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Speaker 1: Welcome to a week two edition of Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: I'm Paul Jarchi and co host today Matt Harrison. It's
Speaker 1: been a month LUs since you've been on the show.
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Speaker 1: We come out of a high scoring Thursday night game.
Speaker 1: A lot of people already know if they're in the
Speaker 1: driver's seat or if they're in big troubles. We head
Speaker 1: into the matchups. We'll break the I'm all down Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly style with letter grades on every player who matters.
Speaker 1: We'll also give you nine players upon whom you can
Speaker 1: take a chance. We'll answer three tough questions and give
Speaker 1: you some premature speculation players like we did last week
Speaker 1: when we gave you Rashid Shaheed Thor, who did you
Speaker 1: give Kua? No, you don't say, where is the peacock?
Speaker 3: Sound?
Speaker 2: Oh it's coming right here, baby. Yeah. Look, when Thor
Speaker 2: gives out.
Speaker 1: A guy who breaks his maiden on fifteen targets, eleven
Speaker 1: catches in one hundred nineteen yards.
Speaker 2: You get one of these, baby, not a bad first.
Speaker 3: Take a chance on me, Thor, good job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the Cooper cupp roll. The whole game was wild, fantastic.
Speaker 2: We loved it. We loved it.
Speaker 1: And Bran Johnson, by the way, pounding the table for
Speaker 1: kyn Williams all preseason. I was like, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: He didn't look good est year, Boy did that look
Speaker 1: good too. Here Brian's not here, but I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: him one of these.
Speaker 2: Good night. I'm gonna get most of the peacocking out
Speaker 2: of the way. Now.
Speaker 1: We didn't get every right, but we got those things right.
Speaker 1: Let's start breaking down matchups. Las Vegas taking on Buffalo
Speaker 1: matt The Las Vegas offense looked shockingly competent last.
Speaker 2: Week, and the Buffalo defense didn't look that great. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what do you think here.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm giving Josh Jacobs right off the bat my
Speaker 3: fantasy Ardvark the gate right out of the gate. He
Speaker 3: got all but one carry for the Raiders last week,
Speaker 3: and the Bills allowed a very nice six point nine
Speaker 3: yards per carry to the Jets backs on Monday Night.
Speaker 3: That makes Jacobs a easy easy a DeVante. Adams sat
Speaker 3: out of practice for a lot of the week, but
Speaker 3: practicing full on Thursday. Jacoby Myers doubtful with concussion, and
Speaker 3: Myers actually had more targets than Adams last week, so
Speaker 3: I foresee Adams getting more focused this week with Hunter
Speaker 3: Renfro actually seeing a target or two. Adams gets an
Speaker 3: A grade in this one, as he'll match up with
Speaker 3: Tradavius White, who seems to be a shell of his
Speaker 3: former self. He allowed Garrett Wilson to score a touchdown
Speaker 3: last week in his coverage. And you can't start Renfro
Speaker 3: or any of the tight ends on the Raiders side.
Speaker 3: They're just not there yet, even.
Speaker 1: With Jacobe Meyers. I don't Renfro is so invisible. Yes,
Speaker 1: Meyer's not going to go in this game.
Speaker 3: Jimmy g gets a C grade, though the Jets stopped
Speaker 3: passing for the most part as soon as Rogers tendon
Speaker 3: snapped in half last week. So there inflated Zach Wilson
Speaker 3: numbers deserve a little asterisk. Garoppolo did fine against maybe
Speaker 3: a better Broncos defense last week, ended up with two
Speaker 3: hundred and two. That sounds like a Jimmy g style
Speaker 3: game to me. Over on the bill side, Josh Allen
Speaker 3: and Stefan Diggs, they're easy A grades in this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how about Diggs just nuking Sauce Gardner right out
Speaker 1: of the gate.
Speaker 3: Well, he also nuked Gabe Davis a little bit, who
Speaker 3: actually ran one more route than Diggs last week but
Speaker 3: saw only four targets to thirteen for Diggs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you know, then we saw his own
Speaker 1: team talking about they got to get more production out
Speaker 1: of their second receiver without naming him by name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean the good thing about Gabe Davis
Speaker 3: his targets were downfield. His a dot was eighteen point
Speaker 3: seven yards huge. Davis runs a ton of routes out
Speaker 3: of the left side of the field, and last year
Speaker 3: the Raiders allowed an average of fourteen yards per deep
Speaker 3: left attempt. Ooh, that's a pretty saucy little number there.
Speaker 3: That hole in the defense is Jacory and Bennett, who
Speaker 3: wears double zero on the field, and that was also
Speaker 3: his PFF grade last week. Not really, it wasn't that low,
Speaker 3: but he was their worst corner.
Speaker 2: Does he really wear double zero?
Speaker 3: He does?
Speaker 1: I didn't see that on the during the game. I
Speaker 1: didn't know there was anybody wearing double zero.
Speaker 3: Dalton Kincaid and Dawson Knox, the double DK's basically split
Speaker 3: snaps last week. Both had four targets. It's a complete
Speaker 3: split right now, and you don't want to deal with
Speaker 3: either of the double DKs, so they're both on the
Speaker 3: bench for you. And finally, the Bills really want James
Speaker 3: Cook to be the guy. He led the snaps forty
Speaker 3: one to fifteen for Latavius Murray and only nine for
Speaker 3: Damian Harris. He led the opportunities eighteen to four to three.
Speaker 3: If he's going to be a bellcow, it should be
Speaker 3: a decent week against a Raiders defense who just allowed
Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty five combo yards to the split
Speaker 3: backfield of samaj p Ryan and Javonte Williams. So I'm
Speaker 3: giving Cook a B grade this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought we'd see a little more of Damien Harris,
Speaker 1: and it never it did not materialize, not at all,
Speaker 1: not at all. San Francisco taking on the Rams store
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers had swore they were going to
Speaker 1: dial back the usage on Christian McCaffrey, and he probably
Speaker 1: had ran the most plays in the NFL, I believe,
Speaker 1: or the most of any running back in the NFL
Speaker 1: last week.
Speaker 2: Sure did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And obviously he is a must start in this
Speaker 4: game with the great A. The Rams run defense struggles
Speaker 4: to tackle and they don't make plays behind the line
Speaker 4: of scrimmage, so you have to start him. As far
Speaker 4: as the passing game there, the Rams are his zone
Speaker 4: heavy team. Brandon I destroys man coverage, as we talked
Speaker 4: about last week, which is one of the reasons he
Speaker 4: had a really good game last week. Well, Deebo Samuel
Speaker 4: is the forty nine Ers zone beater, So this week
Speaker 4: we're going to give Deebo Samuel a great a because
Speaker 4: of that, easily number one on the team in targets
Speaker 4: per route run versus man cover I'm sorry, versus zone coverage.
Speaker 4: Since Brock Purty took over and the Rams cornerbacks Darien
Speaker 4: Kendrick and Akello Withers Witherspoon, if I can talk, are
Speaker 4: not very good.
Speaker 2: Brandon Ayuk, We're gonna give.
Speaker 4: Him a bee, even though this matchup isn't quite as
Speaker 4: good for him because of the coverage tendencies of the Rams.
Speaker 4: Brandon Ayuk wide receiver two in Fantasy.
Speaker 2: Last week, great game, yeah.
Speaker 4: And only ranked number four on the team and targets
Speaker 4: per route run with Perty under center versus man coverage
Speaker 4: last year, though, so we have to downgrade him to
Speaker 4: a B. But again, this is a good matchup because
Speaker 4: the Rams cornerbacks are terrible. Brock Perdy, We're gonna give
Speaker 4: him a B in part for that reason. Fantasy quarterback
Speaker 4: ten last week and number eight in adjusted completion rate
Speaker 4: the Rams. As I mentioned zone heavy team, Purdy was
Speaker 4: number four in yards per attempt last year against zone coverage.
Speaker 4: George Kittle, We're gonna give him a bee. I waffle
Speaker 4: between A and B on this one. Kittle wasn't healthy
Speaker 4: last week, but he still got fed targets on twenty
Speaker 4: three percent of his routes.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
Speaker 4: Last year against zone coverage with Perty under center, Kittle
Speaker 4: got targets on a similar twenty four percent of his
Speaker 4: routes with a get this Ludacris sixty seven percent touchdown percentage.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Rams gave up seventh most touchdowns to opposing tight ends
Speaker 4: last year. So we're gonna get what We'll say it
Speaker 4: B plus No we won't. No, we we'll say.
Speaker 3: I like this guy. No, this guy's a great new
Speaker 3: co host.
Speaker 1: You know I had good thor for one week that
Speaker 1: he's already turned on me.
Speaker 2: Fisher was a bad influence for me. Yeah, clearly.
Speaker 4: And moving to the Rams, Matthew Stafford great game last
Speaker 4: week three, only forty passing yards that rank number three
Speaker 4: in the NFL. But I can only give them a
Speaker 4: seat in this game because the matchup isn't quite as good.
Speaker 4: Four career games against the forty nine ers for Stafford, Yeah,
Speaker 4: five to five touchdown interception ratio and only a six
Speaker 4: point zero yards per attempt. Can the Rams offensive line
Speaker 4: hold up? Is my other question? The forty nine ers
Speaker 4: were number two in pressure rate line last week. Pooka Nakua,
Speaker 4: My boy got to give him a greade B here
Speaker 4: he has an oblique injury, but reports say he's going
Speaker 4: to play last week was ridiculous. I know I gave
Speaker 4: him out but I wasn't expected as I'm yeah, he
Speaker 4: went nuclear forty two point nine percent of first read
Speaker 4: target share last week for Matthew Staffett's was consistently.
Speaker 2: Looking at him. Puka was playing that Cooper Cup role.
Speaker 4: Like I mentioned, he was number five in the NFL
Speaker 4: in yards per route run in week one. Believe the
Speaker 4: hype two two at well will give him a bee.
Speaker 4: He was impressive in his own right now.
Speaker 2: It was another one hundred and nineteen yard performance.
Speaker 4: Exactly three point six yards per route run last week
Speaker 4: for two to two, and I liked how the rams
Speaker 4: were moving him around and then getting him in bunch
Speaker 4: formations to guarantee free releases off the line.
Speaker 2: He's obviously a question we had about him coming out, yeah,
Speaker 2: because he's a he's a tiny guy, he's a stick. Yeah.
Speaker 4: But if they can get him off the line, he
Speaker 4: can do damage there. Tyler Higbee will give him a
Speaker 4: CEE this week. The troubling thing about him last week
Speaker 4: was he was basically ignored when he was out on
Speaker 4: the runs. On the routes only a seven point nine
Speaker 4: percent target share last week, and this is a tough
Speaker 4: matchup against the forty nine ers defense that allowed the
Speaker 4: eighth fewest fantasy points to tight ends last year. Cam
Speaker 4: Akers were keeping them on the bench. Speaking of troubling
Speaker 4: twenty two carries for twenty nine yards last.
Speaker 3: Week, that's not good.
Speaker 4: We could have ran for more yards on twenty two carries.
Speaker 4: You could fall forward for more than that.
Speaker 3: Yes, you can.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, yes again, And I saw
Speaker 1: this stat combine my Twitter feed, and I think it's correct.
Speaker 1: First time in NFL history there have been three different
Speaker 1: running backs in the same week, all to have at
Speaker 1: least fifteen carries and less than one and a half
Speaker 1: yards per carry.
Speaker 4: Wow, gosh, this is not a good batchup for him
Speaker 4: against the forty nine Ers defense that allowed the fewest
Speaker 4: fantasy points to running backs last year. I will give
Speaker 4: Brian's boy Kyrin Johnson a C grade, though he's better
Speaker 4: than cam Akers Kyrin Williams says, and he's more versatile too.
Speaker 4: By far played sixty five percent of the snaps last week.
Speaker 4: He can had fifteen touches for fifty two total yards.
Speaker 4: If there's a Rams running back you want in your lineup,
Speaker 4: it's Kirian Williams this.
Speaker 2: Week, and probably only him. As it turns out only him.
Speaker 1: Baltimore takes on Cincinnati, and we got to go back
Speaker 1: to Lamar Jackson. Look, I've I warned you last week
Speaker 1: about Jackson's prospects, and I don't love him here either.
Speaker 1: Going back to Week four of last year, He's averaging
Speaker 1: zero point nine passing touchdowns per game.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: And that includes a game against these same Bengals in
Speaker 1: which he threw for one hundred and seventy four yards
Speaker 1: in one touchdown. But that's not what's most troubling. Here's
Speaker 1: what you should really be worried about. New offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: Todd Munkin gave Lamar Jackson two designed runs totaling two yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it for fantasy purposes. We do not want to
Speaker 1: change out. We don't want to exchange runs for passes.
Speaker 1: That is a bad currency exchange right there. So you
Speaker 1: didn't draft Jackson for his passing and the Bengals just
Speaker 1: put to Shaun Watson on a brutal passing game last week.
Speaker 1: I can only muster a C grade for Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: Caution again, you know who I love though, Zay Flowers.
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Oh did he look promising in Week one?
Speaker 2: Great?
Speaker 1: He played eighty four percent of the snaps. He accounted
Speaker 1: for one fewer target than the rest of the team combined.
Speaker 1: He ran half his place from the slot and half outside,
Speaker 1: so he'll see all he'll see it really all of
Speaker 1: the Bengals cornerbacks. It's a It's a solid secondary, particularly
Speaker 1: Chadobi a Woozia. But Flowers can win against Mike Hilton,
Speaker 1: Cam Taylor Britt Those can be positive matchups, and he
Speaker 1: moves all over the field. So I'm giving a B
Speaker 1: grade to say Flowers. Mark Andrews practiced in full on Friday.
Speaker 1: That's very encouraging, but I can only get him to
Speaker 1: a C grade because I worry about snapcount, possible setback
Speaker 1: on the hamstring, and Cincinnati held the Browns tight ends
Speaker 1: and check last week. Aside from a random Harrison Bryan Shorty,
Speaker 1: that's it. Andrews did crush the Browns in his one
Speaker 1: meeting last year, and Isaiah likely did in the meeting
Speaker 1: he didn't play in, so maybe there's more to like here,
Speaker 1: but I'm only going C grade on Mark Andrews. Obj
Speaker 1: Obj's on the bench played most of the snaps, more
Speaker 1: snaps than any Baltimore receiver, but only saw three targets,
Speaker 1: and maybe it's just him not going to rust off
Speaker 1: or whatever. He did make one nice catch on the
Speaker 1: left side of the field, but I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: wait until I've got an easier matchup before I dart
Speaker 1: throw on Obj and assume that he's ready for a
Speaker 1: bigger role, and then we're shot Bateman. I want to
Speaker 1: show you some caution here. He ran half his routes
Speaker 1: from the slot. That is a massive departure and how
Speaker 1: he was used in years past and where Rashod Bateman
Speaker 1: was giving us good fantasy games in the earlier parts
Speaker 1: of his career, it was on big downfield plays. Those
Speaker 1: are much harder to generate from the slot, and that's
Speaker 1: now suddenly where he's running. Prehistorically had run about eighteen
Speaker 1: percent of his plays from the slot. He ran half
Speaker 1: his plays from the slot under tot monkn That is
Speaker 1: a big worry for Rashad Bateman. I would chose some
Speaker 1: concern there. And then let's go to the runners. Gus
Speaker 1: Edwards just as Hill, both getting C grades here. An
Speaker 1: almost even split between Edwards and Hill last week. But
Speaker 1: history suggests this Hill's not good and Gus I think
Speaker 1: should get more work I think he's just a better
Speaker 1: back now. That said, Todd Munkin wasn't here for the
Speaker 1: bad Justice Hills days, and maybe he's gonna be better
Speaker 1: going forward. I maybe Cincinnati middle of the pack run
Speaker 1: defense that got gouged by Nick Chubb for six yards
Speaker 1: per carry last week. Granted Chubbs like way better than
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards and Justice Hill still both startable here. I
Speaker 1: know he'll got the goal line carries last week. I
Speaker 1: also think.
Speaker 2: That's a weird fluky thing.
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards is better built for it, and Justice Hill
Speaker 1: only one point one yards per carry last week also troubling.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Cincinnati this one take as
Speaker 1: long bounce back game coming. Everybody believes it's coming.
Speaker 2: I do too.
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase obvious A. He saw a twenty nine percent
Speaker 1: targets share last week. He's gonna be just fine. But
Speaker 1: T Higgins, let's talk him through more. Out of the
Speaker 1: zero catch game, he saw eight targets and he was
Speaker 1: on the field for ninety five percent of the offensive
Speaker 1: snaps last week. So it's gonna come together here. We
Speaker 1: know he's a good player and Cincinnati. Cincinnati might give
Speaker 1: him some extra looks to make up for last week's gooseg.
Speaker 1: Baltimore's nineteen receptions allowed to wide receivers were the third
Speaker 1: most in Week one, and They're two hundred yards allowed
Speaker 1: to wide receivers was fifth most. And Baltimore's now without
Speaker 1: their starting safety Marcus Williams, so that could unlock some
Speaker 1: deep receptions for T. Higgins and Jamar Chase. B grade
Speaker 1: on T Higgins and if I've got A and B
Speaker 1: grades on Joe Burrow's two main receivers, obviously I like him.
Speaker 1: I've got a B grade here in which should be
Speaker 1: a bounce back. Not in the rain, not in the
Speaker 1: knock the rust off game from last week. And the
Speaker 1: Ravens saw fifty four dropbacks last week against CJ. Stroud
Speaker 1: in his NFL debut, So this is going to be
Speaker 1: a pass heavy game plan. Joe Mixon claims chimes in
Speaker 1: with a B grade, mixing accounted for fifty one percent
Speaker 1: of the Bengals total offense last week. He averaged seventy
Speaker 1: one total yards and four receptions per four receptions per
Speaker 1: game over the final three game last three games against
Speaker 1: Baltimore last sear even a season.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, the.
Speaker 1: Ravens allowed the fourth fewest rushing yards opposing backs. Last year,
Speaker 1: they just held the Titans Texans backfields to three point
Speaker 1: one yards per carry.
Speaker 2: That's a good run defense. I'm a little worried about.
Speaker 1: Mixing, but he's the only game in town, so he
Speaker 1: still gets the B grade.
Speaker 2: When we come back.
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Speaker 1: you're already looking to the waiver wire for some help,
Speaker 1: you look into the bench for some help.
Speaker 2: We've got some guys that might be suitable for your team.
Speaker 2: Find out who they are.
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Speaker 2: Take a chance on me. Nine players not normally in
Speaker 2: your starting lineup.
Speaker 1: Guys many cases you're going to be able to pick
Speaker 1: up off of the waiver wire and give a start
Speaker 1: to this week. Matt Harrison, let's begin at the quarterback position.
Speaker 2: Who you got.
Speaker 3: I've got CJ. Stroud who looked okay last week two
Speaker 3: hundred and forty two yards, no touchdowns, but no picks either,
Speaker 3: and he was efficient against a good defense. The team
Speaker 3: kept it tight with only a six point zero a dot,
Speaker 3: and he threw the ball forty four times on that
Speaker 3: so kept it short and sweet. This week, he gets
Speaker 3: a Colts defense not nearly as good. The Colts allowed
Speaker 3: two forty one and two to Trevor Lawrence last week
Speaker 3: in a game where Jacksonville ran the ball most of
Speaker 3: the second half. I think Stroud's throwing the ball a
Speaker 3: lot this week.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to thor. Who's your take a
Speaker 2: chance on me quarterback?
Speaker 4: I'm going with Jared Goff, who was number eighteen in
Speaker 4: fantasy points last week but number nine in passing grade
Speaker 4: against the Chiefs. The young Seahawks secondary that he's going
Speaker 4: to be playing this weekend got Torch last week. The
Speaker 4: Seax gave up the third most passing yards and fourth
Speaker 4: highest yards per attempt in Week one. I like it,
Speaker 4: Jared Goff. I'm going Baker Mayfield againsticgo. They're gonna be
Speaker 4: without slot corner Kyler Gordon probably for a while. That
Speaker 4: means it is an a plus matchup for Chris Godwin,
Speaker 4: who I love here. Mike Evans also a great matchup.
Speaker 4: The Bears are trotting out rookie Tyreek Stevenson, who allowed
Speaker 4: a touchdown to Romeo Dubson a man coverage last week.
Speaker 4: Evans is a better red zone threat, obviously than Romeo Dobbs.
Speaker 4: So as a team, the Bears posted the sixth worst
Speaker 4: Pro Football Focus coverage grade in Week one.
Speaker 1: So I like Baker Mayfield here to get a couple
Speaker 1: of touchdowns, maybe even three. Let's go to the running
Speaker 1: back position.
Speaker 3: I got Zach Masson kind of a bonus. Take a
Speaker 3: chance on me Dion Jackson as well, either of them.
Speaker 3: Can you can start with a C grade this week.
Speaker 3: Jackson was sort of the default belcoal for Indie last
Speaker 3: week because Moss was inactive and Evan Hull was injured.
Speaker 3: After only seven snaps, Jackson was on the field for
Speaker 3: seventy one percent of the offensive snaps targeted in the
Speaker 3: passing game on twenty two percent of his routes run.
Speaker 3: But with Zach Moss returning, I think it's a pretty
Speaker 3: even split, with Moss taking the ground game and Jackson
Speaker 3: being the pass catching back. The Texans did hold the
Speaker 3: Ravens backs only two point six yards per carry last week,
Speaker 3: but the Runners scored three touchdowns in this game, and
Speaker 3: it was the worst run defense in the league last year,
Speaker 3: And maybe it was just a little bit fake because
Speaker 3: of Baltimore's runners thor.
Speaker 4: You're taking a chance at me runner I'm gonna go
Speaker 4: with Taj Spears against the Chargers. Taja clearly, at minimum
Speaker 4: is the team's clear pass catching back, and it might
Speaker 4: be more than that. Last week in a neutral game script,
Speaker 4: Taj Spears actually outsnapped Derrick Henry. In games where the
Speaker 4: Titans are down this season, I think Spears's usage is
Speaker 4: going to explode and.
Speaker 1: They could be down a lot of Ryan Tannehill's gonna
Speaker 1: keep playing like this.
Speaker 3: They've lost eight straight games the Titans.
Speaker 2: Especially against the Chargers. It's gonna be the case.
Speaker 4: Last week Taj Spears' first game in the NFL six
Speaker 4: yards after contact per attempt.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Ezekiel Elliott going up against Miami
Speaker 1: leg In his first game with the Patriots. Zeke had
Speaker 1: half the snap count of Vermandre Stevenson half, but managed
Speaker 1: more rushing yards on fewer carries, and he chipped into
Speaker 1: surprising five receptions for Zeke. Miami just got blasted by
Speaker 1: two different backs, Austin Eckler and Josh Kelly, so two
Speaker 1: different backs could post good stats against Miami again here,
Speaker 1: and I still like Rmandre Stevenson do. Through one week,
Speaker 1: Miami ranks dead last and rushing yards allowed, dead last
Speaker 1: in total yards allowed to running backs and second to
Speaker 1: last in rushing touchdowns allowed to runners. Ezekiel Elliott. Let's
Speaker 1: go to our receivers. Who's your take a chance on me?
Speaker 2: Receiver?
Speaker 3: Man, I've got a tight end and it's come to this.
Speaker 3: Zach Ertz is to take a chance on me? Tight end?
Speaker 2: Yeah name more active than I expected in Week one?
Speaker 3: Yeah had ten targets.
Speaker 2: Last week.
Speaker 3: The next closest target share in Arizona was five, so
Speaker 3: he doubled up everybody else. Josh Dobbs is not a
Speaker 3: downfield thrower. His average depth of target was only five
Speaker 3: point eight. That plays right into a tight end getting
Speaker 3: a ton of targets, and the Giants haven't done well
Speaker 3: against tight ends who are targeted a lot. The last
Speaker 3: eight tight ends who've seen at least eight targets against
Speaker 3: the Giants have an average line of eight catches eighty
Speaker 3: yards and a fifty seven percent chance of a score.
Speaker 2: That's a lot. Let's go to your receiver. So welcome
Speaker 2: back to the Rashid Shahed Show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, loved him last week. We're going right back to
Speaker 1: the well again after last week's.
Speaker 4: Hit, going right back to the well eighty nine yards
Speaker 4: last week for Shaheed sixteen point two at twenty four
Speaker 4: percent air yard share and three point six yards per
Speaker 4: route run.
Speaker 2: Derek Carr looks like he has his deep ball groove back,
Speaker 2: which is.
Speaker 4: Another important thing here for Shahida, guy who hits dingers,
Speaker 4: and this week he gets mediocre Panthers cornerbacks Dante Jackson
Speaker 4: and CJ.
Speaker 2: Henderson. He gonna stack again.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a double up bill like it
Speaker 1: not bills though. These are Texans Robert Woods and Nico Collins,
Speaker 1: both I already told you CJ. Stroud fifty four dropbacks,
Speaker 1: forty four pass attempts last week, and volume is all
Speaker 1: we need against a very suspect Indianapolis secondary missing both
Speaker 1: of its starting cornerbacks from last season last week, and
Speaker 1: he got warked by Calvin Ridley and J.
Speaker 2: Jones.
Speaker 1: So why not little Robert Woods and Nico Collins. Granted
Speaker 1: they're not as good, but still we're just talking take
Speaker 1: a chance with me, guys here. Woods led the Texans
Speaker 1: and snaps Collins led the Texans in targets.
Speaker 2: I think they're both good plays here.
Speaker 1: And let's go to the matchups, including that one Yeah,
Speaker 1: Indianapolis is taking on Houston. You already gave us C. J. Stroud,
Speaker 1: I gave Robert Woods and Nico Collins. We got this
Speaker 1: thing already half done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got I got a B for Stroud, I
Speaker 3: got a bee for Collins, and I gotta see for Woods.
Speaker 3: By the way, Nico Collins led the team with a
Speaker 3: twenty six point two percent target share last week and
Speaker 3: saw one hundred and sixty five air yards. Wow, that's nuts.
Speaker 3: They're gonna chuck it downfield and it's gonna be great.
Speaker 3: Dalton Schultz he led the Texans with forty three routes
Speaker 3: run five more than any player, but he was only
Speaker 3: targeted four times for an average depth of zero point
Speaker 3: seventy five yards. He's almost going backwards. I'm gonna keep
Speaker 3: Dalton Schultz on forward for that. I'm gonna keep Dalton
Speaker 3: Schultz on the bench for that reason. Damian Pierce he
Speaker 3: only was on the field for forty eight point six
Speaker 3: percent of the snaps in Week one, and according to
Speaker 3: JJ Zachariison, that's his lowest snap share since Week one
Speaker 3: of last year. Oh, by the way, that was his
Speaker 3: first game ever. It's very disappointing. Week for him, But
Speaker 3: we highlighted on the show last week that the Ravens
Speaker 3: run defense is legit, so maybe they were saving him
Speaker 3: for this week. Still going to give Pierce the B grade.
Speaker 3: The Colts allowed two touchdowns to runners last week and
Speaker 3: seventeen last season.
Speaker 1: Pierce is gonna is going to hit him by the
Speaker 1: way that that Texans offensive line is not good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be.
Speaker 2: Pierce is gonna have to make a lot of his
Speaker 2: own yards.
Speaker 1: Fortunately, Indies run defense is bad, and fortunately Pierce is
Speaker 1: pretty good at that.
Speaker 3: Yes, he is over on the Indie side. There's only
Speaker 3: two guys you can really start. One of them's Anthony
Speaker 3: Richardson two to twenty three in a score through the
Speaker 3: air last week, but a ton of that was on
Speaker 3: his wide receivers making plays. His average depth of target
Speaker 3: was only five point three, twenty ninth in the league.
Speaker 3: He had six designed run plays, which is a little
Speaker 3: fewer than I thought he would get, four scrambles, created
Speaker 3: ten rushing attempts for forty yards in a score. Only
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones had more rushing attempts as a QB in
Speaker 3: Week one, though Houston saw Lamar Jackson last week, who
Speaker 3: he thought would be a big runner, but Jackson ended
Speaker 3: up with only six carries for thirty eight on the ground.
Speaker 3: It's probably going to be a low volume passing game
Speaker 3: for Richardson, but I bet he finds at least fifty
Speaker 3: yards on the ground here. So with that fifty yards,
Speaker 3: I think it's a B grade for Richardson just on
Speaker 3: the upside alone. Michael Pittman is the only wide receiver
Speaker 3: you can start, and it's just to see target shares.
Speaker 3: Last week, Pittman got twenty eight percent of them, Josh
Speaker 3: Downs eighteen percent, Alec Pierce only eight percent, but Pittman
Speaker 3: he was only targeted five yards down the field as well.
Speaker 3: That's why he's knocked down to a sea. We're reliant
Speaker 3: on him breaking one on a short pass. His touchdown
Speaker 3: last week was behind the line of scrimmage and he
Speaker 3: broke it for thirty nine yards in a score. We're
Speaker 3: reliant on Michael Pittman doing that. So that's why he's
Speaker 3: only a C grade.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought Pittman looked pretty good, but this is
Speaker 1: going to be inconsistent box scores probably.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's go to Seattle taking on Detroit.
Speaker 1: Seattle is going to be hamstrung without two tackles. Charles
Speaker 1: Cross and Abraham Lucas both not going to play in
Speaker 1: this game, and that is for an offensive line that's
Speaker 1: already struggling.
Speaker 2: Those are some pretty big losses.
Speaker 4: It sure is because the Lions last year number nine
Speaker 4: in pressure rate, number seven in blitz rate. Tino Smith
Speaker 4: was under duress all last week and that is going
Speaker 4: to be the case again. I'm only giving Gino a
Speaker 4: grade A C here last week fourth lowest yards per
Speaker 4: attempt in the NFL, like I mentioned, was under duress
Speaker 4: the entire game. Last year, Gino was number twenty eight
Speaker 4: in the league in passing grade when blitzed, giving him
Speaker 4: a C. Tyler Lockett, I'll give him a B because
Speaker 4: the Lions are a zone heavy defense. Lockett is the
Speaker 4: zone beater who finds the soft spots on this offense.
Speaker 4: Number eighteen in the NFL last year in yards per
Speaker 4: route run against zone DK metcalf I can only give
Speaker 4: him a C grade in this In this game, he
Speaker 4: had an identical twenty two percent target rate to Lockett's
Speaker 4: last year against zone coverage. But while Lockett averaged two
Speaker 4: point three yards per route run against zone DK only
Speaker 4: averaged one point eight. I got to keep the rest
Speaker 4: of the pass catchers, including Jackson, Smith and Jig, but
Speaker 4: on the bench Smith and Jig, but we need to
Speaker 4: see him fully healed from that risk injury, and we
Speaker 4: need to see how his role clarifies everybody else on
Speaker 4: the bench. Kenneth Walker will give him a grade to
Speaker 4: be here. Was able to hold off Charbonnet last week.
Speaker 4: Sharbonney was barely apparent there. Kenneth Walker had sixteen touches
Speaker 4: for sixty seven yards on sixty three percent of the snaps.
Speaker 4: Lions had a good week last week against the run
Speaker 4: versus the Chiefs did very much so, but the Lions
Speaker 4: struggled against zone runs last year and those accounted for
Speaker 4: half of Kenneth Walker's attempts last week. Going to the Lions,
Speaker 4: Jared Goff was might take a chance on me, quarterback
Speaker 4: Amanras Saint Brown. I'm giving him an A for this matchup. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he was wide receiver eleven in fantasy scoring.
Speaker 1: It should have been wide receiver like two had had
Speaker 1: Jared Goff not completely missed him wide open for a
Speaker 1: seventy yard down the scene touchdown.
Speaker 2: A man, oh maw that hurt.
Speaker 4: He same Bratt was also number eleven in yards per
Speaker 4: route run versus zone coverage last season, and as you
Speaker 4: guys know, the Pete Carroll defense is it's notoriously zone coverage.
Speaker 4: Sam Laporta, Sammy ball game. I'm giving them a great
Speaker 4: B here. I almost thought about going to an A
Speaker 4: on this one, though. Laporta last week eighty three percent
Speaker 4: of the snaps and he ranked number four among tight
Speaker 4: ends in the NFL in targets per route run.
Speaker 2: That is tight end one usage, folks.
Speaker 4: The Seahawks are also awful against tight ends, allowed the
Speaker 4: second most fantasy points to opposing tight ends last year.
Speaker 2: David Montgomery, I'm giving a B in this one.
Speaker 4: Seventy four yards on twenty one carries while playing seventy
Speaker 4: nine percent of the snaps against the Chiefs, and he
Speaker 4: got most of the red zone work. Seattle profiles is
Speaker 4: a middle up the pack run defense this year. I
Speaker 4: think Montgomery's gonna.
Speaker 2: Get more work. Gibbs.
Speaker 4: Speaking of more work, Jamior Gibbs, I'm giving them an
Speaker 4: ah only played twenty yes, only played twenty seven percent
Speaker 4: of snaps against the Chiefs, sixty total yards on nine touches,
Speaker 4: but was number one in the NFL in.
Speaker 2: Miss tackles force per attempt.
Speaker 4: This is the week Jamiir Gibbs gets on leish the
Speaker 4: Seattle Rink dead last in the NFL in yards per
Speaker 4: reception to running backs last year, and Pete Carroll's defenses
Speaker 4: are horrible against receiving running backs going back years and
Speaker 4: years and years.
Speaker 2: Jamiir Gibbs going nuts this weekend. That is a strong take.
Speaker 1: When we come back Washington, will we see another decent
Speaker 1: game from Sammy Oh? Will find out when we come
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Speaker 1: to Washington taking on Denver. You guys know how I
Speaker 1: feel about Oh Sammy Howell.
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a mixed bag for Howell in
Speaker 1: his first real start last week.
Speaker 3: I feel like I've been replaced as the howl sound effect. Really,
Speaker 3: really really, I was gone for too long. I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: that's correct.
Speaker 2: We had to make do.
Speaker 1: I thought he made some key mistakes, but also showed
Speaker 1: decent poise, the strong arm that we knew he was
Speaker 1: going to get in some mobility that makes him a
Speaker 1: very promising fantasy prospect. Denver secondary's got a lot of talent,
Speaker 1: but did just get worked by Jimmy Garoppolo, Devanta Adams,
Speaker 1: and Jacoby So Howell's receivers Terry McLaurin, DeShawn John Dotson
Speaker 1: maybe aren't quite at the Devontae Adams level, but they're
Speaker 1: they're not that far off. I'm gonna go grade see
Speaker 1: and Howell's first ever road start against a pretty talented secondary.
Speaker 1: I want to start him, but I can't give him
Speaker 1: more than a see here. Let's talk about his receivers
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin Terry cornerback Patrick Sertain is an absolute nightmare
Speaker 1: matchup here. He held Devonte Adams to two catches for
Speaker 1: sixteen yards on five targets in Week one, and he's
Speaker 1: allowed thirty or fewer yards in his coverage in seven
Speaker 1: straight games. And I'm worried that Patrick Surtain's gonna shadow
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin and that would.
Speaker 2: Be game over. Now. I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: It could be that Denver sees John Dotson the way
Speaker 1: I see Johan Dotson is a major threat, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna put certain on him. But I'm guessing that they're
Speaker 1: gonna play it safe and put him on McLaurin. Dotson
Speaker 1: paced Washington targets with seven in Week one, and each
Speaker 1: of the last six wide receivers to see at least
Speaker 1: those seven targets against Denver of top sixty yards. Hopefully
Speaker 1: Dotson sees more of Damari Mathis, who was cooked by
Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers for two touchdowns and six receptions last week.
Speaker 1: He gave up a passer rating of ninety seven last season,
Speaker 1: so Dotson could have that advantageous matchup. I'm giving him
Speaker 1: a C grade two only because I am worried a
Speaker 1: little bit about Patrick sir Ten picking him up as well.
Speaker 1: And then Logan Thomas. I liked him last week going
Speaker 1: into the game. I love the fact that he was
Speaker 1: targeted seven times, but he dropped. He had two ugly
Speaker 1: drops in the game, which hurt. Still optimistic that he's
Speaker 1: going to be a great fit for Eric b Enemy.
Speaker 1: In particular, Denver only allowed one tight end reception last week,
Speaker 1: but they were facing the Raiders without Darren Waller, so
Speaker 1: maybe that doesn't mean anything. Se grade on Logan Thomas.
Speaker 1: And then last week. Lastly, Brian Robinson set a career
Speaker 1: high with sixty one percent of the snaps, but it
Speaker 1: didn't look great honestly, an NFL next Gen stats had
Speaker 1: Robinson was one of the least effective runners in Week one,
Speaker 1: with a negative twenty rushing yards over expected, which I
Speaker 1: guess would also be the same as saying twenty yards
Speaker 1: under expected and a long run of only seven yards
Speaker 1: for Brian Robinson. Denver only gave up two and a
Speaker 1: half yards per carry to the Raiders running backs, who
Speaker 1: frankly are better, and the offseason loss of stud defensive
Speaker 1: tackle Draymont Jones offset by the addition of lineman Zach Allen,
Speaker 1: who was fifteenth in Pro Football focuses win above replacement
Speaker 1: last year, so I can only muster a SE grade
Speaker 1: on Brian Robinson.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the Denver side. Let's start with the
Speaker 2: running game.
Speaker 1: Jamonte Williams saw the same number of snaps as Samaj
Speaker 1: p Ryan last week, but he out touched him seventeen
Speaker 1: to twelve, so advantage Williams. He also got the only
Speaker 1: goal to go carry, although he got stuffed on that play. Shockingly,
Speaker 1: Williams led at broncos and targets last week, which I
Speaker 1: did not see coming. The Commanders allowed the tenth fewest
Speaker 1: rushing yards to opposing running backs last season, and they
Speaker 1: limited James Conner and Conte Ingram to three point one
Speaker 1: yards per carry last week. So it's a tricky matchup here.
Speaker 3: I'd like to say strike Keyante Ingram's five carries for
Speaker 3: negative four yards on the record.
Speaker 1: Okay, deal, It wouldn't change it a line, but it
Speaker 1: would change it up between the time share and a
Speaker 1: tougher matchup.
Speaker 2: I can only get to a.
Speaker 1: C grade on Javonte Williams. Let's go to U Samaj
Speaker 1: p Rn, who I'm just putting on the bench here.
Speaker 1: This is a tougher matchup than last week, and Williams
Speaker 1: was more involved, so I can only I can't muster
Speaker 1: a letter grade on.
Speaker 2: Samaj p Rin.
Speaker 1: How about Russell Wilson. Week one, we saw a one
Speaker 1: to eighty for Russell Wilson in his first game with
Speaker 1: Sean Payton. He completed eighty percent of his passes for
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. That is something that happened zero times all
Speaker 1: of last year for Russell Wilson. I worry about a
Speaker 1: good Washington pass rush disrupting him far more than Vegas
Speaker 1: has did. But I like Sutton and Trautman. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about them in a second, So Wilson is startable
Speaker 1: for sure. I got a B grade on Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: I think we back to Russell Wilson being kind of
Speaker 1: an every week starter here, Okay, Courtland Sutton, as expected,
Speaker 1: led all Broncos receivers in snaps target it's receiving yards,
Speaker 1: and he scored last week. Washington shut down the Cardinals
Speaker 1: receivers last week, but it's the Cardinals receiver, so I.
Speaker 2: Don't know that that really counts for anything.
Speaker 1: Court and Sutton's gonna see a lot of rookie cornerback
Speaker 1: and Manuel Forbes, who gave up a thirty one yard
Speaker 1: catch in his coverage last week. So I like Sudden
Speaker 1: to have a good game here in a B grade
Speaker 1: on him as well. Jerry Judy could return, but is
Speaker 1: he gonna be at full strength? Is he gonna be
Speaker 1: at a full snap count. He plays from the slot
Speaker 1: a lot when Sutton is available, and that'd be a
Speaker 1: positive matchup against cornerback safety hybrid Ben Saint Jews, who
Speaker 1: allowed all four of his targets to be completed in
Speaker 1: Week one. I'm giving a C grade to Judy. It
Speaker 1: would be a B grade if he were fully healthy,
Speaker 1: So you could maybe upgrade him if you get positive
Speaker 1: news between now and kickoff that he's like totally ready
Speaker 1: to go. And lastly, one of my favorite sneaky plays
Speaker 1: of the week Adam Trautman ooh, I like him here,
Speaker 1: Greg Dulsite out Troutman's gonna get all the tight end work.
Speaker 1: Last week, the Cardinals attacked the Commanders with their tight
Speaker 1: ends with a whopping twelve targets resulting in eight catches,
Speaker 1: second most of all teams in Week one, and Troutman
Speaker 1: ranked second among all.
Speaker 2: NFL players in separation last week.
Speaker 1: Troutman caught all five of his targets last week, and
Speaker 1: that is a very safe floor from here. I like
Speaker 1: Adam troutman sneaky play and a B grade m Adam Troutman.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Chicago taking on Tampa Bay. The really
Speaker 1: disheartening power about a dismal showing for the Chicago offense.
Speaker 1: Matt Justin Fields two designed runs all game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and oh bueno.
Speaker 3: His other seven rush attempts were off script. So that's
Speaker 3: that's not good from a pass perspective or a run perspective. Really,
Speaker 3: you signed up for Justin Fields for the rushing yards.
Speaker 3: So how have the Bucks performed against running quarterbacks the
Speaker 3: last few years? In the last twenty games, only three
Speaker 3: quarterbacks have topped thirty rushing yards and none have scored
Speaker 3: against the Buccaneers. You'd have to go back all the
Speaker 3: way to twenty twenty one in week fourteen when Josh
Speaker 3: Allen scored to find the last quarterback rushing score. Fields
Speaker 3: is only top two hundred passing yards three times in
Speaker 3: his last sixteen games. It's a c for Fields this week,
Speaker 3: and I think it's not going to be as good
Speaker 3: as a lot of people hoped for him in most
Speaker 3: games this year. DJ Moore only had two targets last week.
Speaker 3: We all thought when Field's got a legit wide receiver,
Speaker 3: as passing numbers would rise. Not so thus far. I'll
Speaker 3: give more the lowest C grade possible, mostly because he'll
Speaker 3: be lining up against a banged up Carlton Davis most often,
Speaker 3: who missed practice this week with a toe injury. Cole
Speaker 3: Comet would be the only other Bears receiver you'd consider.
Speaker 3: He was targeted on sixteen percent of his routes run
Speaker 3: last week, but only for three point seven air yards,
Speaker 3: and that's kind of bad. TJ. Hockinson had similar patterns
Speaker 3: last week, lots of short targets and was able to
Speaker 3: cobble together a decent PPR line of eight catches for
Speaker 3: thirty five yards. That's like a huge upside for Comet.
Speaker 3: So you're not looking at touchdowns, you're not looking at yards.
Speaker 3: You could see a lot of catches. Though in a
Speaker 3: PPR league he'll get a C. If it's not PPR
Speaker 3: in your league, he's on the bench. Rochean Johnson, Deonta
Speaker 3: Foreman Khalil ground Bear. Yes, yikes, it's coming, but Rochean
Speaker 3: Johnson is going to take over this backfield, but for
Speaker 3: now it's still a three way split. Rochan led the
Speaker 3: Bears in backfield snaps, but all three Bears backs were
Speaker 3: within a thirty percent to thirty eight percent snap share
Speaker 3: opportunities twelve for Johnson, fourteen for Groundbear, eight for Forman.
Speaker 3: The difference was Rochan had more targets receptions, and he
Speaker 3: did more with his touches than any other backs, including
Speaker 3: a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So when I saw rocheon Johnson getting all the targets,
Speaker 1: so I'm like, did I misremember his college career and
Speaker 1: everything I've known about him?
Speaker 2: So then I went and looked it up. He got
Speaker 2: fourteen passes last year. He had seven targets last week.
Speaker 3: Like what, so I bar what happened? Yeah, Jean Robinson, Oh, okay,
Speaker 3: makes a lot of sense. The Bucks were good against
Speaker 3: the Vikings Backs last week on the run, but they
Speaker 3: did let up six catches thirty five yards and a
Speaker 3: score through the air to Minnesota Backs last week. That's
Speaker 3: more Roshan than anyone else on this offense. So he
Speaker 3: gets the CEE and the others are on the bench.
Speaker 3: On the Bucks side, it's ay start everyone kind of party.
Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield gets a see he was charges take a
Speaker 3: chance on me. Quarterback Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. I'm
Speaker 3: giving both B grades to got An a matchup, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think so too. From the slot, Godwin should see
Speaker 3: plenty of backup slot corner Josh Blackwell, who's nursing a
Speaker 3: hamstring injury. He replaces Kyler Gordon who's now on IR
Speaker 3: and he was bad.
Speaker 2: Come let's give Godwin the A.
Speaker 3: Okay, fine, thank you've conned me into it. Evan should
Speaker 3: see he's.
Speaker 2: Playing against an injured second string slack.
Speaker 3: So the only issue is is Baker Mayfield still a
Speaker 3: quarterback and they might just run the ball all game long.
Speaker 3: Evan should see Tyreek Stevenson for the most part. Evans
Speaker 3: has five inches and thirty pounds on Stevenson and he
Speaker 3: gave up a tight end in his coverage last week.
Speaker 3: And on the running side, Rashad White gets a B
Speaker 3: grade as well. He played seventy nine point four percent
Speaker 3: of Tampa snaps against Minnesota, saw as many targets as
Speaker 3: back up Sean Tucker though, which was two, but he
Speaker 3: ran twenty one routes to Tucker's five, So the Bears
Speaker 3: allowed the most receiving yardage to opposing runners last week
Speaker 3: with one oh three. If you need a deep dart throw,
Speaker 3: Sean Tucker just on the receiving alone could be that
Speaker 3: deep dart throw you need.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Look, there's a great matchup for him to
Speaker 1: get a deep pass with four to three speed.
Speaker 3: It's a D grade for dart throw.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Yep, there is no D grade, but
Speaker 2: we will.
Speaker 3: Give you, you know, I can. We have a D
Speaker 3: grade for dart throw like a guy you wouldn't start
Speaker 3: unless you're desperate. No D for desperate dart throw.
Speaker 2: Hey, this is what takes a chance on the sport.
Speaker 2: Next time if you love him that much.
Speaker 3: I don't love him that much. I feel bad about
Speaker 3: starting him, but.
Speaker 2: He's not delicious.
Speaker 1: No Chargers take on Tennessee here, what did we learn
Speaker 1: from the first game with new Chargers offensive coordinator Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore thor.
Speaker 4: We learned that they're gonna throw more and they're gonna
Speaker 4: move faster. Last week, Justin Herbert thirty three attempts and
Speaker 4: the Chargers offense as a whole ran at the number
Speaker 4: ten adjusted pace in the NFL against this awful Titans
Speaker 4: pass defense, Herbert is going to attempt more passes this week,
Speaker 4: and you're going to be aiming downfield. Last year, the
Speaker 4: Titans allowed the most passing yards in the entire NFL.
Speaker 4: And we're worse than the NFL defending deep passes. And
Speaker 4: of course they got lit up by Derek Carr last week.
Speaker 2: Yes they did, and Rashid Shah, so.
Speaker 4: Well, we're giving Herbert a grade of A. We're also
Speaker 4: giving Keenan Allen and Mike Williams grades of A. Keenan
Speaker 4: Allen was Herbert's first lead on one third of his
Speaker 4: attempts last week.
Speaker 2: Allen also had two point three yards per route run.
Speaker 4: And in this game, he gets batched up against Titans
Speaker 4: nickel cornerback Roger McCreary, who has a career one hundred
Speaker 4: and eleven passer rating against.
Speaker 2: He's going to torch roger career.
Speaker 3: That's so bad.
Speaker 4: As for Mike Williams, the Titans outside cornerback number one
Speaker 4: Christian Fulton, questionable in this game with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 4: If he doesn't go, Williams is going to get Sean
Speaker 4: Murphy bunning who we talked about last week, but Sean
Speaker 4: Murphy bunning is not good. Williams also got forty four
Speaker 4: percent of his snaps in the slot last week, so
Speaker 4: he's going to get a few opportunities to torch Roger
Speaker 4: McCreary as well. Moving on to Gerald Everett, we're going
Speaker 4: to give him a grade of C. He had a
Speaker 4: disappointing week last week with only a nine percent target
Speaker 4: share and three yards of a dot. But this is
Speaker 4: a solid matchup against the Titans defense that allowed the
Speaker 4: most receiving yards to tight ends last year, so that
Speaker 4: Titans equal opportunity. They'll let anybody have it through the air.
Speaker 4: Austin Eckler is obviously doubtful with his ankle injury. He
Speaker 4: hasn't practiced this week and he is unlikely to play
Speaker 4: in this game, which makes Joshua Kelly the waiverwear darling
Speaker 4: of this past week.
Speaker 2: Of volume C grade.
Speaker 4: Kelly had ninety one yards and a touchdown on sixteen
Speaker 4: rushing attempts, playing forty eight percent of the snaps last.
Speaker 2: Week against the Dolphins. But this is a tough matchup.
Speaker 2: It is a good Titans run defense.
Speaker 4: That's where they give it back right from their pass defense.
Speaker 4: The Titans were the number one run defense dv away
Speaker 4: in the NFL last year, and last week they were
Speaker 4: top twelve in both stuff rate and tackle rate. Moving
Speaker 4: on to the Titans now, Ryan Tannehill. I thought about
Speaker 4: a bench Gary, but I'll give him a C in
Speaker 4: this one. He last week was not good. No, mister
Speaker 4: hell worst adjusted completion rate in the NFL last week,
Speaker 4: and he was top ten in that last year. But
Speaker 4: he was the worst in the NFL last week, and
Speaker 4: of course through three interceptions against the Saints.
Speaker 2: But this is an okay matchup for him, which is
Speaker 2: why I toggled him up to a SE.
Speaker 4: The Chargers coughed up as you guys recall four hundred
Speaker 4: and sixty six passing yards. Yes to mister Tua last week,
Speaker 4: you can't trust the Tennessee pass offense, but this is
Speaker 4: an advantageous matchup for them. DeAndre Hopkins, I would give
Speaker 4: him a grade seat if he plays, but he hasn't
Speaker 4: practiced the past couple of days with an ankle injury
Speaker 4: and is unlikely to play. He did get peppered with
Speaker 4: thirteen targets in Week one, but was locked down by
Speaker 4: Marshawn Lattimore, So I would give him a see if
Speaker 4: he plays, because the Chargers cornerbacks j C. Jackson and
Speaker 4: Michael Davis, they were in charge of the whole two.
Speaker 2: Thing with two of goaduts.
Speaker 4: Those two allowed one hundred and eighty nine receiving yards
Speaker 4: and three touchdowns on targets last week. Traylon Burks, speaking
Speaker 4: of disappointing weeks, I will give him a grade to see,
Speaker 4: even though I'm a little bit troubled by what I
Speaker 4: saw out of him last week, mostly getting out targeted
Speaker 4: by Nick Westbrook Atquina.
Speaker 2: That's nerve. That is worrying. It's not good, not good.
Speaker 4: But if especially if DeAndre Hopkins is out, you give
Speaker 4: him you know, I mean, he's got to be in
Speaker 4: a starting lineup and maybe he has a little bit
Speaker 4: offside just from the targets if that was the case.
Speaker 4: Chicka Konquo, though, I think this is a really good
Speaker 4: matchup for him. I'm giving that coming.
Speaker 2: He bounce back coming.
Speaker 4: He only had two targets against the Saints last week,
Speaker 4: but that's a bad matchup. The Saints are awesome against
Speaker 4: tight ends. Chick had seventy four percent routes per dropback rate.
Speaker 4: Last week, Charters copped up the second highest yards per reception.
Speaker 2: To tight ends last year. We're giving chick a B.
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Speaker 2: don't want to do that. Never could. This is a
Speaker 2: game we call three tough questions. You can play along.
Speaker 2: I question number one.
Speaker 1: What's the appropriate level of concern for Bijon Robinson?
Speaker 2: Is is it none?
Speaker 3: Is it some?
Speaker 1: Or is it a bowel loosening level of existential dread?
Speaker 2: We start with Matt Harrison.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's all panic about this Falcons player. He was
Speaker 3: on the field for more snaps than al Jier and
Speaker 3: the opportunities were nearly even plus concerning. In a concerning week,
Speaker 3: he was the number nine running back in PPR, so
Speaker 3: Desmond Ritter's average depth of target was a league worst
Speaker 3: three point two yards. That plays into a pass catching
Speaker 3: running back strength. So no concern for Bijon, but it
Speaker 3: makes the appropriate level of concern for Kyle Pitts and
Speaker 3: Drake London worse than blowed like that plane that just
Speaker 3: got turned around last week because some dude had diarrhea.
Speaker 3: All up and down the aisle. How do we set
Speaker 3: the plane down level of concern for pits in London?
Speaker 2: Thank you for rerouting the entire question.
Speaker 3: You're welcome. I'm going to get a bonus point on
Speaker 3: that one. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1: Isn't it nice so we don't have a blowed sounder
Speaker 1: thor what's the appropriate level of concern for Bjon Robinson?
Speaker 2: Is it none? Is it some? Or is it a
Speaker 2: bowel loosening level of existential dread? That's a tough act
Speaker 2: to follow. There is none, zero Zilich. In fact, I
Speaker 2: would be looking.
Speaker 4: I would be you know, kicking the tires on his
Speaker 4: owners to see if anyone is slightly panicking and try
Speaker 4: to buy on Bijon.
Speaker 2: Bijon gonna get a lot of usage this year.
Speaker 1: The correct answer is some, and not just because of
Speaker 1: the draft actuity mid first round.
Speaker 2: I know that is not the issue.
Speaker 1: Arthur Smith has used a rotation throughout his entire tenure
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, and you know what, several of us talked
Speaker 1: about exactly this happening in the preseason. We were like,
Speaker 1: you go, we don't know that Bijon's going to make
Speaker 1: good on everybody's assumption that he's going to be the
Speaker 1: man Tyler is Algiers not going anywhere, and that includes
Speaker 1: the goal line and touchdowns count. And that's why they
Speaker 1: answer he's a good running back. He is a good
Speaker 1: running back deserving of the touches he gets. That's why
Speaker 1: the answer can't be none when you're talking about a
Speaker 1: fer who's gonna give up the ball at the goal
Speaker 1: line and lose a lot of carries. Now, fortunately, Robinson's
Speaker 1: value as a receiver is apparently so evident that even
Speaker 1: the thick skulled Arthur Smith realizes that Robinson's got game
Speaker 1: breaking receiving chops and it's got to continue using him
Speaker 1: that way.
Speaker 3: Tough Question number two.
Speaker 1: The appropriate level of concern for Christian Kirk is that none,
Speaker 1: some or a bowel loosening level of existential dread thor.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go some on that one.
Speaker 4: They got some mouse to feed there and Tila has
Speaker 4: been a little bit inconsistent.
Speaker 2: I'll put it the mid range on this one.
Speaker 1: You can't say zero, Matt appriate level of concern for
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk, None, some or blow.
Speaker 3: I'm with thor definitely some here. I don't think we
Speaker 3: saw Zay Jones taking snaps and targets from Kirk. But
Speaker 3: that's what happened last week. It was worth noting that
Speaker 3: Kenny Moore is probably Indy's best corner and he plays
Speaker 3: the slot, which is where Christian Kirk is. So Jacksonville
Speaker 3: picked on the outsides a lot last week. It could
Speaker 3: have just been game script, but there is some concern
Speaker 3: since there's a new number one receiver there in Calvin Ridley,
Speaker 3: and it's clear that not Kirk is not that guy anymore.
Speaker 1: The correct answer is, hey, bowel loosening, Oh, existential dread.
Speaker 1: We're talking about a two target, one catch game for Kirk.
Speaker 1: And so you try and you try not to overreact
Speaker 1: to just week one, right, and the sample size is
Speaker 1: obviously just one game, that's small.
Speaker 2: But here's the big concern.
Speaker 1: Usage. He was on the field for only twenty three
Speaker 1: passing downs. That was lower than any game from last year,
Speaker 1: and a fifty percent decrease from his average number of
Speaker 1: games last year, average number of snaps from last year. Undoubtedly,
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk's gonna have some good games smattering in. But
Speaker 1: here's the problem. You're not gonna know when they're coming.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be very tricky to identify in advance, particularly
Speaker 1: if Zay Jones continues to get twenty plus snaps from
Speaker 1: the slot. Evan Ingram got twenty snaps from the slot,
Speaker 1: so you know, sometimes we can id good slot matchups.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be hard to know if they're gonna keep
Speaker 1: putting Jay Jones in there and we're gonna have Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk on the bench. I'm very, very concerned. Christian Kirk
Speaker 1: was roughly the tenth highest scoring wide receiver last year.
Speaker 1: Everything every fear you had about Calvin Ridley taking that work,
Speaker 1: We're all realized in Week one. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: a mirage tough question Number three, are you selling high
Speaker 1: on Tua Tongo via Looa Matt?
Speaker 3: I think everyone has the same knowledge surrounding to us,
Speaker 3: so I'm not even sure this is a cell high moment.
Speaker 3: I think it's too transparent. Granted, if someone's willing to
Speaker 3: offer you, like a top six quarterback for two US
Speaker 3: straight up, I'd probably do it, but we.
Speaker 2: All know it.
Speaker 3: It's about the injury with to Us, so he has
Speaker 3: that big red flag on his value, and I think
Speaker 3: that's drowning that value quite a bit. I think he's
Speaker 3: gonna need to play a good two thirds of the
Speaker 3: season before he starts to shed that injury tag. And
Speaker 3: if he's healthy right now, I'd rather just hold thor
Speaker 3: are you selling high on two?
Speaker 4: Not only am I not selling high, I would buy
Speaker 4: high on Tua if people out there don't understand how
Speaker 4: good Tua is. Last year, you look at the passing metrics,
Speaker 4: he was top twelve in every efficiency metric that exists.
Speaker 4: He has the most dangerous receiving weapons in the NFL.
Speaker 4: On a pass happy offense that does not have good
Speaker 4: running backs, They're going to keep airing it out every
Speaker 4: single week. As long as he stays healthy, you're going
Speaker 4: to keep putting up huge numbers every week.
Speaker 1: I am not selling high on tool, but here's what
Speaker 1: I am doing. I am going to reinforce my quarterback
Speaker 1: position by finding a relatively safe backup quarterback, like maybe
Speaker 1: even Baker Mayfield, who we've just we highlighted as a
Speaker 1: play last week and this week. You still I feel
Speaker 1: like the upside is league winning upside with Tua. So
Speaker 1: I can't take him off my roster, but I still
Speaker 1: want to have somebody else that just in case that
Speaker 1: could step in and it's probably not Mike White.
Speaker 3: You want to have quarterback number thirteen on your roster, twelf,
Speaker 3: It's a.
Speaker 1: Great way to put it. That's even better way to
Speaker 1: put it. I'll go trade for quarterback thirteen, who's sitting
Speaker 1: on somebody's as somebody's second quarterback, and he won't cost
Speaker 1: me a lot. I like that as an even better answer.
Speaker 1: Well done, thanks, you should really co host your own
Speaker 1: fantasy show. Maybe let's go to the matchups. Oh, hey
Speaker 1: to me, great Bay taking taking out Atlanta.
Speaker 2: I'm next?
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah, speaking of Atlanta, let's just pick up right where
Speaker 2: we left off.
Speaker 1: Stupid Arthur Smith, Jhon Robinson and Tyler L's year both
Speaker 1: get B grades here. This is reason number one thousand
Speaker 1: to do the opposite in the first round. Here, tenth
Speaker 1: tenth rounder Tyler El's year got more snaps, more carries,
Speaker 1: and more rushing yards than first rounder Brian Bijehon Robinson.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this matchup though in more detail. Algier
Speaker 1: got the money carries, netted all three carries from inside
Speaker 1: the five yard line. He scored twice. Robinson helped his
Speaker 1: cause with the six catches on six targets. Robinson also
Speaker 1: ran routes on ninety percent of his passing snaps, which
Speaker 1: I love. The Packers, though, allowed the second most running
Speaker 1: back for the second most running back yards in Week one,
Speaker 1: So that's a nice opportunity for Jon Robinson here. And
Speaker 1: if you're in a PPR league, we'll upgrade him to
Speaker 1: an A. If you're not, we'll go with a B
Speaker 1: grade in Robinson. Alzier probably continues to get a high
Speaker 1: level of work against a suspect run defense for the Packers.
Speaker 1: He's a safe be play here and I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised if he scored, which would put him into a
Speaker 1: range as well. The passing game, though obviously, is a
Speaker 1: total disaster here. I would love to say something good
Speaker 1: about Drake London in a what should be rebound game
Speaker 1: from the Goose Egg in Week one, but.
Speaker 2: It's Arthur Smith.
Speaker 1: There's no guarantee there's a rebound coming whatsoever. And the
Speaker 1: Packers secondary really good.
Speaker 2: Here's the problem. If JayR Alexander's gonna shadow anybody, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be Drake London. Who else would you bother.
Speaker 1: To shadow on that defense or that offense. I can
Speaker 1: advocate for London, Jay R Alexander last week, gave up
Speaker 1: one catch for four yards in his coverage. DJ Moore
Speaker 1: silenced by the Packer last week, and frankly, Drake London
Speaker 1: is not as good as Dj Moore. Bench grade for
Speaker 1: Drake London coming off the gooseg and for Kyle Pitts troublingly.
Speaker 1: Pits only on the field for thirty one snaps in
Speaker 1: the opener and he only got three targets. Fortunately, one
Speaker 1: of the three targets was a thirty yard reception in
Speaker 1: double coverage on an underthrown pass from Desmond Ritter. Desmond
Speaker 1: Ridder may not pan out by the way.
Speaker 3: Jem Taylor. Heineke is the backup there. I think that
Speaker 3: that's coming sooner than later.
Speaker 2: Desmond Mitter Desmond Minner.
Speaker 1: Last week, the Packers covered Cole Comet with seven different dbs,
Speaker 1: a strategy that's still allowed Comet five catches for forty
Speaker 1: four yards. So I'm giving a C grade to Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts because I don't think the Packers have really got
Speaker 1: a sound defensive strategy against mobile athletic tight ends like
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts, like Cole commit last week, So we'll give
Speaker 1: him the SE grade. Let's go to the Green Bay side.
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones very unlikely to play after missing all week.
Speaker 1: That puts AJ Dillon into a range. No, I mean,
Speaker 1: here's the now. There's been four different instances where Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones hasn't played, and AJ Dillon, presumably sitting on big
Speaker 1: games right, hasn't panned out that way. In those four games,
Speaker 1: he's totaled only one hundred and forty eight rushing yards
Speaker 1: and has failed to score in any of them. So
Speaker 1: he's by no means an automatic here. But this feels
Speaker 1: like a smash spot. Atlanta just got rocked by the
Speaker 1: opposing runners from the one dimensional Panthers offense, who totaled
Speaker 1: one hundred thirty two yards and five yards per carry.
Speaker 1: If Dylan's gonna get most of one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: two yards and five yards per carry and presumably goal
Speaker 1: line work, gotta give him an A grade. Come on,
Speaker 1: AJ Dillon's step up on this opportunity. I don't like
Speaker 1: hopeful A grades like fingers crossed. A grade that's terrible.
Speaker 1: I'm given the A grade. I gotta I gotta stand
Speaker 1: for something here. We're gonna I'm not We're gonna give
Speaker 1: the grade. Okay, let's go to the passing game here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with Christian Watson, so he got limited
Speaker 1: practice on Friday, But I hate rolling into a game
Speaker 1: with a hamstrung wide receiver literally at full strength. Christian
Speaker 1: Watson would probably draw the Falcons. One really good corner, Ajterrell,
Speaker 1: coming off a game in which he allowed just nineteen
Speaker 1: coverage yards. Terrell has allowed just two receptions for eighteen
Speaker 1: yards per game over his last eight games. Those are
Speaker 1: amazing coverage numbers for Ajterrell. But is a gimpy Christian
Speaker 1: Watson going to get AJ Terrell or did they decide
Speaker 1: to put him on a full strength Romeo Dobbs. I
Speaker 1: don't know, So I can only give the C grade
Speaker 1: to Watson with the hamstring, with the prospect of him
Speaker 1: maybe drawing AJ Terrell.
Speaker 2: I can only go C grade on Christian Watson. Romeo Dubbs,
Speaker 2: I got a B grade on him right now.
Speaker 1: But again, if Ajterrell they decide to deploy Terrell on Dubbs,
Speaker 1: I think it's game over for him. So there's some
Speaker 1: caution here. Only one wide receiver is top seven seventy
Speaker 1: yards against Atlanta in their last eight games, and only
Speaker 1: three of top sixty yards. It's not much, so you'll
Speaker 1: have to You'll have to do your own bath on
Speaker 1: this if aj Troll doesn't go on Romeo Dobbs, and
Speaker 1: he's got way more favorable matchups with d Alford and
Speaker 1: Tree Trey Flowers, who combined to give up ten of
Speaker 1: twelve pass attempts in their coverage last week. So I'm
Speaker 1: still sitting out a B grade for Romeo Dobbs. I
Speaker 1: think I'd still start him, but just know there's some
Speaker 1: danger here. How about loose Luke musk Rave loose mutton,
Speaker 1: loose mutton. I have a sheep on all the animals,
Speaker 1: not the half I have no shock on.
Speaker 2: Thank you for loose Mutt.
Speaker 3: That's his new nickname.
Speaker 2: Very active.
Speaker 1: In the first game, he was on the field for
Speaker 1: seventy five percent of the Packers snaps, ran a healthy
Speaker 1: twenty four routes. Last week, the Panthers Titan Hayden Hurst
Speaker 1: led the team in targets, receptions, receiving yards and touchdowns.
Speaker 2: B grade of Luke musk Ray for loose mutton, loose
Speaker 2: mutton chop and where does that leave us?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Reed, I'm putting him on the bench, although I'll give
Speaker 1: him a C grade if Christian Watson is not able
Speaker 1: to go here. I liked that he was targeted five
Speaker 1: times in his NFL debut last week. But if Christian
Speaker 1: Watson plays, I don't know that he's on the field enough,
Speaker 1: so we'll move him to the bench. That wraps up
Speaker 1: that matchup. Let's go to the final matchup with a
Speaker 1: segment New York Giants taking on Arizona matt It all
Speaker 1: went wrong for the Giants and the opener. Now they
Speaker 1: get what appears to be on paper to be the
Speaker 1: worst team in the NFL, the Arizona Cardinals. Is this
Speaker 1: the bounce back most people expect?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely. You have to throw out last week since the
Speaker 3: Dallas game script got wonky right away. Saquon still went
Speaker 3: for six yards per carry last week against a much
Speaker 3: tougher Cowboys defense. Don't panic. He's in a grade Daniel
Speaker 3: Jones and Darren Waller. I'm willing to give a pass
Speaker 3: to as well. Dallas's defense might be the best in
Speaker 3: the league, and they were just teeing off against Jones
Speaker 3: and the negative game scripts Sunday night. Jones was sacked
Speaker 3: seven times, which is two more times than Darren Waller
Speaker 3: was targeted. Arizona is not that defense. The thing to
Speaker 3: watch out four. Darren Waller's hamstring is flaring up. He
Speaker 3: was limited in Thursday's practice, although Brian Dable said he
Speaker 3: was moving around good and they.
Speaker 1: Took him off the injury port entirely on Friday, So
Speaker 1: I'm optimistic that we're going to get the real Darren
Speaker 1: Waller here.
Speaker 3: Yep, we really didn't learn much about the Giants wide
Speaker 3: receivers last week. Slayton and Campbell led snap counts at
Speaker 3: about sixty seven percent apiece. Isaiah Hodgins was in there,
Speaker 3: Jalen Hyatt, Sterling Shepherd still in play, Wandale Robinson's looming.
Speaker 3: You're benching all of your Giants wide receivers. Let's go
Speaker 3: to the Cardinals and we'll talk about the passing game
Speaker 3: as a whole. Three players tied for the most routes
Speaker 3: run for the Cardinals in Week one, Zach Ertz, Marquis Brown,
Speaker 3: and Michael Wilson. Now Ertz had ten targets, which is
Speaker 3: one of the reasons why he might take a chance
Speaker 3: on my receiver and gets the B grade here. Brown
Speaker 3: only had five. Wilson had four dobbs through thirty total
Speaker 3: passes for only one hundred and thirty two yards. It's
Speaker 3: going to be an ultra shallow passing game. You can't
Speaker 3: start anyone in the passing game until Zach Ertz until
Speaker 3: further notice, and then James. He gets a B grade.
Speaker 3: He got nineteen touches to Keyante Ingram's five, and I
Speaker 3: mentioned earlier Ingram had five rushing attempts for negative four
Speaker 3: yards and zero targets. That's not how you get on
Speaker 3: the field. More No, U Connor did catch all five
Speaker 3: of his targets. Game script might always phase out Connor somewhat,
Speaker 3: but it should still be fifteen to twenty touches per game,
Speaker 3: simply because he's the only back in town. The Giants
Speaker 3: gave up one hundred and two yards and two rushing
Speaker 3: scores to the Dallas Backs last week, both bottom eight
Speaker 3: numbers in the league, so it's a fine matchup. Connor
Speaker 3: has been also limited in practice with a calf injury,
Speaker 3: although all signs point to him playing this week with
Speaker 3: little issue.
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson takes over at quarterback when we come back.
Speaker 1: We'll tell you what to expect from the Jets is
Speaker 1: they take on a ferocious Dallas pass rush feels like
Speaker 1: a mismatch. What does it mean for Garrett Wilson in particular?
Speaker 1: Four We'll tell you what to expect when we come back.
Speaker 1: I see Football Weekly, Welcome back, Fantasy Football Weekly. Another
Speaker 1: block oh matchups for you, beginning with the Jets taking
Speaker 1: on Dallas and Thor. I think the Vikings knew what
Speaker 1: they were doing when they got out of Dalvin cooked.
Speaker 1: To my eyes, Dalvin cooked, he's done.
Speaker 4: I agree with you, great bench here, He's gonna have
Speaker 4: to show quite a bit more than he did last
Speaker 4: week to get back into a starting lineup. They gave
Speaker 4: him fifty percent of the snaps and on sixteen touches,
Speaker 4: Dalvin only a crewed nine yards.
Speaker 2: But it gets a little bit worse than that.
Speaker 4: Thirty fourth out of fifty five qualifying running backs in
Speaker 4: yards after contact per attempt.
Speaker 2: Not good.
Speaker 4: Breese Hall sort of the other way, the total other way.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give him a grade B in this matchup.
Speaker 4: Hall only played thirty one percent of snaps last week,
Speaker 4: but he was hitting home runs. He was hitting dingers
Speaker 4: every time they gave him the ball, A super ridiculous
Speaker 4: ten point six yards after contact for Breesehall last week
Speaker 4: in ten attempts against the Bills en route to one
Speaker 4: hundred and forty seven total yards. The Cowboys were middle
Speaker 4: of the pack an explosive run rate allowed last year,
Speaker 4: So an okay matchup for Breese Hall will give him
Speaker 4: a bee Garrett, moving on to the Jets passing attack,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry New York fans, Garrett Wilson will give him
Speaker 4: a C grade in this. I think this is going
Speaker 4: to be a repeat of the Giants game where he
Speaker 4: got his day saved by a touchdown. That's what he's
Speaker 4: gonna need to get bailed out at this one. Trevion
Speaker 4: Diggs and Stefan Gilmore are problems. The bigger problem for
Speaker 4: him is Zach Wilson. Zach Wills said, you got to
Speaker 4: have him on the bench, and I got all the
Speaker 4: other Jets pass catchers on the bench with him because
Speaker 4: of him. But Zach Wilson last week fifth worst passing
Speaker 4: grade in the NFL Cup and speaking to the matchup,
Speaker 4: Cowboys held Giants to three point six yards per attempt
Speaker 4: last week and Daniel Jones was under duress all game.
Speaker 4: Zach Wilson going to be seeing ghosts in this one.
Speaker 4: Moving to Dallas Dak Prescott. I have a bench grade
Speaker 4: on him fourteenth in adjusted completion rate last week. The Jets,
Speaker 4: on the other hand, last week held Josh Allen to
Speaker 4: the fifth lowest passer rating and obviously picked him off
Speaker 4: three times. The Jets cornerbacks are awesome. Their pass defense
Speaker 4: is really good. Ceedee Lamb, who I know banged the
Speaker 4: table for last week. He came through last week against
Speaker 4: the Giants fifty three point eight percent of Dallas's receiving
Speaker 4: yards and three point nine yards per route run. Seventy
Speaker 4: six percent of lamb snaps the last week came from
Speaker 4: the slot, So this is very good news because he's
Speaker 4: gonna avoid Sauce Gardner in this matchup, at least on
Speaker 4: you know, projected three quarters of his snaps or so.
Speaker 4: Jet slot cornerback Michael Carter two, not Michael Carter one.
Speaker 4: Michael Carter two not nearly as good as their outside guys.
Speaker 4: Carter allowed a seventy point nine percent catch rate last year,
Speaker 4: but the game script could you know, could end up
Speaker 4: flipping on Lamb this week. I give him a B
Speaker 4: in this one, assuming it's gonna be a little bit
Speaker 4: more run heavy. Brandon Cooks didn't practice on Wednesday or
Speaker 4: Thursday with his MCLs brain. We're gonna give him a
Speaker 4: bench grade in this game. Very if he to play,
Speaker 4: I'm benching the rest of the pass catchers on that team.
Speaker 4: Michael Gallup, I guess you could say low end option
Speaker 4: potentially in this one, but a bad matchup for him
Speaker 4: only at Brandon Cooks does not play. Jake Ferguson, you're
Speaker 4: keeping on the bench. As for Dallas, his running game
Speaker 4: better match up there. I'm giving Tony Pollard a grade
Speaker 4: of a running back five in Fantasy last week. Eighty
Speaker 4: two total yards on sixteen touches. He got every Dallas
Speaker 4: rushing attempt inside the opponent's five yard line last week.
Speaker 4: I think that's really good news for him. You know,
Speaker 4: people have been nippicking his strength and the short yarded stuff.
Speaker 4: Dallas obviously trust him with that. This year, the Jets
Speaker 4: have a middle of the pack run defense. They were
Speaker 4: number twenty in explosive run rate allowed last year, so
Speaker 4: Pollard might hit some dingers in this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I like Pollard a lot.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 2: I'm with you on that.
Speaker 1: Jacksonville takes on Kansas City on the Kansas City side obviously,
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is an A. Travis kelce Everything indication is
Speaker 1: he's going to play, which is great. Only one missed
Speaker 1: game would be a win given what we thought might
Speaker 1: be the case. Jaguars just gave up fifty nine tight
Speaker 1: end receiving yards to Indianapolis's anonymous tight ends last week,
Speaker 1: So I'm going right back to the A grade on
Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey. All the wide outs are on the bench
Speaker 1: at this until further now, yeah, exactly until at this point,
Speaker 1: Like last year, you're not going to trust any of them.
Speaker 1: Last week, mvs and sky Moore ran the most routes,
Speaker 1: but it was still less than half of the routes.
Speaker 1: There's just nobody on the field enough and no consistent performers,
Speaker 1: and you're never going to guess, right.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: If you think about chasing Rashi touchdown from week one,
Speaker 1: he was on the field for twelve plass plays.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just you just you can't do it all.
Speaker 1: They're on the bench, even though somebody's gonna have a
Speaker 1: good game. Good luck guessing. Isaiah Pachecko just the C
Speaker 1: grade here. I thought it was a mixed bag for
Speaker 1: Pacheco in the opener with just eight Mundane rushes and
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards Hilaire frustratingly involved.
Speaker 2: The good news was for targets, which I liked.
Speaker 1: That was his second biggest target game and by the way,
Speaker 1: caught them all, second biggest target game of his career.
Speaker 1: Jaguars were a good run defense last year, and they
Speaker 1: dominated the opener, hammering the Colts runners, including Dion Jackson,
Speaker 1: who averaged one point one yards per carry in the opener.
Speaker 1: So I don't love Pacheco here this past This game
Speaker 1: is going to go through Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the Jaguars side.
Speaker 1: Let's start with Travis etn look good against the Colts
Speaker 1: last week, but this is a much tougher matchup, and
Speaker 1: our worries about Tank Bigsby's role at the goal line
Speaker 1: and as a receiver were realized.
Speaker 2: This in the opening game. There was a lot I
Speaker 2: it's a concern. Through one week.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs run defense ranks thirtieth by Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 1: but they get back Chris Jones and that should make
Speaker 1: them more formidable here. I've got a B grade on
Speaker 1: Travis et On, but we need to keep an eye
Speaker 1: on Tank Bigsby. Box scored did not well anybody any
Speaker 1: other of fumble. So there's that Tanks for nothing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, here's the crazy stat.
Speaker 1: He finished with nineteen rushing yards and fourteen yards after contact.
Speaker 1: I don't know quite how you do thirteen rushing yards
Speaker 1: and fourteen yards after contact. That tells me you're getting
Speaker 1: met in the backfield on every carry. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: think that's a lot of what happened with Tank Bigsby.
Speaker 1: But I like that he caught four passes. This is
Speaker 1: gonna he's gonna be an aerial contributor and you know,
Speaker 1: only on the field fifteen snaps in week one. So
Speaker 1: I'm keeping Tank on the bench, but optimistic that it'll
Speaker 1: his role will grow across the season.
Speaker 2: Uh, let's go to the passing game. Already talked about
Speaker 2: Christian Kirk.
Speaker 1: Earlier in this show, very worried that he didn't get
Speaker 1: much time, only on the field for half of the
Speaker 1: plays and then running from the slot. He goes up
Speaker 1: against a very good cornerback, Trent McDuffie, a first rounder
Speaker 1: from last year who gave up thirty eight yards in
Speaker 1: his coverage in the opener, not an impossible assignment. But
Speaker 1: I'm leaving Christian Kirk on the bench until I see
Speaker 1: him on the field more often.
Speaker 2: How about Calvin Ridley?
Speaker 1: Everything you could have hoped for, and all the people
Speaker 1: that drafted him early, congratulations because you got paid. He
Speaker 1: enjoyed a massive thirty four percent target share in the opener.
Speaker 1: He ran over his half of his routes from the
Speaker 1: left side of the field, where he's going to match
Speaker 1: up with cornerback Lagerius Snead. Sneid played hurt in the
Speaker 1: opener and gave up one hundred percent of his throws
Speaker 1: in his coverage while missing four tackles. Sneid got worked
Speaker 1: in that opening game, but he's had ten days to
Speaker 1: get healthier, and Sneid played pretty well last year. Still
Speaker 1: a grade for Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 2: If you're going to take Chase Zay Jones, I don't
Speaker 2: know that I did like that he was on the
Speaker 2: field as often as he was.
Speaker 1: They moved him all across the field. He's gonna line
Speaker 1: up against all the different cornerbacks. They might be able
Speaker 1: to manufacture some opportunities for Zay Jones in this one
Speaker 1: C grade if you need to use him, and that
Speaker 1: leaves us at the quarterback position, and let's go to
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, who I do like in this game. Chiefs
Speaker 1: allowed the most passing touchdowns last season. Now they did
Speaker 1: play each other. Lawrence only mustered two hundred and seventeen
Speaker 1: yards in one touchdown against Kansas City in that playoff game.
Speaker 1: But the addition of Calvin Ridley makes a big difference here,
Speaker 1: and we're going to go with a B grade on
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. Final matchup of this segment Matt Miami taking
Speaker 1: on New England Tua with a league leading four hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty six yards. But this is a much tougher
Speaker 1: matchup against the New England defense that corralled the Eagles
Speaker 1: in Week one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a much tougher defense. But even without
Speaker 3: starting tackle Tarren Armstead, the Chargers did not sack Tua
Speaker 3: and it looks like Armstea might be back this week.
Speaker 3: Two only had to scramble one time too, Lots of
Speaker 3: time in the pocket for Tua last week. The Pats
Speaker 3: allowed sixteen receptions to wide receivers last week. That was
Speaker 3: seventh most in the league. That's exactly Twoa's bread and butter.
Speaker 3: He gets an A grade here, Tyreek Hill gets an
Speaker 3: A grade as well. Jalen Wattle gets a B because
Speaker 3: the delta in targets between him and Hill is so
Speaker 3: large fifteen targets to Wattle six. For context, Braxton Barrios
Speaker 3: had five targets. So is Wattle closer to Barrios than Hill? No,
Speaker 3: of course, no, he's not.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: Wattle actually has scored in three of his four games
Speaker 3: against New England as well, and with the Belichick way
Speaker 3: of taking out the top option, Wattle should see a
Speaker 3: lot of single coverage this week. When that coverage is
Speaker 3: against Christian Gonzales, expect Tua to target Wattle copiously. Gonzalez
Speaker 3: was picked on last week by the Eagles. They targeted
Speaker 3: him ten times. He allowed seven catches for seventy one yards.
Speaker 3: The other New England corners were only thrown at it
Speaker 3: combined four times. So Christian Gonzalez is the weak link.
Speaker 3: Raheem Mostert out snapped Salvin Akhmed last week forty seven
Speaker 3: to nineteen. Devin ah Chane was a healthy scratch last week.
Speaker 3: Mostard only carried the ball ten times, though he did score.
Speaker 3: That's salvaged his day. I'd like to leave Mostard on
Speaker 3: the bench if I could this week, though, as the
Speaker 3: Pats are just killers against the run. They've only allowed
Speaker 3: five total scores running backs last year, and they held
Speaker 3: the Eagles trio of runners to sixty yards on sixteen
Speaker 3: attempts last week. On the Patriots side, Romandre Stevenson gets
Speaker 3: an A grade here, even though the numbers looked rough
Speaker 3: in Week one, the Eagles were one of the better
Speaker 3: run defense he'd faces all year. The Dolphins are not that.
Speaker 3: They just allowed Austin Eckler to go for one hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty four total yards last week and Joshua Kelly
Speaker 3: went for ninety one yards on the ground on his own.
Speaker 3: Both of them scored. The Finns seem to have a
Speaker 3: massive hole in stopping the run, which is why Stevenson
Speaker 3: gets an A and Zeke was charged to take a
Speaker 3: chance on me running back. I give him a solid
Speaker 3: Sea grad. Mac Jones looked good last week. That's what
Speaker 3: happens when you give him an actual offensive coordinator. It's
Speaker 3: weird when Matt Patricia is not your offensive coordinator. And
Speaker 3: even better for mac Jones, let's give some credit here. Yeah,
Speaker 3: opening Drive throws a pick six on a bad pass
Speaker 3: and I'm saying to myself, oh man, it's over for
Speaker 3: Mac Jones.
Speaker 2: Like he's gonna just unravel right here on the field,
Speaker 2: And it was the exact opposite, exactly rally.
Speaker 3: It was literally the best career game for Mac Jones
Speaker 3: by Fantasy points in his entire career, three hundred and
Speaker 3: sixteen yards and three touchdowns. Justin Airbear had a similar
Speaker 3: a dot last week against the Dolphins as Mac Jones
Speaker 3: did against the Eagles. Airbear found moderate success with two
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty eight yards in a score. I think
Speaker 3: I'd put that as the floor for Jones this week,
Speaker 3: so I'll throw a C grade on him. I think
Speaker 3: he's very startable in a super flex league. And as
Speaker 3: far as the wide receiver goes, let's talk about Kendrick Bourne.
Speaker 3: He's the only one I'm paying attention to. Yeah, score
Speaker 3: twice last week, led the team in targets, receptions, and yards,
Speaker 3: had a respectable twelve and a half average depth of target,
Speaker 3: and one hundred and thirty eight total air yards. He'll
Speaker 3: play against Eli Apple most often this week, who was
Speaker 3: targeted deep exclusively by the Chargers last week. On targets
Speaker 3: toward Apple, the average depth was nineteen point five yards downfield.
Speaker 3: They're throwing deep against him, and it's probably not worth
Speaker 3: starting a Patriots tight end, but it's worth noting the
Speaker 3: revenge game for Mike Kasiki this week. Yeah, and if
Speaker 3: you think that he gets an end zone targeter two,
Speaker 3: he gets the desperation D.
Speaker 2: Dart throw grade. When we come back, we're gonna jump
Speaker 2: in the time machine. Three mature speculation.
Speaker 3: Time machine sounds like yars revenge.
Speaker 2: It does sound like yards revenge.
Speaker 1: We'll tell you who to pick up this week that
Speaker 1: everybody else will be trying to pick up next week
Speaker 1: on Fantasy Football Leekly final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: That means it's time to jump into the time machine.
Speaker 3: I think that's.
Speaker 2: Defender, by the way, if anybody's wondering, that's the that
Speaker 2: is defended.
Speaker 3: That's the weirdest flux capacitor noise ever that is it.
Speaker 2: Maybe that could be the case.
Speaker 1: We're gonna give you three guys to pick up this
Speaker 1: week that everyone's going to be trying to pick up
Speaker 1: next week. Frankly, we hammered this segment last last week.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we could have possibly done any better.
Speaker 1: We'll try now, Matt who you got?
Speaker 3: I just mentioned him? Actually Kendrick Bourne highlighted in the matchup.
Speaker 3: But if Bourne scores again this week, his price will
Speaker 3: go get up way high. He's only rostered in forty
Speaker 3: six percent of sleeper leagues right now, and that's up
Speaker 3: forty four percent from last week. Imagine if he scores again,
Speaker 3: it's going to be through the roof and everybody's going
Speaker 3: to be in their waiver wear bucks on him in.
Speaker 1: A positive matchup. That could be the use thor Who
Speaker 1: is your premature speculation player.
Speaker 2: Packers wide receiver Jayden Reid.
Speaker 4: I think this is your last shot to get Jayden
Speaker 4: Reid ten percent owned in Yahoo, nineteen percent owned in
Speaker 4: sleeper Church. You were sort of mentioning this when you
Speaker 4: were going through the matchup of this game Reid last week,
Speaker 4: so he only was sent out on sixteen routes, but
Speaker 4: on five of those he was targeted a stellar three
Speaker 4: yards per route run for Reid last week, sixty percent
Speaker 4: of his snaps came from the slot last week. This weekend,
Speaker 4: he gets Falcons nickel cornerback de Alford, who has given
Speaker 4: up one hundred and five passer rating during his career
Speaker 4: on targets. Go out and get Jayden ree He gonna
Speaker 4: be owned everywhere next week. I think you're right about that.
Speaker 4: I like I like Jayden Reid.
Speaker 1: Let's do it my take premature speculation, player, and listen,
Speaker 1: I don't doubt anybody for being skeptical when I say
Speaker 1: to back Zach Moss. I've earned every bit of skepticism
Speaker 1: anybody might have on my Zach Moss takes totally deserve.
Speaker 1: But can Zack Moss be better than Dean Jackson?
Speaker 2: Maybe? Yes, he can?
Speaker 1: Can he Are we sure Heavin Hull probably will not
Speaker 1: play again this year, or if he does come back,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be like December tragically.
Speaker 3: And then there's this Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 2: Then Jonathan Taylor, so we don't.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows right now what's gonna be happening in Jonathan
Speaker 1: Taylor week five forward. Now, Zach Moss could be startable
Speaker 1: this week. You gave him a he was here, take
Speaker 1: a chance at me, player, Yeah, let's be running back
Speaker 1: twins C grades for the Colts back C grade. He
Speaker 1: could be startable as early as this week. So you're
Speaker 1: gonna get like three games a run with him, and
Speaker 1: then who knows what happens with Jonathan Taylor. Let's pick
Speaker 1: up Zach Moss and see what happens. Final two matchups
Speaker 1: of this show, New Orleans taking on Carolina. You loved
Speaker 1: the deep ball for New Orleans last week thor and
Speaker 1: it all came in big. What about this week in
Speaker 1: a different matchup with Carolina is still a very good one.
Speaker 1: Derek carr last week was my take chance on me guy.
Speaker 2: He at quarterback.
Speaker 4: He rewarded my faith three hundred plus passing yards for
Speaker 4: him number two in yards per attempt in the NFL
Speaker 4: last week. As I mentioned, great matchup this week. Panthers
Speaker 4: gave up the ninth highest passer rating last year and J. C.
Speaker 2: Horn is out. I'm giving Derek Carr an a grade
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 4: Of course, I love Rashid chi Heet. He was might
Speaker 4: take a chance on me wide receiver. I'm also given
Speaker 4: an A grade to Chris o'lave. It's Chris Olave season
Speaker 4: this year. He shredded the Titans for a thirty percent
Speaker 4: target share last week on three point seven yards per
Speaker 4: route run. This is another strong matchup for Olave. You're
Speaker 4: going up against Dante Jackson and CJ. Henderson out there
Speaker 4: with j C. Horn out, he is gonna smash Michael Thomas.
Speaker 4: I was wrong about Michael Thomas last week. I told
Speaker 4: you to keep him on your bench. Hopefully you didn't
Speaker 4: listen to me. This week, I'm giving him a B.
Speaker 4: He's fully healthy again. He proved that twenty four percent
Speaker 4: target share last weekend, one point nine yards route run.
Speaker 4: We're gonna give him a B grade. Juwan Johnson, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna give him a C grade in this game. He's
Speaker 4: the clear tight end one and clear number four receiving
Speaker 4: option in this offense. That's the good news and bad
Speaker 4: news sort of is He's been limited in practice with
Speaker 4: a calf injury, but he is expected to play this weekend.
Speaker 2: Not a great matchup here.
Speaker 4: Carolina gave up the ninth fewest receiving yards to tight
Speaker 4: ends last year, so give him a CE. Jamal Williams,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give him a grade of B. He is
Speaker 4: the clear belcow here until Elvin Kamara returns. Ken Dray
Speaker 4: Miller is dinged up. Last week, Jamal Williams seventy five
Speaker 4: percent of the snaps played, but he only had fifty
Speaker 4: two total yards on twenty touches. However, this is a
Speaker 4: good matchup for him against Carolina's rotten run defense. The
Speaker 4: Panthers allowed the fourth highest yards after contact last week.
Speaker 4: I'm giving Jamal Williams a B. Moving to the Panthers,
Speaker 4: I got a lot of bench grades on I bet
Speaker 4: you do. Yeah, Bryce Young, you gotta keep him on
Speaker 4: your bench.
Speaker 2: Love Bryce Young.
Speaker 4: Everybody loved Bryce Young, but last week it didn't look
Speaker 4: good worse in the NFL in passing gray that's tough,
Speaker 4: and the Saints have an awesome pass defense. You have
Speaker 4: to bench Young. And for this reason, you have to
Speaker 4: bench all the Panthers receivers. You have to bench their
Speaker 4: tight end Hayden Hurst as well, especially with Hearst, because
Speaker 4: the Saints defense shuts down tight ends going back several
Speaker 4: years now. The only guy on this offense that you
Speaker 4: can start with any sort of confidence is Miles Sanders.
Speaker 4: I'm giving Miles Sanders a B in this matchup. Last
Speaker 4: week twenty two touches for ninety eight total yards while
Speaker 4: playing fifty seven percent of the offensive snaps, but he
Speaker 4: only ranked number forty one out of fifty five qualifying
Speaker 4: running backs last week in elusive rating. Was a little
Speaker 4: too easy to hit Miles Sanders last week. However, this
Speaker 4: is a decent matchup. Whereas New Orleans has the really
Speaker 4: good pass defense, run defense not so good. The Saints
Speaker 4: run defense was bottom eight last week both in yards
Speaker 4: after contact per attempt and yards before contact per attempt.
Speaker 2: Not good, not good. Some people think Cuba Hubbard looked better. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, home run hitter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I didn't like what I've seen from Cuba
Speaker 1: to this point of his career. But nevertheless, there's you know,
Speaker 1: there's there may be some opportunity there, maybe more than
Speaker 1: we thought could be. Yeah, we'll find out. Final matchup
Speaker 1: is Cleveland taking on Pittsburgh. Nick job obvious A. And
Speaker 1: we should note that Pittsburgh is gonna be without their
Speaker 1: defensive tackle Cam Hayward. That is a sizeable loss literally
Speaker 1: and figuratively. So nick JOBB feels like a very good play.
Speaker 1: I'm want to go to the passing game and spend
Speaker 1: most of our time on the Cleveland side talking about that.
Speaker 1: I can't stress enough how bad Deshaun Watson's passing looked.
Speaker 1: It's being masked in the fantasy world by that rushing
Speaker 1: touchdown that he had, but it was ugly. Now granted
Speaker 1: it was in the rain, and it was against a
Speaker 1: good Bengal secondary. But if Watson's passing flops this week
Speaker 1: against the Steelers, it is not too early to start
Speaker 1: worrying about Deshaun Watson's long term prospects here. Steelers earned
Speaker 1: Pro Football focuses number one pass rush rating last week.
Speaker 1: He'd of course by TJ. Watt, who had get this
Speaker 1: a hurry, two hits and three sacks in the game.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't like. I don't like the Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper matchup that much. I don't have a ton of
Speaker 1: faith in the receiving of the rest of the receivers
Speaker 1: who did nothing last week, and when I balanced that
Speaker 1: in with Deshaun Watson looking bad as a passer, I
Speaker 1: don't see a lot to like here. Also, you don't
Speaker 1: get the design runs that you think you're getting out
Speaker 1: of Deshaun Watson. That did not materialize either either with
Speaker 1: even with.
Speaker 2: The rushing touchdown. So yeah, I can't. I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't support him here, and I've only got the
Speaker 1: C grade on him. Let's talk about David and Joku
Speaker 1: disappointing start to the season, and Pittsburgh contained George Kittle
Speaker 1: in the Opener, holding him to three catches for nineteen yards.
Speaker 1: But Najoku has scored in three straight games against the Steelers,
Speaker 1: and in last year's two games, he totaled thirteen catches
Speaker 1: for one hundred and thirty one yards and two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: good numbers historically against the Steelers for David and Joku.
Speaker 1: So that keeps him quasi viable and will keep a
Speaker 1: C grade on him. I alluded to a Marii Cooper earlier,
Speaker 1: tough game last week. You had the rain, you had
Speaker 1: bad quarterback play, you had a difficult secondary. Easier matchup
Speaker 1: this week against the Steelers cornerbacks. You've got Patrick Peterson,
Speaker 1: You've got Levi Wallace. Both of them gave up more
Speaker 1: than forty yards in their coverage last week. Patrick Peterson,
Speaker 1: at age seventy three, got tagged for two touchdowns last week.
Speaker 2: So I think Cooper.
Speaker 1: I think Cooper has a nice little bounce back game
Speaker 1: potentially with him. I got a B grade on Amari Cooper.
Speaker 1: I can't go to any of the rest of the
Speaker 1: receivers who didn't do much, including Elijah Moore and David Donovan,
Speaker 1: Peoples Jones excuse me, who both clock in with bench
Speaker 1: grades here. Let's go to Pittsburgh side boy Najie Harris first.
Speaker 1: The good news he's scored in all four games against
Speaker 1: the Browns in his career, and he's average one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventeen total yards.
Speaker 2: That's good news.
Speaker 1: The bad news is everything else that's going to come
Speaker 1: after that. Harris only saw fifty two percent of the
Speaker 1: snaps last week. That is the second lowest since the
Speaker 1: start of last season, and Jalen Warren had the same
Speaker 1: number of touches as Naji Harris. This looks like the
Speaker 1: running back by committee nobody asked for. Definitely, the Browns
Speaker 1: defense looked run defense looked improved over last year's awful unit,
Speaker 1: thanks in parts of several key off season editions, and
Speaker 1: they held the Bengals runners to seventy five rushing yards
Speaker 1: four and a half yards per Carrie. You know mac numbers.
Speaker 1: I can put a se grade on Najie Harris, but
Speaker 1: I can't do more than that. Now for Jalen Warren,
Speaker 1: you know this is.
Speaker 2: A developing situation.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can start him yet, but you know, look,
Speaker 1: if Naji Harris is going to continue to struggle and
Speaker 1: Jalen Warren's going to keep getting half of the touches
Speaker 1: in week one?
Speaker 2: What if that turns into fifty percent of the touches,
Speaker 2: sixty percent of the touches. So maybe maybe this thing
Speaker 2: flips over. At some point.
Speaker 1: You might want to invest in Jalen Warren, but we
Speaker 1: can't start him here. All right, Let's go to the
Speaker 1: Let's go to the passing game. I'm not even gonna
Speaker 1: talk about Kenny Pickett in a miserable outing. Let's go
Speaker 1: to George Pickens. Now, they lost Deontae Johnson. That probably
Speaker 1: means a few more looks for George Pickens, but also
Speaker 1: means better coverage. Pickens saw far too many short passes
Speaker 1: last week. That is not really his skill set, effectively
Speaker 1: half in his yards per reception from last year. In
Speaker 1: the opener, the Bengals picked on cornerback Martin Emerson deep,
Speaker 1: averaging twenty yards per pass in his coverage. That's where
Speaker 1: George Pickens can can kill you. Yes, right, those deep
Speaker 1: contested balls. Let's do that against Steelers. Now it did
Speaker 1: ended up working, but maybe the Steelers will have more
Speaker 1: success in a dry game here and hopefully they find
Speaker 1: George Pickens. I'm putting the C grade on him. I
Speaker 1: want to believe it's going to happen. Let's tuck Pat
Speaker 1: Fryermuth for a minute. Returned to full practice on Friday
Speaker 1: last week. Three of his four receptions came in the
Speaker 1: red zone. He's proven to be a goal line threat
Speaker 1: throughout his career. Scored last week. The Browns gave up
Speaker 1: just seventeen yards to Irv Smith last week, and they
Speaker 1: held Friarmuth to zero yards and forty one yards in
Speaker 1: the two games last year. Last season, the Browns allowed
Speaker 1: the fifth fewest tight end receptions and the third fewest
Speaker 1: tight end touchdowns. I can only get to a C
Speaker 1: grade on Pat Fryarmouth is healthy, though, so that is
Speaker 1: that's good news there. Alan Robinson's gonna get more action
Speaker 1: with Deontay Johnson out, He'll be on the field a
Speaker 1: lot more, mostly runs from the slot. Cleveland's nickel cornerback
Speaker 1: Greg Newsom is awesome. This is a bad matchup. He's
Speaker 1: allowed one touchdown in his coverage in his last seventeen games.
Speaker 1: Can't go to Alan Robinson here for better or worse.
Speaker 1: I think that pretty much wrapped nobody. Starting Kenny Picking
Speaker 1: now wraps up that matchup, and that leaves us some
Speaker 1: stuff to talk about from the Thursday night game. So
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift looked awesome. Get a load of this stat
Speaker 1: before contact on Thursday night, DeAndre Swift racked up one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three yards before contact.
Speaker 3: So does that make DeAndre Swift awesome? Or the Eagles
Speaker 3: offensive line awesome, or the Vikings defensive seven.
Speaker 1: Or all three? Could certainly be the case. So let's
Speaker 1: just fast forward to next week's game. Let's assume Gainwell's available.
Speaker 1: What is the breakdown you see coming for Swift versus
Speaker 1: Gainwell when they're both available?
Speaker 4: I go seventy five percent for Swift, twenty five for Gainwell,
Speaker 4: and Rashad Penny is on mill curtains.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Penny's not even as a non factory. By the way,
Speaker 1: when did Rashod Penny turn into a kick returner? How
Speaker 1: do you kick return with Rashad drop the piano?
Speaker 2: Penny? I don't understand how that's the thing they want
Speaker 2: to get them on the field, I guess.
Speaker 1: So, Matt, what do you think Swift versus Gainwell both healthy?
Speaker 3: I hate the Eagles running back situation. That's why I've
Speaker 3: avoided it all year. I think it's going to be
Speaker 3: a guessing game all year, and we're not going to
Speaker 3: be able to forecast it. Probably fifty to fifty.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to frustrate people and be closer
Speaker 1: to fifty to fifty, even though Swift looks.
Speaker 2: Way way more dangerous, does it? Yes? But you know,
Speaker 2: but the Eagles don't always make sense with their rotation.
Speaker 1: They never so I bet there's more gainwell in here
Speaker 1: than we want to think there's gonna be, and that
Speaker 1: could water down the efficacy for Swift. Also from that game,
Speaker 1: while we're talking running backs, Alexander brutal, brutal, you know
Speaker 1: the bad fumble. He's now averaged I think three yards
Speaker 1: of carry and three and a half yards of carry
Speaker 1: in his two games, has looked has looked like an
Speaker 1: utterly mundane NFL runner, if I'm just being honest. So
Speaker 1: let's project forward a little bit. I know, my whole
Speaker 1: theory on drafting Ty Chandler in the preseason was basically
Speaker 1: exactly this. They can only go so long with Alexander
Speaker 1: Madison looking ordinary before they have to give Chandler some looks. Right,
Speaker 1: He's got to get on the field more, I don't,
Speaker 1: I think, right, just to see. You know, Madison's blocking
Speaker 1: has been bad, and I don't know that he's left
Speaker 1: a lot of yards on the field because he's had
Speaker 1: doesn't had a lot of places to go.
Speaker 2: But at some point, don't we tried the little tight chack.
Speaker 3: Well, And if you're blocking as bad as running back
Speaker 3: in what is a pass first offense, you don't stay
Speaker 3: on the field much longer. You lose out. You have
Speaker 3: to have skills in the NFL to stay on the field.
Speaker 3: He doesn't have the ability to run great and he
Speaker 3: doesn't have the ability to block all that well. So
Speaker 3: I think he's in trouble.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that really hurts Madison is Kevin
Speaker 1: O'Connell's just a pass first guy. I mean, last year
Speaker 1: the Vikings are fifth in pass play percentage, and that's
Speaker 1: bearing itself out through a couple of games.
Speaker 3: Here and then the Vikings have Kareem Hunt come in
Speaker 3: for a visit in the middle of in the middle
Speaker 3: of training camp. They could kick the tires there. Again,
Speaker 3: it would not surprise any datum.
Speaker 2: Ty Chandler's better than Kareem mont.
Speaker 1: Right now, probably opinion, sure, And let's go see what
Speaker 1: ty Chandler might bring to your fantasy team, get him
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