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Speaker 1: edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchi and
Speaker 1: my co host today are Brian Johnson and Matt Harrison. Hello, guys,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, we're back again. We're back again. They
Speaker 1: can't break us up. Scott Fish trying to break us up.
Speaker 1: Can't happen. Nope, Maybe we'll get Scott next week. Lots
Speaker 1: to get you over the course of the show, including
Speaker 1: three tough questions you can play along, trying to go
Speaker 1: three and O premature speculation, where we give you three
Speaker 1: players that you will want to have next week, so
Speaker 1: you go get them. This week, we'll have nine players
Speaker 1: upon whom you can take a chance, players that are available.
Speaker 1: In many players you don't normally start, but you can
Speaker 1: this week for a variety of reasons. And I have
Speaker 1: been dreadful with my take a chance on me players
Speaker 1: this year. I have vowed to do so much better
Speaker 1: this week, in part because at least going back lowering
Speaker 1: I'm lowering the bar a little bit on what constitutes
Speaker 1: and take a chance on me. Player. I've been up
Speaker 1: the sack you have. You've been red hot that peacock ready,
Speaker 1: I will. I don't know how you ready a peacock exactly.
Speaker 1: I don't think I wanted to you feed it some seed.
Speaker 1: I think, just stop. Yeah, I don't you know. We're
Speaker 1: prepping the peacock. We will break down every NFL game
Speaker 1: fantasy style. We begin with San Francisco taking on New England.
Speaker 1: Brian two weeks ago, I was saying, oh, go get
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo. He's coming back, and then he was so
Speaker 1: bad he got benched, and then I spent a week
Speaker 1: regretting the fact that I told people to get Jimmy Garoppolo.
Speaker 1: And then last week he goes out and throws three
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the first half, just proving you can't win. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was gonna close with the Garoppolo on the San
Speaker 1: Francisco side, but we'll start there. He's on the bench.
Speaker 1: Sadly in the revenge game, Bill Belichick is just not
Speaker 1: going to allow Jimmy Garoppolo to have a good game.
Speaker 1: To the Niner. I like best in this game, is
Speaker 1: Jerick McKinnon. Uh, even though I'm gonna give him a
Speaker 1: C and I might give George Kittle a bee, will
Speaker 1: get the kidle in a minute, But a cee for
Speaker 1: McKinnon averaging nineteen touches for nearly ninety combo yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown per game as the starting running back. The
Speaker 1: Patriots not a great matchup though they've only allowed two
Speaker 1: total touchdowns and running back so far this year. But
Speaker 1: they are allowing a hundred twenty eight combo yards to
Speaker 1: the position, so jet is a pretty safe volume play.
Speaker 1: Even though this Jim Michael Hasty kid showed a little
Speaker 1: spunk the other the other week. This week look good, Uh, Matt,
Speaker 1: get your your head at Davante Freeman's range over there
Speaker 1: over to George Kittle can give him a B. Probably
Speaker 1: the worst matchup for Kiddle out in the season. The
Speaker 1: Patriots are allowing the third fewest catches per game three,
Speaker 1: the sixth fewest yards per game forty to opposing tight ends.
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, Belichick, he's gonna want to shut down Garoppolo,
Speaker 1: but you know how he loves to take away the
Speaker 1: team's best weapon. Opposing team's best weapon that is George Kittle,
Speaker 1: just ask what he did to Travis Kelsey only had
Speaker 1: three catches. Darren Waller just two catches. So I'm a
Speaker 1: little worried about Kidle in this one. But you're definitely
Speaker 1: not benching him. You are benching Deebo Samuel and Brandon Ayouk,
Speaker 1: though Stefan Gilmour will be a problem for both of
Speaker 1: these guys. And outside of the Seattle and Kansas City
Speaker 1: wide receivers who the Patriots faced, they've kept every other
Speaker 1: wide out out of the end zone unless they were
Speaker 1: Seahawk or a Chief, and uh, white outs are not.
Speaker 1: And that does it for the San Francisco side over
Speaker 1: the New England side. James White see for him fifteen
Speaker 1: catches and two games since returning UM, but this isn't
Speaker 1: a great spot on paper for him either. San Francisco
Speaker 1: has only allowed one running back to top three catches.
Speaker 1: Miles Gascon has had the best day through the air
Speaker 1: for running backs against San Francisco with five catches for
Speaker 1: thirty four yards. So that's hopefully a floor for James
Speaker 1: Waity here. He should still see double digit, double digit
Speaker 1: PPR points. Damien Harris I got him on the bench.
Speaker 1: San Francisco has allowed just two rushing touchdowns to running
Speaker 1: backs and just one opposing back as top sixty five
Speaker 1: rushing yards. And if there's a goal rund goal line
Speaker 1: rush for the Patriots, it's probably we'll get to in
Speaker 1: a second. Uh. The only pass catcher we'll talk about
Speaker 1: for the Patriots is Julian Edelman. He gets a see.
Speaker 1: San Francisco has allowed to touchdown per a lot of
Speaker 1: touchdown per game to opposing wide receivers. Julian Edelman is
Speaker 1: yet to score this year, but this is a plus
Speaker 1: match up with backup slot corner Jamark Taylor likely to
Speaker 1: see UH Edelman and coverage most. He's allowed a hundred
Speaker 1: and seven pass rating in his three games played as
Speaker 1: a starting slot corner, So a c for Edelman and
Speaker 1: kill Harry on the bench. We're not getting to that
Speaker 1: too much. And then Cam Newton, we just talked about
Speaker 1: forty nine ers have allowed five passing touchdowns over the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. That's a lot. But I'm not going
Speaker 1: to talk about Cam Newton's arm right now. It's all
Speaker 1: about the It's nothing to talk about his arm. I
Speaker 1: think he's averaging him to the top of my head.
Speaker 1: I think he's averaging one hundred eighty passing yards and
Speaker 1: half a touchdown per game. Yeah, and but against those
Speaker 1: are those are just the bonus points for CAM at
Speaker 1: this point, right, double digit rushing attempts in three of
Speaker 1: five games for Cam, he scored on the ground five times. Already,
Speaker 1: Mobile quarterbacks have had success against the Niners so far
Speaker 1: the season. Kyler Murray, Daniel Jones, Carson Wentz combined for
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy seven yards on twenty three carries
Speaker 1: with two touchdowns. Daniel Jones is mobile. He's too mobile.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. You run just eighty yards at any speed,
Speaker 1: Matt and I was down, he was going, he was cooking.
Speaker 1: That's white guy rectored speed right there. As far as
Speaker 1: he's going faster than his legs would physically take this,
Speaker 1: I think somehow despite using his legs, Matt Pittsburgh takes
Speaker 1: on Tennessee. James Conner, against all odds, remains a workhorse back.
Speaker 1: He got when he got knocked out in Week one.
Speaker 1: Everybody me, you know, basically rode off his his potential
Speaker 1: to be a workhorse back. But he's proving us wrong
Speaker 1: and pretty much every game. Yeah, and I'm giving him
Speaker 1: an a this week. He's scored in four straight clear
Speaker 1: to hundred yards and three of his last four, and
Speaker 1: the Titans are allowing five yards per carrying a hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve yards per game to the running back position.
Speaker 1: It is worth noting though, for those scoring at home,
Speaker 1: Benny Snell has exactly seven carries in each of those
Speaker 1: last two games, and Anthony McFarland only has three. So
Speaker 1: if you're waiting on the James Conner injury, you're waiting
Speaker 1: for the other shoe to drop any Snell is the
Speaker 1: guy to have right now. Ben Roethlisberger, I'm giving a
Speaker 1: b big bend, just hasn't been asked to air it out,
Speaker 1: averaging only two d thirty six passing yards per game,
Speaker 1: which makes him eighteenth in that category, but he's averaging
Speaker 1: two point two passing touchdowns per game, so he's throwing
Speaker 1: the scores. That's good. Uh. That really works here because
Speaker 1: the Titans have allowed multiple touchdown passes to each of
Speaker 1: the last four quarterbacks they've faced. Basically, if your name
Speaker 1: isn't Drew Lock, you throw for multiple scores. Chase Claypool
Speaker 1: is the number one wide receiver on the Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 1: and I won't hear it any other way, will you.
Speaker 1: You don't know that yet because every time Deonta Johnson
Speaker 1: has been on the field with him, Deante Johnson has
Speaker 1: been the number one receiver. You know what? Yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: anyway we'll see. Well, we got hurt in the first quarter,
Speaker 1: and trust me my bank roll as summer tell me
Speaker 1: about it. Johnson out there, I'm going back to the
Speaker 1: will this week. Um. Claypool has six scores in his
Speaker 1: five game career and it's facing off against the Titans
Speaker 1: defense that has allowed eleven different wide receivers to top
Speaker 1: fifty yards or score in a game this year. And
Speaker 1: they've only played five times. They're allowing sixteen catches per
Speaker 1: game for almost two hundred yards the wide receiver position.
Speaker 1: Because and that's good because we talked about Claypool. He's
Speaker 1: only got twenty four targets on the season. That's not
Speaker 1: a lot. Juju leads the team with twenty eight yikes.
Speaker 1: James Washington and Deonte Johnson each have twenty six. It's
Speaker 1: a wide receiver by MIDI now Deontay has missed exactly
Speaker 1: on a purse game basis. Deonta Johnson is the most
Speaker 1: targeted of them, and I know we're going to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about Juju later. I'm only given him
Speaker 1: a meager C grade in this Deontay has cleared the
Speaker 1: injury report, has the most targets per game with six
Speaker 1: and a half, so he's worth a C start. No,
Speaker 1: he's worth the C start here. And James Washington is
Speaker 1: even worth a dart throw in this matchup, but he's
Speaker 1: touchdown dependent. I'm still worried about the re injury for Deontay.
Speaker 1: He's not even on the injury more. Okay, fine, guys,
Speaker 1: stop fighting. Your mom and dad are fighting. Eric Ebron,
Speaker 1: he gets a C grade. The Titans have allowed four
Speaker 1: different teams to record a tight end touchdown in five games,
Speaker 1: so Eric Ebron has an eight chance at a score here.
Speaker 1: On the Titan side, Derrick Henry gets an A. But
Speaker 1: it's more like an A subordinate. That's the anti hard mark.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like an A if they if we
Speaker 1: did minuses on this show. You know that. Um, you
Speaker 1: know Henry stats. But the Steelers have been awesome against
Speaker 1: the run, only three point two yards per carry and
Speaker 1: fifty five yards per game to the position. But Miles Sanders,
Speaker 1: he's the silver Lining broke a big run against them
Speaker 1: and scored twice, so let's hope that he can return
Speaker 1: those A grade numbers. Ryan Tannehill, he's getting a C grade.
Speaker 1: He's third in the league with two point six touchdown
Speaker 1: passes per game. He's got three four touchdown games. Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Eleventh in the league with two or seventy four passing
Speaker 1: yards per game. But they haven't really played any good teams.
Speaker 1: Buffalo is kind of good, but he's played Jacksonville, Minnesota, Houston,
Speaker 1: and Danver. The Steelers lead the NFL in SACS pressure
Speaker 1: rate and QB hit rate and Tannehill just lost left
Speaker 1: tackle Taylor Luan. That's not good for Tannehills. He's only
Speaker 1: getting a C grade. Uh. The Steelers are only allowing
Speaker 1: two or fifty two yards and just under two scores
Speaker 1: per game. I guess that's feasible for Tannehill, but I'm
Speaker 1: not trusting it that much. A. J. Brown popped up
Speaker 1: on the injury report and missed uh some some practice
Speaker 1: time on Thursday, but he's been an absolute stud since
Speaker 1: returning from injur two weeks ago, and the Steelers aren't
Speaker 1: nearly a scary against the wide receiver this year. They
Speaker 1: have a lot of hundred and seventy eight yards and
Speaker 1: a score and a half to that position this year,
Speaker 1: so I'm giving him a B. Corey Davis does return
Speaker 1: from the COVID list, but I'm sitting him this week.
Speaker 1: If you need another wide receiver, it's Adam Humphries. He's
Speaker 1: a solid see he's getting a lot of run from
Speaker 1: the slot. Caught all six of his targets for sixty
Speaker 1: four and a score last week. And then finally John
Speaker 1: new smithy man, it looks like he's going to be
Speaker 1: back on the field after an ankle injury knocked him
Speaker 1: out last week. And he's just an absolutely manly competitor.
Speaker 1: Chart because I heard that John WU. Smith doesn't climb trees,
Speaker 1: he just pulls them down and walks on them. I
Speaker 1: also heard that John U. Smith once visited the virgin
Speaker 1: Islands and now they just call him the Islands. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the Steelers are insanely good against the tight end,
Speaker 1: allowing only four catches and forty three yards per game
Speaker 1: and just one score on the season, So he's only
Speaker 1: getting a C this week. You'll come to regret that heresy.
Speaker 1: It's a Art Detroit takes on Atlanta for Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: and A grade he should cash in on a secondary
Speaker 1: allowing almost three hundred yards and two and a half
Speaker 1: touchdowns per game. All of US receivers have positive matchups,
Speaker 1: as I will outline right now, beginning with Kenny Golladay,
Speaker 1: who also gets an A grade Atlanta getting owned by
Speaker 1: opposing Whiteouts. Eight different wide receivers have already managed the
Speaker 1: top ninety yards against them, in most in a way
Speaker 1: above ninety. Holiday most often will match up against cornerback
Speaker 1: Kendall Sheffield, who has been brutal and ranks as cornerback
Speaker 1: one twenty by Pro Football Focus. It is an absolute
Speaker 1: green light special for Kenny Golladay, also getting an A
Speaker 1: tight end t J. Hockinson, why I don't think has
Speaker 1: ever had an A before in this show. He has
Speaker 1: scored in each of his last two games, and he
Speaker 1: faces a Falcon's defense that's allowed the second most yards
Speaker 1: and the most touchdowns to opposing tight ends game on
Speaker 1: t J. Hockenson. Sticking with the passing game, I know
Speaker 1: it's been a disaster season for Marvin Jones, particularly the
Speaker 1: last two weeks, with a nine yard game in an
Speaker 1: eight yard game, but you know he will most often
Speaker 1: be covered by rookie cornerback A. J. Terrell, who is
Speaker 1: allowing his passes and his coverage to be completed. He
Speaker 1: gave up seventy five yards and a touchdown in his
Speaker 1: coverage last week. If you're feeling bold or you've got
Speaker 1: bye week issues, Marvin Jones, You've had the bounce back
Speaker 1: could very well be this week. Now let's go to
Speaker 1: the running game. DeAndre Swift had the breakout game last week,
Speaker 1: leading Adrian Peterson and snaps and touches. He's already proved
Speaker 1: himself to be a good receiver and now he's getting
Speaker 1: carries at the stripe no less, and he has a
Speaker 1: good opportunity against a a middle of the pack run defense,
Speaker 1: but the worst paths of the worst defense in recovering
Speaker 1: running backs as receivers, and I think DeAndre Swift is
Speaker 1: sitting out a big PPR game and he gets a
Speaker 1: B grade. Adrian Peterson only gets the ball when the
Speaker 1: Lions are ahead, and for once that can actually happen here,
Speaker 1: So you know, there's certainly risk and DeAndre Swift is
Speaker 1: going to get may keep getting goal line looks, but
Speaker 1: I think in a pinch in a bye week, we'll
Speaker 1: give Adrian Peterson a C grade. Let's flip over to
Speaker 1: the Atlanta side, where this is pretty easy because Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, and Calvin Ridley are all obvious. A's Detroit
Speaker 1: has allowed multiple passing touchdowns to every quarterback they face.
Speaker 1: They're going to give up multiple touchdowns here. All of
Speaker 1: the Falcons starting receivers have favorable matchups against their cornerback counterparts.
Speaker 1: Justin Coleman cornerback remains an I R. Desmon Trufont may
Speaker 1: Or may not play, and even when he does play,
Speaker 1: he's been bad. So we love Julio Jones, Calvin Ridley,
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan this week, sticking with the passing game, Hayden
Speaker 1: Hurst tight end. On paper, the lines are a difficult
Speaker 1: matchup for tight ends um as they've allowed opposing tight
Speaker 1: ends to average only two catches, twenty four yards and
Speaker 1: half a touchdown per game. But they face an extremely
Speaker 1: soft schedule of tight ends, and the two competent tight
Speaker 1: ends they face, Jimmy Graham and Robert's Tonyon Tonyon Tonyon,
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that later scored touchdowns. He's tons
Speaker 1: of fun, tons of fun. That's Robert Touny in and
Speaker 1: he gets a C grade. Lastly, Todd Gurley coming off
Speaker 1: a bad game, but he's still seeing plenty of volume
Speaker 1: and face as a team allowing the third most rushing
Speaker 1: yards on twenty four per game. He gets a B
Speaker 1: grade here in what should be a solid outing for
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley. When we come back, it is time for
Speaker 1: take a chance on me. As you may be aware,
Speaker 1: nine players not normally in your starting line up, many
Speaker 1: of whom are available off of the waiver wire. I've
Speaker 1: got two that are probably on the waiver wire in
Speaker 1: my set, and I know it's a tough bye week
Speaker 1: for many of you. Will help you out with some
Speaker 1: unheralded players you can start this week when we return
Speaker 1: to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul
Speaker 1: archy In, Brian Johnson from Guillotine Leagues dot Com, Matt
Speaker 1: Harrison Shocked Fantasy. We encourage you to check out Matt's
Speaker 1: waiver wire work, especially on Tuesdays at Shock Fantasy. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's time to take a chance on me. Nine players
Speaker 1: not normally in your starting lineup. We begin at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. Brian, I have Joe Burrow at home versus
Speaker 1: the Browns. Now these two teams actually faced faced off
Speaker 1: in Week two. Already, Burrow had three sixteen yards for
Speaker 1: three touchdowns in that game. The Browns have allowed multiple
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns in four of six games, at least three
Speaker 1: touchdowns in three of those four games, Burrow has top
Speaker 1: three yards and four of his last five Cleveland owns
Speaker 1: of the seventh highest opponent passing play percentage. Burrow leads
Speaker 1: the NFL and pass attempts per game with forty one.
Speaker 1: I love the matchups for all his receivers, even tight
Speaker 1: and drew sample. So Jill Burrow, okay, And your quarterback
Speaker 1: matt a guy who's not being treated as a top
Speaker 1: ten quarterback but is a top ten quarterback in passing yards.
Speaker 1: That's Teddy Bridgewater. He's thrown for two seventy nine yards
Speaker 1: per game. His issue is he's only thrown for six
Speaker 1: touchdown passes in six games. But I think he breaks
Speaker 1: through this week, as the Saints have allowed at least
Speaker 1: three touchdown passes to each of the past four quarterbacks
Speaker 1: they've faced, including a four touchdown game to Justin Herbert
Speaker 1: in the last game that they played. So I like
Speaker 1: Teddy here. Kyle Allen quietly coming off a really good
Speaker 1: game last week, and he's a plausible dart throw against
Speaker 1: a Dallas defense giving up twenty nine points per game.
Speaker 1: And as bad as the Dallas defense is, you know,
Speaker 1: wobbly quarterbacks have just been okay, Jared Goff and Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones got blank, So success here is not assured for
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen. Still, for the past five quarterbacks to face
Speaker 1: Dallas have thrown multiple touchdowns, and Terry McLaurin all Loan
Speaker 1: should provide a safe floor for Kyle Allen. Bryant. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the running back position now, charge. I want
Speaker 1: you to think back to Week one and how happy
Speaker 1: were you at the exact moment Zack Moss caught a
Speaker 1: touchdown pass right then Jasmin was rolling and Zack Moss
Speaker 1: had just scored. It all seemed good for a moment. Well,
Speaker 1: let's run it back because the Bills and Jets are
Speaker 1: meeting again, this time in New Jersey. As I said,
Speaker 1: Zack Moss did catch a touchdown, proved relevance in that game,
Speaker 1: and uh, I'm basically going to will a good game
Speaker 1: from Zack Moss here. My last two running backs and
Speaker 1: take comm have scored two touchdowns, so two touchdowns coming
Speaker 1: for Zack Moss. Buffalo needs to instill some confidence in
Speaker 1: their rookie running back, and what better spot than against
Speaker 1: the tanking New York Jets. Devin Singletary is not the guy,
Speaker 1: averaging less than three yards per carry over his last
Speaker 1: three games and after allowing just twelve total running back
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the Jets have already surrendered eight score us
Speaker 1: to the position, including five in their last four games.
Speaker 1: Zack Moss is going to finally pay off this, let's hope.
Speaker 1: So problem Twitter loves to ravage me for Zach loss Uh, Matt,
Speaker 1: who is your take a chance of me running back?
Speaker 1: It's Lottavius Murray. Huh. Alvin Kamara is my favorite back
Speaker 1: of the week, but Latavius might be the sneakiest play
Speaker 1: of the week. He's only forty eight hundred on DraftKings,
Speaker 1: by the way, and the Panthers are are allowing four
Speaker 1: point eight yards per carry. They've already allowed eight rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns on the year, and in a similar matchup against
Speaker 1: the stinky Detroit defense, the Saints deployed Murray very well
Speaker 1: to the tune of fourteen carries, sixty four yards and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns in that game. Speaking of yardage totals in
Speaker 1: the sixties, Murray faced the Panthers twice last year. He
Speaker 1: hit sixty yards in both games and scored in one.
Speaker 1: Justin Jackson is might take a chance, I mean running
Speaker 1: back up against Jacksonville in the first non Austin Ekeler
Speaker 1: game for the Chargers was before last week's by Justin
Speaker 1: Jackson out snapped and outtouched Josh Kelly by a two
Speaker 1: to one margin and simply looked much better. The last
Speaker 1: three backs to face Jacksonville, Joe Mixon, David Johnson DeAndre
Speaker 1: Swift gash them for nearly seven yards per carry. This
Speaker 1: is a great opportunity for Justin Jackson and actually not
Speaker 1: a half bad one for Josh and Josh Kelly. If
Speaker 1: you need to go a little bit deeper, let's go
Speaker 1: to the wide receiver position. You take a chance of me,
Speaker 1: player is I'm going back to the Bengals Browns game
Speaker 1: and I got a j Green versus Cleveland. I mentioned
Speaker 1: these teams played in Week two. A j had thirteen
Speaker 1: targets in that game. Turned it into like two catches
Speaker 1: or something. Hey, three, right there, we go. Believe it
Speaker 1: or not. That was a J's first game against Cleveland
Speaker 1: since that first time. Yeah, he's been hurt a lot,
Speaker 1: but he's healthy now. And anyways, after that week two game,
Speaker 1: things basically kept getting worse for a J until last
Speaker 1: week against the Colts, when he had eight catches ninety
Speaker 1: six yards on eleven targets. The Browns have allowed the
Speaker 1: third most targets end receptions to wide receivers, who have
Speaker 1: also been very active inside the twenties. Against Cleveland, the
Speaker 1: Browns have yielded the most red zone targets and red
Speaker 1: zone touches to the position. I use this term last
Speaker 1: week with swift, but a J Green and elite GPP
Speaker 1: play this week. Alright, Matt, Your take a chance of
Speaker 1: the receiver is lots of people need help at the
Speaker 1: tight end question, So I'm going to help him out
Speaker 1: this week. Darren Fells, uh, he plays for the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: If you're not aware, Jordan Aikins looks like he's still
Speaker 1: gonna miss some time with both concussion and ankle injuries.
Speaker 1: And it's worth noting a few things about Darren Fells.
Speaker 1: He scored in each of the last two games since
Speaker 1: Jordan Nakins got hurt, He's cleared fifty yards in both
Speaker 1: of those contests. He's averaging fourteen point six yards per catch,
Speaker 1: which is very high for a tight end. High and
Speaker 1: three different tight ends have topped fifty yards against the
Speaker 1: Packers in the last four games. I think Darren Fells
Speaker 1: great chance of topping fifty and scoring again. If you
Speaker 1: need help at wide receiver, I will give you a
Speaker 1: similar deep opportunity for you with DeMarcus Robinson against Denver
Speaker 1: that is deep. Sammy Watkins is out, so DeMarcus Robinson
Speaker 1: starts and out. Last week, Robinson was on the field
Speaker 1: for of the Chief Snaps. I'm interested in any carbon
Speaker 1: based life form that's on the field of the snaps
Speaker 1: and you can catch passes from Patrick Mahomes DeMarcus Robinson
Speaker 1: carbon based life form. Denver's got one good cornerback, Bryce Callahan.
Speaker 1: He's gonna shadow Tyreek Hill. That puts Robinson up against
Speaker 1: very inexperienced cornerbacks. Michael O, Jim Medulla and Davante Bosby
Speaker 1: made those names up. I probably may have missed pronounced
Speaker 1: both of them. I think you're playing boggle last night
Speaker 1: with roxy and Marcus Robinson is your third you actually
Speaker 1: ninth third receiver at ninth take a chance of me player,
Speaker 1: and one let's flip back over to some matchups, Brian,
Speaker 1: including Buffalo taking on the New York Jets. Now you
Speaker 1: told us you like Zack Moss as a take a chance,
Speaker 1: I mean sleep or what about Devin's Singletary against the Jets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't like him as much. I'm still even him
Speaker 1: as see though I mentioned uh average has averaged three
Speaker 1: point three yards per carry or less in four of
Speaker 1: six games this year, that includes the Jets game in
Speaker 1: Week one. Singletary did not show up there on the ground.
Speaker 1: He did have a season hind catches in that game
Speaker 1: with five, and the Jets are yielding seven plus targets
Speaker 1: per game to the position. But man Singletary scares me
Speaker 1: even what in what's become a good matchup? As I said,
Speaker 1: the Jets, after lying twelve total touchdowns all of last season,
Speaker 1: have already allowed eight five in their last four games.
Speaker 1: But just to see for Singletary, and as you said,
Speaker 1: charge Zack Moss might take a chance on me running
Speaker 1: back over the receiving game for Buffalo, Stefon Diggs gets
Speaker 1: and A didn't score in the Week one game, but
Speaker 1: at eight catches for eighties six yards, the Jets have
Speaker 1: only surrender five wide receiver touchdowns. But Tim Patrick and
Speaker 1: Deadore Hopkins both topped hundred top to hundred yards and
Speaker 1: scored in recent weeks, so still in a for Digs.
Speaker 1: John Brown has been ruled out, um, so get him
Speaker 1: on your bench. He had six catches for seventy yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown in Week one. Cole Beasley is gonna
Speaker 1: see a lot more work with Brown out. Beasley at
Speaker 1: four for fifty eight and the opener. Uh, and with
Speaker 1: Brown out you see a few more targets come in
Speaker 1: his way. I'm not gonna go the way of Gabriel Davis. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're a daily player, he's probably He's rosterable at
Speaker 1: this point because John John Brown remains out, Davis will
Speaker 1: be viable, but I have him on the bench here.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, though obviously not on the bench. Twelve passing
Speaker 1: yards to passing touchdowns, fifty seven rushing yards and a
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown in that Week one game. Ryan Fitzpatrick just
Speaker 1: three for three touchdowns and what and what might be
Speaker 1: his last start ever George, don't talk like that. Last
Speaker 1: week shut you against the Jets. Even Brett Rippon tossed
Speaker 1: two scores on New York and Week four, So an
Speaker 1: easy a for Josh Allen over to the Jet side.
Speaker 1: Not a whole lot to talk about Jameson Crowder can
Speaker 1: give him a be even though he is downgraded this
Speaker 1: week with a groin issue. You gotta keep your eye
Speaker 1: on that. But he had seven catches and fifteen yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown in the Week one opener, basically matchup
Speaker 1: proof when healthy. Even with Flacco under center, he's seeing
Speaker 1: double digit targets. Hopefully Sam Donald can make his return,
Speaker 1: though that's still t B D but B for Crowder
Speaker 1: and he's the only Jets player at the starting grade
Speaker 1: Frank Gore Le Michael Perryan on the bench. Every team
Speaker 1: in the NFL has run at least ten plays at
Speaker 1: the goal line except the Jets. On the season, every Yeah,
Speaker 1: except the Jets. They've run two to well, that makes
Speaker 1: sense to Yeah, there's there's no winning with the with
Speaker 1: the Jets other than Jamison Crowder. That's about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll take a break when we come back. The another
Speaker 1: set of matchups, including Carolina taking on New Orleans will
Speaker 1: tell you if what to do with Michael Thomas and
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders both out, What does that mean for I
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Speaker 1: We've got a bunch of matchups for you. All the
Speaker 1: notable players get letter grades A, B, C or bench. Now,
Speaker 1: some people have suggested that we should add in a
Speaker 1: D grade for desperation. Yeah, maybe dart throw Maybe. UM,
Speaker 1: I'm not totally opposed to that idea. Let us know
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Speaker 1: Should we have a D grade to further delineate. And
Speaker 1: my feeling has always been, if you're a D grade,
Speaker 1: really you're a bench guy. Hashtag I want the D
Speaker 1: a lot of interpreting. Keep that D away from me.
Speaker 1: Carolina takes on New Orleans Matt and for Carolina already
Speaker 1: told us you like Teddy Bridgewater he was gonna take
Speaker 1: a chance I mean quarterbacks, so you must love his
Speaker 1: receivers as well. Well, yeah, let's talk about Robbie Anderson
Speaker 1: and d J. Moore. I mentioned that the Saints are
Speaker 1: giving up three touchdown passes per game over their last four.
Speaker 1: They're only giving up eight point eight receptions per game
Speaker 1: to the wide receiver position on the seat on the
Speaker 1: on the whole season. That's the lowest total in the league.
Speaker 1: But sixteen percent of the wide receiver catches the Saints
Speaker 1: allow go for a touchdown. So if I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: both of these players bees, because if one of every
Speaker 1: six catches they have is going to go for a touchdown,
Speaker 1: all we need is Robby Anderson to get to his
Speaker 1: normal seven catches per game, and we need a little
Speaker 1: bit of luck for d J. Moore, who averages four
Speaker 1: and a half catches per game, but he leads the
Speaker 1: team in area yards and he's going to be a
Speaker 1: completely forgotten DFS play. And I really like the match
Speaker 1: up here. He's only fifty d K, so I like
Speaker 1: him both B grades. Uh. The only other guy to
Speaker 1: start on the Carolina side Mike Davis. He gets a
Speaker 1: C in this one. There's no denying that Davis has
Speaker 1: been a great fill in for CMC, but much of
Speaker 1: his value comes from the passing game, where he ranks
Speaker 1: in the top four in targets, receptions per game, and
Speaker 1: receiving yards per game amongst running backs. The problem is
Speaker 1: the Saints have the number four defense against the run
Speaker 1: according to d v o A, and they're really good
Speaker 1: against pass catching backs, allowing only five catches and thirty
Speaker 1: one yards per game through the air. So it's just
Speaker 1: a C grade for Mike Davis on the Saints side.
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara is this week's fantasy ard Vark. Oh and
Speaker 1: how did the fantasy art vark do last week? You asked, Well,
Speaker 1: I hope pretty well. He is the fantasy ardvark after all. Well,
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry at two before totally arc and two scores
Speaker 1: last week, so you can bank on that. For Kamara
Speaker 1: this week. Um, and also let's have a after the
Speaker 1: room as well. But I don't know if actually didn't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can take a pick to take
Speaker 1: a peacock. I don't think so. Uh. Kamara leads all
Speaker 1: running backs and targets, receptions and receiving yards, and it's
Speaker 1: facing a Carolina squad that's allowed the most receptions in
Speaker 1: league to opposing backs, and frankly, they're going to need
Speaker 1: him to catch passes this week with Michael Thomas out
Speaker 1: and Emmanuel Sanders out, and let's talk about them. Thomas
Speaker 1: officially out with a hamstring injury, likely from favoring his
Speaker 1: injured ankle, and Emmanuel Sanders was just put on the
Speaker 1: COVID list. I guess that means Tray Smith. Baby, let's
Speaker 1: fire him up a little Jared Cook too. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: give him. I'll give him a B grade in this one,
Speaker 1: just because there's nobody else to throw too. And the
Speaker 1: Panthers are allowing a league low a hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: two yards per game to the wide receiver position. But
Speaker 1: it's all going to Tray Kuan Smith or maybe Benny Fowler. Yikes. No,
Speaker 1: Um'm not ready to go there, Jared Cook, I will
Speaker 1: give a C grade two. He's hit the fifty yard
Speaker 1: mark or scored in fourteen of his last fifteen games,
Speaker 1: and he scored in both matchups with the Panthers last year,
Speaker 1: So you know I had him as a C. I'll
Speaker 1: bump him up to a B with with the news
Speaker 1: of Thomas and Sanders both being out and then Drew Brees,
Speaker 1: I'm giving him a C grade for the record, Breeze
Speaker 1: is now kind of eligible for take a chance on me.
Speaker 1: I know he's getting into that category. Um, he's been
Speaker 1: a middle of the road thrower and the Panthers defense
Speaker 1: is only allowing two or twenty three passing yards and
Speaker 1: just over one passing score per game. So that's just
Speaker 1: not enough for Drew Brees to have a great matchup.
Speaker 1: Breeze isn't the king of that category. Now are you're
Speaker 1: talking about of what being a take a chance let
Speaker 1: me quarterback? What do you mean he's a take a
Speaker 1: chance on me quarterback? Every week? You said Breeze is
Speaker 1: almost in that category of being put Drew Breese into that.
Speaker 1: I think people still think he's getting there, and I'm
Speaker 1: saying he's there, man, Well, no, that's what I said.
Speaker 1: I said, he's there. Now. Can we move on? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: go to the next matchup? All right, thank how about me?
Speaker 1: Dallas takes on Washington. That's much more interesting. Let's start
Speaker 1: with Zeke. Why don't we? He's got an A grade.
Speaker 1: He created an instant rapport with Andy Dalton, catching a
Speaker 1: season best eight receptions on a salivating eleven targets. Match
Speaker 1: up with Washington comes at a perfect time because they
Speaker 1: are allowing one fourteen total yards and a touchdown per
Speaker 1: game to opposing running backs. Fully expect Zeke to get
Speaker 1: plenty of work here. Then let's go to the passing game,
Speaker 1: beginning with Andy Dalton. He's pretty bad last week, but
Speaker 1: unlike last week, there's no chance Washington puts him in
Speaker 1: an early deficit and forces the game script to be
Speaker 1: obviously passing. I still worry about the Cowboys makeshift offensive
Speaker 1: line against the four first rounders that Washington's got on
Speaker 1: their defensive front four. Still, each of his receivers, Frandy
Speaker 1: Dalton has got a strongly positive match up against their
Speaker 1: cornerback counterparts, and we'll talk about them in just a
Speaker 1: moment here beginning. And so it's a C grade on
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton Ceedee Lamb A grade. He's got eleven. He
Speaker 1: had eleven targets and Dalton's first start eleven. The best
Speaker 1: place to attack Washington is from the slot. That's where
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb plays. He will face woefull cornerback Jimmy Moreland
Speaker 1: more like Jimmy Moore yards if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And he ranks as cornerback nine six by Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 1: and he's allowing eleven yards per reception. I like Ceedee
Speaker 1: Lamb a lot in this game. MARII Cooper gets a
Speaker 1: B grade. He was also heavily used by Dalton last week,
Speaker 1: and Washington has been good against outside white outs, only
Speaker 1: allowing ten receptions per game. But Cooper's one of four
Speaker 1: receivers with forty plus catches and five hundred plus yards
Speaker 1: so far this season. He runs predominantly from the right
Speaker 1: hand side, where Cooper has a massive size advantage over
Speaker 1: his most common cornerback, which is going to be Ronald Darby,
Speaker 1: who was basically a track star wearing shoulder pads. Then
Speaker 1: let's go to Michael Gallup. He is on the bench
Speaker 1: because he runs predominantly from the left where'll face off
Speaker 1: against cornerback Kendall Fuller, who's having an astounding season. Get
Speaker 1: this just like last year. By the way, nobody has
Speaker 1: scored on Fuller this year. Nobody scored on Fuller last year.
Speaker 1: Uh He's There have been three completed passes in his
Speaker 1: coverage this season for Kendall Fuller. The passer rating on
Speaker 1: balls thrown at Kendall Fuller is nine nine times. If
Speaker 1: that's staggering, Brian, we need a Kendall Fuller shutdown nickname
Speaker 1: he's ideating over there. You've come about how about full stop,
Speaker 1: full stop Fuller full stop, just full stop stop Kendall
Speaker 1: full stop. I'm trying to go full Monty, but there's nothing,
Speaker 1: nothing there that continue. Last last receiver option for Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton is Dalton Schultz with a good matchup opposing tight
Speaker 1: ends or averaging more than five catches and sixty four
Speaker 1: yards per game against Washington with five total touchdowns. Sheltz
Speaker 1: has at least four catches and four of the last
Speaker 1: five games. Save flour with a little upside B grade
Speaker 1: for Dalton Schultz in a difficult week for tight ends,
Speaker 1: I think he's absolutely startable available. By the way, in
Speaker 1: half of leagues. So if you're in a pinch of
Speaker 1: tight end, there's your guy. How about we call him
Speaker 1: Ken dall Fuller's that positive keep working right, thank you,
Speaker 1: And it doesn't have knees that bend. Kyle Allen, We're
Speaker 1: going he doesn't have something that's way more important. Stop
Speaker 1: stop Kyle Allen. It was might take a chance to
Speaker 1: me quarterback. Let's talk about his receiver. Well, and it's
Speaker 1: really just one receiver. Kerry McLaurin of the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: surrendered the second most touchdowns to wide receivers eleven and
Speaker 1: have been burned relentlessly by boundary receivers. The Cowboys just
Speaker 1: got cornerback Hidobe A Woozy back from injury. Not that
Speaker 1: he's great, but he's a massive upgrade from Darryl Worley.
Speaker 1: Woozy allowed two scores in his last healthy game back
Speaker 1: in Week two. Give him two touchdowns. So Terry McLaurin
Speaker 1: a grade the first time. I believe he's had an
Speaker 1: A grade this year. Staying with the passing game, well,
Speaker 1: quasi passing game. J D. Mcsuckett, She's who has been
Speaker 1: shockingly good this year. What did he do to your hamster?
Speaker 1: I still understand do you call him on the bench
Speaker 1: this week. I know you've kept giving him starting grades
Speaker 1: like over and over, but I can't give up the nickname.
Speaker 1: I'm committed to the bit now. He's been a PPR workhorse,
Speaker 1: averaging seven targets per game over the last three games.
Speaker 1: But you gotta pick your spots with j D. Mcsuckett.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, the Cowboys are allowing the fewest receptions and
Speaker 1: the fewest receiving yards per game him do opposing running backs.
Speaker 1: So this is not the spot four. J D. Mcsucking
Speaker 1: can't wait till you meet him one day? Well, I
Speaker 1: know after I will, I will issue a lavish apology
Speaker 1: to j D. If that happens. Now. My favorite sneaky
Speaker 1: play of the day Antonio Gibson. He's been struggling behind
Speaker 1: a horrible offensive line, but a get right opportunity is
Speaker 1: here against the Cowboys, a team allowing twenty eight rushing
Speaker 1: attempts for one hundred thirty six rushing yards and almost
Speaker 1: a touchdown and a half per game to opposing running backs.
Speaker 1: Those are each most or second most in the league.
Speaker 1: The return of linebacker Shaun Lee strengthens the Cowboys defense
Speaker 1: but I believe Antonio Gibson remains a solid start. You
Speaker 1: could trade for him for almost nothing, by the way,
Speaker 1: right now, and I recommend that you do that. Let's
Speaker 1: go to our next matchup, which is UH Cleveland taking
Speaker 1: on Cincinnati. Brian Baker Mayfield, benched in the last game,
Speaker 1: is he's startable this week against the Bengals again. These
Speaker 1: teams played in Week two, the Browns and Bengals. In
Speaker 1: that game, Baker Mayfield had two d nineteen passing yards,
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. That's probably his floor here. Including that game,
Speaker 1: the Bengals have surrendered surrendered multiple touchdown passes and four
Speaker 1: of their last five games, including three seventy one yards
Speaker 1: and three passing touchdowns to Philip Rivers last week. So
Speaker 1: if Rivers puts up those kind of numbers, I'm still
Speaker 1: gonna start Mayfield with the sea over to his receivers
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham borderline A, but I'm gonna give him a
Speaker 1: B here. He had four catches, seventy four yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown in the first meeting. Oh b g is
Speaker 1: second in red zone targets and has seen the third
Speaker 1: most end zone targets so far this season. The Bengals
Speaker 1: have allowed at least one wide receiver touchdown in five
Speaker 1: straight games, and we'll be without their top cornerback William
Speaker 1: Jackson the third. So actually a Odell Beckham, I've changed
Speaker 1: my mind. Jarvis Landry gonna give him a c Apparently
Speaker 1: has been playing with a broken rib. He disclosed this week.
Speaker 1: Still gonna play just three target it's in the first meeting,
Speaker 1: but caught all of them for forty six yards. He
Speaker 1: just needs to see more volume, but he has. He
Speaker 1: has a good matchup against slot cornerback Mackenzie Alexander, who
Speaker 1: has surrendered at least sixty three yards and or a
Speaker 1: score in two of his last three games. Austin Hooper,
Speaker 1: I was going to give him a be but he
Speaker 1: has been ruled out with an appendeck to me, which
Speaker 1: brings in my prespect from a few weeks ago. Harrison Bryant. Now,
Speaker 1: I didn't accurately predict the appendeck to me, but I said,
Speaker 1: Harrison though that that would you'd have a new career.
Speaker 1: And Harrison Bryant gets a chance to see significant target volume,
Speaker 1: He's gonna go off and this is a good matchup
Speaker 1: for it, since he has allowed at least four catches
Speaker 1: and fifty yards to every competent tight end they've faced.
Speaker 1: And they've also surrendered three touchdowns of the positions over
Speaker 1: their last two Bryant bear minimum on DK, so keep
Speaker 1: that in mind. And lastly, for the Browns, we have
Speaker 1: to mention Kareem Hunt. Of course, uh. In that Week
Speaker 1: two game, Nick Chubb and Cream Hunt combined for two
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four combo yards and four touchdowns, three rushing,
Speaker 1: one receiving. Of course, there's no Chub this time around.
Speaker 1: UH and Hunt struggled last week against the Steelers, but
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh is ranked first against the run by Football Outsiders
Speaker 1: d v o A, Cincinnati's ranks one, and the Bengals
Speaker 1: have held running back scorers in four straight games. But
Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm giving Kareem hunting about Ernest Johnson.
Speaker 1: Is he a dart throw in a bye week? I
Speaker 1: think yeah, you have to be very, very very desperate.
Speaker 1: He would be a d earnest d exactly. We can
Speaker 1: go at that over to the Bengal side. Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: ruled out with a foot injury that brings geover Joe
Speaker 1: Bernard into play, and even tray ViOn Williams. Possibly, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give a seed to Bernard and leave Williams on
Speaker 1: the bench, but add him in deeper leagues for sure.
Speaker 1: Everybody you know, So it's gonna be interesting because you're
Speaker 1: only giving him a C grade and you'll explain why.
Speaker 1: But everybody is. Everybody's picking up and starting Giovanni Bernard,
Speaker 1: assuming that they found gold here, explain why he's only
Speaker 1: a secret. I think you just found bronze, clean clear.
Speaker 1: Eveland hadn't allowed running back to top fifty seven rushing
Speaker 1: yards until James Conner last weekend. Bernard has ever been
Speaker 1: a great runner. He's a pass catcher. He did. He
Speaker 1: did have five catches in the week two games, so
Speaker 1: that's probably is receiving four. Maybe I'll give him a
Speaker 1: B and p PRSC and standard. But it's not a
Speaker 1: great match up against the Browns. That run defense as
Speaker 1: far superior than that. Their past defense so far, the
Speaker 1: run defense has been great. Yeah, definitely. Uh, speaking of
Speaker 1: the past defense for Cleveland, not great. I like Tyler
Speaker 1: Boyd can give him a B. He had seven catches,
Speaker 1: seventy two yards and a touchdown in the first meeting.
Speaker 1: The Browns have allowed the third most targets and receptions
Speaker 1: to wide receivers, and they have also yielded the most
Speaker 1: red zone targets and red zone touches to the position.
Speaker 1: That gives t Higgins a B as well. Higgins had
Speaker 1: three catches on six targets in the first meeting with Cleveland,
Speaker 1: but since then he's been seeing way more looks. With
Speaker 1: target totals of nine, seven, eight, and eight. Cleveland has
Speaker 1: allowed and nine wide receiver touchdowns in six games. You
Speaker 1: can it's ten with if you chount count the Chase
Speaker 1: Claypool rushing touchdown A J. Green. I love him in
Speaker 1: this matchup to he was might take a chance on
Speaker 1: me wide receiver and not lastly, Drew Sample, I was
Speaker 1: close to getting the starting grade. The Browns had allowed
Speaker 1: four tight end touchdowns through the through the first four
Speaker 1: weeks of the season, but over the last two games
Speaker 1: they limited the Colts tight ends and Eric Ebron to
Speaker 1: a combined seven catches for forty two yards. So Sample
Speaker 1: on the bench, but I got my on him in
Speaker 1: daily for sure. And then Joe Burrow was gonna take
Speaker 1: a chance to the quarterback. He can go off, take end,
Speaker 1: go off. Let me see if we have time here again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we can sneak in one more matchup. Now,
Speaker 1: let's let's go for it. Matt green Bay taking on Houston.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, coming off of one of the worst games
Speaker 1: of his entire career, couldn't get a softer bounce back
Speaker 1: opponent than Houston. Right. That was the third career pick
Speaker 1: six for Aaron Rodgers. That's insane. Now, the career leader
Speaker 1: in pick sixes is Brett Farve, by the way, with
Speaker 1: thirty one. Oh Man Drew Brees is the current active
Speaker 1: leader with twenty seven. He's had three pick six is
Speaker 1: in thirteen years. That's crazy. And he's got a chip
Speaker 1: on his shoulder. And he gets to face the Texans
Speaker 1: team that's allowed three yards and multiple scores to both
Speaker 1: of the last two quarterbacks they've faced. A grade for Rogers,
Speaker 1: a grade for Davante Adams. Texans have already allowed nine
Speaker 1: touchdowns to wide receivers in just six games. That even
Speaker 1: brings m v S in with a C grade, as
Speaker 1: six wide receivers have topped fifty yards against the Texans
Speaker 1: in just the last three weeks. The other receiver we
Speaker 1: got to talk about is Robert Tonyan Tonyan because the Packers.
Speaker 1: Pr announced this week that his name is actually pronounced
Speaker 1: Tony in which rhymes with Funyan, and he just didn't
Speaker 1: feel like correcting anybody for two years. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: nobody cared about him for two years, so nobody was
Speaker 1: talking about him. Let's power rank mispronunciations between Brett Favre,
Speaker 1: Torod Taylor, and which is the most ridiculous there's that?
Speaker 1: So because his names fla, you got that really really
Speaker 1: right somehow for care, I'm glad you did. Because his
Speaker 1: name now sounds like a snack food. He's now my
Speaker 1: favorite player until George Kittle announces there's actually an s
Speaker 1: on the beginning of his name, and then he's my
Speaker 1: favorite player again. So the Texans allowed Anthony Firkser to
Speaker 1: clean house against them last week after John who went
Speaker 1: down with an injury. Firkser ended up with eight for
Speaker 1: one thirteen and one sounds like would have been John
Speaker 1: whose numbers sounds like tons of fun for Tony in
Speaker 1: Um and then Aaron Jones. He popped up on the
Speaker 1: injury report with a calf string and missed some practice
Speaker 1: on Friday and now is listed is a game time
Speaker 1: decision if he goes. He's still in a grade because
Speaker 1: it's a bad Houston defense that's allowed the most rushing
Speaker 1: yards in the league and is giving up five point
Speaker 1: nine yards per carry if he doesn't go. I think
Speaker 1: both Jamal Williams and A J. Dillon are startable. I'd
Speaker 1: give Williams a B grade and I'd give Dylan a
Speaker 1: C because the matchup is just so ripe for them,
Speaker 1: and I think they'd probably whit carries a little bit
Speaker 1: more with Aaron Jones out of the lineup. On the
Speaker 1: Houston side. Uh, let's start with their running back, David Johnson.
Speaker 1: He still sucks. I mentioned it last week, and I
Speaker 1: gave him a B grade last week and he scored
Speaker 1: this week. I'm only giving him a C because his
Speaker 1: nineteen carries for fifty seven yards doesn't taste good. It's
Speaker 1: not what a good back does. He's not a good back.
Speaker 1: He's like late nineties Leroy Horde and we'll just get
Speaker 1: you two to three yards every play. Uh. And it's
Speaker 1: a decent matchup. The Packers have allowed two touchdowns to
Speaker 1: a running back four times already this season. Deshaun Watson's
Speaker 1: getting an A grade since David Johnson is not good.
Speaker 1: Watson's gonna have to do it for the Texans. He's
Speaker 1: had three hundred plus passing yards in three straight and
Speaker 1: multiple scores in four straight. And the Packers allowed multiple
Speaker 1: scores to every quarterback they've faced, except for the weird
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan game which Julio was injured and Calvin Ridley
Speaker 1: did like a disappearing act in that game. That was weird.
Speaker 1: Will Fuller gets only a C grade in this one.
Speaker 1: He's averaging four points seven catches per game, but he's
Speaker 1: gonna get Jaire Alexander about that. The best player on
Speaker 1: the Packers unimpressive defense, Jire help helped hold every wide
Speaker 1: receiver except Adam Feeling and check Mike Evans only managed
Speaker 1: one for ten in his coverage last week. I've got
Speaker 1: Fuller benched on a bunch of leagues. I got sea
Speaker 1: grades on Brandon Cooks and Randall Cobb as well. Um,
Speaker 1: the Packers have only allowed five receptions per game to
Speaker 1: slot receivers this season, and it is a Randall Cob
Speaker 1: revenge game, so we got that going for us. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, and Darren Fells might take a chance on
Speaker 1: me tight end. Yeah, they should be using Randall Cobb
Speaker 1: a little bit more. I think, although they used him
Speaker 1: a bit last week, and for what they're paying him,
Speaker 1: they should anyway. Honestly, when we come back three Tough Questions,
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Speaker 1: and Brian Johnson and Matt Harrison with you. Thank you
Speaker 1: for listening. This is a game we call three Tough Questions.
Speaker 1: We encourage you to play along. Try to go three
Speaker 1: and oh. Tough question number one, does Antonio Brown belong
Speaker 1: on fantasy rosters in typically sized leagues? Brian, Now, is
Speaker 1: this under the presumption he is going to the Seahawks. No,
Speaker 1: we don't know as of right this moment, as we
Speaker 1: are talking, we don't know. Then the answers is, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have nothing to back it up really,
Speaker 1: because the guy's nuts and I can't really trust him.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, if he does go to Seattle
Speaker 1: and I roster DK metcalf and or Tyler Lockett, that's
Speaker 1: the only reason I would uh add Antonio Brown to
Speaker 1: my fantasy team if he was on the Seahawks. But
Speaker 1: I just know I can't do it. There's no way
Speaker 1: to even research why this would be a good or
Speaker 1: bad idea. By gut tells me. No, that's all I
Speaker 1: can give you. I'm sorry, Matt. See I say, there's
Speaker 1: no other player on the waiver wire right now who
Speaker 1: offers the upside that Antonio Brown does. Because number one,
Speaker 1: he's not going to go to some scrub team if
Speaker 1: he comes back, he's going to go to a contender.
Speaker 1: So think about if he signs with Green Bay on
Speaker 1: Monday morning, how much fab would you spend on him
Speaker 1: playing with Aaron Rodgers. Or think if he signs with
Speaker 1: Baltimore or he ended up in Kyle Shanahan's offense or
Speaker 1: Arizona with Kyler and Hopkins. Yeah, he's been waiting at
Speaker 1: the baggage claim for a long time, but he didn't
Speaker 1: leave the league due to lack of talent. He left
Speaker 1: due to stuff between his ears, and if he can
Speaker 1: get that cleared up, I think that he belongs on rosters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, so we have a no. One. Yes, So
Speaker 1: f Antonio Brown to become a reliable fantasy producer. Here
Speaker 1: is what needs to happen. Number one, he has to
Speaker 1: get signed and hopefully to a team that doesn't stink.
Speaker 1: To your point, Matt believes it's automatic that he'll go
Speaker 1: to a contender. I don't. He needs to be in
Speaker 1: immediate football shape. We have no idea if he's keeping
Speaker 1: himself in football shape ready to hit the ground running.
Speaker 1: We don't know. He needs to learn a new offensive scheme, routes,
Speaker 1: syn tax, rhythm with a quarterback, all that has He's
Speaker 1: gotta learn all that. Then Antonio Brown has to vault
Speaker 1: over three or four depth receivers to become a starter.
Speaker 1: Then they has to get enough snaps and enough targets
Speaker 1: to reliably Phil Box scores that you feel like you
Speaker 1: can put him in your your into your lineup. Then
Speaker 1: he needs to not burn bridges with coaches, teammates, in
Speaker 1: front office personnel. Then he needs to not get resuspended
Speaker 1: by the league over the ongoing investigation into Antonio Brown's
Speaker 1: sexual assault allegations that have been levied against him and
Speaker 1: is still an ongoing NFL investigation. All any one of
Speaker 1: those goes sideways, and he can't make an impact for
Speaker 1: your fantasy team. I can find somebody on the waiver
Speaker 1: wire who's better than that. I thought you were gonna say, yes,
Speaker 1: he belongs on teams after after all that, by the way,
Speaker 1: that he's really good. So take him his lawyer. You
Speaker 1: may have missed this. About a month ago. His lawyer
Speaker 1: walked away from him. The guy who he's paying to
Speaker 1: defend him tapped out. That says plenty when your own
Speaker 1: lawyer goes, you know what, I'm I'd really rather go
Speaker 1: try to defend an axe murderer. He's probably so. I
Speaker 1: don't know that we can assume whatsoever that he's turned
Speaker 1: the corner. Tough question number two since his big opening
Speaker 1: day game, Juju Smith Schuster is wide receiver eighty averaging
Speaker 1: thirty one yards and a quarter of a touched down
Speaker 1: per game. Are you buying low or you're just glad
Speaker 1: you don't have him? Matt His uh average depth of
Speaker 1: target is four point seven yards. Now you could fall
Speaker 1: forward for four point seven most. I mean, if you're
Speaker 1: really tall and you get your arms outstretched, that's not good. Uh,
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool's the best wide receiver on that roster. I
Speaker 1: don't care that it's been five games. The Steelers do
Speaker 1: this all the time. It's ridiculous. They just find wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Juju is just a slot receiver now. He's Russell Gauge
Speaker 1: with fewer targets. He's Adam Humphreys with fewer receptions. He's
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley with about half the yards per game. That's
Speaker 1: what Juju is. He's got a fun name, but he's
Speaker 1: just a slot guy now. Okay, Brian Yeah, and Redraft,
Speaker 1: I'm out. As Matt said, Juju is basically the third
Speaker 1: best option at best for Pittsburgh. But in Dynasty, I'm
Speaker 1: a little more intrigued. This is Juju's fourth theater in
Speaker 1: the league. He is currently younger than the follow going players.
Speaker 1: Deante Johnson, Van Jefferson, who's a rookie, Deebo, Samuel Terry
Speaker 1: McClure and needs are all rookies last year too, Jefferson,
Speaker 1: d J Chark, Michael Gallup, in Courtland Sutton. So Juju
Speaker 1: is essentially a rookie still in terms of age, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna give up on him entirely. In Dynasty. I
Speaker 1: will buy him for pennies on the dial dollar, but
Speaker 1: I'm not touching him in in redraft. All Right. Since
Speaker 1: the preseason, I've been saying that Juju was going to
Speaker 1: be the odd man out in his passing game. You
Speaker 1: guys know that, and you were you you heard we
Speaker 1: were there. Yeah. But even so, at this point, he's
Speaker 1: so incredibly cheap. And that's really the big part of
Speaker 1: this is we're buying woe. Philosophically, I like to buy
Speaker 1: low on good players, particularly when there isn't something wrong
Speaker 1: with that player or wrong with the offense. And I
Speaker 1: think he's good. I don't think Juju is great. He's
Speaker 1: not great. There was a time when people thought he
Speaker 1: was great, like, for example, August when he was going
Speaker 1: off the board as wide receiver twelve and people thought
Speaker 1: he was great. Steelers are passed thereby, and their schedules
Speaker 1: predominantly favorable. Other than the two games with Baltimore that
Speaker 1: are left. Now, defenses are gonna have to reckon with
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool. Right. This is the scenario where Juju thrived
Speaker 1: two years ago where defense has had to reckon with
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown and that left Juju open across the middle
Speaker 1: of the field. I think this could be the role
Speaker 1: back that would favor him that same way. Listen to
Speaker 1: the slack cornerbacks he's gonna face for the rest of
Speaker 1: the year outside again, Baltimore is excellent slack cornerback. You're
Speaker 1: gonna make up all these names, Christian Fulton, Jordan Lewis, Mackenzie,
Speaker 1: Alexander Trey Herndon, Jimmy Moreland, Cameron Lewis, kennymore and Kevin Johnson.
Speaker 1: Those are all winnable matchups for the price that you
Speaker 1: have to pay to get Juju Smith Schuster. At this point,
Speaker 1: from a frustrated and probably like one in five owner,
Speaker 1: we're buying Juju Smith Schuster. Tough question number three. Last week,
Speaker 1: lines running back DeAndre Swift posted his first ever big
Speaker 1: game going forward? Is DeAndre Whift and RB one and
Speaker 1: RB two a flex or a bench player Bryan uh
Speaker 1: going the rest of the way. Detroit is top twelve
Speaker 1: in running back strength of schedule in terms of the
Speaker 1: easiest schedule, so things look good on that front. But
Speaker 1: there are a few blockers in the mix for the Lions,
Speaker 1: the Colts, the Bears, the Bucks in Week sixteen, but
Speaker 1: the primary blocker for DeAndre Swift is obviously Adrian Peterson.
Speaker 1: Right now, the Lions backfield is averaging a hundred forty
Speaker 1: six Comboy yards in one point four total touchdowns per game,
Speaker 1: and Swift isn't even seeing half the touches. He only
Speaker 1: saw forty percent of the touches in the blow up
Speaker 1: game against the Jaguars last week. He just needs more touches,
Speaker 1: and I do think they ramp up over time. But
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson is not going anywhere. He and Frank Gore
Speaker 1: gonna open a bed and breakfast for the cockroaches once
Speaker 1: the nuclear holocaust hits. So I'm just gonna go with
Speaker 1: a He's gonna have r B two upside. But if
Speaker 1: I'm going across the board, still just a flex for
Speaker 1: flex spot for DeAndre and his rookie year. Alright, Matt
Speaker 1: is Dion Ray Swift and RB one, RB two flex
Speaker 1: or bench player. I got him as an r B
Speaker 1: two and Brian stole a little bit of my thunder.
Speaker 1: I I did have that they have the eighth easiest
Speaker 1: schedule against the run. The rest of the way, and
Speaker 1: I did want to note that that Tampa game in
Speaker 1: Week sixteen, DeAndre Swift might be a guy who helps
Speaker 1: power you to a playoff run, but he's not going
Speaker 1: to be a guy that you can start against Tampa
Speaker 1: in your championship week in week sixteen. So I got
Speaker 1: him as an RB two the rest of the way,
Speaker 1: but a little nervous about that Week sixteen glaring hole there.
Speaker 1: R B two is pretty good. Yeah, right, all you
Speaker 1: guys are it's all bad from you two? And then
Speaker 1: you call him a right too? I said flex, You
Speaker 1: said flex? I didn't think. Answer is RB Two's that
Speaker 1: one game? He led the team in plays last week,
Speaker 1: and when he's on the field they use him a lot.
Speaker 1: We've learned that Adrian Peterson only gets used when the
Speaker 1: Lions have the lead. Well often the Lions have the lead,
Speaker 1: not often, can just not often. On that, Swift is
Speaker 1: getting work in every situation now. He's catching passes, which
Speaker 1: he's been doing all year long. He's getting goal line
Speaker 1: work as of last week, and he's getting third three
Speaker 1: down duty now. As for this Adrian Peterson myth back
Speaker 1: to Peterson. His last three weeks, he's averaged three point
Speaker 1: four yards per carry, three point three yards per carry
Speaker 1: in last week two point seven yards per carry. You know,
Speaker 1: Peterson doesn't bring much to the table. This team is
Speaker 1: invested in DeAndre Swift and his success and apparently they
Speaker 1: feel good about him. Okay, so week sixteen, maybe I'm
Speaker 1: benching him. Fine, he got me to the Fantasy Championship.
Speaker 1: You view that as such a negative chart. It was
Speaker 1: just helping, helping our loyal list. The way you should
Speaker 1: have phrased it was DeAndre Swift is gonna power you
Speaker 1: to the championship game. I didn't. I didn't do it
Speaker 1: with enough gusto because I think that's exactly what I said.
Speaker 1: Check that tape, Brian, Where where's the tape? Kansas City
Speaker 1: takes on Denver. Let's break down this matchup for a moment.
Speaker 1: First for Patrick Mahomes, Tyree Hill, and Travis Kelsey. Obvious
Speaker 1: a's for all of them. We talk about this pretty
Speaker 1: much every week. They're all very good plays. Denver is
Speaker 1: a great run defense, quietly and a bad past defense,
Speaker 1: which means the path of least resistance for the Chiefs
Speaker 1: runs right through Patrick Mahomes arm So plenty of passing
Speaker 1: coming Kelsey's my number one ranked tight end this week.
Speaker 1: But hill situation is a little more interesting. He lines
Speaker 1: up in the slot more than six of the time,
Speaker 1: and Hill's going to face Bryce Callahan in the slot,
Speaker 1: one of the least's hottest cornerbacks. Through five games, Callaghan
Speaker 1: is not only held opponents scoreless, he's yet to give
Speaker 1: more than fifty four yards in any game. Reed may
Speaker 1: choose to run Hill on the outside more just to
Speaker 1: avoid Callahan, which he'll obviously can do. And I think
Speaker 1: that that ploy may work. And that's why Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: remains in a grade all right. I told you earlier
Speaker 1: to Marcus Robinson is might take a chance on the receiver.
Speaker 1: I think he's a great sneaky play. This week. Let's
Speaker 1: go to this running back situation. It's our first game
Speaker 1: when we have to try to decipher what to do
Speaker 1: with Clyde, Edwards Hilaire and Levy on Bell and they
Speaker 1: both get C grades for Clyde. No team has allowed
Speaker 1: fewer Fantasy points to backs than Denver. They're allowing They've
Speaker 1: allowed just one score to a running back all year long.
Speaker 1: They're giving up just three point eight yards per carry.
Speaker 1: No back his top fifty two yards against Denver since
Speaker 1: week two. You're hoping for I think where you're hoping
Speaker 1: for Clyde Edwards Hlaire. I think it gets like fifty
Speaker 1: rushing yards, four receptions for thirty yards. You get you
Speaker 1: your gain. That's gonna get you. You know that's gonna
Speaker 1: like it gets you above tent. That's your C grade
Speaker 1: for Clyde Edwards Hilaire. Now let's go to l V M. Bell.
Speaker 1: This is a bye week CE for Levy on Bell.
Speaker 1: If it were not a bye week, I think I
Speaker 1: would probably just be saying, you know what, let's just
Speaker 1: wait a week on Lvan Bell. Let's see how this
Speaker 1: thing shakes out. It's a tough matchup anyway, But because
Speaker 1: it's a bye week, I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: are gonna need to try to use them, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to give him a C grade. Remember last week
Speaker 1: I mentioned Clyde Edwards Hilaire's pro football focus is lowest
Speaker 1: rated running back in pass blocking, So I think Bell
Speaker 1: is going to see some passing game plays immediately beginning
Speaker 1: this week. I already mentioned Denver was very good against
Speaker 1: the run. They're also terrific against past catching running backs
Speaker 1: or at lease had been before James James White had
Speaker 1: a big game last week. He caught and I'll remind
Speaker 1: you Levin Bell is really good pass catcher. For all
Speaker 1: the problems he had with New York, he got sixty
Speaker 1: six passes last year with the Jets. I think he
Speaker 1: chips in somewhere in the neighborhood of another four Ish
Speaker 1: catches thirty yards, and if there's goal line work to
Speaker 1: be had, levy on Bell is more likely to get
Speaker 1: the ball at the stripe. They that doesn't take any
Speaker 1: more than ten days of practice. We're gonna give you
Speaker 1: the ball behind. You know, Eric Fisher, go score. So
Speaker 1: a chance for a touchdown for levy On Bell C grade.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the Denver side. Only a
Speaker 1: couple of players to talk about, beginning with the running game.
Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay and Melvin Gordon both getting C grades. Lindsay's
Speaker 1: coming off a one game without Gordon, but this should
Speaker 1: game I suspect will be roughly evenly split between the
Speaker 1: two of them. The Chiefs have allowed a pair of
Speaker 1: backs to each put up forty five rushing yards three
Speaker 1: different times this season, so I think that's probably about
Speaker 1: what you're looking at here fifty yards for each guy. Um.
Speaker 1: After struggling early, the Chiefs run defense has been much
Speaker 1: better lately. They held Josh Jacobs and Devin Singletary the
Speaker 1: past two weeks to three point three yards per carry.
Speaker 1: That's it. While with the Chargers, Gordon hammered the Chiefs
Speaker 1: through the air, and the Broncos could try to replicate that.
Speaker 1: And I like Gordon a little bit better because I
Speaker 1: do he does catch the ball where Lindsay really doesn't
Speaker 1: catch much at all. So Gordon, I think, is the
Speaker 1: better play for PPR leagues. Both guys have a C grade.
Speaker 1: Also a C grade four Noah Fant expected to return
Speaker 1: to this game. Drew Lock throws to his tight ends
Speaker 1: a lot, and Fant is the best playmaker he can
Speaker 1: possibly throw too. It's a tricky matchup though. Kansas City
Speaker 1: is allowed just one tight end to top fifty yards
Speaker 1: against them, but they have allowed at least seven catches
Speaker 1: to the position on three different occasions. Fan gets the
Speaker 1: C grade here. I'm putting Jerry Judy on the bench.
Speaker 1: Kansas City surrendered the seventh fewest Fantasy points to receivers,
Speaker 1: so even a high targets here from Drew Lock isn't
Speaker 1: likely to bear a lot of fruit here for the rookie.
Speaker 1: Making matters worse is a matchup against and Judy runs
Speaker 1: out of the slot a lot. That means he matches
Speaker 1: up against Tyrone Matthew and that is a brutal matchup.
Speaker 1: He's been fantastic and he is usually the guy responsible
Speaker 1: for shutting down opposing slot receivers. Did you see the
Speaker 1: weather in Denver? On slow? We're gonna get snow there.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be sixty degrees on Saturday. And that's Colorado
Speaker 1: in a nutshell right there. There are behind us here
Speaker 1: in Minnesota with the snow that we've already got on
Speaker 1: the ground, so it'll be a snow game there. I
Speaker 1: don't think that will affect things a lot, but you
Speaker 1: can check back on Sunday morning for any late breaking
Speaker 1: changes in the rankings. The wind won't be too bad though,
Speaker 1: that's what matters most. You can get all the player
Speaker 1: rankings available for free at uyoteen leagues dot com. Pul
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Speaker 1: Explosive Output. Let's return to the matchups, beginning with Jacksonville
Speaker 1: taking on the Chargers and Brian for Jacksonville. James Robinson
Speaker 1: was a hot story for about the first two weeks
Speaker 1: of the season. He has come back to earth big
Speaker 1: time lately. Do you see a reversal here against the Chargers? Yeah?
Speaker 1: This is the Jack at Black game. I wonder if
Speaker 1: Jack Black be therela James James Robinson has fallen down
Speaker 1: to Earth the big time. Like you said, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna give him a see here. Jay rob hasn't topped
Speaker 1: fifty rushing yards and three of his last four games,
Speaker 1: but he still gets all the running back touches and
Speaker 1: averages nearly five catches per game. But again, this is
Speaker 1: not a good matchup. The Chargers have not allowed to
Speaker 1: running back rushing touchdown all year, and only Ronald Jones
Speaker 1: has topped seventy rushing yards. But back to the catches.
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones, Clyde Edwards, Hilaire, Mike Davis and Alvin Kamara
Speaker 1: all posted at least six catches against the Chargers, so
Speaker 1: Robinson has a pretty safe PPR floor, But just to
Speaker 1: see for him in this one. Just to see for
Speaker 1: d J Chark too. Unfortunately, he could be in for
Speaker 1: a long afternoon as l A has surrendered just three
Speaker 1: touchdowns to opposing wide receivers, tied for second fewest. Shark
Speaker 1: had a nice matchup last week against Detroit, but only
Speaker 1: managed forty five scoreless yards. He did see fourteen targets
Speaker 1: last week. He should get peppered again. How do you
Speaker 1: get fourteen targets against the Lions and not turn that
Speaker 1: into a fantasy mind shoes not on his game last week.
Speaker 1: The Chargers have allowed the fifth most red zone touches
Speaker 1: to wide receivers. Those you gotta keep DJ Shark in play.
Speaker 1: I've got Levicha Channault and Keelan Cole fresh office a
Speaker 1: hundred forty yard games. Might take a chance on me
Speaker 1: wide receiver last week on the bench, though, only lead
Speaker 1: receivers have produced against the Chargers. Tyreek Kill, Mike Evans,
Speaker 1: and Emmanuel Sanders without Michael Thomas all had a hundred
Speaker 1: plus yards and two of those three scored. I lied
Speaker 1: tyreek Hill had nine yards. He didn't top a hundred,
Speaker 1: but close enough for me. Gardner Minshew on the bench.
Speaker 1: Brady and Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes both throw for
Speaker 1: multiple scores against LACK. Brady had five, but Joe Burrow,
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater Drew Brees combined for just two passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: against l A. So Minshew on the bench for this one.
Speaker 1: Over at the Chargers side, Keenan Allen gets to a
Speaker 1: UH could become a run heavy game for l A.
Speaker 1: But there's no way you're benching Allen, who has looked
Speaker 1: great when healthy. He should be close to full health
Speaker 1: for this matchup. Has a great matchup with hot corner
Speaker 1: Trey Herndon, who has surrendered two scores already this year
Speaker 1: and owns a hundred and twenty four passer rating in
Speaker 1: his coverage. So in A for Keenan Allen, b for
Speaker 1: Mike Williams, he's becoming in if he's healthy, he's in
Speaker 1: Fantasy player. And although the matchup with Jacksonville isn't great
Speaker 1: on paper, the Jaguars have only allowed five wide receiver
Speaker 1: touchdowns Brandon Cooks and Kenny Golladay both top two hundred
Speaker 1: yards running from the boundaries against Jacksonville in recent weeks,
Speaker 1: So B for Williams and an A for Hunter Henry.
Speaker 1: The Jaguars have allowed the fourth most touchdowns to opposing
Speaker 1: tight ends this season, and tight ends have put up
Speaker 1: at least forty five yards or a score on Jacksonville
Speaker 1: in every game. Uh. Jacksonville could be without versatile linebacker
Speaker 1: Miles jack again, and Henry has seen at least seven
Speaker 1: targets and three of Justin Herbert's four starts. And lastly,
Speaker 1: speaking of Justin Herbert, are gonna give him a B?
Speaker 1: Prior to last week's ground attack by Detroit, we all
Speaker 1: thought Stafford was gonna rip him up. Through the year
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. Jaguars were allowing two four passing yards and
Speaker 1: two point to passing touchdowns per game. As I just mentioned,
Speaker 1: all of Herbert's weapons have plus matchups. There is some
Speaker 1: risk here. The Jaguars are flying across country playing a
Speaker 1: very good defense this game. Strip could flip run heavy
Speaker 1: pretty quick on Herbert. But I'm still gonna give him
Speaker 1: a B here. Oh I'm not done yet, Justin Jackson. Sorry,
Speaker 1: take a chance of me running back because it's just
Speaker 1: the Cakes matchup of all time, basically, and you got
Speaker 1: to give Josh Kelly a C because they're basically gonna
Speaker 1: got on this one. So I think it's it was
Speaker 1: thirty three last time, it might be it might be six.
Speaker 1: It's gonna they're gonna They're gonna run the ball more
Speaker 1: in this one, one would think. So I'll still give
Speaker 1: Kelly the SEA. I think Kelly does deserve ce. Matt.
Speaker 1: Let's go to our next matchup, Tampa Bay taking on
Speaker 1: Las Vegas for Tom Brady. Great game last week, got
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski back involved again. It's got all of his
Speaker 1: weapons back healthy. What do you think about the passing
Speaker 1: game for the Bucks? Yeah, I gave Brady a B grade,
Speaker 1: as current New England quarterback Cam Newton was the only
Speaker 1: quarterback not to le or two seventy yards against the
Speaker 1: Raiders this year, and plus the raiders twenty six ranked
Speaker 1: passing defense according to Football Outsiders d v O A
Speaker 1: should be carved up by Brady in this one. However,
Speaker 1: I'm only going to give C grades to Mike Evans
Speaker 1: and Chris Godwin, and it's because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: injury stuff still going on with them. Both were limited
Speaker 1: in practice all week, Evans with an ankle, Godwin with
Speaker 1: that linger and hamstring injury. Both are all pro caliber players,
Speaker 1: but you have and you're probably gonna start them besides
Speaker 1: this recommendation, but I will mention this. Robby Anderson and
Speaker 1: Stephen Digs each notched exactly six catches for a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifteen yards against the Raiders this year. Every other
Speaker 1: wide receiver has had a bad day against the Raiders
Speaker 1: all year. They are an improved secondary. Yeah, I did
Speaker 1: say I like Brady, but both of these guys should
Speaker 1: see issues with their injuries and neither of them can
Speaker 1: kind of kick it. So the Raiders have only allowed
Speaker 1: four touchdowns to the wide receiver position. Two of them
Speaker 1: have come to secondary options on the outside, like Sammy
Speaker 1: Watkins or Gabriel Davis. So maybe Tyler Johnson's your dart
Speaker 1: throw here and he gets up. Back to back week
Speaker 1: of touchdowns. Oh, Evans and Godwin owners will be furious.
Speaker 1: They flip out. They have been so frustrated. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the tight end position. Rob Gronkowski scored last week
Speaker 1: and had seventy eight yards on five catches. The last
Speaker 1: time Rob Gronkowski scored a touchdown in the NFL was
Speaker 1: December nine, two thousand eighteen. So I looked up what
Speaker 1: happened on that date, almost two years ago. I am curious.
Speaker 1: A beaver is seen in northern Italy on camera, a
Speaker 1: species that had not been seen in Italy since fourteen
Speaker 1: seventy one. That's a long time. I looked that up
Speaker 1: at about one in the morning last night, and I
Speaker 1: was laughing, laughing so hard at it, I was crying.
Speaker 1: I was like a beaver in northern Italy. Great Travis
Speaker 1: Kelsey did torch this defense for eight catches one oh
Speaker 1: eight in a score. Uh no other tight end to
Speaker 1: face the Raiders his top two catches or seventeen yards
Speaker 1: on the season. So Gronk just gets a C. And
Speaker 1: then Ronald Jones in the running game he gets an A. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know that looks like for Net might plan this one,
Speaker 1: but Jones has been really good, so Arians can't take
Speaker 1: him off the field. Right right right. The Raiders are
Speaker 1: allowing five point two yards per carrying just over a
Speaker 1: touchdown and a half per game to the running back position.
Speaker 1: They're also allowing the most running back receiving yards per
Speaker 1: game at sixty six, so for Nets, probably a dart
Speaker 1: throw if he goes. I think he's a desperation d
Speaker 1: start if you need one in a bye week. On
Speaker 1: the Raiders side, Josh Jacobs gets a sea. Tampa's run
Speaker 1: defense is legit. They shut down Aaron Jones last week.
Speaker 1: They're only allowing forty nine yards per game and only
Speaker 1: two point eight yards per carry. Plus Trent Brown tested
Speaker 1: positive for COVID this week and the rest of the
Speaker 1: offensive line has been in quarantine. Now we think the
Speaker 1: rest of the line is gonna play, but that certainly
Speaker 1: affects Josh Jacobs, and that certainly affects Derek Carr, who
Speaker 1: I'm only giving a c He's fifth in the league
Speaker 1: in passing yards and has multiple scores thrown in four
Speaker 1: straight games against some quality defensive sides in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: New England, Buffalo, in Kansas City. But Tampa's allowing just
Speaker 1: under two and or fifty yards per game to a
Speaker 1: per game to the quarterback position, uh and and their
Speaker 1: run defenses amongst amongst the best in the league. So
Speaker 1: I think that he's still starting grade because they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to move the football somehow, and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: car and then Henry Ruggs, I'm giving him a C grade.
Speaker 1: And this is almost stupid here. Tampa's pretty good against
Speaker 1: the wide receiver position except for downfield burners. Robby Anderson
Speaker 1: had nine for one on nine, but that's not what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. I'm talking about Jalen Guiton, who had
Speaker 1: one catch for seventy two yards in the score, Tyrone Johnson,
Speaker 1: who had one catch for fifty three yards in the score.
Speaker 1: And since Henry Ruggs averages two catches per game and
Speaker 1: they're usually like fifty yards, that's Henry Ruggs in a
Speaker 1: weird long bomb. Darren Waller he gets a be though.
Speaker 1: Whiller's averaging seven receptions per game, and he's certainly Derek
Speaker 1: Carrs will be. The Bucks have been pretty stout against
Speaker 1: the tight end, although Jared Cook did beat them for
Speaker 1: five and eight in the first week and Noah Fant
Speaker 1: had five catches for forty six six for seventy and
Speaker 1: a score seems likely for Waller. That's why he gets
Speaker 1: to be. When we come back, we will jump into
Speaker 1: the time machine for premature speculation. We will tell you
Speaker 1: three players that you will want to pick up. Now
Speaker 1: that the rest of your league is gonna try to
Speaker 1: pick up next week, but they're already on your team.
Speaker 1: Premature speculation and our final set of matchups in our
Speaker 1: final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly when we come back.
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Speaker 1: This is a segment we call premature speculation. We give
Speaker 1: you three players the rest of your league is and
Speaker 1: be trying to pick up next week, but they're already
Speaker 1: on your team because you listen to this show. Brian
Speaker 1: Johnson all right, I'm gonna have to give you guys
Speaker 1: a jit. I'm sorry, but Brashad Periam is my premature speculation.
Speaker 1: A very slow start of the year, basically got hurt
Speaker 1: in the middle of the second game of this season.
Speaker 1: Made his return last week though against the Dolphins, saw
Speaker 1: eight targets, caught four of them for sixty two yards
Speaker 1: and story short, the Jets are gonna be playing from
Speaker 1: behind by the middle of the national anthem every week.
Speaker 1: Brashad Perriman was brought in to be their top boundary receiver.
Speaker 1: Mentioned earlier in the show. Jamison Crowder nursing a groin
Speaker 1: injury right now, hopefully Sam Donald makes his return. So
Speaker 1: I'm going with Brashad Perriman, a guy I would rather
Speaker 1: add over Antonio Brown right now. All right, it's it's
Speaker 1: come to that, and let me just throw Denzel Mims.
Speaker 1: Not in redraft, but he's a like basically the the
Speaker 1: won't forgotten rookie wide receiver right now. Yeah, let's say
Speaker 1: you're in a dynasty, you know, for next year, Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence to Denzel Mims. I don't know if that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Why not Trevor Lawrence Lawrence himself out of that, out
Speaker 1: of that situation the reverse ELI out of New Jersey.
Speaker 1: But look, okay, wait, but here is going to be gone.
Speaker 1: Let's assume they brought in some form of competent coaching,
Speaker 1: and then I think that will be enough to get
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence to New York. If you're if you've got
Speaker 1: a dead dynasty team right now and we'll get nothing. Okay, Uh,
Speaker 1: you're premature speculation. Player Matt James Conner missed six games
Speaker 1: due to injury last year, three games the year before.
Speaker 1: He's the wobbliest game injury stricken star the year before that.
Speaker 1: He's never played in a Week seven in his career.
Speaker 1: He's never played in a Week fourteen either, So you
Speaker 1: better pick up Benny Snell, who, like I mentioned before,
Speaker 1: is the next guy in line. But I also do
Speaker 1: want to mention that Anthony McFarland's kind of looming here.
Speaker 1: Benny Snell's averaging three point nine yards per carry on
Speaker 1: the season and two yards per carry since the opening Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he did have a great opening day game, but
Speaker 1: McFarland's averaging four point three over the season, so kind
Speaker 1: of a bonus. If you're in a really deep league
Speaker 1: and Anthony McFarland's out there, you might want to pick
Speaker 1: him up. But Benny Snell is definitely the handcuff you
Speaker 1: want to get or steal from somebody else who owns
Speaker 1: James Conner. Baffling decision by the Miami Dolphins to decide
Speaker 1: to change quarterbacks after They had just thoroughly beaten two
Speaker 1: straight teams with Ryan Fitzpatrick and are one game out
Speaker 1: of a playoff spot and one game out of first
Speaker 1: place in their division. Apparently they don't know what to
Speaker 1: do with that level of success and how to handle it,
Speaker 1: so they decide to bench Ryan Fitzpatrick. You know what
Speaker 1: time it is Church, It's two a time. No, it's
Speaker 1: it's two o'clock to o'clock. It's two. That is two o'clock.
Speaker 1: It's always two o'clock in Miami. Um, here's the funny thing.
Speaker 1: And you because if you're in a deep league, go
Speaker 1: pick up two. A fine, but here's the real angle.
Speaker 1: Everybody's dropping Ryan Fitzpatrick. It is go get Stu Beard.
Speaker 1: Everybody's dropping him. Now here's two different ways he can
Speaker 1: help you. Number one two is not ready for the job.
Speaker 1: They lose a couple of games with the first year
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback. They could easily go right back to Stu
Speaker 1: Beard and he's a top ten fantasy quarterback, or a
Speaker 1: team like the Dallas Cowboys said, you know what, this
Speaker 1: division is right for the taken. We're not getting on
Speaker 1: at Andy Dalton, and they make a tray to go
Speaker 1: get Ryan Fitzpatrick. He would with Ryan Fitzpatrick and the
Speaker 1: weapons in Dallas, he'd go right back to be the
Speaker 1: top tend quarterback. Dallas did inquire the other day about
Speaker 1: the Lions David Block as a backup quarterback. So they're
Speaker 1: actively shopping for a backup quarterback right now, you know,
Speaker 1: and Miami is always looking for draft picks. There you go,
Speaker 1: there's your scenario, two different ways. Ryan Fitzpatrick can help
Speaker 1: you in about two weeks. Two weeks. Two a week,
Speaker 1: that's right, two a week's very nice, all right. So
Speaker 1: there's three players upon which you can speculate prematurely. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about Chicago taking on the Rams. That is the
Speaker 1: Monday night game. Uh handful of angles here. David Montgomery
Speaker 1: failed us in a far better opportunity last week against
Speaker 1: Carolina the Rams. The Rams gave up big games early
Speaker 1: in the season to Ezekiel Elliott and Miles Sanders, but
Speaker 1: since then, over the last four games, they've only allowed
Speaker 1: a single back to top sixty five rushing yards while
Speaker 1: shutting backs all together out of the end zone. Montgomery
Speaker 1: struggled mightily against the Rams last year when they played,
Speaker 1: putting up thirty one rushing yards on four team carries.
Speaker 1: So just to CE grade on David Montgomery here. As
Speaker 1: for the passing game, only a C grade on Allen Robinson,
Speaker 1: Who's great. He leads the league in targets, he's second
Speaker 1: in red zone targets. But he's gonna get Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 1: for this game, who will shadow him throughout? Ramsey is
Speaker 1: allowing two catches per game, his former teammate, by the way,
Speaker 1: he knows him well. It's a good point. And as
Speaker 1: a team, the Rams have surrendered just three wide receiver
Speaker 1: touchdowns all year. So just the C grade on Allen
Speaker 1: Robinson a rare C grade for a player that good.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham gets a C grade and it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a bye week C grade. The Rams are
Speaker 1: tied for the eighth most touchdowns allowed to opposing tight
Speaker 1: ends with with four, and linebacker Kenny Young is great
Speaker 1: at his pro football focus his second worst tight end defender,
Speaker 1: so I like that matchup. Graham's got six inches on
Speaker 1: Kenny Young, which bodes well for the touchdown dependent tight end.
Speaker 1: You're really as Jimmy Graham, You're never looking. You're never
Speaker 1: going to get eight catches for eighty yards, but you're
Speaker 1: hoping you get the touch down. It could happen here.
Speaker 1: Let's go over to the ram side, much more interesting, honestly,
Speaker 1: Starting with the running game, Darryl Henderson feels fairly safe.
Speaker 1: Cam Akers had one snap last week. That's it one.
Speaker 1: So it seems seems like Darryl Henderson has secured the
Speaker 1: lead role and only needs to worry about Malcolm Brown
Speaker 1: siphoning off and before you feel the most safe. That's
Speaker 1: when least it's it's it's the There is no safety
Speaker 1: with the Rams, but this feels like it should be.
Speaker 1: The Bears are far easier to run upon than pass
Speaker 1: and Sean McVeigh should give the running game plenty of
Speaker 1: attention here. The Bears are seeing twenty seven rushes per
Speaker 1: game and they're allowing one six total yards per game
Speaker 1: to the position. Henderson should be okay here. I've got
Speaker 1: to be great on him. Cam Akers times coming, but
Speaker 1: with only one snap last week, it would be very bizarre,
Speaker 1: but not out of the realm of possibility to see
Speaker 1: him get a meaningful number of carries here. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to uh let's go to the passing game.
Speaker 1: Jared Goffs on the bench. No opposing quarterback has thrown
Speaker 1: more than one touchdown against Chicago, and they've only given
Speaker 1: up three passing scores all year, despite the fact that
Speaker 1: they faced Tom Brady, Matt Ryan, and Matthew Stafford, who
Speaker 1: are are are competent quarterbacks. His two main receivers, Robert
Speaker 1: Woods Cooper Cup, have got difficult matchups and let's go
Speaker 1: to them right now. With just C grades for both
Speaker 1: of those guys, the Bears have allowed just one wide
Speaker 1: receiver touchdown. Woods has a difficult one on one matchup
Speaker 1: with elite cornerback Kyle Fuller. Fuller is allowing just forty
Speaker 1: percent of the balls thrown his way to be completed
Speaker 1: and a minuscule passer rating of sixty on balls thrown
Speaker 1: into his coverage. It's a tough matchup for Robert Woods.
Speaker 1: Suggest the C grade Cooper Cup will face Buster Screen
Speaker 1: in the slot, and we've had a lot of fun
Speaker 1: at Busters Screen expense over the years, but he's gonna
Speaker 1: be the story of a another jet who becomes competent
Speaker 1: as soon as he leaves New York. He was decent
Speaker 1: last year and so far this year, nobody has scored
Speaker 1: on Buster Screen and He's allowing just forty yards in
Speaker 1: his coverage. The best game any slot receivers posted against
Speaker 1: Chicago was way back in the opener when Danny Amndola
Speaker 1: had a scoreless eighty one yard game from the slot
Speaker 1: against Chicago. And I guess that's ther upside for Cooper Cup.
Speaker 1: So just the C grade there, and Tyler Higby's on
Speaker 1: the bench. Other than his Week two explosion, Higgby's average
Speaker 1: game two catches for thirty three scoreless yards total disaster.
Speaker 1: The Bears have been somewhat vulnerable to tight ends. Three
Speaker 1: of Chicago's four passing touchdowns allowed have gone to tight ends,
Speaker 1: and four tight ends have top forty four yards. Higgby
Speaker 1: is nothing but a desperation dart throw, and I don't
Speaker 1: recommend you use him. All right, let's go to our
Speaker 1: final matchup of this show. It's Seattle taking on Arizona
Speaker 1: in what figures to be a massive shootout. I believe
Speaker 1: the over under in this game is fifth the eight
Speaker 1: fifty seven. It's the highest overunder of the week. Brian, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it should be a point orgy, but really, not a
Speaker 1: ton of names to mention on both sides here. I
Speaker 1: we'll start with Seattle. Chris Carson gets an A Arizona
Speaker 1: allowing a hundred and fifty plus combo yards to opposing
Speaker 1: running backs. Carson had a hundred and forty combo yards
Speaker 1: when these teams first met last year, only saw nine
Speaker 1: touches in the second meeting did total sixty yards. So
Speaker 1: he does have a good, uh you know, yards per
Speaker 1: touch history against Arizona and that should continue here. He
Speaker 1: gets an A, as does DK Metcalf, who if you're
Speaker 1: doing a dynasty startup right now, is if the number
Speaker 1: the number one receiver, probably first, first player, who knows,
Speaker 1: But anyway, metcalfe gonna give him an A. He has
Speaker 1: topped ninety yards and scored at least once in four
Speaker 1: of five games. He did fail to score in one game,
Speaker 1: still had four catches for a hundred and six yards.
Speaker 1: That might have been the game he was leon leaded
Speaker 1: to just an unreal start online game for DK. Metcalf
Speaker 1: is also second among receivers and end zone targets. Arizona
Speaker 1: has allowed four wide receiver touchdowns over their last four games.
Speaker 1: That adds up nicely, and during that same four game span,
Speaker 1: opposing wide receivers are averaging a hardy eight teen catches
Speaker 1: and two twenty eight yards as a whole, so that
Speaker 1: certainly puts Tyler Lockett in play with a solid be
Speaker 1: Lockett has been quiet over the last two games totally,
Speaker 1: just six catches for eighty three scoreless yards, and it's
Speaker 1: worth noting lock It only had five catches for sixty
Speaker 1: three scoreless yards across the two meetings with Arizona last season,
Speaker 1: but he was dinged up last year that Seahawks offense
Speaker 1: was not clicking as it is right now, and this
Speaker 1: is a great matchup, So a safe B for lock
Speaker 1: It and of course an A for Russell Wilson. Sure
Speaker 1: no opposing quarterback has thrown for more than two touchdowns
Speaker 1: or hit three passing yards against Arizona. That's understandable when
Speaker 1: the opposition has been Jimmy Garoppolo, Dwayne Haskins, Matt Stafford,
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater, Joe Flacco and Andy Dallen. Jimmy G. Stafford
Speaker 1: and Teddy the truly competent quarterbacks in that list all
Speaker 1: had at least two sixty passing yards and two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: So that's easily a safe floor for Russell Wilson. Even
Speaker 1: though I was shocked to see this. Over his last
Speaker 1: four games against Arizona, here are Russell Wilson's passing totals UH.
Speaker 1: Touchdown passing totals one, one, one zero. He'll probably have
Speaker 1: more than all of those. Fine in this game. You
Speaker 1: should hopefully at least have three over to the Arizona side.
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake showing signs of life. Only a C for
Speaker 1: him in this one. Though opponents are running the ball
Speaker 1: thirty five percent of the time against Seattle. That's it.
Speaker 1: It's just too easy to pass. They're funneling the opposition
Speaker 1: to the pass. Seahawks allowing the fourth fewest rushing attempts
Speaker 1: the third fewest rushing yards per game to opposing running back.
Speaker 1: So they did lose Jadeveon Clowney, which bodes well for
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake. But I'm not thoroughly convinced Drake is out
Speaker 1: of the woods. So just to see for him, uh,
Speaker 1: not a C for DeAndre Hopkins. He gets the fantasy
Speaker 1: found zd A. Hopkins is one of just five wide
Speaker 1: receivers to see at least of his team's targets in
Speaker 1: every game. Seattle is allowing more than twenty one catches,
Speaker 1: two yards and one whole touchdown per game to opposing
Speaker 1: wide receivers. Stop at twenty one catches per game allowed
Speaker 1: to the wide receiver position yards. It's staggering, how bad
Speaker 1: the Saints who would give up eight eight? Right? Calvin Ridley,
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson, Adam Feeling each scored twice against Seattle, and
Speaker 1: if one wide out is going to accomplish that feat
Speaker 1: for Arizona, it's probably going to be Hopkins, but it
Speaker 1: could be Christian Kirk. Yes, the last week, you know
Speaker 1: what was one of them technically a receiving to but
Speaker 1: I think that still might have been called the forward
Speaker 1: pass anyway. B for Kirk hasn't scored and has failed
Speaker 1: to top four catches or forty yards in each of
Speaker 1: his three games against the Seahawks during his career, but
Speaker 1: again care that see the Seattle defenses on a downtrodden
Speaker 1: as ever, Arizona's offense is on another level. Right now.
Speaker 1: Kirk has scored at least once indoor top top seventy
Speaker 1: five yards in three straight games. So B for Kirk,
Speaker 1: I'm tempted to start Larry Fitzgerald and what will be
Speaker 1: his thirty four game against San Francisco forty Niners, not
Speaker 1: the night of Seattle Seahawks. I'm sorry the Seahawks, right uh.
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald though, and Andy Isabelle, I gotta put him on
Speaker 1: the bench here. Kyler Murray, though, lastly, he gets in
Speaker 1: a Seattle allowing an astounding three and seventy seven passing
Speaker 1: yards per game, by far the worst in the league.
Speaker 1: Four or five posing quarterbacks have scored multiple touchdowns against Seattle,
Speaker 1: who have also allowed three quarterback rushing touchdowns. And Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray kind of good at being a rushing quarterback. He's
Speaker 1: really good at being a rushing quarterback. One of the
Speaker 1: only one running back has more rushing touchdowns than Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray does. Chase Claypool. Just Claypool's like running back thirty
Speaker 1: season right now rushing. Actually, I resend my prem at
Speaker 1: your speculation. Get Chase Claypool the next running back on
Speaker 1: the area. You mentioned DK Metcalf, And you know, if
Speaker 1: you were draft if you were drafting right now and
Speaker 1: a brand new league at this moment, DK Metcalf would
Speaker 1: be the would probably the first receiver off the board. Well,
Speaker 1: in Guillotine League, He's going as wide receiver three right now,
Speaker 1: after Hopkins and Adams, but this is redraft. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Metcalf even led, He's right. I think he would be
Speaker 1: my number one because his bye week is gone, and
Speaker 1: bye weeks are so pivotal with Guillotine league's good point.
Speaker 1: And then in dynasty first overall player taken to me
Speaker 1: would be DK Metcalf. If I were starting a brand
Speaker 1: new dynasty league, it's super flex though, it's a quarterback.
Speaker 1: If it's super flex, it's a quarterback. If it's probably yes,
Speaker 1: it's a quarterback suplex. The reason is for running backs
Speaker 1: come and go right, your dynasty league gotta live with
Speaker 1: your dynasty league team for decades. Potentially, running backs come
Speaker 1: and go. Great receivers stay good when they're married to
Speaker 1: good quarter acts, they stay good for a decade. And
Speaker 1: that's what D K mccaffe is looking at. I think
Speaker 1: you'd be the first player I would take in a
Speaker 1: redraft league, Um, Matt, Yeah. On Thursday, Devanta semen As
Speaker 1: we now like to go whoa, whoa because of his
Speaker 1: many C grades. Oh yeah, he forgot you C grades
Speaker 1: too good for him. He had a he had a
Speaker 1: was an eight yard game. I think it was eight yards.
Speaker 1: Three carries for eight yards. He did get nicked up
Speaker 1: in this game, and that's part of it. Okay, So
Speaker 1: are we sabotage dropping Devanta Semen. I don't like that.
Speaker 1: You don't say c Man Semen because he's Freeman. He's
Speaker 1: not Freeman, he's DeVante Freeman. Okay. Um I did give
Speaker 1: him a a C grade on the Thursday night preview
Speaker 1: on the Shock Fantasy podcast. They do at FFW style. Well,
Speaker 1: he would have got it. He would have got that
Speaker 1: short touchdown plunge. Yeah, that's true. Um. The the thing
Speaker 1: with him is he's had nineteen touches in each of
Speaker 1: the prior to games, and if he's healthy, that kind
Speaker 1: of workload is something that you can't quite drop because
Speaker 1: nineteen touches is really a lot, and even behind a
Speaker 1: bad line, he's not quite droppable. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: a sabotage either, because I don't know how many people
Speaker 1: are clamoring to go pick him up. But you're looking
Speaker 1: at sixty yards and a chance of a score in
Speaker 1: any game, So it's not a guy that you want
Speaker 1: to start. But if you get really desperate, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be DeVante demon. I think the rest of the year demon.
Speaker 1: Uh Brian Carson Wentz on Thursday Night put up another
Speaker 1: really in a series almost every week, Carson Wentz, despite
Speaker 1: all the problems around him offensive line and shambles wide
Speaker 1: receivers going in and out of the line of constantly
Speaker 1: heard a bunch of no name receiving no end tight ends. Somehow,
Speaker 1: he just keeps cobbling together fantasy relevant games. What are
Speaker 1: your prospects for Carson Wentz going forward? Yeah, he turned
Speaker 1: Richard Rodgers Dick rod Back into a star for f sake.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Wentz, like you said, nothing to work with.
Speaker 1: But you know what, Zach Ertz probably gonna come back,
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard is gonna come back to Sean Jackson, probably
Speaker 1: not gonna go back, Jalen reagor no, he's coming back
Speaker 1: in mid November. Eagles really should have drafted Justin Jefferson Reager.
Speaker 1: But anyway, that that's in the past. But uh, I
Speaker 1: am buying into wins. He looks great with uh he
Speaker 1: looks pretty good with nothing to work with around him,
Speaker 1: and that the schedule is just so cake moving forward.
Speaker 1: He's he's there in the NFC East, the Giants again,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, the Browns on Tap, the Seahawks who we
Speaker 1: just mentioned. These are all the next four weeks. These
Speaker 1: are like A plus matchups. I can give a matchup
Speaker 1: at plus, can't I it's not a player, yes, not
Speaker 1: a plus matchup. So I am buying into Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that probably should you know, you stir
Speaker 1: up some top twelve quarterbacks on a weekly basis. In
Speaker 1: terms of starting him over, I don't know. He's probably
Speaker 1: Mark Jackson one week, maybe probably not Lamar Jackson, but well,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm getting at. And he's in the
Speaker 1: same spot right now where he was last year, where
Speaker 1: he basically willed the Eagles into a playoff spot by
Speaker 1: just throwing the ball. He threw like unconscious last year
Speaker 1: over forty passing attempts in each of his last seven games.
Speaker 1: He's had over forty passing attempts in five of seven
Speaker 1: games this year, and prior to Week eleven last year
Speaker 1: he had too starts with forty passing attempts. He throws
Speaker 1: all the time, and by the way, five rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: that in his last six games. Carson Wentz because he's
Speaker 1: he's a mobile guy too. Now you got you gotta
Speaker 1: plug your nose in some of the bad Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: plays because they're they're handful of plays every game where
Speaker 1: he looks brutal, you know a little he the will
Speaker 1: to win is obvious and he is finding ways to
Speaker 1: get meaningful box scores for his fantasy owners. Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: way underrated and that that guy wants to win and
Speaker 1: I love it. Uh, great job today, guys. Than appreciate that.
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