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You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Fantasy best Friends Forever, m d do it, Dude, Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do don too. Yeah, the days the Fantasy best Friends forever, here on the Fantasy Sports right alongside for Reggie's damfull. I am Greg Susman, Greggy very excited here on Thursday night, on Thursday morning, excited for Thursday night. Finally got a good game, uh tonight again the Steelers and the Panthers after the the terrible,

atrocious game that was last week. Unless you're Nick Mollin's family, obviously the forty Niners and Raiders. That was a terrible game. But I'm excited, Greg, talk a little talk a little week Tan, I got some got some rankings up, quarterback rankings rankings, Best Fantasy five up and ready to go one two, three, four, five five times five up on Road of Experts, and uh, we'll talk to dr. Lots of injuries as well, always injuries, always injuries, and so

many more. Um, I want to start leaving on Bell because we've had this question for a while with d James Connor went to do with Leavy on Bell, especially as people's trade deadline started reaching, as we get closer to closer and closer to Thanksgiving. Is it possible here, Frankie, not possible, probable lady on Bell? The bell's like on Mac. Yeah, definitely, it definitely is a possibility. I've heard. I've heard other

fantasy shows, other NFL shows talk about it. You know, they can do a little uh, you know, a little back door, a little uh, you know, under the table kind of negotiation where all right, we won't give you the transition tag. You don't have to come back this year. You don't because look the way that the Steelers are playing right now. And I think it's a good transition because we'll talk about tonight's game and preview this. They're

playing well, the Steelers are playing good ball. They got off to a weird start, they were like one, two and one. They have now won four games in a row, sitting at five two and one now at the top of the a f C North once again, and James Conner is just playing lights out football right now. So why do you why would you want to bring back the distraction that is Levan Bell? And you know, I've

heard Corey and Gabe go back and forth. Uh. And I've heard, you know, Corey against Jim Day talk about, well, who's the better player? You know, statistically, We'll save that for another day. Who's a better player? All that matters is that behind the Steeler's offensive line, running backs have been able to produce no matter what their name is, whether it's Levian Bell, James Connor, D'Angelo Williams, going back to the days of you know, Rachard, Mennen Hall, all

these guys. I mean, they've always had a great run game and it has not changed. James Conner what he's doing right now is absolutely phenomenal. So this team is is both writing from an NFL perspective from a fantasy perspective. I don't see why they would want to bring back the distraction that is Levian Bell. So there's certainly a chance that you know, they just say, all right, well, let's both look the other way. Levian Bell doesn't return

this year, doesn't risk a chance of injury. Uh. And you know, he'll get into the off season and unrestricted free agent, some team will pay him a boatload of money, probably my New York Jets, because you know that's what they do do, and that'll be it. But as for this season, to answer your question, yes, there's certainly a chance that he does not play at all this season. And I you know, while we had that report, I don't know, sometime in week four, week five, we had

that ESPN report of it was just clickbait. And that's what I'm saying back then too. It's you know, all right, uh yeah, he's gonna report during the bye week, by weeks coming gone. Greg. Here we are sitting and getting ready for week ten, Thursday Night Football where the Steelers are gonna face the Panthers, and we don't have Levian Bell and field. So that was just you know, all these reports that you hear, and these cryptic tweets and all this stuff. I mean, you can try your best

to decipher it. What it comes down to is Levian Bell is not here, and I would not be surprised if he doesn't play again for the Steelers. I tweeted that up before the season. Here's the other side. But I've been on that the whole way you have been, and it's incredibly clear he's not playing the Steelers. I'm gonna say this, Frank, I will be surprised if he plays another down the Steelers. On the other way, now that I'm not surprised he doesn't play, I would be

surprised if he does play. That's how far I've gone. I probably could have got like nice odds to mean, everything's bettable, right, could asked Gabe about that. But you know, before the season, you probably could have bet does Levian Bell play another down in a Pittsburgh Steelers uniform? Oh, you could have got some pretty good odds on that. So, I mean that's the way that I've been leading the

entire time. I'm gonna stick with that. And you know, for all the people who are continuing to ask Levian Bell and James Conner questions, I understand there's a lot of uncertainty and people want answers, but to be honest, we don't have answers. I mean as much as as much time as we've wasted, and honestly, that's what it is. It's time wasted talking about Levian Bell and James Conner.

Nobody for sure has any answer. But the way that it looks right now is the Steelers are playing great football, great offensive football, great defensive football, and partially due to the way the offensive line is playing, the way James Conner is playing. Why why would they want to mess that up? I don't I don't see that happening. We got a new kicker on my demo, a new kicker, Greg Badley. Yeah, the first cousin of Marvin Bagley in the NBA. Quite Badgley. He's worse then Ryan's not at them,

going to be upset at you, sorry, Bud oh Man. Look, the charges are a potent offense. They should have a plenty of kicking opportunities. Uh, but you know they are cursed somebody I like I mentioned they have the someone has the voodoo doll with the Chargers kicker and they just keeps stabbing his leg and every single year, like clockwork, whoever the Chargers signed to be their kicker is terrible.

It's like they forget how to kick a football when they go and to Los Angeles to kick for the Chargers. Right before we get into any more fantasy football, were you a child movie star? No? Really, really, I will say this. I will say this. This is embarrassing. Nobody knows. This never says in the air before Oh, you're starting Home Alone. I know that. The Yeah, they put that up. Huh, we're putting that up. Sat out to Greg Martinez, a

longtime listener and viewer of the BFFs Uh. I tweeted out a picture of your face, which is just so great when we're reading Hussan White like white size. That was a good edition. It was a great recap. Thank you. But I was like, all right, I can't let this go. So I tweeted that out and our guy Greg Martinez set this back, this picture of you starring in Home Alone too, where you know, obviously your parents left you in New York. Greg, do you want to know a

true story? Yes, side side to that. So when I was four years old, I believe four or five, I took acting lessons. My friends thought I was going to my friends, my family, my parents. I thought I was going to be like this child of the actor. For really,

I started snow White. I was dope. What's yeah, I was dope and literally was acting school when I was upset that I was doobe and my parents like, listen, that's a that's a huge part, like you're not doc but like that's a huge part because you get to really act rather than one of the useless worse right, Yeah, so it was five. I was five at the time, because when I turned six, you was time to sign

up racting school again. And I had been in some some productions previously, but when I was six, my parents really thought I was gonna be this actor, Like, all right, you want to sign up racting schools, you know what, then we're gonna take a year off and play soccer instead, really, you know, do like normal kid things. So I really into the really into soccer, really like the Yankees at this point, um, and and they like football. Say, I think we've focused on sports for the next year and

not acting. And it's been twenty five years since I took acting lessons, and it seems, frank that that ship has held. Probably could have been a great actor. I mean, don't you know what I think they thought it was. I was gonna be Haley Joel Osmond and it just didn't happen. Do you know who that is? Hally Joel Osmond. It's a good frank one. No, no, no, no, no, Haley Joe Joel Osmond. Al right it right now? Though? Yes, great Google, Oh I know this. Uh, this was the

person in like the sixth sense. He was a kid in the sixth sense. Yes, I mean what does he do now though, like there's there's no way he does anything. He's an actor still. He was in Um, he's an adourage, he's the Age movie. Actually, Mike Snino traded to the rays. Greg, that was yesterday. Well, it just officially, I just got the frank, we're talking about my acting career. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry to take away anyway. Anyway, I could have been all Joel Osmond. Instead, here I am next to you.

I'd rather be here next to me. And really, you want to be this guy, Greg, If you would be Haley Joe Osmond, that's how you. You would have had a beard. You would have you would have had the long last beard. Even we've been we've been clamoring for after all these years. Here's the thing, Frank about that would have that could have been you so last Friday, Yeah, that could have been you so so last last Friday, I had grown my facial hair out. It had been over a week, gonna have since I told you to

keep doing You didn't. You didn't really say anything. You didn't even know we had this exact conversation. You didn't notice it enough. It was we probably had the conversation. You didn't notice it. Some best friend you are. You don't even listen to me when I talked, I do listen to you. Didn't I did. We were on this show and I said, Greg, please grow out your facial hair. What do we have to do? We had that that was previously. I saw the little stubble and I was

like more, we need more. Shaved the neck at the time to be more, and I was like, I mean maybe you're just addicted to shaving, so just shave underneath. But then I had like ingrowns growing on the cheek. I was like, this is gross. No it's not. I did man, and man, it wasn't. I had the ingrowns. I can't have that looks terrible. Now I got a haircut. I'm freshly shaving. I feel so much better. No, I literally, folks. I went to the bathroom yesterday. I looked, I was

washing my hands. Look in the mirror. How's it, Greg? What are we doing? We're not even trying right now. We gotta be better. And after that, I was like, my haircut today, Well, I mean, who do you have to impress? Greg? You're already gatting myself? No? You watching? No? No, like I want them to look at me and be like, Judy loves you the way you look good? It look good. No. I can't tell you the countless amounts of people who

have tweeted me begging for bearded Greg. It's just those are most of the notifications that agivity is not one of them. I mean, but does that really matter? Think about this next year, Greg, You're throwing me the best twenty eight year gir old birthday party that I could ever ask for. Speaking, it's on the side you're getting married to Judy speaking twenty seven year old birthday parties.

Frank taking his birthday off tomorrow. I am well. I was kind of demanded to by by my fiance, like I really want to take you out and you ask Greg if you could get off, all right, I'll try. I don't. I don't really want to like leave my my peeps, my f and ts, why peeps behind with you know, a lot of work to do. I'll ask, I'll see what I could do. It was like, yeah, that's fine because I'm out the next week. Well it was more of of course they of course they could

lay off, no problem what I said. And it's gonna be great because I'm to drink a bunch of beer tonight and I'm gonna watch the game and I don't worry about waking up absolutely, and I can also catch the end of the Bucks Warriors. So I'm very very excited for tonight. That's great night in sports. That's awesome. Frank, enjoy your day off tomorrow. Do your enjoy your enjoy your wedding next Friday. Greg's not my wedding next Friday. Well, the wedding that you will be attended, Yes, I will,

I will. Um. All right, let's get some football. So in my league just just now. Maurice Harris is not picked up yesterday on the week, claimed he was picked up today for zero dollars. Do not by me because I missed that because it's like a bad job by you, id I mid zero dollars and he went someone else for zero dollars. Today, I wouldn't just been a dollar, don't know. Do you know that? Do you know who

was dropped for Warriors Harris? I will guess was dropped Kenny Stills, Derrick Henry, Derrick Henry, Yeah, I mean he's completely droppable. The way the way that the pendulum has swung in the Tennessee Titans backfield right now, Dion lewis back to back games with twenty plus touches with for a hundred total yards in both of those games. It looks like the the go to running back for the

Tennessee Titans offense right now. And you know what we what we were saying about the Bears offense a couple of weeks ago, is that if an offense is thriving using a certain player as the lead back or getting that player more involved, why would they go away from that? Who would you rather own right now? Derrick Henry happing with the Titans right now, they just put up twenty points against the Cowboys. What's the question, Who would you

rather own right now? Derrick Henry or Carlos Hide. Uh, I I would rather own Derrick Henry because he's He's part of a two man backfield, whereas the Jaguars are three. So even if Leonard Fournette goes down, all those Hide's still gonna have to battle with t J Yeldn for touches, whereas if Dean Lewis goes down Derrick Henry should you know, easily see fifteen plus touches. But I will say Derrick Henry at this point in time is droppable. I was

actually looking at his game log last night. The guy hasn't had over like teen carries since it was like week three or four. His his carriers have just been all over the place. And uh, you know, I don't I don't necessarily blame the Titans either, because he hasn't been that effective. Neither at this point have been effective. Derrick Henry has scored uh in back to back weeks. Of course, the carries have gone down, as Frank mentioned, but he's getting in the end zone finally. Yes, right,

that's good. Yeah, but in those games he has twenty seven and thirty three yards respectively. Uh. What I was referencing was he hasn't had more than twelve carries since Week three when he faced the Jaguars and he had eighteen carries. Since then, it's been eight eleven, seven, twelve six. So that's like, you know, every other low end flex option that we ranked that's in that area. Yeahlijah McGuire, I mean even like lower than that, Hayton Barber, guys

like that. That's that's like the uh, the mold that he's in right now for fantasy purposes. Okay, Um, what else we have going on right now in the NFL? We have doctor right coming up next, by the way, at twelve twenty Eastern time, he will join the program um in Philadelphia, and Aaron Sprawls, we're supposed to return this week, aggravates the hamstring injury. So one last one

less running back to compete against. Frank. I know you're always against the Eagles running backs, but as I said to you last week, I picked up Josh Adams and holding onto him and see what I have just interested? Yeah, I don't have a lot of interest in really any of the Eagles running backs. I have Wendell Smallwood ranked the highest of them this week, just because he saw the highest snap percentage the last time the Eagles played.

But Josh Adams, Yeah, I mean, I don't have a problem with stashing him on the end of your bench just to see, if you know, what he did in that game, but before the bye actually meant anything because he was he was running effectively. UM, was running strong with good efficiency. UM. So we'll see what happens. But the Eagles overall haven't been able to run the ball

all that well this season. That's why. That's part of the reason I liked Carson Wentz and brought him up yesterday as a by low candidate, because they bring in Golden Tape kind of a guy who's like an extension of the run game. A lot of passes us to the line of scrimmage and see what he could do after the catch. They have Alston Jeffrey, they have Zach Ert. So I do think that we're gonna see more passing

volume out of the Eagles and Carson Wentz. Um, you're all about Carson Wentz and buying in the second half of the year. Yeah, And look, it's just it's it's what it's always been for Doug Peterson. This is why I didn't like the Eagles running backs coming into the year. It's a it's a three headed monster, which is not really a monster because it's like, who are these running backs on the field anyway, So like, who do you depend on in this back field for more than twelve

carries a game? Probably nobody. You're just hoping for lightning on the bottle. Yeah, yeah, you'll see if if one of Smallwood or Clement goes down and then then like if if it becomes a two person backfield, then maybe we'll see something out of Josh Adams. But I'm I really don't want to depend on the Eagles Eagles running backs for any type of fantasy value here that makes sense even desperation times by still here. Yeah, look we still have I believe we have four teams on a

bye this week. We either have four or six teams on a buy next week. So we'll see what happens. Again, I don't mind status Josh Adams and say see what happens here, But by no means do I think either him or small would have a ton of upside movie for fair enough when we come back, dr a inside Injuri is gonna join us and we're the latest on a j Green, How serious is this injury? According to the good doctor, He'll let us know when we return.

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Visit today that with you. Fantasy best Friends Forever Fantasy Sports Radio Network. So hometown Heller just text and me. He's like, hey, interesting pick up in Fantasy And you know that's so weird. You're you're listening to the fs UM and your hardest talking about Marise Harris and he's like, no, I'm already Harris, Like, oh, you're talking about my kicker

pick up of Marvin Marvin Bagley. He's like no, Like, the only other person picked up today was the the Bengals defense, Like who car just thought it was interesting by you, Like why are you who Guards are the Bengals defense picked up. The Bengals defense play against No news that whoever they play next week? They play Baltimore next week, then Cleveland, then Denver, and then the playoffs are the Chargers, Oakland and Cleveland. Greg, Yeah, what are

you doing here? What do you mean? What are you doing? Throwing things in Baltimore? You're gonna stash a defense for like the fantasy playoffs? Is that what you're trying to do? Next week Baltimore? No? You know? Yeah? He have with the Jets next week they ever buy the Bengals. The Bengals defense has not been good. I do my thing, very bad. They actually allow the most passing yards in the NFL right now, Oh maybe that'll go down as New Orleans not likely. Dr Ay from inside injuries joins

us right now, Doc, how are you, sir? I'm good, guys, how are you? I'm happy to report that, Uh, for the last three years, my son and his fantasy league has never won. This year, he got serious and downloaded the app and worked off of inside injuries, and he has basically all but one his league before even the tenth week has started. Well, that's damnit impressive. Dr damn impressive.

So so I just want to let you know, I want to report that shout out to the young Dr. A is it Doc Junior jor J Alright, Hey, Doc, I mentioned before A J. Green him and we were coming into the segment with you A J. Green. So Dr Robert Anderson, which is usually a terrible sign for your foot. Um, rest and rehab is what we've been told. Although we'll see what happens in the future. We know he's rule Otte this week and next week already. What

are you seeing reading and hearing when it comes to A. J. Green. Yeah, So this is not the first time that he had a toe injury in two thousand and fourteen that sidelined him for a month back then. And you know, these are one of these things. Turf toe recurs a lot. Now. Um, you know, we may not have known it, but I almost guarantee you he's been playing through a really minor

case of turf to probably every season. But it's now gotten to the level of, you know, so so much significant pain that he had to actually take time off the field. And so because of the fact that he has had this before, you know, right now, um, you know, the really what we're looking at his week thirteen at a minimum possibly you know, week four teen, so um, you know that's that's essentially what we're projecting. But this

is a very very sensitive thing. I mean, if he's had if he has surgery on this, then he's done for the season. I mean, you can't come back from total, you know. So this is really just a conservative approach to see if it heals and to see if they can pain managers thing through the rest of the season either way. You know, he was a high injury risk, high reward guy for us. He's at thirty three percent right now obviously, and when he gets to week thirteen,

we'll see where that percentage goes up to. If he gets to then we feel more confident. But the likelihood of him getting to that is very low. And as usual Greg and Duck uh fantasy owners trying to be the smartest guys and gals in the room, are you know, they see an injury like this occur and they think, oh, well, I'm already I'm seven and two, I'm six and three. You know, I'm already set for the playoffs. I'm gonna go out and acquire a j Green so that he

can help me win a championship. That's a risky move right now, isn't it. Oh, that's a tremendously risky move. Um. You know, this type of injury will significantly hamper a wide receiver and any or any football player. And if you try to go pick him up, um, you know, and he has surgery, then you know then basically you've wasted that. Or even if he does play again, he's really going to be hampered to perform like this. He may play very limited snaps and be more of a decoy, etcetera.

I mean, this is what he's looking looking towards. You know, when the team says no timetable for return, that means that it's pretty significant. And that's what they have to say. They're not going to release what he has. So that's an issue, like you said, Frank, and um recommending against it. Clearly. Clearly somebody yesterday traded away a J Green for Marie Cooper and somebody else tweet about it was like a Marii Cooper and means like Dion Lewis type running back.

Not bad. And I thought if you could turn an that now for anything, And you know, we spoke about Amari Cooper has one of the best remaining schedules for for a wide receiver this year for fantasy purposes that on the other end of the spectrum, if you could pull that off, that's something that I would look into. But again, having injury optimisms before a wide receiver at the elite talent that he is, but dealing with this

level of foot injury, it seems too too optimistic. It's something I wouldn't be doing, and it's something that doctor E advises against as well. Doc. We've had a few weeks where thankfully we haven't had to talk about Leonard four Nett, But as of now it looks like he's going to return in week ten. He returned to practice of return to full practice yesterday for the Jaguars. So what are we expecting out of Leonard four net Is he is he the healthiest he's going to be? Is

this his optimal recovery time? And I know, you know, you know, you don't normally specialize in like projections, but a lot of people are asking us, well, how many carries can we expect from Leonard Fournett? Does he get like seventy five of the workload? What do you think his body can hand the right now, well, I think his body can handle full of workload now. Um, you know a r HTR was week nine and so there you know, so he should have been ready last week,

and you know, maybe they're giving him an extra I'm not. Um, the Jacks were not on BI last week. I don't believe, right, So I think they were, Oh they were, yeah, okay, So I mean he has an extra week and boom. You know, he should be really really ready to go. He's at eight one percent, which is peak health. Um. You know that's basically our pent is like your essentially

the only thing that concerns us. You know, this hamstring has been healed now, it's been aggravated once, and he's given the best possible chance now to not reaggravate it again. Um uh. And so his injury risk is eighteen percent. It's not low, it's elevated and it will stay that way. So he is in peak health. He should be ready to go, But he does go into that game with an eighteen percent chance of another injury or recurring that injury, because you can't piss off a hamstring again in the

same season. Expect to be Scott free. You know, the rest of the season, you have to really expect that there's a chance that this hamstring may get injured again or the opposite hamstring. Remember, there's a big psychological component, you know, he doesn't want to reinjure that one, and by not reinjuring that one, he has this compensatory force on some other body part and then boom, you have a Grade one m c L or something like that. So again that's why the injury risk is elevated. But

he is at peak health. He's ready to go. This would this would be the week for him to come back. They gave him all the time in the world, Frank to get better. Finally, after redid reinjure that hamstring once before we saw what Dalvin Cooks, an exact thing happened. All of these guys now back on the field, will they remain I think that's the question we have to determine. Yeah, and what we'll be able to see it this week.

It's kind of hard to rank Leonard for NET. I haven't have him as a low end RB two as of right now. Again, I don't think that we get twenty touches out of for NET anymore. We're probably more than that, like sixteen range, because they do have capable backups behind him with TJ. Yelden and Carlo hid So. I don't think he sees the full workwood that he

did before. But according to Doc, all systems go right now for Leonard four Nette heading its weeks ten absolutely and will all systems be ago for Rob Drinkowski this week Doc, as he returned from injury and then reaggravates the injury. And the last couple of weeks the Patriots have played Sunday Night and Monday Night and there's just been no there's been a lot of worry. Actually not no worries, but it's hard of worry from fantasy owners. What do you do about Rob Gronkowski? Good news not

the cases week. It's one o'clock game against Tennessee Titans. What's the latest on Gronk? Yeah, you know, we've at inside injuries, we downgraded him. We had him at a Grade one back injury. Now we've downgraded him to a grade two um because we we strongly feel based on everything that we're seeing that he has some sort of disk problem. Um. You know, you don't do typically this doesn't usually occur when it's paraspinal muscular. Sure, it's like

a muscle muscle problem, spasm or something like that. And with the three back surgeries and all the other injuries that he's had, Um, you know, this looks like to be a disc problem. Now. Having said that, Um, these types of things, ken Ric Kurm, you know, disc bulges out and pushes up against the nerves. A player can't do anything, you know, even an NFL football player with all the pain management techniques. So you know, this is

something that's going to be concerning now. So he was at peak healthy, dropped to seventy five cent, so he didn't drop all the way to fifty percent, which is you know, the concerns. So I think he needs to rest. We think he needs to rest this week and come back the following week because he really really needs to be ready for the playoffs. I don't I don't. I don't think the Patriots will actually you know, be uh

they shouldn't need him in this game. But um, you know we're recommending one more week of rest before they put him back on the field. Right, it looks like we're the Rob Gronkowski thinks, because this is the first year that I've ever owned Robronkowski in fantasy, and it was on the team that you and me and Michael four all shared together. So I think we're probably just the grunk jinks, right, That's what it is. Probably. I mean,

even when he fit on the field, he hasn't been himself. Right, Like, the one thing that you've always said about Cronk is hey, at least when he plays, you know, you're getting the top tight end in football. Uh, well, not in the note, but doc. Something that you know, along the same lines as Gronk, a pretty consistently injured player throughout the years has been Sammy Watkins and I know a couple of years ago, even before last season, before this season, you consistently,

you know, spoke about Sammy Watkins and his foot. I know he had surgery a couple of years ago. The guy seems like he basically has a mechanical foot at this point. Um, he didn't practice Wednesday. I would be surprised if he suits up this week. Is this something that's going to hamper him for the rest of the season. Yes, that's really the only Unfortunately, that's the only thing we can say. This is the other foot though, right, so the left foot that he had all those surgeries on

and the fracture left foot. You know, but this is very classic compensatory uh injury to the other foot. When you have surgery on one foot and in the fracture, you know, you're always going to have this compensatory type of force that's always there and you don't know when it's gonna come back. And it's a Grade one foot injury, so that's good. It's not a great two or grade three, which would indicate a fracture. So it's a grade one. But um, you know, again, Sammy Watkins was high injury

risk for us. He was a really high risk, high reward type of guy. Now you know he's high risk and he's at seventies six percent. We're projecting him to come back week eleven. That's his optimal recovery time where he should be coming back. So he should miss this week, which I think they're expecting him to do, he'll be back up to peak health for this particular injury. But guys, he's at thirty percent injury risk. So if he plays in this game, it's one out of three chance in

that game he's gonna get injured. So that's pretty high. That's your boy. It's not my boy, it's your boy. Chris Venturous favorite player, Sammy Watkins. Great. You know what's crazy. If you had to guess how old Sammy Watkins is, what would you say? He's really young. He seems like he's been in the league for however, he seems like it seems like he's Randall Cob right, right, it seems like he's just like right, he's he's been through the grinder,

he's like the blenders. He's twenty five years old, and it feels like his body's We're always talking about Sammy Watkins being injured, like the guy is Randall Cob. I bet you Randall cop is probably even that old either. Look it up. Speaking of wide receivers that are hurt, Spon Diggs missed last week's game with an injury. What's the latest when it comes to Svon Digs. Yeah, so a good thing that he missed last week's uh game,

because you know that rib was not going to hold up. Um, you know it's not likelihood, it's not fractured, but um, right now we have him for you know, optimal covery time at week ten, so he's ready to come back. He's right. You know, he's at right now sixty seven percent by game time, Um, he should be above seventy seventy five percent. Um, you know, he's at elevated injury

risk in ninetent he's probably gonna stay there. Um. You know, this is a guy that's been banged up before, but with this particular injury, Um, it should have healed and you know, optimal recovery time lands him coming back in week ten. Alright, so week ten, it's not terrible, ran, No, that's that would be this week. But the Vikings are gonna buy, so that makes sense by yeah, so it makes sense a week eleven he'll be ready to go. He always like Melvin going right. They held him out.

They held him out, and it was like the Vikings finally did the right thing with one of their star offensive they learned from Dalvin Cook. Doc. I want to ask you about Chris Carson. We've been getting a lot of questions about him, uh and whether he's gonna go Obviously if he doesn't, Mike Davis looks like he checks in as a solid RB two this week. But Chris

Carson dealing with a thigh and a hip injury. I know, the hip injury has popped up multiple times throughout the season, and they said earlier on in the week they don't expect Chris Carson to practice much. And with that, I would imagine if he doesn't practice much and the fact that he's dealing with multiple injuries right now, we likely don't see Chris Carson in week ten. Is that how you were viewing it? And if so, when do we

expect for his Carson back? Yeah, definitely not this week. Um, you know, he this is the classic again compensatory force. This is like sort of the theme for this week. Uh, you know, week four, hip injury, then he kept playing through it, then he picked up another hip injury week eight. Now he has a Grade one thigh injury, which is essentially right next to the hip, and so he's you know, doing a lot of these he's hurting other body parts by continuing to play through this injury. So this is

a re reaggravated type injury. I mean, the guys he's at percent right now. Um, I don't see him getting above sixty. So in week eleven when he comes back, even though he may be healed from this particular injury, he won't get above sixty to sixty five percent, and he's at injury risk and he's gonna stay there. This is a guy we are throwing up all the red flags on essentially, you know, um, sort of, I don't know if he's going to be productive for anyone for

the rest of the season. Yeah, and that's been a major issue for him all year and for news of him all year. Yeah. And you got to make sure that you own Mike Davis. If you own Chris Carson and own Mike Davis, whether you don't own Chris Carson Mike Davis. Now it's seventy percent ownership on CBS Sports dot Com leagues. But we've seen in games where Chris Carson doesn't play or has left, Mike Davis plays in over seventy of the snaps. He's seen at least twenty

two touches in each one of those games. So while the team drafted Rashad Penny in the first round, we've seen that when Chris Carson is out, Mike Davis is the next man. It's not Rashad Penny, it's clearly Mike Davis. We're talking to doctor from inside injuries. Just a couple of minutes left, and Frank, I wanted to make sure we get to your boy, yebow boy, Sam Donald, I'm gonna be honest withy doc. As a injury expert like yourself, You're not gonna have Frank has been tweeting all week.

Oh yeah, I've been tweeting. I will. I will tell the doc what I'm saying as a diehard Jet fan, And I'm sure the doctor would say the same thing if he was dealing with well, he could say he knows the track. Well, we're about to find out. But I think this is a phantom injury doc. It doesn't have anything to do with sports medicine, and I'm not

doubting that. But if you look at the state of the New York Jets and where they are at right now, Todd Bowles, I believe input Josh McCown as a starting quarterback because he thinks he gives them a better chance to win and he's trying to save his job. I know that Sam Donald, there was a sack this past week where he came up limping. He definitely could have heard himself on that play. But I just find it weird that right after the game we didn't hear anything

about this injury. Monday on a conference call, we didn't hear anything about this injury from Todd Bowls. And then Wednesday, all of a sudden, he's in a walking boot and they already ruled him out. So it's just kind of a weird, uh, series of unfortunate events for Jet fans and Sam Donald alike. But what's the latest song? Yeah, So I think the Jets fever and emotion has clouded, uh the normally the normal logical thought process that you

normally go through. Uh, you know, I think that I think the injury is real, but I think it's really mild. So I think it's one of those things guys, where a team is given they have the excuse they need to bring it, put put another guy in essentially, so great is on my side. It's it's a grade one foot sprain. UM, very minor. You know, he'll be out for week ten. Um, they have a bye week eleven. I mean project you know, optimalcovery puts him back to

play this week according to us, and he's out. So I don't think he has a great I mean, our metrics are not saying grade two. It's grade one so, um, you know he's gonna have plenty of time to rest for this injury. Um, and so I don't know, maybe you you're half right? How about that? Yeah, there you go. I'm gonna clip that out and send it to the New York. Yes, I'm gonna send it to miniche Mat. I'm gonna send it to all these guys. I'm full of dry said DRR inside injuries. Will do it all

again next week. Thank you for your time, sir. Alright, guys, thanks a lot of a great week. Alright, we'll take a break here. When we come back, we reveal we want now right, he's quarterback and tight end ranking for week number ten. It's think are around More come in your way right after this. If you're someone that needs fantasy sports advice every day, the Fantasy Sports Radio Network has you covered. When you download the n T S Y Sports Radio Network GAP, you get the top fantasy

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It's about the closest I get to golf. I would try pitching, but I've never tried it. True story. Um, when I was just engaged the day of the g SC draft, I told my now fiance that we were going minigolfing with Frank and Kinga right after the g s T draft, and we did not well, it was a it was a trick. You told me this until now told you that. Yeah, I didn't give you my permission.

I was like, Hey, I'm gonna be at the g s T. He was across from a very good mini golf course, and I said, hey, he probably hates me now because I was part of a Why after your interview, why don't you come meet me and Frank of the GST. We're gonna be drinking mirrors, Kings meeting us there as well. We're all gonna be a mini golfing. Are you get a mini golfing? I'm not bad, I'm pretty good, are you? I played a lot on that, pretty much like every vacation I've ever been on. I'd say at least two

of the night's minigolf. I tell a quick minigolf story. No, Ben's how quick. I guess all right, so less all my friends and all my friends and girlfriends went mini offing, right, we did, and we split it up six verses six whatever, guys and girls mixed, and we get the final hole, and wouldn't you know it, it's tied. It's completely tied between Team one in team two. It all comes down to the eighteen the whole. And you know, I think I got three. I think like a three what I

was supposed to get on the whole. We're not under in my job, into my job, and you go back and forth, and Judy's up and all she needs to do. Team Judy's up, and she just need to do her jobs, like get the three or the four. And my, my poor girlfriend at the time, she takes the club right, and you see her shaking, and we're obviously commentating, we're screaming, like we're all into it, right, she is that nervous shaking. Oh, she takes the swing. She hits the ball one inch

and it falls backwards. She's like, she's a pretty good minioff player, especially you know, so obviously she's obviously she never watched Kobe Bryant. But she she loses the This is a stroke, of course, now after her third swing, she does it again. She was so nervous she missed it twice. So now at this point, do you what level are you at? Are you Are you feeling bad or you like horrible, feel bad for her, or you're mad at her because you're like you had one job.

I feel bad. I feel bad for her. I feel bad for her. So she gets whatever the max was that we did seven or six sevens on that um, And she'll tell you the same thing. So, wouldn't you know it's the last girl on our team needs to get like a two on the whole to tie it, you know, to tie us and set us into a sudden death holds it hole in one and we win. I literally picked her off and like for like, we all held her off the cheer. So we we just did like a random it's just like a random beers

on on it. Whatever. But it was awesome, nice, Oh my god, not performing. Never seen her so nervous in my life. I don't know what I would have done. I feel like I probably would have just like Hounded Kingdom and be like, what the hell are you doing? That wouldn't have helpful situation? Yeah, probably not the situation um. By the way, if you use the NBA DNFs optimizer on Daily Roder dot com, you're doing it right. That's

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we unbail your rankings. Yes, it's under the best Fantasy five. You'll be in the show. I mean think we're having a good show. Yeah, No, we're having a great We're having a good time. There's not the goal here. Yeah, I'm having a great time. Hope everyone else is having a great sure, I'm sure they are. Let's reveal the quarterback rankings Frankie for Frankie Stanfield this week. You can check him out at rotosport dot com. Frankie Stanvil the best ranker right now? You don't know many I don't.

I don't any more, you don't. The first thing that you obviously notice is tonight's game. Of course, Steelers and Panthers will make our picks going up. Uh in about ten minutes from now. You have Ben Rathlisberger ranks your sixth overall quarterback, and yet consensus wise he's outside the top ten. What makes you have big band ranks so high? Yeah, it seems a little bit interesting to me. I don't know why. The rest of the industry is kind of

out on big bend. But he normally thrives in these primetime games, and I know he's not He's not a big proponent of Thursday night football. Obviously, a lot of players don't like playing on the short week. But look, the Panthers are pretty much a middle of the pack defense. I mean, they're not scaring anybody. A lot of people look at the Panthers like they're a defense of years past. They're not. They're not as good as they used to be.

Their secondaries made up of a lot of a lot of younger players, you know, for second third year players. So I'm not scared by any means. I think Big Ben is in a in a position here to put up three D and two, maybe even more than that. I just think we get points back and forth here, which obviously, when you look at the game total at fifty one, I think, actually, uh, picking a winner or picking against the spread in this game tonight it is a little bit more difficult. But I do like the

one point total. I like I like going over that number here. Again. You know, we we started the show off talking about the Steelers offense and how potent they've been with James Conner back there. Uh, they're rolling right now, so I'm gonna look at them to continue to score points here. Antonio Brown, I know if you were listening to uh to the morning show, you heard them talking about Antonio Brown pulled over with some kind of uh driving traffic violation, whatever it might be. Um, he's gonna

play tonight, not worried about that. And the Anthers actually the lead fantasy points to slot receivers, So I look at this as a bounce back spot for Juju Smith Schuster as well. We just saw Adam Humpreys go off for over eighty yards and two touchdowns, So I think it's a good spot for Antonio Brown, Juju. The Panthers have been better against running backs lately, but James Conner is absolutely matchup proof. Greg. Yeah, James Connor's matchup proof,

no doubt. The Panthers also allowed the most tight ends. Like he said, slot receivers. You're surprised that the industry is kind of out on Big Ben tonight. He's outside the top ten for fantasy purposes. Just it doesn't really make a lot of sense. Do you think it's a Thursday thing? It might be. I mean, it could be that, you know, everyone just likes the quarterbacks around him a

little bit better than that. And I mean, if you look at who the consensus has ranked higher, Fitzpatrick against Washington, I mean I think I think the the Washington defense will play better this week Philip Rivers at Oakland. Philip Rivers can easily go off for like two seventy five and two and maybe three touchdowns. But are they gonna need Rivers to do all that much? Like you're gonna get up big, and I know like part of them

getting up big is gonna be Philip Rivers scoring. But I just don't know that it's going to demand much. I just I just see more of a back and forth type of game tonight, where you know, Big Ben drives on the field, Cam Newton drives on the field, and we see points on both sides, and it's it's kind of gonna force the Big Ben to have to throw the ball tonight. Yeah, I I get. I think it's gonna be a good game. It's gonna be I think it's gonna What was the over under in this game?

I would take the over. Typically, I like the over a lot because defenses just aren't. Football is not meant to be played on you know, only three days rest, and they're not they're not ready for it. Not I mean physically they're not ready for it. I know, it's stupid. Goes over every week. Yeah, I would take the old and we had the under last week with the forty Niners game just barely got it because the ineptitude of

the John Druden and boys the Raiders. But typically Thursday night games have gone over the number this year, Um, I'm probably did the over. Well, the Panthers are plus three and a half. Do you like that more? Look? This is this is a close look. Both both teams are. They're five and three against the spread, both teams, and you look at their their record straight up. The Panthers are six and two, they're absolutely rolling right now. But the Steelers are five two and one so to very

very evenly matched football teams. So that's why I think it's a little bit harder to choose against the spread tonight, to choose a winner for this team. That's why if I'm gonna do anything, I'm looking at the total there and obviously some prop beds. I haven't looked into the props, but that's that's probably somewhere you want to look as well. Obviously, if we expect points to be scored, we should expect

some props to go over the number as well. Okay, so we'll get into that again and make our official picks about five minutes from now. In your quarterback rankings, you also have Jerry Goth inside your your top ten, but quite barely, and everybody else has them a little bit higher. I don't want to say don't let Jared Goth this week, because you do. He's inside your top ten, but why just a little bit lower on Jarry Goth than everybody else. I think this is a big Todd

Girly week. And if you look at the way Vegas very frustrating. Yeah, you look at the way Vegas is is predicting this game to uh to kind of play out here. The Rams coming off a huge loss against New Orleans Saints, coming back home in Los Angeles ten

point favorites against the Seahawks. And I know typically these two teams play each other close, but I think this is one of the games where the Rams are gonna be up big and kind of take out their frustration and losing last week against the Saints and they pound the Seahawks. So um, look, I think that Jared Goff can throw one, maybe two touchdowns. I just don't know that much is going to be asked of him. And

we've seen this year. In games where Todd Gurley goes off, those are the games that typically limit the upside of Jared Goff. I just think that's kind of the game flow for this one. I think we see a big Todd Gurley game and week tending it's the sea people are talking about this, Frank related to your quarterback or tight end rankings. UM, Kansas City is nine now and coin tosses this year. That's an interesting stat And if you go back to the preseason there at twelve and

now the last year, you know that you could. I think that there are ways you do it in the Super Bowl. I don't know if you could do it for just like regular season games. I don't know. Probably could. You gotta imagine you could. So, I mean just looking through looking through Jared Goff's uh game look back to back games with the three at least three passing touchdowns against the Saints, he had three against the Packers. He had three last time out against the Seahawks on only

one touchdown two interceptions. So there have been a there's been at least there have been three games this year where he had he has had one touchdown or less. There's been five games where he's had two touchdowns or less. I just think it's one of those games where we get a lot of tied Gurley. We might get like, who's seventy five and two out of Jared Goff, which you know we'll make him a top ten quarterback. But I just I just don't know that he has big

upside this week. Yeah, I get it, I get it. Would you rather play Goffer big Ben tonight or that think Ben tonight? Thank you? Thank you for making me feel good about me? Right yeable Um, Andrew Luck, you have two spots ahead of Baker Mayfield. That was my decision this week. I'm gonna go with Luck because he just throws so many touchdowns per game. Something else really stands out to me. You have played borders pretty high

because your boy jim Sonnas likes Blake Portles. I don't think I have him that high in relation to the players that he's right around. It's just ahead of Alex Smith. And I know Alex Smith faces Tampa Bay this week, but with that offensive line in shambles, Uh, Alex Smith doesn't typically throw the ball all that much. I just don't love the spot here for Alex Smith. Dak Prescott actually does have a good matchup against Philly, but it's you know, the ineptitude of of the Cowboys offense to

play calling. I still do like u Amari Cooper a lot. Because the Eagles have given up the fourth most fantasy points to opposing wide receivers this season. Mariotta just behind Blake Bortles as well, could be in an okay spot against the Patriots here at home as home dogs. But uh, it's basically just I don't like the matchups or these spots that these quarterbacks are in. Who are just behind

Blake Bortles. Um In two games against the Colts last year, for what it's worth, he threw for at least three hundred yards and both of those. Uh, and Blake Bortles what he does with his legs this here, I mean he's averaging over thirty rushing yards per game. He's he's fifth among quarterbacks and rushing yards this year too. Um So I just I like all those things a little bit more than the quarterbacks. Uh. We'll have ranked just behind him, and with that we say goodbye on YouTube.

Coming up next, Fantasy Football Frenzy, Corey Parson, Jim Day, and Chris Ventre. Uh, you won't see Frank tomorrow on the airways. He's taken off. So that's it for Frank this week he listen to podcast. Make sure you subscribed, give us five stars and leave a comment you're listening on the radio. We go another five minutes or so, Frank, if we get your picks, let's diving your tight end rankings here. Uh. We had a question before Duke Johnson

and George Kittle. I said, Duke Johnson, and you weren't quite sure because George Kittle, you're number three ranked tight end this week, and I know the Giants have played better against tight end tight ends this year, So who throw us to them? I mean, they clearly made that thing to correct in the off season. They were absolutely torched by tight ends last year. We were streaming tight ends against them every single week, it didn't matter who

it was. And they've been better this year. But in terms of targets, share and usage for George Kittle and his playmaking ability, we so we all saw that that big play he made last week, the one handed grab over the middle from Nick Mullins. I just think the way that he's been using and the talent level we've seen out of George Kittle. He's undoubtedly a top five tight end regardless of matchup, and Nick Mollens proved that

he's gonna lean on his tight end as well. So I'm just gonna continue to rank George Kittle that way inside of my top five every single week before we go. I just I just saw this tweet that came out. I think this is real. I do want to make sure it's really here. What do we got Greg, What do we got going on? He was practicing today? Uh? No, right, they wouldn't practice, they play. I believe it's Rex Burkhead,

Sexy Rexy's back. I think if if that sweet wasn't fake, I think Rexy Sexy Rexy's back, that would just throw everything for a loop. Yeah, it's it's real. Reported it Welcome back to practice, Rex Burkhead. He's eligible to play as soon as December seconds. It was about a month. He's Sonya Michelle owners who are Loving life eligible to return in week thirteen. That is so annoying. And we haven't had the Patriots by yet. We have next week. We eleven, that's when we thought we had the Patriots

backfield figured out. Little Sony Michelle, Little James White, rex Burkett comes in and throws everything for a loop, trying to pick him up. If he's out there, Yes, I am, Yes, you are, Yes, I am. Maybe we could see a Dan Lewis type stretch down the something like that. You know, running running backs are tough to find. It's a good potential stash. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, all right, that's that's a good one to bring up. I want

to see what his ownership percent is. Sorry, I get to your tight end and any other time you want to bring up before we wrap up, Frankie, he's only oh boy, he's out there, man. Yeah. If you want to be ahead of the curve, I know a lot of people might have that second waiver run on Sundays this week, or if you're in the league like Greg, you might have waivers run every single day. Go out there and get your bids in on rex Burke. It

was only eleven percent owned. Again, this isn't like, let me drop somebody of value to make sure I get rex burkhead. But I'm sure you can find someone on the end of your bench who uh, who's not worth owning in order to uh stash Rex Burkin and just kind of see what his upside could be in this uh this Patriots offense. Frankie went to spread spread. His Panthers are three point dogs that I open under his

fifty one. I know you mentioned the tight ends real quick. Great, some people were asking me about jack Toil this week. Really worried about the Jacksonville Jaguars matchup. I haven't ranked as my eight tight end, which means I am not worried about the matchup here. I'm I'm a little bit higher on him than the consensus field. So don't worry about the Jaguars matchup. We saw before the bye, played in about seventy of the snaps um and dominated targets.

It could be the beginning of the end for Eric Ebron, which sucks the spread for tonight's game. Greg right now is at Panthers are getting three and a half points in Pittsburgh. Again, I think it's a really really tough one to call. I think bold teams are trending in the right direction again. Very evenly matched teams Carolina Panthers six and two, five and three against the spread Steelers five two and one, five and three against the spread

really really close right down the middle. If I had to choose someone here, I would take the Panthers getting into three and a half. But I really do think the overho that just went up half a point fifty one and a half. I'm taking the over there like the Panthers as well. That's my I like that more than the over under. I'll take the Panthers, just be

different than you. I'll think the under for fun. Alright, alright, frenzy some next for Frank Staffel and names Grex Selsman, thank you so much for watching the buff so lute all go tomorrow we freggie fantasy team sucking. Maybe you need us. The Fantasy Sports Radio Network the only three seven fantasy sports radio network