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Should You Bench Derrick Henry This Week? Week 6 Sit/Start Hot Takes · Let's Talk Football - Married Edition

• [Amanda Black] (0:00 - 0:24) What is up, friends? Welcome back to another episode of Let's Talk Football Sis. Fantasy football for the girls by the girls, baby. We are back rolling into week six of NFL football. And, well, I don't know, like, I was telling you my husband about this. I don't know if, like, fantasy football has been more intense because we're talking about it so much, but I feel like there's been so many injuries, like, far more than years past, but I think it's because we're so hyper-fixated, right? [Angela Sims] (0:25 - 0:43) I think so, too, and it feels like your weight, like, I'm more attached to players. Everybody. And I feel like, oh, I got it. I got someone break it out. Then they go down. And I do. I feel like it's way more intense this year, more than ever, being so wrapped up in it. It's just, like, part of my identity now. [Amanda Black] (0:43 - 0:44) I agree. I agree. [Angela Sims] (0:45 - 0:48) I bet you don't know that I know a lot about fantasy football. [Amanda Black] (0:48 - 1:34) I know, right? I'm like, I know, I know a lot. Also, like, I take it, like, so personally, like, we give you guys opinions and suggestions and I get feels so fucking bad when they don't hand out. So, like, so sorry about some of the week five disappointments. And as two very empathetic humans, I'm always like, oh, my gosh. But it's all good. Shittle buff out. This is the nature of fantasy football. We are all making guesses and opinions, but I've had so much great feedback from so many listeners just from the fact that they are five and oh, they are winning the week. They are absolutely fucking dominating their leagues due to our advice. So we thank you guys. We're so excited to have you here and we're excited to roll into another week after some interesting week five match ups to say the least. But, Angie, tell us a little bit about your Sunday recap. How did your games go? How did your fantasy go? Play it on us. [Angela Sims] (1:35 - 3:03) So I went into fantasy a little bit scared. I know on the sleeper app, I'm not really familiar with the other ones, but, you know, you pull up your matchup and it's like either a red line or a green line. And I'm like, okay, come on. Green line. But it was red, but it's usually always pretty 50 50 at the start. But then, you know, leading up to the week and then I had guys go out. I had some weird spots I had to fill because of my weeks, whatever. So I was a little bit shaky, a little bit uncertain, but my guys and I'm calling them my guys. My guys pulled it out and I had some like weird dudes do some like awesome stuff like Michael Carter came in hot for me. I almost picked up Trey Tucker and was like, I'll go with Trey Tucker, which are Sean Tucker, Sean Tucker. I get those two mixed up all the time. Sean Tucker, who's with the Buccaneers. Yes. Almost picked him up. Actually picked him up, then dropped him again, then grabbed Michael Carter and very, very glad I did. But I was able to win both my mine. Last night was a little close. I told my husband, Oh, I'm going to win both. I'm going to win both. And then he's like, well, Patrick Mahomes is doing really good. And I'm like, shit, I'm playing Patrick Mahomes in both of the leagues, both both leagues was starting quarterback. He's like, well, he's sort of really, he's doing really good first half here. I got a little scared, but I had a good, a good weekend. It was a pretty normal Sunday for me too. Like I just got to do my thing. I got to relax. I got to watch football. It was a great day. How about yours? And how about you? I love it. [Amanda Black] (3:03 - 3:47) I love it. Won both my leagues and fantasy, which is always a huge freaking win. I was so nervous. I had a like quarterback decision to make. Oh, no, I didn't have a quarterback decision to make. I lied in my one girls league, like our like Sundays is for the girls league. I had to roster. My entire team had to be rostered because my team is just like riddled with injuries. I had to play like Kendra Miller as a running back because I had literally no other running back options. Bucky was ruled out. Jalen Warner was on a buy. I was like, holy shit balls. What am I going to do? Like bad. But ended up winning the week and was really, really surprised by it. Dak Prescott saved my life. George Pickens having a late touchdown, saved my life. T Higgins having a late touchdown, saved my life. The garbage time. [Angela Sims] (3:47 - 3:54) The garbage time was a help. I love garbage. I hate the garbage time, but this time it was like, because it's worked in our favor. So we love it. [Amanda Black] (3:55 - 4:37) Correct. Correct. Anytime garbage time works in your favor, you're like, keep on racking them points up, baby. I love to see it. Unfortunately, Jamison Williams is just a thorn in my two point side, but it's all good. Yeah, I had a great week. We had our little pickleball posse. We play pickleball once a week with a group of guys. It's me and my husband and two of his good friends, but we have formed quite a little alliance and fun time together. So they came over for the morning game. My husband is unfortunately a Browns fan. So they came over to watch the Browns Vikings game, which was a fun way to start the morning. I did some sausage gravy and biscuits, and we had a whole nice little spread. It was a nice, nice way to spend the morning. But yeah, a pretty plain week, which is always welcome for me. That's exactly fine. [Angela Sims] (4:37 - 4:47) I only didn't have everything booked on the calendar. Could go into the week to relax just a little bit and have come down time, which made Sunday even more Roddy Roddy Rock Fest Sunday. [Amanda Black] (4:47 - 4:49) Rott made it, baby. [Angela Sims] (4:49 - 4:53) Took a little seat in there. Woke up. Had some good surprises in my fantasy. [Amanda Black] (4:55 - 5:03) Nothing's better when you're like, go to bed on a shitty fantasy week so far. And you're like, fuck this. I'm never playing fantasy again. And you wake up from your nap and you're like, I love fantasy football. [Angela Sims] (5:03 - 5:06) Let's go, baby. It's the best. [Amanda Black] (5:06 - 5:37) It's the best. That's a hot and cold personality of fantasy football. If you don't hate your life, sometimes you're not playing the game. Right, baby. So it's all good. If you had a downer week, don't worry. This is your reclaim. Let's get into some fun stuff here. So we're going to talk plays of the week. Like we always do. We're going to go vet of the week. We're going to go rookies of the week. And then obviously we will get into our week five deep dive, talk about some, some highlights and some letdowns, injury reports, and then get into week six. Sit starts for every single matchup. So let's get into our play of the week and kick kick us off with your personal play of the week. [Angela Sims] (5:37 - 6:25) My favorite play of the week. And there was a lot of different things to pick from. And I wanted so badly to do made a snatched it out from under me before I could grab it on the list on our notes. But the David Montgomery touchdown, meaning he threw the pass touchdown, right? He didn't just run it in. He threw it. And then they, you know, the commentators are talking what he used to be a quarterback. He's from Cincinnati. He had never played back in his hometown. So it was even like cooler to see his family was there. His sister was in like a tragic car accident about a year ago, and she's paralyzed. So she was, she got to finally be at the game. They flashed to her. They, I saw clips of after the game when he gets to see her, it was just the most heartfelt thing. I loved it. I loved every minute of that. I loved every, I love every minute of David Montgomery. So that's my play of the week for sure. [Amanda Black] (6:26 - 6:44) He's such a good guy. No, I love that. I love that. I was so happy that he got to like have that highlight and just, I think that's what I love about the lions is they are so willing to like make those types of things happen for people. Yeah. I love that freaking team. If I wasn't a ceiling fan, that would be the team I loved, right? Agreed. Hands down. Hands down. I agree. [Angela Sims] (6:44 - 6:44) Don't care. [Amanda Black] (6:45 - 7:12) Don't care. Well, my play of the week is not because it was a good play, but because it was a fucking laugh, your ass off. These guys are paid millions of dollars. I can't believe it play. It was when the, there was a deflected pass into a Cardinals interception. Okay. So deflected pass, Cardinals intercepted the ball, juggle, juggle, juggle, juggle, juggle, juggle, Cardinals, fumble, the ball, Tennessee scoops and scores. It was like fucking ping pong or no, what's the other game? [Angela Sims] (7:12 - 7:16) You know, when you push the ball, it was foosball. No, that's funny. [Amanda Black] (7:16 - 7:36) It's an escape pinball pinball. Is that what I said? It's this one when you're like, boom, boom, boom. And then it was like me and my husband jaw open. I was like, did, uh, uh, what the fuck just happened? Yeah. [Angela Sims] (7:36 - 7:37) I know. I know. [Amanda Black] (7:37 - 8:02) That whole game was just like clusterfuck of clusterfuck. We'll talk more about that in a hot second. All right. Well, that was my kind of funny fun play of the week because it was just goofy and nutty. And it was also fun to see the Tennessee Titans at least take home a W because you know what? You never, I'm sorry. I'm too empathetic for it. I don't want to see a team go Oh and fucking five like get a wind baby. Get out of the goose egg world. All right. How about your vet of the weekend? Who's your vet of the week? [Angela Sims] (8:02 - 8:51) That of the week was CJ Stroud. I think everybody kind of forgot about CJ Stroud, but old rookie quarterback CJ Stroud came out to play and he did not disappoint. He finished going 23 out of 27, 244 yards, four touchdowns, 30 rushing yards. He just looked great. It really was an encouraging kind of sight for me to see CJ Stroud kind of back in the vibe of things. Um, we all forgot about it. We doubted it. He said, shut the hill up. I'm still here. Um, and he guess it was against the rough Ravens defense, like the roughest Ravens defense I remember ever seeing. Um, but it was still great. And I think that he's going to kind of use that momentum to keep springing forward as we go through the rest of the season. So someone I agree. [Amanda Black] (8:51 - 8:55) It really was like rookie CJ. You had him as rookie year in fantasy. [Angela Sims] (8:55 - 8:56) I did. I did. [Amanda Black] (8:56 - 10:16) And like when CJ Stroud and Tankdale were on fire there for a while, it was like fun fucking football. So it was very like just like vintage CJ Stroud, even though he's only three years into the NFL, but you feel like you're like, Oh, but I remember that. Nonetheless, my vet of the week is Rico Dowdle himself. He stepped up to the plate with Chuba out. I mean, if you ended up picking up, uh, Rico off of the free agency, because Chuba was out, you won the week. You had to have win the week. He was a beast. So impressive 206 rushing yards, which is insane work as a running back. Um, and again, we want to just watch and monitor Chuba, Chuba Hubbard's health. Because if Chuba's out, even if Chuba's not out, I have a feeling Rico's going to be very, very involved in week six, because this is a revenge game for Rico Dowdle as he faces his former team of the Cowboys. And I literally was sitting there thinking like, they didn't want this man. They passed on this man. Like Javante Williams had been great for the Cowboys. Right. Right. Rico is good. He has juice. He has strategy. He looked wonderful. Now he did get his ass kind of beat up a little bit. So make sure he's healthy. But I mean, good on you, Rico Dowdle. Way to step up. I love it when a guy who becomes a backup really says you never should have made me a backup and shows himself. It was amazing. Hell yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's go. Rookie of the week, dude. Break it down. Here we go. It's Bill time. [Angela Sims] (10:17 - 11:18) Bill time. Bill, Bill, Bill time. Oh, we finally freaking got to see him show his stuff. 27 total fantasy football points. So if you kept the faith in Bill and you didn't he's in that three committee back and you were benching him, you trusted it and you loved Bill and you had that little piece in your heart that was reserved for Bill like me. I don't have him, but I wish I did. Um, 14 touches, 111 yards, you know, two out of two receptions for 39 yards, two touchdowns. It was great. And then I kind of caught a tail end of, I think Tom Brady does this like this award and it's called something like weird, like funny, but whatever. I can't remember, but he was interviewing him and you should, the smile on Bill's face was just like, I'm talking to Tom Brady right now. And it was so cute. And I just felt like that's how I would talk to one of my idols. Like it would be just like that. So super excited for Bill, especially going into week number six, even more excited for his performance. So who was your rookie of the week? [Amanda Black] (11:18 - 12:24) I love it. So my work either week, quench on Judkins. Uh, he looked great in the Cleveland Browns offense. He's really kind of one of the bright pieces of their offense and just love him as a running back in general. Um, obviously as an Ohio state guy, I always have a little bit of a bias there and don't get me wrong. I don't like the Cleveland Browns, but I do however, love him. He ran for 110 yards on 23 carries. He added an 18 yard reception. He would have had a touchdown if the fucking offense would just stop committee. Every time he had a big play, penalty, penalty called back. I was like, what the hell man, let this man get him some work. But those are all things you look for, right? Where you're like, if these things would have ended up panning out for him, he would have even scored more points, which we love to see. So if you happen to have him, if you took a shot on him during the draft, because you know, he didn't have that contract signed. So we were all like, is this man going to play or not? Oh, he's playing and he's here to stay. We love that. All right. Let's move into some week five fantasy football wrap ups. Um, just some, some things to talk about here. Obviously I think some really big highlights is New England beating the Buffalo Bills, which wasn't, I didn't even think it was going to happen. [Angela Sims] (12:24 - 12:37) No, neither did I. I thought it would, this was going to be like a bust, bust out game. Like, yeah, I'm going to turn it off. I'm not going to be sad to go to bed on this one, but it wasn't, it was very competitive and really good. A really good game. [Amanda Black] (12:37 - 14:08) Absolutely. It started so boring. There are so many, I hate when the game is just riddled with penalties. I'm like, guys, like it's just, stop it, stop it, stop it, stop. I was like, oh my gosh. I look, I was like ready to go to bed and be done with it. And you know, I can't sleep through the night, you know, having slept through the night since I was in my 20s, I don't think. So I usually wake up in the middle of the night. I'm checking the game scores. Cause you know, the game's so long cause I go to bed like a grandma. And then I looked at the end of the night. I was like, oh shit. I'm looking at my phone. I was like, am I seeing that right? Oh, they did end up beating the Buffalo Bills. I love it. Same thing with Jacksonville beating Kansas city. I literally was like, I want Kansas city to lose this week. And I was like really hoping that they would take the L. Okay. Like I'm not a big Kansas city fan. It's just, they've won enough. Well, like I'm ready for them not to keep winning everything. Also, I just think the refs highly favor Kansas city and they always just, they treat them with a little bit of a different glove situation. And I'm like, there's no way Jacksonville could beat them though. Oh no. Oh no, they did. It happened. It was real happened, baby. Yeah. Trevor Lawrence looked great. I mean, he performed well. He made his mistakes. He will always make his mistakes, but he did perform very, very well in week number five. And then the Rams losing because Kyron fumbled on the goal line, dude, poor Kyron, poor Kyron. He had a great week. So if you're the Kyron manager, you're not mad, but all you're thinking about is it could have been a high 30 point week. If he would have scored that teddy, a high 30 point week, I would have won. If you would have scored that touchdown Kyron, I have a week that I've been with my husband and I lost that that week. And I could have won. I could have won. [Angela Sims] (14:09 - 14:16) If you would have scored one more touchdown that you didn't say, but what does he not know how much honey people rely on him? Does he not know? [Amanda Black] (14:16 - 14:19) It's like he doesn't care about fantasy football or something. Come on. No. [Angela Sims] (14:19 - 14:20) All right. [Amanda Black] (14:20 - 14:24) We got to talk about their booty hole appearances here. I'm already Markato. [Angela Sims] (14:24 - 14:40) This is still happening. How is this still happening? So you mentioned earlier, these million multi-million dollar men are being paid unacceptable. And I know children who play football, who don't make mistakes. So tell everybody if, if you are unfamiliar, what's happening. What happened? Yes. [Amanda Black] (14:41 - 15:05) Marty Markato ran an amazing, uh, rush and was going to score a touchdown. Let up push the brakes on his own run was cocky asshole walking into the end zone, drop the motherfucking ball before he crossed the line. We just watched Aiden Mitchell do that and got ripped to shreds for it. I know. Hold the fucking ball all the way into the end zone period. [Angela Sims] (15:05 - 15:08) Why is it like a weird drop the mic situation? [Amanda Black] (15:08 - 15:22) Oh, it's like, I'm so good. Then it's like, you're actually stuck. And you put a ball in the stadium for your team. If you wouldn't have acted like an idiot. Exactly. Oh my goodness. That, or how fucking funny was it when they snapped the ball into Kyler Murray's fucking face? [Angela Sims] (15:23 - 15:38) Like the circus music played in my head there played in the end. You know, the, the, the, what you talked about as your, as your play of the week, right? Where it's like, I know it was almost like Patrick star out there trying to get a pass. [Amanda Black] (15:40 - 15:49) And then for mind you, Heather Murray was removed from the game because apparently it was snapped that hard into his face. I was like, oh my God. [Angela Sims] (15:50 - 16:03) It was just embarrassed. It was a shame pool. It was like, coach, just let me like run this. Let me get out of here for a minute. Cause I'm like, that's happened. But like that bit of a snap was like meme level hilarious. [Amanda Black] (16:04 - 16:30) Cause I had to just boom. Like it was so bad. Drew was out of my husband's name is Drew. He was like, did you just see that? I'm like, you just got hit in the face with the football. Oh gosh. And then how about, you know, the booty hole that is Jake Brownie. I've never yelled at a quarterback more than I yelled at Jake Brownie. And I'm like, you lead your receiver. Throw it to the middle of the field. Why are you leading him into the defender? Just booty hole appearance. [Angela Sims] (16:31 - 16:31) I know. [Amanda Black] (16:31 - 16:34) But welcome to the Cleveland or welcome to the Cincinnati bankos Joe Flacco. [Angela Sims] (16:37 - 16:41) Seriously. It's just that you're right. That's what's going to happen. Right? [Amanda Black] (16:41 - 16:49) Well, it did happen. Yeah. Joe Flacco is signed to the Cincinnati bankos. He's a starting quarterback. I'm sorry. [Angela Sims] (16:49 - 16:51) I thought you were just like, they're going to pull them over. Nope. [Amanda Black] (16:53 - 17:08) Yeah. Breaking news today just came out. Not like a few hours ago anyways, but yeah, Joe Flacco is signed. He is a bangle now, which, you know what? Gotta be, I mean, Joe Flacco hasn't looked great. And that's why obviously they threw Dylan Gabriel in there, but gotta be better than Jake Brownie. Got to be. [Angela Sims] (17:09 - 17:30) I mean, I agree with you with the yelling at the TV. You would think I was a Cincinnati fan. And then my four husbands like he's finishing his master. So he's, he's filming this like presentation and he's re-listening to, he's like, you were yelling at the TV. You were like, what are you doing Jake? And I'm like, he's like, who's Jake? I'm like, Jake Browning. He's terrible. He's bad. He was bad. [Amanda Black] (17:31 - 17:49) It's a whole thing. It's a whole thing. All right. Well, that's our week five fantasy roundup of just some funny and fun shit that happened in week five matchup. So let's go over some injury updates before we dive into sit start. So Amari and Hampton was placed on IR with a high ankle sprain out at least for weeks. Antonio Gibson. [Angela Sims] (17:49 - 17:50) All right. [Amanda Black] (17:51 - 18:44) I was like, I offered her to fucking trade. Antonio Gibson out for the season with a torn ACL, Malik neighbors. We knew that already ACL he's gone. Lamar Jackson. He was ruled out week five with hamstring strain. His availability for week six is uncertain. So you'll want to keep your eye on that. Again, someone to keep your eye on Darius Slayton suffered hamstring injury in week five. His return time table is unknown. They're kind of keeping it up in the air to see how he goes. Any soft tissue injury like that does worry me quite a bit. So keep your eye on Darius Slayton. Kyler Murray emerged from week five with a foot injury injury. Could it be a bruised ego? I don't know. However, he is uncertain for week six. We already knew about Trey Benson. Bucky Irving. He was ruled out week five with a foot sprain ends up. He has actually dealing with a shoulder injury. That's more serious than the foot. So who knows when Bucky's going to, some reports that he was hiding it from the team. And I'm like, bro, what are we doing? You're on my team. [Angela Sims] (18:44 - 18:45) I need you. [Amanda Black] (18:46 - 22:43) Get fully better, babe. Because you can sit out. I need you in the back half of the year. It's all right. We'll be all right. Terry McClellan ruled out week five. He's optimistic for week six. Keep your eye on it. Same thing with Chuba Hubbard, out week five with a calf injury status uncertain at this point. Calvin Ridley missed practice early this week due to knee and elbow injuries after he decided to, I don't know, be a decent one. All right. Michael Pittman Jr. had limited practice participation due to a hamstring injury. Keep your eye on that as well. Bretton Strange was placed on IR for quad. Sorry about that. Ladies. He was out of the game early on Monday night. So that is unfortunate. All right. Well, that's injury updates. We're going to move on to week six. Week six. Hello. That's a hard one to say. Week six. Sit starts. I'm going to go ahead and kick us off here and start with our very first matchup of the Philadelphia Eagles versus the New York Giants. All right. So we're going to have a little bit of dialogue here. To me, Jalen Hurts is a no-brainer. You're going to be starting Jalen Hurts into your lineup. He's been great passing touchdowns, rushing touchdowns. He's been a very consistent player for you. The wide receiver room, however, this is honestly just like good luck picking who ends up getting the ball and who ends up getting into the end zone. We've seen AJ Brown have his weeks. We saw Devante Smith have a week last week. We just don't know really what's going on. And so it really is just guesswork at this point. In my opinion, I am going to favor Devante Smith just a little bit. I would say like Devante Smith over T Higgins. I would play Devante Smith over Rondell Robinson. I would play Devante Smith over Jamison Williams. I would play AJ Brown over all of these guys as well. So like if I have AJ Brown on my team, and if you're in a 12-team PPR league or greater, you probably can't sit AJ Brown because your roster just can't manage it. If you're in an 8-10 team, you probably could handle sitting him. If I had to pick a guy, I'm probably going to lean Devante Smith over AJ Brown, which is Asinine, but I just think there's bad vibes coming from AJ Brown in general. There was even a play last week where he just didn't even seem like he really gave his full ass or effort. And I just, I don't think he has the best attitude. He also did say he didn't want to leave the team. So maybe it's a good week for him. Devante Smith or AJ Brown are risky starts in my opinion at this point. Barkley is an easy start. Go ahead and throw him in your lineup. Goddard is not an auto start this week. He faces a tough New York Giants who is good against the tight end. So I'm looking at guys like Ferguson, Kraft, Waller, all over Goddard. I would only, the only person I would consider is like Kelsey versus Goddard if you're making that question. Kelsey also has a very tough tight end matchup this week due to defense of the Detroit Lions. I might lean Goddard over Kelsey. That's probably the only guy I'm going to go Goddard for. But again, Ferguson, Kraft, Waller, all over him. And the Eagles defense are a great start against Jackson Dart. Moving on to the Giants. We have Jackson Dart. He's a sit like you're not ready to start him just yet. Maybe in a super flex. That's really it right now. Wanda Robinson is a sit for me this week. He is facing a very, very difficult Eagles offense specifically on the wide receiver room. So he's someone I'm not really excited to start this week. I'm sitting Darius Slayton with the injuries. Also pending that somebody I'm not interested in. Cam Scadaboo. Yeah, absolutely. Keep an eye on Tracy. If he does end up coming back, that will take some time away from Cam Scadaboo. But he has looked absolutely great. He's had so much upside with all the work he's getting. So if he is the only back easy start, if he's going to split time with Tracy, I still think Cam is a valid start this week for sure. Theo Johnson had a great week. You might have decided to pick him up of waiver wires by the time you listen to this episode. I don't think it's terrible. Just know that this is not a good matchup for Theo Johnson because again, the Eagles are very good against the tight end position. However, with all of the injuries in the wide receiver room, you could take your shot on Theo Johnson and hope for the best. He is a good friend with Jackson Dart. We saw them kind of like dance cheering in the end zone. They're connecting really well because they're close, so he feels comfortable with him. So I don't think it's a terrible matchup. It's just a risky start in my opinion. And the Giants defense is a sit, my friend. Exactly. [Angela Sims] (22:43 - 26:28) And then headed into Denver versus the Jets to start up with the Jets. I think Bo Nix is definitely becoming a better quarterback, right? As we go throughout this season, I think he he's a solid, a solid high end streaming quarterback. If you need one, if one of your quarterbacks is on by this week or you're having some quarterback issues, I think he's a great pickup there. Plus the Jess defense is struggling right now. So that's another plus for Bo Nix. At the running pack position, JK Dobbins is a start. He's back doing his thing. He's clearly the lead back for Denver. He had 20 carries, 79 yards. The Jets defenses or run defense is also just really not great, right? They're giving up 100 rushing yards and a touchdown per game. So that locks in JK Dobbins for you. I would sit RJ Harvey. I think JK Dobbins has taken over that role definitely. So RJ Harry's not really in my conversation as much anymore. Let me go to ride receivers. We go to Courtland Sutton. I think he is a start. I think he's going to be paired up against Sauce Gardner, but we still saw guys like George Pickens show some good things even with that matchup. I don't think that it's going to be such a shutdown. Like I think everybody jumps to with that defense. So I would start Courtland Sutton in a deeper league. I think that like Amanda said earlier about another player, that might be all you got. So you got to do it. I think he's a safe play. Marvin Mims, you're sitting nothing really there. The only guy I would kind of think about would be Troy Franklin. He's actually a flex consideration. I know I popped him into my lineup last week when I needed him, and he didn't really do anything fabulous and great, but he is there because he can do good things, right? He is definitely someone who can score touchdowns for you, can grab a touchdown. He and Bo Nicks have a great chemistry. I think that's really a really good thing to look at. And if Sutton's locked up with Gardner, if Troy Franklin's the man. Tight end. Evan Ingram really kind of stepped up and stepped out in week number five. I think he would be definitely a low end tight end one, a streamer for sure. So if he's available, I don't know how much, I don't know the percentage of what he's rostered on teams, but he could be available if you are in need of a, what's it called? Tight end. I'm not thinking. Someone like replacing, let's say we're going to talk about him later, but like a Juwan Johnson, who's starting to kind of fizzle out and Evan Ingram might take over that spot and be a little bit more dynamic for you there. Denver defense is a start. They're solid, especially against the Jets. Gotta start them. On the Jets side of the ball, I would say you're starting. You're starting Justin Fields. I cannot speak today. So many J's and J's and whatnot. Justin Fields. Yes, they're going against a tough matchup. You might be saying, if you go against the Denver defense, you don't play that player. No, that's not always the case. His legs give him that little bit of upside. I made 26 rushing yards in week five, 25.92 fantasy points. Yes, some of those fantasy points were garbage time fantasy points, but it doesn't matter. Nobody asks you. We both play golf. Nobody asks you how you got the score. They ask you what the score is. So I'm going to use that same mentality here. Moving into running back, Breece Hall is a must start even with the matchup. All forces go. Same with Garrett Wilson. You gotta start Garrett Wilson. Who else do they really have? That's one of those options. And then someone to kind of be on the lookout and possibly stash if you're in need of a tight end would be Mason Taylor. I think he's definitely someone to watch on the waiver wire for this week. He's been getting a lot of targets opposite of Garrett Wilson from Justin Fields. So someone to keep an eye out. And I am sitting the Jets defense. They might have been great at one point. They are not so great anymore. [Amanda Black] (26:28 - 30:38) Yeah, absolutely. Keep in mind too, Mason Taylor does have a really good matchup week seven and eight. So while this is a really hard matchup for him in week six, if your roster can manage it, you could get him, you could maybe sit him this week if you can, right? Fan into Joku, all guys that would start over Mason Taylor. And even in that case, Evan Ingram, because really good matchup. However, Mason Taylor is going to be a chef's kiss play for you seven and eight. So a little thing forward, ladies, let's do it together. Shall we? That'd be a great option there too. So I love it. All right, moving on to my next matchup here. I was going to touch my, my computer's touchscreen, but my, my other screen isn't, and I was going to go touch a ton of the town, but I can't do that. All right, let's go LA Rams versus the Baltimore Ravens. So for LA, I think Matt Stafford is a great streaming quarterback if your quarterbacks on a buy. He's not a guy I'm starting every week, but he thinks this is a good option. Only thing to consider here is if the Baltimore struggling, right? Their defense is struggling, their offense is struggling. So if the Rams go up in points far above the Baltimore Ravens earlier due to their run game, they're going to stop passing the ball aggressively. And Matt Stafford is really only relevant when he's passing the ball because he's a pocket passer. So you're only getting big point weeks, like his 25.56 when he's throwing tuddies, if they're up so high, they're not risking tuddies being thrown, right? So you're going to see a lot of Kyvern Williams and Blake Corum, if they get up really high, but I still think if you need him, he's a solid stream this week. Wide receiver, Puka Nakua. Yes. Devontae Adams. Yes. Kyron Williams. Yes. At this point, Blake Corum is not getting enough work to start him. So you're going to sit him down on the bench and there is no tight end relevance from the Rams right now. They're pretty easy. And I do love the Rams defense as a solid streaming option from a defensive standpoint against a struggling Baltimore Ravens offense. Even now, the only thing to consider is maybe not if Lamar Jackson is back week six, but if Lamar is out, yes, if Lamar is in, maybe we have some other options available. That's going to be a theme in the conversation when I talk about the Baltimore Ravens, because it really is dependent on if Lamar is going to be in or not. So we don't have a quarterback decision to make if Lamar's out. If Lamar's playing, you put Lamar Jackson in your lineup, duh. End of story. Zay Flowers is going to have that same consideration here. I consider him a start because the Rams are not great against the past. So the Rams defense is notorious to letting up big points to the wide receiver position. So I think Zay Flowers is a fine start, even if Cooper Rush ends up being a quarterback. I like him even more if Lamar Jackson plays, but I think he's a go start for you. In my opinion, any conversation like DeAndre Hopkins is not worth having. He's a sit. This is the most interesting conversation that I didn't expect to have this year, but to me, Derek Henry gets sat down if Lamar Jackson is not playing. And I know you're probably thinking, what the fuck are you talking about, Amanda? But like, Henry, I'd play Hall, Judkin, Scataboo, Stevenson, Fumble Fumble. Oh, no, all over Derek Henry, because Derek Henry's relevance has not been great when Lamar has not been out there. And specifically, if the Ravens get down bad, they're not going to risk Lamar Jackson or they're not going to risk their Henry. They're just going to pull him and he can't be involved in the run game. He's just not a pass catching running back. So it's just, he's a sit. If Lamar's out, if Lamar plays, Derek Henry plays. If Lamar's out, I'm sitting Lamar Jackson down. The only people, I'm sorry, Derek Henry, hello. The only people I'm starting Derek Henry over is like, I'm going to start Derek Henry over like a Kendra Miller or a potentially Swift because Swift hasn't looked great as a running back. And like, I would start Henry over Henderson, just because Henderson hasn't gotten enough of the ball, in my opinion, because for some God, whatever Troveon Henderson is doing that makes Mike Vrabel hate him so much. Like he must be fucking shit up at practice. Right? Because like, what is the reason your people fumbly fumbly in evil little things behind his back or making fun of him or what? What are you punishing him? Oh my God. I know. All right. Tight end. Mark Andrews. I think there are better options out there. But again, same conversation. If Lamar goes, I think Mark Andrews is a fine play, but there are far better options out there in my opinion this week. So likely Mark Andrews is a shit. Oh, and the defense. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay. [Angela Sims] (30:39 - 31:46) Glad you talked on that because that's important. Um, okay. And then going into Dallas versus Carolina, um, pretty obvious starts here. You got to start desk Dak Prescott doing great. Another great year, another great start in week number six or number five, going into week number six. Jamonta Williams, full on beast mode alert. I mean, every time I look at the TV, that man's doing some magical thing running through people. So definitely got to start Gervonta Williams going into this week. George Pickens is another start. Now you've got to kind of watch because we don't know the comeback of C.D. Lam. So if C.D. Lam is back, you got to start C.D. Lam, right? And I think George Pickens is still a good start. I think that he formed a good bond with that Prescott when that time when C.D. was out. So I think he's still an obviously start. Don't say C.D.'s in, you know, bench Pickens, but something to look out for. I'm not saying to pick this guy up, but I think it's something that we need to at least touch on. Okay, and you so nicely put how to say the name because we're struggling, right? So, but now I can't find that part of the notes. So Ryan Floynoy? [Amanda Black] (31:46 - 31:46) Flanoi. [Angela Sims] (31:47 - 31:48) Flanoi. Flanoi. [Amanda Black] (31:48 - 31:48) Flanoi. [Angela Sims] (31:48 - 33:39) Okay, he stepped in. Okay, there were some injured, you know, what I think Tolbert or Turpin or one of the T's was out, right? And C.D. was out, he really stepped in. But again, we talk about the shiny object syndrome, right? Don't go running to the waiver wire and saying I'm picking up Ryan Floynoy or whatever the heck his name is, right? He could be a bi-week filler, maybe you stash him, but I don't see, he's not gonna be out. I don't really see much of things happening with Tolbert and Turpin anyways. So, I mean, I think between the two of them for the last couple of weeks, they've only had like maybe one digit numbers. So he might maybe step in. And that's what I think the most, my most favorite thing about this season has been we've seen guys who maybe wouldn't have had a chance, have a chance and step up big. And then the tight end position, Jake Ferguson is a start. He is a beast at tight end, gotta get him in. And then I would be a little bit cautious with the Cowboys defense. They're looking a little bit better. They're looking better than they, than I think everyone thought they were going to be. I thought they were, everyone thought they were going to be big old booty hole. They did just face the Jets though. So not something to be really, really great about. So I would probably sit to the Cowboys defense. On the other side of the coin here, we got Bryce Young at quarterback for Carolina. I think he's a risky streamer. I would sit him, but if you really, really need someone, I think he kind of is starting to maybe open his eyes like a little baby, come here, into the world. He is a little baby face, baby face, Bryce Young. He has a picture on sleep, we're just so happy. He makes me happy when I look at him. I'm just like, he looks like a little boy. He's only for over 198 yards, two touchdowns. So he's not doing anything great. So, you know, if you need a starter, like if you have CJ strap for some reason and you need someone to fill your spot, Bryce Young could be the guy. [Amanda Black] (33:39 - 33:56) I will say Bryce Young is facing the number one worst defense against the quarterback in the Dallas Cowboys. So like, it would be clench the booty cheeks risk. But if you're like, fuck it, I'm already losing by like eons and you need to take a risk, maybe. I could pay off, correct. [Angela Sims] (33:57 - 34:57) Wide receiver, Tet Macmillan is a start. I know we've been a little bit disappointed. I've heard lots and lots of things that people being like, whoa, Tet should be better than this. I think he's being solid. He's solid, he's going to course start him. And then we got to watch out for the fiery, spicy, Rico Suave himself here, Rico Dattle. And Amanda said it earlier, it is a revenge game for him. So he's going into Dallas, kind of trying to shut up people saying, or shut up the Dallas saying, you dropped me, you traded me, you got rid of me. Hello, I'm back. So if Chuba hovers out, someone to really plug in is Dattle. Even like Amanda said, if Chuba's still in, I think they're still going to utilize Dattle from that big old, big old ass week five. Tommy Trumbull, I thought was going to be a great thing. I almost picked him as my spicy pig last week. I'm glad I didn't. But I would sit him, nothing really that great to talk about at the tight end position. Guys like Dalton Shultz or really even Mason Taylor or someone to look at over someone like Tommy Trumbull. And then I'm going to sit the Panthers defense. [Amanda Black] (34:58 - 34:59) Dalton Shultz is on a buy though. [Angela Sims] (34:59 - 35:03) So I'm sorry. Yes, just in general, I'm looking at him over him. [Amanda Black] (35:03 - 37:23) I'm thinking like Travis Kelsey, even though it'd be a little risky, I'd still go over him. If in like a Mark Andrews, I would go over him at this point. So yeah. All right, moving on to the Arizona Cardinals versus the Indianapolis Colts. Sorry. So we are watching the Cardinals go against a good Indianapolis Colts defense. They've been good. I think the Cardinals are going to continue to struggle this week. So I'm sitting Kyler Murray. Not only is there an injury risk there that we talked about earlier in this episode, I'm just also not going to trust him right now. He hasn't been connecting with his offense. He hasn't looked good either. He honestly just looks a little scared. And I just, I don't think he's a good start this week. So I'm going to go ahead and sit him down. In regards to Marvin Harrison Jr., you've got to start him. It's not really an option for you to sit him in my opinion. Again, at least he scored 13.8 points if he would have ended up getting into the end zone, which you know so many people were pissed because that didn't end up becoming a touchdown. And then did Michael Carter snipe it from him? Somebody sniped it from him, but nonetheless got that snipey tutty, but Marvin still looked good. So Michael Carter is a start. Just keep in mind that this isn't, the Colts are very good against the run. So like, I would taper your expectations and there's guys like Scataboo, Pollard, Dowdle, I'd all start over Michael Carter. So if you have the availability, cool, do that. But I would start Carter over someone like with who's splitting time like a Kendra Miller. So just taper your expectations. He's probably not going to have quite as good of a week, but yeah, DeMar Cotto, you can just go ahead and like forget about him. I don't even know if he's going to be on their team anymore. Like they might just be like, goodbye. Like he dropped that damn ball. Drop it like it's hot baby, goodbye. Trey McBride is still your positive upside tight end. I think sometimes people can get very nervous about some of these guys, but like think about Trey McBride in the same light you think about Brock Bowers. If Brock Bowers is healthier playing Brock Bowers, if Trey McBride is healthy, you're playing Trey McBride. So don't give up on him, keep starting him as well. And then again, the defense is not something that I would really consider looking at in my opinion against a thriving Daniel Jones. So moving on to the Indianapolis Colts and Danny Dimes, baby, you can go ahead and start his ass. He still looks great. Obviously at 212 passing yards, would have been a little bit more upside if you could have thrown a couple more touchdowns, but nonetheless, I'm happy with it. And Michael Pittman, great start. Watch his injury as well. Just something to keep in mind. So Michael Pittman Jr., Michael Pittman Jr., right? Or is it Michael Pittman? [Angela Sims] (37:23 - 37:24) Yeah, it's Junior. [Amanda Black] (37:25 - 38:50) Junior, okay. So Michael Pittman Jr. star, Jonathan Taylor, duh, motherfucker, duh. If you drafted him, I'm just, I'm jealous. I'm very, very jealous of you. He's great, okay, cool. Tyler Warren, same thing, auto start. And you're not even gonna think about starting any of these other like midline, like Theo Johnson, Mason Taylor. Don't you dare think about starting them over a Tyler Warren, I don't give a fine fuck about their one high 20 point week. Don't let that distract you. You're going with your consistent Tyler Warren, okay? The only player to have a conversation about is Josh Downs. He is on the field, right? He is having more relevance due to Alec Pierce being out with the concussion for several weeks now. So if Alec Pierce comes back, I'm probably not gonna start Josh Downs. But if you need a solid floor flex, if you got a lot of guys on by or injury and you're really desperate, Josh Downs might be out there on free agency, waivers, whatever. And so he could be a pickup and flex player this week. Just take your expectations. You're probably gonna look at a consistent like five to 10 points as his like floor. He doesn't have too, too much bang bust upside unless he gets in the end zone. And he did get in the end zone last week and he still only had 11 points. So just something to think about. I would start like a Shaheed over Downs. I would go Wando Robinson over Downs as well. A.J. Brown, obviously over Downs. The Wando Robinson over Downs. So just all of that kind of stuff to keep in mind there. And then I do love the Colts defense as a streaming option against the Cardinals as well. So I think that would be a fine stream for you if you need a guy this, or need a defense this week as well. Just one guy plays on the defense. [Angela Sims] (38:50 - 38:51) Just one guy. [Amanda Black] (38:51 - 38:53) Just one play down. One zap on the phone. [Angela Sims] (38:54 - 39:37) Oh God. All right. Let's move into Seattle Seahawks versus Jacksonville Jaguars. On the Seattle side, I think Sam Darnold. Is doing great things, right? Through for 341 yards. Plus out of 24 rushing yards, which I don't think old Sam Darnold could get some, his legs moving. Now he's not that old. I always get him mixed up with the other. Okay. This is a serious debate that we have to have a little minute. How many red-headed quarterbacks can you name? A lot, right? There's a lot of them. I mean, relevant right now. Yes. I mean, okay. I was having this debate with my husband and he's like, there's not that many. And then they kept popping up. [Amanda Black] (39:37 - 39:42) And I'm old and Carson Wentz. Is Sam Darnold red-headed? I think so. [Angela Sims] (39:43 - 39:43) Is he? [Amanda Black] (39:43 - 39:44) I just thought he had brown hair. [Angela Sims] (39:45 - 39:47) Maybe it's like when your husband, like the right light. [Amanda Black] (39:48 - 39:50) Yeah. Only red in a certain light. [Angela Sims] (39:50 - 40:37) Anyways, back to your just like, maybe not. When you like see something and then you always see it. That's what it is. Okay. So Sam Darnold is someone to definitely talk about impressive numbers. I would say that he's a legitimate streaming option for week number six. You would really go in with confidence with him. He takes deep shots. He's not afraid to go long, connect with those guys. Next up, JSN. Really not too much to talk about here. Here, he's a must start, right? He is the number one on that team. Cooper Cupp is a little bit more of a conversation. He didn't put up too bad on numbers in week five. But I think of him as like a break glass in case of emergency kind of guy, right? You don't need him. You don't need Cooper Cupp. At running back, oh man. Kenneth Walker should be the guy. Should be the lead back. [Amanda Black] (40:37 - 40:40) Just him in on the fucking goal line. [Angela Sims] (40:41 - 41:02) By God, exactly. Like what did he do that they're like, nope, bloop, bloop, and take it out. So he is a must start, but you have to kind of talk about Zach Charbonnet. But Zach Charbonnet is also kind of a touchdown or bust kind of dude, right? He's there getting those touchdowns. If you have him and you need him in a pinch, I guess you can help him in. But he's gonna give you some reliable points. [Amanda Black] (41:02 - 41:20) 10 rushing attempts for Kenneth Walker, 86 yards on the rush. Now we go to Sharps, nine rushing attempts, 36, bloop, bloop. Like you can't even bust through the line. And Kenny's over here like, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. Like dodging around guys, give my boy in the game, damn it. You can tell I have Kenneth Walker on my team, yes? [Angela Sims] (41:21 - 43:02) Yes, I agree. And then on tight end, A.J. Barner, he's doing some great things. He went seven for seven, 53 yards, two touchdowns last week, that's 24 fantasy football points. If you're desperate, I don't hate it. He could be a good stream. I know I have Dalton Schultz on my team. He's on a bye, like we mentioned earlier, A.J. Barner might flip right in there for me, we'll see. But defensively, Seattle has been holding it down. They're solid against the run, creating turnovers. They might be someone I look at. Might be a sneaky, good matchup for them. So for Jacksonville. And then on the Jacksonville side, we saw Trevor Lawrence do pretty great things last night, right, 221 yards, three total touchdowns. I think he is a great streaming option as well. I think he's showing his good stuff. At wide receiver, Ryan Thomas Jr. is starting to come, kind of show signs of life. Like, right, he's had four catches for 80 yards. I think he's a solid start for this week. Going into Travis Hunter, we're not starting Travis Hunter. I'm sitting Travis Hunter. If you really need a bye week filler, okay. I guess you can run the risk with them. Josh Jones, Shaheed, both over Hunter in my opinion. You're right, right. He just really isn't reliable. His usage is still just really too up and down for me personally. And for the backfield, Travis ETN is really the guy, right? He is, he's showing up. I thought they were going to kind of put Tooten, they were going to Tooten right in there, but they decided ETN is too good for that. So he also has that receiving upside, which makes him a start. And then Bretton Strange, we kind of talked about it, left early on in that game. So womp womp, someone to probably get rid of and replace. And then the Jacksonville defense, that can be a little bit hit or miss. I probably wouldn't run the risk with them. I probably sit them. [Amanda Black] (43:02 - 43:04) Yeah, they got hot this week. [Angela Sims] (43:04 - 43:04) They did. [Amanda Black] (43:05 - 46:48) Obviously that pick six off a Patty was a nice little upside here in Jacksonville, not terrible. I mean, it's an option. Seattle's looked good on offense. So it's kind of like a hit or miss, do what you feel right there. I agree. I agree. All right, LA Chargers versus the Miami Dolphins. Let's get into the Chargers. I know Herbert's been a letdown for y'all a couple of weeks in a row. I do like him this week. I think there are better streaming options out there. So I might even go Sam Darnold over Justin Herbert. I might go Stafford over Justin Herbert as well. I would go golf over Herbert this week. Fields over Herbert, though. Knicks over Herbert, Dak over Herbert, May over Herbert. I would go Herbert over Purdy. I would go Herbert over Kyler for sure. This is an easier matchup defensively for Herbert. Again, like Miami's defense has been struggling. So this is a good matchup for the passing game. The only issue is Justin Herbert's O-line is massively injured and struggling big time. So what we're currently worrying about is he's not able to get time to have those deep pass balls. So he's having to check down, which we saw happen with loud McConkie, right? We saw loud McConkie get more involved because Justin Herbert's rushed. She has to get rid of the motherfucking ball more. However, the reason that I like Justin Herbert is because he's going to have to pass more with Omar and Hampton out and now on IR. So it's really just like a hit or miss. It's a very, very risky stream start if you want to go that direction. However, there's other guys who are not risky starts. Loud McConkie start him this week. Hampton is out. He's going to have to be involved more in the short pass game. And again, because of the O-line issues for Herbert, loud McConkie is great. Keenan Allen still great. Keenan Allen, loud McConkie share the same rule. Shorter passes. So those two guys are great starts. Again, for everything I already mentioned, something to keep in mind though, deep threat is now at risk. Quentin Johnston, his relevance is now going to be threatened due to the O-line issues. Justin Herbert's not getting enough time to pass, meaning those deep threat balls that Quentin Johnston, that's his role, right? He doesn't play short game. He plays long game. He's now going to be threatened by that. So this is a guy I'm probably going to start to think about maybe sitting down. And again, Keenan Allen, loud McConkie would come above him just due to what they're dealing with on that side of the football. Omar and Hampton on IR. I'm really not going to look at Kamani Vidal or Hassan Haskins. Unless you're like absolutely desperate, these are guys that like I would like to see a little bit from before I even attempt to start them. Could they potentially be somebody picking free agency if they don't go on waivers? And you're like, fuck it, no risk. I got rid of Hampton, I'll pick this guy up and let's see what happens in week six. Sure, go for it. I'm not going to start them in week six though. And there's really no fantasy tight end relevance at this time. Moving on to the Miami Dolphins. So again, Tua Tsangabailoa looked fine. He's still not someone I'm super excited about streaming because I worry about the consistency of him being able to perform like that. So I'm probably going to sit him. The Chargers defense isn't terrible either. So probably not someone I'm super excited about starting in week number six. Jalen Waddle though, yeah, I love seeing getting targeted this much. However, Jalen Waddle is kind of like a glass. Every time he goes down, you are kind of holding your breath praying that he is not injured. Like every time he gets a normal hit, he like gets helped off the field and I'm like, good God, but then he comes back. So I think Jalen Waddle is a great start. Just like, hold your breath with me that he doesn't get hurt. Malik Washington is not a start for me at this point. He is a full sit, so I wouldn't even think about that. HN, easy, yeah. Ollie Gordon, no. Darren Waller, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Absolutely, yes. You're putting him above Johnson. You're putting him above Andrews. You're putting him above Kelsey this week. He is an integral part of that offense with Tyree Kill going out. That's what you kind of want to think about with tight ends is, are they really an integral part of the offense or not? And Darren Waller is, he's going to need to continue to be involved so we love him. Miami defense is not a streaming option. [Angela Sims] (46:49 - 49:53) No, and then our favorite, one of our favorite games of the week, Cleveland versus Pittsburgh. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And Amanda gets to go to this game. I'm gonna be at the game. I'm gonna be at the game. Yes. But anyways, so this is our favorite. So if you are on our Patreon, we are going to drop some photos of us in our vintage stealer here. Vintage stealers, yeah. We, Angela and we, Amanda, I think it's gonna be a fun look at. So check that out if you are part of our Patreon. But let's start with the Cleveland Browns. Dylan Gabriel, I don't think looked bad stepping in as that rookie quarterback. Two touchdowns, 190 yards. Just not a guy that you're starting. You're clearly sitting him, but you could put him on your watch list if you really need to, but I probably wouldn't. You're sitting Jerry Judy. You are sitting Isaiah Bond who is I think a good stash player. I know I have him stashed on my bench possibly for later in the season, but nobody else has really given me good hopes for the Cleveland offense. You're gonna start quench on Judkins. Really no question there. He is, like Amanda said, the light on the Cleveland Browns. Poopy, poopy, poopy, whole team. And then the fun part is the tight ends. And I was so excited to finally see my man, David Najoku, do his David Najoku things. He was jumping over people. He was flipping around. He was doing great. And also Harold Fannin, I think they are both great. Steelers are terrible against the tight ends. So something to think about. Both Najoku and Fannin are both startable in this week. And of course, you have to start the Cleveland defense. They are superb. They are great. They are shutting down the run and holding opponents to well under 100 yards rushing. Moving into the Pittsburgh Steelers, Aaron Rodgers is a sit. We're not going with Aaron Rodgers. Not doing terrible things, but don't really think that he's very fantasy relevant at this point. DK Madcalf is definitely a start for me. Great receiver there. Jalen Warren's where we kind of have a little discussion. We're watching his injury. It was kind of good that they had that bye week last week to maybe give a little bit more recovery time, but we're still on the lookout for is he going to be back in week six or not? So if he is and you're in a 12 team league, that's probably the only option you got. You have Jalen Warren, said Waddle, you got to put him in. But you got to taper your expectations just a little bit. The Browns run defense is elite. So there's something to think. Yes, Warren kind of has that upside of a receiving back, but with the injury, how much is that going to happen? We're not really sure. Kenneth Gainwell probably would not sit him in this particular matchup or probably would not start him. I would sit him in this particular matchup, even if Warren can't go, matchup is a little too brutal for him. We're not even going to talk about Johnny Smith, really no relevance there. And the Steelers defense, I don't know. I mean, going up against the rookie quarterback, I think that's a good thing, right? Still finding itself, it's kind of coming alive again. I would love to see my imaginary husband. That's my dream bubble going up. TJ Watt, just from Dylan Gabriel, just. [Amanda Black] (49:54 - 49:57) I'm calling TJ Watt at least three sacks. Let's go. [Angela Sims] (49:57 - 50:03) Welcome to the NFL, Dylan Gabriel. I'm going to go over on that. I'm going to go over on that. [Amanda Black] (50:03 - 50:13) I love it. All right, so that's going to wrap up. Guys, I think the Steelers defense is a clear stream this week. Let's see what Dylan Gabriel is really made of, baby. Yeah, yeah. [Angela Sims] (50:13 - 50:17) So I lost one little rivalry game there. [Amanda Black] (50:17 - 52:25) Rivalry game of the week, baby. All right, San Fran versus Tampa. Let's get into San Fran. Matt Jones is not a conversation. Monitor Brock Purdy's health. If Brock Purdy goes, maybe a streaming quarterback option, I'd still think I'd play guys over him. I always get worried about playing a guy right back off of injury, worried about re-aggravating, exiting the game early. So taper expectations there. Again, Stafford, Caleb Williams, May, all over Purdy in my opinion here. Even maybe Trevor Lawrence over Purdy. If you're looking for someone like a little bit out there to start over Purdy, that would be an option there too. Kendrick Bourne. He is only going to be a startable player if Pearsall and or Jennings is out. If one of those two guys is out, I think Kendrick Bourne's a great play here. If both of those guys are back, I'm not gonna start Kendrick Bourne. He's not gonna be used. He's basically a very big band-aid. And we just don't know, you gotta monitor health. If those guys are out, go ahead and start him. If one of those guys are out, go ahead and start him. If both guys are playing, I wouldn't even worry about it. If Ricky Pearsall or Jawan Jennings play, you can go ahead and start both of those guys as well. DeMarcus Robinson is a set wide receiver from the 49ers. No, CMC, get them in your lineup. We'd love to see it. My spicy star of the week, Jake Tonjis. You came in clutch, baby boy. You crushed the game. I'll be honest. I was having a bunch of conversations with my husband when we were going over game notes and predictions and all this kind of stuff. And I was like, you know what? Jake Tonjis is a name that keeps coming up to me. And he's like, I think that's a really good spicy star of the week. So we'll give him a little credits. We were having a lot of banter between who we should make the spicy star of the week. And he's like, I like it too. And I was like, all right, fuck it, let's go. And I think he's another great play this week as well. Until Kittle's out, you can roll it back on my boy Jake Tonjis as much as you'd like. Streaming the defense is not an option versus Tampa Bay in my opinion. Moving over to Tampa Bay, Baker, Baker Mayfield, the bulldog Baker Mayfield himself. You just keep on going ahead and getting him your lineup. I know we've all been nervous about injuries and all this kind of shit. You know, Baker said, hold my beer. I got it, guys. Don't worry about it. He's a beast. We'd love to see it. I'm Becca Buca, the man that you are. I love you. He's doing so great. Love to see him. [Angela Sims] (52:25 - 52:28) He's the beat of the week every single week. Every single week. [Amanda Black] (52:28 - 53:10) 31 fantasy points. I love you to death. Keep doing it. Keep putting him in. You can go ahead and sit Chris Godwin though. I just don't think he's quite there yet. I don't think he's fully healthy yet either. So he's not someone I'm excited about. I'm not excited about Sterling Sheppard. I'm going to sit him down. Rashad White, absolutely. Looks like Bucky's going to be out for a while. So he's an easy start. And the conversation of Kate Otten, he now does become more relevant in their offense. So I do like Kate Otten this week. I would go Tanges over Otten, but I would go Otten over Andrews, specifically if Lamar Jackson does not play. However, I would play both Cleveland tight ends over Kate Otten. So just some contextual stuff to keep in mind. And the Tampa Bay defense, I mean, they could be a potential stream this week. I might pass on them, but if you're desperate, they could be out there. I think there's better options out there though. [Angela Sims] (53:10 - 55:59) All right, moving into New England, New Orleans. On the New England side, you're going to start Drake May. Drake May has been doing great things. He, yes, he only put up 12 fantasy points, fantasy football points in week five, but I'm starting him because of his rushing floor. You know, if you're streaming a quarterback, someone to look at, if you need a quarterback. Stavon Diggs, I think is a must start. I think he's kind of showing us that he is that dude, right? Target hog, awesome revenge game that he had in week number five. I think he's going to keep continuing that as we go through the season. I'm kind of forgetting about K-Shawn Booty, just sitting him, nothing really fabulous and fantastic there, except his name. And then in the backfield, we got some shuffling around, right? So Antonio Gibson is out with a season ending ACL injury. So that means that now we only have a two-back committee, right? But for some, like Amanda said, for God's forsaken reason, Mike Vrabel loves Raimondo Stevenson and something is not right with Trayvon Henderson, but that does kind of help both of them in a little tiny bit of a way, right? So Stevenson might be that main back. Henderson's going to step in as that secondary back as well. So I would probably start Stevenson, sit Henderson in this situation. And then a tight end. Hunter Henry, it should be a start, right? Another great game, two catches, 87 yards. He's reliable, especially in the end zone. Good matchup this week for him. And then at the defense, I wouldn't sleep on the Patriots defense. I think they're startable. They're always startable, I think. They've been holding strong across the board. So I would start them if you are looking for a defense or you have them as your defense. And then on the other side of the ball, New Orleans Saints. Spencer Rattler is a clear set. We're not really trusting him yet. And the receiving room, Chris Olave is definitely a start. His volume keeps him solid. He is great against the New England secondary. Even though they are strong, he's going to be great against them. I think he gets the volume that deserves it. Rashid Shahid's kind of that boomer bust. We saw the boom last week, right? Are we going to see the bust this week with harder defense? We will see. And then going into running backs. Oh boy, okay. So I have Alvin Kamara and I want Alvin Kamara to do great Alvin Kamara things. But he's just hasn't been lighten it up yet, right? We want to see him light it up. And he's kind of now kind of sharing those touches with Kendra Miller in the backfield. I think Kamara is still a start. I think Kendra Miller, if you need him, if you are in a desperate situation like Amanda was last week, I think he is a fine start as well. And then the tight end situation. You know, Juwan Johnson isn't doing great things like he was. He was on fire for the first couple weeks of the season. I would sit him now. He's kind of over. He fizzled out. And then we have talk about Taysom Hill. We have talk about Foster Moreau. Don't start either of them. [Amanda Black] (56:00 - 56:00) No. [Angela Sims] (56:00 - 56:01) Do not trust him. [Amanda Black] (56:01 - 57:56) I've seen way too many questions of like, shit, are we picking up? We're not picking up Taysom Hill. You are never going to predict when it's his week. And you don't want to try because you could goose it. You could get goose egg by him. You don't, he's going to have a bad-ass fantasy week. Let it go. Let it live and be lived, okay? It's going to be one done for him. Yeah, but it probably is time for you guys to move on from Juwan Johnson. He served a purpose, but there's better options out there at this point. All right, let's move on to the next matchup here. Let's go Cincinnati versus Green Bay. All right, welcome to quarterback Joe Flacco, but you're not starting. Okay, cool. Jamar Chase, you're not sitting him. You're not going to be able to. Your roster doesn't allow it, so you can go ahead and give him the start. Joe Flacco, in my opinion, does elevate T. Higgins slightly. It gives me a little bit more confidence, let's say. We were all saved, but the T. Higgins touched down. I literally was cheering, so I was very happy about it. I still think there's other guys out there. Like, I'm not trying to start T. Higgins unless I have to start T. Higgins. So like, if your roster can allow you to sit him, I would suggest it. Because again, he's just not as reliable as he once was due to the issues with the quarterback room. Chase Brown, I don't really want to start him against the Green Bay defense. The Green Bay defense is great. I really don't want to start Chase Brown. I would sit him this week. I would even go as far as saying I would probably take a flyer on like Kendra Miller over Chase Brown. I am heavily worried about his effectiveness. He hasn't been effective against mediocre defenses. So, cool. Not a really tight end streaming option there, in my opinion, either. In regards to the Green Bay Packers coming off of a bye week, Jordan Love, I love this week. Give him the start. I think he's going to be a great option. I think dubs is also a great option. I would go dubs over Higgins. Dubs over Golden, also a Green Bay receiver. Dubs over Coleman. Dubs over Shakir. So like, keep all of that in mind. I would definitely get- I have to say it. You said dubs are dobs. Oh, I could be totally dobs. I've heard dobs a lot. I've heard dobs a lot. [Angela Sims] (57:57 - 57:59) Ruby was like, uh-oh. Nubby dogs. [Amanda Black] (57:59 - 58:45) Whoever you are, Romeo, you give- I can give him the start. I would sit Golden. He's such a situational start or a flex, simply just because he's very boomer bust. He has a very, very, very, very, very low floor. Like, he could goose egg you. He has a high ceiling because he could get in the end zone multiple times. To me, he does become a sit, unless you're desperate, but I would go, like, Shaheed over Golden, in my opinion. I might go Golden over Downs. If you're losing, like, if you're going to lose your week and you're like, I need a guy to bust out, Golden could be the guy that busts out. But I wouldn't start him unless I asked him in desperate for a win and I need to take a flyer. I'm absolutely starting Josh Jacobs and I'm absolutely starting Tucker Kraft. Don't even deny it. Start the defense, too. Go in there and absolutely let the Green Bay rail in the Cincinnati Bengals. Okay, okay, cool. We love to see it. [Angela Sims] (58:45 - 59:57) Chicago Bears, Washington Commanders, next matchup. For Chicago, Caleb Williams is a must-start. He is doing great things. He is a must-start here as a quarterback. Wide receiver room, Romeo Dunesay, again, must-start, has elevated himself into that wide receiver run role. Now, DJ Moore, in my opinion, is a little bit more of a situational player, situational start only. If you compare him to other match-ups like McMillan, you're starting McMillan over Moore, right? He's in the same tier. Xavier Worthy, I would start over DJ Moore, right? A little bit more reliable. More over Ridley. I would probably go more over Ridley for sure, but Calvin Ridley had a little bit of a, like, oh, a moment. So that might be a little bit shaky over there, but not really a plug-and-play player. And then at running back, DeAndre Swift, maybe Borderline Flex, he hasn't been doing great things, but he has the passing game upside, so that kind of keeps him a little bit more relevant. Compare him to guys like Breeze Hall, or David Montgomery, or even Trayvon Henderson, I would probably say those are a little bit better options, maybe, than DeAndre Swift. And then tight ends are really not relevant in the Bears for the Bears. And then Chicago's defense, they have a defense? Oh, I didn't know they had a defense. Did they? Oh, got it. [Amanda Black] (59:57 - 59:58) They don't run for anyone. [Angela Sims] (59:58 - 1:00:15) We do not start them. Washington Commanders, Jayden Daniels is a must-start. I think he's gonna be even healthier going into week number six, which is even going to be better for him. He ran 39 yards with that big old cast on his leg, or big old thing on his leg. So round it up, baby. [Amanda Black] (1:00:15 - 1:00:15) He's a monster. [Angela Sims] (1:00:16 - 1:01:11) Yes. As wide receivers, we're watching Terry McLaurin's status. If he's back, he is a start. If not, obviously you're sitting him, but Deebo Samuel has been so reliable. I think he is a must-start as well. Even if McLaurin were in, Deebo is still a start. Consistent for me and Deebo Samuel. Running backs, we know Bill is the man, right? Bill is the start. We were kind of thinking in the past of that committee running back situation. So forget about guys like Chris Rodriguez. Forget about guys like Jeremy McNichols. And then the tight end. Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Zacharz, blah, blah, blah, womp, womp, womp. Even though they're going up against the Chicago Bears defense, I still would sit him. Big old goosey goose, goose goose you, baby. Do not gamble there with Zacharz. We were talking highly of Zacharz, but womp, womp. Is that, and then Washington's defense. Forgot about Washington's defense. I would also sit them. Not really offering a lot of fantasy upside this week. I'd leave them on the bench. [Amanda Black] (1:01:11 - 1:03:52) I agree. All right. Detroit Lions versus a Kansas City Chiefs should be a fun matchup here as well. Jared Goff is a fine start this week. I would go golf over Murray personally. I would play Mahomes over Goffs though. So just some things to consider there. But I think this is a fine start to the week. It is going to be a difficult matchup for both of these quarterbacks though. Ammon Rossette Brown is an easy start. So I wouldn't even consider that. I would sit Jamison Williams though. He's very risky at this point. I'd like to see him perform a little bit. And again, Kansas City is good against the wide receiver. So I'm not really going to take my flyer on Jamison Williams this week. Monty and Gibbs are both starts this week. Gibbs is a no brainer. I think Monty is a fine stream this week again as well. So I'm not overly worried about either of those guys. ETN did fine against Kansas City and his run game was decent. So I think Monty and Gibbs are both fair there. I would sit LaPorta down this week. I know he's coming off of a really good week but the Kansas City Chiefs is the third best defense against the tight end. We've got a way that into our considerations here. So I'm not excited about LaPorta this week. And again, I'm excited about the Lions defense. So I would consider them someone to start even against Kansas City, right? I think they can add a lot of pressure down patch Mahomes throat causing me to get the ball out earlier maybe causing some turnover. So I think they're a fine streaming defensive option. Over on the Kansas City side of the football we got Patrick Mahomes clear start for me. He's been performing very, very well. So keep giving him the go. Xavier Worthy if he plays, yes just keep monitoring his health. He got banged up again this week. So it's just always going to be something you're worried about. But if he plays, yes, I think he's a great start. I'm sitting Hollywood Brown. I'm not giving him the go. Tyquan Thornton, huge boomer bust dude. So like, again, this is not someone I'm eager to start because we're just never going to know if that consistency is going to be alive or not. So I'm going to sit him, but just keep your eye on him. Cause I don't think he's someone that we should stop mentioning altogether in my opinion. Pacheco, the Lions are really good against the running back. So I'm not excited to start Pacheco this week. I would sit him down. If I'm going to give a guy a go I might take a shot on Kyrie, Kyrie, Kyrie Hunt. I think he's a solid option. Like I said, the Lions are good against the run but I like the power back situation of Hunt. So I think if you need it, also his goal line touches are there. So he's been getting the goal line touches. So again, if you're desperate in the running back room you just pray they put Kyrie Hunt and just score some touchdowns. Again, Kelsey, risky start this week. He Lions are really good against the tight end position. Like I said, the both defenses are very good. So this is going to be a risky start if you do it. I would probably opt to sit him week six. Ferguson, Fannin, Nijoku, Tonjis, Kraft all would come before Kelsey this week just to keep that in mind. And I'm not overly eager to start the Kansas City Chiefs defense against the very explosive Lions offense. So probably not an option for me this week. [Angela Sims] (1:03:53 - 1:05:30) Okay, my last matchup here is Atlanta Falcons, Buffalo Bills starting on the Atlanta side. Michael Penix Jr. maybe had a little bit of a flash of hope there in week number four because they were on by last week but I would still sit him. Buffalo has a top pass defense. Nothing really good is going to come out of that in my opinion. Wide receivers, you're starting Drake, London. Yes, there's that tough matchup but he's definitely the wide receiver one play. He is, he's reliable, right? Darnell Mooney's returning in week number six after injury. He might be a deep threat depending on what your roster needs. You might see him as a possible flex but nothing really to write home about there. Bijon Robinson is a must start all day, every day. Why not? Buffalo is really not the greatest against the run so he should even thrive even more. Kyle Pittypitz, I'm going to say is a start. Yes, their pass coverage is solid but I'm still starting Pitts here. Is the top target for Elena's offense along with Drake, London. So in the red zone, I think Pitts thrives so he's going to do good things. Atlanta defense, again, not really great for fantasy here. Run defense is poor, might be exploited by the Buffalo Bills rushing attack and James Cook. So putting them on the bench. On the Buffalo Bills side, really don't have to even talk about Josh Allen. You were starting Josh Allen. In the wide receiver room, things get a little bit iffy here. So between Khalil Shakir and Keon Coleman, I'm going Khalil Shakir as my start for sure. He's a very solid wide receiver three. He can be in that flex position for you. He's a reliable for PPR leagues. Keon Coleman's a little bit more volatile here, right? He's limited by passing yards. Hasn't been doing that much stuff. He did have a touchdown in week number five. That is what got him those points in my opinion. [Amanda Black] (1:05:30 - 1:05:34) Yeah, also he was like suspended from the first half of the games. [Angela Sims] (1:05:34 - 1:05:35) Okay, yes. [Amanda Black] (1:05:35 - 1:05:36) And like they didn't tell us why. [Angela Sims] (1:05:37 - 1:05:46) So the same thing with Jordan Addison. Like what are we doing? Well, he missed a right walkthrough but like really guys, again, multi-million dollar players. [Amanda Black] (1:05:47 - 1:05:49) Another fucking job. Yes, okay. It's your job. [Angela Sims] (1:05:49 - 1:06:15) I don't not come to my job every day. Running back James Cook, automatic start. He's going to bounce back. Don't be worried about that different production in week number five. Do not worry at all. And then tight end Dalton Kincaid is also a must start for you. He is a safe tight end option there. Buffalo builds defense. I'm going to start them. They're elite overall. They might be a little bit limited in fantasy football points, but they're going to kind of, I think, shine in this week matchup. [Amanda Black] (1:06:15 - 1:10:08) All right, last matchup we have the Tennessee Titans versus the Las Vegas Raiders. So obviously we saw the Tennessee Titans get their first win, which congrats to them. I, like I already said, hate to see a team go 0 and 5. Cam Ward though, don't even, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't worry about it. Tony Pollard, I think he's a fine stream. His consistency has been a little bit down. So he's someone I'm a touch worried about. And Taji Spears is set to make even more of an impact this week. We saw four carries through 14 yards last week in week five. I'm going to see that uptick in week number six. So I'm not extremely hot on Pollard. I might consider starting to think about other options over him and just getting your roster prepared for potentially lack of relevance as the season progresses. So just something to keep in mind there as well. In regards to the wide receiver room for the Tennessee Titans, we finally, spicy start of the week from week four, Calvin Ridley, who was absolute booty hole, ended up making an appearance in week number five. Does he listen to the podcast? Probably not. But if you don't, Calvin, that's cool. Because he decided to come out and show up. Five out of 10 or five receptions, 131 yards, 18 fantasy points, no touchdowns. My God, Calvin. Do I think this matchup is particularly terrible for him? No, I'm just a little bit worried. Will he continue that or not? I'd like to see another week of this before I make any bets there. I'm not going to consider Tyler Lockett at this point. Ellic Iomanner, he just had a down week. I don't think he's going to have a consistent downtime, but he's probably someone that I'm not overly excited about starting. Just again, due to the volatile part of their offense, it's hard to really give any of these guys a consistent, full-chested start. And I would definitely think any wide receiver won over Ellic Iomanner. So yes, I would even think T Higgins over Ellic Iomanner right now, just until I see a little bit more consistency from their offense there too. In regards to tight end positions from the Tennessee Titans, I'm not looking at anything there. I'm also not overly eager about the Tennessee Titans. Oh no, I am overly eager about the Tennessee Titans defense because they're going up. Geno pick interception, man Smith himself, okay? So I am actually excited about the Tennessee Titans defense because Geno Smith has thrown nine interceptions this season thus far. Nine, nine, it's week six guys. That's absolutely asinine. So I like the Tennessee Titans this week in regards to a defensive stream. Moving on to the Vegas Raiders, we have Geno Smith, no. Easy, right? We don't even think about it because like, no, that's a weird start. We're not doing that. Moving over to Ash and Genty. Yes, absolutely. He didn't get in the end zone this week. He still scored 15.9 points. They're going to have to keep using him because Geno Smith cannot throw the football. Or the wide receiver room here. We've got Trey Tucker or Jacoby Myers. Those are going to be the only two guys I really even have a conversation about. I'm going to lean Myers over Tucker just because technically Myers is the wide receiver one. Tucker is not the wide receiver one. So like we should see consistent targets for Jacoby Myers as opposed to Trey Tucker. It just Trey Tucker outscored Jacoby Myers this week. I'd still take the bet on Myers before Tucker, but I'm also not super duper excited about their wide receiver offensive room. Again, they're facing the Tennessee Titans who haven't been like outstanding on defense, but Geno Smith is going to throw picks. So if I had to lean a guy, I'd go Myers over Tucker, but I'm probably not excited to score either of them. And then again, tight end room, really no one to talk about in the world of tight ends. And I couldn't even say this one tight ends name. Okey, Gwa bomb. Yeah, it's bad. Gwa bomb. Couldn't even say it. And then I'm also not excited about the Raiders defense. I know they're facing the Tennessee Titans and like usually I'm like any team facing the Tennessee Titans stream their defense. I'm probably going to pass on that this week. Let's just go ahead and like let this week go. I would start the Tennessee Titans defense though. Not the Las Vegas Raiders defense. Okay, okay, cool. So that is our relevance on all of our week six match ups, baby. That is it. Now I think our favorite part of the show, let's do some sweet and spicy starts of the week and kick us off with your sweet start of the week. [Angela Sims] (1:10:08 - 1:10:28) My sweet start of the week is my good old Bill Kroszky Merritt. He is finally feeling like a plug and play player, right? He's going against Chicago, who's the fifth easiest against the run. And he has that easy matchup is going to just be even sweeter for Bill. So Bill Kroszky Merritt, my sweet start of the week. I love it. [Amanda Black] (1:10:28 - 1:10:58) My sweet starts of the week because I think they're one of the same. Fannin and Najoku Herafina Jr., David Najoku, both sweet starts of the week facing a Pittsburgh defense who is terrible against the tight end position. We saw Hunter Henry, absolutely eat them up. And I have a feeling that they are going to be doing the same. So love them as a sweet start of the week and easy stream for you in the tight end position. Finally, we can rely on something from the Cleveland Browns offense, my friends. All right, how about your spicy start of the week? Who are we going with? [Angela Sims] (1:10:59 - 1:11:43) My spicy start of the week is Trey Tucker. So we just had a conversation about those receivers on the Las Vegas Raiders. He could be a short-term player if you need it, but he also is a very boom or bust player, right? So this is a very, very spicy one, like Ghost Pepper, Habanero, hot, hot, hot. Okay, we've seen his flashy side. I think it's possible to do it again. Yes, Gino has been underwhelming, throwing lots of picks, but maybe first the Titans, who maybe are riding a little high on like, we won, look at us, we have won one win. Maybe they take them down a notch and say, no, you still aren't good. So that's my thought. That's our thought process there. That's how I think through most things. [Amanda Black] (1:11:43 - 1:13:24) I love it, I love it. All right, my spicy start of the week is Troy Franklin with the Denver Broncos. We have seen Sauce Gardner shut down his shadowed receiver every single week. The Pickens got absolutely no work last week, except the rogue touchdown he scored. So Sauce Gardner has owned who he shadowing and guess who he's shadowing? Cortland Sutton himself. I've never been hot on Marvin Mims, but I sure do love my boy Troy. So Troy Franklin is my spicy start of the week. Take a flyer on him, get paid off big time. Hopefully that's what we'll be hoping for. He's a risky flex, but I think it'll pay off big if you got enough, I don't know, gizmo to give a go. Let's say, I like it, I like it. All right guys, well that's all we got for you for episode 10 and week six of fantasy football. We love you, we thank you. As always some housekeeping. If you're not on our Patreon, what are you doing? Join our Patreon below for specific rosters that start decisions, waiver wire, exclusive trade information. Everything you need gets posted in the Patreon. $5 a month to be a member. And we will be running our founding members' price for like a couple more weeks. 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