NFL Fantasy Football Podcast: “Concern-o-Meter”, Late Sunday Slate Preview, and Breakout Performers
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🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Marcas Grant and Michael F. Florio are back for another special edition of the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. As we enter the fourth week of the NFL season, it's time to break out the "Concern-o-meter." With four weeks of action in the books, the fantasy experts assess their worry levels with some key players. Our hosts then turn their attention to the late Sunday slate of games and the Monday night showdown. Marcas and Florio provide their expert insights for each matchup.
Finally, the pair share their top picks for players who are poised to break out this week.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:14.3 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:15.0 | It's Thursday, October 5th, 2023. |
| 0:17.6 | Welcome to the NFL fantasy football show. |
| 0:20.0 | It's me, your man, M.G. Marcus Grant, with my guy, Michael F. Floreo. |
| 0:22.6 | Four weeks into the season, we have a better idea of how teams and players are operating. |
| 0:27.6 | And there are some guys maybe we have some concerns about. |
| 0:30.6 | So we're going to go to the concernometer, or maybe the concernometer, depending on how you decide to pronounce it. |
| 0:36.6 | And talk about our worry level with some of these guys. So let's start with James Cook. Everything seems like it's okay with James Cook. Week four, he actually got some goal line carries. Like, that was great. He got one target. That was not great. He also played a season low 39% of snaps. Look, Damien Harris, Latavius Marie, they're still getting opportunities. Where is your concern level for James Cook right now? It's still pretty low, and I know I was the James Cook, one of the, I mean, we both were, but I like James Cook a lot coming into the season. Part of this, I think, was just something with the matchup. The Bills liked their big running backs in this. And I think part of it is that they were blowing out the dolphins and didn't have to use him. Still finish as a top 15 running back on the week. And is right now your RB12, despite only having one touchdown. I'm still rolling with James Cook everywhere. I have him. I'm not super worried. I just want, I want to have it all. Maybe I'm greedy, right? Like, first he gets all these |
| 1:29.4 | targets, but no goal line carries. Last week he I have them. I'm not super worried. I just want I want to have it all. Maybe I'm greedy, right? |
| 1:27.8 | Like first he gets all these targets, but no goal line carries. Last week he gets goal line carries and like very few targets. Why can't we have both? Why can't we do that, Sean McDermott? That's all I want. Why can't we have both? Porque no los dos. That's all I want to know. But otherwise, I'm generally pretty not worried about James Cook. |
| 1:45.2 | Darren Waller, the Giants, here's the thing about them. that's all I want to know. But otherwise I'm generally pretty not worried about James Cook. |
| 1:45.2 | Darren Waller, the Giants, here's the thing about them. They're bad. Darren Waller has three games |
| 1:50.8 | of just three catches this season. In week four, he had a target in the first quarter, |
| 1:56.1 | didn't see any other targets until the fourth quarter. How concerned are we with Darren |
| 2:00.7 | Waller? I'm definitely |
| 2:03.2 | concerned and I've accepted the fact that I don't think he is going to live up to the lofty |
| 2:08.2 | expectations that I had for him coming into this season. That being said, I'm not concerned |
| 2:13.0 | enough where I can get away from him because even despite the slow start, he's the Titan 12 right now on the year. Titan has been an app. It's been worse than we imagine. It has been a wasteland. The only places I can sit, Darren Waller, are the leagues where I was able to pair him with Sam LaPorter. Besides that, he is my best option and probably a lot of your guys. Plus, they get the dolphins this week. I think they're going to have to throw the ball a whole bunch. They are going to have to throw the ball a whole bunch. Hopefully they can protect Daniel Jones because they did not do that at all last week against Seattle. I'm very concerned about Darren Waller because I'm afraid that this is going to be what it is. Like maybe it gets slightly better, but I'm with you. |
| 2:51.4 | It's not going to be what we hoped it was going to be. |
| 2:53.6 | So I have concerns. |
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