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Well, unfortunately, week four was full of heartbreak again, just like week three was. We're going to talk about players that we are panicking on. We're going to give you our panic level from 1 to 10. But I appreciate you so much for joining me. Do me a massive favor. Smash that like button. I got a like goal today of 250 likes. And here's the best news. If you're struggling with your team or even if you're dominating, we have something on our channel called the team playbook. I'm going to do a giveaway for the team playbook. All you have to do to enter is number one, like the video. Number two, make sure you're subscribed. And then on tomorrow's night, tomorrow night's stream, we're going to announce the winner for a team playbook, a customized team review for your fantasy football team. I appreciate y'all joining us.
Now, we have got to start with the most unfortunate unfortunate news of the day. The reality of fantasy football is it's so fun, but there's also injuries that occur. Can we please collectively pour one out for Malik Neighbors? Malik the freak. Man, it was so fun to see Jackson Dart and this offense and Cam Scataboo starting and just this this young core, this young nucleus, if you will. So fun to watch them. And then the unfortunate reality of fantasy football hit in very very quickly. And we saw Malik Neighbors go down with that injury. Uh you could see it pretty much during the live play. He didn't even go for the ball. Was kind of straight to grabbing that knee and kind of writhing in pain. Obviously, it has been reported that he has torn his ACL, meaning that your first round pick in fantasy football is out for the entire season. Out for the entire year. You're not going to have him again. That's the unfortunate reality of football. Can we please have a quick moment of silence for Malik Neighbors? We'll miss you, buddy. To anybody out there who drafted him, I'm so sorry. Fantasy football is not fair. To Malik Neighbors himself, please take all the time in the world that you need to get right, to be yourself, because when you are healthy, you are one of the most electric, dynamic, explosive, exciting wide receivers to watch in the National Football League. Uh, I'm so sorry for any Giants fans out there. I'm so sorry to Malik Neighbors himself. Uh, and obvious to obviously to all of you guys who drafted him in fantasy football. This is again the harsh reality of fantasy football. Obviously, it goes without saying the panic level is a 10 out of 10. You know, we'll talk about Waverwire later on uh, you know, in tomorrow's video, but Wondelle Robinson going to get some looks. We can talk about you know some tight ends in this offense, but ultimately no one's going to replace Malik Neighbors. You're just not you're just not going to replace Malik Neighbors. So, I don't think there's like a clear and obvious waiverwire move after this. Yeah, you can move Wandell Robinson up your rankings, but the reality is this is just sad all the way around.
Okay, we do need to talk about Lad McConi. So, if you drafted Lad McConi, you either drafted him in the second or third round and so far it's been just absolute hell. It's not been fun whatsoever. And you know, the thought was, you know what, we're gonna see this trend kind of start to to turn around. We're gonna see Lad Mcconi have more and more games. Even myself, I thought that, right? I it it's just hard to rationalize a guy that in his rookie season, I mean, let's not forget, guys, in his rookie season, 1149 yards, seven touchdowns, 82 receptions. We're talking about a guy that averaged over 15 fantasy points per game as a rookie. As a rookie. How rare is it that we see young budding superstars and their role just completely diminishes from year one to year two? You almost never see that. But the unfortunate reality here is what we didn't account enough for, at least myself. I'm going to hold my hands up, is the impact that Keenan Allen would have. I mean, we're talking about Keenan Allen in week one, 10 targets. In week two, seven targets. In week three, 11 targets. In week four, seven targets. There's just only so much football to go around. And inevitably, there's going to be bus games for this entire trio. I mean, Johnson has another huge game. He comes out here, 13 targets, catches eight of them for 98 yards and a touchdown. He looks like the true number one wide receiver on this team. and he wasn't even drafted in the first 10 rounds of most fantasy football drafts. Meanwhile, Lakoni, six targets, one catch, and he had a drop. He made some silly mistakes. He made some school boy school boy errors, if you will. It's not looking good for Lab Makoni right now. He is really that slot, you know, exclusive. Not exclusive. He's playing inside outside, but there's just not this same trust and the same, you know, demand to target Lakoni that there was in the previous season. Now, I still am going to stand by the fact that Keenan Allen, we said this before, we said this last week throughout the, you know, the week on our videos, both Keenan Allen, Quinton Johnston, Lad McConi, there's going to be boom bust games for all of these guys. But if you're not moving Lakoni down your rankings, then respectfully, I think you're probably just stuck in take lock at this point. Lad Makoni cannot be ranked as a top 20 wide receiver for the rest of the season. I just don't see how that's a possibility. You know, when you're looking at a guy like Quinton Johnson who's getting the vast majority of the targets. Keenan Allen's getting more targets than him. It's a great offense to be a part of, but you have to face reality. And reality is that right now, he is not even the second most targeted player on this team. So, for me, the panic level, I would say an eight out of 10. That doesn't mean you can't start him. You can flex him, but he's not going to be this guy that you thought was going to win you your fantasy league. He's not going to be this guy that you thought was going to win you on a week- toeek basis. What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments below. I want to hear from you. How panicked are you on Lakoni on a scale of 1 to 10? Again, I appreciate you guys so much for being out here with us uh on a Sunday talking about football. A friendly reminder, if you're just joining us, we are going to do a giveaway for one of our team playbooks. If you want a customized team review for your fantasy football team, all you have to do to enter is number one, like the video and number two, make sure you are subscribed and then on tomorrow night's stream, we're going to give away a playbook to one lucky winner.
All right, let's talk about it's painful, but we need to talk about Jameson Williams. Man, I am losing in the Flock League multiple weeks because of Jameson Williams now. And it's painful. It's painful to watch. Uh, I mean this latest game he had eight targets. He had, you know, a higher target share than even a Monroe St. Brown, but he and Jared Goff were just not on the same page. There are no layups in this offense for Jameson Williams. And that is impacting him. It just is. There's there's no way around it. That is impacting a Jameson Williams right now. You can see here, eight targets. That's the glass half full, which is a season high for him. Eight targets. Only caught two of them for 40 yards. Now, yes, he had the drop, you know, on the sideline. That was a difficult catch to make. Kind of looking over both of his shoulders, had to adjust, had his hands on it. He should have caught it for sure, but that was a difficult catch to make. And afterwards in the press conferences, Jared Goff is talking about, you know, he's taking blame for some of the interceptions, some of the underthrows, the overthrows, saying that he could have thrown the ball to Jameson and made Jameson's life a little bit more easy. uh also talked about, you know, how uh Jameson is quote unquote steady Eddie during the week, so he's not concerned about these drops that he's currently seeing. At least they're making a concerted effort to get him the ball this week with those eight targets. Again, I would love to see more layup opportunities for Jameson Williams, but beggars can't be choosers right now. I'm going to say six out of 10 panic for him. Uh he's still boom bust. That's just the reality of Jameson Williams. He's boom bust. He's going to lose you your week or win you your week. And that's difficult on a week- toeek basis to deal with.
Let's talk about the Eagle wide receivers. Now, it's crazy that the Eagles can come out in a game and put up 31 points. They won this game with scoring 31 points and still somehow the receivers can be so uninvolved. Now, I mean, if you look at this individually, AJ Brown, nine targets, caught two of them for seven yards. This offense is not pushing the ball down the field in the passing game. Jaylen Herz is king checkdown right now. King uh slant, king fiveyard pass, shorty yard dump off to the running back, to the tight end. And that's obviously impacting the upset of an AJ Brown and a Devont Smith. Dvont Smith is way more concerning to me than AJ Brown is though. At least AJ Brown in this game had nine targets. If you look at his past three games, we're talking eight, 10, and nine targets. That's nine targets per game since week number two. That's encouraging. Yes, they weren't on the same page, but it's encouraging for Devont Smith, though. I mean, he can be completely gamecripted out of a game entirely, and that's that's concerning to me. But funny little meme here from Eagles Nation over on X. He says, "The only two plays in the Eagles playbook for AJ Brown, that's true. It's it's, hey, is there a slant or a vertical?" Those are the two plays right now. It's not the most creative offensive playbook here in uh Philadelphia at the moment. So, look for Devontto Smith, this is why he was one of our fades this year. I would say my panic is a seven out of 10, but not any more panic last week than I was this week. Just because this is the reality of a runheavy team that has a quarterback that doesn't really want to stretch the field, that has an offense that wants to, you know, in short yardage situations do the tush push to dump the ball off to the running backs, to the tight ends. For uh AJ Brown, I would say the panic level is more five out of 10. Five out of 10 at the moment.
Okay, let's talk about David Montgomery. Now, I came on our channel this last week and I told you guys, hey, just kind of pump the brakes with David Montgomery a little bit because the reality is I know he had what was it on uh Monday Night Football? He had 151 rushing guards, right, last week. And you know, a lot of people were like, you know what, you were wrong on David Montgomery, Zach. Clearly, you know, the role between him and Jir Gibbs is not a problem. He's still going to get his he's still going to get his touches. Well, in a game that they were in control of for the vast majority here in versus Cleveland, he has nine carries, 12 yards, one single target, 1.2 fantasy points. Now, look, I'm not going to victory lap this. All I'm saying is this is like the reality of owning David Montgomery. He's not someone that's heavily targeted in the air. So, if you don't get a touchdown, it's probably not that great of a fantasy football week. You almost have to bank on a touchdown for a David Montgomery. But most weeks you're going to get that because of the offense that he's in. You just didn't get that this week. Uh pretty funny. He rocked up to the game, by the way, wearing a boy scout, Eagle Scout uh little sash there, which was pretty hilarious, but obviously not so funny now. Yeah, not so funny now when he scores 1.2 points for your fantasy football team. Look, I'm not going to panic on him. same expectations you had coming into the year are the expectations that you have right now, which in games when they're up, he's probably going to get more usage, even though that wasn't the case here versus Cleveland. Um, and you know, he's going to have plenty of opportunity to score a touchdown. The good news is next week he plays Cincinnati, and that's a great matchup for your fantasy football running back. So, there are plenty of reasons to still be hopeful um for David Montgomery, but clearly doesn't have the upside as a Jir Gibbs. And over the course of the year, he could only lose volume to a young budding Jir Gibbs, then gain volume, right? Unless an injury occurs.
Okay, let's talk about Nicholas Chub. Nick's got a big old chub. Look, here's the reality. I don't know where you guys stand on this. If you were watching our channel throughout the week, last two weeks, we've been talking about Woody Marks a lot. I'll take my L's. I'll take my W's. Woody Marks is an absolute W for us right now. We've been encouraging you to stash him since what was it week two? We've been encouraging you to stash him, telling you to pick him up off the wavewire last week, telling you to take him seriously. All the trends were that his role was continually growing over the course of the season. And Nick Chub is a guy that's even worse than David Montgomery because, you know, he doesn't have he's not a part of a good offense and it's not often that the Texans are on the goal line giving him opportunities. For me, Nick Chub almost useless in fantasy football. Now, I would argue nine out of 10 panic if you own Nick Chup. He was always going to, you know, be a player that over the course of the year was going to be a threat to lose opportunities because of his veteran status, because of how many injuries he's gone through, lack of juice, etc. But now we're looking here in week number four and you can see for the first time the entire season, Woody Marks more snaps than Nick Chub. 40 to 30 snaps over 55 I think percent right right around there percent of the snaps for Woody Marks. But here's what's awesome, man. 23 opportunities, five targets in the air. You love to see that in PPR formats. Now, Nick Chub had 15 touches, but Nick Chub is just not doing much with those touches. Again, they're not high quality, high volume uh opportunity touches, right? Meanwhile, Woody Woody marks over 28 fantasy points. And the great news is it came from everywhere, right? This is stuff that his role could continue to grow. He could continue to be important in these areas. Yeah. 15 of it came through the air, but he's a great pass catcher. We talked about that all year, right? 49 receiving yards, a receiving touchdown. But 13.3 of those came on the ground. 18 attempts, 73 yards, a rushing touchdown. By the way, on a play where he just I mean, he looked he looked incredible. I mean, I think you're only going to see Woody Marks. His opportunities are going to continue to grow. I encourage you to pick him up off the waiver. Last week, we were very aggress aggressive with him. I'm going to encourage you this week as well to do the same. Uh you can see the split from Woody Marx and Nick Chub from week 1 to week four. So it went from 85% in favor of Chubb week 2 80 week 3 60 and now you're seeing the change over only 40% of the opportunity split to Nick Chub to 60% to Woody Marks. That is what we love to see a young rookie that they traded for his opportunities growing over the course of a season. Uh, now yes, I might be biased because I am the one who owns um Woody Marks in the Flock League. I can recognize that. Maybe I am a little bit biased, but man, it's it's awesome to see. And if you own Nick Chub and you were like, "Maybe I could trade him for something." Nah, there you're not trading Nick Chub for anything worthwhile at this point.
Okay, we should talk about the Washington Commanders backfield because another week and it's disgusting again, right? If you're a Bill fan just like myself, we were hoping, you know, yes, he had injuries throughout the week. He was dealing with a knee injury, but the hope and the ideal situation was over the course of, you know, the next couple weeks he'll take that role. But here in week number four, it was the same news as as week number three. It was a full-on blown up three-way. And again, not a three-way you want to be a part of. Let's break it down. So, you can see Chris Rodriguez 20 snaps. JCM aka Bill 20 snaps. Jeremy McNichols 19 snaps. That is about as disgusting as it can get from a usage perspective. About as disgusting as it can possibly get. Now, Chris Rodriguez, seven carries. JCM, seven carries, but two targets. So, technically JCM leads the way in opportunities with nine, but this backfield is gross. Absolutely disgusting. The the hard part about this is JCM looks so freaking good, man. I mean, how can anybody watch the Commanders and not just be like, "Please, can we get Bill the ball? Get them. Let him touch the ball 15 times. Could he do what Woody Marks is doing for your offense?" I guess a little bit encouraging. He was used more in the passing game. Had two targets, caught both of them. 100% catch rate. At least that's encouraging. Averaged 6.7 yards per carry. Looked great. Looked dynamic. Looked explosive. But of course, Chris Rodriguez had the huge rushing uh you know, carry to start the game as well where he got all the way down the field. He averaged over eight yards per carry. Jeremy McNichols is hopefully he gets kind of phased out at some point, but it doesn't look like that's happening anytime soon. It is a fullblown three-way. We hate it. We hate it. We're going to have to be patient. We told you don't start any commanders this week on one of our videos, right? the seven moves to make video. I'm not sure I'm gonna change my answer next week. Again, if you look at this running back room, they're gonna face the Chargers. The good news is Jaden Daniels will be back. So, maybe the offense will look different. Maybe we'll get more clarity on JCM's role. But right now, it's a full-blown three-way, and if you don't get a touchdown, there's an incredibly low floor for all of these players. So, my panic on a JCM, I don't know, probably five out of 10. I'm concerned, but I still think at the end of the year, he's going to be the guy quote unquote to own. It's just it's taking it's going to take a lot longer than any of us wanted to if we're being 100% honest uh wanted to admit, right?
Okay, let's move on from the Commanders running backs. Let's just talk about all of the Cleveland Browns except for Quinn Sean Judkins. Okay, outside of Judkins, every other Brown is a solid panic right now. They faced uh the Detroit Lions here. So many turnovers for Joe Burrow or sorry not Joe Burrow, Joe Flacco. Joe Flacco two interceptions as well as a fumble. Hey, guess who was facing the Detroit Lions defense in the Flock League? This guy right here. My string of luck is continuing in the worst way imaginable. But at some point, you have to make a change here at quarterback. I mean, look at it. per week. We're talking two interceptions, three interceptions, four interceptions, six interceptions, and eight total turnovers in four weeks for Joe Flacco. Eight turnovers, four weeks for Joe Flacco. I would be absolutely shocked if we don't see Dylan Gabriel out there starting next week. What is the reason to start Joe Flacco anymore? You can't give me a good reason why you would start Joe Flacco. Now, obviously Cedric Tilman goes out with the hamstring, right? He didn't play for the rest of the game. That's bad news. Bears probably going to miss time. Jerry Judy, you know, despite being the main wide receiver there in week four in a matchup where they were, you know, garbage time opportunities coming back from behind, only nine targets. Well, only three receptions on nine targets, rather. Now, maybe there's a light at the end of the tunnel if it's Dylan Gabriel, but I don't know how we're excited about that, right? David and Jooku just three targets in a negative game script because Harold Fannon is an is an important part of this offense. Now the only way David and Jooku is a relevant fantasy football player this year in my opinion is if they trade him away of the from the Cleveland Browns. If they just say we love Harold Fannon so much we're going to trade away David and Jooku because until that happens there's the most disgusting split and you can't predict it from one week to the next. It's absolutely disgusting. completely gross and you don't want to be a part of it. That's just the honest God's honest truth. So, if we're talking about panic level for the entire Cleveland Browns except for Quinn Sean Judkins, eight out of 10, it's gross. Even in negative game scripts, you can't sell the dream of what could happen if they're down multiple scores and they have to throw. But thank God, if anybody's got you, it's Quinn Sean Judkins. Quinnon Judkins has got you. 25 touches in a negative game script, four targets, 82 rushing yards. I mean, tough defense in Green Bay. He plays really well. Tough defense versus Detroit. He plays even better, you could argue, even though he had a lower yards per carry. He is the offense. He is the focal point of the entire rushing attack. So Judkins, you're thrilled about everybody else on this team. You're pushing the panic butter. Should we make a new thing? Panic butter. You're pushing the panic button hoard.
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All right, last player we need to talk about today. And what I want to hear from you guys is tell me down below. Is there a player you think I missed? All right, let me know who are you the most panicked on in fantasy football. In fact, we actually I mean we went to Twitter and we wanted to hear from you guys. Now, we didn't get as many replies this week. I think it's maybe more obvious who we're panicking on, but I want to hear from you, right? So, come join us. Be a part of the video, be a part of the content. Um, but the last player I want to talk about here is a tight end, and that is Sam Laaporta. Now, Sam Laaporta is probably going under the radar because of how bad Jameson Williams has been for fantasy football, but he's been a pretty terrible pick as well. I mean, you probably drafted him fifth, sixth round in fantasy football expecting maybe I got a steal because it's Sam Leaporta. No, the reality is this offense, it's Jir Gibbs and a Monroe St. Brown. Nobody else is safe on a week- toeek basis. Yes, there's boom potial potential with Leaporta with Jameson Williams, but outside of those two names, anybody can bust at any moment. I heard it. I heard it. I apologize, but anybody can bust. and Sam Laora, four targets per game since week two. Consistently barely used, consistently mid for fantasy football. I mean, your sixth round pick is no better than streaming the tight end right now. So, I would say Panic is a solid six, six and a half, seven out of 10. Let me know what you guys think in the comments below. Now, of course, you're still going to start him, but you're not happy about it. Let's be real. But guys, I appreciate you watching the video. Do me a massive favor. Hit the like button. Did we reach 250? I don't know. With your help, we can get there. Subscribe uh if you want to be a part of the giveaway and I'll see you guys in the next video. Nothing but love.