WEBVTT - Adams' Big Apple 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.960 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:11.080 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:13.640 source for the nation's best fantasy. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:14.760 Speculation and advice. 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:19.560 Now along with the guys from Guillotine Leagues dot com. 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:21.800 Here's your host, Paul Jargian. 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.280 Welcome to a week seven edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:29.680 I'm Paul Charchy and my co host today Matt Harrison 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:30.960 and Thornystrom. 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.519 Hey guys, we're already at the midway point of the 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:36.320 fantasy season of the regular season. 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:40.720 Yes here we are. Unbelievable. Half the regular season's over. Yeah, 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:41.400 where does it go? 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.520 It's time to put up or shut up? That's where 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:45.000 it goes. 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.880 Well, yeah, let's go. Let's go put up this week 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.400 by breaking down all the remaining games on the schedule, 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.880 including the London game. We'll go through the We got 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.360 two Monday Nighters. This is a long stretch of games. 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.040 They start early Sunday, they go deep into Monday night. 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.400 And I don't know what the random formula is for 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.119 the two game Monday Nighters. It's just whenever they feel 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:05.720 like it. I guess. 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.240 Well, there's only two teams on buy this week, so 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.399 I think I think the league just kind of likes 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:11.319 the double Monday nighters. 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:13.319 I don't know about you. I like it too. I 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.720 think I don't understand why they don't do an East 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.440 Coast game in a West Coast game and off set 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:20.560 them by like two hours. You could, yeah, right, you know, 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:24.200 I'll give you like five hours of football, absolutely, you know. 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.080 But they run them almost concurrently, so I guess maybe 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:28.840 if one of them sucks, you can go to the 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.920 other one. But I don't know. You'd think they'd want 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.200 to stagger them to get everybody watching one and then 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:35.240 everybody watching the other. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:35.839 They should. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.280 Yeah, I don't know. The NFL rarely gets these things wrong, 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.480 but I think they got this part wrong. They've been 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:43.000 getting the afternoon schedule wrong. 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.800 For all that is true, there's only three afternoon games all, 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:47.560 and there's. 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:51.960 Like ten earlies. I hate that because, well, I won't 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.520 even get into take a chance on me. We'll give 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.240 you nine players that are not normally and you starting 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.240 line well three tough questions will have premature speculation like 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.720 we always do in season. You know, we've got our 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.600 rhythm for our in season shows. He always, we're always 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.080 glad that you are here and we get a chance 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.280 to break down some games, including Miami Dolphins taking on 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.680 the Indianapolis Colts. As of this recording, they have not 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.640 officially gave a quarterback for Miami, but it's presumed to 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:16.639 be Tyler Humley. It's Tyler Huntley. 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.519 I'm hoping the Dolphins took the bye week to figure 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.280 out how to get Tyler Huntley to actually move the ball, 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.520 but it's not looking good. Their offense is a mess. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.840 Here's the Dolphins you might want to start. Let's start 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.799 with Tyreek Hill. He's worth a CEA. Hasn't topped seventy 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.119 yards or scored since Week one, but he was targeted 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.359 by Tyler Huntley nine times in their Week five contests 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:42.639 against the Patriots. N six different wide receivers of top 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.120 seventy yards against the Colts this year, with four of 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.320 those going over one hundred and ten. Almost all of 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.959 that has been against Jalen Jones, who exclusively plays the 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:52.880 right side of the field for the Colts. Secondary He's 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.200 allowed three hundred and forty one yards in his coverage 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.440 through six games. That's a lot on the left side. 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:02.680 Samuel Womack the third food He's only allowed twenty seven yards, 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.720 so they really got to attack the right side. Jaylen Waddle, 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:07.840 by the way, goes to the left side more often, 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.560 so he gets SW three and he's on the bench. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.800 We gotta leave Huntley on the bench or whatever quarterback 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.440 they're throwing in there, because they're all on the waiver 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:18.520 wire in most leagues. 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.600 But john Ou Smith is kind of interesting targeted. Say 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:23.440 tell me more about Johnny Smith. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:25.960 Ah, he was targeted on thirty seven percent of his 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.960 routes run in Week five, saw twenty one percent of 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.480 Huntley's air yards in that game. And he faces a 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.399 Colts team that has been roasted by tight ends. Cole 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.400 Comet and Pat Fryermouth both had top five tight end 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:42.400 days against them. Even Jacksonville's Brenton Strange managed four catches 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.960 twenty four yards in a score. John U Johanu gets 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:48.040 a C. As for the running game, Devon h Chan 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.920 likely back from his concussion, that maybe muddies the water 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:52.280 a bit. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:54.440 It's a good matchup too. 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.720 The Colts have allowed the fourth most rushing yards and 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.240 the third most combo yards to backs at one hundred 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:03.120 and fifty seven. Game problem is how much Raheem Mostert 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.800 do we get how much Jalen Wright do we get? 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.720 When both Mostert and a Chan were healthy way back 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.440 in Week one, it was thirty seven snaps for a Chan, 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.800 thirty one for Mostert, and that week Jeff Wilson got eleven. 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.400 That's probably the most likely outcome here, with h Chan 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.960 and Mostert probably getting about forty percent of the snaps 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.080 in another fifteen to twenty going toward right. So again, 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.480 muster a C start on a Chan and Mostert, and 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:31.440 that SEA is for cautiously optimistic. On the Colts side, 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.240 Jonathan Taylor out again. It's a shame because this would 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:38.520 have set up is a JT masterpiece. The Colts have, Sorry, 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.919 the Dolphins have a running back. Have allowed a running 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.920 back to score nine times already this year through five games. 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.160 That's the third most in the league. They're also allowing 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.560 four point nine yards per carry, So we're gonna get 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:54.080 Trey Sermon probably getting the bigger share of the carries. 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:56.360 He was limited in practice on Thursday though with a 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:00.440 knee injury, but he's trending in the right direction. Provided 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.400 Sermon is healthy, he gets the SEA start and Tyler Goodson. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.040 I like Goodson for better well Chrace. Sermon's so bad if. 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.240 We find out the sermon on Sunday is not a 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:13.960 happy one. Tyler Goodson gets a C grade too. Anthony 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.440 Richardson was a full participant in practice this week. 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:17.400 He will start. 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.720 Problem is quarterbacks aren't scoring against the Dolphins. Maybe it's 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.040 because their offense is so inept, or how easy it 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.200 is to run against them, or the fact that they 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.880 face Mason Rudolph will Levis and Jacoby Brissett in the 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.599 last two games. Even Josh Allen didn't have a great 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.599 fantasy day against Miami, though the. 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:34.479 Numbers don't lie. 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.880 The Dolphins are only seeing only sixteen completions per game 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.719 for one hundred and seventy two yards. They've only allowed 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.400 three passing scores all year. It's the lowest possible C 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.000 grade for Richardson, But there's better guys in take a 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.839 chance on me that you'd want to start over Richardson today. 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.000 And for the wide receivers it's not good either. Alec 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.320 Pierce didn't practice Thursday with the shoulder injury after practicing 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.119 in full on Wednesday. The late week down grade again. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.000 Josh Downs was limited on Thursday with a tow Enjine 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.920 and only practice once last week. Michael Pittman's been playing 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.560 through a back injury, one that they were speculating might 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.320 land him on IR, but he doesn't even have an 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.920 injury designation now. And the offense was way more pass 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.000 heavy under Flacco than Richardson, and the matchup is not good. 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.400 So I'd like to leave all the Colts pass catchers 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:16.840 on the bench. 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.159 And you didn't even mention the fact that Anthony Richardson 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.960 just SAPs the value out of his receivers unless you 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:27.520 catch a bomb. Yeah, you know, Joe Flacco. I don't 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.600 know the numbers exactly in front of me, but roughly 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.800 for everybody except Alec Pierce, who has roughly the same 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.960 the same finishes with Flacco as he did with Richardson, 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.039 which is basically, if he catches a bomb, he's If 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.159 he doesn't, he gives you nothing. For Downs and Pittman, 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:46.240 they each jump up about thirty spots per week under 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.640 Joe Flacco, go down thirty spots under Richardson, and weekly 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.880 finish it is. It has been a huge delta for them. 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.360 Let's go to the Cincinnati Bengals taking on the Cleveland 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:00.839 Browns thor Bengals offense has been much much better are lately, 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:05.400 and the Cleveland Browns feel like a team in great distress. 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:07.960 You said it, Yeah, we'll start with the Bengals. Joe 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.760 Burrow and Jamar Chaser obvious a's and must starts. 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.360 Chase Brown. Will give him a BE this week. 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.600 Last three games, he's RB seven in fantasy with eighteen 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.680 fantasy points per game, fourteen plus fantasy points, and all 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.200 three of them had a season high snap rate of 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.760 sixty two percent last year, and is clearly pulled ahead 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:26.800 of Zach Moss. So we're going to give him a BE. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.800 As for Moss, we're gonna give him a C. He 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.040 is startable as a flex this week. I think his 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.160 target share has declined in four straight games. You have 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.600 to say it only only has a forty one percent 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.240 of Cincinnati's running back touches over the past three weeks. 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.480 During that time fifteen carries for thirty seven yards. Did 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.400 not get the ball again after losing a fumble in 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.400 the third quarter last week. But you also have to 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.200 say he wasn't fully healthy last week. Then again, neither 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.600 was Brown, so you know you have to give the 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.480 context on both sides. I was between a bench and 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.720 a see here. But I do think Moss is startable 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:01.400 as a speculative flex play. So I'll say, see T Higgins, 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.160 I'll give him a bee. The Bengals passing offense obviously 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.360 has started to look more like itself as you were mentioning, 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.960 in large part because of Higgins's return. He's wide receiver 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.760 fifteen in Fantasy since entering the lineup and leads the 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.880 team in red zone targets. This is also a good 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.560 matchup for him. Browns lead the NFL in single high 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.080 coverage rate and T. Higgins leads the Bengals in first 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:24.280 reach year against single high. So give him a bee, 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.240 Andrey Yoshi, vas Mike Kasiki, Eric all the rest of them. 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:28.160 Keep them on the bench. 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.360 Higgins's return is basically neutered all their value as that 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.240 passing offense is funnel between Chase and Higgins moving to 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:35.920 the Browns Deshaun Watson. 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:40.640 Keep them on the bench. Obviously, it's bad. He hasn't 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:42.680 thrown for two hundred years in any game this year. 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:43.840 Think about that. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:47.920 It's crazy with the offensive leaning coach they he had 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:49.160 the receivers before this. 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.440 Anyway, what is actually happening there, like they have to 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.160 have Kevin Stefanski like. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:56.480 With a gun to his head or something. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:58.280 Yeah, be pulling his hair out. 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.400 It's got to be ownership. I can't imagine any other 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:05.360 reason or any any other facet that could make a 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:09.559 coach play the quarterback who's not the best quarterback on 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:09.960 the roster. 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:11.640 And it's not like they have a bum as a backup. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:16.360 But ye Jameis Winston. Yeah, yeah, it is. It's all yolo. 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:20.920 But still he'd be better than Watson. But for fantasy owners, 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:22.560 can you keep him on the bench? Do what Kevin 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:26.520 Stefanski's not allowed to buy ownership. Jerome Ford probably out 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.720 in this game. He has not practiced yet this week 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.240 due to a hamstring but didn't practice at all due 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.560 to the hamstring injury he suffered last week. But Nick Chubb, 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.160 the Browns are going to be getting him back. It 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.000 looks like Kevin Stefanski said he expects Chubbs to play, 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.640 but he may not play as much as fantasy owners 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.760 would like. Brown's offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey said within the 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.000 last couple of days that Chubb's workload in Week seven 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:51.120 against the Bengals quote is still a work in progress. 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:51.840 End quote. 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.320 This figures to be a platoon situation between Chubb, Pierre 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:59.960 Strong Deontay Foreman. I will give Chubb a see though, 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.320 and just sort of assume that he leads the dance there. Yeah, 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.679 I agree with that. Yeah, they can't pass. They got 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:06.880 to give the ball to the running back. 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:08.480 It's a great way to put it. And here's the 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:13.840 other thing, Kevin Stefanski, they need something to feel good about. Yeah, 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.080 Powering Nick Chubb into the end zone would be a 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.640 feel good moment for a franchise that desperately needs. 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.400 Yeah, and great job by him coming back to off 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:26.400 that devastating leg injury. Obviously, last couple Jerry Judy will 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.040 give him a c Obviously becomes wide receiver one with 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.360 Amari Cooper off to Buffalo, but while more targets are coming, 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:35.160 a good chunk will be uncatchable, as Amari Cooper could 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:35.679 teach us. 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:37.240 Judy has been playing decent. 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.959 He does rank thirty third in the NFL and separation rate, 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.960 but the situation is bad. The matchup here, though, is decent, 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.760 so we'll give him a see. Obviously, keep Elijah More 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.760 on the bench, and then David and Joku. We're gonna 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.240 give him a bee because of injury. Week six was 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:51.960 the first time this season he had played more than 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.280 fifty percent of the offensive snaps in a game. In 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.560 that game, he managed to catch five to seven targets 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.280 for thirty one yards, and Djoku ranks number ten among 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.240 all tight ends in the NFL and target rate right 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.280 now now that Amari Cooper has gone, Cooper was the 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.160 most targeted pass catcher on Cleveland by far. So in joke, 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:08.960 who's going to soak up some of those targets and 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.720 he's at least a big target for Watson to shuttle 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:12.640 the ball too short. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.319 I'm moving in Joko up a couple of spots in 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:16.920 my rankings. Yeah, you've talked me into it. 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:17.440 I like it. 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.720 Lions take on the Vikings and this could be a 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.959 gigantic game for I'm on Ross Saint Brown, particularly against 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:27.120 the Vikings defense that allows the second most fantasy points 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.120 to slot receivers. Other slot receivers with big games this 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.839 year against the Vikings Deebo, Samuel Stefan, Diggs, Jayden red 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:36.480 all over one hundred yards. I actually think Diggs had 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:40.120 like ninety two in a touchdown running primarily from the slot. 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.400 And that makes sense against Flora's scheme, right, like when 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.000 they said the heat, it's got to be the quick 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.080 hitter right over the intermediate. You go to the slot 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.160 and then when they drop back, everyone drops back into 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:48.520 the zone. 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.559 It's also a slot one. 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.560 And Byron Murphy gets most, not all, of the slot 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.360 coverage for Minnesota. He has allowed the most receptions and 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.199 the most passing yards of any cornerback so far. 0:11:59.240 --> 0:11:59.800 Hasn't been great. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.400 Yeah, So I'm on Roth Saint Brown not only an 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:07.559 a but oh wait, let me give him the fantasy fons. 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.000 Why he's not here, So I'm taking his fans and 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:10.640 you can do that. 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:11.200 Ye. 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.440 I have an Ardvark coming later, So all right, outstanding? Yeah. 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.840 Sam Laporta also gets an a good tight ends hammering 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.320 the Vikings. George Kittle, Tucker Kraft, Tyler Conklin averaged six 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.880 catches for sixty one yards and two thirds of a 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.600 touchdown in two games against Minnesota last year, though I'll 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.000 mention Laporta was held to just eighteen yards and twenty 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.240 nine yards, so they schemed to take him out of 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.440 the game last year. But still Laporta trending towards better 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.520 games lately. And the Vikings have struggled here. Let's go 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.840 to Jared Goff, normally a Tier two Fantasy passer because 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.880 of his low volume. He's thrown twenty eight or fewer 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.720 times in four of five games, but the Vikings are 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.200 seeing the most passes per game by a mile forty five, 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.040 and if GoF gets anywhere near that, he'll certainly end 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.040 up with a good game here. So I've got a 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.200 B grade on Jared Goff and a segrade on Jamison Williams. 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.000 He runs evenly from both sides of the field, and 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.439 he runs on the outside. That puts him against Shack 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:05.520 Griffin and Stefan Gilmour. Griffin's been shockingly good, giving up 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.360 thirteen yards per game in his coverage and a post 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.880 passer rating of only forty nine. Gilmore has been more yielding. 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:13.920 He's giving up forty yards per game in his coverage, 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:15.400 but still a pretty good number, and he is not 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:19.080 allowed to touchdown. Over the past three games, Jameson Williams 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.160 only averaging three targets and two catches, and that's why 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.760 he's only a C and not rated higher here because 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.760 of the boom or bust nature of his play. The 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.960 trickier guys are David Montgomery and Jamior Gibbson Normally these 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.280 guys are just a grades both of them every week. 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.840 But the Vikings run defense has been outstanding. They rank 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.840 number two in yards allowed, number two in yards per carry. 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.600 But where it gets a little bit tricky is Minnesota 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:46.240 staked these gigantic leads in all of their games and 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.440 then teams give up the run, and so maybe they're 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.679 not quite as good as the stats suggest, and Detroit's 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:53.960 likely to trade volleys with the Vikings. I don't think 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.040 the Vikings get up by seventeen and a half no 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.079 against the Lions here, So you know there is a 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.760 There is an an asterisk on the B grades for 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.720 Montgomery and Jamier gibbs All right, let's go over to 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.640 Let's go over to the Viking side. Justin Jefferson is 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.080 an obvious a that goes without saying, but let me 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.240 mention this stat from Kevin Seaford to ESPN. Didn't know 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:17.959 this until this week. No player has more receiving yards 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:22.960 against any single opponent through eight games than Justin Jefferson 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:24.360 has against the Lion. 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.200 He annihilates the line every time of the NFL and 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.240 the last three has been particularly insane. He's up near 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:31.160 two hundred yards a game. 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.080 Yeah, I think it's one hundred and eighty in change 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:34.960 over the last three and over his career it's one 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:36.960 hundred and thirty four yards per game. 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.080 But they have not fixed that secondary. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.840 It doesn't look like it Carlton Davis yet, at least 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.840 it's hobbled in this one. Sam Donald is a good start. 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:47.520 By the way, Jordan Adison's may take a chance on 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:49.280 me wide receiver. I'll mention him more in detail in 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.840 a minute here. Sam Donald, he needs a bye week 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.920 to recover from rib and ankle injuries. Used the bye 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.200 week and that seemed to have been really limiting him 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.440 in the last couple of games. But he's still thrown 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.120 multiple touch in every game, at least until he met 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.120 the Jets. And because they're off awesome, the Lions rebuilt 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.880 secondary has not allowed more than one touchdown in any game, 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:09.720 which does surprise me. But they're giving up a lot 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.480 of yardage and they have faced some quality passers. I mean, 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.440 they just shut down Dak Prescott completely a week ago. 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.000 So I have a mixed mixed feelings on Sam Donald, 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.880 but a B grade on him, and then let's talk 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.880 ty Chandler for just a minute. He's been bad and 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:29.200 the Lions are an elite run defense against Detroit, non 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:33.560 Kenneth Walker starters are averaging just twenty eight yards rushing, 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:37.760 twelve receiving yards, and a third of a touchdown. Among 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:41.400 the forty two runners with as many carries as ty Chandler, 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.280 he ranks dead last and broken tackle rate, dead last 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.920 in yards after contact, and third from last in yards 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:49.480 per carry. 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.920 Yeah, it has North South guy. Yeah, it doesn't make 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:53.080 people miss. 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.960 It's really unfortunate for the Vikings. If he can't go now, 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:57.720 Aaron Jones may go in this game, and if he 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:59.880 is available in this one, he goes to a seed 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.960 raid because re injury is a pop prospect here and 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.800 the Lions defense, as I mentioned, extremely good against the run. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:08.920 So I can only get you to a C grade 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:11.320 on Aaron Jones if he is the starter when we 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.120 come back. Take a chance on me. Nine players you 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.440 would not normally start. Will tell you who eight of 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:51.120 them are when we come back after this. Take a 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.640 chance on me. Nine players not normally in your starting 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.960 lineup would begin at the quarterback position, and Matt Harrison. 0:16:58.040 --> 0:16:59.760 Who you got, I've got Drake. 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:02.960 Many signs of life for the Pats offense last week week, 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:06.840 even without Ramandre Stevenson, that was all due to Drake May. Sure, 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.520 they just got blown out by the Texans, but Drake 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.679 May someone quietly threw for two hundred and forty three 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.520 yards and three touchdowns in his first start. Also added 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.200 thirty eight yards on the ground. This week, he faces 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.200 the worst pass defense in the NFL, the London Jaguars. 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.119 The Jags have given up thirteen touchdown passes in their 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.399 last four games, including four last week to fellow rookie 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:27.200 Caleb Williams. 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.479 Yeah, I thought it was fun watching Patriots fans. Their 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.000 team was getting shelled last week, but they were going 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.600 berserk on all these deep passes that they were getting 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:37.879 out of Drake May. Behind a terrible offensive line. It 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.320 was just like North Carolina all over again. Dude had 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:42.840 to improvise, constantly running out of the pocket and just 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.560 slinging a downfield to see what happens. It was fun 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:47.560 to watch, and I hope he's the quarterback of the 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.720 future for them. Thor let's go to your take a 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:51.560 chance at me quarterback. 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.439 I'm going to go with Justin Herbert against the Cardinals. Now, Herbert, 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:56.920 he's only quarterback twenty nine and Fantasy points per game 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:58.960 right now, and he's owned in less than fifty percent 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:03.280 of lease. Because of that, that's the airbar, sorry airbear, 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:05.640 but that makes him a good flyer option. I think 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.240 this week for desperate owners, this is a great matchup. 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.400 The Cardinals pass defense has absolutely ran said Arizona gives 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.880 up the second highest yards per attempt and they've given 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.320 up the fifth highest passer rating. This could be a 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.119 game where Greg Roman and Jim Harbaugh let Herbert attack 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.160 a little bit more. And he hasn't been running quite 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.200 as much as not have a rushing touchdown yet. 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:24.920 Maybe we could see that in this game. 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.480 We'll see Andy Dalton goes up against Washington. He's thrown 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:30.760 multiple touchdowns in three of his four starts in the 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:34.560 Washington secondary. They are improved, but still easily a bottom 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.360 half unit that's allowed passing touchdowns in every game. Dalton's 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:42.160 thrown the sixth most passes in his starts because it's 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.280 constantly negative game scripts and that's going to be the 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.640