The Game Plan For The Week 6 (#FantasyFootball)

Fine readers of the Going For 2 fanbase my name is @TheBLeagueSays and I am 100% behind a Todd Monken offense, it’s time… In this week‘s ‘The Game Plan For The Week’, I will give to you some plays to make in regards to your Fantasy teams weekly roster construction, DFS selections or Dynasty evaluations.

So before we get started, Thank you, and enjoy!

Slant Route

Who is trending up this week: 

Seattle stands up as Tyler Lockett and Russell Wilson take a bow.

Russell, I no longer care if you throw it only 20 times a game, your 20 passes are better than the 60 passes Jared Goff has been offering up lately and I’ll take that to the bank. And Tyler Lockett. Good lord. Just spectacular! There is a reason why he is our consensus WR21 at Going For 2, which is something post season I believe will rise closer to the WR1 marker when this year is in the books.

Seattle can look dangerous from any play they choose. D.K. Metcalf looks as advertised, and Chris Carson is a workhorse, despite ‘the community’ pounding their beliefs this offseason for Rashaad Penny being the real deal this offseason because Mike Davis left and ‘all of them free touches’ and so on, and so on. It’s clear that Pete Carroll doesn’t work that way: he’s clearly a Chris Carson guy. Even Will Dissly, who was the darling Tight End for the first four weeks of the 2018 season looks to be a guy that you can now trust weekly moving forward for the rest of the year.

They’re on the road at Cleveland this week and are slight favorites on the books. And the way the Browns are playing why won’t they get the win on the road?

Flat Route

The bubble has burst on:

Dallas, who are 0-2 lately and that’s thanks to conference rivals in New Orleans and Green Bay and have beaten (wouldn’t you believe it) the ‘bottom of the barrel’ in Arizona, the New York Giants (lead by Eli Manning, not Daniel Jones) and Miami. Could it be fair to say that ‘gut check time’ is here? It’s time they get themselves together and prove every doubter that they are for real, and face a tough test in…. the New York Jets. Yes, those NY Jets. The winless… New York… Jets…Whose Quarterback is recovering… From mono… 

Yikes. Unfortunately, the Cowboys have very few tests coming up, they get Minnesota (although at home on Monday Night Football which means they also get Kirk Cousins in a prime time game lol) in Week 10 and the Patriots in Week 12 at Foxborough.

Now you could tell me that the Eagles are a team that is competitive, but at this point, they just look like Dallas but in green uniforms and are a little further east who although beat the Packers a week ago also lost to Detroit at home a week before that – so stop with how great they are, please.

Comeback Route

Who will recover after a poor performance in the previous week:

The L.A. Chargers must – MUST – must make a quick bounceback to get back to .500 against a third-string Quarterback (I won’t even pretend to know his name) in Pittsburgh, as Mason Rudolph likely won’t play this week due to concussion. Forget the Steelers right now this isn’t about them; there are teams in the AFC who sit at 2-3 who aren’t showing up consistently (what’s up Cleveland, Jacksonville, and Tennessee) who all need to step up if they want that playoff birth. To make it worse they also need to pull back the Oakland Raiders (cant believe I’m saying this) who are on their Bye this week and are 3-2 in the West which gives the Chargers a chance to catch up. It’s also not often that the Chiefs lose one game (and potentially two in a row *SPOILER* see the Hail Mary below), but the chances to keep that division tight doesn’t come often, so for me getting the chocolates at Heinz Field is the start of that quest.

It’s chalky, but the Chargers DST on Draft Kings should be a must-start at $3300, which seems like a safe bet to create havoc in Prime Time Sunday night.

Screen Route

The contrarian play of the week:

The Titans are a team that wins games when they shouldn’t (like Cleveland and Atlanta, both away games), and lose when they probably shouldn’t either (like Indianapolis and Buffalo at home and at Jacksonville). 

This week they head to Denver, a tough place for any team to visit who themselves had a big win against conference rival the L.A. Chargers. Denver piled it on early and offered little else, but Phillip Lindsay and Courtland Sutton were on the money and showed signs of life for a team directed by Joe Flacco. 

The Titans are +2.5 with the spread and I believe a lot of this game will be slow and grinding and right now the ‘Under’ is set at 39 seems a safe bet. Any lower and I think I would fade, but right now I like the Titans at that price (odds via mybookie.ag).

Out Route

Who am I completely off this week:

Teddy Bridgewater got his groove back this week pinging 4 strikes to the heart of Tampa, and the Jaguars could be minus Jalen Ramsey for another week due to back injury, I can imagine he has himself another day at Jacksonville this week. The Saints are fine, but it’s the Jaguars I want no piece of. D.J. Chark maybe getting the Marshon Lattimore treatment, Dede Westbrook has been fine but I’m not sure he can be fully trusted unless it’s in deep leagues and the Saints run defense is currently the 6th best in the league, which makes Leonard Fournette – although a must start – a tough start to watch.

However, Geoff Swaim has been recruited this offseason and James O’Shaughnessy is now done for the year so if you do happen to fade the Tight End position in DFS, Swaim is a cheap play at $2900 who you could plug in and hope for the best with. Only Will Dissly (7-6-62-1) and Jason Witten (4-4-40) have given you much in these matchups, so expecting a lot may be nearsighted – but it is still a cheap option to look for. But in the same game, Jared Cook is priced at $3400 on Draft Kings and I would rather that if we are being honest.

The 9 Route

A straight forward confidence play of the week:

I’ll keep this as short as the Bengals win streak and as sweet the Ravens run game who come up against the second-worst run defense in the NFL, that coughs up roughly 38 points per game to the Running Back position and roughly 20 points per game to the Quarterback position.

Start Lamar Jackson.

Start Mark Ingram.

Flex Gus Edwards.

Hail Mary Play Of The Week

Kansas was pushed by Detroit two weeks ago and was done by Indianapolis on the ground fairly aggressively in Week 5. 

These are teams that they should be burying. But that isn’t the case, and they now get the Texans, who look to be back to their high flying best. This could be the points bonanza game that it looks like, and without Tyreek Hill, Sammy Watkins and half a running back committee because it looks like no one in that backfield is ever healthy, I’ll take the Texans with the +4.5 points and the overs currently set at 55 in this one, where they put Kansas down for back-to-back losses.

Carlos Hyde (60 yards and a touchdown against Atlanta) has been a surprise packet this year, and after seeing Marlon Mack punch his ticket for 132 yards this past week he could be in line for a big workload.  Nyheim Hines also had a 4-4-46 day receiving out of the backfield also against the Chiefs last week, which makes Duke Johnson Jr enticing too.

The Colts were banged up heading into the game while missing some key defenders, and T.Y. Hilton and Marlon Mack were late starts too, but the Texans are healthy with Will Fuller and Keke Coutee hitting their strides.

And the scary part? 

It’s taken to get to the end of the ‘hail mary’ play before I even mention how ruthless Deshaun Watson looked and how elite DeAndre Hopkins is – if they fire like they did last week, this could be a rough night for the Chiefs who have been sputtering along (ever so slightly) of late.

And there you have it!

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