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Speaker 1: Here's your host. Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, Week number five.
Speaker 1: I am Paul Charchi and my costs today are Matt
Speaker 1: Harrison and thor Nystrom. Hey, hey, guys, we've got a
Speaker 1: lot of people already finding themselves in a deep poll.
Speaker 1: She played against Justin Fields or Sam Howell or DJ Moore.
Speaker 1: We have to work extra hard on earth in this
Speaker 1: a bye week, the first bye week, some great sleeper hio,
Speaker 1: Justin Fields. Yeah, it's hard to come together.
Speaker 4: Are you insinuating that we don't work hard on most weeks?
Speaker 1: I'm insinuating you don't work ok, gotcha most weeks in particular? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean yes, over.
Speaker 4: The course, work about the same amount of hard this week. Sorry,
Speaker 4: you didn't warn me up front that I had to
Speaker 4: work harder.
Speaker 1: When Justin Fields throws four touchdowns, you have to work harder.
Speaker 4: Put it in slack next time that, Oh, Matt, gotta
Speaker 4: work harder this week?
Speaker 1: Yes, Over the course of the show, we'll break down
Speaker 1: all of the games and this week's slate, we'll give
Speaker 1: you later grade letter grades on all the players. We'll
Speaker 1: give you nine players upon whom you can take a chance.
Speaker 1: We'll answer three tough questions, and we'll give you some
Speaker 1: players upon whom you can speculate for future weeks, including
Speaker 1: two dart throw quarterbacks we're gonna come up. Over the
Speaker 1: course of the show. We begin with Carolina taking on Detroit.
Speaker 1: Matt For Carolina, it was back to Bryce Young and
Speaker 1: the offense took a step backwards last week. What do
Speaker 1: you think of this week? In Detroit?
Speaker 4: Bryce Young is putrid. He's seeing a twenty five point
Speaker 4: eight percent pressure rate, which is extremely high, and he's
Speaker 4: about four foot two and that's contributing to his horrible
Speaker 4: one hundred and sixty seven passing yards per game. The
Speaker 4: Lions have the fifth highest pressure rate in the league
Speaker 4: at forty point seven percent, with the third lowest blitz
Speaker 4: rate at fifteen point nine percent. So the Lions can
Speaker 4: rush four yeah and drop everybody back, and Bryce Young's
Speaker 4: not going to be able to get anything done. He's
Speaker 4: on the bench. I will give Adam Thiel in a
Speaker 4: C grade in this one. He has thirty one targets
Speaker 4: in the last three weeks and runs about seventy two
Speaker 4: percent of his routes from the slot. This year, Detroit's
Speaker 4: slot corner Brian Branch has been targeted the fifth most
Speaker 4: among slot corners in the NFL, and he's also allowed
Speaker 4: two touchdowns in his coverage so far. And then Hayden Hurst,
Speaker 4: he gets like a desperation dart throw D I mean
Speaker 4: C grade in the tight end waste land. He did
Speaker 4: see seven targets in Week one and just three per
Speaker 4: week since, but Detroit has allowed the most receptions and
Speaker 4: yards to the tight end position through the first four weeks,
Speaker 4: an average of eight catches in seventy six yards per game.
Speaker 4: That all goes to Hayden Hurst. If we hit that average,
Speaker 4: I like it all the other wide receivers on the bench.
Speaker 4: As for the running backs, my Sanders has been removed
Speaker 4: from the injury report, but there's still a very good
Speaker 4: chance that we see a lot of Chewba Hubbard in
Speaker 4: this game. Hubbard is third in the league in yards
Speaker 4: after contact at two point eight per rushing attempt. He
Speaker 4: actually out snapped Sanders last week thirty nine to thirty one,
Speaker 4: and it's been closer to a timeshare than we imagined.
Speaker 4: And it's not a great matchup for a split backfield.
Speaker 4: The Lions are only allowing two point eight yards per
Speaker 4: carry and forty five rushing yards per game, so I'm
Speaker 4: leaving both of these guys on the bench since Sanders
Speaker 4: is active. On the other side, though, it's a running
Speaker 4: back bonanza, I'm going to give David Montgomery a fantasy ardvark. Yeah,
Speaker 4: right out of the bat here. He leads the league
Speaker 4: and carries from inside the five. He has seven this
Speaker 4: year and four touchdowns already. He completely took over that
Speaker 4: Jamal Williams role from last year. Also, he leads the
Speaker 4: league in broken tackles with twelve. Wow, he missed the
Speaker 4: whole game. He's really good. He's really really good, and
Speaker 4: he faces a really bad Panthers round defense allowing four
Speaker 4: point nine yards per kerry and have already allowed seven
Speaker 4: touchdowns to the running back position this year. Jamiir Gibbs
Speaker 4: and his thirteen touches per game are also in play
Speaker 4: with a B grade here, So it's fire up those
Speaker 4: Detroit running backs on the passing side. It's so easy
Speaker 4: to run against the Panthers that very few teams even
Speaker 4: try to pass. They're only seeing twenty seven passing attempts
Speaker 4: per game. That's the third lowest in the league.
Speaker 1: Vikings only through nineteen passes last.
Speaker 4: Week nineteen times. Yes, that's why three of the four
Speaker 4: quarterbacks they faced have been held to under two hundred
Speaker 4: twenty eight yards, including Kirk Cousins who only had one
Speaker 4: hundred and thirty nine passing yards last week. For that reason,
Speaker 4: Jared Goff just gets a C grade in here. He's
Speaker 4: doing pretty well. He's fourth in the league in on
Speaker 4: target throw percentage at eighty two percent. But how much
Speaker 4: will he have to throw in this one? That's the worry,
Speaker 4: especially if Amon Ross Saint Brown doesn't go in this one.
Speaker 4: He's been downgraded to doubtful. He sat all week with
Speaker 4: an abdominal injury, which I thought was probably just a
Speaker 4: side effect of his six pack expanding to an eight pack.
Speaker 4: Number one wide receivers have had good days against Carolina,
Speaker 4: including Justin Jefferson with eighty five yards and two scores
Speaker 4: last week. DK Metcalf had one hundred and twelve yards
Speaker 4: on six catches the week before. It doesn't look like
Speaker 4: Saint Brown's gonna go. If he doesn't go, Josh Reynolds
Speaker 4: likely flexes into the slot more and probably into a
Speaker 4: wide receiver one role. I'd throw a see his way
Speaker 4: if Saint Brown is inactive. But it's not a Jamison
Speaker 4: Williams or Khalif Raymond or Marvin Jones week.
Speaker 1: They're all on the bench and we should just spend
Speaker 1: just one second on Jamal Williams or sorry, Jamis and Williams.
Speaker 1: People are excited about him coming back a week early, yep.
Speaker 1: I just feel like, let's see what the snapcount even
Speaker 1: looks like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna be.
Speaker 1: I think he's on the field like twelve plays.
Speaker 4: Yeah, agree, I think maybe won two targets tops. Yeah,
Speaker 4: which for him.
Speaker 1: Remember he was active for half of the games last
Speaker 1: year and he averaged one target per game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got one more guy to talk about it,
Speaker 4: Sam Laporta, who gets a B grade. The Panthers are
Speaker 4: a middle of the pack defense against the tight end.
Speaker 4: Despite not having surrendered a touchdown to the position yet,
Speaker 4: Laporta has had at least five targets and four receptions
Speaker 4: in every game in his young career in a PPR
Speaker 4: league He's a ten pointer just about every week at least,
Speaker 4: so he's a top five tight.
Speaker 5: End at this point.
Speaker 4: You got to keep him in your lineup.
Speaker 5: Stud.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Houston takes on Atlanta or they just put their
Speaker 1: eighth offensive linemen on injured reserve. Oh no, Reddy and
Speaker 1: three different linemen are going to play injured this week.
Speaker 1: Yet here we are, and so to this point, the
Speaker 1: passing game has been pretty down effective for Houston. Sure
Speaker 1: has yeah, better news for this rookie quarterback than the
Speaker 1: last one.
Speaker 5: Matt was just talking about CJ. Strout. I'm gonna give
Speaker 5: him a B in this matchup.
Speaker 6: Number four in Fantasy points per dropback, number three in
Speaker 6: yards per attempt.
Speaker 5: Decent matchup here.
Speaker 6: The Falcons have allowed the ninth most passing touchdowns so
Speaker 6: far this season. Nico Collins, who was having an amazing
Speaker 6: season so far wide receiver seven in Fantasy about that,
Speaker 6: number three in yards per route run. But Atlanta does
Speaker 6: have the solid boundary corners in both aj Terrell, who
Speaker 6: he talked about in the past in particular, and also
Speaker 6: of course Jeffrey Okuda. They temper expectations just a little bit.
Speaker 6: So I'm gonna give Nico a B. Same sort of
Speaker 6: deal with Tank Dell, who I'm gonna give a C.
Speaker 6: Tanks number seventeen in yards per route run since week two.
Speaker 6: He leads the Texans in deep targets. That's the good news.
Speaker 6: The bad news is, and everyone out there you know
Speaker 6: that Tank is diminutive. He only has one red zone target.
Speaker 6: So we're gonna give him a C. Robert Woods, We're
Speaker 6: gonna get back to in a bit here because he
Speaker 6: is might take a chance on me wide receiver Dalton Schultz.
Speaker 6: Keep him on your bench and also ignore his solid
Speaker 6: three catches for forty three yards and a touchdown receiving
Speaker 6: line last week. He's in a time share with two
Speaker 6: other tight ends. I don't know if he can sustain that,
Speaker 6: so we're gonna keep him on the bench. Damian Pierce,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna give him a C. He played fifty four
Speaker 6: percent or more of snaps in the last two weeks,
Speaker 6: but he only the route participation keeps dropping and dropping
Speaker 6: and dropping.
Speaker 1: I don't understand that.
Speaker 6: It's only it's down to twenty four point two percent.
Speaker 6: I don't understand it either. The kids a skilled receiver, right,
Speaker 6: you can catch I. I don't understand the Falcons improved
Speaker 6: run defense ranked number twelve and stuff rate. It's stunk
Speaker 6: last year, it's getting solid. So it's not the best
Speaker 6: matchup for Damian Pierce. We're going to give him a
Speaker 6: ce moving to the Falcons. Speaking of stinking the Desmond Ridder.
Speaker 6: Keep him on the bench.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, well he might be on the Falcons bench
Speaker 5: here was going to do.
Speaker 1: Do you think Desmond Ridder finishes this game?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we're getting really close to the hook, right yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: so do We'll talk more about that later. And for
Speaker 6: a team that's competing for the division title, you just
Speaker 6: can't afford to have him that sort of level of play.
Speaker 6: Drake London for that reason that the play at Desmond Radder,
Speaker 6: I think you have to keep him on the bench
Speaker 6: in this game. It is getting ugly London. He had
Speaker 6: seven targets last week, but only three catches for twenty
Speaker 6: eight yards.
Speaker 5: He did salvage a bit of value with the touchdown.
Speaker 6: The non Drake London Falcons wide receivers last week against
Speaker 6: the Jaguars had two catches for dight tedyard, zero touchdowns
Speaker 6: on five targets. You are, of course keeping them on
Speaker 6: your bench. And in this game, the Falcons game script
Speaker 6: is going to be run, run, run against his Texan defense.
Speaker 6: Of course it's an Arthur Smith team, so we have
Speaker 6: to talk about multiple tight ends. John new Smith, we're
Speaker 6: gonna give him a ce all right, that's my guy. Yeah,
Speaker 6: last week against the Jaguars, cut all six targets for
Speaker 6: ninety five yards.
Speaker 5: The last three weeks, John.
Speaker 6: New Smith twenty targets, Kyle Pitts eighteen targets.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Why isn't Brian Johnson
Speaker 1: here for this? Killing me right now?
Speaker 6: But Yeah, Smith ran routes on less than sixty percent
Speaker 6: of the dropbacks last week, So I mean he went
Speaker 6: ballistic last week, but I'm not sure how sustainable that
Speaker 6: you know, that production is. We're gonna keep playing that
Speaker 6: kind of snapshare. And the Texans have allowed only one
Speaker 6: touchdown two opposing tight ends this year, So we're giving
Speaker 6: John hu a cee. We're also giving Kyle Pits to see.
Speaker 6: Kyle Pitts lowly sixty three point three PFF receiving grade
Speaker 6: this year ranks three to third among qualified tight ends,
Speaker 6: not the best. Kyle Pitts's yards per route run the
Speaker 6: last three years two point zero two as a rookie
Speaker 6: one point six to nine last year. He is down
Speaker 6: to zero point nine to five so far this year.
Speaker 5: I mean not good.
Speaker 6: And the Texans have also allowed the twelfth lowest yards
Speaker 6: per reception too opposing tight ends this year, so we'll
Speaker 6: get both those tight ends to see. The smash matchup
Speaker 6: in this game is Bijon Robinson, of course, obviously a
Speaker 6: Bijon's averaging eighteen point one touches and one hundred and
Speaker 6: thirteen total yards per game. He's also number three amongst
Speaker 6: all running backs in receiving grade and number two in targets.
Speaker 6: Bjon Robinson his top ten in running backs and fantasy
Speaker 6: points despite having scored only one touchdown so far. This
Speaker 6: is a bad Texans run defense that has allowed the
Speaker 6: seventh highest explosive run rate in the league so far.
Speaker 6: Bijon obviously hits home runs. I expect him to have
Speaker 6: a couple explosive plays here.
Speaker 5: And Tyler l g is.
Speaker 1: Another guy we're about to get back to because hes
Speaker 1: might take a chance on me running back, all right,
Speaker 1: Kansas City takes on Minnesota Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelcey obvious,
Speaker 1: as Vikings gave up two touchdowns to Donald Parham a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. So these guys are obviously in
Speaker 1: play every week. I as for the rest of the
Speaker 1: passing game, I can't put a bit starting great on anybody.
Speaker 1: Some receiver, random receiver insert name here, probably has a
Speaker 1: good name, a good game, but nobody gets more than
Speaker 1: sixty percent of the snaps and the target distribution for
Speaker 1: the wide receivers for the Chiefs so scattershot that it's
Speaker 1: just unguessable to wit. In four games this season, four
Speaker 1: different Chiefs wide receivers have led the team in receiving yards.
Speaker 1: So it's just, you know, it's not It's not that
Speaker 1: I'm not smart enough. I don't know that the Chiefs
Speaker 1: could even tell you which one receiver'd be the one
Speaker 1: you'd want to start, and many times, many games there's
Speaker 1: none that you'd want to start. But let's talk about
Speaker 1: Isaiah Pacheco. Yeah, now we're talking baby. His touches have
Speaker 1: increased in each game, and deservedly, so this might be
Speaker 1: though a little bit trickier matchup than it first appears.
Speaker 1: A lot of people think of the Vikings nationally televised
Speaker 1: game against the Eagles, in which DeAndre Swift ran up
Speaker 1: and down the field on them. But in the the
Speaker 1: nine non DeAndre Swift running backs to face, the Vikings
Speaker 1: have averaged two point six scoreless yards per carry. No
Speaker 1: other back has top forty one rushing yards against Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Vikings have have a top ten run stuff win rate
Speaker 1: according to ESPN. This is a decent run defense. So
Speaker 1: I don't know the Pacheco goes off here.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: One other exciting development for Pacheco averaging three targets per
Speaker 1: game after seeing point six targets per game last year.
Speaker 1: Love that, so we do love that. Now the counter
Speaker 1: side of that, the Vikings only allowing fifteen receiving yards
Speaker 1: per game to opposing running backs, second fewest. Still love
Speaker 1: the way he's playing. Running hard B grade Isaiah Pacheco.
Speaker 5: Let's go to the Vikings.
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson TJ. Howkinson obvious as it goes without saying.
Speaker 1: Chiefs have allowed at least six receptions and fifty five
Speaker 1: yards of tight ends in three of the four games
Speaker 1: this year. Hackinson likely sitting on a very nice game.
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins also gets an A grade, leads all passers
Speaker 1: in the league in completions and touchdowns, and the Vikings
Speaker 1: lead the league in passing rate. Game script likely helps
Speaker 1: Cousins here, as the Vikings are presumed to fall behind early,
Speaker 1: which has happened in losses to the similarly talented Chargers
Speaker 1: and Eagles offense. That will ensure that Cousins Cousins ends
Speaker 1: up throwing in this game. Unlike last week, Vikings pass
Speaker 1: blocking has been better than previous years. Still not good,
Speaker 1: but better. Only seven sacks and four games is a
Speaker 1: big win for the oft battered Kirk Cousins, who comes
Speaker 1: in with an A for this one. Sticking with the
Speaker 1: passing game, I really struggle with Jordan Addison. He had
Speaker 1: one target last week, it was not completed and so
Speaker 1: he ended up with a zero catch game. Not great.
Speaker 1: I had given him a I believe a C grade.
Speaker 1: Last week snapcount dropped way off, but as we mentioned
Speaker 1: earlier in the show, they only threw nineteen balls. I
Speaker 1: think you probably throw forty in this game, So I
Speaker 1: think Addison's back on the radar with the C grade here.
Speaker 1: He runs from all over the field, but he most
Speaker 1: commonly will see Lugerius Snead cornerback for the Chiefs. He
Speaker 1: hasn't allowed to touchdown, yet only giving up a fifty
Speaker 1: six percent completion rate, which is good, but weirdly, he
Speaker 1: ranks his Pro Football Focuses one hundred and thirty first
Speaker 1: ranked quarterback. So maybe there's an opportunity here for Jordan Addison.
Speaker 1: I'm going to move him in with a C grade.
Speaker 1: And then lastly, Alexander Madison. Madison is has run better
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. Chiefs middle linebacker Nick Bolton
Speaker 1: has been ruled out the replacement, though Drew Trankwell has
Speaker 1: been PFF's eleventh best run defending linebacker in his absence,
Speaker 1: Kansas City has been pushed around at the point of
Speaker 1: attack this season, earning Kansas City's third has got the
Speaker 1: third worst run stuff rate, so maybe they get a
Speaker 1: little something done here for the Vikings, Kansas City sees
Speaker 1: the seventh fewest runs. Cam Akers started eating into the
Speaker 1: workhorse role that Alexander Madison had previ viously had. That
Speaker 1: part is not ideal either, so we're just coming in
Speaker 1: with a C grade on Madison here. There is some opportunity,
Speaker 1: but gamescript might work against him along with cam Aker's
Speaker 1: developing role. When we come back, take.
Speaker 4: A chance on me.
Speaker 1: Nine players not normally in starting lineups. Will tell you
Speaker 1: who they are what you can do with those guys
Speaker 1: in this the first bye week of the NFL schedule.
Speaker 1: You need help off the waiver wire. We'll do that
Speaker 1: when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Take a
Speaker 1: chance on me nine players you would not normally start.
Speaker 1: We'll tell you who they are. Many of these are
Speaker 1: going to be available off of the waiver wire in
Speaker 1: your league and you might need the help this week.
Speaker 1: Let's begin at the quarterback position and Matt Harrison.
Speaker 4: We all need a lot of help for this one.
Speaker 4: Zach Wilson as might take a chance on me quarterback.
Speaker 4: There are some reasons to be optimistic. He's had more
Speaker 4: pass plays and a better completion percentage in three straight weeks,
Speaker 4: while a scramble percentage and snap percentage and pressure percentage
Speaker 4: have dropped in three straight weeks. Wilson's actually tied for
Speaker 4: eighth place and touchdown passes inside the ten yard line
Speaker 4: this year, and he plays Denver this week, who have
Speaker 4: the worst defensive unit in the NFL. Let's even take
Speaker 4: out the seventy point game to Miami. The Broncos have
Speaker 4: allowed an average line of two hundred seventy eight yards
Speaker 4: and two point seven passing scores to non to quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: That's a lot. Oh and did we mention that current
Speaker 4: Broncos head coach Sean Payton put former Broncos and current
Speaker 4: Jets offensive co ordinator Nathaniel Hackett on blast for doing
Speaker 4: the worst coaching job ever. You don't think the Jets
Speaker 4: have had this game circled since then? They're going to
Speaker 4: run up the score if they can against Sean Payton.
Speaker 1: Well, if they can is a big question.
Speaker 4: I mean, you kind of can against that DFL as.
Speaker 1: You're right, you're right about that thor you take a
Speaker 1: chance on me quarterback.
Speaker 6: I'm going with Brock Purdy against the Cowboys. Brock Perdy
Speaker 6: QB thirteen so far in Fantasy number one in the
Speaker 6: NFL impasser rating, number four in Fantasy points per dropback.
Speaker 6: In this matchup against the Cowboys, Dallas has allowed the
Speaker 6: tenth highest yards per attempt average in the NFL so far.
Speaker 5: I think a big games coming for Brock Perdy.
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill's best matchup of the year is this matchup
Speaker 1: against the Colts. You remember in the offseason they lost
Speaker 1: both of their starting cornerbacks steff On Gilmore to free
Speaker 1: agency and Isaiah Rodgers to gambling, and now their current
Speaker 1: starting cornerback Dallas Flowers just went on ir so it
Speaker 1: looks like they're going to have to either reinsert the
Speaker 1: previous lead benched cornerback Darryl Baker, who allowed touchdowns in
Speaker 1: both of his starts prior to his benching. Opposite him
Speaker 1: is rookie cornerback Jude Juw Brent, who got his first
Speaker 1: start last week and promptly allowed all five passes in
Speaker 1: his coverage to be caught along with a touchdown. It's
Speaker 1: an elite opportunity for Ryan Fitzpack. Sorry, no Stupiard's back. Yes,
Speaker 1: I would love to have stew Beer back Ryan Tannel
Speaker 1: he could still play today. Let's go to the running
Speaker 1: back position.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna stick with the Jets and go with Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 4: Last week, Bryce hallsaw only twenty six snaps and only
Speaker 4: had six rushing attempts. That's a run on only twenty
Speaker 4: three percent of his snaps. Dalvin Cook, meanwhile, had a
Speaker 4: rushing attempt on thirty five percent of his snaps, and
Speaker 4: Cook is the only Jets running back who had to
Speaker 4: carry from inside the five this year. From a target perspective,
Speaker 4: Cook has the exact same amount as Hall. Basically, when
Speaker 4: Cook is on the field, he's getting the ball and
Speaker 4: almost getting the same workload as Haul. Right now, and
Speaker 4: insert the Broncos defense, who I'm gonna pick on all day.
Speaker 4: But let's take out that Miami game again where they
Speaker 4: gave up three hundred and fifty one yards, ninety receiving
Speaker 4: yards and eight total touchdowns of the Dolphins backs. Let's
Speaker 4: take that out. Khalil Herbert total one hundred and twenty
Speaker 4: two yards in a score last week. Brian Robinson at
Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty nine total yards and two scores
Speaker 4: in Week two. They're a siev.
Speaker 1: Well they are, and you took out there worse, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is very very chivalrous. So I didn't even mention it,
Speaker 1: did I? No, no, no, let's go to Thori. You're
Speaker 1: take a chance to be running back. I'm going with
Speaker 1: Tyler l Geer against the Texans. I like this one.
Speaker 5: Speaking of terrible run defenses.
Speaker 6: Yes, so, Tyler Elgier averaged fifteen point five rushing attempts
Speaker 6: in the first two games, but the last to only
Speaker 6: eight point five touch average per game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we get here's my thinking.
Speaker 6: I think we get closer to the usage of the
Speaker 6: first two games with Aljeer in this one as opposed
Speaker 6: to the last two and el Gier. Everybody out there
Speaker 6: knows he's a tackle breaker who's got juice after he
Speaker 6: breaks it. Right now, it ranks fifteenth in the NFL
Speaker 6: in yards after contact per attempt. Mentioned the Texans run
Speaker 6: defense is terrible, and I mentioned before, I think this
Speaker 6: game script flips super duper run heavy for Atlanta.
Speaker 5: I think that's where al Jieer can come in and
Speaker 5: put up some numbers.
Speaker 1: I've got Gus Edwards. His touches have increased in every game,
Speaker 1: which is particularly notable since Justice Hill returned last week.
Speaker 1: He's dinged up. We'll try to play. We don't know
Speaker 1: for sure how much he can contribute. Didn't take anything
Speaker 1: away from Gus. Last week, Steelers allowing one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty seven rushing yards per game to opposing running backs
Speaker 1: on four point nine yards per carry, that is second
Speaker 1: and third worst in the league. Now notable for Gus
Speaker 1: He's had just one carry from inside the five yard line.
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson had two last week.
Speaker 4: That is not cool.
Speaker 1: Jackson wasn't used inside the five at all under previous
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Greg Roman, but new offensive coordinator Todd Munkin
Speaker 1: apparently feels a little bit differently about using Jackson near
Speaker 1: the stripe. And I don't like it because we want
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards to have a nice game here. I still
Speaker 1: think he can even if he doesn't score. The Gus Busson,
Speaker 1: I love the Gus spot. Yeah, guys on, all he's
Speaker 1: done is average five yards per carry in every one
Speaker 1: his seasons. Matt, you take a chance with me wide receiver?
Speaker 1: Are you giving us two jets? Who are you going
Speaker 1: with now?
Speaker 3: Haha?
Speaker 4: Broncos, I'm giving you Tyler Conklin as a tight end.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: While they're the worst team in the league against quarterbacks
Speaker 4: and running backs, they're the second worst team in the
Speaker 4: league against tight ends. And oh, by the way, two
Speaker 4: of their opponents decided they didn't even need to throw
Speaker 4: to the tight end to beat them. The Raiders and
Speaker 4: Dolphins combined for two catches against the Broncos. Still, Denver
Speaker 4: has allowed the sixth most yards and the seventh most
Speaker 4: and the second most scores to the position, including seven
Speaker 4: catches eighty five yards and two touchdowns the Cole Comet
Speaker 4: last week. Conklin's getting a target on seventeen percent of
Speaker 4: his routes run. That's the same as Dallas Goddard and
Speaker 4: Darren Waller. He's also flexed out to the slot on
Speaker 4: thirty three percent of his snaps this season and has
Speaker 4: a robust four point nine yards after contact. They like
Speaker 4: Tyler Conklin to get involved today. Tyler Conklin for Sunday.
Speaker 1: You've gone Jets, Jets, Jets, j Ets, Jets, Jets, Jets.
Speaker 1: It's kind of lazy. Yeah, yeah, thor you're taking chance
Speaker 1: on me wide receiver. Let's talk about Bobby Trees.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Texans playing the Falcons this week. Woods leads the Texans
Speaker 6: in target share the last three games the week. Here
Speaker 6: here's the thinking on this one. The week link on
Speaker 6: the Falcons defense is their nickel corner d Alford, who
Speaker 6: is allowing a seventy seven point three percent catch rate
Speaker 6: and get this one hundred and twenty five point eight
Speaker 6: passer rating against on targets.
Speaker 5: I think CJ.
Speaker 6: Stroud, who has already been looking Woods is way quite
Speaker 6: a bit, is additionally incentivized in this game to pick
Speaker 6: on d Alford. I think you might see Woods lead
Speaker 6: the team in targets again. He might take a chance
Speaker 6: on me wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Matt, you went Jets, Jets, Jets, Yeah, and then you
Speaker 1: made fun of me for it. Yes I did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going Jets wide receives.
Speaker 4: Oh no, that's just cruel. Just you knew you were
Speaker 4: doing that.
Speaker 5: Yes, I knew.
Speaker 1: The Jets offense obviously has looked looked better last week.
Speaker 1: Here's Lore's the Lazard story. His lowest snappering in any
Speaker 1: game this year seventy eight percent. He's always on the field.
Speaker 1: He's getting a reasonably healthy fifteen percent target share. Alan
Speaker 1: Lazard not exactly known as a deep downfield threat, averaging
Speaker 1: seventeen yards per reception.
Speaker 5: Not bad.
Speaker 1: Broncos give up over thirteen yards per reception, one and
Speaker 1: a half touchdowns per game, twenty eight fantasy points per
Speaker 1: game to wide receivers, and best of all star cornerback
Speaker 1: Patrick certain is going to spend all of his time
Speaker 1: on Garrett Wilson. Of course, that means Alan Lazard is
Speaker 1: going to see the worst starting cornerback in the league,
Speaker 1: Damari Mathis. Mathis has allowed the third most receiving yards
Speaker 1: and the most touchdowns in his coverage four of them.
Speaker 1: Already is giving up an opposer passer rating of one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four perfect, or guess worse would be
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty would be the worst possible passerating.
Speaker 1: He's at one hundred and fifty four. Yeah, Alan Laz close,
Speaker 1: I'm starting Alan Lazard a couple of my guillotine leagues,
Speaker 1: putting my neck on the line.
Speaker 4: Wow, now this just in.
Speaker 1: There's a game being played in ye old London town.
Speaker 4: Oh should I go get him?
Speaker 1: Colin mccoughney, maybe you're only twenty three debut. Yes, our
Speaker 1: London correspondent happens to be here in studio making a
Speaker 1: visit to the Twin Cities due to unspecified medical issues
Speaker 1: required to go to the Mayo Clinic. Hallo gov'nor Colin mccockney,
Speaker 1: it's so good to have you back.
Speaker 4: It's me I'm callin. I'm here to get the winner.
Speaker 4: Ain't I gotta bag a few apples and pears with
Speaker 4: them strikers to get y'all sorted for the fantasy footy
Speaker 4: now thor just so.
Speaker 1: You know, because I never know what he's saying, I
Speaker 1: need you to be the translator and to help me
Speaker 1: understand what Colin is saying, because I never have any idea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I speak the King's English. Colin's speaking some absurd slang
Speaker 1: version that seems to have come out of a some
Speaker 1: gutter in London somewhere.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Kittie Kats and Buffy the Slayer at Rock Solid.
Speaker 4: You looking at CHOCHI didn't you want some Colin? What's
Speaker 4: his name, Thunder mcgovna.
Speaker 1: That is my name.
Speaker 6: I think Colin's saying hello, and I believe he's about
Speaker 6: to do the London match between the Jaguars and Bells.
Speaker 1: Oh all right, good, let's start on the Jaguars side.
Speaker 4: Colin, Nice try Thundy, clever Mike and a gypsy's kiss,
Speaker 4: Trevy Larry on a sea shanty, smashing chest hair hedges
Speaker 4: and Billy's beans. Blimey, he ain't me captain.
Speaker 6: So he just said that Trevor Lawrence is getting a
Speaker 6: C grade in this matchup. He's only throwing four touchdown
Speaker 6: passes this year and the Bills have only allowed three.
Speaker 6: Then I think he said the Bills are currently top
Speaker 6: five in every category against opposing quarterbacks. Colin also said
Speaker 6: he'd rather have Trevor Lawrence on the bench if he
Speaker 6: had his Drawthers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Noice work, Thundy, Galico, Cat, Ridley Scotton, man
Speaker 4: of God, Kirker, pair of Jimmy Choos in their proper
Speaker 4: Belton Eighth Night Chachie.
Speaker 6: He's saying the matchups for the Jaguars receivers here got
Speaker 6: a little better with Tredevius White going down to an
Speaker 6: achilles injury. It's also saying Kelvin Ridley will draw Dame
Speaker 6: Jackson most often he replaces White and is a.
Speaker 5: League average corner according to PFF.
Speaker 6: He went on to say, from the slot, Christian Kirk
Speaker 6: is gonna see Taron Johnson here, who's been who has
Speaker 6: been the Bill's highest rated corner outside of White. Still,
Speaker 6: this isn't a great matchup for either, and I believe
Speaker 6: Colin gave both of them C grades.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he mentioned Ridley Scott at some point
Speaker 1: in here, notable director of films like Blade Runner in Alien.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that. I don't know how that
Speaker 1: worked in there, but I swear I heard Ridley.
Speaker 4: Scott Jammy Dodger and we're ready for Tottenham pints. Foggy
Speaker 4: underwearing a base and a gravy for Travy Marvel. He's
Speaker 4: the dog's bollocks, no doubt.
Speaker 6: He's saying the bills weakness is the run, and Travis
Speaker 6: Eten gets an A grade in this one. Then Colin
Speaker 6: went on to say Buffalo has allowed five point nine
Speaker 6: yards per CAKI on the year, which is the worst
Speaker 6: in the entire league. But then he said they're only
Speaker 6: seeing about sixteen rushing attempts per game, which is amongst.
Speaker 5: The lowest in the league.
Speaker 6: Et And has had at least eighteen carries in three
Speaker 6: of four games. So Colin's expecting the Jaguars to try
Speaker 6: to control the pace with et and I believe what
Speaker 6: he was saying. And he also went on to say
Speaker 6: we're not going to get as much of Tank Bigsby though,
Speaker 6: because he's getting all he's getting all of the carries
Speaker 6: inside five yards, but nothing else.
Speaker 5: And the Bills have only allowed to rushing touchdowns so
Speaker 5: far this year.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I heard when the phrase botlocks came up.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that was Tank Bigsby right there.
Speaker 5: That was that part.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, tanks one nott in tanks, no two
Speaker 4: ways about it. Can't have any Mickey mouses in your blouses.
Speaker 4: Stephan Al have gone all jam tart on me nobbies
Speaker 4: cause Jimmy the lemon merchant is selling apples. That top
Speaker 4: choice mate.
Speaker 6: Oh, I mean obviously everyone heard it. He's saying, Josh
Speaker 6: Allen and Stefan Diggs are grades in this game.
Speaker 4: Yes, gotta be prop on, no two ways about it.
Speaker 4: Davy Gabe is a submarine captain and Sherfield Wednesday make
Speaker 4: Coppin Oily rag for Austin Martin.
Speaker 6: Yet now what he's saying is Gabe Davis only gets
Speaker 6: a c gray because Davis is lining up on the
Speaker 6: outside most often. We're he'll match up against Jacksonville's Darius Williams.
Speaker 6: Colin also went on to say, there who is the
Speaker 6: top PFF rated cornerback in the league from PFF in
Speaker 6: one hundred and sixty two snaps, he's allowed only eleven
Speaker 6: receptions and leads the league and pass it broken up
Speaker 6: with five. And that slot receiver tren Sherfield is going
Speaker 6: to get a seat as well because he's facing Trey Herndon,
Speaker 6: who is Jacksonville's best slot corner. Herndon has allowed a
Speaker 6: one to fifty one passer rating in his slot coverage
Speaker 6: and two touchdowns so far this year. By the numbers,
Speaker 6: he's been the worst slot corner in the league, even
Speaker 6: if he might be Jacksonville's best.
Speaker 4: Even the smolly bums ain't talking about Willis Dalzy and
Speaker 4: Dalty B.
Speaker 3: Franks.
Speaker 4: That be salty.
Speaker 6: Now he's talking about Dawson Knox, who has been limited
Speaker 6: in practice all week with a quad injury. Let's fire
Speaker 6: up Dalton Kincaid with a C grade here, Jacksonville has
Speaker 6: allowed the fourth most receptions and third most yards two
Speaker 6: opposing tight ends. And then he went on to say
Speaker 6: the King Kaid split snaps with Knox last last week,
Speaker 6: but the Kinkaid ran routes on seventy nine percent of
Speaker 6: his snaps.
Speaker 4: Wake os, dustbin lids and pull up ye lions, lay on,
Speaker 4: Let oh Collie boy give a Lumpyes, but Colin thinks
Speaker 4: d as a fisherman's data Old Jimmy the chef gets
Speaker 4: helped to scouta.
Speaker 5: So what he's saying here is that he only has
Speaker 5: a C grade on James Cook.
Speaker 6: He's leading a three way time share with Latavius Murray
Speaker 6: and Damian Harris for snaps, but only on the field
Speaker 6: for about forty percent of the snaps right now, and
Speaker 6: outside of Bijon Robinson's good day.
Speaker 5: Last week, the Jaguars have.
Speaker 6: Held opposing backs mostly in check, allowing seventy one rushing
Speaker 6: yards per game only and only one touchdown so far
Speaker 6: total this season. Those numbers don't split three ways. All
Speaker 6: that well, I believe, is how we wrap that up.
Speaker 6: OI got dream team?
Speaker 4: Sort it? Ain't I got you a couple Danny Dyers, Hey, blimey,
Speaker 4: make get your winner?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 4: Ain't you top choice?
Speaker 3: Mate?
Speaker 4: Callin Old Bobby's me ship is silent.
Speaker 1: Colin an excellent report. Thank you very much bringing all
Speaker 1: the intel from London taking on the Buffalo Bills. That
Speaker 1: was very, very well done. We're gonna take a break
Speaker 1: when we come back. And thanks again to Colin. Saints
Speaker 1: taking on the new England Patriots. Man, this Patriots team
Speaker 1: nearing rock bottom? Is there anybody to play? This is
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and to quit in the middle of the game.
Speaker 1: We'll find out when we come back. Fantasy Football Weekly.
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Speaker 5: I can't believe I'm still alive in all four of them.
Speaker 1: Done all right, baby, yeah, I love it. Well done.
Speaker 1: Let's jump into the Saints taking on New England. Derek
Speaker 1: Carr looked not right last week, and I feel like
Speaker 1: they brought him back a week too early. They hopefully here,
Speaker 1: you know, the shoulders stronger, you can throw better. Patriots
Speaker 1: defense had a huge blow at the loss of Christian
Speaker 1: Gonzales and Matthew Judon. I mean, you know, you just
Speaker 1: took the best guy to the secondary and their best
Speaker 1: pass rusher off the field. So you know, what had
Speaker 1: been a stout New England defense, I feel like now
Speaker 1: is a lot more vulnerable. What do you think for
Speaker 1: this game?
Speaker 6: It definitely could be, but I think you have to
Speaker 6: keep Derek Carr on the bench in this game. He's
Speaker 6: officially questionable with that shoulder injury the Charger was referring to.
Speaker 5: Does look likely that car will play, but keep him
Speaker 5: on the bench anyway.
Speaker 6: To charge his previous point about the way he looked
Speaker 6: last week, the CARSA dot dropped from ten the first
Speaker 6: three games to seven last week.
Speaker 5: Three yards last Chris.
Speaker 6: O'lave I'm giving him a b Olave ranks number ten
Speaker 6: in the league in receiving grade three point six yards
Speaker 6: per route run against man coverage, which is important in
Speaker 6: this game because the Patriots defense is super man coverage heavy,
Speaker 6: and that secondary also has injuries like Charge was mentioning,
Speaker 6: and they're going to be forced to immediately insert J. C.
Speaker 5: Jackson into this game.
Speaker 1: With you think he's gonna play already in this game.
Speaker 5: I do, just because all the injuries bad.
Speaker 1: So JAC Jackson's going to go from healthy scratch yes
Speaker 1: on over to maybe starting or at least getting insignificant reps.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and Bill Belichick and maybe.
Speaker 6: Across from Chris o'lave on some of those reps. But
Speaker 6: for all Loby, the weak offensive environment of this game
Speaker 6: and the questions I have about Car's ability to get
Speaker 6: it downfield with that shoulder injury, that's what make him
Speaker 6: a Bee for me.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give Michael Thomas a volume C grade.
Speaker 6: Thomas only has one point one yards per route run
Speaker 6: against man coverage, but he does have one basically a
Speaker 6: one third first read share versus man, so they are
Speaker 6: throwing him the ball. It's just he's not doing a
Speaker 6: ton with those targets against man. I do expect the
Speaker 6: volume to keep up here for Thomas against that Patriots defense,
Speaker 6: and with the injuries that we've mentioned. I think that's
Speaker 6: what makes Thomas potentially playable. Unfortunately, I do not think
Speaker 6: the same for chargingized boy Rashid Shaki.
Speaker 1: We love him, but he needs downfield passing.
Speaker 5: He absolutely does.
Speaker 6: And the New England's man cover scheme, to your point,
Speaker 6: they take away the deep ball.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's just what they do.
Speaker 6: In addition to that, Shahit is the Saints' deep ball
Speaker 6: zone killer. That's what the game seat goes often because
Speaker 6: he can get deep beyond there and take the top
Speaker 6: off the defense. But Shahit only has zero point three
Speaker 6: yards per route run against man coverage this year.
Speaker 5: That is not good.
Speaker 6: Keep him on your bench. You also have to keep
Speaker 6: all the Saints tight ends on your bench. Juwan Johnson
Speaker 6: has a calf injury. Jimmy Graham may or may not
Speaker 6: start bench Both the Patriots are awesome against opposing tight
Speaker 6: ends and have been for a long time. Alvin Kamara,
Speaker 6: I'm giving him a grade to be in this game.
Speaker 6: Last week, first game back from his suspension, eighty four
Speaker 6: total yards on seventy five percent of the snaps to
Speaker 6: finish his fantasy's RB nine. He had thirteen catches in
Speaker 6: that game, unbelievable as Derek Carr became checked down Charlote
Speaker 6: with the Shelder injury.
Speaker 5: But in this game here for Kamara.
Speaker 6: The Patriots have a strong run defense that ranks number
Speaker 6: three in the league in stuff right. The Patriots also
Speaker 6: suppress receiving running backs. They've allowed the eighth lowest yards
Speaker 6: per reception to opposing running backs this year. Moving on
Speaker 6: to the Patriots of the baw the entire passing game,
Speaker 6: I advise you to keep on the bench Mac Jones,
Speaker 6: DeVante Parker, Juju Smith, Schuster, Hunter, Henry, all of them.
Speaker 5: Keep them all on the bench.
Speaker 6: The only guy that I think is fantasy playable in
Speaker 6: this game is Ramondre Stevenson, who is not having a
Speaker 6: very good season so far, but just on the volume here.
Speaker 5: I'm giving him a bee.
Speaker 6: Ramonder's averaging eighteen touches and sixty two point eight total
Speaker 6: yards per game with zero explosive runs.
Speaker 5: Hopefully that changes at some point.
Speaker 4: He's a good back.
Speaker 5: He's a very good back.
Speaker 6: Yeah, forty second out of fifty eight qualifying running backs
Speaker 6: in misforce tackles per attempt. For me, that's the bigger
Speaker 6: surprise than the zero explosive runs. I mean that kid's
Speaker 6: a tackle breaker.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Decent matchup in this game, though, which is why I
Speaker 5: tick him up to the B.
Speaker 6: In addition to the volume, the Patriots are going to
Speaker 6: feed him against what is a middling Saints run defense.
Speaker 6: The Saints pass defense is really good. There's only one
Speaker 6: route for New England here, which is just run the ball.
Speaker 6: That's going to benefit Remondre.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Ramonder's got a thigh injury that we're monitoring. Managed
Speaker 1: to practice every day during the week. We think he
Speaker 1: will be able to go in this game. Baltimore takes
Speaker 1: on Pittsburgh. The Ravens offensive line dealing with a bunch
Speaker 1: of injuries. You want to double check on Morgan Moses, Tyler, Linderbaum,
Speaker 1: Ronnie Stanley, all guys. You'll want to double check their
Speaker 1: status here. Assuming that this line's been at least some
Speaker 1: semblance of order. Then there's some playable angles here. Let's
Speaker 1: start with Mark Andrews. He just rocked a much better
Speaker 1: Cleveland defense for a couple of scores. Pittsburgh has only
Speaker 1: allowed eleven receptions to tight ends, but ten yards per reception,
Speaker 1: so we like that. In Andrews's last four performances against
Speaker 1: the Steelers, He's top fifty yards three times, which is good.
Speaker 1: And in two of those games he had really big
Speaker 1: games eight receptions for eighty yards or better. They faced
Speaker 1: in Andrews level talent. George Kittle earlier this year held
Speaker 1: him to nineteen yards. So I've only got the B
Speaker 1: great and Andrews's tight end wasteland. You obviously have to
Speaker 1: start him. It's not a great matchup, it's a good
Speaker 1: decent matchup. B great Mark Andrews. Say Flowers is the
Speaker 1: other guy that you care about Steelers. In the passing game,
Speaker 1: Steelers are allowing the fourth most yards and second most
Speaker 1: touchdowns per game to wide receivers. Steelers are tied for
Speaker 1: the fourth most Fantasy points per game allowed to wide receivers,
Speaker 1: and despite his small size, Jay Flowers tied for fourth
Speaker 1: in red zone targets I did not expect Zay Flowers
Speaker 1: to be a red zone guy. That's been a nice development.
Speaker 1: I runs from all parts of the field and that
Speaker 1: he's really He's got plus individual matchups against all three
Speaker 1: struggling Steelers cornerbacks. There's Patrick Peterson, Chandon Sullivan, Levi Wallace.
Speaker 1: They've got pro football focused cornerback rankings of seventy fourth,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fourth, and one hundred and fifteenth. That's
Speaker 1: not great. So Jay Flowers be great for him. Rashad
Speaker 1: Bateman appears he's going to be able to go in
Speaker 1: this game, and I look, and I want to understand
Speaker 1: you if you don't even consider Rashod Baman been given
Speaker 1: his light usage so far and his injuries. But as
Speaker 1: I mentioned, fantastic matchup against these cornerbacks. So if you're
Speaker 1: looking for a potential dart throw, Rashad Bateman might be
Speaker 1: your guy here. OBJ however, still not one hundred percent
Speaker 1: off his zank injury and he's done nothing. I gotta
Speaker 1: leave him on the bench. That from a passing game standpoint.
Speaker 1: The last guy to talk about Lamar Jackson a grade.
Speaker 1: The last two quarterbacks to face the Steelers have thrown
Speaker 1: for three hundred plus yards and multiple touchdowns, and that
Speaker 1: was c. J. Stroud and Jimmy Garoppolo, by the way.
Speaker 1: As a result, Pittsburgh's currently bottom eight in passing yards
Speaker 1: and passing touchdowns allowed. Jackson did not face the Steelers
Speaker 1: last season, but he has rushed for at least fifty
Speaker 1: five yards in each of his last three games against them.
Speaker 1: If you go back a little bit, and of course
Speaker 1: had the big rushing game last week. Lamar Jackson getting
Speaker 1: used near the goal line. As we discussed in the
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards take a chance on Me segment earlier in
Speaker 1: this show. He comes in with a C grade for
Speaker 1: this one. Now we go to Pittsburgh, h Kenny Pickett's
Speaker 1: going to play. Not that it matters.
Speaker 4: That's a shame.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the entire passing attack is on the bench, regardless
Speaker 1: of quarterback. You're not starting any part of this, this
Speaker 1: passing attack, and especially not an increasingly healthy and good
Speaker 1: Ravens secondary. Even with healthy Kenny Pickett, the Steelers a
Speaker 1: bottom set even in passing yards, completion rate, and passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the league. The Ravens have hammered similarly woeful opponents,
Speaker 1: allowing averages are just two hundred and three passing yards
Speaker 1: and zero point eight passing touchdowns per game. No Pat
Speaker 1: Fryer mouth in this game, But Darnell Washington's gonna get
Speaker 1: time or you know. I love the big o Darnell Washington,
Speaker 1: huge target, gigantic target, normous, So I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: what he does, even though I can't advocate for starting
Speaker 1: Darnell Washington.
Speaker 4: No, I'm just disappointed that we didn't get a sad
Speaker 4: trombone ski game so you could really get the sounders going.
Speaker 5: You think I wasn't waiting on that.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 6: I gotta check on Matt Canada's burner on Twitter to
Speaker 6: see how many targets Washington's gonna get.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I so much wish he'd go see he
Speaker 1: would have landed someplace else, ye low, to see what
Speaker 1: he could do. Let's talk about the only parts of
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh offense you care about, the running back position.
Speaker 1: Najee Harris is the league leader in line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: stuffs twenty seven percent. That's a great stat that is,
Speaker 1: isn't it The line of scrimmage stuff? It sounds like
Speaker 1: an oreo, it does. Yeah, the line of scrimmage double
Speaker 1: stuff little helmets on the On the cookie, Steelers are
Speaker 1: twenty ninth and run block win rate, which is not good.
Speaker 1: The Ravens have the third best run defense grade according
Speaker 1: to Pro Football fecus. Talking about footballs too much, Yeah, geez,
Speaker 1: only Zach Voss's top fifty nine yards against Baltimore. It
Speaker 1: took him thirty carries to get past fifty nine yards.
Speaker 1: We got to I think one hundred and ten in
Speaker 1: the game. The passing role is dried up for Najie Harris,
Speaker 1: which is unfortunate, averaging just one catch per game, and
Speaker 1: he has Pro Football focuses seventh worst receiving grade among
Speaker 1: running backs. I can only get him up to a
Speaker 1: C grade here. And Jalen Warren is just he's tapped out.
Speaker 1: It like seven carries a game. I just you know,
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't do anything from a fantasy standpoint
Speaker 1: in that kind of time frame on disappointingly. So yeah, we're.
Speaker 5: Stuck, all right.
Speaker 1: We've got about I think about four minutes here to
Speaker 1: get to our next get through our next matchup, which
Speaker 1: is Cincinnati taking on Arizona. Matt I can't tell you
Speaker 1: how many people have told me they're just they're benching
Speaker 1: Joe Joe Burrow until he proves he can throw down field.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's fair. He's not on the injury
Speaker 4: report this week. He's going to play, but again, how
Speaker 4: healthy is he? He simply can't get the power on
Speaker 4: his throws with the right calf injury. His average depth
Speaker 4: of target last week against the Titans, who have a
Speaker 4: really bad secondary, was only four point four yards.
Speaker 1: It was just horrible.
Speaker 3: Ye.
Speaker 4: Even in a matchup against the bottom five defense like Arizona,
Speaker 4: it's still tough to trust him. I'll give Burrow a
Speaker 4: c but I'd rather not start him right now. T
Speaker 4: Higgins looks like he's not going to go this week
Speaker 4: with a rib injury. Hasn't practiced yet this week. Even
Speaker 4: if he does go, I think i'd leave him on
Speaker 4: the bench. But it is a great matchup for Jamar Chase.
Speaker 4: He'll match up most often with Arizona corner Marco Wilson,
Speaker 4: who's allowed the most yards in coverage this season at
Speaker 4: three hundred and forty five already. That's a lot a lot,
Speaker 4: Plus he's now the squeaky Wheel after the comments he
Speaker 4: made last week. This would be an a matchup, but
Speaker 4: I'm going to give him a B just on the
Speaker 4: bay of Joe Burrow's health and the fact that he's
Speaker 4: probably double covered the entire game. Joe Mixon is leading
Speaker 4: the league in one category. It's not like an oreo category,
Speaker 4: but it's almost as bad. The fewest air yards in
Speaker 4: the league. He's at negative thirty eight air yards, which
Speaker 4: translates to an average depth of target of negative four
Speaker 4: point one yards per play. I've never heard of a negative,
Speaker 4: especially the steep into a season. It's horrible.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: However, I don't think they need to pass mix in
Speaker 4: the ball much in this game. The Cardinals are one
Speaker 4: of the worst run defenses in the league. They're bottom
Speaker 4: ten and basically every category they're along. One hundred and
Speaker 4: forty six conbo yards and two scores per game to
Speaker 4: the position. A grade for Joe Mixon. On the other side,
Speaker 4: We'll start with James Connor, who I always expect to
Speaker 4: see on the injury report, but he's not there. He
Speaker 4: had sixty three percent of the team's rushing attempts. His
Speaker 4: backup Keanta Ingram looks like he'll miss this week, so
Speaker 4: that might go up. Plus, Connor has had one hundred
Speaker 4: percent of his team's rushing attempts from inside the five.
Speaker 4: The Bengals have allowed two one hundred yard rusher through
Speaker 4: four games, and the Ravens split backfield of Gus Edwards
Speaker 4: and Justice. He'll combine for one zero three in a score.
Speaker 4: Very solid B grade for James Connor. Marquise Brown is startable,
Speaker 4: but it's just a C grade. Getting a great market
Speaker 4: share twenty seven percent of the total targets forty one
Speaker 4: percent of the total air yards. Both are huge shares
Speaker 4: top ten in the league. Both both categories that keeps
Speaker 4: him afloat in tough matchups like this one. He'll split
Speaker 4: time with chadobe Awoozia and Cam Taylor Britt on the perimeter.
Speaker 4: Both of them have a three inch and twenty pound
Speaker 4: advantage on Brown. I'm not going as far as to
Speaker 4: go with waiver wire Darling Michael Wilson for this one,
Speaker 4: so we'll leave him on the bench. I will throw
Speaker 4: a starting grade on zach Ertz. He gets a B grade.
Speaker 4: He's had target totals of ten, to eight and ten
Speaker 4: in games this season, and he faces a SINCI team
Speaker 4: that's allowed the tenth most receiving yards and is tied
Speaker 4: for second most in tight end touchdowns allowed so far.
Speaker 4: And then finally, Josh Dobbs has two top ten weekly
Speaker 4: Fantasy finishes this season.
Speaker 1: I can play a little, and he runs a bit.
Speaker 4: He hasn't thrown an interception. He's currently fifth in the
Speaker 4: league and quarterback rushing yards, and he puts up some
Speaker 4: decent numbers in the last two weeks against the Cowboys
Speaker 4: and forty nine Ers. By the way, about that this
Speaker 4: defense isn't as good, I'll give Dobbs a seat, and
Speaker 4: it's closer to a B grade than a bench grade.
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Speaker 4: That's a fun game.
Speaker 1: That's a good game. Now, that's a good game right there. Instead, No,
Speaker 1: we're talking about three tough questions. We're gonna play code
Speaker 1: name weekly.
Speaker 3: Tough question number one.
Speaker 1: Appropriate level of concern for Calvin Ridley? Is it none?
Speaker 3: Is it some?
Speaker 1: Or is it a bowel loosening level of existential dread?
Speaker 4: Matt, I mean it's the Jaguars things. We go get
Speaker 4: Collin out of it. I think he's still on the lobby.
Speaker 1: He is in the lobby occasion.
Speaker 4: It's worth noting that the last time I was on
Speaker 4: this show, we had the same question, but with Christian Kirk.
Speaker 4: And the last three weeks have been very disappointing for
Speaker 4: for Ridley. But the Jags have been just attacking the
Speaker 4: weaknesses of opposing defense. The Chiefs. Chiefs have two good
Speaker 4: perimeter corners and a bad slot corner, so they targeted
Speaker 4: Kirk Texans. Same thing, same thing with the Falcons last week,
Speaker 4: and actually it's the same thing this week as well.
Speaker 4: For the Jaguars going against the Bills. But it's probably
Speaker 4: four disappointing weeks in a row now, so there's got
Speaker 4: to be some concern. But I'm not ready to get
Speaker 4: the poop going or anything like that. I think we're
Speaker 4: okay here, all right.
Speaker 1: Thor appropriate level of concern for Calvin Ridley, none, some,
Speaker 1: or about a loosening level of existential dread.
Speaker 6: I'm going to give the same answer that I did
Speaker 6: when we talked about Christian Kirk.
Speaker 5: I'm going to say some for Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 6: The target here has obviously gone down for him since
Speaker 6: you know, with Christian Kirk, since Week one.
Speaker 5: After that for Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 6: But I do you know, in agreeing with Matt's point,
Speaker 6: I do think it's situational and circumstantial. You are going
Speaker 6: to have a bunch of games where he's going to
Speaker 6: give you value by yeah, you just have to mix
Speaker 6: some match based on the matchup.
Speaker 1: So some is your answer.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yes.
Speaker 1: Ridley has seemed declining targets, declining air yards, and declining
Speaker 1: target share percentage in every game this year. He's now
Speaker 1: behind presumed irrelevant teammate Zay Jones in air yards for
Speaker 1: the season. You mentioned the trick in your matchup this week, Matt,
Speaker 1: but also let me mention this Week seven at the Saints,
Speaker 1: that's no kakewalk. Week nine is a bye, I hear
Speaker 1: they have a great defense. Week ten San Francisco. Those
Speaker 1: are all games that will cause some hesitation before you
Speaker 1: insert Calvin Ridley into your lineup. By the way, the
Speaker 1: first play schedule's got consequences every year. Sure, no, this
Speaker 1: is it for Jacksonville. Four drops in four games for
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley, no bueno. As a reminder, Calvin Ridley had
Speaker 1: a great twenty twenty. Here's his finish in all the
Speaker 1: other years of his career. Wide receiver thirty seven, Wide
Speaker 1: receiver eighteen, Wide receiver twenty nine, and right now he's
Speaker 1: wide receiver thirty one in Fantasy points. Maybe this this's
Speaker 1: just who he is. He is roughly the thirty best
Speaker 1: best wide receiver in the league. He's roughly a flex guy.
Speaker 1: Though maybe the outlier here was his twenty twenty season
Speaker 1: when he finished his wide receiver three. That might not
Speaker 1: be who he is, and maybe our expectations got blown
Speaker 1: way out of the water in Week one. The appropriate
Speaker 1: level of concern for Calvin Ridley is some.
Speaker 3: Tough question. Number two, is it too.
Speaker 1: Early to sabotage drop Darren Waller? We go to Thorneistrom,
Speaker 1: you can't drop them. It's the state of the tight
Speaker 1: end position and fantasy right now. It's even worse than
Speaker 1: Darren Waller has been so far. I would just wonder
Speaker 1: who are you going to drop him for? If you're
Speaker 1: going to apples for.
Speaker 6: Raffles at that position, John Smith, Mostly they're waiver wire
Speaker 6: for tight ends. It's a wasteland. And you know, even
Speaker 6: the Waller's been bad, and obviously that the Giants have
Speaker 6: been a joke. Waller is still te twelve in Ppore,
Speaker 6: and I would guess, and I would bet that he
Speaker 6: will be better than that going forward the rest of
Speaker 6: the season.
Speaker 5: So I wouldn't cut him.
Speaker 1: All right, Matt, is it too early to sabotage drop
Speaker 1: Darren Waller?
Speaker 4: It's worth noting that I was pretty much the only
Speaker 4: one on the show in preseason who is not on
Speaker 4: board with Darren Waller.
Speaker 1: Ever, all right, fine, I'll give you the peacock games.
Speaker 1: He said he'd be hurt by now, which he's not.
Speaker 1: He's always hurt.
Speaker 4: He's not hurt for three years.
Speaker 1: He's not hurt.
Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, Daniel Jones, he's not good. He's
Speaker 4: never been good as a passer. Everything from a fantasy
Speaker 4: fantasy perspective for Jones that's been good for him has
Speaker 4: been on the ground and never had Waller. So I
Speaker 4: can't sabotage drop him. I will just drop him. It's
Speaker 4: not a sabotage drop anymore because nobody's gonna pick him up.
Speaker 4: He's bad. It's oh, it's over, Johnny, and they'll start
Speaker 4: him too. Yeah. I guess then it is a good
Speaker 4: sabotage drop.
Speaker 5: Let's go.
Speaker 1: You know what's gonna happen when you drop Waller?
Speaker 4: Right, he's gonna he's gonna have a game with one
Speaker 4: hundred yards and in the end he's gonna pull a
Speaker 4: hamstring and never play again.
Speaker 1: The Giants are dumb, but even they can figure out
Speaker 1: that Waller means wins. In their one victory this year,
Speaker 1: Week two against Arizona, Waller totaled seventy six yards on
Speaker 1: six catches and they won that game. In three losses,
Speaker 1: he's been held to exactly three receptions in those games
Speaker 1: in each of those and no more than thirty six yards.
Speaker 1: I mean If you use Waller, you win. If you
Speaker 1: don't use them, you lose. It's so simple, so simple,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't think it would be so hard for them.
Speaker 1: We can't sabotage drop Darren Waller yet there's not enough
Speaker 1: good tight ends to go along, and let's just hope
Speaker 1: to God that they figure it out.
Speaker 4: So, like the Randy ratio back in the day, they
Speaker 4: need the Waller ratio or something.
Speaker 3: Yes, moving on to question number three.
Speaker 1: Should I sell high on Kyron Williams, Matt.
Speaker 4: Yes, The numbers look good so far, but some of
Speaker 4: the advanced stats don't like him very much. His yards
Speaker 4: before contact is on the below average end at two
Speaker 4: point four yards per attempt. Yards after contact actually a
Speaker 4: bit worse at one point four yards per attempt, but
Speaker 4: the worst number through sixty four rushing attempts. He has
Speaker 4: one broken tackle. That's not good. He's pretty small at
Speaker 4: five nine one ninety four. I'm not sure this rushing
Speaker 4: style and this amount of a workload is conducive to
Speaker 4: him holding up at this rate for an entire season.
Speaker 4: So I would definitely sell high right now?
Speaker 1: All right, Thorpe, are you selling high on Kyron Williams?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say yes with a couple big caveats.
Speaker 6: It totally depends on what that sell high looks like,
Speaker 6: number one, and also what your team's running back situation is. Like,
Speaker 6: if Kyrien's your weekly flex and you're weak at wide
Speaker 6: receiver and someone's going to give you a wide receiver
Speaker 6: one for Kyen, you do that. But if he's your
Speaker 6: RB one right now, you're not going to get a
Speaker 6: better running back for him one for one in a trade,
Speaker 6: so you would have to hold in that scenario.
Speaker 1: But I agree with everything Matt said, and I had
Speaker 1: many of Matt's talking points as well. The answer is
Speaker 1: yes on talent. Should Kyron william be the third highest
Speaker 1: scoring fantasy running back? No, Hello, absolutely not. I shouldn't
Speaker 1: be in the conversation with Christian McCaffrey. No, of course not.
Speaker 1: He's been aided by massive and likely totally unsustainable usage,
Speaker 1: especially near the strike. Eight carries inside the ten yard
Speaker 1: line already then the league best five touchdowns from inside
Speaker 1: the five yard line already for Kyron Williams not sustainable. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford playing great, He's got three passing touchdowns on
Speaker 1: the season. Those things are going to equalize out and
Speaker 1: the touchdowns are going to dry up for Kyron Williams.
Speaker 1: Fantasy managers desperate at the running back position. I think
Speaker 1: you can find somebody if you shop Kyrienn Williams, you
Speaker 1: can find somebody that's gonna trade you a wide receiver, one,
Speaker 1: a top four tight end, a different top ten running
Speaker 1: back that you could go invest in. I think we're
Speaker 1: selling out on Kyrien Williams.
Speaker 5: You got him for free.
Speaker 1: You're gonna turn him into a much better and more
Speaker 1: reliable player. Go back to the matchups the Giants aforementioned
Speaker 1: Giants with Darren Waller. In fact, I wait, start on
Speaker 1: Darren Waller. Let's get right into Darren Wallert's get right
Speaker 1: into it. Darren Waller's solid bench grade. Right it might
Speaker 1: be Darren Waller taking on Miami with the for the Giants.
Speaker 1: Do they rebound it for a better game here?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Well, I'm gonna go a C on Darren Waller.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry to disappoint.
Speaker 6: Matt Waller does have a solid twenty four percent air
Speaker 6: yard share, but right now only one point two yards
Speaker 6: per route run amid all the Giants offensive struggles, which
Speaker 6: I'm going to talk a little bit think about.
Speaker 4: That second one point two yards per route run and
Speaker 4: he's got twenty. Daniel Jones is throwing the ball just
Speaker 4: like just over the head of the defensive line right now.
Speaker 5: He only has the time to do that for a life.
Speaker 6: But you know, like I mentioned before, Waller still does
Speaker 6: sit T twelve in PPR leagues and the Dolphins this
Speaker 6: week's opponent. Both they're going to stomp the Giants and
Speaker 6: incentivise them to pass more, but they're also average against
Speaker 6: opposing tight ends. They rank middle of the pack in
Speaker 6: almost every thing, uh number seventeen for instance, in receiving
Speaker 6: yards allowed to the tight end position. You have to
Speaker 6: keep all the Giants wide receivers on the bench because,
Speaker 6: as always, you don't know where the ball is going
Speaker 6: on the few completions that they end up getting. Now, Church,
Speaker 6: you know, I'm a I'm a new guy to the show,
Speaker 6: do you so?
Speaker 5: I don't know? Is there something opposite of a peacock sound?
Speaker 5: As I begin to talk about Daniel Dimes.
Speaker 4: There's the mongoose rights.
Speaker 1: Exactly if we have a mongoose is the anti peak?
Speaker 6: I think I need it's time for me to give
Speaker 6: me a call PA to the audience. I gave Daniel
Speaker 6: Jones and a last week.
Speaker 5: I don't know what I was doing.
Speaker 4: There's also the eye was wrong button that no, not
Speaker 4: that one. That one. Wait a minute.
Speaker 5: So the bad news is that exactly is that I
Speaker 5: was dead wrong. But the good news is I think
Speaker 5: I've seen the light last time.
Speaker 6: Dimes is obviously badly, badly struggling just in a vacuum,
Speaker 6: but even more so behind that injury ravage Giants offensive
Speaker 6: line that at five guys on the injury report, three
Speaker 6: of whom have already been ruled out. Andrew Thomas, John
Speaker 6: Michael Schmidz, and Shane Mario Lemieux are all going.
Speaker 5: To be out for this game.
Speaker 6: So the offensive line of the blocking is getting no
Speaker 6: better for the Giants, which is bad news for Saquon
Speaker 6: Barkley if he manages to play. Of course, another guy
Speaker 6: on the injury report. Barkley has missed the last two
Speaker 6: games with a great two high ankle sprain. Limited in
Speaker 6: practice once again this week. Brian Dables said on Friday
Speaker 6: that Sakuon will be a game time decision.
Speaker 5: If he plays, you give him a volume C.
Speaker 6: He definitely may not, and if he doesn't, obviously Matt
Speaker 6: Brida is gonna play again.
Speaker 5: He wouldn't.
Speaker 6: Brita would only be a desperation play in super deep leagues.
Speaker 6: The two games where Seikwon's been out and Brita has
Speaker 6: had to take over seven touch it for eighteen yards
Speaker 6: against the forty nine Ers, he did get a touchdown
Speaker 6: that game for just a little bit of value. Last week,
Speaker 6: Brita had fourteen cares for thirty against the Seahawks. Not
Speaker 6: the best, no, but we're gonna move to a team
Speaker 6: that has a much funner offense here with the Dolphins.
Speaker 6: To is a must start obviously, an a Fantasy QB eight,
Speaker 6: number one in passing grade in the NFL most throwing
Speaker 6: touchdowns versus man coverage this season, and the Giants are
Speaker 6: an extremely man coverage intensive team, so I think this
Speaker 6: is a really good matchup for Tua. Tyreek Kill another
Speaker 6: weekly must start Tyreek. This is a particularly awesome matchup
Speaker 6: for him because he is utterly dominant against man coverage,
Speaker 6: always has been.
Speaker 5: He's gonna light up the Giants.
Speaker 6: Jalen Wattle, I'm gonna give him a B, but that
Speaker 6: great would be closer to a sea than an A.
Speaker 6: As I mentioned, the Giants run lots of man coverage.
Speaker 6: The Dolphins go to Tyreek Kill in man coverage. Wattle
Speaker 6: only has a thirteen percent target share against man coverage.
Speaker 6: The Dolphins tight ends of corus As always stay on
Speaker 6: your bench.
Speaker 5: Devin A. Chane eight chan as he's not. I'm getting there.
Speaker 1: He's the one who changed his name. Yeah, we don't
Speaker 1: have to apologize for not getting it right.
Speaker 6: Two weeks later, I'm still I'm still getting there, but
Speaker 6: I'm giving him an A played sixty percent of the
Speaker 6: snaps last week, eleven touches for one hundred and twenty
Speaker 6: total yards. He's taken over this backfield. He's going to
Speaker 6: be the starter going forward. Eight eight Chan is number
Speaker 6: one in explode in the NFL, not amongst rookies whatever.
Speaker 6: In the NFL, explosive run rate mistackles fourth per attempt
Speaker 6: and yards after contact per attempt.
Speaker 5: At folks, we got some good news. The Giants run defense.
Speaker 6: Has allowed the fourth highest explosive run rate in the
Speaker 6: in the NFL. He's going nuts, Rocky Moster, so I
Speaker 6: give him. I forget if I said that. Moster, I'm
Speaker 6: gonna give a bee. He's obviously now going to take
Speaker 6: the back seat. A little bit to the rookie. He
Speaker 6: Moster played forty three percent of the snaps last week,
Speaker 6: had ten touches forty five total yards, but he does
Speaker 6: rank number five in the NFL in explosive run rates. Still,
Speaker 6: as I mentioned, the Giants run defense regularly gives up dingers,
Speaker 6: so there's always that shot that Moster gets one of those.
Speaker 6: But he might need to have one of those explosive
Speaker 6: place to return value in this game.
Speaker 1: See I think you could go a A for both guys,
Speaker 1: but you're totally justifiable given what this matchup is all about.
Speaker 5: This run defense will facilitate it.
Speaker 1: I think that would make sense. When we come back
Speaker 1: Tennessee taking on Indianapolis. On this show last week, we
Speaker 1: basically declared Derek Henry dead and then he probably went out,
Speaker 1: had a signature touchdown run and passed. Let's see where
Speaker 1: we land on Derek Henry's he takes on Indianapolis when
Speaker 1: we returned to Fantasy Football Weekly, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: We continue to power through all of the matchups. In
Speaker 1: week number five, Tennessee takes on Indianapolis start with Derrick Henry,
Speaker 1: apparently not dead yet, reeled off one of his epic
Speaker 1: signature runs last week. He averaged one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: three total yards against the Colts per game against the
Speaker 1: Colts last year, which are great numbers. Of course, he
Speaker 1: faces eight or more defenders in the box on forty
Speaker 1: eight percent of his rush attempts. That's the second highest.
Speaker 1: Colts are middle of the pack in most rushing defensive metrics,
Speaker 1: but are allowing one score per game, and that's where
Speaker 1: Henry's likely to pay dividends here. Colts are much better
Speaker 1: against the run than against the pass. It should be
Speaker 1: the rare Titans game where I think Henry doesn't need
Speaker 1: to carry the load. I already told earlier Ryan Tannils
Speaker 1: might take a chance at me quarterback. I like the
Speaker 1: passing game here. Derek Henry logs in with a B grade,
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill with a B grade, even though be without
Speaker 1: Traylan Burks in all probability, he'd missed the whole week
Speaker 1: of practice, not expected to play in this one. But
Speaker 1: how about DeAndre Hopkins languishing to this point of the season.
Speaker 1: I think this is the one where it finally happens. Oh,
Speaker 1: I told you earlier. Starting cornerback Dallas Flowers is out
Speaker 1: for the year. Their cornerback situation is bad. I told
Speaker 1: you earlier Darryl Baker had been benched. He probably gets
Speaker 1: back on the field, and if they don't use him,
Speaker 1: they have to put seventh round rookie Jalen Jones in
Speaker 1: his first ever meaningful action onto the field. In either situation,
Speaker 1: it's a very plus opportunity for DeAndre Hopkins. The Colts
Speaker 1: have allowed the seventh most receptions and yards per game
Speaker 1: to wide receivers. DeAndre Hopkins logs in with a B
Speaker 1: grade and I think his first really big box scorer
Speaker 1: as a Titan Nick Westbrook a kine showing up into
Speaker 1: this matchup because it's so easy. He scored touchdowns in
Speaker 1: two of his last three games with Traylon Burks out.
Speaker 1: Last week, he saw an uptick to six targets, had
Speaker 1: five receptions, and Traylon Burk's gonna miss them as well.
Speaker 1: He also played more outside, where he'll also get that
Speaker 1: Darryl Baker Jalen Jones situation I just described with Hopkins,
Speaker 1: and he could cash in on that too. Let's throw
Speaker 1: in chick a konkquo. You gotta be smart about where
Speaker 1: you start him.
Speaker 4: But this is one of those spots.
Speaker 1: Colts allowing the fifth most tight end receptions, the six
Speaker 1: most tight end yards, four different tight ends of top
Speaker 1: thirty four yards against the Colts. A Conku was scored
Speaker 1: in one of the Indie matchups last year. He got
Speaker 1: a goose egg in the other, So maybe he's a
Speaker 1: Maybe he's an all or nothing play here. I like
Speaker 1: your opportunities see grade with chig aconk Wu. And it
Speaker 1: pains me because I love Tajay Spears, but I think
Speaker 1: this is a trickier matchup. Colts are much better against
Speaker 1: the run than the pass. Spears is in an almost
Speaker 1: dead even split in snaps with Derrick Henry, but he
Speaker 1: just doesn't get the ball in his hands enough to
Speaker 1: be a reliable starter in trickier matchups. He's getting more
Speaker 1: receiving work though, nine targets the past two games. I
Speaker 1: like that, but still like four catches a game. It's
Speaker 1: tough to put it together a meaningful box score that way.
Speaker 4: You're losing your curveball charge. Then you did a nine
Speaker 4: times right there, and it was it was just sitting there.
Speaker 4: It's team.
Speaker 1: It's a posthumous nine times right there. I'm really disappointed
Speaker 1: in myself. Let's go to the Indianapolis side. Anthony Richardson
Speaker 1: clocking in with an A grade. Yeah, I wish Fish
Speaker 1: was here for this. He's been Fantasy Gold and two
Speaker 1: and a half games played so far, he's averaging one
Speaker 1: and a half rushing touchdowns per game. The Titans have
Speaker 1: allowed at least two hundred and ninety passing yards and
Speaker 1: are multiple passing touchdowns in three or four games, and
Speaker 1: they are one of six teams allowing a completion percentage
Speaker 1: north of seventy percent. I think I think Thoris had
Speaker 1: these matchups in both games that you've had against the Titans.
Speaker 1: They're great basically, like short of it is, They're a
Speaker 1: pass funneling team that's great against the run, and they'll
Speaker 1: just they'll get they'll they'll take their chances in the past, correct,
Speaker 1: and Anthony Richardson should be good enough to run against
Speaker 1: them anyway and get a little something done through the air.
Speaker 4: Here. Just think about when Anthony Richardson actually gets good
Speaker 4: too home, then what right he's gonna break the sport he.
Speaker 1: Might he's breaking Fantasy scoring systems right now. Michael Pittman
Speaker 1: locks his logs in with a B grade. He runs
Speaker 1: from all over the field and has mostly plus individual
Speaker 1: matchups wherever he runs from a run against cornerback Sean
Speaker 1: Murphy bunting often he's just okay, averaging allowing a forty
Speaker 1: excuse me, seventy seven percent completion rate. But he's a
Speaker 1: great tackler, and he's also a physical cornerback, so he
Speaker 1: can match Pittman's size and toughness. So I don't say
Speaker 1: big plays coming for Pittman, but I see enough receptions
Speaker 1: to keep him comfortably startable. He's also, by the way, Pittman,
Speaker 1: you don't think the Colts is a high volume offense.
Speaker 1: He's the fourth most targeted player in the NFL. Michael
Speaker 1: Pittman in the red zone. Excuse me, a little asteris
Speaker 1: on that? How about this angle? Alec Pierce? What are
Speaker 1: we talking about? Alec Pierce?
Speaker 3: How about this?
Speaker 1: He's on the field for ninety five percent of the
Speaker 1: snaps for the Colts, ninety five. He runs the majority
Speaker 1: of his routes on the side of the field of
Speaker 1: struggling cornerback Christian Fulton, who's allowing a seventy eight percent
Speaker 1: completion rate and a lot of big plays, including two
Speaker 1: forty yard completions in his coverage. Already, Fulton ranks as
Speaker 1: cornerback one hundred and fifty one by Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 1: and Pierce says the fifth longest a dot in the
Speaker 1: league at seventeen yards per pass. I think they connect
Speaker 1: this week. Here's your official dart throw of it. Alec
Speaker 1: Pierce should have made him might take a chance on
Speaker 1: me wide receiver problem.
Speaker 5: He's gonna have at least one long TOUCHDOW in this game.
Speaker 5: I feel like I like that angle.
Speaker 1: I hope you're right. How about some underneath stuff for
Speaker 1: Josh downs while.
Speaker 5: We're at it.
Speaker 1: By the way, see grade on Alick Pierce. See grade
Speaker 1: on Josh Downs getting a lot of snaps. He's on
Speaker 1: the field seventy five percent of the plays. By the way,
Speaker 1: it goes to their top three guys on the field
Speaker 1: all the time. Nobody else sees the field as a
Speaker 1: wide receiver. On the Colts, he's going to face off
Speaker 1: against cornerback Roger McCreary in the slot. McCreary's there's nothing
Speaker 1: special giving up seventy two percent completion rate. Slot receivers Keenan, Allen,
Speaker 1: Rashid Shaheed, Elijah Moore have all posted very good games
Speaker 1: against the Titans so far this year. See grade for
Speaker 1: Josh downs. And now the tricky part, what do you
Speaker 1: do with Jonathan Taylor now? Well, head coach Shane Steiken
Speaker 1: would asked if Taylor was going to see the field, said,
Speaker 1: we'll see, but he's a stone cold liar, because well
Speaker 1: know they're putting their best player on the field. That's
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor. He's healthy. That ankle, to me, is not
Speaker 1: a worry. This is an ankle injury he ran on
Speaker 1: last year. I think the ankle is not even an
Speaker 1: issue here. I suspect Jonathan Taylor's going to touch the
Speaker 1: ball twelve to fifteen times.
Speaker 5: So even against a good.
Speaker 1: Run defense, which the Titans are they ranked fifth best,
Speaker 1: and run stuff win rate they ranked sixth, and tackling
Speaker 1: by Pro Football Focus, it's still Jonathan Taylor. I believe
Speaker 1: he sees the majority of the work here. And I'm
Speaker 1: putting a C grade on him in his first game back,
Speaker 1: and I'm starting him in some of my guillotine leagues.
Speaker 1: I'm putting my neck on the line. Yere Bro lead
Speaker 1: backs are averaging a paltry forty two yards per game
Speaker 1: against the Titans again, It's a tough spot, but I
Speaker 1: believe Jonathan Taylor's back and healthy, and I can't. I'm
Speaker 1: not benching him. You can decide if you've got the
Speaker 1: stones for that or ovaries for that for that matter,
Speaker 1: Zach Boss drop him yet, you know, let's just see
Speaker 1: how this thing plays out. But I think he moves
Speaker 1: to a committee Sipe type role as a number two back.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: It feels like an eight touch game coming and we're
Speaker 1: not going to start him against a good defense in that.
Speaker 5: Spot, all right.
Speaker 1: Next up the Jets taking on Denver Man. We have
Speaker 1: already accounted for almost every part of the Jets and
Speaker 1: take a chance on me.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Back all the ones that you wouldn't normally start, that's right,
Speaker 4: you're starting them, and all the ones that you normally start,
Speaker 4: you're also starting now.
Speaker 1: So I think it just leaves Breece Hall and Garrett Wilson, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Breece Hall gets a B grade for much of
Speaker 4: the same reasons I liked Dalvin Cook. It would be
Speaker 4: an A grade if I could trust the workload actually
Speaker 4: increasing for Breese, but still could be a split. Garrett
Speaker 4: Wilson easy a grade in this The Broncos have allowed
Speaker 4: five different wide receivers the top sixty yards of this season.
Speaker 4: Four of those have scored a touchdown, including eight for
Speaker 4: one point thirty one and one to DJ Moore last week.
Speaker 4: Wilson has seen eight, nine and fourteen targets and Zach
Speaker 4: will since three starts and Church mentioned Denver corner Damari
Speaker 4: Mathis who's horrible. Wilson will score this week, so he's
Speaker 4: getting an A grade. On the Denver side. Javonte Williams
Speaker 4: is trending in the right direction, as he went from
Speaker 4: a no show in practice on Wednesday to limit it
Speaker 4: in Thursday. Problem is he's splitting work with samaj p
Speaker 4: Ryan and Waiver Wire Darling Jaliel McLoughlin. McLoughlin has both
Speaker 4: Denver running back touchdowns this year. Even if william goes,
Speaker 4: I think this might be McLoughlin's game here. He was
Speaker 4: Brian's premature speculation in Week two. By the way, that
Speaker 4: was a great call by Brian. Last week, McLoughlin had
Speaker 4: one hundred and four total yards in a score on
Speaker 4: ten touches. The Jets have allowed the fifth most combo
Speaker 4: yards to opposing backs this year at one hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty two per game. So if Williams does go, I
Speaker 4: guess they both get a C grade, But if Javante
Speaker 4: is ruled out, McLoughlin moves up to a B grade.
Speaker 6: In my mind, I look back at my draft rankings.
Speaker 6: I had him compared to Philip Lindsay interestingly.
Speaker 1: And interesting I can see that comparison okay.
Speaker 4: From a fantasy perspective, Russell Wilson hasn't been horrible multiple
Speaker 4: touchdowns in three or four games, is thrown for over
Speaker 4: three hundred yards and two of the last three. Problem is,
Speaker 4: the Jets defense has been really good against the pass.
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott's two hundred and fifty five yards and two
Speaker 4: scores is the high water mark against the Jets in
Speaker 4: both categories, and they just held Patrick Mahomes to two
Speaker 4: oh three and one touchdown last week. It's barely a
Speaker 4: C grade for Russell Wilson, and it's only because the
Speaker 4: Broncos have been trailing big in so many games that
Speaker 4: it seems like the game script will dictate that he
Speaker 4: has to throw. As for the receiverers sauce, Gardners stays
Speaker 4: on the left side and that's the no toss sauce zone.
Speaker 4: He'll see Courtland Sutton most often. So Sutton is on
Speaker 4: the bench, Jerry Judy travels from the slot most often.
Speaker 4: That's the best matchup against the other Michael Carter, but
Speaker 4: he's been pretty good this year too. On one hundred
Speaker 4: and twelve slot snaps, Carter has only allowed five receptions
Speaker 4: on the air. So I've got all the Broncos wide
Speaker 4: receiver on the bench, and I don't think that you're
Speaker 4: starting Adam Troutman. But the Jets have allowed the most
Speaker 4: touchdowns to the tight end position this year with four.
Speaker 1: What happened to Adam Troutman? You know, it seemed like
Speaker 1: that Week one he was involved in the passing game,
Speaker 1: and then but Dulsich was healthy. Then then Dulsich gets
Speaker 1: knocked out, and then they like, no passes to Troutman
Speaker 1: since then.
Speaker 5: So weird, It's so weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's been another in a series of tight end
Speaker 1: disappointments for this season. Definitely last one for this segment,
Speaker 1: Dallas taking on San Francisco in a titanic battle of
Speaker 1: great defenses. Let's start on the Dallas side, by a
Speaker 1: wide margin. This is the best defense they've faced all year.
Speaker 1: What do you like on the Dallas side?
Speaker 5: Not Dak Prescott.
Speaker 6: Now you're keeping Dak on the bench only QB twenty
Speaker 6: four in fantasy points per game. How about that second
Speaker 6: worst with a five point nine to a dot. The
Speaker 6: forty nine Ers course have the great pass rush and
Speaker 6: they've been tough on opposing quarterback this season, both in
Speaker 6: fantasy and on the field. So you have to keep
Speaker 6: Dak on your bench. Ceedee Lamb. I'll give him a
Speaker 6: b CD's wide receiver sixteen in fantasy. He's close to
Speaker 6: that number seventeen in yards per rout run this game
Speaker 6: against obviously a good forty nine Ers defense. He's Ceedee
Speaker 6: Lamb's gonna be locking horns with forty nine Ers. Cornerback
Speaker 6: Isjiah Oliver, who's only allowed a sixty two point nine
Speaker 6: passer rating against this year. You have to keep Brandon
Speaker 6: Cooks and Michael Gallup on your bench. Dak isn't throwing
Speaker 6: enough to support a second wide receiver in fantasy.
Speaker 5: It just is what it is.
Speaker 6: Jake ferguson the tight end, We're gonna give him a
Speaker 6: c Okay tight end eight so far in fantasy doing great, Yeah,
Speaker 6: head number one in the league amongst tight ends in
Speaker 6: red zone targets. Oh, Jake Ferguson surprising stat But Jake Ferguson,
Speaker 6: he's sort of like the Cadarius Tony of tight ends.
Speaker 6: The targets wildly vacillate for him. Came in and game
Speaker 6: out because of the playing time, right, I mean, he's
Speaker 6: he's gotten target when he's on the field, But like
Speaker 6: the snapshare is just pretty low. Super volatile fantasy player
Speaker 6: who's dependent on those red zone targets. I'm gonna give
Speaker 6: them a seed just on the upside, but it can
Speaker 6: go either way with Ferguson, that deserves to be said.
Speaker 6: The other thing about this the matchup for Ferguson, forty
Speaker 6: nine Er is very good against opposing tight ends. They
Speaker 6: allow the sixth fewest receiving yards in the NFL to
Speaker 6: that position. Tony Pollard, we're gonna give him a great
Speaker 6: b in this game, running back four in expected fantasy
Speaker 6: points per game, six spots higher than he's running back
Speaker 6: ten right now in the overall scoring. The Cowboys offensive
Speaker 6: line hasn't been fully healthy all season long, but it
Speaker 6: may be this week. But of course, on the other
Speaker 6: side of it, the forty nine Ers run defense is
Speaker 6: super legit. They allow the second lowest explosive run rate,
Speaker 6: So they're gonna bottle up Pollard a little bit. Can
Speaker 6: we get the efficiency, Can we get some of the
Speaker 6: receiving stuff, We'll see if.
Speaker 5: Can we get a touchdown? We'll see about that.
Speaker 6: Given Tony Pollard a be moving on to the forty
Speaker 6: nine Ers side, Christian McCaffrey a RB one and Fantasy
Speaker 6: RB one and our Hearts Weekly must start Brandon Ayuk
Speaker 6: given him a Grade A wide Receiver nine in Fantasy
Speaker 6: so far. This is a smash matchup for Ayuk. We
Speaker 6: talked about this a couple of times already this year.
Speaker 6: Ayuk is the forty nine Ers man coverage beater three
Speaker 6: point eight yards per route run against man. This year,
Speaker 6: the Cowboys are super duper man heavy in their coverage. Yeah,
Speaker 6: Ayuk's gonna smoke them. Deebo, Samuel, he's gonna get a
Speaker 6: CE from me. Zero targets for Deebo last week, despite
Speaker 6: running eighty one percent of the roads.
Speaker 1: Well, I didn't realize he was that active. It was
Speaker 1: all decoy with those Yeah, all.
Speaker 6: A decoy roll banged up a course with he had
Speaker 6: a tweak knee played through. He had the rib injury before.
Speaker 6: We'll see if this is indicative of anything or not.
Speaker 6: But Deebo was taken off the injury report officially on Friday. Yeah,
Speaker 6: So where are we gonna get another decoy week? Does
Speaker 6: you get to play more you know, or get more
Speaker 6: targets that I'm not sure of, But I will say
Speaker 6: in terms of the it's an IU game because of
Speaker 6: the coverage tendencies of the opponent as opposed to Debo.
Speaker 6: Just outside of the stuff that I just said, forty
Speaker 6: nine ers don't throw d ball. The ball nearly as
Speaker 6: much against man coverage. Deebo is the guy who kills
Speaker 6: zone coverage. I'm only giving Deebo a seat in this game.
Speaker 6: Breck Perdy, I love him this week he is might
Speaker 6: take a chance on me quarterback. I think he's gonna
Speaker 6: have a really big game. George Kittle Gonna give him
Speaker 6: a grade of B. Kittle had the seven catches for
Speaker 6: ninety yards in Week three, but thirty or less receiving
Speaker 6: yards in the other games so far, has a twenty
Speaker 6: three percent first re target scheer though versus man like
Speaker 6: the Cowboys are, so I think the targets could tick
Speaker 6: up here for George Kittle. Especially if deebo Is isn't
Speaker 6: one hundred percent despite me taking off the injury or right,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 1: We may find out this Dallas defense, which looks dominating,
Speaker 1: it's got a little bit of fraud to them. Right,
Speaker 1: They faced Daniel Jones, Zach Wilson, Josh Dobbs and Mac
Speaker 1: Jones Bailey's appy combo planner. Yeah, you know, granted they
Speaker 1: forced though some of those starters. Know bench some of
Speaker 1: those starters in doing it, but you know this is
Speaker 1: their first test against a real offense.
Speaker 5: It's a different thing here, for sure.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely, when we come back, premature speculation, guys, you
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Speaker 1: to pick up after this weekend's games. Find out who
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Speaker 5: We come back.
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Speaker 4: I think you'll be glad if you pick up Rashie
Speaker 4: Rice before this week's game against the Vikings. Rice. By
Speaker 4: the way, thorneistrom original forty six percent rostered on sleeper
Speaker 4: has seen twelve targets over the last two weeks as
Speaker 4: his role has expanded from week two to week three
Speaker 4: to week four. And there's a lot of guys on
Speaker 4: this roster from a wide receiver perspective, but Rice is
Speaker 4: the only one who's seen some consistent growth over the
Speaker 4: past three weeks. And if you're going to speculate on
Speaker 4: a cheaps wide receiver being viable at all this year,
Speaker 4: he's my choice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why pick other receivers we know aren't reliable? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know MVS right, you never you know,
Speaker 1: good luck guessing that one. Game a month when you
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Speaker 4: Oopsy drops the Kadarius Tony.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, No more like Oopsy there goes my
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Speaker 6: This is my for my superflexers out there, and I
Speaker 6: sort of, you know, hinted at this one earlier when
Speaker 6: we were talking about Desmond Ritter and my expectation that
Speaker 6: he's going to get the hook. Taylor Heineke is my
Speaker 6: prespeculation this week. If Desmond Rider plays poorly, I believe
Speaker 6: he is going to get benched. Heinike thirty four hundred
Speaker 6: and nineteen passing yards and twenty one touchdowns of fifteen
Speaker 6: starts back in twenty twenty one for the Commanders. In
Speaker 6: super flex leagues, Heineke could be startable as a quarterback
Speaker 6: two in his good matchups. And here is where I'm
Speaker 6: going with that. The Falcons have a bunch of them
Speaker 6: coming up super favorable schedule over the next five games.
Speaker 6: The Falcons have a plus matchups against the Titans, Vikings,
Speaker 6: and Cardinals in that stretch. Again, if Ritter struggles this week,
Speaker 6: it's Taylor Heineke time.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna riff off of that and go with another
Speaker 1: veteran quarterback that could get moved from his team to
Speaker 1: a quarterback needy team, and that's Andy Dalton. You know,
Speaker 1: if something happens, let's look at here. I'll give you
Speaker 1: four teams that are possible destinations. Well three and a half.
Speaker 1: I don't think your I think your Falcons just go
Speaker 1: to Heineke. I don't think they would actually acquire Andy Dalton.
Speaker 1: How about the Patriots in desperate trouble at quarterback. How
Speaker 1: about the Jets trying to keep their seats alive, right yep?
Speaker 1: How about the Steelers where they might want to decide
Speaker 1: to just sit Kenny Pickett for a while.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're getting close to yeah, or just anything.
Speaker 1: Happens to any of the other starting quarterbacks in the league,
Speaker 1: somebody gets hurt on a on a contending team, Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton makes the most sense. Carolina is fully invested in
Speaker 1: getting Bryce Young all the reps that he can get.
Speaker 1: Dalton could walk into basically any locker room and be
Speaker 1: an effective starter one week later. Effective not great. So again,
Speaker 1: two quarterback leagues, super flex leagues. If you're looking for
Speaker 1: a stash guy, just to see how this thing plays out.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton is acquirable for probably like a fourth round pick,
Speaker 1: so you could afford to get him. He doesn't cost
Speaker 1: you a lot on the salary cap, and he could
Speaker 1: find himself in a landing spot that's better.
Speaker 4: Sory. Are you saying he's a mustache? Oh?
Speaker 3: I like it? I like it?
Speaker 5: Well done?
Speaker 3: Or not?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Okay, let's start back to the matchups.
Speaker 4: Matt I apologize.
Speaker 1: That's fine. Ram's taking on Philadelphia, and everybody wants to know.
Speaker 1: Do I start Cooper Cup?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think you do.
Speaker 4: We can start over on the Rams side. Cooper Cup
Speaker 4: does return this week. How do we feel about this
Speaker 4: for Puka Nakua?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 4: In my mind I think they're both startable with B
Speaker 4: grades here, even Cup right out of the gate. Both
Speaker 4: of them are in the breakfast club with Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 4: so I don't think Nakua and his targets dry up here.
Speaker 4: He's probably not going to get twenty targets like you
Speaker 4: did in week two, but ten targets seems reasonable. That's
Speaker 4: what he had last week when he had nine catches
Speaker 4: one hundred and sixty three yards in a score the Eagles.
Speaker 4: By the way, bottom ten in receptions, yards and touchdowns
Speaker 4: allowed to the wide receiver position, so it's a fine
Speaker 4: start here for Cup as well. I think Atwell's probably
Speaker 4: the guy who loses the target share here. I'd leave
Speaker 4: him on the bench, but fire up Cooper Cup and
Speaker 4: Pooka Nakua with B grades. Tyler Higbee, also getting a
Speaker 4: B grade, averaging six and a half targets per week,
Speaker 4: faces one of the worst tight end defenses in the
Speaker 4: league in Philly. Again, Eagles are bottom ten in receptions,
Speaker 4: yards and touchdowns to the tight end position. Game script
Speaker 4: probably dictates that the Rams are playing from behind in
Speaker 4: this one too, and passing a lot, which is why
Speaker 4: I like Matthew Stafford with a B grade. It's true
Speaker 4: that he only has three passing scores on the season,
Speaker 4: but this is the first time that Stafford and Cooper
Speaker 4: Cup have been healthy and on the field together since
Speaker 4: like the Super Bowl two years ago, so I really
Speaker 4: like this. The Eagles are allowing an average of two
Speaker 4: hundred and seventy nine yards and two and a quarter
Speaker 4: passing scores per game to opposing quarterbacks. It's tough to
Speaker 4: run on them, and the game scripts, like I said,
Speaker 4: have dictated the teams have had to pass. Why I
Speaker 4: don't like Kyron Williams this week? The Eagles are top
Speaker 4: five in yards per carry allowed at two point nine
Speaker 4: combo yards allowed at only eighty four per game, and
Speaker 4: they've only given up one touchdown to the position this season.
Speaker 4: And we mentioned it's probably the cell high moment for Williams.
Speaker 4: I think this is it right here. We saw ninety
Speaker 4: nine percent of the running back snaps go to Williams
Speaker 4: in weeks two and three when they exiled cam Akers.
Speaker 4: But Ronnie Rivers came in last week and picked up
Speaker 4: twenty seven percent of the snaps. That number might continue
Speaker 4: to grow. I'll give Kyrin the C grade, but I
Speaker 4: don't like it, and it's about the lowest C grade
Speaker 4: there is. Like if there was a lot of guys
Speaker 4: who are C grades, he'd be the lowest one in
Speaker 4: my rankings. Three's there.
Speaker 1: He's the most SA of the seas, bottom of the seas.
Speaker 4: Like the most D of the seas. Maybe on the
Speaker 4: other side, Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown, I think they're
Speaker 4: obvious A grades. Even in a somewhat difficult matchup DeVonta Smith.
Speaker 4: He still gets a B grade too. He's been seeing
Speaker 4: about twenty percent of his team's target share, and he's
Speaker 4: got thirty seven percent of the team's air yards. Kobe
Speaker 4: Durant and Akello Witherspoon have been well below average, and
Speaker 4: Smith runs from everywhere on the field, so he gets
Speaker 4: to see both of them. A ton. Dallas Goddard just
Speaker 4: a C grade. He's averaging just four point seventy five
Speaker 4: target per game. Yeah, it's brutal.
Speaker 1: These guys are gonna fish with like one hundred catches
Speaker 1: for one hundred catches for four hundred yards on the season.
Speaker 4: Shane Steichen took all of the plays that were for
Speaker 4: Dallas Goddard, brought him to Indy.
Speaker 1: He did and where Jelanie Woods. Some day it's gonna
Speaker 1: come off ir and dominate, I swear.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Speaking of Indy, the three nondescript Colts tight ends combined
Speaker 4: for six catches, one hundred and seven yards and two
Speaker 4: scores last week against this team. That's what's booing Dallas
Speaker 4: Goddard here. The Rams defense not that great against the
Speaker 4: tight end DeAndre Swift. It's not the easiest matchup, but
Speaker 4: he still gets a be He's seeing about two thirds
Speaker 4: of the snaps over the last three weeks, and that's
Speaker 4: vaulted him into the top ten of fantasy runners because
Speaker 4: of it. However, the Rams aren't giving up a ton
Speaker 4: to opposing They're seventh in the league in total yards
Speaker 4: allowed to opposing backs at about ninety five per game,
Speaker 4: and they've only allowed nine total receptions to back nine times.
Speaker 4: I was on that one. Good. Oh, you were totally
Speaker 4: ready there. That's the best in the league. So DeAndre
Speaker 4: Swift will be you know, it's okay, It's okay, match.
Speaker 1: I keep forgetting my puka music.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is just relaxing. I like this a lot.
Speaker 5: It is nice.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, why can't we do Fantasy Football Weekly live
Speaker 1: from Oahu?
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, do you think we could get
Speaker 4: the station to get a trip like like they do
Speaker 4: for the Power Trip Morning show out to Vegas. We
Speaker 4: could get a Hawaii Fantasy Football Weekly training camp out there.
Speaker 1: I don't see why we can bring the Pro Bowl back? Yeah,
Speaker 1: to do the Pro Bowl absolutely. The Monday night er
Speaker 1: is Green Bay at Las Vegas. You want to check
Speaker 1: the status of the absolutely wrecked Green Bay offensive line.
Speaker 1: David Baktiari God bless him. Five knee surgeries he's got
Speaker 1: another one coming up. It'll be a fifth knee surgery
Speaker 1: in three years. Awful situation. He's on ir now. But
Speaker 1: also you got a monitor Elton Jenkins and John Runyan
Speaker 1: who both may not play in this Monday nighter. If
Speaker 1: they don't, and I've dropped all these packers one letter
Speaker 1: grade because of these offensive line worries. If between now
Speaker 1: and Monday, you find out that Jenkins and Runyon are going,
Speaker 1: then by all means upgrade these guys. But that's the
Speaker 1: presumption I've got going into this one. Let me start
Speaker 1: with the wide receivers. Romeo Dobbs, nobody talking about a
Speaker 1: top fifteen receiver in most fantasy formats. He's just a
Speaker 1: weekly starter. You just start him every week. Now then
Speaker 1: an obvious one against a bad raider secondary. This week,
Speaker 1: he runs predominantly on the left side of the field,
Speaker 1: which puts him up against something called Jacoryan Bennett, a
Speaker 1: rookie who's learning some tough lessons on the fly. Bennett
Speaker 1: giving a big plays with the reception of at least
Speaker 1: thirty two yards in three of four games and allowing
Speaker 1: an opposer passer rating of one hundred and thirty eight.
Speaker 1: Romeo Dobbs b great in the one. Christian Watson on
Speaker 1: the field for twenty six snaps last week in his
Speaker 1: return from the hamstring injury. He's still on the injury list,
Speaker 1: so I think I'm gonna show a little more caution
Speaker 1: with him with just the C grade because he's still
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent and I don't know that the
Speaker 1: snap crount is going to vault. It'll go up, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if it vaults up. Last year, he
Speaker 1: was averaging more like fifty snaps a game, so hopefully
Speaker 1: he can get closer to that point here. Watson's also
Speaker 1: going to see some of the Jacorey and Bennett guy
Speaker 1: along with gambling cornerback Marcus Peters in this one. They
Speaker 1: both allow a passer ratings so above one hundred and twelve,
Speaker 1: and both have allowed a touchdown in their coverage already.
Speaker 1: Last year, four of Watson's six touchdowns came versus man.
Speaker 1: Last season, Las Vegas cornerbacks play man on about a
Speaker 1: third of their plays, So there's going to be some
Speaker 1: opportunities here, you know, you know, the dal Christian Watson
Speaker 1: is a boomerbust guy C grade. Hopefully it works out
Speaker 1: I'm keeping Jaden Reid in my starting lineup. The rookie
Speaker 1: didn't see any loss of playing time when Christian Watson
Speaker 1: came on the field last week because he runs from
Speaker 1: the slot and that puts him up against cornerback Amik Robertson,
Speaker 1: who got hurt in Week one, then came back last
Speaker 1: week and probably gave up fifty five yards and a
Speaker 1: touchdown in his coverage. Jayden Reid C grade. So if
Speaker 1: I've got b's and c's and these receivers, it means
Speaker 1: I like Jordan Love at least some. He's NFL's bottom
Speaker 1: ranked passer by completion percentage, below guys like Zach Wilson
Speaker 1: and Kenny Pickett and Desmond Ritter, but Jordan loves a
Speaker 1: highly inconsistent passer being offset a lot by his scrambling,
Speaker 1: which is netted him twenty yards and half a rushing
Speaker 1: touchdown per game. And the Raiders have allowed multiple touchdowns
Speaker 1: to every opposing quarterback, including two rushing touchdowns last week.
Speaker 1: So between air and ground, I still like Jordan Love
Speaker 1: a lot B grade here and again, if the offensive
Speaker 1: line clicks in with some good news on Jenkins and Runyon,
Speaker 1: we could even see an A grade on Jordan Love
Speaker 1: In this game, AJ Dillon's dead to us. AJ Dillon
Speaker 1: just isn't good. He's a big guy who does not
Speaker 1: break any tackles and has got no wiggle, no footwork.
Speaker 1: He's he's on the bench, and he's a drop candidate
Speaker 1: for your team. Because even when Jones misses games, you
Speaker 1: can't start him. He doesn't do anything in those situations.
Speaker 1: I'm totally out on him. Aaron Jones should if there's
Speaker 1: any justice in the world, Aaron Jones should get the
Speaker 1: vast majority of the work in this offense. Now, he
Speaker 1: had nowhere to run last week due to the Packers'
Speaker 1: offensive line. That was a wreck, and that worries me
Speaker 1: here again to this week. So I've only got the
Speaker 1: C grad on Aaron Jones. No Packer running back has
Speaker 1: surpassed fifty five rushing yards this season. The Raiders have
Speaker 1: held three or four starting runners to sixty five rushing
Speaker 1: yards or less. So hopefully Jones is hamstring adequately healed.
Speaker 1: They need to give him a lot of use. I'd
Speaker 1: like to think it's going to happen here, but there's
Speaker 1: still a lot of variables and I can only go
Speaker 1: see grad on Aaron Jones. Josh Jacobs going to the
Speaker 1: Las Vegas side has got Pro Football focused. His third
Speaker 1: highest receiving grade among running backs despite posting the tenth
Speaker 1: worst yards over expectation by next Gen Stats. He saw
Speaker 1: a career high eleven targets last week from Aiden O'Connell,
Speaker 1: so the shift of the rookie was not a downgrade.
Speaker 1: O'conne will be on the bench here. They have cleared
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo for this game, which is great news. Garoppolo's
Speaker 1: played pretty well in this offense and thrown way more
Speaker 1: downfield that we thought he was capable of more on Jacobs.
Speaker 1: Packers allowing the fifth most rushing yards the fifth most
Speaker 1: receiving yards to opposing running backs. That's one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty total yards per game, second worst in the league.
Speaker 1: So if one hundred and sixty yards are coming to
Speaker 1: the Raiders backs, most of that's going to Josh Jacobs
Speaker 1: a grade. You'll need to watch DeVante Adams' status here.
Speaker 1: He did not practice Thursday or Friday with his shoulder injury,
Speaker 1: so you'll have to give that some consideration here. The
Speaker 1: good news is Jimmy Garoppolo's back and he's not dinking
Speaker 1: and Duncan Adams tied for second interceptions of ten or
Speaker 1: more yards. He's also number one in red zone targets.
Speaker 1: If he plays, He's a B grade with the shoulder injury.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo B grade. The Packers have gotten a lot
Speaker 1: of heat on opposing opposing opponents, telling twenty two quarterback
Speaker 1: pressures per game. But Garoppolo just survived J.
Speaker 5: TJ.
Speaker 1: Watt and the Steelers in his last game, and Jay R.
Speaker 1: Alexander may not go in this one. So we'll give
Speaker 1: a B grade to Jimmy Garoppolo and his C grade
Speaker 1: for Jacoby Myers, who's emerged as the clear number two
Speaker 1: and would get an upgrade if Devanta Adams can't go.
Speaker 3: Who.
Speaker 1: That's about it, everybody, Wow, lots of stuff to get through.
Speaker 1: Best of luck in the first of the bye weeks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, go get them.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you weren't playing against Justin Fields DJ Moore and
Speaker 1: if you were, good luck, and we hope this show helped.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you a week everybody.
Speaker 5: Bye bye.
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