Hey there. Welcome to the Fantasy Football Game Plan. It's week nine. We are about halfway through the season now. We are going to run down week nine, main slate for DraftKings. We're gonna answer your questions, hopefully, is the Chiefs and Bill's game going to deliver? Where can you find value this week in these lopsided matchups? And is the chalk going to be worth it or is it going to anchor everyone down like it did last week? Hit subscribe. Drop a, drop us a comment with your favorite plays here in week nine. We're gonna jump into it. What happened last week with our chalk?

Yeah. As a quick review, I think most people that played DFS last week are very aware of what happened with CMC and Bijon. I mean, Bijon was the main offender, but I feel like CMC is getting off scot free for. His under 10 points performance too, um, sense of what happened for Bejan. But I did kind of want to talk about, you know, we joked about it last week, like, should we just make parlays on these players? And instead especially with these players where Bejan was coming in on some of the tournaments, I was entering about 60% ownership.

It was crazy.

Yeah. I think I'm just gonna make a rule from now on that I'm never touching a player that's like 60% owned. I can go to a sports book and take his two touchdown line or whatever line I think is going to bury me if I don't have him. If I think that, you know, for his price to pay off in a tournament, he needs like 150 yards and two touchdowns, I can make that parlay and their sports books are gonna pay me like 10 to one. But if Bij actually did have. 150 yards and two touchdowns last week against the dolphins. 60% of the field had it too, so you weren't even gaining an advantage.

Yeah.

if you had one sports book that was offering that parlay of 150 and two for like even odds versus a sports book offering at like 10 to one, then you're always gonna go with the better payout. So I did kinda want to just bring up the high ownership plays. As DFS is kind of in this changing landscape of, there's so many different options now. There's sports books widely available. It's very different game than it what it was a couple years ago. And think the way I'm playing it now is that I'm gonna use DFS more as an alternative sports book. You know, it's really good for those unpopular players, even if they're really talented. Derrick Henry and Saquon, they weren't popular. You can actually get values on these really talented players that just are not popular, um, but like win these crazy plays. And like last a couple weeks ago, it was Quin Sean and Rashi Rice, and I was in on that, but they both hit, and then I wasn't even moving in tournaments because everyone had them. So I wasn't even gaining value from that. So I think I'm more on just the consensus of fading these top plays. You know, Dalton Schultz was 33% owned in some of those tournaments, and his touchdown line was plus one 70. You know, he is only gonna bury you if he scores a touchdown, so why not just go to a sports book instead? I'm looking more for those kind of unpopular plays this week.

All right, we're gonna go unpopular plays. Let's see if we can identify the chalk. 'cause it's Wednesday when we're recording this and we have no idea what the chalks gonna be, but some of 'em you can kind of identify.

Yeah.

jump into it. The teams on by this week are the Browns, juts, Eagles and Bucks. Sunday night game is Seahawks at Commanders, and the Monday night game is the Cardinals at the Cowboys. So all off the slate. Yay. We don't have to debate the Cowboys and what they're going to do. Last week in week eight, the sports books had a rough week. If we only look at the over unders. Only three games hit the under. Everything else went on the over. That's kind of crazy. So this week, I'm wondering if we're seeing those lines, you know, pushed even higher. Then expected trying to get some of them to hit on on the under or if we're just gonna see a bunch of games fail naturally and get back to average. So let's jump in with our first game of the week, which is the Chicago Bears. At the Cincinnati Bengals Bears are two and a half point favorites and the over under is 52 and a half. I have been seeing these lines getting pushed up already. Cause everyone thinks they're going on the under or on the over, sorry.

is one of the two 50 point games. There's some weeks where we never have a 50 point game, so we have a lot of high scoring games in theory this week on the slate.

Yeah, we do.

how do you

Uh

Do you, do you think this game gets to the 52 and a half?

If lack O plays. It is all hinging on if Flaco plays. So his injury is the key to this. If he plays, then yes, I am all in on this game and I do love it. I think everyone will be probably at least partially in on this, Flacco's been playing well. I do have worry that even if he plays and he's banged up, you know, does he end up going out and we don't wanna see. Jake Browning anymore?

Yeah, I think they said Flaco had an AC joint and so it is a true kind of flip of a coin if he's gonna play this weekend.

Yeah, they, they said that he was sore, his shoulder was sore. It's like, well, maybe it's just sore. 'cause you've thrown it like a hundred times over the last two weeks.

And

Mostly to DeMar Chase. Yeah.

chase is sitting there after catching the ball like 40 times and being like, you're sure I, but I guess he is a 40-year-old man, so

Th this is true. Okay, so we're gonna go on the assumption that Flaco is playing. Are you interested in Joe Flaco or in Caleb Williams in that case?

Honestly. I've been going elsewhere. I don't really like, I've been kind of leaning away from this game just because. I see them leaning more into the rushing attacks. I think the rushing attacks are gonna be effective, and if we get an effective ground game from either of these teams, we're gonna slow it down enough for it not to pay off its price. But the pieces aren't that steep prices for a 50 point game.

I think that's you. You know what definitely has the attraction here is that, you know, Flacco at 5,600. If he's slinging at 50 times, then it's a great play. Nobody's got a defense here. And so it's hard not to play Flacco and Jamar Chase. I don't even mind playing it with Chase Brown, the running back because he also got to almost 26 points last week. They let everyone score and so all the points that they can put on the board they need, whether it's running, passing, whatever, you know, if they're gonna have a meltdown and let the jets win and come back. After being almost what, 16 points down

Oh yeah.

Yeah, I am definitely interested in the Chicago parts and in the Bengals parts 'cause they can equally put points on the board. So I think everyone's kind of gotta be in the back of your mind. Definitely looking at that. Playing percentage, you know, are any of these players going to be the chalk? Nobody's like super attractive. Maybe Jamar Chase is probably the one that is the most likely I would think, to be widely played. Anyone else that you think?

I think, chase Brown might get schemed up a little bit here at home in this high scoring game. That's gonna be something to monitor. He did have a pretty great game last week and I think he's gonna be pretty crucial. He should also, we kind of have been picking on the Bears Run defense. Over and over again for a reason. They just are kind of getting pushed around. I think even Chase Brown, who hasn't been the most efficient runner, can have a great game here.

Yeah, I think he can too. I also am interested in Caleb Williams. He had no. Touchdowns last week, and now he's facing the Bengals, which I thought against the Ravens, he was going to do well, but he didn't. And I think maybe that gets back to average. You know, they made Justin Fields look good. I didn't think that was possible, but the Bengals defense made that happen. So why can't they make Caleb Williams look like a superstar also? And if they do, does he bring Romo Dunes A with him?

Yeah, I think Romo didn't say he actually, I think he might've led last week as far as receiving yards, but he still didn't feel that good because he didn't get in the end zone. But he was heavily used, I mean, targeted 10 times, caught seven of those for one 14. So I like, I don't think you're paying that steep of a price, and he's been fairly consistent, you know, a couple down games, but with just being such an end zone threat. It's really whether or not he gets in the end zone. And what better of a place to do it than against Cincinnati. The other name I wanna bring up for Chicago, well kind of a couple. I can see Swift being the alternative play. You know, if this game fails, swift could be the only bears that actually does well. But I also like Loveland here. If ette continues to miss time.

Not only Loveland missing time, but Luther Burton's now out also with a concussion. So somebody's going. To have to pick up that slack and I think we're, you know, there's going to be points scored in this game. I see this one hitting the over pretty easily. So who else, anyone else that you like that might be cheap?

No, Loveland's been pretty attractive at the 3,300 price, and we saw what tight ends can do consistently against Cincinnati. I probably want to keep it like a, a smaller stack here if I'm taking the Caleb Williams side. Really just choose that one piece that I think he's bringing along with.

Not both, DJ Moore and O Dunes, but pick one of 'em.

Yeah, because Caleb's best fantasy games has been when he is one in as well,

Yeah.

that's kind of your seal case. He rushes one in and maybe we get a two touchdown performance from a receiving option.

Yeah. Somehow Flaco rushed one in last week. That's crazy.

Making him do a touch push.

Oh my gosh.

why he's sore.

That's probably, yeah. Let's, let's just make the 40-year-old do it all. I hope he survives until we get Joe Perro back. Let's move on to Kent. City Chiefs at the Buffalo Bills, chiefs are favored by one and a half. Over under is 51 and a half. Are you over or under here?

I think I'm over, but I see a tough time for this to be a true shootout, if you know what I mean. Like I feel really good that it's gonna be somewhere in the 50 to 60 range,

I don't, I'm on the under here. I'm on the under for these games. These two teams know how to make life hard on each other. And in the last two seasons, including the playoffs, we've only seen players go over 30 points twice in the last two seasons. And both of those were the quarterbacks, Mahomes and Josh Allen, and they each had one performance over 30 points, but they were playoff games. So until they get into the playoffs, they don't seem to really put it all out there. This may be a little bit of a different situation because they both are kind of in different situations this year because they need these games. Usually we've got the, the bills leading their division and nobody, you know, in second place that could really challenge them as well as Kansas City, and that's not true in their divisions this year. So they need these games more if they treat it more like a playoff game. Then maybe we can hit that over. But traditionally we've not seen that. We've seen actually relatively low fantasy scores and we've seen it kind of balanced out, for these two teams during the regular season, the weather could also be a factor, 42 degrees and raining.

Yeah, it sounds like a, a perfect buffalo day. I do think these teams will have some success. You know, these quarterbacks always get it done. I feel like every time we see them play, they put on a show and it's always just what tools can they pull out to bring with them. But I, I have no confidence in any of the receiving options here. So it's kind of like. How do the quarterbacks work for Josh Allen? It's a little bit more clear. He gets it going on the run, running side. But for, Mahomes, you know, is it Rishi Rice? Is it Kelsey again? Is it worthy? They have so many different options to attack, on that side.

So are you taking Mahomes or Josh Allen or either of 'em worth their over $7,000 price tag?

I don't think either of them are worth that price. I lean towards just the chief side in general here. I think it's gonna be much more, efficient for that chief's offense than the, bill side. I kind of just, the main question is can the bills keep up? Those receiving options weren't even getting separation against Carolina, but they could run all over them. I don't think they're gonna run over. Chiefs.

No, I don't think James Cook puts up his 35 plus points again this week. I, I, and we haven't seen anything out of the buffalo wide receivers, and I just don't know where that Kansas City Ball is going. Let's talk about Kelsey for a minute. He put up 21 points and DraftKings cut his price $400.

Yeah.

that?

One of the, uh,, benefits of playing on Monday night is they just gotta guess on how they're gonna actually perform. Um,, So Kelsey actually my surprise, had a great game. It was kind of his first great game with Rushi Rice in the past two seasons. So I don't really like going back to him. I'm going to be out this week and just if he can prove it again that he can be good with Rushi Rice on the field, then I'll actually buy in. But I'm staying off of him this week. What about you?

Yeah, I'm staying off of all these players this week as well. I have a mild interest. I, I think it's just an interest and not a DFS interest. I'm curious what the chiefs are going to do about their running game. So it looks like Isaiah Pacheco is probably gonna be out he's week to week with an MCL Spraining, but if he's out then we're looking at Kareem Hunt and Bro Smith, Burchard Smith at 4,200. That still seems like too much for a Kansas City running back.

Bihar Smith, he definitely has some juice and I think they'll probably give him a specific play. Like he's definitely the fastest and most explosive running back on their team right now. And they'll probably try to get him in space against one of the safeties on like a matchup. But it's a very narrow bet, you know, he is probably gonna have that one opportunity for a big play.

Yeah. It, it is. But if we're talking DFS and we're looking for, to uncover some of those players that could, you know,

Yeah,

that explosive play, I, I'd throw him in there. I also like Keon Coleman.

I like Keon Coleman too. That was actually the name I was gonna bring up because in the one game we've seen Buffalo really pushed, I'm thinking back on that Baltimore game. He is their 50 50 receiver if they just need a play.

Yeah.

it's fourth down or third down, and they need the conversion. They're sitting there down seven already, like Josh Allen's going to just give him a chance for it. So when

Yep.

50 50 receivers, they can always have those blow up games if they just come down with a few of them. I think Keon Coleman is the best value here If this game goes off.

Yeah, I think so too. He's dropped to 4,500. At 4,500. He can have a big day. And. Win your tournament, and I don't think anyone's gonna be playing him. He has been awful this season.

Yep.

Uh, let's move on to the Indianapolis Colts. At the Pittsburgh Steelers. Colts are favored by three and a half, over under his 50 and a half. This is kind of my game. I I, I'm not usually one to play the Colts, but I really have a strong interest actually in their passing game and not in Jonathan Taylor.

I'm,

Any interest,

just 'cause I feel like if you're completely bought in, I'm like, oh no, this, this must be when they pull the rug. Like was me

this is what we.

last week, like.

Yeah. Well, I think it, it comes because last week, in our parlay I had Daniel Jones on the under for his passing attempt, and I was sweating it. I mean, it did hit, he was under and we hit our parlay, but he threw the ball 29 times and the line was. 30 and a half. So you know, we didn't have much room there and he sat out the fourth quarter.

Yeah.

it looking, I looked at what, how they've used him this year and he is averaging. Just over 30, passes a game and he 30 attempts a game and he's got a 70% completion rate. They're going, regardless of what Jonathan Taylor does, Jonathan Taylor has three touchdowns. Daniel Jones is still going to th throw it 30 times the, they're just kind of playing that game every week. So if Daniel Jones is going to throw it 30 times, I like a good team. And if I'm gonna put my money on somebody that's. It. He's got a great completion rate. You know, he's sitting at 6,200. He's not a high price quarterback, but, and he's going, going to throw it 30 times against a pretty bad defense for the Steelers. I like that.

The Steelers have allowed back to back 30 point games. I also think the Steelers can keep up here with the Colts, they're, they can push 'em a little bit more than they've been pushed in the recent weeks.

I think so too. That is not to say that Jonathan Taylor. Won't have two or three touchdowns in this game. I just think Daniel Jones is also going to throw it 30 times. That's what they've trained me to believe over the last eight weeks. Jonathan Taylor, 9,800, he, you would need 50 points to pay off in a tournament.

which he was a good value last week. I mean, he got to his 40.

He, yeah.

what he is doing right now. I am gonna lean also towards the passing side and away from Jonathan Taylor. Maybe he just has one, this week, and so I am kind of with you too. Especially if we see those roster percentages. Again, just take his two touchdown bet and don't play 'em in DFS

Yeah.

like pair them together.

Yeah, that's, I also like going the passing game because. I'm betting on a good team to pass. Well, and I feel like that's a better play and I don't feel like most people are going to be on the passing game for the Colts just because of Jonathan Taylor

I agree. He's getting all the attention right now.

he is. And Aaron Rogers. No, I'm not really. Maybe he's a good play this week, but I don't think so.

I think he could be, if they have been when they've been getting down, they've been letting to merit out and he can put it up, but it's just hard because. He is not giving you anything on the ground. The receiving options aren't the best, but this is a banged up cold secondary.

It is, that's why I also like DK Metcalf or give me a very cheap Roman Wilson at 3,300. He. Paid for himself. Last week he had 17 fantasy points. Yeah, I'll go for that for 3,300 if I need a cheap play.

I do think DK Metcalf is due for one of those explosive games, and this is the matchup to do it in where one issue that kind of these backup cornerbacks for the Colts have had has just been tackling and breaking tackles and getting those extra yards is kind of DKS specialty.

It definitely is. And 5,500. He seems like a steal right now.

Yeah.

Any other pieces? How about Tyler Warren, are you interested in Tyler Warren?

He's probably my favorite piece for this passing attack. He really like, he's been so good, but he's just been giving you 12 to 15 points. He like hasn't been a game changer. You know, you're not really disappointed if you play 'em, but he is not winning you a week. I

Yeah,

you a week. This week, Titans have just been killing the

yeah. I think he can too. I still also like Michael Pittman Jr. If he's going to make catches, you know, one handed by behind his back with somebody else holding his hand, I'm gonna have to bet on him. And I in the past have not been a big fan of his or the Colt's passing game. So for me to get here is a little unusual.

Yeah. And just some quick refresh on what Titans have done against the Steelers. I mean, we saw what crafted seven for 1 43 and two, but before that it was no fan four for 44 in a touchdown, and then it was Fanon seven for 81. They're gonna scheme him looks and I know Steichen was watching that game against the Steelers and so he is taking notes on what crafted to them and we'll probably see, Tyler Warren in some similar looks.

Yeah. Don't forget, hunter Henry had two touchdowns and 90 yards for 29 points against him, too. All right, so we, I love that game. Let's go on to San Francisco. 49 ERs at the New York Giants. 49 ERs are favored by two and a half over under 48 and a half. Oh, no more scab boo.

Yeah.

hard. A non tackle injury. He just came down bad.

Yeah, that was ugly. And now we have two of the most injured teams in the NFL playing each other at the Curse MetLife stadium on Halloween weekend. So I think if you're a CMC fantasy manager, you gotta get your Hail Marys and your incense ready before the game and just make sure you're covered. But do you think we get to that 48? I was surprised it was that high here.

I don't know. I think we're counting on Brock Purdy being back, which I think we probably will get him back and we maybe get Ricky Parasol back if the 49 ERs get kind of everybody back offensively. I wonder what, then they can take advantage of the giants. They're also coming off that really bad loss to Houston, which makes me a little bit interested in Christian McCaffrey 'cause I like him to bounce back. I don't like him to have two bad weeks in a row. But let's go ahead and talk about quarterbacks first. Do you think we see Purdy

think we see your purdy here. I think also, Mac Jones' performance last week is gonna make Purdy's injury a little bit better. And make him healthy for this game. I am just hoping that we see him about a hundred percent. This is one of those where following the San Francisco 49 ERs injury report's gonna be key throughout the week. I can be completely in or out on this game and Purdy based on how that injury report reads. If we see the entire receiving core and tight end room that we were excited about to begin the year, then I'm in. Like if we have Jennings and Pearsall and Kettle. It sounds like a good day for Purdy. He's very cheap. You know, off the injury. He is right now he's like 5,500.

Yeah. 5,500. I wonder if they lean a little bit more on Christian McCaffery. I, I don't know. They're not my favorite quarterbacks on this slate and Jackson Dart without Scab Boo. That, that

And

just seems wrong.

Yeah, and if they keep scrambling, he, it might not work well either.

That's true. Yeah. He rushed six times last week, 17 yards. He did get a touchdown, but I am, yeah, a slight interest in block Brock Purdy, but I think I'll stay off of that. How about any of the other players? Do you like somebody?

I think a key decision here and probably a popular play that we need to talk about is Tyrone Tracy with scatter bow's injury. He's a starting running back for 51, 50, 100. That makes all the other pieces fit in nice. And Tyrone Tracy had some good games last year as a rookie, he's gonna be that clearly back ahead of single Terry the 49 ERs. Defense got kind of abused by Houston last week. Even Woody Marks was looking pretty good against 'em, I am interested in, in Tyrone Tracy paying off that price. I think he's a cheap enough price that I'm not really worried about the roster percentage as much.

Yeah. No, I'm,

You're out

I'm just gonna, I'm, I'm out on Tracy. I'm out on all Giants Without Scoo, without the Dart Scoo magic? Nope. I'm, I'm done

I think he's gonna be used in the receiving game as well, so we saw him heavily used last year catching a

they have no receivers

no

left.

Yeah. All those passes are gonna be like within five yards of scrimmage and we're probably gonna see some scrambles. So I think he can kind of PPR his way to a good value of 5,100.

maybe he can, because you know, the 49 ERs made CJ Stroud look pretty good last week. Uh,, Letting him pass for over 300 yards. So maybe Jackson Dark can do it and maybe he's gonna be passing it to Tyran Tracy instead of his missing wide receiver core. How about on the 49 ERs side?

I think as you brought up CMC projects amazing in this spot. I am a little worried that he's gonna be the most popular play. Everyone's on him, then I'll probably be avoiding him. I'll probably just let roster percentage dictate my plan on CMC. I am interested in Pearsall. If we get him back, you know, he was doing really well and he was that clear number one before he got hurt. So if we get both him and party back at the same time, I think that's kind of helps in his favor.

If we don't get Pierce all back, I am super interested in Juwan Jennings with Brock Purdy coming back because it definitely seems like Purdy and Jennings have some chemistry and Jennings at 4,300. If he's not highly rostered, then I, I like him to be able to definitely pay off that price tag.

Yeah, I, I think the side, if Pierce falls out, I'm more interested in George Kettle just actually having one of those blow up games. He hasn't done much this year, I think. His

No.

was like 48 yards. He's only played three games. He got hurt in one of them, but he's now three weeks off of that injury and we know his potential. He's one of those tight ends that can truly get above a hundred yards and have a dominant performance. So I think

Yeah.

is a little cheaper than he should be at 4,800.

Yeah, it's very interesting. If you look at all of these players for these two teams last week, the highest performing one was George Kettle with 14.3 points. So. Something's gotta give. These players are not that bad. Something's gotta get back to average a little bit. So somebody in this list of 12 has gotta bounce, I think,

Mm-hmm.

and pay off their salary. Let's move on to the Minnesota Vikings at the Detroit. Lions. Lions are favored by eight and a half, over under 47 and a half. I'm actually surprised that the lions aren't favored by more, at home, but, and I'm surprised they could score 50 points on their own. So Carson went is no more, he's on ir, gonna have surgery.

McCarthy here.

We should see JJ McCarthy. Hopefully, hopefully we're not seeing more of Max Broms Brom. I can't even say his, I don't know who this guy is, but I don't wanna see him anymore. But I don't know that I really wanna see JJ McCarthy with Aiden Hutchinson getting paid and going after him. 'cause. He may not last that long. He's only lasted two games. We may only get him one more after this week.

What about golf here? Golf at home as a favorite in the dome has historically been a lot better, than in his other splits. Any interest in golf,

No, um,

just

I, yeah, I'm.

outcome.

I don't think he has the ceiling outcome. I think there are better plays that have more competitive matchups than this one. I don't see this as a competitive matchup. I, I don't see this as an eight and a half point game. You know, I, you could push this up to 12 and a half and it wouldn't surprise me at all. Uh, so because of that, I am out on him.

Yeah, I agree. If I'm getting a pocket pack score, I probably want 'em a little cheaper or I want someone with a little rushing upside.

Exactly. And I love Jared Golf. I think he's gonna have a great day, but he's not going to win a tournament.

Sure. But a player I do think can win you a tournament is Jamir Gibbs. I am to play as much Jamer Gibbs as possible. He's probably my favorite play of the week so far. Are you in on Gibbs or what's your favorite player of this matchup?

I am in on Gibbs, but here I think we could be having everybody play Jamir Gibbs.

Yeah, he'll be important to watch, but here's just a quick, off, the entire Lions team has had this Vikings defense number. The last time

Yeah.

put up 30 points was September 25th, 2022, before Brian Flores was even on the Vikings. And even with. Brian Flores there, you know, he has given hell to all these other teams, but the lions are putting 30 plus up every single game, and it's been a lot of Jamir Gibbs. His last four, he's averaging 115 yards and two and a quarter touchdowns from scrimmage. So just monster performances. He had four touchdowns in 170 is last game. I think he might get a little swept under the rug with these big names on the slate with JT CMC. So if he's. in in like the middle of the pack or not the top play. He's gonna be in about every single one of my lineups.

I think so too. Yeah, definitely be watching that rostered percentage. And I love him in this spot. If they're up a lot. David Montgomery's even a good play at 5K, he's 3000 less. Do you like any Montgomery?

I don't think so. I, the way they use Gibbs too is more as the receiving option and that's how they've been attacking this Flores. Like blitz heavy defense is getting Gibbs in space. So I think it's just, it's just his matchup. Not really too interested in Montgomery here.

Okay. Um, I kind of feel like you either have to pick Jamir Gibbs or Alman Ross Saint Brown. You have to pick that script. Who's going to get the touchdowns? Who's going to get the multiple touchdowns and go with it? Because you can't come out of this game that I don't see being as competitive with two 8,000 plus cost players.

Yeah,

So

and g.

pick which one.

Gibbs and St. Brown have kind of been inversely correlated. They've had great games against those Vikings defense, but typically when Gibbs does better, St. Brown does a little worse and vice versa,

Exactly. How about on the Viking side? Do you have any trust in JJ McCarthy and any of their wide receivers or their running game?

Trust. No. But when trust isn't there, I will lean on the talent. And I do think Justin Jefferson is still one of the best wide receivers in the game. And I'm fine taking 'em here. If we know they're gonna be down and just passing, let's say they get, like, they're getting blown out and they're down. 17, 20 points at halftime. Then I feel like if you're Kevin O'Connell, you're like, alright, let's get some experience and can just air it out.

Yeah, that Vikings line has just been so bad that, but you know, they will be airing it out and he's got a shot. And I don't think he will be widely played against the lions. Maybe I'll be wrong, but if Jefferson is. Low roster then maybe otherwise I don't mind the pivot to Jordan Addison at 5,800. Let's say they can cover Justin Jefferson, then I think Addison will be more open and they will be throwing the ball.

Yeah, I think he's a good pivot. A lot cheaper too.

Yeah, definitely one to keep on the list at 5,800. let's move on to the Atlanta Falcons at the New England Patriots. Patriots favored by five and a half over unders 45 and a half. Falcons, let the Miami Dolphins do whatever they wanted last week. Do the Patriots get to do that this week?

Yeah, I dunno if we're gonna get Jekyll or Hyde for the Falcons defense, I thought they were a great play. And then even Tua like reports that his eye was swelling up last weekend and like that morning of, and then he came out and was almost perfect against the

Don't need to see.

Yeah, I was ridiculous that Gabe.

That was awful. So we've got Drake May who looked. Amazing against the Browns. He struggled in the first half a little bit, but then by the third quarter he was on a roll and looked really good. He scored over 27 draftking points last week. Threw for just under 300 yards, three touchdowns. And then we had Kirk Cousins that did not look good. I don't know if we're getting Michael Pennix back this week. I am not really sure that it matters against. The Patriots feel like something's wrong in a, in Atlanta.

I think Pennix being back will definitely be an upgrade. I mean, cousins look terrible. I think he gave him some job security there, but I think we'll get a much more competitive game. I am a little interested in me, though. I haven't been building. He feels bad to make a lineup with because you are truly throwing a dart at which wide receiver it's gonna be that week. If I had to pick one this week, it'd be digs to come along with May, but

I am on the Kean booty

yeah.

with Drake May, and I do like them. I like them actually a lot, especially at home. Against the Falcons. The Patriots defense has only given up more than 20 fantasy points once this season, and that was week two to Devon a Chan. I'm kind of off of Bijan Robinson. I think we all want him to bounce back where we all just like a week early, but I don't see this being his big game and I am really worried about the play calling for the Falcons.

The play calling has been questionable. I mean, they're running the least play action in the entire league when with one of the best running backs in the entire league. If anyone's gonna get the linebackers to bite, it's gonna be bijon, but it just seems wrong. They're not really using 'em to his fullest. And then. We've talked consistently that this New England front seven is great against the run. They have the highest stuff rate, in the league, so I don't think this will play for Bijon.

I don't either. And then we saw Jake London out last week. I'm not sure if he, if he is back this week, if he's not Kyle Pitts definitely gets more interesting. And at 4,200.

Yeah, Cal Pitts is a good name to bring up. That's been about New England's defense main weakness. And really where they are allowing fantasy points is to that tight end position. So I think you can get interesting with cow pits, especially if London is out.

Yeah, we'll see. I think we expect him back, but I don't know that we really expected him not to miss Last week. It was kind of a late call. It felt like on London.

It was.

Any other, anyone else here you wanna bring up

No, I mean, step digs is probably the one I'm going with here. I just think he will kind of have, we've seen it oscillate and I think he has a better matchup here against this Atlanta defense, and the coverages they mostly sit in. But that's kind of about it for this game. I'm not

any interest in? No running backs. Trayvon Henderson, Ram Madre, Stevenson. I think they're just better options like Chase Brown.

It was nice to see a, a couple flash plays for Henderson last week, but

Yes.

be on a consistent basis. They're still splitting too much

Yep. And the heck And Jekyll or

cze eye.

Jekyll and Hyde for the Falcons. I, I don't know what I'm gonna get there. I I, I, I know I'm gonna get into Good New England team and. They have the potential to be great if I get the really bad Falcons team.

does

So,

May is having one of those special seasons and just, it

yeah,

what matchup he's against, he's gonna produce and he is not being priced like that. You know, he's not the,

he's not,

or anything, but he is producing like one right now and he is at 6,500.

he's our last year's Jaden Daniels. It's Drake May this year. All right, let's move on to the Carolina Panthers at the Green Bay Packers. Packers by 12 and a half over under 44 and a half. Oh, we've, the Panthers at home looked bad last week, and now we get them on the road where they usually look bad. This doesn't sound like a fun game to watch.

Yeah.

I love the Packers defense here. How can you not?

I do hope we see Bryce Young just for, to make it a little com competitive. Andy Dalton looked like the worst quarterback in the NFL last weekend. He was actively running into Bill's defenders and killing their drives, and it was extremely frustrating. Like Tet, TMAC, like got it done with very little help from Dalton. You know, Dalton had 175 yards and.

Yeah.

had his first a hundred yard games. He finished at 99.

That's crazy. I think the Panthers should just like do a Halloween sacrifice ceremony and sacrifice Andy Dalton so we don't have to ever watch him again. 'cause it was bad. It was so painful watching that.

Yeah. Yeah.

Um, I think Josh Jacobs is the big chalk this week. I guess I skipped over Jordan Love. Uh. Yeah. Any interest in Jordan Love

No,

at 6,100?

it kind of, we're getting to Josh Jacobs, 'cause that's the main story. And I don't think these TE two teams are gonna be that competitive and I don't think they're gonna be pushed for a quarterback to have a good outcome here.

Yeah, I don't think so either. So I'm out on the quarterback, so, uh, yeah, Josh Jacobs has gotta be chalk. Okay.

Yeah, Josh Jacobs does feel like a really good matchup after what we saw Cook do against this Carolina defense. I am a little off of him. The thing that's worrying me off this game in general and off of Jacobs is just the pace play. These are two of the slower teams in the NFL. They're the ninth and 14th slowest pace, we've seen. Yeah, Bay be very content of like getting up seven to 10 and effectively just running out the clock for two quarters.

This is true. It, it just, you know, Josh Jacobs, if he only has to rush three times to get a hundred yards, then it was three plays.

Yeah. Typically the explosive plays, I mean, he can do it, but it's not his go-to. He's not as quick as like cook or like a

That's true.

to finish off these long runs.

Yeah. Any garbage time for the Panthers or just stay out of this?

liked T-Mac, but I'm just off this game in general.

Yeah,

say the, the one positive note, I do wanna bring up is Christian Watson. He looked great in his return in his

he did.

and he caught a

Yeah.

passes. I don't think this is the matchup for him, but something to note for a player to bring up in future weeks.

You know, I don't mind him at 4,400. If you need a cheap, what the heck? This wide receiver might have a, a good day. He might catch a touchdown. Christian Watson could be it. And if he catches a touchdown, he pays for 4,400. So I don't mind him as a, as a play. I think Carolina could put up a goose egg in this game.

I am off of craft in the spot too.

Yeah. I feel like the tight ends are usually used more when the passing matchups are more difficult

Yeah,

and they can't go downfield.

well.

Yeah. Let's move on then to the Jacksonville Jaguars. At the Las Vegas Raiders. Jaguars buy three and a half over under is 44 and a half. Both teams are coming off their bi weeks and the Jaguars get to come back to the US but they get to go to Las Vegas.

They do. I think we have a couple different reads for this game. I'm a little interested in this game, but you're completely off right.

I am completely off. I am mentally trying to remind myself that before the season started, I actually thought the Jacksonville Jaguars were going to have a good season, mostly because I liked Liam Cohen, but. They just, Trevor Lawrence looks bad. He looks really bad. It looks like they need a new quarterback, so Li Cohen wants to run it. The only buy-in here I can get onto is Travis, ETN. I'm just out on both Trevor Lawrence and Gino Smith. I don't think either of 'em can can perform here.

This is kind of the, like for the Jaguars, I think their offense, their play calling the like play design actually looks good. It's just been, the execution has looked off from both Lawrence and I'm gonna put some blame on the receivers too. Travis Hunter took. A while to get ramped up and Brian Thomas Jr. Has not come down with some of the passes he was coming down with the last year.

This is true.

my hope and why I'm a little interested in the Jags here and stacking up that passing attack is just against a great matchup against the Raiders off the bi-week. Maybe it just took a while to click for Liam Cohen's offense, and maybe it's just taken them. time and the bi week is what they needed to get fully integrated and fully ready to go. So I like that. I think they have enough talent and the prices are right for me to go in for stacking this game up.

Okay. If you're stacking on the Jaguar side, are you bringing it back with Ashton? Ashton Genti, the Raiders running back.

I'm not, I think this is gonna be a lopsided game. I actually do like the Jas defense too, and the Raiders just have not shown me a lot of proof of life.

They should get Brock Bowers back.

it should get Bowers. Bowers is a little interesting, but I'm gonna give it a week to watch how he looks. And there's also a lot of trade rumors circling around Jacoby Myers. They apparently, there's like three main teams in the market for him. If we don't see Myers play, we see that a lot with these like trading these players that are gonna get traded, that they're surprise and actives. Jack Bess is a little bit interesting because he plays that role that Myers plays. that would be the only thing. I haven't really been using a bring back. I think the Raiders are probably gonna give up a little bit, but um, I do like the JAG side here.

I feel like these two teams have a slower pace of play as well, and that. Just not a lot may happen in this game.

Yeah. For Travis Hunter too, we talked about getting integrated. He's seen his targets and his snap percentage on offense increase week after week. So I think, you know, last time we saw him, he had 14 targets and it, he was kind of that number

It was it, yeah.

So I think he, if you just won like a one-off piece and weren't interested in stacking, he's probably the best bet. He's still at 4,700.

We have a lot of 4700, 4500 wide receivers that could have a great week. Definitely those pieces are out there. Okay, so you're in on that game? I'm not, I just have other ones I love. Now I can be persuaded by high ownership in. Late in the weekend. Let's go on to the New Orleans Saints at, at the Los Angeles Rams. Rams are favored by 13 and a half, over under his 44 and a half. Uh, Tyler Shuck, shuck, shuck, I can't believe he's gonna get to start over. Spencer Rattler, uh, they gave up on Rattler pretty quick after they let him play the first seven weeks. Any interest in Chuck or Stafford?

No, this, we've seen Stafford, the conditions have to be just right for him to have great matchups. I don't think there are any conditions for Chuck to be a good play, I don't think here. So I'm off both these quarterbacks, even though this is by far the highest pace of. This, they should see the most snaps. The, these teams are one and two as far as pay supply.

Yeah, they do like to move it, but, I, yeah, I think that the Rams need to be going up against the Eagles again and something they feel like is a competitive game to be throwing the ball. let's go ahead and move on to the other players. So Alvin Kamara is banged up. He may be out. They only ran the ball six times last week. It's

For that

crazy.

they were just, they were using the short pass game as the run game.

Any interest in any of the wide receivers for either side?

I think they can both PPR, their way to relevance. We talked about the pace and both Shahid and the lava saw 12 targets. I think I would just lean towards the cheaper option there and save a thousand with Shaheed. But it doesn't feel like they have a ceiling outcome. You're just hoping they get to 15 points and then you're okay with them.

They're kind of expensive. I mean, like we've been talking about all of these 45, 40 $700 players and you know, Shahid, even at 5,100, he's on the higher end there, and a lave definitely is at 6,100. So I'm out for that reason. With the new quarterback especially, I wanna see what happens first. Feel like he's going to come in and just tear things up. And it's in la any interest in Kyron Williams or Blake Quorum?

Kyron is a little interesting. We also have pka back, so he is one of the most expensive wide receivers on the slate. I just don't think it's their spot here. The Rams need to be pushed for a high outcome. Blake Corrum and Kyron could easily split work in a non-competitive game. I think I'm off all of these pieces here.

Yeah, me too. Let's move on then to the Los Angeles Chargers at the Tennessee Titans Chargers by 10 and a half, over under 43 and a half. Justin Herbert or Cam Ward, either of 'em.

I,

Any interest.

well, that decision's really easy. I mean, if I have to pick one of those two, but. I'm gonna go, I mean, I think Herbert could have a great game. We saw that offense look completely different with Joe Alt back in the starting lineup and just having one of those tackles and one of those key pieces back to protect Herbert, they were finally getting to go and he had a great week last week against the Vikings. Almost 26 or he had 26 points.

Did, and we saw, even with Jonathan Taylor having three touchdowns last week, Daniel Jones was still worth almost, I think 27 fantasy points. So, uh,, it can, even if. If they're running the ball and they don't have a Jonathan Taylor, then Justin Herbert can still be doing it. They just have to have that desire to put up their 30 points, which is definitely seems what the Colts have set their minimum score. Acceptable score. At this week we're gonna put up our 30 points and then we'll see what happens. So it can happen if he's throwing enough, but at 6,800, he's kind of pricey.

He is a little pricing pricey and you are hoping he runs a little bit, you know, 60 yards on the ground last week against the

Yeah.

He's probably not gonna be pressured like that and he is probably gonna on knee that yards on the ground. So it's very likely that he could just end up with like a 20 point day and definitely not be a game changer for your lineup.

Yeah, definitely. I just have other quarterbacks. I'm liking better. How about Kamani? Fidel? You like the Chargers? Yeah.

I just think that this team wants to show off the passing game a little bit more. You know, Jim Harbaugh has said that one of his personal goals is to get Herbert in the Hall of Fame, he has, him and Greg Roman have kind of been showing that in what place they're calling this year. So I think

Well.

Kind of

Hm.

we saw last week. You know, Herbert had a great game. Three, like almost 300 yards, three passing touchdown, but Vidal still had a hundred and a touchdown.

Yeah, he did. And at 6,300, if he gets two touchdowns, then he's a great play. He did last week, he was only 5,300, so he was fine, but he took that a thousand dollars bump up for this game as well. He's a little bit on the pricier side. For this, but I feel like he's going to get a lot of work. I'm not really sure that that Harbaugh needs to pass it. And a, as much as he may want Herbert in the Hall of Fame, apparently he wants to keep Quentin Johnston out of it. Johnston was a zero target last week, and I played him and lost my fantasy matchup. That was just one of many things that happened. I had like the perfect storm. I also had the Washington kicker who was, you know, deemed out at the last moment as well. There were lots of things that went wrong for me last week to lose that fantasy matchup. I lost by two points. Quin, Quentin Johnston was one of 'em. How do you feel about his goose egg, and does he come back from that this week?

Yeah, this. Chargers team has just too many options, so you're gonna have bad games from some of them. Last week it was Johnston, I think this week, Gadsden's probably gonna come back to Earth and he's probably gonna have a lower game. think the only one I'm really feeling confident in at this point is La McConkey. He seems to have kind of established back to what he, we thought he was really as the number one option and then it's who else comes along with him. So if McConkey iss good, I think Quinn Johnson is a fine player to go back to, especially in tournaments. You know, he is a little cheaper. We're getting that $500 discount this week.

Yeah.

And he's just as likely to have a great game as he was at the beginning of the season.

Me, I guess. So maybe this is the weekend that, you know, we thought we were gonna get at the beginning of the season. So now we've got Quentin Johnston that we have to remind ourselves how we felt at the beginning of the season, as well as the Jacksonville Jaguars and the New Orleans Saints. I'm remembering how I felt. About all of these? Yeah. I, I am, I could take some Del but other than that, I think I'm just out on most of these players. But they could deliver for sure. We saw the Colts do it last week.

Yeah, it feels like just taking your shot with a one-off charger is the way to do it in this game and nothing else.

I. I think so. I, I'd like to have at least one charger in my lineup. Let's move on to the last game. Denver Broncos at the Houston Texans. Texans buy one and a half over under 39 and a half. I'm not even sure we're gonna get anywhere near 39 and a half points in this game.

I feel like it's probably gonna be more around 20, but, both of them have taken a advantage against to look good against really struggling defenses like the Cowboys and the 49 ERs and the Ravens. I don't think they, both, these defenses are probably gonna show up here, and I think both teams are gonna struggle to move the ball.

Yeah, I like both these defenses. Both these quarterbacks are coming off, great games last week. So CJ Stroud went for over 300 yards against the 49 ERs had. Had his best outing I think this year. And then Bow Next also had four passing touchdowns, and looked great. But that was against the Dallas Defense. So any interest in either of these quarterbacks bone next at 6,400 going against the Texans defense doesn't seem like a good idea.

It does not, no. If they were playing the Cowboys again, I'd be interested in voting next, but not in the spot.

Yeah, I'm out on both of these quarterbacks. How about anybody else here? No.

of the cheaper options are probably the most interesting. You know, we're talking about Troy Franklin and like Woody Marks, but it's just like why we talked about how many options we have in that 4,700 to 5,000 range. So Troy Franklin doesn't really seem that tempting to go to, at that range.

I agree. My only interest here is probably Dalton Schultz. I feel like when things get difficult and when there's a pass rush, then they check down a little bit more, and that could involve Dalton Schultz. I don't know if we're gonna get Nico Collins back from that concussion. So if Nico's out again. Dalton Schultz. He didn't have the great week that I thought he was gonna have last week, but I think that was because everyone else was having a good week, and that could definitely change. And Dalton Schultz at 3,600 is a steal for the tight end.

Also for the rookie, the two rookie Houston wide receivers, Xavier Hutchinson and Jayden Higgins. think it's kind of being blown up that Xavier Hutchinson is the clear, best option of the two when just because he had the performance and he looked really good. But Jayden Higgins saw majority, he saw more targets than Hutchinson. So I think we'll probably just see that continue to flip back and forth on who's a good play, week in, in week out, or here's the better play between the two of them. I'm not like locked in Hutchinson. Now

Yeah. All right. Let's go to lineups. You ready?

let's do it.

I'll go first. So the first, i've got two lineups. First one, I'm gonna go to the Patriots Falcons game. I've got Drake May Keyshan Boutte, and Mac Hollins at 3,600, and I'm not going on the Falcon side. I'm just gonna stack those Patriots players. Then for my running backs, I'm going to fill in with Jamir Gibbs and Josh Jacobs. I do wanna see that ownership percentage like we've been talking about. Hopefully they're all on Bijon to bounce or something like that. And I'm gonna be off of 'em, for, to round it out. The wide receivers. I like Michael Pittman. I like Tyler Warren from that game, so I'm going to plug those in. If you wanted a Falcons player, you could take Kyle Pitts instead of Tyler. Tyler Warren there, and then you'd have a little bit more to spend up instead of Mack Collins or somebody. I've also got Roman Wilson, the Steelers wide receiver as my flex. 'cause I only had 3,300 left Rams Defense against New Orleans seems like a great defense. But they're 3,900. So that's my first lineup. Any mistakes there you think?

Well, I like it. I think. Also just starting with the New England stack, you're setting yourself up to be unique because we talked about how hard it is to identify the target, but the reward if you actually identify it, is great.

There you go. You could swap in digs instead of bute easy. The other one I've got is all on the Colts passing game, which I said I really liked. And to fade. Jonathan Taylor. So especially if I see Jonathan Taylor being highly owned at that crazy price. Daniel Jones. Michael Pittman. Tyler Warren. And then on the Steeler side we're going to go DK Metcalf. So there, there's a stack, and we're going kind of crazy in this game. My running backs are Cima, Fidel, and then Chase Brown for the Bengals. I'm gonna bring in Keisha Boutte. Romo, Dunay, and then, Ford wide receiver. And then Romo Dunay as Flex, and then the t, the Texas Defense at home. Yeah.

For my lineup, I am going some completely different. I am talking about the Jacksonville stack and I'm, so I'm going Lawrence Hunter and Brian Thomas Jr. Not bringing and bring back, I don't think Las Vegas you need it. I do want that correlation play in the Minnesota Detroit of Jamir Gibbs and Justin Jefferson. Just gimme the talent of Jefferson. We know what he can do. He's had bad quarterback play in the the past. That's nothing new to him. for the Colts game, I'm taking my shot with Alec Pierce. He is a great deep threat. He really just takes a couple of opportunities to pay off his price at 4,600. then I like George Kittle to be a game changer. He bounce back and have one of those vintage performances and kind of getting a little correlation with Tyrone Tracy. At 5,100 and then I'm also going to Texan Stevens. I did realize that as we're going through our three lineups, maybe our potential blind spot this week is the Kansas City Buffalo game, maybe the, the game of the week. And we have no players at all in the three lineups. So, um, it is kinda

This.

I mean, those teams just spread the ball so much.

They do, and hopefully they're just gonna frustrate each other and it's gonna be a rather low scoring game. But I think the key takeaway here is. Look for players that are not highly owned and the ones that can have that explosive play. We identified a lot today that could have a great game. So, look, especially the wide receivers in that 4,500 to $5,200 range, there is, there's going to be more than one that come out of there with their 25, 30 points.

Yeah,

So.

I think I do wanna make a lineup with like Keon Coleman and just say that they're trying to come back. That could be fun.

Yeah, definitely. So that's it for our week nine Main Slate review. Hope you enjoyed the game review. Hit subscribe. Leave us a comment with your favorite plays this week and check out our props, but episode as well this week. That's it.