Week-8 Fantasy Debrief with Chace Daskalos & Joe Pisapia

Thank you. Welcome in, everybody, to NFL Fantasy. This is Chasing the Data with me, Joey P., Joe P. Zappia, and, of course, Chase Daskalos, the man behind the numbers. And today we're going to recap everything that went down in Week 8 in the NFL and look ahead to Week 9. So subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Chase, certainly a strange week of football. I think that's a great way to describe it. We had Baker Mayfield making some weird history there. I didn't know it was possible to play a game in the NFL without even accidentally completing a pass.

I'm pretty old at this point, and it's never happened in my lifetime. What'd you make of that statistical anomaly going into our show today?

I've never seen anything like that before in my life. And then it's funny, too, when you look back on what the Buccaneers did in Week 7 against the Panthers, too. They're winning these games, and Baker Mayfield is just having to hand the ball off. That's all he's got to do.

Hey, I'll take that paycheck and hand the ball off. That works for me. I mean, that's a pretty good job if you can get it. So again, we're going to go through all the games. Let's start here, dialing things all the way back to Thursday night football. We sort of touched on this game last week a bit and our expectations with the Packers offensive line having a lot of issues and obviously They showed up again. The inefficiencies of Josh Jacobs, despite the fact that he did have two touchdowns, still not good numbers in terms of what we're looking for for yards per carry and what that portends to going down in the future. Now, the good news is they were able to continue to air it out. Obviously, some great stuff there from Jordan Love

throwing for 288. You had Christian Watson making his, well, professional wrestling-esque return from the ambulance, which was just awesome. I just heard the words of Jim Ross. My goodness, my goodness, what's happening? But Josh Jacobs, 21 carries for 39 yards. He saved the day with two touchdowns, one receiving, one rushing. So where do we sit here as we look at the continued inefficiencies of this run game, no matter who is toting the rock, plus all some of the extra allegations and other sort of, you know, smoke that surrounds the Josh Jacobs situation for fantasy.

So in this game, he turns 27 touches into just 52 yards. You mentioned the kind of inefficiency here. He's at 2.3 yards per carry this season. 42% of his fantasy points from touchdowns. It has been really, really tough on the ground for Green Bay. He's been contacted behind the line of scrimmage on 53% of his carries so far this year. He has negative five rushing yards before contact this season and 80 after contact. So just like when you just watch them, you're like, there's nowhere to go.

And then the numbers obviously agree with that. So the run blocking continues to be a major issue. This was a Panthers rush defense too that had been allowing a ton of fantasy points. on the ground so pretty concerning there for green bay on the ground but another 13.3 receiving fantasy points for josh jacobs that's the fourth most in the game in his career that is coming off a career high 16.5 in his first game of the season last week the packers are at a plus 3.3 pass rate over expected the last two weeks with josh jacobs that was at plus one percent weeks one through six With no Josh Jacobs. I thought that was an incredibly interesting data point because you would assume maybe, obviously the run blocking hasn't been good, but I, you know,

just kind of like watching the games, thought maybe you could attribute some of the lack of rushing efficiency to the guys that were receiving those handoffs and that maybe Josh Jacobs would kind of be like a spark to that. Maybe the Packers would be able to run the ball more. That is not what we're seeing. They're actually throwing the ball more often than expected with Josh Jacobs back in the lineup.

Now, for that point you made also, the Panthers have given up the ninth most rushing yards on the year, 985. So already through the season here to this date. Let's talk about those Panthers, too, on the flip side and look at their offensive line, which continues to have issues, which if you're going to point to some of the last few weeks of the disappointing productivity of Bryce Young and this offense as a whole, I think it's kind of traced back to the pressure that with all the injuries in the offensive line is really starting to show some holes.

Yeah, that's spot on. So we're looking at back-to-back weeks for the Panthers, looking a little bit out of sorts. They're dealing with a ton of injuries on the offensive line. The offensive line is not playing good. They're now up to six different unique offensive line combinations so far this season that they've had to trot out there. That's tied for the fifth most in the NFL. So they're kind of revolving door at offensive line there. Bryce Young, 42% pressure rate so far this season, as you mentioned. That's the issue. It's the fifth highest in the NFL. The two main offensive line combinations that they used in week eight against the Packers, those two units have now allowed a 48% pressure rate and a 55% pressure rate so

far this year. It is a problem. You can see it reflected in Bryce Young's fantasy points production as well. Bryce Young in weeks one through four, 22.7 fantasy points per game. Bryce Young the last three weeks, 11.9. So you're basically getting half of the production from Bryce Young that you did across weeks one through four. But Chuba Hubbard, 24.9 PPR points here. He has double digit points in every single game so far this season. He has 15 plus in five of seven games. He's now up to 140 touches so far this season. That's the 13th most among running backs. So you get this massive workload with him.

I think he is a locked in, back in, probably RB1, maybe RB2, kind of the rest of the way. So he's kind of like the bright spot here. I did have a sell stance on Bryce Young, Tett, and Jalen Coker a few weeks ago. I still hold true to that. I don't know. Obviously, you're kind of selling lower at this point, but Bengals-Steelers-Seahawks fantasy playoff schedule for the Panthers as well, that is not what you want to see, especially the Seahawks in Week 17.

And that division getting weird, too. It feels like seven wins is going to win that division, the way things are going there with the Panthers. So some oddities there. And Chuba Hubbard was sort of persona non grata, I feel like, coming into the year. Everyone was talking about Brooks and hyping him up. It almost feels like last year's version of Or should I say, yeah, last year's version of Javante Williams is this year's Chuba Hubbard, a guy that nobody seemed to want or care about. And if people were fading and you know what, turns out he's just a very steady guy who's getting you points every single week. And that's a pretty good thing. Let's move on to the game of the week. And before we do, I just want to acknowledge this too. I'm

trying very hard to take you seriously. I know it was Halloween this weekend and I know it's a podcast and people can't see this, but whatever Chase dressed up like with his girlfriend for Halloween parties this weekend, he's got a mustache this week. It's thrown me off a little bit. I'd like to know the data behind that.

But first, I want to know the data behind the Bengals and Titans, because this was a game that I don't think any of us would have guessed would have become the game of the week. But it certainly was entertaining, unless, of course, you were a Bengals fan, in which case you were stressing out, to say the least, maybe taking some short walks outside for a breath of fresh air.

The Bengals end up winning in overtime 43-36. Burrow, Chase, Higgins all have big days there. Chase Brown, still underwhelming. That's the problem. And a big fumble too, when they had the game kind of on lockdown that really just kind of opened up Pandora's box. We keep waiting for the Chase Brown turnaround. I don't see it coming here.

Talk to me about what you saw again this week in week eight, before we turn the page on what we should expect from Chase Brown going forward.

Well, first of all, this is my Mario mustache. I kind of kick myself for not Recording a video for Instagram in my full-on Mario outfit.

So the girlfriend was Princess Peach? Is that what happened?

Princess Peach and Mario.

Absolutely. Very good. I want you to send me pictures after the show. All right. That makes things a little bit better. Thank goodness.

So entering Monday Night Football tonight, Joe Burrow is the highest scorer in Week 8, 39.5 fantasy points. Tee Higgins is the second highest scorer. That's two Bengals, 37.5. And Jamar Chase is fourth of 31.1. So when the Bengals are clicking, you know exactly where it's going. Like it's so consolidated. We know how elite Jamar Chase is. I want to hit on Tee Higgins. He was my move to make two weeks ago coming out of the Bengals by just an unbelievable season. And he's just never, never going to get the appreciation that he deserves because of the existence of Jamar Chase. Tee Higgins has a career high 3.0 yards per route, 25.1% target rate. That's the second highest in his career. Crazy stat how this thing

is shaking out through eight weeks. Tee Higgins and Jamar Chase both have exactly 61 targets. Both have exactly 43 receptions so far this season. Tee Higgins has put up 726 yards to Jamar Chase's 492. Insane efficiency. He's used a bit more downfield. I think his area per target is about three yards more than Jamar Chase. He's going to be a little more volatile. But what we are seeing from Tee Higgins, when the Bengals are clicking too, like it runs through those two guys. It is absolutely incredible.

It's also absolutely incredible is things you love to see as a Bengals fan and as a Joe Burrow fantasy owner. Burrow leads the NFL in touchdown passes from a clean pocket this season with 16. His passing yards rank third from a clean pocket. That is incredible because the Achilles heel, if you will, for probably Joe Burrow, in the past and for his fantasy production is like staying on the field taking sacks he is healthy the bangles are being able to protect them right now 31.5 pressure rate for joe burrow this season is the seventh lowest in the nfl that is what you want to see that allows joe burrow to play point guard and just you know get the ball out to jamar chase and t higgins to make them let to let them make plays you

mentioned too like the the struggles of chase brown again like It's okay. It's just not the elite production that you want to see. 21 opportunities for him here. does go for 101 scrimmage yards. But like, it's just been the tail of the season for close to being really good, but just not quite effective enough. He's at 4.1 yards per touch this season. That ranks 21st among running backs.

So he's just kind of like middling in efficiency there. And, Just you want to see more from a guy who has a nice workload and a really good offense.

Yeah, look, I'm of the mind. I know we've kind of touched on this too together that to me, the Bengals should be all in, right? Defense is pretty good this year. You've got Joe Burrow healthy. You've got all the wide receivers healthy. The offensive line is okay. This is where you go in and put your chips into the middle of the table and you try to make a play for Jonathan Taylor because I think he changes the dynamic significantly. And this is your window here. The AFC is very winnable. that's my take on this because Chase Brown, I think has gotten a lot of opportunities and he's not really helping things. And I think that, that big fumble at midfield, that was the one that I, as somebody who coaches youth football, that was one of

those moments where you just kind of go, that's just the worst possible scenario right there. You don't do that. That's a mistake that gets you losing jobs potentially at some point. Let's flip the script over here to the other side. And I'm glad you talked about T Higgins because T Higgins and Tony Pollard two weeks ago, were two of my favorite buy low candidates on my show.

And then you kind of reiterated that sentiment because we do a show Thursdays together on YouTube. And sure enough, there's Tony Pollard continuing to just tote the rock and look great. No Tashi Spears for the last couple of weeks. And Pollard has been terrific. Cam Ward, best game of his career. We could put that out there. There was no Carnell Tate in that game, but you did have Jim Ray Dike, Alec Ayo Manor, all kind of step up in that void. So what were your thoughts on the Cam Ward performance and the Titans who hey, they're playing without house money right now. They're just pushing the limits.

They're trying to let it all hang out, playing much more competitive football the last couple weeks than they were in the first few weeks of the season.

Yeah, I do think it was his best game of his career, at least fantasy-wise, right? Career high, 26.3 fantasy points. Also, this was his first career 300-yard passing game. I do think it's nice to see. I'm not racing to add Cam Ward off waivers. I do think this ceiling outcome from him in this game was probably mainly a product of the crazy game environment that unfolded here. Again, a shootout that goes to overtime. It does make me more bullish on Cornell Tate, though. As you mentioned, though, he did not play in this game. He is expected back after the Titans' week nine bye. They are one of the teams that do have a week nine bye. If they didn't have a bye week, my biggest move to make that I do at the end of each show

was actually going to be Cornell Tate. I started diving in and looking at it. I saw that they had a bye, so I think it's best to wait on that after the bye week. I'm not really a fan of selling a guy that's on your team that you could get fantasy points from this week for a guy that's on bye week. If you really, really, really, really want Cornell Tate, sure. Maybe if it's a guy that's sitting on your bench, sure.

But I do think Cornell Tate's a good buy. Well, if you are a team with a really good record, do, and you could afford to wait. You know, that team that just didn't have him last week and is not going to have him this week because of the bye week. you can extend a helpful hand. Can't you chase and say, here, take this wide receiver that is not as good, potentially talented wise as, as Cardinal Tate and, you know, just help unload them to your roster. That's never a bad thing. Uh, let's talk about the usage report because I think we have to start here, obviously with the glaring usage or lack thereof of Ashton with his two carries, uh, Mike Washington, uh, a little bit more 25 carries in this game. And

Mike Washington was a guy that I really liked in college. I love the tape on him. I compared him to a young Steven Jackson. I actually got to talk to a good friend of mine, Ray Garvin, in our preseason shows on my channel. And he actually played with Steven Jackson and he agreed with me, right? He was like, actually, I played high school football with him and I think you're 100% right. He does remind me of him. And this is a guy that had a pretty good view up close of what I was talking about. And maybe it's a matter of, Ashen Gentia is not Clint Kubiak's guy.

You know, that happens sometimes. Maybe this is another potential message being sent. We saw that happen with the Giants and Harbaugh and Scadaboo a couple weeks ago. And Scadaboo responded in kind. So what's happening here when you look at the backfield of your Las Vegas Raiders?

My Las Vegas Raiders. I'm going to try to be completely unbiased here.

Who did lose to the Jets, just saying. One.

One.

I'll beat the Jets next season. I'll beat the Jets. That's what I said. Just by the skin of their teeth, the Jets. Yes.

So snaps were Mike Washington, 38, Ashton Gentee, 22. You mentioned the carry split. I don't know if I've ever seen anything like this where you're talking about the sixth overall pick in the 2025 NFL draft. We're not even– we're about halfway into a second season. A silent benching? I don't know what to call it, but 25 carries for Mike Washington, two for Ashton Gentee. Jenty did lead in routes 13-4. He caught three or four targets for 64 yards. Washington did not see a single target. So Jenty still leads all running backs in targets, receptions, and receiving yards. So he definitely, even in this silent benching, whatever you want to call it, I don't know. It was really bizarre. Jenty is still sort of like the

receiving back, at least. Obviously, it would be great for his fantasy value to get some of those carries back. I don't really expect it to be like a 25-2 split moving forward. It's really hard to decipher what's going on. Clint Kubiak did say after the game that this was the plan going in. They like did tell Ash and Jenty going to this game that he was going to get fewer carries. Clint Kubiak also did say this wasn't punishment for comments that Jenty made about the Jets defense during the week. Jenty had some interesting comments about there's a few Jets defenders that weren't interested in like making tackles in the run game or something like that. Kind of bizarre. Uh, A 25-2 split, though, does seem like

punishment to me. I don't know if you want to believe what coaches say or not.

Well, Clint Kubiak's a man of his word, Chase. Yeah. Just saying.

Right? Every coach is.

Well, he said he was going to get less carries. He got less carries.

It was true.

There's no doubt about that.

Yeah. I don't know. 25-2 seems like punishment to me.

Yeah.

Not necessarily, hey, Ashton, we're going to give Mike a few more carries this week and then 25-2. Carries inside the 10-yard line, too. Mike Washington, 8. Ashton Gentry, 0. That's obviously the 25-2 splits concerning. 10-0, sorry, 8-0 inside the 10-yard line. That's concerning. I will mention Raiders' next three games, 49ers, Seahawks, Broncos, Gentee is going to at least play in negative game scripts. Again, I don't think Mike Washington is anything of a pass catcher. And like I mentioned with Ashton Gentee, he literally leads the position in every single receiving category. Those games, those opponents that I mentioned, those do project as negative game scripts where Mike Washington is not playing and Ashton Gentee is. Obviously,

they're not going to just abandon the run. But these three games look like they could be more of a route-heavy game for Ashton Gentee I think I'm still playing him moving forward. I'm interested to know, like, your opinion. Is this insane split going to stick? Would you feel comfortable playing him next week against the 49ers?

I would not feel comfortable, to be honest. But I don't know if you have a choice because of the draft capital you put into him. However, at this stage of the game, you have to understand where you are in the standings, what that means, and the implications of it. And you might have to make some hard decisions. This is where trades come in, where you go, you know, am I better off with Chuba Hubbard rest of season than Ashton Gentry? And if I asked you that question in August, you would think that I was crazy, but here we are in November. And I think most people would say, uh, could I please have Chuba Hubbard instead of Ashton Gentry right now? Cause I feel much better about that scenario. So, uh, definitely a difficult spot there

for Ashton Gentry and for all of the people who manage him, uh, Brown's backfield. I want to talk about this real quick too. Uh, since Dylan Sampson returned, it seems like Quinn Sean Judkins in terms of receiving role is kind of dried up. Uh, do you think that trend continues the rest of the season?

I do. I Dylan Sampson is an incredible pass catcher. He, he is phenomenal. He had not played since week one. He returned in week seven. Since he returned routes are Dylan Sampson, 42 Quinch on Judkins, 17 targets, Samson, 11 Judkins three. This is kind of the fear with, with Quinch on Judkins is he was kind of being propelled along a little bit by some receiving production that we really hadn't seen in the past. And he's not, doesn't necessarily profile as like an elite pass catcher. Uh, The fear is he doesn't have that role, and there's just kind of bad rushing efficiency in what I would say is not a great offense in Cleveland. 11 carries for 25 yards for Judkins in Week 8. He's at 3.4 yards per carry on the season. That is not good.

When you're losing the receiving production, the easy PPR points, you're averaging 3.4 yards per carry. The Browns record as a team, fine, but again, offensive environment, Not really a fan of what's going on in Cleveland, especially for Judkins. So I would just say, like, if you have him, he's a sell for me. I know you're probably selling low, but I'm not incredibly bullish on the prospects of Quinshawn Judkins for the rest of the season.

Yeah, I think it comes down to format, too. If you're in half PPR standard, maybe you can live with Judkins. But in the full point PPR, it's going to get trickier. That's for sure. Let's talk about the usage in the Broncos Chiefs game, too. My boy, Jonah Coleman. That's what I've been waiting for all these weeks. I've been talking about him for a couple of weeks. Let's add him on the quiet, on the down low before everybody else realizes that he was available in about 80% of leagues because people had to drop him after he got picked up and moved to the IR almost immediately within like a 48 hour span. But certainly Jonah Coleman has a moment yesterday, especially with RJ Harvey on the IR. And then in terms of the Chiefs, talk to me about

the wide receivers there as well and what we should expect. It was good to see Rushie Rice back on the field, but let's start with the Broncos. backfield and then talk to me about the Chiefs wide receivers.

Yeah, so Broncos backfield, we talked about it last week, so I'm going to flash back. So in week seven, this was Jonah Coleman's first game back since week two. He out snapped both of J.K. Dobbins and RJ Harvey combined. Then RJ Harvey goes on to IR before week eight. So this felt like the spot where Jonah Coleman could take over the Broncos' backfield. And then, bang, Jonah Coleman, 38 snaps in this game against the Chiefs.

J.K.

Dobbins, 12. Cody Schrader, 2. It happened. I think this is his backfield. He looks really, really good. 15 touches for 104 scrimmage yards and a touchdown. I think he's an RB3 or even back-end RB2 moving forward. Their schedule, Panthers by Raiders coming up. I would feel very, very excited about having Jonah Coleman on my team for this coming stretch. Chiefs wide receivers. Seems like a little bit of a random one, but I kind of wanted to talk through it because this is Rasheed Rice's first game back since a hamstring injury in week four. And when Patrick Mahomes is your quarterback and he's throwing for 300 yards and three touchdowns, there is value to be found somewhere inside a wide receiver core. I obviously think that

most valuable piece is Rasheed Rice. Team high eight targets in his return. Catches seven for 53 yards and a touchdown. He did have what would have been the game-winning touchdown, too, but the Chiefs were called for a false start. I went and looked. If you toss out the first two weeks of the season, which am I cherry-picking a little bit? Sure, but you could make the case for maybe this guy got off to a slow start considering he was rehabbing a knee from a cleanup surgery procedure during the offseason.

If you throw out those two games, he has a 37% target rate, and he's put up 3.1 yards per route across 46 routes since then. If you extrapolate that out over the full season, a 37% target rate across the season would be the highest in the league among wide receivers. 3.1 yards per route would rank fifth. I think there's some idea out there that Rasheed Rice is just not effective anymore. I kind of completely disagree with that. The efficiency metrics disagree. Weak efficiency metrics would be Xavier Worthy, who ran a team-high 30 routes but sits at 1.1 yards per route this season. He's been a bit of a disappointment. Honestly, kind of since he entered the league, that 1.1 yards per out ranks 97th out of 134

wide receivers. So we're really low down there on Xavier Worthy. The one thing I'll mention too, the Chiefs are sort of one of the teams rumored to be in the trade market for a wide receiver. I'm not sure there's like an available talent out there that is really like a difference maker. I'm not incredibly sure who they would acquire.

I've seen some Brian Thomas Jr.

Buzz.

But are the Jaguars really going to trade? We're talking about AFC title contenders here. Are the Jags really going to help out the Chiefs in that manner?

I say no. Right. I'll just flat out say no about it. It doesn't make sense. And I know there's encouraging Cyrus Allen stuff, too. You look at the increased routes he's running in the last couple weeks. But until we start catching footballs, it doesn't matter. It goes back to the old Kenny Powers adage. I ain't trying to be the best at running. You know, like that's one of my favorites. All right, let's look ahead a little bit to week nine in the NFL here as we turn the page from last week. Only two teams, as you mentioned on the bye, the Tennessee Titans and the Steelers.

So you're missing some running backs there, not a whole lot else. So it's not a bad week. You're going to have a lot of teams at full strength, which is great. You have the Texans, Saints, Giants, 49ers returning from a bye. I know the Saints and Browns, you wanted to highlight Jordan Tyson, too. who is available in, you know, more than 50% of leagues, basically still, uh, as a guy that might have some appeal down the stretch.

Do you think he could kind of garner a role for himself considering how steady Devon Bailey has been in that number two spot?

I do think so. We're talking about a top 10 pick in the NFL draft. We're talking about a team that loves to drop back and throw the ball. I don't think I would start Jordan Tyson. Uh, if he's like ready to rock and roll here, I don't think I would start Jordan Tyson. It's kind of like a wait and see. Um, But when he's ready to go, probably week 10, I would love to see, you know, especially to like this is a rookie who has not played a snap in the NFL yet. So I would doubt even if he's ready to go in week nine, it's going to be a limited route participation, limited snaps in some manner. So very excited about Jordan Tyson. I think he's a stash would not be jamming him into my lineup. Fair enough.

Well, we mentioned also the potential rumors flying around. I know a lot of people were taking a lot out of Mike McDonald's latest press conference, and I've been touting the Cincinnati Bengals going after Taylor. So Seth McGowan, DJ Giddens, those are two guys that could be out there, you know, if you want to speculate and add them just to be safe. Josh Downs has requested a trade. Keenan Allen, a veteran, could also be on the move. I'm with you.

I don't think that Brian Thomas Jr. does get moved. I think the Jaguars are just fine. I think at home they are so good. They are good against the run. As far as I'm concerned, the Jaguars just need to keep playing good football and start to win some more road games. I think that's probably what they need to do.

But how excited are you with the prospects at this juncture, too, of whatever's left behind if and when Jonathan Taylor does get moved? Because we saw even Daniel Jones kind of get pulled in that game. Yesterday for Anthony Richardson to kind of see what he could maybe do with that offense.

Yeah, so I mean, it's between Seth McGowan and DJ Giddens. I prefer Seth McGowan just because I think he's a little bit of a better pass catcher. DJ Giddens has been there too. So Seth McGowan's kind of like the new toy, if you will. I think McGowan would be the guy to own there. if Jonathan Taylor is moved. Um, but again, too, like it's, it's nice to have Seth McGowan, but I don't necessarily think Seth McGowan would be like a league winner just because the Colts are struggling so much on offense and there's not a ton of efficiency there.

So DJ Giddens is definitely sort of like the ground pound guy. Seth McGowan has more of a, uh, dual duo skillset receiving and rushing. So I would lean Seth McGowan. I actually think it would maybe be interesting just to stash him. And then if a trade does happen, uh, I think I'm kind of the type of fantasy owner to, if that does happen, I would love to package Seth McGowan into a trade with a guy to like move up a tier. You can package Seth McGowan with a wide receiver and go get one of those RB1 or like RB2s if somebody's like bullish on the prospects of Seth McGowan.

Not to bury the lead on maybe the biggest NFL story there was coming out of this past week, but Lamar Jackson, obviously with the thumb injury, he's going to be out for a significant period of time. The good news is they think he will make a full recovery and hopefully be back at some point. What the Ravens look like when he returns, that's the question. And of course, to make things even worse and compounded and more difficult, they have a Thursday night game against the aforementioned Jaguars.

And Tyler Huntley also probably unlikely available for this one. So that means third string quarterback Joe Fagnano could be under center for the Ravens. This doesn't feel like a good situation for Zay Flowers and Derrick Henry now, does it? Not at all.

With Feniano in at quarterback, Ravens averaged 3.0 yards per play in the second, third, and fourth quarters. Zay Flowers, goose egg. Derek Henry, much less efficient with Lamar Jackson not at quarterback. The matchup is terrible, on the ground at least, against the Jaguars defense. Are Ravens benchable in Week 9? Is this question I have on Monday. Again, we're talking about this on Monday. Game's on Thursday. Zay Flowers.

I think the only two that you would even consider starting here is Zay Flowers and Derrick Henry. I'd have Jacoby Lane on my bench. I'd have Mark Andrews on my bench.

Yes.

Between those two, I'm okay with, you know, I think Zay Flowers is such an elite talent. It is a short week, but you get him more involved in the game plan. Like if they're going to win this game, if they're competing in this game, it has to go through those two guys. So the, the, the efficiency at quarterback and offensive, not good matchup, not good, but I still think you got to play Zay Flowers and Derrick Henry.

I agree, but I think you might want to consider what's in your wide receiver three and your flex bots, because you might need a little bit more bang for your buck and some upside there. So pick, look, the good news is you'll have an answer, right? Thursday night, how much you've got to make up the difference. So then you can start playing fast and loose with those flex bots. All right. Last one here. Let's close things out with a Buy, sell, or hold. I'm going to throw a name out here at Chase, and he's going to tell me what to do with this character here.

And this week's buy, sell, hold candidate is Tony Pollard, who's had a good run last couple weeks on a buy this week. So what do you want to do with TP?

I've been on a bit of a buy streak here, so we're going to switch it up. So I just think if you have the opportunity to sell a player at maximum value, and this player is a running back with little to no receiving upside, on a 1-7 team whose next two of three games is against the best run defense in the NFL. That's the Jacksonville Jaguars. We keep talking about Jacksonville. This player's team will be a double-digit point underdog in both those games. That's just a savvy business move to make. That's what you need to do with Tony Pollard. I think Tony Pollard is a sell.

52 opportunities over the last two weeks. That's second most in the NFL behind only Jameer Gibbs. But 46 of those are carries. That's just not what you want to see. Again, on a 1-7 team who's probably going to be playing from behind, a guy who's scoring a bunch of touchdowns and running incredibly hot. The Titans have a bye week this week as well. Then they play Jacksonville in Week 10 and Week 12. Jags have allowed a league-low 3.3 yards per carry to running backs this season. Some of the riskiest assets in all of fantasy football is non-pass catching.

running backs on weak teams. That's exactly what you're getting with Tony Pollard. The production the last two weeks has been very fun. This is also with Tajay Spears out over the last two weeks, who has had a small role, but I do still think that Tajay Spears out has contributed at least some bit to this run that Tony Pollard is on. So my move to make ahead of week nine is sell high on Tony Pollard.

Hot take. Teams that don't like the price on Jonathan Taylor will start to kick the tires on Tony Pollard, just saying. So I think that makes him actually a little bit more intriguing than you do. But to Chase's point, certainly the last couple of weeks, he is at its zenith right now in terms of value. And so are we, which is why you should subscribe to the podcast here, obviously, and check out all the amazing work here by everybody on NFL Fantasy. And if you want to see more of Myself and Chase head over to Fandom NFL YouTube where we do a show together every single Thursday where we talk football here just like we do on Mondays on NFL. That's going to do it for us, but the story of the game goes on. For Chase, I'm

Joey P. We'll see you next time, everybody. Have a great rest of your week.

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