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Speaker 1: We'll answer three tough questions. We'll give you nine players
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Speaker 1: identify the players that everybody's going to be trying to
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Speaker 1: Let's um, I want to dive into some matchups here,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna sprinkle in some reaction to Thursday night's
Speaker 1: game as well, and what to do about guys like
Speaker 1: Cam Newton and O. J. Howard and some others throughout
Speaker 1: the show as well. But let's let's go right into
Speaker 1: some of the matchups fantasy style, beginning with Jacksonville and Houston.
Speaker 1: Gardner Mayhew at the helm of the Jacksonville Jaguars. I
Speaker 1: once got a case of Gardner Mayhew from an Indonesian bathhouse. Well,
Speaker 1: you should get Gardner Minshew instead than Mayhew Mayhew. But
Speaker 1: I gonna talk about him in a later segment because
Speaker 1: he might be to take a chance on me kind
Speaker 1: of quarterback. Uh. As for the rest of the uh
Speaker 1: Leonard four Nett's getting an A grade, played six percent
Speaker 1: of the snaps in Week one, had seventeen of the
Speaker 1: jags eighteen running back touches in The Houston run defense
Speaker 1: was the worst rated in Week one by Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 1: allowing seven point three yards per carry. A grade. They're
Speaker 1: gonna try to keep the ball out of the hands
Speaker 1: of their quarterback. Maybe maybe, I think so, I don't know.
Speaker 1: D D Westbrook gets a B grade for me. Minshew
Speaker 1: targeted the slot a ton last year at Washington State,
Speaker 1: and that's d D spot. Texans slot cornerback Aaron Colvin
Speaker 1: did so well last week hundred and seventeen yards against
Speaker 1: and then they cut They cut them out right, which
Speaker 1: means they're starting Philip Gaines against Westbrook and I like
Speaker 1: those odds. The rest of the Jags, Chris Conley and
Speaker 1: DJ Chark there on the bench. It's not a revenge
Speaker 1: game for Chris Conley, so I'm not really interested in it.
Speaker 1: And Marquise Lee might end up going in this game,
Speaker 1: which would sap targets from both Conley and Chark. Chark
Speaker 1: was only targeted two times last week, so he's not
Speaker 1: worth it. And by the way I called it. Chris
Speaker 1: Conley touchdown on this show last Where's Where's a bird sound?
Speaker 1: That we listen? You know we're not going to stop
Speaker 1: the show every time we got something right. Yes we are,
Speaker 1: We're wrong when you can call it your Chris calmly
Speaker 1: shot that deserves the peacock right there. We've got two
Speaker 1: hours and there might be a lot of peacocks in
Speaker 1: this one. Uh. DeAndre Hopkins gets an A grade. He's
Speaker 1: scored or top two hundred yards in each of his
Speaker 1: last four meetings with Jalen Ramsey, so I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about him. Deshaun Watson's getting a B. I'm only nervous
Speaker 1: and he's only getting downgraded a little bit because he
Speaker 1: was sacked six times last week, right back to where
Speaker 1: we were last year. He took eleven other hits, was
Speaker 1: dinged up for most of the game in and out
Speaker 1: of the blue tent. That's not good. Still. The Chiefs
Speaker 1: lit up this defense last week, and Watson isn't much
Speaker 1: of a stepped down from Patrick Mahomes, so he gets
Speaker 1: the beat. Will Fuller gets a sea. Fuller was on
Speaker 1: the field for of the snaps, but he only saw
Speaker 1: three targets, so I think that some positive regression needs
Speaker 1: to come there. Kick Cutie might play but might not.
Speaker 1: That means both him and Kenny Stills are on your bench.
Speaker 1: And then Carlos Hide and Duke Johnson. I gave both
Speaker 1: of them a C grade. Both are kind of viable
Speaker 1: here in a sneaky way. Hide to his second in
Speaker 1: the league and yards after contact per attempt at six
Speaker 1: point three, and he has Pro Football Focus his highest
Speaker 1: elusive rating after week one. Carlo Carlos Hide, you know,
Speaker 1: you know what else is gonna be elusive? Him staying
Speaker 1: on top of that list is gonna be elusive. Duke
Speaker 1: was targeted the second most last week of all Houston receivers,
Speaker 1: and the Jags gave up nine receptions to the Kansas
Speaker 1: City running backs last week, so Duke's in a good
Speaker 1: spot too. Arizona takes on Baltimore Christian Kyler Murray with
Speaker 1: the fantastic second half of last week's game, but a
Speaker 1: much tougher matchup in Baltimore the time around. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: although there may be some garbage time stats to be
Speaker 1: had in this one, just like there, Well, it was
Speaker 1: sort of garbage time last week for Kyler Murray until
Speaker 1: he brought them all the way. Yeah, that's right from
Speaker 1: it somehow from from garbage to treasure were I was
Speaker 1: working on Twitter on the name. Is it merbage time
Speaker 1: or Kyle arbage time. I don't know if either one
Speaker 1: of those work. I think you're gonna have to just shopping.
Speaker 1: Come on, keep working, keep shopping. Uh. Yeah, Murray had
Speaker 1: that over over three passing yards last week and needed
Speaker 1: fifty four passing attempts and and overtime to get there.
Speaker 1: But it was interesting to see this offense get unveiled
Speaker 1: for the first time. They ran four wide receivers seventy
Speaker 1: three percent of the time, so an interesting wrinkle there.
Speaker 1: But this time, like you mentioned charts, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot tougher against the Ravens. They were top five
Speaker 1: against the past last year. They gave up just a
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety yards and one touchdown through the air
Speaker 1: in their Week one win over Miami. Granted that was
Speaker 1: Miami and it was also garbage time too. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I've got Murray on a C grade here, and it's
Speaker 1: purely because with the Ravens favored by almost two touchdowns
Speaker 1: in this game, I think there's going to be garbage time. No,
Speaker 1: come on, mur Murby m okay, let's move on to
Speaker 1: the wide receivers. Christian Kirk and Larry Fitzgerald are really
Speaker 1: the only two we need to discuss here. Interestingly, both
Speaker 1: of them are playing out of the slot most of
Speaker 1: the time. With four wide receivers, they have two guys
Speaker 1: on the outside and two on the inside. They were
Speaker 1: both targeted heavily. Kirk targeted twelve times by Murray last week,
Speaker 1: caught just four of them for thirty two yards. But terrible.
Speaker 1: It is terrible, but it's a good sign that they're
Speaker 1: using them that much. Baltimore did lose their starting slot
Speaker 1: corner to injury after Week one. They also could be
Speaker 1: without Jimmy Smith, another of their cornerbacks, so there could
Speaker 1: be some some that's to be had here. For Christian Kirk,
Speaker 1: I gave him a B B minus ish starting grade.
Speaker 1: We don't do minuses. How this is we are. We
Speaker 1: are firmly on whole grades around here. I go away
Speaker 1: for a couple of years, come back all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: we're not doing minus. What about pluses? No, there's no pluses,
Speaker 1: and Fantasy football call it what it is. A B
Speaker 1: or I'm gonna call it as see that. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna put a gun too, how about Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald gets
Speaker 1: to see too, just to spite you guys, because I
Speaker 1: would have given him a B minus. But he was
Speaker 1: targeted thirteen times last week, eight catches over a hundred yards.
Speaker 1: But this is a tough matchup. Only three wide receivers
Speaker 1: top two hundred yards versus the Ravens in all of eighteen,
Speaker 1: so I don't know that he needs the volume here.
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald and Kirk both need the volume. I don't think
Speaker 1: they're each going to see double digit targets, but I'm
Speaker 1: willing to give him another chance. With just c grades.
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald sees Brandon Carr. Probably I didn't give up a touchdown,
Speaker 1: not one last A tough matchup. Yeah, I would play
Speaker 1: Kirk over Fitzgerald if for some reason you saw fit
Speaker 1: to roster both of them. Nothing to see here with
Speaker 1: Keyshawn Johnson quite yet. He did have ten targets, but
Speaker 1: that was in garbage time and nothing to see what
Speaker 1: the tight ends, who aren't really even on the field
Speaker 1: in this offense on the Raven side, obviously, Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: is an a grade after that ridiculous debut in Week
Speaker 1: one where he was really effective through the air and
Speaker 1: really didn't even bother to run the ball, which is
Speaker 1: part of his fantasy appeal. So um, it's a massive
Speaker 1: upside here in week two again, you could argue he
Speaker 1: should be the number one quarterback. Charge I don't know
Speaker 1: where's my number two behind only Tom Brady and that's
Speaker 1: so that's that's where I've got it. Yeah, the Cardinals
Speaker 1: just gave up Matthew Stafford's best passing game in almost
Speaker 1: two years, so a great spot for Jackson again here
Speaker 1: his wide receivers, however, a little iffy um markis Brown
Speaker 1: had the huge couple of touchdowns last week, but was
Speaker 1: only targeted five times and only played fourteen snaps. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: But that's a mandate for more snaps. I mean he will,
Speaker 1: you know, it'll at least double. I mean he's Scott
Speaker 1: to be sitting on twenty five snaps this week? Do
Speaker 1: you would think so? But Jackson only through to the
Speaker 1: wide receivers a combined total of ten times in week one,
Speaker 1: so I'm a little worried about the volume here. Marc's
Speaker 1: Brown is a boomer bus play but you got to
Speaker 1: get him in there. I gave him a B grade.
Speaker 1: Miles Boykin just one target in one catching week in
Speaker 1: Week one. He may be relevant down the road, but
Speaker 1: not quite yet. So he is on the bench Mark
Speaker 1: Andrews and A grade here eight catches for a hundred
Speaker 1: and eight yards and a touchdown. Jackson targeted his tight
Speaker 1: ends fifteen times. The Cardinals just let Detroit rookie t J.
Speaker 1: Hockenson go off for a hundred and thirty yards in
Speaker 1: a touchdown. So elite level start for Mark Andrews. The
Speaker 1: running game. Mark Ingram also an elite level A start
Speaker 1: hundred seven yards and two touchdowns last week despite barely
Speaker 1: even playing. Would you give him an US No, I
Speaker 1: don't do that. You should know that about I don't
Speaker 1: into that. I would never do that. We are about
Speaker 1: whole grades here. Cardinals last year were easily the worst
Speaker 1: run defense in the NFL. They gave up league highs
Speaker 1: and rushing yards and rushing touchdowns. Mark Ingram is an
Speaker 1: obvious that you can even bring Gus Edwards into play here.
Speaker 1: Maybe he had more carries than Ingram last week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was in a lot of garbage time. But I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be up again in the second half.
Speaker 1: So Gus Edwards, let's give him a desperation C grade. Yeah,
Speaker 1: um for those that took the shot on Justice Hill
Speaker 1: right now, he's on the wrong side of that deal.
Speaker 1: And it looks like Gus Edwards is available in like
Speaker 1: every rookie running back outside of Josh Jacob, So practically,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Devin Singletary, they you know, they all got
Speaker 1: they all got back, Bernard. You're just gonna have to
Speaker 1: have patience on them. Most of them I think are
Speaker 1: in good spots. Although Devin Singletary maybe playable today we'll
Speaker 1: find out, like Dallas takes on Washington, and you know,
Speaker 1: for the most part, this won't take long because it's
Speaker 1: basically start all your cowboys and bench all your red skin.
Speaker 1: But we'll dive in just a little bit here. If
Speaker 1: you're not treating dak Press Prescott like a fantasy superstar,
Speaker 1: you don't get it right now. In the past four games,
Speaker 1: he's blown out the Giants twice, he's won a playoff
Speaker 1: game and scored multiple touchdowns, and every one of those
Speaker 1: four games Michael Gallup turning into a superstar. Amari Cooper
Speaker 1: already is one. The Redskins corners not nearly up to
Speaker 1: the task of stopping those two guys. And you look
Speaker 1: at what happened last week to the Redskins corners, Deshan
Speaker 1: Jackson all Sean Jeffrey just humbling them. Last year, Dak
Speaker 1: posted two good, not great games against Washington. I think
Speaker 1: they're up to great levels here. He is an A grade.
Speaker 1: Zeke is obviously in A grade. It goes without saying,
Speaker 1: particularly with defensive tackle Jonathan Allen knocked out for this game.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna gonna bounce back from last week's
Speaker 1: middling performance with a much better game here as well.
Speaker 1: Love Amari Cooper obvious A grade for him as well.
Speaker 1: Since arriving in Dallas, he's been targeted per game game. Yes,
Speaker 1: the Redskins secondary got torched for three scores last week.
Speaker 1: He's an A grade. Michael Gallop is He's is almost
Speaker 1: an A grade, but we're gonna call him a firm
Speaker 1: B for Michael Gallop. He's almost like we need some
Speaker 1: sort of designation in between A and no. We go.
Speaker 1: He has actually had more receptions and yards than Cooper,
Speaker 1: but over the last two games this week, one of
Speaker 1: this year than going back to the last game last year.
Speaker 1: Um he more often runs from the left, where where
Speaker 1: Gallop will match up with cornerback Quintin Dunbar. Dunbar's got
Speaker 1: the hayte and what height and weight or hate and
Speaker 1: white to hang with Gallop, but does not have the
Speaker 1: skill set and last year Gallop posted eighty one yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown in the one game he played against them.
Speaker 1: Tony Pologist now on the bench for the Redskins. The
Speaker 1: only startable players here case Keenum. It's mostly garbage time here.
Speaker 1: Don't chase last week's box score on Keenum. Obviously maybe
Speaker 1: in a pinch. Dallas has allowed three hundred more passing
Speaker 1: yards in three straight games going back to last year.
Speaker 1: And watch the status of elite cornerback Byron Byron Jones.
Speaker 1: If Jones does go, then we're just gonna bench Keena
Speaker 1: out right. If Jones is out then I think Keena
Speaker 1: becomes a dart throw here. You could try Trey Quinn,
Speaker 1: who scored last week in garbage time, but another dart
Speaker 1: throw at best with him. A lot of people picked
Speaker 1: up Terry McLaurin. Terry McLaren, uh, the uh tough matchup
Speaker 1: though this week against Shadobiawoozy, the cornerback was very good.
Speaker 1: And then again, if Byron Jones comes back, he'd have
Speaker 1: to contend with him as well. Adrian Peterson, you're starting
Speaker 1: running back and it will not matter that team cannot
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Speaker 1: will start at the quarterback position. Who do you have, Christian?
Speaker 1: I have Derek Carr this week going up against the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: What happens in Chiefs games is that they put up
Speaker 1: all sorts of points early on and the other team
Speaker 1: is forced to play catch up, or at least attempt to.
Speaker 1: And what happens is the other team usually puts up
Speaker 1: big stats as well. Last year, the Chiefs were a
Speaker 1: bottom five pass defense. They allowed the most passing yards
Speaker 1: to a poison quarterbacks, nearly two touchdown passes per game,
Speaker 1: and Derek Carr is no exception. In his last two
Speaker 1: home games against the Chiefs, twinter and eighty five yards
Speaker 1: and three touchdowns followed by four seventeen yards and three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He's coming off in efficient Week one performance where he
Speaker 1: was only asked to throw the ball twenty six times,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna have to throw the ball a lot
Speaker 1: more in this one. And I like his chances of
Speaker 1: putting up big numbers while trying to keep pace with
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. One might call that carbage time carbas very man,
Speaker 1: after which that term was called originally invented. Yes, all right, Matt,
Speaker 1: who's your take chance of the quarterback? I've got Gardner
Speaker 1: Minshew the Mississippi Mustache fan Ball this week. By the way,
Speaker 1: he's a sixth round rookie. He takes over for the
Speaker 1: injured Nick Foles. Minshew was credited by Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: with a one percent adjusted completion percentage, which means that
Speaker 1: percent of the balls he threw we're on target. How
Speaker 1: about that? Uh? He faces a Houston team that just
Speaker 1: got pasted by Drew Brees last week for seventy yards.
Speaker 1: Six of the last seven quarterbacks who have faced the
Speaker 1: Texans have topped either three hundred yards or thrown from
Speaker 1: multiple scores, with five of those accomplishing both of those feats.
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew, all Right, Gardner minshew. I thought he was
Speaker 1: the Indonesian Indian or something. No, No, he's the Mississippi mustache. Okay,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen goes up against the Giants, he's only dollars
Speaker 1: on fanball. It's over the last Giants. By the way,
Speaker 1: if it we're not for the Dolphins, strandson of the
Speaker 1: worst defense in the league, and they still might, I
Speaker 1: think it's still gonna be. This is a one A
Speaker 1: and one B situation. Over the last three games, going
Speaker 1: back through last year, Giants are giving up an average
Speaker 1: of three hundred eighty three passing yards and three and
Speaker 1: a half touchdown passes per game. I don't need Josh
Speaker 1: Allen to get me a full three eight three and
Speaker 1: three and a half. How about two thirds of that?
Speaker 1: Give me like two seventy and two and a half,
Speaker 1: and I'd be pretty happy. He'll chip in more with
Speaker 1: his legs, Giants. Giants defense still has not found suitable
Speaker 1: replacements for Landon Collins, and then they lost Olivia Vernon
Speaker 1: in the off season. They were the dead last pass
Speaker 1: rush defense by Pro Football Focus last week, Giants were
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, even Josh Allen cannot screw this up.
Speaker 1: He's gonna throw a bunch of deep balls and something
Speaker 1: we're going to connect. Don't forget that he just got
Speaker 1: to spend time in New York all this week because
Speaker 1: he was in the same stadium last week and away game. Great,
Speaker 1: great point, just stayed there. Maybe that was it, and
Speaker 1: then he might even rush in a little something extra
Speaker 1: for you as well, Josh Allen, take a chance on
Speaker 1: the quarterback. Just go to the running backs. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna roll with Chris Thompson of the Redskins going up
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. Charter. You just callously dismissed the entire
Speaker 1: Redskins backfield when you when you talked about the matchup
Speaker 1: in the previous previous segment. And I agree, they can't
Speaker 1: run the ball, but what they can do is throw
Speaker 1: the ball to their running backs. I was just leaving
Speaker 1: Chris Thompson for you, specifically Chris Thompson, who led who
Speaker 1: led all Redskins players and targets last week with ten,
Speaker 1: catching seven of them for sixty eight yards in the matchup.
Speaker 1: Here favors pass catching running backs. The Cowboys allowed the
Speaker 1: fifth most receptions to opposing runners last year. They yielded
Speaker 1: seven catches to the Giants in week one, and now
Speaker 1: with Adrian Peterson in the game instead of Darius Guys,
Speaker 1: he's even less of a threat to catch receptions than
Speaker 1: Geis was. So I think Thompson's gonna be in this game.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be playing catch up. They're gonna be dumping
Speaker 1: it off to him quite a bit. Just on fan
Speaker 1: ball this week. Malcolm Brown is only one fan ball
Speaker 1: this week, and he's become a true vulture with four
Speaker 1: carries from inside the ten and two short touchdowns last week. However,
Speaker 1: yards after contact per attempt Malcolm Brown number seven in
Speaker 1: the league at four point six. That's not bad. He's
Speaker 1: not involved in the passing game at all, never having
Speaker 1: more than two targets in a game in his entire career.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't matter because the Saints made Carlos Hide
Speaker 1: and Duke Johnson looked like Todd Gurley and his prime
Speaker 1: last week, allowing seven point three yards per carry, ten
Speaker 1: carries eighty five yards in a score for Malcolm Brown
Speaker 1: this week. I like it. Darren Sprawls way off everybody's radar.
Speaker 1: Darren Sprawls, this is your one chance, probably on the year,
Speaker 1: to start him almost free in fan ball shalary cap system.
Speaker 1: He was more involved in last week's game plan than
Speaker 1: anybody would have expected, I think on the field twenty
Speaker 1: three plays, which was five more than Jordan Howard was,
Speaker 1: and Howard was the presumed starter for this one. Now,
Speaker 1: obviously Sprailes is not going to chip in ground yardage
Speaker 1: in any meaningful way. But he might. He had like
Speaker 1: nine carries last time. I well, probably not a meaningful way.
Speaker 1: Maybe falcons have allowed You guys already know this. You
Speaker 1: know where I'm going with this. Falcons have allowed the
Speaker 1: most running back touchdowns last year, the year before that,
Speaker 1: the year before that, and the year before that. I
Speaker 1: think it's safe to say that we will always have
Speaker 1: to take a chance on me pass catching running back
Speaker 1: going against the falcon That's right, it's it always the tradition.
Speaker 1: I'm doing it this time because I believe Darren Spoils
Speaker 1: should be in the Hall of Fame. He is number
Speaker 1: six all time in yards. That's awfully impressive. So you're
Speaker 1: basing his Week two prognosis on his entire career. That's right, good,
Speaker 1: which now spans Darren Sprawls. Let's go to the receiver positions.
Speaker 1: You take a chance of me receiver. Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: roll with me Cole Hardman this week on the opposite
Speaker 1: side of that Chiefs versus Raiders matchup that I talked about.
Speaker 1: You may remember Hardman as the guy that the Chiefs
Speaker 1: drafted this spring to replace Tyreek Hill when it wasn't
Speaker 1: at all clear whether Tyreek Hill was ever going to
Speaker 1: play in the NFL again. Then Hill came back and
Speaker 1: everybody forgot about Hardman, and now Hill is hurt again
Speaker 1: and here comes Hardman. He did play eight of the
Speaker 1: snaps in Week one, even with Hill in the game
Speaker 1: for at least part of it. But he's the guy
Speaker 1: who's going to step into that role of playing deep threat,
Speaker 1: and anybody who's gonna get looks in this offense, especially
Speaker 1: as a deep threat replacing Tyreek Hill, is worthy of
Speaker 1: your attention this week, So go grab him. He's on
Speaker 1: the waiver wire in most leagues, or at least was
Speaker 1: as of earlier. This week, I've got Cole Beasley at
Speaker 1: fan but it's almost a free space. He didn't put
Speaker 1: up the huge numbers that John Brown did last week,
Speaker 1: but he did have nine targets, with which only trailed
Speaker 1: John Brown by one. UM He caught four or five
Speaker 1: of his targets from the slot, but also ran ten
Speaker 1: routes from out wide saw four targets on those ten routes.
Speaker 1: The Giants defense is terrible. I'll highlight how awful they
Speaker 1: are amongst outside receivers later, But every Cowboys wide receiver
Speaker 1: had a great day, including slotman Randall Cobb, who had
Speaker 1: his best day in years with sixty nine nice yards
Speaker 1: in a score. Um Josh Allens might take a chance
Speaker 1: on me corner. Let's hook him up. Let's hook those
Speaker 1: two up. Vance McDonalds might take a chance of me
Speaker 1: receiver slash tight end in this case. He only had
Speaker 1: two receptions last week, but was on the field for
Speaker 1: seventy one of the Steelers plays, and his backup Xavier
Speaker 1: Grimble was on the field for two plays in the
Speaker 1: entire game. McDonald will be more involved in this game.
Speaker 1: Seattle allowed nine tight end touched receptions for ninety three
Speaker 1: yards last week, and Seattle's allowed at least seventy tight
Speaker 1: end yards and five of the last six games going
Speaker 1: back to last year. This is gonna be a bounce
Speaker 1: back game for Vance McDonald I am confident by the
Speaker 1: way fan ball if you're wondering what you gotta pay
Speaker 1: on fan ball to get a little vance McDonald action.
Speaker 1: It's not bad. I don't think Buffalo taking on the Giants.
Speaker 1: Matt we were We've just talked about this one in
Speaker 1: a fair amount of detail. A little bill and might
Speaker 1: take a chance on me. Quarterback Cold Beasley, you take
Speaker 1: a chance for me. Wide receiver, who's left to talk about?
Speaker 1: Let's talk about John Brown. He's a a B grade,
Speaker 1: But if there was something between a B and an
Speaker 1: A that I could give him, it's it's pretty close
Speaker 1: to something right between those two void right there. It's
Speaker 1: a chasm between those two grades. Slightly better than that
Speaker 1: right there. Um Perimeter wide receivers torch the Giants defense
Speaker 1: last week, as Michael Gallup and Amari Cooper totaled third
Speaker 1: team catches two sixty four yards and a touchdown against
Speaker 1: this Giants d The Giants only managed one pressure on
Speaker 1: Doc last week and thirty two dropbacks. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: plenty of time for Josh Allen to look around, get
Speaker 1: Brown downfield and hit him with a deep ball. Devin Singletary,
Speaker 1: I'm actually giving a B grade two as well with
Speaker 1: Frank Gore and t J. Elden on the bench. Devin
Speaker 1: Singletary leads the NFL in russias of ten plus yards
Speaker 1: with four, which is about all the carries he had.
Speaker 1: He had four Russian attempts um. He also did have
Speaker 1: five receptions to Gordon out touch Singletary ten to nine.
Speaker 1: But that ends. Now it's over. Now it should be well, okay,
Speaker 1: we think you think it's over, it's gotta be over.
Speaker 1: Matt anything to say, come on, all right the other side,
Speaker 1: this is pretty easy. Sae Kwon Barkley easy A. Don't
Speaker 1: even have to talk about it. He's an easy A
Speaker 1: in any lineup. Uh Evan Ingram a grade as well.
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd is out. That's seven vacated targets from last week,
Speaker 1: and I bet they all go to Angram, who already
Speaker 1: had thirteen targets in his big performance. Say Kron and
Speaker 1: Ingram are literally their only chance to win. Eli Manning.
Speaker 1: The rest of the team is on the bench. Cody
Speaker 1: Lattimer isn't anyone's lineup this week, but he did have
Speaker 1: the most targets among wide receivers last week with eight,
Speaker 1: but he's still on the bench. He is on the bench.
Speaker 1: I worry a little bit. She's with the dearth of
Speaker 1: receiving talent, no Golden Tate, no no Sterling Shepherd. That
Speaker 1: the Bills might just take away Evan Ingram and basically say,
Speaker 1: you know, go beat us with Cody Latimer. They might try,
Speaker 1: but Barkley is still there and Evan Ingram's playing in
Speaker 1: the tight end position. Wide receivers just working one more matchup. Indeed,
Speaker 1: Apple is taking on Tennessee. Marlon Mack was awesome last week.
Speaker 1: Leads the NFL and rushing yards with a hundred seventy four.
Speaker 1: Now he gets Tennessee. Yeah, he was. He was awesome,
Speaker 1: And it sure seems like the Colts without Andrew Luck
Speaker 1: now have sort of turned their attention to the running
Speaker 1: game and running behind their maweling offensive line, and it
Speaker 1: worked like a charm in week one. You mentioned a
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy four yards on twenty five carries. When
Speaker 1: these two teams meet met in weeks seventeen of last year,
Speaker 1: so two games ago, two games ago, Mac had twenty
Speaker 1: five carries for a hundred and nineteen yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So I've got him as a solid a here, like
Speaker 1: he's in that group of a's that's right all right there,
Speaker 1: and then there's a huge cliff down to the mac
Speaker 1: is right in there with the a's yet, So let's yes,
Speaker 1: let's move to the passing game. Jacoby Brissette. I have
Speaker 1: him on the bench here. Just didn't have the attempts,
Speaker 1: didn't have the volume last week. Just twenty seven pass attempts,
Speaker 1: hundred ninety yards and two touchdowns. Really no reason to
Speaker 1: think about putting him in the lineup on the road
Speaker 1: against a solid Titans pass defense. T Y Hilton is
Speaker 1: the only receiver you need to be concerned about here.
Speaker 1: Nine targets in Week one, eighty seven yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: No other receiver had more than five targets, So it's
Speaker 1: all t Y Hilton all the time. Hilton also had
Speaker 1: nine catches for a hundred and fifty five yards and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns the last time the Colts traveled to Tennessee. Still,
Speaker 1: because of the lack of volume in the uncertain here,
Speaker 1: just a B grade for Hilton. None the wide receivers
Speaker 1: are worth anything. Tight ends we're targeted just six times
Speaker 1: in Week one. I know Scott Fish earlier went to
Speaker 1: bat for the idea that Jacoby Brissette was going to
Speaker 1: throw a lot to the tight ends, but we didn't
Speaker 1: see it in week one, and we still we still
Speaker 1: have Ebron and Doyle splitting looks there. So don't worry
Speaker 1: about either one of them. On the Titans side, there's
Speaker 1: really well, there's a couple of things that talk about.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the easy one. Derrick Henry is an
Speaker 1: easy a after last week's explosion eighty four yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown on the ground, seventy five yards and a
Speaker 1: touchdown through the air. The Colts just got eviscerated for
Speaker 1: two hundred nineteen combined rushing and receiving yards and three
Speaker 1: touchdowns by the Chargers running backs last week. So, Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry is he number one on your running back ranks?
Speaker 1: I haven't he's got he's yeah, he's not one, but
Speaker 1: he's up there. Okay, passing game, I've got Marcus Mariota
Speaker 1: on the bench. I'm not fooled by last week's box score.
Speaker 1: It looks nice to eight yards and three touchdowns, but
Speaker 1: he had just twenty four pass attempts. Thirty percent of
Speaker 1: his yards came on a dump off that Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: took seventy five yards for a Touchdow untouched at that
Speaker 1: untouched right, So I'm not buying it on Mariota. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna leave him on the bench. I want to make
Speaker 1: him prove it at least one more week. The wide
Speaker 1: receivers were kind of a mess. They combined for just
Speaker 1: four catches on hundred and five yards in Week one. A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown had three of those catches and a hundred of
Speaker 1: those yards. So he's the guy that you have to
Speaker 1: look at here if you're desperate to get in a
Speaker 1: wide receiver here, I'd give him a C grade. Corey
Speaker 1: Davis man three targets, although he was going up against
Speaker 1: Brown's cornerback Denzel Ward, who is legit. He's turning into
Speaker 1: a shutdown, shutdown type guy. But needless to say, you
Speaker 1: can't have Davis in your lineup. The only other guy
Speaker 1: were concerned about here, tight end Delaney Walker. Welcome back
Speaker 1: Delaney with two touchdowns in week one. The Colts allowed
Speaker 1: the most catches and yards to opposing tight ends in
Speaker 1: so let's keep it going with a B start on
Speaker 1: Delaney Walker this week. I'm mom listening to that. I
Speaker 1: think it makes sense. By the way, if you're wondering
Speaker 1: Marlon mackw you just mentioned running back four this week,
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry running back five. Do you have one spot?
Speaker 1: But you know, but they actually graded out with the
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Speaker 1: Chargers take on the Lions, and it was a great
Speaker 1: game Frost and Ekeler last week. But I'm a little
Speaker 1: more cautious this week around because the Lions committed to
Speaker 1: beefing up their defensive line over the last year. They
Speaker 1: traded for snacks Harrison. Then in the off season they
Speaker 1: added a Matt Patricia favorite going back to his days
Speaker 1: with the Patriots and Trey Flowers. But those two got
Speaker 1: off to a very slow start after combining from the
Speaker 1: three tackles last week, and they let David Johnson pile
Speaker 1: up one D thirty seven total yards. Still, Johnson was
Speaker 1: pretty involved in that past and that's your best that's
Speaker 1: your best angle for Ler for sure. It Eckler is
Speaker 1: a very good receiver, and so that's your angle and
Speaker 1: why he's still a B grade here. If you're just
Speaker 1: talking about running up the middle. I don't like Eckler
Speaker 1: so much, and that's a lot of why I don't
Speaker 1: like Justin Jackson at all. And he is a on
Speaker 1: the bench. He only got of the snaps last week,
Speaker 1: and then again he's trying to run up the middle
Speaker 1: right at snacks Harrison and that's more. His bit is
Speaker 1: between the tackles. So I'm out on Justin Jackson. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the passing game where no Hunter Henry Mike
Speaker 1: Williams probably does not play with the knee injury, although
Speaker 1: I think technically a game time decision for him. That
Speaker 1: leaves Philip rivers with Travis Benjamin maybe, and Benjamin's gotta
Speaker 1: take the sleigh ride Darius Sleigh in this one. So
Speaker 1: I don't we need some sleigh bells by the way
Speaker 1: for the sleigh ride. That would be pretty great, all
Speaker 1: right it Rianna is making a note right now, get
Speaker 1: to get the sleigh bell signs for us slay. I
Speaker 1: don't what would the what would the Joe Iron Hayden
Speaker 1: sound be like a clink like like the league's vault
Speaker 1: closing maybe, but it's a creaking sound right as the
Speaker 1: but the what about the pokey part of the Iron
Speaker 1: Maiden that ouch anyway, Philip Rivers is is just a
Speaker 1: C grade here, although we're interesting to note the Lions
Speaker 1: go from last week trying to stop Kyler Murray, right,
Speaker 1: this really raw, amazing athlete with all the speed, and
Speaker 1: now they go to a savvy veteran with two career
Speaker 1: starts and as as mobile as a statue. So uh
Speaker 1: that Larry Fitzgerald terrorized the Lions from the slot last year,
Speaker 1: and Keenan Allen still has a good opportunity here who
Speaker 1: runs his routes from the majority of the time from
Speaker 1: the slot, and without Hunter Henry and Mike Williams. I
Speaker 1: think that becomes really the whole game for Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: is whether or not you you trust Keenan Allen. I do.
Speaker 1: I've got to. I've got a B grade on Rivers,
Speaker 1: B grade on Keenan Allen in the hopes that they
Speaker 1: can do enough there. I wouldn't try Travis Benjamin. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Detroit side. Carry on Johnson epic disappointment
Speaker 1: because he's not that good. No, I think he is good, um,
Speaker 1: and I do I like him again here I'm going
Speaker 1: back to the well I liked him last week and
Speaker 1: liked him here. Marlon Mack just hammered the Chargers for
Speaker 1: one seventy four yards. As Christian elucidated moments ago, the
Speaker 1: Chargers have allowed nearly two running back touchdowns per game
Speaker 1: over their last five games. Johnson got a two to
Speaker 1: one ratio of usage and snap counts over c. J. Anderson,
Speaker 1: so he he's my preferred guy. But I still have
Speaker 1: and an A grade on Carrie on Johnson, I gotta
Speaker 1: c n c J Anderson because he did wasn't It
Speaker 1: was a two to one snap count and that's not
Speaker 1: that bad. He carried the ball eleven times last week,
Speaker 1: and the great game script here should be tilted much
Speaker 1: more towards the run than last week. So I like c. J.
Speaker 1: Anderson as a sneaky starting grade of a C. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the passing game for Matthew Stafford. Do not
Speaker 1: chase last week's box score against Arizona. Arizona was missing
Speaker 1: both their starting cornerbacks. This time, it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of running. Last year, the Charges were an inconsistent
Speaker 1: run defense, and then, as I mentioned earlier, Marlon mac
Speaker 1: ripped him last week. I just don't think that there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a passing game. There's not gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of volume. Just to see grade on Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: see grade on Kenny Golladay. Unlike last week, he's got
Speaker 1: a brutal matchup. He gets Charges cornerback Casey Hayward, who
Speaker 1: allowed the least separation to wide receivers last year and
Speaker 1: the sixth lowest catch rate to wide receivers in his
Speaker 1: coverage last year. Casey Hayward is awesome and he likely
Speaker 1: shadows Kenny Golladay for much of this game. Let's go
Speaker 1: to t J Hockenson last week setting the all time
Speaker 1: tight end debut yardage record and didn't need the overtime
Speaker 1: to do it. He said it in regulations, So don't
Speaker 1: anybody put an asterix on the end of that record
Speaker 1: of t J Hockenson's. The Charges held the Colts excellent
Speaker 1: tight ends only three receptions last week. Um, and so
Speaker 1: when I look at that, I gotta figure this is
Speaker 1: probably not gonna be the then close to last week's game.
Speaker 1: By volume and again run heavy script. I don't think
Speaker 1: we're gonna have anywhere near the kind of success for
Speaker 1: t J Hockenson this week. But still startable with a
Speaker 1: C grade and Marvin Marvin Harrison only lightly involved. Marvin
Speaker 1: Harrison still in Thervin Harrison, Marvin Harrison coming out of retirement. Um, wait,
Speaker 1: is he still in prison? I don't think he ever
Speaker 1: went to prison. They never go to prison. After all,
Speaker 1: the Shenanigans and the guns in every game, all right,
Speaker 1: Marvin Jones only lightly involved last week coming off his injury,
Speaker 1: and again game script is not ideal for him. He
Speaker 1: is on the bench, New England taking on Miami. Matt Start.
Speaker 1: Everybody from the Patriots bench, everybody from the Dolphins. Can
Speaker 1: we just move on? Yeah? Almost. I would like to
Speaker 1: propose a new Fantasy football weekly rule. We're not going
Speaker 1: to mention the Dolphins until there is a starter starter,
Speaker 1: a fantasy on the bench. So I don't even get
Speaker 1: to say the name like the Patriots are playing. No what, well,
Speaker 1: we can say the name, the name of Dolphins. We
Speaker 1: just don't ever like toss on the Dolphins side of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't need to. Uh do you want me to
Speaker 1: talk about the Dolphins? I don't really want to talk
Speaker 1: about all on the bench. Even garbage time. You can't
Speaker 1: count on garbage time against the secondary, So No, I
Speaker 1: don't think there's a startable Dolphin. No, it's gross. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Patriots A starts for Tom Brady, Julian Edelman, Josh
Speaker 1: Gordon and Antonio Brown if he plays. Obviously, the allegations
Speaker 1: against him are serious. And uh, I did see that
Speaker 1: they're not going to put him on the Commissioner's exempt list.
Speaker 1: And the Patriots haven't said whether or not they're playing.
Speaker 1: They're playing playing, um, so fire him up in your
Speaker 1: lineup if he sits. Somehow, Edelman and Gordon go up
Speaker 1: to an A and a half grade. Uh, it's Philip
Speaker 1: Dorsett gets a ce point sixth grade that would uptick
Speaker 1: to a full how you know why? Now you know
Speaker 1: why we don't do the plus? Is the halfs there
Speaker 1: any of that stuff? This is why it turns well,
Speaker 1: it's a B minus minus plus minus. Dorset plays a
Speaker 1: similar style to Hollywood Brown, who logged two long touchdowns
Speaker 1: against the Fins last week, and then the running backs
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle James White. James White's a little bit dinged
Speaker 1: up and now or actually no, not d He's got
Speaker 1: the possible birth of a child, so he might not go.
Speaker 1: They're all bees anyway, Michelle White and Rex Burkhead. Michelle
Speaker 1: led the backfield with fifteen carries. There should be plenty
Speaker 1: of garbage time here where they're just grinding clock. Uh.
Speaker 1: Both Birkhead and White had five catches, although Burkhead had
Speaker 1: one more target than White. Burke had led the running
Speaker 1: backs and opportunities with the eight targets plus eight carries.
Speaker 1: He logged five point five yards per carry on the
Speaker 1: ground as well. So Burkhead's kind of a sneaky play,
Speaker 1: like a bonus take a chance on me here. Uh.
Speaker 1: He could have more run in the game too, since
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna be a blow up in the second half.
Speaker 1: It might be just all Rex Burkhead in the second half.
Speaker 1: So that's it. Sony Michelle had the was fifteen carries
Speaker 1: for fourteen. It was. It was pretty bad. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be a get right Yeah, it doesn't it feel that way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get him right here. Yeah. I think it's
Speaker 1: I had to put an a grade on him. San
Speaker 1: Francisco taking on Cincinnati, Um, there was not a lot
Speaker 1: to love about the San Francisco offense and the first
Speaker 1: the first week of the season, you feel any better
Speaker 1: about them as they travel to Cincinnati. No, not particularly uh,
Speaker 1: certainly not about the passing game. I mean charts. These
Speaker 1: are your guys, Garoppolo, Dante Pettis, What's what's happening here?
Speaker 1: A hundred and sixties six yards and one touchdown in
Speaker 1: Week one against a bottom five past defense in the
Speaker 1: Bucks that he should have been able to move the
Speaker 1: ball against. The Bengals were also not a good past
Speaker 1: defense last year. But I just have no confidence in Garoppolo.
Speaker 1: So he's on the bench, along with all of his
Speaker 1: wide receivers who combined for twelve targets. The most targeted
Speaker 1: was Deebo Samuel with three. We'll talk more about him later.
Speaker 1: And then you've got Marquis Goodwin, who was second in
Speaker 1: snaps amongst San Francisco Whiteouts, which I bring up mainly
Speaker 1: because I like the word amongst to say. And then
Speaker 1: Dante Pettis, he's practically dead, charging two snaps to snap,
Speaker 1: but each it's a groin injury, and they say he's
Speaker 1: fully healthy now and he'll get more snap You like
Speaker 1: him so much. They caught him in our Empire League. Man,
Speaker 1: what a disaster. Tight end is not a disaster though,
Speaker 1: George Kittle ten targets last week, caught eight of them.
Speaker 1: If you don't if you weren't watching, you may not
Speaker 1: have noticed that he had two touchdowns called back because
Speaker 1: of penalties, so he was all over this game. He's
Speaker 1: an easy a start against the since defense that allowed
Speaker 1: more tight end touchdowns than any other team last year.
Speaker 1: So let's go to the running game. Matt Brada now
Speaker 1: steps into a mostly full time role with Tevin Coleman
Speaker 1: out with that high ankle spraying. Coleman looks like he'll
Speaker 1: be out four to six weeks, so this is brightest
Speaker 1: chance until he gets injured. Last week's game still most
Speaker 1: most shirt most Steed could be in the mix as well,
Speaker 1: but I think you will be Yeah, probably, uh, you know, really,
Speaker 1: you can look at Breda this week as an interesting
Speaker 1: option because Cincinnati was bad against the run last year.
Speaker 1: Opponing running backs average nearly five yards per carry. They
Speaker 1: did hold Chris Carson to forty six yards on fifteen
Speaker 1: carries in Week one, so maybe they've started to figure
Speaker 1: some stuff out. But I've gotten scored twice. I've got
Speaker 1: Breto with a B level start here and most diret
Speaker 1: I have on the bench just because He's probably gonna
Speaker 1: get sixty eight touches unless Breta gets hurt and we
Speaker 1: can't predict that, so I've got him on the bench.
Speaker 1: The other side of this matchup for the Bengals, let's
Speaker 1: start with Andy Dalton. Fire up the peak, baby, take
Speaker 1: a chance on me quarterback last week. You're welcome, You're welcome.
Speaker 1: I'm sure all of you started Andy Dalton in your
Speaker 1: league's last week. I did in one. I started in
Speaker 1: a two quarterback league. I did say to start Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton over Jared Goff to several people. If it's not
Speaker 1: on this show, I really don't want to hear your
Speaker 1: muttering Twitter around the plater. Baby. Nicely done by explosive output,
Speaker 1: the career high four and er in eighteen yards last week.
Speaker 1: And let's not forget that Dalton has had a couple
Speaker 1: of top ten quarterback you know, Fantasy seasons three and
Speaker 1: four and five years ago, back when played a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks like this new offense, this new coaching staff
Speaker 1: is a little bit more willing to air it out,
Speaker 1: just a little bit so, and the matchup hears pretty good.
Speaker 1: The forty Niners were able to flummox Jamis Winston last week,
Speaker 1: although he's flummox prone. I do. I do, in fact,
Speaker 1: but last year they allowed the most quarterback passing touchdown
Speaker 1: so this is a matchup Dalton can exploit again. I
Speaker 1: gave him a B level grade along with Tyler Boyd
Speaker 1: and John Ross, each of his top two wide receivers
Speaker 1: bees for both of those guys. Boyd had eleven targets
Speaker 1: and eight catches. Ross, of course, erupted seven catches for
Speaker 1: a d fifty eight yards and two touchdowns. I certainly
Speaker 1: don't think we're going to see a repeat of that,
Speaker 1: But just the fact that those two guys are so
Speaker 1: heavily involved without a J Green here, I think that
Speaker 1: brings them into the mix. Forty niners were bad against
Speaker 1: wide receivers last year. They allowed a league worse twenty
Speaker 1: seven wide receiver touchdowns. So both of those guys are
Speaker 1: in play. The tight ends are not. They split eleven
Speaker 1: targets and nine catches between c. J Uzoma and Tyler Effort,
Speaker 1: so those guys are on the bench. That brings us
Speaker 1: to the running game. And Joe Mixon sprained ankle in
Speaker 1: Week one, knocked him out, didn't practice until Friday. He
Speaker 1: did return to practice on Friday, so that gives him
Speaker 1: a chance to play. You're gonna have to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on the injury report just to make sure this
Speaker 1: is a good matchup. Tampa running backs averaged over five
Speaker 1: years uh five yards per carrying a hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: combined rushing and receiving yards against the forty niners last week,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't go Geo. Bernard is an auto star,
Speaker 1: that's right. Last year, Mixing sat out a couple of games.
Speaker 1: In those two games, Bernard got every running back touch
Speaker 1: and had at least sixty five combo yards and a
Speaker 1: touchdown in both. So have Bernard ready just in just
Speaker 1: in case mix and doesn't play to actually your best play,
Speaker 1: best case scenario for fantasy would be preferable. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: if mixings out, which removes all question about whether you
Speaker 1: should even start Mixing or whatever else. And then if
Speaker 1: you've got you Bernard, you just you and you deploy him, right,
Speaker 1: I agree, It makes it much much simpler, unless, of course,
Speaker 1: you own Mixing and you don't have Bernard. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: then but somebody else owns Bernard and he's listening right now,
Speaker 1: and then he gets to go start him, which isn't
Speaker 1: half bad? Um, Thursday night game, Cam Newton drop herbal
Speaker 1: or not? Let's go to the Cam Newton desk in
Speaker 1: Christian Peterson. You know, it's getting nothing, nothing on the ground,
Speaker 1: and it's been this way, getting nothing on the ground
Speaker 1: for him anymore. And that's the problem. It's sure it
Speaker 1: sure seems that way that they've just completely gone away
Speaker 1: from any pretense of of running with him. And that
Speaker 1: was where a significant portion of his fantasy, his fantasy
Speaker 1: excellence came from. So I'm not dropping him quite yet.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him another week or two to see
Speaker 1: what happens. But he's uh yeah, he's Rivera will be
Speaker 1: the first coach fired in the NFL this year. Wow,
Speaker 1: you it's not impossible that you're right about that new owner,
Speaker 1: don't They won and nine in their last ten. Today
Speaker 1: they lost? They lost some things six or last seven.
Speaker 1: We're only a couple of weeks away from this coming
Speaker 1: up next. Let's answer three tough questions beyond the Cam
Speaker 1: Newton one. You can play along. Try to go hey,
Speaker 1: perfect three and oh on Fantasy Football Weekly. It is
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly on Paul arch fanball dot com. My
Speaker 1: cohorts are Christian Peterson and Matt Harrison. You are my
Speaker 1: panel of experts, gentlemen, and that means it's time to
Speaker 1: get into the grinder with three tough questions. Listeners you
Speaker 1: can play along, Stee if you can go three and
Speaker 1: question number one with Antonio Brown now on board? Is
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and every single week automatic starter? Christian, Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm going to say yes, although I mean, is Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown on board? Looks like he's gonna be for Week two.
Speaker 1: We don't know beyond that, But honestly, even even without him,
Speaker 1: the way that this offense functioned in Week one was
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. And let's recall, Brady has been a top
Speaker 1: twelve at least a top twelve, if not, you know,
Speaker 1: top three fantasy quarterback every single uninjured year since two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven. Really, the only reason that he wasn't
Speaker 1: coming into this year is because we weren't sure who
Speaker 1: he was going to throw to. Josh Gordon hadn't been reinstated,
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown wasn't around, Gronk retired, so it wasn't clear.
Speaker 1: They had Julian Edelman and a bunch of question marks.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, now Gordon's back, Brown is in
Speaker 1: the fold. So yeah, absolutely, he's he is an easy
Speaker 1: every week starter at this point. Yeah, CP took most
Speaker 1: of my thunder, but I want to tell her. I
Speaker 1: want to ask you to tell me when they're going
Speaker 1: to lose in this schedule this week at Miami, next
Speaker 1: week against Trevor Simeon and the Jets, then at Buffalo,
Speaker 1: then at Washington, then the Giants at home, then at
Speaker 1: the Jets. That's seven and oh they don't play another
Speaker 1: moderately tough team until week eight at home against Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and who knows if Cleveland's good. So Tom Brady is
Speaker 1: going to be a start just about every week until
Speaker 1: then at Baltimore. I think week nine is that's it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's gonna be a juggernaut. And that
Speaker 1: was you guys took all my I was gonna go
Speaker 1: right to the schedule. You took all my all my points.
Speaker 1: No playoff team on the schedule until week nine. Yep.
Speaker 1: It's it's unbelievable. They're just the rich get richer with that,
Speaker 1: with that particular organization. It wasn't that tough a question.
Speaker 1: The correct answer is yes. Tough question Number two, should
Speaker 1: fantasy owners hold Hunter Henry or drop him Matt, This
Speaker 1: question was tougher. Charge Yeah. In fact, on Twitter, John
Speaker 1: de Nunzio told me to guard my broca's lobe during
Speaker 1: this question because it would be a shame if I
Speaker 1: weren't able to move my tongue or facial muscles to
Speaker 1: produce the sounds of speech. John, that would be about
Speaker 1: that would be unfortunate at this moment. Good thing I
Speaker 1: guarded it well. For those of us that have been
Speaker 1: listening to you, we'd actually welcome you being unable to
Speaker 1: form words. Wo uh. You can drop Hunter Henry and Redraft.
Speaker 1: It's a tibia plateau fracture which can be afford a
Speaker 1: six week injury. Although J J. Watt had this injury
Speaker 1: in and missed the rest of the season, and he
Speaker 1: had it early as well. The Chargers honestly don't know
Speaker 1: when and if he can come back. And let's say
Speaker 1: he comes back in late October. He gets the Bears, Packers, Broncos, Jaguars,
Speaker 1: and Vikings defenses on his schedule. His only easy game
Speaker 1: games are a game against the Chiefs and two games
Speaker 1: against the Raiders. Those are probably the only starting grades
Speaker 1: he gets unless he's a dred percent healthy, So I
Speaker 1: I think you can drop him. Okay, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: I think the original timeline here four to six weeks
Speaker 1: seems optimistic based on what we've heard from other people
Speaker 1: who have suffered this injury. And another factor here is
Speaker 1: that there are now other tight ends that you can
Speaker 1: go and get. There are legitimate tight ends that might
Speaker 1: have been on your waiver wire, including Darren Waller after
Speaker 1: week one, t J. Hockenson who erupted in week one,
Speaker 1: even Delaney Walker who most people probably weren't drafting, and
Speaker 1: he had two touchdowns. He looks like he's back. So
Speaker 1: I think the fact that there are legitimate tight ends
Speaker 1: actually that you can go and get, means that you
Speaker 1: can't waste the roster spot for Hunter Henry Okay, Doctor
Speaker 1: Harrison and Dr Peterson you know, by all means feel
Speaker 1: free to override every you know, all the team doctors
Speaker 1: who have actually looked at his knee and set the
Speaker 1: timetable for recovery charge. I consulted online doctors, and the
Speaker 1: online doctors are never wrong. Nick Riviera online doctor Uh,
Speaker 1: he's expected to come back in four to six weeks,
Speaker 1: it could just as easily be four as six. In
Speaker 1: either way, that's enough that you're gonna hold him. There
Speaker 1: just aren't enough good tight ends to kick one to
Speaker 1: the curb a rosters. T. J. Hockenson is on a
Speaker 1: ROS and redraft. Know not after your perennial advice that
Speaker 1: you can't trust rookie tight ends. Some some of the
Speaker 1: tight ends that we were counting on look super dubious
Speaker 1: right now. O. J. Howard, Kyle Rudolph, Jared Cook, Jack Doyle,
Speaker 1: they all underwhelmed. We don't know that you can go
Speaker 1: to war with those guys you're really gonna bring into this.
Speaker 1: You're asking you can't find a tight end? Average is
Speaker 1: half a touchdown per game anywhere else. It costs you
Speaker 1: a roster spot for a month. Big deal, because when
Speaker 1: he comes back, you've got a potentially top five tight
Speaker 1: end the rest of the year. You can't walk past that.
Speaker 1: So askue you a question. Yes, if you have Hunt
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry, Yeah, wait what is this? If you have
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry Kareem Hunt, a guy who you told everybody
Speaker 1: to draft, and maybe a J. Green on your bench
Speaker 1: right now, then what do you do? Are you dropping
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry that who's got that combination of players you got?
Speaker 1: I would advocate holding all all any one of those players. Okay,
Speaker 1: but most people don't have enough rosters hold all three,
Speaker 1: and most people Hunter Henry don't have Kareem Hunt tough.
Speaker 1: Question number three? Should fantasy owners beholding any Jets receiver? Christian?
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question, now, just kidding, I
Speaker 1: would never do that to you, Dare. What was the question,
Speaker 1: should be holding any Jets receivers? Yeah? I mean this
Speaker 1: question comes up because of the Sam Donald news where
Speaker 1: he's going to be out three to four weeks with
Speaker 1: and let me let me just get ahead of the story.
Speaker 1: I gave it to him. I know there was a
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of internet rumors. It was me.
Speaker 1: It was me, Hey, just let's just move on, and
Speaker 1: we're now ahead of the story. Guess I gotta go
Speaker 1: get Mono tested now bad news? Uh? Yeah, So so
Speaker 1: that's where this question comes from, right. But I think
Speaker 1: Jamison Crowder is the only guy that you can hold
Speaker 1: here after his seventeen target Week one performance. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's the guy in this offense that's gonna play in
Speaker 1: the slot. They're gonna If anything, I think Trevor Simon
Speaker 1: is going to focus on him as much or more
Speaker 1: because he's incapable of throwing the deep ball. So Robbie Anderson,
Speaker 1: you can let get rid of him. Da Marius Thomas,
Speaker 1: I'm certainly not jumping on him right away, but I
Speaker 1: will hold Jamison Crowder. I just want to talk about
Speaker 1: how Jamison Crowder was might take a chance on me
Speaker 1: wide receiver last week. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get a
Speaker 1: happy trombone to Sam Donald. Likes to target the slot,
Speaker 1: but Sam Donald has mono. When Donald does return, it's
Speaker 1: likely that's about when Chris Herndon returns, and I think
Speaker 1: that SAPs a lot of what was making outer super targetable. Uh,
Speaker 1: the inside targets. Herndon's the guy I want the most
Speaker 1: spent in a redraft league. You won't have to pick
Speaker 1: him up until we tell you to pick him up
Speaker 1: in premature speculation next week. It's probably come by the way,
Speaker 1: Go get Herndon now, because you can afford to sit
Speaker 1: on him for four This is a this is a
Speaker 1: speculation and un Tyreek Hill and Tyreek Kill. Uh, you
Speaker 1: should drop them all, Sam Donald. Sam Donald's mono is
Speaker 1: gonna be two to four weeks, right, So he's basically
Speaker 1: nuke dollar receivers. For four weeks, and now the bio
Speaker 1: is week four. Now it's week five, and here comes
Speaker 1: the Eagles, then the Cowboys, then the Patriots, and then
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. Those are all negative matchups for the passing game. Eagles, Cowboys, Patriots, Jaguars.
Speaker 1: But allow me to note this, after everybody has at
Speaker 1: that point wash their hands of the Jets receivers, their
Speaker 1: schedule becomes the easiest passing schedule in the NFL. Breathe
Speaker 1: the rest of the way, and at that point it's
Speaker 1: somewhere in the week seven, week eight, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to strike on a bunch of Jets and get
Speaker 1: hot in the second half. Did they happen to get
Speaker 1: the Dolphins twice in the playoffs? So they don't they
Speaker 1: get I think the Dolphins are Week ten or or so.
Speaker 1: Not twice in the fantasy playoffs. I would have been handy.
Speaker 1: Not the case. You better wash your hands with that
Speaker 1: mono going around. Well, there's a good point. It's a
Speaker 1: good point. Vikings take onto the Packers. Let's let's try
Speaker 1: to break down this game a little bit from the
Speaker 1: Viking side. Dalvin Cook extraordinary in the first game, got
Speaker 1: seventy eight percent of the place with Vikings are running plays.
Speaker 1: They only threw ten passes in the game, they were
Speaker 1: still running him like deep into the fourth quarter by
Speaker 1: three touch I was like, let's get some Alexander Madison
Speaker 1: in here, and Maxtuale Madison looked good too, and the
Speaker 1: average five yards to carry um last week the Bears
Speaker 1: a band in the run against the Packers instantly, And
Speaker 1: so I don't think I got a really good feel
Speaker 1: for the Packers run defense and how good it really
Speaker 1: might be and if it's whether or not it's particularly
Speaker 1: improved from last year. You couldn't get a good feel
Speaker 1: for anything on that first game between the Packers. It
Speaker 1: was so weird, all right, um, and Mr Bisky was
Speaker 1: so bad. So I think you know there will be
Speaker 1: a considered effort to get cook going. He's getting He
Speaker 1: gets an A grade here, And let me mention this
Speaker 1: as well. The Bears backs had fifteen receptions in the game,
Speaker 1: and that coming off a six reception game last week.
Speaker 1: That's just Tarik Cohen, who played slot receiver more than
Speaker 1: anybody who all highlight in the next matchup. But there
Speaker 1: you go, Uh that was that was still fifteen receptions.
Speaker 1: Tarik Cohen was eight of them or whatever, so there's
Speaker 1: still plenty of receptions to go around. Cook said obvious
Speaker 1: a the passing game has got a lot of people
Speaker 1: worried because of the just the ten the ten attempts
Speaker 1: last week by Kirk Cousins. Plus the offensive line looked bad,
Speaker 1: finished dead last Vikings offensive line in past protection by
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus after Week one, and I worry about
Speaker 1: Cousins finding time to hit his receivers downfield. The Packers
Speaker 1: pass rush looked amazing on Thursday, and the Vikings offensive
Speaker 1: line isn't nearly as good as the Bears is, so
Speaker 1: I'm of us here. Cousins was good in both matchups
Speaker 1: last year, but this Packer's defense feels so much better
Speaker 1: and so much faster. I've got just a C grade
Speaker 1: on Cousins. I've got a B grade on Adam Finland.
Speaker 1: In the two divisional matchups with Green Bay last year,
Speaker 1: Finland put it caught twenty passes for two hundred fifty
Speaker 1: six yards and two touchdowns. Now, the beauty of feeling
Speaker 1: is he will play the X, Y and the Z
Speaker 1: positions so they can match him up against the aged
Speaker 1: Termont Williams or the Rusty Kevin King. They can find
Speaker 1: their matchups with him, so I give him a B grade.
Speaker 1: Digs less as much, and I think he's gonna get
Speaker 1: a lot of j Or Alexander. I don't like that
Speaker 1: matchup as much, and I think Diggs wants to get
Speaker 1: free down field more and again not sure if he's
Speaker 1: if Cousins will have the time for that. So I've
Speaker 1: only got a C grade on Stefon Diggs. Also, Theelan's
Speaker 1: last two trips to Lambo twelve receptions in each game.
Speaker 1: Dang uh, Stefa. We just mentioned step On Diggs. Cole
Speaker 1: Rodolph zero catches last week, despite playing one hundred percent
Speaker 1: of the Vikings snap. He had no catches in one target.
Speaker 1: He'll I think he'll catch a pass, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go on a limb he will have at least one pass.
Speaker 1: He did have one called back on penalty. He had
Speaker 1: a pass called back on. He had a reception called
Speaker 1: back on penalty. Last week, the Bears tight ends combined
Speaker 1: for one catch for six yards against Green Bay. And
Speaker 1: now they've got these speedy linebackers who are perfectly well
Speaker 1: suited to cover a guy like Rudolph. So I've got
Speaker 1: him on the bench until we have a better read
Speaker 1: on how he's going to fit into this Vikings offense.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Green Bay side. Aaron Rodgers gets
Speaker 1: a Mike Zimmer defense that has absolutely throttled him as
Speaker 1: well as any team in the past. He has thrown
Speaker 1: zero or one touchdowns in five of the past six games.
Speaker 1: The Vikings secondary may be shorthanded, well, they will be
Speaker 1: shorthanded without slot cornerback McKenzie Alexander, which does give some
Speaker 1: help for Aaron Rodgers here. He can target potentially Geroni
Speaker 1: Allison in the slot against safety j Ron Curse, who's
Speaker 1: gonna get moved to slock cornerback. That could be a
Speaker 1: plus matchup for him. So I kind of like him
Speaker 1: there for that for that particular reason. Also potentially a
Speaker 1: nice game and by the way, be great for Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Be great on Marques Valdez scantling in a speed versus
Speaker 1: speed matchup with Trey Waynes. Now Trey Waynes gave up
Speaker 1: a couple, gave up a long long dish touchdown, and
Speaker 1: in a speed versus speed matchup last week ended up
Speaker 1: giving up a touchdown to Calvin Ridley. Also a very
Speaker 1: fast player and somebody that concerns me at least a
Speaker 1: little bit. Davante Adams has had a fair and by
Speaker 1: the way, Marquez Velde Scantling gets a B grade, Davante
Speaker 1: Adams gets a B grade. Um he draws Xavier Rhodes
Speaker 1: primarily in this matchup, but mostly He's been pretty good
Speaker 1: against the Vikings last year. Average game seven catches, sixty
Speaker 1: seven yards, found the end zone in both of those games,
Speaker 1: So I've got a B grade on him. Then there's
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, and this one is a little bit trickier.
Speaker 1: Aaron Joe Owns did absolutely nothing in the Thursday night opener,
Speaker 1: and now he gets another very good run defense. The
Speaker 1: Vikings have allowed just to one hundred yard rushers in
Speaker 1: their last thirty three games. Think about that underappreciated part
Speaker 1: about the Aaron Jones situation. People. A lot of people
Speaker 1: were really high on him this year, but realize now
Speaker 1: he has to play the Bears twice and the Vikings
Speaker 1: twice in Detroit. Who's no picnic either, Snax Harrison, right,
Speaker 1: I mean this The time to trade for Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: might be after this week, with a frustrated owner who
Speaker 1: might be owing to the Vikings and Lynn Vaal Joseph.
Speaker 1: Their run stuff are completely shut down. DeVonta Freeman last
Speaker 1: week and looked very fast and impressive in the opener.
Speaker 1: Um I've got I've got just a C grade on
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones in this game. And also, by the way,
Speaker 1: stop using Jamal Williams. To the love of God, he's terrible.
Speaker 1: People are using well the team is in real life
Speaker 1: fantasy players, aren't. Um. I mentioned Geronimo Allison. I just
Speaker 1: want to drill down on this for a second. I
Speaker 1: love the juicy matchup in the slot against a backup
Speaker 1: slot cornerback. But he had a juicy matchup last week
Speaker 1: against Buster Screen in the slot and they didn't throw
Speaker 1: him one time. So I got a bench grade on
Speaker 1: Jon Allison, even though I really think they should correct
Speaker 1: that and go back to Allison here. But I'm rattled
Speaker 1: after last week, and I just I can't. I can't
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Speaker 1: best part of the ongoing stupidity. Uh. Speaking of stupidity,
Speaker 1: let's let's switch this up to Sad trombone Ski. I
Speaker 1: know couldn't have looked worse on Thursday night. Um, well
Speaker 1: two Thursday nights to go. Now Mitch Robinsky, and now
Speaker 1: he has to face the defensive coordinator that he practiced
Speaker 1: against that knows everything about him. This is a very
Speaker 1: tricky spot for him to try to rebound in. What
Speaker 1: do you think, Matt is there's something to be salvaged
Speaker 1: from that Bears offense. Uh, maybe a little bit, But
Speaker 1: it's the lowest over under of the week with fourty
Speaker 1: and a half. And an interesting stat since two thousand,
Speaker 1: the Broncos are twenty two and one in home games
Speaker 1: in week one or two of the season. They're super
Speaker 1: good mile high in September. They just keep winning. Um,
Speaker 1: so Rubinsky, I got him on the bench. Uh. He
Speaker 1: dropped back to pass the third most in the league
Speaker 1: last week, fifty three times. That's good dropping back fifty
Speaker 1: three times. It's good for for fantasy. It's a lot
Speaker 1: but yes, but he averaged a horrible five point one
Speaker 1: yards per attempt and had a hideous game ending pick.
Speaker 1: He was also sacked five times. Obviously, he plays against
Speaker 1: the coach that practiced against him every day for the
Speaker 1: last two years. It's bad for Traubinsky. I am going
Speaker 1: to give Allen Robinson a B. If anybody gets going,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a rob He had one hundred
Speaker 1: fifty three air yards last week, which was sixth best
Speaker 1: in the league, and was targeted thirteen times, which was
Speaker 1: more than all other wide receivers and tight ends combined
Speaker 1: on the bear So and by the way, Trubisky still
Speaker 1: missed him open on several plays. Yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: little bit erratic. Slightly um, Allen Robinson should see Chris
Speaker 1: Harris shadow coverage went on the outside of it. But
Speaker 1: that worries me. Naggy sent Robinson to the slot on
Speaker 1: forty percent of his plays last week. When he wasn't
Speaker 1: in the slot, it was Tarik Cohen playing the slot
Speaker 1: almost the rest of those plays. He gets a C grade. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's listed as a running back, but he's playing wide
Speaker 1: receiver and he's ahead of Anthony Miller on the wide
Speaker 1: receiver depth chart right now. Um Cohen was on the
Speaker 1: field for seventy of the plays last week, so I
Speaker 1: think that he's in a He's in an interesting little
Speaker 1: spot because as kind of weapon X on that team,
Speaker 1: he's the only running back i'd start, though Mike Davis
Speaker 1: and David Montgomery are on the bench. Davis out snapped
Speaker 1: Monty fifty six to thirty six percent last week out
Speaker 1: touched him eleven to seven. I don't get it. Naggi's
Speaker 1: gonna keep using Davis as the feature back until he
Speaker 1: figures out Montgomery is better. And it's a shame because
Speaker 1: fellow rookie Josh Jacobs just torched the Broncos defense for
Speaker 1: a hundred and thirteen total yards and two scores last week.
Speaker 1: Should mention Trey Burton Is still has a groin injury
Speaker 1: of status is up in the air, but he's on
Speaker 1: the bench. On the Broncos side, everybody's on the bench,
Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay and Royce Freeman. It was an almost even
Speaker 1: split last week, almost fifth d fifty. Lindsay got of
Speaker 1: the snaps, Freeman got forty seven. And the Bears defense
Speaker 1: is still legit. They held Aaron Jones the thirty nine
Speaker 1: total yards on fourteen touches. Joe Flacco is the worst
Speaker 1: starting quarterback in the league, so he's on your bench,
Speaker 1: and Courtland Sutton and Emmanuel Sanders are both gonna be
Speaker 1: on your bench to the Broncos are facing the Bears,
Speaker 1: not the Raiders. The Bears held Davante Adams to four
Speaker 1: catches in thirty six yards last week, and despite Sutton
Speaker 1: and Sanders each putting up decent fantasy points, it was
Speaker 1: mainly in garbage time. This game is going to be
Speaker 1: insanely low scoring. There will not be a moment for
Speaker 1: the Broncos to open it up. So both on the bench.
Speaker 1: M I'm with you, man, Kansas City takes on Oakland.
Speaker 1: I want to start with the running backs. I was
Speaker 1: skeptical about Lashawn McCoy because he looked just so spent
Speaker 1: when he was in Buffalo the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: But you know, he's it seems rejuvenated. Maybe it's just,
Speaker 1: you know, part of being in this amazing offense for
Speaker 1: Kansas City. What do you think about Lashawn McCoy in
Speaker 1: this matchup? Well, yeah, let's do a little comparison of
Speaker 1: coy and Damian Williams, because both of them were certainly involved.
Speaker 1: McCoy was only on the field for of the snaps
Speaker 1: compared to sixty six percent for Williams. McCoy was clearly
Speaker 1: the superior runner. He had ten carries for eighty one yards.
Speaker 1: Williams game just twenty six yards on his thirteen carries.
Speaker 1: But Williams got all of the important fantasy point scoring action.
Speaker 1: He was the guy catching passes. He was the guy
Speaker 1: in the red zone. He had four of the five
Speaker 1: red zone carries. He was targeted in the passing game
Speaker 1: three times in the red zone. He scored a short touchdown.
Speaker 1: He had six pass receptions. So I think you can
Speaker 1: play McCoy here. I've got a sea level starting grade
Speaker 1: on him, but it's gonna be all whatever he can
Speaker 1: do on the ground, and he may need to score
Speaker 1: from distance because it feels like Williams is the red
Speaker 1: zone guy. So nothing better than a see I've got
Speaker 1: to be on Damian Williams in part because of the
Speaker 1: split he's given, clearly giving up enough of the work
Speaker 1: to McCoy, but he is getting the important looks. So
Speaker 1: still a B level grade here against a very middling
Speaker 1: Raiders defense, they're gonna put up all sorts of points,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be in scoring position, so Williams can be
Speaker 1: in your lineup the passing the passing game is obvious
Speaker 1: here A plus on Patrick Mahomes, A plus plus on
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins, who all of a sudden, by the way,
Speaker 1: congratulations if he took Sammy Watkins as like your second
Speaker 1: wide receiver in the third or fourth round now that
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill is out, and an a plus plus plus
Speaker 1: plus to Travis Kelsey. This is why, because you give
Speaker 1: people an inch and this is what they do. In
Speaker 1: the Week thirteen matchup to the power of seven. In
Speaker 1: the Week thirteen matchup with the Raiders last year, all
Speaker 1: Travis Kels did was a hundred and sixty eight yards
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns. So he's obviously in your lineup. And
Speaker 1: even me Cole Hardman, he was might take a chance
Speaker 1: on me wide receiver, So start them all, start all
Speaker 1: your Chiefs on the Raiders side. Derek Carr Carbage time,
Speaker 1: it was might take a chance on me quarterback. That
Speaker 1: also brings Tyrell Williams, the new number one wide receiver
Speaker 1: into play head over a hundred yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: The Chief's got just abused last week by d J.
Speaker 1: Shark and Chris Conley, of all people, they combined for
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty three receiving yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So Williams is A is a good play here. I've
Speaker 1: got to be I've got to be on him, maybe
Speaker 1: B and a half, maybe B point five up bay
Speaker 1: Bay an ab get an ab on him, and then
Speaker 1: Darren Waller. I put an A on Waller. He looked
Speaker 1: fantastic last week, played every single snap, led the Raiders
Speaker 1: with eight targets. The Chiefs had the NFL's worst tight
Speaker 1: end defense last year. They allowed the fourth most yards
Speaker 1: and the most touchdowns to the position. So get Darren
Speaker 1: Waller in your lineup again this week. That leaves us
Speaker 1: with the running game and Josh Jacobs. He had a
Speaker 1: pretty spectacular debut, at least by the box score. Scored
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. Wasn't that involved in the air. As we've mentioned,
Speaker 1: the Chief's defense not great. They're not great against the
Speaker 1: run either. They allowed the fifth most rushing yards and
Speaker 1: the sixth most rushing touchdown owns last year. The problem
Speaker 1: here could be game script. I think we're gonna see, Hey,
Speaker 1: We're gonna see if Josh Jacobs has some receiving game club.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see if it's just gonna be a Jalen
Speaker 1: Richard game as the Raiders are trying to play catch up. So, uh,
Speaker 1: Richard could be a sneaky play here, but the Raiders
Speaker 1: didn't use them much against Kansas City last year. He
Speaker 1: had just three catches in one game and two in
Speaker 1: the others. So I gave Jacobs a B starting grade
Speaker 1: because he's a clear workhorse here. But there is a
Speaker 1: there's a little risk that this becomes a Richard receiving
Speaker 1: game for sure. Seattle takes on Pittsburgh. Let's start with
Speaker 1: the running game for Seattle, because my guy Chris Carson
Speaker 1: scored twice last week and he has now found the
Speaker 1: end zone in five straight games and eight of his
Speaker 1: last ten games. And Pittsburgh has allowed rushing touchdowns two
Speaker 1: backs in seven of their last nine going back to
Speaker 1: last year. I like him to score again here. Now.
Speaker 1: The Steelers were great against the run last week, even
Speaker 1: a blowout, and I don't know that it gets a
Speaker 1: lot easier through the air for Chris Carson either. The
Speaker 1: Steve have allowed deposing running back to top forty six
Speaker 1: receiving yards in just eight of their last forty seven games,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be I think Carson scratches out a
Speaker 1: meaningful game with a touchdown here, but I don't know
Speaker 1: that even gets to one total yards. It might be
Speaker 1: a little bit like last week, or the artag isn't great,
Speaker 1: but the touchdown. The touchdowns help you out. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the passing game, by the way, be great for
Speaker 1: Chris Carson. A B grade on Russell Wilson. If the
Speaker 1: Steelers secondary wants to rebound from last week's nationally televised embarrassment,
Speaker 1: they're gonna need to do it without cornerback Joe Iron Hayden.
Speaker 1: Clink clink. Oh, there we go. Hayden's injuries only half
Speaker 1: the problem, though. Opposite him is Stephen Nelson, who was
Speaker 1: disastrous last year with Kansas City and a lot of
Speaker 1: touchdown in his coverage on Sunday Night as well. Now,
Speaker 1: ty The Lockett probably plays here, but if he does
Speaker 1: not go, then Russell Wilson drops down to a C
Speaker 1: grade and maybe even a bench grade at that point,
Speaker 1: because they're they just don't have much in the way
Speaker 1: of depth here at all. So let's go to Tyler Lockett.
Speaker 1: He's a game time decision. Watch his back injury and
Speaker 1: back injuries or something. You have to watch all the
Speaker 1: way up to kick off because the back injury flares up,
Speaker 1: tightens up or whatever, and they're la. You know they do.
Speaker 1: You think they're gonna go, and then they don't go,
Speaker 1: so be careful. Lockett faces a Steelers team that gave
Speaker 1: up three touchdowns of at least twenty two yards to
Speaker 1: the Patriots in Week one, and here comes Lockett, known
Speaker 1: for his deep speed, So I gotta like that matchup.
Speaker 1: And he played six of his snaps from the slot
Speaker 1: last week, and if that holds up, he'll be facing
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh cornerback Mike Hilton, who struggled to contain Julian Edelman
Speaker 1: last week. A B grade on Tyler, Lockett C grade
Speaker 1: and DK Metcalf, which actually surprises me. If Lockett doesn't go,
Speaker 1: by the way, then I'd like Metcalf even less because
Speaker 1: he gets extra coverage here. But I thought Metcalf was
Speaker 1: gonna be a guy that was going to really struggle
Speaker 1: out of the gates because he was very raw. The
Speaker 1: number of routes he could run his thought to be
Speaker 1: very limited. They threw to him plenty, and he looked
Speaker 1: pretty good Steelers secondary gash last week, as I already mentioned.
Speaker 1: And he's his size frame comparison similar to Josh Gordon,
Speaker 1: who had a nice big game in the opener. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I can see a C grade on DK Metcalf here.
Speaker 1: And he was on the field seventy percent of the snap.
Speaker 1: That is surprising for the first start rookie. Will DISLI
Speaker 1: probably will not play in this game. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Steelers side again with Ben Roethlisberger, who looked dreadful
Speaker 1: on Saturday night. Um, he kept throwing the ball. Did
Speaker 1: Dante Moncrief, for the love of God, just just stop
Speaker 1: with the Dante moncreef oh Man. Now, the good news
Speaker 1: is going up against Seattle. Andy Dalton just put up
Speaker 1: a four hundred yard or on Seattle last week. But
Speaker 1: to me, that old John Ross too long touchdowns thing
Speaker 1: feels like kind of a fluke and the Steelers don't
Speaker 1: have the same speed guy on roster. John Ross was
Speaker 1: in a homecoming game last week Washington was that there
Speaker 1: you go. Um, so I don't. I'm I'm luke warm
Speaker 1: on Ben and I've just got to be And it
Speaker 1: was for a while ahead as a C grade, but
Speaker 1: as Juju appears to be at full healthier, I've moved
Speaker 1: Ben back up to a B grade and um and
Speaker 1: remember his home splits are bonkers since seen his average
Speaker 1: home game three hundred nine yards and two and a
Speaker 1: half touchdowns per game. So on fanball, Steeler stack is
Speaker 1: an interesting stack that nobody's going to be thinking about.
Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster, Jujuan Donald and James Conner Vans McDonald
Speaker 1: was might take a chance guy, Let's talk about Juju
Speaker 1: h the toe injury. He should play though he's playing
Speaker 1: both the slot where he had always played before and
Speaker 1: they're breaking him out wide. From the slot. He has
Speaker 1: a very favorable match up against rookie cornerback Hugo Amandi.
Speaker 1: Hugo Amadi, you just like to say, go Amati. And
Speaker 1: when he's outside, he can match up with Tray Flowers,
Speaker 1: who gave up one read seventy yards in his coverage
Speaker 1: last week. How about that? So there's your Steelers, your
Speaker 1: Steelers staff there right there. Juju Smith Schuster did not
Speaker 1: just pull him off the field at some point. How
Speaker 1: do you watch just how do you watch that happen
Speaker 1: and unfold in front of you. Um. The only other
Speaker 1: receivers I'm gonna mention Dante Moncrief, just don't do it.
Speaker 1: Deante Johnson, We're gonna talk more about later. Vince McDonald's
Speaker 1: may take a chance of me guy. James Conner though
Speaker 1: a B grade Seattle stuff the Bengals runners last week,
Speaker 1: but Cincinnati's offensive line is on the other side of
Speaker 1: the spectrum from the Steelers, and Connor should have success
Speaker 1: through the air here. Last season, the Seahawks allow the
Speaker 1: sixth most receptions, third most receiving yards, and the most
Speaker 1: receiving touchdowns to opposing running backs. James Connor can catch.
Speaker 1: So can Jalen Samuel, who you could be as a
Speaker 1: dark horse potential dart throw you could start here as well. Um,
Speaker 1: And I'll mention this last week, Mixing and Bernard caught
Speaker 1: all five of their targets. James Connors a beast start
Speaker 1: in Parks. I think he's gonna chip in meaningful numbers
Speaker 1: through the air. Our final topics are ahead when we
Speaker 1: provide you with three guys we believe will be hot
Speaker 1: waiver wire pickups next week, so you can grab them.
Speaker 1: This week, we're jumping in the time machine and how
Speaker 1: does the time machine sound. You can blamo time machines,
Speaker 1: go blammo on this shell, whether you are ready for
Speaker 1: it or not. Premature Speculation is happening next on Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. I think premature Speculation is the most popular
Speaker 1: segment on Fantasy Football Weekly. This is the bit where
Speaker 1: each of our host provides a player that will be
Speaker 1: a waiver wire pick up next week that you're going
Speaker 1: to want to grab this week to frustrate the rest
Speaker 1: of your league because you already got all the good guys.
Speaker 1: For about ten minutes at the beginning of Sunday's games
Speaker 1: last week, I looked brilliant because I said, Dontrell Hilliard
Speaker 1: the Browns running, he scores a goal line rushing touchdowndown
Speaker 1: and then immediately gets a concussion, gets He's gone for
Speaker 1: the game, and I'm like, oh, I had it for
Speaker 1: for ten minutes. I'm like, oh, brilliant. My premature speculation
Speaker 1: came in hard right off the bat man. Look, mine
Speaker 1: didn't work out last week. But we're not going to
Speaker 1: talk about what we'll tell what do we want to
Speaker 1: talk about? Who is your premature speculation? I can't believe
Speaker 1: I'm doing this. It's Jason Witten. Yeah, Jason Witten scored
Speaker 1: last week, although it was a quiet four targets, three catches,
Speaker 1: fifteen yards. This week he faces Washington, which is a
Speaker 1: neutralish matchup. But Witten did score the last time he
Speaker 1: faced them. But next week, which year was that? It
Speaker 1: was only one one year removed? Uh? Next week he's
Speaker 1: facing Miami in Dallas, and you want to start everybody
Speaker 1: against Miami the Dolphins on the road. Sign me up
Speaker 1: for that. The Dolphins gave up fourteen receptions for one
Speaker 1: seventy five to tight ends in Week one, and the
Speaker 1: only two good players on their roster, Xavian Howard and
Speaker 1: Minca Fitzpatrick. They're gonna be on the outsides covering Michael
Speaker 1: Gallup and Amari Cooper, leaving the middle of the field
Speaker 1: wide open for Witten. He's going to score in that
Speaker 1: Miami game. And if you need some tight end help,
Speaker 1: maybe Hunter Henry went down. Maybe O J. Howard sucks.
Speaker 1: Jason Witten is a guy that you can pick up.
Speaker 1: I think you'll be happy that you did, all right, Christian,
Speaker 1: your premature speculation player is I'm gonna go with Deonte Johnson,
Speaker 1: the rookie wide receiver for Pittsburgh. You we just talked
Speaker 1: about how awful Dante Moncrieff looked in week in week one.
Speaker 1: By the way, it would have been nice to know
Speaker 1: that he's been battling a dislocated finger since early in
Speaker 1: training camp. I didn't see that news until he failed.
Speaker 1: He dropped seven of the targets from his way in
Speaker 1: week one. Meanwhile, James washing Washington I think has established
Speaker 1: himself this point. It's just a deep threat and nothing more.
Speaker 1: And he's an inconsistent guy. So that leaves room for
Speaker 1: somebody to emerge opposite Juju Smith Schuster, and I think
Speaker 1: that somebody is Johnson, who is basically an Antonio Brown clone.
Speaker 1: Like literally they're the same height, the same weight, they have,
Speaker 1: the same reach, the same hand size, they both have
Speaker 1: almost much almost identical. Forty times they both had their
Speaker 1: feet frost bitting in a cryotronic chamber. They were I mean,
Speaker 1: the Steelers drafted this guy as Antonio Brown's replacement, and
Speaker 1: it sounds like I've had charged. Actually, you found an
Speaker 1: article with some some quotes from the Steelers coaching staff
Speaker 1: that were like, yeah, we gotta get this guy more
Speaker 1: involved and with Moncrief not impressing and James Washington kind
Speaker 1: of a bit player. I think that starts as early
Speaker 1: as this week. You're gonna see Deonte Johnson get more
Speaker 1: involved and being the receiver on the opposite side of
Speaker 1: Juju Smith. Schuster always a good u It was Isaac
Speaker 1: Newton who said, for every action, there is an equal
Speaker 1: and opposite reaction. See on the Steeler staff. You can't
Speaker 1: argue with the law of physics, my friends, it's against
Speaker 1: the law and argue with the law of physics. When
Speaker 1: Dante Pettis plays two snaps, there's an equal and opposite reaction.
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel playing sixty snaps in the game, leading the
Speaker 1: whole team by a wide margin. For the forty Niners.
Speaker 1: Every wide receiver who leads his team in play should
Speaker 1: be on a roster. Deebo Samuel un rostered in most leagues,
Speaker 1: especially if your coach is Kyle Shanahan, you must be rostered.
Speaker 1: Deebo caught all three of his targets last week. This
Speaker 1: week he draws an aging fading Drake Kirkpatrick. He could
Speaker 1: post a night's game here, but you'll he'll already be
Speaker 1: on your roster because that's the law of physics, New
Speaker 1: Orleans takes on the Rams and an epic rematch from
Speaker 1: two different games last season, but actually the NFC Championship game.
Speaker 1: Matt tell us about it. Jared Goff gets an A grade.
Speaker 1: I told you about his negative road splits, especially in
Speaker 1: outdoor games. He did not disappoint well, wait, he did
Speaker 1: disappoint fantasy owners. Disappointment didn't disappoint me because I knew
Speaker 1: it one eight, six, one and one last week. That
Speaker 1: last year at home, though, Goff enjoyed a twenty two
Speaker 1: to three touchdown interception ratio and three forty two passing
Speaker 1: yards per game, and the Saints gave up three passing
Speaker 1: scores to Deshaun Watson last week. Robert Woods he's getting
Speaker 1: a be He led the team in targets with thirteen,
Speaker 1: only managed five catches for seventy one and six for
Speaker 1: thirty three and the two meetings last year, but he
Speaker 1: has had five catches in sixteen of his last nineteen starts.
Speaker 1: Might see a little bit of Marshawn Lattimore, although it
Speaker 1: looks like it will be a fairly good split between
Speaker 1: him and Cooks, and Cooks gets an A grade. He's
Speaker 1: played two games as a Ram against the Saints and
Speaker 1: he's revenged them both times seven for one oh seven,
Speaker 1: six for one fourteen and one, and he wasn't utilized
Speaker 1: much last week. This is a get right spot for him.
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup I'm also giving an a grade looked healthy
Speaker 1: on field of the Snaps ten targets, logged five catches
Speaker 1: for eighty nine yards and to score when these teams
Speaker 1: met in the regular season last year. And he faces P. J.
Speaker 1: Williams in the slot. That's the worst rated cover corner
Speaker 1: for the Saints. Uh, Todd Gurley and Malcolm Brown. Malcolm
Speaker 1: Browns might take a chance on the runner. Todd Gurley,
Speaker 1: I'm giving a beat. Uh, the NFL leader in yards
Speaker 1: after contact. Well, he's number three right now. Todd Gurley
Speaker 1: five point two. And it's worth noting that the Rams
Speaker 1: offensive line was the second worst run blocking unit in
Speaker 1: Week one, Hence the early contact on the runners. Gurley
Speaker 1: and Malcolm Brown were making things happen despite the offensive line. Um,
Speaker 1: they're gonna try to keep touches off Gurley though, which
Speaker 1: you don't want to see. But the Saints gave up
Speaker 1: eight point three yards per carried a Carlos hide last week.
Speaker 1: And a healthy Carlos Hide is the same as a
Speaker 1: part time Todd Gurley with the last year. I believe
Speaker 1: we're three point two yards per ca re on the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it, and they just got steamrolled by Carlos freaking Hide.
Speaker 1: Come on, the elusive Carlos freeing high suddenly elusive. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're not chasing Tyler Higbee's touchdown either. Alvin Kamara gets
Speaker 1: an A grade. How did uh Christian McCaffrey fair against
Speaker 1: the Rams defense last week? It was pretty good. Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas gets an A grade twelve for two, eleven and
Speaker 1: one in the regular season matchup last year, but only
Speaker 1: four for thirty six in the playoffs. I'm not worried.
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas is great. Drew Brees B grade. We know
Speaker 1: about his negative road splits. Yards per tempt went from
Speaker 1: nine and a half in New Orleans to six point
Speaker 1: nine on the road, so he only gets the B
Speaker 1: grade here. But it is a shootout potential game, so
Speaker 1: you still gotta like Breeze a little bit. Jared Cook
Speaker 1: gets a C grade. Only three targets, two catches in
Speaker 1: thirty seven yards. That was a bummer. The Rams were
Speaker 1: one of eight teams to allow over a thousand yards
Speaker 1: to the tight end last year, and I'm hoping that
Speaker 1: was just a weird game off and not the trend
Speaker 1: of the Saints not using the tight end position anymore. Finally,
Speaker 1: Ted Gain in tray Kwon Smith, I'm giving both of
Speaker 1: them a sea. Smith ran six of his routes out
Speaker 1: of the slot last week, which would mean he'd draw
Speaker 1: the most favorable match up against Nickel Robie Coleman. But
Speaker 1: the Saints move their wide receivers around more than just
Speaker 1: about any team, so in a shootout potential game, Tedgain
Speaker 1: looked good. Had over a hundred yards last week. I
Speaker 1: think he's a good point. Let's go to Cleveland taking
Speaker 1: on the Jets. Christian Yeah, let's is the Monday nighter.
Speaker 1: This is the Monday night er. Let's let's see if
Speaker 1: Cleveland can have a bounce back after an ugly, ugly
Speaker 1: Week one performance by Baker Mayfield three interceptions. They did
Speaker 1: not look like the high powered offense everybody was expecting
Speaker 1: coming into the year. But there's a chance here against
Speaker 1: the Jets. The Jets were bottom ten last year in
Speaker 1: QB yards and touchdowns allowed, and they just let Josh
Speaker 1: Josh Allen throw for a career high two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty four yards in Week one. So I've got Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield in a bounce back here. I gave him a
Speaker 1: B level starting grade. Odell Beckham Jr. Was highly involved,
Speaker 1: led the team with the leven targets. He's going to
Speaker 1: go nuts against the Jet secondary. That let the Bills.
Speaker 1: John Brown go for a hundred and twenty three yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown last week. A grade on Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: homecoming game of sorts to his old home field. That's
Speaker 1: a good point. That's a little bit of a reach,
Speaker 1: just a little same stadium. Jarvis Landry, I've got a
Speaker 1: B level starting grade on. He had four receptions for
Speaker 1: sixty seven yards on seven targets in the Week one matchup.
Speaker 1: And the slot is is something you can exploit against
Speaker 1: the Jets. Slot corner Brian Poole was Pro Football focused
Speaker 1: one hundred hundred and twelve ranked cornerback last year, So
Speaker 1: I like Jarvis Landry to bounch back as well. David
Speaker 1: and Joko was pretty much the only guy who did
Speaker 1: anything last week. Scored a touchdown. The Jets were very
Speaker 1: good against opposing tight ends last year, though I would
Speaker 1: start him if you usually would. I gave him a
Speaker 1: B level starting grade here. Nick Chubb, I've got an
Speaker 1: A grade on He was quiet in week one, but
Speaker 1: I think the game script here with Sam Donald out
Speaker 1: for the Jets. On the other side, I think the
Speaker 1: Browns are gonna be ahead in this game. They're gonna
Speaker 1: be grinding the clock. The Jets are also potentially missing
Speaker 1: key defenders Quinny Quinnin Williams and C. J. Mosley. Mosley
Speaker 1: last week after he got hurt, their defense fell apart.
Speaker 1: So if he doesn't play, there's especially a good chance
Speaker 1: that Chub is gonna go bonkers here. I've got an
Speaker 1: A grade on him. On the Jet side, we really
Speaker 1: already talked about the passing game. We said you should
Speaker 1: literally drop them all, everybody, every Jet passing player, everybody
Speaker 1: but Leavy on Bell basically, so needless to say, don't
Speaker 1: start any of them this week because they're not on
Speaker 1: your roster. Levian Bell, I've got to be great on
Speaker 1: him just because of the somewhat scary shoulder injury. He
Speaker 1: he missed practice on Thursday, had to get an m R.
Speaker 1: I He's gonna practice Saturday. It sounds like he's gonna
Speaker 1: play Monday. Cleveland had a bottom ten run defense last year.
Speaker 1: They were just roasted by Derrick Henry for a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty nine combined rushing and receiving yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: B level start on Levan Bell. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: to the Eagles taking on the Falcons for our final
Speaker 1: match up of the show, that is the Sunday night game.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz gets an A grade here even though the
Speaker 1: Vikings didn't test the Falcon secondary at all, the Eagles will,
Speaker 1: and I like the matchup for the Eagles receivers. Cornerback
Speaker 1: Isaiah Oliver is a serious liability for the Falcons and
Speaker 1: he was exploited by the Vikings last week. Desmond Travant
Speaker 1: Trufont has speed, but he only plays one side of
Speaker 1: the field, so the Eagles can scheme to Shawn Jackson
Speaker 1: to go against Oliver, and so Deshan Jackson after the
Speaker 1: explosive game in week one, gets a B grade and
Speaker 1: week two because I do believe he's going to have
Speaker 1: that speed advantage over slot, especially if he goes out
Speaker 1: of the slot where it will beat demonte Kazi as
Speaker 1: well as a converted safety. So I think Jackson can
Speaker 1: win from a few places, and I like him a
Speaker 1: lot here all Shan Jeffrey at a nice game last week.
Speaker 1: He can avoid cornerback Desmond Truffont by lining up on
Speaker 1: the other side of the field if he wants to,
Speaker 1: but he might not want to because he can just
Speaker 1: out muscle Trufont if he wants. So I think he
Speaker 1: can win from both sides of the field too, So
Speaker 1: be great and all Sean Jeffrey here, and staying with
Speaker 1: the passing game, Zach Ertz a grade second on the
Speaker 1: team and targets receptions and yards. Last week, Vikings didn't
Speaker 1: even try it, didn't even throw. They threw one pass
Speaker 1: that was called back to a tight end. They even
Speaker 1: try the tight end Urts though targeted ten times when
Speaker 1: these teams met last year. He will be just fine.
Speaker 1: All three of the running backs startable here with C grades.
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders is the most interesting one. He had a
Speaker 1: nineteen yard run, but his other ten carries gained six yards.
Speaker 1: I'm worried that the coaching staff is gonna give him
Speaker 1: a lesser role here, and that makes Jordan Howard startable
Speaker 1: because this is a bad off A defense against the
Speaker 1: run that gave up over five yards per carry to
Speaker 1: the Vikings last week, and the Eagles have a better
Speaker 1: offensive line by a lot. So even Jordan Howard gets
Speaker 1: a C grade and Darren Sprowles was might take a
Speaker 1: chance on me runner. Let's go to the Falcon side.
Speaker 1: Beginning with the running game. Devanta Freeman gets a seat.
Speaker 1: The Falcons lost guard Chris Lindstrom for first rounder. That
Speaker 1: is a big loss. The Eagles countered that by losing
Speaker 1: their own offensive tackle, Malik Jackson, so maybe those two
Speaker 1: things neutralize each other. But make no mistake here, the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage belongs to the Eagles, and Atlanta's line
Speaker 1: was brutal last week. Eagles have been extremely rough on
Speaker 1: runners over the past four games, allowing less than twenty
Speaker 1: eight rushing yards per game. That worries me, and that's
Speaker 1: why we're down to a C grade on DeVonta Freeman.
Speaker 1: Let's moved to the passing game. Matt Ryan gets a B.
Speaker 1: I am worried about the offensive line. As I mentioned
Speaker 1: Kris Lands from out, Ryan's gonna be harried by an
Speaker 1: excellent front four anchored by Brandon Graham and Fletcher Cox,
Speaker 1: and he's faced the Eagles in three straight SKI seasons
Speaker 1: and the results are discouraging, just with per game averages
Speaker 1: of just two two yards and zero point seven passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns for Matt Ryan. So it's barely a C grade,
Speaker 1: and really only because Julio Jones, who's got a B grade,
Speaker 1: matches up against Ronald Darby who just got worked by
Speaker 1: Redskins rookie Terry McLaurin for a hundred twenty five yards
Speaker 1: and Mary mc mary Jones has a height size advantage
Speaker 1: of four inches and thirty pounds over Darby, so I
Speaker 1: like Julio in this game too. And then Calvin Ridley
Speaker 1: Falcons can get Ridley on lead footed cornerback Resul Douglas
Speaker 1: at will by putting him on the right side of
Speaker 1: the field, and that's a positive matchup. So I like
Speaker 1: the receivers. I just gotta hope Matt Ryan stays upright
Speaker 1: long enough. And finally a C grade on Austin Hooper
Speaker 1: silent in last year's meeting between these two um and
Speaker 1: the Eagles were outstanding against tight ends last year, so
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit nervous even though we had a
Speaker 1: good game last season, and it's start thirteen players from
Speaker 1: this matchup. It's it is crazy. Um guys, we've had
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