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Speaker 5: Oh boy, I got to talk about bone Eggs in
Speaker 5: an hour or so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's crack it more.
Speaker 3: And did you know bon Nicks leads the NFL in
Speaker 3: twenty plus yard completions.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Poor pass that over? I who would.
Speaker 3: Have expected that from mister dink and dunk.
Speaker 2: I I'm stunned by this turner out by Bonecks. We'll
Speaker 2: talk about that more in the show later. We'll break
Speaker 2: down all the games, including that one. We will also
Speaker 2: give the letter grades and all the players take a
Speaker 2: chance on me the nine players you would not normally start.
Speaker 2: Three tough questions, premature speculation, all the stuff you know
Speaker 2: in love from Fantasy Football Weekly. We begin with the
Speaker 2: Seattle Seahawks traveling to the New York Jets Scotts and
Speaker 2: one of the more peculiar stats I can remember. Yes,
Speaker 2: you know, normally when a quarterback goes to the Jets
Speaker 2: to face Sauce Gardner, DJ Reid and Michael Carter like
Speaker 2: game over. But tell people about the crazy rushing production
Speaker 2: that the Jets are giving up to opposing quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Just over the last seven weeks they have allowed
Speaker 3: or sorry, just over the last six weeks, they have
Speaker 3: allowed seven rushing touchdowns by quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: By most seasons, no team will give up seven quarterback
Speaker 2: rushing touchdowns in a year. The Jets have done in
Speaker 2: six games.
Speaker 3: I'm guessing most don't even give up four or five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. It puts Gino into a really interesting spot,
Speaker 2: especially for dfs and other places where you're trying to
Speaker 2: maybe find some unusual angles. Yeah, this might be one.
Speaker 3: It is an interesting angle. And he's also the quarterback
Speaker 3: that leads the NFL in passing yards per game. Obviously
Speaker 3: Lamar is a little ahead of him, but he's on
Speaker 3: one extra game played, right, So I do have a
Speaker 3: B grade on Gino Smith. His main problem has been
Speaker 3: the multi score games. But if if you might be
Speaker 3: able to get a rushing touchdown out of Gino, which
Speaker 3: you got last week, given what this defense is allowed,
Speaker 3: and he's had inside the five run in each of
Speaker 3: the last two weeks, so they're not opposed to giving
Speaker 3: it to him there. I got a B grade here.
Speaker 3: I think his two hundred and fifty to two hundred
Speaker 3: and seventy five yard average throwing a score because he's
Speaker 3: getting one every week, throwing a possible rushing one. I
Speaker 3: think he got a B grade here in this matchup,
Speaker 3: even though it's a very tough Jets secondary over to
Speaker 3: the wide receivers Jackson Smith and Jigba, who has been
Speaker 3: just red hot on fire over the last seven weeks
Speaker 3: or so. We're going to talk about him a little later, yep,
Speaker 3: but I'll get into right now. He's got the best
Speaker 3: matchup of the wide receivers against Michael Carter in the slot,
Speaker 3: but that's still a tough matchups, but it is the
Speaker 3: best of them. His target shares over the last three
Speaker 3: weeks have been averaging in the thirties thirty eight one week,
Speaker 3: thirty six one week, a little under thirty another week.
Speaker 3: But he's scoring tons of Fantasy points. He gets forty
Speaker 3: five percent of the team's wide receiver end zone targets
Speaker 3: in the last month, so he's just getting the ball
Speaker 3: there constantly. Six plus catches in four straight sixty nine
Speaker 3: plus yards in four straight. Yeah, I got him with
Speaker 3: a B grade here. You could talk me into an
Speaker 3: A if it was a better matchup with against an
Speaker 3: easier defense, but don't have it there. I have a
Speaker 3: C grade on DKM Metcalf dominates the team in air
Speaker 3: yards and a dop Jackson Smith and jigb has kind
Speaker 3: of taken over for him. He lines up on Sausa's
Speaker 3: side a little more, Lockett on red side a little more.
Speaker 3: But I'm not convinced Lockett's gonna play and when Metcalf
Speaker 3: Mo moves around, he's gonna get one of the two.
Speaker 3: And this is a defense allowing the fewest Fantasy points
Speaker 3: to wide receivers. So I just have a C grade
Speaker 3: on d KY Metcalf, who wasn't even practicing as late
Speaker 3: as Thursday, so it could be a really tough one
Speaker 3: for him there. Tyler Lockett, is that mine?
Speaker 4: It is?
Speaker 6: Wow?
Speaker 4: That's all right.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on there, Okay, Tyler Lockett
Speaker 3: I have on the bench because he's gonna get that
Speaker 3: same matchup. He's only seen a twelve percent target chair
Speaker 3: since Week seven and just too tough of a spot.
Speaker 3: Jackson and metcalf forgetting everything no offense, also on the bench.
Speaker 3: He's futally healthy now, but this is a top defense
Speaker 3: against tight ends. Just forty two yards per game and
Speaker 3: only one score on the year, So he's back on
Speaker 3: the bench. Still back on the bench, still over on
Speaker 3: the Jets side. C grade for Aaron Rodgers as much
Speaker 3: as the Jets lose Rogers yards are low, but he
Speaker 3: gets tons of scores. He's got multiple scores in most games.
Speaker 3: I believe six last eight games the Seattle Seahawks have
Speaker 3: allowed multiple scores, So I think he can get there
Speaker 3: on scores, you know, two hundred yards, but he's going
Speaker 3: to get a couple of scores.
Speaker 2: And I kind of like Garrett Wilson here.
Speaker 3: I do. I do have a beat grade on Garrett
Speaker 3: Wilson and a B grade on Devanta Adams. Wilson is
Speaker 3: third in NFL in red zone attempt so he does
Speaker 3: get a lot of that. But Wilson's catches in yards
Speaker 3: have dropped every week for three weeks. As Davante Adams
Speaker 3: gets more into that system. He gets that matchup against
Speaker 3: Riek Wollan, who has allowed five touchdowns this year. So
Speaker 3: I do like the spot okay there for him. Davante
Speaker 3: Adams also the B grade. He's begun to overtake. As
Speaker 3: I just kind of mentioned. His targets are thirty one
Speaker 3: to twenty four over the last three weeks, compared to
Speaker 3: Garrett Wilson weeks nine through eleven. Adams more targets per
Speaker 3: ut run targets are yards and zone targets, et cetera.
Speaker 3: The number one target getter against the Seahawks has topped
Speaker 3: one hundred and or scored in six of the last
Speaker 3: seven games, but a bunch of number two's had fifty
Speaker 3: to seventy yards, So I'm fine with both of them. Here.
Speaker 3: In the running game, Breest Hall says he's not sore,
Speaker 3: says he's fine, says he's gonna play, so I'm gonna
Speaker 3: trust him. The Eagles are allowing four point nine plus
Speaker 3: yards per carry, which is fourth worst, allowing the seventh
Speaker 3: most yards to backs one hundred and forty six combo
Speaker 3: yards per game. It's just a great spot for a
Speaker 3: guy getting fifteen plus touches that gets also pass game works.
Speaker 3: I have an A grade there. If for some reason
Speaker 3: he doesn't go. Braylan Allen's an interesting take a chance
Speaker 3: on me, but I have a bench good on Allen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm here, I hear you on that. All right,
Speaker 2: let's go over to Pittsburgh taking on Cincinnati. You know,
Speaker 2: on the Pittsburgh side. This feels like the Cincinnati defense
Speaker 2: been very, very leaky. The Steelers offense hasn't been great lately.
Speaker 2: But I feel like you could get the breakout game here.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 5: Yeah, a couple guys that we're going to be targeting
Speaker 5: for that. Not Russell Wilson. No gonna give him a seed.
Speaker 5: The Ravens game was the only one Wilson hasn't thrown
Speaker 5: for a touchdown or scored thirteen point eight plus fantasy points,
Speaker 5: but he only finished quarterback twenty seven and quarterback nineteen
Speaker 5: over the last two weeks. It is a decent matchup
Speaker 5: to your point charge. The Bengals have allowed the sixth
Speaker 5: highest passing yards per game since Week seven. Nase Harrison
Speaker 5: Jalen Warren. I gave them both seas. I was between
Speaker 5: a B and a C on NASE, but I toggled
Speaker 5: it down to a Sea. Nase RB twenty seven and
Speaker 5: fantasy points per game. But he has not finished as
Speaker 5: a top nine running back in any individual week, does
Speaker 5: have the sixteen plus touches in every game, averages close
Speaker 5: to twenty and he has been out playing Jalen Warren
Speaker 5: and getting more red zone work. But I'm gonna give
Speaker 5: him a sea as I'm giving Jalen Warren here. They've
Speaker 5: played six games together since Warren returned from injury. During
Speaker 5: that span, Harris has one hundred and nine carries and
Speaker 5: fourteen targets two hunderd four snaps. Warren sixty one carries,
Speaker 5: twenty targets one hundred and seventy six snaps.
Speaker 6: Half.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he did score his first touchdown of the season
Speaker 5: last week. Jalen Warren did and had fourteen or more
Speaker 5: touches and scored eleven plus fantasy points in two of
Speaker 5: the past three games. You want to go a little
Speaker 5: bit further. The Bengals, though, have been solid against receiving
Speaker 5: running backs this season. They've allowed the fewest receiving yards
Speaker 5: to opposing running backs. But yeah, I'm gonna give him
Speaker 5: both seas.
Speaker 4: Again.
Speaker 5: I'm back and forth on him, but that's where I settled.
Speaker 5: George Pickins, he's our breakout game guy. We're giving him
Speaker 5: an a here. He comes in thirty wide receiver things
Speaker 5: thirty six fantasy points per game, but I think one
Speaker 5: hundred plus yard game is coming here. He would have
Speaker 5: had a top ten wide receiver finish last week if
Speaker 5: there wasn't that weird miscommunication on a potential touchdown. And
Speaker 5: then Pickens's open score rate is tenth best in the NFL,
Speaker 5: so he's still playing really well.
Speaker 2: What's the sorry, what is the open score rate?
Speaker 3: I don't think they mystery the show.
Speaker 2: I don't think the Raiders ever mentioned this before.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how often they get open? Okay? We got a
Speaker 4: new one.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: And the Bengals have allowed six double digit wide receiver
Speaker 5: fantasy fantasy scorers in the last three games, so they're
Speaker 5: they're giving up fantasy points to opposing receivers. Pat Fryermuth
Speaker 5: is gonna give him a be tight end twenty in fantasy
Speaker 5: points per game, head and En. He's had fifty plus
Speaker 5: receiving yards only twice in the last seven games, but
Speaker 5: did get three red zone looks in the last three games,
Speaker 5: and this is solid matchup for him. Cincinnati has allowed
Speaker 5: the fifth most receiving yards per game and the second
Speaker 5: most fantasy points per game to opposing tight ends.
Speaker 2: Have you noticed speaking of Pittsburgh tight ends Russell Wilson's
Speaker 2: getting Dare Washington involved. Yeah, I like it. It's only like,
Speaker 2: you know, two or three catches a game, but man,
Speaker 2: I just love to see the ball in his hands.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Huge athlete cuge literally literally a huge.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's approximate.
Speaker 5: He was growing in the Kirby Smart mutant factory they
Speaker 5: have down there in Athens. Moving over to the Bengals,
Speaker 5: Joe Burrow give him an a quarterback three and fantasy
Speaker 5: points per game. The Steelers do have one of the
Speaker 5: best pass defenses in the league.
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh leads the.
Speaker 5: NFL in opposing QBR in part they run that zone
Speaker 5: coverage defense. I will say the Bengals offense ranks fourth
Speaker 5: in zone QB QBR on offense, so they they have
Speaker 5: done decent against zone defenses so far this year. Gonna
Speaker 5: give Chase Brown and a getting all the work with
Speaker 5: Zach Moss down. He's third in running back fantasy points
Speaker 5: per game first, and target second in receptions.
Speaker 4: Chase Brown has been really good.
Speaker 5: I was wrong about Chase Brown in the draft process.
Speaker 4: He's been good.
Speaker 2: But you know, here's the thing, though, I'll defend you
Speaker 2: this way. He wasn't this good last year, wasn't this
Speaker 2: good at Illinois, and Jason Brown has just gotten better.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he wasn't a great receiver at Illinois, so that
Speaker 5: part of his game in particular, so credit to him.
Speaker 5: Jamar Chase obvious A and A must start T Higgins.
Speaker 5: I was between an A and B here.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give him a B.
Speaker 5: He had almost thirty PPR points in his return from
Speaker 5: a three game quad absence in the week eleven against
Speaker 5: the Chargers, and he scored at least fourteen point seven
Speaker 5: PPR games four games in a row, how to least
Speaker 5: seven targets in each of those games. But Pittsburgh is
Speaker 5: not an easy matchup. The Steelers have allowed the six
Speaker 5: fewest fantasy points to opposing wide receivers. The point about
Speaker 5: Higgins though, in this game that makes him sneaky, which
Speaker 5: why I was considering an A T Higgins is his
Speaker 5: yards per route run against Cover one is three point
Speaker 5: eighty five is sterling number crazy against all other coverages
Speaker 5: one point nine to eight.
Speaker 4: Wow, gerarlds per rout run.
Speaker 5: The Steelers used Cover one the second most in the
Speaker 5: entire NFL, so it's like he is good against these
Speaker 5: kind of coverage. His boy, the Steelers have such a
Speaker 5: good pass defense.
Speaker 2: All right, distill it into a letter.
Speaker 5: I gave him a B, but I was between A
Speaker 5: and B for three aggains and then you keep getting
Speaker 5: Mike Kiseki on the bench.
Speaker 4: He's not usable with t Higgins back.
Speaker 3: By the way, George pickens with Russell Wilson is wide
Speaker 3: receiver sixteen. Oh, he's thirty six on the season, so
Speaker 3: that's even even better. Before I get yelled at on
Speaker 3: social media, Kenneth Walker, it gets a B grade. I
Speaker 3: completely glossed over Kenneth Walker. Volume backs like James Connor
Speaker 3: Joe Mixon had one hundred plus total yards. It's a
Speaker 3: tough matchup, but volume backs have done well, So I
Speaker 3: got a B grade on Walker.
Speaker 2: Arizona takes on Minnesota Kyler Murray's average passing game two
Speaker 2: hundred and thirteen yards in one touchdown. I was looking
Speaker 2: for who else, what's the quarterback comparison at two hundred
Speaker 2: and thirteen and one for a passing game. It's Daniel Jones. Boy,
Speaker 2: he's thrown zero or one touchdowns in nine of the
Speaker 2: last eleven games of the eleven this year. For Kyler
Speaker 2: Murray not gad Vikings pass defense better lately, but it's
Speaker 2: also come against inferior passers to Murray. And here's the thing.
Speaker 2: We're here for Murray's rushing mostly, but get this, he's
Speaker 2: in five to the last eight games he's been nineteen
Speaker 2: rushing yards or less. And what team ranks number one
Speaker 2: against quarterback rushing yards. It'd be the biking it nine yards?
Speaker 2: Nine yeah, nine time, that's it nine yards. So Kyler Murray,
Speaker 2: it's a generous be only because the pass defense has
Speaker 2: been yielding for the Vikings. Marvin Harrison. I struggled with
Speaker 2: this one too, massively inconsistent in his six bad games,
Speaker 2: Marvin Harrison averaging one and a half catches twenty four
Speaker 2: scoreless yards. In his five good games, five catches eighty
Speaker 2: one yards and over one touchdown per game. For Marvin Harrison,
Speaker 2: he is the most all or nothing player in the NFL.
Speaker 3: We should talk about him later, we should talk about
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
Speaker 2: Let's dive into Marvin Harrison little more later specific to
Speaker 2: this matchup, though more likely to be good in a
Speaker 2: matchup against the bottom rank Vikings pass defense and yards
Speaker 2: allowed to wide receivers, he lines up all over the
Speaker 2: field the X Y Z. That means he's going to
Speaker 2: face all three of the Vikings cornerbacks, honestly, none of
Speaker 2: which are particularly problematic matches. Marvin Harrison B grade here.
Speaker 2: Trey McBride also B grade. He's caught sixty one passes
Speaker 2: covering almost seven hundred yards and hasn't scored, which is
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 3: He had a rushing tech did a rushing touch you know, I.
Speaker 2: Think you're right about it. You're right, he has a
Speaker 2: rushing touchdown. But he's top fifty receiving yards in six
Speaker 2: of the past seven games. Last week, McBride twelve catches
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty three yards in Yeah, unreal. Cole
Speaker 2: Kmet randomly hit the Vikings for sixty four yards last week,
Speaker 2: but before that they'd been great against tight ends for
Speaker 2: the previous six games, although none of them is good.
Speaker 2: Never saw a tight end as good as Tray McBride.
Speaker 2: B grade for Trey McBride. Last guy you care about
Speaker 2: James Connor. Toughest matchup of his year. Okay, no runner
Speaker 2: has top forty eight yards. Again, it's the Vikings in
Speaker 2: a month. Here's their run defense stats rushing yards allowed
Speaker 2: number one yards per carry, number two, defensive EPA number
Speaker 2: one run defense success rate number one, yards after contact
Speaker 2: number two, and mistackles the Vikings are number one. It
Speaker 2: is a stifling run defense, and James Connor only comes
Speaker 2: in with a C grade. Let's go over to the
Speaker 2: Viking side. Justin Jefferson coming up a dud game and
Speaker 2: he has not scored in five games. But the Vikings
Speaker 2: have won all five games, and they've proven that triple
Speaker 2: covering Jefferson means that Simon Sam Darnold will beat the
Speaker 2: team with other assets. The Cardinals have one very good cornerback,
Speaker 2: Garrett Williams, allowing a fifty four percent completion rate and
Speaker 2: just one touchdown all year. He's the fifth He's the
Speaker 2: eighth ranked cornerback by Pro Football Focus. Garrett, and he's
Speaker 2: their slot guy, right, That's exactly right. He's the slot guy. Now,
Speaker 2: Jefferson does run from the slot on about a third
Speaker 2: of his routes, but.
Speaker 3: He can avoid them.
Speaker 2: They can avoid it, right, I mean the other two
Speaker 2: thirds he won't see that guy, and they could just
Speaker 2: run him in the slot less if they want to.
Speaker 2: So I've still got an A grade on Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 2: Let's go over to Jordan Addison, who's been red hot lately,
Speaker 2: primarily running on the outside. He's gonna see cornerbacks Sean Murphy, buntings,
Speaker 2: Starling Thomas. Thomas has been great lately, allowing just two
Speaker 2: catches for twenty three yards in his coverage over the
Speaker 2: last six games, but bunting's a major liability, allowing it
Speaker 2: eighty percent can catch rate. Addison's very touchdown dependent because
Speaker 2: he doesn't have great volume, and the Cardinals have only
Speaker 2: allowed one touchdown to wide outs in their last five games.
Speaker 2: You want to know why the Cardinals are suddenly sitting
Speaker 2: in first place in their division, and it's this defense
Speaker 2: has come around really nicely. TJ. Hockinson comes in with
Speaker 2: a B grade. Josh Oliver has been ruled out and
Speaker 2: he was last week too, and Hockinson saw season high
Speaker 2: and snaps and targets. The Cardinals are downright dominant, though
Speaker 2: against tight ends, only two guys all year have top
Speaker 2: thirty six yards.
Speaker 3: That's a low mark.
Speaker 2: That is a low mark, and they've only given up
Speaker 2: one touchdown to tight Endsamer of hope is that the
Speaker 2: only Hockinson level tight end to face the Cardinals was
Speaker 2: George Kittle and he put up eight catches, sixty four
Speaker 2: yards and a touchdown against the Cardinals. B grade for TJ. Hockinson,
Speaker 2: and we'll round out the passing game with Sam Donald
Speaker 2: coming off probably the best two games of his career.
Speaker 2: But the Cardinals are a sneaky good pass defense, as
Speaker 2: I've already alluded to. Over the past four games, they're
Speaker 2: giving up zero point four passing touchdowns, so there is
Speaker 2: some downside with Donald, who usually has a very high floor.
Speaker 2: I've given his receivers ABS and C grades, So Sam
Speaker 2: Donald comes in right at the middle with a B grade,
Speaker 2: and that leaves us with Aaron Jones. Arizona was a
Speaker 2: terrible run defense in September, but they've been great since then.
Speaker 2: Over the past seven games, Arizona's only allowed one runner
Speaker 2: to score a rushing touchdown randomly Raheem Moster, other good
Speaker 2: backs like Josh Jacobs, JK. Dobbins, Breese Hall, Kenneth Walker
Speaker 2: really good backs averaging forty seven rushing yards per game
Speaker 2: against Arizona. Cardinals are giving up decent receiving games to runners,
Speaker 2: but Kevin O'Connell just doesn't use Jones that way. So
Speaker 2: I don't think he cashes in there. Over the past
Speaker 2: seven games, Aaron Jones is averaging just two catches per game,
Speaker 2: so might be an opportunity missed for him, and he
Speaker 2: comes in with a C grade in this game. When
Speaker 2: we come back take a chance on me nine players
Speaker 2: you would not normally start. Many of these guys in
Speaker 2: the waiver wire. Almost all them tell you who they are.
Speaker 2: When we come back on me nine players you would
Speaker 2: not normally start. We begin with Scott Fish. Who is
Speaker 2: your take a chance on me quarterback?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going with Drake May in a matchup against
Speaker 3: a Colts that are basically bottom nine in every category,
Speaker 3: but in the past they're just as bad. He's running
Speaker 3: the ball about five times a game. That's gonna give
Speaker 3: you extra work. He has at least one score in
Speaker 3: seven straight games and his yards have been ticking up
Speaker 3: quite a bit lately. So I like Drake May here.
Speaker 2: It's coming around nicely. Drake May, All right, offensive line
Speaker 2: is so bad, so bad?
Speaker 3: Well, it's really it's terrible.
Speaker 2: One of the worst I've ever seen. And I know
Speaker 2: it's a lot of injuries and different things, but can't
Speaker 2: wait to see Drake May next year, find a better line.
Speaker 3: Get him a better line and a wide receiver in
Speaker 3: the draft, and.
Speaker 2: Game on, Game on for Drake may thor you taking
Speaker 2: chance on me quarterback.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with CJ. Stroud against the Jaguars.
Speaker 2: Like it.
Speaker 5: Stroud has scored fewer than twenty fantasy points six games
Speaker 5: in a row, five in exceptions in the past three games,
Speaker 5: the same number he had for the entirety of his
Speaker 5: rookie season. He's top two hundred fifty passing yards just
Speaker 5: once over the last four games, but he was close
Speaker 5: to twenty fantasy points last week against Tennessee. And this
Speaker 5: is a great matchup incoming that Jaguars have allowed the
Speaker 5: most fantasy points to opposing quarterbacks this year, and Stroud's
Speaker 5: three career games against the Jaguars nine twenty nine passing yards,
Speaker 5: six touchdowns, zero interceptions.
Speaker 6: C J.
Speaker 2: Stroud love it, bounce back game coming. Will Levis quietly
Speaker 2: playing by far the Mayo man, the Mayo man, play
Speaker 2: the male he delivered. Yeah, I'm playing by far the
Speaker 2: best football of his career and it's not close. Now,
Speaker 2: granted that's not a high bar, but over the past
Speaker 2: three games, Will Levis is sixth in passer rating, eleventh
Speaker 2: in completion percentage, third in depth of target at nine
Speaker 2: point six. I was worried that they had just like
Speaker 2: throttled him down a bunch and he was doing dump
Speaker 2: offs and stuff. No, Will Levis is throwing downfield at
Speaker 2: a high completion percentage in Dynasty.
Speaker 3: Very bons like uh more on that coming in Dynasty.
Speaker 2: Will Levis is an intriguing acquisition target right now because
Speaker 2: it's possible, Like you know, the Will Levis, the Will
Speaker 2: Levis manager is not doesn't realize what he or she
Speaker 2: has got right now. Commander's secondary commanders this week is
Speaker 2: the opponent they're secondary faltering of late. Over the past
Speaker 2: four games, Daniel Jones, Russell Wilson, and Cooper Rush have
Speaker 2: all thrown multiple touchdowns against Washington. They're also giving up
Speaker 2: good rushing games to scrambling quarterbacks like Levitt, who averages
Speaker 2: a respectable twenty two rushing yards per game. All right,
Speaker 2: let's go to the running back.
Speaker 3: Can I ask you a question? First? Did you think
Speaker 3: he said mailman or mayo?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 5: Mayo?
Speaker 6: Man? Okay?
Speaker 2: Was playing?
Speaker 3: Okay? Gotcha got playing?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 3: Just make it sure, just make it sure.
Speaker 2: I was just trying to pivot. I like, I like
Speaker 2: it thing.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 2: Now let's go to the running back position.
Speaker 3: I am going with Antonio Gibson for those same Patriots
Speaker 3: playing those same Colts who are third worst against fantasy
Speaker 3: running backs. Not only are they third worst, they allow
Speaker 3: the most combo yards. They're seventh worst against receptions and
Speaker 3: yards allowed to pass catching backs. That's Gibson's role. He
Speaker 3: got most of the past catching work last week, and
Speaker 3: he out snaps Stevenson after Stevenson got his fifth fumble
Speaker 3: of the year. I wonder if there might be a
Speaker 3: little tie turning bit. It's a good matchup for a
Speaker 3: pass catching back.
Speaker 2: Sounds good. Let's store let's go to your take a
Speaker 2: chance with me running back?
Speaker 4: Is that Kamani Vidal's music? I hear? Is that Kamani
Speaker 4: dal music?
Speaker 2: What would be his music? Can we get something on
Speaker 2: the button bar?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: I don't got gotta be something from Alabama because he
Speaker 5: went to Troy.
Speaker 2: That isn't that.
Speaker 5: Leonard Skinner Terry, Yeah, okay, yeah, we'll do that work out.
Speaker 5: I'll do that, okay, But Charger's playing the falcon and JK.
Speaker 5: Dobbins with his knee injury is out this week. Gus Edwards,
Speaker 5: he returned from his own injury in November, presumably will
Speaker 5: be the starter here. But it does sound like Vidal
Speaker 5: will be used heavily in this game, especially on passing downs.
Speaker 5: I think he'll be in for all the passing downs.
Speaker 5: This was Chargers offensive coordinator Greg Roman speaking this week.
Speaker 5: He said, we fully expect Kamani to step in if
Speaker 5: JK can't go this week. JK is not going might
Speaker 5: get a bigger, a little bit bigger workload.
Speaker 4: We'll see.
Speaker 5: We have full confidence in Kamani and where he's at
Speaker 5: end quote. If the Chargers lead throughout the second half
Speaker 5: of this game, Vidal is going to get more work
Speaker 5: there as well. And of course, the Chargers rushing offense
Speaker 5: is averaging one hundred and eighteen plus rushing yards per game.
Speaker 4: So I like Kimani Videll.
Speaker 2: The other part that you didn't mention, Gus Edwards is
Speaker 2: not playing well. You got dead legs, dead legs? Does
Speaker 2: he's got dead legs.
Speaker 4: KIMMANI and Adull does not. No, Yes, that's fresh legs.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, he's got the Jimmy legs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: For all the times we've mentioned Kimani in there for
Speaker 2: the last nine months. God, I want to payoff the
Speaker 2: final get here, here comes a break. I'm gonna try
Speaker 2: Jeremy McNichols Washington running back against Tennessee.
Speaker 4: Boise State in the House?
Speaker 2: Yes, how about that. It's gonna be some Boise State
Speaker 2: in the House next year?
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure will Yeah.
Speaker 2: There's a chance McNichols is the Commander's lead back because
Speaker 2: Brian Robinson he's got ankle and hamstring injuries, got knocked
Speaker 2: out last week, got knocked out two weeks before that,
Speaker 2: and Austin Eckler is already ruled out of this game.
Speaker 2: So worst case, Jeremy McNichols will be running the Austin
Speaker 2: Eckler role. In limited use this year, McNichols has looked
Speaker 2: pretty good. He's averaging five yards per carry. He's found
Speaker 2: the end zone three times despite barely getting on the field.
Speaker 2: It's a tough matchup against the Titans, but they've given
Speaker 2: up touchdowns six rushing touchdowns in the last six games,
Speaker 2: So maybe McNichols converts a goal to go and helps
Speaker 2: you out that way. Let's go to the receivers, Scott,
Speaker 2: you're taking a chance with me guy.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: A couple weeks ago, I gave you mvs. Marquez Valdez
Speaker 3: Scantleon for the Saints.
Speaker 2: Let's scored when you did that, he scored a big touchdown.
Speaker 3: Ah, there we go. This week he gets a RAMS
Speaker 3: defense allowing the sixth most receptions over twenty yards at
Speaker 3: thirty eight. That's about three and a half twenty plus
Speaker 3: yard receptions per game. If anyone's getting in on that team,
Speaker 3: it's going to be mvs. In a game that's slated
Speaker 3: as one of the highest over hunders of the week.
Speaker 3: I think he's going to do it again.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: I like it your that's your That's kind of an
Speaker 2: all or nothing darts throw that you could pick up
Speaker 2: off the waiver WI right, Okay, thor you'll take a
Speaker 2: chance on me.
Speaker 5: Receiver Gonna go with Broncos wide receiver Devon hold the
Speaker 5: Veley against the Bronze Yeah. Vley's emerged as Denver's number
Speaker 5: two wide receiver over the past three games. He's a
Speaker 5: top twenty five fantasy receiver in the entire NFL. Has
Speaker 5: posted double digit PPR points in all three of those games.
Speaker 5: The Browns, the opponent this week, have given up the
Speaker 5: tenth most fantasy points to opposing wide receivers, and five
Speaker 5: wide receivers have scored fourteen plus PPR points against Cleveland
Speaker 5: in the past four games.
Speaker 2: I like Vley and Dynasty use. I like picking them
Speaker 2: up here, mostly for next year. But you know, it
Speaker 2: looks like bow Nicks is going to be able to
Speaker 2: support two receivers, and now we're starting to figure out
Speaker 2: who that second one is after they've been rotating guys
Speaker 2: in constantly at that number two spot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Vley, he is at an advanced age.
Speaker 5: He's old for a rookie, and in college he was
Speaker 5: always in bad passing environments like with Utah their quarterback
Speaker 5: went down.
Speaker 4: Cam Risen was always getting injured, but an.
Speaker 5: Incredible athlete in a big package sixts four two O
Speaker 5: five two ten and very very fast, so he was
Speaker 5: always like the raw guy to keep an eye on,
Speaker 5: and he is breaking out.
Speaker 2: Adam Feelen returned last week, and I had worried that
Speaker 2: even when thelan was healthy, he might not have a
Speaker 2: major role in the Panthers offense. But as it turns out,
Speaker 2: I think Dave Canalis is looking at all these young
Speaker 2: receivers that are on that Panther's oster, and he's like,
Speaker 2: you know what, let's let Adam Thielen show these kids
Speaker 2: what it's like to be a pro. And he gave
Speaker 2: Flan a major role last week in his first game back,
Speaker 2: a sixty six percent route rate, second only to Xavier Lagette.
Speaker 2: And this is a very favorable matchup against Tampa, and
Speaker 2: especially in the slot. The year they've they've started using
Speaker 2: hybrid safety Christian Izian as their slot guy and he's
Speaker 2: allowing a seventy eight percent completion percentage. And the Tampa
Speaker 2: secondary is going to be missing starting safety Jordan Whitehead
Speaker 2: and the other safety, Tykey Smith is questionable the knee injury.
Speaker 2: So the Panthers passing game might get a little something
Speaker 2: going in this one. Adam Thielen as your final take
Speaker 2: a chance on me player, Let's go to our next matchup,
Speaker 2: Indianapolis taking on New England. Scott, you've already told us
Speaker 2: about some of the players you like on the New
Speaker 2: England side. Who do you like on the Indie side?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll still in the passing game or you know,
Speaker 3: more pseudo rushing game in Anthony Richardson, who I do
Speaker 3: have a C grade on. He's got twenty design character
Speaker 3: carries for ninety three yards and two scores in the
Speaker 3: last two games or three games. Yeah, since returning to
Speaker 3: the spot ten plus carries in three to the last four.
Speaker 3: You can expect kind of a base level there that
Speaker 3: he's gonna get around ten carries in those two games.
Speaker 3: He got a couple he shared split inside the five
Speaker 3: carries with Jonathan Taylor, which wasn't happening earlier in the season.
Speaker 3: So maybe they're they're using him a little differently, maybe
Speaker 3: to get his confidence up from the benching. I don't know.
Speaker 3: But add to that, his one hundred and seventy five
Speaker 3: yard average on the season has ticked up in the
Speaker 3: last two games, and you know, social media film watchers
Speaker 3: claim he's improved, Okay, so I'll give him that. I'll
Speaker 3: give him the C grade here in his for his
Speaker 3: wide receivers, Michael Pittman, I have a C grade on
Speaker 3: Courd and Mike Clay. In his shadow report, he's gonna
Speaker 3: get shadow treatment from Christian Gonzalez, who saw Jamar Chase,
Speaker 3: DK Metcalf, Garrett Wilson, Brendan Ayuk, Tyreek Hill, you know,
Speaker 3: DeVante Adams, Calvin Ridley, a bunch of those, only DK
Speaker 3: Metcalf was able to top seventy five yards, and just
Speaker 3: Metcalf and Wilson were able to score. Most of them
Speaker 3: were around fifty yards, but Pittman five for forty six
Speaker 3: and six for ninety six in the last two games
Speaker 3: with Richardson, he's getting the volume, so maybe he's one
Speaker 3: of those five or six catches fifty sixty yard guys
Speaker 3: that can get you to a SEA level. I also
Speaker 3: have a SEA on Alec Pierce. New England's just struggling
Speaker 3: on a perimeter receivers tenth most points allowed, fifth most
Speaker 3: to the perimeter, and with Josh Downs out, there's gonna
Speaker 3: be extra targets to go around. Alek Pierce is usually
Speaker 3: a one to three big play shot guy, but with
Speaker 3: Downs out, I'm gonna give him the SE grade. Think
Speaker 3: he gets a little extra one. Jonathan Taylor. I got
Speaker 3: a B grade on Pat's a bottom eight in yards
Speaker 3: and scores allowed to running backs over the last few
Speaker 3: they have been much stingier, allowing about eighty nine total yards.
Speaker 3: But the volume Taylor gets, I expect him to get
Speaker 3: to that eighty nine level. He has been held down
Speaker 3: back to back, but those were both top ten run defenses.
Speaker 3: This is not that big difference here, and he's a
Speaker 3: twenty plus touchbacks have destroyed the pats so B grade
Speaker 3: here Over on the other side, I mentioned Antonio Gibson,
Speaker 3: he was my take a chance on me player.
Speaker 2: What about Ramondre?
Speaker 3: I have him on the bench because of his two
Speaker 3: point six yards per carry, his constant fumbling, and he's
Speaker 3: just been so dang inefficient and if he splits touches,
Speaker 3: I don't know that I can love him.
Speaker 2: Here, and he does because you know how I feel
Speaker 2: about Romond. Yeah, he's my guy. Yeah, nowhere to run ever?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because of the line.
Speaker 2: The line's so bad.
Speaker 3: Yes, if with six teams on by, he does get
Speaker 3: a matchup. I mentioned in the last segment the third
Speaker 3: most Fantasy points allowed to running back. He's got a
Speaker 3: good matchup if you're really desperate with six teams on buy,
Speaker 3: But so Darthrow at best, Drake may was might take
Speaker 3: a chance on me quarterback. I really only like Damrio
Speaker 3: Douglas and Hunter Henry here, though Tomio Douglas with a
Speaker 3: C grade. He's at nine plus PPR points in four
Speaker 3: straight but he also hasn't top twelve PPR points in those,
Speaker 3: so he's like a nine to twelve point guy. He's
Speaker 3: getting four plus catches fifty plus yards in them, averaging
Speaker 3: seven targets. Colts allowing the seventh most receiving yards wide receiver,
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna give him a C and Hunter Henry
Speaker 3: gets the B five plus catches and forty four plus
Speaker 3: yards in five to last six. He did have a
Speaker 3: dud in at Chicago game where New England got up
Speaker 3: by thirty by a ton and ran the ball thirty
Speaker 3: one times, but otherwise, seven different tight ends have scored
Speaker 3: or hit fifty yards against the Colts, so it's a
Speaker 3: decent spot B grade Henry.
Speaker 2: This is the prototypical rookie quarterback looking for his gigantic
Speaker 2: tight end middle of the field. Hunter Henry's productivity has
Speaker 2: gone way up. Yeah, may yep, that's you know, he's
Speaker 2: turned into the fantasy player.
Speaker 3: I'd like to see it. Give us the tight end
Speaker 3: option out there.
Speaker 2: I know we need more of those. We need more
Speaker 2: of those? Is Will Disley? Won find out as we
Speaker 2: break down the Los Angeles Chargers taking on the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 2: Do we like Will Disley in this one Thorn Eistrom
Speaker 2: will break that matchup down for you when we come
Speaker 2: back to Fantasy Football Weekly, another block of matchups for you.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Chargie and Scott
Speaker 2: Fish and thorn Eystrom with you. We pivot to Thor
Speaker 2: for the Chargers taking on the Falcons. And when we
Speaker 2: went into break Thor, I mentioned Will Disley. It's probably
Speaker 2: not where you were naturally going to start this matchup,
Speaker 2: but and so you don't have to. But Will Disley
Speaker 2: has turned into a PPR helper at its position where
Speaker 2: you can't always find help. Yeah, So if you want
Speaker 2: to start with Bill Disley weekend, where there's a Will,
Speaker 2: there's a way, nicely done, nicely done.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give Disley a B.
Speaker 5: He sat out practice on Wednesday, but he was off
Speaker 5: the injury report on Friday, so we'll be a full
Speaker 5: goal from that groin injury. Certainly startable. With that being said,
Speaker 5: he's been averaging five catches for forty five yards on
Speaker 5: six targets since taking over. Is the team's primary pass
Speaker 5: catching tight end, and he's number nine and Fantasy points
Speaker 5: among all tight ends over the last month. Justin Herbert
Speaker 5: gonna give him an A scored twenty two plus fantasy
Speaker 5: points four games in a row prior to last week
Speaker 5: seventeen point six against Baltimore. Good matchup to get back
Speaker 5: on track here, the Falcons have given up twenty two
Speaker 5: plus fantasy points to five straight quarterbacks. And this is
Speaker 5: a fun stat at a Tassa sin The Falcons have
Speaker 5: ten sacks this year. That is the fewest by any
Speaker 5: team through eleven games since the twenty eighteen Raiders.
Speaker 2: Wow, Holy Cow.
Speaker 5: Might have might have used the edge resher there for
Speaker 5: the defense in the draft may Bee.
Speaker 2: That's probably coming next year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well we'll see maybe another quarterback for terrible Terry
Speaker 5: found now. Yeah, Gus Edwards, we're gonna give him a bee.
Speaker 5: I mentioned before Kamani vidal As might take a chance
Speaker 5: on me running back. Gus is gonna get the gust.
Speaker 5: Bus is going to get a be here.
Speaker 4: JK.
Speaker 5: Dobbins, of course, with his knee injury, is out for
Speaker 5: this game. After Dobbins left last week, Gus Buss actually
Speaker 5: played eleven snaps twenty two for Hassan Haskins. But yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm expecting Gus to be the primary guy and Vida
Speaker 5: to be the pass catching guy and maybe get a
Speaker 5: little bit more work than that, especially if they have
Speaker 5: the lead and for Haskins not to be as involved
Speaker 5: here and Gus could be looking at around fifteen carries.
Speaker 4: Like I said, I.
Speaker 2: See you like him for about thirty yards.
Speaker 5: He is against right now, he is against the Falcons defense.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so we're gonna give him a Bee.
Speaker 5: I also gave Lad McConkie, a bee wide receiver thirty
Speaker 5: one and fantasy points per game. He is the go
Speaker 5: to receiver for Justin Herbert. Over the past two games,
Speaker 5: Lad twelve catches for two hundred and six yards on
Speaker 5: fifteen targets. The Falcons have allowed the fourth most fantasy
Speaker 5: points to opposing receivers, and they've been struggling against slot
Speaker 5: receivers in particular. If I thought this game could be closer,
Speaker 5: I like the Chargers in this one, but maybe I'd
Speaker 5: even tick Ladd up higher. But the second half with
Speaker 5: the lead, I don't know. They put the ball in
Speaker 5: the air as much. Quintin Johnson gave him a seat.
Speaker 5: He had the three drops against the Ravens last week.
Speaker 5: This is a good matchup for him as well, of course,
Speaker 5: versus that bad Falcons pass defense. The Falcons run a
Speaker 5: lot of Cover three. Quinton Johnston has the eleventh best
Speaker 5: yards per route run against Cover three this year.
Speaker 2: Wow, what so he got to give him a seat? Well,
Speaker 2: will he catch whatever throndo him?
Speaker 5: We'll find out. He got the drops, He's out of
Speaker 5: the way. Last week I used him all up. He's
Speaker 5: due to not drop the ball this year. Kirk Cousin's
Speaker 5: gonna give him a seat going over to the Falcon side.
Speaker 5: Four games to twenty plus fantasy points this all season.
Speaker 5: On two against Tampa Bay. Here's another crazy staff for you.
Speaker 5: For of Cousins's total fantasy points this seasons.
Speaker 4: Tamp came in those two games.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 5: Incredible zero touchdowns the past two games for Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 5: The Chargers have given up twenty plus fantasy points to
Speaker 5: three straight quarterbacks, but that has in part been because
Speaker 5: of rushing utility, which Cousins does not offer. For that reason,
Speaker 5: I give him a c B. Jon Robinson a must start.
Speaker 5: I would advise keeping Tyler l Jeer on the bench.
Speaker 5: I don't think this is the right matchup for him.
Speaker 5: Like I said, I like the Chargers in the game,
Speaker 5: and the Chargers have also given up the fifth viewes
Speaker 5: PPR points to opposing running backs and the Falcons maybe
Speaker 5: playing from behind the second half, which would cut into
Speaker 5: his usage. Drake London A must start Darnell Mooney b
Speaker 5: for him. He's expected to play after he left the
Speaker 5: last game against Denver with the hamstring injury, but they
Speaker 5: had to buy in between for Darnell Mooney to get healthy.
Speaker 5: Mooney has scored fourteen point six or more PPR points
Speaker 5: in three straight prior to that Broncos game when he
Speaker 5: got hurt. The Chargers have allowed five receivers to score
Speaker 5: at least twelve point three PPR points in the past
Speaker 5: five games. If Mooney were to be ruled out, I
Speaker 5: don't expect him to be, but if he were, then
Speaker 5: Ray Ray mccleody become a deep flex option. But otherwise
Speaker 5: keep Ray Ray on the bench. And then lastly, Kyle Pitts,
Speaker 5: I give him a C. I never I'm always wrong.
Speaker 5: Everyone's always wrong about Kyle. I'll just toss the Sea
Speaker 5: out nine point five PPR points or last three games
Speaker 5: in a row, one game with a touchdown since Week one,
Speaker 5: and this is also a tough matchup. Mark Andrews became
Speaker 5: the first tight end last week to score a touchdown
Speaker 5: against the Chargers all season long, and the Charges have
Speaker 5: allowed the sixth lowest yards per reception and the eighth
Speaker 5: lowest fantasy points per game to opposing tight ends.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Andrewscott that first touchdown against the Chargers at
Speaker 2: this time last week. I did the Baltimore matchup Mark Andrews.
Speaker 2: He's so touchdown dependent. When he doesn't score, you only
Speaker 2: get like two catches twenty three yards, and the Chargers
Speaker 2: have never given up a touchdown, so you need to
Speaker 2: leave him on the bench. It's like saying.
Speaker 4: Candy Man in the mirror three times, that's gonna show up. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay takes on Carolina. I did not expect this
Speaker 2: to be a thorny long matchup, but it kind of is.
Speaker 2: Let's uh, let's start with Bucky Irving. How good is
Speaker 2: Bucky Irving? Thor among runners with at least one hundred carries,
Speaker 2: Irving ranks number one in yards after contact and nobody
Speaker 2: is close. He's four point two yards after contact. He
Speaker 2: ranks number He's a banana peel that guy. I like this.
Speaker 2: He's number two in avoided tackle rate. He's number five
Speaker 2: in yards per carry, and he's six in yards over expectation.
Speaker 3: You know it is yards after contact were last week,
Speaker 3: just last week seven point three?
Speaker 4: Jeez.
Speaker 2: I mean, just at some point doesn't and I, Scott,
Speaker 2: I think I have already talked about this. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you've chimed in you Thorp, at some point,
Speaker 2: doesn't Bucky Irving just become the starter because he's so much.
Speaker 3: Better than I mean, he out snapped White last week.
Speaker 2: I know, but I want to see more. Okay, I do,
Speaker 2: and I want to believe that sooner or later it's
Speaker 2: gonna work out that way. Bucky Irving comes in with
Speaker 2: an A grade here. Carolina is predictably bad against the run,
Speaker 2: allowing the most fantasy points to opposing running backs, and
Speaker 2: even if he only gets his usual like ten twelve
Speaker 2: fifteen touches, that's enough for a big game for Irving.
Speaker 4: I love him.
Speaker 2: I'm going a grade.
Speaker 3: He won another Bucky Irvings ste please her. He ran
Speaker 3: a route on fifty nine percent of his snaps last week.
Speaker 3: Oh he again, casts he's digging into that receiving.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: So let's then go to Rashad White, who's got a
Speaker 2: C grade. I think he's fractionally as good a runner Aserving,
Speaker 2: but he continues to get half the snaps. I'll note
Speaker 2: that White snap percentage has decreased in three straight games,
Speaker 2: been Irving snaps have increased in three straight games. White
Speaker 2: does remain startable because of the strong matchup with Carolina,
Speaker 2: though c grade there. It's going to the passing game.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start with Baker Mayfield. So with Mike Evans back,
Speaker 2: last week, Mayfield jumped right back to his previous passing
Speaker 2: success with nearly three hundred yards and a eighty percent
Speaker 2: completion rate for Baker Mayfield. The Panther secondary, though sneaky,
Speaker 2: they have improved a lot good quarterbacks, though still finding
Speaker 2: their ways to good games against Carolina, including Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: last week, who posted his highest scoring Fantasy day of
Speaker 2: the year. As a bonus, the Panthers have yielded quarterback
Speaker 2: rushing touchdowns or fifty or more rushing yards in every
Speaker 2: game since Week seven. And Baker is really good about
Speaker 2: scrambling out of the pocket and making things happen on
Speaker 2: the fly. So a grade for Baker mayfix this one.
Speaker 2: So then let's go to Mike Evans. He'll mostly see
Speaker 2: cornerback jac Horn, who's one of the few cornerbacks who's
Speaker 2: physical enough to battle Mike Evans. Horns a gambler who
Speaker 2: can smother smaller receivers. But obviously that's not Evans, who's gigantic.
Speaker 2: He also gets burned a lot, and he's given up
Speaker 2: four scores this year. Horns and e Lee tackler. He
Speaker 2: shuts down yards after catch, and that's where Mike Evans
Speaker 2: gets a lot of his damages after the catch, and
Speaker 2: jac Horn will not be a part of that. So
Speaker 2: I've got to B grade on Mike Evans. Sterling Shepard
Speaker 2: with a sneaky Sea grade, running primarily from the slot.
Speaker 2: That puts him on backup cornerback Dane Jackson a very
Speaker 2: positive matchup seeing the field in only four games, Jackson's
Speaker 2: allowed two scores in a seventy one percent completion rate.
Speaker 2: And it's a side note. I like Sterling Shepard in
Speaker 2: the slot his natural position. Mike Evans also runs in
Speaker 2: the slot more than you think, and he could destroy
Speaker 2: the one hundred and eighty pound Dame Jackson. So a
Speaker 2: C grade on Sterling Shepard. All right, where does that
Speaker 2: leave us?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: It leaves us right here, so bold strategy. Cotton is
Speaker 2: off sea. Cotton had a down game last week, as
Speaker 2: predicted on the show, and some people are correlating that
Speaker 2: to the return of Mike Evans. But Evans only lined
Speaker 2: up in the slot three times last week. Aughton lines
Speaker 2: up in line. He lines up in the slot. Point
Speaker 2: being Cotton and Evans path do not cross. Cotton should
Speaker 2: still be safe because he's getting so much extra work
Speaker 2: in the middle of the field, because Chris Godwin's still gone.
Speaker 2: Carolina getting hammered by tight ends, allowing the most PPR
Speaker 2: Fantasy points to tight end. Cotton A grade, A great,
Speaker 2: A grade.
Speaker 3: I knew that was coming.
Speaker 2: Let's go over to Carolina side. Still plenty to talk about.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't think so. Tuba Hubbard is arguably the league's
Speaker 2: most improved running back. He has scored and or top
Speaker 2: ninety two yards in eight of the last nine games.
Speaker 2: Hubbard is just basically a set it and forget it
Speaker 2: runner on an improving offense. Tampa's gotten a lot better
Speaker 2: against the run. Oh sorry, yeah, they're much better against
Speaker 2: the run than they were previously, and they're better against
Speaker 2: the run than they are against the pass. In the
Speaker 2: past two games. They've held Christian McCaffrey and Tyrone Tracy
Speaker 2: to forty two and thirty nine rushing yards. That's amazing.
Speaker 2: They've given up some big receiving days to runners, but
Speaker 2: Hubbard isn't much of a factor through the air, and
Speaker 2: he's only a B grade. Bryce Young is evolving into
Speaker 2: a plausible starter. We're going to talk more about him
Speaker 2: a little later in the show. Touchdown passes in four
Speaker 2: straight games and clearly obviously improved play. Nobody's going to
Speaker 2: start Young, so I'm not gonna spend a lot of
Speaker 2: time talking about him. But the Bucks are incredibly as
Speaker 2: a matchup, allowing the second most fantasy points of the position.
Speaker 2: Adam thelen Was might take a chance on me wide receiver.
Speaker 2: You can also start Xavier Ligette with Jalen Coker out.
Speaker 2: By the way, theeling's a SEA grade. With Jalen Coker out,
Speaker 2: Lagette is on the field nearly every snap now. He's
Speaker 2: not seeing a ton of targets, unfortunately, but big bodied,
Speaker 2: physical receivers have been killing the Bucks. Just in recent games.
Speaker 2: Juwan Jennings put up seven catches ninety three yards. DeAndre
Speaker 2: Hopkins scored twice. The Bucks are likely without starting safety
Speaker 2: Jordan Whitehead and their other safety Tykey Smith questioned both
Speaker 2: knee injuries I mentioned earlier in the show. So I
Speaker 2: like Xavier Ligette, who comes in with a se grade.
Speaker 3: That's a take a chance on me player that it
Speaker 3: really is a good one.
Speaker 2: I like it. I like it. We've got a couple
Speaker 2: of minutes left in this segment. You two, I don't
Speaker 2: think i've hit with this theory yet. Oh, boy, Thor,
Speaker 2: I think you're especially gonna like this. But Scott you
Speaker 2: might too. Brock Bowers, Oh, I know where you're going on.
Speaker 2: Oh one year, I knew exactly where you're going. Now
Speaker 2: here's the theory.
Speaker 3: No, I get to play this out. So first, it's
Speaker 3: the old Kelsey theory. It is.
Speaker 2: It's the old Kelsey theory. Right, So you're gonna have
Speaker 2: black Bowers is going to be the number one ranked
Speaker 2: tight end for most people next year probably, right, So
Speaker 2: it'll be number one at his position.
Speaker 3: There might be some McBride truthers.
Speaker 2: But there might be he's got score more touchdowns. That's
Speaker 2: and Bowers, I think is just a freaky talent. Raiders
Speaker 2: some way, somehow are going to have better quarterbacking next year,
Speaker 2: I have to either through the draft or because they're
Speaker 2: going to land somebody like Sam Darnold, And between that combination,
Speaker 2: I think there's I think blck Bowers is going to
Speaker 2: go on average in the first round.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably at.
Speaker 2: The end, but I think there's a case to be
Speaker 2: made Black Bowers one on one.
Speaker 4: What do you think?
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 3: You know me, I take tight ends early all the time.
Speaker 3: I'd rather just have that and set it and it's done.
Speaker 5: But they're gonna throw the ball out with Shadir Sanders
Speaker 5: and coach Ryme.
Speaker 3: So they might. I mean, is there something to this
Speaker 3: or am I just trying?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: I think it'd be fun.
Speaker 4: Antonio pier is gonna get fired.
Speaker 5: You got to reach out to coach from Yeah, I
Speaker 5: think that you're gonna have access to his kid.
Speaker 4: Something you want to do to incentivise him to come.
Speaker 4: That would do it.
Speaker 2: That would do it, That would do it. Uh. Three
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Speaker 2: This is a game we call three tough questions.
Speaker 6: Tough question Number one.
Speaker 2: Isaiah Pacheco has been activated from IR rest of season.
Speaker 2: Will Pacheco be a an RB one, an RB two
Speaker 2: flex or bench level player? Scott, let's be with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna go RB two on this week. This
Speaker 3: week they got the Raiders he still split with Hunt Somes,
Speaker 3: but did get some pass catch and work, had that
Speaker 3: nice thirty four yard run. But the rest of his schedule,
Speaker 3: and I know this has been talked about out there,
Speaker 3: that they have a one of the tougher run defensive
Speaker 3: schedules going forward. According to my numbers, four of their
Speaker 3: next four opponents after the Raiders fifth against fantasy running backs, sixth, seventh,
Speaker 3: and eleventh. It's a really tough run for him coming up.
Speaker 3: But he should like he got bell Coow work before
Speaker 3: he got hurt. Kareem Hunt got bellcow work after he
Speaker 3: got hurt. I expect him to go right back to that.
Speaker 3: He does get a little bit of pass you. I
Speaker 3: think RB two is well within the range even with
Speaker 3: a tough schedule.
Speaker 2: Okay, four, Isaiah Pacheco rest of season? Will he be
Speaker 2: in RB one, RB two flex or bench?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say flex. The Chiefs were.
Speaker 5: Eight and one without him. Kareem Hunt leads the team
Speaker 5: in rushing. Hunt was asked if he could be entering
Speaker 5: a Platin situation like during his five seasons with the
Speaker 5: Browns with Nick Chobb, and Hunt said quote, it could
Speaker 5: be very similar. I'm excited, I'm used to working with
Speaker 5: other great backs, so I feel like it's gonna be
Speaker 5: another great one to two punch end quote.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say flex interesting.
Speaker 2: Kareem Hunt was objectively bad with the Chiefs. How bad,
Speaker 2: you might ask? Among the thirty two runners with at
Speaker 2: least one hundred carries, here's where Hunt ranks. Broken tackle
Speaker 2: rate thirtieth out of thirty two, yards per carry thirtieth
Speaker 2: out of thirty two, yards after contact thirty one out
Speaker 2: of thirty two, and yards over expectation thirtieth out of
Speaker 2: thirty two for Kareem Hunt, and he still finished his
Speaker 2: RB thirteen. Boy, Despite all that, Pachecko is way better
Speaker 2: than Kareem Hunt at this stage of their careers. Last year,
Speaker 2: Pachecko was an RB one roughly running back twelve overall
Speaker 2: and half point PPR. Now, we only saw Pachecko for
Speaker 2: less than two full games at the start of the season.
Speaker 2: Was basically two full games Week one versus Baltimore, which
Speaker 2: turned out to be an elite run defense. He did
Speaker 2: score in that game, and then Week two against Cincinnati
Speaker 2: post one hundred and eleven total yuards. But Checko is good.
Speaker 2: Now the schedule is hard, but there are none of
Speaker 2: the big stoppers on the schedule like Minnesota, Baltimore, Kansas
Speaker 2: City that just locked down opposing running backs. So mostly
Speaker 2: it's neutral ish matchups.
Speaker 4: Left.
Speaker 2: If Hunt can be running back thirteen in this offense,
Speaker 2: the checko can be an RB one.
Speaker 6: Tough question number two.
Speaker 2: This question inspired by a question from the Fantasy Football
Speaker 2: Weekly Discord channel user epic thank you. What is the
Speaker 2: appropriate level of concern for Marvin Harrison? And I think
Speaker 2: we may have actually had this exact question after like
Speaker 2: week three. We're going back to it none, some or
Speaker 2: a bowl loosening level of existential dread. For this one,
Speaker 2: we begin with thorneistrum.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say some.
Speaker 5: However, I did just pick him up in the Fantasy
Speaker 5: Life Full Timer Guillotine League.
Speaker 2: So the fact that he was available in a guillotine
Speaker 2: league right now tells.
Speaker 4: You a lot. Yeah, and I didn't have to bet
Speaker 4: on him. Was this straight?
Speaker 2: That's because he has assassinate.
Speaker 3: His consistency is exactly what you look for, exactly, ye sarcasm.
Speaker 5: He has been targeted six times or less each of
Speaker 5: the past three games seven points seven PPR points are
Speaker 5: less in two of those outings. Oh boy, not a
Speaker 5: great matchup against the Vikings on deck. But I still
Speaker 5: do expect him to make some noise down the Stretchy.
Speaker 5: He's been the all or nothing guy. He's gonna have
Speaker 5: a couple of all games. Yeah, down the stretcher.
Speaker 4: You just have to pick Ray. You have to choose correctly.
Speaker 3: I like that you went with we're gonna come to
Speaker 3: be at a second. But I like that you went
Speaker 3: with targeted seven times or less, and in mind, I
Speaker 3: say he's been targeted five times or more, so it's
Speaker 3: time to seven.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So same question, appropriate level of concern
Speaker 2: for Marvin Harrison. None. Some are a bowel loosening level
Speaker 2: of existential drive.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't loosen my bowels for for a guy, for
Speaker 3: a guy, you know, But for a guy that's just
Speaker 3: one game removed from a five for fifty four and
Speaker 3: one stat line, and just a couple of games removed
Speaker 3: from a six for one eleven and one stat line.
Speaker 3: He's what Amari Cooper was his career. He's what Lee
Speaker 3: Evans was in Buffalo. He's gonna have giant games and
Speaker 3: then he's gonna beat you know. He's gonna have giant
Speaker 3: games and he's gonna have games where he kind of
Speaker 3: disappears because he's the third option. It's James Connor and
Speaker 3: it's Trey McBride, and that the offense runs through those
Speaker 3: two avenues. The only reason you're really it blowed is
Speaker 3: if you're holding on to that first, second third round
Speaker 3: ADP that you drafted him, Matt and he's like, Oh,
Speaker 3: I'm freaking out because he's not that guy. But if
Speaker 3: you can settle in and accept that he's the third
Speaker 3: option on that offense and matchups like this week against
Speaker 3: Minnesota is where you play him and other ones are not,
Speaker 3: you're fine.
Speaker 2: So some Harrison has not figured out zone coverage is
Speaker 2: his problem. He doesn't get targeted as often in zone
Speaker 2: and in man coverage. He's targeted on thirty percent of
Speaker 2: Arizona's passes, but in zone only nineteen percent, and on
Speaker 2: throws into zone coverage. Get this, Marvin Harrison catching forty
Speaker 2: eight percent of his passes in zone. Yards per route
Speaker 2: run plunges to one point seven for Marvin Harrison in
Speaker 2: zone coverage. It makes sense that Harrison, who's a physical
Speaker 2: mismatch for most cornerbacks, would be more dominant man coverage,
Speaker 2: and he is but defenses won't play him that way.
Speaker 2: Even highly drafted wideouts can be excused for not being
Speaker 2: Randy Moss when they start their career. You know, they
Speaker 2: don't all come out like you know, Gangbusters in week one.
Speaker 3: We'll give you a pass that ye're not a Hall
Speaker 3: of Famer, but.
Speaker 2: Exactly not yet. There are still some favorable matchups out
Speaker 2: there on the schedule for Marvin Harrison. I think Minnesota
Speaker 2: gave him a B grade this week Seattle Rams. He's
Speaker 2: got some neutral matchups with the Hopland in Carolina. I overall,
Speaker 2: I think I have concerned. I thought Marvin Harris, we
Speaker 2: all did. We all thought Marvin Harrison be way better.
Speaker 2: His one his ADP was the beginning of the second round, YEP,
Speaker 2: which is I don't I think there's this will take
Speaker 2: some of the sheen off of future rookie wide receivers.
Speaker 2: I think from a fantasy stamp fit.
Speaker 3: Neighbors will add it right back on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, second year, but future rookies, I think we might
Speaker 2: be like, maybe I need to see it first. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll see uh. Correct answer.
Speaker 6: So tough question number three over the past.
Speaker 2: Five weeks Jackson Smith and Jigba is the sixth highest
Speaker 2: scoring wideout for the rest of the year. Will he
Speaker 2: be a wide receiver one, meaning top twelve wide receiver.
Speaker 2: We go back to Scott Fish first for this one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's wide receiver nine on the season
Speaker 3: right now we're talking about going forward. He's got a
Speaker 3: couple of good, if not great matchups and a couple
Speaker 3: of rougher ones. The offense is passing at an insane
Speaker 3: rate over the last month. It's ticked down a little
Speaker 3: bit there the amount of passing, and he's still had
Speaker 3: this amount of volume. Both both Lockett and Metcalf have
Speaker 3: been dealing with injuries. Four of the final five Fantasy
Speaker 3: weeks are against bottom half teams defending the slot, which
Speaker 3: is where he plays.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with yeah. I think he's going to
Speaker 3: keep it up and stay it within that twelve.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so you're a yes. That will remain
Speaker 2: Jackson Smith and Jigbo remain a wide receiver one. How
Speaker 2: about you thor?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I hope Seattle's trainer is able to get that
Speaker 5: FOURK out of Lockets back.
Speaker 4: I would say more.
Speaker 5: Of a good wide receiver two as opposed to wide
Speaker 5: receiver one. I'm very close, but I like top fifteen
Speaker 5: guy the rest of the season, not top twelve.
Speaker 4: We're pretty close.
Speaker 3: It's almost like charts try to make it hard.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, yeah, Seattle's throwing even Yeah, they're throwing thirty
Speaker 5: plus times a game. All the usage at this point
Speaker 5: is either going to DK or JSN. Lockett's done. The
Speaker 5: volume is propping up JSN. But I expect that to continue.
Speaker 5: Why Why wouldn't it?
Speaker 2: Why wouldn't it? Well, let's talk it through for a second.
Speaker 2: JSN runs largely from the slot, is Scott alluded to?
Speaker 2: You know, some defenses are more vulnerable to the slot
Speaker 2: than others, and this, as we know from breaking down
Speaker 2: all these games, this is one of the more predictable
Speaker 2: things that we get because we know who the slot
Speaker 2: cornerbacks are and more often than not, regardless of the
Speaker 2: other kinds of coverages and schemes, we know that slot
Speaker 2: receiver is going to be on the slot cornerback. Sometimes
Speaker 2: those are brutal matchups this week against Michael Carter. Brutal
Speaker 2: matchup Carter Michael Carter. We talk about Sauce Gardner DJ
Speaker 2: read all the time. Michael Carter is giving up per
Speaker 2: game averages of one catch for fourteen yards. That's insane,
Speaker 2: and he hasn't given up a touchdown all year. This
Speaker 2: is a brutal matchup this week, but they're not all
Speaker 2: that way last year. The big change for JSN that
Speaker 2: I love for this year and especially lately, his a
Speaker 2: dot has expanded. Yes, and somebody one of the two
Speaker 2: of you, I think, alluded to this on a previous show.
Speaker 2: It's his last year's eight out with six yards. You
Speaker 2: can't pile up fantasy points on six yards a catch.
Speaker 2: This year it's ten yards, and over the last six
Speaker 2: games it's eleven yards for Jackson Smith and Jigbaw. That's
Speaker 2: that is the kind of production that will give you
Speaker 2: bigger plays on deeper receptions. I was tempted to go
Speaker 2: yes on this, but I don't think there's enough goods,
Speaker 2: easy slot matchups left on the schedule.
Speaker 3: No, Okay, it's close.
Speaker 2: I had yes, originally, I tucked myself out of it.
Speaker 2: Let's move on to our matchups. Next up thor are
Speaker 2: you ready? Houston taking on Jacksonville. Joe Mixon coming off
Speaker 2: the rare dud game. Now he gets the Jaguars. Now
Speaker 2: the Jaguars pass defense is horrible. Their run defense is
Speaker 2: a little better. What do you see for Joe Mixon
Speaker 2: here as in an automatic bounce back.
Speaker 4: Spot automatic bounce back spot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's an A and a must start and very
Speaker 5: good matchup for mixing here. I think Nico Collins also
Speaker 5: is going to get the A and the muss start.
Speaker 4: CJ.
Speaker 5: Sherrows might take a chance on me quarterback Tank Dell
Speaker 5: gonna give him a B seven plus targets and ten
Speaker 5: plus fantasy points at three of the past four games.
Speaker 5: Dell does better when Nico Collins is on the field,
Speaker 5: for sure. He averages more than double the fantasy points
Speaker 5: per game win cons is on the field as opposed
Speaker 5: to off of it. The Jaguars defense gives up the
Speaker 5: third most fantasy points per game to opposing wide receivers.
Speaker 5: So a B on Dell gonna give a seed to
Speaker 5: Dalton Schultz tight end twenty five and fantasy points per
Speaker 5: game only one tight end one game this season that
Speaker 5: Jaguars have allowed the eleventh most receiving yards per game
Speaker 5: two opposing tight ends and the fifth most fantasy points
Speaker 5: per game to tight ends. Going over to the Jaguars side,
Speaker 5: looks like we're going to get Trevor Lawrence back for
Speaker 5: this game. Doug Peterson said Lawrence expected to play after
Speaker 5: he had missed the two games with the left shoulder injury.
Speaker 5: It's not guaranteed though, as he said here, Lawrence said
Speaker 5: surgery is still a possibility. Yeah, for that's brand a
Speaker 5: seed joint. So we'll see if he does start. I'm
Speaker 5: going to give Lawrence a see Lawrence has scored at
Speaker 5: least nineteen point six fantasy points in four of the
Speaker 5: five games prior to the injury. Also going to give
Speaker 5: a seed to Travis etn Tank Bigsby, with his ankle injury,
Speaker 5: appears on track to play this week.
Speaker 2: I think he's off the injury port altogether. Okay, you
Speaker 2: know how you know how I feel about.
Speaker 4: Rolling the tanks.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, So, okay, we'll be just pause for a seconds.
Speaker 2: We do have a little extra time. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 2: lost season for the Jaguars. Yeah, you know what Travis
Speaker 2: etn Is can give you. I think it's been clearly
Speaker 2: spelled out over the last several years. Can we just
Speaker 2: give Tank Bigsby twenty carries in a few of these games?
Speaker 4: We've been begging for it? Yes, Yeah, Doug just won't
Speaker 4: do it. But yeah, please dug down.
Speaker 2: This track, if only for self preservation, Doug like to
Speaker 2: find some to make it look like you're unearthing, you know,
Speaker 2: new ways to establish this offense and find new ways
Speaker 2: to go win some games. Why not try your clearly better.
Speaker 4: Backs something yeah, something, but yeah.
Speaker 5: The usage being hard to parse is why I give
Speaker 5: ETN the seed despite ETN six point three points PPR
Speaker 5: points or last three games in a row hasn't cleared
Speaker 5: either thirteen carries or fourteen point eight fantasy points in
Speaker 5: a game. All season long, the Texans have allowed the
Speaker 5: fifth few as fantasy points to opposing running backs, and
Speaker 5: that's one of the reasons why just this week, I'm
Speaker 5: hoping the same thing as you charge.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping that that Bigsby gets more usage.
Speaker 5: I'm keeping them on the bench in this one though,
Speaker 5: in that first game back ce how the usage shakes out.
Speaker 5: Texans are tenth overall in the league in run defense
Speaker 5: as well, and this could be a very bad game
Speaker 5: script as well.
Speaker 4: That is true.
Speaker 5: Moving over to the receiving weapons, there Brian Thomas Junior
Speaker 5: going to give him a B wide receiver twenty eight
Speaker 5: in fantasy and it would be huge for him if
Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence comes back. He scored at least fifteen PPR
Speaker 5: points in two of the past three games. Win Lawrence
Speaker 5: started and finished a game gave Davis and Christian Kirk
Speaker 5: both out. Of course, Houston has allowed the eighth most
Speaker 5: fantasy points per game to opposing receivers and there should
Speaker 5: be plenty of targets there for Brian Thomas and then
Speaker 5: lastly Evan Ingram going to give him an a. Ingram
Speaker 5: has at least seven targets three games in a row.
Speaker 5: In weeks one to nine with Lawrence under center, Ingram
Speaker 5: was the tight end eight in fantasy points per game.
Speaker 5: This could be a sneaky matchup, sneaky good matchup for
Speaker 5: him as well. Texans are the fourth fewest fantasy points
Speaker 5: allowed to opposing tight ends. However, Sam Laporta, Luke Schoonmaker,
Speaker 5: and Chickakonquo all scored at least eleven point six PPR
Speaker 5: points the last three games against the Texans.
Speaker 2: All right, well done, my man. When we come back
Speaker 2: Rams taking on the Saints, Scott, it feels like green
Speaker 2: light for the past catchers for the Rams. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: really does Marshawn Lattimore less New Orleans Saints and.
Speaker 3: Paulson the Davo less.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Paul has been out still.
Speaker 3: Both of them have that.
Speaker 2: It could be a track meet here for the Rams.
Speaker 2: We'll find out from Scott Fish when we come back
Speaker 2: to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. A
Speaker 2: block of matchups for you, beginning with the Los Angeles
Speaker 2: Rams at the New Orleans Saints. Scott, it just feels
Speaker 2: like it's all it's green light all the Rams right here.
Speaker 3: I almost just want to say automatic a's for Stafford,
Speaker 3: Cup and Nikoua in this one. Honestly, it's it's so close.
Speaker 3: The Saints d has allowed the fourth most passing yards
Speaker 3: and just gave up back to back three hundred plus
Speaker 3: yards days James Winston at three ninety five last week.
Speaker 3: It's it's just a really good spot. Since losing a
Speaker 3: Debo and Lattimore, five of the seven qbs they have
Speaker 3: faced top three hundred total yards.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, so it's five of the seven since losing
Speaker 3: a day, both three of three of the four since
Speaker 3: Latimore left. Yeah, so just a lot of yards to
Speaker 3: be had.
Speaker 6: Cup.
Speaker 3: The Saints allowed the fourth most Fantasy points per game
Speaker 3: to the slot UH for for Nikua, He's had more
Speaker 3: catches more yards than than Cup in four last five
Speaker 3: games since returning UH. The only game he did was
Speaker 3: the game that he came out of and only played
Speaker 3: thirty five percent of the snaps. Both both A grades.
Speaker 3: They are just just great spots for them. DeMarcus Robinson
Speaker 3: only has five receptions for fifty seven yards of the
Speaker 3: final over the last three games. You're you're caught up.
Speaker 3: You might be caught up on the scores that would
Speaker 3: seem much more random, the Puka sitting game and the
Speaker 3: three target game where he scored two against the Vikings.
Speaker 3: Karen Williams A grade leads the NFL in touches and
Speaker 3: scores from inside the five. Well, he's tied with Derrick
Speaker 3: Henry on both, but he does lead. He does lead,
Speaker 3: died with Derrick Henry.
Speaker 2: It's good to be tied with Derrick Henry in any Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No other back for the Rams, by the way,
Speaker 3: has more than thirteen snaps in any game this season.
Speaker 3: It's all Kyaren Willis. It's all Karen Williams work. Second
Speaker 3: most red zone touches. He hasn't seen a target in
Speaker 3: each of the last two games, but prior to that,
Speaker 3: he had eleven catches in three games. That's part of
Speaker 3: his game, and that's where you attack. The Saints their
Speaker 3: top twelve in a bunch of category or bottom twelve
Speaker 3: in a bunch of categories against pass catching backs. And
Speaker 3: they also allowed the ninth most rush yards and fourth
Speaker 3: most rushing scores. Like it's just a good spot for
Speaker 3: Karen Williams as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So over on the other side, Derek carm giving
Speaker 3: a C grade two. He's averaging about two hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty yards in the three games since returning. He's got
Speaker 3: five scores in those three games, and the Rams have
Speaker 3: allowed multiple scores in about half their games. I think
Speaker 3: this might be like just a shootout, a race to
Speaker 3: keep up with the Rams at this point. So I
Speaker 3: got a C grade on Derek Carr. I had to
Speaker 3: take a chance on me with Marcuz, Valkez, feud Az Scandaling,
Speaker 3: I think he gets a couple of big plays in
Speaker 3: here and Taysom Hill at this point. You just got
Speaker 3: to start him, you do, right, Yeah? In Darren, Yeah,
Speaker 3: in Darren Rizzy's offense, he's his route participation in the
Speaker 3: last two games are sixty percent and sixty three percent.
Speaker 3: Then you tack on a bunch of a bunch of
Speaker 3: rushing and pass. Yeah, he's not a true tight end,
Speaker 3: but he's been the top pass catch, the top pass catcher,
Speaker 3: has scored in four straight against the Rams, and he's
Speaker 3: really their top pass catcher at this point. Yeah, So
Speaker 3: a B grade on Taysom Hill and an A grade
Speaker 3: on Alvin Kamara, who's averaging twenty one touches for plus
Speaker 3: of those being catches, really just puts him in a
Speaker 3: category right there. But the Rams are also allowing the
Speaker 3: sixth most Comboy yards to backs and sagu and Barkley
Speaker 3: had a kind of good game last week against.
Speaker 2: The Okay he did alright, Yeah, a great opportunity. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Tennessee takes on Washington, and I'm gonna start with Tony Pollard,
Speaker 2: who has been much more Fantasy reliable when he doesn't
Speaker 2: split reps with Taj Spears and Spears has missed a
Speaker 2: lot of games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but unfortunately Spears.
Speaker 2: Right, So with Spears, with Spears, he averages just fifty
Speaker 2: seven rushing yards without Spears one hundred and one. It's
Speaker 2: a huge delta. Now, some good news for Pollard and
Speaker 2: why he's still a C grade. Washington is a tepid
Speaker 2: run defense, ranking twenty eighth in run defense success rate,
Speaker 2: twenty eighth in run defense EPA, and twenty sixth in
Speaker 2: yards per carry. So Tony Pollard comes into the sea grade.
Speaker 2: We're not starting spears himself because he just never gets
Speaker 2: enough volume. He gets just enough volume to be an
Speaker 2: impediment to Pollard, but not enough volume to actually make
Speaker 2: himself fantasy viable. Will Levis was might take a chance
Speaker 2: on me quarterback. You heard that earlier in the show.
Speaker 2: Let's talk Calvin Ridley Thorne Eistrom, because five weeks ago
Speaker 2: you picked up that Ridley's route assignments had changed for
Speaker 2: the better, and you called it out on this show,
Speaker 2: and that his productivity was going way, way up. And
Speaker 2: here's what he's averaged since week eight six catches ninety
Speaker 2: yards and half a touchdown per game. Weeks one through seven,
Speaker 2: he was wide receiver sixty four, and now he's since
Speaker 2: week since week eight and forward, he's wide receiver eight.
Speaker 2: Calvin Ridley tip of the hat thorn icetrom. You picked
Speaker 2: up on that early, nicely done. Washington has been a
Speaker 2: very good defense against wide outs, thanks in part to
Speaker 2: hitting on cornerback Mike Sandrasil in the draft. But Ben
Speaker 2: Saint Juice and Noah ig Binagway that might have got
Speaker 2: that right. Are we liabilities? They rank his Pro Football
Speaker 2: focuses ninety ninth and one hundred and fourth ranked cornerback.
Speaker 2: Let's keep an eye on Marshall Latimer. Remember they made
Speaker 2: that trade at the deadline. Adamore may come back for
Speaker 2: this game, and that would change things a little bit.
Speaker 2: I've got to be great on Calvin Ridley and this
Speaker 2: on the new look schemes that they're using him in.
Speaker 2: What do you do with Nick westbrookikine? Guys, have you
Speaker 2: seen anything like?
Speaker 3: He's scored five straight, He's scored in six last.
Speaker 2: Seven games, and he came back. He came he missed
Speaker 2: the first five weeks of the season with injury, comes
Speaker 2: back a week six and he's scored in every game.
Speaker 2: But one sense then, and get this, he's doing it
Speaker 2: on two catches per game. That's almost statistically impossible to
Speaker 2: score in six of seven on two catches per game.
Speaker 4: Insane.
Speaker 2: I hate these like all or nothing, low volume players,
Speaker 2: But the commanders have allowed the seventh most air yards
Speaker 2: per completion, So maybe another deep catches in the cards.
Speaker 2: But I'm putting a bench grade on a KNA because
Speaker 2: I don't believe this is sustainable.
Speaker 3: It is a bye week with six teams.
Speaker 2: On buy not this week, that's next week.
Speaker 3: Oh no, that's right, next next week.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I saw. I think I'm keeping I'm
Speaker 2: not starting a KNA. But if you like you need
Speaker 2: crazy dart throw, go ahead, let's go to Washington side
Speaker 2: of this matchup. I like Terry McLaurin. As I mentioned
Speaker 2: last week. He's the most lopsided receiver in the league,
Speaker 2: meaning he runs seventy eight percent of his routes from
Speaker 2: one side of the field, the left side of the field,
Speaker 2: So that really tells us who he's going to be
Speaker 2: matched up against. And with Lugarius Sneaed and I Are,
Speaker 2: that puts McLaurin against rookie cornerback Jarvis Brownlee. He's Pro
Speaker 2: Football focuses eighty first ranked coverage cornerback. Last week, Nico
Speaker 2: Collins hit Brownway Brownlee for seventy two yards, and he
Speaker 2: allowed a touchdown in his coverage to a different player.
Speaker 2: So Terry McLaurin.
Speaker 3: Seventy eight percent from the left.
Speaker 2: Yes, since seventy eight percent from one side of the field.
Speaker 3: He's like the anti Zoolander who can't go left.
Speaker 2: He can't go left, I like can't go right. The
Speaker 2: closest thing to this was aj Green in the final
Speaker 2: couple of his years in Arizona, would run like ninety
Speaker 2: seven percent of his place the right side of the field.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's just wild.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: It is kind of crazy A grade Terry McLaurin. Zach
Speaker 2: Ertz comes into the C grade now boring consistent option
Speaker 2: who rarely hurts your team and should be reliable. Here,
Speaker 2: the Titans have allowed touchdowns and or sixty receiving yards
Speaker 2: the tight ends in four straight games, and Ertz enters
Speaker 2: the game with touchdowns and back to back games and
Speaker 2: anybody else in the passing game, No, let's go to
Speaker 2: Jade and Daniels. Daniels struggled in weeks ten and eleven
Speaker 2: against good teams, and then last week it looked dicey
Speaker 2: for a long time against Dallas, but then in the
Speaker 2: final third of the game he scored three touchdowns and
Speaker 2: he turned out that Jade and Daniels had a pretty
Speaker 2: good game. I think he's a pretty safe start here.
Speaker 2: The Titans secondary was very good in the first half
Speaker 2: of the season, but then Sam Darnold c J Stroud
Speaker 2: through multiple touchdowns the past two weeks against Tennessee. But
Speaker 2: I'm most excited about Jade and Daniels rushing upside. Malik Willis,
Speaker 2: Tyler Huntley, Justin Herbert, Rake May and Sam Darnold have
Speaker 2: scored and or rushed for ninety five yards against Tennessee.
Speaker 2: B grade for Jaden Daniels Brian Robinson, it looks like
Speaker 2: he's gonna play through his ankle injury. But Robinson is battered,
Speaker 2: and this is a brutal matchup. Only one opposing runners
Speaker 2: top sixty two yards, and that was Jamier Gibbs, who
Speaker 2: was just a specimen. Here's the last few runners to
Speaker 2: face Tennessee. Joe Mixon last week twenty two yards, Aaron
Speaker 2: Jones before that thirty nine yards, JK Dobbins before that
Speaker 2: fifty yards, and Ramondre Stevenson before that sixteen yards. That's
Speaker 2: nothing to good runners. I've got Brian Robinson on the
Speaker 2: bench in this game. Austin Ecklin not expected to play
Speaker 2: in this game. We should probably mention that as well.
Speaker 2: Let's try to work on one matchup, Scott. No, wait,
Speaker 2: I'm on Thorp Cleveland and Denver Thorpe. Let's start in
Speaker 2: the Cleveland side of this. Nick Chubb had two touch
Speaker 2: to rushing touchdown in that bad weather game, but this
Speaker 2: is a tougher matchup where the elements will not necessarily
Speaker 2: work the same way for him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right, and the odds are that he won't
Speaker 5: find the end zone again this week. The Broncos have
Speaker 5: a lot only two rushing touchdowns since Week six and
Speaker 5: only five all season, and Chubbi chorus averaging three point
Speaker 5: zero yards per carras and not very good.
Speaker 3: He did not come back returning to form.
Speaker 5: No, I will give him a seed, and I'm gonna
Speaker 5: give Jerome Ford a see as well, because I like
Speaker 5: the opportunity for the pass game work in this matchup. Oh,
Speaker 5: for Ford, the Broncos are terrible at defending running backs.
Speaker 5: In the past game, opposing running backs have scored seven
Speaker 5: PPR points against the Broncos with just their receiving totals.
Speaker 5: And then Ford caught four or four targets for twenty
Speaker 5: nine yards in Week eleven at New Orleans so for
Speaker 5: especially for PPR players, but I'm gonna drop a sea
Speaker 5: on him.
Speaker 4: Jamis Winston bench.
Speaker 5: Winston has scored thirty plus fantasy points in two good
Speaker 5: matchups this season and thirteen point five points or less
Speaker 5: in the two bad matchups. That was against Steelers and Chargers.
Speaker 5: This would account for a bad matchup here. The Broncos
Speaker 5: have allowed the fifth fewest fantasy points to opposing quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: And then on the receiver side, Jerry Judy, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: give him a b. In four games with Winston, Judy
Speaker 5: has scored at least twelve point nine PPR points each game,
Speaker 5: dur at least six targets in each of those games.
Speaker 5: And this, of course is the revenge game for Jerry
Speaker 5: Judy against the Broncos. He could see a decent amount
Speaker 5: of Patrick Sirtan here. And Certan is the guy who
Speaker 5: is allowed one hundred and eighty two yards in coverage,
Speaker 5: the second fewest among cornerbacks with two hundred plus coverage save.
Speaker 2: Again, because that's insane. And we're headingto week thirteen and
Speaker 2: Sertan is.
Speaker 4: Allowed one hundred and eighty two yards in coverage. Crazy crazy, Yeah,
Speaker 4: he is.
Speaker 5: He is a lockdown but with Cedric Tillman possibly out
Speaker 5: in this game still in concussion protocol, Jerry Judy would
Speaker 5: seem to be getting a lot of targets in this game.
Speaker 5: So that's why I had to give him a bee
Speaker 5: until Tillman is clear from that concussion protocol. Keep him
Speaker 5: on the bench. He can monitor that one if you
Speaker 5: have him on your roster. Elijah Moore, I think is
Speaker 5: kind of I actually considered Elijah Moore for might take
Speaker 5: a chance, let me receiver. I'm gonna give I'm gonna
Speaker 5: give him a c here. More was averaging nine point
Speaker 5: seven targets per contest with Jameis Winston under center prior
Speaker 5: to that bad weather game against the Steelers, and he's
Speaker 5: sneaky startuple here if on the condition that Cedric Tillman
Speaker 5: does not play, because I think Winston may target the
Speaker 5: slot more in this pass heavy game script with certain
Speaker 5: potentially on Judy the whole time.
Speaker 4: Okay, Uh, David and Joko are gonna.
Speaker 5: Give him a be tight end eight and fantasy points
Speaker 5: per game with Winston under center, but only two red
Speaker 5: zone targets across the last four games, Broncos have allowed
Speaker 5: the tenth fewest receiving yards per game in the ninth
Speaker 5: fewest fantasy points per game to opposing tight ends and
Speaker 5: then over to the Broncos. Bon Nicks. Got to give him,
Speaker 5: gotta give him his flowers. I'm gonna give him a
Speaker 5: be in this matchup.
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: Do you want to make any declarative statements right now
Speaker 2: about Bonnicks?
Speaker 5: Bonicks are playing better than I thought he would play. Same, Yeah,
Speaker 5: he is.
Speaker 4: He's toured some bad defense. We'll see here.
Speaker 5: He's scored twenty plus fantasy points in six the last
Speaker 5: eight games, quarterback six in fantasy points per game since
Speaker 5: Week six, and the Broncos have allowed three of four
Speaker 5: quarterbacks to score twenty two point five plus fantasy points
Speaker 5: against him. I wanted to read something that Bill Barnwell
Speaker 5: wrote about Bonix. Though everyone's going nuts about BONECKX. Quote
Speaker 5: this from Bill Barnwell. Bonix has completed the most DePass
Speaker 5: of anyone in the league. Because he's attempted the most
Speaker 5: deep passes of anyone in the league, and because he's
Speaker 5: throwing the third most passes of any type of anyone
Speaker 5: in the league.
Speaker 4: He's twenty eighth in QBR.
Speaker 5: On those throws, he averages ten point five yards every
Speaker 5: time he throws one of them, which is also twenty eighth.
Speaker 5: His CPOE on those throws is thirty third. Nicks has
Speaker 5: taken eight ten plus yard sacks, third most in the league,
Speaker 5: twenty first and QBR twenty first, in yards per dropback
Speaker 5: twenty second and EPA per dropback against the blitz end quote,
Speaker 5: that's Bill Barnwell. That's not you. I wanted to quote.
Speaker 5: I wanted to quote someone that's Bill Barnwell. So send
Speaker 5: your hated him.
Speaker 2: Okay, don't like that, Okay, all that said, Yeah, you
Speaker 2: and I were very down on Bonnick. We didn't think
Speaker 2: that a lot of his stuff would translate to the NFL. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's better than we thought. He's running that offense well
Speaker 2: for Sean Payton. Yeah, he's They've they've cut down his reason.
Speaker 2: He's doing well with it.
Speaker 4: Javonte Williams's gonna give as far as I'm gonna go,
Speaker 4: as as far as I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2: Javant simplified the offense enough that bon Nicks can be successful.
Speaker 5: That's exactly what I'm saying, Davonte Williams. He gets to
Speaker 5: see the Broncos running back room. It's just really hard
Speaker 5: to parse with Williams estimate Julia mcgloff, and they've all
Speaker 5: been featured various times. Over the past three games. Williams
Speaker 5: has been the most consistent of the trio. But Williams
Speaker 5: scored two point seven PPR points or less than three
Speaker 5: of the past four games, so I guess maybe he's
Speaker 5: not the most consistent. Browns have given up the seven
Speaker 5: fewest Fantasy points to opposing running backs. Williams needs to
Speaker 5: score a touchdown here, and he has only three this season.
Speaker 4: I'll give him a speculative.
Speaker 5: See though, Cortland Sutton a he's been on fire, scored
Speaker 5: at least fifteen PPR points in five games in a row.
Speaker 5: Three of those times he had nineteen plus PPR points
Speaker 5: at least eight targets in each game.
Speaker 4: Over that.
Speaker 5: Bonick heard me complaining about that one game where he
Speaker 5: didn't even look at Cartland Sutton and ever since then
Speaker 5: he was just poundering with targets. So Cortland gets any
Speaker 5: and then Devon Vley, hold the Vley. He was going
Speaker 5: to take a chance at me receiver, all right, fantastic.
Speaker 2: Would we come back? Premature speculation. We've only got a
Speaker 2: couple of these left. We do it as long as
Speaker 2: there are bye week's left, So next week would be
Speaker 2: our last premature speculation of the year. But we will
Speaker 2: jump back into the Fantasy Football Weekly time machine and
Speaker 2: to give you some guys you want to pick up
Speaker 2: now that Obels is going to try to pick up
Speaker 2: next week, but they're already on your team. And our
Speaker 2: final set of matchups including the forty nine ers and
Speaker 2: the Bills in a possible weather game coming up. We'll
Speaker 2: talk that through when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 2: Sad times the final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly.
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Speaker 2: You are there. This segment we call premature speculation. We
Speaker 2: try to figure out who you should pick up now
Speaker 2: that other people will trying to pick up later in
Speaker 2: the future.
Speaker 4: We begin with Scott.
Speaker 2: Fish, who is your premature speculation player.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not as much this week as you just mentioned.
Speaker 3: With the Tennessee Washington matchup for Taja Spears returning from
Speaker 3: that concussion, but Brian Callahan has said he wants them
Speaker 3: to have a more even split and listen to their
Speaker 3: schedule coming up for the final four or so weeks
Speaker 3: of the fantasy regular season into the playoffs. Yeah, Jaguars
Speaker 3: thirty first against fantasy running backs. Yeah, Colts thirtieth against
Speaker 3: fantasy running backs, so second worst, third worst. Then the Bengals,
Speaker 3: who are you know, top eight against fantasy running backs,
Speaker 3: but have allowed four scores to running backs in the
Speaker 3: last three weeks, and then they get the Jaguars again.
Speaker 3: They have a really good schedule for running backs, especially
Speaker 3: pass catching running backs of the next four weeks.
Speaker 2: All right, Spears, got you?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: Thor your premature speculation player.
Speaker 4: Slim pickens this time of the year, but a little
Speaker 4: bit it's gotten harder.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm you know, so I go to speculating non injuries,
Speaker 5: which is why I'm going to do Sean Tucker running
Speaker 5: back for the Buccaneers since weeks.
Speaker 2: So you're not entering into the universe anything bad about
Speaker 2: Bucky Irving right now?
Speaker 4: You no, no, no, maybe maybe I'm Rishard White. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 5: Since Week seven, Rishad White RB eight and fantasy points
Speaker 5: per game and Bucky Irving is RB twelve Fantasy points
Speaker 5: per game. They'd stay in two running backs. They're one
Speaker 5: of those guys were to get hurt. Tucker is going
Speaker 5: to get twelve to fifteen touches per game in a
Speaker 5: good situation. He had four carries, had a touchdown well,
Speaker 5: catching one target in the win over the Giants last week.
Speaker 4: That was a blowout and in that game script.
Speaker 5: But he's now scored three all purpose touchdowns, only thirty
Speaker 5: eight touches this year, and he's good and limited action
Speaker 5: eighty point seven PFF grade in his seventy three snaps.
Speaker 5: One of those two guys gets injured, Tucker could be
Speaker 5: a starting caliber player down the stretch.
Speaker 2: I'm going now, I'm talking Okay, the player are going
Speaker 2: to talk about it. I'm talking to a very specific
Speaker 2: audience here. Yeah, Dynasty and Empire players is the next
Speaker 2: year think okay, okay, And you need to be in
Speaker 2: super flex or two quarterback league okay before you should
Speaker 2: be interested in Bryce Young.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I'm advocating for Young because he is tangibly playing at
Speaker 2: a totally different level than the adeptitude we had seen
Speaker 2: it any other time throughout his career. Dave Canallis, Dave Canalis,
Speaker 2: it's starting to come together, baby steps. Every single week,
Speaker 2: going back three weeks ago, Panthers won actually three games ago,
Speaker 2: Panthers won two in a row. Then they went on
Speaker 2: by and then they took the Chiefs. They were tied
Speaker 2: with the chief So with ninety seconds left, I mean
Speaker 2: the Panthers nearly took down the Chiefs only again only
Speaker 2: one week ago. And some of the improvements we're seeing
Speaker 2: Bryce Young are statistically objective, like zero turnovers in the
Speaker 2: past two games, a deeper a dot than he has
Speaker 2: had on a consistent basis, And some of the intangibles
Speaker 2: are just look at him play, The poise, the confidence,
Speaker 2: and frankly the lack of stupid plays from Bryce Young
Speaker 2: are very very encouraging. You know, this is a great time.
Speaker 2: I think in most dynasty and keeper leagues, trade deadline's
Speaker 2: like here, it's it's coming fast. If if you're not
Speaker 2: already there, this is your chance to go get Bryce
Speaker 2: Young at basically bargain basement price. I think Carolina's going
Speaker 2: to go to war with him again next year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you'll have a starting quarterback again. Dynasty Empire
Speaker 2: two quarterback leagues.
Speaker 3: By the way, just in generally, Thorne took a backup
Speaker 3: brainbacks that we mentioned this second half of the season
Speaker 3: entering the playoffs. You want the taj Is, the Benson's,
Speaker 3: the Spears, the Roshan Johnson, the Bigsby's, Singletary, Ray Davis,
Speaker 3: Braylen Allen Jalen Wright. All you want, something's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: You'll want that guy.
Speaker 2: Yes, you should not be You should not be rostering
Speaker 2: third receivers from some team roster cloggers.
Speaker 3: Get rid of them. Look for upside.
Speaker 2: They can help you in the laps, like Tank Bigsby
Speaker 2: as Blake.
Speaker 3: Corn even though he gets nothing, but if Karen goes down, that's.
Speaker 2: Right, he'd get a lot. And Kiren's been a you know,
Speaker 2: there's somebody who's we don't wish injury on anybody, but
Speaker 2: given his usage right as a candidate. All right, Scott,
Speaker 2: let's go to the Rams taking on the Saints in
Speaker 2: this one. Oh no, sorry, we already did that. San
Speaker 2: Francisco taking on Buffalo, Yeah, could be a weather game.
Speaker 2: The Bills have already asked for volunteers to shovel I
Speaker 2: think the snow is gonna hit before available the game.
Speaker 2: That's right, exactly. Fantasy Football Weekly grew coming down. Oh,
Speaker 2: I like, it wouldn't it be fun to do a
Speaker 2: winter game in Buffalo?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I would.
Speaker 2: I would do that forty nine, taking on Bill Scott. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, Brock Purty expect to play limited practice this week.
Speaker 3: Your options if he doesn't go. Your pivots on that
Speaker 3: Saturday night game are like Josh Allen Bonix are probably
Speaker 3: both highly rostered, maybe Jameis Winston. So part of the
Speaker 3: C grade is baked in that it's possible he won't play,
Speaker 3: and you should probably go with a different option just
Speaker 3: in case that couldn't get knocked out or could get
Speaker 3: knocked out before the injury. I had multiple scores and
Speaker 3: back to back. He also gets a bills d that's
Speaker 3: allowed multiple scores in three straight. Purty's averaging two thirty
Speaker 3: bills are allowing about in the average of two thirty,
Speaker 3: So it feels like two hundred and thirty and one
Speaker 3: to two scores is about where it's gonna go. But again,
Speaker 3: possible weather game paired with we're not even one hundred
Speaker 3: percent sure he's gonna play. There's probably better options, but
Speaker 3: I'll give him a C grade here his receivers. I
Speaker 3: got a B grade on Juwan Jennings. The Bills do
Speaker 3: allow the fifth fewest Fantasy points to the perimeter where
Speaker 3: Juwan Jennings plays, but he's had eleven targets, eleven targets,
Speaker 3: eleven targets and seven plus catches and ninety plus yards
Speaker 3: in each of the last two party starts before before
Speaker 3: you know Party's injury. Even with Allen last week, he
Speaker 3: led the team in targets with seven.
Speaker 4: I love him.
Speaker 3: The problem is the Bills allow the seventh fewest yards
Speaker 3: and or seventh fewest yards and six fewest cards scores
Speaker 3: to wide receivers. The wide receivers who have done well
Speaker 3: get volume, and if he gets that same volume, I'm
Speaker 3: okay with it. I like it, and it's got to
Speaker 3: go somewhere. So I have a B grade on Jennings,
Speaker 3: a C grade on Samuel. They allow the fewest pass
Speaker 3: plays over twenty yards, so you're not going to get
Speaker 3: chunk plays. Deebo hasn't scored since Week six, but he's
Speaker 3: still getting this six to seven targets per game. With
Speaker 3: McCaffrey back, he's shifted almost to the fourth option in
Speaker 3: the pass game, though, so that concerns me too. I know, yeah,
Speaker 3: Ricky Piersall has failed to catch a pass in both
Speaker 3: weeks eleven and twelve. Rout participations have been but we're
Speaker 3: not talking about him. No, George Kittle otto a tight
Speaker 3: end one scored in three straight. Even with Brandon Allen,
Speaker 3: he showed up. It doesn't matter for Kittle at.
Speaker 2: This probably haven't given Kittle enough love this season.
Speaker 3: We really haven't been been. His fantasy points per game
Speaker 3: is like five more than a like even more than Bowers.
Speaker 3: It's crazy where he's sitting at. And then Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 3: I do have an A grade on nineteen touches and
Speaker 3: twenty one touches over one hundred yards in each of
Speaker 3: his first two games back with party. Last weekend was
Speaker 3: a little different with a tougher defensive draw on Brandon Allen,
Speaker 3: but he's probably getting getting pretty back and the Bills
Speaker 3: allowed the eighth most combo yards have been torched by
Speaker 3: pass catching backs, allowing the most receptions, receiving yards, and
Speaker 3: receiving touchdowns to the position. So seven different backs over
Speaker 3: fifty yards and or a score just through the air.
Speaker 3: So good spot for McCaffrey here over the Buffalo side.
Speaker 2: And by the way, McCaffrey needs it, he does. Yeah,
Speaker 2: last week was not was rough all three weeks? Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: I mean he had one hundred total yards each of
Speaker 2: those he's helping out. But the past game work is
Speaker 2: what happened. Yes, the groundwork has been bad a grade
Speaker 2: for Josh Allen and the Bills. Six game wins stream
Speaker 2: Allen is averaging two hundred and sixty seven yards and
Speaker 2: two point two scores multiple scores in five of six
Speaker 2: forty nine ers are top ten in yards and scored
Speaker 2: allowed to passers.
Speaker 3: It is a tough tougher spot.
Speaker 2: But the four more mobile Russian quarterbacks, the four mobile
Speaker 2: ones they faced, averaged forty four yards and three of
Speaker 2: those four scored. Josh Allen's a mobile quarterback. He might
Speaker 2: get some of that.
Speaker 3: Khalil Shakir double digit PPR games in five straight games,
Speaker 3: super safe, four floor, six plus catches, seven plus targets,
Speaker 3: fifty plus yards in all of those led the team
Speaker 3: and targets in all of those, not to mention two
Speaker 3: slot guys in the last three weeks, JSN and Cede
Speaker 3: Lamb went for one hundred and ten and one hundred
Speaker 3: and forty six against the Niners.
Speaker 2: Against the Niners, Diamadur Leonor is a pretty good slot
Speaker 2: corner Yac. Yeah getting killed.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, well on those two, like there have been
Speaker 3: a lot of games.
Speaker 2: Khalils really good too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he catches everything. Because Keon Coleman is questionable, he's
Speaker 3: been dealing with that wrist injury. Limited drills on the side,
Speaker 3: and it's a Sunday night game, I said Saturday before
Speaker 3: Sunday night game. I have him on the bench. I
Speaker 3: don't want to risk trying to pivot. You know, maybe
Speaker 3: Elijah Morris a pivot if you really need Keon Coleman,
Speaker 3: but there's no teams on buy. You probably don't need
Speaker 3: the pivot when he's in. If he plays limited even
Speaker 3: he torpedo Samuel who's had fourteen plus targets in the
Speaker 3: last two games. But if he returns, I got both
Speaker 3: of them on the bench. Amari Cooper, dang it, Like
Speaker 3: I want to bench him. I want to bench him,
Speaker 3: but he is He's top fifty five yards in two
Speaker 3: of his three games. He's his top snap percentage is
Speaker 3: fifty one percent. He's a part time limited player, and
Speaker 3: he's top fifty five yards in two of those games
Speaker 3: with limited product. If he gets it this week, if
Speaker 3: he finally gets more snaps, if he's out there running
Speaker 3: more routes, I'm gonna give him c grade on the upside,
Speaker 3: just on the upside. And Dawson Knox is on the bench.
Speaker 3: Unlike last week, this is a forty nine ers d
Speaker 3: allowing the second fewest yards to tight ends and just
Speaker 3: three scores on the year. He was a fine flex
Speaker 3: play last week.
Speaker 2: It turned out okay, well, four for forty he played,
Speaker 2: but he did do play eighty six percent snaps.
Speaker 3: He was out there. The process was correct.
Speaker 2: I think the process was. Yes, tell me about the
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Speaker 3: You know what before I do that? Oh James Cook?
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, sorry, I thought you were right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought I was too. But I forget the
Speaker 3: running back. Sometimes starting running back has scored on the Bills.
Speaker 3: The starting running back has scored against the forty nine
Speaker 3: ers in six straight games, including six scores in just
Speaker 3: the last three weeks. Cook has scored in all but
Speaker 3: three games this year, eleven times in eleven games, averaging
Speaker 3: fifteen plus touches. It's a good spot for him. Despite
Speaker 3: the tenth fewest yards allowed to backs for the forty
Speaker 3: nine ers, they allow a lot of scores, so it'd
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Speaker 3: on the Ravens. Saquon Barkley, Jalen Hurts, AJ Brown, all
Speaker 3: a grades. There is a little bit of trepidation with Barkley,
Speaker 3: just because Baltimore's is such a good run defense. But
Speaker 3: Barkley's insane right now, and you're obviously you're you're total.
Speaker 3: You're going to start all of those guys no matter what.
Speaker 2: Trickier starts include Dallas Goddard, who have got with a
Speaker 2: B grade, good tight ends almost always find their way
Speaker 2: to solid games against the Ravens. Travis Kelce, Brock Bowers,
Speaker 2: Jake Ferguson, Dalton Kon, k zach Ertz, Kate Dotton. That's
Speaker 2: every starting fantasy level tight end Baltimore's face, and they're
Speaker 2: averaging six catches for seventy four yards. So Dallas Goddard
Speaker 2: a safe B grade here. Devata Smith is hoping to
Speaker 2: return from a hamstring injury, but even in a positive matchup,
Speaker 2: I'd show a little caution since hamstring injuries aggravate easily
Speaker 2: and the Ravens secondary playing way better lately. They've shut
Speaker 2: out receivers in three of the past four games. And
Speaker 2: if Smith clears the injury report completely, then I would say, okay,
Speaker 2: let's upgrade him up to a B because then I
Speaker 2: don't have to worry about the reaggravation of the injury.
Speaker 2: But otherwise, ce grade on DeVonta Smith. On the Baltimore side,
Speaker 2: Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson, I mean, they're always they're
Speaker 2: basically always eight grades, but brutal matchup. The Eagles rank
Speaker 2: number one in fantasy points allowed to quarterbacks number two
Speaker 2: in fantasy points allowed to running backs over the past
Speaker 2: six games, but it's Derek Henry and Lamar Jackson, so
Speaker 2: you're always gonna start him, and I'm gonna keep giving
Speaker 2: him to eight grades anyway, because they're special backs. Zay
Speaker 2: Flowers comes into the Sea grade. He runs from all
Speaker 2: over the field, but there's nowhere to hide from an
Speaker 2: excellent Philly secondary. Flowers has a brutal matchup against Cooper
Speaker 2: Dejen and Quinnon Mitchell and Darius Slay. Slay's the most
Speaker 2: beatable of those three cornerbacks, but even he's got a
Speaker 2: meager fifty nine percent completion rate in his coverage and
Speaker 2: he's given up just two scores all year, and he's
Speaker 2: the easy one. Since weeks when Cooper Dejen became the
Speaker 2: starting slot cornerback, the Eagles have only allowed three wide
Speaker 2: receiver touchdowns and lastly, Mark Andrews tough matchup for a
Speaker 2: mostly touchdown dependent tight end against a team that's only
Speaker 2: allowed one tight end touchdown.
Speaker 3: But like I mentioned earlier show, last.
Speaker 4: Said I said that.
Speaker 2: About the Chargers, who hadn't given up any touchdowns, the
Speaker 2: league gave up one to Mark Andrews, So C grade
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