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Are you ready to conquer your Fantasy Football league amid the chaos of the NFL season? This week, we break down everything you need to know, from Derrick Henry's explosive near-200-yard game to the strategic shifts in high-stakes teams like the Baltimore Ravens. We'll question the Denver Broncos' defensive inconsistencies, highlight standout performances, and give you the critical insights to manage your fantasy lineup through these turbulent times. Plus, get ready for actionable start/sit advice as the dreaded bye weeks begin.
Get the inside scoop on the latest NFL trade rumors and injury updates that could shake up your fantasy squad. We'll discuss the Kansas City Chiefs' desperate need for a superstar receiver following Rashee Rice's knee injury and Devante Adams' potential move. We'll also dive into the Cleveland Browns' speculative trades involving key players like Miles Garrett and Denzel Ward. Our expert analysis ensures you're not caught off guard, so you can stay ahead of your competition.
Don't miss out on our comprehensive injury updates for key NFL players, including Christian McCaffrey, Christian Watson, and more. We'll guide you through navigating bye weeks, preview the Thursday night showdown between the Buccaneers and Falcons, and offer prop bet strategies. Tune in for our "Hit It & Quit It" segment, where we highlight top starts like George Kittle and Tyler Lockett, and weigh in on whether it's time to sell on underperforming talents like Zamir White. This episode is packed with everything you need to dominate your fantasy league!
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Hey, guys, in today's episode it is week five. We're rolling right into week five, or maybe limping right into week five, depending on who you are. But today, guys, we've got news and notes, we've got Thursday night football preview and, of course, we've got our hit-its and quit-its, our starts and sits for week five. It's bi-week, starting this week, guys, you're gonna need to hear this episode, don't forget. Please follow us on social media TikTok, instagram, facebook. We're everywhere, guys, right, all right, welcome to the show. This is the Frankly Fantasy Football Podcast. We are your hosts, frankie and Johnny. Brother, did you make it through week five? My body's still laying there on the ground bleeding. How you doing.
Speaker 2:John, I think I'm laying right next to you, dude. I don't know if you can see me or not, because your eyes might be a little bit bloodied up, but I'm telling you, I'm laying right next to you, man. I mean, come on, is it going to stop? Is the bloodbath going to stop?
Speaker 1:It's not. I just don't think of it. This is one of the craziest starts to the NFL season I have ever seen. Everything I thought was going to happen didn't really happen. I went into it going. Is this going to be? You know, week one was a liar. Week two was a crazy bitch. Week three was hold my beer. Week four fucking Jekyll and Hyde. Man, it is Jekyll and Hyde, it is. This is one thing, but this is another thing. We saw at the monday night games. You had two monday night games going on. This is the epitome of how this week went. It was jekyll and hyde. One game, super high scoring. What happened with the other game? Oh, it was poop. It was dog poop. Oh, I mean, that's what it was. Flipping through both games and going. This is exactly how this week was. It was high, highs on one side and just the lowest of lows on the other side. It's absolutely insane, man, crazy, crazy crazy.
Speaker 2:I mean just to see, like, first off, love two monday night games as well, love that, love that. But just to see the difference in play man, to your point you got tyler huntley, who definitely we all expected more out of, and then then you got Mason Rudolph who stepped in for Will Leavitt. I mean just a shit show. And then meanwhile you have Jared Goff going crazy and Geno Smith going for almost 400 yards, like to your point. Just yeah, tale of two takes.
Speaker 1:I agree, man, we'll do a few takeaways here, but first, guys, don't forget, follow us on social media TikTok, instagram, facebook, frankly Fantasy Football, twitter, frankly Fantasy F. And don't forget to sub up on YouTube, guys. Youtube's been going crazy. Watch the videos. It's fantastic, frankly Fantasy Football. All right, let's get a few of these takeaways. I mean, let's talk a little bit about what happened. You talked about Jared Goff, first of all, perfect, goddamn game. How about this Perfect game? As a Browns fan, I've never seen anything like this. I just wish we'd have a quarterback for one game. Do something like this 18 for 18, frankie Didn't miss a goddamn pass. 292, three tutties, zero interception Crazy, absolutely perfect. What were some of the big takeaways in your Jekyll and Hyde week, frank? That was some weird shit.
Speaker 2:John, for me it was King Henry, still King, still King. 199 yards, man, I mean, we're talking. He's one yard away from another 200 yard game. It's just dude, he is unbelievable and it'll be interesting to see how things, you know, continue to move forward with derrick henry man, with keaton mitchell coming back off, pup, with justice hill also justice hill give him some fucking props too. Looked phenomenal from a receiving perspective. So I mean, but, dude, baltimore ravens, long story short, just have an absolute treasure trove of talent at the running back position. Man, they really do.
Speaker 1:And they're going to use it. I mean, it's clear what they're doing. They're going back to their basics. It hurts. Zay Flowers, mark Andrews, is completely non-existent. They're running 12 and 13 personnel and everybody's blocking. That's just what's happening right now and they're running the ball because it works. Why wouldn't it? So you're going to have to temper your expectations, I think, on Zay Flowers and Mark Andrews moving forward, you know the running backs. I think Justice Hill is becoming very, very flexible very quickly and if they've got bad matchups they're going up against a team that you know they're going to roll. I think you're going to see a ton of Justice Hill. So I think in good matchups like that terrible run defenses, run funnel defenses. I think in good matchups like that terrible run defenses, run funnel defenses I think you're going to be able to start Justice Hill on occasion here. All right, what about Denver man? What do we do with this team? Their defense, I think, might be awesome.
Speaker 2:They might be awesome, they legitimately might be sweet. I mean, I don't know Like, I mean I don't know, it's just, their quarterback had like negative yards for like the first half and then, literally he threw a like a dime Hail Mary. It wasn't an actual Hail Mary, but he threw it up and Corlin Sutton came down with it and it was the only touchdown that Denver threw. I mean, dude, for them to even have had a shot. Yes, it was pouring down rain and yes, it was crazy, but, dude, their defense had to hold up and John Brees Hall looked, didn't even was he even playing. I mean, it didn't even look like it, you know. So, yeah, man, shout out to Broncos Mile high man, their D is ready, their d is real everybody's saying start the start breeze hall, start braylon allen.
Speaker 1:They're gonna run all over this. This denver defense, the denver defense is actually good guys. You're gonna have to temper your expectations. You can't just throw guys out there because you think it's a shit defense. It's not. The offense needs work, of course, but seanton, he's coaching his way through. I mean, you can literally feel these games how he's just coaching his way through because they just lack talent on the offensive side. But hey, kudos to the Broncos man. I was wrong there too. Hey, you know what? While we're admitting we're wrong, I need to apologize to somebody. Okay, it's the wide receiver one on the year, frankie. I need to apologize because it's glaringly obvious that I fucked up, okay.
Speaker 1:So everybody out there, I know one of the biggest clips we had that went viral 200 000 views was me saying there is no fucking way I'm taking nico collins in round three in the draft. I was wrong, I'm sorry. Okay, there are a million. There's 200 guys on this adp list we're looking at. I got one wrong guys. Okay, it's a big one, I know, but I was wrong. Nico, I'm sorry. You're an alpha. You're incredible. I can't believe what you're doing out there. Keep doing it.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, I didn't draft you okay john, to your credit, though I do want to state this Heading into this season right when you have Stefan Diggs come in, when we saw the synergy that Tank Dell and TJ Stroud had last year, and then you layer in now a guy coming out of the backfield with Joe Mixon, who's brand new, who definitely was getting serious target share out of the backfield, and then you have Dalton Schultz. It wasn't again just to be crystal clear, to have your back a little bit, john is that? It wasn't that you and I didn't like Nico Collins, it was the value at the second round pick. With all of these other things that have occurred on that team, I was with you. I personally also didn't think that nico collins would bring back that second round value. Now, dude, I might be drafting him in the first round next year.
Speaker 1:Well, that's what I'm saying. As things stand right now, he's a top five pick for sure. I mean especially with with cmc god. I mean, yeah, oh god, jesus christ, uh, tyree kill. Let's talk a little bit about, about the dolphins, I mean. While we're on the subject here, what can we do with Tyreek Hill? Anything, as I'm a Tyreek Hill owner in one of our leagues he was my first round pick. I was picked three or four, something like that Went with Tyreek Hill. What do we do? Frankie, I'm asking for a friend. What advice can you give my friend to do with Tyreek Hill?
Speaker 2:Get your tissues. Get your tissues because you're going to be crying all night, man, all day, all week. I mean, dude, it sucks, you can't trade him right. You can't trade him because, guys, you cannot trade, tyree kill right now because he's not going to return the value that he absolutely deserves. Guys, tyree kill, literally, like, actually, like, not even messing around, should have had three touchdowns, uh, and on monday night, messing around, should have had three touchdowns on Monday night, like he actually should have had three touchdowns and the quarterback can't get him the ball. Here's what I think is going to happen. I really think, john, that it's either Huntley is going to progress and is going to see some sort of improvement, like he was a pro bowl and I say pro bowl very, very.
Speaker 1:You know in quotes, yeah, it wasn't really a pro bowler, but he was a pro bowl, and I say pro bowl very, very you know in quotes yeah.
Speaker 2:It wasn't really a pro bowler, but he was technically a pro bowler and I think that he has that in him. I could see them trading for another QB, bringing in somebody else. Maybe they sign a Ryan Tannehill, maybe something along those lines, just to make them competitive. Because of right now, dude, they're on a trajectory of shit. And so for me, man Tyreek Hill, you got to sit. You got to sit and wait because he is open. It's not like he's not open, it's not like he's not, you know, demanding the ball because he's still getting the target. It's just sucks. It sucks that the quarterback can't get a ball.
Speaker 1:It does. And I know Huntley's been on the team for what? 10 days, two weeks, yeah, yeah, I mean seriously, that's not an exaggeration. So I know that'll take a little time, but man, he's killing me right now. He's killing everybody right now. All right, it's a little time to get to the news. Baby, let's do it.
Speaker 2:The season 2,000 yards, don't expect Absolutely lost Half a foul.
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Speaker 1:All right, frank, let's get going here on the news. All right, it wasn't a blood path, but it's no bueno for sure, man, no bueno. Let's just start first. All right, I need the bell. Give me the bell. I hate bringing that out every week, but Rashid Rice, frankie, carted off the field with a knee injury. It looked really bad. Everything that came out from the team afterwards from Andyy reed it was, you know, we don't know for sure, but it's no good. What are you hearing about this? Because I'm not finding anything on rishi rice right now. This is tuesday. We're recording this drop wednesday morning, so maybe something will come out. But is he's done for the season? That's an ACL right.
Speaker 2:John, nobody is so tight-lipped right now. They do confirm, or they have confirmed, should I say, that he did have a MRI on Monday, but they are keeping it super close to the vest. It did come out, though, on Pat McAfee's show. Man, I mean again, it's Tuesday here, so it came out on Tuesday that it might not be as major as what they're expecting. But they do need to wait and see how the swelling is before they can actually make a definitive, you know statement as to how long this is going to be, what the actual problem is, so on and so forth. So I don't know, man. Maybe Pat man, love you dude, maybe you're giving us Rasheed Rice owners a little bit of something to hope, but, man, I don't know. It's tough.
Speaker 1:I think Pat McAfee's in my situation. He's probably heavily invested in Rasheed Rice, like I am, so he's hoping for the best because we haven't heard. It doesn't look good, guys. I'm planning that he's going to be gone for the season and I'm heavily invested in Rasheed Rice. Really, really rough, let heavily invested in Mushi rice Really really rough. Let's take this and slide right into this interesting rumor that popped up today. The Raiders are interested in looking at offers for Devante Adams. Not coincidental that it is right. After all I heard on Sunday and Monday on the talk shows was the Chiefs need to explore free agency, they need to look at trades, they need to make some offers. Ooh, all of a sudden they're like hey guys, we got a little shiny object right here for you. What do you feel about that? That's interesting, man. What have you heard about that? I've heard the same shit.
Speaker 2:John, I've heard the same shit, man, and I'm sitting here and I'm like just geeking out, because the reality is, man, is that the Chiefs need a superstar to go three-peat, they need a receiver. One, right, you still have Xavier Worthy, yes, you have Travis Kelsey, but, dude, they went and got Hollywood Brown. Unfortunately, he got injured. He's been on IR, he will be pretty much season ending. And then now Rasheed Rice, just devastating. And so, for me, man, they have to make a move, and right now, there's a lot of chatter. A lot of chatter around the potential of Amari Cooper, the potential of Devontae Adams, and so, for me, man, what's crazy, though, about the Devontae stuff is that there's reports that Antonio Pierce, the head coach, liked a post about Devante or about the Chiefs and help me out, john, it was something along the lines of Devante being traded. Is that accurate or not? Going to be a Raiders fan playing?
Speaker 1:further.
Speaker 2:Something along those lines.
Speaker 1:Isn't it funny that what makes news now is just somebody liking a post. You see it with Trump all the time. It's like, well, he liked this post. Somebody liking a post you see it with Trump all the time. It's like, well, he liked this post. He clearly thinks that redneck aliens are stealing dogs, all this crazy stuff. He liked the post. Maybe he thought it was funny. It's not like a policy decision here, but it's so funny. It could be absolutely nothing and maybe he's trolling everybody. But, man, it's a real possibility For the Chiefs to three-peat. They're 4-0 right now. Patrick Mahomes is not even throwing up crazy numbers and they're winning games. They need an alpha to be able to do that. So it'll be interesting to see what happens, man. But I do like the Amari Cooper play too. I mean, let's talk about this no-transcript from unloading some of these contracts and looking at getting draft picks for next year. How many games are we looking at here, frank, until the Browns end?
Speaker 2:up doing that, John, I would honestly say a couple more weeks. If I'm being honest with you. If we drop Washington and then Bengals, and then now you're heading into the meat and potatoes of your schedule, I mean, John, I would say by week eight, week nine, if things don't turn around. I mean we could see miles Garrett being gone for for a couple of picks, we could see Denzel Ward, we could certainly see Amari Cooper right and a few others. So, yeah, it's going to be crazy with the NFL landscape to see what's going to happen in these next few weeks.
Speaker 1:I think Amari Cooper's calling the chiefs. He you could tell he doesn't want to be on the field right now. Man, he is just a miserable, miserable sack of shit on that field and I don't blame him. It's terrible. It's a terrible situation.
Speaker 2:Well, and especially if you think about it, the Browns kind of did him kind of dirty. I mean, I get that it's business is business, but you were being floated out there as the top trade candidate for how long? And then now you're part of a package for Brandon Iyuk. Now the Browns want to give Iyuk the huge package, or the huge payment, all this other shit, and so imagine how Amari feels. When he wanted to get the extension, didn't get it. Now he's coming in. He has the most drops in the NFL. I think he has six or seven in the NFL this year so far. So yeah, man, I think that this all plays into the problem that was that off season with Brandon Ayuk.
Speaker 1:now, it's like your girlfriend telling you that you know she's going to cheat on you and she wants another guy and all this stuff. And then she's like just kidding, jk, I love you, I love you, I was just kidding, you know. I think that's all Mari's. He's like fuck you Totally. Yeah, I'd feel the same way, man. I get it. I get it all right. Let's get back into the news here. Okay, this episode of the cmc saga continues. Christian mccaffrey now the news is coming out that he's dealing with achilles tendonitis in both legs both legs, frank nice, he's just evening it out, he just, he just felt bad.
Speaker 1:Do you think that was a new one or do you think they've known about? Did you think it's like, oh shit, it's in both legs, man. Did you guys know that is that?
Speaker 2:my, my, my other leg hurt too. Oh my god, how about that? No, they fucking knew, and they had all the fantasy managers draft him at one overall that's exactly assholes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thanks, guys, appreciate it. Christian watson, wide receiver for the green bay packers, has a high ankle sprain. He could land on the ir. So keep an eye on that. We'll talk a little bit about the green bay packers a little bit later and those receivers. All right, let's get to indianapolis here.
Speaker 1:Jonathan taylor, running back for the colts, has a high ankle sprain. Now normally I always tell you guys, low is high is bad. High is typically a month to six weeks. They're saying it's a mild ankle sprain and that he may play. The quote was he's okay. Okay, well, that's interesting. Monitor that this week. Guys. Make sure Trey Sermon, if he's on your waiver wire, pick him up. He is the clear backup. He's already gotten some play this year. Make sure you get him. But monitor Jonathan Taylor this week. Also, monitor on the Colts.
Speaker 1:We've got Anthony Richardson. Man, what a crazy, crazy game for him. They were actually playing. Well, anthony Richardson took a hard shot right in the hip. Big body runs all the time this stuff's going to happen. Took a big, got a hip pointer. Right now he's day to day it's. It doesn't seem like it's a serious injury at all, it's just more of a pain tolerance. He came back in the game he tried to play. He slid again. Obviously it hurt. The way he slid right on the hip did not help. But keep an eye on him.
Speaker 1:But I will say and we'll talk about it a little later I have a feeling as well joe flacco coming in is going to be nice. If that's the case, we'll talk about that in a few minutes here. All right, good news here. Joe mixon should be back this week. Everything's looking good for that. Yep, and they need a man. Cam acres is not joe mixon and that is very, very obvious in the way that he's performing, in the way that they're using him. He should be back. He was close last week. He practiced on Friday, thought he might be able to go. They wanted to give him one more week to heal up. I think that was a great decision. He should be good to go this week. So that's good news. Malik neighbors man just tearing it up. I love this guy. Great game out of him Again double digit targets and catches. He is in concussion protocol. He got blasted and has a concussion Now because of the Thursday game is when he played 10 days to heal. It's possible, it's typically. What'd you say, frank, about?
Speaker 2:eight days. Eight days usually is the NFL protocol for concussion.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so keep an eye on him, you guys. This could be huge. Having him in this week would be great. He could potentially play, so monitor that, Maybe the Fridays with Frankie that we always end up doing here. Maybe we'll have some information on that, all right. Raheem Mostert, running back for the Miami Dolphins, should be good to go this week. After missing with a chest injury, he was almost ready to play last night. Looks like he should be good to go next week. Nick Chubb, running back for the Brownies baby Let week. Nick Chubb, running back for the Brownies baby, let's start getting that you feel that Chubby coming on.
Speaker 1:Huh, you're getting a little. I see the dark night coming. His practice window is now open and what they do with that is you get 21 days and he has to be active in 21 days or he's basically lost for the sea. I don't even know what they do. What do they say? Throw him away. I don't know what happens after that, but yeah, so we're looking at the next few weeks. He starts practice wednesday today, um, and we'll see how things go, but should be getting some nick chubb back all right now.
Speaker 1:The practice window is not open for jonathan brooks for week five. He's still in quote the final stages of getting ready to come back. So I was excited I've I've got a lot of Jonathan Brooks on my IR waiting for him to come back. With the turnaround, with Andy Dalton taking over and this team playing much, much better than they have, the way Chuba's been playing, I want Jonathan Brooks running the ball right now. I want to see what that looks like. Right, going to have to wait a few more weeks, guys. So we'll keep you updated on that. All right, give you a few updates on a couple of guys here. Puka Nakua, looking at another month before returning this one's great. According to Jay Glazer, cooper Cup wide receiver for the Rams, looking at a week seven return. So two more weeks, guys, dos weeks, and we can have Cooper Cup back. That would be fantastic. Tank Dell, wide receiver for the Houston Texans, still day-to-day with a ribs injury. So monitor that. Ribs are difficult. It's more of a pain tolerance thing. So watch if he practices Friday and see what happens there.
Speaker 1:Khalil Shakir Frankie, you started the week last week. Yeah, wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills, left the game with an ankle injury, came back in. We talked about this. A lot of guys do that. You're playing on adrenaline, you hurt your ankle, you can play again and then after the game it swells up and becomes an issue. He did finish. Monitor his practice this week. We're going to have to see how he feels on that. Check back on Friday and see if he's good to go here.
Speaker 1:Taysom Hill another one. Two. Taysom Hill another one. Two touchdowns out of Taysom Hill. Anybody start him this week? Anybody. No, you got the wrong week, guys. You didn't start him this week, damn it. Yeah, I don't know if you're going to be able to start him this week either. Guys, he scores two touchdowns and then he leaves the game with an abdomen injury, a different abdomen injury than what he had. They're going to have to follow up on that. All right, last bit of notes here Frankie, we've got bye weeks this week, baby Whoa. As if it wasn't bad enough, guys, let's throw a little wrinkle in there with some bye. Hey, you know what? I know you've been decimated with injuries. I know it's been weird. I I know it's been weird. I know these teams aren't doing what you thought they would do. I want you to be without like two to three starters this week and see what you do. Motherfuckers. God, I'm so happy.
Speaker 2:I just love when my bye week is week five. It's so fun.
Speaker 1:Oh, is this your big bye week, this one and week 14, which we'll be talking about it come week 14, but yeah, oh, my God, yeah, all right, well, well, this week on a buy guys, we've got the philadelphia eagles, we've got the los angeles chargers, we've got the detroit lions, who just went ape shit, and we've got the tennessee titans. Man, a lot of fantasy guys gonna be out this week. So, my god, play those waiver wires, see what you can do on some trades, listen to the podcast and maybe you can fill in some guys. Listen to the podcast, and maybe you can fill in some guys here. Also, don't forget this week, guys, we've got a sunday morning game in london hello you sound like you're from london.
Speaker 1:We got the jets and the vikings in london this week. Guys, uh, frankie, the jets, real quick, let's talk about this. Are you freaking out about these guys? Garrett, wilson, breeze hall, everything, okay, no okay, guys, don out.
Speaker 2:I mean the game that they played against the Broncos number one again got to give flowers where flowers are due. Broncos defense played well. Secondly, it was literally a torrential downpour, like, actually like torrentially downpouring. So, no man, I think that Garrett Wilson, his target share has been phenomenal. Yes, he's been in a rut, yes, he has an eclipse 20 points, fantasy points or anything along those lines. Yet Stay cool, stay calm, it's coming. I'm telling you, the target share is there. He's fine. Brees is going to be fine, braylon Allen's going to be decent. In terms of, he's a startable asset. And I think Aaron Rodgers is only going to continue to improve. So, no, I'm not freaking out yet.
Speaker 1:All right, sounds good, frankie. All right. Hey man, let's do a little Thursday night preview. We got a Thursday night game tomorrow. What do we got? What do we have going on for Thursday, frankie?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we do, man and John, real quick for the Thursday night game, right. So the game itself, before we dive in the game itself, is the Buccaneers three and one at that of the Atlanta Falcons, two and two. Before we dive in, guys, john and I know we talked about this a little bit we just want to do basically a brief moment of silence, with the game being in that of Atlanta, with obviously the Buccaneers also being a part of this. Guys, the US was hit with an insane hurricane and so I have family that live in Tampa that were severely affected. I also have a family that live in Atlanta and so, guys, obviously we're talking about fantasy football and it's obviously we try to make this fun and as entertaining and as lighthearted as possible. But when real shit kind of hits like this, you want to make sure that people realize that we're here for you, we're thinking of you and we're praying for you and we're donating where we can and things like that. So just wanted to take a brief minute thoughts and prayers to all those affected by Hurricane Helena in Florida and Tennessee and in Georgia and in North Carolina and Nashville. So, brief minute, just really want to collect thoughts and just take a moment of silence, guys. Thanks for that, john. Sorry, just wanted to make sure, because this is a big deal, and especially when we're talking about two teams that are in the mix of all the mess. That's, first and foremost, right. We're humans, so we're thinking of you guys and praying for you. So, with that being said, let's talk about the Thursday night game, right? So, as I mentioned, bucs three and one at the Falcons two and two, what's going on here, man? Well, shit, I'll tell you what Baker's got them Bucs feeling nice. Baker's cooking up some fucking pies, baby, and he's baking up some beautiful I was going to say ham sandwiches. That's, you can't bake a ham sandwich, but he can make one. I'll tell you what Baker and the Bucks are thriving who?
Speaker 2:I would start from a fantasy perspective John, bucky Irving and Rashad White. Can you fire them both up? The answer is yes. Yes, you can. Both of them are actually performing decent. Rashad White's actually a step maybe behind Bucky Irving at this point in time, certainly in the rushing attack. Obviously, we've seen him be a little bit more in tune with some of the receiving game. But hey, man, both averaged 4.9 yards a carry, except Bucky got the touchdown. Both had 10 rushes for 49 yards, right. So, absolutely, in this type of game, you can fire up both, especially with the bye weeks happening. If you have Jameer Gibbs, david Montgomery, saquon Barkley, right.
Speaker 2:Tony Pollard, tajay Spears, look to Bucky Irving as somebody who can potentially salvage that running back spot for you, john, of course you're firing up the receivers, man. You're firing up Godwin, firing up Mike Evans. I mean, they might be the two good two most electric receivers right now in the nfl, and they're on the same team outside of outside of your boy, nico collins, right. So I mean they're, they're phenomenal, and so for me, man, I'm firing up both those guys. And here's the kicker for the buccaneers, I'm firing up baker Mayfield. In a one quarterback league, it's crazy to even say that, but damn it, I am baby, let's go. I love Baker, I'm all about it, man. So that's the Bucs guys. Pretty status quo, john.
Speaker 2:For the Falcons, man, you're going to fire up Bijan. You're going to fire up Drake London. Here's what's interesting If you need a flex piece, or if you need another RB2, potentially as an RB2, and here's why Because the last game that they played, john, he averaged 4.6 yards a carry compared to Bijan's 1.9. Tyler Algier is slightly outplaying Bijan when he's getting the rock. That's kind of crazy. So for me, man, I definitely think Algier has some standalone value.
Speaker 2:If you need another backfill piece for your running back room and here's the other thing I think Darnell Mooney's for real. I think Darnell Mooney is a legitimate backup flex piece, flex piece for you that if you need in a deeper league, you're looking to somebody to start. Maybe you're in a double flex or somebody like that or a league like that. Shit man, I think you actually have some value there within Darnell Mooney. And I definitely think you fire up Pitts. I know Pitts had a shit week, I get it, mooney. And I definitely think you fire a Pitts. I know Pitts had a shit week, I get it. I hear you. It's rough, but I think that as a tight end, the tight end landscape as a whole has been abysmal. To make you feel better, if you're a Pitts owner, just hey, at least you're not Johnny with a Mark Andrews owner. So if you're feeling bad about yourself, just remember you're not Johnny, so it's okay, we're all good.
Speaker 1:So everybody needs to do that, johnny, so it's okay, we're all good, so everybody needs to do that anytime you're feeling bad I just want you all to remember you're not me so you're fine, you're good, you're gonna be fine.
Speaker 1:I'll take that for you. Yeah, I'll take it off of your plate. What's even worse, I have the stack, I have the stack. It's so gross. I feel so bad for you. Well, it's not really a stack, it's just kind of a. It's what's an open-faced sandwich called? Is that a like a new york something? What is that called?
Speaker 2:let's name it, let's call it. Let's call it the andrew, the mandrews, it's the mandrews mandrews sandwich. Yeah, yeah, I like that okay look at you patting that shit, john the mandrews. Oh, what are you having? I'm having a sandwich.
Speaker 1:No, I'm having a mandrew a man, mandrew, a man which is a man, which is it's got to be trademarked. Yeah, now, we're not going to be monetized on youtube there we go damn it, but you have to start kyle pitts. If you got him right, gotta fire him up. If you got, who you're going to stream instead? I guess is the question yeah, no not not too many.
Speaker 2:So, john, we're also going to look at a bet, guys. And before we get to the bet again, john mentioned our awesome partnership with that of BetStamp and SignUpExpert. Guys, this again opens up an awesome opportunity for you to join some of your favorite sportsbooks that you are not a part of yet. So head over to our dedicated page at signupexpertcom, backslash, frankly, to explore your selection. You'll understand what I got there. Right, you guys are all going there with me.
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Speaker 2:John, right now you can get over the over, for his receiving yards is 60 and a half. Just to give you, guys, some insight as to what that means, he has hit that overage in three out of four games this year already. He's already averaging over 80, just about 80 yards receiving a game. And just another fun fact he's being targeted so often, especially for touchdowns and things like that. Guys, he's already scored three times this year as well. So for me, man, knowing the target share is there, knowing that he already has eclipsed this threshold at least three times 75%, 75% of the year so far, I'm rolling with Chris Godwin over 16 and a half yards receiving.
Speaker 1:I love it, man, let's do it. I'm putting it in. Let's all put it in, guys Put it on sign up expertcom, slash, frankly, and let's get that prop bed in 60 and a half yards for Chris Godwin over. Love it, baby. All right, frankie, let's get to our hit it's and quit it's. Baby, let's go. All right, man'am, your first hit it, your first start of the week. Again, we kind of do like a tier one, two, two, two, three type situation. Frankie, who are we?
Speaker 2:looking at here with your start of the week. So, john, one of my, my start of the week here, and you know it was funny. We were talking about it Like we were getting a little high and crazy up here and for those like, like you know, just listening and not viewing, we're putting our hands up, going a little crazy, right, and then you know, you got to bring it back, though. You got to John, right here this is where we live, oh right, oh yeah, oh yeah, this is where we live.
Speaker 2:We Hit it of the week, MPJ, Michael Pittman Jr, at that of the Jacksonville Jaguars. If Joe Flacco plays, we're all going wacko for Flacco baby, this dude is letting it rip. And Michael Pittman Jr had nine targets, six receptions, finally over that 113 mark for terms of receiving yards. In addition, the Jacksonville Jaguars couldn't stop and can't stop anybody they're playing against. I think MPJ could have another big game, and guys remember, this is a huge divisional game. Jacksonville cannot drop to 0-5, which means that they're going to try to be absolutely obviously winning the game. Who isn't playing to win? Right? No shit. But my thing is is Michael Pittman Jr the game? Who isn't? Who isn't playing to win? Right, no shit. But my thing is is michael pitman jr? The game script could be super positive for him, in addition to just having a good matchup. So for me, man, I'm locking in michael pitman jr and rocking it out my first hit it.
Speaker 1:I guess, uh, I guess you can consider this my tier one here. My first hit it. My start of the week it's going to be george kittle tight end of the San Francisco 49ers versus Arizona. I love this man. 49ers at home divisional game, they're going to roll here, guys.
Speaker 1:George Kittle is the tight end two on the season currently in half PPR. He's got two touchdowns in the last three games played Debo still banged up, iuke completely underperforming, to my chagrin. I have a lot of Brandon Iyuk, so I think Debo's going to eat here. Man, arizona, their defense is terrible. I mean, it just is that I think we can all agree on. Arizona's defense is terrible. They have zero pass rush. Brock Purdy's going to be able to throw the ball, he's going to get good looks and the Arizona Cardinals are notoriously the worst team against the tight end. You throw George Kittle in there. Kittle just destroys the Cardinals every time. So this week, man, especially because of the Debo Samuel being banged up and Brandon Iyuk just not doing well right now, man, fire up George Kittle, let it roll. Let it roll, john. How crazy is the Brandon Iyuk just not doing well right now. Man, fire up George Kittle, let it roll.
Speaker 2:Let it roll, john. How crazy is the Brandon Iyuk thing, by the way it is. Did you catch that shit going on at practice to where it was a walkthrough or something like that, last week and he ended up having on red shorts or something and they were supposed to be wearing black shorts and Shanahan basically told him to go in and change and iuk lost it. And, dude, I'm just telling you there's something up there, there's something up it's one of those power struggles.
Speaker 1:You see it all the time. Even though the guy's the most talented guy in the world which he is extremely talented, he's they're bullying each other, you know. I mean, that's, that's kind of what happened here. They played this psychological game in the offseason. It hurt IU ultimately in his performance this week. It hurt the team quite honestly, and Kyle Shanahan knows that and he's pissed. I think he's going to push back a little bit and fuck with him too. Go put on the right shorts, man. I don't care who you are, I don't care how much we're paying you. So it's not good though. It's not good though it's not good for the team man.
Speaker 2:It's not good, dude, but I'll tell you what is going to be good is going to be this. Next hit it with my number two coming up, and it is Mr Lockett up himself and Tyler Lockett playing that of the New York giants Guys, this is a bit of a stretch, right? We know we have DK there. We know we have Jackson Smith and Jigba. We know we have Noah fan. We know we have Charbonnet and that of Walker. So Tyler Lockett definitely is in the mix of that third fiddle, especially from a receiver perspective. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:The reason being is because, with all the buys happening this week, maybe you have some of the Eagles receivers that are banged up, maybe you have Amin Ra and Jameson Williams and you need a steady floor guy. Look no further for Tyler Lockett. John, he has had 17 targets in the last two weeks and he only has one game this year, one game below seven targets. So for me, again, I'm looking at this by no means as a ceiling play. I'm looking at this as hey, if you have a bye week, plug this guy in and know you're not going to potential, you have a higher propensity not to lose as much plugging in Tyler Lockett versus more of a high flyer guy, so I'm locking in Lockett as another hit it this week.
Speaker 1:All right, man, I'm going to go. I'm going to go to the steel city in this one here. I know my brother's going to give me shit. I've been giving the Steelers a lot of love this year, you know. Hey, give it where it's due. Najee Harris running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers versus the Dallas Cowboys All right, listen, the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1:We talked about it last week. They are a run funnel defense. You can run on this team Now. I know Singletary had a rough week last week and that's fine, but you can. This year they are going to be able to run the ball.
Speaker 1:Dallas's defense all right, they're not the defense you think it is right now? Okay, it is a run funnel, but they're also missing. Micah parsons is probably going to be missing this week and, uh, demarcus lawrence is definitely going to be missing this week. So, yeah, I mean the defense. Two of their star players are not on the defense right now. So I think that bodes well. Jalen Warren's going to be out with a knee issue. Cordell Patterson was banged up as well. This could be Najee alone in this backfield and the Steelers have to run the ball. Now here's the other thing. That's nice with Jalen Warren out, with Patterson banged up Najee Harris five and six targets over the past two games. That's very unusual for Najee Harris, but beautiful. If he can look for more targets against Dallas and get around that range, I think he's going to be perfect for you. And if you're missing Tony Pollard and Saquon and Jameer Gibbs and David Montgomery, you got to plug Najee in. But feel good about it this week, guys. I love it.
Speaker 2:John and this could be. Could we start seeing maybe the old Najee from rookie year? Obviously not to that degree of what Big Ben was checking down at. I understand that was an anomaly, but could we start seeing a couple hints of that? That would be fun. That would really be fun for Najee owners.
Speaker 1:Justin Fields is playing better. He's throwing the ball a little more, he's getting a little more confidence, so he could it could could very well be John.
Speaker 2:My last hit it, my start here of of, uh my, my third star here is going to be Cortland Sutton against that of Vegas. This is by no means a guaranteed start. This is risky. This makes me uncomfortable, but here's the deal. Cortland Sutton is figuring it out with Bo Nix. Right, bo Nix is a rookie quarterback. He's truly, john, the only receiver that is worth a damn on this team at this point in time. I mean, literally, I feel like it's Cortland Sutton, and then there's everybody else. And so for me, man, he's had back-to-back double-digit fantasy point weeks. The game script could be awesome Again playing Vegas with Denver's defense being super legit, vegas's offense not really firing on all cylinders. Maybe Devante plays, maybe he doesn't check it. Man, I'm firing up Cortland Sutton in that flex position and I'm and I'm feeling okay, I'm feeling okay.
Speaker 1:My last hit at this week. Guys. This is a guy during draft season. We told you who is that guy at the end of your draft just like the Nico Collins of last year that you pick up and see if you can as a flyer pick. I'm talking about Dontavian Wicks, wide receiver for the green Bay Packers. All right, there's a couple of reasons why and I know after Jordan Love got hurt, everybody dropped him. I did Pick him back up. Make sure he's back on your roster. This is a guy that you can play this week, guys, and feel pretty good about. Christian Watson is going to be out. He's likely to even be put on IR potentially, but he's going to be out with a high ankle sprain. 13 targets for Dontavian Wicks in his stead. Love that From Jordan Love. These are good targets, man.
Speaker 1:I know the beginning of the game was rough. Jordan Love was thrown to a lot of Minnesota Vikings in the beginning, but let me tell you something. He figured it out, man. I mean, he had over 350 yards passing and a couple of touchdowns and it seemed like everybody was scoring on that team. Dontavian Wicks was definitely a recipient of that. They're playing against the Rams. The Rams defense is one of those. Defense the Cardinals, the Rams, you can do pretty much anything on them right now. They've been decimated with injury and they're just not playing well, so you can pretty much do anything you want. Very porous, they give up yards to the receiver. So I really see, with Jordan jordan, love, now actually healthy. Good, he looked great after he got everything going.
Speaker 1:I want don tavian wicks. He seems to be the beneficiary to me for christian watson being out just in the x's and o's as things line up now. Jayden reed, of course. Play all these guys. I think you can start read, you can start dubs, start them all. I mean this is this is going to be a good week for these guys, for sure, but I think Wicks is going to be that guy, like Christian Watson, in the corner of the end zone, that they look for. So start Dontavian Wicks this week. Guys. All right, frankie, who are you quitting this week? Who is not going to be on your starting lineup?
Speaker 2:John, my quit of the week is definitely going to be this shit stain Zemir White for the Vegas Raiders playing at Denver John. Here's the deal the dude is completely underperformed and this has been insanely frustrating for Zemir White owners, because there's no reason. There's no reason, by the way that he played last year and with the offense that they have this year, that he shouldn't be performing better, and I think it's a talent issue. I think it's real, because you're seeing Madison get in there and he's just running hard. He's getting the touchdowns, yes, he's getting more goal line work than that of Zemir. I get that it's. You know that that would happen then innately. So, okay, fine, but Zemir White losing time to Madison, right, they came out and said that he had 17 carries against the Browns for only 50 yards. That is not good, and he lost a fumble as well. So for me, man playing against a good defense in mile high in a divisional game, I'm sitting Zamir White this week.
Speaker 1:You don't want to start the running back. 56 on the year, man. What a sack of shit. I can't even believe this guy. Zamir White, has not scored more than five points all season in a half point PPR.
Speaker 2:Hey man, yeah, buy low, sell high.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you Just kidding, I ain't buying shit, man. All right, first of all, buy low, buy candidate. Right now it's Devontae Adams guys. Definitely it's by candidate. Right now, uh, it's davante adams guys. Definitely it's davante adams. He missed last week. Uh, I don't know if he's gonna play this week. He's still a little banged up. He may be on a different team in the next few weeks if he goes to the damn. Uh, kansas city chiefs, come on now.
Speaker 2:I want to go, I want to see I do too.
Speaker 1:It's a football fan. Could you imagine that patrick mcholmes has never had an alpha big motherfucker in the back of the end zone? Never. He's never had this Ever. I want to say it so bad. Please, god, give it to me. Give it, I'm going to go get him this week. Guys, let's go try to get Devante Adams this week and see if he goes to the Chiefs.
Speaker 2:John, it's like that hilarious old school Like, if you guys are for those listening and watching. You see youtube stuff that pops up all the time. But there's this one thing to where this this guy asked this girl hey, like, do you want to drink? She goes no, because of my legs. And he goes oh, what happens with your legs? Do they get hurt? She goes, no, they spread. So like I'm just thinking about like, hey, like, hey, you want to get, just thinking about the chiefs and the fucking getting davante adams. That's exactly how I would feel as a, as an nfl fan, are you?
Speaker 1:kidding me like I would spread my legs immediately I see davante adams are you serious, god, spreading those cheeks? My all. Right, you digress, let's get back here.
Speaker 2:We're coming back my first critic.
Speaker 1:Guys, we're going to cincinnati. Unfortunately, here it's going to be zach moss running back for cincinnati bangles. They're playing at home against the baltimore ravens. I talked about dallas being a run funnel. Baltimore it's just a team you can't run on man. I mean these guys are just very, very good, very difficult to run on the baltimore d uh. The other issue here I have with zach moss it's a 60 40 split as far as snaps go with Chase Brown. I mean this is truly, truly a split here. Touches, it's not a 50-50 split. It's not a 60-40 split 19 touches for Zach Moss, 17 touches for Chase Brown. So when you're looking at splitting time nearly 50-50, playing against the Baltimore Ravens I don't like it. Guys. I'm going to try to find another way. I know it's difficult. We've got injuries, we've got bye weeks. The running back landscape is so difficult right now. But if you can find another option besides Zach Moss, I would look for it guys.
Speaker 2:John, my last quiddit here is actually going to be Carson Steele and all the running backs for that of Kansas City right now versus New Orleans. The reason being is because I actually like Kareem Hunt. I'm not opposed to firing up Kareem Hunt, but the issue is we just don't know what the distribution is going to be. It could be Samanjay Pirine, it could be Kareem CEH there's talks of him potentially starting to come back so and also, as I mentioned, Carson Steele. So, guys, it just is tough. Carson Steele also, you know, didn't look great last game. He had six rushing yards, he had on two carries. He lost a fumble, conceded everything else then to Kareem. And so for me, man, I'm sitting everybody. Maybe you can fire up Kareem if you're feeling real kind of frisky a little bit, but for the most part, man, I'm sitting. The Kansas city running backs against new old new Orleans this week.
Speaker 1:I agree with you with that. I know they. Carson steel had the start. He fumbled, I think. He fumbled on in the red zone right, fumbled near the goal line. They pulled him immediately. He didn't play really the rest of the game. So that's, that's a rookie thing, that's a thing andy reed is saying you fumble, you fuck up, you fuck with me, I fuck you, fuck on me, fuck on you. Yeah, so that's what andy reed did. But he could get the start again, man. I mean he they could say all right, did you figure out what you did wrong? Now get back in there and fix it so he could play.
Speaker 1:But they're gonna run kareem hunt. They ran him a lot, they love him. They're gonna run him. They're gonna have Samaj P Ryan in there on third downs as well. It is very muddy. I know that the landscape's rough, but yeah, you're not going to have any idea what's going to happen with these guys. I'm with you on that, buddy. All right.
Speaker 1:My last quitted here is going to be Jalen Waddell. We just talked about the issues with Tyreek Hill. You think Tyreek Hill has issues. Jalen Waddell has issues right now. Guys, he was tough to put in anyway, even with Tua in there. You were just hoping that he would get a touchdown. Now, with this quarterback play, guys. You just can't do it. I don't think Jalen Waddell's playing at New England Very good, very stout defense, very stingy to wide receivers.
Speaker 1:Right now, jalen Waddell's the wide receiver 50. Right now 50. Qb situation complete and total fucking disarray. We know that. Single digits points. In the last three games, zero touchdowns this year. I just don't see this being the week that Jalen Waddell turns it around, guys. I would look for other options. I would look for other guys like the Dontavian, wicks and some of these lower tier. Don't look at just the name of Jalen Waddle. Look what's going on. Uh, you know. So look on the waiver wild. It's a perfect person that you can stream, guys, and take him out and put him in your bench, all right, all right, frankie. That is the episode for the day. That is our hits and quits for week five. Thank you so much. Everybody, don't forget, follow us, us social media. We're everywhere, guys. Frankly fantasy football. In fact, you probably can't even open up instagram without one of our videos popping up on your screen. So so I love that and make sure you sub up on youtube, guys, at frankly fantasy football frankie. What do we have coming up for everybody?
Speaker 2:guys, do not forget fridays with frankie dropping. On friday again, I was able to give you guys some really good insight heading into this week. I was able to kind of hit on the Devontae Adams stuff, the Evan Ingram and a few other things. So definitely stay tuned. Fridays with Frankie dropping there are going to be five things you need to know before the weekend. It takes literally 60 seconds and you'll see it on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, so on and so forth, YouTube, et cetera. The other thing is, guys, tune in. Next week we will be diving into week six. We're going to do some takeaways from week five, dive into news and notes and, of course, we're going to get into the Thursday night preview with our hits and quits baby.
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