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Speaker 1: is Frank Snaffle, here's e Y Eric Young, and I
Speaker 1: am Greg Souman. Frankie. What's happening but Greg? Happy Friday
Speaker 1: to you? Championship Week is he nervous Week sixteen? Nervous
Speaker 1: the Fantasy football season. I also feel like we should
Speaker 1: change the lyrics to our intro too. Go e y
Speaker 1: go e, y go go y go e y go
Speaker 1: repping the BFFs in the Pit League finals. Let's go
Speaker 1: euy ex boys. Yeah, I mean there's still uh, some
Speaker 1: decisions that got to be made, some news coming out.
Speaker 1: Boone might be the starter. Oh jeez, that is a
Speaker 1: wild week. It's crazy because we're talking about it yesterday.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever had this good of
Speaker 1: a team going into the finals. And the truth is,
Speaker 1: it's a nightmare. It's an absolute nightmare. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's people out there listening to the show you're in
Speaker 1: the same position. I just rather not have these decisions.
Speaker 1: I've got to make the decision. It's do or die. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is, you know, the final week, the championship matchup,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I made the right decisions and
Speaker 1: that's why I'm in this position. But now it's a man,
Speaker 1: it's crazy, man. There's a lot of decisions that've gotta
Speaker 1: be made. This is what you get for having such
Speaker 1: a good team. E y. True, it's tough. It's a
Speaker 1: tough spot to be true. I played in a ten
Speaker 1: team dynasty league. I had to leave the league because
Speaker 1: I kept losing every single week because I couldn't figure
Speaker 1: out who to start ten team leagues. It's like your
Speaker 1: entire team is stacked. Your bench is stacked. Do you
Speaker 1: think it's hard enough trying to figure out who to
Speaker 1: start a twelve team league? You might have good players
Speaker 1: on your bench there. When you play in a ten
Speaker 1: team league, it is so hard to make decisions every
Speaker 1: single week because everybody in your lineup and on your
Speaker 1: bench is great. That's why I always try my dest
Speaker 1: anyway going into the playoffs to consolidate that depth, right.
Speaker 1: I don't need it theoretically in the in the playoffs
Speaker 1: your hand, you don't need depth at all, and trade
Speaker 1: them all the way for starters and pray and yeah
Speaker 1: or else you end up with a dilemma like e wise,
Speaker 1: where your team is so stacked you don't know what
Speaker 1: to do exactly. It is depth, but it's it's all
Speaker 1: starter depth. I mean like people in my bedroom now,
Speaker 1: McLaurin all day, uh Amundula, who had an unreal week?
Speaker 1: Matt uh is it? Matt Mike Boone, coach Boone, Mike
Speaker 1: Mike Boon Like it's crazy, it's crazy. It's just crazy.
Speaker 1: My two flex are Drake and Sanders. It's it's wild.
Speaker 1: I have a ton of depth, but it's all you know,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of starters are people that did really
Speaker 1: well last week, so you have to question it. It's crazy. Man.
Speaker 1: Like everyone, you just want to make the right decision,
Speaker 1: and that's what you want, almost more than anything else,
Speaker 1: is if your team is good enough, it's good enough,
Speaker 1: it's not good enough, it's it's not good enough, that's fine,
Speaker 1: But you want to make the right decision. That's almost
Speaker 1: scarcely more than anything rank. Yeah, obviously, um, this is
Speaker 1: the final week. It all comes down to this. You know,
Speaker 1: all the pressure is writing on this. People are gonna
Speaker 1: overthink decisions. They're gonna flip flop, you know, who to
Speaker 1: start in their flex wide receivers, back and forth, this person,
Speaker 1: this person. Ultimately, look ride the hot hand, go with
Speaker 1: the best matchups. It doesn't matter if you drafted Levian
Speaker 1: Bell in the first round, Odell Beckham in the first round.
Speaker 1: If you drafted those guys, you're probably not in the
Speaker 1: finals anyway, unless, of course, you looked out with Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't matter where you drafted players. At this point,
Speaker 1: you're gonna take the players who are being used in
Speaker 1: the right way in the right matchups, and you're not
Speaker 1: gonna think a second. You're not gonna think twice about it, Greg, No,
Speaker 1: you're not. You're just you're gonna put yourself in the
Speaker 1: best position to win. That is legitimately all you can do,
Speaker 1: and then you just hope everything else works out. I
Speaker 1: say we jump in, Greg. I know we only got
Speaker 1: a few minutes here before we hit the break, but
Speaker 1: I think we should try and start this final game
Speaker 1: on the Saturday night. We didn't. We didn't get to
Speaker 1: a yesterday. I got a lot to get to. We
Speaker 1: got a lot to get to we do. So let's
Speaker 1: start where we left off a Saturday night football. The
Speaker 1: Rams and the San Francisco four isners. Rams are six
Speaker 1: and a half for an underdog in this one. For
Speaker 1: a fantasy perspective, I know a lot of fantasy owners
Speaker 1: are gonna live or die with what Cooper Cup does
Speaker 1: for these Rams team facing off against San Francisco defense
Speaker 1: that without Richard German has not been the same exactly.
Speaker 1: There's one right there. He's sitting right here, living and
Speaker 1: dying with what Cooper Cup will do. What do you
Speaker 1: expect of the Rams wide receivers in a particular Cooper Cup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm down on Cooper Cup heading into Week sixteen. I
Speaker 1: have them as my wide receiver. It was just the
Speaker 1: biggest pause. It's just I have happened. I have Cooper
Speaker 1: Cup as my wide receiver thirty. I have him ten
Speaker 1: spots lower than the consensus according to Fantasy Pros rankings.
Speaker 1: San Francisco has been great against thought receivers all year.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter that Richard Sherman uh is potentially out
Speaker 1: in this game because he plays on the outside. So
Speaker 1: I think if anything that helps Robert Woods. I still
Speaker 1: do like Robert Woods. The targets have been up for him.
Speaker 1: He's still a high end wide receiver too. For me.
Speaker 1: I know he was a dud last week. A lot
Speaker 1: of wide receivers were duds in Week fifteen. We gotta
Speaker 1: put that behind us. I think you saw what Julio
Speaker 1: Jones did as an outside wide receiver against his forty
Speaker 1: Niners defense, and I like Robert Woods. I'm going back
Speaker 1: to him. Can't say the same thing about Cooper Cup.
Speaker 1: Cups snaps were back up last week, but the targets
Speaker 1: were down for him. Higbie still saw big volume. Robert
Speaker 1: Woods still saw big volume in this game, So I
Speaker 1: like Robert Woods not necessarily the same about Cooper cup
Speaker 1: Here in this matchup Greg and Todd Gurley, it's a
Speaker 1: tougher matchup, but this guy is scoring touchdowns, man. I
Speaker 1: mean he has five touchdowns in his last five games.
Speaker 1: He has fifty one red zone opportunities. ALcom Brown has fifteen.
Speaker 1: So whatever concerns we had early on in the season,
Speaker 1: we don't have those anymore. Todd Gurley has twelve total
Speaker 1: touchdowns on the season. I think he's a high end
Speaker 1: RB two. It's still a tougher matchup, but he sees
Speaker 1: those money touches in the red zone, so because of that,
Speaker 1: I think Gurly is a high end RB two Greg.
Speaker 1: The biggest question is how much does Gerald Everett affect
Speaker 1: Tyler Higbee, And I think it's a legitimate one. I
Speaker 1: still have Higbee ranked as a top eight tight end,
Speaker 1: but I don't feel nearly as confident as I have
Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks. Is there any way that
Speaker 1: the RAM screw this up? Yes, very very very possible. Right.
Speaker 1: It was only a few weeks back when Gerald Everett
Speaker 1: was the shirt fire starter. Like we like, Gerald, every
Speaker 1: wasn't traded for Gerald every he started, Gerald Everett confidently
Speaker 1: now you don't know what to do. Unfortunately, with Everett
Speaker 1: back in the lineup, Tyler Higby has been unbelievable over
Speaker 1: the past month. Have my tight ends? Seven? That's too high? Seven,
Speaker 1: Tyler Higbee? Seven? Probably a bit high for me? Yes,
Speaker 1: probably a little bit high. I'll mention a few tight
Speaker 1: ends that I have behind him when we get back
Speaker 1: from the break, and we'll see you guys, agree, Gain
Speaker 1: in the San Francisco side as well, and a whole
Speaker 1: lot more to come, including what's going on with d J.
Speaker 1: Chark and Jacksonville. We'll tell you next. Are you ready
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Speaker 1: his way, beating up the tree over there back to
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Speaker 1: things standing. The poor star on top is now facing
Speaker 1: the opposite direction. What are you doing? Great? Beating everything up?
Speaker 1: So for the rank you're gonna ga be some names
Speaker 1: at the tight end position who you have currently ranked after?
Speaker 1: I have Tyler Higbee as my seventh rank tight end.
Speaker 1: I have him just behind Darren Waller and Hunter Henry.
Speaker 1: I have him just ahead of Jacob Hollister, Jared Cook,
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper, Dallas Goddard. So I think I'd rather have
Speaker 1: almost all of them. Really, Yeah, I don't know, man.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is playing the snaps over the
Speaker 1: last three weeks. I understand it's without Everett, but over
Speaker 1: a hundred yards he's played so well and he's really
Speaker 1: been the turnaround for this Rams offense. It's been great. Man.
Speaker 1: With Gerald Evert back, that changes and Cooper Cup is
Speaker 1: back in the mitch. The only the only one that
Speaker 1: I think that you can make the argument for is
Speaker 1: Hollister because he's showing up against the Cardinals and Cook
Speaker 1: usage isn't consistent. Obviously they're gonna use They're gonna use
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas, They're gonna use Alvin Kamara. Hi, what about you?
Speaker 1: I have Tyler Higby tight End seven just behind him,
Speaker 1: Hollister Cook Hooper. Does that make sense to you? Um?
Speaker 1: He has been good. Uh. And I don't think a
Speaker 1: lot of people realize like this guy got paid. You mean,
Speaker 1: like the Rams gave him a pile of money. So
Speaker 1: I think they view him as a very important player
Speaker 1: and not just a guy that's going to block. He's
Speaker 1: going to catch passes. Um. But it has been up
Speaker 1: and down. Everett was definitely the guy there. I know
Speaker 1: we talked about him a bunch on the show he
Speaker 1: took over. I know Higby was hurt, but he was
Speaker 1: back and wasn't doing much. Now Higby has taken the
Speaker 1: reins of the number one tight end there again, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can trust him to be honest.
Speaker 1: And it's it's gonna be a weird It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a weird game. You mean like, uh, it's gonna be one,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be handmre, it's gonna be cup um. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be difficult and San Francisco is one of
Speaker 1: the best defense in the league. So the truth is is,
Speaker 1: other than maybe Woods, I don't know if I can
Speaker 1: really trust any of them. That is the question that
Speaker 1: you have e Y In regards to Cooper Cup, who
Speaker 1: would you rather start this week? This question comes from Orrow,
Speaker 1: Eric Young, Frank, Cooper Cup, Robbie Anderson, Hayrol Williams, Anthony Miller,
Speaker 1: Anthony Miller. No hesitation, No hesitation. Anthony Miller is outside
Speaker 1: my top twenty four. The way to attack the chief
Speaker 1: secondary Also say, Anthony Miller, what say you? It's your team? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the truth is that I've been thinking about
Speaker 1: this all week. Anthony Miller is a guy that I
Speaker 1: was super are, super high on. He's not going to
Speaker 1: finish with the numbers that I was hoping for um
Speaker 1: or the Chicago Bears were hoping for. But this is
Speaker 1: the this is the Anthony Miller that I envisioned was
Speaker 1: going to exist all season. I think the biggest part
Speaker 1: of this was Rabinsky was an absolute nightmare. Frank Raisky
Speaker 1: was rotten. He was a rotten quarterback. He has turned
Speaker 1: it around. He has been decent um. And Anthony Miller
Speaker 1: is a massive beneficiary of of him turning his season around.
Speaker 1: Anthony Miller scored. I think he had was it seven
Speaker 1: or or ten touchdowns last year with one arm he
Speaker 1: had surgery. Uh, he had shoulder shoulder surgery. I think
Speaker 1: it was um and was played banged up all years.
Speaker 1: So I thought he was going to take a huge
Speaker 1: step forward, and it looks like it is coming at
Speaker 1: the end of the year. But that huge step forward
Speaker 1: is happening for Anthony Millier. I'm moving him into my
Speaker 1: number two wide receiver as we speak, Boys. He has
Speaker 1: a hundred and forty receiving yards or a touchdown in
Speaker 1: three straight games since Week eleven. He is the wide
Speaker 1: receiver eight overall in PPR leagues. I'm going Anthony Miller
Speaker 1: over Cooper Cup all right other side the San Francisco
Speaker 1: forty Niners side. How high is where he most on
Speaker 1: your rankings this week, Frank, I have him as my
Speaker 1: RB twenties, so I think he is a solid low
Speaker 1: end RB two. The usage has been there for him,
Speaker 1: playing over fifty of the snaps, which doesn't sound significant,
Speaker 1: but for a Kyle Shanahan running back in this offense,
Speaker 1: it actually is. I mean, normally we'd be looking at
Speaker 1: a you know, three way pretty even split, but he
Speaker 1: is seeing over fifty percent of the snaps. He's dominating
Speaker 1: in the red zone as well. It's a tougher match
Speaker 1: up against the Rams. That's why I downgrade him a
Speaker 1: little bit to RB twenty. But I still do think
Speaker 1: that he is in this r B two territory. And
Speaker 1: the Rams, as good as they have been against the run,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't be able to tell based on what happened
Speaker 1: last week with Ezekiel Elliott Tony Pollard running all over them.
Speaker 1: So I do think there are some upside for explosive
Speaker 1: place here for Whee most so, uh, I'm not completely
Speaker 1: going away from him. I am worried about Deebo. Samuel
Speaker 1: plays mostly on the outside. I think he could see
Speaker 1: a lot of Jalen Ramsey here. If I had to
Speaker 1: start one of the forty Niners wide receivers, it would
Speaker 1: be Emmanuel Sanders as a low end wide receiver. Three.
Speaker 1: The way to attack the Rams is in the slot,
Speaker 1: and obviously you're using George Kittle all right, George Kittles
Speaker 1: certainly in your lineups here. Emmanuel Sanders I think isn't
Speaker 1: a big spot considering we don't both like, I know
Speaker 1: this is big for you. I would use Sanders over
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman. The question isn't that, Frank, it's Patrick Layard
Speaker 1: or Julian Edelman. Oh gosh, exactly exactly. I would lean
Speaker 1: with Layard, but I'm not going to don't feel great
Speaker 1: about You're going down with the ship. I'll go down
Speaker 1: with the ship. Edilmand over Patrick Larright, I would like
Speaker 1: I was gasking season Greg, exactly. That's why I started
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman. The thing is I would have started Jean
Speaker 1: Perriman over Edelman if I would have gotten him. I didn't.
Speaker 1: Didn't save someone, save some of those fab dollars, Greg,
Speaker 1: I didn't have a mad I tried. He's only to
Speaker 1: spend it all on Drew Brees. Here we are, Hey,
Speaker 1: Drew Brees helped you get to the final he did?
Speaker 1: He did This week, Drew Brees in Tennessee to take
Speaker 1: on the Titans. It's interesting game because the Saints, sorry
Speaker 1: two and a half point favorite in Tennessee. E Why
Speaker 1: we know that Drew Brees isn't same guy away from
Speaker 1: the Superdome that he is inside of New Orleans. He's
Speaker 1: in Tennessee or interesting spot, A tough spot? Are you
Speaker 1: hesitant to start a guy like Drew Brees this week?
Speaker 1: I think I've been oddly hesitant to start them all
Speaker 1: year because he's definitely had games where you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's getting old or oh, you know they're a running
Speaker 1: team now, So it's and then he comes out and
Speaker 1: has a game like he had last week and you
Speaker 1: feel foolish. So it's it's a it's a tough spot. Uh,
Speaker 1: Tennessee's defense, they're missing a Dory Jackson. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's going to play. That's a big player in
Speaker 1: their secondary. Um, so they are a little beat up
Speaker 1: in the secondary position. But Tennessee's defense has been sneaky good.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be cold. Uh, you know they're playing here
Speaker 1: in Tennessee, so it's outdoors. Um yeah, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a very interesting question. I don't know if I can
Speaker 1: trust Drew Brees, but I feel like if he's your
Speaker 1: quarterback and you don't have somebody else that's glaring, I
Speaker 1: feel like you just go with it. The Tennessee Titans
Speaker 1: are desperate. They've got to win their next two games.
Speaker 1: If they have a hope of being in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So this is a desperate team with their with their
Speaker 1: backs up against the wall, playing at home, and they're
Speaker 1: they're going to They're going to come out and they're
Speaker 1: going to score points. The question is if you have
Speaker 1: Drew Brees, who are you starting over him? Right? Because
Speaker 1: he just had that monster game. I guess it could
Speaker 1: be a letdown spot going on the road after you know,
Speaker 1: breaking the record for most touchdowns by a quarterback in
Speaker 1: NFL history. But you, I mean, you can speak to
Speaker 1: this as well. The way to attack the Titans is
Speaker 1: through the air. Their twenty two and past defense d
Speaker 1: d A A. If there's anywhere where they do struggle
Speaker 1: on defense, it's more so you know, against the past
Speaker 1: than it is on the ground. They do allow a
Speaker 1: lot of receptions to running backs, which is why I
Speaker 1: still do like Kamara. I know he's been a letdown.
Speaker 1: He's not scoring touchdowns. And frankly, if you drafted Camara,
Speaker 1: you know, inside the top three picks, you might not
Speaker 1: be in the finals right now because he hasn't been
Speaker 1: scoring touchdowns. I saw an awesome suitet earlier this week.
Speaker 1: Greg his yards from scrimmage per game this year is
Speaker 1: exactly the same that it has been his first two years.
Speaker 1: The only thing that's different is he's not scoring touchdowns,
Speaker 1: which matters for fantasy. But I mean, this is the
Speaker 1: volatility of trying to predict touchdown on a yearly basis.
Speaker 1: So we knew some touchdown regression was gonna come for Kamara.
Speaker 1: I still do like him as a low n RB
Speaker 1: one high n RB two, especially in PPR leagues. The
Speaker 1: Titans do allow the second most receptions to running backs
Speaker 1: this season. I just find it. I find it hard
Speaker 1: pressed to believe that you will have a quarterback that
Speaker 1: you will trust more than Drew Brees this week in
Speaker 1: the spot You're probably right on the other side with
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. Ryan Tannehill A J. Brown? Are you
Speaker 1: concerned with a J. Brown against Marshawn Lattimore? Where is
Speaker 1: he ranked for you? So I am not concerned about
Speaker 1: A J. Brown. I mean I have him as my
Speaker 1: wide receiver twelve, and Fantasy pros consensus has some wide
Speaker 1: receiver thirteen next year. I don't think that you can
Speaker 1: get away from him. The way that he's playing right now.
Speaker 1: It's he is the main target in this offense. Ryan
Speaker 1: Tannehill is playing well. Say whatever you want about him.
Speaker 1: Oh well, the wheels are gonna fall off at some point.
Speaker 1: It hasn't happened. I still have Tannehills my QB seven.
Speaker 1: The Saints defense is not play as well on the
Speaker 1: road as they do inside the dome. I'm still I look, Ryan,
Speaker 1: Tannehill's got me this far. I think the past file
Speaker 1: is gonna be there. The efficiency has been there. Him
Speaker 1: and A. J. Brown are clicking. I think John hu
Speaker 1: Smith is a decent streaming tight end. The Saints have
Speaker 1: been good against tight ends, but they've been using John
Speaker 1: Smith more. They're trying to find ways to get him involved.
Speaker 1: He had a fifty seven yard run last week. Obviously,
Speaker 1: pay attention to Derrick Henry. I think it looks like
Speaker 1: he's gonna go. But hamstring is still, you know, worry,
Speaker 1: So pay attention to that. But I think you continue
Speaker 1: to roll with all these Titans that got you here. Greg, alright,
Speaker 1: fair enough when we come back, I'll give you that
Speaker 1: up there. Don't uj charcoll get to Jacksonville and a
Speaker 1: whole lot more, stick around a lot more on the way.
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Speaker 1: Website for details. Frank Stanfeld, Greg Susman, Eric Young, we
Speaker 1: are all here. I have used it for a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes now. But DJ Shark he's good to go
Speaker 1: if they're missing one week. As long as he doesn't
Speaker 1: have a set back today or tomorrow, Chark will be
Speaker 1: in the lineup for the Jaguars this week against Atlanta. Frank,
Speaker 1: where's DJ Chhark come in on your wide receiver rankings?
Speaker 1: So I don't have DJ Chark ranked as high as
Speaker 1: I normally do because he is coming back off the
Speaker 1: injury and the Falcons secondary has played better against outside
Speaker 1: wide receivers over the last eight weeks. Again, this comes
Speaker 1: according to Graham Barfield. Follow him on Twitter. The Atlanta
Speaker 1: Falcons have allowed the tenth fewest Fantasy points to wide
Speaker 1: receivers to outside wide receivers over the last eight weeks,
Speaker 1: so they have been tougher on the wide receiver position.
Speaker 1: So I have DJ Chark as my wide receiver twenty eight.
Speaker 1: I think he is a solid wide receiver three, high
Speaker 1: end wide receiver three. There's seven point dogs. I think
Speaker 1: you should see some targets. Baby Shark. D J Chark
Speaker 1: should see some targets here. There are seven point dogs
Speaker 1: likely playing from behind. I think we get him back
Speaker 1: and forth here. I like him, don't love him? Greg Alright,
Speaker 1: fair enough, Now we were just talking to DeVante Freeman
Speaker 1: on the other side of this. DeVante Freeman has we
Speaker 1: loved this week of course, facing against Jacksonville, but has
Speaker 1: not been able to get in the end zone all
Speaker 1: that much of the season. How confident, Eric, are you
Speaker 1: in DeVante Freeman this week? I mean, he hasn't done
Speaker 1: anything to make you super confident, um, But but it
Speaker 1: could be a big matchup that Jacksonville has been really
Speaker 1: bad against the run. Freeman is the guy there. They're
Speaker 1: going to rely on him, um, And it could be
Speaker 1: one of those things where it's like, you know, eventually,
Speaker 1: with the kind of volume he's been getting and stuff,
Speaker 1: that he's going to score a touchdown. If you're starting
Speaker 1: him this week, you're hoping it's this week because it
Speaker 1: is do or die. But I don't know if I
Speaker 1: can trust Freeman because he has not been super reliable,
Speaker 1: and that's been going on all year. I understand why
Speaker 1: people would be hesitant DeVante Freeman. You're right, e Y,
Speaker 1: he hasn't been good all season long, right, plea, don't
Speaker 1: let us talk us into drafting him again next year. Well,
Speaker 1: I wasn't really on him. I mean, you guys lovet singly. Yes,
Speaker 1: don't let me talk us in d Somebody downstairs clip
Speaker 1: that out and I will remind Greg, Well, you know
Speaker 1: whatte Freeman, he's gonna get the workload doesn't matter. I'm
Speaker 1: asking you nicely. I do like DeVonta Freeman. This week.
Speaker 1: I have him as RB eighteen. I think he's a
Speaker 1: solid RB two. I tweeted this out last night drink
Speaker 1: that the Falcons have twelve red zone twelve rushing attempts
Speaker 1: inside the five this year. DeVonta Freeman has one of them.
Speaker 1: It's not very good. That's normally where he makes his
Speaker 1: money inside the five, inside the red zone, so they
Speaker 1: haven't been been using him that way. But I think
Speaker 1: that he could break a long one in this game.
Speaker 1: The Jaguars allowed the second highest yarks per carrier running
Speaker 1: backs this year, their thirty first in run defense TV away.
Speaker 1: If there's ever a week you're gonna use DeVonta Freeman,
Speaker 1: it's this week, Craig, Yeah, it is this week against
Speaker 1: Jacksonville the last couple of weeks. It's been a good
Speaker 1: spot for for Um DeVante Freeman. We'll see you this
Speaker 1: week if he can come through for your fantasy teams.
Speaker 1: E Y has another question for us rank and that
Speaker 1: takes us to another couple of games. Um. It raised
Speaker 1: me to Philly and Dallas. We talked a lot about
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott here this week, a lot about the quarterback situation.
Speaker 1: But Eric's question is on the other side, with Philadelphia's
Speaker 1: quarterback Carson Wentz. Would you rather start Carson Wentz or
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick. So this is a fair question. I have
Speaker 1: these guys ranked within two spots. I have Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: QB eleven. I have Carson Wentz QB thirteen. I still
Speaker 1: do worry about the weapons that Carson Wentz has here.
Speaker 1: I can't really push the ball down the field. Yes,
Speaker 1: he did it against Washington last week. Dallas's defense hasn't
Speaker 1: really shown up this year. They allowed some garbage time
Speaker 1: production to Jared Goff last week, but ultimately it's a
Speaker 1: lot of dinking dumps from Carson Wentz. Right now, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with Ryan Fitzpatrick. It's the Bengals defense going
Speaker 1: on the road. He's playing at home. You know the
Speaker 1: past volume is gonna be there. For fits it's close.
Speaker 1: I lean Fitzpatrick, how about you, Greg? Yeah, So for me,
Speaker 1: I also go with Fitzpatrick with with all the weapons down.
Speaker 1: For Carson Wentz just makes his job tougher. Yet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a whole lot of a lot of zach Urged there.
Speaker 1: And yes we were relying on Greg Warring. He gets
Speaker 1: to him in just a second, but I think he
Speaker 1: just makes his job tougher. With Ryan fits Patrick, you
Speaker 1: know what you're getting as well, a lot of Damonte
Speaker 1: Parker here, which is okay, he's your boy, Y give
Speaker 1: me Ryan f It's Patrick over Carson Wentz. Here. This
Speaker 1: week I mentioned Greg Ward. How high is he unior rankings?
Speaker 1: So Greg Ward is outside of my top thirty six.
Speaker 1: Really he is, Actually he's he's just barely inside. He's
Speaker 1: he's wide receiver thirty six exactly. So he's a low
Speaker 1: and wide receiver three players. I have him just ahead
Speaker 1: of Robbie Anderson, Sterling Shepherd, Jamison Crowder, Deebo Samuel. He's
Speaker 1: close with Sterling Shepherd. You know, Shepherd had the big
Speaker 1: target game last week, but Greg Ward did as well.
Speaker 1: And this is assuming that there's no Nelson Aglar, because
Speaker 1: that would change things. But I've no no Nelson Aglar.
Speaker 1: Greg Ward is going to play in the slot and
Speaker 1: that is an advantageous position to be in the way
Speaker 1: to attack the Cowboys has been in the slot. I
Speaker 1: said that whenever a month ago that it was Cole
Speaker 1: Beasley had a big game against him. Cooper Cup scored
Speaker 1: a touchdown at the slot last week against the Cowboys
Speaker 1: in garbage time. And I think that if Aglaura is out,
Speaker 1: greg Ward is likely going to see six to eight
Speaker 1: targets once again, which makes him a low and wide
Speaker 1: receiver three. On the other side with Dallas, we knew
Speaker 1: that Dak Prescott was at least throwing the football today lately,
Speaker 1: you can't really do You're probably gonna start Dak. I
Speaker 1: think if he starts, um, you can't really do anything.
Speaker 1: With Mark Cooper, You're gonna throw him out there. Same
Speaker 1: for Michael Gallup. Yeah, yeah, this is this is a
Speaker 1: tough situation. This is a lot It's not the same
Speaker 1: because obviously Dalvin Cook plays on Monday night. But this
Speaker 1: is one of the harder calls of the week because
Speaker 1: it's a good matchup for Dak. The Philadelphia secondary has
Speaker 1: struggled all season Longdac has been so good from a
Speaker 1: fantasy perspective this year, you gotta downgrade. And because of
Speaker 1: the injury, I haven't at QBA twelve. The only quarterback
Speaker 1: stream that I have ahead of him is Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get too cute with the Gardner Minshew
Speaker 1: thing over Dak, but you worry about it. You just
Speaker 1: hope that the that that matchup being as good as
Speaker 1: it is, is able to mitigate the injury risk here
Speaker 1: for Dak Prescott, And of course that means you downgrade
Speaker 1: in Mark Cooper a little bit. He's a solid wide
Speaker 1: receiver too, rather than the wide receiver he one he
Speaker 1: has been. And Michael Gallup your downgrade to a wide
Speaker 1: receiver three. Greg Okay, Michael Gallup goes down to a
Speaker 1: wide receiver three in this scenario, Mile Miles Sandars before
Speaker 1: we leave this game, Miles Sanders free is a Top
Speaker 1: twelve running back this week. He has RB eleven This week.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys allowed the ninth most receptions to running backs
Speaker 1: this season. Wow, Michele Sanders, get him in there in
Speaker 1: your lineups this week, and y, you had a bunch
Speaker 1: of questions about Miles Sanders in recent weeks. He's your guy.
Speaker 1: He's locked and loaded in your lineup. NeXT's Arizona and
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. E y, we was just talking during
Speaker 1: the break. Steve Times, general manager of the Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 1: says we gotta re sign Kenyan Drake. Good reason. Dude's
Speaker 1: been on fire four touchdowns last week. Kennyan Drake, where
Speaker 1: do you what do you expect out of him against
Speaker 1: Seattle here on Sunday? Kenyan Drake has been Um. This
Speaker 1: is another guy that that I think we were high on.
Speaker 1: He's been a guy that you know, like you would
Speaker 1: see it and flashes and he would be like, why
Speaker 1: is he not playing in Miami? Why on earth is
Speaker 1: Kellen Balage starting above? Kenyan Drake? And I think all
Speaker 1: of our questions were answered and we were right. I mean,
Speaker 1: the reality is is Kenyan Drake is an excellent running
Speaker 1: back and in this system he can really get it done.
Speaker 1: He's a decent pass catcher. I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: as good a route runner as David Johnson, but David
Speaker 1: Johnson is either banged up or or football has passed
Speaker 1: him by. I. I know he's a little bit older,
Speaker 1: but not old enough where you'd think he's been done.
Speaker 1: But he looks like he's running in MUDD. And Kenyan
Speaker 1: Drake looks explosive four touchdowns last week. I don't imagine
Speaker 1: he does that again. But um, I've got him uh
Speaker 1: in uh three of my four championship teams, and he'll
Speaker 1: be starting in all three. Yeah, if you started him
Speaker 1: last week, you're likely playing in the championship this week.
Speaker 1: And Kenyan Drake him as RB sixteen this week, Greg
Speaker 1: high in RB two. I'm not scared of the Seattle
Speaker 1: Seahawks defense there twenty two and run defense DV away,
Speaker 1: So I think that Kenyan Drake can take advantage in
Speaker 1: this spot, consistently seeing over sixty of the snaps for
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. I also do like Christian Kirk, assuming
Speaker 1: that he is hell the you return to practice yesterday
Speaker 1: on a limited basis. He's dealing with an ankle injury.
Speaker 1: Pay attention to that, but I think that this Seattle
Speaker 1: Seahawks secondary can be taken advantage of. And since Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk has returned from injury, it was like five six
Speaker 1: weeks ago. He has dominated targets the target share for
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. So I do like him. Assume he's
Speaker 1: healthy to go low and wide receiver two in this matchup.
Speaker 1: You can really do anything about it, Frank, But I
Speaker 1: do want to know where is Tyler Lockett in your
Speaker 1: rankings this week? I will pull that up for you
Speaker 1: right now. I believe he's inside the top twelve? Is
Speaker 1: that so a couple of bad games in a row
Speaker 1: comes back with a good game. Receiver eight, he's inside
Speaker 1: your top ten yet again, obviously you're starting here against Atlanta.
Speaker 1: We went through it before. Jacob Hollister is inside your
Speaker 1: top ten, just barely, certainly is not your top twelve. Eight.
Speaker 1: He's numb eight. Yeah, And he's the one that I
Speaker 1: keep wrestling with with Tyler Higby, because I have that
Speaker 1: actual decision to make on one of my teams. I
Speaker 1: have Hollister and Higbee and I keep going back and forth.
Speaker 1: It really is a close call the question that I
Speaker 1: have where is Mark Andrews on that list? Mark Andrews,
Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to roll him out there. He
Speaker 1: is tight in four. Last time he faced the Browns,
Speaker 1: he did score a touchdown against them as well. Okay,
Speaker 1: so because the little I had it was was Mark
Speaker 1: Andrews or Jacob Hollister, And yeah, I think that's getting
Speaker 1: a little bit too cute. It's a great matchup, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong. It doesn't get better than the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: But I think somebody in the past game for the
Speaker 1: Seahawks is gonna let us down this week between Lockett,
Speaker 1: Metcalf and Hollister, and I just don't know who it's
Speaker 1: going to be because I like all three of them
Speaker 1: a lot, and I like Russell Wilson. You could take
Speaker 1: take advantage of this Cardinal's past defense, but is there
Speaker 1: gonna be enough volume? There are seven nine and a
Speaker 1: half point favorites in this game. They could lean on
Speaker 1: Chris Carson once they get up and just run the ball.
Speaker 1: I like Metcalf two. He's a wide receiver to for
Speaker 1: me this week, He's the top twenty wide receiver. Cardinals
Speaker 1: secondary is bad. It's just bad. So I'm rolling all
Speaker 1: of those guys out there. But I do worry that
Speaker 1: there's not gonna be enough volume for everybody you mentioned Mark,
Speaker 1: I mentioned Mark Andrews. Let's talk about the Ravens and
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns here for the Ravens. You gotta know
Speaker 1: what you're getting yourself into with Mark Andrews with them
Speaker 1: or Jackson with Mark Ingrand. A lot of people like
Speaker 1: Hollywood Brown this week there you know on him with
Speaker 1: the biggest question you hy we have gotten in regards
Speaker 1: to this game is one about Odell Beckham Jr. So
Speaker 1: what say you about O V J? Yeah? I mean
Speaker 1: for me, I mean you can't trust him. He's been
Speaker 1: not good all year. Uh maybe the number one bus
Speaker 1: this year, a guy that I believe was going Uh.
Speaker 1: I thought Baker Mayfield was going to be you know
Speaker 1: it was the best quarterback he'd ever played with. Uh.
Speaker 1: And going into this year, Freddy k Kitchens looked like
Speaker 1: he had was making all the right decisions, getting the
Speaker 1: ball out of Baker's hands quickly, making good decisions and
Speaker 1: offensive play calls. And Cleveland has looked in act at times.
Speaker 1: Um chob is the big bright spot there. Cream Hunt
Speaker 1: coming back has looked well too, um and drivers Landry
Speaker 1: is still getting it done. So but Odell beck him,
Speaker 1: I don't think you can trust him this week at all.
Speaker 1: You know why O. B J is the biggest bus
Speaker 1: this year. He played every game. There's always nothing you
Speaker 1: can do about it. You drafted him, he's there, You're stuck.
Speaker 1: That's what makes ob J Arguably, I think it's not
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Speaker 1: have a more break to go saying about the uy
Speaker 1: before that crade, I know we we're not gonna get
Speaker 1: to moda night Football. We're gonna wait till Monday to
Speaker 1: do that. But well, were we go any further? Why
Speaker 1: it's the three of us in here. You want to
Speaker 1: put a bow on this Mike Boone, Dalvin Cook, Alexander
Speaker 1: Madison conversation because people are gonna have to make makes
Speaker 1: sense of it all before Moday night, Right, they're gonna
Speaker 1: makes sense of it probably Sunday at one o'clock. Because
Speaker 1: if you're like me, when you have all of them,
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter, right, Like, I amn't. I am in
Speaker 1: the best situation I can be in where whoever plays,
Speaker 1: I start them easy. But most people aren't in my situation.
Speaker 1: You have Mike Boone nobody else where, you have Alexander Madison,
Speaker 1: nobody else And the question becomes, what do you do? Frank,
Speaker 1: how imperative is it to wait for these guys on
Speaker 1: Monday night? You're gonna answer it depends on the situation, right,
Speaker 1: It depends on who you have in front of them.
Speaker 1: And I think you have to look at guys like
Speaker 1: Raheem mostert A, DeAndre Washington, Um, then you can you
Speaker 1: can go for like Patrick Laird for instance. Right, Like,
Speaker 1: I think these are the type of players that people
Speaker 1: have and they have the decision to try to figure out.
Speaker 1: So Riyan Johnson is another one. What do you do
Speaker 1: if you're in that situation? I will do this the
Speaker 1: easiest way possible, Greg, And I'm legitimately just going to
Speaker 1: name the running backs that I have ranked ahead of
Speaker 1: Mike Boone. I am ranking Mike Boone right now, assuming
Speaker 1: that Alexander Madison and Dalvin Cook are not going to
Speaker 1: play in this game. There are twenty one running backs
Speaker 1: that I would start ahead of Mike Boone as of now.
Speaker 1: So if this running back plays on Saturday or Sunday
Speaker 1: and you have Mike Boone on your team, start said
Speaker 1: running back that I'm about to mention ahead of Mike Boone.
Speaker 1: Cmc Zeke Kwan, Chris Carson, Joe Mixon, Derrick Henry, Leonard Fournette,
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb, mark Ingram, Alvin Kamara, Miles Sanders, Melvin Gordon,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, Todd Gurley, Austin Ekeler, Kenyan, Drake Marlon Mack,
Speaker 1: Devonte Freeman, DeAndre Washington, Raheem Mostard, Levian Bell. That's it.
Speaker 1: That's the list. Those are the twenty one running backs
Speaker 1: I would start ahead of Mike Boone. If you have
Speaker 1: someone playing on Saturday or Sunday, why jeezus, this could
Speaker 1: be This could be the decision that makes you your breaks.
Speaker 1: Th um Boone looked good. We know that that Minnesota
Speaker 1: runs the ball, uh they rely on their running back
Speaker 1: for a ton of carries, says Catches as well. Boone
Speaker 1: is a guy that UM I drafted in some of
Speaker 1: my best ball leagues because there was some belief that
Speaker 1: maybe he could be the backup because Madison was the
Speaker 1: rookie and Boone's been there for a bit. Um. I
Speaker 1: was reading something a couple of days ago on Boone
Speaker 1: and he like basically broke the the Oh my god,
Speaker 1: what can the combine physically and athletically? This guy is
Speaker 1: an absolute animal, um, But we haven't seen him get
Speaker 1: an opportunity. This could be hit. This could be the
Speaker 1: time they put him on on the list and he
Speaker 1: becomes a big thing. Or he could be a third
Speaker 1: string running back that you start in front of somebody
Speaker 1: that's been getting it done all year and it breaks
Speaker 1: your heart. So I really like Frank's list. I think
Speaker 1: I would probably start all of those guys in front
Speaker 1: of Boone. UM, but someone like lay Aired Um, you know,
Speaker 1: Carlos Hide, you know, maybe even like James Conner or
Speaker 1: someone like that, I might start Boon in front of them.
Speaker 1: If for sure, I know he's going to be the
Speaker 1: starter for me. I you're not talking about it in
Speaker 1: the break a little bit, Frank and I think that
Speaker 1: Mike Boone is worth waiting for you if you can
Speaker 1: do it, But there are twenty running backs that you
Speaker 1: trust more. He is a running back too. He is
Speaker 1: better than some of these flex guys, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: But if you have a top twenty running back, you
Speaker 1: avoid having to deal with this. It's not like there's
Speaker 1: a reason that Mike Boond is third on the dep one.
Speaker 1: You need three of these more than likely because you
Speaker 1: need one for your RB one, RB two and your
Speaker 1: flex spot. But my point is that there's a reason
Speaker 1: that Marke Mike Boon is third in the depth chart. Right,
Speaker 1: He's not Dalvin Cook. He's probably not Alexander Madison, but
Speaker 1: he was right. I mean, the guy is athletically gifted,
Speaker 1: but he did break the combine. The problem is he
Speaker 1: hasn't had an opportunity. And obviously Vin Cook has the
Speaker 1: draft pedigree and he's been really good, and it just
Speaker 1: drafted Alexander Madison in the third round. So those guys
Speaker 1: have draft pedigree and they're also really talented. So it
Speaker 1: might not even be a knock on Mike Boon. He
Speaker 1: might be a really good player too. It's just that
Speaker 1: those other the players he surrounded around are also really
Speaker 1: good and we're drafted highly, so of course the Vikings
Speaker 1: are gonna go with those guys over him. Fair enough,
Speaker 1: there's there's your bow if you will on Mike Boon
Speaker 1: speaking of bow. So we're bolieving because it looks like
Speaker 1: carry On Johnson is back facing off against the Denver
Speaker 1: Broncos this week, the Broncos. In the lines, I talked
Speaker 1: a lot about my defense, right, I think that the
Speaker 1: Denver defense e y as is during the break, Kansas
Speaker 1: City or Denver in the also out there as well. Um,
Speaker 1: I've gone with Denver like That's what I'm putting my market,
Speaker 1: like Washington too, you know that, I know you like Washington.
Speaker 1: I brought up Houston on Saturday against Jameis Winston and
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. I think they're an option as well. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of good streaming defenses. Do you think carry
Speaker 1: On Johnson plays Frank? If so, where is he ranked?
Speaker 1: I have him ranked assuming that he's going to play
Speaker 1: him as my RB thirty six, So a low end
Speaker 1: flex option, a low nd RB three tougher matchup going
Speaker 1: up against Denver, you don't know what the workload is
Speaker 1: going to be it's a risky situation. We spoke about
Speaker 1: this a couple of weeks ago, you know the potential
Speaker 1: of adding carry on Johnson. Just to give you an idea,
Speaker 1: the running backs that I have ranked just ahead of him, Bouston, Scott, Miles, Gaskin,
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle, Carlos Hide, Ronald Jones. So if you have
Speaker 1: one of those guys in your flex, I think you
Speaker 1: leave that player in over to carry on Johnson. Okay,
Speaker 1: carry on Johnson, Gary and Johnson a fine flex play,
Speaker 1: but there's definitely risk involved. You just don't know what
Speaker 1: his workload is gonna be. Why are you buying the
Speaker 1: fact that Court and Sutton is so ticked off about
Speaker 1: not making the Pro Bowl that they're gonna do everything
Speaker 1: in their power to first feed of the ball. They're
Speaker 1: gonna go off this week. I don't think I'm convinced
Speaker 1: to that. I think Carlos Sutton is is a number one.
Speaker 1: And we talked about this in the In the preseason,
Speaker 1: I ranked him as a number one and and I
Speaker 1: wanted as many number one wide receivers that I could get.
Speaker 1: He's proven that he has arrived and he is the
Speaker 1: real deal. The problem is has been inconsistent play from
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. Um block does look like he's going to
Speaker 1: be the future there is going to turn himself into
Speaker 1: a pretty decent quarterback. But I still can't trust um
Speaker 1: that that connection or the fact that you know Carl Sutton,
Speaker 1: or because of the snub, the Pro Bowl snub, that
Speaker 1: he's going to, you know, all of a sudden have
Speaker 1: the game of his life. I think he's a number one,
Speaker 1: and I think playing against Detroit doesn't really scare me
Speaker 1: that much. So I mean, if you have Sutton, I
Speaker 1: think you start him for sure. Yeah, you don't need
Speaker 1: a snub to go off against the Lions. They allow
Speaker 1: the second most fantasy points to opposing wide receivers. I
Speaker 1: have Courtland Sutton as my wide receiver eight overall. On
Speaker 1: the other side in this game, I have Kenny Gollady
Speaker 1: wide receiver twenty seven. So I'm a little bit lower
Speaker 1: on Kenny Golladay in this spot. The targets haven't necessarily
Speaker 1: been there. Uh, David Blow not taking shots down the field.
Speaker 1: The Broncos secondary um has been a little bit inconsistent,
Speaker 1: so see what happens ultimately. But um, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay is more of a boom bus play. At
Speaker 1: his point, Craig right, Galladay with David Blow has not
Speaker 1: been as good as we hope for Holiday had a
Speaker 1: tough schedule here in the playoffs, and it made it
Speaker 1: only tougher when you had David Blow throwing him the football.
Speaker 1: Would you were? Are Philip Lindsay and Royce Freeman for
Speaker 1: you this week? So I am down on Philip Lindsay
Speaker 1: as well. I know that Detroit you look at them
Speaker 1: as a matchup where you want to use running backs
Speaker 1: all year. They've actually been better against running backs recently.
Speaker 1: So I have Philip Lindsay as my RB twenty eight.
Speaker 1: I have him ten spots lower than consensus. I think
Speaker 1: he's more of a flex option. Lindsay hasn't played well recently.
Speaker 1: Royce Freeman, they're still splitting snaps. It's just it's a
Speaker 1: messy situation. They can't run the ball effectively. I think
Speaker 1: that they try and throw in the spot. If Noah
Speaker 1: fans healthy, I think that they use him against the
Speaker 1: lines here as well. Obviously I like Courtland Sutton. I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit more down on Philip Lindsay this week.
Speaker 1: Craig Philip Philip lindsay, Uh, you would rather start here
Speaker 1: with Mike Boon. I would use Mike Boon. He wait
Speaker 1: on Mike Boon for that one. Yes, let me continue
Speaker 1: on Frankly, just keep chugging along there. Yeah, just try
Speaker 1: and rattle off as many like names that people might
Speaker 1: be worried about in game as possible, and we'll just
Speaker 1: kind of talk it through all right. So you were
Speaker 1: talking or Adventure was talking about Curtis Samuel in Carolina.
Speaker 1: D J. Moore, We've heard about in Carolina this week
Speaker 1: because Will Greer is starting at quarterback. What does that
Speaker 1: due to these wide receivers. Don't fool around with Curtis Samuel.
Speaker 1: He's banged up, he's dealing with an injury, didn't practice today,
Speaker 1: he's questionable, and he has Will Greer as his quarterback
Speaker 1: on top of all that. So uh, d J. Moore,
Speaker 1: I still have as a high end a wide receiver too.
Speaker 1: I told you I was gonna downgrade him a little bit.
Speaker 1: He has been a bona fide wide receiver one. So
Speaker 1: you do see him kind of take a little bit
Speaker 1: of a knock here in the rankings. But I still
Speaker 1: think that the targets will be there because who else
Speaker 1: They're gonna throw in some McCaffrey. Maybe Olsen gets a
Speaker 1: little bit sprinkled in here, But I think as long
Speaker 1: as d J. Moore is on the field, Will Greer
Speaker 1: won't really have an option but to target him because
Speaker 1: of that volume. He's a high and wide receiver. Two
Speaker 1: E Y T You on the other side of his
Speaker 1: game's Indianapolis Cols. T Y Hilton is expected to play.
Speaker 1: He's supposed to see increased snaps, increased usage, increased everything.
Speaker 1: Are you confident in your Fantasy finals to go out
Speaker 1: there and put in t Y Hilton? Yeah? Absolutely. T
Speaker 1: Y Hilton is a gamer um. Even when he's banged up,
Speaker 1: he shows up. I know, uh, he didn't have a
Speaker 1: ton of snaps last week, but I think they're they're
Speaker 1: trying to be smart. But this is a game that
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts need to win. You mean, like they're
Speaker 1: in the same division with the Titans and they're all battling.
Speaker 1: I believe Houston's in first right now, but all the
Speaker 1: other teams are right there. You know, a couple of
Speaker 1: losses from Houston, a couple of wins from Indy, and
Speaker 1: their first place in that division. So Yeah, they're gonna
Speaker 1: go for it. Uh, that's the most important piece on
Speaker 1: that team. T Y Hilton is a mustart. And of
Speaker 1: course you gotta get Marlon Mack in your line up
Speaker 1: as well. I think he's a solid RB two going
Speaker 1: up against the Panthers. The Panthers have allowed twenty three
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns the running backs this season. The next closest
Speaker 1: team is the Jaguars, who have allowed fourteen. The Panthers
Speaker 1: have allowed nine more rushing touchdowns to running backs this
Speaker 1: year than the next closest team. You gotta use Marlon
Speaker 1: Mack this week. Marlon Mack definitely needs to be deserves
Speaker 1: to be in your lineup Championship Week. Oh next, let's
Speaker 1: get to the New York Chests. They're at home taking
Speaker 1: on Pittsburgh. And you want to talk about players that
Speaker 1: people of questions on Frank, that's what brings us to
Speaker 1: Levan Bell. You weren't sure you thought about it, Rochard
Speaker 1: Perriman or Levan Bell, I said Levian Bell. You said
Speaker 1: Rochard Perriman, sticking to your guns. I am sticking to
Speaker 1: my guns. I'm going with Brashad Perriman going up against
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans, the vertical passing attack of the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Bucks. I think the targets will be there for
Speaker 1: Perriman as well Levian Bell. It's a revenge game, and
Speaker 1: I think that the Jets are gonna try and get
Speaker 1: him in the end zone. But you can't kind of
Speaker 1: look away from the fact that it's a tough matchup.
Speaker 1: The Steelers have been a tough matchup for running backs
Speaker 1: all season long. They don't allow high yards per carry
Speaker 1: to opposing running backs. Levian Bell's usage has been frustrating
Speaker 1: all season long. So I think, you know, while it
Speaker 1: is a revenge game, you've gotta be realistic with your
Speaker 1: projection on Levian Bell. He's a low n RB two
Speaker 1: in this matchup. E Y, how confident are you in
Speaker 1: some of the other pieces here, specifically Jujuice Smith Schuster,
Speaker 1: who's not even on the injury report this week, Jujuicemith Schuster.
Speaker 1: He's back for the Steelers. Is he back in your
Speaker 1: story line up on Championship Sunday? I think if you
Speaker 1: have him and you have him in your lineups, he's
Speaker 1: a guy that I don't own anywhere. UM I believed
Speaker 1: him making the transition from sharing the field with Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown to being the man was going to be a
Speaker 1: huge hurdle for him, and I think for the most part,
Speaker 1: I was right in that assessment. Being the number one
Speaker 1: wide receiver on a team is is hard work. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be double teamed. You're the defense is going
Speaker 1: to plan for you and plan to stop you and
Speaker 1: take you away. He's the best player on that team,
Speaker 1: and uh and that defensive have done that. I think
Speaker 1: the New York Jets try to do that as well.
Speaker 1: Um and the Duck is not a quarterback that I trust,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, for me, I think you starred him.
Speaker 1: But uh, I would be very, very worried if I
Speaker 1: was relying on Juju Smith Schuster. I don't think I
Speaker 1: can do it. Frank. Juju is my highest ranks Stealers
Speaker 1: wide receiver this week, and that is at wide receiver
Speaker 1: forty four. So it tells you everything you need to
Speaker 1: know about the Steelers passing. It was Robbie Anderson and
Speaker 1: James and Crowder. I have Robbie at wide receiver thirties
Speaker 1: seven and Crowder at wide receiver third nine. It's tough
Speaker 1: to figure out who's gonna see the targets. Again, the
Speaker 1: Steelers secondary has been really good. They have a lot
Speaker 1: more fantasy points to outside wide receivers recently, so I
Speaker 1: think Robby Anderson there is some upside here, but he's
Speaker 1: a boom er bus play, so in the championship week
Speaker 1: it's tough to really trust that. Because of that, I
Speaker 1: have him ranked at outside of my top thirty six. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's their Steelers and Jets update. Next, let's go to
Speaker 1: the other Giants. There's the other New York teams. New
Speaker 1: York Giants taking the Washington football team. Frank, you mentioned
Speaker 1: before you like Washington's defense this week. Daniel Jones is
Speaker 1: back in the lineup for the Giants. Already been announced. Uh,
Speaker 1: he'll be there evinging Ram obviously. On I R. I'll
Speaker 1: be there with Sa Kuwan and with Sterling Shappard and
Speaker 1: Golden Tate. Terry mclaurin's and ay, hear a lot about
Speaker 1: where are all of these wide receivers rank for you.
Speaker 1: McLaurin is the highest rank wide receiver in this game
Speaker 1: for me, and I'm quite bullish on him. I have
Speaker 1: them as a wide receiver to wide receiver nineteen overall
Speaker 1: is Terry McLaurin. We saw him with a long touchdown
Speaker 1: last week against Philadelphia. Wouldn't surprise me if he breaks
Speaker 1: another long one off this week. I have Darius Slayton
Speaker 1: once again ranked the highest of the Giants wide receivers.
Speaker 1: I know Shepherd saw more targets last week, but Slayton
Speaker 1: has a rapport with Daniel Jones and I think they
Speaker 1: go back to that again this week. So because of that,
Speaker 1: Darius Slayton is a solid wide receiver. Three. Greg, alright,
Speaker 1: we'll take a break, Ey, good luck this week. Man
Speaker 1: rooted for you up there. It is there, It is
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Speaker 1: This is sports grade. Get all the grid. Three questions Frank,
Speaker 1: three minutes ago of the fantasy football season. Feeling it, Man,
Speaker 1: You're excited, you pumped up, You're ready to go. Go Man,
Speaker 1: I got a great Saturday slate. Man, I can't reiterate
Speaker 1: that enough. I'm excited. We have an awesome, awesome, awesome
Speaker 1: Saturday to day. All right, I want to make three
Speaker 1: questions from three games we haven't spoken about yet. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go. Will there be repercutions? Question numb one. Will
Speaker 1: be repercutions from Melvin Gordon's fumbles last week? He was
Speaker 1: benched in the second half. What do you do about
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon advantage football this weekend? Maybe he sees a
Speaker 1: slight downstick, but I don't see how they can go
Speaker 1: completely away from him. I think that both him and
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler are going to see a solid workload this game.
Speaker 1: I don't know that they want to rely on Philip Rivers,
Speaker 1: even with it being a solid matchup against the Oakland Raiders.
Speaker 1: The way to attack them is by throwing the ball.
Speaker 1: Their past defense has been horrendous. Their run defense hasn't
Speaker 1: been great. Recently either. But I think that the Chargers
Speaker 1: rely more so on Melvin Gordon and Austin Ekeler in
Speaker 1: this game. They don't really put the game in the
Speaker 1: hands of Philip Rivers much. And because of that, I
Speaker 1: see Melvin Gordon getting fifteen twenty touches once again, and
Speaker 1: Austin Ekelter likely in that twelve to fifteen touch range
Speaker 1: where he has been all season. Ques Number two, you
Speaker 1: have to start one Kansas City running back in your
Speaker 1: championship weekend? Wh would have been Oh god, death is
Speaker 1: not an option. That's not the answer. Now. I would
Speaker 1: say if Damian Williams plays, probably him. Question number three
Speaker 1: it's with involving the Cincinnati Bengals. Do you start Tyler
Speaker 1: Boyd this week? Absolutely? I have him ranked as a
Speaker 1: top twenty four wide receiver on Bullish on Tyler Boyd,
Speaker 1: He's my wide receiver twenty overall. The Dolphins have been
Speaker 1: torched by wide receivers all season long. The targets have
Speaker 1: been there for Boyd as well. Uh, It's just it's
Speaker 1: a good matchup. How do you get away from it?
Speaker 1: So you know, if you had like a Tyler Boyd
Speaker 1: or Julian Edelman I said this yesterday, I'm sticking to it.
Speaker 1: I would use Tyler Boyd over Julian Edelman. Edelman has
Speaker 1: settled in at wide receiver thirty five Greg wide receiver
Speaker 1: though so so we weren't sure we saw Blake Phels rankings.
Speaker 1: It's like thirty seven, What are we doing? Now? You
Speaker 1: have more three thirty four. Now he's all the way
Speaker 1: down there at thirty five, unbelievable down thirty seconds. Do
Speaker 1: you have any last final pieces of advice? Frank, Like
Speaker 1: I said earlier in the show, don't worry about the
Speaker 1: name on the back of the jersey. If a player
Speaker 1: is playing well, if the opportunity is there, if the
Speaker 1: matchup is right, go with that player. Try your best
Speaker 1: not to overthink things. If you have a question, hit
Speaker 1: me up on Twitter at Rodal Underscore Frank. My rankings
Speaker 1: will be on rodal Experts dot Com as well. Right
Speaker 1: there you go with Frank standfl and Eric Young. My
Speaker 1: name is gregg Souter Wager talks up next up a
Speaker 1: great week and everybody, we hope