Speaker 1: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly
Speaker 1: source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. Now,
Speaker 1: along with the guys from Guillotine Leagues dot com, here's
Speaker 1: your host, Paul Jargian.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm Paul Jarchi and my
Speaker 2: co hosts today are Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson. Hey, guys,
Speaker 2: what a boys? Hey, what's better than snow football?
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, that was fun last night.
Speaker 4: Snow football with Jamis Winston.
Speaker 2: Nothing better, nothing better than Jameis Winston snowfootball. That was
Speaker 2: a blast. I love snow football. Did you guys play
Speaker 2: snow football in the backyard?
Speaker 3: New World? Absolutely?
Speaker 2: That was like the call. That's when you went and
Speaker 2: played right, it's snowing. This is when you go play football.
Speaker 4: Oh and growing up, I'm thinking of like a Joe
Speaker 4: Montana Sports Talk football. Remember that you can control the weather.
Speaker 4: Whenever you could control the weather, it was always snow.
Speaker 4: You're always put in snow, in.
Speaker 2: The snow for absolutely every time snow.
Speaker 5: I was playing that n C double A twenty five
Speaker 5: game with my kid, put it on snow and then
Speaker 5: realized that my jerseys were white. And then I I
Speaker 5: can't see my receivers.
Speaker 3: It was a bad, bad move.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised that doesn't create more problem in real life.
Speaker 4: I think it did for Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: It might.
Speaker 4: I trouble seeing some of them.
Speaker 5: The best high visibility jerseys for snow football are the browns,
Speaker 5: the dark brown and the blaze orange. You can see
Speaker 5: them so clear.
Speaker 4: The Seahawks might, oh, the highlighter those are the worst.
Speaker 4: I think they retired those, thankfully, hopefully.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, but they still have the uh like as
Speaker 2: the third color is still the neon greens. It's just
Speaker 2: not overt.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And them in the Rams had like that dirty
Speaker 4: laundry color too, Like they're like.
Speaker 3: Off the Rams. It's called bone.
Speaker 4: I call it dirty long white tea shirts.
Speaker 2: Bone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the name of the color.
Speaker 2: I had no idea.
Speaker 4: What did they call it?
Speaker 2: Tusk? Wouldn't that be better than bone?
Speaker 5: Well, aren't tusks from your but it's that would be
Speaker 5: horn horn, they're.
Speaker 3: Not Walrus's still like touss cheese. Lots.
Speaker 2: To get to the course of this show, we're gonna
Speaker 2: break down all the games. We'll give you letter grades,
Speaker 2: and all the significant players take a chance on me.
Speaker 2: Nine players you would not normally start will tell you
Speaker 2: who they are. Three tough questions will be answered later
Speaker 2: in the show. And our second to last premature speculation,
Speaker 2: I think, or maybe third to last premature speculation. It's
Speaker 2: coming to an end.
Speaker 4: Running sweet time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're run on time. To prematurely speculate.
Speaker 3: We kill it right about Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2: Is that when the last buy is over, Okay, that
Speaker 2: is our That is when we kill it off. Yep,
Speaker 2: so we got a couple more weeks of premature speculation.
Speaker 2: Let's dive into the matchups Lions are taking on the Colts.
Speaker 2: Matt Lions are coming off yet another dominating offensive performance
Speaker 2: fifty whatever two points last week. I gotta believe it's
Speaker 2: pretty much start everybody here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jamiir Gibbs and David Montgomery will start with them.
Speaker 5: They're both getting a grades. The Colts have seen the
Speaker 5: most running back touches in the league this year, with
Speaker 5: thirty two per game, and have allowed the third most
Speaker 5: combo yards at one fifty one. By the way, neither
Speaker 5: Gibbs nor Montgomery has got to single digit PPR points,
Speaker 5: yet every game so far double digit PPR points. They're
Speaker 5: both super reliable Sam Laporta. He's back from an injury
Speaker 5: and I'm not afraid to do it. I'm giving Laporta
Speaker 5: an A grade here. What Yeah, Colts are bottom ted like.
Speaker 2: A guy who has a rostered Sam Laporta all year.
Speaker 3: I got him everywhere. Man, Come on.
Speaker 5: We talked about this on three tough questions. Colts are
Speaker 5: bottom ten and receptions, yards and touchdowns allowed to the
Speaker 5: tight end position, and before missing last week with a
Speaker 5: shoulder injury, Laporta had scored in two of his last three,
Speaker 5: so I like him here. Aman Ross Saint Brown gets
Speaker 5: an actual tough matchup out of the slot, and Kenny
Speaker 5: moore More is the seventh best ranked corner by Pro
Speaker 5: Football Focus, but he's also allowed five touchdowns on the season,
Speaker 5: and Sun God has scored in eight straight games, so
Speaker 5: he still gets an A grade. Jameson Williams had a
Speaker 5: huge week last week, but he's been super inconsistent with
Speaker 5: target totals. In his last six games. He's had target
Speaker 5: totals that could all be seen on a single six
Speaker 5: sided die and he's rolled each number once. They'll take
Speaker 5: a few deep shots at him, especially when he's going
Speaker 5: against Samuel Womack or Jaylen Jones. Both corners are seeing
Speaker 5: a dots above twelve, So it's a C grade on
Speaker 5: the prospect that he breaks a deep ball, and then
Speaker 5: Jared Goff gets an eight grade because I like his
Speaker 5: old offense. The Colts are allowing the seventh most completions
Speaker 5: in the fifth most yards. That seems very goffable or
Speaker 5: goff tacular or golf pudding, whatever it is. Anthony Richardson,
Speaker 5: it's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that. Richardson.
Speaker 5: On the other side, should be missing his top left tackle,
Speaker 5: Bernard Ryman, but they were missing him last week too,
Speaker 5: and Richardson still had his best day of the season
Speaker 5: against the Jets. Tougher test for sure against Detroit this week.
Speaker 5: The Lions have given up at least twenty nine rushing
Speaker 5: yards to a quarterback five times already this year. Richardson
Speaker 5: got to thirty two last week but scored twice on
Speaker 5: the ground, and they've also allowed the tenth most passing
Speaker 5: yards at two forty nine per game. Problem is they bend,
Speaker 5: but they don't break. They've only allowed seven passing scorers
Speaker 5: all season through ten games. They have fourteen interceptions. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they have double the amount of picks as touchdown passes allowed.
Speaker 2: And I don't think Detroit has allowed more than one
Speaker 2: touchdown pass in any game this year. Yeah, it's all
Speaker 2: about Richardson's legs in this one, I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: With the Lions favored by over a touchdown on an
Speaker 5: over under in the fifties, game, script should still favor
Speaker 5: Richardson throwing end running, so he's gonna make a few mistakes.
Speaker 5: I'll give him a B grade here the receivers. When
Speaker 5: Richardson is the starter, Michael Pittman is his first look.
Speaker 5: In the six games that Richardson has started and finished,
Speaker 5: Pittman's target share has never dipped below twenty two percent.
Speaker 5: Basically one in four Richardson passes is going towards Pittman,
Speaker 5: so there should be ample volume in this game toward Pittman.
Speaker 5: I'm giving him a B grade. Josh Downs also gets
Speaker 5: a B running from the slot. He gets a meek Robertson,
Speaker 5: who's allowed a ninety one passer rating in his coverage
Speaker 5: and his PFF player grade is below the Kindle Vildor line, so.
Speaker 3: That's not a good thing.
Speaker 5: Also below the Kindle Vildor line is Terry and Arnold,
Speaker 5: who matches up with Alec Pierce. He's way below the
Speaker 5: Villdor line and should be susceptible to a deep shot
Speaker 5: or too, so a sea dart for Pierce if you
Speaker 5: need the home run ball. And then finally, Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 5: He only gets a C grade in this. In the
Speaker 5: last three weeks against a couple of similar good run
Speaker 5: stopping defenses, Taylor only managed forty eight yards against the
Speaker 5: Vikings and fifty seven yards on twenty four carries against
Speaker 5: the Jets. The volume could dry up if Detroit gets
Speaker 5: ahead a little bit too, so just a sea grade
Speaker 5: on Taylor.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Terry and Arnold, the first round pick for
Speaker 2: the Lions and a lot of opportunity for him to
Speaker 2: get better. But two picks before him in the NFL
Speaker 2: draft was Quinnon Mitchell to the Eagles, and he might
Speaker 2: be the rookie of the year.
Speaker 5: Cooper Degen doesn't look too bad, looks great. Second round.
Speaker 2: He has turned into a shutdown slot corner also readily
Speaker 2: so the Eagle.
Speaker 3: Howie Roseman nailed it.
Speaker 2: He's he's so good.
Speaker 4: Spoiler alert, there's a Cooper on Cooper breakdown. Come.
Speaker 2: I like it, I like it.
Speaker 4: Those corners bowed bad news, but we'll get to that later.
Speaker 2: Tennessee takes on Houston. Brian Taj Spears ruled out of
Speaker 2: this game, so Tony Pollard's going to get almost all
Speaker 2: the work. So does he belong in lineups?
Speaker 4: He should get most of the work. But not a
Speaker 4: great matchup. It wasn't a great matchup for Pollard last week.
Speaker 4: Brutal matchup against a future defensive Player of the Year
Speaker 4: Andrew Van Gingle and company. And it doesn't get much
Speaker 4: better against the Texans, who are allowing less than four
Speaker 4: yards per carry to running back. So they've surrendered just
Speaker 4: seven total touchdowns of the position. They've been out been
Speaker 4: without Will Anderson on their front four for a while.
Speaker 4: He's going to make his return. He is elite if
Speaker 4: you're not aware of will Anderson. So just to see
Speaker 4: for Tony Pollard, even with Spears out over the receivers
Speaker 4: Calvin Ridley, just to see here at least eight targets
Speaker 4: in five of his last six games. Tons of air
Speaker 4: yards from Bill Levis. There's a ceiling for Ridley, for sure,
Speaker 4: but a very scary floor. Ridley has scored in just
Speaker 4: two games of this season, granted one was a multi
Speaker 4: score game, but the Texans have surrendered the second most
Speaker 4: wide receiver touchdowns. They haven't had their bye week yet, Houston,
Speaker 4: but they're allowing one and a half scores per game
Speaker 4: to the position, So I will throw Ridley in my
Speaker 4: lineup at temporary expectations. I will not start Nick Westbrook Keene,
Speaker 4: but I might bet him for an any time touchdown scorer.
Speaker 4: Here's Nwi's Firstwhi's first game was in Week six, following
Speaker 4: Tennessee's by Here's his touchdowns by game since then. One one, one,
Speaker 4: one zero, one wow, five to six. But he's on
Speaker 4: the bench in this matchup as his Chico Konquo at
Speaker 4: tight end. Houston allowing just three and a half catches
Speaker 4: thirty two yards per game to tight ends, and Will
Speaker 4: Levis he's on the bench to no shocker there. Over
Speaker 4: to the Texan side, Joe Mixon monster season for mixing
Speaker 4: just a be here, though might be a little bit
Speaker 4: of a bump in the road for Joe. The Titans
Speaker 4: are allowing a measly three point seven yards per carry
Speaker 4: to opposing running backs who are barely averaging one hundred
Speaker 4: combo yards per game, but mixing an absolute belcow seeing
Speaker 4: over ninety percent of the snaps on a weekly basis,
Speaker 4: absolutely insane. Tennessee is allowing one point three total touchdowns
Speaker 4: per game to running back, so there is a game
Speaker 4: potential for mixing, but I'll play it safe with the
Speaker 4: b for mixing this week. The Texans played it safe
Speaker 4: with Nico Collins last week. He only ran twenty one routes.
Speaker 4: It's about half of his workload. Hopefully gets ramped up
Speaker 4: this week, but teams do not throw on the Titans much.
Speaker 4: Tennessee yielding just twenty eight pass attempts per game, which
Speaker 4: is leading to less than ten catches per game from
Speaker 4: opposing wide receiver units. You're not gonna sit in n
Speaker 4: Go by any means. You're starting him without a doubt,
Speaker 4: But I'm just gonna give him a CEE here. Not
Speaker 4: a great matchup. We're not sure if they ramp him
Speaker 4: up all the way, and game script probably not gonna
Speaker 4: favor the pass passing game. That is why I tanked
Speaker 4: Dell on the bench as his tight end Dalton Schultz.
Speaker 4: Only two tight ends have scored against Tennessee this year.
Speaker 4: There are better options this week, and even in the
Speaker 4: waste and even in the bike apocalypse in the wasteland
Speaker 4: double bad for tight ends, but I'm still benching Dalton
Speaker 4: Schultz and I'm close to benching CJ Stroud. I will
Speaker 4: give him a CEE though again game script concerns, But
Speaker 4: there is big play potential for Stroud now that Nico
Speaker 4: Collins is back in the lineup. Twenty three percent of
Speaker 4: the passing plays against Tennessee have gained ten or more yards.
Speaker 4: That is the third highest clip in the league. So
Speaker 4: if Stroud gets it done early, he is viable. But
Speaker 4: just a soft sea for CJ.
Speaker 2: Cowboys take on the Commanders. This is not good as
Speaker 2: we've I'm to learn which part's not good, the whole
Speaker 2: thing on the Dallas side. Oh okay, all right, let's
Speaker 2: just start with the only there's only three players you
Speaker 2: could possibly care about. With the Cowboys, I'm gonna start
Speaker 2: with our bench greade on Rico dubtel even at a
Speaker 2: sixteen bye week, I'm not starting him and it's a
Speaker 2: neutral matchup. In the two Cooper rush games, rico'dowdle has
Speaker 2: gotten ten and twelve carries. That is just not enough
Speaker 2: volume to feel confident in the league's worst rushing attack.
Speaker 2: The Commanders giving up some big games to running backs,
Speaker 2: but those are all volume backs, and Doubtell doesn't get
Speaker 2: enough volume. The only receiver you care about is, of
Speaker 2: course Ceedee Lamb, now not fully healthy but expected to
Speaker 2: play in this one, and through sheer repetition, Lamb has
Speaker 2: been fantasy serviceable. But it's all four yard pass, six
Speaker 2: yard pass, five yard pass. It's very short, easy, high
Speaker 2: completion percentage stuff that does not yield big gains. So
Speaker 2: if you are okay with like a catches for fifty yards,
Speaker 2: this is probably still a sea level grade for Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 2: Washington's a sneaky good pass defense. They've only allowed two
Speaker 2: wide receiver scores in the last seven games, including holding
Speaker 2: aj Brown and DeVonta Smith to modest games last week.
Speaker 4: Church.
Speaker 5: I know we're going to talk a little bit about
Speaker 5: this later on some of the wide receivers, But is
Speaker 5: ced Lamb like maybe the most tradable guy right now
Speaker 5: that you can just get rid of like a sabotage trade.
Speaker 2: Well, it's funny you bring that up. Discussed that on
Speaker 2: last week's show as a matter of fact, and yes,
Speaker 2: that is we think the right thing to do is
Speaker 2: to try to trade CD Lamb we don't think. I
Speaker 2: don't think you're gonna get three consecutive playoff wins with
Speaker 2: CD Lamb.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: The other Dallas cowboy you should care about is Luke's Schoonmacher.
Speaker 2: It's really schoonmaker. But here's what I want to believe
Speaker 2: that the Schoonmacher family, like his forefathers, were schooner builders,
Speaker 2: building ships designed to traverse the wild oceans. And they
Speaker 2: were so good at it that they changed their name.
Speaker 2: Like the last name was like Phillips. They're like it's
Speaker 2: easy and everyone can spell it. But no, we're such
Speaker 2: good schooner makers, we're going to become schoonmaker. And Luke
Speaker 2: is just the last most recent generation of schoonmakers, which
Speaker 2: is possible schooner makers.
Speaker 4: I'd like to believe that to be true.
Speaker 2: I think there's a good chance.
Speaker 4: Do you see so you see a bad schoon rising, No,
Speaker 4: a good schoon good schoon rise.
Speaker 2: So last week Jake Ferguson gets knocked out and he's
Speaker 2: not expected to go in this game. He gets knocked
Speaker 2: out like late first quarter. Schoonmaker gets ten targets in
Speaker 2: three quarters, ten and it's all dump off stuff from
Speaker 2: Cooper Rush commanders have allowed three tight end touchdowns in
Speaker 2: the last three games. CE grade on Luke's schoonmaker, a
Speaker 2: C grade on Ceedee Lamb, and a bench graade on
Speaker 2: Rico Doubtle. Full schoon, Yeah, full schoon. Okay, sure we'll
Speaker 2: go with that Washington side. Let's start with the running game.
Speaker 2: I like Brian Robinson a lot here. He's missed some
Speaker 2: time with injury, but he's back here and should be
Speaker 2: at near full health. Almost every opposing lead runners at
Speaker 2: big games against Dallas, including Joe Mixon with three touchdowns
Speaker 2: last week. Robinson's a powerback, and guys like Tyler Ljeer
Speaker 2: and David Montgomery and Derreck Henry all posted big games
Speaker 2: with touchdowns. Now, Robinson doesn't catch, which is the only
Speaker 2: reason he's not in a grade. He's a B grade here.
Speaker 2: Dallas is the seventh most carries twenty four per game,
Speaker 2: and Robinson's going to get the bulk of those, so
Speaker 2: he comes in with a B. Austin Eckler also a bee,
Speaker 2: always a safe start, and he's got some unusual upside
Speaker 2: this week as the Cowboys reliably give up big receiving games.
Speaker 2: Nine different backs of top twenty receiving yards against Dallas.
Speaker 2: In the last three Dallas games, Joe Mixon had forty
Speaker 2: four receiving yards. B John Robinson had fifty nine receiving yards.
Speaker 2: All of that in recent games. All right, let's go
Speaker 2: to the passing side of Washington. Terry Mclaurinry McLaurin last
Speaker 2: week only two targets and one catch, but a far
Speaker 2: easier matchup this week against Dallas. McLaurin runs seventy seven
Speaker 2: of his percent of his routes. I didn't I think
Speaker 2: he's the most one sided, one side of the field
Speaker 2: player that there is going. Oh really this year Seon
Speaker 2: Ryder left. He is left side strong. Is a Trayvon
Speaker 2: Digs side of the f Diggs has been decent, but
Speaker 2: we've also seen lapses, including his game against San Francisco
Speaker 2: when he gave up two touchdowns. A little worrisome. Some
Speaker 2: teams just don't bother throwing at Trayvon Diggs because the
Speaker 2: coverage is easier on the other side of the field
Speaker 2: against Josh Butler. So there's a little downside in Terry
Speaker 2: and he comes in with a B grade zach Ertz
Speaker 2: Also B grade Cowboys have been slaughtered by tight ends
Speaker 2: of late allowing five touchdowns in the last six games,
Speaker 2: Ertz gets almost one hundred percent of washing It's tight
Speaker 2: end looks non Artz tight ends only have nine targets
Speaker 2: all year.
Speaker 1: Nine times nine times.
Speaker 2: That leaves Jaden Daniels a grade. The bounce back is coming, obviously.
Speaker 2: The slump really a middling fantasy producer for a month,
Speaker 2: but especially the last two weeks, but that was against
Speaker 2: Philadelphia and Pittsburgh arguably like defense one to two in
Speaker 2: the NFL, So the bounce back probably coming here. Dallas's
Speaker 2: last four games they've given up thirty four points, twenty
Speaker 2: seven points, thirty points, and forty seven points, so there
Speaker 2: should be plenty of points here. The only scenario that
Speaker 2: worries me is this, some teams get ahead so far
Speaker 2: and so quickly on Dallas they don't bother to pass.
Speaker 2: Two different quarterbacks this year, one quarterback at a fourteen
Speaker 2: pass game and another quarterback at a fifteen pass game
Speaker 2: against Dallas, so that's possible. And then the rib injury
Speaker 2: looks like still a real lingering thing with Jaden Daniels,
Speaker 2: and if they get up ahead they could just protect him.
Speaker 2: Marcus Mariota could be in at halftime. Maybe who knows.
Speaker 2: So there's a smidge of downside and Jayden Daniels you
Speaker 2: should be aware of, but he gets a A grade.
Speaker 4: Washington likes to sweep the leg though when they play
Speaker 4: Dallas they hate each other.
Speaker 5: Oh charge, I looked up scoon maker. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 5: Dutch name. You know what it translates to an English
Speaker 5: It's kind of a cool nickname. The cleaner, no way, look,
Speaker 5: the cleaner, spoonbucker.
Speaker 2: I bet it's actually schoon Mocker like that. I love it.
Speaker 4: We can call him schoon man to come together with
Speaker 4: your hands save you don't know, schoon man, spoon man.
Speaker 4: You know, spoon man.
Speaker 2: Don't you have no idea where Matt? Yeah, I'm I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: It's not that old. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It feels like it right now, I tell you that much.
Speaker 2: When we come back, take a chance on me. Nine
Speaker 2: players you would not normally start. Find out who they are?
Speaker 2: Would we come back? Nine players you would not only start,
Speaker 2: but you can this week for situations that are very
Speaker 2: unique and special. We begin with Matt Harrison. Who is
Speaker 2: your taking chance on me? Quarterback?
Speaker 3: It's Tommy DeVito.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: In one week Devido the Giants removed Daniel Jones as
Speaker 5: the starter, told everyone he'd be the third quarterback behind
Speaker 5: Tommy DeVito and Drew Locke, then signed another quarterback and
Speaker 5: cut Danny times. So the cutlet king can't wait to
Speaker 5: get back into a better matchup than ever because the
Speaker 5: Bucks are basically bottom five in every metric against quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: Last year, DeVito walked into a similar matchup against a really,
Speaker 5: really horrible Washington defense, and everybody remembers how bad they
Speaker 5: were last year.
Speaker 2: As the pack against historically bad.
Speaker 5: DeVito had his best game of his career in that game,
Speaker 5: two hundred and forty six yards and three scores.
Speaker 3: Put it down. He's gonna do it again.
Speaker 2: All right, you're taking chance on me?
Speaker 4: Quarterback Brian I got a Geno Smith at home versus
Speaker 4: the Cardinals, who haven't been getting shredded by opposing quarterbacks
Speaker 4: when it comes to fantasy stats. But Arizona might be
Speaker 4: getting lucky in that regard. The Cardinals own the fourth
Speaker 4: worst pressure rate in the league. That'll help Gino, and
Speaker 4: their completion rate against is nearly sixty nine percent, so
Speaker 4: those are good underlying numbers. I just think offenses have
Speaker 4: been falling short or coming up short at the goal
Speaker 4: line when it comes to the receiving game, and there's
Speaker 4: been a lot of rushing touchdowns that the Cardinals have
Speaker 4: been giving up. So shootout potential here for Gino. And
Speaker 4: for what it's worth, he has thrown for multiple scores
Speaker 4: in his last three against Arizona. This is the first
Speaker 4: meeting of the season though between these two teams.
Speaker 2: Geno Smith is your NFL passing leader.
Speaker 4: He was as of last week. I'm sure he's probably
Speaker 4: still probably still I'll take a look.
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert goes up against Baltimore.
Speaker 6: The old airfare Yeah, baby, it's kind of line finally
Speaker 6: reliably getting enough volume to be a fantasy producer.
Speaker 2: At the beginning of the year, it was just all
Speaker 2: running all the time. Now he's averaging ten more passes
Speaker 2: per game than he did in the first mon of
Speaker 2: the season as a result of the past five weeks.
Speaker 2: Air Bear quarterbacks six over the last five weeks. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: Baltimore seeing the most passes per game thirty nine per game,
Speaker 2: Baltimore has allowed the most passing yards and the fourth
Speaker 2: most fantasy points to quarterbacks. Air Bear. Let's go to
Speaker 2: the running backs.
Speaker 5: Matt, I've got Bucky Irving in the last three games
Speaker 5: like it, Rashad White averaging thirty five snaps in about
Speaker 5: twelve opportunities per game. Bucky Irving in that same time,
Speaker 5: averaging twenty five snaps in about fourteen opportunities per game.
Speaker 5: So why isn't Bucky taking over the backfield? The answer
Speaker 5: is he's a terrible pass blocker. He's horrible at it.
Speaker 5: In PFF's pass block ratings, he's sucky. Irving is ranked
Speaker 5: seventy second and getting a dismal twenty four point four
Speaker 5: grade out of one hundred in true pass sets. That's
Speaker 5: why Rashad White is still on the field. But the
Speaker 5: way to beat the Giants is running right through them.
Speaker 5: They're allowing our league worst five point one yards per
Speaker 5: carry and the most combo yards, so it's looking more
Speaker 5: like an Irving game because they don't have to pass
Speaker 5: as much.
Speaker 3: He gets to take a chance on me.
Speaker 2: No, I'm with you on that. Not Bucky Irving is
Speaker 2: such a better runner than Rashad White. I have a
Speaker 2: theory that at some point you just got it. You
Speaker 2: just have to have him on the field more.
Speaker 5: They have to teach him how to pass block so
Speaker 5: he can become that next level runner.
Speaker 2: The catch is Rashad White, and I haven't looked on
Speaker 2: like a month, but back then Rashad White was like
Speaker 2: a running back sixty eight in pass block that.
Speaker 3: He wasn't much. I looked it up today, you did
Speaker 3: thirty two.
Speaker 2: Okay, So Brian, you're take a chance on me running.
Speaker 4: Back back to Gino real quick. Fourth in yards, but
Speaker 4: the three ahead cousins l Jacks, Burrow have played one
Speaker 4: more game, so well then yards per game. He is
Speaker 4: a leader. We're talking to my running back though was
Speaker 4: going to be my premature speculation, but he's been promoted
Speaker 4: to take a chance on me. Congratulations. Trey Benson the
Speaker 4: Arizona Cardinals, same game at Seattle. Before Arizona's bye last week.
Speaker 4: Benson was getting ramped up Arizona coming off their by
Speaker 4: in week eleven. His utilization score has basically become a
Speaker 4: full number, which is a good thing. Dwayne McFarland's utilization
Speaker 4: score in Fantasy Life, by the way, a great tool.
Speaker 4: It's a four now before it was like point two
Speaker 4: per Reference, James Connor is a seven point four. So
Speaker 4: Benson getting work and it's a good matchup. Seattle has
Speaker 4: been soft against the run, allowing nearly four point eight
Speaker 4: yards per carry. They've also surrendered the seventh highest successful
Speaker 4: run rate, and Arizona's offensive line has been plowing the opposition.
Speaker 4: They are fourth in adjusted yards before contact per attempt. Meanwhile,
Speaker 4: Seattle has allowed the fifth highest adjusted YBC per attempt
Speaker 4: at two point three two. So the stars are aligning
Speaker 4: for the whole care Cardinals backfield. So Benson will be viable.
Speaker 2: All right, Two more, two quick things on that backfield
Speaker 2: in Arizona. Number one, James Connor is still running great
Speaker 2: and God bless Oh no, no, knock on Connor. No,
Speaker 2: I know you're not okay. Trey Benson has looked fantastic
Speaker 2: the last couple of games, and way better than he
Speaker 2: looked at the beginning of the season, and his time's coming.
Speaker 2: I don't know when, because Connor is still really good,
Speaker 2: but for dynasty keeper Empire leagues, at some point Trey
Speaker 2: Benson's going to be good. I just don't know. Is
Speaker 2: that twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six, that part is unclear.
Speaker 2: I'm going deep with my take a chance on me
Speaker 2: running back Dylan Lowby. Dylan Lowby, if you don't know
Speaker 2: what team he plays for. That would be the Las
Speaker 2: Vegas Raiders, where Alexander Madison and Zamir White are expected
Speaker 2: to miss this game, which makes Dylan Lowby in a
Speaker 2: mire Abdullah as your probable starters for the Raiders. Lowbi's interesting.
Speaker 2: This is the rookie you don't know much about him.
Speaker 2: He can handle a bigger rushing workload than Abdullah Ken.
Speaker 2: Abdullah's really just a third down back, but like Abdullah,
Speaker 2: Lowby amazing receiver. That's like his best single trait as
Speaker 2: a receiver. Runners have had success through the air against Denver,
Speaker 2: this week's opponent. Over the last month. The average game
Speaker 2: for running backs against Denver seven catches sixty four yards,
Speaker 2: and the Broncos are an excellent pass defense, So the
Speaker 2: Raiders are going to have to run the ball at
Speaker 2: least some, if only for balance, and Dylan Lowby is
Speaker 2: probably the guy who's going to get a handful of
Speaker 2: touches here. It's a desperation play, for sure, but a
Speaker 2: plausible one. Desperate times sometimes on a sixteen by, Yeah,
Speaker 2: this might be desperate times.
Speaker 3: Matt.
Speaker 2: Let's go to your take a chance with your receiver.
Speaker 5: I've got the Giants. Darius Slayton, pairing him up with
Speaker 5: Tommy Cutlets.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 5: The bucks top two corners are Jamel Dean, who's on IR,
Speaker 5: and Zion McCollum, who hasn't practiced yet this week with
Speaker 5: a hamstring injury. That leaves Josh Hayes on one side
Speaker 5: with his one twenty six passer rating and maybe some
Speaker 5: Tyreek Thunderburkh a name I did not make up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he got benched a few games ago, but maybe
Speaker 2: maybe back.
Speaker 5: Well the reason he was benched. He's allowed a perfect
Speaker 5: one point fifty eight point three passer rating in his
Speaker 5: coverage right perfect. Based on where Slayton lines up, he'd
Speaker 5: be on the field with both of those guys a
Speaker 5: Ton and in that aforementioned DeVito game against Washington last
Speaker 5: year where DeVito went off, Slayton had eighty two yards
Speaker 5: in a score. By the way, Malik Neighbors didn't practice
Speaker 5: on Friday. He's a game time decision with a groin injury,
Speaker 5: so it could be all systems go for Darius slat
Speaker 5: Darius Slayton.
Speaker 2: I like it, Brian, your take a chance from your receiver.
Speaker 4: It's so sad that I'm using Jalen Waddle at home
Speaker 4: versus at the Patriots. First, here are some wide receivers
Speaker 4: having a vastly better season than Jalen Waddle.
Speaker 2: You have time for This is a list of all
Speaker 2: of the receivers.
Speaker 4: It's abbreviated it's Truncatadory Wattle again for those who forgot.
Speaker 4: Basically a top thirty pick in the summer too, just
Speaker 4: arguably one of the biggest buffer overall. Yeah, Pop Douglas,
Speaker 4: Darius Slayton, Ray Ray McCleod better season than Jalen Wattle
Speaker 4: right now. But he is long overdue. That's all I
Speaker 4: can say. He's basically long overdue. And it's a decent matchup.
Speaker 4: Patriots allowing one hundred and sixty yards in one touchdown
Speaker 4: per game to wide receivers. If not now, when for
Speaker 4: Jalen Waddle, how about never? Yeah, well I'll never be
Speaker 4: on the board if it doesn't happen. He I can't
Speaker 4: argue if you dropped him already, but he's worth picking
Speaker 4: up again and starting this week, yes, and clearly if
Speaker 4: he doesn't pay off. Yeah, even if he has a
Speaker 4: good game, you could probably drop him, but just use
Speaker 4: him and abuse him.
Speaker 2: Might take a chance from the receivers Chargers Quinton Johnston.
Speaker 2: He's got a great matchup against Baltimore and their corner
Speaker 2: Brandon Stevens. Stevens grades, we're talking about Pro Football Focus grades.
Speaker 2: He's cornerback one hundred eleven. They are only six guys
Speaker 2: lower than Brandon Stevens. He's allowing an opposer passer rating
Speaker 2: of one hundred and thirteen, and the Ravens rank dead
Speaker 2: last in yards and fantasy points allowed to wide receivers.
Speaker 2: Clinton Johnston. Let's go back to the matchups, Matt Tampa
Speaker 2: Bay taking on the Giants. You already told us you
Speaker 2: like Bucky Irving in this game, and what letter grade
Speaker 2: do you have on Bucky Irving?
Speaker 3: I gotta be on him.
Speaker 2: What about Rashad White?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 5: Rashad White still getting a C in a very good matchup,
Speaker 5: and I talked a little bit about it in the
Speaker 5: prior segment there. So let's move on to the passing
Speaker 5: game where Evans. He's back. He practiced in full on Thursday.
Speaker 5: He's good to go. He saw about six targets per
Speaker 5: game this season and eight per game last year. Godwin
Speaker 5: was seeing about eight and a half targets per game,
Speaker 5: and by the way, in the three games that both
Speaker 5: Evans and Godwin were missing, Kate Oughton saw almost ten
Speaker 5: targets per game. The rest were spread out just to
Speaker 5: some other random dudes on their rosie.
Speaker 2: You can not be aware of this. We've we've gotten
Speaker 2: official FFW nickname.
Speaker 3: No, I know.
Speaker 5: I was just trying to get past it really quick
Speaker 5: because I don't know if I agree with.
Speaker 3: That for Cotten.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, Evans instantly pops back in and he's
Speaker 5: going to get at least eight targets per game. And
Speaker 5: if the Bucks want to get him to his eleventh
Speaker 5: consecutive one thousand yard season, he needs to average ninety
Speaker 5: five yards per game. I think that they're going to
Speaker 5: try to do it. If healthy is going to be
Speaker 5: a monster the rest of the year. I'm giving him
Speaker 5: an A grade here, and I mentioned Kate Oughton. He's
Speaker 5: downgraded a ton for this game, mostly because the Giants
Speaker 5: have been awesome. They had tight just a C grade
Speaker 5: this week. They have the best tight end defense in
Speaker 5: the league. Opposing tight end groups are averaging three catches
Speaker 5: thirty three yards per game as a position. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: they've only allowed one tight end score all year. Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 5: I'm given a B grade too. The Giants don't allow
Speaker 5: much through the air, but they haven't had an interception
Speaker 5: since Week one, and Baker is quietly averaging nineteen rushing
Speaker 5: yards per game this year. That's a helper, and the
Speaker 5: Giants have given up nineteen or more rushing yards to
Speaker 5: a quarterback in seven of ten games, and good quarterbacks
Speaker 5: like Mayfield are just putting up B level outings against
Speaker 5: the Giants. He'll cobble his way to a decent day.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 5: Going to the other side, Tommy DeVito was my take
Speaker 5: a chance on me quarterback. Darius Slayton was my take
Speaker 5: a chance on me wide receiver. But there's some other
Speaker 5: guys in the offense that you might want to consider,
Speaker 5: like Tyrone Tracy, who I'm.
Speaker 3: Giving an A grade Tracy here.
Speaker 5: I can't believe it either, but he's been their lead
Speaker 5: back for almost a month. And the Bucks are not
Speaker 5: great against opposing runners, allowing one hundred and forty two
Speaker 5: combo yards in a score per game to the position.
Speaker 5: A vast majority of that goes to Tracy.
Speaker 4: Do you like him enough to give him the trace?
Speaker 4: It's hard to do. The Fonzie with the ecy Tree.
Speaker 4: I can't. That's hard. It's impossible.
Speaker 3: Actually it might not be Tree.
Speaker 2: The other thing I like about trade, but the Bucks
Speaker 2: are getting killed through the air by running backs now,
Speaker 2: and Tracy's a converted wide receiver. They don't throw to
Speaker 2: him nearly as much as they should. But we know
Speaker 2: he can catch because he used to play wide receiver.
Speaker 3: He could see some DeVito dump offs this week.
Speaker 5: I did look back at Tommy DeVito's throwing habits to
Speaker 5: see if he had a favorite. Last year, he spread
Speaker 5: the ball all over top target getters in his starts
Speaker 5: included Wandale, Jalen Hyatt, Darius Slayton, all of which are
Speaker 5: still on the team, but he never had a Malik
Speaker 5: Neighbors before. If Neighbors is healthy and active, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: give him a B grade here, but he's that game
Speaker 5: time decision with the groin injury. Neighbors has ran a
Speaker 5: route on ninety six percent of the pass plays in
Speaker 5: games where he was active, and has had double digit
Speaker 5: targets and six of his last seven. And by the way,
Speaker 5: Wandale Robinson he's worth a seed dart as well, because
Speaker 5: safety Tikey Smith usually covers the slot and he's just
Speaker 5: been absolutely peppered with targets when an opponent has a
Speaker 5: capable slot guy. So it's a decent start for Onondale
Speaker 5: Robinson as well.
Speaker 2: All Right, love it. That's Tampa Bay against the Giants.
Speaker 2: When we come back, a big block of matchups for you,
Speaker 2: including New England at Miami. Is Drake May the quarterback
Speaker 2: you pivot to in a six week by sixteen by
Speaker 2: week And it's possible we'll find out more about Drake
Speaker 2: May when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome
Speaker 2: back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchy and Matt Harrison and
Speaker 2: Brian Johnson with you. If you haven't joined the Guillotine League.
Speaker 2: We're still making new ones. This is deep into the
Speaker 2: season as we've ever been making new Guillotine leagues, and
Speaker 2: lots of people are still joining them. Seven weeks of
Speaker 2: hot chopping action left.
Speaker 3: How many more weeks are they going to be open?
Speaker 2: By all? Quite a way? So, I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: if people want to play with like four teams, we're
Speaker 2: probably gonna letch that.
Speaker 4: So and for those wondering, like, oh, there was a
Speaker 4: game on Thursday night, you still draft those players? You're
Speaker 4: only gonna want to draft Nick Chubb, but a great,
Speaker 4: great pick. It all counts. The Thursday night results count. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you can move him in and out of your starting
Speaker 4: lineup up until lock on Sunday. So uh yeah, we
Speaker 4: draft a new team.
Speaker 2: New England takes on Miami. Brian we teased the last segment,
Speaker 2: Drake May has played pretty darn good ball considering he's
Speaker 2: got he's missing six offensive linemen. You're basically going to
Speaker 2: work offensive lineman seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven in this thing.
Speaker 3: He had the worst offensive line in.
Speaker 5: The league though, So yeah, that's is it much of
Speaker 5: a loss?
Speaker 4: Drake May has more rushing yards than Zach Moss, who
Speaker 4: is hurt. But Zach Moss played but Zack Moss played
Speaker 4: eight games. Drake May's played like five and a half games,
Speaker 4: and he's accumulated more rushing yard than Zach.
Speaker 2: I think people did not realize the wheels that Drake
Speaker 2: May has got and the fact that he has to
Speaker 2: scramble for his life every single play. Let's talk about
Speaker 2: him against Miami. A sneaky good pass defense.
Speaker 4: They are, and that's why he's borderline bench. But his
Speaker 4: rushing floor, he's established a safe rushing floor. That's why
Speaker 4: I can give him a C. Had the third most
Speaker 4: completions among all quarterbacks last week. Was might take a
Speaker 4: chance on me quarterback. By the way, I think those
Speaker 4: are a peacock there, But uh yeah, a tough matchup,
Speaker 4: like you said, But the Dolphins have allowed multiple passing
Speaker 4: scorers and three of their last four games, so I'll
Speaker 4: give him a a C. I don't like any of
Speaker 4: the wide receivers, as I didn't last week when I
Speaker 4: said bench kseh on booty and you you gave me
Speaker 4: a lot of crap for that charge. I said, bench
Speaker 4: booty di Mario Douglass and Jalen Polk and guess who
Speaker 4: scored the touchdown, Taekwon Thornton. So you don't know what
Speaker 4: the hell you're getting with these Patriots wide receivers. They're
Speaker 4: all on the bench for me. I do like your
Speaker 4: booty charge, but I'm not starting him this week. I
Speaker 4: will start Hunter Henry the we gets to see he
Speaker 4: was quiet in the first meeting. I should have mentioned
Speaker 4: that this is the second meeting. The first one was
Speaker 4: a thrilling fifteen to ten victory by the Dolphins. They
Speaker 4: were quarterbacked by Tyler Huntley in that game. By the way,
Speaker 4: we'll get there in a second. But Henry Quiet in
Speaker 4: the first meeting, but Drake May was not the starter
Speaker 4: in that game. He and Henry Drake Man that is
Speaker 4: are clicking as of late, so Hunter is worth the start.
Speaker 4: The Dolphins have only surrendered two tight end touchdowns, but
Speaker 4: they are allowing six catches, six catches and fifty yards
Speaker 4: per game to the position. Lastly, for the Patriots, we'll
Speaker 4: talk about Ramandre Stevenson. Not a great offensive line in
Speaker 4: New England, but Stevenson is a borderline belcow. Eight point
Speaker 4: two utilizations score last week. That is great. He's taken
Speaker 4: more than seventy percent of the offensive snaps and four
Speaker 4: straight games he's gotten every carry inside the five for
Speaker 4: three straight so there will be volume. And it's a
Speaker 4: good matchup against the Dolphins, who are allowing more than
Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty five combo yards per game to
Speaker 4: running backs and they've surrendered the sixth most total touchdowns
Speaker 4: to the position. So again, a B for Ramandre over
Speaker 4: to the Dolphins side, an A for Devin a Chan.
Speaker 4: The Patriots allowing one hundred and forty convo yards and
Speaker 4: one whole touchdown per game to opposing running backs we
Speaker 4: could have a very big game here, could have a
Speaker 4: big game. He left the first game early. I only
Speaker 4: had total four touches. Got hurt in that one, but
Speaker 4: I hopefully that does not happen again. Tyreek Hill gets
Speaker 4: an a. The Patriots run the third most man coverage
Speaker 4: in the league. Hill leads the Dolphins with a thirty
Speaker 4: percent first red target share and a fifty percent air
Speaker 4: yard share against man coverage, also averaging two point three
Speaker 4: yards per route run. That means he's sitting on a
Speaker 4: monster game here should be with two a back at
Speaker 4: quarterback again. Again it was Tyler Huntley in the first game.
Speaker 4: Hill had six catches for sixty nine scoreless yards in
Speaker 4: the first game. Very rare to not score when you
Speaker 4: hit sixty nine. But Hill will hopefully score in this game.
Speaker 4: Hopefully Jalen Waddle scores too. That's why US might take
Speaker 4: a chance with me wide receiver. And of course, loosen
Speaker 4: your belt, charge John new Smith. You gotta talk John
Speaker 4: new Smith.
Speaker 2: We'll talk more about John who later in this show.
Speaker 4: Just to see this week though he is startable. I
Speaker 4: mentioned the man coverage bit earlier in how the Pats
Speaker 4: deploy it at an incredibly high clip John who is
Speaker 4: averaging two point three yards per route run against all coverage,
Speaker 4: but against man he's under a yard, so he struggles
Speaker 4: a little bit against man. But I'm still starting him
Speaker 4: in the wasteland. He was targeted first times in the
Speaker 4: in the first meeting, had five catches for sixty two yards.
Speaker 4: That feels like a safe floor, hopefully for John Hu.
Speaker 3: It's kind of a revenge game, too, right it is?
Speaker 2: It is a revenge Gmail, although forty dollars, so I
Speaker 2: feel pretty good about it.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's a Patriots revenge game exactly.
Speaker 4: And two I do like too, obviously a b for him.
Speaker 4: Patriots have allowed multiple passing touchdowns and three of their
Speaker 4: last four only the bust, the ultimate bust of the
Speaker 4: rookie quarterback class. Caleb Williams failed to hit that mark Kent.
Speaker 2: City takes on the Panthers for Travis Kelcey and Noah
Speaker 2: Grace stole the show last week, but Kelsey has been
Speaker 2: very heavily involved in basically every other game since Rashid
Speaker 2: Rice went down. Panthers have a lot five tight end
Speaker 2: scores in the last four games. Kelsey is an a
Speaker 2: staying with the passing game. DeAndre Hopkins just to see here,
Speaker 2: even against the Panthers, and he is touchdown dependent. He
Speaker 2: has scored in just one Chiefs game and averaging in
Speaker 2: the other games. When he does not score, he's giving
Speaker 2: you three catches for twenty eight yards on average. That's
Speaker 2: awful and that's how you lose games. Panthers secondary much improved.
Speaker 2: No opposing wide receiver has scored since Week six on Carolina.
Speaker 2: What are we even talking about here? Only one receiver's
Speaker 2: top fifty one yards in three games against Carolina. DeAndre
Speaker 2: Hopkins again almost put him on the bench, but I've
Speaker 2: got a C grade on him, a SE grade on
Speaker 2: Xavier Worthy, who's as volatile as any player in fantasy football.
Speaker 2: And as I just mentioned, the Panthers secondary is better
Speaker 2: than you probably think. Worthy scored last week, but as
Speaker 2: a reminder, the prior two weeks he combined for one
Speaker 2: catch for eleven yards. So Worthy super super high risk,
Speaker 2: but I'm still throwing a C grade on him. And
Speaker 2: that brings us to Patrick Maho Holmes, who has become
Speaker 2: matchup proof, but in the wrong way. No matchup is
Speaker 2: too easy for Mahomes to put up an explosive game,
Speaker 2: which he never does. Anymore. He's got one start better
Speaker 2: than QB ten this year.
Speaker 5: The growing hate of charge against Mahomes is just every
Speaker 5: week it's enjoyable to watch. It's gonna bite you in
Speaker 5: the butt someday.
Speaker 3: But you know what, I don't think it's this game.
Speaker 2: The explosiveness completely missing from the Chiefs offense. Patrick mahomes
Speaker 2: average depth of target over the last month drops all
Speaker 2: the way down to twenty sixth in the league. He's
Speaker 2: at about six yards. Carolina's pass defense has gotten good,
Speaker 2: as I mentioned, over the last five games. They're giving
Speaker 2: up two hundred and twenty eight passing yards per game.
Speaker 2: That is decent. So Mahomes just a B grade here.
Speaker 2: Kareem Hunt locks in with an A grade because Isaiah
Speaker 2: Pacheco will not play in this game. This is Hunt's
Speaker 2: final start right here. The Panthers are predictably bad against
Speaker 2: the run. Nine of ten opposing teams have had runners
Speaker 2: score or time one hundred and fifty yards. Let's go
Speaker 2: to the Carolina Sidecheba Hubbard has been fantastic this season,
Speaker 2: but this is the toughest matchup of his year. Kansas
Speaker 2: City ranks number one in rushing yards allowed to running backs,
Speaker 2: at fifty two per game. No back has topped fifty
Speaker 2: eight rushing yards all year, and that includes some good players,
Speaker 2: so just dud games, including James Cook being held to
Speaker 2: twenty yards last week, although he did get rushing touchdowns
Speaker 2: on top of everything else. Kansasity doesn't give up any
Speaker 2: pass receptions to back, so Tuber Hubbins is not going
Speaker 2: to help you there either. Just a C grade for him.
Speaker 2: Segrade for Xavier Lagett, who runs from the outside, will
Speaker 2: have some opportunities to face backup cornerback Nazi Johnson. He's
Speaker 2: been pressed into service the past two games and he's
Speaker 2: given up a touchdown and his seventy five percent completion rate.
Speaker 2: Both of Kansas City's outside cornerbacks are small, and Lagett
Speaker 2: has five inches and thirty pounds on both guys, which
Speaker 2: gives him a contested catch mismatch. So Liget comes in
Speaker 2: with the Sea and lastly, the last guy that you
Speaker 2: can about, Jatavian Sanders in a six team bye week
Speaker 2: is a plausible starter here. In the previous two Panthers
Speaker 2: games before last week's by he saw a major upticking
Speaker 2: usage and the Chiefs have been bad against the tight
Speaker 2: end position all year. They're horrible early. They've got a
Speaker 2: little better lately, but still in the past two games,
Speaker 2: Adam Krautman and Dawson Knox posted decent game, so you
Speaker 2: could start Jatavian Sanders in a pinch, all right, matt Our.
Speaker 2: Final matchup of this segment, Denver taking on the Las
Speaker 2: Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 5: Yeah, bo Nicks had his first multi score game in
Speaker 5: Week five against these Raiders.
Speaker 2: It all changed right there for him.
Speaker 3: It sure did.
Speaker 5: Since then, he's thrown multiple touchdown passes in four of
Speaker 5: his six games, including three, zero, seven and four last
Speaker 5: week against the Falcons. Now he gets the Raiders again,
Speaker 5: who've allowed multiple scores in each of the last three games.
Speaker 5: Let's see if I can do this in pig Latin.
Speaker 5: Oh day ix nay obey x, nay e hey etsgay
Speaker 5: and a eight.
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 2: It's anay great for Bonex.
Speaker 4: Let me give you a quick mixed stat He leads
Speaker 4: the NFL in total pass attempts of twenty plus air yards.
Speaker 4: His turnover worthy throw rate on those deep balls is
Speaker 4: the lowest among twenty nine qualifiers.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 4: It's great. Yeah, Bonix Thor is.
Speaker 3: Rolling over in his grave.
Speaker 2: It's killing him right, Yeah, sure.
Speaker 5: Courtland Sutton quietly wide receiver fourteen on the season, topped
Speaker 5: six catches and seventy yards in each of the last
Speaker 5: four games, added a couple hundred yard games in that span.
Speaker 5: He's Nick's his favorite target, facing a secondary where each
Speaker 5: of the top three corners is on the injury report
Speaker 5: with a questionable tag this week. The Raiders have actually
Speaker 5: been pretty good against wide receivers, but Sutton still gets
Speaker 5: an A grade here.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: Devon Vele is an intriguing dart throw, but he's just
Speaker 5: sharing too many targets with Lil Jordan Humphrey, Troy Franklin,
Speaker 5: Marvin Mims. They're all involved. There's just too many cooks
Speaker 5: to start one of them frustratingly involved.
Speaker 2: They're just sharing evenly. We need somebody to step up
Speaker 2: and become the number two wide receiver in dondew.
Speaker 3: Vele is slowly starting to do that.
Speaker 5: He had five targets last week, so maybe it's coming.
Speaker 5: Javonte Williams and Oudric Estime, let's talk about these two.
Speaker 5: Was the Odric estimate big Week ten usage? Just a
Speaker 5: shot across the bow at Javonte Williams might have been
Speaker 5: It might have been Williams return to getting almost triple
Speaker 5: the snaps his estimate, but he only led an opportunities.
Speaker 5: That's rushing attempts plus targets fourteen to nine. It's a
Speaker 5: decent matchup and I'd like to start one of them,
Speaker 5: but only if there were one of them. But since
Speaker 5: there's two of them, they're both on the bench. Dylan
Speaker 5: Lowby was a charge just take a chance on me runner,
Speaker 5: and Alexander Madison is out. Zamir White is looking doubtful,
Speaker 5: so Amir Abdullah could get some extra touches here, but
Speaker 5: I'm kind of with chart.
Speaker 3: I like Lowby here.
Speaker 5: Brock Bauers has faced these Broncos before and wasn't scared
Speaker 5: at all eight for ninety seven in a score in
Speaker 5: his first meeting, and he's coming off sixteen targets, thirteen receptions,
Speaker 5: one hundred and twenty six yards and a touchdown last week.
Speaker 5: And he was also tackled at the one last week
Speaker 5: as well, so it could have been two scores. He's
Speaker 5: the best tight end in football in an A grade.
Speaker 5: Gardner Minshew put up decent stats last week against the
Speaker 5: Dolphins two eighty two and two in that game. Much
Speaker 5: of that to Bowers, but he struggled in the first
Speaker 5: meeting with Denver, only one thirty seven in a score,
Speaker 5: and then he got pulled for Aidan O'Connell, which is
Speaker 5: why I'm leaving Jacoby Myers and every other passing option
Speaker 5: on the bench, including Minshew. They could have Patrick certain
Speaker 5: just shadow Myers this time around.
Speaker 2: They should.
Speaker 3: He didn't do it.
Speaker 5: In Week five, last meeting, Myers was targeted nine times,
Speaker 5: got six catches for seventy two yards in that one.
Speaker 5: But when Cirtan has shadowed a player, it's been over.
Speaker 5: DK Metcalf, George Pickens, Mike Evans, and Garrett Wilson all
Speaker 5: saw about eighty percent coverage versus Cirtan. They averaged four targets,
Speaker 5: three receptions and twenty nine scoreless yards.
Speaker 3: And those guys are better than Jacoby.
Speaker 2: So back then in the first meeting, though Devanta Adams
Speaker 2: is still on the team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think he was playing at that time.
Speaker 2: But maybe not. Yeah, maybe that was the ham string injury.
Speaker 2: Sure was of dion of Adam's season.
Speaker 5: So I'd shadow Myers with Certan and then bracket Bowers
Speaker 5: if I was the decordinator for Denver and see if
Speaker 5: Trey Tucker can beat you.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to happen. So that's it.
Speaker 2: That is it? All right? We've got a couple of
Speaker 2: minutes before we take our break. Do you believe? Oh
Speaker 2: and by the way, let me mention this about bon Nix.
Speaker 2: Both of the Raiders' starting cornerbacks have been ruled out
Speaker 2: of this game, Jacry and Bennett Nate Hobbs out. Bon
Speaker 2: Nicks is my number three ranked quarterback this week.
Speaker 3: Amazing.
Speaker 2: I would come to this for bon Nicks. He's turned
Speaker 2: into one of the safest.
Speaker 4: I gave him an A last week.
Speaker 3: I gave him an A wee.
Speaker 4: Yeah. It's automatic as right.
Speaker 3: Pig Latin though, so you might not have understood it.
Speaker 4: No, I didn't. I didn't. I phased that out. We
Speaker 4: stopped listening.
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Speaker 2: tough Question.
Speaker 4: Tough Question number one.
Speaker 2: As a dynasty asset or Empire league, we love Empire.
Speaker 2: Sure as a dynasty or Empire asset, is Cincinnati running
Speaker 2: back Chase Brown a top five running back, top ten
Speaker 2: running back, Top fifteen running back or lower? We begin
Speaker 2: with Matt Harrison.
Speaker 5: Well, I looked at my own dynasty rankings and I
Speaker 5: currently have him as RB seventeen. But he's in a
Speaker 5: cluster with some interesting names like Josh Jacobs, Jonathan Brooks
Speaker 5: from Andre Stevenson, and there's a couple of guys above
Speaker 5: him that are a little older, like Joe Mixon and
Speaker 5: David Montgomery. Maybe James Cook that I could see swapping
Speaker 5: them with. But here's the guys I have above him
Speaker 5: that I just like a ton better, Bijon Gibbs, CMC,
Speaker 5: Saquon Breisee, Kyron Taylor Walker, Henry h Chan.
Speaker 3: That's ten.
Speaker 5: So the knock the Bengals could have a new coaching
Speaker 5: staff next year. I think it's possible Zach Moss could
Speaker 5: return and gobble up half the carries. Again, I'll still
Speaker 5: throw him in the top fifteen. He's right around that
Speaker 5: thirteen to seventeen cluster of guys.
Speaker 2: All right, Brian as a dynasty or empire asset, is
Speaker 2: Chase Brown a top five running back, top ten running back,
Speaker 2: top fifteen running back or lower?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I essentially had the same list of guys that
Speaker 4: Matt had that are ahead of Brown, So he's just
Speaker 4: clinging inside the top fifteen. He'd be pushing the top
Speaker 4: ten for me more. But he just wasn't like a
Speaker 4: blue chip, elite prospect coming out of the draft last year.
Speaker 4: He's also twenty four years old, which is kind of
Speaker 4: old for a second year running back, but he's still
Speaker 4: young overall. I asked thor Now, no one was you
Speaker 4: know high on Chase Brown? Come out. I asked Thor
Speaker 4: what his player comp was and he said, Miles Gaskin,
Speaker 4: And this is at knock on Thor. I respect Thor's
Speaker 4: opinion more than anybody, but just I don't know. The
Speaker 4: verdicts still out on Chase Brown for me to put
Speaker 4: him inside the top ten. But man, he looks great
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 2: So Miles Gaskin had a couple of moments.
Speaker 4: That's true. That's true.
Speaker 2: Well, but I like about Thor when he does his
Speaker 2: player comps.
Speaker 4: Oh please, I'm not knocking Thor. Don't get this run,
Speaker 4: but I don't even texting me later all upset.
Speaker 2: What Thori does with this player comps that I like
Speaker 2: is he doesn't automatically comp everybody to Hall of famers,
Speaker 2: which is all the time in the college football industry.
Speaker 4: But I mean in Brown, he was only at a fourth,
Speaker 4: fifth round pick, so yeah, he wasn't an elite prospect.
Speaker 4: A little concerned that you guys.
Speaker 2: Are so wrong about Chase Brown. He is good from
Speaker 2: remember Week four, which was a long time ago. No,
Speaker 2: I don't Week four to today. Do you guys know
Speaker 2: where Chase Brown is in running back scoring? Top eight,
Speaker 2: Top four? He's running back four since Week four, You
Speaker 2: guys have missed the boat on this. He does not
Speaker 2: get touchdown snipe by his quarterback. Brown plays for a
Speaker 2: workhorse head coach Zach Taylor, who ran Joe Mixon as
Speaker 2: a workhorse for years, and as I can it is
Speaker 2: there's a dynasty question. I'm not trading my twenty four
Speaker 2: year old sophomore running back for Derrick Henry, Of course not.
Speaker 2: I'm not doing that.
Speaker 4: Who said you're gonna do that?
Speaker 3: If you're competitive right now? I don't know why you
Speaker 3: would too old?
Speaker 2: Because I'm getting quarter because I'm getting running back four
Speaker 2: out of my young guy. Why would I trade him
Speaker 2: for guys like Derrick Henry, Saquon Barkley, Joe Mixon, Josh Jacobs,
Speaker 2: Alvin Kamara, Guys with a thousand more carries, way deeper
Speaker 2: into their careers that could end anytime they anytime they
Speaker 2: at any moment, those guys could fall off the cliff.
Speaker 2: Here are the only players, and I've got this is
Speaker 2: a personal question. I've got Chase Brown in our Empire League.
Speaker 3: These are all personal questions this week.
Speaker 2: They are this week, They're all charge questions. Here are
Speaker 2: the players I would accept to trade for with Chase Brown.
Speaker 2: To give up Chase Brown off my roster, Jami or Gibbs,
Speaker 2: b John Robinson, Kenneth Walker, Breeshall. I considered Breeshall. That's
Speaker 2: the only other one you considered Breas. I would consider
Speaker 2: Breese Hall. Okay, But who's my Jet's quarterback next year?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Here's what I know. You said eight
Speaker 2: Chan No no chance, not even close. No chance I
Speaker 2: would trade for a chant Chase Brown. Here's the thing
Speaker 2: I love about Chase Brown in his future.
Speaker 4: With James Cook.
Speaker 2: No chance, No, absolutely not. His quarterback steals his touchdowns.
Speaker 2: He's a part time guy, Chase Brown. I get twenty
Speaker 2: carries and touches a game, a twenty touches a game,
Speaker 2: and they have a Joe Burrow led offense, it's.
Speaker 4: Gonna be good. He's had two games with twenty plus
Speaker 4: carries and they've had been in the last three weeks.
Speaker 2: The rest of the total touches, I am those are
Speaker 2: the guys. Top five running back, Chase Brown.
Speaker 3: Tough question.
Speaker 2: Brian's leaving for the rest of the year is San
Speaker 2: Francisco wide receiver Juwan Jennings A wide receiver one, A
Speaker 2: wide receiver two, flex or bench.
Speaker 4: We begin with Brian, you can draft Chase Brown with
Speaker 4: a top five running back and then start up dynast
Speaker 4: to the guy. Doubt that anyway, On to the next question.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Louly, you guys are well, I might not have
Speaker 2: to because people like you try to pass on him
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna get him later.
Speaker 5: You asked him with the Dynasty asset value though, right, yeah,
Speaker 5: he doesn't have that value because he doesn't have that
Speaker 5: name value.
Speaker 3: He doesn't have that cache.
Speaker 4: He's going to score those points for my team, all right,
Speaker 4: Jawan Jennings, Well, now we got this brock party shoulder
Speaker 4: issue which kind of muddies the waters a little bit.
Speaker 4: Let's pretend he's okay.
Speaker 2: Let's assume that that's a one week issue, Yes, for
Speaker 2: this week only, in that we don't have to worry
Speaker 2: about brock Purty going forward past Sunday's game.
Speaker 4: Yes, let's do that. So in the three games played
Speaker 4: Jennings three games played without Brandon Aiyuk or Deebo Samuel
Speaker 4: on the field, he has a forty two percent first
Speaker 4: red target share from brock Purty. For reference, Malik Neighbors
Speaker 4: is the only other player above a forty percent clip
Speaker 4: in that rate, so he gets Purdy's attention a lot.
Speaker 4: Jennings averaging more point more PPR points per route run
Speaker 4: than Justin Jefferson this season. My only reason I'm not
Speaker 4: giving him a wide receiver one grade here is there
Speaker 4: are mouths to feed still in Christian McCaffrey, George Tittle.
Speaker 4: I still respect Deebo Samuels, So that's the only trepidation
Speaker 4: I have there. So I'm saying wide receiver two for
Speaker 4: Jennings moving forward.
Speaker 2: All right, Matt Juwan Jennings going forward to wide receiver one,
Speaker 2: Wide receiver two flex or bench rest of your let's
Speaker 2: just dumb this way way away down all good that
Speaker 2: maybe I'll understand it.
Speaker 5: He's currently wide receiver twelve and PPR points per game.
Speaker 5: He's in the same neck of the woods as cdee Lamb,
Speaker 5: Jayden Reed, DK Metcalf, Terry McLaurin. That's a wide receiver one.
Speaker 5: If he stays healthy the rest of the year, there's
Speaker 5: no reason he can't continue that target share should be there.
Speaker 5: He's a wide receiver one the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: My Jwan Jennings, I have Jennings rostered in so many leagues. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that my Jwan Jennings collection is bigger than Matt Harrison's
Speaker 2: ever growing collection of sensual beanie babies. A ninety five
Speaker 2: percent route rate in his last two games taking over.
Speaker 2: Since taking over, since Brandon, I'll show you later that right,
Speaker 2: you've got one on you, perhaps under few of them
Speaker 2: on or under Okay, say what you want about Pro
Speaker 2: Football Focus. Some love it, some hate it. Right now,
Speaker 2: Jennings is ranked as wide receiver five by Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 2: behind Nico Collins, AJ Brown, T Higgins, and Son God.
Speaker 2: That's the people we're talking about here. Now. Jennings has
Speaker 2: started three games, three full games as a starter. It
Speaker 2: was like Week three and then then these past two weeks.
Speaker 2: His average finish there is wide receiver three on the season. Now,
Speaker 2: some of what makes John Jennings great translates directly to
Speaker 2: fantasy points. He's second in mistackles per reception, strong and physical,
Speaker 2: all the contested catches. He has an eighty percent catch
Speaker 2: rate on balls thrown to him. He's averaging a full
Speaker 2: touchdown per start this year. So John Jennings going forward,
Speaker 2: Wide receiver one.
Speaker 4: Tough question number three.
Speaker 2: Rest of year, Which Dolphin will score more Fantasy points?
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 4: You can't even get this ound without laughing, Johnny Smith.
Speaker 5: When I read the third tough question, I just laughed
Speaker 5: and I was like, charge, you need some positive reinforcement
Speaker 5: this week?
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 3: Who was the bad man hurt?
Speaker 2: You charge?
Speaker 3: The last two weeks?
Speaker 5: Tyrek and John who have almost the same numbers twelve
Speaker 5: targets each, ten catches for Hill, nine for John O.
Speaker 5: Two scores apiece John who has about seventy more yards though,
Speaker 5: but Tyreek Hill is playing through a torn ligament in
Speaker 5: his wrist, and if the Dolphins lose two more games,
Speaker 5: they're effectively out of the playoff race. Yeah, they could
Speaker 5: just sit Tyreek the rest of the season, but you
Speaker 5: know who won't sit the best flag football coach in Miami,
Speaker 5: John UJOHNU, You feel better now?
Speaker 3: Haven't you heard this?
Speaker 5: He's been coaching his son's flag football team like every
Speaker 5: stop of the way, and they won the championship. Like
Speaker 5: everywhere he goes, he wins championships as a youth flag
Speaker 5: football coach.
Speaker 2: I did not know that time. Yeah, all right, so
Speaker 2: one answer so far, JOHNU. Smith, Let's see you can
Speaker 2: go get two in Brian.
Speaker 4: Well, this is your time to shine clearly, so I'll
Speaker 4: just tee this up for you, say, Tyreek Hill, now
Speaker 4: take it away. Tell me why I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, First of all, depending on your scoring system
Speaker 2: right now on the season, these two are basically neck
Speaker 2: and neck. It depends on if your PPR, if you're
Speaker 2: not PPR, but they're effectively tied through this point of
Speaker 2: the season. In terms of top ten finishes this year,
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill has one top ten finish. John oh has
Speaker 2: three top thirty finishes or worse thirty finishing as thirtieth
Speaker 2: or worse at your position. Tyreek Hill has five of those,
Speaker 2: John who only has three. Now going forward, the schedule
Speaker 2: for these guys about the same. Tyreek has two strongly
Speaker 2: positive matchups left John who's got three smash spots left. Hill,
Speaker 2: in fairness, has had four straight decent games in these
Speaker 2: last four to tuas start since TUA came back. They've
Speaker 2: all been good, good, non explosive games. Hill has been
Speaker 2: hit and miss. The correct answer is Tyreek Hill. I
Speaker 2: can't say I'm happy about it. There you go.
Speaker 3: Wait what I didn't I wasn't even paying attention anymore.
Speaker 5: I I just figured it was it was clicked, you
Speaker 5: double clicked on John Euan it was over.
Speaker 4: But no, that was like an m night Shyamalan And.
Speaker 2: That's right, exactly exactly. Let's go to uh our on
Speaker 2: one matchup we're going to do in this segment, and
Speaker 2: that's the Arizona Cardinals taking on the Seattle Seahawks. Brian,
Speaker 2: you already told us you like Trey Benson. If you
Speaker 2: like Trey Benson at a starting level, you must love
Speaker 2: James Connor.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he gets an A. But I gotta throw this
Speaker 4: stat out there. I think you he's like you gotta
Speaker 4: smash him into daily daily lineups as well. He'll be
Speaker 4: somewhat pricey, but worth it. He's Connor been awesome this year,
Speaker 4: ranked second and miss tackles forced per attempt nearly a
Speaker 4: third of his carries. He's forcing at least one mistackle. Meanwhile, meanwhile,
Speaker 4: the Seahawks own the worst clip in that category. UH
Speaker 4: Seattle also seventh in yards allowed before contact per attempt,
Speaker 4: nearly two point five yards. I already mentioned how the
Speaker 4: O line is this road grading the opposition though a
Speaker 4: James and as you mentioned, Benson might take a chance
Speaker 4: on me running back back or over to the passing game.
Speaker 4: Another A This time for Trey McBride, Eric Salbert and
Speaker 4: the duo of Davis Allen in Hunter Long did little
Speaker 4: damage to Seattle over the last two games from the
Speaker 4: tight end position. But here are the tight ends who
Speaker 4: faced the Seahawks prior to that. Kyle Pitts seven catches
Speaker 4: sixty five yards, Dalton Knox, Dalton Kincaid combined for six
Speaker 4: eighty one in a touchdown. George Kittle five catches fifty
Speaker 4: eight yards, two touchdowns. McBride certainly in that tier, if
Speaker 4: not above, So he gets an a Marvin Harrison junior
Speaker 4: over to the wide receivers just to see been pretty
Speaker 4: much a bust based on expectations. But he's been one
Speaker 4: of the most doubled wide receivers in the league this season.
Speaker 4: And it's not like Arizona is short on weapons where
Speaker 4: I think it's double right, but he is getting doubled.
Speaker 4: Matchup wise somewhat neutral Seattle allowing one hundred and forty
Speaker 4: four yards per game. That's okay, but the Seahawks have
Speaker 4: surrender surrendered eleven scores to the wide receiver position. That's
Speaker 4: more than one per game. So Harrison is started with
Speaker 4: the C Michael Wilson he's on the bench, though not
Speaker 4: like him in this game. I would take a look
Speaker 4: at him in daily though. Consider his shootout potential here.
Speaker 4: That's why Kyler Murray gets a B. Been playing great,
Speaker 4: but not a great matchup on paper. Seattle is not
Speaker 4: allowed at QB one finished since week six, but there
Speaker 4: aren't many other better options than Kyler out there, so
Speaker 4: you can definitely start them with confidence with a B.
Speaker 4: Over to the Seahawks side, starting with Kenneth Walker, he
Speaker 4: gets an A. I mentioned that stat with James Connor,
Speaker 4: he was second in miss tackles for US per attempt.
Speaker 4: Kenneth Walker is first in that category, and the Cardinals
Speaker 4: are surrendering one hundred and fifty combo yards per game
Speaker 4: to running backs. Enough said, easy A for Kenneth Walker too.
Speaker 4: DK Metcalf B for him. Metcalf has scored in just
Speaker 4: one of his last five games against the Cardinals, and
Speaker 4: no it wasn't the most recent, but again, Metcalf a
Speaker 4: solid start in what should be a shootout. I'm not
Speaker 4: starting Tyler Lockett with Metcalf back in the lineup, but
Speaker 4: I am going to start Jackson Smith and Jigba JSN
Speaker 4: gets a B now has two consecutive weeks as a
Speaker 4: top ten wide receiver under his belt. One of those
Speaker 4: games was with DK in the lineup, one was without,
Speaker 4: So he can do it under both circumstances, it seems.
Speaker 4: And Arizona has struggled against slot wide receivers over the
Speaker 4: last five surrendering the seventh most PPR points per game.
Speaker 4: So I really like JSN again with a B. And lastly,
Speaker 4: Gino Smith might take a chance on mean quarterback. And
Speaker 4: if you're wondering about Ady J. Barner, you're not starting
Speaker 4: immitate end No, I bet anyone is. No.
Speaker 2: Well you shouldn't anyway.
Speaker 4: But our good friend who does the you know the
Speaker 4: rights out every he always knocks us or leaving a
Speaker 4: player off. So I'm making sure to remember everybody AJ
Speaker 4: Barner bench.
Speaker 2: Well next week when we have a full slight of teams.
Speaker 2: You can't do that. No, no, you can't do that definitely,
Speaker 2: Which is all right. When we come back, Vikings taking
Speaker 2: on the Bears, and we'll tell you what to do
Speaker 2: about the San Francisco forty nine ers without rock Party.
Speaker 2: Who are you going to be starting now in a
Speaker 2: tricky matchup at Green Bay? Lots of ramifications and dominoes
Speaker 2: that are going to fall in weird ways. With branded
Speaker 2: Allen's you're starting quarterback for the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Speaker 2: I bet they wish they still had Sam Tarnold. Stay tuned.
Speaker 7: Fantasy Football Weekly continues in moments.
Speaker 2: Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Jarchie and Matt Harrison
Speaker 2: and Brian Johnson with you. The Vikings take go on
Speaker 2: the Bears on Sunday in Chicago.
Speaker 4: When's the last time the Vikings played in Minnesota. I
Speaker 4: know they had a quote unquote home game that was
Speaker 4: in London, but now I don't know.
Speaker 2: It feels like it's been a long time.
Speaker 3: The Detroit three weeks ago.
Speaker 4: Was it the Detroit game?
Speaker 3: No, they played the Colts at home?
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, I think that was Okay, I think that
Speaker 2: was it. Vikings take on the Bears in Chicago, third
Speaker 2: of three straight road games for Minnesota. Let's start with
Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson. A fascinating matchup.
Speaker 3: Nor.
Speaker 2: You know, obviously you're gonna keep starting the as an
Speaker 2: A grade, but Matty Eberflus could decide that he's going
Speaker 2: to put star cornerback Jalen Johnson on Jefferson either man
Speaker 2: on man or as part of a bracket, and that
Speaker 2: would change Jefferson's outlook quite a bit. Now, Iberflus doesn't
Speaker 2: normally do this, but I don't know. You made Jalen
Speaker 2: Johnson like the third highest paid cornerback in the league,
Speaker 2: so wouldn't it be for times like this? In his coverage,
Speaker 2: Johnson only allows one and a half catches per game.
Speaker 2: Johnson gave up a sixty yard reception to Christian Watson
Speaker 2: last week, but that was something involved him tripping, and
Speaker 2: you know there was something weird in that one, and
Speaker 2: that's highly unusual for him. Still, Jefferson's an a I'm
Speaker 2: I'm keeping him in a until further notice. But still
Speaker 2: the possibility of a down ish game is there. With
Speaker 2: Jalen Johnson sticking with the receivers. Jordan Addison comes in
Speaker 2: with a C grade here. Again, Jalen Johnson could go
Speaker 2: on Jefferson a bunch and that would put Addison on
Speaker 2: Tyreek Stevenson and or Kyler Gordon, who are well. Kyler
Speaker 2: Gordon's good, Stevenson's very inconsistent, and Addison could end up
Speaker 2: in a good spot. He rescored in two of the
Speaker 2: last three games. But he only averages three catches per game,
Speaker 2: which makes Addison very touchdown dependent, which is not ideal
Speaker 2: since Chicago's only all had six touchdowns to wideouts all year.
Speaker 2: That is the third fewest across the full league. So
Speaker 2: I've only got the C grade on Jordan Addison in
Speaker 2: this one. Staying with the passing game, TJ. Hockinson comes
Speaker 2: in with a B grade. I tempted to make him
Speaker 2: an A. He's already getting a lot of playing time
Speaker 2: and the injury to Josh Oliver means that he can
Speaker 2: be on the field like almost every snap at this point.
Speaker 2: For TJ. Hockinson. Chicago hasn't allowed a tight end score
Speaker 2: since way back in Week one, but they are giving
Speaker 2: up plenty of yards, including recent big games to Evan
Speaker 2: Ingram zach Ertz and Austin Hooper. Be great.
Speaker 4: The body's got to be ready for TJ. Right play
Speaker 4: a full game. The body the body, primarily the knee.
Speaker 2: But I like Jesse venture At, who do they call
Speaker 2: the body? Got you?
Speaker 4: Yeah? The body? TJ.
Speaker 2: Howkinson What Aaron Jones man? I struggled with this one
Speaker 2: a lot. It has been a rough month for Aaron Jones.
Speaker 2: Four straight underwhelming games. Three of those four less than
Speaker 2: three point one yards per carry, which is not good now. Fortunately,
Speaker 2: Jones continues to get a very high work load, so
Speaker 2: the opportunities are there for Jones. Chicago's a neutral run defense,
Speaker 2: although the recent loss of defensive tackle Andrew Billings has
Speaker 2: made them slightly more vulnerable lately. Jones should get a
Speaker 2: lot of work. The Bears are way better pass defense
Speaker 2: than they are run defense. I can only get you
Speaker 2: to a C grade on Aaron Jones based on the
Speaker 2: guy that we've seen lately. Let's go to the Bear
Speaker 2: side where there's not a lot to like.
Speaker 4: Here, So you omitting Sam Donald does get Sam?
Speaker 2: No, sorry please, Sam Donald C grade coming off his
Speaker 2: best game since September, but he faces a very good
Speaker 2: Chicago pass defense, giving up less than one touchdown pass
Speaker 2: per game. Nine of ten opposing passers have thrown zero
Speaker 2: or one touchdown against Chicago. There's just not a lot
Speaker 2: of upside for Donald against the top five secondary and
Speaker 2: top ten pass rush that they've got as well. Thank
Speaker 2: you for the catch on that problem.
Speaker 4: You know I got it, you got absolutely Donald.
Speaker 2: Vikings off run defense is trending towards historic levels and
Speaker 2: we're putting DeAndre Swift on the bench. He's nursing a
Speaker 2: groin injury. We don't know for sure that he's going
Speaker 2: to play in this game or that will finish this game.
Speaker 2: Groin injuries aggravate easily.
Speaker 3: I got one from the Beanie babies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have right, exactly. You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Swift snaperaates shrunk to its lowest level of the year,
Speaker 2: just fifty four percent last week. We're and talk more
Speaker 2: about that in a minute. Maybe it's just a one
Speaker 2: week blip, or perhaps the start of a trend. We
Speaker 2: don't know quite yet. But what we do know is
Speaker 2: the Vikings are brutal matchup. They rank number one in
Speaker 2: run defense success rate, number one in defensive rush EPA,
Speaker 2: number two in yards per carry, number two in rushing
Speaker 2: yards allowed, number three in yards before contact, number three,
Speaker 2: and yards after contact. It's all bad news for DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 2: He's on the bench this week. The guy that is
Speaker 2: not on the bench DJ Moore C grade. But that's it.
Speaker 2: He's the only only letter grade I've got for you
Speaker 2: among all the Bears, like many of the Bears, coming
Speaker 2: up of his best game in several weeks. Hopefully that
Speaker 2: continues here despite four prior horrifying box scores for DJ Moore,
Speaker 2: more runs from all over the field. That means he's
Speaker 2: going to see all the Vikings cornerbacks, and really none
Speaker 2: of them are very daunting. The Vikings three starting cornerbacks
Speaker 2: rank as cornerbacks forty, cornerback eighty six, and quarterback ninety
Speaker 2: two in coverage by Pro Football Focus. They combine to
Speaker 2: allow six touchdowns, so there's an opportunity for DJ Moore
Speaker 2: to put together back to back decent games. As for
Speaker 2: the other receivers, Keenan Allen's basically dead. He has scored
Speaker 2: in one game, has in topped forty four yards all year.
Speaker 2: Forty four is nothing. A Roma Dune's a nudging towards
Speaker 2: fantasy viability, but he's scored in just one game, and
Speaker 2: I think he's just a dart throw in this one.
Speaker 2: I don't love him, but you could do worse in
Speaker 2: a six team bye week. Still, I don't have a
Speaker 2: letter grade on Roma dunsday. He's on the bench, all right,
Speaker 2: So where does that leave Caleb Williams bench grade coming
Speaker 2: off arguably the best game of his career, which will
Speaker 2: credit him for but that's a pretty low bar, and
Speaker 2: the Vikings have generally handled third tier quarterbacks like Caleb Williams.
Speaker 2: Over the last three weeks, Joe Flacco, Mac Jones will
Speaker 2: Levis have combined for one passing touchdown against Minnesota. The
Speaker 2: Vikings blitz constantly, and Williams completes just seventy one percent
Speaker 2: of his passes when under pressure, with an average throw
Speaker 2: of just four point eight yards. Caleb's coming off a
Speaker 2: game with a career high nine designed rushing attempts, and
Speaker 2: that's promising. But Minnesota ranks number one in quarterback rushing
Speaker 2: yards allowed at get this six yards per game allowed
Speaker 2: on the ground to opposing quarterbacks. That's it. Caleb Williams
Speaker 2: on the bench. Our next matchup San Francisco taking on
Speaker 2: the Green Bay Packers. Matt no brock perty is the
Speaker 2: headline of this game.
Speaker 5: Yes, Sad brock Purty out with a shoulder injury. Brandon
Speaker 5: Allen will get the start on Sunday in Green Bay.
Speaker 5: Allen hasn't played a game since twenty twenty one and
Speaker 5: hasn't had meaningful playing time since twenty twenty. He had
Speaker 5: one great game for the Bengals in week sixteen of
Speaker 5: twenty twenty was against the Texans. He threw for three
Speaker 5: hundred and seventy one yards and two scores, but his
Speaker 5: other starts in the league have been lackluster, like two
Speaker 5: seventeen and one, one point fifty three to one. And
Speaker 5: then the Packers, they're kind of a mysterious quarterback defense.
Speaker 5: They've let Will Levis have a career day and Trevor
Speaker 5: Lawrence threw for three to Zho eight and two. Then
Speaker 5: they shut down guys like Jared Goff, CJ Stroud, and
Speaker 5: Kyler Murray. But I like what Kyle Shanahan does with QBS,
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna roll with Brandon Allen as a C grade.
Speaker 5: I just picked him up in a league where I
Speaker 5: was going to be forced to start Caleb Williams. Okay,
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna go Brandon Allen over Caleb Williams. This week,
Speaker 5: George Kittle is back. That's got to help Brandon Allen out.
Speaker 5: The Packers can't be happy about that, because in the
Speaker 5: last three meetings with Green Bay, he's averaging seventy nine
Speaker 5: yards per game. The only top ten tight ends the
Speaker 5: Packers have faced this year were Trey McBride and Evan
Speaker 5: Ingram both topped thirteen PPR points. Probably would have been
Speaker 5: an A for Kittle. I'll downgrade it to a B
Speaker 5: with Allen under center, but it's still a good matchup.
Speaker 5: I noted that Kittle had great history against green Bay.
Speaker 5: Deebo Samuel is the complete opposite. In five career games
Speaker 5: against green Bay, He's averaging two point eight receptions for
Speaker 5: forty three yards in his games against the Packers. Either
Speaker 5: green Bay just sells up to stop him or the
Speaker 5: Niners just have other ways to beat the Packers.
Speaker 3: So just to see for debo.
Speaker 5: But if Allen goes short a lot, Deebo could be
Speaker 5: more involved, and they could get him involved in the
Speaker 5: run game too. Juwan Jennings, I'm gonna leave him as
Speaker 5: an A grade though. Wow with Alan, Even with Alan
Speaker 5: in the two games since returning ten and eleven targets,
Speaker 5: twenty eight percent target share and a pair of games
Speaker 5: over ninety yards, plus Jayir Alexander dealing with a knee issue.
Speaker 5: He's probably gonna miss some time, so that leaves the
Speaker 5: rhyming corners of Carrington Valentine and Corey Ballentine and Keishawn
Speaker 5: Nixon to cover him. Those are A plus plus plus
Speaker 5: matchups for Jennings, so he'll top one hundred and score
Speaker 5: in this game. Even with Brandon Allen. I think Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 5: he's an A grade nineteen and twenty three touches in
Speaker 5: his first two games back. He's back to belcow status
Speaker 5: might even get more this week with Allen under the center.
Speaker 4: It's a pretty incredible the workload that, I mean, we
Speaker 4: all assume mccaffe was going to walk into fifty percent,
Speaker 4: right like when he came back, like Jordan Mason will.
Speaker 2: Still be so much five point two yards per carry.
Speaker 5: And I actually thought that they wouldn't bring him back
Speaker 5: unless he was completely healthy, which one definitely, but they
Speaker 5: did and now he's just their guy again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so he's still one game. I thought they would
Speaker 4: have rammed him up, but anyway, they did not.
Speaker 5: I mean the one game they ramped him up, they
Speaker 5: gave him nineteen touch No. I know, he's the here's
Speaker 5: a let's go to the other side, the packer's side.
Speaker 5: Here's how bad wide receiver is as a whole.
Speaker 3: This year.
Speaker 5: Jayden Reid is wide receiver seven in PPR leagues. He's
Speaker 5: averaging four point nine targets. I had three point eight
Speaker 5: receptions per game for sixty four receiving yards and he
Speaker 5: only has five touchdowns. Yeah, that's wide receiver seven in
Speaker 5: fantasy football. Romeo Dobbs actually averages more targets per game
Speaker 5: Dontavian Wicks and Christian Watson. They're not far behind in
Speaker 5: the target share. We said at the beginning of the
Speaker 5: year the Packers wide receivers is going to be a
Speaker 5: guessing game all year. They still are, and the nine
Speaker 5: secondary's fantastic. It got better with the return of Charvarius
Speaker 5: Ward this week. They've only allowed three wide receiver touchdowns
Speaker 5: in their last eight games, and only three.
Speaker 3: Of those three.
Speaker 5: One of them was last week against Jackson Smith in JIGBA.
Speaker 5: He got ten for one ten. Jayden Reid runs eighty
Speaker 5: percent of his routes from the slot. That's where JSN
Speaker 5: ran from, so he gets the c start any of
Speaker 5: the other Packers receivers at your own risk. Tucker Craft
Speaker 5: should remain on the bench. He threw up a goose
Speaker 5: egg in only one target last week in Chicago. Tougher
Speaker 5: matchup this week. Niners are allowing an average of four
Speaker 5: catches and thirty five yards to the position, and I
Speaker 5: have only allowed two tight end scores all year.
Speaker 3: Jordan Love gets a C grade.
Speaker 5: I didn't really like the receivers, and the Niners are
Speaker 5: top eight in passing yards and passing scores allowed. Only
Speaker 5: two quarterbacks have hit the two to fifty yard mark
Speaker 5: against San Francisco this year. Two have hit the two
Speaker 5: touchdown pass mark. Not one has hit three touchdowns in
Speaker 5: a game. The one thing Love will have going for him,
Speaker 5: Nick will be out for this week for the Niners.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then finally, Josh Jacobs, He's still a bellcow. Don't
Speaker 5: worry about Marshawn Lloyd looming his average. He's averaging seventeen
Speaker 5: and a half attempts per game on the season, and
Speaker 5: it's been closer to nineteen in the last month. He's
Speaker 5: topped one hundred combo yards in three straight. He scored
Speaker 5: four times in his last four games, averages about three
Speaker 5: catches per game. The Niners run defense hasn't been nearly
Speaker 5: as scary this year. They have allowed the eleventh most
Speaker 5: touchdowns and the tenth most running back receptions.
Speaker 3: And Jacobs gets a B grade.
Speaker 5: He should see a ton of usage in this game,
Speaker 5: especially in the receiving game. I think he'll have a
Speaker 5: good day there.
Speaker 2: How about Marshaon Lloyd who comes off the injury list
Speaker 2: same day appendicitis attack. Geez, poor guys, just like a
Speaker 2: basically a lost season, fim Marshawn Lloyd.
Speaker 3: Bummer.
Speaker 2: That is a bummer, isn't it. Let's go to our
Speaker 2: final matchup of this segment, Philadelphia Eagles taking on the
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Rams. DeVonta Smith ruled out of this game.
Speaker 2: Does that change you're thinking at all? On Jalen Hurts, Brian.
Speaker 4: No, I didn't have I only had a C on
Speaker 4: DeVonta Smith, so it doesn't change a whole lot for me.
Speaker 4: On Jalen Hurtz, he was gonna get an easy A.
Speaker 4: I was going to start with Saquon Barkley, but the
Speaker 4: big news that Smith is out, So who I'm trying
Speaker 4: to remember? Johan Dotson dots. I can't swap Dotson in
Speaker 4: with the C for DeVante Smith. He's on the bench.
Speaker 4: Aj Brown, though he gets an A. The Rams are
Speaker 4: allowing the most yards per pass attempt on boundary targets.
Speaker 4: Boundary targets, which is where Brown makes his hey. He
Speaker 4: averages four yards per route run when lined up outside.
Speaker 4: That is the best clip in the NFL. So an
Speaker 4: A grade for Devant. I'm sorry, aj Brown a B grade,
Speaker 4: saying with last in the passing game Dallas Goddard opposing
Speaker 4: tight ends or averaging more than five catches and sixty
Speaker 4: yards per game against the Rams. So you gotta like Dallas,
Speaker 4: especially in the wasteland and especially in the by apocalypse.
Speaker 4: And clearly you like Saquon Barkley. I'll go into some stats,
Speaker 4: they're not needed. He gets an A. Barkley on pace
Speaker 4: for one nine hundred and thirty three rushing yards this year,
Speaker 4: his career high so far one three hundred and twelve.
Speaker 2: Dang, he's crushing it. Yeah, good call, New York YEP,
Speaker 2: it's a great call.
Speaker 4: The Rams have been good against the run since they're
Speaker 4: bye in Week six, but the rubber might meet the
Speaker 4: road for La here. The Eagles have gained nearly fifty
Speaker 4: percent of their offensive yardage on the ground, the highest
Speaker 4: rate in the league. That's almost unheard of, and game
Speaker 4: script should favor Barkley in this one. I'm gonna get
Speaker 4: to the Rams offense in a bit, but they're in
Speaker 4: trouble against this Philadelphia defense. So in a grade for Barkley,
Speaker 4: and I mentioned in a grade for Hurts, there's rarely
Speaker 4: a situation where you're not going to give Jalen Hurts
Speaker 4: a B or as C because of the of the
Speaker 4: touch push over to the.
Speaker 3: He's got nine touchdowns in the last five weeks.
Speaker 2: Insane rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 3: Ye nine, it's crazy.
Speaker 4: Nine touchdowns. Yeah, that is insane. All right over to
Speaker 4: the rams side. Eagles against the running backs against running
Speaker 4: backs great as of late. So Kyn Williams, just to
Speaker 4: see yere. You look early on you look at all
Speaker 4: the Eagles numbers. Early in the season, they were getting
Speaker 4: shredded in every aspect on defense. That has changed drastically.
Speaker 4: It has since their Week five by you know.
Speaker 2: What happened in Week six?
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 2: Cooper went to the starting lineup as their slock cornerback
Speaker 2: and it powered the entire pass defense for the Eagles
Speaker 2: than they are now. They're basically the best defense in
Speaker 2: the league run and pass.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so get this stat since they're bye in week five,
Speaker 4: I said that the secondary insane. So the first four
Speaker 4: games for the Eagles, I'm getting over to the wide receivers. Now,
Speaker 4: Pukin Nakua Cooper Cup. The Eagles allowed seven wide receiver
Speaker 4: touchdowns in their first four games wide receivers alone. That's insane.
Speaker 4: Since then like one one, yeah, and it went to
Speaker 4: You can take a guess the kind of player it
Speaker 4: went to, Jamar Chase, who was targeted eleven times. He
Speaker 4: did catch nine passes in that game for only fifty
Speaker 4: four yards, So the touchdown kind of flukey that one.
Speaker 4: So just a sea for Cooper Cup, Just a sea
Speaker 4: for Pokin Nakuah, who should see rookie corner Quinnon Mitchell
Speaker 4: for the majority of this game, emerging as the next
Speaker 4: great shutdown corner, second best odds to win Defensive Rookie
Speaker 4: of the Year. He has recently erased the stat lines
Speaker 4: for Terry McLaurin, Ceedee Lamb, Brian Thomas Junior, Pookin Nakua
Speaker 4: in trouble here. Just a sea grade for him. You're
Speaker 4: not gonna sit him, but temper your your expectations. Speaking
Speaker 4: of sitting, you're sitting the tight ends. I liked Davis
Speaker 4: Allen last week in the matchup against the Patriots because
Speaker 4: Colby Parkinson was dead. Colby Parkinson caught the touchdown, but
Speaker 4: you're not starting any tight end against the Eagles, and
Speaker 4: you're not starting Matt Stafford against the Eagles either. I'm
Speaker 4: another stat since they're Week five by Philly allowing a
Speaker 4: league low nine thineteen percent of their passing yards have
Speaker 4: gone for ten or more yards against the Eagles. The
Speaker 4: league average is twenty seven percent. They're just shutting down
Speaker 4: the pass. A league low four point four percent of
Speaker 4: passes have gained twenty or more yards against the Eagles,
Speaker 4: the league average nine percent. They're essentially twice as good
Speaker 4: as any other secondary in the league.
Speaker 2: Right now, when we come back, we jump in the
Speaker 2: Fantasy Football Weekly time machine for premature speculation, our final segment.
Speaker 8: When we return, final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly, Thank
Speaker 8: you for joining us.
Speaker 2: Reminder Guillotine Leagues, new league still forming today. You can
Speaker 2: play for you can play for cash. It's totally up
Speaker 2: to you. Seven more weeks left of hot chopping action.
Speaker 2: As I like to say, although the chopping action is
Speaker 2: it's only hot when it happened to somebody else.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it happened to me last week, so sorry, so
Speaker 5: say it made it a long ways I did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think if you make it to week eleven,
Speaker 2: that's a win. Yeah, not bad.
Speaker 5: Thank you Baltimore Ravens for doing nothing last week.
Speaker 2: We'll jump into the Fantasy Football Weekly time Machine for
Speaker 2: premature speculation players you want to pick up now that
Speaker 2: other people are going to try to pick up next week.
Speaker 2: Let's find out who they are. Beginning with Matt Harrison.
Speaker 2: I've got Ad and O'Connell's Terry's brother.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they're both Irish, obviously, Harry. It's been
Speaker 5: thirty days exactly since the Raiders put O'Connell on ir
Speaker 5: with an injury. That's a four to six week injury.
Speaker 5: Minshew will start this week. I'm guessing he'll probably start
Speaker 5: the Black Friday game the next week against the Chiefs,
Speaker 5: seeing as it's a short week. But we all know
Speaker 5: Minshew's not the long term answer, and he'll O'Connor only
Speaker 5: lost the job because he got hurt, so the Raiders
Speaker 5: will probably want another long look at O'Connell to end
Speaker 5: the year. By the way, this puts O'Connell back under
Speaker 5: center in Week fourteen for a game against maybe the
Speaker 5: worst secondary in the league, the Bucks. Then Week fifteen
Speaker 5: against the Falcons terrible pass defense. Then Week sixteen against
Speaker 5: the Jaguars horrible defense, then the Saints in your fantasy
Speaker 5: championship week.
Speaker 2: That's easy too.
Speaker 5: And I'm not saying pick up O'Connell and start him
Speaker 5: the rest of the way, but he's an insurance policy
Speaker 5: in case your starter goes down and you need somebody
Speaker 5: for the fantasy playoffs, especially in a super flex league.
Speaker 5: I just stash him right now and hope you don't
Speaker 5: have to use him, but you might need to, and
Speaker 5: it might be fine.
Speaker 2: I'm not an AID and O'Connell guy, and O'Brien is
Speaker 2: an AID and O'Connell guy. You too like him more
Speaker 2: than I do, but I that schedule is pretty compelling.
Speaker 2: He's going to have some hill.
Speaker 4: I wasn't eight and O'Connell guy, but it came between
Speaker 4: him and Gardner Minshew. I said, they're like the same person,
Speaker 4: and I'm not like love Ado.
Speaker 5: He's going to get to take a chance on me
Speaker 5: grade in some one of those weeks because of the match.
Speaker 2: That is probably true.
Speaker 4: Sam Donald, if you're listening, I'm a Sam Donald guy.
Speaker 4: I am not an AID and O'Connell guy.
Speaker 2: Sam A big listener for you to my bay. All right, Brian,
Speaker 2: you take a chance, not take a chance from your
Speaker 2: premature speculation player.
Speaker 4: If you're looking to stash a tight end, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: go with Theo Johnson of the Giants New York coming
Speaker 4: off of their buy. Prior to thereby, THEO was averaging
Speaker 4: about four catches forty yards per game, had a touchdown
Speaker 4: in three in one of his previous three games, but
Speaker 4: he was playing through a back injury. Hopefully he's healthy
Speaker 4: coming out of the buy. We know Malik Neighbors not
Speaker 4: too healthy right now. He's got a groin injury. So
Speaker 4: if you were to miss time, THEO would earn some
Speaker 4: extra targets and the rest of the season through Week
Speaker 4: seventeen at least, all we care about looking pretty nice
Speaker 4: for THEO. Five of his last six opponents bottom twelve
Speaker 4: against the tight end in terms of fantasy production. Starting
Speaker 4: this week against the Bucks, who are bottom five against
Speaker 4: tight ends. He's got a great matchup in Week seventeen
Speaker 4: the Colts bottom six against tight ends, and I mentioned
Speaker 4: three other great matchups for him, so why not stash him.
Speaker 4: One bad matchup is next week when it's a full
Speaker 4: Slady games and it's on Thanksgiving, so don't start him then.
Speaker 4: But he's viable every other week on paper.
Speaker 2: I've got another player you'll want to pick up but
Speaker 2: not start this week in Chicago, we've got the new
Speaker 2: offensive coordinator, Thomas Brown. We don't really know if what
Speaker 2: we saw last week is just the things that are
Speaker 2: changing or is that just like a one week blip.
Speaker 2: But rochan Johnson got a season high forty four percent
Speaker 2: snap rate, a season high thirty four percent rush attempt rate.
Speaker 2: He got two carries from inside the five. Rochean Johnson
Speaker 2: got a far expanded role last week. DeAndre Swift has
Speaker 2: been struggling for the last month of games. Now it's
Speaker 2: the Vikings. As I mentioned earlier in the show brutal matchup,
Speaker 2: you would need to get like a goal line plunge
Speaker 2: from Roshan Johnson to get anything out of him for
Speaker 2: this week. So I wouldn't play him this week. But downstream,
Speaker 2: we've got more opportunities to play him.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: The schedule's not easy by any means, but it's Detroit
Speaker 2: San Francisco, then another game against Minnesota, which we would
Speaker 2: not want to play him again Detroit Seattle, so intent
Speaker 2: there might be some opportunities, maybe a changing of the guard,
Speaker 2: maybe DeAndre Swift's not that good. You might not even
Speaker 2: play this week.
Speaker 5: I was looking at the contract too for Swift. They
Speaker 5: can't really get out of him next year, but they
Speaker 5: could definitely relegate him to back up duties and it's
Speaker 5: a fine contract for that. But after that he's only
Speaker 5: a one point three dead cap. Oh, so that's interesting.
Speaker 5: Rochan could be taking over this job.
Speaker 2: He could take over this job.
Speaker 4: I did it, I did the thing. Thor was a
Speaker 4: big Rochan guy. Yeah. I trusted Thor there. Yeah, last year, it.
Speaker 3: Was a couple of years ago. Yeah, comped him to
Speaker 3: Marshall Fulk. I believe.
Speaker 4: I like Rochan. Good call there.
Speaker 2: I like him as a straight ahead power back. You
Speaker 2: get him moving laterally, and Roschan's not really your guy.
Speaker 2: Baltimore takes on Los Angeles. This is to be the
Speaker 2: Chargers of the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday Night. Let's
Speaker 2: talk this one through. Lamar Jackson obviously start but and
Speaker 2: the Chargers look like a really good pass defense on paper,
Speaker 2: and maybe they are, but they've played so many bad
Speaker 2: quarterbacks it's hard to get a fair read on how
Speaker 2: good the Chargers' secondary actually is. Last week, the Chargers
Speaker 2: pace played their best opposing quarterback of the year, Joe Burrow,
Speaker 2: and they got it viscerated by Burrow. So Jackson still
Speaker 2: an A level start from me, But there could be
Speaker 2: some variation here if it turns out the Chargers secondary
Speaker 2: is actually okay. Staying with the passing games, A Flowers
Speaker 2: gets a B grade. He has posted Fantasy relevant games
Speaker 2: in five of the last seven. I'm not too worried
Speaker 2: about this one. Chargers secondary slumping lately, allowing the eighth
Speaker 2: most Fantasy points over the last five weeks, and that
Speaker 2: includes a league worst seven wide receiver touchdowns allowed over
Speaker 2: those last five weeks. Flowers runs from all parts of
Speaker 2: the field, so he's largely gonna miss. The Chargers one
Speaker 2: really good cornerback, Christian Fulton, who mostly plays on one
Speaker 2: side of the field, So still like Flowers a lot
Speaker 2: B great on him. Mark Andrews is a likely return
Speaker 2: last week, and then of course Andrews responded with a
Speaker 2: complete du two catches for twenty two yards. The thing
Speaker 2: like for Andrews every week is just a roll of
Speaker 2: the dice, totally touchdown dependent because low volume. When he
Speaker 2: does not score, Here's what you get on average from
Speaker 2: Mark Andrews two catches twenty four yards. That's great and
Speaker 2: an L So will Andrews score in this game. The
Speaker 2: only team in the NFL that has not allowed a
Speaker 2: tight end touchdown is the Chargers, so.
Speaker 3: They're gonna allow.
Speaker 2: Three to make up for it. If you believe in
Speaker 2: the theory of do, the Bertie Kelcher theory of do,
Speaker 2: then yes, but I've got Andrews on the bench. Derek
Speaker 2: Henry comes in with an A grade. Utterally misused last week,
Speaker 2: a horrifying game plan by the by Todd munkin which
Speaker 2: I hated. But hopefully it's going to go back to
Speaker 2: being a workhorse back even in a tough matchup this week,
Speaker 2: Chargers allowing the second fewest fantasy points and only one
Speaker 2: rushing touchdown. Only one back is top seventy yards, but
Speaker 2: it's still Derrick Henry. I can't help but give him
Speaker 2: an A grade, even if I probably should give him
Speaker 2: a B grade against in a very tough matchup. Let's
Speaker 2: go to the Chargers side. I like Ladd mcconkee here.
Speaker 2: It looks like he's going to go. He's been battling
Speaker 2: injury all week, but return to practice on Friday. Ladd
Speaker 2: has been the most consistent LA receiver, with a target
Speaker 2: share north of twenty percent in eight of ten games
Speaker 2: opposing number one receivers, murdering the Ravens. In the last
Speaker 2: four Ravens games the opponent's top receiver, averaging eight catches,
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty three yards and one in a
Speaker 2: quarter touchdowns. But where it's a little bit different for
Speaker 2: Lad McConkie than those previous receivers to face the Falcons.
Speaker 2: He runs from the slot, and that means he's going
Speaker 2: to match up most often against Marlon Humphrey, who is
Speaker 2: Pro Football Focus's number one graded coverage cornerback. I've got
Speaker 2: a B grade on Lad McConkie. Let's go over to
Speaker 2: Quintin Johnston. He was might take a chance on me
Speaker 2: wide receiver. You may recall that Justin Herbert was might
Speaker 2: take a chance on me quarterback. What about a Ryan
Speaker 2: Johnson favorite, Will Disley will display opposing Why do you
Speaker 2: say it that way?
Speaker 4: By the way it just rolls off the Scottish tongue,
Speaker 4: will dis lay. Maybe doesn't it sound it sounds like
Speaker 4: a guy that would have been in Braveheart Well display
Speaker 4: that kind of does.
Speaker 2: Actually, now they say it. It's no Luke's Luke the cleaner,
Speaker 2: cleaner spoon mocker.
Speaker 4: Oh, I got a nickname for Disley. Oh do you
Speaker 4: you want to hear it? Oh? You want to hear it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: The dismissal, the dismissal, Sorry, dismissal. Opposing tight ends you
Speaker 2: see have a decent but not explosive game against the Ravens.
Speaker 2: Only two have scored touchdowns, but eight different tight ends
Speaker 2: of top forty two yards. Disley coming off his best
Speaker 2: game of the year, but he's actually been fairly reliable
Speaker 2: for going back a whole month with a major uptick
Speaker 2: in usage. Since completely overtaking Hayden Hurst as the Chargers
Speaker 2: top tight end a month ago, he's quietly been a viable,
Speaker 2: reliable fantasy tight end. Will Disley see in this one,
Speaker 2: and that leaves us with the running backs.
Speaker 4: JK.
Speaker 2: Dobbins C Grade. Dobbins has a very tough assignment against
Speaker 2: a terrific Baltimore run defense. The last time he faced
Speaker 2: a run defense of this caliber, it was Kansas City
Speaker 2: and they destroyed him and he only put up thirty
Speaker 2: two scoreless yards. The Ravens rank number one in yards
Speaker 2: per carry, number two in run defense success rate number
Speaker 2: two in rushing yards allowed at just sixty one per game.
Speaker 2: I give Dobbins a B grade, but he's now splitting
Speaker 2: carries with Gus Edwards gross and divving up sixty one
Speaker 2: yards per game between two guys is not great, and
Speaker 2: I can only get him to a C grade here
Speaker 2: hopefully scores touchdowns, which Dobbins has done almost every game.
Speaker 4: They even gave Hassan Haskins a couple carries on one
Speaker 4: wine why and he did not score good So maybe
Speaker 4: they got that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally Gus Edwards bench grade. Since coming off of
Speaker 2: the IR he's seen a massive uptick in usage for
Speaker 2: reasons I do not understand. But Gus is not startable
Speaker 2: in this tough matchup that I just outlined. Look, if
Speaker 2: I'm only giving Dobbins a C grade, I'm not giving
Speaker 2: Gus Edwards a letter grade either. And by the way,
Speaker 2: Dobbins has got virtually all I think eighty four percent.
Speaker 2: I think is the success is the carries inside the five.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, we've got a couple of free minutes
Speaker 2: here at the end. Me a couple of questions for you.
Speaker 2: Number one Thursday Night, Nick Chubb two touchdowns Are you
Speaker 2: more optimistic about Nick Chubb going forward or do you
Speaker 2: think that was just a factor of a snow game
Speaker 2: and goal line carries? He only ran it three yards
Speaker 2: per carry? What do you think about Nick Chubb going forward?
Speaker 5: In my viewership of the game, I just thought he
Speaker 5: still looked pretty slow and plotting. Maybe that would be
Speaker 5: because he's running in a few inches of wet, slippery snow,
Speaker 5: but it didn't look that great. He did plow through
Speaker 5: and get a couple of scores, but it didn't feel
Speaker 5: that great for me. And I think Jerome Ford is
Speaker 5: still a threat to take a lot of his touches.
Speaker 4: And what's not great is the schedule. It's not great
Speaker 4: as an understam and it's awful for Chub moving forward
Speaker 4: at Denver Pittsburgh again, Yeah, you had the two touchdowns,
Speaker 4: so you said he right, Tony carries for fifty nine
Speaker 4: yards less than three yards per carry. If I can
Speaker 4: do that math in my head, it's scary. Then Kansas
Speaker 4: City the best team against the run in week fifteen
Speaker 4: at since week seventeen. Yeah, if you can sell sell
Speaker 4: now on Nick jo job. Yeah, if your trade.
Speaker 2: Does have not passed yet, Yes, for some that would
Speaker 2: be that would be the case. Thank you for joining us. Everybody, reminder,
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