The Shrewdness guys discuss the challenges around Guillotine strategy heading into Week 4, and provide start/sit advice and betting picks!
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Hello. Hello, everybody.
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Welcome to the shrewdness. It's me, Prue.
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I'm here with Chis and Dex as usual, we're back for another
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week of NFL wrap up and we'll look ahead to week 4 and talk a
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little bit about some guillotine fantasy football.
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And we got a new segment that we're starting tonight.
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First we'll go through our sleepers and spuds like we do
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every week. We'll talk about some gambling
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picks, but Dex, I think also has a new segment for us, which he's
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calling Sinners and Saints. And those are the guys that that
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either saved you or got you chopped this week.
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That's right, and they're kind of fun.
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Getting chopped so. Yeah, Dex, tell us your SAD
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news. So how's everybody doing?
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So it's great. Yeah.
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So for all those who watched the Baltimore and Detroit game, I
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had a decent lead. I mean, it was, it was kind of
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risky. I just needed two people to
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continue doing what they've been doing the whole season.
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So David Montgomery and Mark Andrews just keep sucking.
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Just don't get in the end zone. I'm not even going to go into
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what they did. So don't even.
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Worry about it twice, whatever you do.
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Yeah, each and definitely don't run in like a 72 yarder and a 37
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yarder. And yeah, so that's, that's
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good, Yeah. Fantasy football?
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Great. Yeah, and I think I owe it all
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to Ashton Gente. Thank you so much.
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I'm. I'm glad I picked you first in
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both of these leagues. You've really come through for
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me. I mean, I'll buy you flowers if
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you need to, but Ashton, boy, did you look good at Boise State
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and not so much with the Raiders.
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So anyway, let's move on. Let's move on Case.
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You're wondering. Case you're wondering.
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Dave Montgomery went 12 for 151, averaging 12.6 yards of carry
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with two touchdowns and a long of 72.
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Mark Andrews 6 catches, 91 yards, averaging 15.2 a catch
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and two touchdowns. Yeah, when you need somebody to
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do bad, that's what Guillotine does.
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It's just not only is it laugh in your face, it's like you want
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what? So you are fine at halftime.
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OK, let me just go ahead and bury that.
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So yeah, there we go. So whatever.
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I'm just going to enjoy all my poop.
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Leaks. Now and go from there.
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But anyway, no one wants to hear about that stuff.
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Let's go into kind of our shrewdness.
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Sleeper. Don't want to start off there.
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Actually, you know what? I want to start off with the new
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segment. I think it's going to be kind of
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fun and it'll lead into everything else anyway, so we're
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going to pop right in there. So sinners and Saints, so who
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saved you and who killed you? So again, a personal favorite of
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mine, Ashton Gente, he's going to be probably on some possibly
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available in your league because once again, he does not deliver
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double digit points. So many people's early first
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round pick, terrible. He goes 17, we're 63 yards, no
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catches. I don't even know if he had a
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target, certainly no touchdown. So don't you worry about that.
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He won't go there, really. Not any of those.
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That's not happening. So that's, that's, that's one of
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our centers. I think the biggest one that's
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going to be on probably the vast majority of chopped teams like
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Neighbors. So if he's not upwards of like
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15% cut, that'll be amazing. If you could hold off on A2 for
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13 performance against the Chiefs and survive, kudos.
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Do you remember? One pick, Yeah.
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Yeah. Exactly.
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So that's that's gonna be pretty hard to get over.
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And then if you doubled down and came back in your second round
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with Chase Brown, his 10 carries for three yard performance and
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four catches for 17. I don't know if those, I don't
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know what five points, 6 points are going to save you, but
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probably not helpful. So those two are really bad.
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And then CD Lamb, of course, he got hurt to get his zero, but
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Xavier Worthy did it to me first week too.
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So I think CD Lambs probably be available in a lot of leagues.
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But should you take him because he's probably out three to four
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weeks, you might just need to let someone else take him die
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and then just wait until the other side of these bye weeks
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before he gets CD Lamb. But Jamar Chase.
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So last week he was one of the, I think the most chopped player.
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He comes back. So you spit half your fab on
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this guy. Probably 5 catches for 50 yards
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and that Cincinnati offense looked atrocious.
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Jake Browning. No one knows what is going on in
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that place. No, it's bad.
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And then the other one on Cincinnati just cuz they all
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were terrible. Higgins T effing Higgins one
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catch yards. So there is your 2.5 points out
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of your second round pick or third round pick T Higgins.
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So hopefully you guys did well. On T Higgins.
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Exactly. But gentlemen, did you guys have
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any of these guys or did you have some even better options
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that did worse? I had a reasonable shot at high
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points this week until I I had JJ McCarthy.
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He got hurt, so and I lost out on all my bids for good
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quarterbacks. So I rolled with Russell Wilson,
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who at halftime was negative, had negative points.
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The love that bad, He looked. It's that bad.
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The Chiefs defense. Is good.
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The Chiefs defense is good still.
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Yeah, he, he looked terrible against them.
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Never was comfortable. He ended up with like 5 points
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somehow because he scrambled. Yeah, but he, he was awful,
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luckily. Well, we'll get into why I'm not
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chopped, but because I had, I had pretty poor performance from
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all of my receivers, but I had some other other savings
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players. Some of the the last couple ones
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I'm going to go through for the the sinners, the ones that
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killed you. So another one that was on a
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chopped list last year or last week pretty high up.
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Brian Thomas Junior, I just don't know.
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We talked about him as having concerns. 2 catches for 55 and
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he had one long one. Take that away.
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Goodness gracious, I think he was at one for 14 before that or
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something like that. That's not good.
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I think he must have must have hurt someone's dog.
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Yeah, like the OCS dog or, I don't know, maybe Trevor
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Lawrence. Maybe he kicked kicked his cat
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or something because. Something's up.
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Kid the ball. Something's up.
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And then a couple of running backs that hurt some teams this
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week. Josh Jacobs, which is normally
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pretty solid. Yeah, 16 for 30 against that
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vaunted Cleveland D and it is vaunted.
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I'm not even being sarcastic this time.
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I know it's a good. Defense, you don't really want
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to start those against that. And he did save his line, so it
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would have only been three points, but he got 5 dump offs
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for 44 yards. So at least he scraped you up to
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pretty close to double digits, but no touchdowns.
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And everybody thought a home game or the game against
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Cleveland would be pretty good. And that did not work out well.
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Then Alvin Kamara is kind of the last one.
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I think people are really looking for some stuff.
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And 56 total yards, one catch, 1 catch with Alvin Kamara.
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That's just not what you're used to saying out loud.
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So I. Think.
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That right, He might be on some chopped list too, depending on
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how you did out there. So hopefully you guys out there
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and the shrewdness did not have multiples of these guys on your
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teams. Otherwise, you're probably head
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rolling. Honorable mention goes to Save
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Flowers for his horrific performance tonight.
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Yeah, what do you finish with? Two for something, right?
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13. Two for 13.
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Save flowers. Welcome to the sinners. 3
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targets, right? How's that happen in a game?
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Like 9 the first two weeks. Yeah, right.
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Over 50 points in the game and woof, not good.
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So here's the ones that saved you.
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So here's the Saints and there's the obvious ones like Jonathan
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Taylor, I got you 102, three touchdowns, absolutely.
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But here's some some of the surprising ones that out of the
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woodwork. A couple tight ends, if you're
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starting the tight end strategy, Hunter Henry, 8 catches, 90
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yards, 2 touchdowns and Turd Ferguson, our favorite tight end
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out of Dallas team catches for 82 yards.
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He didn't even have to get into the end zone.
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He just like I just got all these catches and so he had 14
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targets career high, 13 catches career high.
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So Jake Ferguson, great week and you helped out a lot of your
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owners there. I believe the only cowboy.
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I think one of three players ever to have 13 catches and not
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get to 100 yards. Yeah, it's it's hard to do.
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It's something like that, Yeah, I saw something like that.
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That is hard to. Do it's only happened a couple
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times and he's one of them this week.
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The other two words. The 8 yards go out of bounds bro
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slide. There's a lot of like 3 yards
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and turn around and fall out of bounds type stuff.
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Absolutely. I'll take it.
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And then a couple running backs came through for you.
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So Jordan Mason, everybody that was celebrating the Aaron Jones
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hamstring, you got rewarded with 116 yards and two tuddies for
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your guy who's no longer sharing the backfield.
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And then we also have James Cook.
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He's a kind of turned into a regular on this list.
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Another 100 yard game, another touchdown.
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But here's one that's surprising, probably right in
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your flex and is one that we weren't really sure of, but feel
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like you can just plug and play now because against Green Bay
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Quin, Shawn Judkins, 94 yards and a touchdown.
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SO2 straight weeks yardage have gone up, he's gone from 60 to
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94. He's got his touchdown as it
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gets Green Bay and we were talking about that defensive
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line is hard to run against. So the fact he did that in Game
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2, again, he was unsigned 2 weeks ago and now he's suddenly
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getting immediate impact right away for that Cleveland team.
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Pretty good sign for the future. If you're a Quinch hot Judkins
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owner, then there's a couple of wide outs.
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So these again, these are more of your flex guys, but if you
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had them, you're probably getting high scores.
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So Trey Tucker 8 for 1:45 and 3:00 touchdowns.
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What? Come on, Gino and him are like
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doing a dance man. They're doing some salts and
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backflips, Got their own handshake going.
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Keenan Allen is like back in. It's like it's 2019 again.
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So Keenan Allen 7 for 65, another touchdown every single
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week. I mean, if you're a lad Mcconkey
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owner, you're like, what the hell happened?
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Keenan go back to Chicago. Or a Brock Bauer's owner for
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yeah, Ray Tucker. Absolutely.
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But Keenan Allen has made lad Mcconkey.
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He's like, I'll just do that, Please.
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Just sit back there, young, young kid.
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And then Johnson, our favorite Quentin Johnston, is someone
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that I guess we have to start believing in.
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He's just. Getting the targets?
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I think we do, yeah. And Ladd Mcconkey.
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And by we, I hate me. Yeah, but you know, what I'm
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saying, though, is Ladd Mcconkey's now seems like the
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third option in that passing offense, which is not where he
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was getting drafted. And these other dudes weren't
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getting drafted. They were like your throwaway
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picks in around 8 through 10. And now these guys are
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delivering. So those are just kind of the
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main ones that jumped out, the one for the.
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Chiefs is going to hit the. Chiefs, Yep.
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Thornton. Taekwon Thornton, right?
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That's how you say his name. And five for 71.
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I think until Xavier Worthy gets back, he could be the Chiefs
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guy. So those are some fun ones right
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there. And A.J.
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Brown back from the dead. And all it took was getting down
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19 points and suddenly Philadelphia realized, God,
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should we throw the ball? I don't know.
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We. Got a guy who's pretty good
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here. Maybe we should get it to.
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The guy who's better than everyone else on the field.
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Yeah, and he gets away with offensive Pi for touchdowns, so
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throw it to that guy. But those are some of the ones
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that I saw this weekend, gentlemen, are just some other
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ones that you thought were greater who saved you on your
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particular teams or who's just looking better than you thought,
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I guess, in? General One of the one of the
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the Saints for me this week was and listen, if you if you told
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me before the season that you were buying into Daniel Jones
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and the Colts, I would have to call BS.
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But all of a sudden they're like an offensive juggernaut.
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They put up 3329 and 41 in their three games.
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I happened to start Michael Pittman junior six catches, 3
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yards and a tutty. He got me clear in one of my
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leagues. On the flip side, the Sinner
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there was what's a tight end who played for the Tampa Bay
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Buccaneers named K dot who I thought would be good to?
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That was the last year to spot. You know, thought those 600
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yards he had last year, 4 touchdowns.
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Were. But.
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Not this. Year I I didn't see a lot of the
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game, but I saw he had the 0 so I went and checked.
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Well, he must have not played. No, no, he was on the field for
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52 of the 57 offensive snaps and he got 0 targets.
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Wow, what time did Baker look his way?
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Maybe so blocking a lot. Yeah, I I think he must have
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been or attempting to. So I would say if you're.
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Out if you thought. Kate Auten might be a a guy who
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could flex like he did last year.
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Pierce. He's persona non grata to Baker
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this year, so he would be one that I would not count on
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anymore. Yeah, that's that is another
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one. It's been tough. 00 targets.
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And while I want to go back to quarterbacks, there kind of at
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least had something. We drilled this dude all the
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time. But Caleb Williams.
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All right, Yeah, All right. One game, we'll give it to you.
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You didn't. Want not.
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A career makes. But yeah, it was a great. 298
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yards and four touchdowns. Roma Dunsay looks like his
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favorite, but Luther Burden actually got into the action
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this week and that was kind of fun to see.
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DJ Moore had some Swift was getting balls out of the
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backfield, so it was probably his best game of his career.
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I don't even they we've watched enough of his junk.
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I know he had a couple good games last year, but they
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they're kind of like more luck and he's got away with some
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stuff. This game he actually played
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pretty well. I watched most of it, yeah.
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Just looked better. He made better decisions,
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obviously. That's how you get a line like.
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I think we, I think we were in draft mode a few weeks back.
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I think he would had a a couple of like twos last year, like
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second highest quarterback, but he hit the number one spot
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highest scoring quarterback. The issue with with him
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historically is. He's not good.
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Next here, next week, everyone's going to run out and get him.
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And then next week he'll traditionally just drop a
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massive turd in your punch bowl. So if he can, if he can develop
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some consistency, I don't know who they play next week.
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I mean, they were playing Dallas and Dallas is pretty.
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Bad. So we'll see.
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Las Vegas. Let's not forget that the week
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prior, Dallas gave up 450 yards passing to Russ.
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Russ, the love muss. So it's not like they're putting
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up a strong level of resistance to the past, but we'll see how
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Caleb does next week. I'm going to give his props.
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Daniel Jones, as you mentioned, it has been a revelation, I
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guess I would have to say like this man was dead and completely
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thrown in the garbage heap in New York.
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They didn't want anything to do with him anymore.
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They might be looking, going right, maybe.
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Maybe. Not and The thing is he's he's
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cheap form as well. I think he only did like a one
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mil or a one year $10 million deal or something like that.
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It wasn't very much. And like other teams are
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probably with some of these shaky quarterbacks, probably
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like that would have been kind of nice if we had $10 million to
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scrape up. But the goal.
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Say, I think Richardson is good toast, right?
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I mean, does Richardson have any chance whatsoever?
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He's just got to go to a next team is what I see.
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Why would you even mess with him?
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Another surprising one if you're looking at the quarterback
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rankings, I don't think anyone at this point in the season
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would say that 3, Three games, this guy has more fantasy points
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than Matthew Stafford. Dak Prescott, Bo Nicks, Trevor
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Lawrence and Tua Tugabaloa. Who do you think he is?
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Name that quarterback. Drake May is my guess.
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Drake May is correct, but that's not the one I'm targeted.
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Drake May's decent. I don't know.
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Not decent quarterback. Spencer Rattler.
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Is he really? Rattler has more fantasy points
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than all of those guys. Huh. 3 Three games that which
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is. Amazing because he looks like a
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deer in headlights last year. Yes he did.
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He is brutal. And he's he's not like, you
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know, he's not somebody that you'd say, Oh yeah, I got to go
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pick up Spencer Adler. But if you're, if you're
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thinking about quarterbacks, you know, he's thrown 4 touchdowns,
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only one pick. So props to him on the pick on,
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on just one pick. He's thrown for 639 yards.
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So Lamar Jackson? Well, that's not fair.
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Baker Mayfield's thrown for 615 yards.
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He's thrown for more yards than Baker Mayfield.
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Wow, that's actually surprising because Baker hasn't been doing
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that bad. No, he's had a good start.
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To the year, he just hasn't had to throw as much so far this
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season. But I mean, he's still gone all
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the way down the field and had three-game winning drives in the
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fourth quarter each game this year.
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So that's right, Baker's still doing.
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He does. That's interesting, though,
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Spencer Radler. So, yeah, shrewdness out there.
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Keep keep keep your eyeballs on them to see what's up.
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And especially for your gambling picks.
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New Orleans isn't as bad, especially at home.
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I mean, they got throttled in Seattle, but at home there's
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still a tough out. I mean, they did get San
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Francisco had to squeak one out last week to get them.
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So that was crazy. All right, let's go into our.
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I got one more quick. Yeah.
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Quarterback stat for the week. We all know how great of a
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rusher Lamar Jackson is running quarterback.
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Till you make him a prop for our Sunday night or Monday night.
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Game He had 35 yards rushing. Guess where that ranked among
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quarterbacks this week? Oh, I don't remember too many
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guys running that much. I want to go 6.
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No idea 6. You're close, Jess.
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He was 7th, led by Tyrod Taylor. What Drake May and Marcus
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Mariota I was. Going to say Mariota had to have
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had some. He's running a lot.
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Mariota, Mariota. So yeah, quarterback rushing
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week. This is a a good one to have a a
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guy that scrambles because they all got out of the pocket and
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got you some fantasy points. You know, you know who leads in
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quarterback rushing for the season.
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You know anyone? I would have guessed Lamar or
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Jalen Hurts. Yeah, I've been running.
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Glasses, Jalen Hurts a second. Number one is Patrick Mahomes.
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I mean 20. 5 yards rushing. He's doing like 60 yards a game
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for some reason. Leading rushing the Chiefs.
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Right, right, Crazy. This is why This is why it's fun
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and why it's madding. You would you would you would
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never be able to get to this place and say like, I mean, the
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injuries hit, you know, you got Jayden Daniels is out.
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You got all this stuff going on, like, yeah, guys you thought
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were sure things are not. And all of a sudden you're like
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Spencer Rattler starts looking a little more attractive.
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You know, you've got the beer, beer goggles on.
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It's it's about 2:00 in the morning.
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It's a rattler. Not that bad.
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You're gonna start talking yourself into it.
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Like, I'm sure she's got a nice personality.
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Let's go, Spencer. Let's do this thing.
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All right, so let's transition over to our shrewdness sleepers.
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So last week, boy, we gave you sleepers, all right?
00:20:24
They're still asleep. And our criteria can it has to
00:20:27
be Max own 30%. We're trying to get you over 7
00:20:31
1/2 points. Last week, so Pru gave you Josh
00:20:34
Palmer versus Miami and boy, for some reason he just wasn't
00:20:38
involved at all in Buffalo's offense.
00:20:41
I got one target, yeah. One target.
00:20:44
Everybody else got 5 apiece and. He caught it, he caught it.
00:20:48
So 1.5 it's not good. And then just gave you Adam
00:20:52
Thielen and in a game that was, what, 44?
00:20:56
What the heck was that score? 4848 Yeah 48 Sorry 48.
00:21:01
Shouldn't everyone get a point? I'm Thielen, 0 catches 0, which
00:21:06
is unbelievable because Justin Jefferson still had a pretty
00:21:09
good game, TJ Hawkins said. He had one target.
00:21:12
One target, I think, yeah. Yeah, so that was not good.
00:21:15
So we gave you a goose there and then K Shawn Booty.
00:21:18
I thought he was going to be pretty solid and but for Drake
00:21:22
May under throwing him in the back of the end zone ended up in
00:21:25
a pic in the end zone that would have gotten me over.
00:21:28
But alas horseshoes and hand grenades 4.8 points.
00:21:32
K Shawn Booty did not get there, and in fact just didn't really
00:21:36
have much going on at all. Matter of fact, if you add up
00:21:39
the points from all of our sleepers, they still would not
00:21:42
have gotten you. Yeah.
00:21:46
Over 7 threshold you picked up all three and put them in one
00:21:51
spot in your lineup. You still failed.
00:21:53
Sorry, what's? Funny though, is if you started
00:21:55
them against neighbors CD Lamb and say Flowers, they're
00:21:59
competitive. They were.
00:22:01
They were. So when you put in perspective.
00:22:03
It's not that bad. We did pretty good for those
00:22:05
guys. It's not bad.
00:22:07
It's all not bad at all. So let's go, let's try and get
00:22:09
back on track. So this week, yeah, we have 30%
00:22:12
Max owned again, which is, you know, the most challenging part
00:22:15
about this is finding scrub piles.
00:22:17
And we're going to try and get eight points out of this
00:22:19
dumpster dive. So we're going to go dig into
00:22:21
this. And let's remind everybody that
00:22:24
our success criteria is hit one out of three for the season.
00:22:29
Combined, we've hit one on three, so that's true.
00:22:32
We need to hit at least one we got to stay on pace one, we got
00:22:35
to at least get one of these to hit this week to to live up to
00:22:38
our very high standard we have set for ourselves.
00:22:40
That's right. So let's go to Chiz cuz you gave
00:22:44
us the the only zero and you've given us 2 zeros.
00:22:46
So far I've given 2 zeros. Can you at least get us some
00:22:51
points this week? Who is?
00:22:52
There's a way, if there's a way you could bet over 8 or 0, one
00:22:57
of those two things, this would be a sure thing.
00:22:59
OK, that's right. All right.
00:23:02
I like what I've seen lately from Ollie Gordon, the third.
00:23:07
Ollie Gordon the third. He is a strong runner.
00:23:11
I I they love him in short yardage.
00:23:14
Yeah. And they're playing The Jets, so
00:23:17
I think that it will be a competitive game.
00:23:20
I don't think it's going to be one of those games where the
00:23:21
Dolphins are way behind and they got to throw all the time.
00:23:24
So I can see them wanting to grind a little more.
00:23:26
You don't want to put it all on one man shoulders on a chain
00:23:30
specifically. So I could see Ollie Gordon get
00:23:33
more usage. And I definitely think he's got
00:23:36
a good chance to get in the end zone.
00:23:37
So I think he can get over eight points, especially like the
00:23:40
match up against The Jets. So Ollie Gordon the 3rd is my
00:23:44
sleeper. Feel good about him this week.
00:23:45
All right? How do you think is going on
00:23:48
this week? All right, so I am going to go
00:23:52
international on us this week. I have going to power Dublin,
00:23:57
I'm going to get a pint to Guinness and I am rolling with
00:24:01
Calvin Austin the 3rd so. We got 2, the thirds we got 2/3.
00:24:07
I got to rethink. Go find a third quick.
00:24:11
All right, so Calvin Austin the third is someone that is at
00:24:14
least being looked at enough in that Pittsburgh offense, meaning
00:24:18
for sure the number 2 opposite of DK Metcalf.
00:24:21
Minnesota is their opponent this week and Minnesota again is like
00:24:25
they just stuffed T Higgins and that dude got one cash for 15.
00:24:29
But you think Calvin Austin the third?
00:24:31
International games are weird. Let's just start there.
00:24:34
International games are weird and funky.
00:24:36
Aaron Rodgers is a veteran quarterback, not Jake Browning.
00:24:40
And frankly, they got a better line and a better defense, so I
00:24:43
think it's gonna be a far more competitive game.
00:24:45
Calvin Austin kind of works that underneath routes and he can
00:24:48
also make the big play. And I like Calvin Austin.
00:24:50
I think he's have the targets and I think he can get you up to
00:24:53
8 points this week if you're dumpster diving for that.
00:24:56
Just a flex player to fill in for an injury.
00:24:58
So if you're ACD Lamb owner or you need Connor Naji, any of
00:25:03
those dudes, Mike Evans, you got to find someone to fill in.
00:25:06
Calvin Austin, the third might be a place to check.
00:25:09
All right, Pruitt, who is your sleeper this week?
00:25:13
All right, I cannot go with James Cook the third.
00:25:17
Dang it. He's the only other third I
00:25:19
could find on short notice, but he's he's owned by too many
00:25:21
people. But I am.
00:25:23
Going to take. Isn't there a Gatson out there
00:25:25
that's a third? I'm going to take a James Cook's
00:25:28
backup. I'm going to take Ray Davis.
00:25:30
OK, I like what you did though. That kind of works out.
00:25:33
Good segue. Yeah.
00:25:35
So Buffalo plays New Orleans this week.
00:25:38
New Orleans is not a great team, as you may have noticed.
00:25:43
Spencer No. Yep, Yep.
00:25:45
He's been throwing about a lot because they've been behind a
00:25:48
lot. So I think I think you might see
00:25:54
Josh Allen and or James Cook exit the game early this week if
00:25:57
they get up big, which would lend more time to Mitch Trubisky
00:26:01
and Ray Davis. Trubisky.
00:26:04
Let's get a Trubisky. Davis.
00:26:06
I think you may get some dump offs, you may get some, you
00:26:10
know, repeated runs for five yards apiece.
00:26:12
Feels like a Ray Davis game. I like it bro.
00:26:14
Right, right so. I could see him getting up to 8
00:26:18
points this week. OK, give it a shot if you need a
00:26:21
running back. I like it so.
00:26:23
Our shrewdness. Sleepers, Sleepers.
00:26:24
Maybe our first 3 for three of the of the year right here on
00:26:29
the sleepers. So I have Ollie Gordon the third
00:26:32
versus The Jets, Calvin Austin the third versus Minnesota, and
00:26:35
Ray Davis versus the Saints. First Ray Davis, the first.
00:26:40
Ray Davis the first. Back up James Cook, the third.
00:26:45
That's it, right? Backing up the third.
00:26:47
All right, let's go to our shrewdest spuds, the Duds.
00:26:51
I don't want to do this segment anymore.
00:26:53
I know the Pruitt Chisen might quit after this one.
00:26:56
We'll see what happens. So this one is a little more
00:26:59
challenging. We really put ourselves to the
00:27:00
test. So minimum percentage own 95 S.
00:27:03
These are starters, not out starters target points We are
00:27:06
going for this week. It's kind of hard.
00:27:09
I think we make it a little too hard for sale, but whatever.
00:27:11
Eight points. So last week, Pruitt gave Jalen
00:27:15
Waddle. And Waddle, he had a good enough
00:27:18
game. First half, not so much.
00:27:20
Waddled into the end zone. Yeah, and then he waddled into
00:27:22
the end zone, did his little. Penguin 11 catch in the end zone
00:27:26
was like 9 of his 14.9 points. Yeah, I was.
00:27:31
I was close, but he had one good play.
00:27:33
And then I gave. Him a pretty.
00:27:34
Tall against Tampa Bay and he was trash.
00:27:37
I mean it's an honorable mention.
00:27:38
I may have missed but 9.2 points so he was projected for over 14.
00:27:44
He sucked. Sabrice Hall was a dud but he
00:27:46
just doesn't count for our stats and Chisholm he was AI don't
00:27:52
even add it. I don't know, man, he was trying
00:27:55
to. Hide A degree of difficulties
00:27:57
he's trying to do off the high dive.
00:28:00
And the Russian judge did not give it to him.
00:28:03
So, the Russian judge said Jameer Gibbs, how about 40
00:28:07
fantasy points and score a couple touchdowns?
00:28:10
And at least. For good measures like 5 or 6
00:28:13
balls. So yeah, I think he closed in
00:28:16
around 3030 tonight. 34.4. 34.4 so just barely missed.
00:28:21
Just barely missed. By a Scotch.
00:28:24
That's right. So let's start with Pruitt on
00:28:26
this one. So Pruitt, give us the good news
00:28:29
of or I guess maybe the bad news.
00:28:30
Who's the spud that everyone needs to be aware of as a
00:28:33
shrewdness player out there? The shrewd take.
00:28:36
Well I'm I may be in trouble this next week.
00:28:40
I have my 2 starting white out Thursday Flowers and Mike Evans
00:28:45
and Evans went down. He ain't playing next.
00:28:47
Week and Yep and Zay Flowers goes against a Kansas City team
00:28:51
that completely shut down Malik Neighbors.
00:28:54
Ouch. And.
00:28:55
Worried worried that if they're going to shut down Zay Flowers
00:28:58
too. So I need to go find a a wide
00:29:01
receiver that can play this week.
00:29:03
Calvin Austin might be out there for.
00:29:05
You be looking. Out Austin the third.
00:29:06
The third. Calvin Austin So yeah, Zay
00:29:09
Flowers is my pick. I have a feeling he won't get to
00:29:12
his 15 1/2 points that he's supposed to get to.
00:29:14
I think it's going to be closer to that 8 mark.
00:29:17
All right, Maybe, maybe Chisholm got 3 tonight so.
00:29:21
Trying to learn my lesson. I'm going to lower my degree.
00:29:29
I'm going to lower my degree of difficulty.
00:29:33
This is a guy who's really he has spotted this year, Marvin
00:29:38
Harrison Junior. Some ain't right, some ain't
00:29:40
right with Marvin Harrison Junior.
00:29:41
I don't know if you guys saw any of the highlights or watched any
00:29:43
of his game this week, but man, he had a ball.
00:29:46
He was wide open. The ball hit him right on the
00:29:51
number and it went right through his hands and he dropped it and
00:29:54
it was like backyard playing with your 5 year old.
00:29:58
And you're like, that's all right buddy.
00:30:00
Good try buddy. You're in the right spot.
00:30:02
Like wide open. And I'm like, this is Marvin
00:30:05
Harris junior. Something is not right in
00:30:08
between the ears right now. So it's it's not clicking for
00:30:12
him. He's got a lot of talent, but I
00:30:15
I don't see it happening and I don't think it's going to get
00:30:18
better against Seattle, who's like on fire right now.
00:30:21
So we're going to go him as my spud.
00:30:23
I don't think he's going to catch Mini and I don't think
00:30:26
he's going to score a touchdown for sure.
00:30:28
All right. You're just listeners.
00:30:31
Immediately go get. Immediately, immediately.
00:30:34
But everything you can on Marvin Harrison, he's going against the
00:30:39
house. Man, that is what you need to
00:30:42
do. All right, so I am.
00:30:44
I guess this one's a little more risky, but I'm sticking with
00:30:46
what I've seen so far with that Tampa Bay Rushdie and Phillies
00:30:51
going to town on the road at Tampa.
00:30:54
So Saquon Barkley, you're like, what?
00:30:57
No, say it. Ain't so.
00:30:59
Saquon rushing leader badass. I think he's going to have a
00:31:03
rough, rough time so far. Again, that's three weeks in a
00:31:08
row. Tampa hasn't allowed hardly
00:31:11
anything. I still don't think Breece Hall
00:31:13
eclipsed 47 yards either. So that is every single person
00:31:18
that they've faced, their top running backs.
00:31:20
No one's eclipsed 50 yards yet. So Saquon Barkley, you could,
00:31:24
but I just think it's going to be a very tough sledding against
00:31:28
the team. And Philly got lucky last week
00:31:30
against LA. Oh my gosh, Very lucky.
00:31:33
So I don't think Tampa, if they can get into that position, will
00:31:36
do the same thing. I feel like they have a better
00:31:39
scheme and I think that Rushdie Vidavea or whatever the heck his
00:31:42
name is Vidavea. Big old.
00:31:44
Dude, he stuffs the run and that's all I know.
00:31:48
So Saquon Barkley is going to be a spud this week at Tampa?
00:31:51
I will. Say Dex, that's a high degree of
00:31:53
difficulty. I'll give you props.
00:31:55
Nothing else, just because of the catches.
00:31:56
He catches a lot, but yeah, but he and there he's caught a lot.
00:32:01
He's had four catches in two games, but he hasn't gotten over
00:32:04
100 yards yet, which I which is kind of surprising for, for
00:32:07
Saiko. And a lot of people were saying
00:32:09
maybe all the usage last year would would finally take its
00:32:14
toll. And it might be.
00:32:16
But let me let me take it aside here.
00:32:17
So those are the spots. Well, listen 1st and then I have
00:32:19
it aside. I have a rant.
00:32:21
But let's get the rant. Let's go.
00:32:23
OK, I know that I'm biased. I don't care.
00:32:26
I want to put this out here because it's right.
00:32:28
It's truth. And sometimes you just have to
00:32:30
stand up for truth. And this is the truth.
00:32:32
Philadelphia Eagles are the worst, best team I've ever seen
00:32:37
in my life. They are the worst, best team I
00:32:41
can remember. They are three and O and three
00:32:42
and O is 3 and O. We are what our record is,
00:32:45
right? That's the case.
00:32:46
He's they're three and O. They've beaten the Cowboys 24 to
00:32:49
20. The Cowboys, 24 to 20, they beat
00:32:54
Kansas City 20 to 17 on multiple false starts on a tush push.
00:32:57
Not going to lie, that's what happened.
00:32:58
Multiple false starts on a tush push.
00:33:00
Check the videos and then on. The Rams, they sneak out 33 to
00:33:06
26 because of a blocked field goal, a game winner.
00:33:12
Like. They are living right.
00:33:15
They are getting the WS. I can't discredit the WS, but
00:33:17
man, they do not look good. They do not look like a good
00:33:20
football team right now. They do not look like a team
00:33:23
that, you know, and quite honestly, they're very flawed.
00:33:28
Everyone was talking about, you know, they did get the passing
00:33:31
game right this week. I'll give them that because they
00:33:33
hadn't even been doing that right.
00:33:34
But before this game, they hadn't even done that.
00:33:37
They don't look like a great team.
00:33:38
I will tell. I will tell you this shows
00:33:40
though, the importance of the defensive line because their
00:33:43
defensive line, it's great, is ridiculous.
00:33:46
Yep, they're are so good and they're offensive line, but the
00:33:49
defensive line in particular is ridiculous.
00:33:51
And when you could stop somebody from running the ball and make
00:33:54
them one-dimensional, it's it's a game changer.
00:33:56
And and. When you're 90% on 3rd and ones
00:33:59
and 4th and ones, that helps a lot.
00:34:01
But hey, Chisholm, so I just want to throw this back at you.
00:34:04
What was the team the whole football world was talking about
00:34:07
being the exact same thing you just said last year?
00:34:10
And where did that team end up? Where is the lucky team that
00:34:14
kept winning? Everybody.
00:34:15
Says. That's right.
00:34:17
So win, win, man. I don't know, I hate it.
00:34:20
They. Figure out a way to win but
00:34:21
Philly I will that's absolutely right they're.
00:34:23
Going to keep on doing this because they have a play that is
00:34:27
a cheat code and it's awesome for them.
00:34:29
Again, Philly fans enjoy this. It's got to be just the best.
00:34:33
I mean, everybody hates. The play that no, no one wants
00:34:36
to see. Enjoy it.
00:34:38
Enjoy the fact that it ruins football.
00:34:40
Go for it. It's just Saint Louis.
00:34:43
St. Louis blew it though, because it
00:34:45
wasn't that play that killed them.
00:34:47
It was blowing a 19 point lead for sure.
00:34:49
You've got to be able to score some points in the fourth
00:34:52
quarter. Yeah, they couldn't get it done.
00:34:55
And they couldn't actually keep. A field goal.
00:34:56
A field goal, Yeah, is a very routine play kick.
00:35:00
A field goals, Yeah. Rams, let's do this thing.
00:35:03
All right, Anyway, so that's going to bring us in.
00:35:06
I like our little segue there. That's oh, wait, wait, overall,
00:35:08
overall, sorry Sir. Overall, we still are 33% of the
00:35:12
spuds. Are the spuds.
00:35:14
Spuds as well. So we have hit our our target,
00:35:17
but again, we got to get one of three of these.
00:35:19
This is a big week for us. That's it.
00:35:22
So Zay Flowers, Saquon Barkley, Marvin Harrison.
00:35:25
Those would be our spuds. This week's fade accordingly.
00:35:29
All right, gambling picks. So if we want to toot our own
00:35:33
horn a little bit toot toot we are kind of running roughshod
00:35:38
across we really are betting scene so far this season.
00:35:42
So as we speak we've we're 77% we've hit seven of nine for you
00:35:48
folks, seven of nine. I hope you're following along at
00:35:50
least on these because you're buying a yacht soon, so last.
00:35:55
Night you're going to hit 78% anywhere I mean we should be
00:35:59
charging you lots of money for these picks that's how good
00:36:02
they. Are now all you gotta do is just
00:36:03
listen to the show and place bets.
00:36:04
It's that easy. So Chisholm last week gave you a
00:36:06
winner with Pittsburgh New England under 44 1/2 Cha ching.
00:36:11
I gave you Cincinnati, Minnesota with the battle of the backups.
00:36:14
So like they're gonna eclipse that 41 1/2 Minnesota did it by
00:36:17
themselves. Cha ching freebie and then brew
00:36:21
it. I don't know what happened to
00:36:22
Atlanta last week. That was just a weirdo.
00:36:25
They lost. 30 They forgot, they forgot to show up for the game.
00:36:29
I know. So Michael Pinnix, man, just
00:36:32
kind of to go off on a tangent. He doesn't look very good.
00:36:35
He's played three games this season.
00:36:38
He looks terrible. If only they had like a $35
00:36:42
million quarterback. They could just plug and play
00:36:44
right in. And it's been this playoffs like
00:36:46
multiple times in his career and wins primetime games all the
00:36:49
time. If they you could just find one
00:36:50
of those guys off the street, right?
00:36:52
I think they could fix themselves immediately.
00:36:54
Oh, hey, Kirk Cousins is there. So I think Atlanta really needs
00:36:58
to look in the mirror and say, I know we invested Michael Pinnix,
00:37:00
but like JJ McCarthy, find an ankle sprain for a couple weeks
00:37:05
and just see what happens. Let's see what happened a little
00:37:08
bit. But I.
00:37:09
Let him sit a little. Bit saw Michael pinnix limp off
00:37:11
at the end of that game his cap look like he he got tight right
00:37:14
is did anyone else see that I mean I'm trying to help you out
00:37:17
Atlanta I. Saw to me I.
00:37:19
Don't know what it was. Tweak to your point.
00:37:22
To your point Dex, he's completing 58% of his passes.
00:37:29
That's horrible. He's thrown.
00:37:30
He's thrown 1 touchdown and two picks in three games, so at
00:37:35
least he's not throwing picks. I mean, The thing is, yeah,
00:37:38
Drake. London He's not completing
00:37:40
anything. Yeah, Drake London, Bijon
00:37:42
Robinson, Kyle Pitts, Darnell Mooney.
00:37:45
You have weapons. It still had to be this bad.
00:37:48
And Carolina, you got shut out against Carolina.
00:37:52
That's Carolina is not not a good football team.
00:37:56
And the worst part about Penix is not running either.
00:37:58
So if you look at his, if you look at his rushing yardage,
00:38:01
he's he's run for a grand total of 12 yard, No 818 yards on the
00:38:07
season. Yeah, he's like 6 yards a game,
00:38:09
but he's not passing for much, but at least he doesn't run
00:38:12
either. I mean, just make sure we got
00:38:14
that. So anyway, on to our gambling
00:38:18
picks. So, I mean, heck, that's what we
00:38:21
think of Atlanta right now. We're on fire, though.
00:38:24
This is This is. So we missed.
00:38:26
We missed that one. We missed the the stinky New
00:38:29
York Giants pick Week 1. Week 1.
00:38:31
Week 1. Other than that, we've won seven
00:38:34
out of nine. Like.
00:38:35
Like Dex mentioned, that's off to a great start.
00:38:38
That's pretty good. So this week, Pruitt is going to
00:38:40
get back on track with what's right.
00:38:42
Tell us your pick of the week here, Pruitt.
00:38:45
I've already forgotten who they play.
00:38:47
Oh, they play the Giants. They play the Giants doesn't.
00:38:51
Yeah, that's all. You need to know.
00:38:52
It doesn't matter who's playing them, you just take it.
00:38:55
Chargers are favored by 6 1/2. I've been really impressed with
00:38:58
how they played so far this year.
00:39:00
They're off to a great start. 3 and Herbert and Keenan Allen
00:39:04
look like they're 10 years younger than what they really
00:39:07
are. Yeah, like, I like my chances
00:39:10
against the Giants team that looked pretty bad against Kansas
00:39:13
City when KC didn't look that great.
00:39:15
That's being so warm, handily. Pretty bad I think.
00:39:18
Yeah, they were. But what about that Giants team
00:39:21
from 2 weeks ago against Dallas? What if we run into that one?
00:39:25
Well, Dallas, the 4:50. Rest the love Bus 1.
00:39:28
Yeah, that's right. Dallas can't put any pressure on
00:39:31
quarterbacks, so. That is true.
00:39:34
The back where? They had a linebacker who could
00:39:36
put pressure on the court. Oh wait, they they traded that.
00:39:39
Green Bay's got 1 though. Green Bay's got a guy like that,
00:39:43
right? Chargers -6 1/2.
00:39:45
I like it. All right, Chism, what do you
00:39:46
got? Oh, this is going to smell.
00:39:48
You're not going to want to do it.
00:39:49
This is one of those you wince when you place the bet.
00:39:52
Don't want to, But here's the deal.
00:39:54
Here's what I think. I got to do.
00:39:55
Bet you got to do. Betting in the betting for over
00:39:59
a decade in the NFL, if you get double digits, you got to take
00:40:05
it, and if you get 16 1/2, you don't have a choice.
00:40:10
You actually don't. You don't have a choice.
00:40:12
It's it's required. It's by law so.
00:40:14
It's just written by law. It's.
00:40:16
The NFL betting code. You would have to take it.
00:40:19
Hey, I got to do it guys. There's no choice.
00:40:23
It it is. It is uncanny though, and you've
00:40:25
seen, if you watch the NFL football, you know New Orleans
00:40:29
is not good and Buffalo is really good.
00:40:32
So if New Orleans goes to Buffalo, a Dome team goes to the
00:40:36
outdoors of Buffalo, who's much better?
00:40:39
They should get to demolished, and they should.
00:40:41
But 16 1/2 points just doesn't happen in the NFL that often.
00:40:44
We talked about the 30 to nothing game that happened.
00:40:47
The reason that that's such a bizarre thing is because it is
00:40:50
so rare. The NFL is don't for competition
00:40:52
being competitive and at least some sort of parody.
00:40:55
And usually when a team isn't that good, they still show up
00:40:58
for a game like. This There's no way the Saints
00:41:00
will lose by 31 points again two weeks in a row, surely.
00:41:05
Not right. Because Seattle's way better
00:41:07
than Buffalo in Seattle, yes, like accidentally beat him by 31
00:41:11
points so. That's not gonna happen again.
00:41:14
Not gonna happen again. So Rattler is a phoenix.
00:41:19
This guy is pretty much unstoppable.
00:41:22
And Alvin Camara looks like he did five year anyway, I think.
00:41:26
This is gonna be one of those days.
00:41:27
Last week it's. Gonna surprise you.
00:41:30
It's gonna surprise you. Take the 16 1/2.
00:41:32
It's way too much points in the NFL.
00:41:34
Lock it up. All right.
00:41:36
Dicks, how are you going to round us out?
00:41:38
Give us the three for three. All right, I'm going to give you
00:41:40
the third winner for this week. So I am going to kind of a
00:41:44
battle of just atrociousness. So Tennessee, Houston, it is a
00:41:49
over under of 39 1/2 points. Cam Ward is leading every metric
00:41:54
of terribleness. He has the worst yards per drop
00:41:59
back, the worst yards per completion, lowest points per
00:42:03
game, doesn't run either. So Tennessee's offense pretty
00:42:07
bad is kind of the short of that.
00:42:10
And if you're a Calvin Ridley owner, you know, if you're a
00:42:12
Tony Pollard owner, you know, So Tennessee's not scoring much.
00:42:16
So what do they get? They get to go on the road
00:42:18
against Houston, who actually has a really good defense.
00:42:21
That's all they have. And their offense is atrocious.
00:42:25
So Houston's offense, again, I think it's probably more of that
00:42:28
offensive line, Nick Chubb not doing too much behind it.
00:42:32
You take away Nico Collins and that is bad, but Nico is not
00:42:37
going to be able to score 40 points all by himself.
00:42:39
So they're under 39 1/2, I think feels very good.
00:42:43
I like the under for this game with two bad offenses and two
00:42:46
not horrible defenses. So the defenses are definitely
00:42:49
the strong point of both of these teams and the offenses.
00:42:53
I just don't see how. This seems like a slugfest 1713
00:42:57
or something like that. 2O and three teams going at it, man,
00:43:00
someone's got to get. AW, or they'll tie, and they
00:43:04
might. They might tie it like 6 to 6.
00:43:06
So we'll see what happens. So that is our three picks.
00:43:09
We got Los Angeles Chargers 6 1/2 points over the Giants.
00:43:15
We got this stinky, smelly Saints get you 16 1/2.
00:43:19
You get to bring the points with you to Buffalo and then we're
00:43:22
going under 39 1/2 for Tennessee, Houston.
00:43:25
All right. So that is what we have for
00:43:27
those 3 gentlemen. We got to talk about a couple
00:43:30
injuries, though. And where do our where's our
00:43:32
shrewdness listeners go? So Naji Harris, if you had him
00:43:36
kind. Of screwed because a.
00:43:37
Very Hampton is owned by everybody, so you kind of
00:43:40
screwed there. And Naji popped his Achilles so
00:43:43
he and Austin Eckler can rehab together.
00:43:46
And I feel bad for both those guys by the.
00:43:47
Way is there anything worse in replay than showing the slow
00:43:51
motion Achilles pop? Yeah, like I'm like, oh, don't
00:43:56
show me that again. And you see it.
00:43:58
Showing it you get the like calf wiggle, like the little.
00:44:02
It's just nasty. But what's worse than that is
00:44:05
seeing what happened to James Connor's ankle.
00:44:08
Just got obliterated and it just goes like and it just was not
00:44:12
looking good. So he got I hope he plays again.
00:44:16
That looked really bad. It might be I'd say it might be
00:44:19
it for anybody. But yeah, so Trey Benson might
00:44:21
be it is probably on someone's team.
00:44:24
Trey Benson's going to be the one getting the lion's share.
00:44:27
I think Demarcato and that the other guy for Arizona will
00:44:30
probably by default start getting some some looks there.
00:44:35
If you're ACD Lamb owner gents, who do you think the target?
00:44:39
I mean, I think Jake Ferguson obviously picks up more of
00:44:41
those, which is what happened this game.
00:44:43
I mean, CD Lamb goes out early and Jake Ferguson has career
00:44:46
high in targets. I think that's kind of where
00:44:48
it's going to keep going. But if you had to pick another
00:44:51
Dallas wide out, let's go to you Chiz, you're in Dallas.
00:44:54
Who do they think is going to pick up the slack for CD Lamb
00:44:57
for these? Looks like up to a month.
00:45:00
Which is I. Mean you have Tolbert.
00:45:03
I mean, I guess that is. Brutal it is.
00:45:06
And say like you know. I was initially my initial
00:45:10
thought was Amari Cooper but. I know you got to wake him up.
00:45:16
Since he is still asleep on the couch.
00:45:18
I like Tolbert in that to get the the more targets.
00:45:22
I mean, I think, you know, obviously you got Pickens.
00:45:25
Who's the number 2 going to get his but?
00:45:27
He's going to get his like, who's who's stepping in?
00:45:30
Yes. The feeling seems to be it's
00:45:33
Tolbert, and he's not bad. You could do worse in terms of,
00:45:39
you know, if you got to start somebody, I think that they're
00:45:41
going to be behind a lot. So I think he could get a decent
00:45:45
amount of points for you. So he's not the worst place to
00:45:48
go. Have a Dak Prescott throw to
00:45:50
Jayla Tolbert. Yeah, that's kind of where I was
00:45:54
leaning to and he probably is available in some of these
00:45:58
leagues. I don't think Tolbert is.
00:46:00
I think he's going to be available in at least a chunk of
00:46:02
league. So he's someone at least take a
00:46:04
flyer on especially to do some trash.
00:46:07
And you don't dump CD Lamb because it's only a three to
00:46:10
four weeks. But you might want to trade them
00:46:13
honestly, if you can trade them for some fab dollars because
00:46:16
that team will probably get cut and you might be able to pick
00:46:19
him up again and he's a corpse to you.
00:46:21
So he just gives you more bench room.
00:46:23
I know that's a scary proposition, but there's also,
00:46:27
and I heard this on another show and I kind of like it in the
00:46:29
kind of a diabolical way. You could just dump them and see
00:46:34
who bids the most just to waste their fab dollars on them.
00:46:38
And God, it's diabolical. And I sort of love it,
00:46:41
especially for a hurt guy that you're not going to play for a
00:46:43
month. I love it.
00:46:45
So it might be something you think of.
00:46:47
Just consider it. You're like, oh, but that was my
00:46:48
first round pick. I picked him third overall.
00:46:50
I got it. But this is the long game.
00:46:53
He's a corpse man. You got to play some chess here
00:46:56
in these middle rounds and he's dead to you for a month.
00:46:59
And the problem is, whoever picks him up, it's dead to them,
00:47:02
too. And they made their team worse
00:47:04
and they spent fab to get him. Oh, if you're kind of looking at
00:47:07
it like that, I don't know, kind of clever.
00:47:09
Mike Evans. We don't know the severity of
00:47:11
his hamstring injury yet. Mcmillan's not back yet.
00:47:15
Igbuka is the clear #1 and Igbuka.
00:47:19
Is awesome Sterling shepherd baby.
00:47:21
And Sterling Shepherd's gonna be 1 of the steps up there for
00:47:23
sure. He is maybe not chaos and those
00:47:25
we talked earlier with. I really expected that Otten
00:47:30
would get a little action. Yeah, I.
00:47:33
Nearly like I picked up Sterling Shepherd this last week.
00:47:36
I nearly started him instead of Tillman.
00:47:39
Yeah, and I would have, I would have come out better.
00:47:41
Like Sterling, Shepherd is a decent not replacement, but.
00:47:47
Oh, for sure. You know he'll fill in what's.
00:47:49
The word on God one. So he's, I don't think he's
00:47:52
supposed to play this week either.
00:47:53
I mean they didn't expect him to play till October.
00:47:55
So this may be the last week he's out.
00:47:57
There's a potential chance he could play this week, but he's
00:48:02
gonna have a Frankenstein ankle, and I would.
00:48:04
I feel way better about Shepard and Ibuka than I would about
00:48:07
Frankenstein ankle. Got it.
00:48:09
So. Even if.
00:48:11
He does play is a I'm not taking that risk if in any fantasy
00:48:15
league right now, right, especially in 18, Chris Godwin
00:48:18
just gets you chopped and there's no way he's gonna be
00:48:22
he's not going to be what you think he is.
00:48:23
He's not Chris Godwin that was running all over the place
00:48:26
before he got his ankle snapped last.
00:48:27
I can't, yeah. I can't believe he's back this
00:48:30
quickly to be honest. I'd wait and see.
00:48:33
On him, I'd be a wait and see for me, but gentlemen, here's
00:48:37
some people. So for the Arnold, I'm back,
00:48:40
we've got Jordan Addison. So coming back, he'll be in
00:48:44
Dublin with the team for the Vikings.
00:48:45
So it'll be Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison back together
00:48:49
again. Xavier Worthy, think about him.
00:48:52
I think he's great, yeah. Slot him in.
00:48:55
I'd slot him right in. Yeah, immediately.
00:48:57
So I think he hit hits the ground running again.
00:49:00
That Pittsburgh secondary is very beatable.
00:49:03
And they're going to be putting all their attention on to Justin
00:49:05
Jefferson unless they're stupid. And if if they don't, Justin
00:49:08
Jefferson's going to go for 150 yards and a couple tuddies.
00:49:11
So I think you can feel very confident putting Jordan Addison
00:49:14
in the lineup for this weekend. Xavier Worthy should be back for
00:49:18
the Chiefs. I don't know what to expect
00:49:20
though. I think I'd do a wait and see on
00:49:21
that as well because either one pop to the shoulder by Kelsey or
00:49:25
anyone else may knock him right back out, so I would just want
00:49:28
to see what he's getting. Playing in a brace, so you
00:49:31
always wonder what the wide receiver, I know how that
00:49:33
affects that range of motion and you know that.
00:49:36
One makes me nervous, but if it's that and you've got all
00:49:39
these other broken dudes, I would give a chance on worthy,
00:49:43
right to see how he looks in practice this week.
00:49:44
If the reports come out good. I mean, I just kind of see what
00:49:47
they're saying. Go from there, yeah.
00:49:49
Would you guys start though Xavier Worthy this weekend if
00:49:51
you had them? I don't know, I I feel like the
00:49:54
chief spread the ball around a lot anyway, I feel like they
00:49:57
probably will not game plan around him too much so they
00:50:00
would work him in depending on the situation.
00:50:03
Maybe I I just don't see him being a focal point quite yet.
00:50:06
Yeah, I'm the. I'm the guy who needs to pick
00:50:09
somebody up in one of my leagues this this week.
00:50:11
And so I am actively kind of looking at who's out there.
00:50:15
I, I can't say that Worthy is a guy that I would start this
00:50:19
week. I'm there's just too many
00:50:21
question marks. The Chiefs offense also looks
00:50:23
just disjointed right now and like out of sorts now.
00:50:28
And maybe because Xavier's gone, maybe when Xavier comes back,
00:50:31
everyone's like, yeah, we're back in our roles.
00:50:32
We know what to do and and it starts to click.
00:50:34
But I don't want to take that risk in Week 1, especially when
00:50:37
they're playing the Ravens in the heated rivalry game.
00:50:40
Yeah, that'll be a tough one. And then I think Jaden Daniel
00:50:44
should be back. I think it's just a one game
00:50:46
absence for the Commanders, but that one you have to kind of
00:50:50
wait and see what the injury report looks like.
00:50:51
I guess he did a limited practice on Friday this past
00:50:54
week, but since he missed the entire game plan all week, they
00:50:57
just went with Mariota. The thing is Mariota played
00:51:00
competently and they obviously drug dropped the Raiders.
00:51:04
So whether they bring him back this week, I think they'll be
00:51:07
cautious. I mean, why not?
00:51:08
It's a long season and they just showed they can play with
00:51:11
another quarterback. But he may be back this week.
00:51:13
So for all you guys are trying to survive with all these
00:51:16
quarterback injuries. And then the replacements did
00:51:19
not do real well except for Carson Wentz did well and
00:51:21
Mariota did well, but Jake Browning not so well.
00:51:25
That was a bad. Wilson didn't do so.
00:51:26
Russell Wilson did not. Do well, yeah, so there was
00:51:30
definitely. Also, that's out there another
00:51:32
another injury at quarterback position.
00:51:35
Justin Fields. Yeah, Justin Fields, concussion.
00:51:38
I don't know if he's out of there yet.
00:51:39
I haven't heard anything else of today.
00:51:41
They have said that he is. They haven't said he's cleared.
00:51:46
Basically, yeah, is what the deal is.
00:51:49
But Tyrod Taylor actually did pretty well if that is the
00:51:52
dumpster diving you're doing. I mean, he hit Garrett.
00:51:55
At the end of the day, Tyrod. At the end of the day, Tyrod
00:51:59
Taylor always does pretty well when he.
00:52:02
Comes in and he runs. He runs enough.
00:52:05
He he's not terrible throwing the ball.
00:52:07
You could do much worse for quarterbacks Tyrod Taylor and
00:52:11
that and the New York media was actually asking some questions
00:52:13
about well, the Fields is ready. Do we have a controversy?
00:52:17
You know, which is kind of absurd at this point, but it is,
00:52:21
you know, Justin Fields we. Can never get away.
00:52:25
Right, right. So he's got, he's got to get it.
00:52:28
Field still has to get a medical clearance from an independent
00:52:31
doctor. So we'll see what happens there.
00:52:34
That's it all right, gentlemen. Well, I think it's all we got
00:52:37
for this week's show. Any other parting shots on
00:52:41
anything else you want to hit before we sign off?
00:52:43
No other than I would like to keep my head one more week.
00:52:46
I had high points 2 weeks ago and I was nearly second to last.
00:52:51
I was like third to last or 4th to last this week.
00:52:54
Yeah, in our listener league, our top scorer last week lost
00:52:57
this week. So yeah, Week 2 high score was
00:53:00
chopped in Week 3. This is nobody's safe, man.
00:53:03
This is guillotine. Fantasy.
00:53:05
You can never rest on your laurels.
00:53:07
You can never think I have the cheat code.
00:53:10
The guy who got cut the second week, Isaac, yeah, he he thought
00:53:15
he had a cheat code. And Josh Allen and Josh Allen
00:53:17
lead an egg. So you just never know what's
00:53:19
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00:53:22
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00:54:21
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