WEBVTT - Fantasy Football Weekly week 2 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:03.480 I had great plans for the Patriots to put up 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:05.800 a bunch of points that didn't really work out. Although 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.039 Gillislee was great, that was about the end of that. 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:12.320 Let's concentrate on those positive starts. That's right. Uh. Positives 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:14.520 the Patriots, of course, as they get a what should 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.160 be an extraordinarily high scoring game this week, and then 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:19.320 the week after that they get Houston, who maybe without 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.799 both of their starting cornerbacks. So there's there's some positivity 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:26.360 left for uh, for our Patriots. Yet Uh this in 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:30.080 the last half hour, numerous reports now saying that Odell 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:36.720 Beckham expected to play on Monday night. Now we'll get 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:38.280 to this matchup and spend all more time with a 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.280 little later. But I'll go to the Giants desk. Ryan. 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:43.919 It's Monday. You know, people can have to make their 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.600 Sunday decision at noon without much more information than they've 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.199 got right now that Odell may play. And then we 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:54.440 always listened as questionable. What do you think you always 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:58.680 fear the dreaded decoy role for so, I don't know 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.320 it's encouraging news, but obviously do not put him in 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:03.800 your wide receiver spot. Put him in your flex if possible, 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:06.319 and have some kind of fallback plan on Monday night, 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.120 like probably the Riddic or something like something like that. 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.160 Maybe even h the corpse of the You've still young 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.440 Eric Ebron something like that. I don't know, but make 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:16.319 sure he's in your flex. But let's hope he plays. 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.440 Will be better for the sake of fantasy football, which 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.080 was atrocious last week. I've got that game and I'm 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.679 going to be recommending that people do not play him, 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:25.600 and let's just take let's take a week off. You've 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.000 probably rather than have to go into Monday night and 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.959 hoping you can flex a sterling Shepherd or something, I 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.280 would rather just let's take a week off. Worst thing 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.160 it happens is he comes back and plays a great game. 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.560 You didn't start him, and now you know you got 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:41.440 Odell Beckham rolling forward. The downside, you lost. The downside 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.720 thing that could happen. The downside is, well, the downside 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.920 is is that he doesn't play. It was a decoy. 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.400 He doesn't play at all. That this is all just puffery, 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.600 and you know they're just trying to make the Lions 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:57.240 have to account for him in their schemes. What is puffery? 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.640 Puffery that's when you you know, it's a blather, it's 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.400 a lot. Uh, you know you're puffing, it's smoke. Are 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:06.400 you making up words? Absolutely not. When let's let's get 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.040 into the matchups. Of course, by the way of the 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.240 course of the show, we've got our take a chance 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.760 on me players nine players not normally in your starting lineup, 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:14.240 many of whom are on the waiver wire. Two of 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:19.000 my three or waiver wire guys. Five tough questions, premature speculation, 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.120 and will break down all fifteen of the matchups, and 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.400 we're gonna have to go quickly. This one should not 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:28.560 take long. Jets at Oakland, Matt Jets, everybody's on the bench, BELLEL. 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.359 Powell and Matt Forte. The problem it's a time split 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:34.080 four to ad of the Snaps Powells on the field 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.799 for they almost split touches down the middle. It's gross there. 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.640 That was exactly the scenario that I laid out last 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:43.800 week when we talked about this matchup, and I was like, 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:47.400 you know what, this thing really scares me. We all know, 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.679 but all Powell's the best, the best runner. But the 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:54.520 Jets don't your peacocking that they suck. I'm I'm peacocking 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.799 that we here are smarter than the Jets. The one 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.320 guy I'll mention on the Jets that you're not gonna start, 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.560 but you should keep an eye on his Jermaine Curse. 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.440 It's worth noting that he had nine targets and seven 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.480 receptions last week. He was on the field for the 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.200 Jets snaps. He is their wide receiver one right now. 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.239 And if you get desperate down the line and the 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.440 matchups good, Jermaine Curse could be a guy that you 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.919 could pick up and play on the Oakland side. It's 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:22.320 pretty much start. Everybody was that premature premature speculation. That's 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:29.919 like super premature. Yeah, I'm premature speculation. Pickpurse alright, um, 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.000 Oakland side, Marshawn Lynch, I got an a start on him. 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.160 Lynch look powerful last week yards on nineteen carries and 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.240 those were some bruising, punishing runs last week. It's his 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:42.400 homecoming in Oakland. They're going to get him in the 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.200 end zone for sure, and there's no Mike Tolbert here 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.360 to vulture his touchdown carry like what happened to Lashawn 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.360 McCoy last week. That duo combined for a hundred and 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.760 fifty two yards in a score. No one is afraid 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.360 of the Jets run defense anymore. Marshawn Lynch is in 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.040 A He's my number one ranked running back this week. Well, 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.240 of course he is your number one range running back. 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.720 You love Marshawn Lynch. Derek Car's a B. I think 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:06.800 it would be an easy A. But the main concern 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.320 here is that the Raiders lead at halftime is so 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.720 large that game script just kind of forces Derek Carr 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.080 out of the game, and they don't have to pass much. 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.360 They can They can really cycle in a lot of 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:19.880 runs and just run out the clock. So I'm also 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.440 giving Mark Cooper and Michael Crabtree a B as well. 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.400 Anytime Buster Screen is involved in a defense, I try 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.000 to play all the receivers I can. Cooper had a 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.680 few drops last week, and no team has dropped more 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.359 passes in their last eight games as the Raiders have 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.200 a lot of that has to do with Cooper Cooper. Yeah, 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:40.160 it's pretty much all. Cooper drops more balls than specialist. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.920 Just Mr one Liner today, What did you have for breakfast? 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.520 Only that Mike could drop? That's right. I'm supported by 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:52.120 some kind of stand mechanism crab Tree and Cooper have 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.239 essentially an equal target loads since they arrived in Oakland 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.920 together in the beginning of don't think too hard about 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.400 crab Tree. He's an every week starter in that is, 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.400 he's he's fantastic. And then Jared Cook, I gotta see 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.599 start on him. Cook caught all five of his targets 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.039 last week for fifty six yards. The Bills tight ends 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.159 combined for five catches seventy five yards in a touchdown 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.279 last week, So it seems like Cook's gonna get about 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.160 five receptions here around sixty yards and half a touchdown. 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.440 Buffalo takes on the Carolina Panthers. I think everybody knows 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.640 to start Lashawn McCoy no matter what. He's an obvious 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.279 they are there any other Bills to play here. I 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:25.960 got him in a b right now. Though in a 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.760 tough matchup the Bills. Let's not let him score touchdowns. 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:33.280 There is that as Matt said, Tilbert had the short touchdown, 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.600 more carries inside the five, Tyrod Taylor threw five times 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.640 inside the ten, twice inside the five that he's do 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.839 not give Shady the ball to stripe. It's a tough matchup. 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.080 You're starting him either way, but B because it is 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.479 against Carolina and he's not a workhorse. Youar the goal line. 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.359 For whatever reason, we need a Mike Tilbert vulture sound 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.280 revenge game from like Tilbert in Carolina. Maybe Tony can 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.440 help us find a vulture sound. I'm gonna have to 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.520 look up what that sounds like. I'll see what I 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.440 can do. Do you think we knew what a peacock 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.280 sounded like a year ago? We had no idea, and 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:05.040 yet here we are with a peacock sounder? Yeah? All right? 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:11.159 No skin being ripped off a dead carcass. That's what 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.839 it sound like to me anyway. Tyrod Taylor uh turned graphic. 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.640 Tyrod Taylor on the bench. Since Week nine of last year, 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.839 Carolina hasn't allowed more than two passing touchdowns, and they've 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.760 allowed one zero touchdowns in all but four games during 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.200 that span. So Taylor is on the bench as is 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.239 Jordan Matthews did have two catches for sixty one yards 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.080 last week, but just three targets. I do think he 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:34.840 will improve over the season, but I'm not ready to 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:39.400 start him just yet. And uh, Charles Clay give him 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:43.440 a ce. Uh he's averaging whoa this is not distracting 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:49.760 at all. And there's but I want to get the 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:54.120 vulture sound rolling for this year. Fantasy Football Weekly a 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.839 horrifying noise. It's a horrifying noise. Just to let you 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.159 guys know, there's a ten hour YouTube clip. If you 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:03.320 really wanted to get enough ULU sounds, there might be 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:05.920 ten hours of Toilbird stealing shady touchdowns. This year, we'll 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.320 see Charles Clay even him as c over his last 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.000 five games, averaging five catches, fifty six yards and a 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.880 one whole touchdown. And here's a great stat from fan 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.760 Ball Scott Fish. Since the start of Charles Clay has 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:21.320 fifteen receptions when his quarterback has been under pressure. That 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:25.280 is second among tight ends meeting. He is a safety 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.440 valve and that's gonna happen this week against the Panthers, 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.160 So you will be a PPR helper for sure. Panthers 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.960 front four is still elite, very elite. Uh And Luke 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.080 keick Lee up and running as he was not at 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.880 all times last year over to Carolina, Cam Newton gonna 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.160 give him a b was clearly rusty coming off the 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.600 shoulder injury, but did throw for two touchdowns, had six 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.040 carries one inside the ten yard line. So he is 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.160 running the ball a little bit still. Uh so he's 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:49.960 in a good spot this week. Given him a B. 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.280 I'll still give Kelvin Benjamin a B. Only five targets 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.240 last week, but that was second to Christian McCaffrey for 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.640 most on the team. Uh. He has about seven inches 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:04.400 on cornerbacks. Tra very true, Trude, Trude Davious wife like, 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.000 that's how you pronounce it actually, and E. J. Gaines. 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.560 So I'm still starting Benjamin this week. J. Gaines is awful, 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.640 very bad corner very true. Greg Olson, he gets a C. 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.480 His targets were way down last week, as we kind 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.440 of discussed. He did have two catches the Benjamin's one though, 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.400 so in five hot questions you said Benjamin's receptions would 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:28.960 suffer more. I said no, But but now I'm right 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.280 because Oldsen had two catches and Benjamin had one. But 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.360 Olson's in the lead right now. But anyway, he gets 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.920 a CEE. Not a great matchup, but Buffalo was ranked 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.160 Levins eleventh against tight ends by Fantasy or by Football 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.640 Outsiders last year, so there's hope par Olson. Even though 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.439 Christian McCaffrey is starting to steal the show and give 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.520 him a B borderline A led the team in targets 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.680 and catches last week, also had thirteen carries. He's gonna 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:53.600 be a guy that you're gonna start regardless of matchup, 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.080 because they're gonna put the ball in his hands. I 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.240 think you took a few direct snaps as well. So 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.480 excited about him this week. And Jonathan Steward gets to 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.000 be eighteen carries last week, had a nice receiving touchdown. 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.280 He got all the carries inside the ten yard line 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:06.880 for the Panthers at running back. And this is a 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.600 matchup where game script could favor him in the second half. 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.360 This played out for Jonathan Stewart. It's only one week, 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.280 but it played out exactly like we told you it 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:19.040 would in the preseason. Christian McCaffrey doesn't suddenly mean he's 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.520 not the gold line guy, and it doesn't suddenly mean 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.160 he's not gonna get any carries. And McCaffrey got a 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.720 lot of carries more than I expected, like thirteen carries 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.240 in the game I was thinking would be more like 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:31.400 a seven or eight guy. But even with that, Stewart 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.920 put together a solid game. Let's go to the Vikings, 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.880 taking on the steel You are done, correct, Steve Vikings 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.480 taking on the Steelers. First, let's just say this that 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.640 if if it turns out Bradford can't go, and there's 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:48.040 I think, I think he's gonna play, but there could 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.760 be some smoke screen here. Everybody gets knocked down a 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:52.439 full letter grade if it's case Keenum, and then you 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:54.800 wouldn't even want to start case Keenum right now, every 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.760 meaningful Viking is a B on my sheet. Let's start 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.520 with the running game and Dalvin Cook. He'll be put 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.920 to the test against the defense that held Isaiah Crowwell 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.480 to just one point nine yards per carrying the opener. 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.000 And if you think, well, it's just Isaiah crawl on 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.560 the Browns, Brown's offensive line is better than the Vikings 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.040 offensive line, so there's that um. But Dalvin Cook's got 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.080 the past catching ability that that crow Well does not have, 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:20.400 and that should ultimately keep him here as a B grade. Again, 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.280 assuming Sam Bradford ends up ends up playing in this game. 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.079 So let's go to the passing game and Bradford, now 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.760 he got the knee injury and teams downplaying it. We're 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.800 hoping it's not a smoke screen here. Steelers registered seven 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.400 sacks against Cleveland last week. T J. Watt looks like 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.440 an immediate difference maker. And that defensive line and again 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.360 before you just go olds the Browns again, offensive line 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.600 is better than ours. So if they got to the 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.480 quarterback seven times, I think we're gonna see a lot 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:49.800 fewer deep downfield plays for Sam Bradford this week than 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.280 he had the luxury of last week. I didn't I 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.160 don't know the exact stat but t J. Watt was 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.720 the first rookie everyone's first game to have like two 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.679 sacks of forest fumble and alignment p his pants at 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:04.400 the same time. That's right, Soil himself, totally legit. It's 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:08.000 the rare soiling staff. Um. I'm I'm nervous about a 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.720 lot of short dump off stuff for Bradford. That would 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.600 be great for theeland from a PPR standpoint. Now that 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.280 he's in the slot, he is going to Um, he's 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.800 going to catch a lot of passes because the Vikings 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.920 love throwing the short timing stuff to their slot receiver. 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.160 Last year it was Diggs. Now it's theland we sought 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.960 materialized last week and he faces the worst cornerback on 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.640 their roster. Slot cornerback Mike Hilton, so I like feeling 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.280 would be grade Diggs I don't like quite as much, 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:35.800 but he still gets a B grade hitter here because 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:37.880 he's gonna draw a favorable match up against Joe Hayden. 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:39.319 I think the Browns knew what they were doing when 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.280 they cut him lose. Hayden is not not a special 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:46.200 player and he graded out badly in the last game. 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.640 So plus matchup for Diggs, who also gets a B grade, 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.800 and Kyle Rudolph targeting the red zone. No, no, tight. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:53.960 I'm targeting the red zone more times last year than 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.680 Rudolph was, and then last week scored from the red zone. 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.640 So we'll continue to um, We'll continue to start him 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:01.959 and to be great, let's flip over to the Steelers side. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.320 A grade for Levy on Bell, and I mean that 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.600 should surprise nobody, and you know you wouldn't bend him anyway. 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.079 But the Vikings did limit the Saints three headed backfield 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.480 of just sixty combined rushing yards and Bell was stymy 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.240 by the stupid Brown's defense last week, so you know 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.240 this thing is still got some flux to it. But 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:21.920 that was Levan Bell's preseason game, right So that was 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.240 the knockoff the Rust game, right, So we assume Bell 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.000 is going to be back and be much better here 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.920 and and here's the real thing though with Bell. If 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:33.440 Anthony Barr can't go, Bell is gonna be devastating on 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:35.920 this defense, both as a runner and as a receiver 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.480 out of the backfield. Obviously he's an elite pass catching 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.400 back and Bar would pick up that assignment normally. So 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.560 if Bar can't go, Bell is sitting on potentially a 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:48.120 gigantic game. Then we go to Antonio Brown, another obvious 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:51.000 A start. He will probably get a lot of Xavier Roads, 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.840 and we've seen Roads shut down opposing number one many 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.520 many times, so but it's still Antonio Brown. Um, this 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.559 is It's a tough matchup Roads and out of posing 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.800 receivers to catch only forty one percent of targeted balls 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.080 last year, which is the best number of any starting 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.240 cornerback in the league last year. Still, I thought Roads 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.680 was just okay last week and Brown was obviously awesome, 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.400 so he maintains an A grade. Roethlisberger gets a B 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.080 grade here. Of his last ten home outings, he's not 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.800 three yards and nine of them and multiple touched and 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.959 and and or three touchdowns in nine of them. So 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.600 it's a it's an any time he's at home, Ben 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:32.920 is sitting at potentially an explosive game. Uh. Martavis Bryant 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.760 gets a B grade here. I think he's going to 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.920 draw Trey Waynes throughout this matchup as its speed versus speed. 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.320 I thought Waynes played pretty well in week one, but 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.520 throughout his career pretty inconsistent. Martvis Bryant, and I was 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:46.160 kind of a knockoff the rush game for him to 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.240 last week where he didn't do anything. Now he's a year, 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.600 he's another week back in. I give him a B grade. 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.440 Jesse James gets a C grade. We saw Kobe Fleinner 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.920 with a nice game against the Vikings defense. And again, 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.640 if Anthony barrs out this, you know Anthony bar gets 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.720 a lot of tight end assignments and if Bars out 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.080 that would open up the middle for Jesse James. Don't 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.000 expect another two touchdowns, but a C grade for him 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:10.800 that bumps up to a B grade if Bar doesn't 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.440 go when we come back, take a chance on me. 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.000 Nine players, many of them are available on the waiver wire, 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.680 many of you already, and we two looking for waiver wire. 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.280 Help one week. Help, We'll tell you who those guys 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:50.160 are when we come back on the first three line 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.640 chance on me nine players not normally in your starting lineup, 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.000 We'll tell you who they are, beginning at the quarterback position, 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.520 and Brian Johnson. I'm going Mike glenn and Bears in 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.280 a revenge game in Tampa. Tampa Bay was one of 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.080 ten teams to allow two fifty plus passing yards per 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.680 game to quarterbacks last year. Jordan Howard's looking a little 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.480 iffy for Chicago, so it could be a lot of 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:15.720 pass attempts coming for Glennon It's a volume play the end. 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.120 I got Jacoby Brissette, the Colts starting quarterback this week 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.000 going up against Arizona. The Cardinals defense looks shaky. Last 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.200 week against Matt Stafford and the Lions, they allowed tune 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.520 or ninety two passing yards and four touchdowns. The Cards 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:32.120 have given up fifteen passing touchdowns in their last five games. 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.160 My Matt says that's about three per game. And when 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.200 Brissette came in last week, at least he aired the 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.760 ball out a little bit. He completed two passes, one 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.320 of which went for fifty yards. All there's that uh 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:43.880 and in his left and his two starts in New 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.120 England last season, he proved to be pretty mobile. He 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.400 averaged six yards per carry. He might be on the 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.520 hook to do all of this by himself this week. 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.560 So I got Jacoby Brissette. I'm going with Blake Portals 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.880 against Tennessee. Unlike last week, the Jaggers will be probably 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.280 playing from behind, which means plenty of passing. And you 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.680 know what that means, the return of garbage time, Blake 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:10.520 port It's garb portlege time. Tennessee's got a great run 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.600 defense and a very wobbly past defense. They gave up 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:15.520 two or sixt or two yards to two touchdowns and 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.200 David Carr last week, and it should have been a 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.280 lot more for Mary Cooper could hang on to a 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:23.120 damp ball. Last year, the Times ranked twenty nine against 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:26.400 their past. The secondaries filled with question marks, including rookie 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.800 A Dory Jackson who got trucked in last week's game. 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.880 Let's go to the running back position. Bryan Alvin Kamara, 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.400 rookie running back for the Saints at home against New England. 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.800 Adrian Peterson is not a fit for the Saints. Uh, 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:40.800 certainly not in this game, which will be an expected 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:44.240 shootout with the Patriots. Kamara was on the field for 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.960 slightly fewer snaps and mark ingram last week, but he 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.400 did have more targets and carries, and I think it's 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.000 fair to compare Kamara's skill set to Kareem Hunt, and 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.280 we all remember what Kareem Hunt did to the Patriots 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.920 Week one. Kamara should be a solid play this week. Okay, Matt, 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.120 I've got Jamal Charles going up against the Cowboys. Dallas 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.400 basically gave up nothing on the ground of the Giants 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.320 last week, mostly because Paul Perkins should be working at 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.840 Perkins instead of playing football. Uh. They did get torched 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.920 by Shane Vereen, who had nine catches for fifty one yards. 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.840 And the Giants have saw some sort of weakness at 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.600 the running back passing game, as they threw fourteen times 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.520 for a league high twelve receptions to running backs against 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:25.040 the Cowboys. Charles at ten carries last week, spelling c J. Anderson, 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.040 but at one point he was one of the best 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.159 receiving running backs in the game, and I think that 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.400 they get him going this week. I've got another receiving 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.920 angle and that's Shane Vereen going up against Detroit last week. 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:41.680 Nine catches for Shane vareens nine times. He finished Week 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.040 one ranked among running backs number two in targets, number 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.439 two receptions, and number six and receiving yards. His opponent 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.640 this week is Detroit. Last week, Detroit gave up one 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.880 hundred five receiving yards to running backs. So it's all 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.600 coming together here with more's dump off stuff to Shane 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:58.840 Verreen this week for the Giants on Monday night. I 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.879 like that call. Thank you speculation. Yeah, he was your 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:05.360 premature speculation guy last week. Nicely done on that peacock 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.920 sound on the music like it had I had helped 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:11.639 Kimara who now you're recommending as your last week and 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.720 now we should do a radio show. We should do 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.600 a radio show or something. Who is your Who is 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.600 your wide receiver? I'm going Robert Woods of the Rams 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.359 at home against Washington, who was ranked twenty nine against 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.520 secondary wide receivers by Football Outsiders last year. That's the 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.719 obvious Josh Norman effect, who will likely be shadowing Sammy 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:33.159 Watkins in this game. Woods was involved quite heavily in 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:34.920 the game where the Rams didn't really need to pass 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.240 all that much last week at fifty three yards and 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.000 two catches of twenty plus yards. So Washington is a 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:41.560 team that gets grown on a lot, so you could 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.160 have a good game here. Okay, I went tight end 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.680 with this, and uh, I went with my guy Cameron Brad, 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:49.280 a guy kind of touted in the preseason as a 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:51.520 late round fire. We didn't get to see Bright last 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.720 week due to IRMA, but we get did get to 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:55.560 see the Bears give up a hundred and twenty eight 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:57.760 yards and a score to Austin Hooper. Most of that 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.800 came on one play, however, but they also did give 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.280 up a big day to Kyle Rudolph in Weeks seventeen 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.560 last year where he had eleven catches a hundred and 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:08.120 seventeen yards in a touch. Jared Cook had a big 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.000 game in Week fifteen, and if we go back to 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.880 Week ten, Cameron Brad had seven catches for eighty four 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:17.240 yards and a touchdowns against these Bears. So like Cameron 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:19.439 Bright to do it again this week. I love the 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:22.879 opportunity J J. Nelson has against the Colts. John Brown 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:25.399 has been ruled out of this game, so J J. Nelson, 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:27.199 who goes from kind of a rotational player, will be 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.480 a full time player. He scored a touchdown last week, 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:34.800 and now without David Johnson, the mandate for the Cardinals 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:36.879 is gonna be to win this thing through the air, largely. 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:40.679 Kerwin Williams is not a gifted runner. Obviously. The Colts 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:44.000 defenses and shambles. Jared Goff just posted a career best 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:48.280 game against them. Cooper Cup just roared through the Colts secondary. 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:52.919 Starting safety Darius Butler is out, starting cornerback Vante Davis 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:57.080 is out, and propo ball Focus ranks the cornerbacks T J. 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.119 Green and Rashan Melvin among the very worst starter is 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:03.720