0:00Yeah, so today we had some pretty big injuries, which I'm very sorry if you had to deal with them. I'm going to talk
0:05about them in this stream, of course. I will say I'm going to be in a little bit of an upbeat mood for myself. I
0:11completely get you don't care about this, right? It's you only care about your fantasy team, but for me, obviously, my fantasy football team's
0:19the most important thing in the world for me. We were down bad, very bad at the beginning of the year due to
0:24injuries, and we have come back. I am now five and three after yet again winning this week. And not only are we
0:33five and three, we've won four games straight, but we're about to get I'm Ebuka back. Jordan Tyson for the first time this year. Seth McGowan will be a
0:42starter. Judarian Price, maybe he does something. Travis Etienne coming back.
0:47And then also Jonathan Taylor shipped to a better team. So, we're five and three, we've won four straight games.
0:53Hell, and I think our team's about to get a whole of a lot hell of a lot better, so. Seems like for the third
0:59straight season I'll be finishing as a top two team in my league, earning a buy into the playoffs, and then immediately
1:04losing in week 16. But let's go ahead let's talk about everything that happened in the NFL this week and how it
1:11impacts fantasy teams. Starting off with the Commanders Eagles game.
1:16I'm going to be honest, this is the game from last year. I have no idea why um ESPN's doing me dirty like this. Let's
1:25go ahead and let's change it to the game for this season. Cuz yeah, this year the game was a lot nastier. This game
1:32sucked.
1:33We were live streaming on the Flock League channel this game, and like I was barely watching it. The most uninteresting game ever. Tanner McKee is
1:42horrible. This Eagles offense, even against a bad Commanders team, is not going to be able to move the ball down the field. We actually had the Eagles,
1:49if you were looking at market data, as the lowest scoring offense in the league this week coming in. So, surprise surprise, they were the lowest scoring
1:58or pretty damn close to the lowest scoring offense. Like it sucks. Yeah, obviously you're not starting Tanner McKee. Saquon Barkley split with Elijah
2:06Mitchell. Barkley ends up getting a touchdown and Barkley actually looked explosive at points in this game.
2:12There's a non-zero percent chance that he continues to ramp up his work and Saquon Barkley coming out of the bye week in like two or three weeks is
2:20actually usable in fantasy. But now you're just starting him as a running back two as a committee running back in a garbage offense and praying that he
2:27scores a touchdown.
2:29Then going over to the receivers, Quez Watkins is the alpha here until DeVonta Smith comes back. Quez Watkins has nine targets. But again, the offense is so
2:37bad it may not matter. And if DeVonta Smith manages to come back in a few weeks, which we don't know if he can,
2:43then Quez Watkins will go to being nothing. Eli Zanders, I know it shows that he had a lot of yards and complete
2:50garbage time the final drive of the game. He had a big reception. It didn't matter at all. Dallas Goedert still very
2:55much a starting tight end. You can play him cuz you know you're going to get target volume if you have no Dontayvion
3:00Wicks and no DeVonta Smith. But yeah, nobody in Philly is interesting.
3:04Now going over to Washington, I personally started Rashaad White in this game and my matchup was already locked up so it
3:11didn't really matter what Rashaad White did. But I still was sweating it because I had told a lot of people to start
3:16Rashaad White in the live stream this morning thinking, "Hey, the Commanders are pretty big favorites. They're going to be able to run the ball in the second
3:23half and Rashaad White will catch the ball out of the backfield."
3:27But we had a three-man running back by committee.
3:31We had a lot of Rashaad White. We had a lot of Austin Ekeler and a lot of Jerick McKinnon. Now, let me see if I can find
3:40an update here with Jerick McKinnon, but I believe he went down with a foot injury. So if he is now going to be out
3:49on top of obviously J'Quary Cross on the injured reserve.
3:58Yeah, looking at Jerick McKinnon, I don't think he ever went back into the game. So, if he is now going to
4:07be dealing with this foot injury and he's going to be missing time, and it's truly only Rashad White and Austin Ekeler, I'll probably run it back with
4:14Rashad White. We got very lucky to get a touchdown, but if McKissic is going to go this next week and it's going to be a
4:20three-man running back by committee, I don't know if you can start anybody in Washington. Uh Jahan Dotson doesn't look right. I mean, I know we talked about
4:27this after last week's game, but the big problem you have with Daniels right now is he's just not running as much, right?
4:34know with Terry McLaurin this isn't going to be a super explosive offense.
4:37So, I would rather avoid starting Jahan Dotson. I would rather avoid starting the running backs. And then with the receivers, Antonio Williams, we'll talk
4:45about him more in the waiver wire video, led the team with seven targets. Stefon Diggs gets the touchdown. Um Chig had
4:51almost the catch of the year. And Chig was also open for a touchdown that Jahan Dotson just missed them on. But, I think
4:58I would view this as Diggs, you're still starting pretty much every week. Antonio Williams is flex-worthy in good matchups. And Chig, you can look at as a
5:06bye week fill-in if your tight end is on bye.
5:10Now, let's start going over to some of these other games. And let's move over to the Miami Dolphins and New England
5:16Patriots.
5:17So, with Miami you're never starting Malik Willis, not worth talking about.
5:21Salvon Ahmed, we had as a sell high candidate this past week with the very simple notion that coming into this game
5:28Salvon Ahmed had been the main guy, the main running back for Miami for four weeks. And in those four weeks, he had
5:3514 total receiving yards. So, if you have legit nothing as a receiver, what does that make you? That makes you a
5:43touchdown or bust running back. And it's completely fine being a touchdown or bust running back when you're getting nothing as a receiver if you're a stud
5:50in a very good offense like Derrick Henry, which we'll have to talk about the Lamar injury in a second.
5:54But, when you're in the Miami Dolphins offense, I don't think we can be saying that uh touchdown or bust running back
6:02is the position that you want to be in.
6:04So, Ali Gordon, he's going to be a flex-worthy play cuz he gets volume. But again, if you're in a garbage offense,
6:11it's going to be a little bit tougher if you're not going to catch the ball. And then looking at the receivers,
6:17you had six targets to Malik Washington, six targets to Caleb Douglas, six targets to Greg Dulcich, and five targets to Chris Bell.
6:25Like Malik Washington still is the wide receiver one here in terms of fantasy points, but now what's happening with these rookie wide receivers taking a
6:32step forward is there are too many guys that are dispersing the targets away from Willis, where Willis is not good enough
6:44to cut the pie into a ton of different pieces and assume that any of these pass catchers are going to eat enough. The
6:51only guy I would feel comfortable starting in Miami would be Ali Gordon, and that would be any situation in which I'm just kind of
6:59desperate for running back points.
7:02Now, going to the New England Patriots, I was worried at first. So, um I was a pretty big favorite going into this.
7:08Drake May is my quarterback. Um and Drake May wasn't scoring fantasy points at the beginning. Obviously, this game had rain. We'll get to the Tampa game
7:15with a ton of rain later on. But um ends up Drake May, it doesn't matter if you have no AJ Brown, no Romeo Doubs, no Matt
7:26Collins, he's going to get it done. He's going to fight even Hunter Henry getting injured in this game. Drake May is just
7:32so damn good specifically against these bad teams that he remains just an elite quarterback you start in fantasy every week regardless. Don't get me wrong, I
7:41am hoping the Patriots trade for a receiver. I don't want the options here to be Demario Douglas and Kyle Williams through the rest of the season.
7:49So, I hope the Patriots trade for a wide receiver. If not, I hope we're getting AJ Brown back very soon.
7:56And then I'm not starting anybody outside of maybe Demario Douglas, but even with Douglas, he only had three targets this week. I told the devs on
8:05flockfantasy.com, I was like, "Hey, um they have A.J. Brown." Once A.J. Brown popped on the injury report with a knee injury, I was like, "Hey, y'all better
8:12pick up Demario Douglas in case he doesn't uh A.J. Brown doesn't play." So, I think Douglas is the guy that you
8:17want, but again, with only three targets out of 20 Drake Maye pass attempts, I don't know how confident I could be in
8:26this.
8:27And then going over to the running back usage, Rhamondre Stevenson I thought was going to go nuclear this week. I'm sorry
8:34if I um was way too aggressive with the Rhamondre rankings today and telling people to start him this morning. My thought process was,
8:44"Oh, okay. Well, the Patriots are seven-point favorites. You have no Trevion.
8:50They need pass-catching help, so they're going to dump the ball off to Rhamondre.
8:54Rhamondre is like a top-10 running back."
8:57And Rhamondre got volume in a good offense. He had 22 opportunities, but he's Rhamondre Stevenson, so it's not like much is happening with them.
9:07So, I still think Rhamondre's in that spot where when you have no Trevion, you are starting Rhamondre Stevenson, no questions asked based off volume in a
9:16good offense.
9:18He's going to be the lead back here regardless, even if we get Trevion back this next week. Trevion's going to have
9:24a small piece of the pie, but if he does eat into Rhamondre Stevenson at all, and instead of seeing 22 opportunities,
9:30Rhamondre's going to project out to see 14 or 15, then it will be tougher to start him. But, as it stands now,
9:36Rhamondre's a must-start running back just based off volume and volume alone.
9:40Now, moving to probably the most exciting game of the week, it was the Tennessee Titans and the Cincinnati Bengals. So, I thought this Titans
9:49offense was set up to get crushed. The spread in this game, I want to say was 10 and 1/2 points. You had no Carnell
9:55Tate, and obviously, um this team and Cam Ward, they've been horrible all year. But, Cam Ward came out and he was
10:03slinging. Not just box score wise, but I mean, I was just watching RedZone at this point. The 1:00 p.m. games, I'm
10:08just watching RedZone. And they would throw the Titans game on the screen pretty damn often because um again, this was an overtime game,
10:16very close, super high scoring.
10:18Obviously, it's going to be shown on Red Zone a ton. And Cam Ward looked good at points. Now, it's one single game. I'm
10:25not expecting um Cam Ward to be a completely different quarterback than what he's been through the first like 25 games of of his NFL career just because
10:33of one good performance against the Cincinnati Bengals in a loss.
10:37But, it was encouraging. The running back usage what we are learning is when you have no Tajae Spears, Tony Pollard's just going
10:45to be a jam.
10:48Like Pollard went back-to-back the last 2 weeks playing 75% of the snaps here for the Tennessee Titans.
10:55And Pollard's usage must have been a right there at that same mark, if not even more. I don't see a single other
11:01running back on this team getting a touch.
11:03Now, if Spears is back after the bye, which he probably will be, I think you have to lower your expectations down with Pollard a bit.
11:11Like I don't think Tony Pollard is a running back one rest of season.
11:15But, obviously, if you started Tony Pollard, you were so damn excited.
11:19Then going over to the receivers, Gunner Helm has a pretty big day. Zamir DK scores a touchdown. Wan'Dale Robinson scores a
11:28I don't think any of the pass catchers here matter outside of Cornell Tate.
11:31Cornell Tate's going to be back after the bye, and this is going to go back to being a bad offense, so. Pollard is
11:37somebody you're starting with no Tajae Spears. When Spears comes back, we re-evaluate. And then Cornell Tate, you are starting and you are hoping that Cam
11:44Ward continues to play well, so Cornell Tate's good.
11:48Now, going to the Cincinnati Bengals, rest in peace stacks and stone. If y'all watch the Flock League, um y'all know Danny and Sammy,
11:59um they had won a decent little stretch of two games straight. They were looking at three straight games. And then what
12:09ended up happening was they had to go up against the absolute hammer with Joe Burrow and Ja'Marr Chase in a six-point
12:17passing touchdown. Now, what they are going to need this next day is they are going to need a ridiculous performance from Caleb Williams and Colson Loveland
12:27if they want to have any chance to win just cuz again, Joe Burrow went and dropped 50 points in a six-point passing
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13:23But, going back to this, after this game, I moved Joe Burrow up to my quarterback two in my rest of season ranks. Now, I'm
13:33going to be honest here.
13:36I think I was I don't want to say I think. I was too high on Chase Brown.
13:42My logic with Chase Brown, why I continued to rank him very high. We had him as a top 10 running back in the rankings this week.
13:52Was that the volume is insane and the volume is staying, right?
13:57Plus, the Bengals were 10-point favorites in this game.
14:01And the Cincinnati Bengals projected to score the second most points in the NFL this week.
14:06I thought that meant that Chase Brown was going to crush me. I was playing against him. And I'm sorry if I told
14:11everybody to be super excited to put Chase Brown in your lineup. As obviously, it wasn't a phenomenal game.
14:17Now, it wasn't bad. He scored 17-18 fantasy points.
14:22But, going into the future, I I think you have to be lower I know it's crazy because the volume's been so
14:33good, and this is why I've had Chase Brown on a buy low video every single week for the past three or four weeks.
14:39And I know Chase Brown had a massive touchdown called back. I was dancing in my living room when that was called back
14:45cuz I was having to play against Chase Brown.
14:47But, I think we have to update the outlook with the Cincinnati Bengals.
14:52If Chase Brown's going to score 17 points in a game in which the Bengals score 43 in overtime, this is just a rush first offense.
15:04This is a team that's just going to run the ball over and over and over again.
15:11I'm sorry, throw the ball over and over and over again. They're a pass first offense. I apologize. They don't want to
15:15run it.
15:17Like you had 51 drop backs from Joe Burrow, and you had 12 rushing attempts from Chase Brown.
15:23They're not running it at the goal line, and you are getting some Samaje Perine usage at the goal line as well.
15:29So, I think Chase Brown is a running back two. Even if he's averaging 20 opportunities a game, even if this is a
15:35phenomenal offense, which is what I was so damn excited about for him, with him being a buy low candidate for us,
15:42it's just tough here.
15:44And then going to the receivers, Tee Higgins, Ja'Marr Chase, obviously, they are smashes. They have 16 and 11 targets respectively.
15:54Like I think at this point, let me look at my updated rankings. I have been tinkering with my rankings. I know y'all
16:01know this at this point, but I literally tinker with my rankings on flockfantasy.com every single day of the week.
16:09And my initial tinkers, I am going to have Tee Higgins up at wide receiver nine in our rest of season ranks.
16:18Just the passing volume is so good with this offense.
16:23And Tee Higgins, I mean, we've seen the large sample that when he's fully healthy and Burrow's fully healthy, he's going to be great. The problem with
16:30Higgins is just getting him to stay available. And then, obviously, Ja'Marr Chase is the elite wide receiver, nothing to discuss there.
16:38Now, going to the Rams, I made a horrible start on my own team this week here, but it's pretty simple. You know,
16:44Stafford's not going to run the ball at all, so all it's going to come down to with Matthew Stafford is can he lead the NFL in passing yards or
16:52passing touchdowns? Cuz if he can't, then he'll be good in fantasy. But if he's not going to run the ball himself,
16:58his ceiling for fantasy purposes is going to be capped. Looking at the running back usage, it is split between Blake Corum, Kyren Williams. And at this
17:06point, I mean, I think we have seen enough with Blake Corum to say that he is somebody that you can start. Like, he
17:13gets the rushing touchdown, and it's not like it was in overtime, either. I mean, this game was close. It did matter when
17:19Corum scored that touchdown.
17:22Um Kyren's still the running back that I want, though, because we've seen a larger sample of Kyren getting used as a
17:27receiver in comparison to Blake Corum.
17:29Now, obviously, don't have a great example of it from this game.
17:33But Puka has 12 targets. He continues to dominate with targets. He had almost 50% of the targets that Matthew Stafford had
17:41available. He threw the ball 25 times, and Puka had 12 of them.
17:44I started Tyler Higbee thinking, "Oh, okay. Colby Parkinson injured. Let me jam Higbee. No Davante Adams." But the thing that we have
17:53failed to realize is the Rams just aren't going to have to throw the ball when you're playing against the Los Angeles Chargers.
18:00Cuz I think you can make a strong argument at this point, and I know this is not an aggressive take. It's maybe
18:06even a lukewarm take that the Chargers have the worst offense in the NFL.
18:13This team is like I tweeted this out, but I said Justin Herbert, Jim Harbaugh, or Mike McDaniel, somebody has to be fired
18:23or benched. You can't keep putting this on the field.
18:27I know 99% of people are going to point the finger at Mike McDaniel and say, "Oh, this guy's the problem."
18:34This is the guy that needs to get fired.
18:39And I'm here to say that I think it's so bad here in Los Angeles.
18:45So so so so bad.
18:48There's more than one problem.
18:51They may need a complete reset.
18:55I don't think there is a single single problem.
18:59I'm sorry, there's not a single problem to look at. There are a multitude of problems, but until something changes, Justin Herbert's a waiver wire
19:07quarterback. You don't look at him regardless how good the match up is. The running backs, you can never think about starting in a million years.
19:14The receivers, hell, I I Lad McConkey had the big play. He obviously got stopped at the goal line. He had six
19:20targets. He led the team. He had 86 receiving yards. Good to see a healthy Lad, but it doesn't matter with how bad this team
19:28is. Like Lad's still just a borderline flex. The only players in my mind that are worth rostering would be Amari and
19:35Hampton, Lad McConkey. Hampton is a must bench player.
19:41Maybe if they change the coaching staff, then at that point we can re-evaluate, but he's worth a roster spot, but he has to
19:47be on your bench.
19:49Lad, you roster and you play him based on match up in a flex.
19:56Now, let me go over to our next game.
19:59This next one This was maybe the most fun game of the day. Weather was insane here, right? And
20:09beautiful for me because I had to play against Bijan Robinson. The Atlanta Falcons scored zero points in this game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
20:19Bijan does diddly squat.
20:22Drake London scores 1.8 fantasy points.
20:26I don't care.
20:28The weather was a such a disaster that nothing from this game is going to change my rankings.
20:36I am not moving Kyle Pitts a single spot, Drake London a single spot, Bijan Robinson a single spot from this game.
20:44Again, going over and looking at the Tampa end of it, Baker Mayfield didn't complete a single pass.
20:53The Bucs won 16-0 and Baker Mayfield had zero completions and attempted three passes.
21:00You had 27 rushing attempts from Bucky Irving for 170 rushing yards, 25 rushing attempts from Ke'Shawn Gainwell for 140 rushing yards.
21:10This wasn't a football game.
21:16Like, the only thing that I am going to change with my rankings from this game is I think I need to move up Bucky
21:23Irving because based on what we have seen over the past 2 weeks for Tampa, of course, both games the weirdest game
21:31environments ever. You get a complete and utter blowout of Tampa versus Carolina. And then we get this game in which you can't throw the ball.
21:41But, it does seem like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, they want to make their identity we're going to play great defense and we're going to run it over
21:48and over again.
21:50Now, of course, very weird game environments. I'm not guaranteeing that's going to be the case and what they do forever.
21:56But, it looks like that's a real possibility of what they want to try to do.
22:00Now, going to the Buffalo Bills, um Josh Allen remains the QB1 in fantasy, nothing to discuss there. James Cook, I thought when they showed the injury on
22:09Red Zone, I was like, "Oh, this dude's going to the IR."
22:12I was thinking like, "Hey, Raheem Davis going to be a premium target, blah, blah, blah." Then James Cook turned out to be A-OK, just fine. Like, James Cook
22:19took the craziest hit, keeps on going.
22:22James Cook still a running back one, nothing to discuss. Going over to the pass catchers, um DJ Moore, his first game back, leads the team with seven
22:31targets, gets the receiving touchdown.
22:33DJ Moore also had a pretty big injury scare in this game, but the quote that we got afterwards is that DJ Moore is
22:46um A-OK, he is just fine. So, if that is the case, we'll see with the practice reports, but DJ Moore is going to be a
22:54must-start wide receiver going into the future. I played Dalton Kincaid, that touchdown came at the very end of the game. Um I would have won my match-up
23:02regardless, but at the time it was looking a little iffy, so um I was so damn excited to get the Kincaid
23:09touchdown. I think he's just the low-end tight end one. DJ Moore is a low-end wide receiver two. James Cook's an RB1,
23:17Josh Allen's the QB1 overall. We kind of know what the deal is in Buffalo.
23:21Um Khalil Shakir had a touchdown called back. Shakir almost had a big game, but again, my favorite Shakir stat is like
23:27in the past 4 years, the dude has like three games with 20 or more fantasy points. No world ever in which I'm
23:34excited to start Khalil Shakir.
23:36Going to the Baltimore Ravens, this is the biggest update that we are making with our rankings across the board.
23:46So, the Ravens now have no quarterback.
23:49Right? They lose Lamar Jackson for reportedly 6 to 8 weeks.
23:58Which, in my minds, you say that's the timeline that you have for Lamar.
24:04Lamar typically is not going to want to play through injuries.
24:08It's probably closer to 8 weeks.
24:10So, if it's Lamar's out for 8 weeks, we got weeks 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
24:18Maybe he's back for your fantasy championship in week 7. Okay, no.
24:22Lamar's done.
24:23For it NFL purposes, he could come back for the NFL playoffs if somehow the Baltimore Ravens get there. But in terms
24:30of where we are at with uh fantasy purposes, you need to treat Derrick Henry and Zay Flowers going into the future as if they don't have Lamar
24:42Jackson.
24:43Also, Tyler Huntley, who had been serviceable as a backup for years now in Baltimore, is dealing with turf toe.
24:52So, that's why we got so much of uh this quarterback Joe Schmo, uh Joe Schmo, never heard his name before, never heard
24:59this dude before.
25:01We saw him a ton. He looked horrible.
25:05So, the current setup for Baltimore is they can either go out there and they can try to trade for a quarterback
25:11before the deadline. I don't think they're getting Flacco in division.
25:15Maybe just maybe if they can convince Arizona to give them like Jacoby Brissett, that could potentially save them.
25:23Or they could sign a rando Joe Schmo off the street like Andy Dalton.
25:30So, the Baltimore Ravens you have to operate under the assumption that they have horrible quarterback play rest of season.
25:39Best case scenario is they somehow some way get Mac Jones or Jacoby Brissett to their team.
25:44But if it's Andy Dalton, if it's Tyson Bagent, it it doesn't matter who it is. It's going to be ugly. So, I moved Derrick
25:54Henry down my rankings a decent amount.
25:56Derrick Henry is going to remain a must-start running back every week, but instead of him being a running back one in my rankings, he's a high-end RB2.
26:03I had Zay Flowers as wide receiver six in my rest of season rankings before this Lamar injury.
26:10I am moving Zay Flowers from being a mid wide receiver one to being like a mid wide receiver two. He's dropping down to
26:16like being the wide receiver 15 for me.
26:20So, those are the only guys you're going to start here in Baltimore. Nobody else worth a roster spot.
26:25And you have to have lowered expectations on both of them.
26:28Now, going over to the Cleveland Browns Pittsburgh Steelers.
26:33So I was playing against the Steelers DST this week. So every single freaking sack that they had on Deshaun Watson I was
26:43pulling my hair out. Yeah, they had eight sacks this week.
26:48Deshaun Watson got sacked eight times.
26:53They lose 6 to 27. Quincy Judkins obviously we had him as a high candidate as well this week. Same exact thought
27:01process with Ali Gordon. This is a bad offense.
27:06Despite them being five and two, despite what the YouTube comment section is screaming at me. Again, I believe the Browns don't have a great offense.
27:14And Quincy Judkins isn't going to get the receiving usage that's going to Dillon Sampson.
27:21So Quincy Judkins is a touchdown or bust running back in a garbage offense. No, thank you.
27:28Looking over I mean you're still going to start him as like a low-end RB2 just cuz the running back position is so
27:34gross. But I mean this is his floor.
27:36His floor is he's go he just goes out there and scores you six fantasy points.
27:40Now going over to the pass catchers, Harold Fannin has himself an incredible day. Like Harold Fannin went from somebody I did not want to get anywhere
27:48close to my starting lineup to actually playing quite well. He has 12 targets.
27:54Denzel Boston has 11. Casey Conception falls down.
27:58Uh I don't know if you can trust any of these pass catchers, especially if there are like four guys getting in the mix,
28:04it's going to be rough.
28:05But Harold Fannin did show some signs of life. So I think I've probably got to I think we already did move him up our
28:11rankings like an hour ago.
28:14Now going to the Pittsburgh end of things. Um this game was never close, right? It was 20 to six coming out of
28:20half. So not a ton of overall passing volume. Yeah, 13 completions for Rogers and 33 rush attempts. You had a rushing
28:29touchdown from Jaylen Warren, a rushing touchdown from Rico Dowdle. So, like Dowdle's getting involved here a considerable amount as well. We saw this
28:38last week, too. And Dowdle's getting involved inside the red zone. Now, Jaylen Warren looks so damn good and this Pittsburgh Steelers team looks so
28:48damn good that Jaylen Warren's able to overcome and he is still scor- scoring an incredible amount of points.
28:55But, my thing is well, the Steelers look good. Rogers looks good, too. Like, I honestly really enjoy seeing like the Hall of
29:05Fame legend level quarterbacks.
29:09Like, the Brady at the very uh final 2 years in Tampa or Rogers this year. I like seeing them look good.
29:18It's It just feels like it's something special when It's sad when a quarterback like Rogers or a quarterback like Brady in his final
29:262 years goes out there and looks horrible.
29:29Doesn't have the mobility, can't move around in the pocket, doesn't have the arm strength to push the boundaries.
29:35But, like, it's motivating to see Rogers look good like this. Now, I don't expect the Steelers to be this good of a team going
29:46into the future.
29:48I don't know if the Steelers are going to end the season at what?
29:5313 and 4 when it's all said and done.
29:57So, I would expect some regression and if Jaylen Warren isn't a committee at this point with Dowdle, I'd expect Jaylen Warren to be more a high-end
30:06running back two rather than a top-10 running back how he has been.
30:10And then Dowdle's kind of turning into a Blake Corum level player where he's clearly a premium handcuff where if Jaylen Warren were to go down, Rico
30:18Dowdle turns into a league winner.
30:21And also at the same time, we can say that if you're desperate enough, you could for sure get him in your starting
30:28lineup. And then going over to the receiving options, DK Metcalf yet again leads this team in targets with six.
30:35He like gets a ball snatched from him that turns out to be an interception.
30:40Plays absolutely horribly, scores a point and a half.
30:44Jeremy Bernard has five targets. I think there's a chance coming out of the bye, we end up in a situation in which you
30:51get either Pittman or >> [sighs] >> you get Roman Wilson in and it disperses
31:02the targets and it makes it a little bit tougher to be excited about anybody.
31:06Darnell Washington had a massive grab in this game that was super cool.
31:10I am not mentally strong enough to ever go through and tell you to play Darnell Washington, but yeah, I mean it's it's fun to see him
31:20out there. It's fun to see when he's able to snag a ball.
31:24Now moving to the Jacksonville Jaguars, this was not a football game. I don't know what you want to call it. The
31:29Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Colts, it was sad.
31:33Very sad.
31:36Trevor Lawrence threw the ball 14 times in this game.
31:40They won 42 to 7.
31:42Bayshel Tuten to the freaking moon.
31:46The Jags are legit and this mainly that the Colts are horrible, but obviously got to give the Jags their flowers flowers. They're five and two. They just
31:54won a game by 40 points.
31:58Uh Bayshel Tuten went nuclear. Don't worry at all about Ameer Abdullah, Chris Rodriguez showing up in the box score like the Rodriguez touchdown happened
32:07when the game was already over. And then obviously Parker Washington did absolutely nothing either, but frankly, who cares?
32:17Lawrence had 10 completions. There were 11 total completions in this offense.
32:20This wasn't a football game. The only adjustment I'm making with my rankings here is I am moving up Bayshel Tuten.
32:27That's it.
32:29And then going over to the Indianapolis Colts, let me pull up a prediction market right now for Jonathan Taylor's next football
32:38team. Cuz I know I've told y'all my opinion over and over and over again. I believe that generally when there is
32:45enough liquidity and enough dollars at stake that markets are efficient.
32:52This is why I'm a guy that with my retirement accounts, I'm not buying individual stocks thinking that I'm so much smarter than the rest of the world.
33:01I'm buying index funds. That's why whenever I'm submitting my starting lineups, I'm looking at NFL spreads, I'm looking at over-unders, I'm looking at
33:09implied team totals, and going, "Oh, okay, this is how this game's projected out." So, I generally believe that markets are efficient. There's a ton of
33:17data to back this up as well.
33:20So, looking at the Jonathan Taylor next football team market as of Sunday, November 1st, 11:09 p.m. Central Time,
33:32there are the odds per team they flattened out a ton.
33:38Right now, the favorite with a 26% chance of landing Jonathan Taylor are the Seattle Seahawks.
33:49Then, you have a 22% chance that he is a Denver Bronco, a 22% chance that he is a Minnesota Viking, a 20% chance that he is a New
34:00York Giant, and then you are down to an 8% chance that he stays with the Indianapolis Colts.
34:07So, it's pretty much a lock. Jonathan Taylor is out of Indianapolis.
34:12He's gone.
34:15You have the Bengals at 7%, the Packers at two, the Patriots at two. Really, there are four teams that Jonathan Taylor could be going to at this point.
34:23It's the Seahawks, the Broncos, the Vikings, the Giants. The odds of those four teams are all very, very close.
34:30It's pretty much 25, 25, 25, 25.
34:36Um this seems thrown the towel in on the season. They're done.
34:42It's sad. It's pathetic.
34:45It is I I don't know. Josh Downs gets a garbage time touchdown. If you started Josh Downs, you are the luckiest person to
34:54ever step foot on this planet.
34:57Um Tyler Warren had 10 targets. Who Who cares?
35:00I moved Tyler Warren down my rankings after this game.
35:05I I don't know how you could start a single player in this Colts offense not named Tyler Warren. Tyler Warren because
35:11tight end so gross, he's still like tight end 10 for me. But I don't see it getting any better for the Colts anytime soon. They're going to
35:19lose Jonathan Taylor. Then at that point Seth McGowan is for sure going to be somebody that you can look at. I have
35:25already picked up Seth McGowan off the waiver wire, but I'll be viewing him more so as a low-end RB2, mainly borderline flex play because the offense
35:34going to be so bad.
35:36Okay.
35:37Now going to the Raiders-Jets.
35:41I had to play against Kirk Cousins, Gent and Trey Tucker in this game. So if you would have told me, "Mason
35:49you're going up against Cousins, Gent and Trey Tucker and the Raiders are going to score 38 points."
35:55I would have gone I I lost.
36:00I got smoked.
36:02But obviously I'll stay with Cousins briefly. He's not going to run the ball at all, but based off the passing volume, he looks good right now. Cousins
36:10is for sure streamable in good matchups.
36:13The most interesting thing ever is Gent getting relegated to only passing down scenarios.
36:2325 carries for Mike Washington to two carries for Ashton Gent.
36:3425 to two.
36:44I mean, it's insane.
36:47And I will say there were so many runs, especially in the red zone, like I'm sitting here again having to fade Kirk
36:55Cousins and Trey Tucker points. So, every time they're inside the 5-yard line and they hand the ball to Mike Washington, I'm out of my seat
37:05screaming, "Score a touchdown. Score a touchdown. Score a touchdown."
37:10And this dude looked bad. He did. He's for sure a premium pickup off waivers.
37:17I just don't think this is going to be the case going into the future. I would be shocked if it was.
37:24I definitely Washington's going to be involved a ton.
37:28Don't get me wrong. I know a lot of people have talked about like, "Oh, this is because of what Ashe and Genteel said
37:35before the game." Where Ashe and Genteel came out and he talked down on the New York Jets defenders where he said, "Oh,
37:41they have a couple guys on their team that don't want to tackle."
37:46Maybe he got punished for it. I doubt it. I know it was like a media talking point.
37:53I think there's maybe something to Genteel's been super inefficient as a rusher. He has not looked good this season. And this team probably went,
38:01"Oh, okay. Well, what can we do here to try to get this running game going?"
38:09And it didn't exactly work with Mike Washington's 3.3 yards per attempt.
38:14I would view it as Genteel.
38:18Again, he had two carries in this game.
38:19He didn't score a touchdown and he still scored 10 fantasy points.
38:24He has the receiving usage that's going to keep him afloat. So, Genteel is still a must-start running back.
38:30The red flags are everywhere. The red alarms are There's The sirens are going off. Like, you should be very concerned about Genteel. You're still going to
38:39start him though. We're going to see what the workload is this next week. I would say Mike Washington needs to be
38:44rostered in every league. I don't know if I could trust starting him cuz he's not going to get anything as a receiver.
38:50But he did get a lot of goal line usage.
38:52I'm just afraid Gentry's going to take more going in the future. I don't know if this will be the split forever. But I
38:58did lower Gentry down my rankings after this game. How could you not? And I'll be dropping our rankings video our updated video tomorrow morning on the
39:07channel.
39:08Now going over to the pass catchers, Brock Bowers is unbelievable.
39:12If we were to redraft your fantasy draft today, Brock Bowers is a round one pick.
39:17And then Trey Tucker had been great, but he gets a goose egg this week which I mean helps me out so damn much. Thank
39:25you Trey Tucker for doing nothing. And Trey Tucker remains the guy that he's always been a boom bust wide receiver for your flex. He's going to give you a
39:32really high ceiling and some really good games and he's going to give you some absolute garbage ones. Good luck figuring out which is which.
39:41Now going over to the Jets, Braelon Allen dominates. Braelon Allen did twist up his ankle at one point. I thought it
39:47was going to be a little bit of a concern, but he ended up being just fine.
39:51The biggest storyline is after we get the round one rookie Omar Cooper with back-to-back a massive games, he has
40:03literally nothing.
40:05I was really excited about this dude cuz I mean I had drafted him in so many best ball leagues.
40:10It was tough to project him out well this week though because if you go back last week with Omar Cooper in the week
40:16prior, you only had a total of five targets in both of those games. You had five targets last week, five targets the
40:23week before.
40:26So it's tough to get there again and be super optimistic about Omar's a start this week, but I
40:37was really excited about him rest of season.
40:42And now I think you have to lower your expectations quite dramatically.
40:48Adonai Mitchell goes off. We'll talk about him on the waiver wire video.
40:51Garrett Wilson leads this team with 12 targets.
40:57Um, I don't I'm not moving Adonai Mitchell dramatically up my rankings and saying like, "Hey, this is somebody that you just absolutely have to start." He
41:06looked great, clearly.
41:08But what I would be afraid of is I would be afraid that this is the same trap we just ran into with Omar Cooper.
41:16And I think it's maybe safe to say that we are going to have Garrett Wilson as the consistent wide receiver one here.
41:23And then you are going to be getting random spikes from some of these other names.
41:29And yeah, I don't think there's anybody else to talk about. Braelon Allen remains a must-start running back any single week you have no Ashton Jeanty,
41:36I'm sorry, you have no Breece Hall.
41:39Garrett Wilson remains a wide receiver you're going to start every week and I will say when it comes to like Adonai Mitchell, Omar Cooper, maybe
41:51they are just boom bust flex plays.
41:54Now, what game have we not talked about? Have we talked about every game?
41:59Chat, please let me know. Have we talked about every game? I think so.
42:03No, we have not talked about the Dallas Cowboys Arizona Cardinals.
42:09And I will say, I know I'm sorry that I am not wearing a jersey from one of the games that happened today, but I think I
42:17may or may not keep this Christian Watson jersey on until the end of time.
42:22I mean, I got to rep our guy for going out there and putting absolutely everything on the line for us.
42:28I appreciate him more than he could ever know.
42:32But anyway, looking at Dallas Arizona here.
42:40Crazy how the Cowboys lost this game.
42:43It really was insane. Going into half, Dallas up 14 to 3.
42:48Arizona big time comeback. I mean, in terms of adjusting our fantasy rankings on the Dallas Cowboys end of things,
42:59Dak Prescott remains a quarterback you got to start in good matchups. He played just fine today for fantasy purposes.
43:07Javonte continues to be a running back with a ridiculous amount of volume. You got to start every week.
43:12CeeDee Lamb remains as an alpha wide receiver one. He just had 11 targets.
43:18George Pickens remains a boom bust wide receiver two. Everything stays the same in Dallas.
43:24Going over to the Arizona Cardinals, I think it is very bullish to see that
43:36you don't have Carson Beck as the alternative. You don't have Carson Beck as the guy this team's going to go to
43:43when crap hits the fan. It's Gardner Minshew.
43:47And Minshew obviously looked damn good in this game.
43:52Quarterback situation going into the future, I would have to guess that Gardner Minshew's the starter next week.
44:02If he wasn't, that would feel very weird to me.
44:07But yeah, again, my assumption would be that he kind of has to be the starter.
44:17I think that's a good thing for Michael Wilson. I think it's a good thing for Trey McBride. Let me shout out though
44:24Michael Wilson and how incredible it was on what he did.
44:30Michael Wilson was clearly in so much pain with broken ribs, and the dude went out there anyway to continue to play to win the freaking
44:41game for the Arizona Cardinals. And then after the game, they asked, "Oh, why'd
44:52you go out there with broken ribs?" He goes, "Yeah, they're paying me a lot of money. It's my job. I got to go out
44:57there."
44:59I'm getting paid a lot. I'm going to go and do my job.
45:05Like, dear god, this man is a freaking beast.
45:10He really is.
45:13Um I don't know the update on what we are going to get with Michael Wilson going into the future. Like, I love this dude.
45:24Um I mean, if he's good to go, he's been
45:43averaging over 10 targets a game so far this season. Or I think coming into this he was at 9.4.
45:49So, we kept on saying cuz he was just a must-start play in this match up against the Dallas Cowboys.
45:53The over/under of this game was like 54.5 points. You had to jam him.
45:57If he's good to go, he's just a jam. Trey McBride, obviously elite tight end, nothing to discuss
46:06there. The big thing to talk about is the running back usage. And I owe uh ton of people apologies. I mean, y'all know
46:14I get things wrong all the time.
46:17Literally nonstop. It's kind of my MO.
46:19It's my thing that I am stupid and I get things wrong.
46:23And a big thing I got wrong was I thought Tyler Allgeier was done.
46:28Cuz my take with Allgeier was, "Oh, okay. Well, you drafted him to be a premium handcuff running back where if Jeremiah Love got hurt, then he could be
46:36a league winner." And then what we saw over the past few weeks was Jeremiah Love got hurt, and then Tyler Allgeier
46:45turned into a committee running back.
46:48And the man came through, and the man ended up splitting the backfield with Bam Knight.
47:02>> Then what happens in this game is not only does Jeremiah Love get hurt, but so does Bam Knight.
47:08And now Tyler Allgeier looks like he can be a top 15 running back in next week's rankings. He was just the running back
47:14one by a country mile.
47:18It looked like he went for it like he was the running back three on this depth chart.
47:23And now he's the last guy left standing.
47:25He's going to be incredible. You're dealing with a concussion where you just had a nasty nasty hit on Bam Knight. And
47:30then also you have um Jeremiah Love with another ankle injury.
47:39So, Allgeier needs to be rostered in every single league. And if both of those guys miss going into the future, Allgeier is just an absolute gem.
47:48Now, let me see. There's one other game we need to discuss that we haven't already. And that's going to be the
47:53Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers.
47:57So, I have Justin Jefferson on my own fantasy team.
48:02I'll be honest. I had high expectations.
48:05I had thoughts that against the Detroit Lions, this was finally the perfect match up where we were going to see And who I see the chat
48:16saying we got to talk Broncos and Chiefs. Let's talk Broncos and Chiefs, too.
48:20But, I was thinking for my Justin Jefferson case that okay, this is finally the spot.
48:28We are finally going to see um One second.
48:40We're going to see Minnesota have a good offense. We're going to see Kyler Murray look decent.
48:46The Detroit Lions have the worst defense in the NFL. No, Kyler looked horrible.
48:51Kyler still looked very very bad.
48:55And it makes me concerned for Justin Jefferson. Like T.J. Hockenson gets there with a touchdown. Jefferson leads this team with nine targets. The only
49:03saving grace for Jefferson is you have some really good matchups coming up as well. Like this next week they get to go
49:08up against the Buffalo Bills.
49:11Which the Bills allow the most points to opposing wide receivers this season.
49:16But it's not as bad as it was last year where Jefferson was a wide receiver three, but I think I have to reset
49:26expectations.
49:27Where instead of Jefferson, obviously I mean I learned weeks ago that he's not a high-end wide receiver one.
49:34And I had reset my expectations that okay, well maybe he's a mid to low-end wide receiver one.
49:40I think now with Jefferson and if he's not on your team, I understand you saying that he's even lower than this. I think he's a low-end
49:47wide receiver one, high-end wide receiver two. Talent-wise he's unbelievable, but Kyler Murray sucks.
49:53Addison had a big play in this game.
49:55Addison's maybe not even worth a roster spot. And then T.J. Hockenson scored a touchdown. Um but it was the best matchup ever against tight ends here for
50:04Hockenson. I think Hockenson's a low-end tight end one rest of season. It's a bad offense.
50:11Now going over to the Detroit side of things, really tough matchup. You're going up against the best defense in the NFL, right? Or the second best defense
50:17in the NFL, wherever you want to put them.
50:19But Jared Goff uh has himself a fine day. For fantasy purposes you shouldn't have started Goff, right? You don't have rushing
50:30upside for Goff, so um in matchups like the Vikings, the Seahawks, you just bench the quarterback that's not going to run the ball. Jahmyr Gibbs looked so
50:38good every time he touched the ball in this game. There were a couple Jahmyr Gibbs runs where it looked like he was playing Madden on rookie
50:46difficulty.
50:51Like he just looked legitimately insane.
50:54He's clearly the best player in fantasy.
50:56It's not close. With the pass catchers, Amon-Ra St. Brown did leave this game for a moment. It looked like St. Brown
51:03was going to be gone.
51:05He comes back. So, St. Brown still a wide receiver one going into the future.
51:09I have Jameson Williams as a wide receiver on my team. He's a big reason why I've won four games straight. I
51:16absolutely love the dude. I am so damn thankful for him.
51:19But, I'll be honest. Like, obviously we know at this point, we've learned enough that Jamo's going to be a boom, Jamo's
51:25going to be a bust wide receiver. We are happy to get the boom here.
51:30And then, Sam LaPorta fell flat, but it was a tough match-up against Minnesota.
51:34I think Jamo, LaPorta, St. Brown, Gibbs, all must-start players. And then, Goff again, there are like two match-ups where you would bench Goff. It's against Minnesota
51:43and it's against Seattle.
51:45And then, yeah, let's go over and talk KC and Denver. Um I did miss some of this game. I was glued to the games all
51:55day today as I am for most Sundays.
51:59But, and then, generally how I am glued to the games by the way, I don't know how it is for y'all. But, since I stream
52:06so much during the week, Sundays are like kind of my days that I got to go and do stuff. Like, what I have to do
52:15Um what I had to do today is I had to go to Lowe's and I had to get like some stuff to fix a toilet at my house. So,
52:21I'm like, anywhere I go, it is just red zone on the phone 24/7.
52:28Um but, this game I was at the Lowe's and the service wasn't great. So, I did miss some of it.
52:35I know we obviously had the big Jonah Coleman play that I saw at the end, the massive reception. It essentially put
52:42the Broncos in a position to win the game.
52:46Jonah Coleman looked like he had the full-blown breakout. JK Dobbins is done and dusted. JK Dobbins' time is over.
52:52Jonah Coleman may be the biggest riser of anybody in rankings this week. Jonah Coleman is a must-start running back going into the future. Zero questions
53:01asked.
53:03Um Jaylen Waddle had himself a decent day because of the receiving touchdown.
53:07I still don't trust Waddle a ton here.
53:10It looks like as long as this team doesn't trade for Jonathan Taylor,
53:19Jonah Coleman is a league winner. As the game went on, you got more and more Jonah Coleman, less and less JK Dobbins.
53:27And by the time you got to the very end of the game, JK Dobbins was just straight up benched.
53:32But outside of Coleman, like Jaylen Waddle looks like a borderline flex play. I don't know if anybody else is startable.
53:39And again, I'll pull up that prediction market to see we just what the up-to-date last second odds are here for the Jonathan Taylor landing spot.
53:50As of now, 11:29 p.m., Seahawks are at a 31% chance for JT, Broncos 28%, Vikings
53:5920%, Giants 19.
54:03So, the Seahawks and Broncos are pulling away as favorites here slightly. So, there is a chance that JT goes over and spoils everything here for Jonah
54:13Coleman, but most likely that doesn't happen and most likely Jonah Coleman's a league winner.
54:20Now, looking to KC, you had the massive, massive receiving touchdown for Emitt Johnson, which I just absolutely loved
54:29for my best ball teams with Emitt. But, regardless Mahomes, I mean, from a fantasy day perspective, got Rashee Rice back in in a really
54:40tough match up against Denver who had Patrick Surtain back. Mahomes looked a hell of a lot better than he did get I
54:46did against Seattle last week. Um, Kenneth Walker, I understand the fantasy points haven't exactly been there over the past 2 weeks. Obviously, they've
54:56been very bad and I would love to come out and say like, "Oh, look, I was right. I traded away Kenneth Walker for Justin Jefferson.
55:02Look at me." It was still horrible.
55:04Kenneth Walker is still very easily a top five running back rest of season.
55:08Yeah, in the two-minute drill and obvious passing down scenarios maybe got him a Johnson on the field, but in this game Kenneth Walker still had 25
55:15opportunities. He's still great. Rashee Rice had the receiving touchdown and almost had a second receiving touchdown as well. So, Rashee Rice is right back
55:25to being a must-start player every single week.
55:30And yeah, I don't know if I have anything else here with this Chiefs offense.
55:37But Yeah, I think this is everything I got.
55:44I really hope again that y'all had yourselves a fine day today.
55:51Um I am just so freaking happy cuz again the the Flock League at this point matters more to me than anything
55:58else. I don't say in the world, but pretty damn close. Like the most important thing I got going on during the football season.
56:04is how am I doing in the Flock League?
56:07It matters so much for myself, my day-to-day enjoyment, um me battling off the YouTube trolls.
56:15And now after we won, we're going to go to five and three.
56:20We're going to have a damn good chance to be fighting our way into getting a top two seed and getting a buy for the
56:26third straight season.
56:28Which I was explaining this to my dad on the phone earlier today, but I was like the probability that I know I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm
56:44five and three. I've won four games straight. Blah blah blah, but still.
56:48It's not like I'm locked into a buy at this point, but it is becoming a real possibility we earn a buy into the
56:54playoffs in the Flock League for a third straight season.
56:58Which statistically that shouldn't be possible.
57:05Like to be a top two team in the league for three seasons straight.
57:13We'll see if I can get there, but if so, God, I'm going to be talking so much trash. The other guys are going to hate
57:20me more than you could ever imagine.
57:23And yeah, cuz now I am going to Let me see, points-wise, yeah, I am going to jump Sal in points.
57:33So, win or loss, I'm going to jump Sal in the standings. I'm going to jump Avery in the standings.
57:39And depending on how many points JSN scores, actually, I won't jump Jynxzi in the standings. I'll be maybe close to him in points four. We may be both five
57:49and three if he loses. So, if Jynxzi loses, I'll be a couple points out of being the second team in the league.
57:58But, I think that's all I got for y'all.
58:01Really appreciate you.
58:03And yeah, I hope you had a great Sunday today. I loved mine. And I hope I get to see y'all in the live stream
58:10tomorrow.
