Speaker 1: I had great plans for the Patriots to put up
Speaker 1: a bunch of points that didn't really work out. Although
Speaker 1: Gillislee was great, that was about the end of that.
Speaker 1: Let's concentrate on those positive starts. That's right. Uh. Positives
Speaker 1: the Patriots, of course, as they get a what should
Speaker 1: be an extraordinarily high scoring game this week, and then
Speaker 1: the week after that they get Houston, who maybe without
Speaker 1: both of their starting cornerbacks. So there's there's some positivity
Speaker 1: left for uh, for our Patriots. Yet Uh this in
Speaker 1: the last half hour, numerous reports now saying that Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham expected to play on Monday night. Now we'll get
Speaker 1: to this matchup and spend all more time with a
Speaker 1: little later. But I'll go to the Giants desk. Ryan.
Speaker 1: It's Monday. You know, people can have to make their
Speaker 1: Sunday decision at noon without much more information than they've
Speaker 1: got right now that Odell may play. And then we
Speaker 1: always listened as questionable. What do you think you always
Speaker 1: fear the dreaded decoy role for so, I don't know
Speaker 1: it's encouraging news, but obviously do not put him in
Speaker 1: your wide receiver spot. Put him in your flex if possible,
Speaker 1: and have some kind of fallback plan on Monday night,
Speaker 1: like probably the Riddic or something like something like that.
Speaker 1: Maybe even h the corpse of the You've still young
Speaker 1: Eric Ebron something like that. I don't know, but make
Speaker 1: sure he's in your flex. But let's hope he plays.
Speaker 1: Will be better for the sake of fantasy football, which
Speaker 1: was atrocious last week. I've got that game and I'm
Speaker 1: going to be recommending that people do not play him,
Speaker 1: and let's just take let's take a week off. You've
Speaker 1: probably rather than have to go into Monday night and
Speaker 1: hoping you can flex a sterling Shepherd or something, I
Speaker 1: would rather just let's take a week off. Worst thing
Speaker 1: it happens is he comes back and plays a great game.
Speaker 1: You didn't start him, and now you know you got
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham rolling forward. The downside, you lost. The downside
Speaker 1: thing that could happen. The downside is, well, the downside
Speaker 1: is is that he doesn't play. It was a decoy.
Speaker 1: He doesn't play at all. That this is all just puffery,
Speaker 1: and you know they're just trying to make the Lions
Speaker 1: have to account for him in their schemes. What is puffery?
Speaker 1: Puffery that's when you you know, it's a blather, it's
Speaker 1: a lot. Uh, you know you're puffing, it's smoke. Are
Speaker 1: you making up words? Absolutely not. When let's let's get
Speaker 1: into the matchups. Of course, by the way of the
Speaker 1: course of the show, we've got our take a chance
Speaker 1: on me players nine players not normally in your starting lineup,
Speaker 1: many of whom are on the waiver wire. Two of
Speaker 1: my three or waiver wire guys. Five tough questions, premature speculation,
Speaker 1: and will break down all fifteen of the matchups, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to go quickly. This one should not
Speaker 1: take long. Jets at Oakland, Matt Jets, everybody's on the bench, BELLEL.
Speaker 1: Powell and Matt Forte. The problem it's a time split
Speaker 1: four to ad of the Snaps Powells on the field
Speaker 1: for they almost split touches down the middle. It's gross there.
Speaker 1: That was exactly the scenario that I laid out last
Speaker 1: week when we talked about this matchup, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, this thing really scares me. We all know,
Speaker 1: but all Powell's the best, the best runner. But the
Speaker 1: Jets don't your peacocking that they suck. I'm I'm peacocking
Speaker 1: that we here are smarter than the Jets. The one
Speaker 1: guy I'll mention on the Jets that you're not gonna start,
Speaker 1: but you should keep an eye on his Jermaine Curse.
Speaker 1: It's worth noting that he had nine targets and seven
Speaker 1: receptions last week. He was on the field for the
Speaker 1: Jets snaps. He is their wide receiver one right now.
Speaker 1: And if you get desperate down the line and the
Speaker 1: matchups good, Jermaine Curse could be a guy that you
Speaker 1: could pick up and play on the Oakland side. It's
Speaker 1: pretty much start. Everybody was that premature premature speculation. That's
Speaker 1: like super premature. Yeah, I'm premature speculation. Pickpurse alright, um,
Speaker 1: Oakland side, Marshawn Lynch, I got an a start on him.
Speaker 1: Lynch look powerful last week yards on nineteen carries and
Speaker 1: those were some bruising, punishing runs last week. It's his
Speaker 1: homecoming in Oakland. They're going to get him in the
Speaker 1: end zone for sure, and there's no Mike Tolbert here
Speaker 1: to vulture his touchdown carry like what happened to Lashawn
Speaker 1: McCoy last week. That duo combined for a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty two yards in a score. No one is afraid
Speaker 1: of the Jets run defense anymore. Marshawn Lynch is in
Speaker 1: A He's my number one ranked running back this week. Well,
Speaker 1: of course he is your number one range running back.
Speaker 1: You love Marshawn Lynch. Derek Car's a B. I think
Speaker 1: it would be an easy A. But the main concern
Speaker 1: here is that the Raiders lead at halftime is so
Speaker 1: large that game script just kind of forces Derek Carr
Speaker 1: out of the game, and they don't have to pass much.
Speaker 1: They can They can really cycle in a lot of
Speaker 1: runs and just run out the clock. So I'm also
Speaker 1: giving Mark Cooper and Michael Crabtree a B as well.
Speaker 1: Anytime Buster Screen is involved in a defense, I try
Speaker 1: to play all the receivers I can. Cooper had a
Speaker 1: few drops last week, and no team has dropped more
Speaker 1: passes in their last eight games as the Raiders have
Speaker 1: a lot of that has to do with Cooper Cooper. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty much all. Cooper drops more balls than specialist.
Speaker 1: Just Mr one Liner today, What did you have for breakfast?
Speaker 1: Only that Mike could drop? That's right. I'm supported by
Speaker 1: some kind of stand mechanism crab Tree and Cooper have
Speaker 1: essentially an equal target loads since they arrived in Oakland
Speaker 1: together in the beginning of don't think too hard about
Speaker 1: crab Tree. He's an every week starter in that is,
Speaker 1: he's he's fantastic. And then Jared Cook, I gotta see
Speaker 1: start on him. Cook caught all five of his targets
Speaker 1: last week for fifty six yards. The Bills tight ends
Speaker 1: combined for five catches seventy five yards in a touchdown
Speaker 1: last week, So it seems like Cook's gonna get about
Speaker 1: five receptions here around sixty yards and half a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Buffalo takes on the Carolina Panthers. I think everybody knows
Speaker 1: to start Lashawn McCoy no matter what. He's an obvious
Speaker 1: they are there any other Bills to play here. I
Speaker 1: got him in a b right now. Though in a
Speaker 1: tough matchup the Bills. Let's not let him score touchdowns.
Speaker 1: There is that as Matt said, Tilbert had the short touchdown,
Speaker 1: more carries inside the five, Tyrod Taylor threw five times
Speaker 1: inside the ten, twice inside the five that he's do
Speaker 1: not give Shady the ball to stripe. It's a tough matchup.
Speaker 1: You're starting him either way, but B because it is
Speaker 1: against Carolina and he's not a workhorse. Youar the goal line.
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, we need a Mike Tilbert vulture sound
Speaker 1: revenge game from like Tilbert in Carolina. Maybe Tony can
Speaker 1: help us find a vulture sound. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: look up what that sounds like. I'll see what I
Speaker 1: can do. Do you think we knew what a peacock
Speaker 1: sounded like a year ago? We had no idea, and
Speaker 1: yet here we are with a peacock sounder? Yeah? All right?
Speaker 1: No skin being ripped off a dead carcass. That's what
Speaker 1: it sound like to me anyway. Tyrod Taylor uh turned graphic.
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor on the bench. Since Week nine of last year,
Speaker 1: Carolina hasn't allowed more than two passing touchdowns, and they've
Speaker 1: allowed one zero touchdowns in all but four games during
Speaker 1: that span. So Taylor is on the bench as is
Speaker 1: Jordan Matthews did have two catches for sixty one yards
Speaker 1: last week, but just three targets. I do think he
Speaker 1: will improve over the season, but I'm not ready to
Speaker 1: start him just yet. And uh, Charles Clay give him
Speaker 1: a ce. Uh he's averaging whoa this is not distracting
Speaker 1: at all. And there's but I want to get the
Speaker 1: vulture sound rolling for this year. Fantasy Football Weekly a
Speaker 1: horrifying noise. It's a horrifying noise. Just to let you
Speaker 1: guys know, there's a ten hour YouTube clip. If you
Speaker 1: really wanted to get enough ULU sounds, there might be
Speaker 1: ten hours of Toilbird stealing shady touchdowns. This year, we'll
Speaker 1: see Charles Clay even him as c over his last
Speaker 1: five games, averaging five catches, fifty six yards and a
Speaker 1: one whole touchdown. And here's a great stat from fan
Speaker 1: Ball Scott Fish. Since the start of Charles Clay has
Speaker 1: fifteen receptions when his quarterback has been under pressure. That
Speaker 1: is second among tight ends meeting. He is a safety
Speaker 1: valve and that's gonna happen this week against the Panthers,
Speaker 1: So you will be a PPR helper for sure. Panthers
Speaker 1: front four is still elite, very elite. Uh And Luke
Speaker 1: keick Lee up and running as he was not at
Speaker 1: all times last year over to Carolina, Cam Newton gonna
Speaker 1: give him a b was clearly rusty coming off the
Speaker 1: shoulder injury, but did throw for two touchdowns, had six
Speaker 1: carries one inside the ten yard line. So he is
Speaker 1: running the ball a little bit still. Uh so he's
Speaker 1: in a good spot this week. Given him a B.
Speaker 1: I'll still give Kelvin Benjamin a B. Only five targets
Speaker 1: last week, but that was second to Christian McCaffrey for
Speaker 1: most on the team. Uh. He has about seven inches
Speaker 1: on cornerbacks. Tra very true, Trude, Trude Davious wife like,
Speaker 1: that's how you pronounce it actually, and E. J. Gaines.
Speaker 1: So I'm still starting Benjamin this week. J. Gaines is awful,
Speaker 1: very bad corner very true. Greg Olson, he gets a C.
Speaker 1: His targets were way down last week, as we kind
Speaker 1: of discussed. He did have two catches the Benjamin's one though,
Speaker 1: so in five hot questions you said Benjamin's receptions would
Speaker 1: suffer more. I said no, But but now I'm right
Speaker 1: because Oldsen had two catches and Benjamin had one. But
Speaker 1: Olson's in the lead right now. But anyway, he gets
Speaker 1: a CEE. Not a great matchup, but Buffalo was ranked
Speaker 1: Levins eleventh against tight ends by Fantasy or by Football
Speaker 1: Outsiders last year, so there's hope par Olson. Even though
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey is starting to steal the show and give
Speaker 1: him a B borderline A led the team in targets
Speaker 1: and catches last week, also had thirteen carries. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be a guy that you're gonna start regardless of matchup,
Speaker 1: because they're gonna put the ball in his hands. I
Speaker 1: think you took a few direct snaps as well. So
Speaker 1: excited about him this week. And Jonathan Steward gets to
Speaker 1: be eighteen carries last week, had a nice receiving touchdown.
Speaker 1: He got all the carries inside the ten yard line
Speaker 1: for the Panthers at running back. And this is a
Speaker 1: matchup where game script could favor him in the second half.
Speaker 1: This played out for Jonathan Stewart. It's only one week,
Speaker 1: but it played out exactly like we told you it
Speaker 1: would in the preseason. Christian McCaffrey doesn't suddenly mean he's
Speaker 1: not the gold line guy, and it doesn't suddenly mean
Speaker 1: he's not gonna get any carries. And McCaffrey got a
Speaker 1: lot of carries more than I expected, like thirteen carries
Speaker 1: in the game I was thinking would be more like
Speaker 1: a seven or eight guy. But even with that, Stewart
Speaker 1: put together a solid game. Let's go to the Vikings,
Speaker 1: taking on the steel You are done, correct, Steve Vikings
Speaker 1: taking on the Steelers. First, let's just say this that
Speaker 1: if if it turns out Bradford can't go, and there's
Speaker 1: I think, I think he's gonna play, but there could
Speaker 1: be some smoke screen here. Everybody gets knocked down a
Speaker 1: full letter grade if it's case Keenum, and then you
Speaker 1: wouldn't even want to start case Keenum right now, every
Speaker 1: meaningful Viking is a B on my sheet. Let's start
Speaker 1: with the running game and Dalvin Cook. He'll be put
Speaker 1: to the test against the defense that held Isaiah Crowwell
Speaker 1: to just one point nine yards per carrying the opener.
Speaker 1: And if you think, well, it's just Isaiah crawl on
Speaker 1: the Browns, Brown's offensive line is better than the Vikings
Speaker 1: offensive line, so there's that um. But Dalvin Cook's got
Speaker 1: the past catching ability that that crow Well does not have,
Speaker 1: and that should ultimately keep him here as a B grade. Again,
Speaker 1: assuming Sam Bradford ends up ends up playing in this game.
Speaker 1: So let's go to the passing game and Bradford, now
Speaker 1: he got the knee injury and teams downplaying it. We're
Speaker 1: hoping it's not a smoke screen here. Steelers registered seven
Speaker 1: sacks against Cleveland last week. T J. Watt looks like
Speaker 1: an immediate difference maker. And that defensive line and again
Speaker 1: before you just go olds the Browns again, offensive line
Speaker 1: is better than ours. So if they got to the
Speaker 1: quarterback seven times, I think we're gonna see a lot
Speaker 1: fewer deep downfield plays for Sam Bradford this week than
Speaker 1: he had the luxury of last week. I didn't I
Speaker 1: don't know the exact stat but t J. Watt was
Speaker 1: the first rookie everyone's first game to have like two
Speaker 1: sacks of forest fumble and alignment p his pants at
Speaker 1: the same time. That's right, Soil himself, totally legit. It's
Speaker 1: the rare soiling staff. Um. I'm I'm nervous about a
Speaker 1: lot of short dump off stuff for Bradford. That would
Speaker 1: be great for theeland from a PPR standpoint. Now that
Speaker 1: he's in the slot, he is going to Um, he's
Speaker 1: going to catch a lot of passes because the Vikings
Speaker 1: love throwing the short timing stuff to their slot receiver.
Speaker 1: Last year it was Diggs. Now it's theland we sought
Speaker 1: materialized last week and he faces the worst cornerback on
Speaker 1: their roster. Slot cornerback Mike Hilton, so I like feeling
Speaker 1: would be grade Diggs I don't like quite as much,
Speaker 1: but he still gets a B grade hitter here because
Speaker 1: he's gonna draw a favorable match up against Joe Hayden.
Speaker 1: I think the Browns knew what they were doing when
Speaker 1: they cut him lose. Hayden is not not a special
Speaker 1: player and he graded out badly in the last game.
Speaker 1: So plus matchup for Diggs, who also gets a B grade,
Speaker 1: and Kyle Rudolph targeting the red zone. No, no, tight.
Speaker 1: I'm targeting the red zone more times last year than
Speaker 1: Rudolph was, and then last week scored from the red zone.
Speaker 1: So we'll continue to um, We'll continue to start him
Speaker 1: and to be great, let's flip over to the Steelers side.
Speaker 1: A grade for Levy on Bell, and I mean that
Speaker 1: should surprise nobody, and you know you wouldn't bend him anyway.
Speaker 1: But the Vikings did limit the Saints three headed backfield
Speaker 1: of just sixty combined rushing yards and Bell was stymy
Speaker 1: by the stupid Brown's defense last week, so you know
Speaker 1: this thing is still got some flux to it. But
Speaker 1: that was Levan Bell's preseason game, right So that was
Speaker 1: the knockoff the Rust game, right, So we assume Bell
Speaker 1: is going to be back and be much better here
Speaker 1: and and here's the real thing though with Bell. If
Speaker 1: Anthony Barr can't go, Bell is gonna be devastating on
Speaker 1: this defense, both as a runner and as a receiver
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. Obviously he's an elite pass catching
Speaker 1: back and Bar would pick up that assignment normally. So
Speaker 1: if Bar can't go, Bell is sitting on potentially a
Speaker 1: gigantic game. Then we go to Antonio Brown, another obvious
Speaker 1: A start. He will probably get a lot of Xavier Roads,
Speaker 1: and we've seen Roads shut down opposing number one many
Speaker 1: many times, so but it's still Antonio Brown. Um, this
Speaker 1: is It's a tough matchup Roads and out of posing
Speaker 1: receivers to catch only forty one percent of targeted balls
Speaker 1: last year, which is the best number of any starting
Speaker 1: cornerback in the league last year. Still, I thought Roads
Speaker 1: was just okay last week and Brown was obviously awesome,
Speaker 1: so he maintains an A grade. Roethlisberger gets a B
Speaker 1: grade here. Of his last ten home outings, he's not
Speaker 1: three yards and nine of them and multiple touched and
Speaker 1: and and or three touchdowns in nine of them. So
Speaker 1: it's a it's an any time he's at home, Ben
Speaker 1: is sitting at potentially an explosive game. Uh. Martavis Bryant
Speaker 1: gets a B grade here. I think he's going to
Speaker 1: draw Trey Waynes throughout this matchup as its speed versus speed.
Speaker 1: I thought Waynes played pretty well in week one, but
Speaker 1: throughout his career pretty inconsistent. Martvis Bryant, and I was
Speaker 1: kind of a knockoff the rush game for him to
Speaker 1: last week where he didn't do anything. Now he's a year,
Speaker 1: he's another week back in. I give him a B grade.
Speaker 1: Jesse James gets a C grade. We saw Kobe Fleinner
Speaker 1: with a nice game against the Vikings defense. And again,
Speaker 1: if Anthony barrs out this, you know Anthony bar gets
Speaker 1: a lot of tight end assignments and if Bars out
Speaker 1: that would open up the middle for Jesse James. Don't
Speaker 1: expect another two touchdowns, but a C grade for him
Speaker 1: that bumps up to a B grade if Bar doesn't
Speaker 1: go when we come back, take a chance on me.
Speaker 1: Nine players, many of them are available on the waiver wire,
Speaker 1: many of you already, and we two looking for waiver wire.
Speaker 1: Help one week. Help, We'll tell you who those guys
Speaker 1: are when we come back on the first three line
Speaker 1: chance on me nine players not normally in your starting lineup,
Speaker 1: We'll tell you who they are, beginning at the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: and Brian Johnson. I'm going Mike glenn and Bears in
Speaker 1: a revenge game in Tampa. Tampa Bay was one of
Speaker 1: ten teams to allow two fifty plus passing yards per
Speaker 1: game to quarterbacks last year. Jordan Howard's looking a little
Speaker 1: iffy for Chicago, so it could be a lot of
Speaker 1: pass attempts coming for Glennon It's a volume play the end.
Speaker 1: I got Jacoby Brissette, the Colts starting quarterback this week
Speaker 1: going up against Arizona. The Cardinals defense looks shaky. Last
Speaker 1: week against Matt Stafford and the Lions, they allowed tune
Speaker 1: or ninety two passing yards and four touchdowns. The Cards
Speaker 1: have given up fifteen passing touchdowns in their last five games.
Speaker 1: My Matt says that's about three per game. And when
Speaker 1: Brissette came in last week, at least he aired the
Speaker 1: ball out a little bit. He completed two passes, one
Speaker 1: of which went for fifty yards. All there's that uh
Speaker 1: and in his left and his two starts in New
Speaker 1: England last season, he proved to be pretty mobile. He
Speaker 1: averaged six yards per carry. He might be on the
Speaker 1: hook to do all of this by himself this week.
Speaker 1: So I got Jacoby Brissette. I'm going with Blake Portals
Speaker 1: against Tennessee. Unlike last week, the Jaggers will be probably
Speaker 1: playing from behind, which means plenty of passing. And you
Speaker 1: know what that means, the return of garbage time, Blake
Speaker 1: port It's garb portlege time. Tennessee's got a great run
Speaker 1: defense and a very wobbly past defense. They gave up
Speaker 1: two or sixt or two yards to two touchdowns and
Speaker 1: David Carr last week, and it should have been a
Speaker 1: lot more for Mary Cooper could hang on to a
Speaker 1: damp ball. Last year, the Times ranked twenty nine against
Speaker 1: their past. The secondaries filled with question marks, including rookie
Speaker 1: A Dory Jackson who got trucked in last week's game.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the running back position. Bryan Alvin Kamara,
Speaker 1: rookie running back for the Saints at home against New England.
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson is not a fit for the Saints. Uh,
Speaker 1: certainly not in this game, which will be an expected
Speaker 1: shootout with the Patriots. Kamara was on the field for
Speaker 1: slightly fewer snaps and mark ingram last week, but he
Speaker 1: did have more targets and carries, and I think it's
Speaker 1: fair to compare Kamara's skill set to Kareem Hunt, and
Speaker 1: we all remember what Kareem Hunt did to the Patriots
Speaker 1: Week one. Kamara should be a solid play this week. Okay, Matt,
Speaker 1: I've got Jamal Charles going up against the Cowboys. Dallas
Speaker 1: basically gave up nothing on the ground of the Giants
Speaker 1: last week, mostly because Paul Perkins should be working at
Speaker 1: Perkins instead of playing football. Uh. They did get torched
Speaker 1: by Shane Vereen, who had nine catches for fifty one yards.
Speaker 1: And the Giants have saw some sort of weakness at
Speaker 1: the running back passing game, as they threw fourteen times
Speaker 1: for a league high twelve receptions to running backs against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Charles at ten carries last week, spelling c J. Anderson,
Speaker 1: but at one point he was one of the best
Speaker 1: receiving running backs in the game, and I think that
Speaker 1: they get him going this week. I've got another receiving
Speaker 1: angle and that's Shane Vereen going up against Detroit last week.
Speaker 1: Nine catches for Shane vareens nine times. He finished Week
Speaker 1: one ranked among running backs number two in targets, number
Speaker 1: two receptions, and number six and receiving yards. His opponent
Speaker 1: this week is Detroit. Last week, Detroit gave up one
Speaker 1: hundred five receiving yards to running backs. So it's all
Speaker 1: coming together here with more's dump off stuff to Shane
Speaker 1: Verreen this week for the Giants on Monday night. I
Speaker 1: like that call. Thank you speculation. Yeah, he was your
Speaker 1: premature speculation guy last week. Nicely done on that peacock
Speaker 1: sound on the music like it had I had helped
Speaker 1: Kimara who now you're recommending as your last week and
Speaker 1: now we should do a radio show. We should do
Speaker 1: a radio show or something. Who is your Who is
Speaker 1: your wide receiver? I'm going Robert Woods of the Rams
Speaker 1: at home against Washington, who was ranked twenty nine against
Speaker 1: secondary wide receivers by Football Outsiders last year. That's the
Speaker 1: obvious Josh Norman effect, who will likely be shadowing Sammy
Speaker 1: Watkins in this game. Woods was involved quite heavily in
Speaker 1: the game where the Rams didn't really need to pass
Speaker 1: all that much last week at fifty three yards and
Speaker 1: two catches of twenty plus yards. So Washington is a
Speaker 1: team that gets grown on a lot, so you could
Speaker 1: have a good game here. Okay, I went tight end
Speaker 1: with this, and uh, I went with my guy Cameron Brad,
Speaker 1: a guy kind of touted in the preseason as a
Speaker 1: late round fire. We didn't get to see Bright last
Speaker 1: week due to IRMA, but we get did get to
Speaker 1: see the Bears give up a hundred and twenty eight
Speaker 1: yards and a score to Austin Hooper. Most of that
Speaker 1: came on one play, however, but they also did give
Speaker 1: up a big day to Kyle Rudolph in Weeks seventeen
Speaker 1: last year where he had eleven catches a hundred and
Speaker 1: seventeen yards in a touch. Jared Cook had a big
Speaker 1: game in Week fifteen, and if we go back to
Speaker 1: Week ten, Cameron Brad had seven catches for eighty four
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdowns against these Bears. So like Cameron
Speaker 1: Bright to do it again this week. I love the
Speaker 1: opportunity J J. Nelson has against the Colts. John Brown
Speaker 1: has been ruled out of this game, so J J. Nelson,
Speaker 1: who goes from kind of a rotational player, will be
Speaker 1: a full time player. He scored a touchdown last week,
Speaker 1: and now without David Johnson, the mandate for the Cardinals
Speaker 1: is gonna be to win this thing through the air, largely.
Speaker 1: Kerwin Williams is not a gifted runner. Obviously. The Colts
Speaker 1: defenses and shambles. Jared Goff just posted a career best
Speaker 1: game against them. Cooper Cup just roared through the Colts secondary.
Speaker 1: Starting safety Darius Butler is out, starting cornerback Vante Davis
Speaker 1: is out, and propo ball Focus ranks the cornerbacks T J.
Speaker 1: Green and Rashan Melvin among the very worst starter is
Speaker 1: in the league. J J. Nelson a terrific pickup and
Speaker 1: play this week. And I love him in fan Ball,
Speaker 1: where he's basically free in the fan ball scoring system.
Speaker 1: All right, that wraps up a chance. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: you missed an awesome opportunity to say, Cooper Cup runneth over. God,
Speaker 1: I got it. I'll remember that, absolutely right I did.
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins taking on the Los Angeles Chargers, Matt, what
Speaker 1: do you uh, so we haven't seen that, We haven't
Speaker 1: seen the Dolphins yet. What do you think of our
Speaker 1: prospects for our first most of the teams. It felt
Speaker 1: like last week all these first start offenses almost all struggled.
Speaker 1: This is the first game for the Dolphins. I'm very
Speaker 1: nervous about them for the exact same reason. The guy
Speaker 1: that I do like the most out of this is
Speaker 1: j Agi, who was uh they played last year. He
Speaker 1: was limited to eight total yards on twenty touches last November.
Speaker 1: But the Broncos backs combined for four point o yards
Speaker 1: per carry against the Chargers last week. So I got
Speaker 1: a Giant as a B grade. Going over to the
Speaker 1: passing game, I got Devon A Parker as a C grade.
Speaker 1: Jason Verrett was added to the injury report on Thursday
Speaker 1: with a knee injury. He's really good. This could be
Speaker 1: a day off for him, or it could be the
Speaker 1: same knee that he had a c L surgery on
Speaker 1: last season, and that could be concerning. But the Chargers
Speaker 1: do have two good corners. The other ones Casey Hayward.
Speaker 1: Casey Hayward likely draws the line up against Parker, who
Speaker 1: I have as a C grade, but if Varette plays,
Speaker 1: he should get to Kenny still, so I still like
Speaker 1: Parker better than Landry this week, but it would have
Speaker 1: been better had both of these corners, frankly not being
Speaker 1: been on him. Jarvis Landry, I gave us c as well.
Speaker 1: He gets the best wide receiver matchup, he gets slot
Speaker 1: corner Trevor Williams. And we we pounded on the slot
Speaker 1: corners against the Chargers last year, over and over and
Speaker 1: over again. Landry and Cutler didn't seem to have the
Speaker 1: overall that's concerning Tannehill is all about the dink and
Speaker 1: dunk underneath stuff, and that's all Landry brings to the table.
Speaker 1: And so I'm worried about a mismatch with his quarterback here,
Speaker 1: But I still think you're c grade on Landry is safe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's fair. Um and then Cutler. I have
Speaker 1: Cutler on the bench. The Chargers have not allowed a
Speaker 1: three hundred yard passer in their last eight games, and
Speaker 1: only three quarterbacks have thrown for multiple scores in that span,
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa and Melvin Ingram. This just in their pretty
Speaker 1: good edge rushers, and they got two good cornerbacks. I
Speaker 1: want to see Cutler play a full game before I
Speaker 1: trust him. Uh and Julius Thomas. I got him on
Speaker 1: the bench. It's a really bad desperation play at tight
Speaker 1: end if you need him. But there's no buys this week,
Speaker 1: and there's just more tight ends that have better matchups
Speaker 1: than this. Over on the charger side, I got Melvin
Speaker 1: Gordon with an a start last year in Miami yielded
Speaker 1: the fourth most rushing yards and the sixth most receptions
Speaker 1: to running backs in the meeting between the two teams
Speaker 1: last year, Gordon had a hundred and thirty two total yards.
Speaker 1: He's a great start. He's my number three running back
Speaker 1: this week. Uh the passing game Philip rivers Keenan Allen
Speaker 1: and Tyrrell Williams that gave him all B grades. I
Speaker 1: mentioned that these two teams played in twenty sixteen. That
Speaker 1: was Week ten. Rivers through for three twenty six yards
Speaker 1: and three touchdowns in that meeting. Williams had a huge
Speaker 1: game there on five yards and a touchdown. Obviously, Keenan
Speaker 1: was hurt. Alan ran out of his of his routes
Speaker 1: last week from the slot, which should mean that he
Speaker 1: faces the worst cornerback that Miami has. That's Bobby McCain.
Speaker 1: He was the tenth worst corner in Pro Football Focuses
Speaker 1: rankings last year. Finally, the two tight ends Antonio Gates
Speaker 1: and Hunter Henry. Wow, is this a disappointment last week? Uh?
Speaker 1: I got him both on the bench this week to
Speaker 1: Henry and Gates scored against the Dolphins last seasons, both
Speaker 1: of them. But Gates looked like a forty year old
Speaker 1: for sure. And uh and Henry got zero targets last week.
Speaker 1: So I'm really nervous that they're gonna keep four speeding
Speaker 1: Gates the ball until he gets his touchdown. He's gonna
Speaker 1: promptly retire on the field right there, and then we
Speaker 1: can let loose Hunter Henry and go with him. That's funny.
Speaker 1: I'd I'd like to see an in game retirement I'd
Speaker 1: be a whole new touchdown celebration. You've worked out your
Speaker 1: retirement papers out of that, you got it hidden? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they pring the cake right gold watch. It's all over
Speaker 1: right there on drop back drop behind him in a
Speaker 1: little press conference podium. Wouldn't that be nice? Though? Like
Speaker 1: I like the sound of that. Uh. When we come back,
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We'll tell
Speaker 1: you what to expect from our first look at the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, including Jacky's Rogers with a start do
Speaker 1: you dare go with him, We'll tell you when we
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Speaker 1: roll onto the matchups. Chicago Bears taking on the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. Jordan Howard's a little gampy in this one.
Speaker 1: Trekko and splashed big time. Will be spending more on
Speaker 1: those guys a little bit later broadly speaking, but do
Speaker 1: you like him in this came against Tampa? Specifically, Brian
Speaker 1: no I got to give Jordan Howard to see in
Speaker 1: this one. Limited with her shoulder injury, might be out
Speaker 1: or it could possibly be limited in the game, might
Speaker 1: not even play when healthy. You play Jordan Howard in
Speaker 1: any matchup based on his expected heavy volume, but that
Speaker 1: might not be the case here, So you gotta be
Speaker 1: a little worried if you're a Howard owner, might even
Speaker 1: explore other options. If you can Trek Cohen, I know
Speaker 1: you'll probably would be in the B range chart. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be a little more conservative and give him a
Speaker 1: c um Let's not forget he played Atlanta last week,
Speaker 1: the perfect matchup for a pass catching running back like
Speaker 1: three Cohen. Tampa Bay is not the perfect matchup. No
Speaker 1: running back top five five catches against the Bucks last
Speaker 1: year and the only allowed five catches to the position twice.
Speaker 1: So Cowen certainly it certainly isn't play, But I'm a
Speaker 1: little conservative with him this week, given him a CE.
Speaker 1: Mike Glennon was might take a chance on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: That was more of a revenge game hybrid garbage time
Speaker 1: angle there, but there's some hope for him, as there
Speaker 1: is for Kendall Wright. Gonna give him a see he
Speaker 1: was might take a chance on me wide receiver last
Speaker 1: week didn't post great numbers, but as expected, still led
Speaker 1: Chicago wide receivers and targets catches and yards three catches.
Speaker 1: I'm not lying, I'm telling factually correct. He will draw
Speaker 1: slot corner Robert McClean, who allowed a one thirty three
Speaker 1: point eight passer rating and slot coverage last year according
Speaker 1: to Pro Football Focus. That was third worst among quarterback
Speaker 1: cornerbacks with at least a hundred snaps and slot coverage
Speaker 1: over to the Bucks. Jameis Winston gets an A. Hopefully
Speaker 1: the Bucks aren't rusty. We kind of mentioned that, uh
Speaker 1: in the last segment. Matt Ryan went for three one
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown against the Bears last week. Seems
Speaker 1: like a safe floor for Winston here, especially when he
Speaker 1: has weapons like Mike Evans, who who I will also
Speaker 1: given a. The Bears did hold Julio Jones in check
Speaker 1: last week, but Mike Evans is a different breed in
Speaker 1: the red zone. Prince of Mukamara and Marcus Cooper are
Speaker 1: cornerbacks that just don't have the size to hang with Evans.
Speaker 1: No one really does, so he's an easy A. Sean
Speaker 1: Jackson basically give him a C every week just because
Speaker 1: he's such a boom or bust play. Mike Evans is
Speaker 1: easily the best Batman wide receiver he's had. Meaning to
Speaker 1: Sean Jackson is clearly the robin in that relationship. Could
Speaker 1: be in for big season, maybe a big game in
Speaker 1: this one. But he's a coin flip, but he's he's
Speaker 1: a wide receiver three for sure. Cameron brad was Matt's
Speaker 1: to take a chance, I mean receiver this week. He's
Speaker 1: in a good spot as his Jaques Rogers game script
Speaker 1: could favor him in the second half. The Bears were
Speaker 1: not good against the run last year. Ranks twenty nine
Speaker 1: by Football Outsiders, and you drafted Jackies Rogers, so use him.
Speaker 1: In the first three weeks for the most part, he
Speaker 1: might be to use him and reflex, but this is
Speaker 1: a this is a matchup. You want to use him.
Speaker 1: Otherwise you shouldn't even drafted him, So start him this week.
Speaker 1: He's a b. Patriots in the Saints should be the
Speaker 1: highest scoring game of the week. And I've got obvious
Speaker 1: maybe the year maybe obvious A grades for Brady Cooks
Speaker 1: and grond Coop are my number two, three and one
Speaker 1: respective guys at their positions, and it's an obvious bounce
Speaker 1: back game. Against a terrible defense for the Patriots, who
Speaker 1: have ten days to prepare for this game and the
Speaker 1: Saints have a short week after playing on Monday night.
Speaker 1: Mike Gillessie also with an A grade. If you think
Speaker 1: the Patriots are gonna score a lot of points, just
Speaker 1: keep this in mind. If you think the Patriots gonna
Speaker 1: score a lot of points, any given touchdown, any of them,
Speaker 1: the most likely scorer is Mike Gillesslie, just like la
Speaker 1: Garrett Blant was last year, Just like Gillesslie was in
Speaker 1: Week one. If you think they're going to be a
Speaker 1: bunch of touchdowns in this game, nobody's more likely to
Speaker 1: score them than Mike gillis Lee is every past interference
Speaker 1: in the end zone leads to a one yard Mike
Speaker 1: Gillessly touchdown run, Yes it does. Dalvin Cook ran through
Speaker 1: this defense last week. B grade for Chris Hogan plays
Speaker 1: most of his snaps on the right side of the field,
Speaker 1: and like Stephan Digs last week, that means he'll smoke
Speaker 1: DeVante Harris too. And if he flips the other side,
Speaker 1: he gets rookie marsha On Lattimore and his second ever starts.
Speaker 1: So I don't think there's a loose scenario here for
Speaker 1: Chris Hogan uh sneaky start for Rex Burkhead with Edelman
Speaker 1: and Amundola out, I think Burkehead is gonna get a
Speaker 1: lot of work from the slot. And that's where Adam
Speaker 1: Feeland just humiliated P. J. Williams for nine receptions, Like
Speaker 1: a lot of that goes to Direx Burkhead and James
Speaker 1: White with a C grade here. He carried the ball
Speaker 1: ten times last week, which surprised me that it was
Speaker 1: that high for carries. He didn't do anything with it though,
Speaker 1: Um New Orleans is a neutral matchup against running backs
Speaker 1: in the passing game, and I just think he continues
Speaker 1: to help you with the stuff that James White does,
Speaker 1: the five receptions, the six receptions, the seven or eight carries,
Speaker 1: and at the end of the day you end up
Speaker 1: with a a sea level PPR start for probably give
Speaker 1: the New England water boy at sea in this one
Speaker 1: you're probably could yes uh for New Orleans a grade
Speaker 1: on Drew Brees and obvious a start here, particularly at
Speaker 1: home where over the past two years his averag of
Speaker 1: game three hundred forty yards. She's average for most of
Speaker 1: the NFL's quarterbacks over the last two years. That's their
Speaker 1: one high water mark is a three forty yard game,
Speaker 1: the high that's a career high game. That's right, that's
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is average game over the last two years
Speaker 1: at home and two point six touchdown passes. He is
Speaker 1: an A. Kobe Fleaner is an A Patriots won't have
Speaker 1: linebacker Dante high Tower and that hurts their second level
Speaker 1: linebackers where Fleaner makes a living, and he was productive
Speaker 1: against a better Vikings defense last week, including scoring a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Fleaner is an a love that don't yes, uh, let's
Speaker 1: go to the Let's go to the wide receivers. Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas gets a B. He got bottled up by Xavier
Speaker 1: Roads in the opener, but should fare better against Malcolm
Speaker 1: Butler unless Butler Butler got He got just cleanly beat
Speaker 1: on Thursday in Week one. But last year is really good,
Speaker 1: so I'm I think Butler was. I'd like to think
Speaker 1: Butler can play better than he did two Thursdays ago.
Speaker 1: But if he's if he's not, if he's like that
Speaker 1: same guy that he was do Thursdays ago, the Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas has got a chance. He's gotta be great here.
Speaker 1: Ted Gin gets a B grade. He didn't splash against
Speaker 1: the Vikings a better defense, and the Chiefs killed the
Speaker 1: Patriots defense with speed, the deep play to Hill, the
Speaker 1: deep passes that they threw to Um Kareem Hunt. Speed
Speaker 1: killed this Patriots defense, and I think that I think
Speaker 1: the Saints are gonna find out whether or not that's
Speaker 1: gonna kill him here too, So I like again the
Speaker 1: fastest of their receivers. C grades on running backs, mark
Speaker 1: Ingram and Alvin Camara. You use camera as you take
Speaker 1: a chance to me running back, I've got a starting
Speaker 1: grade on him as well, Marking Ram for many of
Speaker 1: the same reasons Kareem Hunt crushed the Patriots on the
Speaker 1: ground and through the air. Both Ingram and Kimara can
Speaker 1: win battles on the ground and through the air. And again,
Speaker 1: no high tower at the line at the linebacker level
Speaker 1: means that these running backs are going to release in release,
Speaker 1: into into into inferior coverage, and I think they've got
Speaker 1: a chance to catch a lot of balls. Adrian Peterson
Speaker 1: should be dropped in fantasy or in reality or both both.
Speaker 1: Did you trade him to the Giants? The yeah, you can.
Speaker 1: I think I think he's got more left than Paul
Speaker 1: Perkins has. Got to be honest, I can't argue that
Speaker 1: Eagles take on the Kansas City Chiefs. Matt, what do
Speaker 1: you um? I thought that we got a very good
Speaker 1: game out of out of Wentz in the opener, but
Speaker 1: this is a brutally tough matchup. Yeah, he had a
Speaker 1: three yards for the fifth time in his career last
Speaker 1: week against Washington, but he's never thrown for more than
Speaker 1: two touchdowns in a game. So we gotta temper our
Speaker 1: expectations a little bit on Wentz. Especially over the last
Speaker 1: eight home games. The Chiefs are only allowing fourteen point
Speaker 1: six points per game two opponents in Arrowhead. They're incredibly
Speaker 1: tough to play at in Kansas City. So I only
Speaker 1: have a sea level start on Carson Wentz sounds right.
Speaker 1: I have a sea level start on Elshon Jeffrey And
Speaker 1: here's why. Marcus Peters usually lines on the right side
Speaker 1: of coverage and not usually like basically, al Shan only
Speaker 1: had one target on the right side of the field
Speaker 1: last week, so it looks like he will avoid the
Speaker 1: Peters coverage. That means he likes likely draws Terrence Mitchell,
Speaker 1: who according to Pro Football Focus, allowed ninety six receiving
Speaker 1: yards just last week and gave up a couple of
Speaker 1: big pass interference calls against Brandon Cooks as well. So
Speaker 1: I got a sea level start on al sean. Uh.
Speaker 1: The only other start on the eagle side is Zach Ertz,
Speaker 1: who gets to be The Chiefs lost Eric Berry for
Speaker 1: the season, and he was the guy who shut down
Speaker 1: Gronk last week. ERT's had ninety five receptions in his
Speaker 1: last sixteen games. He's led the team in targets, receptions,
Speaker 1: and yards even last week. He's all over the place
Speaker 1: and his Wentz his favorite target. I I love it.
Speaker 1: It's in this game. I think they're gonna throw to him. Copiously.
Speaker 1: It could be an A grade. It's it's definitely a
Speaker 1: B plus. Um on the bench, Legerett Blunt and Darren Sprowles.
Speaker 1: Sprowles led the team with the snaps to Blunts, but
Speaker 1: Blunt led the backs with fifteen touches and had his
Speaker 1: second career receiving touchdown. It's weird to think that Blunt vultured. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a receiving touchdown from Sprawls. Oh No, the reverse vulture
Speaker 1: reverse technically vultured MC did through the air. I got
Speaker 1: to appropriate vultures fly. Here's your airborne vulture touchdown. There
Speaker 1: we go. I got Tori Smith and Nelson Aglar on
Speaker 1: the bench. R tied for the team lead with eight
Speaker 1: targets last week, and of course had the big outing
Speaker 1: that was his career high in targets, catches, yards and scores,
Speaker 1: and it came out a broken play And if you
Speaker 1: take that play away, he didn't. It was like four
Speaker 1: catches for like eighteen yards or something close to that.
Speaker 1: Both of those guys should see more, Marcus Peters Tory
Speaker 1: Smith specifically, so they're on the bench. On the other side,
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunting's in a after the best fantasy debut for
Speaker 1: a rookie and week one, ever, how will he follow
Speaker 1: that up? Well, let's hope it's more than fifty seven
Speaker 1: percent of the snaps which he had against the Patriots.
Speaker 1: That's the only disappointing part there. Just think if he
Speaker 1: had nine, Hunt look good in the passing game to
Speaker 1: running some legit. Well, the downfield routes was the really
Speaker 1: impressive part. He wasn't just going out in the flat
Speaker 1: and catching a ball and lined him up outside his
Speaker 1: a receiver throwing him deep. He was the fastest player.
Speaker 1: You know these services that now that now track the
Speaker 1: speed that players are running at. He was the fastest
Speaker 1: player in the NFL last week at twenty point something
Speaker 1: miles per hour on that touchdown touchdown reception that he had. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's worth noting that the Eagles did get beat by
Speaker 1: Chris Thompson through the air for four catches fifty two
Speaker 1: yards in a touchdown as well. Tyreek Hill's gotta beat.
Speaker 1: Ronald Darby is out with an ankle injury. He was
Speaker 1: the best corner that the Eagles had in his last
Speaker 1: eight games, he'll has scored six touchdowns, including three on
Speaker 1: the ground. Had the big week last week. He's really good,
Speaker 1: Alex Smith. I got a C grade. Alex Smith get this,
Speaker 1: has never thrown for three hundred yards twice in the
Speaker 1: same season in the same season stat after last week,
Speaker 1: and he had his one for the season already this week.
Speaker 1: Four touchdowns he threw against the Patriots last week, well
Speaker 1: that was pretty much it too. He only had four
Speaker 1: outings where he threw two touchdowns last season. Hasn't had
Speaker 1: three touchdowns in a game before that since Week one
Speaker 1: of Travis Kelsey I'm only giving a C grade two
Speaker 1: as well. Last year, the Eagles gave up the second
Speaker 1: fewest yards in the league to the tight end position,
Speaker 1: averaging twenty six point four yards per game to tight ends.
Speaker 1: They're really good against the tight ends. So that's it,
Speaker 1: all right. Let's go to Titans taking on the Jacksonville Jaguars. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Jaguars defense elite last week, but a much tougher
Speaker 1: game coming for them against a diverse Tennessee offense. YEA,
Speaker 1: let's start with Marcus Mariotta. Going to give him a B.
Speaker 1: He broke his leg in the last meeting between these
Speaker 1: two teams late in the season, and his two career
Speaker 1: games prior he had two hundred and seventy yards and
Speaker 1: two passing touchdowns and to sixty eight and three with
Speaker 1: one rushing touchdown thrown in. So Jacksonville's defense is improved,
Speaker 1: but the Shawn Watson made some things happen when he
Speaker 1: came in last week, and Mariotta is certainly player of that.
Speaker 1: Ilk Richard Matthews, Eric Decker, and Corey Davis, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give them all a see just because there's just too
Speaker 1: many of these guys in this at the receiver targets
Speaker 1: last week. Decker had eight, Richard Matthews had nine, Corey
Speaker 1: Davis had ten. Decker by far had the worst statistical day,
Speaker 1: but he had three red zone targets to the combined
Speaker 1: two from Matthews and Davis. Decker has been dropped in
Speaker 1: a lot of leagues, So grab I think you should
Speaker 1: grab Decker. I don't think I think that's an overreaction
Speaker 1: to leave. He was the only wide receiver targeted inside
Speaker 1: the ten yard line too, and it happened twice last
Speaker 1: good sneaky stuff right there. Jalen Ramsey and A. J.
Speaker 1: Bouyer are formidable corners for Jacksonville. But all these guys
Speaker 1: are startable. But yeah, if Decker is on the wire,
Speaker 1: grab him immediately. Laney Walker gets a B. Has scored
Speaker 1: in two of his last three games against Jacksonville. The
Speaker 1: Jaguars allowed six catches and six yards at Houston tight
Speaker 1: ends last week, so Walker has a nice floor. He
Speaker 1: had nine targets last week, so we felt no ill
Speaker 1: effects for plays wide receivers. Um DeMarco Murray gets a
Speaker 1: B on borderline. C on Murray right now was somewhat
Speaker 1: plot usque against Oakland last week did not look good. UH.
Speaker 1: In the two games last year, he had a one
Speaker 1: yard game with a touchdown, but his most recent game
Speaker 1: was a huge dud against the Jaguars. Houston did absolutely
Speaker 1: nothing on the ground last week against Jacksonville. But Tennessee
Speaker 1: does have a much better offensive line. You're starting to
Speaker 1: Marco Murray, but just barely. I might start Charles Clay
Speaker 1: over to Marco Murray in the league of minding the two,
Speaker 1: and Derrick Henry is on the bench. It was a
Speaker 1: two to one split and carries with Murray last week.
Speaker 1: I expect more of that ratio early on, but his
Speaker 1: his numbers should climb as this season goes on Over
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville. Leonard Fournette gets a b great debut for him.
Speaker 1: I was wrong on him so far. I thought it'd
Speaker 1: be more of a tune early on. UH. Tennessee only
Speaker 1: allowed three running backs to top seventy rushing yards last year, though,
Speaker 1: and Leonard Fournette will be the focus of defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: Dick Lebou. Real quick on Dick lebou eighty years old
Speaker 1: and he's still that's awesome. Already forty four years as
Speaker 1: a coach and fourteen as a player before and he's
Speaker 1: still doing it one of the best. Uh Alan hearns
Speaker 1: Mark's lea and give him both the sea. Neither are
Speaker 1: that great, but Blake Bortles has to throw to somebody
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Secondary is that's how you beat Tennessee defenses
Speaker 1: through the air, It's not on the ground. They did
Speaker 1: sign quarterback Logan Ryan, which bolster bolstered that secondary a little.
Speaker 1: But both of those guys are startable. Because Blake Bortles,
Speaker 1: as you said, charges you to take a chance on
Speaker 1: the quarterback. He just might take a chance on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to knock down the Browns at Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Ravens and ninety seconds or last only two Browns to
Speaker 1: only one Brown to mention is a starting grade. And
Speaker 1: that's Isaiah Kroll with a CE totally ineffective last week.
Speaker 1: Now he gets a better run defense in Baltimore that
Speaker 1: only allowed seventy five rushing yards to Cincinnati's runners. Krowell
Speaker 1: did nothing in last week last year's Week ten meeting
Speaker 1: with Baltimore. Your glimmer of hope, though, is if you
Speaker 1: rewind back to Week two of last year against Baltimore,
Speaker 1: he blew up for one hundred thirty three yards. That
Speaker 1: was the biggest total any runner put on the Ravens
Speaker 1: all year. Everybody else is on the bench for Cleveland.
Speaker 1: You might be tempted to start to Shaun Kaiser and
Speaker 1: hope for like rushing yards or rushing touchdowns, but get this.
Speaker 1: No team allowed fewer rushing yards to quarterbacks last year
Speaker 1: than the Ravens at four rushing yards per game allowed
Speaker 1: to quarterbacks four. That's it. And if a j Green
Speaker 1: can't get it going, how are you gonna start Corey
Speaker 1: Coleman or you know, anybody else from the Browns receiver's group.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Baltimore side. Terence West gets a
Speaker 1: b start. Don't be fooled by the Browns current standing
Speaker 1: is the NFL sting gious run defense. Uh that that
Speaker 1: was the Jets they caught Sorry, that was that was
Speaker 1: Lavy on belt looking rusty at you know, they got rusty.
Speaker 1: They got him rusty at the right time. In the opener,
Speaker 1: Let's not forget that Cleveland had the thirty first ranked
Speaker 1: run defense last year, giving up onetree ground yards per game.
Speaker 1: West is an excellent candidate for twenty plus touches with
Speaker 1: Danny woodhead out. Even bunk Allen is startable here with
Speaker 1: a C grade. I think he's garbage, but so's the
Speaker 1: Browns defense. So in a matchup of underachievers, he got
Speaker 1: hamster that one time. He did shave the hamster once
Speaker 1: last year, and we'll never forget it. Now. If we
Speaker 1: can come up with hamster shaving sound, that would be
Speaker 1: really impressed. Please let's go to the passing game. Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco was C grade here, not the rust stoff last week.
Speaker 1: Only completed nine passes and that, But now he gets
Speaker 1: a secondary in flux without Joe Hayden or Calvin Pryor.
Speaker 1: Flacco went nuts on the Browns last year, two of
Speaker 1: his best games of the year. In the two matchups,
Speaker 1: he combined for six hundred passing yards and five touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He gets us. He gets a C grade in this game.
Speaker 1: You could move, you could bump him up to a
Speaker 1: B if you feel a little more exotic. But he
Speaker 1: did so little work last year, last last week that
Speaker 1: I don't feel comfortable necessarily making him a B grade.
Speaker 1: Mike Wallace gets a C grade. He scored twice against
Speaker 1: the Browns in the first matchup last year and that
Speaker 1: was in Week two. Then he scored one more time
Speaker 1: the whole rest of the season for Mike Wallace. If
Speaker 1: you recall, he's got a decent matchup against Jamar Taylor,
Speaker 1: who struggled last week, and Jeremy mackllan scored last week
Speaker 1: but only a two catches. He's gonna draw slot corner.
Speaker 1: Brian body Calhoun is actually pretty solid, so I've got
Speaker 1: him former the bench. That is correct. He's actually he's
Speaker 1: not half bad former Gopher. When we come back, Five
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Speaker 1: number one. Yeah, it's hot. I keep saying tough. It's
Speaker 1: gonna take me years to get through this. Can fantasy
Speaker 1: owners start Jordan Howard and Teri Cohen in the same
Speaker 1: backfield every week or most every week? Ryan, life is
Speaker 1: of Devani's in your hand. That's true. Yes, thank you. Uh,
Speaker 1: normally i'd say yes, and I'm gonna say yes, you
Speaker 1: can start both. Might be a caveat this week because
Speaker 1: Howard's a little banged up, but let's pretend he's good
Speaker 1: to go. Yeah, you can start both of these guys
Speaker 1: because Howard's the bell cow running back and Cohen is
Speaker 1: a scat back who is basically going to be a
Speaker 1: wide receiver this year. Uh. Cohen got twelve targets last week.
Speaker 1: It was against Atlanta, but still he could get seven
Speaker 1: to eight to nine a week in this offense. Two
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy two vacated targets for the Bears last year.
Speaker 1: That was before they lost Kevin White last week, so
Speaker 1: that packs on. It's about three hundred targets that are
Speaker 1: now open for Chicago. So yes, you can start both
Speaker 1: in this offense. Okay. I think this is a philosophical
Speaker 1: how you build your lineup question, and it comes down
Speaker 1: to are you looking for safety and touch volume from
Speaker 1: two backs in the same offense? Are you looking at
Speaker 1: upside and maybe multiple scores and big games from multiple backs? Um?
Speaker 1: I tend to go do the opposite on my team.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at a stable of running backs where
Speaker 1: it's a fairly large group of running backs and I'm
Speaker 1: playing the best matchups of the week. So I'm not
Speaker 1: going to end up with Jordan Howard and Tarik Cohen
Speaker 1: on my team. And I would never. I would never
Speaker 1: end up with two running backs in the same backfield.
Speaker 1: It's not my style. I would never do it. So
Speaker 1: your answer here is no, No, this was not meant
Speaker 1: for your personal team. It's not. It's not meant for
Speaker 1: my taste. I would never start two running backs on
Speaker 1: the same offense. And he's been trying to trade for
Speaker 1: devant to Howard and Tevin Coleman by the way from
Speaker 1: me in the Empire League, Davante Howard doesn't exist in
Speaker 1: the preseason. We like Howard enough to rank him. You know,
Speaker 1: by we I mean universally rank him roughly running back five, right.
Speaker 1: Cohen doesn't take anything away from him. Cohen still maintain
Speaker 1: he's every bit you know, he's every bit as good
Speaker 1: Howard is everybody's good regardless of what Cohen does, because
Speaker 1: he doesn't take away anything from what Howard does. And
Speaker 1: cod can lead the team and receptions. As Brian correctly assessed,
Speaker 1: he's basically a wide receiver with a running back number
Speaker 1: on his back. And so you you can absolutely start
Speaker 1: both guys. And I'll note this, you guys didn't bring
Speaker 1: up Chicago schedule has very few stoppers in it. I
Speaker 1: think the only two games where you would hesitate to
Speaker 1: start both of these guys at Baltimore and Week six
Speaker 1: at Philadelphia, Week twelve, the rest of it game. On
Speaker 1: question number two, should David Johnson owners just drop him?
Speaker 1: Matt No, but I like the idea of trading him
Speaker 1: at a discount if you're in a redraft league, especially
Speaker 1: if you're thin at running back, because it's a risk injury,
Speaker 1: which means he should be in good shape and you
Speaker 1: can sell that to a trade partner. If the Cardinals
Speaker 1: offense looks halfway decent this week against the Colts, you
Speaker 1: can also sell that to a trade partner. So I
Speaker 1: think that you'd have to sell to a team that's
Speaker 1: deep at running back, probably target their second or third
Speaker 1: running back, like a Isaiah Crowle or maybe a Tevin Coleman.
Speaker 1: Since he didn't do much in week one. See if
Speaker 1: you can get a dart throw like Kenny Golladay thrown
Speaker 1: in there, do a two for one, do something like that,
Speaker 1: and see if you can work it. Okay, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: all for trying to trade him, Bob, but you can't
Speaker 1: drop him unless you're in a shallow eight to ten
Speaker 1: team league. But overall, I'm gonna say no, even though
Speaker 1: when Johnson comes back, or when you hope he comes back,
Speaker 1: Let's say week thirteen is the best case scenario. He's
Speaker 1: looking at the Rams Titans at Washington. That's a plus matchup,
Speaker 1: but then the Giants in week sixteen. If you play
Speaker 1: in week seventeen, he's at Seattle, it's a brutal schedule.
Speaker 1: He's a special player. Uh So, not a great matchup,
Speaker 1: but I'm holding unless I can trade, no drop. Um,
Speaker 1: I I was not factoring and trading, and obviously that
Speaker 1: I think that the concept behind this was not you
Speaker 1: can go get value for him. Okay, great, you know,
Speaker 1: but that's I think the concept was here that trading
Speaker 1: was not an option, although I didn't expressly put it
Speaker 1: in the question. You have to go with your own
Speaker 1: hearts on this one. Uh, there's all about opportunity cost.
Speaker 1: What are you losing by rostering a zero point player
Speaker 1: for the next three months. Could you be picking up
Speaker 1: somebody helpful, somebody that's gonna turn into it, It's gonna
Speaker 1: turn bye week losses into bye week wins, somebody who's
Speaker 1: gonna surprise and become a starter for your team. You're
Speaker 1: looking at twelve weeks at a minimum at which you
Speaker 1: will have zero points, and that is simply too much
Speaker 1: to play. And he comes back for the Fantasy playoffs?
Speaker 1: Are you in the Fantasy playoffs at that point because
Speaker 1: you've taken You've had a zero point guy in your
Speaker 1: roster all this time. Maybe not Lastly, if he does
Speaker 1: come back in mid December, which seems to be the
Speaker 1: roughly the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and he's estimated
Speaker 1: to come back. Let's call it mid December. Are the
Speaker 1: Cardinals a three win team at that point? The four
Speaker 1: win team? And do they say to themselves, you know what,
Speaker 1: are we gonna try him out there? Have him suffering
Speaker 1: a c L injury in a lost season. Maybe not.
Speaker 1: They may minimize him or not even bother bringing him back.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of ways this thing could go
Speaker 1: sideways for David Johnson, and if you can't trade him,
Speaker 1: you may as well drop him. Davanny's hot question number three.
Speaker 1: Should Danny Woodhead owners just drop him? Brian, Yes, I was.
Speaker 1: I wasn't an advocate for drafting him. I was, in fact,
Speaker 1: I was quite against it, and I just look at
Speaker 1: the scenario this way, he'll be back around the midpoint season,
Speaker 1: at the midpoint of the season. So imagine you're doing
Speaker 1: a midpoint draft, you know, starting from scratch the middle season.
Speaker 1: Are you targeting Danny would hit in that draft? I
Speaker 1: certainly am not, So I don't want him on my
Speaker 1: team at midpoint in the season. I never trust him
Speaker 1: to stay healthy for obvious reasons. I feel bad. He's
Speaker 1: a great player, but click dropped. Sorry, Danny. I agree,
Speaker 1: he simply can't stay on the field, and no one
Speaker 1: is going to pick him up for that reason alone,
Speaker 1: because he's so injury prone. And if you listen to
Speaker 1: the show the week or two before he comes back,
Speaker 1: he will be charges premature speculation that week. Then you
Speaker 1: can pick him up and put him back on your
Speaker 1: roster and we'll be all. Okay, allow me to read
Speaker 1: my third bullet point to answer for now you've got
Speaker 1: to drop him, but in early November, go get him.
Speaker 1: I will remind you during pretymature speculation in early November.
Speaker 1: There we go. You know me a little too. That's frightening,
Speaker 1: how well you know me? Devanny's hot question number four.
Speaker 1: Does Jacoby Brissette help the Colts offense, hurt the Colts
Speaker 1: offense or neither? Matt Well he was might take a
Speaker 1: chance on me quarterback, So I think he helps the
Speaker 1: Colts offense a little. He's definitely a help over Scott
Speaker 1: Tolzine luck shoulder is worse than they're letting on. I
Speaker 1: think he's not going to play for months. It's it's
Speaker 1: going to be months, not weeks. Uh. They traded a
Speaker 1: former first round in Philip Dorsett for Brissette as well.
Speaker 1: He has running ability. I think he gives that offense
Speaker 1: a slight chance to look good in any given weeks,
Speaker 1: So I I he's got to help. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: this help from like the Tolzine era, like does he
Speaker 1: make the team? That was at the question it is
Speaker 1: the team better off with? Effectively? Are they better off
Speaker 1: with Jacoby Brissette in this offense? Then? And and then
Speaker 1: other alternatives besides obviously and h you know they're moving
Speaker 1: to Brissette now he's their starters. Are they ultimately better
Speaker 1: now with him? Okay? So yeah, I would say yes,
Speaker 1: he's better than Scott Scott Tolzene, who has given us
Speaker 1: a one thousand, sixty five yards and four in his
Speaker 1: four year career. Brissette has only at fifty eight pass
Speaker 1: attempts in his career, but he's total four yards. That's
Speaker 1: a three three hundred yards per game pace. And as
Speaker 1: Mett mentioned, he's great on the ground, so easily and
Speaker 1: produced the Colts offense over Scott Tolzine. By definition, the
Speaker 1: Colts offense couldn't go down already ground zero, right, So
Speaker 1: that's throw that that out. So the correct answer is
Speaker 1: either help or neither. He started You remember he started
Speaker 1: two full games and played in part of another game
Speaker 1: roughly half of another game last year. Do you remember
Speaker 1: what happened in those games? He had a shutout for
Speaker 1: him and a shutout against him, right, and he generated
Speaker 1: zero touchdowns himself. Did not throw a single touchdown in
Speaker 1: any of those In fact, the Patriots scored four hundred
Speaker 1: fifty nine points last year. Brissette, despite playing in two
Speaker 1: and a half games as the starter, provided zero of
Speaker 1: the four points He's he had a rushing Cooktown. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: actually might be right about I stand corrected. Uh. He
Speaker 1: brings a little athleticism to the position, which he definitely
Speaker 1: needs because starting center Ryan Kelly's out again is gonna
Speaker 1: be out for a little while. Ultimately, he does help,
Speaker 1: but not by much. Dev's hot question number five. The
Speaker 1: Bengals offense hasn't scored a touchdown and they're desperately churning
Speaker 1: offensive coordinators. Can you drop all of their running backs outright? Brian?
Speaker 1: We certainly harped on the concerns we had for Cincinnati's
Speaker 1: offensive line in the preseason, and I talked about it
Speaker 1: many times. Quite evident, stay away, Yes, So I think
Speaker 1: you can safely drop Hill and g O right now,
Speaker 1: because you haven't invested a lot of draft capital in them,
Speaker 1: but you did for Joe Mixon, so it's a little
Speaker 1: premature to drop him right now. I think he had
Speaker 1: a few nice runs the other night against Houston, and
Speaker 1: I just look at his schedule coming up. He has
Speaker 1: green Bay coming up next week where they'll be chasing points.
Speaker 1: Hopefully his role increases there, and then Cleveland next week.
Speaker 1: Don't drop Joe Mixon yet. There's hope Brian hit all
Speaker 1: my points. That's it, Yeah, and really most of mine
Speaker 1: as well. I'll just mention a couple of more things here.
Speaker 1: There's a chance that new offensive coordinator Bill Laser is
Speaker 1: going to change up the mix and designate a workhorse back,
Speaker 1: which we you know, we never got before. Right it's
Speaker 1: desper need, which you would which they would be nice.
Speaker 1: And if there's one guy that's gonna happen to, Joe
Speaker 1: Mixon is the only one who's shown signs of life
Speaker 1: that he could be that bad. So we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: mixing hope against hope that that happens. But I want
Speaker 1: to spend just a second on something you just said, Ryan,
Speaker 1: haven't invested draft capital and a guy I think that's
Speaker 1: I think that kind of thinking is a huge mistake.
Speaker 1: Where you drafted a guy or how much how many
Speaker 1: auction dollars you put into a guy should be irrelevant
Speaker 1: in your decisions going forward. Like if you made a
Speaker 1: mistake on Eddie Lazy. Some of us had him ranked
Speaker 1: number fifty one at the running back position, but maybe
Speaker 1: you didn't listen to that, and you took him at
Speaker 1: the average draft position, which was you know, like round
Speaker 1: eight or something. But a touch guy and he hasn't
Speaker 1: gotten that opportunity yet. That's I'm kind of more that
Speaker 1: I'm just talking more. I'm with you. I don't I think.
Speaker 1: I don't think where you drafted a guy should stop
Speaker 1: you from dumping him if you need that roster spot
Speaker 1: for somebody else. Swallow your pride to get rid of
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson. Swallow probably get rid of Eddie Lazy, Danny
Speaker 1: Woodhead Johnson, David Johnson, Right, I mean just they're just
Speaker 1: sometimes when you just need to make your team better
Speaker 1: and you need to get over your mistakes that you
Speaker 1: made three weeks ago at the draft. Fish or cut bait. Uh.
Speaker 1: Let me mention this as a side note, since I
Speaker 1: happened to be on Lacey and Peterson. I tweeted this
Speaker 1: just two years ago. Two years ago, a DP player
Speaker 1: number two in the entire all Fantasy football average second
Speaker 1: player taken in drafts, Eddie Lacey, average third player taken
Speaker 1: in drafts, Adrian Peterson. Here we are just two years later,
Speaker 1: and they are both droppable out. We're not even droppable.
Speaker 1: You should drop them. It's like drop able. You should
Speaker 1: be dropping both of them. That tells you the volatility
Speaker 1: of the running back position. And for anybody who comes
Speaker 1: back with which too many people did on Twitter, well
Speaker 1: that was two years ago. The point is, in the
Speaker 1: span of just two years, they went from the best
Speaker 1: in the estimation of the fantasy community, the best two
Speaker 1: of the three best players possible, to not even on rosters.
Speaker 1: So people got bludgeoned by those players over the last
Speaker 1: two years. So trade Levan Bell now in dynasty leagues
Speaker 1: we might want to do. Let's go back to our matchups.
Speaker 1: Matt in Arizona takes on the Indianapolis UH Indianapolis Colts
Speaker 1: Arizona obviously without David Johnson. Yeah, that's not good. Let's
Speaker 1: start with the running backs. Then I have all of
Speaker 1: them on the bench, Kerwin, Andrea Ellington and Chris Johnson.
Speaker 1: Even against the Colt against the Grain, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a three headed attack, despite the fact that called Kerwin
Speaker 1: Williams the starter. William's average two point o yards per
Speaker 1: carry last week in the absence of Dave Ellington will
Speaker 1: gobble up most of the receptions, and they resigned c
Speaker 1: J two K who has scored like four touchdowns in
Speaker 1: the last three years. He's gonna get work. It's just
Speaker 1: gonna be ugly and I don't want any part of it. Um.
Speaker 1: I think this is your one chance to start Kurwin
Speaker 1: Williams because he knows he knows the offense better than
Speaker 1: the others do. Andre Ellington, they tried to convert to
Speaker 1: wide receiver in the off season, didn't work. They got
Speaker 1: him back at running back. I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: get a lot of carries. I don't know that Chris
Speaker 1: Johnson is ready to get a lot of carries. And
Speaker 1: it's the Colts. I feel like this is and I
Speaker 1: don't like Owen Williams, but I think this is the
Speaker 1: one chance he could do it. There's no buys this week.
Speaker 1: Nobody's starting Kerwin Williams. Come on, a lot of people
Speaker 1: starting Kerwin will all right, can you do a Kermit
Speaker 1: the Frog? All right? Hold, this is Kerwin Williams. That
Speaker 1: was really good. It was really disturbingly good. Actually, you've
Speaker 1: got kids, all right, um, Carson Palmer, I got a
Speaker 1: sea level start on What's bad for the offense is
Speaker 1: bad for the offense, we always say on this show.
Speaker 1: Palmer lost maybe the best running back in the league
Speaker 1: and his left tackle DJ Humphries in week one. He
Speaker 1: threw three picks last week, but one of which David
Speaker 1: Johnson ran the wrong route, one of which he was
Speaker 1: hit during the throw, and one of which was Andre
Speaker 1: Ellington tipping it to a defender. So they really weren't
Speaker 1: as much his fault on that one. Uh. Jermaine Gresham
Speaker 1: and Larry Fitzgerald each dropped touchdowns in j J Nelson
Speaker 1: dropped a fort yard pass, so Carson Palmer's day could
Speaker 1: have looked really good for a couple of throws going
Speaker 1: the other way. So I still got him as a
Speaker 1: sea level start against a bad Indeed, d also got
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald as a sea level start. Fitz he at
Speaker 1: thirteen targets last week against the Lions, but very much
Speaker 1: looked his age. The Colts have a terrible secondary, but
Speaker 1: have only allowed three touchdowns to opposing wide receivers in
Speaker 1: the last eight games. Yeah, they're terrible now though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know Vante Davis is out and is free, but
Speaker 1: and so and those are starting safety out. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is a I think it's a nice opportunity for my guy,
Speaker 1: j J. Nelson. It looks like Brian's guy, Germaine Gresham
Speaker 1: is out this week and John Brown is out as well.
Speaker 1: Charge had J J. Nelson is just take a chance
Speaker 1: on me wide receiver and Jaren Brown's the other guy
Speaker 1: who's there. And I get it. It's the worst secondary
Speaker 1: in the league, but I I don't want to start
Speaker 1: any part of the Carson Palmer team outside of Larry
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald right now. On the other side, Jacoby Brissette was
Speaker 1: my take a chance on me quarterback. I got a
Speaker 1: sea level start on t Y Hilton. He figures to
Speaker 1: drop Pat Pete in this game. But Golden Tate had
Speaker 1: a decent outing last week in his coverage the bright
Speaker 1: spot here. He led the team in targets and it's
Speaker 1: been been pretty much at the top of that list
Speaker 1: regardless of quarterback who's been in for the Colts. I
Speaker 1: got Frank Gore and Marlon Mack on the bench. No
Speaker 1: running back has top two hundred yards against the Cards
Speaker 1: since Week three of last season. This is gross and
Speaker 1: it's a timeshare right now. And I got Dante Moncrief
Speaker 1: and Jack Doyle both on the bench. Moncrief caught the
Speaker 1: big fifty yard throw from Burssette last week, but that
Speaker 1: was it. He's generally useless if Andrew Lux not playing,
Speaker 1: and even then he's touchdown dependent. And the Cards after
Speaker 1: being a tight end easy spot for the last like
Speaker 1: five years, last year they figured it out and we're
Speaker 1: one of the top defenses against tight ends in so
Speaker 1: Doyle is not a value play in this matchup. When
Speaker 1: we come back, we will talk about the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: at the Denver Broncos. A tough matchup. Another tough matchup
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys, who just came off of one.
Speaker 1: Now they get another one as they travel to the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos. But beyond Zeke, do you dare start anybody
Speaker 1: will day when we come back, the weekly matchups for you,
Speaker 1: beginning with the Washington Redskins taking on the Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 1: I don't think the Rams are gonna score forty six
Speaker 1: points this game, probably not. But Washington's Devens isn't that great.
Speaker 1: But let's start with our offense. Kirk Cousins gets the Sea.
Speaker 1: He did not look good last week, but going back
Speaker 1: to last year, the Rams allowed at least three passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns and four of their last six games. Scott Tolzine
Speaker 1: and the Rams in the Colts are not a true
Speaker 1: test for the Rams last week, so we have nothing
Speaker 1: to glean from that really about our Cousins is startable
Speaker 1: as his Durell prior my boy gets to be this
Speaker 1: week had eleven targets last week was a PPR Helper
Speaker 1: dropped a long touchdown which was just brutal. But he
Speaker 1: was wide open and he'll continue to get wide open
Speaker 1: this year. Uh. Not a plus matchup by any means,
Speaker 1: but I do see another ten targets at least in
Speaker 1: this game. Um As for his counterpart, Jameson Crowder in
Speaker 1: the slot, I got him on the bench. He was
Speaker 1: really quiet last week. The Rams lines kind of dinged
Speaker 1: up too though he was He's coming along, but Nickel,
Speaker 1: Robie Coleman isn't above average slot corner. He's krit crowd
Speaker 1: is wornth starring, but he's also worth exploring other options
Speaker 1: if you have them, so I have him on the bench. Personally, though,
Speaker 1: Jordan Reed gets a C. He didn't really look like
Speaker 1: he had a broken toe last week. Looked okay to me.
Speaker 1: I think maybe they're just getting the news out there
Speaker 1: in advance because they're expecting a broken toe. What's going
Speaker 1: to happen? It's like boiler plate read injury report. Basically,
Speaker 1: he is a thin orthotic away from hitting I r
Speaker 1: On on the toe. Yeah, he did catch five passes
Speaker 1: last week, just thirty six yards. The eight targets were encouraging.
Speaker 1: You still have to start him when he's on the field.
Speaker 1: Bottom line and Rob Kelly gets the see just barely startable.
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald is back in full swing for the Rams,
Speaker 1: who only allowed two running backs to top one hundred
Speaker 1: yards since the start of last season. Over to the Rams.
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley gets a B. I'm close to giving him
Speaker 1: an A in this matchup, but he had to work
Speaker 1: a little too hard for those good numbers he posted
Speaker 1: against The Colts were very bad run defense. Washington is
Speaker 1: also a very bad run defense, though they were one
Speaker 1: of the three teams to allow twenty total touchdowns to
Speaker 1: running backs last year. And Gurley was key in the
Speaker 1: passing game last week. Caught five passes for few six yards.
Speaker 1: So he's looking like a true bell cow as we expected. Uh,
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins is more like Sammy Squatkins this week. I
Speaker 1: got him on the bench. It's all about Josh Norman.
Speaker 1: Should have benched alshon Jeffrey last week, should bench Sammy
Speaker 1: Watkins this week. So that's simple for me. For that reason,
Speaker 1: I have Robert Woods is might take a chance of
Speaker 1: me wide receiver. Secondary receivers just kill Washington. And for
Speaker 1: that reason, Cooper Cup, who I was going to use
Speaker 1: as might take a chance to me receiver but felt
Speaker 1: he was too obvious after that great debut, he gets
Speaker 1: to be for the same reason, I had Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: as my take a chance to me wide receiver but
Speaker 1: last week, but then last week's co host Jay said
Speaker 1: he wanted to use another another of the receivers from
Speaker 1: the Rams, So like, all right, fine, I'll get off
Speaker 1: a Cooper Cup and I went to somebody else. Now
Speaker 1: I regret never letting Jay change my take a chance
Speaker 1: of me guys again, don't do that. And lastly, I'll
Speaker 1: give Jared Goff a CEE. Even with Watkins presumably neutralized,
Speaker 1: there's probably enough here to cold together two two in
Speaker 1: this matchup. So yeah, Jared Goff, how about that. Let's
Speaker 1: let's go to our next matchup, San Francisco taking on
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. That's mine. I got a couple of
Speaker 1: sea grades here from the Niners, and that's it. Carlos
Speaker 1: Hide caught five balls on six targets last week. Shanahan
Speaker 1: is feeding Hide receptions and he's gonna need it because
Speaker 1: they're gonna behind, They're gonna be throwing a lot, and
Speaker 1: that's your angle here, really is is through what he
Speaker 1: can Hide can give you through the air, which I
Speaker 1: think is going to be, you know, not not not
Speaker 1: bad um. Seattle has had trouble in the past with
Speaker 1: pass catching running back, so we'll start Carlos Hide here.
Speaker 1: Didn't do much in this matchup last year, whatever that's worth.
Speaker 1: But new offense now with Shanahan Peare Garson obviously with
Speaker 1: a very tough matchup, but he'll draw the least good
Speaker 1: of the Seahawks cornerbacks, Shaq Griffin who ProFootball Focus ranked
Speaker 1: as cornerback sixty five after week one, and San Francis
Speaker 1: is gonna be playing from behind, and I think they're
Speaker 1: throwing throughout in this game. So se grade on peerre Garson.
Speaker 1: Everybody else is on the bench. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: Seattle side. A grade on Doug Baldwin, who smoked the
Speaker 1: Niners for one hundred sixty four yards in one of
Speaker 1: the two matchups last year, but he was quiet in
Speaker 1: other one. He runs out of the slot almost exclusively.
Speaker 1: That puts him up against Kawan Williams, who wasn't good
Speaker 1: enough for the Browns to keep him in the off season,
Speaker 1: so I gotta believe this is a pretty good matchup
Speaker 1: for him. And Williams allowed No name slot receiver Russell
Speaker 1: Shepherd to score against him last week. Said Doug Baldwin
Speaker 1: is a lot better than Russell Shepherd, So a grade
Speaker 1: for Doug Baldwin. Let's go to Russell Wilson, who's gotta
Speaker 1: be grade. Obviously limited by a horrific offensive line, but
Speaker 1: the Niners get very little pressure on quarterbacks, including Cam
Speaker 1: Newton last week, who who they were held to zero sacks,
Speaker 1: So I think Russell Wilson's fine here. Uh. He's no
Speaker 1: less mobile than um than Cam Newton was, and I
Speaker 1: don't think they get any pressure on him. And in
Speaker 1: his two matchups to San Francisco last year, he threw
Speaker 1: for about two hundred forty yards and both of those
Speaker 1: had one touchdown in both of those. I think that's
Speaker 1: your kind of your minimums here. Uh. I don't do
Speaker 1: not expect an explosive game from Russell Wilson because the
Speaker 1: offensive line, but a solid game sounds right. Staying with
Speaker 1: the passing game, Jimmy Graham c grade despite just while
Speaker 1: he had just eight yards last week and he's forced
Speaker 1: to block a lot more than we want him to
Speaker 1: because the Seattle offensive line stinks and the Niners held
Speaker 1: Greg Olson last week to just eighteen yards. So I
Speaker 1: don't love him here. I know you drafted. There are
Speaker 1: people like Jimmy Graham was like number two tight end.
Speaker 1: Graham had a couple of bad drops last week in
Speaker 1: that game too that were just ugly. He was targeted
Speaker 1: five times and he only turned it into two catches.
Speaker 1: Paul Richardson will match up with Richard Robinson, who played
Speaker 1: pretty well last week and he limited Calvin Benjamin to
Speaker 1: just one catch title a Locket's gonna get a little
Speaker 1: more playing time, which is a little worrisome for Richardson,
Speaker 1: but I still think he doesn't take that much away
Speaker 1: from Richardson, Who's gonna be an every down starter, and
Speaker 1: you could give him a C grade. Let's go on
Speaker 1: to the running game. C grades on Chris Carson and
Speaker 1: Thomas Rawls, who will split carries, and I think both
Speaker 1: have decent performances here. The Niners were dead last against
Speaker 1: the run last year, and they gave up one thirteen
Speaker 1: rushing yards last week. Speaking of last week, both Jonathan
Speaker 1: Stewart and Christie McCaffrey were helpful to fantasy owners. So
Speaker 1: maybe both Carson and Rawls can do it here too,
Speaker 1: if Seattle's offensive line can judge do anything, which frankly
Speaker 1: isn't a given. Eddie Lacey. There's an offensive line epidemic
Speaker 1: in the NFL right now. No there is the there
Speaker 1: there is. There's six or seven teams that are paralyzed
Speaker 1: by bad offensive line play, and it's it's a huge
Speaker 1: underreported issue for the whole league. You know, we're all
Speaker 1: busy talking about Colin Kaepernick. How about fact that seven
Speaker 1: teams can't get cobble together an offensive line that can
Speaker 1: do anything. Let's go to our next matchup, which is
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys at the Denver Broncos. Tough matchup for Dallas.
Speaker 1: Another one we'll start Zeke. Of course, what do you
Speaker 1: what about the passing game? Are there any angles here
Speaker 1: that you like against a traditionally stout Denver secondary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really the dump offs and the tight end work.
Speaker 1: I got a C grade on Jason Witten. He led
Speaker 1: the team with nine targets last week. The Broncos had
Speaker 1: a problem with good tight ends last year. Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: torched them twice, and both Gates and Hunter put up
Speaker 1: some pretty big days. If you're desperate for a late
Speaker 1: game dart throw a Witten is not a bad one.
Speaker 1: He's not a super great start, but he's a cee
Speaker 1: uh Dek Prescott. I gave a C two as well,
Speaker 1: um basically because he's a talented player. Only one quarterback
Speaker 1: top two hundred sixty seven yards against the Broncos last year.
Speaker 1: That was Drew Brees, and they gave up multiple touchdown
Speaker 1: passes only twice. Last season, only six quarterbacks even hit
Speaker 1: the two hundred yard mark. The bright spot is two
Speaker 1: of the three passing touchdowns that Philip Rivers had last
Speaker 1: week came from inside the eleven yard line. And I
Speaker 1: think that's Witten zone and I think that's Ezekiel Elliott zone,
Speaker 1: who has been more involved in the passing game. I
Speaker 1: have Dez Bryant and all the wide receivers on the bench.
Speaker 1: Only eight wide receivers top to fifty yards against the
Speaker 1: Broncos last season. Seven touchdowns they allowed to wide receivers
Speaker 1: last year. It's just gross. Uh. He got. Bryant gets
Speaker 1: the slightly better matchup against Bradley Roby since most of
Speaker 1: his routes run to the left side of the field,
Speaker 1: But I still don't want to start him. He hasn't
Speaker 1: looked good as long as Dad Prescott has been the
Speaker 1: quarterback there. Frankly, on the Broncos side, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a bench grade for Trevor Simeon. In the last fourteen games,
Speaker 1: only two quarterbacks have top three hundred yards against Dallas
Speaker 1: and only five have thrown for multiple touchdowns. I'll give
Speaker 1: tepid C grades to Damarrius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders. It
Speaker 1: sees Cowboys top cornerback Orlando Scandrick broke his hand last week,
Speaker 1: so if he plays this week, he'll probably be in
Speaker 1: some sort of weird clubby hand thing that probably takes
Speaker 1: away the interceptions there. I'm not chasing Benny Fowler who
Speaker 1: had the two touchdowns last week. He only had fifty
Speaker 1: seven percent of the snaps and he only had four
Speaker 1: targets in that game. So let's go on to c J.
Speaker 1: Anderson in the running game. Jamal Charles obviously was might
Speaker 1: take a chance on me runner c J. Anderson. I'm
Speaker 1: giving a b start too. I thought he looked pretty
Speaker 1: good last week. To be I thought he did too. Um,
Speaker 1: he had twenty carries last week. That was the fourth
Speaker 1: time in three years that he's hit the twenty carry
Speaker 1: into it happened last week or last year in weeks
Speaker 1: one and two when he was fresh right. So Dallas's
Speaker 1: defense finished eighth and r B D V O A
Speaker 1: last season. Basically, that's a measure of how difficult they
Speaker 1: are against runners. However, let's look at the running backs
Speaker 1: they faced last year. They had Levan Bell, who's good.
Speaker 1: Then the best runners they had that had fifteen carries
Speaker 1: or more, Rashad Jennings, Carlos Hyde, Eddie Lacey, Darren Sprawls,
Speaker 1: Paul Perkins, Doug Martin. That's not a murderer's row of
Speaker 1: running backs right there. So C. J. Anderson's probably the
Speaker 1: next best out of that crew. That's why I'm giving
Speaker 1: him a b start here. When we come back Premature Speculation.
Speaker 1: Three guys you can pick up off the waiver wire
Speaker 1: now that we think could be hot commodities next week,
Speaker 1: and they'll already be on your roster. Plus our final
Speaker 1: two matchups and Lightning Round final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us today. We've got a bit
Speaker 1: that we like to do called premature speculation. We don't
Speaker 1: have a sounder for that, and I think it's best
Speaker 1: that we don't have some lucky fan out there needs
Speaker 1: to make us one. No, please please, that's okay. Don't
Speaker 1: do not send us audio of anything related to premature speculation.
Speaker 1: These are three players you can pick up now that
Speaker 1: we think will be hot waiver wire guys next week.
Speaker 1: We begin with I don't know if he's gonna be
Speaker 1: a hot waiver wire guy, but I think he'll have
Speaker 1: some use after this week. It's Marquis Goodwins wide receiver
Speaker 1: for the San Francisco forty Niners. Last week, his six
Speaker 1: targets trailed only Pierre Garson. He dropped a long touchdown,
Speaker 1: unfortunately saw a few more deep fer him. But I've
Speaker 1: seen him catch some long ones too, So there's so
Speaker 1: did the Viking fans in the preseason. Definitely. UH probably
Speaker 1: won't do much against the Seahawks this week, but after
Speaker 1: this week he has the Rams, Arizona, Washington, and Indie. UH.
Speaker 1: Last year Arizona and the Rams were both one of
Speaker 1: the ten teams to allow at least fifty five yards
Speaker 1: per game to number two wide receivers. Indie secondaries just bad.
Speaker 1: We all know that. And then when they face Washington,
Speaker 1: we can all expect Pierre Garson to draw Josh Norman
Speaker 1: and we talked about secondary receivers against Washington. So if
Speaker 1: you're really desperate for wide receiver, Marky's goodwin could be
Speaker 1: a big Hill Mary edition matchups. This one's kind of
Speaker 1: a hunch, but I got Jamal Williams of the Packers.
Speaker 1: He's the backup to t uh Time Montgomery um the Falcons.
Speaker 1: The easiest way to beat them is running backs who
Speaker 1: can catch the ball and just running the running game
Speaker 1: against the Falcons, and Ty Montgomery catches the ball just fine.
Speaker 1: Time Montgomery catches the ball just fine. But Jordan Howard
Speaker 1: and Tariko and had huge days last week. If the
Speaker 1: Packers decide that they need to just keep running the
Speaker 1: ball and using runners, if Jamal Williams gets five to
Speaker 1: ten touches in this game, which he had like two
Speaker 1: or three last game, and he breaks one, people are
Speaker 1: going to be all over this guy and trying to
Speaker 1: add him to their rosters. I think he's a great
Speaker 1: guy to add, especially if you're a time Montgomery owner.
Speaker 1: Patriots utility guy Rex Burkehead had just ten snaps in
Speaker 1: Week one and got dropped by a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I think that's going to prove to be a mistake,
Speaker 1: and I believe he will end up shifting to slot
Speaker 1: receiver with Danny Amendola out and he may have some
Speaker 1: success there and they're gonna see I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: see Burkehead as a running back and as a receiver,
Speaker 1: and I think you can go get him now. And alternately,
Speaker 1: let me just re mention somebody we touched on earlier.
Speaker 1: Eric Decker dropped in tons of leagues that was that was.
Speaker 1: Those are premature drops, and he's got a nice opportunity
Speaker 1: for a good game this week and good games beyond that.
Speaker 1: He belongs on rosters. Let's go back to our final
Speaker 1: set of matchups and then we'll get to Lightning Round.
Speaker 1: We begin with a game that could have a ton
Speaker 1: of points. Packers at Falcons. Prian. Yeah, so we can
Speaker 1: get to these lightning round callers. Let's just be one here,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Jordy Nelson, Vante Adams, Randall, Cob and Time
Speaker 1: Montgomery all in a If you're not starting even Cobb,
Speaker 1: I'm not with you on Cob out of that group.
Speaker 1: I like Cob. He missed the regular season meeting last year,
Speaker 1: but in the playoffs he had six for eighty two.
Speaker 1: I don't know over under a fifty seven. I'm starting
Speaker 1: everyone for green Bay that I just mentioned, even Martell's Bennett.
Speaker 1: He gets the loan. B Atlanta was one of ten,
Speaker 1: one of ten teams to allow sixty yards per game
Speaker 1: to tight ends last year. Bennett's all respectable six targets
Speaker 1: last week. I see an uptick and an expected shoot
Speaker 1: out this week over to the Falcons. DeVonta Freeman gets
Speaker 1: a b total three touchdowns and the two meetings between
Speaker 1: these teams last year basically a sixty forty split with
Speaker 1: Kevin Coleman, but both are worth playing in an in
Speaker 1: a shootout scenario. I like Coleman a lot. Saw six
Speaker 1: targets last week to Freeman's two. He's more active in
Speaker 1: the passing game. Both are startable. Julio Jones is as well.
Speaker 1: He gets an A went bonkers in the playoff game
Speaker 1: against the Packers last year, but they're their Their secondary
Speaker 1: was in a sad state of affairs, probably as sad
Speaker 1: as it could ever get, uh, but Jones should dominell
Speaker 1: most of the same players now. Jones should dominate to
Speaker 1: Mary's Randall and Devon House. He's an easy A. Mohmed
Speaker 1: Sanu is startable. He gets to see nine targets last
Speaker 1: week and six catches. He had as many targets as
Speaker 1: Taylor Gabriel and Julio Jones combined. Will be a PPR
Speaker 1: helper in this shootout, as should Austin Hooper. He's now
Speaker 1: the featured tight end. Had a big game last week.
Speaker 1: Probably not gonna have an eight yard touchdown reception on
Speaker 1: this one, but he is stortable. And then of course
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan startable with an A to eight eight and
Speaker 1: three and three four in the two touched and the
Speaker 1: two meetings last week. So yeah, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of points in this game. Yeah, it's basically
Speaker 1: start them all. It's the short answer to that one.
Speaker 1: The deal on Cobb is when you attack Seattle like
Speaker 1: they did last week, you always attacked through the middle
Speaker 1: of the field. We saw Bennet get a lot of run,
Speaker 1: we saw Cob get a lot of cobs. Historically done
Speaker 1: really well against Seattle for Green Bay, I worry now
Speaker 1: when you can beat you can beat the Falcons on
Speaker 1: the outside. They don't have to go to Cobs as
Speaker 1: much as they did last week. So Bryan Pool is
Speaker 1: the weakest corner between Robert Alford and Desmond Truffont though,
Speaker 1: slot guy, So I don't know, you gotta start hi.
Speaker 1: I just want to put him at the A level.
Speaker 1: That's all all right, let's go. Let's go to our
Speaker 1: final matchup, which is the Monday nighter, and that is
Speaker 1: Detroit at the New York Giants. Um, let's start with
Speaker 1: the Let's start with the running game and a meerb
Speaker 1: dula with a C grade Giants have an elite run
Speaker 1: stuffer in snacks, Harrison and the Lions ran a pult
Speaker 1: for a poultry fifty nine yards and the week fifteen matchup.
Speaker 1: These teams played each other just four games ago and
Speaker 1: Lions did nothing on the ground. Last week he averaged
Speaker 1: a brutal two yards per carry, Abdullah did and theo
Speaker 1: Ritick houses all the receptions. So it's barely a C
Speaker 1: grade on a meerb dula and frankly, I hope you
Speaker 1: have other options. You can take theoretics on the bench.
Speaker 1: The Giants have not allowed a running back receiving touchdown
Speaker 1: in twenty one games. Theoretic on the bench. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the passing game. Matthew Stafford, despite the four touchdowns
Speaker 1: last week, slumps to a C grade here uh. In
Speaker 1: Detroit's Week fifteen matchup with the Giants last year, uh
Speaker 1: he threw four zero touchdowns, one interception two seventy three yards.
Speaker 1: Giants have gotten elite secondary filled with awesome players Genorris
Speaker 1: Jenkins Landon Collins. This is a tough matchup. Golden Tate
Speaker 1: is Stafford safety valve and Tate, although has a tough
Speaker 1: matchup with dominiqu Gargers Cremarti out of the slot. I
Speaker 1: don't love that part. He didn't face Dominique Rodgers Crimarti
Speaker 1: from the slot last year because it wasn't playing the
Speaker 1: slot last year, and he put up a gigantic game
Speaker 1: one hunder twenty two yards. I don't think that's gonna
Speaker 1: happen now because he's in the slot. Who gets the
Speaker 1: opportunity to go up against Eli Apple like Tate did
Speaker 1: last year. Could be Kenny Golladay, We've got a C
Speaker 1: grade down. It could be Marvin Jones. We don't know
Speaker 1: which one of those is gonna get you, Norris Jenkins,
Speaker 1: and which one is gonna be Eli Apple. I view
Speaker 1: them both as highly speculative, dangerous plays. I have C
Speaker 1: grades on Holiday and Jones. Eric Ebron gets a C grade.
Speaker 1: Saw seven targets went Detroit faced New York in the
Speaker 1: Week fifteen matchup last year. He converted those seven targets
Speaker 1: into just thirty six yards. It's worth noting the Giants
Speaker 1: allow had seven catches for fifty nine yards and a
Speaker 1: touchdown to Jason Witten last week, though, So there's your
Speaker 1: glimmer of home on Ebron. Let's go to the giant side.
Speaker 1: My favorite player among all of the giants is might
Speaker 1: take a chance on me player Shane Vereen, who I
Speaker 1: gave a B grade two. Let's go to the rest
Speaker 1: of the of the other running backs to Paul Perkins,
Speaker 1: only one that you care about. I wouldn't start him.
Speaker 1: I've got a bench grade on him. Terrible offensive line.
Speaker 1: He's not a good player. Last year, get this, Paul
Speaker 1: Perkins somehow turned one twelve carries into zero touchdowns. You
Speaker 1: know how hard it is to do that. He top
Speaker 1: fifty He's top fifty sixty eight yards one time in
Speaker 1: his entire career. He's bad. He was even worse last
Speaker 1: week than that. And in the week fifteen meeting between
Speaker 1: these teams, he had just fifty six total yards. There's
Speaker 1: your upside for Paul park We picked him as a
Speaker 1: bench player in the pre In the preseason, we said
Speaker 1: he was a bench player, and that's you know here,
Speaker 1: he is grading out as a bench player right now.
Speaker 1: He's kind of cut player, maybe the only one you
Speaker 1: cut in as a starting running back in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Now he might be. He might be actually somebody you
Speaker 1: cut out, right Um, all right, let's go to the
Speaker 1: passing game. Eli Manning last week self short dump off stuff.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be the case here again. It's part of
Speaker 1: why like Shane Verreen so much and Odell Beckham playing
Speaker 1: or not does not matter. I can't believe he's gonna
Speaker 1: be far from full health here. He'll be playing hobbled.
Speaker 1: I don't think that until he's at full strength. I'm
Speaker 1: not counting Odell Beckham as somebody that's necessarily going to
Speaker 1: be able to help Eli Manning in a meaningful way.
Speaker 1: At most, he's a decoy. Last year in this matchup
Speaker 1: he posted a modest two yards. He did have two
Speaker 1: touchdowns though, but he had Odell Beckham at full strength
Speaker 1: last year. Now you get Odell beth Beckham either not
Speaker 1: playing or hobbled. I can't, I just I can't support
Speaker 1: only Manning looking a lot better than he did last year,
Speaker 1: and then for Odell Beckham. So it looks like there's
Speaker 1: a chance he's gonna go. But if he plays it all,
Speaker 1: will he be a decoy? And then if he's not
Speaker 1: a decoy, how do they throw a lot of balls
Speaker 1: his way or do they work him in a little bit?
Speaker 1: And then lastly this, if he's good, they'll just put
Speaker 1: Darius Slay on him. And now he's got a really
Speaker 1: tough matchup with a good cornerback and slate he does
Speaker 1: you don't want to slay, right, So all that together
Speaker 1: and I'm nervous about Odell Beckham. I wouldn't play him,
Speaker 1: and I know and you can't wait till Monday night
Speaker 1: to start all this out. You're gonna have to make
Speaker 1: your decisions on Sunday. To me, that's way to way
Speaker 1: too many moving parts. Last thing, Brandon Marshall. I like him.
Speaker 1: When when Odell Beckham is healthy, you're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: be hearing a lot about how I like Brandon Marshall.
Speaker 1: He's not a number one wide receiver at this stage
Speaker 1: of his career. He just isn't. What no Evan Ingram
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram to me is a I see. It's his
Speaker 1: matchup against a team that struggles historically against the tight end.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a seat. I'll give him a
Speaker 1: sea for it, if only for you, it's for the people,
Speaker 1: just for Brian. It is time for lightning round. You
Speaker 1: know this works. It is one question between two exactly
Speaker 1: two players. We do not want a question between three players.
Speaker 1: We do not you do not have a question. If
Speaker 1: it's only one player, Let's go to the people who
Speaker 1: have been on hold a very long time. I think
Speaker 1: Mac has been on hold literally the entire show. Hi Mack,
Speaker 1: thank you your patience. Thanky, thank you, vant to Parkground,
Speaker 1: Jim mcley. Oh, it's a tough secondary for the l
Speaker 1: A Chargers, but I'm still that could be the big
Speaker 1: ben in San Diego. Thank you for your patients, also
Speaker 1: on hold almost the whole show. The question e pr
Speaker 1: point should I stay with Adams? Where should I go
Speaker 1: with rock players? Roger, and definitely stay with Davante Adams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a level start. This is gonna be a good game down.
Speaker 1: Davante Adams got hung out to Dry and Richard Sherman
Speaker 1: a lot last week, and that's not going to be
Speaker 1: the case here. Twelve catches and one of the meetings
Speaker 1: scored in the other one against Atlanta last year. Nate, Hello,
Speaker 1: hey guys, I got a twelve standard for the flexing
Speaker 1: between Adam Delon or Kevin Coleman. Okay, um, you know,
Speaker 1: with questions on the Vikings quarterback situation right now, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna I'm gonna go with Tevin Coleman for some
Speaker 1: of the reasons that Brian just discussed and all the
Speaker 1: points that come out of there. Logan Hello him, that
Speaker 1: was Gillisle or Crowell. I gotta go with gillis Lee
Speaker 1: in the shootout, like Gearge said, reminder, because we lighting
Speaker 1: around still pretty new this week. The way it works,
Speaker 1: especially for people are in town. You ask your question,
Speaker 1: I hang up on you. You listened to the response
Speaker 1: on your radio. Billy, You're next? Say it again, Billy Nelson,
Speaker 1: Aguila are Marshall? I think Marshall is probably closer to
Speaker 1: a starting grade, right, how would too? Maybe the Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham decoy thing will work to his advantage and they'll
Speaker 1: put Sleigh on Odell Beckham. Brian Hello, questions whole point?
Speaker 1: Pr Walker Bennett Bennett for the reasons that that Brian
Speaker 1: just talked about. I like Walker too. It's it's a
Speaker 1: coin flip, it really is. Walker's got a much tougher matchup.
Speaker 1: Just collect and go with the shootout. I'm going, I'm
Speaker 1: going where the points are. Mark Hello, back Miller, Hunter,
Speaker 1: Henry or Zach Miller Callers Tony, if you can help
Speaker 1: us with that, I would love to see your Waiver
Speaker 1: wire Man because I don't like either of those. I
Speaker 1: guess Hunter Henry because you're shown us something in the past.
Speaker 1: Back Miller is pretty much dead. Zack when healthy, when health,
Speaker 1: you know, I see. I might go Millard just because
Speaker 1: they have so few o their targets. The throw too.
Speaker 1: They do, but it's a tough matchup Tampa Bay. Believe
Speaker 1: or not, they were very good against eight end. Still
Speaker 1: get Cameron Braid if he's available, Charles play Charles absolutely
Speaker 1: DJ your next point PPR, Rob Kelly or Thomas Walls.
Speaker 1: I just don't know what we're gonna see out of
Speaker 1: Thomas Rawls. I think I know that Rob Kelly is
Speaker 1: going to be these gonna get back, So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with Rob Kelly. I think Priyan had like one
Speaker 1: play maybe like no touches. I don't think he had
Speaker 1: a touch now, Uh John your next yes non PPR.
Speaker 1: Jason Witten or Cameron Brad Uh Camera Brad was your
Speaker 1: take a chance on me guy, but gave us You
Speaker 1: liked Witten a lot this week, so a lot. But
Speaker 1: he's the one cowboy worth starting, and this week you
Speaker 1: broke down Braid in details. So I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: your judgment. Normally go against your judgment, So consider that
Speaker 1: a compliment. But the tight end whisper, that's true, Gary,
Speaker 1: your next POINTR? Say it again, Gary, half PR phone
Speaker 1: is cutting out? Have carry? We just were not getting
Speaker 1: clear reception. I'm sorry, we can't hear what you got
Speaker 1: the half point PPR. That doesn't help us. Yeah, Chris,
Speaker 1: you're next? Uh standard scoring Mark, Tavis Bryant or Pierre Garthon. Okay,
Speaker 1: Uh Garthon in Seattle is a little dicey, So I
Speaker 1: would go Briant and this one. Frankie your next? Hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: half point PR, markting Room or Tree Coon. I'll go
Speaker 1: Tret Cohen. I think I think the upside there is
Speaker 1: is fun. Let's go ten. I would do Barty your next, Mark, Tavis,
Speaker 1: Brillyant Landry. I'm going Briant, and I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: test Trey. Wayne's a lot and there's gonna be some
Speaker 1: opportunities for deep plays knocked off the rust last week. Mo,
Speaker 1: you're next? Yeah, I want to watch football uninterrupted tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So do I fake an injury to my back or
Speaker 1: do I tell my wife and kids I'm sick? Uh
Speaker 1: to fake the injury to the back, because it's so
Speaker 1: hard to get a proper diagnosis, right, I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're saying I'm sick, you gotta fake a bunch of
Speaker 1: cops and stuff. If it's the injury in the back,
Speaker 1: you just settle into a comfortable spot and say you
Speaker 1: can't be moved. That's almost impossible for anybody to verify
Speaker 1: against you. And then people have to bring you like
Speaker 1: ships that you can't get up. And by the way,
Speaker 1: mart Tavis, Brian doesn't knock off the rust, he knocks
Speaker 1: off the resident. I like it. I like it, Todd.
Speaker 1: You're last question for the day, Breeze Newton, how do
Speaker 1: we do? You know? We it's and we ended up
Speaker 1: that note. Wait, it's so obvious and it's only break
Speaker 1: the rule, but it's I can't end that way, Brian,
Speaker 1: go fast, Okay, yeah, I want to go off. Corey,
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