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Speaker 1: Here's your host, Paul Jarge. It's a week two edition
Speaker 1: of Fantasy Football Weekly. So many questions answered, finally after
Speaker 1: Week one. We've been speculating for six months about what
Speaker 1: might happen in Week one.
Speaker 2: Now we know.
Speaker 1: My co hosts today, Scott Fish and Brian Johnson back
Speaker 1: in studio.
Speaker 2: What's up boys? You know I have to fly in
Speaker 2: for Sam Darnold's home debut. Yeah. Absolutely, I'm looking around
Speaker 2: the studio for my tickets, though, why you gotta go
Speaker 2: get some? I could have sworn Sam himself would have
Speaker 2: sent me some. By now I'm really been supportive and
Speaker 2: there's more to come in this episode, by the way,
Speaker 2: but happy to be here.
Speaker 1: We'll learn more about Sam Darnold and talk more about
Speaker 1: him later in the show. We're gonna break down all
Speaker 1: fifteen of the games we left on the slate. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go through Take a chance with me like always? Well,
Speaker 1: answer three tough questions and we'll give you some premature speculation.
Speaker 1: There's a lot to get to over the course of
Speaker 1: the show, and guys, with fifteen games, we got to
Speaker 1: jump right into it to it beginning with Scott Fish. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Chargers taking on the Panthers. JK. Dobbins a bit of
Speaker 1: a revel Lakes in week one. Feels like the good
Speaker 1: times are gonna keep coming against the Panthers.
Speaker 3: It feels like it. I almost gave him an A grade.
Speaker 3: I gave him a B grade, but I can easily
Speaker 3: see it being in A grade. I think part of
Speaker 3: me worries that Gus Edwards is gonna take twelve carries again,
Speaker 3: even though he was looking not productive. He looked completely done.
Speaker 3: Eighteen percent success rate on that two point three yards
Speaker 3: per touch and Gus Edwards no touches inside the ten.
Speaker 3: So I got Gus on the bench. Gave a B
Speaker 3: to JK. Dobbins, who, uh, thirteen point five yards per touch.
Speaker 3: That's not gonna happen again. And he was caught down
Speaker 3: from behind, much like briese All was coming off freest
Speaker 3: Hall's injury a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: Now he was caught from behind on that long run
Speaker 1: but I'll note, Yeah, he got clocked at twenty miles
Speaker 1: an hour yeap, which I did not think. JK. Dobbins
Speaker 1: had just ran out of gas.
Speaker 3: The eyeball say that the camp pipe and the steady
Speaker 3: offseason drum beat was real, and Carolina just gave up
Speaker 3: one hundred and seventy two total yards and two scores
Speaker 3: to Kamara and Jamal Williams. So great.
Speaker 1: Somebody had mentioned Jamal Williams. Yeah, that's a potential take
Speaker 1: a chance.
Speaker 3: On me playing. Yeah, yeah, good job on that.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, I had JK. Dobbins as my take a
Speaker 1: chance on me player. Okay, I think Mistermal Williams my premature.
Speaker 3: I don't know anyway, just just keep pickocking and ex
Speaker 3: put that on loop for the rest of the show.
Speaker 3: Justin Herbert, I'm giving a C grade too, and I
Speaker 3: could barely give him that because I feel like they
Speaker 3: get ahead of Carolina and Harbaugh's just going to run
Speaker 3: the game out. Justin Herbert, last week the second lowest
Speaker 3: passing yards and second lowest pass attempts of his career
Speaker 3: when playing a full game. That is the Jim Harbaugh effect.
Speaker 3: I'm a little worried too, but Carola just gave three
Speaker 3: scores to car The Saints changed dough season went pre
Speaker 3: snap motion a ton, so maybe that was part of it.
Speaker 3: But last week the Panthers had the lowest pressure rate
Speaker 3: in the NFL, so they're not going to even get
Speaker 3: to get to Herbert. So he's going to be able
Speaker 3: there to be to pick him apart at the times
Speaker 3: he does throw. Given a C grade to Ladd McConkie,
Speaker 3: who seems to be the number one wide receiver there
Speaker 3: for the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Well, it helps the Charks out and Palmer's hurt.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, Palmer's hurt might not play well. We'll see
Speaker 3: if he goes. If he doesn't, Brendan Rice will come in.
Speaker 3: But I got them on the bench. Quentin Johnson, despite
Speaker 3: the five targets and a really high first read target percentage,
Speaker 3: I have him on the bench. I just can't trust
Speaker 3: him yet. I know that he's got the large A dot,
Speaker 3: but Ladd McConkie seems to be the volume guy that
Speaker 3: he's going to go to. None of McConkie's targets went
Speaker 3: twenty plus air yards though, so it's a lot of
Speaker 3: short stuff. But in PPR you're liking the reception, so
Speaker 3: c grade on McConkie, hayden Hurst not volume to really
Speaker 3: do anything with there, so he's still on the bench.
Speaker 1: Are there any Panthers to start Scott.
Speaker 3: No, there's not. I don't have a single one. Miles
Speaker 3: Sanders and Chuba Hubbard are splitting. It was eleven touches
Speaker 3: to ten. You know, Hubbard did more snaps, but he
Speaker 3: didn't even get a target, so they're splitting too much.
Speaker 3: The offense. I mean, Bryce Young completed under half his passes.
Speaker 3: It was all spread around and Xavier Legette look decent.
Speaker 3: It might be something to keep an eye on there,
Speaker 3: but he just ran twenty three routes fifty nine percent
Speaker 3: of the snaps. But he led the team in targets,
Speaker 3: so he was barely on the field, but he got
Speaker 3: a bunch of targets. Deanty Johnson is the one people
Speaker 3: are probably most interested in, but he was second in targets,
Speaker 3: but he only got two of them, and the aid
Speaker 3: out was really low. You need a lot of volume
Speaker 3: if you have an eight out that low, and he
Speaker 3: just wasn't getting it. So I got him all on
Speaker 3: the bench.
Speaker 1: I don't blame him. Saints take on the Cowboys. Brian
Speaker 1: Obviously a massive delta between last week's opponent the Panthers
Speaker 1: this week's defense the Cowboys. Mike Zimmer's defense looked awesome
Speaker 1: last week. So which Saints do you dare start in
Speaker 1: a much tougher game?
Speaker 2: Got a few worth starting, but like you said, definitely
Speaker 2: a tougher matchup in the Cowboys than they saw in
Speaker 2: the Panthers last week. Starting with the Alvin Kamara gonna
Speaker 2: give him a bee. We saw a vintage Kamara in
Speaker 2: Week one, but again, Cowboys will be a much tougher
Speaker 2: test than the poorest Panthers were. That said, Jerome Ford
Speaker 2: touched the ball twenty plus times against the Cowboys last week.
Speaker 2: Kamara should do the same volume wise, So seems like
Speaker 2: a safe bea to me here, always active in the
Speaker 2: passing game. Going to start him with confidence while you
Speaker 2: can while he's healthy early in the season. Chris o'lave
Speaker 2: can give him a ce. He was not startable in
Speaker 2: Week one, only saw two targets that was not his fault.
Speaker 2: The game script fell out of his favor pretty quick.
Speaker 2: He was a lost Sunday for him. It could be
Speaker 2: the case this week against the Cowboys, but for very
Speaker 2: different reasons. The Cowboys gave up the second fewest wide
Speaker 2: receiver touchdowns last year with eleven. Only two wideouts were
Speaker 2: able to reach one hundred undred yards against Dallas all
Speaker 2: season last year. I was borderlininging a bench olave. But
Speaker 2: a guy you took in the second round, I think
Speaker 2: he got to roll him out there, and the Saints
Speaker 2: will be chasing points presumably presumably the other way exactly,
Speaker 2: And for that reason, I'm sticking sticking with Rashid Shiheed
Speaker 2: with the starting grade. As the see had a big
Speaker 2: game last week, he got, he got the party started
Speaker 2: for the Staints again. A bad much worse matchup this
Speaker 2: week against the Cowboys, But the Saints will need to
Speaker 2: pass in this game, and they will take shots downfield
Speaker 2: with the Shiheed, so he gets the soft sea. Juwan
Speaker 2: Johnson Foster Moreau that tight end both scored last week,
Speaker 2: but both are on the bench this week. The Cowboys
Speaker 2: allowed the fewest receptions to tight ends last year, and
Speaker 2: there's clearly a rotation going on that also includes Taysom
Speaker 2: Hill kind of, but I always give Taysom Hill a
Speaker 2: bench grade. You can start him at your own risk,
Speaker 2: but you cannot predict what Taysom Hill is going to do.
Speaker 2: He's a DFS flyer in my mind, and Derek Carr
Speaker 2: solid game against the Panthers, but he's not playing the
Speaker 2: pay Yeah he was. Probably he's the top three quarterback
Speaker 2: last week. Probably not gonna happen this week against Dallas.
Speaker 2: I got him on the bench. There are better options
Speaker 2: out there over to the Cowboys side, starting with Ezekiel
Speaker 2: Elliott and Rico Dowdell. I have both on the bench
Speaker 2: in this game. Here are the rush attempts for each
Speaker 2: last week. Zeke had nine, Dowdell had eight. Z had
Speaker 2: two targets. Dowdell had two targets. Something called hunter loop
Speaker 2: Key was also targeted twice. And opposing running backs scored
Speaker 2: against the Saints only nine times last year. So bad
Speaker 2: matchup for Zeke and Dowdell. They are bench.
Speaker 1: It's the edge though, because of the goal line case. Yes,
Speaker 1: I would give see if I had to pick.
Speaker 2: One, if you had to pick one, but I'm going
Speaker 2: elsewhere if I can Ceedee Lamb automatic a not getting
Speaker 2: into that regardless of opponent. Brandon Cook's gonna give him
Speaker 2: a c. Jalen Tolbert was to be stealing targets from
Speaker 2: Brandon Cooks this year. That has not been the case
Speaker 2: so far. Cook saw seven targets to Tolbert's one in
Speaker 2: the opener, So Tolbert is on the bench, Cooks gets
Speaker 2: to see and uh, this is the og revenge game
Speaker 2: for Brandon Cooks against his first original team. Brandon Cooks
Speaker 2: qualifies for like four revenge games at this point. I'm
Speaker 2: not there, but this is the most important one. And lastly,
Speaker 2: for the pass catchers, Jake Ferguson looked like he suffered
Speaker 2: a season ending knee injury last week, but he has
Speaker 2: not been ruled out as of the recording of this show.
Speaker 2: But even if he plays, I can't trust him to finish.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna bench out. Yes, you need to.
Speaker 2: You need to plan for a backup plan for Jake Ferguson.
Speaker 2: And lastly, Dak Prescott just to see here, another tough
Speaker 2: matchup for Dak. The Saints allowed the tenth lowest yards
Speaker 2: per attempt and the ninth fewest fantasy points per game
Speaker 2: to quarterbacks last year, but Dak tough to bench gets
Speaker 2: to see.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's move over to Raiders taking on the
Speaker 1: Ravens and the disappointing start for Zamir White. Yeah, expected
Speaker 1: more carries. Alexander Madison very involved in the passing game,
Speaker 1: is the third down back. But here's here's why I've
Speaker 1: still got to see great on Zimir White. The Ravens
Speaker 1: have a great pass defense. We'll talk about a little
Speaker 1: bit more. They finished the Pro Football Focuses Number two
Speaker 1: coverage defense last year, and then last week, despite playing
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, they finished as Pro Football Focuses Number three
Speaker 1: pass defense. The path of least resistance for the Raiders
Speaker 1: is on the ground, and Antonio Pierce is gonna run
Speaker 1: the ball a lot in this game. I'm convinced of it.
Speaker 1: Last week, Pierce got away from running the ball and
Speaker 1: he lost. Through one game, Baltimore ranks thirtieth in run
Speaker 1: stuff win rate. I'm just convinced Pierce is gonna go
Speaker 1: back to being who he is and he's gonna run
Speaker 1: the ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they got they got like three defensive players out too,
Speaker 3: like vet NEI might not play. Then one of their
Speaker 3: pass rushers might not play too.
Speaker 1: So let's I'm not giving up on Zamir Wait. I'm
Speaker 1: giving another start here. Let's go to the passing game, well, well,
Speaker 1: stay with the running game for a second. Madison. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna chase last week's box score, but let's not.
Speaker 1: Madison has emerged as the third down back. Is on
Speaker 1: the field for all ten of the Raiders plays at
Speaker 1: long down and distant situations last week. So I didn't
Speaker 1: see this coming for Alexander Madison, but that's what we
Speaker 1: have through one game. That's not enough usage for him
Speaker 1: to start against a good Ravens pass defense. Speaking of
Speaker 1: the good Ravens pass defense, Devonte Adams a rare B
Speaker 1: grade to the level of difficulty in a matchup against
Speaker 1: those excellent secondary they've got in Baltimore, Marlon Humphrey, Kyle
Speaker 1: Hamilton's awesome and then first round rookie Nate Wiggins in
Speaker 1: his first start last week against Patrick Mahomes gave up
Speaker 1: one catch in his coverage. That's it. So I do
Speaker 1: not love DeVante Adams here. How about Brock Bauers. I
Speaker 1: love the playing time from week one. He ran thirty
Speaker 1: one routes, saw whopping seven targets, he caught six of those,
Speaker 1: and to really nobody's surprise, Bowers looks legit. Ravens gave
Speaker 1: up seventy one yards to Noah Gray and Travis Kelcey
Speaker 1: last week. So we're gonna keep a starting great on
Speaker 1: Bowers with a C grade Jacoby Myers, who this show
Speaker 1: loves Jacoby Myers.
Speaker 3: Yep, yeah we do.
Speaker 1: But I don't love this matchup. He lines up a
Speaker 1: little more than half of the time in the slot,
Speaker 1: which should line him up primarily against star hybrid safety
Speaker 1: Kyle Hamilton, who I mentioned before. Last week. Weirdly, Hamilton
Speaker 1: didn't line up in the slot very much despite the
Speaker 1: fact that Rashid Rice was eating up that defense. I
Speaker 1: wonder if they don't shift Hamilton more into the slot
Speaker 1: for this one to try to defend Myers. But still,
Speaker 1: I kind of like him, and he's a good player.
Speaker 1: I'm keeping a SE grade on him.
Speaker 3: Can I start a position that you now call him
Speaker 3: should have been a Viking? Kyle Hamilton, Just stop tearing
Speaker 3: my heart out with that.
Speaker 1: And so that leaves us with Gardner Minshew clocks into
Speaker 1: the SEA grade. I've got b's, I've got a B
Speaker 1: in two C grades. Gardner Minshew look capable last week,
Speaker 1: not special. He probably finishes at a similar box score
Speaker 1: like two hundred and forty yards and a touchdown C
Speaker 1: grade for him to go to the Baltimore side. Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson obviously a grade. We're not going to spend time
Speaker 1: on him. The real question in this passing game what
Speaker 1: to do with your tight ends? Yes, I'm going a
Speaker 1: grade and Isaiah Likely. Okay, we've loved him for four years.
Speaker 1: We loved him in the preseason of his rookie year.
Speaker 1: He was the highest scoring tight end in Week one.
Speaker 1: He looks like a focal point for the Ravens offense.
Speaker 1: He dominated Mark Andrews last Thursday, walked away with an
Speaker 1: amazing nine point nine out of ten utilization score by
Speaker 1: Dwayne McFarlane. He got thirty four percent of the team's targets,
Speaker 1: forty percent of the air yards, and posted a nine
Speaker 1: point four a dot, which is awfully impressive. I don't
Speaker 1: know why you wouldn't go back to Likely.
Speaker 2: So I'm and a second touchdown missed by a literal toe. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's legit.
Speaker 1: So what to do with Mark Andrews? Then I'm not
Speaker 1: benching him. No, I'm going to keep him as a
Speaker 1: C grade here because I think he's too good a
Speaker 1: player and.
Speaker 3: The Chiefs have always done that to Mark Andrews.
Speaker 1: That's a good point too. They bracketed him constantly. I
Speaker 1: saw a break down of a bunch of clips and
Speaker 1: they were.
Speaker 3: Just they double covered. He got double covered the highest
Speaker 3: percentage of his plays in the last three years in
Speaker 3: that game. Oh wait, yep, oh.
Speaker 1: That's great data. So you know, we know Mark anderws
Speaker 1: is but he's you know, rare times that he's healthy.
Speaker 1: I just I'm not I'm not gonna bench him here.
Speaker 1: The Raiders are not going to, I think, do that
Speaker 1: same kind of bracket coverage and just leave Isaiah likely
Speaker 1: to run free. So I think you'll see a lot
Speaker 1: less coverage. See grad and Mark Andrews, Zay Flowers. I
Speaker 1: love that he got eight targets in the opener, but
Speaker 1: I need him to be farther than four yards downfield.
Speaker 1: It's hard to accumulate fantasy points like you were just saying,
Speaker 1: Scott at four yards a clip. Tricky matchup against Las
Speaker 1: Vegas's corners Nate Hobbs and Jack Jones, who combined to
Speaker 1: allow fourteen yards in their coverage in Week one. Raider
Speaker 1: secondary is sneaky competent, and then Rashod Bateman. I've got
Speaker 1: on the bench. It's a tricky matchup. I liked that
Speaker 1: he was on the field a lot and that they
Speaker 1: targeted him deep. His aight out was like twenty eight
Speaker 1: yards or those things. Yeah, jeez, but need I need
Speaker 1: Rashod Bateman to have an easier matchup before throwing darts
Speaker 1: on him. Then, lastly, Derrick Henry. Raven's offensive line looked
Speaker 1: discombobulated last week, and Henry really he needs good blocking
Speaker 1: to be effective. He needs lanes to run through. The
Speaker 1: Raiders gave up two big plays at JK. Dobbins, but
Speaker 1: otherwise actually looked very stout against the run. They dominated
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards, and they finished with Pro Football focuses fifth
Speaker 1: ranked run defense and ESPN's eighth best run stuff win rate.
Speaker 1: So I'm only gonna be great on Derrick Henry here
Speaker 1: until I see that Ravens offensive line looked a little
Speaker 1: bit better than it did last week. When we come back,
Speaker 1: take a chance on me nine players not normally in
Speaker 1: your starting lineup. We'll give you some sneaky plays that
Speaker 1: you can use for week number two. Back in moments,
Speaker 1: take a chance on me nine players you would not
Speaker 1: normally start, but this week for various reasons. All plausible
Speaker 1: starters would begin at the quarterback position.
Speaker 3: Scott Fish before we do. That song is really growing
Speaker 3: on me. But I didn't realize that line is well,
Speaker 3: thanks Robbie. That line is when you're with me, you
Speaker 3: always smile or something like, it's really arrogant, arrogant.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know about that.
Speaker 3: All right, all right, at quarterback. I have Baker Mayfield
Speaker 3: highest over under the week, playing the lines this week
Speaker 3: at fifty two points, only sixty six percent roster twenty
Speaker 3: six percent started. I think you need to get in
Speaker 3: get him in there. Three hundred and forty nine yards
Speaker 3: and three scores in their playoff matchup a year ago
Speaker 3: or in the playoffs. I suppose that was earlier this
Speaker 3: year in January. Four scores last week, and reports where
Speaker 3: he was out of shape last year because the new baby,
Speaker 3: it's clear he is back to being in fall shape.
Speaker 3: And Matthew Stafford just tagged the Lions for three hundred yards.
Speaker 3: So I think this is a good spot for Baker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, Really like Baker, loved what we saw
Speaker 1: in week one. Happy for his development as a pro too. Brian,
Speaker 1: you're taking chance with me quarterback.
Speaker 2: You know, I gotta go with Sam Donald. I've been
Speaker 2: taken a chance on him since the spring. I know
Speaker 2: it's not the best matchup in the forty nine ers,
Speaker 2: but hey, the Vikings beat the forty nine ers at
Speaker 2: home last year. And you know who was playing for
Speaker 2: the forty nine ers last year, mister McCaffrey, Sam Donald,
Speaker 2: Sam Donald, I think playing well, he was watching. He
Speaker 2: was watching the defense a whole lot. You put it
Speaker 2: that way, So still forty nine er a revenge game.
Speaker 2: He's gonna prove the forty nine ers kept the wrong
Speaker 2: quarterback too. Sorry brock Perty, but Sam Donald's a baller,
Speaker 2: said it all summer. He can play and this is
Speaker 2: for that's real chance in the NFL. Best wide receiver
Speaker 2: in the world. No Jordan Nadison. That hurts, but hey,
Speaker 2: the Jets quarterbacks combined for two passing touchdowns last week,
Speaker 2: one being Tyrod Taylor. That's the safe floor for Sam Darnold. Baby,
Speaker 2: let's go.
Speaker 1: Justin Fields takes on Denver and really sad that we
Speaker 1: don't get the Russell Wilson revenge game against the team
Speaker 1: that tried to extort him last year and is now
Speaker 1: currently paying Russell Wilson salary to go beat them. I
Speaker 1: really wanted this to revenge that revenge game. But we'll
Speaker 1: go with Justin Fields instead. Last week third most quarterback
Speaker 1: rushes fourteen. But I think in addition to legs, I
Speaker 1: think his arm chips and some help here. Fields played
Speaker 1: the Broncos last year. I guess er happened to remember
Speaker 1: what he did three hundred yards and four. I didn't
Speaker 1: think Fields ever had a game that good through the air.
Speaker 1: That's an amazing stat. Broncos ranked thirty second in coverage
Speaker 1: last year by Pro Football Focus, and after one week
Speaker 1: they ranked twenty second last week, and that was against
Speaker 1: a Seahawks team that could bear field and offensive line.
Speaker 1: Justin Fields might take a chance on me quarterback. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the running back position, Scott.
Speaker 3: So I did have Tank Bigsby, but then I thought
Speaker 3: to myself, I can't do that to charge that stake Churches, guy,
Speaker 3: I just gotta I gotta walk away from that. So
Speaker 3: I'm picking Tank. But no, I'm just kidding. I'm vicking.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Bucky Irving. In that same shootout,
Speaker 3: the Tampa Bay Detroit shootout, he was much more effective
Speaker 3: on the ground than White, but White was much more
Speaker 3: effective through the air. Bucky Irving last week among running
Speaker 3: backs was number one in explosive run rate six point
Speaker 3: nine yards per carry. If he can get ten ten carries,
Speaker 3: ten twelve carries in this what is likely to be
Speaker 3: a very high scoring game, he can do something for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with I thought. I thought the passed Bucky
Speaker 1: Irving passed the eye test for sure.
Speaker 3: My Son's sleeper from the preseason show, right, I love it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely, Uh, Brian, you're taking chance at me?
Speaker 2: Running back I got Denver is Julie McLoughlin against the
Speaker 2: Steelers at home in Denver, I mean McGlaughlin at home.
Speaker 2: McLoughlin was slightly outsnapp by Javonte Williams in Week one,
Speaker 2: but he was the clear pass catching option as he
Speaker 2: saw the second most targets among all Broncos. Rookie quarterback
Speaker 2: Bo Nicks had an a dot of a measly five
Speaker 2: point eight yards in his debut. That's balls seared right
Speaker 2: into Juliel's wheelhouse. I like to call that the Jaleel house.
Speaker 2: So Julila McLoughlin, let's go.
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard takes on the Jets. The Jets pass defense
Speaker 1: remains awesome. They bottled up Rock Purty. The path of
Speaker 1: least resistance against the Jets is on the ground, and
Speaker 1: we saw it on Monday night. And Lord knows, the
Speaker 1: Titans do not want to rely and will Levis for
Speaker 1: a win. If they want to win, they need to
Speaker 1: be able to run the ball. Here, Pollard dominated the
Speaker 1: snap counts and rushing attempts over Tajy Spears, which broke
Speaker 1: my heart. But that's just the reality of it. And
Speaker 1: then he chipped in four targets, which I did not
Speaker 1: expect from Tony Pollard. He averaged five yards per carry
Speaker 1: in the opener, and the Jets allowed Jordan Mason to
Speaker 1: run for five yards per carry last week. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get five yards per carry out of Pollard.
Speaker 3: In this game.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have a nice one, he would. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the the receivers.
Speaker 3: Sure, I'm going to the second highest scoring potential game
Speaker 3: on the DOC with the second highest over under at
Speaker 3: forty nine points. That's the Arizona Los Angeles Rams game,
Speaker 3: where I'm going to one of my preseason sleepers. Michael Wilson,
Speaker 3: who scored last week, ran around on ninety two percent
Speaker 3: of their d dropbacks. He plays the Jamison Williams role,
Speaker 3: and we know Jamison Williams just torched the same Rams
Speaker 3: team last week.
Speaker 1: Just a good spot for him, all right, you're receiver,
Speaker 1: Brian I.
Speaker 2: Got the Jets Allen Lazard at Tennessee. Lazard and Garrett
Speaker 2: Wilson were the only wide receivers targeted in Week one
Speaker 2: for the Jets. Lazard was targeted at healthy nine times,
Speaker 2: nine times, one which went for a touchdown. The Bears
Speaker 2: wideouts didn't do much, didn't do much against Tennessee last week,
Speaker 2: but they were operating with a rookie quarterback in his debut.
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers is as old as two rookies combined, and
Speaker 2: he obviously has a strange obsession. He is, and he
Speaker 2: has a strange obsession with shrooms, lizards and lizard's.
Speaker 1: Blizards and blazards. How is it with all the animal
Speaker 1: sounds we've got available to us?
Speaker 2: What is a wizard?
Speaker 1: What is a How do we have no aliblizard? I
Speaker 1: guess probably because we don't know it sound a lizard?
Speaker 2: I am the lizard King. I can do anything. Scott,
Speaker 2: how do.
Speaker 1: You like Jalen McMillan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I like him. I went off board
Speaker 3: with him in the pre season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you did, baby, and he got paid for a
Speaker 1: touchdown in the first and by the way, could have
Speaker 1: been two touchdowns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you saw that, you know.
Speaker 1: So, Tampa's got Mike Evans, They've got Chris Godwin, and
Speaker 1: then they've got Jalen McMillan, who led the team in
Speaker 1: snaps and rounds run at the wide receiver position in
Speaker 1: his NFL debut.
Speaker 3: Be a problem.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be a problem, and maybe this week against
Speaker 1: Detroit he's going to be frequently running against rookie cornerback
Speaker 1: Terrrian Arnold for Detroit, who allowed eight catches in his
Speaker 1: NFL debut last week. Jalen McMillan, I like him in
Speaker 1: this spot. Let's work in a couple more matchups. Scott,
Speaker 1: back to you. Brown's taking on the Jaguars. Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: looked awful, He looked disinterested. He I saw a player
Speaker 1: who seemingly has lost the will to win.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's that's kind of the gist of it.
Speaker 3: I have him on the bench. He got hit nineteen
Speaker 3: times last week. Really, that's that's still eight less than
Speaker 3: the lawsuits against him, but he's nineteen times savage. Only
Speaker 3: seven times in NFL history has a QB passed for
Speaker 3: less than one hundred and seventy yards on forty five
Speaker 3: or more pass attempts, but somehow Deshaun witz Watson did
Speaker 3: it last week. Also, both his tackles aren't practicing, so
Speaker 3: he might see some more pressure this week because of that.
Speaker 3: The only wide receiver I'm giving a starting grade too
Speaker 3: is Amari Cooper, who might be in the squeaky greasy
Speaker 3: mousey wheel type game, very frustrated during the game during plays,
Speaker 3: and you know during the week eighteen point nine A
Speaker 3: dot for Mari Cooper, so even if he gets some,
Speaker 3: he doesn't need a lot to make a difference. Twenty
Speaker 3: one percent target chair and he gets the best matchup
Speaker 3: against Monterrek Brown, who gave up a one to twenty
Speaker 3: one rating in his coverage last year one nineteen rating
Speaker 3: in his coverage last week. So good spot for Mari Cooper.
Speaker 3: But I'm only give him the seat because I can't
Speaker 3: trust to Sean Watson in the rent in the running game.
Speaker 3: It's only Jerome Ford's game. Really, Not only did he
Speaker 3: keep Deonta Foreman, and Pierre Strong. Off the field, he
Speaker 3: took all the past game work, as we kind of
Speaker 3: expected before the season, but six of his seven targets
Speaker 3: came after in Djoku got hurt and then Djoko is
Speaker 3: likely to miss this one. So that's that's something worth
Speaker 3: tracking there that I think I I thing might be
Speaker 3: in play here again against Jacksonville as they're you know,
Speaker 3: supposed to there. You know they're they're they're not the favorites.
Speaker 3: Jacksonville is the favorite over the Jackson Jacksonville side. Trevor
Speaker 3: Lawrence I have on the bench. It feels like Trevor's
Speaker 3: really just spreading the ball around, so it's gonna be
Speaker 3: tough for his receiving options as well. But he's going
Speaker 3: up against last year's second best pass defense Cleveland spent
Speaker 3: most of last year at the top against every position,
Speaker 3: so you're gonna kind of get how this is going
Speaker 3: to go. For most of the skill players here, I
Speaker 3: have C grades on the only the only wide receiver
Speaker 3: grade I have is Brian Thomas with a C grade.
Speaker 3: He got one percent of the end zon targets and
Speaker 3: one percent of the red zone targets, which was one
Speaker 3: which but he caught it. He caught it, so they're
Speaker 3: just an incredible pass by the way, I don't know
Speaker 3: if you saw that pass, the Trevor Lawrence to Brian
Speaker 3: Thomas pass. Wow, was that a pass recorded the third
Speaker 3: highest speed with the ball at nineteen point eight. He
Speaker 3: will get the tougher draw likely and Denzel Ward, who
Speaker 3: will only allowed a forty nine QB against last week,
Speaker 3: but it was a thirty four yards reception on five attempts.
Speaker 3: But Ward stays almost exclusively on the left. Thomas bounces
Speaker 3: around so he can avoid him for some of it.
Speaker 3: UH C grade there for Etn and Bigsby. I have
Speaker 3: him both with C grades. Etn got all the pass
Speaker 3: game work, all the red zone work, and the score.
Speaker 3: He more than doubled Bigsby's snaps. He had seventeen routes
Speaker 3: run to Bigsby's four, But Bigsby just looked better when
Speaker 3: run at.
Speaker 1: If you know, if you took you, if you took
Speaker 1: us and just asked us to look at Tank, Bigsby
Speaker 1: and Travis Etn's play, and you took like the numbers
Speaker 1: off the uniforms, you know who was who? Everybody? Anyone
Speaker 1: would have said Tank Bigsby looked way better. He looked
Speaker 1: fantastic and yep, yes, I'm.
Speaker 3: It shows in the twelve for seventy one stat line.
Speaker 3: He more yards per more yards before contact, more yards
Speaker 3: after contact.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: The way they're playing them, it makes them both serviceable.
Speaker 3: ETN played the first drive, Bigsby the second, ETN the third,
Speaker 3: Bigsby the fourth. But ETN finished it and ETN Bigsby.
Speaker 3: ETN Bigsby both than Bigsby. They are flipping back and forth.
Speaker 3: So both have C grades for me in a matchup.
Speaker 3: I think that they can. It's not a great matchup,
Speaker 3: but they're both going to get enough work.
Speaker 1: People might ask about watch ten got the goal line, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you flip that right.
Speaker 2: He also fumbled at the goal line too.
Speaker 3: Carry So Gabe Davis is on the bench highest snap
Speaker 3: count of the wide receivers, but only three targets. Christian
Speaker 3: Kirk is on the bench as he got out snapped
Speaker 3: by both Gabe Davis and Brian Thomas. They both had
Speaker 3: higher A dots as well on plays with two or
Speaker 3: one wide receiver on the field, so not three wide
Speaker 3: receiver sets. Christian Kirk played three snaps. He's not in
Speaker 3: on their two wide receiver snaps.
Speaker 1: That's a really big change.
Speaker 3: So I got him on the bench, Evan Ingram with
Speaker 3: a B grade. He only played sixty eight percent of
Speaker 3: the snaps, but when he was out there, he ran
Speaker 3: around on almost every single drop at outside of the touchdowns,
Speaker 3: he was the most productive last year. The Browns were
Speaker 3: a top ten team against tight ends in the first
Speaker 3: half last year, but that changed when Evan Ingram in
Speaker 3: Week fourteen went eleven for ninety five and two scores.
Speaker 3: So I got a B grade on Ingram.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I bounced back game coming for him. Kirk is
Speaker 1: the one that I'm just I'm shocked, yeh, low utilization
Speaker 1: for Christian Kirk and very worried. He had been a
Speaker 1: very safe, dependable player. You know you needed six catches
Speaker 1: for sixty five eighty yards that Christian Kirk was the guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did it. Still on name value right now
Speaker 2: on Christian Kirk alone, because they Scott the stars are
Speaker 2: aligning for bad things.
Speaker 1: It seems like, yeah, that's it's definitely worrisome. Speaking worrisome,
Speaker 1: can you start any Green Bay wide receiver with Malik
Speaker 1: Willis at the hell? Find out when we come back
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Speaker 1: Colts at Packers. Brian, let's start on the Colts side
Speaker 1: of the ball, and then we'll get to the Thorny
Speaker 1: or Green Bay part of this. Anthony Richardson, with some
Speaker 1: big plays downfield, only completed nine passes, but the entire.
Speaker 2: Game, Yeah, like Scott said, three fifty plus yards, two
Speaker 2: of those being touchdowns, So he gets an A grade
Speaker 2: pretty much when he's healthy and suiting up. And obviously
Speaker 2: the rushing upside is always massive, only slightly scratched the
Speaker 2: surface last week. Six carries for fifty six yards nearly
Speaker 2: ten yards per carry, not too shabby for a rich
Speaker 2: He gets an A. Jonathan Taylor also gets an A.
Speaker 2: Was on the fiel for ninety five percent of the
Speaker 2: snaps in the opener. That's awesome. Taylor was not targeted
Speaker 2: in the opener as well. That is not awesome unless
Speaker 2: you're playing non PPR leagues, but still a massive bellcout
Speaker 2: ninety five percent of the snaps. Easy a for him.
Speaker 2: Michael Pittman can give him a c. He led the
Speaker 2: Colts and targets and route percentage, but was third in
Speaker 2: a dot behind Alec Pearson a don A Mitchell last week.
Speaker 2: So Pittman was essentially the possession receiver, which is not ideal.
Speaker 2: But he will be the primary target in the red
Speaker 2: zone like he was last year. He was the only
Speaker 2: Colts pass catcher with double digit red zone targets and
Speaker 2: he was seventh overall among all wide receivers in red
Speaker 2: zone targets in twenty twenty three. So he gets a see.
Speaker 2: But I've got Odden A. Mitchell, Alec Pearce and Josh Downs,
Speaker 2: who's returned to full practice might make his return. I
Speaker 2: got him all on the bench because we need to
Speaker 2: see how this shapes out with those three wide receivers
Speaker 2: all healthy. So they're on the bench for me, as
Speaker 2: are Kyle and Grants and Moali Cox. Not getting too
Speaker 2: far into that. If it was Jewanni Woods charge, we
Speaker 2: would be breaking that down in details. Over to the
Speaker 2: Green Bay side, we're assuming Malik Willis is going to
Speaker 2: be the starter. Jordan Love not officially ruled out, but
Speaker 2: highly unlikely he goes. That puts every pass catcher on
Speaker 2: the bench for me outside of Jaden Reid. Although Jaden
Speaker 2: Reid has popped on the injury report with a calf
Speaker 2: and shin injury, still gonna give him a c. They're
Speaker 2: gonna get him the ball anyway they can, whether it's
Speaker 2: to the air on the ground. So a SEE for
Speaker 2: Jayden Reid and a B for Josh Jacobs. Colts yielded
Speaker 2: a monster game to Joe Mixon last week, and the
Speaker 2: Packers figured to lean on Jacobs heavily with Jordan Love
Speaker 2: very very iffy to play in this game, So a
Speaker 2: B for Jacobs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of Milik will his stats now these starts,
Speaker 1: his three NFL starts, so from two years ago, hopefully
Speaker 1: he's gotten better. If you spike the ball into the
Speaker 1: ground every play, do you know what the passer rating is?
Speaker 3: Fifty eight?
Speaker 1: Thirty nine? Okay, Malik Willis's three career starts as a
Speaker 1: quarterback passer rating thirty nine, Jesus forty nine. Just take
Speaker 1: on the Vikings. Christian McCaffrey ruled out of this game.
Speaker 1: Jordan Mason is an A grade based on how great
Speaker 1: he looked last week. Vikings are a good run defense.
Speaker 1: They were good last year. They gave up the fourth
Speaker 1: viewest fantasy points to running backs. Last week they obliterated
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary. But I can't see like any defense containing
Speaker 1: the version of Jordan Mason we saw last week, So
Speaker 1: keeping the A grade on him. Going over to the
Speaker 1: passing game, starting with Deebo Samuel another A grade, particularly
Speaker 1: after getting eight carries last week. Wow, that was nice.
Speaker 1: Nine targets last week, positive individual matchups coming in the
Speaker 1: slot against Byron Murphy Josh mittelis probably so. I still
Speaker 1: like Deebo Samuel a lot in this one, particularly if
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayuk is not quite got the rust knocked off yet.
Speaker 1: He comes into the B grade here. It would probably
Speaker 1: be an A if if he hadn't had the long holdout.
Speaker 1: Snapcount probably gets closer to normal. He dropped a sure
Speaker 1: touchdown on Monday night. Minnesota's got three journeyman quarterbacks cornerbacks
Speaker 1: Byron Murphy, Shack Griffin, Stefan Gilmour. Those guys combined for
Speaker 1: twenty five year years of play in the league and
Speaker 1: thirteen different teams, is there not? Like the cornerbacks, everybody
Speaker 1: covets at this stage of their respective careers, and I
Speaker 1: think Ayuk's better than all of them. So I've still
Speaker 1: got a B grade on Brandon Ayuk.
Speaker 2: Those are work in the cornerbacks.
Speaker 1: But Kittle posted seventy eight yards against Minnesota last year
Speaker 1: when these teams met. He ran routes on ninety one
Speaker 1: percent of the forty nine ers plays last week and
Speaker 1: will be heavily involved again. Last year, Kittle quality Titans
Speaker 1: almost always fared well against the Vikings. I think that'll
Speaker 1: be the case here as well, and with a bunch
Speaker 1: of A grades and B grades around. Brock Purty comes
Speaker 1: in with a B grade here. Played well against an
Speaker 1: elite Jets secondary last week, but did not fill the box. Score.
Speaker 1: Should be better in Week two, particularly with Trent Williams
Speaker 1: getting another week of practice and conditioning behind him. The
Speaker 1: Vikings handled Daniel Jones and the opener, but obviously a
Speaker 1: far tougher matchup Brocky brock Purty with a B for
Speaker 1: the Vikings. Justin Jefferson every week A grade Niners are
Speaker 1: gonna roll extra coverage his way with Jordan Addison out,
Speaker 1: but still it's jeff Justin Jefferson, and you don't fool
Speaker 1: around with that. Jalen Naylor, it's going to be your starter,
Speaker 1: and this is a nice dart throw possibility for you.
Speaker 1: I considered him as might take a chance on me.
Speaker 1: Receiver O'Connell. Kevin O'Connell's going to retain his past heavy
Speaker 1: stylings and Naylor's going to be an every down player
Speaker 1: with Addison out and again extra coverage rolling to Justin Jefferson,
Speaker 1: So Naylor's going to see single covered throughout the game,
Speaker 1: and they might take some chances with deep plays to him.
Speaker 1: He's got nice speed and he sprung free for a
Speaker 1: touchdown last week. Sam Darnold was your take a chance
Speaker 1: on me quarterback. I've got a C grade on him.
Speaker 1: Brian our Boy and then Aaron Jones. Niners are always
Speaker 1: an awesome run defense. Last year they ranked number two
Speaker 1: and rushing yards allowed and number four and fantasy points
Speaker 1: to running backs. They just held Breeze Hall to three
Speaker 1: point four yards per carry, and Hall's great. Hall did
Speaker 1: chip in some receiving help, and Jones remain startable because
Speaker 1: his past catching ability is really good. And I think
Speaker 1: he's going to pull in more receptions this week week
Speaker 1: than he did last week. Last year, the Niners allowed
Speaker 1: the fourth most running back receptions and the eighth most
Speaker 1: running back receiving yards. I think Aaron Jones is going
Speaker 1: to be helper through the air.
Speaker 2: One key thing you forgot to mention about this game. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Kevin Harland is on the call. Baby cannot wait.
Speaker 1: So great, So good.
Speaker 2: Sam Darnold touchdown calls by Kevin Harland, take me home.
Speaker 1: Seattle takes on New England. Obviously New England with a
Speaker 1: big upset victory in Week number one. Seattle's offensive line
Speaker 1: Scott looked awful, and I'm worried about them against a
Speaker 1: better Pats defense than the one they saw last.
Speaker 3: Better Pats defense that just held Joe Burrow to one
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty four yards and no scores. It's the
Speaker 3: lowest over under of the week at about thirty seven,
Speaker 3: and they brought pressure on about twenty eight percent of
Speaker 3: the plays, fifth in the league in sacks. I think
Speaker 3: it's only four or five. I mean it's been one week, right,
Speaker 3: but so yeah, they will be able to pressure a
Speaker 3: little bit. I gave Jano Smith a bench grade in
Speaker 3: this one. He only had one hundred and seventy one
Speaker 3: yards and an easier matchup last week. So for his receivers,
Speaker 3: I think Tyler Lockett and Dk Metcalff are going to
Speaker 3: find their way to C grades, but it might just
Speaker 3: be one hundred and eighty yards and a score and
Speaker 3: it's split between the two of them. Jackson Smith and
Speaker 3: Jigba got Bert virtually nothing last week with his three
Speaker 3: point three a dot and just two targets. Dk Metcalf
Speaker 3: was out there all the time, played eighty eight percent
Speaker 3: of the snaps. Last year. He had a scoreless sub
Speaker 3: forty day in this matchup, but he had one hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty four yards and three or sorry, he had
Speaker 3: one hundred plus yards and or a score in ten games.
Speaker 3: I think he gets back on track here. The only
Speaker 3: problem is he's got a tough matchup with Christian Goitnzalez,
Speaker 3: who shadowed Jamar Chase last week to the dune of
Speaker 3: two catches for fifteen yards. So I can barely get
Speaker 3: to a C grade on Metcalf. Tyler Lockett led in targets,
Speaker 3: receptions yards last week six for seventy seven yards, but
Speaker 3: he only played about half the snaps and didn't see
Speaker 3: a red zone target. But I think he'll find his way.
Speaker 3: He's he's been injured, but he's been playing with the injury.
Speaker 3: In the running game, Kenneth Walker is going to be gone.
Speaker 3: Coach Grubb says that offensive coordinator Grub says that Zach
Speaker 3: Charbonay is going to see the same work that Walker,
Speaker 3: which is going to mean a lot exactly. So I
Speaker 3: have a C grade on Walker. After Walker was injured,
Speaker 3: Charbone played the last two drives of massing zero yards
Speaker 3: on four carries, so that doesn't give us very much.
Speaker 3: He was in effective when he was in the game.
Speaker 3: He did get a score through the air, and we
Speaker 3: do know he's a good pass catcher, so he should
Speaker 3: get enough to get a C grade. Over on the
Speaker 3: New England side, I have one starting grade and that's
Speaker 3: it the pass. The passing game is on the bench.
Speaker 3: It's Fromandre Stevenson, but it's only a C grade. Stevenson
Speaker 3: had seventy eight percent in New England's running back rushes
Speaker 3: and thirteen percent of the targets. He didn't reach that
Speaker 3: high of a running back rush share once in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three. He led Week one in miss tackles with ten.
Speaker 1: I know I saw one service credit him with twelve
Speaker 1: miss tackles. Okay, okay, believable for Remondre. I think the
Speaker 1: next closest runner had five or six. Yeah, to tell
Speaker 1: you how good twelve miss tackles is orphaned.
Speaker 3: Depending on give your looking. Gibson didn't have a target.
Speaker 3: Steven said had four of the six, but Seattle just
Speaker 3: held Bronco runners to sixty eight yards. I think he's
Speaker 3: got the volume c but if he breaks one or
Speaker 3: he gets a score, it could be a b day.
Speaker 1: I love Romondra and I'm so happy for his success.
Speaker 2: The battering rom Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, I kind of like.
Speaker 2: That Bell cow baby. He looks like a bell coow.
Speaker 1: Jets take on the Titans. Brian Jets side of the ball.
Speaker 1: Breese Hall bottled up. As I mentioned a few minutes ago.
Speaker 1: Do you like him better in this matchup?
Speaker 2: A little bit better? But another another tough matchup for Breese.
Speaker 2: I can give him an a though he did operate
Speaker 2: in a Bell cou roll in Week one, took eighty
Speaker 2: four percent of the snaps against the Niners, posted a
Speaker 2: respectable line of ninety three combo yards with five catches.
Speaker 2: And a touchdown, but again another tough matchup against the
Speaker 2: Tennessee You shut down the Bears ground game last week,
Speaker 2: but Brees saw much better than any Bears running back.
Speaker 2: He's a You're starting Breese Hall Garrett Wilson and give
Speaker 2: him a be got off to a hot start last week,
Speaker 2: but then it became the Allen Lazard show in the
Speaker 2: second half. But Wilson still led the Jets with eleven
Speaker 2: targets and he's only getting a bee because of game
Speaker 2: script concerns. I kind of think the Jets roll the
Speaker 2: Titans in this one.
Speaker 1: But also the Titans. You know, they picked up Lugarious
Speaker 1: Snead in the offseason.
Speaker 2: That's a big boon.
Speaker 1: Gaved he was really good in Week one, and frankly,
Speaker 1: the whole secondary looked really good. So I'm kind of
Speaker 1: with you on this be great and I worry about
Speaker 1: sneed just shadowing Garrett Wilson in this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're probably gonna throw lots of double covers at
Speaker 2: Wilson too. That's why I liked Allen Lazaris might take
Speaker 2: a chance on me. Wide receiver Mike Williams only took
Speaker 2: nine snaps in Week one. The Jets are easing him
Speaker 2: into action before he gets hurt again, so he's on
Speaker 2: the bench, as is Tyler Conklin. Only two targets last week,
Speaker 2: and the Titans allowed just four catches forty three yards
Speaker 2: per game to tight ends last year in just three
Speaker 2: total touchdowns to the position, So Conklin on the bench
Speaker 2: was kind of a popular sleeper pick but hasn't come
Speaker 2: to fruition yet. And lastly, for the Jets, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: gets to see and again that's because I fear this
Speaker 2: is going to be a big Breasee Hall game. And
Speaker 2: the Titans only allowed the fourth few his passing touchdowns
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three, and only one quarterback has topped
Speaker 2: two hundred and eighty yards against them over the last
Speaker 2: sixteen games the Titans. That is so not a great
Speaker 2: matchup for posing quarterbacks over the Titans side. Not a
Speaker 2: lot to like here outside of if you're.
Speaker 1: Gonna start with that, you must you must go directly
Speaker 1: to Will Levis Well.
Speaker 2: I thought outside, I want to get Tony Pollard out
Speaker 2: of the way. You're take a chance with me running
Speaker 2: back and with you there, ty J. Spears, I was
Speaker 2: close in PPR to get thrown a Dart, but just
Speaker 2: twenty five percent of the snaps in week one. He's
Speaker 2: still on the bench as and as is Calvin Ridley
Speaker 2: led the Titans with seven targets last week, but only
Speaker 2: three were catchable. He was getting wide open, but Will
Speaker 2: Levis was not cooperating. Ridley had a seventy one percent
Speaker 2: air yard share. How about that. That's insane. But you
Speaker 2: have to imagine Ridley will draw a lot of sawbridge
Speaker 2: from Sauce gardener. So he's on the bench. So it's
Speaker 2: DeAndre Hopkins who only took seventeen snaps in week one
Speaker 2: as a partially torn and cl can't trust him, can't
Speaker 2: trust Tyler Boyd. He's on the bench, and you cannot
Speaker 2: trust will Levis, especially if he's making your coffee. He's
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 1: I will say Sauce doesn't travel. Sauce and DJ they
Speaker 1: play their sides. Yep, you're absolutely right about that. I
Speaker 1: believe Sauce gave up zero yards in his coverage in
Speaker 1: the opener against the forty nine.
Speaker 3: Interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep. Absolutely. We've actually got a couple of minutes
Speaker 1: to spare. We're going to get into the UH into
Speaker 1: the TUA situation next hour. But I do want to
Speaker 1: talk about one or two other things from the Thursday
Speaker 1: night game. Okay, Number one, Keon Coleman was the most
Speaker 1: targeted Buffalo player in Week one. Then we two no catches.
Speaker 1: What's your what's your take on Keon Coleman as somebody
Speaker 1: that has a Fantasy starter going forward.
Speaker 3: I like him, but I feel like I feel like this,
Speaker 3: this Buffalo offense might just be unpredictable as far as
Speaker 3: witch wide receiver you're gonna want, and sometimes it's.
Speaker 1: Just going to be non well except for one guy.
Speaker 3: Okay, Khalil, come.
Speaker 2: On, if you had to pick one, it's definitely Shakira.
Speaker 1: It is for sure.
Speaker 3: It was never going to be Samuel.
Speaker 1: I see, I never thought it was. He looks totally
Speaker 1: out of the loop now, like droppable for Curtis Samuel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we were on that this is.
Speaker 1: Getting very inconsistent work. Yeah, she cares. You know, you
Speaker 1: guys know she cares.
Speaker 3: My guy.
Speaker 1: He looks slippery. I love the way they use him.
Speaker 1: I wish it wasn't so much out of the slot.
Speaker 1: But nevertheless, let's say you're down. You played against James
Speaker 1: Cook and now you're down three touchdowns early what how
Speaker 1: does this change how you set your lineup on Sunday.
Speaker 3: I think it's the same advice we give every year.
Speaker 3: You go for the high risk, high reward, but uh,
Speaker 3: you know upside players.
Speaker 2: Or you can assemble a stack that could be on
Speaker 2: the way like Sam Donald and Naylor right there, Donald,
Speaker 2: Josh Oliver throwing Josh Oliver a tight end and just
Speaker 2: just root along for Sam Donald with me. Baby can
Speaker 2: enjoy the ride. Every It's a wild ride that all
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: Every answer from you, I'm obsessed. It seems to involve
Speaker 1: Sam Darky.
Speaker 2: I'm obsessed.
Speaker 1: I'll admit it.
Speaker 2: I want him to succeed so bad, and I think
Speaker 2: he will. I know you will.
Speaker 1: Maybe ultimately they've got a much.
Speaker 2: Of a reputation to put on the line either, So
Speaker 2: there's that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people are used to being being right.
Speaker 2: Oh no, we haven't talked about Kobe Parkinson yet. How
Speaker 2: right it was? Oh, that's a lot of right that
Speaker 2: looks good. Don't though, say I'm wrong all the time.
Speaker 2: That is not correct. I'm not Matt Harrison. I had
Speaker 2: to throw some shade in Matt.
Speaker 1: Well, you're not here offense. You've got to get in
Speaker 1: your shot it's true.
Speaker 2: So they take him at me.
Speaker 1: It is probably how this works a little bit charge, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you think about the Falcons offense? Well, okay,
Speaker 1: so the misuse of Kirk Cousins was ridiculous. How you
Speaker 1: put him in the pistol and shotgun every play for
Speaker 1: a guy who we know all of his best work
Speaker 1: is under center. He's he is one of the best
Speaker 1: play action quarterbacks. They took that off the table.
Speaker 3: Ye, no play action pace, no one.
Speaker 1: Not one, not one play action play And do you
Speaker 1: see this? The the plays that originate out of the
Speaker 1: pistol runs. How predictable, How predictable. So then a lot
Speaker 1: of people looking at his throats.
Speaker 3: And he stands and.
Speaker 1: His stance and it was different. He's like a different
Speaker 1: guy out there. I'm looking at We watched, we broke down,
Speaker 1: every watched every single Kirk Cousins throw er here in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: That guy bared no resemblance to the Kirk Cousins we
Speaker 1: saw from Minnesota.
Speaker 3: The reason I bring this up is does this give
Speaker 3: you cause for concern for Falcons players? Should people be
Speaker 3: looking to sell or do you think it's going to
Speaker 3: get fixed?
Speaker 1: Hate? I hate buying low I hate buying the.
Speaker 3: Would you sell selling? Would you chant selling all? You
Speaker 3: think it's low. You think Drake Lennon's lost all his
Speaker 3: value after one week.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can get much for him right now,
Speaker 1: right because everybody knows the Kirk. Everybody saw Kirk look
Speaker 1: so feeble. I don't know if you can get much now.
Speaker 1: What about Kyle Pitts, that's the real question. Scored a touchdown,
Speaker 1: got you the touchdown. So there's a lot less worry
Speaker 1: about Kyle Pitts right now.
Speaker 2: Ray Ray McLeod leads the Falcons wide receivers and targets
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: Zach robs It might end up being a good offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: but it's very possible that Zach Robinson right now, at
Speaker 1: this extremely early stage of his career, is over his head.
Speaker 1: Then he's doing more bad than good with Kirk Cousin
Speaker 1: one week, we'll see, Yeah, we're gonna we'll get a
Speaker 1: lot more data points next week and we'll break down
Speaker 1: that game a little bit later in the show when
Speaker 1: we come up next. Three tough questions you get to
Speaker 1: play along. We will hit on the TUA topic when
Speaker 1: we come back as well. How much can you trust
Speaker 1: the Miami offense. If two is going to miss extended time,
Speaker 1: and it seems like he very well may. We'll get
Speaker 1: into that and other topics in three tough questions and
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Speaker 1: Football Weekly. Our number two. As is tradition, we start
Speaker 1: with three tough questions.
Speaker 2: Tough question number one, what's.
Speaker 1: The appropriate level of concern for the Miami offense in
Speaker 1: these games without Tua? Is it none? Is it some?
Speaker 1: Or is it a bowel loosening level of existential dread?
Speaker 3: Scott, I'm just gonna go with some. Mike McDaniel, here's
Speaker 3: what he's got to work with under whatever qbuh he
Speaker 3: starts for, you know, the foreseeable future. One game, ten games,
Speaker 3: whatever it is, Tyreek Hill, Waddle, mostart A, Chan, John New,
Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera. Jalen Right should have started with
Speaker 3: John Smith. But yeah, I know he's got a lot
Speaker 3: of pieces to work with. It'll be good for any quarterback. Uh,
Speaker 3: they're gonna get there is. Mike McDaniel's gonna scheme it
Speaker 3: to make it work. Uh. There's obviously gonna be a downtick.
Speaker 3: Tua led the NFL in passing Last year he led
Speaker 3: the NFL in passing Week one, Like, that's a lot
Speaker 3: of a lot to make up for. But so it's some.
Speaker 1: It's some, all right, Brian. What's the appropriate level of
Speaker 1: concern for the Miami offense in games without Tua?
Speaker 2: None?
Speaker 1: Some or blowed?
Speaker 2: I think it's got to be blowed. I mean, the
Speaker 2: vert was still out if Tua is is actually good.
Speaker 2: I mean, last year the Dolphins got off to an
Speaker 2: incredible start led by Tyreek Kill and two was the quarterback,
Speaker 2: of course, where they really fizzled out in the second
Speaker 2: half of the year. Tyreek Kill was banged up that
Speaker 2: help the weather got colder. Miami doesn't like that, but
Speaker 2: I mean before the head injury last you know, on
Speaker 2: Thursday night. The other night, Tua was not looking too good.
Speaker 2: There Bills are a tough matchup, but uh, you know,
Speaker 2: without two, uh, I don't see Skyler Thompson making this
Speaker 2: offense run nearly as effectively as it did with Tuas.
Speaker 2: It's full on blowed. For me, I don't have much
Speaker 2: else to say.
Speaker 1: The correct answer is some. And you know, one of
Speaker 1: my favorite rookie analysts is Matt Waldman. Sure football got
Speaker 1: I think he does great work. He has been a
Speaker 1: big proponent of Skyler Thompson, Yes, and I agree. You know,
Speaker 1: we've seen snippets of Skyler Thompson at various times within
Speaker 1: the boundaries of backup quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: I think he's pretty good against the Vikings that one.
Speaker 1: He did have a good game against the Vikings two
Speaker 1: years ago.
Speaker 2: You know who else did, Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1: Thompson's got a big arm, and those deep plays that
Speaker 1: have generated all those fantasy points for fantasy owners from
Speaker 1: TUA are not going to completely dry up. And Thomson's
Speaker 1: not a precision passer. He's gonna make aaron throws, but
Speaker 1: mostly those airin throws don't hurt us as much as
Speaker 1: the big plays help us. Miami has been a balanced
Speaker 1: run game, maybe more so than people realize. They still
Speaker 1: and I think they're just gonna add in a bit
Speaker 1: more rushing put try to put Skyler Thompson in a
Speaker 1: position to have it doesn't have to win games, and
Speaker 1: maybe connect on a couple of big passes a game.
Speaker 1: Clearly this adds some downside to previously safe feeling guys
Speaker 1: like Tyrek Hill and Jalen Waddle, But I don't think
Speaker 1: the wheels are gonna come off and I am not
Speaker 1: suffering from blowed.
Speaker 3: Sure tough.
Speaker 2: Question number two.
Speaker 1: What is the appropriate level of concern for the Bengals offense?
Speaker 1: Bengals offense, is it done some or a bowel loosening
Speaker 1: level of existential drid Brian, you get to start this.
Speaker 2: One borderline blowed, but just some concern for me with
Speaker 2: the Bengals offense. Clearly losing at home to the pays
Speaker 2: very bad. Burrow did not look good. Jamar Chase obviously
Speaker 2: Russy has sat out the whole preseason. Basically t Higgins
Speaker 2: was hurt. All those things can be corrected. And back
Speaker 2: to Joe Burrow. There was that video footage of him
Speaker 2: picking up the water bottle all ye weird awkwardly. It's like, oh,
Speaker 2: his wrist is messed up. They're not going to put
Speaker 2: him in a He's not starting the season if he
Speaker 2: can't actually pick up a water bottle the right way.
Speaker 2: That was just a weird way he picked up the
Speaker 2: water bottle.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, do you guys see the video of him
Speaker 1: flexing his wrist all the time?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: And and when he was asked about it, Joe Burrow's.
Speaker 2: Like well, well, maybe that's the okie dope movie. He's
Speaker 2: trying to say, risk.
Speaker 3: What did you say?
Speaker 1: Well, he said, well, that's part of my therapy is
Speaker 1: you know, I'm now an habitual wrist flexer. I'm flexing
Speaker 1: at home. I flex in the shower.
Speaker 3: I do the same thing. I shattered the right side
Speaker 3: of my right hand, and I flex it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you flex your hand because because it's nutsy.
Speaker 3: That's what I had to do to for physical therapy,
Speaker 3: and I do do it. So I think there's a
Speaker 3: little bit too what Joe Burrow said, maybe just a
Speaker 3: little maybe not if.
Speaker 2: You were you done so you have you have an
Speaker 2: NFL caliber quality right hand, is what you're saying, not
Speaker 2: just kidding. It's some for me. I don't know how
Speaker 2: it can be blowed if the Dolphins isn't blowed, so
Speaker 2: some for me for the Bengals.
Speaker 3: That's why when Tody Pollard broke his fibula, I'm like,
Speaker 3: I know that injury. I can tell you how it
Speaker 3: works with this caliber of athlete.
Speaker 1: Same caliber. You're a professional caliber, right is what I
Speaker 1: what I lean from all of this. All fingers Scott,
Speaker 1: what's the appropriate level of concern for the Bengals offense.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you repeated the question because it's been so long.
Speaker 3: I'm going to some Dan Orlovsky said it best. He
Speaker 3: said their scheme is broken. It depends on two star
Speaker 3: wide receivers. As we know U T. Higgins has that
Speaker 3: lingering hamstring injury. They take out one, the d can
Speaker 3: cover the other, and and they're rushing quicker. The Burrow
Speaker 3: has to get the ball out fast and check down.
Speaker 3: Taylor's play calling isn't making up for that. And by
Speaker 3: the way, and aside to Taylor's play calling mixing, was
Speaker 3: I mentioned this in the preseason? They kept running him
Speaker 3: into the middle, Yeah, middle of the line, maybe like
Speaker 3: we see him in Houston. Maybe maybe it was Zack
Speaker 3: Taylor's play line. So there's definitely some even when Higgins
Speaker 3: comes back.
Speaker 1: I got some as well. You know the why the
Speaker 1: why does the Bengals start slow every years?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Every year? At the last two seasons, they've you know,
Speaker 1: he's they have started slow. Last year. As a reminder,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow the first four weeks of the season was
Speaker 1: fantasy quarterback thirty one wow. And then after week four
Speaker 1: until he had the season ending uh wrist surgery and break.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It was like a week ten or
Speaker 1: eleven or something. He was quarterback six, quarterback six. I
Speaker 1: had a C. J. Stroud and Lamar Jackson and Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes and obviously T Higgins is going to come back,
Speaker 1: Lamar Chase is going to knock the rust off. But
Speaker 1: most here's the most important reason why it's only some
Speaker 1: the schedule here after this Turkey game in Kansas City,
Speaker 1: which I don't I don't like Washington Carol Lina Tougher
Speaker 1: running Baltimore, and then the Giants, three of the next
Speaker 1: four might be three of the five easiest.
Speaker 3: Defenses in the league.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I like I think the I think the
Speaker 1: turnarounds coming.
Speaker 3: Sure. Tough.
Speaker 2: Question number three.
Speaker 1: What's the appropriate level of concern for the Chicago offense?
Speaker 2: None?
Speaker 1: Some or a bowel loosening level of existential drive? Scott,
Speaker 1: I'm going some.
Speaker 3: By the way, do you like it? I'm answering you
Speaker 3: right away, and then I'm giving either the rest yes,
Speaker 3: normally You're like, so is it? I'm going to some.
Speaker 3: This was a rookies first first game, I know, is
Speaker 3: a terrible first half, and the second half years bailed
Speaker 3: out by the defense and special teams. The numbers were
Speaker 3: really bad. His aggressive throw percentage was eighth worst, sixth
Speaker 3: worst pass worst passer rating, second shortest completed air distance
Speaker 3: throw only. He's only one. He's one of just two
Speaker 3: qbs that have had twenty five plus pass tempts and
Speaker 3: less than one hundred yards in their debut, the other
Speaker 3: being Desmond Ritter. The run was just non existent for him.
Speaker 3: I think more is coming. There was there was no
Speaker 3: gunslinger mentality in his game, and he does have that.
Speaker 3: He showed that in college and he really depended on
Speaker 3: his would be there Keenan Allen with eleven targets. I
Speaker 3: think I think it starts to change as he gets
Speaker 3: more comfortable. So I'm just going to say some for now.
Speaker 1: All Right, Brian, the appropriate level of concern for the
Speaker 1: Chicago offense.
Speaker 2: I've got none. It was a rookie struggling in his debut.
Speaker 2: And yes, Kayla Williams is one of the most type
Speaker 2: rookies since you know Andrew Luk, that type of player.
Speaker 2: But Titans have a very good defense and Tod Todd
Speaker 2: Scott touched on the special teams touchdown, and the Bears
Speaker 2: also had a pick six both of those plays essentially
Speaker 2: took the ball out of Kayleb Williams hands. He didn't
Speaker 2: have those drives to try to, you know, score points.
Speaker 2: So none for me. Titan's a good defense. I think
Speaker 2: the Bears will bounce back pretty quick.
Speaker 1: I've got some I almost went none on this, and
Speaker 1: this was a it was a tricky one. I look
Speaker 1: to see if the offensive line was a culprit, but
Speaker 1: really they ranked middle of the pack in PFF grades
Speaker 1: and ESPN's blocking ratings, so I don't think that was
Speaker 1: the issue. I went back and watched all of Caleb
Speaker 1: Williams throws. Again. He wasn't awful. He had some bad passes.
Speaker 1: He just looked. He looked like a raw rookie to me.
Speaker 1: And he had one great pass, a laser thrown on
Speaker 1: the run at the sideline to DJ Moore. But he
Speaker 1: also had a touchdown dropped by Keenan Allen that would
Speaker 1: have helped his box score. A lot too many tip passes.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's something he can get better on. But here's
Speaker 1: why I'm really I'm most optimistic. The Bears fourth place
Speaker 1: schedule is going to kick in after this week when
Speaker 1: they face Houston. This is gonna be a tricky matchup
Speaker 1: against Houston. We'll talk about it in a minute after
Speaker 1: this Houston game. This is probably the toughest game left
Speaker 1: on their whole schedule they're gonna have between now and Halloween.
Speaker 1: They get Carolina, Washington, Arizona. This is there are some easy,
Speaker 1: easy games coming up for the Bears, and I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna end up righting the ship. But still some concern.
Speaker 1: I think we all thought they would start the start,
Speaker 1: you know, things would be better early. But I think
Speaker 1: that the stroles in week one. I think they struggle
Speaker 1: here in week two, and then after that it probably
Speaker 1: gets better. Some correct answer for tough question three, let's
Speaker 1: go to uh, you know what, maybe I go right
Speaker 1: to that, Matt, Do I have that matchup? I do?
Speaker 1: Why not? You know we never shuffled.
Speaker 2: It's a great segue, let me know it.
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 1: Sunday night game Bears Texans called the audible. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: going to do it. I've got two starting grades on
Speaker 1: the Bears. DJ Moore comes out of the C grade.
Speaker 1: Roma Dunesay hurt Alan is hurt Uh. Moore is going
Speaker 1: to get a lot of attention from both teams in
Speaker 1: this one. The Texans allowed the second fewest wide receiver
Speaker 1: touchdowns last year, and it is a good secondary spearheaded
Speaker 1: by cornerback Darryl Stingley. And yes, the Houston Texans got
Speaker 1: stung by Alec Pierce twice on long bombs, but as
Speaker 1: a reminder from earlier in the game, they only gave
Speaker 1: up nine completions in the whole game, So I still
Speaker 1: think there's a good defense. And I can only get
Speaker 1: you to a C grade on DJ Moore, who actually
Speaker 1: like less with the Dunsay and Alan hurt others, and
Speaker 1: we're not going to start Dunesay and Alan both questionable.
Speaker 1: Alan didn't practice all week. It's a difficult but Dunes
Speaker 1: they might go, probably not, So we're just gonna avoid
Speaker 1: that until those guys are healthier. And we know that
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams and is an NFL caliber starter, which we're
Speaker 1: not necessarily there yet. And speaking of Caleb, you got
Speaker 1: to leave him on the bench the two injured receivers,
Speaker 1: the tough opponent, and frustratingly only five designed runs for him,
Speaker 1: which I did not like very much. You know, Caleb's
Speaker 1: a good runner. I wanted to see him get more
Speaker 1: looks in the running game. We didn't get him here.
Speaker 1: He did not complete a pass longer than thirteen yards
Speaker 1: last week. DeAndre Swift comes in with a C grade.
Speaker 1: The Bears offensive line looked inconsistent last week. Swift only
Speaker 1: ran for three yards per carry. The Texans shut down
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor last week, holding him to just three yards
Speaker 1: per carry. Swift ran twenty routes last week, so we're
Speaker 1: hoping he catches a few passes even though he didn't
Speaker 1: catch any last week. Maybe he'll be more active in
Speaker 1: the passing game. I've got a C grade on him.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Houston side. Bears defense is good.
Speaker 1: I had a lot of trouble figuring this one out.
Speaker 1: Nico Collins still comes in with an A grade. Normally
Speaker 1: I'd worry about shadow coverage from star cornerback Jalen Johnson,
Speaker 1: but with Stefan Diggs and Tank Dell on the team,
Speaker 1: Johnson can't afford to blanket any one player here, and
Speaker 1: Collins had a terrific Week one, leading the Texans and targets, receptions,
Speaker 1: and air yards. A grade for Nico Collins. Yes, I've
Speaker 1: got a B grade on Digs and Dell. Let's talk
Speaker 1: to them through. Diggs mostly ran from the slot in
Speaker 1: Week one. That would put him on Bear's cornerback Tyler Gordon,
Speaker 1: who's an above average slot corner by no means dominating
Speaker 1: or shut down. Digs scored twice last week, but we'll
Speaker 1: note that Diggs is a dot. Yeah one point seven yards.
Speaker 3: He did have one pass play that was a designed
Speaker 3: negative ten yard a dot, so that didn't help.
Speaker 1: Did they throw negative ten yards to him? How do
Speaker 1: you do that?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't either, So I still like Digs enough to
Speaker 1: give him a B grade in this one tank. Dell
Speaker 1: felt like the odd man out last week, and he
Speaker 1: had almost the exact same usage numbers though as Digs
Speaker 1: and Collins, so it wasn't really the odd man out.
Speaker 1: I expect it'll mostly get cornerback Tyreek Stevenson, which is
Speaker 1: the weakest link in the Bear secondary. He was Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focuses cornerback eighty nine last year. So still optimistic
Speaker 1: about Dell and I'm still giving him a B grade.
Speaker 1: So one other receiver to get to Dalton Schultz. Chicago
Speaker 1: was a bad tight end defense last year. They allowed
Speaker 1: the fourth most tight end receptions, the fifth most tight
Speaker 1: end yards and then the opener, Chickakongo scored a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So Dalton Schultz, if you're need kind of a dart
Speaker 1: throw tight end, he's your guy. C grade there. So
Speaker 1: I've given you an A grade, two b's, and a
Speaker 1: C grade. So I got to like the c. J.
Speaker 1: Stroud as well. He's got He comes in with a
Speaker 1: B grade. Now, the Bears dominated Will Levis in Week one.
Speaker 1: I'm trying not to overreact to that, but they have
Speaker 1: the number one pass rush per ESPN's pass rush win rate.
Speaker 1: After a week they ranked fourth by Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: in pass rush, and the Houston offensive line did not
Speaker 1: look great. They give up five stacks on Stroud, so
Speaker 1: I do have some concern about them losing the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. I can't get you to an A grade
Speaker 1: on CJ. Stroud all, even with all the weapons he's
Speaker 1: got around him. But all those weapons so in totalities
Speaker 1: still are so good. We're going to keep the B
Speaker 1: grade on c. J. Stroud and then that leaves us
Speaker 1: just with Joe Mixon. The Bears were a dominating run
Speaker 1: defense last year. Although Tony Pollard had some success last week,
Speaker 1: still liked him what I saw from him. Five yards
Speaker 1: per carry for Tony Pollard against this same team. Mixing
Speaker 1: is all about volume. Thirty carries in the opener, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you give me, you give anybody thirty carries. I'm
Speaker 1: interested in him. Be great and they k back. Reporters
Speaker 1: asked whether or not Joe Mixon could sustain that workload.
Speaker 1: Coaches like, yeah, we're gonna keep giving him the ball,
Speaker 1: but that's gonna be his deal. He's going to be
Speaker 1: our workhorse.
Speaker 3: Pickup events and you might live in there, you might,
Speaker 3: you might win. No bakers, I was thinking that Connor
Speaker 3: at some point he's going to deal with Connor. Honestly,
Speaker 3: the amount he got.
Speaker 1: I kind of hear you on that. When we come
Speaker 1: back Bucks taking on the Lions, is there anybody to
Speaker 1: bench Ereic? Can we just go like start everybody find
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Speaker 1: beginning with Scott fish Bucks take on the Lions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're dead right.
Speaker 1: It's a start everybody game, right. It's just a matter
Speaker 1: of what the letter grades are.
Speaker 3: So I'm not starting Kate.
Speaker 1: On Okay, there's your one random.
Speaker 3: Route on eighty to eight percent of drop backs. He
Speaker 3: got one catch. I got him on the bench. But yeah,
Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield was my take a chance on me quarterback.
Speaker 3: I actually had a B grade on him. Jalen McMillan
Speaker 3: was your take a chance on me wide receiver. I
Speaker 3: had a C grade on him. Mike Evans and Chris
Speaker 3: Godwin I got A and B grades on respectively. Mike
Speaker 3: Evans has averaged seven for one to twenty six and
Speaker 3: a score in the last three Lions games they've They've
Speaker 3: all been shootouts. In fact, Four of the last six
Speaker 3: games between these two have been shootout. They must love
Speaker 3: shooting out with each other. So I have an A
Speaker 3: grade on Evans, who's also the the red zone guy,
Speaker 3: the guy that scores more Chris Godwin. The Lions are
Speaker 3: the worst in the league against wide receivers and worst
Speaker 3: against the slot. Granted that that was all Cooper Cup
Speaker 3: a lot of that was, but it doesn't change that
Speaker 3: Godwin was second in snaps first and targets, receptions and
Speaker 3: yards and scored last week. He's a focal point in
Speaker 3: that offense now that he's back in the slot as well.
Speaker 2: B grade.
Speaker 3: I could have given it him an A over to
Speaker 3: the running backs, I gave Bucky Irving and take a
Speaker 3: chance on me running back Rashad White, I'm also given
Speaker 3: a see. He wasn't super super effective, but he had
Speaker 3: sixty two point five percent rush share, a number he
Speaker 3: dip below just once last year, so clearly Bucky is
Speaker 3: getting some work there. The Lions did hold a far
Speaker 3: more dynamic Kyron Williams to his worst game as a
Speaker 3: starter last week, but Rashad White's getting a seventy thirty
Speaker 3: share and it's one hundred percent of the red zone work,
Speaker 3: and we already know he's a bass catcher, so C
Speaker 3: grade there over to the lion's side. A lot of
Speaker 3: starts here too. I have a B grade on Jared Goff.
Speaker 3: You could have talked me into an A. But averaged
Speaker 3: over three hundred yards and two scores per game in
Speaker 3: the last two matchups in this as we already talked about.
Speaker 3: They were both shot outs anyway, barely cross two hundred
Speaker 3: last week, and the running backs did all the work
Speaker 3: scoring outside of and whatnot. Outside of one Jamison Williams touchdown.
Speaker 3: Jamison could have had a second just saying this is
Speaker 3: likely a higher scoring game. Highest over under of the
Speaker 3: week might mean an extra score and some more yards
Speaker 3: from golf. That puts him in the two fifty maybe
Speaker 3: two touchdown range. That's a B maybe an A if
Speaker 3: things go well. Jameson Williams, he's gonna come in with
Speaker 3: questionable with an ankle, but he played on it after
Speaker 3: he got hurt. They taped it up. He played on
Speaker 3: it last week too. B grade here led the team
Speaker 3: in receptions and yards while being targeted nine times, nine
Speaker 3: second in snap's second highest of rate of first read
Speaker 3: targets in the NFL. They he was consistently the primary
Speaker 3: read in that offense. Last week, uh second in the
Speaker 3: NFL in yards after the catch per reception. So when
Speaker 3: he caught the ball, he got thirteen point seven yards
Speaker 3: after the catch, which is a ridiculous, really nice. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the off season drum beats seemed legit, and he'll see
Speaker 3: a lot of Jamal Dean, who's been solid, if not
Speaker 3: great for years. So just to just to b grade there,
Speaker 3: I'm on Ross Saint Brown. I'm going back to the base.
Speaker 3: It's it's the bounce back. Top paid stud safety Antoine
Speaker 3: Winfields out. The quarterback that would have covered him, Bryce
Speaker 3: Hall is out. Yeah. So and last last week they
Speaker 3: did hold wide Washington wide receivers down, but they're missing
Speaker 3: several several options from that second secondary. He's going to
Speaker 3: get rookie Tykey Smith in his second career game. Yes,
Speaker 3: So a grade on I'm on Ross Saint Brown. A
Speaker 3: grade on Sam Laporter, who I also think bounced back somehow.
Speaker 3: His four catches for forty five yards was fourth last week.
Speaker 3: I saw the yardage out of the tight ends last
Speaker 3: week was like the worst than twenty plus years or
Speaker 3: something like that. If Dean helps lockdown jameson at least
Speaker 3: some laporters should get back to normal with a few
Speaker 3: extra targets. Over to the running game, A grade on
Speaker 3: Gibbs and a B grame on Montgomery. The Bucks allowed
Speaker 3: seven catches for one hundred and one yards to backs
Speaker 3: last week. That's mostly Gibbs his game, and Gibbs played
Speaker 3: one more snap than Montgomery. I think Montgomery, I think
Speaker 3: he's the A grade because he's going to get more
Speaker 3: work early in the pass catching work and they kind
Speaker 3: of split three to two of the inside the ten rushes.
Speaker 3: David Montgomery gets the B grade because he did have
Speaker 3: more touches than Montgomery, and I do think if this
Speaker 3: is the kind of game that's the shootout, a lot
Speaker 3: of offense, a lot more touches to be had, a
Speaker 3: lot more opportunities to be had, So Montgomery with a
Speaker 3: B grade.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the Steelers taking on the Broncos.
Speaker 1: Brian and I'm going to start here. Specifically, we didn't
Speaker 1: know what Arthur Smith was going to do to mess
Speaker 1: up this offense, but now we know Jalen Warren fairly
Speaker 1: on the field. In week number one, I'd like to
Speaker 1: start with the Steelers running backs, and tell me what
Speaker 1: you expect from these two guys, Naji Harris Jalen Warren.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, let's start there. Naji Harris, he was he
Speaker 2: was basically a bellcow. In week one, he saw twice
Speaker 2: as many snaps as Jalen Warren and ten times as
Speaker 2: many carries I mean twenty to two Jalen Warren. Cord
Speaker 2: Erol Patterson had twice as many carries as Jalen Warren.
Speaker 3: In fairness to Warren, he came in hurt and they
Speaker 3: were gonna use him.
Speaker 2: In Yes, I think that was a little but I
Speaker 2: still like Dalen Warren, but not this week. He's on
Speaker 2: the bench. Naji Harris gets to see and if you
Speaker 2: needed to know, cord Aerol Patterson also on the bench.
Speaker 2: Over the wide receivers starting with more bench grades, and
Speaker 2: really the only wide receiver were worth talking about, that's
Speaker 2: George Pickens. He's going to draw a ton of coverage
Speaker 2: from Patrick's artan who basically erases opposing number one wide receivers,
Speaker 2: especially when the number one wide receiver is the only
Speaker 2: viable white out on the team, as Jorge Pickens is
Speaker 2: for Pittsburgh. So he was on the bench. We're not
Speaker 2: gonna go Van Jefferson, Calvin Austin, Rookie Roman Wilson might
Speaker 2: make his debut with our all on the bench. I
Speaker 2: will give Pat Fryer muth a C grade. Though Mouth
Speaker 2: took eighty four percent of his snaps out wide last week.
Speaker 2: That's great, most among tight ends. Scott hooked me with
Speaker 2: that stat. I appreciate that. And last season the Broncos
Speaker 2: allowed the third most catches and the most yards and
Speaker 2: touchdowns to tight end. So like Mouth with the C
Speaker 2: and Justin fields, was your take a chance on me
Speaker 2: quarterback charge? I was going to give him a sea
Speaker 2: as well. You got it with that rushing upside always
Speaker 2: over to the Broncos, starting with their running bang, running
Speaker 2: gang game. I got Javonte Williams on the bench. Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: held the Falcons backs, primarily Bejon Robinson, to eighty nine
Speaker 2: rushing yards in Week one. Williams gained only twenty three
Speaker 2: yards on eight carries last week and saw just two targets.
Speaker 2: That's why I like Julia McLoughlin more. He might take
Speaker 2: a chance on me running back. I think he sees
Speaker 2: five to six targets in this game. Hopefully, reels them
Speaker 2: all in will be PPR viable and should be an
Speaker 2: ugly game. And that's why the rest of the Broncos
Speaker 2: on the bench. The only one we'll really get into
Speaker 2: is Courtland Sutton. The Steelers have a scary secondary and
Speaker 2: I can easily foresee Sutton having the same pathetic production
Speaker 2: as Drake London had last week against the Steelers, if
Speaker 2: not worse. Joey Porter Junior is a problem corner up
Speaker 2: look for fantasy purposes.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I mean this might be the
Speaker 1: best defense in the NFL.
Speaker 2: The Steelers, Yeah, and this is.
Speaker 1: Gonna be a fantasy nights are unbelieved.
Speaker 2: Yah.
Speaker 1: TJ. Watt just destroyed Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 2: So I'm just not even gonna mention anyone else for
Speaker 2: the Broncos. They're all on the bench too too.
Speaker 1: Bengals chiefs, We've already talked about Joe Burrow and our
Speaker 1: concern for him. I'm want to start with Jamar Chase
Speaker 1: potentially a bit rusty still and without T Higgins, Chase
Speaker 1: is going to draw shadow coverage from Trent McDuffie, who
Speaker 1: frequently shadows, especially when there's not a proven number two
Speaker 1: for the opposition. And with all due respect to Andre
Speaker 1: Yoshi Vash, he's not a huge threat. And Trent McDuffie
Speaker 1: is just gonna shadow Jamar Chase. McDuffie gave up twenty
Speaker 1: two scoreless yards in his coverage against Baltimore last week.
Speaker 1: I've got I can only get you to a B
Speaker 1: grade on Jamar Chase, as awesome as he is. So
Speaker 1: that really brings us to Joe Burrow. So many negative
Speaker 1: factors here, No t Higgins Chase locked up, the water
Speaker 1: bottle thing, the water hole, water bottle, the wrist flexing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I can't. I can't give you a starting
Speaker 1: grade on Joe Burrow in this game. Then not enough
Speaker 1: other good quality targets on this whole team. Chase Brown's
Speaker 1: on the bench, he's the clear second banana, by the way,
Speaker 1: do what we say second banana. Why isn't a second cum
Speaker 1: quad or second Why is that the fruit of choice?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I have never heard second banana. I thought you just
Speaker 2: made second fiddle.
Speaker 1: Second fiddles common too, But second banana is a thing,
Speaker 1: really it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got independent.
Speaker 1: Confirmation is in the second city Chicago, second city of Chicago.
Speaker 1: That's not relevant to this. I don't think let's start
Speaker 1: with that. Let's go to Zach Moss.
Speaker 2: There's always money in the banana stand.
Speaker 1: That is that is a fact. There's always money in
Speaker 1: the banas. Don't set your banana stand on fire. We've
Speaker 1: established that Zach Moss is the lead back and the
Speaker 1: goal line back. He ran for four point nine yards
Speaker 1: per carry last week, average to healthy two point eight
Speaker 1: yards after contact. And I don't like the Cincinnati passing matchup,
Speaker 1: as I just explained, So I think the Bengals are
Speaker 1: going to try to run as much as they possibly
Speaker 1: can in this one for as long as the game
Speaker 1: script allows. When these teams matched up in Week seventeen
Speaker 1: of last year, Joe Mixon ran the ball twenty one
Speaker 1: times for the Bengals. That's about what I see coming
Speaker 1: from Moss with a possible touchdown here in this game.
Speaker 1: B grade on Zach Moss. Let's go over to the
Speaker 1: chief side. Travis Kelcey and Isaiah Pacheco get a grades.
Speaker 1: Just a couple of quick notes. No, Gray was a
Speaker 1: factor last week, but he only ran ten routes. That's
Speaker 1: probably not going to be a repeat there. And for Pacheco,
Speaker 1: he follows Romandre Stevenson, who tore through the Bengals defense
Speaker 1: last week, tallying twelve avoided tackles, so I like Isaiah
Speaker 1: Pacheco in this game, A grade for him. Rashie Rice
Speaker 1: heavily involved in the Chiefs offense, dominating all the other
Speaker 1: wideouts with nine targets in week number one. He runs
Speaker 1: half his plays from the slot, which puts him up
Speaker 1: against cornerback Mike Hilton. Hilton's was good last year, didn't
Speaker 1: give up a single touchdown in his coverage, So just
Speaker 1: a B grade for she Rice for me in this game.
Speaker 1: Hollywood Brown's season might be over, and that means Xavier
Speaker 1: Worthy is going to turn into probably an every week's starter.
Speaker 1: Here in cementsa starting grade for me in this game.
Speaker 1: He had the electrifying debut in Week one, but his
Speaker 1: production came on very few targets, so this turns into
Speaker 1: a high risk, high reward situation for those that start
Speaker 1: Xavier Worthy. He had just three targets thirteen percent of Mahomes'
Speaker 1: throws only thirteen percent of Mahomes' throws. He also scored
Speaker 1: on that run in week one, which is not very replicatable.
Speaker 1: Hopefully the utilization goes up in his second start. Here,
Speaker 1: I've got a B grade on Xavier Worthy and then, lastly,
Speaker 1: last guy to talk about, Patrick Mahomes. Can't really get
Speaker 1: a read on the twenty twenty fourth Cincinnati secondary based
Speaker 1: on the limited play of Jacoby Brissett last week, but
Speaker 1: they were a competence secondary last year and no opposing
Speaker 1: quarterback top two touchdowns against Cincinnati all season, including when
Speaker 1: these teams met in Week seventeen, and Patrick Mahomes just
Speaker 1: had two hundred and forty five yards and one score,
Speaker 1: So I've only got the B grade Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3: Top banana and second banana originating from Burlesque Theater, a
Speaker 3: very popular comedy skit where the leading com comedian was
Speaker 3: given up banana by the second comedian after delivering a
Speaker 3: funny punchline.
Speaker 1: Now we know the answer, thank you. I asked, why
Speaker 1: do we do the second banana?
Speaker 2: You answer, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna assume you didn't google it, that you just knew
Speaker 1: that up.
Speaker 3: Just do that when we come back.
Speaker 1: The Fantasy Football Weekly time machine kicks in layers you
Speaker 1: want to pick up before everybody else picks them up.
Speaker 1: Next week, final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. Thank you
Speaker 1: for listening. We appreciate that you can get all my
Speaker 1: player rankings available at fantasylife dot com, along with frankly
Speaker 1: people who are better at it than I am. Lots
Speaker 1: of tools and data available at fantasylife dot com. This
Speaker 1: is a segment that we like to start with our
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football weekly time machine. We call it three mature Speculation,
Speaker 1: as we give you players you want to pick up
Speaker 1: now that everybody's going to try to pick up next week,
Speaker 1: but they're already on your team. Let's start with Scott.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Tyler Johnson, who some of you
Speaker 3: may have picked up this week, but he's still only
Speaker 3: twenty six percent rostered according to Jordan Rodrieg and many
Speaker 3: Beat reporters over there. For the Rams, he is the
Speaker 3: backup to Puka Nikoua. DeMarcus Robinson's actually just a starter.
Speaker 3: He's actually right stay starter. Yeah, Tyler Johnson is moving
Speaker 3: into the Nikoua role.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: He was third in yards after the catch per exception
Speaker 3: at just over thirteen yards this last week's five catches
Speaker 3: on seven targets for seventy nine yards. If he does
Speaker 3: take that role for the next four or five weeks.
Speaker 3: They can't keep feeding Cooper cup twenty plus targets a game.
Speaker 3: He's gonna get his, and especially in a game like this,
Speaker 3: this could be a shootout, he might be worth the
Speaker 3: dart throw.
Speaker 1: All right, Brian, your premature speculation.
Speaker 2: Player, I'm looking a little further ahead with mine. But
Speaker 2: my player would not have qualified for this segment. Last week,
Speaker 2: but after taking zero snaps in his debut, he was
Speaker 2: mass dropped. And I'm talking about rookie running back Blake
Speaker 2: Korum for the Rams, did not see the field. People
Speaker 2: are expecting him to do the backup st you'll eat
Speaker 2: into Kien Williams workload. That did not happen in the
Speaker 2: first week, and people have gotten impatient already, and he's
Speaker 2: been mass dropped. His ownership percentage is under fifty percent,
Speaker 2: so we qualifies. And hey, Ronnie Rivers was the backup.
Speaker 2: But if something were to happen to Kien Williams, I
Speaker 2: don't think it's gonna be Ronnie Rivers Who's gonna be
Speaker 2: the starting running back. It's going to be Blake corum
Speaker 2: So an intriguing stash for me. People giving up on already.
Speaker 2: I think that's a mistake. So go grab.
Speaker 1: Him, David and Joku can miss a month with his
Speaker 1: bad ankle. Jordan Aikins the only healthy tight tight end
Speaker 1: on the entire Browns roster right now. They may have
Speaker 1: to elevate a practice squad player for Sunday. Last week,
Speaker 1: Aikins just walked right into in Djoku's role. He played
Speaker 1: forty two snaps. He was targeted four times with three catches,
Speaker 1: and Kevin Stefanski loves to throw to his tight ends.
Speaker 1: Last year, Cleveland threw the third most tight end passes.
Speaker 1: Stefanski ain't changing. Jordan Akan's gonna get a bunch of
Speaker 1: action here. And by the way, he's got history with
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson from their Houston days together.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: How about that you've got problems a tight end, and
Speaker 1: who doesn't Jordan Akins? That might be a sneaky stash.
Speaker 2: We always welcome a new tight end to the wasteland. Yes,
Speaker 2: we all are welcome in the wasteland.
Speaker 1: Speaking to the wasteland, Let's go to Arizona, right, going
Speaker 1: to the Cardinals in a game that feels like it'll
Speaker 1: probably be pretty lopsided.
Speaker 3: Ye, I have a decent amount of starting grades here.
Speaker 3: I got a B grade on Matthew Stafford. The Cardinals
Speaker 3: were dead last in defensive DVOA last week. It's one
Speaker 3: of the highest over unders of the week. He was
Speaker 3: one of only two quarterbacks to pass for three hundred
Speaker 3: plus yards and the Cardinals just gave up two hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty two yards and two scores. Another couple on
Speaker 3: the ground to Josh Allen. I don't think Stafford's going
Speaker 3: to get those ground ones. But four touchdowns last game
Speaker 3: against the Cardinals as well for Matthew Stafford in his
Speaker 3: receiving game. Yeah, so Cooper cups just obviously. Can I
Speaker 3: move on from that again? Yea, absolutely all. Right over
Speaker 3: to DeMarcus Robinson, who I'm giving a C grade two.
Speaker 3: He's starter, ran the second most draw routes. He's constantly
Speaker 3: on the field, as is Tyler Johnson going to be
Speaker 3: because they run a ton of eleven personnel. He's the
Speaker 3: safer C grade. I have a bench grade on Tyler Johnson,
Speaker 3: but I could see a dart throw. Do we have
Speaker 3: a D grade dart throw there? Oh? But okay, he'll
Speaker 3: get the majority of his work against Sean Murphy bonteen,
Speaker 3: who's decent, tough matchup the last two years, but Tyler
Speaker 3: Johnson knows him well from practicing against in Tampa Bay.
Speaker 3: So and I'm gonna move on Kobe Parkinson. Tight end,
Speaker 3: Brian's Kobe Parkinson. Can I just say it's Brian's Kobe Parkinson.
Speaker 3: Guy finished his tight end seven but he had forty
Speaker 3: seven yards, which was third among tight ends last week.
Speaker 3: In the last two yards two years, he has eleven
Speaker 3: twenty plus yard receptions, which is Yeah, who would have
Speaker 3: guessed athlete?
Speaker 2: Apparently?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, the Cards took away the tight end last week,
Speaker 3: but that's because they bracketed Kencaid, who's a crazy high
Speaker 3: rate of double teams. They can't do that against Parkinson here,
Speaker 3: and Parkinson ran the most routes among tight ends last week.
Speaker 3: So c grade on Parkinson. You might be able to
Speaker 3: talk me into more. Kirn Williams, he did it all
Speaker 3: for them last week, but only two point eight yards
Speaker 3: per carry and no explosive plays. Might be a product
Speaker 3: of the Lions defense. I don't know, but he had
Speaker 3: twenty six explosive plays last year, so it's quite a change.
Speaker 3: He had twenty one of the twenty three touches for
Speaker 3: the Rams, Blake Korm didn't see an offensive snap. James
Speaker 3: Cook went for over one hundred yards last weekend, basically
Speaker 3: the same volume. So Karen Williams, I'm giving you a
Speaker 3: B grade. We'll see if you can be more effective
Speaker 3: this week. Over to the Cardinals side, Kyler Murray B
Speaker 3: grade five for fifty seven on the ground and that's
Speaker 3: a lot of why he's getting this, and also they're
Speaker 3: likely to be behind, so he's going to have to
Speaker 3: throw a little bit more. Said it wasn't his job
Speaker 3: to get Harrison the ball. Buffalo made a concerted effort
Speaker 3: to take Harrison away, leaving the targets to be spread around.
Speaker 3: He has three hundred plus yards and or multiple scores
Speaker 3: and three the last four in this matchup, it's routinely
Speaker 3: a shootout. So I'm given B grade for Kyler Murray.
Speaker 3: His receivers. Michael Wilson was my take a chance on
Speaker 3: me player who I think will be in that Jameson
Speaker 3: Williams role. From last week against the Rams, Greg Dortch
Speaker 3: twenty six percent target share moves around a ton. He
Speaker 3: nine for eighty and three for twenty seven and one
Speaker 3: in the last two games versus the Rams, apparently Greg
Speaker 3: George is just good against the Rams. That could be.
Speaker 3: So I got a C grade there as he was
Speaker 3: the primary slot guy last week and did well there.
Speaker 3: C grade on Marvin Harrison. I'm not giving up as
Speaker 3: the Buffalo on him just yet, as Buffalo took him away.
Speaker 3: He may get Tredeavious White, but Tredavious White just allowed
Speaker 3: two for seventy in a score. So yeah, maybe maybe
Speaker 3: there's something. It might be.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't think he's the same Tredavious White he was.
Speaker 3: Yeah four years Yeah, could be. Trey mcbide is getting
Speaker 3: a B grade. Led the team in targets with a
Speaker 3: twenty nine percent target share after being targeted nine times.
Speaker 3: Yardage wasn't there, but the no scores, but snap percentage, drop, percentage,
Speaker 3: target share, every single other thing was there. It'll come.
Speaker 3: It'll come with the rest of the metrics. Eventually, the
Speaker 3: stats will come. B grade on James Connor, who saw
Speaker 3: eighty four percent of the running back rushes and twelve
Speaker 3: point nine percent target share. He got everything and the
Speaker 3: Rams just gave up one hundred and eighty seven total
Speaker 3: yards to Lions runners. I got a B grade. Hair
Speaker 3: to talked me into an A.
Speaker 1: But we'll see Marvin Harrison's top speed top recorded sixteen
Speaker 1: something sixteen miles an hour. Yea, that is not good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in college he was hidden in the twenties. So
Speaker 3: I'm also still Brian.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Monday night game, Falcons at Eagles.
Speaker 1: This is a This is a game which the Falcons
Speaker 1: need to obviously improve everything that we saw from last week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we won't start with Kirk Cousins. I'm still a
Speaker 2: little bitter he is responsible for my chopping in a
Speaker 2: Guyietina leagu last week. We're gonna start with be Jon
Speaker 2: Robinson and give him an a ninety percent of the
Speaker 2: snaps in week one. I don't think Arthur Smith gave
Speaker 2: him ninety snaps right last season. He has not missed
Speaker 2: at all in Atlanta. Not the best matchup. But you
Speaker 2: gotta love Bijon here and everywhere now that Arthur Smith
Speaker 2: has gone. Bijon also took eight snaps out wide last week,
Speaker 2: like playing wide receiver.
Speaker 1: That's fun.
Speaker 2: Saw five targets in that game. He's gonna be way
Speaker 2: more involved this year. Hopefully that continues on Monday Night
Speaker 2: and it should. He gets the A. I'm gonna give
Speaker 2: a seed to Drake London and Darnell Mooney. Formidable corner
Speaker 2: duo in Darius Slay and Quinnon Mitchell for the Eagles.
Speaker 2: The Falcons should be chasing points in this game. One
Speaker 2: would think it's sub to sific guy you drafted in
Speaker 2: the second round, like Drake London, so he gets the
Speaker 2: sea and Darnell Mooney the only Falcons pass catcher with
Speaker 2: an a dot north of ten yards in week one.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised Kirk Cosins actually threw it more than ten
Speaker 2: yards in Week one if you watch that game.
Speaker 3: But Kirk cousins longest completion last week was twenty seven
Speaker 3: yards something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was bad. Well, just we're gonna get to it.
Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins. He's on the bench. We need to see
Speaker 2: him do something before we can trust him. But I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna gloss over Kyle Pitts. Don't worry, he still
Speaker 2: gets to see. This is the only time I've given
Speaker 2: just as I've given CCC. He's really only one of
Speaker 2: these guys. Is probably gonna have a good game between Pitts,
Speaker 2: London and Mooney. But you gotta start Kyle Pitts unless
Speaker 2: you also roster Colby Parkinson. Then I would start Parkinson.
Speaker 2: But Pitt's got on the board in week one. Got
Speaker 2: that out of the way. He gets to see here
Speaker 2: in a likely shootout or where the Falcons will be
Speaker 2: chasing points over to the Eagles side. A for Sakuon Barkley,
Speaker 2: A for Jalen Hurts. It was gonna be an easy
Speaker 2: A for aj Brown, but he popped on the injury
Speaker 2: report on Friday with a hamstring injury, and that's not
Speaker 2: good when that happens late. So monitor that I'm gonna
Speaker 2: get downgrade him the problem. Oh that's right, not till monday. Yeah,
Speaker 2: not till Monday. So Johan Dotson out there, go grab him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pick up Dotson right now.
Speaker 2: Ray Ray McCloud might be available for the Falcons. He
Speaker 2: saw six targets he led to the Falcons wide receivers
Speaker 2: and targets in week one.
Speaker 1: Be sure to put aj Brown into your flex shot
Speaker 1: so you have every available opportunity to find a replacement.
Speaker 2: I had a B on Devonte Smith, but if I'm
Speaker 2: giving I'm moving that. I'm flipping those grades now with
Speaker 2: this hamsteng injury. You're gonna start Smith either way. And
Speaker 2: a B for Dallas Goddard. The Falcons are one of
Speaker 2: five teams to allow at least one hundred catches to
Speaker 2: tight ends last season, and they surrendered six catches to
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh tight ends in Week one and uh, we'll take
Speaker 2: that all day long and the tight end waste.
Speaker 1: I was really happy to see Dallas Goddard with so much,
Speaker 1: so much activity in this game because you know, it
Speaker 1: was so spotty last year. Yeah, you know, maybe this
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore offense is going to feature him more like
Speaker 1: he was prior to last season when it was really inconsistent.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk Giants and Commanders. Oh boy, okay,
Speaker 1: you know I punted this one to the final matchup.
Speaker 3: You wanted to end with the bang. You let the
Speaker 3: people want this.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite sleepers of the entire week is
Speaker 1: coming in this matchup though. Oh but let's start with
Speaker 1: a non sleeper and that's some leak neighbors. I think
Speaker 1: the breakout game is coming from elak neighbors right here. Perfect,
Speaker 1: So it's you know, in week one he led all
Speaker 1: Giants receivers in snaps and routes run, so you know,
Speaker 1: establish himself right away incredibly positive matchup against Washington, which
Speaker 1: got obliterated by Baker Mayfield last week and was the
Speaker 1: league's worst pass defense last year. In Week one, the
Speaker 1: Commander's three starting cornerbacks had Pro Football Focus ranks of
Speaker 1: cornerback fifty nine, quarterback ninety seven, and dead last at
Speaker 1: cornerback one hundred and two, and a manual Forbes. Looks
Speaker 1: like he's going to be out. So this is yet
Speaker 1: another loss for an already thin group of cornerbacks. So
Speaker 1: I've got to be great on eliite neighbors. I think
Speaker 1: that comes together here and then my super sleeper out
Speaker 1: of this game, Wan Dale Robinson. I like him here.
Speaker 1: The Commanders allowed the six most wide receiver receptions last year,
Speaker 1: and last week the Commanders allowed the fourth most wide
Speaker 1: receiver receptions fifteen in one game one. Dale Robinson was
Speaker 1: targeted twelve times last week, twelve targets. He'll be covered
Speaker 1: by Commander's rookie slot cornerback Tyke Smith. No way we
Speaker 1: meant to him else elsewhere. I think this might be
Speaker 1: I might have Tikee Smith confused with somebody else. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure he was. He allowed all four of his
Speaker 1: targets to be caught in his coverage.
Speaker 3: Way, I got Mike Senis still.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's it, it is. That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1: It is it's Mike Stannis still or whatever. That's exactly right.
Speaker 1: And he also allowed four targets in his coverage to
Speaker 1: be four targets four receptions. Devin Singletary stemied by Minnesota
Speaker 1: and the opener, and the Commander's run defense actually pretty
Speaker 1: good last week. Finished his Pro Football Focuses number four
Speaker 1: ranked run defense, the ranked fifth in ESPN's run stuff
Speaker 1: win rate. Washington give up, did give up a thirty
Speaker 1: one yard run to Bucky Irving, but otherwise held the
Speaker 1: Bucks to two point seven yards per carry. The good
Speaker 1: news for Singletary, no other runner on the Giants got
Speaker 1: more than two carries, and the Commander's pass defense so
Speaker 1: bad that I think Giants could be near the goal
Speaker 1: line a few times and Singletary would be your goal
Speaker 1: line back. So let's hope for a touchdown for him.
Speaker 1: In a C grade for Devin Singletary, we will not grade.
Speaker 1: We will not dignify Daniel Jones with a grade.
Speaker 2: I'm starting him in a yetine league. No, well, I
Speaker 2: mean so, cousins, Daniel Jones Malik Willis or Bryce Young.
Speaker 2: It's got to be Daniel Jones right.
Speaker 3: Charge Mike Sandristill's QB rating against last week one thirty
Speaker 3: one point three.
Speaker 1: Wow, there we go, Wandale Robinson. I'm telling you there's
Speaker 1: there's something. There's something to that.
Speaker 2: Angry Jones has got to be got to get it.
Speaker 2: Take on Neighbors is going to break out. You like Robinson,
Speaker 2: It's an awful defense. He can run, he'll he'll fall down,
Speaker 2: He'll fall down after fifty yards.
Speaker 1: But uh, Jones, And I'll say this, take yeah, maybe,
Speaker 1: so you're talking me into it, into a C grade.
Speaker 1: And I will say this, Even off the ACL his
Speaker 1: mobility actually looked pretty good. But he's not going to
Speaker 1: get the drawn up design runs that he used to
Speaker 1: and that's the problem at all. I'll be scrambling stuff
Speaker 1: for Daniel Jones. Let's go to Washington side of this
Speaker 1: ball this game. Let's start with Jaden Daniels. So last week,
Speaker 1: depending your scoring system, roughly QB three without throwing a
Speaker 1: touchdown pass. Yeah yeah, thanks to fifteen designed runs. I
Speaker 1: worry about his passing in this game because of one element.
Speaker 1: The Giants pass rush should be awesome. You've got Dexter
Speaker 1: Lawrence and Brian Burns, cave on Thibodeau and the Commander's
Speaker 1: offensive line was just garbage last year. They didn't seem
Speaker 1: much better last Sunday. They ranked twenty fourth and pass
Speaker 1: block win rate. So I've got some trepidation about Daniels
Speaker 1: as a passer. I think he's gonna have to make
Speaker 1: some fast decisions with the ball in his hand.
Speaker 3: Giants had the third highest pressure rate last week.
Speaker 1: Yep, and they were good. So last week it was
Speaker 1: all short dump off stuff from Daniels that doesn't add
Speaker 1: up to a lot of fantasy points. And he's got
Speaker 1: the big arm, but they didn't use it. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be unfurled here either.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he missed McLaurin wide open a couple of times
Speaker 2: where he's just he's tucking the ball and running yep,
Speaker 2: too quick. Now not do that.
Speaker 1: We'll take the designed runs. Yeah, that leaves him as
Speaker 1: a B grade here, but I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: chip in much through the air. And so I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot of repeat from last year
Speaker 1: for our last week from Jaden Daniels. So let's talk
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin worried about the dump off passes, the short stuff,
Speaker 1: the deep accuracy. Fortunately, the Giants' cornerbacks are awful. They
Speaker 1: got murdered by the Vikings. They combined to allow eight
Speaker 1: of ten passes to be completed on them, and Sam
Speaker 1: Darnold dissected this secondary. So I'm still giving Terry McLaurin
Speaker 1: a B grade just on I think volume in this game,
Speaker 1: and there's not a lot of other good pass catching
Speaker 1: options for this one. Let's talk Brian Robinson. I thought
Speaker 1: he just looked fair in this new Kiff Cliff Kingsbury offense.
Speaker 1: Not great. He got a goal line run to salvage
Speaker 1: and otherwise mundane box score. Last week, his quarterback siphoned
Speaker 1: off the fifteen carries I mentioned before, four more than Robinson,
Speaker 1: and the Giants got hit hard by Aaron Jones. In
Speaker 1: Week one, Robinson could find an easier sledding against a
Speaker 1: bad run defense, so I still got a startable grade
Speaker 1: of SEA on him. Loved Austin Eckler talk to you
Speaker 1: a lot about in the offseason. I thought he'd be
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna chip in enough PPR help to be startable
Speaker 1: for most of you. He's the clear passing down runner
Speaker 1: for Washington, well utilized in the first game, running seventeen
Speaker 1: routes and going four for four on his targets.
Speaker 3: Eight of those worldwide. Like, yeah, how about that?
Speaker 1: I love famous, super cool. Last week, Aaron Jones caught
Speaker 1: both of his targets against the Giants. Last year, Giants
Speaker 1: allowed the fewest running back receptions for the fourth fewest yards.
Speaker 1: Though we don't know if that's going to hold up
Speaker 1: this year, but I'll know that. And then zach Ertz.
Speaker 1: We had talked about him being a sneaky starter going
Speaker 1: into this season. Ben Sennett. Ben Sennett got one play,
Speaker 1: that's it. It was all zach Ertz. He got nearly
Speaker 1: all the work at the tight end position. And for
Speaker 1: what it's worth, last year in these two matchups, Logan
Speaker 1: Thomas top fifty yards in both meetings. So I think
Speaker 1: you can still start zach Ertz if you need to.
Speaker 1: He clocks in with a C grade. All right, let's uh.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about a couple other items from
Speaker 1: around the league. As we got just a well, we
Speaker 1: got thirty s I got about I only have about
Speaker 1: thirty seconds, so rap fire ago necessarily dig into this.
Speaker 1: Are there any are there is there? Could you flat
Speaker 1: out drop every Panther excepting Deontay Johnson? Yes, drop, I
Speaker 1: think might be interesting down the line too, Xavier yet Yeah,
Speaker 1: but with Brooks coming back in four weeks.
Speaker 2: But with Brooks they're going to be so bad. What
Speaker 2: is the point of risking reinjured? Like, don't play him,
Speaker 2: but they're not gonna bell Cowum late in the season. Yeah,
Speaker 2: drop James.
Speaker 1: Would you drop Brooks out right? Jonathan Brooks them?
Speaker 3: No, I wonder if you could know.
Speaker 2: I would trade him close to when he comes back.
Speaker 3: I'm holding the trade him.
Speaker 2: Hold on.
Speaker 1: That's probably the right angle, you know. I know everybody
Speaker 1: needed some extra Panthers content. As we punted here at
Speaker 1: the in the final moments.
Speaker 2: I flew out of Charlotte to get away from the Panthers.
Speaker 1: Now look all you got is Panthers. Thank you for listening.
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