Speaker 1: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly
Speaker 1: source for the nation's best fantasy.
Speaker 2: Speculation and advice. Now along with the guys from leagues
Speaker 2: dot com. Here's your host, Paul.
Speaker 1: It's the semi finals and we are semi ready to
Speaker 1: get you the hardware next week. You gotta get through
Speaker 1: this week. We're here to help. I'm Paul Charchy and
Speaker 1: my co host today Scott Fish and Thorneistrom.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Straight, I think or is it for straight now
Speaker 2: with you two? Something like that? They caused the dream team,
Speaker 2: that is what they call us. Yeah, so here it
Speaker 2: is the playoffs. These have been the most important games
Speaker 2: of the year and it's you two. Yes, that's right,
Speaker 2: that's why we're here. We've been called in especially well done.
Speaker 2: We're gonna well, we'll find.
Speaker 3: Out if it's called in. Like doing a free kick,
Speaker 3: like a free kick.
Speaker 2: That was incredible, Vine, that was God. I love Jim
Speaker 2: Harbaugh love that.
Speaker 3: I also love that the last team to do it
Speaker 3: was also the Chargers in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 1: How could it have been this long? How can it
Speaker 1: have been so what is that fifty plus years? Roughly
Speaker 1: fifty years since that has come up? Where there's been
Speaker 1: a penalty on a punt with no time left. You'd
Speaker 1: think that that would come up fairly often.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you do think that, But all the score Agami's
Speaker 3: with the scores that have never been happened before, and
Speaker 3: it seems like there's a couple each year, and you're.
Speaker 4: Like, h and it's such a specific scenario because you
Speaker 4: have to do it right after a fair catcher where
Speaker 4: the ball is spotted after a penalty eight following a
Speaker 4: fair catch, and so you're gonna have to do the
Speaker 4: thing on a first down, yeah, right, Like so it's yeah,
Speaker 4: it's very unique circumstance. Harboss said after that that he
Speaker 4: had been waiting all season to do this. I was
Speaker 4: so charmed by that quote. Yes, this guy has been
Speaker 4: fixated on doing this thing that has not been in
Speaker 4: fifty years in the NFL. This is first year back
Speaker 4: in the league, Like this is what he wanted to do.
Speaker 3: The quote on the other side, I didn't believe where
Speaker 3: Sean Payton says they prepare for that every week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you know what they don't know?
Speaker 3: Shut shot Peyton proving like his reputation about what you know,
Speaker 3: he's not the most honest.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, I'll take things that never happened for
Speaker 4: a thousand Alex, oh kidding.
Speaker 1: What is going to happen in this show is we're
Speaker 1: gonna break down every game Fantasy Football weekly style, with
Speaker 1: letter grades on all the players. Will continue to give
Speaker 1: you take a chance of me players because there are injuries,
Speaker 1: there's dfs, there's a lot of reasons that you might
Speaker 1: want to find unearthed, some some sleepers. We'll answer three
Speaker 1: tough questions and this is very exciting. People have been
Speaker 1: asking for this for years. We have playoff guillotine leagues.
Speaker 2: Oh oh baby, man, I've been waiting to talk about
Speaker 2: this for a long time.
Speaker 1: It's been in the works for weeks and we're finally
Speaker 1: ready to do it. We're gonna have two different formats.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna touch on it briefly and we get
Speaker 1: right into the heart of our matchups. One format is
Speaker 1: pretty much standard Guillotine league, but with smaller a smaller
Speaker 1: number of teams of course, because we've only got four
Speaker 1: rounds of the playoffs, so there are five teams. One
Speaker 1: will be left standing at the end, and it's a
Speaker 1: lot like standard Guillotine except no bench players, just eight starters.
Speaker 1: Who score points every week, but teams still get chopped.
Speaker 1: You can still go to the waiver wire. You can
Speaker 1: bid on players.
Speaker 3: All of that love it.
Speaker 1: Second format is for teams that want to have a
Speaker 1: If you want to play for a lot of prizes,
Speaker 1: this is the way to go.
Speaker 2: It's called the Championship Chopionship.
Speaker 1: It's great play in leagues from twenty five to five hundred,
Speaker 1: and you get to just pick your favorite players and
Speaker 1: then every week the bottom twenty five percent get chopped.
Speaker 1: Of twenty five percent, the low was scoring twenty five
Speaker 1: percent of teams get chopped. You're just trying to avoid
Speaker 1: getting chopped every week, survive to the end, and perhaps
Speaker 1: even win your league. We'll talk a little bit more
Speaker 1: about it later in the show and in future shows.
Speaker 4: Charge, you didn't want to say this, but this was
Speaker 4: rolled out because I encourage him to do this for
Speaker 4: my coworkers who are in the graveyard of our get right.
Speaker 4: The executioner has visited them all and Dwayne and Friedman,
Speaker 4: He's coming for you next.
Speaker 3: I'm in the Celebrity Guillotine League where Charge is still
Speaker 3: alive too.
Speaker 2: I am still alive. I am I want to make
Speaker 2: it to the end of that one. That one's got
Speaker 2: some real cash.
Speaker 3: It really does.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, let's do. Let's jump into the matchups. Giants
Speaker 1: taking on the Falcons. For the Giants, they're going back
Speaker 1: to Drew Lock. Are not a lot of starters that
Speaker 1: we care about. We care about Molik Neighbors, we care
Speaker 1: about Tyron Tray maybe, Yeah, what do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I couldn't get there on Drew Locke for a
Speaker 3: starting grade. It's the seventh easiest QB matchup against the
Speaker 3: Falcons team allowing a ton of QB, the most QBA
Speaker 3: scores and a good amount of rushing and Drew Locke
Speaker 3: had fifty plus yards each of the last two weeks,
Speaker 3: got a rushing score in that. I just I just
Speaker 3: can't do it. I can't do it in your semi fioffs, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Wandel Robinson's the same. It's a it's a good slot matchup,
Speaker 3: but I can't get there in your fantasy playoffs, Milik Neighbors.
Speaker 3: I'm still giving the A grade too though.
Speaker 2: Wow eight grad with Drew Lock.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he gets Ajterrell in shadow coverage. And here's
Speaker 3: what Ajterrell has done recently. Carl Carl Carl Pickens, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's an old timer. Pickens had six for eighty five,
Speaker 3: DeVonta Smith six for sixty nine, Mike Evans five for
Speaker 3: sixty two and two scores, Johnson six for seventy eight
Speaker 3: and a score dk metcalf four for ninety nine in
Speaker 3: the score, Lamb eight for forty seven and seven for
Speaker 3: seventy eight. They've all done well.
Speaker 2: Why are the Falcons using him as their shadow guy?
Speaker 1: A J.
Speaker 2: Charle's not good enough to.
Speaker 3: Shore Justin Jefferson seven for one thirty two and it's
Speaker 3: a couple scores, right, Yeah, so he doesn't align in
Speaker 3: the slot at all. He'll stay on neighbors forty percent
Speaker 3: target share four times this year for neighbors, he's just
Speaker 3: getting hyper hyper targeted. So in the fourth easiest spot
Speaker 3: for wide receivers a grade on Molik neighbors. Let's run
Speaker 3: over to the running game, as you kind of alluded
Speaker 3: to him keeping Devin Singletary on the bench, but last
Speaker 3: week he got a lot more work as Tyrone Tracy
Speaker 3: deals with that angle inentry that led to him splitting
Speaker 3: touches nearly evenly, routes nearly evenly, targets everything and Singletary
Speaker 3: was a little bit more of a more effective Yeah
Speaker 3: with Tracy with that ankle entry, but he's now another
Speaker 3: week removed. I know, the limited practices base another week removed,
Speaker 3: so I think he starts to tweak back up and
Speaker 3: get more touches. Just two backs of top seventy five
Speaker 3: rushing yards against this Atlanta team Barkley and Chuba Hubbard,
Speaker 3: who had a ton of carries. I'm not sure that
Speaker 3: Tyrones get that kind of volume, but I do think
Speaker 3: it's gonna tick up to the point I'm gonna give
Speaker 3: him a C grade here Over on the other side,
Speaker 3: I know you want me to give a starting grade
Speaker 3: to Michael Pennix Junior, probably, but I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 2: I'm not tipping my hand because this topic may come
Speaker 2: up later in the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Giants allowed two hundred and ninety yards and
Speaker 3: five scores to Lamarl Jackson last week, but that's Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3: He's an MVP candidate prior to that. Since Week three,
Speaker 3: they've only allowed one multi score game. In those eight
Speaker 3: quarterbacks average two hundred and fourteen yards, So it's not
Speaker 3: really a good spot for Michael Pennix. I do have
Speaker 3: C grades on Drake London and Darnell Mooney, though London
Speaker 3: remains pretty safe with that five straight games of fifty
Speaker 3: plus yards usually gets five plus catches as well. He's
Speaker 3: safe in that low low save floor. Gets a Dori Jackson,
Speaker 3: which is the toughest matchup of the cornerback matchups. PFF
Speaker 3: grades him, ranks him seventeenth among quarterbacks, just a fifty
Speaker 3: four rating against just one score allowed. But I'm still
Speaker 3: gonna give London to see here, gonna give the counterpoint
Speaker 3: counter parts Darnell Mooney the C grade. Thought about a bench,
Speaker 3: but really, Penix's strong arm might be well suited for Mooney.
Speaker 3: So if he can get a big game. I know
Speaker 3: he's had several duds recently, but we saw a few
Speaker 3: big plays against the Vikings. If Penix's arm can do
Speaker 3: that here, I think he can get to a C grade.
Speaker 1: I see it the exact same way I raised Rate
Speaker 1: when when the news came out the Cousins was out
Speaker 1: and Penix was in. Actually I raised Mooney a bunch, Yeah,
Speaker 1: raised Drake London a little Okay.
Speaker 3: Interesting. Kyle Pitts inarguably one of the best possible matchups
Speaker 3: of the year. Last week only got four for four,
Speaker 3: four for twenty eight. I'm putting him on the bench.
Speaker 3: I don't care now, I don't care. At this point
Speaker 3: in the running game, Bjeon Robinson is sticking with the
Speaker 3: A gamescript may have the Falcons running a bunch as
Speaker 3: they get up by the I think they're almost a
Speaker 3: score for five to six point favorites. At this five
Speaker 3: and a half point favorites. The Giants allow the fifth
Speaker 3: highest yards per carried a clip of four point eight
Speaker 3: per carry, third, most rushing yards, second, most common conboy
Speaker 3: yards bottom six, though in the past game bottom six,
Speaker 3: as in a good way. In the pass game against backs,
Speaker 3: pass catching backs do really well. Bijeon's a twenty plus touchback.
Speaker 3: He's gonna get the A grade. And because of all that,
Speaker 3: Tyler Algier, I think in some backup work might get
Speaker 3: a C grade. Here he only has one game over
Speaker 3: sixty five yards, but that eight to twelve touches against
Speaker 3: a really bad defense, and in mop up duty, I
Speaker 3: think he can get to a C.
Speaker 1: All right, let's switch over to the Rams taking on
Speaker 1: the Jets store and the way I want to attack
Speaker 1: this is this way, you know, Sauce Gardner, DJ Reedman
Speaker 1: Hurt A lot. Teams are passing all over the Jets
Speaker 1: like they had not been able to for really the
Speaker 1: better part of two years. So I'm very interested in
Speaker 1: how you feel like the Rams passing game is going
Speaker 1: to do in a matchup that suddenly seems a little
Speaker 1: bit easier than it would have been even a month ago.
Speaker 2: It sure does, and we got a lot of green
Speaker 2: lights here.
Speaker 4: All right, good, I'm gonna start with the guy that
Speaker 4: I'm lowest on relatively and Matthew Stafford, but I gave
Speaker 4: him a grade of B.
Speaker 2: Everyone else is gonna be an A.
Speaker 4: I'll just give you this spoiler earlier now, but Stafford
Speaker 4: since Week eight has been the quarterback fourteen and fantasy
Speaker 4: points per game. He had a tend to zero TDI
Speaker 4: and t rate over the previous four games before last
Speaker 4: week's rainy game. In the conditions now they're playing a
Speaker 4: Jets pass final defense, as you're sort of alluding to.
Speaker 4: And here was the interesting stat that I pulled up
Speaker 4: on this thing since the Jets fired Robert Sala, Did
Speaker 4: you realize that they are last in the NFL in
Speaker 4: defensive EPA per play?
Speaker 2: What? Wow? Thirty two out of thirty two.
Speaker 4: Wow, do you know what they were before they fired Roberts?
Speaker 2: I bet they were like top five? They were number five?
Speaker 2: How about that? How about that?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 2: Maybe Robert Sala it wasn't as well the problem. Maybe
Speaker 2: it wasn't his fault.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll see who Aaron Rodgers can hire as the
Speaker 4: next coach there. But Kyrin Williams, of course is an
Speaker 4: a and a must start, as is Cooper.
Speaker 2: Now, Cup had that.
Speaker 4: Doud game last week or the negative three receiving yards
Speaker 4: was like, you know, he had gone over zero receiving
Speaker 4: yards like every game, so there was one game like
Speaker 4: years ago where he didn't. But that was just his
Speaker 4: third game without fifty one plus receiving yards and eleven
Speaker 4: and a half plus fantasy points per game or fantasy
Speaker 4: points this year, the Jets have allowed the third most
Speaker 4: schedule adjusted fantasy points to wide receivers in the last
Speaker 4: five games, and New York is twenty ninth and ep
Speaker 4: of per dropback.
Speaker 2: Since Week nine, New York has.
Speaker 4: Seeded the most fantasy points to the slot as well,
Speaker 4: and Cup run sixty two percent of his routes out
Speaker 4: of that Pookaku is a must start.
Speaker 2: On cup.
Speaker 1: So here's the weird thing about cup and slot and slots. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Jets. I acknowledge that the Jets are giving up
Speaker 1: a lot to slot receiver. Yeah, Michael Carter is their
Speaker 1: slot cornerback.
Speaker 2: He's awesome.
Speaker 1: He's giving up one and a half catches for seventeen
Speaker 1: yards a game.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, all right, sorry, I oh, I'm glad. I'm
Speaker 2: glad you jumped in.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm changing my cup breaking nikoua as a
Speaker 4: mustard a as well. In the last two games against
Speaker 4: the Jets defense, I just wanted to read these receiving lines.
Speaker 4: Tyreek Kill against this Jets pass defense had ten catch
Speaker 4: for one hundred and fifteen yards and a touchdown fourteen targets.
Speaker 4: Jalen Waddle had nine for ninety nine on twelve targets.
Speaker 4: Brian Thomas had ten for one h two and two
Speaker 4: touchdowns on fourteen targets. So it's wheels up on those
Speaker 4: rams receivers. Moving over to the Jets, I gave Aaron
Speaker 4: Rodgers a B. He ranked number eight among quarterbacks and
Speaker 4: points per game over the last four weeks. Threw for
Speaker 4: two hundred and eighty nine yards and three scores. Last week,
Speaker 4: and it's throwing multiple touchdown passes in seven of his
Speaker 4: last ten starts. There's a good shot to do that
Speaker 4: again against this Rams defense, which has allowed the ten
Speaker 4: most fantasy points per game to opposing quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Bresee Hall. I gave him a C.
Speaker 4: He played the limited snaps last week and obviously was
Speaker 4: not one hundred percent, zero misstackles forced and less than
Speaker 4: one yard after contact per attempt. The Jets had late
Speaker 4: this week that Hall will play in this game and
Speaker 4: it is a solid matchups week ten, the Rams have
Speaker 4: allowed the six most rushing yards per game. I just
Speaker 4: don't know how much he gonna be on the field.
Speaker 4: It might be another not one hundred percent thing is
Speaker 4: gonna play. But for that reason I had to give
Speaker 4: him a CE. DeVonta Adams, however, I gave him an A.
Speaker 4: Since Week seven, Adams has been the wide receiver seven
Speaker 4: in fantasy points per game eleven red zone targets across
Speaker 4: his last eight games as a Jet. The Rams play
Speaker 4: mostly too high coverage. Adams since Week seven against too
Speaker 4: high coverage has a thirty eight point five percent first
Speaker 4: read share, which is bonkers. Since Week ten, the Rams
Speaker 4: have allowed the twelfth most PPR points per target to
Speaker 4: perimeter wide receivers as well. I think Adams goes off
Speaker 4: in this game. And the only other guy to talk
Speaker 4: about on the jet side Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 2: I gave him a B.
Speaker 4: Since Week seven, Wilson has been the wide receiver twenty
Speaker 4: four and fantasy points per game. It's got set seven
Speaker 4: red zone targets during that time. But against too high
Speaker 4: the kind of too high that the opponent plays in
Speaker 4: this game, Wilson always takes a back seat to Adams,
Speaker 4: or he has since since Adams got on the team.
Speaker 4: Wilson's too high first read share is twenty four point
Speaker 4: two percent, significantly lower than Adams. This appears to be
Speaker 4: another DeVonta Adams game. So for that reason, I had
Speaker 4: to give a badm to Gara Wilson.
Speaker 3: That six right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 1: Houston taking at Kansas City and I've got a really
Speaker 1: strong contrarian angle on this, and I'm gonna explain what
Speaker 1: we get to the Kansas.
Speaker 2: City side, But let's start.
Speaker 1: We'll start with Houston here and Joe Mixon. Two of
Speaker 1: us last three games total duds, which is worrisome. And
Speaker 1: the problem is the offensive line. Houston ranks thirtieth in
Speaker 1: ESPN's run block win rate. They ranked twenty eighth in
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focuses run block rankings, and a MATGIC with
Speaker 1: Kansas City is the opposite of a get right spot
Speaker 1: for Joe Mixon. Kansas City ranks number one in Fantasy
Speaker 1: points allowed runners, number two in yards per carry allowed,
Speaker 1: number four in run defense success rate, and number two
Speaker 1: in yards after contact. This is a very difficult spot
Speaker 1: for Joe Mixon, who comes in with just a C grade.
Speaker 1: We're hoping for goal line use a little bit like
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards who had no business scoring two touchdowns last week,
Speaker 1: but on Thursday. But Joe Mixon maybe gets fed here
Speaker 1: at the goal line. That could salvage a day. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the passing game. Nico Collins remains a solid start.
Speaker 1: It's been reliably productive since returning from injury over the
Speaker 1: past three weeks. Collins leads the team in snaps, routes,
Speaker 1: and targets, and only Jamar Chase is averaging more PPR
Speaker 1: points per game than Nico Collins. He draws a tricky
Speaker 1: matchup this week against a good Chief secondary led by
Speaker 1: cornerback Trent McDuffie. Last week, Jerry Judy became the first
Speaker 1: receiver to top one hundred yards against Kansas City, but
Speaker 1: the next closest receiver had seven yards last week, so
Speaker 1: it was a serious drop off After Judy Nico Collins
Speaker 1: in a tough matchup. I'm gonna go B grade on him.
Speaker 1: Tank Dell goes to the bench. Nico Collins return is
Speaker 1: just torpedoed the fantasy value of Tank Dell and just
Speaker 1: c J. Stroud just can't support two receivers anymore like
Speaker 1: he did last year. He's averaging just two catches per
Speaker 1: game over the last three weeks, and Collins has turned
Speaker 1: Tank into basically just a Hail Mary guy twenty two
Speaker 1: yards per target.
Speaker 3: And we saw just this last week. We were talking
Speaker 3: about this charge.
Speaker 1: C J.
Speaker 3: Stroud is checks down like the second most in the
Speaker 3: league or something.
Speaker 1: Yes, and that's not good. We don't checkdowns, don't get
Speaker 1: fantasy points. And so I got a bench grade on
Speaker 1: Tank Dell.
Speaker 2: CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud, I've got a C grade on his play has
Speaker 1: been meh in part because he's just not throwing downfield
Speaker 1: very often. He's twenty first in average throw distance, he's
Speaker 1: twenty fourth in completion percentage of throws of more than twenty.
Speaker 2: Yards and he scored. Just get this here, what's week sixteen? Yeah? CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud has one touchdown on a pass of more than
Speaker 1: twenty yards this year.
Speaker 2: Coow, that's it. Wow.
Speaker 1: Kansas City's pass defense just got Jamis Winston benched and
Speaker 1: they're giving up one touchdown pass per game over the
Speaker 1: last five games.
Speaker 2: Ce grade for c J. Stroud. All right, let's go
Speaker 2: over to Kansas City.
Speaker 1: The biggest question I've been getting all week is what
Speaker 1: to do about Patrick Mahomes. Here's the problem. Yes, he's
Speaker 1: gonna play through the high akeel spring, Yeah, but what
Speaker 1: happens when he can extend plays? That's the best thing
Speaker 1: that Patrick Mahomes does is when he breaks pocket and
Speaker 1: he's rolling and throwing on the run. But what if
Speaker 1: he can't run? What if he can't break out of
Speaker 1: the pocket? And the other problem the left tackle for
Speaker 1: the Chiefs is a disaster with DJ Humphries or Joe Tooney.
Speaker 1: These guys the last two weeks, just these two guys
Speaker 1: have given up fifteen quarterback pressures the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: And here comes Daniil Hunter and Will Anderson is this
Speaker 1: could be a disaster for Patrick Mahomes. So I can
Speaker 1: only get you to a C grade on Mahomes. That
Speaker 1: brings in a Xavier Worthy. He runs from the slot
Speaker 1: more than any other Chief And here's your one glimmer
Speaker 1: of hope. The Houston Texans slot cornerback is Jalen Petrie.
Speaker 1: He was lost for the season two weeks ago. His
Speaker 1: replacement last week Jimmy Ward, targeted twelve times, gave up
Speaker 1: ten receptions.
Speaker 3: In one game.
Speaker 1: Nice, and so Xavier Worthy comes into the C grade.
Speaker 1: I've got DeAndre Hopkins on the bench, even though he's
Speaker 1: the most reliable of the Chiefs receivers, but he's highly
Speaker 1: touchdown dependent because his typical four catches don't add up
Speaker 1: too much if he doesn't score. When he does not score, Hopkins'
Speaker 1: average game is four catches for forty eight yards, and
Speaker 1: that's not good enough in the semi finals. So I've
Speaker 1: got him on the bench. Now, Hollywood Brown's gonna come back.
Speaker 1: He's gonna siphon off a couple yeah, like like twelve
Speaker 1: two catches, two targets.
Speaker 3: Maybe twelve, but just enough, just enough snaps exactly.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep.
Speaker 1: So he's on the bench too. Obviously, so is Travis
Speaker 1: Kelcey and Noah Gray Wow hannibalizing each other. Kelsey just
Speaker 1: the two touchdowns this year, Gray has five scores in
Speaker 1: the last five weeks.
Speaker 2: And they're going up against And this also worries me.
Speaker 1: I told you they've got this tackle problems on the
Speaker 1: Chiefs and Will Anderson Daniel Hunter.
Speaker 2: I worry these guys are going to be asked to
Speaker 2: block more that could be a factor.
Speaker 1: Houston's the fifth fewest tight end receptions and the fourth
Speaker 1: fewest tight end yards. I'm not starting Kelsey or Gray Wow.
Speaker 1: And that leaves us with Isaiah Pacheco.
Speaker 2: First. I have to say this, I was.
Speaker 3: I was not exactly right.
Speaker 1: I thought Pacheco would have a bigger, more productive role
Speaker 1: upon returning. It hasn't really worked out that way. And
Speaker 1: the Houston run defense has completely shut down three of
Speaker 1: its last four opponents. Miami, Jacksonville and Dallas ran for
Speaker 1: three yards per carry and nobody scored, and nobody top
Speaker 1: forty six rushing yards.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as another professional athlete who has broken his fibula,
Speaker 3: maybe maybe they're easing him in a little bit. You know,
Speaker 3: you can't go right full gear.
Speaker 2: I was hoping that Hunt was a yes. Ask me,
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: I didn't think Hunt was so bad. I thought they
Speaker 1: would just turn this thing, turn Pacheco loose. It hasn't
Speaker 1: really worked out that way, and he's only a C
Speaker 1: grade in this game. When we come back, take a
Speaker 1: chance on me. Nine players you would not normally start.
Speaker 1: Many of these guys are on the waiver wire. Find
Speaker 1: out who they are. Do you want to go fishing
Speaker 1: into the waiver wire in the semi finals.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll try.
Speaker 1: To build cases for our guys and you can make
Speaker 1: the final decision about who's right for your roster. Maybe
Speaker 1: you just block somebody else from picking up these guys.
Speaker 2: Take a chance on me coming up when we come.
Speaker 5: Back, James, on me, nine players you would not only start,
Speaker 5: a lot of these guys are on the waiver wire.
Speaker 2: Let's be get at the quarterback position, Scott.
Speaker 3: Fish, we got Yeah, I'm gonna start a little grimmy here.
Speaker 3: I'm going with Cooper Rush, who gets a bottom ranked
Speaker 3: pass defense in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Rush himself has
Speaker 3: got multiple scores in three the last five, averaging about
Speaker 3: two hundred and thirty yards in that But the Bucks
Speaker 3: will be without Antoine Winfield from the knee, Jordan Whitehead
Speaker 3: out with the pack. Then you have Tyke Smith questionable
Speaker 3: with the knee, Christian Isisian questionable with knee, Mike Edwards
Speaker 3: questionable with a hammy. The only the only guy that's
Speaker 3: healthy in that defensive backfield is backup strong safety Kveon
Speaker 3: Meriweather and his pass Arabian in his in his coverage
Speaker 3: this year is one thirty seven.
Speaker 2: Jeez man, that is that is tempting.
Speaker 1: I like I have Cooper Rush with his highest grade
Speaker 1: of the year, right, he's like quarterback fifteen for me, jeez,
Speaker 1: thor you'll take a chance with me quarterback.
Speaker 4: I would like to dedicate my take a chance on
Speaker 4: many players this week to my coworkers, Delayne and Friedman,
Speaker 4: the only guys who are still alive against me in.
Speaker 2: The Coworker eighteen League.
Speaker 4: They need all the help they can get, So I'm
Speaker 4: gonna try to help you guys out. We're gonna start
Speaker 4: with Patriots quarterback Drake May against the Bills.
Speaker 2: Drake May quarterback one.
Speaker 4: In each of his last two starts, he had a
Speaker 4: passing touch He has a passing touchdown in six consecutive games.
Speaker 2: One more.
Speaker 4: He gets one in this one, he's gonna tie Jim
Speaker 4: Plunkett seventy one for the single season franchise record by
Speaker 4: a rookie. And he's gonna get it because this is
Speaker 4: a really good matchup against a languishing Bill's pass defense.
Speaker 4: Since Week ten, Buffalo has allowed the fifth most yards
Speaker 4: per attempt in the NFL and the fourth most passing
Speaker 4: yards per game.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, thor, you have no idea how
Speaker 1: good it is, how good it feels to win a
Speaker 1: guillotine league, because you.
Speaker 2: Know, but you know what I've I've been dreaming about this.
Speaker 4: No, yeah, I mean the audience probably doesn't realize it
Speaker 4: because I never bring it up.
Speaker 2: But I've been thinking a lot about this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And the next time I see those boys
Speaker 4: in person, the things I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams goes up against the Lions. When these teams
Speaker 1: met on Thanksgiving Day, Williams threw for two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty six yards and three touchdowns. And since that game, obviously,
Speaker 1: the Lions have been even further decimated by injury, giving
Speaker 1: up the second most fantasy points to quarterbacks. The regression.
Speaker 1: Injury regression is so bad. Over the past three weeks,
Speaker 1: Detroit has allowed one fewer touchdown pass then they had
Speaker 1: allowed the entire rest of the season.
Speaker 2: In the last three weeks. Caleb Williams Scott, you taking
Speaker 2: chance with me running back?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm going with my prespect from a few
Speaker 3: weeks ago, and you'll take a chance on me running
Speaker 3: back from last week. It's another really good spot for
Speaker 3: Tajay Spears last week with Pollard hurt in the game,
Speaker 3: Spears before the game, I guess Spears saw eight more
Speaker 3: snaps than Pollard ran twenty seven more routes twenty seven
Speaker 3: routes to Pollard seven. Pollard wasn't practicing this week. He
Speaker 3: might completely miss the game again, but this happened the
Speaker 3: week before and he did play. But he gets much
Speaker 3: of a lot of the past catching work. Indye allows
Speaker 3: thirty one touches per game to running backs, third most
Speaker 3: conboy yards on their way to be a bottom six matchup.
Speaker 3: For our top six matchup for running backs, Taji Spears.
Speaker 2: Taji Spears, Okay, thor, your take a chance with me
Speaker 2: running back today?
Speaker 4: Thank You're lucky Stars you're not a forty nine ers
Speaker 4: running back because you will.
Speaker 2: Be on ir you were, I would be mine. Now.
Speaker 2: A lesser man, of course, would have gone with Patrick
Speaker 2: Taylor here. That's easy.
Speaker 4: That's the easy That is the easy one. We're going
Speaker 4: to talk about Patrick Taylor later. But for my take
Speaker 4: a chance on me guy. We wanted to go deeper,
Speaker 4: and we're going Izy at Bona Conda behind him. In
Speaker 4: San Francisco, McCaffrey has the knee, Mason has the ankle,
Speaker 4: Elijah Mitchell has a hamstring. Now, Isaac Garrendo has a
Speaker 4: foot injury, expected to miss this out.
Speaker 3: He's been ruled out.
Speaker 2: Oh, he's been and he is out. Okay.
Speaker 4: So Patrick Taylor and Izzy are the last two healthy
Speaker 4: running backs on San Francisco's roster. They have Keyshawn Vaughan
Speaker 4: on the practice not count.
Speaker 1: Technically, it does not come, not even a running back,
Speaker 1: I don't think now.
Speaker 4: Most shout out to Vandy, shout out to the commenters.
Speaker 4: Most expect Patrick Taylor to get all the usage. But
Speaker 4: are we sure? For are we sure?
Speaker 2: Oh? I'm not sure. Taylor's a career special teamer and if.
Speaker 4: He doesn't get all the work, and that he doesn't
Speaker 4: is going to easy.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: The forty nine ers are a perfect system for a
Speaker 4: bona conda as I talked about last I think.
Speaker 2: Or two weeks ago with the priest two weeks ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Since twenty twenty two, running backs and Kyle Shanahan's
Speaker 4: offensive system averaged one point eight two yards per carry
Speaker 4: before contact during that stretch. That is the second best
Speaker 4: mark in the NFL, behind only the Eagles. That facilitates
Speaker 4: the kind of post snap creases. That is, he uses
Speaker 4: to hit dingers. If he gets on the field, he
Speaker 4: is a walking threat to run for a fifty yard touchdown.
Speaker 1: Jerome Ford goes up against Cincinnati, and with Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: done for the year, Ford is the sole back in
Speaker 1: a smash spot against a reeling Cincinnati defense. Last week,
Speaker 1: the Begals gave up three touchdowns to the Titans backs.
Speaker 2: As Scott mentioned, the.
Speaker 1: Week before, Rico Doubtle ran for a career high one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty one yards. The week before that, the
Speaker 1: Steelers backs rolled up in insane two hundred and forty
Speaker 1: six combo yards, and the week before that JK.
Speaker 2: Dobbins scored twice.
Speaker 1: Jerome Ford startable for sure this week, even with DTRT Dow,
Speaker 1: which I don't love let's go to the receivers.
Speaker 2: Scott.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going with a tight end because I know
Speaker 3: y'all need tight end help this time a year, or
Speaker 3: really all season and really the last few years. Chicka
Speaker 3: Konku went eight for fifty nine on ten targets last week.
Speaker 3: Eight of those ten targets came from Mason Rudolph in
Speaker 3: just under two quarters last week, Westbrook, Kine and Tyler
Speaker 3: Boyd have not practiced. We're not practicing all week. They
Speaker 3: got in some practice on Friday, so we'll we'll see
Speaker 3: if they suit up. They may suit up, and if
Speaker 3: they don't, even more wheels up for Chicka kon Ku.
Speaker 3: But the Colts allowed the third most receptions and scores
Speaker 3: and eighth most yards to tight ends. They gave up
Speaker 3: sixteen catches for one hundred and sixty yards and three
Speaker 3: scores to Titans in just the last two weeks. It's
Speaker 3: a good spot for a guy who may end up
Speaker 3: being Mason Rudolph's will.
Speaker 2: Be and your take a chance on me.
Speaker 4: Receiver thor Is Keon Coleman facing the Patriots now. Keon Coleman,
Speaker 4: who returns last week from his wrist injury. He was
Speaker 4: only targeted two times and zero times on.
Speaker 2: A first read.
Speaker 4: But this is a very sneaky matchup for Keon Coleman
Speaker 4: to have a big game. New England plays a ton
Speaker 4: of single high coverage. Coleman the deep ballan and he
Speaker 4: feasts on single high coverage because it opens up is
Speaker 4: one on one downtown shots. Coleman has a team leading
Speaker 4: two point nine to four yards per route run against
Speaker 4: single high, which is the least surprising thing ever. And
Speaker 4: in this game, the only good cornerback that New England has,
Speaker 4: Christian Gonzalez, is likely to be on Amari Cooper. The
Speaker 4: rest of the cornerbacks for New England are not good.
Speaker 4: They do not play a coverage style that shuts down Coleman.
Speaker 4: All has you gotta do is put the second safety
Speaker 4: out there high and you can take Coleman away the
Speaker 4: single high. He he is a threat every play to
Speaker 4: hit a dinger as well.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm with you on this, I think and Keyak
Speaker 1: Coleman to me in Dynasty, it's like trade for him.
Speaker 2: He's gonna moss a couple of people on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I think you're right, yeah, uh right, take a chance
Speaker 1: on me. Receiver Roma Dunes against Detroit. I already told you,
Speaker 1: like Caleb Williams, we have a Kendallvilldor alert.
Speaker 2: You know, if there's any to mention, you will do it.
Speaker 2: Shout out Georgia Southern, oh d. Maybe you shouldn't.
Speaker 1: He's your new starting cornerback for the Lions, replacing Carlton Davis.
Speaker 1: And you know the book, Kindle, He's awful. Ranking his
Speaker 1: Pro football focuses cornerback one hundred and twenty out of
Speaker 1: a possible one hundred and twenty five greatest cornerbacks. Odonsay
Speaker 1: will draw Kendelvildor the most he's averaging a Doonsay's usage
Speaker 1: has gone way up, averaging eight targets a game over
Speaker 1: the last five games, and he's one week removed from
Speaker 1: scoring twice against a much better Niners secondary Roma Doonsay
Speaker 1: as a possible sleeper for your team.
Speaker 2: Let's go back to the matchups.
Speaker 1: Scott Arizona taking on Carolina, the Arizona backfield decimated by
Speaker 1: injury except James Connor, except for the.
Speaker 3: One the matter, the one that matters. Yeah, James Connor.
Speaker 3: I have an A grade on. We just watched Rico
Speaker 3: Dwell run up one hundred and forty nine on this
Speaker 3: Panthers team, Barkley one hundred and twenty four of the
Speaker 3: week before that, Bucky irv in one hundred and eighty
Speaker 3: five the week before that, run up by you know,
Speaker 3: total yards. I should say that's not just rushing. And
Speaker 3: in that same game, White had seventy eight yards as well.
Speaker 3: Out of the last six lead backs, only Kareem Hunt
Speaker 3: failed to hit one hundred yards against this Panthers defense.
Speaker 3: James Connor one hundred and twenty plus and three scores
Speaker 3: did in just the last two games. A grade there
Speaker 3: auto a grade for Trey McBride. I would go into it,
Speaker 3: but I don't think.
Speaker 2: I need to touchdown coming this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Maybe maybe he's set the record now most catches
Speaker 3: without without a touchdown the NFL eighty seven hundred and
Speaker 3: sixteen targets no touchdown. Kyler Murray gets a C grade.
Speaker 3: Carolina is bottom six against quarterbacks, allowing the fourth most
Speaker 3: passing scores. They've allowed multiple scores in three to the last
Speaker 3: four and nine of their fourteen games, nine times.
Speaker 2: In hunteen games.
Speaker 3: They're also bottom ten against running quarterbacks, but that's kind
Speaker 3: of dried up with Murray lately, but he has consistently
Speaker 3: gained that two hundred and twenty to two hundred and
Speaker 3: seventy and maybe in a matchup where they give up
Speaker 3: running rushing yards, he will get some C grade there.
Speaker 3: DJ Dallas is an interesting dart throw. I don't think
Speaker 3: you should do it, but if you're really stretched. We
Speaker 3: are actually no other running backs on that team. Marvin Harrison,
Speaker 3: I'm giving the C grade two. J. C. Horn is
Speaker 3: dabbled as a shadow corner. He's allowed some big games
Speaker 3: to several guys even in shadowing. I think we mentioned
Speaker 3: that last last week, and this is this is a
Speaker 3: good matchup here. Otherwise middle of the pack, but in
Speaker 3: most games you're seeing sub ten fantasy points. Has seven scores,
Speaker 3: so he might need the score, but he's gained six
Speaker 3: plus targets basically every week. So SEA grade on Marvin Harrison.
Speaker 3: Over the Carolina side, Bryce Young, I'm giving a SE
Speaker 3: grade two as well. Cards have allowed three multi score
Speaker 3: games this year, just a two hundred and thirty two
Speaker 3: yard average, but two of those three came in the
Speaker 3: last three weeks. Young has a score in seven straight
Speaker 3: multiple and three of those if if you count rushing
Speaker 3: scores bottom ten d and stopping the rushing side of quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: So Bryce Young is going to get a see. Adam
Speaker 3: Stealin's good to get a see as well. We saw
Speaker 3: his production really drop down with the return of Jalen
Speaker 3: Cocher taking over some of that slot roll from Adam Thielen,
Speaker 3: but Thieland still saw the most targets. Most routes are
Speaker 3: on catches dead even with Cocher and snaps Arizona's Arizona
Speaker 3: is eleventh worst against the slot. A slot guy has
Speaker 3: led in Fantasy points against Arizona the last two weeks.
Speaker 3: That was Jackson Smith and Jigba and to Mario Douglas,
Speaker 3: Jalen Cocker Cocher. I'm giving a bench grade.
Speaker 2: Though to uh, we're not going to chase last week's game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he had an eighty three yard score. That was
Speaker 3: the vast majority of what he did. Lea gets out,
Speaker 3: so maybe there's more volume there, but uh, he's on
Speaker 3: the bench. Chewba Hubbard b grade second in the league
Speaker 3: and carries inside the five. He's become a true belcow
Speaker 3: Ads has. He's added four catches and back to back
Speaker 3: and the cards are seventh easiest for fantasy backs in
Speaker 3: the in the past game, but bottom ten in the
Speaker 3: rush game. So just a B grade. Uh, it really
Speaker 3: takes a lot of volume to tag the cards. I
Speaker 3: think he does get it, but just a B grade there.
Speaker 2: Did you give celan An A or B?
Speaker 3: I gave him a C. I could go to a
Speaker 3: bee because lagats.
Speaker 1: Everything you said, all the words you said sounded a
Speaker 1: ar B. I'm really surprised.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my problem is every single one of his will
Speaker 3: bees like statistics. The last two weeks went down with
Speaker 3: the return of Coker. If you think Legett being out
Speaker 3: is gonna bounce it back up, all right, let's go,
Speaker 3: let's go.
Speaker 2: Be all right. I'm not trying to talk into it.
Speaker 3: Nuh no, it's fairly that's out now.
Speaker 1: Thor We're gonna switch to Cleveland and Cincinnati here, and
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna steal a little bit of this because
Speaker 1: I did a bunch of DTR work Dorian Thompson Robinson.
Speaker 1: He's thrown one hundred and forty six NFL passes. That
Speaker 1: is not a trivial sample size.
Speaker 2: Sure, he has one.
Speaker 1: Touchdown and seven interceptions over the past two years. Of
Speaker 1: the sixty two quarterbacks who've thrown at least one hundred passes.
Speaker 1: Dorian Thompson Robinson ranks sixty two in passer Rating. He's awful, awful,
Speaker 1: and I'm not putting my in the semi finals. I'm
Speaker 1: not putting any of my leagues at risk of Dorian
Speaker 1: Thompson Robinson.
Speaker 2: Gentlemen, start your tanking engines.
Speaker 4: When people say there's not tanking in the NFL, we
Speaker 4: have contradictory evidence every year, and DTR being our most
Speaker 4: recent example. And on those one hundred and forty six
Speaker 4: career passing attempts, charge DTR three point seven yards per
Speaker 4: attemptful not the best. You are very clearly keeping him
Speaker 4: on the bench. Jerome Ford was charged to take a
Speaker 4: chance on me guy Jerry Judy, who has been or
Speaker 4: was awesome when he was playing with Winston. Since we ate,
Speaker 4: Judy was wide receiver three crazy in fantasy points per game.
Speaker 2: And this is a it's an awesome matchup against the Bengals,
Speaker 2: And it's the tricky part, right, it just is.
Speaker 4: But the benching of Winston, I assume is going to
Speaker 4: cripple Judy. Winston loved Judy through them all the time.
Speaker 4: A production dip is coming I'm I'm going to ballpark
Speaker 4: this one as a see what do you.
Speaker 2: Think about the best? I think that's all I could do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's tough to grade him without knowing his
Speaker 3: Madden rating.
Speaker 2: Now yeah, great point.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, we'll dig into that one. Elijah Morris and Tillman.
Speaker 4: Tillman is dinged up. Of both they might keep on
Speaker 4: the bench. Can't use any with DTR starting. I did
Speaker 4: given Djoko a bee and Djoko was inactive last week
Speaker 4: due to a hamstring injury. Return to practice on Friday.
Speaker 4: He's officially questionable, but it looks like he's going to play.
Speaker 4: His last two games, he had thirty targets, three touchdowns,
Speaker 4: twenty one point seven fantasy points per game, and with
Speaker 4: Jamis went, you go to the entire sample with Winston
Speaker 4: and Djoku average nine point seven targets a game in
Speaker 4: fifteen point two fantasy.
Speaker 2: Points per game.
Speaker 4: DTR again hurts his outlook, but the Bengals defense has
Speaker 4: allowed the third most yards and the second most touchdowns
Speaker 4: and the most fantasy points per game to opposing tight ends,
Speaker 4: so it's a good matchup for him. But I had
Speaker 4: to go be and then the Bengals side will be quick.
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow of course must start A. He was limited
Speaker 4: during Friday's practice, but Zach Taylor said the same day
Speaker 4: that he is a full go. Chase Brown has I
Speaker 4: can't believe this, but he has become a must start
Speaker 4: A as of course Jamar Chase says, and then t
Speaker 4: Higgins is also a must start A. Higgins was limited
Speaker 4: on Wednesday with knee designation, and he didn't practice on Thursday,
Speaker 4: but he was able to return on and just like Burrow,
Speaker 4: Zach Taylor said that he will play.
Speaker 2: In this game.
Speaker 4: And because of that, I was toggling between if I
Speaker 4: thought like if Higgins wasn't gonna play, I was like,
Speaker 4: is Gisiki gonna be a tight end one this week?
Speaker 4: But then knowing that Higgins is gonna play, you have
Speaker 4: to put Gisiki on the bench.
Speaker 2: He's basically just.
Speaker 4: The binary thing of if Higgins is out there or not,
Speaker 4: So you have to keep Gisiki on the bench.
Speaker 2: I I'm with you on all of that.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a good week to have Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Bengals on your roster.
Speaker 3: Sure, it feels like every week easingly.
Speaker 1: I think Lamar Chase is my number two or number
Speaker 1: three overall player. So yeah, it's it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: great week when we come back. Will it be a
Speaker 1: great week for Lamar Jackson against a team that shuts
Speaker 1: him down every single time they play?
Speaker 2: The Steelers are his kryptonite.
Speaker 1: Find out what to do with Lamar Jackson when we
Speaker 1: come back the Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back to a
Speaker 1: block of matchups, including Pittsburgh taking on Baltimore. But before
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Speaker 1: Guillotine leagues dot Com. Pittsburgh takes on Baltimore. These teams
Speaker 1: have met four weeks ago in a low scoring game
Speaker 1: in which only two touchdowns were scored. And you're going
Speaker 1: to see some suppressed grades accordingly here, including Naji Harris
Speaker 1: that comes in with just a C grade. He's running hard,
Speaker 1: but it just isn't turning into production. Over the past
Speaker 1: six games, he's averaging only three point two yards per carry,
Speaker 1: and he has in top seventy five yards, and that
Speaker 1: ain't changing against a great Ravens run defense. They ranked
Speaker 1: number one in yards per carry, number two in rushing
Speaker 1: yards allowed, number one in yards after contact, at number
Speaker 1: two in run defense success rate. Naji Hair will need
Speaker 1: a goal line kerry to be fantasy meaningful in this game.
Speaker 1: And the only receivers that you care about with George
Speaker 1: Pickens out Pat Fryarmth. Honestly, he's the only other guy
Speaker 1: that you could you could start. He's been more active
Speaker 1: lately with Pickens out, and so that probably continues here.
Speaker 1: He has scored in three straight games, but he's only
Speaker 1: been targeted in the end zone one time all year,
Speaker 1: so I worry about the sustainability of those touchdowns. The
Speaker 1: Ravens are an improved tight end defense in the second
Speaker 1: half of the year. No tight end is top forty
Speaker 1: two yards and only two have scored. I've only got
Speaker 1: a C grade on Pat Fryermuth and a C grade
Speaker 1: on Russell Wilson. Without George Pickens, I don't like him.
Speaker 1: The last two games. Just one hundred and twenty eight
Speaker 1: yards and one hundred and fifty eight yards, mostly because
Speaker 1: George Pickens isn't on the field right and if you
Speaker 1: throw out the miserable Bengals pass defense. Since week eleven,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson averaging just one hundred ninety yards and one
Speaker 1: touchdown per game, se grade on him. Jalen Warren on
Speaker 1: the bench.
Speaker 2: Let's go over to balt More. Let's start with Derrick Henry.
Speaker 2: This is now. It is just like auto A.
Speaker 1: Obviously you're starting in, but let me mention this because
Speaker 1: it's very important for the rest of this matchup. Dereck
Speaker 1: Henry's coming off a low usage game of just fourteen
Speaker 1: carries last week because the Giants got killed and they
Speaker 1: rested him for much of the second half. Listen to
Speaker 1: what has happened to Henry in the games after a
Speaker 1: game in which he's had rest. Week five, he had
Speaker 1: fifteen carries. The next week twenty four, Week eight, he
Speaker 1: had eleven carries. Next week twenty three, Week eleven, he
Speaker 1: had thirteen carries, the next week twenty four carries.
Speaker 3: So if you had low volume last week, last.
Speaker 1: Week, so he had last week had fourteen carries, I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be all Derrick Henry in this game.
Speaker 2: So I've got an A on Henry and a B
Speaker 2: on Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: Okay, So historically Jackson is notoriously bad against the Steelers,
Speaker 1: averaging one touchdown pass. He has never scored a rushing
Speaker 1: touchdown on the Steelers. I see a heavy usage game
Speaker 1: coming from Derek Henri, which I just explained, and Jackson
Speaker 1: was very ineffective in the first meeting. Between these games,
Speaker 1: he completed forty eight percent of his passes and he
Speaker 1: only had one passing touchdown.
Speaker 2: The Steelers have.
Speaker 1: A terrific pass rush. They ranked third in ESPN's pass
Speaker 1: rush win rate.
Speaker 2: So and TJ. Watt is going to play in this game.
Speaker 1: So look, I know with Lamar Jackson you have to
Speaker 1: start him, but I I've just the letter grad I'm
Speaker 1: putting on him as a Bee. Okay, Mark Andrews B grade.
Speaker 1: He's tight ended three since Week six. He did nothing
Speaker 1: in the earlier matchup, and the Steelers are a good
Speaker 1: tight end defense. But it doesn't seem to matter to Andrews,
Speaker 1: who just set the Ravens all time touchdown record. He
Speaker 1: keeps succeeding in tough matchups. So I'm putting a B
Speaker 1: grade on him. Zay Flowers B grade. Steelers secondary's leaky
Speaker 1: of late. Both Eagles receivers crushed the Steelers last week
Speaker 1: and they've given up six wide receiver touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: last three games. Flowers scored in the earlier matchup.
Speaker 2: We will watch the.
Speaker 1: Injury status of Pitts for cornerback Dante Jackson, who's been
Speaker 1: dealing with a pinch nerve and if he can't go,
Speaker 1: that pushes special teamer James Pierre into coverage duty. And
Speaker 1: last week in relief, James Pierre gave up a touchdown,
Speaker 1: so that would help the prospects of Zay Flowers as well.
Speaker 1: Rashad Bateman is is injured and may not play in
Speaker 1: this game. In fact, they expect him not to play
Speaker 1: in this game, and I don't think you want to
Speaker 1: throw an injured player out there in a short week.
Speaker 1: So not a short week, but in your semi finals game.
Speaker 1: Let's go to our final matchup of this segment, which
Speaker 1: should be I think it's going to be the final
Speaker 1: one Tennessee taking on Indianapolis Scott.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in the past game, I really considered giving Mason
Speaker 3: Rudolph a starting grade, but just just couldn't get there.
Speaker 3: He went for two hundred plus and two scores in
Speaker 3: a half last week.
Speaker 2: I need to interrupt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: While I'm while I'm moaning up to bat calls. Will
Speaker 1: Levis had had gone through that month where he was
Speaker 1: playing a lot better. I was optimistic it would continue.
Speaker 1: He's been awful the last two weeks and now benched inappropriately.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, Colts kind of middle of the pack,
Speaker 3: multiple scores in about half, about two hundred and forty
Speaker 3: yards per game, but I just can't get there With
Speaker 3: Mason Rudolph. He relied super heavily on spears and the
Speaker 3: konku last week. We'll see if it happens again here.
Speaker 3: So I got a secret on Ridley. Though he saw
Speaker 3: his lowest target share since Week three last week, has
Speaker 3: only scored in two games and not since Week ten,
Speaker 3: fifty nine and sixty yards in the last two. In
Speaker 3: the last month, no wide receiver his top sixty five
Speaker 3: yards on the Colts. I'm still giving him a se
Speaker 3: grade on the back of his seven plus target average
Speaker 3: and the possibility that Westbrook, A, Keene and Boyd don't play.
Speaker 3: I think they might play, though they practiced on Friday.
Speaker 3: They're trending in that direction. I'm gonna leave them on
Speaker 3: the bench though. They just don't get enough production. Unless
Speaker 3: Westbrook A. Kine scores, they don't get enough production. My
Speaker 3: take a Chance on Me player was Chicka konk Wu
Speaker 3: and in the Running Game, I had take a Chance
Speaker 3: on Me player of Taji Spears. I'm also giving Tony
Speaker 3: Pollard a C grade if he plays, because playing hampered
Speaker 3: last week. He still got seven team touches. He just
Speaker 3: split it with Spears. He saw no pass game work,
Speaker 3: didn't see the you know, two minute Droe work, possibly
Speaker 3: not running routes much due to playing hurt. INDI's allowed
Speaker 3: thirty one touches per game, as I mentioned before, so
Speaker 3: if they split that, they can both be viable here.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna give Tony Poller a C grade if
Speaker 3: he goes. On the other side, Anthony Richardson's gonna get
Speaker 3: a SE grade. And it's just because you know what
Speaker 3: you get. You're getting ten to twelve points rushing the
Speaker 3: rushing the ball. He's completely inaccurate. He can't even count
Speaker 3: on one hundred and fifty yards in a normal matchup,
Speaker 3: and the Titans allowed the third fewest passing yards. Maybe
Speaker 3: you'll get another touchdown passing, but simply a C grade,
Speaker 3: and I don't even feel good about that. Alec Pierce
Speaker 3: is ruled out. I'm not gonna start a Donna Mitchell
Speaker 3: in your semi finals Josh Downs. The Titans allowed the
Speaker 3: fewest fantasy points to the slot, and unless you want
Speaker 3: one to three catches in sub forty yards, you're not
Speaker 3: starting Josh Downs. Michael Pittman Junior is gonna get a
Speaker 3: se grade, though the Titans allow the second most to
Speaker 3: the perimeter. With Pierce out, there may be a few
Speaker 3: a little bit extra target work there for Pittman. He
Speaker 3: swaps sides a lot too, so he's going to be
Speaker 3: able to match up well against a Woozier or Baker
Speaker 3: on either side. Five catches in all four of his
Speaker 3: games since returning, and he usually gets between forty and
Speaker 3: one hundred yards, but he doesn't really score a munch.
Speaker 3: So Jonathan Taylor, I'm just giving a B grade on
Speaker 3: twenty three touches or more in four of the last five.
Speaker 3: That Detroit blowout was the one anomaly. We just saw
Speaker 3: Chase Brown go for an absolute ton against the Titans.
Speaker 3: Brian Robinson Junior and Chris Rodriguez also had very big games.
Speaker 3: Tank Bigsby was held to sixty two yards the other day,
Speaker 3: but he did get a score. Titans are just getting
Speaker 3: rocked over last month, but b grade because Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 3: over the last few weeks hasn't been amazing with his touches.
Speaker 3: Lots of touches, not a lot of not a lot.
Speaker 2: Of this whole season. Yeah, that's his whole season unfortunately. Yeah,
Speaker 2: how much time do we have left?
Speaker 1: Let me see we can sneak in a matchup here, No,
Speaker 1: we can't sneak in a matchup. Anthony is Anthony Richardson
Speaker 1: one hundred percent the starter for the Colts next off season,
Speaker 1: next season week one? Both of you, what do you think,
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson? What is the let me phrase it differently, chance,
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson is the starter week one for the Colts
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. Yes, you can't pull the plug this soon.
Speaker 4: You can't make the decision to have drafted him when
Speaker 4: he's one of the ross prospects who's ever gone in
Speaker 4: the top ten in the history of the NFL and
Speaker 4: then pull the plug in on that soon.
Speaker 2: Is why I was so dumb they bench from this season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was probably gonna go about eighty eighty five percent,
Speaker 3: but yeah, one hundred is probably right. You have to
Speaker 3: do what you can in the offseason to get him
Speaker 3: ready and then try it again at the start. It's tough, though,
Speaker 3: it's really tough.
Speaker 1: Here's the problem, and you're probably right. It's probably going
Speaker 1: to be him.
Speaker 2: He's not getting better. No, he's not getting better.
Speaker 1: It would be all different if you were seeing incremental
Speaker 1: progress from Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 2: It's not happening, and that is a problem right there.
Speaker 1: What's not a problem is our number two of Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly, beginning with three tough questions. You'll want to
Speaker 1: play along see if you can go three and zero,
Speaker 1: and we'll also break down a bunch of games the
Speaker 1: rest of the slate, including Detroit taking on Chicago.
Speaker 2: You're gonna start a lot of.
Speaker 1: Bears against this reeling, injury ravage Lions defense.
Speaker 2: That may very well be the case.
Speaker 1: Also, playoff Guillotine League's coming your way in a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. We'll talk more about that when we come
Speaker 1: back for our number two of Fantasy Football. It's our
Speaker 1: number two a Fantasy Football Weekly. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: Paul charging, Scott Fish, and Thorn and Einstrom with you.
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Speaker 2: In This is a Game, we call three tough questions.
Speaker 2: Question number one.
Speaker 1: For the Atlanta receivers, does Michael Pennix help hurt or neither?
Speaker 2: We begin with Scott Fish. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I talked about him a little and I'm just going
Speaker 3: to reiterate that I think it helps. I think partly
Speaker 3: because Mooney had dovetailed a bit lately. The four the
Speaker 3: last five games have not been very good for Mooney.
Speaker 3: He'd really taken a backseat to London. The yards have
Speaker 3: still been there, but the scores were going away with Cousins.
Speaker 3: The thing is Penix has a much bigger arm, and
Speaker 3: Kirk had completely lost that zip. And that bigger arm
Speaker 3: is really good for Moonie's game.
Speaker 1: All right, Thorpe, this is right in your wheelhouse. Does
Speaker 1: Michael Pennix help hurt or neither? For the Atlanta receivers?
Speaker 4: It will help because it can't help, but help based
Speaker 4: on the Cousins is playing cousins among qualifying quarterbacks number
Speaker 4: thirty three and big time throw rate, and he was
Speaker 4: tied for number three with the aforementioned Anthony Richardson in
Speaker 4: turnover worthy play rate.
Speaker 2: Not good.
Speaker 4: Bob Pennix has a much bigger arm than Cousins last season.
Speaker 4: In fact, he led college football in deep throw rate.
Speaker 4: You are going to see more aggression going forward from
Speaker 4: the Falcons air game. I love what fished out about Mooney.
Speaker 4: I totally agree with that. Penix loves to hit those
Speaker 4: shots down the field. He loves those hole shots against
Speaker 4: against Cover two. He loves to push the field, and
Speaker 4: the Falcons receivers will be beneficiaries of that.
Speaker 1: You guys took all my talking points only at this
Speaker 1: the Falcons are clinging to playoff hope, in large part
Speaker 1: because they've beaten Tampa twice.
Speaker 2: They've got the tiebreaker.
Speaker 1: I'd like to think that Atlanta's offensive coordinator Zach Robinson.
Speaker 2: Let her rip down field. Baby, this is what your
Speaker 2: quarterback does. You need you need to find some magic, Falcons.
Speaker 1: Go see if Penis can just wing his way to
Speaker 1: some victories for your team. I'd like to think they're
Speaker 1: gonna do that. I think Penix is gonna help agreed.
Speaker 1: I tipped my hand earlier in the show, and I
Speaker 1: said I moved up on the rankings Drake, London and
Speaker 1: and Mooney when we got the news. Rest of season,
Speaker 1: which granted there's not a lot of two games and
Speaker 1: left next two games. Rest of season is Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: wide receiver Jalen McMillan a wide receiver, one wide.
Speaker 2: Receiver, two flex or batch we begin with thor I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say flex.
Speaker 4: Nine catches for one hundred and thirty four yards and
Speaker 4: three touchdowns in the last two games. And for anyone
Speaker 4: that listened to charging I his offseason episodes, you heard
Speaker 4: me bloviate about Jalen McMillan and I gave I gave
Speaker 4: a stat there where I swore to you guys that
Speaker 4: he was a better player than a guy who was
Speaker 4: taken right at the top of the second round, who
Speaker 4: was his collegiate teammate, Jalen Pulk. Yeah, when both those
Speaker 4: guys were healthy in college. In full games, McMillan had
Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty four catches for six hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty seven yards fourteen touchdowns. Polk in those games sixty
Speaker 4: eight catches twelve hundred, ten years nine touchdowns. McMillan was
Speaker 4: a better prospect than he was given credit for coming out.
Speaker 4: It was a circumstantial thing. You had the three NFL
Speaker 4: receivers on Washington, But I'm gonna go flex just the
Speaker 4: rest of this season.
Speaker 2: All right, Yeah we were yeah, go ahead, No, that's right.
Speaker 1: Jalen McMillan, wide receiver one, wide receiver two flex or bench.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were way on Jalen McMillan. At the State
Speaker 3: Fair show, I also mentioned take Jalen mcbown with the
Speaker 3: last pick of your draft. Our show had this one called.
Speaker 3: So this weekend he gets a really really favorable matchup
Speaker 3: against the Cowboys. The following weekend, he gets a match
Speaker 3: up with the Carolina Panthers, who have been rocked the
Speaker 3: last three or four weeks by wide receivers. And I
Speaker 3: do think he's just become a good end zone target
Speaker 3: for Baker. So I'm gonna go with wide receiver two.
Speaker 1: The correct answer is wide receiver two. This week, Cowboys
Speaker 1: yielding the second most Fantasy points to wide receivers this year.
Speaker 1: They just got lit up by Jalen Cocher. And I've
Speaker 1: got for this week, I've got Jalen McMillan higher than
Speaker 1: my peers at Fantasy Life Wide Receiver twenty nine this
Speaker 1: week next week, as you mentioned Carolina, and for the
Speaker 1: leagues that are doing it wrong and playing in Week
Speaker 1: eighteen Saints. And by the way, if you're one of
Speaker 1: those leagues that does the week seventeen and Week eighteen
Speaker 1: combo where they they run those weeks together, it's better,
Speaker 1: but it's still wrong because there's a scenario somebody mentioned this.
Speaker 1: There's a scenario where every AFC playoff team is known
Speaker 1: by the end of this weekend, and so this thing
Speaker 1: could play out very, very bad. Already Houston has very
Speaker 1: little to play for already.
Speaker 4: So that has nothing to do with tanking. On the
Speaker 4: other end, by absolutely nothing. It doesn't happen in the NFL.
Speaker 2: No tough question number three, What.
Speaker 1: Player who is not broken out yet is prime to
Speaker 1: break out next year? This is a dynasty question. And
Speaker 1: by the way, as a side note, I took Kamani
Speaker 1: Videll off the board because we talk about him incessantly.
Speaker 2: Was that was triggering to me? I bet that was
Speaker 2: a shoddy Yeah.
Speaker 4: I already started writing my Commani Vidal response and then
Speaker 4: I saw that, Yeah, so again with Scott Fish.
Speaker 3: So I do have the correct answer here. Uh what
Speaker 3: do Diami Brown, kJ Osburn, Jamison Crowder, Lamine zakiyas Au
Speaker 3: in common?
Speaker 2: Well, they play for the Commanders.
Speaker 3: They play for the Commanders, and all of their contracts
Speaker 3: are up at the end of the season, leaving Terry
Speaker 3: McLaurin and Luke McCaffrey as the only two wide receivers
Speaker 3: under contract.
Speaker 2: Thor just soiled himself. I did because I got McCaffrey.
Speaker 3: Well, have to be different, even if they added T
Speaker 3: Higgins type guy Luke McCaffrey's slot. That's fine whatever. I
Speaker 3: love pairing a young wide receiver like that with an
Speaker 3: up and ascending quarterback. Luke McCaffrey is the correct answer.
Speaker 2: Luke McCaffrey is the correct answer. That is correct.
Speaker 4: I can't believe we picked the same graffy that A
Speaker 4: couple other things that all add So McCaffrey came into college.
Speaker 4: He was a four star dual threat quarterback, and he
Speaker 4: never found his way at quarterback. He bounced between a
Speaker 4: couple of different scoals.
Speaker 2: He gets the rice.
Speaker 4: Two years ago, they switched him to wide receiver and
Speaker 4: he was immediately an assassin. They played him out of
Speaker 4: the slot, But keep in mind, this guy has only
Speaker 4: played wide receiver for two years. This is only his
Speaker 4: third season playing wide receiver. Is it a surprise that
Speaker 4: that maybe he started a little bit slower. He's behind
Speaker 4: a couple of these other guys, maybe not necessarily because
Speaker 4: of that. He is the big slot And very importantly
Speaker 4: to the point about Jayden Daniels, what is Luke McCaffrey's
Speaker 4: best thing. It's getting downtown and making contested catches. Jaden
Speaker 4: Daniels loves to throw deep. We haven't seen it quite
Speaker 4: as much this year. I think they're trying to inoculate him.
Speaker 4: He's young, but at LSU he threw deep about as
Speaker 4: much as you ever see a collegiate quarterback throw deep.
Speaker 4: Luke McCaffrey's going to be catching those deep balls next year.
Speaker 1: I have a very small sample size because it's rice football.
Speaker 1: I didn't watch any during the during the college football
Speaker 1: season last year, and then when I was just trying
Speaker 1: to do some homework on Luke McCaffrey in the offseason
Speaker 1: to prep for our show's thor YEP, I watched one
Speaker 1: rice game and Luke McCaffrey just looked like a guy.
Speaker 1: To me, I just didn't see anything, any special traits,
Speaker 1: So I remain a little skeptical. But you're you know,
Speaker 1: a million times more about this thannight.
Speaker 2: You got to watch his contestant catches at Rice.
Speaker 1: Here's the player I think that is not broken out
Speaker 1: yet but could break out next year. For you Dynasty leaguers,
Speaker 1: how about this one thor what do you think of
Speaker 1: Ben Sennett?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, right, stay in Washington, Yeah yeah, I love this.
Speaker 2: Zach Ertz on a one year deal.
Speaker 1: He's got a concussion right now, may not play this week,
Speaker 1: and so they may we may finally get more Ben Sentate,
Speaker 1: who's barely even been on the field this year, but
Speaker 1: athletically I'm really interested, tremendous. Yes, give me, just give
Speaker 1: me twenty seconds on Ben Senate.
Speaker 4: He went to Kansas State as one hundred and ninety
Speaker 4: pound walk on fullback, and four years later he found
Speaker 4: himself as a two hundred and forty five and fifty
Speaker 4: pound one of the best tight ends in the country.
Speaker 4: And his game will evoke for you a bit of
Speaker 4: Sam Laporta and a bit of Tucker Craft. Staying in
Speaker 4: the NFC there in that he catches the ball intermediate,
Speaker 4: He's very good with the route running, and then he
Speaker 4: goes berserker breaking tackles. So Jade Daniels is going to
Speaker 4: love working with him. And one thing that we had
Speaker 4: questions about with Jayden Daniels coming out of LSU it
Speaker 4: was throwing over the intermediate range. Senate was one of
Speaker 4: the better intermediate pass catchers that we had in the
Speaker 4: entire class, regardless of tight ender wide receiver.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Senate is a guy that's probably available in like
Speaker 1: virtually every league, even dynasty leagues, and you can go
Speaker 1: get him now and sit on him. See what happens.
Speaker 1: Maybe Zachartz doesn't come back. Let's go back to our matchups.
Speaker 1: New England takes on Buffalo Thor Drake was Drake mayor
Speaker 1: take a chance on the quarterback.
Speaker 2: I believe he was. He was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he already covered Drake made. Do you like
Speaker 1: you don't like any of his receivers?
Speaker 2: I flied, I sure don't.
Speaker 4: I did get Pop Douglas to seek. Since week nine,
Speaker 4: he only has one top thirty six finish Fantasy zero
Speaker 4: inside the top thirty. But I do think he is
Speaker 4: a flex option if you were in need this week.
Speaker 4: Since week ten, Buffalo has allowed the eighth most PPR
Speaker 4: points per target to slot wide receivers. I like Drake
Speaker 4: May in the matchup this week, so that's why I
Speaker 4: settled on see for pop Hunter Henry, I gave him
Speaker 4: a bee. Since week nine, Henry has been the tight
Speaker 4: end fifteen and fantasy points per game. He has three
Speaker 4: tight end one finishes during that time. In Fantasy, Henry's
Speaker 4: route share did dip to six a bit over sixty
Speaker 4: percent last week, as Austin Hoopers rose to fifty seven
Speaker 4: point one percent routes. Here, the Bills are also solid
Speaker 4: against tight ends. Buffalo has allowed the ninth fewest receiving
Speaker 4: yards per game and six fewest fantasy points per game
Speaker 4: to tight ends. But I did settle on I'm gonna
Speaker 4: I'm gonna toggle it to a sea on Hunter Henry.
Speaker 4: Ramandre Stevenson also gets a see and this is like
Speaker 4: my collegiate transcript here. Stevenson has averaged sixteen point eight
Speaker 4: Fantasy points and would be RB five this season in
Speaker 4: New England wins. When New England loses nine point nine
Speaker 4: fantasy points per game, he's RB thirty one in those circumstances.
Speaker 4: I bring this up because the Patriots are fourteen point
Speaker 4: underdogs this week. The Bills run defense has been struggling,
Speaker 4: but will Stevenson get the volume to exploit that. The
Speaker 4: Bills since week ten this they have allowed the second
Speaker 4: highest or they have the second highest misstackle rate and
Speaker 4: sixth highest yards after contact per attempt. And then as
Speaker 4: far as the Bills go, Josh Allen clear mustard fifty
Speaker 4: one point eight obvious point Yeah this, yeah, and you
Speaker 4: add the wonder last week. James Cook is also a
Speaker 4: must start a at least in this matchup. Khalil Shakira
Speaker 4: gave him a bee. Since week seven, Shakira has been
Speaker 4: the wide receiver twenty five and fantasy points per game,
Speaker 4: seven or more targets in eight games and two with
Speaker 4: ten or more. Since week nine, New England has run
Speaker 4: the fifth highest single rate single high coverage rate in
Speaker 4: the NFL, and since Week seven against single high Shakira
Speaker 4: is at a twenty eight percent first read share. So
Speaker 4: this is a matchup The lines up very well for him.
Speaker 4: I also think it does for key On Coleman, which
Speaker 4: is why he was to take a chance on you guy,
Speaker 4: the dude on fading There is Amari Cooper.
Speaker 2: So much, I'm going to tell you to put him
Speaker 2: on your bench.
Speaker 4: He was shut out last week despite forty eight points
Speaker 4: scored against the Lions, played only forty six percent of
Speaker 4: the snaps in that game, zero targets, and I want
Speaker 4: no part of him against Christian Gonzales here last week, Gonzo,
Speaker 4: he held Marvin Harrison Junior to one catch for twenty
Speaker 4: three yards in primary coverage. Keep Omari Cooper on the bench.
Speaker 4: And then the last one, Dalton kin Kate gave him
Speaker 4: a bee. He has not finished as a tight end
Speaker 4: one since Week six. That's kind of crazy. Five red
Speaker 4: zone targets across the last five games played. Though we're
Speaker 4: getting closer. We're getting closer. Dalton put that one in
Speaker 4: the end zone. Patriots are middle of the road against
Speaker 4: tight ends. They have allowed the fourteenth most receiving yards
Speaker 4: per game and fantasy points per game to opposing tight ends.
Speaker 1: Detroit played Chicago and Thanksgiving, and that was that game
Speaker 1: that ended Matt Eberflu's career in Chicago. It was a
Speaker 1: close game in which the Bears played well. For Detroit obviously,
Speaker 1: Jamior Gibbson Nomen Rossie Browner obvious as and Jamior Gibbs
Speaker 1: in fact, is my favorite overall player for the entire week.
Speaker 1: This is a much easier to run upon Bears defense
Speaker 1: than pass upon. Let's go to some of the rest
Speaker 1: of the Lions.
Speaker 3: Gibbs his gay explode for the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: This absolutely is He's going to be a league winner. Yeah,
Speaker 1: playing against Gibbs, you are facing an uphill battle.
Speaker 3: Part of it is not having knuckles. But his nickname
Speaker 3: is Sonic, and Sonic loves Christmas, especially the fifth Day.
Speaker 2: Why does Sonic love Christmas?
Speaker 1: Five golden rings, five golden rank, five golden rings. Jamison
Speaker 1: Winston william excuse me. Over the past month, something very
Speaker 1: how important has changed for Jamison Williams. Offensive coordinator Ben
Speaker 1: Johnson has reeled in his route tree, giving him far
Speaker 1: more intermediate routes and a lot fewer of those low
Speaker 1: percentage bomb of bombs away routes that had defined Jamison
Speaker 1: Williams's career until recently. His adopt has dropped from fourteen
Speaker 1: yards to ten yards, and because that, he's been way
Speaker 1: more productive. He's doubling his receptions from three receptions per
Speaker 1: game to five receptions per game, and that has ultimately
Speaker 1: helped Jamison Williams a lot, and he comes in with
Speaker 1: a B grade in this game. Tim Patrick C grade.
Speaker 1: His roles exploded with Kerlief Raymond out over the past
Speaker 1: three weeks. The big body Patrick has more end zone
Speaker 1: targets than all the other receivers combined.
Speaker 2: Geez.
Speaker 1: The Bears corners aren't small, but Patrick has four inches
Speaker 1: and twenty pounds on all of them. His route participation
Speaker 1: is almost on par with Sun God and Jamison Williams.
Speaker 1: Tim Patrick absolutely startable in this matchup and staying with
Speaker 1: the passing game, Sam Laporta comes in with a B grade.
Speaker 1: Three straight Fantasy relevant games for Sam Laporta after two
Speaker 1: and a half months of doing nothing, including his two
Speaker 1: touchdown game against the Bears on Thanksgiving. Chicago has been
Speaker 1: a yielding defense to tight ends over the past four games,
Speaker 1: allowing the most PPR points to tight ends. So I
Speaker 1: like Laporta here quite a bit. We'll give him a
Speaker 1: B grade and then Jared goff a grade. With all
Speaker 1: these I got A's, I got BB and C grades
Speaker 1: on his receivers, I gotta like him here. His battered
Speaker 1: defense means that he's passing way more often the past
Speaker 1: two weeks, Jared Goff has thrown forty one and fifty
Speaker 1: nine passes. That kind of volume has led to gigantic
Speaker 1: games for him. He's thrown multiple touchdowns in five of
Speaker 1: the past six and over those six games, he's averaging
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty yards. The Bears have a good
Speaker 1: pass defense, but everything in Chicago's kind of broken right now,
Speaker 1: and I like golf in this one. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go over to the Chicago side. Already gave you two
Speaker 1: take a chance on me players Caleb Williams and Roma Doonza,
Speaker 1: but they're not the only Bears. I like DJ Moore
Speaker 1: and Keenan Allen come in with b grades. Moore is
Speaker 1: the most reliable of the Bears receivers, and he's chipping
Speaker 1: in some rushing production. He'll most often draw rookie Terry
Speaker 1: and Arnold, whose pro football focuses cornerback one hundred and
Speaker 1: fourteen and running from the slot. Keenan Allen's going to
Speaker 1: draw Meek Robertson. He's pro football focus is one hundredth
Speaker 1: graded cornerback. Last week's slot receiver Khalil Shaker scored against
Speaker 1: the Lions from the slot in the week thirteen meeting
Speaker 1: between these teams, DJ Moore and Keenan Allen shared twenty
Speaker 1: four targets, thirteen receptions, one hundred seven yards, and three touchdowns.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of numbers.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of numbers, and they're all big numbers.
Speaker 1: DJ Moore and Keenan Allen are B grades in this game.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift mostly good news here now. Injuries have taken
Speaker 1: its toll on the Lions run defense, dropping a usually
Speaker 1: stout group town to just being kind of good. Three
Speaker 1: of the five big Iuguest Fantasy point output games to
Speaker 1: opposing runners have happened in the last two weeks against
Speaker 1: the Lions. James Cook and Ty Johnson both went off
Speaker 1: last week. Before that, Josh Jacobs had three touchdowns against
Speaker 1: the Lions. Last week's seventy nine rushing yards was his
Speaker 1: highest total since Week eight for DeAndre Swift, but he
Speaker 1: scored only one time in that time. And Roshawn Johnson
Speaker 1: is back and he will house goal line duties. So
Speaker 1: I can only get you to a C grade on
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift because Johnson would get goal line carries should
Speaker 1: the opportunity present itself.
Speaker 2: Let's go to our.
Speaker 1: Final matchup of this segment, and that is Jacksonville taking
Speaker 1: on the Las Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm gonna leave mac Jones on the bench.
Speaker 3: I know that you really wanted me to get in
Speaker 3: the starting grade. You were asking for it. The Raiders
Speaker 3: have allowed multiple scores in five to last seven games
Speaker 3: to quarterbacks. In six of those top two hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty yards. But mac Jones. Get the statut on mac
Speaker 3: Jones from Demetrius Harvey at be reporter for the Jags.
Speaker 3: Mac Jones is oh for seventeen with five interceptions when
Speaker 3: throwing the ball more than twenty yards downfield.
Speaker 2: Wow, oh for.
Speaker 3: Seventeen with five picks. That's that's not good. Not good,
Speaker 3: as we say, I still have an A grade on
Speaker 3: Brian Thomas Junior, who is unstoppable out there. The Raiders
Speaker 3: allow the seventh most fantasy points to the perimeter. Uh,
Speaker 3: he's had nearly a thirty percent target share with mac
Speaker 3: Jones and he gets that Decameron Richardson matchup. That guy
Speaker 3: a Yet I can never pronounce correctly.
Speaker 2: Who's shot Mississippi State a ton a.
Speaker 3: Ton of yardage every week? Brian Thomas seventy five plus
Speaker 3: and four straight. His targets have gone from seven to
Speaker 3: ten to twelve to fourteen. So I think this is
Speaker 3: about a sixty or seventy target Gabe based on based.
Speaker 2: On mind, assume that that's going to continue.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, absolutely. Brenton Strange also getting the A grade.
Speaker 3: He's been limited with his shoulder, but he should be
Speaker 3: good to go. Absolutely broke out last week without Ingram
Speaker 3: had a couple of starter bill weeks earlier this season.
Speaker 3: But the Raiders are absolutely getting porched by tight ends
Speaker 3: not named Kyle Pits. Over the last seven weeks, they
Speaker 3: are fourth worst against the against the position, and in
Speaker 3: the last six weeks before the Pits game, they were
Speaker 3: tight ends were averaging eight for ninety nine and a score,
Speaker 3: allowing the fourth most reception six most scores in the
Speaker 3: running game. Travis Etn is going to get the C grade.
Speaker 3: He outsnapped Tank Bigsby on Sunday sixty or last week
Speaker 3: sixty one to twenty two, ran twenty four more routes.
Speaker 3: I believe that's from JJ zach Reeson. Three to four
Speaker 3: catches in four straight for Etn. Running backs have combined
Speaker 3: for one hundred and fifty plus yards in each of
Speaker 3: the last two weeks against the Raiders, White and Irving
Speaker 3: in one and then Bijon and the other. Those are
Speaker 3: kind of backs on an entirely different level than ETN
Speaker 3: and Tank though, And of course, because I'm giving it
Speaker 3: to ETN, I'm putting Tank on the bench. I think
Speaker 3: it's an ETN game, but watch it'll flip just because
Speaker 3: I said that. Eight O'Connell. I'm giving a C grade too.
Speaker 3: He's at three hundred and forty yards and two scores
Speaker 3: against KC and and then another one hundred plus and
Speaker 3: two scores before leaving in the second half in second Yeah,
Speaker 3: in the second half against Tampa Bay, he was likely
Speaker 3: on pace for another two to three hundred multi score game.
Speaker 3: Jaggs allowing the second most yards and second most yards
Speaker 3: to quarterbacks. Rogers with that can take a chance on
Speaker 3: me in this matchup last week had thirty one Fantasy points.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Jacoby Myers is getting the A grade. He's had limited practices,
Speaker 3: but he's been doing that for several weeks now. I'm
Speaker 3: playing through it. Jags have allowed by far the most
Speaker 3: twenty plus and forty plus yard plays for fifth worst
Speaker 3: against the slot where Myers lines up forty five percent
Speaker 3: of the time, and he's had double digit Fantasy days
Speaker 3: in all but two games since Adam Adams departed. Over
Speaker 3: the last month, seven for eighty six on eleven targets
Speaker 3: per game is his average. Trey Tucker is a little
Speaker 3: bit of a darth Row here because of all the
Speaker 3: big playwork, and he gets his aid DOT has averaged up.
Speaker 3: The target target is fifteen plus. And I mentioned how
Speaker 3: bad the Jags are giving up giant plays. They give
Speaker 3: up about a little over five per game. So if
Speaker 3: Trey Tucker can get one or two of those interesting
Speaker 3: dart throw.
Speaker 2: You're ever gonna start Trey Tucker.
Speaker 3: This is, yeah, exactly a grade on brock Bauers. I'm
Speaker 3: moving on to the bench grades for both running backs.
Speaker 3: With Sincere McCormick now out, Madison and Abdullah are likely
Speaker 3: to split. If this is one of those games where
Speaker 3: we knew the game script, I could say one or
Speaker 3: the other might be good for that game script, But
Speaker 3: because I don't know that, they're both kind of ineffective.
Speaker 3: The monopolies bench grades.
Speaker 2: Bench grades for the Raiders running backs.
Speaker 1: To the surprise of nobody, San Francisco takes on Miami.
Speaker 1: It's a battered San Francisco offense at the running back position,
Speaker 1: But what do you expect from Rock Purdy and especially
Speaker 1: Juwan Jennings. Can't wait to find out what the Great
Speaker 1: of Thoor is gonna get those players when we come back.
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Speaker 1: go back to the matchups, and we moved to thor
Speaker 1: with San Francisco taking on Miami. You talked about is
Speaker 1: he Abona Conda earlier?
Speaker 2: Now you when you're.
Speaker 1: Talking about it, you would acknowledge Patrick Taylor is gonna
Speaker 1: get use here, but you didn't give a letter grade
Speaker 1: on Patrick Taylor.
Speaker 2: Where are we? Where do you stand on Patrick Taylor?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give him the old speculative ce Okay, I'm
Speaker 4: Patrick Taylor. Obviously Grendo on Ara is now has now
Speaker 4: been ruled out. Taylor only has fourteen carries this season
Speaker 4: seventy nine total in his career. Kip from Memphis. That
Speaker 4: was back in the norvel days before we went to
Speaker 4: Florida State and tanked their program. But anyway, I digress
Speaker 4: Taylor could get fourteen to seventeen touches against the Dolphins
Speaker 4: in this game. I do think isy Abona Conda is
Speaker 4: going to figure in some way in the end of this.
Speaker 4: That's why I had to do the speculative see and
Speaker 4: the Dolphins, to be fair, they are not the easiest
Speaker 4: matchup they have allowed an NFL best eighty three point
Speaker 4: three rushing yards per game since losing to Green Bay.
Speaker 4: So I can't get higher for a sea on because
Speaker 4: of those reasons, brock Perty, I gave him.
Speaker 2: A bea despite his horrible week that he's coming off of.
Speaker 4: We have confirmation that Trent Williams, who has missed the
Speaker 4: last four games, is going almost assuredly will be out
Speaker 4: for the year. So he's not walking through that door. Yeah,
Speaker 4: to help you, but Perty was a QB one in
Speaker 4: five of the seven games before last week, and he
Speaker 4: ranks fifth in yards per attempt since week eight.
Speaker 2: This is an okay matchup for him.
Speaker 4: Since Week ten, the Dolphins have allowed the twelfth most
Speaker 4: yards per game passing and the tenth most passing touchdowns.
Speaker 4: I'm busy about a conocourse and take a chance on me. Deebo, Samuel,
Speaker 4: keep him affixed and nailed to your bench. Since week ten,
Speaker 4: Deebo has not had a double digit Fantasy point game,
Speaker 4: nor has he had more than twenty two receiving yards
Speaker 4: in any individual game. I don't know what's going on,
Speaker 4: but got to keep him out of there. He only
Speaker 4: has one red zone target since week twelve. It's it's
Speaker 4: not a matchup, but Deebo could no longer be trusted.
Speaker 1: Why weren't they running Deebo more here, fifth and sixth
Speaker 1: string running back.
Speaker 2: This is the scenario running deep put him in the backfield. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't get it. Plat tune him with my boy?
Speaker 3: Is he but instead he's on lots of kickoff in
Speaker 3: put return.
Speaker 2: I'm baffled at the user.
Speaker 4: It feels like a season long punishment. You know in college,
Speaker 4: they won't announce the punishments. They'll make your run stairs.
Speaker 4: It feels like that's what Debo's getting. Juwan Jennings, however,
Speaker 4: I gave him a B. Since Week ten, Juwan has
Speaker 4: been wide receiver twenty three and fantasy points per game,
Speaker 4: and he has seen seven red zone targets over that time.
Speaker 4: He also owns a thirty five point five percent first
Speaker 4: read share target since Brandon Aiyuk went down in Week seven.
Speaker 4: Pretty crazy. Jennings rings fifth in yards per route run
Speaker 4: this season over the entire NFL, and as far as
Speaker 4: this matchup goes, since Week ten, Miami has allowed the
Speaker 4: eleventh most PPR points per target to perimeter wide receiver,
Speaker 4: so a decent one so I gave him a B.
Speaker 4: George Kittle is a must start A and this is
Speaker 4: an awesome matchup for him. No team gives up a
Speaker 4: higher percentage of opponent targets to tight ends than the
Speaker 4: Miami Dolphins, and moving over to those Miami Dolphins too,
Speaker 4: I gave him a C. He had the road dud
Speaker 4: last week against the Texans, only four point nine yards
Speaker 4: per attempt while struggling with three interceptions. He only had
Speaker 4: six point eight fantasy points in the game, but he
Speaker 4: had scored twenty three plus fantasy points in each of
Speaker 4: the four games prior to that. This is a tough
Speaker 4: matchup against a good forty nine Ers pass defense. Since
Speaker 4: Week ten, the forty nine Ers have not allowed a
Speaker 4: quarterback to exceed two hunderd twenty five passing yards. Devna
Speaker 4: Chain is an A and a must start Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 4: I toggled him down to a B in this one.
Speaker 4: I do more targets are going to come because Jalen
Speaker 4: Waddle is almost assuredly out because they listened as doubtful
Speaker 4: and doubtful.
Speaker 2: People never play. They never played.
Speaker 4: But this is not a great matchup for Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 4: He is averaging twelve yards per reception this year, which
Speaker 4: is on pace for the third lowest total of his career,
Speaker 4: and since eight, the forty nine ers have allowed only
Speaker 4: ten twenty plus yard passes, which is number one in
Speaker 4: the NFL. The deep, the explosive plays will not be
Speaker 4: there for Tyreek Hill, even more so than the rest
Speaker 4: of the season mentioned Jalen Waddle is almost assuredly going
Speaker 4: to be able to keep him on your bench. John
Speaker 4: new Smith the last one. I gave him a b
Speaker 4: charges boy since Week eight, John, who has been the
Speaker 4: tight end four in fantasy points per game.
Speaker 2: That makes me so happy.
Speaker 4: He has not finished lower than Titan then tight ends
Speaker 4: seven and weekly.
Speaker 2: Scoring for over a month.
Speaker 4: More targets are coming now with Jaylen Waddle out, so
Speaker 4: that's the good news.
Speaker 2: But this is a tough matchup.
Speaker 4: San Francisco has held tight Ends to the fewest receiving
Speaker 4: yards per game in the entire NFL and the second
Speaker 4: fewest fantasy points per game. The only reason I didn't
Speaker 4: give him a name charge, I'm so sorry, Fallid, I
Speaker 4: had to give him a bee.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: San Francisco is a great defense. I prly get that.
Speaker 1: Let's go over to Philadelphia taking on Washington, Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley obvious A grades, and I need to take
Speaker 1: this opportunity to say I was.
Speaker 3: I was not exactly right.
Speaker 1: I've taken this l a couple of times this year.
Speaker 1: I want to do it again on Barkley. All of
Speaker 1: the metrics coming out of the last couple of seasons
Speaker 1: in New York were so bad that in the preseason,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't trust Barkley. I think he might
Speaker 1: be cooked. I don't know if he's gonna I don't
Speaker 1: know that he's going to be any good. His quarterback's
Speaker 1: going to eat all of his rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 2: I was so long about say kwon Barkley exact taking
Speaker 2: that L right now. AJ Brown comes into the B grade.
Speaker 1: Squeaky wheel got the grease last week, or as Scott
Speaker 1: Fish likes.
Speaker 3: To say, squeaky mouse got the cheese.
Speaker 1: But remember he was pretty scattershot in the prior two months,
Speaker 1: mostly because Egles just don't run. They've got the league's
Speaker 1: lowest passing play percentage, just forty four percent. And the
Speaker 1: other weird thing about AJ Brown, He's got this huge
Speaker 1: frame and you would think near the stripe. I mean
Speaker 1: Obviously they've got the push push, and that's money. But
Speaker 1: you would think near the stripe, all AJ Brown has
Speaker 1: to do is like take three steps forward, turn around,
Speaker 1: box out a defender and you've got a huge target
Speaker 1: to throw to. They haven't thrown a single pass from
Speaker 1: inside the five to AJ Brown, not once all year.
Speaker 1: Those are easy touchdowns that AJ Brown has not gotten.
Speaker 1: He posted a forgettable five catches for sixty five yards
Speaker 1: in the earlier matchup with Washington. Half of the time
Speaker 1: he runs from Marshawn Latimore's side to the field, and
Speaker 1: that is a great matchup between one of the most
Speaker 1: physical cornerbacks and one of the most physical receivers. Can't
Speaker 1: wait to see how it plays out. B Grade on
Speaker 1: AJ Brown, C Grade and Devanta Smith even more inconsistent
Speaker 1: than AJ Brown for many of the same reasons. He's
Speaker 1: become weirdly touchdown dependent in non scoring games. DeVante Smith
Speaker 1: averaging just four catches for forty yards, and since Week five,
Speaker 1: Washington is allowing just half a touchdown per game to
Speaker 1: wide outs. He's going to see a lot of rookie
Speaker 1: cornerback Mike Sandracil. He's played well, but he has a
Speaker 1: lot of touchdowns in two of the past three games,
Speaker 1: and Smith had just twenty nine yards in the earlier
Speaker 1: matchup with Washington, so he's only got a C grade
Speaker 1: going over to.
Speaker 2: The Washington side.
Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels B grade in this one. In the Week
Speaker 1: eleven matchup, Daniels was completely neutralized via the air and
Speaker 1: ground by the Eagles. He posted just one hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety one passing yards one passing touchdown, and Daniels did
Speaker 1: not help with his legs, just eighteen rushing yards in
Speaker 1: the previous matchup with the Eagles. It was his second
Speaker 1: worst fantasy game of the year. Was that Eagles game.
Speaker 1: The Eagles secondary probably the league's best right now since
Speaker 1: rookie Cooper dejen became the starter in Week six. Philly
Speaker 1: is giving up just one hundred and seventy two passing
Speaker 1: yards and zero point eight passive touchdowns per game.
Speaker 2: Iowa, that's shout out, Iowa, baby.
Speaker 3: That's still better than Anthony Richards in passing time.
Speaker 2: That is true passing averages.
Speaker 1: Only one quarterback has run for more than twenty nine
Speaker 1: yards against Philly. In fact, I'm moving Jade and Daniels
Speaker 1: down to a SEA grade in this brutal matchup because
Speaker 1: the only receiver you care about here is Terry McLaurin. Now,
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin is and I mentioned this on other shows.
Speaker 1: He's the most lopsided receiver in the league in that
Speaker 1: he runs seventy five percent of his plays from the
Speaker 1: left side of the field, which means we know who's
Speaker 1: going to be matched up against most of the time,
Speaker 1: and it's star rookie Quinyan Mitchell. He's awesome, allowing a
Speaker 1: paltry fifty nine nine percent completion rate and zero touchdowns
Speaker 1: in his coverage. He is a rookie doing this in
Speaker 1: the earlier matchup Terry McLaurin.
Speaker 2: Do you guys remember what Terry McLaurin did in the
Speaker 2: Eagles matchup? One catch, ten yards?
Speaker 1: Oh, he is a C grade this week. And the
Speaker 1: last guy you care about is Brian Robinson. He flopped
Speaker 1: hard in a great on paper matchup last week and
Speaker 1: that bummed me out. This is a brutal matchup. None
Speaker 1: of the Eagles opposing runners have hit one hundred yards
Speaker 1: this year. The Eagles rank number three in Fantasy points
Speaker 1: under average for opposing runners, and since Week six, the
Speaker 1: Eagles top the Eagles rank top five and yards per carry,
Speaker 1: run defense, success rate, yards after contact. Brian Robinson's averaged
Speaker 1: less than three point nine yards per carrying three of
Speaker 1: his past four games, including that Eagles matchup in Week eleven,
Speaker 1: in which he had just sixty five rushing yards, but
Speaker 1: did manage a goal line touchdown. And that's what you
Speaker 1: need from Robinson in this game, is a goal line opportunity.
Speaker 1: Otherwise I don't like it. And he's just a C
Speaker 1: grade in that matchup. All right, Let's go to our
Speaker 1: final matchup of this segment, and that is Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: taking on Dallas.
Speaker 2: Scott.
Speaker 1: You've talked a little bit about the Dallas side of this,
Speaker 1: but let's go over to the Tampa Bay side.
Speaker 2: And Baker Mayfield has been very very.
Speaker 3: Very good, Yeah, very safe, very good. High two hundreds
Speaker 3: in yards basically every game for the last month. Seven
Speaker 3: scores in the last two games. Cowboys are the fourth
Speaker 3: easiest matchup for quarterbacks. It's tenth against the past, but
Speaker 3: one of the worst against the run. Five of the
Speaker 3: last six quarterbacks to face the Cowboys scored on the ground.
Speaker 3: And he's got some wheels. It's not really generally part
Speaker 3: of his game, but he is a mobile quarterback, so
Speaker 3: maybe you get something there. I do have an a
Speaker 3: grade on him, though here it's hard to imagine. He
Speaker 3: doesn't hit his his averages and it is one of
Speaker 3: the highest over unders of the week. It could be
Speaker 3: issued up potentially a grade for Mike Evans averaging over
Speaker 3: one hundred yards per game in the last month since
Speaker 3: returning from that hamstrings, scoring in scoring three times in
Speaker 3: those games.
Speaker 2: They trying to get Mike Evans to the thousand yards.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there we missed a month. Yeah, he's he's
Speaker 3: got a big, like a three million dollar contract bonus
Speaker 3: if he hits like one thousand yards, ten touchdowns and
Speaker 3: I forget what the catches was, but he can get there.
Speaker 3: He's closing in on it. In fact, the toughest one
Speaker 3: of the of them I remember was the yards. He's
Speaker 3: like one hundred and eighteen away or something something like that.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: He gets Duran Duran Bland, who picked six quarterbacks five
Speaker 3: times last year, but has played just the last four
Speaker 3: games coming off injury, giving up two scores and a
Speaker 3: one hundred and thirteen rating against in that month of.
Speaker 1: Playsop off and of course Trayvon Diggs. The other outside
Speaker 1: cornerback is out.
Speaker 3: Yep is out. Jaylen McMillan. I had a C grade
Speaker 3: on He's seen his two highest target shares this season
Speaker 3: in the last couple of games. He's getting like twenty
Speaker 3: four percent of the target the last two games four
Speaker 3: for fifty nine and two scores five for seventy five
Speaker 3: in the score second in targets in both those games.
Speaker 3: Dallas allowing the sixth most yards to wide receivers eleventh
Speaker 3: most fantasy points. The second option tends to be in
Speaker 3: that fifty to seventy five range against Dallas. But Kate
Speaker 3: Auden so I had a C grade on him, But
Speaker 3: I'm gonna move it to a bee because Kate Adden
Speaker 3: has been not practicing all week. He's I believe the
Speaker 3: questionable turned to doubtful. Todd Bowles said he's a true
Speaker 3: game time decision or something. It's a Sunday night game,
Speaker 3: so it's not even a good matchup, So starting him
Speaker 3: this week would be a bold.
Speaker 2: Move, bold strategy.
Speaker 3: Catton.
Speaker 2: Let's see if the pays off for him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Bucky Irvin, payoff. No, it's not, it's not
Speaker 3: gonna pay off. It's not Bucky Irving. I'm giving the
Speaker 3: B grade to Dallas is allowing twenty six to one
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty four total yards to backs and sixteen
Speaker 3: scores in fourteen games. That's a lot of volume they're
Speaker 3: giving up to backs each week. Backs who really hit
Speaker 3: them were the sixteen plus touch sixteen plus touchbacks. Bucky
Speaker 3: and Rashad White did that last week.
Speaker 2: How about that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bucky Irving's so good. He's so good. I wonder
Speaker 3: if another week removed from the injury, he's starts to
Speaker 3: get you know, starts to reclaim that role. So he's
Speaker 3: going to get the B and White is going to
Speaker 3: get the CEE. They both get a decent amount of
Speaker 3: pass game work, so they can get some of that here.
Speaker 3: I think they're both startable in this matchup over on
Speaker 3: the Dallas side. To take a chance on me quarterback
Speaker 3: for myself was Cooper Rush.
Speaker 2: I like it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it. I hope I talked to you
Speaker 3: in to move them, but no I didn't. You said
Speaker 3: you had a really high rank it.
Speaker 2: I'm you know, but I'm taking notes now. I may
Speaker 2: still move him up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Rica, Yeah, that defensive backfield just being completely
Speaker 3: decimated is something Ceedee Lamb with that decimated backfield is
Speaker 3: probably an.
Speaker 2: Auto A as well.
Speaker 3: It's a bottom seven passed. You know, I'm gonna move on.
Speaker 3: He's n Jake Ferguson. I'm giving a C grade too.
Speaker 3: He's only top twenty five yards once in the last
Speaker 3: seven games. But I think it's a little bit of
Speaker 3: a the Kyle pitt situation from last week. I know, Pittston,
Speaker 3: I'm a great game, but this is just an incredible
Speaker 3: matchup since week seven. You don't really get worse than
Speaker 3: the Bucks against the tight end. Andrew's at forty one
Speaker 3: and two scores. It's at ninety one and two scores.
Speaker 3: Kelsey and Gray combined for one hundred and a score.
Speaker 3: Kiddle had fifty seven in a score, Tommy Tremble had
Speaker 3: seventy seven yards. Mayor and Bowers absolutely destroyed them and
Speaker 3: might take a chance on me. Player from last week
Speaker 3: Stone Smart went five for fifty on that.
Speaker 2: Oh well done.
Speaker 3: So a C grade for Jake Ferguson and then finally
Speaker 3: a B grade en Rico Dawdle, who's averaging one hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty eight yards and over twenty touches per game.
Speaker 3: Over the last month. Tough not to like the Dowdler
Speaker 3: the Bucks. I don't know if that's Nick David should
Speaker 3: be though, the Dowdler the Bucks allowing.
Speaker 2: This sounds like something you get a channel for doing.
Speaker 3: It might be public, might be I don't know. The
Speaker 3: Bucks allowing the seventh fewest rushing rod yards and fifth
Speaker 3: fewest rushing scores. So that's why I'm bringing it back
Speaker 3: down from an A to a B. But they do
Speaker 3: give up fantasy points to the twenty plus touch volume
Speaker 3: backs and that's that's doubtll so B grade on doubtell.
Speaker 1: It's really too bad that the Dallas Cowboys don't have
Speaker 1: a number two receiver that you could really.
Speaker 3: Receiving, yeah, or receiving back. Donlad has one catching less
Speaker 3: frontle games.
Speaker 2: Did Fish call him the Dowler?
Speaker 3: I did? Wow. I like that.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a little toll Bird, there's a little
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks mixed in, there's a little Cavante turpin, and
Speaker 1: it just waters out what would have been otherwise what
Speaker 1: you know, that number two receiver would have been a
Speaker 1: great play.
Speaker 2: The turpentine usually does that. Turpentine will water you down.
Speaker 1: There you go when we come back our final set
Speaker 1: of matchups, including Viking Seahawks. What to expect from Kenneth
Speaker 1: Walker in a tricky matchup.
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Speaker 1: or final matchup for you is the Saints taking on
Speaker 1: Green Bay? Is there anybody? Alvin Kamara is out? Spencer
Speaker 1: Ratlers at the helm? Is there any Saint to play here?
Speaker 2: In the semi final? One one I gave? I gave
Speaker 2: one guy a see which is Kendry Miller gave?
Speaker 4: With With Kamara likely being out with the groin, Miller
Speaker 4: should lead New Orleans' backfield again on Monday. But the
Speaker 4: Saints are fourteen that point underdogs and justifiably so. And
Speaker 4: the Packers have not let a running back rush for
Speaker 4: seventy five yards since Week eight. So so even take
Speaker 4: my seat with a with a grain of salt, there
Speaker 4: I will. And then benches, let's let let's just go around.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be like Oprah right now.
Speaker 2: I've run gets a bench exactly. Rattler gets the bet.
Speaker 2: This is getting ugly.
Speaker 4: The top three wide receivers this game could be Marcus
Speaker 4: Valdis Scantling, Kevin Austin Junior, and Dante Pettison.
Speaker 2: That's only if Marcus.
Speaker 4: Valdus scantling place, which at the present moment that is
Speaker 4: not a shirt. And then of course Kendry Miller is
Speaker 4: you're running back at Taysom Hill is even out and
Speaker 4: blobbady blah bady blah.
Speaker 2: All the Saints wide receivers you keep on the bench mvs.
Speaker 4: Maybe he would have been a desperation if he wasn't hurt,
Speaker 4: but bench Juwan Johnson. I would also say bench for him.
Speaker 4: Last four games, four red zone targets. He did up
Speaker 4: two tight end one performances in that and it actually
Speaker 4: is a decent matchup. Green Bays allowed the seven the
Speaker 4: most receiving yards per game, ten most fantasy points per
Speaker 4: game to tight ends. But with Rattler back there in
Speaker 4: the rest of this rag tag unit, I just had
Speaker 4: to go bench. Moving over to the Packers.
Speaker 2: J Hayn shout out Forreslo State Jordan Love.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give him a C shadow Utah State. It's
Speaker 4: been six weeks since Jordan Love has reached thirty passing
Speaker 4: at times and that's why, right, he hasn't been bad,
Speaker 4: The volume just hasn't been there. In fact, Jordan Love
Speaker 4: is number one in yards per attempt and passer ratings
Speaker 4: since week eleven. He just doesn't throw much.
Speaker 2: I know that. And there could.
Speaker 4: Be snow on Monday night as well, so you might
Speaker 4: have some inclement conditions there. Josh Jacobs is a must
Speaker 4: start a and then I'm going to do my weekly
Speaker 4: routine with the Packers receivers and cop out and give
Speaker 4: them all seas. Starting with Jayden Reid wide receiver thirty
Speaker 4: four and fantasy points per game. He has been tapering
Speaker 4: off down the stretch. However, he has not had more
Speaker 4: than thirty four receiving yards in any individual game since
Speaker 4: Week nine.
Speaker 2: Problem.
Speaker 4: This is a decent matchup though, if you if you
Speaker 4: got a little gamble in you. Since week ten, the
Speaker 4: Saints have allowed the third most fantasy points per game
Speaker 4: NPPR points per target to perimeter wide receivers. Romeo Dobs
Speaker 4: he gets to see coming off a two touchdown performance
Speaker 4: against the Seahawks. Dobbs is wide receiver forty four and
Speaker 4: fantasy points per game. Since Week three, New Orleans has
Speaker 4: had the fourth highest two high They've run the fourth
Speaker 4: highest per ponderance of two high coverage rate in the
Speaker 4: NFL fifty five percent since Week seven against two high
Speaker 4: Dobbs is number two on the team with the twenty
Speaker 4: five percent first redshare. We're also giving a seed to
Speaker 4: mister Christian Watson. Watson has three top thirty six wide
Speaker 4: receiver finishes this season. This is a solid matchup for Watson, though,
Speaker 4: maybe to get a fourth because the Saints have been
Speaker 4: struggling against deep passing. Since Week ten, the Saints have
Speaker 4: allowed the seventh most deep passing yards per game. During
Speaker 4: that span, New Orleans has has allowed the third most
Speaker 4: fantasy points per game NPPR points to per target to
Speaker 4: perimeter wide receivers. Maybe and hits a dinger or two here,
Speaker 4: so of course he's getting a sea. And then lastly,
Speaker 4: Tuckerkraft gets a name tight end eleven in fantasy, he
Speaker 4: gets an a Craft. He gets an a tight end
Speaker 4: eleven in fantasy points per game. He ranks first in
Speaker 4: yack per reception and miss forest tackles per reception in
Speaker 4: the tight end position, and this is a very good
Speaker 4: matchup for him. New Orleans has allowed the twelfth most
Speaker 4: receiving yards per game and the fourth most yards per
Speaker 4: run to opposing tight ends.
Speaker 1: Minnesota takes on Seattle and Justin Jefferson is an obvious
Speaker 1: a that does not need elaboration. Jordan Addison, his reliability
Speaker 1: is swored in the second half of the season. And Scott,
Speaker 1: you texted me earlier today a shocking stat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jordan Addison is sixth all time and touchdown receptions
Speaker 3: by a player under the age of twenty three. The
Speaker 3: only five who had more touchdowns before their twenty third
Speaker 3: twenty third birthday Randy Moss, Rob Gronkowski, Jamar Chase, Odell
Speaker 3: Beckham Junior and Larry Fitzgerald.
Speaker 2: That is some amazing company to be in right there.
Speaker 1: Over the last nine games, has finished has finished above
Speaker 1: wide receiver twenty nine eight different times. He has finished
Speaker 1: in the top ten four different times. He runs from
Speaker 1: all parts of the field, which means he's going to
Speaker 1: see all of the Seattle cornerbacks, including big time gambler
Speaker 1: Tariq Wollen, who has given up six touchdowns that's fourth most.
Speaker 1: On the other side of the field, he's going to
Speaker 1: see Josh Joby's job or join Provoball Focus is seventy
Speaker 1: six ranked corner so nice opportunities for Addison, who comes
Speaker 1: in with a B grade.
Speaker 2: Staying with the passing game.
Speaker 1: T J. Hockinson been a little quiet, but his seven
Speaker 1: targets last week was a nice uptick. He still doesn't
Speaker 1: scored this year, which is a bummer. While Seattle looks
Speaker 1: like a decent tight end defense on paper, the three
Speaker 1: Hockinson level tight ends that Seattle has faced Sam Laporta,
Speaker 1: George Kittle, Trey McBride twice averaged seven catches for seventy
Speaker 1: eight yards. We'd certainly take that from t J. Hockinson,
Speaker 1: who comes in with a B grade in this one.
Speaker 1: Sam Donald gets a B grade. He's been a top
Speaker 1: six fantasy quarterback in four of the past seven games.
Speaker 2: His lack of.
Speaker 1: Rushing upside probably caps him at a rud round sixth quarterback,
Speaker 1: and that's for about where I see him coming in here.
Speaker 1: Seattle has allowed exactly two passing touchdowns in the three
Speaker 1: in three straight games and in five of the past seven.
Speaker 1: Only Kyler Murray and Skyler Thompson failed to score touchdowns
Speaker 1: against the Seahawks, making Donald a very safe Playt's go
Speaker 1: over to the Seattle side. Kenneth Walker off the injury
Speaker 1: port so is Zach Charbonnay, which is good news for them.
Speaker 1: Walker had been laboring and running in effectively while hurt.
Speaker 1: Hopefully this means he can be back to the dynamic
Speaker 1: runner that he has been and the Vikings are on defense,
Speaker 1: which is normally very Stout has been playing without middle
Speaker 1: linebacker Ivan Pace in three straight games. In those games
Speaker 1: without Pace, the Vikings dropped from number one in rushing
Speaker 1: yards allowed all the way down to number fifteen. They
Speaker 1: dropped from number two in yards after contact to number
Speaker 1: twenty five without Ivan Pace. So that makes Walker viable
Speaker 1: here at a B level grade. Zach Harvini as a
Speaker 1: backup is not.
Speaker 3: You want to hear a crazy stat about the running
Speaker 3: backs for Seattle. They get the fewest less than one
Speaker 3: yard per carry before hitting before contact.
Speaker 2: They got to get into a Shanahan system.
Speaker 1: They do Jackson Smith and Jigba has become an automatic
Speaker 1: a most weeks, and the Vikings are getting killed by
Speaker 1: slot receiver, so he maintains an A grade in this one.
Speaker 2: DK Metcalf down to a C grade.
Speaker 1: He's been a top twenty fantasy receiver one time in
Speaker 1: the last nine weeks, and I don't trust him to
Speaker 1: do much better here at the return of Vikings cornerbacks.
Speaker 1: Cornerback Stefan Gilmour should help the Vikings defense and just
Speaker 1: a C grade on Metcalp. And then lastly, Gino Smith
Speaker 1: the dangerous start because of a knee injury. It reduces
Speaker 1: his mobility and here comes a great Vikings blitzing defense.
Speaker 1: They're giving up average games of two hundred and forty
Speaker 1: five passing yards though the past six, but only less
Speaker 1: than one passing touchdown per game. Overall, we don't want
Speaker 1: to start Gino Smith in a tricky matchup in a
Speaker 1: rain soaked game, so he is just a C grade.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, everybody. Best of luck in the semi finals.
Speaker 1: We'll see you for a championship edition next week.