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Speaker 1: Host, Paul charge It's Fantasy Football Weekly, week number eight.
Speaker 1: Paul Chargey with you. My co host today are Matt
Speaker 1: Harrison and Scott Fish. Hey, guys, I like this. Did
Speaker 1: you survive the be Jean drought? Oh, the tummy illness?
Speaker 1: It was a headache, the headache, sorry, the headache, headache?
Speaker 1: Did you survive the headache?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And my Guillotine League, Actually.
Speaker 1: It was pretty It's oppressive that he was the most
Speaker 1: chopped player last week. Without a doubt.
Speaker 4: I would tell you if I survived if I had
Speaker 4: him in any roster.
Speaker 1: Fortunately, you're like, Okay, we get plenty of things wrong here,
Speaker 1: but this show identified successfully that Bijeon was going to
Speaker 1: get in this Arthur Smith quagmire of usage. Now, we
Speaker 1: didn't think he'd have a no carry game, but we
Speaker 1: talked about this thing being way more frustrating than we thought,
Speaker 1: and that Bijeon with a first round EIGHTYP.
Speaker 4: I love how arrogant and condescending Arthur Smith is about
Speaker 4: having four wins against teams that have a combined eight wins.
Speaker 1: Total exactly, and then he's you know, then he took
Speaker 1: a shot at fantasy players.
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's game on against Arthur Smith, as if it
Speaker 1: wasn't before. Lots to get to in this show. We
Speaker 1: will take a chance on nine players. We'll answer three
Speaker 1: tough questions. We'll give you three players upon whom you
Speaker 1: can speculate, including a player that is so universally desired
Speaker 1: that Scott Fish and I had the leg wrestle for
Speaker 1: the rights to tell you who to pick up.
Speaker 3: It was awkward that you guys took your pants off first.
Speaker 4: We did take our pets off. We watched film of
Speaker 4: him and our pants flew off.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly. Really weird Becausecott doesn't wear.
Speaker 3: It was it was strange to walk in.
Speaker 1: On Rams take on the Cowboys. Let's start by breaking
Speaker 1: down that matchup Scott Fish for uh, this is obviously
Speaker 1: a great Cowboy defense, particularly against the pass. Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup.
Speaker 4: Right, what do you think those are all players for
Speaker 4: the Rams?
Speaker 1: Yes, I've listed.
Speaker 4: For the Rams. No one's benching Cup or Pooka. Even
Speaker 4: in a dud, Cup still had seven targets, and seven
Speaker 4: is his lowest target day for the year for both
Speaker 4: Cup and Pooka. Actually, dallas top three rank is mostly
Speaker 4: due to only allowing three touchdowns to wide receivers, but
Speaker 4: two of those were to eight plus target guys. That's
Speaker 4: what Cup and Pooka routinely do. That's right, eighty three
Speaker 4: in a score, eighty five in a score for those
Speaker 4: two guys. Uh Pooka and Cup Pooka will likely get
Speaker 4: the tougher dB draw. Maybe Stephan Gilmour there, but you
Speaker 4: aren't benching either to two scored last week. He's on
Speaker 4: the bench though not enough volume since Cup came back. Yeah,
Speaker 4: same for Higbee. He hasn't top twenty yards since Cup
Speaker 4: came back. A's on Cupp and Pooke if he didn't
Speaker 4: get that now. Stafford has the tough draw on paper,
Speaker 4: but Dallas's DF really feasted on Danny Jones, Mac Jones,
Speaker 4: Zach Wilson, Josh Dobbs. The last two games they played,
Speaker 4: Party had two fifty two and four scores. Herbert had
Speaker 4: two hundred and forty seven and two scores. Stafford's a
Speaker 4: little closer to them, and he's top four in pass
Speaker 4: attempts and yards. Touchdowns are eventually gonna come. That's just
Speaker 4: the bugaboo so far. B grade on Matthew Stafford in
Speaker 4: a pretty tough matchup though. Over to the run game,
Speaker 4: Henderson took on the bellcow roll last week off the couch.
Speaker 1: I thought he looked pretty sprung.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all a CJ. Anderson a few years ago, remember.
Speaker 1: The end of the season, and I was such a skeptic.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, no way, he's not kidding.
Speaker 4: He knows the offense. I guess right, fifty eight percent
Speaker 4: of snaps to forty two percent for Freeman, and Henderson
Speaker 4: took the targets, he took the goal line work. The
Speaker 4: money should be on Henderson, but you never know what
Speaker 4: this team. Maybe Zach Evans gets involved this time. You
Speaker 4: never models Gaskin is still on the team. Apparently my
Speaker 4: bet would be on Henderson, but I actually have them
Speaker 4: both on the bench. Against this Cowboys defense that haven't
Speaker 4: allowed a back over sixty three yards and the two
Speaker 4: times and the two times it happened, I'm sorry, the
Speaker 4: Cowboys haven't allowed to back over sixty three yards to
Speaker 4: any back with less than double digit touches. Touches, yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 4: They even held Eckler to sixty two yards last week.
Speaker 4: The Boys are touchdown favorites, so I guess the Rams
Speaker 4: are going to be passing a lot late instead of running.
Speaker 4: So I got them both on the bench. I don't
Speaker 4: trust him this week. Over to the Dallas side, the
Speaker 4: Rams kind of a weird d for opposing quarterbacks. They've
Speaker 4: only allowed four passing touchdowns, which but they're ranked the
Speaker 4: twelfth easiest Why bottom three in attempts, yards and scores
Speaker 4: on the ground to quarterbacks. That's where they let it up.
Speaker 4: In the passing game. It's two hundred and twenty yards
Speaker 4: in a score of posing passers deak Ken run. He
Speaker 4: had seven for forty seven in a score just last week.
Speaker 4: I'm only gonna give him a see though it's a
Speaker 4: little tougher drop passing. You need some of that rushing yards. Ceedee,
Speaker 4: Lamb isn't going to be on your bench averaging six
Speaker 4: for eighty weekly. The Rams only have allowed one wide
Speaker 4: receiver touchdown way back in Week one, but Lamb plays
Speaker 4: sixty eight percent in the slot. That's where he's gonna
Speaker 4: get Kobe Durant, whom Lamb has a three inch thirty
Speaker 4: pounds size advantage on. I'm giving an A grade to
Speaker 4: Ceedee Lamb in this one on one other mass matchup
Speaker 4: in the past game, it's a juicy spot for Jake Ferguson.
Speaker 4: Second best matchup for tight ends by DVOA. Three of
Speaker 4: the last four tight ends have scored. I'm giving a
Speaker 4: C grade to Ferguson here. His yards really haven't been there,
Speaker 4: but RAMS have allowed the fifth most yards to tight ends,
Speaker 4: so it might happen this week. Over to the run
Speaker 4: game last part here, rams have only allowed one back
Speaker 4: over seventy rushing yards, but two hit seventy on the dot.
Speaker 4: All three of those backs needed seventeen touches to get there.
Speaker 4: That said, the Rams are bottoms six and receptions given
Speaker 4: allowed to running backs receiving yards, receiving Fantasy points. Pollard
Speaker 4: gets involved in the passing game, he gets twenty plus touches.
Speaker 4: The New England and San Francisco matchups were tougher and
Speaker 4: that's where he faltered. But Theada he went right back
Speaker 4: to the one hundred and ten total yards last week.
Speaker 4: I got a B grade on Tony Pollard.
Speaker 1: Pollard's had a quietly disappointing year.
Speaker 4: It's really he's been He's been one hundred and or
Speaker 4: a score in four of six. It's just really those
Speaker 4: he's not having that boom boom game. It's just slightly
Speaker 4: over one hundred.
Speaker 1: For four of them a touchdown since week one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a problem.
Speaker 1: That's a huge problem.
Speaker 4: And two of the last three weeks were those two
Speaker 4: tough matchups.
Speaker 1: Yes, and you know his rushing yards the last three
Speaker 1: weeks Tony Pollard forty seven, twenty nine and thirty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's the password.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it needs he needs the passwork, which you know sometimes.
Speaker 4: A good matchup here for it. That's the point, all right, Matt.
Speaker 1: We mentioned the Falcons, and I probably should have just
Speaker 1: started this whole thing. So, yeah, talking about or Smith anyway,
Speaker 1: So let's go to the Falcon here in theory Bejon
Speaker 1: Robinson's headache will have cleared by the time they face
Speaker 1: the Titans. But this is a very good run defense.
Speaker 3: Yeah it is.
Speaker 5: But as a whole I wanted to talk about the
Speaker 5: Falcons offense. Overall, they've topped sixteen points only once in
Speaker 5: the last five weeks. Wow, most of that's due to
Speaker 5: Desmond Mitter. He's like a young NFC version of current
Speaker 5: Russell Wilson. He doesn't pass the eye test, but he's
Speaker 5: still putting up decent fantasy days. It's mostly due to
Speaker 5: his three rushing touchdowns this season, including two in the
Speaker 5: last three weeks, but through seven full games he has
Speaker 5: six touchdown passes and six picks and yardage numbers that
Speaker 5: very wildly. The Titans defense shockingly competent against the pass
Speaker 5: this year, allowing the fourth fewest touchdown passes only six
Speaker 5: on the season in the fifth fewest total passing attempts
Speaker 5: per game. With all that info, Ritters on the bench,
Speaker 5: I will start Drake London with him B grade, though
Speaker 5: mostly because he'll line up against Christian Fulton for about
Speaker 5: half his snaps. Fulton is allowing a one to thirty
Speaker 5: three passer rating in his coverage and sixteen point five
Speaker 5: four yards per reception. If you're like Brian Johnson and
Speaker 5: you say Kyle Pitts is a slot receiver, the matchup
Speaker 5: could be a bit juicy for him from the slot.
Speaker 5: Titan slot corner Roger McCreery miss Thursday's practice with a
Speaker 5: hamstring injury, which could mean charge's favorite kindallvilldor may flex
Speaker 5: into the slot.
Speaker 1: Jihnon realized he was.
Speaker 4: In the league.
Speaker 1: Still still right, what's what's the book on kild killed?
Speaker 4: Or it's just a you've just pushed it together?
Speaker 1: Did dog?
Speaker 3: Got it?
Speaker 1: I stepped on my own punchline when I do that.
Speaker 5: It's just a C grade for Pitts though, And I'm
Speaker 5: not starting John OU Smith because the Titans are top
Speaker 5: ten receptions yards allowed to the tight end and they
Speaker 5: have not allowed a tight end score on this.
Speaker 1: Why would you give the worse of the two. Why
Speaker 1: would you give John oh Smith the bench grade and
Speaker 1: Pits the C grade when John O. Smith is outscored
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts.
Speaker 5: Oh Because, according to Brian, Kyle Pitts is a slot
Speaker 5: wide receiver and the slot matchups a little bit better
Speaker 5: than the tight end matchup in this one, though, it
Speaker 5: is worth noting the John O.
Speaker 3: Smith revenge game here.
Speaker 1: So it is a Johona Smith revenge game here it is,
Speaker 1: And I'll mention this Brian's not here. We get enough
Speaker 1: of Brian when he is here, That's true. We don't
Speaker 1: need more Brian when he's not.
Speaker 5: Less Brian, less Brian. How about a different Bee guy.
Speaker 5: Bijon Robinson was almost absent from last week's game with
Speaker 5: what was later described as a headache. He had one carry,
Speaker 5: Tyler Algier ended up with twenty four touches, and court
Speaker 5: Errol Patterson had ten rushing attempts. Tennessee has only allowed
Speaker 5: one runner to top sixty seven yards this year, and
Speaker 5: they've only allowed four total running back touchdowns through six games.
Speaker 5: It's just a C grade for Bijon, but I expect
Speaker 5: him to take over the workload again. On the Titan side,
Speaker 5: will Levis looks like he's going to get his first
Speaker 5: start ever for an injured Ryan Tannehill, but Mike Vrabel
Speaker 5: also said that Malik Willis will get some snaps too,
Speaker 5: So it's a rare and dreaded quarterback by committee. You
Speaker 5: certainly can't start either of them. The running backs by
Speaker 5: committee there are Derrick Henry and ty j Spears. Henry
Speaker 5: are getting very similar snap counts this season, but Henry's
Speaker 5: getting the ball a lot more than Spears and Spears
Speaker 5: is seeing a lot more work in the passing downs.
Speaker 5: Atlanta has been one of the best running back defenses
Speaker 5: in the league. They have yet to allow a rushing
Speaker 5: scorer to an opposing back and are only allowing one
Speaker 5: hundred and one combo yards per game.
Speaker 3: That's tenth best in the league.
Speaker 5: They've also allowed the fifth fewest receptions to opposing backs
Speaker 5: at only three per game. So with that baked in,
Speaker 5: Spears is on the bench. Henry clocks in with Justice
Speaker 5: C Grade. Lastly, DeAndre Hopkins is the only Titans receiver
Speaker 5: you'd consider. I'll leave him on the bench too. He
Speaker 5: hasn't scored this year. He's only topped sixty five yards once.
Speaker 5: And Atlanta's combo of Jeff Okuda and aj Terrell have
Speaker 5: done a great job shutting down opposing wide receivers. They've
Speaker 5: allowed the ninth fewest receptions in eighth fewest yurs to
Speaker 5: opposing wide receivers. Plus your reliant on two backup quarterbacks
Speaker 5: throwing DeAndre Hopkins the ball, He's definitely on the bench.
Speaker 1: Vikings take on the Packers. This could be a big
Speaker 1: letdown game for Minnesota, coming off in emotional upset win
Speaker 1: on Monday Night football, in a short week on the
Speaker 1: road against a divisional rival in a must win game,
Speaker 1: coming off a humiliating loss. How's that like? That's like
Speaker 1: seven variables and tangibles that I'll could tilt towards the Packers.
Speaker 1: Let's start on the Viking side, TJ. Hawkinson. I think
Speaker 1: We've got to a point with t J. Howkins where I can
Speaker 1: just go obvious a great and move on, especially because
Speaker 1: they're no bye week games this week, so we're trying
Speaker 1: to go quickly through these. Let's go to the other receivers.
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison obviously red hot, with four touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: past three games and scores in five of seven to
Speaker 1: start his NFL career. Green Bay allows the third fewest
Speaker 1: receptions and the fifth fewest yards per game to opposing
Speaker 1: wide receivers, but this is a banged up secondary. We'll
Speaker 1: get to that more in a second. Green Bay also
Speaker 1: allows the shortest a dot in the league at just
Speaker 1: six yards per pass and the fifth fewest air yards
Speaker 1: per game, and a lot of what Jordan Addison does
Speaker 1: is feast on the long ball. If they're able to
Speaker 1: take that away, it could Steiny Addison here. We'll want
Speaker 1: to watch the status of Jaiir Alexander, the cornerback for
Speaker 1: the Packers. He's been battling a back injury he's been
Speaker 1: in and out of practices. If he can't go, we'll
Speaker 1: elevate Jordan Addison to an A. But right now, I've
Speaker 1: got a B grade on Jordan Addison. Everybody else I've
Speaker 1: got a bench grade on, including kJ Osborne, who's only
Speaker 1: seen a slight uptick in usage since Justin Jefferson's injury.
Speaker 1: In three games, he's averaging just five catches forty eight
Speaker 1: scoreless yards. That's just not a lot to love here.
Speaker 1: This is an above average secondary head coach. Kevin O'Connell
Speaker 1: just doesn't seem to script the big plays to kJ Osborne.
Speaker 1: I think he's only startable and easy matchups, and this
Speaker 1: is not one of them. So I've got him on
Speaker 1: the bench. The running game for the Vikings is really interesting.
Speaker 1: Right now, you can't I don't believe you can start
Speaker 1: Alexander Madison. There's a very possible transition happening at running back,
Speaker 1: and at a minimum, Madison has an extremely short leash.
Speaker 1: In the second half of the Monday night game, Madison
Speaker 1: only touched the ball three times. Seem to get phased
Speaker 1: out of this offense. He's struggled all year. He has
Speaker 1: no rushing touchdowns. Get this from Madison thirteen red zone
Speaker 1: carries ten yards no touchdowns.
Speaker 5: Wow for Alexander match. Just in the red zone too.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of yards you can pick up in
Speaker 5: the red zone.
Speaker 1: Still, yes you can, and touchdowns in theory to be scored.
Speaker 1: Madison has struggled, and so I'm just I'm taking a
Speaker 1: hands off approach here because I'm worried that cam Akers
Speaker 1: is going to get a lot of that work and
Speaker 1: I don't think you can start either one of those.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Green Bay side. Aaron Jones was
Speaker 1: removed from the injury port on Friday. That's great news.
Speaker 1: The rest of it's probably bad news. But man, do
Speaker 1: they need Aaron Jones in this offense. So let's talk
Speaker 1: it through. Packers' offensive line ranks twenty fifth and run
Speaker 1: blocking by Pro Football Focus. They ranked twenty ninth in
Speaker 1: run block win rate by ESPN. Now, Jones is way
Speaker 1: better than AJ Dillon and their whole season's basically on
Speaker 1: the line in this game. So I think the I
Speaker 1: think we're finally going to get a massive uptick in
Speaker 1: usage because they're desperate. They've got to get Jones back
Speaker 1: and playing. They need him here. I can't back it
Speaker 1: up with I can't back it up with any stats.
Speaker 1: This is really just a hunch that I think they've
Speaker 1: got to go to Jones. But with this offense struggling
Speaker 1: and Jordan Love being so inconsistent, they need a big
Speaker 1: game from Aaron Jones. He faces a very improved Vikings
Speaker 1: run defense non DeAndre Swift. Runners are averaging three yards
Speaker 1: per carry and a third of a rushing touchdown per game.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the passing game. I still
Speaker 1: like Romeo Dobbs. He has posted solid fantasy outings in
Speaker 1: four of six games, and he's the only reliable Packers receiver,
Speaker 1: leading the team in every receiving category. He runs from
Speaker 1: the outside. He's got favorable matchups against the Caleb Evans
Speaker 1: and Byron Murphy. Murphy especially, who's allowed a league worst
Speaker 1: for receiving touchdowns, including one on Monday Night, and a
Speaker 1: gaudy opposing passer rating of one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: in his coverage B grade. For Romeo Dobbs, let's go
Speaker 1: to Christian Watson, who clocks into the C grade. Minnesota's
Speaker 1: of the second most receptions per game to opposing wide receivers,
Speaker 1: and that's what you need from Watson. We need more
Speaker 1: catches because he hasn't been a volume guy, but maybe
Speaker 1: it comes together here. He's got five or more passes
Speaker 1: just twice in seventeen career games, but he's got the
Speaker 1: third highest A DOT of any wide receiver at sixteen
Speaker 1: and a half in Minnesota, allowing the third lowest day
Speaker 1: dot at six and a half Minnesota Blitz con Blitz
Speaker 1: is constantly Maybe Watson gets a broken coverage opportunity on
Speaker 1: C grade for Christian Watson. Luke Musgrave is not expected
Speaker 1: to play in this game. That leaves us with a
Speaker 1: C grade on Jordan Love, who's been very inconsistent, and
Speaker 1: the Vikings defense rounding and to form under new defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Brian Flores. The last four opposing quarterbacks against Minnesota,
Speaker 1: they've averaged just two hundred and twenty five yards and
Speaker 1: zero point eight touchdowns. Love seems to be unraveling seven
Speaker 1: picks in his last four games. He started the season
Speaker 1: with a deep A dot. He was throwing deep down field,
Speaker 1: but Matt Lafleur systematically shortened his passes to try to
Speaker 1: build some confidence in his struggling passer. But that shortened
Speaker 1: day out hurts fantasy We're here for the big players.
Speaker 1: We're here for the rushing that keeps them a viable
Speaker 1: fantasy starter, or the rushing I mean maybe and get
Speaker 1: a little something done on the ground if I can's
Speaker 1: seen a lot of rushing quarterbacks who mostly haven't done
Speaker 1: very well outside of tush pushes. Jordan Love just a
Speaker 1: C grade. When we come back, nine players upon whom
Speaker 1: you can take a chance a segment we call take
Speaker 1: a chance on me. Find out who you can pick
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Speaker 3: We're here for your singing chargers on me.
Speaker 1: This is nine players not normally in your starting lineup.
Speaker 1: Will begin at the quarterback position and Matt Harrison.
Speaker 5: Kenny Pickett was the preseason Darling after posting a near
Speaker 5: perfect passer rating in three exhibition games, then coming out
Speaker 5: of the gate, he played San Francisco and Cleveland. He
Speaker 5: got hurt and had to leave the Houston game return
Speaker 5: to play the Ravens. Hasn't faced a bottom half of
Speaker 5: the league pass defense, yet every one of his opponents
Speaker 5: has been in the top half. Enter the Jaguars, who
Speaker 5: just allowed Josh Allen Gardner, Minshew and Derek Carr to
Speaker 5: each throw for three hundred yards against them in the
Speaker 5: last three weeks. In fact, the only quarterback the Jags
Speaker 5: were able to hold under twenty standard Fantasy points was
Speaker 5: Desmond Mitter.
Speaker 3: Wow, I love that angle, Kenny Pickett, let's go.
Speaker 1: I love it. Actually, that's fantastic. I just sort of
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett's just so off radar. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: Who's your take a chance with me? Quarterbacks?
Speaker 4: Scott, I'm gonna go with Derek Carr. This week, Five
Speaker 4: of seven quarter to face the Colts hit three hundred
Speaker 4: yards and or multiple scores, except Ryan Tannehill and PJ. Walker,
Speaker 4: which is kind of understandable. Carl himself has done that
Speaker 4: in three straight games. Two of those defense were far
Speaker 4: far better than the bottom ten ranked against fantasy quarterbacks
Speaker 4: and bottom ten in Dvoa Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 2: C J.
Speaker 1: Stroud goes up against Carolina, He's might take a chance
Speaker 1: on me quarterback? Multiple touchdowns in four different games this
Speaker 1: year and a top twelve quarterback in four different games
Speaker 1: this year, And amazingly for a rookie.
Speaker 5: You're teetering on Stroud not being a take a chance
Speaker 5: on me quarterback anymore.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 3: This is your last one.
Speaker 4: In my homigue, is my every week starter.
Speaker 1: Get that here at we're heading into the We're heading
Speaker 1: into the midway point of the season. C J. Stroud's
Speaker 1: thrown one interception as a rookie. And this despite as
Speaker 1: I often mentioned in the show, eight offensive linemen going
Speaker 1: on ir and yet here we.
Speaker 4: Are with mister Tank Dell for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: And missing Tank Dell. Great budding chemistry with Tank Dell
Speaker 1: and Nico Collins. I love it offensive line coming out
Speaker 1: of this week's by healthier and that includes key guys.
Speaker 1: Laramie Tunzel's been playing hurt, Titus Howard's been playing hurt.
Speaker 1: Their back Carolina ranks twenty fourth in coverage. They've allowed
Speaker 1: multiple passing touchdowns in three straight games.
Speaker 4: C J. Stroud.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the running back position, Matt.
Speaker 5: I'm staying in Pittsburgh, and we brought this up last
Speaker 5: week that Jalen Warren had outscored Naj Harris in every
Speaker 5: game so far the season. Well, the Steelers must have
Speaker 5: listened to the show, because Harris finally won a week.
Speaker 1: Well, he scored a touchdown.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right now, it's like a fifty five to forty
Speaker 5: five split in snap counts in favor of Nase, and
Speaker 5: almost the similar spread and opportunities when you add the
Speaker 5: rush attempts and targets, Nase leads fourteen to eleven on opportunities.
Speaker 5: What is different is Warren is seeing over four targets
Speaker 5: per game out of the backfield and naj hasn't seen
Speaker 5: four targets in a game this season. The Jaguars on
Speaker 5: paper look like a middle of the pack running back defense,
Speaker 5: but they have one big hole, and that's pass catching backs.
Speaker 5: The Jags have allowed the most receptions in the fourth
Speaker 5: most receiving yards to opposing runners. At worst, Jalen Warren
Speaker 5: will outscore Najie Harris this week.
Speaker 1: Again, Scott, your take a chance on me running back.
Speaker 4: I'm going over to Houston for Devin Singletary. Oh yes,
Speaker 4: in the final week before the before the bye, motor
Speaker 4: led and snaps motor Signaltary. That is uh, that is
Speaker 4: nickname I never knew. Oh yeah, it's been his nickname
Speaker 4: since Florida Atlantic. You know large, Yeah, motor Motor Singletary.
Speaker 1: Is it because he likes to motor boat?
Speaker 4: No, he's got a boat. Ob Oh is that why yeah,
Speaker 4: oh uh you sure, yes, Okay. Anyway, this is a
Speaker 4: Panthers team that is second worst against runners, allowing one hundred.
Speaker 1: And six to do some yachting or some you know,
Speaker 1: like maybe likes to go see.
Speaker 4: I don't know his personal life that well.
Speaker 3: I just it's Florida Atlantic.
Speaker 1: Right, Florida Atlantic where there's a lot of boats. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you put motors on the boats.
Speaker 4: Yes, you guys. You guys are fun. The Panthers have
Speaker 4: also allowed thirteen running back touchdowns in seven games. If
Speaker 4: it wasn't for that daying Miami three hundred yard eight
Speaker 4: touchdown game, they would be the worst run defense in
Speaker 4: the NFL. I think there's gonna be enough work for
Speaker 4: both him, Devin Signaltary and Damian Pierce in this weeld.
Speaker 1: Why do you list Damian Pierce last? Why would you? Because
Speaker 1: that's my take a chance on me runner, Because at
Speaker 1: this point, Damian Pierce isn't.
Speaker 4: Just just to take a chance on me. Guy, I
Speaker 4: didn't list him last. I listened to him with both runners.
Speaker 4: I think both Houston runners are great this week.
Speaker 1: I look, Singletary got a lot of work before the
Speaker 1: bye week, but this is still Damian Pierce's job. And
Speaker 1: by the way, this week he came out and said,
Speaker 1: this is it's all turning around now out of the bye,
Speaker 1: the healthy offensive line, blah blah blah. I'm using Damian
Speaker 1: Pierce for all the reasons you've said. In a very
Speaker 1: good matchup, let's go to the receivers and Matt Harrison.
Speaker 3: I'm sticking in Pittsburgh again.
Speaker 5: I already told you I like Kenny Pickett against the Jags,
Speaker 5: and I like Alan Robinson as well. Robinson runs out
Speaker 5: of the slot on seventy one percent of his routes,
Speaker 5: which means he'll line up against Jacksonville slot corner Trey Herndon.
Speaker 3: In slot coverage.
Speaker 5: Herndon has allowed the second most yards in the league
Speaker 5: and the most yards after catch and two scores in
Speaker 5: the slot and a passer rating of one twenty eight.
Speaker 5: By the way, Deontay Johnson might not play again this
Speaker 5: week either. And the last game where Johnson was out,
Speaker 5: Alan Robinson was targeted nine times.
Speaker 1: Don't say nine times.
Speaker 5: As Blink Win eighty two says, one more time for
Speaker 5: Alan Robinson.
Speaker 1: I think what you're forgetting here in the whole Alan
Speaker 1: Robinson breakdown is he sucks.
Speaker 4: Oh that that is an important key.
Speaker 1: Wow, Scott to remember you take a chance on me receiver.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna stay in the slot. I guess if
Speaker 4: we're gonna do, stay in the stay in the things. Uh,
Speaker 4: stay in the slot with Josh Downs wide receiver Indianapolis
Speaker 4: Colts five plus catches in three straight, scored in back
Speaker 4: to back. Had a huge game last week. Part of
Speaker 4: it was a free play, broken play, but that's that's okay.
Speaker 4: Outside of that, he's still had a good game too.
Speaker 4: The scenes have allowed the fewest fantasy points to perimeter receivers.
Speaker 4: They have allowed the second most fantasy points to the slot,
Speaker 4: where Josh Downs lives. He plays eighty three percent of
Speaker 4: the snaps there. It's a good matchup for him. They'll
Speaker 4: be able to take out the end.
Speaker 1: Last Thursday night, the Jaguars went to their slot receiver
Speaker 1: Kristen Kirk over and over and over again against the Saints.
Speaker 1: Because the Saints outside corners are great, they're slot corner suck.
Speaker 1: So that's what I do. I am unearthing the undead
Speaker 1: corpse of Odell Beckham Junie. Oh boy, yes he's still
Speaker 1: playing Cardinals. Yes he does now He's spent most of
Speaker 1: the season hobbled by injury. He's off the injury port,
Speaker 1: he's healthy, he's productive, and the Ravens are throwing the
Speaker 1: ball again. He's coming off a game with season highs
Speaker 1: and targets, receptions and yards and just I test, you know,
Speaker 1: because he's so old, so many injuries, when I expect
Speaker 1: to see Odell Beckham hobbling around the field, but he
Speaker 1: actually looks spry. Great matchup this week against Arizona, maybe
Speaker 1: the worst set of starting cornerbacks in the league, and
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham's gonna run against literally the worst cornerback in
Speaker 1: the league, Marco Wilson, who has allowed the most receptions
Speaker 1: and the most yards of any player in the NFL.
Speaker 3: More like Marco Polo. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I like where you're going with that. Yeah, Odell Beckham,
Speaker 1: you take a chance on me.
Speaker 3: Player.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the matchups, Saints taking on the Colts
Speaker 1: Scott what do you think of Well, let's start with
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara, who's gonna PPR gem yes so far this season.
Speaker 4: And that's the good PPR and just his touch totals
Speaker 4: twenty four five, twenty six twenty nine touches.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is even with all the other running
Speaker 1: backs back healthy. Yeah, he stayed. He's kept this work role.
Speaker 4: I don't blame them because Jamal Williams, who is on
Speaker 4: the bench in his three games, thirty two carries for
Speaker 4: eighty eight yards. That's two point seventy five yards per carry.
Speaker 1: That's not good.
Speaker 4: He needs the seventeen Lions touchdowns. That's what he needs
Speaker 4: to be to work in this offense. A weird thing
Speaker 4: about Kamara, though, outside the top thirty five and explosive
Speaker 4: run rate, miss tackles per attempt, yards after contact per attempt,
Speaker 4: he's actually not the explosive Kamara that he normally is.
Speaker 4: He's just getting a lot of volume and a lot
Speaker 4: of PPR work. But I do have an A grade
Speaker 4: on him here. Colts have allowed ten scores to running backs.
Speaker 4: That's third most, fourth easiest matchup against running backs. A
Speaker 4: grade over there, that's that's fine. On the passing side,
Speaker 4: Derek Carr was might take a chance on me quarterbacks,
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna naturally, I'm gonna have a few starting
Speaker 4: grades here. The Saints team isn't when you can really
Speaker 4: peg down a matchup to exploit a CB matchup to
Speaker 4: exploit because Chris Lave and Michael Thomas and Rashid Shaheed
Speaker 4: all play thirty percent slot and none of them play
Speaker 4: fifty over fifty percent in any location. They just all
Speaker 4: move around all the time and confuse you. Chris Alave
Speaker 4: had a couple of dud games when Card had those
Speaker 4: tough matchups, tough defensive matchups. The other five games he
Speaker 4: had ten plus targets in all six take catches and
Speaker 4: all average ninety yards wide receiver ons versus the Colts
Speaker 4: are averaging seven for one oh one on nine targets.
Speaker 4: That's a lovey's job. I got an a form here,
Speaker 4: Michael Thomas. Picture of consistency this year kind of He's
Speaker 4: been between forty and sixty five yards every game, four
Speaker 4: to five catches every game. So if he doesn't score
Speaker 4: a touchdown, he's getting a C grade. That's about what
Speaker 4: he is.
Speaker 1: For guillotine use will just take those nine or ten
Speaker 1: points and just thrive.
Speaker 4: For any other league, it's rough and a week with
Speaker 4: no buys, yeah, I can see you benching him. I'm
Speaker 4: giving him a C grade because he's probably a lock
Speaker 4: for ten twelve points. What about Rashi Rashichi. He has
Speaker 4: not top thirty five yards in the last five weeks.
Speaker 1: Just lost.
Speaker 4: He did have seven targets last week, but car threw
Speaker 4: a fifty five times, so there was targets to go
Speaker 4: around over. You know, for the tight ends, Hill is
Speaker 4: going to be on the bench, he's questionable with a
Speaker 4: chest injury, and Jawan Johnson's going to be back over
Speaker 4: on the other side, Josh Downs was going to take
Speaker 4: a chance on me wide receiver. I also have a
Speaker 4: B grade on Michael Pittman. I know it's it's rough
Speaker 4: around the perimeter, but Michael Pittman also plays twenty nine
Speaker 4: percent slot. He can exploit that matchup a little. He'll
Speaker 4: get a little bit of his moving around to avoid matchups.
Speaker 4: Double digit Fantasy points of in six of seven games
Speaker 4: for him. He'll get his Gardner Minshew. I think he'll
Speaker 4: probably just get enough to get a C grade. He
Speaker 4: torched Cleveland's number one ranked past d last week for
Speaker 4: three hundred and five yards and two scores two more
Speaker 4: on the ground. He also had three hundred plus and
Speaker 4: a score of the week before. Part of the deal
Speaker 4: is he spent two years in Shane Steichen's system, in Philly.
Speaker 4: Stike in system in Philly before he came to Indy,
Speaker 4: so he's made good work of it. Stroud Love Mayfield
Speaker 4: even had decent days against the Saints, so I'm gound
Speaker 4: give him a C grade. That turnover where the rate
Speaker 4: of his is ridiculous, though I believe it's worse than
Speaker 4: the league, so that might bite him. But over to
Speaker 4: the run games, Jack Moss is questionable on the other
Speaker 4: side of doubtful. He missed practice too out of the
Speaker 4: last three days of the week, misspractice on Friday. So
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give the B grade to Jonathan Taylor here
Speaker 4: he was already turning the corner. But Saint's fourth rank Rundy.
Speaker 1: That worries me a bit.
Speaker 4: The best game of any runner is sixty three rushing
Speaker 4: yards and that took Derrick Henry fifteen carries to get there.
Speaker 4: They're only allowing three point five yards per carry.
Speaker 1: I think most of that Henry came on one run too.
Speaker 4: By the way, Yeah, it's it's it's not a good spot,
Speaker 4: but Colts aren't afraid to run it though they ran
Speaker 4: thirty six times against Cleveland last week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jonathan Taylor got forty five yards through the air
Speaker 4: each of the last two games. He's gonna get some there.
Speaker 4: The workload's going to be large enough to volume see
Speaker 4: at best, but given how talent it is, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: be all right.
Speaker 1: I like it, Matt. We need to zip through Patriots
Speaker 1: a Dolphins, and I think we can do it here
Speaker 1: because are many Patriots to like and most of the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are, like, you know, pretty obvious plays. I think
Speaker 1: let's start in the Patriots with Ramandre Stevenson, who's had
Speaker 1: a lot of struggles trying to run the ball, but
Speaker 1: he's been helping us through the ARA bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's clocking in at the third worst back in the.
Speaker 5: League at rush yards over expectation right now, and that
Speaker 5: inefficiency is likely what is giving him eight ten to
Speaker 5: nine rushing attempts in the last three weeks.
Speaker 3: That just won't get it done.
Speaker 5: Zeke Elliot's getting about the same amount of work on
Speaker 5: about half as many snaps. The Dolphins are a mill
Speaker 5: the pack run defense. Most notably, they're almost giving up
Speaker 5: one running back rushing touchdown per game, and with three
Speaker 5: of the last four inside the five rushing attempts going
Speaker 5: to Zeke. I'm giving Zeke a C grade. Remandre just
Speaker 5: scrapes by with a C grade, but he's closer to
Speaker 5: a bench grade than Zeke is. The passing game is
Speaker 5: a mass even after a good performance against Buffalo the
Speaker 5: last week. Mac Jones had his first touchdown pass since
Speaker 5: Week three in last week's game in top two hundred
Speaker 5: one yards for only the third time in seven games.
Speaker 5: That's not a very high number, by the way, and
Speaker 5: Kendrick Bourne seems to have emerged as a top wide
Speaker 5: receiver on the which is nice to see. But the
Speaker 5: Dolphins may get back Xavian Howard and Jalen Ramsey was
Speaker 5: kind of rumored one way or the other in following
Speaker 5: true Halloween fashion, mac Jones is about to turn back
Speaker 5: into a pumpkin and the whole passing game is on
Speaker 5: the bench. On the other side, Tyreek Hill a grade,
Speaker 5: was limited in practice this week, but sounds like he'll
Speaker 5: be good to go. He's off the injury report, so
Speaker 5: is Jalen Waddle. He's seen seven red zone targets and
Speaker 5: five targets from inside the five in just the last
Speaker 5: three weeks. In the Week two meeting, by the way,
Speaker 5: Waddle had four catches for eighty six yards. He's a
Speaker 5: very solid B grade teetering on an a. Braxton Barrios
Speaker 5: Cedric Wilson each seeing more snaps right now, but neither
Speaker 5: are getting enough targets to warrant to start as of now.
Speaker 5: Tua gets an A grade for most of the reasons.
Speaker 3: I like his receivers, Plus, the.
Speaker 5: Dolphins have the highest implied total for the week at
Speaker 5: twenty eight points. And finally, there's Raheem Mostert, who has
Speaker 5: a must start right now, currently running back two in
Speaker 5: most fantasy formats. He's had eleven touchdowns this year. That's
Speaker 5: the same amount as Christian McCaffrey. In the first meeting,
Speaker 5: he had one hundred and twenty seven total yards and
Speaker 5: two scores on nineteen touches. The pats are bottom ten
Speaker 5: and running back touches, receiving yards and combo touchdowns allowed
Speaker 5: to the position. So, like I say, most start, most
Speaker 5: must start, it's an A grade for him.
Speaker 1: When we come back, Eagles taking on the Commanders Commanders defense. Oh,
Speaker 1: are there?
Speaker 3: How do you really feel?
Speaker 1: Are there any Eagles you wouldn't start in this game?
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that and there might be. There are
Speaker 1: some Commanders you would not think about starting. You could
Speaker 1: play as well. We'll talk about a sneaky matchup for Washington.
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Speaker 1: leagues dot com. Eagles take on the Commanders and A
Speaker 1: grades all around here pretty much, including Eybody, Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 1: AJ Brown, Dallas Goddard, and DeAndre Swift, all A grades.
Speaker 1: Washington ranks twenty ninth in points allowed, twenty ninth in
Speaker 1: yards allowed. This is a team, this is a defense
Speaker 1: that is needless to say, very bad. Let me just
Speaker 1: emphasize Goddard for a second. A clear A against the
Speaker 1: defense that's allowed four tight end scores in the last
Speaker 1: three weeks alone, and Goddard scored in both matchups with
Speaker 1: Washington last year. DeVonta Smith's the only Eagle that doesn't
Speaker 1: get an A grade that you care about. He comes
Speaker 1: in with a B grade here. He's been very quiet
Speaker 1: since Week two, but he did well in the Week
Speaker 1: four matchup. Seven catches, seventy three yards, and you get
Speaker 1: the feeling A. J. Brown's had so much work lately.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to want to just distribute the
Speaker 1: ball and get DeVonta Smith back on track.
Speaker 4: I was seeing a thing last week that, even dating
Speaker 4: back to last year, Goddard and DeVonta Smith are the
Speaker 4: ones that flip flop those each other. And Goddard's been
Speaker 4: decent for the last four or five weeks.
Speaker 1: Well he has. Washington's allowed the fifth most yards and
Speaker 1: second most touchdowns per game to opposing receivers, so potentially
Speaker 1: Brown and DeVonta Smith can have fed here. Washington also
Speaker 1: allows the third highest A dots, so we could get
Speaker 1: some deep balls for DeVonta Smith on the Washington side.
Speaker 1: You're there's actually some guys just I like this passing
Speaker 1: attack this week. Let's start with a little bit of
Speaker 1: Sammy Howell.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh, he just took another sack.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 5: He might literally sounded like the pain of Sam Howell.
Speaker 5: That is tricketting sacked and over exactly.
Speaker 1: He's on pace for ninety seven sacks this year, that
Speaker 1: which would shatter the league record. The Eagles rank sixth
Speaker 1: best in pass rush win rate, fifth best in pass
Speaker 1: rush by Pro Football Focus. So why do I still
Speaker 1: have optimism for Howell? Because teams can't and don't even
Speaker 1: try to run the ball against the Eagles, So opposing
Speaker 1: quarterbacks finding their way to really buy in large good
Speaker 1: games against Philadelphia, including Sam Howell a month ago when
Speaker 1: you put up two hundred ninety yards in a score.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna give a B grade to Sam Howell.
Speaker 1: Here B grade to Terry McLaurin, who posted a strong
Speaker 1: game against Philly in Week four. Karry, but their secondary
Speaker 1: was more banged up then. They're healthier now excepting the slot.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in the second. McLaurin has posted
Speaker 1: at least six receptions and eighty yards on at least
Speaker 1: nine targets in three straight against Philadelphia, and the Eagles
Speaker 1: give up the fourth most receptions and second most touchdowns
Speaker 1: per game to opposing wideouts, which also brings us to
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel, who comes in with a B grade because
Speaker 1: the slot quarterbacks, Avonte Maddox and Bradley Roby, their number
Speaker 1: one and number two slot cornerbacks are both out, and
Speaker 1: that means deep backup Josiah Scott is gonna man the
Speaker 1: sight of his name, though he has only seen time
Speaker 1: in one game this year. That was last week, and
Speaker 1: he allowed one of the passes to be completed on him.
Speaker 1: And get this about Josiah Scott. Last year, when he
Speaker 1: got more run he graded out as the second worst
Speaker 1: cornerback in the league by Pro Football Focus. Curtis Samuel
Speaker 1: B grade. Logan Thomas gets a C grade. He put
Speaker 1: up three catches for forty one yards in the earlier meeting.
Speaker 1: This year, Eagles are smack dab in the middle of
Speaker 1: tight end defensive rankings. I'll note though, he did nothing
Speaker 1: in this matchup last year with Philadelphia, so a lot
Speaker 1: of B grades in there for those guys. Here's who
Speaker 1: you can't start, Brian Robinson. Washington runs at the second
Speaker 1: lowest rate and Robinson doesn't catch many passes, so there's
Speaker 1: just low volume all around. And the Eagles are obviously great.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia's got the second best run defense by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: They have not allowed a single back to reach even
Speaker 1: fifty four yards against them, and they're holding opposing back
Speaker 1: to the fewest yards per game. It's all bad for
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson and there's going to be more on this
Speaker 1: evolving situation later. The show teas in a battle of
Speaker 1: New Jersey teams. It's the Jets versus the Giants.
Speaker 3: Scott.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I only have two startable grades on the New
Speaker 4: York Jets. I don't think you're starting in a week
Speaker 4: with no buys. You're not starting Zach Wilson, who balled
Speaker 4: out against the Chiefs. Be He's been under two hundred
Speaker 4: yards every other game. The only Jets receiver you're starting.
Speaker 1: Is Garrett Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Garrett Wilson. Jets receivers not named Garrett Wilson had
Speaker 4: five total catches in the last two weeks combined.
Speaker 1: Guessed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's averaging five for sixty one in a score
Speaker 4: and five for sixty one and a score every three games.
Speaker 4: He's going up against the d allowing six for ninety
Speaker 4: five and a score every other game to wide receiver ones.
Speaker 4: It's a fine spot. He's better against man coverage than
Speaker 4: zone coverage, and only three teams play man more than
Speaker 4: the Giants. I got a B grade on him. I
Speaker 4: got an A grade for Breest Hall, who crushed since
Speaker 4: being unleashed seventy percent of the run game work two
Speaker 4: hundred and eighty seven yards in the least two games alone,
Speaker 4: catching three to five patch passes in each leads the
Speaker 4: NFL in yards over expectation per attempt, so when he
Speaker 4: gets the ball, he's going farther than people think he's
Speaker 4: gonna go. The Giants d is allowing the fifth highest
Speaker 4: explosive run rate, which is why I bring that up
Speaker 4: because that's something briefs Haw has been doing this year.
Speaker 4: Lead Backs are averaging sixteen for eighty nine and a
Speaker 4: score against the Giants, and that includes Brian Robinson's eight
Speaker 4: for twenty three in a score last week. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: without it, it's like seventeen for one hundred plus in
Speaker 4: a score. They're allowing over on the other side, only
Speaker 4: a couple starting grades as well. If there are more
Speaker 4: teams on buy, maybe you'd consider Tarad Taylor, who gets
Speaker 4: a Jets defense that's tough against the pass, but they
Speaker 4: allow a ton of rushing yards to go to Backs
Speaker 4: just the second most QB rush yards forced, fourth most
Speaker 4: QB rush attempts. But he's probably on your bench with
Speaker 4: no buys out there this week. On the wise, by the.
Speaker 1: Way, Taylor could be started games for like a month.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he might mean it.
Speaker 1: This thing could be. This could be a long term
Speaker 1: situation for Daniel Jones.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I don't want to count on the run
Speaker 4: rushing of a quarterback, though to give him a style,
Speaker 4: it's not a good spot for m Darren Waller. I
Speaker 4: am given an A grade too, though he's averaging about
Speaker 4: seven catches on eight targets for seventy six yards over
Speaker 4: the last three games. He's facing a Jets D that
Speaker 4: allows the most touchdowns to tight ends. Five different tight
Speaker 4: ends have scored on them. If you're worried about shadowing,
Speaker 4: Sauce doesn't really shadow and Sauce.
Speaker 1: And DJ he plays one side and DJ, yeah.
Speaker 4: DJ Reid, they don't. They don't go inside ever. Read
Speaker 4: ninety five percent right, five percent left, Sauce ninety percent left,
Speaker 4: ten percent right. That's just where they stick. Waller has
Speaker 4: only one touchdown, but he s he's twenty nine percent
Speaker 4: of the end zone target.
Speaker 1: Target, which is great.
Speaker 4: That's got to regress at some point. No, it does,
Speaker 4: so you don't think.
Speaker 1: So well, I just don't want it to.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: No, No.
Speaker 4: The fact that he's only scored one touchdown, that part,
Speaker 4: you're right, that part just yes.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 4: Saquon Barkley also in a grade. Since returning, he's handled
Speaker 4: twenty eight touches. Twenty four touches. Pacheco and Pollard both
Speaker 4: had twenty three plus touches and they destroyed the Jets.
Speaker 4: It's the eleventh eleventh worst matchup for or eleventh best
Speaker 4: matchup for backs. Just a ton of receiving work they allowed.
Speaker 4: I got a B grade on Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 1: Jaguars take on the Steelers. Matt Traves. Etn has been fantastic.
Speaker 1: This is the angle I got most wrong in the preseason,
Speaker 1: and I absolutely accept that fact, and I've eaten that
Speaker 1: l many times on the show. I'm gonna do it
Speaker 1: again right now. The Jags pass attack, though, has been really,
Speaker 1: really weird and sometimes into Cipher Verry weird. Talk to
Speaker 1: me about the passing game for the Jags.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna get Etn out of the way. He's
Speaker 5: an A grade. The Steelers are allowing four point six
Speaker 5: yards per carry, so that one's easy. Christian Kirk and
Speaker 5: Calvin Ridley both get bees in this one. Kirk gets
Speaker 5: the advantage of running from the slot against Chandon Sullivan.
Speaker 5: Sullivan is one of the lowest rated slot corners in
Speaker 5: the league by Pro Football Focus. Then the other corners,
Speaker 5: Joey Porter Junior questionable with a calf injury, he's trending doubtful,
Speaker 5: leaving Patrick Peterson and Levi Wallace to man the outside.
Speaker 5: Both of them on the injury report as well, and
Speaker 5: both of them have given up four touchdowns.
Speaker 3: Already this year.
Speaker 5: So if you need a way deep dart throw, Zay
Speaker 5: Jones looks like he's gonna miss this week. Jamal Agnew
Speaker 5: for a D grade dart throw in this one should
Speaker 5: be on the field a ton, and he's a desperation
Speaker 5: guy if you need a score. Evan Ingram quietly getting
Speaker 5: seven or eight targets every week and quietly averaging six
Speaker 5: catches in about fifty yards per game. But it's quiet
Speaker 5: because he hasn't scored yet this season. Pittsburgh only allowing
Speaker 5: three catches and thirty one yards per game to opposing
Speaker 5: tight ends. So it's just a volume C grade for
Speaker 5: Evan Ingram. I wanted to give Trevor Lawrence a C two,
Speaker 5: but I like his receivers in the corner matchups enough
Speaker 5: that I'm bumping it to a B. He's been super
Speaker 5: disappointing this year, only one three hundred yard game and
Speaker 5: only two games with multiple touchdown passes. He has chipped
Speaker 5: in on the ground averaging thirty yards per game. The
Speaker 5: Steelers have faced two mobile quarterbacks in Lamar Jackson, who
Speaker 5: had forty five yards and QB Brown's who only managed
Speaker 5: twenty two, So I think there's a chance that Lawrence
Speaker 5: can get loose for a nice couple of runs in
Speaker 5: this one too. On the Steelers side, Kenny Pickett was
Speaker 5: might take a chance on me quarterback. The wide receivers,
Speaker 5: Deontay Johnson did come back last week, but hasn't practiced
Speaker 5: yet this week with that same hand hamstring injury. If
Speaker 5: he does go, I'll give him a C grade. George
Speaker 5: Pickens gets a B grade. He'll line up most often
Speaker 5: against Monteric Brown or Darius Williams. Brown is allowing one
Speaker 5: hundred and nineteen passer rating this coverage, and Williams has
Speaker 5: allowed four hundred eleven yards so far in his coverage
Speaker 5: that's fourth most in the league. Plus, the Jags are
Speaker 5: allowing over a touchdown per game to the wide receiver position.
Speaker 5: That was also why I liked Alan Robinson as might
Speaker 5: take a chance on me wide receiver. The tight end
Speaker 5: situation is dire. Connor Hayward out snapping Darnel Washington.
Speaker 3: You're not starting either.
Speaker 1: Washington the big Oh. We'd have a be a due
Speaker 1: something here, and it's it's nothing.
Speaker 5: Connor Hayward getting more targets and receptions than Darnel Washington
Speaker 5: right now.
Speaker 3: Lastly, I mentioned a lot of running back stats.
Speaker 4: What I told you that called Darnagh Washington the big Oh.
Speaker 1: That's what they called him at Georgia. Yeah, remember that,
Speaker 1: Lewis Seene told me that I would not have known otherwise.
Speaker 5: Okay, teammate, I told you a lot of stats when
Speaker 5: I mentioned Jalen Warren, who might take a chance on
Speaker 5: me runner. He gets a C grade in this one.
Speaker 5: But I'm gonna leave Naji Harris on the bench. The
Speaker 5: Jags are good against traditional running games, but bad against
Speaker 5: pass catching running backs. Jacksonville only allowing fifty nine rush
Speaker 5: yards per game to opposing backs, and they've only allowed
Speaker 5: two rushing scores on the season. It's not his matchup,
Speaker 5: it's the Jalen Warren matchup.
Speaker 4: Okay. So I don't think you can do that because
Speaker 4: he was called the big O because he wore zero zero.
Speaker 1: That's right, he wore hero That's why they still oh,
Speaker 1: not the big zero. Yeah, Well, why didn't he get
Speaker 1: numbers zero what Vanity points are a big zero.
Speaker 4: What I'm saying is he's no longer number zero, So
Speaker 4: could you still call him?
Speaker 1: I don't know they called him at Georgia. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: hear what you're saying. Uh, We've got just a couple
Speaker 1: of moments before the end of this hour, Dalton kincaid,
Speaker 1: I you know, with Dawson Knox and I R this
Speaker 1: could be the official baton handoff all these next four games. Right, yeah,
Speaker 1: this could be it.
Speaker 4: And not only that, you notice the shift in the
Speaker 4: Bills offense. They ran a ton of eleven instead of twelve. Yeah,
Speaker 4: which is one title on the field and staff too.
Speaker 1: And by the way, and look at what happened to
Speaker 1: Shakir right there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, next preseason, we're going to have to shut up
Speaker 5: about no rookie tight ends ever do anything, because Sam
Speaker 5: Laporta and Dalton can are.
Speaker 3: About to do it.
Speaker 1: That's true, that that part is true. We'll have to
Speaker 1: we'll have to. Now, well, the new the Georgia kid
Speaker 1: that's coming out be Rock Powers. Oh man, that's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all over. It could be historic. It could be
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Speaker 1: call three tough questions.
Speaker 3: Question number one, it's, oh.
Speaker 1: You know what I need right now?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: What is the appropriate lef A little concern for justin
Speaker 1: air Bear Herbert? Is it none? Is it some? Or
Speaker 1: is it a bowel loosening level of existential dread?
Speaker 4: Scott Okay, So like I feel like I know where
Speaker 4: this is coming from there's been a lot of talk
Speaker 4: about we we can't. We have to stop fully blaming
Speaker 4: Staley and throw a little on Herbert. That's fair, et cetera.
Speaker 4: He lost Mike Williams, maybe there's concern there, et cetera,
Speaker 4: et cetera, et cetera. But he was drafted as QB
Speaker 4: six in most leagues. You go to Fantasy pros, it's
Speaker 4: average QB six six seven eight six six six. You know,
Speaker 4: it's it's a lot of sixes. Right now, he's QB eight,
Speaker 4: and the seven quarterbacks above him have not have not
Speaker 4: had their by He's QB four in points per game,
Speaker 4: so he is currently exceeding the ADP in which he
Speaker 4: was drafted. I'm not sure how you could be super
Speaker 4: concerned with him at that point when he's literally doing
Speaker 4: better than you expected when you drafted him. And maybe
Speaker 4: maybe it's just that your expectations were super high. I'm
Speaker 4: to blame for that too. I thought Kellen Moore came in,
Speaker 4: they drafted Quentin Johnston. It's it's gonna be a career year.
Speaker 4: He's healthy, Allan's healthy, Williams is healthy. Maybe it's the
Speaker 4: expectations we're thinking of, But for where we drafted him.
Speaker 4: I have no concern. I have n't been one league.
Speaker 4: He's been fine, not blowing me away, but also not
Speaker 4: tailing off Matt.
Speaker 1: What is the appropriate level of concern for Justin Herbert? None?
Speaker 1: Some are a bowel loosening level of existential dread.
Speaker 5: I agree with Scott, it's none for me. I'll add
Speaker 5: in just a couple of points. His last three weeks
Speaker 5: have been very under expectation, but the last three weeks
Speaker 5: where a bye week, Dallas and Kansas City, both of
Speaker 5: which are top eight against the quarterback position. He's thrown
Speaker 5: at least one score in every game. He's also run
Speaker 5: in three touchdowns this season, and he did not run
Speaker 5: in one last year with that rib injury. He's healthy.
Speaker 5: His per game passing yards are down a little bit,
Speaker 5: but his passing scores are up, so I have no concern.
Speaker 1: The last three weeks are the worst statistical three games
Speaker 1: stretch of his career, and I'm not including the buy
Speaker 1: in that obviously the last three games these are the
Speaker 1: three games thought Mike will Williams. By the way, maybe
Speaker 1: it's a coincidence, maybe it's not. His completion rate is
Speaker 1: dipped down to fifty seven percent. Who else is fifty
Speaker 1: seven percent? Well, basically nobody, because you're worse than Zach Wilson,
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, Jordan Love, and Kenny Pickett. Three game stretcher
Speaker 1: over that three game stretch, okay, three games. His first
Speaker 1: three games are excellent, and so when you look at
Speaker 1: the totality of his season, maybe he is quarterback for
Speaker 1: But these last three weeks have been bad. Last three weeks,
Speaker 1: two hundred and eighteen passing yards per game? Who's that?
Speaker 1: That puts you halfway between Mac Jones and Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1: How about one point three passing touchdowns per game? Who
Speaker 1: who is that? That's Derek Carr, Jimmy Garoppolo, and Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 1: So the last three games he's played as some combination
Speaker 1: of DeShawn Jordan Jones, Mayfield, Car Pickett, Wilson. That's not good.
Speaker 4: He didn't tear touchdowns in one of those games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike Wilson isn't this all passing? Mike Wilson isn't
Speaker 1: coming back. Quentin Johnson hasn't shown any signs of life.
Speaker 1: And here's a big kicker. Rode Wires strength of schedule
Speaker 1: shows a brutal remaining schedule. Third hardest, including some imminent,
Speaker 1: very difficult matchups. After this week's game against Chicago and
Speaker 1: even this week's game against Chicago's will elucidate in a moment.
Speaker 1: Is not the cakewalk you think it is. His non
Speaker 1: throwing finger injury shouldn't be affecting him, but maybe it is.
Speaker 1: I don't know. He'll he'll be better than these last
Speaker 1: three games. But how can you watch him and think
Speaker 1: he looks like the guy that we saw before? You can't.
Speaker 1: It's weird right now, and you should have some concern.
Speaker 4: He's definitely more twenty three Herbert than he is twenty two,
Speaker 4: five thousand yards thirty five touchdown Herbert.
Speaker 1: Correct answer is some tough question. Number two, This might
Speaker 1: be the last time to buy Kyler Murray on the cheap,
Speaker 1: as he's likely I could start by as soon as
Speaker 1: next week. Are you making a move or are you
Speaker 1: just glad you don't have him? Matt?
Speaker 5: I mean, if you listened to me last week, he
Speaker 5: was my premature speculation.
Speaker 1: I didn't listen to you.
Speaker 3: You didn't.
Speaker 5: They're going to start and feature Kyler Murray as soon
Speaker 5: as he's ready to go. The new staff wants to
Speaker 5: see firsthand if he's their franchise quarterback, and a good
Speaker 5: performance by him could either make him keep the job
Speaker 5: in Arizona.
Speaker 3: Or add to his trade value.
Speaker 5: If the Cardinals are looking at a top draft pick
Speaker 5: next April, they might just have to make a move
Speaker 5: for a quarterback anyway. But that might all be for
Speaker 5: nothing because Call of Duty Modern Warfare three launches on
Speaker 5: and that's about when the Cardinals have to activate him.
Speaker 5: This is going to be a disaster. If I could
Speaker 5: pick him up for free, fine, he can sit on
Speaker 5: my bench and I'll trade him after a good week.
Speaker 5: But if I had to pay anything, I'm glad I
Speaker 5: just don't have it.
Speaker 1: Scott, Yes, oh Scott, are you making a move for
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray? Are you just glad you don't have him?
Speaker 4: He was. That's very similar to my answer, except for
Speaker 4: I didn't have the video game stuff, and it was
Speaker 4: I would pick him up if he's free, and I
Speaker 4: saw him picked up in many of my leagues this week.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to make a trade for him. We've
Speaker 4: seen him playing with injuries. It's not good. We've seen
Speaker 4: him when he doesn't run a lot, it's not good
Speaker 4: for fantasy or reality really, and there are indications that
Speaker 4: he'll come along slower on the running side of things,
Speaker 4: even though he's fully healthy. The new stuff does seem
Speaker 4: to like to have designed runs for Josh Dopps, so
Speaker 4: maybe that plays a factor. But I want him for free.
Speaker 4: If I can get him for free, that's about it.
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray's running will certainly be a non factor this
Speaker 1: year coming off the ACAS. You know, maybe it comes
Speaker 1: together next year. But also you know, next year he'll
Speaker 1: be in his sixth year in the season, and that's
Speaker 1: usually when even mobile quarterbacks start to slow down a bit.
Speaker 1: So there's even if we're looking forward seasons, I don't
Speaker 1: know that the legs are going to factor in that much.
Speaker 1: But let's just focus on this year for a second.
Speaker 1: If I have to rely on fantasy points from Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray's arm, not his legs, let's look at what we got.
Speaker 1: He's one and a half touchdown passes per game.
Speaker 4: We might need an advisory warning lick for children.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be good one and a half touchdown
Speaker 1: passes per game. Who's that you might be asking, Well,
Speaker 1: that's Derek Carr, a third tier fantasy quarterback, He's two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty two passing yards per game. That's halfway
Speaker 1: between Sam Howell and Desmond Ritter. This year. He is
Speaker 1: not He is a He is the kind of passer
Speaker 1: you pick up off the waiver wire. We are always
Speaker 1: here for Kyler Murray's rushing and without it, and I
Speaker 1: couldn't be less interested.
Speaker 4: You could. You could also argue that he's got less
Speaker 4: talented pass catching weapons again rest of a run game.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, absolutely could be true. So I'm totally out
Speaker 1: on Murray. Couldn't be less interested. The answer is just
Speaker 1: be glad you don't have them.
Speaker 3: Tough question number three.
Speaker 1: This is kind of a roundabout dynasty question, but I
Speaker 1: want to phrase it this way. In next August drafts,
Speaker 1: Tajy Spears will be taken in what round Scott.
Speaker 4: So we are presuming Henry is gonna be gone. He
Speaker 4: signed a one year deal. He's probably gonna be done.
Speaker 4: If he's he might be traded before that, but he's
Speaker 4: probably gonna.
Speaker 1: Be gone by the time this.
Speaker 4: People will be down on the Titans offense as a
Speaker 4: whole next year. Probably that's assumed. Uh, there's gonna bring
Speaker 4: someone in if it's a hyped rookie. Maybe that curtails
Speaker 4: things a lot a little. People love the pass catching
Speaker 4: running backs. I'm gonna list the fourth rounders that went
Speaker 4: in last year's August drafts. James Cook, Alvin Kamara, Pa Checko,
Speaker 4: Rashad White, which is a decent comparable, good pass catcher
Speaker 4: and a batt Before the season, we thought he'd be
Speaker 4: a little more efficient. Herbert same deal, you know, uh
Speaker 4: time share, but the lead back Javonte Williams. These all
Speaker 4: feel like exact James Cook, you know, good pass catcher
Speaker 4: in a decent offense. This is These all seem like
Speaker 4: the type of people that Tajay Spears would just slide
Speaker 4: right in with in a draft. I feel like fourth
Speaker 4: round is about where back like this is gonna go next.
Speaker 1: Year, Matt, next August drafts, taj Spears will be taken
Speaker 1: in what round?
Speaker 5: I think there's a pretty good chance that Derrick Henry
Speaker 5: resigns in Tennessee. And here's why. A twenty twenty two
Speaker 5: analytics survey done by ESPN said the Titans ranked as
Speaker 5: the least analytically advanced team in the NFL. They're so
Speaker 5: old school they do all their analytics on a notepad,
Speaker 5: they just might resign him.
Speaker 3: They're old school guys.
Speaker 5: You know. Let's say Henry comes back, and I think
Speaker 5: that he might. I think Spears is like a tenth
Speaker 5: round pick. If Henry moves on and the Titans don't
Speaker 5: come up with another back, I think it's probably like
Speaker 5: a fifth round pick.
Speaker 1: I've hit you guys have hit on some several of
Speaker 1: my talking points. Tennessee is headed for a total retooling,
Speaker 1: maybe even at the coach position. We'll find out, although
Speaker 1: I don't think so. This could also mean by the way,
Speaker 1: they retool a very bad offensive line, which could in theory,
Speaker 1: get better as they try to protect whichever young quarterback
Speaker 1: they go to. I mean, this is it for Tannehill,
Speaker 1: you know. I think there's no chance to he'll comes back,
Speaker 1: so they'll be ruth retooling an offensive line. I think
Speaker 1: that could help Spears's case. Let's be clear Tozzi, Spears
Speaker 1: is really good. I think he belongs in this league
Speaker 1: right now. He's Pro Football Focus is eleventh best running back.
Speaker 1: He's averaging five and a half yards per carry and
Speaker 1: seven and a half yards per reception, which they're using
Speaker 1: him there as well. Mike Rabel loves his workhorsebacks, and
Speaker 1: if Derrick Henry is gone, which the likelihood is that
Speaker 1: he is mat that's not wrong, There is a chance,
Speaker 1: but the likelihood is that he's gone, Spears would be
Speaker 1: the workhorse back and he'd get a ton of use,
Speaker 1: including through the air, in a fashion that Henry never was.
Speaker 1: You know, running backs have largely fallen out of the
Speaker 1: first round, and what's happened to running backs in the
Speaker 1: first round this year suggests that's going to happen next
Speaker 1: year too. I don't think they'll go in round one
Speaker 1: where they'll be just two or three running backs who
Speaker 1: go that are highly proven guys. Round two is going
Speaker 1: to be still a lot of proven guys. Spears is
Speaker 1: going to feel sexy, new cool, and he's a really
Speaker 1: good back. The correct answer is round three for Taja
Speaker 1: Spears next year. If you're in dynasty, hold Taja Spears.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the matchup. Oh, it's Chiefs taking
Speaker 1: Broncos for you. It's me, that's me. This is a
Speaker 1: rematch from way way back in Week six, in which
Speaker 1: the Broncos held Kansas City to just nineteen points. It
Speaker 1: still got killed because Broncos offense couldn't do anything, but
Speaker 1: it was an impressive defensive performance for the Broncos. I
Speaker 1: don't think another one's coming here, To be honest, Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey obvious is every week. I never spending time
Speaker 1: talking about it, and you don't need me to. Isaiah
Speaker 1: Pacheco clocks in with an A grade. He posted ninety
Speaker 1: eight yards in the Week six matchup against Denver, likely
Speaker 1: gets even more this week. Denver ranks thirtieth and run
Speaker 1: defense by Pro Football Focus thirty first, sorry thirty second
Speaker 1: in run stuff win rate by ESPN. The Broncos allowed
Speaker 1: the following to opposing running backs all league worse, thirty
Speaker 1: two touches per game, one hundred and ninety nine total
Speaker 1: yards per game, and almost six yards per carry, all
Speaker 1: league worse. Pacheco sitting on what should be a far
Speaker 1: better game than the inexplicably mech game he had in
Speaker 1: Week six. The wide receiver where that we are really
Speaker 1: excited about is Rashi Rice. Now, this is going to
Speaker 1: be a very detailed breakdown coming, so bear with me.
Speaker 1: Three straight Fantasy relevant games for him and the last
Speaker 1: two weeks, Rashie Rice has seen marked increases in usage,
Speaker 1: with twenty three routes run and then last week thirty
Speaker 1: routes run. Those were career highs in both weeks and
Speaker 1: another shift to be aware of. Rice started the season
Speaker 1: running primarily from the slot, but now we're seeing him
Speaker 1: run outside a lot more over these past two weeks,
Speaker 1: and that puts Rice into the sites of the one
Speaker 1: good Denver cornerback Patrick's Certain, and that could be a problem.
Speaker 1: Although Certain hasn't been the shotdown corner of years pass
Speaker 1: that includes allowing Romeo Dobbs to score on him last week.
Speaker 1: Still Rice runs from the slot some and that matchup
Speaker 1: is glorious against cornerback Jakwan McMillan, who has allowed a
Speaker 1: touchdown in three of the last four games.
Speaker 4: Or shee.
Speaker 1: Rice clocks in with a C grade here, trending towards
Speaker 1: being an every week starter. We love him. All The
Speaker 1: rest of receivers are on the bench, and you know
Speaker 1: the whole story on this. Now of them get enough snaps,
Speaker 1: it's totally unreliable. Getting that once a month dart throw
Speaker 1: from any of the other receivers is virtually impossible to predict.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Denver. Javonte Williams looked much better the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks coming off the ACL, his snapshare
Speaker 1: and his total yardage output has increased in three straight weeks.
Speaker 1: Last week, eighteen touches, ninety six total yards, five and
Speaker 1: a half yards per carry, a fifty three percent snap share,
Speaker 1: all season highs for Javonte Williams. I love it and
Speaker 1: the Chiefs run defense vulnerable, ranking thirty first in run
Speaker 1: stuff win rate by ESPN, twenty fourth in run defense
Speaker 1: by Pro Football Focus. Denver's run blocking dramatically improved this year.
Speaker 1: The only hesitation you have on Javonte Williams is at
Speaker 1: what point point does the game script become such that
Speaker 1: they can't run anymore? And that's the worry. I've got
Speaker 1: a B grade on Javonte Williams. Surging Javonte Williams. We
Speaker 1: love Jalil McLoughlin. Loved the upside it loved the spark
Speaker 1: he brings to the offense. But he just doesn't touch
Speaker 1: the ball enough. The last two weeks, six touches, nine touches.
Speaker 1: It's just not enough. So I got to keep him
Speaker 1: on the bench, even though he's an exciting player, passing
Speaker 1: game mostly entirely on the bench. Here, let's start with
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy just thirteen yards in the matchup two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: no scores on the season, and a brutal matchup in
Speaker 1: the slot against first round cornerback Trent McDuffie, who's been fantastic,
Speaker 1: allowing just three catches and thirty five scoreless yards in
Speaker 1: his coverage. Judy is flat out droppable in your fantasy league.
Speaker 1: Cortland Sutton comes into the C grade. In the game
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, Denver's receivers combined for just sixty total yards,
Speaker 1: but most of that went to Sudden. He got forty
Speaker 1: six of the sixty, and he scored. He has scored
Speaker 1: in five of seven games, which helped offset the low
Speaker 1: volume that he also gets. He's gotten slightly negative matchups
Speaker 1: on the outside against Lugerius Snead and Jalen Warren. In
Speaker 1: his last four games against the Chief, Sudden's averaging just
Speaker 1: three carries or sorry, three receptions for thirty yards. I
Speaker 1: can only get you to a C grade on Courtland Sutton,
Speaker 1: and with C grades and bench grades on all these guys,
Speaker 1: I can only russell Wilson's on the bench. Hard to
Speaker 1: start a guy who threw for ninety five yards in
Speaker 1: a game against Kansas City two weeks ago. I mean
Speaker 1: he'll top ninety five yards. That's not saying a lot.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the final matchup of this segment, Texans
Speaker 1: taking on the Panthers. Scott, We've already highlighted some of
Speaker 1: the Texans we love in this game. And take a
Speaker 1: chance on me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the whole run game is our Take a chance
Speaker 4: on me, runners c J. Stroud? Was you to take
Speaker 4: a chance on me? Quarterback? The Panthers are thirtieth rank
Speaker 4: by DVOA. We're gonna like a lot of stuff here.
Speaker 4: Or to my man, Nico Collins. God, I'm so mad
Speaker 4: I traded him.
Speaker 1: Maybe our man because he was he's three.
Speaker 4: Years Yes, I've loved him so long. Jeremy, Jeremy in
Speaker 4: my home league. Let's work out a deal. I want
Speaker 4: him back. I want him back. A grade on Nico
Speaker 4: Collins bench slash. He's a bench for Jeremy in my
Speaker 4: home league, though, and trade him to me. He leads
Speaker 4: the NFL in yards or after the catch per reception
Speaker 4: eight point six yards after the catch. That's insane. That's
Speaker 4: an insane amount of yards after the catch. This week,
Speaker 4: he gets matched up against the Panther's lowest rated corner,
Speaker 4: Dante Jackson, who allows nearly half a fantasy point per target.
Speaker 4: Nico has a five inch forty four pound advantage against
Speaker 4: the guy lighted up against him. Oh yeah, in Jackson's
Speaker 4: passer rating against one hundred forty six.
Speaker 1: Point three that is brutal.
Speaker 4: It feels like a good spot.
Speaker 2: C J.
Speaker 4: Henderson, on the other side, will be covering Tank Dell,
Speaker 4: who had three full practices to end the week, likely
Speaker 4: gonna make make make his way out of protocol for
Speaker 4: this one. Jay Henderson's passer rating against one hundred and
Speaker 4: twenty eight point one a good spot for Tea Dell
Speaker 4: as well. I do only have a C grade on him,
Speaker 4: though Robert Woods is likely out, so there should be
Speaker 4: a maybe what two more targets for tag Tell Noah
Speaker 4: Brown came off ir and actually performed last week, so
Speaker 4: I'm a little worried there's an I'm a little worried
Speaker 4: there's a little situation there. I don't have a starting
Speaker 4: grade on him, but that's probably why I'm only holding
Speaker 4: Tank down to his C grade. He had he had
Speaker 4: a couple of really really good days before his concussion,
Speaker 4: and he was getting twice as many deep ball targets
Speaker 4: per game than Nico. He's more of the deep ball guy.
Speaker 4: All he needs is one is he's gonna get you
Speaker 4: that C grade. I do have a bench on bench
Speaker 4: grade on Dalton Show Schultz. He kind of showed up
Speaker 4: scoring in three straight in the games. Tank Dell was
Speaker 4: out before that, not so much. I have a bench
Speaker 4: grade there. Over on the Carolina side, Adam Thieln is
Speaker 4: the only guy I have a starting grade on. Do
Speaker 4: you think that's crazy?
Speaker 1: That's normal. That's what you should have here a grade.
Speaker 4: I could list his metrics. Houston's a tough matchup for
Speaker 4: wide receivers, but all the ones that had nine plus
Speaker 4: targets had decent, decent four of them had decent days
Speaker 4: against the Houston Texans. Adam Feeland's easily going to get that.
Speaker 4: That's it, that's it, all right, don't start the rest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, the running back situation has been bad.
Speaker 1: You can get you can run a little.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but Sanders is coming back and we actually don't
Speaker 4: tubis seems better?
Speaker 1: Seems better? Is better now? If Sanders doesn't go.
Speaker 4: And Sanders was playing with an injury for those Tuber games.
Speaker 4: That they did together.
Speaker 1: Now Sanders can't go in this game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I like Hupper secret as a secret here,
Speaker 4: that's what I have. But Sanders full practices. I think
Speaker 4: he's going.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to and now he got a
Speaker 1: money backed field. Juba could end up winning it in time. Yep,
Speaker 1: when we come back, Brown's taking on the Seahawks. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts in that Brown's backfield.
Speaker 3: Pierre Strong.
Speaker 1: Somebody, Yeah, you can also start maybe find out when
Speaker 1: we come back. Fantasy Football Weekly. Fantasy Football Weekly continues
Speaker 1: as we look at the Browns taking on the Seahawks
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison. Browns offense will be led by p J. Walker.
Speaker 1: Is there any part of the passing game that you
Speaker 1: feel good about here, including a Mari Cooper who's had
Speaker 1: some big games and some really bad ones.
Speaker 5: No, I don't feel very good about the passing game. Walker,
Speaker 5: by the way, on the bench. It's not a horrible matchup,
Speaker 5: but he's only managed one ninety two as his high
Speaker 5: water mark, so he's on the bench, as is Elijah Moore.
Speaker 5: I will give Amari Cooper a C grade based solely
Speaker 5: on volume. In Walker's two games, Cooper's been targeted eight
Speaker 5: times in both and he did manage four catches for
Speaker 5: one to eight against the Niners, but only two for
Speaker 5: twenty two yards last week against the Colts.
Speaker 3: Kareem Hunt looks.
Speaker 5: Like he's gonna get most of the snaps for the
Speaker 5: Browns this week, but Jerome Ford did make an appearance
Speaker 5: at practice on Friday. Ford is very limited with an
Speaker 5: ankle injury. They initially thought he'd miss a week or two.
Speaker 5: I'd still bet it's mostly Hunt's backfield this week, with
Speaker 5: a sprinkle of Pierre Strong. If Ford is inactive, he
Speaker 5: would have any great.
Speaker 4: They tried out a bunch of backs on Friday.
Speaker 3: Oh did they?
Speaker 4: Kenyan Drake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a sign he's not playing.
Speaker 5: Hunt has seen double digit carries in each of the
Speaker 5: last two weeks and scored three times. We know he
Speaker 5: can pitch in in the passing game as well, and
Speaker 5: he's going to need to pitch in the passing game
Speaker 5: because Seattle is allowing only two point eight yards per
Speaker 5: carry on the way to only fifty six rushing yards
Speaker 5: per game allowed. Both are the best marks in the league.
Speaker 5: They do allow five catches and thirty three yards through
Speaker 5: the air to opposing backs, so I'll give Hunt a
Speaker 5: C grade here.
Speaker 3: We'll have to get it done mostly through the air, though.
Speaker 5: On the other side, it's a really tough matchup for
Speaker 5: the entire Seahawks offense. But let's start with Geno Smith.
Speaker 5: In the passing game, the Browns are the toughest team
Speaker 5: in the league to pass on. They've allowed the fewest
Speaker 5: pass attempts completions in yards to opposing signal callers, allowing
Speaker 5: only one hundred and seventy yards per game, but that
Speaker 5: includes Gardner Minshew's three hundred and five yards and two.
Speaker 3: Scores last week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I post to you this hypothesis that I
Speaker 5: stole from another podcast that I heard the Week six
Speaker 5: Browns Niners game was so physical and draining that each
Speaker 5: of those teams took just a major step back the
Speaker 5: following week and maybe haven't quite recovered it. So I'm
Speaker 5: gonna give Gino a C grade on the off chance
Speaker 5: that the Browns are still reeling a bit from some
Speaker 5: huge physical battles the last two weeks, and their injury
Speaker 5: report is not looked good this week. Dk Metcalf looks
Speaker 5: like he'll be back and will play, but Tyler Lockett
Speaker 5: trending in the wrong direction with a hamstring injury. Metcalf
Speaker 5: usually runs from the left side, where he'll see six
Speaker 5: foot to Martin Emerson most often. Emerson's only allowed a
Speaker 5: thirty six only allowed thirty six percent of his targets
Speaker 5: to be caught this season, and he's big enough to
Speaker 5: challenge the six foot three Metcalf, so only giving dk
Speaker 5: C coming off the injury, Jackson Smith and Jigba. He's
Speaker 5: healthy and he was my take a chance on the
Speaker 5: receiver last week and he did score a touchdown.
Speaker 3: By the way, all right, yeah, there we go.
Speaker 5: With Lockett likely out, JSN will primarily run from the slot,
Speaker 5: where he'll get Greg Newsom, who's only allowed a reception
Speaker 5: nine times in the last six games from the slot.
Speaker 3: Nice, So I'm going to.
Speaker 5: Keep JSN on the bench, as will I keep Jake
Speaker 5: Bobo on the bench, who probably fills in for Tyler Lockett.
Speaker 5: He gets Denzel Ward almost all game and then the running.
Speaker 1: Game, Lolockett does go? Do you like him here?
Speaker 3: You know it's still still a tough matchup against Ward.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 5: Kenny Walker didn't practice Wednesday or Thursday with a calf injury,
Speaker 5: then was completely off the injury report Friday. Zach Charboney
Speaker 5: practice Thursday in full, but he's just coming off a
Speaker 5: hamstring injury.
Speaker 3: It's muddy.
Speaker 5: The Browns have not allowed a sixty yard runner all
Speaker 5: season until last week, when Jonathan Taylor cobbled his way
Speaker 5: to seventy five yards on eighteen carries. Zach Moss also
Speaker 5: had eighteen carries and got to fifty seven yards.
Speaker 3: Walker gets about eighteen.
Speaker 5: Carries on average, So I think we're looking at somewhere
Speaker 5: between fifty to eighty yards right there.
Speaker 3: And it's not a lot. It's a C grade for
Speaker 3: Kenny Walker.
Speaker 1: Do you think Jacoby Burssett gets traded back to the
Speaker 1: Browns at the trade deadline? I'm I'm thinking that. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking that could happen. He's better than PJ. Walker. And
Speaker 1: with all the questions on long term about on not
Speaker 1: long like for the next month or so about Deshaun Watson,
Speaker 1: maybe it could be deep Please you could pick him up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's a possibility. Ravens take on the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: Some obvious a's on the Ravens side. Lamar Jackson come
Speaker 1: off a fantastic game. Mark Andrews has been terrific lately. Well,
Speaker 1: they are obvious a's, but let's also talk about Zay Flowers.
Speaker 1: We're spending more and more time on him every week,
Speaker 1: which I love. He's already the go to receiver for
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, and we're seeing a slow uptick in passing
Speaker 1: from Todd Monk in the offensive coordinator. Cardinals defense is
Speaker 1: allowing the seventh most receptions and the fourth most yards
Speaker 1: to wide receivers, and prior to last week, the Cardinals
Speaker 1: had allowed a receiver to go for at least eighty
Speaker 1: nine yards in five straight games. And I think we're
Speaker 1: going over eighty nine yards for Jay Flowers here. Flowers
Speaker 1: will see plenty of cornerback Marco Wilson, who is the
Speaker 1: worst cornerback in coverage, as I mentioned earlier in this show,
Speaker 1: allowing the most receptions in the most yards. So Zay
Speaker 1: Flowers clocks in with an A. Odell Beckham was my
Speaker 1: take a chance on me wide receiver. I've got a
Speaker 1: C grade on him. Let's go to the running backs.
Speaker 1: Guss Edwards finally the breakout game. Now, he was on
Speaker 1: benches for most of us last week, but the breakout
Speaker 1: game finally happened in part because they Ravens got way
Speaker 1: ahead and then they ran the ball. Well, that could
Speaker 1: happen against the Cardinals right here too. The Cardinals of
Speaker 1: the sixth worst run blocking grade by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: They're allowing the sixth most rushing yards, the fourth most
Speaker 1: running back touchdowns, and they've got the third worst run
Speaker 1: stop win rate by ESPN. Gus Edwards, I wanted to
Speaker 1: give him a B grade. You know I'm doing it.
Speaker 1: B grade on Gus Edwards. Congratulations. It feels like every
Speaker 1: time I've got I give some mojo to Gus Edwards,
Speaker 1: he gets like the rugel for thirty five yards for whatever,
Speaker 1: or his knee explodes. Well, that happened once too, because
Speaker 1: I drafted him. Justice Hill tempting this matchup is very easy.
Speaker 1: He's on the field up. He's just not getting enough touches.
Speaker 1: He's averaging just seven carries per game. Gus is getting
Speaker 1: double that. So I can't give a starting grade to
Speaker 1: Justice Hill here he's on the bench. Let's go to Arizona.
Speaker 1: Amri de Mercado inexplicably got all the work last week
Speaker 1: and I I thought he looked pretty good. Yeah, how
Speaker 1: about that? I give him a PPR C grade for
Speaker 1: de Mercato chipping in three receptions per game. Baltimore has
Speaker 1: allowed an opposing running back to gain at least thirty
Speaker 1: six receiving yards four times this year, including three consecutive
Speaker 1: coming into this one, so I think he's going to
Speaker 1: help out through the air. Baltimore's usually stingy run defense
Speaker 1: honestly hasn't been that good lately. In each of the
Speaker 1: last three games, the Ravens have allowed a running back
Speaker 1: to top seventy nine total yards and they've given up
Speaker 1: two scores in that span. Baltimore ranks twenty six and
Speaker 1: run stuff win rates, so Amari de Mercado has actually
Speaker 1: got some opportunity here. C grade. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: passing game. Trey McBride C grade. With zach Ertz hurt.
Speaker 1: The past two games, McBride has been targeted five and
Speaker 1: six times. We love that from the tight end position,
Speaker 1: but this is a very tough matchup, Ravens only allowing
Speaker 1: an average of four catches for twenty nine yards to
Speaker 1: the position. I think McBride is startable on expected volume
Speaker 1: here of like five or six targets, but it's not
Speaker 1: really much upside against a very good defense C grade
Speaker 1: for Trey McBride, Mark Keith Hollywood Brown. Since the return
Speaker 1: of cornerback Marlin Humphrey, Baltimore secondary's turned elite, allowing one
Speaker 1: score to a wide receiver since Week two. That's it.
Speaker 1: The receivers who've had success against Baltimore are bigger, physical
Speaker 1: receivers and that's not Hollywood Brown. You're hoping for a
Speaker 1: lot of passing and a lopsided Cardinals loss. The game
Speaker 1: script does favor Brown a bit like Aman Ross Saint.
Speaker 1: Brown went fourteen targets in a one sided game last week.
Speaker 4: It's also a revenge game, he said, nineteen and fifteen
Speaker 4: in less, Yes, and anyway, we'll talk about that.
Speaker 1: That is a revenge game. Is Brian's not here as
Speaker 1: our revenge game revenge game desk, but this is obviously
Speaker 1: a huge one.
Speaker 3: He took the desk with him. That was weird.
Speaker 1: That was weird. The difference, the reason it might not
Speaker 1: be a total revenge game though. For Marquis Brown, he
Speaker 1: asked to be traded and the team said, all right,
Speaker 1: if you really want to go, we'll let you go.
Speaker 1: And so, you know, I don't know if there's a
Speaker 1: lot of bad blood here but maybe they're let's go
Speaker 1: to our last matchup of this segment, Raiders taking on
Speaker 1: the Lions in scott Yeah. You know, for a workhorse back,
Speaker 1: I'd like a much better return on my investment than
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs has given me, right now, I know.
Speaker 4: I looked up volume C in the dictionary and there's
Speaker 4: a picture of Josh Jacobs. Yeah. It also said he's,
Speaker 4: you know, averaging seventeen attempts and over six targets per game,
Speaker 4: which is how's the NFL in targets among runn running backs? Yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's really crazy. You want to know how two point
Speaker 4: nine yards per carry? Josh Jacobs two point nine? That
Speaker 4: is not good. Also, and I know you love this,
Speaker 4: He's converted just two of seven carries inside the five. Wow,
Speaker 4: that's why he's not productive, killing us four yards per carry,
Speaker 4: not scoring touchdowns. But the Lions posed the fifth hardest,
Speaker 4: and the Lions posed the fifth hardest, the hardest matchup
Speaker 4: for runners. No running back over sixty four yards rushing
Speaker 4: against them. So Jacobs is only getting the volume C
Speaker 4: and I don't even love it. It's just gets all
Speaker 4: those catches that's gonna get him there. In the past game.
Speaker 4: I have B grades on DeVante Adams and Jacobe Myers.
Speaker 4: I don't have an automatic A on Devanta Adams. I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: you're looking at me like you're shocked.
Speaker 1: Well, just a quarterback play right? Is awful? Last week?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Absolutely absolutely awful. But with they both have plus
Speaker 4: matchups against Jerry Jacobs and Cam Sutton. If the quarterback
Speaker 4: only gets two hundred and twenty yards, I'm gonna guess
Speaker 4: like one hundred and seventy five are going to those
Speaker 4: two players. The Adams and Myers are tied for most
Speaker 4: targets inside the ten in the NFL, with nine each.
Speaker 4: You're not sitting Adams, let's be let's be honest, even
Speaker 4: though he's had a couple of duds. Myers, you shouldn't
Speaker 4: be sitting either. Ninety five percent of snaps over the
Speaker 4: last four weeks, thirty one percent of the team's end
Speaker 4: zone targets, which has led to him scoring in five
Speaker 4: of his six games, wow, including three straight, forty seven
Speaker 4: percent of the team's air yards, five plus catches in
Speaker 4: all but one game, six plus sixty plus yards in
Speaker 4: all games. I'll take his five for seven catches sixty
Speaker 4: to eighty yards and he usually scores as a B grade.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now Garoppolo goes, I feel a lot better.
Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely, And it really does sound like he's gonna go. Yeah,
Speaker 4: let's hope he's put in full practices to end the week.
Speaker 4: It looks like he's gonna go. Michael Mayer, I am
Speaker 4: given a C grade on I know he had a
Speaker 4: dud last week after everybody picked him up and thought
Speaker 4: he was the next coming, Like he had one hundred
Speaker 4: and fourteen yards and two games dud last week. But
Speaker 4: Detroit is the easiest matchup for Titans. They're allowing thirty
Speaker 4: to sixty five yards and or a score to ten
Speaker 4: different tight ends. Titans are averaging six for sixty three
Speaker 4: on them. It's just a good spot for Mayor over
Speaker 4: to the Detroit side. I have an automatic A on
Speaker 4: Aman Ross and Brown, who actually had nineteen targets last week,
Speaker 4: fifteen the week before, so thirty four total targets in
Speaker 4: the last two games. A grade on Jared Goff, commonly
Speaker 4: joked about as a housecat for how well he generally
Speaker 4: plays at home. Ye, they're at home this week. Raiders,
Speaker 4: middle of the pack, pass d but let's break that down.
Speaker 4: Russell Wilson, bad game, Josh Allen three touchdowns? Can you Pickett?
Speaker 4: Bad game? Justin Herbert three touchdowns? Love Mac Jones, pagent
Speaker 4: bagant bad games. So decent quarterbacks have vacine. Get it done, yeah,
Speaker 4: quarterback exactly. I have a C grade on Josh Reynolds.
Speaker 4: Raiders have allowed eighteen catches for one hundred and forty
Speaker 4: one yards and on twenty targets to the main outside
Speaker 4: receiver of the last two weeks. Reynolds himself has seen
Speaker 4: fifty plus yards in five of six games, which is
Speaker 4: pretty consistently good. He's also seen a whopping fifty seven
Speaker 4: percent of the team's end zone targets, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 4: He gets a good matchup against Marcus Peters. C grade there.
Speaker 4: I have a bench grade on Jamison Williams, but seventeen
Speaker 4: point four to two A dot. This is an interesting
Speaker 4: spot for a dart throw. Sam Laporta A grade five
Speaker 4: for fifty three and just shy of a coin flip
Speaker 4: Weekly seas thirty one percent. It's a good spot against
Speaker 4: the Raiders. Got an A grade there, Jamior Gibbs. I
Speaker 4: think it's an absolute smash smot. You could talk me
Speaker 4: into an Ardvark here last week. Deonta Foreman went to
Speaker 4: one hundred plus and three scores. Fifth easiest matchup for runners.
Speaker 4: Gibbs twenty touches last week. It's an easy spot.
Speaker 2: Ran.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of big workload coming here, by the way,
Speaker 1: Craig Reynolds four touches last week. Well, and you know,
Speaker 1: still not fully healthy either for Craig Reynolds as well.
Speaker 1: Final set of matchups, including premature speculation coming up next.
Speaker 1: Find out who you want to pick up now, everybody
Speaker 1: else is going to try to pick up next week
Speaker 1: when we returned to Fantasy Football Weekly. Final segment of
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. It's a segment we call premature speculation.
Speaker 1: As we give you guys you want to pick up
Speaker 1: this week, got everybody else you'll try to pick up
Speaker 1: next week, but they're already on your own. We begin
Speaker 1: with Matt Harrison.
Speaker 5: I've got Jamison Williams, who's fifty eight percent rostered in
Speaker 5: sleeper leagues. In his three weeks back since serving a
Speaker 5: suspension for sports betting, his snaps have gone up each week.
Speaker 5: His targets have gone up from three in the first
Speaker 5: two weeks to six last week, and goff and Williams
Speaker 5: didn't connect in any of those six targets last week,
Speaker 5: but the average depth of those targets twenty two point
Speaker 5: six yards downfield.
Speaker 3: He's going to be the deep threat.
Speaker 5: And Marvin Jones just retired, so it's Jamison Williams all
Speaker 5: the way.
Speaker 1: Did he retire, Yeah.
Speaker 5: He basically retired to step away from football for family reasons.
Speaker 3: But what counts He's done.
Speaker 1: Your premature speculation, Guy Scott.
Speaker 4: I'm going with Trey McBride. Zach Ertz was just placed
Speaker 4: on IR. I actually picked this before that, but this
Speaker 4: helps out more snaps, targets, and yards in reception than
Speaker 4: Earth's last two going into that two really tough matchups,
Speaker 4: but after that he gets three straight bottom four matchups
Speaker 4: against tight ends. I think as a standalone okay C
Speaker 4: grade star for the next two tough matchups, then a
Speaker 4: great streak. Just an add on Marvin Mims. If Jerry
Speaker 4: Judy gets traded, you might want to pick him up.
Speaker 4: He's like seven percent roster.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. Washington's running back situations bad. Brian Robinson
Speaker 1: is not working out Since Week three. He hasn't top
Speaker 1: fifty rushing yards and he's averaging two point nine yards
Speaker 1: per carry, and last week your leading rusher for the
Speaker 1: Commanders was rookie running back Chris Rodriguez. Yes, he could
Speaker 1: end up being the starting running back before long because
Speaker 1: they've got to make a change.
Speaker 4: You want a fun steat. He only played nine snaps
Speaker 4: on offense nine times.
Speaker 1: You say no kidding for.
Speaker 3: Chris the Jet Rodriguez.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's built basically like Brian Robinson. He's a big back,
Speaker 1: a North South runner, and a potential touchdown scoreer. He
Speaker 1: finished last year's Pro Football Focuses second ranked running back
Speaker 1: in the SEC, the average over six yards per carrying
Speaker 1: two of the past three college seasons. Washington needs to
Speaker 1: do something at running back. A desperate team might trace Rodriguez.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the final set of matchups, Matt. We
Speaker 1: begin with the Bengals at forty nine Ers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jamar Chase obvious A. But what about t Higgins.
Speaker 5: He hasn't scored or topped two receptions in a game
Speaker 5: since Week two. He's averaging twenty nine yards per game
Speaker 5: on the season. He's facing a Niners defense that's given
Speaker 5: up a lot of receptions in yards to opposing wide receivers,
Speaker 5: the fifth most receptions at fifteen per game, in the
Speaker 5: eleventh most yards at one sixty per game, and he should.
Speaker 3: Be mostly healthy coming off the bye week.
Speaker 5: I'll throw a C grade on Higgins, but I'm still
Speaker 5: worried about him a little bit. Joe Burrow gets a bee,
Speaker 5: he's going to have to throw. Everyone does against the Niners.
Speaker 5: They're allowing the second most pass attempts. Teams are averaging
Speaker 5: forty pass attempts per game against the Niners. Kirk Cousins
Speaker 5: managed three hundred and seventy eight yards and two scores
Speaker 5: last week. Seems like a healthy Joe Burrow shouldn't be
Speaker 5: far off those numbers.
Speaker 3: Is Joe Mixon still good?
Speaker 1: No, No, I can't answer that for you. No.
Speaker 4: Uneeded up the middle constantly with him, which isn't good.
Speaker 5: The Bengals are giving him almost one hundred percent of
Speaker 5: the rushing tempts he has ninety six on the season.
Speaker 5: The other Bengals running backs have carried the ball a
Speaker 5: total of nine times.
Speaker 3: No way all season.
Speaker 5: Wow, that's not that's nothing. Mixon has only scored once
Speaker 5: on the season as well. Volume is king, though, That's
Speaker 5: why he gets the patented Scott Fish volume see here.
Speaker 5: San Francisco, allowing ninety four total yards to opposing runners.
Speaker 5: Nearly all of that goes to Mixon, another running back
Speaker 5: who takes almost all the work as Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 3: He's an eight grade.
Speaker 5: Brock Purdy and Sam Darnold are the quarterbacks for the Niners.
Speaker 5: Perty felt concussion symptoms on the plane ride home from
Speaker 5: Minnesota Monday night and was limited in practice on Thursday
Speaker 5: and Friday. Almost zero players who've been put in the
Speaker 5: concussion protocol have played the but it sounds like Purties
Speaker 5: lined up to play, So we either get Brock Purdy,
Speaker 5: who's also looked pretty shaky at best for the last
Speaker 5: two weeks, or Sam Darnold. Matchup not good. The Bengals
Speaker 5: are top ten in completions allowed, pass yards, pass touchdowns
Speaker 5: and interceptions taken away. Whoever is the quarterback for this.
Speaker 3: Game, I'm leaving them on the bench.
Speaker 5: Deebo Samuel already been ruled out with a shoulder injury.
Speaker 5: That leaves Brandon Ayuk and Juwan Jennings as the likely
Speaker 5: focal points. With questions at quarterback, it leaves much to
Speaker 5: the matchup, and the Bengals are a top ten defense
Speaker 5: against the wide receiver position. They've only allowed four touchdowns
Speaker 5: to the position through six games, and only two wide
Speaker 5: receivers have topped seventy yards this season. With Deebo out
Speaker 5: last week, Ayuk only saw six targets. In fact, he's
Speaker 5: at exactly six targets in four of his last five games.
Speaker 5: I'm going to leave all the wide receivers on the bench.
Speaker 5: George Kittle is the only receiver I would start. Tight
Speaker 5: ends with any type of talent have done well against
Speaker 5: Cincy this year. Mark Andrews at five for forty five
Speaker 5: in a score, Tyler Higbee had five for seventy one.
Speaker 5: Zach Ertz scored against them. That's about all the talent
Speaker 5: they faced. I'd like Kittle to be the top targeted
Speaker 5: wide receiver, not wide receiver, but receiver overall this week.
Speaker 3: I'll give him a B grade.
Speaker 1: You're leaving Brandon Ick on the bench. Yes, you're insane.
Speaker 1: That guy is awesome. That there is no chance, I'm brand.
Speaker 3: They're not targeting him enough.
Speaker 1: They don't have to know.
Speaker 5: They literally do have to target him in order for
Speaker 5: him to make fantasy points at.
Speaker 1: That is true. You're gonna agree to disagree, Okay, Bears
Speaker 1: take on the Chargers. Don Deforman's been great, but Roshan
Speaker 1: Johnson is now back. He's cleared the concussion protocol. I
Speaker 1: believe Roshan Johnson's gonna be a factor here, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna water down some of these carries and they will
Speaker 1: limit Tyson Bagent's usage. So there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of running coming in this game, and no justin fields
Speaker 1: to house all the touchdowns at the one and two
Speaker 1: yard line, So that's good too.
Speaker 5: If the Bears wear those weird orange jerseys, do we
Speaker 5: call him Beijing Orange?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I love that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Awesome.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: Foreman has converted all three of his goal line touches
Speaker 1: into touch tolline goal line touches into touchdowns, so we
Speaker 1: like him there. Chargers are a good run defense and
Speaker 1: a terrible pass defense, so I can't put Foreman on
Speaker 1: a massive game here, but it's still a solid one.
Speaker 1: Without Rochon Johnson. I had him as a Bee, but
Speaker 1: with Rosan Johnson, I've got him as a CE. Johnson
Speaker 1: could play spoiler here, but we can't start him either.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the passing game. Tyson beagent shockingly competent
Speaker 1: in two games with basically one bad pass in these
Speaker 1: one and a half games that he's played almost all
Speaker 1: short passing Last week for Tyler Beagent, which doesn't really
Speaker 1: translate into fantasy points. His only yeah, his only bad
Speaker 1: pass was a deep downfield pass, and I think Luke
Speaker 1: gets He's like, well, we won't do that again. We're
Speaker 1: just gonna keep it short. But the Chargers allow the
Speaker 1: fourth longest and the most airyards, so maybe there is
Speaker 1: some deeper passing to be had. Chargers have tape on
Speaker 1: Beagent now, which the others really didn't have as much,
Speaker 1: so they're going to try to take away whatever he
Speaker 1: does well. Chargers are allowing a whopping three hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty five yards and two passing touchdowns per game. Those
Speaker 1: are gigantic numbers, so I think Pagent's startable. I've got
Speaker 1: a starting C grade on Beagent in this one. DJ
Speaker 1: Moore with a great matchup. Chargers allow the most yards
Speaker 1: and the most touchdowns per game to opposing wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Their Pro Football Focus is fifth lowest graded coverage unit,
Speaker 1: and cornerback Michael Davis allows the third most targets and
Speaker 1: the second most receptions and the most passing touchdowns per game.
Speaker 1: And on the other side, Asante Samuel loves the second
Speaker 1: most yards and yards after the catch. It's bonanza for
Speaker 1: DJ Moore with a B grade, it's bonanza. Cole Kmet
Speaker 1: two very good tight ends of hammered the Chargers Travis
Speaker 1: Kelce TJ. Hottilkinson. But Comet's nowhere near those guys and
Speaker 1: Beagents avoided him in the two games so far with
Speaker 1: only two catches for nine yards and the game and
Speaker 1: half he's played. So Comet did extra pass blocking last
Speaker 1: week to help with Beagent's pocket. So I just I
Speaker 1: know it's a tight end, but no bye week and
Speaker 1: on the bench grade.
Speaker 4: On cl Comet, yeah, that's probably fair.
Speaker 1: Austin Eckler almost gave him a B grade against a
Speaker 1: better than you think Bears defense. Here Chicago is allowing
Speaker 1: only three point four yards per carry. No runners top
Speaker 1: seventy two yards against the Bears. None have scored on
Speaker 1: the ground since Week three, and the Chargers have the
Speaker 1: sixth worst run blocking grade per Pro Football Focus. But
Speaker 1: the Bears allowing the six most receptions and the second
Speaker 1: most receiving yards opposing running backs, and Eckler obviously elite
Speaker 1: receiver so A grade.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: What about Justin Air Bear? Three straight disappointing performances have
Speaker 1: got me rattled. As discussed earlier in this game, let
Speaker 1: me tell you a little bit more about his receiver.
Speaker 1: Isn't a B grade for Justin Air Bear, Keenan Allen?
Speaker 1: Just a B grade. The loss of Mike Williams hasn't
Speaker 1: helped Alan, averaging just five catches for fifty seven yards
Speaker 1: in the full games without Mike Williams. He runs primarily
Speaker 1: from the slot. Allan will see the seemingly improved and
Speaker 1: now hells of the cornerback Kyler Gordon, who has not
Speaker 1: allowed more than twenty nine yards or four receptions in
Speaker 1: his three starts this year. And here's the real shocker.
Speaker 1: The Bears improved secondary has only allowed one receiver to
Speaker 1: top sixty five yards all season. Now, Bear Stefens is
Speaker 1: not as bad as you think.
Speaker 4: These are, really low Mark, that is a lowe.
Speaker 1: So Keenan Allen, just the B grade. I know it
Speaker 1: feels like smash spot, but just the B grade. Josh
Speaker 1: Palmer's been very good since Mike Williams went out, averaging
Speaker 1: four catches ninety yards, no touchdowns. But they'll see a
Speaker 1: lot of elite cornerback Jalen Johnson. How good is Jalen Johnson?
Speaker 1: He's Pro Football Focus is number one ranked cornerback. He
Speaker 1: had the two picks last week. In his five games,
Speaker 1: Johnson's only allowed ten receptions for eleven yards and an
Speaker 1: elite twenty two passer rating in his coverage. That's unbelievable
Speaker 1: numbers for Jalen Johnson. After one of his picks last week,
Speaker 1: he gave the flashing money symbol signed he wants to
Speaker 1: get paid by the Bears, and I think they're going
Speaker 1: to have to do it. So Jess Palmer just the
Speaker 1: C grade and what could be a difficult matchup with
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson. Gerald Everett's battling a hip injury and a
Speaker 1: super low volume, but he has scored him back to
Speaker 1: back weeks. He faces a Bear team that's allowed the
Speaker 1: second most tight end receptions and the ninth most tight
Speaker 1: end yards. So I'm giving you a C grade on
Speaker 1: Gerald Evertt. But he's got to make good on like
Speaker 1: three targets, which is pretty tricky to do, but maybe
Speaker 1: he does it here. Tight End Wasteland. C grade for
Speaker 1: Gerald Everett and I hope between all of those receiving
Speaker 1: numbers with the b's and the s's. That's why I've
Speaker 1: got air bear justin Herbert with just the B grade.
Speaker 4: Before we go, this is that time of year work.
Speaker 4: Go pick up some backup running backs. We're about to
Speaker 4: hit a bunch of buys Mere White. If Josh Jacobs
Speaker 4: gets injured, Tank Bigsby, if etn gets injured, Miss Rodriguez,
Speaker 4: Chris Rodriguez, get some backup running backs out there for that.
Speaker 1: You stretch run Yep, that's that's what you gotta do.
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