Alvin Kamara's Big Game Against Panthers in Week 9 Expected

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00:00All right, next, let's move to a running back who, for a while, was helping everyone with

00:07the anytime touchdown.

00:08Then the team, I don't know, the wheels just fell off.

00:11Let's return to the team and to the running back.

00:13Joe, they have a soft matchup at Carolina, one would think.

00:18One would know.

00:19Talk about the Panthers, how bad they've been.

00:21They have been awful.

00:23They've allowed 15 touchdowns to opposing running backs this year, so if there's a lock

00:26bet of the week, it's Alvin Kamara to score a touchdown.

00:29Bet it.

00:30I don't care what the juice is.

00:31Put it with the over.

00:32We'll talk more about that in the fantasy prop segment in hour two.

00:34No other team, by the way, has given up more than 11, so 15.

00:39Big difference there.

00:40And Derek Carr's back, and this is the big difference, too.

00:42So Carr's going to do a much better job of moving this offense already.

00:45It's a good soft first matchup for that Carr return.

00:48Olave's back healthy, too.

00:50So Alvin Kamara's already had a very strong workload this year.

00:53It's hard to imagine he's not going to get that workload today.

00:56Kendrick Miller goes on IR.

00:59Williams is not healthy.

01:00So this is basically the Alvin Kamara show today, and you imagine they have a lead at

01:04some point in this game, too, and a lot more Alvin Kamara in the second half as you sit

01:08on that lead.

01:09So to get the lead, you have to score fantasy points, and then to hold that lead and just

01:12sit on the clock, you're going to get more fantasy points from Alvin Kamara.

01:15So Kamara, another great play.

01:17He is the ECR expert consensus ranked third running back in week nine, and you could argue

01:22maybe he should be one based on this matchup against the Carolina Panthers.

01:26You could even see multiple touchdowns.

01:27You could bet that first touchdown.

01:29There's a lot of ways to go at the Alvin Kamara situation today, but a really good start in

01:34fantasy this week.

01:35All right, let's pivot now to another running back, this time from Cleveland.

01:41They have the Chargers.

01:42What are your thoughts?

01:44Yeah, well, the Chargers on paper are a good run defense, but you have to also look at

01:49the schedule they played.

01:50And if you look at the first few weeks of the schedule they played, they didn't play

01:53a lot of teams that ran the football very well anyway, all season, anywhere.

01:58So I think it's a little bit of a misnomer.

01:59And this is why, you know, when we get to this point in the year, the data is so much

02:02easier to parse through because you can really say, well, this is not a good run team.

02:06That's not going to run team.

02:07So maybe they're not great against the run.

02:09Maybe they were just playing teams that aren't good at running the football.

02:11Because if you look a couple of weeks ago, James Connor ran for 101 on them, right?

02:16So now you got Nick Chubb, who, by the way, last week looked really good making jump cuts,

02:22making some big runs against the Ravens, the best run defense right now in the NFL.

02:28Nick Chubb is the only guy this season to run for more than 50 yards against the Ravens.

02:33Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

02:35Because right now, Nick Chubb is underpriced, underutilized, and he's got a buy coming up

02:40next week.

02:41So I expect basically a full workload from Nick Chubb in this game.

02:44I think he's got great touchdown equity.

02:46This could be that game where he kind of blows up and then week 10, you arrest him and then

02:51you come back for that stretch run, and all of a sudden, maybe the Cleveland Browns are

02:53not dead yet either.

02:54Right.

02:55All right.

02:56Let's button it up here.

02:57You talked with Glo of how much you love Matthew Stafford.

03:00He's got to throw the football to someone.

03:02Who's it going to be?

03:03Yeah, I think it's going to be Cooper Cup, a lot of Cooper Cup today.

03:06Big in-division matchup here.

03:08You're going to get a lot of Kyron Williams.

03:09You're still going to get Pukanukuwa.

03:10But because of the Pukanukuwa injury this week, I am going to favor Cup.

03:14If you want to do both, that's fine.

03:15In a DFS lineup, just go all in.

03:17You want to get Kyron involved too.

03:19That's perfectly acceptable.

03:21But in my opinion, I think you look at a really good matchup here.

03:26Seattle is one that, you know, they're just not good with the zone coverage.

03:32And that's something that Cooper Cup is just going to eat up.

03:34And I just think that's the guy that you want in these scenarios.

03:37So Matthew Stafford, Cooper Cup, that pairing is a really good one.

03:41If these two wide receivers can just stay on the field, the Rams are really in this

03:45thing.

03:46And this was one of the teams that we talked about.

03:47We said, you know, if it's not the 49ers, who is it?

03:49And we both thought the Rams might be that team when in August we were having this discussion.

03:53And then injuries kind of crushed those hopes and dreams.

03:57But the 49ers did not run away with this division.

03:59The 49ers have had their struggles as we thought they might.

04:02And now all of a sudden, we're looking at a spot where Seattle doesn't look like really

04:06that defense can compete.

04:08They've had injuries with DK Metcalf as well and Ken Walker at certain times.

04:12You never know who the Arizona Cardinals are.

04:14They've been plucky sometimes and other times underwhelming.

04:17Maybe just maybe the Rams are still in these things.

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