Week 9 Game Previews: Spencer Rattler Benched, Carson Wentz Out, and Fantasy Tick or Treat
The Rich Eisen Podcast
NFL and Rich Eisen
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🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Marcas Grant, Michael F. Florio, and LaQuan Jones preview the NFL’s week nine slate. They start the show with the latest news, including the Saints naming Tyler Shough their starting quarterback (1:19), the Panthers plan for Rico Dowdle (3:03), and an update on Carson Wentz's injury (5:16).
Then they preview the Thursday night game between the Ravens and Dolphins (7:11), and debate whether or not to start Mark Andrew and Jaylen Waddle. Next, they preview Chiefs at Bills (10:02), Colts at Steelers (11:47), and Viking at Lions (12:53).
After the break the guys play fantasy trick or treat (14:24). Then they finish their game previews with the Panthers at Packers (17:26), Broncos at Texans (18:54), and Falcons at Patriots (19:57). The guys wrap the show with their sleepers of the week (21:20).
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:15.9 | Welcome to another edition of the NFL fantasy football show. |
| 0:19.2 | It's me, your man, M.G. Mark, is grand joined by Michael Loflorio and Lequan Jones. |
| 0:37.4 | We are pretty much at the halfway point of the NFL regular. We've passed the halfway point of the fantasy season. We're the halfway point of the regular season now. I know. It feels weird. Like, we were yearning for football to come back and we're already halfway through the thing. Like, what? I say it every year, man. |
| 0:39.8 | You blink your eyes and it is Halloween. |
| 0:39.3 | Like it's just the way the NFL season goes yeah so uh we are in spooky season |
| 0:44.6 | if you can't tell by the decorations in the the jar of candy corn candy corn candy corn please |
| 0:52.5 | remember that uh you feel like you'd like candy corn. Absolutely not. It's disgusting. I'm egg in the house if I get candy corn. That was my rule back then. It would have been totally on brand, though, for you to love candy corn. No, it would not. Just would have been. Anyway, we're going to preview some of the compelling week nine matchups on the show today. |
| 1:11.9 | Which running backs with tough matchups? |
| 1:14.0 | Can you believe in? |
| 1:14.9 | Which ones will ghost you here in Halloween? |
| 1:17.4 | Plus some either-or options, spooky starts, and more little trick-or-treat along the way here on this show. |
| 1:24.7 | Let's start as we always do with some fantasy headlines. |
| 1:27.8 | And something we talked about earlier in the week, but is now official Tyler Shuck |
| 1:32.3 | will be the Saints starting quarterback when they come to SoFi Stadium to take on the Rams in |
| 1:37.3 | week nine. |
| 1:38.3 | Hey, so, Florian, when you look at this, you look at Prisolaev, Rashid Shahid, |
| 1:46.5 | even Alvin Camara, I guess, with Shuck at quarterback, which Saints do you want for the rest of the season? Is it any of them? |
| 1:51.6 | Ideally, no, but I do think Chris Olave remains someone that's in play just because of volume. |
| 1:58.5 | Like, last week, Shuck came in and he did two things. He locked in on Rashid Chaheed and Chris Olavay. And he doesn't have to be great for those guys to be good in fantasy if he just continues to do that. So take the Joe Flacko approach, just know where 12 is supposed to be on the field and put the ball in that vicinity. Alvin Camara, I'm done with it. |
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