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Speaker 1: It really is very impressive. What else will be impressive
Speaker 1: over the course of the show is when we break
Speaker 1: down every game. Fantasy Style will give you nine players
Speaker 1: upon whom you can take a chance, three tough questions,
Speaker 1: and we will give you premature speculation guys to pick
Speaker 1: up this week that everybody else will be trying to
Speaker 1: pick up next week, but you will be ahead of
Speaker 1: the curb. It is a brutal week in that it's
Speaker 1: the bye weeks and there's like a dozen starting running
Speaker 1: backsh are Hurt. It's really really nasty out there at
Speaker 1: running back in UM, I've got a league where I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be starting Khalil Herbert and Alex Collins. His name
Speaker 1: is Khalil ground Bear. Thank you, good point, Kalil ground
Speaker 1: Bear and and Alex Collins. And it's a it's for
Speaker 1: like for my life here. So jeez, is it the
Speaker 1: one word together? I might die? I don't like dying
Speaker 1: breaking news. Uh, let's let's dive right into the matchups,
Speaker 1: shall we? Texans taking on the Colts. Maybe just get
Speaker 1: this one out of the way, right off the bat Scott,
Speaker 1: although maybe there's some there's some sneaky Colts plays in
Speaker 1: this one because of the Texans side. But let's let's
Speaker 1: start with the Texans. No, I actually have a grades
Speaker 1: across the board every all Texans. I only have two
Speaker 1: startable grades for the Texans and one as kind of
Speaker 1: if he hat best. Brendon Cooks gets the A grade
Speaker 1: despite kind of having a dud last week. But the
Speaker 1: Patriots are known for taking away your best option, and
Speaker 1: the Texans really have one option, so they took it
Speaker 1: away last week. I think he gets back on the
Speaker 1: board this week. Similar guys speedy like outside, the guys
Speaker 1: like cup or not cup It, lock It, Hollywood Brown, etcetera.
Speaker 1: Went for a hundred plus and two scores against the Colts.
Speaker 1: I think he gets that target chair back, so I
Speaker 1: do have an A grade on him here. Uh, Davis Mills,
Speaker 1: I'm giving a weird C grade here. Who thought that
Speaker 1: he would be the rookie quarterback to break that Bill
Speaker 1: Barrel Belichick narrative. Shocking performance last week by Davis Mills,
Speaker 1: who legitimately looked good coming off a Nathan Nate Nathan
Speaker 1: Peterman esque game the week before. I was stunned that
Speaker 1: he shook off that game and then went out and
Speaker 1: battled Belichick. Really impressive. Yeah, just yeah, it's yeah. I
Speaker 1: did not see it coming either. The Colts have allowed
Speaker 1: the most passing touchdowns in the NFL, a ridiculous sev
Speaker 1: completion rate against their fourth worst against fantasy quarterbacks. It's
Speaker 1: more of a super flex league thing. He could he
Speaker 1: could really turn back into a pumpkin. But I'm giving
Speaker 1: him a just a shot in the dark sea grade here.
Speaker 1: It's it's a good matchup. On the other side, I
Speaker 1: have Carson Wentz on the bench. He's averaging uh, you know,
Speaker 1: three yards and two touchdowns per gamer last two weeks,
Speaker 1: and the the Texans are deceptive and they allow a
Speaker 1: lot of points to quarterbacks, but it includes a ton
Speaker 1: of rushing stats, and Carson Wentz on those ankles is
Speaker 1: not getting those rushings dats, so I have him on
Speaker 1: the bench. In the passing game, I'm only starting, uh,
Speaker 1: starting Pittman for the receivers. As you can imagine, the
Speaker 1: Texans are our seventh best against fantasy wide receivers. It's
Speaker 1: it's a little yeah, you probably can't imagine as what
Speaker 1: I have. Let's sit here best as much as it's
Speaker 1: we don't have to throw to wide receivers, right, that
Speaker 1: could be too But Pittman's commanding a twenty five percent
Speaker 1: target share, which is pretty ridiculous. Six plus catches in
Speaker 1: four straight averaging about eighty five yards, and those he's
Speaker 1: the safe floor just because he gets a lot of targets.
Speaker 1: So I have a B grade on him. Moyley Cox,
Speaker 1: I've going down to tight ends here. B grade on
Speaker 1: that the Texans are currently ranked last against fantasy tight ends.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of noise when you do
Speaker 1: ranks towards fantasy tight ends because they tend to be
Speaker 1: weighted towards who you've played. If you played, yeah, have
Speaker 1: you seen a really good tight end yet? Um? But
Speaker 1: there averaging the overagely line tight ends are scoring against
Speaker 1: them is seven for seventy five and they've allowed four
Speaker 1: scores in five weeks, so most notably Henry and Knox
Speaker 1: put up big numbers. But I'm putting B grade on
Speaker 1: there because he's he's been in three four catches yards,
Speaker 1: So B grade there. Taylor, Jonathan Taylor, I'm giving an
Speaker 1: A grade too. He's looking like that Bell Cow gang. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a good man match up. He's a lock for
Speaker 1: sixteen plus touches. He's seen three plus targets in four
Speaker 1: or five In the Texans. They're allowing four point seven
Speaker 1: five yards per per tote and a hundred forty three
Speaker 1: combo yards per game. That's a lot of work there. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I'm leaving Haines and Mack on the bench. Mac is
Speaker 1: getting a ton more work now, I see. I think
Speaker 1: Mac in a if you're really desperate a running back,
Speaker 1: which many people are this week, if you think the
Speaker 1: blowouts coming in favor of the Colts. I think Mac
Speaker 1: gets some fourth quarter work here beyond what he would
Speaker 1: normal to feature him a little bit. Are you trying
Speaker 1: to right? Yeah? Great angle, And you're trying to push
Speaker 1: me into a C grade. I'm not. I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm not trying to push you to a C
Speaker 1: grade on him. But I think if you're if you're
Speaker 1: desperate enough, Marlon Mack, if only there was some sort
Speaker 1: of grade that was between C and F. But there's not,
Speaker 1: so we'll leave him on the bench. Mean, I mean
Speaker 1: he he had ten snaps last week, but he turned
Speaker 1: five carries into almost fifty yards. That's true. Uh, sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm leaving on the bench. Judge likes it. If you're desperate, though,
Speaker 1: I mean it's running backs in week six D alright, alright?
Speaker 1: Is that it's I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure that
Speaker 1: that's what you meant. Raiders take on the Broncos Matt
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs missed a bunch of time this week with illness,
Speaker 1: but is expected to go against the Broncos. What do
Speaker 1: you think of Josh Jacobs now that he's back? Is
Speaker 1: the mostly bell cow here? Yeah? It was a non
Speaker 1: COVID illness, so it looks like he's gonna be suiting
Speaker 1: up this weekend. I think the Steelers laid down the
Speaker 1: blueprint blueprint to beat this defense last week, and it
Speaker 1: was a bell cow performance by Naji Harris that did it.
Speaker 1: Carries yards in a score that's kind of Josh Jacobs,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what they have to do this
Speaker 1: week to kind of set a tone with a new
Speaker 1: coaching staff. There. I gotta b grade on him. Every
Speaker 1: runner with more than eleven carries has scored on the
Speaker 1: Broncos this year, which is good because Josh Jacobs has
Speaker 1: played the bron Goes three times in his career. He
Speaker 1: scored twice in every game he's played against the Broncos.
Speaker 1: I did not realize it was that good. He tames
Speaker 1: the Broncos like no other. Does he break the Broncos?
Speaker 1: Yes he does. Yep, yep. We never get to use that.
Speaker 1: We rarely get I'm like, okay, do we have a horn?
Speaker 1: We got every animal here, we must have the horse,
Speaker 1: and do we have a beeping car horn? Because Derek
Speaker 1: carrs on the bench in this game. First three games
Speaker 1: he averaged four one yards and two scores per game.
Speaker 1: Last two games against the Chargers and Bears, he's averaging
Speaker 1: two one yards and one score per game, which is
Speaker 1: exactly half of what he's done in the first three.
Speaker 1: I think he adds that negative total as the Broncos
Speaker 1: are bordering on elite defensively against the past. They're allowing
Speaker 1: two or twenty two passing yards and one score per game. Uh,
Speaker 1: and they're almost averaging the same amount of picks as
Speaker 1: they are touchdowns allowed. Uh. The only receiver I really
Speaker 1: have a starting grade on for him is Darren Waller,
Speaker 1: who I'm giving a B. The Broncos are actually a
Speaker 1: good tight end defense, allowing only three catches and thirty
Speaker 1: yards the position. However, the only tight end they faced
Speaker 1: who is on any fantasy rosters at all is Mark Andrews,
Speaker 1: and he went for five catches and sixty seven yards. Plus.
Speaker 1: Waller's gone over a hundred yards and two of his
Speaker 1: last three meetings with the Broncos, so maybe he also
Speaker 1: can break the Broncos. The rest of the receivers i'd
Speaker 1: play in this order, but honestly i'd bench them all.
Speaker 1: Henry Ruggs first, then Hunter renfro then Brian Edwards. The
Speaker 1: trio of Kyle Fuller, Patrick certain and Brian Callahan. It's
Speaker 1: probably the best group of corners in the league. But
Speaker 1: Fuller is the one that can be attacked. He stays
Speaker 1: on the left side. Ruggs heads that way more than
Speaker 1: anybody else, so he's got the best chance of a
Speaker 1: long touchdown. Melvin Gordon and Javonte Williams on the other side.
Speaker 1: Gordon has been limited in practiced this week with a
Speaker 1: hip injury, so keep an eye on that. And Javonte
Speaker 1: Williams is like the apps lout statistical darling when it
Speaker 1: comes to guys who who are doing a lot with
Speaker 1: not a lot of touches. Yet he's almost splitting the
Speaker 1: workload with Gordon, but he's off the charts and his
Speaker 1: elusiveness ratings and miss tackles and all those fun nerdy stats, well,
Speaker 1: and just look at him. In each of the last
Speaker 1: two games, he has had eye popping runs that make
Speaker 1: you go, man, there's like four backs in the NFL
Speaker 1: could that could have been on what I just saw?
Speaker 1: This dude looks like a top five back and he's
Speaker 1: just not getting the workload right. So if Gordon ends
Speaker 1: up not going this one, I'd give Javonte Williams an
Speaker 1: A grade in this spot, and if Gordon does go,
Speaker 1: they both get bees. The Raiders are allowing four point
Speaker 1: five yards per carry and have allowed the ninth most
Speaker 1: rushing yards this season. They're also giving up a touchdown
Speaker 1: and a half to the wide receiver or the running
Speaker 1: back position. That I should say so I like both
Speaker 1: of these runners in this game. Both startable in a
Speaker 1: in a weird week of running backs, Teddy Bridgewater. He's
Speaker 1: on the bench though. The Raiders past defense has been
Speaker 1: awesome this year. Shockingly. Yeah, it's the pass rush. Their
Speaker 1: Their pass rushers are great, allowing only two seventeen yards
Speaker 1: and just over a score per game, both our top
Speaker 1: five numbers. You can start Courtland Sutton with a C grade,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna give him the Dead Sea grade since
Speaker 1: the Dead Sea is the lowest elevation on Earth feet
Speaker 1: below sea level, so it's like a subtracted sea level.
Speaker 1: It's it's like the lowest it's the lowest sea you
Speaker 1: can get h the Raids. The raiders one week spot
Speaker 1: in their past defense is a meek Robinson who may
Speaker 1: fill in a few extra snaps for the dinged up
Speaker 1: Casey Hayward or Nate Hobbs, both of whom are dealing
Speaker 1: with some injuries this week. Robertson has been scored on
Speaker 1: twice and only thirteen targets on the season, so Sutton
Speaker 1: would certainly see him on the outside, and Noah Fant,
Speaker 1: I'm giving a B grade two. The Raiders have been
Speaker 1: dinged up by some mid tier tight ends recently, with
Speaker 1: Mike Gasiki going for ten catches and eighties six yards
Speaker 1: Jared Cook getting six seventy and one uh two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: So why not Fant. He's averaging six targets per game,
Speaker 1: which only trails Sutton on the target leaderboard in Denver,
Speaker 1: so he's a B grade. Charges take on the Ravens.
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler has been running great and he's an obvious
Speaker 1: as my factor is my top ranked running back this week.
Speaker 1: Ravens are getting killed by pass catching runners in particular,
Speaker 1: and that's Austin Ekeler's forte. I don't have a fantasy
Speaker 1: art Vark this week. If you'd like to give it
Speaker 1: away you you can go ahead there. In the passing game,
Speaker 1: Justin destroyed the Cleveland defense that was very good up
Speaker 1: until now, So no hesitation. Here, the Ravens have allowed
Speaker 1: the fourth most passing yards three hundred fifteen per game,
Speaker 1: and oddly enough, justin air Bear is averaging three hundred
Speaker 1: fifteen passing yards per game, so let's put him on
Speaker 1: a three exactly three hundred fifteen yard passing game. Here.
Speaker 1: Both the starting receivers have strong matchups and so do
Speaker 1: tight ends, and let's use that as our way to
Speaker 1: go to Keenan Allen. His nickname is the Slayer? Do
Speaker 1: we have an animal noise for the Slayer? Is there
Speaker 1: a slayer noise? We can probably not. There's probably music. Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: god no, we definitely not. O. No, we can't even
Speaker 1: get the chip bugs take how about this? Known for
Speaker 1: their slaying ducks, Keenan Allen gets an A grade Baltimore
Speaker 1: stingy to opposing receivers, but their most vulnerable in the slot,
Speaker 1: and that brings in Keenan Allen, What am I doing?
Speaker 1: There's our slayer? Come on, we had it all along.
Speaker 1: Hunter renfro calif Raymond in Paris Campbell of all posted
Speaker 1: at least four receptions and fifty yards from the slot
Speaker 1: against the Ravens. Allen's obviously better than all those guys.
Speaker 1: Tavon young Man's the slot for Baltimore. He's allowing a
Speaker 1: catch rate and one hundred two passer rating in his coverage,
Speaker 1: So Keenan Allen a strong A grade. Mike Williams is
Speaker 1: a game time decision. Didn't practice all week Nine times
Speaker 1: out of ten guys that do not practice all week
Speaker 1: don't play. But they're saying there's still a chance he
Speaker 1: could go. He's been basically unstoppable, and even though the
Speaker 1: Ravens are above average and most wide receiver defensive stats,
Speaker 1: it's still it's Williams coming in, coming in hot, and
Speaker 1: he remains startable. Um outside cornerbacks Marlon Humphreys and Anthony
Speaker 1: Favorite couldn't stop Michael Pittman last week, and this is
Speaker 1: a similarly physical Mike Williams. So I still like him
Speaker 1: here if he goes, and if he goes and he's
Speaker 1: at something close to full health, will give him a B.
Speaker 1: If he starts and I don't know this thing goes
Speaker 1: all the way down to game time, then I guess
Speaker 1: it's more like a CE. But I think if he's active,
Speaker 1: you have to play Mike Williams considering how good Now
Speaker 1: if he doesn't go. Jalen Guiton last year was like
Speaker 1: all slot guy. But I looked up his his to
Speaker 1: see where he's been playing this year, and he's all
Speaker 1: over the board. So I think Jalen Guiton would get
Speaker 1: most of the work, not Josh Palmer, and Josh Palmer
Speaker 1: would probably see more time as well. Palmer is a
Speaker 1: more natural outside receiver, but Guyton could be a last
Speaker 1: minute a last minute swap there, and if you're feeling
Speaker 1: really bold, you could try Palmer. But let's talk about
Speaker 1: these tight ends. If these were combined, if if Jared
Speaker 1: Cook and Donald Palm were combined into one guy, we'd
Speaker 1: have an elite fantasy tight end. But they split this
Speaker 1: up a lot, but it's a great matchup. Cook is
Speaker 1: getting slightly more snaps and target, but param is getting
Speaker 1: increasingly involved and he's been the end zone guy. The
Speaker 1: Ravens allowed the most tight end catches, the second most
Speaker 1: tight end yards, and are only one touchdown away from
Speaker 1: being the worst tight end touchdown defense as well. So
Speaker 1: if you need to throw a dart in a bye week,
Speaker 1: you could try Jared Cook or Donald Parham. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Baltimore. Obviously, Lamar Jackson coming up with an A
Speaker 1: grade after what we saw on Monday night. Get this,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson has more yards than eighteen NFL teams. That's
Speaker 1: really not surprised. It's it's it's crazy, but it's all
Speaker 1: no waights some of the NFL teams. It's not surprising. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna bench Jackson here. Uh, you know, but
Speaker 1: I don't expect a similarly explosive game against a good
Speaker 1: Charger secondary Pro Football Focus ranks the Charges with the
Speaker 1: sixth best pass rush and the sixth best pass coverage.
Speaker 1: UM and it's just a mixed bag for his receiver.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about now beginning with Mark Andrews. Not
Speaker 1: as much of a mixed bag here. He's an A.
Speaker 1: Andrews gets to follow up his career best game on
Speaker 1: Monday Night with a Charger's pass coverage that's allowed the
Speaker 1: most yards to tight ends over the last three weeks,
Speaker 1: and the Chargers have allowed a score to the position
Speaker 1: in all games but one. So I like Andrews a
Speaker 1: lot with an A grade. Markis Brown is a B grade. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's not up to eleven touchdowns and eleven games. That's
Speaker 1: the most touchdowns over the past eleven games, m which
Speaker 1: we never would have guessed from Marquis Brown will talk
Speaker 1: more about that later on in the show. He's gonna
Speaker 1: need that momentum against a stingy Chargers defense. Charges allowing
Speaker 1: the four were the fewest receptions, the second fewest yards,
Speaker 1: the sixth fewest touchdowns to opposing receivers. Only one receiver
Speaker 1: has cracked eighty yards against the Chargers all year, and
Speaker 1: his matchup, honestly is it's just neutral against Sante Samuel,
Speaker 1: Michael Davis and elite safety Derwin James. Is not gonna
Speaker 1: get beat deep. And that's where Mark Yes Brown hurts
Speaker 1: a lot of people. UM, I wanted to give him
Speaker 1: a C grade, but he's just been so good. I'm
Speaker 1: giving him a B grade here. But I don't love
Speaker 1: this matchup in particular. UM, I'm gonna talk a little
Speaker 1: bit more about Littavius Marie next segment. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the other receivers. Sammy Watkins is out for this game,
Speaker 1: or Shot Bateman is gonna get his first ever start.
Speaker 1: I think that we can safely just because the difficulty
Speaker 1: of the matchup sounds and they they've said that they
Speaker 1: planned to work him in slowly, so I I I
Speaker 1: don't want to. I don't want to give you a
Speaker 1: starting grade of Bateman though, even though I think he
Speaker 1: does have a nice NFL career ahead of him. Well
Speaker 1: too much, Devin duvername baby in this game for for
Speaker 1: my taste? Why do you say it like that? You
Speaker 1: said it like that, I was just mocking you. You
Speaker 1: made him sound like he's a mouth breather, which he's
Speaker 1: no caveman. I think he's a very sharp kid, you know.
Speaker 1: So we don't want to We don't want to suggest
Speaker 1: that that's the case. Hey, when we come back, take
Speaker 1: a chance on me. Nine players upon whom you can
Speaker 1: take a chance. Many are available on the wave or wire.
Speaker 1: I just mentioned one of them that's coming up in
Speaker 1: a second. Find out who they are when we come
Speaker 1: back Fantasy Football Weekly, take a chance on me nine
Speaker 1: players not normally in your starting line. I will tell
Speaker 1: you you can pick up off the waiver wire and
Speaker 1: start this week beginning at the quarterback position. And Matt
Speaker 1: Harrison going back to the well with Trevor Lawrence. He
Speaker 1: was gonna take a chance of me player last week
Speaker 1: and he finished Week five is a top twelve Fantasy
Speaker 1: quarterback throwing for two seventy three and a score added
Speaker 1: in twenty yards and a score on the ground, and
Speaker 1: the Jags are starting to design a little bit more
Speaker 1: running into Lawrence's game, which will help his points down
Speaker 1: the line. This week, he gets a Miami team in
Speaker 1: London who's allowing three oh five and two point four
Speaker 1: touchdowns per game through the air. Like Trevor Lawrence now
Speaker 1: that rushing stuff is not trivial for him. If they
Speaker 1: keep using him on these designed runs, that's gonna it's
Speaker 1: gonna really change the arc of his fantasy runchtion for
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, Scott, your take a chance of me quarterback.
Speaker 1: Give me Michael McCorkle, Mac Jones, McCorkle, that's his name.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that, alright, or I'd go by Mac two. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because quirky, Yeah, quirky, the worst, the worst. I bet
Speaker 1: Colin mccockney and Michael McCorkle you could probably maybe together
Speaker 1: the only good court goodman. Everybody else every other cork
Speaker 1: he's bad anyway, give him to give him to me.
Speaker 1: In a likely negative game script the whole game against
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. There against the third worst team against fantasy quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Quarterbacks have topped three d total yards in every game
Speaker 1: this year against the Cowboys because they're not trying to
Speaker 1: run their throwing passes. Oh and Trayvon Digs might not
Speaker 1: suit up, which could well. I don't know whether that
Speaker 1: helps or not, because he's allowing a ton of he's
Speaker 1: allowing a ton of passing yards. For all the talk
Speaker 1: of the inceptions, he's on pace to lead the NFL
Speaker 1: in interceptions but also passing yards allowed and uh penalties,
Speaker 1: no risk, no biscuit. Uh, well, you have paid on
Speaker 1: interceptions at that. He's like baseball Adam done ton of stick.
Speaker 1: Might take a chance to me? Quarterback is Taylor Heineke
Speaker 1: going up against the Chiefs? At this point, I would
Speaker 1: start Billy Kilmer against the Chiefs. Kansas City has the
Speaker 1: league's worst fence overall. They're very bad against the past.
Speaker 1: In particular, they ran't dead last and points allowed, they
Speaker 1: ranked thirty first, and yards allowed their lasts and first
Speaker 1: downs they ranked twenty nine, and passing yards allowed. They
Speaker 1: give up the most rushing quarterback rushing yards and the
Speaker 1: most quarterback rushing touchdowns. I mean, there's every way possible.
Speaker 1: Taylor Heineke can beat them. Daniel Sorensen might be the
Speaker 1: worst safety in the league. And if there are any
Speaker 1: Chiefs fans listening, they are nodding their head vigorously right now.
Speaker 1: He's allowed a league high two eight four yards in
Speaker 1: his coverage. Here comes Terry McLaurin with all of his speed.
Speaker 1: He's gonna blow through this defense on deep passes. Taylor
Speaker 1: Heineke love him. This week. Let's go to the running
Speaker 1: back position. It's Khalil Herbert a k A. The ground Bear.
Speaker 1: With David Montgomery still out and Damian Williams on the
Speaker 1: COVID reserve list, the Bears turned to the ground bear
Speaker 1: this week. By the way, ground Bear had eight team
Speaker 1: carries for seventy five yards last week against the Raider,
Speaker 1: while Damian Williams had sixteen carries in that game. In fact,
Speaker 1: the only game in which a Bears runner has not
Speaker 1: received sixteen or more carries in a game this year
Speaker 1: was the Browns game, where Justin Fields was starting and
Speaker 1: the Browns were stacking eight in the box the whole
Speaker 1: game and their defense was planned lights out. The Packers
Speaker 1: are the opponent this week. They've allowed an average of
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifteen total yards and just over a
Speaker 1: touchdown per game to opposing runners. My theory is groundbar
Speaker 1: gets all of the work here, So I like those odds.
Speaker 1: All right, You're take a chance to be runner Scott.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna go with DeVante Booker. You might
Speaker 1: not like him against the Rams. It seems like a
Speaker 1: tougher matchup. But the five the five main backs that have
Speaker 1: have seen sixteen plus touches against the Rams, four of
Speaker 1: them had over seventy yards and or a touchdown. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're actually producing a decent amount of So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give him a Take a chance on me with a
Speaker 1: you know, a C grade. Okay, we're grade in there. Uh.
Speaker 1: Lottavius Murray's the back I did not talk about last segment,
Speaker 1: goes up against the Chargers. A negative game script last
Speaker 1: week led to a season low six carries for Murray.
Speaker 1: But don't be dissuaded here. He's gonna bounce back against
Speaker 1: a Chargers defense that is very good against the past
Speaker 1: and very bad against the run, giving up a league
Speaker 1: worst one hundred thirty six rushing yards per game on
Speaker 1: five and a half yards per carry to opposing backs.
Speaker 1: Tyson Williams and DeVonta Freeman are basically non factors in
Speaker 1: this offense, and Murray's getting most of the work and
Speaker 1: it's a great opportunity. So we'll give Latavius Murray the start.
Speaker 1: And for those that were looking for a letter grade
Speaker 1: on Murray, it is a B. Let's go to the receivers, Matt,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna channel my inner Brian Johnson here. Uh and
Speaker 1: and still a little smell of tight end comments, still
Speaker 1: a little thunder from Colin mccockney. It's not just a
Speaker 1: tight end. It's Dan Arnold, the tight end who's uh
Speaker 1: in his third game with the Jags and what brings
Speaker 1: a team together more than a great road trip to London.
Speaker 1: Arnold must be a quick study because he went from
Speaker 1: eighteen snaps in his first week to fifty two last week,
Speaker 1: which was a seventy three percent share. He also saw
Speaker 1: eight targets six catches in sixty four yards last week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he averages about ten yards per target. So does the
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense. When they let tight ends room free. They're
Speaker 1: allowing five catches and fifty yards per game to the position.
Speaker 1: With three scores in the first five games. I like
Speaker 1: Dan Arnold to score this week. All right, that's strong. Uh, Scott,
Speaker 1: my time has come, Yeah, my time has come in
Speaker 1: that the Sun God, finally, the Sun God is finally
Speaker 1: with you on this. I love his chances this. I'm
Speaker 1: on raw st Brown. He's finally taken over. He has
Speaker 1: at least eight targets, at least six catches, and at
Speaker 1: least sixty five yards and back to back games. Cliff
Speaker 1: Raymond has disappeared and turned back into calif Raymond. Hockinson
Speaker 1: still hobbling a bit. Quintus cephas out a game that's
Speaker 1: gonna be negative game script the whole time. Give me.
Speaker 1: I'm on raw this week. I am going with and
Speaker 1: I love this play. Told you much. I liked Taylor Heineke. Well,
Speaker 1: let's look at who we could throw the ball to.
Speaker 1: Obviously Terry McLarin sitting on a huge game we'll talk
Speaker 1: about in a couple of minutes here. But who else
Speaker 1: has he got? Well, Curtis Samuel's out for this game.
Speaker 1: Lorcan Thomas is on I r um there's he just
Speaker 1: doesn't have many people to throw too. Outside of Adam Humphries.
Speaker 1: I already mentioned Chief's past defense has been brutal and
Speaker 1: Jerry McLaurin can't get one of the passing yards, so
Speaker 1: there's gonna have to be some other options working from
Speaker 1: the slot. Humphreys faces Legarius Snead, who is allowing an
Speaker 1: opposer passer rating of one hundred fifty two almost perfect.
Speaker 1: He touchdowns in the last two games. He was good.
Speaker 1: Lugarius was very promising rookie last year. They've moved him
Speaker 1: into the slot where he's just a fish out of water,
Speaker 1: and so, I like Adam Humphries, I'm starting him in
Speaker 1: a couple of different leads a matter of fact. So
Speaker 1: take that, everybody. Let's get Let's get a matchup in here.
Speaker 1: Scott Bengals take on the Lions. Joe Mixon played gallantly
Speaker 1: through an injury last week. It looks like he's close
Speaker 1: to a full go in this one. What do you
Speaker 1: think about him and what should be a pretty juicy
Speaker 1: matchup with the Lions. Yeah, everything we're hearing about about
Speaker 1: him for this week is that he's going to be
Speaker 1: a full go, full practicing now. Um uh. The Lions
Speaker 1: are allowing over twenty eight touches to running backs per
Speaker 1: game and the tenth most combo yards and the most
Speaker 1: combo touchdowns. This is a smashed spot for mixing. Who's
Speaker 1: averaging twenty two touches per game prior to the injury?
Speaker 1: Uh A grade for mixing. In the passing game. I'm
Speaker 1: still giving Joe Burrow a B grade multiple touchdowns in
Speaker 1: every game, but now he gets a DV that is
Speaker 1: so bad against the run that they only allowed twenty
Speaker 1: seven pass attempts per game. Otherwise I would give Burrow
Speaker 1: a better grade, like he just might not pass enough,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna get some rodgers let them up, you
Speaker 1: know a couple a few weeks ago. Uh Chase, I'm
Speaker 1: given an A grade too, because it's hard to do
Speaker 1: yards basically every game, and the lead wide receiver against
Speaker 1: the Lions has topped a D and twenty yards in
Speaker 1: four of the five games. That's probably le Chase, Higgins
Speaker 1: and Boyd. I'm giving them both SEA grades, but I
Speaker 1: don't I don't love it as much. Um with Higgins back,
Speaker 1: both played back seat and split production production. Um. Given
Speaker 1: the volume passing against the Lion secondary though, I can't
Speaker 1: give him any higher than A. See there, they just
Speaker 1: might not be enough to attempts to go around on
Speaker 1: the other side, I mentioned aman Ras might take a
Speaker 1: chance on me player. Uh, Jared Goff should have you know,
Speaker 1: an okay outing here. I feel like since his big
Speaker 1: one week one outing, he has only average one yards
Speaker 1: and one touchdown per game. But the Bengals d has
Speaker 1: been hit and miss as well. Uh. They've allowed opposing
Speaker 1: quarterbacks nearly forty attempts per game though, so I kind
Speaker 1: of like golf to to get some volume here. Uh,
Speaker 1: he'll he'll have st Brown and he'll also have Hawkinson,
Speaker 1: who's getting better off the energery. He's looked banged up.
Speaker 1: He's been banged up, he's he's been limited in practices.
Speaker 1: The Bengals haven't played any decent ends yet, so they're tough.
Speaker 1: Five rank against tight ends is a little deceiving, but
Speaker 1: I'm still giving to Hawkinson a B grade. I think
Speaker 1: you have to. I think tight ends like this have
Speaker 1: down games once in a while, especially when they injured
Speaker 1: um DeAndre Swift. I'm giving the A grade. To remember
Speaker 1: when the Bengals allowed Naji Harris to catch fourteen passes
Speaker 1: against them, I do I think that's normally. I don't
Speaker 1: because Green Bay Backs also had nine grabs Minnesota Backs
Speaker 1: also had ten grabs. There's a lot of pass catching
Speaker 1: to go around against this Bengals d an a grade
Speaker 1: first Swift, a C grade for williams uh Fourteen plus
Speaker 1: touches in four of the five games is hard to ignore.
Speaker 1: When you get that kind of volume, even if you're
Speaker 1: not the lead back, it's hard not to give you
Speaker 1: at least a sea. Yeah. Probably, we're gonna talk a
Speaker 1: little more about t J. Hockenson coming up in a
Speaker 1: couple of segments because his his story has been pretty fascinating.
Speaker 1: After the two big games to start the season and
Speaker 1: then three really dry ones, what do you do about him?
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Speaker 1: There's some obvious plays like Davante Adams and Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: But what about trickier guys like Robert touny in A J. Dillon,
Speaker 1: what about any of the other receivers? Will tell you
Speaker 1: what to expect when we come back, final segment of
Speaker 1: our number one of Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul
Speaker 1: charchy and you can follow me on Twitter at Paul Charchion.
Speaker 1: My co host number one today Matt Harrison. He is
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Speaker 1: I'm just happy to be hopefully doesn't list just happy
Speaker 1: to be here. Packers take on the Bears. Matt obviously,
Speaker 1: Davanta Adams obviously sitting on a gigantic game, But I'm
Speaker 1: wondering what you think about the rest of the passing
Speaker 1: offense here. Yeah, Davante is an a Aaron Rodgers is too.
Speaker 1: It looks like Rogers will get both tackle Elgton Jenkins
Speaker 1: and center Josh Meyers back this week plus help the Bears.
Speaker 1: Linebacker Khalil Mack and defensive tackle Achem Hicks both did
Speaker 1: not practice either Tuesday or Wednesday, so they're looking on
Speaker 1: the doubtful side of questionable. I almost gave him a
Speaker 1: B because but the injuries are always trending in the
Speaker 1: right direction for the pack and he's thrown four touchdown
Speaker 1: passes in each of his last two games against the Bears.
Speaker 1: So Rogers gets the A Robert Touny in I'm giving
Speaker 1: him just a C grade, uh, and I think that
Speaker 1: that's generous a disaster he's been. Yeah, he was limited
Speaker 1: this week in practice with a knee injury, so keep
Speaker 1: an eye on that even if he does go. He's
Speaker 1: only averaging three point four targets one point eight receptions
Speaker 1: in sixteen yards per game. But he did score in
Speaker 1: both meetings with the Bears last year, so we're just
Speaker 1: hoping for a touchdown. No other Packers receiver should be
Speaker 1: in your lineup, Randall Cobb is only averaging two targets
Speaker 1: per game. The rest is a mess. Uh. Aaron Jones,
Speaker 1: he's getting a B grade. Was a limited participant with
Speaker 1: an ankle injury this week, but has ninety plus total
Speaker 1: yards in the last four games he's played. So the
Speaker 1: interesting guy is A. J. Dillon, who has been much
Speaker 1: more a part of the offense in the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: Sixteen touches for ninety seven yards against Pittsburgh in Week four,
Speaker 1: twelve touches for seventy nine yards and a receiving touchdown
Speaker 1: in Week five against the Bengals. By the way, Dylan
Speaker 1: is still available in thirty nine percent of lead, which
Speaker 1: is crazy. He should be picked up. He's a spot
Speaker 1: starter in bye weeks, and if Jones actually miss his
Speaker 1: time back instantly I give I give Dylan a starting
Speaker 1: grade of just a. See here, as the Bears defense
Speaker 1: is allowing a hundred and twenty six total yards per
Speaker 1: game in the position, they're a little bit better than average.
Speaker 1: So uh, he's He's startable, but not super great. I
Speaker 1: like Khalil Groundbar as my take a chance on me runner.
Speaker 1: I'm giving him a B grade in this game. Actually,
Speaker 1: the receivers on the Bear side, I'll give Darnell Mooney
Speaker 1: the B grade and Allen's Allen Robinson a tepid C
Speaker 1: grade as he's been limited in practice and looking like
Speaker 1: a true game time decision. There is no JayR Alexander
Speaker 1: in this game. He's on I R and said both
Speaker 1: of them will see Eric Stokes and Chandon Sullivan. Now
Speaker 1: I'm gonna jump in. Now. Stokes is fascinating because Mooney
Speaker 1: is super fast. Stokes is even faster, and he doesn't
Speaker 1: normally travel with any particular wide receiver. Normally he plays
Speaker 1: one side of the field. But man, this matchup screams,
Speaker 1: you know, with Kevin king Al j Alexander out, this
Speaker 1: matchup screams, just put Stokes on Mooney, neutralized the speed
Speaker 1: and then make a hobbled Allen Robinson beat you. Let's
Speaker 1: see if he can stop and cut and move with
Speaker 1: Mooney though I mean speed on speed, he might. Mooney
Speaker 1: might make a cut. Stokes might be in the stands.
Speaker 1: He's just running. So faye, Stokes have been good. He's
Speaker 1: that kid. Looks like he's requisite of the draft pick
Speaker 1: they gave him. Yeah, Mooney has been fields preferred target
Speaker 1: this year, but Robinson has topped a hundred yards or
Speaker 1: scored in three of his last four against the Pack
Speaker 1: and with j and that's with Jai year. So I
Speaker 1: think it should be a past heavy game script for
Speaker 1: the Bears, one at home, one with their newly anointed
Speaker 1: starting quarterback. I'm imagining they're going to throw a bunch,
Speaker 1: which is why I'm giving Justin Fields a C grade.
Speaker 1: And this is probably just positive thinking, but I just
Speaker 1: kind of have a hunch about this one. There's more
Speaker 1: negatives than positives with Fields hasn't thrown for more than
Speaker 1: twenty passing attempts in any of his three career starts,
Speaker 1: just one touchdown, passing yardage totals of sixty two oh
Speaker 1: nine and one eleven. He's also only ran the ball
Speaker 1: three times in each of the last three teams, So stupid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: why is he getting no designed runs? Yeah, it's so frustrating,
Speaker 1: But the Packers have allowed the fifth most passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: on the season at two point four per game. They've
Speaker 1: allowed the eleventh most rushing yards to opposing quarterbacks. And
Speaker 1: when if he doesn't run well with no Gyrands Darius Smith,
Speaker 1: this defense is nearly a scary. So I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: him a C grade and I'm gonna talk about justin
Speaker 1: fields a little bit more later in the show. And finally,
Speaker 1: don't commit to me, bro Cole, Commit is on your bench.
Speaker 1: The less said, the more apparently about cold commit. Chiefs
Speaker 1: take on Washington. Um, these are two this like the
Speaker 1: worst and the second worst defense facing each other. It's start, everybody.
Speaker 1: This is this is like a seventy five point total,
Speaker 1: it feels like it. Mahomes, Hill and Kelsey are all
Speaker 1: obviously as with deeply positive matchups, and we don't even
Speaker 1: have to expand on that. Let's go to Darryl Darryl
Speaker 1: Williams next. You're hoping for a touchdown here because Washington
Speaker 1: is allowing these second fewest rushing yards and the third
Speaker 1: fewest receiving yards to running backs. In a nutshell, teams
Speaker 1: just passed so easily on Washington that they don't have
Speaker 1: to run. So really, you're just hoping that a bunch
Speaker 1: of pass oriented drives stall out near the five and
Speaker 1: then Darryl Williams runs it in, which is possible, and
Speaker 1: that's a C grade. Now, the other receivers beyond Kelsey
Speaker 1: and Hill, odds are some of them are going to
Speaker 1: get something done, or at least one of them are
Speaker 1: get something done. But how can you know if it's
Speaker 1: gonna be Josh Gordon, Mi Coole Hardman, Byron Pringle or
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Robinson. You can't, You can't. They probably can't tell
Speaker 1: you with certainty. They're all gonna be on the field
Speaker 1: at various times during the game. They've all got positive matchups,
Speaker 1: but none of them are going to be on the
Speaker 1: field enough that you can know, and it's a total
Speaker 1: guessing game. So they'rell on the bench. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Washington side. Washington be playing without starting guard Brandon
Speaker 1: Sheriff and starting tackle Sam Cosmi rookie. Um. They've been
Speaker 1: ruled out of this game, which is too bad, Um,
Speaker 1: because it's although I still think this is it's still
Speaker 1: such a smash spot. I still like everybody. Antonio Gibson
Speaker 1: an obvious a against the defense that ranks twenty nine
Speaker 1: and rushing yards allowed and has given up the fourth
Speaker 1: most wide receiver receiving yards, although Gibson's not that active
Speaker 1: as a receiver. But that brings us to J. D. Mckissic,
Speaker 1: who clocks in with a C grade, because the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, giving up the fourth most receiving yards
Speaker 1: and running backs and that equals they've given up twenty
Speaker 1: eight receptions for two seventy yards. That's uh, that is
Speaker 1: a ton. And if you think the Chiefs are gonna
Speaker 1: be playing from ahead in this game, then you've gotta
Speaker 1: figure mkissic is gonna be in in a past catching
Speaker 1: role throughout much of the second half, maybe the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: maybe garbage time, so a C grade for J. D.
Speaker 1: Mckissic as a possible pivot in a tricky bye week
Speaker 1: for running backs and injury field week for running backs.
Speaker 1: Taylor Heineke was might take a chance on the quarterback
Speaker 1: Adam Humphreys was might take a chance of me wide
Speaker 1: receiver and Terry McLaurin hamstring injury that he suffered in practice,
Speaker 1: but he's expected to play well. I think he's expected
Speaker 1: to play. The media reports around this have been totally varied.
Speaker 1: I've seen a unlikely to play. I've seen a definitely
Speaker 1: will play. We're just being cautious on on Terry McLaurin,
Speaker 1: but it looks like he's gonna go. Um he's my
Speaker 1: number In fact, he's one of my top rank wide
Speaker 1: receivers for the week. I had him number one prior
Speaker 1: to the hamstring injury. Kansas City's allowed receiver the top
Speaker 1: one hundred yards or score multiple touchdowns in each of
Speaker 1: the past four games. They've given up six touchdowns to
Speaker 1: receivers in the past three weeks. That's how bad it is.
Speaker 1: No matter where mclauren plays, and he lines up all
Speaker 1: over the field, he's got a positive matchup, whether it's
Speaker 1: against Mike Hughes, Lagarius sneed Chart, various ward who may
Speaker 1: not even go in this game. They're all giving up
Speaker 1: a passer rating of over one hundred ten and they
Speaker 1: combine to allow five touchdowns in this so far this year.
Speaker 1: It and and as I mentioned earlier in the show,
Speaker 1: if McLaren with his speed gets deep, Niel Sorensen's getting roasted.
Speaker 1: I love the matchup for Terry McLaurin and now uber
Speaker 1: sneaky tight end play coming. Ricky Seals Jones on the
Speaker 1: field last week in relief of Logan Thomas for of
Speaker 1: the snaps and he had eight targets, which is more
Speaker 1: than Logan Thomas it had in any game. The Chiefs
Speaker 1: have allowed the seventh most catches and the most yards
Speaker 1: to tight ends. Ricky Seals Jones b grade it. Do
Speaker 1: you have a steal noise? Nor r? Thank you? That's
Speaker 1: that's it's not quite but it's in the ball. That's
Speaker 1: our Ricky Seals Jones blended with a sheet noise. It
Speaker 1: is actually our final matchup of the segment is the
Speaker 1: Rams taking on the Giants. Scott Yes. Uh, Let's start
Speaker 1: on the Rams side with passing game. I'm giving Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford a grade. He's he's just been really, really decent
Speaker 1: this year. Giants. Yeah, Giants have allowed multiple touchdowns to
Speaker 1: qbs in all five games. UH. Stafford has multiple touchdowns
Speaker 1: in four or five the one he didn't he at
Speaker 1: three sixty five yards. Giants eighth worst against quarterbacks, allowing
Speaker 1: to nearly seventy completion rate against. UH. Stafford should have
Speaker 1: a good day here. Cup, He's he's back to He's
Speaker 1: gonna be back to liking his boy here, Cooper Cup again,
Speaker 1: A grade here. I think last week was a a
Speaker 1: traditional squeaky wheel gets the greaser, squeaky mouse gets the
Speaker 1: cheese or whatever you want to call it. Something yes,
Speaker 1: something squeak either. How we need a lot more. But
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of pretty good. I would have preferred
Speaker 1: that to try to do it. But that's that's okay too. Uh,
Speaker 1: bring it, bring it eventually, like say the letters, and
Speaker 1: actually does obviously, oh Man Rubbert Woods the B grade. Uh.
Speaker 1: I could be convinced to an A, but I think
Speaker 1: they'll get ahead in this and maybe not need to
Speaker 1: pass as much later in the game. The Giants have
Speaker 1: allowed the ninth most receptions to wide receivers. I have
Speaker 1: the rest of the wide receivers on the bench. Jefferson,
Speaker 1: you know he he shows up at times, but he
Speaker 1: usually needs a big play. D Jacks has seen his
Speaker 1: snaps go down, so no to him. Tyler Higbee with
Speaker 1: a C grade. The Giants have allowed a touchdown every
Speaker 1: week to tight ends until last week where Dalton Schultz
Speaker 1: was shut out, but we still went six for seventy nine. Yes,
Speaker 1: in the running game, Henderson gets the A grade. The
Speaker 1: Giants allowing the seventh most touchdowns running backs, fifth most
Speaker 1: compo yards. Last week, henderson snaps came down a little bit.
Speaker 1: He wasn't the bell cow that he was early in
Speaker 1: the week. But even if you pencil them in for
Speaker 1: split should bring him around twenty touches for him, ten
Speaker 1: or oh for Michelle. They may be running down the
Speaker 1: clock late, so I'm actually gonna give Michelle a C grade.
Speaker 1: I don't love it, but it's it's very possible. We
Speaker 1: can see thirty touches out of these running backs in
Speaker 1: this one when by the end of the game over
Speaker 1: to the Giant side, Daniel Jones has been cleared. He's
Speaker 1: gonna play I got a C grade on him in
Speaker 1: a game he should be trying to catch up. And
Speaker 1: those rushing yards they add up, they make him startable.
Speaker 1: You think that they reel in his rushing it off
Speaker 1: with him coming off the concussion. I don't know that
Speaker 1: they do. I just think you find get concussion again,
Speaker 1: we don't care. No, I I feel I feel like
Speaker 1: I feel like they're just gonna let him do it.
Speaker 1: They're gonna when they put players back out after stuff
Speaker 1: like that, it seems like they just let him be them.
Speaker 1: You know. Uh, teams are averaging nearly forty pass attempts
Speaker 1: against the Rams, which is a little surprising, but yeah,
Speaker 1: they have to because they have to play catch up.
Speaker 1: That's that's where he's gonna get his points is in
Speaker 1: volume onto the passing game. His boys. Thirling Shepherd is back.
Speaker 1: And when I say it's his, I was a little
Speaker 1: shocked looking at the numbers of how Sterling Shepherd does
Speaker 1: with Daniel Jones over the last year or so. Six
Speaker 1: plus receptions not targets receptions in ten of the last
Speaker 1: twelve games with him, and these are the last four
Speaker 1: games with with Daniel Jones, nine for seventy seven in
Speaker 1: a touch eight for one, twelve in a touch, good game,
Speaker 1: seven for nine in a touch. I'll take that. I
Speaker 1: have a B grade on him, but I'm I'm I
Speaker 1: think I might even be willing to go a gread
Speaker 1: just because it's his it's his little woobie, what his
Speaker 1: little woodie like his that's like a security blanket for
Speaker 1: for a baby. Really, yes, say so do you have on?
Speaker 1: I do die? Because I'm actually familiar with Scott using
Speaker 1: this term. I am the podcast in the past. Canarius Tony,
Speaker 1: I'm giving a C grade two because when he gets
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands that the guys just electric
Speaker 1: and he can make things happen. He's not going to
Speaker 1: get the volume that we saw last game, but when
Speaker 1: he does get it, he's able to make plays happen.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give a C grade to him. Evan Ingram,
Speaker 1: I'm giving a C grade for as well. He has
Speaker 1: four plus catches in two straight but the yards just
Speaker 1: aren't there, and the Giants haven't had a tight end
Speaker 1: score yet. But he's getting a C grade simply because
Speaker 1: there aren't a lot of options with all the injuries,
Speaker 1: and they're going to be playing catch up and of
Speaker 1: course Booker was might take a chance on me player? Yes,
Speaker 1: m We've got about a minute a half. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about zach Ertz trade that went down. So
Speaker 1: Max Williams had been shockingly competent for the first time
Speaker 1: in his seven year career. Um now zach Ertz slots
Speaker 1: into that spot. Now there's a ton of competition for
Speaker 1: targets in that offense. Christian Kirk and A. J. Green
Speaker 1: and DeAndre Hopkins and Ron del Moore and Chase Edmonds
Speaker 1: all guys who need to catch the ball. But zach
Speaker 1: Ertz is a huge upgrade and the best tight end
Speaker 1: we've seen in a Cardinals roster. And since Dan Arnold's
Speaker 1: Dan Arnold. What do you guys expect from zach Ertz
Speaker 1: once he's acclimated to this offense in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: What do you expect from zach ERT's going forward? I
Speaker 1: expect what we were seeing out of Max Williams, only
Speaker 1: on a more consistent basis, Like the seven Max had,
Speaker 1: the five or sixty six and a touchdown. Yeah, those
Speaker 1: are almost elite Tightenhill, he'll have his He'll and what
Speaker 1: Earth's did last night or what it's on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: I guess um, I expect those kind of numbers, but
Speaker 1: on a more consistent basis, And I actually expect some
Speaker 1: of the other guys like Green and Rondell Moore and
Speaker 1: stuff to see a little less action. They're doing good
Speaker 1: work on lower snaps, like Rondell Moore is not getting
Speaker 1: a lot of snaps. What they're doing good work on it.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting to grade him because it's so
Speaker 1: hard to grade those wide receivers based on the matchups,
Speaker 1: but tight ends a little more clear to see whether
Speaker 1: or not the matchups good. So I think Earth's is
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of starting grades down the pine here. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Football Weekly. But first the game we call three tough questions.
Speaker 1: Top question number one is Leonard four net and every
Speaker 1: week starter. Let's begin with you, Matt. Uh. It sure
Speaker 1: seems like that after he's taken control in Tampa with
Speaker 1: twenty three, sixteen and twenty eight touches in the last
Speaker 1: three weeks. Coming on Thursday Night, Ronald Jones from week
Speaker 1: four on six, six and six a trend. Yeah, Geo
Speaker 1: missed Week four, but he had six and two in
Speaker 1: the last three or two games. Uh, it's now a
Speaker 1: two third snap shop time share for four NET and
Speaker 1: one six and one six for Jones and Geo and
Speaker 1: that offense. He's probably a top twenty running back and
Speaker 1: that's startable just about every week. Yeah, And I think
Speaker 1: the reason we I'm I'm the same. I think he's
Speaker 1: an every week start now and I think I think
Speaker 1: the biggest thing is that he's catching passes and he's
Speaker 1: making something happen with him. And that's what Tom Brady needs.
Speaker 1: He's need someone you can trust to dump off too
Speaker 1: in the passing game. He wanted that in his later
Speaker 1: years in New England. He needs that now and uh
Speaker 1: for Net has proven over the last couple weeks that
Speaker 1: he can take on that role. Four Net is turning
Speaker 1: into the James White plus running at this stage for
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, which is fantastic. You know, in the past,
Speaker 1: you never knew week to week what you could who
Speaker 1: who was going to get the most carries, who'd get
Speaker 1: the hot hand in New England. That then wherever Tom
Speaker 1: Brady goes, I meant Tampa in Tampa, but yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying wherever Tom Brady goes, that's that is true.
Speaker 1: The worst you could ever do was listened to Bruce Arians,
Speaker 1: who was a bald faced liar, and he would tell
Speaker 1: you heading into a game, we gotta get Ronald Jones
Speaker 1: more work. He's he's been really running hard lately. We
Speaker 1: love his practice. We got to get a more work
Speaker 1: and then the game comedy get three carries? Is it
Speaker 1: possible that for Net just was in bad shape and
Speaker 1: Jacksonville when getting traded to Tampa last year, he just
Speaker 1: wasn't in game shape and it took him a while
Speaker 1: because on the stretch of the playoffs he was a
Speaker 1: playoff so and he was. But the weird thing was
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones rolled into the playoffs. Is the better runner
Speaker 1: throughout the whole season? Go figure. But now we don't
Speaker 1: have to listen to Bruce Arians. The numbers speak for themselves.
Speaker 1: You guys already articulated them well and a until that
Speaker 1: soft dish tissue injury pops up, and it will at
Speaker 1: some point. With Leonard four Net, we've got our opportunity
Speaker 1: to make him an every week starter. Tough question number two?
Speaker 1: Are you selling high on Marquis Brown? Scott will let
Speaker 1: you go first this time? I don't think so. I
Speaker 1: don't know that you're going to get quite the value
Speaker 1: want because I think a lot of people out there
Speaker 1: are gonna feel similarly. They're gonna be a little curious
Speaker 1: whether it's for real or not because the touchdowns have
Speaker 1: been so high and those may regrets. But he's really
Speaker 1: only got two top ten defenses going forward that he
Speaker 1: has to face and the rest of the season. Uh.
Speaker 1: The argument, I guess is also that Bateman is coming back,
Speaker 1: He's going to progress slowly. But this is an offense
Speaker 1: throwing for over three yards of game and it's likely
Speaker 1: going to be in a decent amount of shootouts. If
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson's passing has improved to this degree, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: want the guy in that offense. I'll keep him hold
Speaker 1: on to him. Okay, Matt, are you selling high on
Speaker 1: Marquis Brown? I am selling. And Scott kind of articulated
Speaker 1: the points why his schedule is really soft. I can
Speaker 1: sell that to an opposing player. Uh. He's had eleven
Speaker 1: touchdowns in eleven games, which people love. When you put
Speaker 1: in the comments why you should trade never work. But
Speaker 1: but how about this Lamar Jackson going backwards from last
Speaker 1: week touchdown passes for last week, the week before one,
Speaker 1: the week before that one, the week before that one,
Speaker 1: the week before that one, He's not throwing a ton
Speaker 1: of touchdown passes. And I need my wide receivers to
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to score touchdown passes. And now I
Speaker 1: think there might be a few too many mouths to
Speaker 1: with Mark Andrews and Rashad Bateman coming on, I I
Speaker 1: do want to sell Marquis Brown. This was a hard
Speaker 1: This was a question, was actually tough, a false sense
Speaker 1: of security. I am selling high Markis Brown under the
Speaker 1: assumption that I can sell him as an elite receiver
Speaker 1: that that he's bet. If I can turn him into
Speaker 1: basically anybody outside of Davante Adams, then yes, I'm selling um.
Speaker 1: And that's probably what you can get from Marquis Brown
Speaker 1: right now. People want to be a part of a
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson offense on their fantasy team. They've seen all
Speaker 1: the touchdowns. They want to be a part of that.
Speaker 1: But for you guys who score just I'll add this
Speaker 1: to the point you've already made. Guys who score from
Speaker 1: distance are notoriously inconsistent, and to get this kind of
Speaker 1: touchdown production is not it just it the requssions coming.
Speaker 1: Doesn't he seem like Kansas city wide receiver. But he's
Speaker 1: just in one package, Like you just don't know if
Speaker 1: he's going to score any week, but when he it's on,
Speaker 1: it's on. I feel like right now you're never, maybe
Speaker 1: never going to have a better opportunity to sell on
Speaker 1: Marquis Brown than right now. So I'm gonna take advantage
Speaker 1: of that and turn him into any receiver you like
Speaker 1: outside of Davante Adams. I think my theories you can't
Speaker 1: sell him for as high as you think you can. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you might be right. Maybe other people are gonna be
Speaker 1: onto this, but I don't think so. I think people.
Speaker 1: I think people want those touchdowns. Tough Question number three,
Speaker 1: what is the appropriate level of concern for t J.
Speaker 1: Howkinson managers? Is it none? Some or a bowl loosening
Speaker 1: level of existential dread? Around here, we call that blowed.
Speaker 1: We begin with you, Matt. It's just some for me.
Speaker 1: He's been on the field for more than of the
Speaker 1: snaps in every game this season. The problem is he's
Speaker 1: been a little bit dinged up, and some of the
Speaker 1: last couple of teams that he's played have just taken
Speaker 1: him out of the game after eight catches and a
Speaker 1: touchdown in each of the first two weeks. He's only
Speaker 1: tallied eight total catches in the three games since the
Speaker 1: Vikings and Bears were two of those opponents, and they
Speaker 1: rank among the top eight in teams against the tight
Speaker 1: end this year. The lines simply needed to scheme him
Speaker 1: open more. He's their best receiver, and I I'm somewhat concerned,
Speaker 1: but I think I'll be okay. Yeah, for me, I'd
Speaker 1: almost want to say some because it's hard not to
Speaker 1: after three bad games in a row. But it's really
Speaker 1: none that this is what the tight end position is.
Speaker 1: They all have bad games like this. He's running a
Speaker 1: ton of routes, he's playing eighty three plus percent of
Speaker 1: the snaps. They have almost no other options. It's gonna
Speaker 1: come around, but there will be days like this. Mama
Speaker 1: told me. The answer is some. He's obviously very good
Speaker 1: and by sheer talent, he's probably a top five tight
Speaker 1: end by just talent. And you know, the problem has
Speaker 1: been and by the way, team's always playing from behind
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be passing a lot. But we knew
Speaker 1: that going into the season, and that has not stopped
Speaker 1: him from having three straight dad games. And the knee
Speaker 1: injury is a bit of an issue. The double coverage
Speaker 1: is a problem. Teams are locking down Hockinson, making Aman
Speaker 1: Rob beat you, calif Raymond beat you. Um. He's too
Speaker 1: good and he's too important to this offense to continue
Speaker 1: at at the same pace of these last three games.
Speaker 1: They have to get him involved one way or another.
Speaker 1: They have to do whatever it takes. I think they will.
Speaker 1: By the way running routes I was. I thought at
Speaker 1: one point maybe he was staying in blockings that offensive
Speaker 1: lines I'll beat up in Detroit. He's running routes, so
Speaker 1: I was going to drop that in there, and I just, yeah, didn't.
Speaker 1: That's a saving Yeah he is. He's running a ton
Speaker 1: of routes. So still have some concern because I didn't
Speaker 1: think he didn't have any three game stretch like this,
Speaker 1: But not a bowel loosening level of existential dread. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: let's go back to the matchups. The Cardinals taking on
Speaker 1: the Browns Matt and for the Cardinals, they've acquired zach ERTs.
Speaker 1: They can't play him yet, So where is Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: going to send the ball um to the other players
Speaker 1: on his team? Tough question number four. I'm giving Kyler
Speaker 1: a B grade and this one. The Browns are a
Speaker 1: good defense. They did just give up the world to
Speaker 1: air Bearer last week, and Miles Garrett is still limited
Speaker 1: in practice. That's good. But Murray gets the B because
Speaker 1: he's dealing with an injury of his own and it's
Speaker 1: his right shoulder. And this just in you don't want
Speaker 1: your fantasy quarterback throwing his throwing shoulder to be injured.
Speaker 1: That's usually a bad thing. Um the Cardinals receivers, let's
Speaker 1: talk about them. How about DeAndre Hopkins. He sat out
Speaker 1: most of the week with an illness. He's not been
Speaker 1: diagnosed with COVID like teammate Chandler Jones did. Uh, And
Speaker 1: he did return on Friday, And if he's fully healthy,
Speaker 1: he's still in a grade. But keep an eye on
Speaker 1: this one just in case something pops up. The Chargers
Speaker 1: receivers were clever enough to have Keenan Allen and Mike
Speaker 1: Williams each avoid Denzel Awards coverage last week for most
Speaker 1: of the game, So I imagine the Cards move Hopkins
Speaker 1: around to avoid Ward because it has been awesome this year,
Speaker 1: especially in the last three weeks, holding opposing receivers to
Speaker 1: five catches and sixty nine scoreless yards over the last
Speaker 1: three Christian Kirk gets a B grade from the slot
Speaker 1: as he'll go against. He will go against Troy Hill,
Speaker 1: who allowed Keenan Allen to have a pretty good day
Speaker 1: last week. And if they can move Hopkins away from
Speaker 1: Denzel Ward, it probably means that A. J. Green is
Speaker 1: the sacrificial lamb here, So I'll throw him in. Ron
Speaker 1: Dale Moore on the bench, uh, and then we'll go
Speaker 1: to the running backs James Conner and Chase Edmonds. They're
Speaker 1: both on the bench for me. They're splitting touches almost evenly,
Speaker 1: which makes it tough to target them in a good week.
Speaker 1: But this isn't a good week because the Browns defense
Speaker 1: is top ten against runners and basically every category yards, receptions, touchdowns,
Speaker 1: all of it worth noting that now might be a
Speaker 1: good time to acquire one of them in trade, though,
Speaker 1: because the Week seven bipocalypse is coming and the Cardinals
Speaker 1: get Houston next week. So uh. Nick Chubb on the
Speaker 1: other side, he has been ruled out. Cream Hunt is
Speaker 1: very questionable with a wrist injury and maybe a game time.
Speaker 1: He's got melodies. I think he goes here. He did.
Speaker 1: He didn't practice on Friday, Um and the Cards. The
Speaker 1: problem is the Cards have allowed only one total touchdown
Speaker 1: to the running backs through five games. So it's just
Speaker 1: a C grade for me on a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I mean, tell tell me why he should be in
Speaker 1: the top ten. It's they're they're not allowing scores. He's
Speaker 1: just gonna get twenty plus touches and several receptions. It's
Speaker 1: been so good. He's my number ten right running back
Speaker 1: this week. Um for me? Anyway, that's you know, it's
Speaker 1: up to you. The good backs have gotten it done
Speaker 1: against this defense. Cook, Robinson Henderson have have averaged one
Speaker 1: thirty three total yards per games. A lot of yards,
Speaker 1: not a lot of scores. The oh yeah, okay yards count. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess um, I'm keeping Baker Mayfield on the bench.
Speaker 1: I did mention that Chandler Jones looks like he's gonna
Speaker 1: miss this week but the COVID designation. But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Baker won't put up air bear numbers. He's averaging too
Speaker 1: and less than a score per week. Arizona is only
Speaker 1: allowing two yards and a score per game through the air.
Speaker 1: The only wide receiver that I can put on the
Speaker 1: field for me is Odell Beckham, who I'm giving just
Speaker 1: a C grade of Nightma Perimeter wide receivers have had
Speaker 1: the most success against the Cards this year. Picking on
Speaker 1: Marco Wilson, who missed last week due to injury but
Speaker 1: has been upgraded the questionable this week. H Wilson has
Speaker 1: already allowed three scores in his coverage in four games.
Speaker 1: If h Wilson doesn't go, he's probably fourth stringer. Antonio
Speaker 1: Hamilton's who lines up with O'Dell. Still. The targets have
Speaker 1: been there, but the connection between Beckham and Baker has
Speaker 1: never quite come to fruition. I'm not starting any of
Speaker 1: the other wide receivers, and don't chase David and Joeku's
Speaker 1: box score from last week. It was huge, it was awesome.
Speaker 1: But in the last seventeen games, the Cardinals have allowed
Speaker 1: ex actually one touchdown to the tight end position, and
Speaker 1: in that span only two tight ends have topped fifty yards.
Speaker 1: That's it. Remember when the Cardinals were just auto start
Speaker 1: hasn't been where every week years. They figured it out,
Speaker 1: fortunately for them. I think we should probably take a break.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to. I'm trying to think if I want to,
Speaker 1: I'm tempted to sneak in one more matchup, but I
Speaker 1: really shouldn't. Don't get sneaky. Let's take a break. We
Speaker 1: come back, we get to talk about it. Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: start the first. We can talk about Dalvin Cook and
Speaker 1: Christie McCaffrey too, right, Buzz. It would have been a
Speaker 1: matchup between the first and second overall pick by consensus
Speaker 1: and fantasy drafts, but now it will be mostly a
Speaker 1: lot of Dalvin Cook. We'll talk about you, Bohabbard when
Speaker 1: we come back. Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back to Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. We've got a block of matchups for you.
Speaker 1: We'll break down all these players fantasy style, beginning with
Speaker 1: Vikings and Panthers on Paul Charchi and my coast or
Speaker 1: Scott Fish and Matt Harrison on the Viking side. We
Speaker 1: get to see Dalvin Cook at what we believe is
Speaker 1: full strength for the first time since Week two. He
Speaker 1: was great in those first two games, and now he
Speaker 1: gets the Panthers. This is a bit of a schizophrenic Panther.
Speaker 1: Panther run defense overall, they've been very good, but only
Speaker 1: one back has seen even ten carries against the Panthers,
Speaker 1: and it was Zeke and he destroyed them for one
Speaker 1: hundred forty three yards and a touchdown. And then Paulard
Speaker 1: added in a bunch more. Assuming Cook's ankle is going
Speaker 1: to be close to and it looks like he is
Speaker 1: not even on the injury report. Um, and he gets close.
Speaker 1: So the twenty one carries per game he was averaging
Speaker 1: through weeks one and two, I think he's looking at
Speaker 1: some big upside here. Well over a hundred yards in
Speaker 1: a probable touchdown in this game. So and obvious a
Speaker 1: grade for Dalvin Cook in this one. Let's go over
Speaker 1: to the passing game, where it's a little bit murkier. Um.
Speaker 1: Both Justin Jefferson and Adam Feland did not practice Wednesday
Speaker 1: or Thursday, but got in full practices on Friday. There's
Speaker 1: they've got an ankle and a foot injury, respectively. The
Speaker 1: presumption is that they're okay for this game. And I've
Speaker 1: got a B grade on Justin Jefferson. Panthers allowing just
Speaker 1: one dwenty eight yards to opposing receivers. That is the
Speaker 1: fourth fewest, and they're really they're strong at every cornerback spot,
Speaker 1: but especially like Dante Jackson and even for that matter,
Speaker 1: a j Blue has also been shockingly good in the slot.
Speaker 1: Now that said, Justin Jefferson is way better than either
Speaker 1: one of them. He had a hundred yards in the
Speaker 1: first half of last week's game before the Vikings moronically
Speaker 1: decided to just stop throwing at him. So the presumption
Speaker 1: is here that he's gonna be able to beat those
Speaker 1: guys that do at least some degree at a B
Speaker 1: grade for Justin Jefferson, let's talk through theland now. With
Speaker 1: Clint Kubyak offensive coordinator Clint Kubyak seemingly unwilling to throw
Speaker 1: down field, Theeeland has become oddly touchdown dependent, with fifty
Speaker 1: yards or fewer in four of five games. When those
Speaker 1: touchdowns are there, he's fine. But with that little yardage
Speaker 1: you need those touchdowns. Uh. Fortunately he's got a chance
Speaker 1: against Carolina. They've allowed multiple touchdowns to receivers twice already
Speaker 1: this season, So we could be one to Jefferson, one
Speaker 1: to theel in here um. But yardage should be tough
Speaker 1: to come by. As I mentioned earlier, just the fourth
Speaker 1: fewest passing yards and so this might be sort of
Speaker 1: typical feeling in this game. So that leaves us with
Speaker 1: kirk Cousins, despite winning the one of the best deep
Speaker 1: passing arms in the league, as I alluded to just
Speaker 1: a moment ago there, he's not being allowed to throw
Speaker 1: down field. In fact, the Vikings have the second fewest
Speaker 1: passes of more than twenty yards in the entire league,
Speaker 1: So the Vikings don't think he has one of the
Speaker 1: best downfield deep pass not which is absurd. Um Caroline
Speaker 1: is a defensive line is getting a fair amount of pressure,
Speaker 1: which is pretty impressive. Considers a lot of anonymous names
Speaker 1: on that and on the back end, as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: they've got some decent cornerbacks back there. But I think
Speaker 1: between Justin Jefferson and Adam Feeland there's enough here for
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins will be startable. But I've only got a
Speaker 1: C grade on him. Let's go over to the Carolina side,
Speaker 1: Touba Hubbard is you're starting running back. Christian McCaffrey will
Speaker 1: not play in this game. It's a nice spot for Hubbard.
Speaker 1: Although you know, watching a lot of Hubbard's play, I'm
Speaker 1: not exactly wowed by him. I think he's good, I
Speaker 1: don't think he's great. I don't think he's a natural receiver.
Speaker 1: Although They did throw to him six times last game,
Speaker 1: and he caught five for thirty yards. But so he
Speaker 1: can catch, but he's not he's not Christian McCaffrey obviously.
Speaker 1: And you know, we know that Minnesota ranks twenty nine
Speaker 1: in yards per carry and almost five yards per carry,
Speaker 1: and they're missing their run stuffing defensive lineman Michael Pierce.
Speaker 1: So Tuba Robert here actually with a pretty good ground
Speaker 1: game coming. I don't think he's gonna get a lot
Speaker 1: done through the air, as I mentioned. And get this,
Speaker 1: the Vikings have allowed one running back receiving touchdown in
Speaker 1: their last twenty seven games. So again, it's all got
Speaker 1: to come on the ground. And that's why Chuba Hubbard
Speaker 1: is a B and not an A and an otherwise
Speaker 1: solid start. Let's go to the passing game. Sam Donald
Speaker 1: comes in with a B. I'm not fully sold on
Speaker 1: the Vikings as an improved overall defense. Um they have
Speaker 1: held three straight quarterbacks in check, but they've also faced
Speaker 1: a mixed bag of passers Russell Wilson, which was impressive.
Speaker 1: Then Baker Mayfield and Jared Goff together averaging just two
Speaker 1: eighteen passing yards and less than half a touchdown per game.
Speaker 1: Vikings pass rush has improved and the Caroline has got
Speaker 1: a a bottom ranked pass blocking offensive line, and so
Speaker 1: it's possible the Vikings do get some real pressure on Donald,
Speaker 1: which would which would end up impacting his ability to
Speaker 1: get the ball down field if nothing else. Now, Donald's
Speaker 1: also been running for touchdowns. Get this, The Vikings have
Speaker 1: allowed one quarterback rushing touchdown in their last forty five games.
Speaker 1: So I will assume Donald's not going to help you
Speaker 1: there either. So I've gotta be grade on Donald. But
Speaker 1: it's it's a wobbly B. And at one point I
Speaker 1: had him as a sea and then I went back
Speaker 1: to a B grade on Donald. Um, I think he
Speaker 1: tried to get around one. Now be grade on Sam Donald.
Speaker 1: D J. Moore is an A grade on paper. The
Speaker 1: Vikings past defense does look improved of late, but the
Speaker 1: receivers they face have been utterly punchless. With Detroit and
Speaker 1: Cleveland and against the Bengals, Cardinals and Seahawks. Minnesota allowed
Speaker 1: to receive the top one hundred yards and find the
Speaker 1: end zone in all of those games. And more is
Speaker 1: the guy that gets virtually all the work. He's eclipsed
Speaker 1: one hundred yards and two of the past three games,
Speaker 1: and he's found the end zone twice in that span.
Speaker 1: He's also led the Panthers and targets in each of
Speaker 1: the last three straight games. He lines up on the
Speaker 1: right side more than any Carolina receiver, which gives him
Speaker 1: the coveted but shod brelan matchup for DJ Moore, and
Speaker 1: that makes him an A grade. Let's talk Robbie Anderson.
Speaker 1: Should we really need to so frustrating? Right? So, Anderson's
Speaker 1: got the size and deep speed to get past Patrick
Speaker 1: Peterson and siren Sam Donald's actually throwing to him more
Speaker 1: eighteen targets in the past two games to Robbie Anderson,
Speaker 1: and he was targeted last week in the end zone
Speaker 1: two times in either one came together in took in
Speaker 1: one of the plays, I think it was Anthony Avan
Speaker 1: made a diving, leaping tip of the ball did not
Speaker 1: get out of Robbie Anderson's hands and otherwise Anderson would
Speaker 1: have had a long connection in last week's game. If
Speaker 1: he's gonna get another nine targets against the Vikings secondary,
Speaker 1: I think Robby Anderson gets something done for at least
Speaker 1: one deep hook here. White outs with eight or more
Speaker 1: targets against the Vikings average seven catches, nine yards and
Speaker 1: almost one full touchdown. I'm betting the under for Robbie.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna hit those numbers. Um, Anderson
Speaker 1: only gets to see because I worried. As I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: does Donald have the time to set up these deep passes? Um?
Speaker 1: But I do like him with a C grade in
Speaker 1: that game. Let's go to our next matchup, Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: taking on the New England Patriots. Scott Ezekiel, to my eyes,
Speaker 1: has looked rejuvenated. The offensive line has been awesome. Any
Speaker 1: reason to think twice about Ezekiel Elliott in this game?
Speaker 1: He's he's running hard, as you mentioned the twenty one
Speaker 1: carries last week. He's he's averaging eighteen touches the game. Uh.
Speaker 1: Pollard's averaging like twelve point six touches and he looks
Speaker 1: good too. I have Elliott with an A grade and
Speaker 1: Pollard with a C grade. In this one. Elliott says
Speaker 1: he's fine after he landed on the pylon on his back.
Speaker 1: You know, he came in like two three days later
Speaker 1: and scored a touchdown, so that's not a concern. Uh. Uh.
Speaker 1: The New England Patriots are allowing the ninth most running
Speaker 1: running back touches nearly twenty nine per game, so I
Speaker 1: can see a twenty to ten split here and I
Speaker 1: got both starting grades on both of them. In the
Speaker 1: passing game, Dak Prescott, I'm giving an A grade to
Speaker 1: shocking Dak Prescott three more touchdowns in four games this year.
Speaker 1: Pats have been solid against quarterbacks, but the high end.
Speaker 1: The only high end when they played was Brady and
Speaker 1: they sold out to stop him. Um Davis Mills went
Speaker 1: for three hundred Prescott to Um on the in in
Speaker 1: the passing game. I have B grades on Cooper, Lamb
Speaker 1: and Shultz. I think it gets split up a lot
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of running because they'll get the lead.
Speaker 1: So I'm only giving B grades, but I'm giving them
Speaker 1: on all of them. Uh, Cooper Lamb, neither of them
Speaker 1: exploded since that Week one game, but they's a little
Speaker 1: Lambi no and his voice will be heard yards and
Speaker 1: an occasional score is what they do basically every game,
Speaker 1: and I think they do that again here. Be great
Speaker 1: for Dalton Schultz. The Pats are great against tight ends,
Speaker 1: but you have to consider that the best tight end
Speaker 1: they faced this year was Cameron brad The absolute best
Speaker 1: it was Cameron Brad. Dawson has six catches in four
Speaker 1: the five games. Six catches is a good good amount
Speaker 1: of work for a tight end, So I'm giving him
Speaker 1: a B grade. On the other side, by the way,
Speaker 1: the Cedric Wilson cats pretty good. When Michael Galla, Michael
Speaker 1: gaps in his contract here. When he's done, he's off
Speaker 1: the team. I think at the end of this year,
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson's gonna be gonnas. Yeah, they're not gonna miss up.
Speaker 1: On the other side, mc corkle Jones was my take
Speaker 1: a chance on me player. Uh. Jacoby Myers, I got
Speaker 1: the C grade on him, but you could talk me
Speaker 1: into higher. Uh. He now has a hundred and sixteen
Speaker 1: receptions and one thousand, three hundred ninety yards and no
Speaker 1: touchdowns in his career in the NFL, which is crazy
Speaker 1: as an NFL record for the amount of receptions with
Speaker 1: no touchdowns. The Cowboys they've given allowed the fifth most
Speaker 1: yards receivers, including six different receivers over ninety yards, five
Speaker 1: different receivers scoring. Myers is averaging nine targets per game.
Speaker 1: I kind of want to give him a be just
Speaker 1: just to help him score down. That's it. I'm giving
Speaker 1: him a C grade. So he steps it up and
Speaker 1: tries to adown here fan fantasy. Fantasy experts love Jacobe
Speaker 1: Myers and they talk about him all the time, and
Speaker 1: this big bust out has coming. I look at him
Speaker 1: and I go when I watch him playing like he's okay,
Speaker 1: he's yeah, yeah, he's their only receiver. Yep. Hunter Henry
Speaker 1: has really stepped it up as of late, so I'm
Speaker 1: giving him a C grade. He's got at least four
Speaker 1: grabs in three straight and at least thirty yards in each,
Speaker 1: which isn't a lot, but he's getting more and more
Speaker 1: work scored In two straight, every tight end to catch
Speaker 1: four passes against Dallas top fifty yards and they combined
Speaker 1: for three scores. So there's there's some work there for Henry.
Speaker 1: I'm giving up on John, Yeah, you kind have to it.
Speaker 1: It's just he's just not getting the ball enough. And
Speaker 1: I look, I don't get it. They loved him enough
Speaker 1: to pay him an absurd amount of money. They identified
Speaker 1: the greatness that is John U. Smith and then they
Speaker 1: never give him the ball. I love the reverse jinks.
Speaker 1: You're trying to play off. I'm all right, I'm out.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm bitter, I'm sad and broken on John U, JOHNU.
Speaker 1: I have the entire running game on the bench. Harris
Speaker 1: has been limited this week practicing. He split a lot
Speaker 1: with Stevenson last week. Bolden is the guy that gets
Speaker 1: the receptions and teams just don't try to run on Dallas.
Speaker 1: They're they're all all the second least run attempts behind
Speaker 1: the bucks. I believe it's not a good situation for
Speaker 1: any of them. And now an exciting moment. We we
Speaker 1: he's out in the green room again. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1: Colin mccockney, he was here last you're nice enough to
Speaker 1: come in studio last week. Now Colin mccockney from from
Speaker 1: ye old London Town and that's uh y e O
Speaker 1: l d E London Town with dolphins and jaguars and
Speaker 1: call mc cockney, welcome back to the show. Hello, Hello,
Speaker 1: great to have you back. Hello, little guppy boy, Fishy Fishy,
Speaker 1: we should we should get a picture together before you
Speaker 1: leave so I can tweet it out. We should, Fishy
Speaker 1: boys from Florida. Go Frog and Toad over the motion
Speaker 1: to go play some meat and orchestra stalls with the
Speaker 1: Kitty Boys from Florida. Wow. I can barely understand that,
Speaker 1: but Brian gave me a quick lesson on how to
Speaker 1: understand what you're saying. You're Cockney to English translation. Yes,
Speaker 1: and that just means the Dolphins and the Jags are
Speaker 1: gonna play football in London this Sunday. All of those words,
Speaker 1: all right, all right? Ta has been bony and trap
Speaker 1: and Mickey bliss since the rubber dub for the Sweeney
Speaker 1: Todd Wow, TA hasn't been very good. He's only had
Speaker 1: multiple scores in one of his last seven games where
Speaker 1: he played the complete game. I think that something like that,
Speaker 1: you know your voice inflection had a lot of questions
Speaker 1: in there that I did not hear from Colin. Well,
Speaker 1: Bryant is the expert. He he gave me a quick
Speaker 1: trading course. I've tried to understand the word why Oh's
Speaker 1: Jags have been roast park in a raspberry tart right
Speaker 1: up the sausage roll, rub a dub three and a
Speaker 1: few mince pies. See I think mince pies are Yeah,
Speaker 1: scores happen, so yeah, yeah, So this week he gets
Speaker 1: the Jags team that's allowed three hundred yards and or
Speaker 1: multiple scores to four the last five qbs they faced.
Speaker 1: He's giving to a C grade. It sounds like boy
Speaker 1: Davante Grassy park Boy, he won't loop the loop, not
Speaker 1: get the jam Jar Waddle, Waddle, twot and Toddle gets
Speaker 1: an Irish pig, while he'll kick in prance. Okay, So
Speaker 1: this is getting harder and harder to read figure out.
Speaker 1: Davonte Parker is out this week, so while Jail and
Speaker 1: Waddle has had around seven targets per game. Uh, he
Speaker 1: faces a Jags defense that's allowing two yards per game
Speaker 1: to wide receivers, although only two scores to wide receivers.
Speaker 1: So he's giving Waddle a B grade. Lady Godiva Big
Speaker 1: and Quickie Gasicky will hap an inch. He's schuffed because
Speaker 1: Twa gave him for duke of cants on an elephant's trunk.
Speaker 1: Now that's definitely touchdowns. Micasecky gets a C grade. He
Speaker 1: caught four touchdown passes from two in the last five
Speaker 1: weeks of the season last year, and the Jags have
Speaker 1: allowed four touchdowns to the position already this season. Miles
Speaker 1: Gaskin grade duck and dived do he Hank Marvin for
Speaker 1: a tuddy and dick cows and kisses. Jags gave a
Speaker 1: Dicky dot to the chalk farm. See, I understood that perfectly.
Speaker 1: I'm watched. He gave Myles Gaskin in a grade. Gaskin
Speaker 1: hasn't scored on the ground this year, but the Jags
Speaker 1: have allowed the most rushing touchdowns to the running back position,
Speaker 1: with eight already this year. They're also allowing almost a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four total yards per game to opposing runners,
Speaker 1: and Gaskin had his most snaps of the year last
Speaker 1: week with a nice sixty share. Oh, Danny Boy and
Speaker 1: Trevy two legs where Harrison's whistle and flute with a
Speaker 1: side of wonga, he said. He said Dan Arnold and
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence were Matt's take a chance, Yeah, take a
Speaker 1: chance on me Tossi tosser and catchy catcher. Lo Visca
Speaker 1: gets a syrup of figs and Ian Marvin gets a skyrocket.
Speaker 1: No trouble and strife with Tommy Tinder Ziah get a
Speaker 1: Sherbet dab on Xavian Howard on those tables and chairs, Well,
Speaker 1: it sounded like he gave Chinault and Jones two different things,
Speaker 1: but they both mean B grades. Believe it. And the
Speaker 1: Dolphins were already one of the worst teams in the
Speaker 1: league against wide receivers, allowing two hundred and six receiving
Speaker 1: yards and a score and a half to the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position. Plus they're missing Zavian Howard this week. No
Speaker 1: one's watching the custard. A fat geezer turns Liza over
Speaker 1: but walks ride past the jam Roles. I don't know
Speaker 1: what that means. That didn't make sense, so I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna give James Robinson, Okay, the Dolphins. The Dolphins red
Speaker 1: defense is allowing to odd average a hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: yards and one point six touchdowns of the running back position,
Speaker 1: and almost all of that goes to James Robinson. I'm
Speaker 1: gone down with the battle cruise that with Roger's rusted ions,
Speaker 1: Scooby Doo, Chacian and Guppy Boy. Scooby do. Nicely done, Colin,
Speaker 1: nicely done. Thank you, Colin. That was great. Send send
Speaker 1: Harrison back in. I looked put a mince what's in
Speaker 1: a mince pie? By the way, it turns out, if
Speaker 1: mince pie has got mutton, suet, fruit and spices um
Speaker 1: all past thanks. I think he meant it. I think
Speaker 1: Colin said that like it's a good thing. Wasn't that too?
Speaker 1: Like two touchdowns? Was two mutton pies? Pie? What the
Speaker 1: heck happened in here? I wish we had four microphones
Speaker 1: in the student You know, we really need we need
Speaker 1: feel like to go in here, cuppy boy boy. When
Speaker 1: we come back Premature Speculation, we'll tell you three players
Speaker 1: you can pick up now that other people will be
Speaker 1: trying to pick up next week. Find out who they are.
Speaker 1: When we returned to Fantasy Football Weekly, final segment of
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchi and Matt Harrison and Scott
Speaker 1: Fish with you. This is a segment we call premature Speculation.
Speaker 1: We're gonna jump you into our next week time machine
Speaker 1: and tell you who to pick up this week that
Speaker 1: other people will be trying to pick up next week. Scott,
Speaker 1: you want to go first? Sure? Why not? I'm going
Speaker 1: with the guy I had is my number two wide
Speaker 1: receiver coming out of college behind to Marrow, Chase Bateman.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, go get him. He's coming back this week.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be working his way back into the offense.
Speaker 1: But as I mentioned earlier in the show. It's an
Speaker 1: offense that's getting three plus passing yards a game. They
Speaker 1: need another pass catcher. He's gonna easily take the place
Speaker 1: of der Verna and James Proche and guys like that
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins even before the injury. Uh. The opposite spawned
Speaker 1: spot versus Brown up opposite side of Brown is wide open.
Speaker 1: It's all him, four plus matchups coming up to Alright, Matt,
Speaker 1: your premature speculation player is I talked about him a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier. It's justin fields. I gave him a
Speaker 1: so so starting grade. Uh. He might not do as
Speaker 1: much as we want this week, but next week he
Speaker 1: gets the Buccaneers and it's the bipocalypse. Josh Allen, dak Air,
Speaker 1: Bear Kirk, Trevor Lawrence all on by next week, including
Speaker 1: Ben roethlisbergers too. But you know whatever, the Bucks have
Speaker 1: given up a good fantasy day to every quarterback they faced.
Speaker 1: Even Mac Jones and Jacoby Brissette each went for two
Speaker 1: seventy five and two scores. So Jalen Hurts just scored
Speaker 1: twice on the ground to show teams that you can
Speaker 1: score against the Bucks on the ground. Just now with
Speaker 1: a running back, so justin fields, he's an interesting play
Speaker 1: for next week. I'm gonna give you four reasons to
Speaker 1: roster Marlon Mack, Indianapolis running back. He might get traded
Speaker 1: into a better situation. He's looked good in limited action
Speaker 1: this year, including last week when he turned five carries
Speaker 1: into forty seven yards. If anything happens to Jonathan Taylor,
Speaker 1: Mac would vault into top fifteen running back territory and
Speaker 1: Indy has the easiest run schedule for the rest of
Speaker 1: the year. You can dart throw Marlon Mack in tricky
Speaker 1: bye weeks. You know, whatever you need, if you if
Speaker 1: if you're in a spot, He's a plausible starter in weeks,
Speaker 1: kind of like this one right here where we talked
Speaker 1: about him as a possible potential starter. Doesn't get it.
Speaker 1: Only getting five touches of game is not not ideal.
Speaker 1: But you know, in a pinch, you could do that.
Speaker 1: My runner up, by the way, and maybe I'll use
Speaker 1: this guy again next week. Nico Collins. Just keep an
Speaker 1: eyeing him. He's coming back for Houston and that used
Speaker 1: him like week one or whatever. I think Brandon could
Speaker 1: get traded that did not happen, but still possible Chris Conley,
Speaker 1: and you know weently on the show, but Chris Conley
Speaker 1: is not the future wide receiver for Houston, so they're
Speaker 1: gonna get Nico Collins into the game. A note on
Speaker 1: your market. Marlon Mack coming back from the Achilles ending
Speaker 1: Joku had a huge week last week, came back from
Speaker 1: the Achilles. How do we feel about makers? I know it's,
Speaker 1: you know what, a little better. Nobody's ever really come
Speaker 1: back from anis No running back has come back from
Speaker 1: an Achilles to have a meaningful rushing career. But maybe
Speaker 1: medical science has just gotten to the point where, you know,
Speaker 1: we can do it now. I don't know. We'll watch
Speaker 1: Marlon Mack to find out. Seahawks take on the Steelers.
Speaker 1: Lots of starters in this game. Let's talk through this
Speaker 1: beginning with the Geno Smith part of it, because that's,
Speaker 1: you know, everything kind of hinges on Smith. So we
Speaker 1: haven't seen Geno Smith for seven years really in any
Speaker 1: meaningful capacity. Now we're going to get him for a
Speaker 1: month of starts. We saw him for about a third
Speaker 1: of a game last week, and he looked pretty good
Speaker 1: for most of that game until he threw the game,
Speaker 1: losing interception. Now, in fairness, on that play, tire Lackett
Speaker 1: fell down, so maybe it wouldn't have been an interception.
Speaker 1: But that's been what Geno Smith has been all about,
Speaker 1: is the turnover. What I can tell you for sure
Speaker 1: is Geno Smith eight throwing the beautiful pinpoint rainbow bombs
Speaker 1: that Russell Wilson throws. That is not in the arsenal
Speaker 1: for Geno Smith. So I expect fewer passes, fewer deep
Speaker 1: passes here. Steelers past defense has allowed multiple touchdowns in
Speaker 1: every game since the opener, and I think Gino gets one,
Speaker 1: maybe two touchdowns here. But there's still risk with Geno
Speaker 1: Smith being Geno Smith. Hey, let Gino cook. Come on,
Speaker 1: let Gino cook. So let's talk through some of his
Speaker 1: targets now. DK Metcalf's got a food injury watch that
Speaker 1: we expect him to start when running from his most
Speaker 1: common spot, the left side of the field. Metcalf's got
Speaker 1: a favorable matchup against sophomore corner James Pierre, who doesn't
Speaker 1: have the speed to hang with Metcalf and has given
Speaker 1: up a touchdown in both of his two starts this season.
Speaker 1: Metcalf's found the end zone in each of the past
Speaker 1: three games and he's averaging nine yards in those three games.
Speaker 1: That's great that you just pointed at me, and I
Speaker 1: knew you'd be I couldn't help it. Laugh my way.
Speaker 1: My life is fluent in friends, so whenever I do
Speaker 1: in the French accent, it's it's about that be great
Speaker 1: on DK metcalf see great and Tyler Lockett because he
Speaker 1: needs those deep passes to fill his box score. And
Speaker 1: I worry that Gino Smith just isn't going to be
Speaker 1: sending those bombs his way, So still considered sitting him
Speaker 1: startable here. He's gonna line up most often against Joe Hayden,
Speaker 1: who is allowing of the passes in his coverage to
Speaker 1: be completed. So it's still was starting grade unlock it.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna show some caution here. Gerald Everett returned
Speaker 1: from the COVID list. But the Steelers have been one
Speaker 1: of the best tight end defenses in the leagues that
Speaker 1: are gonna pass on him. Let's go to the running game.
Speaker 1: It's Alex Collins as the starter on in this Monday
Speaker 1: night game. Um, they've ruled out Chris Carson. You Um,
Speaker 1: the Steelers have been a ferocious run defense. Though they
Speaker 1: haven't allowed of running back touchdown, and they're giving up
Speaker 1: just eighties six rushing yards and thirty eight receiving yards
Speaker 1: per game to the position. Now, if you have that
Speaker 1: together there, you know there's a hundred fourteen yards, so
Speaker 1: you know we wouldn't mind. Actually tomorrow, that's a hundred
Speaker 1: thirty three yards. I think if we can get all
Speaker 1: of that to Alex Collins, that would be that would
Speaker 1: be a good game, and we would take that. But
Speaker 1: Alex Collins, frankly, isn't that good, so I've only got
Speaker 1: the C grade on him. Opposing runners averaging in the
Speaker 1: middle of the road four point three yards per carry.
Speaker 1: We're hoping for a short touchdown for Alex Collins. Let's
Speaker 1: go over to Pittsburgh, no Juju Smith Schuster, and what
Speaker 1: we have learned is when you take one of the
Speaker 1: key receivers off of the field, the other guys get
Speaker 1: fed big time in targets. And I'm expecting that to
Speaker 1: be the case here, especially for Deonte Johnson. He's already
Speaker 1: a target hog, and now he gets tons more volume
Speaker 1: with Smith Schuster out. Seattle's defense is eighth worst in
Speaker 1: coverage per Pro Football Focus, bottom ten and every meaning
Speaker 1: meaningful statistical category against the past. And the funny thing
Speaker 1: is they cut Trey Flowers last week their cornerback, starting cornerback.
Speaker 1: They replaced him two ago with Sidney Jones. Sidney Jones
Speaker 1: is two starts at cornerback, has yielded a perfect passer
Speaker 1: rating in his coverage. They just don't have anybody to cover.
Speaker 1: So I love Deante Johnson in this game, and I've
Speaker 1: got an A grade on him. I've got a a
Speaker 1: grade on Chase Claypool as well. He has got a
Speaker 1: play of twenty or more yards in three of his
Speaker 1: four games that he has played, and next Gen stats
Speaker 1: his Claypool ranked sixth among receivers in yards after catch
Speaker 1: per reception at seven point eight and fifth in yards
Speaker 1: per catch over expectation. He's a big time playmaker and
Speaker 1: this is a Seattle defense that can't stop anybody, and
Speaker 1: he's got positive matchups all over the field. I was
Speaker 1: just gonna say, Deante Johnson has ten plus targets in
Speaker 1: twelve of his last fourteen games. That's that's a lot
Speaker 1: of target is now. Some of them are coming from
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberg, and those targets are one hoppers his direction,
Speaker 1: but still um Claypools, by the way, six ft four.
Speaker 1: No Seattle cornerbacks taller than five eleven, So it's I
Speaker 1: love Claypool here too. So if I like those two guys,
Speaker 1: obviously I like Ben. And you know what you're getting
Speaker 1: with Ben. He's been very inconsistent, but he's coming off
Speaker 1: his best game of the year last week, and now
Speaker 1: he gets this terrible secondary that I've already outlined for you.
Speaker 1: Four straight teams have thrown for three hundred twenty two
Speaker 1: yards or move against Seattle. A B grade for Ben
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger and for those looking for a deep sleeper, Ray
Speaker 1: Ray McLeod yep, Ray Ray McCloud. He will go into
Speaker 1: the slot. Not teams Washington might. Washington doesn't play outside.
Speaker 1: McLeod will face one of the most burnable slot cornerbacks
Speaker 1: in the league, Ugo Amati converted safety. Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: ranks Ugo Amati at cornerback one D ten. Never thought
Speaker 1: I'd see a day where Cloud versus Ugo. This is
Speaker 1: it sounds like a video game um or some kind
Speaker 1: of a dance move. I got a little Ray Ray
Speaker 1: McCloud in me today. This is Ray Ray McCloud C
Speaker 1: grade take that. Yes, that's taking a chance right there.
Speaker 1: Last guy in this matchup is Naji Harris. Despite his
Speaker 1: snapshare decreasing in three straight weeks, he's still seeing tons
Speaker 1: of rushing attempts, yards and in his yards per carving
Speaker 1: increase in every game, and even against a very good
Speaker 1: Denver defense last week. A lot of success coming this
Speaker 1: week against the Seattle team allowing the second most rushing
Speaker 1: yards and receiving yards to opposing running backs. Hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety total yards per game they're giving to opposing running
Speaker 1: backs and Harris gets virtually all of that. A grade
Speaker 1: for Naji Harris and my highest grade of the week
Speaker 1: of his career and fantasy A. Fonzie is coming next
Speaker 1: and when we talk about the Bills taking on the Titans, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm injecting him into I'm injecting Fonzie into your matchup? Alright?
Speaker 1: Do you just want to do it for me? Is
Speaker 1: that that's all right? All right? I have started with
Speaker 1: the passing game on the Bill side. Josh Allen, Stefan Daggs,
Speaker 1: you just get throw these in, okay? Yes, I have
Speaker 1: eight grades on both of them. Dude, uh I think
Speaker 1: it's pretty obvious. It's a it's a game where the
Speaker 1: over under his fifty four points. The Diggs is game
Speaker 1: ten targets a game, Josh Allen scoring three touchdowns a
Speaker 1: game if you can buy in the pass and rush. Uh,
Speaker 1: So they have eight grades. We'll go over to Emmanuel Sanders,
Speaker 1: who's actually wide receiver twenty on the year, where Stefon
Speaker 1: Diggs is wide receiver twenty five. Crazy enough, Emmanuel Sanders
Speaker 1: outscoring Stefon Diggs. But that's what four touchdowns will do
Speaker 1: on the lower volume. He has topped to forty eight
Speaker 1: yards in every single game, and he's averaging six targets
Speaker 1: per game. It's okay production going up against the Titans
Speaker 1: team they're allowing the most yards to receivers, eighth most
Speaker 1: receptions and fifth most touchdowns. We're five weeks in and
Speaker 1: they've allowed twelve different receivers to top fifty yards. So
Speaker 1: I think that's that's like the minimum game in five games.
Speaker 1: So I have a B grade on Sanders, but you
Speaker 1: could probably talk me into that A. But it's not
Speaker 1: quite the Fonzi A. It's a B grade special. He
Speaker 1: needs the touchdowns he's gotten him A couple of times,
Speaker 1: but he needs the touchdowns to get that A grade.
Speaker 1: Over to Dawson Knox. Five touchdowns four games. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: racking up, and we need Dawson Knox. Yes, we need
Speaker 1: on the butt bar. We have a table man. We
Speaker 1: don't need the button bar. We could just keep doing that.
Speaker 1: I guess we will manually do that one. Uh, I
Speaker 1: have a B grade on Knox. Uh, you can convince
Speaker 1: me to an A here as well. He's becoming a problem.
Speaker 1: He had four red zone targets last week alone. Um,
Speaker 1: I barely want to give him a see but uh,
Speaker 1: he's he's just not quite gained quite enough work, not
Speaker 1: quite enough targets. If the targets ramp up, then he's
Speaker 1: going to be a consistent A grade, but B grade
Speaker 1: right now. Over to the running backs, Moss B grade
Speaker 1: snaps have been increased every week. Over se Singletary is
Speaker 1: on the bench because it's all Moss now. On the
Speaker 1: other side, I'm benching Tan Hill, Henry's and obvious A
Speaker 1: Julio Jones and A. J. Brown are both gonna play.
Speaker 1: I'm giving them both C grades on the I know
Speaker 1: that you're awesome after the catch, and if you get
Speaker 1: a little bit of volume. You'll be playing from behind.
Speaker 1: You should do something C grade. That's the problem. They
Speaker 1: only get the C grade because they should get just
Speaker 1: enough work and they do so much after the catch
Speaker 1: and Derrick Henry obvious A grade every week, regardless of
Speaker 1: a week you did. I was just reiterating for our listeners.
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