What's up everybody? I am Raymond Summerlin, your host for this edition of the Roto World

Football podcast. And I will be joined today

as I am every single Thursday by Rich Rebar to discuss the Thursday Night Game, an exciting

Thursday night game this week, as well as the most interesting data points from his weekly

worksheet column. And then later I'll be joined by Nick Minzio, who has the most important

starts and sits for week

five of the fantasy football season, season just flying by. Before we get to that, however,

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have already done it as well. With that out of the way, let's get to it. What's going on, Rich? Hey, man, like you said, here we are, week five already. We got the first stretch of biweeks and, you know, combined with the carnage that happened last week. Hopefully your rosters are still intact. we had a lot of really good players, you know, kind of leave games and injuries, and a guy like

Julio Jones is going to be on buy anyways, but, you know, Marcus Marriota, Dalvin Cook was a big one. You know, I felt that Dalvin Cook sting in a lot of leagues. It hurt, man. I still haven't really recovered from that. So, but, you know, hopefully you survive the carnage. And with the by weeks couple

on that, you still are able to start a full roster this week. But yeah, it's exciting times here,

you know, that we're quarter way into the season. I have a dynasty team that I think has like

six of my starters on buy. It's just a weird buy week that has a lot of the Falcons, the Saints,

Washington, you know, it's Denver. It's a tough buy week. And then you add the injuries. I think there was one league. I had one league where I had to put in, I wasn't trying to get all of these players. You don't have to put in, like, see if you don't get this player, you get this player. I think I had 14 transactions in before Waivers ran. 14. It was was crazy but you know moving head moving forward

and like I said at the top this is this is an exciting Thursday night game you know following

Mike glennon's last stand last week we we have one which is have features two offenses which

you know should be able to move the ball at will this week because because the defenses that they're facing are not very good, or at least have not been very good to this point. The over-under in this game, I checked before we started recording, we record on Wednesdays, was 55 points. I think it was 55 and a half at one point earlier in the week. So we're looking at what should be a high-sc, which as we know means it's probably going to finish 1310. But assuming that it's going to be a high scoring game, I mean, this is a situation where you start everyone, I think. Isn't that right? Yeah, I mean, we were joking for the show. I mean, we probably have more luck just going through the players we don't want to play in this game than, you know, talking about every good play that is available. Because like you said, I mean, both of these

defense have just been so poor. I mean, New England is allowing the most passing points per

drive to opposing quarterbacks while Tampa Bay is allowing the second most. New England has

allowed the second most passing yards through franchise history, their entire franchise history, you know, through four weeks. They woke up the spirit of Cam Newton last week that we weren't sure ever could possibly resurrected. And I'm still not sure it was because if you watch that game, it's not like Cam Newton made NFL throws in that game. Dudes were just running all alone. And, you know, they're going to be facing going on the road to face James Winston, who's thrown for 300 yards against the Giants' defense and the Vikings defense in back-to-back weeks. So, I mean, it's pretty much wheels up on just about everything. I think the only guys I'm looking at that I think, I only wrote two guys up in the bust portion of the worksheet, and they Mike Gillisley and I wouldn't mind if you

played Mike Gillisley because we know what you're playing Mike Gillisley for if it's going to be a high scoring game you just play them that hopefully falls into the end zone but I mean Tampa Bay has been really good against the run still despite their injuries they're allowing just 2.7 yards per carry to backs and 65 yards rushing to backfields and the Patriots just haven't been able to run the football effectively at all.

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