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Speaker 2: Now along with the guys from Guillotine Leagues dot com,
Speaker 2: here's your host, Paul Jargian.
Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Chargian.
Speaker 1: Co hosts today are Scott Fish and Matt Harrison. Hey, guys, Hey, Hey,
Speaker 1: it's exciting to have you here. It's exciting because this
Speaker 1: is This is not the toughest bye week in terms
Speaker 1: of quantity of teams. This is the toughest bye week
Speaker 1: by quality of offense.
Speaker 4: That rams offense is just.
Speaker 1: That's not a half bad off well not last repin.
Speaker 5: But yeah, there's some starters, there's.
Speaker 4: A lot of isn't already on another team. I'm pretty
Speaker 4: sure he's on a new.
Speaker 1: When they signed Carson Wentz and they drop brettin I think,
Speaker 1: which would have been smart. Right, Good Lord? Was that bad? Wow?
Speaker 1: You know what's not bad?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Seahawks. He's on the Seahawks, the Sea already, that's it.
Speaker 4: One week later.
Speaker 1: What's not bad?
Speaker 4: This show?
Speaker 1: This show isn't bad. Oh, we are here to get
Speaker 1: you ready to find a bunch of great replacements for
Speaker 1: your starting players. We're going to go through all the
Speaker 1: games Fantasy Football Weekly style, with all the letter grades
Speaker 1: you're used to hearing. That would be ABC and bench
Speaker 1: that would be the grades. Take a chance on me
Speaker 1: nine players not normally in your starting lineup. We'll answer
Speaker 1: three tough questions, and we'll give you premature speculation, including
Speaker 1: a familiar name that's been that you haven't heard from
Speaker 1: it a little while. Oh but he's back. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll find out who that is. I don't even know
Speaker 1: who it is, no super scarre for reasons. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes people ask me, like, what how you pick the
Speaker 1: order of teams that you do, and why do you put.
Speaker 5: Different spot in alphabetical I.
Speaker 1: Don't think in Let's go back to history, the twenty
Speaker 1: nine year history of this show.
Speaker 4: I did this on purpose.
Speaker 1: We've ever had the Monday night game. We did that
Speaker 1: last week or the week before as our first game
Speaker 1: off four headed first. It was last week, just last week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, new tradition here Weekly got good lord.
Speaker 1: I think at the time I didn't know it was
Speaker 1: the Monday night.
Speaker 5: At the end of the show. We were like, I
Speaker 5: think this is the Monday nighter and we looked at
Speaker 5: it when no, the first one.
Speaker 1: We did was good Lord, I thought it'd be fun
Speaker 1: falling apart, Broncos taking on the Bills. Suddenly less dorm Mattie,
Speaker 1: Broncos on the Bills. It's in Buffalo, Scott, right, what
Speaker 1: you expecting for the Denver side of this game, Well.
Speaker 4: Let's start on the passing side. I man, it's been
Speaker 4: under two hundred yards for four straight games from Russell Wilson,
Speaker 4: but he's been scoring at a really decent clip this year.
Speaker 4: He's just been blowing out the toilets in his mansion.
Speaker 4: Sixteen touchdowns this year. What was that a funny way
Speaker 4: to phrase it or something? Sixteen touchdowns to tech toilets.
Speaker 5: Phrase?
Speaker 4: Yes, Mac Jones, Baker Mayfield, and Joe Burrow all just
Speaker 4: tagged the Buffalo Bills their opponent this week for multiple
Speaker 4: scores in the last three weeks. Game scripts should be
Speaker 4: in favor over US here and the pass catchers as
Speaker 4: it's the middle of the pack past d and they
Speaker 4: should be trailing most of the ways. So I have
Speaker 4: a se grade on Russell Wilson. I have c grades
Speaker 4: on Curtland, Sutton and Jerry Judy as well. Sutton, he
Speaker 4: just keeps scoring. He sees forty four percent of the
Speaker 4: team's end zone targets, which.
Speaker 1: Is just huge.
Speaker 4: That's an insane clip and it makes sense when you
Speaker 4: look that he's scored in six different games, including three straight.
Speaker 4: He's going to get the tougher matchup against Razwell Douglass there,
Speaker 4: but he's the target leader. Scores a ton. Broncos are
Speaker 4: gonna have to pass a lot. I got a C
Speaker 4: grade there. Jerry Judy with a C grade also five
Speaker 4: plus targets every week. Usually a three catch guy usually
Speaker 4: needs to make a play, but he again gamescript and
Speaker 4: the better matchup against Taron Johnson in the slot, who's
Speaker 4: giving up a one hundred and twenty point seven passer
Speaker 4: rating against it.
Speaker 1: Taron Johnson used to be a really everyone's.
Speaker 4: Well you'll see that. It feels like everyone's will one
Speaker 4: like three one year we'll be talking about, Oh, he's
Speaker 4: got this matchup, and then two years later, oh, he
Speaker 4: gets this guy.
Speaker 5: Yay, he's not Taron Johnson anymore. He's Torn Johnson. Boy,
Speaker 5: Torn Johnson sounds really bad. Oh boy, I'm sorry Brian.
Speaker 4: That sounds. That sounds. It sounds like something that could
Speaker 4: happen to Russell Wilson while he's blowing out those toilets
Speaker 4: in his manchine. Anyway, let's go over to the rud game.
Speaker 4: It's a B or C. There was the sea on
Speaker 4: Jerry Judy.
Speaker 1: Yes, considering he's got like one touchdown, I.
Speaker 4: Know he's if there was a B to B play,
Speaker 4: Todd be Corland soon. But I gave him a really
Speaker 4: strong safety Javanta Williams I've given. I'm giving the B
Speaker 4: grade two. Since returning from injury, Williams has started ramping
Speaker 4: up the role each week ten touches to eighteen touches
Speaker 4: thirty touches last week, increased pass game work. The Buffalo
Speaker 4: Rundy isn't the one from a few years ago. They're
Speaker 4: bottom six and receptions and receiving yards allowed to backs fifth,
Speaker 4: highest yards per carry, tenth, most rush yards, twelfth, most
Speaker 4: rushing touchdowns. They're not They're not a completely stellar rundy anymore. Uh,
Speaker 4: the game script's not gonna be in Williams's favor, but
Speaker 4: I'm giving him the B grade here. He gets a
Speaker 4: lot of that pass game work that works really well
Speaker 4: against the Bills and a day actually wouldn't even shock me.
Speaker 4: Here over on the other side, Bills, Josh Allen's got
Speaker 4: an auto a really until he proves this wrong, multiple
Speaker 4: scores in all but one game.
Speaker 1: Steph Tiggs, Steph Diggs. A.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's noteworthy his low worst fantasy day is thirteen
Speaker 4: point six fantasy points in PPR. Like that's he doesn't miss,
Speaker 4: he's gonna get certain, But until he doesn't show up,
Speaker 4: I'm going to keep betting on him. I'm with you,
Speaker 4: Gabe Davis, by the way, getting close to auto, very close,
Speaker 4: very close.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead with with Gabe Davis.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The last two weeks has had the blow up game
Speaker 1: and the and then the zero catch get.
Speaker 4: Which it was sandwiched by goose eggs.
Speaker 1: Actually that's a great point, yeah, racing fantasy owners, Yeah, yep.
Speaker 4: And Shakira is stealing work since Knox's has left, so
Speaker 4: I have him on the bench. Dn Kin gad as
Speaker 4: you mentioned a grade here leads NFL and catch raid
Speaker 4: eighty eight point eight nine, so ninety percent of his
Speaker 4: catches there are targets he's catching. Since Knox left, He's
Speaker 4: gone eight for seventy five, five for sixty five and
Speaker 4: a score ten for eighty one. Like many defenses, the
Speaker 4: Broncos are hitting miss. But the three times they had
Speaker 4: a tight ends see more than five targets seven for
Speaker 4: eighty five and two nine for one to twenty four
Speaker 4: six for fifty eight. Coincaid's averaging like nine targets a
Speaker 4: game with nine times nine targets a game with knocks
Speaker 4: out just eight grade there nine time. James Cook is
Speaker 4: only getting the C grade. I don't care that he's
Speaker 4: playing the Denver Broncos and how big of a smash
Speaker 4: spot it is, because he's he's underperformed in a ton
Speaker 4: of every week. And you know what happens to him
Speaker 4: once they get to the opposing twenty yard line. It's
Speaker 4: like the outfield in Field of Dreams. They just don't
Speaker 4: invite him in. They're not inviting him into the red
Speaker 4: zone to do thirty four year old references work on
Speaker 4: the show. Yes, doubly the touch.
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Speaker 4: All right, So I have a C grade on him.
Speaker 4: He should have a be in this matchup for better,
Speaker 4: but he just can't. I can't do it. C grade
Speaker 4: Murray and Fournette I have on the bench because I'm
Speaker 4: worried that they're now going to split rolls. And Murray
Speaker 4: has only converted two of his nine attempts inside the five.
Speaker 4: He's not just he's just not converting.
Speaker 1: No, can't start either one. Yeah, Texans take on the Bengals.
Speaker 1: Man Texans obviously coming off an amazing game from c J.
Speaker 1: Stroud with almost five hundred passing yards of five touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable for rookie who, by the way, as amazing of
Speaker 1: all the amazing things that c J. Stroud has done
Speaker 1: this year. One interception at the halfway point of the season.
Speaker 1: Come on, are you shabby? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: On pace for twenty eight touchdowns, two interceptions, I'm unbelievable.
Speaker 1: No Nico Collins in this game, though, and that does
Speaker 1: change the things a little bit and a much tougher
Speaker 1: opponent in the Bengals secondary.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely more of a difficult task than the Buccaneers
Speaker 5: last week, since he has allowed multiple scores only twice
Speaker 5: this year, but two of the last three quarterbacks they
Speaker 5: faced have topped the three hundred yard mark, so tough
Speaker 5: to take him out of your lineup. I'm gonna give
Speaker 5: Straud a B grade in this one. My favorite of
Speaker 5: his targets this week Dalton Schultz, Oh Schultz for sure.
Speaker 5: Schultz has scored in four of his last five games
Speaker 5: and went absolutely berserk last week eleven targets, ten catches
Speaker 5: one hundred and thirty yards in a score, and in
Speaker 5: the last two weeks alone, the Bengals have allowed nine
Speaker 5: for nine to George Kittle and ten for eighty one
Speaker 5: to Dalton Kincaid. I'm giving Dalton Schultz an A grade here.
Speaker 1: I'm moving them up my rank.
Speaker 5: Yeah. All the Texans wide receivers had a great day
Speaker 5: last week, and Noah Brown was the big waiver wire
Speaker 5: target by everyone after his one point fifty three in
Speaker 5: a score. I'll throw a C grade on him this week.
Speaker 5: So he'll travel against Mike Hilton from the slot most often.
Speaker 5: Hilton allowed seven of eight of his targets against him
Speaker 5: to be completed last week, so I like Noah Brown here.
Speaker 5: Nico Collins has been ruled out as charge mentioned, so
Speaker 5: Tank Dell and even Robert Woods, who looks like he's
Speaker 5: gonna play. They both come in as a C grade.
Speaker 5: The perimeter corners for the Bengals have done a pretty
Speaker 5: decent job this year. They've only allowed two total wide
Speaker 5: receiver touchdowns in the last four games, but they have
Speaker 5: allowed six different wide receivers to get to at least
Speaker 5: sixty yards in that span, So I think sixty yards
Speaker 5: ish for Tank Dell is probably the low end. But
Speaker 5: I'm a little nervous that he can't get the touchdown here.
Speaker 5: Damian port Pierce, he's going to be out again this
Speaker 5: week with an ankle injury. So it's Devin Singletary and
Speaker 5: nearly a Bell cow Roll.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll look where that got him last year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Singletary got all but one touch last week, took
Speaker 5: all fifteen of those touches and managed twenty six yards.
Speaker 5: That's a good bucks run defense. The Bengals aren't as
Speaker 5: dominant against the run. They are allowing four point four
Speaker 5: yards per carry. That's actually seventh worst in their league,
Speaker 5: but their other stats are pretty good. We'll give Singletary
Speaker 5: the volume see here.
Speaker 1: And you know how it's fantasy football, so you know
Speaker 1: this is gonna go. Yeah, everybody, everybody pivoted to Singletary
Speaker 1: last week because Damian Pierce sucks and they did nothing,
Speaker 1: and now everybody's gonna go away from Singletary and exactly, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, that's just it's so fantasy footbeal.
Speaker 5: On the other side, Joe Mixon similarly gets all of
Speaker 5: the work for the Bengals. He usually finds the way
Speaker 5: to get to sixty to ninety total yards each week.
Speaker 5: He had fourteen carries last week against Buffalo. Every other
Speaker 5: Bengals running back has fourteen carries total on the season.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 5: Houston against the run is well what the kids call mid.
Speaker 5: So it's a B grade for mixing. Joe Burrow has
Speaker 5: seemingly been healthy for a month now, and he has
Speaker 5: ten touchdown passes in his last four games. He's getting
Speaker 5: a B grade today. It's close to an A grade.
Speaker 5: But the Texans are allowing the second fewest amount of
Speaker 5: passing scores on the season. They've only allowed seven passing
Speaker 5: touchdowns in eight games. And his wide receivers are a
Speaker 5: little bit and let's talk about them.
Speaker 1: Higgins ruled out. That's very dinged up, and we don't
Speaker 1: even know the chase is gonna go.
Speaker 5: It looks like Chase is heading in the right direction
Speaker 5: with some back tightness. I imagine he's gonna go. If
Speaker 5: he does go, I think he still gets an A
Speaker 5: grade in this one. If you need to start Tyler
Speaker 5: Boyd or Trenton Irwin, you could do that at a
Speaker 5: C level. Irwin saw ten targets in the last game
Speaker 5: that Higgins missed, and Boyd has scored and two of
Speaker 5: the last three. Plus seven different wide receivers have reached
Speaker 5: forty five yards against Houston in the past three games only,
Speaker 5: so the Texans have only allowed two touchdowns to the
Speaker 5: wide receiver.
Speaker 1: We talked about it last year. It's a really good secondary.
Speaker 4: Also, nobody talks about Derek Stingley was designated to return,
Speaker 4: and he didn't even have an injury designation on Friday.
Speaker 5: So both of the touchdowns to the wide receivers came
Speaker 5: from the slot. Though that's good for Tyler Boyd in scoring.
Speaker 5: If I felt stronger about a tight end, they'd be
Speaker 5: start worthy against the Texans bad defense. But irv Smith
Speaker 5: and Tanner Hudson and Drew Sample are getting all mixed
Speaker 5: sten together. If it was one guy, definitely startable in
Speaker 5: this matchup. But three.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I don't think we want to go there.
Speaker 1: Where we do want to go, it's to Minnesota for
Speaker 1: Saints taking on the Vikings. Lots of interesting angles in
Speaker 1: this one, particularly with the Vikings. Now with Josh Dobbs
Speaker 1: at the helm, find out what you can do with
Speaker 1: your Minnesota Vikings and nine players upon whom you can
Speaker 1: take a chance when we return to Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: Not normally in your starting lineup. We've got players to
Speaker 1: whom you could pivot. Got bye week problems, We're here
Speaker 1: to help. Maybe you liked Patrick Mahomes or two or
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. I've heard good things about those guys. You
Speaker 1: need a quarterback, Yes, let's give him some quarterbacks? Sure,
Speaker 1: pivot to beginning with Scott Fish.
Speaker 4: Sure, I decided to only pick players this week. We
Speaker 4: have a y in there named so going to limit
Speaker 4: you a lot of times, it really is. But I'm
Speaker 4: gonna start with Baker Mayfield at quarterbacks. Since Week four,
Speaker 4: Mayfield has been a Top twelve quarterback in four of
Speaker 4: the five games, multiple scores in back to back. Mayfield
Speaker 4: has four to twenty plus yard completions in three consecutive contests.
Speaker 4: In fact, in the Over the last month, he's taken
Speaker 4: thirty four shots over fifteen yards. He's just chucking it downfield.
Speaker 4: It's eight and a half per game. Titans past the
Speaker 4: is bottom ten in deep ball completions allowed. That's been
Speaker 4: a bad secondary all year. They've held down some lower
Speaker 4: end in con dunk pass attempt guys, but gave up
Speaker 4: big games to deeper throwers in high passed the temp.
Speaker 4: I like Baker this week.
Speaker 1: I thought you might go Maddie Ice.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well he's like retired. Kind of makes.
Speaker 1: Harder, but it would have fit the criteria. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: taking chance on me quarterback man.
Speaker 5: I've decided to only go with guys who have two
Speaker 5: rs in their name this week, so I've got Brock
Speaker 5: Purdy the first one. He's rostered in just about every league,
Speaker 5: but probably not widely. Started after a few rough weeks,
Speaker 5: he did tally three hundred and sixty five passing yards
Speaker 5: last week. Again, Cincion added fifty seven yards on the ground,
Speaker 5: which is kind of crazy for Brock party. The Jags
Speaker 5: appear to be a middle of the road opponent, but
Speaker 5: out over the last four weeks, something has changed in
Speaker 5: the way that teams attack them. In the first four
Speaker 5: weeks of the season, the Jags were seeing thirty four
Speaker 5: pass attempts and two hundred and fifty passing yards per game.
Speaker 5: In the last four games, forty eight passing attempts per
Speaker 5: game and then three hundred passing yards.
Speaker 1: That's a lot.
Speaker 5: They are chucking the ball fourteen more times a game
Speaker 5: against the Jaguars. Right now, I think everybody's keyed off
Speaker 5: on something. They're going to be chucking it.
Speaker 4: Okay, charged you have to use the word chucky did
Speaker 4: your quarter because that guy both.
Speaker 1: Did I for my theme, not realizing that the show
Speaker 1: I have decided to use players with both vowels and
Speaker 1: consonants in their name.
Speaker 4: That was all so hard, so hard.
Speaker 1: So we're going with Will Levis up against Tampa Bay. Now,
Speaker 1: Tampa does have two games worth the tape to pick
Speaker 1: apart his tendencies, and that worries me a little bit.
Speaker 1: But I love the fact that Will Levis has the
Speaker 1: deepest a dot of any quarterback who's played at least
Speaker 1: two games. Eleven yards per throw. That's like, that's Tampa
Speaker 1: just got roasted by C. J. Stroud.
Speaker 5: Church. You had the easiest theme of all you have
Speaker 5: all rookies.
Speaker 1: I do have all rookies with vowels and in their name.
Speaker 1: Tampa just got roasted, as I was saying by c. J. Stroud,
Speaker 1: but their struggles go back all season. Here is a
Speaker 1: complete list of quarterbacks who have failed to score multiple
Speaker 1: touch downs against Tampa Bay. Derek Carr, okay, that's everyone
Speaker 1: else multiple touchdowns against Tampa Bay over the last month.
Speaker 1: Opposing quarterbacks averaging one hundred and one Get this, I
Speaker 1: I gotta start doing this stat more often. Over the
Speaker 1: last month, opposing quarterbacks are averaging one hundred and one
Speaker 1: extra yards over their average when they're playing Tampa That's insane.
Speaker 1: That is a lot. Yes, that's crazy, Will Lovis. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the running back position.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with Jalen Warren. Warren's top five and
Speaker 4: explosive run rate for the Pittsburgh Seilers, of course, and
Speaker 4: leads the league in miss tackles per attempt. He's efficient
Speaker 4: with the touches he gets. Packers are the twelfth easiest
Speaker 4: spot for running backs. Green Bay has held out some
Speaker 4: poor running backs that have helped that ranking too.
Speaker 1: All right, you're running back, Matt, I've got Tyler al Jeer.
Speaker 5: Those are the ours. Arthur Smith won't be pushed around.
Speaker 5: He had to defend his lack of Bijon Robinson usage
Speaker 5: in a press conference this week. But this is about
Speaker 5: Tyler Algier, Arthur Smith's one true love. Algier has led
Speaker 5: in rushing attempts over Bijon four times in the last
Speaker 5: five weeks, all while Bijeon is getting about twenty more
Speaker 5: snaps per game over over that span. Algier has also
Speaker 5: had every running back carry from inside the five since
Speaker 5: Week two. Even if Bijon dominated the touch totals this week,
Speaker 5: there's still plenty to go around. Against the Cardinals, the
Speaker 5: Cards are allowing thirty one running back touches for one
Speaker 5: hundred and thirty eight combo yards and a score and
Speaker 5: a half per game to the position, all rank in
Speaker 5: the bottom three in the league. Tyler Algier start him.
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Speaker 1: of the great classics that put Hetty Lamar on the
Speaker 1: on the.
Speaker 4: Hetty Lamar gets mentioned on this podcast more than any
Speaker 4: other podcast, for.
Speaker 5: Sure, mostly because we say Lamar Jackson is very heady
Speaker 5: and how he sees the game.
Speaker 1: That's true, but we love Hetty Lamar on this podcast
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Speaker 1: goes up against Washington. Kenneth Walker not in the injury port,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't last week either and he barely got
Speaker 1: any use. So we're gonna just give a shot here
Speaker 1: to Sharbonay Washing. It's mostly about Washington being bad. In
Speaker 1: the first game without Montes Sweat and Chase Young, Washington
Speaker 1: promptly gave up their third most rushing yards of the
Speaker 1: season and allowed the previously struggling Romandre Stevenson to run
Speaker 1: for ten yards per carry.
Speaker 5: That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: That is pretty good. Zach Charbonay will be are dart
Speaker 1: throw this week. And Scott, let's go to the receivers
Speaker 1: for you, which why receiver do you have?
Speaker 4: I am going with Jaden Reid, wide receiver of the
Speaker 4: Green Bay Packers. The Pittsburgh Steelers, their opponent this week,
Speaker 4: are allowing the second most Fantasy points to the slot
Speaker 4: and just gave up six catches for sixty six yards
Speaker 4: to Kyle Phillips. They've been tagged by a lot of
Speaker 4: slot guys this year. Jaden Reid, also top ten for
Speaker 4: targets inside the ten yard line in the NFL this year,
Speaker 4: also has a rushing score in that zone highest yards
Speaker 4: per route run against the slot as well. For the Steelers.
Speaker 4: It's a good spot for.
Speaker 1: Him, Matt If you're so inclined to Netflix, you can
Speaker 1: watch Bombshell the Heady Lamar Store. Hmm, cal So, who's
Speaker 1: your receiver?
Speaker 5: I've got Hunter Henry. With all of the injuries and
Speaker 5: just inability from the Patriots wide receiver group, there's definitely
Speaker 5: room for a veteran tight end to become the woobie
Speaker 5: for mac Jones. Henry saw seven targets last week, caught
Speaker 5: four of them for thirty nine yards and a score.
Speaker 5: What's better is that the average depth of those targets
Speaker 5: was eleven yards downfield. Pretty good for a tight end.
Speaker 5: Mike Gasicki surprisingly only saw one target last week. This week,
Speaker 5: they faced the Colts in Germany. The Colts have been
Speaker 5: middle of the pack against the pass overall, but they've
Speaker 5: been dinged by the tight end position a little bit.
Speaker 5: They've allowed the fifth most receptions in the fourth most
Speaker 5: yards to the tight end position this year.
Speaker 1: I believe it was last week the week before, Matt
Speaker 1: that you used Jackson Smith and Jigba. I'm going back
Speaker 1: to the well because it's Washington now. Jsen led the
Speaker 1: Seahawks and targets last week with seven on twenty one routes.
Speaker 1: Usage is rising almost weekly for Jackson Smith and Jigbo
Speaker 1: over the last five weeks. Washington allowing the most yards
Speaker 1: and the most touchdowns to opposing wide receivers. So you
Speaker 1: know Locket's taken dk metcap day. Oh yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: So there's gonna be opportunity here for Jackson Smith and
Speaker 1: Jigba slock cornerback Danny Johnson allowing a passer rating of
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty five over the last five weeks.
Speaker 1: It's going to the Saints taking on the Vikings. This
Speaker 1: is a thorny matchup, and I apologize, so it's going
Speaker 1: to be a lot of talking. But there's just a
Speaker 1: lot of interesting angles on this one. I want to
Speaker 1: start with Alvin Kamara. Now, the rushing has been totally
Speaker 1: forgettable and the Vikings have turned out to be a
Speaker 1: pretty good run defense, and Taysoon Hill is stealing some
Speaker 1: of his scores, but the receiving usage for Kamara is
Speaker 1: so strong, you got to keep starting him. The Vikings
Speaker 1: have been tough against receiving running backs all year, including
Speaker 1: holding the Falcons runners to combined two receiving yards last week.
Speaker 1: But in the last month, AJ Dillon put up forty
Speaker 1: one receiving yards, got fifty one receiving yards. Those are
Speaker 1: decent numbers. Here, Alvin Kamara clocks in with a PPR
Speaker 1: C and a non PPR sorry PPR B and a
Speaker 1: non PPR C grade. Let's go to the passing game
Speaker 1: and slash running game. Let's talk Taysom Hill, because what
Speaker 1: he's doing right now like unprecedented, like history of NFL
Speaker 1: stuff really wild. So in the last three weeks alone,
Speaker 1: we're talking about a guy who has thrown, caught and
Speaker 1: rushed for touchdowns and multiple touchdowns at that. His current
Speaker 1: passer rating is one hundred and fifty six.
Speaker 5: That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: That is pretty good. It's better than his starting quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the last three weeks. Very involved in this offense.
Speaker 1: Opponents just can't seem to stop. And he's getting eleven
Speaker 1: touches per game. That is enough to make him startable here,
Speaker 1: particularly when you're talking tight ends with eleven touches I'm interested.
Speaker 1: I think the Vikings are going to shadow him with
Speaker 1: their star rookie linebacker Ivan Pace, who's allowing just five
Speaker 1: receiving yards per game in his coverage. But Hill Taysom
Speaker 1: Hill on fire right now and can win battles a
Speaker 1: lot of different ways. B grade for him. Let's go
Speaker 1: to some other receivers like Chris ol Lave. He's got
Speaker 1: a strong individual matchup on either outside side against Minnesota
Speaker 1: cornerbacks of Caleb Evans Byron Murphy. Over the last five weeks,
Speaker 1: those two have allowed a very healthy total of six
Speaker 1: receptions seventy one yards and almost a full touchdown per
Speaker 1: game against them. Now, the problem for a Lave has
Speaker 1: been scoring. Despite having the eighth most targets, just two
Speaker 1: touchdowns on the year, and the Vikings have only allowed
Speaker 1: two wide receiver touchdowns in the last six weeks, and
Speaker 1: over those six games, no wide receivers topped eighty three yards.
Speaker 1: So I can only get you to a C grade
Speaker 1: on Chris ol Lave. What about deep bult guy Rashid
Speaker 1: Shahid a favorite on this show me Thor I think
Speaker 1: Scott I guide as well. Going into this season. We're
Speaker 1: big fans leading the NFL with nineteen yards per reception.
Speaker 4: Wow, weirdly feels low after that game where you have
Speaker 4: over fifty exactly.
Speaker 1: Uh, He's probably the biggest boom or bust receiver this
Speaker 1: side of Gabe Davis. So which one are we gonna
Speaker 1: get here? I think the matchup is pretty appealing. Vikings
Speaker 1: are increasingly using rookie cornerback Mackay Blackman, and he's allowing
Speaker 1: the deepest a dot of any cornerback nineteen yards. M
Speaker 1: You will note earlier I mentioned Rashid Shaheed's average catch
Speaker 1: nineteen yards.
Speaker 4: Those are the same numbers. That is the same number.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna give Rashid Shida starting great here with
Speaker 1: a C. Michael Thomas is on the bench. There's just
Speaker 1: no upside here. One touchdown on the year, no games
Speaker 1: with more than sixty eight yards, and you have all
Speaker 1: the downside of last week's zero catch game for Michael Thomas.
Speaker 1: He's lost whatever little burst in separation you ever had.
Speaker 1: I'm not interested here.
Speaker 5: Do you feel Michael Thomas kind of a sabotage drop guy?
Speaker 1: I don't know if his value is high enough.
Speaker 5: I think he would be still picked up in most leagues.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe just on name recognitional that's what he would
Speaker 1: get picked up. But I want somebody to pay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want somebody to pay for my sabotage drops. And
Speaker 1: I don't know that he would garner enough maybe, but
Speaker 1: I don't want him on my team. So there's that,
Speaker 1: all right. I think we've hit all the receivers here.
Speaker 1: Let's talk Derek Carr. He's played well lately, multiple touchdowns
Speaker 1: and or three hundred passing yards in four straight games.
Speaker 1: His receivers I've given you mostly C grade, So I
Speaker 1: can't get any higher than a C grade for Derek
Speaker 1: Carr against a shockingly improved Viking defense over the past
Speaker 1: six Viking games, posing quarterbacks averaging zero point eight touchdown
Speaker 1: passes and just two hundred and thirty two yards. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the Viking side. Let's start with Alexander
Speaker 1: Madison coming in with a C grade on really just volume.
Speaker 1: Cam Acres now done for the year. That frees up
Speaker 1: nine carries per game over the last three weeks, so
Speaker 1: Madison will get most of those, but not all of them,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that in a second. Pre Acres
Speaker 1: before Acres was on the Vikings, Madison finished two with
Speaker 1: two games above ninety yards, and that's a out the
Speaker 1: max you could hope for here. Over the last four weeks,
Speaker 1: the Saints have given up one hundred and two rushing
Speaker 1: yards per game to running backs. I could see Madison
Speaker 1: getting into that eighty ninety yard range if everything goes well.
Speaker 1: We're halfway through the season. Madison hasn't scored a rushing
Speaker 1: touchdown and get this, averaging negative yards on carries from
Speaker 1: inside the ten yard line. Alexander Madison.
Speaker 4: That's good.
Speaker 1: That's not good. So what about ty Chandler you're asking.
Speaker 1: We'll talk much more deeply about him later in the show,
Speaker 1: but for the moment, just know that he's expected to
Speaker 1: get more usage and we're kind of excited to see
Speaker 1: where it goes. But we're not going to start him yet.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the passing game for the Vikings. A
Speaker 1: grade for dj Hockinson. How about this for Josh Dobbs.
Speaker 1: Now this is assuming he plays. He suffered a pretty
Speaker 1: serious rib injury. It's a pain threshold thing. I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna shoot him up. They'll play Josh Dobbs loves
Speaker 1: the tight end position. Get this for the light in
Speaker 1: this last two weeks, one of which was with the Vikings,
Speaker 1: not even a full game. One obviously was with the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: Twenty nine targets to tight ends. It's a unbelievable for
Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs.
Speaker 5: Seems like it's time to fire up Johnny Munt.
Speaker 1: It might be while with Arizona, Dobs had the highest
Speaker 1: percentage of throws to tight ends of any quarterback in
Speaker 1: the league. Last week, in less than the full game,
Speaker 1: he through thirteen passes to tight end. So TJ. Hockinson,
Speaker 1: staying with the A grade he's had most of this season,
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison comes in with a C grade in this game.
Speaker 1: Tough matchups without Jefferson, He's going to see maybe a
Speaker 1: few more passes, but the good news really ends there.
Speaker 1: He's going to see a lot of Marshawn Lattimore and
Speaker 1: that is a brutal matchup over the last five weeks,
Speaker 1: Latimore allowing three receptions for thirty five yards per game.
Speaker 1: That's it. When Addison sees the number two cornerback on
Speaker 1: the outside, so if he flips sides or whatever, that's
Speaker 1: Paulson to Dabo. He's great too. He's come about. He's
Speaker 1: the reigning NFC defensive Player of the Week, and he's
Speaker 1: Pro Football focused, his highest graded corner in coverage over
Speaker 1: the last five weeks. So there's no respite here for
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison in a very difficult spot. If kJ Osborne
Speaker 1: doesn't go, you could throw a dart at Brandon Powell.
Speaker 1: Powell scored the game winning touchdown last week, and it's
Speaker 1: because teams attack the Saints through the slot because those
Speaker 1: outside cornerbacks, as they mentioned, a Dabo Latimer so good
Speaker 1: that we've seen just in the last three weeks, Darnell Mooney,
Speaker 1: Josh Downs, and Christian Kirk all top seventy two yards
Speaker 1: and get a lot of work in the slot.
Speaker 4: I mentioned that two weeks ago the Saints are top
Speaker 4: five on the perimeter, bottom five in the slot.
Speaker 1: Yep, Brandon Powell would be the guy to get those looks.
Speaker 1: So if you're looking for a dart throw, he would
Speaker 1: be the guy to go to. And that leaves us
Speaker 1: with Josh Dobbs. Very tough matchup for Josh here. Saints
Speaker 1: allow the six fewest passing yards barely two hundred per game,
Speaker 1: But there are some glimmers of hope. The Saints have
Speaker 1: allowed passing touchdowns to every opponent starter accepting the sense
Speaker 1: benched righth Tannehill and the off to bench Mac Jones,
Speaker 1: and two of the past three opposing quarterbacks have managed
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. What's more, last week, Tyson Bagent ran for
Speaker 1: seventy yards. Two weeks before that, Trevor Lawrence ran for
Speaker 1: fifty nine yards against the Saints. So we're gonna go
Speaker 1: starting great on Josh Dobbs. I don't love the passing,
Speaker 1: but I think between some modest passing and some decent
Speaker 1: running c grade for Josh Dobbs.
Speaker 5: Did the Arizona Cardinals give Josh Dobbs clothes to give
Speaker 5: him his freedom? That works?
Speaker 1: They didn't give him his jersey because, as you know,
Speaker 1: they didn't make a jersey for him other than his own.
Speaker 1: You couldn't like go to the team shop and buy
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks jersey that they knew. They didn't know. Apparently to.
Speaker 4: Lion's take, you got the chart. Yes, you know what
Speaker 4: can I do? Giants, Dallas? I think they'll make more
Speaker 4: sense here?
Speaker 1: Okay, sure, feel free Giants taking on the Cowboys Scott.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so on the Giant side the passing game, I
Speaker 4: am not starting anyone in the passing game with Tommy
Speaker 4: going up against the top seven ranked Cowboys defense, none
Speaker 4: of the receivers, none of the tight ends with Darren
Speaker 4: Waller out, So let's talk about Sakuon Barkley, he's averaging
Speaker 4: twenty seven and a half touches over four games since returning.
Speaker 4: Nineteen was his low day three plus catches in all
Speaker 4: ninety eight total yards was his low. It's a top
Speaker 4: six run dye though running backs have scored in five
Speaker 4: to the last six similar volume running backs have had
Speaker 4: B or C level days. Barkley himself only had fifteen
Speaker 4: touches for sixty three yards in Week one, but that
Speaker 4: was much less volume. I'm giving him the B grade
Speaker 4: on a lot of volume against a good Rundy on
Speaker 4: the other side, Dak press Spot, Dak Prescott. I'm given
Speaker 4: an A grade too. I originally had it as a
Speaker 4: B grade because he had a really bad game Week
Speaker 4: one in the blowout, but he's been They've been throwing
Speaker 4: way more since, even in neutral game scripts. He's been
Speaker 4: QB one, QB three, QB two over the last three weeks.
Speaker 4: And there's a lot of really good quarterbacks on by
Speaker 4: A grade there basically an autow A for CD lam
Speaker 4: who's average ten catches for one hundred and fifty five
Speaker 4: yards on thirteen targets over the last three Jake other
Speaker 4: receivers are on the bench. They basically need to score.
Speaker 4: Jake Ferguson I'm given a C grade too. He leads
Speaker 4: the NFL in targets inside the ten and tied with
Speaker 4: Hawkinson for tight end targets inside the five. Breakout last
Speaker 4: week don against the Giants team in Week one. But
Speaker 4: the Giants their schedule has been helped by a lot.
Speaker 4: They're so highly ranked because their schedule has been helped
Speaker 4: by a lot of really you know, inferior tight ends.
Speaker 4: Five Sea level games or better out of the last
Speaker 4: seven for Jake Ferguson, So I'm gonna give him a
Speaker 4: sea Tony Pollard also a C grade like Tony pod
Speaker 4: last year, should be He's this should be an A
Speaker 4: grade for him here.
Speaker 1: I know, I feel like this is such a good
Speaker 1: by low momently.
Speaker 4: Is Pollard is twentieth among running backs and explosive run
Speaker 4: rate thirty five, thirty fifth in yards after contact per attempt.
Speaker 4: Just he's not explosive this year. He did score twice
Speaker 4: on this same Giants team in Week one over the
Speaker 4: last five weeks, though his best day running the ball
Speaker 4: is fifty three yards. He needs a few catches to
Speaker 4: get you that C grade. It's a bottom seven run
Speaker 4: dee I'm gonna give him the seed, but like twenty
Speaker 4: twenty two Polar, it would be an.
Speaker 1: A yeah for sure, for sure when we come back.
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Speaker 1: forty nine ers taking on Jacksonville and Matt forty nine
Speaker 1: Ers get back Deebo Samuel into this passing offense, and
Speaker 1: I gotta believe that will portend an uptick for brock Perty.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, that's why he was my take a chance
Speaker 5: on me quarterback, and he gets a B grade. By
Speaker 5: the way, Christian McCaffery, he's an A, but we're not
Speaker 5: going to discuss him. Let's get to Deebo. He does
Speaker 5: return this week. He's been a full go at practice
Speaker 5: all week. I will give Samuel and Brandon Ayuk twin
Speaker 5: B grades in this one. Both move all over the
Speaker 5: field but spend most of their time on the perimeter.
Speaker 5: Jacksonville's corner Tyson Campbell has missed the last few weeks
Speaker 5: with a hamstring injury. He's been limited in practice this week.
Speaker 5: It seems unlikely that he'll be ready, and in his spot,
Speaker 5: the Jags have trotted out Monteric Brown, who has been
Speaker 5: ruthlessly picked on by opposing quarterbacks. He's seen eight to
Speaker 5: ten and nine targets in his coverage over the past
Speaker 5: three weeks and allowed a touchdown in every game. So
Speaker 5: I like both of them.
Speaker 3: Is a bee.
Speaker 5: I got Kittle as a bee as well. After three
Speaker 5: really good weeks in the last four, Kittle faces a
Speaker 5: Jags defense that's done a good job at shutting down
Speaker 5: top tight ends. Travis Kelcey did score against them, but
Speaker 5: only managed four catches for twenty six yards. Dalton Schultz,
Speaker 5: Kyle Pitts, Dalton Kincaid were all held under twenty five
Speaker 5: receiving yards. But with the full complement of weapons back,
Speaker 5: I think that George Kittle just is still sitting in
Speaker 5: a good spot and you're not benching him in a
Speaker 5: week like this. Travis Etn on the other side, he's
Speaker 5: averaging twenty three opportunities per game this season. He's getting
Speaker 5: almost all the work The Niners.
Speaker 1: Are couldn't have been more wrong about Travis. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: true exactly.
Speaker 5: Niner's pretty good against the run, but they're still allowing
Speaker 5: about ninety eight combo yards per game and he's got
Speaker 5: two thirds of a chance of scoring a touchdown. So
Speaker 5: even what seems like a difficult matchup, I'm gonna leave
Speaker 5: an a grade on Etn. Trevor Lawrence has had only
Speaker 5: two touchdown passes in a game twice this year. He's
Speaker 5: never had three in a game this year. He's only
Speaker 5: top three hundred yards once. There is hope, though, as
Speaker 5: Joe Burrow and Kirk Cousins were able to carve up
Speaker 5: the forty nine Ers defense for an average of three
Speaker 5: point thirty in the past two games. They also threw
Speaker 5: five touchdowns between the two of them. It's been really
Speaker 5: hard to run on the Niners team. They're seeing twenty
Speaker 5: six completions a game against them, that's sixth most in
Speaker 5: the league. So I'll give Lawrence a C grade here.
Speaker 5: Calvin Ridley gets a B. Christian Kirk he gets a C.
Speaker 5: Ridley stays on the outside, where recent top wide receivers
Speaker 5: have had some good success. Just in the past three weeks,
Speaker 5: Amari Cooper went for one to oh eight. Jordan Addison
Speaker 5: had won twenty three and two scores. Jamar Chase had
Speaker 5: ten catches for one hundred yards in a score last time.
Speaker 5: So that's why I like Ridley a little bit better.
Speaker 5: From the slot, Kirk lines up most often with Isaiah Oliver,
Speaker 5: who's been the weakest corner in the San Francisco secondary.
Speaker 5: In his last game, he allowed all eight of the
Speaker 5: targets in his coverage to be completed for seventy one
Speaker 5: yards and two touchdowns. Finally, Evan Angram he saw ten
Speaker 5: catches for eight eight yards the last time we saw him,
Speaker 5: but he hasn't scored a touchdown yet and the Niners
Speaker 5: haven't allowed a tight end score since Week one. Still
Speaker 5: there's hope is similarly good tight ends TJ. Hockinson at
Speaker 5: eighty six yards and zach Ertz got to fifty three.
Speaker 5: So I'll give Angram a CEE here. It would be
Speaker 5: a BEE if I felt a little bit better about
Speaker 5: his chance to score a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Brown's take on the Ravens in a great defense versus
Speaker 1: great defense matchup, So there's not a lot to like here.
Speaker 1: Jerome Ford bench grade in most leagues, startable only in PPR,
Speaker 1: where he's retained a little value as a receiver. Ford
Speaker 1: went back to being the bell koal for the Browns
Speaker 1: last week, but it didn't really amount to much. His
Speaker 1: recent ankle injury really seems to have sapped a lot
Speaker 1: of electricity from Ford. He's averaging just two point eight
Speaker 1: yards per carry since the injury. That is horrible, and
Speaker 1: Baltimore is allowing eighty rushing yards per game in their
Speaker 1: last three and they're really good against the run. So
Speaker 1: there's just not much to like here for Ford. Se
Speaker 1: grade only in PPR Kareem Hut the other running back.
Speaker 1: Touchdowns have saved his fantasy value, but he's so inefficient.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't score, you are looking at a just
Speaker 1: stone cold dud game. He's averaging three point three yards
Speaker 1: per carrie and had just two and a half yards
Speaker 1: per carry against the Cardinals last week. Yuck bench grade
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt. The only other starting grade I've got from
Speaker 1: the passing game is Amari Cooper, who comes in with
Speaker 1: a SE. He's one of the league's biggest all or
Speaker 1: nothing receivers with three massive dud games. The rest of
Speaker 1: him pretty good. One of those three against these same
Speaker 1: Ravens in Week four, we had one catch for sixteen yards.
Speaker 1: And this is a better secondary now than it was then.
Speaker 1: Because of the return of cornerback Marlon Humphrey, can only
Speaker 1: get him to a C grade. David and Jok, who
Speaker 1: expected to play through a knee injury. He has scored
Speaker 1: touchdowns in consecutive weeks, and the good news ends there.
Speaker 1: Baltimore has allowed the fourth fewest fantasy points to tight ends,
Speaker 1: along with the third fewest yards and only one touchdown
Speaker 1: to the tight end position the season, so it's all
Speaker 1: bad for David and Joko who is on the bench,
Speaker 1: and Deshaun Watson isn't good, and this is a brutal
Speaker 1: matchup against the best pass coverage team in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Baltimore ranks first and touchdown passes allowed, sixth and passing
Speaker 1: yards and second in PFF coverage grades. Do not start
Speaker 1: him on the Baltimore side. Lamar Jackson's been killed by
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards five touchdowns over the past two weeks. I
Speaker 1: don't think that happens here against a very good run defense.
Speaker 1: Jackson scored four total touchdowns when these teams met a
Speaker 1: month ago, in a game of which you only passed
Speaker 1: nineteen times. By the way, Brown's rank number one in
Speaker 1: passing yardage allowed it just one hundred and sixty seven
Speaker 1: yards per game. That is nothing, including Clayton toone putting
Speaker 1: up fifty eight passing yards last week, which is insane.
Speaker 1: I can only get you to a B grade. And
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson I almost went C grade, but he did
Speaker 1: score those four touchdowns last time these teams met. Mark
Speaker 1: Andrews comes in with a B grade because he's spent
Speaker 1: so reliable, just one game, one bad game all season,
Speaker 1: three touchdowns the last three weeks, but again brutal matchup.
Speaker 1: Browns have allowed the fewest points to tight ends this
Speaker 1: season and only nineteen receiving yards per game to tight ends.
Speaker 1: That is amazingly good. Only one tight end is eclipsed
Speaker 1: thirty two yards against the Browns all year, but fortunately
Speaker 1: he was Mark Andrews previous game, so he had eighty yards.
Speaker 1: So there's that B grade, Mark Andrews. The only other
Speaker 1: starter I've got for you is Jay Flowers. Consecutive epic
Speaker 1: dud games from Zay Flowers, but I am giving him
Speaker 1: the C grade. He still leads the team in snaps
Speaker 1: and routes, and even with the diminished productivity, Flowers posted
Speaker 1: fifty six yards in the earlier matchup with the Browns,
Speaker 1: and before they shut down the Arizona passing game last week,
Speaker 1: Cleveland had allowed big fantasy games to six different receivers
Speaker 1: from their last two opponents, Indian Seattle. I think Zay
Speaker 1: Flowers can still get you like a sixty yard five
Speaker 1: to six catch game. That's a SE grade. All the
Speaker 1: running backs around the bench. I know Gus Overerts has
Speaker 1: scored all these touchdowns, but Keaton Mitchell is now very
Speaker 1: much a part of this rotation and infuriatingly just stupid
Speaker 1: Justice Hill still getting them the most ball.
Speaker 4: You might have all of them, Stupid Hill.
Speaker 5: So it was a stupid Justice is a great courtroom drama.
Speaker 4: Let's make that happen next year on CBS.
Speaker 1: Cleveland only allowed one rushing touchdown, and they rank number
Speaker 1: one in ESPN's run stuff win rate. And you divide
Speaker 1: up that work three ways. We can't start any of them.
Speaker 1: Let's see if we can sneak in one more matchups
Speaker 1: we can, all right, good, let's bring it on. It
Speaker 1: is Titans taking on the Bucks. I got a feeling
Speaker 1: you're gonna already. You gave you will Levis is my
Speaker 1: yes answer?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you like you like the passing game. Apparently I
Speaker 4: do two a little bit here. I got an a
Speaker 4: grade on DeAndre Hopkins. Twelve different receivers have topped one
Speaker 4: hundred yards and or scored against the Bucks this year.
Speaker 4: It's a good spot for that, including three just last week.
Speaker 4: Five times the lead wide receiver has top to one
Speaker 4: hundred yards in the eight games they played. Seventeen targets
Speaker 4: from Levis in two weeks for DeAndre Hopkins four.
Speaker 1: If I'm Levis too I'm like, where's the where do
Speaker 1: you throw it to him?
Speaker 4: Right there? And now with Treylon Burke's out like the
Speaker 4: out here ru Yeah, ruled out here. I actually like
Speaker 4: Kyle Phillips this week. He had a nice six for
Speaker 4: sixty six day. He's mainly the slock guy, seventy seven
Speaker 4: percent slot snaps. Last week. He had a great matchup
Speaker 4: last week. It's another one here Westbrook A. Kine stays
Speaker 4: on the perimeter with Burkes out, Phillips inside. Bucks are
Speaker 4: bottom three against the slot and their defense is really
Speaker 4: banged up. Miss They're likely missing Jamel Deane and Carlton Davis,
Speaker 4: so they're gonna have a lot of backups out there.
Speaker 4: I like Kyle Phillips with a C grade. Derrick Henry
Speaker 4: I got a B grade on the Bucks are the
Speaker 4: second toughest run dye, allowing four backs to achieve double
Speaker 4: PPR points. But the backs that have have gotten the
Speaker 4: good work are the two closest comps to Henry's workout
Speaker 4: with workload, which is like seventeen touches for one thirty
Speaker 4: eight from swift Tyler Algier had twenty four touches for
Speaker 4: one hundred and twelve yards that's seventeen to twenty two
Speaker 4: range where Henry lives. Those are the ones that have
Speaker 4: tagged the bucks. He's near twenty game twenty touch per
Speaker 4: game average would get you the volume C but his
Speaker 4: his efficiency is good four point four yards per carrying,
Speaker 4: nine point two yards per reception decent. It's an okay
Speaker 4: spot for him. It's a tough D, but he'll get
Speaker 4: the volume. Ta J Spears I have on the bench.
Speaker 4: I don't think there's enough room for both of them. No,
Speaker 4: not against his D. On the other side, Baker Mayfield
Speaker 4: was my ticket chance on me players, so naturally I
Speaker 4: like their receivers a little bit too. Mike Evans. Despite
Speaker 4: a few more targets for Evans than Godwin, Godwin's had
Speaker 4: a few more better days recently. Those can be traced
Speaker 4: a little more to tough cornerback matchups like Marshall Lattimore.
Speaker 1: Though, so one doesn't find the end zone ever.
Speaker 4: No, No, Christian Fulton is Evans will get Evans gets
Speaker 4: and I was kind of gonna go there. Evans gets
Speaker 4: forty percent of the team's Enzo targets. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's just unreal and one of the better AID dots
Speaker 4: of his career because Mayfield's chucking it for over fourteen
Speaker 4: yards thirty seven percent of the team's air yards. B
Speaker 4: grade on Evans, C grade on Godwin. Despite out targeting Evans,
Speaker 4: It's not been a monumental difference, but he gets the
Speaker 4: better matchup against Trey Avery, who allows a one hundred
Speaker 4: and eighteen passer rating against replacing Sean Murphy bunting, who's
Speaker 4: gonna be out with the thumb probably. I have katea
Speaker 4: and on the bench. I know, two touchdowns last week,
Speaker 4: great spot, but the Titans are eight feuist yards fifth
Speaker 4: fust receptions to tight ends only one or no, they're
Speaker 4: the only team yet to give up a tight end touchdown. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so Rashad White. C grade on Rashad White. He's averaging
Speaker 4: over eighteen touches per game, four plus of them being catches.
Speaker 4: That's the volume CE right there.
Speaker 1: He's just better lately.
Speaker 4: Yes, he has been better lately. I could have been
Speaker 4: talked into a bee because just over the last three
Speaker 4: he's been averaging twenty touches, six catches and one hundred
Speaker 4: and nine yards, which is quite a bit. His yardages
Speaker 4: actually went ninety nine one oh nine one nineteen, so
Speaker 4: nine in couvery right. That's that's how the math maths, right,
Speaker 4: it's an easy spot to seventh. Ray not in easy spots.
Speaker 4: Even thranked Titans against running backs Harrison Warren did well
Speaker 4: last week combined, but they've had a lot of stuff,
Speaker 4: a lot of good days recently against running backs. I
Speaker 4: only gave him the CE. You could talk me into
Speaker 4: a bee, though, I guess I'm not gonna try to.
Speaker 1: I don't know that much.
Speaker 4: But it's like a B minus C plus range.
Speaker 1: It's more like just a be Okay, I'm kidding, all right,
Speaker 1: let's give him be right in our final moments here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you think of in Dynasty or Empire leagues?
Speaker 1: What do you think of buy and low on Bryce Young?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's pennies on the dollar time right now? Right,
Speaker 1: You've got a Bryce Young owners like, oh geez, yeah,
Speaker 1: particularly Sam?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean you know, what would you trade Bryce Young?
Speaker 1: If I offered you an early second rounder next year?
Speaker 1: Would you take it?
Speaker 4: It depends on the owner because he is having to
Speaker 4: run around a ton like you can see that. It's
Speaker 4: a rough offense for him. It's a rough spot for him.
Speaker 4: Like I've you invested high draft capital. I think if
Speaker 4: I'm Bryce young owner, I hold.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna hold all right. I mean probably probably late first,
Speaker 5: but probably not early second.
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Speaker 3: Tough question number one.
Speaker 1: With David Montgomery returning for the rest of the season,
Speaker 1: will he be in RB one, in RB two flex
Speaker 1: or bench player, we begin with Scott Fish.
Speaker 4: Okay, I think he resumes his role. For the most part.
Speaker 4: He'll see game scraps, greame scripts, not scraps, not your
Speaker 4: dog game scripts scraps.
Speaker 1: Also, everybody needs a dog. I've got one named Scraps.
Speaker 4: Then yes, he'll be good for his role. Gibbs may
Speaker 4: have earned some more work in past game work with
Speaker 4: what we saw, but we've seen this about a billion
Speaker 4: times in fantasy football in the last thirty years, where
Speaker 4: the starter goes down for a couple of weeks, the
Speaker 4: replacement comes in, is awesome, and then they go right
Speaker 4: back to right back to the lead back. But I
Speaker 4: do think Gibbs has earned more work. I was actually
Speaker 4: watching Austin Eckler talking about the film on these two
Speaker 4: the other day, talking about a ton of little veteran
Speaker 4: things that David Montgomery does that Gibbs still needs to learn,
Speaker 4: and it made me realize why the Lions were depending
Speaker 4: on Montgomery so much much early. Gave me some respect
Speaker 4: for that. So I think Monty goes back to the
Speaker 4: RB one role, and he was, you know, RB five
Speaker 4: through fourteen most weeks. Anyway, I think he goes back
Speaker 4: to a low end RB one.
Speaker 1: All right, RB one is your answer, Matt, David Montgomery
Speaker 1: rest of season? Is he an RB one RB two
Speaker 1: flex or bench?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Scott nailed it, but I had a few things.
Speaker 5: Montgomery has eight carries from inside the five this year.
Speaker 5: Gibbs has only one, which came in Week three, so
Speaker 5: I think at best he gets his old role back
Speaker 5: and is able to, you know, take the inside the
Speaker 5: five carries in the three games, by the way that
Speaker 5: Montgomery and Gibbs both played, Monty led the snaps one
Speaker 5: hundred and thirty four to seventy eight and the rushing
Speaker 5: attempts sixty nine to twenty two. The schedule coming up
Speaker 5: has a few favorable matchups. The Chargers, the Bears twice,
Speaker 5: the Packers and Denver are all in there, so I
Speaker 5: think he's at the very low end. He's an RB two,
Speaker 5: but he has RB one upside, so I'll go with
Speaker 5: RB one.
Speaker 1: Guys, hid all my talking points. The correct answer is
Speaker 1: RB one. The only the only item I have on
Speaker 1: my list here is, of course, this is the Lin's
Speaker 1: offense to put Jamal Williams on seventeen touchdowns last year
Speaker 1: on a per game average. David Montgomery's ahead.
Speaker 4: Of that case.
Speaker 5: Yeah he is Jamal Williams from last.
Speaker 1: Year, but better but better?
Speaker 4: Yeah, weird.
Speaker 1: By the way, Jamal Williams invisible this season, healthy or not,
Speaker 1: although maybe.
Speaker 5: Actually invisibility would be a really good trade for running back.
Speaker 1: Incredible, much harder to tackle, tough question number Would that
Speaker 1: be your superhero trade if you could have one?
Speaker 5: Yeah, probably, that's pretty good one.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good one. Time travel be.
Speaker 4: Super very very and you're honestly teleportation, So I could
Speaker 4: just like go get anybody and then come back.
Speaker 1: Oh God, wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 5: You have time travel?
Speaker 1: I heard this be the world's greatest uber or bank, Robert.
Speaker 5: Did you know that Back to the Future and the
Speaker 5: Goonies took place on the same day?
Speaker 1: What the in the same in the universe?
Speaker 5: Twenty six, nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1: I did not same day?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: That super cool.
Speaker 3: Tough question number two.
Speaker 1: For the rest of the season, will New Vikings quarterback
Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs be a top five, top ten, top fifteen
Speaker 1: or worse? Fantasy quarterback? Matt we begin with you right now.
Speaker 5: Dobbs is currently the number nine QB and standard leagues
Speaker 5: and eight of his games we're in a bad offense
Speaker 5: in Arizona. He's definitely in a better offense now with
Speaker 5: a better line, better receivers, better tight ends, and dare
Speaker 5: I see a coach that might be one of the
Speaker 5: top five offensive minds in the league. After just explaining
Speaker 5: the plays to him in his ear, like in the
Speaker 5: fourth quarter of the game. By the way, he's got
Speaker 5: the second most rushing yards amongst quarterbacks, behind only Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 5: He's got the fourth most rushing touchdowns. Those numbers will
Speaker 5: help keep him among the top ten. I think he's
Speaker 5: top ten the rest of the way. And by the way,
Speaker 5: Cousins currently in the top ten, he's certainly going to
Speaker 5: drop out of there, So there's rue. Yeah, there's another
Speaker 5: spot open.
Speaker 4: So I literally at that same point.
Speaker 5: I think John he's got one extra spot. It's easy
Speaker 5: top ten.
Speaker 1: All right, Scott Fish for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Will new Vikings quarterback Josh Dobbs be a top five,
Speaker 1: top ten, top fifteen or worse fantasy quarterback?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I put I put top ten. I feel
Speaker 4: it's a little bit bold, but along with cousin, Sam
Speaker 4: Howell's not going to keep dropping back one hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty times a game. Either is on pace to set
Speaker 4: the all time attempts right, Yeah, I know, I feel
Speaker 4: like he's gonna go. Well, maybe not with that defense
Speaker 4: they might have to now.
Speaker 1: Also, he might literally die on the field.
Speaker 4: Dobbs was QB twelve in weeks one through eight with
Speaker 4: the Cardinals with less weapons.
Speaker 1: He just said QB.
Speaker 4: I'd QB twelve at nine you might have you might
Speaker 4: have had points. I might have had points per game
Speaker 4: and you might have had Okay, But anyway, by defensive DVOA,
Speaker 4: his schedule in the first half of the Cardinals was
Speaker 4: in fact, they played three top three top defenses top
Speaker 4: ten defenses for an Iris, Cowboys, and Begals. It's easier
Speaker 4: with the Vikings in the second half with better weapons.
Speaker 4: I feel like he's going to get up there top ten.
Speaker 1: Correct answer is top ten quarterback. You guys already hit
Speaker 1: many of my points. I'll only had a couple of
Speaker 1: things around this. You said you talked about Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 1: His whole offense is built around magnifying the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: The Vikings throw thirty nine passes per game, second most,
Speaker 1: and it would have been most. They're thirty nine Washington's
Speaker 1: thirty nine point two, so they're that close to throwing
Speaker 1: the most and almost universally. I think the people who
Speaker 1: think Josh Dobbs sucks are the ones who, very understandable,
Speaker 1: did not watch Cardinals football. If you were watching any
Speaker 1: Cardinals football, I actually the one good guy on the
Speaker 1: field was Josh Stobbs.
Speaker 4: I have a Cardinals friend who texted me, I'm glad
Speaker 4: to have or not a Cardinals fan? It was Rams fan?
Speaker 4: Was it Rams fan? One of my friends texted, oh
Speaker 4: for an Iris fan? My friend Wyatt from Livermore, California.
Speaker 4: He texted me, He's like, I'm glad to have mod
Speaker 4: the division.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because dude's a gamer's that's why. Yeah. Top ten
Speaker 1: for Josh Dobbs. I don't think people realize that.
Speaker 5: Sneaky dynasty question. Where do you what do you do
Speaker 5: with Josh Dobbs.
Speaker 1: I've got Josh Dobbs and our dynasty. Yeah, I got
Speaker 1: all these people that have offered me second round picks. Yeah, Like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that.
Speaker 5: Could he could he be a starter for the Vikings
Speaker 5: next next year? Could he be a starter for another
Speaker 5: teams next year?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: We also could be looking at case Keenum type year.
Speaker 1: You never know, you never know, you don't know, but
Speaker 1: it's not worth a second.
Speaker 4: I want that year this year, like it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, tough.
Speaker 3: Question number three.
Speaker 1: Are you buying low on Bijon Robinson from a frustrated
Speaker 1: fantasy owner or you just glad. He's not your problem,
Speaker 1: Scott Fish.
Speaker 4: If the owner is frustrated, will get me a deal. Sure,
Speaker 4: But after watching that more more recent Arthur Smith presser
Speaker 4: like about Beijon's goalline usage, I one hundred percent believe
Speaker 4: it's intentional and that he loves Algier and this is
Speaker 4: probably going to continue until he's fired.
Speaker 5: A league with Tyler L Gier.
Speaker 4: I have been for the last year. I am not
Speaker 4: this year. I was last year, so I don't have
Speaker 4: any inside info. And Darren Waller did not accept my
Speaker 4: trade offer of Darren Waller for TJ Hawkinson, so.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want exciting Well, he knew.
Speaker 4: It was before he went on IR too, and he
Speaker 4: did not accept. Arthur Smith has only beaten one team
Speaker 4: with more than one game over five hundred, a bunch
Speaker 4: of three and five wins. He plays zero teams above
Speaker 4: five hundred for the rest of the season, so he
Speaker 4: might get some more wins in here, keep his job
Speaker 4: and keep doing the same thing. I'm hesitant to buy.
Speaker 4: It has to be pretty low on Jon. I love
Speaker 4: his talent. I just don't trust Arthur Smith.
Speaker 1: So there's a yes or no. You're a no.
Speaker 4: This is no. This is no. I think the price
Speaker 4: is gonna be too hard toomarch.
Speaker 1: Are you buying low on Bjeon Robinson from a frustrated
Speaker 1: fantasy owner or you just glad he's not your problem.
Speaker 5: In total rushing attempts, Beijon currently ranks number twenty two
Speaker 5: in the league, behind Jerome Ford, James Cook, Gus Edwards,
Speaker 5: Brian Robinson, Rashad White, Alexander Madison, Zach Moss, and Oh
Speaker 5: thirteen carries ahead of him Tyler al Jeer. It's worth
Speaker 5: noting that he's third in the league in targets amongst
Speaker 5: running backs, but the quarterback play has been so bad
Speaker 5: that he's thirteenth in receiving yards. They're just not scheming
Speaker 5: him into good positions. However, the fantasy playoff lineup for
Speaker 5: the Falcons is so juicy that you have to try
Speaker 5: to acquire him on the cheap right now, just in
Speaker 5: case they face Carolina, the third worst run defense in
Speaker 5: the league, Indianapolis, the fourth worst run defense in the league,
Speaker 5: and Chicago the sixth worst run defense in the league.
Speaker 5: In your fantasy playoffs weeks fifteen through seventeen, Bijon or Algier,
Speaker 5: both of these guys could be powering you to fantasy titles.
Speaker 5: I'd try to acquire both on the chief Right now.
Speaker 1: Falcons have the second easiest strength of schedule, remaining the
Speaker 1: rest of the way. Almost always, given enough time, exceptional
Speaker 1: talent runs us to the surface. And even someone as
Speaker 1: dense and in titled as Arthur Smith must realize that
Speaker 1: his coaching career circling the drain. The court of public
Speaker 1: opinion is certainly set against him, but so is data metrics, analytics.
Speaker 1: You know he's got to know it. Team owner owner
Speaker 1: Arthur Blank certainly knows it. And if you think these
Speaker 1: things don't matter when it's big enough, you're wrong. I mean,
Speaker 1: the ownership knows. In an entire everybody, every voice is
Speaker 1: pointing at a player or a coach. They know it.
Speaker 1: Just look at the Raiders, if only outright as a
Speaker 1: great example, if how about the team breaking out cigars
Speaker 1: after Josh McDaniels gets fired. Oh man, if only out
Speaker 1: of desperation, Arthur Smith will put v Jon Robinson in
Speaker 1: better positions to succeed. And I'm buying low.
Speaker 4: Man, I don't know if I trust Arthur Smith's side
Speaker 4: of that, I trust the schedule side. I don't know.
Speaker 4: That I trust the Arthur Smith side.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Falcons, Man Falcons taking on the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: it's a perfect transition. Yeah, that was not necessarily intended.
Speaker 1: So let's start with John Robinson.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I mentioned Algiers might take a chance
Speaker 5: on me running back, and I gave him a B grade,
Speaker 5: and for very similar reasons giving B Jhon Robinson also
Speaker 5: a B grade in this one. The matchup's great and
Speaker 5: they're kind of splitting work right now, so B grades
Speaker 5: for both of them. Drake London looks like he's set
Speaker 5: to return this week after missing Week nine with a
Speaker 5: grond injury. He's going to get an A grade for
Speaker 5: me this week. In the last seven weeks, the Cardinals
Speaker 5: have allowed at least one wide receiver to hit fifteen
Speaker 5: PPR points in six of those seven games. Most of
Speaker 5: that is due to Marco Wilson, who plays cornerback like
Speaker 5: he's playing Marco Polo. He closes his eyes, then he
Speaker 5: says Marco to the receiver in front of him, but
Speaker 5: by the time they say Polo, they're twenty yards downfield.
Speaker 5: It's been good to see Kyle Pitts somewhat relevant lately,
Speaker 5: but he still hasn't topped four receptions in the last
Speaker 5: four weeks, and he's only topped fifty yards twice on
Speaker 5: the season and only scored once. That's because John Neu
Speaker 5: Smith is just absolutely running wild. John Ujohanu charges love
Speaker 5: You think I'm not loving it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I had a long screen pass touchdown last week against
Speaker 5: the Vikings, and He's got more receptions, yards and touchdowns
Speaker 5: than Pitts this year. The Cardinals have been oddly good
Speaker 5: against the tight end this year because they were one
Speaker 5: of the worst in the league for years against them.
Speaker 5: Their top ten in receptions, yards and touchdowns allowed to
Speaker 5: the tight end position. I'll give John u a C
Speaker 5: grade and I'll keep Kyle Pitts on the bench.
Speaker 1: Oh do you know who that hill you're killing right now,
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I don't think Pitts has been one
Speaker 4: hundred healthy all year too.
Speaker 1: There's always an excuse. There is always an excuse.
Speaker 5: Always an excuse for Kyle Pitts. Maybe the excuse is
Speaker 5: Taylor heinekeve He's staying put as the Falcon starter, at
Speaker 5: least for this week. He certainly looked okay last week
Speaker 5: against the Vikings, going for two hundred and sixty eight
Speaker 5: yards in a score had just a little bit more
Speaker 5: swagger than Desmond Rider did. On the field too, faces
Speaker 5: a Cardinals defense that has bottom ten in pass yards
Speaker 5: passing scores this year with a bunch of quarterbacks on
Speaker 5: by Heineke's startable in a super flex league with a
Speaker 5: C grade. James Connor he's back. I think currently he's
Speaker 5: still listed on IR on your fantasy app. But on Friday,
Speaker 5: Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon says he's trending the right direction
Speaker 5: for playing this Sunday. And what's even more, they released
Speaker 5: Tony Jones, who's the backup running back, on Thursday, and
Speaker 5: Amari Demarcato looks like he won't play either, so that
Speaker 5: means Connor's going to suit up and retain his bellcow role.
Speaker 5: In the four games Connor started and finished, he had
Speaker 5: at least twelve PPR points and three of the four.
Speaker 5: Atlanta looks tough on paper, but they're feasting on some
Speaker 5: early season success. Two weeks ago, the Titans backs combined
Speaker 5: for one hundred and fifty six combo yards, and last
Speaker 5: week the middling duo of Alexander Madison and Cam Akers
Speaker 5: managed one hundred and thirty one combo yards in a score.
Speaker 5: So it's a B grade for James Connor in his return.
Speaker 5: Kyler Murray also making his season debut for the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: He you know, Call of Duty Modern Warfare came out
Speaker 1: on Friday. Yeah, I mean no, no, that's we can't
Speaker 1: just assume Kyler Murray is going to be available to
Speaker 1: play in this game.
Speaker 5: Well, they named him the starters. In the past four games,
Speaker 5: Josh Dobbs, Will Levis Baker Mayfield, and Sam Howell have
Speaker 5: all managed relatively good fantasy days against the Falcons defense.
Speaker 5: I don't think Murray will have the free reign to
Speaker 5: run after coming off in ACL, but if he does,
Speaker 5: Atlanta allowed sixty six yards and a score to Dobbs
Speaker 5: last week and have allowed the sixth most rushing yards
Speaker 5: to opposing quarterbacks. He's running, He's probably not so, and
Speaker 5: with Call of Duty coming out, I'm just going to
Speaker 5: give him a C grade. He's got to knock off
Speaker 5: some rust and get his thumbs right from all the
Speaker 5: video game plan. But the last time we saw Marquise
Speaker 5: Brown and Kyler Murray together and without DeAndre Hopkins, who's
Speaker 5: not on the team anymore, that was Week six of
Speaker 5: last season. In the six games last year with that
Speaker 5: duo and without Hopkins, Brown ridged eleven targets, seven receptions
Speaker 5: eighty one yards and scored in half of his games.
Speaker 5: This year, He's had seven or more targets in seven
Speaker 5: of nine games, and I think his usage is about
Speaker 5: to go up. The Falcons are two weeks removed from
Speaker 5: allowing the aforementioned DeAndre Hopkins to go off for four catches,
Speaker 5: one hundred and twenty eight yards and three scores against them,
Speaker 5: So Hollywood gets a bee here, and Trey McBride took
Speaker 5: over the Zach Ertz role. And since we're talking about
Speaker 5: Kyler without Hopkins, it was worth noting that Ertz had
Speaker 5: ten or more targets in four of the first six
Speaker 5: games with Kyler last year. So McBride had a bad
Speaker 5: week with Clayton Tune at quarterback last week, but that's
Speaker 5: not surprising. The week prior to that, fourteen targets, ten catches,
Speaker 5: ninety five yards in a score. I'll give him McBride
Speaker 5: a B grade as well. All five tight ends that
Speaker 5: have seen at least seven targets against the Falcons have
Speaker 5: had double digit PPR points.
Speaker 3: This year.
Speaker 1: You're way more optimistic on Kyler Murray's first game back
Speaker 1: than I am. But maybe I'm just I'm just not
Speaker 1: a big fan and don't trust him as just a
Speaker 1: pure pas and I like the rust and everything else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that goes without saying we're fifty eight yards.
Speaker 5: We're gonna tune out of that one.
Speaker 1: I think we'll do that. We'll tune into Commanders taking
Speaker 1: on the Seahawks when we come back. Sam Howell, are
Speaker 1: you ready to go back to the wall? Find out
Speaker 1: when we come back. Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. Paul Charchie and Scott Fish, Matt Harrison with you,
Speaker 1: Commanders take on the Seahawks. I'm gonna start with the
Speaker 1: running game here. Washington dead last in rushing attempts, which
Speaker 1: really hamstrings the upside for Robinson. He's barely fantasy viable
Speaker 1: with his touchdowns. He's got three in the last four games. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: Seattle getting rocked on the ground right now. They're allowing
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty eight yards and two hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty yards to running backs in the last two weeks, respectively,
Speaker 1: and four touchdowns over those two games. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: start Brian Robinson with an unusual level of confidence here
Speaker 1: and a B grade for Brian Robinson. Yeah, Terry McLaurin.
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin Howells unlocked the most consistent play we've ever
Speaker 1: seen from Terry McLaurin. He runs from the outside where
Speaker 1: it's a mixed bag against very good cornerback Trey Brown
Speaker 1: and slumping cornerback Tarreek Wollan. Over the past five weeks,
Speaker 1: Woland has given up three scores and a passer rating
Speaker 1: of one hundred two. No wide receivers top to eighty
Speaker 1: nine yards against Seattle since Week three, So mclaurin's upside
Speaker 1: tapped out at a B grade. Logan Thomas few big
Speaker 1: plays here and there, but surviving really on volume with
Speaker 1: six or more targets in four of the past five weeks.
Speaker 1: Seattle's the middle of the pack tight end defense. They've
Speaker 1: only allowed one tight end score. If you like we've
Speaker 1: gotten out of Logan Thomas in the past, like five
Speaker 1: catches forty fifty yards. That's what you're gonna get here.
Speaker 1: See grade on Logan Thomas. The other receivers Curtis, Samuel Jamison, Crowder,
Speaker 1: Johan Dotson, I'm putting all the on the bench. Dotson
Speaker 1: has been better lately but not getting enough usage, and
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel coming back further mixes things up. All three
Speaker 1: of these receivers run from the slot a lot where
Speaker 1: they're going to face. Defensive Rookie of the Year candidate.
Speaker 1: Devon Witherspoon has been amazing since a very rough opening
Speaker 1: game in Week one. Witherspoon is given if giving up guys,
Speaker 1: get this one catch for fifteen scoreless yards per game
Speaker 1: in his coverage.
Speaker 5: It took him a game to figure out the NFL.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's it. One game and now he's got it
Speaker 1: on lockdownp Devin Witherspoon is your your leading candidate for
Speaker 1: Defensive Rookie of the Year. So where does that leave us?
Speaker 1: With Sam Howell? The kids playing really well. He's on
Speaker 1: paces at the all time pass attempt record.
Speaker 5: Sure that was Scraps.
Speaker 1: It is?
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 1: Scraps has got a better howl than that. Thing's awful
Speaker 1: over the past five games, Howl averaging three hundred and
Speaker 1: two yards and two touchdown passes per game. Seattle secondary
Speaker 1: on fire right now, allowing just two hundred and six
Speaker 1: yards over the last three games, but that was against
Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs, PJ Walker, Lamar Jackson in a blow out
Speaker 1: which he didn't throw. So yeah, I still think Howl's
Speaker 1: pretty safe and I've got a C grade on him.
Speaker 1: On the Seattle side, Kenneth Walker's really tough to figure out.
Speaker 1: He's the last couple of weeks he hasn't gotten a
Speaker 1: lot of usage, but he's also faced the Ravens and
Speaker 1: the Browns, and he's been recovering from a calf injury.
Speaker 1: But I think it all turns around here. Commanders is
Speaker 1: a They're a bad run defense. Their defensive line is
Speaker 1: in major flux after losing Montes Sweat and Chase Young,
Speaker 1: and last week their first game without Sweat and Young,
Speaker 1: they gave up seven yards per carry. Now Ted's are
Speaker 1: ten yards per carry to the struggling Romandre Stevenson. And
Speaker 1: as I mentioned earlier, Zach Sharbonay might take a chance
Speaker 1: at me runner. Oh, by the way, I've got a
Speaker 1: B grade on Walker, C grade on Zach Scharbonay in
Speaker 1: this matchup. Let's go to the passing game, beginning with
Speaker 1: Geno Smith, who has looked frankly pretty bad. Some people
Speaker 1: think he's gonna get benched in deep like two quarterback leagues.
Speaker 1: Drew Locke might be somebody to pick up here, but
Speaker 1: not this week. This is his most favorable matchup of
Speaker 1: the season. Commanders have allowed the most passing touchdowns, the
Speaker 1: sixth most passing yards, and the loss of Young and
Speaker 1: Sweat has means ten fewer pressures per game, and in
Speaker 1: their first game without those two, Washington registered no sacks
Speaker 1: and one quarterback hit in the game. So it right now,
Speaker 1: if Gino Smith doesn't get it done here, you can
Speaker 1: drop him out right. Tyler Locke and dk Metcalf both
Speaker 1: very startable here. Over the past five weeks, Washington is
Speaker 1: allowing the most yards and touchdowns per game to opposing
Speaker 1: wide receivers. Washington allowing the third most air yards per
Speaker 1: game and the third highest a dot. Dk Metcalf has
Speaker 1: a seventy pound advantage over cornerback and Manual four.
Speaker 5: Are you calling him fat?
Speaker 1: No, you can't call him fat, anything but fat, but
Speaker 1: a dominant, potentially dominating performance and Jackson Smith and Jigba
Speaker 1: was might take a chance on me wide receiver. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Colts taking on the Patriots in Germany,
Speaker 1: and for that we go to our Germany correspondent.
Speaker 4: Wait, yes, we're going to the Germany correspondent.
Speaker 5: We are going to our I'll go grab him.
Speaker 4: Uh what Church, Well, Matt goes to grab him. This
Speaker 4: is this is completely unfair. Matt is lazy. Yeah, because
Speaker 4: I do. I'm doing five matchups this week. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: get it. Give the people what they want, right, you
Speaker 4: get four, you're the host. Matt's only to eat three
Speaker 4: because he's shove it.
Speaker 5: What up.
Speaker 1: And one's hair fish Dieter, Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 6: Kaisa, Dieter von Wurtzen, gotton Ish Cooma House, Frankfurt, dosny
Speaker 6: Gross Brittonian Petriotin and Spielmot Indianapolis.
Speaker 5: Fall in don hastugboards dog.
Speaker 1: I think he just was talking about how Indianapolis is
Speaker 1: playing the pace at the New and Frankfurt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the New British Patriots are playing the Indianapolis young Horses,
Speaker 4: is what I said, all right?
Speaker 6: Gardner Minshew hot mine and leeblink schnerbart in Deutschland dassis
Speaker 6: keschmacksaka darfik mane bleischeff Spitzen.
Speaker 4: Wow, he just said. Dieter said that Gardner Minshew has
Speaker 4: the best mustache in Germany since von Kaiser from punch Out.
Speaker 4: He also said the Pats have allowed three hundred yards
Speaker 4: are multiple scores. We we do like our thirty plus
Speaker 4: year old references around here. Yeah, the Pats have allowed
Speaker 4: three hundred plus yards or multiple scores to each of
Speaker 4: the last three quarterbacks they've faced. Minshew has multiple scores
Speaker 4: in two of his last three so B grade there
Speaker 4: he'd also asked if he could sharpen his pencil.
Speaker 3: Yaga now.
Speaker 6: Michael Grubeman on Josh Tiefen hot meer zar garn, Alec
Speaker 6: duerk Boren is mine koopel yaga now Jack Johns and
Speaker 6: Colomter Bryant has in so shrek loosh spielingm gooomi poopin.
Speaker 4: He said, Uh, Pimman gets an a, Josh Downs hasn't practiced.
Speaker 4: Uh knee injury questionable, might not go if he doesn't.
Speaker 4: Alec Pierce will get the C grade. Patriots are bottom
Speaker 4: eight in receptions, yards and touchdowns allowed to wide receiver receivers.
Speaker 4: He also said that Jack Jones and Miles Bryant are
Speaker 4: terrible corners and play and play with rubber dolls. I
Speaker 4: think he said pretty sure there was something a reference
Speaker 4: to poopin in there.
Speaker 1: So I don't know the rubber dolls.
Speaker 7: But Hans Schneider ooned Zach Moosse louftzer good, Hans mack
Speaker 7: Ian Mayer dinah MOOTI tricked gross and Hosen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that those those eight seconds, he said, all of
Speaker 4: this he gave, He gave it out. He gave Jonathan
Speaker 4: Taylor and a grade and Zach Moss c. Taylor has
Speaker 4: basically taken over the backfield, but Moss still gets work.
Speaker 4: And the Patriots defense is so bad there's plenty to
Speaker 4: go around. The Patriots are bottom eleven and touches combo
Speaker 4: yards and combo touchdowns to a posy in running backs.
Speaker 4: He also said, charges churches mother wears gigantic pants out
Speaker 4: kind of a fact.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 6: Romandres Stevenson ist ein Deutscher Nama bund Ezekiel.
Speaker 5: Elliott is boomeling and sprinting their castle.
Speaker 6: Doc fallens in so shrekless knack laufen kind Schweine.
Speaker 4: For Doc Wow. He says Stevenson and Elliot and Zeke
Speaker 4: are both startable with a C grade. Uh, and something
Speaker 4: about jumping into a chubby kettle. It must have been
Speaker 4: Zeke related both splitting carries, but the young Horses defense.
Speaker 4: That's the Colds defense I think is very bad. Bottom
Speaker 4: six and touches, combo yards and touchdowns allowed to running backs.
Speaker 4: He also said something about a pig because I heard
Speaker 4: shine in there that means pig, but not sure.
Speaker 5: Mac Jones East, I'm schweine.
Speaker 4: Oh mac Jones, mac Jones is there? It is? Jones
Speaker 4: is a peg and you shouldn't start him because he's
Speaker 4: only top two hundred and thirty five yards once in
Speaker 4: the last eight games. Were somehow in that forward sentence, Fong.
Speaker 5: Nick m Foger Sit, that's this Yager Henry.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't start any receivers unless it's Hunter Henry. Who
Speaker 4: is Matt's take a chance on me?
Speaker 6: Players choose Vis Sanduce not this yard Snell Snell.
Speaker 1: Dieter audio audio.
Speaker 4: Wait a second, well done.
Speaker 1: Dieter von furtchund goat Boringer? Do we get right on him?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What about Maritz Boringer?
Speaker 5: Oh I'm back ohne Yeah, okay, no more.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Dieter. That was that was very well.
Speaker 5: I think he likes Max Kepler a lot too.
Speaker 1: Detroit takes on the l A Chargers. Scott I like
Speaker 1: basically everybody.
Speaker 4: I do too. I don't even know how much to
Speaker 4: talk about it here, but Jared Goff gets an A
Speaker 4: Chargers thirty easiest. They're allowing three hundred and thirty teen
Speaker 4: yards and one point five touchdowns per game to quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: The only quarterbacks that didn't get multiple touchdowns against the
Speaker 4: Chargers Beagent Orange, Aidan O'Connell AOC and Zach Wilson. Dirk
Speaker 4: Goff's way better than that, yeah, or secret beagent Man.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's good too.
Speaker 3: Hey.
Speaker 5: By the way, Scott, I didn't know you knew German.
Speaker 4: I passively. I'm passable in German. Yeah, I'm on, I
Speaker 4: say Brown. I'm also given an a auto, a really
Speaker 4: double digit target earner against a bottom ten past year.
Speaker 4: You're benching all the other receivers. None of them are
Speaker 4: posting more than three receptions. And now you got Donovan
Speaker 4: People's Jones entering the mix. It's just a giant split.
Speaker 4: I'm not even if you want to take a chance
Speaker 4: on one in the highest over under game of the week,
Speaker 4: I'm not even sure who it should be out of
Speaker 4: those for honestly, like Josh Reynolds gets more end zone targets,
Speaker 4: but that's kind of slowed recently.
Speaker 1: So can you even give a like a fantasy fonsie.
Speaker 4: I suppose I could. I mean he's been worthy of
Speaker 4: that for like weeks on end. Sam Laporta is getting
Speaker 4: an automatic A really here as well, like the tight
Speaker 4: ends that get the similar target share to Laporta. Kelsey
Speaker 4: had twelve for one to seventy nine, Comet ten for
Speaker 4: seventy nine, Conklin six for sixty six, Hawkinson eight for
Speaker 4: seventy eight. All great days for Laporta level volume. Ye
Speaker 4: David Montgomery and Jamier Gibbs we talked about a bit earlier.
Speaker 4: I got the B grade on Montgomery and the C
Speaker 4: grade on Gibbs. It's a bottom twelve defense against running backs,
Speaker 4: but a huge part of that is in the pass game,
Speaker 4: and that's where I think Gibbs can get His only
Speaker 4: two backs have topped eighty rushing yards. But Montgomery gets
Speaker 4: the goal line work, he gets some pass game works,
Speaker 4: he gets more volume. So I got the B there,
Speaker 4: I got the C on Gibbs. Over on the other side,
Speaker 4: justin Herbert, I got an A grade on here despite
Speaker 4: being QB three and fantasy points per game it's been
Speaker 4: a little bit matchup dependent. He was held down by
Speaker 4: the Jets last week. He's been held down a couple
Speaker 4: times recently, blew up against the Bears. He's dropping back
Speaker 4: forty one times per game. He gets a middle of
Speaker 4: the pack Lions defense against the quarterbacks anyway, but they
Speaker 4: held down Mayfield Jimmy g recently. But others and I
Speaker 4: would put Herbert in the others category have averaged two
Speaker 4: hundred and eighty yards and two point six scores, so
Speaker 4: it's an okay spot for Herbert Keenan Allen should really
Speaker 4: be an auto A at this level. His worst game
Speaker 4: this season is a C level game, but he's averaging
Speaker 4: nearly eight catches on eleven targets, just lots of volume.
Speaker 4: It's a top ten past day. But they allow a
Speaker 4: touchdown to a wide receiver weekly. It's going to be Alan.
Speaker 4: I do have a C grade on Quentin Johnson. I
Speaker 4: just think it's going to be a really high scoring
Speaker 4: shootout dud last week, but he was facing Sauce Gardner
Speaker 4: and DJ Reid the week before he went five for
Speaker 4: fifty and Palmer played in that one. Palmer's not going
Speaker 4: to play in this one, so there's gonna be a
Speaker 4: little more opportunity. The wide receiver two against the lines
Speaker 4: last four weeks forty nine yards, forty nine yards, forty
Speaker 4: eight yards, fifty five yards feels like you're looking at
Speaker 4: four to five catches fifty sixty yards here. I have
Speaker 4: the tight ends on the bench. Everett could be interesting,
Speaker 4: but I have them on the bench. Lines have allowed
Speaker 4: three touchdowns last two weeks. Maybe one can get a
Speaker 4: touchdown if you're really desperate. Austin Eckler, I actually have
Speaker 4: a B grade on. It's a tough spot against the Lions.
Speaker 4: Run Dee near the top. Only one back all year's
Speaker 4: top fifteen carries none over sixty five yards. Outside of
Speaker 4: Augus edwards eighty yard reception. The most yards in the
Speaker 4: pass game allowed is thirty one. Eckler since he came
Speaker 4: back hasn't top fifty yards. He's averaging thirty seven yards
Speaker 4: two point six yards per carry. His pass game works underwhelming,
Speaker 4: but if the running is not working, the pass works.
Speaker 4: If the passing's not working, he scores. So one of
Speaker 4: the facets gates you to the B.
Speaker 1: When we come back premature speculation, we will give you
Speaker 1: three players to pick up that you'll want to pick
Speaker 1: up this week that everybody else will be trying to
Speaker 1: pick up next week. Final second Fantasy Football Weekly, Welcome Back.
Speaker 1: Final segment Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchie and Scottfish and
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison with you. You can follow us on Twitter. I
Speaker 1: am at Paul Charchie. I'll have to figure out how
Speaker 1: to spell it. Scott Fish is at Scottfish twenty four.
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison is at explosive Output. This is a segment
Speaker 1: we like to call premature speculation, where we give you
Speaker 1: three players that are generally available, players will want to
Speaker 1: pick up now that other people are going to be
Speaker 1: trying to pick up down the road, and you've already
Speaker 1: got them. Yeah, we begin with Scott Fish.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with Leonard Fournette. It feels a little
Speaker 4: bit gross, but Latibus Murray is a lot of it.
Speaker 4: Has played the goal line role for the Bills, and
Speaker 4: he's not doing well. He's converted two of just attempts. Recently,
Speaker 4: they've gone to just let Alan run it in because
Speaker 4: Murray isn't working. Harris is out for that is actually
Speaker 4: good in the past game as well. It may be nothing,
Speaker 4: but he may also take the goal line work and
Speaker 4: a pass game work, and you might have a decent,
Speaker 4: usable flex play back.
Speaker 1: I like it, Matt, your take a chance on me player,
Speaker 1: Maybe take a chance your premature speculation player.
Speaker 5: Maybe we should stop trying to make fetch a thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's French. Yeah, that's from Mean Girls. You ever
Speaker 5: seen Mean Girls?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: A long time ago.
Speaker 5: My gosh, what a great movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and disturbing actually a little bit, a little bit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I felt bad for the girl who got picked on
Speaker 1: by the mean girls.
Speaker 5: The Lindsay Lohan character. You can feel guilt.
Speaker 1: You can feel bad for Lindsay Lohan. You're allowed.
Speaker 5: She got her revenge meals, Yeah, there is. They had
Speaker 5: girls too. They had a musical as well, a Mean
Speaker 5: Girl's Musical. I saw it and it was fantastic. It's
Speaker 5: very fun. But we all, we all want to make
Speaker 5: the next Cardinals wide receiver a thing. So let's just
Speaker 5: do Rondell more. How about that, and we'll talk about
Speaker 5: the last five games of Kyler and Rondeal together. He
Speaker 5: averaged seven point six targets, five point eight catches, and
Speaker 5: sixty two yards per game. Now, if you also consider
Speaker 5: that we don't think Kyler is going to be running
Speaker 5: as much, and Rondale's kind of been the average depth
Speaker 5: of target short game guy. Yeah, they might just chuck
Speaker 5: the ball to him on screens all the time to
Speaker 5: keep the ball out of Kyler's hands. He might be
Speaker 5: looking at a big uptick in usage close to the line,
Speaker 5: and they're going to try to get him moving.
Speaker 1: Last week I gave Michael Wilson. I still prefer Michael Wilson,
Speaker 1: and I do think he's a great by low candidate
Speaker 1: in dynasty leagues especially. I think he's going to be
Speaker 1: could have a really nice end of season this year,
Speaker 1: but much more so next year. I'm still very enthused
Speaker 1: for him.
Speaker 5: I just missed Greg Dortch Yeah, yeah, mostly because I
Speaker 5: like to.
Speaker 1: Say dort George ty Chandler. Do remember this offseason, I
Speaker 1: urged you to put like your last round pick on
Speaker 1: ty Chandler.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Now, Ida at the time was kind of like how
Speaker 5: you urged us to draft Tank Bigsby.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The idea was Alexander Madison is likely to struggle and
Speaker 1: eventually the Vikings are going to have to find an alternative. Now,
Speaker 1: what I couldn't have known then was that they would
Speaker 1: trade for cam Aker, So that delayed the timetable on
Speaker 1: ty Chandler. But fast forward to now and Kevin O'Connell
Speaker 1: acknowledges that ty Chandler is going to be much more
Speaker 1: involved in this offense, which it wouldn't take much because
Speaker 1: he's had like five touches this year. Now, if Chandler
Speaker 1: outperforms Alexander Madison with you know, whatever usage he gets,
Speaker 1: which is I think is going to be like you know, five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: eight touches in these next week, week or two. Sure,
Speaker 1: you know, the momentum could really shift here because Madison
Speaker 1: simply hasn't been performing in this offense one way or another.
Speaker 1: There's real opportunity for Chandler. Maybe it he eventually triggers
Speaker 1: the timeshare and who knows, maybe even a starting opportunity
Speaker 1: at some point down the road for ty Chandler.
Speaker 5: And he showed real burst on that play that was
Speaker 5: called back for a penalty in the Vikings Niners Sunday nighter.
Speaker 5: I believe it was a Jordan Addison passed back across
Speaker 5: the field to him. Yeah, that's right, and he looked
Speaker 5: really good. It was like a thirty yard game or something.
Speaker 5: It looked like one of the most dynamic runners we've
Speaker 5: seen all year. It's not in the stat sheet, though,
Speaker 5: That's right. Keep an eye on him.
Speaker 1: Jets take on the Raiders. This will not take a
Speaker 1: lot of time given the state of these two teams.
Speaker 1: Let's start with Breese Hall, who's obviously he's a great
Speaker 1: running back, and this is actually a pretty darn good
Speaker 1: spot for him, and one of the times I feel
Speaker 1: really good about giving Breese Hall an a grade. He's
Speaker 1: gonna run the ball constantly in a very plus matchup
Speaker 1: against a lousy Raiders run defense. He's touched the ball
Speaker 1: at least seventeen times in four straight games, which is
Speaker 1: great for Breesehall. Over the last three games, the Raiders
Speaker 1: have allowed one hundred and seventy three rushing yards per game. Wow,
Speaker 1: Hall's gonna get most of that one hundred and seventy three.
Speaker 5: Dalvin Cooks certainly ain't.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: He's also turned into a reliable receiver over the same
Speaker 1: last three games Bresaw averaging five catches for forty seven yards.
Speaker 1: I mean, if everything plays to form here as it
Speaker 1: has over the last three weeks, Breshall could flirt with
Speaker 1: a two hundred yard game. Meanwhile, Las Vegas allowing those
Speaker 1: same five receptions to opposing runners. So we like Bresol
Speaker 1: quite a bit. The passing game not nearly so much.
Speaker 1: Raiders are actually pretty good pass defense. Max Crosby, by
Speaker 1: the way, what an awesome player. Languishing. Yeah, whole career
Speaker 1: is gonna be languishing with a bad team. Speaking of languishing,
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson thrown one touchdown in his last four games.
Speaker 1: Whoa an almost impossible streak of an aptitude when the
Speaker 1: NFL is entirely oriented to magnifying the quarterback position. Wilson
Speaker 1: Garrett hasn't scored since Week two, despite getting a very
Speaker 1: healthy twelve targets per game over the last five weeks.
Speaker 1: Max Crosby going to disrupt the pocket, putting Zack Wilson
Speaker 1: in trouble frequently. I don't love that part. Raiders secondary
Speaker 1: probably better than you think, ranking twelfth by Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 1: and they've got three functional cornerbacks Nate Hobbs, Amik Robertson,
Speaker 1: Marcus Peters. So there's nowhere for Garrett Wilson to go
Speaker 1: to exploit a particularly bad cornerback. So I can only
Speaker 1: get Garris Wilson to a c grade. You know we
Speaker 1: drafted him early second round. Yeah, it's just sad how
Speaker 1: this is really turned out.
Speaker 5: What do you think about the Aaron Rodgers standing on
Speaker 5: the field chucking fifty yard bombs flat footed.
Speaker 1: Nod, bless the man. If you can do it at
Speaker 1: this stage of your rehab, go for it, baby. I
Speaker 1: know I saw some things go by on social media.
Speaker 1: They were like, you know, he's such an attention wore,
Speaker 1: Hey poblice do his throwing passes in pregame? Who cares?
Speaker 1: I don't know, he's bored. Maybe that's it. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Las Vegas side Josh Jacobs. Now, we all
Speaker 1: expected new head coach Antonio Peers to pound the ball
Speaker 1: with DeVante Adams going into this last week's game, but.
Speaker 4: It didn't work out that way at all.
Speaker 1: It was all Josh Jacobs who got twenty six carries
Speaker 1: and the Raiders cruise to their easiest victory. I don't know, ever,
Speaker 1: game script makes sense this week for a lot of
Speaker 1: usage for Josh Jacobs. The Jets allow the second most
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game one hundred and forty five, and
Speaker 1: the Jets give up the third most receptions to the
Speaker 1: running back position. Josh Jacobs is a capable receiver sitting
Speaker 1: at a very big game. Here a grade for Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the passing game. The only two parts
Speaker 1: of the passing game you care about are Devonte Adams
Speaker 1: and Jacoby Myers. Let's start with Adams. You might have
Speaker 1: to bench him here. This is not good. Adam's scoreless
Speaker 1: streak is now six games long, and he's averaged just
Speaker 1: forty two yards over those six games. And this is
Speaker 1: a brutal matchup against arguably the best set of cornerbacks
Speaker 1: in the league, Sauce Gardner and DJ Reid. Sauce Gardner
Speaker 1: is allowing twenty six yards per game in his coverage
Speaker 1: and has not given up a touchdown. It's week two.
Speaker 1: Dj Reid is even better. He's allowing twenty one yards
Speaker 1: and he hasn't given up any touchdowns in his coverage
Speaker 1: this year. And Adams almost never runs from the slot,
Speaker 1: so you can't you can't bank on Adams getting easier coverage.
Speaker 1: I don't have it in my heart to give DeVante
Speaker 1: Adams a bench grade. Nope, I'm gonna give him a
Speaker 1: C grade. But just realize that he's got bench grade
Speaker 1: output possibilities in a brutal matchup against Sauce Gardner and
Speaker 1: DJ Reid. What about Jacoby Myers? Really all the same
Speaker 1: problems for Jacoby Myers, who also runs on the outside
Speaker 1: and rarely from the slot. He runs a little more
Speaker 1: from the slot, so once in a while he might
Speaker 1: get cornerback Michael Carter, but not enough that you can
Speaker 1: really risk him in an otherwise brutal matchup and Aidan
Speaker 1: O'Connell throwing him the ball. Ohconnell looks functional at this stage.
Speaker 1: But that's it for the Raiders. Our final matchup is
Speaker 1: the Packers taking on the Steelers.
Speaker 4: Scott Yep.
Speaker 1: This is a Packers offense that has been very, very
Speaker 1: very difficult to rely upon. Yeah, yeah, there's not a
Speaker 1: lot to like here. Aaron Jones got a lot more
Speaker 1: work last week. I know, so I was encouraging.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's led me to give Aaron Jones a
Speaker 4: B grade here. Only one back with twelve plus touches
Speaker 4: against the Steelers has failed to cross the sixty yard mark.
Speaker 4: I know that's a pretty low bar, but Aaron Jones
Speaker 4: was getting a lot more work than that last week.
Speaker 4: Five of the six to twenty touchbacks which is where
Speaker 4: Aaron Jones was last week. Had one hundred plus yards
Speaker 4: and several of them scoring. Jones has three plus catches
Speaker 4: in every game since returning, so it's giving you a
Speaker 4: little bit of a nice double digit floor there. I
Speaker 4: got a B grade there. Aj Dillon snapshare has dropped
Speaker 4: four straight, his touch totals dropped three straight, and Jones
Speaker 4: had over seventy percent of the work last week. So
Speaker 4: bench grade on aj Dillon. Over the pass game, I
Speaker 4: do have a bench grade on Jordan Love as well.
Speaker 4: It's a top ten pass d that has only allowed
Speaker 4: two passing scores in the last month. In the last
Speaker 4: four games, Love hasn't topped two hundred and thirty yards himself,
Speaker 4: just three scores, So bench there. Romeo Dobbs, I have
Speaker 4: a C grade on Dopps. Has five touchdowns on the
Speaker 4: season and is top ten for inside the ten targets
Speaker 4: and aed zone targets. No other Well, it's a it's
Speaker 4: a tough draw and his yardage shuttles have been low,
Speaker 4: but he's the leading target getter. He's the only player
Speaker 4: on the team with more than one receiving score and
Speaker 4: that counts running backs and tight ends. Jayden Reid has
Speaker 4: two because he has he has one receiving, one rushing,
Speaker 4: but he's the only one with more more than one
Speaker 4: receiving score. Jade Reed, who I just mentioned was might
Speaker 4: take a chance on me player. I do have Christian
Speaker 4: Watson on the bench, though he's top forty yards just
Speaker 4: once since returning, no game's over three catches. He needs
Speaker 4: a big play and he's gonna see Joey Porter Junior,
Speaker 4: who's shadowed the last few games he's allowing. He's allowed
Speaker 4: zero touchdowns and a nine point eight passer rating against
Speaker 4: Joey Porter Junior. That's ridiculous. That's absolutely ridiculous. Bench grade
Speaker 4: on lud Musgrave, who finally scored last week. But Steelers
Speaker 4: are third best against title ends.
Speaker 5: I believe his name is loose Mutton.
Speaker 1: That is loose Mutton right there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the only two good games from tight ends were
Speaker 4: tight ends. They got ten plus targets against the Steelers.
Speaker 1: I love the loose Mutton. Oh man, who doesn't.
Speaker 4: Over to the Pittsburgh Steelers better than tight Mutton.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the worst.
Speaker 1: I hate the tight Mutton.
Speaker 3: Chewy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, that's what the silence speak for itself. Over
Speaker 4: to the passing game for the Pimang Steelers. Kenny Picket
Speaker 4: QB Pittsburgh Steelers. Two passing touchdowns in the last five weeks.
Speaker 4: That is not not very good. It's a top four
Speaker 4: pass d We're not We're not going to start Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 4: I might start a couple of receivers, though just barely.
Speaker 4: I have a C grade on George Pickens. This might
Speaker 4: be one of those squeaky mouse grease wheel type games for.
Speaker 1: A grease mouse game, something like that, the grease cheese
Speaker 1: gets the mouse.
Speaker 4: Yep hissy fit. Last week, Tomlin completely backed him up,
Speaker 4: said he loves that fire and that desire to be
Speaker 4: part of the team's success. I should know he had
Speaker 4: a touch he would have had a touchdown, but he
Speaker 4: for some reason, he strided that second second leg like
Speaker 4: a first basement reaching for an out or whatever. Still
Speaker 4: getting five plus targets every game with Johnson. He's still
Speaker 4: leading in red zone and red and end zone targets
Speaker 4: for the team. He'll get a better match up then
Speaker 4: he'll get a better matchup this week with Carrington Vallan
Speaker 4: Valentine who took over for Rozill Douglas.
Speaker 5: You made that name up.
Speaker 4: I did Carrington Valentine B grade on Deontay Johnson. Since
Speaker 4: coming off ir, Johnson's worst game is five for seventy
Speaker 4: nine yards. He's averaging about ten targets from picketts per game.
Speaker 4: Five receivers have gotten Johnson's target volume. Against Green Bay,
Speaker 4: they averaged seven catches for eighty two yards. Jaya Alexander
Speaker 4: might miss this one will which will only make things
Speaker 4: better for Deontay Johnson. I have a B grade on
Speaker 4: Najie Harris fifty five forty five split in this backfield
Speaker 4: Warren routine. Lee is the better and more efficient runner,
Speaker 4: but both are two to six catchbacks. Nase he's getting
Speaker 4: more inside the work inside the five work. In fact,
Speaker 4: he's out touching over the last three games eight touches
Speaker 4: to two touches. Over Worn inside the red zone gets
Speaker 4: about twenty percent more touches. So I got a B
Speaker 4: grade there. And Jalen Warren with my take a chance
Speaker 4: on me player, and we got about a minute left here. Yeah,
Speaker 4: And I just wanted to say I am grateful to
Speaker 4: be on this show and to have you guys as friends.
Speaker 4: November twelfth coming up, you know this Sunday, Yeah, is
Speaker 4: my heartiversary. In twenty fourteen, I had a heart attack
Speaker 4: and it really changed the way I look at things,
Speaker 4: and I feel like I need to be more grateful
Speaker 4: for the things I have in my life because I
Speaker 4: might not be here. And I'm very, very happy to
Speaker 4: be a part of this show.
Speaker 1: Oh that's sweet, and we're happy to have you here,
Speaker 1: and we're glad that you lived through your heart attack.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean think about how different our lives would be
Speaker 1: as well, right, Yeah, gratitude. Expressing gratitude always a good idea.
Speaker 5: Did you say it was in twenty fourteen. Yeah, so
Speaker 5: you're now nine times away from.
Speaker 1: Boy it's your nine time aniverse.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine how scary that was.
Speaker 4: Yep.
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