WEBVTT - Playoffs, FFW style 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:04.080 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:09.520 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:14.200 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:17.200 and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:22.680 Now here's your host. It's a playoff edition of Fantasy 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:26.000 Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchy and my co host 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.080 is Brian Johnson. This week, what's up charge, Great to 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.240 talk to you. It's uh, yeah, you braved a lizard 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:34.760 to get over here. Yeah, in Minnesota, this is nothing 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:36.920 that isn't even a blizzard. This is like a C 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.400 A C grade snowstorm C grade. I like it. Okay, 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:42.640 it's like the It's like the c dart from the 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.800 Old Show. Speaking of grades, we're gonna give letter grades 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.959 for all the meaningful fantasy players coming up in Saturday, 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:53.000 Sunday and Monday's games. I hate the Monday game. Some 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.800 team has you know, to you know, some winner. The 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:57.440 winner of this game has got a short week to 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.120 prepare for next week. It's not fair. And then a 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.000 chance they play a team that was on a by right, Yeah, 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:07.720 which is they want that extra and it's Arizona, Los 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.440 Angeles Rams which will get to but yeah, it's a deal. 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:13.560 I don't. I don't like it. So two games Saturday, 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:15.720 three Sunday and then the one Monday doesn't make it 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.280 three and three? Yeah, I mean think about the advantage 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:23.000 of football all day long. Yeah, totally. You know, what 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.040 are you gonna do? I think it's a mistake, but 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.640 you know, I don't. You're let's see your your Cincinnati 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.880 and Buffalo, who are the favorites to come out of 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:34.360 the Saturday games. They will have a two day rest 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.280 advantage over some team that played Monday, and I realized 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.840 a different conference, but still, I just I don't like 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.840 it anyway. They like the the ad revenue they'll get. Yeah, 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:47.039 I know that's that's that's the thing that matters the most. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.480 So this is a very traditional fantasy football weekly and 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.360 that we're gonna break down the game's fantasy style letter grades, 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:58.560 the whole bit. And um, let's start with Las Vegas Cincinnati. Brian, Uh, 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:00.960 it feels like to me, the Raider just played their 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.880 Super Bowl to get into this game, and I'm worried 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:07.240 about a big letdown here. Yes, speaking of arrest advantage, 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:11.080 Yet Las Vegas poured their heart soul into a five 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:15.040 quarter game on Sunday night. All the Bengals arrested everybody, 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:17.959 so that is why the Bengals are five and a 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.800 half point favorite over under a forty nine points, so 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:22.720 that there should be some points in this game. And 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.760 weather won't be an issue. Thirty two degrees nine miles 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.280 per hour wins, so nothing to be worried about there. 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.440 These teams actually did play uh in Las Vegas in 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.760 Week eleven. The Bengals rolled the Raiders thirty two to 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.480 thirteen in that game. Uh, we'll get to how the 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:39.760 Bengals score that many points. We will start with the 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.960 visiting team. That's the Raiders here and Josh Jacobs can 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:44.800 give him a B. Though the Bengals have allowed one 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.720 plus rushing arts running backs and three of their last 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:51.600 four games. Yes, the Week eighteen game the Bengals were 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.480 arresting everyone, but still during that same span, opposing backs 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:59.000 also averaged four catches per game, So pretty good numbers 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.080 put up by opposing back X. And where would you 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:06.000 guess Josh Jacobs finished in receptions among running backs this year? Well, 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.400 I know it's receptions are way up, I'm and so 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.360 many backs had got sidelined by injury. I'm Betty safely 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:16.359 inside the top ten and maybe even top five running back, 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.799 so he's proved he can catch the ball, so he'll 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.800 see likely twenty touches in this game. He uh in 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.080 that week eleven game, they did get blown out, like 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.920 I said, Las Vegas. He had nine carries for thirty 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.360 seven yards and no touchdowns. But he did catch five 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.880 passes in that game. So hopefully a little more production 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.000 from Jacobs. I'm gonna give him a B here. He's 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.280 been playing better. I'm gonna give Hunter. Renfro would be 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:41.040 as well. Amazing season. I mean everyone's saying Cooper Cup 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.600 is Fantasy m v P, which he is is Renfro 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:48.480 always second silver medalist in my opinion, people, Samuel's a 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:52.720 settle silver medalist. Yeah, even though I saw over the 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.520 last like five weeks he had more carries than targets 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.680 or something like that, Deebo Samuel. But back to Renfro, 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.960 one of six wider receivers with at least one hundred catches, 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:06.040 one thousand yards and nine touchdowns, Deebo Samuel was not 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.760 one of those six. It was. It was Renfro. Cooper 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:13.080 Cup Davante Adams, Tyreek killed Justin Jefferson and Stefan Diggs 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.359 talk about here, but Samuel said, you know, but the 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.279 reason Samuel didn't fall into that is because the rushing 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.920 isn't part of that. No, I understand, and no, not 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.680 no knock on debil whatsoever. But i'mlike those guys, they 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.919 had a DPS mostly really, I Rebro did not have 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.440 an ADP. I like Rentfrow this week and give him 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.680 a B. Cincinnati top twelve and most catches allowed to 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.360 wide receivers on the season. Over their last four games, 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.680 they surrendered a wide receiver touchdown and each one just 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.040 four catches for thirty yards in that week eleven meeting 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.599 for Renfro. But that's way in the past. When it 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:49.640 comes to it was but he got so hot. I 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:51.520 mean he was playing well before that, but he closed 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.960 the season so hot. I expect more from Rentfroll out 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.039 of this one. So a B for him in a 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.280 starting sea grade for z Jones, who has seen more 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.360 targets and to Renfro over the last four games. Back 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:06.640 whoever thought Zay Jones would be a viable fantasy we 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.799 were any player. We were shoveling dirt on his uh, 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.080 the grave of his career, and just I think the 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.040 Bengals will win this game. I think you you do too. 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.000 But there's a chance that Za Jones will meet the 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.599 Buffalo Bills down the line. How juicy of revenge narrative 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.520 would that be? But uh again, pretty good numbers given 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.960 up by the Bengals to wide receivers and z Jones 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.240 is the clear cut number two. If you want, you 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.560 could argue the number one option over the last four weeks. 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.080 So I'm gonna give him a C grade. And Darren 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.479 Waller returned last week just two catches for twenty two 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.160 scoreless yards. Did see nine targets though, and the Bengals 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.599 are top five. We're top five in the most catches, 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.279 yards and touchdown surrendered to tight end. So Darren Waller 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.960 be great for him, he's expected to play. I don't 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.560 see why he would not unless he suffers a setback, 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.880 but he hasn't yet this week and unlikely too over 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.160 the weekends. Would be for him. And based on all 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.400 those three starting grades with those receivers, I will give 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.839 Derek Carr's See the Bengals have allowed two touchdown passes 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.719 and three straight their last three games. Josh Johnson case 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.400 keen him in the mix there, so a two touchdown 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.960 floor seems pretty uh feasible for Derek carr Al right 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.000 over the Bengal side. I'll be a little quicker here 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.520 because he's a pretty obvious Uh. Starting grades for most 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.360 players started with Joe Mixon. Uh, he gets an a. 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.000 He was practically the entire offense and that blowout win 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.960 by the Bengals thirty carries a hundred twenty three yards 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.599 two touchdowns. Uh. The Raiders have allowed of rushing touchdown 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.400 to a running back in five straight games, nine total 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.600 touchdowns to the position during that span. Love mixing fully rested, 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.320 fully healthy, He's a full go and he needed it. 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:38.599 It felt like he was wearing down at the end 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:40.599 of for sure. Yeah, that that week off last week, 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:44.279 it's gonna do him wonders. Uh. Speaking of doing wonders, 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.280 Jamaar Chase been doing that most of the season. It's 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.039 gonna give him a be though. Oakland has allowed three 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:53.000 wide receiver touchdowns over the last two games, but they've 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.440 been tougher against the position that than that stat suggests. 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:00.320 Mike Williams did top a hundred yards last week against 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.000 the Raiders, but that was thanks to the buzzer beater 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.680 touchdown in the full extra quarter of play. Before that, 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.440 no wide receiver had topped eighty yards against Las Vegas 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.119 since Week twelve, and on the season as a whole, 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:16.280 only four opposing wide receivers managed to top yards, so 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.840 they've kind of held receivers in check in terms of, 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.680 you know, hitting their their ceiling. Chase did score in 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.200 the Week eleven matchup, only caught three passes over thirty 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.120 two yards. It was mixing all day, uh in that game. 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.600 As we just discussed Tee Higgins and give him a 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.000 b as well. Uh like, I like Chase just a 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.960 little more. But Higgins virtually has the same prospects here 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:39.640 against against the Raiders. UM just two catches for fifteen 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.240 yards against the Raiders of meek leven. But again, that 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.680 was all about mixing, and it was a reminder before 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:51.480 Chase's Week seventeen explosion, the Tee Higgins was getting notably 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:56.000 more work, more balls and was more reliable than Chase was. 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.880 And speaking of reliable, UM, taking out Week eighteen, none 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:01.920 of the star wars played for the Bengals. Tyler Boyd 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.920 had scored in three straight games from weeks fifteen to 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.320 week seventeen, um, so he got hot towards the end 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.040 of the year. He had six catches for forty nine 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:10.600 yards in that first meeting, So I didn't give him 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.360 a C and one more seed to give out c 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.680 j Uzoma. Uh I guess that's almost two seeds I 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.240 gave out to the listeners there. The Raiders were one 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.680 of three teams to surrender double digit touchdowns to tight ends. 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.440 They were also top eight in the most catches and 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.440 yards surrender to the position, so that would be bottom eight. Then, 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:33.480 uh well, top eight in most catches. Well, they're top 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.080 eight and the most there, which is a good thing 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.480 taking would put them at the bottom aid if you're 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.000 gonna rank him. But if we're in terms of the 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.079 most catches in yards off putting most at the top, 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.960 the worst is ranked number one, then they are top eight. 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.360 You're making this more confusing. It's it's a good thing 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.520 for cj us almost important. Raiders top eight in the 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.319 most catches in yards allowed tight ends, and Joe Burrow 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:00.560 tempted to give him an A. I'm just a little 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.760 worried this turns into more of a mixing games or 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.160 just to be here, but a very very safe b 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:09.440 And of course there's a upside with Burrow. There is reiving, 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.199 there is, But I still think I'm with you. I 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.280 still think this game is largely solved on the ground. 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.080 Do believe there's a chance that Vegas is a kind 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.839 of a no show for this game. Patriots take on 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.760 the Bills is the second of the Saturday games, and 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.559 the key storyline here, without a doubt, is the weather. 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.280 Four degrees a kickoff? That's it is the is the 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.880 current forecast? Um? Not much wind? Fortunately, now, New England 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:38.040 beat Buffalo in the earlier bad weather game. That game 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:39.240 was a little bit different than that. It was a 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.840 wind game. It was cold, it was like five degrees, 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:47.439 but it wins. So this is a different kind of 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.560 cold weather game. UM. In that game, as you'll remember, 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.480 they only threw the ball four times and they ran 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:56.160 the ball thirty four times. And this is gonna be 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.079 a little bit different. But let me warn people, when 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:02.400 you get to single digits, that's when the game really 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:06.840 turns into molasses, and the passing game effectively is effectively 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:12.680 UH is particularly affected by the cold weather. The average 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:16.959 passing game in single digit temperatures going back eight years 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:21.160 is sixteen completions for one hundred sixty yards and zero 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.800 point two touchdowns. That's it, and that's going to shape 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:25.640 a lot of what you're going to hear here. Now, 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.520 you may remember the Packers, like three weeks ago, played 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.280 a cold weather game against Minnesota. That game went off 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:35.000 at ten degrees, so it did not factor into our 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.199 the looks of what we saw here, although Aaron Rodgers 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.559 did put up a good fantasy game in that game. Okay, 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.920 so let's talk about the Patriots side first. I'm the 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.000 whole passing games on the bench. You have the cold weather, 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.679 You've got Mac Jones with no cold weather experience, and 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.880 then you've got a very good Buffalo past defense even 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.760 without Tradavious White. Since Week six, the average passing game 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:02.640 against Buffalo is two heard one yards and zero points 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.640 six touchdowns. That feels like if you told I don't 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:08.640 even think I don't even think Mac Jones is gonna 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.599 get to the two one yards in this cold of 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.520 weather and about a coin flips chance of one touchdown 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.760 sounds right for Mac Jones, and that just that means 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.679 I don't like any of his receivers anyway, and I 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.640 wouldn't anyway, even without the weather, I wouldn't like any 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:27.280 of them against this defense. So all that Mac, the 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:34.040 prop is roughly for Mac Jones passing yards. Oh yeah, 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.199 I mean, but definitely not gonna hit two. Okay, So 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:38.959 let's go over to the running game. You know, we've 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.439 seen Ramandre Stevenson and Damian Harris run the ball a 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.080 lot and the other the other bad weather game. Harris 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.959 has been battling this hamstring injury for months now, and 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.959 he's expected to play in this game. He's on the 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.440 probable side of questionable, and when he does play, he's 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.559 pretty bankable. If he can just get through the game, 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.480 he's got get this for Stevens or Silver Harritt. Damien 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:04.480 Harris touchdowns in five straight games and touchdowns in nine 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.880 of his last ten. That's Damien Harris. By the way, 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.880 Can I peacock for a minute? Absolutely, there's peacocks in 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:16.839 the off season or postseason fantasy football. We'll get it there. 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.640 Always in the last one. It's always the last. It's 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.679 a different board than the regular season. So you may 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.599 recall that we had a tough question in the preseason. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.760 I think it was our final preseason tough question of 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:36.120 the year was brotting backs, who can get to fifteen touchdowns? 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:40.080 The correct answer that I gave you, guys was Damien Harris. 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:42.559 I was not on that show, but you may not 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.360 have been. I'm not saying you didn't get it right. 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.360 I am saying I did. There you go. I think 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.319 he had fifteen. I think he had fifteen on the nose, 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:54.000 although I could be wrong anyway. So back to back 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:59.640 to Stevenson and Harris. I believe Stevenson comes into this 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.840 on the injury report at all, and that muddies up 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.720 the works a little bit here, and Stevenson may end 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.840 up getting more work and he might be the safer play. UM. 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.840 You may remember that Harris had to leave the previous 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.920 Buffalo bad weather game early, and maybe scenario like that 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.679 plays itself out here. Harris topped one hundred yards in 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.360 both of the matchups of Buffalo this year, although Stevenson 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.480 did not play in the second one. UM and throughout 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:29.199 the season, just looking back through Buffalo's run defense, good 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:33.320 backs and and power running teams, seems that really tried 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.120 to run the ball almost always succeeded against Buffalo. They're 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.880 a middle of the pack run defense, and that's how 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.280 they're gonna That's how the Patriots are going to attack 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.040 with Stevenson and Harrison, that's why they're both be grades. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.599 My main concerned with Stevenson is he's gotten himself in 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:51.079 the doghouse pretty quick several times this season, like it 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:55.040 was earlier in the year, at least two or three times. 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.800 He's don't fumble, don't fumble them, and even in four 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:02.280 degree weather, don't fumble balls and ice cube, don't fumble. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:03.920 All right, let's talk about the Bill's side. I want 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.439 to go back to the running game, which I believably 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.880 emphasized for both teams. Devin Singletary gets a b game 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.160 even though very quiet games, and both of the regular 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.439 season matchups with New England right in the ballpark, it 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.520 was ten carries and twelve carries in the two games. 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.240 That's it, and in and only in the thirties for 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.240 rushing yards. But I think you can see a lot 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.440 more rushing here. Nobody else is doing is really getting 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:30.320 any consistent usage outside of Singletary, not our guy Zack Mosson, 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:32.840 not certainly not. And the Patriots run defense has been 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.440 gashed down the stretch. Duke Johnson just ran for a 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:39.200 hundred seventeen yards to Tennessee Backs. In the same game, 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.680 top to one hundred yards, Jonathan Taylor put up a 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:46.480 hundred seventy yards, d Arnest Johnson hundred fifty seven total yards. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.560 So yeah, this is a Patriots run defense that is 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.040 not that good. And that's why I'm giving Singletary the 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:56.160 B grade. Josh Allen, even though I warned you on 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.520 how these single digit temperatures affect the passing game, He's 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:05.240 just running so well right now. Get this. He's averaging 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.680 sixty eight rushing yards per game over the last five weeks, 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.160 and I think with the bitter cold weather, he's gonna 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.320 just I think he's gonna run as much as he 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.040 always has and maybe more. And if you throw out 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.240 the wind game, Um, when these guys met in the 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.080 second game, he had a hundred. He had a hundred 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:26.440 hundred and fourteen yards and three passing touchdowns in that game. 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.640 So just one way or another, I think Josh Allen 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.360 cobbles together B level grade game here. The only receiver 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.360 I'm starting is Stefan Diggs and only a C grade. 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.720 I worry about the cold weather. Also, Buffalo allowed the 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.160 fewest wide receiver yards just one hundred twelve per game, 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.840 and the fewest wide receiver touchdowns at just six. That's 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.640 half of the next closest team half. Diggs runs from 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.600 all over the field, but he most often runs from J. C. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.920 Jackson's side of the field, and Jackson is excellent, allowing 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.160 just twenty yards per game in his coverage. He's given 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.400 up just three scores all year. As for any of 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.280 the other Buffalo wide receivers, well, the problem is the 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.680 Patriots rank number two and wide receiver yards allowed at 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:09.880 just one per game, and they've given up the six 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.440 fewest wide receiver touchdowns. And I'm worried about Sanders, Mackenzie, 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.520 Davis Beasley. How do they all get fed in bitterly 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.960 cold conditions. One of them probably does something, but you 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.400 can't know who's kind of One of them needs to 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:28.160 be out all healthy for this game, so I think 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.320 you set them all. Same with Dawson Knox. Patriots have 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.360 been fantastic against tight ends. Only one tight end is 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.600 cracked twenty nine yards all year. Knoxes two games against 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.160 New England just fourteen yards and eleven yards with a 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.840 score in New England only allowed four tight end scores 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:45.600 all year. Yeah, Dawson Knox, that Goo sag in Week seventeen, 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:50.000 that that stung me in many many He's he's become 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:54.520 a little touchdown dependent, whereas pre injury he was getting 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.160 like the five catches, the six catches, chipping in some 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.280 yardage and he was scoring. Now you're just you're just 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.320 looking to get the touchdown out of Dawson Knocks. At 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:03.760 least it's been that way of light. And I think 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.000 it's that way this game too. If you're like picking, 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.920 if you're playing daily to Saturday only, i'd like use 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:15.359 Oma overall. Of course, Yeah Waller really and of course 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:19.120 at this stage not a big game last week, Yeah 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.919 I did. I don't know Waller was coming back. But anyway, 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.199 we don't like Dawson Knox. If there's gonna be other 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:25.720 tight ends, you can pivot too, and we'll tell you 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:27.840 about them when we come back in a moment. As 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:32.439 Fantasy Football Weekly resumes and just a matter of seconds, 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.520 welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charching Brian Johnson with 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:51.560 you the Sunday slate. Brian. Three games, Let's start with 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:57.520 Philadelphia Tampa as our next game. That's the first one 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.480 on the docket. Ye windy Airton campaign and wins like 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.480 high winds almost pushing twenty miles Pever, that's not that's 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.440 not high winds. Twenty miles is not a factor. That 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:09.879 isn't if not for not for NFL arms, not for 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.000 NFL arms. I'm not worried. I am not worried about 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.879 that part at all. The rain um sometimes works the 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.280 advantage of the offense. Uh, slick fields can be better 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.440 on the offense than the defense. These teams met Philadelphia 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:26.280 and Tampa met in weeks six. Philadelphia has I think 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:33.040 one viable pathway to upsetting the Bucks. It's not a 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.240 running back by committee. It's not Jalen Hurts throwing the 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:41.760 ball to Quiz Watkins. It is Jalen Hurts running. That's 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.679 the special thing. If lightning has to strike to get 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:46.520 the Eagles to do it, I think Hurts has to 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.919 have a big rushing games at rushing yards and one 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.000 or two touchdowns. I'm with you now he scored two 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.480 touchdowns in the earlier meeting. Can do it, and so 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.320 he can do it now. Two weeks ago, on his 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:00.720 still gimpy ankle. Hurts ran for forty four yards. You 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.199 remember he rested last week, so I think that ankles 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:07.359 in really good shape, near one percent probably at this stage. 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:11.960 And Tampa's a great run defense, but not against quarterbacks. 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:16.119 Over the past five weeks, Tampa's allowed the most quarterback 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.800 rushing yards, including a one hundred yard game to Josh Allen. 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.480 So that's why I'm giving Jalen Hurts a B gride. 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:25.200 I don't like the passing. I think he's sitting in. 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:27.680 He threw for a hundred fifteen yards in the first game, 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:29.399 and I think he's sitting in another game like the 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:33.320 mid one fifties here passing. But and by the way, 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:36.280 check the status of cornerbacks Jamal Deane and Sean Murphy Bunting. 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:39.040 They both got hamstring injuries. Their status is not yet clear. 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:41.880 Um if they don't both don't go. I like Hurts 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:43.239 a little even more than this, and you can even 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.359 upgrade him to an A. But I think the rushing 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.440 is gonna be there for him, but not the passing. 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.280 And that's why I've only got B. A B grade 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.320 in Dallas Goddard and a C grade and Devanta Smith 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:54.520 and nobody else gets a grade out of the passing game. 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:56.520 Let's talk about got it for a second. He has 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:59.879 scored in just two games since the opener. I didn't 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:03.080 realized that had been so bad. For Goddard. That's not good, 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:07.320 but by far the safest of the Eagles receiving targets. 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:09.840 He has topped seventy one yards in three the last 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:13.720 four games, and his average game since zach Ertz was traded, 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:16.679 there's a solid sixty one yards, which is good by 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:19.359 tight end standard. Yeah, you'll take that. Tampa is Tampa 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:21.359 is the middle of the pack tight end defense, but 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:24.359 Goddard's better than basically any tight end they faced all season. 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.320 Long B grade in Dallas, Goddard C grade and DeVonta 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:29.720 Smith um. He may have just completely hit the rookie 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:34.320 wall Bryan. Over the past seven games. His average games 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:38.640 three catches, forty four yards and zero point one touchdowns. 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:43.240 That's not good. So that's it for DeVonta Smith and 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:45.840 everybody else I've got on the bench. Tampa's run defense 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:47.960 is fantastic. No back his top to eighty three yards 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:50.400 since Week seven. Nobody's stopped one hundred yards all year. 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.320 Tampa's allowing just three point nine yards per carry on 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.800 the season. Um, And then you've got the backfield by committee. 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:58.920 Miles Sanders is going to try to play through a 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:01.480 broken hand. I don't expect him to be able to 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:03.600 catch the ball, so he's not gonna help you that way. 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:08.560 He probably lands in the fifties rushing yard area. But 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:12.320 then Jordan Howard um is expected to return from COVID 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:15.240 and he's out lady. He's been out carried by Boston 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:17.520