Episode 14

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13th Oct 2022

Week 6 Fantasy Starts | Sits | Sleepers

This week we call out who is a must-start, who you need to sit, and who can be a fantasy sleeper you can start or stash to use later. Take advantage of other league owners asleep at the wheel.

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All right guys, so we're gonna go ahead and get into our week six must starts. A lot of guys popping off just like King said. you know, first couple weeks are gonna be more like the preseason kind of games cuz that's these guys, they're just getting their feet underneath them and they're starting to roll.

Well now we've been seeing a lot of these guys starting to get their groove and a lot of fantasy points are starting to be. So I really want to hear from both of you guys who the hell is gonna be your must start in a big field of guys that are scoring tons of points, and I'm gonna go to you King first.

Who's your must start of week six? Well, I think there's a lot of guys lined up, you know, but just looking at the matchups and everything else. I think one of the teams who secondary is really suspect and giving up chunk plays and big yards to every team. They play the Miami Dolphins, and this week they're playing Minnesota.

And Kirk Cousins is quietly putting together a pretty damn good season. And Justin Jefferson is my must start. Justin Jefferson's been a little bit up and down this year. I mean, he started out huge. Big game nine catches a buck, 80 couple tds, you know. But after that, he went two, two weeks without a teddy.

And he still hasn't had atu, but you know, since, since the first week. But the fourth game, he had 10, catches a buck, 40 buck, 47, 12, catches a buck 54 last week against Chicago. And he got stopped like right on the inch line. So it was close, but I mean, maybe his touchdowns will suffer for a little bit. But you know what, man?

This guy's just a machine. A monster, especially in a PPR league. Must start Justin, Jeff.

Yep. And the touchdowns are coming so that, you know, when you got a receiver like Justin Jefferson, you know, he is real vocal. You know, he is gonna take her to side and be like, Hey, let's get some touchdowns. Let's get on Sports Center. You know what I mean? Like, this will lead to commercials. We gotta score touchdowns.

And I think that's what we gotta do, especially in this league, you know? It's all about the marketing, right? You wanna be able to, to, to be that guy. Everybody, all these receivers want to be that guy. Justin Jefferson has his name in the hat and he wants to be that guy. We just need to see the touchdowns coming.

plus if you're not getting him touchdowns, this could be cousins pretty much auditioning for this offense going forward. So I'm, I'm, I'm looking for that touchdown regression, the positive regression to happen with Justin Jefferson pretty soon hopefully. Only thing that concerned me with Justin Jefferson all year was week two or week three, they matched up against Detroit.

And Detroit is just, their defense sucks and he didn't have jack's shit against them. He only had like 15 yards receiving. He had and was in week three, he had three catches for 14 fucking yards. Yeah, tell me about that. I'm one of the fantasy happened there. You know, but you know, Yeah. I don't know man.

But that's the one that sort of just is stumping me, cuz everybody else is putting up huge numbers against the lion. He went for three for 14, so I don't know if he's got like a side chick in Detroit and he was tired. Not know what it is, Doug , but it just, that's the anomaly. That's a good call. But I gotta say, as a fantasy owner of Justin Jefferson, I was a little bit concerned, especially after week two and three combined.

he just, he got blanks not just on touchdowns, but also just in, in yardage. He just didn't get anything. And you know, this past week was a really good week five was, you know, was a huge get right. For him, You know, as far as yardage, he didn't get the the touchdowns, but they will come. I have, I have a lot of confidence that they're gonna come, but I really like what he has, especially this matchup king.

You made a good point with this matchup. I really think that this is gonna be a strong matchup and he's gonna, hopefully break that, that donut for a touchdown

Hopefully he will, you know, and I think he will. I think he's gonna end the year with 12 touchdowns, 13 touchdowns, something like that. That's what I would project him at. But I mean, he is only at two now, so he is gotta catch up. He's gonna have a couple multi touchdown games. So it's just the way it rolls.

Absolutely. Absolutely. All right, so let's go ahead and go into bomb Bo's Must start of this week. Bombo, who the hell do you have as worthy as your must start? So going into weeks, cause I got remand Stevenson from the Patriots. as a must start, they gave this guy 30 touches and he turned into 175 yards.

this past week. No touchdowns. If you start adding touchdowns to those kind of. That's Monster. That's like monster numbers. he's never really had the goal line touches, but with Damien Harris gone, he's gonna get those goal line touches. He's gonna get catches out of the backfield. And you all know that Bill Belichick hates your fantasy team.

And how does he hate your fantasy team? With his backfield rotations right now, he has no choice but to use this guy as a straight up workhorse. At any time you have the opportunity. To, to put out a guy out there as a workhorse, in fantasy, you, you take advantage of it. Plus the defensive matchup is, is on point right now.

he's going against Cleveland, who just made Austin Eckler and Josh Kelly look like Walter Payton. so I, I like, I like the matchup, I like the talent and I like the opportunity. Right now, soAnd Stevens is my must start. Love it. Ramande is instead, you know, last year when he broke out, you know, I, he. He was a monster where he, when he played, you know, at Oklahoma and no one really saw this kid play and I took him in a lot of leagues last year and I thought he should have got the ball more.

Damien and Harris ended up getting all the goal line carries that this kid took it down to the goal line, you know, ended up getting 15 for the year or something. But what a two week run for remand to, to show his wears because like you said, Damien Harris is. He probably, even if he comes back, he doesn't play well injured.

DiUS Harris doesn't do that. He doesn't like to play injured, and he's got Detroit last week who has got the worst defense and probably right there chasing him is Cleveland coming up next, Cleveland had to make a trade for linebacker Sunday afternoon after the game. Absolutely Terry for Dion Jones at 4:00 PM That's a great call, dude.

They were calling anybody. They could man. . They knew it. So yeah, you're Ride Babo. Great call. And yeah, Cleveland just sucking balls. They can't stop the run LER ran for 299 yards or something against them. You know what I mean? . I, I love to pick Bubo. There was a lot of, talking heads in the media that before the season started, they were saying that Stevenson may actually emerge as the premier back in this offense by, you know, mid-year.

So now the fact that Harris is went down, I think it just kind of speeds that up, right? I mean, this, this kid, well, I think he, he's the all around guy. Damien Harris just can't catch the damn ball. It's true. He just can't catch damn ball. He's a north south runner. He's gonna run in between the tackles.

Very good for you. But outside of that, Mm, it's a little bit shaky, man. The bus starts fucking swerving, so he's like, it's, It's the same kind of guy as James Robinson, right? James Robinson can run the shit outta the ball in between the tackles right off tackle. But you get misdirection steps stuff. He's got a plant.

It's hard. You know what I mean? It's just not how he's built. Gus Edwards, same kind of. So when those guys don't get the rock feature to 'em a certain way, you know, and the teams know, you know, they're not gonna run him on sweeps. You know, Ramona's got the speed that fuck's fast. You know what I mean? He gets to the outside and he, you know, and he's really had a year to put on some weight guys.

He's put on about eight or 10 pounds of muscle. So, and that's what happens to these guys. That's the difference maker. You know what I mean? That these guys get bigger and strong. Because now they're in an NFL program, not a college program where they're eating fucking Chick-fil-A and fucking Little Caesars.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Or Papa Johns. Aren't those the big sponsors or something? You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Totos. . Yeah. They're eating fucking bags of toasts, Papa Johns and Chick-Fil-A all fucking day, Doug. Yeah. Fucking all year. You know what I mean? So. All right guys, I'm gonna go ahead and go with my must starter this week.

And you know, this is kind of an obvious choice, at least for me it is, but I gotta go with the big name of Austin ler. This guy did not start off the year very strong. They weren't using him the right way in the past couple weeks. They started to feature him a lot more, give him the rock. Not only are they just giving him the rock, but he's just finding ways to break through.

I mean, this guy, he had a, last week he had 173 yards and a touchdown, and then he caught for 26 yards and a touchdown too. So, I mean, this guy's a dual threat. We know that we, he did that last year, but what he didn't do last year was the fact that he didn't get over a hundred yards rushing last year and this year at.

This past week he did. Last week he blew up again. You know, he is, This is two consecutive weeks with multiple touchdowns and you know, I just really think that going up against Denver in week six, come on guys. I, I think this is a good matchup for him and for me. This has gotta be a must start.

Yeah, I got stock and ler. I know you got stock and ler and one of my favorite things about ler, I know we talked about it before, is LER plays fantasy football and he knows, Yeah. He's got a show and he, he's on, Pete does content with different guys. he knows that he was lacking in the touchdown department and ever since then, this guy's just blowing up, right?

Like he's made that phone call. He, he gave, he got in Herbert's ear and was like, Hey, we got, let's get some plays. Let's get me in the end zone. And Denver's not stopping him from getting in the end zone. And I think their, their defense was just as hyped up as their offense this past, off season. And I think.

Even though they have the talent on defense until that offense helps them out, they're gonna be vulnerable as well. So gimme all the Austin eor, gimme all the Austin eor going forward, as long as he stays healthier, yeah, feed him the rock and wear down that D I think Denver's sort of serviceable a little bit, you know what I mean?

I don't, I mean, they don't. I don't know how to say it. They, they're not like, they don't pop off the page and they're not fucking awesome. They're not on the top five or nothing like that, but I think their, their front seven's pretty decent. You know, I don't know if, their guy, their Chubb is gonna play, you know, they gotta the chub on the outside and that's really the difference maker and he's like, so injury prone.

But I mean, I think it's gonna be a tougher game than we think division game. You know, I think Russell Wilson is really gonna try to press to get a win. You know what I mean? He needs one for sure. You know, so I think these guys are gonna fight hard and I think it's gonna be a good game. And I, I don't know, man.

I just, they're weird sometimes guys, these chargers, you know, sometimes they just use the shit out of this guy, and the next week they don't do nothing. You know what I mean? So, I, you know, I, I think rolling, you know, he is good. He's got a decent match. I wouldn't say he has the best matchup. He doesn't have, you know, Cleveland, Gand or Detroit.

But you know, I think that he should do pretty good and I think the guy utilize him a little bit more, you know, catch catching the passes outta the backfield. Yeah. But I think if he does that this week, he should have a pretty decent game. Absolutely. Absolutely. All right guys, so that was our must starts of the.

There's a lot of guys that are worthy to be on that list cuz there's so many guys blowing up and that was a really hard list to be able to dwindle down just to one, pick each guys. So, good Shit. Good shit. So, let's go into our week six team. Before we go man, I just want to throw a little something out and we talked about it a little bit pre-show and bombo you helped me out here, but there's a couple guys we wanna pub up and it's hard for us to put in our must starts, but man, Geno Smith has been balling out man.

He's been on my list, like my top three quarterbacks every, every week and he's just not making, you know, the, the talk, but this guy's putting up numbers and he's keeping Metcalf and Tyler Locket fantasy relevant. Those guys haven't missed a beat for sure. And now here comes my little boy, Kenneth Walker cuz Rashad Penny broke his leg and is out for the year like he always does.

Geno Smith, a little shout out to you and I think Bumble, we were also gonna talk about maybe a little special tight end maybe bonus for our listeners, right? ? Yeah, we got, we got him coming later on in the show, but we got, yeah, tight end talk, big bonus later on. Gotcha. All right, guys. All right. Good shit.

All right, so we're gonna go ahead and start in on our week six must sits, right? These guys are starting to shit the bed, or they have been shitting the bed on your fantasy roster all year long so far. And you know what? It's time to kind of kick them to the curb completely, or you just throw 'em on the bench.

Whatever you're gonna do. This is gonna be the week that we want to, to kind of call out these guys and say, You know what? You just can't play them under no circumstances. So Bombo, why don't you go ahead and take your must sit of this week, week six. Well, we talked about it during the must starts with Austin LER and his opponent, the Denver Broncos.

Right now you gotta sit Russ. hopefully you got another option. hopefully you listen to King and went out and grabbed Gen Smith and now you can use him. Cuz if you have Russ and Geno Smith on your roster, you should have been starting Gen Smith probably three weeks ago. Russ is injured, right?

He's got a torn LA right now on his throwing. Or throwing side. one game with two passing touchdowns. He's really taking that game manager role right now. probably like a low end game manager role right now, especially with the way the play calling's been and what they don't trust him to do in certain situations.

and I know that Russ wants to cook. If you slow, you know, look at some of the film. He's really going for that over the top to su. And son's got a couple guys on him. You know, son's son sometimes has that single coverage and has his man burn, but he's really throwing it in a double coverage a lot, trying to, trying to zero in on him and leaving a lot of guys open.

And you know, now he's a meme. You see all these guys looking at him on the bench. You see these, you know, these still shots of game film where he's missing handler, wide open. And he, this coaching is not doing him any favors. You know, the, the talking heads are also giving it to his coach. You know, is this guy ready?

You know, how much of it was Aaron Rogers? How much was it of him? He's out thinking he's trying to outthink himself. Just keep it simple. The other thing I don't like, as far as Rush's pr. Russ's progression in this offense is that loss to GTE Williams. You know, that's, that's, that's huge. That was, that's, that's something you could lean on to close out games, to keep things, to keep the defense guessing with play action so you can really take those shots to sudden.

And right now, I mean, he's not getting Judy involved, for the weapons that he has and and for the expectations they're supposed to be. It's just not there. And until he has a blow up game, if you have a better option, you should go with your better option. Sit, Russ. Well, I think the reality is you nailed everything Bumble.

And if they would've established the run the first three or four weeks with the kid and let him cook, let the kid cook, not rest, not have to worry about that. , the team probably would've won half the games and done better, or even a little bit more than what they wanted. I think they did win half the first four.

But I mean, and now basically no one's gonna be afraid of Melbourne Gordon cuz he's gonna fumble once, twice a game. And Mike Boone is what he is, you know? So the reality is gonna be tough. And I think they're probably gonna sign, I think they signed the Tabius or one of these guys, I don't know who the fuck they signed Aus word, but it's not really gonna make a difference.

And at this point I think they have a lost year going. And you're right, Russ is gonna, he's gonna press all year. They, all the teams know they're gonna have to throw, so they're gonna blitz the hell out of him. He doesn't wanna run. So it's just gonna be a tough year for him all year. And I think, you know, Bombo is even nailed this sit so good.

This guy's probably a sit until further notice kind of guy. Yeah. And you know what King, That's a great point. What you just said. You just kind of touched on it just a little bit. But Russ, for whatever reason, doesn't wanna run, but he still can. It's not like he's lost a thing or two on his step. I've seen, I, you know, just last week I saw him scramble for a first down.

He still looked really fresh and he looked really good, but for whatever reason, he just doesn't wanna run. So I, I just don't get it there. So, Bombo hell of a fucking pick right there with, you know, with some Russ. All right. King, who the hell is your must sitter this. Well, mine must sit is a guy who's just, I'm just saying for this week, this guy's, monster and I, you know, I, I throw my shrimp out there.

I don't even, I put my shrimp on the Barbie guys. I don't even put the coconuts out. You know, I put my shrimp out there, so I'm throwing all my shrimp out today, and I'm gonna say, Sit. Nick Chubb this week. Whoa, Big Chubb. That's a big line. I know guys. Okay, But hear me out. Hear me out. What's their match up?

They're playing New England. Look at everybody who's played New England. No one has really done good. And what does Beche do? He takes away your best thing and makes you beat him with something else. The best thing that offense has is Nick Chubb. He's gonna swallow that dude. He might have 70 yards, 60, 70 yards, which isn't bad for every other running back, but it's not his normal 130 with a couple cuties, right?

So put him on the bench, rest him. He's playing the old man the wizard. Be check and just chalk it up to a week of giving your guys on the bench. A little bit of run, but just this week we're sitting Nick Chubb, How about that shrimp on the Barbie.

That is a lot of fucking nuts out there. I a good point though. I mean, King just told you to sit the best running back in football. Fuck yeah. I mean, but that's a really good point though, because you're going up against that defense. Yeah. And he had great points. Very, very good points. I still find it hard to be able to just actually pull the trigger a do that with the best running back all fantasy.

Both you guys mention and, and just throw this out, right? I'm just gonna throw this out to both of you guys. Real. Both you guys mentioned when I was talking about my must start with Justin Jefferson, right? That you guys both have stock in this guy. So I don't have him many leagues, so I don't have a lot of stock in him.

But if I could have told you before the Detroit game that he was gonna have three catches for 14 yards sit him, what would you have done? Played. I would've thought you were stupid. I know you would've cuz you wouldn't have believed me. But that's my point. If you would've known that before the game, you would've sat him. I'm just saying I'm prognosticating guys. You got your list. Well, Carrie's all right. He's not gonna break six, I wanna say 60, but it's just low. That's really low, man.

For niche up. That's low. I know he's good. Fuckers. I'm just, I mean, he's not gonna have one of his games. He's not gonna get a touchdown. If there's touchdowns on the, on the ground, it's Kareem hunt cuz they'll, they'll ease up a little bit with him or they might just say, Fuck it. You can't run the. Throw the fucking ball.

This girl also knows Jacobi Brice, so I don't know if they're gonna even be able to throw on 'em. Oh, Jesus. I forgot about that. That's where the kids started. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So, excellent fucking point. Double check. Has these guys' numbers Sit everybody and clean. Don't. Don't see him. It doesn't matter.

Fuck Bombo. Just even made my point. Even better. Fucking Bella check's gonna know how to fuck up the snap, Doug. He's gonna know what to do to fuck this. Get up with a snap. You get the snap clean, Doug. Oh my. Oh man. What are the prop bits on that? ? Oh, man. All right, Nick Chubb sitting down. Wow. All right. All right.

Well, mine is not so, controversial as that is. But, I'm gonna head back on over to Denver and I'm gonna say Melvin Gordon, guys. Melvin Gordon this week had the team high in carries for a whopping 15 carries, that's the team high all season and all he could muster was 54 yards. That's an average of 3.6.

And I know you, you know, King, you mentioned, you know, Boone is who he is and everything like that, but Boone had fewer carries and averaged 5.4. Per carry and seemed to be outperforming Melvin Gordon and Gordon's only redeeming quality of last week was the fact that he caught three passes for 49 yards.

So that's the only thing he could do. And he almost made another fumble. he, he got bailed out by the officials that made the right call, but he fumbled it and it was caused by the ground. So, I mean, this guy, this, this guy's done. He, he, he's just a piece of work. I actually have him in one of my leagues and I did the stupid thing of playing him thinking, Well, you know, now that Williams is done for the season.

Okay, let's, let's kind of put him in the lineup. Put, put Gordon in the lineup and let's see what he can do. Nah, nah, I'm done with this guy. So for me, he's a must.

Hey, T, you remember that game when we were a kid and you would like smash some kid and he'd be laying on the ground that someone would go and lay on top of him and then everyone else would just start laying on top, on top, on top, on top on top, and the guy in the bottom could breathe. Yeah. What was it called?

I don't remember the name of that one, man. Cause that's what everyone's doing to Denver right now. They're shitty. They're just piling on, man, as best as they can. And both of you fuckers are jumping in there too. Man, you guys, fuck here's, here's, here's why. Cause we got a lot of ammo because I've seen every single one of their games and I don't have Sunday ticket.

Hey guys, I'm good with it, dude. My boy's gone, my boy's done, and he's probably done a little bit next year. So, you know what I mean? You guys just hammer 'em, Dude, hammer 'em. Bumble made a great point right now. I mean, they're, they're on every win. Single was freaking week in prime spots, and they're doing nothing.

That was the worst. This past week was the absolute worst game of the season. Everybody, everybody, all, all, all of the talking heads hated it for a good reason. So yeah, that's why we're shitting on a king. They deserve to be shit.

All right guys, so moving forward, We're gonna throw something out there that we haven't done yet, but we're gonna add a little bit of something to our must starts and must sits, which is gonna be our week six sleep.

So guys, we're gonna throw out there, who is your sleeper of week six? Now this could be just, you're gonna pull something out of your ass and this is gonna be a deep sleeper probably, but you know what? It may win people the week. So, Babo, who the hell's your week six Sleeper. All right guys, you're gonna have to, go to your archives and dust off that Justin Fields's file.

It's not, not quite time to put it away just yet. he's trending up right now and he's got Washington coming up and Washington's, there's a bit of a controversy, bit of a, disarray with that franchise right now with, Riverboat Ron saying that their issue with that team is the quarterback just basically flat out said it.

And the, the commanders usually are now in either shootouts or getting blown out. So that really bodes well for what the bears are trying to do right now, and that's get the kids some confidence. he had a 50, I wanna say 56 yard rushing touchdown called back. If he, if that goes through, we're talking about him in a whole different light.

Right now. We're talking about him as someone that's blowing up. And I'm, I'm ready to throw it out there that I think you should be early on it. I'm not one of these people that's ready to give up on fields and say that he's a full blown bust. I think that they're really giving him that trial by fire, to see exactly what it is they got.

Cuz you gotta re, I mean, you guys are Bears fans, so, you know, this regime didn't bring him in. He was already there. But I believe that they came in because he was there and they wanted do everything they can to get him to succeed. And you're not gonna get him to succeed by, you know, surrounding him with big money talent if it's, if he's not ready.

So if he can survive, you. These hardships and some of these rough parts of the schedule and you just see him ascend, get the more throws out there, get commit more involved, get Moony more involved in big chunk plays with his legs. Anytime you have a quarterback like that that can make those types of plays with his legs and big and big yards down the field with throws, that's, that's the potential for fan not only a sleeper, but a fantasy league winner.

I'm not saying he's a league winner, but he's, somebody should put on your watch list and he has a good matchup this week and just follow the ascension . And I think that's a good call. And I think if you watch him play, he doesn't have big eyes and he's in command to that offense. He knows what he wants to do.

He's very calm, he's very stoic. He's just doing what he has to do and he's got a job to do. And he's made some really good plays. You know, like Bombo said, he had a 50 some odd yard touchdown called back last week that if he, if it wasn't called back, you know, and he's hit some big plays already.

Unfortunately, he doesn't have any weapons. So it's hard in the NFL when you don't have weapons and you're playing with the j. But you know, they'll do okay, you know, and they're running games, getting healthy again. Montgomery looked good, you know, sort of shut all to talk about Herbert down pretty quick.

So, you know, see, it shows you who the, who the Bears are looking at as they're running back. And that's the reality. So, I, I think Justin Fields is gonna continue to get better. You know, and hopefully these other guys, you know, the at least Cole commit or somebody who have a little bit more fantasy relevance cuz David Montgomery is gonna be who he is.

You know, I think I just wanna get one of those wide receivers and Ke Harry got, activated off the ir remember they traded for him, from New England and he came in and he was hurt and they activated him this week, I think yesterday or something off of the, I. So depending on how he's looking in practice, he might be getting some run in the games and then kill Harry was the first round pick.

Now that doesn't mean anything cuz New England took him and they don't draft for shit and they can't draft any offensive players for shit other than linemen. But you know, we'll see what happens. And maybe that's a weapon for Justin Field to take that little step that he needs there. Babo. Yeah, I think that's a really good call out there, Babo cuz.

You know, seeing fields against the Vikings this week, you did kind of see a progression. He did take that, that kind of nice step that we all had been wanting to see from him and. He had an opportunity at the very end of that game to, to pull this one out. And if that receiver didn't, you know, get stripped for the ball, I think we would be talking about the bears winning that game.

Because there was nothing that the Vikings can do to stop him, you know, every, every single down. He was, he was kind of chipping them apart and just kind of. Again, I'm gonna go back to the, the same analogy I used earlier was, you know, death by a thousand paper cuts. I mean, he just kind of kept chipping away at them and they didn't know where he was gonna go next.

They didn't know if he was gonna run for it. They didn't know who he was gonna throw to and. It, it kept the defense on their toes, and they just couldn't react fast enough. So I think we're, you know, had that not have happened, we would've been, just to your point, we would've been talking about a whole different Justin Fields.

We would've been talking about what a great week he had and what a huge step he took, you know, week to week. So that's a really good call. that's a, that's a good sleeper for not just for week six, but, like you said, you know, kind of, if you wanna stash. I would, definitely think about that if you got that roster.

Space sash him. Definitely. All right, King. So who's gonna be your sleeper of week six? Well, I think even sleeper, even going forward, you know, you want to stash him up a little bit and get 'em going, but not just based on the match of this week, but the reality is this kid has just got glue for hands.

Jacksonville's been giving up some chunks on the outside. So Alec Pierce from Indianapolis is my sleeper.

He's got a pretty good matchup against Jacksonville this week. I think that, you know, Matt Ryan, the first four weeks every week that he's played, he's got more confidence with this kid and he's just basically putting in this vicinity and this kid's like fucking Spiderman dude. He's just catching everything thrown to.

He's got fly paper on his fingers. He's doing much better than I thought he was gonna do. And the reality is they have a bigger, more physical wide receiver who's not on the high end of the speed side, who gets shut down with the double team. Pretty easy. Michael Pitman, it's hard for him to get through that.

It's just the nature of the beast. So that's gonna leave that slot open for this guy on the mismatch, on the linebacker, and they can't run with Alec Pierce. And he's getting that underneath that pretty. You know, so he scored 12 fantasy points and back to back weeks. And I mean, that's decent for a flex play or a guy you're plugging in or something like that.

So if you need a guy this week, pick up Alec Pierce. I think he's just gonna continue. His matchup is decent. Like I said, they got Jacksonville and Jacksonville's been giving up some chunks, so hopefully you can break a little chunk for you if you pick 'em up. But Alec Pierce, Indianapolis Colts Sleeper week six.

Yeah, he's out there, looking a little Renfro ish, right? and that's what you want. If you're gonna have the defense going at, after the big play guy in Michael Pitman, he'll just eat underneath and. He's, it's, it's perfect for what Matt Ryan is capable of doing right now, which is, you know, those shortened intermediate routes and getting it to a guy in space who can, who's running a really good route and can create his own separation.

and hopefully that leads to Michael Pittman. Getting more looks with single coverage because they have to. Alec Pierce is out there keeping them honest on the defensive side. As someone who has stock in Michael Pittman, I need that to happen as well. So I, I want this Colt's offense to start clicking cuz they're another one that we can start talking about.

Like we've been talking about Denver, right? All these guys are supposed to take that next step and it looks like they're regressing. So let's, let's, let's get it out in the show on the road and hopefully they start giving, Alec Pear some run. That's a really good call. you know, Pierce is very underrated

I mean, you picked a guy that just is getting no love. He's not getting any kind of hype out there. but he's putting up some, some steady numbers. Right now, you know, they're not huge game break type of numbers, but I really do think to, to ba humble's point, I mean, the only kind of passes that, you know, Mattie Ice could get right now are those, those small little slant passes.

Anyway, so you might as well give it to him and let him just run for it and go. Pitman's not getting anything. I have him in a fantasy league. He's getting me no point. So I'm not even playing him. I haven't even talked about setting him, but he's gonna be one of my sits coming up pretty soon just because he doesn't get anything.

So good shit, King. Good shit. All right guys, so then that's gonna lead into who my Week six Sleeper is going to be. And for me this week it's Isaiah McKenzie. He's coming back from his concussion. You know, this guy is gonna start getting some steady, steady targets in that offense before he went out with that concuss.

He, in the four games that he did play, he got three touchdowns and he's a, he was averaging 12 targets,, per game before he went out. So, as a sleeper, you know, as a, as a deep flex type of guy, I would definitely be looking at him, especially going up against kc. I mean, you gotta think about that, right?

They're gonna be matching up on two guys for the most part. And now you got Mackenzie that's gonna be able to slide in and get those, those, those small little plays and start chipping away and getting points and, and stacking those points. So as a deep sleeper or a, a deep flex, I would definitely go with a guy like Isaiah Mackenzie.

Yeah, like we were saying in the beginning of the show, right? talking about our matchups, you want to get anybody you can. That's, that's gonna be in this potential shootout. And even if Casey's defense is honing in and all the other guys on Gabe Davis and Stefan Diggs, big play, big play guys. Isaiah McKinzie can go in there.

on the, on the underneath. And he could, he could make a big play himself. just needs to be healthy, needs to be out there, have the opportunity. And you know, Josh Allen, he's, he, it seems like he's just targeting Stefan Digs because he has such big state line sometimes, but he does spread it around and I, and he's been needing to any, what we saw them do to the Rams is what we should be seeing them do to everybody when they.

All of their core receivers healthy and up and doing it. So if we can see that, what they did to the Rams, in this case, he game, I think all the receivers are gonna eat

Love me somebody, Isaiah Mackenzie, I think they should feature him a little bit more. You know, I think he can do a lot more for them. He's had a couple of games where he is flashed and had, you know, I think one game he had a 90 yards receiving or something. Maybe the game where they ran out the clock in Miami, you know, in that game he was one of the only guys who could stay on the field, I guess.

But, I, you know, again, it's just what are they gonna do there? And you know, they got a lot of mouths to feed and their receivers and their run, their quarterback is a running back and he takes up a lot of that stuff. So if there's any left, yeah, it should go to Isaiah MacKenzi.

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