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Week 7 takeaways, trends, MNF preview, and more!

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Dane Martinez opens the program looking at the news and notes and admitting defeat of his Yankees, but also reminding the trolls that he also picked the Astros to win the AL pennant back at the beginning of the season. Dane goes over the Week 7 "autopsies," including a broken arm to Carson Palmer. Dane says how he called his shots on Adrian Peterson and the Giants RBs #FNTSY #NFL #MLB #Yankees #Astros #StatsOverBeats #Week7 #CarsonPalmer #JayCutler #DelanieWalker #ZekeElliott #MartavisBryant #Eagles

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You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You are now about to witness the strength of fantasy knowledge Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You are now tuned in to the Speeds and spitting Statistician on Fantasy Freestyle up next on that cipher on the microphone. You know that I'm one of the best set Martinez. You know what it is. It should boy Daine Martinez a k A. Speeds a k A to spitting Statistician and you are listening live to the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the award winning

Fantasy Sports Radio Network has always big shout out. If you're listening live on I Heart Radio on tune In Radio, you could be watching live on the YouTube live stream of the Fantasy Sports Network. We have a big time show for you. It is a Monday after week seven, so we gotta do an autopsy report and see who made it through, who did not make it through, and all of the things that I noticed as trends and takeaways and reactions to week seven. We are going to

get that done for sure. What we're also going to do is I'm gonna give you my preview of the conclusion of week seven. We got a big time Monday night football game on Tap, which is gonna kick off in about an hour from now as a Washington football team travels up nine five to Philadelphia to take on the division leading and only one lost team left in the National Football League, that being the Philadelphia the Eagles, a team, by the way, your boys spitting speeds was

early on and the preseason. But I digress. What we're also going to do is, uh, as usual, we gotta poll questions up right and on a Monday. What we do is we find out who was your diamond and the rough who helped you out? Who was your food gazey or nominees for the diamonds this week? People that scored two touchdowns out of nowhere? O J. Howard for the Bucks, Any Stills for the Dolphins, and Travis Benjamin for the Los Angeles Chargers. None of these guys were

owned in more than twenty of leagues. If you had them and you started them, you probably got a w in week seven? Or was it somebody else? We want to know the other thing is who's your food gazing? Was it a guy like Damarrius Thomas, Jordan Howard, Jordy Nelson? All of these guys defecated the mattress and as always, we will get your calls. If you want to join the show, be part of the Fantasy Freestyle Cipher and

get down with Spitting Speeds. You can The number to call a little bit later on is eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine. And I also must admit, last time I saw you guys here on the cipher hashtag stap dropping stats over beats, we were very I was very excited about the potential of my all rise New York Yankees. They have, in fact lost in seven games to the Houston Astros. The World Series

will start tomorrow in Los Angeles. I want to say thanks to everybody who hit me up on Twitter being like hey, sorry for the loss or whatever. And also those trolls out there, I see you. You know, there were trolls hollering at me during the game. Literally seconds after the game, I just responded with my link to my prediction before the season started that I thought the Houston Astros would win the al Pennant. Anybody trolling me, hopefully also is cashing that ticket like your boys. Speeds.

The Spitting Statistician we're gonna talk about Monday Night Football. I told you about a trick from Monday Night Football. I hope you listened to me last week. I'm gonna give you some contenders on who you could use it on this week as well. You know what it is. We're dropping stats over beats, boys, speeds, the spitting statisticians.

When we come back, we're gonna hashtag go through all of these injuries, all of these quarterback changes, some of these votes of confidence, and what I think are the trends from week seven. There's a couple of teams emerging in the NFC that I want to talk about as well. You know what it is, come on back. Stats over Beats is the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Let's go. Hey, I'm Melissa and I'm Joe, and where the interns. The Fantasy Sports Radio Network and d k

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Bridge murderers. You know what it is. It's me the spitting statistician and this is the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio O Network. Week seven about to conclude with the Eagles and the Washington football team in about an hour hour and a half. Let me get you started with the news and notes. After Week seven, we had some headline injuries, as always on a Monday, to discuss. A couple of weeks ago, it was Odell Beckham, last week it was Aaron Rodgers. There are a couple of

quarterbacks that went down and went down hard. And we start in London. Carson P. Palmer has a broken arm. Initial reports that it would be eight weeks is an updated timeline which says that he may try and come back in six. UM. I feel bad for Carson Palmer. Listen, Carson Palmer was kind of towards the end right anyway. You know. I told him, I called him one of these sunsetting quarterbacks, along with you know Rivers and Eli and even Big Ben to a certain extent, and I

thought that it was going bad for him. I thought it was going bad for him when they lost David Johnson. I called him one of these volume throwers that were actually better for fantasy than it was for his real you know, Arizona team. And so I feel bad for the Cardinals. Larry Fitzgerald also said it postgame. Where did they go from here? Do you remember a couple of years ago when they lost Carson Palmer and Drew Stanton came in and like they still miraculously made it to

the playoffs. Listen in the same way that you saw Um, Jordy Nelson, Davante Adams all drop with the office Aaron Rodgers, the same way you saw all of the Tennessee Titans drop when it was Matt Castle a couple of weeks ago in place of Marcus Mariota. That's what you can expect for your boy, Larry Fitzgerald. If you are a Larry Fitzgerald owner, his production is about to just like the Beastie Boys say, d drop. Okay, so remember that, But I feel really bad for Carson Palmer. This could

be the end of his career. To be honest, Like, why would they come back for a team if he comes back in eight weeks still no David Johnson in early December and there's something like four and ten, why would you come back for that? He needs to consider of this. Cousin Palm are gonna be turning thirty eight in December, so he could be done. We'll see about that. Jake Cutler cracked his ribs. He's gonna be out for two to three weeks. A hard hit taken while they're

against the New York Jets. They did wind up getting to win in that game, and the Dolphins are four and two. I'm telling you, I told I've been saying this for weeks that I think Matt Moore is ultimately going to be under center for the Miami Dolphins. I've been saying this for a while, and I think this injury gives you an excuse. I think the Dolphins actually looked better. The Dolphins, listen, they had Matt Moore last

year when Tannehill went down. Matt Moore kept them afloat and they went to the playoffs last year under Matt Moore being the backup quarterback. Matt Morris still has a career to care about. Unlike Jay Cutler. We've been talking on this show and elsewhere on this network that Jay Cutler just doesn't care anymore. I think this is the perfect impetus to officially make that switch to a guy like Matt Moore. And we don't talk about off to Lineman much, but we may have seen the last game

from a Hall of Fame offensive lineman. I'm talking about Joe Thomas out there in Cleveland that Browns have confirmed he tore his triceps. He's on I R looks like and he was talking about, you know, he's taken it year to year, gonna consider coming back? Why would you come back to Cleveland? They continue to be a laughing stock. They are now oh and seven with no you know, light at the end of the tunnel, probably gonna change regimes again. They thought they had it, figure it out,

They thought they were on the upswing. No, no, no, they were not. So, you know, tip of the capito to Joe Thomas. Remember a lot of buzz earlier this month that he had his ten thousand career Snap has really been a cornerstone for that franchise for eleven years. Sad to see him go with a torn triceps Delaney Walker. Also, it looked like he had a serious injury, but he may have been lucky. They escaped with just a bone bruise,

they say. Also, Tennessee is one of the six teams on by next week, so don't expect to hear too much news about Delaney Walker in the upcoming week. Also listen, another reason why you can see the legal world and court proceedings. They do not care about your fantasy football team. The NFL wanted to try to expedite the Zeke decision in the court said no, we're gonna wait until this judge is back from vacation and that hearing is scheduled

for next Monday. Okay, So that means Zeke is definitely going to play next week Week eight for the Dallas Cowboys, and boy did he put on a show against San Francisco yesterday. Also listen, I'm getting a little bit tired of this. I've been telling people for a long time. As it related to Martevis Bryant, I told you that he wasn't gonna be able to play nice in the sandbox. I said it all the way back to draft day when he had that tweet. We about Juju Smith Schuster.

There is now more on him in Juju Smith Schuster. This is what I call bad Juju from Martevis Brian Kay on social media saying, and I quote, Juju is nowhere near better than me, fool. All they need to do is give me what I want and y'all can have Juju and whoever else. That's what he said on Instagram as a reply to someone who was just given props to Juju Smith Schuster. They also say that today he didn't report to the team facility, that he called

in sick. Martavis Bryant trying to do whatever he possibly can to get off of Pittsburgh, and I don't know why because Pittsburgh is one of the only offenses left in the NFL that can actually produce. Also, Texans left tackle Dwayne Brown ends his holdout, reported back to the team. They say that he won't be traded or anything. It may take a little bit of a time, but I think this is a great help for the rookie quarterback, Okay, getting your Pro Bowl left tackle to end their holdout

to support to Shaun Watson. I think that's a good thing for the Houston Texans as they continue to trend up in that division along with Jacksonville. Also, remember I've

been talking about Teddy Bridgewater. Teddy Bridgewater there saying he will not play in week eight obviously, but they're saying because they have to go to London and play that notoriously bad field out there as they play the Browns in London on week eight, so that maybe though after the buy in week nine, he could be available for the Minnesota Vikings in week ten. And in your weekly Browns News, outside of Joe Thomas, they again have yet

to name their starter for next week. Alright, um, you know we're gonna get practice reports and all that stuff a little bit later on in the week. But what I want to do here on the Fantasy Freestyles, I want to talk about some of the trends that I noticed, some of the big takeaways, and also we hold ourselves accountable here on the Fantasy Freestyle. I'll tell you what I got right my shot because I were called my called shots here and I will tell you who put

it in my eye. In week seven, I try to get ahead of the game because then when we open up the phone lines at eight four four, eight four, three, six, eight seven nine, people are gonna be telling me what I got right and when I got wrong. So I want to humbly acknowledge it first a right first of all. In Week seven, the bad offense continues. I've been talking about this all season long. Fantasy scoring is depressed, but there is bad offense. I've been saying it about the

offensive line. I've been saying it about the quarterback play. Remember how last week the Baltimore Ravens had not won but to return touchdowns, and how that outscored a bunch of teams. This week, your boy, Eddie Jackson, cornerback for the Chicago Bears, had not one but two return touchdowns, one off a fumble on one off a pick. I do believe both of them was seventh the yards, so big shout out to him. Probably defensive player of the week, I might say, But his two touchdowns by himself, Eddie

Jackson outscored ten NFL teams this week. The Panthers had no offensive touchdowns. His own Bears no offensive touchdowns. In that game between the Titans and the Browns ten nine and overtime, no offensive touchdowns. The Denver Broncos shut out, the Indianapolis Colts shut out the Arizona Cardinals shut out. The Denver Broncos shut out the forty Niners. One touchdown is they put up ten points against the Cowboys in

a blowout. The Atlanta Falcons one touchdown is they have something to fix in Atlanta between Sarkisian getting a little too cute. The New York Giants one touchdown as they lose to Russell Wilson at home to go to one in six. I'm telling you it's getting to the point where you need to only look at these teams that are actually decent offenses. For example, I'd rather Ted Getten Jr.

Who at least is on this Saints offense. I'd rather him than the number one wide receiver on some of these teams, you know, like Pierre Garson on San Francisco they're not getting into the end zone. Give me Ted kt Jr. Give me Nelson Agalor on Philadelphia. They look like they can move the ball. At least that offense has potential over what Dante Moncrief on this Indianapolis team that can't get in the end zone. Give me, you know this is so few offenses. Give me Chris Hogan

the second an option on a good team. Give me that, give me, give me Tyreek kill the third option on a good team behind Hunt and behind Kelsey, ahead of what what's something on? Now? The Cardinals. Fitzgerald is gonna do squaw with Drew Stanton as his quarterback. That's what you gotta do now these days. It's crazy, and you know what he's doing. It's making kickers and defenses more important. I had Matt Bryant as my kicker in my own season long team and got me minus one. I'm playing

against Chris Bobswell, who got nineteen points. That's twenty points in the kicker difference. Are you kidding me? You have Dan Bailey getting hurt right away. Kickers and defenses are all of a sudden more important in this depressed atmosphere. It's like a seven point spread when the total is only thirty eight points. Okay, listen, I got a lot of stuff right. I got a lot of stuff wrong. But I'm telling you right now, just go by the offense.

You want no part of the Cleveland Browns. You want no part of the Indianapolis Colts moving forward when we come back, here's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna tell you what I got right. I'm gonna tell you what I got wrong, and we're gonna open up the phone lines. All right, So the time is now. Holl at your boy at eight four four, eight four, three six eight seven nine speech told you about Adrian Peterson. He told

you about the Giants offense. He was a little bit off on these tight ends, though, I admit, come on back, Fantasy Freestyle Hunter, Henry Sterling, Shepherd, Michael Thomas. These three NFL softwares are not due to slump. They're due to break out. Just like the Fantasy Sports Radio Network in year two, things are only getting better. Make sure listen live and tell o the app F and T S y or Radio. It's free and it's twenty four seven the best Fantasy sports on ten. He's on the Fantasy

Sports Radio Network. It's a little bit of mathematics, but my man, most deaf as we come back, dropping stats over beats as the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network as your boy, Dame Martinez holding you down, and I got Chris Bovona, the Manimal with me here on the ones to two. It's so hot that we sweat Steve as we look back on Week

seven of the NFL season. I'm telling you right now moving forward, when you guys ask me trade questions or sit start questions, I'm gonna tell you, look at the team itself, and if that offense is one of these horrible offenses around the league, it's not getting any better. Look at the offensivesive line play, look at the quarterback play, and it is a sad state of affairs this year.

But I do want to talk about what I got right, what I got wrong, and then we're gonna open up the phone mines, So holler at me if you want at eight four four, eight, four, three six eight seven nine, And then also at the end of the show for everybody following along on the YouTube live, all at your boy, ask you questions if you want my man Chris venture the analysts. We're gonna get the best couple of those at the end of the show and answer those as well.

And if you like what you see in there on the YouTube stream, hit that hit that thumbs up button right there. That's what I'm talking about. Yo. I told you about Adrian Peterson. Everybody was so hyped off him after his debut against Tampa and I was like, listen, I still kind of don't think this is gonna be anything special. I still think he's gonna regress. I still think he's a little bit old. And what happened in just week two? I told you about that extra trip

to London eleven carries twenty one yards. And what's worse is you lost the chance to sell on Adrian Peterson because now no one's gonna want him with the Carson Palmer injury out there in Arizona. I told you all to sell on Adrian Peterson shot called by your boy speeds and spitting statistician. I also told you to fade Orleans Darkwa and that Giants offense. I told you that that was a one week, one week wonder, kind of like a one hit one that like Mombo number five

or something like that. Dude, uh, Darkwa thirty five yards, Wayne Gallman fifteen yards. As a team, the Giants ran seventeen times for forty six yards. That's less than three per carry. ELI also only a hundred and thirty four yards. I told you to continue to fade this Giants offense. Hopefully you didn't spend your waiver wire on a guy like Wayne Gallman or a guy like Orleans Darkwa because I told you not to. Another thing that I was telling you about is that these saints are gonna produce,

specifically both mark Ingram and Alvin Kamara. I was telling you guys last week that I love Alvin Kamara, that Camara Um, Alvin Simon, and Theodore Kamara, they are all. Alvin and mark Ingram are both viable. I was telling you could get both of them in your lineups. I equate them basically. They are this year's version of Davante

Freeman and Tevin Coleman. I know the guys who are saying it earlier on Rhodo Experts in the morning, but mark Ingram is an RB one and Alvin Kamara is startable week to week, especially in PPR settings and PPR settings he's a low end r B two. He's top twenty, top twenty five in my opinion, just like Freeman and Coleman were down there in the NFC South last year. Okay, I call these guys so fresh and so clean because it's not like this thunder and lightning thing like it

used to be. Like you have to have the big bruising back and then they're like sketch shifty back. No, these are both studs independently. And here's what's going on also with the Saints, and this is something you are never gonna hear anywhere else. Their defense is improved with a guy like Drew Brees. All you need to do is have average deference and you are going to have a chance. Right now, the Saints are thirteenth in the NFL and points per game given up. They are seventh

in turnovers. They are fifteenth in yards. That is average and slightly better than average. And don't get it twisted, the drafting of this rookie, Marshawn Lattimore is really helping them out on the back end. This guy has a Pro Football Focus grade of ninety four, which is the highest ever through half a season for a rookie. They are getting it done on the in an average fashion. They are no longer a laughing stock. And you combine that with Drew Brees and these two running backs, I

think they could be this year's version of the Atlanta Falcons. Like, let me tell you something. You know it's all about quarterbacks, right if tell me who you trust right now more than Drew Brees In the league right now. Honestly, honestly, Aaron Rodgers out, Tom Brady getting hit left and right. You know, uh Russell Wilson has a bad offensive line. There's questions about Ben Roethlisberger. Matt Ryan is down this year. You know, Carson Wentz, Matt Stafford still unproven. Who do

you trust more than Drew Brees. I'm telling you, I think I like what they are doing in New Orleans. Okay, what I got wrong? I must admit this Falcons game on Sunday night, I thought they would continue the streak of putting up point and putting up three hundred yards against Tom Brady. That did not happen. Their offense is a little too cute in my opinion under Steve Sarkaesian, I think Chris Collins works said it best on the telecast. They have Julio Jones, they have Sanu, they have Freeman,

they have Coleman. They need to attack in the same way they were last year. Instead of going side to side. This Horrizontal jjets suite with a guy like Tyler Gabriel. It's not gonna cut it. They need to regroup and figure out what they're doing. Too bad they've already had their by I also got it wrong in terms of some of these bargain tight ends. I was telling you about George Kittle, that connection with C. J. Beathard, the Iowa connection didn't do jack. Why because they're one of

these bad offenses I told you about. Hooper didn't do jack with the return of Mohammed Sanu. Okay, my man um Tyler Croft did get into the end zone. But that's about it. And then ultimately what put it in my eye the most I must admit was if you go back to Thursday, Amari Cooper with his forty four points, I must admit I got that one wrong. But you guys all agreed with me in that poll question. Percent of you did at least saying that you would sell

Amari Cooper right now. I would as well checking in on the pole real quick. Which diamond in the rough helped you win your league? Kenny Stills was only owned in twenty one her scent of leagues, but he popped off with two touchdowns, replacing Davante Parker. Thirty one percent of you say Kenny Stills helped you to a Week seven win. We also have some other responses that dude on Twitter said, the Rams defense with that shutout and mark Ingram, I'm telling you Mark Ingham is not a

diamond in the rough though. Mark Ingram is an RB one moving forward, And I've been telling you about this for a little while. Clayton trey Hand, who always responses Ted gin Jr. Got it done for them. Robert Woods got it done for Robert Murphy. I told you about

Robert Woods. I had him in my DFS lineup. I told you about the non Patrick Peterson wide receiver wide outs two and three for whoever's playing in Arizona and Cooper Cup and Robert Woods had relatively decent games for the Rams as they stomped on the Cardinals, shut them out and grabbed whole of first place in the NFC Western with that Wade Phillips defense rounding into form watch out for the Rams in the NFC as well. All Right, here we go. We're gonna open up the phone lines

right now. We got a couple of people out there that I want to get to. We're gonna kick it off right now, hashtag dropping stats over beats. We're gonna get it started with Pete and Staten Island. Pete and Staten Island likes to call the show. How is week seven for you? Or is it still up for grabs? You are talking with speeds and spitting statistician on the Fantasy Sports radio network. What's going on, Pete? What's happening? Uh? Yeah, who hast wasn't bad? I mean Adam feeling. You know

he kind of looked at a little look. Yeah, fogets, but you know I was expecting a bit more. The targets were there. He didn't confirm. He was okay, but not what we expected. Yeah. So now I'm in a little bit of a come on from here because, um somebody did I'm in the PP all week. He's hot on Des Briant. Okay, he's offering me and I'm not gonna do this one. He's offering me Alex Smith and Jordy Nelson the DES and Ingram. So I turned that down.

You can't do that, Okay. No. What I considered doing though, is all or offering him and there's for Smith and Chris Thompson. What do you think of that? Um? So my question is why do you need Alex Smith so much? Why? Why do you need this this quarterback so much? We all my quarterbacks are Keenum and no, so that makes sense. That makes sense for me. Nobody who has to pick up except McCown. Yeah, or I can pick up I could pick up Bridgewater just you know, put down the world.

Or I could pick up not More. Yeah, I'm okay with that. Listen, Alex Smith continues to be solid. And Alex Smith also, here's the other thing that I'll tell you about Alex Smith, Pete, is that Alex Smith also is sneaky with his rushing yards. Okay, So I like that. And what I'm doing right now is I'm bringing up the Cowboys schedule because my theory on Dez is that he eats up teams that don't have elite cornerbacks, but when he faces elite cornerbacks, they can kind of shut

him down a little bit, as you know. All Right. So I'm looking at the fantasy playoffs and I see in week sixteen they have the Seattle Seahawks. I don't like that. I see in week fourteen they are at the New York Giants. Jack Rabbit has owned him. They have some other uh tough matchups in the very end of the season. Josh Norman will be on him in week thirteen, Casey Hayward with the charges in week twelve,

So because of that, I'm okay moving deads. I think Chris Thompson is better than a mere ABDULA and PPR formats, so I'm okay with that. I liked what you're thinking. If this guy goes for Abdullah and Dez, then I would pull the trigger and my friend because dez Is matchups do not look good as we head to the Fantasy playoffs. But thanks for the call. As always, Pete, let me know how it turns out. Keeping it moving here on the Fantasy Freestyle. Next up, we have Keith

in Baltimore. Keith in Baltimore wants to know about Jordy Nelsons and I don't have happy news for him. But Keith, you're on the Fantasy Freestyle. What's up? Well? I mean, I've been feeling that way about doining those in two points this week really hurting. And also to double down on that, I had a Mary Cooper on the bench. That's rough. So yeah, So do I ride with Cooper and let the bye week steve Jordy Nelson comes back strong or should I try to shop him and get something? Yeah?

I mean, here's the thing, man, you have the bye week, right, you have the bye week, as you mentioned, next week, and then to be quite honest, after that home against Detroit at Chicago, those are two games where he could get a chance. I would I would give it one more chance. Man. I wouldn't cut bait on him just yet, Keith.

I wouldn't sell them for pennies on the dollar, because right now, if you look to trade Jordan's people are gonna be like it's like you know, blood in the water for sharks, okay, and they're gonna try to bed you over a barrel and make you force you to trade He's on the dollar. I wouldn't do it just yet. I would hope you get some positive reports after the buy and maybe one good game in week nine, and then maybe i'd pull the trigger. But right now you

would have to trade pennies on the dollar. So I wouldn't do it just yet, Keith. But I understand the struggle for you. It is real, and I personally don't think it's gonna get much better. But you gotta hope that with the extra buy and the extra kind of scheming, see what happens after Detroit in week nine, coming back here on the Fantasy Freestyle. After the break, we got a couple of more calls, Eli and Oregon, Evan and Philly. Hang on right now. I'm gonna come and get right

back to you after the break. Then we're gonna talk about my preview of Monday night football. Washington football team against the Philadelphia Eagles were dropping status over beats. It's your boys, speeds and spitting statistician. It's the Fantasy Freestyle by the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Have you ever wanted to have a fantasy expert in the palm of your hand yours? We'll check it out now you can, and it's a Fantasy Sports Radio Network app. Download it down

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Move get out the way. It's your boy day Martinez right here on the Fantasy Freestyle and the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. The number the call we got a couple of spots still left, or is at eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine. We're gonna take some callers and I'm gonna give you my pre review of Monday Night football in the NFC East. Tonight is the Washington football team travels to Philadelphia to take on

the best records in the NFL, the Philadelphia Eagles. Who might have talked about that a little bit before the season even started, hashtag stats over be beats. Let's pick it up on the phones. We pick it up with Eli. Eli's out there in Oregon. I got some family out there in Oregon, So big shout out to Eli. Beautiful country out there. You are dropping stats over beats on the Fantasy Freestyle. Want to find out my thought about

these Eagles running backs? Huh, Eli? Yes, sir, Yeah. I was just curious because so I used to actually have Wendel Smallwood in my Yahoo league, and so I just realized, or I just saw the update that he just got cleared. So I was curious whether or not I should play him over the garret one. All right, elis this PPR

or standard? This is PPR. Okay, so that's a very important difference, as you know, when you have when those Smallwood Okay, let me give you the difference right here, when thol Smallwood is really taking over what Darren Sprowles used to do for this team. He is going to be the backend on third down. He's gonna be the back in when Wentz is in the shotgun. He's gonna be the back end on you know, the two and

four minute offense. I expect La Garrett Blunt LGBT rights to be in on the early down work and as this game is close in between the tackles. Okay, that's why I asked in PPR or standard. In standard settings, the answer is La Garrett Blunt. However, I believe this game script is going to be kind of an up and down kind of game. I believe both teams they

may be. It may be a game where it's like kind of slow and low scoring in the first half, and in the at halftime it might be something like thirteen ten and everyone's gonna be like, oh, I thought Speed said this would be a high scoring game and then watch it open up in the second half. And because of that, I think that when the small wood actually, especially in PPR formats, has a chance to outscore la

Garrett Blunt. So in PPR formats, I think that as this game opens up that trends for when the small wood, I would actually put small it in over Blunt because for Blunt to return value tonight, you need him to get into the end zone. And I think that, uh, they're gonna attack through the air. The Redskins are eighth in the league against the rush, but eighteen in the league against the past. So I think that Carson Wentz is gonna try and do it through the air, and

I think that means more of Wendell's smallwood. Let's keep it moving here on the Fantasy Freestyle, Evan in Philadelphia, I hear it's always sunny out there. Are you at Patty's Pub watching the game? You want to talk to me about these running backs? Evan, you're on the Fantasy Freestyle? Are you at Patty's Pub? No, I'm not. I'm actually so alright, fair enough, so I can still help you out. You need running back depth? Uh? Uh, you don't need depth if you have your boy Levy on Bell he

has been killing it. Thirty five carries a game recently. It's like they figured out that the way to win games was to go through l Bell. How can I help you though with the depth in your running back spot? Oh so I got a I got Hunting Kamara as my starters. I got not to do with dark Wall. Um, so I'm keeping Montgomery, just waiting to see if he pans out. But for dark One, I could pick up Smallwood or Mac. Or I could pick up Locket and Stills and try to trade somebody for Joe Mixon or

somebody kind of like mid RB two range. Yeah, who are the two guys? You had? Smallwood and who else? And Mac? Um, I can pick up small Wood Mac. Is this pp off in the waivers? Yes? One? Yeah, so both. I mean to be quite honest, To be quite honest, yes, I think you definitely over dark Wall. I think you could drop dark Wall and and I would go I would go small Wood over Mac. I

think Smallwood is gonna get more uh more production. Quite frankly, if you will listening to the start of my show, Evan, I'm saying that one of the things I'm looking at right off the bat is what offense they're playing in right and this and when it comes to Mac, that Indianapolis Colts offense is blunt, guts trash. You know they are going multiple games where they're just not scoring enough points. On the other hand, this Philadelphia Eagles offense looks like

one of the more dynamic offenses in the NFL. So if I have to get the third down back form a form a dumpster fire offense or the third down back from one of the more dynamic offenses, give me when those Smallwood and yes, I would roster Smallwood over dark Wa right now. But don't get me wrong. Mac is also interesting, especially if you want to can stash him for a little bit later on in the year. But right now, Evan, I think the answer is putting in that claim and getting small Wood in for Orleans

dark One. Keeping it moving here on the Fantasy Freestyle, up next is John in North Carolina. John and Carolina, how can I help you out? You're dropping stats over beats on the Fantasy freestyle doing making it happen. I need to sweat out Monday night football, though, to be quite honest, I need to sweat out Monday night football, which is not like what I like. I like just watching the game being excited about it, chilling on the couch. I am going to be sweating it out until the

last drive and that doesn't really make me happy. Wow, But go ahead, John, how can I help? So? I got a trade question for you. Um, somebody wants to so I have to kill and Kammara And if someone wants to trade me Amari Cooper and Joe Mixon for hild Kamara, and I'm I'm a little in offense about it, you know what I mean? Yeah, I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it. Is this PPR? Is this PPR? John? No? No, it's a standard. That's

the thing, all right. Well that makes it a little bit less, uh shore for me, to be quite honest, But I still wouldn't do it. I believe Kamara rest of season is a better running back than Joe Mixon. Okay, I believe he's a much better running back in PPR formats, But I think he's still getting production that Saints offense is still doing it. That's pretty much a wash to me. And then when I look at Tyreek killing Amari Cooper, this guy is trying to sell Amari Cooper off of

that great game he had on Thursday. I'm not buying it. If you listen to the Fantasy Freestyle, you know I've been down on Amari Cooper and I anticipated a lot of people are gonna try to sell Amari Cooper off that one game. I would not be caught dead John being the guy who buys a Marii Cooper off of just that one game. And I actually think Kamara greater than signed Joe Mixon moving forward, Joe Mixon had something like seven carries. They for some reason, they're still using

Germany Hill, They're still using Giovanni Bernard. I wouldn't do it, but John, it sounds like I'm just confirming for you what you already thought. So I'm happy to be able to validate you on the Fantasy Freestyle. That's what I'm here for. As we dropped stats over Beats next and last up tonight on the Fantasy Freestyle, it is a friend of the show. We're going down to Tats where Dylan you are back on the Fantasy Freestyle. How Week seven go for you? You gotta win. I'm pretty sure

I gotta win. I'm gonna move to five and two. He's got a kicker and a defensive player left to play. But I'm up. I'm up by thirty three, so I think I'm safe. That sounds good. I never say anything is like, you know, confirmed just yet, That's why they played the game ends. But it sounds safe. You sound like you're in a better position than I am going into Monday night. But how can we help you doing? Oh yeah, I got a tray question, man, I had Uh,

I'm the one. I had Todd Gurley and loved bell a running back in my receiver, cold and so high. I gotta I gotta offer on Todd Gurley. Now, Todd Gurley, he's he's a fantasy player right now, but I gotta offer for him. Uh for Julio and Lanny Walker for Todd Gurley. And right now my receivers are Garth Song Bryant, who I'm I'm just gonna put him on the bench. He's no longer. I can't even got no hope for that guy now, and uh Davante Parker and uh Ted Ginn,

Kenny Stills and Corey Davis. I don't know if I should just hold out hope that Corey Davis will pop off and be something great like Beckham was or or what you know? Let me tell you something because we did talk last week, right and I said, if you wanted to what you would what what you and and it would be not easy to do, but you would dangle Gurley or dangle Belly do what kind of two

for two? Let me type you something. Dylan, Todd, Gurley and Levy on Bell are my number like one and two running backs for the rest of the season, you know what I mean? Dylan so like because of that, and because you're absolutely right, I think the key for you could be Corey Davis, Corey Davis coming back from

the bye. I could see, you know, Corey Davis, Pierre Garson and DeVante Parker as a serviceable three wideouts to go with, especially if you're riding out Todd, Gurley and Levy on Bell because there are so few studs anymore. There are so few, and to be honest, you'd be getting Julio and Delaney Walker. Delaney Walker has like a high ankle sprain or a bone bruise. I don't know how he's gonna be going forward. Julio Jones. Yeah, he's a stud, but they have a lot of work to

do in that Atlanta offense. I you know, the shine is a little off the rose that is Julio Jones. So I'm gonna say no, Dylan, I'm gonna say, keep your incredible strength at running back with Todd Gurley and left Bell. And what you wanna do, man, is see if anybody would take Martavis Bryant. See if you can get any wide receiver that's actually been solid and consistent this year, you know, from what for the name value

of Martavis Bryant. See if you could trade Martavis Bryant, I don't know, for Cooper cup or Robert Woods, you know, or or or anybody you know, and see if you could just augment your squad that way. But I think you are actually okay, I would keep my incredible strength of Todd Gurley and Levy on Bell and thank you

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When we come back here on the Fantasy Freestyle, I'm gonna give you my thoughts real quick on Monday Night Football, and you also are gonna hear from my guy Chris Venture the analysts. We're gonna ask one or two questions from the YouTube stream. See if I can help the people out there on YouTube as well. We're dropping stats over beats. It is the Fantasy Freestyle right here on

the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. We're gonna come back and talk about Monday Night Football where the Philadelphia Eagles are five point favorites at home. The over under on that game is forty eight and a half. I expect points to be scored. Guys. I like Carson Wentz, I like her cousins. I think there's gonna be a lot of points scored. I'm gonna tell you about this trick. I'm gonna give you my preview. I'm gonna get to some YouTube questions. We're dropping stats over beats. It's the Fantasy

Freestyle right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Fantasy Freestyle. Martavis Bryant. I told you that he wasn't gonna be able to play nice in the sandbox. I said it all the way back to Draft Day when we had that tweet about Juju Smith Schuster. This is what I call bad juju from Martevis Brian Okay, and I quote, Juju is nowhere in your near better than me. Fool. Martavis Bryant trying to do whatever he possibly can to

get off of Pittsburgh. And I don't know why, because Pittsburgh is one of the only offenses left in the NFL that can actually produce week days from seven to eight p m. E. Stern on the Sports Radio Network. Back to the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, and your boy day Martinez feeds the spitting statistician. Let me tell you real quick what I think about Monday night football. This is a tale of

two quarterbacks. Carson Wentz is getting supported left and right with his weapons, with his offensive line, with his defense. Kirk Cousins not so much, Terrelle Prior, where have you been? Jamison crowd or where have you been? He's not relying on guys like Chris Thompson and like Vernon Davis has a healthy tight end. Will the kid Josh Dotson rise up? Also, remember here I told you guys last week what you

can do in many formats is make a speculative ad. Okay, guys that have played already are on the waiver wire, Guys that are on by or guys that are playing tonight's game are still free agents. If you have a roster spot that you can burn, drop someone and try these speculative ads. What about Wendel Smallwood who I talked about. He's owned in thirty nine percent of leagues. He is

going to get the passing down work. If you're in a PPR setting with the return of Smallwood, dropped the last on your roster and pick up one though Smallwood in a speculative fashion, what about Josh Dockson. He might emerge tonight and be one of the highest added guys. He's only twelve pc owned. If you could spare the roster spot, do it right now. Okay, Personally, I think this is gonna be a shootout. I like the over in this game, and I like Philadelphia to continue their

hot streak. They have been moving the ball. I think this goes back and forth. Could be a game where it's the last team that has the ball. The number of five five and a half is scary, but give me Philadelphia to cover something like uh oh, I don't know, something like that, maybe a thirty twenty four or something like that. I think it's a back and forth game. I think it's a tight game, and I think it

goes slightly over the total. Hey, Chris venture down there in the Fantasy Sports dungeon, we got some YouTube questions. What are the people asking? I want to help out those people too, because they hit the thumbs up button and they subscribe and they check it out on the Fantasy Sports YouTube channel, and I love it's so watch because you know, it makes me have to, you know, dress up. Okay, I can't just be rocking like you know, tattered T shirts anymore because I'm on video now. So

let me help these people out venture what are they asking? Alright? So first one real quick PPR League rest of season? Who would you go with? Who do you like more? Kenny Stills or Mohammed Sanir Mohammed Sanu? I think Mohamed Sanu is the number two pass catcher there in Atlanta. Kenny Stills. I like what he did in the last week or two, but remember when Davante Parker comes back, he gets a bigger target share. That is Parker and Jarvis Landry in Miami, and that's Matt Moore under center.

Give me Mohammed Sanu. H it's a new day because he's the number two option there and I much rather have Matt Ryan throwing to me. Who else? We got a question? We got one more? Yeah, I got one more? For your Standard league? Who do you like here? La, Garrett Blunt or Chris Thompson's is standard league? Standard is interesting because it's standard. Legarrett Blunt could be the answer. Chris Thompson. I love in PPR formats, but when you

think about stand dude, also check this out. If Chris Thompsons, Chris Thompson has had games where he gets like ninety yards in the passing game, that equates to the sixty five yards that LGBT gets. Like if Legarrett Blunt gets to me seventy yards and a touchdown, that's thirteen points, right. I can see Chris Thompson getting you know, sixty five yards through the air, twenty on the ground for eight and then if he gets in the end zone on a on a screen pass or something, it's the same.

I think the safer players Legarrett Blunt and standard. But don't get it twisted. Okay, Chris Thompson is gonna get work today in the run game and in the past game, so he is still viable. If this was PPR, I would love Chris Thompson because it's standard. The safer players a Garrett Blunt. But if you're in a position where you need to shoot for the fences or swing for the fences because you're down in your matchup, I still think Chris Thompson is the one that can pop off

and get you a hundred hundred fifty yards today. What do you think about that, Chris? You know, I think It's interesting. I think that you know, before the season, I would say Blunt would be the guy I and then you know because of the volume and stuff. But Thompson's getting one more volume and he's becoming the go one of the go to passing options in this offense. You're right, These wide receivers have defecated the mattress, whether it be Crowder or prior. And Thompson has been old

reliable for Kirk Cousins. So we shall see. But put a gun to my head. I think Philly covers at home, and I like this total will go slightly over, but I pass on the total if you want one, bet, I like Philly Tonight. All right, when we come back, we talk hot waiver ades. It'll be Tuesday Fantasy Freestyle. Come on, I'll see you tomorrow. Face

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