Welcome everyone to the PFF fantasy podcast. I'm your host John Macri fantasy analyst here at PFF. And I am once again joined for another weekly preview episode by the great Kate Majouk Kate. How are you my friend?

I'm good. I'm ready for some Thursday night football. We're gonna see some booty spanked some or bronco booty spanked probably. But you know what? Like Thursday night football. It's magical. You never know what's gonna happen. So I don't know. Maybe we'll be in for some surprises. But like this is this gonna be an interesting week. Lots of injuries that have decimated our fantasy football team. So we're we're kind of in like scrappy mode of the season. And we're here to help

y'all through it. Yeah scrappy mode is a good way to describe it. I think like we're we did the waiver wire episode this week. And I think it was like our biggest list of players so far just because like you said, the injuries and you know some changes and stuff like that too. But yeah, the injuries have been brutal. Obviously. But yeah, we're gonna go through it. I mean, just two teams on a buy this week. The Packers and Kate your Steelers as well getting a much deserved by week after picking up the win against the Ravens last week somehow. But it's

yeah, it's gonna be nice for you to not at least have to talk about them this week and the Naji Harris and Jalen Warren situation. So you got to be feeling pretty good about that. You've earned a break from them.

Yeah, I needed that. I'm sick of talking about the Pittsburgh Steelers at this point. Sick of Mac Canada, sick of all that. So I get a break. And we could talk about like some some more interesting teams here, which you know, it might have a little bit more fantasy impact than these Pittsburgh Steelers.

Yeah, yeah, I would hope so. Yeah, I was it's funny. I was watching the penguins game that there was hockey game on on I think it was Wednesday night. And the fans were chanting fire Canada during the hockey game.

At this point, it's just like it's so at this point, it's awkward. Honestly, it's it's uncomfortable. I feel I honestly feel for Matt Canada because that knowing that you are like the most hated man in a team's fan base right now is.

That's got to be a big weight on his shoulders. So hopefully he's finding some suitable ways to unwind during the spy weeks. Feel like he's probably earned it. But honestly, he probably shouldn't relax on this by week because we need him to pick up the pace.

Yeah, yeah, I would I would imagine that there's there needs to be a pretty big turn around there for him to kind of stick with the team at this point long term. But we'll see what happens. It's not impossible. That's for sure. They have the talent. So yeah, but anyways, back to week six. I'm looking forward to getting into it here.

We're going to go game by game again. We're going to hit on the key players matchups, all that stuff. I'll add the timestamps in there as well in the episode description. So again, people can bounce around and find the games they're looking for.

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All right, let's start it off here with the Thursday night football game as we always do it is an AFC West showdown between the Denver Broncos, the Kansas City Chiefs.

Anyone's game really probably a pick them in the sports books, right? Oh, no, never mind Kansas City 11 point favorites because the Broncos defense is abysmal and now they face Patrick Mahomes. So Kate, where do you want to start with this one?

Honestly, I like, I think we kind of know what's up with the kids say cheese, right? You play Patrick Mahomes, you play Travis Kelsey, who is expected to play, though, he is formally listed as questionable with that angle injury, you're playing those two, you know, I and I think you can pick one of these wide receivers, like we said, every single week, it feels like, you know, Russia rises the guy, but you've also had some heavy involvement from Justin Watson.

This is a defense that is going to provide enough fruitful opportunity for, you know, all of the receiving options, plus the running backs didn't even get to the running backs here. I've got Isaiah Pacicco ranked as my overall RV seven on the week against this Broncos defense. I think that this is a very interesting spot. I think, you know, not, not looking forward to seeing what results on the other side of the ball.

Yeah, no, the other side is not as exciting. That's for sure. I don't think there's as much potential with Denver's offense. But yeah, for those that maybe aren't aware of the Denver defense, for example, they've allowed the third most passing yards this season, they've allowed the most rushing yards against so far this season tied for the third most rushing touchdowns against 13 passing touchdowns allowed also the most in the league. So, yeah, this is this defense is not good. And I'm with you.

I think you start all those players, my homes, but check out Kelsey. And yeah, I'm still in the rushy rice dart throw. We talked about him last week and for deeper leagues, he hit it was his best week of the season. I think wide receiver 23 or so.

So yeah, I think you could probably plug him in there, even though again, the routes aren't there target rate is there. It's a weird situation. But yeah, on the Broncos side.

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