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Speaker 1: one up, Miami takes on Atlanta. This is a This
Speaker 1: is the lowest scoring offense in the NFL for Miami.
Speaker 1: Do you think they turn it around here against the Falcons?
Speaker 1: Oh man going to be right off the bats? Yes,
Speaker 1: you bet, trial by fire baby exactly. Yeah, because they're
Speaker 1: so low scoring. I don't have any A grades for
Speaker 1: this one. I did give my boy j J I
Speaker 1: a B grade. His yards per carry scare me. But
Speaker 1: the Falcons are bottom ten against the run, and every
Speaker 1: running back that's had at least thirteen touches against them
Speaker 1: has a mass either eighty five yards and a touchdown
Speaker 1: and as averaging one game. I I think that I
Speaker 1: think that's going to propel him right into that range.
Speaker 1: He could probably do both. It really is you and
Speaker 1: I are going to go down on this gily ship together.
Speaker 1: I was right about him last year. This year it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's getting scary. Uh. Jervis Landry I give a B grade. Uh.
Speaker 1: DeVonta Parker is now doubtful, probably not gonna play making
Speaker 1: Landry the main target for Cutler, even though Coutlors not
Speaker 1: throwing much hundred seventy six yards per game. Uh, Jarvis
Speaker 1: Landry's he's He's averaging seven catches and eleven targets per game.
Speaker 1: That's a nice safe floor. The Falcons have only allowed
Speaker 1: one wide receiver over sixty yards this year, so I'm
Speaker 1: benching all the rest of the passing game. But I
Speaker 1: am giving B grades to Jarvis Landry and j h
Speaker 1: Iuh for Atlanta, Julio Jones is an obvious start for me.
Speaker 1: I don't really need to go into him. DeVonta Freeman,
Speaker 1: I'm also giving an A grade. Uh. He's got the
Speaker 1: highest touchdown conversion rate inside the ten, scoring on five
Speaker 1: of his nine attempts. He's scored in every game, averaging
Speaker 1: two touches per game over the last three weeks. And
Speaker 1: even though the Miami's got a top ten run defense,
Speaker 1: so did Buffalo last week, and Freeman died great So
Speaker 1: UH given him an A grade. I have his counterpart there, uh,
Speaker 1: Tevin Coleman. I'm giving him a B grade. He's averaged
Speaker 1: a d seventeen total yards of the last two games.
Speaker 1: UH scored once. Dolphins have done a good job limiting
Speaker 1: opponents on the ground, but Melvin Gordon caught seven balls,
Speaker 1: Kamara cut ten balls, and Coleman's averaging five targets per game.
Speaker 1: I think he can get his his points through the air.
Speaker 1: Going through the air. Matt Ryan uh three of the
Speaker 1: four quarterbacks that Placed played Matt played Miami had over
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty yards and a score. I think
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan's the best QB they're gonna play, or they
Speaker 1: have played, of that bunch. So I'm giving him a
Speaker 1: B grade. And Austin Hooper Miami has been sneakily not
Speaker 1: very good against tight ends, allowing seven receptions in fifty
Speaker 1: seven yards to tight ends. Hooper disappeared for two games.
Speaker 1: He's been top two, top twelve for two games, and
Speaker 1: with the new out, I think you might see a
Speaker 1: slight increase in targets. I'm giving Austin Hooper a C grade,
Speaker 1: and I'm benching the rest. I mean, there there's some
Speaker 1: dart throat to Taylor Gabrielle. There is a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it went SNeW went out and Julio went out last week.
Speaker 1: He's in week four. He didn't have many catches, so
Speaker 1: he does scare me. I couldn't quite give him a secret. Alright,
Speaker 1: no problem, nicely done. First matchup in the books. Well done.
Speaker 1: Giants take on Denver Brian Giants will be without their
Speaker 1: number one, number two, number three, and number four wide
Speaker 1: receivers this week. So can I start anybody? Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: just get right to the benching Umi. Yes, so are
Speaker 1: his wide receiver quote unquote weapons including Tavares King, Roger Lewis,
Speaker 1: At Egan, Travis Rudolph, Doc Doby, Sneezy whatever. Correct. Why
Speaker 1: do I get this game? Because your Giants got That's
Speaker 1: why you get this game. Let's let's enjoy the misery.
Speaker 1: Let's push forward here. Evan Ingram, You're you're churning your
Speaker 1: way to Eli Manning's replacement. I'm hoping for the seam
Speaker 1: you should. This is a suck for luck moment for
Speaker 1: your squad, just like it was for Peyton Manning. Same
Speaker 1: thing with Eli Manning in the bitter twilight of his career.
Speaker 1: Here's your opportunity to draft. Get to right to the
Speaker 1: top of a draft, top three pick, taken a take
Speaker 1: a fantastic quarterback and never look back. I'm with you,
Speaker 1: no shame and uh, going for the tank job anyway.
Speaker 1: I will start Evan Ingram this week. I'll give him
Speaker 1: a seed despite the goose egg last week. In Denver's
Speaker 1: last three games, UM Oakland tight ends combined for five
Speaker 1: catches sixty one yards, Buffalo tight ends combined for seven
Speaker 1: seventy and one and Jason Witten had ten catches for
Speaker 1: ninety seven yards and a touchdown. Evan Ingrams by the
Speaker 1: best wide receiver on this team right now, so he
Speaker 1: should see a healthy amount of targets in this game
Speaker 1: and then in any other Giants running back. Any Giants
Speaker 1: running back is on the bench. Denver is allowing two
Speaker 1: point four yards for carry and the only running back
Speaker 1: to score against them this year was Melvin Gordon in
Speaker 1: Week one and he caught that touchdown. Nothing's getting done
Speaker 1: on the ground for Giants. In going over to Denver,
Speaker 1: I'll give to Marius Thomas and Manuel Sanders and be
Speaker 1: probably only one has the potential to get there at
Speaker 1: the other one probably end up at a sea sea
Speaker 1: level production. Um. The Giants are allowing only a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty yards per game to wide receivers. That's total,
Speaker 1: the whole wide receiver. Nothing that's nothing and not one
Speaker 1: opposing wide out his top seventy yards. Uh. Still the
Speaker 1: Giants pets heads are falling off, though, so I can
Speaker 1: think you can start Sanders and Thomas in this one.
Speaker 1: H No Dominique, Rodgers Comarady. But that doesn't affect either
Speaker 1: because um he runs out of are he covers a slot?
Speaker 1: Uh A J Derby, I can't give a cuh tight
Speaker 1: end Virgil Green wasn't targeted last week while Derby, wait
Speaker 1: for it, went to the races catches yards. A tip
Speaker 1: of the hat on that, Derby, Oh, double up on it.
Speaker 1: I like it. New York is just getting abused by
Speaker 1: tight ends. They've surrendered all the best stats to the position,
Speaker 1: allowing the most in every category. So Derby is startable.
Speaker 1: I'm still benching Trevor send me in though, UM to
Speaker 1: fifty and two is probably his absolute ceiling in this game.
Speaker 1: I don't think he gets there. I think they're better
Speaker 1: options coming up and take a chance on me and C. J.
Speaker 1: Anderson will give him a b at least twenty carries
Speaker 1: and three or four games, has at least three catches
Speaker 1: in two of those four games. He'll still get the
Speaker 1: bulk of the touches in this game. Um keeping Jamal
Speaker 1: Charles on the bench, he won't see more than ten
Speaker 1: carries and has been invisible in the passing game just
Speaker 1: one because he in his heyday he was awesome. I
Speaker 1: think you're under selling c. J. Anderson. He's a bell cow.
Speaker 1: As you mentioned, he's getting twenty carries. He's been great
Speaker 1: at home in particular, and New York has yet to
Speaker 1: hold a starting running back under seventy one rushing yards.
Speaker 1: So I think I've got I've got c. J. Anderson's
Speaker 1: my number five running back overall for this week. I
Speaker 1: love him all right. I'm just disappointed Brian didn't throw
Speaker 1: in a champion at the bit for this matchup on
Speaker 1: a J dirt, so that would have been good. All
Speaker 1: I'm upset about there. Green Bay takes on Minnesota. Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers is safely an a uh no Anderson dajo, which
Speaker 1: we've saw as Viking fans will remember when when Sendao's out.
Speaker 1: Even though he's not a great coverage guy man, the
Speaker 1: whole secondary has a very different feel to it and
Speaker 1: when when Rogers faced the Vikings last December, check out
Speaker 1: a fantasy line in the most recent matchup. Three hundred
Speaker 1: forty seven passing yards, four passing touchdowns, and he ran
Speaker 1: in another one. Who But historically the Vikings have contained Rogers,
Speaker 1: at least by his standards in the prior to matchups,
Speaker 1: the only threw one touchdown in each game, hadn't topped
Speaker 1: three hundred yards in his prior six matchups against the
Speaker 1: Vikings prior to last December. Uh. Still a great for
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers because he's Aaron Rodgers. And again secondary could
Speaker 1: be and likely is without Andrewson. Day helped Jordy Nelson
Speaker 1: and Davante Adams. To me, this has been super murky,
Speaker 1: and I've been battling with this all week. It's unclear
Speaker 1: who who's gonna get Xavier Roads. Traditionally it's Ben Jordy
Speaker 1: Nelson for a lot of games, but not always. It
Speaker 1: was Terence Newman in the most recent one, and Newman
Speaker 1: got got roasted in that game. So I think they
Speaker 1: may put Xavier Roads on Jody Nelson. But the best
Speaker 1: receiver on the team is Davante Adams, and so if
Speaker 1: you're gonna put Xavier on the best receiver, to me,
Speaker 1: that's still that's Adams. He's the guy who leads the
Speaker 1: team and targets and receptions in yards. Who's the guy
Speaker 1: who's begging the drums so hard for this preseason? I
Speaker 1: can't remember, um um. I think it was Harrison. Was
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison? Maybe it was Matt Harris. Who is this
Speaker 1: guy you keep talking about? Hang on, wait, it's gonna
Speaker 1: come to me. It's gonna come to me at some point.
Speaker 1: It's wrong. There we go, man, that took a while.
Speaker 1: Whoever gets Trey Wayne's obviously it's got a really pretty
Speaker 1: good opportunity. But I don't think it's obvious how the
Speaker 1: Vikings are gonna defend Nelson and Adams. So I've got
Speaker 1: B grades on both to just sort of mitigate the
Speaker 1: Rhodes factor. And maybe that's not going to be a
Speaker 1: road shadow opportunity. They prefer to play Rhads on the
Speaker 1: defenses right side of the field. Maybe he'll just stick
Speaker 1: to the side of the field. We'll see Aaron Jones. Uh,
Speaker 1: we'll sticking with the passing lasting I'll mention Martel Spend
Speaker 1: it's on the bench. I went to back for this
Speaker 1: guy in the preseason. I thought he was gonna have
Speaker 1: a good season. I thought they were in targeting him
Speaker 1: a lot which they are. He doesn't catch it, so
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. He hasn't got a touchdown pass and
Speaker 1: um Vikings opponents have completed at least five past the
Speaker 1: game to a tight end. So there's a little upside here,
Speaker 1: but I've had it with that loser. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the running game. Aaron Jones is a really nice start.
Speaker 1: I think be grade here. I thought he looked fantastic
Speaker 1: last week. We'll talk more about Aaron Jones a little later,
Speaker 1: but this matchup is a little tricky. Vikings defense has
Speaker 1: allowed just three point three yards per carry, just one
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown all year. It's not a given that Aaron's
Speaker 1: gonna have a big game here. I think you will
Speaker 1: not have as good a game as he had last week.
Speaker 1: BE grade on Aaron Jones time Montgomery. If he plays,
Speaker 1: you can put into a C grade for PPR leagues.
Speaker 1: I think he could catch five six receptions in this game.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Viking side. Offense is going to
Speaker 1: be missing Stefan Digs and Nick Easton. Those are not
Speaker 1: in substantial losses, and of course Sam Bradford case Keenum
Speaker 1: is at the helm. I have a nervous C grade
Speaker 1: on Keenum, mostly just because it's a bye week. Was
Speaker 1: upside is the three touchdowns he threw in Week three,
Speaker 1: But more realistically, you're gonna get somewhere in the neighbor
Speaker 1: to like half the yardage and half the touchdowns you
Speaker 1: put up in that big game against the Bucks. Packers.
Speaker 1: Secondary is improved. Hardly impenetrable, but improved. Dak Prescott just
Speaker 1: through three touchdowns, and if Aaron Rodgers does get out
Speaker 1: to a big lead, case is gonna have to throw
Speaker 1: a lot. So I've got a C grade on him.
Speaker 1: I've gotta be grade on feeling he's going to draw
Speaker 1: a slot corner Quintin Rollins and that's a juicy matchup.
Speaker 1: Just in the last two games, far lesser talents Cole
Speaker 1: Beasley and Kendall Wright have scored three times, and Theland
Speaker 1: destroyed the Packers for two hundred yards and two touchdowns
Speaker 1: last time they played. Granted that was not from the
Speaker 1: slot um. Still great matchup over Alfred Theland, and I
Speaker 1: think there's plenty of production here. He'll get some extra
Speaker 1: looks with digs out. Rudolph gets a C grade. It
Speaker 1: took the loss of four Chicago linebackers to do it.
Speaker 1: But Rudolph finally paid off in the Keys Case Keendom
Speaker 1: game last week. Hopefully that's gonna they will not require
Speaker 1: similar circumstances this week. The Packers have done a good
Speaker 1: job against tight ends all season, allowing four receptions and
Speaker 1: just thirty or four yards per game. They have not
Speaker 1: given up a touchdown. Thus the C grade for Kyle Rudolph.
Speaker 1: And then let's go to um Michael Floyd. I know
Speaker 1: there's there's some steams to play Michael Floyd here because
Speaker 1: he'll start in place the Stefon Diggs. But Michael Floyd's
Speaker 1: last game with more than thirty six yards was almost
Speaker 1: a year ago, and his total number of receptions as
Speaker 1: a Viking is now sitting at one from last week's game.
Speaker 1: That's it. I just don't I don't know that he
Speaker 1: goes from that level of production to somebody that you
Speaker 1: want to start in one week. Not impossible. Uh, He's
Speaker 1: Paul Allen's um one hit wonder, So you never know.
Speaker 1: Jerick McKinnon gets a C grade here. In past seasons,
Speaker 1: we Vikings have asked Jerick McKinnon to step up in
Speaker 1: many opportunities here, and it's never really come to light.
Speaker 1: He did have that fifty six yard touchdown run last week,
Speaker 1: but his other runs average two point four yards per carry.
Speaker 1: Packers of the twenty second ranked run defense and have
Speaker 1: problems with timeshare speedbacks. Chris Carson had a good game,
Speaker 1: Davant Freeman had a good game. Tore Cohen did well
Speaker 1: against them. So there are some opportunities here. Hopefully you
Speaker 1: can catch a few passes as well. See great Jerick McKinnon.
Speaker 1: That was a beefy matchup. So case Keenum like has
Speaker 1: terrorized Tampa Bay during his career. Supposedly, maybe it's three way,
Speaker 1: maybe it's a Bay thing, so maybe you'll do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: every every team with the Bay isn't is in trouble
Speaker 1: against case Keenum. That would be handy here. If you
Speaker 1: had to live on one bay, would you choose the
Speaker 1: one that's on a beautiful, warm ocean or the one
Speaker 1: that's on the western side of Lake Michigan. Mm hmm,
Speaker 1: go to the ocean. I've been. I've been to the
Speaker 1: Green Bay a couple of times. I don't really need
Speaker 1: to go back. When we come back nine players, not
Speaker 1: normally and you're starting lineup, take a chance on me.
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Speaker 1: starting line up. We beginning at the quarterback position, Scott, Uh,
Speaker 1: I take a chance on me. Quarterback is Jacoby Brissette.
Speaker 1: Monday Night against the Titans. They're allowing The Titans are
Speaker 1: allowing two point six touchdown per game to quarterbacks, which
Speaker 1: is the worst in the NFL. They have allowed multiple
Speaker 1: touchdowns in four their five games, and in the two
Speaker 1: games Tennessee played against the rushing quarterback Russell Wilson had
Speaker 1: four hundred yards and four touchdowns and Deshaun Watson had
Speaker 1: over three yards and five touchdowns. Not on the ground. No, no,
Speaker 1: but a little bit of ground yardage. Over the last
Speaker 1: three weeks, Bristte has rushed for sixty one yards and
Speaker 1: three scores to go along with his two d forty
Speaker 1: three yards passing. Love him in this week, and if
Speaker 1: you have Mariota, he's a good backup plan because they
Speaker 1: both played in the same game. All right, Brian, your quarterback.
Speaker 1: I am doubling down on Josh McCown. McCown last weeks.
Speaker 1: My guy last week had two touchdowns. Like you get
Speaker 1: two touchdowns on a Josh McCown, you get the peacock.
Speaker 1: I'll take it, accepted the bell cow I just trying
Speaker 1: to get that the bell cown wandering free? Yes, alright,
Speaker 1: I was doing the WALKA shame around somewhere. McCown is
Speaker 1: a marksman with the footballing completed over step his passes
Speaker 1: over the last three weeks. He now draws the Patriots,
Speaker 1: who are allowing passing yards per game. Every opposing quarterback
Speaker 1: has top three hundred yards. New England has surrendered the
Speaker 1: most passing touchdowns to the position, and the Patriots will
Speaker 1: certainly score points. The Jets will have to keep pace,
Speaker 1: so mccount will be a fantasy Helper. This week, you're
Speaker 1: doubling down on your guy. I'm doubling down on my
Speaker 1: guy from last week. We're quadrupling down. It's Brian Hoyer
Speaker 1: against Washington. You gotta pick your spots with Hoyer, namely
Speaker 1: against bad defenses. When facing the Rams and the Colts,
Speaker 1: Brian Hoyer's average game three hundred forty two yards and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. This week he faces the Josh Norman Liss
Speaker 1: Redskins secondary, and even with Norman dated allowed passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: in every game, Washington is a terrific run defense. And
Speaker 1: with Carlos Hyde hurting Mike Shanahan, it's gonna be passing
Speaker 1: throughout this game. Don't forget the Shanahan revenge Angle. Jannahand
Speaker 1: revenge Jangle absolutely, and that's not the only revenge jangle
Speaker 1: from that game has been able to discuss playing as
Speaker 1: we will discuss later. That's about the running back position, Scott, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have Chris Ivory for Jacksonville. I know four Nette
Speaker 1: is gonna run all over that Rams team. The Rams
Speaker 1: there bottom five defense, allowing a hundred and sixty six
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game to running backs, but over the
Speaker 1: last two weeks, Chris Ivory has gotten nine touches forty
Speaker 1: two yards. And you know, maybe when four Nette gets
Speaker 1: tired of running, they'll let Ivory in for in. Just
Speaker 1: I mean, I've Rey had a goal line rush last day.
Speaker 1: He didn't score, but it might happen this week. It's
Speaker 1: it's one heck of a you know, dart through all right, Bryan,
Speaker 1: I'm going to Oakland's Jalen Richard at home against the Chargers. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't think the Raiders want Derek carrd is broken
Speaker 1: back standing in the pocket too long in this game
Speaker 1: against the team the Chargers, who had the high sack
Speaker 1: percentage in the NFL. Raiders are going to lean on
Speaker 1: their running backs in this game, and that certainly includes
Speaker 1: in the passing game as well. DeAndre Washington is if
Speaker 1: you with a hamstring injury, John Is a Olah Walle
Speaker 1: has already been ruled out. That leaves Marshawn Lynch and
Speaker 1: Jalen Richard. Shard will get a handful of carries, but
Speaker 1: certainly will handle all the passing work. The Charges just
Speaker 1: allowed ten catches the Giants running backs last week, so
Speaker 1: I think Richard is a PPR helper as well as
Speaker 1: week your leader in the NFL and yards per carrey
Speaker 1: is Alex Collins seven point one yards per carry. Terrence
Speaker 1: West is out for a month. Buck Allen excuse me, sorry,
Speaker 1: Bunk Allen is going to be more of a pass
Speaker 1: catcher and that's what he does. It goes up against
Speaker 1: the Bears is a Bears defense that's a lot of
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown and every game this season, and the rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns should go to Alex Collins. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: wide receiver position. Well, I don't know what received endight
Speaker 1: end receiver, all right, I'm going with Ryan Griffin for Houston.
Speaker 1: I like it. With so many tight ends injured or
Speaker 1: I'm by, I mean, a lot of people are looking
Speaker 1: for something. The Browns have been crushed by tight ends.
Speaker 1: Jesse James, Ben Watson, Austin Faring, James, Tyler Croft all
Speaker 1: had at least six catches of the brown against the Browns.
Speaker 1: Three of them scored. Ben Watson didn't, but he had
Speaker 1: ninety one yards. I mean, they've allowed five touchdowns to
Speaker 1: position and Griffin leads tight ends and targets over the
Speaker 1: last three weeks for the Texans with five per game.
Speaker 1: Kind of like that call, all right, nice. I too,
Speaker 1: am going tight end, which makes this great data for
Speaker 1: someone playing on fanball, where you can play up to
Speaker 1: three tight ends. That's a good point. You could play
Speaker 1: three differentiator from the competition in my opinion. But anyways,
Speaker 1: I'm going Kovie Fleaner at home against the Lions. Fleaner
Speaker 1: has fizzled since scoring in his first two games of
Speaker 1: the season, but I like him in this matchup, even
Speaker 1: with Willie sneed back, Even with Willie sneedback, and we
Speaker 1: don't know what capacity, but Detroit is ranks against tight
Speaker 1: ends by football outsiders that are allowing more than seventy
Speaker 1: yards per game to the position. And in his time
Speaker 1: in New Orleans, Fleener is averaging twice as many yards
Speaker 1: at home than he is on the road. So he's
Speaker 1: much better at home where he's playing this week, So
Speaker 1: I got cleaner. My receiver is ju Ju Smith Schuster.
Speaker 1: If you don't know, he is your slot receiver for
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. Um He's been good enough to start
Speaker 1: since Week two, displacing a long time slot receiver, Eli Rodgers.
Speaker 1: His yardage has improved in every one of his games.
Speaker 1: He has been targeted at least four times in every game,
Speaker 1: and he's already scored in two of his four NFL starts.
Speaker 1: He's a fat fifty scoring rate. Juju Smith Schuster, He'll
Speaker 1: go up against arguably the worst cornerback in the NFL,
Speaker 1: Philip Gaines, who Pro Football Focus ranks as the one
Speaker 1: hundred eight cornerback out of the one hundred nine quarterbacks
Speaker 1: that they rate. Also in Juju Smith Schuster, he's six
Speaker 1: in the NFL. He MSS speak one, he's six in
Speaker 1: the NFL and red zone targets with seven. How about that,
Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster, I like, thank you for adding a
Speaker 1: little sizzle. I can't wait till Juju gets a B
Speaker 1: great on the show. Someday gets a ju Ju b G. Nice.
Speaker 1: You should have saved that, and I'm out you guys, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're done. Cleveland, it takes on Houston. The the Cleveland
Speaker 1: running game has been an utter disaster. How do you
Speaker 1: feel about how do you feel about crow? Well? But
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson. There's Duke Johnson. Though Duke Johnson has been
Speaker 1: a pleasant surprise touchdowns of three straight games. Right well
Speaker 1: for for Cleveland. First off, I'm not giving any a grades,
Speaker 1: just none, because you know the Browns. I'm giving Duke
Speaker 1: Johnson and B grade. And this is more about Duke
Speaker 1: Johnson is the matchup the The Texans are only allowing
Speaker 1: twenty two yards per game in the receiving game. That's
Speaker 1: where Duke Johnson thrives. But Terence West scored twice last week,
Speaker 1: and it's really hard to ignore Duke Johnson averaging six catches,
Speaker 1: eighty five yards and a score over the last three games.
Speaker 1: I think he can overcome that matchup. I have a
Speaker 1: C grade on Isaiah Crawl, and honestly, I thought about
Speaker 1: just putting him his bank. Frankly should have been a
Speaker 1: bench in every one of his previous games, so honestly,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been felt bad if you did. Honestly,
Speaker 1: this is like the lowest of SEA grades you can get.
Speaker 1: I think he'll get ten carries in the first ten
Speaker 1: plus carries in the first half. That's only why uh
Speaker 1: for Net and Hunt are the only two runingbacks to
Speaker 1: top forty five yards on the season against the Texans
Speaker 1: and Corals averaging three point one yards per carry. And
Speaker 1: when the Browns fall behind by ten points, Krawl only
Speaker 1: has eight carries and that's been over seven and a
Speaker 1: half orders worth of play, so he's barely getting a
Speaker 1: touch carry per quarter and they're constantly down by ten,
Speaker 1: which is why Duke Johnson, as the past catching back,
Speaker 1: is getting much. Texans will get up by ten pretty early.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid he'll be gone. Curl will not play much
Speaker 1: in the second half. Right in the passing game. The
Speaker 1: only guy I'm really starting, and and it's a little
Speaker 1: if he is David and Joku. He's scored in three
Speaker 1: of his four four games. The Texans are allowing you
Speaker 1: over seventy yards per game to tight ends in the
Speaker 1: last three weeks, fifty yards or score for for the
Speaker 1: starting tight end. I think Najoku's talent is gonna win out,
Speaker 1: even though the valve is still involved. I'm benching Hogan.
Speaker 1: I'm mentioning all the wide receivers because it's kind of
Speaker 1: like fantasy, whack them all every week. It's a different target.
Speaker 1: Probably remember where Sharp Higgins was a thing week ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, Ricardo Lewis has led in the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: but I'm not confident in that situation this week against
Speaker 1: the Texans. All right, let's go to the Houston side.
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson A grade. He's my number one rand quarterback
Speaker 1: this week. He's also playing a team that allows two
Speaker 1: point six touchdowns per game to quarterbacks. Just uh He's
Speaker 1: He's the only running quarterback that faced the Browns so far.
Speaker 1: Brissette ran to in Deshaun Watson. You know, has the
Speaker 1: ability to run. Every quarterback against the Browns has multiple touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and I think you can argue Watson's the best quarterback
Speaker 1: they will face, will have faced Hopkins. Pretty obvious A
Speaker 1: for me. I'm moving on uh C grade for Will Fuller. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, he scored twice each of the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: but seventy of the the wide receiver production that goes
Speaker 1: against the Browns is in the wide receiver one. The
Speaker 1: second wide wide receiver against the Browns is averaging only
Speaker 1: twenty four yards and hasn't scored all the touchdowns. Are
Speaker 1: the number one wide receiver against the Browns. So I
Speaker 1: don't exactly love him. I I did give him a
Speaker 1: C grade because of that. Trust him because the last
Speaker 1: two weeks it seems like Watson and him do have
Speaker 1: a connection. Uh C grade for Lamar Miller. The Browns
Speaker 1: are holding all the running backs under three yards per
Speaker 1: carry and even Levy on Bell only at thirty two
Speaker 1: yards in week one. That said, Miller is seeing six
Speaker 1: of the touches seven percent of snaps last week. He's
Speaker 1: one of only five backstaff fifteen fifteen touches every week
Speaker 1: this season. That volume. I'm giving him a seagret. It's hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard to ignore. Ryan Griffin was my ticket chance
Speaker 1: on me player and bench the rest all right? Perfect.
Speaker 1: When we come back, New England takes on the Jets,
Speaker 1: you'll find out if um Elijah McGuire is sitting on
Speaker 1: a big game or not, and if there are any
Speaker 1: possible Patriots. You'd actually mentioned this matchup when we returned
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Speaker 1: of matchups for you, beginning with New England at the
Speaker 1: New York Jets. Brian Johnson start all my Patriots, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I do do not have a bench grade here. Uh.
Speaker 1: Starting with Tom Brady, he gets to nay, he's expected
Speaker 1: to play with the shoulder injury, like he'll play. The
Speaker 1: Jets have faced garbage quarterbacks outside of Derek Carr, who
Speaker 1: threw for three touchdowns. Brady can certainly do the same.
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski, on the other hand, I'm gonna give him
Speaker 1: a B just for Bee where I'm a little nervous
Speaker 1: with Gronk as always, but he should be good to
Speaker 1: go with the thigh injury. Practiced all week, practice all week,
Speaker 1: ten days off, He's fine. He will play. Who knows
Speaker 1: how how long I'll need to play for, but you're
Speaker 1: certainly starting him this week against the Jets. Opposing tight
Speaker 1: ends have been involved against them. Buffalo tight ends combined
Speaker 1: for five catches seventy five yards and a touchdown. Oakland
Speaker 1: tight ends caught six balls. Cleveland tight ends caught six
Speaker 1: for seventy two and one. So gron can match that
Speaker 1: box square by himself quite easily. Brandon Cooks he gets
Speaker 1: a B as well. His target totals are a little
Speaker 1: alarming this year. He hasn't seen more than eight targets
Speaker 1: in the game. Not one target in the red zone
Speaker 1: yet either, So I'm a little worried about Cooks. But
Speaker 1: Michael Crabs he had a monster game against the Jets.
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker had a very strong performance as well. Cooks
Speaker 1: is certainly of that ilk, so he gets the B grade.
Speaker 1: Like him, I still like him, but I like Chris
Speaker 1: Hogan more. I'm giving him an A here uh a
Speaker 1: homecoming of sorts, by the way, you always gotta like
Speaker 1: the homecoming bonus in addition to the revenge not quite
Speaker 1: revenge here uh. Four catches seventy yards the last time
Speaker 1: Hogan was in New Jersey. That's a safe floor for
Speaker 1: him in this one. Over the last three weeks, he
Speaker 1: has been targeted five times inside the ten yard line.
Speaker 1: That's very good usage in the red zone, and taller
Speaker 1: wide receivers have had more success against New York, so
Speaker 1: he gets the A grade here. Danny Amndola, I was
Speaker 1: closely giving a B two. I'm gonna give him a
Speaker 1: SEA with Gronk back in the lineup. But get this.
Speaker 1: Since the start of Amundola has played in twenty three
Speaker 1: games with Gronk active and six with Gronk inactive. In
Speaker 1: the games without Gronk, Amendola has only average an extra
Speaker 1: target and less than one added catch per game. So
Speaker 1: it's not like his production hinges on Gronk being or not.
Speaker 1: So he's certainly more. Did you do He's mind or
Speaker 1: twelve wide receiver. This week it's the buster screen effect,
Speaker 1: the screen door as we've called him Custer screen because
Speaker 1: of because of what he lets the opposition due to him.
Speaker 1: We um. I think that's a nice matchup, and I
Speaker 1: still like Amndola. I can be on board with it.
Speaker 1: I was very close to a be So let's go
Speaker 1: with it. B there you talked to me into it. Uh.
Speaker 1: And over to the running backs, Mike Gillossly, he only
Speaker 1: gets a C for me. Over the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: He has just one rush from inside the five yard line,
Speaker 1: no surprise. He hasn't scored since Week two. But the
Speaker 1: Jets are ranked twenty against the run by Football Outsiders
Speaker 1: d v o A ratings, and they've allowed the fourth
Speaker 1: most running back touches and gold to go situations. So
Speaker 1: gillless lye uh, I think I here's an angle you got.
Speaker 1: You got Brady coming in with a sore arm, You've
Speaker 1: got a terrible Jets run defense. Why don't you just
Speaker 1: run a bunch in this game? I like gillously and
Speaker 1: if I were doing like a fan ball, if I
Speaker 1: were used to making a fan ball roster, I would
Speaker 1: consider avoiding all of the all of the Patriots except
Speaker 1: gillously and try to take take the angle that it
Speaker 1: plays out that way as a as a run first
Speaker 1: offensive game plan. I can't argue that either. But I
Speaker 1: still James White though, giving him a B. Here at
Speaker 1: least eight targets and three of his last four games,
Speaker 1: and he's caught at least seven passes in those three games. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Jets have allowed receiving touchdowns and back to back games,
Speaker 1: and White caught a touchdown in their last meeting. So
Speaker 1: writing is on the wall for a White touchdown in
Speaker 1: this game, I think. So he gets a B grade
Speaker 1: over to the Jets. Uh. Let's start with Elijah McGuire.
Speaker 1: You mentioned him. He seems like the best running back
Speaker 1: start in this game against the Patriots, who are top
Speaker 1: twelve in our rushing and receiving yards allowed to running back,
Speaker 1: so they are far more generous through the air. Um
Speaker 1: blow Powell very banged up with that calf injury, unlikely
Speaker 1: to play. Matt Forte should make his return from a
Speaker 1: toe injury, but I just don't trust that guy. So
Speaker 1: McGuire is a running back I'm starting out of this crew.
Speaker 1: I'm giving him to see almost a borderline B. But
Speaker 1: he just doesn't hasn't looked that great. He hasn't really
Speaker 1: passed the eye test, but you should get the opportunities here.
Speaker 1: He is startable as his Austin Safari and Jenkins. My
Speaker 1: premature speculation from a few weeks back. Over the last
Speaker 1: two weeks, a s J is second among tight ends
Speaker 1: and catches. He saw a healthy eight targets last week
Speaker 1: than KP Talk also scored. The Patriots are one of
Speaker 1: four teams to see forty plus targets from opposing tight ends,
Speaker 1: and they've allowed the most red zone targets and red
Speaker 1: zone touches tight ends so far this year, so A
Speaker 1: s J will continue to surge in this one. I'm
Speaker 1: also starting Jammin and curse he gets to be at
Speaker 1: least one opposing wide receiver has caught at least one
Speaker 1: touchdown indoor top to one hundred yards in every game
Speaker 1: against New England, so it's no surprise of Patriots have
Speaker 1: also allowed the fifth most catches and second most yards
Speaker 1: to wide receivers. That almost makes Robby Anderson the hail
Speaker 1: Mary c play as well. In a game where the
Speaker 1: Jets will likely be chasing points, I don't like it
Speaker 1: a lot, but if you're desperate, you could play Anderson.
Speaker 1: And that is why I might take a chance to
Speaker 1: make quarterback was Josh mccounty. Chicago takes on Baltimore, and well,
Speaker 1: let's start with the guys you ken start in Chicago.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot Jordan Howard for starters, four touchdowns
Speaker 1: have massed his yard is deficiencies, though he's been under
Speaker 1: eighty total yards in four of the five games he's
Speaker 1: played this year. Um and the Ravens defense though bottom
Speaker 1: ten against the in the league against rushing yards allowed,
Speaker 1: and they've given up a rushing score need to the
Speaker 1: last three games, so I I expect a lot of
Speaker 1: running to keep Mitch Trabinsky's reps reasonable. He or so
Speaker 1: B grade on Jordan Howard Tarik though on the bench.
Speaker 1: He hit rock bottom Monday night, targeted just once, finished
Speaker 1: with negative six receiving yards, and I don't see the
Speaker 1: bombs back coming here. Against Baltimore, they've allowed the fourth
Speaker 1: fewest receptions to running backs and have not given up
Speaker 1: a passing touchdown through the air to the position. So
Speaker 1: he's on the bench going to the passing game. Everybody's
Speaker 1: on the bench except Zach Miller. Now we all know
Speaker 1: rookie quarterbacks do the dump off stuff to the tight end.
Speaker 1: We've seen it for years, we saw it last week.
Speaker 1: It already, it's already starting. Miller will have a decent
Speaker 1: shot at finding the end zone for a second consecutive
Speaker 1: week against the Baltimore defense that gave up the three
Speaker 1: touchdown to Marcedes Lewis a couple of weekends ago. This
Speaker 1: is an opportunity for Zach Miller and for those another
Speaker 1: another of the tight end sleep We had all these
Speaker 1: slight tight end sleepers coming out our ears today. It's
Speaker 1: a good thing too, because the tight end position has
Speaker 1: been a disaster this season. If you don't one of
Speaker 1: the good ones. Uh Drabinsky showed plenty of talent on
Speaker 1: Monday Night, but it didn't e quit into fantasy stats
Speaker 1: at all, just hundred twenty eight passing yards. He's got
Speaker 1: almost no steaving talent to work with. Everybody else is
Speaker 1: on the bench. Let's go to the Baltimore side. Already
Speaker 1: told you Alex collins Is might take a chance on
Speaker 1: me running back. He has a B grade here also
Speaker 1: with a B grade, and it pains me, bunk Allen,
Speaker 1: He'll yield a lot of carries to Alex Collins, who
Speaker 1: is literally doubling up his yards per carry, but he
Speaker 1: should be able to shine as a receiver against a
Speaker 1: group of Chicago linebackers potentially missing three or four starters
Speaker 1: in this game. Alan bunk Allen five or six targets
Speaker 1: in every game since Danny Wood had went down B
Speaker 1: B a B grade in PPRC grade in standard scoring leagues.
Speaker 1: The only other starter I've got for you here is
Speaker 1: Mike Wallace, who remains the downfield threat for Baltimore, but
Speaker 1: Prince and mukamarket shadow him and that might effective effectively
Speaker 1: neutralize him. Mukamara in the limited duty this year is
Speaker 1: Ben Good. Chicago basically shut down Minnesota's outside passing game
Speaker 1: on Monday Night, although Green Bay, Tampa and Pittsburgh had
Speaker 1: wide receiver's post at least seventy five yards and or
Speaker 1: a touchdown against the baron earlier matchups. Whillace is your
Speaker 1: home run threat. You know the done Wallace. You just
Speaker 1: gotta make the best on his four targets and maybe
Speaker 1: that happens here. Everybody else is on the bench. Flaka,
Speaker 1: I don't need to tell you bad. He's been Jeremy
Speaker 1: Macklin total dud since week two. Let's go to our
Speaker 1: next matchup, Tampa Bay taking on the Arizona Cardinals. For
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, Mike Evans kind of an inconsistent season, and
Speaker 1: now he draws Patrick Peterson, another in a series of
Speaker 1: tough matchups for Evans. What do you think, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a really tough matchup. Hilton, Bryant, Garson, Jeffrey all had
Speaker 1: rough mount outings against Patrick Peterson. I think Bryant was
Speaker 1: the only one to score. I gave Mike Evans a
Speaker 1: B grade. You're probably not benching him, but uh, don't
Speaker 1: get too excited about this matchup. Deshan Jackson, however, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm really excited that for that matchup he draws Justin Bethel,
Speaker 1: who's been really exploited this this year. Deshan Jackson is
Speaker 1: averaging a whopping eighteen yards per catch, and the number
Speaker 1: two receiver against the Bucks is also allowing eighteen yards
Speaker 1: per catch to non number one wide receivers. The Cardinals
Speaker 1: have also allowed seven wide receivers to either score or
Speaker 1: get a hundred yards against them, and only one of
Speaker 1: them was the number one wide receiver. Secondary receivers are crushing.
Speaker 1: The crushing the Cardinals is here, and so I love
Speaker 1: Deshan Jackson and gave him a B great as well.
Speaker 1: You like Jackson better than Evans, I just might. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just the matchup. It's it's just the matchup. I mean,
Speaker 1: de Sean Jackson only needs to catch four or five
Speaker 1: passes to get to a hundred yards the way he's
Speaker 1: going now, when the average eighteen yards to catch, that
Speaker 1: makes it pretty easy. I will say this about Evans
Speaker 1: and Pat Pete real quick. I used to do your
Speaker 1: wide receiver rankings way back in the way for a
Speaker 1: fantasy victory Church. I remember doing a detailed look at
Speaker 1: all the touchdowns and Patrick Peterson. It's all the tall
Speaker 1: guys six three or higher for like two to three
Speaker 1: years are the only ones who scored against Patrick Peterson.
Speaker 1: And I like that. Evans certainly falls in that category.
Speaker 1: But it's yeah, tough matchic like, yeah, he still gets
Speaker 1: a B grades absolutely. Jamis Winston. I gave an a grade.
Speaker 1: He's been crushing at the last three weeks forty one
Speaker 1: past attempts three thirty yards per game. Over that stretch,
Speaker 1: he scored in all but one of his NFL games,
Speaker 1: and he faces a Cardinals defense that allows two touchdowns
Speaker 1: per week. Two quarterbacks on average. UH top twelve quarterback
Speaker 1: for me this week. Cameron brad scored three three weeks
Speaker 1: in a row. He's caught four balls or got over
Speaker 1: over six targets in every one of those games. He
Speaker 1: led the league in touchdowns. Last year, Ertz and Doyle
Speaker 1: had good games against the Cardinals. I think Bryd's a
Speaker 1: C start. Doug Martin I give a B start to.
Speaker 1: I'm mostly hoping for volume here. The last three backs
Speaker 1: that have played Arizona got between seventy five and nine
Speaker 1: total yards, and I think with four fourteen touches and
Speaker 1: five point seven yards per carrying his first game, if
Speaker 1: he gets similar workload this week, he could be a
Speaker 1: decent B start bench. The rest over on Arizona Larry Fitzgerald,
Speaker 1: I think he's pretty automatic start. He's third in the
Speaker 1: league in targets and receptions, and this week gets matched
Speaker 1: up against one one of Pro football focuses lowest rated
Speaker 1: cornerbacks in Robert McLean UH. Across from him, John Brown UH.
Speaker 1: He the games that he was healthy for, he was
Speaker 1: second in targets behind Fitzgerald and the and the Bucks
Speaker 1: have allowed eleven different receivers to gain either fifty yards
Speaker 1: or a touchdown. And that's just in four weeks, eleven
Speaker 1: different receivers. So I think there's the opportunity for him there.
Speaker 1: Carson Palmer, I'm actually given an A grade. He's attempting
Speaker 1: forty five passes per game. His offensive line and running
Speaker 1: game are terrible, so he has to Palmer averages three
Speaker 1: fifteen yards per game and the Bucks are allowing three
Speaker 1: fifteen yards per game, and the Bucks are also giving
Speaker 1: up two touchdowns per game to quarterbacks. I think it's
Speaker 1: a nice, nice matchup for Palmer, uh at the in
Speaker 1: the running game. Yeah, what about Adrian Peterson? Yeah, Adrian Peterson,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm kind of in waiting sea mode. I did
Speaker 1: give him a C grade. But if he slots right
Speaker 1: into that ten to fifteen touches that Chris Johnson has,
Speaker 1: uh that the volume might get him there. The Bucks
Speaker 1: have only allowed one rushing touchdown, but he I get
Speaker 1: enough volume. As far as Ellington, they're they're Ellington's getting
Speaker 1: ten targets in over seventy yards per game over the
Speaker 1: last three weeks. It's it's hard to BENJ might give
Speaker 1: him a B grade just on that safe PPR floor,
Speaker 1: and Allington's usage won't change with Adrian Peterson. It's like
Speaker 1: Peterson's into his receptions. No way. Peterson the receiving back
Speaker 1: nah and and the Buxer bottom seven in receiving yards
Speaker 1: allowed to running back. So that's prime for Ellington. I'm
Speaker 1: benching everyone else. Sounds good. Let's let's try to squeeze
Speaker 1: in one more matchup into this segment, and that is
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Chargers at the Oakland Raiders. Bryan. The
Speaker 1: Los Angeles the Chargers passing attack is always really difficult
Speaker 1: to figure out. With the exception of one guy, Keenan Allen,
Speaker 1: seems to always get his targets. How do you feel
Speaker 1: about Keenan Allen in this matchup? Yeah? I give Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen in a he will see a slot corner t J. Carey,
Speaker 1: who Pro Football Focus has ranked nineties six out of
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifteen cornerbacks. So yeah, and two of
Speaker 1: the last three slot receivers to face Oakland have caught
Speaker 1: at least six passes, So that's probably safe floor for
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen. He's caught six passes in a quarter before,
Speaker 1: so he gets the eight grade. I'm giving Tyrell Williams
Speaker 1: and Travis Benjamin to see here. Even though Mike Williams
Speaker 1: is likely to make his pro debut, Williams is on
Speaker 1: the bench for me. I gotta see him do something
Speaker 1: before he is startable in fantasy. But um, as for
Speaker 1: Williams and Benjamin, Oakland's outside cornerbacks Shawn Smith and David
Speaker 1: Amerson have not been too good this year. Both both
Speaker 1: have allowed a pass the rating about hundred and forty
Speaker 1: plus in their coverage hundred plus both individually over a
Speaker 1: hundred and four. They've allowed to combine four touchdowns as well,
Speaker 1: So I like Williams and Benjamin this game. Benjamin caught
Speaker 1: a touchdown in one game and top two hundred yards
Speaker 1: in the other against Oakland last year, so I'll give
Speaker 1: him both the start. And that certainly makes Philip Rivers startable.
Speaker 1: Uh he gets to be Uh. He totaled six touchdowns
Speaker 1: against the Raiders last year, who are allowing a completion
Speaker 1: percentage of sixty nine this season. And Rivers just put
Speaker 1: up a hat trick on the road against the Vontageiant secondary.
Speaker 1: So he's in play here. I should have mentioned Hunter
Speaker 1: Henry first. He gets to be as well. Uh, he
Speaker 1: was actually utilized again last week in games where he's
Speaker 1: actually been targeted this year. Yeah, which is three or
Speaker 1: five or three of them. Yes, he's been great in
Speaker 1: those three games. Yeah, he's scored or top to eight
Speaker 1: yrs in those games at least throwing the ball once
Speaker 1: and something good is gonna happen. So he gets to
Speaker 1: be I'm putting Gates on the bench. He finally has
Speaker 1: what he needs to get into the Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: now he but who knows watch Gates came score three touch.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think that Henry is the
Speaker 1: guy you want to start. I think Gates at this
Speaker 1: point is injury backup guy to Hunter Henry. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: with you, but uh, you never know what old man value.
Speaker 1: What tricks he can is up as sleeve. But anyway, lastly,
Speaker 1: for the Chargers, Melvin Gordon gets to He looked awesome
Speaker 1: last week. The Raiders just allowed hundred and twelve yards
Speaker 1: to C. J. Anderson and one to Jaboris Alan. Gordon
Speaker 1: can certainly put up those numbers. Um over to Oakland
Speaker 1: Side Derek Carr is making his return from a broken back, yes,
Speaker 1: broken and by the way, two weeks early, which I
Speaker 1: don't like, to be honest, not that I wanted to
Speaker 1: see more of EJ. Manual, but I'm nervous about him
Speaker 1: getting with this game. Yeah I need to. I'll give
Speaker 1: him a c No, I'm gonna put him on the bench.
Speaker 1: Screw it. He's on the bench. Chargers are allowing just
Speaker 1: like two yards and one and a half passing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: pretty game to quarterbacks. That's probably cars ceiling in this
Speaker 1: game where I said I'd like the running backs that
Speaker 1: you leaned on heavily here. So he's on the bench
Speaker 1: for me, and Amari Cooper is not on the bench,
Speaker 1: but he's pretty damn close. I'm giving him to see.
Speaker 1: Here's his yardage output in the last three games, six
Speaker 1: nine eight. That's unbelievable from Mary Cooper yet never I
Speaker 1: never thought that would happen, and even one game, let
Speaker 1: alone three straight single digit yardage games for a coups.
Speaker 1: So if you're a Mary Cooper owner, grab a coin
Speaker 1: and flip it, because here are his four career box
Speaker 1: scores against the Chargers five for one, thirty three and one.
Speaker 1: Then two for ten, then six for one, thirty eight
Speaker 1: and one, and then one for twenty eight. So if
Speaker 1: science tells us anything that he's had a game here
Speaker 1: based on that that that pattern, But anyway he gets
Speaker 1: to see until he starts showing you can catch the ball,
Speaker 1: I will give him. Michael Crabtree and a though return
Speaker 1: to action last week top to eight ds and scored.
Speaker 1: He scored in all four meetings with the Chargers, who
Speaker 1: have allowed the second most wide receiver touchdowns, and at
Speaker 1: least one wide receiver has scored in all five of
Speaker 1: the l a's games. Jared Cook is on the bench.
Speaker 1: I'm close to giving him a C grade because tight
Speaker 1: end is such a waste land. Uh Cook, We've given
Speaker 1: you like three or four guys already that you can
Speaker 1: take a chance on. Too many, too many tight ends already,
Speaker 1: and the Chargers are bottom five and targets allowed to
Speaker 1: tight end. So not a great opportunity for Cook here.
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch show, I will give him a b uh
Speaker 1: your boy charge. The Chargers are allowing five and a
Speaker 1: half yards per carry and have allowed hundred and five
Speaker 1: more rushing yards than the next closest team so far
Speaker 1: this year, so Lynch gets a beach. It's we urge people,
Speaker 1: at least I did two weeks ago to go buy
Speaker 1: low on Lynch, and I think we're gonna be paid
Speaker 1: off last week. It's gonna pay off this week. I
Speaker 1: think he will as well. And I also think jay
Speaker 1: Len Shard will. That's why he used might take a
Speaker 1: chance on me running back. We're gonna work in one
Speaker 1: call here, Ben, Hello, Hell, hi Ben? What's up? How's
Speaker 1: it going with again? Good? Thank you, excellent? Thankfull? Um.
Speaker 1: I got a question. I made a bonehead trade. Um.
Speaker 1: Do you guys like uh Kamara more than Abdullah? Yeah? Okay.
Speaker 1: The problem with the dula is, you know, Abdulah doesn't
Speaker 1: get any receptions, that's theoretic. He doesn't get any goal
Speaker 1: line work. That's Zack center in the rare answers is
Speaker 1: that they even run inside the five. So he's just
Speaker 1: the yardish guy between the twenties and that just doesn't
Speaker 1: move the needle much. The second leg of that is
Speaker 1: I had to trade Matt Ryan and Abdullah to get
Speaker 1: Kamara and Treke Cohen. So I'm cool with that, right,
Speaker 1: I like it? I like it? Now? Should I know?
Speaker 1: Do I drop Treke Cohen and pick up Alex Collins
Speaker 1: or um Foreman from Houston. I'd probably go with Alex
Speaker 1: Cohn's on that I I don't know Cohen's. Cohen's snap
Speaker 1: percentage keeps going down and Alex cons keeps going up.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's only a matter of time Cohen.
Speaker 1: Alex CON's is the most explosive back for the Ravens.
Speaker 1: I'd probably I'd probably go after Alex Collins. All right,
Speaker 1: if I speak quickly, can I can I ask one more?
Speaker 1: You get too? Because it is not lightning round? Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: sorry uge Um, Mike Evans. You guys are just talking
Speaker 1: about possibly he's a b in my PPR league. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna run him off. I got Crabtree, U, Tate, Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: Kevin Coleman, and Buck Allen. You may not be a
Speaker 1: starter in that scenario. I'd start him over Buck Allen,
Speaker 1: but that's it. I think I like all the other
Speaker 1: receivers better. All right, guys, you're the best. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to throw while you guys out there for in ups
Speaker 1: and get more and more listeners out here. Thank you,
Speaker 1: I love you guys. Take care, appreciate it Ben, It's
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Speaker 1: Scott Fish is inaugural show. Brian Johnson, Welcome back. See
Speaker 1: here's the deal, Scott. No, she's not listening. Mike is
Speaker 1: not on. That's part of it. That's part of becoming
Speaker 1: a savvy radio. You know, you can do a million podcast,
Speaker 1: but the podcast you just turn on the record. But
Speaker 1: then you don't have to worry about it. Again, it's
Speaker 1: a little trick here here. You could even you know,
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Speaker 1: through the commercials or whatever. I want to say. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just said my wife is listening, so we get
Speaker 1: one extra listener this week. She doesn't. She doesn't listen
Speaker 1: every week. Question number one. Absolutely, to this point, he
Speaker 1: hasn't scored a single touchdown and he's averaging just three
Speaker 1: yards per carry. But from this point, four reward will
Speaker 1: Cardinals running back Adrian Peterson being RB one, r B
Speaker 1: two flex or bench scott flex. Uh. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna get that ten of fifteen touches per game, but
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna get much more. That offensive
Speaker 1: line is just terrible, just terrible, and he doesn't contribute
Speaker 1: in the passing game. I think the offense is gonna
Speaker 1: run about how it ran with Chris Johnson. Maybe Adrian
Speaker 1: Peterson's a little better, but I think he's purely in
Speaker 1: flex mode. Brian, Yeah, I think I'm gonna put him
Speaker 1: on the bench. I don't like Peterson for many many reasons.
Speaker 1: He's not catching any passes. We know that. I think
Speaker 1: Edward Scissor Hans has a better chance to catch and
Speaker 1: passes out of that backfield. And here's some things a
Speaker 1: d hasn't done since the season, Uh, score a touchdown,
Speaker 1: get twenty carries, top thirty three rushing yards, and I
Speaker 1: don't like his chance of doing any of those things
Speaker 1: behind the Arizona line, and is ranked thirty and none
Speaker 1: blocking by Football outside their schedule through Week fourteen. When
Speaker 1: I think David Johnson comes back at the very latest
Speaker 1: is not that great. You have the Rams on there twice,
Speaker 1: you have a by Tampa Bay, Seattle, Houston, Tennessee. There's
Speaker 1: only two soft matchups between now and week fourteen. So
Speaker 1: I'm putting Peterson on the bench on my team. The
Speaker 1: correct answer is flex because the opportunity is so good
Speaker 1: for him. He there will be opportunities. He will get
Speaker 1: almost all the carries. He is better than the undead
Speaker 1: corpse of the tap dancing Nancy Chris Johnson. Carson Palmer
Speaker 1: plays almost sixty of his snaps under center, and that's
Speaker 1: critical for Adrian as well. We don't know how good
Speaker 1: or bad he really is because we've seen so little
Speaker 1: of him. We know he's not elite Adrian Peterson, but
Speaker 1: in all probability, he's a step up from Chris Johnson.
Speaker 1: And I see the schedule differently than you. I see
Speaker 1: only one top five run defense the rest of the way,
Speaker 1: and that's not from the ten weeks, so I think
Speaker 1: there will be some schedule opportunities. The bad news Arizona
Speaker 1: calls the fewest running places in the NFL, and so
Speaker 1: it will not be a volume opportunity for him. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be goal line stuff and Kenny turn fifteen carries
Speaker 1: into something meaningful of a flex spot. The answer is
Speaker 1: sometimes yeah. Question number two. To this point, he hasn't
Speaker 1: scored a single touchdown and he's averaging just three yards
Speaker 1: per carry. But from this point forward, will Bills running
Speaker 1: back Lashawn McCoy be an RB one in RB two
Speaker 1: a flex or a bench Brian Well. In the preseason,
Speaker 1: McCoy was one of the guys I dubbed as a
Speaker 1: wanna bell I wanna bell cow because he didn't get
Speaker 1: the red zone opportunities that you like to see. But
Speaker 1: he's actually getting those. Uh, that's the vulture. That's the
Speaker 1: sound of Mike Tolbert, Mike Holibart. That's right, nicely done.
Speaker 1: But Shady is fifth and carries from inside the ten
Speaker 1: yard line. He's third in red zone targets among running backs,
Speaker 1: so he's actually getting the opportunities that have evaded him
Speaker 1: in the past. Um He's also has the second highest
Speaker 1: target percentage among running backs. He's getting of the Bill's targets,
Speaker 1: which is a higher higher ratio than wide receivers like
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, Larry Fitzgerald, Pierre Garson, Golden Tate, alshon Jeffrey,
Speaker 1: So he's getting a ton of touches, a lot of opportunity.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep him at the RB one level. I
Speaker 1: do like his schedule moving forward. He as Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: Oakland at New York Jets, New Orleans at the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Those are five plus matchups in a row. So I'm
Speaker 1: going RB one with Shady, all right, I'm going RB two.
Speaker 1: I like a lot of what Brian just said, but
Speaker 1: I coming in this season, I didn't love Shady because
Speaker 1: I don't like running backs once they hit that eighteen
Speaker 1: hundred yard marker. We just talked about Adrian Peterson when
Speaker 1: he hit the excuse me that eighteen hundred carry marker
Speaker 1: in the last seventeen years. In the last seventeen years,
Speaker 1: only a couple of backs have been really productive after
Speaker 1: eighteen hundred carries, and let's shaw mccoin hit at the
Speaker 1: start of the season. So I don't love him as
Speaker 1: an RB one going forward. I like him as an
Speaker 1: r B two. I think he's going to be a
Speaker 1: pretty consistent RB two based on his based on his touches.
Speaker 1: But man, there are a lot of backs I like better.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the correct answer is RB one and Brian uh
Speaker 1: I took many of my talking points. I'll only mentioned
Speaker 1: a couple of other things. Whole new offense from Buffalo,
Speaker 1: It's not uncommon for that to take a month two
Speaker 1: months to really settle in. So I think there's a
Speaker 1: reason to think they get better. And the Bill's defense
Speaker 1: is really good, so the team is never like an
Speaker 1: abandon the run mode because they're down by twenty one
Speaker 1: points at half. So then I believe that McCoy will
Speaker 1: bounce back for all the reasons that Brian elucid elucidated.
Speaker 1: And by the way, there are some desperate McCoy owners
Speaker 1: out there who have languished with him right now are
Speaker 1: probably sitting at zero one two wins, and they're looking
Speaker 1: at a bye week right now for McCoy. If you've
Speaker 1: got a strong team that can afford to maybe take
Speaker 1: a loss this week because you've just acquired McCoy, man
Speaker 1: go after him. What a great opportunity to buy low
Speaker 1: on McCoy. Davanny's hot question number three, Ezekiel Elliott will
Speaker 1: miss zero games, six games or something in between. Scott,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with zero games. That we've seen it
Speaker 1: with the star Caps, we've seen it with Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: I just I just have a feeling this is gonna
Speaker 1: get hung up in courts. I think that they will
Speaker 1: file another injunction. I'm not sure if he gets it.
Speaker 1: I think it's a fifty fifty coin flip, but uh,
Speaker 1: lawyers are sneaky, and so I'm gonna go with zero games.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be able to push it off. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a coin flip between zero and the six.
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna say it's gonna fall somewhere in between.
Speaker 1: If you know he can get to cut to three
Speaker 1: to four games, I think you should just take his
Speaker 1: medicine and accept that suspension and move on with it. Uh.
Speaker 1: I hope he gets six, just because I don't like
Speaker 1: him as a person as a person and don't have
Speaker 1: him money in my fantasy team, So I say six.
Speaker 1: So maybe you're gonna go six? Yes, Um, most probable
Speaker 1: outcome is that you will get zero for the reasons
Speaker 1: that Scott mentioned. Preliminary injunction will likely be granted because
Speaker 1: Zeke's case seems to have a lot of merit. Remember
Speaker 1: the Texas Court. People are confusing why the Texas Court
Speaker 1: rolled this thing back. It wasn't because the case didn't
Speaker 1: have merit. It's because they said, we're not the right
Speaker 1: jurisdiction and the right jurisdictions new York, so go to
Speaker 1: New York court. So now they're just gonna repeat the
Speaker 1: same process in New York. And among other things, the
Speaker 1: NFL didn't listen to the advice of their own lead investigator.
Speaker 1: And that's going to be I think that that and
Speaker 1: we don't know all the details of what of what
Speaker 1: they're suggesting, but that's that by itself suggests that this
Speaker 1: case will have some merit and that a court will
Speaker 1: look at it and go, yes, we'll grant you a
Speaker 1: preliminary injunction so we can figure out if we want
Speaker 1: to uh, we want to hear a full case on this.
Speaker 1: The most probable outcome is zero games. Devanny's hot question
Speaker 1: number four with the development of Aaron Jones, how nervous
Speaker 1: should time Montgomery owners be a totally chill, be mild
Speaker 1: intestinal cramping or see Harvey Weinstein wants to have a
Speaker 1: private meeting in his office. Level of nervousness, Brian I
Speaker 1: might go d and he wants to have a meeting
Speaker 1: with Bill Cosby in his office, a project that they
Speaker 1: want to work on with you. Uh yeah, I'm very
Speaker 1: worried if I'm a Time Montgomery owner. I've kind of
Speaker 1: expressed this throughout the preseason. I just don't think Montgomery,
Speaker 1: Uh well, he doesn't have the track record of a
Speaker 1: proven running back you can handle twenty carries a game,
Speaker 1: and he's already been knocked out in the first quarter
Speaker 1: of the season. So I'd be very nervous if I'm
Speaker 1: the Time Montgommery owner and he has struggled mightily on
Speaker 1: the ground. He has he does have the highest percentage
Speaker 1: of carries against an extra defender in the box. That's
Speaker 1: from the running back scout who I mentioned last week.
Speaker 1: So he's not like he's a bad running back. But
Speaker 1: I just think Green Bay needs a more traditional back,
Speaker 1: especially near the goal line. So I am I'm taking
Speaker 1: see you're taking the Harvey Weinstein progress. Okay, I'm just
Speaker 1: taking mild discomfort because I think even though Time Montgomery
Speaker 1: is still hurt a little bit, when he does come back,
Speaker 1: and it might be soon, he's still gonna get the
Speaker 1: points in the passing game, and I think he's still
Speaker 1: got a role there even if he gets half Wally
Speaker 1: pipped by Aaron Jones. Aaron Jones is the guy I
Speaker 1: liked in Dynasty coming into the season. I didn't really
Speaker 1: expect this to happen so quick, but Aaron Jones is
Speaker 1: a really good back, and I can see that being
Speaker 1: a timeshare. Aaron Jones is a really good back. He
Speaker 1: looks like a better fit in this offense. He runs harder,
Speaker 1: He's bigger than than Time Montgomery is. That's ed the
Speaker 1: probable outcome here is that Time Montgomery shifts into a
Speaker 1: timeshare change of pace back and he could do a
Speaker 1: lot of what Christian McCaffrey is doing for Carolina. Five
Speaker 1: or six rushes, five or six receptions a game. You know,
Speaker 1: he finishes with seventy yards and a lot of games
Speaker 1: and that's not the end of the world, So only
Speaker 1: mild intestinal cramping. Hot question number five. I hope somewhere
Speaker 1: somebody turned on the radio just for the end of that.
Speaker 1: Should fantasy owners drop every last giant Scott Sure? I
Speaker 1: was thinking that Evan Ingram might be the guy want
Speaker 1: before last week. He he had four catches in forty
Speaker 1: yards in every single game. I really really like Evan Ingram,
Speaker 1: and right now he might end up being their wide
Speaker 1: receiver one even though he's a tight end, right, But
Speaker 1: there are so many tight end options out there on
Speaker 1: a weekly basis that I just just random flex play,
Speaker 1: kind of just match up plays that I don't know
Speaker 1: that you need to roster Ingram. He might be the
Speaker 1: only guy, but let's just go with none. Drop them all, Okay, Brian,
Speaker 1: it hits home, not really, but I'm not dropping Stirling
Speaker 1: Shepherd Evan Ingram just yet. I see both getting at
Speaker 1: least eight targets per game, and that's that's volume that
Speaker 1: you need to roster. And starting in week ten, you
Speaker 1: know you don't have to go through a few rough
Speaker 1: patches here, but we we we can go. Heading into
Speaker 1: the Fantasy playoffs, you have at San Francisco, Kansas City,
Speaker 1: then at Washington, at Oakland and Dallas. Those are plus matchups.
Speaker 1: Are both players outside of Kansas City, uh, most likely?
Speaker 1: And the good stretch continues into week fifteen and sixteen.
Speaker 1: For Shepherd, he has Philly, who has been brutal against
Speaker 1: wide receivers in Arizona, who has struggled mightily against slot
Speaker 1: wide receivers. So I think both are rosterable at the
Speaker 1: very least maybe not startable every week, but don't drop
Speaker 1: him just yet? Is that or is that not factory?
Speaker 1: And Eli Manning getting traded to the Jaguars at this point,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's auditioned by a subtraction, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, but no, not factoring that yet,
Speaker 1: I'd be opened those talks bring the board of potty
Speaker 1: to Jersey. The correct answer is dropped all of your giants.
Speaker 1: And it's because of the schedule that you blew by,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, sure in week ten. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: I got a bye week. I can't. I got bye
Speaker 1: weeks for the next four weeks. I at Denver this week.
Speaker 1: You can't play anybody Seattle the next week, can't play
Speaker 1: anybody bye week. You can't play Shepherd against Seattle and Ingram.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I wouldn't. That's where you tag
Speaker 1: him maybe through the middle, I don't know, But you're
Speaker 1: you're even assuming that Shepherd stays in the slot. We
Speaker 1: don't know that that's gonna be the case. They might
Speaker 1: kick him outside as the best receiver. Who knows. Either way,
Speaker 1: You're not gonna feel comfortable. So starting in these guys
Speaker 1: for a month. I can't hold. I can't advocate holding
Speaker 1: guys with zero getting get that you can't. You don't
Speaker 1: feel like starting for one month in the middle of
Speaker 1: these bye weeks. So yeah, schedule might clear up later,
Speaker 1: but somebody's gonna be dropping those guys between now and then. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I really nailed those questions. You did get four out
Speaker 1: of five. I think one high score of all time
Speaker 1: six out of five. John Tube, Uh, let's work in
Speaker 1: one matchup into this segment, and it's the San Francisco
Speaker 1: forty Niners at Washington and already gave you. Brian Hoyers.
Speaker 1: Might take a chance on the quarterback. I like Pierre
Speaker 1: Garson a lot too, is I'm I'm curious. Is there
Speaker 1: an angle for Pierre Garsona in a matchup with Washington.
Speaker 1: Can't think of one. He faces his former team without
Speaker 1: star corner Josh Norman, who's gonna be sidelined with a
Speaker 1: rib injury. Garzon hasn't scored yet, but everything else has
Speaker 1: been great. He's getting targeted ten over ten times in
Speaker 1: each game. He's uh, he's on a fantastic hey from
Speaker 1: a yard of standpoint with Norman, the Redskins have been
Speaker 1: a have been very good against wide receivers, but most
Speaker 1: of that's because Normans their key guy Viking fans listening
Speaker 1: here locally, I mean, imagine if you take Xavier Rhodes
Speaker 1: out of this secondary, what happens? Everything changes? So I
Speaker 1: still like pere Garsona to B level. Marquis Goodwin is
Speaker 1: a deep sleeper. Non number one receivers have outproduced the
Speaker 1: number one wide receivers going up against Washington, and Goodwin's
Speaker 1: coming off a gigantic game last week a target at
Speaker 1: eleven times, So deep sleeper Marquis Goodwin. George Kittle will
Speaker 1: be your fifth tight end deep sleeper that you could
Speaker 1: pick up this week. Now, I went Barker's last week,
Speaker 1: and we're not chasing last week's box score. Though Washington
Speaker 1: is a lot at least ninety five yards or scored
Speaker 1: every starting tight end they have faced. That's Zach Ertz
Speaker 1: and Travis Kelsey would you expect, but also Gerald Everett
Speaker 1: and Jared Cook. If those guys can hammer the Washington
Speaker 1: secondary from the tight end position, why not George Kittle.
Speaker 1: Carlos Hide gets a C grade here. He's got three
Speaker 1: different problems working against him. He's got a hip injury.
Speaker 1: Which isn't healed, Matt Rita's roles increasing. And lastly, the
Speaker 1: Washington run defense is elite, giving up just sixties six
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game. Only one opposing runner has scored.
Speaker 1: Now I could have a little more success of the air.
Speaker 1: The Redskins are giving a forty six yards through the air.
Speaker 1: So maybe together you can chip together a a decent game.
Speaker 1: And that's why he does get a starting grade. For me,
Speaker 1: we'll keep Matt Brita on the bench flipping over the
Speaker 1: Washington side. This entire Washington matchup is basically ghost comes
Speaker 1: down to this man. That guy has been a bust,
Speaker 1: but I gotta start him one more time because of
Speaker 1: this matchup. That's your reoccurring theme for this one. Let's start,
Speaker 1: and most of its relates to the passing game. Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins gets a B because San Francisco owns a bottom
Speaker 1: ten ranking against opposing quarterbacks in all of these categories
Speaker 1: pass attempts, past completions, and passing yards allowed. They've only
Speaker 1: given up three passing touchdowns. But that feels flukey to me,
Speaker 1: and I think the touchdowns are coming. Terrell Prior. It's
Speaker 1: another in a series of seemingly juicy matchups for Terrelle Pryor.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he will do better than what we've seen so
Speaker 1: far Since Week two. Prior owns painful averages of just
Speaker 1: two catches, forty yards and a third of a touchdown
Speaker 1: per game, but San Francisco bottom twelve rankings against opposing
Speaker 1: receivers and targets, receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns allowed,
Speaker 1: so we like Prior. Jamison Crowder has been invisible, but
Speaker 1: John Gruden. J Gruden vows to get him more involved,
Speaker 1: and it should start this week since face arguably the
Speaker 1: worst slack corner in the league wa Kawan Williams, Kwan
Speaker 1: Williams at Kwan Kwan Williams. There's plenty of danger here
Speaker 1: though in his last game, Crowder faced the other slock
Speaker 1: cornerback who's in the conversation for the worst, Philip Gaines
Speaker 1: and Crowder put up negative seven yards last week and
Speaker 1: a juicy matchups. So I've still got a C grade
Speaker 1: on Crowder because it feels like it ought all work out.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the running game. Chris Thompson, I love him.
Speaker 1: This week he draws the defense that currently owns bottom
Speaker 1: five rankings in targets, receptions, and receiving yards and receiving
Speaker 1: touchdowns to opposing tailbacks. So Thompson should be good through
Speaker 1: the air. Really almost a dream dream opportunity for him,
Speaker 1: especially with Rob Kelly almost certainly not suiting up here.
Speaker 1: Last week, utility back Marlon Mack carved up the Niners.
Speaker 1: This week, Chris Thompson utility back Somaj p Ryan should
Speaker 1: get all the start here with Rob Kelly expected to
Speaker 1: miss the game. Um, but we've got a long look
Speaker 1: at at p Ryan because Kelly's been in on the lineup,
Speaker 1: He's logged forty six carries. He's turned those into three
Speaker 1: point one yards per carry. That's it. Niners run defense
Speaker 1: is actually pretty good, dramatically improved from last year, giving
Speaker 1: up just three point nine yards per Carys. So I've
Speaker 1: got per Ran on the bench. When we come back,
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams taken on the Jacksonville Jaguars. It's
Speaker 1: an elite running matchup for both of these teams. Will
Speaker 1: tell you who we like more between Girly and Leonard
Speaker 1: four Nette. When we come back your distinct of Fantasy
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Speaker 1: to Rams and Jacksonville. It's two elite running backs against
Speaker 1: two really bad run defenses. Is this as straightforward as
Speaker 1: it looks? It really is? Todd Gurley's in a start
Speaker 1: over the first four weeks of the season, the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: Jaguars were stomped for a hundred forty nine rushing yards
Speaker 1: per game. Uh, they're allowing the second most rushing yards
Speaker 1: per game. Levian Bell didn't crush him last week, but
Speaker 1: he did get But they didn't take the ball. They kept.
Speaker 1: They asked, They asked Ben Roethlis We're gonna throw fifty
Speaker 1: five times in the game, exactly there was just poor
Speaker 1: game plan. Fifteen carries for Levian Bell. I think that
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh is gonna learn from Tomlin's mistake and run
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley down their throat. Last week was the only
Speaker 1: week Gurley didn't get ninety five yards. I think he
Speaker 1: gets back on track this week. I'm benching everyone else
Speaker 1: in this game. I just m the entire passing game plays.
Speaker 1: The top four Jags defense that leads the NFL in sacks, interceptions,
Speaker 1: defensive touchdowns and even second informal recoveries. They're They're only
Speaker 1: allowing a hundred passing yards per game. Watkins and Woods
Speaker 1: gets a j. Boyer and Jalen Ramsey, two of the
Speaker 1: best cornerbacks in the league. And even if you think
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup is a sneaky play, slot receivers are only
Speaker 1: averaging twenty seven yards per game against them. So, uh,
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown the only receiver to top six yards bench
Speaker 1: every one of the everybody else for the Rams? Really,
Speaker 1: all right, let's go to the Jag side. Obviously only
Speaker 1: only player with a touchdown in every game this week
Speaker 1: so far. Yep, and the Rams are kind of on
Speaker 1: that same boat. They've allowed seven touchdowns over over the
Speaker 1: course of the season and a hundred sixty six rushing
Speaker 1: yards per hundred sixty six yards per game to running backs.
Speaker 1: This is just such a great matchup for four NET
Speaker 1: the Jet. The Rams did hold down the mess that
Speaker 1: they called the Seattle backfield last week, but six different
Speaker 1: running backs before that either got seventy five yards or
Speaker 1: a touchdown for NET should have no trouble doing both.
Speaker 1: Chris Ivory was my take a chance on me kind
Speaker 1: of a dart throw see start. You know, just you know,
Speaker 1: if you have some injuries or buys otherwise I'm benching
Speaker 1: everyone else. Blake Boardles attempting twenty seven passes per game,
Speaker 1: throwing for less than a hundred and fifty yards three times,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't have a multi touchdown game. It's just
Speaker 1: they have had a different wide receiver target leader each
Speaker 1: of the last three games. It's a hard pass for
Speaker 1: everybody else. Pittsburgh takes on Kansas City and uh, we've
Speaker 1: got got an A grade and Antonio Brown it's always
Speaker 1: an a start. Uh. I will note that he only
Speaker 1: runs thirty percent of his plays from the right side
Speaker 1: of the field, where star quarterback Marcus Peters play, so
Speaker 1: that means the corresponding sixty six percent of the plays
Speaker 1: are not on Marcus Peters, and the Chiefs have allowed
Speaker 1: the most touchdowns to opposing receivers, So Antonio Brown gets
Speaker 1: an A. That means conversely, Martavis Bryant is going to
Speaker 1: be on the Marcus Peters side more often than not,
Speaker 1: and so that means he's on the bench and he's
Speaker 1: been brutal this year. Anyway, ju Juice Smith Schuster, the
Speaker 1: other receiver from the slot, was might take a chance
Speaker 1: on me wide out this week. Ben Roethlisberger through all
Speaker 1: of that comes out as a B. Here. There's a
Speaker 1: ton of intangibles in play. Will Ben Roethlisberger bounce back
Speaker 1: from the self doubt that he vocalized after last week's
Speaker 1: five interception game? He has a chance. Chiefs, of the
Speaker 1: twenty fifth ranked past defense that've given up nine passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns on the season since Week four, opposing quarterback have
Speaker 1: enjoyed a cumulative touchdown to interception Rachel ratio of seven
Speaker 1: to zero UM. But then again, it's been on the road,
Speaker 1: where over the last three years he's averaging one touchdown
Speaker 1: pass over the last half season of road games under
Speaker 1: one touchdown pass per game, so plenty of possibilities here
Speaker 1: for Ben Roethlisberger, a wide variety of potential outcomes and
Speaker 1: Levy on Bell normally I just go he's an A
Speaker 1: and forget about it. But this is a tricky matchup now.
Speaker 1: He housed Kansas City last week in the two meetings,
Speaker 1: last year in the two meetings. But this year, the
Speaker 1: Chiefs haven't allowed it back to reach a d yards rushing.
Speaker 1: They've given up just one rushing touchdown since Week one.
Speaker 1: They've been even better against pass catching backs, holding them
Speaker 1: to three catches twenty two yards per game and no
Speaker 1: receiving touchdowns. I've got the rare B grade on Levy
Speaker 1: on Bell. Going over to the Kansas City side, Kareem
Speaker 1: Hunt is an obvious A against a bad Pittsburgh run defense.
Speaker 1: In fact, he's my number one running back for the week.
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt, let's go to the passing game. Alex Smith
Speaker 1: is a C against the Steelers defense. The path of
Speaker 1: least resistance definitely on the ground, and the game plan
Speaker 1: looks dubious for Alex Smith here. Fortunately, his newfound downfield
Speaker 1: passing prowess means that Alex Smith can get decent numbers
Speaker 1: unlimited volume. Still, Pittsburgh's even just three passing touchdowns all year,
Speaker 1: which is awesome, and an average of just one hundred
Speaker 1: sixty four yards per game. So it's a bit's barely
Speaker 1: a C grade on Alex Smith. Tyre killed another low
Speaker 1: volume guy and a tough matchup with the Steelers secondary
Speaker 1: that hasn't allowed a wide receiver to top fifty five
Speaker 1: yards all year. But he is insanely fast and the
Speaker 1: three Steelers cornerbacks are usually slow, so maybe he cracks
Speaker 1: the long one here. He did nothing in the two matchups.
Speaker 1: Tyry Hill did nothing in the two matchups. Last year.
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh played like the Browns and the Jaguars. It's not
Speaker 1: it's not a lot of great vikings in a in
Speaker 1: a game, you know where he's going to start. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so there's some of that too, But still I
Speaker 1: feel like this has got Kareem Hunt running up and
Speaker 1: down the field. Um, and those teams have all been
Speaker 1: running on the Steelers. If those teams can run on Steelers,
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt, the NFL leader in rushing yards, will certainly
Speaker 1: do that as well. Travis Kelsey is going to play
Speaker 1: in this game, but it's not a particularly favorable matchup.
Speaker 1: This is a Steelers defense that has allowed just one
Speaker 1: tight end touchdown and no tight ends to top forty
Speaker 1: five yards all year. He did have a moderate level
Speaker 1: of success last year in the two matchups b grade
Speaker 1: on Travis Kelsey. When we come back, we'll run through
Speaker 1: our final set of matchups, Premature speculation and lightning round
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Speaker 1: bit that we do every show where we give you
Speaker 1: some guys that we think you should pick up now
Speaker 1: that are potentially hot waiver wire pickups next week. Scott,
Speaker 1: who you got? You know, I'm going with Tyler Croft.
Speaker 1: He there owned by this week. So now that I
Speaker 1: Fit's out for the season, people might not be picking
Speaker 1: them up right now because of the bye, but then
Speaker 1: next week they may be. Yeah, exactly, so get him
Speaker 1: before getting before everybody else. He's averaging Since I f
Speaker 1: Its been, he's been averaging four catches in about forty
Speaker 1: five yards per game, and he scored twice. He's the
Speaker 1: second most targeted wide receiver tight end on the Bengals
Speaker 1: over the last three weeks, and five of his final
Speaker 1: nine games are against bottom twelve past defenses, including two
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. In your playoffs, I like it, yeah,
Speaker 1: for its top of the year, So you know you've
Speaker 1: got clear sailing with him exactly, all right, Brian, who's
Speaker 1: your premature speculation? Guy. I think those second round rookie
Speaker 1: wide receivers A Jones of the Buffalo Bills ZA has
Speaker 1: done virtually nothing so far this year, but someone needs
Speaker 1: to step up at wide receiver for Buffalo with Jordan
Speaker 1: Matthews still on the shelf. Um that someone has to
Speaker 1: be Jones, who has more targets and fellow Buffalo wide
Speaker 1: receivers Brandon Tate, Andre Holmes, and Kayalen Clay combined. Jones
Speaker 1: was targeted three times since hade the red zone in
Speaker 1: his last game, so that was some encouraging usage. He's
Speaker 1: on hist by this week, so no one's gonna be
Speaker 1: adding him now, but I think you should because looking ahead,
Speaker 1: he's got a pretty nice schedule the next four weeks
Speaker 1: for wide receivers Tampa Bay, Oakland at New York Jets,
Speaker 1: and New Orleans. So those are kind of some shootout
Speaker 1: type scenarios, you could say, not really for Buffalo is
Speaker 1: never gonna shoot up. It's a Jones is gonna see volume. Uh,
Speaker 1: Jordan Matthews is getting dropped everywhere, and he's gonna be
Speaker 1: out for another two weeks. I wonder at some point,
Speaker 1: if we're not gonna be talking about him, is a guy.
Speaker 1: You know, if A Jones doesn't emerge when Jordan Matthews
Speaker 1: comes back, then he's got to be the guy. I'm
Speaker 1: calling on that one. All right, that's two weeks from now. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you two. I'm gonna try to do quickly.
Speaker 1: One is Ricardo Lewis. He's the latest of the Browns
Speaker 1: receivers to you know, to play whackable. But he's Kevin
Speaker 1: Hogan's guy. This is the difference here. In the last
Speaker 1: two games, he's gotten eight and nine targets, which has
Speaker 1: produced solid yard and yard yardage number sixty four and
Speaker 1: seventy one yards. And Kevin Hogan's your starter. And frankly,
Speaker 1: I think he's better than Deshaun Kaiser, so at at
Speaker 1: least two my eyes, So I think Kevin Hogan's gonna
Speaker 1: hold that job at least for a while. I'll take
Speaker 1: his number one receiver. Kenny Brits gonna miss another game
Speaker 1: with the knee injury, not that he's even particularly relevant here.
Speaker 1: And the Browns are playing from behind the virtually every game.
Speaker 1: They have the sixth highest pass ratio of then secondarily
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo. Now I know my track record I'm figuring
Speaker 1: out when the Brady Garoppolo handoff is coming. Is a
Speaker 1: tad spotty, but here's your here's your angle. Tom Brady
Speaker 1: has absorbed more sacks this year than all of last year. Already,
Speaker 1: he's on pace to shatter his personal record for the
Speaker 1: most sacks in any season with fifty one. He's also
Speaker 1: on pace to shatter as Pelvis if this keeps up.
Speaker 1: For some perspective, on fifty one sacks, that's nine more
Speaker 1: than the most sacked quarterback in the league last year,
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor. So he's on pace to have nine more
Speaker 1: sacks than the most sack quarterback for last year. And
Speaker 1: as we've discussed before, when you get to Brady's age,
Speaker 1: the end comes with injury. Here's your angle. Uh. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: this week the Patriots played the team getting a few
Speaker 1: of sacks the Jets, so maybe have to do it
Speaker 1: this week. But Garoppolo came back. Yes, If Brady went
Speaker 1: out and Garoppolo were playing, Garoppolo would likely be a
Speaker 1: top ten fantasy quarterback most weeks. Let's get our final
Speaker 1: two matchups. In next up, Detroit takes on New Orleans
Speaker 1: Brian We got a one legged quarterback for Detroit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: normally you'd give almost any opposing quarterback in New Orleans
Speaker 1: in a but I'm gonna give Stafford to be here
Speaker 1: because he's so banged up with that leg injury, and
Speaker 1: he's taken a lot of hits, and New Orleans pass
Speaker 1: rush is fairly legit. So I'm a little worried about
Speaker 1: Stafford finishing this game. But he's certainly worth the start
Speaker 1: in this matchup. A guy that's definitely worth the start.
Speaker 1: It's Golden eight, Golden, Golden eight, Golden giving him an
Speaker 1: a on the fast of them this week. Yeah. In
Speaker 1: his career, he's played thirty nine games indoors and sixty
Speaker 1: three outdoors. Tata scored seventeen touchdowns in his thirty nine
Speaker 1: indoor games, nearly half a touchdown bre game. He's only
Speaker 1: scored twelve in the sixty three outdoor games. He's also
Speaker 1: compiled more yards and UH catches in the thirty nine
Speaker 1: indoor games than compared to the total from the sixty
Speaker 1: three outdoor games. So he's a great play, especially with
Speaker 1: Kenny Bacaro expected to cover him from the slot. Thecaro
Speaker 1: is a safety. He's on a cornerback, so takes a
Speaker 1: primo primo play. Uh. The other wide receivers are not though.
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay on the bench, not even sure if he's
Speaker 1: gonna play yet he hasn't played since Week three. He
Speaker 1: can't be trusted. I'm on the fence with Marvin Jones.
Speaker 1: H Ken Crawley and Marshaw Lattimore are very good cornerbacks
Speaker 1: for the Saints. Not since Week one, no opposing wide
Speaker 1: receiver has topped eighty yards and only one has scored
Speaker 1: against the Saints. So I got Marvin Jones on the
Speaker 1: bench here, as I do with Eric Ebron. UH could
Speaker 1: never block last week. He he can't catch any So
Speaker 1: over the course of the show, we've given you five
Speaker 1: tight ends that I would rather play over Eric Ebron,
Speaker 1: who are available in almost every league. This could be
Speaker 1: the last time we mentioned his name on the show
Speaker 1: with me. Uh. Then onto the running backs for Detroit.
Speaker 1: I'll give him you. Abdula b has at least fifteen
Speaker 1: carries and three or five games this year. He was
Speaker 1: vultured by his center last week, so fire up that
Speaker 1: sound effect if you want. Tony. But New Orleans is
Speaker 1: ranked thirtieth against the run by Football Outsiders and has
Speaker 1: allowed the fourth most catches and second most perceiving yards
Speaker 1: to running backs, so Abdu will get work on the
Speaker 1: ground and in the air. So he's still a B
Speaker 1: level play and those passing numbers should make THEO Ritica
Speaker 1: a solid start in this one. But he has double
Speaker 1: digit double digit touches and just one of five games played,
Speaker 1: so for me, he's still on the bench even in
Speaker 1: this matchup. So he's on the bench over the Saints.
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is an ah you always love breeze at home.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get into that one too much. Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas also gonna give him an a even though Darius
Speaker 1: Slay should be Uh's the tricky part of this, right,
Speaker 1: tricky part. But Slay allowed Calvin Benjamin and Devin Funches
Speaker 1: to score last week. UH number one receivers before that game,
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs had five catches for ninety eight yards. Julio
Speaker 1: Jones had seven for nine one against Detroit. So that's
Speaker 1: a fair barometer for Thomas here with A with a
Speaker 1: certainly high ceiling. Willie Sneed and Ted again, let's talk
Speaker 1: about these guys. Well, yeah, I think so Willie Sneeds
Speaker 1: gonna make his season debut um. We don't know what
Speaker 1: kind of usage he's gonna get though, and Ted Ginn
Speaker 1: hasn't caught more than three passes since Week one. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give both the Sea just because they're at home
Speaker 1: in a fairly favorable matchup. Detroit has allowed a hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty five yards to wide receiver units and four
Speaker 1: total touchdowns over the last three weeks, so I'll give
Speaker 1: both the Sea, but I'm not liking it. I like
Speaker 1: Kobe Fleaner a whole lot more than both of those guys.
Speaker 1: Use might take a chance let meet receiver. And then, finally,
Speaker 1: the running backs for the Saints, Mark Ingram and Album Kamara.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give them both of b Ingram probably the
Speaker 1: better play and standard leads Kamara and PPR that both
Speaker 1: should see good usage on the ground. In the air,
Speaker 1: h Ingram will likely flirt with twenty carries while Kamara
Speaker 1: will get around ten. Kamara should be more involved in
Speaker 1: the passing game, where this matchup favors uh Past catching
Speaker 1: backs more. The lines have allowed the fourth most catches
Speaker 1: and fifth most receiving arts and running backs this year,
Speaker 1: so he's slightly better play this week. I think come on.
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated to see how they use Alvin Cramea now
Speaker 1: that coming off that massive London game, then you go
Speaker 1: into the by then you trade Adrian Peter Sin So
Speaker 1: what happens now with Camara? They're gonna throw him another
Speaker 1: eleven times in one game. I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: how they use them here and that'll be absolutely fascinating.
Speaker 1: There's there's a scenario out there where Camara is so
Speaker 1: good that he simply leaves Ingram and his dust. Although
Speaker 1: Sean Paynton has forever used multiple backs, but maybe Ingram
Speaker 1: is just so good that he becomes closer to like
Speaker 1: an RB one for fantasy. It is possible. Al right, Scott,
Speaker 1: final matchup of the week is the Monday Night or
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts at the Tennessee Titans. You already talked about
Speaker 1: some of the some of the guys that you liked
Speaker 1: and take a chance of me like Jacoby Brissette. Yep, yep,
Speaker 1: I liked Jacoby Proctte. I did give him a B
Speaker 1: grade in this one. Uh t Y Hilton his his
Speaker 1: tunnel vision wide receiver to hy Hilton. His accounted for
Speaker 1: forty nine percent of Brissette's passing yards over the last
Speaker 1: three weeks, including two games of over a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty yards. And this week he gets the Titans defense
Speaker 1: that is worse than those two. The Titans have allowed
Speaker 1: a league worst nine touchdowns to wide receivers this season.
Speaker 1: And and Hilton is a big play guy. He he
Speaker 1: leads the He's tied for the league lead in receptions
Speaker 1: over twenty yards with eight, tied with our boys, Stephon Diggs.
Speaker 1: Um Hilton against the Titans last year, real quick five
Speaker 1: seven and a touchdown, seven for one, three in a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So yeah, good track, Yeah, a play for sure, a play, yep.
Speaker 1: I'm giving Frank Gore a ce play. He's had at
Speaker 1: least fifteen touches in three consecutive games, and every running
Speaker 1: back that's had fifteen touches against the Titans has had
Speaker 1: either seventy five yards or a touchdown, So it seems
Speaker 1: pretty obvious there. I do have a little concern that,
Speaker 1: you know, Mac might carve out a little more. I
Speaker 1: think he will. Yeah, And and if Frank Gore did
Speaker 1: those touches dip a little, maybe he should be uh
Speaker 1: should be. I have missegreed he might be a B
Speaker 1: grade if it wasn't from Marlon Mack. I'm bentioning everyone
Speaker 1: else though. I like Marlon Mack, but I can't trust
Speaker 1: him yet. Moncrief and Aikin they they haven't even topped
Speaker 1: three catches in the game over the Titans. I did
Speaker 1: all of these assuming Mariota goes Monday night, so so
Speaker 1: keep that in mind. Delaney Walker, I gave an A grade.
Speaker 1: He's averaging nearly seven targets and fifty five yards per
Speaker 1: game with Mariota in and the Colts are allowing seventy
Speaker 1: yards and a score to tight ends over the last
Speaker 1: three weeks. Mariota a B grade. The Colts have allowed
Speaker 1: the second most passing yards this season, over three hundred
Speaker 1: per game, and have allowed eight touchdowns over the last
Speaker 1: three weeks. Uh, it's a good matchup for Mariota. Richard
Speaker 1: Matthews has led the Titans and targets every week since
Speaker 1: Week two and averaged eight per game with Mariota. He
Speaker 1: plays the Colts defense that has surrendered at least fifty
Speaker 1: yards to ten different wide receivers. He's Mariota's top target.
Speaker 1: I like him as a B grade as well. Uh,
Speaker 1: Murray I have as a C grade de Marco Murray. Uh,
Speaker 1: the Colts are somehow kind of stingy on defense. No
Speaker 1: running back has top fifty five yards rushing on them. Uh,
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson and Todd Gurley at nice days, but that
Speaker 1: was a lot through the air, and Merley Murdy. He
Speaker 1: is only averaging two catches per game. So outside of
Speaker 1: that really nice day against Philadelphia where he had a
Speaker 1: huge run, Murray has been mediocre at best. He's he's
Speaker 1: really only a c play because I think he might
Speaker 1: get fifteen or so touches. Yeah, if Castle starts, I'm
Speaker 1: mentioning the entire passing game, though I don't trust Castle
Speaker 1: to get anything done through the air. Nothing. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go back to Marlon Mack for the second the He
Speaker 1: brought some sizzle to the table that we have not
Speaker 1: seen from a running back from the Colts in years,
Speaker 1: and Chuck Bogano said they're going to expand his role Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Giving a fifty yards through the air on a per
Speaker 1: game basis to running backs, I think most of that
Speaker 1: could go to Marlon Mack. I I think he's in
Speaker 1: a bye week. I think he's startable. It's possible we'll
Speaker 1: find out well, you will find it. He's gonna be
Speaker 1: fun to watch that one. It's lighting around. You know
Speaker 1: what that means. Plenty of your phone calls between now
Speaker 1: on the top of the hour, and you know the rules.
Speaker 1: One question between two players, many of you have been
Speaker 1: holding for upwards of really two hours. Thank you for
Speaker 1: your patients. Scott, your first Well, I was gonna ask
Speaker 1: for take a chance on me tight end, but I
Speaker 1: guess they don't have to do that. No, you don't. Um,
Speaker 1: I have a trade question. Um, I have Ryan Winston
Speaker 1: and um Stanford on my team, and I have a
Speaker 1: trade uh upper for Winston and Ellington for tomorrow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm yeah, I'm got the depth of quarterback. Yeah
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't mind getting rid of Winston at
Speaker 1: all for for that. You have two good quarterbacks other
Speaker 1: than that, so yeah, I would take Tomorrow over Ellington
Speaker 1: going forward. Thank you, Scott. Aaron You're next. I gotta
Speaker 1: this week. Aaron Jones or Chris Thompson. Are you in
Speaker 1: a PPR league or a standard scoring leg standard? That's
Speaker 1: the answer that. Yeah, Aaron Jones, Brandon you're next. H right,
Speaker 1: good show? Thank you? Um so do I standard league?
Speaker 1: A Montgomery or Alex Con Alex Collin, especially in standard scoring,
Speaker 1: who I have is gonna get the majority of the
Speaker 1: carry's in a very favorable matchup. Michael, you're next. I'm
Speaker 1: dropping Cutler. I need McCowen or oh, easily McCom for
Speaker 1: me easily. I that that matchup is great this week
Speaker 1: against the Patriots. Steve your next, Steve Yeah, Jordy Nelson
Speaker 1: or Mike Evans and Elijah McGuire or Andre Ellington. See
Speaker 1: the bit is it's one question between two players. Matt
Speaker 1: you are next? Yeah? Um? Love Joe looking at a
Speaker 1: camp Aaron Jones or Duke Johns Aaron Jones or Duke
Speaker 1: Johnson half point PPR. I think he said it's a
Speaker 1: tough matchup for Jones. It's a king it is if
Speaker 1: Montgomery plays, I would lean Duke Johnson with Montgomery somehow
Speaker 1: say it's go down Jones. All right. I think Matt
Speaker 1: is next, Matt or that was Matt hold On Now
Speaker 1: Mark Hello, Mark PPR or Elijah McGuire or Pierre Gar
Speaker 1: song Pierre Gar songs, particularly in PPR where he's been
Speaker 1: really good even without the touchdowns. Jim You're next? Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: standards scoring a Smith Schuster or Mike Evans. Wow, it's
Speaker 1: come to this, and jud smith Schuster is my guy
Speaker 1: from taking a chance on me. But I can't. I
Speaker 1: can't start him over. Mike Evans, No, I can't do it. Rick,
Speaker 1: You're next, Hey, guys, four point PPR flex spot, Ellington
Speaker 1: or Golden Tape. All right, probably Golden Tate. I love
Speaker 1: Golden Tape. It's inside my top ten this week at
Speaker 1: the receiver position. Trent, You're next. They love the Joan
Speaker 1: you Jordan Read or a J. Derby boy Charter Reads
Speaker 1: brought nothing to the table. He's got three ailments right now,
Speaker 1: even coming out of the bye week. Go with your
Speaker 1: go with your a J. Derby, So this is the
Speaker 1: week Reed goes off. Probably you know, is so so
Speaker 1: good for Derby. Let's do it, do it, go Tory Derby?
Speaker 1: All right, everyone, I like it. Jason, you're next, alright.
Speaker 1: Standards scoring Alex Collins or Camara because it's standard scoring.
Speaker 1: I'm taking Collins, who I think he's got a great
Speaker 1: chance of a touchdown here. Collins has eight runs over
Speaker 1: ten yards and three runs over twenty yards. Really explosive,
Speaker 1: and I'm super high Camara. Don't get me wrong, but
Speaker 1: I think it's his best value comes as a full
Speaker 1: featured back, including the passing game. Gene, you're next? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's going Mary Cooper for for sorry Cooper? Who Fuller?
Speaker 1: Fuller Cooper or Fuller? Wow? Fuller is a tough, tough matchup.
Speaker 1: I think Hooper's his own walking tough matchup. His own
Speaker 1: hands are a tough matchup. Cooper has been terrible. He's
Speaker 1: got are but I can't. I just can't quit him yet.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Cooper, just barely. Chris, you're on
Speaker 1: the fan alright? Uh point per Reception League and Chris
Speaker 1: Hogan or Davante Adams. Wow, that's that's a tough one.
Speaker 1: I feel so um. I'm going Hogan went to if
Speaker 1: Adams right, Jim you're next, Jim PPR, Yes, I'm her PPR.
Speaker 1: Gore or Ellington, sure by a mile, Zach You're up? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Non PPR, t Y Hilton or Brandon Cooks. I'm going Hilton.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna put up a huge day both
Speaker 1: in yards and touchdown. Luke, you're on the fan? Hey
Speaker 1: PPR again JR? Or Mark's lead? Thank you? Man? Go
Speaker 1: to the waiver wire. Dude, I don't know. Again, I
Speaker 1: gave Marks got also got the game plan working against him,
Speaker 1: which should be all running right. At least Gain has
Speaker 1: got the upside of the game plan that's going to
Speaker 1: go mostly through Breeze's arm. Again's got upside, Let's put
Speaker 1: it that way. But seriously, ju Juice Smith Schuster is
Speaker 1: a way better start than either one of those, and
Speaker 1: I assure you he's available right now. Littany of tight
Speaker 1: ends that we mentioned on the show, I playing them
Speaker 1: over either of those guests. A right, Jim, you're our
Speaker 1: final caller today. My guys standards scoring uh, flex position,
Speaker 1: Jarvis Lantry or Jameron Breave. I'm going with Landry. I
Speaker 1: do like break, but he has scored three weeks in
Speaker 1: a row. The odds of a fourth might not be
Speaker 1: for a bad game. Yeah, pante Parker out. I'm going Landry. Okay,
Speaker 1: sounds good. Enjoy your one yard per reception on Landry.
Speaker 1: Scott did good. We keep him. Scott did a great job.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll even let you come back next week. He's done.
Speaker 1: He's a keeper. Uh and for your keeper leak. So
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