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Speaker 1: Welcome to a week seven edition of Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: I'm Paul Charchy and my co host today Matt Harrison
Speaker 1: and Thornystrom.
Speaker 4: Hey guys, we're already at the midway point of the
Speaker 4: fantasy season of the regular season.
Speaker 1: Yes here we are. Unbelievable. Half the regular season's over. Yeah,
Speaker 1: where does it go?
Speaker 4: It's time to put up or shut up? That's where
Speaker 4: it goes.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, let's go. Let's go put up this week
Speaker 1: by breaking down all the remaining games on the schedule,
Speaker 1: including the London game. We'll go through the We got
Speaker 1: two Monday Nighters. This is a long stretch of games.
Speaker 1: They start early Sunday, they go deep into Monday night.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what the random formula is for
Speaker 1: the two game Monday Nighters. It's just whenever they feel
Speaker 1: like it. I guess.
Speaker 4: Well, there's only two teams on buy this week, so
Speaker 4: I think I think the league just kind of likes
Speaker 4: the double Monday nighters.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you. I like it too. I
Speaker 1: think I don't understand why they don't do an East
Speaker 1: Coast game in a West Coast game and off set
Speaker 1: them by like two hours. You could, yeah, right, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll give you like five hours of football, absolutely, you know.
Speaker 1: But they run them almost concurrently, so I guess maybe
Speaker 1: if one of them sucks, you can go to the
Speaker 1: other one. But I don't know. You'd think they'd want
Speaker 1: to stagger them to get everybody watching one and then
Speaker 1: everybody watching the other.
Speaker 5: They should.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. The NFL rarely gets these things wrong,
Speaker 1: but I think they got this part wrong. They've been
Speaker 1: getting the afternoon schedule wrong.
Speaker 4: For all that is true, there's only three afternoon games all,
Speaker 4: and there's.
Speaker 1: Like ten earlies. I hate that because, well, I won't
Speaker 1: even get into take a chance on me. We'll give
Speaker 1: you nine players that are not normally and you starting
Speaker 1: line well three tough questions will have premature speculation like
Speaker 1: we always do in season. You know, we've got our
Speaker 1: rhythm for our in season shows. He always, we're always
Speaker 1: glad that you are here and we get a chance
Speaker 1: to break down some games, including Miami Dolphins taking on
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts. As of this recording, they have not
Speaker 1: officially gave a quarterback for Miami, but it's presumed to
Speaker 1: be Tyler Humley. It's Tyler Huntley.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping the Dolphins took the bye week to figure
Speaker 4: out how to get Tyler Huntley to actually move the ball,
Speaker 4: but it's not looking good. Their offense is a mess.
Speaker 4: Here's the Dolphins you might want to start. Let's start
Speaker 4: with Tyreek Hill. He's worth a CEA. Hasn't topped seventy
Speaker 4: yards or scored since Week one, but he was targeted
Speaker 4: by Tyler Huntley nine times in their Week five contests
Speaker 4: against the Patriots. N six different wide receivers of top
Speaker 4: seventy yards against the Colts this year, with four of
Speaker 4: those going over one hundred and ten. Almost all of
Speaker 4: that has been against Jalen Jones, who exclusively plays the
Speaker 4: right side of the field for the Colts. Secondary He's
Speaker 4: allowed three hundred and forty one yards in his coverage
Speaker 4: through six games. That's a lot on the left side.
Speaker 4: Samuel Womack the third food He's only allowed twenty seven yards,
Speaker 4: so they really got to attack the right side. Jaylen Waddle,
Speaker 4: by the way, goes to the left side more often,
Speaker 4: so he gets SW three and he's on the bench.
Speaker 4: We gotta leave Huntley on the bench or whatever quarterback
Speaker 4: they're throwing in there, because they're all on the waiver
Speaker 4: wire in most leagues.
Speaker 1: But john Ou Smith is kind of interesting targeted. Say
Speaker 1: tell me more about Johnny Smith.
Speaker 4: Ah, he was targeted on thirty seven percent of his
Speaker 4: routes run in Week five, saw twenty one percent of
Speaker 4: Huntley's air yards in that game. And he faces a
Speaker 4: Colts team that has been roasted by tight ends. Cole
Speaker 4: Comet and Pat Fryermouth both had top five tight end
Speaker 4: days against them. Even Jacksonville's Brenton Strange managed four catches
Speaker 4: twenty four yards in a score. John U Johanu gets
Speaker 4: a C. As for the running game, Devon h Chan
Speaker 4: likely back from his concussion, that maybe muddies the water
Speaker 4: a bit.
Speaker 1: It's a good matchup too.
Speaker 4: The Colts have allowed the fourth most rushing yards and
Speaker 4: the third most combo yards to backs at one hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty seven. Game problem is how much Raheem Mostert
Speaker 4: do we get how much Jalen Wright do we get?
Speaker 4: When both Mostert and a Chan were healthy way back
Speaker 4: in Week one, it was thirty seven snaps for a Chan,
Speaker 4: thirty one for Mostert, and that week Jeff Wilson got eleven.
Speaker 4: That's probably the most likely outcome here, with h Chan
Speaker 4: and Mostert probably getting about forty percent of the snaps
Speaker 4: in another fifteen to twenty going toward right. So again,
Speaker 4: muster a C start on a Chan and Mostert, and
Speaker 4: that SEA is for cautiously optimistic. On the Colts side,
Speaker 4: Jonathan Taylor out again. It's a shame because this would
Speaker 4: have set up is a JT masterpiece. The Colts have, Sorry,
Speaker 4: the Dolphins have a running back. Have allowed a running
Speaker 4: back to score nine times already this year through five games.
Speaker 4: That's the third most in the league. They're also allowing
Speaker 4: four point nine yards per carry, So we're gonna get
Speaker 4: Trey Sermon probably getting the bigger share of the carries.
Speaker 4: He was limited in practice on Thursday though with a
Speaker 4: knee injury, but he's trending in the right direction. Provided
Speaker 4: Sermon is healthy, he gets the SEA start and Tyler Goodson.
Speaker 1: I like Goodson for better well Chrace. Sermon's so bad if.
Speaker 4: We find out the sermon on Sunday is not a
Speaker 4: happy one. Tyler Goodson gets a C grade too. Anthony
Speaker 4: Richardson was a full participant in practice this week.
Speaker 1: He will start.
Speaker 4: Problem is quarterbacks aren't scoring against the Dolphins. Maybe it's
Speaker 4: because their offense is so inept, or how easy it
Speaker 4: is to run against them, or the fact that they
Speaker 4: face Mason Rudolph will Levis and Jacoby Brissett in the
Speaker 4: last two games. Even Josh Allen didn't have a great
Speaker 4: fantasy day against Miami, though the.
Speaker 1: Numbers don't lie.
Speaker 4: The Dolphins are only seeing only sixteen completions per game
Speaker 4: for one hundred and seventy two yards. They've only allowed
Speaker 4: three passing scores all year. It's the lowest possible C
Speaker 4: grade for Richardson, But there's better guys in take a
Speaker 4: chance on me that you'd want to start over Richardson today.
Speaker 4: And for the wide receivers it's not good either. Alec
Speaker 4: Pierce didn't practice Thursday with the shoulder injury after practicing
Speaker 4: in full on Wednesday. The late week down grade again.
Speaker 4: Josh Downs was limited on Thursday with a tow Enjine
Speaker 4: and only practice once last week. Michael Pittman's been playing
Speaker 4: through a back injury, one that they were speculating might
Speaker 4: land him on IR, but he doesn't even have an
Speaker 4: injury designation now. And the offense was way more pass
Speaker 4: heavy under Flacco than Richardson, and the matchup is not good.
Speaker 4: So I'd like to leave all the Colts pass catchers
Speaker 4: on the bench.
Speaker 1: And you didn't even mention the fact that Anthony Richardson
Speaker 1: just SAPs the value out of his receivers unless you
Speaker 1: catch a bomb. Yeah, you know, Joe Flacco. I don't
Speaker 1: know the numbers exactly in front of me, but roughly
Speaker 1: for everybody except Alec Pierce, who has roughly the same
Speaker 1: the same finishes with Flacco as he did with Richardson,
Speaker 1: which is basically, if he catches a bomb, he's If
Speaker 1: he doesn't, he gives you nothing. For Downs and Pittman,
Speaker 1: they each jump up about thirty spots per week under
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco, go down thirty spots under Richardson, and weekly
Speaker 1: finish it is. It has been a huge delta for them.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Cincinnati Bengals taking on the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns thor Bengals offense has been much much better are lately,
Speaker 1: and the Cleveland Browns feel like a team in great distress.
Speaker 6: You said it, Yeah, we'll start with the Bengals. Joe
Speaker 6: Burrow and Jamar Chaser obvious a's and must starts.
Speaker 5: Chase Brown. Will give him a BE this week.
Speaker 6: Last three games, he's RB seven in fantasy with eighteen
Speaker 6: fantasy points per game, fourteen plus fantasy points, and all
Speaker 6: three of them had a season high snap rate of
Speaker 6: sixty two percent last year, and is clearly pulled ahead
Speaker 6: of Zach Moss. So we're going to give him a BE.
Speaker 6: As for Moss, we're gonna give him a C. He
Speaker 6: is startable as a flex this week. I think his
Speaker 6: target share has declined in four straight games. You have
Speaker 6: to say it only only has a forty one percent
Speaker 6: of Cincinnati's running back touches over the past three weeks.
Speaker 6: During that time fifteen carries for thirty seven yards. Did
Speaker 6: not get the ball again after losing a fumble in
Speaker 6: the third quarter last week. But you also have to
Speaker 6: say he wasn't fully healthy last week. Then again, neither
Speaker 6: was Brown, so you know you have to give the
Speaker 6: context on both sides. I was between a bench and
Speaker 6: a see here. But I do think Moss is startable
Speaker 6: as a speculative flex play. So I'll say, see T Higgins,
Speaker 6: I'll give him a bee. The Bengals passing offense obviously
Speaker 6: has started to look more like itself as you were mentioning,
Speaker 6: in large part because of Higgins's return. He's wide receiver
Speaker 6: fifteen in Fantasy since entering the lineup and leads the
Speaker 6: team in red zone targets. This is also a good
Speaker 6: matchup for him. Browns lead the NFL in single high
Speaker 6: coverage rate and T. Higgins leads the Bengals in first
Speaker 6: reach year against single high. So give him a bee,
Speaker 6: Andrey Yoshi, vas Mike Kasiki, Eric all the rest of them.
Speaker 5: Keep them on the bench.
Speaker 6: Higgins's return is basically neutered all their value as that
Speaker 6: passing offense is funnel between Chase and Higgins moving to
Speaker 6: the Browns Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 5: Keep them on the bench. Obviously, it's bad. He hasn't
Speaker 5: thrown for two hundred years in any game this year.
Speaker 1: Think about that.
Speaker 6: It's crazy with the offensive leaning coach they he had
Speaker 6: the receivers before this.
Speaker 4: Anyway, what is actually happening there, like they have to
Speaker 4: have Kevin Stefanski like.
Speaker 1: With a gun to his head or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, be pulling his hair out.
Speaker 1: It's got to be ownership. I can't imagine any other
Speaker 1: reason or any any other facet that could make a
Speaker 1: coach play the quarterback who's not the best quarterback on
Speaker 1: the roster.
Speaker 5: And it's not like they have a bum as a backup.
Speaker 1: But ye Jameis Winston. Yeah, yeah, it is. It's all yolo.
Speaker 6: But still he'd be better than Watson. But for fantasy owners,
Speaker 6: can you keep him on the bench? Do what Kevin
Speaker 6: Stefanski's not allowed to buy ownership. Jerome Ford probably out
Speaker 6: in this game. He has not practiced yet this week
Speaker 6: due to a hamstring but didn't practice at all due
Speaker 6: to the hamstring injury he suffered last week. But Nick Chubb,
Speaker 6: the Browns are going to be getting him back. It
Speaker 6: looks like Kevin Stefanski said he expects Chubbs to play,
Speaker 6: but he may not play as much as fantasy owners
Speaker 6: would like. Brown's offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey said within the
Speaker 6: last couple of days that Chubb's workload in Week seven
Speaker 6: against the Bengals quote is still a work in progress.
Speaker 5: End quote.
Speaker 6: This figures to be a platoon situation between Chubb, Pierre
Speaker 6: Strong Deontay Foreman. I will give Chubb a see though,
Speaker 6: and just sort of assume that he leads the dance there. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I agree with that. Yeah, they can't pass. They got
Speaker 6: to give the ball to the running back.
Speaker 1: It's a great way to put it. And here's the
Speaker 1: other thing, Kevin Stefanski, they need something to feel good about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Powering Nick Chubb into the end zone would be a
Speaker 1: feel good moment for a franchise that desperately needs.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and great job by him coming back to off
Speaker 6: that devastating leg injury. Obviously, last couple Jerry Judy will
Speaker 6: give him a c Obviously becomes wide receiver one with
Speaker 6: Amari Cooper off to Buffalo, but while more targets are coming,
Speaker 6: a good chunk will be uncatchable, as Amari Cooper could
Speaker 6: teach us.
Speaker 5: Judy has been playing decent.
Speaker 6: He does rank thirty third in the NFL and separation rate,
Speaker 6: but the situation is bad. The matchup here, though, is decent,
Speaker 6: so we'll give him a see. Obviously, keep Elijah More
Speaker 6: on the bench, and then David and Joku. We're gonna
Speaker 6: give him a bee because of injury. Week six was
Speaker 6: the first time this season he had played more than
Speaker 6: fifty percent of the offensive snaps in a game. In
Speaker 6: that game, he managed to catch five to seven targets
Speaker 6: for thirty one yards, and Djoku ranks number ten among
Speaker 6: all tight ends in the NFL and target rate right
Speaker 6: now now that Amari Cooper has gone, Cooper was the
Speaker 6: most targeted pass catcher on Cleveland by far. So in joke,
Speaker 6: who's going to soak up some of those targets and
Speaker 6: he's at least a big target for Watson to shuttle
Speaker 6: the ball too short.
Speaker 1: I'm moving in Joko up a couple of spots in
Speaker 1: my rankings. Yeah, you've talked me into it.
Speaker 5: I like it.
Speaker 1: Lions take on the Vikings and this could be a
Speaker 1: gigantic game for I'm on Ross Saint Brown, particularly against
Speaker 1: the Vikings defense that allows the second most fantasy points
Speaker 1: to slot receivers. Other slot receivers with big games this
Speaker 1: year against the Vikings Deebo, Samuel Stefan, Diggs, Jayden red
Speaker 1: all over one hundred yards. I actually think Diggs had
Speaker 1: like ninety two in a touchdown running primarily from the slot.
Speaker 6: And that makes sense against Flora's scheme, right, like when
Speaker 6: they said the heat, it's got to be the quick
Speaker 6: hitter right over the intermediate. You go to the slot
Speaker 6: and then when they drop back, everyone drops back into
Speaker 6: the zone.
Speaker 5: It's also a slot one.
Speaker 1: And Byron Murphy gets most, not all, of the slot
Speaker 1: coverage for Minnesota. He has allowed the most receptions and
Speaker 1: the most passing yards of any cornerback so far.
Speaker 5: Hasn't been great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'm on Roth Saint Brown not only an
Speaker 1: a but oh wait, let me give him the fantasy fons.
Speaker 1: Why he's not here, So I'm taking his fans and
Speaker 1: you can do that.
Speaker 5: Ye.
Speaker 1: I have an Ardvark coming later, So all right, outstanding? Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sam Laporta also gets an a good tight ends hammering
Speaker 1: the Vikings. George Kittle, Tucker Kraft, Tyler Conklin averaged six
Speaker 1: catches for sixty one yards and two thirds of a
Speaker 1: touchdown in two games against Minnesota last year, though I'll
Speaker 1: mention Laporta was held to just eighteen yards and twenty
Speaker 1: nine yards, so they schemed to take him out of
Speaker 1: the game last year. But still Laporta trending towards better
Speaker 1: games lately. And the Vikings have struggled here. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Jared Goff, normally a Tier two Fantasy passer because
Speaker 1: of his low volume. He's thrown twenty eight or fewer
Speaker 1: times in four of five games, but the Vikings are
Speaker 1: seeing the most passes per game by a mile forty five,
Speaker 1: and if GoF gets anywhere near that, he'll certainly end
Speaker 1: up with a good game here. So I've got a
Speaker 1: B grade on Jared Goff and a segrade on Jamison Williams.
Speaker 1: He runs evenly from both sides of the field, and
Speaker 1: he runs on the outside. That puts him against Shack
Speaker 1: Griffin and Stefan Gilmour. Griffin's been shockingly good, giving up
Speaker 1: thirteen yards per game in his coverage and a post
Speaker 1: passer rating of only forty nine. Gilmore has been more yielding.
Speaker 1: He's giving up forty yards per game in his coverage,
Speaker 1: but still a pretty good number, and he is not
Speaker 1: allowed to touchdown. Over the past three games, Jameson Williams
Speaker 1: only averaging three targets and two catches, and that's why
Speaker 1: he's only a C and not rated higher here because
Speaker 1: of the boom or bust nature of his play. The
Speaker 1: trickier guys are David Montgomery and Jamior Gibbson Normally these
Speaker 1: guys are just a grades both of them every week.
Speaker 1: But the Vikings run defense has been outstanding. They rank
Speaker 1: number two in yards allowed, number two in yards per carry.
Speaker 1: But where it gets a little bit tricky is Minnesota
Speaker 1: staked these gigantic leads in all of their games and
Speaker 1: then teams give up the run, and so maybe they're
Speaker 1: not quite as good as the stats suggest, and Detroit's
Speaker 1: likely to trade volleys with the Vikings. I don't think
Speaker 1: the Vikings get up by seventeen and a half no
Speaker 1: against the Lions here, So you know there is a
Speaker 1: There is an an asterisk on the B grades for
Speaker 1: Montgomery and Jamier gibbs All right, let's go over to
Speaker 1: Let's go over to the Viking side. Justin Jefferson is
Speaker 1: an obvious a that goes without saying, but let me
Speaker 1: mention this stat from Kevin Seaford to ESPN. Didn't know
Speaker 1: this until this week. No player has more receiving yards
Speaker 1: against any single opponent through eight games than Justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: has against the Lion.
Speaker 6: He annihilates the line every time of the NFL and
Speaker 6: the last three has been particularly insane. He's up near
Speaker 6: two hundred yards a game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's one hundred and eighty in change
Speaker 1: over the last three and over his career it's one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four yards per game.
Speaker 5: But they have not fixed that secondary.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look like it Carlton Davis yet, at least
Speaker 1: it's hobbled in this one. Sam Donald is a good start.
Speaker 1: By the way, Jordan Adison's may take a chance on
Speaker 1: me wide receiver. I'll mention him more in detail in
Speaker 1: a minute here. Sam Donald, he needs a bye week
Speaker 1: to recover from rib and ankle injuries. Used the bye
Speaker 1: week and that seemed to have been really limiting him
Speaker 1: in the last couple of games. But he's still thrown
Speaker 1: multiple touch in every game, at least until he met
Speaker 1: the Jets. And because they're off awesome, the Lions rebuilt
Speaker 1: secondary has not allowed more than one touchdown in any game,
Speaker 1: which does surprise me. But they're giving up a lot
Speaker 1: of yardage and they have faced some quality passers. I mean,
Speaker 1: they just shut down Dak Prescott completely a week ago.
Speaker 1: So I have a mixed mixed feelings on Sam Donald,
Speaker 1: but a B grade on him, and then let's talk
Speaker 1: ty Chandler for just a minute. He's been bad and
Speaker 1: the Lions are an elite run defense against Detroit, non
Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker starters are averaging just twenty eight yards rushing,
Speaker 1: twelve receiving yards, and a third of a touchdown. Among
Speaker 1: the forty two runners with as many carries as ty Chandler,
Speaker 1: he ranks dead last and broken tackle rate, dead last
Speaker 1: in yards after contact, and third from last in yards
Speaker 1: per carry.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it has North South guy. Yeah, it doesn't make
Speaker 5: people miss.
Speaker 1: It's really unfortunate for the Vikings. If he can't go now,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones may go in this game, and if he
Speaker 1: is available in this one, he goes to a seed
Speaker 1: raid because re injury is a pop prospect here and
Speaker 1: the Lions defense, as I mentioned, extremely good against the run.
Speaker 1: So I can only get you to a C grade
Speaker 1: on Aaron Jones if he is the starter when we
Speaker 1: come back. Take a chance on me. Nine players you
Speaker 1: would not normally start. Will tell you who eight of
Speaker 1: them are when we come back after this. Take a
Speaker 1: chance on me. Nine players not normally in your starting
Speaker 1: lineup would begin at the quarterback position, and Matt Harrison.
Speaker 1: Who you got, I've got Drake.
Speaker 4: Many signs of life for the Pats offense last week week,
Speaker 4: even without Ramandre Stevenson, that was all due to Drake May. Sure,
Speaker 4: they just got blown out by the Texans, but Drake
Speaker 4: May someone quietly threw for two hundred and forty three
Speaker 4: yards and three touchdowns in his first start. Also added
Speaker 4: thirty eight yards on the ground. This week, he faces
Speaker 4: the worst pass defense in the NFL, the London Jaguars.
Speaker 4: The Jags have given up thirteen touchdown passes in their
Speaker 4: last four games, including four last week to fellow rookie
Speaker 4: Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was fun watching Patriots fans. Their
Speaker 1: team was getting shelled last week, but they were going
Speaker 1: berserk on all these deep passes that they were getting
Speaker 1: out of Drake May. Behind a terrible offensive line. It
Speaker 1: was just like North Carolina all over again. Dude had
Speaker 1: to improvise, constantly running out of the pocket and just
Speaker 1: slinging a downfield to see what happens. It was fun
Speaker 1: to watch, and I hope he's the quarterback of the
Speaker 1: future for them. Thor let's go to your take a
Speaker 1: chance at me quarterback.
Speaker 6: I'm going to go with Justin Herbert against the Cardinals. Now, Herbert,
Speaker 6: he's only quarterback twenty nine and Fantasy points per game
Speaker 6: right now, and he's owned in less than fifty percent
Speaker 6: of lease. Because of that, that's the airbar, sorry airbear,
Speaker 6: but that makes him a good flyer option. I think
Speaker 6: this week for desperate owners, this is a great matchup.
Speaker 6: The Cardinals pass defense has absolutely ran said Arizona gives
Speaker 6: up the second highest yards per attempt and they've given
Speaker 6: up the fifth highest passer rating. This could be a
Speaker 6: game where Greg Roman and Jim Harbaugh let Herbert attack
Speaker 6: a little bit more. And he hasn't been running quite
Speaker 6: as much as not have a rushing touchdown yet.
Speaker 5: Maybe we could see that in this game.
Speaker 1: We'll see Andy Dalton goes up against Washington. He's thrown
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns in three of his four starts in the
Speaker 1: Washington secondary. They are improved, but still easily a bottom
Speaker 1: half unit that's allowed passing touchdowns in every game. Dalton's
Speaker 1: thrown the sixth most passes in his starts because it's
Speaker 1: constantly negative game scripts and that's going to be the
Speaker 1: case here to Washington's going to get ahead and Dalton's
Speaker 1: going to have to pass. He averages thirty six pass
Speaker 1: attempts per game, and the two passers who topped thirty
Speaker 1: attempts against Washington through for two hundred and eighty nine
Speaker 1: yards and three hundred and twenty four yards and those
Speaker 1: guys through three and four touchdowns. So we'll try Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton as our take a chance on me quarterback. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the running back position.
Speaker 4: Matt Alexander Madison is my guy. And on Fantasy Life,
Speaker 4: this website where many of you in this room are
Speaker 4: actually employed, they have this metric called utilization score. It's
Speaker 4: basically a measure of how often a player is used
Speaker 4: in an offense and really a good gauge on opportunity
Speaker 4: in one of the better ways to predict future performance.
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Speaker 4: I did not know that, but it goes up to ten.
Speaker 4: Ten is the highest score you can get to give
Speaker 4: you an idea. Saquon Barkley's utilization score this year is
Speaker 4: eight point eight, so is Breeze Hall's. Y Alexander Madison's
Speaker 4: score has increased every week, and last week it was
Speaker 4: eight point seven. He's getting used a lot seventy four
Speaker 4: percent of the rushing attempts and a target on fourteen
Speaker 4: percent of his routes run. Zamir White, still limited with
Speaker 4: a groin injury, might not go. Was my biggest miss
Speaker 4: of the season. I'm sorry everybody who drafted him.
Speaker 1: I'm with you.
Speaker 4: Through five games, the Rams have allowed six different running
Speaker 4: backs to top ten PPR points, and players that were
Speaker 4: utilized heavily killed them as of recent DeAndre Swift twenty
Speaker 4: three touches one hundred and sixty five yards in a score,
Speaker 4: Josh Jacobs twenty touches ninety four yards in a score.
Speaker 4: Alexander Madison's looking at a good day. I was, yeah,
Speaker 4: aren't you glad I didn't trade you Zamir Wise?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And then you trade you traded him to Brian and
Speaker 4: then I was like, Brian, what do you want for
Speaker 4: Zamir Way? And he asked for just outlandish stuff because
Speaker 4: he knew how much I loved him.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, now you'd be glad. Yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: thanks charge.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I turned him and Tajy Spears into Drake May in
Speaker 1: our Dynasty League super Flex Dynasty Look at that that's
Speaker 1: turned right now in this moment, it looks pretty your genius.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the running backs, and oh, we already
Speaker 1: got one. That's Alexander Madison. Thor who's yours.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go with Jalen Warren against the Jets. No,
Speaker 6: this is deep deep. Yeah, Warren has not done anything.
Speaker 5: No, he hasn't done anything. I think we might get
Speaker 5: it this week.
Speaker 6: Najrea Harris has a rib injury and will not be
Speaker 6: one hundred percent. Looks like he's gonna play, but definitely
Speaker 6: will not be one hundred percent. Warren last week when
Speaker 6: he came when came back from his own injury, played
Speaker 6: in thirty seven percent of the offensive snaps. I think
Speaker 6: this sets up for an even time share this week.
Speaker 6: You have nauseate depreciated, you have Jalen Warren closer to
Speaker 6: one hundred percent himself. The Jets have a middle of
Speaker 6: the pack run defense and obviously have an awesome pass defense.
Speaker 6: So I think you're going to try to run a
Speaker 6: little bit more. And here's an important point here. Justin
Speaker 6: Field's not starting anymore. He's not around to vulture those
Speaker 6: goal line carries and goal line touchdowns. Great point, So
Speaker 6: I think you're going to see more of the running
Speaker 6: backs for Pittsburgh get some of those touches, get some
Speaker 6: of those touchdowns. Warren should also get checkdown looks in
Speaker 6: the past game as Russell Wilson attempts to avoid those
Speaker 6: awesome Jets cornerbacks. So for those reasons, I think Jalen
Speaker 6: Warren's a startablet this week as a flex.
Speaker 1: Russ likely flops against that awesome Jets secondary for sure,
Speaker 1: and then next week we're right back in the grinder
Speaker 1: on who's going to be the starting quarterback after the
Speaker 1: Jets make Russ look bad. Correct, Austin Eckler goes up
Speaker 1: against Carolina, he continues to be a very real PPR helper.
Speaker 1: He's averaging three catches for forty yards per game. That's
Speaker 1: seven PPR points right there. And then whenever he gets
Speaker 1: on the ground and he's averaging six yards per carry.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's all gravy. Caroline is the league's worst
Speaker 1: run defense, allowing the most Fantasy points to runners, the
Speaker 1: most rushing yards, and the most touchdowns. And last week
Speaker 1: they gave up two hundred rushing yards to the two
Speaker 1: Falcons backs and both of them top one hundred yards,
Speaker 1: so Brian Robinson's obviously an absolute. Hey great, we'll preview
Speaker 1: that in a minute. But Austin Eckler also one hundred
Speaker 1: percent available and one hundred percent of ability, one hundred
Speaker 1: percent A good got a good play, Thank you. It's Friday,
Speaker 1: Matt who's your take a chance to me receiver?
Speaker 4: I've got Demerio Douglas of the Patriots as well, and
Speaker 4: Drake May's first start last week. Douglas only ran routes
Speaker 4: on two thirds of the offensive snaps, but he was
Speaker 4: targeted on thirty two percent of his routes and accounted
Speaker 4: for forty three percent of the air yards in the game.
Speaker 4: For the Patriots and the jag secondary, they're bad. They've
Speaker 4: allowed the second most receptions to the wide receiver position,
Speaker 4: the most receiving yards at one hundred and ninety two
Speaker 4: two per game, plus in the last four games, the
Speaker 4: Jags defense has allowed seven touchdowns to wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Dang all right, I like it, Thor you're taking chance
Speaker 1: with your receiver.
Speaker 6: Gonna go for the people out there that have had
Speaker 6: issues with their fantasy tight ends this year, and you have,
Speaker 6: We're gonna give you a streaming option this week, and
Speaker 6: that's grant. Call Kata the Eagles tight end against the Giants.
Speaker 6: This is your break last in case of emergency starting
Speaker 6: tight end option he had. Kol Katara had a sterling
Speaker 6: three point zero five yards perut run last week after
Speaker 6: Dallas Goddter went down. Looks like Dallas Goddard is not
Speaker 6: going to be playing. Kel Katara had four catches for
Speaker 6: sixty seven yards in that game. He appears to be
Speaker 6: the clear number three in the passing attack for this
Speaker 6: coming week, and likely we'll have a few design looks
Speaker 6: this week to keep the Giants defense honest off the
Speaker 6: two receivers and just being in advantageous coverage looks.
Speaker 5: Kelkatra is a skilled receiver. He always has been.
Speaker 6: Last week he had the thirty four yard catch and
Speaker 6: run last week. I think he's startable for people that
Speaker 6: needed a tight end.
Speaker 1: I already told you Jordan Addison last segment told you,
Speaker 1: and Adison is going to be may take a chance
Speaker 1: on me wide receiver. He goes up against Detroit in
Speaker 1: his two full games because he was hurt for a while.
Speaker 1: He's had a very big game against Green Bay and
Speaker 1: then he got shut down by Sassgardner in the second,
Speaker 1: but that's reasonable to happen. There's a very positive matchup
Speaker 1: against a Lions team allowing the most yards to wide
Speaker 1: receivers two hundred and eleven per game. Addison gets two
Speaker 1: thirds of his fantasy points on the right side of
Speaker 1: the field, and that's where he meets up with cornerback
Speaker 1: Carlton Davis, who's going to play through injury or going
Speaker 1: to try. He is a ball magnet, seeing the third
Speaker 1: most targets of any cornerback in the league, and Carlon
Speaker 1: Davis is allowing a whopping sixty seven yards per game
Speaker 1: in his coverage with two scores allowed so far. I'll
Speaker 1: go grab our special guest. We have our second consecutive
Speaker 1: Jaguars game in London and that means another appearance by
Speaker 1: our special correspondence, Colin mccachman.
Speaker 7: Whye hye jog you buying Sunday thorar beans and knickers.
Speaker 7: We'd be right pissed that you, Jammy Dodger, the patio
Speaker 7: Flanagans and the jungle jacks down our gullet, right pissed thorn.
Speaker 7: Collin's gonna bring you some jellied deals and buy and
Speaker 7: mash East London Fair and that's a fact.
Speaker 1: Thor I need you to translate because I can never.
Speaker 1: I don't know this. This Colin mccockney cockney stuff I.
Speaker 5: Have never seen callin this upset.
Speaker 6: He is furious that the NFL sent them the Patriots
Speaker 6: and Jaguars this week, so he's going to read you
Speaker 6: his matchup in classic British poetry.
Speaker 7: Oh no, there once was a man named Drake who's
Speaker 7: arse was a liverwurst cake. He threw out a pople
Speaker 7: mao said, stopping both of him jumping a lake.
Speaker 6: He said that Drake May and Demio Pop Douglas were
Speaker 6: the only take a chance on me players in this matchup,
Speaker 6: and the only starters, and were his matts take a
Speaker 6: chance with me players and the only starters in the
Speaker 6: passing game.
Speaker 5: Oil Ramandre.
Speaker 7: Given the chance, I would have gotten cash and carried
Speaker 7: spent me porridge knife, loving your mince pies, Oil Ramandre.
Speaker 6: He says that ramondre Stevenson looks like he might play
Speaker 6: this week. We're still a bit unsure, but Colin was
Speaker 6: at the practice stadium down there to verify that Ramandre
Speaker 6: was out there on Friday. If he doesn't go, then,
Speaker 6: of course, Antonio Gibson and Jamichael Hasty would probably split
Speaker 6: time again. It's not a good enough matchup to start
Speaker 6: any of these guys, according to Colin Kitty.
Speaker 7: Cats and Tanks Tarne. He says, thanks Traviy's a raspberry tart.
Speaker 7: Bigsby's beans have Chargy's heart.
Speaker 6: He says that Travis Eten has been limited all week
Speaker 6: with a hamstring injury and unlikely to play, and even
Speaker 6: if he does, he believes that Etn is gonna take
Speaker 6: the back seat to Tank Bigsby. Our boy Bigsby is disappointed.
Speaker 6: Biggsby disappointed last week against the Bears, but he faces
Speaker 6: a Patriots defense here that has been bleeding yardage over
Speaker 6: the last few weeks. In week four, Jordan Mason at
Speaker 6: one hundred and sixty total yards. In week five, Raheem
Speaker 6: Mostert and Jalen Wright cambine for one hundred and eighty
Speaker 6: four total yards. In week six, Joe Mixon and Damian
Speaker 6: Pierce combine for two hundred and eight total yards.
Speaker 5: Tank Bigsby gets an A.
Speaker 6: Grade from Colin Ken Colin and de Ernest Johnson is
Speaker 6: worth a dart throw if you're desperate.
Speaker 5: According to Colin as well.
Speaker 1: Oh, Doug, thou hast robbed me of my youth.
Speaker 7: I better brook the loss of brittle life than those
Speaker 7: proud titles.
Speaker 1: Thou hast one of me. Time must have a stop.
Speaker 7: Oh I could prophecye, but that the earth and cold
Speaker 7: hand of death lies on my tongue.
Speaker 6: No, Trevor thou Art dust I probably don't even have
Speaker 6: to translate this. I think everyone knows what he's saying.
Speaker 6: But just for those that don't, what he's saying is
Speaker 6: it's been so easy to run against the Patriots this year,
Speaker 6: but they haven't really stopped anyone through the air either.
Speaker 6: Tyler Huntley is the only quarterback in the last five
Speaker 6: games the Patriots have faced who hasn't thrown for at
Speaker 6: least two hundred eighty yards or multiple touchdowns. So that
Speaker 6: means Travis Lawrence gets his.
Speaker 1: But that's not the worst of it.
Speaker 7: When Ev got back to the cat and mouse, she'd
Speaker 7: have done a bunk in my shiny new gem jar.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe me pork pies. That sounds so dirty,
Speaker 1: he's saying.
Speaker 6: His best option is having Ingram, who returned from injury
Speaker 6: last week and promptly caught all ten of his targets
Speaker 6: for one hundred and two yards. Ingram gets a B
Speaker 6: grade against a Patriots defense that has allowed the ninth
Speaker 6: most yards to the tight end position.
Speaker 1: It turned out it wasn't dirty at all. It tells
Speaker 1: you where my mind is.
Speaker 7: Bench, apples and pears, Goldick Kirk and bes and shirts
Speaker 7: Colin hates football?
Speaker 5: Was that a high coup? I think Colin has given
Speaker 5: us a high coup?
Speaker 6: Colin would rather you leave Brian Thomas and Christian Kirk
Speaker 6: on the bench this week because the strength of the
Speaker 6: Patriots defense is their cornerbacks, led by Christian Gonzalez and
Speaker 6: also Jonathan and Marcus Jones. Gonzalez has already been targeted
Speaker 6: forty five times forty four times this year, excuse me,
Speaker 6: and it is only allowed of fifty nine percent completion
Speaker 6: percentage in his coverage for eight yards per catch. If
Speaker 6: you have to start one, it's Thomas who moves all
Speaker 6: over the field and has had at least six targets
Speaker 6: in four straight games. Don't chase Gabe Davis's two touchdowns
Speaker 6: from last week.
Speaker 7: Oi Oi thor Oi Oi Sunday thor poking Badge Coles
Speaker 7: and Coke Oi Oi charchy boy out.
Speaker 1: Colin Mcockney, thank you very much, appreciate that. Wow, I
Speaker 1: just came back from London.
Speaker 5: That was well done.
Speaker 1: That was yeah. I mean, it's it's, it's, it's so
Speaker 1: it's so helpful to have a London correspondent on this show.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Calin. That was fantastic. When we come back,
Speaker 1: the Eagles take on the Giants. Eagles are without starting
Speaker 1: left tackle what's that guy's name, Malta Jordan Mulatta ruled
Speaker 1: put on injured reserve. This offensive line has not been
Speaker 1: the same this year. It's the big return of Saquon
Speaker 1: Barkley to the Giants revenge game. We'll find out from
Speaker 1: Thor what to expect from Saquon would be come back,
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Fantasy Football Weekly. It's the revenge Game four
Speaker 1: for Saquon Barkley. If you watched Hard Docks in the offseason,
Speaker 1: you saw how the Giants decided to handle Saquon Barkley
Speaker 1: with Joe Shane very poorly. You're decided we're gonna let
Speaker 1: you try free agency and then oh well, we'll just
Speaker 1: match your best offer, and to which Saquon Barkley said,
Speaker 1: jam it and that was the end of that, justly,
Speaker 1: I think, so why would you try that? It's so dumb.
Speaker 1: I mean, they they must have effectively really had decided
Speaker 1: they just didn't want Saquon Barkley back, and this was
Speaker 1: their way to save face or something safe. They must
Speaker 1: have known it was never gonna work. Yeah, So anyway,
Speaker 1: now let's Seguon Barkley returns to the Giants. He's been
Speaker 1: mostly very good this year. Giants defense a little better
Speaker 1: than people think.
Speaker 6: It has been, although very banged up right now. Thibodeau
Speaker 6: is out and then Brian Burns and Dexterra Lawrence are
Speaker 6: both questionable for this game, so that nasty front defensive
Speaker 6: front of Theirs could be way down in this one.
Speaker 5: Because of that. We got lots of A's.
Speaker 6: Coming for the Eagles, Jalen Hurts and and aj Brown
Speaker 6: of course, and Sakuon Barkley as well in that revenge game.
Speaker 6: They're all A's must starts. Also going to give an
Speaker 6: aid to Devonte Smith, wide receiver eleven and Fantasy points
Speaker 6: per game. Very good matchup here. Giants run the tenth
Speaker 6: highest single high rate in the NFL. Smith has a
Speaker 6: spicy three point two to nine yards per route run
Speaker 6: against single high and plus Smith is going to be
Speaker 6: matching up against Andrew Phillips and Cortell Flott in this game.
Speaker 6: Phillips given up seventy one point four percent catch rate
Speaker 6: and Cortell Flatt is over seventy seven percent catch rate
Speaker 6: giving up Dallas Goddard is out because of that hamstring issue,
Speaker 6: which made Grant call Katara might take a chance on
Speaker 6: me player at the tight end position. Moving over to
Speaker 6: the Giants, Daniel Jones, he's a bench. The Giants ole
Speaker 6: line has allowed pressures on thirty six point one percent
Speaker 6: of Jones' dropbacks this year, and the Eagles just had
Speaker 6: a season high fifty percent pressure rate with five sacks
Speaker 6: against the Browns. Jones going to be under duress this
Speaker 6: whole game. Don't want any part of him in fantasy.
Speaker 6: Devin Singletary and Tyrone Tracy. I'm gonna give both of
Speaker 6: them sees. Brian Dabele says he expects Singletary to return
Speaker 6: for this game from his hamstring injury. Dab also said
Speaker 6: that Singletary and Tracy will split work they dabel said
Speaker 6: that he wants to ease Singletary back and also said
Speaker 6: that tyrone.
Speaker 5: Tracy has quote unquote earned it.
Speaker 1: He has earned it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, and so we might get a time share
Speaker 6: the rest of the season here. But yeah, with Singletary
Speaker 6: out the last two games, Tracy being the clear cut
Speaker 6: RB one in those games, had seventy four percent of
Speaker 6: the snaps. She was RB seven in Fantasy points per
Speaker 6: game during that span, I'm bad to speaking to the
Speaker 6: earned debt.
Speaker 5: So both of them get sees.
Speaker 6: Elik Neighbors is back, folks, and he returns to his
Speaker 6: A status and must start status clear concussion protocol late
Speaker 6: in the week, all clear to return after its two
Speaker 6: game absence, It becomes a target magnet again immediately. This
Speaker 6: also pushes Darius Slayton back to the bench. He reverts
Speaker 6: back to his previous tertiary role. With Neighbors back, Wandale Robinson,
Speaker 6: though we're gonna give him a be here.
Speaker 1: I kind of like this particular matchup.
Speaker 6: Yeah, wide receiver twenty nine and Fantasy points per game
Speaker 6: number ten in red zone targets. I thought that was
Speaker 6: kind of interesting for Wandale Neighbors return. It affects Slayton,
Speaker 6: but I don't think it affects Wondale Robinson whatsoever. He
Speaker 6: was getting targets before Neighbors' injury. And this is a
Speaker 6: solid match up here with a good projected game script.
Speaker 5: Also going in Wandell's.
Speaker 6: Favor, the Eagles have allowed the fifth highest PPR points
Speaker 6: per target two opposing slots. And then of course keep
Speaker 6: Theo Johnson on the bench.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that is a team that has struggled with
Speaker 1: slot receivers for years. Yes, Vonte Maddox and all these
Speaker 1: different guys and unable to get a lot of traction there.
Speaker 1: I feel like Wandale Robinson is gonna get Pepper to
Speaker 1: targets again. Yeah, Houston's taking on green Bay for Houston.
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon has played two full games. He's finished as
Speaker 1: running back two and running back two on a lot
Speaker 1: of volume. Green Bay right in the middle of the
Speaker 1: pack of almost every run metrics. So Joe Mixon's and
Speaker 1: obvious a He's gonna get the ball at on here.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the passing game. I'm gonna start with
Speaker 1: the receivers stuff on Diggs running primarily from the slot
Speaker 1: this year. Now, the Packers just had to move their
Speaker 1: slot cornerback Keyshawn Nixon from the slot to the outside
Speaker 1: because they finally had it with the Eric Stokes experiment
Speaker 1: and they bench Stokes, so they moved Nixon out and
Speaker 1: that has pushed their safety Javon Bullard to play in
Speaker 1: the slot, and last week in his first start as
Speaker 1: a slot cornerback, he was targeted four times and he
Speaker 1: gave up four catches. I love Stefan Diggs in this
Speaker 1: matchup A grade. Tank Dell gets a B grade. He's
Speaker 1: going to get a lot of j R. Alexander, who
Speaker 1: often shadows when there is only one obvious good outside
Speaker 1: cornerback or wide receiver, and that's Tank Dell here, with
Speaker 1: all due respect to Xavier Hutchinson, who I mentioned last week,
Speaker 1: and he didn't get any catches at all. Alexander's not
Speaker 1: the shutdown corner that he used to be, but he's
Speaker 1: still good. He's giving up a sixty percent catch rate
Speaker 1: thirty six yards per game. He's given up two touchdowns already,
Speaker 1: which I think highlights some opportunity for Tank B grade,
Speaker 1: for Tank C grade for Dalton Schultz desperation se grade
Speaker 1: against the defense that's allowed some good games to tight
Speaker 1: ends in four straight games, including fifty two yards to
Speaker 1: Colby Parkinson, A touchdown to Josh Oliver, touchdown to Nick Venette,
Speaker 1: forty three yards to Josh Wilee. I mean if those guys,
Speaker 1: I mean those are no name tight ends and if
Speaker 1: they're getting a little something done. Dalton Schultz startable in
Speaker 1: this game. And for c J. Stroud a grade. I
Speaker 1: already got put an A grade out there, a B grade,
Speaker 1: a C grade for his receivers. Stroud's the best passer
Speaker 1: the Packers have faced all year, and they've still given
Speaker 1: up passing touchdowns in every game, along with the eighth
Speaker 1: most fantasy points to quarterbacks. I like c J. Stroud
Speaker 1: quite a bit. And lastly, well Damian Pierce on the betch,
Speaker 1: he did reel off a fifty yard touchdown. I may
Speaker 1: talk about him a little bit later in the show.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Green Bay side started with a
Speaker 1: running game Josh Jacobs. The Packers have the league's second
Speaker 1: best rushing attack as a team, going for five point
Speaker 1: two yards per carry spearheaded by Josh Jacobs, Houston Steimy
Speaker 1: the Remandre Les Patriots last week, but prior to that,
Speaker 1: they'd given up big games to James Cook, two Jaguars runners,
Speaker 1: and Aaron Jones. The week before that. Jacobs is also
Speaker 1: increasingly involved in the passing game. He has topped twenty
Speaker 1: routes run twice in the last two weeks. He is
Speaker 1: a very safe A grade.
Speaker 5: Let's go to.
Speaker 1: Jordan Reid clearly has separated himself from the rest of
Speaker 1: the Packers' receivers, so I guess he separated himself from
Speaker 1: the pack finishing is wide receiver one or wide receiver
Speaker 1: as a wide receiver one or a wide receiver two.
Speaker 1: In every Jordan Love start, Reid runs almost entirely from
Speaker 1: the slot where he's gonna face Jalen Petre, a moribund
Speaker 1: corner who has allowed to scores already. And Jaden Reid
Speaker 1: remains in A grade. I've got some other C grades
Speaker 1: for the receivers, including Romeo Dobbs. He's the only trustable
Speaker 1: Green Bay wide out with the team best thirty one
Speaker 1: routes run per game. He runs from both sides of
Speaker 1: the field equally. He's gonna see even amounts of two
Speaker 1: good cornerbacks, Darryl Stingley and rookie Kamari Lassiter. Thor Kamar
Speaker 1: Lassiter's great. Yeah, I had no idea what the kind
Speaker 1: of season he'd put together.
Speaker 6: He was tremendous at Georgia. The only reason he fell
Speaker 6: down the board was because he ran a really bad forty.
Speaker 6: But it's one of those you know, like the Rams
Speaker 6: philosophy of watch the tape and on field speed against
Speaker 6: when you have the shorts on running in Indianapolis, and
Speaker 6: this is an example of how you can get a
Speaker 6: disc on on draft day.
Speaker 1: Lassiter is allowing thirty eight percent completion rate in his coverage.
Speaker 1: That's you know, that Sauce Gardner level stuff right there,
Speaker 1: and he's a rookie. He's the lowest he's the lowest
Speaker 1: rate of any full time starting cornerback. Stingley ranks his
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus is ninth best cornerback. This is a
Speaker 1: tough matchup for Romeo Dobbs, but seeing enough usage that
Speaker 1: I think you can give him a C grade here.
Speaker 1: And then on the other side of the field, Christian Watson,
Speaker 1: this is a total dart throw. He doesn't get much volume.
Speaker 1: It's all if you just you're hoping to get the
Speaker 1: long completion for Watson, but he's got the same problems
Speaker 1: running up against Lassiter and Stingley that I just mentioned,
Speaker 1: So I'd prefer that you leave him on the bench,
Speaker 1: But if you're in a desperation spot, you could start
Speaker 1: Watson and just hope he reels in one of the
Speaker 1: handful of targets that he gets each game. And then
Speaker 1: Tucker Craft. This is a really important game for Tucker Craft.
Speaker 1: He went berserk in two games, but Romeo Dobbs was suspended,
Speaker 1: Christian Watson was hurt, and those are the games where
Speaker 1: he had big games. All the receivers are healthy right now.
Speaker 1: So is Tucker Craft a reliable fantasy tight end when
Speaker 1: everybody is healthy. We're gonna find out, and this is
Speaker 1: a tough matchup. Houston has been an excellent tight end defense.
Speaker 1: Nobody has top forty one yards, although those forty one
Speaker 1: yards did come last week to Hunter Henry, who also scored.
Speaker 1: That's your glimmer of hope and why I've got a
Speaker 1: C grade in the hellscape. That is this year's tight
Speaker 1: ends for Tucker Kraft. All the other wide receivers are
Speaker 1: too flaky on the bench. And lastly, Jordan Love, he's
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football's best pure passer mobility. Aside his four full games,
Speaker 1: Jordan Love is finished as quarterback eleven, quarterback, two, quarterback fifteen,
Speaker 1: and quarterback three. He's got massive upside. Houston's kind of
Speaker 1: a weird pass defense. They have talent in their secondarya
Speaker 1: that I've already outlined you guys, and they've got a
Speaker 1: lead pass rushers, right. You got Will Anderson, you get
Speaker 1: Daniel Hunter, and then Drake maythrows three. Trevor Lawrence has
Speaker 1: a good game. Sam Donold is a good game. Anthony
Speaker 1: Richardson throws two touchdowns on you, so you can still
Speaker 1: get something done. And Love's just playing too well for
Speaker 1: me to give it anything other than an A grade.
Speaker 1: Let me check in. We got time for We have
Speaker 1: four minutes from Seattle versus the Atlanta Falcons. Matt that
Speaker 1: seems like.
Speaker 4: A perfect amount of time because I'm basically firing up
Speaker 4: everybody in this game. Gino Smith, he gets an A grade.
Speaker 4: You're upset because he's only thrown one touchdown in every
Speaker 4: game this year. I'm not because he's top two or
Speaker 4: eighty passing yards in five straight games and the Falcons
Speaker 4: have allowed five passing touchdowns in the last two weeks
Speaker 4: to Baker Mayfield and Andy Dalton. Dk Metcalf gets an
Speaker 4: A grade. Jackson Smith and Jigba gets a B all
Speaker 4: five of those aforementioned touchdown passes in the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: They all went to wide receivers, but.
Speaker 5: Mat JSN has done nothing all year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's going against d Alfred in the slot this week,
Speaker 4: who's already allowed two hundred thirty eight yards in slot
Speaker 4: coverage and two touchdowns. Tyler Lockett, he popped up on
Speaker 4: the injury report on Thursday with a knee injury. Didn't
Speaker 4: practice that day, and those late week missed practices usually
Speaker 4: spelled doom, But then he practiced Friday, so I think
Speaker 4: he's gonna go.
Speaker 1: I like him with a C.
Speaker 4: Grade in this one. Kenny Walker the third he gets
Speaker 4: a B grade. When healthy. He gets most of the work,
Speaker 4: including eight receptions last week against the Niners.
Speaker 1: That's what we love. Kenneth Walker is so good. He
Speaker 1: is I real way underrate.
Speaker 4: I really like him a lot. Atlanta has been good
Speaker 4: against runners, allowing only one touchdown to the position through
Speaker 4: their first six, but their weak spot is receptions to
Speaker 4: opposing backs, where they've allowed the seventh most. And Kenneth
Speaker 4: Walker he's a pass catching back, whether you like it
Speaker 4: or not. On the other side, Bijon is an A
Speaker 4: grade and if you're desperate. Tyler Algier a C grade. Notably,
Speaker 4: on Algier, his snaps have increased every week this season.
Speaker 4: He's had twenty eight snaps last week to Bijon's thirty eight.
Speaker 4: He had more rushing attempts than Bijon last week, eighteen
Speaker 4: to fifteen. And Aljier was fed three rushing attempts from
Speaker 4: inside the five last week and scored on one of them. Now,
Speaker 4: that was Carol and they're terrible, but the Seahawks aren't
Speaker 4: significantly better against the run. They're allowing five point two
Speaker 4: yards per carry, that's the third highest mark in the league,
Speaker 4: and one hundred and fifty five combo yards to opposing
Speaker 4: backs per game, so there's plenty to go around. Kirko
Speaker 4: chains he gets a B. I like both offenses in
Speaker 4: this game. In the over under of fifty point five,
Speaker 4: I think is one that just gets crushed this week.
Speaker 4: So in a point orgy, you got to start kirk
Speaker 4: In the last three weeks, Seattle's pass defense has fallen apart. Goff,
Speaker 4: Danny Dimes, and Brock Purty all hit two hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty yards all through for multiple scores. Plus the Seahawks
Speaker 4: just placed the corner already burns on ir Trey Brown
Speaker 4: is not practiced all week, probably won't go. Treik Woollen
Speaker 4: missed Week six with an ankle injury. He might not go,
Speaker 4: leaving Devin Witherspoon as their only healthy corner. So we
Speaker 4: fire up Drake London with an A grade. Darnell Mooney.
Speaker 4: He gets a B after logging only four targets against
Speaker 4: the Panthers, who are terrible against the run, good against
Speaker 4: the pass.
Speaker 1: We're only one week removed.
Speaker 4: From Mooney's seeing sixteen targets, and Darius Slayton and Deebo
Speaker 4: Samuel topped one hundred yards and scored against the secondary
Speaker 4: in each of the.
Speaker 1: Last two weeks. I'll even throw a pity party for Pitts.
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts gets a B.
Speaker 4: George Kittle scored twice against the Seahawks last week. Hunter
Speaker 4: Henry recorded eight for one h nine earlier in the season.
Speaker 4: Pitt's coming off eighty eight and seventy yards in the
Speaker 4: last two in the tight end wasteland.
Speaker 1: He's tight end six right now. I know it's hard
Speaker 1: to believe Kyle Pitts is tight end six. Good luck
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Speaker 3: Tough question number one.
Speaker 1: We love all formats of fantasy.
Speaker 5: We do?
Speaker 1: We do? Actually yeah. Carolina running back Jonathan Brooks has
Speaker 1: started practicing Will Cuba Hubbard hold off Brooks through the
Speaker 1: end of the year?
Speaker 4: Matt are defenses that play against Hubbard Cuba chasers? They
Speaker 4: are what is hold off? Will Cuba get eighty percent
Speaker 4: of the carries the rest of the year, No, he won't.
Speaker 4: Hubbard has gotten almost all the carries, but because Miles
Speaker 4: Sanders is so awful at his job back in weeks
Speaker 4: one and two, though it was an almost even split
Speaker 4: between the two, Jonathan Brooks, by all accounts, is capable.
Speaker 4: The Panthers will probably want to see if he ignites
Speaker 4: any kind of spark. But if the Panthers were smart
Speaker 4: at all, they'd trade Hubbard right now. He's a free
Speaker 4: agent at the end of the year. There are several
Speaker 4: teams throughout the NFL that need a running back, and
Speaker 4: I am absolutely sure Charge is about to read off
Speaker 4: some numbers about how dominant Hubbard has been so far
Speaker 4: this year. You follow my Twitter account apparently, so could
Speaker 4: probably get a second day pick for Hubbard.
Speaker 5: Right now.
Speaker 1: I don't think get a second day pick, but I
Speaker 1: do like where you're going with that. It does make sense.
Speaker 1: I think Dalton's actually a trade Canada too. Deontay Johnson's
Speaker 1: linked to many many teams across the NFL. We'll find
Speaker 1: out if any of those end up happening. Thor here
Speaker 1: line of running back James Brooks has started practicing, and
Speaker 1: will Cuba Hubbard hold off Brooks through the end of
Speaker 1: the year.
Speaker 6: Definitely not all right now, Carolina is less inclined to
Speaker 6: rush Brooks and they're not going to put him on
Speaker 6: the field until he is confirmed one. But at that
Speaker 6: point in this last season, you have to get your
Speaker 6: round two running back on the field, first running back
Speaker 6: taken in this patch draft class. You have to see
Speaker 6: what you have. Clearly the organization loves him. He's going
Speaker 6: to be the starter when he's back.
Speaker 1: As a reference point, I'm going to give you two
Speaker 1: reference points. Actually, TJ. Hockinson off his acl started practicing
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, will not play this week and might
Speaker 1: play next week. So even when you start practicing, you
Speaker 1: could still be three ish weeks out before you actually
Speaker 1: even hit the and you get twenty one days and
Speaker 1: even then you've got, you know, your ramp up period
Speaker 1: before you're getting a lot of use. Most likely Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb thirteen months removed from his ACL now. Brooks's ACL
Speaker 1: was November of last year. He's sitting at the eleven
Speaker 1: month mark right now, so I think it's almost certainly
Speaker 1: that he will be eased in very slowly. And here
Speaker 1: are the stats that Matt was refereed to. Cuba Hubbard's
Speaker 1: ranks amongst starting running backs yards per carry number two
Speaker 1: at five point six. Oh wow, that's what. Thank you?
Speaker 1: You can keep doing that after each one of these.
Speaker 1: Third in yards after contact at three point seven yards
Speaker 1: after contact. That's amazing. Fourth in gains of fifteen or
Speaker 1: more yards. I'm shocked. Number one in rushing yards over expectation.
Speaker 1: What the that's Cuba Hubbard? Who knew he is? He's
Speaker 1: running great right now and he's getting a ton of work.
Speaker 1: Matt reference to eighty percent work. Absolutely that everybody's buzzing
Speaker 1: about Chew Bob. The fact is nobody's buzzing about him.
Speaker 1: He's playing way better than anybody realizes. Because Chuba Hubbard's
Speaker 1: is languishing in Carolina, they have the luxury they they're
Speaker 1: not going to the playoffs. They have no reason to
Speaker 1: rush Brooks back. I think it's going to be a
Speaker 1: very slow acclamation to the NFL and Cuba. Hobbard's running
Speaker 1: just too well right now for him to just seed
Speaker 1: the job to Jonathan Brooks. Trade him and they should
Speaker 1: trade off at that point. Told a totally different story,
Speaker 1: right And by the way, Dallas could use a running back.
Speaker 4: He said that in the preseasons either though, that could
Speaker 4: be the case.
Speaker 5: They're gonna get there. Yeah, that might be.
Speaker 1: That might be. Why is he falling to like fifteenth
Speaker 1: in mock drafts right now for the first round? I
Speaker 1: don't know top five.
Speaker 6: I put out a Twitter poll if Bjhon Robinson was
Speaker 6: in this draft class, who would be RB one between
Speaker 6: Bijon and Genet And might be recency biased, but at
Speaker 6: least my followers had like sixty five seventy to gen t.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's he is good.
Speaker 6: He is so we're gonna be talking about him for
Speaker 6: the next decade on this show.
Speaker 3: We might very well might question number two.
Speaker 1: Rest of season, New Bills receiver Amari Cooper will most
Speaker 1: commonly finish as a wide receiver one, a wide receiver two.
Speaker 1: Flex or bench level player. We begin with Thorneister.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna say wide receiver two. Clearly, he becomes the
Speaker 6: wide receiver one in this offense that was desperately calling
Speaker 6: out for one. But it's a lot to ask for
Speaker 6: a midseason acquisition to be a top ten, top twelve
Speaker 6: wide receiver. The rest of the way and the Bills
Speaker 6: have been distributing targets, but Josh Allen's been distributing targets
Speaker 6: pretty evenly. So I'm gonna I'm gonna settle with wide
Speaker 6: receiver two. Okay, Matt.
Speaker 1: This for Amari Cooper now new Bills receiver will he
Speaker 1: most commonly finish is a wide receiver one, wide receiver two,
Speaker 1: flex or bench.
Speaker 4: So last season, right in the middle of the year,
Speaker 4: the Bills lost three of four games against New England,
Speaker 4: against Cincinnati and Denver, two of those teams in the
Speaker 4: top twelve of the draft.
Speaker 1: This last year, there were bad losses.
Speaker 4: But they decided right then and there they were done
Speaker 4: with Stefan Diggs and they couldn't be a vertical passing
Speaker 4: offense anymore. They had to run the ball, They had
Speaker 4: to play good defense and play ball control. From Week
Speaker 4: eleven to Week fourteen, the Bills had double digit targets
Speaker 4: to a wide receiver only three times. From Week fifteen
Speaker 4: of last year until now, Bill's wide receivers have not
Speaker 4: seen double digit targets in a game at all zero times.
Speaker 4: The most targets of Bill's wide receiver has seen this
Speaker 4: season is six. Cooper is a better option than anything
Speaker 4: they have, but they're not a passing team anymore, and
Speaker 4: they're They're not hiding it. I've left the Bills wide
Speaker 4: receivers on the bench all year. That's where Cooper is too.
Speaker 1: Wow. Bench great, Bench great. So I got a wide
Speaker 1: receiver two I have from four I got bench for Matt.
Speaker 1: I can't play him this week against a very good
Speaker 1: Titan secondary, and in it's very first game up he
Speaker 1: gets maybe half the snaps. So I can't play Marik
Speaker 1: Cooper this week. But looking beyond that, if everything breaks
Speaker 1: just right for Amari Cooper, he can vault you into
Speaker 1: a fantasy championship. He is the undisputed best receiver on
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills easily right. And I love Khalil Shakir.
Speaker 1: He's not meant to be a number one receiver, No,
Speaker 1: he is slippery. I love him in the slot.
Speaker 5: He's a one Dale Robinson type A little bit.
Speaker 1: Yes, I actually think he's a little bit better. Josh
Speaker 1: Allen is the best quarterback he's had since Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: and maybe including Dak Prescott. And to illustrate the Cooper
Speaker 1: I think is still pretty good. If you look at
Speaker 1: those five games with Joe Flacco in December of last year,
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper averaged one hundred and nine yards per game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, when he's not playing with the trash quarterback exactly.
Speaker 1: That's the thing right now. He's been bad this year.
Speaker 1: He leads the NFL and dropped passes, He's going through
Speaker 1: the motions. He's ESPN analytics bottom rank starting receiver in
Speaker 1: the league. He's been bad. But here's the thing, he's
Speaker 1: Anybody within a football fields radius of Deshaun Watson suffers
Speaker 1: from his malaise magnet.
Speaker 6: The uncatchable catch rate is insane there and the drops
Speaker 6: there remind me of remember when Ozzie Smith. They used
Speaker 6: to give him all the errors because he got to
Speaker 6: everything like Cooper is at least trying to fish those
Speaker 6: balls out, you know that are off target throws.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that. Deshaun Watson drains the
Speaker 1: love of the game from everybody around him. So this
Speaker 1: isn't Deshaun Watson question. It is a little bit of
Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson question and a very lengthy answer. That answer
Speaker 1: is wide receiver too, But he has the upside if
Speaker 1: everything breaks right and he and Matt's right, this has
Speaker 1: become a much more balanced offense. But out of necessity,
Speaker 1: maybe Amari Cooper unlocks more of the passing offense they
Speaker 1: have traditionally had in Buffalo.
Speaker 3: Tough question number three.
Speaker 1: For Garrett Wilson. We got a hit on these topics
Speaker 1: with Defantie Adams and a Maury Cooper. Garrett Wilson, though,
Speaker 1: does the addition of DeVante Adams help him, hurt him
Speaker 1: or neither.
Speaker 4: Matt Wilson is leading the league in targets right now,
Speaker 4: averaging eleven per game. With Adams in the fold, he
Speaker 4: can't keep that up for the rest.
Speaker 1: Of the season.
Speaker 4: And because of like, if this was just like a
Speaker 4: random good wide receiver coming in, it'd be one thing.
Speaker 4: But because of the relationship of Rogers and Adams, I
Speaker 4: think I'd be shocked if Adams isn't seeing a ton
Speaker 4: of target share, maybe even more than Wilson the rest.
Speaker 3: Of the way.
Speaker 4: So I think targets will go down for Wilson, but
Speaker 4: with Adams taking more of a defensive focus, I think
Speaker 4: the quality of his targets will be a bit better.
Speaker 4: So my answer is right in the middle. I don't
Speaker 4: think it really helps him or hurts him neither.
Speaker 1: Neither thor for Garrett Wilson. Does the addition of DeVante
Speaker 1: Adams help hurt or neither.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna say that it helps. I think the guy
Speaker 6: that it hurts is Lizard. Long term, Oh for sure.
Speaker 6: The offensive improvement will keep the unit out there longer,
Speaker 6: and it's going to provide more scoring opportunities even if
Speaker 6: the targets drop off. But like one or two, I
Speaker 6: don't see them dropping off a cliff of course, And
Speaker 6: to Matt's point before I agree, defenses cannot continue.
Speaker 1: To roll all their coverage resources to.
Speaker 6: Wilson with impunity anymore with Davante Adams out there, so
Speaker 6: I think it helps him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, rising tides lifts all boats. That's been a common
Speaker 1: thread for years here on this show, you know, and
Speaker 1: Wilson's been trying to overcome a lot. He always gets
Speaker 1: the defense's best cornerback. He gets double covered constantly, he
Speaker 1: gets bracket coverage. It's always hard for Garrett Wilson. This
Speaker 1: is the easy button for him. They know defenses are
Speaker 1: going to have to play him way more straight up.
Speaker 1: The addition of Adams will provide Wilson with more favorable
Speaker 1: coverage and and Garrett Wilson is just a better receiver
Speaker 1: at this stage of their respective careers. DeVonta Adams may
Speaker 1: go to the Hall of Fame, but Garrett Wilson is
Speaker 1: still better right now. Ultimately, I think this helps him
Speaker 1: just a little bit. Matt's right, the volume is going
Speaker 1: to go down a little bit, but I think the
Speaker 1: efficiency on the targets he does get goes up definitely.
Speaker 3: Hmm.
Speaker 1: Let's go working one matchup into this segment, and this
Speaker 1: one shouldn't take a long time thor for Tennessee, Ta
Speaker 1: Jay Spears has been ruled out of this game, So
Speaker 1: why don't we start with Tony Pollard who's actually looked
Speaker 1: okay but has a tough matchup. Oh wait, no, this
Speaker 1: is an easy matchup against a bad Bills run defense.
Speaker 6: Right correct, Yeah, And I'm giving him an a because
Speaker 6: of that. Almost eighteen fantasy points on a season high
Speaker 6: five point five yards per carry last week. And as
Speaker 6: we're mentioning this a very good matchup versus a very
Speaker 6: bad Bills run defense, Buffalo has allowed the second most
Speaker 6: fantasy points to opposing running backs. Five running backs have
Speaker 6: already scored nineteen plus fantasy points against the Bills. The
Speaker 6: Bills have allowed the most receiving yards to running backs
Speaker 6: this season. In addition, Pollard has a double digit target
Speaker 6: share in every game Tajay Spears. With him being out
Speaker 6: with a hamstring injury, the volume is going to be there.
Speaker 6: So I'm giving Pollard an a going to the passing
Speaker 6: attack or lack thereof. Of the Titans, you keep Will
Speaker 6: Evis on the bench QB thirty two and fantasy points
Speaker 6: per game this year, and I do he shouldn't be
Speaker 6: an NFL starter. Speaking of that, Kelvin Kevin Ridley hasn't
Speaker 6: looked like one this year. You're going to keep him
Speaker 6: on the bench. He's got two catches for fourteen yards
Speaker 6: the last three games combined. Last week, became the first
Speaker 6: wide receiver since twenty fifteen to be targeted eight plus
Speaker 6: times with outer reception.
Speaker 5: It's not all his fault, of.
Speaker 6: Course, Will Levis stinks and Ridley is not being used correctly.
Speaker 6: I find this shocking. Ridley's a dot is twenty point
Speaker 6: three yards this year. It's the highest of his career
Speaker 6: by more than five yards. They're using him just as
Speaker 6: a fly route guy when the guy's his best thing
Speaker 6: is running routes. What is wrong with the Titans coaching staff.
Speaker 6: But anyway, story for another time. DeAndre Hopkins give him
Speaker 6: a cee here two point eight four yards per route
Speaker 6: run and he had a twenty four percent first reach
Speaker 6: share last week. Titans pass offense stinks, but Levis at
Speaker 6: least trusts Hopkins. Not a great matchup, though Bills have
Speaker 6: given up to eight few his PPR points to wide
Speaker 6: receivers this season.
Speaker 5: But we'll settle with the Sea.
Speaker 6: You're gonna keep Boyd and a con Quo on the
Speaker 6: bench and then move into the Bills Josh Allen an
Speaker 6: obvious must start a Then the James Cook Ray Davis situation.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give Cook a bee.
Speaker 6: He missed last week with a toe injury, but there's
Speaker 6: optimism he'll play in this game. He was able to
Speaker 6: be a full practice participant on Thursday. Sean McDermott says
Speaker 6: Cook is in a good spot to play. Meanwhile, Ray
Speaker 6: Davis had a great game live last Weekly, really really
Speaker 6: good game, but a calf injury that he picked up
Speaker 6: was added to the injury report because of that, and
Speaker 6: he's been limited in practice. Davis is looking ifier than
Speaker 6: Cook to play, so you probably speculatively keep him on
Speaker 6: the bench. Give Cook be assuming that he plays Amari Cooper.
Speaker 6: I mean I went between a CE and a bench here.
Speaker 6: The Bills do expect him to play, but he did
Speaker 6: not practice with the team for the first time until Friday,
Speaker 6: so what does he know of the playbook? How big
Speaker 6: will the role be charged? Thinks it's going to be
Speaker 6: about fifty percent of the snaps. I probably agree with that.
Speaker 6: The offense has spread the ball out so far, five
Speaker 6: different Bills players at fifteen plus targets. This is also
Speaker 6: a bad matchup. I think I just talked myself into
Speaker 6: putting a bench grade on him. Khalil Sheer Shakir will
Speaker 6: give him the see he's been slowed by a nigging
Speaker 6: ankle injury, but he's going to play through the paint again.
Speaker 5: Not a great matchup.
Speaker 6: The Titans have allowed the seventh lowest PPR points per
Speaker 6: target to slots. But I am going to give him
Speaker 6: a se on Coleman and Curtis Damuel put them on
Speaker 6: the bench. Dalton Kinkaid, I'm gonna give him a bee.
Speaker 6: It's a complicated situation for him long term with the
Speaker 6: Amari Cooper trade, but in the short term, this is
Speaker 6: not a good matchup for Dalton Kinkaid. Titans have allowed
Speaker 6: a league low three point eight fantasy points per game
Speaker 6: to opposing tight ends.
Speaker 5: So that's why I toggle him from the usual round
Speaker 5: in A to a B in this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense. We need How about a big
Speaker 1: game from Kincaid. We haven't had any this year? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, give me eight catches, ninety yards and a
Speaker 1: touchdown just one time. Yeah, we're ready for that. We
Speaker 1: can take that. We're also ready to hear about the
Speaker 1: game with the highest over under of the week is
Speaker 1: Carolina versus Washington. Yeah what fantasy players all over the place,
Speaker 1: starters everywhere will tell you about those when we come
Speaker 1: back to Fantasy Football Weekly. It's not a game you
Speaker 1: thought would be tantalizing from a fantasy standpoint, but Carolina
Speaker 1: takes on the Washington Commanders in a game that's got
Speaker 1: tons of starters. I already told the Andy Daltons might
Speaker 1: take a chance on me quarterbacks, So you know, I
Speaker 1: like his receivers. Deontay Johnson, you know, like every receiver.
Speaker 1: He got shut down by Chicago's Jalen Johnson in his
Speaker 1: last game, but his other three Dalton starts, Deontay has
Speaker 1: been fantastic, averaging seven catches, ninety four yards and a
Speaker 1: touchdown in every Dalton start. Those are top ten wide
Speaker 1: receiver numbers for Deontay Johnson. Washington is allowed the most
Speaker 1: wide receiver touchdowns ten already, although none of the last
Speaker 1: two games. Last week, Baltimore's A Flowers carved up the
Speaker 1: Commanders and he ran from the X, Y and Z spot,
Speaker 1: and Johnson does the exact same thing. So I've got
Speaker 1: an a grade on Deontae Johnson in this one. Xavier
Speaker 1: Legette is surging right now. Over the past three weeks,
Speaker 1: he has now moved past Jonathan Mingo in snaps and
Speaker 1: routes run. Laget's volume has been low, so this is
Speaker 1: still a high risk situation, but there are reasons to
Speaker 1: like him here. Because of Lagett's massive physical frame, He's
Speaker 1: basically DK metcalf or almost. I think the Commanders are
Speaker 1: going to deploy their one really beefy corner Ben Saint
Speaker 1: just on him. He has allowed three touchdowns in his
Speaker 1: coverage and he grades out his Pro Football Focuses cornerback
Speaker 1: eighty nine. So I like Laget's matchup, and I've got
Speaker 1: a C grade on him in this game. Beefy Ben
Speaker 1: doesn't stand a chance. He may not stand a chance.
Speaker 1: Minnesota kid, we love him, but I prefer Xavier leget
Speaker 1: Tuba Hubbard. We just talked about how great he's been,
Speaker 1: how effective he's spend, the yards per carry, the yards
Speaker 1: after contact, the explosive runs, all of that, and now
Speaker 1: here comes Washington allowing the fourth most yards per carry,
Speaker 1: five per carry, and they ranked twenty sixth in defensive
Speaker 1: run success rate. So in a grade on Cuba Hubbard
Speaker 1: in this game. Over to the Washington side, Jade and
Speaker 1: Daniels and Terry mclauriny have just become guys that we
Speaker 1: can just now say Terry McLaurin, We can say that,
Speaker 1: we can also say obvious a great. Don't even have
Speaker 1: to spend time on those guys. You're just starting him.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna note that the Panthers have allowed the
Speaker 1: second most passing touchdowns and the most touchdowns to wide outs.
Speaker 1: So Daniels and mclorny are just locked in for this matchup,
Speaker 1: but you can also hit a few other players, including
Speaker 1: zach Ertz. Mostly Ertz has been putting up solid, not
Speaker 1: explosive games. He hasn't scored yet. Panthers haven't allowed a
Speaker 1: tight end score since the opener, but they've given up
Speaker 1: plenty of yards. Kyle Pitts and Cole Comet put up
Speaker 1: fifty and seventy excuse me, seventy and fifty seven yards
Speaker 1: the past two weeks, and zach ert comes in with
Speaker 1: a C grade. Austin Eckler was might take a chance
Speaker 1: on me running back, And when I was talking about him,
Speaker 1: I told you that Brian Robinson was sitting on a
Speaker 1: big game here as well. He should a return from
Speaker 1: his knee injury. Carolina is the league's worst run defense,
Speaker 1: allowing the most rushing yards and the most rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And as I told you before, they gave up two
Speaker 1: hundred rushing yards last week to the Falcons backs and
Speaker 1: probably not going to give up two hundred again. But
Speaker 1: another very big game potentially coming Brian Robinson one of
Speaker 1: my favorite plays of the week. Matt, let's go over
Speaker 1: to the Raiders taking on the Rams. Aiden O'Connell remains
Speaker 1: at the helm for better or worse. I'm not a
Speaker 1: big fan of this, but I understand the desperate times
Speaker 1: call for detsperate measures. What do you think about the
Speaker 1: passing game? I mean there's a couple of players you
Speaker 1: can start in this game. Powers.
Speaker 4: I know that well, Alexander Madison was might take a
Speaker 4: chance on me, Runner Bruck Bowers. I'm giving an eight
Speaker 4: grade too. You go not that DeVante Adams is really
Speaker 4: cutting into his workload for the last few weeks, but
Speaker 4: ay And O'Connell has been laser focused on him. In
Speaker 4: O'Connell's two games where he's seen most of the snaps,
Speaker 4: Bowers has twenty two targets, seventeen catches one hundred and
Speaker 4: sixty eight yards in a score. Brock Bauers is tight
Speaker 4: end two in PPR leagues. The last time the Rams
Speaker 4: played a tight end it was Tucker Craft. He scored twice.
Speaker 4: But that's all the Raiders you can start. Aid and
Speaker 4: O'Connell has more career games with zero touchdown passes than
Speaker 4: games with two or more. And it doesn't look like
Speaker 4: Jacobe Myers is gonna go. He's downgraded to doubtful with
Speaker 4: an ankle injury. Trey Tucker suddenly becomes the top wide receiver,
Speaker 4: but he's not interesting against a RAMS defense that's allowed
Speaker 4: the fourth fewest receptions to wide receivers on the RAMS side.
Speaker 4: Cooper Cup might play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how about that if he's a game time decision.
Speaker 4: If he does go, maybe he'll get targeted like he
Speaker 4: did in Week one where he had twenty one targets
Speaker 4: and in Week six, or sorry in Week two when
Speaker 4: he had six targets before he left with an ankle
Speaker 4: spring and it was.
Speaker 1: Six targets in like the first quarter. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Cup has more total targets in a game and a
Speaker 4: quarter than DeAndre Hopkins as in five.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: If Cup is good to go, he's a solid B grade,
Speaker 4: especially going against Nate Hobbs in the slot. Hobbs has
Speaker 4: allowed a one to eleven passer rating and two scores
Speaker 4: in his coverage this year. And I mean Calvin or
Speaker 4: Hobbes right, Yeah, exactly done. If I had to start
Speaker 4: another Rams wide receiver, it would be Jordan Whittington over
Speaker 4: DeMarcus Robinson or two to at Well. Whittington has seen
Speaker 4: an increase in snaps, routes, and targets in each of
Speaker 4: the last three weeks, but Pooka Nakua he's looming likely
Speaker 4: back in Week eight. So that's all coming to an
Speaker 4: end soon. If you need a Rams wide receiver for
Speaker 4: some dumb reason, it's Jordan Whittington. If Cooper Cup doesn't play,
Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford he gets to see. You might bump it
Speaker 4: up a little bit if Cup is active, but then
Speaker 4: it's just an ECDO cooler high seed grade. The Raiders
Speaker 4: don't pose the type of matchup that's advantageous for Stafford.
Speaker 4: A lot of what the Raiders are giving up to
Speaker 4: quarterbacks this year has been on the ground of mobile quarterbacks,
Speaker 4: and that's not really Stafford's game at this point in
Speaker 4: his career. It's the middle of the road matchup against
Speaker 4: the pass. So just to c grade Kyron Williams, he
Speaker 4: gets the fantasy Ardvark this week. You don't say, remember
Speaker 4: I was talking about those utilization scores. His utilization score
Speaker 4: eight point eight on the year. That's high.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: The Raiders are allowing five point two yards per carry,
Speaker 4: one hundred and forty six total yards per game in
Speaker 4: a touchdown every week. Almost all of that goes to
Speaker 4: Kyrien in this situation. Super great start this week.
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Speaker 1: taking on the Steelers. It's Sunday night football. We got
Speaker 1: to start with the DeVante Adams side of this thing, right,
Speaker 1: I will let you go first. I've got my opinions
Speaker 1: of whether or not you should start Adams.
Speaker 5: Oh I'm curious about this if it messes with.
Speaker 6: Your Okay, well, I got a C on him, Okay,
Speaker 6: I got a starting grade on him. Okay, okay, Right,
Speaker 6: So he missed the multiple games at the hamstring injury
Speaker 6: that magically healed itself right after that trade was consummated.
Speaker 6: DeVante Adams cut six hundred and sixty nine balls in
Speaker 6: Green Bay from Aaron Rodgers. So you have the chemistry
Speaker 6: there right away. But will he be rusty? How quickly
Speaker 6: will he acclimate? There are those questions, and this isn't
Speaker 6: the best magup of course against a good Steelers pass defense,
Speaker 6: so I can't great him higher than to see. But
Speaker 6: I had to give him a CEE. His running mate there,
Speaker 6: Garrett Wilson, I'm gonna give him a B. He's wide
Speaker 6: receiver eleven in Fantasy points per game so far, has
Speaker 6: had at least eight targets in five games, leads the
Speaker 6: NFL in red zone targets.
Speaker 5: But because of my questions about.
Speaker 6: The usage distribution in in a tough matchup here, I
Speaker 6: downgraded him to a.
Speaker 5: Be allen wizard.
Speaker 6: I thought about go and see between that and a
Speaker 6: bench he's got. He had the six catches for one
Speaker 6: hundred and fourteen yards and a touchdown last week against
Speaker 6: the Bills.
Speaker 5: At least seven targets and four games this year.
Speaker 6: We talked before about how the DeVante Adams acquisition is
Speaker 6: going to hurt him long term, but.
Speaker 5: Maybe not this week. He could be a sneaky played
Speaker 5: this week.
Speaker 6: The Steelers figure to roll their coverage to Adams and Wilson.
Speaker 6: They have the two good cornerbacks there, but it's it's
Speaker 6: no sure thing that Adams integrates into the offense immediately,
Speaker 6: and so there could be some targets coming Lizard's way.
Speaker 6: I'll give him a tepen See. Actually, now that I
Speaker 6: talk myself.
Speaker 1: Through, Zzard could play the slot. I would feel better
Speaker 1: about him being on the field with Adams, but he doesn't,
Speaker 1: and I don't. I don't know, man, I just this
Speaker 1: feels like a DeVante Adams game to me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you're you're talking myself the other way.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you guys this, Do you believe Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers played a role in engineering the trade that got
Speaker 1: Davante Adams to the Jets.
Speaker 6: Yes, and he also played a role in getting Robert
Speaker 6: Thali fired at everything in between the acquisition of Lazard
Speaker 6: and that Bob.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, don't.
Speaker 1: You think Aaron Rodgers is petty enough to validate his
Speaker 1: own trade on national television by pepper ring Davonte Adams
Speaker 1: with targets. I think he's gonna do it.
Speaker 5: I'm upgrading Adams to a bee.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 5: We're putting Lazard on the bench and yeah, and for.
Speaker 1: Whatever it's worth. You know, Nathaniel Hackett came out of
Speaker 1: Friday and basically said that the whole playbooks available to
Speaker 1: Devanta Adams. You know, maybe he knows the playbook. It
Speaker 1: was Hacket's playbook, dam bay. So they know what they're doing.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I just feel like Rogers is gonna make sure Adams
Speaker 1: has a good game here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so yeah, we'll upgrade him to a bee.
Speaker 6: Rogers himself, though, I got to give him a bench grade.
Speaker 5: I have to.
Speaker 4: By the way, the Steelers know this too, and they're
Speaker 4: gonna throw like three picks to Devonte Adams.
Speaker 1: You're just gonna jump the routes all the time.
Speaker 5: Rogers dealing with an angle injury.
Speaker 6: Of course, he'll play a little bit hobbled, but he's
Speaker 6: only one of he's one of five quarterbacks in the NFL.
Speaker 6: To start every game without a top ten fantasy finish.
Speaker 5: I don't think this is the best matchup to reverse that.
Speaker 6: The Steelers have a really good pass defense and no
Speaker 6: quarterback has scored more than sixteen point four Fantasy points
Speaker 6: against the Pittsburgh defense this year. So only in emergency
Speaker 6: case when I start Rodgers this week, bre saw, I'm
Speaker 6: gonna give him an a. He ripped up the bad
Speaker 6: Bills run defense last week one hundred and sixty nine
Speaker 6: total yards, twenty three touches. Obvious must start, and then
Speaker 6: we are keep Tyler Conklin on the bench. Speaking of
Speaker 6: the bench, moving to the Steelers, now, keep Russell Wilson there.
Speaker 6: If you sign him this week, I would keep him
Speaker 6: on the bench this week. This is a bad matchup
Speaker 6: for his return. Charger was mentioned in that before. It
Speaker 6: feels like they are throwing him into the wood chipper here.
Speaker 6: I don't know how he succeeds against that Jets pass d.
Speaker 1: Right, it's such a tough spot for us to drop into.
Speaker 6: Yeah, why not start Fields for one more week and
Speaker 6: have at least he can manufactured yards with his legs?
Speaker 5: But I digress. The Jets.
Speaker 6: The Jets pass defense given up only four passing touchdowns
Speaker 6: and the third few is fantasy points per game to
Speaker 6: opposing quarterbacks. Then you have the Najor Harris Jayalen Warren thing.
Speaker 6: We talked about that a little bit before with Warren.
Speaker 6: Beam might take a chance on me, guy Harris. He
Speaker 6: is on the injury report with ribs injury, but it's
Speaker 6: reported that it's minor and he's likely to play. I
Speaker 6: do think, as I mentioned before, that this is going
Speaker 6: to be just about a fifty to fifty snap split
Speaker 6: with Jalen Warren. The Jets have a middle of the
Speaker 6: pack run defense, and justin fields as I mentioned before,
Speaker 6: is not a round to vaulter those goal line touchdowns anymore.
Speaker 6: I think both of them are startable and I get
Speaker 6: both them. Sees also going to give George Pickens a see.
Speaker 6: He's only wide receiver fifty seven since Week two. And
Speaker 6: here's where it gets kind of interesting though. Pickens his
Speaker 6: best thing part of his game is down the field,
Speaker 6: and Russell Wilson, at least in pass that rainbow deep
Speaker 6: ball would seem to be a good fit with with Pigins' game.
Speaker 6: Will the chemistry be there right away? That we'll have
Speaker 6: to see? But this is a grizzly matchup either way.
Speaker 6: DJ Reid has forced a fifty percent tight window rate
Speaker 6: coverage and in coverage Sauce Gardner twenty nine percent, the
Speaker 6: NFL averages twenty two percent.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Tjid J.
Speaker 1: Reeds saying better than sas guard.
Speaker 5: He might be. Yeah, you never get him away, he
Speaker 5: sticks on you.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: No wide receiver has more than ninety two receiving yards
Speaker 6: against the Jets this year, and Justin Jefferson had only
Speaker 6: twelve point two Fantasy points on fourteen targets, so it's
Speaker 6: not the best matchup. And lastly, Pat Fryermoth, I'm gonna
Speaker 6: give him a C as well. He's been held under
Speaker 6: four catches in forty yards and five of the past
Speaker 6: six games. They are ominous signs that a breakout is
Speaker 6: not coming here. Russell Wilson has never thrown much to
Speaker 6: tight ends. You look back his entire career. Twenty twenty
Speaker 6: one twenty two, Broncos tight ends had the second few
Speaker 6: with targets end receptions in the NFL, and with Seattle
Speaker 6: he didn't throw to the tight ends either. Friarmut and
Speaker 6: here's one other thing. Friar Mut didn't play much twelve
Speaker 6: personnel with when Mike kil Prewitt and Darnold watching him.
Speaker 5: We're both healthy.
Speaker 6: Prewit is likely back this week, which probably means less
Speaker 6: naps for Friar mooting Wilson plays with the eleven personnel.
Speaker 5: I could even see putting a bench grade on him.
Speaker 6: I'll give them a see just because the wasteland tight
Speaker 6: end environment that we're.
Speaker 1: In, all right, I like it. It's it's been a
Speaker 1: disaster for those Pittsburgh wide receivers. ESPN scoring Your three
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh receivers are wide receiver seventy, wide receiver ninety two,
Speaker 1: and wide receiver one hundred and twenty seven.
Speaker 5: Not great, Bob oh, Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: How little production.
Speaker 4: You remember when they just used to churn out wide
Speaker 4: receivers year after year, drafting them in the third or
Speaker 4: fourth round.
Speaker 1: Not that's all dried up for sure. When we come back,
Speaker 1: Premature Speculation will jump in the time machine and tell
Speaker 1: you who you need to pick up now that will
Speaker 1: help you out in the future if we come back.
Speaker 1: Final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 1: It's time for a segment we call Premature Speculation. We're
Speaker 1: gonna jump in the FFW time machine to give you
Speaker 1: some guys you'll want to pick up now, but other
Speaker 1: people are going to try to pick up next week.
Speaker 1: We begin with Matt Harrison.
Speaker 4: I've got Blake Korum here and we thought he'd be
Speaker 4: much more involved. He saw eight snaps in week two
Speaker 4: and eleven snaps in week five, and that's it.
Speaker 1: That's the whole season for him.
Speaker 4: Week six was the bye week for the Rams, but
Speaker 4: it is worth noting his eight snaps in week two.
Speaker 4: He had eight rushing attempts, and he had five rushing
Speaker 4: attempts in one target on the eleven snaps in week five.
Speaker 4: And oh by the way, two of his rushing attempts
Speaker 4: in week five came from inside the five. If anything happens,
Speaker 4: the Kirin Williams Blake Korum is going.
Speaker 1: To go for all of the fab in your league.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 4: The Rams have one of the easiest running back schedules
Speaker 4: the rest of the way, including games against Miami, New England,
Speaker 4: New Orleans, Buffalo, and Arizona. The only real stoppers on
Speaker 4: their schedule Minnesota and week eight in the Jets. In
Speaker 4: week sixteen, Blake Koram is a great insurance policy. For
Speaker 4: just in case Kyron Williams gets hurt because their utilization
Speaker 4: score on him.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a lot of work he's put very much.
Speaker 1: It could very well be the case. I like that
Speaker 1: angle with Blake korm quite a bit. I know Thor
Speaker 1: does twocs. He loves Blake Thor, your premature speculation player.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and Koram was banged up last year and they
Speaker 6: did the long national title run. So I wonder if
Speaker 6: that was some of this stuff at the beginning of
Speaker 6: the season, like that one, I'm going with another rookie.
Speaker 6: I'm going with Panthers wide receiver Xavier Lagette. Four of
Speaker 6: Lagat's twenty five targets this year have come in the
Speaker 6: end zone. He scored in two of the three games
Speaker 6: since Adam Thielen got hurt, double digit fantasy points in both,
Speaker 6: but Leagett has still owned in less than thirty percent
Speaker 6: of leagues. Deontay Johnson continues to pick up injuries. He's
Speaker 6: listed his question but this week probably gonna play, but
Speaker 6: ribs ankle hamstring injuries, played three He's been playing through it.
Speaker 6: But if Johnson was out look at obviously would become
Speaker 6: the undispeeded number one, and if he's limited, it could
Speaker 6: be more targets as well. Targeted on eighteen percent of
Speaker 6: his routes this season with ranks second to Johnson, he
Speaker 6: has a health Lagette has a healthy twelve point two
Speaker 6: yard a dot, which shows the Panthers are using him
Speaker 6: and trusting him down the field. The manufactured touches would
Speaker 6: go out if johnson snaps were cut. It all for
Speaker 6: Logett and the YAK opportunities. I think there's more to
Speaker 6: unlock with Lagatt's game. This is from my scouting report
Speaker 6: in the spring of Xavier Logette. He has a neck
Speaker 6: for not losing momentum will turning up field after a catch,
Speaker 6: which helps maximize yack opportunities. This is key because Legett
Speaker 6: is surprisingly not a tackle breaking machine despite his muscular frame,
Speaker 6: but here tremendously explosive North South athlete who gets up
Speaker 6: feel quick. So some of those manufacturer touched they did
Speaker 6: for him at South Carolina we could see more of that.
Speaker 6: He has an awesome matchup this week, of course, against
Speaker 6: the Commanders, very very physically talented guy. I think pick
Speaker 6: him up less than thirty percent is kind of a joke.
Speaker 6: Get him now and that game against the Commanders. As
Speaker 6: we mentioned as the highest total on the board this week.
Speaker 1: Houston running back Damian Pierson four percent owned in ESPN
Speaker 1: leagues and we just saw him. You ripped off a
Speaker 1: fifty four yard touchdown last week, which rekindled my love
Speaker 1: for Damian Pierce. Yes, Joe Mixon is the obvious clear starter,
Speaker 1: but this is a little bit like the Blake corn thing, right.
Speaker 1: You know, Here's Mixon on nineteen hundred touches in his
Speaker 1: career and we've already seen him lose a whole month
Speaker 1: to injury. Unfortunately, Damian Pierce was injured for the entire
Speaker 1: same month. But anything happens to Joe Mixon, Damian Pierce
Speaker 1: becomes a top ten running back. You're putting all your
Speaker 1: fab in same and Zach story here, and the fact
Speaker 1: that they were the Houston was willing to trade cam
Speaker 1: Akers really solidifies how they feel about Damian Pierce as
Speaker 1: the number two running back in Houston. Let's go to
Speaker 1: our final set of matchups including Kansas City and San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey has re entered just like every week a
Speaker 1: grade status since the Rashi Rice injury. He has now
Speaker 1: had a nine target game and a ten target game.
Speaker 1: Right back to there with Travis Kelce. I've got C
Speaker 1: grades on Juju Smith Schuster and Xavier Worthy. You know,
Speaker 1: for Worthy, he's never caught more than three passes in
Speaker 1: a game, so he's super high risk, high reward guy.
Speaker 1: If he catches one of those long bombs, great, you're fine.
Speaker 1: If he happens to run one in, you're fine. Otherwise
Speaker 1: you get nothing, and so you're gonna have to try
Speaker 1: to figure out which version you're gonna get. Both of
Speaker 1: the Niners outside cornerbacks are playing well, Travarius Ward and
Speaker 1: Isaac Yadam, both allowing less than a sixty percent catch rate.
Speaker 1: But Yadam is one of the league's biggest and slowest cornerbacks.
Speaker 1: He's a four five five cornerback that is unusually slow,
Speaker 1: so maybe Worthy just runs past him and gets a
Speaker 1: touchdown C grade. Juju Smith Schuster had tons of utilization
Speaker 1: after Ray Rice. Rashi Rice went out. Ray Rice while
Speaker 1: it has been a while, went elevator later, Rashi Rice Wow.
Speaker 1: After he went down, Juju ran almost all those slot
Speaker 1: to routes that Rice had been running, and before the
Speaker 1: bye he twenty four percent of the targets thirty four
Speaker 1: percent of the air yard, so he's a C grade
Speaker 1: against di Amador Lenor, who is very good pro football
Speaker 1: focuses thirty second rank cornerback, is not allowed a touchdown,
Speaker 1: gives up just twenty nine yards per game in his coverage.
Speaker 1: But Juju's high utilization from two weeks ago gives me
Speaker 1: enough confidence to just barely get him into C grade.
Speaker 1: And that means Patrick Mahomes, I've given you an A,
Speaker 1: A C, and a C, so he comes in as
Speaker 1: a B. For his receivers, he comes in as a B.
Speaker 1: I keep saying this every week since Week eight of
Speaker 1: last year. Patrick mahomes average finish is quarterback sixteen, meaning
Speaker 1: in a twelve team league, more often than not, you've
Speaker 1: been better off benching Patrick Mahomes. So don't feel like
Speaker 1: you can't it. Just a B grade here. But last
Speaker 1: time we saw him before the bye, he was awesome.
Speaker 1: He had his best game of the year, completed seventy
Speaker 1: four percent of his passes for three hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: two yards. Actually, hold on, that was the super matchup
Speaker 1: between these two teams. He was really good last two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, though, and did top three hundred yards he
Speaker 1: has gone. Patrick Mahomes. I think Matt you hit on
Speaker 1: this little while ago, a few shows ago. He's gone
Speaker 1: eighteen games without a three touchdown performance. MM for Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: that's amazing.
Speaker 4: Would you trade Patrick Mahomes for you know, a guy
Speaker 4: like Kirk Cousins or Sam Darnold and then get some
Speaker 4: extra stuff along with it?
Speaker 1: You know, I know rationally the answers if you had
Speaker 1: done that, Yeah, at the beginning of the year, you'd
Speaker 1: be better off now if you had. I think you
Speaker 1: still can just unnamed value. You certainly can. Let's go
Speaker 1: to San Francisco side and I need to hurry this up.
Speaker 1: George Kittle obvious a Kansas city's allowed the most receptions
Speaker 1: and the most yards. Tight ends love him. This week,
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel comes in with a B running from the slot.
Speaker 1: He's going to see sophomore corner Chamari Connor. He hasn't
Speaker 1: a lot of touchdown yet in his coverage, but also
Speaker 1: hasn't faced anybody nearly like Deebo Samuel. Still like him.
Speaker 1: Here a lot brandon A. You just gets to see
Speaker 1: he hasn't scored this year and has posted five. I've
Speaker 1: just Doug games in six tries, but Andy's gonna draw
Speaker 1: Trent McDuffie, which is really tough assignment. McDuffie's only giving
Speaker 1: up twenty five scoreless yards in his coverage, so unfortunately
Speaker 1: it can only get you to a C grade on
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayuk, even with Juwan Jennings ruled out of this game.
Speaker 1: And lastly, Brock Purdy comes in with a B grade.
Speaker 1: He's played well this year. He ranks number two in
Speaker 1: passing yards per game, but this is a tough matchup.
Speaker 1: No quarterback has posted an explosive game against the Chiefs
Speaker 1: all year. The average game is only two hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty four yards and just over one touchdown per game.
Speaker 1: I think pretty probably exceeds that by not by a lot.
Speaker 1: Jordan Mason taken off the injury port completely on Friday,
Speaker 1: so we've got some newfound confidence in him, but brutal matchup.
Speaker 1: Chiefs rank number one in rushing yards allowed, it just
Speaker 1: fifty two per game. No back has top forty six
Speaker 1: yards against Kansas City, and that was Derrick Henry back
Speaker 1: in Week one. Quality backs like Alvin Kamara, JK. Dobbins,
Speaker 1: Bjon Robinson have struggled badly. I can only get you
Speaker 1: to a B grade on Jordan Addison, and really with
Speaker 1: that shoulder injury, C grade is probably more reasonable. But
Speaker 1: I just want to believe that Jordan Addison is going
Speaker 1: to be good. Jordan Mason, thank you very much. YEP,
Speaker 1: Matt Baltimore taking on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We're going
Speaker 1: to have to keep things moving.
Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry obvious A grades. Ze Flowers
Speaker 4: he gets an A grade as well. Twenty targets in
Speaker 4: his last two games, faces a Bucks defense that's allowing
Speaker 4: the third most receptions and eighth most yards to the
Speaker 4: wide receiver possession. They made bub means a thing. So
Speaker 4: if you could ever start Rashad Bateman, this is probably
Speaker 4: the game I'll throw a dart at Shoddy. The tight ends,
Speaker 4: they're basically splitting targets over the last two weeks, with
Speaker 4: each getting about four per game. Snap counts still in
Speaker 4: favor of Likely, who's been on the field for seventy
Speaker 4: percent of those snaps to Andrews fifty two percent. Likely
Speaker 4: had the two red zone scores against Cincy in Week five.
Speaker 4: Andrews got the score last week against Washington, put four
Speaker 4: targets per game, and they're completely touchdown dependent. I'm personally
Speaker 4: leaving both on the bench, but I understand if you
Speaker 4: have to start one or either of them with a
Speaker 4: C grade. On the buck side, Mike Evans didn't practice
Speaker 4: Thursday due to his hamstring injury that knocked him out
Speaker 4: of last week's game. Since they play on Monday night,
Speaker 4: the Saturday practice is kind of the one to watch,
Speaker 4: so keep an eye on him Saturday afternoon. If it
Speaker 4: looks like he's gonna go, you can start him just
Speaker 4: to see because I'm worried that he reinjures it. If
Speaker 4: Evans doesn't go. Sterling Shepherd very startable. If you have Evans,
Speaker 4: pick up Sterling Shepherd, now go put on your bench.
Speaker 4: Chris Godwin is going to torch Marlin Humphrey in the slot.
Speaker 4: The Ravens slot corner has already surrendered three touchdowns in
Speaker 4: his coverage if Godwin splits out wide. Brandon Stevens and
Speaker 4: Nate Wiggins are both allowing passer ratings over one hundred.
Speaker 4: Godwin leads the league the NFL in receptions and receiving
Speaker 4: touchdowns third and yards A grade for Godwin. Baker Mayfield
Speaker 4: leads the NFL with fifteen touchdown passes in six games.
Speaker 4: He's QB two in most fantasy leagues. What's in interesting
Speaker 4: If you had just started the quarterback that faced the
Speaker 4: Ravens every week, you'd be starting quarterback five in the league.
Speaker 4: Baltimore allowing two or ninety eight yards and almost two
Speaker 4: passing scores per game. Super solid a grade for Baker
Speaker 4: and the Ravens can't stop the pass, but they do
Speaker 4: stop the run. They're allowing only two point eight yards
Speaker 4: per carry, best in the league, only eight eighty three
Speaker 4: combo yards per game, fourth best in the league. Rashad
Speaker 4: White practicing on a limited basis with his foot injury.
Speaker 1: It's possible he could play.
Speaker 4: I know everyone spent all of their fab on Sean
Speaker 4: Tucker this last week, and Bucky Irving is a fan favorite.
Speaker 4: With the uncertainty of everybody, it might be a two
Speaker 4: headed backfield, it might be a three and the matchup sucks.
Speaker 4: Don't start any Bucks Runners this week.
Speaker 1: I think Irving. If you got to pick one, it
Speaker 1: would be Irving. They say they're going to go hot hand.
Speaker 1: We hate that as Vegas.
Speaker 4: That means they don't know who the startups all going
Speaker 4: to be cold hands against Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Probably the case. All right, our final matchup thor and
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to be quick Los Angeles Chargers at
Speaker 1: the Arizona card.
Speaker 5: Arks usin Herbert was might take a chance on me.
Speaker 5: Quarterback JK.
Speaker 6: Dobbins is an a career high twenty five carries last
Speaker 6: week in the first game with Cus Edwards on ir.
Speaker 6: If he gets anywhere close to that users in this game,
Speaker 6: he's going to go absolutely off against a terrible Arizona defense.
Speaker 5: I think Camani Vidalo, Wow, he talked.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he gets a see and he needs to be
Speaker 6: owned in every single league at minimum as a handcuff
Speaker 6: of the injury prone Dobbins. In Vodal's debut last week,
Speaker 6: played twenty four percent of the snaps, six touches, fifty
Speaker 6: one total yards, one touchdown. He's a flex option for
Speaker 6: those in need with a good matchup here. Cardinals allowed
Speaker 6: the ten most PPR points to opposing running backs and
Speaker 6: the second most rushing yards per game to opposing running backs.
Speaker 6: Joshua Palmer, I'm gonna give him a c. Quintin Johnston
Speaker 6: that it looks like he could miss this game with
Speaker 6: an ankle injury. Makes Palmer the clear number two in
Speaker 6: a very good matchup. Cardinals have given up the eight
Speaker 6: most PPR points per game to receivers this season. Lad
Speaker 6: McConkie gonna give him a b. He's led the charters
Speaker 6: and targets in all but one game this year twenty
Speaker 6: six point five percent target year. Match up here again
Speaker 6: for everybody. Arizona defense allows the second highest catch rate
Speaker 6: to opposing wide receivers, and they also gave up three
Speaker 6: touchdowns to the slot last week, So McConkey could go
Speaker 6: off here. Kyler Murray switching over to the Cardinals is
Speaker 6: going to give him a bee. He's only been the
Speaker 6: top twelve quarterback in Fantasy twice this season, but he's
Speaker 6: averaging forty three rushing yards per game, which is number
Speaker 6: three amongst quarterbacks. Churs defense has allowed the fourth fewest
Speaker 6: passing yards and opposing quarterbacks have averaged thirteen fantasy points
Speaker 6: per game against the Chargers. But on a positive note,
Speaker 6: Advanced stats showed that the Chargers have a middle of
Speaker 6: the pack pass defense. I think the Cardinals may use
Speaker 6: Murray's legs a little bit more to carve out yards
Speaker 6: against that good Chargers run defense.
Speaker 5: James Connor. I'm gonna give him a seed.
Speaker 6: Nineteen or more touches in four to six games this season,
Speaker 6: but weirdly only played twenty eight percent of the offensive
Speaker 6: snaps last week. Got his ankle wrapped during the game
Speaker 6: and appeared to be dinged, but Jonathan Gannon said his
Speaker 6: absence was game script related. Either way, this is a
Speaker 6: bad matchup against a strong Chargers run defense. Marvin Harrison
Speaker 6: Junior going to give him an a assuming that he plays,
Speaker 6: but it looks like late in the week that the
Speaker 6: positive signs for that he had the concussion, but he
Speaker 6: was able to after wearing a non contact jersey in
Speaker 6: Thursday's practice. He was back to a full participant on Friday.
Speaker 6: It's not as much of a practice, but it's a
Speaker 6: good sign. Jonathan Gannon called Harrison's progress really encouraging on Thursday.
Speaker 6: He's an obvious must start if he plays. Michael Wilson
Speaker 6: C wide receiver fifty eight in Fantasy, but has had
Speaker 6: two top thirty two showings. Wilson has earned a strong
Speaker 6: twenty three percent of targets over the last month, surprising,
Speaker 6: very surprising for Wilson with targeting, He's coming on eleventh
Speaker 6: highest PBR points per targets to perimeter receivers. This season,
Speaker 6: the Chargers have given up the other receivers. Keep them
Speaker 6: on the bench. Day Jones was activated from suspension, but yeah,
Speaker 6: keep him and Dors on the bench. And then Trey
Speaker 6: McBride is a mustart a.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go. Trey McBride is turned into
Speaker 1: about the safest fantasy tight end there is for sure.
Speaker 1: How about Jim Harbaugh? You don't like Kimani Vidal near
Speaker 1: the feet for six weeks and then the first play
Speaker 1: is a thirty eight yard bomb down the right sideline. Yeah, cat,
Speaker 1: just like if you trusted Kamani Vedel that much to
Speaker 1: throw a bomb to him on his first ever NFL touch?
Speaker 1: Why wasn't earlier?
Speaker 5: Oh, Jim Harbaugh? You know, yeah it works, But weird guy.
Speaker 1: Weird guy. Thor has the hotline to Harbaugh. Finally called
Speaker 1: him last week before the game, was.
Speaker 5: Like, dude, now it's the time.
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