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Speaker 1: don't know? Okay. Over the course of today, we're gonna
Speaker 1: break down every game fantasy style like we like to do.
Speaker 1: You get letter grades on all your fantasy players, and
Speaker 1: we'll explain the rationale behind each letter grades. You can
Speaker 1: decide if we're right or for wrong and make your
Speaker 1: own decisions. We will also answer three tough questions. We'll
Speaker 1: give you nine players upon whom you can take a chance,
Speaker 1: and we will jump into our time machine and identify
Speaker 1: the players. Everybody will be looking to pick up off
Speaker 1: the waiver wire next week, but they will already be
Speaker 1: on your squad. Pamo, I can't find my time machine
Speaker 1: sound bite. Where did there we go? Yes, that must
Speaker 1: have happened last week when I was gone. Yes that
Speaker 1: we invented a time machine. We have we upgraded from
Speaker 1: the flamm Do that super sophisticated sound right there? We've
Speaker 1: done nothing good with that time machine yet, that's probably true. Um,
Speaker 1: let's jump right into the matchups, beginning with Arizona taking
Speaker 1: on New Orleans Chase Edmonds coming up the Big three
Speaker 1: touchdown game. We don't believe David Johnson's going to go,
Speaker 1: but this is a much much tougher matchup for Chase
Speaker 1: Edmonds this week, Matt. Yeah, when your team signs Alfred
Speaker 1: Morris and Zack Center in the same day, it spells
Speaker 1: trouble for your running back depth. So it looks like
Speaker 1: David Johnson's probably going to be out at least this week,
Speaker 1: if not for a while. Um. After DJ hit the bench,
Speaker 1: uh after only three plays last week with knee, ankle,
Speaker 1: and back injuries. Chase tote of the rack twenty seven
Speaker 1: times for one six and three scores. He gets a
Speaker 1: B grade. David Johnson's a bench grade even if he
Speaker 1: does shape up to go in this one. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: it could be it could be exactly what we saw
Speaker 1: last week. Um No running back is top to eighty
Speaker 1: three yards against the ground against on the ground against
Speaker 1: the Saints this year. They've only allowed three total touchdowns
Speaker 1: to the position on the season. But yeah, so why
Speaker 1: even the B grade running back has had at least
Speaker 1: five receptions against the Saints and four of their last
Speaker 1: five games and a PPR. He's a solid B and
Speaker 1: he's gonna get all the work in this game, so
Speaker 1: I'm giving him a B. Larry Fitzgerald he gets a
Speaker 1: B and Christian Kirk gets to see if his ankle
Speaker 1: is healthy. But those are the only wide receivers we want.
Speaker 1: Regular slot corner P J. Williams will miss a few
Speaker 1: weeks due to suspension, meaning Chauncey Gardner Johnson will man
Speaker 1: the slot. Gardner Johnson spent most of his first start
Speaker 1: manning up against Tarik Cohen last week and allowed nine
Speaker 1: catches and to score. And there's a major difference between
Speaker 1: ring the five six Tarik Cohen in the sixth three
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald, uh Saints top corner Marshawn Lattimore won't go
Speaker 1: into the slot. He stayed outside for of his snaps
Speaker 1: this season. So he's gonna be wasted this entire game
Speaker 1: on like Keishawn Johnson and Andy Isabella on the outside.
Speaker 1: So I like Kirk even if he goes so Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray gets a C grade. He's had at least ten
Speaker 1: rushing attempts in three straight weeks. Yeah, that part of it.
Speaker 1: We do love that he scored twice on the ground
Speaker 1: in the last four. The problem is the Saints are
Speaker 1: top five and quarterback sacks and hits, and the Cards
Speaker 1: have allowed Murray to be sacked twenty three times this season.
Speaker 1: That's not good for a fleet of foot quarterback either. Um. Still,
Speaker 1: there's opportunity for Kyle arbage time here if he rack
Speaker 1: up racks up some fourth quarter points. Let's go over
Speaker 1: to the Saints side where Alvin Kamara is shaping up
Speaker 1: to a game time decision. Now he practiced on Friday.
Speaker 1: That's a good thing. Um, I'm giving him a C
Speaker 1: grade and giving Litavius a B grade. If Camara send
Speaker 1: us see if Kamara plays well? Wait, yeah, yeah, that
Speaker 1: makes sense. Latavius if he's alone, gets the B. Why
Speaker 1: wouldn't he be an At that point? Arizona's run defense
Speaker 1: not good. Um, they're okay that the matchup is positive.
Speaker 1: Similar dual threat backs to Camaraw like McCaffrey and Carson
Speaker 1: each top two hundred and forty total yards in the
Speaker 1: last month, but Latavius isn't really a dual threat kind
Speaker 1: of a guy. He did see of the plays and
Speaker 1: last week's win against Chicago, and if he can take
Speaker 1: thirty two touches and turn him into a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty total yards, that's fine. Uh. He might get to
Speaker 1: do that in this game because they're not going to
Speaker 1: need to pass the ball a lot. Speaking of passing
Speaker 1: the ball, we don't know if it's going to be
Speaker 1: Drew Brees or Teddy Bridgewater. Yeah. They I don't like that.
Speaker 1: They're being evasive about it like they I guess it's
Speaker 1: all strategic, right make the Cardinals, so plan for both guys.
Speaker 1: If you got one or the other, UM, it's better
Speaker 1: to have both really on your roster because we're gonna
Speaker 1: know ninety minutes before game time who's starting. UM. Either way,
Speaker 1: either quarterback gets a b Uh. He might Breeze might
Speaker 1: come back from the thumb injury. But the Saints have
Speaker 1: a bye week next week, so it seems like they
Speaker 1: should rest him against the Cardinals at home and let
Speaker 1: him come back against Atlanta in Week nine. The Cards
Speaker 1: have allowed to touch passing touchdown every game and multiple
Speaker 1: scores in five of seven, and an average of two
Speaker 1: and eighty five passing yards, which makes Michael Thomas an
Speaker 1: easy a eight or more receptions in four straight games.
Speaker 1: And the only other guy Josh Hill. I'm giving him
Speaker 1: kind of a secret. You A cook looks like he's
Speaker 1: gonna be out. He'll had three for forty three in
Speaker 1: a score and the Cards have allowed eight touchdowns to
Speaker 1: the tight end the season. That's the most in the
Speaker 1: league by a ton. Uh. I bared cooks out, He'll
Speaker 1: becomes a great dart throw fanball. It's still gross. Ted
Speaker 1: Gains kind of in play too, But I'll talk about
Speaker 1: him later, all right, we'll learn more about that if
Speaker 1: if Breeze does come back, or when he comes back.
Speaker 1: You know, Michael Thomas has been perfectly usable, but what
Speaker 1: Breeze doesn't He opens up the deep part of the
Speaker 1: field that that Teddy doesn't generally get to, and I
Speaker 1: think we can get more deep passing out of Thomas. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: Teddy fed Thomas so much it hasn't really mattered. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're the Saints with the bye week looming, I'm
Speaker 1: only putting Breeze out there if he's literally one six
Speaker 1: and one at home against the Cardinals. Yeah, if you don't,
Speaker 1: you don't need Breese to win, so you know you
Speaker 1: wouldn't risk it whatsoever. I don't think, uh, Scott, let's
Speaker 1: go to Philly taking on Buffalo. Philadelphia is in a
Speaker 1: dire spot and with a much they really need to
Speaker 1: win here, but Buffalo's past defense is awesome. Tell me
Speaker 1: about how you feel about Carson Wentz in the passing
Speaker 1: game for the Eagles in this one. I don't feel good, Bob.
Speaker 1: Don't feel good about not great, Bob. I don't think
Speaker 1: so Tim, not great, Bob. I don't feel good about
Speaker 1: really any of them. I have Wents on the bench.
Speaker 1: The Bills have only allowed four passing touchdowns this and
Speaker 1: just one quarterback over two hundred fifty yards. Conversely, Wentz
Speaker 1: is surprisingly thrown for under two sixty in five of
Speaker 1: his seven like, he's not throwing for a lot of yards.
Speaker 1: He does have some multiple touchdown games, but this is
Speaker 1: not a good matchup here. So I have Eggler on
Speaker 1: the bench. He's gonna see tarn Johnson in the slot.
Speaker 1: Who is the world you know, the easiest path of
Speaker 1: resistance or like. It's a good matchup for him, but
Speaker 1: he can't be trusted to reel and passes, so I
Speaker 1: can't start him. He's on the bench. Aushan Jeffrey, he's uh.
Speaker 1: I gave him a C grade even even in this
Speaker 1: I think he might be the only startable, just barely
Speaker 1: startable wide receiver. Uh. Jeffrey tends to move around, so
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna be able to avoid Gradavious White, who
Speaker 1: stays glued to the to the left side of the
Speaker 1: field the time to the left, so Jeffrey will move around.
Speaker 1: He plays forty seven percent from one side, forty two
Speaker 1: from the other, like nine from the slot. He's all over,
Speaker 1: so that that might open Jeffrey up just enough to
Speaker 1: give him a C grade. Hurts, I'm given a B grade.
Speaker 1: The Bills haven't really faced the murderer's row against ted
Speaker 1: Ends on their way to being the second best team
Speaker 1: against ted Ends. It's been a lot of They've only
Speaker 1: allowed seventeen receptions, but it's a lot of bad tight ends. Uh.
Speaker 1: The good news is Evan Ingram was one of those.
Speaker 1: They not bad tight end and he caught six balls,
Speaker 1: so there's hope for for. It's for he's getting double
Speaker 1: digit targets. So b grade on Earth's Goddard's on the bench.
Speaker 1: Howard and Sanders also on the bench. Only two running
Speaker 1: backs of top seventy yards against the Bills this year
Speaker 1: and it took twenty touches for each of them, and
Speaker 1: one of them was named Sae Kwon Barkley, So I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure Jordan Howard isn't Kwan Barkley. No, I will
Speaker 1: say the Bills since Sean McDermott got there, they have
Speaker 1: now allowed thirty eight or thirty nine touchdowns in his
Speaker 1: thirty eight games with them or whatever Russian touchdowns. So
Speaker 1: maybe Howard gets score, maybe, but I'm still having him
Speaker 1: on the bench. On the Bill side, Josh Allen's gonna
Speaker 1: get a lot of a grades nowadays. This month is
Speaker 1: going to be good for for Josh Allen. Um. He
Speaker 1: struggled a little bit against Miami, who randomly showed up
Speaker 1: for the first half of that game, but he's always
Speaker 1: a threat with his legs. Rogers and Dacked attacked on
Speaker 1: decent fantasy points against Philly with their league legs, and
Speaker 1: four of the five quarterbacks not named Luke Fox racked
Speaker 1: up multiple touchdowns on Philly, So I think this is
Speaker 1: a good multiple touchdown game with some some rushing for
Speaker 1: Allen a grade, there be grade for his main guy Brown,
Speaker 1: John Brown does like John Brown in this one. He
Speaker 1: does what Phillies d just can't stop. He gets deep.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen to this list of thirty plus yard
Speaker 1: receptions thirty you know, thirty plus yard plays against the Eagles. McLaurin,
Speaker 1: Julio Julio twice, Ridley Adams, Allison Digs twice, Cooper like
Speaker 1: they all had thirty plus yard receptions on and that's
Speaker 1: just one play. So John Brown's gonna get deep. He's
Speaker 1: the only trustable asset leading in targets, receptions, yards, and
Speaker 1: touchdowns with two, but have a touchdowns. The rest of
Speaker 1: the wide receivers are too hard to protect their on
Speaker 1: the bench. Gore is on the bench as well, because
Speaker 1: the Eagles rundy is surprisingly no joke. It's it makes
Speaker 1: up for the past two doesn't It's good barely allowing
Speaker 1: over three point three yards per carry. So that the
Speaker 1: running backs are on the bench agreed the Chargers taking
Speaker 1: on Chicago, and it's a wreck for this Chargers team
Speaker 1: with injury. Unfortunately, starting guard Forest lamp just went on
Speaker 1: I art now they're gonna and I love lamp, we
Speaker 1: love lamp Um and Russell Okung is gonna come back
Speaker 1: for part of this game, but they don't think he's
Speaker 1: ready to play a full game. And it's I've I've
Speaker 1: really pushed all of my all of my Chargers down
Speaker 1: in my grading fairly significantly in this one. The best
Speaker 1: player you could start though, Hunter Henry and his two
Speaker 1: games back from injury, He's turned into a top target
Speaker 1: for Rivers with seventeen targets of the two games, a
Speaker 1: ninety seven yard game and a one hundred yard game
Speaker 1: for Hunter Henry, rewarding those fantasy owners that stuck with
Speaker 1: him for all those games that he missed. The Bears
Speaker 1: are allowing fifty eight yards per game to tight end,
Speaker 1: but no individual tight end is top to even forty
Speaker 1: six yards and only two have scored. So just a
Speaker 1: B grade for Hunter Henry and it only really gets
Speaker 1: worse from there. I got Philip Rivers on the bench. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know he didn't um keenan Allen, but let me.
Speaker 1: Let me start with Keenan Allen. Why I don't like
Speaker 1: Allen and that will make more sense for Rivers maybe.
Speaker 1: So Keenan Allen didn't practice all week with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look like he's gonna go, although he's a
Speaker 1: game time decision here. Um Allen hasn't exceeded five receptions
Speaker 1: or scored in the last four games, so it's been
Speaker 1: a disaster for Keenan Allen. The only positive for Keenan Allen,
Speaker 1: even if he does go, is that he works the
Speaker 1: slot that gives him Buster Screen, who is probably the
Speaker 1: worst player in the entire Bears defense. I know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know either. Uh. Screen is at
Speaker 1: least allowed at least five catches in half of his games.
Speaker 1: He's given up two scores in his last four games.
Speaker 1: So there's your angle on Keenan Allen. But with the
Speaker 1: hamstring injury, any played could be his last. So I
Speaker 1: you've got a bench great on him. And if I
Speaker 1: don't like Allen and the only receiver of the starting
Speaker 1: greatest Hunter Henry, I've got to put Philip Rivers on
Speaker 1: the bench. Offensive line is a huge concern the the
Speaker 1: forest lamp part of it as well, But then of
Speaker 1: course the Chicago pass rush makes it so hard. Chicago
Speaker 1: ranks is the number two pass rush by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: The Chargers have the twenty seven ranked pass block unit.
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers is just going to be under siege in
Speaker 1: this game, and that's why I can't put a starting
Speaker 1: grade on him, nor Mike Williams, who has zero touchdowns
Speaker 1: this year, and he's a totally touchdown dependent player. And
Speaker 1: it's a bill secondary that's given up just three sorry
Speaker 1: Bears secondary that's given up just three scores to opposing receivers.
Speaker 1: So Mike Williams also on the bench. The one guy
Speaker 1: who might get help by all the dump offs and
Speaker 1: the quick plays from Philip Rivers is Austin Ekeler. He's
Speaker 1: got the most targets, receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns
Speaker 1: among all running backs. That should continue against a Bears
Speaker 1: team that's given up the fourth most receptions and the
Speaker 1: fifth most receiving yards per game to running back. So
Speaker 1: I do have a C grade in Austin Ekeler. He
Speaker 1: probably won't get any goal line work if there is
Speaker 1: goal line work to be had, although why would you
Speaker 1: necessarily give Melvin Gordon the ball to goal line again
Speaker 1: after what happened last week. Is Melvin Gordon on the
Speaker 1: Chargers next week? I would say, se chance he's a charter. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's just where that's my that's my finger in the wind.
Speaker 1: But maybe he's a lion at this time next week.
Speaker 1: It's not impossible. Gordon. Um. The Bears are really felt
Speaker 1: the loss of defensive tackle a Keem Hicks. In the
Speaker 1: past two games without him, they've been obliterated by Josh
Speaker 1: Jacobs and Lottavius Murray, which you know we never saw
Speaker 1: it coming, and especially in Chicago last week, Lottavius Murray
Speaker 1: rolled him. I know I had him as a start
Speaker 1: last week. Nice job. Melvin Gordon gets a C grade
Speaker 1: here only because a Kee Hicks is out. Let's flip
Speaker 1: over to the Chicago side. You only want to start
Speaker 1: two guys, and one of them is pretty wobbly. Allen
Speaker 1: Robinson just gets all of the targets here. Half of
Speaker 1: Chicago's wide receiver targets go to Alan Robinson. Half. He
Speaker 1: just beat Saints corner Marshawn Latimer and he's got another
Speaker 1: tough matchup. He's gonna get shadow corner Casey Hayward in
Speaker 1: this one. But if you can beat march On Latimer
Speaker 1: for a good game, I guess you could do it
Speaker 1: to Hayward as well. Chargers have surrendered touchdowns to comparable
Speaker 1: receivers like Kenny Golladay and DeVante Parker and Courtland Sutton
Speaker 1: and Corey Davis. Corey Davis worked Hayward last week, so
Speaker 1: maybe there's a little something we can get done with
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson with a B grade. And then the trickiest
Speaker 1: grade that I had to give all week is this one.
Speaker 1: David Montgomery. I'm giving him a C. We had a
Speaker 1: two carry game last week, so I know it's going
Speaker 1: to be hard to put him in your starting lineup.
Speaker 1: But Matt Nage is under the gun to get a
Speaker 1: running game going. Everybody knows he's got to do it.
Speaker 1: The Bears have to develop the running game, and Montgomery
Speaker 1: is the is their main ball carrier. Of as much
Speaker 1: as you can call eleven carries and two carries the
Speaker 1: past two weeks, the main one and the best way
Speaker 1: to beat the Chargers is on the ground. They're a
Speaker 1: much worse run defense, giving up four point eight yards
Speaker 1: per carry. This is a run defense. You can beat
Speaker 1: David Montgomery. Well, one last starting grade is on the bench.
Speaker 1: He gives you nothing on the ground. He frequently helps
Speaker 1: on the air, and the charge of only allowed one
Speaker 1: notable passing game to a runner, James Conner. Otherwise they've
Speaker 1: shut down a bunch of other receiving backs and the
Speaker 1: entire rest of the Bears passing game is on the bench.
Speaker 1: Because you know who's that quarterback? We are in deep
Speaker 1: sad trombone Ski territory. Can I run a different nickname
Speaker 1: by you? Yeah, Mitch trash Binski. That's pretty good. That's
Speaker 1: pretty good. But you know, I'm heavily invested Sad Trombone,
Speaker 1: so I'm probably not going to adopt it. But it
Speaker 1: is good. There's not a sounder for Mitch trash bin Spinsky,
Speaker 1: not you really, there isn't an audio cute can really
Speaker 1: give for that, I'm afraid, but yeah, we'll leave it
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Speaker 1: the quarterback position. Matt, who is you gonna take a
Speaker 1: chance on me? Quarterback? I've got Mason Rudolph who returns
Speaker 1: from his scary concussion to something he was used to
Speaker 1: seeing in the preseason, a third string NFL defense. That's
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins and rule number one of take a
Speaker 1: chance on me is used the quarterback playing the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins and the running back and the wide receiver and
Speaker 1: the tight end. Yeah, they're pretty much, uh, pretty much bad.
Speaker 1: They've allowed two point seven passing scores per game and
Speaker 1: have only one interception through six. Rudolph has thrown multiple
Speaker 1: touchdowns in three or four games this season. I like
Speaker 1: him a lot, all right, So I'm gonna change mid
Speaker 1: stream I was gonna do. I was gonna do. A
Speaker 1: man that is nowt all time in NFL passing and
Speaker 1: just tied Bo Jackson for career rushing touchdowns, Ryan Fitzpatrick Jackson.
Speaker 1: I love it, but I'm switching on the fly here
Speaker 1: to Ryan Tannehill, who faces a Bucks team that have
Speaker 1: allowed multiple touchdowns to quarterbacks in four straight They're back
Speaker 1: to who they were last year, and since Week one,
Speaker 1: they're allowing three fifty yards passing per game to opposing
Speaker 1: quarter Switched Ryan Tannehill. Fitzpatrick's going to do better than
Speaker 1: Tannehill every very possible. The last minute Sunday morning switch
Speaker 1: never works. We'll see if this. I've got Ryan Tannehill
Speaker 1: quarterback Eleven Fitzpatrick's a Monday night Hammer. I suppose there's that,
Speaker 1: and he can also be benched at half. So you
Speaker 1: know who's to say my quarterback is Derek Carr going
Speaker 1: up against Houston through injury and age, the Houston secondary
Speaker 1: regressing into one of the league's very worst. Aside from
Speaker 1: games against Green quarterbacks Kyle Allen and Gardner Minshew, the
Speaker 1: Texans are allowing three hundred twenty three passing yards and
Speaker 1: two point eight passing touchdowns per game. I would take
Speaker 1: that from Derek Carr now, but you might be saying, oh,
Speaker 1: but it's Derek Carr. I don't want Derek Carr. Well,
Speaker 1: how about this. He's throwing multiple touchdowns and three of
Speaker 1: us past four games, only the Bears, in their elite
Speaker 1: defense has stopped him from throwing multiple touchdowns. He gets
Speaker 1: the gazelle back Tyroll Williams coming back, and he almost
Speaker 1: scored a rushing touchdown last week. That's right, he did
Speaker 1: fullbow it through the end zone. Hasson, he has no back.
Speaker 1: He is a long way off of Bo Jackson. Let's
Speaker 1: go to our take a chance of me running backs.
Speaker 1: I've got J D. Mckissic of the Lions against the
Speaker 1: Giants last week, rookie Ty Johnson led mckissic in touches
Speaker 1: fourteen to seven, but mckissic was the more dynamic back.
Speaker 1: He gained almost the same amount of yards, in fact,
Speaker 1: a little bit more on half the touches. That what
Speaker 1: then what Ty Johnson did, And if Johnson fails to
Speaker 1: get it going early, I could see this turning into
Speaker 1: a complete time share. The Giants have have had a
Speaker 1: major weakness against pass catching backs as well, allowing almost
Speaker 1: ten yards per reception to opposing backs over the last
Speaker 1: five games. This includes a nine catch effort for James
Speaker 1: White and six catches for eighty six from Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 1: Mckissic is averaging over ten yards per catch, including two
Speaker 1: for thirty one last week. I think he's going to
Speaker 1: be in playing PPR leagues. All right, Scott, your take
Speaker 1: a chance of me running back. I'm gonna make it. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not no, I'm not not on this one. D No,
Speaker 1: Darryl Henderson. Every running back to log over ten touches
Speaker 1: against the Bengals has topped eighty yards. And that's not
Speaker 1: a small it's not a small number. Ten different backs
Speaker 1: in seven weeks have done ten different backs, So you
Speaker 1: get over ten touches eleven or more. Darryl Henderson has
Speaker 1: never had a ten touch game. No, he hasn't, but
Speaker 1: but he looked, so he's due. But Malcolm Brown is
Speaker 1: out for this one. And the Bengals have also allowed
Speaker 1: ten running back touchdowns in seven games. Uh, this is
Speaker 1: a game script where they're twelve and a half point favorites.
Speaker 1: Might be running it down later and it might be
Speaker 1: with Darryl Henderson. Give me him there. Also, the Bengals
Speaker 1: are bottom five and basically every running back category, right,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. If Malcolm Brahm's out, Darryll Henderson's officially
Speaker 1: officially out, all right, perfect, then I'm I'm with you
Speaker 1: on this. Duke Johnson is the one b in the
Speaker 1: Houston running attack. I like him here against the Raiders.
Speaker 1: They just allowed the Packers backs to catch ten balls
Speaker 1: for a hundred two yards and two touchdowns through the air.
Speaker 1: They've also allowed solid games to change of pace specialists
Speaker 1: in the past, like Nike Himes Tarik Cohen. So I
Speaker 1: like Duke Johnson in a in a game in which
Speaker 1: he will catch plenty of passes, and I think he'll
Speaker 1: he'll add in a few extra rushing yards as well.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the receiver position. Usually that's wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it means touch tight ends. Matt who you got
Speaker 1: as you take a chance to me receiver? This week
Speaker 1: got DK Metcalf, who quietly has led the Seahawks and
Speaker 1: targets over the last two weeks. The loss of tight
Speaker 1: end Will Disley might have added to this, as Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson's looking for a big bodied guy and hey, there's
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf. Metcalf should match up with corner Isaiah Oliver,
Speaker 1: who's rocking a one thirty point four quarterback rating in
Speaker 1: his coverage, which is good for fifth worst in the league.
Speaker 1: The Falcons are bottom five in the league in receptions,
Speaker 1: yards and touchdowns allowed to the wide receiver position. Alright, Scott,
Speaker 1: your take a chance to me receiver is I'm going
Speaker 1: Dashawn Hamilton's for the Denver Broncos. With with Emmanuel Sanders gone,
Speaker 1: that frees up a little over six extra targets per game.
Speaker 1: It was basically just Sutton and Sanders getting all the targets.
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to know a fan who keeps dropping
Speaker 1: the ball. Uh DeShawn Hamilton's in the slot if he
Speaker 1: adds those five six targets to the two three. He
Speaker 1: was already three. He was already getting He could be
Speaker 1: a seven and seven to ten target guy against an
Speaker 1: Indiana Indianapolis fence who has allowed the fourth most passing
Speaker 1: yards from th weeks five through seven to the last
Speaker 1: three weeks to that. I read Noah Fanse cut his
Speaker 1: own foot while cutting his tape off on Friday and
Speaker 1: wasn't able to practice. Really, yeah, I hadn't heard that
Speaker 1: one of the worst injuries in the history of the NFL.
Speaker 1: The kicker for the Jags was that the Jags or
Speaker 1: the Panthers it was. It was definitely the Jack del
Speaker 1: rio Ja that was that was bad with the ax.
Speaker 1: This is similar and that it was a coach induced injury. Dang,
Speaker 1: it's just gonna kill me it. This is early nineties
Speaker 1: late and you know, maybe mid nineties. Um back in
Speaker 1: uh there was a Dallas Cowboy receiver who was who
Speaker 1: played opposite Michael Irvin um and he was just this
Speaker 1: field Harper Bruce Bruce Um something Blanche. He went to
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay and at one point he had his fingers
Speaker 1: taped together and he went to the sidelines and they
Speaker 1: were trying to untape his fingers, and instead they sliced
Speaker 1: his finger off the sidelines instead of slicing the tape off. Bruce, Bruce,
Speaker 1: somebody's listening to knowing. I know I can't. I can't.
Speaker 1: I don't have a computer in front of me. Will
Speaker 1: going to come up with it? Not Bruce Willis. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty we'd know, brute almighty, dang it, it's gonna bug me.
Speaker 1: I take a chance of me. Wide receivers Deonte Johnson.
Speaker 1: This is another in these series of pick on the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: But let's remember Dante Johnson was trending very well before
Speaker 1: the whole Duck Hodges thing happened. When it was just
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph. He had put together solid games with rut
Speaker 1: nicely done. There's Duck Hodges. Pro Football Focus ranks the
Speaker 1: Dolphins dead last and pass coverage and second to last
Speaker 1: and pass rush. They allowed the most passing touchdowns two
Speaker 1: point seven per game, the six highest completion percentage, and
Speaker 1: they've allowed the most touchdowns of wide receivers. We will
Speaker 1: take the touchdown play with Deonte Johnson not bad um out.
Speaker 1: Let's go to our next matchup, Cincinnati taking on the
Speaker 1: l A Rams Joe Mixon with his zero point to
Speaker 1: yards per carry last week. Matt, you know, before we
Speaker 1: get started on this, this is a London game, and
Speaker 1: usually we bring in our London correspondent, Colin mccockney. Colin mccockney, yes, where.
Speaker 1: We don't know where he is. He's missing in action.
Speaker 1: There's been a ransom letter sent to us. We they're
Speaker 1: demanding ten thousand followers for explosive output for him to
Speaker 1: come back on Twitter. So, I don't know, specific, very
Speaker 1: specific and unusual demand. They cut that out of the
Speaker 1: magazine and then yeah, you know, so I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: my best Colin mccockney impression this week. Not really, Um,
Speaker 1: all right, Cincinnati's at the Rams in in Old Blighty. Uh.
Speaker 1: Mixon has done sweet Fanny Adams over the last a
Speaker 1: few weeks. Had eighteen rushing attempts for twelve yards in
Speaker 1: the last two games. Let's average that out to nine
Speaker 1: times per games for six yards. That's bad. Uh. Six
Speaker 1: yards in London is the equivalent of where you take
Speaker 1: a goal kick from in soccer. Unfortunately, he's not playing footie.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton's also on the bench. Dalton has to be
Speaker 1: worried about being replaced in this game by Ryan Finley.
Speaker 1: He's done an absolute bodge job over the last few weeks. However,
Speaker 1: if the Bengals just leave him in there, he only
Speaker 1: has to wait seven short months for National Redhead Day
Speaker 1: in the UK, which will take place on Saturday. Max
Speaker 1: uh Tyler Boyd is the only Rams starter. He gets
Speaker 1: a garbage time see and out and takes on the bench.
Speaker 1: Tate has got to be feeling really grotty about his
Speaker 1: matchup with Jalen Ramsey and Boyd is third in the
Speaker 1: league and targets and the Bengals seem to have no
Speaker 1: other path to scoring. Uh. Let's go to the ramside
Speaker 1: where Todd Gurley gets an A grade and Darryl Henderson
Speaker 1: was Scott's take a chance on me girlies. Uh, He's
Speaker 1: he's the dogs danglies in London. He's averaging one fifty
Speaker 1: four total yards and a score in his career London games. Okay,
Speaker 1: that was just one game against the Cardinals. In the
Speaker 1: Bengals have allowed the top running back on their opponent's
Speaker 1: depth chart to top a hundred yards or score in
Speaker 1: every game this season, and that's Todd Gurley. Uh. He
Speaker 1: returned to a full workload after taking a week off
Speaker 1: with the thigh contusion. He touched the ball nineteen times
Speaker 1: against the Falcons. He's done next to nothing with his
Speaker 1: carries this season, but have scored six times, which ranks
Speaker 1: him six in the NFL amongst running backs. Uh The
Speaker 1: wide receivers Cooper Cup and Brandon Cooks both get B grades.
Speaker 1: Robert Woods is on the bench. Surprisingly, the Bengals have
Speaker 1: held up pretty well against wide receivers this season and
Speaker 1: have been actually good against the slot. Tyler Lockett is
Speaker 1: the only slot receiver to score against since and he
Speaker 1: was held to that only single catch in the Week
Speaker 1: one meeting d D. Westbrook did top a hundred yards
Speaker 1: and six catches last week from the slot, though former
Speaker 1: first rounder Darky's Dinard return and from the pup list
Speaker 1: last week and only allowed twenty one yards and slot
Speaker 1: coverage in his first game back. Cup is still as
Speaker 1: bright as a button, though he's averaging eleven targets per game.
Speaker 1: The week spot for the Bengals is the deep speed receivers,
Speaker 1: and Cooks will match up against cornerback Tony McCrae, who's
Speaker 1: been brutally awful in limited play. The season, with only
Speaker 1: thirteen passes thrown in McCrae's direction, He's allowed eleven catches
Speaker 1: for a hundred and twenty nine yards and a score.
Speaker 1: Maybe mccraig gets knackered from all that. Running Woods has
Speaker 1: one score on the season, and it's a rushing score.
Speaker 1: On Outside of what a wreck he's been this year,
Speaker 1: he's a good player. Outside of the one huge game
Speaker 1: against Tampa we had like a hundred and sixty four yards,
Speaker 1: he's averaging forty five yards per game. Gross. It's awful.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing get dropped in leagues. Yeah, understandable. It's probably true. Gerald,
Speaker 1: It's it's so true. There we go. Gerald Everett is
Speaker 1: a very weak see start. He's been out on the
Speaker 1: poll and scored in two of the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: Bengals have allowed only one score to the tight end
Speaker 1: position and only one tight end is top three catches
Speaker 1: against them this year. So finally, Jared Goff he gets
Speaker 1: a C grade. It seems like a good matchup, but
Speaker 1: it's a bit dodgy, as the Bengals have not allowed
Speaker 1: a quarterback to top three hundred yards all season, and
Speaker 1: Goff's play has been a picnic short of a Sandwich.
Speaker 1: He hasn't tossed two passing scores in a game this season,
Speaker 1: and when held to ford than fewer than forty passing attempts,
Speaker 1: he's only averaged two hundred sixteen yards on the season.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't get to forty passing attempts two sixteen yards,
Speaker 1: he won't get to forty this week. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good week for Jared Goff. No,
Speaker 1: it may not be. You've been You've been on top
Speaker 1: of the Jared Goff situation from the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1: You're an early skeptic. Mostly that is paid off. Alright,
Speaker 1: So his name's not brous it's Alvin Harper, I said,
Speaker 1: Alvin Harper. Yeah, I missed it. Yes, it was Alvin
Speaker 1: Harper who got his finger cut off on the sidelines,
Speaker 1: which has gotta be And Tampa Bay signed a nine
Speaker 1: fingered wide receiver. Well, he was tended at the top
Speaker 1: at the point of the signing because you can't sign
Speaker 1: right with fingers. I wonder if they which finger it was,
Speaker 1: because that's kind of a big factor here too. Uh
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Speaker 1: for podcasts, the I Heart Radio app. Denver takes on Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: Scott and as we alluded to going into the break,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to go without their best receiver, well,
Speaker 1: their second best receiver. Maybe they're they're one A and
Speaker 1: I guess one Bmanuel Sanders no longer with the team.
Speaker 1: What do you think about Courtland Sutton and the rest
Speaker 1: of the passing attack here for Denver. I don't exactly
Speaker 1: love Flecco, but I still like Courtland Sutton. I mean
Speaker 1: he has at least seventy five yards and five of
Speaker 1: the seven games, including three straight, and India's they're they're
Speaker 1: giving it up, as I mentioned, with Hamilton's five wide
Speaker 1: receivers over a hundred yards, including three in just the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. I still I you know, I want
Speaker 1: to give Sudden a but I think I'm gonna lean be.
Speaker 1: I really do like him this week, A strong be
Speaker 1: I don't like. I think Flacco is gonna just do
Speaker 1: enough to support those two wide receivers though, and not
Speaker 1: enough to have a good fantasy day for you though,
Speaker 1: So I'm having him on the bench only Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: Derek Carr and Mariota were the only two q qbs
Speaker 1: who didn't throw for three Indie, but I put Flacco
Speaker 1: in that group, if not below. So fantas on the
Speaker 1: bench needs to have a game over forty yards before
Speaker 1: I even want to start him. And and with Lindsay
Speaker 1: and Royce, they are doing just enough to make each
Speaker 1: other miserable for fantasy owners, Colts having allowed of running
Speaker 1: back touchdown since we to know running back under seventeen
Speaker 1: touches is even at sixty yards. On the Colts, it's
Speaker 1: all passing. So I'm mentioning both of them. Royce is
Speaker 1: getting more snaps, more nine catches the last two games. Him, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's it's a it's a weird situation.
Speaker 1: Right now. I'm still benching both. I think here, I
Speaker 1: can't see. I don't have it in me to bench
Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay. I do like him too much. I think
Speaker 1: if you have to start when it's Lindsay, because he's
Speaker 1: still getting better, he's still getting more touches, and he's better,
Speaker 1: and he's more explosive and you know, maybe an explosive play.
Speaker 1: But I have trouble starting either of them. Brissette, I'm
Speaker 1: giving a B grade two, and I kind of want
Speaker 1: to give him an A because he's, you know, the
Speaker 1: touchdown leader. He's had tough matchups and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: He's just throwing touchdowns. But the Broncos are allowing the
Speaker 1: third fewest yards, fourth fewest passing touchdowns. Uh. The b
Speaker 1: for Brissette is the Broncos have faced Matt Moore, Mariotta, Tannehill, split, Carterbisky,
Speaker 1: Minshew um on the way to those defensive splits. It's
Speaker 1: a tough matchup, but those aren't great quarterbacks. So I
Speaker 1: think Brissette can get it done. His main guy, t
Speaker 1: Y Hilton is probably gonna avoid Christopher Harris, so I
Speaker 1: I like him. This week. He scored five touchdowns in
Speaker 1: the five games that he's played. The yards aren't exactly there,
Speaker 1: because that's like throwing him thrown to him ten yards
Speaker 1: down field instead of his career average, which I think
Speaker 1: is like fourteen or fifteen. So, but he's still averaging
Speaker 1: six yards per game. I'm still giving him an a.
Speaker 1: The rest of the wide receivers, they are splitting up
Speaker 1: so much it doesn't matter. He can't he can't start him,
Speaker 1: don't chase either. Here's here's the always fun if else
Speaker 1: Jack Doyle has a questionable groin. I probably could have
Speaker 1: phrased that better. Uh. If he does not go, I
Speaker 1: think Ebron's a C grade here. I think he's just startable.
Speaker 1: He might get a touchdown if he does go. If
Speaker 1: they both go, I'm mentioning him. Both Broncos have only
Speaker 1: allowed one touchdown to a tight end this year, and
Speaker 1: only one touchdown tight end over forty five yards, and
Speaker 1: that was Darren Waller on a bunch of targets. Marlon
Speaker 1: Mack it's a B grade for me. Only one game
Speaker 1: under eighteen touches for him, and he's averaging twenty one
Speaker 1: point five every eighteen touchback against Denver ninety plus yards
Speaker 1: or a touchdown and or a touchdown. So I'm giving
Speaker 1: mccabee Tampa Bay taking on Tennessee. To understand the Bucks
Speaker 1: prospects in this one, here's the first thing you need
Speaker 1: to understand. You can't run the ball on Tennessee and
Speaker 1: Peyton Barbera and Ronald Jones are middling runners anyway. Last week,
Speaker 1: a better set of runners, Melvin Gordon Austin Ekeler combined
Speaker 1: for thirty nine rushing yards against Tennessee. And while the
Speaker 1: Titans are vulnerable to pass catching backs Barbara and Jones
Speaker 1: don't catch. They both average one reception of games, so
Speaker 1: they're out and they're on the bench. That brings us
Speaker 1: to the passing game, where there's gonna be a ton
Speaker 1: of volume for Jamis Winston because you can't run on
Speaker 1: Tennessee and its three games with thirty seven or more passes,
Speaker 1: Winston has averaged an amazing three hundred eighty eight yards
Speaker 1: and two points seven touchdowns. And if you're a little
Speaker 1: bit worried about Winston unraveling with the multiple picks like
Speaker 1: he had the five picks last time we saw him,
Speaker 1: note this. The Titans have zero or one interception in
Speaker 1: twenty of their last twenty two games. They are not
Speaker 1: a big turnover defense, so I don't think Winston's going
Speaker 1: to have the multiple interceptions this time, and I like it.
Speaker 1: I'm giving him a B grade and a bounce back performance.
Speaker 1: I've got a B grade on Mike Evans as well.
Speaker 1: After allowing three wide receiver touchdowns over the first three weeks,
Speaker 1: the Titans have stifled opposing receivers, surrendering just one score
Speaker 1: to the position over the last month of play. Evans
Speaker 1: lines up over the field, but he's got tough matchups
Speaker 1: on both of the outside spots of Dory Jackson Malcolm Butler,
Speaker 1: who have improved after some early season struggles. Um, he
Speaker 1: probably won't run from the slot that much because that's
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin's territory. Godwin has been awesome so far this year,
Speaker 1: but a tricky matchup against Logan Ryan. He's allowing a
Speaker 1: modest forty seven yards per game in his coverage. He's
Speaker 1: only given up one touchdown to just a B grade
Speaker 1: on Chris Godwin, and this one O J. Howard has
Speaker 1: been ruled out. If you are in a pinch, Cameron
Speaker 1: Braid is a dart throw hunter. Henry just put up
Speaker 1: ninety seven yards against Tennessee. Austin Hooper put up a
Speaker 1: giant game earlier in the year, and Cameron Braid could
Speaker 1: be your tight end dart throw and that makes a
Speaker 1: little bit of sense with O. J. Howard up, Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Tennessee side. We'll begin with the running game.
Speaker 1: And I don't like Derrick Henry here at all. This
Speaker 1: is probably his toughest matchup of the year. Very tempted
Speaker 1: to give him a bench grade. Altogether, the Bucks give
Speaker 1: up the fewest rushing yards and the fewest yards per carry.
Speaker 1: Get this two point seven yards Perry. That's nothing I
Speaker 1: did not realize. What's more impressive is who's they've done
Speaker 1: it against. Listen to the guys they faced. Christian McCaffrey twice,
Speaker 1: say Kwan Barkley, Todd Gurley, Alvin Kamara. And they're giving
Speaker 1: up two point seven yards per carry. That's it. Now
Speaker 1: they can get dinged a little bit through the air,
Speaker 1: but Derrick Henry doesn't catch. So just to see grade
Speaker 1: on Derrick Henry and really you're hoping for the touchdown
Speaker 1: plunge and that's about it. And really I ought to
Speaker 1: probably give him a bench grade. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: passing game. Ryan Tannehill, we talked to you, talked about
Speaker 1: him earlier to take a chance of a quarterback, and
Speaker 1: I've got a B grade on him, So I'm I'm
Speaker 1: in locks step with you. Corey Davis with Tannehill last week,
Speaker 1: not season highs and targets and receptions. I love that
Speaker 1: part of this game. And to Tampa's secondary so bad.
Speaker 1: They've surrendered a league worst two hundred four yards per
Speaker 1: game to wide receivers, the fifth most touchdowns to wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Corey Davis draws coverage from Carlton Davis and Vernon Hargreaves
Speaker 1: on the outside. Those are both deep C. Davis versus C. Davis, right,
Speaker 1: So it is David's kind of it's kind of like almost, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll get to that, except then there's that A J.
Speaker 1: You know what the cure for the Tampa defenses, Ryan Tannehill, Well, yeah, uh.
Speaker 1: A J. Brown is usually only on the field like
Speaker 1: the Snaps, so I know it's not easy to start him,
Speaker 1: but the opportunity is so good. I think he's dart
Speaker 1: throws startable here for A J. Brown again, Tampa allowing
Speaker 1: the most yards and all the touchdowns. Everything else I
Speaker 1: told you about about Corey Davis, most of that applies
Speaker 1: d A J. Brown here too, so you could try him.
Speaker 1: Delaney Walker has been ruled out of this game. Let's
Speaker 1: work in one more matchup into the segment, Seattle taking
Speaker 1: on Atlanta. Matt What do you got for the Seattle side?
Speaker 1: Chris Carson's getting an A grade. He's topped twenty rushing
Speaker 1: attempts in four straight games, all of which occurred after
Speaker 1: a shot Penny turned to the lineup. In those four contests,
Speaker 1: He's bested one rushing yards in three but only reached
Speaker 1: paydirt twice on the ground. This season, the Falcons have
Speaker 1: only allowed three backs the top sixty yards and seven contests. However,
Speaker 1: the Dirty Birds have reverted to their old ways of
Speaker 1: being completely submissive to receiving backs, allowing three touchdowns to
Speaker 1: backs through the air in the last two games, so
Speaker 1: it's coming back. Russell Wilson gets an A grade. If
Speaker 1: the Falcons don't sack Russell Wilson this week, they'll be
Speaker 1: the first team since sacks were recorded as a stat
Speaker 1: to not sack the quarterback in five straight weeks. Think
Speaker 1: about that. That's how little pressure the Falcons are getting
Speaker 1: on opposing corps backs too. You're gonna be the first
Speaker 1: team in the modern era to go five straight games
Speaker 1: without a sack. Not only that, their bottom ten and
Speaker 1: rushing yards allowed to quarterbacks too, so that bodes well
Speaker 1: for Wilson. Tyler Lockett gets an A. Lockett will runs
Speaker 1: about his routes from the slot, meaning he'll match up
Speaker 1: with Deamonte Kazi, who's allowed a one nineteen point nine
Speaker 1: quarterback rating, and dk metcalf Was might take a chance
Speaker 1: on the wide receiver on the Seahawks side, DeVante Freeman
Speaker 1: will start with him. It's possible the Devil went down
Speaker 1: to Georgia last week to possess Davante Freeman, who took
Speaker 1: the field in the third quarter and punched Darreon Donald
Speaker 1: securing an injection, who punches Aaron Donald, who punches a helmet.
Speaker 1: I guess geez um. That's kind of Freeman season in
Speaker 1: a nutshell. He's averaging a career low three point five
Speaker 1: yards per carry. He hasn't scored a rushing touchdown since
Speaker 1: before the Minneapolis miracle. Um. Seattle's run defense has been
Speaker 1: a roller coaster. They're just the middle of the road
Speaker 1: UH defense. But Ato Smith is out, so Freeman gets
Speaker 1: a C grade. UH. A quarterback named Matt will start.
Speaker 1: If it's Matt Ryan, he gets a C grade. If
Speaker 1: it's Matt Schob, he's a bench grade. Ryan still nursing
Speaker 1: a high ankle sprain, but might end up going. Dan
Speaker 1: Quinn might force him to play because if the Falcons lose,
Speaker 1: Quinn probably loses his job over the week nine. By
Speaker 1: If Shab ends up going, he's got a fourteen to
Speaker 1: twenty two touchdown to interception ratio in his last ten games,
Speaker 1: And if Ryan ends up going, it will be with
Speaker 1: a big, beefy ankle brace and a suspect offensive line.
Speaker 1: If Shop is the starter, you downgrade all of these
Speaker 1: wide receivers and tight ends all. So I have Julio
Speaker 1: Jones as an A or a B IF shop starts
Speaker 1: and Calvin Ridley as a C or A bench slot
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Mohammed Sanu has traded the Pats earlier this week.
Speaker 1: Of current active Falcons receivers, Julio has the most routes
Speaker 1: run from the slot. Big time slot guys Michael Thomas
Speaker 1: and Cooper Cup each had good days. Ridley has scored
Speaker 1: in four of seven games and top sixty yards and
Speaker 1: three of those but in the other one he's vanished
Speaker 1: uh six yards, thirty two and thirty in the other contests.
Speaker 1: I don't like him very much. He is very much
Speaker 1: all or nothing. He gets Shakhill Griffin, who's the highest
Speaker 1: rated of the Seahawks corners according to Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 1: and finally Austin Hooper. He's getting an A grade. Hooper
Speaker 1: has caught twenty of twenty two slot targets this year,
Speaker 1: so they've been running him out of the slot a
Speaker 1: little bit too um That might help with this new
Speaker 1: trade as well. So the Seahawks have allowed the third
Speaker 1: most yards to the tight end position this season, and
Speaker 1: Hooper has been great. Cooper has been gred who do
Speaker 1: you guess he's he's the highest scoring fantasy tight end
Speaker 1: in most leagues. I don't think we saw that coming
Speaker 1: is stuff. Is there any player you would take straight
Speaker 1: up for Dalvin Cook if you were Dalvin Cook owner?
Speaker 1: Is there any player you would take in that trade
Speaker 1: straight up? I'd have to look at the schedule coming up.
Speaker 1: But I mean McCaffrey and Barkley still come to mind. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would have to really do a schedule analysis on that,
Speaker 1: make sure I thought about it. I don't think McCaffrey
Speaker 1: is gonna get hurt or miss time or even have
Speaker 1: his snaps are do you know you can't predict that stuff,
Speaker 1: but he's playing snap right. Yeah. The thing about dangerous
Speaker 1: McCaffrey and Correctly that I like is they don't really
Speaker 1: have anybody behind them to take touches, and Alexander Madison
Speaker 1: does take touches from Calvin Cook a little bit. So
Speaker 1: I do like Barkley and McCaffrey a little bit better,
Speaker 1: But that gap is getting really close. Yeah, they're also tight.
Speaker 1: I don't think it wouldn't I couldn't do it straight up.
Speaker 1: You'd have to offer me a little more. Stefon Diggs
Speaker 1: just set the three game receiving record for the Vikings
Speaker 1: for most yards took from Randy Moss on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Once Thealan gets back, do you think we get the
Speaker 1: old Diggs back? Or do you think we get new
Speaker 1: shiny Diggs? Do we get this version? It's worth noting
Speaker 1: that they've played junk defenses the last three weeks, so
Speaker 1: I think it's matchup based. If they're playing the worst
Speaker 1: defenses in the league. Yeahs is gonna be great. All Yeah,
Speaker 1: Although the Vikings still have the Dolphins on the skinning,
Speaker 1: they get the Chiefs next week and that's not a
Speaker 1: great secondary. Well, it's a much improved chat. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about that one in a few minutes here. Coming up next,
Speaker 1: let's answer three tough questions you can play along. Try
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Speaker 1: grinder with three tough questions. We traditionally start with tough
Speaker 1: question number one. Now, with the forty niners. Will Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Sanders most often be a wide receiver one, a wide
Speaker 1: receiver to a flex or a bench player. Matt, you know,
Speaker 1: we always traditionally start with tough question number one. I'd
Speaker 1: like to mix it up next time and go with
Speaker 1: you know, maybe next question we'll do tough question number three.
Speaker 1: About that question number three? Now often be a wide receiver, one,
Speaker 1: wide receiver to flex or bench. You didn't have to
Speaker 1: read it against schedule is okay? Two matchups with Arizona
Speaker 1: over the next four weeks, he'll be a wide receiver
Speaker 1: one in those and against Atlanta in week fifteen. Other
Speaker 1: than that, I don't love the matchups Carolina this week,
Speaker 1: Green Bay, Baltimore, New Orleans, and the Rams in the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Championship, which I feel will be like c starts.
Speaker 1: So I think he's a flex. Okay, that's exactly what
Speaker 1: I had. I had a flex. Uh, he'll have will
Speaker 1: be matchup dependent. I think that this defense and the
Speaker 1: run game Shanahan likes to do. I know that Shanahan
Speaker 1: said this week that he wants Emmanuel Sanders to play
Speaker 1: a lot this week and he wants to get him
Speaker 1: really involved. But there's gonna be some growing pains there. Uh,
Speaker 1: the defense in the run game they live off of that.
Speaker 1: That's not a lot of passing. Jimmy g hasn't topped
Speaker 1: three thirty three attempts yet this season, only top two
Speaker 1: fifty yards twice, only averaging one passing touchdown per game.
Speaker 1: And Kittle is the main guy there. I think I
Speaker 1: think it's a flex for most of the season. Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Sanders knows the Kyle Shanahan's system because Denver's offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: Rich scan Garrello was Shanahan's quarterback coach last year, so
Speaker 1: he's running that offense. He walked right into this. He
Speaker 1: knows the scheme already. He's got to learn a little terminology,
Speaker 1: but he'll be able to hit the ground running as
Speaker 1: early as this week. And you know, everything else in
Speaker 1: San Francisco is working except the passing game. There's the
Speaker 1: one thing that's not working in San Francisco for an
Speaker 1: undefeated team. There's a lot out of impetus to make sure.
Speaker 1: There's a reason they traded for him. They make sure
Speaker 1: that he helps bring some um, some of the passing
Speaker 1: attack that they need to correspond with the running success
Speaker 1: That they've had. And it's not that Jimmy garoppolos bad.
Speaker 1: He's completing sixty percent of his passes. He is a decent,
Speaker 1: not elite, but a decent quarterback waiting for help. This
Speaker 1: is the help that's arriving. And if you look last
Speaker 1: year with Case Keenum as his quarterback in a much
Speaker 1: worse offense, Sanders was a wide receiver to. He finished
Speaker 1: the season as wide receiver twenty in the games that
Speaker 1: he started the twelve games he played in before he
Speaker 1: snapped as Achilles. If he was a wide receiver to
Speaker 1: last year in that offense with Case Keenum, he's a
Speaker 1: wide receiver too in this Kyle Shanahanna offense. But Keenom
Speaker 1: does does use this lot a lot. I was just say,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo cans. They've got all those thosemiddling kids that
Speaker 1: just haven't panned out for San Francisco. It's been it's
Speaker 1: been frustrating, all those hopes and dreams like of meddling
Speaker 1: kids from Scooby Doo, middling kids, middling medaling. George Kittle
Speaker 1: speaking with the LS, staying on the forty nine, we
Speaker 1: rarely do the same team twice in our three questions.
Speaker 1: George Kittle has one touchdown in one game with more
Speaker 1: than seventy yards. That's it. Which George Kittle is closer
Speaker 1: to being the real George Kittle the eighteen version or
Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen Virgin Scott stat Wise, it hasn't quite
Speaker 1: been there. But as a player, the version he if
Speaker 1: if you've watched the games, he he's made some great plays.
Speaker 1: He's made some really good place it's just that passing
Speaker 1: offense hasn't hit yet. And with Emmanuel Sanders coming, and
Speaker 1: you know how we like to say, you know, rising
Speaker 1: tide raises all boats. I think it's gonna be better
Speaker 1: for Kittle that one touchdown he has. That's it. That
Speaker 1: regression is coming. Positive regression is coming on there. And
Speaker 1: listen to their schedule against the tight end, Cardinals thirty second,
Speaker 1: Seahawks twenty nine, Cardinals, thirty second, Packers thirty one. He's
Speaker 1: got a couple of tough matchups. But then in your
Speaker 1: fantasy playoffs, he goes back to Falcons and ram against
Speaker 1: the tight end. Okay, so there's a lot of great matchup.
Speaker 1: So you're saying version is the real Matt what do
Speaker 1: you got? I also have the version, because you need
Speaker 1: to remember that Kittle is that two touchdowns called back
Speaker 1: from penalties that were not his fault, one for illegal
Speaker 1: formation where his tackle was lined up too far back,
Speaker 1: one for offensive pass interfere pass interference on his fullback,
Speaker 1: Kyle use Check. Add those thirty yards and two scores
Speaker 1: into his fantasy points, and he's the fifth best tight
Speaker 1: end in the league. He's tied for second in tight
Speaker 1: end touchdowns, and he's fifth best in yards, So I
Speaker 1: mean he's he's fine. San Francisco played last week in
Speaker 1: basically a hurricane quagmire and only put up nine points
Speaker 1: if you take if you take that game out, um,
Speaker 1: San Francisco is the number eight scoring offense, so the
Speaker 1: points are being generated by that offense. They just haven't
Speaker 1: happened to go through the team's best receiving option. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like the other week when we had that
Speaker 1: question about Hopkins and we said the tight ends kept going,
Speaker 1: that Hopkins finally got finally got it. So a positive
Speaker 1: regression is in fact coming for George Kittle. Version is
Speaker 1: the real version. He is not falling off a cliff,
Speaker 1: and I think we're going to see it soon. Tough
Speaker 1: question Number three. Now that Mason Rudolph is back, will
Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster most often be a wide receiver one
Speaker 1: a wide receiver to flex or bench matt Um. This
Speaker 1: one was tough. It gave me some temporal lobe damage,
Speaker 1: which is on the side of your brain. Just in
Speaker 1: case you're wondering, I'm pretty sure that that's involved in
Speaker 1: my short term memory, speech, musical rhythm, and some degree
Speaker 1: of smell recognition. What is that? By the way, God,
Speaker 1: is that you know he's not the one playing playing
Speaker 1: the music that you can't recognize if that's what you're asking, Um,
Speaker 1: I can recognize that. Outside of that weird Duck Hodges game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Juju has been okay, topping seventy five yards are scoring
Speaker 1: in four of the five other games. He's running six
Speaker 1: of his snaps out of the slot, which should keep
Speaker 1: him locked up with lesser corners the rest of the way,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of good matchups for him, including Miami, Indie,
Speaker 1: Cleveland twice, Arizona, Cincinnati, and the Jets. I feel like
Speaker 1: his image is taking a hit and people are viewing
Speaker 1: him as a wide receiver too right now, but I
Speaker 1: think he has a good chance of returning wide receiver
Speaker 1: one number. So I think he's a good trade candidate. Okay,
Speaker 1: but wide receiver one is your answer question. Okay, just
Speaker 1: want to be clear on that. Scott is Juju Smith
Speaker 1: Schuster a wide receiver one wide receiver to flex or bench.
Speaker 1: I'm going wide receiver to in uh. In the three
Speaker 1: games where he was healthy, he went five, four, three,
Speaker 1: one and seven seven or seven for seventy five, scoring
Speaker 1: in two of them. The other game where he was
Speaker 1: hurt with the toe and and Mason Rudolph even said
Speaker 1: after the game, thanks to the wide receivers for stepping
Speaker 1: up with who heard he played less slaps than normal.
Speaker 1: That was his bad game. His other games seventy plus
Speaker 1: and scored and twice of them twice scored twice out
Speaker 1: of those three. So I'm going wide receiver too. I
Speaker 1: think that's more likely for for the rest of the season. Yeah, Rudolf,
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot to add to what you
Speaker 1: guys had here. Rudolph isn't half bad. He's played two
Speaker 1: full games and long parts of two others. Scored seven
Speaker 1: times in two full games and parts of two others.
Speaker 1: That's that's rock solid numbers right there. And you know,
Speaker 1: just watching him play guy I can play the position.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be okay. And you know, the best,
Speaker 1: the best receivers ultimately get fed, and that's Juju. And
Speaker 1: if you're a young quarterback like Mason Rudolph, who better
Speaker 1: to throw the ball to than Juju Smith Schuster. The
Speaker 1: only question is is he a wide receiver one or
Speaker 1: wide receiver two? The rest of the way, I just
Speaker 1: you know, we've not been I like Mason Rudolph, but
Speaker 1: he's not been Roethlisberger. He's not gonna return wide receiver
Speaker 1: one numbers, but I think wide receiver two sounds just
Speaker 1: about perfect. Let's go to our one more matchup for
Speaker 1: this segment, and it is the Jets taking on Jacksonville Sky.
Speaker 1: It's it's gonna take a lot of guts to start
Speaker 1: Jets after the way things have gone, and especially last
Speaker 1: week against the Patriots. But the opportunity here is far better,
Speaker 1: I know, And I told people to pick up Donald
Speaker 1: for after the Patriots' right, I think he's gotten okay
Speaker 1: match up here, but it's it is a really tough start.
Speaker 1: I know that he had trouble last week. He looked
Speaker 1: good at the game before against Dallas. Uh only but
Speaker 1: only one team has allowed uh this sorry, this Jaguars
Speaker 1: team has allowed three hundred plus two both Flacco and Mariota.
Speaker 1: Ken me Thomas to be healthy and he might need
Speaker 1: to lean on Crowder if not. I have a barely
Speaker 1: a C grade on Donald here, so yes, start almost.
Speaker 1: I almost want to bench him, but I'm giving him
Speaker 1: a C grade. I'm trusting it, and then I want
Speaker 1: to start him in a bunch of games going forward.
Speaker 1: Uh Anderson, ah Man, Robbie Anderson, assuming Robbie Anderson does
Speaker 1: not traded on Sunday morning. Yeah, Rob Robbie Anderson. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm probably also starting. It's gonna be a tough one
Speaker 1: against boy. I'm giving him a C grade. Um, but
Speaker 1: he's gonna draw some tough coverage with a J boy.
Speaker 1: I am well, I am probably benching Crowder though, and Thomas.
Speaker 1: I know Donald's gonna get his yards, but it might
Speaker 1: it might be moved around, and it might be some
Speaker 1: of bell Um. The problem with Crowder is his targets
Speaker 1: went from seventeen to nine to five. I know the
Speaker 1: average looks good, but the trend doesn't. But the trend doesn't,
Speaker 1: So I'm benching him, and I'm benching Thomas who is hurt.
Speaker 1: Herndon maybe might not go, but if he does, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not starting him in his first game. Bell Derrick
Speaker 1: Kennedy's game last year broke the Jaguars. Just in the
Speaker 1: last three three games, the Jags are allowing a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty eight total yards per game to running backs
Speaker 1: five point eight yards per carry over the last three games.
Speaker 1: Um and that includes a Bengals game where mixing in
Speaker 1: geo combined for eight yards. So somehow the other two
Speaker 1: the beggars of Bengal offensive line couldn't do anything against them.
Speaker 1: But the other games, I have more trust in Bell
Speaker 1: than that. They have allowed a hundred plus total yards
Speaker 1: to running backs in weeks five and seven, and with
Speaker 1: the Jets it's pretty much all Bell, So I'm giving
Speaker 1: him a B grade there. Yeah. On the other side,
Speaker 1: Minshew is getting the bench against the Jets. The lusters
Speaker 1: just kind of come off. He has barely thrown for
Speaker 1: two yards, just one touchdown his last two games. He's
Speaker 1: basically Mitchell Trabiskie now. It's how he's playing, how he's
Speaker 1: playing now. The Jets have only allowed six passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: in six games, and three of those were Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: so so there's not much work there for But I'm
Speaker 1: still giving his main guy, d J. Chark a C grade.
Speaker 1: Um uh Marshawn Lattimore did shut him down, but he'll
Speaker 1: get Tremaine Johnson, who just gave up a score to Dorset.
Speaker 1: I think he might just get enough work. I'm benching
Speaker 1: d d uh four net though a grade here. I
Speaker 1: think it's a smash spot for Leonard four net. Touchdown
Speaker 1: regression is coming in. The Jets have allowed the most
Speaker 1: touchdowns to running backs in the NFL, allowing six different
Speaker 1: running ruining backs to score. He's averaging twenty four point
Speaker 1: six touches per game, but it's just the one touchdown
Speaker 1: top ten and carries inside the ten, but just two
Speaker 1: carries inside the five. If he starts getting that work,
Speaker 1: he's gonna start scoring. And I think that this is
Speaker 1: the spot makes sense. This might be a good time
Speaker 1: to trade for Leonard four net between between now and
Speaker 1: kick off, because I get the feeling that you're right.
Speaker 1: The touchdowns are going to come because of all the
Speaker 1: use and the success he's having everywhere but the end zone.
Speaker 1: It's probably coming. Of course, the groin injuries also probably
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Speaker 1: Carolina takes on San Francisco. It's all about career Jim
Speaker 1: McCaffrey in a brutally tough matchup here, Niners run defense
Speaker 1: not quite as nominating as its past defense, but it's
Speaker 1: still very good. Opponents are running at four yards per carry.
Speaker 1: No back has stopped eighty seven rushing yards or thirty
Speaker 1: three passing yards. I get the feeling McCaffrey is so good.
Speaker 1: Maybe he gets the eighty seven rushing yards and the
Speaker 1: thirty three receiving yards, which you give him a hundred
Speaker 1: yard game, and of particular salience to McCaffrey. Niners ranked
Speaker 1: number one against running back receptions, number one against running
Speaker 1: back receiving yards, number one against running back receiving touchdowns
Speaker 1: with zero I gotta have a B grade a McCaffrey
Speaker 1: center with the guts to give him a C grade
Speaker 1: because he's just so good. But it's a brutal matchup.
Speaker 1: All of the passing game is on the bench. Only
Speaker 1: the Patriots have allowed fewer fantasy points to passers than
Speaker 1: the Niners. They ranked number one in passing yards, allowed
Speaker 1: one hundred fifty five passing yards per game. They're allowing
Speaker 1: zero point eight passing touchdowns per game. That's it. And
Speaker 1: get this, I can't even believe this stat. The last
Speaker 1: three quarterbacks to face the Niners have thrown for one
Speaker 1: hundred yards or less three straight How do you do that?
Speaker 1: It's It's nuts. So Kyle Allen in the whole passing
Speaker 1: game on the bench. Let's go to the San Francisco
Speaker 1: side instead, where things are a little bit more interesting,
Speaker 1: and beginning with the running backs. Tevin Coleman gets a
Speaker 1: B grade. Here, forts continue to lead the NFL in
Speaker 1: run ratio, and since Coleman's returned from injury, he's the
Speaker 1: only Niners back with a carry inside the five yard line.
Speaker 1: He will get the touchdowns that are to be had here. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the Panthers have been very yielding inside the five yard line.
Speaker 1: They've given up six touchdowns on nine carries from inside
Speaker 1: the five. I liked Tevin Coleman with a B grade.
Speaker 1: Matt Brita gets a C grade. He'll have to score
Speaker 1: from distance. Conversely, then, his snaps have decreased each week
Speaker 1: over the last month, which is troubling to me because
Speaker 1: Brita is good. He'll need to score from distance. As
Speaker 1: I mentioned both the Rams and Texans. Dams had at
Speaker 1: least fifty rushing yards against Carolina, and maybe that's the
Speaker 1: case here. So maybe we get the fifty ish rushing
Speaker 1: yards and maybe Brita breaks one. Maybe C grade on
Speaker 1: Matt Brita. Let's go to the passing game. Last time
Speaker 1: we saw the Panthers, they were picking off Jameis Winston
Speaker 1: five times. Last time we saw Garoppolo, he was slogging
Speaker 1: through a monsoon in Washington and hadn't thrown a touchdown
Speaker 1: in two games. I think it's your second quarterback. I
Speaker 1: like Jimmy Garoppolo. I've got a C grade on him
Speaker 1: here with a low ceiling. Panthers have allowed four hundred
Speaker 1: and three hundred seventy four passing yards the past two weeks.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of passing yards. So if he can
Speaker 1: get the repetitions, I like Garoppolo here, but he never
Speaker 1: gets that much work and that's the whole problem for him,
Speaker 1: his volume opposing every opposing quarterback has scored against the Panthers.
Speaker 1: I think he gets one ish touch down in this game.
Speaker 1: We talked about Emmanuel Sanders in detail uh in the
Speaker 1: in the previous segment, Broncos were running a Shanahan style system.
Speaker 1: I think he gets enough us here that you can
Speaker 1: consider him as a dart throw, but he won't be
Speaker 1: on the field every play. And maybe the bigger issue
Speaker 1: here is that elite cornerback James Bradberry could end up
Speaker 1: shadowing Sanders because why not, who else are you gonna shadow?
Speaker 1: And Bradbury hasn't a lot of touchdown and is giving
Speaker 1: up a passer rating of forty two his coverage that
Speaker 1: is nothing. So in fact, you know what, let's put
Speaker 1: Sanders on the bench. I'm changing my mind. George Kittle
Speaker 1: gets a B tough draw though he hasn't Caroline has
Speaker 1: not allowed more than four catches or fifty seven yards
Speaker 1: to any tight end this year, Panthers allowing just three
Speaker 1: and thirty seven to the position on a per game basis.
Speaker 1: That said, Caroline isn't facing a good tight ends and
Speaker 1: certainly nobody a Kittles level either, So maybe they can
Speaker 1: get something done after all, And I'm keeping him up
Speaker 1: as a B grade because George Kettle is good. The
Speaker 1: Giants take on Detroit, Matt and Daniel Jones coming off
Speaker 1: a lousy game. Last time we saw him do you
Speaker 1: like him better here against the Lions. I mean the
Speaker 1: Lions deep it hasn't been very good and they did
Speaker 1: just trade starting safety Quandre Digs to the Seahawks earlier
Speaker 1: this week, so that bodes well for Daniel Jones. But
Speaker 1: I can probably still only give him a C grade. UM.
Speaker 1: I am giving Golden Tate to the B grade in
Speaker 1: the revenge game, his first return to Ford Field. The
Speaker 1: Vikings receivers put up two seven yards and two touchdowns
Speaker 1: last week against the secondary. Tate has turned in back
Speaker 1: to back six catch performances, topping eight yards in each
Speaker 1: contest and adding a score in there. And with Sterling
Speaker 1: Shepherd trending toward missing another week, Tate is in line
Speaker 1: to lead the way as the favorite target of Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones again. Plus Lion slot corner Justin Coleman has allowed
Speaker 1: a league high five touchdowns in his coverage this year. UM,
Speaker 1: I wanted to see Darius Slayton go against Darius slay
Speaker 1: On both Darius is by the way, UM, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't look like Darius slay is going to go. In fact,
Speaker 1: I believe he has been ruled out. It's a huge
Speaker 1: loss for that secondary. Slay by far their best cornerback,
Speaker 1: and you saw what happened with Stefon Diggs once Sleigh
Speaker 1: left the game last week, Diggs eight that secondary alive.
Speaker 1: The problem is is Slaton only had two targets last week,
Speaker 1: and I'm just nervous that he won't be part of
Speaker 1: the game plan. Se Kuon Barkley gets an A and
Speaker 1: their last three contest the Lions have allowed an average
Speaker 1: of nearly one thirty rushing yards and forty four receiving
Speaker 1: yards and seven running back touchdowns in three weeks. Dan
Speaker 1: is gonna eat this week. Uh that that great rush
Speaker 1: defense for the Detroit Lions is no more? Uh? I
Speaker 1: forgot to mention Evan Ingram, who gets an A. Lines
Speaker 1: have allowed over a hundred yards per game to the
Speaker 1: tight end position over the last three weeks. I don't
Speaker 1: think you forgot. You just saved the best some eight
Speaker 1: grades there. Um. On the other side, I talked about
Speaker 1: j D. Mckissic as might take a chance on me
Speaker 1: running back. Let's talk about Ty Johnson, who I'm giving
Speaker 1: a C grade two. Fair warning, the Lions aren't a
Speaker 1: good running team. Despite Darryl Bevel being there with carry on,
Speaker 1: they only averaged three point seven yards per carry as
Speaker 1: a group and only had two rushing touchdowns on the season,
Speaker 1: and when carry On went on, I r last year,
Speaker 1: La Garrett Blunt, Zack Zenter and theo Ritic each had
Speaker 1: double digit touches in games. Over the final six weeks
Speaker 1: they went to a time share. I think that's what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen again. If you're buying in on Tie being
Speaker 1: a pseudo bell cow, this would be a great place
Speaker 1: to play him, as the Giants have allowed two leadbacks
Speaker 1: to top rushing yards in the last three weeks. But
Speaker 1: I'm not buying in that. He's the lead dog here,
Speaker 1: so he only gets a C grade. Matthew Stafford is
Speaker 1: getting a B. He was dealing last week against the Vikings,
Speaker 1: going for three sixty four and four. Normally we don't
Speaker 1: advise you to chase numbers, but the lines just continued
Speaker 1: to pass after Carryon went out with the injury, and
Speaker 1: the Giants have allowed four different quarterbacks to top the
Speaker 1: three yard mark this season. Thank Stafford's in line for
Speaker 1: a good game. His main target last week was Marvin Jones,
Speaker 1: who had four touchdowns. I'm giving him a B grade,
Speaker 1: and jones last four touchdown game was the historic John
Speaker 1: Tuvey take a chance on me moment in October of
Speaker 1: Maybe it's worth noting that he followed up that October
Speaker 1: game with a four catch for sixty six yards the
Speaker 1: following leg but it's probably not worth it. Um square
Speaker 1: off against the giants best cornerback option, Generous Jenkins, But
Speaker 1: Jenkins has allowed three touchdowns in his coverage this season,
Speaker 1: so Jones just been awful. He's just the best of
Speaker 1: the world. He's the best of the lousiest, kind of
Speaker 1: like the common man, you know, um Kenny Golladay. I'm
Speaker 1: giving him an A grade, though it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: big bounce back weak for Golliday after it disappointing two
Speaker 1: targets against the Vikings. He faces quite possibly the worst
Speaker 1: cover corner in the NFL. That's DeAndre Baker, who's already
Speaker 1: allowed four d nine yards and three touches in his
Speaker 1: coverage of this season. Both of those marks are bottom
Speaker 1: six in the league. Finally, t J. Hockenson gets a
Speaker 1: C grade, and it's not a really great C grade.
Speaker 1: Hasn't topped four catches or thirty two yards since Week one.
Speaker 1: Remember the Week one t J. Hockenson where Pipe Ben
Speaker 1: it's been gone. The Giants haven't allowed a tight end
Speaker 1: score since Week two, so he's pretty much a bench
Speaker 1: and less sorely needed. Yeah, we talked earlier about some
Speaker 1: of the tight end options you could go with. Cameron
Speaker 1: Bright is probably a better play in all probability. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's um, let's see would sneak in one more matchup
Speaker 1: into this segment. Cleveland taking on New England. It's really
Speaker 1: it's a must win game from a record standpoint for Cleveland,
Speaker 1: which comes at a really bad times. They got the
Speaker 1: Patriots coming. Yeah, exactly. Basically the whole Cleveland team is
Speaker 1: on the bench against the Uh, there's one I'm gonna start,
Speaker 1: but against this, right it is? It is? Yeah, Mayfield,
Speaker 1: you'd only play if you're in like some kind of
Speaker 1: race to the bottom league leading interception league. O. B
Speaker 1: J is gonna face Gilmore. He at thirty eight yards
Speaker 1: last time against Gilmore. No wide receiver to face Gilmore
Speaker 1: has finished as a top twenty four wide receiver this year,
Speaker 1: and he shadows every opposing team receiver. Right but chub
Speaker 1: New England very very tough against the run, fewest rush
Speaker 1: attempts allowed, hasn't allowed of running back, touchdown, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: But Chup's getting the ball twenty two times a game.
Speaker 1: He's probably going to be a C start on volume alone,
Speaker 1: he's gonna make a little bit of something happen. He's
Speaker 1: one of the better backs. They probably the best back
Speaker 1: that they will if that's true. On the other side, Brady,
Speaker 1: I'm given a B grade that he's averaging thirty nine
Speaker 1: pass attempts per game. It's hard and they're never behind.
Speaker 1: That's the funny thing. That's what's Yeah, it's crazy. The
Speaker 1: Patriots never need to pass ever, and they're passing times
Speaker 1: a game. Their offense is just always on the field
Speaker 1: because of that defense. Luke falk is the only quarterback
Speaker 1: who didn't throw multiple touchdowns against the brown seemed to
Speaker 1: be bringing up up a lot um, so I gotta
Speaker 1: be grade on Brady Edelman questionable with the chest injury,
Speaker 1: should go seeing nearly ten targets per games, so I'm
Speaker 1: giving him an A grade. Only two wide receivers had
Speaker 1: nine or more targets against the Browns. They both went
Speaker 1: over a hundred, So I like Edelman the rest of
Speaker 1: the wide receivers, especially now with some new there, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of benching. I'm not sure where it's gonna go.
Speaker 1: Williams comes backward, Award comes back, Yeah, exactly, that really
Speaker 1: changes things. Watson saw five targets last week, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's going to stay consistent. But the
Speaker 1: running backs A grade from Michelle, B grade for White.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I guess who leads the NFL and carries
Speaker 1: inside the five. That's Tony Michelle, because that's the only
Speaker 1: thing he can do is score from the one. He's trustworthy,
Speaker 1: so trustworthy. Over the last three weeks, the Brown said
Speaker 1: the worst run defense against fantasy running backs, second most attempts,
Speaker 1: most trusting yards, most total yards in the league's worst
Speaker 1: six point two yards per gary. Over that span, they
Speaker 1: have allowed four running back touchdowns over that spent there's
Speaker 1: still over five yards per carry on the season. And White, Uh,
Speaker 1: he's second in receptions in the NFL behind Michael Thomas.
Speaker 1: Right now, he's getting so much work. Nine targets of game.
Speaker 1: So I have a B grade on him. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: like that angle right there. That's that makes a ton
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Speaker 1: who's your premature speculation player. Going back to Ted Gain again,
Speaker 1: He's got a really good matchup this week against the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: which I might have mentioned before, so people might wise
Speaker 1: up to him if he goes off in this game. However,
Speaker 1: he's going into a bye week next week, so you
Speaker 1: might even be able to pick him up next week.
Speaker 1: That should suppress his ownership just a little bit. But
Speaker 1: after that his ownerships already pretty it's some ninety So
Speaker 1: after that he gets Drew Brees back, and then he
Speaker 1: has four straight quality matchups Atlanta, Tampa Carolina, then Atlanta again,
Speaker 1: plus a week fifteen matchup against the Colts. That's a
Speaker 1: fantasy playoff one there. The Colts having farewell against the
Speaker 1: past either, especially against wide receivers. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: a nice little speculative ad. I mean, if you get
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Speaker 1: can't get Gas free, Ted Gins free. Yeah, alright, uh,
Speaker 1: let's let's go to Scott Fish, your premature speculation player. Sure,
Speaker 1: I'm going with Jalen Samuel's. He was supposed to be
Speaker 1: out for four to six weeks with the knee injury.
Speaker 1: He practiced in full on Thursday and Friday. He has
Speaker 1: Miami on Monday night, and if he does anything against Miami,
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna try to pick him up next week. And
Speaker 1: by the way, the number two running back always does
Speaker 1: something against Miami exactly, and James Connor h illness week one,
Speaker 1: knee injury, weeks two through three, ankle injury weeks fourth
Speaker 1: through five, quad injury weeks three. At some point one
Speaker 1: of these might catch up with him, and Jalen Samuels
Speaker 1: might be your starter for Pittsburgh, So you get the
Speaker 1: Miami matchup if you do it now, like before people
Speaker 1: realize he's healthy again. Earlier in this show, what did
Speaker 1: you tell our listeners about Gardner Minshew Scott He's starting
Speaker 1: to turn into Mitch Robisky map or he's pump He's
Speaker 1: pumpkin ing on pumpkin in on us right now, right
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew is turning into Gardner Minshew. Nick Foles returning
Speaker 1: to practice. If you now, I know, I know that
Speaker 1: if you're in a one quarterback league, you don't have
Speaker 1: to go all the way down to Nick Foles or
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew. But increasingly we're playing QB flex from playing
Speaker 1: in two quarterback leagues. Nick Foles has returned. The timetable
Speaker 1: is approaching right now, and if Minshew is going to
Speaker 1: continue to look like a backup, I think Nick Foles
Speaker 1: is gonna be your starter before long Nick Foles won
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl? Did he really? I would love to
Speaker 1: hear all about that. I saw it. It was cool,
Speaker 1: It was it cool. I watched that game too. A
Speaker 1: lot of people watch that game. Was there? It was okay?
Speaker 1: Had you enjoyed watching the Eagles score in the Viking Stadium?
Speaker 1: After the Eagles knocked the Viking out of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: We got revenge on him last week. That makes up
Speaker 1: for it. I'm sure. Let's get back to our matchups,
Speaker 1: beginning with Green Bay taking on the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: That is me so get this. Patrick Mahomes is out
Speaker 1: of this game. But also for the Chiefs, out of
Speaker 1: this game two member to two best members of their
Speaker 1: defensive line, Frank Clark and Chris Jones. Also, they're starting
Speaker 1: cornerback Kendall Fuller. Also they're starting left tackle Eric Fisher.
Speaker 1: Also they're starting left guard Andrew Wiley. I thought for
Speaker 1: sure those guys, the two offensive linement would be back
Speaker 1: after the ten days off. No dice. That has really
Speaker 1: suppressed the outcome and the of what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: I think for the Chiefs, and I like the Packers
Speaker 1: a lot more. Let's start on the Packers side with
Speaker 1: this where I've got a B grade on Aaron Rodgers. Now,
Speaker 1: I know he had six touchdowns last week, and so
Speaker 1: you're automatically thinking about why wouldn't be an A grade.
Speaker 1: But as a reminder, before the six touchdown game in
Speaker 1: the eleven than games before that, he was averaging one
Speaker 1: point two touchdown passes. It's very unlikely Davante Adams goes
Speaker 1: in this one. He is doubtful for this game. So
Speaker 1: I'm still showing a little bit of caution your plus,
Speaker 1: five of the seven opposing quarterbacks to face Kansas City
Speaker 1: have thrown zero or one touchdown. Five out of seven.
Speaker 1: Nobody has top two yards since the opener. I think
Speaker 1: you're you know, you're gonna have to make It's a
Speaker 1: Sunday night game. You're gonna have to make your decision
Speaker 1: on Rodgers before you have a final word, probably on
Speaker 1: Davante Adams, but you can presume he's not gonna know.
Speaker 1: I think the game script here is also gonna point
Speaker 1: towards the Runners, and so just the B grade on
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, which I know is going to frustrate some people.
Speaker 1: Marquez Valdes Scantling gets a B grade. As well as
Speaker 1: one of the fastest players in the league. You saw
Speaker 1: that long distance touchdown the seventy five yard or last week.
Speaker 1: Um I like his frequent matchup against stone footed cornerback,
Speaker 1: but Shod Breland Scaling is a four three guy, Brian
Speaker 1: a four six guy. There are many four six cornerbacks
Speaker 1: even in the league. And also Breedland, by the way,
Speaker 1: ranks one first at his position by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: Marques Valdez Scantling also getting a starting grade. Geronimo Allison.
Speaker 1: Why because Kendall Fuller's out, that's your slock cornerback. So
Speaker 1: Allison becomes a dart throw the backup behind Kendall Fuller.
Speaker 1: Rashad Fenton, a six round rookie, was zero career starts,
Speaker 1: So Geronimo Allison dart throw starter in this one moving
Speaker 1: oh and Jimmy Graham before I get off of the
Speaker 1: passing game entirely for the Packers, Jimmy Graham gets a
Speaker 1: B grade. Kansas City is allowing seven catches and sixty
Speaker 1: plus yards per game to tight ends. You take out
Speaker 1: last week's game against Denver where no offense dropped everything
Speaker 1: in the Chiefs are allowing eight catches and seventy two
Speaker 1: yards per game to tight ends. So I think Jimmy
Speaker 1: Graham gets in the action. You can start him as well.
Speaker 1: Now let's go to the runners, who I love in
Speaker 1: this matchup, and they are going to run themselves to victory.
Speaker 1: I think pretty easily for the Packers in this one.
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones with a solid A grade. I think you've
Speaker 1: got him as my number three running back this week.
Speaker 1: Even with Williams healthy and effective, Jones remains the lead
Speaker 1: dog in this offense. Offensive coordinator's dream of matchups where
Speaker 1: you can get five yards per carry, and that's what
Speaker 1: Kansas City is giving up is five per carry. Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones is supposed to double digit rushes in every game,
Speaker 1: and his use in the passing game is spiking sharply
Speaker 1: over the past several games. I like that as well.
Speaker 1: He has scored in five of the last six games.
Speaker 1: This is a great opportunity for Aaron Jones, but that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you can't start Jamal Williams as well. I
Speaker 1: like him too. Often when Kansas City has been has
Speaker 1: faced a one two punch of runners, both guys have
Speaker 1: gotten paid. Baltimore had two runners get paid. Houston had
Speaker 1: to Indy had to In all of three of those cases,
Speaker 1: first and second runners had solid Fantasy days Against Kansas City.
Speaker 1: We've seen Jamal Williams get these out of the blue
Speaker 1: heavy carry games Kansas City again giving a five yards
Speaker 1: per carry, So why wouldn't this Why couldn't this be
Speaker 1: one of them? Start Jamal Williams too with a grade
Speaker 1: With Davante Adams out, some of you might be tempted
Speaker 1: to roll the dice on Jake Cumro or Alan Lazard.
Speaker 1: They split time between each other, and I don't think
Speaker 1: I want to go quite that far down and already
Speaker 1: give starting grades like nineteen different packers, so I'm not
Speaker 1: going that far all right. So now let's go to
Speaker 1: the Kansas City side. So Kansas City again, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be with a backup quarterback, without their left tackle and
Speaker 1: without their left guard, so obviously everybody gets punished, uh
Speaker 1: in this start. Originally at the beginning of the week,
Speaker 1: I like le Shan McCoy a lot more, but when
Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna have an offensive line and
Speaker 1: you beat the backers on the ground. But I'm i
Speaker 1: gotta be I gotta show some concern here without without
Speaker 1: the starting left guard and tackle. So even though I
Speaker 1: think they want to get Lashan mc McCoy going, and
Speaker 1: I think you'll get plenty of carries, and then the
Speaker 1: Packers are allowing the fifth most rushing yards per game
Speaker 1: and they are also giving up five yards per carry.
Speaker 1: I can't get more than a C grade on Leashan
Speaker 1: McCoy and this one, um, Damian Williams is just evaporated
Speaker 1: from this offense. He's on the bench, declining snap and
Speaker 1: counts in three weeks, three straight weeks. So unless there's
Speaker 1: some kind of concerted effort to get Damian Williams going,
Speaker 1: you can't start him at this point. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the passing game. Matt Moore has got a wobbly C grade.
Speaker 1: He's got the ten days lead time to adapt to
Speaker 1: the starters role, and I like that part of it,
Speaker 1: but it's and it is an inconsistent Green Bay secondary.
Speaker 1: Three of the past four teams to face the Packers
Speaker 1: have walked away with multiple touchdowns. Cornerback jere Alexander has
Speaker 1: allowed touchdowns in three of the past four games. And
Speaker 1: Andy Reid's an offensive wizard. I think he could coax
Speaker 1: a solid fantasy game out of more in the range
Speaker 1: of like two D thirty and one in one or
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. That sounds like about it, though. All right,
Speaker 1: let's let's talk about the receivers. Everybody but Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: is out. Uh. Tyree Hill has scored in both of
Speaker 1: his full healthy games. He's averaging seventy seven yards since returning,
Speaker 1: and his ridiculous speed makes an elite option. Despite the
Speaker 1: massive downgrade and quarterbacking to Matt Moore. Packers slot cornerback
Speaker 1: is train On Williams, who's one hundred and eight years old,
Speaker 1: and here's Tyreek Hill. I don't think it is true.
Speaker 1: We've we've checked the I D and UM so he's
Speaker 1: a just a B start though with Matt Moore and
Speaker 1: up again all the problems with the missing lineman. Travis
Speaker 1: Kelsey remains a startable, but only a B grade. He
Speaker 1: needs to block more. With Fisher and Wiley out, Kelsey
Speaker 1: has been held under ninety yards and without a touchdown
Speaker 1: for five straight games, which stinks. Green Bay is surrendered.
Speaker 1: Only just started three scores to Oakland's tight ends, So
Speaker 1: there's that um. Zach Ertz is the closest quality tight
Speaker 1: end to face the Packers. He put up seven catches
Speaker 1: sixty five yards. That sounds about right for for Travis
Speaker 1: Kelsey as well. That was a that was a lot
Speaker 1: of talking. Get really mad that you called Darren Waller
Speaker 1: a quality tight end. Now that's probably true. He's probably
Speaker 1: should be upset about that. Uh, let's go to Miami
Speaker 1: taking on Pittsburgh. Matt is there anybody from Miami you
Speaker 1: want to start in this game? No? Um, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do a lot less talking in this match. Like the
Speaker 1: Dolphins running backs are on the bench. It's a stupid
Speaker 1: time share as Mark Walton got most of the touches
Speaker 1: and snaps and he's not even good. Kalin Balage vulture
Speaker 1: to touch down near the stripe, and the Dolphins are
Speaker 1: trying to trade Kenyan Drake, so they may either want
Speaker 1: to feature him or hold him out of the game
Speaker 1: if a deal is near one of the two. Who knows? Uh?
Speaker 1: And the Steelers held the Ravens and Chargers good backfields
Speaker 1: to one hundred total rushing yards in the last two games.
Speaker 1: That's fifty per game. Uh, Stu Beard. I know Scott
Speaker 1: thinks he's like the next Bo Jackson, but he's on
Speaker 1: the bench. And the Dolphins wide receivers are as well.
Speaker 1: Williams did see six catches. That's Preston Williams for eight
Speaker 1: two last week. But Davante Parker was the guy who
Speaker 1: saw the most targets and to score. And really it's
Speaker 1: the Manka Fitzpatrick revenge game, that's what it is. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he's told the Steelers all the Dolphins tricks and secrets. Um.
Speaker 1: Since fitz Fitzpatrick came on the scene for the Steelers,
Speaker 1: no wide receiver has topped seventy two yards and Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: has only allowed two passing scores to white outs in
Speaker 1: that time. Because you can't crack the Miami the Miami
Speaker 1: offense without without inside knowledge knowledge make offense Patrick. That's
Speaker 1: the key. That's why they got him. They went out
Speaker 1: and traded a first round pick just for this game. UM.
Speaker 1: James Conner on the other side, he's getting an A grade.
Speaker 1: Connor should be pretty healthy post bye week. He's facing
Speaker 1: a Dolphins defense that has allowed the most rushing attempts
Speaker 1: and yards per game almost a hundred and forty rush
Speaker 1: yards per game to running backs, and our bottom twelve
Speaker 1: in yards per carry, rushing touchdowns and receiving touchdowns and
Speaker 1: all over. Good game for Connor Juju Smith Schuster, I'm
Speaker 1: giving a B and Deonte Johnson was charches take a
Speaker 1: chance on me. Juju's usage has been frustrating, especially with
Speaker 1: the duck Duck Hodges right there, hitting him for only
Speaker 1: one catch last time out. Luckily, Mason Rudolph's back, who
Speaker 1: threw two touchdowns to Juju in his last three games,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins have allowed the most wide receiver touchdowns
Speaker 1: in the league. Vance McDonald, this is a guy that
Speaker 1: we were kind of planting the flag in preseason as
Speaker 1: a guy who had a chance to be a really
Speaker 1: good player. Yeah, he's droppable. I don't agree. I do.
Speaker 1: Since Nick Venette showed up. McDonald has four targets in
Speaker 1: three games. Well, he's been hurt too, and he had
Speaker 1: Duck Hodges is his quarterback. He's only averaging three targets
Speaker 1: per game on the whole season. I know, but all
Speaker 1: that i'd see, I see it the opposite way. I
Speaker 1: think you get Mason Rudolph healthy and Vance McDonald healthy
Speaker 1: off the by and the connections coming, and Nick Vannette's
Speaker 1: there though he's the Jesse James replacement. That was the
Speaker 1: whole reason We liked Vance McDonald at the beginning of
Speaker 1: year because Jesse James is gone. It's Vance McDonald's party.
Speaker 1: I'm not it's it's not his party anymore. It's Nick
Speaker 1: Vannette's party. Vance McDonald might be invited, but it's not
Speaker 1: a very good party either. I'll cry if I want to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it. That's it, all right, Let's go to our
Speaker 1: final matchup. I thought maybe there was more to the
Speaker 1: punctuation to that Oakland and taking on Houston. That is
Speaker 1: our final matchup here. Josh Jacobs comes into this game hobbled,
Speaker 1: but it sounds like he's going to try to play it.
Speaker 1: Does it does? It's not a great matchup in in
Speaker 1: the fact that Houston has given up only two games
Speaker 1: over fifty yards rushing, and that was Christian McCaffrey and
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara. They're pretty good, and most of their yards
Speaker 1: actually came through the air. Both had seventy plus through
Speaker 1: the air. And that's not really Josh Jacob's game. Even
Speaker 1: though he's getting a little bit more involved. I'm still
Speaker 1: giving Jacobs a b though, because he's getting nineteen plus
Speaker 1: touches a game and if he if he's good to
Speaker 1: go nineteen plus touches, it's gonna it's enough volume to
Speaker 1: get you something. And he's looked really good. So B
Speaker 1: grade there in the passing game, car was your take
Speaker 1: a chance on people for a lot of good reasons,
Speaker 1: like Derek Carr and because of that, I like Tyrol
Speaker 1: the Gazelle and I like Waller both with A grades.
Speaker 1: I mean, Waller's the top five tight end. Hooper, Kelsey
Speaker 1: and Ebron just had back to back to back double
Speaker 1: digit Fantasy days again against this Houston Texans team. It's
Speaker 1: Waller's turn now. Yeah, and uh, Tyroll Williams, all he's
Speaker 1: done to score touchdowns in every full game yep, exactly
Speaker 1: four games, four touchdowns. Oakland is devoid of other receiving options.
Speaker 1: Really in Houston, it's kind of devoid of good good
Speaker 1: defensive backs. Roby and Joseph both might be out with
Speaker 1: hamstring injuries and games was just up put on I R.
Speaker 1: So they might have no quarterbacks. Yes, how about that?
Speaker 1: Tyroll Williams is a great start, great start this week.
Speaker 1: I think he does. By the way I offered, I
Speaker 1: offered up a trade to try to get him. I
Speaker 1: just think that because he's been out of consciousness, out
Speaker 1: of sight, out of mind. I think people have forgotten
Speaker 1: that he was a locked starter for those first four
Speaker 1: weeks with touchdowns in every game, and the fact that
Speaker 1: the Raiders offense has been way better than we thought
Speaker 1: they were going to be. I think this is a
Speaker 1: good time to buy low and maybe your last chance
Speaker 1: to buy low on Tyrolle Williams. Yeah. Really, I really
Speaker 1: liked him coming into the year. On the other side,
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, I'm giving a grade to Oakland is allowing
Speaker 1: the second most passing yards and the most pas seen touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Watson is averaging two point seven touchdowns and three two
Speaker 1: yards per game. He he's a KEPI one this week.
Speaker 1: Might be he was my number one ranked quarterback. He's
Speaker 1: a QB one this week just this week, yes, next
Speaker 1: week probably not. I meant overall QB uh dean because
Speaker 1: of that. DeAndre Hopkins a grade uh yeah, will Fuller,
Speaker 1: he did have that injury that we kind of mentioned
Speaker 1: in three tough Questions might be coming, and Hopkins came
Speaker 1: back A grade B grade. For Kenny Stills, he runs
Speaker 1: a four three eight forty. He's going to be matched
Speaker 1: up against Darrell Worley, who runs a four point six
Speaker 1: four forty that's terrible, has established earlier in this segment.
Speaker 1: Four six is a slow cornerback speed, as you'll find.
Speaker 1: Did they ever measure the forties after the shouting Tom?
Speaker 1: I wish they wish they make those guys run after
Speaker 1: they've been Stills is like five six years into his career.
Speaker 1: He's more than that. I mean his four a little bit.
Speaker 1: So is Darrell war was like four years in. You
Speaker 1: could be even slower. Now the Raiders have allowed thirty
Speaker 1: two pass plays over twenty yards. That's worse than the NFL.
Speaker 1: So be grade on still C grade on QT. He's
Speaker 1: going to get Joiner, who is batting the slot this
Speaker 1: year since transferring from safety. But I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: the targets are gonna shake out. So I have him
Speaker 1: on the bench for the or No, I do have
Speaker 1: a C grade. I look back. I do have surprised yourself.
Speaker 1: I surprised myself, but did my research. I had a
Speaker 1: C grade for him, and somehow Fells Nakins are on
Speaker 1: the bench though a tight end. Uh, I have Hide
Speaker 1: on the bench too. I like Duke Johnson a lot
Speaker 1: more this week. Yeah, Well, the only running backs to
Speaker 1: top fifty six yards against the against the Raiders, we're
Speaker 1: both vikings. Other than that, no other game. It's not
Speaker 1: like the Raiders are shooting down run defense, but they're
Speaker 1: so easy to pass on. It's just the path of
Speaker 1: Lee Street. And that was fifty six rushing yards. The
Speaker 1: receiving work, that's where it gets done. And that's Duke Johnson.
Speaker 1: A couple of topics for you guys before we wrap
Speaker 1: up the show. Lamar Jackson's on by from this point
Speaker 1: going forward. Is Lamar Jackson the number one fantasy quarterback?
Speaker 1: I mean, since Deshaun Watson's only a quarterback, a quarterback,
Speaker 1: I don't I would not trade anybody for Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: There's nobody. If you offered me anybody, I would I
Speaker 1: would not take anybody Jacks. Same thing with the cook thing,
Speaker 1: like these are even players, Deshaun Watson, maybe Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson. There even enough that No, let's not
Speaker 1: make a straight up trade, like there needs to be incentive.
Speaker 1: The only issue I see is I want to have
Speaker 1: a first round by If I have Lamar Jackson, because
Speaker 1: he gets at Buffalo in Week four, Tatis, that could
Speaker 1: be your knockout blow right out of the playoffs. Right
Speaker 1: before that, he has San Francisco in week thirteen. So
Speaker 1: if you're very secure in being a first round by
Speaker 1: participant in your playoffs, Lamar Jackson's great because he gets
Speaker 1: the Jets and the Browns and final two weeks. Those
Speaker 1: are not difficult matchups. But if you're gonna be in
Speaker 1: a wild card game and you're gonna be relying on
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, I'm a little nervous. There is Marky's Hollywood
Speaker 1: Brown droppable. Yes, no, probably not, but I kind of
Speaker 1: want to. He's right on the fringe. Yes, yeah, you say, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm dropping it. I think in a standard league. I
Speaker 1: think he's in a standard league definitely, Like like t J. Hockenson,
Speaker 1: we got fooled in week one on those two guys,
Speaker 1: I think, and he comes back healthy and he's gonna
Speaker 1: more experience than everything. But by the way, bye weeknd
Speaker 1: than Patriots. Yeah, you may be able to get him
Speaker 1: back and get him back after the Patriots game. Hey,
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