Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly
Speaker 2: source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. Now
Speaker 2: along with the guys from Guillotine Leagues dot com. Here's
Speaker 2: your host, Paulian.
Speaker 1: It is hardware week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, championship week.
Speaker 1: If you're listening right now, that probably means you've got
Speaker 1: at least one team left in a championship situation. We
Speaker 1: are here to guide you to the hardware. I'm Paul
Speaker 1: Charchie and co host today Matt Harrison and Thorneistrom.
Speaker 4: Hey, guys, I I hope it's more than like two
Speaker 4: twelfths of like the fantasy players out there listening. Still,
Speaker 4: it might be.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think a lot of people get pretty
Speaker 1: bitter about fantasy football when they get when they get eliminated.
Speaker 1: I certainly do, yeah, And so I mean, I understand you.
Speaker 1: You have no leagues left, and you're like di, I
Speaker 1: can't listen to people who care right.
Speaker 3: Now, and I have no team alive.
Speaker 4: That was rude when Thor came in and just threw
Speaker 4: the copy machine across the building, and so angry.
Speaker 1: I watch off of space last night. So we've got
Speaker 1: plenty to get to. We're gonna break down all the
Speaker 1: games and there's there's with all the injuries that have
Speaker 1: mounted here at the end of the season, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of moving parts in these We're gonna try to
Speaker 1: give you the best advice with what we know about
Speaker 1: the injury situations. We've got the take a chance of
Speaker 1: me players that still count for various people in various situations.
Speaker 1: And we'll answer three tough questions, all forward looking as
Speaker 1: we look to next year. Let's begin with the Patriots
Speaker 1: taking on the Bills. And by the way, before we
Speaker 1: even get to that, Matt like remind listeners, don't like
Speaker 1: unsubscribe now, you know we keep going. We're fifty two
Speaker 1: weeks a year, that's true, don't unsubscribe.
Speaker 4: And we have thorn Nystrom and nobody knows the NFL
Speaker 4: draft better than thor Nystroms.
Speaker 1: Season is coming, yeah, all right, time of the year.
Speaker 1: Our off season is going to be so much more
Speaker 1: informed than it has been in years past. Best time
Speaker 1: of the year, draft season. I can't wait. See then,
Speaker 1: would you have been talking about Pooka Nakua? You talked
Speaker 1: about it here on this show in August. Would you
Speaker 1: have been talking about it on Fantasy Football Weekly in March?
Speaker 5: Well, yes, yeah, because we discovered him at the Senior
Speaker 5: Bowl last year, you know, and and at b YU
Speaker 5: he had flashed when he was on the field. It
Speaker 5: was just the injury thing, and then he didn't test
Speaker 5: quite as well. But he dusted people when he was
Speaker 5: on the field, and we are going to point people
Speaker 5: to sleepers.
Speaker 1: Early on, I was looking at Jaron Hall going back
Speaker 1: through some Jared Hall BYU taped to just because he's
Speaker 1: starting for the Vikings. We'll talk about that at the
Speaker 1: end of the show as we do that matchup. Man,
Speaker 1: he had he had some deep downfield connections to Pooka
Speaker 1: and Puka was just shreddinged dudes.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, when Pooka was on the field, Jaren Hall
Speaker 5: was good. When Pucka was not on the field, for By,
Speaker 5: I was about it not as good.
Speaker 1: Well, he's got justin Jefferson.
Speaker 4: It's pretty good.
Speaker 1: He does sign back to Patriots Bills. Man, let's start
Speaker 1: on the Patriots side. There's only one player that really
Speaker 1: is meaningful here for this week, Ezekiel Elliott. He's been
Speaker 1: pretty good the last since Romandre Stevenson's been out. He's
Speaker 1: out for this one. Do you like him here?
Speaker 4: Sure? You just did the Patriots side of my matchup
Speaker 4: for me? That's a B grade for Elliott. He probably
Speaker 4: gets another twenty touches this week, and the Bills are
Speaker 4: allowing four point four yards per carry. That's sixth worst
Speaker 4: in the league. They're also bottom ten in both receptions
Speaker 4: and receiving yards allowed to opposing backs, and Zeke had
Speaker 4: eleven targets and nine catches last week. In fact, he's
Speaker 4: averaging seven catches over the past three weeks with Bailey Zappi,
Speaker 4: so lot of PPR work for Zeke here, but the
Speaker 4: entire passing game for the Pats is on the bench.
Speaker 4: Zappi has looked serviceable over the past few weeks, but
Speaker 4: the Bills are top eight in passing yards and passing
Speaker 4: scores allowed, so the matchup is brutal. On the Bill side.
Speaker 4: Josh Allen easya over his last five meetings with the Patriots,
Speaker 4: he's averaging two hundred and seventy three yards and three
Speaker 4: passing scores per game, and he's never had fewer than
Speaker 4: sixteen rushing yards against New England, so he'll add on
Speaker 4: a little bit there. But Stefan Diggs, that one's a
Speaker 4: little more interesting.
Speaker 1: How about this championship week you might have to bench
Speaker 1: stuff on Diggs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he hasn't been very digsy since Week six. That
Speaker 4: was the last time he hit one hundred yards. He's
Speaker 4: only scored three times in the past nine games. The
Speaker 4: Pats defense has been middle of the pack against wide receivers.
Speaker 4: They've allowed a big day recently to Rashie Rice, but
Speaker 4: pretty much held almost every other wide receiver in check
Speaker 4: and looking through the corners. Only Jonathan Jones has a
Speaker 4: passer rating under one hundred and his coverage though, so
Speaker 4: the matchups still okay. I kind of like this as
Speaker 4: a get right game for Bills and Digs here. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna give him a B grade. I don't feel as
Speaker 4: confident about Gabe Davis. I don't know how you could.
Speaker 4: He's either boom or bust. His last four games include
Speaker 4: one oh five in a score, one thirty in a score,
Speaker 4: and two games where he didn't catch a pass. So
Speaker 4: you're absolutely playing with fire if starting him. But maybe
Speaker 4: you went up against some of the guys on Thursday night,
Speaker 4: like Bryce Hall, who had a nice big game. Maybe
Speaker 4: you need that boom er bus player. In that case,
Speaker 4: you can start Gabe Davis with a C grade. You
Speaker 4: cannot start Dalton Kincaid or Dawson Knox. Or Dawson Kincaid
Speaker 4: or Dalton Knox neither are getting targets right now since
Speaker 4: Knox return. Kinkaid is seeing three point six targets per
Speaker 4: game and Knox is only getting one point six. And
Speaker 4: the Pats have the second best tight end defense in
Speaker 4: the league, so they're all on the bench. If you're
Speaker 4: in a league it's just a redraft league, you can
Speaker 4: drop Dalton Kincaid and use that roster spot to block
Speaker 4: an opponent, or find a little depth and maybe find
Speaker 4: a good guy that we got a lot of good
Speaker 4: guys that we're going to talk about and take a
Speaker 4: chance on me. Lastly, James Cook. He gets a B grade.
Speaker 4: The workload has been fantastic over the last month, but
Speaker 4: the Patriots haven't allowed a runner to top seventy yards
Speaker 4: on the ground since Week seven. They do allow a
Speaker 4: lot of opposing running backs through the air damage though
Speaker 4: in their last three games alone, opposing backs are averaging
Speaker 4: almost nine receptions per game and about sixty receiving yards
Speaker 4: per game. That's a ton of work through the air,
Speaker 4: and I think James Cook gets almost all of it,
Speaker 4: even though Leonard Fournette, Hey, he was active last week.
Speaker 1: How about that. Yeah, doesn't worry me a lot, not
Speaker 1: at all. Cook does worry me. I think this is
Speaker 1: this is a tricky matchup. It's a tricky spot for him.
Speaker 1: Let's go over to Saints Bucks thor Derek Carr. I've
Speaker 1: got some interest in Derek Carr. In fact, I forgot
Speaker 1: he's might take a chance and I move this one
Speaker 1: to the first segment in my mistake, am I allowed
Speaker 1: to say a couple of things about Derek Carr? Save
Speaker 1: it for my take a chance? Okay? All right? Spoiler alert,
Speaker 1: Yes I like him a lot too. Yes, but also
Speaker 1: my wide receivers in this matchup. You know who that
Speaker 1: is and mutual love their charity, that's right. So you
Speaker 1: can't talk about him either, Yeah, yeah, so yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: wait on that one.
Speaker 5: Alvin Kamara, I'm giving an a It's also a good
Speaker 5: matchup for him. RB three and Fantasy points per game
Speaker 5: number one. In targets, the Bucks struggled to tackle and
Speaker 5: as you guys know, Kamara breaks a lot of them
Speaker 5: Bucks up the six highest misstackle rates since week eleven.
Speaker 5: The volume, of course, is going to be there for Kamaras,
Speaker 5: so it goes without saying. Chris Olave also in a
Speaker 5: the Bucks have allowed the most receiving yards to wide receivers.
Speaker 5: I think Church will probably get into that a little
Speaker 5: bit more he started talking about it, But yeah, Olave.
Speaker 1: Is definitely an A. Yeah, love Olave here, love him.
Speaker 5: You have to keep Taysom Hill on the bench after
Speaker 5: what we've seen in the last two games. He only
Speaker 5: had one point seven total PPR points combined against the Giants,
Speaker 5: and Rams only played twenty two snaps in those games combine.
Speaker 5: You just can't trust the usage in a championship game,
Speaker 5: or I wouldn't be able to. I gotta keep him
Speaker 5: on the bench. The tight end you want to play
Speaker 5: here is Juwan Johnson. I give him a b touchdowns
Speaker 5: in two straight games and the Bucks have allowed the
Speaker 5: fifth most fantasy points the tight ends. Tampa has also
Speaker 5: coughed up fifteen or more point PPR points to three
Speaker 5: straight tight ends that they have faced. I think it's
Speaker 5: a good matchup for him going over to the Bucks.
Speaker 5: Baker Mayfield, I give him a B. He scored at
Speaker 5: least twenty four fantasy points in three straight games, had
Speaker 5: two hundred and forty six passing yards and three touchdowns
Speaker 5: against these very same Saints in Week four, and these Saints,
Speaker 5: you guys will recall, just gave up twenty five fantasy
Speaker 5: points to Matthew Stafford. Yeah, Rashad White, we were talking
Speaker 5: about him before the show.
Speaker 1: I love Rashad White.
Speaker 5: This week, I love him, you are, but tell me
Speaker 5: why I give him an a RB seven and fantasy.
Speaker 5: This year, he's averaging twenty touches ninety two total yards
Speaker 5: per game this The Saints run defense was better earlier
Speaker 5: on in this season, but it has regressed now, which
Speaker 5: to me makes this a good matchup for White. New
Speaker 5: Orleans has allowed the second most rushing yards per game
Speaker 5: since Week eleven, So I really like Rashad Mike Evans,
Speaker 5: I'm giving him an A wide Receiver eight in fantasy,
Speaker 5: and keep in mind Marshawn Lattimore will not be active
Speaker 5: this week. Saints have run the fourth have the fourth
Speaker 5: highest rate of single high coverage since Week twelve against
Speaker 5: single high Get this, Mike Evans are ridiculous three point
Speaker 5: two yards per route run and thirty two percent first
Speaker 5: reach share. Oh Man, Mayfield looks at him all the
Speaker 5: time against that coverage. Look, he is going to get
Speaker 5: pounded with targets here. For that reason, I did not
Speaker 5: Godwin Chris Godwin down to a sea. He does have
Speaker 5: those eleven plus targets three games in a row, so
Speaker 5: some people out there are probably be more bullish than me.
Speaker 5: Fourteen point PPR points are more in his last two games,
Speaker 5: all the way up to wide receiver thirty nine and
Speaker 5: fantasy points per game now, and he did have a
Speaker 5: big game against the Saints earlier this season. I will
Speaker 5: say eight catches for one hundred and fourteen yards on
Speaker 5: eleven targets. But this for me is the bonanza matchup
Speaker 5: for Evans. I think Godwin takes a little bit of
Speaker 5: a back seat here. He is startable as a third
Speaker 5: wide receiver. Godwin is, but I just have to give
Speaker 5: him a seed.
Speaker 1: All right. I'll mention this back to our slight disagreement
Speaker 1: on Rashad White. Saints have been great against running backs
Speaker 1: through the air, and that's where with shod White has
Speaker 1: given you this safe seat, this safe floor. Yeah right,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna pull the stats up here for in
Speaker 1: just a second. Here, New Orleans gives up a league
Speaker 1: low three point three receptions to running backs per game
Speaker 1: and the third lowest receiving yards per game, and they've
Speaker 1: given up one receiving touchdown to a running back all year.
Speaker 5: So it's probably got to come on the ground. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's good context. Okay, fine, I'll knock him down to
Speaker 5: a beat.
Speaker 1: That's I'd have him as a beagrau R knock him
Speaker 1: down to be Let's go h Miami taking on Baltimore.
Speaker 1: That is my game, beginning with Tyreek Hill a gray
Speaker 1: despite a very tough matchup against an excellent Raven secondary
Speaker 1: targeted fourteen times last week, which is repeatable here with
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle out again, so this should be a green
Speaker 1: light game for him. Tough matchup, but it's it's Tyrek Hill.
Speaker 1: He got you here. You're gonna keep playing. Actually, I
Speaker 1: should never say that just because a guy got you
Speaker 1: here does not mean you should play him.
Speaker 4: No, you should play him because he's Tyreek Hill and
Speaker 4: he's awesome.
Speaker 1: You got you here right here? Decisions. Yeah, let's stay
Speaker 1: with the passing game. The only other person you really
Speaker 1: care about here is Toua Tua Toungo via lois touchdowns
Speaker 1: over the last three games zero one and one. That's it.
Speaker 1: And over his last seven games, Tua is averaging one
Speaker 1: point two touchdowns per game. That that's it. Not the
Speaker 1: elite numbers you think of when you think of the
Speaker 1: Miami passing attack and w who's gotten fed Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: and getting Tyreek obviously helps. Facing Baltimore does not. They've
Speaker 1: allowed the fewest passing yards, they've allowed the fewest passing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and they have the fourth most interceptions. And they just
Speaker 1: put Brock Purty on the worst game of his career.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of reason for caution on Tua,
Speaker 1: just to see grade you can go to take a
Speaker 1: chance on me. For players, I like more quarterbacks more
Speaker 1: than Tua. The running backs. Let's start with Rahem Mostert.
Speaker 1: He's got this leg injury right, He's been nursing like
Speaker 1: nine different things. Probably going to play in this game,
Speaker 1: expected to go. Baltimore is a good run defense, not great,
Speaker 1: and volume backs generally fare well. But the problem is
Speaker 1: most it's not really a volume back anymore.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: Opposing runners with fourteen or more total touches are averaging
Speaker 1: one hundred and two yards, which is great, but fourteen
Speaker 1: or more it's not necessarily Mostard's gig anymore. He's always
Speaker 1: injury prone, and he's getting and fewer snap shares. His
Speaker 1: snapchare has dropped in three straight weeks, down to twenty
Speaker 1: nine percent last weeks. For Raheem Moster, I can only
Speaker 1: get you to a C grade in this game. C
Speaker 1: grade for Devin h Chan. If most are surprises in
Speaker 1: sit then I would upgrade eight Cham, but I don't
Speaker 1: think that's gonna happen. Happen. I mentioned Ravens a great
Speaker 1: pass defense, just an okay run defense, so the opportunities
Speaker 1: could be there. Baltimore is only allowing four has only
Speaker 1: allowed four rushing touchdowns all year. No backs top thirty
Speaker 1: two receiving yards since way back in Week seven, and
Speaker 1: only one back has a receiving touchdown against them going
Speaker 1: all the way back to Week three. But they're not
Speaker 1: in vulnerable. We do see backs to get it done.
Speaker 1: Christian McAffrey obviously last week. You know he's an exception.
Speaker 1: They also ring twenty six and run stuff win rates,
Speaker 1: so you can get a little something done here between
Speaker 1: most and eight. Haan but they're gonna divvy up the
Speaker 1: work and I can only put a C grade on
Speaker 1: both of them. Let's go over to Baltimore, starting with
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Miami's pass defense looks good on paper, especially
Speaker 1: since Jalen Ramsey's return, but five of the past six
Speaker 1: quarterbacks to face Miami either are or were backups, so
Speaker 1: I think they're kind of a paper tiger. The handful
Speaker 1: of capable passers to face Miami all year have generally
Speaker 1: fared well, although not explosively. Jackson has rushed for at
Speaker 1: least forty yards and seven straight games, but no quarterback
Speaker 1: is top twenty five rushing yards against Miami all year,
Speaker 1: so the rushing is not an automatic. And I've got
Speaker 1: a B grade on Lamar Jackson. B great on Zay Flowers.
Speaker 1: No rookie wall here for Jay Flowers at all. Playing
Speaker 1: his most impactful football in December, He's now scored in
Speaker 1: three of his last four games. He's coming off a
Speaker 1: career high thirteen targets against San Francisco, and it is
Speaker 1: a dream matchup for Flowers if they decide to run
Speaker 1: him in the slot, which he normally plays outside left
Speaker 1: right slot evenly, but he's their best slot receiver, and
Speaker 1: if they go in the slot against cater Ko who,
Speaker 1: this could be a big game. He allows a one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty passer rating. He's been burned for six scores.
Speaker 1: That is the third most of all players in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Zay Flowers, good luck grade, good luck. I like that opportunity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Isaiah Likely since taking over from Mark Andrews averaging a
Speaker 1: healthy six targets per game, more than any Ravens wide
Speaker 1: out other than Jay Flowers. He's a downfield dread. He's
Speaker 1: averaging almost fifteen yards per reception for Isaiah Likely. He's
Speaker 1: so athletic and so fast. The Dolphins used linebacker Duke
Speaker 1: Riley to cover tight ends. He's allowing a sixty eight
Speaker 1: percent catch rate, which is pretty good. Likely. He's only
Speaker 1: been targeted in the red zone one time, and granted,
Speaker 1: you know he's only been starting for a month, but
Speaker 1: still the fact that he's only gotten one red zone
Speaker 1: target tells you that his upside's probably capped here. And
Speaker 1: I've only got a C grade on Isaiah Likely. Gus
Speaker 1: Edwards clocks in with a C grade. He saw an
Speaker 1: uptick in usage last week with Keaton Mitchell out but
Speaker 1: saw fewer snaps than Justice Hill, who remains very involved.
Speaker 1: Frustratingly involved, though in fairness, Justice Hill didn't look bad
Speaker 1: last week. Gus gives you touchdowns and he continues to
Speaker 1: give you a lot of goal line looks, including three
Speaker 1: carries last week from inside the five yard line. You're
Speaker 1: here for the touchdowns with Gus. I think he's you've
Speaker 1: got a slightly better than coin Flip's chance to get one,
Speaker 1: even though only Derrick Henry has scored on the ground
Speaker 1: against this team Miami since week eight. Gus Edwards c grade.
Speaker 1: When we come back, take a chance on me. You've
Speaker 1: already gotten a sneak preview. If you've paid attention, you
Speaker 1: already know two players that are coming. In addition to
Speaker 1: those Saints players. Find out the other seven players that
Speaker 1: you could potentially pick up off the waiver wire and
Speaker 1: start this week. When we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly,
Speaker 1: take a chance on me. Nine players not normally in
Speaker 1: your starting lineup. Many of these guys available on the
Speaker 1: waiver wire. It's championship week, but with all the injuries
Speaker 1: and all the weirdness that's going on this week, these
Speaker 1: guys might be able to help you legitimate chances to
Speaker 1: pick up players that will give you a championship. We
Speaker 1: begin at the quarterback position. Matt Harrison.
Speaker 4: Now, I'm not advocating that everyone should start Gardner Minshew
Speaker 4: this week, but I'm forced to do so in a
Speaker 4: super flex league. So if you want to have you know,
Speaker 4: the solidarity with me here. But I don't feel too
Speaker 4: poorly about having them go up against the Raiders. The
Speaker 4: Raiders have allowed games of over two hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: passing yards to Zech Wilson and Easton Stick in the
Speaker 4: last six weeks. They've also allowed multiple touchdown passes in
Speaker 4: three of their last five, and Minshew runs the ball
Speaker 4: about four times per game. Since Week nine, five different
Speaker 4: quarterbacks hit the four rush attempt mark against the Raiders.
Speaker 4: Their average rushing line is thirty one yards, and none
Speaker 4: of them were premier rushing quarterbacks. So two point fifty
Speaker 4: through the air a solid chance of two scores and
Speaker 4: thirty yards on the ground. I'll take it.
Speaker 5: You take a chance on me quarterback, or I'm going
Speaker 5: with Tyrod Taylor against the Rams. In his last start
Speaker 5: Week seven against Washington, twenty six fantasy points, two hundred
Speaker 5: and seventy nine passing yards two touchdowns. Last week in
Speaker 5: relief one hundred and thirty three passing yards one touchdown.
Speaker 5: He did have the interception twenty one rushing yards. Of course,
Speaker 5: he gives you that dual threat ability to adding to
Speaker 5: the fantasy value. Five quarterbacks in a row have scored
Speaker 5: at least twenty fantasy points against the Rams. That defense
Speaker 5: gives up lots of fantasy points to quarterbacks. I think
Speaker 5: Tyrod could steal some here if in two quarterback league especially,
Speaker 5: I think he's startable.
Speaker 1: Derek Carr loved this matchup against the Bucks. He's the
Speaker 1: ultimate hit or miss quarterback. He's got six games with
Speaker 1: over three hundred yards and five games at one nine
Speaker 1: or less. Even though Carr missed in the first matchup
Speaker 1: with the Bucks, that was way back in Week four,
Speaker 1: and the Bucks pass defense has degraded massively. We heard
Speaker 1: Thorp hit on some of this already. Since we gate,
Speaker 1: the Bucks lowed the most passing yards three hundred per game.
Speaker 1: Five of the past nine quarterbacks have topped three hundred yards,
Speaker 1: and the few quarterbacks they have held down since Week
Speaker 1: six or first year starters or have been benched at
Speaker 1: least one time. So I love the opportunity for Derek Carr. Here,
Speaker 1: let's go to the running backs.
Speaker 4: Matt Zamir Whites my pick at running back. He's going
Speaker 4: against the Colts this week. First off, Josh Jacobs hasn't
Speaker 4: practiced this week, just was downgraded to doubtful, so it's
Speaker 4: likely White's backfield again. And it was his backfield last
Speaker 4: week against a much tougher Chiefs defense. He had twenty
Speaker 4: two carries one hundred and forty five yards in that game.
Speaker 4: It's much easier against the Colts. In the last six
Speaker 4: games that Indy has played, ten different running backs have
Speaker 4: hit the double digit PPR mark against them. That's in
Speaker 4: six games. They're allowing about one hundred and fifty two
Speaker 4: combo yards per game and over a touchdown per game
Speaker 4: to opposing runners. It's all Zamir White, and I would
Speaker 4: guess charge that you probably have him in your top
Speaker 4: ten in running backs this week.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, right now, he's sitting at twelve,
Speaker 1: but I'm I may be inching him up higher than that.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be very close. White looked frankly awesome, pretty
Speaker 1: good to the Chiefs last week.
Speaker 4: He will be there starting running back next year.
Speaker 1: I think that's I think that is correct. So you
Speaker 1: take a chance on me running back.
Speaker 5: I got someone else for you to inch up in
Speaker 5: your rankings. You're gonna have to go a little bit
Speaker 5: lower down. But I like this this guy for this game,
Speaker 5: and I love him for next year. Julia McLaughlin against
Speaker 5: the Chargers here. So I'm gonna start this off with
Speaker 5: an early twenty twenty four hot take. I think this
Speaker 5: kid is a top twenty five all fantasy running back
Speaker 5: next year because I think Sean Payton is looking at
Speaker 5: him as his Elvin Kamara. Last week, McLaughlin had ten
Speaker 5: touches for sixty seven total yards. I think another sneaky
Speaker 5: strong game is coming here. Also, keep in mind the
Speaker 5: Broncos they don't care about winning here. They just bench
Speaker 5: their quarterback for financial reasons. Why would they not get
Speaker 5: McLaughlin more usage, looks, touches everything here in the last
Speaker 5: couple of games. And the Chargers have a horrific running defense.
Speaker 5: Since Week eleven, they've copped up the thirteenth highest explosive
Speaker 5: run rate, ninth most rushing yards per game. You can
Speaker 5: run on those guys, you can catch on those guys.
Speaker 5: McLaughlin can do both. I think a decent games coming
Speaker 5: here for him.
Speaker 1: Javonte Williams usage keeps going down, and I guess my
Speaker 1: thinking was that'll reverse this week now that they've got
Speaker 1: Jared Stidham at quarterback. But maybe those extra reps just
Speaker 1: go to Julia McLaughlin.
Speaker 5: And by the way, contextually, Denver badly needs to move
Speaker 5: up and draft order for next year.
Speaker 1: They don't have any cap room now. They don't have
Speaker 1: a quarterback.
Speaker 5: There's at most if JJ McCarthy comes out, it's four
Speaker 5: deep in round one. If JJ McCarthy doesn't come out,
Speaker 5: it's three deep. They need to get his h Ken. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm not saying there's been discussions there, but there may
Speaker 5: have been discussions there.
Speaker 1: Kenneth Gainwell goes up against the Cardinals. They've allowed the
Speaker 1: most fantasy points to running backs, the fourth most rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns to running backs, and the second most rushing yards
Speaker 1: to running backs. So many backup runners have posted good
Speaker 1: days against Arizona. I'm not going to waste your time
Speaker 1: by listing them all here and burning up valuable minutes
Speaker 1: of this show. They've also allowed the most receiving touchdowns
Speaker 1: to running backs, and that's more Gainwell's game than Swift's game.
Speaker 1: Gainwell averaging thirty two snaps per game over the last month.
Speaker 1: That is a big uptick from earlier in the year.
Speaker 1: And if you think the Eagles are gonna get way
Speaker 1: ahead of Arizona, Swift could get rested for much of
Speaker 1: this game as they start saving him for the playoffs
Speaker 1: and the game script's gonna turn run heavy. Kenneth Gainwell
Speaker 1: nice opportunity this week. Let's go to the receivers, including
Speaker 1: the tight end position.
Speaker 4: Man, I've got Brandon Cooks and I'll tell you a
Speaker 4: little bit about it later, but I think this is
Speaker 4: a huge passing day for the Cowboys offense. I think
Speaker 4: Dak could throw the ball fifty times in this game,
Speaker 4: fifty fifty. Cooks will line up most often against corner
Speaker 4: Khalil Dorsey, who will likely be covering for the injured
Speaker 4: Cameron Sutton. He's only been on the field for fifty
Speaker 4: one snaps this year, and last week against the Vikings,
Speaker 4: Nick Mullins only threw at him three times, but it
Speaker 4: ended up with fifty three yards in a touchdown and
Speaker 4: the score. He was completely fooled and just burned so
Speaker 4: badly by kJ Osborne. It's funny. He like almost fell over.
Speaker 4: It was so bad. So But even if Cameron Sutton
Speaker 4: does go this week, he's allowing a one h nine
Speaker 4: passer rating in his coverage, and on the other side,
Speaker 4: Jerry Jacobs is allowing a one oh seven passer rating.
Speaker 4: By the way, if you're completely desperate for a wide receiver,
Speaker 4: Michael gallups a bonus. Take a chance on me guy
Speaker 4: here extra yeah.
Speaker 1: Extra player. I like it, all right, let's go to
Speaker 1: thor You're take a chance from your receiver.
Speaker 5: I'm digging at the bottom of the barrel here and
Speaker 5: I hate myself for doing it, but I'm gonna advocate
Speaker 5: for Jonathan Mingo here against the Jaguars. He's only wide
Speaker 5: receiver seventy seven and fantasy has zero touchdowns. But this
Speaker 5: is an ideal matchup for a late season showcase for Mingo. Obviously,
Speaker 5: Bryce Young's playing better. We'll talk about that more in
Speaker 5: a bit, but here here's here's where the rubber meets
Speaker 5: the row. Beyond that, Jaguars run a ton of too
Speaker 5: high coverage. Since Week eleven, Mingo has been Bryce Young's
Speaker 5: too high safety blanket guy. Mingo has a twenty seven
Speaker 5: percent target share and a forty percent first reach share
Speaker 5: against too high coverage during that stretch. If he's ever
Speaker 5: gonna break out this season, this is the game I'm going.
Speaker 1: With our guy, Rashid Shiheed Door. Yes, the mutual love
Speaker 1: fest for Shiheed, one of the break downfield bombs away
Speaker 1: receivers among wideouts with at least thirty receptions. He's fifth
Speaker 1: in a dot at a whopping fourteen point nine yards.
Speaker 1: He's a low volume guy, so you gotta pick your
Speaker 1: spots and you need the deep connection. But it could
Speaker 1: certainly follow happen here. The have dropped to twenty ninth
Speaker 1: and yards allowed to opposing wide receivers twenty ninth and
Speaker 1: fantasy points to wide receivers. The last two teams to
Speaker 1: face the Bucks, Green Bay and Jacksonville, had there just
Speaker 1: the wideouts total two hundred and fifteen yards and two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty three yards, gigantic numbers against the Bucks.
Speaker 5: Rashika Heat Bucks also give up the fourth most deep
Speaker 5: yards in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I love it, chicks loved that the long ball and
Speaker 1: she heat hit some. Nothing not to like it, all right,
Speaker 1: Raiders taking on the Colts Man.
Speaker 4: Zamir White was my take a chance on me runner
Speaker 4: and the Colts have a bad run defense, as I
Speaker 4: talked about, but a really good pass defense. They've only
Speaker 4: allowed one three hundred yard passer in their last eleven games,
Speaker 4: and they're mostly giving up zero or one touchdown passes
Speaker 4: in that time. So I don't like much of the
Speaker 4: Raiders passing game. If you're even thinking about starting eight
Speaker 4: and O'Connell, I know, I just want to know what
Speaker 4: kind of league are you in?
Speaker 1: Well, the two quarterback league. Two quarterback managed like a
Speaker 1: four quarterback league. We're gonna go as the rest of
Speaker 1: our lives before a team fails to complete a pass
Speaker 1: in the second, third, and fourth quarter and wins by
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. Yeah, probably two scores.
Speaker 4: DeVante Adams is really only the consideration out of the
Speaker 4: passing game. Even in the last month with O'Connell under center,
Speaker 4: he's still averaging ten targets per game. He did ghost
Speaker 4: you last week in case, but so did most of
Speaker 4: the offense. I'll give Adams a volume C grade at
Speaker 4: the wide receiver position. That's it. On the Colt side,
Speaker 4: I'm giving Jonathan Taylor an A grade here. I will
Speaker 4: mention Zach Moss has practiced some this week in limited fashion.
Speaker 1: But they ruled him out on Friday.
Speaker 4: Oh did they already do that? Well, that's great. That
Speaker 4: makes it even easier. The Raiders have allowed the eighth
Speaker 4: most combo yards in the league this year to opposing runners,
Speaker 4: at one thirty three per game, and they allowed just
Speaker 4: under a touchdown per game as well. I think it's
Speaker 4: a twenty touch day for Taylor. If he gets the
Speaker 4: twenty touches, one hundred combo yards and a score looks
Speaker 4: like a lock. Michael Pittman did not play last week
Speaker 4: with a concussion. He's trending the right way and they
Speaker 4: took off the injury report. He's been limited in practice
Speaker 4: all week with the non contact injury on. But he's
Speaker 4: gonna be active and he's gonna go right back to
Speaker 4: double digit targets, as he's had in four of his
Speaker 4: last five match up. Middle of the pack. The top
Speaker 4: wide receivers for teams have done pretty good against the Raiders,
Speaker 4: though Saint Brown, Garrett Wilson, Tyreek, Rashie Rice, even Josh
Speaker 4: Palmer had great fantasy days against the Raiders in the
Speaker 4: past seven weeks. So Pittman gets a solid B. Josh
Speaker 4: downs an interesting dart throw as well. I'll give him
Speaker 4: a C grade. He runs from the slot, he'll mostly
Speaker 4: see Nate Hobbs. The Chiefs picked on Hobbs last week.
Speaker 4: Get this, They targeted him eleven times last week, eight
Speaker 4: catches seventy two yards in a score coming in his coverage.
Speaker 4: They absolutely just murdered Nate Hobbs. Gardner Minshew as might
Speaker 4: take a chance on me quarterback. All done, Let's go
Speaker 4: to the Rams taking on the Giants.
Speaker 1: Since the tenth game of the season for the Rams,
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford went from well, let me phrase this better.
Speaker 1: Weeks one through nine, Matthew Stafford was core Fantasy quarterback
Speaker 1: D three, one spot ahead of Mac Jones. Then from
Speaker 1: week ten to now he's quarterback two in Fantasy PS.
Speaker 1: So now he gets the Giants. On paper, they look
Speaker 1: like an OK pass defense, but good passers like Stafford
Speaker 1: have torn him up all year.
Speaker 5: What do you think I'm giving him a B. The
Speaker 5: context is great there. I mean, yeah, he's been killing
Speaker 5: at the last five games and also the past two.
Speaker 5: You want to go to that and look at a
Speaker 5: different metric. PFF grades above ninety flat.
Speaker 1: Each of those two games. So He's been playing great,
Speaker 1: and obviously you mentioned the matchup.
Speaker 5: Derek Carr and Jalen Hurts both finished his top ten
Speaker 5: fantasy quarterbacks last two weeks against the Giants. I just
Speaker 5: think that more the usage is going to be going
Speaker 5: on the ground here a little bit, so I'm putting
Speaker 5: Stafford out of b Kyrien Williams. I give him an
Speaker 5: a RB two and fantasy points per game number one
Speaker 5: in snapshare since returning from his injuries, averaging twenty six
Speaker 5: touches one hundred and thirty eight total yards per game.
Speaker 5: Killer shout out to Brian Johnson, who's banging the drum
Speaker 5: for him all summer and contextually, since Week eleven, the
Speaker 5: Giants have allowed the fifth most run yards per game.
Speaker 1: Very good matchup for him.
Speaker 5: I'm giving Puka an a here a Puka Nakua my
Speaker 5: boy wide receiver nine in Fantasy points per game number
Speaker 5: six and receptions number three in receiving yards. Needs only
Speaker 5: nine catches to break Jalen Waddles rookie record of one
Speaker 5: hundred and four. Needs only one hundred and forty six
Speaker 5: receiving yards to break Bill Grohman's record sid in nineteen
Speaker 5: sixty Bill Groman, Bill Groman, all right, yeah, yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 5: very close. And the Giants here have an average pass defense.
Speaker 5: Puka's matchup proof. Either way, It's weird for me that
Speaker 5: my first take on this show, I'm never going to
Speaker 5: top it with Oh you're ton Yeah, that's all all
Speaker 5: downhill from there. But yeah, start, you're obviously starting Pooka.
Speaker 5: You're gonna be starting Cooper Cup here as well. I'm
Speaker 5: I'm giving him an A. Maybe I should bump Stafford
Speaker 5: up to an A. You know, I got his about
Speaker 5: these guys, but Cup wide receiver twenty four fantasy in
Speaker 5: fantasy points per game.
Speaker 1: The aggressive Giants, You.
Speaker 5: Guys know they love mar Martin Dale and those guys
Speaker 5: they love funding the Blitz. Because of that, their top
Speaker 5: five in single high coverage rates since week eleven. Cooper
Speaker 5: Cup is the guy that leads the rams and target
Speaker 5: share against single high coverage since week twelve, when he's
Speaker 5: been getting healthier. I had to shout out DeMarcus Robinson
Speaker 5: in this and give him a C grade.
Speaker 1: Man, I did not see this. Crazy. He's caught a
Speaker 1: touchdown in four straight games. Unreal.
Speaker 5: There's only eight other wide receivers in the NFL. Who
Speaker 5: can say the same this year. It is a very
Speaker 5: short list just because of that and the chance that
Speaker 5: it could happen in a fifth rate. He's startable in
Speaker 5: bigger leads, especially as a flex kind of a guy.
Speaker 5: I can't advocate for starting Tyler Higbee. There's just too
Speaker 5: much inconsistency there. I think the usage here is all
Speaker 5: going to the wide receivers, flipping over to the Giants
Speaker 5: Tyret Taylor as might take a chance on me.
Speaker 1: Quarterback Saquon Barkley. I give him a B.
Speaker 5: He's running back ten and fantasy points per game number
Speaker 5: four in snapshare.
Speaker 1: But this is a brutal matchup.
Speaker 5: As you guys know, only four running backs have scored
Speaker 5: double digit fantasy points against the Rams since Week four,
Speaker 5: and you go just back to week eleven, the Rams
Speaker 5: have allowed the third fewest rushing yards per game. Not
Speaker 5: a great matchup. For sake one, he'll get the volume,
Speaker 5: so we'll give him a bee. Darius Slayton and Wondale Robinson.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna group them together, give them bull sees. Here's
Speaker 5: the reason why Rams run a ton of single high coverage.
Speaker 5: Robinson leads the Giants in single high target percentage the
Speaker 5: last five games.
Speaker 1: Slayton is number two. It's the guys that they look at.
Speaker 5: The Rams have allowed the tenth most yards per game
Speaker 5: to boundary wide receivers since Week ten. That's speaking to Slayton.
Speaker 5: The Rams have also allowed the seventh most touchdowns to
Speaker 5: slots in the same timeframe. That's speaking to Onan Dale.
Speaker 5: So they're potentially startable too if you're in a pinch.
Speaker 5: Darren Waller, lastly, I give him a be no lower higher,
Speaker 5: way lower lower. A limited practice on Wednesday, then the
Speaker 5: issue did return in full on Thursday, so he looks
Speaker 5: like he's gonna be a full go two games back.
Speaker 5: Six catches for seventy two yards, no touchdowns, eleven targets,
Speaker 5: but he gets a full game Tyrod Taylor here, I
Speaker 5: think that really helps him. And the other thing that
Speaker 5: really helps him, this is a really good matchup. The
Speaker 5: Rams have loved the six most fantasy points per game
Speaker 5: to tight ends this season, so that's why I got
Speaker 5: to stick with.
Speaker 1: The b I'm mister Waller. Matt was right all along,
Speaker 1: and Waller he all off seas shout out to me,
Speaker 1: don't don't do it, don't do it, And I did it.
Speaker 3: Was right.
Speaker 1: I bid on that on Twitter. I asked people earlier
Speaker 1: this week, if you're in the championship game, what was
Speaker 1: the one move, the one decision that got you here?
Speaker 1: The two answers overwhelmingly two of the three, Tyron Williams,
Speaker 1: Hohoka Nakuwa, both of them on this show from preseason,
Speaker 1: not me. That was Store and that was Brian. Well done, guys.
Speaker 6: Nice.
Speaker 1: When we come back Cardinals and Eagles, we'll talk through
Speaker 1: that matchup this It sounds pretty straightforward, but is James
Speaker 1: Connor somebody you can trust? Find out when we come back.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and Matt
Speaker 1: Harrison Thorn Eistrom with you big block of matchups right here,
Speaker 1: beginning with Arizona taking on Philadelphia. James Connor has been
Speaker 1: matchup proof of late, despite some very tough opponents. In
Speaker 1: another one here, He's scored four times in his last
Speaker 1: three games. He's reached at least eighty nine combo yards
Speaker 1: in three games straight. And meanwhile, Philly's normally very tough
Speaker 1: run defense has allowed a rushing score in four consecutive
Speaker 1: games and at least eighty four total yards to a
Speaker 1: runner in five straight games, so they're yielding right now.
Speaker 1: James Connor safe start B great. Now the passing game
Speaker 1: is going to be with our Marquis Brown, who went
Speaker 1: on season ending. I are you'll remember a free agency
Speaker 1: awaits the next step for Marquise Brown, and he demanded
Speaker 1: a trade because he wanted to get off out of
Speaker 1: the Ravens. Yeah, I was. That's ultimately not gonna have
Speaker 1: proven to be a very good choice. Trey McBride's the
Speaker 1: only receiver you'd think about starting here. Mixed outlook for
Speaker 1: McBride since way back in Week eight. He's averaging a
Speaker 1: whopping nine targets per game nine and volume tight ends
Speaker 1: farewell against the Eagles. Tight Ends with six or more
Speaker 1: targets are averaging sixty yards and almost a full touchdown
Speaker 1: per game against Philly. But you may recall the Eagles
Speaker 1: added linebacker Shack Leonard, who's very good in coverage, and
Speaker 1: no opposing tight end has scored against the Eagles since
Speaker 1: he arrived. So I can only get you to a
Speaker 1: B grade on Trey McBride, Kyler Murray C grade without Brown,
Speaker 1: he's pretty ham strung with only Rondel Moore and Greg
Speaker 1: Dortsch at wide receiver. Eagles are a soft matchup. They
Speaker 1: allow the second most fantasy points to quarterbacks, and they've
Speaker 1: faced backup quarterbacks the last couple of weeks and been
Speaker 1: yielding to them, and in prior to that, they're getting
Speaker 1: really killed, allowing six straight quarterbacks to throw multiple touchdowns.
Speaker 1: The only mobile quarterback to face the Eagles all year,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, rolled up eighty one yards and two scores.
Speaker 1: So maybe Murray helps you out on the ground C grade.
Speaker 1: Let's cover to the Philly side Jalen Hurts and aj
Speaker 1: Brown obvious as against the Cardinals. Don't have to spend
Speaker 1: any time on that. DeAndre Swift also clocks in with
Speaker 1: an A grade. Earlier, I told you Kenneth Gainwell might
Speaker 1: take a chance on me running back. So for all
Speaker 1: the same reasons, I love DeAndre Swift even more because
Speaker 1: he's going to get way more work. So an obvious
Speaker 1: start an A grade for DeAndre Swift as well, and
Speaker 1: then a couple of guys that are a little murkier
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith B grade for him when Dallas got it returned.
Speaker 1: I think we were all in this show. We talked
Speaker 1: about this, We were worried that he'd eat into Smith's workload,
Speaker 1: but that has not materialized at all. Smith's been very consistent.
Speaker 1: Going back two months. He's averaging six catches for eighty yards.
Speaker 1: He hasn't on under fifty yards in any game in
Speaker 1: two months. The Cardinals keep plowing through cornerbacks. You gonna
Speaker 1: find anybody who's remotely competent at cornerback. They're now starting
Speaker 1: something called Starling Thomas the Fifth.
Speaker 4: You made that name up.
Speaker 1: He is allowing receptions at the third highest rate in
Speaker 1: the league. So DeVonta Smith B grade for him and
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard comes in with a C grade finally got
Speaker 1: back to for him last week with his biggest game
Speaker 1: since his injury. He's still suffering from a lack of
Speaker 1: red zone usage, though, averaging just an eighteen percent target
Speaker 1: share on red zone throws. It's just not getting the
Speaker 1: hand zone. The Cardinals have been a shockingly competent tight
Speaker 1: end defense, but they were hit for big games the
Speaker 1: past two weeks by Cole Kmett and George Kittle. Prior
Speaker 1: to those two, no tight end to top forty yards
Speaker 1: since all the way back in Week two can only
Speaker 1: get you to a C grade. On Dallas Goddard. Next
Speaker 1: game up, Detroit Lyons Dallas Cowboys. This is the Saturday
Speaker 1: night game, Matt. This is two teams that may very
Speaker 1: well end up me again in the playoffs. What do
Speaker 1: you think here?
Speaker 4: They very much could. I'm gonna start with a Monross
Speaker 4: Saint Brown. I'm giving him an A. The Cowboys have
Speaker 4: allowed the fifth most receiving yards to opposing wide receivers
Speaker 4: over the last five weeks, but the rest of the
Speaker 4: receivers are a dart throw at best, as Josh Reynolds,
Speaker 4: Jamison Williams, and Khaliff Raymond are about an even split
Speaker 4: of snaps recently. The best out of those bunch would
Speaker 4: be Williams, who's seeing the most targets. But I don't
Speaker 4: think i'd start any of those guys. Sam Laporte, I'm
Speaker 4: just giving him a C grade in this game. Ever
Speaker 4: since George Kittle put up three touchdowns on three catches
Speaker 4: against Dallas in Week five, tight ends have basically disappeared
Speaker 4: against the Cowboys in the ten weeks since Week five.
Speaker 4: The very best game for a tight end against Dallas
Speaker 4: was Gerald Everett's three catches sixteen yards in a score.
Speaker 4: What that was the best game of the game. They
Speaker 4: haven't played a ton of great tight ends in that span,
Speaker 4: mostly just Dallas Goddard twice, but they've only allowed three
Speaker 4: tight end scores in the last ten games, and no
Speaker 4: tight end is top sixty yards. Jared Goff gets a
Speaker 4: B grade. Traditional pocket pass types have had some recent
Speaker 4: success against the Cowboys. Sam Howell and Gino Smith both
Speaker 4: top three hundred yards in recent weeks, and Tua got
Speaker 4: to two ninety three last week, So a B grade
Speaker 4: for Goff. Montgomery and Jamier Gibbs they're both getting B
Speaker 4: grades as well. The recent snap counts favor Gibbs, but
Speaker 4: Montgomery still averages more opportunities per game seventeen and a
Speaker 4: half for Montgomery, fifteen and a half for Gibbs over
Speaker 4: the last five weeks. That's enough of a workload for
Speaker 4: both to be startable, and both rank amongst the top
Speaker 4: twelve in the league, both scoring at a pretty high clip.
Speaker 4: Gibbs has scored in seven of his last nine Monty
Speaker 4: and nine of the twelve games he's played this year.
Speaker 1: I think that both of them are getting fed like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the end zone, it's awesome, and Dallas is run
Speaker 4: the very enigmatic. They've They gave up only ninety one
Speaker 4: yards on the ground to the group of Miami backs
Speaker 4: last week. That's great, but they allowed two hundred and
Speaker 4: forty four rushing yards to the Bills the week before.
Speaker 4: On the other side, Cede Lamb and Dak Prescott both
Speaker 4: get A grades. It's much easier to pass on Detroit
Speaker 4: than Ron, as the Lions are seeing almost a two
Speaker 4: to one split in pass attempts to rushing attempts because
Speaker 4: the Lions pass defense has been as my kids say,
Speaker 4: sus secondary wide receivers have been in the mix two,
Speaker 4: which is why Brandon Cooks was might take a chance
Speaker 4: on me wide receiver. I do like Jake Ferguson enough
Speaker 4: to give him a start to he gets a B.
Speaker 4: Fantasy relevant tight ends have done well against the Lions. TJ.
Speaker 4: Hockinson was at four for fifty eight before tearing his
Speaker 4: ACL last week. Cole Comet five for sixty six. Mark
Speaker 4: Andrews went four for sixty three and two scores. And
Speaker 4: that's all the tight ends they faced this year. That's it.
Speaker 4: They faced like nobody else that's any good. The Lions
Speaker 4: have still allowed the eleventh most receiving yards to the
Speaker 4: tight end position after facing nobody. So Jake Ferguson's a b.
Speaker 4: I think the toughest decision in this whole game is
Speaker 4: Tony Pollard, and I saved him for.
Speaker 1: Last Boy did he erase a touchdown last week? Did
Speaker 1: you guys see this run? He's got like clear angle
Speaker 1: to the corner of where you know where the pylon is. Nope,
Speaker 1: turns it upfield, goes right into a guy.
Speaker 3: I'm like, you've got it.
Speaker 4: Be kidding me like a six year old playing Madden Racer.
Speaker 4: So the Lions run defense has been great all year.
Speaker 4: No running back has topped sixty seven yards on the
Speaker 4: ground against Detroit this year. They allow an average of
Speaker 4: fifty nine yards per game to opposing runners. They've allowed
Speaker 4: the fourth fewest receptions to opposing backs, and no runner
Speaker 4: has scored a touchdown through the air on Detroit all year.
Speaker 4: Pollard's workload in the last two games has been way
Speaker 4: down to eleven carries and twelve carries for ninety total
Speaker 4: yards in those two contests.
Speaker 1: But Rico o'dowdell out, So maybe he you know, they've
Speaker 1: just got to be He's gonna get the ball forced
Speaker 1: back into his hand.
Speaker 4: I've got Tony Pollard on the bench. Forty five yard
Speaker 4: day for Pollard coming here, no touchdowns. He's gonna get
Speaker 4: swallowed up and he's not going to do anything.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 1: I thought I had I had him down a running
Speaker 1: back twenty eight, which I thought was low.
Speaker 4: How about eighty two. Let's invert that, Carolina Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: You took the thor you took the bold move of
Speaker 1: putting Jonathan Mingo as you take a chance on me
Speaker 1: wide out. I'm assuming you like Adam Feelin in this
Speaker 1: game as well.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm gonna give him a c you know. I
Speaker 5: think Mingo steps up in DJ Shark. I'll talk about
Speaker 5: him in a second. I also give dj ac but
Speaker 5: Thielan showing his age a little bit. Zero touchdowns since
Speaker 5: week six, He's only top fifty receiving yards three times
Speaker 5: since week eleven. It is a decent matchup, though, if
Speaker 5: you are desperate. The Jaguars have allowed the fifth most
Speaker 5: PPR points per target to slot wide receivers since week ten.
Speaker 5: DJ Shark, I also give him a seed. He's been
Speaker 5: a benefactor of Bryce Young's improved play. Six catches for
Speaker 5: ninety eight yards and two touchdowns last week against the Packers,
Speaker 5: and this is a revenge game for mister Shark. Shark
Speaker 5: has scored more than ten Fantasy points in his last
Speaker 5: two games against X teams. It's obviously playing one here
Speaker 5: in the Jaguars if you like that angle. Bryce Young
Speaker 5: mentioned he's turned in the corner since week fifteen, top
Speaker 5: ten in yards per attempt average and pass for rating.
Speaker 5: This is a good matchup for him as well to
Speaker 5: keep the good times rolling. Since week twelve, Jacksonville's bottom
Speaker 5: seven in passing yards allowed per game, yards per attempt
Speaker 5: a lot, and passing touchdowns as well, so we give.
Speaker 1: Him a c CHEWBA Hubbard.
Speaker 5: I'm also giving him a seas.
Speaker 1: All around toss and seas everywhere.
Speaker 5: Double digit points in five straight for Cuba minimum of
Speaker 5: seventeen touches in each of those games. He was limited
Speaker 5: in practice on Wednesday and Thursday with his hamstring injury,
Speaker 5: but was cleared to play on Friday, so he's a
Speaker 5: full go. Keep in mind, though, even if he's not
Speaker 5: one hundred percent, his backup Miles Sanders with his toe
Speaker 5: he is also not one hundred percent, so I don't
Speaker 5: know how they're going to mix a match there. Jacksonville
Speaker 5: has allowed more than thirteen fantasy points to running backs
Speaker 5: in five straight games. Because Jacksonville gives up the number
Speaker 5: one most receptions to opposing running backs, good matchup for
Speaker 5: Chuba if he is healthy enough to take advantage of it.
Speaker 5: But because there's a question about that, that's why I
Speaker 5: dined him down to a sea. You guys recall Mingo
Speaker 5: was my take a chance on me receiver. Moving over
Speaker 5: to Jacksonville, Trevor Lawrence was ruled out for this game
Speaker 5: on Friday with his right shoulder injury.
Speaker 1: With CJ. Bethards starting, you have to tick down the
Speaker 1: rest of the offense. I think Bethards looked non awful.
Speaker 5: Yeah, not awful, but you know, certainly a downgrade from
Speaker 5: Pete Lawrence, Travis etn. He's got the best grade that
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give out on Jacksonville side.
Speaker 1: I give him a bee with a bit of trepidation
Speaker 1: all time. Man, I would too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, only eight Fantasy points per game in his last
Speaker 5: two on fewer than three yards per rush. I don't
Speaker 5: know what you know, what juice has been zapped out
Speaker 5: of him? Hasn't looked the same. He's only RB thirty
Speaker 5: in fantasy since Week ten, but unless he is out
Speaker 5: of gas, a bounce back game is coming here. The
Speaker 5: Jaguars are going to need to keep this on the
Speaker 5: ground more to protect CJ. Bethard and the Panthers allow
Speaker 5: an average of twenty six fantasy points per game to
Speaker 5: opposing running backs. Kelvin Ridley I give him a seed
Speaker 5: working with Bethard six catches for ninety yards and two
Speaker 5: touchdowns on nine targets last week, but this is obviously
Speaker 5: an if your outlook, Plus it's not the best matchup
Speaker 5: for him. The Panthers have allowed the fourth lowest fantasy
Speaker 5: points to wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Jay Jones is iffy for this game.
Speaker 5: Makes Ridley the only startable wide receiver on the Jakes
Speaker 5: for me, especially with Bethard. I don't care if Jay
Speaker 5: plays or not. Evan Ingram I give him a seat.
Speaker 5: Tight end six in fantasy and what has been a
Speaker 5: career best season number five and deep targets number seventeen
Speaker 5: in red zone targets, but this is a tough matchup here,
Speaker 5: even beyond CJ. Bether being behind center, Panthers have held
Speaker 5: tight ends to the sixth fewests receiving yards this season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you know with ETN really struggling down
Speaker 1: the stretch. Yeah, yeah, believe that's right. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: tank timing in week seventeen. I would love it. I
Speaker 1: would love it. I would love it too. It ain't happening.
Speaker 1: That was a bad call. Bye for some of us.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming back for our number two Fantasy football weekly,
Speaker 1: beginning with three tough questions coming up next see if
Speaker 1: you can go three and oh as we start looking
Speaker 1: ahead to the twenty twenty four fantasy season. It is
Speaker 1: our number two Fantasy football weekly. Paul Charchie and Matt
Speaker 1: Harrison thor Nystrom with you if you'd like to follow
Speaker 1: us on Twitter x. I am at Paul Charchie and
Speaker 1: Matt is at Explosive Output and Thor's at thor Ku.
Speaker 1: How did a Ku do in They're Bowl game?
Speaker 3: We won?
Speaker 1: We beat UNLV Rock Chalk Baby Ada boy. Nicely done.
Speaker 1: Let's go right into the questions. Three tough questions.
Speaker 6: Play line Tough question number one.
Speaker 1: What's the most important rule change for twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: to get on the books now while people are still
Speaker 1: in fantasy football mode? I like bringing up your rule
Speaker 1: changes for next year now, when everybody's everybody's it's all
Speaker 1: top of mind right now. Usually people wait until August,
Speaker 1: they're trying to do it on draft day or whatever.
Speaker 1: Now's the time to get this stuff done. So again
Speaker 1: we begin with Matt Harrison. What's the most important rule
Speaker 1: change to get on the books now.
Speaker 4: One of the things I've liked recently, and this is
Speaker 4: kind of a Scott fish Bowl kind of a kind
Speaker 4: of a thing, is he added a lot of flex
Speaker 4: positions to his thing, and I think adding another flex
Speaker 4: to your league, I think is a fun way to
Speaker 4: do it. It's not a huge change to just add
Speaker 4: one additional flex position you're starting lineup, and but oh
Speaker 4: by the way, if you're not playing in a super
Speaker 4: flex league, make that a super flex position because it
Speaker 4: makes the quarterback so much more fun. Unless the year
Speaker 4: is twenty twenty three, because there's not enough.
Speaker 1: There's quarterbacks, yes, there is that at the NFL season
Speaker 1: is too long. Yeah, you know, everybody's hurt.
Speaker 4: They're they're going to go to eighteen weeks soon and
Speaker 4: do a double bye week two. That's going to happen.
Speaker 1: That's the wrong it's the wrong answer, it's the wrong
Speaker 1: solve for this problem thor what's the most important rule
Speaker 1: change for twenty twenty four? Fantasy owners can get on
Speaker 1: the books now.
Speaker 5: So I would have said the higher seed getting to
Speaker 5: pick their opponent playoffs, So we did. We did that
Speaker 5: now that I learned about that, But we talked about
Speaker 5: that last week, so I have.
Speaker 1: A different one. This is more a qualm that I
Speaker 1: have that I want fixed.
Speaker 5: Sites need to speed up how quickly they allow you
Speaker 5: to put a guy on IR. We've we've all had
Speaker 5: the guy who's injured and you know he's going to
Speaker 5: be out, he's been ruled out, but they haven't changed
Speaker 5: the designation to IR, so he can't put the guy
Speaker 5: on IR ergo. You can't sign his replacement for that week.
Speaker 5: There needs to be something done to change that to
Speaker 5: expediate this process, whether they allow leagues to do it,
Speaker 5: whether there's a setting that can be done, but you
Speaker 5: have to be able to put a guy on the
Speaker 5: IR earlier.
Speaker 1: That's that's what I want change. I imagine there are
Speaker 1: league settings where you can just let people put anybody
Speaker 1: on IR without them having to technically be on IR.
Speaker 1: But the problem is now you're you're putting it on
Speaker 1: my intuition and what I think, Right, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: he's not playing, so I'm stashing him on IR.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it would be if that if you put
Speaker 5: a guy on IR he ends up playing, you'd have
Speaker 5: to give that team a zero.
Speaker 1: You'd have to have a super punitive It has to
Speaker 1: be very, very punitive. Free agent blind bidding is the
Speaker 1: only way to go only. The only way to distribute
Speaker 1: free agent is blind bidding. If you're using any other way,
Speaker 1: you are a You're not you know, it's a league
Speaker 1: of total casuals. I mean, you are not at all
Speaker 1: fair minded. You are not at all serious about what
Speaker 1: you're doing.
Speaker 4: And every league software has it now, they all have
Speaker 4: they all have it. It's there, it's easy.
Speaker 1: Who did it first? I wonder was it commissioner? Product
Speaker 1: was the first to allow blind bidding?
Speaker 4: Was it Fanball Commissioner way back in the day. You
Speaker 4: know it's funny by George two.
Speaker 3: Thousand and three, Like, yes, it.
Speaker 1: Was, as a matter of fact, before you could do
Speaker 1: it anyplace else. Free agent blind bidding is the only
Speaker 1: way to distribute players.
Speaker 6: Yes, tough question number twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: Charge unreal and we're still banging the drum That was
Speaker 1: after we were like, you should really try auctioning. You're
Speaker 1: gonna like it. Christian McCaffrey will be the consensus first
Speaker 1: overall pick next year. Who will be second? We go
Speaker 1: to thorn Eistrom.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna I mean, I went back and forth on this.
Speaker 5: I went, I'm gonna go with Tyreek Hill, But Breeshaw
Speaker 5: would be my other answer because I think he could
Speaker 5: be the CMC Up next year. Breeseaw obviously he'll be
Speaker 5: fully healthy then, And I wanted to toss a couple
Speaker 5: of sleeper zone if I'm not gonna be stepping on
Speaker 5: TOAs I think Kyrin Williams is a sleeper for this.
Speaker 1: I also think Bjean if he gets a new coaching staff,
Speaker 1: is a sleeper for this as well.
Speaker 5: All right, but your answer, my answer is tyreek Kill
Speaker 5: officially locking it in Matt.
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey will be the consensus first overall pick next
Speaker 1: year who will be second?
Speaker 4: I have Justin Jefferson as number two, and I think
Speaker 4: that enough people will have figured out that, Yeah, Justin
Speaker 4: Jefferson missed a few weeks last in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 4: but in every week that he played, he's been awesome
Speaker 4: this year. So I can't see how the guy who's
Speaker 4: won one gets an injury for a little bit of
Speaker 4: the year comes back plays with basically nobody's at quarterback
Speaker 4: and is still putting up legit wide receiver one numbers.
Speaker 4: I think it's justin Jefferson.
Speaker 1: I really went between those two, but it's to me,
Speaker 1: it's between Jefferson and Hill.
Speaker 4: Was that was my choice.
Speaker 1: It was really difficult the part on Hill that I
Speaker 1: found really interesting, and I was leaning Jefferson, and then
Speaker 1: I got to Hill. He's gonna turn thirty next year.
Speaker 1: H but he's got three of the top ten ball
Speaker 1: carrier speeds on this season are still Tyreek Hill. I mean,
Speaker 1: he hasn't lost a step. He's having a career year
Speaker 1: at twenty nine. By any metric you want to throw
Speaker 1: at Tyreek Hill, this is his best season, even including
Speaker 1: the Mahomes years. He's basically and here's the thing that
Speaker 1: Tyrek Hill's really ironed out of his game, no dud
Speaker 1: games with Patrick Mahomes. He would go eight catches, one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy yards and two touchdowns, and then the
Speaker 1: next week he'd style you with three catches for thirty yards.
Speaker 1: And no scores and he'd kill you. Basically, no duds
Speaker 1: this whole year. It's only twenty six, which is a
Speaker 1: big factor as well. We're locked in with competent quarterbacking
Speaker 1: there as well, justin Jefferson with Kirk Cousins. Average game
Speaker 1: with Kirk Cousins this year eight catches for one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty six Starns in his Cousins games and the Vikings.
Speaker 1: You know, if there was any doubt in this front
Speaker 1: office about how important Kirk Cousins was, you know, Nick
Speaker 1: Mullins and Josh Dobbs have removed that from this front office.
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins is coming back to Minnesota.
Speaker 4: Did you see that the new Vegas odds on where
Speaker 4: Russell Wilson will land next year has Minnesota at the
Speaker 4: top to one, five to one.
Speaker 1: What No, let's hope that's not the case, but I
Speaker 1: can't right now as it stands today, as we're in
Speaker 1: the final throes of December, we don't know that for
Speaker 1: sure who the quarterback for the Vikings is going to be.
Speaker 1: So I've got to give the edge to Tyreek Hill tough.
Speaker 6: Question number three.
Speaker 1: How many running backs will be taken in the first
Speaker 1: round of a twelve team redraft next season. We've already
Speaker 1: seen do the opposite start to take over. It's it
Speaker 1: only took twenty years of talking about it on this show,
Speaker 1: all right, So let's look forward to next season. How
Speaker 1: many running backs are going to go in the first round?
Speaker 1: We begin with Matt Harrison.
Speaker 4: I've got five, Christian McCaffrey, Bryce Hall, Jamier Gibbs, Kyrine Williams,
Speaker 4: and Jonathan Taylor. Those are my five that I have.
Speaker 4: The other guys I have going in the first round
Speaker 4: Jefferson Hill, Jamar Chase, Ceedee, lamb aj Brown, Monross, Saint Brown,
Speaker 4: and Garrett Wilson kind of rounded it out. But Jalen
Speaker 4: Hurts and Josh Allen have a thing to say about
Speaker 4: being at the tail end of the first round too.
Speaker 1: So you got five, yep? All right? Soor how many
Speaker 1: running backs will be taken in the first round of
Speaker 1: a twelve team red draft next season? You've already tipped
Speaker 1: your hand on several names.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 5: I have, and I had the same sort of thought
Speaker 5: process as mister Harrison. I also have five, just one
Speaker 5: name is different from his list. Instead of Jonathan Taylor,
Speaker 5: I bejon In there. I also have five running backs
Speaker 5: in Round one next year for running backs.
Speaker 1: All right, your non run this last year's running back.
Speaker 1: If you didn't draft Christian McCaffrey in the first round,
Speaker 1: you got stung yep period. So you know everybody else
Speaker 1: who drafted a running back, you know, and it's it's
Speaker 1: basically this way pretty much every year. There's about one
Speaker 1: running back who ends up maintaining the value of the
Speaker 1: first round pick, and everybody else gets smoked on their pick.
Speaker 1: And it's guys like Kyron Williams who show up basically
Speaker 1: out of nowhere that are housing leagues. People know that
Speaker 1: they're not taking They're not They're going to be hesitant
Speaker 1: to take running backs, including five. We only had three
Speaker 1: go on average last year. He'll Chase Jefferson, lamb A. J. Brown.
Speaker 1: I'm on Ross Saint Brown are locked in. People are
Speaker 1: going to go to court. These rushing quarterbacks are dominating leagues.
Speaker 1: Jalen hurts, Josh Allen. People are going to war this
Speaker 1: week with Gardner Minshew there. People want these big bodied
Speaker 1: rushing quarterbacks who score touchdowns, have the incredibly high floor.
Speaker 1: It hurts and Allen are going to go in the
Speaker 1: first round, Sam Laporta, it's gonna end up trending to
Speaker 1: the back of the first round.
Speaker 6: No, he won't.
Speaker 4: I think he'll be the first tight end off the board,
Speaker 4: but I don't think he'll make it to the first round.
Speaker 1: You know what, in a lot of leagues, you're probably right.
Speaker 1: But I think there's still a lot of owners that
Speaker 1: are like, look, I just want to be done. I
Speaker 1: want to be I want my tight end sure, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna take it. I won't be able to I
Speaker 1: like it. There's gonna be one of you. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be a Thornniserman every one of my leagues. That only
Speaker 1: leaves me with Christian McCaffrey in two more spots. So
Speaker 1: who the two are it's gonna be. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be Breese Hall Jonathan Taylor, but Jamior Gibbs might
Speaker 1: be in there. Kirien Williams might be in there as well.
Speaker 1: Correct answer three running backs. Let's go back to the matchups,
Speaker 1: Atlanta taking on Chicago. Speaking of Bjeon Robinson, man, I'm
Speaker 1: excited for their next coach, whoever that is, bears Arthur
Speaker 1: Smith out of there. It's gonna happen. If you know
Speaker 1: they know Arthur Blank knows it's it's gonna change. The
Speaker 1: Bears are very good against the run, allowing the third
Speaker 1: fewest rushing yards no runner. Get this, for the Bears,
Speaker 1: no runners top seventy six yards all year. What a
Speaker 1: great performance by them. But Robinson has a chance to
Speaker 1: shine through the air against Chicago. They've allowed excuse me,
Speaker 1: they've allowed the second most receptions, the most receiving yards,
Speaker 1: and the second most receiving touchdowns allowed to running backs.
Speaker 1: Robinson has top thirty routes run twice in the last
Speaker 1: three weeks, so I mean they're using them through the air,
Speaker 1: so there should be opportunities for receptions. Be great on
Speaker 1: Bejon Robinson, but you know you're playing with Arthur Smith,
Speaker 1: so you know there's plenty of fire here as well.
Speaker 1: Everybody else is on the bench, including this guy. Drake
Speaker 1: London hasn't scored since Week four, and aside from his
Speaker 1: totally unpredictable blow up game three weeks ago, he's averaging
Speaker 1: just four catches for forty eight yards. The Bear secondary
Speaker 1: much improved. London's looking at a long game against Jalen Johnson,
Speaker 1: who's turned into one of the best cornerbacks in the league,
Speaker 1: so he's on the bench. Kyle Pitts is on the bench.
Speaker 1: He's scored in two of the past three, so there
Speaker 1: might be some temptation for Brian Johnson to use him here,
Speaker 1: but the volume is so low. He's and he's always
Speaker 1: a deeply unreliable play. And here it is our fantasy championship.
Speaker 1: The Bears have itIt excellent against tight ends. Other than
Speaker 1: David and Joku's blow up game two weeks ago, no
Speaker 1: other tight end is top fifty yards since way back
Speaker 1: in Week five against Chicago.
Speaker 4: You know Brian's gonna cite Pitts. His two touchdowns in
Speaker 4: the last three weeks is the reason to take him
Speaker 4: in the first round next ye that is probably true.
Speaker 1: That is probably true. Let's go to the Chicago side.
Speaker 1: I've got a B grade on Justin Fields. Falcons a
Speaker 1: shockingly competent pass defense. Five of the past six opposing
Speaker 1: passers have thrown zero touchdowns. That's amazing, particularly you watch
Speaker 1: Cole Comet and his injury status. They say we leave,
Speaker 1: he's gonna go, and that would obviously help Justin Fields
Speaker 1: as well. You've got Dj Moore, big play downfield receiver
Speaker 1: that's a positive play. We're gonna talk about him in
Speaker 1: a second. The Falcons allowed the fifth deepest a dot,
Speaker 1: which abodes well for DJ Moore as well, So there
Speaker 1: might be a downfield connection here for that, justin Field's
Speaker 1: ken exploit. But the real story with Fields is always
Speaker 1: the rushing. The Falcons have allowed the ninth most quarterback
Speaker 1: rushing yards, fourth most quarterback rushing touchdowns. Pretty Much every
Speaker 1: opposing quarterback who can run has run against the Falcons.
Speaker 1: B grade justin Fields, even if he doesn't get it
Speaker 1: done with his arm, which he might not. DJ Moore
Speaker 1: comes in with a B grade. Since Field's return from injury,
Speaker 1: Moore has seen nine targets per game, which is fantastic.
Speaker 1: He's averaging six catches, seventy yards, three touchdowns in that timeframe. However,
Speaker 1: the Falcons have just shut down opposing receivers. They're giving
Speaker 1: up the second fewest yards to receivers as well as
Speaker 1: the third fewest receptions, just ten per game to the position,
Speaker 1: which is nothing. Over the last seven weeks, only Chrystal
Speaker 1: Lobby's gone over one hundred yards and nobody else has
Speaker 1: had more than seventy seven, so tough matchup for more.
Speaker 1: He's going to line up against Ajterrell a lot and
Speaker 1: that's not a great matchup. He gives up a reception
Speaker 1: in one out of every fourteen covered snaps.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 1: Darnel Mooney ruled out of this game, by the way,
Speaker 1: so More might get a couple extra targets his way
Speaker 1: B grade and more B grade and Cole Comet. On Friday,
Speaker 1: he was described as looking pretty good, so hopefully that
Speaker 1: means he's going to play. Coming off his first ever
Speaker 1: one hundred yard game. Comet's been targeted at least five
Speaker 1: times in seven of the last eight games, so we
Speaker 1: like the fact that he's a heavy part of this
Speaker 1: game plan. And again, Darnell Mooney out. He runs from
Speaker 1: the slot that opens up the middle of the field
Speaker 1: for Comet to get a couple extra looks so solid
Speaker 1: B grade here. Falcons give up the fifth most yards
Speaker 1: per game to opposing tight ends. Now, last week, Dot
Speaker 1: the Foreman got ruled out for personal reasons, which we
Speaker 1: alluded to on the show as a possibility. Didn't think
Speaker 1: it would actually happen, but it did. And then Khalil
Speaker 1: Herbert had the big game. But that it's a three
Speaker 1: way split and was a three way split before Foreman
Speaker 1: got ruled out, and I think we go right back
Speaker 1: to it being a three way split and a much
Speaker 1: tougher matchup against a Falcons defense that's only given up
Speaker 1: one rushing touchdown all year at Lanta rank sixth and
Speaker 1: run stuff win rate and first in run defense by
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus. So all the Airs runners, including Khalil
Speaker 1: Herbert on the bench, let's take a break. When we
Speaker 1: come back. San Francisco forty nine ers in a slam
Speaker 1: dunk matchup against the Washington Commanders. When we come back,
Speaker 1: Matt will tell you if there's anybody you would start
Speaker 1: that doesn't have an A grade, it could be just
Speaker 1: an A grade across the board from everybody. Find out
Speaker 1: when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. In what
Speaker 1: might be the most lopsided game of the year, San
Speaker 1: Francisco taking on Washington. This is the worst in the
Speaker 1: league against arguably the best offense in the league. And Matt,
Speaker 1: if you just you know, if you just want to
Speaker 1: say everybody gets an A, we could just move on.
Speaker 1: Make this simple.
Speaker 4: Almost almost It is a thirteen and a half point spread.
Speaker 4: Are you going higher than that? Well, injuries are the
Speaker 4: story for the Niners right now. Tackle Trent Williams was
Speaker 4: pulled from the blowout loss against Baltimore with a groin injury.
Speaker 4: He's been limited all week. Brock Purdy also pulled last
Speaker 4: week with his second stinger in as many weeks, but
Speaker 4: he's practiced in full. He's expected to go. You have
Speaker 4: to give Perty that bounce back a grade against the
Speaker 4: horrible Washington defense. They've allowed the third most passing yards
Speaker 4: at two hundred and seventy three per game, and opposing
Speaker 4: quarterbacks are averaging two point two touchdowns per game. That's
Speaker 4: the most in the league. Perty's favorite target, Deebo Samuel,
Speaker 4: also limited this week with what they're calling a sprained neck.
Speaker 4: I think he's gonna go. He's in a grade, and
Speaker 4: so has Brandon Nyuk. The Commanders have allowed double digit
Speaker 4: PPR points nine times to opposing wide receivers in just
Speaker 4: the last four weeks. That's more than two a game.
Speaker 4: By the way, the Commanders will be without their top
Speaker 4: two perimeter corners and starting safety Percy Butler. It looks
Speaker 4: like somebody named Tariq castro Fields will be playing against
Speaker 4: the Niners on Sunday. He hasn't played a snap this year,
Speaker 4: But I mean.
Speaker 1: He could best, might be better.
Speaker 4: He could be better than what the Commanders have been
Speaker 4: trotten out there. It's possible. George Kittle's matchup looks difficult,
Speaker 4: but it's mostly due to the fact that the Commanders
Speaker 4: really haven't faced many good tight ends. Cole Comet, Kyle Pitts,
Speaker 4: John Smith, Darren Waller, and Hunter Henry about the best
Speaker 4: they've faced all year. All of the above had thirteen
Speaker 4: point PPR performances or better. I'll give Kittle a bee,
Speaker 4: mostly because I'm afraid they could be sitting him in
Speaker 4: the second half.
Speaker 1: And then if by then maybe Kittle's already had let's hope.
Speaker 4: So I just fear that one of these guys can't
Speaker 4: have the huge game, and Christian McCaffrey's obviously an a.
Speaker 4: Since Montees Sweat left the defensive line, the Commanders have
Speaker 4: given up a twenty point PPR day to every runner
Speaker 4: they've faced Gez every top running back. That's insane. It
Speaker 4: is that's so good. On the Commander's side, it's not good.
Speaker 4: The Commanders are expecting Brian Robinson to go this week
Speaker 4: because he's clawing back from a hamstring injury. If he
Speaker 4: can't go. It's basically Antonio Gibson all alone because Chris
Speaker 4: Rodriguez is on ir now. Either way, the running back
Speaker 4: in question is facing a defense that's allowing the second
Speaker 4: fewest rushing yards per game at only sixty five, and
Speaker 4: they've only given up nine total touchdowns all year to
Speaker 4: the running back possession, which is eight best in the league.
Speaker 1: And the game script is gonna neutralize the running game
Speaker 1: for Washington anyway.
Speaker 4: That's true. The Diners do face a lot of passes,
Speaker 4: which that's why Jacoby Brissett is the guy that we're
Speaker 4: going with now. That just tells me that the Sam
Speaker 4: Howell experiment's completely over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we discussed it on this show last week. I
Speaker 1: think yeah, I think it's run its course. Unfortunately for
Speaker 1: my guy, who honestly was a legitimate fantasy factor for
Speaker 1: about fourteen to fifteen weeks till the bottom just fell out.
Speaker 4: It did sound like a very sad wolf howl there.
Speaker 4: The Niners have more interceptions this year nineteen than touchdowns
Speaker 4: allowed through the air seventeen, so you have a better
Speaker 4: chance of throwing an interception than throwing a touchdown pass.
Speaker 4: Brissette spread the ball around a lot in his action
Speaker 4: last week. Five different players had two targets from him.
Speaker 6: In that game.
Speaker 4: He only threw the ball thirteen times. Lots of those
Speaker 4: were very short passes, which plays better for Curtis Samuel
Speaker 4: and Logan Thomas. But you're not starting those guys in
Speaker 4: a fantasy championship, even with a game script that should
Speaker 4: be filled with tons of garbage time. I can't find
Speaker 4: an angle to start a Commander's pass catcher in this one,
Speaker 4: no at all.
Speaker 1: I think Perssett is a sneaky start, like DFS super
Speaker 1: Flash quarterback, just all the garbage time in all the.
Speaker 4: Passes and not for all the money though in your
Speaker 4: fantasy league, for sure, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Barsetts looked good in these He keeps coming in like
Speaker 1: the final thirds of these games, and he looks good.
Speaker 4: He's not the worst quarterback in the league, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: No, apparently he's not the worst quarterback on his own team.
Speaker 1: Tennessee taking on the Houston Texans. Soor we've seen the
Speaker 1: best of Derrick Henry, the worst of Derrick Henry in
Speaker 1: just the last two weeks. So which version are we
Speaker 1: going to get here? The guy who struggled against Houston
Speaker 1: in the past. Are we going to get what do
Speaker 1: you think? This is a tricky spot for Derrick Henry.
Speaker 5: We're going to get the C grade Derrick Henry that
Speaker 5: needs a touchdown to return value this week. He was
Speaker 5: shut down by the Texans last time, as you alluded
Speaker 5: to ten total yards on twenty touches no running back.
Speaker 1: That's insane, insane. Yeah, yeah, it almost seems like a typo.
Speaker 5: No running back is top fifty six run yards versus
Speaker 5: the Texans in their past five games. Like I said,
Speaker 5: I think Henry needs a touchdown to return value this week,
Speaker 5: but I will say the game script isn't going to
Speaker 5: matter for that. Ten of Henry's eleven touchdowns this year
Speaker 5: have come with the Titans down by seven or more points,
Speaker 5: which is also indicative of the team being terrible. Speaking
Speaker 5: of that, Will Levis given him a great to see here.
Speaker 5: Zero finishes higher than QB fifteen since Week nine. He
Speaker 5: was QB eighteen in the previous game against the Texans.
Speaker 5: Not a bad matchup for potential improvement over that QB
Speaker 5: eighteen number this time around. Since Week eleven, the Texans
Speaker 5: are bottom ten and yards per attempt, passing yards per
Speaker 5: game and fantasy points allowed to opposing quarterbacks. DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 5: is the guy that you would want here. I'm going
Speaker 5: to give him a be wide receiver thirty in fantasy.
Speaker 5: He gets all the opportunities though, number one in deep targets,
Speaker 5: number seventeen in red zone targets, and it is a
Speaker 5: decent matchup if will Levis can get it there. Since
Speaker 5: Week ten, the Texans have allowed the fifth most receiving
Speaker 5: yards per game to boundary wide receivers. And then, lastly,
Speaker 5: chig I'm going to give him a C tight end
Speaker 5: twenty five and fantasy points per game.
Speaker 1: First touchdown of the season.
Speaker 5: Last night not not thrown by Wills by Tannahill, I
Speaker 5: was thrown by Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1: Red zone looks are increasing.
Speaker 5: I will say three of his five red zone targets
Speaker 5: on the year have come in the last seven games.
Speaker 5: Relatively speaking, the Texans have allowed the third most receiving
Speaker 5: yards and six most fantasy points per game to opposing
Speaker 5: tight ends. We give Chagas. Moving over to the Texans,
Speaker 5: I give CJ. Stroud a B. Returning from his two
Speaker 5: game absence due to the concussion. He missed the last
Speaker 5: game against the Tennessee in Week fifteen. Stroud is averaging
Speaker 5: twenty eight Fantasy points in seven home games. This one's
Speaker 5: at home QB seven and fantasy points per game overall,
Speaker 5: and two of the past four quarterbacks to face the
Speaker 5: Titans have scored at least twenty one Fantasy points. Devin
Speaker 5: Motor Singletary give him a B three top eight fantasy
Speaker 5: running back finishes in seven games since he took over
Speaker 5: this gig full full time. Played only forty four snaps
Speaker 5: percent of the snaps last week, though he keeps getting
Speaker 5: yanked off the field in passing downs, which is a
Speaker 5: super due annoying. Two weeks ago against the Titans, he
Speaker 5: did have twenty six carries for one hundred and twenty
Speaker 5: one yards, also four catches for forty nine yards. The
Speaker 5: game script should help him here with the Texans being favorites.
Speaker 5: Nico Collins, I'll give him a B. Nico was wide
Speaker 5: receiver twelve in Fantasy through the first thirteen weeks with
Speaker 5: Stroud with Stroud, and then of course he missed some
Speaker 5: time and then Stroud got knocked out. Only four catches
Speaker 5: for eighteen yards on six targets last week with case
Speaker 5: Keenum and Davis Mills whatnot, but CJ.
Speaker 1: Shroud back. In last four games that CJ.
Speaker 5: Shroud and Nico Collins were both healthy for a full
Speaker 5: game together, Nico had a minimum of thirteen and a
Speaker 5: half Fantasy points in each of those games. The Titans
Speaker 5: have allowed the fifth most fantasy points to wide receivers.
Speaker 5: Like Nico giving him a bee, Noah Brown will give
Speaker 5: him a c He had the big game against the
Speaker 5: Titans last time. But you guys will recall Nico Collins
Speaker 5: did not play in that game. But Noah Brown had
Speaker 5: eight catches for eighty two yards and a tuddy in
Speaker 5: that one. That was one of three games this year
Speaker 5: where Brown is finished as a top ten overall fantasy
Speaker 5: wide receiver. Since Week ten, the Titans have allowed the
Speaker 5: second most receiving yards per game to permitter wide receivers.
Speaker 5: Would give Noah Brown a see will not come down
Speaker 5: a little bit because Nico's coming back. Dalton Schultz, I'm
Speaker 5: giving him a fee. Between weeks four through eleven, Dalton
Speaker 5: Schultz with tight end six in Fantasy points. He had
Speaker 5: twelve catches for one hundred and nineteen yards in the
Speaker 5: past two games without c. J.
Speaker 1: Stroud.
Speaker 5: Of course, Stroud's back now. The good times can continue now.
Speaker 5: But unfortunately, the Titans are great against opposing tight ends.
Speaker 5: They've allowed the fewest points to tight ends in the
Speaker 5: NFL Fantasy points this year. I will say contextually, Dalton
Speaker 5: Schultz did have four catches for fifty eight yards.
Speaker 1: Against the Titans last time around, again without C J. Stroud,
Speaker 1: Nico Collins. If I told you right now Nico Collins
Speaker 1: is going to finish next year as a top five
Speaker 1: wide receiver, would you be surprised.
Speaker 5: M might be a little bullish because I like Tank
Speaker 5: Dell a lot, but I mean I would be aggressive
Speaker 5: on him too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's Shroud's thought.
Speaker 5: And Shroud's going to keep getting better and better and better.
Speaker 5: And is that perimeter guy that he loves.
Speaker 1: Demiko Ryans has done such a great job. You know,
Speaker 1: we have people forget how how bad this team was
Speaker 1: and how long they last year. Yeah, right in the
Speaker 1: organ first. Yeah, he should absolutely be in the conversation
Speaker 1: for Coach of the Year. And when Stroud comes back
Speaker 1: and wins these next two games, it's you know, I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna remember that, and Houston's gonna find their
Speaker 1: way into the playoffs.
Speaker 4: And this is they could still win the division.
Speaker 1: They can still win the division. It's possible, and they'd
Speaker 1: be frisky to Cincinnati takes on Kansas City. This is
Speaker 1: a frisky matchup with a lot of moving parts. So
Speaker 1: let me just start here. This whole t Higgins, Jamar Chase,
Speaker 1: and Lagarious Sneed is very complicated because we don't know
Speaker 1: if Jamar Chase is going to go. He's a game
Speaker 1: time decision. Lagerious Snead, the star cornerback who shuts down
Speaker 1: opposing number one receivers, also a game time decision. So
Speaker 1: this is really unclear. Let me tell you a little
Speaker 1: bit about how how good Snead has been among cornerbacks
Speaker 1: with at least four hundred covered snaps. He allows the
Speaker 1: fourth lowest passer rating in the league. And here's what
Speaker 1: he's done to opposing number ones in the last month.
Speaker 1: DeVante Adams four yards, DeVonta Parker forty four yards, Stefan
Speaker 1: Diggs twenty four yards, Jaden Reid sixteen yards. None of
Speaker 1: them scored this Lugerious Sneid is the definition of a
Speaker 1: shutdown corner. So if Jamar Chase plays that and Sneid
Speaker 1: plays that, puts Sneid on Chase. Presumably if Chase doesn't go,
Speaker 1: it puts Sneid on Higgins. But if Sneid doesn't go,
Speaker 1: it's game on for both of those guys, because it
Speaker 1: falls off the table after Snead you've got much better matchups.
Speaker 1: So a ton of moving parts here. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: give generic B grades on t Higgins and Jamar Chase,
Speaker 1: but you really have to monitor these guys with Sneid
Speaker 1: if Sneid goes again. If if Sneid goes, whoever Sneed's
Speaker 1: gonna get, whether it's Chase because he's going or Higgins
Speaker 1: because he's not, then that guy gets dock down one
Speaker 1: letter grade all right, for everybody else, including Tyler Boyd
Speaker 1: comes in with a C grade. He runs from the slot,
Speaker 1: so you won't see Sneed at all. But the Chiefs
Speaker 1: allow the fifth fewest Fantasy points to slot receivers. Recent
Speaker 1: games play slot receivers against Casey Hunter, Renfro zero yards,
Speaker 1: Demario Douglas thirty three, Khalier Shakir twelve. Boyd's better than
Speaker 1: those guys. In fact, you know what I'm putting down
Speaker 1: to a bench grade forget it. He goes up against
Speaker 1: Trent McDuffie was very good. Forget it Boyd's out. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm putting a bench grade on him. So that leaves
Speaker 1: us with Jake Browning. From the passing game, he pumpkined
Speaker 1: last week, but he's still thrown for at least three
Speaker 1: hundred yards and we're multiple touchdowns in four full games.
Speaker 1: But the Chase thing is a big factor. You want
Speaker 1: to watch that and last week Gave and O'Connell didn't
Speaker 1: complete a pass for three quarters against the Chiefs. So
Speaker 1: this is a tricky spot and I can only get
Speaker 1: you to a C grade on Jake Browning even if
Speaker 1: Chase goes for Joe Mixon. This is a much more
Speaker 1: exploitable matchup, and here's where we have a little stability
Speaker 1: and a little more dependability. The way to beat Kansas
Speaker 1: City is on the ground, as exemplified by the Raiders
Speaker 1: and Zamir White last week. I would have given him
Speaker 1: an A grade, but his touch totals are down lately,
Speaker 1: in part because of the emergence of Chase brown who's
Speaker 1: demanding looks. The Chiefs allow almost five yards per carry
Speaker 1: to opposing running backs, four point nine second, worse than
Speaker 1: the league. Recent work Hosts a workhorse. Totals include Zamir
Speaker 1: Whites one hundred and forty five yards, James Cooks one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty one yards, Josh Jacobs one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five yards. But Mixon's only averaging thirteen touches per
Speaker 1: game over the last two weeks, and that makes him
Speaker 1: just a B grade and Chase Brown could be a
Speaker 1: what the heck dart throw in a run heavy matchup.
Speaker 1: All right now to the Chiefs bounce back game coming,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call my spot here. Patrick Mahomes A grade
Speaker 1: obviously hasn't played to that level in a long time.
Speaker 1: Get this. Mahomes last three touchdown game was Week seven.
Speaker 1: There have been twenty eight instant of three touchdown games
Speaker 1: since Patrick Mahomes has had one. In the NFL. A
Speaker 1: reversal coming here. Over the past five weeks, Cincinnati ranks
Speaker 1: dead last in passing yards allowed, and astonishingly, they're dead
Speaker 1: last against these guys over the past five weeks, Mason Rudolph,
Speaker 1: Nick Mullins, Gardner, Minshew, Kenny Pickett, and a by game
Speaker 1: combo of Trevor Lawrence and CJ. Bethard, and they're still
Speaker 1: dead last in passing yards allowed. Mahomes I think it
Speaker 1: all comes back together for Mahomes here a grade, same
Speaker 1: with Kelsey. Over the past five weeks, he's only Fantasy
Speaker 1: tight end ten win spot ahead of Chiga konk Wu.
Speaker 1: He has zero scores in that five game stretch. But
Speaker 1: here's the Bengals ranks against tight ends. Fantasy points allowed,
Speaker 1: second most receptions to tight ends, second most receiving yards
Speaker 1: to tight ends the most. Travis Kelcey bounced back coming
Speaker 1: a grade. Rashee Rice also in a grade. Since week twelve,
Speaker 1: Rice tied for third in targets. He's hauled in at
Speaker 1: least six catches in five straight games. He's scored three times,
Speaker 1: Cincinnati giving up one hundred and seventy six yards per
Speaker 1: game to opposing wide outside his six mosts. He's got
Speaker 1: a matchup on the outside against a chadobe Owuozier who
Speaker 1: has just gassed for one hundred and twenty three yards
Speaker 1: in his coverage by Pittsburgh. Nice opportunity for Rice to
Speaker 1: stay hot a grade. The running back thing is also murky.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Pachecko returned to practice on Friday, but he has
Speaker 1: a game time decision with the shoulder and the concussion.
Speaker 1: Mostly players do not come back from the concussion in
Speaker 1: the same week. If he doesn't, then Clyde Edwards Hilaire,
Speaker 1: who's missed some time with illness but should play, would
Speaker 1: get virtually all the work because Jerrick McKinnon's on IR.
Speaker 1: So if Pacheco can't go and I've got Pacheco is
Speaker 1: a C grade, assuming he's gonna split some time with
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards Hilaire. But if Pacheco can't go and it's
Speaker 1: all Clyde, he'd move up to a B grade and
Speaker 1: become a Vile Bowl Championship Week starter. The Bengals give
Speaker 1: up four point five yards per carry to opposing running backs.
Speaker 1: That's fifth most. Cincinnati ranks twenty sixth in run stuff
Speaker 1: win rate. Lead backs have scored against the Bengals in
Speaker 1: six the past seven games, So that'd be Pachecko if
Speaker 1: he starts, it'd be Clyde if he doesn't. Those guys
Speaker 1: have got some startability to him against a bad defense.
Speaker 1: A lot of Cincinnati defense going the wrong way right now.
Speaker 1: When we come back our final block and matchups, including
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Seattle Seahawks, Kenneth Walker fascinating opportunity.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to hear Matt's breakdown on that. Stay tuned
Speaker 1: to Fantasy Football Weekly. Final segment a Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: This is the final segment of our long form edition
Speaker 1: in year number twenty nine. Go to our off season
Speaker 1: short form edition next week. So don't unsubscriber anything. Just
Speaker 1: keep listening all off season. Lots of great stuff.
Speaker 4: You'll learn things.
Speaker 1: You will learn things. We'll do some fantasy playoff stuff
Speaker 1: next week. That's the light of the playoffs, which we love.
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers take on the Seattle Seahawks. Matt Let's start
Speaker 1: on the Pittsburgh side.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mason Rudolph starting again. Kenny Pickett could be activated,
Speaker 4: but he's going to serve as the backup if he is.
Speaker 4: Rudolph looked pretty solid last week against Cincy two ninety
Speaker 4: and two scores, although much of that was the long
Speaker 4: catch and run by George Pickens. This week, it's a
Speaker 4: mid level matchup against the Seahawks. Rushing is where Seattle
Speaker 4: gets dinged by the quarterback, but as far as passing,
Speaker 4: they're not too bad there. Since Week four, only three
Speaker 4: quarterbacks have top two to fifty against Seattle and they've
Speaker 4: only allowed multiple scores to four passers in that time,
Speaker 4: so I really don't like Rudolph from a passing perspective,
Speaker 4: and he's not really known as a runner, so I
Speaker 4: can't get him off the bench. Wide receiver matchup tough
Speaker 4: two for Pickens and Deontay. Aj Brown and DeVonta Smith
Speaker 4: were both held under sixty yards two weeks ago by
Speaker 4: the Seahawks team. Last week, DeAndre Hopkins had two catches
Speaker 4: for twenty yards. I'm gonna steer toward benching both Pickens
Speaker 4: and Deonta this week. I don't particularly like the matchups.
Speaker 4: The most beatable Seattle corner his already burns and he
Speaker 4: mans the slot, which is where Alan Robinson mostly runs from,
Speaker 4: and Pickens and Johnson stay on the outside, so they're
Speaker 4: just tougher matchups. I don't really like it this week
Speaker 4: for those guys. And I was banging the drum for
Speaker 4: Pat Fryarmouth last week, so was charge he didn't get
Speaker 4: a target?
Speaker 1: How about that?
Speaker 4: What the heck? So you can't trust him this week.
Speaker 4: Naji Harris has been limited in practice this week, but
Speaker 4: it sounds like that's more load management than an actual injury.
Speaker 4: I like both Naji and Jalen Warren this week with
Speaker 4: twin C grades, But if Najie Harris doesn't go for
Speaker 4: some reason, Warren jumps up to a bee. In the
Speaker 4: last five games, opposing runners have gouged the Seahawks for
Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty five yards per game on the ground,
Speaker 4: and during that span they've allowed the third most rushing
Speaker 4: scores on the other side. Kenneth Walker hasn't practiced yes
Speaker 4: this week, but he did the same last week and
Speaker 4: he played.
Speaker 1: I think he plays here.
Speaker 4: I like the matchup the Seattle known for resting guys
Speaker 4: during the week too. They're citing an illness for Walker
Speaker 4: this week as well as the shoulder. But hey, what
Speaker 4: is the frequency on Kenneth Well, I think his frequency
Speaker 4: is that he gets the ball almost one hundred percent
Speaker 4: of the time when he's out there. Last week, Charbonnet
Speaker 4: only had three touches. Walker's averaging seventeen touches per game.
Speaker 4: So what does that look like against the Steelers. Nine
Speaker 4: different backs have seen seventeen touches against the Steelers this year.
Speaker 4: Their average day is one hundred and eleven convoy yards
Speaker 4: and a seventy eight percent chance at a touchdown. That's
Speaker 4: a solid bee for Kenneth Walker. DK Metcalf popped up
Speaker 4: on the injury report when he did not participate on Thursday,
Speaker 4: but they, like I said, they rest guys randomly. I'm
Speaker 4: a little worried about his targets drying up. Though he's
Speaker 4: only seen five, six and six targets over the last
Speaker 4: three weeks compared to an average of eight in the
Speaker 4: prior eleven games. He's still scored in three of his
Speaker 4: last four games and it helps. That does help, and
Speaker 4: his matchup against the Steelers corner Levi Wallace is excellent
Speaker 4: as he runs most of his routes from Wallace's side,
Speaker 4: So I wonder if he's.
Speaker 1: Gonna see how much Joey Porter Junior he's gonna get
Speaker 1: that can't com play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have an a on Metcalf because Metcalf runs
Speaker 4: from the side of Levi Wallace more often Tyler Lockett
Speaker 4: runs from the Joey Porter side, so I'm giving Lockett
Speaker 4: the be here. But I did mention it last week.
Speaker 4: The Steelers are still down their top four safeties and
Speaker 4: since he didn't really exploit it, no, I was killing me.
Speaker 3: I'm watching the game going throw d.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they gotta throw deep, and I feel like Seattle
Speaker 4: could could just throw some long balls with both Lockett
Speaker 4: and metcalf. I think it's a good match up here.
Speaker 4: I can't must starting grade on JSN though his A
Speaker 4: dot is still hovering in the six range, and that
Speaker 4: requires just too much volume or after catch specialness that
Speaker 4: we really haven't seen as of yet. Finally, Gino Smith
Speaker 4: startable with a B grade as well multiple scores and
Speaker 4: three of his last five Steelers defense not as scary
Speaker 4: as it used to be. Each of the last three
Speaker 4: quarterbacks they faced has either thrown for three hundred and
Speaker 4: thirty yards or three touchdowns in a game against the Steelers,
Speaker 4: and those names were Bailey, Zappi, Gardner Minshew, and Jake Browning.
Speaker 4: So Gino Smith B grade.
Speaker 1: Chargers take on the Broncos. These are teams missing their
Speaker 1: number one wide receivers and their number one quarterbacks. Easton
Speaker 1: Stick versus Jared Stidham. Let's start on the Chargers side.
Speaker 1: There's not much to like here other than maybe Austin
Speaker 1: Eckler against a very bad run defense. Yeah, mister Eckler,
Speaker 1: We're going to give him a B.
Speaker 5: Last week against the Bills little resurgence there, fifteen carries
Speaker 5: for sixty five yards, three catches for twenty one yards,
Speaker 5: clear lead back eighty two percent of the touch percentage
Speaker 5: last week. This is a motivation game for him. Eckler
Speaker 5: grew up and went to college in Colorado. In seven
Speaker 5: of the past eight games against Denver, Eckler has sixteen
Speaker 5: fantasy points per game or more. Broncos have also allowed
Speaker 5: the second most fantasy points to opposing running backs this year,
Speaker 5: so a decent one for him.
Speaker 1: Easton Stick. If you're in a two quarterback league, he's
Speaker 1: potentially startable. I give him a C.
Speaker 5: He's quarterback thirteen, quarterback eighteen in fantasy last two weeks.
Speaker 5: Denver has allowed the eleventh most passing yards per game
Speaker 5: since Week eleven, so we'll give him a CE. Keenan
Speaker 5: Allen's out with the heel, hasn't practiced, Josh Palmer not
Speaker 5: looking good and concussion oh Man so Quentin Johnson.
Speaker 1: I will say emergency flex option. I can't.
Speaker 5: If you're in a big pinch, you could potentially go there.
Speaker 5: They got to throw to someone. Speaking to that, Gerald
Speaker 5: Everett will give him a bee. He's the pass catcher
Speaker 5: you want with Allen and Palmer both out obviously means
Speaker 5: that ever it's going to get a lot more looks.
Speaker 5: Gerald Everett scored eight or more Fantasy points in five
Speaker 5: straight games. The Broncos also allowed the most Fantasy points
Speaker 5: to opposing tight end, so a decent matchup if mister
Speaker 5: East and Stick can get him the ball. On the
Speaker 5: other side, Jared's did him as bad and he's only
Speaker 5: starting for financial reasons. Do not risk it, no matter
Speaker 5: how desper you are. Cortland Sutton has been ruled out.
Speaker 5: Jerry Judy is questionable with an illness. Marvin Mims is
Speaker 5: questionable with the answer Jared's did them might not even
Speaker 5: have a receiving cor I don't even know who they're going.
Speaker 1: To toss out there.
Speaker 5: I will say, if you're desperate, that the guy that
Speaker 5: you could potentially start, if he plays a Jerry Judy,
Speaker 5: I gave him a CE. He's only wide receiver fifty
Speaker 5: eight in Fantasy in his top seventy yards only once
Speaker 5: since Week four. But if the other guys are out,
Speaker 5: we already know that Sutton is potentially you know he's
Speaker 5: going to get the usage at least, and the Chargers
Speaker 5: are league average against opposing slots. Lastly, Javonte Williams, I
Speaker 5: give him a grader see RB twenty three or worse
Speaker 5: than five of the last six games, two point two
Speaker 5: yards per carrier, worse.
Speaker 1: In the last two. So it seems like it's getting worse.
Speaker 5: Yeah, fewer than eleven fantasy points per game or fantasy
Speaker 5: points of the last six And as we talked about earlier,
Speaker 5: the snaps have been dwindling as Julia McLaughlin gets more
Speaker 5: looks and I think Sean Payton loves that kid. Javonte
Speaker 5: did have his best fantasy game of the past two
Speaker 5: months against these same Chargers in Week fourteen. Sixty six
Speaker 5: yards in a touchdown. It's the most you know, hope
Speaker 5: I can muster for him. I will give him a
Speaker 5: see And Julia McLaughlin was might take a chance on
Speaker 5: me running back.
Speaker 1: The Sunday night game is a do or die game
Speaker 1: for the Packers and Vikings. The loser basically done for
Speaker 1: the year. And because of that, I believe that Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones is gonna get a lot of the workload that
Speaker 1: they've been unwilling to give him to this point because
Speaker 1: he kept getting hurt. Well, who cares now you gotta
Speaker 1: get a win here, so I see a ton of
Speaker 1: work coming now. The Vikings have been a good run defense.
Speaker 1: They've only allowed two running backs to top sixty five
Speaker 1: rushing yards against them all year, but one was Jamiir
Speaker 1: Gibbs just last week put it together a one hundred
Speaker 1: yard two touchdown game. Since returning from injury two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: Jones has out carried Dylan five to one on carries
Speaker 1: inside the so he might be able to help you
Speaker 1: with the touchdown as well. Be good.
Speaker 4: Didn't Dylan get the short touchdown?
Speaker 1: He's scoring on the horse? Yes, he did score on
Speaker 1: the one. Yes, let's go to the passing game, Jordan Love,
Speaker 1: be great. The Vikings have been a negative matchup for
Speaker 1: most supposing quarterbacks, including Love when the first matchup just
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty nine yards and one score. But
Speaker 1: at the moment, the Vikings defense is in massive flux,
Speaker 1: particularly against the pass. Edge Rusher dj Wanham is out
Speaker 1: for the year. Starting cornerback A Caleb Evans got benched
Speaker 1: last week mid game, and cornerback Byron Murphy is out
Speaker 1: and backup cornerback McKay Blackman's going to try to play
Speaker 1: hurt this is a bad spot. Love has managed multiple
Speaker 1: touchdowns in six of the past seven games. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna do it here too. Even when he has
Speaker 1: bad games, he still finds his way to a couple
Speaker 1: of touchdowns. He'll get a couple here. Be great on
Speaker 1: Jordan Love. See grade on Jaden Reid, who comes in
Speaker 1: with toe and chest injuries but is expected to play.
Speaker 1: He runs from the slot on two thirds of his plays.
Speaker 1: Byron Murphy is the most common guy who who guards
Speaker 1: the slot, but he's out and last week with him out,
Speaker 1: the Vikings used eight different defenders to try to guard
Speaker 1: the slot and all they did was give up twelve
Speaker 1: passes to Aman Rossaying Brown for one hundred and six
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown. So a nice opportunity for Jaden Reid,
Speaker 1: who comes in with a B grade in this game.
Speaker 1: He posted eighty three yards in the previous matchup. Romeo
Speaker 1: Dobbs comes into the C grade. He's the healthiest of
Speaker 1: the Packers' receivers and probably the safest option among the Packers' receivers,
Speaker 1: even though he only totaled eighteen yards in the first matchup.
Speaker 1: But there's no healthy bodies left here. He did score
Speaker 1: in that game against the Caleb Evans, so you know
Speaker 1: there is that for him as well. C grade on
Speaker 1: Romeo Dobbs if you're in a pinch. Christian Watson and
Speaker 1: Dontavian Wicks are not expected to play in this game.
Speaker 1: Luke Musgrave also not expected to play. Tucker Kraft should
Speaker 1: continue to get a lot of the work, but the
Speaker 1: Vikings have not given up a touchdown to a tight
Speaker 1: end since week nine. From weeks ten through sixteen, Minnesota's
Speaker 1: only given up four receptions for thirty seven yards to
Speaker 1: the Pozi. That said, they guard. Vikings guard the tight
Speaker 1: end with Ivan pace Junior, a lot rookie. He's allowed
Speaker 1: eighteen of the last nineteen passes in his coverage to
Speaker 1: be completed. So Tucker Craft comes in with a C
Speaker 1: grade for the Vikings. They'll go to war with Jaren
Speaker 1: Hall actually startable here because the Packers pass defense is
Speaker 1: just so bad right now. Jay r Alexander benched in
Speaker 1: this game. The last three opposing quarterbacks against the Packers
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns, no picks, seventy three percent completion rate, and
Speaker 1: an opposing quarterback rating of one hundred and thirty two.
Speaker 1: And they faced Tommy DeVito Baker Mayfield and Bryce Young,
Speaker 1: so Jaren Hall C grade dartthrow if you have to
Speaker 1: do it, and Kevin O'Connell's repeatedly proven he won't hesitate
Speaker 1: to maintain his past heavy game plans with his backup quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson comes in with a C grade. It would
Speaker 1: be a sure a with a more proven quarterback, but
Speaker 1: remains very startable against the defense, allowing over two hundred
Speaker 1: and ten yards and two scores the position in back
Speaker 1: to back weeks, and no Jr. Alexander, But the problem
Speaker 1: is that might be additioned by subtraction because Alexander been horrible.
Speaker 1: B grade on Justin Jefferson. I've got a C grade
Speaker 1: on Jordan Addison due to his ankle injuries, and he's
Speaker 1: a game time decision. If he's able to play through
Speaker 1: the injury, you'll have to factor in the prospects of
Speaker 1: re injury. TJ. Hockinson's out that frees up eight targets
Speaker 1: per game some and they don't have the backup tight
Speaker 1: ends to catch passes here, so some of that's going
Speaker 1: to go to Jordan Addison, and with Jefferson on the field,
Speaker 1: Addison gets single covered a lot and that that could
Speaker 1: free up some downfield plays for him. That's some nice
Speaker 1: opportunities for Addison potentially here and could be impactful against
Speaker 1: cornerback Eric Stokes, who's been garbage despite the first round
Speaker 1: pick that he was. kJ Osborne startable in a pinch
Speaker 1: because without TJ. Hockinson across the middle, that's going to
Speaker 1: give some favorable matchups across the middle and some more
Speaker 1: balls to go to. kJ Osborne against lockcorner back Keyshawn Nixon,
Speaker 1: who is allowing an eighty percent catch rate and ranks
Speaker 1: his Pro Football focuses eighty sixth quarterback the last Viking
Speaker 1: you care about, my guy, ty Chandler. He's taking us
Speaker 1: months to get here, but finally startable. He goes up
Speaker 1: against the Green Bay defense that could be missing Devondre
Speaker 1: Campbell and Darnell Savage, their fourth and second best run defenders.
Speaker 1: The Packers run defense middle of the pack at best
Speaker 1: have been their bleeding touchdowns, allowing running back scores in
Speaker 1: six of the past seven games, and they've allowed five
Speaker 1: running backs to rush for at least eighty yards in
Speaker 1: that span. Alexander Madison only field on the field for
Speaker 1: five snaps last week. Ty Chandler C. Grade. Thank you
Speaker 1: for listening to Fantasy Football Weekly all week. Robbie, thank
Speaker 1: you for all your help over the course. Yeah, Robbie special.
Speaker 1: Thank to my co host. This is a hard, hard
Speaker 1: job for you got thrown into the fire this year.
Speaker 1: You did a great job. Thank you for having Matt,
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson, Scott Fish, Thank you all for all of
Speaker 1: your work in this.
Speaker 4: Hey, thank you charge for the opportunity and uh and
Speaker 4: the fun times that we get to play on the radio.
Speaker 1: It's just greatly absolutely year number thirty coming up next
Speaker 1: then everybody, Bye bye. Fantasy Football Weekly is a production
Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app,
Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.