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Speaker 1: I'm Paul Charchy and my co host today Brian Johnson,
Speaker 1: as we get ready for the divisional round. Hello Brian,
Speaker 1: Hello Church. Uh, it's You're always excited about the divisional round, right,
Speaker 1: but I'm really excited about this divisional round. Why is that?
Speaker 1: I don't just seems like a bunch of great games.
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking being a homer from Minnesota, because
Speaker 1: I'm not a Vikings fan like you are. Of course
Speaker 1: now you're you're you're Bengals fan. You wouldn't even know
Speaker 1: what this is, like, what are the playoffs? Exactly? No
Speaker 1: great games. I'm excited. Yeah, And uh, for everybody I
Speaker 1: steered towards the Saints last week, sorry, I did not
Speaker 1: think the Vikings were gonna win based on how they
Speaker 1: had played down the stretch and a variety of other
Speaker 1: factor so which we enumerated last week. We'll do better
Speaker 1: this week. On helping you find fantasy winners as we
Speaker 1: break down all four of the games, and um, I
Speaker 1: think we may begin with Vikings at San Francisco, and
Speaker 1: well that is the first game on the slate of
Speaker 1: games Saturday midday, do we we don't want to discuss
Speaker 1: any new head coaches or anything. There was one I
Speaker 1: really wanted to break down what we thought happened at
Speaker 1: the Jerry Jones Mike McCarthy slumber party, because I just
Speaker 1: can't get over the facts that they had a slumber Yes, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think if you're Mike McCarthy, this couldn't
Speaker 1: worked out any better because you gained the best roster
Speaker 1: of all of the new coaches by a mile Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott a good defense, you know, Marie Cooper,
Speaker 1: you know Michael Galli. But what you know, if you're McCarthy,
Speaker 1: you go, you transition from Aaron Rodgers into this. You know,
Speaker 1: it's even he can't bozoh this up, Kenny. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: see he got so complacent with the Packers, so complacent.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm not a fan. And it's not just
Speaker 1: because here in Minnesota rooting against the Packers for most
Speaker 1: of my life. It's because he did not maximize that
Speaker 1: pack the packer opportunities he had at all. Impacer fans
Speaker 1: will tell you the same thing. They don't love him either.
Speaker 1: The best part of the press conference was one of
Speaker 1: the reporters asked him if you thought that asked him
Speaker 1: if if you thought des caught it, and he had
Speaker 1: some a little bit very political Yeah, sure, um Ron
Speaker 1: Rivera knew, Matt Rule, knew Joe Judge. Well, you know
Speaker 1: we'll have to well if we've got a lot of
Speaker 1: time to sort of shake those you know, shake out
Speaker 1: how how we think those things will affect everything is,
Speaker 1: especially with the Redskins as they're now Panthers North. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's go to the games this weekend, breaking
Speaker 1: him down fantasy style, beginning with the first one Minnesota
Speaker 1: takes on San Francisco. Um, now the Niners. I'm hearing
Speaker 1: a lot of bad stats out there about how the
Speaker 1: Niners defense is crumbling. Well, yeah, because they were without
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman, Kwan, Alexander jack Wis guitar to d Ford,
Speaker 1: they're all back. D Ford's a game time decision, I think,
Speaker 1: But it sounds like he's gonna go. So I think
Speaker 1: this the Stevens goes right back to being as awesome
Speaker 1: as it used to be. And man, can they pass
Speaker 1: rush as a rush against the past you had. You know,
Speaker 1: d Ford and Nick Bosa and Deforce Buckner and Eric
Speaker 1: Armstead all excellent pass rushers. Niners said the fifth most sacks.
Speaker 1: They ranked third in pass rush by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: That will stress this Vikings offensive line quite a bit.
Speaker 1: I agree, yeah, And they're like, you're pretty much alluding
Speaker 1: to their very well arrested, very well arrested They're gonna
Speaker 1: be ready to go, undoubted. Undoubtedly, Kirk Cousins is thrown
Speaker 1: exactly one touchdown in four straight games. I just don't
Speaker 1: think the Vikings can win with one touchdown out of
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins because I don't see the running game coming
Speaker 1: together in this one. And Cousins is going to throw
Speaker 1: a lot more, I believe, than he usually does. In fact,
Speaker 1: to drill down on that a little bit, San Francisco
Speaker 1: has uh it gives up thirty two and a half
Speaker 1: passes per game. Cousins only topped that a couple of
Speaker 1: times all season, So I, you know, I think just
Speaker 1: playing by trends, the Vikings are going to pass more often.
Speaker 1: I think Kirk's gonna pass more often. I Gues's gonna
Speaker 1: find himself at the end of the day. Not not
Speaker 1: necessarily a win, but I think just through sheer volum
Speaker 1: And you said, she ends up with a pretty good
Speaker 1: game here. Now, what do you make of the ankle
Speaker 1: of Adam Feeling? Yeah, let's talk about that. So they
Speaker 1: won't tell us how it happened. We don't know. What
Speaker 1: we do know is multiple multiple media reports saying it
Speaker 1: was a deep ankle laceration. No thanks, Um, I don't
Speaker 1: see how like people immediately jumped too. You got cleatd
Speaker 1: I don't think you're wearing cleats that sharp and you
Speaker 1: indoors on the turf, like if you've been in the
Speaker 1: mud and whatever. Yeah, you were in the long cleats
Speaker 1: that could do. But even then they're not sharp. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like track cleats, like baseball spikes. Yeah, it's not that.
Speaker 1: So we we don't know how it has. Something weird happened,
Speaker 1: something weird. Um, So Feeling is a huge X factor here.
Speaker 1: Uh if he can go, he'll go in the slot
Speaker 1: against cornerback Kwan Williams and uh more often than not.
Speaker 1: He runs from all over the field, but I think
Speaker 1: he'll hit the slot a lot. Williams has a lot
Speaker 1: of touchdown since week too, but he gives up a
Speaker 1: seventy two percent completion rate. So maybe theeling here who
Speaker 1: was a major contributor to the Vikings when last week
Speaker 1: ends up with Um a lot of catches and yards
Speaker 1: but not necessarily a touchdown, Stefan Diggs goes up. Now
Speaker 1: to understand the Niners secondary, you have to know Richard
Speaker 1: Sherman plays one half of the field and basically erases it.
Speaker 1: He is absolutely dominating. The average receiving game in his
Speaker 1: coverage is one and a half receptions for fourteen yards.
Speaker 1: Oh Man. Sherman is not allowed a touchdown since the opener. Brutal, brutal.
Speaker 1: So if you're the Vikings, where do you line up
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs? They're not there? Not there? You know that's
Speaker 1: where you hang La Kwan Treadwell out to dry or
Speaker 1: Old A. B. C. Johnson out to dry, although Johnson
Speaker 1: almost entirely plays a slot um or Hollins out to dry.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna see. You're not going to see. I
Speaker 1: believe a lot of Stefon Diggs over on the Sherman side,
Speaker 1: because when why do that when you can go to
Speaker 1: Kello Witherspoon instead, And that's the side of the field
Speaker 1: that Diggs naturally lines up on. Anyway, pent of his
Speaker 1: plays start on the left side of the field. Witherspoon
Speaker 1: sees double the number of targets as Richard Sherman, which
Speaker 1: is which makes sense. And he was brutal in the
Speaker 1: final two games of the season, allowing four touchdowns in
Speaker 1: the final two games. That's a Killo Witherspoon. He has
Speaker 1: allowed more yards in the last four weeks than Richard
Speaker 1: Sherman has allowed all year. So Diggs on Witherspoon is
Speaker 1: an exploitable matchup. Better do it? Yeah? I like so.
Speaker 1: I like Diggs more than I like feeling in the game.
Speaker 1: Um cal, Rudolph has got an opportunity. Niners have a
Speaker 1: lot of big games to Tyler Higbee, Jared Cook, Mark Andrews.
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit word. He's gonna have to stay
Speaker 1: in a block because of d Fort, Nick Bosa, Divorce Buckner.
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's there. They can generate so much
Speaker 1: pass rush. But you could try Rudolph in a pinch
Speaker 1: if you wanted to, Well, I assume you're about to
Speaker 1: get to Dalvin Cook right before you do that, if
Speaker 1: you don't mind. I saw stat where I think it's
Speaker 1: through Cook's career that he and Feeling have only played
Speaker 1: ten games. That is probably accurate. That probably is accurate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so when they have played together, Cook and Feeling the
Speaker 1: points and I think the implied total for the Vikings
Speaker 1: is like nineteen and a half right now, and the
Speaker 1: four allowed twenty plus points. I know we said their
Speaker 1: defense is gonna be better than it's been playing, but
Speaker 1: hell factor that if you're betting the implied over under
Speaker 1: on the Vikings that they finally have Cook and Feeling together,
Speaker 1: there's a chance Stealen does not play in this game.
Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like it sounds like he's going
Speaker 1: to go, and he's saying he's gonna go, But I
Speaker 1: don't think it's a guarantee that he goes. Here, let's
Speaker 1: talk about Dalvin Cook. San Francisco allowed all seven of
Speaker 1: the rushing touchdowns they've given up in the second half
Speaker 1: of the season, including four rushing touchdowns in the last
Speaker 1: three games, again missing a number of players, um the
Speaker 1: San Francisco seen very few workhorse backs. Get this, Brian.
Speaker 1: Only two backs saw more than fifteen carries all year,
Speaker 1: fifteen is not that much. That is weird. Um, they
Speaker 1: haven't seen many particularly good runners, but they've done a
Speaker 1: pretty good job on the ones they have seen. They
Speaker 1: shut down Aaron Jones, they shut down mark Ingram. Um.
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer heard this stat forty and oh when the
Speaker 1: Vikings rushed thirty times and that's astounding under Zimmer. Under
Speaker 1: Zimmer forty and oh when his teams rushed thirty or
Speaker 1: more times. Um, miners are giving up four point two
Speaker 1: yards per carry on the season, four yards per carry
Speaker 1: since December, then get a little something done here. No
Speaker 1: back his top eighty nine rushing yards though against San
Speaker 1: Francisco since week nine. Um, here's why, Here's why I
Speaker 1: am worried about Dalvin Cook. Last week, the Vikings dominated
Speaker 1: the first half of the game against the Saints, with
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook taking chunk yards. It was four yards, eight yards,
Speaker 1: nine yards, six yards. And then in the second half
Speaker 1: the Saints completely changed their scheme and they took away
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook and said, Kirk Cousins, you gotta go beat us.
Speaker 1: They held kirk They held Dalvin Cook to one yard
Speaker 1: per carry in the second half, and the Vikings only
Speaker 1: scored one time in the second half, one scoring drive
Speaker 1: in the second half. I mean, that's the blueprint, is
Speaker 1: you take away Dalvin Cook from the Vikings and make
Speaker 1: kirk O beat you. Now we did against the Saints.
Speaker 1: It's not that you can't do it, but you're gonna
Speaker 1: roll it. Do your dice and and make Kirko beat you.
Speaker 1: And the Vikings took Dalvin Cook away from fantasy owners
Speaker 1: and fantasy players too, because if I recall correctly, Alex,
Speaker 1: the Madison had a couple of carries inside the ten
Speaker 1: or five in the green zone. In red zone at
Speaker 1: least one I remember seeing. So they still like using Madison. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, deep in enemy territory, we'll see the Saints
Speaker 1: changed their scheme to put players in the slot. They
Speaker 1: put a linebacker off of the off of an edge rusher,
Speaker 1: or put a safety off an edge rusher, and they
Speaker 1: would take away all the edge rushing for the Vikings
Speaker 1: on one side or the other and sometimes both cases.
Speaker 1: Viking she pass deep to try to break that up,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if it's gonna work. By the way,
Speaker 1: one other thing about Dalvin Cook A lot of yard
Speaker 1: is coming through the air. The screen game may not
Speaker 1: work here because San Francisco is allowed the third fewest
Speaker 1: running back receptions, the second fewest running back yards, and
Speaker 1: the and no touchdowns through the air. Theyn't give any
Speaker 1: receiving touchdowns are running back all year? How about that?
Speaker 1: So I don't love cooking this game. Uh. The Vegas
Speaker 1: over under for yards is seventy seven rushing yards. I'm
Speaker 1: under I haven't seen a total yard or receiving yard
Speaker 1: for cook outline. Let's go to the San Francisco side
Speaker 1: Saints had. The Saints last week had seven passing plays
Speaker 1: of fourteen or more yards seven against the Vikings, and
Speaker 1: since Week ten, San Francisco's had the third most explosive
Speaker 1: passing plays. So I think there's a chance for some
Speaker 1: downfield passing here on the Vikings. Um. The Vikings past
Speaker 1: defense has had problems, but oddly enough, five straight opposing
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and from zero or one touchdown, and that includes
Speaker 1: some decent pastors like Aaron Rodgers and Philip Rivers and
Speaker 1: Drew Brees. So it's a bit of a bend, but
Speaker 1: don't break um. Defense for the Vikings. They give up
Speaker 1: they give up plays, but they doesn't always turn into
Speaker 1: a lot of fantasy points. Affect six the last seven
Speaker 1: quarterbacks of thrown for two hundred forty yards or less
Speaker 1: for Garoppolo. Garoppolo's biggest target George Kittle. I got some
Speaker 1: stats for you. I'm ready, always ready. I dug into
Speaker 1: Kittle's usage, Brian he is lethal in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field. Pro football Focus showing he has almost eight
Speaker 1: hundred yards in the middle of the field. Only eight
Speaker 1: hundred yards by tight ends a good season for all
Speaker 1: the catches. Kittle has eight hundred in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field where Garoppolo is a passer rating of one
Speaker 1: twenty on his throws to Kittle in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field and a completion percentage of eight. But the
Speaker 1: Vikings inside linebacker Eric Kendricks awesome. He is Pro Football
Speaker 1: Focus his highest rated linebacker in coverage. He is the
Speaker 1: linebacker in the NFL who has run the most coverage plays.
Speaker 1: He ranks number one in pass breakups, he's number one
Speaker 1: in past completion percentage allowed, and he has the third
Speaker 1: lowest passer rating in his coverage. Eric Kendricks the Vikings
Speaker 1: might be ideally suited to take away from George Kittle.
Speaker 1: The thing he does best catching balls over the middle
Speaker 1: of the field is going to meet the road. You're saying, huh,
Speaker 1: all right, can't wait. I can't wait either. Um Kittle,
Speaker 1: by the way, catches without a drop this year. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, there were at least six tight ends tight
Speaker 1: ends drafted before George Getley was drafted in the fifth round.
Speaker 1: Fifth round. But his college stats we're talking about today
Speaker 1: in the radio, his college stats couldn't have been more mundane.
Speaker 1: You had we think that we're speculating his run blocking
Speaker 1: is so good. I think people looked at the body
Speaker 1: type on him and said, here's this guy who's incredibly
Speaker 1: big and strong, and the worst thing that happens is
Speaker 1: he doesn't develop as a receiver, like we think we've
Speaker 1: got a great run blocker, because he is a devastating
Speaker 1: run blocker, and as it turned out, he's developed beautifully
Speaker 1: as a pass catcher. Now you get the best of
Speaker 1: both worlds. In general, the Big Ten, it doesn't have
Speaker 1: very gaudy past numbers as a whole. So yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: really get a full read on the offensive ability of
Speaker 1: a lot of the receivers in the Big Ten only
Speaker 1: twenty two receptions his last year in school. Uh deebo.
Speaker 1: Samuel runs almost half his place from Xavier Road side
Speaker 1: of the field, where I think he's gonna line up
Speaker 1: mostly um Roads. Inconsistent season a little bit better lately.
Speaker 1: He's only allowed one touchdown over the past nine games,
Speaker 1: but he's allowing an eighty four percent completion rate in
Speaker 1: his coverage. Wow. If Jimmy Garoppolo needs a first down,
Speaker 1: you throw at Rhodes, and more often than not, that's
Speaker 1: going to be Debot Samuel on that side of the
Speaker 1: field now, Emmanuel Sanders plays a slot primarily, and he
Speaker 1: also plays on the right side, so he plays really
Speaker 1: all over but the slot on the right side mostly.
Speaker 1: He's got um reasonably favorable matchups in both cases. From
Speaker 1: the slot, it's a lot of mismatch because the Vikings
Speaker 1: are probably gonna have to use converted a safety Andrewson
Speaker 1: Dajo to try to guard it. One of the slippery
Speaker 1: ist receivers out there in Emmanuel Sanders. That feels like
Speaker 1: a mismatch for Emmanuel Sanders on the outside. I think
Speaker 1: sanders quick short space quickness is a matchup problem for
Speaker 1: Trey Waynes, who was a straight line speed guy. I
Speaker 1: think Sanders could be a valuable weapon here as well,
Speaker 1: and I like him too. Also, Kyle us Check is
Speaker 1: something that could be an X factor as well. I
Speaker 1: don't would use them in like daily, but you never know, Alright,
Speaker 1: last thing. San Francisco's run defense, Uh, Mostard has been great.
Speaker 1: He's become the team's Would you use him in daily?
Speaker 1: If say you were married to a girl from the
Speaker 1: Bachelor who I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna probably most
Speaker 1: of it's become the go to runner. Double digit carries
Speaker 1: in five straight games, averaging five point six yards per carry.
Speaker 1: He has scored in six straight games. Most of it
Speaker 1: would be the guy to own for sure. They do
Speaker 1: use three or four backs, but the Niners run game
Speaker 1: never gets a week off. That's always the most important
Speaker 1: thing to trying to establish. They rank number two in
Speaker 1: rushing attempts, number one rushing yards by running backs, number
Speaker 1: one in rushing touchdowns, and they are also number two
Speaker 1: I believe in when when they have the lead in
Speaker 1: rushing attempts. With the lead, and if you think that,
Speaker 1: if you think them as seven point favorites, I'll have
Speaker 1: the lead. There you go, if you allow me to
Speaker 1: pile on here that This is from Warren Sharp at
Speaker 1: Sharper Football. If you don't follow him on Twitter, you should. Um.
Speaker 1: According to him, the Vikings are the end fills worst
Speaker 1: defense against runs from twenty one personnel and that's two
Speaker 1: running backs tight end to wider series, allowing six point
Speaker 1: nine yards per carry and success rate. No team runs
Speaker 1: from personnel more than the Niners runs the NFL average.
Speaker 1: So that's adding up, it really is, and Mostard should
Speaker 1: be the primary beneficiary here. Now they of course they're
Speaker 1: going to use their other backs in there too, um.
Speaker 1: But Mostard has earned the right to be the lead
Speaker 1: back and he's the first choice here. Vikings are oh
Speaker 1: and five when imposing back hits one hundred yards. I'm
Speaker 1: sure that they will try to get Mostard into that
Speaker 1: kind of territory here. All right, let's uh, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break, Brian, and then let's go on to
Speaker 1: the next game, Tennessee taking on Baltimore, a power run
Speaker 1: team against a power run team. We'll we'll talk about
Speaker 1: how that one breaks out for the various fantasy players here,
Speaker 1: and it's chock full of fantasy goodness when we come
Speaker 1: back in just a moment. Welcome back, Paul, charging with you.
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson is my co host. We're breaking down the
Speaker 1: divisional round playoff games fantasy style. We just did a
Speaker 1: probably all two lengthy breakdown of Vikings and Niners. Hey,
Speaker 1: this is the last week, not the last weekend, but
Speaker 1: this is like the last full weekend people want, I think,
Speaker 1: so on two games to break down. Uh, Tennessee taking
Speaker 1: on Baltimore. Uh. Let's start on the passing side here
Speaker 1: with Ryan Tannehill eight and three as a starter. He's
Speaker 1: coming off being the NFL's offensive player of December, so
Speaker 1: he rolls in hot. He just beat the Patriots in Foxboro,
Speaker 1: albeit on eight completions attempts. Eight completions, Yeah, eight complete,
Speaker 1: seventy two yards. Uh, talk to me, how about how
Speaker 1: you feel about Ryan Tannehill in this matchup? You can't
Speaker 1: feel too good about Tannehill because he's going up against
Speaker 1: arguably the top cornerback trio in the NFL and Jimmy
Speaker 1: Smith um Mark's Peters in Marlin Country and since week nine,
Speaker 1: um they had already acquired Peters at that point, but
Speaker 1: Jimmy Smith was hurt so at week nine is when
Speaker 1: Jimmy Smith came back, and then you know Boltron was
Speaker 1: fully formed in that secondary. The Ravens are allowing a
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two passing yards per game. But so
Speaker 1: you know, if you're talking daily, you're not gonna use
Speaker 1: Tannehill in in cash games. He's too risky. He's a
Speaker 1: very contrarian tournament play, which is essentially gonna be everyone
Speaker 1: except Derrick Kenny. But uh, but yeah, going over to
Speaker 1: Tannehill's pass catchers will start with a J. Brown, as
Speaker 1: we all know, came on really strong towards the end
Speaker 1: of the season. I think he'll win Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: Probably he deservedly servedly so, I would say. But he
Speaker 1: did see Houston twice in that span in weeks fifteen
Speaker 1: and seventeen, Oakland in week fourteen. He did struggle mightily
Speaker 1: last week because we all saw against Stephon Gilmour that
Speaker 1: was a tough matchup. Week sixteen against New Orleans another
Speaker 1: tough matchup. Uh, two targets, just one catch, and this
Speaker 1: is another very tough matchup, maybe the toughest one of
Speaker 1: those three. So you know, the recency bias people are
Speaker 1: gonna be petrified of using a J. Brown, which you
Speaker 1: should be, but again, he is a manimal. Uh, he's
Speaker 1: good and he's the only the only really viable target
Speaker 1: that Tannehill's got when he drops back and you want
Speaker 1: anything to happen. Yep, Corey Davis. The only reason I'm
Speaker 1: even mentioning him is it's his birthday on Saturday, his
Speaker 1: actual birthday. You know, I love me a birthday. Scientific
Speaker 1: uh scientific fact, you'll go off notice kidding. He did
Speaker 1: not have a catch last week in New England. Again,
Speaker 1: another brutal matchup. So Corey Davis, let's let's let's move on.
Speaker 1: I don't really want to move on to Taj Sharp
Speaker 1: or Adam Humphries. Humphreries didn't play last week. He might
Speaker 1: play this week, but Marlon Humphrey is gonna shut down
Speaker 1: either one of these guys. Humphreries only allowed three touchdowns
Speaker 1: this season. Two went to James and Crowder in one game,
Speaker 1: which is a major outlier. He's just blanking people in
Speaker 1: the slot. Really, outside of a J. Brown, you might
Speaker 1: be looking at the tight end position for Ryan Tannehill's
Speaker 1: hop target, and no it is not John new Smith anymore.
Speaker 1: It is Anthony Firk Sir, who ran sevent of sentiments
Speaker 1: routes from the slot last week essentially working as a
Speaker 1: slot wide receiver, ran more UH routes from the slot
Speaker 1: than Taj Sharp. John Smith ran zero routes from the slot.
Speaker 1: Smith traditional tight end. So Brookeser is your guy, and
Speaker 1: he's the one I would maybe targeting daily, just kinda
Speaker 1: as a contrarian differential water on that no tight end
Speaker 1: is top thirty seven yards against Baltimore since Week four,
Speaker 1: that was September. Thirty seven yards is nothing, that's a
Speaker 1: it's that is a uber contrarian play that I'm sure
Speaker 1: he's salary capt minimum. He'll free up some free up
Speaker 1: some caategory. You know. There's basically I don't expect a
Speaker 1: very high ceiling from Firster. I guess we can still
Speaker 1: expect the very high scheeling from Derrick Henry though right
Speaker 1: probably yes, just dominated the Patriots as we all saw
Speaker 1: when it comes to the run, the Ravens have allowed
Speaker 1: more rush yards on fewer attempts than New England and
Speaker 1: ten more rushing touchdowns when the Patriots had. So we
Speaker 1: also what Henry did to the Patriots. I mean he's
Speaker 1: gonna quite literally have to carry the teams to victory
Speaker 1: in this one. Ravens are ranked fourth against the past
Speaker 1: uh by d v O A un against the past
Speaker 1: against the run, least resistance is on the ground. But
Speaker 1: I gotta mention Dean Lewis right charge you would only
Speaker 1: because it's you. It's the passing work you'd expect from him.
Speaker 1: But only three running backs have topped three catches against
Speaker 1: Baltimore all season. Only two opposing running backs have topped
Speaker 1: forty receiving yards, and only one running back has caught
Speaker 1: a touchdowns and that was that was Shady McCoy. And
Speaker 1: we had this the average game for Derrick Henry since
Speaker 1: Week ten average game. This his average game is a
Speaker 1: most leads back's biggest game of the year. Twenty four carries,
Speaker 1: one hundred fifty four rushing yards and one point six touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Average game for Derrick Henry since week ten and week
Speaker 1: ten was way back in like the middle early November.
Speaker 1: That was that was I think that was roughly November ten.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's you know, he's been great in all circumstances. Well,
Speaker 1: he's heading towards free agencies, so he's certainly running motivated.
Speaker 1: He getting more motivated by the week. It seems like
Speaker 1: uh Lamar Jackson don't know how motivated he needs to be.
Speaker 1: He's playing great, obviously, the only quarterback in NFL history
Speaker 1: to average eighty rushing yards per game. When it comes
Speaker 1: to rushing quarterbacks, though Tennessee held the I don't know
Speaker 1: if anyone's comparable to uh Lamar Jackson, but the closest
Speaker 1: comps are Josh Allen DeShawn Watson. Josh Allen ten carries
Speaker 1: for twenty seven yards against Tennessee this year Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: seven carries for thirty two. So maybe there is a
Speaker 1: little bit of a ceiling being capped for l Jacks
Speaker 1: when it comes and running the ball, but the Titans
Speaker 1: have surrendered multiple passing scores in the eleven of seventeen
Speaker 1: regular season games. The only question with Lamar Jackson is
Speaker 1: do you fade him in tournaments or not? Or like
Speaker 1: in Like in any playoff style game, you can only
Speaker 1: use a player once. Maybe this isn't the week you
Speaker 1: want to use Lamar Jackson. Then again, maybe it is.
Speaker 1: Maybe at least cornerbacks Tremaine Brock and Ty Smith and
Speaker 1: Logan Ryan. You yeah, Doriy Jackson will make his return.
Speaker 1: We'll get to him in a minute, but uh, that's
Speaker 1: when we'll talk about Mark He's Brown. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about Mark Andrews first, the top pass catcher on the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. Your games with the number of games with
Speaker 1: at least fifty yards for Ravens pass catchers, Mark Andrews
Speaker 1: has eight, Mark He's Brown, three miles boy Can and
Speaker 1: Willia's need to seth Roberts one. Andrews has more than
Speaker 1: all those guys combined. And it's only fifty yards. Fifty
Speaker 1: Your leading receiver, Marquis Brown has hit it what was it?
Speaker 1: Three times? Ah? Yeah, three times? Three times and over
Speaker 1: the last over their last seven regular season games, the
Speaker 1: Titans have allowed five tight end touchdowns, four tight ends
Speaker 1: of top seventy yards during that span. So you gotta
Speaker 1: love Mark Andrews in this game. Even Ben Watson had
Speaker 1: three catches for three eight yards against the Titans last week,
Speaker 1: and uh, he's he's decomposing corpse at this point. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if if you're gonna try and be
Speaker 1: a contrarian at the tight end position with Baltimore. I
Speaker 1: like Hayden Hurst a little more than Nick Boyle, But
Speaker 1: let's not discuss those guys. You're throwing darts at that point.
Speaker 1: You're throwing darts at that point for sure. Over the
Speaker 1: wide receivers, Marcus Brown just talked about him, hasn't seen
Speaker 1: more than four targets and eight of his last nine games.
Speaker 1: He's really been struggling with lower leg injuries all season.
Speaker 1: And if he doesn't score, you get nothing, you get nothing,
Speaker 1: and a Dory Jackson practicing full on Thursday, he will
Speaker 1: be back. He will be locked down on Hollywood Brown.
Speaker 1: So I'm not liking Marcy's Brown. I'm not liking any
Speaker 1: of the wide receivers for as a as a because
Speaker 1: the outside corners are really bad. Brock and Smith are
Speaker 1: really bad. If we think that Marquis Brown is not
Speaker 1: healthy enough or not mature enough to make a big impact,
Speaker 1: here is boy Can a contrarian play that nobody's going
Speaker 1: to have in DFS most likely, and I would I
Speaker 1: would lean to using him more so if I was
Speaker 1: using l Jackson is pairing him, pairing him up and
Speaker 1: hoping for the you know, the double down there, because
Speaker 1: if you have La mar Jackson and Boyken doesn't do anything,
Speaker 1: you still might be all right, it's true, but because yeah,
Speaker 1: boy can will come in cheap on most especially on
Speaker 1: fan Ball, So yeah, I like that. Even though Willie
Speaker 1: Snead has seen the most snaps of all Ravens wide receivers,
Speaker 1: he did never see enough targets. And then Seth Roberts
Speaker 1: is a thing, but not so much on this show anymore.
Speaker 1: Now it gets sticky at running back charged mark Ingram.
Speaker 1: You don't know if he's gonna go even know if
Speaker 1: he's gonna play it. It's it is, it's serious grade
Speaker 1: a day with calf injury. And you know he hasn't
Speaker 1: topped fifteen carries since Week five. Only three running backs
Speaker 1: have top ninety rushing yards against Tennessee Christian McCaffrey, Carlos Hide,
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette, and they all needed twenty four carries to
Speaker 1: get there or Fade and Ingram, And I can't take
Speaker 1: Ingram hard. Gus Sadwards, on the other hand, he's cheap
Speaker 1: and he's gonna get carries anyway career five point three
Speaker 1: yards per carry. He's proven he can be a lead
Speaker 1: back and uh, and you know Justice Hill is going
Speaker 1: to come into play here too. Only the Colts allowed
Speaker 1: more catches running backs this year than the Titans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so about that, Gus Edwards, Justice Hill both in play
Speaker 1: even if Ingram has suited up. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm worried about mark ingram Man time too. I I
Speaker 1: can't unless something changes between now and kickoff. And I
Speaker 1: feel a lot better about mark Ingram's health. I'm not
Speaker 1: risking it. Calf injuries are tricky. They can you can
Speaker 1: have a setback easily. He said he's had a setback
Speaker 1: this week. Essentially he's getting worse rather than better for him. Um,
Speaker 1: we'll take let's yeah, we'll we'll take we'll take one
Speaker 1: more break. This is gonna be the last break of
Speaker 1: this one, and then we'll we'll knock on the last
Speaker 1: the last couple of games. Um, including well it's not including.
Speaker 1: There's only two other games, Houston taking on Kansas City
Speaker 1: and also Seattle taking on Green Bay. We'll talk about those,
Speaker 1: Paul charging Brian Johnson with you just a second, all right?
Speaker 1: We are back, um, Brian, Yeah, NFC green Bay. Uh
Speaker 1: in the odd position of rooting for the Vikings last
Speaker 1: week so that they could get Seattle a much easier
Speaker 1: out than San Francisco. I think by anybody's estimation. Right now,
Speaker 1: Um it's a primrose path for Seattle right now. As
Speaker 1: um as they get to the face Seattle and then
Speaker 1: you know, the Vikings win, that'd be even better. You
Speaker 1: get the Vikings at home, will be already be twice
Speaker 1: Seattle's let's starry. Let's start with this. The Seattle rush
Speaker 1: is a rushing game is a complete disaster. They got
Speaker 1: one yard per carry out of Marshall and Lynch. There's
Speaker 1: this convention, and he's scored in both games that he's
Speaker 1: been back for. There's this sort of conventional wisdom. I
Speaker 1: think maybe because he's Marshawn Lynch and because he scored
Speaker 1: touchdowns in each game, that somehow this running game is solved.
Speaker 1: It's awful. The last two weeks Seattle averaging two point
Speaker 1: eight yards per carry. Travis Homer frankly has been better
Speaker 1: than Marshawn Lynch, who just to me, to my eyes,
Speaker 1: Lynch looks pretty much cooked. He's pretty washed about Robert
Speaker 1: Turban maybe, you know, maybe in Turbans thirty, which shocked me,
Speaker 1: you know, for I know he's bounced around a lot,
Speaker 1: but how do you get to be thirty years old? Um? Now,
Speaker 1: The green Bay run defense has been battle year and
Speaker 1: it's bad now, and Seattle would love to get the
Speaker 1: running games started, but I just I can't trust them.
Speaker 1: I can't trust Seattle here. Um, the Vikings with their
Speaker 1: backup runners failed to get anything done against against green
Speaker 1: Bay's run defense. So I think there's a point at
Speaker 1: which you know your backup runners just can't get it
Speaker 1: done against green Bay, and this is it. So i'm
Speaker 1: i'm I'm avoiding Marshall Lynch and Travis Homer here. Seattle's
Speaker 1: passing game those is more intriguing, but it's strength versus strength. Here.
Speaker 1: Packers have allowed zero or one the passing touchdown in
Speaker 1: five straight games. But the five quarterbacks they've faced Daniel Jones, rookie,
Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins, rookie, David Blow rookie, Sad Trombone Ski plays
Speaker 1: like a rookie, and Kirk Cousins that's it. That's it.
Speaker 1: So maybe the Packers aren't quite as good as we
Speaker 1: as we think they are. They do have a great
Speaker 1: pass rush at ranks and fifth by Pro Football Focus UM,
Speaker 1: and that will certain challenged Russell Wilson, but he's used
Speaker 1: to this and he's as elusive as any quarterback in
Speaker 1: the pocket. Um hasn't necessarily been explosive this year, but
Speaker 1: he's been consistent. He's scored in sixteen and seventeen games
Speaker 1: this year, but his average game since November is just
Speaker 1: two yards and one point three touchdowns, which isn't very much.
Speaker 1: You want more than that. I was curious to see
Speaker 1: the weather in Green Bake saidn't looked at It's it's
Speaker 1: quite smild for a time. About snow they're shoveling right
Speaker 1: Saturday might be the more snow or or Monday morning
Speaker 1: they might. They needed seven volunteers to shovel out the
Speaker 1: shovel out lambeau Field. I'm just not sure when that
Speaker 1: snow is a sting this week? Yeah really yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I think that's an hour soon or something like that.
Speaker 1: It sucks for them, Well, there's seven volunteers, but Brian,
Speaker 1: their owners, they're not there. Don't think of him as volunteers,
Speaker 1: think of them as owners. Um now of course, by
Speaker 1: now you know Russell Wilson's rushing is totally sporadic. You
Speaker 1: can't count on that at all. Uh DK met Caflan
Speaker 1: bonkers last week seven catches hundred sixty yards um and
Speaker 1: a touchdown. He's um uh a great game last week.
Speaker 1: He runs predominantly from the left side of the field,
Speaker 1: where he'll face the green Bay's worst corner, Kevin King.
Speaker 1: That's a nice opportunity for DK Metcalf, who I do
Speaker 1: like quite a bit. In this game. Tire Lockett runs
Speaker 1: from the slot a lot that puts him against Traymont Williams.
Speaker 1: Williams has been shockingly terrific in this is eighty third
Speaker 1: year of service in the NFL. He's allowed only one
Speaker 1: touchdown since Week six. Really all year, only Anthony Miller
Speaker 1: has had his number In the two games that Chicago
Speaker 1: played against Green Bay. Jacob Hollister could be big here,
Speaker 1: and I like him as your tight end option if
Speaker 1: you want to find a cheap tight end. Green Bay
Speaker 1: has given up big games, so pretty much every good
Speaker 1: tight end they faced, Kittle, Kelsey Waller, Henry Olson arts
Speaker 1: and while Hollister isn't at the level of those guys,
Speaker 1: he's only maybe one tier underneath that if they decide
Speaker 1: they want to use him a lot, and we've seen
Speaker 1: games where they've gone to Hollister copiously. I like Hollister
Speaker 1: in this matchup too. Let's go to the Green Bay
Speaker 1: side where list regular listeners know Eric because I talked
Speaker 1: about all the time Aaron Rodgers is so dangerous to
Speaker 1: your fantasy viability. Get this. Here's this average game in
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. So we're going all
Speaker 1: the way back to early October. Average game for Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers in passing yards. Would you like to guess, I'll
Speaker 1: let you guess, right, two hundred and nine. I know
Speaker 1: it's being generous. Average touchdown passes zero point nine, you're
Speaker 1: close one point to five, but it's really masked by
Speaker 1: he had him he had a five touchdown game. Um,
Speaker 1: if I took that five touchdown game out, which wouldn't
Speaker 1: be fair, but if I did, he'd be well under
Speaker 1: well under one yard he'd probably out of that was
Speaker 1: an English major. That's why that's that's your problem right there. Rogers.
Speaker 1: By the way, you know, we want to know who
Speaker 1: else is dead on two hundred nine yards and one
Speaker 1: point to five touchdowns per game like square on Sad Trombo.
Speaker 1: I knew Sad Trombone Ski. Sad Trombone Ski almost exactly
Speaker 1: the same stat line offensive stat line as Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: now obviously Aaron rod I'm not suggesting that Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: is as inconsistent, you know, like Aaron Rodgers almost never
Speaker 1: throws it in complete an interception. I'm not even suggesting
Speaker 1: there on the same plane of existence. But if all
Speaker 1: from a fantasy only standpoint, the offensive production has been
Speaker 1: worse with Aaron Rodgers than that that's always gotten got
Speaker 1: and that's the whole problem. So you know, if if
Speaker 1: they if they scheme to stop Davante Adams, who runs
Speaker 1: from all over the field, and he's got positive matchups,
Speaker 1: especially on the left side against Trey Flowers and also
Speaker 1: in the slot against Hugo Amadi, I think I think
Speaker 1: Adams can get his And you know, like the Vikings
Speaker 1: new Adams was coming, they still couldn't stop and getting
Speaker 1: like fourteen passes in a game. So I think Adams
Speaker 1: will be okay. It's just there's nobody else that ever
Speaker 1: steps up to your point, and that part has been
Speaker 1: a disaster for them. But where you really want to go,
Speaker 1: probably Aaron Jones finally getting the usage that fantasy uners
Speaker 1: have been clamoring for for years. Here's his yardage over
Speaker 1: the last four games for Aaron Jones one two yards,
Speaker 1: fifty one yards, one hundred sixty yards, and one forty
Speaker 1: three yards. It's three out of four dominating games. Will
Speaker 1: take that. Jones and Williams can attack Seattle through the air.
Speaker 1: They've given up big receiving games to runners in the
Speaker 1: past few weeks. Kyle use check yards, Christian McCaffrey yards
Speaker 1: through the air. The Vikings runners put up one eight
Speaker 1: yards between them through the air. Um, They've given up
Speaker 1: nine rushing touchdowns in the last five games. Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: to me, is the best running back play of the weekend. Sorry,
Speaker 1: thank you, Aaron Jones best running back play of the
Speaker 1: week yet, all right, I like it. I like that right.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the final game on our on our
Speaker 1: set list here, and that is a what it's going
Speaker 1: to be a one sided affair. I know Houston. I
Speaker 1: know Houston beat Kansas City in the Week six matchup.
Speaker 1: That was a long time ago. And these are two
Speaker 1: pretty different teams. Now, uh tell me, you're tell me
Speaker 1: how you feel about this one. Let's begin with Houston
Speaker 1: side of the ball here. Carlos Hide was a star
Speaker 1: in the first game. He ran for one sixteen yards
Speaker 1: and one touchdown in the first matchup. What do you
Speaker 1: think about this in the sequel? Uh? If they give
Speaker 1: him that the ball that many times, he could repeat
Speaker 1: those numbers. Kansas City was ranked twenty nine against the
Speaker 1: run by A Football Outsiders d v o A, and
Speaker 1: they allowed the fourth highest yards per carry. But again,
Speaker 1: Kansas City could easily run up the score and take
Speaker 1: Hide out of the game script. Uh. And they might
Speaker 1: need to lean on Duke Johnson a little more in
Speaker 1: this one. Who caught a touchdown in that week six game.
Speaker 1: Duke has eight catches over the last eight games. Hide
Speaker 1: has one, So the game script flips. We could see
Speaker 1: more Duke and Hide. I'd rather have Duked and Hide
Speaker 1: at the same salary cost. Yeah, but Duke will come
Speaker 1: in cheaper. But even if they were the same costs
Speaker 1: get over ownership. But thankfully he's even cheaper and Uh.
Speaker 1: We talked about how only the Colts allowed more receptions
Speaker 1: to running backs than the Titans in the earlier segment.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs come in third. In that regard. Only the
Speaker 1: Colts and Titans have allowed more receptions of running backs
Speaker 1: than the Chiefs, who allowed a hundred. So I like
Speaker 1: Duke in this one. He could Uh, be sneaky. Play
Speaker 1: ownership percentage should be a little suppressed. UM for old Duke.
Speaker 1: Let's see. Let's go over to Deshaun Watson, who had
Speaker 1: two eighty and one passing four, two rushing yards and
Speaker 1: two rushing touchdowns in that first meeting. UM. But unlike
Speaker 1: years past, Kansas City has been very tough against the past.
Speaker 1: The ranks six against the past by football outsiders. Uh.
Speaker 1: One thing that would bode well for Watson is the
Speaker 1: Chief's leader in sacks. Pro bowler Chris Jones was limited
Speaker 1: in practice on Thursday with the calf injury. He just
Speaker 1: talked about how fickle those could be. He's been added
Speaker 1: to the injury reports, So that would bode well for Watson. So,
Speaker 1: but didn't. Week six game charge Watson had four touchdown
Speaker 1: passes dropped. Wow, will Fuller drop three? I remember, I remember,
Speaker 1: I remember he had that big drop game, But what
Speaker 1: this was I didn't remember which one. DeAndre Hopkins dropped
Speaker 1: the touchdown in that game too, So and Watson still
Speaker 1: ran for two touchdowns in that game. So just keep
Speaker 1: that in mind, will Fuller. When Will Fuller had at
Speaker 1: least three touchdowns the game before the game, after this
Speaker 1: one you almost have like a six touchdown span. But uh,
Speaker 1: but DeAndre Hopkins nine for fifty five in that first
Speaker 1: game on twelve targets. You kind of know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna get with him. He's a that's about his four
Speaker 1: nine catches for six yards. Uh, could certainly go off
Speaker 1: at any point. So he's not contrarian, He's not chalk. Uh,
Speaker 1: He's DeAndre Hopkins. What can you say? Will full will
Speaker 1: Fuller though, you got always gotta be worried with will
Speaker 1: will Fuller. Wine injury could be you know, any play
Speaker 1: could be his last. He could start, but you never
Speaker 1: know if he's gonna finish the game. Uh. Like I said,
Speaker 1: he dropped three touchdowns in that Week six game, So
Speaker 1: you really have to wait and see come Sunday what
Speaker 1: his status is. If he's out, that brings Kenny Stills
Speaker 1: back into play, who he's been limited by a knee
Speaker 1: injury this week as well. And uh, it's DeAndre Carter
Speaker 1: who would step up if either of those guys cannot go,
Speaker 1: Not Kiki Cutie who is basically been deactivated. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's done. He's done. So and um, the Chiefs, but
Speaker 1: starting safety Juan thornhill On I R, which would move
Speaker 1: Honey Badger to free safety, which really just mixes up
Speaker 1: their whole secondary weaves them a little more susceptible to
Speaker 1: the big play. So either Stills or Fuller, I'd like
Speaker 1: Fuller is active. You know he they have high ceiling,
Speaker 1: low floor type plays. They're not cash game plays, but uh,
Speaker 1: certainly tournament plays and daily And another guy who could
Speaker 1: be viable is Darren Fells Um Jordan Aikins was sidelined
Speaker 1: last week with the hamstring injury. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's gonna play this week. Fells pretty much had a
Speaker 1: full time gig. Fellas had six catches for sixty nine
Speaker 1: yards in that week six game. Deacons added three for
Speaker 1: thirty nine so ten catch hutter yard game and the
Speaker 1: Chiefs have surrendered the second most catches too tight ends
Speaker 1: and yielded the third most red zone targets to the position.
Speaker 1: So especially if eight is out and uh, that should
Speaker 1: do it for the Houston side. Does Are you gonna
Speaker 1: say something that's good? All right over to uh? I'll
Speaker 1: mention this. Uh. You know, Kansas City's past events has
Speaker 1: been good all year and great down the stretch over
Speaker 1: the past five weeks. The average passing game against Kansas
Speaker 1: City to two thirty one yards and zero point eight touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a good, vastly improved secondary. So I
Speaker 1: don't think I don't think the yards are gonna necessarily
Speaker 1: come easily here for Watson, um, but just maybe through
Speaker 1: sheer repetition and volume, Watson ends up with a good
Speaker 1: fantasy game. All right, let's flip over to the Kansas
Speaker 1: City side. All right, Damian Williams. Uh, it's coming on strong. Finally.
Speaker 1: I love this matchup. Over the last two regular season games,
Speaker 1: Williams has total thirty eight opportunities that has carries plus targets. Uh.
Speaker 1: That's compared to the ten from Darwin Thompson Shady McCoy
Speaker 1: a healthy scratch in both of those games. Houston is
Speaker 1: seven in d v o A against pass catching running backs.
Speaker 1: Williams will get all the passworks, So you gotta love
Speaker 1: Williams this week. I agree with you that Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: will have the best performance, but I think Williams will
Speaker 1: be the highest owned running back in Daily based on
Speaker 1: price and just the sheer awesomeness of this match. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta like Damian Williams and this one. You gotta
Speaker 1: like Tyree Hill, who had five catches for eighty yards
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns in that Week six game, and that
Speaker 1: was only on twenty eight snaps. Hill was coming off injury.
Speaker 1: Then Houston has allowed the fifth most touchdowns to wide
Speaker 1: receivers this year. So Hill is in a smash spot.
Speaker 1: Who is not in a small smash spot. Uh probably
Speaker 1: never will be for the rest of his life. Is
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins didn't play in that Week six game. But
Speaker 1: let's just let's do quick rewind of watkins season. It
Speaker 1: won't take long alright. According to Fantasy Football Today, Watkins
Speaker 1: had thirty eight points in Week one. That's pretty much
Speaker 1: standard PPR thirty eight points. He had like three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill got hurt. You had Sammy Watkins, you drafted
Speaker 1: in the seventh round. You're like, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a great season to get him back in my lineup.
Speaker 1: He basically totaled forty five points over the remainder of
Speaker 1: the season after that game, like the ultimate sell high
Speaker 1: moment that no one took advantage of whatso ever, which
Speaker 1: you couldn't at the time because Hill was gonna miss
Speaker 1: like six weeks and you're like I gotta, I gotta
Speaker 1: Patrick Mos go to receiver. Nobody's sold, right, and then
Speaker 1: the price kept going down and then you couldn't sell.
Speaker 1: So but you know it's Hill and Watkins, they dominate
Speaker 1: the snap counts. Watkins another boomer bust high ceil. I
Speaker 1: don't even we can say it's a high ceiling anymore,
Speaker 1: maybe a high distance ceiling. But he's become a contrarian
Speaker 1: dartthroat essentially, and Nicole Hardman is the one wide receiver
Speaker 1: you would think about maybe saving some you know, some
Speaker 1: coin in the DFS lineup. I kind of like it
Speaker 1: in a in a in a bigger pool because Hardman's
Speaker 1: got such so much big playability. Yeah, I do too,
Speaker 1: and he'll come in cheap. He had four catches with
Speaker 1: forty five yards in that Week six game. He basically
Speaker 1: started opposite Tyreek Hill because Watkins missed that. But again
Speaker 1: probably the if it's not Tyreek Kill that the past
Speaker 1: catcher you want most on Kansas City is, of course
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey, who was quiet in that first meeting. Just
Speaker 1: like four or five catches for sixty yards. Houston was
Speaker 1: top eight and most yards allowed to tight end. So
Speaker 1: you gotta love Travis Kelsey. He's been limited with a
Speaker 1: a knee injury, but he should be good to go
Speaker 1: come Sunday. And then Patrick Mahomes to seventy three and
Speaker 1: three in the Week six game, a quiet day for him,
Speaker 1: sort of sort of been a quiet season, even though
Speaker 1: he's finished the top five quarterback. But the Texans are
Speaker 1: very prone to the big play. They've allowed fifty eight
Speaker 1: plays of twenty plus yards of this year. That's the
Speaker 1: eighth most in the league. You know, if I if
Speaker 1: I do pick eight quarterback Lamar Jackson or Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: I think I'm I think Mahomes is gonna outperform Jackson
Speaker 1: this week. At lower ownership, lower salary. I just feel
Speaker 1: like this is gonna be a pop off spot for Mahomes.
Speaker 1: Of course Jess can do the same, but should be
Speaker 1: a good game. Uh, Damian Williams, let me go back
Speaker 1: to him. Here's another statfree and Williams. Think about what
Speaker 1: running back will catch a pass in that offense. It's
Speaker 1: only him, you know. Lashawn McCoy is probably not even
Speaker 1: active for the game. UM Houston has allowed the second
Speaker 1: most receptions to running backs, the second most receiving yards
Speaker 1: to running backs and the most touchdowns through the air
Speaker 1: to running backs seven for seventies six received for Devon
Speaker 1: Singletary last week. Last week, this is um Williams is
Speaker 1: an awesome play. I want to I want the Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones Damien Williams combat the right. See what I got
Speaker 1: left after that? Because that's that is going to be
Speaker 1: the key to my DFS lineups, I believe are those
Speaker 1: two guys, and you know I'll scrabble together other stuff. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: on fanball dot com, you don't have to pick a
Speaker 1: quarterback though, because you can play super Elex. So I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna and then I'm yeah, then l Jacks and
Speaker 1: Mahomes and I don't even needed the rest of my
Speaker 1: line What about? What did I keep my two tight
Speaker 1: ends in super flex? I could go tight end tight end.
Speaker 1: I could go Hollister Fells and get two super cheap
Speaker 1: tight ends and crush a lot of the rest of
Speaker 1: my rocks. You can play three tight ends with that
Speaker 1: with two quarterbacks still, because dandel has the wide receiver
Speaker 1: tight ends and then the regular flex tight ends. My
Speaker 1: third tight end would be maybe maybe just go Kittle
Speaker 1: and take the chalk. But as I mentioned, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit nervous about the Kittle matchup. We're
Speaker 1: we we love, we love akns this week. Right, that's yeah,
Speaker 1: it was fell. That's my one punch right there. Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening to Fantasy Football Weekly. We're as you
Speaker 1: probably know, we're back every week of the season, and
Speaker 1: we will and the off season, which is new for us,
Speaker 1: and next week we'll be breaking down two games instead
Speaker 1: of four. I think it's gonna be Green Bay travel.
Speaker 1: I think it's Chalk. I think it's Green Bay traveling
Speaker 1: to San Francisco. I think it's uh. I think it's
Speaker 1: Kansas City traveling to Baltimore in all probability, but so
Speaker 1: I play the games, find out Brian, great job today,
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