WEBVTT - Air Bare Mininum? 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.920 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:11.160 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:15.920 source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. Now 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:20.400 along with the guys from Guillotine Leagues dot com, here's your. 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:26.520 Host, Paul charge It's Fantasy Football Weekly, week number eight. 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.720 Paul Chargey with you. My co host today are Matt 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:33.240 Harrison and Scott Fish. Hey, guys, I like this. Did 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:38.000 you survive the be Jean drought? Oh, the tummy illness? 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:41.320 It was a headache, the headache, sorry, the headache, headache? 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:43.000 Did you survive the headache? 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.279 Yeah? And my Guillotine League, Actually. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.360 It was pretty It's oppressive that he was the most 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.120 chopped player last week. Without a doubt. 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:52.440 I would tell you if I survived if I had 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:53.920 him in any roster. 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.000 Fortunately, you're like, Okay, we get plenty of things wrong here, 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:04.760 but this show identified successfully that Bijeon was going to 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:08.480 get in this Arthur Smith quagmire of usage. Now, we 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.240 didn't think he'd have a no carry game, but we 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:13.720 talked about this thing being way more frustrating than we thought, 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:15.880 and that Bijeon with a first round EIGHTYP. 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:19.199 I love how arrogant and condescending Arthur Smith is about 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.640 having four wins against teams that have a combined eight wins. 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.360 Total exactly, and then he's you know, then he took 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:26.480 a shot at fantasy players. 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:26.960 Of course. 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.840 Yeah, it's game on against Arthur Smith, as if it 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.440 wasn't before. Lots to get to in this show. We 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.720 will take a chance on nine players. We'll answer three 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.520 tough questions. We'll give you three players upon whom you 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:43.800 can speculate, including a player that is so universally desired 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.319 that Scott Fish and I had the leg wrestle for 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.960 the rights to tell you who to pick up. 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.880 It was awkward that you guys took your pants off first. 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.040 We did take our pets off. We watched film of 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.040 him and our pants flew off. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.559 Exactly exactly. Really weird Becausecott doesn't wear. 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.080 It was it was strange to walk in. 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.960 On Rams take on the Cowboys. Let's start by breaking 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.520 down that matchup Scott Fish for uh, this is obviously 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:15.880 a great Cowboy defense, particularly against the pass. Matthew Stafford, 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:16.880 Cooper Cup. 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.040 Right, what do you think those are all players for 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:19.519 the Rams? 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.280 Yes, I've listed. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.760 For the Rams. No one's benching Cup or Pooka. Even 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.360 in a dud, Cup still had seven targets, and seven 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.239 is his lowest target day for the year for both 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.800 Cup and Pooka. Actually, dallas top three rank is mostly 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.280 due to only allowing three touchdowns to wide receivers, but 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.200 two of those were to eight plus target guys. That's 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.480 what Cup and Pooka routinely do. That's right, eighty three 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.160 in a score, eighty five in a score for those 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.639 two guys. Uh Pooka and Cup Pooka will likely get 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.400 the tougher dB draw. Maybe Stephan Gilmour there, but you 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.880 aren't benching either to two scored last week. He's on 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.440 the bench though not enough volume since Cup came back. Yeah, 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.400 same for Higbee. He hasn't top twenty yards since Cup 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.360 came back. A's on Cupp and Pooke if he didn't 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.760 get that now. Stafford has the tough draw on paper, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:11.720 but Dallas's DF really feasted on Danny Jones, Mac Jones, 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.919 Zach Wilson, Josh Dobbs. The last two games they played, 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.400 Party had two fifty two and four scores. Herbert had 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.200 two hundred and forty seven and two scores. Stafford's a 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.880 little closer to them, and he's top four in pass 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:28.480 attempts and yards. Touchdowns are eventually gonna come. That's just 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.960 the bugaboo so far. B grade on Matthew Stafford in 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.880 a pretty tough matchup though. Over to the run game, 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.600 Henderson took on the bellcow roll last week off the couch. 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:40.760 I thought he looked pretty sprung. 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.440 Yeah, all a CJ. Anderson a few years ago, remember. 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.520 The end of the season, and I was such a skeptic. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.240 I'm like, yeah, no way, he's not kidding. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.360 He knows the offense. I guess right, fifty eight percent 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:54.520 of snaps to forty two percent for Freeman, and Henderson 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.400 took the targets, he took the goal line work. The 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:58.800 money should be on Henderson, but you never know what 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.560 this team. Maybe Zach Evans gets involved this time. You 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.760 never models Gaskin is still on the team. Apparently my 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.040 bet would be on Henderson, but I actually have them 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.600 both on the bench. Against this Cowboys defense that haven't 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.920 allowed a back over sixty three yards and the two 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:18.719 times and the two times it happened, I'm sorry, the 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:22.040 Cowboys haven't allowed to back over sixty three yards to 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:27.160 any back with less than double digit touches. Touches, yeah, gotcha. 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.359 They even held Eckler to sixty two yards last week. 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.479 The Boys are touchdown favorites, so I guess the Rams 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.880 are going to be passing a lot late instead of running. 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:37.640 So I got them both on the bench. I don't 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.680 trust him this week. Over to the Dallas side, the 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.960 Rams kind of a weird d for opposing quarterbacks. They've 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.760 only allowed four passing touchdowns, which but they're ranked the 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:51.920 twelfth easiest Why bottom three in attempts, yards and scores 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:56.000 on the ground to quarterbacks. That's where they let it up. 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:58.600 In the passing game. It's two hundred and twenty yards 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:00.800 in a score of posing passers deak Ken run. He 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.160 had seven for forty seven in a score just last week. 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:04.720 I'm only gonna give him a see though it's a 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:08.240 little tougher drop passing. You need some of that rushing yards. Ceedee, 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.440 Lamb isn't going to be on your bench averaging six 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:14.560 for eighty weekly. The Rams only have allowed one wide 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:18.240 receiver touchdown way back in Week one, but Lamb plays 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.440 sixty eight percent in the slot. That's where he's gonna 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.440 get Kobe Durant, whom Lamb has a three inch thirty 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.680 pounds size advantage on. I'm giving an A grade to 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:31.239 Ceedee Lamb in this one on one other mass matchup 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:34.080 in the past game, it's a juicy spot for Jake Ferguson. 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.320 Second best matchup for tight ends by DVOA. Three of 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.480 the last four tight ends have scored. I'm giving a 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:43.040 C grade to Ferguson here. His yards really haven't been there, 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.600 but RAMS have allowed the fifth most yards to tight ends, 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.240 so it might happen this week. Over to the run 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.600 game last part here, rams have only allowed one back 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.599 over seventy rushing yards, but two hit seventy on the dot. 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:58.280 All three of those backs needed seventeen touches to get there. 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:02.119 That said, the Rams are bottoms six and receptions given 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:05.400 allowed to running backs receiving yards, receiving Fantasy points. Pollard 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.440 gets involved in the passing game, he gets twenty plus touches. 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.120 The New England and San Francisco matchups were tougher and 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.720 that's where he faltered. But Theada he went right back 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:16.559 to the one hundred and ten total yards last week. 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:18.920 I got a B grade on Tony Pollard. 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:22.000 Pollard's had a quietly disappointing year. 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:26.000 It's really he's been He's been one hundred and or 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.240 a score in four of six. It's just really those 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.480 he's not having that boom boom game. It's just slightly 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:32.520 over one hundred. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.240 For four of them a touchdown since week one. 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:36.120 Yeah, that's a problem. 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:37.279 That's a huge problem. 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.320 And two of the last three weeks were those two 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:40.040 tough matchups. 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.599 Yes, and you know his rushing yards the last three 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:46.599 weeks Tony Pollard forty seven, twenty nine and thirty. 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:48.120 Yeah, so it's the password. 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.200 Yeah, it needs he needs the passwork, which you know sometimes. 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.440 A good matchup here for it. That's the point, all right, Matt. 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.320 We mentioned the Falcons, and I probably should have just 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.239 started this whole thing. So, yeah, talking about or Smith anyway, 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:03.080 So let's go to the Falcon here in theory Bejon 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.480 Robinson's headache will have cleared by the time they face 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.000 the Titans. But this is a very good run defense. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:09.760 Yeah it is. 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:11.400 But as a whole I wanted to talk about the 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:15.760 Falcons offense. Overall, they've topped sixteen points only once in 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.200 the last five weeks. Wow, most of that's due to 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:22.200 Desmond Mitter. He's like a young NFC version of current 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.640 Russell Wilson. He doesn't pass the eye test, but he's 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.120 still putting up decent fantasy days. It's mostly due to 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.520 his three rushing touchdowns this season, including two in the 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.080 last three weeks, but through seven full games he has 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:35.280 six touchdown passes and six picks and yardage numbers that 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:39.160 very wildly. The Titans defense shockingly competent against the pass 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.239 this year, allowing the fourth fewest touchdown passes only six 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.400 on the season in the fifth fewest total passing attempts 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.200 per game. With all that info, Ritters on the bench, 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.080 I will start Drake London with him B grade, though 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.320 mostly because he'll line up against Christian Fulton for about 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.080 half his snaps. Fulton is allowing a one to thirty 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.000 three passer rating in his coverage and sixteen point five 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.640 four yards per reception. If you're like Brian Johnson and 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.240 you say Kyle Pitts is a slot receiver, the matchup 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.240 could be a bit juicy for him from the slot. 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.640 Titan slot corner Roger McCreery miss Thursday's practice with a 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:16.720 hamstring injury, which could mean charge's favorite kindallvilldor may flex 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:17.560 into the slot. 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:18.960 Jihnon realized he was. 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:19.440 In the league. 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:23.679 Still still right, what's what's the book on kild killed? 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:27.280 Or it's just a you've just pushed it together? 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:28.080 Did dog? 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:28.520 Got it? 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.679 I stepped on my own punchline when I do that. 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:34.559 It's just a C grade for Pitts though, And I'm 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.800 not starting John OU Smith because the Titans are top 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:40.000 ten receptions yards allowed to the tight end and they 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:41.360 have not allowed a tight end score on this. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.839 Why would you give the worse of the two. Why 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:45.800 would you give John oh Smith the bench grade and 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.080 Pits the C grade when John O. Smith is outscored 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:49.440 Kyle Pitts. 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.200 Oh Because, according to Brian, Kyle Pitts is a slot 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.240 wide receiver and the slot matchups a little bit better 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.280 than the tight end matchup in this one, though, it 0:08:58.400 --> 0:08:59.480 is worth noting the John O. 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:00.920 Smith revenge game here. 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.559 So it is a Johona Smith revenge game here it is, 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.120 And I'll mention this Brian's not here. We get enough 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.440 of Brian when he is here, That's true. We don't 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.000 need more Brian when he's not. 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:14.040 Less Brian, less Brian. How about a different Bee guy. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:18.000 Bijon Robinson was almost absent from last week's game with 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.480 what was later described as a headache. He had one carry, 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.480 Tyler Algier ended up with twenty four touches, and court 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:27.560 Errol Patterson had ten rushing attempts. Tennessee has only allowed 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.920 one runner to top sixty seven yards this year, and 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:34.400 they've only allowed four total running back touchdowns through six games. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.280 It's just a C grade for Bijon, but I expect 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.800 him to take over the workload again. On the Titan side, 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:42.920 will Levis looks like he's going to get his first 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.079 start ever for an injured Ryan Tannehill, but Mike Vrabel 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.000 also said that Malik Willis will get some snaps too, 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.680 So it's a rare and dreaded quarterback by committee. You 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.120 certainly can't start either of them. The running backs by 0:09:56.160 --> 0:10:00.120 committee there are Derrick Henry and ty j Spears. Henry 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.280 are getting very similar snap counts this season, but Henry's 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.280 getting the ball a lot more than Spears and Spears 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.400 is seeing a lot more work in the passing downs. 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:09.800 Atlanta has been one of the best running back defenses 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:11.920 in the league. They have yet to allow a rushing 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.679 scorer to an opposing back and are only allowing one 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:16.440 hundred and one combo yards per game. 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.199 That's tenth best in the league. 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.440 They've also allowed the fifth fewest receptions to opposing backs 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.760 at only three per game. So with that baked in, 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.800 Spears is on the bench. Henry clocks in with Justice 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.160 C Grade. Lastly, DeAndre Hopkins is the only Titans receiver 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.640 you'd consider. I'll leave him on the bench too. He 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.760 hasn't scored this year. He's only topped sixty five yards once. 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.839 And Atlanta's combo of Jeff Okuda and aj Terrell have 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.600 done a great job shutting down opposing wide receivers. They've 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.880 allowed the ninth fewest receptions in eighth fewest yurs to 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:49.040 opposing wide receivers. Plus your reliant on two backup quarterbacks 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.480 throwing DeAndre Hopkins the ball, He's definitely on the bench. 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.839 Vikings take on the Packers. This could be a big 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.080 letdown game for Minnesota, coming off in emotional upset win 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.000 on Monday Night football, in a short week on the 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.520 road against a divisional rival in a must win game, 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.160 coming off a humiliating loss. How's that like? That's like 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:13.040 seven variables and tangibles that I'll could tilt towards the Packers. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.640 Let's start on the Viking side, TJ. Hawkinson. I think 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:17.199 We've got to a point with t J. Howkins where I can 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.920 just go obvious a great and move on, especially because 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.640 they're no bye week games this week, so we're trying 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.160 to go quickly through these. Let's go to the other receivers. 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.400 Jordan Addison obviously red hot, with four touchdowns in the 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.880 past three games and scores in five of seven to 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.400 start his NFL career. Green Bay allows the third fewest 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.720 receptions and the fifth fewest yards per game to opposing 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.719 wide receivers, but this is a banged up secondary. We'll 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.679 get to that more in a second. Green Bay also 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.000 allows the shortest a dot in the league at just 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.800 six yards per pass and the fifth fewest air yards 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.440 per game, and a lot of what Jordan Addison does 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.320 is feast on the long ball. If they're able to 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.719 take that away, it could Steiny Addison here. We'll want 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.839 to watch the status of Jaiir Alexander, the cornerback for 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.199 the Packers. He's been battling a back injury he's been 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:06.080 in and out of practices. If he can't go, we'll 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.600 elevate Jordan Addison to an A. But right now, I've 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:12.199 got a B grade on Jordan Addison. Everybody else I've 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.600 got a bench grade on, including kJ Osborne, who's only 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:18.360 seen a slight uptick in usage since Justin Jefferson's injury. 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.560 In three games, he's averaging just five catches forty eight 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.640 scoreless yards. That's just not a lot to love here. 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.520 This is an above average secondary head coach. Kevin O'Connell 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:32.239 just doesn't seem to script the big plays to kJ Osborne. 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:34.600 I think he's only startable and easy matchups, and this 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:36.600 is not one of them. So I've got him on 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:41.520 the bench. The running game for the Vikings is really interesting. 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.840 Right now, you can't I don't believe you can start 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:50.160 Alexander Madison. There's a very possible transition happening at running back, 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:54.320 and at a minimum, Madison has an extremely short leash. 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:58.040 In the second half of the Monday night game, Madison 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.840 only touched the ball three times. Seem to get phased 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.280 out of this offense. He's struggled all year. He has 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:07.079 no rushing touchdowns. Get this from Madison thirteen red zone 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.719 carries ten yards no touchdowns. 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.280 Wow for Alexander match. Just in the red zone too. 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.360 There's a lot of yards you can pick up in 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:15.960 the red zone. 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.080 Still, yes you can, and touchdowns in theory to be scored. 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:24.080 Madison has struggled, and so I'm just I'm taking a 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.120 hands off approach here because I'm worried that cam Akers 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:27.800 is going to get a lot of that work and 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:29.400 I don't think you can start either one of those. 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.160 Let's go to the Green Bay side. Aaron Jones was 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.680 removed from the injury port on Friday. That's great news. 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.520 The rest of it's probably bad news. But man, do 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:39.600 they need Aaron Jones in this offense. So let's talk 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.440 it through. Packers' offensive line ranks twenty fifth and run 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.960 blocking by Pro Football Focus. They ranked twenty ninth in 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:50.040 run block win rate by ESPN. Now, Jones is way 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.360 better than AJ Dillon and their whole season's basically on 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.840 the line in this game. So I think the I 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.520 think we're finally going to get a massive uptick in 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.720 usage because they're desperate. They've got to get Jones back 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.720 and playing. They need him here. I can't back it 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.080 up with I can't back it up with any stats. 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:09.960 This is really just a hunch that I think they've 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.439 got to go to Jones. But with this offense struggling 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.640 and Jordan Love being so inconsistent, they need a big 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:19.680 game from Aaron Jones. He faces a very improved Vikings 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.000 run defense non DeAndre Swift. Runners are averaging three yards 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.480 per carry and a third of a rushing touchdown per game. 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:28.720 All right, let's go to the passing game. I still 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:32.280 like Romeo Dobbs. He has posted solid fantasy outings in 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.760 four of six games, and he's the only reliable Packers receiver, 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:39.160 leading the team in every receiving category. He runs from 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.080 the outside. He's got favorable matchups against the Caleb Evans 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:46.080 and Byron Murphy. Murphy especially, who's allowed a league worst 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.240 for receiving touchdowns, including one on Monday Night, and a 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.280 gaudy opposing passer rating of one hundred and twenty five 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:56.400 in his coverage B grade. For Romeo Dobbs, let's go 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.960 to Christian Watson, who clocks into the C grade. Minnesota's 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.160 of the second most receptions per game to opposing wide receivers, 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.920 and that's what you need from Watson. We need more 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.400 catches because he hasn't been a volume guy, but maybe 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.640 it comes together here. He's got five or more passes 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:16.480 just twice in seventeen career games, but he's got the 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.160 third highest A DOT of any wide receiver at sixteen 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.800 and a half in Minnesota, allowing the third lowest day 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.600 dot at six and a half Minnesota Blitz con Blitz 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:29.520 is constantly Maybe Watson gets a broken coverage opportunity on 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:33.200 C grade for Christian Watson. Luke Musgrave is not expected 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.920 to play in this game. That leaves us with a 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.200 C grade on Jordan Love, who's been very inconsistent, and 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.120 the Vikings defense rounding and to form under new defensive 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:46.239 coordinator Brian Flores. The last four opposing quarterbacks against Minnesota, 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.400 they've averaged just two hundred and twenty five yards and 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:53.440 zero point eight touchdowns. Love seems to be unraveling seven 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.440 picks in his last four games. He started the season 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.040 with a deep A dot. He was throwing deep down field, 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:02.640 but Matt Lafleur systematically shortened his passes to try to 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:06.760 build some confidence in his struggling passer. But that shortened 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.400 day out hurts fantasy We're here for the big players. 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.880 We're here for the rushing that keeps them a viable 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.400 fantasy starter, or the rushing I mean maybe and get 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.080 a little something done on the ground if I can's 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.160 seen a lot of rushing quarterbacks who mostly haven't done 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:23.240 very well outside of tush pushes. Jordan Love just a 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:27.240 C grade. When we come back, nine players upon whom 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.440 you can take a chance a segment we call take 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.040 a chance on me. Find out who you can pick 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.160 up off of the waiver wire, and start this week 0:16:36.240 --> 0:17:00.479 at Fantasy Football Weekly. 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.080 We're here for your singing chargers on me. 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.480 This is nine players not normally in your starting lineup. 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.400 Will begin at the quarterback position and Matt Harrison. 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.000 Kenny Pickett was the preseason Darling after posting a near 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.640 perfect passer rating in three exhibition games, then coming out 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.359 of the gate, he played San Francisco and Cleveland. He 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.600 got hurt and had to leave the Houston game return 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.320 to play the Ravens. Hasn't faced a bottom half of 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.960 the league pass defense, yet every one of his opponents 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.600 has been in the top half. Enter the Jaguars, who 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.760 just allowed Josh Allen Gardner, Minshew and Derek Carr to 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:38.800 each throw for three hundred yards against them in the 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:41.399 last three weeks. In fact, the only quarterback the Jags 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.480 were able to hold under twenty standard Fantasy points was 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:45.240 Desmond Mitter. 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.560 Wow, I love that angle, Kenny Pickett, let's go. 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.560 I love it. Actually, that's fantastic. I just sort of 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.879 Kenny Pickett's just so off radar. Yeah, I love it. 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:56.679 Who's your take a chance with me? Quarterbacks? 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.280 Scott, I'm gonna go with Derek Carr. This week, Five 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.080 of seven quarter to face the Colts hit three hundred 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.560 yards and or multiple scores, except Ryan Tannehill and PJ. Walker, 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.679 which is kind of understandable. Carl himself has done that 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.480 in three straight games. Two of those defense were far 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:15.399 far better than the bottom ten ranked against fantasy quarterbacks 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:19.240 and bottom ten in Dvoa Indianapolis Colts. 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:20.200 C J. 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.960 Stroud goes up against Carolina, He's might take a chance 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.959 on me quarterback? Multiple touchdowns in four different games this 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.720 year and a top twelve quarterback in four different games 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.119 this year, And amazingly for a rookie. 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.760 You're teetering on Stroud not being a take a chance 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:35.960 on me quarterback anymore. 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:36.240 It is. 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:37.640 This is your last one. 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:39.320 In my homigue, is my every week starter. 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.600 Get that here at we're heading into the We're heading 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.840 into the midway point of the season. C J. Stroud's 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.320 thrown one interception as a rookie. And this despite as 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:53.080 I often mentioned in the show, eight offensive linemen going 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:54.679 on ir and yet here we. 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:56.800 Are with mister Tank Dell for a couple of weeks. 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.360 And missing Tank Dell. Great budding chemistry with Tank Dell 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:02.199 and Nico Collins. I love it offensive line coming out 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.280 of this week's by healthier and that includes key guys. 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.600 Laramie Tunzel's been playing hurt, Titus Howard's been playing hurt. 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:12.200 Their back Carolina ranks twenty fourth in coverage. They've allowed 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.400 multiple passing touchdowns in three straight games. 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:16.680 C J. Stroud. 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:18.880 Let's go to the running back position, Matt. 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.640 I'm staying in Pittsburgh, and we brought this up last 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:24.480 week that Jalen Warren had outscored Naj Harris in every 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.040 game so far the season. Well, the Steelers must have 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:29.240 listened to the show, because Harris finally won a week. 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:30.600 Well, he scored a touchdown. 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.439 Yeah, right now, it's like a fifty five to forty 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:35.800 five split in snap counts in favor of Nase, and 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.480 almost the similar spread and opportunities when you add the 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:42.840 rush attempts and targets, Nase leads fourteen to eleven on opportunities. 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:45.880 What is different is Warren is seeing over four targets 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:48.560 per game out of the backfield and naj hasn't seen 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:51.399 four targets in a game this season. The Jaguars on 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:53.560 paper look like a middle of the pack running back defense, 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:56.399 but they have one big hole, and that's pass catching backs. 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:58.920