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Speaker 1: host today are Scott Fish and Brian Johnson. Hello, guys,
Speaker 1: Hey Church, Oh high, Scott, how are you hey? Let's
Speaker 1: go to also, yeah, back, that's been a little while
Speaker 1: lost to get to. Over the course of this show,
Speaker 1: we will, as always get to the nine players upon
Speaker 1: whom you can take a chance. We will answer three
Speaker 1: tough questions, we'll give you some premature speculation, and we'll
Speaker 1: break down every matchup Fantasy Football Weekly style with letter
Speaker 1: grades on all the players you care about. And we
Speaker 1: begin with the Eagles taking the Colts. Scott, Eagles need
Speaker 1: to bounce back performance here, cold Squeaky Wheel maybe a
Speaker 1: squeaky Wheel game performances. I'm really glad that you brought
Speaker 1: that up, because yes, it could be right there. And
Speaker 1: who would be the squeaky wheel player here? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's probably got to be a J. Brown after
Speaker 1: his kind of dud last week. But did he squeak?
Speaker 1: I don't think he squeaked, but I think saks. I
Speaker 1: think the whole team is squeaking this. They're just not
Speaker 1: doing it publicly. He's there squeaking behind the scenes, squeaking. Yes,
Speaker 1: we've got an automatic A on Jail and Hurts. You
Speaker 1: aren't mentioning him anyway. Colts isn't a great matchup. They
Speaker 1: don't a loot of ton of yards passing, but six
Speaker 1: of the ten quarterbacks they faced had multiple scores. They've
Speaker 1: given up three rushing scorts. Hurts tends to do that.
Speaker 1: So a grade there. I got a B grade on
Speaker 1: A J. Brown. You're not mentioning him. He had add
Speaker 1: last week. As we just mentioned, um, I would expect
Speaker 1: the Colts to run a ton and try to emulate
Speaker 1: what Washington did. But Brown had five touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: three previous games, and Philly is angry and that that's
Speaker 1: squeaky wheel man. I got it. I got He's got
Speaker 1: to say something could be a squeaky win. I don't know.
Speaker 1: The Colts are number one against the slot though, which
Speaker 1: is where Brown often plays. So that's why I only
Speaker 1: have a B grade. I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of running and Uh. Over to DeVante Smith. I
Speaker 1: have a bench grade on him. Over the last five weeks,
Speaker 1: only two wide receivers have top fifty yards on the Colts.
Speaker 1: That was Terry McLaurin. We don't have Matt here for
Speaker 1: the sound or we should get that on the board.
Speaker 1: Uh and DeVante Adams and it took eight plus targets
Speaker 1: for each to get there. I think I think Brown
Speaker 1: is the more likely guy to have a good day.
Speaker 1: It's not outside the realm of the possibilities. But the
Speaker 1: number two wide receiver has done almost nothing against the Colts.
Speaker 1: The best best game from a number two wide receiver
Speaker 1: against the Colts was fifty three yards and that took
Speaker 1: eight targets. DeVante Smith doesn't usually get that kind of volume.
Speaker 1: And Smith such a boom or bust guy, and this
Speaker 1: feels like a bust game. I'm with you very day.
Speaker 1: It does. It does. We don't just keep an eye
Speaker 1: on what the tight end situation happens. It might be
Speaker 1: six ft seven Tyree Jackson that takes that role. It
Speaker 1: might be Stole. Keep an eye on it, but I
Speaker 1: don't I have him on the bench for this but
Speaker 1: don't you think that with Goddard out that's there are
Speaker 1: going to be a lot more targets to spread around
Speaker 1: at fed that way Once again, I think, I think
Speaker 1: Indianapolis keeps this game on the ground and keeps it
Speaker 1: a slow pace where maybe it's not as many targets
Speaker 1: as a normal game. So you're telling me you like
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders a lot. I do like Miles Sanders. I
Speaker 1: gotta B grade on on Sanders. The Colts d is
Speaker 1: allowing the most running back touches per game against them
Speaker 1: at over thirty, but only a three point eight yards
Speaker 1: per carry. But the volume should be there for the
Speaker 1: clear number one in a potent offense. That's already that
Speaker 1: he's being very effective with his lower touch accounts and
Speaker 1: getting goal line work. And the weird thing is no
Speaker 1: catches for three straight for Miles Sanders. He can catch there,
Speaker 1: just they don't throw. Yeah, that's part of the B grade.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of catching. And he's only top to
Speaker 1: eighty yards twice at it took seventeen plus touches to
Speaker 1: get there. So just a B grade for him. Kenneth
Speaker 1: Gainwell I have on the bench. I at first thought,
Speaker 1: oh the Colts are fourth have allowed the fourth most receptions,
Speaker 1: most receiving yards. That originally had me thinking gag Well's
Speaker 1: the sneaky play here. He doesn't catch that much either.
Speaker 1: The Eagles have under a hundred receiving yards total out
Speaker 1: of their running backs in this entire season, not even
Speaker 1: a single performance over twenty two yards. They don't throw
Speaker 1: with Godard out right right, it's possible, Yeah, it's it's possible.
Speaker 1: On the other side, Matt Ryan had to find against
Speaker 1: one of the easiest QB match matchups possible last week,
Speaker 1: but only through times. It seems like this new Jeff
Speaker 1: Saturday offense is gonna run a lot like that is
Speaker 1: the ticket to beating the Eagles and doing it on
Speaker 1: the ground exactly, and Washington laid that blueprint. So with
Speaker 1: low volume, I don't want Ryan in my starting lineup.
Speaker 1: I will say I do have se grades on both
Speaker 1: Pittman and Campbell because is Ryan is Ryan in his
Speaker 1: last three games, is hyper targeting those two and basically
Speaker 1: just those two twenty six targets for Pittman, h thirty
Speaker 1: four for thirty four for Pittman, twenty nine for Campbell
Speaker 1: in those three games. Um, everybody else just fourteen total targets.
Speaker 1: Guys who have gotten that kind of target volume have
Speaker 1: been in the mid sixties to a hundred yards against
Speaker 1: the Eagles. I think I think we can see those
Speaker 1: two get eight to ten targets and decent sea level games. Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what to make of
Speaker 1: the tight ends. They're all switching up, and now it's
Speaker 1: Kyle Grandson's turns, so I have them on the bench
Speaker 1: right now has been ruled out of this game. So
Speaker 1: if you're desperate for a duard threat, and I do
Speaker 1: think Grandson's Grandson's starting to emerge, but it's it's one game.
Speaker 1: It's one game, so I'm not gonna anoint it the
Speaker 1: changing of the guard here in this one. When the
Speaker 1: changing of the guard comes, it's coming for Gilani Woods, Okay, there,
Speaker 1: it might be like he was my number two tight
Speaker 1: end coming out of this of this rookie class. I
Speaker 1: like him a lot. Automackab automatic A Automackay is that
Speaker 1: a thing something a guy? Doesn't it? Oh? Man? Automatic?
Speaker 1: A for Jonathan Taylor, they're running a ton Washington laid
Speaker 1: the breuprint. We've talked about this a bunch. I don't
Speaker 1: even talk about Jonathan tayl you don't, but just let
Speaker 1: me say this, how great was that breakaway run from
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor last week that we brought you back to
Speaker 1: last year like he was doing that once a half
Speaker 1: last year and did just finally get the breakaway touchdown.
Speaker 1: We're sitting here worried that he'd be shut down, that
Speaker 1: that anko would bother him all year, and then you're like, oh, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, yeah, let's go to the Brown's
Speaker 1: taking on the Bills. Brian, This game would have been
Speaker 1: far more interesting had it been played in Buffalo. No,
Speaker 1: it would not. Respective we want points, yeah, reality football wants.
Speaker 1: I love the Blizzard games. Both of the Ruddy backs
Speaker 1: would have been shorter than the snowfall, though, so there's
Speaker 1: something to that. It would have been all Nick Chubb,
Speaker 1: go straight ahead. I was. I was very excited. But
Speaker 1: now we're gonna be in the antiseptic Ford field with
Speaker 1: perfect weather conditions whatever suited first shootout. I'm much happier
Speaker 1: this way. But uh, we'll start with the Cleveland side
Speaker 1: and Nick Chubb, who will not be plowing through the snow,
Speaker 1: giving him an a Since Week eight, the Bills are
Speaker 1: allowing seven rushing yards per game to running backs, the
Speaker 1: second most in the league. During that span, Chub is
Speaker 1: averaging five point seven yards per carry. This year, It's
Speaker 1: an eight teen carries per game, which is a lot.
Speaker 1: He's only seen twenty twenty carries are more three times
Speaker 1: though so far. But in each of those three games,
Speaker 1: Cleveland has won. And you wanna know how many wins
Speaker 1: Cleveland has three, So feed Nick Chubb in this game.
Speaker 1: Also definitely worth noting. Winebacker Tremaine Edmonds has been ruled
Speaker 1: out for the Bills, which outstanding. Also very good coverage
Speaker 1: of linebacker and that could affect David and joke if
Speaker 1: he ends up playing. Yeah, this we'll talk more about
Speaker 1: the Bills defense, but not as scary as it was
Speaker 1: earlier in the season. But I still have Kareem Hunt
Speaker 1: on the bench. Over his last four games, Hunt has
Speaker 1: gotten double digit double digit carries just once. He's topped
Speaker 1: one catch just once during that same span, and there's
Speaker 1: not really a pass catching angle here. The Bills have
Speaker 1: allowed one running back to top thirty receiving yards and
Speaker 1: they and they've surrendered just two scores to the position
Speaker 1: through the air over the wide receivers a MARII Cooper
Speaker 1: gets a B. I was going to mention his horrific
Speaker 1: home in a way splits, but I can't really do
Speaker 1: that now it's kind of a neutral site. What I
Speaker 1: do know is a corner of factor. Davious White will
Speaker 1: not make his return for the Bills. It seems like
Speaker 1: we've been waiting on that weekend and week out. But
Speaker 1: that bodes well for Cooper as well. In Buffalo. Has
Speaker 1: surrendered five wide receiver touchdowns and toward receiver performances performances
Speaker 1: over the last four games. So a B for Cooper
Speaker 1: and I see for Donovan people's jones might take it
Speaker 1: handsome me wide receiver from last week. I think you
Speaker 1: get for that yards, but we'll take five. How about
Speaker 1: a touchdown? He has get the score, but at least
Speaker 1: seventy receiving yards in five of his last six games.
Speaker 1: But most importantly, I did the research here, guys. He
Speaker 1: was born in Detroit University of Michigan. This is like
Speaker 1: a platinum homecoming. It's not like just the college is
Speaker 1: a home something born and raised. Oh yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you're not playing in the enemy stadium. You're playing in
Speaker 1: a neutral site stadium where all your fans, your family
Speaker 1: can come, so it's super sed. Yeah, we're moving it
Speaker 1: up to a B. I'm going to A. Yeah. I'm
Speaker 1: getting too excited people, I'm almost deep pantsed right now.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited about this homecoming, So a B J pants.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna move on to the tight ends now with
Speaker 1: David and Joku. Give him a sea. Sounds like he'll
Speaker 1: make his return. Uh this week. The Bills are allowing
Speaker 1: more than five catches per game to tight ends, which
Speaker 1: is kind of a mouth watering production in the tight
Speaker 1: end waste land. So we'll take that. So see for
Speaker 1: in Joco if he goes and if he somehow sits,
Speaker 1: I would give that see to Harrison Bryant like I
Speaker 1: did last week and lastly Jacoby Brissette borderline see, but
Speaker 1: I have him on the bench. The Bill steps are
Speaker 1: rendered zero or one passing touchdowns in seven of nine games.
Speaker 1: Only Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers were able to throw
Speaker 1: for multiple scores against them, but both that too, so
Speaker 1: buffaloizing can allowed three touchdowns yeah this year, and mostly
Speaker 1: two were one. So Prisette on the bench over the
Speaker 1: Bill side Devin Singletary gets a B. Over his last
Speaker 1: four his volume has been on the rise, averaging thirteen
Speaker 1: carries as opposed to only eight through the first five weeks.
Speaker 1: The Browns were just torched for three total touchdowns by
Speaker 1: by Miami's back, so Singletary should be a solid start.
Speaker 1: Of course, Stephan Digs as a solid start, he gets
Speaker 1: an A. Even though the Browns has held Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: and Jalen Waddle to combined one ten yards and no
Speaker 1: loan receiver has top seventy yards against Cleveland over the
Speaker 1: last four they have surrendered five wide received for touchdowns
Speaker 1: during that span. So in a for Digs and for
Speaker 1: those reasons, those same reasons you gotta give Gabe Davis
Speaker 1: to be. You play him when he's healthy, and he
Speaker 1: is this week, So solid start for him. Not a
Speaker 1: solid start for Dawson Knox, but I'll still give him
Speaker 1: a SEA because again it's the tight end waste land.
Speaker 1: There aren't many options out there. There they are. I
Speaker 1: will never forget on our serious x M show, I
Speaker 1: had to our producer had me sing that tight end
Speaker 1: wasteland to rally Wasteland. I wasn't on that. I feel
Speaker 1: like I was on the show. But anyway, anyway, we
Speaker 1: don't care about serious XM radio here, so you can
Speaker 1: roll with Knox in a pinch, but temporary expectations. The
Speaker 1: Browns are allowing just three catches and forty four yards
Speaker 1: per game to tight ends, and they've surrendered just one
Speaker 1: score to the position. And lastly, Josh Allen gets in
Speaker 1: a the elbow doesn't seem like it's that much of
Speaker 1: a concern anymore. No, but no, here's the thing that
Speaker 1: you need to know about Josh Allen is zero designed
Speaker 1: runs last week because of the elbow. None clear. You
Speaker 1: know a week later, you know, is that going to
Speaker 1: be still in place? No design runs take some of
Speaker 1: the ceiling off. Josh Allen some four yards and scrambles,
Speaker 1: but it's not you know, it's not the same as
Speaker 1: the designed runs. And so I think a little that
Speaker 1: ceiling that you normally get with Josh Allen is not
Speaker 1: in place here. When we come back, take a chance
Speaker 1: on me nine players not normally a new starting lineup.
Speaker 1: Any of these guys available on the waiver wire. Find
Speaker 1: out who they are. When we come back to Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly, take a chance on me nine players who
Speaker 1: you would not normally start many of these guys available
Speaker 1: on the waiver wire. We begin at the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: Scott Fish, Who you got? I have Jimmy Garoppolo. In
Speaker 1: his last four game versus the Cardinals. Uh. Since he's
Speaker 1: been with the four Niners for those interdivisional battles, he
Speaker 1: averages three thirty one yards and three scores per game.
Speaker 1: He blows up on them every time owns the Cards.
Speaker 1: Pair that with the fact that Cardinals ranked third worst
Speaker 1: against fantasy quarterbacks, giving up the fourth most yards, fifth
Speaker 1: most passing touchdowns, and also being bottom ten and many
Speaker 1: other metrics. I got Jimmy g I like it. Brian,
Speaker 1: your take a chance at me quarterback? I got Kenny
Speaker 1: p Kenny Pickett at home against the Bengals, who should
Speaker 1: see the return of cornerback Mike Hilton, but corner Trey
Speaker 1: Flowers and safety Dax Hill are banged up, might not
Speaker 1: play since he's best corner Hidobe Ausier certainly won't play,
Speaker 1: so I'm liking pick it a lot. This week. The
Speaker 1: Bengals have only allowed multiple passing touchdowns once. That was
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield in Week nine. That's not eight. But listen
Speaker 1: to the quarterbacks the Bengals have faced this season Mitch Rubiskie,
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush, Joe Flacco, Teddy Bridgewater, Andy Dalton, Marcus Mariotta,
Speaker 1: and Jacoby Rissette. That's all. That's the full list. There's
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and they knocked out too. But like basically,
Speaker 1: pick it might be the best pass thrower of the
Speaker 1: based season. So I like Pickett. All right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take Danny j As might take a chance of me
Speaker 1: quarterback against Chicago posing quarterbacks averaging a healthy two hundred
Speaker 1: sixty six yards and almost two touchdowns against the Lions.
Speaker 1: But the big angle on Daniel Jones is on the ground.
Speaker 1: Detroit has been housed by mobile quarterbacks like Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 1: Gino Smith, Justin Fields, who combined for four touchdowns against
Speaker 1: the Lions. Fields rolled up hundred forty seven rushing yards
Speaker 1: against the Lions last week. And still I like I
Speaker 1: like Jones both air and ground. This week, go to
Speaker 1: the running back position, Scott, I have my good buddy
Speaker 1: Tyler algae here. I don't know if become good buddy. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is the fourth best matchup he's got this week
Speaker 1: against the Bears, who just got rid of ro Kuwan
Speaker 1: Smith and Robert Quinn. To make it even easier, they've
Speaker 1: allowed seven running back touchdowns in just the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: You might think the Atlanta back field seems a bit
Speaker 1: of a mess, but Algier is out snapping him, out
Speaker 1: out snapping Cordaro Patterson out touching him. He's getting more
Speaker 1: pass game work than Patterson, who weirdly only has six
Speaker 1: catches for thirty nine yards on the year. He's getting
Speaker 1: nothing in the past game Patterson is. Algier is getting
Speaker 1: more of the work. He gets almost thirteen touches every
Speaker 1: single game. I got Tyler Algier in a great matchup
Speaker 1: against the Bears. All right, you're running back. I'm going
Speaker 1: Jalen Warren again, who I used last week, and he
Speaker 1: was serviceable. Over the last two weeks. Warren his average
Speaker 1: ten and a half touches and seventies six combo yards
Speaker 1: per game. He's pretty good, as further evidence by the
Speaker 1: fact he's fifteenth in yards after a contact per attempt
Speaker 1: among running backs and his ranked five in Pro Football
Speaker 1: Focuses Elusive rating. And lastly, the Bengals have softened against
Speaker 1: the run since Week five, allowing the sixth most rushing
Speaker 1: yards per game and the second highest explosive run rate.
Speaker 1: Explosive output should be here for all. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of explosiveness here. Isaiah Pacheco is your new lead back
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs since gaining the starting work and back
Speaker 1: to back weeks. Last week a career high sixteen carries.
Speaker 1: Now you may be thinking that's not that much sixteen carries.
Speaker 1: The previous starter, Clyde Edwards Despair, had topped sixteen carries
Speaker 1: once in his last twenty four games. So this is
Speaker 1: a pretty strong statement by Andy Reid, who was clearly
Speaker 1: finally shaken off the sunk cost fallacy of the first
Speaker 1: round blunder that was Clyde Edwards Despair. Well got just
Speaker 1: four snaps last week. Well, and the Chiefs made a
Speaker 1: claim on you know, ben In They didn't, but they
Speaker 1: were ready. Yeah, Ronald Jones still in roster, probably would
Speaker 1: have been the guy out. Um, how is Pacheco doing
Speaker 1: so far? Four point seven yards per carry is pretty good.
Speaker 1: His eighty two yards last week were the most by
Speaker 1: a Chiefs runner in twenty six games. Great matchup this week.
Speaker 1: Los Angeles has surrendered one d seventy rushing yards per
Speaker 1: game to running backs over their last three games and
Speaker 1: they ranked twenty nine and run defense by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Pochecko, Let's go to the receivers. Scott Fish, who
Speaker 1: you got? Yeah? In the receiving game, I have Darius
Speaker 1: Tony who will we will definitely talk about later. But
Speaker 1: also MVS is currently Marquez Valdes Scantling is sick right now,
Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster has been ruled out already, Mikole Hartman
Speaker 1: is out, and on I R. It's basically Tony and
Speaker 1: Sky Moore and Justin Watson for the Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 1: going up against a Chargers defense that is bottom ten
Speaker 1: in both receptions allowed and receiving touchdowns allowed to wide receivers.
Speaker 1: All right, Brian, you take a chance for me receiver.
Speaker 1: I didn't envision this. I was hoping, hoping to be
Speaker 1: giving him a grades at this point in the season.
Speaker 1: But I have Alan Robinson at the I'm sorry at
Speaker 1: the At the Saints, we all know Cooper Cup is
Speaker 1: on I R. So there are vacated targets everywhere. I
Speaker 1: think it's over thirty percent of the Rams targets are
Speaker 1: now vacated with Cup on I R. The Saints have
Speaker 1: also been awaiting the return of cornerback Marshawn Lattimore, but
Speaker 1: he has been ruled out for the remainder of the season,
Speaker 1: so that's not happening. Robinson had a thirty four percent
Speaker 1: slot rate this season before Cup went down, so those
Speaker 1: snaps should go up. He'll also get plenty of work
Speaker 1: on the outside. I just think they get creative with
Speaker 1: him where they tried to. The Saints have allowed the
Speaker 1: tenth most yards per game to opposing wide receivers. Are
Speaker 1: a ton of wide receivers and on the rams now,
Speaker 1: but Robinson's my guy. I think Deante Johnson counts as
Speaker 1: a g a chance of me receiver at this point.
Speaker 1: He has not scored this year. It's gone nine games. Well,
Speaker 1: he and Robinson were going like in the fourth round
Speaker 1: late in summer draft. So if I use a rob
Speaker 1: you can use I think that counts. Um. Although granted,
Speaker 1: mims To Brisky and Kenny Pickett have not thrown from
Speaker 1: multiple scores in any game, which so it's probably much
Speaker 1: more on the quarterback position than on Johnson himself. Um
Speaker 1: he was. He played Cincinnati this week's opponent a week one,
Speaker 1: put up a decent game, seven catches, fifty five yards
Speaker 1: his primary defender, and you alluded to this earlier rookie
Speaker 1: backup Cam Taylor Britt Brian, who allowed a score last week,
Speaker 1: and he's giving up a perfect passer rating in the
Speaker 1: three games in which he has substituted for injured cornerback
Speaker 1: Chidobe Awuzier. So we'll try Deonte Johnson. Let's see we
Speaker 1: can get him in the end zone first time this year.
Speaker 1: Let's go from a Deontay to a Deonta. As we
Speaker 1: look at the Panthers taking on the Ravens. Deanta Foreman
Speaker 1: is the Panther you care about the most three big
Speaker 1: games and one dud game since the Christian McCaffrey trade.
Speaker 1: I'm actually a little bit worried about how much a
Speaker 1: healthy Tuba Hubbard is going to work into his work
Speaker 1: eat into his workload. But if Foreman's anywhere near his
Speaker 1: average of twenty carries per game, he's gonna be just
Speaker 1: fine here. And here's let me just explain a little
Speaker 1: bit more about why I'm worried. So Hubbard came back.
Speaker 1: He was questionable going into last week's game. That was
Speaker 1: a Thursday night game, and it was in the rain,
Speaker 1: and I think They just didn't want to risk the
Speaker 1: ankle injury on a slick surface when you've got a
Speaker 1: big power back like form and running forward, so they
Speaker 1: gave for him and all the work. I think Hubbard's
Speaker 1: gonna eat into this workload much much more than people realize,
Speaker 1: and I'm nervous about that with Foreman here. Baltimore has
Speaker 1: yet to allow running back to top ninety one rushing yards,
Speaker 1: but has a lot of four touchdowns in the last
Speaker 1: four weeks, So hopefully Foreman can get goal line work
Speaker 1: here and he gets a B grade. Hubbard is startable.
Speaker 1: I've got the C grade on him for the reasons
Speaker 1: I just talked about. I think I think he is
Speaker 1: going to get more used than most people realize. Um
Speaker 1: also medium and basically a neutral style matchup. And the
Speaker 1: last time Hubbard was healthy, he ran for sixty three
Speaker 1: yards on a touchdown. So startable here, and then the
Speaker 1: only other Panther you care about is d J. Moore.
Speaker 1: Last week's four catch twenty nine yard performance against the
Speaker 1: league's worst past defense does not give you a lot
Speaker 1: of confidence in starting more this week against Baltimore, coming
Speaker 1: off of by and with Baker Mayfield under center in
Speaker 1: five full games with Baker Mayfield d J. Moore's averaging
Speaker 1: thirty nine yards and zero point two touchdowns. That's it, um.
Speaker 1: I think the only way you can rationalize starting more,
Speaker 1: who I've got a bench grade on, is if you
Speaker 1: believe the Ravens will jump to a big early lead
Speaker 1: and it's going to be all passing for the rest
Speaker 1: of the game. But I don't see that happen. I
Speaker 1: don't necessarily see that happening because the Ravens offense just
Speaker 1: hasn't done that much this year. So d J Moore
Speaker 1: bench great. Let's go to the Baltimore side, speaking of
Speaker 1: under underwhelming offenses, as I alluded to, and I hate
Speaker 1: sound like a broken record because I I do Baltimore
Speaker 1: a lot, and I've talked about Lamar Jackson many times
Speaker 1: in the show. The passing just isn't going very well
Speaker 1: and as rushing doesn't automatically make up for it. Get
Speaker 1: this from week four forward. Lamar Jackson is quarterback twenty two.
Speaker 1: That feels like a guy you should have sabotaged drop
Speaker 1: a three weeks ago when we were talking about absolutely
Speaker 1: His average game since then is one hundred sixty nine
Speaker 1: passing yards, one passing touchdown, sixty five rushing yards and
Speaker 1: no rushing touchdowns. That's Lamar Jackson's average average grant game
Speaker 1: over the last effectively six weeks. Pathers secondary took a
Speaker 1: huge loss with with the injury to star cornerback Dante Jackson,
Speaker 1: who has done for the year after suffering a torn
Speaker 1: achilles But Baltimore's lack of wide out talent is just
Speaker 1: is just so thin. I can't tell you that Jackson's
Speaker 1: gonna bounce back here. I can do no more than
Speaker 1: a B grade on Jackson and drop it to a
Speaker 1: C grade if Mark Andrews does not play, So let's
Speaker 1: talk through. Andrews still working his way through knee and
Speaker 1: shoulder injuries. Looks like he's headed for a game time decision.
Speaker 1: The Ravens desperately need him, and he's got strong individual
Speaker 1: matchups if he does play. Safety Miles hearts Field allows
Speaker 1: the most receptions and yards of any safety in the league,
Speaker 1: and linebacker Shack Thompson has allowed the sixth most receptions
Speaker 1: and seventh most yards of any linebacker in coverage this season.
Speaker 1: So if Andrews starts, I'm giving him a B grade.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't go and you inject Isaiah likely will
Speaker 1: give him a C grade. If Andrews does not go
Speaker 1: all right, all the receivers are on the bench. What
Speaker 1: a total disaster these guys are. Get this, The entire
Speaker 1: Baltimore position group is averaging sixty five receiving yards since
Speaker 1: Rashod Bateman's injury. Sixty divided three ways tells you why
Speaker 1: you're not starting Prochet, DuVernay Robinson any of those guys.
Speaker 1: Then let's go to the running game. Sed Words gets
Speaker 1: a C grade. Might not be back to a full
Speaker 1: workload off his hamstring injury, but in the same situation
Speaker 1: we saw earlier this year, the Ravens instantly loaded him
Speaker 1: up with sixteen carries, and in that one full game,
Speaker 1: he led the running backs with four red zone carries
Speaker 1: and rewarded Greg Romans confidence with two touchdowns. In that game.
Speaker 1: The Panthers have seen the fifth most rushing attempts, which
Speaker 1: has led them to surrendering the sixth most rushing yards
Speaker 1: and the six most touchdowns to opposing backs. Gus Edwards
Speaker 1: gets a C grade on the prospects of a touchdown,
Speaker 1: and Kenyan Drake can also be started with a C
Speaker 1: grade and bumb them up to a B grade if
Speaker 1: it turns out Gus can't go. And even if Gus plays,
Speaker 1: though he is startable in this game, he'll need to
Speaker 1: score from distance, though, as Gus likely gets goal line carries,
Speaker 1: Drake probably gets more total carries in this game. The
Speaker 1: Ravens wide receivers as a whole have eight hundred and
Speaker 1: forty five yards. That's it, gosh, I mean Tyree Hill
Speaker 1: Marks Brown has four d eighty five yards. He's played
Speaker 1: in sixths. He's probably on base for the more receiving yard.
Speaker 1: It's the old team you left, all right, but that
Speaker 1: that traded him, he didn't leave them. That sounds right, Uh,
Speaker 1: Scotty Falcons. Le'll see if we can knock this thing
Speaker 1: down in about three and a half four minutes. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: Justin Fields is gonna getting a gray. The QB one
Speaker 1: back to back weeks is almost an auto a right
Speaker 1: now with his rushing upside. I came I figured this
Speaker 1: out to this week. I've been ranking guys for twenty
Speaker 1: five years. Don't believe I've ever ranked a Bears quarterback
Speaker 1: as my number one play going into a week until
Speaker 1: this week. First time. Yeah, against that Atlanta defense is
Speaker 1: one quick one quick angle. Sorry no one has mentioned this.
Speaker 1: The Bear or the Falcons probably could have taken justin
Speaker 1: fields last year and it would have made sense. Grooving
Speaker 1: the quarterback of the future. Revenge took Kyle Pitts instead.
Speaker 1: Spike game justin fields. Spike game over there. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: an easy against the bottom six past past defense. Uh Mooney,
Speaker 1: I gotta b grade on is still the really the
Speaker 1: only startable wide receiver for the Bears. Clay was only
Speaker 1: playing about a third of the snaps. No one else
Speaker 1: is really uh really a good start there. This is
Speaker 1: the number one easiest matchup for opposing wide receivers. Posing
Speaker 1: wide receivers specifically average seven catches for ninety six yards
Speaker 1: and a score against the Falcons. That's really Mooney's role
Speaker 1: in this offense. We'll see if he gets there. But
Speaker 1: he's had double digit Fantasy days and three the last four.
Speaker 1: You should feel pretty good about a start here. Co
Speaker 1: comet a grade. Five touchdowns in the last three games
Speaker 1: is totally sustainable. That's just it's absolutely gonna keep happening.
Speaker 1: Maybe not, but the Falcons are allowing six catches for
Speaker 1: sixty yards to tight end tight ends on average this year,
Speaker 1: but only just one score, so we'll see how that
Speaker 1: mashes up. It's hard to tell, but four to five
Speaker 1: catches and forties seventy yards feel safe in this matchup
Speaker 1: here for Commet A grade over to David Montgomery. Somehow
Speaker 1: there are three A grade bears. How is this possible?
Speaker 1: With Commet quietly or a top five offense and David
Speaker 1: Montgomery With Leal Herbert now on I R. Montgomery is
Speaker 1: going to get the overwhelming majority of the backfield trust
Speaker 1: and Ebner is the only other back they have on
Speaker 1: roster who has had a touch this year. In Montgomery's
Speaker 1: missed game, Herbert took it twenty plus touches. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: guess it's gonna be similar with Herbert gon Montgomery is
Speaker 1: gonna flip it and take twenty plus touches. He has
Speaker 1: fifteen plus touches in seven games. That extra workload against
Speaker 1: a team that has allowed the fourth most yards in
Speaker 1: the last three weeks, the tenth worst fantasy defense on
Speaker 1: the season, and eleven running back scores in ten games.
Speaker 1: A grade for David Montgomery this week. I really like him.
Speaker 1: On the other side, I have a C grade on
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota. Despite only averaging a hundred seventy four yards
Speaker 1: per game passing, he tax on thirty to sixty rushing
Speaker 1: yards nearly every game, and he needs it. He scored
Speaker 1: in all but two games, as multiple touchdowns in half
Speaker 1: his games. But other mobile quarterbacks against the Bears, like
Speaker 1: Trey Lance, Daniel Jones, even Dak Prescott tagged the tag
Speaker 1: the Bears for forty to fifty yards and a score.
Speaker 1: So he gets a C grade just and it's a
Speaker 1: forty nine point over under in Vegas, it's gonna likely
Speaker 1: to be a high scoring game. I got Marioder with
Speaker 1: the Sea, Drake London with the CEA as well. It's
Speaker 1: been rough lately. Rough. There's been random, yeah, random pop
Speaker 1: offs by Cadero, Hard Hodgen, demere Bird, but London is
Speaker 1: the consistent one, getting about six targets per game. Hasn't
Speaker 1: topped forty yards since Week three, that is the worry,
Speaker 1: but seven wide receivers have hit that mark in just
Speaker 1: the last three games against the Bear or Bears over
Speaker 1: that span their fourth worst against wide receivers, allowing the
Speaker 1: second most yards. I have a C grade on London.
Speaker 1: I have a C grade on Kyle Pitts. I mean,
Speaker 1: you aren't benching him. It's Kyle Pitts, You're not. He's
Speaker 1: pretty much I will say he's matchup proof. He's matchup proof.
Speaker 1: Though good matchup, bad matchup still get you two catches
Speaker 1: for twenty to thirty yards. Uh. Given four teams on
Speaker 1: buy and the injuries to Earth's and Goddard and evert uh,
Speaker 1: he's he's startable C grade plus. The only two tight
Speaker 1: ends that five targets against the Bears had good games
Speaker 1: that Pitts gets over that, and the Bears have allowed
Speaker 1: two touchdowns to tight ends the last three weeks, so
Speaker 1: there's some optimism. There were those targets catchable for those
Speaker 1: other tight ends, I'm like the targets that Cowpits. You
Speaker 1: couldn't let it go. Kyle Pits does not get any
Speaker 1: catchable targets. But Tyler l Jeer was my running back.
Speaker 1: Take a chance on me player. He's the only running
Speaker 1: back I'd start in this one. Not no, not Patterson,
Speaker 1: Not the way he's playing right now now. It's the
Speaker 1: usage is inexplicable. I want to believe Patterson's gonna bounce
Speaker 1: back and become more of a workhorse, but we haven't
Speaker 1: seen any help. The world would be a better place
Speaker 1: if the Falcons did take Justin Fields and then Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts got to go somewhere else. Oh no, Tyler L Jr.
Speaker 1: Did not start himself this week. You want to change
Speaker 1: your mind, I'll give you a chance. Send this. You've
Speaker 1: got a whole show to go. Yeah, we'll talk about
Speaker 1: when we come back. New York Jets taking on the Patriots.
Speaker 1: Will find out what you can do with elements of
Speaker 1: the Jets passing game, including Garrett Wilson in this game,
Speaker 1: well the Wilson Wilson connection to help your fantasy team
Speaker 1: find out when we come back. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: I am Paul Charching my coast or Scott Fish. You
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Speaker 1: a game within the game of fantasy football. Figure out
Speaker 1: how to spell my name. Back to the matchups. Jets
Speaker 1: taking on the Patriots. Brian Jet side of this game,
Speaker 1: Michael Carter lead back against a pretty good run defense.
Speaker 1: It is a great run defense. And I will mention
Speaker 1: and I'll reference this game. These teems just met in
Speaker 1: week eight, so some very recent history up or down
Speaker 1: in that game. I'm pretty sure he was down by then.
Speaker 1: He was. He was because Michael Carter and James Robinson
Speaker 1: combined for forty three scoreless rushing yards on twelve carries
Speaker 1: in that first meeting. And the Patriots have surrender just
Speaker 1: two total touchdowns and running backs all season. So I'll
Speaker 1: give Carter a see if you're desperate. I got Robinson
Speaker 1: on the bench. Um, but I would explore other options
Speaker 1: other than Michael Carter. But if you have to start him,
Speaker 1: go ahead. But there are other options out there most likely.
Speaker 1: Uh So, a soft seed for Carter, a CEE for
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson. Opposing wide receivers are averaging him easily. Eleven
Speaker 1: catches and a hundred twenty seven yards and less than
Speaker 1: a touchdown per game. Has a hole against the Patriots.
Speaker 1: But Wilson had six catches for a hundred fifty yards
Speaker 1: in the weekend games, so there's some glimmer of hope there.
Speaker 1: So Jald Mills out there, he's awful, that's you know,
Speaker 1: if you can, if you can get that matchup for
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson, I like his prospects. Yeah, so he got
Speaker 1: the sea Denzel Mims, who has emerged as the wide
Speaker 1: receiver to uh, he's on the and so he did
Speaker 1: have seventy six yards in that first meeting, but just
Speaker 1: saw three targets. I'm not chasing those numbers. So he's
Speaker 1: on the bench, but Tyler Conklin is not. He gets
Speaker 1: a B in the tight end waste land. The Patriots
Speaker 1: have surrendered the most tight end touchdowns this year. Two
Speaker 1: of those went to Conklin and wee Gate when he
Speaker 1: also had six catches for seventy nine yards. So B
Speaker 1: for Conklin, but a B in terms of bench for
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson. He did have three and fifty five yards
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns in the first meeting, but he also
Speaker 1: threw three picks. And in his ten career road starts
Speaker 1: and this game is on the road for Wilson, he's
Speaker 1: averaging one passing yards and has totaled four passing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So he's on the bench for me over to the
Speaker 1: Patriots side or Modre Stevenson not on the bench, but
Speaker 1: just to see this week he will split time with
Speaker 1: Damien Harris, who looks close off the injury list altogether.
Speaker 1: And I assumed that Harris didn't playing this Week eight game,
Speaker 1: but he did um something like eleven carries, but he played, Um, Harris.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but Stevenson had a strong game regardless of
Speaker 1: Harris playing, finishing with one forty three combo yards uh,
Speaker 1: including seven catches in that game against the Jets, the
Speaker 1: most combo yards of the Jets have allowed to a
Speaker 1: single back all season. But it's a tough matchup on paper.
Speaker 1: New York is allowing just four yards per carry since
Speaker 1: Week three and they've surrendered three total touchdowns to oppose
Speaker 1: and running backs during that span. So just to see
Speaker 1: for Stevenson, I got Harris on the bench, Gotta see
Speaker 1: what he does, what kind of what kind of snap percentage,
Speaker 1: he sees, all that stuff. So he's on the bench
Speaker 1: for me this week and a bad matchup. Jacoby Myers.
Speaker 1: I was closely giving a bench grade two, but I
Speaker 1: give him a CE based on expected volume. Saw twelve
Speaker 1: targets in the first meeting in the first meeting and
Speaker 1: turned them into nine catches, sixty yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: But that touchdown was just one of two wide receiver
Speaker 1: touchdowns the Jets have surrendered over their last six games.
Speaker 1: So temporary expectations for Myers, but we'll start him with
Speaker 1: the CE not starting Kendrick Born or Tae Kwon Thornton
Speaker 1: there on the bench, Hunter Henry John H. Smith around
Speaker 1: the bench. They combined for four catches thirty two yards
Speaker 1: against the Jets in Week A. The Jets have not
Speaker 1: allowed a tight end touchdown all year. Easy bench for
Speaker 1: them and easy ben for mac Jones. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go to the Commander's taking on the Texans and what
Speaker 1: is not a particularly sexy matchup, but does have a
Speaker 1: variety of starters in it, including Brian Robinson coming off
Speaker 1: his most impressive game of the year by a fair margin.
Speaker 1: I thought he's getting tons of work with twenty or
Speaker 1: more carries in two of the last four games, Houston
Speaker 1: has been pummeled on the ground, seeing the most rushing
Speaker 1: attempts while allowing the most rushing yards and rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: In the last four games alone, the Texans have allowed
Speaker 1: eight rushing scores and three different backs of top two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty rushing yards against them. This as good
Speaker 1: as it gets for Brian Robinson. If you don't start
Speaker 1: him here, why is he on your taking? And we'll
Speaker 1: bring Antonio Gibson into this conversation. If I didn't mention
Speaker 1: it b great for Brian Robinson, I'm giving a seed
Speaker 1: to Gibson here. You'd probably talked me into a B
Speaker 1: and PPR leagues, same easy match up on the ground
Speaker 1: as Robinson. He just gets fewer carries. He does chip
Speaker 1: in with extra receptions though, and JD. McKissick has been
Speaker 1: ruled out, so we will continue to help you that way.
Speaker 1: He's also managed to find the end zone in three
Speaker 1: of the past four games, and I think just absolutely startable,
Speaker 1: especially in two weeks here for Antonio Gibson. And then
Speaker 1: a couple of the guys you care about in the
Speaker 1: passing game, probably Terry McLaren first foremost probably red Hot
Speaker 1: thanks Ever since the switch to Taylor Heineke, McLaren has
Speaker 1: seen at least forty of Washington's targeted air yards in
Speaker 1: each game since Heineke took over. That is a huge,
Speaker 1: huge number. The Texans have allowed a league high fifteen
Speaker 1: yards per reception to wide receivers this season. They do
Speaker 1: have better improving cornerback play. In the last four games,
Speaker 1: Derek Stingley and Stephen Nelson have combined to allow four
Speaker 1: receptions for thirty nine yards per game. And oh, I
Speaker 1: didn't see that that does that is helpful? Then let
Speaker 1: me double check that Stingley's out. I'd consider bumping Terry
Speaker 1: McLaren out. All right, I'm giving him an A grade.
Speaker 1: Taylor Heineke comes in with a C grade here. I
Speaker 1: worry about out this run heavy game plan against a
Speaker 1: bad run defense, so I don't think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of volume to be had for Heineke. And Houston isn't
Speaker 1: going to get like way ahead and forced Heineke to
Speaker 1: throw a bunch, so the game plan just doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like a big game coming here. No quarterbacks top two
Speaker 1: touchdowns in a game and only one is top three
Speaker 1: yards since the opener against Houston. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: to the Houston side. Given up to me. The whole
Speaker 1: rest of this segment and maybe the rest of the
Speaker 1: show would just be all about Damian Pierce. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: I'm totally game for that. Since Week three, Pierce has
Speaker 1: seen at least twenty combined carries and targets every game,
Speaker 1: and he's put up at least one hundred total yards
Speaker 1: in every game but one. Since Week three. Pierce has
Speaker 1: also wrapped up the sixth most red zone carries among
Speaker 1: running backs, while the rest of the team has one
Speaker 1: carry in the red zone to one ratio. I love
Speaker 1: that about Damien Pierce. Washington is, though, got a very
Speaker 1: good run defense. Only Derrick Henry is a clip seventy
Speaker 1: six rushing yards against them, and they give up just
Speaker 1: four point two yards per carry. The Commanders have surrendered
Speaker 1: the fourth fewest rushing touchdowns, just four all year. It's
Speaker 1: a tough matchup, but Pierce's volume keeps him at a
Speaker 1: B level. And by the way, is God given talent
Speaker 1: the only other startable text and I've got his Nico
Speaker 1: Collins um. When Collins and Brandon Cooks have been on
Speaker 1: the field together, Collins has tallied more yards in three
Speaker 1: of those four games, and he's emerging as Houston's go
Speaker 1: to wide receiver. He played through his groin injury last week,
Speaker 1: but he's still very He's still maybe limited by the
Speaker 1: groin injury. Houston, sorry, Washington secondary is much improved, and
Speaker 1: aside from Justin Jefferson, they've held mortals in check, including A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown's dud game on Monday Night. So I can only
Speaker 1: get you to a C grade on Nico Collins, and guys,
Speaker 1: what do you think about this? I'm already to just
Speaker 1: drop Brandon Brandon Cooks. Um. You know, he's lost the
Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt at this point. He scored one
Speaker 1: time all year. He's disgruntled. He barely showed up in
Speaker 1: the box score last week. And I think Nico Collins
Speaker 1: is the go to receiver now and and David support
Speaker 1: more of the one receiver. All right, that's exactly. It's
Speaker 1: a dropping bread of coats. It depends on how shall
Speaker 1: I agree? But I'm sad about it. Yeah, that's I
Speaker 1: think that's totally fair. He went from underrated every single
Speaker 1: year two possibly properly. Maybe they want to bump his
Speaker 1: trade value up though in the off season, and maybe
Speaker 1: THATWN Lions take on the Giants. Scott, you know, I
Speaker 1: know you love I'm on Ross st. Brown, So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start with I want to start with him right
Speaker 1: off the bat. We're seeing with since T. J. Hawkins,
Speaker 1: and he's we're starting to see what feels like a
Speaker 1: repeat of last November December. You are you reading what
Speaker 1: I have written down here to talk about because I
Speaker 1: literally had a series of reflecting mirrors in the studio
Speaker 1: so I could read your notes. I was also wondered
Speaker 1: what all those cameras in my houset werefore. So wait
Speaker 1: a second. I'm on Ross st. Brown, the sun God
Speaker 1: has thirty targets in the last three games. The volumes
Speaker 1: back to those league winning levels um over the last
Speaker 1: three weeks. The Giants actually, let's start, he have. The
Speaker 1: Giants on the season have been a top ten pasty
Speaker 1: against wide receivers, but over the last three weeks their
Speaker 1: third worst. They've allowed six different receivers over fifty yards.
Speaker 1: They're averaging about a hundred and eighties six yards and
Speaker 1: a score to wide receivers per game. And it's not
Speaker 1: even like huge studs. It's the Jags and the Seahawks
Speaker 1: and the Texans are blowing them up, blow at at
Speaker 1: the wide receiver position. I have an A grade, Amra.
Speaker 1: I do have Jared Goff on the bench. Thou Giants
Speaker 1: allowing two in thirty yards per game. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: not a lot. Despite what the wide receivers are doing,
Speaker 1: They've given up just ten passing touchdowns in nine games.
Speaker 1: Uh As, as for the tight ends, you're you're not
Speaker 1: starting the broc Rights and the world. Yeah, let's go
Speaker 1: over to the running backs, where it gets a little
Speaker 1: more complicated. I'm gonna start here. Jamal Williams missing practices
Speaker 1: this week with an illness. I think he's likely to
Speaker 1: push through and go and he'll be fine. DeAndre Swift
Speaker 1: logged his first full week of practice ends coming back
Speaker 1: from injury. He's been limited in previous weeks. Even last week.
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell said we're gonna work him in more, and
Speaker 1: so he's been splitting snaps with Justin Jackson. This week
Speaker 1: is the first week none of those comments are out there.
Speaker 1: He had a full week of practice. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: Dandre Swift his back. I'm saying you should feel a
Speaker 1: little bit better this week finally, but still not great
Speaker 1: just the way it's locked. Uh So, I have a
Speaker 1: B grade on on Jamal Williams a C grade on Swift.
Speaker 1: Williams scoring nine times in nine games, but the Giants
Speaker 1: have only given up four rushing scores. Swift. I got
Speaker 1: him starting because of that pass game work and how
Speaker 1: efficient he is with the ball when he gets it,
Speaker 1: but the volume is on Williams side, so I have
Speaker 1: the B grade on him. By the way, the Giants
Speaker 1: allowing five point four yards per carrying eleven point two
Speaker 1: yards per reception to running backs. Those are both bottom
Speaker 1: five in the league. The only thing that keeps the
Speaker 1: Giants up high in the rankings is twenty two total
Speaker 1: running back touches against the Giants per game. That's league low.
Speaker 1: It's volume, That's why. That's why their rankings look good.
Speaker 1: It's volume when when they get touches, running backs get touches,
Speaker 1: they get massive amounts of yards over on the Giant side.
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, would zeer take a chance on me player
Speaker 1: getting it done through the air and ground. I believe
Speaker 1: you said, Darius Slayton, I have a C grade on
Speaker 1: Despite only four targets last week, he made the absolute
Speaker 1: most of them. Uh, he's the only guy you can
Speaker 1: really trust with targets of four, six and six in
Speaker 1: his last three. The matchup against the Lions was great
Speaker 1: earlier in the year, last three weeks not as great.
Speaker 1: Only Lazard sorry, Lazard top fifty seven yards and it
Speaker 1: took ten targets. Slayton plays eighty three percent outside. He
Speaker 1: might see some mokuda, but I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 1: shadow him. And if anyone's going to score for them
Speaker 1: at the wide receiver, tight ends, etcetera. If Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: throws a touchdown, it's probably to Slayton, so we'll give
Speaker 1: him the see uh secon Barkley A grade, Yeah, Lions
Speaker 1: allow in five yards per carry, giving up eleven rushing
Speaker 1: tons town touchdowns in nine games. A grade. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: neven gonna go over now. It's it goes without saying that,
Speaker 1: say Kwon Barkley is an elite start um. Talk to
Speaker 1: me about Christian Watson. Guys five touchdowns in two games,
Speaker 1: and you know he has added a spark to and
Speaker 1: otherwise struggling passing offense. Although it would help if Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers could like throw a pass and he's doing it
Speaker 1: misfiring all over the field. What he has like what
Speaker 1: five touchdowns on eleven targets to something like which, So
Speaker 1: that makes me very skeptical. You know when you see
Speaker 1: that kind of you know, that's pretty out of whack
Speaker 1: and not sustainable if you're not getting that much that
Speaker 1: many targets. He seems legit, though he should have had
Speaker 1: a touchdown on like the first play from scrimmage for
Speaker 1: the Packers in Week one dropped a long bomb from
Speaker 1: Rogers and he was dealing with injuries. But when he's
Speaker 1: been healthy, which has just been as late pretty much
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, look looks pretty legit for for
Speaker 1: a rookie. And you know he he went to the
Speaker 1: small school in the North Dakota state. Right, let me
Speaker 1: ask you this, he's got the pedigree. Give me a
Speaker 1: sense of how valuable Christian Watson is from a dynasty
Speaker 1: or Empire league standpoint is you're projecting four how valuable
Speaker 1: is Christian Watson? Yeah, that is That's an interesting one.
Speaker 1: He's probably still in the third or fourth range among
Speaker 1: the last year's rookie wide receivers just because we don't
Speaker 1: know where Aaron Rodgers is going to be next. He's
Speaker 1: certainly uh leap frogged the sky Moore's who were getting
Speaker 1: drafted before him and rookie drafts, but I don't know,
Speaker 1: I still rank them below Pickens in London, and but
Speaker 1: he's knocking on the door those guys for sure. Is
Speaker 1: the explosive play potential is very big for Christian wats
Speaker 1: Dobbs has been out to Actually he might have just
Speaker 1: been usurped. Well hard to know yet, But when when
Speaker 1: Dobbs comes back, then this thing gets really really interesting
Speaker 1: because he was very promising. So I don't think, I
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think this is very clear, and
Speaker 1: I don't think. Don't expect these last two games to
Speaker 1: be representative of what Christian Watson is going to do
Speaker 1: the rest of It's a record, by the way, five
Speaker 1: touchdowns in five days has to be I don't know that.
Speaker 1: It's pretty wide, isn't it. When we can back our
Speaker 1: number two three Tough Questions, you can play along see
Speaker 1: if you can go three and oh with our panel
Speaker 1: of experts. And if you missed any part of the
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Speaker 1: Paul Charging with you. My co hosts are Scott Fish
Speaker 1: and Brian Johnson. This is a game we call three
Speaker 1: Tough Questions. You can play along try to go three
Speaker 1: and oh against our panel of experts. We begin with
Speaker 1: tough question number one. Darius Tony's rest of season? Is
Speaker 1: he a wide receiver one, wide receiver two, flex or
Speaker 1: bench player. We begin with Scott Fish. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: Juju is going to be back after this week. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine that concussion keeping him out much more than
Speaker 1: this week, So so I went with flex. I could
Speaker 1: see good, you know, all the way to wide receiver two.
Speaker 1: We saw every metric about him grow from week one
Speaker 1: to week two. Hardman is going to be out for
Speaker 1: a while. Um, it's just that the wide receiver two
Speaker 1: and wide receiver three in this offense has rarely been
Speaker 1: very productive for fantasy. He may be better than those,
Speaker 1: and they're using finding ways to get him involved on
Speaker 1: the sweeps that he took over for Hardman. But and
Speaker 1: Hardman had four straight double digit Fantasy days before going
Speaker 1: to I R. But I don't think that's going to
Speaker 1: be very consistent. I have it as a flex, but
Speaker 1: you're gonna get some wide receiver two games out of it. Brian.
Speaker 1: Darius Tony's rest of season is he a wide receiver one?
Speaker 1: A wide receiver to flex or bench. I don't have
Speaker 1: munch to add to what Scott said. Definitely not wide
Speaker 1: receiver one. With Travis Kelsey on your team, he's wide
Speaker 1: receive for one for the Chiefs. Um if Juju remains out,
Speaker 1: I would go wide receiver too, but I'm going flex.
Speaker 1: But man, he's borderline wide receiver too. You really don't
Speaker 1: see many guys who are able to like stop on
Speaker 1: a dime Likedarius Tony can and change direction and with
Speaker 1: the speed like Tyreek. Kill is the only comparable receiver
Speaker 1: I can think of, and he fared pretty well in
Speaker 1: his days in Kansas City. But I'm so you're officially
Speaker 1: calling to Tyree. I love he's got that, he's got
Speaker 1: that upside. I must say he's gonna get there this year.
Speaker 1: But he looks pretty comparable to me. I love Travis
Speaker 1: Kelsey shaking his has his head. I don't know how
Speaker 1: New York building well, you know, And I'm not factoring
Speaker 1: that comment because players say that stuff all the time
Speaker 1: and it doesn't necessarily mean anything. Do you think, co host,
Speaker 1: it was a coincidence that Kadarius Tony suddenly showed up
Speaker 1: in the box score in a game in which Juju
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster got knocked out in the first drive and
Speaker 1: McCole Hardman did not play even then. Even then his
Speaker 1: snap count was just of the of the snaps, so
Speaker 1: it wasn't that high. And here's the thing that I
Speaker 1: really can't get past. Once everybody's back healthy, which should
Speaker 1: be as early as next week, well McCole Hardman not.
Speaker 1: But Juju comes back. In the Patrick Mahomes era, he
Speaker 1: will put guys on games that make them look amazing
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, man, Mikole Hardman, if that guy
Speaker 1: is gonna be a game changer for the next five years,
Speaker 1: and you just do anything for the next five games.
Speaker 1: So in all probability, what awaits Tony once Juju and
Speaker 1: especially hard to come back. It's just a timeshare with
Speaker 1: inconsistent results, because that's what this position always does. I
Speaker 1: can distinctly remember like four plays that Tony has made
Speaker 1: in his very short career with the Giants and the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: I don't remember anything that Juju Smith Schuster or Michael
Speaker 1: Hardman has done. But that's look, I'm taking all the
Speaker 1: fun out of Fantasy Phone. I admit it. I am
Speaker 1: the no fun charge. No fun flex is the correct
Speaker 1: answer for Darius you gotta write anyway. With Damien Harris
Speaker 1: returning to full health for the rest of the season,
Speaker 1: is Romandre Stevenson a running back one running back to
Speaker 1: flex or bench Brian Johnson. Stevenson averaging more than five
Speaker 1: yards per touch while Harris has averaged nearly a yard
Speaker 1: less per touch. That's pretty significant. Stevenson also the much
Speaker 1: better pass catcher, so we should stay more productive moving
Speaker 1: forward even with Harris healthy. That said, Harris, we'll eat
Speaker 1: into stevenson snaps, but New England is a top is
Speaker 1: top eight in rushing play percentage, so there's plenty to
Speaker 1: go around. I still think Stevenson gets his fifteen carries
Speaker 1: with four to five targets catches per game, so I'm
Speaker 1: willing RB two rest of the way even with Harris
Speaker 1: back Scott rest of season. With Damien Harris returning, Ramandre
Speaker 1: Stevenson is an RB one and RB two who flex
Speaker 1: our bench. Yes, so ram Stevenson has outsnapped Harrison every
Speaker 1: game since Week one. Obviously, the game's Harris didn't play
Speaker 1: the whole game or missed ram head large work hold workloads,
Speaker 1: but he did that also in some of the games
Speaker 1: that Harris fully played. I actually view the start of
Speaker 1: the season to be what we may see the rest
Speaker 1: of the season, where Harris has some games, he's little
Speaker 1: used in some games. It's more of a split Romandris
Speaker 1: RB twelve right now, even with a pretty decent downgrade,
Speaker 1: I don't know that he gets past RB twenty four
Speaker 1: in the volume that New England runs the ball and
Speaker 1: the goal line looks New England gives running backs. I
Speaker 1: have him as an RB two. I love Romandri Steve, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love that guy, and I think he's a special
Speaker 1: I was talking to him the other day. It feels
Speaker 1: the same way. And he starts himself in his fantasy.
Speaker 1: But here comes Damien Harris with fresh legs in a
Speaker 1: luxury in mid November, in the opening month of the season,
Speaker 1: when Harris was healthy and it was a shared backfield,
Speaker 1: he was Bill Belichick's lead back with more carries, more yards,
Speaker 1: more touchdowns than Stevenson. And we've seen belichick backfields take
Speaker 1: on a expected weird turns many many times. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: And I am not ready to count out Harris at all.
Speaker 1: And also this Damien Harris is a really good back. Stevenson,
Speaker 1: Damion Harris a good back He's gonna knock Stevenson back
Speaker 1: to the same flex play that he was in September
Speaker 1: when this was a shared backfield and they were getting
Speaker 1: roughly the same work, but Harris was getting more. And
Speaker 1: even though I'm team Stevenson, I just think the reality
Speaker 1: of it as when I take off my emotional cap
Speaker 1: on this and I just look at this shared backfield,
Speaker 1: I think Damon Harris is gonna end up eating into
Speaker 1: too much of Stevenson's time for him to be a
Speaker 1: sure RB two correct answer flex tough Question number three.
Speaker 1: This is the no fun version of why am I?
Speaker 1: Why do I have to be the wet blanket? What's
Speaker 1: the title of this show? Wet Blankets? Uh? Should we drop?
Speaker 1: Let's start over? Question number three? Should we op Dallas
Speaker 1: Goddard or stick it out with him on our roster? Scott, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sticking. I'm sticking this out. Is if he's able
Speaker 1: to heal their tight ends are terrible this year. If
Speaker 1: he's able to heal up in a month and be
Speaker 1: back for Week fifteen, your week Week fifteen sixteen seventeen
Speaker 1: Fantasy playoffs, Uh, He's He's worth it. The two caveats
Speaker 1: here are is the injury one that he may take
Speaker 1: time getting back after that or miss more weeks than
Speaker 1: the initial four coin flip, coin flip, it's possible. The
Speaker 1: other one is a shoulder to catch a pass. Yes
Speaker 1: you do, Yes, you do, especially at the high point
Speaker 1: team that he does a lot. Will the Eagles be
Speaker 1: locked into a one seed by that point and they'll
Speaker 1: keep him resting four weeks away from the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: don't know that that's quite the case. Maybe maybe later on,
Speaker 1: um if it takes him longer. So those are two
Speaker 1: things that can do that. But honestly, if you're dropping
Speaker 1: him for a guy like trust and Ebner or something, no,
Speaker 1: if if you see it Cadarius Tony on the free agency,
Speaker 1: sure do it. But in most cases I say no,
Speaker 1: just told onto Dallas Goddard for this. For the moment,
Speaker 1: your answer is no, Yeah, that was a super long win.
Speaker 1: You're saying, hold Dallas, Hold all right, Brian, we dropped
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard or stick it out Holden. I don't have
Speaker 1: much I'll say. I will say, guys come back from
Speaker 1: shoulder injuries, running backs, wide receivers, and then they're fine
Speaker 1: when when they come back it's the lower leg injuries
Speaker 1: that you're really skeptical about when they come back from injury,
Speaker 1: and that's not the case with Goddard. Ozar, if you
Speaker 1: were rostering him, your team is pretty decent and you'll
Speaker 1: have a shot in the playoffs. And if he comes
Speaker 1: back healthy, you're gonna want to start them to hold them.
Speaker 1: You know, we're not doctors here, but just you know,
Speaker 1: the reality is people have to make this decision this
Speaker 1: week on Dallas Goddard. And you know, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: the early se can come back is week fifteen. The
Speaker 1: eight and one Eagles have Super Bowl aspirations. They care
Speaker 1: a lot more about having a healthy Dallas Goddard in
Speaker 1: January than they do in December, so there's no need
Speaker 1: to rush him back at less than full health. So
Speaker 1: week number one he would be unrealistic. I don't know
Speaker 1: who knows. They may even be. They may have. We're
Speaker 1: in Minnesota right now. You know they want to I
Speaker 1: don't think the seating makes any difference here. I don't
Speaker 1: think it does. It's all about winning in January is
Speaker 1: all that the Eagles should be caring about right here.
Speaker 1: Tough call, but you know, when healthy Goddard is one
Speaker 1: of three reliable fantasy tight ends. That's so that's so
Speaker 1: valuable in this league. And yes, he's going to soak
Speaker 1: up a roster spot, and maybe you would turn that
Speaker 1: roster spot into tight end help, but you probably aren't
Speaker 1: going to because they're probably just isn't that much tight
Speaker 1: end help to be had out there in the waiver wire.
Speaker 1: So while you might you might be able to drop
Speaker 1: him and find help, I think in most cases, God,
Speaker 1: it's just way too valuable to drop in the event
Speaker 1: that he does come back for your fantasy playoffs. That said,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I think Week fifteen sounds optimistic.
Speaker 1: So your answer is, do not dropped out? Don't drop
Speaker 1: down there? And I think, yeah, we all did. M
Speaker 1: on the Saints, Brian, they lose Cooper Cup, but they
Speaker 1: get back Matthew Stafford. Yeah, so that doesn't really matter
Speaker 1: much with the Cooper Cup. So I got Stafford on
Speaker 1: the bench, has returned to full practice, should make his return,
Speaker 1: but without Cooper Cup, I gotta put Stafford on the
Speaker 1: bench because I only have one starting grade on any
Speaker 1: of his past catchers, and that was Allen Robinson was
Speaker 1: that might take a chance on me. Wide receiver Van Jefferson,
Speaker 1: Ben Skorennick, Brandon Powell, and s McCutchen. They're on the bench,
Speaker 1: and surprisingly in the tight end wasteland. I do have
Speaker 1: Tyler Higby on the bench. The Rams offensive line, they
Speaker 1: just had two more injuries this week. It's on life support.
Speaker 1: So Higgy's me doing a lot of blocking. Yes, there
Speaker 1: are more targets that are gonna be spread around with
Speaker 1: Cup sideline, but the Saints have allowed just one tight
Speaker 1: end touchdown all season, and not one Moon tight end
Speaker 1: has topped fifty yards against him. So I'm benching Higby
Speaker 1: this week, and I'm also benching all of the Rams
Speaker 1: running backs. Darryl Henderson, Camakers, Williams. I've got some stuff
Speaker 1: to read here, but I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 1: Just put there on the bench. Remember last year when
Speaker 1: we were throwing down automatic as a bunch of Rams,
Speaker 1: and well, yeah, you Rams Saints used to be a
Speaker 1: sound like the sexiest matchup in the world. When He's
Speaker 1: not not in this game. A few more starting grades
Speaker 1: for the Saints, so go over to them. Not great
Speaker 1: ones though, Alvin Kamara, just to see the Saints are
Speaker 1: going to be without three stars on their offensive line.
Speaker 1: But the silver lining for camaras of the receiving angle here.
Speaker 1: Over their last four games, the Rams have allowed seven
Speaker 1: plus catches and nearly sixty receiving yards per game to
Speaker 1: opposing running back. So you know what, I'll give Camara
Speaker 1: B and PPR to see and standard for those reasons, Crystal,
Speaker 1: I'm nervous, he gotta be, but man, he he can
Speaker 1: pop off in any any matchup. Really, um, Crystal Lovey
Speaker 1: gets to see The Rams allowed the lowest A dot
Speaker 1: average depth of target in the league at five point
Speaker 1: five yards, which is not bode well for a Lovey's game.
Speaker 1: Who should also see plenty of coverage from Jalen Ramsey,
Speaker 1: who has not allowed a touchdown in his bridge since
Speaker 1: Week two, but over his last few games, Ramsey has
Speaker 1: surrendered ninety two and seventy one yards in his coverage,
Speaker 1: so a lot of they startable with the Sea Jarvis
Speaker 1: Landry not though he is on the bench. He actually
Speaker 1: led the Saints wide receivers and targets last week with six,
Speaker 1: which is encouraging moving forward, but not this week. The
Speaker 1: Rams have allowed the second fewest fantasy points to slot
Speaker 1: wide receivers this year, over to the tight ends Taysom
Speaker 1: Hill and Juwan Johnson got them both on the bench.
Speaker 1: They're just gonna be doing a ton of blocking with
Speaker 1: that banged up offensive line, and the Rams have allowed
Speaker 1: the second fewest fantasy points to tight ends of this season,
Speaker 1: saying that watch Taysom Hill rush for four touchdowns in
Speaker 1: this game. But if you want to chase crazy upside
Speaker 1: play Taston mill have fund and then Andy Alton. He's
Speaker 1: on the bench. I think one game inside the top
Speaker 1: eighteen quarterbacks this year. I want Jameis Winston back, even
Speaker 1: though it doesn't bode well for Kamara. I'm tired of
Speaker 1: I think Camara is a bench. This is an offensive
Speaker 1: line missing three starters this week. Um, I am very
Speaker 1: nervous that he's gonna catch ten pass. He's gonna catch
Speaker 1: ten pa I don't know you're I think you're a
Speaker 1: lot more optimistic on camera than I am. We'll revisit
Speaker 1: this next week. Feel free. Uh, let's take a break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, let's jump into Cowboys taking on
Speaker 1: the Vikings. Cowboys Vikings plenty of fantasy implications all over
Speaker 1: the board here, but some key injuries that could play
Speaker 1: into the outcome here. You know what to do about
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson. What about some of the more fringe e
Speaker 1: players in this game. So Dallas Goddard managers want to
Speaker 1: root for the Vikings because the Eagles want the number
Speaker 1: one seed regardless of you guys. I'm sure they take it,
Speaker 1: but I don't think they're gonna put their prize tight
Speaker 1: end at risk to get there. We'll find out, we'll
Speaker 1: learn more about Cowboys Vikings, and we come back to
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi
Speaker 1: and Scott Fish, Brian Johnson with you. We've got a
Speaker 1: big block o matchums coming at you right now, beginning
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys taking on the Vikings. I want to
Speaker 1: start with Dak Prescott because this is a fantastic opportunity
Speaker 1: for him. Vikings have surrendered three hundred or more passing
Speaker 1: yards and or multiple passing touchdowns in four straight games,
Speaker 1: and the Vikings suddenly very thin at cornerback. Cameron Danceler
Speaker 1: placed in I r his backup with Caleb Evans has
Speaker 1: been ruled out of this game. This is a this
Speaker 1: is a great opportunity and a game plan that should
Speaker 1: lean strongly to the past. Dak Prescott is a very
Speaker 1: safe start and an A grade for him. My top
Speaker 1: ranked wide receiver of this week is c. D. Lamb.
Speaker 1: Now I can give him the fantasy Armpark. Who is
Speaker 1: Ard Park? I can give Ardarks? No, everybody can use
Speaker 1: Art Art Vark is universal this week. Over the past
Speaker 1: five weeks, the Vikings have allowed the most receptions, the
Speaker 1: most yards to opposing receivers along with five total touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Minnesota has one good cornerback, Patrick Peterson. Ceedee Lamb only
Speaker 1: runs eighteen percent of his routes on Patrick peterson side
Speaker 1: of the field. The other two percent or against a
Speaker 1: struggling slot corner or a third what really, fourth string
Speaker 1: cornerback Ceedee Lamb is phenomenally suited for a big game here.
Speaker 1: Also really like Dalton Schultz since Dak Prescott has been
Speaker 1: back and Schultz now finally healthy and they came back
Speaker 1: at about basically the same time at least five receptions
Speaker 1: and fifty receiving yards in every game, plus finally got
Speaker 1: on the scoreboard last week with his first touchdown of
Speaker 1: the year. Vikings are middle of the pack and most
Speaker 1: tight end metrics on the season, but lately they've given
Speaker 1: up some big games to tight ends, Dawson Knox, zach Ertz,
Speaker 1: Mike Kasecki all good games, Dalton Schultz B grade. Michael
Speaker 1: Gallup startable here as well. He runs from the outside
Speaker 1: where sometimes he will get that Patrick Peterson matchup which
Speaker 1: I meant to, which is bad. But then when he
Speaker 1: goes the other side, he'll get either journeyman Duke Shelley
Speaker 1: I mentioned before, fifth stringer rookie Andrew Booth arguably also
Speaker 1: a fifth stringer making a second ever start. Those are
Speaker 1: good matchups from Michael Gallups startable here for sure, and
Speaker 1: uh Noel Brown's the only receiver I'm not gonna put
Speaker 1: a letter grade on, although I wouldn't be surprised he
Speaker 1: did okay, but he just hasn't gotten enough look since
Speaker 1: Gallops returned. Let's talk about Tony Pollard and Ezekiel Elli.
Speaker 1: Elliott expected to come back in this one, but it
Speaker 1: waters down the prospects for both guys a lot, and
Speaker 1: it's a very tough matchup for either one. Um Week
Speaker 1: four was the last time a running back hit fifty
Speaker 1: yards on the ground against the Vikings, and in those
Speaker 1: five weeks, running backs are averaging less than three yards
Speaker 1: per carry. Vikings are Pro Football focuses number two ranked
Speaker 1: run defense. Polo has been way more effective than Zeke,
Speaker 1: and he's healthier than Zeke, and he's my preferred starter here.
Speaker 1: But the reason I'm going to give a C grade
Speaker 1: to Pollard and the C grade to Zeke is that
Speaker 1: Zeke gets most of the goal line work and you
Speaker 1: can hope for a touchdown here. So I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: Zeke a C grade in a bye week in which
Speaker 1: I might otherwise give him a bench grade. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Viking side, justin Jefferson's and obvious A grade.
Speaker 1: The toe injury appears to be okay and he's removed
Speaker 1: from the injury list on Friday, so he should be
Speaker 1: good to go. Let's talk about Kirk Cousins. Dallas has
Speaker 1: got a very talented secondary, but they are risk takers
Speaker 1: and that's led to them allowing multiple touchdown passes and
Speaker 1: three the last four games. The main area of concern
Speaker 1: for Cousins is the pressure he's gonna take in the pocket.
Speaker 1: They do expect left tackle Christian Derrisaw to return for
Speaker 1: this game, and that's huge off the injury party, and
Speaker 1: that's that's without it might have been very worried about Cousins,
Speaker 1: but as a result, I think we're okay here Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense has average a sack every nine pass attempts,
Speaker 1: which is in saying, that's unbelievably good. They have registered
Speaker 1: the most sacks among all teams. As you would have guessed,
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, I've got a B grade on here. He
Speaker 1: takes a thirty nine game streak of games with a
Speaker 1: touchdown pass into this matchup straight with which is the
Speaker 1: fifth longest streak in NFL. His Wow, Alright, Kirk is
Speaker 1: single handedly powered half of those games. Uh t. J
Speaker 1: Hockenson's gotta be grade in this one. Since Hockinson's trade
Speaker 1: to the Vikings, He's been the second most targeted tight
Speaker 1: end in the league, behind only Travis Kelsey. Pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: He also leads all tight ends in red zone targets
Speaker 1: since the trade. Unfortunately, those is a tough matchup against
Speaker 1: a good Cowboys defense that has allowed the third fewest
Speaker 1: Fantasy points and just one touchdown to tight ends, and
Speaker 1: that turns Tockinson from what would have been an A
Speaker 1: grade into a B grade this week. Adam Theland also
Speaker 1: startable here. Vikings announcer Paul Allen told me today that
Speaker 1: he expects Theland to have a very sizeable role world
Speaker 1: Internet Internet Ron James Alan, I've been bragging that I
Speaker 1: have his phone number. I won't give it out, though
Speaker 1: I think you should be for the right price. He
Speaker 1: runs from all over the all over the field Ceeland,
Speaker 1: not Paul Allen runs from Lebron James probably could, but
Speaker 1: most often on the side of the field man by
Speaker 1: cornerback Anthony Brown, assuming he gets through his concussion protocol.
Speaker 1: Brown's bad just like last Year's allowed the ninth most
Speaker 1: receiving yards and the ninth most and he's a lot
Speaker 1: of touchdowns in back to back games. Ceiling logs in
Speaker 1: with a C here and unless you think Paul Allen
Speaker 1: has got particularly keen insight, then you could give him
Speaker 1: a B grade. Uh. Dalvin Cook is the only Viking
Speaker 1: we haven't mentioned yet, a grade. He has scored in
Speaker 1: five straight games powered by big plays, more consistent chain
Speaker 1: moving plays than necessarily I'd like to get him more
Speaker 1: consistent chain moving plays. It's really the big plays that
Speaker 1: he's that he's been helped with. Dallas has given up
Speaker 1: at least one hundred rushing yards and a score to
Speaker 1: running backs in three of four games, including getting pummeled
Speaker 1: for a hundred fifty rushing yards in each of the
Speaker 1: last two games. This is gonna be a very Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook heavy game plan, right, So you've got Dallas is
Speaker 1: great at rushing the quarterback. The things can go haywire
Speaker 1: a lot of ways again when you throw the ball.
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook's sitting on a lot of volume in this game,
Speaker 1: and I like him with an A grade. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Raiders taking on the Broncos, Scott. This is
Speaker 1: a Raider's offense. It's been highly dysfunctional, but a Broncos
Speaker 1: defense that's mostly been very good. Yeah. Mostly. They're the
Speaker 1: number one past defense against the past, allowing the fewest
Speaker 1: passing yards and fewest passing touchdowns just six passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: on the season. Close to that. That's insane. That's absolutely insane.
Speaker 1: Uh So I have car on the bench. He's been
Speaker 1: a fine two and forty yard wanted to score guy,
Speaker 1: but this is a bad spot for him. I do have.
Speaker 1: I do still have Davontae Adams with an A grade
Speaker 1: because he's had a level game in all but one game,
Speaker 1: and that was the game. He was sick all week
Speaker 1: leading up to He does have a slight abdomen injury
Speaker 1: this week, but I'm not too worried about it from
Speaker 1: all reports, so I still have an a grade on him.
Speaker 1: Mac Hollins is back to the bench. He went to
Speaker 1: for eighteen last week with Waller and renfrewout. Ren fro
Speaker 1: out that he had that one huge hundred fifty plus day,
Speaker 1: but all the other days, even with players out, he's
Speaker 1: done virtually nothing. I will say this is the number
Speaker 1: one past d against both outside receivers and slot receivers,
Speaker 1: so I basically everyone else besides Adam on the bench. Fostermorrow, Um,
Speaker 1: I have a bench grade on him, but it wouldn't
Speaker 1: surprise me. He's been a three for forty type guy
Speaker 1: with Waller out. Um. This is a Broncos team that
Speaker 1: just allowed sixty two yards in a score to Titans
Speaker 1: last week eighty two yards the week before. UM. Interesting
Speaker 1: pick up there. He's got a match up with the
Speaker 1: Seahawks next week. That's that's planning ahead a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that might be a pre spect. I'm gonna change
Speaker 1: my prespect, but now I'm not going to go get
Speaker 1: tomorrow for the next for next week's matchup. Josh Jacobs
Speaker 1: a B grade here. He took thirty three touches for
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy five yards against the same team
Speaker 1: in week four. It's not hard to envision another day
Speaker 1: in the high twenties against them. I will say, though,
Speaker 1: this Broncos rund you. They held Derrick Henry down, Breece
Speaker 1: Hall somehow, Damian Pierce, Austin Ekelah, all those guys under
Speaker 1: eight yards. But Josh Jacobs took him to the house.
Speaker 1: Um the pure volume in the fact that he already
Speaker 1: did it. I'm giving a B grade to Josh Jacobs. Um,
Speaker 1: even even in this tough matchup, he already did it once.
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson on the other side, I hate to do it,
Speaker 1: but I gotta give a C grade. It's too good
Speaker 1: of a match. It's a good matchup that got hit
Speaker 1: nineteen times last week. I didn't see that hits. Also,
Speaker 1: did you see this. There's a report from one of
Speaker 1: the Denver Talk sports talk radio hosts saying that he's
Speaker 1: heard that Russell Wilson is calling out audibles from the
Speaker 1: Seahawks playbook. Oh you know, imagine you're Tyler locket and
Speaker 1: he calls an audible for a Playboo, what do I do?
Speaker 1: Or Courtland Sutton? Yeah, that's uh, that would be crazy. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson sideline. I just did exactly what Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: I have a theory that Drew lock was included in
Speaker 1: that trade for Russell Wilson, so there wouldn't be a
Speaker 1: quarterback controversy. The Raiders are the fifth best matchup for
Speaker 1: fantasy quarterbacks, having allowed multiple scores in all but one game.
Speaker 1: They also allowed two hundred and sixty yards per game,
Speaker 1: and they've even allowed four rushing touchdowns per game. Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson got one of those in the previous game that
Speaker 1: they played. Fifth most passing touchdowns allowed. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a great spot for Wilson, but all those averages
Speaker 1: are light years above Russell Wilson's average of two seven
Speaker 1: yards and zero point eight eight touchdowns. So I'm only
Speaker 1: giving him a C grade. I could see him squeak
Speaker 1: out better, but he's just been so bad this year
Speaker 1: it's really tough to give him much higher than that.
Speaker 1: No more Russell talk. Let's go, Yes, Jerry Judy, it
Speaker 1: was two minutes. It really was it really was. Jerry
Speaker 1: Judy has been ruled out. kJ Hamler is going to
Speaker 1: be out a little while longer. Uh. Hinton Man, Tristan Hinton, Hilton,
Speaker 1: what's his name again? Kendall Kendall Kendall Hinton Hint Kendall Hinton.
Speaker 1: Uh is dealing with his shoulder injury after getting a
Speaker 1: decent amount of work last week. I have them on
Speaker 1: the bench. I I only have Sutton with a B grade,
Speaker 1: and mostly because Judy and Hammler are out and someone's
Speaker 1: got to catch balls out there. It's a byproduct the injuries.
Speaker 1: He had six for sixty six and to score last week.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about Dulphitch though, that's where this gets interested. Yes,
Speaker 1: let's let's go here. Uh. He disappeared last week, but
Speaker 1: he's at double digit Fantasy days in three straight. Prior
Speaker 1: to that. I mentioned the injuries that are already there. Um,
Speaker 1: he was averaging four catches for sixty yards on six
Speaker 1: targets in those It's a better matchup Shore. We keep
Speaker 1: talking about the Broncos allowed four touchdowns to Kelsey. You
Speaker 1: gotta throw that out, but five other tight ends have
Speaker 1: had fifty plus and or a score and even Kyle
Speaker 1: Granson had a great week last week against them. I
Speaker 1: got a C grade on Dulstitch. But you can talk
Speaker 1: to you can talk me. You know I'm a Dulstitch fan.
Speaker 1: He was my one number one tight end coming out
Speaker 1: of the draft. You could talk me into a B.
Speaker 1: But I don't love Russell Wilson running this offense. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think I do either. I have C grades
Speaker 1: on both the backs here, four straight leadbacks of top
Speaker 1: two hundred fifteen yards on the Raiders. The Broncos don't
Speaker 1: really have a lead back. It's kind of fifty fifty.
Speaker 1: But Murray gets the goal line stuff. Gordon gets the receptions.
Speaker 1: This is a team that's allowing twenty nine touches per game,
Speaker 1: a hundred fifty combo yards per game, and a touchdown
Speaker 1: per game. You can split that up and get two
Speaker 1: C grades out of these two. Paying me to have
Speaker 1: to start any brodect it really would. I would not
Speaker 1: blame me from benching. If I had to start one,
Speaker 1: it's probably Gordon because I don't want to rely on
Speaker 1: the touchdown. I want to rely on the receptions when
Speaker 1: we come back. Premature speculation, find out the players you
Speaker 1: want to pick up this week that everybody else been
Speaker 1: trying to pick up next week, but you got him first.
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly continues some moments. It is the final
Speaker 1: segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charge and Scott Fish
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson with you. If you missed parts of the
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Speaker 1: is a segment we like to lead with premature speculation
Speaker 1: players you can pick up now battle the people will
Speaker 1: be trying to pick up next week. Scott. We begin
Speaker 1: with you, let's try putting in the mic Gun. Let's
Speaker 1: go with Foster. Oh, I'm just kidding. I just kind
Speaker 1: of didn't mention that the last segment. Let's go with
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Jr. He's only thirty percent rostered and he
Speaker 1: has narrowed his candidate. He's cleared, he's healthy, and he's
Speaker 1: been cleared by doctors now, so he's just got to
Speaker 1: pick a team physical and the ones that he has
Speaker 1: pegged out, the Chiefs, the Cowboys, the Bills, like the Giants.
Speaker 1: He could either even with the Giants, you could come
Speaker 1: in as the number one reight receiver or number two
Speaker 1: on several of those teams. Ever be back, um, but
Speaker 1: some decent offenses that he could jump into and actually
Speaker 1: have a decent fantasy role. See, I'm very skeptical but
Speaker 1: of what he's gonna do. But I like the pis
Speaker 1: using him then using him as a as a bargaining chip. Sure,
Speaker 1: because a lot of people name recognition alone, you can
Speaker 1: get a lot for Oh b J once he gets signed. Brian,
Speaker 1: who's your premia chure speculation player, I got a Raiders
Speaker 1: running back, samere white. Now. In the summer, we were
Speaker 1: saying it's very possible the Raiders run Josh Jacobs into
Speaker 1: the ground in this contract year has worked out that way.
Speaker 1: But the Raiders season is pretty much coming to an end,
Speaker 1: and I'm hoping they have the decency to not run
Speaker 1: Jacobs into the ground for no reason. Oh yeah, if
Speaker 1: there's any organization that's going they we saw some flashes
Speaker 1: from some mere White in the preseason. They're gonna want
Speaker 1: to see what they have in him with they want
Speaker 1: to give him an extended look. I'm assuming they're going
Speaker 1: to want to do that later in the season, so
Speaker 1: we could see some mere white starting running back in
Speaker 1: you know, weeks fourteen fifteen sixteen. So if you got
Speaker 1: a bench spot open, go grabs him. You're white. I
Speaker 1: have reason to believe that the tight end waste land
Speaker 1: is here. So here's an angle for you for those
Speaker 1: that are looking deep. You may remember from back from
Speaker 1: April Arizona Draft at the first tight knight off the board,
Speaker 1: Trey McBride, and you know, at the time, we're like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see you Trey McBride, like three years
Speaker 1: when zach Ertz retires. Well, that whole time table got
Speaker 1: moved up a lot last week after Art's got knocked
Speaker 1: out early in the game, McBride got all of the
Speaker 1: tight end work of the game snaps and how many
Speaker 1: routes did he run? Yeah, I mean, you know, so
Speaker 1: they put him into coverage a ton or you know,
Speaker 1: I like the opportunity for Tray McBride. Nobody's talking about
Speaker 1: this opportunity, But if you're in a spot at tight end,
Speaker 1: this thing has some weeks to develop because Earth's is
Speaker 1: not likely to play again this year. That's uh, that's
Speaker 1: an opportunity for you now is done at least that
Speaker 1: season ending. Yeah, okay, it's officially well it's still not
Speaker 1: expected to play this year. Yes, I don't think I down.
Speaker 1: You can't argue that all. Let's go to the Bengals
Speaker 1: taking on the Steelers. Last time we saw the Bengals,
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon was scoring five touchdowns. Yeah. I don't know
Speaker 1: if we get five touchdowns in this one, but he
Speaker 1: did have a good game when these teams met in
Speaker 1: Week one. Uh, he had hundred forty five combo yards,
Speaker 1: so he gets an a here. Before their bye week
Speaker 1: last week, the Steelers had surrendered a running back touchdown
Speaker 1: in seven consecutive games Himes, so in a for Mixing
Speaker 1: and a for t Higgins. He got hurt in that
Speaker 1: week one game left early. Jamaar Chase Tyler Boyd both
Speaker 1: scored in that one. We know chases out for this one,
Speaker 1: so we should see a lot of te Higgins in
Speaker 1: a plus matchup. Pittsburgh is allowing nearly two hundred yards
Speaker 1: and one and a half touchdowns per game to opposing
Speaker 1: wide receivers and do get Minka. I f it's Fitzpatrick back,
Speaker 1: which factors, but with Chase out, I like Higgins a
Speaker 1: lot here should see a lot of volume. He gets
Speaker 1: the A B for Tyler Boyd, as I mentioned, he
Speaker 1: scored in the first meeting and now has two touchdowns
Speaker 1: and two of his last three games against the Steelers,
Speaker 1: who I also just mentioned is a pretty good matchup
Speaker 1: for wide receivers. So that's why Boyd gets the B.
Speaker 1: And so does Hayden Hurst, who has scored at least
Speaker 1: eight PPR points in five of his last six games.
Speaker 1: That's like he leaves just forty yards pretty much every week. Uh,
Speaker 1: He's has some touchdown upside. He had a season high
Speaker 1: eight targets against the Steelers back in Week one. Over
Speaker 1: their last two games, the Steelers have allowed more than
Speaker 1: sixty yards per game to the position, including a touchdown
Speaker 1: catch to Juwan john excuse me Jawan Johnson last week.
Speaker 1: So would be for hearst At an easy A for
Speaker 1: Burrow and I can get into that with all those
Speaker 1: starting grades for his pass catchers. Over to the Pittsburgh side,
Speaker 1: Najie Harris just a see for him. His snap share
Speaker 1: has continued to drop as the season progresses, and he
Speaker 1: has been nearly as effective as Jalen Warren has with
Speaker 1: his touches, but the Bengals have softened against the run
Speaker 1: since Week five, allowing the sixth most rushing yards per
Speaker 1: game and the second highest explosive run rates. So I
Speaker 1: will start Harris with the Sea, but I like my
Speaker 1: take a chance of me running back a little more,
Speaker 1: and that's Jalen Warren, So he liked him if it
Speaker 1: came down to one of the other. Because a lot
Speaker 1: of people are rostering Didge Harris and Jalen Warren. I
Speaker 1: think the Bengals put a lot of points. I think
Speaker 1: the stealer is gonna put up points, and I think
Speaker 1: Warren he does more with his touches, and he's the
Speaker 1: better pass catcher, and I think they're playing catch up.
Speaker 1: So yeah, if I had to pick one, I would
Speaker 1: pick Warren and Uh. Deonte Johnson charge he was gonna
Speaker 1: take a chance on me wide receiver, and I think
Speaker 1: you could also take a chance on George Pickens. Will
Speaker 1: give him a see. He lines up on the right
Speaker 1: side most often, will face Eli Apple uh in the
Speaker 1: Apple's last three games. He's a loud at least fifty
Speaker 1: yards end or a touchdown. Uh and with quarterback chie
Speaker 1: Dobezier out, it's open season on the left side against
Speaker 1: rookie cam Taylor Brett. We've mentioned him a couple of times,
Speaker 1: who's yielded a perfect eight point three passer rating in
Speaker 1: three games since taking over as a starter, so see
Speaker 1: for Pickens. Also a cee for Pat Friar Muth and
Speaker 1: its three career games against Cincinnati, including that Week one matchup.
Speaker 1: Muth has finished with a touchdown or at least seventy
Speaker 1: five yards in every game. He's also averaging seven point
Speaker 1: six targets with Kenny Pickett as the starter. It's not
Speaker 1: the best matchup on paper. The Bengals are allowing less
Speaker 1: than five catches and fifty yards pre game to tight ends,
Speaker 1: but they did surrender a tight end to um excuse me,
Speaker 1: surrender a touchdown to tight end Tommy Tremble their last
Speaker 1: time out, so Friar Muth could do the same. He
Speaker 1: gets to the Sea and Kenny Pickett was gonna take
Speaker 1: a chance, and the quarterback Chief's take on the Chargers
Speaker 1: on Saturday and excuse me, Sunday night, and there's a
Speaker 1: lot of moving parts on this thing on the Chargers side,
Speaker 1: but the Chiefs side is a lot more straightforward, where
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey are a's like usual, Mahomes
Speaker 1: will be without Juju Smith, Schuster and Nicole Hardman, which
Speaker 1: is not trivial, but you know still it's Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: and you've probably fine here. Kadarius Tony coming off a
Speaker 1: statement game, and that was to take a chance of
Speaker 1: me play for for you, Scott Fish. I gave a
Speaker 1: C grade to Terrius Tony in this game mvs. If
Speaker 1: fully off the injury part. He had some midweek illness.
Speaker 1: He is okay now. He's notched at least sixty yards
Speaker 1: in four of his last six games, and he's coming
Speaker 1: off his first score of the season. I like Marquez
Speaker 1: Velde Scantling in this game. The charter secondaries playing better lately,
Speaker 1: holding receivers scoreless and back to back games, but I
Speaker 1: like his individual matchup on the outside against Michael Davis,
Speaker 1: who gave up a season high sixty five yards last
Speaker 1: week and allows a passer rating of a one in
Speaker 1: six and four of his last six starts. That is
Speaker 1: a positive individual matchup. MBS definitely startable as a by
Speaker 1: week fill in for your team. Also startable in the
Speaker 1: passing game. Justin Watson boy Sneaky played Dynasty Er Love
Speaker 1: you right now? I bet they did. He ran twenty
Speaker 1: more snaps than Kadarius Tony did last week. He projects
Speaker 1: as the starter in this game, running from both the
Speaker 1: slot and outside, and he's got winnable matchups at every spot,
Speaker 1: so you know, the volume has not been there. He's
Speaker 1: also been on the team for like twenty more months
Speaker 1: than actors into Honestly, yeah, I wish I could go
Speaker 1: back and go. And he's had these like spots. Reason
Speaker 1: where Justin Watson has had these big games really hasn't.
Speaker 1: It's like one and two catches he's and he's got
Speaker 1: two touchdowns on the season. But if you're like, if
Speaker 1: you're in a pinch, consider Justin Watson A let's go
Speaker 1: to the Runners first. Let's start here. Clyde Edwards despair
Speaker 1: totally phased out of this offense just four snaps last week.
Speaker 1: Not only is he not startable here, he is absolutely droppable.
Speaker 1: You does not belong on your team. Isaiah pacheco As
Speaker 1: might take a chance on the Runner also startable. Derrick
Speaker 1: McKinnon because of his increasing snapcout at the expense of
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards Hilaire. He is a PPR helper with six
Speaker 1: catches in back to back games. If he's gonna get
Speaker 1: six catches in in a bye week, he's scored in
Speaker 1: the first meeting between these teams. Jerick McKinnon startable. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to a much more complicated matchup. Unfortunately with
Speaker 1: the Charger side of this UM, I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: begin with Mike Williams and Keenan Allen. Okay, look, you
Speaker 1: know the danger in starting both of these guys. They're
Speaker 1: rolling into this thing limited and it's a Sunday night game.
Speaker 1: We have very few options in terms of flexing to
Speaker 1: somebody else if it turns out they don't go. So
Speaker 1: this is one of the biggest risk reward moments of
Speaker 1: your entire season. If you're a Mike Williams or Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen fantasy manager, They're ups is tremendous. The Chiefs are
Speaker 1: allowing the sixth most fantasy points to wide receivers, and
Speaker 1: at least one receiver gets paid in virtually every Chief's game.
Speaker 1: The downside with Mike Williams and Keenan Allen is zero
Speaker 1: points like they're they're they're active and they don't play
Speaker 1: which we've seen Keenan Allen do before they're active and
Speaker 1: they get reinjured. I will add this, they both logged
Speaker 1: a full practice on Friday, their first one since getting
Speaker 1: injured for both of them. Yes, so that that's promised,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's but before adds you know whatever, seven
Speaker 1: thirty Central, eight thirty Eastern. With those guys on board,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna do it, you need to have somebody
Speaker 1: else on your roster that you can pivot to. And
Speaker 1: by the way, you can't even go to DeAndre Carter,
Speaker 1: who might not go in this game, so you can't
Speaker 1: even go same games. Same to you, Michael Bandy. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's your angle. You pick up Justin Watson most likely
Speaker 1: get well. DeAndre Carson might be the other guy to
Speaker 1: have Rosster. Great point, excellent point, Josh Palmer. Upgrade. I've
Speaker 1: right now, I've got a C grade on new but
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not gonna end up with a C
Speaker 1: grade on him at the end of this because we're
Speaker 1: gonna upgrade him to a B. If Williams does not go,
Speaker 1: he runs with the Williams routes, and I'm gonna downgrade
Speaker 1: him to bench if Williams does go, So you know
Speaker 1: the deal on Palmer. He's been very inconsistent, but a
Speaker 1: plus matchup, and if Williams doesn't go, he's startable with
Speaker 1: a B grade. Gerald Everett is another guy that you
Speaker 1: can't necessarily know what to do with. He's got a
Speaker 1: groin injury. He's shaping up as a game time decision,
Speaker 1: and because it's the Sunday night game, you had all
Speaker 1: the same problems that Williams and Allen had and you've
Speaker 1: got much of the same upside. In the earlier matchup
Speaker 1: this year between these teams, Gerald Everett was targeted ten times,
Speaker 1: so that's his upside. The downside is the risk of
Speaker 1: re injury or be him being inactive and getting use
Speaker 1: no points. Let's go to Justin Air Bear. His offensive
Speaker 1: line is killing him, maybe from basically from the rib injury.
Speaker 1: For forward, he's been a disaster so far since Week three,
Speaker 1: Justin Air Bear averaging just one touchdown per game and
Speaker 1: he has not hit the three yard marks since Week four.
Speaker 1: The best news here, though, Austin Ekeler is a receiver,
Speaker 1: is gonna have a huge game, and we love Eckler
Speaker 1: is an obvious A grade. The Chiefs have allowed the
Speaker 1: second most receptions, fourth most yards, second most receiving touchdowns
Speaker 1: to opposing running backs. You know what to do with
Speaker 1: Austin necklace. Obvious A grade and a C grade for
Speaker 1: justin air bear him, wear bear, now the wear bear.
Speaker 1: If he beware, beware, be kind of like wear bear though,
Speaker 1: like as if you know, like on a full moon
Speaker 1: only justin Jeffy, you've got to plot that out. Is
Speaker 1: he awesome in a full moon game? Our final matchup
Speaker 1: is the Monday Night or forty nine is taking on
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. Yeah, this, this one's an interesting one. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a really good spat spot for the forty
Speaker 1: Niners players especially get this. This is the staff from
Speaker 1: adding Adam Aser from CBS. The forty Niners as a
Speaker 1: team average the most yards after the catch, which makes sense.
Speaker 1: Kittles debo. The Cardinals allow the most yards after the catch.
Speaker 1: It feels like, so giddy up here for some some
Speaker 1: starting grades. Jimmy g was my take a chance on
Speaker 1: me players, So obviously I like a lot of these guys.
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayuk the most consistent receiver on this team, at
Speaker 1: least six catches and at least eighty yards in four
Speaker 1: straight very really reliable B grade guy, about nine targets
Speaker 1: per game in that stretch. Cards allowing the sixth most
Speaker 1: receptions to receivers, and they including five wide receiver touchdowns
Speaker 1: in just last four games. That said, only three wide
Speaker 1: receivers have topped eighty yards this year, so they're not
Speaker 1: giving up the giant games, but they're giving up a
Speaker 1: lot of B level grades. So I have a B
Speaker 1: grade on Ayuk. I have a B grade on Deebo
Speaker 1: Samuel as well. He's been relegated to the six to
Speaker 1: ten touch guy between carries and catches. Not as much
Speaker 1: boom this year, especially with m caffrey back um, but
Speaker 1: this is the first this is the first time in
Speaker 1: a bit he's been um completely off the injury report
Speaker 1: with that hamstring injury, so he might be a little
Speaker 1: bit more ready to take on more work this week. Uh,
Speaker 1: George Kittle A grade. It's death taxes and start your
Speaker 1: tight ends against Arizona Cardinals, who allowed the most receptions,
Speaker 1: yards and touchdowns to tight ends in the running game,
Speaker 1: I have an A grade on Christian McCaffrey and a
Speaker 1: C grade on Elijah Mitchell. McCaffrey gets the pass catching,
Speaker 1: he gets the red zone work, he gets, he gets
Speaker 1: the touchdowns. Um, he gets just as much work as Mitchell.
Speaker 1: Mitchell really just gets the runs. If we're going to
Speaker 1: go on based on the one game sample size of
Speaker 1: last week runs interesting. But even in that, if we're
Speaker 1: looking at thirty ish touches for these two, Christian with
Speaker 1: the pass catching and the impossible touchdowns and tend to
Speaker 1: fifteen from Mitchell on the ground, it's still a sea
Speaker 1: level grade worth of volume in this matchup. Over on
Speaker 1: the other side, if you have Kyler Murray or McCoy,
Speaker 1: I have them both on the bench where you cannot
Speaker 1: risk waiting until Monday night to see if Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: is gonna go with a hamstring injury that might take
Speaker 1: away the running problem. And that's the thing, right, even
Speaker 1: if he plays without the rushing, do you really want
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray no arm to try to get there by
Speaker 1: to a fantasy victor by itself against the fo's defense
Speaker 1: that has held six quarterbacks under two yards and really
Speaker 1: only Mahomes had a good day in this matchup, So no,
Speaker 1: I have I have them whoever starts a quarterback on
Speaker 1: the bench. DeAndre Hopkins popped up with a hamstring injury
Speaker 1: on and miss practiced Thursday. Uh, it sounds like he's
Speaker 1: still gonna go and it's not that serious. So if
Speaker 1: he does, he's averaging nearly twelve targets per game since
Speaker 1: his return. Forget that ridiculous amount. Wide receivers getting even
Speaker 1: eight targets or more against the forty Niners are averaging
Speaker 1: seven and a half catches for ninety yards. You're not
Speaker 1: benching DeAndre Hopkins. Let's move on. Uh, let's go over
Speaker 1: to Ronde or who I have a B grade on.
Speaker 1: More has thrived with Markus Brown out, averaging over ten
Speaker 1: targets per game over the last three at least seven
Speaker 1: catches in each a couple of games over ninety yards.
Speaker 1: Now with Earth's out he might see even more targets. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a safe spot for him. Four ns D has
Speaker 1: allowed six wide receivers over a hundred yards and or
Speaker 1: a score in just the last three games where they
Speaker 1: were really good earlier in the season. Marquis Brown, you're
Speaker 1: not starting to my him on the bench. But he is.
Speaker 1: He's been practicing in the videos. Look good in practice,
Speaker 1: But I I can't trust a Monday night thing. Even
Speaker 1: if they say he's gonna go. You you got him
Speaker 1: on your bench. I also have McBride on on on
Speaker 1: my bench. But I want to see what he does.
Speaker 1: It's just a bad, bad match up against the place
Speaker 1: for a breakout game. I'm excited to see how he does, though,
Speaker 1: But only two tight ends of top twenty three yards
Speaker 1: against the forty Niners James Conner just to see grade,
Speaker 1: mostly due to the volume. Forty Niners only allowed three
Speaker 1: point to five yards per carry, which is best in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Fust rush yards allowed running back his top
Speaker 1: sixty yards only four running back touchdowns allowed. That's like nothing.
Speaker 1: But James Connor is gonna get fifteen plus touches, so
Speaker 1: he gets my patented volume. See now with you know
Speaker 1: Benjamin out of town. Yes, all right, did patented. By
Speaker 1: the way, I'm nicely done. Getting out through the patent office.
Speaker 1: Not easy. It's not that is not easy. Talk to
Speaker 1: me about Marquis Brown upon his return. Not this Monday.
Speaker 1: Let's just go next Monday forward. Because without Hopkins, he
Speaker 1: was like a top five fantasy receiver. Now with Hopkins back,
Speaker 1: what do you think going forward? What about Hopkins with
Speaker 1: Marked I don't know. I think they're both wide receiver twos.
Speaker 1: I don't know they can both be a wide receiver one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think Ron Delmore does disappear and Arts is out,
Speaker 1: so there's target right, So that's that does help. I
Speaker 1: think both guys can become effective starters. I trust I
Speaker 1: only trust Tyler Murray to keep two receivers active total
Speaker 1: on that quick angle. Colt McCoy stash and deep super
Speaker 1: flex leagues because the Cardinals love is there are seasons
Speaker 1: effectively over. Maybe you never know with Brown and don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want pull mcquit or any
Speaker 1: situation maybe QB two leagues. Thank you for listening to
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