Speaker 1: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly
Speaker 1: source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice.
Speaker 2: Now along with the guys.
Speaker 1: From dat leagues dot com, here's your host, Paul Jargon.
Speaker 2: It is a championship edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. I
Speaker 2: am Paul Jarchi and my co host today Matt Harrison
Speaker 2: and Thor Nistro. Joh, Hey, great to have you back, man.
Speaker 2: What am I doing here? I know it's been a
Speaker 2: while we've missed you. It's great to have you back,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna help people bring home the hardware. If
Speaker 2: you're listening right now, hopefully you're live at least one
Speaker 2: of your leagues. Feels good to get to the finish line.
Speaker 3: I hope we have more than like ten percent of
Speaker 3: our listening audience week one, So.
Speaker 2: If you're only in one league, you probably only have
Speaker 2: a tet roughly ten percent chance mathematically making although we
Speaker 2: think if you listen to the show, you you have
Speaker 2: it's probably better the odds two up to twelve, up
Speaker 2: to at least or if you're in like a dozen
Speaker 2: leagues and you really ought to be leaving alive in
Speaker 2: a couple right you you should be.
Speaker 3: I mean thor are you alive in any like guillotine
Speaker 3: leagues or anything like that.
Speaker 4: I'm happy there's I'm happy there's only ten percent of
Speaker 4: our listenership today because I have to break some devastating
Speaker 4: years the guillotine team against my coworkers. Not only did
Speaker 4: I crash and burn this past week, they let me
Speaker 4: have it.
Speaker 5: Oh, it is the guillotine for sure.
Speaker 4: I went on to talk about the NFL draft, and
Speaker 4: I'm going in. I'm talking about the top eleven risers
Speaker 4: from Round one of the playoffs. You know, I'm like
Speaker 4: ready to go, and freaking Dwayne. He starts playing all
Speaker 4: the smack talk I did on this show about the guillotine.
Speaker 4: And Dwayne had just days before beaten my guillotine team
Speaker 4: by like sixty points. Like, oh, it wasn't even remotely close.
Speaker 4: And and you know it's even worse. The other guy
Speaker 4: that advanced Friedman, he had Jalen hurt.
Speaker 6: Wow. Yeah, he didn't even have a full repertoire. No,
Speaker 6: and he smoked me too.
Speaker 2: Wow, you had a good team, but last week it
Speaker 2: just happened at all these good players, Like I don't know,
Speaker 2: if I don't remember, if you had Dereck Henry. But
Speaker 2: Dereck Henry wasn't even used in the second half because
Speaker 2: the Ravens got up by so much. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: and they were just all these Saquan had a quiet games.
Speaker 2: They were just all these superstars that had quiet games
Speaker 2: last week that just eliminated Powerhouse. Guillotine League.
Speaker 3: Kid.
Speaker 6: It's it's it's a really traumatic thing.
Speaker 5: And the late season, I can tell your crush.
Speaker 4: And I'm only talking about this show having to get
Speaker 4: to that. I mean, like they am boys hit and
Speaker 4: then now you got to talk about the draft prospects.
Speaker 6: It was like I was still getting over the loss
Speaker 6: of my my Guillotine team. Yeah, poor thor Man. Tough scenes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you battle for like fifteen weeks.
Speaker 4: Yeah they get chopped quause I dominated for fifteen weeks,
Speaker 4: by the way, And I don't want to get back
Speaker 4: into that.
Speaker 3: It might be worse to get chopped in week sixteen
Speaker 3: than it is in like week two.
Speaker 4: Oh, I would so much rather go in week one,
Speaker 4: because let's just say both have happened to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've experienced both in my spectrum.
Speaker 6: I want it right away, painless done.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go through all the matchups, letter grades, and
Speaker 2: all the players that matter. And I think you're gonna
Speaker 2: find we're gonna hone some of our discussion to the
Speaker 2: players who are relevant in the final week of the season,
Speaker 2: so you will not be hearing a lot of the
Speaker 2: third tier guys as much. Take a chance on me
Speaker 2: as always, that's still totally valid in Week seventeen, and
Speaker 2: we'll answer three tough questions, some of those forward looking
Speaker 2: to next year. And let's roll up our sleeves. Matt
Speaker 2: let's speakin with Denver taking on Cincinnati. The Cincinnati defense
Speaker 2: might be the worst in the league. So I gotta
Speaker 2: believe there's some Denver Broncos we can start here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a couple. I got a B grade
Speaker 3: on bow Knicks. Since Week eight, that's eight games for Nicks.
Speaker 3: He's thrown seventeen touchdown passes just over to a game,
Speaker 3: and he's averaging two hundred and forty eight yards. But
Speaker 3: let's temper those n expectations little bit here. In that
Speaker 3: span of eight really good fantasy games, he's played seven
Speaker 3: teams in the bottom half of the league in pass defense.
Speaker 3: His opponents couldn't have been easier for the last two months,
Speaker 3: and entering the Bengals, who just keep that train going.
Speaker 3: Bengals are bottom ten in pass yards and touchdowns, rushing
Speaker 3: yards and rushing touchdowns the quarterback, so he'll get numbers
Speaker 3: on Saturday, but pay attention to the opponents he faced
Speaker 3: when you rank Knicks for next year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the last thing I'll mention on Knicks is
Speaker 2: they've taken the wheels off him. He doesn't run anymore,
Speaker 2: not as much. I want to say, sure, having in
Speaker 2: front of me, but like last six games, he's averaging
Speaker 2: three designed runs a game.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and nobody used the word regression or coming back
Speaker 4: to the you know, no, don't get into that.
Speaker 3: It's worth noting since he is one of the teams
Speaker 3: that could steal Denver's playoff spot. So this is a
Speaker 3: big game for both teams. So a Cortland Sutton is
Speaker 3: the only other Bronco you'd start here, and I'll throw
Speaker 3: a B grade his way. The Bengals are giving up
Speaker 3: a lot to quarterbacks, but so much of it has
Speaker 3: been to tight ends and pass catching runners that they're
Speaker 3: actually kind of good against wide receiver. They're allowing just
Speaker 3: shy of eleven receptions per game to wide receivers, and
Speaker 3: you spread that around with Sutton and Vele and Marvin
Speaker 3: Mims and Troy Franklin and little Jordan Humphrey, who are
Speaker 3: all averaging two receptions per game. So Sutton's probably looking
Speaker 3: at four to five catches. It's just what he gets anyway.
Speaker 3: But he does have the best chance to score, as
Speaker 3: he's been Nick's favorite target near the end zone. If
Speaker 3: you can figure out the Denver running backs, call me
Speaker 3: and let me know. I can't figure it out. Nobody's
Speaker 3: starting any of those guys in a championship week, So
Speaker 3: let's go to Cincy. Jamar Chase still gets the A grade,
Speaker 3: and I'm not that afraid of starting t Higgins either.
Speaker 3: He gets a B, noting that he's been limited in
Speaker 3: practice this week, but he's trending toward playing. The last
Speaker 3: time the Broncos faced an AFC North opponent, it was
Speaker 3: Cleveland just a few weeks ago. Jerry Judy had nine
Speaker 3: for two thirty five and one. Elijah Moore had eight
Speaker 3: for one eleven nine. Yeah, I'll mention this on the
Speaker 3: Higgins thing. Yeah, his is because I think this is
Speaker 3: worth this is we're paying attention to. If Higgins is
Speaker 3: in or out makes a big difference for Jamar Chase
Speaker 3: because where Patrick Cirtan shadows, and Patrick Sirtan might be
Speaker 3: the best cornerback in the league, sure where he shadows.
Speaker 2: As if the opposing receiver team has one good receiver
Speaker 2: when T Higgins is playing, then the Bengals have two
Speaker 2: good receivers. And I don't think it's gonna be all
Speaker 2: Sirtan on Chase.
Speaker 3: You know what, I don't think it's gonna be either,
Speaker 3: because Sirtan never goes to the slot and Chase runs
Speaker 3: thirty four percent of his routes from the slot, so
Speaker 3: roughly a third of his routes are going from the slot,
Speaker 3: and Higgins is about twenty percent. So, especially if Higgins
Speaker 3: is healthy and going, I think there's enough for each
Speaker 3: of these guys to move in and out of the
Speaker 3: slot avoid the tough matchup. And I think that we're
Speaker 3: okay here. The Broncos have allowed eighteen double digit fantasy
Speaker 3: days to wide receivers in fifteen games, most of the
Speaker 3: games where they did well against the pass.
Speaker 2: Here's the quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: They've faced justin fields, Aaron Rodgers, Gardner, Minshew Aiden O'Connell,
Speaker 3: Spencer Rattler, bad Kirk Cousins Minshew again, Anthony Richards said
Speaker 3: that might be more.
Speaker 2: All of them have either been benched or were benched
Speaker 2: at the start of the season.
Speaker 5: Exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I'm not scared of the receivers and I'm
Speaker 3: not scared of starting Joe Burrow with an A grade
Speaker 3: either of the last four quarterbacks they have faced who
Speaker 3: are not on the list. I just rattled off, We're
Speaker 3: justin airbear, Jamis Winston, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson. They averaged
Speaker 3: three hundred and thirty one passing yards and two and
Speaker 3: a half touchdowns against the Broncos, so I'm fine with them. Finally,
Speaker 3: Chase Brown, this one's a little bit complex. Denver actually
Speaker 3: fantastic against the run, only allowing three point nine yards
Speaker 3: per carry and seven scores to running backs on the air,
Speaker 3: both in the top five where it flips as They've
Speaker 3: allowed the seventh most receptions and receiving yards to opposing
Speaker 3: backs and the third most receiving touchdowns. Chase Brown has
Speaker 3: had at least three receptions and seven three receptions in
Speaker 3: seven straight games and in the last five weeks. He's
Speaker 3: sixth in the league in running back receptions, so in PPR.
Speaker 3: I think he does enough to have a pretty good day.
Speaker 3: I'll give him a B grade here and then one
Speaker 3: more thing. You might have noticed. I was gone for
Speaker 3: a while. Scott Fish and Thor covered for me a
Speaker 3: whole bunch in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: Thank you both to both of you, guys.
Speaker 3: Longtime listener of Fantasy Football Weekly and zero time fantasy player.
Speaker 3: My mom, Kathy Harrison, passed away last week after a
Speaker 3: tough battle with pancreatic cancer. I've been kind of helping
Speaker 3: her up north for the past couple of months. She
Speaker 3: always listened to the show. She told me she had
Speaker 3: no idea what we were talking about. Ye, but she's
Speaker 3: still enjoyed. Yeah, she still enjoyed the humor and the
Speaker 3: energy and much of that I get from her. So
Speaker 3: I'm going to miss her and try to honor her
Speaker 3: memory by telling dumb jokes and talking about fake football teams.
Speaker 3: So cheers to Mom. Enjoy your dirty martini and a
Speaker 3: side of dill pickle in heaven.
Speaker 2: Rest in peace. Yeah, Matt's mom Kathy right, Rat's mom Harrison, Yes,
Speaker 2: Kathy Harrison right, just.
Speaker 5: Like my name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how about them? Well, you know I didn't want
Speaker 2: to make any assumptions. You never you never know that's true.
Speaker 2: Could be different. Yeah, Thor Arizona takes on the Rams.
Speaker 2: It looks like James Connor will be available for this game,
Speaker 2: but we don't know for sure, so I guess we
Speaker 2: assume Connor's going here.
Speaker 4: All the reports are optimistic, so I'm going to give
Speaker 4: him a bee. He is officially questionable with the knee
Speaker 4: injury that he've got in the overtime loss to Carolina,
Speaker 4: but you know, we're we're turning towards playing and if so,
Speaker 4: he's probably gonna assume a big workload here. Trey Benson
Speaker 4: is another guy with his status up in the air.
Speaker 4: He appears to Benson appears to be trending towards playing two.
Speaker 4: I'm going to keep him with a bench grade, but
Speaker 4: Connor gets the beef.
Speaker 2: If Connor can't go and Benson does, which honestly I
Speaker 2: kind of I don't. I'm not rooting for injury. Never
Speaker 2: never do that, Mann. I'd love to see what Trey
Speaker 2: Benson does on twenty two arries. You know, I would
Speaker 2: love to see to see that.
Speaker 6: Yes, I would love to see that too.
Speaker 4: Kyler Murray, we're giving him a BEE as well. He
Speaker 4: has a touchdown to interception ratio of four to six
Speaker 4: in the past five weeks, not the best. Murray did
Speaker 4: have twenty fantasy points in that aforementioned lost to the
Speaker 4: Carolina Panthers last week. The Rams defense that Arizona's playing
Speaker 4: this week has allowed eighteen plus fantasy points to four
Speaker 4: quarterbacks since Week eight, and Murray did have twenty eight
Speaker 4: points against the Rams back in Week two. Going way
Speaker 4: back could be a second straight good game coming here.
Speaker 4: Murray had a twelve to three td I and T
Speaker 4: rate before the buye. He is going to have to
Speaker 4: navigate offensive line issues though. The Cardinals just placed both
Speaker 4: their starting tackles on high r which not good. Perhaps
Speaker 4: not the best, but yeah, I said it with a
Speaker 4: be there Marvin Harrison Junior giving him a C. He
Speaker 4: has gone under nine fantasy points in two straight games
Speaker 4: and nine to fifteen total this season.
Speaker 6: He does have twenty.
Speaker 4: Two targets over the past three games, but he didn't
Speaker 4: have more than four catches or forty nine yards in
Speaker 4: any individual one of them. The fifty two percent catch
Speaker 4: rate is problematic and may I say surprising.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we haven't talked to yet.
Speaker 6: What happened? What happened about his BOS scales? Where did
Speaker 6: they go?
Speaker 2: H Where did they go?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 2: His quarterback is not throwing a lot of accurate passes.
Speaker 2: That's Harrison is part of the problem. We'll dive into
Speaker 2: that in the offseason. That has been an under discussed
Speaker 2: topic on this show. Marvin Harrison's failing.
Speaker 6: We might have to have a full well not just
Speaker 6: a fall episode.
Speaker 4: We might have to do like a serial podcast into
Speaker 4: that thing, Like.
Speaker 5: Is it gonna be like an intervention kind of a thing.
Speaker 6: Maybe, Yeah, we'll bring him in one of the one
Speaker 6: of the episodes.
Speaker 4: And the Rams pass defense has played better recently, so
Speaker 4: I gave Harrison Junior a see. Trey McBride is the
Speaker 4: A and the must start moving over to the Rams.
Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford great a see on him. He had his
Speaker 4: first back to back sub two hundred yard passing games
Speaker 4: since last season the middle of last season, only scored
Speaker 4: fourteen fantasy points the last two games combined. The Cardinals
Speaker 4: defense held him to just six points six fantasy points
Speaker 4: back in Week two. Stafford did not, of course, have
Speaker 4: a passing touchdown in that game, and he only has
Speaker 4: one passing touchdown in the last two weeks. Despite the
Speaker 4: Rams being on a four game winning streak, Arizona has
Speaker 4: allowed just two quarterbacks to score more than seventeen and
Speaker 4: a half fantasy points since Week seven. So I'm a
Speaker 4: little bit tepid there. Gave him a c Kyant and
Speaker 4: Puka of course are as and must starts. Iago Cooper
Speaker 4: Cup down to a bee. Since Week eight. Cup has
Speaker 4: been the wide receiver twenty four and fantasy points per game,
Speaker 4: but in three of the last four games he has
Speaker 4: failed to surpass thirty receiving yards.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 4: Ouch, the volume could be and Dash should be there
Speaker 4: this week though, which is where you sort of shade
Speaker 4: it uptimistic. Arizona has run the highest preponderance of two
Speaker 4: high coverage safety looks in the entire NFL since Week ten.
Speaker 4: Cups first read share spikes to nearly thirty percent against
Speaker 4: too high tend to look for him in these coverage looks.
Speaker 4: That's the optimistic thing there. Everyone else is on the bench.
Speaker 2: We'll talk more about Cooper Cup a little bit later
Speaker 2: in the show. Chargers taking on the Patriots. We have
Speaker 2: a change of running back JK. Dobbins. Yeah, Zach Yeah,
Speaker 2: Gus Edwards out and probably not gonna play out next
Speaker 2: week as well, So we'll who cares about week eighteen.
Speaker 2: It's week eighteen. Nobody cares JK. Dobbins, though, we'll return.
Speaker 2: Dobbins started the season on fire, then languished playing hurt,
Speaker 2: and then ultimately ended up on ir. We don't really
Speaker 2: know is he like one hundred percent? Is he ninety percent?
Speaker 2: But this is an interesting opportunity. The last two weeks,
Speaker 2: opposing runners have hammered the Patriots for six yards per
Speaker 2: carry and four touchdowns in those two games. So JK.
Speaker 2: Dobbins as comes back here with a B grade and
Speaker 2: I kind of like him in this matchup against New England.
Speaker 2: Hopefully he's near one hundred percent. Let's go to the
Speaker 2: passing game. Ladenincaky comes into the B Garrett grade as well.
Speaker 2: The single biggest strength of the Patriots is their secondary,
Speaker 2: which has obliterated the last three opposing wideouts, during which
Speaker 2: no receiver has topped sixty yards and only one has scored.
Speaker 2: Last week, no Bills receiver topped even twenty five yards.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 2: Fortunately for lad mccacky, he runs from the slot and
Speaker 2: slack cornerback Marcus Jones is the weakest link of the
Speaker 2: Patriots cornerbacks and he's hurt. Last week Alex Austin took
Speaker 2: his spot and gave up two catches on three targets,
Speaker 2: So the opportunities will still be there for lad McConkie
Speaker 2: and he comes in with a B grade. We're putting
Speaker 2: Quinton Johnston on the bench. As I just mentioned, this
Speaker 2: is a tough matchup, and Johnson is a low volume
Speaker 2: touchdown dependent receiver. Over the past six games, the Patriots
Speaker 2: have only allowed five wide receiver touchdowns, and three of
Speaker 2: those five would to far better players like Cooper Cup
Speaker 2: and Pooka Kakua. So Quinn Johnson's out all the rest
Speaker 2: of all the tight ends will Disley if he plays,
Speaker 2: Hayden Hurst, Tucker Fisk, Stone Smart all out. They cannibalize
Speaker 2: each other, and that leaves us with this guy. The
Speaker 2: air mayre justin Herbert. Even though Herbert's coming off a
Speaker 2: good game with some extra rest and should be as
Speaker 2: healthy as he's been in like a month, I'm still
Speaker 2: leery of him in this matchup. The Patriots just neutralized
Speaker 2: Josh Allen and Kyler Murray in consecutive weeks. If Herbert
Speaker 2: had better wideouts. I'd like this more, but after McConkie
Speaker 2: it drops off a cliff, so I'm only going CE
Speaker 2: grade on Justin Herbert in this game. I've got a
Speaker 2: couple of C grades on the New England side for you,
Speaker 2: Beginning in the running game with Romandre Stevenson. He got
Speaker 2: healthy over the Patriots Week fourteen by and then in
Speaker 2: fifteen and sixteen. He's been running hard, averaging five point
Speaker 2: two yards per carry, including a touchdown last week, but
Speaker 2: his usage is down from the workhorse role that he
Speaker 2: had earlier this year as Antonio Gibson is getting an
Speaker 2: increasing workload. Chargers run defense has lapsed lately over the
Speaker 2: last four weeks, LA giving up four point nine yards
Speaker 2: per carry along with five touchdowns to runners in those
Speaker 2: four games. So I still like Stevenson and still startable
Speaker 2: in a championship week, but only at a C grade.
Speaker 2: Drake may almost always finds a way to a decent
Speaker 2: box score despite playing with the worst offensive line in football.
Speaker 2: The Chargers secondary started the season strong, but they've wilted,
Speaker 2: and over the past seven games, five touchdowns have scored
Speaker 2: two times against the Chargers, three of them scored three
Speaker 2: or four touchdowns. In the last two weeks, bo Nicks
Speaker 2: and Baker Mayfield have run for twenty five yards, which
Speaker 2: is about where it may usually fall. So I think
Speaker 2: it's gonna help you out a little bit with his
Speaker 2: legs as well. If you're in a two quarterback league
Speaker 2: super flex league, Drake May plausible second quarterback with a
Speaker 2: C grade. And the only only quarterback that you would
Speaker 2: consider playing for New England is or the only receiver
Speaker 2: end up considering playing is the tight end Hunter Henry.
Speaker 2: He's been Drake May's most reliable receiver, but this is
Speaker 2: a very difficult matchup against a great tight end defense,
Speaker 2: maybe the best tight end defense in the league. Chargers
Speaker 2: have allowed the fourth fewest fantasy points to tight ends.
Speaker 2: They've only given up one tight end touchdown all year.
Speaker 2: So even though Hunter Henry has been safe, I don't
Speaker 2: love him here and I can only get you to
Speaker 2: a C grade and you're not starting any of the
Speaker 2: Patriots wide receivers for sure. But you know, let me
Speaker 2: mention this in dynasty leagues, and I'm thinking about doing
Speaker 2: this in our Empire league and the.
Speaker 5: One that's about to end to end.
Speaker 2: Kaishan Boute Kaishon booty. It's a deep dash stash player.
Speaker 5: Going for some booty bingo.
Speaker 2: You could heading into the offseason when we come back,
Speaker 2: take a chance on me. Nine players you wouldn't normally start,
Speaker 2: and guys you could even start. If you need a
Speaker 2: hail mary in week seventeen, we'll talk them about them.
Speaker 2: Would we come back, take a chance on me nine
Speaker 2: players you would not normally start. Maybe you need a
Speaker 2: hail mary in this the championship week. Maybe you've played
Speaker 2: against Derrick Henry and you and Blabar Jackson both and
Speaker 2: now you need something special to happen.
Speaker 3: Maybe you had Jalen Hurts and you're searching for a
Speaker 3: quarterback desperately.
Speaker 2: So Matt, what quarterback could I use?
Speaker 3: You know, charg you always tell me to try a
Speaker 3: Titans quarterback. You say it'll work out great.
Speaker 2: One of these years tis the season.
Speaker 3: So Rudolph, with your arm so bold, won't you guide
Speaker 3: me to fantasy gold Mason Rudolph as might take a
Speaker 3: chance on me quarterback. He doesn't have a glowing red nose,
Speaker 3: but I love the way he's just chucking it the
Speaker 3: last couple of weeks, and he likes to chuck it
Speaker 3: into the end zone multiple touchdowns in both of his
Speaker 3: last two starts. Andy Face is a Jags defense that's
Speaker 3: allowed the most passing yards and the fourth most passing touchdowns.
Speaker 3: It would have to be a Jalen Hurts you're scrambling
Speaker 3: for options kind of thing. But he's a better option
Speaker 3: than his former teammate Kenny Pickett, who's going to start
Speaker 3: for the Eagles. So stash him on your bench just
Speaker 3: in case. Or if you're playing against the Hurts owner, Yeah,
Speaker 3: stash him on your bench just in case so he
Speaker 3: can't be used by that user.
Speaker 2: Yep, this is a this is a plus matchup here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's you know, there's there's potential magic here from Mason
Speaker 2: Rudolph of all people in seventeen. Imagine you win your
Speaker 2: league with Mason Rudolph as your pickup quarterback? Yeah, thor,
Speaker 2: who is your take a chance with me?
Speaker 6: Anthony Richardson against the Giants.
Speaker 4: In last week's win over those aforementioned Titans, Richardson scored
Speaker 4: twenty Fantasy points with a career high seventy rushing yards.
Speaker 4: And we've been trending this way of using Richardson's legs
Speaker 4: more since he was reinstated as quarterback one in Week eleven.
Speaker 4: Before that, he had six point eight carries per game.
Speaker 4: Now he's at nine flat. He's had four games of
Speaker 4: seven plus design runs in his past five starts, and
Speaker 4: that was his second consecutive I'm sorry, second twenty plus
Speaker 4: point game in his last three starts. And this is
Speaker 4: a plumb matchup against a terrible Giants defense.
Speaker 2: You'll need to watch his injury status unfortunately, as he's
Speaker 2: got I think knee, hip, ankle something, and.
Speaker 3: I like that the Colts aren't fighting it anymore and
Speaker 3: they're just like, yeah, go run have fun.
Speaker 2: Well why not? I mean that should have been the
Speaker 2: attitude all along with Richards into my opinion, Bryce Young
Speaker 2: has played well. Speaking of guys who've running touchdowns, Bryce Young, Yeah,
Speaker 2: rushing touchdowns in three of the last four games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how about that? The Bryce Young CJ shroud that
Speaker 4: everyone thought was over? Yeah, add and Anthony richardson that
Speaker 4: so fast, my friend.
Speaker 2: Over the last six games, Young is finished as a
Speaker 2: quarterback one four times in six games. He's thrown touchdowns
Speaker 2: in every game since its return to the starting lineup
Speaker 2: in Week eight. Now, granted it's usually one touchdown, but nevertheless,
Speaker 2: he's scored touchdowns and every one of his starts since
Speaker 2: coming back, and he's, as I mentioned, run in scores
Speaker 2: in three or four games. Easy matchup against a wounded
Speaker 2: Tampa secondary five different players are injured. Cooper rushed through
Speaker 2: for almost three hundred yards against Tampa last week. Bryce
Speaker 2: Young gets back Adam Xavier Legett, who is somebody you
Speaker 2: could potentially start in this game as well, and we'll
Speaker 2: talk a little bit more about him later in the show.
Speaker 2: Bryce Young as a take a chance at me quarterback.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the running back position.
Speaker 3: Man, I've got Rashad White. Yes, Bucky Irving's the number one. Yes,
Speaker 3: that doesn't matter against the Panthers. In week thirteen, when
Speaker 3: these two teams faced off, White had eleven carries and
Speaker 3: seventy six yards. That's six point nine to nice yards
Speaker 3: per carry.
Speaker 5: Plus.
Speaker 3: White is still way more involved in the passing game
Speaker 3: and in pass blocking opportunities, which is meaning White is
Speaker 3: usually getting the higher snap count between the two running backs.
Speaker 3: Last week, he saw eight targets, seven receptions and fifty
Speaker 3: yards through the air against Dallas, and he scored six
Speaker 3: receiving touchdowns in the last nine games. In the last
Speaker 3: in eight of the last nine he scored double digit
Speaker 3: PPR points. He's a starter this week.
Speaker 2: Bucky Irving is a plus and Rashad Way can help. Oh,
Speaker 2: we can talk about Bucky Irving. We'll get to him
Speaker 2: later in this show. His superhuman status A baby. I
Speaker 2: love I love that guy. Let's go to thor your
Speaker 2: take a chance with me running back.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do reco daddle against the Eagles. Last week
Speaker 4: was Donald's first with under one hundred rushing yards in
Speaker 4: a game since Week twelve. Thirteen carries twenty three yards
Speaker 4: against a very good Tampa Bay Buccaneers run defense. Rushing
Speaker 4: yards per attempt average fell from six in his previous
Speaker 4: three games to one point eight in that one. I
Speaker 4: will say the Eagles do have one of.
Speaker 6: The best run defenses.
Speaker 4: Yes, they too maybe the past, and they have surrendered
Speaker 4: the second fewest fantasy points to running backs this year.
Speaker 4: But I'm not doing a great self. I'm gonna turn
Speaker 4: this ship around. I still do think that there's bounced
Speaker 4: back potential here because Daudo for sure is gonna be
Speaker 4: the focal point of the offense. With Ceedee Lamb out
Speaker 4: for the year, and even with last week included the
Speaker 4: last five games, average nineteen point four carries per game,
Speaker 4: twenty one point four touches per game, one hundred and
Speaker 4: twelve scrimmage yards per game, handed, sixteen plus touches in
Speaker 4: five straight games. I think he's gonna get there here,
Speaker 4: probably broached twenty here.
Speaker 6: We'll see roll of the dice, you know, Oh no,
Speaker 6: bring in the tanks, Bring.
Speaker 2: In the tanks. That's right, Tank Bigsby against Tennessee. Bigsby's
Speaker 2: usage trending up. He's supposed double digit carries in three
Speaker 2: straight games, and he's out rutching Traves Etn over those
Speaker 2: three games. And importantly, Etn has one carry from inside
Speaker 2: the five since Week two. Who he is a non
Speaker 2: factor at the goal line. Trank Tank Bigsby will face
Speaker 2: the Titans that is a slumping run defense. Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 2: just gashed him for two hundred and eighteen yards and
Speaker 2: three scores a week before that. Chase Brown topped one
Speaker 2: hundred yards scored twice week before that, who scored a
Speaker 2: touchdown against Tennessee. Tank bigs me, Tank Bigsby, you take
Speaker 2: a chance of you're running back for week number seventeen, You're.
Speaker 6: Tank a chance on we running.
Speaker 2: Back, Ohome, I haven't thought of that earlier.
Speaker 5: I'm glad you guys like puns.
Speaker 2: Well some more.
Speaker 6: That makes two of us.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, you're.
Speaker 3: Take a chance with me, receiver man, Well, since you
Speaker 3: like puns. Scott Fish was on this last week. Saw
Speaker 3: piggyback here or maybe chiggy back. Let's go grab Chiga conkquell. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that was that was bad. Sorry, I'm gonna leave now.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: In Mason Rudolph's last two games, he's just been laser
Speaker 3: focused on chigakonk will In Week fifteen to ten targets
Speaker 3: eight catches fifty nine yards. In week sixteen eleven targets,
Speaker 3: nine catches, eighty one yards. No touchdowns in that span,
Speaker 3: but the Jags have allowed the sixth most touchdowns to
Speaker 3: the tight end position. Let's go chig a kon.
Speaker 2: Kuo Jega konku. Yeah, tip of the hat. Scott Fish
Speaker 2: isn't here, but we're gonna give him the peacock anyway.
Speaker 2: He identified two Titans to use down the stretch. With
Speaker 2: his easy run of players, he urged you to pick
Speaker 2: up and start spearers like three weeks ago and now
Speaker 2: Chiga Konku.
Speaker 6: Last week.
Speaker 2: All right, thor you're taking chance with your receiver, your
Speaker 2: last one of the year.
Speaker 6: Could I interest you in another injured colts against it?
Speaker 4: This time we are taking a chance on Alec Piers,
Speaker 4: who was in the concussion protocol. As of Friday, he
Speaker 4: has been cleared to play. And because of this, I
Speaker 4: think this is a This game, I think is a
Speaker 4: tremendous matchup for Alec Pearce's game. Alec peers number one
Speaker 4: in the NFL in deep targets, yeah, and number two
Speaker 4: with over twenty two yards per reception. The Giants allow
Speaker 4: get this sixty two percent completion rate on deep passes
Speaker 4: that is more than more than five percentage points worse
Speaker 4: than the next closer than the thirty first like.
Speaker 2: The NFL average on deep passing completion percentage like forty
Speaker 2: five percent. Yes, that is it.
Speaker 4: Yes, this is like throwing an intermediate pass against anyone
Speaker 4: else is chucking it deep against the Giants. The deep
Speaker 4: ball guys like Kelvin Austin, Amari Cooper is now on
Speaker 4: a on a milk carton and Rashot Bateman all had
Speaker 4: their best game Fantasy games of the season against the Giants.
Speaker 4: I think there's a shot that Alec Pierce might two.
Speaker 2: Now for my final take a chance on me of
Speaker 2: the year, it came down to Xavier Lagette thor or Yep, Jalen.
Speaker 4: Ca Well you know I'm I'm the head of the
Speaker 4: kok Heads, right you are?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 6: Okay, good, good good?
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely one of us, one of undrafted from Holy Cross,
Speaker 2: just like us.
Speaker 6: The kids. I was, of course, yeah, we all were. Yep.
Speaker 2: The kid's getting a ton of playing time. He's averaging
Speaker 2: an eighty five percent snap rate over the last three starts.
Speaker 2: He's one wreeked removed one week removed from a one
Speaker 2: hundred and ten yard game. There was a lot of
Speaker 2: wo sounds that I really struggled with. Tampa Bay's secondary
Speaker 2: is a weck with injuries. Four guys on ir stud
Speaker 2: safety Antoine Winfields known with the knee injury, in his
Speaker 2: backup cave On Mereweather also unknown with the knee injury.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Jalen Coker, I know, I know you like,
Speaker 2: I know you liked him. You're glad that he landed
Speaker 2: with the team and now he's got an opportunity.
Speaker 6: Sure does.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he is birsty as an NFL frame and his
Speaker 4: ball skills are tremendous. Yeah, I was very bolished on
Speaker 4: Jalen Coker coming out happy.
Speaker 2: He got an opportunity, Carolina taking on on the same team,
Speaker 2: Carolina take on Tampa.
Speaker 6: Talk about Coker, Matt, we've the rest of the show.
Speaker 2: I've already hit on Bryce Young and Jalen Coker in
Speaker 2: this one. You want to stick with the passing.
Speaker 3: Game, Sure, Adam feln was the only other starting grade
Speaker 3: I gave the passing game. I gave him a C
Speaker 3: grade for a lot of the reasons Sharks listed for Coker.
Speaker 3: The matchup is fantastic. Feelan saw ten targets, eight catches,
Speaker 3: ninety nine yards in a score in last month's meeting
Speaker 3: with the Bucks. I didn't go so far as Xavier
Speaker 3: Lagette coming back off an injury in a fantasy championship.
Speaker 3: That seems a little bit too cute for me. Tuba
Speaker 3: Hubbard's the only other Panther you'd consider starting. He's injured
Speaker 3: right now. It looks like he's gonna play. I'll give
Speaker 3: him a C grade, but it's closer to a bench.
Speaker 3: Tampa figured out one thing defensively, it's run stopping. In
Speaker 3: the last six games, only one back is top forty
Speaker 3: three rushing yards and that was sincere McCormick hitting seventy eight.
Speaker 3: And they've only allowed one total touchdown to the running
Speaker 3: back position since Week ten, which includes Hubbard getting forty
Speaker 3: three yards on twelve carries in the prior meeting.
Speaker 2: Then Hubbard fubbled away the game in overtime tragically. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was appeeling a victory away from the Panthers.
Speaker 3: Well, on the Bucks side, I think you should probably
Speaker 3: start Bucky Irving. Yes, Rashad White was might take a
Speaker 3: chance on me her, but we all know the Panthers
Speaker 3: have the worst run defense in the league. But charge
Speaker 3: did you know that the slipperiest substance in the world
Speaker 3: is called bam. No, it's called bam BAM. It's a
Speaker 3: mix of boron, aluminum and magnesium and it was accidentally
Speaker 3: created in a laboratory in ames, Iowa in nineteen ninety
Speaker 3: nine cyclones. Yeah, do you know who was born in
Speaker 3: ames Iowa in nineteen ninety nine?
Speaker 6: Oh boy, here we go and is coded in BAM.
Speaker 2: Is that Bucky Irving?
Speaker 6: It's Bucky Irving.
Speaker 2: No, he was not borns He.
Speaker 3: Was actually born in Chicago in two thousand and two.
Speaker 3: But it's in the same region and in the same
Speaker 3: stretch of.
Speaker 2: Years, in the same time zone.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 3: Bucky Irving had twenty five carries for one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty two yards and a score in last month Panthers game.
Speaker 3: A grade for Bucky. Actually, Ardvark for Bucky. Let's get
Speaker 3: that Ardvark out there.
Speaker 2: Baby. We haven't had the ardvark yeah forever. Oh, it's
Speaker 2: good to hear from the yard part, you know, speaking
Speaker 2: of speaking of animal sounds, speaking of animal sounds. I
Speaker 2: need I need Bucky. I need something for Bucky on
Speaker 2: the on the the sound bar.
Speaker 3: What about you need an Emerald Legassi going bam because
Speaker 3: he's so slippery.
Speaker 6: No, dude, like God might be.
Speaker 2: Lost than anybody who has it doesn't know this segment.
Speaker 2: What about the sound of a beaver?
Speaker 6: I was I was thinking, Caddy shock, Caddy shock. I mean,
Speaker 6: isn't it close enough? Bucky? He started with the golds, Yeah,
Speaker 6: he started, he started with the wovers.
Speaker 2: He didn't finish here. Yeah, it's tragic, all right, anyway, continue,
Speaker 2: all right, gonna work. We gotta workshop this sounder.
Speaker 5: We got plenty of time.
Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield has been on fire the last three weeks,
Speaker 3: with at least two hundred and eighty eight yards in
Speaker 3: every game and nine touchdown passes in those three. The
Speaker 3: last time he didn't do amazing work it was against
Speaker 3: these Panthers four weeks ago, still a solid B grade.
Speaker 3: Worried that the game script could favor the runover the pass.
Speaker 3: But I know he still has some work to do
Speaker 3: in the air, because Mike Evans is one hundred and
Speaker 3: eighty two yards short of an eleventh straight one thousand
Speaker 3: yard season and a big contract bonus, and he's going
Speaker 3: to get it this week against the Panthers. Second Ardvark
Speaker 3: of the matchup, Mike Evans gets.
Speaker 2: Up there, I thought the guard per game what happened?
Speaker 3: Well, Panthers starting corner j C. Horn started the year
Speaker 3: off great, tailed off recently and he's doubtful with a
Speaker 3: hip injury.
Speaker 5: Chow Smith Wade is out.
Speaker 3: He was already a special teamer that they converted the
Speaker 3: corner That leaves Dane Jackson and Duke Marriott tech Theratrix
Speaker 3: taking a spot. And only one of those names is
Speaker 3: from Key and Peel Well, I know which one. Jalen
Speaker 3: McMillan has scored in three straight games. His matchup is
Speaker 3: very good and the Bucks definitely have something to play for.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: He's made a few rookie mistakes, but the talent is
Speaker 3: is good and the opportunities, more importantly have been there.
Speaker 3: With seven and seven targets in the last three weeks.
Speaker 3: I will give a C grade to McMillan if you
Speaker 3: lost a guy like CD Lamb for the season, because
Speaker 3: McMillan should see some extra targets.
Speaker 2: With Kate Oughten out this week, I think I think
Speaker 2: you're under undervaluing McMillan. I think he's got the opportunity
Speaker 2: now a very big game.
Speaker 3: It's just if you have a championship roster, I gotta
Speaker 3: think you got better wide receiver options than this. It
Speaker 3: would be a really bold strategy to start Kate Outen
Speaker 3: this week, by the way, he's out, I know, really
Speaker 3: really bold.
Speaker 6: Yeah, bold strategy at yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh you don't say it took me a minute. Sorry, Sorry,
Speaker 2: there we go.
Speaker 5: It's just trying to.
Speaker 6: We're late in this season, but I'm still full of juice.
Speaker 6: Charge you are.
Speaker 2: Uh, you'll be full of fantasy victories in your You'll
Speaker 2: be full of juice too.
Speaker 6: Hey, did you get through it?
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Speaker 2: playoff bound players. We'll talk a little bit more about
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Speaker 2: dot com. When we come back Indianapolis Colts, New York Giants,
Speaker 2: will let you know if Jonathan Taylor is going to
Speaker 2: be awesome like last week or more like the guy
Speaker 2: we saw before that. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul
Speaker 2: Jargy and Matt Harrison and Thor Nystrom with you. It's
Speaker 2: a championship edition. We're here to help you bring home
Speaker 2: the hardware. And to that point, we go to Indianapolis
Speaker 2: taking on the Giants story. You already told us that
Speaker 2: you like Anthony Richardson. We're watching his I think it's
Speaker 2: hip and injuries, and you like Alex Pierce. Alex Pierce
Speaker 2: as a dart throw receiver who else from the Colts
Speaker 2: is fantasy Star.
Speaker 4: Yeah, shout out Cincinnati there on, Alec Pierce. Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 4: will go to Wisconsin next. Great of a, of course,
Speaker 4: the Colt set of franchise record with three hundred and
Speaker 4: thirty five rushing yards last week's Chargers sort of mentioned
Speaker 4: in that that was also the most by any NFL
Speaker 4: team in any NFL game this season. Ken lightning strike
Speaker 4: twice did Giants have the second worst run defense in
Speaker 4: the entire NFL. Week eighteen of last season was the
Speaker 4: last time a running back did not hit double digit
Speaker 4: PPR points against the Bryants. Okay, so we got a
Speaker 4: hard a there on, mister Taylor, I might even do
Speaker 4: my Ard Verk. I might even do Mike Bondo.
Speaker 2: Brian's not here. He normally is Fantasy Fonsie. You want
Speaker 2: to give out the Fantasy Fonsie.
Speaker 6: Brian show, This one's for you, Brian. Shout out to Brian.
Speaker 6: Michael Pittman, he's Michael.
Speaker 4: Well, we're gonna do it, Michael pitt We're going to
Speaker 4: do another podcast sies onnight.
Speaker 2: Whether or not Michael Pittman is in fact Michael pitch.
Speaker 4: Maybe one of the episodes of the Harrison podcast that
Speaker 4: we're doing, will do like parallels between him and Pittman,
Speaker 4: but bench Josh downs. I like this one actually for Josh.
Speaker 4: About to give him a sea, but he gets a
Speaker 4: green light here. The Giants are terrible against slot receivers
Speaker 4: twenty eighth in completion percentage against, thirty first interception rate,
Speaker 4: thirty first in passer rating allowed to opposing slots. But
Speaker 4: give him a ce Drew lock bench Tyrone Tracy, I'll
Speaker 4: give him a see he's playing through an ankle injury
Speaker 4: officially questionable. He is trending towards playing eleven touches and
Speaker 4: seventeen Fantasy points last week, and he has exactly eleven
Speaker 4: touches in three of his last four games.
Speaker 6: Sort of his floor as.
Speaker 4: Far as the volume goes. He has also scored a
Speaker 4: touchdown in three of his last four games, and.
Speaker 2: That receiving touchdown last week beautiful in the back of
Speaker 2: the end zone.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Tell he's a converted receiver. When you see him catch
Speaker 2: passes like the one Tyro Tracy coot last.
Speaker 4: Year, you can tell he learned how to play the
Speaker 4: wide receiver position at the University of Iowa. That's how
Speaker 4: we do it there Baby the tight end play reb
Speaker 4: z Avni and he has fourteen plus fantasy points in
Speaker 4: seven of his last eleven games.
Speaker 6: Decent matchup here as well.
Speaker 4: The Colts defense has allowed the eighth most fantasy points
Speaker 4: per game and fifth most yards to running backs this season.
Speaker 6: Malik Neighbors is an a must start.
Speaker 4: He'd be practiced on Friday for anyone curious with the toe.
Speaker 2: They hoping that Melik Neighbors plays. Yes, but I'm nervous about.
Speaker 4: This and the last one Wandale Robinson gave him a sea.
Speaker 4: He's coming off his second best game of the season.
Speaker 4: It was against the falcons abomination of a pass defense,
Speaker 4: but he did have seven catches for sixty two years,
Speaker 4: eleven targets and at least nine targets in three consecutive
Speaker 4: games for Wandale Robinson. The Colts defense is tied for
Speaker 4: eighth fewest points per game allowed two wide receivers this year,
Speaker 4: and in Indianapolis's last four games, only Kelvin Ridley has
Speaker 4: crossed the seventy five receiving yard mark.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna give one Dale Robinson a seat.
Speaker 2: You're more charitable than I him. B Jhon Robinson and
Speaker 2: the seasons it is, he's not going to be giving.
Speaker 2: I don't believe Falcons take on the Commanders. Bjon gets
Speaker 2: is an obvious a and his box scores really didn't
Speaker 2: show it last week. But Bjhon Robinson, Man, you looked fantastic,
Speaker 2: making the most of every run. But I do want
Speaker 2: you to know the Commanders have allowed the fewest receptions
Speaker 2: to running backs and that really caps the upside for Bjon.
Speaker 2: Still in a grade, But I don't see. I don't
Speaker 2: think Jon is going to be explosive in this game.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the passing game for the Falcons. At
Speaker 2: Michael Pennix. I liked what I saw. His poise was
Speaker 2: outstanding for a first start quarterback last week. He looked
Speaker 2: like your veteran honestly, and his arm strength a welcome
Speaker 2: sight after watching Kirk labor to get the ball down
Speaker 2: field earlier in the year. Washington has faced a lot
Speaker 2: of backup quarterbacks of late Kenny Pickett, Spencer Rattler, Will
Speaker 2: Levis since Benched Cooper Rush, and they all scored one
Speaker 2: or two touchdowns. So there's an opportunity for Pennix. Here
Speaker 2: does a via second quarterback for your championship team C
Speaker 2: grade on him. Let's go to Drake London. London not huge,
Speaker 2: but he's on the bigger side, and bigger bodied guys
Speaker 2: have had the most consistent success against the Commanders all year,
Speaker 2: and that's why they traded for Marshall Latimore as they
Speaker 2: needed a bigger bodied cornerback to try to slow down
Speaker 2: these bigger receivers. And Marshall Latimer has been ruled out
Speaker 2: of this game, so he's not gonna be there. That
Speaker 2: means I like Drake London. I'm moving him to a
Speaker 2: B grade in this game. Aj Brown, as another big
Speaker 2: bodied receiver, last week, had a very good game against
Speaker 2: the Washington Commanders. Darnel Mooney back on the map with
Speaker 2: Michael Pennix as his quarterback after languishing under Cousins. Pennix
Speaker 2: immediately unlocked Mooney for five catches and a deep sixteen
Speaker 2: yard average throw distance. Speed guys don't fare as well
Speaker 2: against the Falcons as the bigger guys, like I mentioned
Speaker 2: just a moment ago with Drake London, but Nick Westbrook
Speaker 2: Akine scored twice a few weeks ago, so I think
Speaker 2: Mooney's got a chance and I've got a SE grade
Speaker 2: on him. And then I gotta mention Kyle Pitts. Not
Speaker 2: that you're going to start Kyle, but his interception last week,
Speaker 2: Oh my god, he turned a perfect pass from Michael
Speaker 2: Pennix right in the bread basket.
Speaker 5: And a touchdown and all like, yeah.
Speaker 2: That's right, had a touchdown in which Pitt's got two
Speaker 2: hands on the ball and then just basically handed it
Speaker 2: to a defender. Unbelievable, one of the one of the
Speaker 2: most inexcusable interceptions I've ever seen.
Speaker 6: Can we do an episode on the podcast.
Speaker 2: About Kyle Pitts as well, said, Kyle Pitts.
Speaker 4: Single handedly got a terrible quarterback, Kyle Trask. I hope
Speaker 4: he and his family are not listening to this, but
Speaker 4: he got him drafted in the second round because Kyle
Speaker 4: pits was so good at Florida.
Speaker 2: And Mike Evans did that to Johnny Manziel.
Speaker 4: True, yeah, Johnny Manziel, Yeah, that first round paycheck should
Speaker 4: go right right to.
Speaker 2: Mike Evans, right, because he bailed out all those awful throws.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he was just it was like Dennis Rodman rebounding.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great, way to put it on the Washington side.
Speaker 2: Terry McLaurin a grade and ary after taking down the Eagles,
Speaker 2: McLaurin feels like a safe A grade. Falcons shadow with
Speaker 2: cornerback aj Trell regularly, which makes sense as Mike Hughes
Speaker 2: would be the other option, and that's not great. Terrell
Speaker 2: pretty good, not elite. He gives up a seventy percent
Speaker 2: catch rate. Where Terrell's really good is after the catch.
Speaker 2: He gives up just ten yards per game after the catch,
Speaker 2: and that's not a lot. So mclaurin's still an A
Speaker 2: grade here, but I don't think he's got monster upside
Speaker 2: in this one. But you know what it does is
Speaker 2: Jayden Daniels statement game for Jade and Daniels last week,
Speaker 2: five touchdowns against the Philly defense, and here comes the Falcons.
Speaker 2: They've allowed the most passing touchdowns in the league this
Speaker 2: despite facing Drew Lock and Desmond Ridder of the past
Speaker 2: two weeks, and even those guys managed touchdowns. The last
Speaker 2: starting quarterback to play against the Falcons was Sam Darnold
Speaker 2: and he threw five touchdowns. So I like Jayden Daniels
Speaker 2: with an A grade in this one. And the only
Speaker 2: the guy that you really care about for the Washington Commanders,
Speaker 2: Brian Robinson who's honestly looked pretty bad for two months.
Speaker 2: He's topped three point nine yards per carry in just
Speaker 2: one game since way back in Week eight. He's entirely
Speaker 2: touchdown dependent, and quietly, the Falcons have a pretty good
Speaker 2: run defense. Five of the past six opposing teams haven't
Speaker 2: had a runner top even fifty nine yards. In the
Speaker 2: last two months, Atlanta has only given up two touchdowns
Speaker 2: to running backs. Runners are beating the Falcons through the air,
Speaker 2: but that's not Brian Robinson at all.
Speaker 3: Guy does not catch, so it sounds like a bench grade.
Speaker 3: That sounds like a C grade. I can't believe you're
Speaker 3: giving him a Sea.
Speaker 2: Because he could get it well, he probably won't.
Speaker 6: Get it hit.
Speaker 5: It sounded all negative.
Speaker 2: I know it was all name. It's a bench he
Speaker 2: gets enough, he touches the ball enough. I'm still giving
Speaker 2: him the secret.
Speaker 3: You're gonna go down with Brian Robinson on your fantasy roster?
Speaker 2: Yikes, I don't want to, no Sea grade. Let's go
Speaker 2: up sticking like Sea grade Las Vegas Raiders. You want
Speaker 2: to go down with the start any Raiders other than
Speaker 2: rock Back taking on the Saints. These are two offenses
Speaker 2: in dreadful shape.
Speaker 3: You know, championship level fantasy teams have one thing in common.
Speaker 3: No Raiders or Saints on their rosters. Maybe with the
Speaker 3: exception of Brock Bowers. He's the only guy you can
Speaker 3: start in this game. And I'm not overly excited about
Speaker 3: this matchup. The Saints defense does one thing well. It's
Speaker 3: covered the tight end. They've only allowed one score on
Speaker 3: the air. Still, Bowers is seeing twenty five percent of
Speaker 3: his team's targets on the season, twenty four percent of
Speaker 3: the air yards, which is super impressive for a tight end.
Speaker 3: Even in a bad matchup. It's a B grade for Bowers.
Speaker 3: You're not chasing Alexander Madison or a mirror Abdullah. They're
Speaker 3: both on the bench. If you were wildly desperate for
Speaker 3: running back and they were both available, I guess Madison,
Speaker 3: but don't do that. On the other side, Alvin Kamara
Speaker 3: is out, so you're not starting Kendre Miller, who split
Speaker 3: snaps with Jordan Mims and Jamal Williams and it was
Speaker 3: like a forty forty twenty split.
Speaker 5: Absolutely gross.
Speaker 3: And you might be tempted to go with Juwan Johnson
Speaker 3: because it's a good matchup and there's no one else
Speaker 3: to throw too. But Spencer Rattler is completing like half
Speaker 3: or cewer of his passes, and he's under so much
Speaker 3: Druss too, and he's spreading around an average of one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty passing yards per game in his last
Speaker 3: four games. Yikes, that's not even enough to bat an
Speaker 3: eyelash at. No Saints are startable.
Speaker 2: Chris Olb may may return for this game, but it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter because it's Spencer Rattler. The whole offense is
Speaker 2: completely broke. Why would they do that? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Why Bra?
Speaker 5: There's no reason, Chris?
Speaker 2: What if he gets hurt? Come on, I know that's
Speaker 2: put him up like that. I'm not saying i'd bring
Speaker 2: him back. I'm just saying the Saints are saying you
Speaker 2: might play in this game.
Speaker 3: You know, I have a question for Thor because he
Speaker 3: talks about Iowa and he talks about Kansas all the time.
Speaker 3: Inevitably they're going to end up playing in the College
Speaker 3: Football Playoff like next year. Probably who are you going
Speaker 3: to cheer for in that Iowa Kansas probably seven to
Speaker 3: ten matchup?
Speaker 5: I would guess.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm happy you asked this because I've I worked
Speaker 4: on my hierarchy a long time ago. It goes undergrad first,
Speaker 4: and I'm not just talking about myself, It's got to
Speaker 4: be for anyone else.
Speaker 6: And so it's Kansas that's school at both places the
Speaker 6: top of the hierarchy.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I would have to root against the grad
Speaker 4: school Iowa if that was the matchup to that. And
Speaker 4: then we have you know, Minnesota is like the father's
Speaker 4: alma mater, and and you know, and that was the
Speaker 4: team I grew up with. And then you go and
Speaker 4: charges that's what I meant by father figure, Yeah, my radio. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and then you know, and then you go down from there, brothers,
Speaker 4: alma mater, sisters ol mater. I go down one hundred
Speaker 4: and thirty four teams. Wisconsin, you have, you have.
Speaker 2: A hierarchy listed of one hundred and thirty four.
Speaker 6: So I know in any individual matchup who I'm going for.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I really want to see this list. Please publish.
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Speaker 4: Rock Shard number one right, number one, number one hierarchy
Speaker 4: asband always will be a tough question.
Speaker 2: This is a game we call three tough questions. Nobody
Speaker 2: ever takes a quarterback with the first overall pick of
Speaker 2: their drafts. Yet Lamar Jackson, almost irrespective of your scoring system,
Speaker 2: is going to be the highest scoring player this year.
Speaker 2: Should Lamar Jackson be the first pick overall in fantasy
Speaker 2: drafts next year, Matt.
Speaker 3: If not now, when he's got one more game to go,
Speaker 3: and he's already set career marks for passing yards, in
Speaker 3: passing scores, throwing thirty nine touchdown passes to only four interceptions.
Speaker 3: For fantasy points just from passing only Joe Burrow is
Speaker 3: anywhere close to what Lamar has done this year, and
Speaker 3: he's basically giving you Ramandre Stevenson on the ground two,
Speaker 3: a low level RB two or flex guy just from
Speaker 3: his ground game. So you get a top two quarterback
Speaker 3: and a top twenty rusher. That's enough of a difference
Speaker 3: maker to take it number one overall. But next year
Speaker 3: could be really fun at the at pick one to
Speaker 3: one because you could take Lamar, you could take Josh Allen.
Speaker 3: Saquon's probably in that conversation. I think Jamar, Chase, Justin, Jefferson,
Speaker 3: and Puka are all in the conversation, and maybe even
Speaker 3: brock Bauers. Yeah, we could have We could have this
Speaker 3: a few shows again. We could have like seven or
Speaker 3: eight different guys that could go number one next year.
Speaker 3: It's gonna make the preseason shows a lot more fun.
Speaker 2: And it really is to not have the obvious number
Speaker 2: one that everybody is taking, and it will be great
Speaker 2: and it's all over the place position wise too, great point,
Speaker 2: great point. This is gonna it's shaping up next year
Speaker 2: to be the perfect year to be at the back
Speaker 2: of the first round. Sure, because you're gonna get somebody
Speaker 2: who could legitimately go as the first pack.
Speaker 5: Or the middle of the round. I just listed like
Speaker 5: six or seven guys that you could get, Like, that's fantastic.
Speaker 2: Wait, I just tip my hand a little bit out.
Speaker 2: I think Thor nobody ever takes a quarterback with the
Speaker 2: first overall pick. What about Lamar Jackson for next year?
Speaker 4: And you guys didn't even mention Kamani Vidal, Yeah, the
Speaker 4: obvious yes when you're going through I love without saying no.
Speaker 4: I mean, from from my time with this show, I
Speaker 4: have a sneaking suspicion that this is going to be
Speaker 4: a yes from you church M. I feel like I'm
Speaker 4: being set to walk into a trap and then all
Speaker 4: I answer no, and then right after you'll be like no,
Speaker 4: the right answer is yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 5: Thor is still new enough where he cares if his
Speaker 5: answer is right or wrong.
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm like a try hard guy. I
Speaker 4: always will I'm gonna say I'm gonna say no.
Speaker 6: I'm going to say no. You can say no. I'm
Speaker 6: gonna say no.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't think any running back. I'll preface this
Speaker 2: by saying, I don't think in most leagues. I don't
Speaker 2: believe a running back is going to go first because
Speaker 2: so many of the running backs that are dominating this
Speaker 2: year are high mileage, older running backs, and I think
Speaker 2: there's gonna be a lot of worry, like, is this
Speaker 2: the year where the cliff hits even Sakwan Barkley, which
Speaker 2: even though it's the year.
Speaker 4: Of the running back, And it's funny how cyclical things are,
Speaker 4: because we have an insane running back class in this
Speaker 4: next Yeah and April, this most act one we've had
Speaker 4: in multiple years. A couple the other position, of course,
Speaker 4: are down, but the running back one way up.
Speaker 2: And there are there have been years in the past
Speaker 2: where I've banged the drum for first overall pick to
Speaker 2: be a rookie running back. Isekiel Elliott's first year, I
Speaker 2: had him miss the first time Super High went early his.
Speaker 5: I remember a Clyde Edwards layer.
Speaker 2: I had a first round greade on him.
Speaker 4: Do you remember an Ashton genty? Where do we think
Speaker 4: he's going now, he's gonna be good?
Speaker 2: Well, depends on the Landers, of course. Phi Let's just
Speaker 2: assume he goes to Dallas at twelve or wherever they're
Speaker 2: going to pick. Now, well, it maybe like ten, now, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean it's got to be high. It's he'll he'll
Speaker 2: probably be close to a first rounder.
Speaker 4: I think he should be a top five pick if
Speaker 4: that was the case, if he drops it, because where
Speaker 4: did Bijeon go in his rookie year?
Speaker 6: He was first round? Okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I
Speaker 6: think is better than Jean.
Speaker 2: That he probably is.
Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, he's insane.
Speaker 2: Jamar Chase is going to go one one in a
Speaker 2: lot of leagues, and for good reason. He's gonna win
Speaker 2: the Triple Crown this year. Receptions, yards and touchdowns, but
Speaker 2: that's it. He's had an amazing season and he's got
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow. Where's the risk in taking Jamar Chase at
Speaker 2: number one? It's all zero, But Lamar Jackson is special.
Speaker 2: I always try. I do not get I do not
Speaker 2: fall into this thing where I can not take a
Speaker 2: quarterback in some particular spot. But we all tend to
Speaker 2: feel like I can find a quarterback. How many times
Speaker 2: have you said that to yourself? I can get I
Speaker 2: can get a quarterback.
Speaker 4: It's what general managers say in the draft about running backs.
Speaker 4: It's like, we'll save that for in a.
Speaker 3: Standard fantasy league. You can find a quarterback. Ten is
Speaker 3: still pretty good.
Speaker 6: We got a Jayden Daniels this year. Yeah, Jaden dan
Speaker 6: We will mind him every year.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go no. But I don't have any problem
Speaker 2: with anybody who takes Lamar Jackson with the first overall pick.
Speaker 2: I don't think you're gonna regret it at all. But
Speaker 2: I don't think that's gonna be the right answer.
Speaker 6: Tough question Number two is.
Speaker 2: Cooper cup cooked? We go to Thorneistro.
Speaker 6: He's not cooked. He's feelinged aging out. He's got a
Speaker 6: couple more years.
Speaker 2: Are you just picking other white slot receivers right.
Speaker 6: Now, Brick? Are you just looking at things?
Speaker 4: Are are you just naming white slot receivers in the
Speaker 4: room with us right now? I think he's gonna have
Speaker 4: like two years where he can choose whether he wants
Speaker 4: to get one hundred plus targets with one of the
Speaker 4: crappiest teams in the NFL, or if he wants to
Speaker 4: play at the string that way, or if he wants
Speaker 4: to be like the third banana guy and Thiland didn't
Speaker 4: want to be the third banana guy.
Speaker 2: Okay, Matt is Cooper Cup cooked?
Speaker 3: That's the shortest tough question of all time, by the way, Actually,
Speaker 3: it's been two straight bad games. One against San Francisco,
Speaker 3: which was one of the best pass defense of the league,
Speaker 3: and there was also driving rain most of the game.
Speaker 3: Last week was just kind of a gross game against
Speaker 3: the Jets. The Rams won dirty, it was cold, and
Speaker 3: Pooka's been so good. So we're just looking at cups
Speaker 3: two terrible games last two games at SOFI Stadium five
Speaker 3: for ninety two and a score against the Bills eight
Speaker 3: for sixty and one against the Eagles. So I can't
Speaker 3: imagine he completely lost it in the course of two weeks,
Speaker 3: but it's probably fair to punish him down your draft
Speaker 3: board a little bit next season. No, he's not cooked yet, though.
Speaker 2: The baffling part about last week's bummer game from Cooper
Speaker 2: Cup and what I can't quake it over and why
Speaker 2: I put this question in here Rams are playing the Jets.
Speaker 2: The Jets slot corner is Michael Carter and he's great,
Speaker 2: but he's out for this game. The backup is Isaiah Oliver.
Speaker 2: In years past, Sean McVay would have peppered Cooper Cup
Speaker 2: with fourteen targets against a backup slot cornerback. Cooper Cup
Speaker 2: got three. Yeah, what does Sean McVay know? What is
Speaker 2: he ahead of the curve on that we don't know? Yes,
Speaker 2: pook and a Coup is great, but that doesn't mean
Speaker 2: you throw three times to Cooper Cup in a close
Speaker 2: game against a backup slot cornerback.
Speaker 5: Maybe Cooper Cup is hurt.
Speaker 2: Maybe he is, and maybe that's going to be ultimately
Speaker 2: the answer on this. I think I think Cooper Cup
Speaker 2: is cooked, and I think next year we're gonna see
Speaker 2: the big, big drop off. Okay, and I think I'm
Speaker 2: going yes on this. I don't like what I'm seeing
Speaker 2: right now now. Could be proven wrong. They coast into
Speaker 2: the playoffs. I hope I am wrong. Cooper Cup's awesome.
Speaker 2: We love Cooper Cup. I don't like what I've seen
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 6: Feeland is the correct answer.
Speaker 2: Eland quetcham number three in the Fantasy Championship you're an underdog,
Speaker 2: do you try to split the pot with the other team?
Speaker 3: We begin with Matt, I mean, sure, why not. The
Speaker 3: overdog is gonna say no, but at least you tried. Also,
Speaker 3: maybe if you're not in the Fantasy Championship, you should
Speaker 3: still see if the winner wants to split the pot
Speaker 3: with you, maybe you can appeal to their generosity.
Speaker 5: During the holidays. I've never done this.
Speaker 3: I've never been in a league where the pot was split.
Speaker 3: In fact, I play in a lot of Empire leagues
Speaker 3: where we're specifically looking to cash out a huge pot.
Speaker 3: And I just want to say shout out to our
Speaker 3: former Fantasy Football Weekly co host Christian Peterson, who, according
Speaker 3: to MFL has an eighty four percent chance at winning
Speaker 3: our Empire League and the old twelve thousand, two hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty five dollars in the Empire pot.
Speaker 2: And I want to alert the irs to that, Wow,
Speaker 2: this is the oldest Empire league in the world and
Speaker 2: Christian Peterson is very likely to take it down in.
Speaker 5: Year I think it's year eleven or twelve, eleven, twelve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very very good team. And my team finally just
Speaker 2: stacked for a run and it's all gonna end right here. Hmm,
Speaker 2: completely bitter about that. Let's go back to the matchups.
Speaker 2: We begin with the New York Jets taking on the
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bill.
Speaker 5: Did thor want to answer the tough question?
Speaker 6: I want to, Yeah, I have. I have ardent opinions
Speaker 6: on the on the tough question Fantasy Championship.
Speaker 2: You're an underdog, you try to split the pot with
Speaker 2: the other team.
Speaker 4: Church is having a tough a tough final team is hard?
Speaker 4: You know you've hit the rookie wall Church, Yeah, he
Speaker 4: sure has. The answer is of course. And I am
Speaker 4: super binary with this type of thing, Like if I
Speaker 4: think I have less than a fifty chance to win,
Speaker 4: I'm going to offer this foot every time it has
Speaker 4: free spin of the wheel to potentially win free implied value.
Speaker 4: Whereas if I think I even a fifty one percent chance,
Speaker 4: so when I will not split. But the last thing
Speaker 4: I want to say about this, you have to respect
Speaker 4: everyone's decision without question and exception when this topic comes up.
Speaker 6: No guilt trips, no follows, no reasoning.
Speaker 4: You're well within your reason or your rights to extend
Speaker 4: an offer or accept or to climb one on the
Speaker 4: other side, as is every person that you're playing with.
Speaker 6: This is a Golden rule type scenario. You freaking cowards.
Speaker 6: Stop it. You wouldn't. You don't split, ever, you don't split.
Speaker 2: Really, I never split. I never have either, but I
Speaker 2: always I think, go for it. Baby.
Speaker 5: Now I'm gonna just ask people to split money with me.
Speaker 2: No thor.
Speaker 6: You're right, you know, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know what money means to you versus what money
Speaker 2: means to Map versus jazz.
Speaker 4: Probably in a fifty team college fantas football league with
Speaker 4: no duplicates. It is the biggest fantasy league that I
Speaker 4: know of that does not have duplicate plate fifty.
Speaker 6: Yes, that's it's a fairly fairly large pot.
Speaker 4: And one year, unlike in my guillotine league against my coworkers,
Speaker 4: I'm made the championship in this, okay, And we we
Speaker 4: did a tiered split where it was like we we
Speaker 4: you know, sort of shortened the distance between first and second.
Speaker 6: We didn't.
Speaker 4: It was the winners still got the higher amount, but
Speaker 4: it was much closer. So sometimes you know, you know,
Speaker 4: we'll get into some negotiations. You want to keep the
Speaker 4: prize structure. We could we could do something here. You know,
Speaker 4: we're consenting adults.
Speaker 2: I say, go try to win. That's what I say. Go,
Speaker 2: you know, go go Hill Mary, go try to win.
Speaker 2: To get down Herb Brooks over there, Herb Brooks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh I like that.
Speaker 2: Going to my motivational speech just now.
Speaker 5: You're wearing a lake I mean, yeah, yeah, you sat.
Speaker 6: That one for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand. The Jets are taking on the Bills.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, they they sure are. Aaron Rodgers, We're gonna
Speaker 4: give him a bee. He needs one touchdown pass to
Speaker 4: become the fifth player in NFL history to to reach
Speaker 4: five hundred. I guess I struggled last week against the Rams.
Speaker 4: Just had just a shade south of fifteen fantasy points,
Speaker 4: dealing with an MCL injury in his knee.
Speaker 6: And also speaking of injuries.
Speaker 4: The Jets just placed their rookie left tackle of Shanto
Speaker 4: a foot injury on injured reserve outside. But I'm gonna
Speaker 4: give I'm gonna give Rogers a bee as I'm going
Speaker 4: to with Breecee Hall thirteen fantasy points in each of
Speaker 4: the last two games. The Bills have struggled against running
Speaker 4: backs all year, particularly guys that can catch the ball
Speaker 4: a little bit. Buffalo is top two in the NFL
Speaker 4: in catches allowed to running backs, receiving yards allowed to
Speaker 4: opposing running backs, and then total touchdowns given up two
Speaker 4: running backs, and overall, Buffalo's defense has allowed the third
Speaker 4: most fantasy points per game to running backs. So breesaw,
Speaker 4: I'll give a bee DeVante Adams. He's a mustard an
Speaker 4: automatic at this point.
Speaker 6: I think it just is what it is.
Speaker 4: Garrett Wilson, We're gonna give him a bee wide receiver
Speaker 4: fourteen in fantasy this year. He needs thirteen receiving yards
Speaker 4: to hit a thousand for the third straight season.
Speaker 2: But he's just getting smoked by Adams right now. And
Speaker 2: it's been this way for like five six weeks. He's
Speaker 2: just not getting any loucks charged.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you got to take the fight to the and
Speaker 4: that is what he did with the media this week,
Speaker 4: and he said that he wants more targets a.
Speaker 2: Good Yeah, sokey Wheel gets the grease.
Speaker 6: I don't think Rogers cares, though, right Like it's like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean maybe he tried to talk privately. He's like,
Speaker 6: maybe I'll try the media. I don't think Rogers cares.
Speaker 4: He has Rogers, to his credit's throwing the ball thirty
Speaker 4: three times so far his way Garrett Wilson's way in December.
Speaker 6: So but we'll get We'll give him a bet.
Speaker 4: And then I had to shout out Tyler as I
Speaker 4: call him Gronklin, Tyler Conklin.
Speaker 6: I gave him a c he during the middle of
Speaker 6: the season.
Speaker 4: Remember it was like he had the games in September
Speaker 4: where it was like ten targets and then like it
Speaker 4: was like the middle of the season. He like got
Speaker 4: phase out of the offense when they got Devanta. But
Speaker 4: the last three games, Conklin has been targeted seventeen times.
Speaker 4: In those three games, thirty plus receiving yards all three times.
Speaker 4: Last week was the Nader is an a deer, the
Speaker 4: bester is at the world. What's opposite of the deer?
Speaker 4: Apex apex The apex of those three games was last
Speaker 4: week against the Rams, five catches for fifty nine yards.
Speaker 4: We thank you rhetorician over there and Conklin. Gronklin is
Speaker 4: a flyer option if you are desperate moving over to
Speaker 4: the Bill's side. Josh all On a must art obvious
Speaker 4: James Cook b I was between A B and and
Speaker 4: A here one hundred and twenty six total yards and
Speaker 4: two touchdowns last week against the Patriots and over the
Speaker 4: past but over the past four weeks he is RB
Speaker 4: thirty and a thing that I love to look at
Speaker 4: now the Fantasy Life utilization score.
Speaker 6: Shout out to Dwayne even though you know he was
Speaker 6: I didn't mention it before.
Speaker 4: He's kind of mean to be on the show this week,
Speaker 4: but it's interesting to look at those metrics. Ty Johnson
Speaker 4: and Ray Davis have been stealing more field time. Cook
Speaker 4: this was really interesting.
Speaker 6: He has only played forty two percent of Buffalo's offensive
Speaker 6: snaps since the week twelve by but he has remained
Speaker 6: the fantasy asset by scoring sixteen touchdowns last year compared
Speaker 6: to six last year. Khalil Shakir b Last week.
Speaker 4: Shakiir had his second sub eight fantasy point showing in
Speaker 4: a game since Week seven, and I suppose third since
Speaker 4: Week six because that's when the Jets held him to
Speaker 4: two catches for nineteen yards. Shaki is at fewer than
Speaker 4: forty receiving yards in three of his last four, no
Speaker 4: more than eight targets in any of the last four games.
Speaker 4: The Jets have surrendered the fourth fewest fantasy points to
Speaker 4: wide receivers in the NFL. But I gave him a
Speaker 4: bee because I hate the other receivers here, and so
Speaker 4: I'm basically just you know, I do the thing with
Speaker 4: the Packers where I distribute my seas to all them.
Speaker 4: I'm going different with the Bells, and I'm gonna push
Speaker 4: all my chips to one of them because I'm gonna
Speaker 4: tell you to keep Amari Cooper, en key on Coleman
Speaker 4: on your bench. Yeah, Cooper won catch in the last
Speaker 4: two games combined. And then Coleman has been playing sixty
Speaker 4: plus percent of snaps last two games. Balls are not
Speaker 4: coming his way. And then also I want to say
Speaker 4: about that the Jets have the third best They have
Speaker 4: the third best per play defense in the NFL, but
Speaker 4: number one in preventing deep touchdown passes, and that is
Speaker 4: key on Coleman's kitchen bench for those Guysdlton Kinkada gave
Speaker 4: a c number seven amongst tight ends with a twenty
Speaker 4: one percent target cheer in the NFL.
Speaker 6: This year, despite but despite the Bills.
Speaker 4: Offense ranking second and touchdowns per game, Kinkaid only has
Speaker 4: two touchdowns himself. He has not had more than fifty
Speaker 4: three yards or thirteen fans fantasy points in any game
Speaker 4: this year, all right, he has a good seventy eight percent.
Speaker 4: He had a good seventy eight percent catch rate last year,
Speaker 4: but is dead last among NFL tight ends with a
Speaker 4: fifty eight percent catch rate this year, which means he
Speaker 4: needs to get an episode in our podcast series as well.
Speaker 4: We are going to investigate the appreciation.
Speaker 6: Of his ball skills.
Speaker 2: I love it. Speaking of ball skills, I think I've
Speaker 2: been asked about Jordan Addison and the Fantasy Championship as
Speaker 2: much as any player will break down Packers Vikings and
Speaker 2: whether you can start.
Speaker 6: Jordan Addison three to three baby game.
Speaker 2: When we come back to Fantasy Football Week for welcome back,
Speaker 2: a big block all matchups for you, beginning with the
Speaker 2: Packers taking on the Vikings. I want to start with
Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs, who'se He's just looks sensational. Everything Green Bay
Speaker 2: wanted in a late December running back They're getting from
Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs, and he had the luxury of taking the
Speaker 2: second half of last week's game off completely because the
Speaker 2: Saints were no threat. Minnesota's run defense has lapsed over
Speaker 2: the last month, and that was because their linebacker, Ivan Pace,
Speaker 2: their middle linebacker was on injured reserve. He's expected to
Speaker 2: be back for this game. And it's basically this. When
Speaker 2: Ivan Pace plays, the Vikings have the best run defense
Speaker 2: in the NFL. When he's out, they are right in
Speaker 2: the middle of the pack. Pace should come back here.
Speaker 2: That makes it much harder for Jacobs. But he's still
Speaker 2: Golman so well, and he's going to get a ton
Speaker 2: of caries. He's fresh legged. He's still an A grade
Speaker 2: in this game. The other A grade I've got for
Speaker 2: the Packers Jaden Reid. Now, you got to pick your
Speaker 2: spots with Reid right, because he gives you these like
Speaker 2: zero catchdows games.
Speaker 4: It's something I would never begin to see. And the
Speaker 4: rest of them beginning sees two.
Speaker 2: I think guts for this. The Vikings are getting killed
Speaker 2: in the slot. That's why I feel confident here. Eighty
Speaker 2: percent of Reeds routes are run from the slot. And
Speaker 2: here's what slot wide receivers have done to the Vikings
Speaker 2: in the last month. Jackson Smith and Jigba, Ray, Ray
Speaker 2: McLeod and Keenan Allen twice averaging thirteen targets, eight catches,
Speaker 2: ninety yards and almost a full touchdown apiece. This is
Speaker 2: a great opportunity. And in the earlier matchup between Minnesota
Speaker 2: and Green Bay, Jaden Reid seven catches one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty nine yards on a touchdown A grade Jayden Reid
Speaker 2: the other receivers that have letter grades here, it depends
Speaker 2: a little bit on a Christian Watson camp Kenner cannot
Speaker 2: play and he's shaping up as a game time decisions.
Speaker 2: You're gonna want to watch this one.
Speaker 6: But we think probably he's not trending towards is he.
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, I don't. I don't know. But if
Speaker 2: Watson is out, I like Dobbs a lot better, and
Speaker 2: that brings Dantavian Wickson as just a flyer. The Vikings
Speaker 2: do give up a lot. In fact, the most fantasy
Speaker 2: points to wide receivers Vikings, So there are opportunity he's here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Wicks scored twice in the earlier matchup. Dobbs targeted eight
Speaker 2: times in the earlier matchup against the Vikings. So if
Speaker 2: Watson is out, I like Dobbs and Wicks at C grades.
Speaker 2: If Watson comes in, I guess they could all get
Speaker 2: thorn istrom C grades. But you know, I don't like
Speaker 2: him as much.
Speaker 5: Thornstrom's patented sea grad.
Speaker 6: You gotta do the Oprah routine with the season.
Speaker 2: You'll get a se grade.
Speaker 6: Everybody gets.
Speaker 2: By the way, Alprah doesn't say you get a car.
Speaker 2: You get a car. You get a car, and I'll
Speaker 2: pay the taxes on the car. No, no, she never
Speaker 2: mentions the taxes. Sure, you get a car, but also
Speaker 2: we need six thousand dollars in cash for the taxes
Speaker 2: on your car.
Speaker 3: Come on.
Speaker 2: Oprah mentioned that.
Speaker 3: Absolutely you got gripes with Oprah giving away cars like
Speaker 3: fifteen years ago.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Still, it's just stuck in your crawl man. Yes, Tucker
Speaker 2: Craft expected to play through his hip injury. Vikings are
Speaker 2: a good tight end defense. They've only allowed one score
Speaker 2: since way back in week number four. Who scored on
Speaker 2: the vikings in Week four?
Speaker 5: Tucker Tucker Craft?
Speaker 2: You got it yep. Nine targets, six catches, fifty three
Speaker 2: yards and the aforementioned touchdown For Craft, he has topped
Speaker 2: a twenty two percent target rate in three of the
Speaker 2: last four games remaining involved in this offense. He comes
Speaker 2: into the C grade here as well, and so that
Speaker 2: leaves us the Jordan love I've given his receivers. A's
Speaker 2: and three or four C grades. So I've got a
Speaker 2: B grade on Jordan Love. Now, his fantasy production has
Speaker 2: been pretty bad for the last basically two months, but
Speaker 2: it's because the Packers are Steamers, they're all these other teams.
Speaker 2: He's averaging just twenty five passes per game.
Speaker 6: His efficiency numbers are great, though they are past right, and.
Speaker 2: So presumably if the twenty five passes turns into say,
Speaker 2: thirty six against ay of the Vikings in which should
Speaker 2: be a back and forth night fight, that should put
Speaker 2: Love in a really good spot here.
Speaker 6: And he's healthy this.
Speaker 4: Time and he is well, yeah compared to the yeah
Speaker 4: hewas boy was he gimpy that last mon super game.
Speaker 2: Probably shouldn't have four hundred yards and four touchdowns, but
Speaker 2: he sure didn't. Yeah, So B grade on Jordan Love.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the Vikings justin Jefferson obvious A grade,
Speaker 2: but let me mention this, potentially the Packers are going
Speaker 2: to be there, definitely without two of their starting members
Speaker 2: of their secondary j R. Alexander has been ruled out
Speaker 2: and their safety Evan Williams ruled out, and they're waiting
Speaker 2: to find out on safety Slock Corner Hybrid Bullard Javon Bullard.
Speaker 2: He's shaping up as a game time decision, so there
Speaker 2: could be some real opportunities for both Jordan Addison and
Speaker 2: Jordan Did I say Justin jeff Justph Jefferson and Jordan Addison.
Speaker 2: There we go Addison since week eleven, you guys want
Speaker 2: to get you want to guess in Fantasy points scored,
Speaker 2: where Jordan Addison ranks among wide receivers since week eleven?
Speaker 6: Free three. I'm gonna say three three. You nail this.
Speaker 2: It is free three favor three, free three higher than
Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 3: It's amazing the exact moment in our in our Empire
Speaker 3: League that I traded away Jordan Addison and Bryce Young,
Speaker 3: their careers just magically became since since I.
Speaker 2: Was on the receiving end of that's going to win the.
Speaker 4: League, and Kenny Pickett was on the receiving end of
Speaker 4: a first round selection because of Jordan Verson Addison.
Speaker 6: That's a great part. I mean, we brought it up
Speaker 6: for Evans and Mansell. We had to bring that full circle.
Speaker 2: Adison's separation skills are becoming incredible and he's getting open
Speaker 2: a lot, and like Jefferson, he runs from all parts
Speaker 2: of the field. That puts him on all of the
Speaker 2: Packers cornerbacks who are all good and Keishawn Nixon's improved
Speaker 2: a lot, but none of them are dominating. H Nixon
Speaker 2: allowing an eighty two percent catch rate since returning to
Speaker 2: slot coverage two games ago. It's unclear if he's going
Speaker 2: to be in the slaughter. He's going to be outside
Speaker 2: for this game. Nevertheless, Addison's become a very safe start
Speaker 2: and he gets a B grade staying with receivers.
Speaker 3: T J.
Speaker 2: Hockinson still hasn't scored, and he's been pretty quiet since
Speaker 2: his return. Overall, I thought we'd have more production out
Speaker 2: of him. The Packers generally give up good games to
Speaker 2: high end tight ends. Smith George Kittle, Dray McBride, Sam
Speaker 2: Laporta twice averaged six catches seventy five yards, and TJ.
Speaker 2: Hockinson's right in the ballpark with those guys six and
Speaker 2: seventy five would be great. I've got a C grade
Speaker 2: on TJ. Hawkins.
Speaker 6: I would go even higher.
Speaker 2: I go be great.
Speaker 6: I think I go be He wasn't in the first one.
Speaker 4: I think he's a big difference here because this is
Speaker 4: an area where you can exploit the Packers pass defense.
Speaker 4: Hawkinson didn't play in the first one. Now he's full speed.
Speaker 4: All the targets have been going. I mean Addison now
Speaker 4: at the beginning of the season was all Jefferson. Everyone's
Speaker 4: complaining about it. I feel like you can go a
Speaker 4: little bit against tendency. Here more targets to Hawkinson.
Speaker 6: He can do some damage.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, B great TJ. Hawkinson. That last part
Speaker 2: of the passing game of Sam Donald. The Packers' secondary
Speaker 2: looks invincible on paper, but they have faced some dreadful
Speaker 2: quarterbacking Spencer Rattler. They got a third of a game
Speaker 2: on Sam Howell, Brandon Allen. They had Tula in a
Speaker 2: frigid game in which Tula all just wanted to get
Speaker 2: on the team less and go home. Donald is our PIB,
Speaker 2: the best passer the Packers have seen all year, and
Speaker 2: he went for two seventy five and three in the
Speaker 2: earlier meeting and over the past six weeks, Sam Donald
Speaker 2: fifteen touchdowns, one interception. He's playing great. I've got a
Speaker 2: B grade on Sam Donald in this game. That leaves
Speaker 2: us with Aaron Jones. He put up one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty nine yards in the earlier revenge game with Green
Speaker 2: Bay in Green Bay. But the Packers run defense has
Speaker 2: been very good lately, way better than it was earlier
Speaker 2: in the season. Over the past six weeks, green Bay
Speaker 2: ranks number six in run defense success rate, number six
Speaker 2: in yards per carry aloud, and number three in yards
Speaker 2: after contact allowed. Now, fortunately, Aaron Jones gets most of
Speaker 2: the workload, and he has scored in four of the
Speaker 2: last five games, and over the last five weeks, the
Speaker 2: Packers have allowed the most running back receptions. I want
Speaker 2: to think that we're finally going to get Aaron Jones
Speaker 2: on a big receiving game like we have not seen
Speaker 2: all season long. All right, Matt, let's go to the
Speaker 2: Titans taking on the Jaguars. We've already hit a bunch
Speaker 2: of take a chance on me guys out of this matchup,
Speaker 2: including Mason Rudolph. You're taking chance on me quarterback?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And Chicka Konquo was my take a chance on
Speaker 3: me tight end. Calvin Ridley startable two in the passing game,
Speaker 3: I'll throw a see his way had seventy eight yards
Speaker 3: in a score last week while Rudolph was just chucking
Speaker 3: balls against the Colts and the Jags are the worst
Speaker 3: pass defense out there. They're allowing one hundred and seventy
Speaker 3: four receiving yards per game to wide receivers. That's the
Speaker 3: third most in the league. Most of that goes to Ridley.
Speaker 3: I like Ridley with the C. Tony Pollard hasn't practiced.
Speaker 5: Yet this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a bad sign, which would be fantastic if
Speaker 3: you're a Taija Spears guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And by the way, we have audio of the spear
Speaker 2: right there. Well, that's the spear that it's going to
Speaker 2: go right through your opponent's heart.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So if Pollard doesn't play, taij Spears is a B
Speaker 3: grade and it's close to an A grade. Spears has
Speaker 3: scored four times in the last two weeks. Problem is
Speaker 3: he's trailing in touch totals to the dinged up Pollard
Speaker 3: by quite a bit. So if Pollard does go, I
Speaker 3: think you can give them both C grades, but they're
Speaker 3: closer to bench grades than C grades. The Jags are
Speaker 3: one of the easiest matchups in the league. Their bottom
Speaker 3: ten in every category against runners. The only thing that
Speaker 3: can stop the Titans backs is Tony Pollard playing hurt
Speaker 3: on the Jag side. Tank Bigsby was charged to take
Speaker 3: a chance on me runner, and I'm leaving Travis Etn
Speaker 3: on the bench. Etn had more snaps than Bigsby last week,
Speaker 3: but fewer rushing attempts. That doesn't bode well for the
Speaker 3: split there. So I think the only member of the
Speaker 3: passing game that you can consider starting is Brian Thomas Junior,
Speaker 3: who out of all the wide receivers, is he the
Speaker 3: best of them?
Speaker 5: Of these rookie wide receivers.
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas by a margin? Yeah, I don't think. I
Speaker 2: don't think you can make a case for any other
Speaker 2: rookie receiver, I mean, outside of Jalen Coker, other than
Speaker 2: Jale Hooker.
Speaker 3: Malik Nighbors had a really good start but has tailed
Speaker 3: off as soon as the quarterbacking went away. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: but twenty seven targets in the last two week double
Speaker 3: digit targets and four straight for Brian Thomas Junior, four
Speaker 3: touchdowns in the last four games, and two straight one
Speaker 3: hundred yard weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's doing it with Mac Jones. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh. Three weeks ago he played these Titans where he
Speaker 3: had eight and eighty six. This is basically since Trevor
Speaker 3: Lawrence went down. Mac Jones only has eyes for BTJ
Speaker 3: with no X in there. He's an A grade and
Speaker 3: the only guy in the Jags passing game you can start.
Speaker 2: All right, Thor Dallas Cowboys taking in the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 2: No Ceedee Lamb. This takes most of my interest out
Speaker 2: of the away from the Dallas Cowboys offense. You already
Speaker 2: told us you take a chance on your running back
Speaker 2: was Rico Doubtles even you didn't very well. Is there
Speaker 2: any other part of the passing game you're interested in?
Speaker 2: Brandon Cooks is going to get more looks.
Speaker 5: Jalen tok is.
Speaker 2: Gonna get more looks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean Cooper Rush is on the bench. Shout
Speaker 4: out Max in there though, and then I did, Okay,
Speaker 4: I gave sees to Cooks in Ferguson. I'm gonna make
Speaker 4: the case for you guys, and if you want to,
Speaker 4: you want to throw tomatoes at mean, that's fine.
Speaker 6: Cooks.
Speaker 4: Of course, the wide receiver one with Ceede Lamb out
Speaker 4: year shoulder injury. Last seven games, almost ten targets per
Speaker 4: game for Ceede Lamb. Those must be distributed now. Cook
Speaker 4: played the most naps of the non Lamb wide receivers
Speaker 4: last week three targets, forty eight receiving yards. Has at
Speaker 4: least three targets for sherre games those are going up.
Speaker 4: Eagles have been the eighth worst matchup for fantasy wide receivers,
Speaker 4: but gonna have to put the ball in the ear
Speaker 4: sometime and for that reason also going Jake Ferguson a
Speaker 4: seed tight end twenty six for the year, only three
Speaker 4: point eight fantasy points per game with Cooper Rush starting,
Speaker 4: and the Eagles are a tough matchup for tight ends
Speaker 4: and Ferguson only had twenty four yards against him in
Speaker 4: the first game, and he also fumbled the ball.
Speaker 6: I know I'm not doing a good job of selling again, but.
Speaker 2: No, you're really not.
Speaker 4: Tight ends up at thirty seven or less receiving yards
Speaker 4: against the Eagles in two thirds of the games that
Speaker 4: they have played.
Speaker 6: But but but here's a big buy dot dot. Ferguson
Speaker 6: had nine targets last week, his most since early November.
Speaker 4: And what a time for Rush to start looking that
Speaker 4: way with lamb out. Could more targets be coming that away?
Speaker 4: We'll shoot at sea over that way. We will not
Speaker 4: be giving a letter grade to Kenny Pick who again
Speaker 4: pos a lot of money to Jordan Addison. Yeah, Kenny
Speaker 4: Pickett's going to get the call here. I'm still giving
Speaker 4: Saquon Barkley and A. J. Brown their A mustards even
Speaker 4: with Pickett running the show. Brown had fifteen point seven
Speaker 4: Fantasy points last week with Pickett mostly running the show.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man I Pickett looked bad, but he
Speaker 2: all but the focused on Brown and Smith.
Speaker 4: So maybe if they can bring in Jordan Addison over
Speaker 4: these and help him out. Shout out Pitt Panthers. DeVonta Smith,
Speaker 4: the last one here, collegiate receiver of Mac Jones. We
Speaker 4: were just talking about. I gave Davanta see that. This
Speaker 4: is how I tacked it down without hurts against the Commanders.
Speaker 4: Smith did having you know his defense, I guess six
Speaker 4: catches fifty one yards, eight targets. Cowboys are the ninth
Speaker 4: best matchup for Fantasy wide receivers. But Smith struggled in
Speaker 4: this first game against Dallas two catches for fourteen yards,
Speaker 4: and now of course he's going to have to replay
Speaker 4: them with Kenny Pickett full game.
Speaker 2: Well, dron Bland is back. He's playing great. Last week,
Speaker 2: had a fantastic game against Mike Evans and physical on
Speaker 2: physical cornerback versus wide receiver. I'm interested in what's gonna
Speaker 2: happen with Deron Bland who shadowed again shadowed A J.
Speaker 6: Brown? Does he does?
Speaker 2: Does he shadow A J. Brown?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 2: And then does that ultimately hurt AJ Brown a little bit?
Speaker 2: We'll see, Yeah, dog Fright got some concern about that
Speaker 2: little bit. Yeah, let's take a break when we come back.
Speaker 2: Two matchups left in our season. Unhievable that we're at
Speaker 2: this stage already. Wow, just two matchups left? Have I
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Speaker 4: Charge you and I we get deep on those prospects
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Speaker 6: Gonna be no stone left unturned.
Speaker 2: You do such a great job and it's been so
Speaker 2: good having you in the Fantasy Football Weekly family. Thor.
Speaker 2: I can honestly say last year I was way way
Speaker 2: smarter on rookies because I just gravy trained most of
Speaker 2: your takes.
Speaker 4: And I got a lot of texts from Charge, like
Speaker 4: late at night about what do you think about this
Speaker 4: guy's game?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 4: And I'm watching this guy right now against Washington, Like,
Speaker 4: what do you think about him right now?
Speaker 5: And I appreciate thor because I don't have to work
Speaker 5: in the spring.
Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't that much every position?
Speaker 6: Baby?
Speaker 5: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: And while I'm talking about my co host, let me
Speaker 2: mention this and I like to I like to say
Speaker 2: this at the in the last show of every year,
Speaker 2: I ask a lot of my co hosts the time
Speaker 2: and effort that goes into putting together these matchups. I know, listeners,
Speaker 2: you can appreciate it. These are all these crazy esoteric stats.
Speaker 2: Nobody shows up and wings it on this show. All
Speaker 2: the preparation that goes into this is very, very demanding.
Speaker 2: It's time consuming. And I am very grateful to my
Speaker 2: co hosts, mank you for Scott Fish, Brian Johnson for
Speaker 2: the off season stuff, and he helped out with a
Speaker 2: handful of shows in season as well. It is an
Speaker 2: honor to work with you guys, and thank you so
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Speaker 6: This feelings visual the end of.
Speaker 5: Year thirteen for me.
Speaker 2: Wow, thirteen, yep, sees you were just a pup when
Speaker 2: you started.
Speaker 6: Is this just year two for me? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's year two for you.
Speaker 6: You know what, it is for me.
Speaker 2: I'm ending your thirty wow, thirty three zero three zero, whoa,
Speaker 2: I'm catching up to half of the years with you.
Speaker 6: You are.
Speaker 2: It's a good point catch you. I was Jack's age
Speaker 2: when I started this thing. Crazy good heavens, Miami taking
Speaker 2: on the Cleveland Browns. This isn't the way I thought
Speaker 2: I'd go out DTR, but this is it. Let's start
Speaker 2: with the Miami side. It's some more compelling matchup for sure.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go in a grade on Tyree Kill in
Speaker 2: this easy matchup here, and I have been a Hill
Speaker 2: skeptic all seasons. I was nervous about everything we saw
Speaker 2: earlier in the season. He remains a focal point of
Speaker 2: the Dolphins wide receiver group, and we don't know for
Speaker 2: sure if Jalen Watda's gonna play it, and especially he
Speaker 2: doesn't play, He'll probably continues to be a focal point
Speaker 2: of this Brown's Secondary's just fallen off a cliff over
Speaker 2: the past month. The Browns rank bottom five in wide
Speaker 2: receiver receptions allowed, wide receiver yards allowed, and wide receiver
Speaker 2: touchdowns allowed. If Tyreek Hill, if not, now when a
Speaker 2: grade and I'm happy to say a grade for John Ujohnu.
Speaker 2: Since Week seven, John Smith is tight end one. I
Speaker 2: can't even I can't believe I'm saying this. He has
Speaker 2: avoided a dud game in six straight which tight ends
Speaker 2: do dud games all the time. Not John Oujnu. He
Speaker 2: is the Doelphins single most reliable player at any position.
Speaker 2: Cleveland is a bottom ten fantasy tight end defense. In
Speaker 2: the last six Browns games, they've given up six different
Speaker 2: fantasy relevant games to opposing tight ends. Pretty Much everybody
Speaker 2: who should have a good game against Cleveland at the
Speaker 2: tight end position does.
Speaker 6: I just I checked my sports book while you were
Speaker 6: talking there.
Speaker 4: Just cash a ticket a two leg parlay that Tank
Speaker 4: Bigsby would be your last week, take a chance on
Speaker 4: you guy, and that you would also give John Husmith
Speaker 4: a grade of bay. It looks like it was fourteen.
Speaker 4: It was fourteen to one. Yeah, yeah, brought that one.
Speaker 2: Home, nicely done. Staying with the passing game, I mentioned
Speaker 2: Jalen Wattle. If he does go, you could pick him
Speaker 2: up because the Browns secondary, as I just mentioned, has
Speaker 2: fallen apart. And by the way, number two receivers crushing
Speaker 2: the Browns in five straight games. Number two receivers have
Speaker 2: scored touchdowns against the Browns, and a lot had been
Speaker 2: surging before his Week fifteen knee injury. So he comes
Speaker 2: back here. C grade on Jalen Wattle, and that brings
Speaker 2: us to Tua in the passing game. I've got the
Speaker 2: two A grades I mentioned, I've got the C grade
Speaker 2: for Wattle, so I'm giving him a B grade. He's
Speaker 2: the perfect quarterback to start if you're an underdog coming
Speaker 2: into your matchup. Maybe you played against Derrick Henry, Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 2: Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes. He's got some big upside here.
Speaker 2: He's got three and four touchdown upside in this game.
Speaker 2: And this is a Brown defense that's allowed passing touchdowns
Speaker 2: and eleven straight and multiple touchdowns nine times this year.
Speaker 2: That might be our final nine time in the right there,
Speaker 2: let's go to the Brown side. Oh boy, well, Jerome
Speaker 2: Ford get this. The last two weeks with Nick Chubb hurt,
Speaker 2: Jerome Ford is running back eight and running back nine
Speaker 2: the last two weeks. Who to guests didn't see that coming,
Speaker 2: getting nearly all the workload for Cleveland, and they really
Speaker 2: do not want to put the ball into Dorian Thompson
Speaker 2: Robinson's hands Unfortunately, Miami's turned into a great run defense
Speaker 2: over the past eight games, which is a pretty long
Speaker 2: sample size. No back is top sixty two yards against Miami.
Speaker 2: The average result for a starting runner against Miami over
Speaker 2: those past eight games thirty three rushing yards, thirty receiving yards,
Speaker 2: and point one touchdown. So just to see great on
Speaker 2: Jerome Ford, even though he had been hot. As for
Speaker 2: the rest of the receivers, they're all on the bench
Speaker 2: except one guy, David and Jok, who's been ruled out.
Speaker 2: If you need a crazy dart throw Jordan Akins because
Speaker 2: no dtr does nothing but target is tight ends. Last
Speaker 2: week David and Jok who got forty two percent of
Speaker 2: the targets, and good tight ends hammer the Dolphins as
Speaker 2: we saw last week with George Kettle Well, obviously Gege
Speaker 2: Kittle's a million times better than Jordan Akans, but still
Speaker 2: a few weeks before that, Tucker Craft seventy eight yards,
Speaker 2: before that brock Bowers one hundred and twenty six yards.
Speaker 2: I look, it's a total long chop. But if you're
Speaker 2: in a desperate spot, Jordan Akins.
Speaker 3: If you picked up Jordan Akins and started him and
Speaker 3: won a championship based on charges advice right there.
Speaker 5: You deserve a tip on that one.
Speaker 2: I deserve it.
Speaker 5: Yees, you deserve it.
Speaker 6: Charge.
Speaker 4: Do you speaking of the Cleveland Browns passing game, did
Speaker 4: you know that Dorian Thompson Robinson was a backup in
Speaker 4: high school?
Speaker 6: Even started he did not? And do you know who
Speaker 6: he backed up?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 4: This was a Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas
Speaker 4: Powerhouse High School. He backed up one of the great
Speaker 4: recruiting bus that we have had in the last twenty
Speaker 4: years in college football, a guy named Tate martel.
Speaker 2: Oh I remember hearing the name.
Speaker 4: Yes, Dorian thoms Robbinson has had like the strangest career.
Speaker 4: He was a backup in high school, but he because
Speaker 4: of the tools, he was a high recruit and Chip
Speaker 4: Kelly got him coming out of high school, started him immediately.
Speaker 6: At UCLA and all throughout and disaster. Yeah. How many?
Speaker 4: How many times you get the backup high school kid
Speaker 4: that then starts every snap of his college career essentially.
Speaker 2: Falls into the NFL crazy So dtr a non functional passer.
Speaker 2: In two hundred and three NFL dropbacks, he has one
Speaker 2: touchdown and nine interceptions.
Speaker 6: Nine How do you do that.
Speaker 2: The NFL have a one to nine touchdown to interception.
Speaker 6: He was carrying the clipboard for Tate Martell in high school.
Speaker 2: Understand.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Over the past two years, DTR has the NFL's worst
Speaker 2: passer rating. And I believe I've got this stat correctly.
Speaker 2: It came by my ex feet a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2: Over the past twenty five years, DTR has the worst
Speaker 2: average passing distance three point three yards per pass.
Speaker 6: They maybe try Tatemartell, you know he I mean, you
Speaker 6: went to Ohio States. You know it's closet.
Speaker 5: Jilix Spurgeon win is a better choice.
Speaker 2: You might be right now?
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 2: Final matchup of the year Detroit Lions taking on the
Speaker 2: San Francisco forty nine Ers.
Speaker 3: Jamiir Gibbs gets an A grade. The David Montgomery injury
Speaker 3: is going to prove to be a league winner for
Speaker 3: Gibbs owners the once amazing Niners run defense, not that
Speaker 3: this year, opposing backs averaging twenty eight touches, one hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty two conboy yards and just over a touchdown
Speaker 3: per game. Almost all of that goes to Gibbs, and
Speaker 3: he's probably better.
Speaker 5: Than most of the opponents.
Speaker 3: The Niners have seen this year not as easy for
Speaker 3: the passing game, though, Jared Goff facing a really good
Speaker 3: Niners pass defense. They're only allowing one hundred and ninety
Speaker 3: five passing yards and just over one passing score per game. Now,
Speaker 3: weather shouldn't be a factor in an outdoor game. For golf,
Speaker 3: it's supposed to be like like low to mid fifties
Speaker 3: during the game and fair weather. So I'll still give
Speaker 3: Goff a B. But this one's closer to a C
Speaker 3: than it is to an A. From the slot a Monross,
Speaker 3: Saint Brown will go up against Diamador Lenoi. That's a
Speaker 3: tough matchup, it's a great matchup. Lenor hasn't allowed a
Speaker 3: touchdown in four hundred and seventy nine coverage snaps.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: He's been the Niners' best cover corner by far, allowing
Speaker 3: only thirty five yards per game. But something's got to
Speaker 3: give because Saint Brown has scored in ten to fifteen
Speaker 3: games this season and he's averaging seventy five yards per contest. Overall,
Speaker 3: the Niners top five and receptions, yards and touchdowns allowed
Speaker 3: to wide receivers. So I'll still gave Saint Brown a
Speaker 3: B grade simply because I respect what he does too much.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna leave Jamison Williams on the bench, though, despite
Speaker 3: the explosive output last week, I don't think I can
Speaker 3: trust it this week.
Speaker 2: Sam Laporta gets a C.
Speaker 3: He's been much better in the latter half the season,
Speaker 3: but hardly an auto start. San Francisco has allowed one
Speaker 3: tight end touchdown in the last ten games and no
Speaker 3: tight end his top sixty six yards against them this season.
Speaker 3: It would take a real high volume day for Laporta
Speaker 3: hit double digit PPR points, and he has had seven,
Speaker 3: ten and seven targets in the last three weeks, so
Speaker 3: he does get a C grade to start here. On
Speaker 3: the other side, we'll start with the tight end George Kittle.
Speaker 3: He's had one stinker this year. This has the ability
Speaker 3: to be a second. The Lions are the best tight
Speaker 3: end defense in the league, with the fewest receptions and
Speaker 3: fewest yards allowed to the position. And it's insane because
Speaker 3: they don't have any defenders left. All their linebackers are gone.
Speaker 2: Those slats Man earlier in the year.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: They have allowed touchdowns to a tight end twice in
Speaker 3: the last three weeks, though, so I can't go lower
Speaker 3: than a B grade on Kittle, but I will acknowledge
Speaker 3: that this is his toughest task in a long time
Speaker 3: since all of the running backs got hurt. Deebo Samuel
Speaker 3: has become more of a scatback than anything. He's had
Speaker 3: twelve carries in the last three weeks. Patrick Taylor has
Speaker 3: had fifteen carries in the last three weeks. As a
Speaker 3: wide receiver, he faces a juicy matchup as the lines
Speaker 3: have allowed the second most receptions and yards to wide receivers.
Speaker 3: Rookie Terry and Arnold has missed all week with an illness,
Speaker 3: but should likely play on Monday.
Speaker 2: And honestly, he's just been okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's allowed four touchdowns in his coverage this year,
Speaker 3: but he's one of the last actual corners the Lions have.
Speaker 3: Amiek robertson Man's the slot most often. He's along twelve
Speaker 3: and a half yards per catch, which is a ton
Speaker 3: from the slot.
Speaker 5: So B grade for Debo. I'll even give a B.
Speaker 3: Grade to Juan Jennings here because it's probably a pass happy.
Speaker 5: Game for the Niners.
Speaker 3: If I have bes on all the receivers, it's a
Speaker 3: bee for Brock Perdy, even though he's looked iffy with
Speaker 3: accuracy for over the last few weeks. From a volume
Speaker 3: standpoint alone, he should be able to make it work.
Speaker 3: Though the Niners are out of running backs. The game
Speaker 3: script favors the Niners passing, and they got to pass
Speaker 3: at least forty times, which is exactly what he did
Speaker 3: last week. He had three, thirteen and two last week.
Speaker 3: It's plausible that Perdy and Debo will be the top
Speaker 3: two rushing producers for the forty nine ers as well.
Speaker 3: So b grade on Brock and don't start a San
Speaker 3: Francisco runner.
Speaker 5: It's come to this.
Speaker 3: Isaac Garendo has a shot to play this week, but
Speaker 3: he's been limited all week with a hamstring and this
Speaker 3: is a Monday night game, ninety minutes before the last
Speaker 3: game in your championship week. Are you going to feel
Speaker 3: comfortable switching from Isaac Garendo to Simone Vaki or Patrick Taylor.
Speaker 3: You will not feel comfortable about that. The matchup is
Speaker 3: also terrible. Lions are top six and almost every metric
Speaker 3: against the run. Don't start a San Francisco runner.
Speaker 2: Do not start a San Francisco I'm with you on that.
Speaker 2: Don't do it. It's come to this for the forty
Speaker 2: nine ers, unfortunately in a loss.
Speaker 5: Now McCaffrey will be back last next year.
Speaker 2: And we got a couple minutes at the end of this,
Speaker 2: at the end of this segment and this show, let
Speaker 2: me hit you with this, Jade and Daniels next year,
Speaker 2: it's not gonna be QB one, That'll be Lamar Jackson
Speaker 2: or Josh Allen. Probably where do you think he fits
Speaker 2: into people's drafts next year? Jade and Daniels will be
Speaker 2: QB what in fantasy drafts?
Speaker 3: Well, considering that people are going to draft Jackson and
Speaker 3: Allen one and two and they're looking at those guys going, oh,
Speaker 3: we get that rushing upside too, Als is going to
Speaker 3: be pretty high. He's going to be a top five
Speaker 3: quarterback in most drafts next year.
Speaker 6: Three free three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he goes ahead of Hurtz.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't think I could do it just because it
Speaker 2: hurts gets me twelve rushing touchdowns every year. It's true,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know if I can turn my
Speaker 2: back on twelve rushing touchdowns out of my quarterback.
Speaker 6: We're going to get a jump from Jaden next year.
Speaker 2: You think so rushing jump, Yes, I don't know. I
Speaker 2: think you'll go for me. It's going to be quarterback four.
Speaker 2: In my King Shadan Daniels, I believe he'll be quarterback
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