Week 8 Fantasy Football Insights: Key Player Strategies

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00:00We'll start off with the Buffalo Bills, George, off a bye week. Can this team get it together,

00:05start scoring some points and covering some spreads? I don't know. Hasn't gone like that

00:09this season. But of course, you are playing Josh Allen and you certainly are playing James Cook,

00:14although Cook was a disappointment a couple of weeks ago. And boy, for the Panthers,

00:18this is just dicey at this point because things were going so well for you when you drafted

00:23Chuba Hubbard. And then things were going so bad for you when he got hurt and Rico Dowdle came in.

00:28And now the coach is saying that there's a timeshare going on there. The Panthers have

00:33the most valuable running back position in all of fantasy with Dowdle for a couple of weeks.

00:37But truth be told, George, I think they are making the right decision. Hubbard has been

00:41really good for them. They signed him to an extension. They're not just going to put him

00:45out to pasture. See, I don't think they're making the right decision. I'm not saying Dowdle should

00:50start, but you got to start one. You can't have them both going 12 carries. All right,

00:54Doug, running backs get better as the game goes along and they tire down defense in the second

00:57half. And listen, Dowdle was hard to be the backup, right? That's what he was signed for.

01:01If you want to give the job back to Chuba Hubbard, I don't mind that because it's not like that

01:06Hubbard was terrible. Hubbard was a good running back. So I don't mind going back to him, but

01:09then that's what you do. Go back to him. You can't play at both sides. It rarely works.

01:14Both guys don't get into that groove here. So it's easier said than done, mind you. I can

01:18say anything I want. It's tough because Dowdle's played so well. Rico, hey, you got 450 yards

01:22for two games. Thanks. You hit the pine, buddy. I get it. Tough. But I think as a coach,

01:29it's what you get paid for to make these decisions. If Hubbard's your guy and there's nothing wrong

01:33with him, he's healthy now, then this and Chuba, you're the guy. I'm sorry, Rico. Thank you for

01:37all you've done, but it's Chuba's job. Yeah. Look, it's just what's happening right now. There's

01:43no denying it that Carolina wants to use both guys. Okay. So Lamar Jackson puts the Ravens back

01:48on the map offensively. The Bears defense isn't great. The Ravens defense definitely isn't good.

01:53So this is one of those, as we would say, George, all hands on deck kind of games. I think for the

01:57Bears, you play their wide receivers, maybe even Caleb Williams this week over a lot of guys.

02:01And then certainly with Lamar Jackson back, maybe he can get the most finally out of Zay Flowers and

02:06Mark Andrews waiting on that. And George, like no discussion of Derrick Henry whatsoever this

02:11season. It's been a weird year. It has been a weird year. He was so good early on. They just

02:16have fallen off. Him and Saquon Barkley, right? I was worried about both these guys. Are they

02:21that guy anymore? But as you said, listen, you're playing Zay Flowers. Maybe you're not

02:26playing Mark Andrews. Maybe you can do better. We'll see. I can see you're not playing him,

02:30but everyone else is going here. Lamar Jackson is listed as questionable. Just check that.

02:33But I'd be surprised. He's a full participant today. Surprised if he doesn't play. You're

02:37playing Derrick Henry. Listen, Justice Hill, by him again, he could be a spot player as well

02:43if he needs somebody. I don't mind that. And as you said, Chicago, I have to start Caleb

02:47Williams in the league because my quarterback was Jaden Daniels. So Caleb's my backup. We'll

02:51see what he can do. But I feel okay about it against Baltimore. Once again, as you said,

02:55a defense has played very poorly this season.

02:57Bucca finally took one on the chain with the offense.

03:01You would expect this was a very competitive game. I would expect this one to bring in this

03:08one too. Bucca's a starter. Looks like Bucky Irving is out again. So Rashad White,

03:13I mean, George, is he RB1? Probably, right? Like, I mean, he scores every single week that

03:18Tampa Bay plays. So until Irving comes back, you got to play him. And we went through some

03:22other wide receiver options. Tess Johnson, Sterling Shepard. For the Saints, a little

03:27more complicated. They have to be competitive in order to pay dirt on fantasy. Alave with

03:32the big game last week. I mean, you would have thought Alvin Kamara would be the guy there

03:37a lot because they just basically don't have a lot of offensive weapons. But he hasn't done

03:41all that much. What was interesting for me, George, was to see, out of nowhere, Taysom

03:45Hill started getting more involved in the offense.

03:48I am not going down the Taysom Hill rabbit hole. Not doing it. All right? You want to

03:52go get him? I'm not dealing with that. No thanks. Kamara, he looks like he's at the end

03:58of his road. Maybe he needs to go to a team that's going to compete. But he already said

04:01he doesn't want to be traded here. So I don't know. Either way, I don't want much to do

04:04with Kamara there. I'm starting Alave. I'm starting Shahid. Jawan Johnson, who was hot

04:09earlier on, he's not doing anything. Tim Bate, it all comes down to the wide receivers

04:13here. Agbuka's plays, you start him here. I'm getting Shepard to start in the league

04:17as a flex. You know, once again, someone else has to catch the ball. I do have Otten

04:21starting over Kincaid in one league. For me, that's a 50-50 coin flip. You want to start

04:25Kincaid over him? It doesn't bother me. I just think Otten has a better chance of a touchdown

04:29this week.

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