WEBVTT - Quarterback Stuff? Like Passing? 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:04.880 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.480 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:14.720 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.600 Now along with the guys from fanball dot Com. Here's 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.759 the host for Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul. I am Paul 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:25.880 church In At It is time for America's longest running 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:29.040 fantasy football show. It is Fantasy Football Weekly and I 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:33.120 Heart Radio production again. I'm Paul Churchi and fanball dot 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:37.040 Com I co host today Brian Johnson and Matt Harrison 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.120 from fanball dot Com. Hi, guys, I am Matt Harrison. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.560 Yes you are. That makes me Brian Johnson, Yes, and 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:46.880 I it's it's use that I am Paul Charchion twice 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:48.960 so just I mean, alright, I thought we had to 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.200 do it that way. The I am. I have to 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:55.280 make it very clear who's talking. As regular listeners know, 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:56.680 over the course of the show, we're gonna break down 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:58.560 every game fantasy style, and that means to put letter 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.400 grades on every single mean full player. Tell you if 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.600 they're an ABC or Bench grade. I guess bench is 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.800 not really a letter grade, but you get the idea. 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.680 And we also give your rationale for all of these picks, 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.600 so you get decide whether or not you're on board 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:14.720 with how with our assessment of how that player is 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:18.080 going to do. Also, we'll answer three tough questions. You 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:19.560 get to play along. Try to go three and oh. 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:21.560 We'll give you nine players upon whom you can take 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.720 a chance, and we'll jump into a time machine to 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.399 identify the players that everybody else will be trying to 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.520 pick up next week, that you're already going to have 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:35.800 because you picked him up this week. Time machine. I 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:41.679 think we decided the time machine goes Blabo. You kind 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:43.280 of like the pe pew better. I was more of 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.559 a Star Wars elader. I just think the Lorian every 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:48.600 time we were talking time travel. But I can't do 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:55.560 it one. I know it's pretty good. I know it's 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:57.800 got hit eighty eight, that's all I know. We're beginning 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:01.320 with the Saints taking on the Jacksonville Jaguars. Brian on 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.920 the same side. The storyline here is Alvin Kamara. It 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.040 appears he will not play. Um it's you probably won't 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.920 get a definitive ruling until Sunday morning, But you know, 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.080 what do you think about this, especially if it's Latavius 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:16.080 Murray available on over half of waiver wires. Yeah, news 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.480 got worse throughout the week Thursday this, uh, you know, 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:22.240 the injury popped up that might keep Kamar out. He 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.640 did not practice Friday, so it's not looking too good. 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.400 Let's assume he's not playing here. I guess I think 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:30.120 I have to probably assume he's not because and if 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.560 he is playing people probably so if he was gonna 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.880 play real quick, he was gonna be a bad matchup. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.200 But it's Alvin Kamara. You're playing Alvin Kamara, right. He 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.799 was my RB nine and a tough matchup, and when 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:42.920 I thought he was fully healthy because we believe he 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.080 injured himself in practice at the beginning of the week. Now, 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:51.200 so Latavius Murray is not Alvin Kamara. I'm not breaking news. Yeah, 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:55.160 And and really it's a brutal matchup. Jacksonville is not 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.240 allowed an opposing running back to top a hundred combo 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.440 yards of this season until Christian McCaffrey. And I was 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:03.160 prepared to say Alvin Kamara is almost Christian McAffrey now 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.480 before the season that would be preposterous, but now it's reality. 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:10.359 But so brutal matchup this season. Let's go back. We 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:14.959 can go back to Jacksonville has allowed one yard rushing 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:20.320 game at home since December, which is absolutely is nuts. 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.120 And then speaking back to McCaffrey, he was the first 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.280 running back to top fifty receiving yards against the Jaguars 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:30.280 in their last eighteen games. Las Murray is going to 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:34.000 catch that much anyway, so he gets he gets the 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.280 softest see of them all. If Kamara doesn't go, if 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.560 Camara goes, you got to roll the dice on them. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.960 But it's not looking good. So you're back. You're back 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:44.080 to what Murray always is, which is just the hope 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.360 of a goal line touchdown in little more. I mean, 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.720 the good part is he knows how to take a 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:53.000 handoff from Teddy Bridgewater specifically. That's maybe the highest level 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.720 point in this game. There is history there, that's for sure. 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.240 Now let's go to the a land where Michael Thomas 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.120 lives because Jacksonville likely to be without Jalen Ramsey for 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.960 a third STRAIGHTE game. I don't know this thing's gone. 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.840 I don't know. Well, the owner said he thought he'd play, 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:10.280 and then Ramsey said, I'm still in pain this I 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.080 never listened to owners personally, I don't know. He has 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.560 not practiced as far as we know, all right, So 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.600 if Ramsey plays easy, be okay, because it's Michael Thomas, 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.720 he's matchup proof Ramsey doesn't go, it's an a. Uh. 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.440 They won't shadow Thomas with A J. Booyer, who was 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:27.600 a very good corner as well. But Booya didn't even 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.720 shadow dj More last week, so I doubt they have 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:33.359 him shadow Michael Thomas. Long story short, you're starting Thomas regardless, 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.240 but whether Ramsey goes or not, Ted Ginn Trey Kwan 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.800 Smith both dart throws, and I'm not endorsing they're both 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.680 on the bench. Jared Cook gets a start. Agree with 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:43.119 the seat just because this is one of the worst 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:44.880 weeks for tight ends I can remember in the history 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.440 of fantasy football. Jacksonville was looking like a decent matchup 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.760 for opposing tight ends. Travis Kelsey at eighty eight yards, 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.920 Delaney Walker sixty four, Noah Fanse scored a touchdown two 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.640 weeks ago. Then Greg Goldson drops a goose egg last 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.120 week on only two targets. But uh, I don't know. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.839 I would still start Cook. He's in top twelve territory, 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:03.920 has been targeted six times in each of the last 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.480 two games. Scored last week. He's a warm enough body 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:10.440 at the position Teddy Bridgewater, warm enough to posted big 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:14.440 numbers against Tampa Bay. But the Bucks stop here with Jacksonville, 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.440 the jackson Hill three or five opposing quarterbacks who won 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:22.520 or zero touchdown passes. It all depends on Jalen Ramsey 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.560 here too for Bridgewater. For Ramsey doesn't go, he gets 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.520 a sea kind of a take chance on me type guy. 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.679 If Rancy plays easy Ben for Teddy. Speaking of which, 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:34.400 time to give a posthumous peacock. I don't know where 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.880 where's my peacock? Sound bread? Where's my peacocks? Said? Thank you? 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:42.000 There we go? Uh to Christian Peterson last week's show, 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:46.719 nailing Teddy Bridgewater as is take a chance on me quarterback, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:52.720 but he found Teddy's second ever game with more than 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:57.920 two touchdowns. Unbelievable call by Christian Peterson. We give him 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:02.280 the posthumous Christian didn't die, but he's not on the show. 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.520 Feel free to continue ch That's it for the Saints. 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.120 Over to the Jacksonville side, starting with Leonard Fournett can 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.239 give him a b here ground totals for notable opposing 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.480 backs against and Rowlands have been alarming so far. Todd 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.080 Gurley six for sixty three, he did not score. Chris 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.000 Carson fifteen carries for fifty three yards on the ground. 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.599 Then Zeke had eighteen carries for only thirty five He 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.200 did manage to score. But um, there's no way you 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.800 bench Leo, but you temper your expectations. The Saints have 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.360 not allowed a top twelve performance for running back yet 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.040 and the front seven is the healthiest it's been all season. 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.400 So just to B for four net almost to see 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.120 U D J Chark d D. Westbrook can even both 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.120 of B because it all depends on who gets Marshawn 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.760 Ladder on the outside. These two kind of cycle in 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.960 and out because almost never plays a slot in. Westbrook 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.840 runs almost entirely out of the slot, so he does that. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.440 They've both been funneling in and out. But Chark is 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.760 the safer play and by the way, wasn't even drafted 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.839 and wide receiver three right now he is. You think 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:02.480 he's safer, see, I think he gets a lot more 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.479 because Chark's gonna get a lot more. I think way 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.360 more because again, Lattimore doesn't go to the slot it'll 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.800 be P. J. Williams in the slot. That's D. D. Westbrook. 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.679 That's why I think Westbrook's actually safer, even though Chark's 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:18.080 obviously been dramatically better to this point. They're gonna don't know, 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:19.800 they're gonna move. They're not gonna be a hundred percent 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:21.480 one guy in the slot. That's all I'm saying. They're 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.040 gonna go back and forth. So if I had to 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:25.600 pick one, I'm kind of with you where I think 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.600 Um Lattimore is on Charking more than Westbrooks, so but 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.040 I'm still giving both to be. But Lattimore stifled Mike 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:32.920 Evans and A Mary Cooper over the last two weeks. 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.960 He's yeah, big time worry and Gardner minshew. I know. 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.720 We'll talk about more getting to be this week. Currently 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.760 quarterback eleven and most formats and apparently an even better 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.520 fantasy football player. Have you heard about this? We'll talk 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.000 about that more. We'll keep it to the matchup. Saint Sartain, 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.239 middle of the pack and passing touchdowns allowed with eight, 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.640 but they have recently stifled James Winston and Dak Prescott, 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.840 holding both under two hundred twenty five passing yards. That said, 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.080 New Orleans has allowed four rushing touchdowns to quarterbacks, and 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.800 Minshew has games of seven carries for forty two yards 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:06.840 and six He's a dual threat, so he's a safe 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.080 be It's crazy to say, but Minshew Minshew has been 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.680 fantasy startable every week of the season so far. Matt, 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.000 let's go to Dallas taking on the Jets. Last week, 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.880 Dallas screwed themselves over, I believe, by choosing a pass 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:24.200 heavy game against the Packers a bad run defense. Now 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.880 they get the Jets. Jets are another team you can 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.120 run on. I wonder if they don't, you know, correct 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.800 back towards a Zeke heavy game plan here. What do 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:34.640 you think? Well, they are a middle of the pack 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:38.240 run defense that's still missing c J. Mosley, and Zeke 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.920 has averaged over the running back snaps and touches over 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:43.920 the last two weeks. I'm still giving him an A. 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:45.959 I know people are a little bit bummed about his 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.160 production in the last couple of weeks, but I think 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.560 he's gonna be totally forgotten on fanball Where's Dred this week? 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:55.520 I'd probably play him in the fan Ball five dek Prescott. 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.680 I'm giving an A grade to seventent of decks passes 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.840 they're traveling further than any yards downfield. That's the third 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.200 highest rate and deep balls in the league. His passer 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:09.240 rating on those deep balls one sixteen point seven. Plus. 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.120 He gets left tackle Tyrann Smith back from an ankle 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.880 injury this year. He's going to clean up against another 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.680 bad defense which he normally torches. Amari Cooper and Michael 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.079 Gallup both getting as Both of these guys at fourteen 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.800 targets last week, and the outside corners are the weak 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.760 spot for the Jets. Truemaine Johnson and Darryl Roberts have 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:31.120 allowed seventy two completion percentage, giving up three four yards 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.880 and three scores so far this year. Randall Cobbs on 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.000 the bench because slot corner Brian Pool is actually kind 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.880 of good. He's only allowed fifty six yards on the season, 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.120 and Jason Witten's on the bench. He's not seeing enough 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.720 targets and totally touchdown degrade it. On the other side, 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.160 there's one one, maybe two is starting grades Levy on Bell. 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.920 I'm giving an a grade two because maybe the Packers 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.360 uncovered something last week because Aaron Jones racked up a 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.120 hundred eighty two total yards and four scores. No not 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.920 saying Bell is gonna get that, but say Kwan total 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.120 hundred and thirty nine total yards against Dallas. Kamara had 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.600 eighty nine and that weird Sunday nighter that was super 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.800 low scoring a couple of weeks ago. Dual threat backs 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.719 have had some decent success against Dallas and Levy Ons. 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.480 One of those. Andy gets Sam Donald back in the lineup, 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:16.880 and that only upticks I think his production a little 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.920 bit more. Donald's on the bench. Though his spleen is 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.160 healed enough to allow him to play, It's too bad 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.960 his line could still get him killed. The Jets are 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.800 worse than the league in tackles for loss, sacks, and 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.080 quarterback hit rate. The Cowboys have not allowed a passing 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.760 score since Week two, and only one quarterback is top 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.760 tundred forty yards against them this year. I am giving 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.800 Jamison Crowder a tepid C grade and Robbie Anderson's on 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.200 the bench. Of course, in Donald's only game this season, 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:47.840 he copiously targeted slot receiver Crowder seven times against Buffaloeen 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.080 and the open right yep and then Uh the only 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.600 wide receiver to top seventy five yards against the Cowboys 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.559 this year was Michael Thomas working mostly from the slot. 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.839 And then, of course we liked Chris Herndon to come 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.199 back this week, but then he got a hamster ring 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:04.240 injury working out on his own last Friday. So thanks 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.120 Chris Herndon for not coming back. We waited this long 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.040 for Herndon, and now you gotta wait at least a 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.240 couple more weeks. Eagles take on the Vikings in Minnesota 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.080 will start on the Eagle side where Jordan Howard has 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.640 been an absolute Viking killer. He's one of two players 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.720 to have topped one yards in Minnesota going all the 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:25.560 way back to the sixteen season. That's Jacksonville like. That 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:29.200 is Jacksonville like. And with Chicago last year, he put 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.719 up hundred nine yards and two scores in Minnesota in 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.120 the season finale of last season. So he's a guy 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.000 that Vikings have always struggled to handle. And here he 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.080 comes into this game having scored five times in his 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.480 last three games. He's seeing far more snaps and carries 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.560 than Miles Sanders over the last three games, and he 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.240 gets a B grade here. Miles Sanders hits the bench 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.040 trending the wrong way on both playing time, goal line 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.280 usagen fumbles. We're going to keep him on the bench 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.680 for this game and a tougher matchup. As for the 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.680 passing game, Carson Wentz gets a b Vikings have allowed 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:01.640 almost two touchdowns per game, which is double last year's rate, 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.280 when they only gave a fifteen passing touchdowns on the 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.320 entire season. Cornerback Xavier Roads or is he a lot 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:11.040 now legs to be called x Xavier Rhads as of 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:15.120 this season looking noticeably worse than previous seasons against a 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.880 better Viking secondary. Last year when these teams met, Carson 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:19.800 Wentz through for three and eleven yards and two scores, 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:21.600 and then again the secondary was playing better then. So 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.480 I still like Carson Wentz in this matchup. All Sean 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.880 Jeffrey could have a good game here. He's got ten 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.760 days off so he should be at full health. He 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.480 sort of hobbled through last week's game. Another sort of 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:35.839 notable Viking killer from these days with the Bears. He 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.400 used to go off off of the Vikings, especially here 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:43.160 in Minnesota. He's averaging seven targets per game. He's scored 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:47.120 twice um Minnesota secondary. Again, I think he's gonna get. 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.280 I think he's gonna get Xavier Rhads in this one 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.600 and again Roads, just words, usually gets the most physical 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.920 guy the opponent gives you, and that's gonna be all 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.319 Sean Jeffrey. No'm just not loving what I've seen out 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:57.600 of Roads, so I've got to be great and all 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.880 Sean Jeffrey. And this one Nelson Aghilar on the bench. 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.160 Vikings have been very good against slot corners for years, 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.520 and especially from Mackenzie Alexander Returns. I'm particularly nervous about 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.960 Aglar slav receivers this year, averaging thirty four yards per 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.280 game against the Vikings, and that leaves us with zach Ertz, 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.520 who gets a solid A grade. The Vikings have allowed 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.880 the fourth most tight end receptions the tenth most yards. 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.160 I think it's a focal point of this game. Let's 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:27.720 go to the Viking side. Vikings offense revolves around Dalvin 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.200 Cooko gets a B grade here. He's now run for 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.920 at least one hundred ten yards in four of his 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:37.000 five starts, and he's averaging over five point three yards 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:40.400 per carry in those four good starts that he's had 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.439 Basically everything but the Chicago Bear game. On the flip 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.280 side of it. Though the Eagle's rank number two in 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.720 yards per carry, they've yet to allow back to the 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:51.280 top forty four rushing yards. Uh. This is a tough matchup, 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.880 but only three point two yards per carry allowed. It's 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.360 kind of strength versus strength, Dalvin Cook versus Eagles. I'm 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.960 gonna give him a B grade for this one. Then 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:04.000 to go to the passing game with Kirk Cousins, I'm 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:07.439 nervous about the Vikings offensive line holding back an excellent 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:12.000 Eagles pass rush that ranks fourth best by Pro Football Focus. 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.679 All of Kirk's wartz surface when he has to make 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.360 quick decisions under pressure, but working in his favor is 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.680 a really ratty Eagle secondary riddled with injury to key 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:27.960 players like Donald Ronald Darby, Avante Maddox they're both out, 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.920 and Rodney McLeod, who looks like a game time decision. 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.040 Those would all be key losses there. Stefan Diggs and 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.080 Adam Feeland both have strong matchups with with those guys out, 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.520 and let's talk about them individually. By the way, see 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:43.200 great on Kirk Cousins. A grade on feeling because prior 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:46.000 to facing Luke Falk last week, Eiggle secondary was allowing 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.880 the most yards per game to opposing wide receivers, and 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:52.600 because Theelan works the slot, he would go up against 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.600 Orlando Scandrick, who was on the streets two weeks ago. 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.640 And I know Scandrick had a flashy game last week 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.640 with a couple of sacks, and he's gord a defensive 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:05.800 but he's not a very good cover corner so and 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.720 makes you look good. Now, well, there there is that 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:13.280 um Stefon Diggs gets a B grade. Working almost entirely 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.240 on the outside. He's going to see competent cornerbacks for 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.760 a Seul Douglass and Sidney Jones. But I think Diggs 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.800 is still waiting for that give me the ball game, 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:23.800 and I think that's could be coming here where they 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:26.360 try to play Kate Diggs a little bit. He didn't 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:27.880 get all the passes I'm sure you'd have liked to 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:29.600 have had last week. This might be the one where 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:31.880 they try to feed him a few extra times. A 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:36.120 B grade for him. So we have homecoming games for 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.760 players when they go play in their hometown, revenge games 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:42.120 against old teams, birthday day games. So the Eagles are 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.320 returning to the site of where they won the super 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.000 Bowl coup. I want to see if there's any historical 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:53.800 champagne games. Everything charged is available at fanball dot com. 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:57.000 By going to fanball dot com slash charge, you get 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:00.760 instant access to my free weekly rankings, my free one 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.080 dollar weekly contest, all of our podcasts, and it is 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:07.280 your portal to guillotine leagues again. Fami dot com slash 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.000 charts coming up next. It's a segment we call take 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:13.640 a Chance on Me. Nine players you wouldn't normally start, 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.400 but you can. This week you are listening to Fantasy 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:37.960 Football Weekly Idiots Fantasy Football Weekly Returns. This is a 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:40.640 segment we call take a Chance on Me nine players 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.120 not normally in your lineups, many of whom are available 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.120 on the waiver wire. It is our very special, royalty 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.320 free version of take a chance on Me. The sun 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.320 like ruins my day, like every time I know it 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:56.120 doesn't it? What did we pay the kids? Did we 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.280 pay it? Kids? On bench grade for me? Bench minus 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:04.399 bench mine take it okay minus? Version of take a 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.199 Chance on Me? We paid nothing for the song, you 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.800 paid nothing for the advice. We begin at the quarterback position. 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:14.840 Brian who day I got Andy Dalton at Baltimore. I 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:16.840 tried that last week. It didn't work out. It works. 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.240 Why I can make Marcus Mariot to work a couple 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.240 of weeks ago, I can make Andy Dalton work at Baltimore. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.120 It wasn't that bad. Actually, Dalton's had had a good 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:27.920 season actually, from a fantasy five games he's been fantasy. Well, 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.840 they're trailing before the National Anthem even ends, so it's 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:32.680 positive game scripts for the Bengals. But that's why I 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:34.960 like him here. But I also like him because already 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.359 without their top two cornerbacks this week Jimmy Smith who's 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.119 not gonna play in Tavon Young who was lost in 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.480 the preseason. The Ravens just lost starting safety Tony Jefferson Um. 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.639 So that's great news for Dalton, who has nine passing 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.400 touchdowns over his last three games against the Ravens, who 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.040 were already one of six teams with an opponent passing 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:56.119 percentage north of which is top six in the league. 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.800 So fire up, Bandy, Dalton, Fire up the bed rifle. Alright, Firecrots. 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:04.200 Would you want to say, Oh, stop, Matt, that's what's 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.240 your take a chance to e quarterback? Let's come to this, 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:09.439 Baker Mayfield is no longer a guy that you can 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.440 auto start, and for good reason. His line has been awful. 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:16.159 He's been inaccurate, but that changes this week. The Seahawks 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.919 deploy one of the league's worst pass rushes there twenty 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.000 six and saccurate and worst in the NFL and QB 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.160 hit rate. They also allowed Andy Dalton to throw four 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.080 yards and two touchdowns. I believe I called that one 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:33.720 and weak ones. Take a chance on me. Backups, Yeah, 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:37.720 thank you. Backups. Mason Rudolph and Teddy Bridgewater didn't put 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.520 up huge yards, but each through for two scores, plus 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.080 Jared Goff nearly hung four hundred on them last week. 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.720 Baker Mayfield gonna have a good day this week, all right. 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:47.600 Just come to this. The Baker Mayfield is to take 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:50.840 a chance in mean quarterback Kyle Allen takes on. The 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:54.280 Buccaneer is a secondary that is completely collapsed. Over the 0:18:54.320 --> 0:19:00.680 past month, four inconsistent passers have dominated the Buccaneers three 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:05.760 hundred seventy five yards yikes average, three seventy five and 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:09.680 two touchdowns per game. North Turner has asked Kyle Allen 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.520 to be very efficient. To this point, he's only thrown 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:16.160 twenty six, thirty four and thirty passes. But that change 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.440 is here. Tampa seeing the most passing attempts in the 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.639 league forty four per game. So Kyle Allen's gonna get 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:25.560 some volume in there too. He's actually inside my top 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:28.520 ten among quarterbacks this week. Let's go to the running 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:31.840 back position, Brian, Who's gonna take a chance of me? Runner? Oh, 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.160 Dion Lewis at Denver And I know I just kind 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.200 of side and discussed there, but I think there's hope 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.320 for Dion if there's any sort of PPR format involved 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:41.679 in your league. The Broncos are one of nine teams 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:44.160 to yield at least forty targets to opposing running backs. 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:46.560 Catch totals from opposing back fields over the last four 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:49.840 games are nine, eight, five, and six. Derrick Henry only 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:51.960 has three targets over the last three weeks, so Dean 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:54.920 Lewis has re established himself as the past catching down 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.840 back in that offense. And Denver has also allowed the 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.840 second most read zown red zone touches two running backs 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:03.240 this year. So if you are a super desperate and PPR, 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.080 Dion Lewis is your guy, all right, I got a 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:09.400 shod Penny because Cleveland's run defense has had some problems 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:12.240 of late. Last week, both Matt Brita and Tevin Coleman 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:14.760 top nine yards on the ground all and all, they 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:16.720 gave up to forty five on the ground of the 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:19.960 San fran Backs. That's a team that is very committed 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.680 to the run, and the Seahawks are similarly committed to 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:25.680 the ground game. Seattle has the fifth most rushing attempts 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:27.959 in the league. Uh the Niners are the third. By 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:30.920 the way, Plus, we're still on fumble watch for Chris 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:33.560 Carson as he could see some major bench time with 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.640 another drop. In week two prior to Penny getting hurt, 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:39.800 the split was fifteen carries for Carson and ten for 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:43.120 Penny as Carson Carson's fumbling issues were coming to light. 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:45.480