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theScore Fantasy Football Podcast with Justin Boone

New-Look Backfields, Optimistic Offenses, & Trade Targets

theScore Fantasy Football Podcast with Justin Boone

Score Media and Gaming

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4.9520 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Boone is joined by Chris Allen of 4for4.com to discuss the biggest fantasy questions entering Week 5:

Plus our FRANK IT UP! segment: Three fantasy trade targets heading into Week 5 (1:45), presented by our friends at Frank's RedHot.

  • How should you approach the Broncos' new backfield? (7:15)
  • Is there reason to be concerned about Jonathan Taylor moving forward? (12:30)
  • Will anyone emerge in the Falcons' backfield while Cordarrelle Patterson is out? (17:20)
  • Who benefits most from Kenny Pickett starting for the Steelers? (23:30)
  • Which offense should you buy shares in before they improve? (29:05)
  • Which "good" offense shouldn't be trusted for fantasy? (32:05)
  • Where will Odell Beckham end up? (36:40)
  • Rapid fire questions, including one player being overlooked in Week 5 (38:45)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome, everyone to the score fantasy football podcast.

0:16.9

I'm your host Justin Boone, the lead fantasy analyst at the score.

0:20.0

Always appreciate you downloading and listening to the show. And we're going to make sure you get what you came for today. And I say we, because we're going to have another regular joining us in a little bit here. Chris Allen, he's been coming on the show every year for the last few seasons. And he does great work for so many different sites. I mean, four for four football guys, fantasy life, establish a run. He is a very busy man, so we are glad that he's making some time to join us today. But before we get him in here, I just want to remind everybody about some of the content that's already gone up this week. So on Tuesday's show, I went over the five moves that could save your fantasy season. And really, it's just moves that could maximize your chances of win and over the next month it has a slight

0:56.6

lean towards teams of the losing record but it's stuff that everybody can do so

1:00.6

give that one a listen we already have the early edition of my rankings up for week

1:04.5

five they went up on Tuesday night the next update will be published on Thursday

1:08.4

afternoon and then the always popular trade value charts went up on Wednesday morning and those take a lot longer to do in the

1:14.8

first month or so than they do later in the year when things are a little more

1:17.7

figured out because we have a lot of things changing right now a lot of things that

1:21.8

we have to sort through a few of them we're gonna talk about a little bit later I

1:25.5

mean one that I know I kept having to update this week at every position was that buccaneers offense because now they're healthy they have all the weapons back they looked a lot closer to last year's numbers in terms of fantasy production than they did over those first few weeks when so many guys were hurting i talked about them as by lows on multiple shows the last few weeks so hopefully you made a move to go out and get some of them. Either way, I got good news for you. We're going to highlight three more players that you could get that you could try to buy low on this week as we try to take your roster and frank it up, just like our friends at Frank's Red Hot. And the first name on my list this week, it's actually an entire offense, so I'm kind of cheating here, but it's the Jaguar. So James Robinson and Christian Kirk and Trevor Lawrence and Travis Etyen and even Zay Jones we could throw in there. I think this is a perfect situation for buy low offers because you have a team that was impressing in the first few weeks. Maybe a lot of people think they were overachieving. And then they run into this buzz saw that is the Eagles defense. It's also a really rainy game. You have that problem as well working against them and they lose and the numbers didn't look great. But I promise you what we saw from Jacksonville in those first three weeks, that is a lot closer to what we're going to see from them the rest of the season. So you have a very small window here to take advantage of that because of the bad weather in Philly and because of that great Eagles team that they had to play because the Jags now are going to play the Texans this week. And Houston has given up the most fantasy points to running backs right now. Should be plenty of points scored on the Jaguars side in this one. And their schedule is pretty favorable the rest of the season too. So James Robinson

2:54.9

should be valued as a high-end RB2 in fantasy. Each end as an RB3 flex with a ton of upside

3:00.8

if something happens to Robinson during the year. A Kirk is a quality high volume wide receiver

3:05.5

too. Lawrence, he could emerge as a low-end quarterback one for fantasy. And part of that is because a lot of the quarterbacks in that range, they've been struggling a little bit this year. So it wouldn't be shocking to see somebody like Lawrence sneak up into that area for fantasy. And then Zay Jones, he was hurt this week. But when he comes back, he's a really intriguing wide receiver three flex in this offense. The Jags are a good football team. That's what it really comes down to. They just happen to get beat by an even better team last Sunday. So capitalize on the down week. Go add some Jaguars to your lineup by making trades. Next up, I'm going to use an injury situation to find some value here. James Connor, he's had knee and ankle issues.

3:41.2

They've kind of limited his production so far this season. The Cardinals offense

3:44.8

also hasn't been fired on all cylinders and they've had some really tough

3:48.0

matchups too in the opening month and Connor he's just the RB 33 and average

3:52.4

fantasy points per game plus he's got a tough matchup with the Eagles this week so

3:55.9

I'm not really hopeful for a big performance in that one, but after this week, that's what we're looking at.

4:01.1

Things are going to start to turn around for him and for this whole offense. The schedule improves. They have two matchups against the Seahawks in week six and week nine. So those are really easy ones.

4:10.6

He'll continue to get healthier the further he's removed from those early season injuries. And DeAndre Hopkins is going to come back in week seven. And Hopkins presence should help lift this entire attack. So now is the time to make a move for Connor or you wait until just after this Eagles game and you try to get him a little cheaper. But that might be pushing it because I think he's a player you're going to be really happy to have on your team from week six on a strong RB2 with RB1 upside for the second half of the season. And then the last name that I want to talk about, it's probably a long shot that you're going to be able to pry him away from his manager, but it's Mark Andrews. He is one of just two elite tight ends in the fantasy world. him and Travis Kelsey are leaps and bounds ahead of all the other players at their position

4:50.5

when it comes to fantasy production.

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