.
11:27That's Will Shipley. Saquon and Tank Bigsby both get hurt in the same week.
11:31This happens multiple times every year where two backs on the same team go down.
11:36And then it's always interesting to see who is the number three back.
11:41Is that number three back? Does that player have a bell cow profile?
11:45In the case of Will Shipley, I say yes.
11:48Tyler Algier also has a bell cow profile. Jeremiah Love, he's gutting out this ankle injury, which is the second ankle injury he's had to play through.
11:57And we know that they slow rolled him early in the season.
12:01He finally was feeling healthy. Week three was deployed for the first and only time this year as a workhorse in week three.
12:09Then he hurts his ankle again, different ankle, different location last week.
12:13And now he's back to limited practices. Algier getting red zone looks scored the touchdown last week.
12:18And he's in there in the two minute drill.
12:21And this is the game we're trying to exploit.
12:24The Lions rank number seven in fantasy points per game allowed to running backs.
12:29So this just like, this smells like a Tyler Algier game.
12:33You smell it. I smell it. We got a Tyler Algier game coming.
12:37So I'm going to get him in lineups, even where you might be questioning, man, sure.
12:43I don't know. Even in the projections, you have a couple of running backs ahead of Tyler Algier.
12:49Tyler Algier is an upside play this week. So if you feel like you're a, an underdog and you have Algier, you
12:56should get him in lineups because he has multiple touchdowns in his range of outcomes at home against the lions with a
13:0354 and a half point total Algier, even though he's not super explosive with the touchdown equity and the passing game usage actually has incredible upside.
13:12And we talked about the bears earlier, Monungay out.
13:15That means Roshan Johnson's going to come in. Is he going to play the Monungay role?
13:20No. Roshan is actually better in the passing game than Monungay and Swift is banged up.
13:26So Swift, like Jeremiah love, not a hundred percent.
13:29The Packers rank number three in fantasy points per game allowed to running backs.
13:33So Roshan Johnson is going to get some high value touches in this game.
13:38This is a guy in deep leagues that you can flex.
13:42We have buys now. It's the first week. We have two, two teams with buys the Panthers and the chiefs, and you might be in a tough spot.
13:51Maybe you have a team with Saquon Barkley. You need something out of your flex and Roshan Johnson could be that guy desperation flex play.
13:59I've taken over a bunch of orphans, 20 orphans in 20 days and in dynasty leagues.
14:05And I have a bunch of Roshan Johnson because I love Roshan Johnson.
14:09He is another one of these RV threes with a bell cow profile size and receiving skills.
14:15So you can consider streaming Roshan Johnson. If you're desperate at wide receiver, we got Michael Wilson.
14:20This is the game we're exploiting. You're just getting all the Michael Wilson.
14:25This is the perfect spot. Michael Wilson is the wide receiver one in Arizona.
14:29You can also play Marv this week. I just want to make sure you heard that right.
14:35I'm playing some Marv this week. I do have Marvin one league and I'm playing him and I'm playing Michael Wilson absolutely
14:42everywhere because of the 54.5 point total. And he's, he's really good.
14:46He's, he's, he's getting 10 plus targets. Some of these games where I heard he was never going to get 10 targets again.
14:54Now that Marvin and Trey McBride are back and he's playing now he was supposed to be the third receiver.
15:01And I was told just based on the splits, the historic splits that Michael Wilson was never, never going to get 10
15:08targets again, as long as Marv and McBride were playing.
15:11And then as it turns out, no, that's not true.
15:15Michael Wilson is just good at football. Trey Harris is also good at football.
15:19He is the new alpha in Los Angeles. The low game total gives me pause.
15:24Okay. So this is not a super smash spot for Trey Harris, but it is a target conservation play.
15:31If you're in dynasty trade for Trey Harris now before he has a big game, right?
15:36Two guys you need to be trading for aggressively in the next 48 hours in dynasty are Carnell Tate and Trey Harris
15:43because Trey Harris is a phenomenal football player. He's great at football.
15:47He is a better all around receiver than lad McConkey.
15:51And he's certainly better than Quinton Johnston. And we'll talk about another receiver on the chargers later is another one of these
15:58plays of the week, just based on target conservation alone.
16:01He is seizing that job. I'm not going to be necessarily way out over my skis on Trey Harris this week, but
16:09we just want to flag that he is going to be the guy.
16:13Justin Herbert can throw the ball. Well, Justin Herbert is one of the best throwers of footballs to all quadrants of the football field in the NFL.
16:22You just would never know it based on how dysfunctional this offense is because Mike McDaniel sucks, sucks.
16:28I don't more often coaches matter when teams are imploding than when teams are thriving.
16:33Typically teams that are thriving, it's because the locker room has unity.
16:37There's talent up and down the roster. So when teams are doing great, like Jacksonville, for example, okay, look at teams that
16:44are at the top of the league right now.
16:47Most likely it's because the players themselves are just operating at a high level.
16:52It's not because the coaches are sprinkling some special sand and special magical dust on these players and making them play great.
16:59No. However, coaches can, coaches can cripple a team.
17:02Coaching incompetence can hurt a team more than coaching excellence can help a team.
17:07That is a critical rule of thumb with coaching.
17:10And so typically when you see a team collapsing that has a lot of talent, the first place I look is the coach.
17:18And so that's, that is who I'm going to blame.
17:21That is my number, the number one person to blame is Jim Harbaugh.
17:25And then secondarily Mike McDaniel. And I all, I just love that this milk drinking guy with glasses, who's Mr.
17:32Tough guy, Mr. Coach speak with your big fancy coaching hire recruited away from college is face planning hard.
17:39I find it funny that Jim Harbaugh is face planning.
17:42And I find it even funnier that, uh, Mr.
17:45South beach sunglasses has been revealed to be a total fraud.
17:49We are calling two rookies, two rookies this week.
17:52I think are going to break out. We're trying to call rookie breakouts.
17:56Very hard to do. One of the hardest things to do in all of fantasy and dynasty is to call the week.
18:03A rookie breaks out. I got two this week.
18:06We got Antonio Williams just because digs is out.
18:09McLaurin is trending towards playing, but not a hundred percent.
18:13And Williams has been flirting with a breakout all year.
18:16One game he's four for four, a hundred percent catch rate.
18:20Another game he's commanding eight targets. So he's had all the ingredients, right?
18:24If you had a stew, a breakout stew, all the ingredients for a breakout are there with Antonio Williams.
18:30It just hasn't come to a boil yet. I think this is the boiling point week for Antonio Williams and his breakout
18:38is also a very under the radar news item came out.
18:41Braxton Berrios goes to IR slot receiver for the giants.
18:45What does that mean? Well, someone's got to play slot and they have the prototypical big slot, a guy that can't necessarily
18:52separate well on the outside, but can thrive inside.
18:55And that's Malachi Fields. So for that reason, I like Williams and Fields playing each other to both breakout.
19:01And of course you're playing neighbors everywhere. Smash, smash spot for neighbors.
19:05We don't need to talk about that. That's one where like, I thought about talking about neighbors today.
19:11And I was like, okay, I think I'm going to give my, my audience the credit, not needing me to tell them to play Malik neighbors.
19:20My daughter is playing Malik neighbors with confidence. And she's like, she's, she's playing him very aggressively trying to capture Derek Henry
19:27and this monster leagues game that we're in where you just, you pick your opponents, you pick your player's opponent.
19:34And if you, if that player outscores the opponent, you capture that player.
19:38So she is very, she is 15 years old and she's very aggressively playing Malik neighbors.
19:44For that reason, we don't need to talk about playing Malik neighbors.
19:48He's back. It's happening. It's already happened. In fact, the game has already happened.
19:52And Malik neighbors already scored 20 fantasy point bombs away for Isaac Tesla.
19:57Again, a player we can play with some level of confidence thinking spike week is imminent for Isaac Tesla.
20:03He's been all around it. He's getting 50 yard bombs.
20:06He's railing in, or he's catching it on a cross and he's turning it up field for 48 yards.
20:13Like this guy is a, is a yards per reception specialist.
20:16And the Cardinal secondary is very vulnerable to players exactly like Isaac Tesla.
20:21He basically had the same usage as Jamison Williams.
20:24It's like the two way to be field stretchers in Detroit, the value play in DFS and everywhere.
20:30Cause he's available to be picked up in many, many, many, many, many, many, many leagues.
20:35Most leagues pick up and play Isaac Tesla, probably the most, the highest probability spike week for the dollar in DFS and
20:42the most widely available wide receiver on the waiver wire that could potentially deliver you a spike week and help you win a matchup.
20:50If you can't play Tesla and you're very desperate to flex a player with speed and playmaking ability.
20:56I like Rashid Shahid this week. It's tough to trust any Seahawks, not named JSN.
21:01I know that, but if Purdy and the 49ers can get a first half lead, then suddenly we have Darnold in comeback mode.
21:09And that's a recipe for Shahid to give you a spike week notice last week, two carries.
21:15So they're using Shahid in the running game because they have so many running back injuries.
21:20They're getting creative in Seattle and Shahid is the answer.
21:23He also has a running back number. He wears number 22.
21:27So Shahid with the running back number, it just, it lines up perfectly.
21:31He scored a rushing touchdown last week. And I think this week he scores a receiving touchdown.
21:37So spike week alert under the radar spike week alert for Rashid Shahid.
21:41Rashid Shahid, you don't want me singing. We need a new opening to the show.
21:46Tight end. Get right game for Colson Loveland. The usage is great.
21:50Like one of the league leaders in Snapshare routes run.
21:54He finally started getting some targets. Tyson Badgett is connecting well, looking to Colson Loveland.
21:59So the underlying usage we know is strong. Ignore the box score.
22:03Trust the profile. You drafted this player as a top 50 pick.
22:07The usage has been what you asked for. It's just the production has not followed.
22:12The touchdowns have not been there, but this is a team that scores a lot of touchdowns.
22:17And so this is the week to be brave and to go right back to Colson Loveland.
22:23Assuming you didn't already start turd Ferguson, right? Jake Ferguson, the big turd on Thursday night.
22:28Oh baby. Yeah. You reap what you sow with an unathletic tight end like Jake Ferguson.
22:34Colson Loveland, on the other hand, is a very athletic two-way tight end.
22:38And I am playing him everywhere. I have him.
22:41I'm also playing Arande Gadsden. This is a target conservation play.
22:45I know the game total is low. The upside is not huge with Harris and Gadsden, but these are guys that are
22:52set up to give you 10 to 15 fantasy points this week.
22:56And what I liked last week, what I saw last week was the Chargers are playing Seattle.
23:02One of these ferocious front sevens, just studs up and down the line.
23:06And yet, even though they were struggling with their blocking assignments against stud edge rushers, they let Gadsden get out and run rounds.
23:14They didn't leave him in to chip and block and not let him run rounds.
23:19The fact that Gadsden got eight targets against Seattle in that front seven tells me that he's going to be deployed more
23:26like a receiver, especially because no lad McConkie this week, even Brennan Thompson, not practicing.
23:31So things are teeing up just based on target conservation alone for Gadsden and Trey Harris this week.
23:37So I'm going to Gadsden. I'm playing him. You can see we have him ranked top 15 in the player rankings this
23:45week on player profiler for week five. And finally, love to end the show with the most boring play in the history of the show.
23:53And that has to be Hunter Henry for no other reason than just he's going to get targets and they don't have a lot of options.
24:02They've tried heaving it up to Mac Hollins in the, in the end zone didn't work.
24:07So now what are they going to do? I predict Drake may is going to be looking in Hunter Henry's direction, especially in the red zone.
24:16Cause that's what we need to do, right? That's what we, we don't really need lots of targets.
24:22We don't even need lots of catches out of our tight end.
24:26If we're streaming a tight end, we don't have a super stud tight end.
24:30All you care about is just bink a touchdown, right?
24:34Just please just bink a touchdown. And that's what we're going to get from Hunter Henry in week five from the pod father to you.
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