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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchi and
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Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 4: Boys? Feels like Week thirty right now?
Speaker 1: Well, give it all the running back injuries. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean not.
Speaker 4: Just the running backs. Everyone everyone, even crazy Wan Mowers
Speaker 4: are getting stolen from the Bears facility. It's a total chaos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've got coaches quitting. It's it is a it's
Speaker 1: it's been as challenging a start to a fantasy season
Speaker 1: as I can remember. And we're really testing the metal
Speaker 1: of fantasy managers right out of the gate and your
Speaker 1: ability to change course, figure out what to panic on,
Speaker 1: how much money to bid on players. It is. It
Speaker 1: is shifting sands constantly.
Speaker 4: Yeah. We said, if you make it to week one
Speaker 4: unscathed in terms of injuries to your team, you're not safe.
Speaker 4: Once that. Once the ball is kicked off in week one,
Speaker 4: everyone is in danger.
Speaker 1: And that's been the case, and we had a variety
Speaker 1: of injuries and problems. Week two had just as many.
Speaker 1: It's been. It's bad, but we're here to help. We're
Speaker 1: gonna give you all kinds of suggestions for players you
Speaker 1: can find that can help your roster pronto and if
Speaker 1: nothing else, will help you start bench the right guys.
Speaker 1: As we break down all of the games on the
Speaker 1: schedule Fantasy Football Weekly style with letter grades. We'll also
Speaker 1: give you nine players upon whom you can take a chance.
Speaker 1: I know you need these running backs. We're gonna give
Speaker 1: you some running backs you can work with, maybe available
Speaker 1: even on the waiver wire. Three tough questions will be answered,
Speaker 1: and we'll give you premature speculation. Which does mine involves
Speaker 1: a running back upon whom you can speculate.
Speaker 3: For service mine?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh all right, hopefully you don't have same one. We'll
Speaker 1: find out when we get there.
Speaker 3: I hope we do.
Speaker 1: Let's dive into the matchup, Scott while we're chatting Falcons
Speaker 1: at Lions. Yes, this game. Falcons have been a frustrating
Speaker 1: team for basically, if you've got anybody other than John Robinson.
Speaker 3: I suppose I suppose Tyler.
Speaker 1: Old Gerard the big first game they did nothing.
Speaker 3: Kick off on and Rsbond. Oh, I suppose you're you're
Speaker 3: on the Falcon side. I was gonna say in this matchup,
Speaker 3: there's plenty of Oh, you just want to.
Speaker 4: Get the Kyle Pitts shots out of the way right now.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, Let's start with the passing game
Speaker 3: for the Falcons here, because we'll talk about Bijon and
Speaker 3: Algier and that split in a minute here. But on
Speaker 3: the passing side, I do have Drake London with a
Speaker 3: see he had a goosag in week one, rebounded for
Speaker 3: six for sixty seven yards and touch on last week. CJ.
Speaker 3: Gardner Johnson will be out with the torn pack, making
Speaker 3: that defense for the Lions a little less stingy this week.
Speaker 3: And they already weren't that great. They're bottom five against quarterbacks,
Speaker 3: bottom you know, bottom ten against wide receivers, so I
Speaker 3: do have a C grade there. There's a little concern
Speaker 3: it's a tougher spot. They've held wide receivers under seventy
Speaker 3: five yards, but three of them did score, so there's
Speaker 3: a possibility of that then again, it was Kansas City
Speaker 3: and Seattle who throw the ball a lot. Kyle Pitts
Speaker 3: I also have a C grade on he was outscored
Speaker 3: by John U John U last three charge.
Speaker 1: Oh you think I don't know that? Oh yeah, baby.
Speaker 3: But thirty five percent of the team's area yards seventeen
Speaker 3: percent target cheer. Like we talk about this all the time.
Speaker 3: The metrics are there, always there for pits, the production
Speaker 3: is never there. How is this even possible? I will
Speaker 3: say he went six for one and six catches for
Speaker 3: one hundred two yards last time he faced the Lions.
Speaker 3: That was too That was to his rookie season, though,
Speaker 3: But the Lions just gave up one hundred and seventy
Speaker 3: five yards in a score of the last two weeks
Speaker 3: to Blake Bell, Noah Gray, no offense, will Disley Colbe
Speaker 3: Parkinson combine. But it's the third best matchup for tight ends.
Speaker 3: I got a C grade on him because like it
Speaker 3: should be a B or an A if he was
Speaker 3: producing it at all. But I just can't trust him.
Speaker 3: Desmond Ridder I got on the bench. I don't care
Speaker 3: that it's a bottom five matchup against quarterbacks. You know
Speaker 3: they played Gino in Mahomes, it's gonna rank low. I'm
Speaker 3: not starting Ridder even in a shootout until he shows
Speaker 3: me something. And the eye test, he does not look good.
Speaker 3: He doesn't look good, doesn't.
Speaker 1: I completely agree.
Speaker 3: Absolutely over to the running game Bjon Robinson. I do
Speaker 3: have an A grade on the eye test. He looks real.
Speaker 3: He looks really, really good.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's stop there for a second. Yes, we
Speaker 1: all agree Jon Robinson looks special. But does that mean
Speaker 1: Arthur Smith is going to stop now him or not?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: I don't know, right. I mean that's in fact, I
Speaker 3: made the joke online last week that if young Wyku
Speaker 3: was drafted in the top ten, Arthur Smith wouldn't wouldn't
Speaker 3: even kick the field goal. So he doesn't. He doesn't
Speaker 3: like to utilize them. But he's second in the NFL
Speaker 3: in rushing yards over expected. Pacheco and Walker were held
Speaker 3: in check on yards by the Detroit Lions, but Beshawn
Speaker 3: Robbinson just seems different. I do think this game is
Speaker 3: gonna stay fairly competitive. Atlanta is winning and they're staying
Speaker 3: in competitive games even though it seems like the Detroit
Speaker 3: offense should be able to blow them away. They've stayed competitive,
Speaker 3: So I'll keep giving a grade there, and I'm gonna
Speaker 3: segrade to Tyler Algier, who's dropping fifteen touches a game
Speaker 3: like they're just Arthur Smith is running the ball like
Speaker 3: he had Derrick Henry, only with two backs, like thirty
Speaker 3: thirty five touches. So if I'm gonna get twelve, fifteen,
Speaker 3: seventeen touches out of Tyler l Geer, yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: give him the volume. C That's what I'm gonna do,
Speaker 3: ye know, for.
Speaker 1: Everybody who's struggling trying to find a viable running back, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tyler El's here's a guy you can go by coming
Speaker 1: off a quiet game. Yeah, still gets a lot of
Speaker 1: touches in a run heavy offense. And you know, to me,
Speaker 1: that's the kind of guy you can target to try
Speaker 1: to get some help.
Speaker 3: Not only that, and Bijon Robinson owners have to hate this.
Speaker 3: He's the red zone guy. He's third in the NFL
Speaker 3: and red zone opportunities. He's the guy that gets like
Speaker 3: Bijon got that one pass catch from like the eight
Speaker 3: yard inn or whatever, But Tyler old is getting gola
Speaker 3: and stuff in red zone stuff.
Speaker 1: So hey, Scott, Yes, we like touchdowns.
Speaker 3: We do like touchdowns. We do like touchdowns. Let's go
Speaker 3: over the Lions side. I got a B grade on
Speaker 3: Jared Goff. He just had his interceptionless streak end is
Speaker 3: the third longest in NFL history. He keeps control of
Speaker 3: that ball, he doesn't turn it over, which isn't hurting you.
Speaker 3: The Falcons just held Bryce Young and Jordan Love do
Speaker 3: one hundred and forty six yards and one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty one yards. But Love did have three scores in
Speaker 3: that last in that game last week, and Goff is
Speaker 3: definitely I think way better than both. Yeah, so better
Speaker 3: weapons too. Over to the running game, David Montgomery. Even
Speaker 3: though like it's it's starting to sound like it's not
Speaker 3: as bad of an injury as Weed, we still don't
Speaker 3: think he's gonna go very unlikely, very unlikely. So Jamior Gibbs,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give I know it's weird. I'm gonna give
Speaker 3: him his first A grade of this season, and it
Speaker 3: might be a little high high. Yeah, Gibbs should be
Speaker 3: thrust into a fifteen to twenty touch role this week
Speaker 3: with good receiving upsides. The Lions target their running backs
Speaker 3: at the second lowest clip in the league, which isn't good,
Speaker 3: but I think that changes because he'll get more snaps
Speaker 3: and he'll be the receiving back. Craig Reynolds is going
Speaker 3: to get a C grade here. Yes, he's had his
Speaker 3: moments in the past when thrust into starting touches. It's
Speaker 3: not gonna be starting touches here, but I think he's
Speaker 3: gonna take ten or so touches there. I think they're
Speaker 3: gonna lean on the run game a little bit, and
Speaker 3: this one as it stays close, I.
Speaker 1: Think this is gonna be way closer to fifty to
Speaker 1: fifty than you do. After Montgomery went okay, every went
Speaker 1: out of the game. Last week, it was six touches
Speaker 1: for Gibbs, four for for uh, Craig Reynolds, half of
Speaker 1: half of Jumior Gibbs were on targets.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, mind you, I said fifteen touches for Gibbs,
Speaker 3: ten for ten for Craig Reynolds. I just think Gibbs
Speaker 3: is going to be more efficient and past catching work
Speaker 3: with his touches to get the better grade. Probably it
Speaker 3: probably should have been a B N a C. As
Speaker 3: I think about it here.
Speaker 4: What about the angle real quick where DeAndre Swift just
Speaker 4: went off for the Eagles and now the Lions have
Speaker 4: to justify. It's an interesting as.
Speaker 3: Interesting SEA grade on Craig Reynolds over the wide receivers
Speaker 3: Josh Reynolds. I have a C grade on four for
Speaker 3: eighteen week one, five for sixty six and two scores
Speaker 3: last week. It's it's a decent matchup here against the
Speaker 3: Falcons for wide receivers, especially because they just lost one
Speaker 3: of their safeties and I'm forgetting his name, but no
Speaker 3: wide receivers topped forty yards against the Falcons. That's actually
Speaker 3: not great. But this is a better offense than the
Speaker 3: two that they'd played. As we mentioned at the start,
Speaker 3: Jeff Okuda is the one that might not play. It's
Speaker 3: not a safety, it's a nick A corner he might play.
Speaker 3: If he does go, I might downgrade them a little,
Speaker 3: but it is a revenge game for Okuda.
Speaker 1: I think they know how to attackle Yeah.
Speaker 3: That might be it. That might be it. So I
Speaker 3: have a C grade on Josh Renolds. I have an
Speaker 3: A grade on Amnra who has been hurt this week,
Speaker 3: banged up this week, but he came back in the
Speaker 3: game last week. He's gonna play through it. He'll be fine.
Speaker 3: He just gets so much work and he gets de Alford,
Speaker 3: who allows the sixth most fantasy points per route among
Speaker 3: slot receivers. Over to Sam Laporta, I gotta be grade
Speaker 3: on him. Five plus catches in both games, has run
Speaker 3: the second most routes on the team. Hurst did well
Speaker 3: last week against this defense. I think it's a good
Speaker 3: start for Laporta once again.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Titans taking on the Browns. Browns
Speaker 1: defense has been really good through a couple of games,
Speaker 1: and the Titans offense inconsistent. Maybe no DeAndre Hopkins. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's a lot to love here outside of
Speaker 1: Derek Henry. But Brian, what do you think?
Speaker 4: No, you hit the nail on the head. I only
Speaker 4: have a starting grade on Derreck Henry, and it's just
Speaker 4: to see dealing with a toe injury, but he should
Speaker 4: play an awful matchup. Though Cleveland's defense is ranked second
Speaker 4: and expected points allowed graded third best by Pro Football Focus. Overall,
Speaker 4: the Browns have also allowed the fifth fewest points and
Speaker 4: second fewest yards on a per snap basis just a
Speaker 4: nightmare matchup, especially for Henry. Cleveland has yet to surrender
Speaker 4: a touchdown to an opposing running back all year. And
Speaker 4: Henry isn't the only Titans running back he was seeing
Speaker 4: significant snaps. It's also Taja Spears, who we'll talk about
Speaker 4: a little more later in the show, but he is
Speaker 4: on the bench in a brutal matchup, as is DeAndre
Speaker 4: Hopkins and Treylon Burks. DeAndre Hopkins went from full practice
Speaker 4: on Wednesday to limited on Thursday.
Speaker 1: To out on Friday, so no practice Friday.
Speaker 4: Running the wrong way, and either way, he's going to
Speaker 4: see a ton of Denzel Ward in coverage, one of
Speaker 4: the better corners in the game. The Browns have allowed
Speaker 4: the third fewest wide receiver receptions through the first two weeks,
Speaker 4: so Trailon Burks, he's on the bench as well. So
Speaker 4: is tight end Chigokonkwo. Unlike in Week one, Chig actually
Speaker 4: scored Fantasy points in Week two. He had a goose
Speaker 4: eggk in Week one, but the Browns have allowed only
Speaker 4: four tight end receptions for nineteen scoreless yard So he
Speaker 4: is on the bench, and that means Ryan Tannehill obviously
Speaker 4: on the bench as well. Over to the Brown side,
Speaker 4: I might I might shed a tear here. I'm still
Speaker 4: a little shell shocked by the Nick Chubb injury, so
Speaker 4: he is obviously on the bench, maybe for the rest
Speaker 4: of his career. But Jerome Ford, he appears to be
Speaker 4: the guy now despite the signing of Kareem Hunt, former
Speaker 4: Brown now current Brown.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they say Hunt will be on the field,
Speaker 1: but I can't imagine it's going to be in a
Speaker 1: big role.
Speaker 4: Jerome Ford will be the guy. But this is an awful,
Speaker 4: awful matchup to be the starter. This happened to Josh
Speaker 4: Kelly last week for the Charters going up against the Titans,
Speaker 4: who have allowed ninety eight scoreless rushing yards. I'm thirty
Speaker 4: seven combined rushing attempts by posing running backs so far.
Speaker 4: That is not good. Tennessee has also surrendered squat through
Speaker 4: the air four total catches for twenty scoreless yards to
Speaker 4: running back. So just a c for Ford. Really a
Speaker 4: volume based play. But I love Amari Cooper this week,
Speaker 4: giving him an a ooh, I like it. Ten targets
Speaker 4: last week, caught seven for ninety that's the volume we like.
Speaker 4: The Titans have yielded the third most targets to opposing
Speaker 4: wide receivers and the most red zone targets to the
Speaker 4: position by a.
Speaker 1: Lot, and that's Cooper's game right there.
Speaker 4: That is Cooper's game. So you cannot sit him against
Speaker 4: a pass or a defense at funnels their opposition to
Speaker 4: the pass. Love Cooper with an am going to give
Speaker 4: Elijah Morris ce here Again, the Titans have yielded the
Speaker 4: third most targets to opposing wide receivers. More only had
Speaker 4: three catches last week, but he was targeted nine times.
Speaker 3: Nine times nine.
Speaker 4: So again against a defense that funnels the opposition to
Speaker 4: the pass, I love More. I won't say I love him,
Speaker 4: but he definitely gets a start in grade with the
Speaker 4: CMA going to the wide wide receiver three range for
Speaker 4: the Browns, it's way too muddled right now. We will
Speaker 4: give David and Joku a C grade two slow start
Speaker 4: for him. Harrison Bryant and Jordan Akins have kind of
Speaker 4: vultured some targets from Djoku to start the season as well,
Speaker 4: But the Titans just allowed five catches for seventy eight
Speaker 4: yards to the Chargers tight ends last week. So in
Speaker 4: Djokubu in Djoku is startable. And lastly, as bad as
Speaker 4: he's looks, I've given an A to Cooper a couple
Speaker 4: of seas. So Deshaun Watson gets a c.
Speaker 1: This you say, if not now never scenario, Kah Watson,
Speaker 1: if he doesn't perform here, just drop him out right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And this is like he was the third tier
Speaker 4: of quarterbacks where we said you should not draft him,
Speaker 4: but he was drafted as a top ten quarterback. So
Speaker 4: if he's on your roster, you start him this week.
Speaker 4: And if you don't, like you said, if you don't
Speaker 4: start him this week, you never started him again.
Speaker 1: Colts take on the Ravens. Ravens are crippled with injury,
Speaker 1: both offensively and defensively, and Anthony Richardson's been ruled out,
Speaker 1: but there's still a shocking number of startable coltson here,
Speaker 1: beginning with Gardner Minshew, who looked capable in relief last week,
Speaker 1: completing seventy one percent of his pass is playing most
Speaker 1: of the game. Ravens are without two key defensive backs,
Speaker 1: Marcus Williams and Marlin Humphrey. Those are big losses. The
Speaker 1: Ravens haven't really been tested by opposing quarterbacks. They faced C. J.
Speaker 1: Stroud in his first ever game, and they hobbled Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow After that and even Burrows threw a couple of
Speaker 1: touchdowns on one leg. So I kind of like Gardner
Speaker 1: Minshew with a C grade here. If you're in a pinch,
Speaker 1: let's give him a start and two of his receivers
Speaker 1: clock in is startable here too. Michael Pittman B grade
Speaker 1: last week nine targets for Gardner Minshew. For Michael Pittman,
Speaker 1: He's the fourth heaviest targeted receiver in the league twenty
Speaker 1: three already. We love that Pittman maybe sitting on a
Speaker 1: nice bounce back season from last year's dud. He plays
Speaker 1: from all over the field and we'll see all parts
Speaker 1: of an already battered secondary. Even the Ravens stopper their
Speaker 1: best cornerback, Ronald Darby, surrendered sixty nine yards in week
Speaker 1: one and a score in week two. How about this
Speaker 1: sleeper for you, Josh Downs C grade startable grade well
Speaker 1: targeted with five targets in each matchup, including four targets
Speaker 1: from Gardner Minshew last week. He's got the best individual
Speaker 1: matchup of any of the Colts receivers, going up against
Speaker 1: slot corner Arius Washington, who's allowed the second most slot
Speaker 1: receptions and the second most slot yards of all corners,
Speaker 1: so we'll trial Josh Downs with a C grade here
Speaker 1: as well. And then lastly, how about Zach Bloss. It's
Speaker 1: taken this to finally get the payday we've richly desired.
Speaker 4: We can't say he's back because he was never really here.
Speaker 3: He got basically, but he got.
Speaker 1: Every touch eight percent of the snap.
Speaker 3: Every touch almost every snap.
Speaker 4: Post post post post hype sleeper.
Speaker 1: That's Zack Moss. I had two carries inside the twenty,
Speaker 1: one of which got him a touchdown, and one thing.
Speaker 1: Without Anthony Richardson playing, that's one less guy to snipe
Speaker 1: touchdowns from Zach Moss. Baltimore's, though a very good run defense,
Speaker 1: currently ranked third best by Pro Football Focus, and no
Speaker 1: back his top fifty nine yards and they're allowing just
Speaker 1: three and a half yards per carry. I'm giving Zach
Speaker 1: Moss a B grade on volume. I still think he's
Speaker 1: very startable here. And then let's go to the Baltimore side.
Speaker 1: They've got some key injuries across their offensive line. Ronnie Staley.
Speaker 1: Ronnie Stanley's been ruled out and Tyler Linderbaum's been ruled
Speaker 1: out as well. Those are big losses their two best linemen.
Speaker 1: But Nevertheless, we've got starting players here. Mark Andrews great
Speaker 1: season debut last week, fully healthy. Now he's just an
Speaker 1: automatic grade A start. We're gonna keep him in your lineups.
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson far more encouraging usage last week. We got
Speaker 1: more mobility, we got more downfield passing, six designed runs
Speaker 1: last week after just two in Week one. Colt's pass
Speaker 1: defense is bad. After losing both their starting cornerbacks in
Speaker 1: the offseason, they've really strung. They gave up three hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty yards to c. J. Stroud for Pete's sake.
Speaker 1: Colts rank twenty ninth in coverage by Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson enjoying the lowest pressure rate of his
Speaker 1: career so far, and that was last week when he
Speaker 1: was missing lineman then too. So I've got a very
Speaker 1: optimistic A grade on Lamar Jackson, even though I was
Speaker 1: at a lot of worries coming out of Week one.
Speaker 1: Jay Flowers has looked very good despite just being a rookie.
Speaker 1: Flowers has blossomed into the team's leader in every receiving
Speaker 1: category indies. Secondary has given up the fourth most receiver
Speaker 1: yards per game and tied for the most receiver scores
Speaker 1: through two games. B grade for Zay Flowers. Rashad Bateman
Speaker 1: gets a starting grade in this one. His snap usage
Speaker 1: and his routes run are down about a third from
Speaker 1: previous years, but this matchup is fantastic. Valuable dart throw
Speaker 1: here and especially with OBJ missing this game, Orshod Bateman,
Speaker 1: you could put him into your lineup and even Nelson
Speaker 1: AGUILARMI wow, he replaces Obj like he did last week
Speaker 1: they got five He got six targets, five catches and
Speaker 1: a touchdown last week replacing Obj not even a full game,
Speaker 1: so assuming he's gonna take those routes, he gets a
Speaker 1: dream matchup against cornerback Darryl Baker, who's already allowed two
Speaker 1: scores and an opposer posing passer rating of one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty four, So Nelson Aguilar viable starter C grade.
Speaker 1: Then there's Gus Edwards. Justice Hill's been ruled out, so
Speaker 1: Gus should be a bell cow in this game, with
Speaker 1: just a little bit of Melvin Gordon, who likely gets
Speaker 1: called up from the practice squads as a change of paceback.
Speaker 1: Last week, Gus got three or four running back snaps
Speaker 1: in gold to gost situations, and now with Justice Hill out,
Speaker 1: he's assuredly going to get goal line carries if there
Speaker 1: are any. Edwards averaged six and a half yards per
Speaker 1: carry and so far this season and the Colts are
Speaker 1: giving up just two and a half yards per carrying.
Speaker 1: They've held down to some pretty good runners Travis Etn
Speaker 1: Damian Pierce to this point. But I still like Gus
Speaker 1: and I can give him a B grade here. So
Speaker 1: that about wraps up our long first block of games.
Speaker 4: Gus deserves this Bell Cow opportunity.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for it he does. I hope he makes
Speaker 1: the best of it here. We've been waiting a long
Speaker 1: time for Gus to be like Bell.
Speaker 4: Coow back offense Melvin Gordon, but we've seen enough.
Speaker 1: When we come back, take a chance on me. Nine
Speaker 1: players not normally in your starting lineup will tell you
Speaker 1: who they are, who you can pick up when we
Speaker 1: come back. Take a chance on me. You need it
Speaker 1: this week more than any other. Ye need running back help,
Speaker 1: and we're to do our best to unearth some people
Speaker 1: that can help you out. I'm gonna change things up, guys.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with the running back position. Boy, because
Speaker 1: I know this is why people are listening today. They
Speaker 1: need running back help in the worst possible way. Who
Speaker 1: can we go to? We begin with Scott Fish.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to Jalen Warren. This week's eighty six
Speaker 3: yards on ten touches where Harris nase. Harris for the
Speaker 3: Steelers only had forty three yards on eleven touches as well.
Speaker 3: Twenty one of those came on one play. The Raiders
Speaker 3: allow the fifth most running back touches and the third
Speaker 3: most combo yards to running backs. They just gave up
Speaker 3: the farm to James Cook and a couple scores to
Speaker 3: Harris and Murray the week before. He'll also get past
Speaker 3: game work.
Speaker 1: All right, Brian, you're taking a chance with me running back.
Speaker 4: I'm going with Dallas's Rico Dowdle.
Speaker 1: I like a deep deep call. Okay, what do you
Speaker 1: like here.
Speaker 4: Against the Cardinals. I don't think any players too deep,
Speaker 4: especially considering Arizona just put starting defensive end LJ. Colle
Speaker 4: Kallier on IR, starting defensive tackle, Carlos Watkins on IR,
Speaker 4: starting strong safety Buddha Baker is on IR. So I'm
Speaker 4: liking Dowdell this week. Of course, Tony Pollard is gonna smash,
Speaker 4: but Dowdell should should see ten to twelve touches. He
Speaker 4: saw eight touches in a blowout win against the Jets
Speaker 4: last week, a couple red zone carries. This too, should
Speaker 4: be a blowout win for Dallas. So Rico Dowbtell if
Speaker 4: you're dumpster diving at running back, which we all are, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna go Josh Kelly. Austin Eckler ruled out. Kelly saw
Speaker 1: seventy nine percent of the running back snaps last week.
Speaker 1: Vikings have seen the second most carries and they've allowed
Speaker 1: the second most rushing yards. They ranked thirty first by
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus in run defense. Josh Kelly gets most
Speaker 1: of the work there. He's already been taken in your league.
Speaker 1: You could try Spiller if you're really in a pinch
Speaker 1: as well. I don't have a starting grade on Spiller
Speaker 1: in this game, but look, it's desperate times, and you know,
Speaker 1: if he's gonna get twenty five percent of the carries
Speaker 1: against a leaky run defense, maybe that's enough for Spiller
Speaker 1: to do a little something. Let's go to the quarterback position. Scott.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's so out of whack. I don't even know
Speaker 3: what to do.
Speaker 1: Feel so weird.
Speaker 3: I am going to CJ. Stroud, which I know Matt
Speaker 3: went with last week. I think you stick with him.
Speaker 3: I hope you kept him on your roster. He's looked
Speaker 3: decent through two games, not turning the ball, over coming
Speaker 3: off three hundred and eighty four yard day against the Colts.
Speaker 3: The game script of being down ten point dog screams
Speaker 3: password for this for the for Stroud and the Texans. Also,
Speaker 3: they run the most plays while trailing in the NFL
Speaker 3: by a long distance, which is going to keep him
Speaker 3: passing the Jags back to back two hundred and sixty
Speaker 3: plus yard two score days they've allowed.
Speaker 1: How about this, CJ. Stroud through two games, one one
Speaker 1: hundred and nine dropbacks. It's unreal in two games, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about this later.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ninety two attempts.
Speaker 1: Brian, you take a chance at me quarterback.
Speaker 4: I've got Andy Dalton at the Seahawks. And for those
Speaker 4: who don't know, Andy Dalton is a Carolina Panther.
Speaker 1: If you've lost track of as many years.
Speaker 4: He is now their starting quarterback at least for this week.
Speaker 4: Bryce Young not gonna play with an ankle injury. His opponent,
Speaker 4: the Seahawks are top ten in the most pass attempts allowed.
Speaker 4: They have surrendered the third most passing yards among teams
Speaker 4: that have played only two games, which is the majority
Speaker 4: of teams, and Seattle also graded thirty first against the
Speaker 4: pass by Pro Football Focus. Will also be without starting
Speaker 4: cornerback Dreek Woollen most likely, so the red rifle. Why not,
Speaker 4: let's dust it off, Let's go andy, all right?
Speaker 1: You know, I just bumped him up our Guillotine League rankings.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 1: He kind of talked me into it. I'm gonna keep
Speaker 1: going to the well on this. It's three straight weeks
Speaker 1: in which I'm imploring you to play Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a good spot. It is a good spot.
Speaker 3: Like it.
Speaker 1: The Monday Nighter Eagles have a great run defense and
Speaker 1: his secondary that's missing a bunch of key starters, including
Speaker 1: safety Read Blanket hip cornerback of Auntie Maddox and possibly
Speaker 1: James Bradbury. Again, the Eels have allowed the most passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the second most passing yards. I could probably
Speaker 1: just stop right there. In fact, I will. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna do it. Hang it up right there, Baker Mahs,
Speaker 1: Evans Godwin, and that's you know, in a game script
Speaker 1: that's going to go their way.
Speaker 3: Charge seventeen weeks of Baker Mayfield. I know, take a
Speaker 3: chance on me. Are you to stop me?
Speaker 1: Let's go to the wide receiver position. Who do you got, Scott?
Speaker 3: I am pairing up the wide receiver to might take
Speaker 3: a chance on me. Quarterback Tank Dell increased snaps in
Speaker 3: targets last week with Noah Brown out with that injury.
Speaker 3: Scored his first touchdown fourteenth among wide receivers in separation
Speaker 3: at three point three yards. He's he's getting some separation,
Speaker 3: played mostly outside last week, immediately a full time role.
Speaker 3: This is a guy that c J. Stroub pounded the
Speaker 3: table for. I like him in this matchup, Brian, you
Speaker 3: take a chance with me?
Speaker 4: Receiver is I too, will be pairing my quarterback with
Speaker 4: a wide receiver. So I've got Jonathan Mingo to pair
Speaker 4: with Andy Dalton. At Seattle last week, Mingo out targeted
Speaker 4: DJ Hark eight to one. So regardless of Chark's health
Speaker 4: or the change of quarterback, Mingo is the preferred option
Speaker 4: between the two. Mingo has a ninety eight percent snapshare
Speaker 4: this season, so he's on the field virtually all the time. Yes,
Speaker 4: he's eighth among all players in air yard share percentage
Speaker 4: forty three percent of Carolina's air yard So they're going
Speaker 4: to him. His time will come and again Tarik Wollen,
Speaker 4: starting corner for the Seahawks, likely out Seattle has given
Speaker 4: up a lot of passing yards so far, So I'm
Speaker 4: going with Jonathan Mingo.
Speaker 1: The Panthers are the slowest team in the NFL. It's yes,
Speaker 1: it is. That is such a plotting offense. Now you
Speaker 1: may be thinking to yourself self, the Chiefs could score
Speaker 1: one hundred points against Chicago. I'd like to start one
Speaker 1: of their wide receivers. But which one to start? How
Speaker 1: about the receiver that's on the field more than any
Speaker 1: other receiver and is available in your league right now? Okay,
Speaker 1: and that is Marquez Valdez.
Speaker 4: Yes, I was gonna say, Justin Watson.
Speaker 1: How about actually second most downfield threat against a defense
Speaker 1: that's already allowed six deep completions in just two weeks.
Speaker 1: He'll usually see rookie corner Tyreek Stevenson, who's allowed touchdowns
Speaker 1: in both games to start his career, including a seventy
Speaker 1: yarder to Mike Evans last week. He's giving up an
Speaker 1: opposer passer rating of one hundred and forty eight in
Speaker 1: his coverage. And the guy who's going to be on
Speaker 1: Tyreek Stevenson the most, Marquez Valdez scantling Ah Texans take
Speaker 1: on the Jaguars. Scott, Yeah, already talked to me about
Speaker 1: elements of the Texans pass did. But what about our guy,
Speaker 1: Nico Collins.
Speaker 3: We've been waiting he's our guy. We've been waiting us
Speaker 3: for three years. He's our guy. I want to give
Speaker 3: him an A grade so bad, I really do, I
Speaker 3: really do, But it's it's still a B grade. I
Speaker 3: swear that thirty year breakouts is happening. Twenty three percent
Speaker 3: target share awesome. Eyebel Test says he's a stud lead
Speaker 3: receiver and he's dropped seventy plus and scored and back
Speaker 3: to back against the Jags. But this this is a
Speaker 3: Jags team that's, you know, pretty middle of the pack.
Speaker 3: They allowed a decent game to Michael Pittman, but other
Speaker 3: than that, they're keeping all other wide receivers under seventy yards.
Speaker 3: Just to B grade, I need to see a little
Speaker 3: more of it. I think it's a good game script,
Speaker 3: but Tank Dell did come on pretty hard this last game. Also,
Speaker 3: Robert Woods is being a thorn in that side side
Speaker 3: of Nico Collins. Would be an A grade if it
Speaker 3: wasn't for Robert Woods getting seven plus catches each game,
Speaker 3: eight nine ten targets. I do have a secrete on
Speaker 3: Robert Woods three red zone targets fifty plus yards in
Speaker 3: both games. If he's going to be getting six seven
Speaker 3: catches and fifty plus yards in red zone targets, you
Speaker 3: gotta give him a grade, even though he doesn't look
Speaker 3: as good as Tank and Nico agree, but those are
Speaker 3: the only guys in the past game on the bench.
Speaker 3: I have Damian Pierce.
Speaker 1: Come to this.
Speaker 3: I know it has come to this. He did go
Speaker 3: twenty nine for one hundred and thirteen in the last
Speaker 3: score in the last meeting of these two players. But
Speaker 3: he's only playing forty five percent of the snaps, which
Speaker 3: isn't good, but the game script has been bad for him.
Speaker 3: Devin Singletary is playing the passing down role and the
Speaker 3: two minute drill role, so not only that his efficiency
Speaker 3: is terrible three point zero three yards per carrying the
Speaker 3: final four games last year, he's consistently being contacted behind
Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage thirty eight yards after contact last
Speaker 3: week and he had thirty one yards rushing. That's how
Speaker 3: much he's getting hit behind the yard. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 3: it's not good. He needs he needs thirty carries to
Speaker 3: get sixty yards.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about him later in the show.
Speaker 3: All right over to the jag side. I have a
Speaker 3: C grade on Trevor Lawrence. He's looked a little bit
Speaker 3: off to the eye test. In the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: The Texans have held quarterbacks under two and in thirty
Speaker 3: yards in both games. Part of that is they get
Speaker 3: behind so much that other teams. The teams don't have
Speaker 3: to run. So I think Lawrence is not gonna have
Speaker 3: to do a lot of work here and they're gonna
Speaker 3: lean on the running game where Travis etn I am
Speaker 3: given an A grade too. Through two games, travesy Tan
Speaker 3: has run fifty six routes tank bigsby four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that that is not panned out the way
Speaker 1: me either.
Speaker 3: He is absolutely the bell cow. He left the lame
Speaker 3: game late last week with cramps, but he should be
Speaker 3: fine for this one. Houston has placed seven linemen and
Speaker 3: on ir and tour playing heart playing hurt A grade there.
Speaker 3: I do have Bigsby on the bench. But if you're
Speaker 3: really struggling, it's a really good game script for him
Speaker 3: to finally get some work. He just didn't get it
Speaker 3: the last like his snaps went down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm actually going to pinch in. A couple of
Speaker 1: my guillotine leagues are running back and I'm starting them.
Speaker 1: I'm starting Tank Bigsby. I don't love it, but I'm
Speaker 1: doing it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I have a grade on Kelvin Ridley, a B grade
Speaker 3: on Christian Kirk. Kelvin Ridley did take a backseat to
Speaker 3: Kirk last week. It was a great matchup for the
Speaker 3: slock guy for for Christian Kirk, and he came up strong.
Speaker 1: Jalen Petrie s Jones got knocked out of the game, Yes.
Speaker 3: Too, Jalen Petrie, and I'm yeah, Jalen Petrie and Derek
Speaker 3: Stingley will both be missing from this secondary, which is
Speaker 3: going to help both of them. Christian Kirk gets one
Speaker 3: of the best wide receiver cornerback matchups. He gets m J. Stewart,
Speaker 3: a converted safety trying to cover him out there. I
Speaker 3: don't trust a converted safety on Christian Kirk, especially when
Speaker 3: it's one who allows nearly a full fantasy point per
Speaker 3: route run. So if Christian Kirk runs thirty routes, what
Speaker 3: is that in points? Like thirty points?
Speaker 1: That's right? Really?
Speaker 3: Yeah, ratio, I have a B grade there, and I
Speaker 3: have a C grade on Avin Ingram, who has five
Speaker 3: plus catches in back to back games, forty nine plus
Speaker 3: yards in both. He's not getting red zone targets, but
Speaker 3: the Texans just allowed six for seventy and a score
Speaker 3: to tight ends last week.
Speaker 1: Broncos take on the Dolphins, Brian and for the running game,
Speaker 1: at least last week, it was pretty much all Javonte Williams.
Speaker 1: Do you think that trend extends here?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I got to be on Javonte Williams, who I
Speaker 4: did not expect to be getting this much run this
Speaker 4: early in the season, nor would even be suiting up
Speaker 4: the first four weeks of the season. He is almost
Speaker 4: all the way back. I would give him an A
Speaker 4: if not coming off the major injury, but again, he's
Speaker 4: his workload is farester pass what I expected, so he
Speaker 4: gets a be The Dolphins have already surrendered three rushing
Speaker 4: scores and more than three hundred and twenty combo yards
Speaker 4: to opposing running backs. That is a lot. Miami has
Speaker 4: also yielded the second most red zone touches to a
Speaker 4: post and running backs, So a bev for Jamonte Williams.
Speaker 4: But I got samaj p Ryan on the bench. There's
Speaker 4: a certain running back pushing him for playing time, which
Speaker 4: we'll talk about a little more. So just Javonte Williams
Speaker 4: with the starting grade out of the Denver backfield, Jerry
Speaker 4: Judy and Courtland Sutton. I'm gonna give both a C
Speaker 4: grade too. I was close to a bee, but I
Speaker 4: think they both might eat into each other as a workload.
Speaker 4: The Dolphins are one of ten teams to allow thirty
Speaker 4: plus wide receiver catches so far, so a good matchup
Speaker 4: for both Judy and Sutton. I can't give Marvin Mims
Speaker 4: a C as well, though, even though he had one
Speaker 4: hundred and thirteen yards in a touchdown last week on
Speaker 4: two targets catches and then they never went back to
Speaker 4: him for the rest of the game for whatever reason.
Speaker 4: So can't trust Mims yet too light point, but he
Speaker 4: should certainly not be available in virtually any league right now.
Speaker 4: It should be rostered in almost every format. Adam Troutman
Speaker 4: almost gave him a SEA as well, considering the Dolphins
Speaker 4: are one of four teams to surrender multiple tight end
Speaker 4: scores through the first two weeks. But Troutman was not
Speaker 4: targeted last week and the Broncos will probably need his
Speaker 4: blocking considering Russell Wilson was sacked seven times and took
Speaker 4: fourteen nits last week. So I've got Troutman on the bench,
Speaker 4: but I will give Wilson the sea. He does have
Speaker 4: the second most touchdown passes, the fourth highest passer rating,
Speaker 4: and the ninth most rushing yards among all quarterbacks, so
Speaker 4: he does get to see here. Those numbers are a
Speaker 4: little padded by the flukey Hail Mary touchdown he threw
Speaker 4: to Brandon Johnson last week, but Wilson is startable in
Speaker 4: this suspected shootout, which is really going to come from
Speaker 4: the Miami side, starting with Raheem Mostert. He gets a
Speaker 4: a went off against a tough Patriots run defense last week.
Speaker 4: He's most just paying massive dividends no matter where you
Speaker 4: drafted him this summer. That could change, but for now,
Speaker 4: he's easily a top ten back and the matchup is
Speaker 4: decent enough here. The Broncos are top twelve and nemo's
Speaker 4: fantasy points allowed to running backs. So an A for
Speaker 4: Raheem Mostert, an easy A for Tyreek Hill. The Broncos
Speaker 4: have allowed the second most wide receiver touchdowns so far
Speaker 4: this season. Hill is second in targets inside the ten
Speaker 4: yard line and first in catches inside the ten. And
Speaker 4: obviously Tyreek Kill can score from anywhere. So these are
Speaker 4: just numbers you love to hear at a Hill, he
Speaker 4: gets an A. Jalen Waddle, I'll give him a B
Speaker 4: if he plays. He didn't concussion proto call as of now.
Speaker 4: If he plays, though, he gets a B. Just six
Speaker 4: targets last week, but he did lead the Dolphins in
Speaker 4: receiving yards with eighty six yards on four catches. My
Speaker 4: guy Durham Smythe Smyth Tyson gonna give him a C.
Speaker 4: Three catches in each of the first two games as
Speaker 4: quote unquote the guy at tight end. Those aren't great numbers,
Speaker 4: I know, but sadly they are serviceable in the tight
Speaker 4: end wasteland. The Broncos did allow seven catches for eighty
Speaker 4: nine yards in a touchdown to the Commander's tight ends
Speaker 4: last week. So A see for Smythe and two agets
Speaker 4: an A two is the man so far if he's healthy.
Speaker 1: Two is the guy when we come back, Chargers and
Speaker 1: Vikings over unders fifty four points? Is there anybody you
Speaker 1: wouldn't start find out when we come back Fantasy Football Weekly?
Speaker 1: Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Scott Fish, Brian Johnson, and
Speaker 1: I am Paul Charchion going through all the matchups Fantasy
Speaker 1: style Chargers taking on the Vikings, and it's basically a
Speaker 1: start everybody matchup. A grades for Justin air Bear with
Speaker 1: a potentially fighting big game coming, Mike Williams, Keenan Allen
Speaker 1: all a grades massive size and talent mismatch for Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen and Mike Williams. And just to highlight the size
Speaker 1: difference the Vikings cornerbacks, McKai Blackman is five foot ten,
Speaker 1: Byron Murphy's five foot eleven Keenan Allen are six two
Speaker 1: and sixty four and contested catches are going to go
Speaker 1: their way almost certainly in this game. The only receiver
Speaker 1: I've got a bench grade on, sorry, Brian Gerald. Everett
Speaker 1: undoubtedly a capable receiver, but he is the fifth option
Speaker 1: on a team loaded with receiving talent. Just five catches
Speaker 1: and two games in Minnesota's giving up just twenty scoreless
Speaker 1: tight end yards per game. There are points coming. If
Speaker 1: you need a dart throw tight end, I could see it,
Speaker 1: but I can't move him to a C grade here.
Speaker 1: Josh Kelly was might take a chance on me running back.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Viking side, where similarly I've got
Speaker 1: the quarterback, wide receiver and another receiver. All is obvious.
Speaker 1: A's cousins Jefferson and TJ. Hockinson. Kirk is the highest
Speaker 1: scoring fantasy quarterback right now. He plays in a pass first,
Speaker 1: past second, past third offense. Jefferson draws the easiest coverage
Speaker 1: of maybe his entire season against cornerback J. C. Jackson
Speaker 1: and A Sante Samuel, and Hockinson leads all tight ends
Speaker 1: and receptions in touchdowns. So those guys are automatics. I
Speaker 1: also like Jordan Addison in this game. He's got the
Speaker 1: touchdowns in both games to start his career. He's got
Speaker 1: the deep a dot of seventeen yards per target. Holy cow,
Speaker 1: He's getting open through route running and kJ Osborne has
Speaker 1: been bad, and so I think he's gonna start absorbing
Speaker 1: more and more of kJ osborne routs. Chargers cornerbacks hold
Speaker 1: Pro Football focus coverage rankings of forty first, one hundred second,
Speaker 1: and one hundred and twenty third. Jordan Addison is in play.
Speaker 1: Alexander Madison suffering from a variety of issues. Negative game scripts,
Speaker 1: lousy blocking in the league's lowest run play percentage have
Speaker 1: all made him an unmitigated fantasy disaster to this point.
Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell running the ball at a twenty two rate.
Speaker 1: I've got a C grade on him here only because
Speaker 1: the Pro Football Focus, who's got Chargers is the third
Speaker 1: worst run defense. I don't although I don't see it
Speaker 1: that way. They held Raheem Moster to three and a
Speaker 1: half yards per carry, Derreck Henry to three point two
Speaker 1: yards per carry, both guys scored. I just think there's
Speaker 1: enough points here, and the running back landscape is so
Speaker 1: dried up, I'd go ahead and go with Alejander.
Speaker 3: Lot's opportunity for a high scoring game too. A lot
Speaker 3: of points could get a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I think we're hoping for forty five yards
Speaker 1: in a touchdown.
Speaker 3: Think it's fifty four highest of the week it is.
Speaker 1: Pats take on the Oh. By the way, can makers
Speaker 1: not expected to PARTI Patriots taking on the Jets. Scott,
Speaker 1: what do you like out of Romandra Stevenson And by
Speaker 1: the way, Ezekiel Elliott is done? Yeah? Mooyd does he
Speaker 1: look slow?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Twelve touches in week one, five touches last week. Zeke
Speaker 3: is yeah, Zeke is cooked like cook is cooked. Ramandre
Speaker 3: Stevenson after Pollard last week. Against this Jets defense, I
Speaker 3: think the Pats may look to replicate what works, which
Speaker 3: just volume. Running eighteen plus touches in back to back
Speaker 3: games for Stevenson three plus catches Niche has not dropped
Speaker 3: a pass, and the once he has caught, he's averaging
Speaker 3: over ten yards after the catch. Wow. So they may
Speaker 3: look to get him involved in that too. I do
Speaker 3: have a B grade on him. He's the only runner
Speaker 3: I have a B grade on in the past game.
Speaker 3: I only have a grade on one player, and it's
Speaker 3: going to shock you. Do you want to take a guess?
Speaker 3: It might not shock you. It's Hunter Henry oh Okay
Speaker 3: is the only Mac Jones I have a bench grade on.
Speaker 3: He's attempting more passes than anyone else. But this Jets
Speaker 3: pass defense is much better than what they've faced so far.
Speaker 3: It's a Jets dy that has held Josh Allen and
Speaker 3: Dak Prescott to two hundred and fifty ish yards or
Speaker 3: less and three scores and three picks. It's not a
Speaker 3: good spot for any of the pass catchers, especially with
Speaker 3: DeVante Parker coming back to split everything up even more.
Speaker 3: Hunter Henry, I think we may have to start believing
Speaker 3: five for fifty six in a score, six for fifty
Speaker 3: two in a score. Jets have given up two scores
Speaker 3: to tight ends just last week. In Week one, they
Speaker 3: allowed seven catches for fifty one yards. I'm a B
Speaker 3: grade on Henry and you could probably bump him up,
Speaker 3: but I have a B grade on Henry. Over to
Speaker 3: the Jets side, I have an A grade on Garrett Wilson,
Speaker 3: and that may just be about it. I think that
Speaker 3: Brice Hall deserves a see here. But Garrett Wilson, even
Speaker 3: when held to two catches, he somehow made that eighty
Speaker 3: three yards in a score. Yeah, he just gets it done.
Speaker 3: He'll get mostly Christian Gonzaz who started to shadow after
Speaker 3: Marcus Jones left and who is now on IR. He
Speaker 3: started to shadow Tyreek last week, but he did give
Speaker 3: up a score to Tyreek. He gave up a score
Speaker 3: in Week one I think Garrett Wilson gets his. He's
Speaker 3: the guy they have to run this offense through. Brice Hall.
Speaker 3: He tweeted his anger about only getting four carries. Squeaky
Speaker 3: mouse gets the cheese. I think they're gonna or squeaky
Speaker 3: wheel gets the grease or whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 3: Mouse's way here gainwell head seventy four yards in week one,
Speaker 3: most at one hundred and twenty seven and two scores
Speaker 3: last week. If Preestall gets it and they realize Cook
Speaker 3: is Cooketon Carter isn't that good, Priest Hall should get
Speaker 3: a Sea grade here. And that's all I got for
Speaker 3: this game.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's move on Panthers taking on the Seahawks. Bryan.
Speaker 1: The Panthers' offense, as I mentioned earlier, has it looked awful.
Speaker 1: But you like Andy Dalton, he was your take a
Speaker 1: chance on me quarterback?
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I liked him enough to give him a
Speaker 4: very soft Sea and I like Jonathan Mingo. Might take
Speaker 4: a chance on my wide receiver. I'll also give Adam
Speaker 4: Thielen a Sea nine targets last week he caught seven
Speaker 4: for fifty four yards in a touchdown. I think we
Speaker 4: can expect similar volume here, especially with Andy Dalton who's
Speaker 4: not much of a deep ball specialist. So Thieling gets
Speaker 4: a starting C grade, as is Hayden Hurst was invisible
Speaker 4: last week, but at a nice showing in Week one.
Speaker 4: This is a good matchup on paper for Hurst. The
Speaker 4: Seahawks have allowed the fourth most receiving yards to opposing
Speaker 4: tight ends, So a SEA for Hurst and a C
Speaker 4: for running back Miles Sanders, who was averaging nearly two
Speaker 4: twenty touches per game. He's yet to score anything with him,
Speaker 4: He's yet to score, but the Seahawks have surrendered four
Speaker 4: rushing touchdowns to opposing running backs and have allowed the
Speaker 4: sixth most fantasy points to the position through two games.
Speaker 4: So I will give Sanders a starting grade. With the
Speaker 4: SEA over to the Seattle side, and they're running back
Speaker 4: Kenneth Walker, he gets a SEE as well. The Seahawks
Speaker 4: are likely to remain without both starting offensive tackles, but
Speaker 4: this is not a daunting matchup for Walker. Carolina is
Speaker 4: ranked twenty second against the run by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 4: Somewhat of a scary stat though for Kenneth Walker, one
Speaker 4: fourth quarter touch through the first two games.
Speaker 1: Weirdy, very weird. They were trailing in the first game.
Speaker 4: But that said Walker has still outsnapped Zach Charbonay he
Speaker 4: did last week forty three to nineteen, so Charbona is
Speaker 4: still on the bench again the Sea for Walker. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna give Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf, both of Bee.
Speaker 4: The Panthers will be without starting quarterback cornerback j C. Horn,
Speaker 4: who's out with a hamstring injury. That bodes well for
Speaker 4: both Metcalf and Lockett, but I got Jackson Smith and
Speaker 4: Jigba on the bench. His A dot average depth of
Speaker 4: target is just one point eight yards. He's also played
Speaker 4: less than sixty percent of Seattle's offensive snaps in both games.
Speaker 4: So JSN just not a reliable starter at this moment,
Speaker 4: but someone you might want to buy low on in
Speaker 4: both redraft and dynasty formats due to that slow start.
Speaker 4: And it's always a slow start for Noah Fans and
Speaker 4: any other tight end for Seattle. Even though Will Disley
Speaker 4: might not play in this game, I got to put
Speaker 4: Fant on the bench. Seattle just refuses to give one
Speaker 4: tight end significant snaps and that's not gonna be Fans
Speaker 4: and Gino Smith. I'm on the fence here. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: bench Gino in this game. I think this is gonna
Speaker 4: be a heavy run game for the Seahawks. Gino was
Speaker 4: twenty seventh and twenty plus passyard attempt rate last week,
Speaker 4: and I think we see a similar conservative game plan
Speaker 4: against the Panthers, who have funneled their opponents to the run.
Speaker 4: So far, Carolina has the sixth highest opponent rushing play percentage.
Speaker 4: Teams just aren't passing against the Panthers. So I got
Speaker 4: I got Gino on the bench For that reason.
Speaker 1: I've been giving some thought to trying to acquire Zach
Speaker 1: Sharboney on the cheap in Dynasty.
Speaker 3: Interesting.
Speaker 1: It's interesting, you know, right now he's getting no run
Speaker 1: at all, and I think there might be a desperate
Speaker 1: you know, some.
Speaker 3: Ken Walker has an injury history.
Speaker 1: He does, he does, so what do you think? Yes,
Speaker 1: I would do it.
Speaker 3: I would do it. I have a question on the
Speaker 3: Jets Patriots matchup. If you had to throw a dart
Speaker 3: at Kendrick Bourn, Juju Smith, Schuster, and DeVante Parker, who
Speaker 3: would it be? Born Letton targets week one, Parker in
Speaker 3: week three or we two. Juju is the slot guy.
Speaker 3: He's gonna avoid Sauce and DJ Reid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's probably.
Speaker 3: That's where Diggson, That's where Digs and Lamb made there. Hey,
Speaker 3: the last two weeks, there could be something to that,
Speaker 3: maybe a juju. See did I go too low? No,
Speaker 3: that's about okay, I had him. I had him as bench.
Speaker 4: Is Kashan Voody the answer the road answer?
Speaker 3: Now, if you.
Speaker 1: Know Mario Douglas, you haven't tried a Guillotine league yet.
Speaker 1: We're still creating new leagues drafts almost every day of
Speaker 1: the week. You can still get into a brand new,
Speaker 1: fresh Guillotine league with all the things you've already learned
Speaker 1: through a couple of weeks of play, which you know,
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey might be the first player off the board.
Speaker 1: Now it's like, yeah, the one running back left standing
Speaker 1: that you feel like you can rely on when we
Speaker 1: come back. Three tough questions. If you can play along,
Speaker 1: go three and oh with our panel of experts as
Speaker 1: we break down some of the tricky running back situations
Speaker 1: in the league. It's our number two Fantasy Football Weekly
Speaker 1: Week number three. It's desperation time for many, and tough
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Speaker 4: Of course, it is tough question number one, what the.
Speaker 1: Hell's wrong with Damian Pierce? We begin with Brian Johnson.
Speaker 4: Nothing. I don't want you to fire me here. Perfect
Speaker 4: in every way. No rough start for Pierce, but hey,
Speaker 4: his opponents have been no kwalk. The Texans have played
Speaker 4: the Ravens and the Colts, who are ranked third and
Speaker 4: first against the run by Pro Football Focus. Devin Singletary
Speaker 4: isn't really stealing Pierce's job. We talked about it earlier
Speaker 4: in the show. He's taken some third down snaps, but
Speaker 4: that's really more so for pass pro Singletary had four
Speaker 4: carries last week, so it's not like Pierce is seding
Speaker 4: those carries to Singletary. And last, and certainly not least,
Speaker 4: the O line has just been ravaged by injuries for Houston.
Speaker 4: I joke, I wasn't joking.
Speaker 2: This.
Speaker 4: This hurts my soul. This reminds me of Lamar Miller.
Speaker 4: For the Texans about seven or eight years ago. I
Speaker 4: remember just a very talented, oh deep, elite running back
Speaker 4: running behind the most garbage of offensive lines year in
Speaker 4: and year out. Hopefully that that changes for Peer. So
Speaker 4: it's not the player, it's the scenario right now for Peer.
Speaker 4: So I guess what is wrong with him? Nothing is
Speaker 4: their options for this answer. I'll go with nothing. All right,
Speaker 4: He'll be okay. Don't panic, Scott.
Speaker 1: You already answered this question defectively earlier in your matchup.
Speaker 1: You should probably have figured out that that was going
Speaker 1: to happen. What the hell's wrong with Damian Pierce? Do
Speaker 1: anything you want to add? You just want to yield
Speaker 1: to your earlier comments.
Speaker 3: I will mention my reiterate that even last year, in
Speaker 3: his final four games before his injury, he was averaging
Speaker 3: barely over three yards per carry. Part of his problem
Speaker 3: is he seeks out contact, and if that first contact
Speaker 3: tackles him, he's not getting yards. And because the offensive
Speaker 3: line isn't blocking and he's getting hit behind the line
Speaker 3: of scrimmage, that means he's getting negative yards or not
Speaker 3: many yards. I think I think we've mentioned a bunch
Speaker 3: of things that are factoring in. But he really needs
Speaker 3: to learn to avoid defenders. He had a ton of
Speaker 3: broken tackles last year. If he doesn't get those broken tackles,
Speaker 3: he's not avoiding the tackles.
Speaker 1: He's got to break four tackles. He's run for sixty
Speaker 1: nine yards this year. Yeah, seventy after contact, yep. I
Speaker 1: mean think about think about how staggering.
Speaker 3: I mentioned that about last week. Thirty eight after contact,
Speaker 3: thirty one yards.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean, you know, it's just a total disaster
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. And then yet in the game
Speaker 1: scripts that have worked heavily against Pierce, big early deficits
Speaker 1: for Houston. And then the part of this that I
Speaker 1: was really banking on with Pierce was for him to
Speaker 1: become more involved in the passing game, and that has
Speaker 1: not happened yet. And maybe it's just his young quarterback.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not Pierce's run. Get this thirty eight routes.
Speaker 1: Thirty eight routes, It's plenty of routes for a running
Speaker 1: back to have run to this stage. He's been targeted
Speaker 1: six times. Thanks for nothing.
Speaker 2: C J.
Speaker 1: Stroud, who actually I like c J. Stroud. I wish
Speaker 1: you would were to Damian Pierce. I will continue to
Speaker 1: contend that there's nothing wrong with Damian Pierce. It's everything
Speaker 1: around him. And if you'd put Damian Pierce on a
Speaker 1: different team, you'd have a very different outcome.
Speaker 3: Okay, tough.
Speaker 4: Question number two.
Speaker 1: You can name your price for Pooka Nakula right now,
Speaker 1: if you're the Poka Nakula owner.
Speaker 3: I've seen some pretty big ones out there.
Speaker 1: Are you holding or are you selling? Scott?
Speaker 3: I'm probably holding. I'm probably holding. We don't know if
Speaker 3: this soft tissue hamstring injury is going to go on
Speaker 3: for longer than we expect, or lingo or re injure,
Speaker 3: and I want him. I want to win games now.
Speaker 3: He's part of the Breakfast Breakfast club. He has breakfast
Speaker 3: with Cooper Cup and Matthew Stafford. I like that. The goal,
Speaker 3: like I said, the goal is to win games.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: We don't know what the split will b when Cup
Speaker 3: gets back, but Matthew Stafford's thrown it forty five times
Speaker 3: per game. What if there's still ten plus targets there
Speaker 3: for Pooka Nakoula.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna hold on and try to win, all right, Brian,
Speaker 1: you can name your price for Pooka Nakula right now,
Speaker 1: how are you holding? Are you selling high?
Speaker 4: Speaking of targets, the wide receiver target lead leaders through
Speaker 4: the first two weeks Puka Nakua thirty five second, Justin
Speaker 4: Jefferson with twenty five unreal and yes, Cooper Cup is
Speaker 4: not playing, but Puoka is not playing the Cooper Cup role.
Speaker 4: Supposedly that's too too at well, so who's to say
Speaker 4: when Cooper Cup comes back? Pooka doesn't even see more targets,
Speaker 4: So why not just just hold on to him? You
Speaker 4: might be that league winning unicorn that is unearthed in
Speaker 4: week one. I'm holding.
Speaker 1: Fundamentally he looks good. Test oh he does. Per I
Speaker 1: love selling high on overproducing players at a high water mark,
Speaker 1: but fundamentally, yeah, fundamentally I can't do it in this situation, right,
Speaker 1: I agree? Just too legit. And the real question that
Speaker 1: everybody's got in the back of their mind is do
Speaker 1: I trade away Pooka knowing Cup is going to come back.
Speaker 1: We don't know when Cup's going to come back. To
Speaker 1: Scott's point, but here's here's the the main thing you
Speaker 1: really need to know. That guy who's gonna get iced
Speaker 1: out of the Rams when Cooper Cup comes back is
Speaker 1: Van Jefferson. Now, he had always been an outside receiver,
Speaker 1: but they've moved Van Jefferson's routes into the slot that's
Speaker 1: Cooper Cups spot, because they're already planning for Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: to come back and take away their worst performing receiver,
Speaker 1: Van Jefferson by a mile. All last year they desperately
Speaker 1: needed Van Jefferson to step up. They got nothing. This year,
Speaker 1: they're getting nothing. Van Jefferson's gonna be the odd man out.
Speaker 1: And there's a scenario where Cooper Cup does come back,
Speaker 1: is fully healthy, and Pookin a Coua is still the
Speaker 1: best guy. You can't trade Pookinakua right now.
Speaker 4: Tough question number three, what is.
Speaker 1: The appropriate level of concern for Breese Hall? Is it none?
Speaker 1: Is it some? Or is it a bowel loosening level
Speaker 1: of existential dread? We go back to Brian.
Speaker 4: I can't be blowed on Breese because a guy I
Speaker 4: was fading all summer just because I didn't think he
Speaker 4: was gonna see the workload coming off the major knee injury.
Speaker 4: Granted he is his first two carries, I was eating
Speaker 4: some crow. He had over one hundred yards. But he's
Speaker 4: clearly not the Briess Young we saw, I'm sorry, the
Speaker 4: Breese Hall we saw last year. He's gonna split carries
Speaker 4: with Dalvin Cook, is he Abana Conda, Michael Carter? And Man,
Speaker 4: this Jets team is not guaranteed to make the playoffs now,
Speaker 4: not that they were guaranteed to make the playoffs with
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers, but you like their chances a lot more.
Speaker 4: And are they going to be so inclined just to
Speaker 4: ramp up Breese's Hall into what is presumed to be
Speaker 4: a lost season as we get later into the year.
Speaker 4: So I'm not blowed, but there is some concern. I
Speaker 4: still don't think he's gonna get the fifteen twenty plus
Speaker 4: touches that you would command the ADP that we saw
Speaker 4: from Breese which was third round in August.
Speaker 1: So it's just something for me, all right, Scott, what
Speaker 1: is the propriate level of concern for Brishall?
Speaker 3: I'm interrupted? None? None, not a one, Okay, not a one,
Speaker 3: No concern, No appropriate level could My appropriate level for
Speaker 3: concern for Breese Hall is none. Their defense is awesome.
Speaker 3: They're good enough to keep them in games and getting
Speaker 3: games close, so they're gonna keep to the running game.
Speaker 3: He looked so good in week one. He's already complaining
Speaker 3: he needs more touches. We've seen what Dalvin Cook and
Speaker 3: Michael Carter looked like. They are going to have to
Speaker 3: feed Brishall's That's what this team is. That's their identity.
Speaker 3: Run the ball with Breese Hall, keep it out of
Speaker 3: Zach Wilson's hands, and play defense none. He's gonna be
Speaker 3: a fifteen to twenty touchback and he's gonna get back
Speaker 3: in football shape. So those breakaway runs, he can actually
Speaker 3: get him to the end zone instead of gaining rundown
Speaker 3: from behind.
Speaker 1: Wow, I feel attacked in many ways. This is also
Speaker 1: asking is Zach Wilson just an offense killer? I mean,
Speaker 1: is he just gonna murder this offense?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: Last year in his starts and he had plenty of
Speaker 1: like nine, the Jets averaged nineteen points. That's not that bad.
Speaker 1: It's not great.
Speaker 3: It's also not good.
Speaker 1: It's not that bad. It's not you know, not to
Speaker 1: the point where you're like, well, the whole offense is
Speaker 1: gonna be non functional.
Speaker 3: Now did Breese Hall play those games? Well?
Speaker 1: It actually, it's funny. So I looked up they had
Speaker 1: four games together, like three and a quarter defends together.
Speaker 1: In that small sample size where both Zach Wilson was
Speaker 1: starting and Brece Hall was playing before he got hurt,
Speaker 1: he averaged one hundred and twenty eight yards and a
Speaker 1: touchdown per game. You go, And that was with that
Speaker 1: Jets offensive line last year that was completely ravaged by injury.
Speaker 3: It's better. The defense is better, yep.
Speaker 1: Now last week they played Dallas. It looks like Dallas
Speaker 1: is the best defense in the league, just you know,
Speaker 1: killing a pone everybody they're facing. So I'm going to
Speaker 1: try to just throw out last week my current appropriate
Speaker 1: level of concern for Breese Hall. And oh one other
Speaker 1: point that I forget, forgot to put on here, Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook on Zoe's He doesn't look like the same guy
Speaker 1: at all to me. And we've seen we've watched a
Speaker 1: lot for you though, So yes, thank you. Appropriate level
Speaker 1: of concern for Breeze.
Speaker 3: Hall is not can we say less than none?
Speaker 1: No, you can't. All right, We're gonna go this is
Speaker 1: this is that's way too a minus to non minus.
Speaker 1: I don't do that here.
Speaker 4: Bill.
Speaker 1: Bill's taking on the commanders. Let's talk through I want
Speaker 1: to I think I want to start with James Cook.
Speaker 1: This is a tough matchup for James Cook play facing
Speaker 1: the Commanders, Washington giving up just fifty seven rushing yards
Speaker 1: per game and Cook sadly getting what Cook sadly getting
Speaker 1: vultured in the red zone. Damien Harris Latavious Murray have
Speaker 1: nine red zone touches. James Cook has two. This was
Speaker 1: exactly the concern that we had in the preseason, the like,
Speaker 1: we all love James Cook, but he might be sitting
Speaker 1: on a five touchdown year and that was the worry
Speaker 1: and right now that's the continues to be the concern.
Speaker 1: He is He's gonna have to score from distance.
Speaker 3: What's insane about him? He's a top twelve running back
Speaker 3: without scoring a touchdown at this moment. Yeah, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Cook is getting a lot of passing down work, but
Speaker 1: the Commanders are a lead against receiving backs. No Back
Speaker 1: his top thirty three receiving yards against Washington in twelve
Speaker 1: games going back to the middle last year. Wow. No
Speaker 1: back has scored through the air in ten games against Washington,
Speaker 1: and that includes games against gifted receivers who faced Washington
Speaker 1: like Christian McCaffrey and Saquon Barkley. And Tony Pollard. Jeez,
Speaker 1: they all went belly up against Washington. I've only got
Speaker 1: a C grade on James Cook in this game. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the passing game. Stefan Diggs gets an obvious
Speaker 1: A here, and he's gonna be able to exploit rookie
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Forbes, who was beat for four catches eighty six
Speaker 1: yards against Denver last week. He's an A. Gabe Davis
Speaker 1: gets a C grade here last week a massive forty
Speaker 1: nine percent air yard share. But you know, the bid
Speaker 1: on Gabe Davis, the blow up games and then the
Speaker 1: tougher matchup where he usually does not show up, and
Speaker 1: I think this might be a tougher one. He's mostly
Speaker 1: gonna draw Kendall Fuller, who's allowed just twenty seven scoreless
Speaker 1: yards in his coverage through two games. You know, Davis
Speaker 1: has always been a feaster famine player, and this feels
Speaker 1: like a famine side of that coin. So just the
Speaker 1: C grade on Gabe Davis here. Dalton Kincaid of note
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox missed so much practice, but then he returned
Speaker 1: in full on Friday, So it looks like Dawson Knox
Speaker 1: is gonna go. But here's the thing. Dal Kincaid's already
Speaker 1: killing him, already head of Dawson Knox in target share,
Speaker 1: He's tied for third on his team and targets. Kincaid
Speaker 1: looks very reliable. He's caught ten of his eleven targets
Speaker 1: in two games. I mean, he looks totally legit. He'll
Speaker 1: face Commander's linebacker Cody Barton, who has allowed nine of
Speaker 1: the ten targets in his coverage to be completed, and
Speaker 1: over half of ken Kid's yardage just come after the catch.
Speaker 1: In seventy three percent of Barton's yardage just come after
Speaker 1: the catch. So Kenkaid should be good after the catch
Speaker 1: here too. We're gonna go be great. And Dalton Kincaid,
Speaker 1: even with Dawson Knox.
Speaker 3: In's still in those red zone touches too.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, if I've gotten I've got a's, b's, and
Speaker 1: c's for his receivers, obviously, I like Josh Allen here.
Speaker 1: Aided by the return of Chase Young, the Commander's pass
Speaker 1: rush has been excellent. They ranked third best by Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus. Washington's already generated forty eight quarterback pressures in
Speaker 1: two games. Very impressive. Russell Wilson scampered for fifty six
Speaker 1: yards against Washington last week, including three design runs, So
Speaker 1: Josh Allen probably go something done on the ground here,
Speaker 1: but I think given the pass rush, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: keep Josh Allen to a modest B grade. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Washington, where this is a thornier situation. I want
Speaker 1: to begin with. That's right Sam Howell, who looks like
Speaker 1: a legit NFL starting quarterback despite it.
Speaker 3: He's actually he actually is a starting quarterback is but
Speaker 3: he's a legits accurate.
Speaker 1: A legit starting quarterback. I think Howel's looked, it looked
Speaker 1: pretty darn good. They need to unleash more d passes
Speaker 1: for the kid. He's got a big arm, and they've
Speaker 1: he's been given. They've been very cautious with him, as
Speaker 1: they doubt is just six point eight yards. We need
Speaker 1: more deep throws from from Sam Howell.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I understand he's young and they're trying to be cautious
Speaker 1: about not asking him to do too much, but come on,
Speaker 1: let's manufacture some deep tries here. The Bills have allowed
Speaker 1: just four completions over twenty eight yards, so I can't
Speaker 1: call for a breakout deep passing game from Howell coming
Speaker 1: in this game, and the once daunting Buffalo secondary is
Speaker 1: slumping though no cornerback ranks higher than quarterback forty five
Speaker 1: in PFF grades, So I've got a B grade on
Speaker 1: Sam Howell here in Parks. I think he'll run in
Speaker 1: twenty thirty forty yards that'll help his receivers mostly be's
Speaker 1: and c's. Let's talk Terry McLaurin, who runs the majority
Speaker 1: of his routes from the right side of the field,
Speaker 1: which puts him on cornerback Christian Benford most commonly. He's
Speaker 1: a run of the milk corner. Gave up a healthy
Speaker 1: fifteen yards per catch last year and sixteen yards per
Speaker 1: catch this year. John Dotson's dying because Eric Benemy's not
Speaker 1: unleashing downfield passing, and that's Dotson's game. So I've only
Speaker 1: got the C grade on him. But I do have
Speaker 1: a C grade on him even though he's done very
Speaker 1: little becauseus White is a shadow of his former self,
Speaker 1: allowing a passer rating of one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: in his coverage and he's given up touchdowns in both games.
Speaker 1: Despite some Lukewarren quarterbacking that they've seen Zach Wilson, Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo lighting up Tredavious White. So I'm going back to
Speaker 1: the well one more time on Johan Dotson here, and
Speaker 1: then I also got to mention Curtis Samuel, who has
Speaker 1: become very involved in this offense. He's already been targeted
Speaker 1: eight times through two games. He's gotten a few runs
Speaker 1: in there as well. He's caught every single target that's
Speaker 1: come his way. He's still got the tiny a dot
Speaker 1: and they're thrown to him basically the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: But still it's he's getting enough work where if you're
Speaker 1: in a desperate spot, we could consider Curtis Samuel as
Speaker 1: an official FFW dartthrow. Then I want you to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on sophomore tight end Cole Turner, who looks
Speaker 1: like the future of the tight end position for Washington.
Speaker 1: Don't start him yet, but do pay attention to him. Lastly,
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson, to my eyes, he looks a little better
Speaker 1: than last year. He's runna harder, he's more elusive. He's
Speaker 1: limited by that lousy offensive line though, seventy percent of
Speaker 1: his yard to just come after contact, and other than
Speaker 1: Breest Hall's breakaway run, the Bills are allowing just two
Speaker 1: point seven yards per carry, and that includes holding a
Speaker 1: far better runner, Josh Jacobs the negative two yards last week.
Speaker 1: So I can only muster up a B grade for
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson. All right, let's go to New Orleans taking
Speaker 1: on Green Bay. Scott.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so New Orleans taking on Green Bay. I got
Speaker 3: a B grade on Derek Carr. The Packers allowed Desmond
Speaker 3: Ritter and Justin Fields to go for two hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty yards and a couple scores and two hundred and
Speaker 3: seventeen yards in a score. And if those two can
Speaker 3: do that, right, right, Derek Carr is gonna go for
Speaker 3: probably four hundreds. So maybe I should have had an
Speaker 3: A grade. It is. It's a pretty good defense. But
Speaker 3: Jire Alexander may not go. Keep an eye on that.
Speaker 3: He's got that back injury was limited in practice. I
Speaker 3: would feel better about the bee if he doesn't go,
Speaker 3: but if he does, he's I still got to be here.
Speaker 3: The receivers, Chris Alave, I'm given the A two. He's
Speaker 3: averaging over ten targets, seven catches, and ninety nine yards.
Speaker 3: He was an inch away from a score on on
Speaker 3: Monday night. There just just barely stepped out. Darnell Mooney
Speaker 3: went for fifty plus to score in the slot. Drake
Speaker 3: London went for sixty plus in score on the left.
Speaker 3: Those are the two spots that Olave plays eighty three
Speaker 3: percent of his snaps from those two spots. He'll find
Speaker 3: his way to an A grade here. Michael Thomas, I'm
Speaker 3: giving a C grade too. You could talk me into
Speaker 3: a bee. He's averaging eight and a half targets, six
Speaker 3: catches fifty eight yards. The eye test looks good. That
Speaker 3: was a great sideline grab in that last game. C
Speaker 3: grade here. I could give a SE grade to Shaheed.
Speaker 3: I don't know if there's enough to go around in
Speaker 3: this one. This is really this is gonna be a
Speaker 3: pretty tough defense, especially if jayre plays, and it's supposedly
Speaker 3: gonna be a low scoring game. I don't think there's
Speaker 3: gonna be quite enough for a guy that's only playing
Speaker 3: thirty five snaps snaps per game. He does well with him.
Speaker 3: He's got a good match up against Keishawn Nixon, who's
Speaker 3: CB ninety five according to PFF. I have him on
Speaker 3: the bench. Maybe a dart throw. Can I give him
Speaker 3: a D? Is that a D? Dark brow can.
Speaker 1: But you can give him a Darth throw right there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm giving a B grade to Kendre Miller in
Speaker 3: his first game. Oh look at that, Look at that.
Speaker 3: We know what Tony Jones is. He was twelve for
Speaker 3: thirty four. Yeah. I scored a couple of times twelve
Speaker 3: rushes for thirty four yards the other night, starting starting
Speaker 3: games a couple of years ago. Six for ten yards,
Speaker 3: sixteen for twenty seven yards. This is not the back.
Speaker 3: Derek Carr said he wants to see violence out of
Speaker 3: Kendre Miller this week. He should be the starting back.
Speaker 3: I'm giving him a B grade against the Packers team
Speaker 3: allowing the sixth most fantasy points to running backs after
Speaker 3: allowing one hundred and forty three to the Bears backs
Speaker 3: and two hundred and twenty to the Falcons backs. Wow Over.
Speaker 3: On the Packer's side, I'm giving Jordan Love a C grade.
Speaker 3: It's not the same matchup he's gonna get. He's gonna
Speaker 3: get the fourth best defense against the pass. But they
Speaker 3: held down Ryan Tannehill and Bryce Young. I mean it
Speaker 3: is what it is. They're gonna have a good ranking
Speaker 3: because that. But Love has had a couple great fans leagues,
Speaker 3: but also leads the NFL in off target throws and
Speaker 3: the majority of his yards have come after the catch.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give him the se grade here. I'm think
Speaker 3: he's gonna come down to earth a little bit on
Speaker 3: this one. Aaron Jones. If he does go and it
Speaker 3: sounds like he's finally gonna go, he'll resort aj Dillon
Speaker 3: back to the bench because he's been so ineffective in
Speaker 3: Aaron Jones stead, He's on the right side of questable.
Speaker 3: He's a good pass catcher. Nor Land's defense has held
Speaker 3: down rushers, but they've allowed eight catches last week to
Speaker 3: running backs. Henry even went through for fifty plus through
Speaker 3: the air. C grade there in the receivers. It's too
Speaker 3: early for me to start Christian Watson. He's questionable. He
Speaker 3: might go. I can't trust him in his first week back,
Speaker 3: so I have him on the bench. Jaydon Reid and
Speaker 3: Romeo Dubbs. Dobbs, excuse me. I'm given s grades to
Speaker 3: assuming that Christian Watson either won't go or will be
Speaker 3: highly limited. So Reid gets the best matchup against Alante
Speaker 3: Taylor in the slot, who's been targeted twenty times in
Speaker 3: his two games sixteen for one hundred and five and
Speaker 3: a score. Good matchup for Jane Reed. Romeo Dobbs, well,
Speaker 3: he's been he's been the main benefit beneficiary so far.
Speaker 3: Four targets a game three for twenty eight, got a score.
Speaker 3: Marcus May suspension the safety for the New Orleans Saints
Speaker 3: should ease up the defense a little bit. And that's it.
Speaker 3: Just to segrade for Dobbs, assuming he'll get four to
Speaker 3: six targets and make something work with them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, makes sense, makes sense. It's a little clearer when
Speaker 1: Watson doesn't play. When he comes back, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of thorny to figure out who to play.
Speaker 3: Yeah. By the way, don't even consider Luke Musgrave Saints
Speaker 3: of about twenty scoreless yards to the tight end total
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 1: When we come back, Cowboys taking on the Cardinals. It
Speaker 1: sounds like a one sided affair. But we'll find out
Speaker 1: if there's any sneaky plays from Brian Johnson. We come
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Speaker 1: we go to the Cowboys taking on the Cardinals. Brian,
Speaker 1: this feels like a one sided affair, and I'm guessing
Speaker 1: it's kind of a start all Cowboys, bench all Cardinals.
Speaker 4: Pretty much, Start all Cowboys. When Rico Dowdle was my
Speaker 4: take a chance on.
Speaker 3: The outing back, you know they're all getting in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know you're gonna give Tony Pollard an A.
Speaker 4: We're not gonna get any further into that one. Cede
Speaker 4: Lamb also gets an A. Eleven catches for one hundred
Speaker 4: and forty three yards last week from CD. That's the
Speaker 4: alpha volume we're looking for. He is second in most
Speaker 4: yards after the catch, behind only Puka Nakua, of course,
Speaker 4: the one wide receiver in all the world. So in
Speaker 4: a grade for CD, Brandon Cooks and Michael Gallup A
Speaker 4: little thorny here. Cooks missed last week with the sprained MCL.
Speaker 4: He's shaping up to be a game time decision. If
Speaker 4: Cooks goes, I'll give him a C and Gallop the
Speaker 4: bench grade. If cook sits, I guess I'll give Gallup
Speaker 4: a C. Gallup disappointed last week against the Jets, but
Speaker 4: he was sacrificed to Sauce Gardner, so I'm not going
Speaker 4: to read too much into that. You're not going to
Speaker 4: start both. So again Cook's plays, he gets the C
Speaker 4: if cook sits sea for Gallup, see for Jake Ferguson
Speaker 4: either way close to a B grade here. Jake Ferguson
Speaker 4: leads all players with seven red zone targets, and Scott
Speaker 4: informed me he's also tied with Tyreek Kill for the
Speaker 4: most targets inside the five yard line, So you got
Speaker 4: to like Ferguson, who scored last week. The Cardinals have
Speaker 4: allowed the eighth most catches in the third most yards
Speaker 4: at tight ends and they just put starting safety Buddha
Speaker 4: Baker on IR So you know what, I'm giving Fergie
Speaker 4: the B here.
Speaker 3: Dak I'll throw him on a second touchdown too last week.
Speaker 4: And speaking of Dak, I got an A on CD,
Speaker 4: A B on Fergie, so safe B for Dak. The
Speaker 4: only concern here really is is just Dallas runs all
Speaker 4: over Arizona's and then they don't need to throw it ton.
Speaker 4: But still you're not gonna sit Dak, so a B
Speaker 4: for him over to the Cardinal's side. You're sitting pretty
Speaker 4: much everyone but not James Connor, even though the Cowboys
Speaker 4: have allowed the fewest fantasy points to running back. So
Speaker 4: this is purely a volume play with James Connor, which
Speaker 4: is nothing new. That's basically what he is every week.
Speaker 4: He's still going to get his fifteen to twenty touches.
Speaker 4: So a c for Connor. I'm gonna give Marky's brown a.
Speaker 4: See was going to bench all the wide receivers until
Speaker 4: all Pro corner Trayvon Diggs tore up his knee in
Speaker 4: practice for Dallas, a brutal blow for them, So I
Speaker 4: will give a sea to Hollywood, who had ten targets
Speaker 4: last week. The rest of the Cardinals wide receivers combined
Speaker 4: for just five. So that's why Rondell Moore and Michael
Speaker 4: Wilson are on the bench. But old man zach Ertz,
Speaker 4: let's roll him out there one more time. He gets
Speaker 4: to see leads A leads the Cardinals and targets. He
Speaker 4: is tied for twelve among all players of the NFL
Speaker 4: with twelve catches. Only TJ. Hockinson has more catches among
Speaker 4: tight ends than zach Ertz, and the Cowboys have surrendered
Speaker 4: fifty plus yards to tight ends and opposing tight ends
Speaker 4: in both games so far. Sadly, that's a lot of
Speaker 4: yards through tight ends. It is this season, so a
Speaker 4: see for Ertz, but Josh Dobbs, no Sea, he gets
Speaker 4: a B, a B for bench for Dobbs.
Speaker 1: Bears and the Chiefs. This thing is going to be
Speaker 1: brutally ugly the Bears side. I'm just gonna start with
Speaker 1: the runners Khalil Herbert and Roshan Johnson, who are just
Speaker 1: on the bench and they're they're uninvolved in this They're
Speaker 1: unproductive in this offense. And the green game script is
Speaker 1: going to turn against the Bears running game at roughly
Speaker 1: I don't know, the four minute mark of the first quarter.
Speaker 4: Well, they can't cut the grass either because all they
Speaker 4: so they're gonna be slowed in that regarded.
Speaker 1: Way to go Chicago garbage time sees for a few
Speaker 1: people in the passing game here Dj Moore, the positive
Speaker 1: game script will help him. They'll be throwing throughout and
Speaker 1: while he has caught all eight of his targets, it's
Speaker 1: eight for eight. The bad news is Dj Moore, the
Speaker 1: best Bears receiver by a mile, is sitting at a
Speaker 1: fourteen percent target rate. How dumb is that.
Speaker 3: He isn't wrong, as the video clip said, yes.
Speaker 1: Because everybody knows, including the opponents, more runs from all
Speaker 1: over the field and has plus matchups against everybody except
Speaker 1: Trent McDuffie, who mostly plays the slot. C grade for
Speaker 1: Dj Moore, C grade for Cole Kamet, who leads the
Speaker 1: team in targets share at twenty one percent, but it
Speaker 1: has not amounted to Cole Kmet being a notable fantasy
Speaker 1: provider here. The Chiefs have been yielding to tight ends.
Speaker 1: They've allowed the sixth most receptions and the eighth most yards.
Speaker 1: So we'll give Cole Cometta se grade here as well.
Speaker 1: And then Justin Fields, who looks like an epically non
Speaker 1: functional passer, and the Chiefs have held far better throwers
Speaker 1: Jared Goff Trevor Lawrence to one combined touchdown. I'm only
Speaker 1: giving a se grade here to Field for his rushing upside. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but even then, get this, he's gotten two designed runs
Speaker 1: and then three design runs. Yeah, thank thank you.
Speaker 3: Luke getzide I will say they're not counting the RPOs
Speaker 3: like he scored on a touchdown. There was an RPO
Speaker 3: like that's a kind of a designed run.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of a design run. Chiefs have faced
Speaker 1: three mobile quarterbacks going back through last year. None of
Speaker 1: them did anything. But it's I just I feel like,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, garbage time, maybe Fields
Speaker 1: connects on a deep pass. Maybe he runs you enough
Speaker 1: to be meaningful.
Speaker 3: He should have five to ten design runs a game.
Speaker 1: He really should. In Kansas City, obviously, Mahomes and Kelsey
Speaker 1: elite starts, maybe their best starts all season. Where could
Speaker 1: you go for some help from receivers? I already gave
Speaker 1: you Marquez Valdez scantling as might take a chance on
Speaker 1: your receiver, But also how about a little Sky Moore
Speaker 1: in a risk reward play with a glorious matchup. The
Speaker 1: downside is Moore's paltry usage in snapcount. He's only on
Speaker 1: the field for about half of the plays, and he's
Speaker 1: targeted on just twelve percent of Mahomes passes so far.
Speaker 1: But he matches up in the slot against backup corner
Speaker 1: back Greg Stroman, the sausage King of Chicago, who has
Speaker 1: seen just fifty two cousins in four years. That was
Speaker 1: Abe Frohman, but we're gonna go with Gate with Greg Stroman. Yes,
Speaker 1: and then lastly, Isaiah Pacheco is questionable and he's got
Speaker 1: a hamstring injury. They're gonna get way ahead early. I
Speaker 1: can only I'm only gonna put a C grade on
Speaker 1: Pacheco because I'm really worried that they're going to rest him.
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards, Hilaire, you know if.
Speaker 3: He doesn't go, is it the hyphen game, Marquez Marqus, Yes,
Speaker 3: it's the all hyphen the hyphen game.
Speaker 1: So pay close attention to this, watch for any reports
Speaker 1: on this. They don't need Pacheco to win. I still
Speaker 1: like you kind of have to start him, assuming he's
Speaker 1: gonna go, because it's going to be so lopsided. But
Speaker 1: if you're in a pinch at running back and who
Speaker 1: isn't Clyde Edwards alaisbod you can pick up and start
Speaker 1: in a blowout win coming m some mess.
Speaker 3: I like it, Yeah, I do like it all.
Speaker 4: Right, not that you need more incentive to start Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 4: But this is the sad Trombone sky Spight game. Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 4: The Bears like the Sad Trombone Sky over Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3: I don't think he cares about that anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing he's moving on.
Speaker 4: I think he want to stick it to him a
Speaker 4: little bit.
Speaker 1: Steelers and the Raiders Sunday nights, Scott, Let's start on
Speaker 1: the Steelers Steelers side. This offense looks every bit as
Speaker 1: broken as it does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what happened to preseason? Kenny Pickett?
Speaker 1: I know, bring him back? Please?
Speaker 3: I got a question for you, charge. Kenny Pickett has
Speaker 3: played fifteen full games. How many multi touchdown games does
Speaker 3: he have? That'd be zero zero and fifteen fifty tries.
Speaker 3: The Raiders have allowed multiple scores and back to back
Speaker 3: but better quarterbacks than Pott Picket. I have Pickt on
Speaker 3: the bench, as well as most of the passing game.
Speaker 3: Alan Robinson great week one, fought it up with a
Speaker 3: twelve yard Don. In Week two without Don, Deontay Johnson
Speaker 3: on the field's now on, I are Calvin Johnson has
Speaker 3: a great matchup against ja Corey Bennett. You can't trust
Speaker 3: more than just George Pickens on this offense. If Kenny
Speaker 3: Picktt's gonna throw for two hundred yards in one score,
Speaker 3: he's the only one you're gonna trust with anything. Balled
Speaker 3: out last week I will say a lot of that
Speaker 3: was on the one of the seventy one yard catch,
Speaker 3: the seventy ward.
Speaker 1: Sure about that. It would have been a disaster.
Speaker 3: Yeah it would have. Yeah, it would have. It would
Speaker 3: have been like a three for fifty yard day, which
Speaker 3: is why he's only gonna get the B grade because
Speaker 3: he needs to make that play happen in order to
Speaker 3: get the A grade. He'll see Marcus Peters, who's allowing
Speaker 3: the seventeenth most Fantasy points per route run. I will
Speaker 3: say he's top three yards after the catch, yards after
Speaker 3: the catch expected right there with you know, Waddle and
Speaker 3: Garrett Wilson and stuff. But a big catch will do that.
Speaker 3: So B grade for George Pickens, Pat Friarmouth, I have
Speaker 3: a bench grade on. He'll see has two catches in
Speaker 3: two weeks. What is going on there? Last week it's
Speaker 3: a good spot against the Ridgers team that's allowed seven
Speaker 3: plus catches to tight ends and back to back, so
Speaker 3: if you're really desperate, but man, it's just not showing
Speaker 3: up on the stat line. Right now, over to the
Speaker 3: Las Vegas side, I have Jimmy Garoppolo on the bench
Speaker 3: perty and Watson went for two hundred and twenty yards
Speaker 3: two hundred thirty five yards each got like one to
Speaker 3: two yard one to two scores. That's basically Jimmy G's
Speaker 3: career stat line is two hundred and twenty yards and
Speaker 3: a touchdown and a half. If you're fine with that,
Speaker 3: you can have a C grade. But I'm not fine
Speaker 3: with that. I'm putting him on the bench. DeVante Adams,
Speaker 3: I will give a starting grade on, though I'm gonna
Speaker 3: give him an A grade. Six plus catches six sixty
Speaker 3: six plus yards in both games, eight plus targets. Top
Speaker 3: wide receivers against the Steelers have averaged over one hundred
Speaker 3: yards and each scored. Micka Fitzpatrick is likely to miss
Speaker 3: with that chess contusion he suffered on the Nick on
Speaker 3: the Nick Chubb injury play. Nobody cares about his chest,
Speaker 3: so that's going to bring the defense down a level.
Speaker 3: A grade on DeVante Adams. I'm gonna give the S
Speaker 3: grade on Jacoby Myers. Here missed Week one with a concussion,
Speaker 3: but he led the team in red zone targets in
Speaker 3: Week one. It led the team in targets, catches, yards, touchdowns.
Speaker 3: Week one upgraded to full practices. I'm giving the secrete
Speaker 3: and I think he's going to get it done here.
Speaker 3: In the running game, Josh Jacobs has not looked like
Speaker 3: Josh Jacobs of last year. He's not looked good. He's
Speaker 3: got negative eight yards before contact on the year. He's
Speaker 3: constantly hit behind the yard, behind the loose. That's a
Speaker 3: lot of it's offensive line exactly. But he also I
Speaker 3: don't I think eye test he hasn't looked as good,
Speaker 3: but he does see twenty percent target year, He's getting
Speaker 3: seventeen and a half touches. He gets a good spot
Speaker 3: this week against a Steelers defense that allowed one hundred
Speaker 3: and seventy nine running back yards in Week one, one
Speaker 3: hundred and ninety six running back yards last week. I'm
Speaker 3: giving him a B grade here.
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Speaker 1: is going to be trying to pick up. Next week.
Speaker 1: We begin with Scott Fish.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna start with Taji's two percent rostered on
Speaker 3: ya who fourteen percent rostered on ESPN rostered by Paul
Speaker 3: Charchion in my home league. Annoyingly. Yes, they clearly love him.
Speaker 3: His touches increased from.
Speaker 1: Week going to purposely.
Speaker 3: I love annoyingly, not unknowingly annoyingly for me who wanted
Speaker 3: to go. I mean, if it's a ten team league
Speaker 3: like I thought it would be available.
Speaker 1: No, he's not a league winner. Yeah everything, that's a
Speaker 1: sharp league.
Speaker 3: Though it's a sharply averaging nearly seven yards per carry.
Speaker 3: Taj spears on the year, granted on just eleven carries,
Speaker 3: but Derek Henry's dealing with that turf tow He's been
Speaker 3: limited in and missed a practice even this week. He
Speaker 3: should go. But if that lingers, and remember last year
Speaker 3: he tried to play on it for a while and
Speaker 3: then ultimately was out for the rest of the season,
Speaker 3: that's right, if that happens again with we're looking at
Speaker 3: RB one on a very run heavy offense. Taj Spears.
Speaker 1: Spears is a league winner if anything, bat and we
Speaker 1: don't root for injury benything back pass catcher.
Speaker 3: I didn't even mention that great past.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, yeah, his role is only good expand totally.
Speaker 1: Taj Spears should be roster in every league. Yep, Brian,
Speaker 1: your premature speculation player.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I love Spears as well, but he is not
Speaker 4: college football's all time leading rusher. The guy I'm about
Speaker 4: to mention is and he's available in one hundred percent
Speaker 4: of leagues, I'm pretty sure at least ninety nine point
Speaker 4: percent of them, Okay, and that is Jalil McLaughlin of
Speaker 4: the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 3: I have him in church. He is, We've got it covered.
Speaker 3: He is.
Speaker 4: He is college football's all time leading rusher. He first
Speaker 4: started at Ordre Dame. No, not University of Notre Dame,
Speaker 4: but Notre Dame College in Ohio either. I thought that
Speaker 4: I might have in the school that Rudy went to,
Speaker 4: like du he's like JV Notre Dame. But no, it's
Speaker 4: not it. But uh started out there, finished at Youngstown
Speaker 4: State again, finished his college football's all time leading rusher
Speaker 4: seventy nine touchdowns on in fury. Went undrafted, but was
Speaker 4: signed by the Denver Broncos. McLaughlin MC it's tough to
Speaker 4: say I think of McLaughlin scored on a five yard
Speaker 4: touchdown run last week. Sadly he's only touch of the game.
Speaker 4: The Broncos refused to give him the ball in the
Speaker 4: second half, but he could take some JP Ryan's job.
Speaker 4: They want to get him more involved. He's free.
Speaker 3: He shot Payton, the most honest man in the NFL,
Speaker 3: says they really want to get him involved.
Speaker 4: He never lies, never lied. I never lied, I know,
Speaker 4: but hey, we're dumpster diving for running backs at this point.
Speaker 1: One of the great calls of the preseason was Brian
Speaker 1: Johnson identifying Kyron Willis. Right, So tip of the hat
Speaker 1: to you. You haven't been on the show in a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, so you get a job back for that.
Speaker 1: Let's go to his backup, Zach Evans, who I think
Speaker 1: you know, Ronnie Rivers is getting some run right now,
Speaker 1: but he's that guy. Zach Evans is a really fun talent.
Speaker 1: I like this kid a lot at Old Miss. He's
Speaker 1: a rookie running back. And if anything happens to Williams,
Speaker 1: who got he was never exactly a He kind of
Speaker 1: was a workhorse at Notre Dame, the other Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: the University of Yeah, that's right, the real Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: But if anything were to go wrong here, or if
Speaker 1: they just decide they want to distribute the ball a
Speaker 1: little bit more, whatever, Zach Evans would be next guy up.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you this kid is good. He can
Speaker 1: break some tackles. He's a long strider. They used him
Speaker 1: in all kinds of different roles at Ole Miss. Zach
Speaker 1: Evans is exactly the kind of guy you just want
Speaker 1: to stash see how this thing plays out. And you know,
Speaker 1: Karen Williams has no history of performing at a high
Speaker 1: level in the NFL. Doesn't mean he won't. But maybe
Speaker 1: Zach Evans ends up, you know, at some point being meaningfulness.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to our final two matchups. Brian
Speaker 1: Rams taking on Speaking of the Rams taking on the Bengals.
Speaker 4: Yeah, speaking of Kien Williams, will start with him. He
Speaker 4: gets a B. He is one of two running backs
Speaker 4: with double digit carries inside the twenty yard line so
Speaker 4: far this year. Kien Williams Tony Pollard the only other
Speaker 4: running back.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Scott, No, go for it. I got a
Speaker 3: fun stat for Karen Willis.
Speaker 4: I love fun stats about Kien Williams. Williams also has
Speaker 4: eighty pass routes run. That's the most for any running
Speaker 4: back by a lot. Romandre Stevenson is second with sixty one.
Speaker 4: Give me that stat.
Speaker 3: So cam Akers with the Rams saw eight man boxes
Speaker 3: on forty five percent of his plays. That was the
Speaker 3: second most of the NFL. Kiren Williams has not seen
Speaker 3: an eight man box yet. Wow, not yet. They're too
Speaker 3: afraid of Peacock Puka. I love it Pecock.
Speaker 4: So that might happen with the Bengals this week. His
Speaker 4: opponent we shall see. The Bengals have only allowed seven
Speaker 4: catches for thirty three scoreless yards running backs, so not
Speaker 4: much of an angle there. It seems, but both the
Speaker 4: Browns and Ravens running backs collectively top one hundred yards
Speaker 4: against Sincy. So a B for Williams. Zach Evans might
Speaker 4: gets a run. I like that prespect call as well.
Speaker 4: Not a starting great for him though, Pooka Akua, we're
Speaker 4: already in a A range, just obvious a obvious A range.
Speaker 4: The Bengals only allowed seven wide receiver catches to the
Speaker 4: Browns in Week one, but the Ravens wideouts combined for
Speaker 4: fifteen catches against Cincy last week, and again wheris at
Speaker 4: auto start Pookin Nakua range in week three. It's pretty incredible.
Speaker 4: One more shout out to Thor for that free spec
Speaker 4: two to at Well also a starting grade. He gets
Speaker 4: a B. It is two starts with Cooper cup on
Speaker 4: ir six catches for one one hundred nineteen yards and
Speaker 4: seven for seventy seven. He's also third among all wide
Speaker 4: receivers in first down catches, trailing only justin Jefferson Tyreek
Speaker 4: Hill and Pooka Nakua is two to at Well, he
Speaker 4: gets the Bee Tyler Higbee. Last past catcher we'll mention
Speaker 4: for the Rams, he gets the sea opposing tight ends
Speaker 4: or averaging five and a half catches forty seven yards
Speaker 4: against the Bengals. Will take that in the wasteland all day,
Speaker 4: every day. And lastly, Matt stafford, he's throwing a pookin Akua,
Speaker 4: so he gets a bee at bare minimum. So to
Speaker 4: give him a bee here against the Bengals, who allowed
Speaker 4: two hundred and thirty seven yards and two passing touchdowns
Speaker 4: to Lamar Jackson last week on just thirty three passed attempts.
Speaker 4: The Rams are averaging seventy eight offensive plays per game,
Speaker 4: most in the NFL by a lot. Over to the
Speaker 4: Bengals side, Joe Mixon gets a see Christian McCaffrey had
Speaker 4: a good game against the Rams last week. Mixon is
Speaker 4: no CMC. We know that, but there is some shot
Speaker 4: at some upside for mixing. The Rams are giving up
Speaker 4: five point three yards per carry and yielding three point
Speaker 4: five red zone attempt red zone attempts per game to
Speaker 4: opposing offenses. Mixon has seen one hundred percent of the
Speaker 4: Bengals red zone attempts. At running back Jamar Chase definitely
Speaker 4: not an A grade here. Brutals start for Chase. It
Speaker 4: could be worse. He at least has caught some passes,
Speaker 4: but not a great matchup. The Rams have surrender just
Speaker 4: one wide receiver score through the first two games, and
Speaker 4: opposing wide receivers are also averaging less than ten catches
Speaker 4: and one hundred and fifteen yards per game against LA.
Speaker 4: Those are not good numbers. That's why just a CE
Speaker 4: for t Higgins even though he did have two touchdowns
Speaker 4: last week in almost one hundred yards. Week one he
Speaker 4: had nothing, but he did have one hundred and forty
Speaker 4: seven unrealized air yards, so the yard going his way.
Speaker 4: But it's all about Joe Burrow in this.
Speaker 1: They're smart people are saying with that calf injury, he
Speaker 1: can't drive the deep passes. He doesn't have the he
Speaker 1: doesn't have the strength to do it with the legs.
Speaker 1: There's a real chance they shut him down.
Speaker 3: Like a little bit.
Speaker 1: Game is in play as a possibility.
Speaker 4: Even if active this week, I got him on the bench.
Speaker 4: Half can't trust them and Tyler.
Speaker 3: Boys, especially Monday night they're on the Monday Night is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're on the bench too.
Speaker 1: Eagles and Bucks are the other Monday Night game. Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 1: DeVonta Smith, A J. Brown are all locked. So you
Speaker 1: know those are a grades, and I don't think you'd
Speaker 1: think about it anyway, but monitor Devanta Smith's hamstring injury
Speaker 1: just in case something were weird were to happen there.
Speaker 1: But it looks like they're all good to go. The
Speaker 1: only the guy from the passing game I want to
Speaker 1: mention Dallas Goddard. I like this opportunity do Goddard's run
Speaker 1: the second most routes among all tight ends. The Bucks
Speaker 1: have allowed the fourth most tight end receptions while facing
Speaker 1: the second most tight end targets, and they're giving up
Speaker 1: a seventy five percent catch rate against tight end. So
Speaker 1: I think it all comes together for Goddard here in
Speaker 1: a B grade. The running backs situation is frustrating, so
Speaker 1: it looks like Kenneth Gainwell is going to go. It
Speaker 1: looks like Boston Scott's going to get out of the
Speaker 1: concussion protocol in time, so I think he's going to go.
Speaker 1: So I've only got C grades on DeAndre Swift and
Speaker 1: Kenneth Gainwell, and what's going to be I think a
Speaker 1: very frustrating role play mix between these guys and the committee.
Speaker 1: Bucks run defense looks good on paper, but they've also
Speaker 1: played two opponents with terrible offensive lines and inept running games.
Speaker 1: That's obviously the opposite of Philadelphia's runners have been fantastic.
Speaker 3: Just to update you, Boston Scott did clear protocol and
Speaker 3: he did practice Friday.
Speaker 1: That is That's all good news, but it's good news
Speaker 1: news again. We don't root for injury here. Kenneth Gainwell
Speaker 1: will be more involved than people want after DeAndre Swift
Speaker 1: looked brilliant last year, and I think he's going to
Speaker 1: be the more likely back for receptions. The Bucks have
Speaker 1: allowed modest receiving totals to running backs, although they did
Speaker 1: give up a receiving touchdown in the opener. So in
Speaker 1: a split back field, I can only come up with
Speaker 1: C grades on those guys, especially when your quarterback is
Speaker 1: going to house any touchdowns near the star. So all right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the buck side. I've got a take
Speaker 1: a chance on me. C grade on Baker Mayfield. I
Speaker 1: love Chris Godwin as the slot receiver. Godwin's gonna benefit
Speaker 1: directly from the absence of Avante Maddox. The Eagles have
Speaker 1: allowed the most passing yards and the fifth most yards
Speaker 1: to receivers specifically, and he's going to face off against
Speaker 1: backup cornerback Mario Goodrich, who has allowed one hundred percent
Speaker 1: of the six passes in his coverage to be caught
Speaker 1: last week, including a touchdown against him. A grade from
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin and a B grade for Mike Evans. Even
Speaker 1: though he's gonna go, he's gonna be on the sleigh
Speaker 1: ride with Darius Slay shadowing him, which is a tough matchup,
Speaker 1: but it's not impossible. Justin Jefferson was able to put
Speaker 1: up seven catches in eighty eight yards on Darius Slay
Speaker 1: last week. Mike Evans isn't as good, but he's still good,
Speaker 1: so he's still startable. And a B grade for Mike Evans.
Speaker 1: And how about an official FFW dart threat on Trey Palms. Yes,
Speaker 1: if James Bradbury misses this game, and he might consider
Speaker 1: Trey Palmer, who would get backup cornerback coverage throughout the game.
Speaker 1: He's scored in the opener against Minnesota and then he
Speaker 1: saw a big jump in playing time last week up
Speaker 1: to thirty five snaps. Keep your eye on Trey Palmer
Speaker 1: and if you're in a desperate spot, consider him in
Speaker 1: this week picked him league, I like it. Rashad White
Speaker 1: after an atrocious Week one. He bounced back with one
Speaker 1: hundred receiving scrimmage yards last week, five catches and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: In Week two, Philadelphia's allowed the six fewest points to
Speaker 1: running backs. They have not given up a touchdown. That
Speaker 1: part worries me. But Philadelphia has allowed sixteen receptions in
Speaker 1: two games to running backs, that is the fourth most.
Speaker 1: And White has gone seven for seven on passes thrown
Speaker 1: his way. He's a very adroit receiver. So I think
Speaker 1: for shot, White's gonna get a little something done in
Speaker 1: this game through the air. He gets a B grade.
Speaker 4: And Baker was your take a chance on me quarterback? Yeah,
Speaker 4: everyone was asking who's the next Geno Smith this year?
Speaker 4: It's looking like it's Baker Mayfield right now. Yep.
Speaker 3: You know we talked about one matchups too.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was it. We talked about how easy
Speaker 1: that schedule was for the Bucks coming out of the gate,
Speaker 1: and it continues here. And I thought the Eagles game
Speaker 1: was going to be a tough one, but it really isn't.
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