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Speaker 1: host today. Good morning guys, Good morning, many teams. You
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Speaker 1: exert maximum efforts to round up votes. Really it's a
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Speaker 1: rusted nuts, got it. I can just sense the ratings
Speaker 1: plummeting right now. Yeah, probably cut. We've got all kinds
Speaker 1: of good stuff to get to though. Over the course
Speaker 1: of the show, of course, take a chance on me.
Speaker 1: We'll give you nine players you can start that you
Speaker 1: normally would, many of whom are on the waiver wire.
Speaker 1: You can also play along with three hot questions, premature
Speaker 1: speculation and the final premature speculation of the year coming
Speaker 1: right here this week, and then Lightning round of course,
Speaker 1: and all of the matchups, including Pittsburgh taking on Denver. Brian,
Speaker 1: the the whole home road thing for Ben still it's
Speaker 1: a little up in the air right now. Overall, he's
Speaker 1: been better on the road this year, hasn't had like
Speaker 1: the massive explosive games that he typically gets at home,
Speaker 1: but hasn't had the dreadful games either. And then last
Speaker 1: week's had to light out because for three and a
Speaker 1: half quarters he was awful, awful, and then he ends
Speaker 1: up with two passing touchdowns and a rushing touchdown and
Speaker 1: puts himself into a good position for a solid fantasy
Speaker 1: day on the road last week. Now he gets Denver.
Speaker 1: What do you make of Ben Roethlisberger this week? Uh?
Speaker 1: Safer floor than normal on the road. It feels like
Speaker 1: for all the reasons you mentioned, Uh, he seems to
Speaker 1: at least come away with two fifty and two on
Speaker 1: the road and passed there's like one eight and one
Speaker 1: and three interceptions. So guys like Patrick Mahomes, Deshaun Watson,
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers averaging over three five yards and two and
Speaker 1: a half touchdowns against Denver recently. Uh, Ben's still of
Speaker 1: that ilk, even on the road. So I'll give him
Speaker 1: a solid B here. Uh, mainly because I just absolutely
Speaker 1: well of Antonio Brown this week. Everyone loves Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: every week, but this feels like the week where he's
Speaker 1: gonna go double digit receptions for a hundred yards and
Speaker 1: maybe a crooked number in terms of touchdowns. Possibly, Yes,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get Bradley Roby and Tremaine Brock on the outside,
Speaker 1: who are not they are no a key to lead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So Denver secondary is a thing of the past, so
Speaker 1: easy a for Brown. But Juju Smith Schues Juju Smith
Speaker 1: Schuster not so much. I'm gonna give him a sea
Speaker 1: here because he will see Chris Harris, who is still
Speaker 1: the best slot corner in the NFL. Juju run sev
Speaker 1: routes from the slot, so he has the toughest matchup.
Speaker 1: I'm just giving him a sea here. Uh. Harris has
Speaker 1: allowed just thirty four catches for three D sixty yards
Speaker 1: on fifty six targets all season, So not a good
Speaker 1: matchup for Juju. Better matchup for Vans McDonald though, giving
Speaker 1: him a B opposing tight ends or averaging sixty plus
Speaker 1: R for a game against Denver, and the Broncos have
Speaker 1: also allowed a tight end touchdown in each of their
Speaker 1: last three games, So Mike and Vance here he gets
Speaker 1: a B and only given James Connery be Denver is
Speaker 1: actually uh kind of gotten tough against running backs recently,
Speaker 1: allowing just under three yards per carry over the last
Speaker 1: four games, just one combined total touchdown to running backs
Speaker 1: during that span too, And uh, Connor is cooled off
Speaker 1: now that he doesn't have to throw about Levon Bell.
Speaker 1: Bell is out of the picture. So Connor now now
Speaker 1: he's gonna tank. He's on an autopilot. But just over
Speaker 1: hundred twenty combo yards over the last two games for Connor,
Speaker 1: so he has cooled down. Not an amazing matchups, Just
Speaker 1: to be for him here over to the Denver side,
Speaker 1: just to be for Philip Lindsay. Pittsburgh has been very
Speaker 1: tough against running backs all season. No loan back had
Speaker 1: topped eighty five combo yards against the Steelers until Leonard
Speaker 1: Fournette and Christian McCaffrey both did it in each of
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. Lindsay is borderline in that territory,
Speaker 1: but he's still saw startable. I'm justsna give him a
Speaker 1: soft be here. But Davante Freeman from Sorry Royce Freeman,
Speaker 1: DeVante Booker easily on the bench. H Emmanuel Sanders borderline
Speaker 1: bench greade for me in this one, even in a
Speaker 1: revenge game against his old team, his Steelers. But Sanders
Speaker 1: has been held scoreless in three straight hasn't topped sixty
Speaker 1: yards in that span, and he gets Mike Hilton, who's
Speaker 1: another great slot cornerback, maybe one b to Chris Harris
Speaker 1: when hers the slot corners. Uh. He's allowed just twelve
Speaker 1: yards per twelve yards per game in his coverage over
Speaker 1: the last six games something, and hasn't allowed to touchdown
Speaker 1: all seasons. So I do not like Sanders. I will
Speaker 1: give him a see though. He's a tough guy to
Speaker 1: sit as a primary receiver in a game where Denver
Speaker 1: probably chasing points. But Courtland Sutton on the bench has
Speaker 1: yet the top three catches in a single game all year,
Speaker 1: and he faces a resurgent Joe Dare we call him
Speaker 1: Iron Hayden again? He's been very good this ye her
Speaker 1: Joe Hayden, absolutely so, Sutton on the bench. Love him
Speaker 1: long term dyansty keeper leagues, but he's on the bench
Speaker 1: this week. Jeff Hoyerman, our boy, Jeff Berman. Is it
Speaker 1: Hierman tier? I like human? Well, it looks like it
Speaker 1: ought to be Hoyerman. There's no eye in it, but
Speaker 1: it's Hireman. Tricky tricky Hireman. Anyway. Pittsburgh ranks against tight
Speaker 1: ends by football outsiders, allowing more than sixty five yards
Speaker 1: per game to the position. Sadly, Hireman's birthday is not
Speaker 1: on Sunday, but guess when it is Monday, this very moment,
Speaker 1: it's today. Shall we celebrating? Shall we sink the Hireman?
Speaker 1: Happy birthday to you? Case Keenum Jeff Hireman on the
Speaker 1: bench though, Sadly, I mean when you only really like
Speaker 1: Hireman as a pass catcher for a football team, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna start the quarterback. And that would be case
Speaker 1: Keenum on the bench. On the bench chart you got
Speaker 1: some pipes over there. Well, I don't show him off offen,
Speaker 1: but I can do it. Yeah, it helps if it's
Speaker 1: morning and everything's sort of gravelly, and yeah that it
Speaker 1: works better that way. Actually, let's go to Jacksonville taking
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Matt h The Jaguars offense better with Leonard Fournett,
Speaker 1: who has been solid in his two games. This is
Speaker 1: kind of a sneaky, tough matchup with a decent Buffalo
Speaker 1: run defense. What do you make of Leonard four Nette today?
Speaker 1: We're gonna try to get out of this matchup as
Speaker 1: quick as we got into it. Leonard Fournette gets an
Speaker 1: A grade. He had thirty touches last week against the
Speaker 1: Steelers again, another huge touch total was a twenty nine
Speaker 1: the week before. I think, uh. Only one running back
Speaker 1: has had more than fifteen touches against the Bills this year.
Speaker 1: That was Marlon Mack. He ended up with a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty nine combo yards and two touchdowns, so four
Speaker 1: nets an easy a Blake Bortles and the rest of
Speaker 1: the passing game is on the bench. Five out of
Speaker 1: the last six quarterbacks the Bills have faced have been
Speaker 1: held to under two hundred yards, and six out of
Speaker 1: the last seven quarterbacks the Bills of face to have
Speaker 1: been held to one or fewer touchdown passes. That's one
Speaker 1: or zero, so D D. Westbrook, DJ Charkin, Dante Moncrief
Speaker 1: who combined for forty five yards last week. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: all on the bench too. On the other side, there's
Speaker 1: one starter, and it's not a great starter. It's Lashawn McCoy,
Speaker 1: who gets a See. Jacksonville has only allowed four rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns on the season to opposing running backs. That's not good.
Speaker 1: Buffalo just fed McCoy like a crazy team. They just
Speaker 1: gave him the ball over and over again. Twenty six
Speaker 1: carries last week, for a hundred and thirteen yards and
Speaker 1: two scores. The only problem was that was two of
Speaker 1: Buffalo's three running back touchdowns on the season, so literally
Speaker 1: it was McCoy's only good game of the year. If
Speaker 1: they're going to stay in this game, they're going to
Speaker 1: ground and pound and try to play great defense. I
Speaker 1: think you don't think Josh Allen changes the complexion of
Speaker 1: that offense quite a bit. I do, no, not that much.
Speaker 1: He's slated to start this game, but the Bills are
Speaker 1: only snuffing ad and eight two passing yards per game
Speaker 1: this year, with only five touchdown passes on the season,
Speaker 1: and most of those were Matt Barkley's um They're on
Speaker 1: pace to be the worst quarterback group since the two
Speaker 1: thousand fifteen St. Louis Rams, whose quarterbacks were the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship Game quarterbacks from last year, Nick Foles and case
Speaker 1: keenum they were the worst quarterbacks in recent history. They
Speaker 1: averaged one eight one and had eleven touchdowns on the
Speaker 1: season for the Rams. So Za Jones is on the
Speaker 1: bench to some people are chasing his eleven targets, his
Speaker 1: eight catches, his ninety three yards in a score last week,
Speaker 1: but he gets Jalen Ramsey this week. So I'm not
Speaker 1: going to say, Zay, I'm not going to say you
Speaker 1: don't say, I don't say nobody's as I can I
Speaker 1: zig and you could say never mind. Uh, let me
Speaker 1: mention this about the Bill's run defense and Leonard four Nette.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Marlon Max great game, yet nineteen carries, hundred
Speaker 1: twenty six yards in a touchdown, chipped another touchdown through
Speaker 1: the air. He's the only back who's topped seventy seven
Speaker 1: yards against the Buffalo run defense all year. Well, and
Speaker 1: as I said, he's the only back who's had more
Speaker 1: than fifteen carries in a game. They just they haven't
Speaker 1: faced a bell cow back like four Net. Well they
Speaker 1: kind of have, you know, Melvin Gordon twenty eight rushing
Speaker 1: yards as one example. Um, they were way up in
Speaker 1: that game, though they didn't need all. That is true.
Speaker 1: They were way up in that game and they didn't
Speaker 1: need it. So you know, we'll see. I you know,
Speaker 1: I just I think they're so I think it's a
Speaker 1: little bit trickier for I think it's a little trickier
Speaker 1: for lenond front at than you do. But that's all right, Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll see how it plays out. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: Giants taking on the Eagles, and if there's anything to
Speaker 1: know here, no, it's the Eagle secondary is an absolute wreck.
Speaker 1: Jalen Mills has got a foot injury. Sydney Jones safety
Speaker 1: expected to miss the game. Already, backups, already, already backups.
Speaker 1: Rassul Douglass and a Vonte Maddox both went down against
Speaker 1: the Saints last week, and it doesn't look like they're
Speaker 1: going to go either. We're looking at like fifth and
Speaker 1: six string guys starting throughout the secondary. Not a cornerback
Speaker 1: has been able to practice the Eagles. It's not cornerbacks,
Speaker 1: not one. It is an utter disaster. There wasn't one
Speaker 1: of those guys the bad guy, and Batman begins to
Speaker 1: Russuel Douglas exactly. So if there's ever a time to
Speaker 1: start your Giants in the passing game, this certainly feels
Speaker 1: like it. We've got it. Obviously a grade on Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham that I don't even need to expand on beyond that,
Speaker 1: But let's talk about Eli Manning. There are some mixed
Speaker 1: trends here. Um. With all of the injuries, the Eagles
Speaker 1: have allowed at least two hundred seventy passing yards in
Speaker 1: every game since Week four. But we've already seen Eli
Speaker 1: Mann and go belly up in these great opportunities in
Speaker 1: the past against other bad defenses Atlanta, Washington, San Francisco,
Speaker 1: and Tampa. He only managed two three yards per game
Speaker 1: and one point eight touchdowns. So I had Eli as
Speaker 1: an A until I dug into the stats a little farther.
Speaker 1: Now I've got him as a B right now. But
Speaker 1: that he has, he's potentially colossal upside In this case,
Speaker 1: He's just a two eight, three and two kind of
Speaker 1: guy in his best games. Kind of that is sort
Speaker 1: of his upside, isn't it. You know where you look
Speaker 1: at that secondary and you think that could be a
Speaker 1: four hundred yard passing game. But Eli doesn't give us
Speaker 1: those anymore. Sterling Shepherd could be going up against slot
Speaker 1: cornerback Cravon le Blanc back that's right, claimed off wave
Speaker 1: is a couple of weeks ago. Uh. In fact, he's
Speaker 1: been on the team I think eleven days. Do they
Speaker 1: call him the little blanket, the blanket le blanket coverage,
Speaker 1: blanket comforts. Does he whitewash the opponent? I like it? Uh?
Speaker 1: Cravon le blanc against Sterley Shepherd feels very very good. Um,
Speaker 1: I would have made Sterling Shepherd today grade. But he's
Speaker 1: done nothing for the better part of a month either,
Speaker 1: so he was blocked last weekend. It's a blank. Yes, uh,
Speaker 1: nobody else is laughing, but we're cracking ourselves up if
Speaker 1: nothing else. Evan Ingram just to see grade. He goes
Speaker 1: have been great against tight ends all year, allowing only
Speaker 1: three and a half receptions in thirty five yards per game.
Speaker 1: Ingram was forced to miss the first game between these
Speaker 1: two earlier this season, but last year he did average
Speaker 1: ten targets for sixty six yards in the two games
Speaker 1: against the Eagles. I've got to see grade on him,
Speaker 1: but you could pray done. He hasn't done anything of note.
Speaker 1: Ellison outsnapped him last week. That's well, but they have
Speaker 1: two different roles, you know, Ingram's your pass catcher, rets
Speaker 1: your your blocker. Obviously they don't need a pass catching
Speaker 1: tight end anymore. Well, they need blockers worse. The offensive
Speaker 1: line so bad. And then obviously se kwon Barkley's and a
Speaker 1: a start. Although I'll note your Kwan's got the hardest
Speaker 1: matchup on the field. The Eagles are only giving up
Speaker 1: sixteen rushes per game to opposing backs. But Sa Kwan
Speaker 1: did just find on thirteen attempts when they met in
Speaker 1: week five, and he put up two nine yards. So
Speaker 1: in a grade for Se Kwon. But again, everybody else
Speaker 1: on the fields got easier matchups than he does, and
Speaker 1: the game script could go away from him. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the eagle side. Carson Wentz gets an A grade
Speaker 1: for me. I know last week was dismal. It was
Speaker 1: a terrible game, but Once had went into that game
Speaker 1: having thrown multiple touchdowns in sixth straight before that game,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna assume that was the anomaly. And among
Speaker 1: those games was a three touchdown effort against the same
Speaker 1: Giants in week six. I would take another three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: The Giant secondaries improved slightly since shedding Eli Apple, which
Speaker 1: was additioned by subtraction, and they picked off Tampa quarterback
Speaker 1: four times, Tampa quarterbacks four times last week. Still, this
Speaker 1: is a very beatiful secondary, and I've got an A
Speaker 1: grade on Carson Wentz. How about all Sean Jeffrey b grade?
Speaker 1: Here is he is? He lines up against the Giant's
Speaker 1: defense that he tore apart in Week six, catching eight
Speaker 1: passes for seventy four yards and two touchdowns. Now they're
Speaker 1: without Eli Apple, who was who Now without without Elie
Speaker 1: Apple who allowed a hundred and eleven of those yards
Speaker 1: in the Eagles game last time, So he probably has
Speaker 1: a little tougher matchup, and he's been a lot quieter lately.
Speaker 1: Now the most intriguing matchup of this whole game. What
Speaker 1: do you do about Golden Tate? I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: you do stardom. He got moved to the slot last
Speaker 1: week and that promptly led him to lead the team
Speaker 1: and targets, receptions and yards. And I know it didn't
Speaker 1: materialize into a big fantasy game, and lever is putting
Speaker 1: him on the bench. Get him off the bench. Here
Speaker 1: he goes up against giant slot corner Grant Haley, who
Speaker 1: has surrendered a passer rating of one hundred thirty nine
Speaker 1: in his coverage. Tampa's sl receiver last week, Adam Humphreys
Speaker 1: against Grant Haley, uh caught three passes, sixty yards and
Speaker 1: a score on him. So I like Golden Tate in
Speaker 1: this matchup. Zach ERT's obvious A We're not gonna even
Speaker 1: extrap explain well not extrap Lee won't expound on his game.
Speaker 1: Josh Adams, last guy will mention the running game, the
Speaker 1: only running back you'd want to start, and I've got
Speaker 1: a starting grade on him with a C grade. The
Speaker 1: Giants have given up one hundred or more rushing yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown to the opponent's leading running back in
Speaker 1: each of the last three weeks. And those guys to
Speaker 1: get the hundred yards and or a touchdown Adrian Peterson,
Speaker 1: Matton Brita and Peyton Barber. That is not exactly like
Speaker 1: Girly Zeke and se Kwan. That was Adrian Matt Brita
Speaker 1: and Peyton Barber. If those guys are getting it done,
Speaker 1: I like Adams here. Here's the catch though, Adams hasn't
Speaker 1: top nine carries in a game yet. Now you can
Speaker 1: only do so much on nine carries. So the hope
Speaker 1: is that Adams gets more work, and if he does,
Speaker 1: I like the opportunity for a decent game here. Um,
Speaker 1: if you are of the opinion that Josh Adams is
Speaker 1: going to vault up to eighteen carries out of nowhere, great,
Speaker 1: give him a B grade, give him an A grade.
Speaker 1: But what we've seen have been seven seven and nine
Speaker 1: carries in the last three weeks for Josh Adams. That
Speaker 1: keeps him out of sea. Great, all right, we'll take
Speaker 1: a break when we come back. Take a chance on me.
Speaker 1: Nine players not normally in your starting line up. Many
Speaker 1: of them are available on the waiver wire. Will type
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Speaker 1: Nine players that you would not normally start, let's find
Speaker 1: out who they are, beginning at the quarterback position and
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson, let's go with san Franz Nick Mullins at
Speaker 1: the bucks. Uh Tampa has been shredded by every quarterback
Speaker 1: not named Alex Smith or Nick Foles this season. Mullins
Speaker 1: probably deserves to be mentioned along the lines of Alex
Speaker 1: Smith and Nick Boles, but coming off is bye week.
Speaker 1: I like him in this matchup. Tampa Bay will be
Speaker 1: without Lavonte David, their all world middle linebacker. Could also
Speaker 1: still be without JPP and Vinny Curry from their D line.
Speaker 1: Just a bad defense. So let mullins eat all right
Speaker 1: songs making me sleepy and get much sleep last night,
Speaker 1: because I was up all night thinking about Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: and it's an awesome matchup that he's got. I've got.
Speaker 1: He's thrown from multiple passing touchdowns in four straight games,
Speaker 1: and he's facing quite possibly the worst path s defense
Speaker 1: in the league. That's the Bengals. They're allowing three six
Speaker 1: passing yards per game and two point one touchdowns per
Speaker 1: game through the air. They're also allowing a league high
Speaker 1: six point six QB rushing attempts skewed a little bit
Speaker 1: by Lamar Jackson last week, just a bit, and it's
Speaker 1: twenty seven carries, that's true. They've They've allowed thirty quarterback
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game and three quarterback rushing scores this season.
Speaker 1: And Baker can run a little. He had six carries
Speaker 1: himself last week for twenty yards on the ground against Atlanta,
Speaker 1: so he might chip in a little extra there too.
Speaker 1: I'm going Jameis Winston against San Francisco. Let's hope he
Speaker 1: can just make it through the game without getting benched.
Speaker 1: So let's start there, and he is averaging three point
Speaker 1: two interceptions per game. Think about that, he's on pace
Speaker 1: for a fifty interception season. If you were to pro
Speaker 1: rate his his season over sixteen games, it's pretty solid.
Speaker 1: That's pretty bad. Nevertheless, here comes San Francisco. They're pretty
Speaker 1: bad to Uh. Winston has plenty of ups side. San
Speaker 1: Francisco has allowed touchdowns to every quarterback except Derek Carr,
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns in six of the past seven games. Jamis
Speaker 1: Winston simultaneously or take a chance on me. Defense is
Speaker 1: San Francisco? That's right, you bet you could do both, uh,
Speaker 1: Ryan running back. Let's go the Jets Elijah McGuire at
Speaker 1: home versus New England. Let's just start this off by saying,
Speaker 1: Isaiah crow l is god awful? Since his uh nineteen
Speaker 1: yard explosive output in Week five, you crow well, I
Speaker 1: was totaled hundred and sixty two yards on fifty seven
Speaker 1: carries in the five games. Since that's terrible, that's awful.
Speaker 1: What was your starting running back for the Jets Week one?
Speaker 1: Next year? Not? Is it? Is it? Crow? Well McGuire
Speaker 1: or not on roster currently, Bell could be, could be,
Speaker 1: It's certainly not crow Well, and it's probably not gonna
Speaker 1: be crow Well on Sunday. It should be Elijah McGuire,
Speaker 1: who has nine touches in each of his first two
Speaker 1: games back. I like you have more carries in this game.
Speaker 1: But he did see a healthy number of targets in
Speaker 1: his first few games five and six, which bodes will
Speaker 1: because opposing running backs are averaging six catches on eight
Speaker 1: targets against the Patriots, so uh and in the game
Speaker 1: script will favor passing running backs out of backfields and
Speaker 1: Elijah not that he's a great pass catcher, but he
Speaker 1: can catch. All right, let's go to Matt running back.
Speaker 1: It's come to this that Derrick Henry is now take
Speaker 1: a chance on me running back. He's only owned, He's
Speaker 1: not the feature back. And the Titans have been a
Speaker 1: terrible team on the road this season, but four of
Speaker 1: his six rushing attempt totals of ten or more came
Speaker 1: on the road when they were trying to play ball control.
Speaker 1: He's also scored in two of his last three road games.
Speaker 1: The Titans need to control the clock when outside of Nashville.
Speaker 1: They're in Houston, and the Texans have given up four
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns in just the last three weeks to the Miami, Denver,
Speaker 1: and Washington backfields. I'm not asking for a town here,
Speaker 1: I'm just asking for a touchdown out to Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards. I'm fully board. Uh. He made the most
Speaker 1: of his opportunities last week, averaging almost seven yards per carry,
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown, and relegated Alex Collins of the bench
Speaker 1: for the entire second half. And what a delicious matchup
Speaker 1: for Gus Edwards against the Raiders, arguably the worst front
Speaker 1: defense in the league. Raiders rank last or second to
Speaker 1: last in rushing attempts, rushing yards, and rushing yards per carry.
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards, let's go to the receiver position and Brian Johnson.
Speaker 1: Ravens fans were calling him Gus the bus to troll
Speaker 1: Steelers fans. But yeah, I got Adam Humphries. We just
Speaker 1: talked about him a little bit before. He's at home
Speaker 1: against the Niners. Uh. With Jamis Winston under center, Humphries
Speaker 1: target share is up. That's twice as high as it
Speaker 1: is when Ryan Fitzpatrick is quarterback, and things go the
Speaker 1: opposite way for DeShawn Jackson. When Winston is under center,
Speaker 1: he basically sees no targets. He's got a jury anyway,
Speaker 1: so Humphries will see more looks than Jackson. And this
Speaker 1: one in the forty Niners have getting have given up
Speaker 1: either a hundred yards and door a touchdown to primary
Speaker 1: slot receivers in eight of San Francisco's ten games. So
Speaker 1: I'm leaking Adam Humphries. All right, I hope you're right.
Speaker 1: I gotta start him in one league where I got
Speaker 1: a battle league filled with Chiefs, a team filled of Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Do you remember a quarterback receiver split situation like the
Speaker 1: Tampa situation where it's been Fitzpatrick has his guys that
Speaker 1: he goes to and Howard and Jackson and Evans for
Speaker 1: touchdowns and Winston goes to break and Humphrees. It's it's bizarre,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't, but you know it's probably happened,
Speaker 1: but I don't recall one because so few teams end
Speaker 1: up swapping quarterbacks in and out like this, but not
Speaker 1: that I remember. It's just just bizarre. Anyway, My guys
Speaker 1: don trelle inman. Uh, He's like emerged as the wide
Speaker 1: receiver too. In Indianapolis Churches favorite team next to the Vikings.
Speaker 1: He's had seventeen targets over the last three games, trailing
Speaker 1: only t Y Hilton on the team during that span.
Speaker 1: He also ran more routes than any other Cult wide
Speaker 1: receivers outside of Hilton last week and scored his first
Speaker 1: touchdown of the year. Hilton will draw Zavian Howard this week,
Speaker 1: leaving Inman free to roam against the rest of that
Speaker 1: secondary that's not very good in Miami. So like him
Speaker 1: in there? All right, good, my h my guy in
Speaker 1: our final take a chance on me is Willie Sneed
Speaker 1: already liked one Raider. Sorry, excuse me. I already liked
Speaker 1: one Raven in the Raiders game. That was Gus Edwards.
Speaker 1: Now we're going with the receiver as well, Willie Sneed.
Speaker 1: It's only a one game sample size, but Willie Sneed
Speaker 1: got of the targets from Lamar Jackson. That's awfully good sign.
Speaker 1: We'll see if it carries through a week two. And
Speaker 1: if it does, what a nice matchup that he's got.
Speaker 1: Oakland secondaries allowed six wide receiver touchdowns in the last
Speaker 1: three games alone and running out of the slot. He'll
Speaker 1: face Raiders cornerback Nick Nelson, who allowed two scores in
Speaker 1: his coverage just last week alone. So Willie Snead with
Speaker 1: a terrific opportunity. All right, there, you go, take a
Speaker 1: chance on me in the books. Hopefully that helps New
Speaker 1: England taking on the New York Jets. Brian, it's kind
Speaker 1: of start everybody for the Patriots and start nobody except
Speaker 1: at Joe McGuire for the Jets. How it feels pretty much,
Speaker 1: But uh, I don't know Gronk yet. There's a little
Speaker 1: trepidation and starting Gronk, I'm giving him not more. You
Speaker 1: gotta go right, you got well, gotta be healthy now
Speaker 1: bye week, you would think, and hopefully he can make
Speaker 1: his return against his good buddy the Jets. Over his
Speaker 1: last eight games, he's averaging seven catches for eighty five
Speaker 1: yards and one whole touchdown New York. His owners need
Speaker 1: that badly, yes they do, and on paper doesn't look
Speaker 1: too good for tight ends. Jets are allowing just over
Speaker 1: two and a half catches per game to opposing tight ends,
Speaker 1: but by far the best tight end they faced it's
Speaker 1: Eric Ebron this season, and he caught four passes for
Speaker 1: seven one yards and a touchdown. That's probably a safe
Speaker 1: floor for Gronk if he is anywhere near old Gronk status.
Speaker 1: But uh, obviously keep your ear to the ground on him.
Speaker 1: But over to the other receivers Edelman and Josh Gordon
Speaker 1: and give them an a. Edelman hasn't scored against the
Speaker 1: Jets since two thousand and twelve, which is kind of
Speaker 1: a shocking, but I bet he ends that drought this week.
Speaker 1: Opposing wide receivers like Za Jones, Robert Foster, Aldrick Robinson,
Speaker 1: Marcus Johnson, Chester Rogers, Albert Will and all have had
Speaker 1: big days against New York. I like Edelman and Gordon's
Speaker 1: chances gets buster screen, the busted screen. That's matchup souh
Speaker 1: a's for them, A for Tom Brady. New York has
Speaker 1: allowed multiple touchdowns and six of the past seven games,
Speaker 1: and that includes guys like Blake Border's case, Keenum and
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley. Uh. Some people may say, you know New
Speaker 1: York will struggle to keep pace with New England. Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Belichick will run up the score on the Jets all
Speaker 1: day long, one of his favorite pastimes. So that's not
Speaker 1: about I'm a little worried about James White, though I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna give him a c uh. He actually has
Speaker 1: positive splits with Grunt in the lineup a bit more
Speaker 1: points but um and even though opposing running backs are
Speaker 1: adging nearly fourteen yards per catch against the Jets over
Speaker 1: the last four weeks, the highest clip in the league.
Speaker 1: Check out these catch totals for opposing backfield starting with
Speaker 1: the most recent Buffalo one catch, Miami Backs at seven.
Speaker 1: But then Chicago Backs one catch, Minnesota Backs two catches,
Speaker 1: Colts Backs or catches. So and I'm start some teams
Speaker 1: that can catch to This seems more like a Sonium
Speaker 1: shell game to me. So he gets the while White
Speaker 1: gets the sea. Sony had eleven carries in Week ten
Speaker 1: against a tough Titans run defense coming off a by.
Speaker 1: He should easily see fifteen plus carries in this game.
Speaker 1: New York is one of five teams allowing more than
Speaker 1: twenty eight rush attempts per game over their last three games.
Speaker 1: Opposing teams are running the ball more than thirty five
Speaker 1: times per game against the Jets. So Sony Michelle b
Speaker 1: borderline a here in a smash spot. I love him,
Speaker 1: especially in daily when his his Price is a little
Speaker 1: suppress still, and then over the Jets, crow L sucks bench,
Speaker 1: Elijah McGuire, take com Quincy and Nune what the one
Speaker 1: wide receiver you might contemplate starting if you really wanted
Speaker 1: to opposing White I was at averaging twenty targets, thirteen
Speaker 1: catches and a hundred and sixty yards per game as
Speaker 1: a whole against New England and none what probably soaks
Speaker 1: up most of those stats. But he's just a dart
Speaker 1: throat still on the bench for me, Chris Herndon, I'll
Speaker 1: give him a seed just because most tight ends are
Speaker 1: worthless and opposing tight ends are averaging five catches for
Speaker 1: sixty two yards against the Pats second day. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: he's a he's a sea level grade. And then uh,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald has been ruled out, So Josh McCown is
Speaker 1: the starter, probably the better fantasy option, but that just
Speaker 1: means the accounts of d While Donald would have been
Speaker 1: in f he's on the bench. The Jets haveing top
Speaker 1: ten points since week seven? Are you serious? Oh jeez,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was that bad. That is terrible.
Speaker 1: When we come back speaking terrible, we'll spend five seconds
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Speaker 1: our matchups, including Miami taking on Indianapolis. There's nothing to
Speaker 1: talk about with the Miami side of this, is there.
Speaker 1: Uh Frank Gore in a revenge games. I gave him
Speaker 1: a C grade because he's had double digit carries in
Speaker 1: seven straight games and that seven game span, Kenyan Drake
Speaker 1: has only hit the nine carry mark twice, so Kenyan
Speaker 1: Drake's definitely on the bench. Gore doesn't have a rushing
Speaker 1: touchdown on this season though, and wulous Yeah have only
Speaker 1: opposing backfields of only top two hundred yards against the
Speaker 1: Colts twice this season and they're on They've only allowed
Speaker 1: four rushing touchdowns in ten games, so Gorge like the
Speaker 1: D grade. Basically it's just the revenge angle. I think
Speaker 1: uh Ryan Tannehill's back starting he was limited in practice
Speaker 1: all week, but he was named the Week twelve starter.
Speaker 1: In his two games prior to the injury, he threw
Speaker 1: four one yards and zero touchdowns and and one And
Speaker 1: the Colts are only allowing an average of two hund
Speaker 1: thirty five yards per game over the last five weeks.
Speaker 1: So Tannehill and the receivers are all on the bench.
Speaker 1: Let's go over to the Colt side Marlon Mack. I
Speaker 1: gave him a bench grade last week, and he kind
Speaker 1: of shut me up by scoring a touchdown against Tennessee.
Speaker 1: After two straight weeks of over a hundred and twenty yards,
Speaker 1: Mac is only averaged forty five rushing yards in his
Speaker 1: two most recent games. This week he will get it
Speaker 1: going against the Dolphins team that is allowing a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty one rushing yards per game when the last
Speaker 1: month of play. I love Mac and I've got him.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can say, I'm you may
Speaker 1: see you may see him in my charch, my chase
Speaker 1: charge lineup at family. Let's just put it that well, well,
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Speaker 1: already talked about Don Trell Inman, he was gonna take
Speaker 1: a chance on me. Receiver t Y Hilton, I'm given
Speaker 1: a B grade two. Even though he's going up against
Speaker 1: the zave Cave. He's getting progressively healthier over the last month.
Speaker 1: He went from four to five to seven to nine
Speaker 1: targets over his last four games, which converted into thirty four,
Speaker 1: seventy seven and a hundred and fifty five yards. And
Speaker 1: Xavian Howard has him in the same cornerback of late.
Speaker 1: Either he's been getting beaten the last few weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like I like Hilton here in the spot. What
Speaker 1: was the grade he gave both Hilton and Mac? I
Speaker 1: miss Mac Mac. I gave a B. Hilton, I gave
Speaker 1: a B. Thank you all right? Jack Doyle and Eric
Speaker 1: Ebron only given CS two. Did you know that Eric
Speaker 1: Ebron has scored nine times this season? Why? As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, nine times nine times? Yeah, But mysteriously,
Speaker 1: Eric Ebron wasn't targeted at all last week against Tennessee.
Speaker 1: That was weird. It was the first game in which
Speaker 1: Jack Doyle was active in which Ibron didn't score a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Doyle only had four targets in that affair too, So
Speaker 1: the Bright side is is that the Dolphins have given
Speaker 1: up multiple touchdown passes to tight ends twice in their
Speaker 1: last five games, so there's room for both Doyle and
Speaker 1: Ebron to play in many fantasy lineups. Andrew Luck, I'm
Speaker 1: just giving a C grade too. No, that's not true.
Speaker 1: It's not true. I'm giving him an thank you, all right,
Speaker 1: You've come around out Andrew Luck. It's only taken eleven
Speaker 1: weeks of incredibly elite production. He's thrown for at least
Speaker 1: three touchdowns in each of the last seven games, and
Speaker 1: the dollar logest such streak in the history of the NFL,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins will allowed multiple passing scores in four
Speaker 1: of their last five. And to be fair charge, I
Speaker 1: gave Luck a B grade last week and have him
Speaker 1: as to take a chance on me, guy, And I
Speaker 1: did not say to drop Andrew Luck outright in a
Speaker 1: five question earlier in the season. That is true. Some
Speaker 1: of us came around, so there. It took me two
Speaker 1: weeks to come right. I've just took you. I've been
Speaker 1: there the whole time. Great on him. Two weeks I
Speaker 1: did not you did. I am holding these two apart
Speaker 1: right now. They're about to go. Are you done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you. Let's go to Oakland Baltimore. There's only one
Speaker 1: starter in Oakland and that's Jared Cook and he only
Speaker 1: has a C grade. He has scored four times, but
Speaker 1: he's also failed the top thirty one yards in five
Speaker 1: the last eight games, so you're really you're hoping for
Speaker 1: a touchdown here. Baltimore has allowed to tight end to
Speaker 1: score in three of the past four, so we're hoping
Speaker 1: for the touchdown, that's it. They've also given up at
Speaker 1: least fifty yards to their opponent's tight end group in
Speaker 1: five of the last six. So Jared Cook's the one
Speaker 1: guy feel good about. Everybody else is on the bench
Speaker 1: running game. Doug Martin is hurt, DeAndre Washington sucks. Jalen
Speaker 1: Rochard hasn't scored this season. There's no reason to play
Speaker 1: any of those guys, especially against an elite level Ravens
Speaker 1: defense allowing three and a half yards per carry and
Speaker 1: even less than that over the last month of play,
Speaker 1: and they're excellent through the air to allowing the fewest
Speaker 1: receiving yards two runners. So those of you that have
Speaker 1: been streaming Jalen Rochard and just you know, hoping to
Speaker 1: get your five catches for forty yards and be done.
Speaker 1: You might not even get that. For the passing game,
Speaker 1: Derek Carr has been shut out in two of his
Speaker 1: past three games, and over the last five games, he's
Speaker 1: averaging just one yards. Jordy has hurt, Mark Tavis Bryant
Speaker 1: has hurt Brandon Lafel just won on i R. It's
Speaker 1: a disaster. Let's go to the Baltimore side, which is
Speaker 1: a lot more fun. I love Lamar Jackson in this game.
Speaker 1: On on the season, Oakland has allowed the second most
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns, including multiple touchdowns in every game since Week two,
Speaker 1: three touchdowns in four of the past five games. So
Speaker 1: if you looked at last week, you went, well, you
Speaker 1: know Lamar Jackson, Sure, sure he was my fifth, you know,
Speaker 1: number five quarterback last week, but where were the touchdowns? Well,
Speaker 1: here come the touchdowns on top of everything you did
Speaker 1: last week. This is an awesome matchup for him. He
Speaker 1: has literally highest scoring quarterback potential in this game. Jackson
Speaker 1: only through nineteen passes last week, but I think he
Speaker 1: completed like fifteen of the nineteen something like that, which
Speaker 1: was good. And last week Josh Rosen only threw twenty
Speaker 1: against the Raiders. Still scored three times, so you don't
Speaker 1: even need I don't know, I don't need suddenly for
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson to throw his arm out of socket to
Speaker 1: get touchdowns. Josh Rosen just did it on three twenty
Speaker 1: touches twenty passes, scoring three times. So I love Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson a grade. He's my number four ranked quarterback for
Speaker 1: this week. Gus Edwards was might take a chance on
Speaker 1: me running back Willie snead was might take a chance
Speaker 1: on the wide receiver John Brown also started with a
Speaker 1: B grade. He's done nothing for three straight weeks. I
Speaker 1: get that, but this matchup has got slump buster written
Speaker 1: all over it because he faces a Raider secondary that's
Speaker 1: allowed six receiver scores in the last three games and
Speaker 1: on the season has allowed the fourth most scores to
Speaker 1: the position. John Brown should be started here. I've got
Speaker 1: Alex Collins on the bench. He's likely the backup, and
Speaker 1: he also has a foot injury he's got to try
Speaker 1: to play through. So combining that, I don't know that
Speaker 1: he gets enough carries um there could be the two
Speaker 1: running backs get fed. It could be that both Alex
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards and Alex Collins do a little something here,
Speaker 1: but I'd prefer to keep him on the bench. And
Speaker 1: Michael Crabtree has been a disaster and got no attention
Speaker 1: from Jackson last week, so we're gonna leave him on
Speaker 1: the bench as well. Final matchup of this segment is
Speaker 1: San Francisco taking on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. My favorite
Speaker 1: forty Niner, Brian, I'm Matt Brita sitting on a big
Speaker 1: game potentially here. I thought you're gonna say George Kittle,
Speaker 1: who was like my favorite thing in the world. Uh,
Speaker 1: joke before, probably the healthiest he's been since birth. It
Speaker 1: could be clearly they coming off a bye week, he's
Speaker 1: in a health wise, he's as close to as he
Speaker 1: can be. The Bucks have allowed a league seventeen touchdowns
Speaker 1: to running backs. I said, no Lavante David for Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: Maybe no Jpp Vinny Curry. Brita obvious a in this game.
Speaker 1: Uh speaking of Bobby is as George Kittle who leads
Speaker 1: all tight ends end wide receivers in yards after the
Speaker 1: catch this year? Are you serious? And if you take
Speaker 1: just the yards after the catch, yeah, he's among tight
Speaker 1: ends receiving yards. That's a stat from a rich Rebar
Speaker 1: which uh I definitely enjoyed at Tampa Bay allowing seventy
Speaker 1: plus yards for game to opposing tight ends and another
Speaker 1: great Kittle stat from Graham Barfield. Uh san Fran uses
Speaker 1: Kittle as a traditional receiver on nearly forty of his routes,
Speaker 1: mean he's lined up on the outside or the slot.
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay has been terrorized for a hundred thirty yards
Speaker 1: per game by enemy slot receivers. And that's pretty much
Speaker 1: gonna be Kittle. If you haven't watched Kittle play, make
Speaker 1: a point. D's good fun over to the wide receivers, though,
Speaker 1: don't love him as much even though you look at
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay and you're like, oh, what a great matchup
Speaker 1: for wide receivers. Over the last three weeks, only a
Speaker 1: hundred seven yards per game to wide receivers as a whole.
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay is allowing and uh Goodwin only nine targets
Speaker 1: from Nick Mullins and his two starts. Uh. That said,
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay has surrendered at least one wide receiver score
Speaker 1: in every game this year, and opposing primary receivers have
Speaker 1: scored in four of the last five, So I'll give
Speaker 1: Goodwin a see. But there's it does but there's I
Speaker 1: don't know. He and Mullins really don't have any chemistry yet.
Speaker 1: That's my only concern here. So I'm still gonna go
Speaker 1: with the Sea, but he does have the potential in
Speaker 1: this matchup. Pierre Garson is out. That makes Pettis a
Speaker 1: viable dart throw. Almost used him as might take a chance,
Speaker 1: let me receiver, but I like him on fan ball,
Speaker 1: very cheap. Check him out. We might talk about him
Speaker 1: a little later in the show. Nick Mullins might take
Speaker 1: a chance on the quarterback in this matchup, as we
Speaker 1: talked about earlier over the Tampa Bay side. I donna
Speaker 1: give Mike Evans an a this year with Winston as quarterback,
Speaker 1: Evans has average more catches and yards than with Stu
Speaker 1: Beard under center, and San fran has conceded big games
Speaker 1: of primary receivers recently, Odell Beckham, Larry if Fitzgerald, Brandon Cooks,
Speaker 1: Davante Adams all have had big games. Again, San Francisco,
Speaker 1: I got the Shawan Jackson on the bench. He does
Speaker 1: not fare so well with Winston. Next quarterback Adam Humphreys does.
Speaker 1: That's why he is might take a chance on the
Speaker 1: wide receiver and Cameron Braid. If you're an O. J.
Speaker 1: Howard owner, we're gonna talk about camera break. If you
Speaker 1: don't know that he's on, I R. I'm sorry to
Speaker 1: ruin your Saturday, but he is. Cameron Braid is the
Speaker 1: guy and uh opposing tight ends or averaging a modest
Speaker 1: four catches for forty eight yards against the forty Niners
Speaker 1: and the Niners haven't surrendered a score to the position
Speaker 1: in sixth straight, but Braid is still to be as
Speaker 1: the only tight end in that lineup now and then
Speaker 1: in Jammeis Winston was going to take a chance of
Speaker 1: the quarterback charge and Peyton Barber, I think just give
Speaker 1: him a sea here shocking the only one running back
Speaker 1: as top the hundred yards against San Francisco and they
Speaker 1: haven't allowed a running back to score since Week seven.
Speaker 1: But it is surprising. Jarn McCoy is one of the
Speaker 1: biggest impact defensive tackles in the NFL. In games he misses,
Speaker 1: and he misses a couple every year. Teams just run
Speaker 1: right through the box and then he comes back. Sorry,
Speaker 1: you're right, I had that flipped over in my head.
Speaker 1: But sorry that this is against him. That's right, That's
Speaker 1: why ye but Barber home team favorite. You're starting painting Barber,
Speaker 1: but I'm being uh cautious with the sea here on
Speaker 1: him all right when we come back. Oh wait, well,
Speaker 1: I promised to try to work in a couple of
Speaker 1: calls and if people are nice enough to call from
Speaker 1: the likes of Ontario where Jordan is, we should talk
Speaker 1: to them. Hi, Jordan's um high charge. It's it's Jordan,
Speaker 1: and I'm a question for you, Chris Carson or Shepherd.
Speaker 1: I love Sterling Shepherd this week and what might be
Speaker 1: the easiest matchup of his entire season, and Chris Carson's
Speaker 1: sharing work with three two other backs, so Sterling Shepherd
Speaker 1: probably with my highest ranking that he's had all season,
Speaker 1: I believe I have a met at wide receiver twelve
Speaker 1: this week overall, especially if it's PPR even more so Shepherd. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you for chiming in. Jordan appreciate it. You're welcome.
Speaker 1: How old are you? Awesome? Jordan's keep playing, You'll love it.
Speaker 1: That's about the age I started. Well, I started a
Speaker 1: little later than that, but not a lot later. That's perfect. Thanks,
Speaker 1: Jordan's Yeah. Charles in Los Angeles, Hello, Hello, Hi, good morning.
Speaker 1: How did you find us. Oh, I've been listening for
Speaker 1: a couple of years. I think through Sigmund Bloom and
Speaker 1: the football guys outstanding. Yeah, we love sake. What can
Speaker 1: we do for you, Charles? I've got a lex question
Speaker 1: in a half point PPR league, and I'm starting either
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake, Derrick Henry, Marquez Valdez Scantling, or Corey Davis. Well.
Speaker 1: I happened to have a few of these guys in
Speaker 1: my matchups, and the only one of those guys that
Speaker 1: I gave a starting grade two is Derrick Henry. I'm
Speaker 1: not feeling great about Marquez Velda's scantling now, and especially
Speaker 1: if Cob comes back and plays, which you might. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And and Corey Davis is just in a tough spot too,
Speaker 1: so it's kind of gross. But it's Derrick Henry and
Speaker 1: hoping for a touchdown. There might be something better on
Speaker 1: your waiver wire that you can grab a Dontrell in
Speaker 1: min type something like that. I like almost all of
Speaker 1: our take a chance on me receivers better than the
Speaker 1: guys you're talking about, and runners for that matter. Okay, great,
Speaker 1: and can I have one more quick one? Well, because
Speaker 1: it's not lightning round yes, Um, for quarterback, I'm either
Speaker 1: starting Russell Wilson or Lamar Jackson. You're a Magnet's either
Speaker 1: Watson or Jackson, or Watson, Jackson or Wilson. I've gotten
Speaker 1: this like fourteen times. Do you know where I'm gonna
Speaker 1: come in on this. I think I made my opinion
Speaker 1: on Lamar Jackson perfectly and uh, yeah, that four is high.
Speaker 1: I'll put it this way. I feel like Wilson has
Speaker 1: the safer floor is still uh, Jackson has the higher ceiling.
Speaker 1: If you feel like you're an underdog, shoot the moon
Speaker 1: with Jackson. But if you depends on what the score
Speaker 1: and from your Thursday games are really does Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: Jackson's got the higher ceiling. But it's it's virtually a
Speaker 1: coin flip. But I'll concede to charge his number four
Speaker 1: ranking of Lamar Jackson, which has to be higher than
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, I would imagine, right, Yes, yes, got it.
Speaker 1: I'm playing for the point total lead. Okaya on the cheese.
Speaker 1: You don't even need our help, Charles, go have fun
Speaker 1: with Lamar Jackson because even if he flops against the Raiders, um,
Speaker 1: you know you're still fine. And he does have the
Speaker 1: crazy upside that will make you jump out of your couch.
Speaker 1: If he has a great game one on Sunday, which
Speaker 1: we love, go have fun with him. Yeah, take him
Speaker 1: out to the Santa Monica pier. Right, go hit skip
Speaker 1: some rocks. Isn't that Sunday boarding. I don't think I
Speaker 1: actually want to go in the water. Okay, I don't think.
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Speaker 1: question number one for the rest of the year, is
Speaker 1: Josh Reynolds a wide receiver. One wide receiver to flex
Speaker 1: or bench Brian Well. Reynolds, essentially filling in for Cooper
Speaker 1: Cup has been put on I R and when Cup
Speaker 1: was healthy this year. Earlier in the season, he was
Speaker 1: a borderline wide receiver one, which means Reynolds is probably
Speaker 1: easily a borderline wide receiver to um. I might even
Speaker 1: gonna look at the rest of the rest of season
Speaker 1: schedule because of the Chiefs are that I'm sorry, the
Speaker 1: Rams are that good and their past defense is not
Speaker 1: that great, so opposing teams can put up points. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of mouths to feed in l A.
Speaker 1: But I am still gonna say wide receiver too, because
Speaker 1: if for whatever reason, the Rams need to rest players
Speaker 1: down the stretch, I feel like Reynolds will not be
Speaker 1: one of those players as he continues to build chemistry
Speaker 1: with Golf. So I'll go wide receiver to Matt. I
Speaker 1: got him out of flex because he's not Cooper Cup,
Speaker 1: and I don't think we should pretend that he's just
Speaker 1: like some sort of replacement for him. He does have
Speaker 1: three touchdowns in the three games the Cup did not
Speaker 1: play one of those games. He only had one catch
Speaker 1: for nineteen yards. The next he had three catches for
Speaker 1: forty two yards and two and there were two short touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and the last was an impressive six for eight and
Speaker 1: one and the mother of all shootouts against Kansas City.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be playing Kansas City like defense is
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. This week, he gets a
Speaker 1: zero for his bye week. Then he's got Detroit, which
Speaker 1: is a positive matchup, Chicago is a neutral matchup, Phillies
Speaker 1: positive matchup, and then Arizona in your Week sixteen championship week,
Speaker 1: that's a negative matchup for him. So I just had
Speaker 1: him as a flex. All right. Well, let's first a
Speaker 1: couple of things. You know, he does not play Cooper
Speaker 1: Cup's role. They've moved Robert Woods into play the slot
Speaker 1: and so he's playing outside. He got percent of the
Speaker 1: snaps last week. Josh Reynolds did so on the field
Speaker 1: virtually every play, and last week get targeted eight times
Speaker 1: in that new role. That was third most on the team.
Speaker 1: Finished with the eight yards, second most on the team.
Speaker 1: When I look through the remaining schedule and I estimate
Speaker 1: where he's going to grade out if I had the
Speaker 1: rams every week for the rest of the year, Detroit
Speaker 1: will be a B, Chicago will be a C. Philadelphia
Speaker 1: might be an A the way their secondary is going.
Speaker 1: And then in the Fantasy Championship, Patrick Peterson's gonna be
Speaker 1: on Brandon Cooks, so he's I think he's gonna be
Speaker 1: absolutely started. There's gonna be gonna be grade that all
Speaker 1: averages out to a B grade, which puts him Josh
Speaker 1: Reynolds at a wide receiver to for the rest of
Speaker 1: the year question number two. But the rest of the
Speaker 1: year is Gus Edwards a running back? One running back
Speaker 1: to flex or bench? Matt I got him as a
Speaker 1: running back too, and we've only seen one sample, one
Speaker 1: game sample size out of Gus Edwards, so I I
Speaker 1: like what I saw in the first game. But his
Speaker 1: matchups are amazing and that's why he's in the In
Speaker 1: the conversation for an RB to the rest of the way,
Speaker 1: Oakland bottom ten versus running backs this week, Atlanta worst
Speaker 1: versus the running back, Kansas City second, Where's Tampa Bay fifth,
Speaker 1: whereas Chargers eleventh worst. There's no stoppers in there, so
Speaker 1: if Gus Edwards can hold onto that role, which I
Speaker 1: think is there is a little bit of an if there,
Speaker 1: I think he's an RB two. Okay, I don't have
Speaker 1: much to add other than a different answer. It's an
Speaker 1: amazing schedule, like Matt said, but I still have to
Speaker 1: go Lex. I can't call Gus Edwards an RB two
Speaker 1: moving forward, even though things are clicking with Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: the more tape that piles up defenses will be able
Speaker 1: to key in on that sort of pseudo option that
Speaker 1: they're running. I just can't say Gus Edwards is an
Speaker 1: RB two. So I'm just saying flex that's can't get yourself.
Speaker 1: You know, I cannot do it, not on a half
Speaker 1: of tape. I understand that. Um I watched all his
Speaker 1: carries for the year, uh a couple of days ago,
Speaker 1: and the kid looks pretty good. And I go back
Speaker 1: to Alex Collins averaging just three and a half yards
Speaker 1: per carry. He's hit four yards per carries, your general
Speaker 1: measuring stick on good and bad running backs, right, four
Speaker 1: yards per carry. He's hit four yards per carry in
Speaker 1: two games. It's week twelve, for Pete's sake. He's hit
Speaker 1: it for two hit four yards per carry two times.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be awfully easy to phase him out.
Speaker 1: Of this um and I think it's awfully easy for
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards to cement his starter's role because he's got
Speaker 1: Oakland Oakland such a bad, terrible run defense. I can
Speaker 1: just cements it right here and he gets the job
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. Nine The key is a
Speaker 1: solid RB two trending towards RB one, but correct answer
Speaker 1: running back to seven's hot question number three. Now, the
Speaker 1: full time starter in Tampa will Cameron Brad finishes a
Speaker 1: top five tight end or six through ten tight end
Speaker 1: or lower than ten Bryan. Alright, So, since since the
Speaker 1: start of last season, Brad has played in eighteen games
Speaker 1: with Jamis Winston as quarterback and seven without Jamis. In
Speaker 1: the eighteen games with Winston, Brad is averaging three catches
Speaker 1: per game for nearly forty yards and half a touchdown
Speaker 1: per game. Not I popping numbers, right, but they are
Speaker 1: when you consider in the seven games without Winston, Brad
Speaker 1: is averaging one and a half catches, thirteen yards and
Speaker 1: zero point one four touchdown. Stu Beard hates him, so
Speaker 1: that that delta is significant, and it's a nice schedule
Speaker 1: for Bright moving forward this week at San Francisco or
Speaker 1: San Francisco at home, Caroline at home is a very
Speaker 1: plus matchup for tight ends. New Orleans sort of neutral.
Speaker 1: Then at Baltimore seems scary, but as you said earlier, Church,
Speaker 1: they've allowed a tight end touchdown in three of the
Speaker 1: last four, and then that Dallas in week sixteen is
Speaker 1: a very positive matchup. I'm not going into week seventeen,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna go out on a whim and say
Speaker 1: top five tight end Cameron Bridd. Okay, Wow, Brian kind
Speaker 1: of mowed my lawn. But I came up with six
Speaker 1: to ten just because I think that there's five tight
Speaker 1: ends better than Cameron Braid. So are they, Uh, let's
Speaker 1: go Kelsey, Urts Okay, Kittle, Kittle, and then probably ebron
Speaker 1: And I like Vance McDonald. What about Cronk, No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't like Gronk, but Gronk is probably in the
Speaker 1: conversation with Cameron and Braid in the sixth to ten area,
Speaker 1: and so I think Cameron Braid he's the guy. I
Speaker 1: think the angle you guys missed out on here and
Speaker 1: good analysis is if you add together Howard and Brad's
Speaker 1: numbers together and knowing that their only other tight end
Speaker 1: on roster. A guy named Alan Cross is a full
Speaker 1: time blocker. He has one catch. All he does is block.
Speaker 1: So I think it's fair to roll together Howard and
Speaker 1: Braid or most of what they do together. If you
Speaker 1: roll their numbers together. On average this season, they average
Speaker 1: five receptions, seventy two yards and almost a touchdown per game.
Speaker 1: So who else is five receptions seventy two yards and
Speaker 1: almost a touchdown per game? We almost nobody, is the answer.
Speaker 1: You're getting George Kittle's level of receptions and yards which
Speaker 1: is crazy high, and Eric Ebrunn and Travis Kelsey's scores
Speaker 1: at almost a touchdown. You're getting almost the best of
Speaker 1: both of all the best tight ends out there rolled
Speaker 1: into one guy in Cameron Brad assuming they use them
Speaker 1: like they've used Howard and and Uh and Braid in
Speaker 1: the past. For that reason, he is a top five
Speaker 1: tight end. The rest of the way, let's move on
Speaker 1: through our matchups, and we still have several left to
Speaker 1: get to, including Seattle taking on Carolina matt This is
Speaker 1: the Seattle running back situation, frustrating and inexplicable for many people.
Speaker 1: Try to make sense of it. For us, well, I
Speaker 1: think Chris Carson re established himself as the top dog
Speaker 1: in that offense. He had seventeen carries for eighty three
Speaker 1: yards in a score last week against Green Bay. That
Speaker 1: was coming off of the injury. And remember Rashad Penny
Speaker 1: had the big game two weeks ago, but that's when
Speaker 1: Carson was inactive. So Penny's a guy who's going to
Speaker 1: be the change of pace back. He's gonna get eight
Speaker 1: touches per game. Carson is gonna be a guy getting
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty somewhere in there. And then they're gonna
Speaker 1: mix in Mike Davis as a receiving back sometimes too.
Speaker 1: All that equals out Chris Carson getting a C and
Speaker 1: Penny and Mike Davis on the bench. Because the Panthers
Speaker 1: have given up a rushing score and three of their
Speaker 1: last four games, but have only a lot of posing
Speaker 1: backfields to top a hundred yards once in their last eight.
Speaker 1: So Carson's just to see. Russell Wilson is a B
Speaker 1: grade in this game. Prior to allowing one score to
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford last week, the Panthers had allowed eight straight
Speaker 1: multi touchdown games to opposing quarterbacks, and the Panthers have
Speaker 1: the fifth highest blitz rate in the league. They're going
Speaker 1: up against the top rated quarterback in the league against
Speaker 1: the blitz that's Russell Wilson. So it's favoring Will in
Speaker 1: a little bit here. He's thrown for two or three
Speaker 1: scores nine times this season nine times, nine times, but
Speaker 1: he's only top three d yards once, so just to
Speaker 1: beat it makes sense. Yeah, um, Tyler Lockett, I'm giving
Speaker 1: him be and Doug Baldwin's seish grade if he goes,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't look probable for him. And I'll mention
Speaker 1: this groin injuries on wide receivers, no boy, no bad deal.
Speaker 1: That's a bad combo. When you're a receiver, it's all
Speaker 1: about cutting. You can't cut on the groin injury. So
Speaker 1: I think you gotta show a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of caution on Doug ball. I think Baldwin's ending up
Speaker 1: on most people's benches. The problem is that he looked
Speaker 1: last week and get it looks so good. I tweeted,
Speaker 1: finally we've got we've got like the healthy Doug Baldwin
Speaker 1: back because looking at that game, he looked fantastic. I
Speaker 1: forget the actual definition, but is it nut cutting time
Speaker 1: on Baldwin's groin injury. Yeah no, no, is it rusty.
Speaker 1: If he's got a rusty groin, then yeah, so I
Speaker 1: think that's what we've learned, all right. So obviously Baldwin
Speaker 1: didn't practice all week. They're coming off the long week
Speaker 1: because they played Thursday last week. This is this isn't
Speaker 1: looking good. If he doesn't go, Locket takes over as
Speaker 1: the primary slot wide receiver, where the Panthers have been
Speaker 1: torched by the likes of Tyler Boyd, Juju, Adam Humphrey,
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd, and Cole Beasley. Even if Lockett stays on
Speaker 1: the outside, he's still averaging a touchdown in every seven targets,
Speaker 1: So I like Locket as a B grade. On the
Speaker 1: other side, Cam gets an A. Seahawks have allowed three
Speaker 1: hundred more passing yards and two touchdowns and three of
Speaker 1: their last four calf He gets an A. In the
Speaker 1: last six games CMCs thirty one targets, he's trailing Devin
Speaker 1: Funches for the team lead by one. Speaking of punches,
Speaker 1: he's missed that as doubtful. I don't think he's gonna go, right,
Speaker 1: But you get Tori Smith back right excited? Oh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: d j Moore is the only wide receiver you need
Speaker 1: to consider her. He's just to see, why is he
Speaker 1: just to see if Funchess is out and Tory Smith
Speaker 1: sucks and they gotta pass to somebody, We're gonna pass
Speaker 1: the McCaffrey and they're gonna pass the Olsen. I gave
Speaker 1: him a C grade because I mean, how about he's
Speaker 1: been good for a month. He's been good. Only Julio
Speaker 1: Jones averages more yards per touch than more fifteen point seven.
Speaker 1: Three different wide receivers have topped eight yards against the
Speaker 1: Seahawks in the last two weeks, but that was the
Speaker 1: Rams and the Packers. So I think he's in the
Speaker 1: seventies yard range in this game. Maybe a coin flip
Speaker 1: at a touchdown. That's just the Sea grade for me.
Speaker 1: I like, I like him better than you do. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously do um Greg Olsen, I'm giving a B grade. Two.
Speaker 1: He's caught every target thrown his way in home games
Speaker 1: this year, they happened to be at home, and in
Speaker 1: the last two weeks the Seattle defense has given up
Speaker 1: every target has been caught by tight ends nine of
Speaker 1: nine against the Rams and Packers. So with Punchius out,
Speaker 1: I think Olsen becomes a focal point and I like
Speaker 1: him as a b I gotta believe a lot of
Speaker 1: he's been Uh, he's been very inconsistent. Olsen has Yes,
Speaker 1: this might be a good time to get on board.
Speaker 1: Is he cheap on fanball, Brian? I bet he is.
Speaker 1: He's this week so all right, because he's an actual,
Speaker 1: like real tight end. As an actual real tight end,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sneak in one more matchup Arizona taking on
Speaker 1: the Chargers. There's only one chart Arizona player with a
Speaker 1: starting grade, and that's David Johnson, who has been basically
Speaker 1: back to what we expected once Byron left, which took over,
Speaker 1: and he faces the Chargers defense, it's just middle of
Speaker 1: the pack against running backs on the ground and very
Speaker 1: vulnerable through the air, where they've given up the third
Speaker 1: most receiving yards and the fourth most receptions per game.
Speaker 1: David Johnson a grade. Everybody else is on the bench
Speaker 1: for Josh Rosen. He's improved enough to be startable and
Speaker 1: easy matchups, so but this is not one of them.
Speaker 1: The Charges have allowed the fewest passing touchdowns over the
Speaker 1: last month he's on the bench. Larry Fitzgerald has a
Speaker 1: brutal draw against excellent slack cornerback Desmond King, who's allowed
Speaker 1: just one touchdown in his coverage all season long. So
Speaker 1: I don't like him either in this game. And the
Speaker 1: Chargers over the last five games ranked seventh in receiving
Speaker 1: yards allowed to wide receivers. So Fitzgerald's out. And if
Speaker 1: I don't like Fitzgerald, that probably don't like Christian Cark.
Speaker 1: And he's got even tougher matchup with Casey Hayward. So
Speaker 1: Casey Hayward's giving up an average of twenty one yards
Speaker 1: and his coverage Kirk is dead to us too. What
Speaker 1: about Ricky Seals Jones, you might ask, well, Chargers are
Speaker 1: a beat of old defense for tight ends, but Ricky
Speaker 1: Seals Jones is averaging two and a half receptions per game.
Speaker 1: You just can't get. You just can't get two good
Speaker 1: fantasy numbers on two and a half targets per games.
Speaker 1: So that's it. They're all all the restaur out. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Chargers side, where there's a few guys
Speaker 1: to talk about more better. Um, Melvin Gordon's an obvious
Speaker 1: a with the one caveat that he's got a He's
Speaker 1: he has a true game time decision, and he's not,
Speaker 1: and what could otherwise be the best matchup of his
Speaker 1: entire year against arguably the worst run defense in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So if Gordon does go, absolutely start him. If he
Speaker 1: doesn't go, Austin Ekeler gets a huge upgrade, all the
Speaker 1: way up from the bench level that I've got him
Speaker 1: at right now, all the way up to probably a
Speaker 1: top ten running back. So I watched this one closely.
Speaker 1: If Eckler has been opped, and there's a decent chance
Speaker 1: he has been dropped because he's done nothing for like
Speaker 1: six weeks, go get him now and watch this thing close.
Speaker 1: It's there's a real chance it's a it's a later
Speaker 1: afternoon game. There's a real chance that Gordon doesn't go
Speaker 1: and Ekeler gets the start in a awesome matchup. And
Speaker 1: if you're absolutely desperate, I think his name is Josh Jackson,
Speaker 1: who would be the backup running back if Gordon was
Speaker 1: on the bench in what appears to be a blowout
Speaker 1: on the horizon for he could be viable if you're
Speaker 1: maybe Ubert desperate, if you have no other there's not
Speaker 1: many in gigantic leagues. Yeah, let's talk about the passing
Speaker 1: game here, Philip Rivers, it's uh. He is the only
Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL with multiple touchdowns in every game.
Speaker 1: It ends here. I'm calling my shot. This is gonna.
Speaker 1: This is the lowest ranking I have on Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: all season long. I've got him at quarterback fourteen right
Speaker 1: now in a B grade. Potentially it comes to an
Speaker 1: end if if the Chargers hybrid safety slot corner guy
Speaker 1: Buddha Baker does play. Now, if he doesn't play, then
Speaker 1: anything goes and then I'm I'm gonna move up. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna move Philip Rivers quite a bit up. But Buddha
Speaker 1: Baker is awesome, and he would take away largely neutralized
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen in the slot and Tyrolle Williams may not
Speaker 1: play in this game, and now we're running out of
Speaker 1: viable targets and so a lot of it really depends
Speaker 1: on Buddha Baker and if he goes. So, if Buddha
Speaker 1: Baker is in, then I'm worried about Philip Rivers. And
Speaker 1: Buddha Baker's out, then I love Rivers and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: move him up to an A. So and I don't
Speaker 1: know yet and we're not gonna know until kickoffs. So
Speaker 1: that's so if you really care about Philip Rivers, then
Speaker 1: you really care about Buddha Baker, because that brings us
Speaker 1: to Keenan Allen, who has been good lately, who has
Speaker 1: scored or clips the one yard mark in three straight games.
Speaker 1: But if Baker's plays, I think it's just a B
Speaker 1: grade on on Alan. If Baker is if if Baker
Speaker 1: is out, then Keenan Allen goes right to an A
Speaker 1: grade as he would face ben A ben Wickery. You
Speaker 1: may recall that Kristin Peterson wants verbed ben a ben Wicker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't want to be ben Wicker rise, dude, you
Speaker 1: never want to be ben Wicker rised. And there is
Speaker 1: a chance that that was benwick Rice himself. It was Julio.
Speaker 1: It was like, thank yeah, that's if it. I'd like
Speaker 1: to see Keenan Allen hit the three hundred. Don't been
Speaker 1: to benapen Wickery and he could do it twice. Man,
Speaker 1: wouldn't that be fun? All right? Last guy I mentioned,
Speaker 1: Tyroll Williams may not play, and even if he does,
Speaker 1: he's totally touchdown dependent and he probably draws Patrick Peterson.
Speaker 1: So he's dead to us two and again that brings
Speaker 1: me back to Philip Rivers. If we don't love Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen and Tyroll Williams is injured and he's got Patrick
Speaker 1: Peterson anyway, I don't know. I don't know where the
Speaker 1: passes go, so I get a little bit worried. Maybe
Speaker 1: Mike Williams. But that's that's it. When we come back,
Speaker 1: another set of matchups, including Cleveland taking on Cincinnati. Here's
Speaker 1: two slumping defenses and a lot of opportunities for sleepers.
Speaker 1: Will tell you what to do with guys like Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb when we come back. This is Fantasy Green Bell
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Speaker 1: go back to the matchups. Uh, Cleveland taking on Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Brian Nick Chubb has been great and this is a
Speaker 1: terrific matchup, and I think he's a pretty easy A.
Speaker 1: I'm more interested in what you have to say about
Speaker 1: the passing game. And if there's some angles here, let's
Speaker 1: uh and I'll set it up this way. A. J.
Speaker 1: Green downgraded too doubtful, so plan to not have him.
Speaker 1: But also, Drake Kirkpatrick, starting cornerback for the Bengals, is
Speaker 1: not expected to play in this game for an already
Speaker 1: really really bad secondary something called kaiv A Russell could
Speaker 1: be your starting cornerback. Well, I don't know where you
Speaker 1: want me to start now, And let's start with a
Speaker 1: little reality football talk. Cleveland going into this game has
Speaker 1: lost twenty five straight road games. They lose this game,
Speaker 1: they will tie the record set by the Detroit Lions
Speaker 1: from two thousand and seven. Certain little motivated, but they're
Speaker 1: gonna win. It's Christmas time now, so let's just start
Speaker 1: with jolly st Nick Chubb here. And here's the stat
Speaker 1: that illustrates how Chubb rises to the occasion and stands
Speaker 1: tall against stuffed boxes. When facing eight or more defenders
Speaker 1: in the box, Chubb is averaging an insane eight point
Speaker 1: two yards per Carrie really he's snuffing that against stuff boxes.
Speaker 1: That's the stat from Graham Barfield. Very appreciative that one.
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, chubbing easy a in this matchup Duke Johnson,
Speaker 1: this can't give him a c here has been pretty
Speaker 1: hot recently, but m and even though Football Outsiders has
Speaker 1: since he ranked dead last in defending running backs as receivers,
Speaker 1: which would suggest this to say could match up. It would,
Speaker 1: but only four running backs have caught at least five
Speaker 1: passes against the Bengals, and only one running back has
Speaker 1: topped sixty receiving yards, and that's when Kenyan Drake had
Speaker 1: seven for sixty nine nice yards and a touchdown. But
Speaker 1: so just to see for Johnson and this one, I
Speaker 1: like Landry a whole lot more Jarvis that is going
Speaker 1: to give him an a here despite yardage totals of
Speaker 1: twenty two, fifty and thirty nine over his last three
Speaker 1: games with zero touchdowns. Pretty gross, but Cincinnati obviously reeling
Speaker 1: on defense and slot received slot receivers have had success
Speaker 1: against the Bengals as of late. Really Snead, Adam Humphreys,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Kill, Juju, Mohammed Sanu all big games. So Jarvis
Speaker 1: Landry in line for one as well. David and Joku
Speaker 1: gonna give him a BE despite being questionable. He seems
Speaker 1: more like probable than question here since he allowing roughly
Speaker 1: fifty yards and half a touchdown to opposing tight ends.
Speaker 1: But they've really faced a stars and scrubs list of
Speaker 1: tight ends thus far, the quote unquote stars or really
Speaker 1: like the more comparable notework noteworthy tight ends I've done
Speaker 1: well against since the lebron a tron had four for
Speaker 1: fifty one to touchdown, Jack Doyle seven for sixty Vance
Speaker 1: McDonald seven for sixty eight, Kelsey five O. J. Howard scored.
Speaker 1: So when Joeco startable with a B and Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: is Matt's take a chance of a quarterback? I was
Speaker 1: gonna give him an A, so I'll give it. I'll
Speaker 1: give him a C. I guess for that reason, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry I had to throw under the blank. That was
Speaker 1: an easy one. Very nice play our call on Mayfield.
Speaker 1: There over to the sinc side A J. Green news
Speaker 1: unlikely to play now we'll never No one expects him
Speaker 1: to play this. No, he's not playing, so he is
Speaker 1: not playing, which doesn't really bode well for Tyler Boyd.
Speaker 1: He's done much better with Green in the lineup. He
Speaker 1: still has a safe PPR floor, as he's posted double
Speaker 1: digit points in both the games without Green in the lineup,
Speaker 1: and the Browns are top six and targets, red zone
Speaker 1: targets and red zone touches yielded to opposing wide receivers.
Speaker 1: So Boyd still gets to be here, and with no
Speaker 1: A J. Green, that bumps up John Ross into starting territory.
Speaker 1: I feel like the soft sea Uh was targeted seven
Speaker 1: times and caught a touchdown against Baltimore last week, a
Speaker 1: much tougher matchup than the Browns, So I'll give Ross
Speaker 1: a C. But C J Uzoma the US has really
Speaker 1: fallen off. I'm gonna put him on the bench here. Uh.
Speaker 1: A J's absence has not done him any favors either,
Speaker 1: and there are at least fifteen other tight ends. I'd
Speaker 1: start over Ouzy this week and Andy Dalton gonna give
Speaker 1: him a c. Uh. He's struggled without A J. Green
Speaker 1: as well. Has combined for just three and sixty four
Speaker 1: yards and three touchdowns in the two games without Green.
Speaker 1: He was posting those numbers in one game with A J.
Speaker 1: So just to see for him, but in a for
Speaker 1: mixing U Joe Mixon coming off back to back brutal
Speaker 1: matchups against the Saints and Ravens. Quite the different story
Speaker 1: with Cleveland, who has allowed fifty one runs of ten
Speaker 1: or more yards, the most in the league, and they've
Speaker 1: allowed twelve rushing touchdowns alone to running back. So mixing
Speaker 1: gets an A yeah, I like, I do like mixing here.
Speaker 1: I've your offensive line is playing a little better and
Speaker 1: they've been banged up some, but nevertheless it feels like
Speaker 1: a good play. But the whole offense is not the
Speaker 1: same without a J Green for sure. How about this?
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackson is going to be on the other side
Speaker 1: of the field as Cleveland ends the futility streak that
Speaker 1: he was personally responsible for. Isn't that just delicious? Cleveland?
Speaker 1: Everyone's pulling for Cleveland. Everybody's pulled I am, even Bengals
Speaker 1: fans probably if probably, are there any of those Bengals
Speaker 1: still in the playoff hunt? They're always in the hunt.
Speaker 1: They're always in the hunt. Well, last year, they weren't.
Speaker 1: Last they weren't even in it. They weren't even in
Speaker 1: the hunt. Tennessee takes on Houston, Matt This is uh,
Speaker 1: this is a matchup between a swamping Tennessee offense and
Speaker 1: a surge in Houston defense. And I don't like many
Speaker 1: players from the Tennessee side. Yeah, I don't either. I
Speaker 1: get I give a tepid Derrick Henry C grade uh
Speaker 1: for him he might take a chance on me runner,
Speaker 1: And then I gave Dion Lewis a C grade as well.
Speaker 1: After back to back twenty touch games, Lewis only tally
Speaker 1: eleven touches for thirty two combined yards last week against
Speaker 1: Indie and mentioned that the touchdowns the Texans have given
Speaker 1: up in the Henry take a chance on me segment.
Speaker 1: They've also allowed five running back receiving touchdowns on the year.
Speaker 1: That's the second most in the NFL. So the angle
Speaker 1: and the only reason I think there's what do you
Speaker 1: give him a SE grade? Yeah? See grade on Lewis,
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota and Blaine Gabbert. Whichever one ends up starting,
Speaker 1: it sounds like it's gonna be Mariota, but they're both
Speaker 1: on the bench. He exited last week's game with what's
Speaker 1: what was described as a next stinger. Either way, it's
Speaker 1: a bad matchup. The Texans are allowing the sixth fewest
Speaker 1: passing yards per game this season and have not allowed
Speaker 1: a rushing touchdown to a quarterback all year. UH. That
Speaker 1: means Corey Davis and the rest of the receivers around
Speaker 1: the bench. The Texans haven't allowed a wide receiver score
Speaker 1: in four games, and the last time they played each other,
Speaker 1: Davis had a meager five catches for fifty five yards.
Speaker 1: If you need a dart throw on some sort of
Speaker 1: Tennessee receiver, it's John wu Smith the tight end. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's been teetering on top ten tight end points in
Speaker 1: the last month, and the Texans have allowed eighteen receptions
Speaker 1: yards and two touchdowns to opposing tight ends in just
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. So if anything, and you need
Speaker 1: a guy desperately because this is the Monday night game
Speaker 1: and somebody came up lame, he's flexible. I guess I
Speaker 1: have to start him in my league with Kelsey. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Over on the other side, DeAndre Hopkins is an obvious A,
Speaker 1: Demarius Thomas is an obvious bench and Kiki Cutie is
Speaker 1: a C grade. In his return last week, he had
Speaker 1: thirty seven and a half percent of the team's targets.
Speaker 1: In his fourth games, he scored or topped seventy five
Speaker 1: yards in three of them, and over the last month,
Speaker 1: Tennessee is allowing two receiving yards per game to wide
Speaker 1: receivers and almost two touchdowns per game. So there's plenty
Speaker 1: to go around between Hopkins and Cutie, and Cutie's large
Speaker 1: is largely unowned, right I mean it? Not? Well, that's
Speaker 1: that's a stretch went up, down, up and down because
Speaker 1: he's been injured a few times. So, uh, Deshaun Watson,
Speaker 1: I'm giving only a C grade too. He's yeah, he's
Speaker 1: a high upside play here, as evidenced by his five
Speaker 1: touchdown first in Week eight against Miami. Look at this.
Speaker 1: Outside of that game, he's thrown for one or two
Speaker 1: touchdowns in every game. Like you said, oh I heard
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins Watts, Sorry, never mind, I should never be
Speaker 1: able to get those two straight. Okay, alright, se grade
Speaker 1: on you. If I could do a wah backwards, that
Speaker 1: would be it. So Watson one or two touchdowns in
Speaker 1: every game hasn't top two or thirty nine passing yards
Speaker 1: in his last five outings. In those last five games,
Speaker 1: he's only topped fourteen rushing yards once, and he's only
Speaker 1: got one rushing touchdown on the season, so he's only
Speaker 1: a C grade. I'll jump in on Watson. The problem
Speaker 1: for Watson is volume. He hasn't topped twenty five passes
Speaker 1: in five straight games, and you just you can't. They're
Speaker 1: just not throwing. No, I mean nobody, not even Andrew Luck.
Speaker 1: They're not throwing and he's not running, so he's he's
Speaker 1: not getting points. You just hit soon your quarterback. To
Speaker 1: get it can distant high level of fantasy production. You
Speaker 1: have to throw more than twenty five times, and he
Speaker 1: never does. They never led him. Last guy i'll mention
Speaker 1: is Lamar Miller. He's on the bench. Only one team
Speaker 1: has topped a hundred yards against the Titans in their
Speaker 1: last five, and that was Indianapolis last week. In that game,
Speaker 1: Marlon Mack did score, but it took him sixteen carries
Speaker 1: to get a poultry sixty one yards. In their first meeting,
Speaker 1: Miller was held to sixty eight scoreless yards. He's only
Speaker 1: scored on the ground twice this year, and it's a
Speaker 1: tough matchup. He's on your bench. This is Fantasy Football
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Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan Um, I saw sauce
Speaker 1: in her earlier is it pregame show Gophers? Now that's
Speaker 1: too early? What what are we doing? What's what's after this?
Speaker 1: We got Gophers pregames starting at alright, fantastic. Uh, well
Speaker 1: you will want to stay tune for that finals final
Speaker 1: premature speculation of the year. Yes, Brian, if they beat us, Uh,
Speaker 1: they're gonna keep the ax, but they're gonna take our
Speaker 1: oars to Yes, they they can have the ars um.
Speaker 1: That ax is really big. It could double as an
Speaker 1: order um final premature speculation for two reasons. One, it
Speaker 1: starts being being increasingly meaningless as the season goes on,
Speaker 1: but also because beginning next year when any teams on
Speaker 1: by frankly, we just need the time to get to
Speaker 1: all the matchups and get all the matchups in so
Speaker 1: final premature speculation, Brian, go alright, whether you're a Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley owner or not, let's go out and grab Malcolm Brown,
Speaker 1: the backup running back in l A averaging five yards
Speaker 1: per carry on forty one carries this here. Uh. And
Speaker 1: if you hadn't notice until yesterday, I hadn't. Gurley has
Speaker 1: top six team carries just once in his last five games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're trying. They're trying to save him for the playoffs
Speaker 1: a little bit. And here's the scenario that's scary. They
Speaker 1: have the same record with the Saints, who owned the
Speaker 1: ty tiebreaker because they beat the Rams. The Rams are
Speaker 1: at Detroit next week, probably win, but then on the
Speaker 1: road again at Chicago that which is a tough one.
Speaker 1: Next two games for Saints not too tough. So if
Speaker 1: if point being, if the Rams lose that Chicago game
Speaker 1: and the Saints when they're next to they're shutting it
Speaker 1: down because they will essentially clinch the not getting the
Speaker 1: number one So then you're looking at backups going into
Speaker 1: week fifteen. I don't think they can clinch that early though.
Speaker 1: I think their clinches like maybe sixteen for the championship
Speaker 1: game pretty much. If the garantee they're not gonna get
Speaker 1: the number one seed if they lose. If the Bears
Speaker 1: beat the Rams, then the Bears hold the tiebreaker and
Speaker 1: the Rams would only be one game up. Is probably good.
Speaker 1: Matt Mind's a lot quicker. It's time Montgomery Packer fans
Speaker 1: may remember him. He's now a Baltimore Raven reason. Gus
Speaker 1: Edwards has one career catch Wow. Next week time Montgomery
Speaker 1: gets the Falcons, the epically bad past receiving running against
Speaker 1: running backs defense the Atlanta Falcons. The week after at
Speaker 1: he gets the Chiefs and they're almost as bad. They've
Speaker 1: allowed the second most receptions to running backs, the most yards,
Speaker 1: and the most touchdowns to opposing runners through the air.
Speaker 1: So I'm not really worried about Javorious buck Allen, who
Speaker 1: shaved charges Amster long ago. He did time Montgomery might
Speaker 1: come in and be the receiving back here and let's
Speaker 1: give a shot. All right, Um, I am going with
Speaker 1: Dante Pettis the wide receiver, and this is more for
Speaker 1: Dynasty and Empire leagues really, so let me let me
Speaker 1: clarify for the rest of the season, I don't really
Speaker 1: care about Dante Pettis. I'm talking to you guys that
Speaker 1: are in Dynasty and Empire leagues. A two things. Number One,
Speaker 1: Cal Shanahan is totally legit as an offensive coach, and
Speaker 1: that nine Ers offense is going to continue to only
Speaker 1: get better. Jimmy Garoppolo coming back, they're gonna be They're
Speaker 1: gonna watch their hands of pre Garson. You're gonna watch
Speaker 1: the starting wide receiver for the forty Niners and that
Speaker 1: at Week one next year it's gonna be Goodwin and
Speaker 1: Dante Pettis just to pile on a little bit. They
Speaker 1: moved up to get at him in the second round
Speaker 1: of the draft. They wanted Pettis, and he had a
Speaker 1: great first game with Garoppolo and he got injured in
Speaker 1: the second game on like a thirty yard catch. So
Speaker 1: it was off to a great start and he's just
Speaker 1: come back. I love it. So I know all your
Speaker 1: Dynasty and Empire leaguers, some of you are out of
Speaker 1: it and you can afford to, you know, just start thinking.
Speaker 1: You're already thinking about next year, regardless if you're in
Speaker 1: or out of it. Dante Pettis is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite stashes for nineteen. Go get him now. You could
Speaker 1: start him against Tampa Bay this week. I thought he
Speaker 1: was almost might take a chance of me receive this,
Speaker 1: So yeah, go get him. Um final matchup is Vikings
Speaker 1: versus Packers on Sunday night. Flipping pages to get to
Speaker 1: that one, we begin with Aaron Rodgers. The Vikings secondary's
Speaker 1: been terrific for five straight games, giving up get this
Speaker 1: one ninety four yards and zero point six touchdowns. Per
Speaker 1: game one six and zero point six. Wow. In the
Speaker 1: first meeting this season between the teams, Rogers was held
Speaker 1: to just two eighteen yards in one score. Now, in fairness,
Speaker 1: he was playing that game on half a knee, but still,
Speaker 1: but you need to Any time you can keep Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers full game plus overtime eighteen yards in one score,
Speaker 1: you've done something right. And going back, Rogers has thrown
Speaker 1: zero or one touchdowns and four out of the last
Speaker 1: five against Minnesota, and either Jimmy Graham won't play or
Speaker 1: he's gonna try to play with some kind of contraption
Speaker 1: around his thumb to try to protect it, so he's
Speaker 1: short of receiver there too. So oh no. The best
Speaker 1: I can muster for Aaron Rodgers is a B grade,
Speaker 1: and that's mostly just because he's the best quarterback in
Speaker 1: the NFL. I could if here anybody else's name on this,
Speaker 1: he would probably be a C grade. Let's go to
Speaker 1: his receivers. Davante Adams gets another it's another just respect grade.
Speaker 1: He gets an A grade here, but he gets Xavier
Speaker 1: Rhodes for most of this game, and Xavier has been
Speaker 1: great lately. He's limited receivers to thirty seven or fewer
Speaker 1: yards in his coverage in four straight games. UM. That said,
Speaker 1: he has given up a season high nine catches for
Speaker 1: seventy five yards against the Packers. Are the Packers UH.
Speaker 1: Davante Adams had a season high nine catches seventy five
Speaker 1: yards against the Vikings in in in UH in week
Speaker 1: number two, and he's been basically beating the opposing team's
Speaker 1: best coverage all season long. So Davante Adams remains in
Speaker 1: a all the rest of the receivers are on the bench.
Speaker 1: Marcus Velda Scandling may or may not play in the
Speaker 1: slot again, but then the Randall Cobb is up to
Speaker 1: questionable and he might split time. And then Marcus Vandis
Speaker 1: Scandling wasn't getting any activity anyway since he moved to
Speaker 1: the slot, so he's dead to us and y Marques
Speaker 1: Valdez Scantling vs mvs UM. Let's talk about the running
Speaker 1: back situation. I love Aaron Jones and he's been great,
Speaker 1: but the Vikings very tough to run upon as well.
Speaker 1: They've given up two rushing touchdowns all year. That's it
Speaker 1: right now, That's number one in the NFL. It had
Speaker 1: been had been the Bears, where they gave up a
Speaker 1: couple of them to get on yes two days ago
Speaker 1: um and the Vikings are giving up just three point
Speaker 1: six yards per carry, so now he does have an
Speaker 1: angle through the air. The Vikings um aren't as good.
Speaker 1: They're his targets. Receptions and receiving yards have increased in
Speaker 1: each of the past four weeks for Aaron Jones, culminating
Speaker 1: in sixty three yards and score last week the Vikings
Speaker 1: ranked twenty four and running back receptions and and they
Speaker 1: do get Anthony Barr back though, and that should help.
Speaker 1: I think he'll pick up Aaron Jones out of the
Speaker 1: backfield a lot. But that's why he gets a B
Speaker 1: grade is because of what he could do through the air,
Speaker 1: more so than what he would do on the ground.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Viking side. Kirk Cousins gets a
Speaker 1: B grade in this game. Let me let's note that
Speaker 1: the Green Bay secondary has just taken a beating with
Speaker 1: injuries Kevin King, Kentro, Bryce, Raven Green, but Shot Brelan
Speaker 1: all or some of them will miss game this game.
Speaker 1: And I don't know yet all of them yet except
Speaker 1: I think Raven Green has been ruled out. I think
Speaker 1: the rest are all shaping up his game time decisions.
Speaker 1: It's um it could be a very good opportunity for
Speaker 1: a bounce back game for Cousins against a bunch of
Speaker 1: second stringers. UM Since Week four, though cousins average game
Speaker 1: is just two undred sixty yards and one and a
Speaker 1: half touchdowns and obviously coming out of a bad game
Speaker 1: in Chicago, still a B grade for Cousins. A grade
Speaker 1: for Stefen Diggs after a career high eighteen targets last week,
Speaker 1: He's now just one of four NFL receivers to get
Speaker 1: double digit targets and at least seven different games, and
Speaker 1: that kind of volume generally makes Diggs very safe. They'll
Speaker 1: see a lot of the Packers rookie JR. Alexander, who
Speaker 1: is their best cornerback, but it's still a plus matchup
Speaker 1: for Stefon Diggs against the rookie Adam Theeland also in
Speaker 1: a grade. Three of Theland's last four games against Green
Speaker 1: Bay have been very good with at least nineties seven yards,
Speaker 1: including his massive Week two game where he had twelve
Speaker 1: catches hundred thirty one yards in a score. And now
Speaker 1: with JR. Alexander moving to the outside, that puts Bishot
Speaker 1: Breland and if he can even play into the nickel spot,
Speaker 1: assuming that Breland can go, and even if Briland does go,
Speaker 1: he's a subpart starter. So Theeland's got a fantastic matchup
Speaker 1: and I could easily see him bouncing back to the
Speaker 1: production that we saw through September and October. Staying with
Speaker 1: the passing game, I've got Kyle Rudolph on the bench
Speaker 1: who has disappeared from the Vikings offense. He did to
Speaker 1: have his best game at the year against the Packers
Speaker 1: in Week two, but since then just averaging three catches
Speaker 1: thirty three yards. We'd like to see a little more
Speaker 1: from Kyle Rudolph. I'm assuming they're asking him to block
Speaker 1: more to make up for some deficiencies across the offensive line.
Speaker 1: And lastly, let's mention Dalvin Cook. Only the Giants and
Speaker 1: Bengals have fewer rushing attempts than the Vikings do, and
Speaker 1: I can understand why Dalvin Cook hasn't been able to
Speaker 1: get it going. And if you take away a seventy
Speaker 1: yard run against the Lions, which isn't really fair, but
Speaker 1: if you do take it away, he's only averaging two
Speaker 1: point four yards per carry um. This still is a
Speaker 1: good opportunity, however, because the Packers are giving up four
Speaker 1: and a half yards per carry and they're now without
Speaker 1: their run stuffing defensive tackle. Mike Daniel is one of
Speaker 1: the best in the business, and he is not He
Speaker 1: is not expected to play. In fact, I think they've
Speaker 1: officially ruled him out. Seattle just ran for one hundred
Speaker 1: fifty one yards against Green Bay without Mike Daniels, so
Speaker 1: I think this is a nice opportunity for a bounce
Speaker 1: back game for Dalvin. For Dalvin Cook, you could even
Speaker 1: try Lottavius Murray. You know the bit here. He's an
Speaker 1: up the middle runner. That's where Mike Daniels would have
Speaker 1: been plausible. Dart throw for a rushing touchdown and a
Speaker 1: C grade for Lotavius Murray. It is time for lightning round.
Speaker 1: All your questions answered. They must be in the form
Speaker 1: of one question between two players. Thank you for your patients.
Speaker 1: Everybody has been holding for a very long time, including Mike. Hello, Mike,
Speaker 1: pr say it again, Mike, it was Connor and Michelle.
Speaker 1: I'm doing Michelle in this game. I don't like the
Speaker 1: matchup for Connor and Michelle is gonna get twenty carries
Speaker 1: in this game. Okay, Steve, Hello Steve, you've been holding
Speaker 1: for two Okay, there we go, Ah Brown Brown, I
Speaker 1: guess the Raiders. Yeah, Mike, Mike will Ms might be Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's Brown's Brown. If Tyroll Williams doesn't go, I could
Speaker 1: see maybe going Mike Williams, but he didn't mention the
Speaker 1: Michael Crabtree revenge game. By the way, that's true and
Speaker 1: probably doesn't bear mentioning. Alex You're next? Yeah, I need
Speaker 1: to go Chris Carson or Gus Edward. That point Gus
Speaker 1: Edward's baby. I love Gus in a fantastic matchup. Uh, Mike,
Speaker 1: you are next? Hi? Hi? So do I keeps or
Speaker 1: do I start Sterling Shepherd? We're best at two around here.
Speaker 1: Luck he had a cute kid. Sterling Shepherd is the answer.
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd. Adam, Hello, Hi guys, Nick Bullens or Andy Dalton? Yea,
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. Still I don't feel great about it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Ben you are next? All right, guys, I got cut
Speaker 1: down heavy. I'm dealing with the Melvin Gordon situation. Contree games. Okay,
Speaker 1: do I drop um my guy and go for I
Speaker 1: guess Duke Johnson when I have Rubb already or Jones.
Speaker 1: I'm not totally sure what you're asking, but you can't
Speaker 1: do you think he has Chubb already? Shepherd is your question, Ben,
Speaker 1: It's it's gotta be Shepherd this week. Shepherd. Awesome matchup,
Speaker 1: barely gotta see Okay, thank you, Ben, Chad, You're next
Speaker 1: born in the standard scoring Tony Mitchelle or Aaron Jones.
Speaker 1: Thank God. I like Michelle this week. I like him
Speaker 1: a lot. I like Jones as well, but Michelle is
Speaker 1: my guy. Hi, Sue Hi, Um, Kirk Cousins or Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna go Kirk Cousins. I think that's
Speaker 1: the only way the Vikings can really generate points in
Speaker 1: this game, as Cousins throwing three to four touchdowns. Rocko,
Speaker 1: you are next, Hey, guys, I rick it with Doug Baldwin.
Speaker 1: We're trying to pick up J. Moore. It was Baldwin
Speaker 1: or d J. Moore. Let's go d J. Moore. I
Speaker 1: like that. I like the matchup anyway, and I just
Speaker 1: I just don't think Baldwin's gonna go. And I don't
Speaker 1: like starting a wide receiver of the groin injury anyway,
Speaker 1: because those guys get knocked out of games and reinjured
Speaker 1: themselves all the time. I think he mentioned that he
Speaker 1: might be dropping Doug Baldwin to make this move for
Speaker 1: d J. Moore. Still I still might do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's sabotage. Drop time on Doug Baldwin, could
Speaker 1: be Bob Your next, Hi, guys, both point PPR Flood,
Speaker 1: Corey Davis or Jack Doyle. I had both of these
Speaker 1: guys and my my matchups, and I gave Jack Doyle
Speaker 1: a starting grade and Corey Davis a bench grade. So
Speaker 1: there we go. There we have it. Dan, you're next
Speaker 1: on the fan. Dan, Hello, all right, we're moving on. Chuck,
Speaker 1: you're on the fan. Hey, standard scoring. Keenan Allen or
Speaker 1: Eric Key Uh. Keenan Allen, particularly if Buddha Baker does
Speaker 1: does not go. But even if Buda Baker goes, I
Speaker 1: think I'd still go. Keena. Now you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: make the decision before that anyway, YEA, Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: Keenan all Mark, you're next. Hey, guys, great, say it
Speaker 1: again for NET or for NET. I don't like the
Speaker 1: Connor Connor's matchup this week. It's tough in Denver for NETS.
Speaker 1: We guy all right, uh, Tom, you are next. Um,
Speaker 1: should I drop Peyton Barber and pick up Malcolm Brown
Speaker 1: and take him from the Todd Gurley owner. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I like that. Sneaky underhanded, but this is
Speaker 1: the strategy. This is the strategy you need. Right, he's
Speaker 1: the kinds of Uh, it's not underhanded. It's just good strategy,
Speaker 1: that's all. It is. Revival of the fittest. Absolutely um.
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