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Speaker 1: in good morning. It is Fantasy Football Weekly and early

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Speaker 1: edition on the Fan. I am Paul church in Coast

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Speaker 1: are not, in fact Matt Harrison. In fact, we should

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Speaker 1: probably change the opener because he's only on like half

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Speaker 1: of the shows. Uh. It is the triumphant return of

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Speaker 1: Christian Peterson. Hello, welcome back, Thank you. What's the guy

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Speaker 1: got do to get on the opener around here? I know,

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Speaker 1: well for a show. You know, we've had like ten shows,

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Speaker 1: you haven't been on any So there's that. Brian Johnson,

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Speaker 1: as always, you're dependable. I can count on you, shockingly.

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Speaker 1: So the three the most triumphant comebacks. I can recall

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Speaker 1: my life for now m J Michael Jordan's Jay z

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Speaker 1: Rapper CP, Christian Peterson with him. I don't think that's hyperbole,

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Speaker 1: not at all. Of Course, Jordan's comeback was shouldn't call

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Speaker 1: it as much of a comeback because all he did

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Speaker 1: was come back from his gambling suspension. That the NBA, Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's we're gonna go with that. That's what it's. It's

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite and most plausible sports conspiracy theories.

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Speaker 1: to get to of course, as always, like five tough questions,

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Speaker 1: premature speculation, take a chance on me, and matchups from

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Speaker 1: every damn game in this whole slate, and there's a

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Speaker 1: bunch of them, including another early start another London game.

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Speaker 1: But we begin first with the Los Angeles Rams taking

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Speaker 1: on the Dallas Cowboys. Rams offense, of course, has been

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Speaker 1: point explosions coming from a team that averaged fourteen points

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Speaker 1: last year, dead last in the NFL. Now they get

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. What do you think, Christian Well, I

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Speaker 1: think this is a little bit of a different story.

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Speaker 1: You know, last week was really the true, the true

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Speaker 1: offensive explosion against against the forty nine ers in that

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Speaker 1: Thursday night game that everybody saw, kind of Jared Goffs

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Speaker 1: And God, let's face it, he was. He was just

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Speaker 1: okay for the first two weeks, which is significantly better

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Speaker 1: guess start Jared Goff with about a cell that secondary

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Speaker 1: him and then at wide receiver. That brings Sammy Watkins

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Speaker 1: He had that. He had the concussion right, and he's

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Speaker 1: That's right, Dallas. Let Larry Fitzgerald go off for a

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Speaker 1: So let's give. Let's give. Watkins is starting grade here

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Speaker 1: I don't really trust this, but what we've seen so

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Speaker 1: Does he bounce back here against the Atlanta Falcon is Brian?

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Speaker 1: They haven't allowed a passing touchdown, but they faced Josh McCown,

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Speaker 1: last week and the shadow of O. B j's highlight

427
00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,080
Speaker 1: real catches he was targeted eleven times in that game.

428
00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:47,479
Speaker 1: He caught eight of them for sixty six yards. His

429
00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,439
Speaker 1: whole deals he needs O. B. J to be on

430
00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,120
Speaker 1: the field for Brandon Marshall to be effective, and that's

431
00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,399
Speaker 1: going to be the case here. He gets Tampa whose

432
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 1: secondary is a disaster. They're allowing the most yards to

433
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Speaker 1: wide receivers, They've got injuries all through a secondary, and

434
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 1: he's gonna be He's got. His matchup is coming up

435
00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,920
Speaker 1: against Vernon Hargreaves, whose jock is currently being excavated out

436
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,400
Speaker 1: of the U. S Bank Stadium turf with a jackhammer.

437
00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:15,240
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall, your final take a chance on me player.

438
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 1: Usually don't go with a guy that big of a name,

439
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 1: but I don't think anybody has been considering starting. I

440
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:25,440
Speaker 1: dropped him in one of my league. Yeah thoughts. People did, Yeah,

441
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,919
Speaker 1: And I'm totally understandable. And I think I think he

442
00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:29,960
Speaker 1: was dropped in way more than twenty percent of leagues,

443
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,080
Speaker 1: and then other people picked him up on name value.

444
00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 1: I think he was the original owners probably dropped him

445
00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:38,760
Speaker 1: more like fifty percent. Let's go back to the matchups.

446
00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 1: Bengals taking on the Cleveland Browns. Christian I have reasonably.

447
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,600
Speaker 1: You're okay with Andy Dalton. I am. In fact, he

448
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,000
Speaker 1: was just might take a chance on the quarterback moments ago.

449
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 1: He's in as as a sea level, lowest possible starting

450
00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:54,240
Speaker 1: grade that you can you can have. Uh. A. J Green, however,

451
00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:57,600
Speaker 1: is an a. This Brown secondary is atrocious. Antonio Brown

452
00:22:57,920 --> 00:22:59,760
Speaker 1: took them for a hundred and eighty two yards. T

453
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,199
Speaker 1: I Hilton went for a hundred and fifty three yards

454
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,200
Speaker 1: just last week against them. In his last two games

455
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 1: against Cleveland, Green head eight catches for a hundred and

456
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,200
Speaker 1: sixty nine yards and a touchdown, and then five catches

457
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 1: for a hundred twenty eight yards. It's pretty good one touchdown.

458
00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,880
Speaker 1: So Green is an obvious A. No other Cincinnati wide

459
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,480
Speaker 1: receiver has more than six targets or four catches in

460
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 1: a game, so they are all on the bench. Uh

461
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:24,119
Speaker 1: so really that brings us to Joe Mixon. So uh

462
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 1: the running game here, The torch was officially passed to

463
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,679
Speaker 1: mixing last week. One touches a hundred and one combined

464
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,879
Speaker 1: rushing and receiving yards. Geo Bernard and Jeremy Hill split

465
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 1: just thirteen touches between them, So this is all about

466
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 1: mixing here. If you look at Cleveland's defense on paper,

467
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: they look okay. They held a Rusty Levy on Bell

468
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,240
Speaker 1: to thirty two yards in Week one and then they

469
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,680
Speaker 1: held Baltimore in Indianapolis down, but that's not saying much.

470
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,240
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna bank more on what they did last

471
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,280
Speaker 1: year when they were the second worst run defense in

472
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Speaker 1: the NFL. No reason to think they've suddenly turned the

473
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Speaker 1: corner here. So uh this uh you know, I don't know.

474
00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 1: Maybe last week was Mixing's brain account game, but this

475
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 1: could be at here. Much like some of the other

476
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Speaker 1: rookies have done so far, I think we're gonna see

477
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 1: a big, big game from Joe Mixing here on the

478
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 1: brown side, I don't have a single well, I have

479
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:14,159
Speaker 1: almost a starting grade. Let's you've got a you've got

480
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 1: a deep plot. Yeah, let's start in the in the

481
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 1: passing game, where I've got to Shaun Kaiser on the bench.

482
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,360
Speaker 1: He does have rushing touchdowns in two of three games.

483
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,160
Speaker 1: But this Cincinnati defense is is pretty solid. They weren't

484
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 1: tested in weeks one and two by Joe Flacco and

485
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, and then Aaron Rodgers torched them. But Shaun Kaiser,

486
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 1: he's not Aaron Rodgers, So there's just not enough here

487
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,280
Speaker 1: to like for Kaiser uh bench. All the wide receivers.

488
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 1: Kenny Britt had one catching news of the first two games.

489
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 1: He scored in Week three looked a little bit more involved,

490
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,160
Speaker 1: but there's just nothing here. Richard Higgins, of course, two

491
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,520
Speaker 1: weeks ago, had the seven catches for ninety five yards.

492
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 1: Everybody picked him up. He was the hot waiver wire ad.

493
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 1: Then he had two catches on six targets in Week three.

494
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,439
Speaker 1: So these guys are all on the bench, as is

495
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,199
Speaker 1: um rookie tight end David and Joeku Uh two touchdowns

496
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 1: in two games, but no more than three catches or

497
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 1: twenty nine yards in a game so far. In the

498
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,120
Speaker 1: running game, I've got Isaiah Crowle on the bench since

499
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 1: he allows just three and a half yards per carry.

500
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 1: UH just four running back touchdowns in their last nine

501
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,960
Speaker 1: games going back to last year. Kroll is averaging just

502
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 1: two point nine yards per carry and hasn't topped forty

503
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 1: four yards in a game. So that brings in the

504
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 1: one marginal starter here, and that's Duke Johnson, who I

505
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: gave a c really only in PPR leagues here because

506
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 1: that's the role he's playing. He has nine catches for

507
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Speaker 1: a hundred and forty yards in the last two last

508
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 1: two games. This matchup is a tough one, but since

509
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Speaker 1: he did. Cincinnati did allow the fifth most receptions to

510
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:43,360
Speaker 1: opposing running backs last year, So again, in a PPR situation, he's, uh,

511
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 1: maybe capable of filling in your flex spot. Your glimmer

512
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: of hope. Rizaiah Crow Well, he has scored and or

513
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: topped one hundred yards and three straight against the Bengals

514
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,360
Speaker 1: and they've they've been a good run defense through all

515
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Speaker 1: of those games. So that's your glimmer of hope. But

516
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Speaker 1: based on what what we've seen so far this year, it's

517
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:02,119
Speaker 1: been a disaster for a well. Unfortunately, when we come back,

518
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars take on the Jets, will Blake Bortles

519
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: back to back big explosive games. We'll find out when

520
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Speaker 1: we return. You're distinctive Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show. It is Fantasy Football Weekly

522
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Speaker 1: on the Fan Paul Charchy and Brian Johnson and Christian

523
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 1: Peterson with you. Blake Bortles. I've semi inexplicably went berserk

524
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:41,119
Speaker 1: in London on the Ravens last week, Brian, he could

525
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,200
Speaker 1: go back to back against the Jets. Yeah, he really

526
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 1: goes off in London, thought the place. I'll give him

527
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Speaker 1: a CE just because I like a few of his

528
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Speaker 1: pass catchers and this is the Jets, so Bortles gets

529
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Speaker 1: to see going over to his receivers Mark eas Lea

530
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 1: and give him a B. People probably forget that he

531
00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,920
Speaker 1: was drafted before Alan Robinson by the way. In fact,

532
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: he was on his way to a nice day in

533
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Speaker 1: London as well. Had four catches for sixty seven yards

534
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: on seven targets, but Jacksonville didn't really need to throw

535
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: the ball much in the second half, so he was

536
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: pretty much shut down. Lee has as many targets as

537
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,159
Speaker 1: Alan Hearns and Keelan Cole combined, and the Jets have

538
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: allowed at least one wide receiver touchdown in every game

539
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 1: so far. So I'm Mike and Lee. I'll give Hearns

540
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 1: to see as well. This is a good enough matchup

541
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,639
Speaker 1: for him. He did find the end zone in London.

542
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 1: Also a bit of a road warrior on the road

543
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: in his career, Herns is averaging extra twenty yards and

544
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,479
Speaker 1: has scored twice as many touchdowns as opposed to home

545
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,880
Speaker 1: fourteen to seven. Peculiar, very peculiar. Marcedes Lewis gonna give

546
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 1: him a C three touchdowns last week. We all saw

547
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 1: that coming. It'll happen again this week. Um was my

548
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: tight end number one. Yep, I'm called yeah, that was

549
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 1: a good call. I'm kidding, of course, as are you,

550
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: but are jokes aside. Other than Julius Thomas, opposing tight

551
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: ends have been very involved against the Jets. Baltimore tight

552
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 1: ends were targeted eleven times. Oakland tight ends were targeted

553
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 1: eight times. So there is a little hope from Marcedes

554
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 1: Lewis here, but the start of the day for the

555
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,719
Speaker 1: Jaguars will probably be Letard four net. I'll give him

556
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: a B almost in a without Sheldon Richardson, the Jets

557
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 1: ranked twenty five against the run per Football Outsiders d

558
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 1: v o A metrics. Fournet has scored in every game,

559
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 1: but he's working hard for his yards only three point

560
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: five years. The offensive line is giving him nothing. If

561
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: they get to be a guy I think he's running hard.

562
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 1: If they ever get that offensive line figured out, he

563
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,360
Speaker 1: will be a menace. H He has catch totals of three,

564
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,120
Speaker 1: three and two, which have been a nice little helper

565
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 1: as well in PPR leagues. But the one reason for

566
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: concern really is the Jets held j G I in

567
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,199
Speaker 1: company to twenty one yards on fourteen carries. So I

568
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 1: don't know. We'll see if they do that again. I'm

569
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: I'm I don't think. I don't either. So Fornet is

570
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,640
Speaker 1: definitely startable. But the Jets, really, outside of Elijah McGuire,

571
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 1: cps take a chance of me running back, and Austin

572
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 1: Sefari and Jenkins might take a chance on meat receiver.

573
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: I do think you can throw it darted, BELLEL. Powell.

574
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: I'll give him. Is a very tough matchup though the

575
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: Jaguars run defense. They allowed Derrick Henry to have a

576
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: pretty nice showing and Alex Collins did well in garbage time.

577
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: But take those two out of the equation and the

578
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: Jaguars are allowing three point four yards per carrying. Okay, yeah,

579
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 1: but they played three games. You can't take two of

580
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: the running backs away from them when they played three games.

581
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: I think they're just like the Jets. Past defense is awesome,

582
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: so I thinks tend to run the ball a lot

583
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: on them, and they're having a fair measure of success.

584
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: You're just trying to justify Belol Powell was like, yeah,

585
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 1: you were more than I was this year. I'm surprised

586
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: I have to I have to defend him this year. Guys,

587
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: but were And then as you said, revention the wide

588
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: receivers for the Jets, very tough matchup for them because

589
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: it's Bill all Powell. The Jets will find a way

590
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: to ensure that even with Forte out, Bill all Powell

591
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 1: is a non factor in this game, because that's what

592
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: the Jets do. Baby Uh. Carolina takes out the New

593
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: England Patriots. Who was the last year which who was

594
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 1: the quarterback that was had the epically bad season, so

595
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: bad that he's like out of football now Brock who's

596
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: got a worse passer rating this year than brock os

597
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 1: Swidler had last year. Cam Newton Patriots has spent the

598
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: first three weeks in shootouts, allowing three hundred passing yards

599
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 1: and multiple touchdowns in every game. So you would think

600
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 1: any minimum Cam can get you two garbage time stats

601
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: in this game. But we thought that last week when

602
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: he was playing the number thirty one ranked past defense

603
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 1: and did absolutely nothing. In fact, found his way to

604
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: getting benched. So this week, let's hope that God that

605
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: Cam can get it together one last chance at a

606
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: starting grade for Cam Newton. I'm actually giving him a B.

607
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Speaker 1: This is a Christian Peterson B. This is the only

608
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 1: reason is because you're on the show. See otherwise it

609
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 1: would be just delight in getting getting the Panthers matchup.

610
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 1: Did you assign the matchup this week? You did? Just

611
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: just say you could pummel him. Yes, he's bumbling himself

612
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: at this point. Christian McCaffrey has got a great opportunity

613
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: here be great here we saw it could happened last

614
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: week when when he's more involved in the passing game,

615
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: which you will be with Greg Olson out ended up

616
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 1: with nine receptions career high. And this is a Patriots

617
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: defense giving up six receptions eight four receiving yards per

618
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: game to opposing running backs. McCaffrey's a B grade. Even

619
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 1: Jonathan Stewart shoul getting the action at a sea level here.

620
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: I like him for the reasons that I like Christian McCaffrey.

621
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: I'm nervous about Stewart um because McCaffrey is gonna get

622
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: a lot of action through the air, but Stewarts should

623
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: still have a measure of success. Here. Teams are running

624
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: the ball against New England very well. New England's allowed

625
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: the seventh most rushing yards and get this five point

626
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: eight yards per carry against the Patriots. Also in the

627
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: passing game, Calvin Benjamin and Devin Funch just gets C grades.

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00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,719
Speaker 1: Benjamin is going to play. Devin funchis was gonna take

629
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 1: a chance of me wide receiver in this one. If

630
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: I if I can muster my way to a B

631
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: grade on Cam Newton, I gotta go with his receivers

632
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: as well. Um, New England is a lot of the

633
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: third most wide receiver yards one per game. Let's go

634
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: to the New England side. Brady Gronk Cooks all obvious

635
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: A plays at their at their respective positions. They ranked first,

636
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: verse and eighth in my rankings positional ranking. So Brady

637
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 1: Gronkin Cook's all in. Let's go to some some of

638
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: the dice heer guys. Chris Hogan gets a B grade

639
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: here he faces a airline defense that just gave up

640
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: touchdowns the three different New Orleans receivers, although they did

641
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: not give up a single score to receivers in the

642
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: first two weeks of the season. Of course, that's because

643
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 1: they played Hoyer entirode Taylor in the first two weeks.

644
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: Now they get a passing attack that's much closer to

645
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: what they had last week when they wilted in the

646
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 1: face of Drew Brees. Chris Hogan gets a B. Damny

647
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: on Danny Almondola, though I'm putting on the bench, he

648
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: works primarily out of the slot. That means he's gonna

649
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: draw Captain Munderland, who is a solid slot receiver orcho

650
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: slat cornerback. Let's go to the running backs. Mike gillis

651
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: Lee gets a B grade here. Last week the Patriots

652
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: scored five times. None were from Gillislee, in no small

653
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: part because all of the touchdowns were from at least

654
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Speaker 1: five yards out and more. And you know all this works.

655
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 1: Gillislee needs carries inside the five and then you get

656
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Speaker 1: your touchdowns like he did in weeks one and two.

657
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: Potentially worrisome, though, the three rushes the Panthers defense has

658
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: faced from inside the five yard line have resulted in

659
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Speaker 1: a net of negative six yards for the offense, and

660
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Speaker 1: obviously no touchdown scored when you're pushing back the opposing line,

661
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: So a measure of worry there for Mike Gillislee, still

662
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Speaker 1: a B grade because I do think points are coming,

663
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Speaker 1: and a C grade for James White. Last year, the

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Speaker 1: Panthers allowed the third most receptions to running backs, although

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Speaker 1: they only gave up one receiving touchdown all year, which

666
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 1: is a little inexplicable. Same deal going this year. They're

667
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: giving up seven running back receptions per game, but nobody

668
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: has scored. Will expect James White to do a lot

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Speaker 1: of what you've seen so far. Let's go to our

670
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Speaker 1: next matchup, which is uh New Orleans taking on Miami

671
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Speaker 1: Christian We just talked a little bit in passing about

672
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: Drew Brees another excellent opportunity for him here. Uh yeah, absolutely.

673
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: The bad news is he's on the road where over

674
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: the last couple of years he'll he averages sixty fewer

675
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 1: yards and almost a touchdown fewer than he does at home.

676
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: But the good news is he's still still yards and

677
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: almost two touchdown per games. So he's an obvious a start,

678
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: as is Michael Thomas here. Thomas had seven catches for

679
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: eighties seven yards and a touchdown last week, but that

680
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: was almost a disappoint because he had five for fifty

681
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: and that touchdown on the first drive alone and then

682
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: sort of disappeared. So I still don't think we've seen

683
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Speaker 1: the Michael Thomas breakout, but it could come this week

684
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,439
Speaker 1: against a really bad Miami Michael Thomas break out last

685
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 1: week with two touchdowns and you know now he just

686
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: he just had one. Though he had he said one time.

687
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 1: Maybe you keep going. I will thank you. According to

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00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 1: Football Outsiders, the Dolphins ranked against opposing number one wide

689
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:30,319
Speaker 1: receivers and dead last at defending excuse me, opposing number

690
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 1: two wide receivers. So Michael Thomas is an easy a

691
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: ted gain. I'm not gonna go there. No more than

692
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: six targets, five catches, or fifty three yards in a

693
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Speaker 1: game thus far. He may return. He cropped up on

694
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: the injury report with a hamstring injury and he's questionable.

695
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: But because of that and because of the three game suspension,

696
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: he's a little bit rusty. I don't trust Willie Snead

697
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Speaker 1: for this week. Seven one for Michael Thomas, thank you

698
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: very much. As I said, uh, let's bring let's bring

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00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 1: Kobe Fleaner into play this week as a Sea level starter.

700
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: Scored in weeks one and two of course, the last

701
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 1: three games, his target touches have gone to six to

702
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: four to one, so they're not using them that much.

703
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: But Miami allowed hundred one yards in a touchdown to

704
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 1: Chargers tight ends in Week one. Safari and Jenkins went

705
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 1: for five catches in Week two. Dating back to the

706
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,800
Speaker 1: middle of last year, they've allowed nine tight end touchdowns

707
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: in their last nine games. So an opportunity to to

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00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: hop back on the Fleaner mobile this week. In the

709
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,839
Speaker 1: running game, I've got these guys all on the benchmark

710
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: ingram Adrian Peterson, Alvin Kamara. The Dolphins held Melvin Gordon

711
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 1: to thirteen rushing yards on nine carries. They held Balal

712
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: Powell to thirty seven yards on fifteen carries, so they've

713
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:42,280
Speaker 1: been very good so far. For the Saints, no running

714
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 1: back has run for more than fifty six yards in

715
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: a game this year, and only one Kamara has scored.

716
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: Interesting story, I learned last night that Adrian Peterson's daughters,

717
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: one of his many daughters, is in third grade with

718
00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 1: my son and she she plays touch football playground and

719
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: it's quite good and it's not I bet, I bet

720
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: she's great and is not afraid to tell people that

721
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: her dad. Yeah, that's that's Adriana Peterson. Is that her name, Adriana.

722
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. I'm not surprised. It's a little bit

723
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 1: like George Farman's kids. That's right. Yeah. On the Dolphins side,

724
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 1: we have a homecoming of sorts here for Jgi. Of sorts.

725
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: This is like the most epic homecoming I've ever heard

726
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: of in my life. Yeah, he's from London and so

727
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 1: here he is back in London. He looked great in

728
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: week one, then of course laid the huge egg in

729
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: week two. As I believe charge was he your number

730
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: one running He was my number one running back last week? Everything,

731
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,879
Speaker 1: everything suggested that he should have had an awesome game

732
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:42,399
Speaker 1: against goes for eleven carries in sixteen yards, and he's

733
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: my number three this week. So apparently I am incapable

734
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: of learning from my mistakes. The Saints give up four

735
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 1: and a half yards per carry. Daln Cook went for

736
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: a hundred twenty seven yards against him in week one.

737
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 1: The matchup is right here. It's the homecoming for a Gi.

738
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 1: I think this is the game we were expecting last

739
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: week and obvious a level start here. No team has

740
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 1: given up more total yards to running backs than the Saints. YEP,

741
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: the passing game Jay Cutler was, it was charges to

742
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: take a chance on me. Guy. I've got a start

743
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: in greade on him as well. I gave him a B.

744
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 1: Wide receiver Davanta Parker, let's give him an A kind

745
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,800
Speaker 1: of salvaged a weird game last week with a garbage

746
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: time touchdown. Now gets the Saints defense that's given up

747
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: nine wide receiver touchdowns in their last six games. Uh

748
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: gave up tune in fifty yards to Stefan Diggs and

749
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: Adam Felan in Week one than a hundred and eighty

750
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 1: three yards to Patriots wide receivers a week ago, So

751
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: this could be a big game for Davante Parker. I've

752
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,799
Speaker 1: also got a starting grade on Jarvis Landry. Let's give

753
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: him a B. He's got double digit targets in both games,

754
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 1: and slot guys have been able to do some damage

755
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: against the Saints. Adam Theland played a lot out of

756
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: the slot in his big game. Chris Hogan as well,

757
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: seventy yards and a touchdown out of the slot, So uh,

758
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: it should be a good game for Jarvis Landry as well.

759
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: I like I like both of them a lot here,

760
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 1: and that's part of why I had ja Cutlers might

761
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: take a chance to me quarterback make life's opportunities for

762
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: his receivers, and Sterling Moore may very well not play

763
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: in that game. Final matchup of this segment, it's the

764
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans taking on the Houston the Houston Texans. What

765
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: do you make of that? That Titans backfield, Because man,

766
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: that that's throwing fantasy owners for a total loop. This

767
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: whole team is the most exasperating fantasy team out there,

768
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: probably headache. But Murray, Yeah, he was on the ropes

769
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: last week, but certainly showed he has some fight left.

770
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: I'll give him a B, albeit in a tough matchup.

771
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: The Texans are ranked seventh against the run by Football Outsiders.

772
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 1: They've only allowed one hundred and sixteen rushing yards to

773
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: running backs over the last two games, and they're not

774
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 1: very generous through the air either to backs. Leonard for

775
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: Nett had the best game receiving by running back with

776
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 1: three catches and for twenty four yards. So not a

777
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: great matchup for Murray, but you gotta play him. I'll

778
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 1: give Derrick Henry a desperation ce based on this matchup.

779
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,800
Speaker 1: He got more carries than Murray when these two teams

780
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 1: met the second time late last year, total sixty eight

781
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 1: yards on sixteen touches and scored a touchdown. Henry was

782
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: somewhat quiet compared to Murray last week, but he still

783
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: got thirteen carries, and on the season, Henry has twice

784
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: as many red zone carries as tomorrow Ko does, so

785
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: he could factor in there. I'll give Richard Matthews, Eric Decker,

786
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 1: and Corey Davis, who's making his return to see because

787
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: the Texans are still without starting corner Kevin Johnson. UH.

788
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,280
Speaker 1: They had their way with Jacksonville and Cincinnati wide receivers,

789
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 1: but New England wide outs just put up four touchdowns

790
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: against the Texans, so there is some hope for Tennessee

791
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 1: pass catchers here. Matthews is the best play of the four,

792
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: or of the three. He had nine for one, fourteen

793
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,760
Speaker 1: in a touch and two for eighty two against Houston

794
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: last year. UH Delaney Walker just to see for him.

795
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: In two games against the Texans last year, he totaled

796
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 1: just seven catches for sixty nine yards. UH saw nine

797
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 1: targets in Week one, but just six and four in

798
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 1: the two games since. He's clearly feeling the effect of

799
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: that three headed wide receiver monster with Davis coming back especially,

800
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 1: and Marcus Mariotta just gets to say see here as well.

801
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,320
Speaker 1: Only one career game against Houston, surprisingly and it was

802
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,479
Speaker 1: not good, so I won't even go there. He's coming

803
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 1: off two tough matchups Jacksonville and Seattle. He did scrape

804
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: together two hundred fifty all purpose yards and two touchdowns

805
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,879
Speaker 1: against the Seahawks. He could do that here as well.

806
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: Moving to Houston real quick. DeAndre Hopkins gets an a.

807
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:06,320
Speaker 1: The NFL's target leader posted seven catches for one hundred

808
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: twenty three yards at his most recent meeting with Tennessee.

809
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 1: That was like we would brock Oswiler at the Helm too,

810
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 1: So that's pretty phenomenal when you think about it. Easy

811
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: start there. Ryan Griffin tight end is startable to. You

812
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: can give him a see five catches for sixty one

813
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown in New England last week. Jared

814
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: Cook was a PPR helper against UM Tennessee with five

815
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 1: catches for fifty six yards. Jimmy Graham and Luke Wilson

816
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 1: total ten catches for a hundred twenty five yards in

817
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: a touchdown against Tennessee. So Griffin is in play, Deshaun

818
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: Watson was might take a chance on the quarterback and

819
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 1: Lamar Miller. Lamar Miller, he gets to see left tackle

820
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: Dwyane Brown continues to hold out. Starting center Greg Mans

821
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: will sit. Miller has never had this line fully intact

822
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 1: from the moment he landed in Houston last year. I'm

823
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: just not that good. Hey, yes, he's pretty good. The

824
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: line is not good, but anyway, he's not gonna do

825
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: well here. The Titans are allowing less than three and

826
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 1: a half yards per carry and Dante Foreman is going

827
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: to get eight to twelve carries as well, So this

828
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: is just a bad matchup for Milliary. Yet again, it

829
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: is another bad matchup for him, and I'm glad you

830
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: mentioned offensive lines in trouble. Also out for Houston. UH

831
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 1: starting quarterback Kevin Johnson's out as well, which is another

832
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: reason to think that maybe Mariodin's receivers had a little

833
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,720
Speaker 1: better game. UH. Final final letter grade for this show

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00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: is a grade Marty Volpava, forty year letter carrier at

835
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Speaker 1: the Columbia Heights Post Office and Avid listener retiring today.

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00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:33,280
Speaker 1: A grade for Marty Vorpova Volpova. Congratulations, Marty, enjoy your retirement.

837
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Speaker 1: Hope you can see now you can get an extra

838
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: fantasy football leagues right, you're not working. Let's give him

839
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: a peacock for that service. That's pretty good. Uh maybe

840
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: it was, or maybe he was more of a fantasy

841
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: bell car for the Columbia Heights post Office. That's that's

842
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: a possibility that I don't think we can just easily dismiss.

843
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: That could be the case. When we come back five

844
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: hot questions, see if you can go five and oh

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Speaker 1: against our panel of experts, your distinctive Fantasy Football Weekly

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Speaker 1: good I think so too. Question number one. Before his suspension,

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Speaker 1: Willie Sneed had a seventh round a DP going off

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Speaker 1: the board his wide receiver thirty five. He returns this week.

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Speaker 1: From this point forward, will will he Sneed be better

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Speaker 1: than wide receiver thirty five or worse than wide receiver

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Speaker 1: thirty five? Christian, I'm gonna go with worse. Um, he

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Speaker 1: was the wide receiver thirty nine last year, so I

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Speaker 1: think everybody was sort of appropriately handicapping this coming into

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Speaker 1: the season before the before the suspension, of course, everybody

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Speaker 1: knew that Brandon Cooks was leaving, and I think they

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00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: had higher hopes for Snead based on that. But I

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Speaker 1: went back and did some research. Basically, Sneed is relevant

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Speaker 1: when he's heavily targeted and not when he's not, as

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Speaker 1: he might expend funny, Yeah, when targeted at least eight times,

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00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: he has averages seven catches for ninety yards. When targeted

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Speaker 1: fewer than eight times in his career, just three point

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Speaker 1: three catches for forty four yards. So that's really what

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Speaker 1: it's all about here. Michael Thomas so far this year

886
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Speaker 1: is the only Saints wide receiver to be targeted more

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Speaker 1: than eight times. Uh Ted ginn has involved Brandon Coleman

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Speaker 1: looks okay? Uh So Yeah, Willie Sneed certainly isn't gonna

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Speaker 1: just step into Brandon Cook's shoes from last year. And

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Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see some big games from him

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Speaker 1: when he happens to be in the game plan and

892
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Speaker 1: targeted a lot, but you're gonna see a lot more

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Speaker 1: bad games. So yeah, he's gonna finish around whatever wide

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Speaker 1: receiver thirty nine like he did last year. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't have much to add I don't. I won't trust

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Speaker 1: Willie Snein is my wide receiver. Three h He's only

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Speaker 1: scored in five of thirty career games. Um, so he

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Speaker 1: needs to get his work done. Between the twenties and

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Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara in the mix, now that's like another fifty

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Speaker 1: to sixty targets that aren't up for grabs. So almost

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Speaker 1: CP and saying no, you guys took all my talking point.

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Speaker 1: The answer is no. Question number two. It looks like

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Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt is the cream of the rookie crop. But

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Speaker 1: after him, which rookie runner will have the best fantasy career?

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Speaker 1: So not just next week, not just this year, the

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Speaker 1: best fantasy career Brian talking to people in Dynasty and

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Speaker 1: Empire leagues. Oh, it is Dalvin Cook and he's shown

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Speaker 1: that already. Uh flashing a superior skill set um with

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Speaker 1: an without an extra defender in the box. He's averaging

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Speaker 1: five yards per carry so far this year, so you

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Speaker 1: basically have to account for him at all times. You

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Speaker 1: do that, he'll kick out to the outside, catch them passes.

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Speaker 1: He's got a legit wide receiver duo and Adam Feeling

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Speaker 1: and Stefon Diggs now you can only hope that offensive

915
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Speaker 1: line will continue to improve. I think the Bikings will

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Speaker 1: make a concerted effort to do that. So it's Dalvin

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Speaker 1: Cook all day. Okay, yeah, I agree, it's a cook um.

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Speaker 1: You know you said, you said it all in terms

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Speaker 1: of the production that he's had so far. But he's

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Speaker 1: drawing his you know, rave reviews for his past protection

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Speaker 1: as well, almost as much as for what he's doing

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Speaker 1: when he's got the ball in his hand, so he

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Speaker 1: looks like he has the whole package. In fact, I

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Speaker 1: would potentially argue that he's not behind Kareem Hunts. I

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Speaker 1: think he might be a little bit ahead of Kareem

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Speaker 1: Hunt in a dynasty league. If I had Kareem Hunt

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Speaker 1: and somebody offered me Dalvin Cook for him, you'd make

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Speaker 1: that trade. I think I would make the trade. Wow

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Speaker 1: came down to Dalvin Cook. I think the the other

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Speaker 1: runners up were Leo for Nett or Tarik Cohen. Uh.

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Speaker 1: None of them have certainty at quarterback, which who would

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Speaker 1: have been to me a huge deciding factor. So you've

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Speaker 1: got to if you've got to grief, you've got a

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Speaker 1: quality quarterback that makes the running back. So life on

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Speaker 1: the running back so much easier, but none of them

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Speaker 1: have certainty at quarterback. I took Cohen out because he's

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Speaker 1: locked into a time share and he's not going to

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Speaker 1: get the easy rushing touchdowns throughout most of it what

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Speaker 1: presumably most of his career. With Jordan Howard there, I'm

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Speaker 1: removing for Net because his team is the most unstable

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Speaker 1: at quarterback. His offensive line is the worst of the three,

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Speaker 1: and it's a PPR world, and he's probably gonna catch

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Speaker 1: the least passes out of all of these guys. So

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Speaker 1: I took for Net out as well, and that leaves

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Speaker 1: us with Dalvin Cook Davanni's tot question number three. Julio

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Speaker 1: Jones currently ranks around wide receiver forty in most scoring systems,

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Speaker 1: and he's already hurt. Is it time to stop thinking

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Speaker 1: about Julio Jones as a Tier one fantasy receiver? Christian?

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Speaker 1: It kind of depends on how you're defining Tier one,

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Speaker 1: uh for me, because here here here fantasy finishes um

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Speaker 1: in the last five years, which these are, these are,

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Speaker 1: he's been health mong for most of the season for

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Speaker 1: five of of six. Yeah, among receivers, sixth last year,

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Speaker 1: second the year before eighth, ninth years before that, and

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Speaker 1: then seventeenth in his rookie year. Um, so he's a

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Speaker 1: universally is drafted among the top three or four wide receivers,

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Speaker 1: maybe the top one or two, and he's only finished

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Speaker 1: that way once. So using that argument, I think you

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Speaker 1: could probably say he's not actually a Tier one wide

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Speaker 1: receiver because he continually disappoints. He doesn't he's not a

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Speaker 1: big bust every year. But and the injury thing is

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Speaker 1: it's problematic. You know, over the last couple of years,

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00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: he's been on and off the injury report for most

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Speaker 1: of the year, and often, to his credit, he will

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Speaker 1: suit up and play, but he often does not perform

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Speaker 1: as well in those games because he's clearly hobbled. So

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Speaker 1: it's kind of a tough situation for fantasy owners. But

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Speaker 1: this is a yes or no question. Does he belong

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00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 1: and does Julio? Is it time? Is it time to

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Speaker 1: stop thinking about Julio Jones is a Tier one fantasy receiver? Yes,

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00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 1: it's time. I gotta say no, but I'm close to

972
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Speaker 1: saying yes. Uh, long story short, I know he's not

973
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Speaker 1: injured to me right now, he's off the injury report,

974
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Speaker 1: but yes, he's usually on it every week. He was

975
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Speaker 1: on it on Wednesday and Thursday Friday. So yeah, but

976
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Speaker 1: uh well I was I was wrong on Corey Davis.

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Speaker 1: So now now we're even. But anyway, um who. He

978
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Speaker 1: has had ten plus ppyard points in every game so

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Speaker 1: far this year. Chicago was a surprisingly tough matchup in

980
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: Week one, but his targets have trended up from five

981
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: to nine to twelve. He's only twenty eight years old.

982
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 1: His skills have not really diminished at all. I'm just

983
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 1: gonna hold out hope for him, and I'm gonna keep

984
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 1: him in the Tier one. It's super close, isn't it, Guys.

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00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: I mean as I was when I wrote it. My

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Speaker 1: original thinking was when I wrote the question, the original

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00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: thinking was, you know, I think it is time to

988
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 1: think of him for think of him outside of Tier one.

989
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 1: You know, there's all the reasons that you guys mentioned

990
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: you got and except I'll add this inexplicable lack of

991
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 1: red zone targets and back to back years they don't

992
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 1: throw to him in the end zone. And it's gotten

993
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:21,320
Speaker 1: worse this year. It was bad last year, it's worse

994
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:25,840
Speaker 1: this year. That said, if if I told you twenty

995
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: eight hours from now he was sitting on two hundred

996
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: yards and two touchdowns. Would you even be surprised? Not

997
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:33,799
Speaker 1: at all, Not at all. So for that reason he

998
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 1: I'm still thinking of a Tier one wide receiver, but

999
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: dangs it close. Devanny's hot question number four. While we're

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Speaker 1: reconsidering who is and is not an elite receiver? Is

1001
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs quietly a Tier one fantasy receiver? Brian, so

1002
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:54,399
Speaker 1: here was my preseason tier one was Antonio Brown, Julio Jones,

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Speaker 1: Odell Beckham, Mike Evans, Jordy Nelson, A J. Green, in

1004
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 1: no particular order. I'm gonna leave Evans out of this

1005
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: convo because he's an played two games. Uh, the others

1006
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 1: have played three. But other than that group, other than

1007
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Speaker 1: Brown and Green, Diggs has more catches than those guys.

1008
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,840
Speaker 1: Other than Brown, Diggs has more yards. Other than Jordan

1009
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: Diggs has more touchdowns that that preseason tier one I'd

1010
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 1: say DeAndre Hopkins and Brandon Cooks are now in that

1011
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 1: tier as well. After the first three weeks of the season,

1012
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Speaker 1: I still couldn't trade any of the aforementioned receivers straight

1013
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 1: up for Stefon Diggs, but the tier right below Michael Thomas, Keenan,

1014
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:28,839
Speaker 1: Allen Alshon, Jeffrey Michael, Mary Cooper, Michael Crabtree. I'd put

1015
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 1: him right there and trade for those guys. So he

1016
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Speaker 1: is knocking on the door, but he's not in the

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Speaker 1: first all right, what do you think, Christian? I agree,

1018
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: he's he's in the he's in that second tier right now.

1019
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: We just we just haven't quite seen him do this consistently.

1020
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Speaker 1: He You'll remember last year he had a couple of

1021
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:46,319
Speaker 1: huge games as well, um, but they were sort of

1022
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: spaced out and and over the long haul he turned

1023
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 1: out to be inconsistent. He had he had a lot

1024
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 1: of duds to go along with those, and only the

1025
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,399
Speaker 1: three touchdowns last year right on the touchdown scoring. He's

1026
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:57,439
Speaker 1: got four this year. But he's he's a small guy.

1027
00:50:57,480 --> 00:50:59,919
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to find ways to manufacture those those

1028
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 1: those touchdowns. I don't think he's gonna ever gonna be

1029
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:05,880
Speaker 1: a real dangerous, you know, highly targeted end zone kind

1030
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:07,839
Speaker 1: of guy. So I just need to see a little

1031
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 1: bit more consistency, and once he does that, he'll be

1032
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:11,840
Speaker 1: in Tier one. But for now he's just a step

1033
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: behind Tier one. Fantasy receivers have this in common. Stable

1034
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: strong quarterbacking. Jordy's got a rog, Brown has got Big Ben,

1035
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 1: Mike Evans has, Jamis Winston, Odell Beckham is Eli Manning.

1036
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:29,719
Speaker 1: Until Diggs has stable, repeatable strong quarterbacking, he can't be

1037
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 1: a Tier one guy because his quarterback will will hold

1038
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:37,440
Speaker 1: him back from consistent greatness. And that's why Stefon Diggs

1039
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Speaker 1: is not yet a Tier one Fantasy wide Receiver's Hot

1040
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: question number five. Some hapless owner has been sitting on

1041
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck for a month. Do you want to buy

1042
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 1: low knowing that someone else has already driven the depreciation

1043
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 1: off the lot on Andrew Luck? Christian, I'm that hapless

1044
00:51:55,880 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 1: owner in like three of my leagues. Uh stings, It stings,

1045
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 1: and I and I can't buy low on him either.

1046
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 1: So there's lots of talk about him not returning until November,

1047
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,320
Speaker 1: but that's based on one like Twitter doctor that basically

1048
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:10,280
Speaker 1: said that I think that I think he'll be back sooner.

1049
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 1: The Colts didn't put him on the Populist, so they

1050
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: must be targeting something sooner than that. But regardless, the

1051
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: schedule once he comes back is what makes me say

1052
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:22,359
Speaker 1: it's not worth trading for him. He's got Jacksonville since

1053
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:26,760
Speaker 1: e Houston, Pittsburgh, Tennessee, Jacksonville again, then Buffalo and Denver

1054
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 1: near the end of the season. Jacksonville right now is

1055
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:33,240
Speaker 1: the number one defense against posing quarterbacks, Pittsburgh is number two,

1056
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:36,800
Speaker 1: Buffalo is number three. So that's four of the seven

1057
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,240
Speaker 1: opponents when he comes out of this. If he comes

1058
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 1: out of this healthy, that are really really good. And

1059
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:45,440
Speaker 1: then Denver in Week fifteen in the fantasy playoffs, so

1060
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: he might not even be usable in you could argue

1061
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: five of the games even after he comes back healthy.

1062
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:54,359
Speaker 1: So uh, yeah, I'm not gonna go by low on Okay, Brian. Yeah,

1063
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 1: if you somehow came back next week and got to

1064
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 1: face the forty Niners and then the Titans in the

1065
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: following week, I'd be in on buying and then flipping

1066
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: him immediately after those first two games. But as CP said,

1067
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 1: he's he's not gonna be back for the next the

1068
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:07,799
Speaker 1: next two games, so and then the schedule's brutal after

1069
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: if he even comes back. So no, I'm not buying

1070
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 1: low either. What people always forget is the opportunity cost

1071
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:15,719
Speaker 1: of using a roster spot on a useless guy for

1072
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:17,719
Speaker 1: four or five weeks, which is probably how long he's

1073
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:21,760
Speaker 1: out there. That roster spot could be a budding young star,

1074
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 1: somebody that's gonna flash, or somebody's gonna help you one

1075
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: week at a time as you flipped streamer to streamer

1076
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: on that spot. There's real opportunity costs with that lost

1077
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: spot that you've got on Andrew Luck and for that reason, no,

1078
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 1: you should not be buying low. Just be glad you

1079
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:40,719
Speaker 1: didn't invest. Sorry. CP. The Crust Church Challenge winner in

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Speaker 1: week number three is William Ender. William Ender will end

1081
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 1: his season at Manny's Steakhouse four, our big end of

1082
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 1: season winners banquet in his chance at the two thousand

1083
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 1: dollar grand prize. It is free to play the Green

1084
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 1: Belt Premium Crush Church Challenge. Just go to grain Belt

1085
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:02,360
Speaker 1: dot com, put a roster together to defeat my roster,

1086
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:06,960
Speaker 1: and you are on your way. Many things to Manny's

1087
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,840
Speaker 1: and UH and Dave Wilson, general manager over there, and

1088
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:12,360
Speaker 1: our friends at the Brewery. Go ahead. Sorry. In my defense,

1089
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: most of the league's are dynasty leagues in which I

1090
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 1: have anderlock. That is, so let's be clear, you can

1091
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: drop underlock. I mean there's no, if in season long,

1092
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 1: you can just drop him out right right now. One

1093
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:29,800
Speaker 1: quarterback leagues, especially even particularly one quarterback leagues. Uh, Steelers

1094
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 1: take on the Baltimore Ravens. Let's start on the seat

1095
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: Steeler side of the ball. Antonio Brown and Levy on

1096
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:35,960
Speaker 1: Bell are obvious as let's go to the rest of

1097
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 1: the group. Ben Roethlisberger is on the road, so you

1098
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: know the deal. He's We've been saying this for two

1099
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 1: years now, one touchdown coming, because that's what he gives

1100
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 1: you on the road over the past three seasons on average,

1101
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:52,839
Speaker 1: particularly in Baltimore where he struggled. His average game over

1102
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:56,360
Speaker 1: the last four years in Baltimore a modest two hundred

1103
00:54:56,440 --> 00:55:00,280
Speaker 1: forty eight passing yards and one touchdown. That's it, now realized.

1104
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: The Ravens secondary just ignominiously got scorched by Blake Bortles.

1105
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:07,400
Speaker 1: But we'll assume it was the jet leg or the

1106
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:09,879
Speaker 1: Scotch eggs or the blood pudding or something that said.

1107
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 1: Do you buy into the idea that they'll be you know,

1108
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 1: they're hopping mad now and they're they're they're gonna come

1109
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:17,720
Speaker 1: out especially strong in this game. No, I think that's stupid.

1110
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't buy that stuff at all. I

1111
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:23,239
Speaker 1: really don't mark Tavis Bryant to see. Also, you know

1112
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:25,440
Speaker 1: the bit on Briant. It's all or nothing with Brian

1113
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:28,319
Speaker 1: to this point. Nothing is winning by a two to

1114
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 1: one margin in the three games. Bryant draws a Ravens

1115
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 1: defense that ranks seventh and receptions allowed third and touchdowns

1116
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,959
Speaker 1: allowed to wide receivers. And on the plus side, Brian

1117
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,800
Speaker 1: has scored four touchdowns in three career meetings with Baltimore,

1118
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:43,839
Speaker 1: so he has had a measure of success here. Jesse James,

1119
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 1: same deal. He's a low volume guy. If he doesn't

1120
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:49,400
Speaker 1: get your touchdown, you get nothing. Baltimore has a bottom

1121
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: five ranking and receiving yards allowed and touchdown surrendered to

1122
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 1: opposing tight ends. And we saw what Mercedes Louis did

1123
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 1: to Baltimore last week, so he gets a C grade.

1124
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Baltimore side where Alex Collins Brian

1125
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 1: was your take a chance on me running back. I've

1126
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 1: got a C grade on Bunk Alan. Alan has five

1127
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:07,839
Speaker 1: receptions in each of the last two games, and that

1128
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 1: might be the floor this week as Pittsburgh has just

1129
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 1: gave up twelve receptions to Chicago's running backs last week.

1130
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 1: So you figure Alan sitting on a bigger game than that.

1131
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:21,799
Speaker 1: Steelers have allowed four different backs to get four receptions

1132
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 1: in a game, and he doesn't have to fight for

1133
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 1: targets through the air from Terence West or Alex Collins.

1134
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: Those guys don't catch balls. I've got Terrence West on

1135
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 1: the bench. He's been bad, his offensive lines and shambles.

1136
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,440
Speaker 1: Alex Collins is stealing a bunch of his carries. He

1137
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:38,360
Speaker 1: had just six and eight carries the past two weeks.

1138
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 1: He's a borderline drop guy off your roster, and the

1139
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:44,160
Speaker 1: entire passing game for Baltimore is on the bench. They

1140
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 1: are dead last in passing attempts, they are dead last

1141
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: in passing completions, dead last passing yards per game, and

1142
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 1: averaging barely one passing touchdown per game. That's your Baltimore

1143
00:56:56,000 --> 00:57:00,880
Speaker 1: Ravens passing quote attack unquote, and Pitts is not a

1144
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 1: get well opponent. Flacco's average one touchdown pass over his

1145
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 1: last ten games against the Steelers and Pittsburgh currently ranks

1146
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,840
Speaker 1: number two against the past. Every member of the Ravens

1147
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 1: passing game is on the bench when we come back.

1148
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 1: Plenty more matchups to go, including the New York Giants

1149
00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 1: and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Is this this is your

1150
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: last great chance to start Jacky's Rogers? Is it going

1151
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:26,040
Speaker 1: to be a good one? Find out when we come

1152
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 1: back your distinctive Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan. Welcome

1153
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: back to the show Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan.

1154
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 1: Paul Church and Christian Peterson, Brian Johnson with you. Let's

1155
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 1: dive right back into the matchup. So we go to

1156
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 1: our giant's desk and oh wait, no, no, no, Christian

1157
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 1: with the are Giants to match up there? You'll bring

1158
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:04,680
Speaker 1: a level of sanity to the Giants matchup. Giant. Appreciate

1159
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:08,760
Speaker 1: Brian every week. A grade. Paul Perkins, A grade PAULA

1160
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 1: check the tape. Okay, Giants take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

1161
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 1: Let's start on the on the Giants side, there's no

1162
00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: running back to even talk about here. Let's go to

1163
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,160
Speaker 1: the patching game. Yeah, I've got an A grade on

1164
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 1: Eli Manning not the Giants desk um Eli had three

1165
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: and sixty six yards and three touchdowns last week, busted

1166
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:31,160
Speaker 1: out of his slump in a big way. Tampa's defense.

1167
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:33,160
Speaker 1: There may not be a worse passing defense in the

1168
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 1: NFL right now. They let Mike both Mike Glennon and

1169
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 1: case Keenum throw for more than three hundred yards. That

1170
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 1: is saying something. So it's an easy a for Eli

1171
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,880
Speaker 1: Manning here. As with Odell Beckham, he has to be

1172
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: the consensus number one wide receiver in fantasy football this week.

1173
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 1: Two touchdowns last week, played eighty percent of the snaps.

1174
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:54,320
Speaker 1: He's looking healthier and healthier. Tampa Bay secondary just allowed

1175
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:57,680
Speaker 1: two seventy one yards and two touchdowns to the combo

1176
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:01,440
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs and Adam Theeland last week. They probably are

1177
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 1: getting corner Brent Grimes back this week and that will

1178
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 1: help them, but they are still really banged up. Two

1179
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:09,200
Speaker 1: of their two of their starting linebackers and they're starting

1180
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 1: safety are out of this game, so they're not just bad,

1181
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: they are also injured. So Beckham is going to go

1182
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:17,120
Speaker 1: off here. He's an a Brandon Marshall was here to

1183
00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:19,400
Speaker 1: take a chance on me, guy. I agree, he should

1184
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:22,000
Speaker 1: be in your lineup if you've got him. Same with

1185
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd. Shepherd had the big game last week with

1186
00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:27,439
Speaker 1: d and thirty three yards in a touchdown, and there's

1187
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:29,760
Speaker 1: uh They're gonna be able to pass all over this team.

1188
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 1: Uh and even Evan, even Evan Ingram can be in there.

1189
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:35,600
Speaker 1: He's averaging four catches for forty six yards through the

1190
00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:38,640
Speaker 1: first three games. Bucks were pretty good against tight ends

1191
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 1: last year and have only allowed seven catches and forty

1192
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: two yards to tight ends in the first two games,

1193
00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 1: probably because wide receivers their way. But I think you

1194
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:50,640
Speaker 1: can start everybody in this passing game, and then you

1195
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 1: can start nobody in the running game. Paul Perkins garbage

1196
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 1: two point one yards per carry per carry, Orleans Darkwa

1197
00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 1: may not even play, Shane Vereen may not even plu.

1198
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 1: Maybe that gives us a chance for Wayne Gallman, the rookie.

1199
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 1: We get to see him a little bit. But Tampa's

1200
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:08,680
Speaker 1: I can't wait. Tampa's run defense is very good. They

1201
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 1: allowed two points seven yards per carrie held Jordan Howard

1202
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:13,480
Speaker 1: to seven yards on nine car Yeah, there's just nothing

1203
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 1: to see here in the running game. Let's go to

1204
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:17,480
Speaker 1: the other side of this matchup, which is a tricky

1205
01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:20,840
Speaker 1: one for the Bucks. Um I have I have a

1206
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:24,400
Speaker 1: bench grade on Jamis Winston here. The Giants defense is legit.

1207
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:27,480
Speaker 1: They've held opposing passers to just eighty nine yards per

1208
01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 1: game held Matthew Stafford to Carson Wentz to one seventy six.

1209
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 1: Winston had good stats last week in garbage time, but

1210
01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:39,200
Speaker 1: he looked awful. He's missing wide receivers, he's inaccurate, So

1211
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 1: I gotta put Winston on the bench here. I do

1212
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:45,680
Speaker 1: have a starting grade on Mike Evans just to be though. Um.

1213
01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 1: He sort of survived his matchup with Xavier Rhodes last week.

1214
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 1: He thought it was much better than it actually was.

1215
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 1: He did he was held to sixty seven yards. But

1216
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 1: it doesn't get much easier this week against Generas Jenkins,

1217
01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:59,280
Speaker 1: who's Pro Football Focus is number nine rated quarterback this far.

1218
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:02,439
Speaker 1: So other tough matchup for Mike Evans, but he's good

1219
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:04,880
Speaker 1: enough that you play him regardless of the matchup. And

1220
01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 1: I've got Sean Jackson on the bench. He gotta He

1221
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:09,760
Speaker 1: got a long touchdown last week as he's wont to do,

1222
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:12,160
Speaker 1: and he'll probably disappear this week as he's wont to

1223
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 1: do as well. So the matchup just isn't good enough

1224
01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:16,919
Speaker 1: for me to risk it with de Sean Jackson here,

1225
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 1: you're benching the tight ends. There's not much to see

1226
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:22,760
Speaker 1: there well, I guess Cameron Bright you could bring you

1227
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 1: could bring in there, but I don't know Cameron Brad

1228
01:01:26,480 --> 01:01:31,040
Speaker 1: the problem. Howard. The matchup is okay, but I just

1229
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:33,600
Speaker 1: don't like that split song going elsewhere. Uh. And let's

1230
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 1: talk about Jock Wiz Rogers. You talked about him earlier.

1231
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:38,560
Speaker 1: The Bucks they had to a band in the run

1232
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 1: last week, so Rogers didn't get much of a chance.

1233
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:43,480
Speaker 1: He's averaging just three point four yards per carry in

1234
01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:46,280
Speaker 1: the two games, but the Giants are allowing hundred and

1235
01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:49,600
Speaker 1: thirty rushing yards per game this year. Eagles running back

1236
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:53,080
Speaker 1: scored twice against them last week, so really, I think

1237
01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:55,960
Speaker 1: the way to move the ball against this elite passing

1238
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,080
Speaker 1: defenses is on the ground. So I think Rogers is

1239
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 1: gonna get enough touches here to Warren a starting grade.

1240
01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:03,960
Speaker 1: But I gave him just to see alright. Philadelphia takes

1241
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:07,440
Speaker 1: on the Los Angeles Chargers. Brian Art used Wendell Smallwood

1242
01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:09,880
Speaker 1: as my take a chance on me runner. But what

1243
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:12,120
Speaker 1: do you think about like Garrett Blonde in this one?

1244
01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:14,600
Speaker 1: Do you can you safely put him? Well, I'm sure

1245
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:16,680
Speaker 1: it's not safe, but do you recommend you have a

1246
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:20,320
Speaker 1: starting grade on him. I got a desperation. See on

1247
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:22,800
Speaker 1: Blonde who had twelve carries for sixty seven yards and

1248
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 1: a touchdown last week. Only just a good game, good

1249
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:27,520
Speaker 1: good line, only play. How he gets the bottom ranked

1250
01:02:27,560 --> 01:02:30,440
Speaker 1: Chargers run defense does He only played twenty two snaps,

1251
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:32,120
Speaker 1: so he's not on the field the whole lot. He

1252
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 1: did get all three rushes from inside the five yard

1253
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:41,240
Speaker 1: line last week, so he does have vulture potential. It's

1254
01:02:41,240 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 1: hard fire, almost like a that's like a velociraptor or something.

1255
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:54,960
Speaker 1: All right there. In the passing game, Carson Wentz gets

1256
01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:58,200
Speaker 1: a b Winza's top three yards and door throwing multiple

1257
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 1: touchdowns in five of his last six road games. The Chargers,

1258
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:05,040
Speaker 1: I almost said Clippers again, have allowed multiple passing touchdowns

1259
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:07,240
Speaker 1: in two of three games. So two fifty yards and

1260
01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:10,360
Speaker 1: two touchdowns seems like a safe floor for wins. On Sunday,

1261
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:13,840
Speaker 1: I'll give Alicean Jeffrey a B borderline a here corner.

1262
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:16,640
Speaker 1: Jason Rhett is done zo and that's the primary reason

1263
01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:19,080
Speaker 1: the Chargers have allowed the most wide receiver touchdowns so

1264
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:22,120
Speaker 1: far this year. Jeffrey's top six and targets hasn't blown

1265
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:24,080
Speaker 1: up the box score in two or three games, but

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Speaker 1: he's faced faced Josh Norman and the Giants, so this

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01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:29,080
Speaker 1: will be a much better matchup for him. I'll give

1268
01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:31,400
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz a B as well. Uh. He leads all

1269
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:34,440
Speaker 1: tight ends and targets catches and yards. The Chargers just

1270
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:37,840
Speaker 1: held Zach Travis Kelsey to one catch for one yard

1271
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:40,320
Speaker 1: last week, so that's my little bit of nerves there.

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01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 1: But he still gotta rollout earths with some confidence. And

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01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 1: UH that's it for Philly over to l A. Melvin

1274
01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:48,880
Speaker 1: Gordon gonna give him a B. It was a full

1275
01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:51,360
Speaker 1: participant on Friday and is expected to play with that

1276
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:54,520
Speaker 1: knee injury. Uh. The Giants running backs understandably wet the

1277
01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:57,320
Speaker 1: bed against Philly last week, but Kareem Hunt and the

1278
01:03:57,400 --> 01:03:59,960
Speaker 1: combo of Rob Kelly and Chris Thompson both fared well

1279
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:02,840
Speaker 1: against the Eagles. Gordon should match that volume if he

1280
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:07,080
Speaker 1: stays healthy. Uh. Keenan Allen he gets an A this week. UH.

1281
01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:09,440
Speaker 1: Target and catch totals have been that of a solid

1282
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:12,040
Speaker 1: wide receiver too so far this year, but he has

1283
01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:15,160
Speaker 1: wide receiver one potential in this one. Uh. Keenan Allen

1284
01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:17,840
Speaker 1: should have his way with either Patrick Robinson or Jalen

1285
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:21,320
Speaker 1: Mills at the cornerback position for Philly. The Giants Whiteouts

1286
01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:24,080
Speaker 1: just nearly racked up three hundred yards against the Eagles

1287
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:27,320
Speaker 1: with three touches in one quarter basically so uh And

1288
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 1: for that reason, Tyrell Williams and Travis Benjamin are both startable.

1289
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:33,200
Speaker 1: I'll give him a C C grade. I was admittedly

1290
01:04:33,320 --> 01:04:35,720
Speaker 1: much higher on Williams in the preseason, but Benjamin has

1291
01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:38,479
Speaker 1: posted better numbers so far, and this is a great

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01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:41,160
Speaker 1: matchup for both, so they're both startable. Uh. Not a

1293
01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:44,800
Speaker 1: great matchup for Hunter Henry or Antonio Gates. Henry had

1294
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:47,840
Speaker 1: zero targets for the second time last week. Yeah, and

1295
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:51,000
Speaker 1: Gates is just flat out old. Philly is historically bad

1296
01:04:51,040 --> 01:04:52,640
Speaker 1: matchup for tight ends, so I have both of those

1297
01:04:52,640 --> 01:04:55,440
Speaker 1: guys on the bench. But because of the great matchup

1298
01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:57,360
Speaker 1: for the wide receivers, I'll give Philip Rivers a B.

1299
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:00,880
Speaker 1: He was brutal last week against the Chiefs. Eli just

1300
01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 1: carved up the Eagles, and he and Rivers are forever intertwined,

1301
01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 1: so Rivers canna probably do the same here as well.

1302
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:10,120
Speaker 1: San Francisco takes on the Arizona Cardinals A C grade

1303
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:13,280
Speaker 1: on Carlos Hide averaging over one hundred total yards per game,

1304
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:16,280
Speaker 1: but tough, tough test against the Cardinals defense that hasn't

1305
01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:19,360
Speaker 1: allowed a running back to go over one hundred total

1306
01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:24,440
Speaker 1: yards in eleven straight games and holding opposing runners to

1307
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:28,320
Speaker 1: three point one yards per carry. They're great through the air,

1308
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 1: to they're allowing the fourth fewest running back receiving yards

1309
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:34,040
Speaker 1: and Hide was held to one yard per carry in

1310
01:05:34,080 --> 01:05:36,000
Speaker 1: his most recent matchup with Arizona at the end of

1311
01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:38,440
Speaker 1: last year, which was in and that game was in Arizona,

1312
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:40,320
Speaker 1: like this game is so a lot of caution on

1313
01:05:40,360 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 1: Carlos Hide here, Let's go to the passing game. Brian

1314
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:45,680
Speaker 1: Hoyer is a see his Week three explosion against the

1315
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:48,200
Speaker 1: Rams allowed him to surpass his two game totals from

1316
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:51,280
Speaker 1: weeks one and two. But the and the Arizona secondary

1317
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:55,240
Speaker 1: is kind of sneaky leaky. Going back to last year,

1318
01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:59,280
Speaker 1: half of the last six quarterbacks they faced have thrown

1319
01:05:59,360 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 1: four tough down passes, four sneaky leaky, and they're merely

1320
01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:08,440
Speaker 1: Cardinals are merely middle of the pass the middle of

1321
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:11,080
Speaker 1: the pack and passing yards allowed. So Holier does get

1322
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:13,160
Speaker 1: a starting grade in this one. So does Pierre Garson

1323
01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:17,080
Speaker 1: on pace for one hundred thirty eight targets, and this

1324
01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:20,720
Speaker 1: week he's gonna drop Patrick Peterson, which will make things

1325
01:06:20,760 --> 01:06:24,280
Speaker 1: pretty tough. But really, are the Niners gonna uncork a

1326
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:28,720
Speaker 1: dozen passes at Trent Taylor and Marky's Goodwin? Probably not so?

1327
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:32,280
Speaker 1: And Peterson, by the way, he ranks cornerback forty by

1328
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:36,200
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus, maybe he's not an absolute shutdown. Can't

1329
01:06:36,240 --> 01:06:39,320
Speaker 1: start anybody against him. Guy Pierre Garson keeps a startable

1330
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:41,840
Speaker 1: grade at see. And then your flyer is Marquis Goodwin,

1331
01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:44,479
Speaker 1: who's gonna draw Justin Bethel, who's been straight up bad

1332
01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:47,360
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay killed him in the opener, and Howler may

1333
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:50,200
Speaker 1: choose to avoid Patrick Peterson a fair mountain this game,

1334
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:52,440
Speaker 1: and then you'd go to Marquise Goodwin. Let's go to

1335
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:56,360
Speaker 1: the Arizona side. Larry Fitzgerald Bonker's game last week and

1336
01:06:56,400 --> 01:06:59,840
Speaker 1: another potentially big one coming. He's got thirty four targets,

1337
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:03,080
Speaker 1: which puts him on pace for almost two hundred targets

1338
01:07:03,080 --> 01:07:05,680
Speaker 1: on the season, which would be like a record or something.

1339
01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:08,160
Speaker 1: This week, he takes on a San Francisco defense that

1340
01:07:08,240 --> 01:07:11,240
Speaker 1: just allowed Sammy Watkins and Robert Woods to run rough

1341
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:14,960
Speaker 1: shot all all over them, and Fitzgerald's gonna draw slack

1342
01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:18,920
Speaker 1: corner Kwan Williams, who is dreadful. He ranks among cornerbacks

1343
01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 1: by Pro Football Focus, and for some reason, the Niners

1344
01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:25,040
Speaker 1: just extended him three games into his career with the Niners.

1345
01:07:25,320 --> 01:07:28,560
Speaker 1: After being cast aside by the Browns, the Niners decided

1346
01:07:28,600 --> 01:07:32,720
Speaker 1: to extend Kwan Williams the number nine cornerback. Go figure,

1347
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:35,360
Speaker 1: that's it's a very Niners thing to do. Let's go.

1348
01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:37,560
Speaker 1: Let's stay with the passing game. Carson Palmer gets a

1349
01:07:37,600 --> 01:07:41,800
Speaker 1: B and two full games without David Johnson. The Cardinals

1350
01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:44,560
Speaker 1: have asked Carson Palmer to carry the offense, and what's

1351
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:49,120
Speaker 1: he's done. Three hundred thirty two yards and three hundred

1352
01:07:49,160 --> 01:07:52,640
Speaker 1: twenty five yards real quick, most targets in the season.

1353
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:58,240
Speaker 1: Rob Moore of the Cardinals. Wow, really awesome, thank you.

1354
01:07:58,760 --> 01:08:00,400
Speaker 1: That will be the case this week is well, because

1355
01:08:00,400 --> 01:08:02,480
Speaker 1: the Cardinals runners stink and the Niners have evolved into

1356
01:08:02,520 --> 01:08:04,360
Speaker 1: a decent run defense. They're go only giving up three

1357
01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:06,960
Speaker 1: point five yards per carry, full yard better than last

1358
01:08:07,040 --> 01:08:11,080
Speaker 1: year's version. Another high volume game coming from Palmer against

1359
01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:13,080
Speaker 1: the past defense that just allowed a big game to

1360
01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:15,360
Speaker 1: Jared Goff and allowed Cam Newton to throw his only

1361
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:18,559
Speaker 1: touchdowns of the year. J J. Nelson gets a C grade.

1362
01:08:18,600 --> 01:08:21,960
Speaker 1: Should be healthier than last week. But John Brown returns

1363
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:24,800
Speaker 1: and that muddies the water some. The Cardinals can't run

1364
01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:27,400
Speaker 1: the ball. Nelson has scored in six of the past

1365
01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:29,760
Speaker 1: eight games going back to last year, so I think

1366
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:33,519
Speaker 1: just through sheer volume here, Nelson remains startable. I'm keeping

1367
01:08:33,560 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 1: the two Browns on the bench because I think they

1368
01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:37,360
Speaker 1: kind of neutralize each other a bit here, and you

1369
01:08:37,400 --> 01:08:40,080
Speaker 1: can't start any of the Cardinals running backs, including the

1370
01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:44,280
Speaker 1: undead corpse of the tap dancing Nancy. Arizona ranks twenty

1371
01:08:44,360 --> 01:08:48,360
Speaker 1: nine in rushing attempts, thirty one in yards per rushing attempt,

1372
01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:53,120
Speaker 1: thirty feet in rushing yards per game. Next matchup is

1373
01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:57,360
Speaker 1: the Oakland Raiders at the Denver Broncos. Raiders coming off

1374
01:08:57,360 --> 01:09:01,479
Speaker 1: a clunker and now they go to Denver. Who do

1375
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:05,400
Speaker 1: you who can you start in this game? Nobody confidently

1376
01:09:05,439 --> 01:09:08,759
Speaker 1: on the Raiders side. I barely have a starting grade

1377
01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:10,760
Speaker 1: on car but I could certainly see benching him. In

1378
01:09:10,800 --> 01:09:12,920
Speaker 1: five career games against the Broncos, he's thrown for more

1379
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:16,120
Speaker 1: than two yards just once. He's been held to one

1380
01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:19,040
Speaker 1: or zero touchdown passes three times in those five games.

1381
01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:21,320
Speaker 1: Maybe there's a little bit of hope in the fact

1382
01:09:21,320 --> 01:09:24,080
Speaker 1: that the Broncos have already given up seven touchdown passes

1383
01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:26,759
Speaker 1: this year to Philip Rivers, Dak Prescott, and Tyrod Taylor.

1384
01:09:26,840 --> 01:09:30,000
Speaker 1: So that's why I gave him a C level grade here. However,

1385
01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:33,000
Speaker 1: he may be missing Michael Crabtree, who sat out practice

1386
01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 1: on Friday with a chess injury. He's now questionable, but

1387
01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:40,120
Speaker 1: if if um if Crabtree plays. He's never exceeded five

1388
01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:42,160
Speaker 1: catches or fifty four yards in a game against Denver,

1389
01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:44,040
Speaker 1: and we know the elite level corners here, So just

1390
01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:47,040
Speaker 1: a C grade. Same with Amari Cooper, who is really

1391
01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:49,799
Speaker 1: struggling this year, just three point three catches for thirty

1392
01:09:49,800 --> 01:09:52,920
Speaker 1: three yards per game in three games. He's never exceeded

1393
01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:55,519
Speaker 1: six catches or fifty six yards in a game against Denver,

1394
01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:57,559
Speaker 1: So I could you could argue to put all these

1395
01:09:57,560 --> 01:10:00,960
Speaker 1: guys on the bench. Same with Marshawn Lynn. Sorry, Church,

1396
01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:05,080
Speaker 1: they are this year. Last year they actually weren't that

1397
01:10:05,439 --> 01:10:08,760
Speaker 1: they were. They were sneaky leaky last year, but this

1398
01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:11,000
Speaker 1: year they've really clamped count down held Melvin Gordon to

1399
01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:14,000
Speaker 1: fifty four yards on eighteen carries, Ezeki eight yards on

1400
01:10:14,120 --> 01:10:16,519
Speaker 1: nine carries. Sean McCoy they shut down. So I've got

1401
01:10:16,600 --> 01:10:19,519
Speaker 1: Lynch on the bench. On the other side. Some starters here,

1402
01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:22,200
Speaker 1: Trevor Simeon. I've actually got a start in grade here.

1403
01:10:22,280 --> 01:10:24,599
Speaker 1: He threw two touchdown passes in each of his two

1404
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:27,960
Speaker 1: matchups with Oakland last year. The Raiders just gave up

1405
01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:30,360
Speaker 1: three and sixty five yards and three touchdowns to Kirk Cousins.

1406
01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:31,720
Speaker 1: So you can move the ball through the air. That

1407
01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:35,679
Speaker 1: brings Emmanuel Sanders and to Marius Thomas into the mix here.

1408
01:10:35,680 --> 01:10:38,960
Speaker 1: But just as C level grade, Sanders has not scored

1409
01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:42,000
Speaker 1: in four straight games against the Raiders, Thomas didn't top

1410
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:44,240
Speaker 1: five catches or fifty six yards in either of last

1411
01:10:44,320 --> 01:10:48,120
Speaker 1: year's matchup against Oakland, and weird fact, has only scored

1412
01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:51,040
Speaker 1: in one of his twelve career matchups with Oakland. Wow,

1413
01:10:51,160 --> 01:10:54,960
Speaker 1: kind of bizarre. So those guys are starters, but just barely. Uh.

1414
01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:56,760
Speaker 1: And then C. J. Anderson, I do have a good

1415
01:10:56,800 --> 01:10:58,960
Speaker 1: starting grade on and be here. The Raiders are decent

1416
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:00,960
Speaker 1: against the run. They hold acts to less than four

1417
01:11:01,040 --> 01:11:04,559
Speaker 1: yards per carry in ninety three yards per game. But

1418
01:11:05,800 --> 01:11:09,040
Speaker 1: Anderson is, yeah, he did well last year against them

1419
01:11:09,360 --> 01:11:11,559
Speaker 1: in Week seventeen. Actually he didn't. The Broncos did. The

1420
01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:14,200
Speaker 1: Broncos backs dropped a hundred and ninety nine combined rushing

1421
01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:16,760
Speaker 1: and receiving artage. He was probably not two touchdowns on

1422
01:11:16,840 --> 01:11:19,160
Speaker 1: them when he was injured. But yeah, he's gonna be

1423
01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:20,800
Speaker 1: back in the mix here in a home game where

1424
01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:23,160
Speaker 1: they're favorite. He's going to get back up into the

1425
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:25,439
Speaker 1: twenty carry range as opposed to the eight carries that

1426
01:11:25,439 --> 01:11:28,479
Speaker 1: he had last week. Alright, that wraps up this segment.

1427
01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:32,599
Speaker 1: Final segment coming up, premature speculation. Who are three guys

1428
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:34,679
Speaker 1: you can pick up now that everybody's gonna be trying

1429
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:36,400
Speaker 1: to pick up next week? We'll tell you when we

1430
01:11:36,479 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 1: come back our final set of matchups and lightning round

1431
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:43,240
Speaker 1: all in the final segment. You're listening to Fantasy Football

1432
01:11:43,360 --> 01:11:56,439
Speaker 1: Weekly on the Fan. Final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly,

1433
01:11:56,479 --> 01:12:00,400
Speaker 1: Paul Charchi and Brian Johnson Christian Peterson with you a bit.

1434
01:12:00,439 --> 01:12:03,559
Speaker 1: We like to call premature speculation. Three guys that you

1435
01:12:03,760 --> 01:12:05,720
Speaker 1: could pick up now that we think will be hot

1436
01:12:05,720 --> 01:12:09,000
Speaker 1: waiver wire editions in a couple of days after Sunday's games,

1437
01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:11,839
Speaker 1: we begin with Christian Peterson. Yeah, I mentioned this guy already.

1438
01:12:11,840 --> 01:12:14,280
Speaker 1: It's Wayne Gallman, the running back for the Giants. He's

1439
01:12:14,280 --> 01:12:16,559
Speaker 1: a rookie who hasn't even been active yet, but he

1440
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:19,200
Speaker 1: maybe this week. With Orleans Dark one dinged up, we

1441
01:12:19,280 --> 01:12:21,519
Speaker 1: know Paul Perkins is not the answer at this point. No,

1442
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:25,000
Speaker 1: we know Shane Vereen is at best the third down guy.

1443
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:28,760
Speaker 1: Orleans Dark was not the answer either, So I think

1444
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:30,960
Speaker 1: Golman is gonna get a chance this week. If he

1445
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:34,160
Speaker 1: looks even decently good, I think there's a chance he

1446
01:12:34,200 --> 01:12:36,800
Speaker 1: takes over for Paul Perkins. So uh yeah, Wayne Golman,

1447
01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:38,599
Speaker 1: go get him right now before he becomes the lead

1448
01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:41,519
Speaker 1: back for the Giants. All right, I'm going Will Fuller,

1449
01:12:41,560 --> 01:12:44,679
Speaker 1: wide receiver for the Texans, should make his return this week. Uh.

1450
01:12:44,680 --> 01:12:47,479
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins has been targeted thirty seven times so far,

1451
01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:50,879
Speaker 1: Braxton Miller and Bruce Ellington have combined for seventeen targets

1452
01:12:50,880 --> 01:12:54,160
Speaker 1: and the wide receivers wide receiver position, so Houston. Houston

1453
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:56,360
Speaker 1: desperately needs someone to step up. Why not their first

1454
01:12:56,400 --> 01:12:58,960
Speaker 1: round pick from last year? After this week, he has

1455
01:12:59,080 --> 01:13:03,639
Speaker 1: the Browns and the Colts on the schedule, will fuller

1456
01:13:03,720 --> 01:13:06,360
Speaker 1: go grab him now? All right, My premature speculation guy

1457
01:13:06,560 --> 01:13:10,360
Speaker 1: is Corey Clement because apparently, apparently you can only have

1458
01:13:10,840 --> 01:13:14,360
Speaker 1: Philadelphia runners that have that have accents on the wrong syllable.

1459
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:18,080
Speaker 1: Corey Clement is my guy to Philadelphi running backs already

1460
01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:20,559
Speaker 1: on injured reserve le Garrett Blonde has a precarious hold

1461
01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:24,360
Speaker 1: on the starting job, and rookie Corey Clement from Wisconsin

1462
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:26,880
Speaker 1: will have some kind of have some opportunities to show

1463
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:29,240
Speaker 1: what he showed last week twenty our touchdown run last week,

1464
01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:31,160
Speaker 1: He'll have some opportunities to show you can do on

1465
01:13:31,200 --> 01:13:33,599
Speaker 1: the ground over the course of the next couple of weeks.

1466
01:13:34,160 --> 01:13:38,880
Speaker 1: Let's go to our final two matchups, Indianapolis Colts taking

1467
01:13:38,880 --> 01:13:42,200
Speaker 1: on the Seattle Seahawks. Colts offense looked a lot better

1468
01:13:42,320 --> 01:13:44,240
Speaker 1: last week, but it all comes to a screeching halt

1469
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:46,439
Speaker 1: in Seattle. Here it does. But I think there's some

1470
01:13:46,479 --> 01:13:48,479
Speaker 1: guys you can play here, starting with Frank Or. I'll

1471
01:13:48,479 --> 01:13:52,840
Speaker 1: give him a B borderline C plus Seattle. Surprisingly, he's

1472
01:13:52,880 --> 01:13:56,080
Speaker 1: dead last and yards were carried a running back generous

1473
01:13:56,240 --> 01:14:01,000
Speaker 1: five point three. He and Marlon matt Is ruled has

1474
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:02,880
Speaker 1: been ruled out for this game as well, So Frank

1475
01:14:02,920 --> 01:14:05,439
Speaker 1: Gore is startable. I'm gonna still start t Y Hilton.

1476
01:14:05,479 --> 01:14:06,960
Speaker 1: I own him in a few leagues. I'm gonna roll

1477
01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:10,280
Speaker 1: him out there. I'm giving him a B. Shaquil not Shaquille.

1478
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:13,880
Speaker 1: I think it's Shaquill. There's no e Chaquill. Griffin has

1479
01:14:13,880 --> 01:14:16,920
Speaker 1: outperformed Richards Sherman so far at the cornerback position. Sherman

1480
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:19,280
Speaker 1: might be the softer matchup at this point, but Jordy

1481
01:14:19,360 --> 01:14:23,559
Speaker 1: Matthew Sordy Jordan's Jordy Nelson and Richard Matthews both hit

1482
01:14:23,560 --> 01:14:25,840
Speaker 1: eighty yards in a touchdown against Seattle, and for what

1483
01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:28,320
Speaker 1: it's worth, t Y Hilton had five catches for a

1484
01:14:28,360 --> 01:14:31,880
Speaker 1: hundred forty yards and two touchdowns against Seattle in the

1485
01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:33,960
Speaker 1: year the Legion of Boom was really often popping and

1486
01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:36,439
Speaker 1: they were Super Bowl. So there you go. I am

1487
01:14:36,479 --> 01:14:38,960
Speaker 1: Benjing Dante Dante Moncrief, though I don't even want to

1488
01:14:38,960 --> 01:14:42,040
Speaker 1: talk about him until Andrew Luck comes back. Jack Doyle

1489
01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:47,040
Speaker 1: gets a c H desperationcy huge dud against Cleveland last week.

1490
01:14:47,080 --> 01:14:49,880
Speaker 1: But Seattle is allowing more than five catches and sixty

1491
01:14:49,960 --> 01:14:52,479
Speaker 1: yards to non San Francisco tight ends and the Coals

1492
01:14:52,479 --> 01:14:54,840
Speaker 1: will likely be chasing points, so you might use Doyle

1493
01:14:55,200 --> 01:14:57,439
Speaker 1: if you're in a pinch. And my take com quarterback

1494
01:14:57,479 --> 01:14:59,640
Speaker 1: from last week, Jakobe Pricett is on the bench for

1495
01:14:59,640 --> 01:15:03,040
Speaker 1: this over to the Seahawks. Russell Wilson gets an a.

1496
01:15:03,360 --> 01:15:06,000
Speaker 1: Hopefully you did not drop him like charge recommended last week.

1497
01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:08,799
Speaker 1: Jared Goff and Carson Bomber are both top three hundred

1498
01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:11,320
Speaker 1: passing yards against the Colts, and Deshaun Kaiser just rolled

1499
01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:13,880
Speaker 1: up two and eight all purpose yards and three touchdowns,

1500
01:15:13,880 --> 01:15:17,479
Speaker 1: so Wilson's in a great spot. Doug Baldwin, Oh, he's

1501
01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:20,320
Speaker 1: dicey um. I'll give him a B if he plays,

1502
01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:23,680
Speaker 1: or or a B if you have other Seattle wide receivers.

1503
01:15:23,680 --> 01:15:25,920
Speaker 1: But he's a real dicey play here. He practiced on

1504
01:15:25,960 --> 01:15:28,720
Speaker 1: Friday without any setbacks to the groin injury. But this

1505
01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:31,240
Speaker 1: is a Sunday night game. Uh. If you don't have

1506
01:15:31,320 --> 01:15:34,240
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett or Paul richardson the play here, and if

1507
01:15:34,280 --> 01:15:36,479
Speaker 1: you're going to roll out Baldwin is grabb Kamar Aiken

1508
01:15:36,880 --> 01:15:39,920
Speaker 1: indie slot receiver as insurance slot is the way to

1509
01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:42,720
Speaker 1: attack the Seahawks. So if you're very desperate and you're

1510
01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:46,439
Speaker 1: banking on Baldwin. Have a can uh in line as

1511
01:15:46,439 --> 01:15:49,280
Speaker 1: your insurance policy. There, I just mentioned Richardson. Unlock it.

1512
01:15:49,479 --> 01:15:51,760
Speaker 1: Richardson gets to see whether Baldwin plays or not. Lock

1513
01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:53,560
Speaker 1: It gets to see if Baldwin sits. This is just

1514
01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:56,360
Speaker 1: a great matchup. Even though Vonte Davis is making his return.

1515
01:15:56,400 --> 01:15:58,559
Speaker 1: It doesn't scare me enough to bench these guys. I'm

1516
01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:01,080
Speaker 1: giving Jimmy Graham and a. The Colts are ranked twenty

1517
01:16:01,160 --> 01:16:04,360
Speaker 1: six against tight ends by Football Outsiders. Graham caught a seven,

1518
01:16:04,479 --> 01:16:07,240
Speaker 1: caught seven of eleven targets for seventy two yards last week,

1519
01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:09,160
Speaker 1: and I can see very similar numbers here with at

1520
01:16:09,240 --> 01:16:12,040
Speaker 1: least one touchdown on Sunday night, and Chris Carson running

1521
01:16:12,040 --> 01:16:14,000
Speaker 1: back gets a B. He's the clear cut leader of

1522
01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:16,200
Speaker 1: that backfield in the game. Script should favor him in

1523
01:16:16,200 --> 01:16:19,000
Speaker 1: the second half year. Chris Carson dirt cheap on fan

1524
01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:21,599
Speaker 1: Ball this week. Yeah, he is dirt chief, and I've

1525
01:16:21,600 --> 01:16:23,840
Speaker 1: got him as like my number twelve running back this week.

1526
01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:27,360
Speaker 1: I love Carson this week, and I think there's uh, well,

1527
01:16:27,400 --> 01:16:29,400
Speaker 1: we'll find out how he does. I think the passing game,

1528
01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:30,680
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a run I think it's

1529
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:33,200
Speaker 1: gonna be a run oriented game plan for Seattle in

1530
01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:35,519
Speaker 1: this one, either because they've got a lead and they're

1531
01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:37,240
Speaker 1: just keeping it or just because the path of least

1532
01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:40,040
Speaker 1: resistance goes that way. Washington takes on the Kansas City Chiefs.

1533
01:16:40,280 --> 01:16:42,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with the passing game for the Washington

1534
01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:46,320
Speaker 1: Redskins or Jamison Crowder is my favorite among the wide

1535
01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:50,040
Speaker 1: receivers going up against the Chiefs defense. It ranks four

1536
01:16:50,120 --> 01:16:52,800
Speaker 1: against the past. Crowder works from the slot. That means

1537
01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:55,479
Speaker 1: he's gonna match up against the dreadful Philip Gaines, a

1538
01:16:55,520 --> 01:17:00,400
Speaker 1: guy who we successfully targeted many slot receivers against last year.

1539
01:17:00,439 --> 01:17:02,679
Speaker 1: We're going back to that well. Gains right now ranks

1540
01:17:03,240 --> 01:17:07,200
Speaker 1: one eight among cornerbacks by Pro Football Focus. Crowder has

1541
01:17:07,240 --> 01:17:10,040
Speaker 1: done very little this year, a great opportunity to dust

1542
01:17:10,120 --> 01:17:12,839
Speaker 1: him off. Who else has done very little? Terrell Prior

1543
01:17:13,520 --> 01:17:18,520
Speaker 1: nothing this year. But here's your Mount's back opportunity. Here's why.

1544
01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:20,880
Speaker 1: He plays the majority of his snaps on the left

1545
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:23,200
Speaker 1: side of the offense, which means he's going to avoid

1546
01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:26,120
Speaker 1: Marcus Peters, who plays only on the right side of

1547
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:28,560
Speaker 1: the offense. He's going to draw prior is going to

1548
01:17:28,680 --> 01:17:32,520
Speaker 1: draw Terrence Mitchell Pro Football focuses eighty three ranked cornerback.

1549
01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:35,439
Speaker 1: They're gonna leave Ryan Grant out to dry on Marcus

1550
01:17:35,439 --> 01:17:37,439
Speaker 1: Peters in this game on the right hand side. So

1551
01:17:37,479 --> 01:17:39,719
Speaker 1: I like Crowder at a B level. I like prior

1552
01:17:39,760 --> 01:17:43,120
Speaker 1: to sea level. Kirk Cousins also a see downright surgical

1553
01:17:43,280 --> 01:17:46,240
Speaker 1: last week in his dissection of the Raiders, but a

1554
01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:49,519
Speaker 1: a tougher matchup this week. And if last week's any

1555
01:17:49,560 --> 01:17:51,800
Speaker 1: indication that the Chief seemed to have recovered somewhat from

1556
01:17:51,800 --> 01:17:54,400
Speaker 1: the loss of Eric Berry. Here in cousins last seven

1557
01:17:54,520 --> 01:17:57,320
Speaker 1: road games, he's tally three yards and or multiple touchdowns

1558
01:17:57,320 --> 01:17:58,960
Speaker 1: six times. So I like Cousins, but I don't see

1559
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:02,880
Speaker 1: explosive game coming. Will give him a C borderline B grade. Uh,

1560
01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:05,080
Speaker 1: and let's go to the oh, Jordan read, we should

1561
01:18:05,080 --> 01:18:07,000
Speaker 1: mention this. So this is the Monday night game. We

1562
01:18:07,080 --> 01:18:08,680
Speaker 1: got all kinds of problems over the place. Don't know

1563
01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:10,599
Speaker 1: if Rob Kelly is gonna go. It's a Monday night game.

1564
01:18:10,600 --> 01:18:13,479
Speaker 1: We're not gonna know by Sunday at noon. Jordan Reid,

1565
01:18:14,280 --> 01:18:16,519
Speaker 1: same deal. It's we're not gonna know if he's gonna

1566
01:18:16,520 --> 01:18:18,639
Speaker 1: start or not. You're gonna have to assume that you're

1567
01:18:18,640 --> 01:18:20,160
Speaker 1: not gonna start him, and even if you do, he's

1568
01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:22,679
Speaker 1: not giving us much anyway. And the Chiefs have held

1569
01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:25,759
Speaker 1: tight and scoreless to end um and just to average

1570
01:18:25,760 --> 01:18:28,240
Speaker 1: three catches per game. So this is not a good

1571
01:18:28,280 --> 01:18:30,400
Speaker 1: line a matchup anyway for Jordan Reeds to keep him

1572
01:18:30,400 --> 01:18:34,120
Speaker 1: on the bench, have v D. If you've you've got

1573
01:18:34,200 --> 01:18:38,240
Speaker 1: Jordan read, you need VD uh. Chris Thompson has been

1574
01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:43,000
Speaker 1: a godsend for fantasy owners for sure, but this is tricky.

1575
01:18:43,120 --> 01:18:45,320
Speaker 1: Should do? Do you have you Thompson now? Is the

1576
01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:49,680
Speaker 1: Redskins premiere running back or or his four touchdowns a

1577
01:18:49,720 --> 01:18:52,880
Speaker 1: fluke considering he's just getting nine touches per game? That's it?

1578
01:18:52,960 --> 01:18:54,880
Speaker 1: And then Jake Jake Gruden this week comes out and

1579
01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:56,920
Speaker 1: says Rob Kelly is gonna be their number one lead

1580
01:18:56,960 --> 01:19:00,120
Speaker 1: dog runner. So put all that in a blend, or

1581
01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:04,200
Speaker 1: will you uh? If Kelly is out, I'll bump Thompson

1582
01:19:04,280 --> 01:19:07,439
Speaker 1: from a C to a B. But we're not. Again,

1583
01:19:07,479 --> 01:19:09,559
Speaker 1: you're not gonna know until Monday, so it doesn't help

1584
01:19:09,560 --> 01:19:11,439
Speaker 1: you a lot in advance. The Chiefs of stymy to

1585
01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:14,679
Speaker 1: elite pass catching backs already this year, they held James

1586
01:19:14,680 --> 01:19:18,120
Speaker 1: White and Darren Sprouls to thirty yards each. So I

1587
01:19:18,320 --> 01:19:20,600
Speaker 1: don't love Chris Thompson. I'm giving I'm giving him a

1588
01:19:20,640 --> 01:19:23,000
Speaker 1: C based on what he's done in the past, but

1589
01:19:23,040 --> 01:19:25,599
Speaker 1: I don't like this matchup. And if Rob Kelly goes

1590
01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:27,880
Speaker 1: I'm particularly nervous. Let's go to the Kansas City side.

1591
01:19:28,120 --> 01:19:31,840
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt faces a Washington run defense that ranks number two,

1592
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:35,120
Speaker 1: allowing just fifty four yards per game. They just held

1593
01:19:35,120 --> 01:19:38,200
Speaker 1: the Raiders running backs as a unit to twenty two

1594
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 1: rushing yards. That's it. Still, it's Kareem Hunt. You're gonna

1595
01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:44,360
Speaker 1: start him no matter what, and he could find fantasy

1596
01:19:44,400 --> 01:19:46,320
Speaker 1: points via the air, where the Redskins have allowed two

1597
01:19:46,360 --> 01:19:49,880
Speaker 1: touchdowns to runners. Travis Kelsey gets an A grade here.

1598
01:19:50,120 --> 01:19:53,040
Speaker 1: The Redskins have surrendered the second most tight end receptions

1599
01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:55,599
Speaker 1: the third most tight end yards last year, and they've

1600
01:19:55,600 --> 01:19:57,639
Speaker 1: picked up right where they left off. They've already given

1601
01:19:57,720 --> 01:20:00,760
Speaker 1: up big games of Zach Ertz, Gerald every Writ and

1602
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:03,599
Speaker 1: Jared Cook, all big numbers in the first three weeks.

1603
01:20:03,880 --> 01:20:07,160
Speaker 1: I think Kelsey bounces back from last week's ho Hun performance.

1604
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:10,439
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill also in a the Redskins having a lot

1605
01:20:10,439 --> 01:20:12,320
Speaker 1: more than three eight yards to receiver since Week one.

1606
01:20:12,360 --> 01:20:14,120
Speaker 1: But I like this matchup a lot because he should

1607
01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:17,519
Speaker 1: be able to avoid Josh Norman, who plays nine percent

1608
01:20:17,560 --> 01:20:20,320
Speaker 1: of his snaps on one side of the field, and

1609
01:20:20,400 --> 01:20:23,439
Speaker 1: he'll play seventy of his snaps on the other side

1610
01:20:23,439 --> 01:20:27,320
Speaker 1: of the field. So that puts Tyreek Hill on Bashot Breland,

1611
01:20:27,520 --> 01:20:30,880
Speaker 1: who ranked sixty nine among cornerbacks by Pro Football Focus.

1612
01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:33,360
Speaker 1: And Tyreek Hill might be the fastest player in the NFL,

1613
01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:36,280
Speaker 1: and Brilon might be the slowest cornerback in the NFL.

1614
01:20:36,760 --> 01:20:41,040
Speaker 1: He had a combined time of a four six eight forty.

1615
01:20:41,200 --> 01:20:44,360
Speaker 1: That's terrible. Then there's Alex Smith. If I've got a

1616
01:20:44,439 --> 01:20:47,639
Speaker 1: grades on Kelsey and Hill, I like Alex Smith. This

1617
01:20:47,720 --> 01:20:50,760
Speaker 1: is a good opportunity here for Alex Smith because I

1618
01:20:50,800 --> 01:20:56,000
Speaker 1: like Kelsey and Hill. Raiders have been a competent passing defense,

1619
01:20:56,080 --> 01:20:58,840
Speaker 1: but not an extraordinary one. And he's got to be

1620
01:20:58,840 --> 01:21:00,800
Speaker 1: there cheap on fan ball too. You run like a

1621
01:21:00,840 --> 01:21:03,880
Speaker 1: four six seven, don't you? Uh? Four six seven? I'm

1622
01:21:03,880 --> 01:21:07,000
Speaker 1: a little hair fast. I mean I still got wheels.

1623
01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:10,800
Speaker 1: Alex Smith is forever dirt cheap. He's forever dirt yeap. Yes, yeah,

1624
01:21:10,840 --> 01:21:13,479
Speaker 1: absolutely this is a good opportunity to go play Alex Smith. No,

1625
01:21:13,560 --> 01:21:16,080
Speaker 1: I'm with you. Yeah. We only have about a minute

1626
01:21:16,080 --> 01:21:18,400
Speaker 1: and a a half for calls. Unfortunately, we'll do our very best.

1627
01:21:19,400 --> 01:21:22,880
Speaker 1: You begin with joy, Thank you for your patience. Joy, Hey,

1628
01:21:22,920 --> 01:21:25,040
Speaker 1: no worries. You know what I'm actually calling for my

1629
01:21:25,120 --> 01:21:29,280
Speaker 1: daughter next cover festival cost and I doubt you's up today.

1630
01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:34,880
Speaker 1: So the question is Cam Newton's your quarterback or Bean rockls? Further,

1631
01:21:35,120 --> 01:21:38,040
Speaker 1: who would you play? Christian Church? I think you had

1632
01:21:38,040 --> 01:21:40,280
Speaker 1: a higher grade on it and than you did on Roethlisberg.

1633
01:21:40,520 --> 01:21:42,640
Speaker 1: He's on the road. Yeah, go Cam Newton. Yeah, how

1634
01:21:42,680 --> 01:21:46,080
Speaker 1: about that bothering right there? Mother calling in for daughter?

1635
01:21:46,120 --> 01:21:57,439
Speaker 1: Who's that's awesome? Kent, You're next, Kent, Kent, Pete, you

1636
01:21:57,479 --> 01:22:01,080
Speaker 1: are next? Hello? Do you're true at Diggs and McCoy

1637
01:22:01,280 --> 01:22:05,040
Speaker 1: for Antonio Brown or Smallwood? Oh, Digs and McCoy for

1638
01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:08,679
Speaker 1: Brown and Smallwood. That's too much. I'd rather have Diggs

1639
01:22:08,680 --> 01:22:14,519
Speaker 1: and McCloy to barely THEO. Bob your next. Travis Kelsey

1640
01:22:14,720 --> 01:22:18,320
Speaker 1: or Emmanuel Sander Kelsey has got the A from charge.

1641
01:22:18,360 --> 01:22:21,000
Speaker 1: That's what's resonating in my mind. Yeah, I like Sanders

1642
01:22:21,040 --> 01:22:22,719
Speaker 1: two in this game, But I think I take Kelsey

1643
01:22:22,760 --> 01:22:28,759
Speaker 1: to Austin. Austin. You're next, Hello, Miller or Killer or Cooper? Uh,

1644
01:22:28,800 --> 01:22:34,000
Speaker 1: that's Lamar Mar Miller and and and don't want anything

1645
01:22:34,040 --> 01:22:37,400
Speaker 1: to do with Cooper against We'll go, We'll go Miller here, Seth,

1646
01:22:37,479 --> 01:22:41,439
Speaker 1: you're next. I've probably send it you on Twitter. But

1647
01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:44,400
Speaker 1: Adonar and Larry Gerald, you want to give me Tarik

1648
01:22:44,479 --> 01:22:48,759
Speaker 1: Cohen and Michael Thomas in an Empire league? Say it again?

1649
01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:51,519
Speaker 1: That's starting to say the trade again to Seth. He

1650
01:22:51,560 --> 01:22:53,599
Speaker 1: wants he wants me to give up Levy on Bell

1651
01:22:53,640 --> 01:22:56,160
Speaker 1: and Larry Fitzgerald. And you want to give me Tarik

1652
01:22:56,240 --> 01:23:02,400
Speaker 1: Cohen and Michael Thomas in an Empire League. It's Thomas.

1653
01:23:03,400 --> 01:23:06,160
Speaker 1: If you're not completing right now, like I would consider it,

1654
01:23:06,240 --> 01:23:08,200
Speaker 1: but I need a little bit more than that. What

1655
01:23:08,240 --> 01:23:11,120
Speaker 1: happens when Drew Brees retires? Ask yourself that in an

1656
01:23:11,160 --> 01:23:13,200
Speaker 1: Empire League? And that's well, and then the other thing.

1657
01:23:14,479 --> 01:23:16,479
Speaker 1: And I'm wondering the way in but maybe on Twitter later,

1658
01:23:16,520 --> 01:23:21,000
Speaker 1: but you put more stock on the box. You've only

1659
01:23:22,439 --> 01:23:26,360
Speaker 1: on the field for Lady on Bell. Got yeah, Seth,

1660
01:23:26,439 --> 01:23:29,200
Speaker 1: we got Seth ro up against the clock. I'm sorry Uh.

1661
01:23:29,400 --> 01:23:30,880
Speaker 1: If you missed that part of the show, check out

1662
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Speaker 1: the podcast most of you did. Tony's gonna have that

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1664
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Speaker 1: at iTunes, you can get it at iHeart Radio, on

1665
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Speaker 1: the app, and at cafe and dot com. Tony, thanks

1666
01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:41,920
Speaker 1: trying to help. Go for a pregame show coming up

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