SPECIAL PREVIEW - I Want Your Flex - Week 4 Recap and MNF Double-Header

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Dan Buyer on Fox. This show executive produced by Lee the Lap with the Bunchet help from Lee Mayak and one Mike Lingard Mike. Week four gave us a Monday night doubleheader, gave us a coaching change in the National Football League, and gave us a bunch of points in the National Football League, which seems to be the theme for the first four weeks in the season. But Week

four absolutely positively no different. Even on a night where offenses weren't necessarily sharp on Monday night football, we still got points from teams, right, We still got o our big performances. And look, Patrick Mahomes gets credited with two touchdowns that were extended handoffs. All right, gadget plays, but they all count just the same. We watched Aaron Rodgers move up and down the field. We'll talk about the hero of the day. Uh, they're a little known tight

end who becomes a superstar. No DeVante at like the star power was out right, No Cam Newton because of COVID in in one game and then you talk about the nightcap. Juleo Jones is in and then he's out. All the all the stars were on the injury list. Some made it, some didn't, some didn't finish and it just a crazy week. And the Bill O'Brien thing, I could do ninety minutes on that standing on my head. But point scolore and once again, penalties are non existence.

Teams are allowed to have fourteen to twenty play drives and we're not seeing the holding calls and other things that were used to be setting those those efforts. They just keep moving forward. It's kind of fun to watch, but frustrating as hell. If you're a former player, I'm sure going you know what they used to call hold. They gotta play like that. I lost touchdown after touchdown and opportunities and you know, blood pressure checks. B O

B is b y E out of Houston. We will get into that, but I do have to say this? Someone on this show recommended playing Robert Tonyan on our last episode and with the week that I had, I know it's sure's heck, wasn't me you on this episode or on this podcast in our last episode, episode eight leading into into week four with the majority of the games outside of the Thursday Night contest, you said get Robert Tonyan, and Robert Tonyan came through big time for

the green Bay Packers. And if you listen to Mike, Uh, congratulations to you. But why were you high on Tanyan coming? And just for the lack of Green Bay receivers or what gave you the Robert Tonyan bug? I think the two factors right, receivers hurt the core injury to Lazard at Davante Adams being a game time decision. As we know, he took his shot at the training staff on Twitter

on Monday morning uh and quickly deleted said tweet. But Tanya had scored back to back weeks for all of the attempts down field, and Rogers has pushed the ball down field a little more than we have seen the last couple of years. The running backs and tight ends have been the focal point right. I mean, Davante Adams is always gonna grab his fifteen targets when he's on the field, but when it comes to the red zone, and certainly tonight with the injuries, you've just seen the

running backs and tight end play a huge role. And for Tanyan, could you expect six and three? Hell no, this is a guy that at Indiana State Dan they couldn't have a pro day because he's the only guy. So he went up to Northwestern. It was training with the Northwestern guys for on their pro day. I kid

you on. I was a bunch of Chicago writers had written about it at the time, and those articles were popping up, and then a bunch of the scribes in real time going I just remember looking at him like he didn't fit in right, he was just all right, what's he doing? Who is this guy? And sure enough there he is a star on Monday Night Football? And now George his friendship with George Kittle was made mentioned on the broadcast as well, and he put up Kiddle

like numbers in week four. One other point from Monday Night and then then we'll move on to to what's happening in the National Football League in the loss. We know the Patriots obviously Brian Hoyer was atrocious, especially with the decision making on the sack at the end of the first half, and a lot of stuff, and they moved to Jared'stidham. The question is, and it has been for the last one of years and in fantasy football,

is that Patriots backfield Sony Michelle not playing? You know, Rex burkehead at the big game a week ago, in a week three, but now it's Damian Harris? Is it still buyers buyer beware when it comes to Damian Harris now with the New England backfield, because as a buyer that just not only is the last name, but someone who's also looking for a running back in one of my fantasy leagues. I still just have buyers beware when it comes to New England Patriots. And I'm not necessarily

buying Damien Harris just yet. No, that's it. Seventeen for a hundred owned in thirty one of leagues as of now before the next waiver period finishes. But you got James White came back right after his absence. Only three carries but seven catches out of the backfield, so you know he's going to leach off whatever it is eight five touches depending on game script and how it's flowing.

And then Sony Michelle comes back. You look, even tonight, Rex Burkheads still had eleven carries, right, They still true to the run games. So should he be rostered? Sure, if your bench is deeper and you're playing with multiple I R and COVID spots and all these other things, because this is this year has really changed how people are adjusting roster's right, it's not just bench spots. You're seeing I L, I R whatever it's designated, depending on

your service. That you could slide a guy in there if he's declared out for a game and go pick up someone on waivers, which is former fantasy baseball thing now come to football. So if you can roster Harris and just play defense and see how it shakes out,

then cool. But otherwise I'm with you. The New England backfields one, I don't want to have a lot of person and especially with Cam Newton whenever he does come back from the COVID nineteen, there's also another person that's taking up the rushing opportunities to goline carries to have any value. So as great at a night as Damien Harris needs. Even if you're desperate for a running back,

I'm not sure that's where you need to go. I do love week four in the NFL and Week five in the National Football League, and I love it in fantasy football because this is the time to get cooking. Now. We have a trade deadline in our league. It doesn't come up until week twelve of our fantasy season, but Mike, I know that there are owners that will want to do a trade, their owners after the draft is done, that will send out trade proposals like they're just NonStop.

People love to trade, but for the people who are maybe apprehensive in doing so. And I don't mind that. I don't like to do trades in the first two or three weeks unless absolutely have to or really just get a sense that, boy I I really messed up this draft. I like to see how the team plays out and week four, if you're one in three, you're not out of it. And so I just think at this point in the season, over these next two or

three days, try to make a deal. Try to make a trade, Try to find out the value if somebody has, you know, got a bunch of wide receivers that they're looking, you know, to to maybe uh add another running back. I'm always high in trying to get running backs more so than wide receivers. But look for deals out there.

This is the absolute prime time to do it before a trade deadline, because now you're enough into the season to not be married to your draft and it's still early enough, I think to get get in on some guys that maybe have potential for the rest of the season. So I love this time of year in fantasy. No, it's it is. It is the best right because now you're you're recognizing what teams are right. You come in blind to it, and you know the thing we always say, hope,

I grab it out of Shawshank redemption. Right. They use hope in two ways. Hopes the best of things, run night and move forward whatever, And then you've got red Saying hopes a dangerous thing because you know, you make bad decisions sometimes on either either end of the spectrum. But you know, after four weeks we know who these teams are, at least most of them. I think there's still a handful that you put into a bucket going I really don't know which way this is gonna go.

But for the most part, we know Dallas defense is bad. Right, nobody's walking through that door. I keep suggesting, at son of bum uh, let's get Wade Phillips back in the mix. See if he cobblesome magic there. But in terms of free agent players, and we see a couple of guys that are potentially going to get signed, are they difference makers? No? Right, so you know they're going to continue to throw the ball. So if you're an Ezekiel Elliott owner, I'm sorry, it's

gonna be a long year for you. They're gonna be the ball a ton, right, But you have certain other circumstances. Right, Carson Wentz gets a big win over San Francisco, they still have all their division games to go, and I guarantee whoever drafted him in their lead in your league hates him hates him right now, even with back to

back solid efforts. So I mean there's certain players just from a schedule watching perspective, you do a little bit of the due diligence, Maybe you can get a nice by low opportunity, but sitting in standing pat forget about it. Your trash someone else may find as gold. And if you can build a case for them, get after it, practice your sales skills. Yeah, I I you mentioned Ezekiel Elliott.

I think it's a great point because on Fox Sports Radio on Sunday in the Red Zones show that I do with George Rice Stir five o'clock Eastern time to Pacific, just a little plug there, we had Darryl Johnston on Moose Johnston and he was on the call of the Cowboys Browns game and basically just said that his team doesn't run through Zeke anymore and that this team runs through Dak Prescott and you know Zeke and people are just gonna have to realize that that is the case.

So if you are at Ezekiel Elliott owner, I'm not saying give up on him, Mike, just because of a certain value of running backs, but that is a name that could probably get you a pretty good haul and get you some other maybe running backs that aren't as flashy name wise, but could give you similar to maybe even better production than what you could get from the Cowboys running back. Yeah. I think that there's this is

one of those opportunities. Right look at the guy in your league who's got the handcuff to another back right, that maybe is worth a price shot for later on in the season, and you can upgrade your receiving cores or your quarterback position because the name value and the history. Right, just flash the numbers and you'll say, over time it

will come, will it? I don't know, but again playing that same thing as I mentioned with wins, perhaps once you get into division that division stinks, uh, you may have some opportunities, you know whereby they can get back to that script because uh something Jason Smith and I talked about quite a bit on our Monday show coming out a week four uh seven to eleven Pacific, Fox Sports Radio, the I Heart Radio app series, XM Channel A, D three and four D plus affiliates nationwide, and the

Voice in your head. But one of the things as the impressiveness by which, whether you buy or don't, what Cleveland's doing their three and one right and their identity right now is to run the ball and not let

Baker Mayfield screw it up for Dallas. While you want to use the wide receivers you have, and it's a great stable add waiver wire guy ind Schultz off your fantasy world, it would behoove them to run the football again to keep that defense off the damn field seeing how terrible they're Do you want to keep playing forty five thirty eight games or thirty eight like you were this, No, that's not how you want to win or try to win football games. So the only way to do that.

And then even if you do hire a new defensive consultant, uh, he can't play the games. So maybe they flipped the script a little of how they how they will run their offense going forward. But for the short term, you've got four four games worth of data to start making those trades. I like the way you think. Get out there. Yeah, you got to swing a deal. Did you just try to one up my plug with your plug of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon because you added you

added the channels where they could hear it. I just gave the times to my show, so you kind of like you kind of cranked it up a notch. It well, but it helps both of us because she can be heard out of the same venues for those out of wares. We're both Fox Sports radio people. But but it was it was a discussion we'd had before the season when the Browns had brought back Kareem Hunt, right, and they signed him to that deal. Was all right, there's a

shifting here if they're going to invest that much. Not that Nick Chubb's making a ton of money still on his rookie deal, but the idea that you now have both those backs. Hunt is a great pass receiver, banged up right now, but played, and with Chubb going to injury list for what six weeks plus, we'll see if we can find another guy to step in. But the identity gone away from let's winging around just because we have name brand receivers and I think Dallas would be

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of Houston fired on Monday. On the same day he announced that he was going to take over the play calling, which is still get You still get to do that, which is so awesome. What you know, what always annoyed me about Bill O'Brien. You wanna you wanna know what annoyed me? And it's not the chin, It's not that, It's not the arrogance or how he would answer certain questions. What annoyed me about Bill O'Brien was he always wore a black Texans hat and their colors were navy, and

I didn't know, I couldn't find out. Maybe like sometimes you do it for a cause you're trying to, you know, bring recognition to something. But it always annoyed me that he would wear that black cat because there was no black in the Texans uniform or color scheme, and it just was so annoying because black and navy also just don't work. Maybe a different type of Navy, but the Navy that the Texans had. So I'm glad I don't

get to see the black hat again. But I don't know how different we're gonna see the Texans with even Bill O'Brien not being there. I don't know if they'll play looser. I don't think that, because honestly, I don't think that they were trying to say Bill O'Brien's job. Maybe just having him out of the building could free stuff up, but I don't even think that that's it. I think we're just gonna get more of the same,

and unfortunately that's not good news for the Houston Texans. Yeah, I mean, Deshaun Watson right now is still a QB one for fantasy purposes through the first quarter of the season, which is pretty impressive since he doesn't have a damn guy to throw to right the on on again, off again love affair that fantasy owners and the media have with Will Fuller until I see him play a full quarter of a season healthy and not a he's on the sideline for this series because of a hammy or

all of these things. Look, I'm sorry the guy gets hurt. It's no disrespect to him. It's just reality. It's like that. We always talk availability being your best ability, right, Deshaun Watson's gotten nothing of talent, of consistency. Randall Cobb. They paid a king's ransom to come in Johnson and Johnson in the backfield. Are you kidding me? No, it's yeah. Brendan Cooks three target zero catches against the Vikings. Yeah.

And the Willfuller thing, it's funny because you didn't mention him as one of your uh A guy to play at. Will Fuller cashed in six catches and eight yards and a touchdown. But it was also what he popped up on the injury list on Thursday. So when when you're talking about it was cleared on Friday and taking off the injury list. But when you're trying to figure out how to fill out your lineup and you have that sort of history, yeah, it's right there. There's just there's

not much in Houston. Here's the sad thing about it on a personal level for me, is I picked a Shawn Watson to be the m v P, and I was considering between three guys Watson, Murray, and Russell Wilson. And I thought that if the Texans had any sort of success because of the lack of talent around him. Like this is such a backwards uh way of thinking, but that Watson would be elevated where you would say, wow,

look at what Houston has done. They didn't even have DeAndre Hopkins anymore, and here they are ten and six winning the a f C South. What I should have said is they've got nothing around him. It's not gonna work out in Houston, because that's what's happened through the first four weeks of the season. And now Bill O'Brien doesn't have a job. Yeah, I mean, and when we when we break it down, right, the schedule makers didn't

do them any favors. Right, This is the Big ten Nebraska equivalent for the national Right, Hey, you want to leave Blake here, here's your schedule. Same thing here with the with the Texas. Obviously you win the division, your schedule is gonna be harder. But they gave them a murderers row in the first four weeks, right, Not that Minnesota has been world beating to this point, but they came in with expectations. Yeah, right, and can still put

up some points defensively. They still have their issues. But for the first four weeks. I don't know. You probably go strength the schedule who's had it harder than they have, right, But personnel wise, I mean, they certainly don't have the horses to get that done either. Uh And and we've talked about that that schedule a bunch of times on

this podcast. And the only issue that I will bring up to say that I think is indefensible is there was never a game where they play Texans football Like, there's never a game where you're like, okay, they've got things rolling, maybe a little bit in that Pittsburgh game where it's like, okay, this is but they seem to be from behind from Kansas City. They seem to be playing catch up against the Vikings on Sunday. They were

never in the game against the Ravens. There was never that point where, at any point, and this was a team that I thought was gonna win the a f C South, that even with that murderer's role, there was never a point where they were able to put their stamping on anything. And that just tells me that they just aren't at the caliber of those teams. Well, we've

we saw it. Gutted Trader, Bill had made his mark right, and even going forward, Miami's got a bunch of their picks going forward, so the Cavalry is not walking through that door, right. Bill O'Brien had already made his his mark as GM. Uh, and it's a disaster. So we'll be you'd be curious to see what the next generation is.

I'm just feeling bad for Deshaun Watson, but by the same token, between him, Tunsil and j J. Watt, you've got three guys making a ton of cash that's really not gonna help you rebuild this roster whomever comes in as GM next, you've got Jacksonville coming in next week, and then you've got the Titans and Packers, so you better get that win against Jacksonville because it could uh, it could be getting worse. The rest of the schedule does lighten up a little bit where you you do

have the Lions on your schedule. But point being, well, we'll talk. If we talk Texans Lions, it's gonna be one heck of a podcast, I'll tell you that much. All right, let's talk about the two big injuries that happened in the National Football League. We're gonna talk Austin Ekeler first, because this was a guy that was a high draft pick and now out four to six weeks. Because in the hamstring with the Chargers, how does that trickle down in the Bolts back field? What does it

do for everybody else? Justin Herbert Keenan Allen and those guys. But Austin Ekeler not going to be around for Anthony Lynn squad. Well, the hardest part is still determining what what Anthony Lynn is gonna do with the quarterback position. Right, that's a side issue, but it certainly informs a lot of the performances that we see in that receiving corps because remember Mike Williams hasn't been available either. But for Austin Ekeler to go down just awful. Uh, Fantasy owners

really bet him big. I didn't think he'd hold up over a full season. Uh, hamstring injury, you know, obviously something you can't quite predict, and it's severe enough that we're talking missing some games. So Joshua Kelly already on about half of fantasy rosters. He'll be a hot waiver wire pick up. My guy Justin Jackson from Northwestern gets back in the mix some Uh So I would say probably sixty forty would be my guests off the jump,

maybe seventy thirty. Because Jackson had some injury issues coming into the year, maybe they don't want to give him a huge role. But I think a lot of it will be informed by what Anthony Lynn wants to do at QB. Right, is he still married to the idea that because of the injury to to Rod Taylor, that he's got to give him another shot when he's healthy, because that's gonna change Keenan Allen value, Hunter Henry's value

and what that passing game is. Not to mention the run game, I think right you'll see a little more of a bonus for them because they'll want to run the ball and play defense and not necessarily pushed down field with to Rod Taylor, whereas justin Herbert, as we saw with a couple of beautiful deep strikes. I mean, that kid's got an arm and he's not afraid to use it and winging around for better or for worse. Right, that's gonna that comes back to bite you in the

ass as a ruggie too. But at least that willingness to push down field, I don't know that that's the game Anthony Lynn was looking to call, but it's at his disposal, so long as Herbert's there. I thought it interesting. Bruce Harrians even made a point of saying after the game that he spoke with Anthony Land and just basically said, you got you gotta you got a kid there with with Justin and Herbert making a Patrick Mahomes like throw, and then Arians talked about it in the post game.

So there's I know that Anthony Lynn addressed the issue on Monday when he talked with the media. There's you know, if I'm Keenan Allen and those guys, I'm in coach's office being like, all right, we love to Rod and everything, but let's stick with the rook I think more damage can be on by allowing to Rod Taylor to come back and take the starting job. More damage can be done to Justin Herbert than the positive that can be

gained by starting to Rod Taylor. And that's I think what you have to weigh if you're the Chargers in their situation. I just I mean, it's without Austin Ekeler there, you know, with the with the triple J backfield that you basically have now with with the Justin Jackson and Joshua Kelly and now Justin Herbert Um. Yeah, the Chargers were the perfect team that were, as I said, sixteen to twenty points a week, and I think that's probably

gonna be this the way that it goes out. I don't see too many thirty one games like that against the Buccaneers. Well, and let's call it what it is. As it stands, they've got a laundry list of injuries to key personnel as well. Right, offensive line is really banged up, and we look defensively, you've already right bouncing missing is ments and then you had what both tackles were banged up this week, right, And then defensively, well,

Derwin James isn't there, uh, and Ingram isn't there. So I mean, you're missing a couple of your top playmakers. So you're probably gonna be needing to push the ball a little more than maybe you would have liked to on your script, right, because you're not gonna be able to control as many because you don't have the the killer safety coming up to stop the run game and

everything else like Derwin James was able to. So you're gonna get yourself probably into more of these shootouts, and I don't know that Torod Taylor's equipped to be that guy in those spots. I like him, but when the strongest thing is you know, he he doesn't turn the ball over and he calls a good game under center. Okay, what does that mean? Like, if you're down, is he the guy to quarterback you're back in. I don't think

he's the guy to do it right. If your defense isn't up to the task and the pass rushers aren't getting home and you're down, we atle saw from the kid he's gonna keep winging it and you know there there's bad habits that can be formed there, but also a lot of confidence about being able to play in this league. Let's get into the Browns just a little bit more than that we did earlier because of the Nick Chubb injury. He's now out six weeks expected because

of the calf strain. You mentioned Kareem Hunt taking over the the the rushing load, but it wasn't Nick Chubb and it wasn't Kareem Hunt that actually led the team in rushing on Sunday. It was de Ernist Johnson. So so the the brown still didn't miss it. Beat with all of their stars. And I'm not saying I'm not trying to make fun of de artist Johnson's effort because it was thirteen carries ninety five yards for for Cleveland, but without Nick Chubb it seems to be the Kareem

Hunt show. Is the Ernest Johnson a guy that you're gonna be looking at the pickup? How do things shape out of Cleveland now with Chubb on the bench. Damn right, Let's go Dernis Johnson because it's gonna be a workload split. And I don't think Kareem Hunt because right now you can't expose him, not to say that he won't have a game or two where he's in that touch category.

But I think, you know, if if my read on this is right of the identity and not wanting Mayfield half ass winging it around as he was wont to do a year ago, then they stick to this plan. And whether Dernis Johnson can do this consistently, I don't know. I uh is a pretty pretty strong effort. We take it with a grain assault because it's the Cowboys, and we know how bad UH and sieve like that defense

can has been. But I think the identity is to run the football and control clock, and I mean defensive backfield. They haven't been able to get healthy yet, so that's that's certainly something to hang a star on, which is why Dak Prescott, once they actually started connecting, was able to make Hey, the front part of their defense has been solid, but the back end struggles. And while that's still in effect, keep that defense off the field as

best you can. Go to the ground game. So I'll pick up Johnson and you know he may only be flexworthy. And again it's a defensive play. With Nick Chubb down six weeks and Kareem Hunt came into the game being on the injury list, you know the next man up.

And this goes back to our handcuffing strategy from before the season, right in addition to trade, this is where you start looking around to say, all right, which of the backups, even if they haven't gotten a ton of work yet, are still unowned and do I have an opportunity to add them to the my bench because of the I L spots being added, so I can play defense that way. The Browns, I am, I I am not with you, I am about eight with you. I'm kind of just like at two o'clock while you're at noon.

I agreed, like at the start of the season, you run the ball with with Chubb and you run the ball with Creme hunting that your best way of success, and you want to limit Baker Mayfield's mistakes that that

he can make. I find it interesting and this is the best part about what Sunday was was that Kevin Stefanski took the pressure off of Baker Mayfield and still find a way to get the ball to Odell Beckham Jr. Because the force feeding of O. B J. Last season is what I think did Baker Mayfield in and even at the start of this season because of all of the weapons that they do have with Jervis Landry, with Austin Hooper, to be able to run a play where

Jervis Landry throws a touchdown pass too too oh b J. To have that sort of thing, to run an end around with him, none of that was you know, really Baker. You know Baker's doing in that aspect, and so that was That's what I thought was brilliant about it was they were still able to take the pressure off of Baker but still get the ball in Odell Beckham Jr's hands, and that is a huge positive sign feeding everybody, making them feel a part with Baker not having any pressure.

So that's a good forward for you. And I mean the years we've done the Fantasy Show and myriad you know spots on Fox Sports Radio chopping up football. I mean, how many quarterbacks have we talked about and the struggles of having to force feed a singular receiver right to where you get my opic? I mean, look at what happened in Detroit all those years with Calvin Johnson, as great as he was. Should Matthew Stafford have been looking

somewhere else? Sure? Should Jake Cutler have been looking somewhere more than Brandon Marshall. Yes, not that they had receivers anywhere near that talent level, but with the amount of attention that the number one was getting, go somewhere else. But that myopia ended up becoming problematic for both of those guys in terms of locker room and wins and losses and everything else. And the media you know, feasted on both of them through the years. And we could

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It's Nick Lash, Daryl Hall, and this is John Oates see is snook Deagle double gene rack them, we rack up. It's celebrity selections, alright, our celebrity selections four weeks four and a guy with a lot of hardware. Some of that hardware is a Heisman Trophy, Trophy Wommer winner, former first round pick of the New York Giants. College Football Hall of Famer Ron Dane was our celebrity picker four week four. Ron went with Patrick Mahomes Jonathan Taylor. That

seemed to be a match made in heaven. Both went to Wisconsin, both guys from Jersey, and then and then he went Julio Jones who had the question mark with a hamstring. It was a tough go for Mahomes didn't even have the Mahomes like game against the Patriots to thirty six two touchdowns and did have twenty eight yards rushing, Jonathan Taylor just sixty eight yards on the ground, added another eleven receiving, and then you had Julio Jones with the four catch thirty two yard performance but had to

leave against the Green Bay Packers. So it was a quiet week for Ron Dane in our standings and right now, unfortunately for Ron is in last place at thirty six point nine behind a thirty some points, just under thirty points behind Josephine Scriber, who remains in first place with sixty five point five points. Top performance tough week. Talk about the Mahomes touchdowns that in my book, they don't count. Those are handoffs. Just because it went in the air

for point four seconds doesn't count. But the Julio Joe One's injury certainly huge. We we talked about Monday Night Football before. I'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention that Calvin Ridley got shut out right nice play by Amos in the in the end zone to keep him from at least getting a saver touchdown towards the end. Three targets on the first series and then very quiet until the end and we'll almost had the touchdown, but Ryan was a beat too slow and getting the ball.

They're allowing Amos to recover. But for Ron Dane, just a tough go. The Bears defense did a good job of stiffening up in the red zone. You saw a lot of Rodrigo blanket ship over and over again. Uh in that game. Philip Rivers with some great smack talk that's become gift worthy across the world. But for Jonathan Taylor didn't didn't get any of that red zone glory that you love. Uh. And again the early exit from

Julio Jones. That's stuff, man, That that is just a tough. Yeah, especially at a game where they were throwing in a budget at the end where you could have picked up something. I ordered Ron a point, he has thirty seven point nine points, Josephine Scriber still at first, sixty five point five, Alicia Sacrimony, Quinn sixty five point four, Jeff Sceario in third at sixty point seven, and then you got Ron Dane in thirty and fourth with a thirty seven point nine.

All right, Hey, Ron had a rough week, so did I. I almost burnt off my eyebrows grilling on Saturday. Completely suffered story just green egg got a little bit too hot forgot that the events were all open. Came back, it was like eight hundred degrees, closed the vents. It immediately dropped the six hundred, tried to burp it, then

opened it up. Didn't even see the flame. All I heard was my bangs like starting to crisp, and yeah, the the yeah, it's nothing big, no burns, but just just a little off the top courtesy of the Big Green Egg. On Saturday, I figured it was kind of our last day of summer because it was hot here in southern California, you know, went up some ribs on the grill, and uh yeah, I got a little out

of hand. But other than that, and me and other than that, and me going three at eleven against the spread on picks this week, it was a dandy weekend, Mike, It it really was. I can't even I can't even do this. We usually do our epic fails, and I used and I on our Friday episodes, do to give me one reason to start, and give you one reason to bench. The two guys that I picked would have the same exact amount of points, so I don't even

know if I wonder lost on them. I said to start Tyler Boyd, he had seven catches for ninety yards and at a four yard carry. And then I said, bench Tyreek Kill. Well, he had four catches for sixty four yards and a touchdown against the Patriots. That came out to sixteen point four points if you're in a PPR league. So I didn't even get that right. So that was my week four in a nutshell for you? What did you hit out and what did you miss

or have an epic fail for in week four? Because mine was a dandy Let's see, uh, I was slightly better against the spread, so my one nine d lose my ass challenge. I went eight and eight, So I do forty miles this week. That's pretty amazing since there were fifteen games, Mike, I don't know how you picked so well. No, because I looked at the other sorry, so eight and seven, I gave myself the loss on the other one, I guess, so like a winning week

A rarity these days in terms of pick. Sorry, I immediately gave myself credit for that sixteenth game, which is postponed a week seven. As we know, uh Kenyan Drake did me nothing. Ever, since he cursed out, Fantasy Owner's karma has been against him, so he's been invisible. As you go through, I looked at when Matthew Stafford didn't give me the monster numbers. I anticipated the cold still gave you three scores, though I gave you three touchdowns.

I know the yard iss just weren't there. But yeah, as we go through, you know he finished tenth. I was expecting better the way I hyped him up, So I'll take the l there I had. In terms of positives, they were a few and far between. I mean, you know what Tanyan that we talked about, but you know the I guess David Montgomery not being a factor. It wasn't he was. He was not a no go uh and nor nor did I think that you'd end up with a huge fantasy day from Philip Rivers and he didn't.

They won, but it certainly wasn't for anything he did. They had the touchdown to mo Ali Cox, but beyond that, it was again the blanket ship show. I'll just say this, I don't care about what you missed. You nailed Tanyan on the head. And if anybody listens to this podcast, that Trump's everything. That's That's the queen of clubs in a game of Shaska if you want beats every card, I think Tanyan Trump said, we're gonna leave it at that.

We're gonna get to your bears. By the way, in a seconds, they played Thursday night football against the Buccaneers. Will get your look ahead to that, But let's look ahead to the immediate future. Waiver wire is out there. What are some names people need to target, especially because real buys are here, not just Titan Steelers because of COVID, but Lions and Packers not playing in Week five? Who

should we target on the waiver wire heading into this week? Well, if you're having trouble at the quarterback position, you've got the opportunity of opportunities. Teddy Bridgewater virtually unowned. He's got Atlanta, it's on the road. But I don't see Dan Quinn suddenly figuring this thing out. I don't know about you, but it's been pretty painful to sit through the twelve hours that I've given any time two of my life watching Atlanta Falcons football. That's pretty miserable as you go

out of this game as well, though. I mean, even though the Week five by we've got Detroit and Green Bay or off, Jamal Williams is only owned right in the receiving game, Uh tonight or I should say Monday Night football eight carries ten yards? All right, to hang a star on that, But I don't think Aaron Jones is gonna be the only back they use because if they've got aspirations and they should looking at the way the division sets up of a long term run, they

can't be using him thirty times a game. So I think Williams right now at owned offers some value to you going forward. Uh. You had Zachaeus as well, with everybody banged up, eight eight catches, nine targets for eighty six yards uh for Atlanta. So while you can say, hey it's garbage time, targets are targets. And if Jones and is going to be banged up and not available to them, certainly, so I want to look for I mentioned Dalton Scholtz a little bit earlier. Uh, twenty four

targets the last three games. He's gone over seventy yards twice, a couple of touchdowns. And again Dallas defense isn't getting any better, so they're gonna keep chucking. We already talked about the the Chargers situation. Scotty Miller, who we talked about to start the season, he went back to the waiver wire in a lot of leagues for Tampa Bay. We'll get into the Thursday night game in a moment, but they've got injuries all over the place. Right now.

You lose O. J. Howard. You're already talking about be the availability of Godwin and Evans week to week. Here's a steady, set it and forget it ronco product uh Tim Patrick and Denver another guy wanted to highlight really quick as well, because you're looking at UH six six out of seven for touchdowns back to back games. A big target for Denver, all the injuries that we know

of and where we're at with the quarterback situation. He's a guy that would have been working with all the backups to start things back, and even as disjoining the training camp was, that's still a couple of weeks. So whenever you get into deeper in your quarterback depth chart, you start looking for that guy who has an action going back to training camp, going back to preseason, and right now Patrick looks like a guy who could be that guy. And Jerry Judy, for whatever reason, was still

unowned in thirty percent of leagues. That doesn't make much sense to me. He won't be after this week. Bucketeers and Bears will start Week five on Thursday night. Obviously we we we hope that we have the schedule as it is for Week five. Things could change. Titan situations still up in the airs. They take on the Bills but let's look ahead to Thursday. It is Buccaneers at Bears. You mentioned a bunch of Buccaneers. Don't think that Chris Godwin is going to go just because of the short

week as it is. But who do you guys need to play and look out for for Thursday night? Well, I think on the Bear side it's outside of Allen Robinson. I don't know that there's anybody you truly trust. Right you look at the running back position. We talked about David Montgomery and the struggles against Indianapolis front seven of Tampa on no slouches, and look at Naggi's trying to find the needle in the haystack. At this point, you're seeing a lot more of cor Darrel Patterson and Gadgetree

and and trying to be creative. Nick Foles looked like he hadn't played quarterback in five years. Watching him play with some of you, I think it didn't get help. But he wasn't. I mean there were some drops as well, but yeah, he wasn't good on Sunday. Yeah, I was actively leading to charge of Hey, is this where we call from Mitch Drabinsky? You know, in halftime? Is this where we want the quarterback. Sorry, you know it goes

both ways, especially with as erratic as he was. But Robinson bailed him out, big catch, uh for a touchdown. But I can't trust him right. If you're in a two QB league, fine, otherwise No. As for the the bucks we mentioned, Scottie Miller, I'll take him, especially if I'm in a PPR league from the running back position. Difficult necessarily to go any higher than a low were

RB two For Ronald Jones. You saw what the Bears were able to do Taylor with just the sixty eight yards, So I mean, you might pile up some yardage, but I think they stiffen and you're gonna see the red zone go awry. And dare I say Brady's outside my top twelve as I sit and look at it, you know, right coming out a week four, it's a tough, tough play, especially with the big guys out. And and the other

thing about Ronald Jones, I'll just add to this. He had six catches for seventeen yards, so that's not even three yards of catch, and he had a bunch of a couple of drops to dump off, so he's not that much of a threat out of the backfield when

they when they take on the Bears on Thursday. Alright, let's four though, Dan, I mean at two yards of pop and six catches, six catches along of seven, that's what it was for Ronald Jones receiving wise uh for that Yeah, his you know, with his status, he'll want to check that out. But Jones likely to get the nod. Alright, three point good version. Uh. Three things that you need to know for these next couple of days before we met it again Buccaneers Bears Thursday night. Let's wrap this

baby up as we get ready for week five. Here are my three things. Number one, make a deal, look to trade, Try to shake up your team if it needs it. If it's sitting there at one and three, this is the prime opportunity to do it. Number two, don't expect much to change in Houston even though Bill O'Brien is out. I don't know if it will provide a huge boost that he's out of the building. I just think that the Texans right now are just shorthanded,

even though they're playing against Jacksonville. I just don't see a huge boost with Bill O'Brien out of the building and number three, don't open a green egg when it's six hundred degrees if you want to keep your eyelashes and your bangs. That's the three things that you need to know in my three point conversion this week. Mike, go ahead and wrap up yours alright really quick. We we say do it for the kids. We talk a lot about young wide receivers breaking through. Targetcounts are big.

They're not a raid of playing these guys like it used to be in your grandfather's or your father's fantasy leagues. Start schedule watching right, Get a week ahead on your waiver wires because we're getting into the bys and you don't want to be competing for players in those stop gaps situations. Yes, that means you may want to add a defense a week early. Yeah, that's kind of scary. It's kind of going off your trade remarks. And and finally, the points are gonna keep flying as long as they're

not calling penalties. We talked about it at the start of the show. There's fifty points going up seemingly in every game, no matter how poor the teams are, points are being scored. There's one or two outliers a week, so for fantasy purposes, maximize, look for those bad matchup. We now know who those bad defenses are. Get aggressive, and if you've got a packer alliance, sit them on

your bench. They aren't playing in week five, Mike, we'll do it again, and we'll do it again in a few days and uh yeah, hopefully people cannot listen and find out information up the new players that they acquired. We'll do with the Friday morning it drops. Talk to benas, get right to the romance and find the way to wow this Valentine's with one hundred flowers dot Com. From classic roses and bouquets to decadent chocolate covered berries, gourmet

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