Speaker 1: Woo.
Speaker 2: Waiver claims.
Speaker 3: Have to be made, and I've got trade proposals for
lying my way. My first round pig turned out to
be a big flop. I don't know which wide receiver
I need to drive. Doctor Roto give me the news.
I really don't know what I should do. My quarterback
keeps getting sacked. I've got a bad case of fair
deceive Blue.
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Are you a Pro Football Focus subscriber?
Speaker 1: I am. I mean it's changed over the years, if
I can say this, I mean I was there when
I started, when my friend Mike Clay worked there and
Jeff Radcliffe. I think the people there are good. It's
not as good as side as it used to see,
but you know, still has a good stats.
Speaker 2: I was going to look for the offensive line rankings
of the Texans according to PFF, and they wanted to
charge me. I'm like, screw that. I Am don't weren't
worrying about that right now, and I can just tell
you they suck generally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's usually an easy way to look at it.
You say who's let up the most sacks? And when
you see it's your team, you know it's not good.
Speaker 2: Hey, uh, I got a serious problem when we're gonna
have this coming in next Thursday's game with Buffalo in Houston. Look,
i'm Drake May yesterday and I wasn't expecting Drake May
to score you know, four touchdowns and three undred yards
every single week. But are you I just feel like
I'm noticing my my Thursday players and I'm you U
are not performing as well? Short week obvious, But is
it scare you off sometimes of picking a guy because
they're playing on the short week in your mind? Or
do you say, if you're still a good player, he's
always going to be a good player, don't worry about
the day of the week.
Speaker 1: The answer that question is yes to both things. So
I hate playing Thursday night guys. I absolutely despise it.
But are you going to say Drake May against the Jets,
no problem? Was he was good? He wasn't great. I mean,
would he put up to you fourteen about eighteen points? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Not enough that he usually it's a twenty one to
twenty two range.
Speaker 1: Because we get spoiled right when you guys do that. So,
you know, do we think Pavalent Henderson was going to
have all those touchdowns? No? I would call May's game good,
not great. You're going to need the rest of your
team to play well. But I agree with you those
Thursday games are rough. Sometimes they're high scoring and then
sometimes like I mean, we saw that horrible game the
other week, you know, with Denver and the Raiders, So
you just have to be very careful. I use my
guys very judiciously.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to some of the interesting games,
and I'm going to put him in terms of if
the Texans win this game, which were supposed to against Tennessee,
they're terrible. That puts them at five and five, you
got to start rooting for some other folks to lose.
Let's start with how we feel about the Jacksonville, LA
Chargers game. Going across the country is one thing. Chargers
are good on national stages, not so hot in non
national stages. And then what is luve for the Jaguars
after the humiliating loss they had last Sunday, here in Houston.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what a disaster that was. I think that if
you're the Chargers, this is a game that you need
to win, right if you want any chance of being
in the AFC playoffs. You've got to go on the road.
You got to fly across the country. You got to
play their early game, which we know that West Coast
teams hate doing. And you've got to win this one. Now.
Should they be able to win this game? I think so.
I think you're looking at a team. Gatston is fine.
We were worried when he left the field last week injury,
but he's back. You've got Quentin Johnson, You've got Lad McConkie,
you've got Keenan Allen. All you have to do is
keep the Jaguars deferens sacking Dustin Herbert. Here's the good news.
The Jaguars don't have a good pass rush. So the
one team that the teams that could beat the Chargers
right now are the teams that could sack Herbert. I
think Herbert will have time to pick them apart. And
if you give Herbert time, they should come out with
a road win.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's go Tampa Bay in Buffalo. I don't
know the what is gonna be like in northeastern New York.
But I know Tampa over its history, no matter how
good they've been, have struggled going say, north of Atlanta.
Buffalo is spectacular at home and really frankly pedestrian on
the road this so far this.
Speaker 1: Year, You're absolutely right. Now, here's the thing. Bucky Irving
is out, Chris Godwin is out. How do you beat
the Bills? You run the football on the Bills. So
unless Sean Tucker is doing it, I think they're in trouble. Right.
If Bucky Irving was healthy and playing, I think Tampa
would have had a better shot here. Now, how do
you beat Tampa? While you beat Tampa by throwing the
football because you can't run on Tampa. But shak but
King Caid is out. So I think you have two
teams that are good, but who could help them be
great or both out? So I think this comes down
to can Josh Allen find his receivers? Can James Cook
break off a big player two? I think that has
a better chance of happening. Also to I think Buffalo
is going to lose a game to Tampa after losing
to Miami. It doesn't feel that way. Give me buffalo
on this one.
Speaker 2: This game with Kansas City and Denver, I think Rodo
is super important for standings. Denver wants to be a
legitimate AMC title contender. Kansas City has had a tough schedule.
They're barely above fine hundred. They lose this and there
Flirt was staying on the south side of the playoff line.
Speaker 1: Well, you're right, So this game has a lot of
variables to it. First of all, I don't think JK.
Dobbins plays if he's out. R J. Harvey is going
to be their starting running back, So if you have him,
it's not the greatest start in the world because the
Chiefs are good defense. But he's definitely start a ball.
There's a possibility that Margaret Mims comes back and he
had a full practice so he's been playing. That really helps.
But they're not going to be able to run the
ball so much. They're gonna have to throw it. We
don't really see the Denver Broncos want to do that.
So now all of a sudden, you're getting a Denver
team that needs to pass against a Kansas City team
that knows it's coming right on the other side of
the football, Kansas City can't run, Pachecko likely is out again,
and Denver's pass defense has been good. So I think
you've got the makings of a really good football game.
But in terms of fantasy goodness, I don't know whether
we see a ton of guys go off in this one.
All right.
Speaker 2: Detroit plays at Philadelphia in a national game for the Eagles.
They played the Packers last week in one of the
most boring Monday night games you'll see in quite some time. Now. Look,
defense wins games but doesn't make an exciting for us
fantasy owners. Are we worried about the Eagles defense curtilling
what Detroit's been not being able to put out this year?
Speaker 1: Maybe slightly, but not enough. I mean, look, they finally
got Jamison Williams evolved. We've been waiting for that all
season long. But I love Alma Ross, Saint Brown, you
gotta love Gibbs, and you got to play golf. And
I think with Sam Laporten not at one hundred percent,
Jamison Williams might be in play. I think the guy
that people are sleeping on in this game is AJ Brown.
When AJ Brown starts complaining, they feed him the football.
It happens all the time, and Detroit plays a lot
of man coverage. You don't want to play man coverage
against AJ Brown. This is going to be one of
those AJ Brown one hundred and twenty yard two touchdown games.
I don't think people are expecting it, but it's going
to happen. Whenever he complains, they feed him.
Speaker 2: All right, doctor roto with us again into the bottom
of the arre. Your questions are coming up for the
next segment at seven one three, two, one two five
seven enemy. Is everything all well now in Baltimore? Now
that Lamar Jackson's back throwing the plasses around, I.
Speaker 1: Think things are as good as they're going to be.
I mean, look, they got to have a very winnable
game this week. They just have to keep Miles Garrett
away from Lamar. I don't know whether Derrick Henry is
going to be able to run for a ton of yards,
but he should be effective enough. But you guys, say Flowers,
you have Mark Andrews. You've got a defense that's playing
a whole lot better, which I think that was the
biggest problem. Marlon Humphrey is out, but you know you've
got a woozy a and you got Wiggins at the cornerbacks.
I think that helps. Rokwan Smith was out now he's back,
So I think so long as the Ravens defense is healthy,
it keeps them in games. The problem here for Cleveland
is that they just don't have enough offensively. I mean,
Dylan Gabriel is not good enough. Sure, I like Quinn
Shawn Judkins, but you know, Cedric Tillman not healthy, Harold
Fannon dealing with questionable as well in the practice reports.
They just don't have enough. Baltimore should pull this one out.
I really like Mark Andrews to score.
Speaker 2: Everybody wearing a Carolina skill position player and lug ric
o'donald has been largely a huge surprise for how good
he's been because of the split running back situation. But
have we been Are there any sneaky Carolina players that
still might be available, especially for some guys that may
be on an off week here?
Speaker 1: Not really, honestly, without without McMillan getting injured, And if
McMillan was injured, I tell you, I like Jalen Kolker,
but if McMillan's not injured, you literally have Rico dowdle
on to Troy McMillan, and that's it. You don't have
anybody else that they're even thinking of starting now. Atlanta,
though very interesting to me, Bjeon Robinson is going to
have a better week. Carolina's run defense has been both
hot and cold. I think it's going to be very
cold this week. Drake London is in a prime spot
and Kyle Pitts is in a great spot. All three
of those guys are in great spots. The big problem
is Michael Pennix Junior, who has been supremely inaccurate over
the last few games. If he can figure it out,
the Falcon should roll in this one.
Speaker 2: Minnesota needs this one in the worst way if they
want to get back in the NFC race. The only
two guys of the first play spot between Detroit and Chicago,
I think the division's only going to get maybe one,
and because I think maybe those teams in the West
may scoop up all the wild cards. But can Minnesota
with McCarthy back now a couple of weeks go up
with the Chicago offensive, which is really played well the
last month or so.
Speaker 1: The surprising answer is yes. Now, last week McCarthy was
throwing what I call hospital balls, he was putting guys
in positions that they were going to get whacked, and
you never want that. Felt like Justin Jefferson gave up
sometime in the second half because he was tired of
getting hit. McCarthy is a work in progress. This is
really his first season. He's going to have ups and
he's going to have downs. Here's the thing, Chicago doesn't
put a ton of pressure on the quarterback. If McCarthy
has time to sit there, he will be able to
pick apart this defense that allows big plays. I think
Jefferson does have a bigger week. I think Jalen Naylor
is a sneaky guy. I mean, McCarthy seems super comfortable
with him, and I think we're finally going to see TJ. Hockinson.
We haven't heard that name in weeks. I think he's
in play. On the other side, look, it's really really
hard to trust Caleb Williams. He's just a mess. But
I think we start DeAndre Swift for sure. Romadunze, you know,
not a great stylistic matchup here. I think if More
is out, take a look at Luther Burton. Minnesota's not
great against thlought receivers all right.
Speaker 2: Lastly, you've got the Texans and Titans. It sounds like
we know for a fact that CJ is not playing
this week. It sounds very doubtful for the Buffalo game.
In Mills, we trust against very few opponents. One of
them would be the worst team in the NFL a
Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1: Look, here is what Texans need to do. You need
to play Woody Marx. Okay, they did it last week,
but it was almost like they did it by accident.
You can't do it by accident. You have to do
it by design. Davis Mills did a credible job last week.
But you have Woody Marx and you have Nico Collins.
You've got to feature your best players. If you don't
even a bad team like Tennessee, if you keep it
close enough, strange things happen in the NFL MT and
we don't need that to happen here. We need the
Texans to play fantastic defense, which we know that they do,
and we need them to feature Woody Marx and get
him more involved. Why have we not seen Woody Marx
more involved in the passing game. This guy was one
of the best receiving running backs in all of college
football last year and basically he got two receptions. I mean,
you've got to do better than that. So, yeah, the
Texans should win this game. But if they really want
to make a push to go deep in the playoffs
or you make the playoffs, got to out Chubb faizing
Woody Marks.
Speaker 2: This sounds personal. You got you on team Woody Marks.
You guy must have like three teams with Woody Marks
on it.
Speaker 1: Well, a little bit, but I'm also you know what
it looked like personally. I hate when general managers and
coaches screw things up. It's like Traydon Henderson, Brabel didn't
want to play this guy. For how many weeks they
were playing Steven Sam when he was fumbling all over
the place. They finally played this guy. Look how good
he's been the last two weeks. It's like, ooh, Henderson
was good. Of course he was good. They just didn't
play him, didn't heat it up empty