Week 9 Start/Sit, Who To Bench, Lineup Questions, and more...

You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Fantasy best Friends Forever m Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do? Do? Didn do yeahs as the Fantasy best Friends Forever here on the Fantasy Sports alongside for Reggie Saville, I am Greg Soggy. What's on Monday? Reggie? Six teams on a buy in Week nine, But we still have some great create matchups here. I think they did that purpose right, I have to imagine

they did. Yes, Like, hey, we're missing we're missing out on six teams, but let's make the best matchups of the season. We got the Saints in the Rams, Packers Patriots. Is gonna be some fun football. It's gonna be very very fun to football all Sunday along and I want to get right into it as we like to do on As we like to do on this program, we go game by game and point out what is important to us. Then, of course we will get in to a Thursday night football recap and and most importantly take

all of your line up questions. The rankings are done. We're ready to rock, Frankie, let's get into it. Let's go. We again this week in Buffalo. Have to That's where we'll start. The Bills are next, and that's where we will end. The Bills are hosting the Chicago Bears here this week, and with Buffalo once again, Nathan Peterman is back, baby, which means the Bears are the best start on defense. Any team that's facing Nate Peterman on a weekly basis, or the Bills for that matter, is the must star

defense of the week. Just so happens. The Bears are pretty good defense too, so get them in your season long lineups. I'm totally willing to pay up for them in DFS purposes for the Bears. I think obviously, both running backs are in play here. Look, Jordan Howard has not been great, He's been very you know, he needs a lot of volume in terms of touches to to meet the fantasy value that we expect for him. The

Bills defense had been pretty good. Uh, we saw James White have a big game against them one week ago. But we expect the Bears to be playing with the lead. I think we can expect something similar to what we saw Jordan Howard last week against the Jets. The Jets are a you know, mediocre rush defense. He's still got twenty two carries close to, you know, over eighty yards a touchdown. I think we see you know, similar kind of usage in this game with the Bears playing from ahead,

but of course they have to score the points. And help them do that is going to be Tarreko and who's us on an absolute hair right now, so especially in PPR, even not in PPR at this point, Craig in non PPR, he's an RB two. I'm not worried about it. At the rate that he's scoring in the way that he's being used. Uh, This Bears offense really goes where Tarko and goes. So those are the mustart

guys in this game. Three Cohen, I have him ranked higher than Jordan Howard in every format Jordan Howard also a mid range solo en RB two because there's gonna be volume, and the Bears defense obviously is must start. Yeah, there's defense is the play in this game without question. In DFS, I think it's worth paying up for this

week the Bears defense in general. Now you're facing Peterman who is known for just throwing multile interceptions at a time, like literally the welcomes out, it's it's two interceptions at the same time. Um, no doubt. You gotta start at the Bears events here this week when it comes to the offensive side of the ball for Chicago, I like Trek Cohen a lot. I still like Jordan Jordan Howard, your boy Mike Floria talking about Jordan Howard is a bilow.

I'm not ready to do that. I think you know, these these matchups are generous for Jordan Howard because they allow the Bears to play with the lead in competitive games where the Bears are going blow for blow like we see them like we saw them doing with the Patriots, and you know, before the matchup against the Jets, when they're when they have those games, those are gonna be the Tariko and games because those are you know, when Tarrekhens on the field, that's when their offense is at

their best. So I I don't think Jordan Howard is a bilow. I don't care that he's getting the touches. It's just obvious that his offense is better when Tarrek Cohen is on the field. As for Mitch Robinski and the players in the passing attack, Trey Burton is he's a top twelve tight end. He's a low end tight end. His targets have been, you know, sporadic. He had that one big game where he had double digit targets, but

outside of that, he hasn't. He's been touchdown dependent. So he's like every other tight end that's a that's a low end side end. You really need him to score a touchdown. And for the wide receivers, I know, Alan Robinson has been banged up, so has Taylor Gabriel. Those guys are gonna be on the outside, likely one of them or you know, if if, if, if Allen Robinson can't go, one of them are going to seach for Davious White. The wide receiver actually, like most in this game,

is Anthony Miller. Any question, We've seen at least seven targets in back to back games, and the Bills have struggled against slot wide receivers. We just saw what Julian Edelman did against them one week ago. Yeah, I think Anthony Miller is absolutely play. I don't have to risky though this week. I don't know how much he's going to be asked to do. The Bills have allowed the fourth fewest fantasy points to opposing quarterbacks this year. He does add an element with his legs. He's a high

end QB two. But I just think that there are other quarterbacks in more competitive games that are going to have opportunities to to put up more fantasy points. Guys like Joe Flacco against the Steelers. That secondary has not been great. He looked he performed well in their first game against the Steelers. Matthew Stafford against Men Soda, I think they're gonna be playing from behind. You might have to throw Philip Rivers against Seattle. I think we see

a dog fight in that game. The Shaun Watson, Russell Wilson, Fitzpatrick all guys that I would start over Mitchell Drobisky this week. Yeah, I'm okay with most of those as well. I'm not a huge draw Whisky guy that the Bill's defense, we say every week, relatively underrated, and especially the secondary in general. Grenarius White leading the way, I don't want to start dr Whisky. If there's one receiver I you start for Chicago, it's going to be Anthony Miller. I

completely agree. I think he's ascending. We've talked a lot on this program about Taylor Gabriel's numbers going down since the return of Anthony Miller, and that hasn't changed. So I'm totally with that in starting Anthony Miller this week. On the other side for Buffalo, can you start Lashawn McCoy well with Dixix teams on a boy you might not have Choist Craig, and because of that, we've seen his usage the past couple of weeks. He's right around

eighteen to twenty touches. You know, even on a terrible offense led by Nate Peterman, he's going to check in as a high end flex option. Obviously you wouldn't want to. The Bears have been very good against the run, but what he does in the past game too, specifically for PPR, we just saw what he did against the Patriots. He was really the only person that they can throw to. UM. So I think we see a lot more of that again here with McCoy better in PPR. He's a high

end flex option if you can get away from him. Sure, but I think with six teams on a boy, you might not have a choice. Yeah, I think that's reasonable. I don't think you have any choice. And there's nothing else you want on in this game. Okay, so let anything nothing else on this game. As you said, well to our picks. Of course later on the program. I have to go first this week. I'm saying it's ay odd week, which means I go first. Sure, there you go,

Carolina and Tampa Bay. This is a good one here, Frankie Um mainly because we got the fits magic back. Yeah, fantasy fireworks expected in this game. You could see that with the over underset at fifty five points right now and a little preview for later, I might just like that over still here, with what's going on, Tampa Bay cannot stop anybody right now. There, wor first defense in the NFL. They're the worst red zone defense in the NFL.

When teams get down near the goal line, they're scoring touchdowns. That's not going to change here, Uh. So for the Panthers, it's all systems go. It's obviously Cam Newton, Christian McCaffrey. You're starting these guys with confidence. I think Devin Funchis is in a good position to bounce back this week. Greg greg Olsen, I have him ranked as a top five tight end this week against Tampa Bay and your

guy Maryland Turk. DJ Moore stepping up. Tory Smith did not practice on Friday, so again that opens up opportunity for d J Moore. We saw what he did last week, how involved he was, and it's just again a phenomenal matchup going up against Tampa Bay. So I like DJ

Moore as a high end wide receiver. Three. It might be a little bit aggressive, but I think especially if Torry Smith is out in this game, we're gonna see, you know, those snats on the rise once again for d J Moore, and I like the way that they've been using him, Ryan Fitzpatrick. If the Panthers are scoring points. This has pretty much been the game script for every Tampa Bay Bucks quarterback this year, whether it's been Fits, whether it's been Jamis. The team goes down early, the

defense is really bad at what happens. It's magic, Jameis Winston. They have to come back and they have to throw the ball. These two Tampa Bay quarterbacks have average three ninety passing yards of games. Greg Blake Bortles. That is ridiculous. Blake Bortles is the perfect representation of what we've seen for the Tampa Bay poster tuarterbacks, the postal child exactly garbage time fantasy production. It's gonna call them is what

happened last week for Tampa Bay. And since Natti is I think what you see in this game where Carolina gets up to a big lean, Cam's chewing the gum, he's smiling, and then boom touchdown fits magic. Boom touchdown fits magic boom touchdown fits magic. We gotta close game that Catalina pulls out. That's my prediction. Frank, Yeah, it makes sense. And you look at where the Panthers ranked this season in terms of fantasy points allowed to opposing quarterbacks,

they're pretty much the middle of the pack. But if you actually dive in a little bit deeper, you'll see they've allowed multiple passing touchdowns in six streames. So while they're not allowing a ton of yardage, they do allow the touchdowns again, six great games multiple touchdown passes allowed to opposing quarterbacks. So I think Ryan Fitzpatrick in this game is good for at lea east three hundred yards two touchdowns, which means we once again have to like

Mike Evans. Great matchup for O. J. Howard. I haven't ranked. It's a top three type. I'm completely in on him. Love him for DFS as well. The Panthers allow the most fantasy points to opposing tight ends, so O J. Howard is in play here. We know that DeShawn Jackson actually plays better when Ryan Fitzpatrick is the quarterback. He doesn't need a large target share. He just needs to catch that one fifty yard touchdown. I think there's a good chance of it happening. Chris Godwin text in again

where he always does right. Solid wide receiver three. You want to have more fitting the guy, but they haven't given him enough snaps. The targets have been a little bit inconsistent. You really need him to score a touchdown to help you out, so he checks in as a wide receiver three. This fantasy fireworks. We're excited about this game. Hayton Barber flex option running back I guess, but I really don't want to do it. I'd rather go in another direction. Rude, Why why wouldn't you start game this

season reaching touchdown? Halfway through the season? Six teams on by come on, you're gonna be playing from behind. They can't run block Like, don't buy his best game this season. Just don't do it. Can I do it? You can do it. I'm telling you not to. I'm probably gonna do it again. All right, Well, you're gonna get fifty total yards and no touchdown like I get touchdown, You're not. I mean, there's a reason why he only has one rushing touchdown on the season. So you like DJ More

this week better than Devon Punches. I still like Funches, especially like the rate that the Tampa Bay Bucks give up touchdowns to wide receivers. I have to imagine that Devin Funches gets back in the end zone here. He is more of the red zone weapon. But I still do like DJ More a lot. I just trust Functions a little bit more. Okay, so they have it with that U when it comes to the next game and or anything else with this game. No, I think I

think we hit on everything pretty much. Cleveland Browns Kansas City Chiefs. I have had Baker Mayfield for six weeks prepared for the start. I did not know they're gonna fire their head coach and officely coordinator beforehand, but that's exactly what the doing in Kansas City allows the most fantasy points to opposing teams running backs. Nick Choke could

be an option for you. Umately, you're gonna start him at they have them, but could be a DFS potential option for you in this matchup because, again, much like that Tampa Bay Carolina game, we expect Kansas City to get up big and then Cleveland catch up. We saw there was no practice for Antonio Callaway on Friday, which means it could be the time for to step up the rat being Damian Ratley. Please do not start him in your lineups. I'm avoiding the Browns passing attack in

this game. Great, I mean you might not. You might not be able to get away from David and Joko. And it's a great matchup against the Chiefs here. I mean They've allowed a ton of fantasy production to opposing tight ends, so I'm in on him. Jarvis Slandry checking as his normal midrange wide receiver too, but I'm not sure that Baker Mayfield has the upside that everyone expects him to be. The Chiefs have actually limited opposing quarterback

fantasy production the past couple of weeks. I don't know that people realize this, but they've actually they've been better. The Chiefs have allowed um just they have. They've only allowed multiple passing touchdowns once in their last five games, so they're they're still giving up yards, just not giving up a lot of touchdowns. I kind of want to take await and see approach with this Brown's offense. You might you can't get away from Nick Chubb. I think

he's a high end RB two. You mentioned that the Chiefs are giving up the most fantasy points to opposing running backs. That is true, but where they really struggle is in pass catching running backs. So Chubb, we haven't really seen him use as a receiver much out of the backfield, so I'll be interested to see what he does. The Browns are gonna score whatever it is, fourteen seventeen points and seam. I think Nick Chubb has a good

chance of being one of the touchdowns. But again, I want to take a wait and see approach with the Browns offense because I think I think they play more servative here, truckie Patrick Mahomes off the field, just try and play good defense. I don't know that they're you know, taking the reins off Bicker Mayfield here with a new offensive coordinator going up against the Chiefs, I think it could just be a game where the Chiefs just domin. Does your boys want it again? No, I wouldn't be

surprised if it comes season's end. Last week ends up being uh, Samuel best game in the season where he saw you know, season high nine target season highs across the board, eight receptions over a hundred yards to touchdown. Can you still have an okay game? Yeah? I think he could. I think we could see a lot of you know, Denzel war trying to match up with Tyreek Hill, Tyree Hill who has dealt with a injury throughout the week but is expected to play, but maybe not. I

think Sammy Watkins is in a good place too. You know, he can give you seven four, eight, something like that. If he gets in the end zone, then he'll end up cashing out as you know a wide receiver too. I think he's in that range low and wide receiver. Two and wide receiver three. With the six teams on a buy pretty good matchup against the Browns here. I don't expect Denzel Ward to be on him. Patrick Mahomes, you know you're starting him, Cream Hunt Kelsey. That's fine.

I think Sammy Watkins was the one that we really needed to talk about. Yeah, I think so too, Kansas. Anyone's easy and it makes our lives easier when you just throw them out there each and every week. It's it's really that simple. Will say, look the Browns d fence. If there's one unit that has played well for the Browns this here consistently, it's their defense. That's why Greg Williams the head coach. And because there's no one left Lincoln Riley is there? Sorry Frank, why sorry me? Then

you have been the Jets coach. Speaking of the Jets, they visit Miami this week. In the game that you told me, if they lose to Miami and Buffalo during the bye, Todd Bowles should be fired. That's what you said to me. This is the first of that two game stretch. The Jets are in Miami. Miami is the whole favorite, the three point favorite. Um. Listen, they're facing brock Oswiler back, and it's not even b October anymore, it's November, so they will get it. Looks like very

possibly could get Kenny Stills back this weekend. Davante Parker stepped up a little bit for Miami. How do you make of this Miami receiving corps, the running backs and start in Miami before we get to the Jets. Yes, so I've consistently said throughout the week, I think even if Kenny Stills is on the field this week, it's more so as a decoy. Uh. He was limited in practice again on Friday, you know, dealing with this groin injury. Eats there a guy who relies on, you know, making

big plays down the field, getting behind the defense. Not at a percent. I think he's used more as a decoy here. If I had to trust one wide receiver out of all of them, I'm gonna go based on what I saw last Thursday, and that was with Devantae Parker, you know, leading this team and targets six receptions over a hundred and thirty receiving yards in they in that game, and the Jets have bled fantasy points to opposing wide receivers Tremaine Johnson has been been banged up. Marcus May

playing with a club on his hand right now. Uh So it's a good match for Devantae Parker. He checks in as a low end wide receiver three. The Jets also struggled to slot receivers. I don't want to have to trust Danny Amendola, but in PPR, I think he's close to being a low end wide receiver three, a guy who is going to provide a safe floor at least five for fifty if he gets in the end zone. Obviously that helps you out more. I'm not expecting it to happen. Uh Kenyan Drake, he's been able to do

a lot with a little. He hasn't been seeing a lot of touches, but he's been converting those touches into fantasy points. So I'm gonna continue to trust him as that midrain. RB two love Isaiah Cowell this week to on the other side. They can't throw the ball, Dolphins haven't been able to stop the run. It's a good recipe for pro Well. I'm gonna get more into Kroll when we come back, because I was looking into him

as well, and I want to like him. The problem is I can because he's not very any good write it down when we come back. This is the Fantasy Best Friends frown Daily Rhodo dot Com learned from the game's best DFS players. We don't just give you premier advice. We play every day, all major sports, all year round. We never stopped industry leading DFS tools and custom projections, and now the Daily Roado dot Com Optimizer in minutes

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throws people off through like Titans Jets fan. I mean, growback alight, Frank, what's up? Frank? Um? The dudes in to your right. It's horrible dancing you. I wouldn't I wouldn't executive to call anyone out for dance, Mr Executive? Are you are you referring to the Jeff behind me? Not not Jeff to skeleton, I'm referring to not Mrs Suss when you saw I had a couple moves this morning. Um yeah, and I'm not. I'm not the great is dancing either, but the Greg Alms is. Uh that's a

funky move right there. Who do you have winning on a Friday night? Corey? Do we have the King? Or shut your mike off before we go like this? Huh? Who I have win? What? What game on a Friday night? The King versus Greg? Down on the dance floor. Who do we got? I think I get this, I'll get I get I'll lean to I'll get the lean to the King. We got the King of the minus favorite. It should be so dark day was never mind? Oh

that's not nice, Greg. I'm going to take a nap now, Ill at y'all you're not You're not gonna be over in a half hour. I know? All right there? You got a fantasy executive of course, on the fantasy football frenzy that comes your way next perfect time to get right into you. Uh. The fantasy executives favorite player, Isaia Kruell. Now, the thing with the thing with Isaia Crowell is you want to like him this week because the Dolins a ton of yards to opposing running backs, in a ton

of fantasy points to opposing running backs. The problem with Cruel is he's not good like he had that one game over two hundred yards. Everything else has been bad, Frank, And you look at the Jets Ovens over the past couple of weeks without any weapons for Sam Donald, it's been brutal. They've had a chance to get back in the game, but the Ovens cannot move the ball at all. They're gonna have to rely on Isaia Cowell to do

anything offensively this week. I get that, but he's been really, really bad, as I believe he has undoubtedly been bad. You're you're you're not wrong about that. Um. He has thirty seven carries since that two nineteen yard game, Greg is ninety four rushing yards. That's two point five four yards per Carrie. But you know who else sucks? Greg? I have a feeling you could guesser lamm Miller. Did you see what he did against the Miami Dolphins, shred them?

So that's what we're looking at, right now with the Miami Dolphins, they can make even Lamar Miller look good. So I have a good feeling that they're going to make Isaia Coil. Look here, Look it might be aggressive. I'm wearing the Titans of New York hat I gotta yell. Ranked as the top twenty running back this week. Greg, I'm aggressive on him. He's an RB two. Like it because it's a great match But are you doing that thing where you play the matchup and not like the player.

I think it's easier to do at the running back position than it is at the quarterback position, because I hear what you say. I mean there's there have been weeks where we you know, we rank Eli Manning obviously too high based on good matchups. I think it's easier to do with running backs because, look, it's a divisional matchup here. I think the circumstances set up well too. It's a three point spread and not expecting a lot

of points to be scored here. I think we see a lot of ground and pound from the New York Jets. What you said, they don't have weapons, They're not gonna throw the ball. Jeremy Bates and the Jets offensive coaches continuously just run the football on first and second down. It's been a predictable offense. But this might be the actual the one team that they can predictably run the football and it works out well for them. So I like Isaiah Correll as as an RB two here, not

gonna do much in the passing game. We want to see if Elijah McGuire is activated. I have a feeling that he will be. Does he get thrown into the fire right away? We probably see a little bit of Trenton Cannon. Nobody else were starting on this Jets team outside of Isaiah Correll and Chris Herndon. I've talked about him all week. The Jets, I mean, the Dolphins have blood fantasy points to tight ends as well. They have allowed five touchdowns to tight ends over their last three games.

We spoke about what Lamar Miller did to them. Look at what Jordan Thomas did. He scored two touchdowns. Chris Herndon has scored a touchdown in three straight games. He's trending up. The Dolphins defense is trending down. Chris Herndon your bi week replacement tight end. Yeah, I think it makes sense. We've talked about him on the FanDuel Hurry Up as well as on our show. Right that when you have a tight end, that it's in the mix and there are no other weapons for this Jets team.

You look at the tight end and he did nothing last week until the one catch which was in the end zone. Week before he was very very good. I get it, man, I get it. You know I'm not starting this week, Frank, that's correct? Well, I think rightfully so, Greg. The the connection that Sam Donald and Chris Herndon have right now reminds me of what's going on with Christian

Kirk and Josh Rosen out in Arizona. Right This is something that we've talked about before, is rookie quarterbacks tend to lean on other rookie players and that's kind of what we're seeing right now out of Chris Herndon and Sam Donald. Good the next game we're gonna get into here, Fraggie on Okay, where do we want to go? I want to go to seeing which game Washington where the

Washington football team hosts the Atlanta Falcons. Here for Washington, no Jamison Crowder and you think that the wide receivers who I know, Atlanta allows a ton of points to opposing Fantasy wide receivers. You want to get in the mix there, but which why does he really your store? There's there's really none. And I understand that it's a good matchup, but sometimes you just kind of you have

to let the matchup go. Remember, uh, you know on Thursday and we were talking about the Thursday night game. It was a great matchup for the forty Niners running backs too, But you know what it came down to is you just don't want to touch it sometimes even when the matchup looks great. I mean, Paul Richardson, who are we going to get here out of the Washington passing attack? I think we see a lot of Jordan Reid used again in the past game. Chris Thompson, what

do you know, banged up once again. I think this is a game where Washington's this going to continue to do what they've done. They're gonna play good defense, and they're gonna try and keep Matt Ryan and this explosive Falcon's offense off the field. How are they going to do that? They're just gonna continue to turn and hand it into the chest of Adrian Peterson. It's been phenomenal he's a He's a top ten running back this year. So hudos to whoever you know was actually excited about

Adrian Peterson picked him up. Whether you drafted him, you picked him up all if you're waiver wire. Adrian Peterson is getting it done now, and I think we see a lot out of him in this game as well. You know, I like Adrian Peterson obviously this week he's been as hot as any player in the NFL. Um Um trying to do any of these Washington wide receiver things. No,

I'm not. I'm gonna do Jordan Reid thing because he was targeted incessantly last week and I know the yards were not I know the yards were not there, but I think it was like a seven for thirty five or so, but he's talking like thirteen times. I like Judy Read a lot this week because I don't want to bang on any of the wide receivers, so I

like j Read. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense, which means it's gonna be the week that everonon David Scores who touched us probably all right on the other side for Atlanta full strength here they're coming out over the by um. Do you like everybody everybody like normal. Well, let's give watching to credit what they've done. I mean, their defense is playing very well obviously, Julio Jones, you're going to continue to get him in the lineup. Austin Hooper, you know,

trending upwards towards that. By I mean, he's really kind of solidified himself as a low end tight end one. So I'm looking at Austin Hooper here, I'm looking at Julio Jones, Calvin Ridley, Mohammed Sanu. You know, outside Julio, it kind of reminds me of the Packers wide receivers right now, right, it's kind of hard to make sense out of it. Calvin Ridley, we know he has the upside to score, you know, two touchdowns on five receptions.

We've seen him do that early on in the season, but he hasn't done that the past couple of weeks, so we can't really project that moving forward, especially in a tougher matchup against Washington, who their defense is playing well and they just added ha ha Clinton Dicks as well,

so that's also going to help them. Mohamedson new uh, he's a safe floor, low end wide receiver three, you know, flex option if you're hurting for the bye weeks, mohamedson w is gonna give you, you know, his five for sixty. I think we can depend on that. But outside of Julio Jones, Tevin Coleman's a low n RB two too. You know, I don't think it's a great matchup for him. I don't know they see the kind of shootout games

that we've been seeing out of Atlanta their outdoors. Here in Washington, where you know, they're not scoring as many points on the road, I think we see a lower scoring, you know, one kind of game here, a close affair. I don't know that it's the fantasy fireworks from the Falcons that we've seen in weeks past. So it sounds

like you're really on Washington this week. Then well, they're gonna try and do what they've done all season again, which if they can keep Matt Ryan and the and the Falcons offense off the field by just handing it to Adrian Peterson and playing good defense. I love the addition of ha Ha Clinton Dicks. I'm in the one area where they struggled was that second safety spot, and now they've solidified that. So you know, again, I know this is a close spread. Right now, it's minus one

and a half. Washington's played well at home. I don't love choosing this game from a betting perspective, but if I had to, I would say Washington here at home. They've played well there. Okay, we'll see what we'll see if their party he picks on the we do our our pigs. Later on in the program, I want to say about everybody watching on the Pursuit Channel. It's been fantastic. It's been fun. Let's do it again next week. We

appreciate you watching, and we'll see you next time. As we continue on going game by game for a game, let's get into Detroit and Minnesota. Out there in Minneapolis, the Vikings hosting the Detroit Lines without Golden Tee. Now there's some optimism. Dalvin Cook could be close. I know he said that every week and we laugh, just giving me the update. Don't do it, but don't do it, Vikings. Give us one more week of just Latavious Murray and then we get the bye week next week. Give Dalvin

Cook all the time that he needs. I know that it's a divisional game. It's a must win game for the I can see here after getting stomped out by the New Orleans Saints. But Otavius Murray has played well, so I think you know, lean on him one more game and if Dalvin Cook does not go, I have Ottavia's Murray ranked as RB ten right now, top twelve running back, even with Snacks Harrison on that defensive line. Now for the Detroit Lions, we saw the Seattle Seahawks

run all over them a week ago. I think Ottavias Murray has set up for success once again here Adam Feeling, obviously you're starting him. I don't know that there's as many points scored in this game either. I'm looking at this game forty nine point total right now where I'm taking the under, and I'm I'm hitting that hard divisional matchups, I think we see both teams trying to run the football. Here. Stefon Diggs banged up. If he can't go, maybe we

see some more Lakwan Treadwell. I think Diggs plays in this game, but I worry I think he's used here kind of similar to what I've said about Kenny Stills. I think we might see him used more as a decoy in this matchup more than anything. Great who would you rather start this week? La Kwan treadwell where Calvin Ridley golf that I would use Colvim He only did. I mean these headphones are like going in and out. I'm trying to fix it is what we have to do. Really, Okay, yeah,

I would use Really do you think Rudolph better? I mean tread will hus Doe? Do you think Rudolph takes a bump if Stevon dig does not play, or even if he's the decoy? Uh No, I actually I like um, I like how Ruff in this match, but I know he hasn't done much. But he had seven targets last week, so I mean, nice to see that out of your tight end. And over the last month, the lines have allowed the fifth most Fantasy points to opposing tight end,

so I think he's in a good spot. He should have scored a touchdown last week too, if you remember, but the idiot that he is stepped out of bounds before he caught it, so very frustrating. It is very frustrating. I owe him. Admittedly, he was the guy that I loved coming in same year at a tight end position, and he has not lived up to expect same dude,

I'm completely. He's in the Gronk boat. Obviously not to the same level because was like a third round pick, but they're too tight end let down other side for the Lions, Neo really expected to return, which could hurt carry On Johnson. Yeah, I definitely will because carry On we just saw season highs across the board in terms

of pass game usage, targets, receptions, receiving yards um. So that's gonna go down if if theoretic is here, you know, theod Rick maybe he's the guy who takes on more of that slot receiver role now with Golden Tate shipped out. I know, you know some people are talking about t J. Jones, talking about Brandon Powell. I think in deeper leagues you add these guys just to see what happens in this game, to see if one of those players does emerge as

the slot receiver or the Lions. Xavier Rhodes hasn't been Xavier Roads from last year this year. Uh, you know, there's been some bumps in the roads, you might say, but Kenny g and Marvin Jones are gonna see upticks in terms of targets. We were worried about Kenny Galley the way that his targets were trending. Marvin Jones had that monster game last week, but I think both of these guys are entrenched as top twenty four wide receivers low end wide receiver. Two's again, I don't know that

there's a lot of points scored in this game. But if the Lions are going to score points, I know they've been trying to run the football. It's not like carry On Johnson and m Garrett Blunt have been scoring a ton of touchdowns. So if they score, you know, two or three touchdowns in this game, it might be you know, one to Kenny Gollady, one to Marvin Jones, or two to one and you know, one to the other. I still think the wide receivers aren't play here. Greg, Yeah,

I listen. Kenny Golladay and Marvin Jones. You're excited about We're excited to see them this week without Golden Tate. I'm excited to see if there's a third wide receiver that steps up. It was we all both of them, so I'm excited to see what it is. And that's a deeper lead too, And that's what I'm talking about. You know, two man rosters where you know the why

the waiver wire is this barren. We picked up t J. Jones and Brandon Powell for you know, twenty bucks each out of a thousand, so we're not putting much on it and we just want to see, you know, who emerges here. I'm so excited to get to us in the night game in the right I've been. We're in all week Baltimore and Pittsburgh rivalry game one pm Eastern UH for Baltimore Micho Cravity. Is he going to continue

what he's been up to? Yeah? I spoke about Michael Crabs here a couple of weeks ago as a potential by low just because people don't realize how consistent he's been. Again, he does not have huge upside, but rapture. He's doing a lot this year that he was doing last year. It just minus the touchdowns. He's been extremely safe, you know, seven to ten targets per game. It's a great match

up here against the Steelers. I don't know if he gets in the end zone, but this is a guy who's safe four you know, six for sixty six for seventy uh. Where you know, if you're gonna attack the Steelers defense, you're gonna do it in the air. I don't know how much effectiveness Alex Collins and company are going to have here. And I say and company because we don't know if it's Buck Allen. Now is a time on coomery. Who's gonna step up as the pass

catching uh running back? We're gonna find out in this game. I think Alex Collins is more of a flex option running back here. The Steelers have been very, very good against the running backs, so again the way to target them is through the air with the wide receivers. I like crabs here has a high end wide receiver. Three, I have John Brown as a low end wide receiver. To the last time John Brown played the Steelers, he had a great game. Yeah. I like John Brown like

Michael Crabtree a lot. Will say John Brown is one of these guys though, who's been getting targets, and we're looking at the targets as his fantasy production. But he hasn't actually been putting up fantasy production right like he's getting We don't I say this a lot. We don't play in points per target leagues, like we need you to put up not to get the targets. We need the up we need the fantasy put Outside of that

game against the Saints, he's been all right. Seven targets against Carolina, three for twenty eight, three targets against Tennessee, two for fourteen targets against Cleveland. Wow, that's great. You must have a great game. Or for fifty eight. Last time he played the Steelers, seven targets, three receptions, a hundred and sixteen yards and a touchdown. He had that seventy one yard touchdown. I think that's the way that the Ravens are going to try and attack the Steelers here.

We get a lot of John Brown, we get a lot of Michael Crabtree. If you're in a pinch in a PPR, I think will least needed a sneaky flex option. Maybe I'll start Derrick Henry over John Brown this week. No, okay, what you don't John Brown? The city the low and wide sere two reduction is not there. That's the problem. Errick Henry is not close to in anything too starting a second flex option at best? Are you starting Avance McDonald this week? I do think the Ravens. The Ravens

very stout defensively. Um, it's it's you know, it's actually they're they're usually good at limiting wide receivers fantasy production, but you're not just facing any wide receivers here, You're facing Antonio Brown and Juju. But with that being said, I wouldn't be surprised if Ben targets Vance McDonald a lot over the middle of the field here. He's kind of he's in that Austin Hooper category right now of tight end where you know it's a low end tight end,

one high end tight end to there. These are like the They're not at the same level like Jordan Reed and Trey Burton, but they're also better than guys like Chris Herndon, so they're kind of like right in that and I think that's kind of like where they are every week. Okay, regardless of the just James Connor. I know it's a it's a bad matchup on paper, but

obviously still starting him, I wouldn't. I wouldn't shy away from if you're playing in tournaments for d A Festis week using James Conner because other people might shy away looking at that matchup. Oy uh. Continuing on, we hit the four o'clock games. Let's say to the phone one, Frank, because I know I want to. I want to open up the floor to all our questions. I want to getting the Thursday Night Football. Let's open up the phone

one the New Orleans Saints, the Los Angeles Rams. Cooper Cup returns for the Rams this week, which is very exciting for some of us. Yeah, and look, if you own Cooper Cup with six teams on a buy, you're likely starting there. You can't get away from it. Obviously, you'd want to take away Untie. You approach, I think we don't have time for that. But you don't have time for that, especially with you know, the fantasy production that the scenes have allowed two wide receivers again, they

played better Lattimore, Eli Apple. They're stepping up. We'll get more into this game. On the other side, are you banging on the tray, Quon Smith? Are you finally on the bandwag? No? Okay, let's take a break. We're getting the Thursday Night Football. A lot of those calls at eight four or four eight four, three six, eight seven nine. If you're someone that needs fantasy sports advice every day,

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We appreciate the effort. Thank you. I appreciate that. This is the fantasy best Friends Forever. Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Greg Susman, Frankie Stanford, Frankie. Before we get back into New Orleans and Los Angeles, Thur's the night football last night. Not great Bob, not great Bob at all. Hey, look, we're right about the under. We were said, look, if C. J. Betther doesn't play in this game, you're gonna want to play the under because he's gonna be the difference between

a touchdowner two. So does that mean would have scored forty two points of Beth? They have scored forty nine points if the head CJ. Bethird man the Oakland Raiders, Um, what a joke man? Between the play on the field and you know the owner of GM's haircut, I mean, I don't know what's worse is the own the owners Mark Davis is Al Davis, his son, get it right, I mean whatever, his hair is gross. I mean the guy's just a weird looking guy. I mean, weird picture downstairs,

Like the nose is weird. I don't know what's going on there. But the Raiders play might even be worse then the way that this guy looks. I mean, I know, like you're tanking and you want to get like the first overall pick, but come on, dude, I mean, you make it more obvious than that to lose to another one win team by thirty points. It's just it was Atrocan. And what what sucks most is the guys that we wanted to trust in. This came from the raider's perspective.

I mean, look, if you if you stream Derek Carr against the forty nine, which looked like a good matchup, your your reeks over ready, So, uh, you know, Doug Martin ran well four and a half yards to carry. The problem is, you know they were down by twenty points before you could even blink, so you know they kind of have to abandon the run. Ran eleven times four and a half yards to carry it. It wasn't his fault. Jalen Richard, I mean, I just don't know

what was going on. Every time Derek Hard dropped back, he got sacked. His offensive line was an elite unit for the past like three years. I just don't know what's going on in Oakland. I don't know how you can trust anybody in this offense right now for fantasy purposes. Jared Cook was bigfoot once again. We know what his upside can be, we've seen it, but this is also his downside. So he's very high, very high ceiling, very low floor when it comes to Jared Cook. That's just

more of the same. The forty niners, I mean, shout out to Nick Mullins. I mean, the guy took his opportunity for Thursday Night football, got verified on Twitter throughout the game, and you know he made most of it. Yeah he did. Nick Mullins stepped up. And I didn't watch very much of this game last night. Did you see most of break his arm? No? I didn't see it either. Like I saw it, but like I didn't watch it at second time because I didn't want us to see it. Yeah, I heard it was bad, man,

I it was pretty terrible. Um. But of course he scored a touchdown the week after. We liked him as a flex option, which I mean, it's just perfect perfect fantasy. Fantasy didn't do much and uh, I mean look, neither did Matt breed It though he mostard had that one fifty yard touchdown a round. Outside of that, I mean, there was not much. George Kittle. We had a lot of questions about George Kittle yesterday. I still had him ranked as my seventh tight end because he said, you know,

we have based on what he's done. I mean, he is a legit playmaker. Even with that you know, undrafted quarterback on the field, you could have said that almost helped George Kittle because he's gonna lean on his safety valve over the middle of the field. So I still had George Kittle ranks as my seventh tight end, and I wasn't shying away from him just because we had we had the new quarterback in m hmm. There's nothing else here. I mean, look wide receivers, like you can't

bank on any of these guys. Garsone scored a touchdown, but I mean that's his only touchdown of the year, or what seems like it's going to be his only touchdown of the year. Kendrick Born scored a touchdown. I mean, it was just a crap fantasy game all around disgusting. I ended up watching more of the basketball game than anything. Did watch walk in the Celtics. It was a good game. American mandolin at home last night. Don't late? Yeah he did. Yeah,

we did for sure too late. I mean I didn't even like, went straight to a bar in my neighborhood. I went to FedEx had a Buffalo chicken sandwich ranch on. It was great. Prefer blue cheese, but what are you gonna do? It actually comes with blue cheese. But I was like switched to from the blue cheese thing. Give me ranch should I get there for lunch? Well, we're getting once together. Um, And I thought it was a popcorn chicken you're pushing this popcorn chicken Friday. Well, it

used to be our thing. You know, we did it once back when we had Florio. We did it popcorn Chicken Friday one time. But that one time was great. It was fantastic. It was Los Angeles and New Orleans. We'll get into that. They'll take your calls. UM sixty points total. I think went down went down slightly. I saw because everyone's listening to the BFS. I thought I saw. I thought I should half yeah singles handily. You know, we don't even have to bet to move lines, Gregor.

We gotta do is talk about about that? About that, the Hubris, Yeah, anything else and what I don't know. I don't know what to say about the game. But everyone you asked me about tray Kwan Smith. You heard the promo from Corey throughout the break, and I agree tray Kwan Smith is a guy that alright, we're buying the upside right now, but he hasn't done anything. And I know that the Rams have been prone against fans, like opposing wide receivers. But how many targets is tray

Kwon Smith going to get in this game. I know that we have the huge total at fifty eight and a half, but it wouldn't be surprised if this is a game where we see a lot of the running backs on both side. And it's because of that that we like the under I mean, when you're running the football constantly back and forth, that's gonna lead to a

lot of time getting eaten up here. We know Todd Durley is gonna do his thing and Alvin Kamara and you know, he's been fine outside of that game where mark Ingram scored the two touchdowns we saw coming out of the buy. Alvin Kamara, he's not the Alvin Kamara from earlier on in the season, but he's still great. So we see a lot of him in this game. I think we see a lot of mark Ingram. When they need to pass, they're gonna throw it to Michael Thomas and it will be a mishmash of tree Kwan

Smith sprinkled in. It will be Ben Watson sprinkled in. But I'm not I'm not depending on tree Kwan Smith. I'm like, if you wanna you're making a few DFS line if you want to throw him in there as a high upside whatever tournament play. Okay, But like for everyone who's like, oh, we're just buying it on trade, Kwan Smith, he's a wide receiver three, I disagree. And you're starting all rams wide receivers because even if they don't have the huge you know, one yards and two

touchdowns upside, they are can they are incredibly safe. Every single week, all three of them check in as you know, high end to mid range wide receiver two's, and I would actually rank Cooper Cup a little bit lower this week. I have more as a low and wide receiver two because if I could, I'd like to see go with a wait and see approach. But six teams on a buy his name is Cooper Cup. I'm using its three, six, eight, seven, nine. We'll start with Steve in New Jersey. It's up, Steve, Steve,

how you're there? Stephen Joycey all right, Byvonus needs not listening, man. We'll move on Julian in Miami. What's up, Julian? Hey, Happy Friday, guys. All right, So I started matt breeding, so you already know I started off pretty bad. So I need a starting flex. I need two flexes out of what I'm about selling. I need to hit this right because I need to win. I'm currently in a second place and I'm facing first place. That game is gonna be gonna be Uh. I need key key MV

yes really or dion PPR. I need two guys, what format PPR EPR. So No, I'm gonna say that Calvin Ridley probably has the biggest upside if that's what you're chasing. Even that you started Matt Breedo, but Geronimo Allison reaggravated an injury. Wasn't reacting new injuries and new so now he's dealing with that. I think MVS against the Pack the Patriots, and I, honestly I do expect that game to be a shootout and I would take the over in that game. I'm gonna take MVS as my first

option here, Kiki. I kind of want to see the first game back and how he's used with Damarius Thomson's lineup. I don't know, honestly how healthy he's going to be either. I know he's gonna play, but I'm not starting kicking this first game back. Um, I use MVS and Dean Lewis Graig. Uh, this was Dan Lewis coming off his best game of the season, And yeah, I don't love Dean Lewis against Dallas or some reason. I think they're

gonna play ball football though. I think they. I think they're going to make it a thing to get him involved in this game. I don't know, man, I think the Dallas is just gonna have so much, so much higher time of possession. Here are you leaning more towards Ridley MVS and Ridley? So m VS is the one I'm locking in. I agree with you, especially if Alison doesn't play. I think MVS really gets involved. And I don't really know because it's a Sunday night game. It's true.

You take that people, well, you can say John Willison plays, you can start Dan Lewis just saying that's true. That's a good way to look at it. You could do that um for me. Really, as the up side, Washington secondary is pretty good. I think they like Kiki. I think, like Key, I'm not winning in the game back. I think if he plays and like and this was a hard one too, I think he's peppered with targets. Man, I really do it a PBR like really might have

two catches? Yeah no, I mean Ridley wasn't even I mean I'm not really I like Dion Lewis and mvs again Kiki. Look, they said, well we think he has a good shot to play today, But I mean, what does that really mean? Though? Like, if you break it down from a coaching perspective, we think he has a good shot to play. That doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in me. I want to I want to get the guys who are gonna at least give me safe points. I mean, looks like with hamstring injury, he can easily

reaggravate that. We've we've seen him do it already. Let's not forget when it comes to Ridley after he had a breakout, those two breakout games, after that four or thirty eight three or forty seven five or pulled up as well, it doesn't look great. Not great Bob, Not great Bob. I want against Tampa he was injured very very early on, so it might have been off to a big game. Um maybe he's healthy now, who knows. But again, it is a tougher matchup against Washington defense

has played very well. I know, it's very tough man. Um, let's like MVS and let's go to Gave in port Chester. What's up? Game? Yeah, it's going off. What's going on? All right? I just got a quarterback question. I don't know who to start between Brady or Wilson, Tom Brady, Russell Wilson. Give me Tom Brady when I think it's gonna be a shootout in New England. And that's absolutely right, Greg, Tom f and Brady. He's my four franc quarterback this week.

Expecting a lot of points in that game. I think they trade blows. Russell Wilson has his fantasy production has been a little bit smoking mirrors. He's putting up a lot of touchdowns on very few pass attempts. Um, yeah, I'm taking Brady and it's not really that close already. Let's move Let's move on to Derek in California. What's up? Derek? I bled Silver and Black and I'm telling you this is killing me. How bad these guys are? Did you like?

Did you like the Groodin higher when it happened? I did, But I will say at the very beginning of the season, I said this is gonna go one of two ways. Either they are gonna just ridiculously smoke or they are going to be the bottom of the league. There was no middle ground, and unfortunately it's the latter for the two. One of us here did is even dumpster fire this year, and one of us accidentally brought into Amri Cooper. What's your question, Bunny? Okay, real quick? Is much like your

first caller, I'm in second place. I'm going against the first place guy, and I'm already screwed because I ran Steth Roberts last night, either him or Geronimo Allison. All right, well you know either way. Yeah. So my question is, and this is really a stupid question, but all I'm down left to really worry about is I'm streaming defenses and I just don't know who because I've got Miami and it just looks like there's not much left. Would you stick to Miami or would you pick up somebody

like Detroit, Atlanta or Tennessee. I have no problem with Miami. Miami gets the jets and offense. It's done nothing as a LA I know, Frank, You're on Miami a couple of weeks back. Hasn't exactly worked out. Their defense have been shredded on the ground, but Miami gets the Jets a good matchup. Yeah, it is out of the of the teams that you mentioned. I have Miami ranked inside my top eight this week amongst defenses, so I think that their stream you're thinking is correct. Look, Sam Donald

has been turnover prone. I know that the Dolphins are giving up a ton of yards and points right now, but they're also facing a very inept Jets offense, so I will take Miami as well. Next question will come as we sign off of YouTube. We say goodbye to our YouTube audience and frenzies up next with Chris Ventra, Corey Parson, and of course Jim Day. If you're listening to the podcast, will go another five minutes or so, subscribe like rate and make sure you leave a comment.

Five minutes live on the radio. One more question, Frank, and then we'll get to our best bets of the week. The final question comes from Tyler in Missouri. Yeah, I needed to start two of the three Courtland Sutton, d J. Moore and Josh Gordon. M it's good. It's a good question. Uh, Courtland Sutton, DJ Moore, Josh Gordon. So the first one that I'm getting in there just based on what we've been saying Greg, we think it's going to be a shootout. I know he didn't do much last week. I'm going

with Josh Gordon here against the Packers secondary. That's the first one that I'm that I'm penciling in. And no, it's crazy. I have DJ More and cooland something back to back in my rankings right now. DJ Moore is one spot higher because of the matchup against Tampa Bay. It's interesting. I'm actually gonna bench Josh Gordon. I like More, I understand what you're saying, and it should be a shootout. I don't know that means anything necessarily for Josh Gordon.

I know they want to get him involved, but naps have consistently been there. The production has always him. Last week against Buffalo, they kind of did. It was a close game for a lot of the games about this, right, and it's on Josh Gordon, But he saw a deep target in that game that he should have called. He should have. That was a that was like a fifty yard bomb right there. Yes, he should have and it was against tri Davious White. So I'm going Josh Gordon.

I'm not going Josh Gordon I'm going to Courton Son and d J. Moore, alright. I mean I like Sutton too. I have him as a high end wide receiver. Three this week, let's take one more called a Vona. Let me get Jake and Dallas up. All right, But that's my fault because I said we're done. So um, all right, Jake, I apologize called Correl. I'll make sure he gets to you or I'll just answer the phone. Um, well, he's the best. Frank Ye give me some music. Pavona. That's

just better. Yeah, that's okay, Bavona, thank you. All right. The current records coming into the week, I'm ten and eleven. Frankie is taking me the task. He's now the twelve and nine. After a slow start, here we go. My first bet like Tampa Bay plus six. I think this is closer with Ryan Fitzpatrick and people believe I think six is a lot of points. Give me Tamba plus six is frank rolls his eyes at man. Let's say it, and you are saying that's quite a bit. Actually, all right,

you got two more. Give me the Houston Texans plus one, whether the disasters to final the car Hereston Texans plus one in Denver. I think he's just a better team. I think they go into Denver they win another game. Here, man, Deshaun Watson is a good quarterback. I like Houston plus one in Denver. Final pick of the week. Let's look up and down the card. I really wanted to take that. I'm not going to do it. Um, you're gonna do that. I won't touch that. Whatever you want. My final pick

of the week, let's make it. This is hard, man, this is hard. Give me. Give me the Patriots at home is five point favorites. Give me the Patriots reggy from the five points. So I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go the opposite side there. I'm gonna take the Packers plus five. I just don't see how this game isn't a three or four point game, whether it's it's something like that. I think we get a lot of points in this game, so I like points. I'm also gonna take the over. I'm just riding a hot in this

game right now. Packers plus five give me the over at fifty six and a half. And you know, I don't really love a lot of spreads this week. And I told you that downstairs, Greg, And because of that I'm going to hit the totals more so than I am going to hit the spreads. For this week, I'm taking the under in the Lions and Vikings forty nine points. Think we see a lot of running on both sides of the Football divisional matchup. I think it's more like

one game. Um, give me the under Vikings and Lions. There you go, our picks are locked for Frank's Devil. My name is Greg Susman. Oh I thought it was it. We're running that out all right, seconds now, all right, So there you go, Frank, you do this weekend? I also do kind of like the Steelers off. You just want to sprinkle some money line on there this weekend. King is in Boston, so it's uh, Frank's got the house to him. The feasion of Old Frenzy comes your

way next, and Frank's dample. My name is Greg Sulln't. Thank you so much for watching and listen to the Fantasy best Friends for ever. Good luck this weekend. We'll see you on Monday, we hope.