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Speaker 3: Speculation and advice.
Speaker 2: Now along with the guys from Guillotine Leagues dot com.
Speaker 2: Here's your host, Paul Jargian.
Speaker 4: We are limping into week number eleven.
Speaker 1: It's Fantasy Football Weekly, an injury ravaged edition. I am
Speaker 1: Paul Jarchi and co hosts say are Matt Harrison and
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson.
Speaker 4: Hey, guys, I'm not injured, are you?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: No, my heart hurts for my various teams with Mark Andrews,
Speaker 1: of which there were several, okay, And I had Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow in a couple, I had Jamar Chason a couple
Speaker 1: of y Yeah.
Speaker 5: You don't. You don't get the limp wrists a whole lot. No,
Speaker 5: you don't get it comes to Joe Burrow. No, those
Speaker 5: who don't know it sounds.
Speaker 1: Season over for Joe Burrow, for Mark Andrews, and before
Speaker 1: we dive into the matchups and three tough questions and
Speaker 1: take a chance on me and premature speculation. I think
Speaker 1: we're still gonna have starting grades on Jamar Chase Joe Mixon.
Speaker 1: They're just not gonna be a's and b's, They're gonna
Speaker 1: be sees. I think Jake Browning looked okay, m.
Speaker 4: Hmm, passable.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not the worst quarterback in the league.
Speaker 1: That's Tommy DeVito.
Speaker 6: So oh.
Speaker 7: I got a new nickname for him, the Cutlet King,
Speaker 7: the Cutlet King.
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 1: So maybe I don't know it's sad, but I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's zero value.
Speaker 4: Left in those guys in that.
Speaker 1: Offense, and I think there's there's gonna be some There's
Speaker 1: gonna be some angles there.
Speaker 7: You would think that with Browning coming in, he's going
Speaker 7: to focus more often on Jamar Chase. Yeah, some backup
Speaker 7: quarterbacks tend to do that. They get there will be
Speaker 7: and they just go to that first read more often.
Speaker 1: I'm Jake Browning trying to carve out, like you know,
Speaker 1: some career in the NFL, and I have Jamar Chase.
Speaker 4: I could throw two. I'm doing it. Yeah, why not?
Speaker 4: Why not? Let's dive into the matchups.
Speaker 1: Arizona takes on Houston, Brian, Let's get right into it here.
Speaker 1: We had the return of James Connor last week, Houston's
Speaker 1: been a very good overall defense and better against the
Speaker 1: run this year than last year. Like the worst run
Speaker 1: defense in the league. They're not half bad this year.
Speaker 1: What do you think of James Connor?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you set me up quite nicely there. Connor came
Speaker 5: back last week, like you said, saw eighty four percent
Speaker 5: of Arizona's running back carry saw an eighty percent snap
Speaker 5: rate in the red zone. So the belcow is back
Speaker 5: in James Connor. But like you said, charge it's a
Speaker 5: bad matchup, but at worst it's neutral. Opposing backs are
Speaker 5: averaging just seventy four rushing yards per game against Houston,
Speaker 5: but they are averaging five catches and Houston has surrendered
Speaker 5: three running back touchdowns over their last two games. So
Speaker 5: I have a c on James Connor. A word to
Speaker 5: the passing game. I'm starting with Trey McBride. Why not
Speaker 5: who I've dubbed now Trey McBride or die I like
Speaker 5: it a portray McBride this week last week, the first
Speaker 5: Cardinals tight end to have one hundred yards receiving any game.
Speaker 6: Since nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 4: What sounds not accurate? Really?
Speaker 6: The Internet told me this, So.
Speaker 4: I think I gave him an A grade last week too. TJ.
Speaker 4: Hockinson did it the first half of last week.
Speaker 5: So over the last three weeks, and this is with
Speaker 5: three different quarterbacks for Arizona, Josh Jobs Clayton Tune Clayton.
Speaker 4: Turned through for fifty eight yards. A lad A lad,
Speaker 4: I'll ass.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, sorry, I was like, I'm I'm a lad Aladdin.
Speaker 5: But McBride over the last three weeks with those three
Speaker 5: different quarterbacks, it's a first read target share, so he
Speaker 5: was the first read on his targets more than thirty
Speaker 5: percent of the time, which is massive for context. Travis
Speaker 5: Kelcey leads all tight ends on the season with a
Speaker 5: roughly twenty eight percent first red target share and the
Speaker 5: Texans allowing seven catches sixty four yards per game to
Speaker 5: opposing tight ends. They've sitt undered three touchdowns to the
Speaker 5: positions are to the position over their last three So
Speaker 5: the A from McBride my favorite option on the pass game.
Speaker 4: I will mention this is a double sounder here.
Speaker 1: Trey McBride was a premature speculation player on this show
Speaker 1: about I don't know five six weeks ago, so hopefully
Speaker 1: you took action.
Speaker 5: He's top five tight end moving forward might be top three.
Speaker 5: With the Mark Andrews injury over to the wide receivers,
Speaker 5: I'm only giving a starting grade to Mark. He's Brown
Speaker 5: for those who forgot. Brown got off to an awesome
Speaker 5: start last year with Kyler Murray as his quarterback. Before
Speaker 5: Brown got hurt, he was a top ten wide receiver.
Speaker 5: A lot has changed since then in Arizona, including the
Speaker 5: head coach. But I like Brown this week, even though
Speaker 5: I only caught one pass on four targets last week
Speaker 5: with Kyler Murray back, but they just missed on what
Speaker 5: could have been a thirty plus yard touchdown to this week.
Speaker 5: Over the last four games, the Texans are allowing more
Speaker 5: than two hundred yards per game to wide receivers. So
Speaker 5: I got to see on Brown, but I can't go
Speaker 5: there with Ryan del Moore or Michael Wilson there on
Speaker 5: the bench. They're like DFS starts this week, but Kyler.
Speaker 6: Murray is not.
Speaker 5: I'll give I'm a starting grade of the Sea. He
Speaker 5: looked pretty good last week against Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I thought he looked so much better than I ever
Speaker 1: would have drowned. It looked if you'd have picked up
Speaker 1: if you just showed me Kyler Murray's play from last week.
Speaker 1: Without knowing the context, I would have guess I could
Speaker 1: have guessed it was any any game of his whole career.
Speaker 1: Did not look at all like first game off.
Speaker 7: He thought I was nuts for giving him a starting
Speaker 7: grade last week.
Speaker 5: Geez, come on, Charch just the softest of starts. This
Speaker 5: week he gets at the Sea. It's a tougher matchup
Speaker 5: on the road in Houston. The Texans rank eighth and
Speaker 5: pass coverage by Pro Football Focus and first and pass
Speaker 5: rush win rate, which means Murray will be under duress
Speaker 5: most of the day. But Houston also allowing an average
Speaker 5: of one passing touchdown per game. Not great, but we'll
Speaker 5: take that for Murray. The real thing here is that
Speaker 5: Texans have surrounded multiple touchdown passes and back to that game,
Speaker 5: so the pass defense trending downwards. I'm starting Murray with
Speaker 5: the Sea over to the Texans side. Devin Singletary, assuming
Speaker 5: Damian Peers is out, I believe he's a grade for
Speaker 5: Devn Singletary. Monster game for Singletary against Cincinnati last week.
Speaker 5: Smash spot here. The Cardinals allowed these sixth most rushing
Speaker 5: rushing yards in the third most touchdowns per game to
Speaker 5: opposing running backs. Arizona has allowed or yielded seventy four
Speaker 5: red zone touches to running backs. The next highest team
Speaker 5: is the New York Giants with fifty two geez red
Speaker 5: zone touches.
Speaker 6: He yielded ton.
Speaker 4: Percent increase over the next so the next worst team.
Speaker 5: A grade for Devn Singletary. He should not be available anywhere,
Speaker 5: but if he is snatched, him up immediately Over to
Speaker 5: the wide receivers. I had an A on Tank Dell
Speaker 5: until Nico Collins practice today. I'm sorry on Friday, so
Speaker 5: a B for Dell and Collins. The Cardinals are allowing
Speaker 5: a healthy one hundred and sixty yards and a touchdown
Speaker 5: per game to opposing wideouts. The Cardinals are one of
Speaker 5: ten teams to yield more than twenty five red zone
Speaker 5: targets to wide receivers, so a good matchup for Dell
Speaker 5: and Collins.
Speaker 4: They get the B.
Speaker 5: I'll give Robert Woods a C. He will be back.
Speaker 5: Noah Brown has been ruled. I can't believe we're discussing
Speaker 5: this many wide receivers for the Texans. It's insane, but
Speaker 5: it's all because the C. J.
Speaker 6: Stroud.
Speaker 5: We will get to in a minute, real quick. Dlphin Schultz,
Speaker 5: he gets a see unlike previous years. Like many years,
Speaker 5: the Cardinals aren't giving up big numbers to opposing tight
Speaker 5: ends less than four catches and forty yards per game.
Speaker 5: But Daltin Schultz, he's been great, great as of late
Speaker 5: as a CJ.
Speaker 6: Stroud. So Schultz gets the C and a B for CJ. Stroud.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna get into it, get into it too much.
Speaker 5: Rookie of the Year already that's locked up MVP candidate
Speaker 5: as of right now. Easy B for CJ against the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia takes on Kansas City. We are once again going
Speaker 1: to our Monday night game right out of the gate.
Speaker 4: What do you do?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's just it's worked out this way for reasons. We're
Speaker 4: not going to bore people. But I hate it.
Speaker 1: I want Monday Night to be the last game, but
Speaker 1: we can't always do it for boring reasons.
Speaker 4: Here we go. Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown are obvious
Speaker 4: as for Philadelphia. Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: By the way, who thinks this is Super Bowl preview
Speaker 1: and rematch all at once?
Speaker 4: It could be. I think that's the favorite, right.
Speaker 1: I think that's probably your favorite, can be the Bengals anymore.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift comes in with a B grade. He's seen
Speaker 1: at least seventeen touches in every game since Week two,
Speaker 1: which we love. He's topped seventy four yards or scored
Speaker 1: in every game, which we love. Casey has allowed at
Speaker 1: least seventy four yards or a touchdown to a runner
Speaker 1: in three straight games, so I like the seventy four
Speaker 1: yard mark.
Speaker 4: At least.
Speaker 1: Kansas City is the second worst team in run stuff
Speaker 1: win rate by ESPN and Philadelphia's the number one run
Speaker 1: block win rate, So it's hit all lines up for
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift here. You know, yes, Jalen Hurts eats all
Speaker 1: the easy goal line touchdowns and that limits Swift's upside,
Speaker 1: but he's still a candidate to get some of Dallas
Speaker 1: Goddard's missing receptions. That is, six targets a game that
Speaker 1: Goddard leaves behind, and I think Swift probably gets one
Speaker 1: or two of those. Devanta Smith's the only other egle
Speaker 1: that we really haven't accounted for. He posted seven catches
Speaker 1: for one hundred yards against Kansas City in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Now he goes up against outside cornerback Lagerious sneed a
Speaker 1: lot in this game. He projects to who could well
Speaker 1: wait hold on le Jerry Snead is their best quarterback.
Speaker 1: He could shadow aj Brown in this game. That would
Speaker 1: put Smith on the more favorable coverage against rookie Jalen
Speaker 1: Watson over the past five week weeks, Watson allowing three
Speaker 1: touchdowns and a passer rating of one hundred and nineteen
Speaker 1: over that span. And again no Dallas Goddard. Those targets
Speaker 1: need to go somewhere. DeVonta Smith a candidate for that
Speaker 1: and to be great for him. It's cover to Kansas City.
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey are a grades now. They
Speaker 1: do enter the game having struggled in the last two
Speaker 1: before the bye week. Fortunately, the Eagles have been slaughtered
Speaker 1: by Dak Prescott and Sam Howell in their previous two games.
Speaker 1: Those two combined for seven hundred and seventy one yards
Speaker 1: and seven touchdowns.
Speaker 5: Holy cow, that's almost the ultimate four to seven jackpot
Speaker 5: right there.
Speaker 1: That actually just seven to seven to one and seven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not been most by the way. We're heading into Week eleven.
Speaker 1: Sam Howell leads the league. You've been waiting for this
Speaker 1: in passing yards and passing completions.
Speaker 7: Baby, I still hate this wolf.
Speaker 4: I know we need a better wolf.
Speaker 6: He sounds like he's in pain.
Speaker 1: Now, we had a listener, Dave, who sent in his
Speaker 1: dog doing a wolf howl. Maybe what we see is
Speaker 1: every week we used to have a listener send in
Speaker 1: their bad howls, and then we'll just play your bad.
Speaker 4: Howl and different.
Speaker 7: I like this idea.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's our angle right there. I'm gonna go capture
Speaker 4: sound at the idea around.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Isaiah Pachecko toughest matchup of his year.
Speaker 1: The Eagles are allowing only twenty touches for eighty four
Speaker 1: total yards per game to opposing running backs both league flows.
Speaker 1: The Eagles are allowing only zero point two touchdowns per
Speaker 1: game to opposing running back, second fewest, and they have
Speaker 1: the fourth best run stop win rate per ESPN. It's
Speaker 1: all bad for Pachecko, who comes in with a C grade.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you more about Rasi Rice in
Speaker 1: the next segment. Chicago takes on Detroit. Matt, let's go
Speaker 1: to the Chicago side. We're just in fields expected to
Speaker 1: come back for this game. Do you dare put him
Speaker 1: in your lineup right away.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: He's been a full participant in practice all week and
Speaker 7: should start in Detroit this Sunday. The injury was to
Speaker 7: his thumb on his throwing hand, so the legs shouldn't
Speaker 7: be in question, and the legs are what we've signed
Speaker 7: up for on Justin Fields. Last year in two matchups
Speaker 7: with Detroit, Fields ran for one hundred and thirty two
Speaker 7: yards in one game and one hundred and forty seven
Speaker 7: yards and two scores in the other game.
Speaker 4: Is insane.
Speaker 7: Now, no quarterbacks have put up days like that against
Speaker 7: the Lions since Fields did it last year, but Lamar
Speaker 7: Jackson had thirty six rushing yards in a score and
Speaker 7: a blowout win in Week seven. Patrick Mahomes had forty
Speaker 7: five rushing yards in Week one. Three quarterbacks have thrown
Speaker 7: for three or more touchdown passes against the Lions in
Speaker 7: the last five games, and prior to the injury, Fields
Speaker 7: had two straight games with four touchdown passes and at
Speaker 7: least two hundred and eighty yards.
Speaker 4: Justin Fields gets an A grade wow coming back. Oh jeez, okay.
Speaker 7: DJ Moore hasn't scored a touchdown since Field's injured his thumb,
Speaker 7: but had five scores in the three previous games that
Speaker 7: Field started and finished, and it looks like more will
Speaker 7: match up most often with Cameron Sutton. Sutton was targeted
Speaker 7: nine times last week in the Chargers.
Speaker 4: Game, nine times, nine times.
Speaker 7: And he allowed six catches eighty eight yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 7: A grade for DJ Moore in this one.
Speaker 4: Wow okay.
Speaker 7: Cole Comet had three touchdown receptions in Field's last two
Speaker 7: completed games as well. He put up better numbers than
Speaker 7: DJ Moore in the Bag and Orange games, but right
Speaker 7: now he's the number five tight end in PPR leagues.
Speaker 7: The Lions have faced exactly one tight end in the
Speaker 7: top twelve this year. That was Mark Andrews. He had
Speaker 7: four catches, sixty three yards and two touchdowns. Comet gets
Speaker 7: a very solid B grade here. Deonta Foreman is the
Speaker 7: bell cow here. Roshawn Johnson is just the change of
Speaker 7: pace guy as of right now.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but Khalil Herbert coming back MUCKs up that works.
Speaker 1: I dropped Foreman in my league.
Speaker 7: Really. He had twenty and twenty one carries in the
Speaker 7: last two weeks. And by the way, Foreman has played
Speaker 7: the Lions exactly once in his career. It was last
Speaker 7: year on Christmas Eve as a member of the Panthers.
Speaker 7: He had twenty one carries one hundred and sixty five
Speaker 7: yards in a score in that game, and lead backs
Speaker 7: against the Lions over the past three games have had
Speaker 7: a minimum of sixteen PPR points. So I'm giving Foreman
Speaker 7: a B in this gradeing this one.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see it differently. I think Herbert goes right
Speaker 1: back to the top of the depth chart. He's going
Speaker 1: to get most of the work. It's going to wash
Speaker 1: out for him, and I believe maybe.
Speaker 7: Let's talk about the running backs on the other side.
Speaker 7: That's David Montgomery, and how about the starter Khalil Herbert.
Speaker 4: I think it's Foreman's job. Man. They're force feeding him
Speaker 4: the ball right now.
Speaker 5: So this is gonna be a Roshawn Johnson game, though
Speaker 5: totally all right.
Speaker 7: We view it differently. I don't think the ground bear
Speaker 7: is back.
Speaker 1: Herbert was running really, really well pre injury, full week of.
Speaker 4: Practice, ready to roll. I think he goes right back
Speaker 4: to the top of the dept chart. I don't think so.
Speaker 7: David Montgomery and Jamier Gibbs, we specifically talked last week
Speaker 7: about how David Montgomery returned, he'd just resume his role
Speaker 7: as the inside the five back. But evidently Gibbs was
Speaker 7: stopped last week inside the five, and Montgomery was going
Speaker 7: to be sent in, but then he asked Jamiir Gibbs,
Speaker 7: do you want it? And he gave Jamiir Gibbs the
Speaker 7: inside the five and then Gibbs got three carries from
Speaker 7: inside the five last week.
Speaker 6: Don't ever do that again, David Montgomery. Never again.
Speaker 7: Montgomery still had two himself, so I think it's still
Speaker 7: clear that that's his role. But it's a warm, fuzzy story.
Speaker 7: The snap split last week was thirty seven to twenty
Speaker 7: four in favor of Gibbs, and rush attempts were almost
Speaker 7: split evenly. The Bears have improved exponentially against the runs
Speaker 7: since they traded for Montes Sweat. In the two games
Speaker 7: since Sweat arrived, they held Alvin Kamara to twenty six
Speaker 7: rushing yards and the Panthers backs to a combined twenty
Speaker 7: five yards on thirteen carries. So I'll give a B
Speaker 7: grade to Gibbs on the pass catching side alone, because
Speaker 7: the Bears have still had issues with that.
Speaker 4: Just a C grade for Montgomery right now.
Speaker 6: In a revenge game.
Speaker 7: In a revenge game, I think he needs to convert
Speaker 7: a score here. Jared Goff gets an A grade, though
Speaker 7: the Bears are allowing two undred and fifty five yards
Speaker 7: and two passing scores per game, both are bottom four
Speaker 7: in the league. Goff has been over the two hundred
Speaker 7: and fifty five yard mark in each of his last
Speaker 7: four games, plus, I think this game has a little
Speaker 7: bit of a shootout to it. Amon Ra Saint Brown
Speaker 7: and Sam Laporta are both A grades. Not worth getting
Speaker 7: too far into it, but the Bears are the worst
Speaker 7: tight end defense in the league, and when Goff needs
Speaker 7: a first down a mon Ra has seen twenty three
Speaker 7: targets on third or fourth down in the last six games.
Speaker 4: Jeez, that's a lot. They just keep.
Speaker 7: Targeting him on those short, short ones right there. And
Speaker 7: Josh Reynolds is the other guy you'd consider here, but
Speaker 7: he's losing snaps to Jamison Williams and for some reason,
Speaker 7: Khalif Raymond plus Donovan People's Jones should be active for
Speaker 7: the lines this week. So I'm going to take away
Speaker 7: and see approach on the secondary wide receiver for the
Speaker 7: Lions for the time being.
Speaker 1: Bears run defense has turned really, really good over the
Speaker 1: last five weeks. They are the best run defense in
Speaker 1: the league by yards allowed. It's amazing and.
Speaker 7: Montes made them even better because I highlighted the last
Speaker 7: two weeks it's been they've been unstoppable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, unbelievable. How how they've turned that around, or.
Speaker 7: They've been stopping people, but unstoppable It is not the right.
Speaker 1: Word perspective from the Chicago perspective, unstoppable. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we won't stop giving you players upon.
Speaker 4: Whom you can take it home. Good one. Well, actually
Speaker 4: it's going to be exactly what will stop at nine.
Speaker 4: It's going to be exactly nine times when we come back.
Speaker 4: Take a chance at me. Stay tuned Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: Nine players upon whom you can take a chance, but
Speaker 1: begin at the quarterback position, and Matt Harrison, who you got.
Speaker 7: It's come to this, Trevor Lawrence is now a take
Speaker 7: a chance on me player.
Speaker 4: To Liz.
Speaker 7: When you've thrown seven touchdown passes in your last eight
Speaker 7: games and only top three hundred yards once in that span,
Speaker 7: that's what you get. We'll talk more about Trevor in
Speaker 7: the next hour, but this week he's startable.
Speaker 4: Against the Titans.
Speaker 7: Lawrence does average about twenty five rushing yards per game,
Speaker 7: which is sadly helping his numbers more than anything this year,
Speaker 7: and the Titans have allowed an average of thirty eight
Speaker 7: rushing yards per game to the quarterback position in the
Speaker 7: last month, and some of those quarterbacks include Desmond Ritter,
Speaker 7: Taylor Heineke, Baker Mayfield. They also allowed Mayfield to go
Speaker 7: for two seventy eight and two last week through the air.
Speaker 4: So like Lawrence this week, all right, Brian, you take
Speaker 4: a chance with me quarterback.
Speaker 5: He's been a mainstay on takeom, but I think he's
Speaker 5: hit every time. But this is his toughest matchup and
Speaker 5: that's Baker Mayfield at San Francisco.
Speaker 1: We've got I think I bet he's more than every
Speaker 1: other week at this stage.
Speaker 4: Just to take a chance, I mean, quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: I feel like this is the week where most people
Speaker 5: won't listen to us, though, but there is an angle
Speaker 5: here at San Francisco. Baker has thrown for multiple touchdown
Speaker 5: passes in three straight games, and over the forty nine
Speaker 5: ers last three games, they've surrendered five passing touchdowns, not
Speaker 5: a ton, but that includes the goose egg from the
Speaker 5: aforementioned Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 6: Last week.
Speaker 5: They serdered five touchdowns across their two games prior.
Speaker 6: And this is all about volume for Mayfield, who's playing well.
Speaker 6: They're not gonna run at all. They're not going to
Speaker 6: run at all.
Speaker 5: Mayfield has a nice set of wideouts and Chris Godwin
Speaker 5: and Mike Evans. The Bucks will surely be trailing, which
Speaker 5: means Baker will be throwing. San Francisco is yielding more
Speaker 5: than thirty eight pass attempts per game, which is a
Speaker 5: healthy number. So I'm going Baker and I'm hoping he
Speaker 5: pulls off this upset in Cleveland.
Speaker 6: Is this back home? Like, what have we done to ourselves?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: So I let just Josh Dobbs go, yeah, piling on
Speaker 1: for the Browns a little bit.
Speaker 4: Jordan Love take on the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Love, coming off probably the best total game of his career,
Speaker 1: now faces the most favorable matchup of his career. Chargers
Speaker 1: allow the most passing yards three hundred and sixteen per game,
Speaker 1: even Zach Wilson put up two sixty three. If Zach
Speaker 1: Wilson can do it, yeah that was just two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: All other quarterbacks besides Wilson have found their way into
Speaker 1: the end zone, including by ground, where the Chargers have
Speaker 1: allowed four quarterback rushing touchdowns. Most of the league love
Speaker 1: his fleet of foot.
Speaker 4: He can do some.
Speaker 1: Damage on the ground here as well. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the running back position.
Speaker 7: I've got Zach Sharbonay another mainstay.
Speaker 1: I believe this is either three or four straight weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: probas Zach Sharboney.
Speaker 7: Let it be known that Zach Charbonay has been on
Speaker 7: the field for more snaps than Ken Walker in three
Speaker 7: straight weeks.
Speaker 4: Yes, Walker is still.
Speaker 7: Leading the touch totals in each of those weeks, but
Speaker 7: the targets are going to Sharbonay eight to five in
Speaker 7: that time span, and he's run sixty eight passing routes
Speaker 7: compared to thirty five for Walker in that time I
Speaker 7: don't think sharbon is about to take over, but he
Speaker 7: did have ten touches last week, and that included four receptions.
Speaker 7: The Rams haven't been tested a lot through the air
Speaker 7: by running backs, but every running back who's caught just
Speaker 7: three balls against them has managed double digit PPR points.
Speaker 4: Brian, you take a chance with me running back.
Speaker 5: I've got Cowboys backup running back Rico Dowdell at Carolina.
Speaker 5: That means Tony Pollard is fine. He will be playing
Speaker 5: and starting this game. But there's gonna be enough meat
Speaker 5: on the bone for both of these backs in this
Speaker 5: matchup against Carolina, who is allowing the second most rushing
Speaker 5: yards per game to running backs, They've surrendered the most
Speaker 5: rushing scores to the position, so it should be no
Speaker 5: surprise that Carolina has yielded the third most red zone
Speaker 5: touches to running backs and the second most in goal
Speaker 5: to go situations.
Speaker 6: So I like Dowdell in a backup role.
Speaker 4: Would you call him Rico suave?
Speaker 5: No, because I used to call Nego Collins Nico suave.
Speaker 5: But I'm gonna stick that with me.
Speaker 1: I think it's too easy. It could be a blowout
Speaker 1: and they go to Dowdell one sided game too.
Speaker 4: I've been way in no long time for this.
Speaker 1: Really, ty Chandler, Baby, Yeah, you remember in the pre
Speaker 1: last week, he was my premature speculation player. Obviously had
Speaker 1: no idea Alexander Madison was going to be concussed.
Speaker 7: Don't give yourself a little peacock for that.
Speaker 4: I'll I'll take a mini peacock.
Speaker 1: So we don't want to make it sound like I'm
Speaker 1: happy Alexander Madison's concussed because clearly that's not what we
Speaker 1: want here, but we do want ty Chandler to get
Speaker 1: the majority of carries now.
Speaker 4: Kevin O'Connell seems to have been very sheepish about.
Speaker 1: Giving him a lot of work, but I don't think
Speaker 1: he's got a choice now, and it's Denver now. Denver's
Speaker 1: much improved in basically every area except against the run.
Speaker 6: Would you say Kevin O'Connell is tied down this week? No?
Speaker 4: Tied? Oh t yes, his hands are tied.
Speaker 6: There we go. That would have been better is better.
Speaker 1: In the last five weeks, Denver allowing five and a
Speaker 1: half yards per carry, one hundred and one rushing yards
Speaker 1: per game, and that includes giving up a buck eighty
Speaker 1: to the Bills last week. Hardly a rushing powerhouse team.
Speaker 1: Chandler is a better receiver than Madison or Acres, and
Speaker 1: the Vikings could deploy him through the air copiously as well.
Speaker 1: Ty Chandlernos, I'm glad we're not using the Broncos seventy
Speaker 1: points stats against them, and we've wiped that out and
Speaker 1: they're still bad at the rush at.
Speaker 4: This they are. Let's go to the receivers.
Speaker 7: Matt I'm going way deep on this one. Diami Brown
Speaker 7: versus the Giants. Curtis Samuel has been battling a toe
Speaker 7: injury for like two weeks. He played through it last
Speaker 7: week but was ineffective, and then Diami Brown popped in
Speaker 7: out of nowhere. Had two targets, two catches, forty one
Speaker 7: yards and a score in Seattle. Brown is the deep
Speaker 7: threat with an average depth of target currently sitting at
Speaker 7: a pretty nice seventeen yards downfield. That's six yard is
Speaker 7: higher than Terry McLaurin.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Last week, this Giants team faced off against the Cowboys
Speaker 7: and the third wide receiver on that roster was Michael Gallup.
Speaker 7: Gallup had an a dot last week of thirty five
Speaker 7: yards down til and ended up with seventy yards in
Speaker 7: a score, So they targeted deep. The Giants have one
Speaker 7: good corner that's Cordial Flot He's most likely the slot corner,
Speaker 7: Uh and Samuel in the slot flat in the slot.
Speaker 7: Samuel runs from the slot most often, but when he's
Speaker 7: been out it's been a mix of John Dotson and
Speaker 7: Jamison Crowder moving to the slot and then Diami Brown
Speaker 7: flexes to the outside. Where it's a good matchup for him.
Speaker 7: I like Brown as just the DFS deep dart throw
Speaker 7: this week?
Speaker 4: Does Flot in the slot own an elf on the shelf? Probably?
Speaker 7: I mean maybe you could get a flot and put
Speaker 7: it in a.
Speaker 6: What's the A dot when targeting Flot in the slot?
Speaker 4: Not that good because he's their only good corner.
Speaker 1: You're taking chance with me receiver if you like exhausted
Speaker 1: this whole lot of questioning.
Speaker 5: I got tight end Jets tight end Tyler Conklin aka
Speaker 5: Tyler Gronklin at Buffalo. Conklin only had one catch for
Speaker 5: two yards when these teams met in week win, but
Speaker 5: but Buffalo had a healthy Matt Mulano. They're all pro
Speaker 5: winebacker arguably that the heart of their defense. He is
Speaker 5: on IR now, and Conklin has been solid over the
Speaker 5: last two games, securing all thirteen of his targets for
Speaker 5: one hundred and thirty six yards. The Bills have surrendered
Speaker 5: big games to tight ends in recent weeks. The Bengals
Speaker 5: tight ends combined for ten catches one hundred and one
Speaker 5: yards and two touchdowns, and the Patriots tight ends combined
Speaker 5: for six catches eighty three yards in a touchdown recently,
Speaker 5: Conklin shouldn't be doing any combining with cj Uzoma, who
Speaker 5: has totaled just four catches over his last four games.
Speaker 5: So Tyler Gronklin at Buffalo and.
Speaker 1: A tight end Wasteland made worse by the Mark Anders injury. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's absolutely rosterable and startable this week. I there is
Speaker 1: a chance this week Monday Night is the Rashi Rice
Speaker 1: breakout party against the Eagles. The Eagles have allowed the
Speaker 1: most wide receiver receptions, the third most wide receiver yards,
Speaker 1: and the most wide receiver touchdowns. Rice sat a career
Speaker 1: high in routes run in his last game before the bye,
Speaker 1: forty one of them. He's scored in three the past
Speaker 1: five games. Now, Rice primarily runs from the slot, and
Speaker 1: that's the primo matchup against Philadelphia that allows him to
Speaker 1: avoid the outside corners James Bradberry and Darius Sleigh Ride.
Speaker 1: Sleigh Reich will face backup corner Bradley Roby, who's got
Speaker 1: a shoulder injury, or if he can't go, even better
Speaker 1: rookie Eli Rix. Now Roby has barely played this year,
Speaker 1: but last year he was so bad he ranked his
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus one hundred and twenty second cornerback. Now
Speaker 1: if he can't go, and it's the rookie Eli Rix,
Speaker 1: he's so bad this year. He ranks his cornerback one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty six among quarterbacks. And here is some
Speaker 1: irrefutable math. Rice has scored all four of his touchdowns
Speaker 1: in odd numbered weeks.
Speaker 4: And here we are we gleven. Oh wow, here we are.
Speaker 4: That's the kind of math you can't argue with.
Speaker 7: Glad he took Week ten as his bye week.
Speaker 1: Dallas takes on Carolina. Brian he already told us Ricote
Speaker 1: Dowdell is your take chance with me running back. But
Speaker 1: let's go to Tony Pollard. If you like Dowdell, you
Speaker 1: must like Tony Pollard.
Speaker 3: Two.
Speaker 6: This is it.
Speaker 5: This is it for Tony Pollard. Like I said, doubt
Speaker 5: all might take on running back. But Pollard gets the
Speaker 5: A against Carolina. I'm not gonna go through the stats again.
Speaker 5: There's given up a ton of running backs. Pollard has
Speaker 5: gone like one hundred and ninety ish touches without a touchdown.
Speaker 6: It's been a brutal stretch for Pollard.
Speaker 5: He did get stopped twice at the one yard line
Speaker 5: last week on separate drive, so I'm gonna roll him
Speaker 5: out here one more time. Pollard ranks second in overall
Speaker 5: red zone touches and second and carries inside the five
Speaker 5: yard line among all running backs. Carolina will also be
Speaker 5: without all Pro linebacker Brian Burns, So Tony Pollard gets
Speaker 5: an A. Come on, Tony LFG one time over to
Speaker 5: CD Lamb, he gets an A. Lamb's target totals over
Speaker 5: the last three games fourteen, sixteen, fourteen, in his catch
Speaker 5: total over the during that same span twelve, eleven and
Speaker 5: eleven just on an absolute heater, you gotta give him
Speaker 5: an A. But I feel I'm a little worried about
Speaker 5: this matchup because the Panthers have yielded these second fewest
Speaker 5: targets to wide receivers and as a result, they are
Speaker 5: averaging as a whole less than eleven catches and one
Speaker 5: hundred and thirty yards per game against Carolina. Teams don't
Speaker 5: throw a ton against the Panthers. But you got to
Speaker 5: give Ceedee Lamb the A. And if he doesn't get
Speaker 5: the goods, I'm giving Brandon Cooks and Michael Gallup to
Speaker 5: see just in case. But this game is all about
Speaker 5: the running backs. But I do have to see on
Speaker 5: Jake Ferguson. It's basically the same story for Fergie as
Speaker 5: it is for the wideouts the Panthers that yielded the
Speaker 5: third fewest targets to opposing tight ends and as a result,
Speaker 5: they are averaging three and a half catches and thirty
Speaker 5: yards per game against Carolina with just two total touchdowns
Speaker 5: all season. So just as see for Ferguson, but I
Speaker 5: will give Dak Prescott a B.
Speaker 6: He should get enough done through the air.
Speaker 5: Dak Prescott right now, top five quarterback whose plays.
Speaker 1: So much better Now for all of us that poop pood,
Speaker 1: the move it offensive coordinator that Dallas did.
Speaker 6: That's great towards right now, big me, Yeah, Da.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's really never looked better than he has over
Speaker 1: the last three games that he's played, with four three
Speaker 1: and four touchdowns in all games over three hundred yards.
Speaker 5: Now over the Carolina side, I'm just going to talk
Speaker 5: about one player, the only player worth starting, and that's
Speaker 5: Adam Thielen. Of course I'm gonna give him a be
Speaker 5: Carolina head coach Frank Reich did not call the plays
Speaker 5: for Carolina over the last two games, and those have
Speaker 5: been Feelin's worst games, even though we still scored double
Speaker 5: digit points. But Frank Reike has reclaimed those duties, which
Speaker 5: is great news for Theelan and Carolina will be behind
Speaker 5: in this game. They'll be throwing a ton and Cowboys
Speaker 5: slot corner Jordan Lewis has struggled mightily over the last
Speaker 5: five weeks. He's allowed a passer rating of one hundred
Speaker 5: and forty in the slot, third highest during that span.
Speaker 1: Letry, I'm gonna try to sneak in one more matchup,
Speaker 1: which we don't normally do right here, but I'm gonna try.
Speaker 1: I think this one is short enough that we can
Speaker 1: do with Chargers in Green Bay. For the Chargers, Keenan Allen,
Speaker 1: Austin Eckler obvious as they're running at a great clip.
Speaker 4: In the Packers defense is nothing to worry about here.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Justin Herbert, who's posted four explosive games
Speaker 1: and this feels like a fifth coming now. The Packers
Speaker 1: traded away their best cornerback, Russell Douglas Jarrah Alexander.
Speaker 4: If he plays at all, we'd be playing hurt.
Speaker 1: The Packers pass defense looks great on paper, but they
Speaker 1: faced Kenny Pickett Brett Rippen, Desmond Ritter, Jamis Winston.
Speaker 4: I mean, it has been.
Speaker 1: A cavalcade of backup grade quarterbacks against the against the Packers.
Speaker 1: The only Herbert level quarterback to face the Packers all
Speaker 1: year was Kirk Cousins, who was eviscerating them before he
Speaker 1: got hurt three weeks ago. Justin Herbert A grade in
Speaker 1: this game, Quinn Johnson comes into the C grade three
Speaker 1: straight games of at least thirty routes run all season
Speaker 1: highs for him. He scored his first touchdown last week,
Speaker 1: and at six foot three, two hundred and fifteen pounds,
Speaker 1: Johnson should be an end zone target and at least
Speaker 1: more often than he has been there. Starting to use
Speaker 1: him more in the red zone, Packers have been forced
Speaker 1: into using backup cornerbacks Corey Ballantine and seventh round rookie
Speaker 1: Carrington Valentine. So we got a Valentine Valentine connection.
Speaker 4: You totally made that up.
Speaker 1: I know you'd think so, right, maybe all the maybe
Speaker 1: that's their new strategy in Green Bay is nothing but
Speaker 1: rhyming cornerbacks.
Speaker 7: And they got Steve Gallentine on the practice squad right now,
Speaker 7: so that's good.
Speaker 1: Johnston can beat both of those guys, We're gonna give
Speaker 1: him a C grade in this one. If Gerald Everett
Speaker 1: does not go, put Donald Parum in as a flyer
Speaker 1: with a seat. Gerald Everett is not going, then let's
Speaker 1: give Donald Parum a C grade in this game as well.
Speaker 1: Let's go over to Green Bay. Jordan Loves might take
Speaker 1: a chance to be quarterbacks, so I most like some
Speaker 1: of his receivers. And by the way, see grade on
Speaker 1: Jordan Love, se Grad and Romeo Dobbs. Over the past
Speaker 1: five weeks, quarterback of Sante Samuel has allowed the third
Speaker 1: most yards of any cornerback, and the other side, Michael
Speaker 1: Davis has been serviceable. But this is a very beatable
Speaker 1: overall unit. Detroit as Miles had a Green Bay offensively,
Speaker 1: and they dominated the Chargers in every fast of the
Speaker 1: passing game last week. And I still think Packer's gonna
Speaker 1: get Attle something done here, Romeo Dubs see grade. Jayden
Speaker 1: Reed coming off his best game catching all five passes
Speaker 1: for eighty four yards in a score running from the slot,
Speaker 1: he draws a unique Chargers matchup.
Speaker 4: Now, the Chargers don't have a true slot defender.
Speaker 1: So they mix pieces together to try to the slot,
Speaker 1: and a lot of times it doesn't work. A full
Speaker 1: thirty percent of wide receiver fantasy points allowed by the
Speaker 1: Chargers go to slot receivers. So Jaden Reid in play.
Speaker 4: In this one.
Speaker 1: Christian Watson, I just can't do it. He's not healthy.
Speaker 1: He's not a factor in this passing game at all.
Speaker 1: This is the most favorable matchup he's going to have.
Speaker 1: I guess maybe if you're still your roster and you're
Speaker 1: looking for some dart throw.
Speaker 5: Maybe we never had a dad. His dad has been
Speaker 5: the squeaky wheel.
Speaker 6: How about that past week? What do we call that?
Speaker 1: Eli Apple's wife or mom used to be a squeaky
Speaker 1: wheel too.
Speaker 7: They did just drop Christian Watson off of the injury report.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, hopefully he plays in this one. He's averaging
Speaker 1: seventeen yards per pass, which is great, second longest in
Speaker 1: the league. Totally invisible. But you know, if not, now
Speaker 1: when I'm not putting a C grade on him. But
Speaker 1: if you want to ever throw a dart on Christian Watson,
Speaker 1: this is it. We haven't talked enough about the bust
Speaker 1: season that is Christian Watson. Remember, but he go off
Speaker 1: the board like round three four of drafts in August.
Speaker 6: He's on the All Bus team for right now.
Speaker 7: You know we mentioned it last week invisibility. Good trade
Speaker 7: for running back, bad for wide receiver. That is, that's
Speaker 7: a fact. Yeah, uh, loose mutton.
Speaker 4: About the loose.
Speaker 1: Mutton, man, do we have no out? We don't have
Speaker 1: a sheep anymore.
Speaker 4: We don't need a sheep. We've got you. We don't
Speaker 4: need the sheep. Loose Mutton.
Speaker 1: The Chargers are getting rocked by tight ends. Four straight
Speaker 1: opponents tight ends have combined to top sixty three yards,
Speaker 1: including guys like Cole Comet, Tyler Conklin Musgrave has posted
Speaker 1: fifty one and sixty four yards the past two weeks.
Speaker 1: Absolutely startable here, a C grade on the loose Mutton,
Speaker 1: and then lastly Aaron Jones.
Speaker 4: He's led the team in stankan great, good job, Robbie.
Speaker 1: He's led the team in touches and snaps for three
Speaker 1: straight weeks, helping to finally dagger any temptation to start
Speaker 1: AJ Dillon, But his upside totally capped here. Jones has
Speaker 1: only scored once since Week one. Charges gave up three
Speaker 1: rushing scores of the Lions last week. But Troit's so
Speaker 1: much better and so much more persistent at the run.
Speaker 1: Per Next Gen Stats, Joan is the fifth least of
Speaker 1: efficient runner all year. Green Bay's got the fourth worst
Speaker 1: run block win rate. It's not great and I can
Speaker 1: only get you to a C.
Speaker 4: Gray.
Speaker 7: I feel like he's like the third oldest running back
Speaker 7: in the league too.
Speaker 1: It feels that way. He's not, but I'm sure he's not,
Speaker 1: but it feels that way. When we come back Giants
Speaker 1: in Washington, is there anybody to start on the Giants?
Speaker 4: Including sa Kwon Barkley? Find out when we.
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Speaker 1: Though. Giants taking on Washington. Matt not much to like
Speaker 1: here for the Giants offense, and I think you can
Speaker 1: question whether or not Saquon Barkley's even startable in a
Speaker 1: very favorable matchup. Otherwise, against Washington, I'm.
Speaker 4: Not gonna question it that much.
Speaker 7: He's the only starter on the Giants, but he still
Speaker 7: gets an A grade in my and he's been limited
Speaker 7: in practice this week as they keep an eye on
Speaker 7: the anklely injured about a month ago and only saw
Speaker 7: thirteen carries last week in the blowout loss to the Cowboys,
Speaker 7: but he was still running at five yards per carry
Speaker 7: in that game and they just sat him down after
Speaker 7: a while because the game was out of hand. In
Speaker 7: the last five weeks, Washington's run defense has fallen apart.
Speaker 7: Seven different running backs in that time have seen over
Speaker 7: fifty yards, and they're allowing six receptions per game to
Speaker 7: opposing backs during that time.
Speaker 4: That's fourth worst.
Speaker 3: In the league.
Speaker 7: Also, in Week seven they met each other, Saquon managed
Speaker 7: one hundred and eighteen total yards in a score in
Speaker 7: that one. On the other well, if I trusted the
Speaker 7: Cutlet King Tommy DeVito at all, there'd be someone else
Speaker 7: to start in this passing game. But Cutlet is now
Speaker 7: at two hundred and sixty total passing yards and two starts.
Speaker 7: That's one thirty per game.
Speaker 4: That's not good. And Waller still on IR.
Speaker 7: And in the past four games, only one Giants wide
Speaker 7: receiver has topped sixty yards in four games.
Speaker 6: I've got an amazing nickname for him, real quick, okay,
Speaker 6: and J Cutt.
Speaker 7: And Jay Cutlet, I get it, I don't get new
Speaker 7: jersey jersey.
Speaker 4: And also Jay Cutler in there a little bit.
Speaker 1: And J Cutlet alright, okay, fine, let me mention how
Speaker 1: about smoking tummy to be.
Speaker 4: Giants offensive line.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be without right tackle Evan Neil has been
Speaker 1: ruled out and we're the game time decisioning left tackle
Speaker 1: Andrew Thomas. I'm I don't want even Barkley. I've got
Speaker 1: him in my rankings way down to like running back
Speaker 1: twenty five guys.
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't trust that.
Speaker 1: I don't trust that offensive line, and I don't if
Speaker 1: you're as bad as the commanders aren't defense, they only
Speaker 1: got one job stop Sakua Barklay.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's still twenty touches going his way and he's
Speaker 7: still making do with it. So on the commander's side,
Speaker 7: Sam Howell, he's an A grade over three hundred yards
Speaker 7: and three straight games. The last time he was held
Speaker 7: under three hundred yards it was against the Giants.
Speaker 4: But this Giants defense is really banged up.
Speaker 7: Just gave up four hundred and seventy two passing yards
Speaker 7: to the Cowboys last week.
Speaker 4: Terry mcclaurin gets an.
Speaker 7: A grade baby, given Johan and a Bee and Diami Brown,
Speaker 7: who might take a chance on me wide receiver, Three
Speaker 7: different Cowboys wide receivers top seventy yards and scored last week.
Speaker 7: Seven different wide receivers have hit the hundred yard mark
Speaker 7: against the Giants this year. McLaurin has seen seven or
Speaker 7: more targets in five straight games and Dotson put up
Speaker 7: a goose egg last week, but was targeted eight times
Speaker 7: or more in each of the prior three games and
Speaker 7: scored in two of them. Gonna leave Logan Thomas on
Speaker 7: the bench this week. The Giants are allowing the third
Speaker 7: fewest receptions to tight ends and Thomas only had one
Speaker 7: target and zero catches in the first meeting. And then
Speaker 7: finally Brian Robinson. He gets an A grade in this one.
Speaker 7: Antonio Gibson is going to be missing this one too.
Speaker 7: Hasn't hit one hundred yards on the ground this year,
Speaker 7: but he managed one hundred and nineteen receiving yards last
Speaker 7: week in Seattle, and he scored five times on the
Speaker 7: ground and three times through the air this year. In
Speaker 7: the first meeting, he only managed eight carries for twenty
Speaker 7: three yards and a score, But it looks like he's
Speaker 7: turned a corner. In the past few weeks. The Giants
Speaker 7: have allowed the second most rushing yards and the third
Speaker 7: most rushing tds this year, at an average of one
Speaker 7: to eleven and just over a score per game. Like
Speaker 7: Brian Robinson a lot here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, this is the only week where I think
Speaker 1: I'd roll in with an A grade on Robinson all year.
Speaker 1: I also mentioned this Giants have ruled out their cornerback
Speaker 1: of Dori Jackson.
Speaker 4: Is another reason to love the passing game.
Speaker 5: There was the picture of that one guy that went
Speaker 5: viral who drafted Brian Robinson instead of Bejon Robinson in
Speaker 5: the first round, and that was the play.
Speaker 4: I turned out. He didn't get it.
Speaker 6: He overpaid a little bit, of course, but he's happy now.
Speaker 1: We had a premature speculation I think three weeks ago
Speaker 1: about Chris Rodriguez running back for Washington. Keep your eyes
Speaker 1: on him. He's gonna get a butt. He's gonna get
Speaker 1: extra time in this game. Let's see what he does.
Speaker 1: Here is a deep stash in leagues with long benches.
Speaker 1: Las Vegas takes on Miami Brian In the two games
Speaker 1: Antonio Pierce has been head coach for they have been
Speaker 1: a dominating offensive, particularly on through the running game and
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs. So let's start with Jacobs, who's starting to
Speaker 1: feel like just in every week a grade.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Antonio Pierce loves him some Josh Jacobs. Like you said.
Speaker 5: Over the last two weeks, Jacobs has played more than
Speaker 5: eighty percent of the snaps while averaging twenty.
Speaker 6: Eight touches per game.
Speaker 4: Oh, I love it.
Speaker 5: So there will be volume here. Las Vegas likely to
Speaker 5: be trailing, but Jacobs can't catch the ball. This is
Speaker 5: not a great matchup on the with the Dolphins coming
Speaker 5: off their by It's not the worst either. Opposing backs
Speaker 5: are averaging one hundred and fourteen combo yards per game
Speaker 5: against Miami, but they've scored just seven total touchdowns. Would
Speaker 5: still a B for Jacobs based on that insane volume.
Speaker 5: Over to the passing game, DeVante Adams against the Sea.
Speaker 5: Adams has seen a thirty three percent target share with
Speaker 5: aid and O'Connell under center.
Speaker 6: We like that.
Speaker 5: The problem is O'Connell was a rookie and he just
Speaker 5: doesn't that good. But I'll still start Adams with the Sea.
Speaker 5: Miami is allowing more than fourteen catches, one hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty five yards and a touchdown per game to opposing wideouts.
Speaker 5: Those are pretty good numbers, and for those reasons, I
Speaker 5: will also give Jacobe Myers a see but the softest
Speaker 5: of seas for Jacobe. For the rest of the Raiders,
Speaker 5: Michael Mayer and Aidan O'Connell, they are on the bench.
Speaker 5: Over to the Dolphins side, a for Tyreek Hill, that's obvious.
Speaker 5: Jalen Waddle Tua, they both get a B. It's really
Speaker 5: all about the running backs now with Devin a Chan
Speaker 5: making his return, so we're looking at likely a fifty
Speaker 5: to fifty split.
Speaker 4: See and I don't agree.
Speaker 1: I thought, I'm worried it's going to be like thirty
Speaker 1: thirty fifteen. Yep, well out, Jeff Wilson is Jeth Wilson
Speaker 1: and salvn Ackmann were they were not healthy at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season to get into the mix. And
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel loves his committees of backs, and so I'm
Speaker 1: worried that he eases in a Chan here and we're
Speaker 1: looking at like a eight touch game and he better
Speaker 1: be magic on those eight touches.
Speaker 6: He has been in the past.
Speaker 5: I know he has eight chan has he has that
Speaker 5: going for him, but I just to see for mostart
Speaker 5: in e Chan. I do have Wilson on the bench,
Speaker 5: but he will factor in. Like you said, this is
Speaker 5: an easy a for any of these backs if they
Speaker 5: were in a bell cow role against the Raiders, who
Speaker 5: are yielding thirty touches per game to the position for
Speaker 5: one hundred and forty five combo yards.
Speaker 6: But again, way too much of a platoon.
Speaker 5: Here, So just a see for most and ah Chan
Speaker 5: and uh Wilson on the bench for now and Durham
Speaker 5: smythe my boy. Lastly for Miami's not happening. He plays
Speaker 5: a ton of snaps. Though we need to get in
Speaker 5: that league. He's getting in some Plardio snap league. Did
Speaker 5: you see the stat during the Colts and Patriots game
Speaker 5: in Germany last year? It was about Alec Pearce has
Speaker 5: traveled the most among any player miles. Yeah, miles, so
Speaker 5: he's burned the most calories in the NFL with like
Speaker 5: three catches.
Speaker 6: They decided to show this. Y.
Speaker 4: You don't mean airline miles. You mean like he just.
Speaker 6: Running around, running around, not getting targeted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, must like the distance on routes run.
Speaker 5: Then he's in great shape.
Speaker 4: But I like it. I like it.
Speaker 1: Do you remember you You may recall Tyreek Hillwin asked
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago about being the best player,
Speaker 1: the best like the best player in the NFL. He said,
Speaker 1: I'm not even the best player on the team. The
Speaker 1: best player in our team is our fullback.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well that's nice of him, That is awfully nice of him.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Isaiah Likely. Is he a priority AD
Speaker 1: and do you expect him how you won't be Mark Andrews.
Speaker 1: Can he be seventy percent of Mark Andrews, which would
Speaker 1: make him startable for most of us if he was?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 7: He did that last year in spurts for the Ravens,
Speaker 7: and I think that he's very likely to be wo.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He had two official starts last year. One of them
Speaker 1: was a one catch game with a touchdown on that
Speaker 1: one catch. The other one he was targeted twelve times
Speaker 1: and had eight catches in the other start.
Speaker 5: Isaiah likely He's not deployed like a stereotypical tight end.
Speaker 6: He's more of a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Really, He's way way thinner than a typical tight end
Speaker 1: and a lankyer. He's six foot four, so yeah, he
Speaker 1: doesn't have that tight end build.
Speaker 7: Really.
Speaker 4: He looks more like just a heavy set wide out.
Speaker 5: And Odell Beckham suffered a shoulder injury on Thursday night.
Speaker 5: He might miss some time. So yeah, likely likely you
Speaker 5: should break the bank on him, especially if you're a
Speaker 5: Mark Andrews manager.
Speaker 4: You're trying to find somebody.
Speaker 1: I think Conklin is a priority AD I think likely
Speaker 1: is a priority ad for.
Speaker 4: Those looking for tight ends. Those might be the guys
Speaker 4: here you got to turn to in this situation.
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Speaker 1: Football Weekly. Paul Chargie and Matt Harrison, Brian Johnson with you.
Speaker 1: This is a game we call three tough questions.
Speaker 3: Tough question number one.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't normally have a big long explanation before
Speaker 1: we get into the questions, Okay, but I gotta do
Speaker 1: it here.
Speaker 4: We are entering sabotage drop season.
Speaker 7: We took the sabotage off the soundboard, didn't.
Speaker 4: We yeah, we did. Unfortunately we needed we got to
Speaker 4: get that back.
Speaker 1: So I want to go back through the premise game
Speaker 1: because people really I can tell on Twitter because people
Speaker 1: ask me, somebody insert player name here had.
Speaker 4: A bad game last week? You shortye sabotage dropping.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's re explain the nuances of the ballsiest
Speaker 1: move in the history of fantasy football, the sabotage drop.
Speaker 1: The premise is this, you drop brand name players who
Speaker 1: your opponents will pick up and start, and then that
Speaker 1: player is gonna flop in your opponent's games, harming your
Speaker 1: opposing team and costing them waiver wire capital as well.
Speaker 1: You usually want to drop on a Tuesday, so opponents
Speaker 1: have to spend waiver equity. They have to spend bidding
Speaker 1: or their waiver priority.
Speaker 4: With Monday night.
Speaker 1: Tuesday Monday, right, So you want to do that in
Speaker 1: time for people to spend some equity on it. Don't
Speaker 1: do it now. Don't do like Saturday is not the
Speaker 1: day to do it, because let me just pick them
Speaker 1: up for free. You want people to spend on it.
Speaker 1: So this move takes nards of steal eight out of
Speaker 1: ten of you do not have the ability to do
Speaker 1: this correctly. You will drop a player that people don't
Speaker 1: really care about. You will not drop a brand name play,
Speaker 1: and you will never truly consider a sabotage drop. But
Speaker 1: for the two out of ten we are talking to.
Speaker 7: You, maybe the best league to do it in his
Speaker 7: a guillotine league too.
Speaker 4: By the way, yeah you could. Somebody could get chopped
Speaker 4: out of this.
Speaker 1: I successfully executed it on my I didn't know who
Speaker 1: was going to pick him up. As it turned out,
Speaker 1: it was good friend Nando Delfino. I dropped Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: last year. Nando picked him up, bit a bunch of
Speaker 1: money on him, so he spent a bunch of money
Speaker 1: picked him up two weeks later. Lamar Jackson does what
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson does sometimes, the big flop games chopped.
Speaker 6: That was the end of it, good friend Nando, that
Speaker 6: you're throwing under the.
Speaker 4: Sorry, that's right. So now back to.
Speaker 3: This tough question number one.
Speaker 1: Should you sabotage drop Tony Pollard? We've already we've already
Speaker 1: talked around this subject many different ways.
Speaker 4: We begin with Matt.
Speaker 7: We can point at Rico Dowdle's good game in an
Speaker 7: absolute blowout last week against the Giants, but Cooper Rush
Speaker 7: was also in that game at the end, and Pollard
Speaker 7: still led the Snaps fifty three to twenty two and
Speaker 7: touches fifteen to eleven. They didn't need to put mileage
Speaker 7: on Tony Pollard last week, and then they get the
Speaker 7: Panthers this week. They're one of the worst run defenses
Speaker 7: in the league. After that, it's a struggling Washington defense
Speaker 7: in a very mediocre Seattle defense. There's not really a
Speaker 7: stopper on the schedule until Week seventeen against Detroit, and
Speaker 7: they've been kind of struggling a little bit in the
Speaker 7: last couple of weeks. They're not as tough as they
Speaker 7: were earlier in the season. If you sabotage drop guys
Speaker 7: who averaged nineteen touches per game with a good schedule ahead,
Speaker 7: I think you're doing it wrong. So no, don't sabotage
Speaker 7: drop him.
Speaker 4: Brian, Should you sabotage drop Tony Pollard?
Speaker 6: Matt and I are in full agreement.
Speaker 5: I will say though, in Week fourteen at Philly or
Speaker 5: the Cowboys at Philly at home, I don't like that.
Speaker 5: That is a tough matchup. But this is a fair question.
Speaker 5: But we wouldn't be asking it. If Pollard had not
Speaker 5: been stopped at the two yard line twice last week
Speaker 5: at least once the week before, you would have some touchdowns, obviously,
Speaker 5: if he was not stopped at the one. But the
Speaker 5: matchups too good this weekend next week, Like Matt said,
Speaker 5: too much draft capital sunk into Tony Pollard.
Speaker 6: It's not like he's not playing. As Matt also said,
Speaker 6: So I'm at no too. I'm not sabotage dropping.
Speaker 1: If I told you nothing else about a team's roster
Speaker 1: except this, somebody picked at the end of the first
Speaker 1: round or the beginning of the second round, Tony Pollard,
Speaker 1: what do you think their record is.
Speaker 7: I mean, I have been a few leagues, but my
Speaker 7: record's okay.
Speaker 4: I'm a great fantasy mind.
Speaker 1: Three and seven, three and seven, Tony Pollard has delivered
Speaker 1: you losses. Let's talk about the numbers. Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: is sixty first ranked runner is Tony Pollard. He ranks
Speaker 1: thirty second in yards over expectation at negative point three yards.
Speaker 1: He ranks thirty sixth in yards after contact. Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: ranks fifty fourth in Pro Football Focus's exclusive Elusiveness rating.
Speaker 1: For a guy who did nothing but break long runs.
Speaker 1: Last year, he has six runs of over fifteen yards
Speaker 1: this year. That's it, and he's not catching as well
Speaker 1: and not as often. He ranks thirty thirty yards per
Speaker 1: route run. Who ranks better than Pollard and almost all
Speaker 1: stats well for one, Ezekiel Elliott, two Rico Dutel, who
Speaker 1: we already talked about. Yeah, and we'll talk about more later.
Speaker 1: The schedule is easy, you're right about that. And if
Speaker 1: he goes off against Carolina, you're not gonna sabotage drop
Speaker 1: him if he doesn't absolutely make the move. Is the
Speaker 1: two out of ten of you that have the stones
Speaker 1: to do it. If he can't do it against Carolina,
Speaker 1: this is your time.
Speaker 5: Isn't at the ultimate sabotage if you drop him after
Speaker 5: a monster Carolina's a That's.
Speaker 1: A great point. You're actually you're absolutely right about that.
Speaker 1: It's way ballsier. I like that better.
Speaker 7: In most leagues, you can still get something for him
Speaker 7: in trade unless your trade deadline is passed. You have
Speaker 7: a very early trade deadline in your league, you can
Speaker 7: get something for Pollard.
Speaker 4: You set our trade deadline in our Empire league for
Speaker 4: last week. It was too early. I was disappointed by that,
Speaker 4: and you just called it too early.
Speaker 7: I said it to what we decided on fifteen years ago.
Speaker 4: And we started the.
Speaker 3: Tough question number two.
Speaker 1: Should you drop? This isn't a sabotage anymore. This used
Speaker 1: to be a sabotage drop. It's not anymore. Should you
Speaker 1: drop Trevor Lawrence? And originally I had this question a
Speaker 1: sabotage drop. He's not good enough to be a sabotage anymore?
Speaker 1: Should you drop Trevor Lawrence?
Speaker 4: We begin with Brian.
Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence was outscored by Arizona's Clayton Tune last week,
Speaker 5: who played one snap at quarterback and.
Speaker 6: Threw a touchdown.
Speaker 4: That's fantastic.
Speaker 6: Outscore Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 5: Yes, here are some quarterbacks with more passing touchdowns than
Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence as of right now. Mac Jones, the thrice
Speaker 5: benched Mac Jones Justin Fields, who has played six games.
Speaker 5: Lawrence has played nine. I mean, the quarterbacks becoming a wasteland.
Speaker 5: They're sort of dropping like flies. Not sort of they are,
Speaker 5: but Tennessee not a favorable schedule moving forward. The Titans,
Speaker 5: they were giving up a lot through the air early
Speaker 5: on the season, not so much anymore. Then he got
Speaker 5: the Texans bad matchup Bengals neutral, but then Brown's Ravens.
Speaker 5: You're not starting rutal Larrence then, so yeah, I'm dropping.
Speaker 5: And for some reason, Jay Jones like the missing link
Speaker 5: for this offense because when he's been missing, they're.
Speaker 4: Like, I don't know, that can't be.
Speaker 5: It's been a awful it's probably Dan Arnold just his
Speaker 5: presence alone. But no, yes, I'm dropping Trevor Lawrence. One
Speaker 5: quarterback leagues, we're talking, of course, right, yeah, dropsolutely?
Speaker 4: All right, Matt should you drop Trevor Lawrence? Brian kind
Speaker 4: of nailed it.
Speaker 7: I will add, I mean he was might take a
Speaker 7: chance on me quarterback this week. So I do like
Speaker 7: his matchup this week against Tennessee. But after this week,
Speaker 7: I think if he goes off this week, it might
Speaker 7: actually kind of revert back to the sabotage drop for Trevor.
Speaker 4: Lawrence, and Brian alluded to it.
Speaker 7: Houston coming up next, their neutral, Sinsey neutral, Cleveland hard,
Speaker 7: Baltimore Baltimore hard, Tampa easy, and Carolina hard to end
Speaker 7: the season. So yeah, you can drop him or sabotage
Speaker 7: drop him after he goes off this week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a yes. If you're not.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're gonna especially if you're not gonna
Speaker 1: start Trevor Lawrence this week, then we may as well
Speaker 1: just drop him. But if not, then let's wait for Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Let's do the drop. And you're right, let's hope he
Speaker 1: has a good game. Let's drop him.
Speaker 7: Then the game against Tampa in Week sixteen is if
Speaker 7: you're mixing and matching quarterbacks because you lost Joe Burrow
Speaker 7: or Kirk Cousins or one of the other quarterbacks and
Speaker 7: you've just kind of been pasting it together.
Speaker 1: If I'm alive in week sixteen, it ain't because I
Speaker 1: got Trevor Lawrence, you're not thinking.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately.
Speaker 3: Tough question number three.
Speaker 1: Who will score more Fantasy points the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Is it Raheem Mostert or teammate Devon a Chad Matt eighth.
Speaker 7: Chan just looked so much better than Moster to when
Speaker 7: they were both on the field. He's just so fast,
Speaker 7: and I think that they do split backfield touches, So
Speaker 7: in that case, I lean toward talent, which I think
Speaker 7: is a Chan, and then the inside the five touches,
Speaker 7: which in the three weeks that a Chan and Moster
Speaker 7: were both active and kind of getting full workloads. They
Speaker 7: tied at three apiece. So I think it's a Chan,
Speaker 7: but I mean it is close, But I think it's
Speaker 7: Devon ah Chan.
Speaker 1: Okay, Brian, who will score more Fantasy points the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. Is it Rickey Mostert or teammate Devon
Speaker 1: A Chan?
Speaker 6: Can I say the exact same amount?
Speaker 4: Yeah, precisely.
Speaker 6: Man, this is tough.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna to the hundredth place.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna lean Moster.
Speaker 5: By the way, you're leading touchdowns scorer among running backs
Speaker 5: on the ground well overall thirteen total.
Speaker 6: Touchdowns, tied with Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, but man, most it's averaging like six yards
Speaker 5: per carry. H Chan has missed the last four games.
Speaker 5: As we all know, he's averaging like thirteen yards per carry.
Speaker 5: He was putting up ridiculous numbers on a per touch basis.
Speaker 5: Doesn't seem sustainable when healthy. He's still going to be
Speaker 5: startable for sure. But I think Mostard gets the lean
Speaker 5: near the stripe. So I'm going to lean Mostar as well,
Speaker 5: or you you and a Chan.
Speaker 4: Now he's a I'm going this is a this is
Speaker 4: a hard question. You actually did a tough question this week.
Speaker 4: This is a very tough you're.
Speaker 6: Gonna say, Jeff Wilson, aren't you.
Speaker 1: I used to do a lot of trick questions in
Speaker 1: the segment. I guess maybe as I've gotten older, I've
Speaker 1: done less of that. It's PFF's number one ranked runner
Speaker 1: against PFF's number three ranked runner. This is a tough
Speaker 1: tough spot. Now you can debate who's the bigger injury risk.
Speaker 1: They both have got injury pedigree. Both of them do.
Speaker 1: But Mostar it feels like a ticking time bomb a
Speaker 1: little bit because he's played all these games and a
Speaker 1: Chan hasn't.
Speaker 4: Still, it's it's it's hard to.
Speaker 1: Feel like a Chan can carry an offense the way
Speaker 1: that Mostard has only because he has a done it yet. Now,
Speaker 1: as I was tempted to go back, like you did, Matt,
Speaker 1: you went back and looked at the three the three
Speaker 1: games that they played together week two, Week three, Week four,
Speaker 1: when they played together. But I was a little bit
Speaker 1: worried that might not be that valid, just because a
Speaker 1: Chan was such a fresh faced rookie at that time,
Speaker 1: and there was no Jeff Wilson money up the works,
Speaker 1: there was no seal on docmed work in the works.
Speaker 4: At that point, most Art's running so well.
Speaker 1: We've got a much bigger total sample size on Moster
Speaker 1: than we do on a Chan who's just got the
Speaker 1: three games. I know Mostart's going to get a fair
Speaker 1: amount of work. I don't know how much a chan
Speaker 1: it's going to get. The lean goes to Mostard, But
Speaker 1: that was hard, hard question. The answer is you want
Speaker 1: them both?
Speaker 4: It could very well be Yeah, we'd be happy to
Speaker 4: have both. Let's go back to the matchups. I believe
Speaker 4: we're on, Oh, Minnesota Denver. Hey, that's me.
Speaker 1: Let's find the sheet of paper for that. Sorry, a
Speaker 1: little ruffling of paper in the background.
Speaker 5: And if you have most at NHAN, you just start
Speaker 5: them both in that offense, right, some people do, I
Speaker 5: mean they're gonna There are some of the listeners out
Speaker 5: there that a both.
Speaker 4: You just start them both every week, just see what happens, and.
Speaker 6: Then during it.
Speaker 4: I don't think there's any other backfields in the.
Speaker 1: NFL where we'd say just start both guys every week.
Speaker 1: But Miami would be that this is a Sunday night
Speaker 1: football game. We begin with my guy, ty Chandler. I
Speaker 1: already gave you he was my take a chance on
Speaker 1: me running back. I want you to know B grade
Speaker 1: on ty Chandler in this opportunity under the assumption Madison
Speaker 1: does not go in this game. We don't know for
Speaker 1: sure that that's going to be the case, but ninety
Speaker 1: percent of players who suffer concussions do not play the
Speaker 1: next week. So the presumption is Madison will not go
Speaker 1: in this game. All right, So let's go to the
Speaker 1: passing game, including TJ. Hawkinson valiantly playing through clearly brutally
Speaker 1: painful ri rib injuries in Dobbs's last three games. And
Speaker 1: this goes back to So this is Arizona, Minnesota, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: Dobbs has thrown forty one passes to his tight ends.
Speaker 1: Hockinson leads all tight ends in targets and receptions. It's
Speaker 1: not close and volume tight ends get paid. Against Denver,
Speaker 1: he averages almost an insane ten targets per game. Tight
Speaker 1: Ends against Denver with just six targets are averaging eighty
Speaker 1: yards and almost a full touchdown per game. So it
Speaker 1: is an A grade on TJ. Hockinson. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the other receivers, including Jordan Addison. I let me say this,
Speaker 1: I don't think George Justin Jefferson's gonna play. I was optimistic,
Speaker 1: more optimistic earlier in the week, but he never got
Speaker 1: in a full practice. He got in limited limited, and
Speaker 1: they've always said we're not playing Jefferson until he's basically
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. So I'm assuming he's not gonna go.
Speaker 1: And if he doesn't go, that hurts Jordan Addison, particularly
Speaker 1: in this matchup because star cornerback Patrick certain will have
Speaker 1: the ability to largely shadow Addison.
Speaker 4: That's not a great matchup.
Speaker 1: And Denver's engineered a remarkable turnaround from its early season woes.
Speaker 1: Over the last five weeks, Denver's allowed the fifth fewest
Speaker 1: reconceptions and the fifth fewest yards per game to opposing
Speaker 1: wide receivers.
Speaker 4: Really impressive turnaround.
Speaker 1: So and by the way, and Addison was a deep
Speaker 1: ball guy, Denver allowing the fourth shortest a dot in
Speaker 1: the league, just six point five yards on average depths
Speaker 1: of throw. So I can only get you to a
Speaker 1: C grade on Jordan Addison without Justin Jefferson on the field.
Speaker 5: Would it be a great game for Jefferson to come
Speaker 5: back just to be a decoy?
Speaker 4: Though I don't think they do it. And I don't
Speaker 4: think he would do it either. I don't think Justin
Speaker 4: Jefferson's got decoy.
Speaker 6: In his DNA. No, but you'd be a good one
Speaker 6: because you get a lot of attention.
Speaker 4: Would be a good one here.
Speaker 1: The slot position has been something of a problem for
Speaker 1: Denver if kJ Osbourne ends up going. We not clear
Speaker 1: if he's going to go get through the concussion protocol either,
Speaker 1: But if he does, he does run a fair amount
Speaker 1: from the slot, and he would be a potential start
Speaker 1: for you here as well with a C grade. If
Speaker 1: he does end up going. Brandon Powell's an emergency guy.
Speaker 1: Could be a punt but I can't give him a
Speaker 1: letter grade in this one. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: Oh Josh Dobbs almost forgot Josh Dobbs B grade. Oh,
Speaker 1: where's my Dobby Sounder? We love Dobby?
Speaker 4: Where'd he go?
Speaker 3: Toby E's.
Speaker 1: The last two quarterbacks to face Denver, Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 1: Josh Allen.
Speaker 4: I heard they're pretty good, yeah.
Speaker 6: Josh Allen. I don't know.
Speaker 1: They've combined in these two games against Denver. They combined
Speaker 1: for one touchdown and four picks, and they averaged two
Speaker 1: hundred nine yards.
Speaker 4: Neither of those guys are Josh Dobbs. Though they're not
Speaker 4: Josh Dobbs.
Speaker 1: That is astounding, astounding turnaround for Denver. Last week, in
Speaker 1: his first full game with the Vikings, Dobbs looked up.
Speaker 1: I think I would say more efficient than explosive. I
Speaker 1: expect just modest passing success for Dobbs in this game,
Speaker 1: but he has run for touchdowns in four straight games
Speaker 1: going back to Arizona. Six straight opposing quarterbacks have topped
Speaker 1: twenty rushing yards or scored a rushing touchdown against Denver,
Speaker 1: but none have been explosive ground games. I think we
Speaker 1: can give a B grade to Josh Dobbs in totality. Here,
Speaker 1: let's go to the Denver side. Javonte Williams has turned
Speaker 1: into basically the Denver offense. Denver has the third best
Speaker 1: run blocking grade according to Pro Football Focus, the third
Speaker 1: best run block win rate according to ESPN, and during
Speaker 1: this Broncos three game winning streak, Javonte Williams averaging twenty
Speaker 1: four touches one hundred and three total yards per game.
Speaker 1: But here's where he gets thorny. The Vikings are allowing
Speaker 1: the fifth fewest total yards and the eighth fewest touchdowns
Speaker 1: per game to opposing running backs, and over the past
Speaker 1: four weeks, Christian McCaffrey, Aaron Jones, Bijon Robinson, Alvin Kamara
Speaker 1: good running backs. None have topped fifty one rushing yards
Speaker 1: against the Vikings. Wow, Javonte Williams b grade in this one.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the passing game. I love Courtland Sutton
Speaker 1: in this game. And how about that touchdown last week,
Speaker 1: one of the best touchdowns.
Speaker 4: Of the year.
Speaker 1: He's at a four this week. Yeah, he is cortlans Y, CARLTT.
Speaker 1: Sutton is a He is a good.
Speaker 4: Were you at practice watching it, Brian, which but.
Speaker 1: The concern is only that he's a low volume, touchdown
Speaker 1: dependent receiver. Now, fortunately he scores almost every game, so
Speaker 1: it hasn't worked out. It hasn't been a problem most
Speaker 1: of the time. And I think Sutton carries touchdown upside again.
Speaker 1: This week, the Vikings are going to be without their
Speaker 1: number one cornerback of Caleb Evans, ruled out of this
Speaker 1: game and replaced not even replace him. The other starter
Speaker 1: is Byron Murphy, who's given up the second most touchdowns
Speaker 1: in the league, six in his coverage. So it's all good.
Speaker 1: For Courtland Sutton with an A grade. What about Jerry Judy?
Speaker 1: You might ask, barely startable due to his low catch volume,
Speaker 1: his lack of touchdowns. But the Vikings secondary has allowed
Speaker 1: the second most receptions eighth most yards per game, so
Speaker 1: I do think he's got an opportunity to put together
Speaker 1: five six catches fifty sixty yards. C level grade for
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy, And where does that leave Russell Wilson. I've
Speaker 1: given you an A and a C grade, so we'll
Speaker 1: put Russell right in the middle with.
Speaker 4: A B grade.
Speaker 1: Playing really well. But the thing on Wilson is lack
Speaker 1: of volume. Denver's thirtieth and pass right and Wilson only
Speaker 1: averaging nineteen completions per game. Get this, five straight games,
Speaker 1: Wilson hasn't topped one hundred and ninety six yards.
Speaker 7: Yeah, low pass yards, decent touchdowns.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 1: Somehow, He's throwing a touchdown in every game all year
Speaker 1: and as the third.
Speaker 4: Most touchdowns on the season.
Speaker 1: Despite that, Minnesota's ranked sixth in pass coverage by Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus, They've surrendered multiple touchdown passes in just one
Speaker 1: of their last five games. Russell Wilson comes in with
Speaker 1: a B grade. When we come back, Tennessee takes on Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: Dereck Henry d railed last week? Do we like him
Speaker 1: better in this matchup? Matt Harrison will guide us through
Speaker 1: the Will Levis led Tennessee Titans offense. When we return
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. We continue
Speaker 1: on as we break down every matchup of the week
Speaker 1: eleven slate, including Tennessee taking on Jacksonville. Matt for Tennessee,
Speaker 1: Will Levis has been very inconsistent so far. Do you
Speaker 1: like his chances against a Jacksonville team that just got
Speaker 1: drubbed by Dallas and Dak Prescott?
Speaker 7: Inconsistent? He looked like hot garbage last week against the Bucks.
Speaker 7: Maybe it's now because we've got three weeks of tape
Speaker 7: on him. Last week's matchup was easy, he totally failed.
Speaker 7: This week's matchup still good. The Jags are allowing two
Speaker 7: or seventy eight yards per game, that's seventh most in
Speaker 7: the league, and they've allowed the tenth most passing scores.
Speaker 7: I considered him to take a chance on me player,
Speaker 7: but I liked Lawrence this week. I'll give Levis a
Speaker 7: super flex C grade, But in single quarterback leagues. I'd
Speaker 7: keep him on the bench. The only receiver you can
Speaker 7: start is DeAndre Hopkins. He's had quite a long history
Speaker 7: against Jacksonville. In fifteen career games against Jacksonville, he's only
Speaker 7: top to one hundred yards twice, and he's only done
Speaker 7: that once since the twenty fifteen season. Wow, it's crazy,
Speaker 7: but he's seeing a target on about a quarter of
Speaker 7: Will Levis's passes this year, and since Levis took over
Speaker 7: hopkins a dot has extended to eighteen point six yards downfield.
Speaker 7: Corner Tyson Campbell looks like he's out this week, so
Speaker 7: little used. Back up Gregory Junior, whose name sounds like
Speaker 7: a stuffed animal my kids have.
Speaker 4: What happens if he names his kid Gregory Gregory Junior Junior.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I totally do it, and then he'd be Gregory
Speaker 7: Junior Senior.
Speaker 4: I would absolutely do that if I am so.
Speaker 7: Gregory Junior Senior is covering the right side of the field.
Speaker 7: He's only been on the field for eight snaps this year,
Speaker 7: and I like DeAndre Hopkins in that kind of situation.
Speaker 7: Hopkins gets a B grade the running backs. This is
Speaker 7: interesting because the Titans couldn't get anything going offensively last
Speaker 7: week against Tampa, and that might be because they were
Speaker 7: basically handing them their playbook. Dereck Henry was only on
Speaker 7: the field for twenty four snaps. He touched the ball
Speaker 7: twelve times.
Speaker 3: Ty J.
Speaker 7: Spears was on the field for thirty six snaps, but
Speaker 7: he only had five carries. So the Bucks knew that
Speaker 7: there was a fifty percent chance of a run if
Speaker 7: Henry was on the field, and an eighty six percent
Speaker 7: chance of a pass and Spears was on.
Speaker 4: The field tipping your hand a bit.
Speaker 7: If they do that again, they'll get destroyed. So they're
Speaker 7: going to go back to Henry. Henry will be on
Speaker 7: the field more this week, and history says it should
Speaker 7: work out. Five of the last six times he's faced
Speaker 7: the Jaguars, he's put up at least one hundred yards
Speaker 7: on the ground. The one he didn't, he went for
Speaker 7: eighty four yards. So I'll give both backs.
Speaker 4: A b this week.
Speaker 7: I think Spears should be heavily involved in the receiving game,
Speaker 7: and the Jags have allowed the most running back receptions
Speaker 7: in the league at almost eight per game.
Speaker 5: Remember the days when it was just a lock that
Speaker 5: Henry was going to have two hundred yards and three
Speaker 5: touchdowns against the Jaguars.
Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty much were the days. On the other side.
Speaker 7: I already told you that I like Trevor Lawrences, might
Speaker 7: take a chance in me quarterback, But what about his
Speaker 7: wide receiver as well, Calvin Ridley and Christian Kirk.
Speaker 4: I feel like it's a little bit more of a
Speaker 4: Kirk week.
Speaker 7: This week he'll line up in the slot against backup
Speaker 7: slot corner Eric Garrer. Wow, yeah, okay, who's a rookie
Speaker 7: and a converted safety.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 7: Garrer has seen limited snaps this year and has only
Speaker 7: been active for the last three weeks, but already allowed
Speaker 7: a touchdown in his coverage in a QB rating of
Speaker 7: ninety four in his coverage so far. Ridley gets Christian
Speaker 7: Fulton on the right side, and he's allowing a one
Speaker 7: to fifteen passer rating in his coverage, including a touchdown
Speaker 7: to Mike Evans that week last week. On the left side,
Speaker 7: when Ridley goes over there, he sees Roger McCreery, who's
Speaker 7: not yet allowed a touchdown this season. So Kirk gets
Speaker 7: the B and Ridley since he's kind of switching off
Speaker 7: between the two, I'll give him Evan Ingram. I want
Speaker 7: to put him on the bench, but he gets seven
Speaker 7: targets every week. It's the lowest, lowest volume c I
Speaker 7: can give him. As the matchup's pretty tough. The Titans
Speaker 7: rank in the top four in receptions and yards allowed
Speaker 7: to tight ends. They've not allowed a tight end score
Speaker 7: the season, and then again, Ingram hasn't scored a touchdown.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, so you want to call your shot right here. Nope.
Speaker 7: Travis Etn did nothing last week, but the Jags got
Speaker 7: absolutely destroyed by the forty nine ers in game. Scripts
Speaker 7: just kind of worked him out of the game. He
Speaker 7: only had eleven touches. I think he's back to seventeen
Speaker 7: plus this week, and that's good for this matchup. The
Speaker 7: Titans started the year really good against running backs, but
Speaker 7: have regressed recently. In the last five games they've played,
Speaker 7: six different running backs have had double digit carries, and
Speaker 7: five of them have put up at least twelve PPR points,
Speaker 7: including Najie Harris, Jalen Warren, and Rashad White in just
Speaker 7: the last two weeks. So Etn solid B grade here.
Speaker 1: It's a rematch from Week one as the Jets and
Speaker 1: the the Bills face off In that Week one game,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers started the game, played blat on all.
Speaker 4: Like three snaps.
Speaker 6: How do you do?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, not not.
Speaker 1: Great, But Breece Hall rumbled for one hundred twenty seven
Speaker 1: yards chipped in another twenty through the air in that game.
Speaker 1: What do you think of Breece Hall as he takes
Speaker 1: on a Bills run defense that's been pretty.
Speaker 4: Good of late.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he had only ten carries in that game and
Speaker 5: he had those one hundred and twenty seven yards. He
Speaker 5: had like an eighty yard touchdown run. Yeah, that was
Speaker 5: a lot of it, but he was coming off injury,
Speaker 5: still is, but his workload has rammed up a lot
Speaker 5: since Week one.
Speaker 6: I got a border I got borderline A on.
Speaker 5: Presall im to stick with the safe be Since Week won,
Speaker 5: the Bills I've had had had significant injuries on defense,
Speaker 5: including their leader, linebacker Matt Mulano. Bills are allowing the
Speaker 5: eighth most combo yards per game to opposing running backs.
Speaker 5: The last four running backs to face Buffalo up topped
Speaker 5: one hundred combo yards and scored a touchdown. Not monster numbers,
Speaker 5: but certainly serviceable. So a B for Breeze Hall, but
Speaker 5: no great on Dalvin Cook or is he a Boni
Speaker 5: Conda who might see some usage now that Michael Carter
Speaker 5: has been let go. But Cook the only I'm sorry, haul,
Speaker 5: the only startable running back for the Jets. The only
Speaker 5: startable wide receiver for the Jets is Garrett Wilson. He
Speaker 5: had five catches thirty four yards and a touchdown in
Speaker 5: the Week one game against Buffalo, who had all Pro
Speaker 5: cornerback tra Davius White. Then he too is now gone
Speaker 5: and on ir so you can start Wilson per usual.
Speaker 5: Wilson has seen twelve or more targets in five of
Speaker 5: his last six games, and over their last four games,
Speaker 5: the Bills EPs surrendered touchdown receptions who Kendrick Bourne, Chris Godwin,
Speaker 5: Mike Evans and Courtland Sutton. So Garrett Wilson can certainly
Speaker 5: do the same. I don't think Alan lazardken he is
Speaker 5: on the bench. Tyler Conklin is not on the bench.
Speaker 5: He was might take a chance on me receiver. He's
Speaker 5: a tight end, of course, love him this week. Do
Speaker 5: not love Zach Wilson. I am not a milth so
Speaker 5: he is on the bench. Over to the Buffalo side,
Speaker 5: James Cook, don't love him but I'm going to start
Speaker 5: him with a C. He had sixty three combo yards
Speaker 5: when these teams met in Week one, saw season high
Speaker 5: six targets in that game, had sixteen touches overall. Hopefully
Speaker 5: he sees that kind of usage. His snapshare has decreased
Speaker 5: over the last three weeks. He didn't get benched for
Speaker 5: more than a quarter last week after fumbling on the
Speaker 5: first drive for the Bills, but he did come back
Speaker 5: into the game. The Jets allowed these seventh most combo
Speaker 5: yards per game to opposing running backs, So a sea
Speaker 5: on Cook, but Latavious Murray and Leonard Fournett are on
Speaker 5: the bench. Stefan Diggs not on the bench, but just
Speaker 5: a bee for him. He did have ten catches, one
Speaker 5: hundred and two yards and a touchdown in the opener. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's really a ceiling though in this matchup with Sauce Gardner.
Speaker 1: And DJ Reid might be better than sauce Gardner. Nobody
Speaker 1: talking about that.
Speaker 5: He's awesome, possibly, But you can't bench Digs in any matchup,
Speaker 5: So he gets the B. But you can bench Gabe Davis.
Speaker 5: Two catches for thirty two scoreless yards in Week one.
Speaker 5: That was his fourth straight game.
Speaker 1: Gust in your voice when you said, Gabe Davis.
Speaker 8: He's just been I've been benching him in the wrong spots.
Speaker 8: So this is probably one to start him because it's
Speaker 8: not good on paper. This is probably the I'll play
Speaker 8: him in daily, but I'm going to start him in seasonal.
Speaker 8: Four straight games under forty yards against the Jets for Davis.
Speaker 8: Davis has never scored against the Jets in his career,
Speaker 8: so maybe it's coming, but I'm not betting on that.
Speaker 5: He's on the bench. Tight End Dalton Kincaid is not,
Speaker 5: though he gets a be. Kincaid and Dawson Knox combined
Speaker 5: for seven catches fifty one yards in the opener. Knox
Speaker 5: is now an IR so hopefully that's a safe floor
Speaker 5: for Kincaid. That whole total, the Jets have surrendered the
Speaker 5: most tight end touchdowns so far this season, so a
Speaker 5: be on Kincaid and just a be on Josh Allen.
Speaker 5: In Week one, Allen had just two hundred and thirty
Speaker 5: six passing yards and a touchdown with thirty six scoreless
Speaker 5: rushing yards against the Jets. Not great, but the Jets
Speaker 5: have surrendered multiple touchdown passes only twice the season.
Speaker 6: I should have said, but that's not good.
Speaker 4: That isn't good.
Speaker 5: The butt is here, but they have allowed rushing touchdowns
Speaker 5: to quarterbacks in recent weeks, Jalen Hurts and Tommy DeVito
Speaker 5: Aka and j cutlet Ah.
Speaker 4: The butt is here. The butt is here.
Speaker 1: Did you give a letter grade and Garrett Wilson or
Speaker 1: di just misses see Wilson.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm a little more optimistic than you are. We'll
Speaker 4: find out.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, you know what i'd give him if
Speaker 5: I was allowed, you charge one of two things.
Speaker 4: How about a B minus.
Speaker 1: No Pittsburgh takes on Cleveland. I'm gonna try to zip
Speaker 1: through this quickly.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 4: The passing game is in the hands for Cleveland.
Speaker 1: The passing game is in the hands of Dorian Thompson Robinson.
Speaker 1: And so we don't have a lot of starters here.
Speaker 1: Maybe Amari Cooper, who's logged at least eighty nine yards
Speaker 1: in four of the last five games, including ninety yards
Speaker 1: in the Week two matchup against Pittsburgh. I'd be more
Speaker 1: worried if Ricky cornerback Joey Porter was going to shadow him.
Speaker 1: But Porter sticks to one side of the field, and
Speaker 1: it's not the side Cooper usually runs from. Instead, he'll
Speaker 1: see more of veteran Patrick Peterson, who ranks his cornerback
Speaker 1: eighty four by Pro Football Focus. So Amari Cooper still
Speaker 1: barely startable with a C grade. That's it for the
Speaker 1: receiving game. Uh, David a joke?
Speaker 4: Who's is?
Speaker 1: I guess maybe tight end Wasteland? You could consider him.
Speaker 1: Dorian Thompson Robinson peppered him with seven targets in the
Speaker 1: one game that he started before, so maybe get some
Speaker 1: extra usage here. And Djoko currently averaging eight targets per
Speaker 1: game and only fIF and almost fifty four yards over
Speaker 1: his last four It's a lot of volume. Steelers have
Speaker 1: only allowed one tight end score though.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm just benching him.
Speaker 1: I'm putting him on the bench until Drian Thompson Robinson
Speaker 1: proves he can do a little something.
Speaker 4: How about Jerome Ford.
Speaker 1: They're gonna run a lot back to being the team's
Speaker 1: workhorse runner, averaging a whopping twenty two carries over the
Speaker 1: past two weeks, and he posted a career high one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty one yards when he faced the Steelers
Speaker 1: in Week two. Steelers allowing one hundred and forty one
Speaker 1: total yards per game to opposing running backs. That's the
Speaker 1: fourth most lots of runs coming Jerome Ford B grade
Speaker 1: in this one, and I.
Speaker 4: Guess you could. Let's dust off this.
Speaker 1: It's been a long time since we've heard from the
Speaker 1: FFW vulture. Right there, there is a touchdowns and five
Speaker 1: straight games despite only getting one third of the snap
Speaker 1: count of Ford.
Speaker 4: Basically, you need a touchdown from him.
Speaker 1: Steelers have only a lot five rushing scores all year,
Speaker 1: so there's plenty of downside from Hunt.
Speaker 4: But if all you need, if you're.
Speaker 1: Like touchdown only league, do you throwback to nineteen ninety,
Speaker 1: consider him startable.
Speaker 4: But otherwise we're not going there.
Speaker 7: Do you ever feel like you want to play in
Speaker 7: one of those old school leagues that's touched down only
Speaker 7: and you score it by paper.
Speaker 4: I lived that nightmare once before and I don't miss
Speaker 4: it at all.
Speaker 1: But I will give a shout out to Greenwood Elementary. Yeah, Plymouth, Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I visited the fifth grade after school fantasy football class,
Speaker 1: and they're doing all of it by hand.
Speaker 4: Because it's a math class.
Speaker 1: After school math class that's all about fantasy football. On Tuesdays,
Speaker 1: they score the previous week on Thursdays, they assemble their
Speaker 1: lineups DFS style, trying to figure out they pop powl
Speaker 1: together DFS style lineups.
Speaker 6: So in no time my hand.
Speaker 5: Don't realize they can drop out of school and professional gamblers.
Speaker 6: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3: Kids.
Speaker 4: Don't do that.
Speaker 6: Don't do that.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Pittsburgh side. Jalen Warren officially the
Speaker 1: starter for Pittsburgh. He's seen a increase in touches in
Speaker 1: four straight weeks. Browns are allowing the sixth fewest total
Speaker 1: yards the ninth fewest touchdowns per game to opposing backs.
Speaker 1: You new is you know the Browns are really good defense.
Speaker 1: Steelers have the seventh worst run block rate. The Browns
Speaker 1: have the number one run stop win rate, so it
Speaker 1: doesn't add up much here. He might be able to
Speaker 1: help through the air, even though the Browns are excellent
Speaker 1: against pass catching backs. Warren posted sixty six receiving yards
Speaker 1: in the Week two matchup between these teams, So.
Speaker 4: Still startable with the C grade.
Speaker 1: But not Naji Harris dead to us now that he's
Speaker 1: the backup and behind Frankly a better player in Jalen Warren.
Speaker 4: Let's go to the passing game.
Speaker 1: The only startable grade I can give you is Deontay Johnson,
Speaker 1: and that's only on volume, averaging eight targets a game,
Speaker 1: although just five catches on those eight targets, which tells
Speaker 1: you plenty about Kenny Pickett. He missed the earlier matchup
Speaker 1: between these teams, but averaged sixty one scoreless yards against
Speaker 1: the Browns last year and rarely scores anyway. So if
Speaker 1: that really fits here, since Cleveland's only allowed six wide
Speaker 1: receiver touchdowns all year, look, if you're cool with like
Speaker 1: six sketches in sixty yards, start Deante Johnson. But I
Speaker 1: think you can find something a little more interesting and
Speaker 1: all other parts of the Pittsburgh passing game around the bench.
Speaker 1: Cleveland's defense ranks number one in passing yards allowed, and
Speaker 1: it's Kenny Pickett. So that's all you need to know
Speaker 1: about that. It is that we're not monkeying with any
Speaker 1: other part of Pat Fryarmoth coming back move Horay.
Speaker 4: We're gonna wait and see what he can produce here.
Speaker 1: It was a promising season that's gone wrong, and Kenny
Speaker 1: Pickett hasn't improved. We're gonna we're gonna wait and see
Speaker 1: and not start him against Cleveland first game back.
Speaker 4: That sounds like a recipe for disaster. Hey, when we
Speaker 4: come back, final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly, and that means.
Speaker 1: The FFW time machine, stay tuned to find out who
Speaker 1: you can pick up this week that everybody else is
Speaker 1: gonna try to pick up next week. When we come back,
Speaker 1: final segment Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Georgi, Matt Harrison, Brian
Speaker 1: Johnson with you. This segment we call premature speculation. We
Speaker 1: give you players to pick up now that others are
Speaker 1: going to try to pick up next week, but they're
Speaker 1: already on your team.
Speaker 4: We begin with Matt Harrison.
Speaker 7: I've got Israel Abana Konda. Don't want none unless you've
Speaker 7: got buns hun. The Jets dropped Michael Carter this week,
Speaker 7: and Dalvin Cook is not good at football anymore. So
Speaker 7: the next man up on the depth chart is fifth
Speaker 7: round rookie. Is he a Bana Conda called up our
Speaker 7: friend Thorne Eistrom asked, asked what his draft comp was,
Speaker 7: He called him discount Tevin Coleman.
Speaker 4: Oh, that does not exactly a ringing endorsement right there? Well,
Speaker 4: how about this who doesn't like a discount?
Speaker 7: And Tevin Coleman had a couple of good years in Atlanta,
Speaker 7: especially pass catching out of the backfield. Breese Hall has
Speaker 7: seen a lot of touches this year, and if they
Speaker 7: need a change of pace, Guy or Hall goes down
Speaker 7: for some reason, Bona Konda suddenly becomes very interesting and I'll.
Speaker 4: Give you another angle.
Speaker 1: At some point, the Jets may be mathematically eliminated or
Speaker 1: effectively eliminated for this season, and they just wind down
Speaker 1: Breese Hall. Yeah, that's the best part of that offense
Speaker 1: outside of Garre Wilson. They just want to take some
Speaker 1: miles off him. Sure, I like that angle. When you
Speaker 1: when you slacked us that that was going to be
Speaker 1: your choice, it didn't entirely add up to me. But
Speaker 1: now that we're talking it through, I like that Izzy
Speaker 1: Bona Konda decision his full name.
Speaker 4: Don't want not unless you got buns on. I don't
Speaker 4: get the right. So I don't know anything. You've never
Speaker 4: heard baby got Back.
Speaker 6: I don't get it either, and I've certainly heard that song.
Speaker 6: You can do sit ups.
Speaker 4: Ryan. You're taking your premature speculation. Player, Please somewhat related.
Speaker 5: I have former Jet running back Michael Carter who is
Speaker 5: uh related by the Cardinals.
Speaker 6: I believe the Vikings also put into college.
Speaker 4: They and people suspected they.
Speaker 5: Anyway, he's an Arizona Cardinal, and I suspect it might
Speaker 5: not happen this week, but he's gonna leap frog Keanta
Speaker 5: Ingram and Amari de McCart de Marcado as the backup
Speaker 5: running back to James Connor and Carter as he can play.
Speaker 6: He's shown he can play. Cardinals aren't making the playoffs.
Speaker 5: They might want to just give him some extra run
Speaker 5: towards the end of the year. He fits in the system.
Speaker 5: If something were to happen to James Connor, I'd presume
Speaker 5: you'd be the starter. So Michael Carter is my guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Or again, they may want to wind down James Connor
Speaker 1: at some point and I run him into the ground.
Speaker 1: Mine is the now frequently mentioned rico' doddle, who's okay again.
Speaker 1: When I slacked him at the beginning of the week,
Speaker 1: this was a fresh new take. But now we talked
Speaker 1: about him like nine times over the course of this show. Really,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to repeat myself other than to say
Speaker 1: there's a very real chance he's the best running back
Speaker 1: on the Cowboys roster, and at some point they're going
Speaker 1: to have to give him more carries than Tony Pollard.
Speaker 6: So it's official. Go ad Rico Dowdell is what we
Speaker 6: are saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right now, eight different ways of the course of
Speaker 1: this show, Tampa Bay takes on San Francisco. Brian, we
Speaker 1: already talked a little bit about Baker Mayfield. You take
Speaker 1: a chance on me quarterback. So do you like his
Speaker 1: receiving options?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I like Mike Evans and god When.
Speaker 5: I like Evans a little more, considering Godwin hasn't scored
Speaker 5: an eight of nine games and has top and has
Speaker 5: top sixty six yards just twice during that span, But
Speaker 5: I still love to see on Godwin. You you have
Speaker 5: to throw copiously against the forty nine ers. I got
Speaker 5: to be on Mike Evans. It's not an awful spot
Speaker 5: for Evans at all. Not The forty nine ers have
Speaker 5: allowed these sixth most wide receiver receptions and they've surrendered
Speaker 5: five scores to the position over their last three games.
Speaker 5: So again, like both receivers, but I got to be
Speaker 5: on Evans. See on Godwin tight end. Kate otten is
Speaker 5: on the bench, he plays all the snaps. He doesn't
Speaker 5: really do much, As you said, Baker Mayfield might take
Speaker 5: a chance on me quarterback.
Speaker 6: And lastly, Richard White more like Richard White.
Speaker 1: Hot lately much better. But this is a brutal matchup.
Speaker 1: It is just to see for White. But by the way,
Speaker 1: players who have more RB one games than White and
Speaker 1: that's a top twelve running back performance this year, that's
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 6: No, really not.
Speaker 5: It's Christian McCaffrey, Alvin Kamara, and Travis Etn at the
Speaker 5: end of now, way, yes, way, top twelve finishes for
Speaker 5: Chad White.
Speaker 1: I don't I'm shocked by that. Okay, I will email
Speaker 1: you as finishing twelfth. But like you said, a brutal matchup.
Speaker 1: Forty nine ers are only allowing sixty three rushing yards
Speaker 1: per game to running backs, but they do allow more
Speaker 1: than five catches per game to the position, and White
Speaker 1: can catch the ball, so as ce on White over
Speaker 1: to the forty nine ers side. It's all pretty obvious.
Speaker 3: Here A on.
Speaker 5: Christian McCaffrey and not getting into that, I have a
Speaker 5: b on Brandon Ayuk and Deebo Samuel. The Bucks are
Speaker 5: allowing fourteen catches, one hundred and ninety seven yards and
Speaker 5: more than a touchdown per game to opposing wide receivers.
Speaker 5: They both have a potential they might eat each other's lunch.
Speaker 5: So just a bee on Ayuk and Samuel and a
Speaker 5: B on George Kittle. The Bucks are allowing six catches
Speaker 5: fifty eight yards per game to opposing tight ends, and
Speaker 5: it's a tight end Wasteland and Kittle's bike weeks come
Speaker 5: at any time, and then there's a chance this could
Speaker 5: be one of them. So a be on him and
Speaker 5: an A on Brock Perty against his past final defense
Speaker 5: allowing the second most passing yards this year. Perty as
Speaker 5: all as toys healthy A grade.
Speaker 6: I'll give them the Bonzi.
Speaker 4: Because well it's your last one, so it's your last chance.
Speaker 1: You got to use it. Samuel takes on the La Rams. Matt,
Speaker 1: you gave Zach Charbona as your take a chance.
Speaker 4: On running back. So what does that mean for Kenneth Walker?
Speaker 4: I gave him a very solid B grade.
Speaker 7: Here. The Rams have allowed four point three yards per carry,
Speaker 7: a mark that's ninth worst in the league, and the
Speaker 7: Packers trio of running backs managed one hundred and fifty
Speaker 7: six rushing yards against this defense in their last game
Speaker 7: before the bye week. So like that, the last quarterback
Speaker 7: to not throw for at least two hundred yards. Of
Speaker 7: the Rams against the Rams was Geno Smith in Week one,
Speaker 7: and hey, this is a Geno Smith stat. Over their
Speaker 7: last four games, the Rams are allowing an average of
Speaker 7: two hundred and fifty passing yards per game, thirteenth most
Speaker 7: during that span. Grouped in with struggling pass defenses like
Speaker 7: the Giants and Patriots, we were speculating that Gino could
Speaker 7: be on the verge of losing his job. But while
Speaker 7: Washington as a get well party for any quarterback right now,
Speaker 7: he threw for three to sixty nine and.
Speaker 4: Two last week.
Speaker 7: He's had multiple passing scores in three of his last four,
Speaker 7: So I'm sensing like two hundred and fifty yards and
Speaker 7: two scores this week. That's a good enough for a
Speaker 7: B grade for me. His wide receivers, they're tricky. Prior
Speaker 7: to facing the Packers before the bye, the Rams were
Speaker 7: turning into a passing sieve, with five wide receivers going
Speaker 7: for at least sixty yards in the prior four games,
Speaker 7: and three of those topping one hundred yards. Tyler Lockett
Speaker 7: hasn't practiced at all this week with a lingering hamstring injury,
Speaker 7: but He's done that this like every week since Week eight.
Speaker 7: He's ended up playing in each of those games. He's
Speaker 7: managed ten targets, eight catches, ninety two yards in a
Speaker 7: score last week against Washington if he's active starting with
Speaker 7: a B grade, DK Metcalf has had double digit targets
Speaker 7: and three of his last four, but hasn't scored since
Speaker 7: Week four and hasn't hit one hundred yards since Week three.
Speaker 7: But I like his matchup against converted slot corner Kobe Durant,
Speaker 7: where he has four inches fifty pound advantage. So Metcalf
Speaker 7: gets a B. Jackson Smith and Jigba will go from
Speaker 7: the slot against converted safety Quenton Lake. If he saw
Speaker 7: more targets, I'd really like this matchup even more. But
Speaker 7: as is, he's only seeing four to five targets per
Speaker 7: week and his average depth of target get this, four
Speaker 7: point five yards downfield.
Speaker 4: Rows there, So I'm gonna leave him on the bench
Speaker 4: now for.
Speaker 1: The Rams, which I think you're gonna gave the Rams game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Well what about Jake Bobo yah Me? Since Cooper Cup return,
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford hasn't topped two hundred and twenty six yards
Speaker 1: in a game.
Speaker 4: Well, how about this.
Speaker 7: Stafford is going to be back. Carson Wentz is gonna
Speaker 7: have to wait a little bit longer. The Rams changed
Speaker 7: their philosophy in about week six, and Cooper Cup came
Speaker 7: back in week five. In the first five weeks, Stafford
Speaker 7: was throwing the ball on average of forty one times
Speaker 7: per game when was averaging two hundred and ninety yards
Speaker 7: per game. Since then, he's only averaging twenty six passing
Speaker 7: attempts per game. That's fifteen down, yeah, and two hundred
Speaker 7: twenty eight yards per game. Now, maybe the bye week
Speaker 7: help Sean McVay see this issue, or maybe they remembered
Speaker 7: that they beat these Seahawks in Week one on three
Speaker 7: hundred and thirty four yards of Stafford passing. So I'm
Speaker 7: going to give Stafford a B grade here. The Seahawks
Speaker 7: have been bottom ten in nearly every passing category all
Speaker 7: the season, and with two healthy, good wide receivers and
Speaker 7: a good thumb for Stafford, I think we're okay here.
Speaker 5: It's the absence of Kyraen Williams. He was the glue
Speaker 5: that held that offense together and he's still going to.
Speaker 4: Be absent for at least one more week.
Speaker 7: Cooper Cup and Poka Nakua had Brett Rippan and a
Speaker 7: bye week the last two so that didn't work out
Speaker 7: for you. The bye week was probably better for you
Speaker 7: than Brett Rippon, It probably was. And the Rams thought
Speaker 7: so much of Brett Rippon that they cut him immediately
Speaker 7: and they told him you could never start again in
Speaker 7: the league.
Speaker 4: That's right. And where do he go? I don't remember
Speaker 4: where did Seattle? Did he go to Seattle?
Speaker 7: Oh? Just to get the whole playbook?
Speaker 4: Huh?
Speaker 7: After a great first month of his career, Devin Witherspoon
Speaker 7: has allowed a passer rating of one sixteen in his
Speaker 7: coverage over the past two weeks. He gets Cooper Cup
Speaker 7: most often, and he didn't see him in Week one.
Speaker 7: Tarik Woolan and his mittens will match up against Puka Nakua,
Speaker 7: who's never had fewer than ten catches in one hundred
Speaker 7: and nineteen yards in a game against Seattle. That's the
Speaker 7: only game he's played against Seattle. Woolan has allowed a
Speaker 7: score in his coverage in four of the last six games.
Speaker 4: I want to give a grades for both.
Speaker 7: I'm a little nervous that the philosophy thing is still
Speaker 7: an issue, So it's like the lowest A grade or
Speaker 7: the highest B grade somewhere right in there.
Speaker 1: You and I see slot cornerback Devin Witherspoon differently. I
Speaker 1: mean he's a defensive Rookie of the Year candidate.
Speaker 4: Yeah he is, but giving up.
Speaker 1: A forty six percent completion rate, fourth best in the
Speaker 1: entire league. I think Cooper Cup's actually got a sneaky
Speaker 1: tough matchup.
Speaker 7: This is last two weeks, haven't been good, won sixteen
Speaker 7: passer rating. There, Tyler Higbee isn't in any lineups anymore.
Speaker 7: So let's talk about the run game. It's probably a
Speaker 7: good split between Darryl Henderson and Royce Freeman for this one.
Speaker 7: We call that a bad split, Yeah, pretty much. It's
Speaker 7: worth looking ahead to Week twelve. That's when the Rams
Speaker 7: expect Kyron Williams to return. So somebody dropped him in
Speaker 7: your league. Maybe you don't have ir spots. It's a
Speaker 7: good time to pick up Kyrin Williams. But for now,
Speaker 7: it's a split backfield going against a Seahawks defense that's
Speaker 7: average against the run and very below average to pass
Speaker 7: catching backs. If that's the case, Henderson gets more of
Speaker 7: the nod here. The Rams have targeted Henderson seven times
Speaker 7: in his three games, and Royce Freeman has seen exactly
Speaker 7: zero targets.
Speaker 4: So that'd be Royce drop the organ, Freeman.
Speaker 7: The piano, the organ, the keyboard, the ukulele, the what's
Speaker 7: the key tar? Maybe I don't know. Henderson gets a
Speaker 7: C grade, Freeman's on the bench.
Speaker 6: Come back soon, Kyroen, miss you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, one more week, one more.
Speaker 1: You know when you've add into you go on IR
Speaker 1: for four games and you add in a bye way.
Speaker 4: It's a long time away.
Speaker 1: Kien Williams was awfully good before and hopefully we'll be again.
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