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Hey, everybody.

It's Wednesday, October 4th, 2020.

Welcome to the NFL fantasy football show.

It's me, your man, M.G., Marcus Grant, joined by Michael F. Florio.

We are previewing Thursday night football and the early Sunday games from week five.

Plus, we're asking what to do about some key fantasy names returning to the field.

So here we are.

We are through four weeks.

I'd say this is a quarter point of the season, but with a 17-week, like the math doesn't quite work out. You hear a lot of the time, like, oh, the seasons is played in quarters. And it's like, yeah, it was perfect for that analogy. And then we added the 17th game. We had the 17th game and now it's weird. You know, you made it weird NFL you made it weird We're going to try to not make it weird today.

We got plenty to talk about on this show.

We got some fantasy heroes.

We are previewing the entire week five slate.

And we're asking about what to do about some key names that are returning to the field.

But let's get started, as we always do with some fantasy headlines.

The ongoing headline out of Cincinnati has to do with

Joe Burrow and that calf injury that is very obviously limiting him right now. According to both

Burrow and head coach Zach Taylor, the quarterback's going to continue to play through injury. Meanwhile,

T. Higgins has a broken rib. Now, he said earlier in the week that he wants to try and play through it. He also said that he can't sleep on that side. I'm like, bro, you can't sleep on it, but you're going to let somebody like hit you. Terrible idea. It's a terrible idea, but you're a different person than me. But either way, we know the quarterback is going to try and gut it out. We'll see whether or not T. Higgins tries to gut it out. Would we, and when I say we, I mean the Bengals and fantasy managers, be better off if these guys just sat and rested and got healthy? I think for the Bengals, we're past that point. Like, I think you should have listened to Jamar Chase and let Joe Burrow rest the first month of the season. Their upcoming schedule after this week against the Cardinals, they get the Seahawks, the 49ers, the Bills, the Texans, and the Ravens. Yeah, good luck in that stretch with a compromise Joe Burrow. For fantasy, though, we got to do what the Bengals are not doing. We have to

sit Joe Burrow. And I also think it's okay to sit T. Higgins because he's a risk of leaving early. And they've also been struggling to get him the ball right now. The only must start Bengal, I would say, is Jamar Chase. I mean, Jamar Chase definitely is. And even he was frustrated. You heard that last week when he said, I'm always bleeping open.

I don't think this was any sort of him having beef with Joe Burrow. Those guys go way back. I think

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