WEBVTT - Byepocalypse 2023 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.920 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:11.080 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:15.800 source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. Now 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.959 along with the guys from Guillotine Leagues dot com. Here's 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:21.840 your host, Paul Jargian. 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:27.880 It is Bipocalypse twenty twenty three. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:30.000 Sounds dominous? 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:32.200 Does sound ominous, doesn't it? Well it is for many 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:32.599 of us. 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:34.680 You know what you know it's gonna be by apocalypse? 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:36.360 Look ahead to week thirteen. 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:38.920 Yeah, that's good. That's that's gonna be the worst two 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:40.360 twenty twenty three. 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:43.720 Well, yeah, that's volume two. This is volume one. Yes, 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:44.960 like yeah, to kill Bill. 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.080 Hey there, I like it. Well, And if your name's Bill, 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:51.240 you could get killed this week. It's a tricky, tricky 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:55.560 week with bye weeks. Bill Belichick, they should fire him 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.920 this week. They won't, but they should. Paul Charchie and 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.960 Matt Harrison, Bryant Johnson with you Fantasy Football Weekly. In 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.480 a very very tricky week. We've got a bunch of 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:07.039 bye week teams. That means we don't have quite as 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:08.760 many matchups to get through, which means we get to 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:10.280 spend a little more time on each one of them, 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:12.840 which is great. We get to do three tough questions 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:14.759 we give to get get to give you nine players 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.280 upon whom you can take a chance. Premature speculation. And 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.480 although Scott Fish could not be here because. 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:28.120 Oh I'm not saying, because I'm not saying it, why 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.800 not because. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:34.760 I'm not saying does he have chlamydia? No? 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.200 Of course not, of course. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:44.200 True. You don't sure he's shopping for an item. I 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:45.520 don't know. That's all I'm gonna say. 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:49.000 A personal item, but not not to replace a broken one. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:55.080 It's not Yes, it's not a medication of any types 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:56.920 of any sorts. Though we don't want to spad. 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.160 If Scott were here, what would he be telling us 0:01:59.240 --> 0:01:59.560 right now? 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.200 Well, Scott's birthday the other day, and Fantasy Cares is 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:09.959 giving away a signed autographed Justin Jefferson Jersey and Funko Pop. 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:14.440 All you have to do to get registered to win 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:18.600 the autograph Jersey and Funko Pop is go to fantasycars 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.800 dot org slash donate and every donation made between the 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.280 nineteenth and twenty sixth of October will be entered into 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.679 the sweepstakes to win it. So kind of fun. 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.160 Yeah, that is fun. So nice opportunity to do something 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:32.960 great for the fantasy football community. 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:36.000 For so just a dollar gets you in the entry 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.280 and a dollar goes a long way if everyone just 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:39.200 donates a dollar. 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:41.320 Yeah, great calls great prize. 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:42.160 Absolutely awesome. 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.600 Not too shabby. Let's jump into the matchups. Atlanta Falcons 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:49.120 taking on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Matt And for the Falcons, 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:51.600 it's a I think a little bit of a trickier 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.200 matchup than it looks like on face value. Tampa Bay 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.280 defense not too shabby. What do you think of this one? 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.800 Yeah, I mean we'll start with Bijon Robinson. He's kind 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:00.840 of the headliner there. He's now the field for around 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.960 seventy two percent of the snaps, which means Tyler Algier 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.040 more of a handcuffed a little bit of an afterthought 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.079 at this point. Bijeon's matchup this week is tough. Though 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.000 the Bucks have yet to allow a running back rushing touchdown, 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.440 they've only given up one through the air to running 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.800 backs this year. They're also along the fifth fewest running 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.440 back combo yards per game at just one hundred and nine. 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.040 If you factor in about a quarter of that going 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.560 to Algier. You're looking at Bijon at about eighty total 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:27.880 yards and a very low chance of a score. That's 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.840 kind of borderline B C grade for me. I'm giving 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:34.320 him a bee, but it's not a great matchup. Drake 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.800 London he also gets a B. Over the last three weeks, 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.040 he's been fairly reliable targets, increasing from seven to nine 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.200 to twelve last week, air yards of ninety nine more 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.240 in each of those weeks, and he's put up double 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.880 digit PPR points in four of the last five. He 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.360 runs from the left side most often, which means he'll 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.640 match up with Tampa's right corner Jamel Dean, who's allowed 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.280 a one thirty two passer rating in his coverage this year. 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.840 The Falcons tight ends, Oh boy, let's talk about those guys. 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:05.040 Well, well, there's only one, well, an actual tight end 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:06.280 when it comes to fantasy football. 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:07.080 I guess there's two. 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.440 Yes in fantasy football. So two rare occurrences took place 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.440 last week, a solar eclipse in the United States and 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.000 Kyle Pitts scored a touchdown. 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:15.720 Oh I like it. 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.679 Pitts has strung together two straight weeks with double digit 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.080 PPR points. The problem for Pitts is so is John U. 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:22.440 Smith. 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.120 And if you smashed the two together into one player, 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.560 now we've got what we expected Kyle. 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:27.880 Pitts to be. 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.360 But then again, John U. Smith is still there. The 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.000 Bucks haven't allowed a tight end touchdown on the season. 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.440 They're only allowing five catches for forty yards per game 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.279 to the position, and we're splitting that two ways. That 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.920 doesn't look good at all. And Tampas played some good 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.479 tight ends this year and held them in check. Howkinson, Goddard, Laporta, 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.919 and Comet were all held to forty one yards or less. 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.200 I'm leaving both of these guys on the bench, but 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:51.760 I understand if you have to start one in a 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:55.159 six team. By week, Desmond Ritter putting up some decent stats, 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.040 but the eye test still doesn't look good. Did have 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.320 three hundred and seven passing yards and two passing scores 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.640 last week, but through three picks in a loss to Washington, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.599 and I'm a little nervous that we're like one or 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.560 two interceptions away in the first half from Taylor Heineke 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.800 getting snaps. Tampa is a better than average pass defense 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.559 as well. I don't have any druthers, but if I did, 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.120 I'd leave Desmond Ritter on the bench. This week, Baker 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:21.640 Mayfield faces an Atlanta defense that is break but don't bend. 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.640 The Falcons are allowing the third fewest passing yards at 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.840 only one hundred and ninety one per game, but allowing 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.920 the sixth most passing scores at almost two per game. 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.120 Problem is Atlanta is great against wide receivers and that's 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.560 where most of Mayfield's targets have been going. So I'm 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.360 leaving Baker on the bench. I don't really like Mike 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.480 Evans and Chris Godwin in this one either, but I'll 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.400 give them both C grades. The best overall matchup for 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.640 any player is going against slot corner d Alford, who 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.120 has already allowed three touchdowns in his coverage this year. 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.000 Problem is Godwin is only in the slot thirty one 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.720 percent of the time, Evans twenty six percent of the time. 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.240 The rest of the time, they're outside against Jeff Okuda, 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.760 who's had a career resurgence in Atlanta, allowing only fifty 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:02.719 one total yards in his coverage this year, or they 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.240 face aj Terrell, who's always tough. So just C grades 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.840 for those guys, and Rashad White better off on your 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:12.960 bench too. He's only topped ten PPR points once this season, 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.000 only touched the ball ten times and last week's lost 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.280 to Detroit. Plus Atlanta has only allowed three point seven 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.200 yards per carry and about three receptions per game to 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.880 opposing backs, only two total running back scores on the season. 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.760 They're a top five run defense right now. So you 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.320 can't start Rashad White here, and we'll talk more about 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:32.920 him later in the show. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.719 Or Rashad White breakdowns, yeah later, which is very very exciting. 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.279 Back to Desmond Ritter for a second. I believe it's 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.920 one career touchdown in road games. 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:44.280 Yeah. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.640 His home road splits are absolutely weird. 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.520 They are very very and you know, I don't love 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.400 playing the home road differential very often unless it's something 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:59.560 that's really hyper lopsided. Desmond Ritters, that's it is hyper 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.640 ltid in that way. So yeah, I think that's fair 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:04.640 to mention it. Yeah, now, and they are in Tampa, 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.760 by the way, he confirmed one touchdown pass on the road, 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:08.800 yep for Desmond Ritter. 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:10.280 And back to Kyle. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:15.560 Pitts really quick sixty of his snaps taking them slot 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.080 out wide thirteen percent in line. 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:20.760 He is a wide receiver. 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.720 Does that that who is eligible at tight end he's 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:24.800 even less valuable? 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:26.680 Then no, absolutely not. 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.800 He's he's still tight end in your league, and he's not. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.720 He's performing as well as you want to get tight 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:34.480 end to two points. 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.200 Ray lines up, I'm not getting any more fantasy points. 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.720 Doesn't matter if he's lining up his running back, quarterback, kicker. 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:42.320 I don't care. He's not getting the points. 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.840 Buffalo taking on the New England Patriots. Brian, let's start 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:47.040 on the Buffalo Bill's side. 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.840 I'm not ready to move on, but I will. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:51.920 Brian's ears are smoking right now. 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:55.600 I want to start the running game. Many people, including me, 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.160 I'm gonna have to start Latavius Murray in a disturbing 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:03.560 number of week. Damian Harris is not gonna play in 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:05.800 this game. Murray's gonna have a chance. I want to 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:07.960 know what you think about him and James Cook part 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.240 of the rushing tandem for the Bills. 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.960 Yeah, I've got to see on both Murray and Cook. 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.600 I like Cook a little more. Still, he continues to 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.600 lead the Bills backs in carries. Last week he had fourteen, 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.520 but Latavius Murray had twelve. But Cook did far more 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.360 with his chances, he averaged more than five yards per carry. 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.800 Murray was good for just three point seven five yards 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.079 per carry. New England only allowing three point five yards 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.240 per carry to opposing backs, but they have yielded the 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.320 seventh most rushing attempts and have allowed the fourth most 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.440 rushing touchdowns to running backs. And it's really about the 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:45.560 Patriots offense is just so bad, yeah, that they're never 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:49.320 on the field, meaning the other teams their opponents are 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:54.120 running the ball mercilessly against them. New England has allowed 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.040 the fourth most rushing touchdowns to running back. So I 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.080 see again on both Cook and Murray. If I had 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.000 to pick one, I would still Cook. But they're both 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.040 gonna be viable in this game. Stefan Diggs will certainly 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:07.440 be viable. Not the best matchup for Buffalo's passing game, 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.160 but that's because teams don't throw much on the Patriots, 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:13.720 who on the fourth lowest opponent passing play percentage, and 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:17.040 as a result, opposing wide receivers are averaging less than 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.680 thirteen catches one hundred and forty five yards in a 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:23.160 touchdown per game. That's not great, but the Patriots have 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.840 surrendered a wide receiver touchdown in every game but one. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:27.800 And if I'm going to bet on. 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.960 A Bill's wide receiver to score, it's Stefan Diggs, who 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.160 had seven catches one hundred and four yards in a 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.080 touchdown and then seven catches ninety two yards in a 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.640 touchdown in his two games against the Patriots last season. 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:40.120 So at a for Diggs. 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.679 Just a see though for Gabe Davis, who has scored 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.800 in three of his last four games against New England, 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.840 but he has failed to top three catches or fifty 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.320 yards in any of those games. He's touchdown dependent. In 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.640 this matchup, he'll need he'll need a touchdown to payoff. 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.120 You gotta like Digs more than Davis, but that's no 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:58.679 shock to anybody. 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:00.520 It's been a sh so far. 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.760 As Dalton Kincaid, why isn't he getting the hate that 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:05.640 Kyle Pitts has been getting the last two. 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.120 Years because he's six games into his career. 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.560 He was also well, it didn't take long for you 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.200 guys to hate on Kyle Pits un to only take 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.000 about six minutes in. 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.280 The preseason before he'd even hit the field. Thought that 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.320 Kyle Pitts was overrated that offense. 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:23.559 But who's been overrated so far as Dalton Kincaid and no, 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:25.559 shut that peacock, op. 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:26.960 He doesn't even get that pea cocks. 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.920 I thought I was right, No, you were not. We're 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.680 two years into this experiment, two and a half years, 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.920 two and a third years into this experiment. 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:39.160 So you're just gonna discount the one thousand plus yards 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.600 as a rookie that Kyle Pitts had allow me to answer, 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:43.319 which only Mike did. 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:44.040 Did. 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:50.440 Yeah, that that peacock is then this he's I'm gonna 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.880 be eating that thing for Thanksgiving dinner sooner than that. Anyway, 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.880 back to Dalton Kincaid and Dawson Knox, they are both 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.840 on the bench. Kincaid was out last week with the concussion. 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.280 He should make his way back into the lineup this week. 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:03.679 In fact, he's expected to be mean. 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:04.840 Dalton can cuss. 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:05.760 There you go out of that. 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.240 Oh, Knox did play last week, but of course it 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:13.040 was Quintin Morris, h quin tin Tin I like to 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:16.040 call him, who caught the touchdown. You can't be excited 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.360 about any of these guys though. In this game, Kincaid, 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:22.040 Knox or Morris. The Patriots are allowing less than four 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.080 catches and forty yards per game to tight ends and 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:28.280 have allowed just one total touchdown to the position this season. Lastly, 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.480 for the Bills, Josh Allen gets a b. New England 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.080 has only surrendered six passing touchdowns all year, but again 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.640 that's because no one really throws against them. But Allen 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.120 did throw for multiple scores in both meetings with the 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.880 Patriots last year, and as total thirteen passing touchdowns across 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.760 his last four games against New England. And you're not 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:48.760 sitting Josh Allen, so we're not going to go into 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.640 that any further. You are going to sit basically everyone 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:55.640 on the Patriots outside of Ramandre Stevenson and Ezekiel Elliot. 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:56.880 Buffalo has allowed the. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.920 Fifth most rushing yards and the fifth most receiving running backs, 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.600 which equates to one hundred and forty eight combo yards 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.800 per game. So it's a nice matchup on paper. Stevenson 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:11.080 out touched Zeke fifteen to eight last week. Both scored 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.920 on the ground. Stevenson had five catches to the one 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.120 from Zeke. Zeke had like an eighty plus yard touchdown 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.920 reception called back on a holding penalty. 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:20.720 He looked pretty good. 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.160 But those are the only two starting grades I have 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:27.160 on any Patriots, and you're gonna sit Kendrick Bourne, Juju Smith. 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:28.359 Schuster, anybody. 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.480 Jones, the Bonte Parker on hundred, sick a Hunter, Henry 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.440 Mica Sicki yes, and Mac Jones the whole passing game 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:36.920 on the bench for New England. 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:40.160 When Tacon back Detroit Lions, Baltimore Ravens, we'll tell you 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.640 what to do with this thorny Detroit backfield. Jamir Gibbs, 0:12:43.720 --> 0:13:15.959 Craig Reynolds. When we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly, 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.880 nine players not normally in starting lineups. Many of these 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.480 guys available on the waiver wire. It's take a chance 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.520 on me. We begin at the quarterback position and Matt Harrison. 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.439 I've got Josh Dobbs this week. He's put up average 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.640 two above average numbers in every week but Week one, 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.520 and he's faced some pretty tough defenses along the way Dallas, 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.440 San Francisco, Cincinnati and the Rams. In the last four weeks, 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.920 he's been buoyed by over forty rushing yards per game 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:46.960 and four of his last five, and has had two 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.360 passing touchdowns and two of his last three. This week, 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:53.280 he faces a Seattle defense that's allowed multiple passing scores 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.720 to three of the last four quarterbacks they've faced, and 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.000 over three hundred yards passing in three of their five 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.720 games so far the season. Plus they've only really faced 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.800 one mobile quarterback. That was Daniel Jones. He finished the 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.360 game with ten carries and sixty six yards on the ground. 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.520 So kind of like Dobbs this week, in a weird 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:12.079 week of quarterbacks, he's probably like a top twelve quarterback 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:12.720 in this week. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.000 Yeah, that's that's about where I've got him right. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:15.280 Yeah. 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.520 By the way, all my player rankings available for free 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:18.280 at Caietinen Leagues. 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:18.439 Doc. 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:19.760 Oh, I've heard of that site. 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.120 I've heard good things. Brian. You take a chance at 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:22.680 me quarterback. 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.360 Well, you probably have Brian Hoyer and Aiden O'Connell ranked 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.240 in the same spot because as. 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:29.800 Of right now, we're not sure who's going to be 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:30.720 starting for the Raiders. 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.040 A lot of mystery in Oh. 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.280 It seems like it's going to be Brian Hoyer to 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.480 prepare for we don't know who it's going to be. 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:41.680 But whoever it is, I'm starting said Raiders quarterback at 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.440 the Bears. I think it's going to be Brian Hoyer. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.240 But if it's not, then it's eight o' O'Connell. You 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.760 shouldn't have a problem picking up either. But a great 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:51.200 matchup for both quarterbacks. The Bears have allowed the third 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.440 most passing yards and the second most passing touchdowns so 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.760 far this season. The Raiders have a very frustrated DeVante Adams. 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.560 Yea insert squeak key wheel. 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:02.600 You know we don't have the squeaky wheels. 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.400 Okay, horrible squeaky wheel. 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.760 Vegas has Jakobe Myers, who was bawling out right now. 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.560 Rookie tight end Michael Mayer has found his footing and 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.920 this is also a very plus matchup for Josh Jacobs 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:20.760 through the air. So Raiders quarterback tight d team quarterback 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:22.600 LV Does. 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.480 Anybody play team quarterback anymore? 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.120 No, there's a part of me that kind of misses it. 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:32.440 Not me, No, okay, not at all. I'm going Packers quarterback. 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.360 By the way, Eddie Jackson ruled out for that Bear secondary. 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:36.280 That's a big loss. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:37.880 Even let's go Bears. 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.280 We're going Packers quarterback. Jordan Love taking on Denver. Anybody 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.320 against Denver's viable anybody. Now we know the play is 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.160 ugly for Jordan Love. Sometimes the super slow processing the 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.880 horrible accuracies. He's just spraying balls around the field. But 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:55.040 you know what, fantasy players don't care that much about 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:58.120 that stuff because that stuff doesn't always cost us fantasy points. 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:01.720 The reality is Love's got a big arm and mobility, 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:06.240 and those things generate fantasy points. He's got those traits 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.320 that we like, and this is a perfect spot for 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.920 a big hit for Jordan Love. Denver allowing the second 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.400 most fantasy points to quarterbacks, the most passing yards, the 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:18.560 most passing touchdowns, and coming out of the by the 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.560 Packers are much much healthier team than they used to be. 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.080 Jordan Love, we'll talk more about him later in this 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.720 show as well, but particularly like him this week. Let's 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:27.800 go to the running back position. 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.720 As Charchs just said, anybody is viable against the Denver Broncos. 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.840 That's why aj Dillon is might take a chance on 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.840 me runner. The Broncos are the worst run defense in 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.960 the league, and it's not particularly close. They're bottom three. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.440 They're at bottom three rank in every category, including five 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:47.080 point eight yards per carry, the worst one hundred and 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.760 forty eight rush yards per game, the worst two hundred 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.760 and one combo yards to running backs, the worst thirty 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.280 two running back touchdown touches per game, the worst. Twelve 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.960 running back touchdowns allowed second worst. They've given up fifteen 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.720 more PPR points to an opposing running backs six times 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.199 in six games, and five of those six have been 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:09.040 over twenty two PPR points. Aaron Jones still limited in 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.320 practice with a hamstring injury. There's no need to rush 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.919 him back for this game. AJ Dillon can handle it. 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.240 He had twenty carries in the Vegas game in Week five, 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.199 and I expect a similar workload for AJ Dillon this 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:19.720 week now. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.360 I think Jones re injured his hamstring. They haven't said that, 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:24.600 but I think it's clear that, just based on how 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:26.800 much his time away from the game, that he must 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:28.760 have had a set back on the hamstring. Cato at 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:34.000 some point. AJ Dillons really has rarely put together big 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.000 games when Aaron Jones has missed. But the opportunity is absurd, 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.440 as you outline, absolutely, Brian, you taking a chance on 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:40.080 mer running back. 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.280 I'm sticking with this Bears Raiders game, but I'm on 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.560 the other side for running back here with Travis Homer 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:50.240 of Chicago at home against the said Raiders. The Raiders 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:52.920 have surrendered three rushing scores to running backs over the 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.480 last two weeks, and on the season, they are allowing 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.359 nearly one hundred and thirty combo yards per game to 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:03.280 the position. Danta Foreman will start for Chicago, but Roshan 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:04.520 Johnson has. 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:05.080 Been ruled out. 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.760 Khalil Herbert is on IR so it's going to be 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.800 Foreman and Travis Homer carrying the load for the Bears 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.840 against the Raiders. And the Bears offensive line has been 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.040 great when it comes to the run game. Chicago owns 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:22.119 the second best run block win rate among every offensive 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.159 line in the league. And again, the one hundred and 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:27.160 thirty combo yards per game allowed by the Raiders will 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.919 play into the favor of Homer, who should dominate the 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:31.760 third down work at running back for Chicago. 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:35.720 Matt outlined how bad the Broncos are against running backs. 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:37.320 I told you, by the way, and I mentioned they've 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:39.320 given up the most passing yards, they've given up the 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:40.360 most rushing yards. 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.560 Which is like the anti Cleveland. 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:43.720 They are anti Cleveland. 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:44.240 I like that. 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.119 They'd probably like to hear that too. After the Broncos 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:51.159 as the Panthers there and by after the Panthers allowing 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:55.360 the third most rushing yards per game the New York Giants. 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.119 Who can we go to for the New York Giants. 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:01.399 How about Antonio Gibson averaging just refewer snaps than the 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:05.320 starter Brian Robinson. Just the Giants defense so bad? Even 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:09.160 backup running games are posting solid games against the Giants. 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.359