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Speaker 1: my playoff edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul
Speaker 1: Charchi and my coast today are Scott Fish and Matt Harrison. Hello, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: Chart your sounding excited, maybe a little spooky? Playoffs? Yes?
Speaker 1: How many? How many teams do you have alive? Still? Three?
Speaker 1: That's good? I have three alive, that's good. Yeah. I've
Speaker 1: got a guillotine, a regular and a and a twentyman redraft.
Speaker 1: That's good. How about you, Scott? I also got three? Uh?
Speaker 1: Is your fish Bowl team alive? Oh? Man? Mine died
Speaker 1: last week. Mine died in August. It's been over for
Speaker 1: a long time. On fourt inly for me and that one.
Speaker 1: We've got lots to get to. Over the course of
Speaker 1: the show, We're gonna break down every game fantasy style
Speaker 1: like we always do, letter grades on each of the
Speaker 1: notable players. You will hear three tough questions which we
Speaker 1: will answer and you can play along. We'll give you
Speaker 1: nine players upon whom you can take a chance. And honestly,
Speaker 1: you're still there are still players you can get off
Speaker 1: the waiver wire, even with a playoff roster that can
Speaker 1: be better than your guys. The single biggest mistake you
Speaker 1: can break make right now is just blindly assuming the
Speaker 1: guys that got into the playoffs and Allen best guys,
Speaker 1: and Allen, I had Tyrand Johnson in three leagues on Thursday,
Speaker 1: and then I dropped him right before the game about
Speaker 1: right they ended up playing. I wasn't gonna waste a
Speaker 1: spot on a player that was going to play. Go
Speaker 1: look at that man the Raiders secondary? Who was that
Speaker 1: bad Dolphins for Week sixteen? You have no kidding. Let's
Speaker 1: let's let's start with our Saturday games. There are two
Speaker 1: Saturday games. We've got a mid afternoon game and an
Speaker 1: early evening game. Let's begin with the Buffalo Bills taking
Speaker 1: on the Denver Broncos. And for me, this is a
Speaker 1: this is a green light start for Josh Allen. All
Speaker 1: three of Denver's starting cornerbacks are out for this game.
Speaker 1: I think this is a great opportunity for Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: So the guy who's got multiple touchdowns and or three
Speaker 1: hundred yards and all but one game this year is
Speaker 1: a green lights breaking right, thanks, I do have an
Speaker 1: A grade on him. Uh. The weird thing is Denver's
Speaker 1: only allowed to passing touchdowns since Week nine, but they
Speaker 1: allowed three rushing and the competition was not Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: Uh not even close. In fact, um Allen I mentioned,
Speaker 1: had multiple touchdowns and or three plus yards in almost
Speaker 1: every game. But every game that he's attempted at least
Speaker 1: twenty five passes, he has done it. And that's a
Speaker 1: fairly low bar against the team that has allowed that
Speaker 1: in basically every single game. I have an A grade
Speaker 1: on Allen. Digs is basically unbenchable at this point. I
Speaker 1: don't think I need to spend a lot of time
Speaker 1: on him. I have an A grade there. With John
Speaker 1: Brown out, Gabriel Davis has scored every game John Brown
Speaker 1: has been out. He just has no wide receivers top
Speaker 1: seventy yards against the Broncos since Week nine. But with
Speaker 1: Davis's ability to score and Beasley having ten plus targets
Speaker 1: in three the last four, three of those with John
Speaker 1: Brown out, I gave them both C grades. I think
Speaker 1: Beasley gets a lot of targets I think Davis might
Speaker 1: score again. I like him more than you do. I've
Speaker 1: got high rank I got I've got B grades on
Speaker 1: both guys. Alright, I'm more optimistic. Well, I do have
Speaker 1: Moss and Singletary on the bench. I'm sorry charged they
Speaker 1: flipped again last week. I Moss is getting more snaps,
Speaker 1: but the touches that they're not just not coming. Uh.
Speaker 1: Singletary and more touches. Moss had more touches in the
Speaker 1: Steelers game, and then Singletary had more touches last week,
Speaker 1: and neither of them are barely averaging over three yards
Speaker 1: per carry right now. It's really frustrated. The running back
Speaker 1: you want on this team is Josh Allen. Is really
Speaker 1: what it is. So I have them on the bench.
Speaker 1: Over to the Broncos side. I do have a C
Speaker 1: grade on Drew Lock. The Bills have allowed multiple passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns in four the last five, plus yards in three
Speaker 1: the last five, and that's not really a recent trend.
Speaker 1: They've allowed six games over three hundred passing yards this year.
Speaker 1: They have allowed multiple touchdowns in games nine times, nine times.
Speaker 1: Lock has been in consistent. He's been hot lately, so
Speaker 1: I'm giving him a C. Grade here high lately is
Speaker 1: maybe an even and under. He just seven game of
Speaker 1: his career last week. Yea, seven touchdowns the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: and he's he's getting but you know, matchups, this is
Speaker 1: a Bill's matchup. It's a little different. Uh. I do
Speaker 1: have C grades on most of his receivers as well,
Speaker 1: though Handler gets deep. He's got two big deep plays
Speaker 1: each game. Drew Lock has kind of a d g
Speaker 1: F attitude. He'll flow it up to him. Yeah, so, uh,
Speaker 1: with the chance that Handler gets a big play, Tim Patrick,
Speaker 1: he's scoring. He's he's got six touchdowns in the last
Speaker 1: seven games. He has three in the last two games,
Speaker 1: and they've thrown it to him in the end zone
Speaker 1: three times in the last two games. He's just getting
Speaker 1: those plays. But he can also go off for a hundred.
Speaker 1: He's done that twice in the last six games. So
Speaker 1: their range of outcomes really is a four for forty
Speaker 1: floor based on the last few weeks, with much more upside.
Speaker 1: So I have SEA grades on both of them. No,
Speaker 1: Fan also a C grade because nearly every tight end
Speaker 1: against the Bills to hit seven targets had a really
Speaker 1: good day. We're talking sixty plus yards a bunch of catches,
Speaker 1: some touchdowns, and uh Fant has done that a bunch
Speaker 1: of times this year. I think that he's in for
Speaker 1: a SEA grade. Their Bills allowing the fifth most points
Speaker 1: to tight ends on the running backs. Gordon, I'm given
Speaker 1: a C grade and I got Lindsay on the bench. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been a bad for Lindsay, my guy, and I
Speaker 1: just said, really disappointing. Yeah. Really recently the Chargers for
Speaker 1: in IROs and Steelers barely did anything against the Bills,
Speaker 1: but Ekeler had a good day through the air, so
Speaker 1: did several others. Gordon has been catching about three balls
Speaker 1: a game, uh Denver and uh Gordon's also probably in
Speaker 1: like for sixteen in line for sixteen plus touches, which
Speaker 1: he's done a bunch of times recently. Almost every game
Speaker 1: he's had a full game this year. So he's gonna
Speaker 1: get that that really nice volume. CE I like to
Speaker 1: give out the volume. See, you're not tricking anybody with
Speaker 1: the volume. CE Carolina takes on Green Bay, Matt and
Speaker 1: the way you beat the Packers is on the ground
Speaker 1: and to a to a certain degree, through the air
Speaker 1: for running backs. So Christian McCaffrey wait, oh, not again
Speaker 1: another But it's an awfully good looking one on paper.
Speaker 1: And I didn't think Mike Davis would have a good
Speaker 1: week last week against Denver and they're tough run defense
Speaker 1: because Denver is a good run defense, and his numbers
Speaker 1: were just trending the wrong way. But I was totally
Speaker 1: off on that one. Sult fire him up this week
Speaker 1: against the pack with a B grade. Basically every team
Speaker 1: but the Lions and Eagles have had a running back
Speaker 1: just put up awesome numbers against the Packers this here.
Speaker 1: Um moving on to the passing game Teddy Bridgewater, I'm
Speaker 1: only going to give him a C grade here. In
Speaker 1: his last fourteen starts, Teddy Bridgewater has two yard games
Speaker 1: and has topped two touchdown passes never He's thrown over
Speaker 1: forty passing attempts only three times this year. He doesn't
Speaker 1: have enough volume to elevate his game past the C
Speaker 1: grade in my opinion, and the Packers have knocked out
Speaker 1: each of the last two quarterbacks they faced, either with
Speaker 1: poor play or injury. Prior to that, Sad trombon Sky
Speaker 1: did rack up some nice garbage time numbers, and Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers actually did pick apart this secondary, but I don't
Speaker 1: see it for Bridgewater. D J. Moore is back from COVID,
Speaker 1: but he just gets to see because Teddy still hasn't
Speaker 1: really focused on more this year. He's averaging only four
Speaker 1: catches per game and will probably draw more gight Ear
Speaker 1: Alexander coverage than Robbie Anderson, who I'm also giving a C.
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel he gets a see. I actually prefer benching
Speaker 1: them all, but the prospect of garbage time points is there.
Speaker 1: With the Packs past defense, there's no real angle unless
Speaker 1: your name is Richie James. He's the only player to
Speaker 1: beat the Packers for more than a hundred yards on
Speaker 1: the season. They're tough against the slot, and they're tough
Speaker 1: against the outside. Over to the Packers side, Aaron Jones,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, and Davante Adams all are getting A grades,
Speaker 1: and we don't really even need to talk about that.
Speaker 1: The Panthers aren't good enough to stop them. Uh, the
Speaker 1: two guys in the Packers we do need to talk
Speaker 1: about Jamal Williams. I am giving a C grade to
Speaker 1: the Panthers run defense made you believe Ronald Jones was
Speaker 1: good and in games where that are in hand, Jamal
Speaker 1: Williams gets double digit touches. He did it last week
Speaker 1: against Detroit. He did it two weeks ago against Chicago.
Speaker 1: Green Bay is an eight and a half point favorite
Speaker 1: at home, so this is a great possibility of plenty
Speaker 1: a garbage time in the second half. Finally, Robert Tony
Speaker 1: in strong B grade here. He's been. He's been very
Speaker 1: effective for most of the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: How about this efficiency? Tonyan has five targets in four
Speaker 1: straight games, five receptions in three of those four games.
Speaker 1: Pretty good, and a touchdown in each of those four games.
Speaker 1: That's bankable right there. So Tongyan gets a B. The
Speaker 1: Panthers have allowed a touchdown to a tight end three
Speaker 1: times in the last four games, and two of those
Speaker 1: games where they didn't allow a tight end score, they
Speaker 1: allowed exactly sixty eight yards to opposing tight end. So
Speaker 1: I think tongans in a in a nice little spot here.
Speaker 1: And if he's available in your league for some dumb reason,
Speaker 1: no chance, probably not, But yeah, he's startable. He's my
Speaker 1: number four ranked tight ends. Wow, I got that kind
Speaker 1: of right, Yeah, you absolutely did. Yeah, well, as as
Speaker 1: will be proven on Saturday. Don't forget to set your set,
Speaker 1: all your lineups, double check everything Saturday morning before those
Speaker 1: games go off. And if you're listening to this after Saturday,
Speaker 1: you'll already know whether or not we're right about Robert Tonyan.
Speaker 1: Don't listen to it after Saturday. Some stations air it
Speaker 1: after SATURDH I get you after Saturday's tell us how
Speaker 1: Robert Togyan did at explosive output. So if we did
Speaker 1: really bad, there might be people turning it off right
Speaker 1: right now, these guys know nothing. I have the luxury
Speaker 1: of not having Saturday game. Oh, I see how this
Speaker 1: worked out. Funny Seahawks taking on the Washington football team.
Speaker 1: Let's begin with Chris Carson. Washington started the season as
Speaker 1: a daunting run defense, but since there Week eight by
Speaker 1: even mediocre teams have had good rushing games against Washington.
Speaker 1: The Giants, the Lions, the forty niners backs have averaged
Speaker 1: one hundred sixty two total yards and almost one and
Speaker 1: a half touchdowns per game against Washington. Chris Carson his
Speaker 1: top five yards per carrying scored in every game since
Speaker 1: his return from injury. He hasn't seen a ton of touches,
Speaker 1: which is concerning, but I think he's now sitting on
Speaker 1: what should be a closer game, and I think more
Speaker 1: touches they had working in Carlos hide before before because
Speaker 1: he wasn't fully healthy, they had a blowout win against
Speaker 1: the Jets. I think now that this game means a lot.
Speaker 1: I think Chris Carson and we'll be closer. Chris Carson
Speaker 1: will get a ball, and the Seahawks lost their division
Speaker 1: lee it, so they need to start winning again. That's right.
Speaker 1: No dorking around Carlos Hi, thank you very much. Now
Speaker 1: let's go to the passing game, which is way more
Speaker 1: fascinating and really tricky for fantasy owners. Russell Wilson only
Speaker 1: a B grade here. First, just erase last week's Jets
Speaker 1: game from your memory because they do not count. In
Speaker 1: the five games prior to playing the league's worst team,
Speaker 1: Wilson average just two d thirty one yards and one
Speaker 1: touchdown per game, two thirty one and one. That is
Speaker 1: downright Glennonian watching Watchington's defense has been great since Week six,
Speaker 1: their past defense in particular, allowing almost exactly those numbers
Speaker 1: two hundred fifteen yards and one point three touchdowns per game.
Speaker 1: That's it. Russell Wilson is not an automatic start. On
Speaker 1: your team. He is my quarterback ranked I believe eleven
Speaker 1: right now for this week, you may have better options
Speaker 1: as that guy that you don't normally start. And you
Speaker 1: know this. You should know this because you've been starting.
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson hasn't always paid off. Let's go to DK Metcalf.
Speaker 1: I'm still giving him an A grade in spite of
Speaker 1: everything I just said because he's DK Metcalf and the
Speaker 1: football team has been exposed a bit recently, allowing a
Speaker 1: one yard receiver or multiple receiver touchdowns in three straight.
Speaker 1: Metcalf lines up on the left the most often. That
Speaker 1: puts him up against Kendall Fuller, who is usually a
Speaker 1: very good cornerback, although he has had some inconsistent games
Speaker 1: of late. Then Tyler Lockett slumping down to a C grade.
Speaker 1: Mostly he's been a boomer bust receiver and he doesn't
Speaker 1: When he does not score, he busts. And this is
Speaker 1: a bad matchup for a touchdown dependent player because working
Speaker 1: out of the slot, he lines up against Jimmy Morland,
Speaker 1: who is not allowed to touch down and is giving
Speaker 1: up just forty yards in his coverage since Week two.
Speaker 1: So Tyler lockets C grade and honestly, it might be
Speaker 1: a charitable C grade at that. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: Washington side where Dwayne Haskins you're starting quarterback, and that
Speaker 1: pretty much tells you where this is going to add.
Speaker 1: The only starting players with A only players are starting
Speaker 1: grade Logan Thomas and J. D. Mckissic. Let's just touch
Speaker 1: on them briefly. For Logan Thomas, over the last three weeks,
Speaker 1: he's roughly tight end six depending on your scoring system.
Speaker 1: He's been very effective in those games. In the last
Speaker 1: three weeks, He's caught eighteen of nineteen passes that have
Speaker 1: been thrown his way while averaging six catches for fifty
Speaker 1: four yards. He's scored twice in three games, so he's
Speaker 1: he comes in on a good role here. Logan Thomas
Speaker 1: will face a Seattle secondary that's been hit hard by
Speaker 1: opposing tight ends for much of the second half of
Speaker 1: the season. C grade. J D. Mckissic also a C grade.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think he's gonna run for very
Speaker 1: much and the Seahawks have been a good run defense
Speaker 1: all year long. But Seahawks are bottom seven and allowing
Speaker 1: receptions and receiving yards two running back, so I think
Speaker 1: mckissic gets back to something close to the double digit
Speaker 1: targets that he does periodically enjoy. What about Terry McLaurin,
Speaker 1: You might be asked, McLaren, he's on the bench. Oh no, yeah,
Speaker 1: right soon. For two straight weeks, McClaren had two catches
Speaker 1: in less than twenty five yards. Dwayne Haskins is under helm.
Speaker 1: It's not a death sentence to have Dwayne Haskins, and
Speaker 1: he's throughout his careers put up decent enough box scores
Speaker 1: with Dwayne Haskins. But Seattle's past defense has gotten to
Speaker 1: be downright good. They're not the worst past defense anymore. No,
Speaker 1: they're one of the best. Right now. Seattle hasn't allowed
Speaker 1: a receiver to reach fifty yards in three games and
Speaker 1: hasn't allowed to receiver to score in five games. They're
Speaker 1: arguably the best past defense over the last three weeks,
Speaker 1: a total one eight for the Seattle defense. And that's
Speaker 1: why they we'll want to That's why I think they
Speaker 1: will be able to shut down Terry McLaurin. You want
Speaker 1: to keep him on the bench. I'm not even gonna
Speaker 1: discuss Peyton Barber. We can agree here in the fantasy playoffs.
Speaker 1: Peyton Barber has business being anywhere near your roster. When
Speaker 1: we come back, Nine players upon whom you can take
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Speaker 1: Guys would not normally start a lot of these guys
Speaker 1: on the waiver wire right now, but have very good
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Speaker 1: Nine players you would not normally start. We'll beginning at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position, Scott, I am going with Jared Goff.
Speaker 1: He gets those Jets who are the second worst against
Speaker 1: quarterback's third most yards UH and touchdowns allowed to two
Speaker 1: quarterbacks over the last six weeks. This is what the
Speaker 1: Jets have allowed to opposing quarterbacks on average, three yards
Speaker 1: and three point four touchdowns. That is, those are can't
Speaker 1: mess this up. No, no, no, as he can be,
Speaker 1: he cannot mess this up. All right, you take a
Speaker 1: chance at me. Quarterback Matt Baker Mayfield. He's thrown for
Speaker 1: over three hundred thirty yards and two straight games, multiple
Speaker 1: touchdown passes in three straight. The Giants a pretty tough
Speaker 1: past defense all year long, anchored by the great play
Speaker 1: by corner James Bradberry. But he's gone. He's on the
Speaker 1: COVID list and he won't play this week. That opens
Speaker 1: the field for Baker. I like it. Yes, three straight weeks.
Speaker 1: I'm using Sad Trombones. You gotta stop calling him sad
Speaker 1: trombon Ski at this point. You know what, you might
Speaker 1: be right, happy trombone Ski. He's worked out for me.
Speaker 1: In all of his starts so far, he's thrown multiple
Speaker 1: touchdowns in four of his five full games. The key
Speaker 1: to trombone Ski's renewed success is having the good sense
Speaker 1: to throw to Alan Robinson constantly. Since returning to the
Speaker 1: starting job, He's targeting Robinson eleven times per game, creating
Speaker 1: nine yards and one touchdown per game. Justin Robinson and
Speaker 1: Robinson's got positive matchups all over the field against the
Speaker 1: Vikings tissue thin secondary. Let's go to the running back position, Scott,
Speaker 1: I am going with Jeff Wilson, despite the fact that
Speaker 1: he mostered his off the injury report and he's he's
Speaker 1: supposedly ready to go. He's he's been dealing with an
Speaker 1: ankle injury, and I do think it's going to be
Speaker 1: somewhat of a split. Wilson has seven red red zone
Speaker 1: touches in just the last two weeks. All the other
Speaker 1: running backs for the Foreign Niers combined have three. Uh
Speaker 1: He's had nine plus touches in five of his eight
Speaker 1: healthy games, including four straight. Um and The Ravens had
Speaker 1: two running backs do great against the forty Niners. The
Speaker 1: Vikings had two running backs sorry against the Cowboys. The
Speaker 1: Ravens and the Vikings both had two running backs do
Speaker 1: great against so I think that there's room for Wilson.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think it's a savvy move. Uh, Matt,
Speaker 1: let's go with you and take a chance of me
Speaker 1: running back. I've got Damien Harris who's down to fifty
Speaker 1: ownership in ESPN leagues. And that's because since the return
Speaker 1: of Sony Michelle, Harris is down to the heavy end
Speaker 1: of a sixty time share. Uh. That still probably works
Speaker 1: in this case because they play the Dolphins this week.
Speaker 1: And what did the Patriots do the first time they
Speaker 1: played the Dolphins. It's absolutely bonkers. They ran the ball
Speaker 1: twenty six times with their running backs, they ran the
Speaker 1: ball fifteen times with their quarterback, and they added another
Speaker 1: six receptions by their backs. They're gonna run a single
Speaker 1: wing or a wishbone here and just run it over
Speaker 1: and over. And a few weeks ago, the Dolphins faced
Speaker 1: the Broncos, who were not passing well at that time.
Speaker 1: They had Melvin Gordon and Philip Lindsay in the backfield.
Speaker 1: Each of them carried the ball fifteen times. Each of
Speaker 1: them went over eight yards on the ground. I think
Speaker 1: that's the blueprint for the Patriots here. Might take a
Speaker 1: chance on me running back. Is Lynn Bowden up the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins might be a wide receiver in some weeks,
Speaker 1: but depend on his eligibility pretty much every every online scoring,
Speaker 1: every online system. Lynn Boden's treated like a running back,
Speaker 1: and really he does take a few snaps in the backfield,
Speaker 1: but mostly he's a wide out. Some combination of the
Speaker 1: following Dolphins are gonna miss this game, Miles Gaskin, Savon Akhmed,
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker, Mike Kaseki, and Jakim Grant. I don't know
Speaker 1: which ones are gonna be in around and they're all
Speaker 1: game time, he said, I don't know for sure, but
Speaker 1: some combination they're gonna be out, and that's gonna give
Speaker 1: space for our hybrid utility runner receiver Lynn Voden. Like
Speaker 1: last week when he let the Dolphins in targets, receptions,
Speaker 1: and yards, he was on the field more than any
Speaker 1: Dolphins skill player other than two a last week. New
Speaker 1: England's a good defense, but not the impenetrable defense we
Speaker 1: have seen in recent years. Charge He also played quarterback
Speaker 1: and he threw a past last week. Are you going
Speaker 1: to call the quarterback touchdown from we have a controversy.
Speaker 1: Not only that I am I am not only calling
Speaker 1: a quarterback passing a passing touch on to himself also
Speaker 1: as wide receiver. In fact, I think we're gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go one step further. I think he is going
Speaker 1: to execute a halfback option from quarterback him to running
Speaker 1: back him throwing the ball to receiver him all all,
Speaker 1: Lynn Boden, how about didn't Nelson do that on the
Speaker 1: Simpsons one time? Probably? I think he should do a
Speaker 1: double fleet flicker. He should get two hands it to
Speaker 1: a fluff flee flicker to it to flip it back
Speaker 1: to him and then he throws it downfield Mr. Perfect style. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: let's go to the wide receiver position. Scott, your take
Speaker 1: a chance for me receiver. I'm going with Jared Cook,
Speaker 1: which feels a little gross. There's three different players in
Speaker 1: this game I could definitely take a chance on. But
Speaker 1: this is a team that just allowed a hundred and
Speaker 1: ten yards and two scores to the Gisecky shaheen smythe group.
Speaker 1: That's a weird uh the firm, isn't it? I think? So?
Speaker 1: They allowed four for fifty seven to Fan, they allowed
Speaker 1: ten for hundred forty two Gronk and Braid eighty eight
Speaker 1: and one to Waller. Wouldn't even scoring that one over
Speaker 1: the last four They're just getting demolished by tight ends.
Speaker 1: With Michael Thomas out, I think Jared Cook might see
Speaker 1: some work, all right, And your receiver matt Richard Higgins
Speaker 1: of the Browns. Did I mention that James Bradberry is out? Yes,
Speaker 1: you did. Higgins has nine and ten targets in the
Speaker 1: last two weeks, six receptions in both nine games. He
Speaker 1: has scored a touchdown in each of those games. He's
Speaker 1: putting up the numbers we wanted Odell Beckham to put
Speaker 1: up in Cleveland, and he's doing it right now. The
Speaker 1: Eagles secondary is a disaster. Safety Rodney McLoud towards a
Speaker 1: c l last week. Cornerback Davante Maddox is going to
Speaker 1: miss this game of the knee injury, and Darius slays
Speaker 1: in the concussion protocol. So you're all that together. Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk he remains a instrumental part of the Cardinals offense,
Speaker 1: averaging a nine snapshare over the last month. He's kind
Speaker 1: of a low volume guy. He's usually like three catches
Speaker 1: four catches, so you gotta pick your spots. But against
Speaker 1: that banged up secondary. This feels like one for Christian Kirk,
Speaker 1: and Christian Kirk's been very predictable this year in the
Speaker 1: wide open like this, he's been really good. I think
Speaker 1: you're right. Detroy takes on Tennessee Scott and I just
Speaker 1: got this feeling. This is like the big DeAndre Swift,
Speaker 1: you know, big, the big blowout game coming right here.
Speaker 1: I want to believe it's all going to come together.
Speaker 1: The heavy usage, he should be fully health SPA. This
Speaker 1: feels like the spot, especially if Stafford doesn't go Staffords
Speaker 1: the tough s B I don't think. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's going uh. In fact, I'm not sure he ever
Speaker 1: plays another game as a Lion. But that's a whole
Speaker 1: other conversation. Here's the thing. I had Swift as a
Speaker 1: B grade with Daniel because I'm worried about that offense
Speaker 1: keeping it moving, and an A grade with Stafford, and
Speaker 1: which I think that's fair. Yeah, Titans are seventh worst
Speaker 1: against running backs. Swift returned and he was supposed to
Speaker 1: be limited, and he kind of was because he didn't
Speaker 1: get a lot of touches, but he did a lot
Speaker 1: with them. He also has five targets, got five targets,
Speaker 1: which I love to see, you know, I love to
Speaker 1: see that kind of workload. Given the matchup, the fifteen
Speaker 1: plus touch range, forty five balls, I I put a
Speaker 1: B grade on him with Daniel in because it's a
Speaker 1: good matchup against the seventh worst ranked the Titans. There
Speaker 1: Chase Daniel, I'm actually gonna put a C grade on
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna give him C grade. But in in practicality,
Speaker 1: who's going to start him in a game like it
Speaker 1: has to be a super flex you just lost Tasting
Speaker 1: Hill or something. Who you were starting? Maybe? Uh, Titans
Speaker 1: fifth worst against quarterbacks, second worst against wide receivers, so
Speaker 1: that passing game might be able to get some work going,
Speaker 1: and they're likely to fall behind, so they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to pass to catch up. I have Marvin Jones with
Speaker 1: a C grade. Kenny Golladay out again. I'm not even
Speaker 1: sure he plays for the team anymore at this point.
Speaker 1: Franchise tag might muck up the works up. We'll see. Yeah, Uh,
Speaker 1: I like a lot Jones Jones a lot more if
Speaker 1: Stafford goes but under Chase Daniel. The matchup Systu to
Speaker 1: Juicy Tennessee Ranks twenty six against the pass. Uh, he's
Speaker 1: gonna get a good match up against Kenny Vicarlo and
Speaker 1: Jones is averaging nine point six targets per game over
Speaker 1: the last five which is a lot of volume. That
Speaker 1: is a lot of ammudolive on the bench. But Hackinson
Speaker 1: I got a B grade too, because in a year
Speaker 1: of terrible tight ends, like every year, no matter how
Speaker 1: much we try to pretend to ourselves that it won't
Speaker 1: be Uh, he's been consistent every day in week at
Speaker 1: least fifty yards and or a touchdown in all but
Speaker 1: one game, even with Daniel Ann I'm I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him the B grade. On the other side, Uh,
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry should have been my take a chance on
Speaker 1: me player. Obviously for Derrick Henry, obvious A for a J.
Speaker 1: Brown who has only one dot all year. I over
Speaker 1: analyzed it that week, gave him like a C grade
Speaker 1: or something, but he's only got one dot all year.
Speaker 1: A grade for a J. Brown. Ryan Tannehill B grade.
Speaker 1: We called the get right game for Tannehill a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago against Cleveland, he had multiple scores Again
Speaker 1: last week. The lines have allowed multiple scores UH to
Speaker 1: nine quarterbacks two forty plus to all but one, and
Speaker 1: they've had three touchdowns per game two quarterbacks over the
Speaker 1: last three I think it's another good spot for Tannehill
Speaker 1: be grade there, Corey Davis. He's been a little more
Speaker 1: hit and missed recently. But this is a Lions team
Speaker 1: that is fourth worst against wide receivers in the last
Speaker 1: five weeks alone. They've allowed over twelve hundred yards to
Speaker 1: wide receivers five weeks the next closest team. So that's
Speaker 1: unreal separation there. Uh So that's two d one yards
Speaker 1: per game to wide receivers. I think he's gonna have
Speaker 1: some room to work. Can we get tann Hill to
Speaker 1: an A then I love his receiver. I got him
Speaker 1: as an A. I do too. I wonder if Derrick
Speaker 1: I wonder if Derrick Henry gets two hundred plus yards.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're saving him for the playoffs. Now they're gonna
Speaker 1: chuck it. I'm I'm keeping Tanning b because I think
Speaker 1: they might run too much. They might get up too
Speaker 1: much and run too much. New England takes on Miami.
Speaker 1: Matt and you already said you like Damien Harriss as
Speaker 1: you take a chance on me running back. Is there
Speaker 1: any part of the rest of the team that you like?
Speaker 1: Is there any part of the rest of the game
Speaker 1: that we haven't already talked about? So Newton, I'm giving
Speaker 1: him a C grade. These two teams did square in
Speaker 1: week one. Like I mentioned, the Pats didn't even try
Speaker 1: to pass the ball. Uh. Newton ran fifteen times, had
Speaker 1: seventy five rushing yards and two scores in that game.
Speaker 1: Considering cam is averaging nine passing yards per game over
Speaker 1: his last three games. High school quarterback, but he's averaging
Speaker 1: ten rushing attempts per game. That sounds like a high
Speaker 1: school quarterback. Um, that's why I'm giving him a C.
Speaker 1: Because the Pats just might run the wishbone the whole time.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm gonna go with Jacoby Myers and
Speaker 1: any of the receivers with nine yards per game. And
Speaker 1: it sounds like Julian Edelman looks like he might return
Speaker 1: in this one, but you're not picking him up at
Speaker 1: this point. To ah, I got him on the bench
Speaker 1: this week. The Pats just held Kyler, air Bear and
Speaker 1: Goff to an average of one seventy two passing yards
Speaker 1: over the last three weeks, with only one score between
Speaker 1: the three of them, and two looked all right last
Speaker 1: week against Kansas City, but he's just not generating enough
Speaker 1: with his feet to overcome this really bad passing matchup,
Speaker 1: especially when you consider the injuries at wide receiver. Church
Speaker 1: mentioned Davante Parker with a hamstring, Jachem Grant with a hamstring,
Speaker 1: bolt trending the wrong way, so is Mike Sticky with
Speaker 1: a shoulder injury. I fear all three will miss time,
Speaker 1: so incerta Lynn Bowden as you take a chance on
Speaker 1: me wide receiver slash running back. And then Myles Gaskin
Speaker 1: is still on the COVID list and they're talking like
Speaker 1: he might not go again this week, which is why
Speaker 1: DeAndre Washington started last week and looked like a dumpster fire.
Speaker 1: So we might see Patrick Laird more this week. Speaking
Speaker 1: of dumpster fires, he's looking brutal too. That's yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's not really He's just looked like Patrick Lair. He's been.
Speaker 1: He's been very Patrick Laird, hasn't he. Yeah, it certainly
Speaker 1: has looked that way. When we come back, Chicago takes
Speaker 1: on Minnesota. The Vikings passing attack missed a great opportunity
Speaker 1: last week to roll up big numbers. How about this week?
Speaker 1: Can you trust Kirk Cousins, Justin Jefferson and Adam Feeling
Speaker 1: in a matchup against the Bears. Will tell you when
Speaker 1: we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. Final segment of our number one Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. Paul Geargie and Scott Fish and Matt Harrison
Speaker 1: with you. Chicago takes on Minnesota. Let's start on the
Speaker 1: Chicago side. Mitch true Biscy was my take a chance
Speaker 1: on me quarterback, and I do like him in this spot.
Speaker 1: So why are you sad? It's just he just likes
Speaker 1: that one. I just like he does it. It's like
Speaker 1: seconds long it is, and you want to waste time
Speaker 1: on the show. I do like to waste time on
Speaker 1: the show. It just a little soothing background trombone solo
Speaker 1: behind this epic matchup with Allen Robinson getting an A grade.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned earlier, averaging nine one yards over the
Speaker 1: past three games with Travisky under center. That bears another
Speaker 1: positive going up against division rival Minnesota for allowing one
Speaker 1: two yards per game to receivers over the last four games.
Speaker 1: That is the eighth most over the last four Robinson
Speaker 1: has traditionally struggled against the Vikings, though, averaging just fifty
Speaker 1: eight scoreless yards in four games. But I still think
Speaker 1: he's got good matchups and especially two of the three spots,
Speaker 1: so he lines up all across the I'll have a
Speaker 1: fun stat here, YEA, give it to me. The Vikings
Speaker 1: have allowed forty eight class plays of over twenty yards.
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson has not eighteen on his on his own.
Speaker 1: For a guy who's been catching balls from Nick Foles
Speaker 1: for half the season, that's a lot of deep plays
Speaker 1: for Allen Robinson. Also, Darnell Mooney gets a C grade here.
Speaker 1: He scored last week and I frequently mentioned him as
Speaker 1: a dark throw. I mentioned it last week. We did
Speaker 1: get a touchdown out of that. Wait a minute, same
Speaker 1: thing here. Vikings are down to undrafted Journey and Chris
Speaker 1: Jones at cornerback who most often see Mooney, who runs
Speaker 1: from the right side of the field the most often.
Speaker 1: That's Jones side of the field. So I like Darnel
Speaker 1: Mooney with a C grade cole Commit tight end. He
Speaker 1: spiked to a new high with an eighty five percent
Speaker 1: snap share last week, and the Vikings are without star
Speaker 1: linebacker Eric Kendricks once again without Kendricks the past two weeks,
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski scored in the week before that, the anonymous
Speaker 1: Jaguars tight ends combined for ten catches and eighty five yards.
Speaker 1: I like Cole Commit in this game. And then David
Speaker 1: Montgomery A grade for him. Over the last three games,
Speaker 1: Montgomery has averaged one hundred thirty six total yards and
Speaker 1: one point three touchdowns per game. And over the Minnesota's
Speaker 1: last four games, the Dallas Carolina, Jacksonville, and Tampa Backs,
Speaker 1: and these are not exactly rushing powerhouses. In Dallas, Carolina,
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and Tampa have averaged one hundred thirty total yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown per game. And again, the loss of
Speaker 1: tackling machine Eric Kendricks makes this a particularly good matchup
Speaker 1: for David Montgomery. Let's go to the Viking side, where
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook is an obvious A and we're not going
Speaker 1: to spend extra time on that, but let's talk about
Speaker 1: the passing game that is down last week. Kirk cousins
Speaker 1: Um is a B grade here. The Chicago Past defense
Speaker 1: was slumping until last week when it went largely unchallengable
Speaker 1: win against an injury depleted team and put Prior to that,
Speaker 1: the Bears have allowed multiple passing touchdowns in six straight
Speaker 1: games Cousins through and two in his Week ten matchup
Speaker 1: with Chicago, it looks like the Bears are going to
Speaker 1: be without two starting cornerbacks in this game. UM we
Speaker 1: believe that it's going to be buster screen out and
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson shaping up like a game time decision, So
Speaker 1: that should that should tilt the scales towards Jefferson and
Speaker 1: Feeling here. Chicago is allowed one hundred yard receiver or
Speaker 1: multiple receiver scores and four of the past five UM
Speaker 1: the again, only the Texans and their depleted receivers did
Speaker 1: not make that happen. Jefferson will mostly square off with
Speaker 1: rookie Jalen Johnson if he can go, and if he
Speaker 1: can't go, then I like Jalen. I like Justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: even more this week. And if he doesn't go, if
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson does not go, elevate Justin Jefferson to an
Speaker 1: A grade. Feeling will draw the tougher coverage against Kyle Fuller,
Speaker 1: who's allowing just thirty five yards in his coverage. Thus
Speaker 1: the b grade on Adam Feeling last Viking to mention
Speaker 1: IRV Smith. Cayle Rudolph has been ruled out, so Irv
Speaker 1: Smith becomes viable in those situations. The Bears have been
Speaker 1: incredibly vulnerable to tight ends, Chicago allowing the third most receptions,
Speaker 1: seventh most yards, eighth most touchdowns. Too tight ends. Let's
Speaker 1: go to our next matchup San Francisco taking on Dallas
Speaker 1: for San Francisco where he Morris It Morris, He's a coach.
Speaker 1: He most dirt is expected to be available for this game.
Speaker 1: He already told us you like Jeff Wilson. What about
Speaker 1: Raheemo Sterret I do I I have a B grade
Speaker 1: on Raheem Mostret. I do think he'll probably get the
Speaker 1: most work of them. The Cowboys sixth worst against running backs.
Speaker 1: I mentioned that before, and they have allowed multiple runners
Speaker 1: to have good games. Uh most are if he does
Speaker 1: get the most touches, I'm gonna give him the b
Speaker 1: and Wilson the sea. Uh. In the passing game, I
Speaker 1: got Mullins on the bench. He looked really bad last
Speaker 1: week and Shanahan toyed with the idea of moving on
Speaker 1: from him, but early in the week decided, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stick with Mullins, But that concerns me that he
Speaker 1: might be on a short leash. That's that's a fair concern.
Speaker 1: Although I thought Mullins looked very good the week before Buffalo. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have also held the last three quarterbacks they
Speaker 1: played to two seventeen or fewer yards and just four
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns combined. That's a shocking improvement for Dallas. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayouk, however, I have an a grade on the
Speaker 1: last two games that he played with Nick Mullins, with
Speaker 1: Kurt with Deebo Samuel out twenty four targets, seventeen catches,
Speaker 1: nearly two hundred yards and a score that's you know,
Speaker 1: last week plus the week three, the game three weeks
Speaker 1: before that. So Mullins tends to get tunnel vision for
Speaker 1: him apparently in that situation. So I have an a
Speaker 1: grade on Ayouk. I think he might be targeted at
Speaker 1: Ton against the Dallas team that's allowed twenty two wide
Speaker 1: receiver touchdowns on their way to be in the second
Speaker 1: worst of the position. When we when fantasy, when you
Speaker 1: know those of us in the fantasy community, well what's
Speaker 1: listening when we still when we go back and look
Speaker 1: at the rookie receivers from this year. I think Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson might be one. I might be two, and it
Speaker 1: might there's still time to even flip flop. You might
Speaker 1: end up being the best fantasy receiver out of this
Speaker 1: draft class. And it's in the rookie season. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: imagine if Lam had Prescott and had a quarterback like
Speaker 1: Higgans didn't lose his I mean, so many really good ones,
Speaker 1: so many good ones. You might be the best of them,
Speaker 1: is the point I'm trying to make. I don't think
Speaker 1: we're done on Reagor yet either. Uh. I have have
Speaker 1: born In James on the bench. Uh. In that Week
Speaker 1: ten game with I with I you can and Samuel out,
Speaker 1: they had three and four catches each of them, and
Speaker 1: in the week in last week with that same scenario
Speaker 1: each had three catches about five to forty yards for
Speaker 1: each of them. I think that's probably what you're looking at. Again, here,
Speaker 1: the matchups a little easier, so it's it's a risk.
Speaker 1: I guess you could, but I have him on the bench.
Speaker 1: Jordan Reid also on the bench. He's splitting time with
Speaker 1: Dwelly way too much, and Dallas hasn't allowed a tight
Speaker 1: end over thirty yards since week seven. Yeah, so another
Speaker 1: big improvement for Dallas. Yea, when Layton vander ash is healthy,
Speaker 1: they locked down the tight ends pretty well. Over on
Speaker 1: the Dallas side, I have Dalton on the bench. To
Speaker 1: a lot of bench players here over the last six
Speaker 1: to seven games. Here's what quarterbacks have done against the
Speaker 1: four nine ers. Wilson, Rodgers and Josh Allen torched them
Speaker 1: for four touchdowns each and average over three yards. Are
Speaker 1: really good quarterback the other the other the other five
Speaker 1: in that span under two hundred yards and no scores each.
Speaker 1: Dalton the Newton golf Alex Smith types that that's where
Speaker 1: Dalton fits. Dalton fits in that group, so I have
Speaker 1: him on the bench. I will put give Cooper a
Speaker 1: see though, since Dalton took over, Cooper has eighty plus
Speaker 1: yards and or a score in all four. He has
Speaker 1: at least four grabs in each of them. That's seaworthy.
Speaker 1: He's getting enough volume piece like a boat. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: other guys seaworthy, well, Kenny float traditionally Cooper's or woodworkers,
Speaker 1: and they're four very buoyant, very buoyant, right, you know,
Speaker 1: they work with like curved wood and then you know
Speaker 1: the wood floats and those people probably many of them
Speaker 1: went from Cooper's to shipbuilders. Yes, that was in all
Speaker 1: those games with the non stud quarterbacks, the second and
Speaker 1: third wide receivers did absolutely nothing. So lamb and gallop
Speaker 1: around the bench. Sheltz is on the bench because the
Speaker 1: fortnight is allowed the fewest yards and fused receptions. Tonight
Speaker 1: end not to the running game. Ezekiel Elliott. I almost
Speaker 1: do it like my bowls loosen talking about Ezekiel now
Speaker 1: since your question a few weeks ago, that's what that
Speaker 1: smell is. Forty Lamar Jackson was in here before me
Speaker 1: forty seventh best against running backs, second fused rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: But over the last six weeks they've given up a
Speaker 1: six touchdowns over the last six weeks, so they're starting
Speaker 1: to give it up. The lead back is topped eighty
Speaker 1: yards in four straight and that's likely to be Elliott.
Speaker 1: So I have the C grade on Elliott. I know
Speaker 1: he's got an injury. I still think he's gonna get
Speaker 1: the workload. If we find out more before game time,
Speaker 1: maybe bench both him and Pollard because I don't trust
Speaker 1: to split. Agreed. Tampa Bay takes on the Atlanta Falcons
Speaker 1: Matt And for the Bucks, no Ronald Jones in this one,
Speaker 1: and the Falcons are missing some key parts of their
Speaker 1: secondary as well. Yeah, I feel like this is shaping
Speaker 1: up like a Tom Brady passing game. Yeah, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: giving him a b here um. The Bucks will also
Speaker 1: be missing left tackle Donovan Smith, but Chart you did
Speaker 1: mention that Darkeys Dinard and Ricardo Allen are gone for
Speaker 1: the Falcons secondary. But Atlanta has not allowed a quarterback
Speaker 1: to top two fifty yards in a month and over
Speaker 1: the last five weeks. The Falcons are sixth in league
Speaker 1: and passing yards allowed, and Brady is thrown from multiple
Speaker 1: scores and seven of the last eight, but the yardage
Speaker 1: total have been wildly inconsistent, including last week. As far
Speaker 1: as his receivers. The last Tampa Bay wide receiver to
Speaker 1: top one underd yards can you guess who it was?
Speaker 1: Scotty Miller in Week seven. It's been a long time,
Speaker 1: That's wild. But Atlanta's biggest week spot seems to be
Speaker 1: the slot, where Keenan, Allen, Hunter, renfro and Michael Thomas
Speaker 1: twice have led their team's wide receiver groups and fantasy
Speaker 1: points during a date with Atlanta in the last month.
Speaker 1: That bode's wealth for Chris Godwin, who all given a
Speaker 1: grade to. Mike Evans gets the b as the guy
Speaker 1: who's getting the targets closer to the red zone. And
Speaker 1: I think I'm benching Antonio Brown. He hasn't scored yet
Speaker 1: and he looks like just a guy since returning. You know,
Speaker 1: at the time Antonio Brown was signed, if you you know,
Speaker 1: if you were the guy that acquired Antonio Brown on
Speaker 1: that news, you could have traded him for almost anybody
Speaker 1: at any other absolutely, and to this point he has
Speaker 1: not scored. You should have trade on this is just
Speaker 1: like the stock market. Trade on news and hype. And
Speaker 1: look at Levy on Bell same thing. Trade on news
Speaker 1: and hype another guy you probably could have traded on
Speaker 1: news a few times this year. Gronk, who I'm giving
Speaker 1: a C grade to. Atlanta's really cleaned up their tight
Speaker 1: end issues since dan Quinn left, only allowing two in
Speaker 1: the eight games since he departed. Uh Gronk had two
Speaker 1: targets last week but cashed one in for a score.
Speaker 1: He's startable. But there's about fifteen guys I like better.
Speaker 1: Roe Joe's on the COVID list four net. Looks like
Speaker 1: he's going to be the lead dog this week, even
Speaker 1: though he was a healthy scratch last week. Atlanta hasn't
Speaker 1: allowed a one yard rusher all year. They did just
Speaker 1: allow Austin Ekeler to record nine catches last week, something
Speaker 1: we haven't seen against the Falcons in many moons, many moons.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I missed a nine times there. Geez,
Speaker 1: what am I doing? Slipping in my old age? Let's
Speaker 1: go to another guy who's in his old age. That's
Speaker 1: Julio Jones who's been ruled out of this one, and
Speaker 1: another guy who's gaining an age, Calvin Ridley. It's a
Speaker 1: birthday game for Calvin Ridley this weekend he's gaining literally
Speaker 1: gaining an age. Weekend Sunday is his birthday. He gets
Speaker 1: the birthday a that's at the Ardvarks. No, it would
Speaker 1: be I can't give a fonsi away, but you know, um,
Speaker 1: when Jones is dinged up or doesn't play, Ridley gets
Speaker 1: a hundred yards or scores. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 1: It's happened four times this year together. It's always one
Speaker 1: or the other. He's had a hundred in three of them,
Speaker 1: and he's scored in the other one, so fo he's
Speaker 1: four or four. Tampa held the Vikings receivers in check
Speaker 1: last week, but we're only a game removed from Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill almost hitting three hundred yards and both Rams wide
Speaker 1: receivers top two hundred yards three games ago. Finally, uh
Speaker 1: from the from the passing game, Matt Ryan's getting a
Speaker 1: C grade here. Ryan's hit the three hundred yard mark
Speaker 1: only three times this year and zero times in his
Speaker 1: last six. But he's startable because Goff and Mahomes each
Speaker 1: roasted this defense in the last three games, both going
Speaker 1: over three seventy yards with multiple scores. And you don't
Speaker 1: have a Falcon's running back on your roster if you're
Speaker 1: still in the playoffs, they're on the bench. Jets take
Speaker 1: on the Rams, Scott and for the Jets, I don't
Speaker 1: think there's anybody that we're talking about here again against
Speaker 1: a maybe the best defense in the NFL. No, we're not,
Speaker 1: but I gotta say you're throwing major shade at Russell
Speaker 1: Gauge man. I love Russell Gauge. I love Russell Gauge
Speaker 1: and with Zekias on I R and Juliu Jones out,
Speaker 1: He's gonna get some work. We went back to the
Speaker 1: Falcons matchup. How'd that happened? I'm giving a C grade
Speaker 1: to Russell. I like it alright, New York Jets. I
Speaker 1: am starting No. One the Rams of the top team
Speaker 1: against quarterback's, fifth best against running backs, the best against
Speaker 1: wide receivers, their middle of the pack against tight ends.
Speaker 1: But do you want to start Christma? So I'm giving
Speaker 1: a B grade to Sam Donald. I would rather start
Speaker 1: Russell Gauge over Sam Donald. Alright, Jared goff over On
Speaker 1: the Rams side, the Jets are second worst against quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I already mentioned him as might take a chance on
Speaker 1: me player, so I obviously like him. I like his
Speaker 1: wide receivers in this one cup third most receptions and
Speaker 1: fifth most yards allowed to watch receivers. The Jets are
Speaker 1: Seattle just had three different receivers score on this team.
Speaker 1: All had lower yardage. But given guys like Beasley and
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, even Myers, Parker, Hopkins, Patrick, a bunch of
Speaker 1: players have just crushed the Jets and several slot guys.
Speaker 1: I have a B on Cup and I have a
Speaker 1: B on Woods, I would expect similar to the Bucks
Speaker 1: game where the top two guys both went over a hundred.
Speaker 1: That's that's what I'm explained. Woods is an A grade.
Speaker 1: To my mind, I think I don't. I don't think
Speaker 1: you're wrong. These are like this is like the B
Speaker 1: plus A minus range. I think is what it is.
Speaker 1: So I'm fine with your A. I'll let you convince
Speaker 1: me and do an A there. Uh, Tyler Hagbe, I'm
Speaker 1: giving a C grade to the Jets are terrible against
Speaker 1: tight ends. Uh. It's tough to start a guy like Higbee,
Speaker 1: but the Jets have allowed the third most touchdowns to
Speaker 1: tight ends, third most yards. Cam Akers, It's finally time, baby.
Speaker 1: I'm giving him an A grade. Two straight with twenty
Speaker 1: two plus touches uh fifty plus snaps last week. Only
Speaker 1: two backs have tory plus touches against these Jets, but
Speaker 1: they both went over a hundred fifteen yards. One had
Speaker 1: a hundred sixty six yards. Gentser on defense is pretty good,
Speaker 1: though they're way easier to beat through the air. The
Speaker 1: path of least resistance is through the Still think he
Speaker 1: gets twenty plus touches in the game they're running out
Speaker 1: the clock on very that that scenario is very likely
Speaker 1: when we come back. Plenty more to get to, including
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Speaker 1: try to play along. I'll pepper my co host, with
Speaker 1: three tough questions. See if you come to the same
Speaker 1: conclusions that they do. To question, what's the single best
Speaker 1: way to handle ties in a playoff game? Scott, I
Speaker 1: think it's just highest seed advantage advances. I I usually
Speaker 1: like to in my personal leagues push both teams through
Speaker 1: to the next round and then have a three way
Speaker 1: and have the top winner go. But when you have
Speaker 1: to break ties if you're at least if you're going
Speaker 1: to the hundredth stessmal point, it's gonna be super rare.
Speaker 1: And I give a little credence to to you know,
Speaker 1: what they've done in the sular season, how they got there.
Speaker 1: That's that's just a small home field. Home field, your home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that. There's the you know, pick a pick
Speaker 1: a starter, you're starting running back, a wide receiver, pick
Speaker 1: a non start running the lots of ways. I just
Speaker 1: think I see give them that home field advantage. Okay, Matt,
Speaker 1: what is the best way to handle ties in a
Speaker 1: playoff game? I'm gonna get this right because you've done
Speaker 1: this for years with me. Um what Scott said? Answer? Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: here's the most important thing, commissioners, and you can do
Speaker 1: this right now. Have a rule established, anything in place.
Speaker 1: Anything is good. So if you do not have a
Speaker 1: playoff tiebreaker written down edged in stone, find something anything
Speaker 1: that you can that you can get a coin flip
Speaker 1: that even even that bad it's a bad one, but
Speaker 1: if it's one of those Fantasy Football weekly coins, then
Speaker 1: it's a much better answer. Would have your fastest child
Speaker 1: run videotape. It Here's what it can't be about head
Speaker 1: to head in the regular season. That is not your
Speaker 1: tie breaker here, because hey, it has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with what happened to this current week and be it
Speaker 1: could be that when these teams played had to had
Speaker 1: one team was at full strength, the other team had
Speaker 1: three guys on by or whatever, So don't use that.
Speaker 1: It also can't be about backups. I hear this all
Speaker 1: the time. I hate the well we go to our backups.
Speaker 1: You know, you're watering down one of the key elements
Speaker 1: of skill for fantasy managers, which is deciding bench start players.
Speaker 1: I want, I want the outcome to be decided by starters.
Speaker 1: On to that point, you could just fill your bench
Speaker 1: with quarterbacks, yes, which I've done and been in the
Speaker 1: past when I've had these, when I've been in leagues
Speaker 1: that have that, I'll just drop everybody I've got, pick
Speaker 1: up nothing but quarterbacks, and even if they're bad quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: I'll get a bunch of points from them. And well
Speaker 1: it's a free point, so why not, right, Um, I
Speaker 1: use total yards among start yards in total total total
Speaker 1: mark yards amongst starters are never gonna there's never gonna
Speaker 1: be a tie that way. Totally yards among starters. Tough
Speaker 1: question number two. In the playoffs particularly, should fantasy managers
Speaker 1: take their opponent's roster into consideration when setting their own
Speaker 1: line up? Matt Oh, I was gonna say what Scott said,
Speaker 1: what Scott is about? What Scott is about to say.
Speaker 1: I hope he's about to say, Uh, there is some
Speaker 1: gamesmanship to him to this. Uh. If you know your opponent,
Speaker 1: for instance, has a guy like DeAndre Hopkins and you
Speaker 1: play Kyler Murray, that mitigates a little bit of what
Speaker 1: Hopkins can do on the high end. But I only
Speaker 1: really consider it in that kind of scenario where I'm
Speaker 1: playing against a stud wide receiver and I have his
Speaker 1: quarterback in a good matchup as well. So if that
Speaker 1: wide receiver goes off in all likelihoods, so does my
Speaker 1: quarterback and I erase his big moment in the sun Scott.
Speaker 1: In the playoffs in particular, should fantasy managers take their
Speaker 1: opponent's roster into consideration when setting their own line up? Nah?
Speaker 1: I don't, I barely. That's not what Scott said about
Speaker 1: its about its line up. I think the only only
Speaker 1: position I would is that is a tiebreak, Like if
Speaker 1: I have two players that are similar and I think
Speaker 1: that there's an advantage to glean versus my opponent's UH
Speaker 1: lineup for that, maybe, but not. I don't really care
Speaker 1: about my I'm trying to get as many points as
Speaker 1: i can, and I'm starting the players that I think
Speaker 1: are going to score the most points. Yes, you should
Speaker 1: take your opponents of roster in consideration because you need
Speaker 1: to know am I a favorite or am I an underdog,
Speaker 1: especially if I'm a big favorite or a big underdog,
Speaker 1: because that's what sets the risk profile of your roster.
Speaker 1: As an underdog, you need to play more high risk,
Speaker 1: high reward players. I'm I'm more willing to couple, for example,
Speaker 1: as one example, I'm more willing to couple wide receivers
Speaker 1: and quarterbacks together if I need to have. If I'm
Speaker 1: an underdog, I need to have something big hit for
Speaker 1: me to succeed, or high or other players that are
Speaker 1: touchdown dependent that Now I'm a lot more interested Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: who I hate in most regards. This is a scenario
Speaker 1: if I'm an underdog and I need him to run
Speaker 1: two touchdowns in this is a scenario where I'm starting
Speaker 1: Cam Newton. It's all about the risk profile. You need
Speaker 1: to know if you're a favorite or an underdog, if
Speaker 1: it's relatively even. Now I'm where Scott was standing a
Speaker 1: minute ago. Now I'm just playing for the most points.
Speaker 1: But if I'm a favorite or an underdog, I do
Speaker 1: change it. What if I'm a favorite, Well, now I
Speaker 1: can manage situations like well, you just describe if one
Speaker 1: of if my opponent has got a great wide receiver
Speaker 1: and I'm the favorite, I absolutely want to be able
Speaker 1: to start that quarterback if I can, because I do
Speaker 1: want to mitigate points. Then However, if I'm a big
Speaker 1: underdog and Matt's got a great receiver, I have to
Speaker 1: go to a different direction and hope that receiver does
Speaker 1: not sure. So correct answer is yes. Tough question number three,
Speaker 1: James Robinson is going to finish the season as a
Speaker 1: top ten back for or and maybe a top five
Speaker 1: back next year. Will you draft James Robinson in rounds
Speaker 1: one or two, three or four or later than round four?
Speaker 1: Scott probably still in the three to four range. Uh,
Speaker 1: much much like for Net last year. But uh, I
Speaker 1: think James Robinson has less injury risk and he's younger.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be off the team, So but probably
Speaker 1: on the higher end of that three to four range. Uh.
Speaker 1: This year, there's there's just been so many injuries up top,
Speaker 1: I don't want to risk it as much. But more
Speaker 1: than that, he might have a different quarterback, he might
Speaker 1: have a different coaching staff. UM. I can see it
Speaker 1: going up if he gets a guy like Brady Joe
Speaker 1: Brady or b Enemy or something and gets a better
Speaker 1: quarterback that can run that offense better. Um, But for
Speaker 1: right now, where we're sitting right now, I think I
Speaker 1: have him in the three to four range. All right, Matt,
Speaker 1: are you going to take James Robinson next year in
Speaker 1: rounds one or two, three or four or later than
Speaker 1: round four? Well, the answer is Scott's not going to
Speaker 1: get him, because you're not going to get James Robinson
Speaker 1: and rounds three year four where I know I'm getting there, charged, geez,
Speaker 1: get your pants back. I also didn't get for Net
Speaker 1: last year because I was I would have drafted him
Speaker 1: in the fourth third. I was able to obtain a
Speaker 1: couple of mocks and some a DPS already way too
Speaker 1: early a DPS right next Um, right now, he's going
Speaker 1: anywhere between ten and fifteen in mocks right now, so
Speaker 1: that puts him in that weird end of round one
Speaker 1: beginning of round two turn where people often take two
Speaker 1: running backs and it often fails miserably. So at the
Speaker 1: end of that round, you're going to be choosing between
Speaker 1: Robinson and guys like Travis Kelsey, DK metcalf A, j Brown,
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes if you're into that, and more established runners
Speaker 1: like Aaron Jones, Josh Jacobs or Zeke So those are
Speaker 1: the guys that you're going to be choosing. Weird with
Speaker 1: James Robinson, So you're a what are you doing? You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to take between round one and two, So
Speaker 1: I guess I'm not getting him. But that's so risky,
Speaker 1: Like he has nobody behind him. What if they draft
Speaker 1: a good running back to share with him? What if
Speaker 1: the offense is different with Can I go nope? Thanks?
Speaker 1: Do it? Do it all right? Matt Scott, close your eyes,
Speaker 1: close your eyes if you're driving, Do not close your eyes,
Speaker 1: keep them open. I want you to picture highlight moments
Speaker 1: from James Robinson. I got a couple, but I would
Speaker 1: guess I don't think I've seen a Jaguars game. He
Speaker 1: has hurtled people at least twice one twenty yard reception
Speaker 1: on like his first game, he hurdled someone. Here's why
Speaker 1: I'm skeptical. Is he a good runner? It's James Robinson,
Speaker 1: a good runner. He's good. He's a good he's a
Speaker 1: good runner. He's a good I don't see enough athleticism
Speaker 1: from him to suggest he's going to make a year
Speaker 1: to leap and he's not going to get of the
Speaker 1: workload next year. There's no chance he's going to do that.
Speaker 1: The Jaguars simply couldn't find other ways to score or
Speaker 1: move the ball this year. Almost by default, it has
Speaker 1: to get better next season. It just feels like he
Speaker 1: caught lighting in a bottle this year. I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: just not buying it because I don't think he's a
Speaker 1: special back. And at the end of the first round
Speaker 1: I want special backs to me is ADP right now?
Speaker 1: This early ADP is absurd. I want special players at
Speaker 1: that stage For me, he hits. He fits the profile
Speaker 1: for the kind of guys I totally avoid doing the
Speaker 1: He's the exact guys I don't take. And if they
Speaker 1: somehow linger into round five, now we're talking now that
Speaker 1: that's where I want my James Robinson's I think to
Speaker 1: Scott to the point you were starting to make, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be other players there that are gonna start eating
Speaker 1: into his into his work that load next year, I
Speaker 1: am round four or later on, James Robinson. Let's get
Speaker 1: back to our matchups, including Houston taking on the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 1: We'll be in with David Johnson, who faces an elite
Speaker 1: run defense and this is a very icy start for him.
Speaker 1: Just a C grade. Non Derrick Henry running backs haven't
Speaker 1: gone over eighty eight rushing yards this season against Indie.
Speaker 1: Not only that, they haven't gone over one hundred yards
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis last fifty eight games. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: non Derrick Henry runners out there, a lot of I
Speaker 1: am a non Derrick Henry runner. Yes, Johnson is a uber,
Speaker 1: low ceiling plotting runner who gets bailed out with a
Speaker 1: touchdown every now and again. He did against India a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, which saved him from an otherwise
Speaker 1: horrible game. And that's the only reason you would start.
Speaker 1: Johnson is the hope for a touchdown here. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the passing game, where Deshaun Watson is a B grade.
Speaker 1: He played well. Against Indianapolis two weeks ago, he rolled
Speaker 1: up three one scoreless yards. Cold secondary maybe missing its
Speaker 1: best cornerback Xavier Rhodes, who left last week's game, and
Speaker 1: they've struggled lately, allowing over three hundred passing yards and
Speaker 1: three of the past four Colts have allowed quarterback rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns in three straight games and four the past five games.
Speaker 1: So I think that adding the rushing opportunities here, and
Speaker 1: I think Deshaun Watson's actually a safe play. Still don't
Speaker 1: love the receiver set. Still don't know for sure that
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks is gonna go, but we think he's gonna play.
Speaker 1: I've got Cooks and Kiki Cutie with b grades Cook's
Speaker 1: log just sixty five scoreless yards against this team two
Speaker 1: weeks ago when they met, and receivers just don't score
Speaker 1: against the cold secondary. They've surrendered only eleven touchdowns to
Speaker 1: white outs all year. That is fourth fewest. The good
Speaker 1: news is though, they've allowed a ninety eight yard receiver
Speaker 1: in four straight games, so maybe that'll be him. Cutie
Speaker 1: mostly runs from the slot, where he's got a daunting
Speaker 1: matchup with Kenny Moore, who is the current defensive player
Speaker 1: of the week on that part of it is yet
Speaker 1: awesome interception that Kenny Moore at last week. That thing
Speaker 1: was blonkers. Uh so just to see grade on key
Speaker 1: k QT. Then Chad Hansen, who I did players, I
Speaker 1: did not expect to be talking about it at any
Speaker 1: point in this season. This is what happens in hey
Speaker 1: crazy story. He was out of football for three years,
Speaker 1: comes back, he had nine NFL catches, and then he
Speaker 1: gets forced into action two weeks ago. He posts back
Speaker 1: to back solid games. But I think Brandon Cooks comes
Speaker 1: back and that's the end of it for Chad Hanson.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Indianapolis side, beginning with Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: surging of late. He played these same Texans two games ago,
Speaker 1: put up a very good game two it at eighty
Speaker 1: five yards and two scores, and sandwich. Between the two
Speaker 1: Texans games, Houston got lit up by Sad trombone Ski
Speaker 1: for three touchdowns without suspended cornerback Bradley Roby. You can
Speaker 1: bank on a bad game from the Texas Texans secondary. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Rivers enters the game red hot, as they mentioned, multiple
Speaker 1: touchdowns in four straight and over two five passing yards
Speaker 1: and four of the past five games, Philip rivers a
Speaker 1: B grade, A grade to one of his receivers, t
Speaker 1: Y Hilton, who has spoiled us with ninety two yards
Speaker 1: per game over the last three games, a complete one
Speaker 1: eighty degrees change from his horrible first nine games. He
Speaker 1: has now crossed the stripe four times in those last
Speaker 1: three games, which is more than he had had in
Speaker 1: his previous eighteen games combined. Houston surrendered one yard scoring
Speaker 1: efforts to a receiver and back to back games including Hilton,
Speaker 1: and I feel like this is a great opportunity. He's
Speaker 1: gonna light up, primarily against cornerback Keyon krosson a career backup.
Speaker 1: Also among receivers Michael Pittman with a C grade. I
Speaker 1: don't love his low volume, but this matchup is tantalizing.
Speaker 1: He has a healthy five catches in this game two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and in recent weeks, Houston has yielded good
Speaker 1: fantasy games to second tier receivers like Darnell Mooney and
Speaker 1: Mohammed Sanu and Demere Bird. If those guys can do it,
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman's in play here as well. Houston's allowed the
Speaker 1: second most touchdowns to wide receivers I like Pittman with
Speaker 1: a coin flips chance for a touchdown. Here all the
Speaker 1: tight ends cannibalize each other. They're all on the bench.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Jonathan Taylor, who has finally turned into
Speaker 1: the bell cow back we wanted him to be, averaging
Speaker 1: nineteen carries over his past three games. He rocked the
Speaker 1: Texans for a buck thirty five. Two weeks ago, Texans
Speaker 1: allowed the most fantasy points to running backs, and Taylor
Speaker 1: is and a grade. Let's feel awfully good about his prospects.
Speaker 1: I feel about nine Heinz nime Heinz. Wait is this
Speaker 1: nime Heinz? I've got a bench grade on him? But
Speaker 1: he does have He does get the ball enough and
Speaker 1: in a PPR format, he does catch enough that I
Speaker 1: think he is serviceable in this game. He's a kind
Speaker 1: of an extra take a chance on me guy in
Speaker 1: my opinion. With that matchup, you know what you're right.
Speaker 1: Let's give him a solid Sea Grede in this one. Um,
Speaker 1: when we come back the Philadelphia Eagles at the Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 1: what to do about Jalen Hurts? Are we chasing last
Speaker 1: week's rushing production? Find out when we come back to
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Scott Fish
Speaker 1: and Matt Harrison with you. Matt. What can people find
Speaker 1: it Shock Fantasy dot Com? Oh, lots of stuff we're
Speaker 1: doing the podcast, still doing a lot of mail bag
Speaker 1: stuff to help set some lineups. And also we got
Speaker 1: the new trade value chart out and we're gonna have uh,
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl prop bat game is going to be
Speaker 1: exclusive to Shock Fantasy this year, so we'll be selling
Speaker 1: that there. Uh. Philadelphia Eagles are selling hope that they've
Speaker 1: turned around their franchise with a new quarterback. Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1: Eighteen carries last week, over one hundred rushing yards. Now
Speaker 1: he goes up against Arizona. I think I've gotten more
Speaker 1: questions about Jalen Hurts than any other player this week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hundred and six rushing yards last week, but only one
Speaker 1: sixty seven in the passing game. He only dropped back
Speaker 1: to pass thirty times in that game, and the Eagles
Speaker 1: ran the ball thirty six times. That doesn't bode well
Speaker 1: for a quarterback normally. Um, so I'm only giving him
Speaker 1: a C grade here. I'm not looking heavily into the
Speaker 1: passing option. I think that's just gravy. So what about
Speaker 1: the running the Cardinals his opponent had a stretch of
Speaker 1: five games in a row where they allowed thirty five
Speaker 1: or more rushing yards to every quarterback they faced, and
Speaker 1: that stretch just ended two weeks ago. So he's going
Speaker 1: to get about sixty yards on the ground. I'd say
Speaker 1: maybe two yards through the air for Lucky, but the
Speaker 1: eight ball won't tell me anymore. So he's only a
Speaker 1: C grade, Miles Sanders. I'm giving a b uh the ball.
Speaker 1: The eight ball will tell me that the Cards have
Speaker 1: allowed six rushing touchdowns in the last four weeks. Did
Speaker 1: that fit on the little the little eight ball thing? Mean?
Speaker 1: That's that's a lot of data to fit on that
Speaker 1: little triangle. I gotta custom magic eight ball. It's really
Speaker 1: thank you, yes, um, Miles Sanders benefited greatly from having
Speaker 1: a mobile quarterback with eighteen touches and thirty six yards
Speaker 1: and two wars last week he was back. The only
Speaker 1: other Eagles that I think that you can consider starting
Speaker 1: are Dallas Goddard and Zach Ertz, who I'm both giving
Speaker 1: really low level C grades. Two Hurts is generating very
Speaker 1: low depth of target on his throws, which brings into
Speaker 1: play the tight ends. I think Goddard is a little
Speaker 1: bit better in this matchup. He's seen eight targets from
Speaker 1: Hurts in his game and a half as opposed to Arts,
Speaker 1: who's only seen five. The Eagles ran two tight ends
Speaker 1: sets copiously last week against the Saints, meaning both of
Speaker 1: them will be on the field or more of the snaps,
Speaker 1: you know, and that this brings up start, energy, brings
Speaker 1: up They're missing their two best offensive line Lane Johnson
Speaker 1: and Jason Peters are out and that's the problem. I
Speaker 1: think that they're going to be stuck in blocking a
Speaker 1: lot of the time too. So either way, the Cards
Speaker 1: have been very solid against tight ends this year as
Speaker 1: opposed to last year. They only allowed three touchdowns on
Speaker 1: the season and no tight end his top to fifty
Speaker 1: three yards all year. On the other side, Kyler Murray,
Speaker 1: I'm giving him an a aid. Do you know which
Speaker 1: team has allowed the most quarterback rushing yards this season? Well,
Speaker 1: it might be the Philadelphia Eagles, it sure is. After
Speaker 1: three weeks of struggling through an injury and exactly five
Speaker 1: carries in each game, Kyler seemed spry and with it
Speaker 1: and ready last week had thirteen carries again. I like
Speaker 1: his chances of outdueling Hurts in the run game, and
Speaker 1: his pass game is better and more refined than Hurts
Speaker 1: is uh. DeAndre Hopkins getting an A grade two. The
Speaker 1: Eagles have just been torched by big number one wide
Speaker 1: receivers DK and DeVante each had huge days in just
Speaker 1: the last three weeks. Christian Kirk was you to take
Speaker 1: a chance on me wide receiver chart. I'm even gonna
Speaker 1: throw a little love at Brian's boy, Dan Arnold. I
Speaker 1: know how about this. He's become fantasy relevant if you
Speaker 1: need a home run hitter of a tight end and
Speaker 1: you're banking only on touchdowns for this. Dan Arnold has
Speaker 1: scored four times in his last four games, and Philly
Speaker 1: has allowed eight tight end touchdowns on the year, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna need Arnold to get to But if you
Speaker 1: need a home run dan Arnold C grade. Finally, Kenyan Drake,
Speaker 1: he gets a B. Drake has control of the backfield again,
Speaker 1: even more since Chase Edmonds dinged up his ankle last
Speaker 1: week and might not go this week. The Eagles have
Speaker 1: been a bottom ten run defense over the last month,
Speaker 1: so the matchup is kind of ripe here for Kenyan
Speaker 1: Drake and his twenty touches. Jacksonville takes on Baltimore. We
Speaker 1: begin with James Robinson, who has proven himself to be
Speaker 1: matchup proof. The last four Fantasy relevant backs the Ravens
Speaker 1: have faced have average five yards per carry. There we
Speaker 1: go Robinson's average nearly five grabs per game in minshow's
Speaker 1: last five starts. He's gonna chip in some air production
Speaker 1: as well. I don't see an explosive game coming, but
Speaker 1: a good game for James Robinson with a B grade
Speaker 1: every other Jaguars on the bench the entire passing game.
Speaker 1: Baltimore isn't impenetrable against the past, but third tier passers
Speaker 1: almost always struggle against them, and the receivers in particular
Speaker 1: dead here. Baltimore is allowed the second fewest touchdowns to whiteouts.
Speaker 1: DJ Chark's got a bad matchup with Jimmy Smith. The
Speaker 1: Ravens get ding by tight ends a little, but nobody's
Speaker 1: playing Tyler Eiffort in the semifinals. Let's go over to
Speaker 1: the Baltimore side, where things are a lot more interesting.
Speaker 1: Um and one of the really big storylines to watch
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Maybe without both starting wide receivers because they're
Speaker 1: on the COVID list. Offsetting that the Jaguars will be
Speaker 1: down all three starting cornerbacks and possibly two depth corners
Speaker 1: as well. They might be missing five cornerbacks in this game.
Speaker 1: This is probably the NFL's worst secondary the Jaguars now
Speaker 1: opposite that, the Ravens through the fewest passes for the
Speaker 1: second fewest yards, so this thing could go a lot
Speaker 1: of different directions through the air. The only thing that
Speaker 1: can take Lamar Jackson down in this game is meta
Speaker 1: musil very welcome. Jackson usually provides very little through the air,
Speaker 1: as you already know. Um Still, there's an opportunity here
Speaker 1: for him to do some real damage. And wouldn't that
Speaker 1: be handy if he had both the rare this year
Speaker 1: explosive game on the ground owned and through the air
Speaker 1: and in his pants? Sorry, Mark Lamar, I apologize. Mostly
Speaker 1: you're in it for Jackson's running the top fifty rushing
Speaker 1: yards in sixth straight games, which gives him a safe
Speaker 1: floor in a massive upside. If Marks Brown is able
Speaker 1: to go, then he's a B grade here. He's finds
Speaker 1: himself in the midst of an improbable three games scoring streak,
Speaker 1: which he never does and this matchups about as positive
Speaker 1: one as he'll see all year long for the reasons
Speaker 1: already discussed, And and if Brown and boy Can are
Speaker 1: both out, you could even dart throw to Devin DuVernay
Speaker 1: or Dez Bryant in this matchup. It's that positive both
Speaker 1: of those guys, and in daily formats they're kind of compelling.
Speaker 1: If Boykin and Brown are out, let's talk about the
Speaker 1: running backs. No, wait, one more receiver to get to
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews. The tight end A grade for Mark Andrews.
Speaker 1: Jaguars are allowing the most yards per reception to tight ends,
Speaker 1: which is great news for Andrews, who came to life
Speaker 1: with chunk plays last week. Jackson will also allowing ten
Speaker 1: touchdowns to tight ends, that second most. Now, Andrews hasn't
Speaker 1: been the scoring machine he was last season, but he
Speaker 1: still sees twenty percent of his team's targets in the
Speaker 1: red zone. That's the ninth highest clip among all players
Speaker 1: in the league. So tight end potential is there for
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews. A grade for him. Now, let's get to
Speaker 1: the running backs and J. K. Dobbins, who is now
Speaker 1: seeing double digit carries in five of the last six
Speaker 1: games and I think that he will continue to get
Speaker 1: a lot of work, especially with the Ravens likely getting
Speaker 1: out to a big lead here, and if the Ravens
Speaker 1: whiteouts missed this game, all the more work for j K. Dobbins.
Speaker 1: He has scored in three straight games. He faces a
Speaker 1: bad Jacksonville defense that's allowed the fourth most fantasy points
Speaker 1: and second most touchdowns to running backs. Now where it
Speaker 1: gets a little bit sticky, is Lamar Jackson runs in
Speaker 1: a bunch of touchdowns and Gus Edwards gets the red
Speaker 1: zone carries, So Dabbin still has some downside in an
Speaker 1: otherwise favorable matchup. Let's talk about Gus Edwards. You don't
Speaker 1: like Gus got two red zone carries and scored on both.
Speaker 1: Jake has seven in the last two weeks, so Jak
Speaker 1: does get it too. I like Gus Edwards here for
Speaker 1: the red zone carries and the fact that he's a
Speaker 1: finisher in the end zone. Jaguars all all the seventh
Speaker 1: most rushing touchdowns and touchdowns in four straight games to
Speaker 1: running backs in tight end in touchdown heavy leagues. He
Speaker 1: is a viable dart throw with a C grade in
Speaker 1: that game. UM, let's work in one more matchup, Kansas
Speaker 1: City taking on the New Orleans Saints. Scott for Kansas City,
Speaker 1: this is one of the toughest matchups and maybe the
Speaker 1: toughest matchup of their season. You can't bench any of
Speaker 1: the studs, but Mahomes, Kelsey, Hill, You're not mentioned, but
Speaker 1: they all have mortal play potentially in them this week. Yeah, Mahomes,
Speaker 1: Like when Mahomes throws for three and two, we don't
Speaker 1: even beat and eye, that's his mortal play. At this point,
Speaker 1: I I I still have a grades on all of them.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's the rest of the staff that
Speaker 1: I think, is uh really tough for really to gonna
Speaker 1: be a really tough matchup. Watkins and Hardman, both of
Speaker 1: them on the bench. There's been room for a third receiver,
Speaker 1: and of course Hill and Kelsey the first two to
Speaker 1: have a good game against the Saints. That happened in
Speaker 1: the Saints, in the Bears game, the Panthers game, the
Speaker 1: Falcons game. What are those teams haven't coming no tight ends,
Speaker 1: They don't really have tight ends doing anything, alright, So
Speaker 1: this one has Kelsey at tight end. So the third
Speaker 1: receivers and I don't have anything for the third receiver
Speaker 1: in this one. Nothing for Watkins or Hardman. Onto the
Speaker 1: running game. Clyde Edwards E Lair Levan Bell tweeted he
Speaker 1: was confused this week. I'm not sure if that was
Speaker 1: because Clyde had twenty one touches or if he had
Speaker 1: finally listened to his own rap album and just wasn't
Speaker 1: wasn't sure what was going on there, what he was
Speaker 1: thinking when he made that thing. The Saints has actually
Speaker 1: held down some held down Sanders last week a lot
Speaker 1: better than his stat line shows. Due to that eighty
Speaker 1: two yard touchdown. The rest of his carriers went thirteen
Speaker 1: for thirty three. I hate doing that. I hate doing that,
Speaker 1: but I do that because c H isn't the kind
Speaker 1: of back to break those eight yard runs. He's not
Speaker 1: the type of back to have those and and several
Speaker 1: running backs recently have been that way against the Saints.
Speaker 1: No running back his top fifty rushing yards against them
Speaker 1: since Week eight. Yeah, and that's that's where c H
Speaker 1: gets it. Only one back had more than thirty receiving
Speaker 1: yards I give. I want to give him a BE,
Speaker 1: but I think I'm only going to give him a C.
Speaker 1: I think he'll get the fifteen plus touches, but the
Speaker 1: low yardage from all the running backs recently except for Sanders,
Speaker 1: and mostly due to that big run I'm giving I'm
Speaker 1: giving Clyde a C. I think it's a strong seed,
Speaker 1: but I'm giving him a C. On the other side,
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is back, but Michael Thomas is out. Casey
Speaker 1: has allowed multiple touchdowns in five straight. Breese had multiple
Speaker 1: touchdowns in all but one of his fall games. Uh
Speaker 1: and in that one he had three and twelve and
Speaker 1: a score. This is before the injury, though, He's gonna
Speaker 1: be playing maybe with some sore NOAs maybe with maybe
Speaker 1: with a vest on those ribs. They say he's fully healthy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Now many of those games are also without practically all
Speaker 1: of them without Michael Thomas as well. He's you know,
Speaker 1: so he's fully acclimated to game plans without Michael Thomas's
Speaker 1: just put Taysom Hilla in a wide receiver now and
Speaker 1: they might they you know, there's the opportunity to do that.
Speaker 1: I think you have to build in with Drew Brees,
Speaker 1: the threat that he gets knocked out of this game.
Speaker 1: Now he's gonna be He's gonna be loaded with pain killer, right,
Speaker 1: but this is a very good Chiefs defensive line. And
Speaker 1: you know, it's one thing to be able to practice
Speaker 1: pain free, it's another one to have, you know, a gigantic,
Speaker 1: three enter pound lineman spear you in the ribs. You
Speaker 1: know there are only a few places you can hit
Speaker 1: a quarterback. The ribs is one of them. This is
Speaker 1: I think you have to build in the prospect that
Speaker 1: Drew Brees ends up not finishing the game. Yeah that's uh,
Speaker 1: I guess so, I I don't. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: gonna leave the game, but I I guess you can
Speaker 1: maybe should I drop him from a B two SC?
Speaker 1: Is that way you're saying, just based on see, I
Speaker 1: would okay, alright, alright, sounds good. It's your call, but
Speaker 1: that's what I would do. I gave Smith and Sanders
Speaker 1: both CE grades. In the last three games without Michael Thomas, uh,
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders had fifty plus yards and or a touchdown,
Speaker 1: which is sea level and tre Kwon Smith was starting
Speaker 1: to break out with Drew Brees before he went down.
Speaker 1: He had a couple eight yard games, couple score games,
Speaker 1: and Drew Brees had talked about this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a breakout season for and then he got hurt. You're
Speaker 1: so nautical today, Scott. You just said sea level. This
Speaker 1: is great. Jared Cook was might take a chance on
Speaker 1: me player. I think tight ends have been crushing them
Speaker 1: for four weeks. Here's where I love it. I love Alvin.
Speaker 1: That that's true. Yes, yes, very aquatic over here. I
Speaker 1: actually don't have Gilts. Why didn't you name one of
Speaker 1: your kids gil Nobody names that kids kill anymore. That's right.
Speaker 1: It was a thing in the like sixties. I think
Speaker 1: Gilbert the Gilbert is not that's not a winner. It's
Speaker 1: not popular. Alvin Kamar came back into the receiving game
Speaker 1: last week with seven receptions. Uh, it was something he
Speaker 1: was missing when Taysom Hill was out. He gets when
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is in, and with Michael Thomas out, he's
Speaker 1: only going to see more work. I have an a
Speaker 1: grade on Alvin Kamorrow. Murray went back to the bench.
Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, that's right. I think you're right about that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When we come back final set of matchups, including the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns and the New York Giants. We already talked
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier about some elements of the passing
Speaker 1: game for the Browns, but trick the giants improved defense
Speaker 1: make for a tricky matchup even for guys like Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb and Kareem Hunt. Will tell you what kind of
Speaker 1: grades they get when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: Final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchs got Fish
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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns take on the New York Giants. You've already
Speaker 1: talked a bit about the passing game earlier in the show,
Speaker 1: and I take a chance on me segment. I know
Speaker 1: there's some guys who like here let's talk. Let's start
Speaker 1: with the runners, because I think this is a more
Speaker 1: interesting matchup. Nick Chubb is obviously awesome. I know you're
Speaker 1: gonna start him, but this is not a trivial matchup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm still giving Ubin a grade in this one. The
Speaker 1: Giants have given up good but not great fantasy days
Speaker 1: to every team they faced in the last five weeks
Speaker 1: except for the Bengals, who don't actually have a running
Speaker 1: back right now. Since returning from injury, Chubb has had
Speaker 1: either yards or a touchdown in every game, and he's
Speaker 1: scored in four of those five. So I think Chub
Speaker 1: is an obvious A. He's fresh and healthy right now.
Speaker 1: Really like him. Kareem Hunt. I'm even given a B
Speaker 1: two in this one. Hunts touched totals concerned me a
Speaker 1: little bit, but he did score twice last week on
Speaker 1: only twelve touches. That's not enough touches for me to
Speaker 1: feel really comfortable going more than a B. But the
Speaker 1: good thing is the Giants are bottom four in receptions,
Speaker 1: receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns allowed to the running back position.
Speaker 1: That plays into Kareem Hunt's favor. Yes, Baker Mayfield was
Speaker 1: might take a chance on the quarterback, and Richard Higgins
Speaker 1: was might take a chance on me wide receiver Jarvis Landry.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give a B grade two as well. This
Speaker 1: was the Landry we expected at the beginning of the year,
Speaker 1: the Landry we've seen in the last three weeks, averaging
Speaker 1: ten targets per game, averaging seven receptions per game over
Speaker 1: the last three The Giants have given up a handful
Speaker 1: of really good games to slot receivers this season, and
Speaker 1: Landry really is Baker's guy. Right now, Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Giants side, where it's very notable that among the
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen cancelations for the Giants this week, Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: tested positive for COVID. Yes, so he will be calling
Speaker 1: plays for the Giants this week. But do you know
Speaker 1: who will Yes, I do last year's head coach of
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns, Freddie Kitchens. It's a revenge game for
Speaker 1: Freddie Kitchens. So it's time to fire up all those Giants,
Speaker 1: right well, revenge game for Cult McCoy is, yes, former
Speaker 1: Brown Cult McCoy, who may get the start in this one,
Speaker 1: or injured Daniel Jones, who's nursing an ankle and a
Speaker 1: hamstring injury and has been limited in practice all week.
Speaker 1: Jones was just hobbling and kind of warm garbage last
Speaker 1: week against the Cards, and the Giants got blown out
Speaker 1: of that game and they lost their NFC East lead.
Speaker 1: The Browns have been pretty good against quarterbacks, and they
Speaker 1: did get top corner Denzel Ward back this week, so
Speaker 1: you're not going to start a Giant's quarterback in your
Speaker 1: fantasy semifinals. The two guys that you might be interested
Speaker 1: in starting on the Giants. Number one is Evan Engram,
Speaker 1: who I'm giving a B grade to. Ingram actually had
Speaker 1: his best game of the season with Colt McCoy under center,
Speaker 1: so we're kind of cheering for Colt McCoy to get
Speaker 1: this nod here. The Browns are bottom six in receptions,
Speaker 1: yards and touchdowns allowed to the tight end position, so
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram's kind of a sneaky play here. And then
Speaker 1: Wayne Gallman, I'm giving him a C grade in this one.
Speaker 1: He's averaging about eighteen touches per game since solidifying the job.
Speaker 1: But Cleveland has been good against the run until they
Speaker 1: face the Ravens last week. Allowing five running back touchdowns
Speaker 1: over the last three weeks. That's not good, but they
Speaker 1: only allowed seven in the prior ten games, so I'm
Speaker 1: only gonna give Wayne Gallman to see, but he's probably
Speaker 1: their best chance at keeping it close. Yes, I do
Speaker 1: worry a little bit there. Giants might fall behind by
Speaker 1: a lot and they might have to abandon ship on
Speaker 1: the running game altogether. I worry about that a bit.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to our final matchup, Steelers taking
Speaker 1: on the Cincinnati Bengals. We begin with the moribund running
Speaker 1: game of the Steelers. James James Conner likely doesn't play
Speaker 1: with his quad injury, and even if he does, he's
Speaker 1: been brutal. Get this, Over the last three weeks, the
Speaker 1: Steelers are averaging forty five rushing yards per game as
Speaker 1: a team. You know hard it is to do that
Speaker 1: for three weeks. I think one of those games he
Speaker 1: had UN's unbelievable. Roethlisberger should start chipping in. Huh, he might.
Speaker 1: He might have to. Steelers on the season ranked thirty
Speaker 1: feet in rushing yards per game. It's been a disaster here.
Speaker 1: Benny Snell horrible. Anthony McFarland has been equally bad, and
Speaker 1: he gets less used. There's no plays here among the
Speaker 1: Ler's runners, and they are all on the bench. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the passing game, where Ben Roethlisberger gets a
Speaker 1: B grade. But let's talk about his game a bit,
Speaker 1: because it's it's changed a lot. He has turned into
Speaker 1: a dink and dunk passer. Only Alex Smith throws shorter
Speaker 1: passes than Ben Roethlisberger at three point eight yards per completion.
Speaker 1: Three point eight yards is like me to Matt right
Speaker 1: now is about to have a hundred catch nine yards seasons,
Speaker 1: and yet somehow his receivers have dropped twenty seven passes.
Speaker 1: How do you do that from three point eight yards away?
Speaker 1: Can you fall forward for three point eight yards? Yes,
Speaker 1: you can't. A matter of fact, maneu Bull Now Roethlisberger
Speaker 1: eviscerated the Bengals for three hundred thirty three yards and
Speaker 1: four touchdowns in the Week ten meeting. That wasn't that
Speaker 1: long ago. The Bigel's past defense looks improved since then,
Speaker 1: but they've faced Daniel Jones to a Tonga Via looa
Speaker 1: Alex Smith and Andy Dalton, and those are not great passers.
Speaker 1: And I'm not convinced the Cincinnati secondary is really any
Speaker 1: better than the version Ben took apart five games ago.
Speaker 1: So again, it be great on Ben. Let talk about
Speaker 1: his receivers. Chase Claypool's yardage has declined in each of
Speaker 1: four games, and he has currently is currently in the
Speaker 1: middle of the three game scoreless streak. Where he was
Speaker 1: really very helpful was the touchdowns earlier. Fortunately, outside cornerback
Speaker 1: Lashawn Simms offers Claypool a get right matchup, as he's
Speaker 1: allowing scores, has allowed scores and back to back games,
Speaker 1: and yields a massive eight percent catch rate in his
Speaker 1: coverage and a passer rating of one hundred thirty eight.
Speaker 1: That's approaching perfection. Let's go Claypool. I love Chase Claypool
Speaker 1: in this matchup. Not a grade, but I like him
Speaker 1: to be grade. I also have a B grade in
Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster, particularly in PPR leagues. Juju has garnered
Speaker 1: nine targets per game in his last five while notching
Speaker 1: three scores in that span. He put together a nine catch,
Speaker 1: seventy seven yard one touchdown game against Cincinnati four weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and should farewell against Mackenzie Alexander in the slot. He's
Speaker 1: giving up a sev catch rate in his coverage. Here's
Speaker 1: the trickiest Steeler by a mile. What are you doing
Speaker 1: about Deonte Johnson? You may recall last week one of
Speaker 1: our three tough questions was, can you trust Deonte Johnson
Speaker 1: knowing he could get benched if he drops a pass?
Speaker 1: What happened last week? He got benched after he dropped
Speaker 1: a pass. So he did come back in. He did
Speaker 1: come back in later in the game. Now, I can't
Speaker 1: promise you that Johnson starts this game over James Washington,
Speaker 1: or that he finishes this game over James Washington. Washington
Speaker 1: has tallied seven drops. Sorry, Johnson has tallied seven drops
Speaker 1: in his last three games. He's averaging just fifty two
Speaker 1: yards per game over those last three games. That compares,
Speaker 1: that's half of the hundred one yards he was averaging
Speaker 1: the three games prior to drop Fest. He smoked Cincinnati
Speaker 1: for a hundred sixteen yards in a score in Week ten.
Speaker 1: I think he is as as big a high risk,
Speaker 1: high reward player as anybody in this week, outside of
Speaker 1: maybe Russell Wilson, who I think is a super high
Speaker 1: risk high reward player as well. Would you guys start
Speaker 1: Deonte Johnson in a typically sized league in a semifinal game, Yep,
Speaker 1: I still think I would. I still think I would.
Speaker 1: You just like him that much? Yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: really depends on who else I got on my team,
Speaker 1: but it's you know, it's close, like I mean it
Speaker 1: like a Russell Gauge type guy. I'm just kidding. Well, no,
Speaker 1: what if it's not a Russell Gauge type guy. And
Speaker 1: sometimes it's not a Russell Gauge type guy. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's the thing. I just I'm I'm believing that I
Speaker 1: probably don't have a better option than Deonta Johnsonside is high.
Speaker 1: Let's talk Eric Ebron for just a minute. He only
Speaker 1: managed thirty eight scoreless yards when these teams met again
Speaker 1: and keep affereneing the previous game Week ten. But the
Speaker 1: Bengals are horrible against tight ends. They've allowed the sixth
Speaker 1: most receptions, the most yards, and the eighth most touchdowns
Speaker 1: to the position. Eric Ebron clocks in with a B grade.
Speaker 1: I like him this week, uh, and I consider him
Speaker 1: to be startable. And you know, if you don't trust
Speaker 1: Deante Johnson and you've been looking around and all those
Speaker 1: all those extra passes have to go somewhere, potential uptick
Speaker 1: for Ebron is pretty good. Uh. Marcus Mariota looks like
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a starter for a while, maybe the
Speaker 1: rest of the season. Potentially probably for the rest of
Speaker 1: the all Right, I want to let's talk it. Let's
Speaker 1: talk this through for a minute. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I thought he looked really, really good. I was very
Speaker 1: impressed with with the version of him that I saw. Um,
Speaker 1: would you pick him up in a redraft league? Would
Speaker 1: you pick him up Scott in a dynasty or Empire format?
Speaker 1: We're already thinking about next year. It's got to be
Speaker 1: super flex if I am, because he's the type of
Speaker 1: guy that is going to hit the market after this year. Well,
Speaker 1: he's under contract most by the way, an astounding ten
Speaker 1: million dollars next year. Really bad. Yeah, man, for some reason,
Speaker 1: I was backup quarterback. So yeah. So then then he's
Speaker 1: not the kind of guy that sets a market and
Speaker 1: gets gets a job. So yeah, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know that. Well you should, you should everything.
Speaker 1: Then he gets a matchup with TA next week and
Speaker 1: it could be a matchup of running quarterbacks all over
Speaker 1: the field and Hawaiian quarter Hawaiian quarter. You got Oregon
Speaker 1: versus Oregon on Thursday night, and next week you got I.
Speaker 1: That is impressive. Um, I think if you're in a
Speaker 1: if you're in a two quarterback league. You reflex two
Speaker 1: quarterback league. Mariota next week is Is is a potential starter.
Speaker 1: But that Miami secondary has been awesome. You don't have.
Speaker 1: Miami defense is pretty dann good. It is pretty darn good.
Speaker 1: It's one of the under underrated stories of this season.
Speaker 1: I think charge let me ask you a question, and uh,
Speaker 1: Mariota famously came into the league in the same draft
Speaker 1: as Jamis Winston. Which of those two players from a
Speaker 1: dynasty perspective, people maybe trying to pick up a few
Speaker 1: guys here and there, which of those two guys has
Speaker 1: a better chance of starting in the NFL next season?
Speaker 1: Winston because he's not under contract and he's going to
Speaker 1: hit the free agent market and be able to, you know,
Speaker 1: try to secure a job that he was not able
Speaker 1: to get his past off season. So I think he's
Speaker 1: got a clearer path now. If Mary, if Mariota goes
Speaker 1: bonkers down the stretch here, maybe you know, who knows,
Speaker 1: maybe the issue maybe maybe just trying to trade him. Maybe, Uh.
Speaker 1: Run quarterbacks with more than five carries against the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: Cam Newton sudenty five yards and two scores, Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: a hundred and six yards in the score, a little
Speaker 1: preview of next like, well, let's see what Cam does
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins again this week. That might give us
Speaker 1: the perfect preview for what Mariota can do next week.
Speaker 1: I want to look ahead to next year with a
Speaker 1: couple of quick questions for you guys. Keenan Allen has
Speaker 1: obviously been resurgent under air bear. We have an air
Speaker 1: bear enough, we thay that's why. So Keenan Allen resurgent
Speaker 1: under air bear next year? What round do you believe
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen will go? And by the way, Eric the
Speaker 1: Enemy is gonna be the head coach because Eric can
Speaker 1: pick his spots, you know he can. He can go
Speaker 1: wherever he wants. He will go to the team with
Speaker 1: the awesome young quarterback because you've been crazy not to.
Speaker 1: That is how coaches keep jobs and have longevity is
Speaker 1: they hook their wagon to a great young corn. What
Speaker 1: you also don't do that also played for the Chargers.
Speaker 1: That's a great point, But you also don't want to
Speaker 1: go into the same division as Patrick Mahomes where you
Speaker 1: might never a division titles. A fair point that that
Speaker 1: part would be tricky. I don't know. He probably watches
Speaker 1: the air Bear on TV and he's like, man, I
Speaker 1: can do some things out there. I know. So where
Speaker 1: where does Keenan Allen fit in? He was the guy,
Speaker 1: he was criminal, he was I was just like a
Speaker 1: sixth round pick. In August. We're like, fine, you know
Speaker 1: it's a fourth round. I'll just take Keenan Allen now
Speaker 1: second round. Yeah, I think I think he's a tail
Speaker 1: end of the second round, early third round kind of
Speaker 1: a guy. He was leading the NFL in targets and
Speaker 1: receptions for quite a while under air Bear. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he's definitely a second round guy. Well, people remember
Speaker 1: too much the end of his season, especially if he
Speaker 1: kind of slides out of the season injured. Yeah, people
Speaker 1: tend to do that when we get to a draft
Speaker 1: time in July in August. So that's why it's second round.
Speaker 1: It should be first, second corner probably probably probably should
Speaker 1: um one last one last topic for you guys before
Speaker 1: we've got a spare moment next year for the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: As we we mentioned the Chiefs, Sammy Watkins and not
Speaker 1: on our contract, and I believe he's gonna be gone,
Speaker 1: you know, I think they've had enough of his four
Speaker 1: catches and thirty yards a game that's he doesn't move
Speaker 1: the kne is. Next year finally the Meek Cole Hardman
Speaker 1: year where he finally, you know, stays on the field,
Speaker 1: he gets of the snaps like Watkins does, and he
Speaker 1: actually does something. You're three. I don't know that there's
Speaker 1: enough room for that third receiver to do behind Travis,
Speaker 1: but yeah, he's probably gonna get a little more, a
Speaker 1: little bit more. But I think what they should do
Speaker 1: is sign Watkins to a one week contracts just a
Speaker 1: week one, a week one contract. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: really interesting wide receivers who are hitting the free agent
Speaker 1: market next year. I would not be surprised of Kansas
Speaker 1: Cities in play for a guy like Chris Godwin, uh
Speaker 1: Fishes guy, Kenny Golladay, Smith Schuster, really really interesting guys
Speaker 1: who Patrick Mahomes could help light up the league. Teams
Speaker 1: might players might take a discount to play with Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes and we you know, go play for a winner.
Speaker 1: We would understand that. Thank you for listening to the
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