Should fantasy managers just give up on the Commanders offense?
Yahoo Fantasy's Matt Harmon and Justin Boone explain why the messy Commanders offense could be a fantasy minefield going forward. Check out the full conversation on the "Yahoo Fantasy Forecast" podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify or wherever you listen.
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Take the whole group and put them all into the coping corner at this point because this offense has not necessarily been good with Jayden Daniels out there.
Now we're talking about Jayden Daniels being out for an extended period, maybe out for the rest of the season, and I mean, I'm going to talk about Marcus Mariota when we get to the waiver wire section.
I'll spoil it right now.
I'm going to talk about Marcus Mariota as somebody that you can play, especially in good.
Matchups, a guy that can give you like 70, 75% of what Jayden Daniels does and could be potentially, you know, a decent QB2 streamer, sometimes have QB1 weeks, but that's production.
That's not overall what this offense is going to do week to week.
And when you go through like Harman, what am I missing here?
Like Terry McLorin's hurt and we haven't really seen much from him even when he has been out there this year.
Debo Samuel.
15 yards, 11 yards, 41 yards in his last three games.
And now he doesn't have Daniels throwing to him.
So that's a downgrade for him.
Zach Ertz is a touchdown or bust guy, and he tends to score his touchdowns when Jayden Daniels is the one throwing to him.
Now he's not going to have that either.
I mean, Bill Crosky Merritt, he hasn't scored more than 6 fantasy points in a game over a month.
Like, I don't think the Lions this week are going to be the defense that he's going to do it against.
Like their run defense is very strong.
Then they have a by coming in week 12, so you factor that into like their fantasy outlook the rest of the way here.
And yeah, there's going to be some games, right?
Like I'm looking at the schedule.
The Dolphins in week 11, the Giants in week 15, the Cowboys in week 17.
We'll give some consideration to playing.
Some of these guys potentially in those games, but they're all going to be downgraded from where we had them previously this season.
And I just don't think this offense is going anywhere without Jayden Daniels because it wasn't really going anywhere with Jayden Daniels.
So to me, it's take the whole group and let's let them join the coping corner, which is becoming a huge, huge group at this point.
100% co-sign everything you said there.
The season's over.
If Jayden Daniels is not coming back this year, and at this point, you're gonna lose a few games here, he probably should not come back this year.
The whole group goes in the coping corner.
This is one of those offenses that we can just start to cross off.
You can't completely because look, the player pool is the player pool, but yeah, Debo Samuel, who was kind of the best part of this passing game with Terry McLorin in and out of the lineup, he started to slow down, which is kind of That's, that's Debo Samuel.
Like he, he's a guy who once he starts picking up injuries, the play starts to decline because he plays so physical and plays that brand of football where he gets banged up.
And that, that's a much more exciting role, him as that move around slot guy, when you have someone who could take the top off the defense and Terry McLorin, you have a great quarterback.
You have neither right now.
So, and Bill Crossky Merritt, I mean, I feel like we've said it.
He, he definitely is a guy that He's just a two down banger back on a bad team.
That's not a great fantasy bad.
It's just not.
