0:03Week eight fantasy football top 10 takeaways. I'm Theo Griminger breaking down everything you need to know from Sunday's games and also Thursday night.
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0:27top. Kansas City Denver caused me to come into the show late. I wasn't going to talk about anything from that game,
0:33but we get the Jonah Coleman takeover.
0:36Huge huge uh like takeaway here. The Jonah Coleman, all like the all the enthusiasm heading into the week was about Jonah Coleman and we're here.
0:46Jonah Coleman is is here. Uh really strong stuff from Jonah Coleman. And we always worry about like the Shawn Payeyton rug pull, but this looked
0:55different. Uh, not only was Jonah Coleman very good, but he made timely plays. 20 PPR points today, 15 touches, and what he was able to do in the fourth
1:05quarter, a 50 plus yard reception, and then he punches the touchdown in. Huge stuff from Jonah Coleman. Denver gets a massive win, goal line stand against
1:15Kansas City at the end. I mean, really a huge must-win game for Denver. Kansas City had this game. Denver came back.
1:24Uh, this one's going to hurt KC, especially coming off of that Seattle game. The big takeaway for Kansas City today was the emergence of EMTT Johnson.
1:33You got Rashi Rice back and of course, like we expected the passing game to be better, but it really looked like a
1:39calculated effort to ramp up EMTT Johnson. Five catches for 128 yards and a touchdown on five targets looks extremely explosive. You wonder if this
1:49is going to be a sort of a a a pain for Kenneth Walker managers because we've seen Kenneth Walker with this insane
1:57usage to start out the year. I mean, he's going to be fine. Kenneth Walker is not like going to be dust or anything
2:03like that. This is not some anti-Kenneth Walker take. He's still a locked and loaded top three running back in fantasy. But when you look back at some
2:11of the huge weeks he had, six catches in week two, uh, three catches earlier in the year, four catches against Seattle
2:18last week sort of saved his week from a zero. Gets four catches today. But when you watch EMTT Johnson, it's the kind of
2:25player that you want to design more targets for and sort of ramp up that passing game. So, we'll keep an eye on
2:30that one. Another subpar game from Kenneth Walker. 2.6 6 yards per carry last week in Seattle and then 3.3 this week against Denver. It gets easier. The
2:42Jets in week nine, that's a a great matchup for Kansas City to sort of bounce back. We'll talk about the Jets
2:48in a little bit. Continue to look at a couple of games. Want to take some uh big fantasy takeaways here and sort of
2:55break down the things we need to know. I guess we knew that Cincinnati the passing game was working. We had a ton
3:02of enthusiasm for Cincinnati heading in this game. The game was a lot closer than we anticipated. Cincinnati gets a 4336 win over Tennessee. Tennessee
3:14fought like their hearts out. No Carnell Tate in this one. Tony Pard was really good once again. I wonder if he's going
3:21to get traded. I'm going to do a trade special. Make sure you're subscribed to this YouTube channel. Make sure you're subscribed to the podcast. I'm going to
3:29break down some of the trade rumors early early this week right here at Rotoire. It feels like it's going to be
3:34a very busy trade deadline, some huge names. I'm going to break them all down on one show. Some things we're hearing,
3:41some things that maybe could happen and I'm going to galaxy brain a few trades that I wish would happen. Uh it'll be a
3:48fun show. Uh we'll drop that one early in the week. But you wonder about Tony Pard. But the Bengals though, the
3:55takeaway here is like Joe Burrow, he had the the interceptions were annoying. I get it. But most leagues that's not costing you a whole lot. Five touchdown
4:03passes for him and a rushing touchdown.
4:06This is the first time that that's happened since 1951.
4:11Absolutely wild stuff. 450 passing yards for for Joe Burrow. And Burrow's on an absolute heater. Uh it's unbelievable.
4:20He's leading the NFL now in touchdown passes on the year. He is number two to Josh Allen in points per game. And Joe
4:28Burrow is starting to look like an absolutely dynamite draft pick. There was some really like a little bit of like disappointment. The first two weeks
4:36of the year were really disappointing.
4:39But since then, it was the Pittsburgh game in week three sort of awoken things. Had three touchdown passes in that one, 280 passing yards. Even the
4:47Miami game in week five, he had four passing touchdowns in that one, but only 190 passing yards. But post by week,
4:55he's had nine touchdown passes in two games against Baltimore and Tennessee.
5:00Nine touchdown passes and a rushing touchdown as well. Huge, huge outputs.
5:06If you use Joe Burrow like in DFS with any of his pass catchers today, you won money. Uh Joe Burrow the last two weeks
5:13has been sensational. next week gets another good matchup indoors at Atlanta.
5:19Should be good stuff. And then that huge one week 10 that that game against Pittsburgh is going to be massive. And
5:24then looking at the pass catchers for Cincinnati, uh huge game from both of them. I mean, unbelievable stuff.
5:31Collectively, these two guys were the top two wide receivers on the day. They combined for 296 receiving yards. Jamar Chase and T.
5:39Higgins. 10 catches for 155 yards and two touchdowns for T. Higgins 11 catches for 142 yards and a touchdown for Jamar
5:49Chase. Jamar Chase is awesome. 18 points a game though. It's sort of like what you expected. T. Higgins, on the other
5:56hand, is at 19.9 points per game and he's absolutely wrecking things. We finally see like a a big touchdown performance from him, but T. Higgins has
6:07just been simply sensational. Both of these guys are fantastic, but T. Higgins is the better value from where you drafted him. Uh we feel fantastic about
6:17where things are with Cincinnati. Uh Tennessee, I mean, one- win team, but at least they're fighting. Uh we'll see sort of where that that thing goes. I
6:26hope everybody who's watching the show is off to a good start this week. Sunday Night Sweats, got a Sunday night game
6:32coming up. I'm always dropping this show live on YouTube right before Sunday Night Football. Usually we go like right into Sunday Night Football, so it's a
6:39nice little segue. Um, but fun game Sunday night, Seattle, Chicago, that's a good one. Then Washington, Philadelphia on Monday night. So hopefully the sweats
6:48are not too crazy, but enjoy them. Enjoy the sweats. The season's going to be over before you know it. We are We are
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7:15Uh, continuing to look at some of the takeaways from today's games. I mean, obviously, massive letdown in in in Baltimore. Massive massive letdown. Um,
7:25you've got Lamar Jackson now with a thumb injury that's causing him to go to the IR. It's going to require surgery.
7:32Just massive disappointment.
7:34And it would have been just good if Lamar would have just sat this one out, you wouldn't had to endure this
7:40lowscoring week. Um, so not only do you probably lose your matchup when you start him, but now you're kind of scrambling at the quarterback position.
7:47Uh, our guy Zay Flowers, I mean, poor one out, he's had at least five catches in every single game and now completely
7:54annihilated. A goose egg for my guy Z Flowers. Anybody who has been consuming my content, anybody who's consuming Jacob Gibbs' content, and we do a show
8:04together. I mean, we talk about Z Flowers like all the time. This one really hurts. I used Z Flowers in the
8:09DFS lineup today. Hurts. Z Flowers hurts. I have a ton of exposure to him in Dynasty, and I know a lot of you do
8:16as well. Um, we've got to downgrade downgrade him significantly. This is about as bad as it gets. And the quarterback situation this week, you
8:25don't get the Tyler Huntley bailout.
8:27Tyler Huntley is getting an MRI himself tomorrow. So Tyler Huntley was effective with Zay Flowers when Lamar Jackson missed before. Now it's it's it's just a
8:38mess. It's just a mess. Joe Fenano is going to start. Yukon quarterback. I mean, rookie, it doesn't get worse than this. And they're going to be on a short
8:47week against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
8:49Um downgrade your Ravens. Ravens are going to be scrambling here. This is this is a disaster. You have to wonder, is there going to be a quarterback
8:59target for them? Depending on the Huntley news, the the Ravens, are they going to be players at the deadline?
9:05Could they trade for a quarterback? You start speculating on all this stuff.
9:09Maybe a street free agent. I don't know who they'd go after. It's a it's an absolute mess for them right now. Um,
9:16we'll keep an eye on Baltimore, but downgrade everybody. Flowers was able to uh be very effective with Tyler Huntley, but this week against Jacksonville,
9:26it's going to be better than today. It's not going to be a goose egg, but he's a uh somewhere in the wide receiver 20
9:31range this week, I would say. Uh with all this quarterback uncertainty against Jacksonville on a short week. Baltimore doesn't have time to prepare. This is an
9:39absolute absolute mess. And then when you look at the division, you've you've got Pittsburgh, you've got Cincinnati, both those teams trending up. Baltimore
9:49trending down in a major major way. So, just bad stuff. Bad stuff from Baltimore. Bad stuff from Lamar Jackson.
9:56We're going to unpack this Lamar Jackson stuff uh all throughout the week. But what a disappointment. What a disappointment for him to come back and
10:03then now headed back to the IR. Really tough stuff. Uh do you like watching run games? Do you like watching the run game
10:10in action? Well, Tampa Bay is rolling out like a 1940s college football offense in the rain today. They get another win. They beat the Atlanta
10:20Falcons last week. They beat the Carolina Panthers. So, Baker Mayfield returns, but it's not what we expected.
10:27We expected Baker Mayfield to help like the passing game ramp up in Tampa Bay.
10:32It's been anything but that. But the Bucks have a formula. The defense is playing lights out and Bucky Irving is playing awesome. Bucky Irving over the
10:40last two weeks has just been terrific.
10:42And it's been this incredible high volume run attack where Bucky is thriving. And we saw it weeks ago with Bucky where it was like Bucky Irving
10:53against the Dallas Cowboys. Everyone was sort of down on Bucky Irving, including myself. I'll take the L for that one. I
10:58was down on him heading into the Dallas game because you had like the disaster with Shawn Tucker and Gainwell scoring touchdowns. And then that was the Green
11:08Bay game where, you know, Bucky dropped six points. The week before that he was at seven and then against Dallas he had
11:1431. Well, we sort of fell backwards against Pittsburgh. 6.9 points against Pittsburgh. But in that game he did have 21 touches. So the volume was there and
11:25the volume has continued. Last week against Carolina 24 carries for 106 yards, two touchdowns. Also had a catch, 24 points. But then today against
11:34Atlanta, 27 carries for 170 yards and a touchdown. And in the exact same game, you get Kenneth Gainwell also playing very well. 25 carries for 140 yards for
11:46Kenneth Gainwell. I mean, awesome stuff for Gainwell. Gainwell had a and put it in perspective, there was literally no pass game whatsoever for for Tampa Bay
11:54today. If I told you earlier this year that Gainwell is going to have 140 rushing yard game, you would say he's
12:01going to drop 30 points because he's also going to catch a bunch of passes and it probably means Bucky Irving didn't play. Well, he had 14 points on
12:09140 rushing yards. Just insane. But the two players combined for all these rush attempts, this is the formula that's been winning for them. They beat
12:18Carolina, they beat Atlanta, and they were very competitive against Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh came back. So, I think Tampa Bay is sort of trending in
12:27the right direction. Huge game at Chicago next week. Like the rubber meets the road. Are they going to be able to
12:33actually try to run this offense against Chicago? We'll see. But I think heading into that Chicago game based on just this usage we're seeing for the running
12:41backs, Bucky Irving is going to be a low-end RB1.
12:46And Kenneth Gainwell, you throw him in the flex next week. So, zero pass completions, but they still get the win.
12:52Back-to-back weeks with nothing in the passing game. Uh, Tampa Bay though, two wins. And this was the Zack Robinson revenge game. Zack Robinson goes against
13:01his former team, runs the hell out of the ball, gets a win. Bucky Irving, a great pick if you made him. Um, you
13:08know, talk about times in the summer when Bucky was like a sixth round pick. So, you're getting sixth round value giving you this many
13:14points. It's very strong stuff. 22.5 points per game over the last two games for Bucky Irving. And the the volume has
13:23just been absolutely outstanding. And shout out to the chat for being so live.
13:27Um, I Mock Rivers says, "Bucks Falcons box score is insane." It's nuts. If you didn't watch this game, it's absolutely nuts. Um, nothing of note in on the
13:36Tampa Bay uh passing game. Let's talk a little bit let's talk a little bit about Bejian Robinson because another quiet performance from Bejon and
13:46Bejon we we had like we had like so much hope for for Bejon. Um, and I get it.
13:52Bean's still bean. He's still an elite talent, but now he's down to 19.2 points per game. The gap between him and Jir
14:02Gibbs keeps getting larger and larger.
14:04Jir Gibbs is now like over eight points per game more than Bejian Robinson. So the debate this summer was sort of a
14:12non-debate. There's just not the offensive ecosystem to support Bian Robinson Atlanta anywhere close to what we have with some of these other guys.
14:21But Bejon, I mean, today it was another game where you you you sort of like the volume, 19 carries, but he only gets 76
14:28yards. He's had eight or he's had fewer than eight points in two out of his last three games. Disaster against Chicago.
14:37Then Tampa Bay then Tampa Bay, a disaster. The San Francisco game was fine. 17 points there, but he was still 3.2 yards per carry. I mean, it's time
14:46to have a little bit of a conversation about this. If we were reddrafting today, where would Bejian Robinson go?
14:52And I get it, he could bounce back and score 30 and I could look stupid next week, but it's been a month here where
14:58he hasn't scored 17 more than 17 in any game. And I understand that that's still good. 17's still good. But these two
15:05seven-pointers bracketing it, I mean, that's disaster for a guy that you took two overall. Uh, a lot of question marks in Atlanta. We'll we'll keep an eye on
15:14them next week, but we're sort of due for a big Bejon game. Uh but absolutely not today. This was this was ugly stuff.
15:20And I get it. It's just, you know, it's difficult for Bejon to do anything with this kind of level of quarterback play.
15:26And I get it's raining, but Michael Pennock's ugly stuff. I mean, really ugly stuff out there. We had some horrendous quarterback play today.
15:36Pennix definitely goes into that mix. a number of quarterbacks. We'll talk about a few of them. Got benched today, but Michael Pennock's absolutely disaster
15:43today. We'll keep an eye on on Atlanta.
15:46Uh and Atlanta, of course, shout out to Uncle Ted throwing it out there. Uh Atlanta better indoors, better at home, but this was disgusting. Absolutely
15:57disgusting. Um continue to look at some of the takeaways from today's game.
16:01Really, really a fun a fun Sunday for sure. um talked about Tampa Bay, talked about Atlanta. Let's talk about Bree Hall. Or wait, let's not talk about Bree
16:11Hall. Let's talk about Brilan Allen. Cuz the Bree Hall comeback narrative was something discussed on podcasts all week long. A lot of enthusiasm about Bree
16:21Hall coming back. And this morning, we get a report he's not playing. And Brilan Allen season was back on track.
16:29And Brilan Allen did not disappoint. He became a super chalky play in DFS because he was cheap and we knew he
16:36would have this massive workload with no Bree Hall. 21 carries for 147 yards and a touchdown and he adds two catches.
16:44He's had 78 yards or more for four straight weeks and he's had 100 yards in three out of four games. And here's some
16:53stats from from my guy Jacob Gibbs. Uh, when we're talking about running back success rate, running backs with a higher success rate than Brilland Allen
17:02this year, Jir Gibbs, Christian McAffrey, and Kairen Williams. That's it. And then we talk about yards after contact per rush. Another stat from
17:11Jacob that's really good. Bree is 40.
17:14Bree Hall is 45 out of 45 qualifiers in yards after contact per rush. And Brilen Allen is eighth. Same offensive line,
17:23same quarterback, same team. And Brilland Allen has been so much more of an effective runner this year than Bree Hall. And I know Bree Hall had 100 yards
17:30in week one. People will say, "Yo, Theo, he had a 100 yard game, too." I get it.
17:34Back in week one, this is week eight.
17:36And this is the This is the last month of the year. Um, and over the last month, Brilland Allen has been awesome.
17:41He's been, if you were able to add him off the waiverwire, he's one of the waiverwire ads of the year. And if you
17:47were able to draft him late, he's one of the better late round picks that you could have made in fantasy football
17:52because of how effective he's been in these starts.
17:55Even even like the even the Chicago game, they tried to ramp up Rayan Allen.
17:59The game that they were completely shut down, they tried to ramp him up. He was like the thing they were trying to do.
18:05So, when you talk about uh the trade deadline, there's all these reports in New York saying like the Jets won't trade Bree Hall unless they get a great
18:15offer. And we know last year when they were selling guys off and they sold Sas Gardner, there was reports that teams
18:21were trying to trade for Bree Hall.
18:23reports that the Kansas City Chiefs tried to trade for him. We got all excited in fantasy. The Jets wouldn't trade him without a third round pick.
18:31So, they're going to want something for Bruce Hall. But when you add in how effective Brillan Allen has been and you
18:37have all these weapons offensively in the passing game, Bree Hall feels slightly expendable here. The the contract is difficult to move, but when
18:47you talk about Bree Hall, he's a premium asset. He was a high pick. Uh, he's a guy that the market will be interested
18:52in if they're moving him. Do they have the same level of of like expectations with what they would need in order to
18:59sell him? I'm not so sure. Brilland Allen, how old is he? Quick, 22 years old. Brillin Allen's 22 years old.
19:06Brilland Allen is extremely young. Came into the league young. He was like 17 years old playing for Wisconsin, putting up a big year, his first year at
19:14Wisconsin. He's young. Brilland Allen will be 24 when he goes into free agency. So like Brilan Allen is a young young guy and he's running extremely
19:25well. So this is like a a kind of a it's not a changing of the guard, but it's a Bree Hall is going to have a problem
19:32when he comes back because Brilen Allen, you can't really put this back in the box. You can't. The Jets have been
19:37competitive with Brilan Allen in some of these games and he's running the ball extremely effective. We'll talk about Bree Hall when I break down potential
19:43trades at the trade deadline. uh continuing to look at this game like fun game, really fun game for fantasy and I
19:50think every time the Raiders play, it's sort of fun. Their their defense is really really giving up a ton of scoring
19:56um multiple weeks in a row giving up 30 points or more. But the story of the game is it's officially panic time for
20:03Ashen Genty managers. It was like a slow drip and we talked about this like for a couple weeks here on this show where
20:09Mike Washington looked more explosive.
20:12Mike Washington looked more explosive and then you kept getting the passing game usage bailout for Ashton Genty. Uh Ashton Genty like
20:21kept getting there with the passing game like the targets would be there. Uh he had this elite role in the passing game
20:27but then finally today we saw a game where Mike Washington dominated the snaps. He had over 60% nearly 65% of the
20:35snaps today go to Mike Washington.
20:38Ashton Gent Genty fewer than 40% of the snaps. You have four straight games where there's 10 or fewer carries for Ashton Genty. And Mike Washington gets
20:5025 carries today. So it feels like a a panic mode a little bit for Ashton Genty managers to say the least. This is the
20:58first time we've seen this. And again, Genty is very good at catching the football. even in today's game, he makes a huge play um and he demands targets
21:09and he had 64 receiving yards today, but today it was only two carries for nine yards. Last week it was only eight
21:17carries for 15 yards. So, it's it's really gross stuff when it comes to Ashton Genty. He's been struggling on the ground and now we finally see a
21:26switch. And we know Mike Washington is a guy that this coaching staff likes. They took him in the fourth round. He's a big
21:32back with explosiveness. And it's not like Mike Washington put up a huge number for fantasy, but 25 carries and the Raiders win. This was a huge win for
21:42Vegas. We know that Kirk Cousins was up against it. We knew that this was a potential, you know, change in the
21:48changing of the guard week if they didn't get the win. Um, but a big big win for Cousins after two disappointing
21:55losses. They lose to Buffalo, lose to the Rams. They got annihilated by New England. Then they also uh they also lost to Kansas City. So three home
22:04losses and that road loss to New England after a hot start to the year. Now they have four wins. So four wins for Kubak.
22:12Pretty good stuff. They go into San Francisco next week. Cousins will be back behind center. And we got to talk about our guy Brock Bowers. So anybody
22:20sort of consuming this content. I know a lot of you out there your Brock Bower's bags are packed. My Brock Bowers bags
22:27are packed. dynasty. I have bags and bags and bags of Brock Bowers and it feels good because we're seeing Brock Bowers thrive in this Clint Kubak role
22:36and it's it's exactly what we wanted.
22:38He's the first tight end to start out the season with six straight games with 70 catches or more. So, he's hitting
22:44like a historical marker there. Awesome.
22:47Awesome stuff. If this is like the first quarter touchdown on essentially a wide receiver route to the back corner of the
22:52end zone looked unstoppable. But then the second touchdown was Bro Brock Bowers in motion. It looked like JSN last year. Get Brock Bowers in motion.
23:03Uh they run Ashen Genty to the same side and they hit Brock Bowers. Short little pass, but it was just beautiful. Great
23:09play design. You have an elite play caller. You have an elite talent and he's playing at a position where there's few elite players. So it's a perfect
23:18storm for fantasy managers. Brock Bowers is awesome. He uh just amazing stuff for him. Seven catches, 92 yards, and two touchdowns on 10 targets. And Brock
23:30Bowers has had at least eight targets in every single game. We've also got to mention with this Jets game, huge Adenai
23:37Mitchell game. Adani Mitchell, seven catches, 142 yards, and a touchdown.
23:41Zero for Omar Cooper Jr. And another letdown for Garrett Wilson in a sense that this was supposed to be the Garrett
23:49Wilson big bounceback. Omar Cooper had outscored him two weeks in a row. We talked about it all week long. This is
23:55the week, you know, Vegas was a great matchup for him. And we, you know, you could look at it glass half full or you
24:02can look at it like glass half empty here. But Garrett Wilson, he's averaging 14.2 points per game now. So, he gets a
24:09little bounceback week. It's a 14-pointer after a disaster week seven, a disaster week uh six. Um it's it's okay, but he has 12 targets
24:19and he gets six catches for 83 yards. 12 targets is great, but when you look at uh Wilson, it's now three straight weeks
24:27that he's been outscored by another Jets wide receiver. It's just problematic.
24:32There's a lot of mouse to feed. Gino's Gino's doing some good things out there.
24:36Um but Gino can't make everybody relevant. It's like a one week this guy, one week that guy. Garrett Wilson's going to be the most consistent one, but
24:43Omar Cooper showed his talent for two straight weeks. Adai looks fully healthy. A lot going on there. Then you got Brilan Allen commanding a lot of
24:50touches and then when Bree Hall comes back like a Bruce Hall, we don't get traded. You know, I love Brilan Allen,
24:56but it's not like Bree Hall is going to come in and not make his mark. So, it's a lot of mouse to feed, sort of
25:01downgrade our expectations for Garrett Wilson. This was going to be the one.
25:04This was the great matchup for sure.
25:06Vegas has been super leaky as a secondary and as a team. They let up a ton of points in this one. And Garrett
25:13Wilson in a game where the Jets score a ton of points at home, he only delivers 14 points on 12 targets. So not not
25:20great stuff there at all from the Jets or Garrett Wilson, but it is great stuff with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Couple weeks ago, I said I think Bachel Tutin
25:29is going to be a top 10 running back this year. And I don't get it all right, but I got this one right. I know J Jacob
25:34Gibbs has been all over this one as as well. I'm over with Jacob on beyond the box score once a week. He's here with me
25:41on Rotowire once a week. Um but we've talked about Toutin and a lot of things were sort of aligning for Tuton. Um had
25:48those two games in a row back in week four and week five where it was like 11 points, 11 points, but the usage and the
25:56volume was outstanding. Then we had a really positive signal in week six against Houston where he had the four catches for 48 yards and two touchdowns.
26:05The it was his season high as a as a receiver in terms of yardage, in terms of catches, and he added the two
26:12touchdown grabs. Well, we we have like confirmation here and signal with him ramping up post bye-week. Two AFC South
26:21games and they ride Bashel Tutin. 16 touches against Houston, 18 this week against Indianapolis, a career-high 29
26:30points, nearly had a 30-pointer in PPR, but 55 receiving yards and a touchdown.
26:37And he adds 104 yards on the ground.
26:39This is a a season high for him. 6 and a half yards per carry, also a season high, and he gets a touchdown. So,
26:46Bashel Tutin is up to six touchdowns on the year. He's ramping up in a major way. And Trevor Lawrence did not have as
26:55big a game as I thought he'd have. I thought I I thought Trevor Lawrence was sort of a dark horse here to be like QB1
27:00overall in the week, but he still was flawless. The passing yardage was not there, but three touchdown passes, zero interceptions. Trevor Lawrence, Bashel
27:10Tutin, the Jacksonville Jaguars, things are looking awesome for them. And when we look at Jacksonville, we talk about Baltimore with a with a third string
27:20quarterback this week on Thursday night.
27:22Jaguars are gonna smoke them. Then you talk about Tennessee, the Giants, and then Tennessee again. So, I'm looking at four games where Jacksonville can win.
27:33they can win four games in a row and then they they would have a huge game in week 13 heading into Chicago which would
27:40be like a made for TV big fantasy football game. Lots of lots of guys in our lineups. We would love to see
27:48Jacksonville rip off a few more wins head into Chicago in that week 13 game.
27:53I think that would be an an awesome game. You know, you get Liam Cohen, Ben Johnson. I mean, we could get really
27:59excited about that one, but we're not going to get too excited about the Indianapolis Colts. They are are a disaster. A disaster. I'm sure I'm going
28:06to talk about Jonathan Taylor uh during the trade show, excuse NFL trade deadline show that I'm going to put together and the the trade show I'm
28:14going to I'm going to do this week, but Taylor, I mean, let's hope for a bailout for him. This offense looks terrible.
28:20Daniel Jones gets benched. Anthony Richardson goes in. This is a big week for superflex leagues. I a lot of times I'm talking about single QB because most
28:29of us play in it, but this is a big week for superflex managers. A lot of quarterback changes, some quarterbacks getting injured, but uh absolutely
28:37Anthony Richardson, like with his mobility, if he's going to start and Daniel Jones gets benched, he becomes interesting. Do we see Riley Leonard at
28:45some point in the year? Who knows with these Colts? But Daniel Jones has been really, really, really, really bad. Um just tough stuff. Tough stuff to watch.
28:55Um, I don't know which way they're going to go, but I feel like more Colts are getting traded. Do we see Josh DS move?
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29:18together here. Uh, continuing to look at a couple of takeaways. Let's go back to the the Thursday night game. Green Bay
29:25wins 2719.
29:27Another really impressive performance from Jordan Love. Uh you get a touchdown for Tucker Craft. That was great to see.
29:35Craft looked good. Matthew Golden is one of the best wide receiver picks you could have made this year. Uh continues to shine. Matthew Golden just continues
29:45to look really good week in week out. I know he gets drops and people are very critical of this, but in my leagues I
29:52don't get knocked for drops and I'm sure you don't as well. Uh Golden just he's a he's a target hog. He's had three
30:00straight weeks with at least 12 targets.
30:03Ridiculous stuff. I mean, when when you look at Golden, he's uh top three in the NFL right now in targets at the wide
30:10receiver position. Ridiculous.
30:12Ridiculous. and he's outscoring every single other wide receiver from the 2025 class. Golden's outscoring Tedro McMillan. He's outscoring Luther Burton.
30:22He's outscoring Amecha Ibuka. He's outscoring them all. So like this is a massive year 2 breakout for Matthew Golden. Seven catches, 79 yards, and a
30:31touchdown on 13 targets. You get the Josh Jacobs usage which was I mean he got two touchdowns and the the the
30:39volume is massive. 27 touches, only 52 yards, but he gets two touchdowns. So, Jacobs was a really solid start for you,
30:47but the touchdowns definitely bailed him out this this week. Not like 27 touches though basically just tells you everything you need to know about where
30:55Laflur is at with Jacobs. And then you get the the crazy crazy Christian Watson uh situation where I mean like we
31:04thought Christian Watson was done for the year for a little bit. Get goes to the hospital. Um comes back from the
31:11hospital. Ends the game with eight catches for 113 yards on 10 targets.
31:16It's another 17-point game for Watson, which was really necessary. Watson had really a disappointment in week six, disappointment in week seven. um and had
31:25a had a near touchdown against Dallas and didn't happen. So, he gets eight catches for 113 yards. Um but it was
31:32just crazy. It was like a movie. It was like a broken rib, goes to the hospital, comes back. Um he was like coughing up
31:40blood, like absolutely awful stuff. And then he comes back into the game. So, Christian Watson definitely has that dog in him to return to the game. The Green
31:48Bay Packers win again this week. A fun one in New England. That'll be an interesting one. And then a massive game
31:55for them against Minnesota in Green Bay before their bye-week in week 11. But Jordan Love, I mean, Jordan Love looks really, really good. If you started him
32:04on Thursday, you're always sort of like holding your breath with these Thursday starts, but Jordan Love gives you three touchdown passes, 288 passing yards.
32:13He's had uh at least 274 passing yards for four straight weeks. Uh Jordan Love just looks really, really good right now. uh continue to look at a couple
32:23more takeaways before we go watch Sunday Night Football. Make sure you're sticking with this channel all week. Uh we are going to be dropping shows all
32:30week long that can help you. I got to actually point out one more thing from Thursday. Chuba Hubard the volume ridiculous. 29 touches. This was his
32:40second 29 touch game since Carolina's bye-week. So like this is just the Dave Canales continues to be a running back whisperer. We've seen it like year in
32:50year out with Canales and it's been sometimes on a short sample size, but Chuba Hubard is averaging 19 points per game now. An unbelievably good pick, but
33:00Chuba like post byee uh the usage has been fantastic. He's got a 19-pointer.
33:06He's got now a 25-pointer, had a 26-pointer heading into the by-week. I mean, Chuba has been one of the better picks he could have made. A lot of you
33:13were taking Choua Hubard in the double-digit rounds. So, he's been a massive massive hit rate guy. Uh, you know, the whole Jonathan Brooks uh Chuba
33:22Hubard discourse, a lot of us got in on Jonathan Brooks. That was one where Chuba I mean, you took him begrudgingly
33:29in some of these drafts. Like, I have teams with Chuba where I didn't even want to take him, but nobody was taking
33:33him and just take him. And they hey, sometimes sometimes uh you don't analyze a situation well, but you still end up
33:41with a guy. That's how fantasy football works sometimes. But Chuba, uh, I don't remember anybody just sort of pounding the table for Chuba this summer. I I
33:49talked to so many people and, you know, I'll have guests on this summer. Again, shout out to my guy Pat Karine. He was
33:55all over Bucky Irving when he came on with me. A couple of different guys on different running backs, but nobody was
33:59like, I'm in on Chuba. This is my flag plan. But Chuba's been really good. And I think it speaks volumes to we want to
34:05embrace Dave Canales running backs. It happens each and every year. We saw it last year with the Rico Dow like month.
34:12Uh we've seen it before with Chuba early on when he was at Carolina and now we're back with Chuba again. Chuba's locked
34:18and loaded. Carolina's offense is regressing. We've got to uh sort of downgrade our expectations for the passing game, the offensive line, but
34:25Chuba is going to get 20 to 25 touches each and every week. That matters for us in fantasy football. Also got to talk
34:32about Harold Fannon Jr. and Jaylen Warren. We have Cleveland Pittsburgh and this was a absolute uh exclamation point
34:42from the Steelers. The Browns, everybody knew that they sort of had an inflated record and Pittsburgh was probably going to win this game, but it was an emphatic
34:5027 to6 win for Pittsburgh. But we got to talk about Harold Fannon Jr. because Fannon looked awesome. I talked about Fannon last week as a potential sell
35:00high. I I worried about Casey Conpsion with him last week. sort of was like the Casey Conpsion spike week game. We saw
35:07what a ceiling could look like from KC and and Harold Fannon Jr. is the kind of guy where I have bags and bags in
35:14Dynasty. Love him in Dynasty, but I worry a little bit about situations like this where the Browns are going to score
35:19six points, 10 points and Fannon has to deal with not only Casey Conpsion, but Denzel Boston and I mean boy did that
35:28look wrong today. He was incredible. 10 catches for 154 yards. He had over 90 last week on six catches. So 245
35:37receiving yards over the back over the last two weeks. Um he was terrible a few weeks ago. He had like the really
35:45lowscoring weeks. It's sort of like people were benching Harold Fannon Jr.
35:49Looks like they've adjusted some things.
35:51The connection with him and Deshun Watson looks really good. It's an offense we can't trust, but Fannon looks terrific. Very talented player and again
36:00super young. Harold Fannon Jr. like 22 years old doing this awesome stuff. He's going to be a really good fantasy tight
36:06end for years and years to come. But we've got to talk about our guy Jaylen Warren. Uh Jaylen Warren season, we've
36:12been talking about it for weeks and weeks and huge one today. 17 carries, 143 yards, and a touchdown. Uh Jaylen Warren just looks awesome. It's been
36:23such a good year for him. He's having his best season ever as a pro. Uh and they're leaning in they're leaning into
36:29it. It's 17.6 six points per game now for Jaylen Warren. Um really awesome stuff. And we we've seen Jaylen Warren
36:39uh really ramp up. He's had one game in his last six games played where he didn't have at least 15 PPR points. So
36:46he's had really just an unbelievable run for him. Multiple huge weeks and now back-to-back weeks bouncing back after sort of that scare with the Tampa Bay
36:57game uh where Dowel sort of ramped up.
36:59So, uh, very very into Jaylen Warren. I think he's really an interesting player for the rest of the season, especially in leagues where you're able to complete
37:08trades. Another touchdown for Rico Dattle. Dattle is still going to be sort of a thing, but it's Jaylen Warren.
37:14Jaylen Warren's the focal point of this offense. Looks really, really good.
37:18Continuing to look at a couple more takeaways before we wrap things up. A reminder, I'll be back here tomorrow for the Waverwire show. Make sure you're
37:26checking that one out. Uh, and if you want to level it up, go check out my waiverwire column over at Roto Wire. I
37:32go super deep in that one. We've had some really big hits. If we go back and sort of look at the my top three ranked
37:38guys each and every week, there's been some awesome runouts uh from that article throughout the year. So, go check it out. And if you're sort of like
37:45in a league where you have a chance to get a byee, chance to get a top two seed in your league or if you're fighting it
37:53out and you're like the seven seed, the six seed and you're fighting to make the playoffs, consider Rotoire. I was just
38:00like on the site and you guys know I I worked at Fantasy Points before and way back in the day I worked for player
38:06profiler and this year I sort of came over here to Rotoire and it's just each and every week they're adding more and
38:14more cool stuff over on the site. Go check out our player pages. No one in fantasy has better player pages that are
38:20more extensive and detail oriented than Rotoire right now. Um, the stuff we have over on the player pages, advanced statistics, news, it's all combined in
38:30one place on the player pages, they're they're absolutely elite. No one in fantasy has better player pages than we do. They help you analyze any player
38:38you're thinking of. Go check it out over at rotowire.com. Got to talk about Detroit taking down Minnesota. Um, Minnesota, we knew this was going to be
38:46a game Detroit really wanted to win.
38:48Undefeated Vikings. Uh, NFC North is the best division in football, especially for fantasy football. got fantasy stars everywhere and a couple players really
38:57delivered in this one. Jameson Williams, four catches for 70 yards and a touchdown. Uh he's had four straight games now with 16 or more points and he
39:07continues to score touchdowns. JMO looks awesome. He looks explosive and it's the same thing we saw last year. Last year we saw Jameson Williams ramp up post
39:17bye-week and this is a Dan Campbell guy and this this feels like a Drew Petting guy as well. They're using him a lot
39:23more in the red zone, but like Jameson Williams had the the celebration on the long catch early in the game. I mean, it
39:31was an incredible celebration and they end up giving him a 15 yard unsportsmanlike on that one. So, that was sort of like the one negative, but
39:38he looks awesome right now. And Jir Gibbs was Jir Gibbs. The start show with Jim Coventry, he brought up how last
39:45year Brian Flores was pretty good against Jir Gibbs, but not not this week. Not this year. Not not this year.
39:51Jir Gibbs is Jamir Gibbs. Another 24 point game for him. 23 carries for 153 yards and a touchdown and he adds two
40:01catches. Just awesome stuff. Jir Gibbs is locked and loaded.
40:05And then we've got to talk about Mchu magic. We got to wrap things up. Little Mchu magic and then we got to go watch
40:10Sunday Night Football. But there's a lot of takeaways from this Arizona game.
40:16First off, Gardner Mchu uh comes in the game. Arizona's down 17-3. There's like 17 minutes to go, 18 minutes to go. The
40:26Cardinals end up winning 3330 in overtime. When we do like the collective gardener Mchu magic like montage, if they ever do like a ma mu magic book,
40:37this is going to be one of the main ones because it's this guy just it's incredible. It's absolutely incredible.
40:44Four drives, four touchdowns. Mchu magic. Uh there's this is a great stat and this is per Doug Clawson who works for CBS. One quarterback has three
40:55passing touchdowns in the fourth quarter of a game this year. Three plus passing touchdowns in the fourth quarter of a game this year. And that's Gardner Mchu.
41:02That's it. He's the one. Uh great stat from Doug Clawson of CBS. But Dallas, terrible loss. Absolutely terrible loss.
41:10They're at home. They lose another game they're not supposed to. Dallas is reeling in the wins and losses department. You talk about Arizona,
41:18Jeremiah Love gets hurt again, Bam Knight gets concussed, and then you have this insane Tyler Algier game. So like Tyler Algier is running back one overall
41:28on the week. This is the best game he's ever had as a pro. Um and to to Tyler Algier's credit, this was just
41:36incredible stuff. Sort of an out of nowhere game. No one had him in the lineup. 36 points scored. Uh this is
41:44incredible stuff. 11 carries for 147 yards and a touchdown and five uh catches for 44 yards and a touchdown.
41:52Start any running back against the Dallas Cowboys though. Dallas Cowboys are just they can't stop anyone right now. But Tyler Algier definitely
42:00deserves some credit, but the story of the game has to be Michael Wilson. I mean, it has to be Michael Wilson.
42:05Michael Wilson was awesome. He looked like Puka out there with Gardenner Mchu.
42:11And we saw it last year where Wilson had those games wi with Jacobe Brassette where he was ramping up. Awesome stuff.
42:19But this year, like we had the fast start for Wilson and then we've been wanting a lot more. Well, we got a lot
42:25more today and they leaned on Michael Wilson all throughout the second half and all throughout the really the fourth quarter. Finishes the day with eight
42:34catches for 111 yards and a touchdown.
42:37Also gets a 17yd run. the 17 yard run was incredibly important for them winning the game. So, he goes eight for
42:4411 in the game. He has six six catches for 86 yards in the second half. And then in the the the drive that like tied
42:54the game, he had three catches for 61 yards in that drive. And then he has the game-tying touchdown. You end up having
43:02the missed extra point. It would have been like uh a celebration right then and there for Wilson. they if that Chad
43:09Ryland would have just knocked in the extra point, but the game goes to overtime and then in overtime it's third and one and they give the ball to Wilson
43:18on the run attempt and he runs 17 yards on that play. So his rush attempt comes on third and one in overtime and Arizona
43:26ends up winning the game. So Michael Wilson, this was a huge huge signal for us with Mchu. Michael Wilson fully back.
43:33Trey McBride is Trey McBride. talk about him each and every week, but I think we were worried about guard about about uh
43:39Michael Wilson. Mchu definitely bailed out and we talked about how this is like a big week for superflex managers.
43:46Gardenner Mchu needs to be added in superflex formats. He was really really good today. Uh we don't need to like analyze things, but Gardenner Mchu, I'd
43:56be shocked shocked if Gardenner Mchu doesn't get at least a little bit of a run here after this big win in Dallas.
44:01Now, it gets it. Here's the bad news, though. This week is at Seattle. So, Mchu Magic will end in Seattle. But boy,
44:10this was a fun one. And this is a really fun show as well. Quick note that this show is brought to you by Better. That's
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44:54but it's too obvious. Um, make sure you're sticking with this channel. I'm going to drop shows pretty much every single day that are going to help you
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