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Speaker 1: games on Football's back game. Yeah, but we will spend
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Speaker 1: and Monday. In addition to breaking down every game fantasy
Speaker 1: style and applying all of the letter grades that we
Speaker 1: always do that would be ABC and bench level grades
Speaker 1: to our players, we will also have take a chance
Speaker 1: on me. This is where we unveil nine players not
Speaker 1: normally in your starting lineup that you can go to
Speaker 1: war with this week, and there are some scenarios where
Speaker 1: you've got to go to some deeper players. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: We'll play three tough questions and near the end of
Speaker 1: the show premature speculation where we help you identify the
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Speaker 1: Let's dive into our matchups. But actually, before we do that,
Speaker 1: I want to pose to you what to do if
Speaker 1: you started cam Akers or Allen Robinson who combined for
Speaker 1: eleven yards on Thursday night, and now you find yourself
Speaker 1: in a big hole coming into this weekend. What's the
Speaker 1: strategy now to overcome that? Who started cam Akers? I
Speaker 1: started Darryl Henderson, my sleeper from last week. Great you are.
Speaker 1: I also thought Ellen Robinson would have an amazing year.
Speaker 1: So let's not victory that everything that's pretty that's pretty
Speaker 1: dang terrible. Uh. I think one thing you do if
Speaker 1: if you're trying, if you played against them, and you're
Speaker 1: trying to pretty let's start, let's star the other start. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's just just we'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 1: All right, that you started, Cam Akers or Allen Robinson.
Speaker 1: What do you do to overcome it? Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: the pretty stock answer of you know, if you have
Speaker 1: two guys that are pretty similarly ranked, or you have
Speaker 1: this similar viewpoint on them, you go with the one
Speaker 1: with the higher ceiling. At this point, we're going for upside.
Speaker 1: Think about if you've got a quarterback receiver combo. You
Speaker 1: put those guys in to see if you can get
Speaker 1: lightning to strike on that once or twice. And so
Speaker 1: you're playing for upside. Now the now, let's flip it over.
Speaker 1: You're playing against Cam Akers or Allen Robinson. Somebody just
Speaker 1: burned a roster spot on effectively no fantasy points. What
Speaker 1: are you gonna do to protect your your early advantage?
Speaker 1: But I think you pretend it's a guillotine league and
Speaker 1: you just go for safety. You go for instant touches
Speaker 1: and try to get as many ten touch guys in
Speaker 1: your lineup as possible. Yeah, you immediately pull the guys
Speaker 1: like George Kittle or Chris Godwin stuff like that, Chris Godwin,
Speaker 1: especially because he plays Sunday night and you don't want
Speaker 1: to wait out that injury. Or Russell Gage that same game,
Speaker 1: you play a safer player with a lot less upside probably,
Speaker 1: but at least you know they're gonna throw some points
Speaker 1: at you. I'm excited to hear what you think of
Speaker 1: Julio Jones in that game when we get to it.
Speaker 1: But let's begin with the Eagles taking on the Lion Scott.
Speaker 1: This was a one sided so lacking last year. What
Speaker 1: do you think happens here? Yeah, it's probably gonna be
Speaker 1: close to the same. Eagles are a sneaky favorite for
Speaker 1: a lot of people to win that uh that NFC
Speaker 1: Easton and maybe even make a run in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: That's me, Yeah, that's me too. When I was in Iowa,
Speaker 1: my son made me place a bet on the Eagles
Speaker 1: to win their division. I was very proud of him
Speaker 1: with that. Uh. Jalen Hurts, I have an a grade
Speaker 1: on this guy. Okay, yes, I mean I made the belt,
Speaker 1: I made the bet on the Eagle side. Let's start
Speaker 1: with Jalen Hurts I having a grade on him. This
Speaker 1: is a guy who finished top twelve in seventeen of
Speaker 1: his twenty games last week as a top twelve fantasy quarterback.
Speaker 1: That is, Hurts had seventy four designed runs last year,
Speaker 1: which was second only to Lamar Jackson seventy six. He
Speaker 1: had ten rushing touchdowns. You're getting close to an A
Speaker 1: grade most weeks just off of his rushing. All indications
Speaker 1: are he's more accurate this year, He's been passing better,
Speaker 1: and he added A J. Brown. Um, he gets a
Speaker 1: matchup against the team that was bottom ten against quarterbacks
Speaker 1: last year with the second lowest pressure rates, so they're
Speaker 1: not even gonna get to him. UM A grade on
Speaker 1: Hurts his main guy A J. Brown, I still have
Speaker 1: an A grade on as well. The lines allowed the
Speaker 1: most twenty plus yard receptions last year, and the Eagles
Speaker 1: have three guys who can get deep in A. J. Brown,
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith, and I suppose you could say god Or
Speaker 1: can get deep because he has He's had a decent
Speaker 1: amount of deep receptions. UM. Their bottom ten against the
Speaker 1: slot where a G A J. Brown tends to tends
Speaker 1: to play a decent amount make a lot of plays.
Speaker 1: The only concern for me on this side is if
Speaker 1: the Eagles get ahead too early and they run a
Speaker 1: ton like they did in this same matchup last year.
Speaker 1: But I think they'll want to unleash their new weapon
Speaker 1: in Week one, and you know they're going to get
Speaker 1: some points on their way to that lead. Davante Smith
Speaker 1: I have C grade on dude, how bad Detroit was
Speaker 1: last year against the deep ball. All it's really gonna
Speaker 1: take is one one big playout of Davante Smith and A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown should draw a lot of coverage from Mamani or
Speaker 1: a War or a a Uh. Dallas Goddard I have
Speaker 1: a B grade for the Lions allowed the second most
Speaker 1: yards and the fifth most receptions the tight ends last year.
Speaker 1: It's a great matchup. Something's got to give here, though,
Speaker 1: if if they get up early in they're running in
Speaker 1: a ton. I think DeVante Smith is the bench but
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard B at the moment. Miles Sanders C grade
Speaker 1: only really due to health concerns, as he finally just
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago, I believe on Thursday finally
Speaker 1: started putting in full practices. He has dealt with a
Speaker 1: hamstring injury all all preseason here. Uh. They even added
Speaker 1: trace sermonists and backup they said they're going to be cautious,
Speaker 1: but the Lions allowed the fourth most rush yards, the
Speaker 1: third most rushing tease, even the second most receiving touchdowns
Speaker 1: to backs. Of course, Miles Sanders did not score last year,
Speaker 1: but we gotta hope that comes back. There's a lot
Speaker 1: to like here. It's mostly the injury concerned in the
Speaker 1: split that gives me the pause in a great matchup.
Speaker 1: So he's only getting a C grade. The rest of
Speaker 1: the running backs are on the bench because I don't
Speaker 1: trust them until I see what these actual splits are.
Speaker 1: I got fooled by Gainwell last year. They said pass
Speaker 1: catching rolling, it never materialized. We will talk more about
Speaker 1: that exact situation later in this show. Yeah, on the
Speaker 1: Lions side, I have most I have Jared Goff on
Speaker 1: the bench. Let's just start there. I know you likely
Speaker 1: drafted Goff early as your starter first round, but he
Speaker 1: only topped two it in seventy yards three times last
Speaker 1: year and had eight games of zero or one touchdown.
Speaker 1: He's not a guy you're starting, um d J Charks
Speaker 1: saam deal bench. I need to see his role first.
Speaker 1: He's he's basically looking like fourth banana in the passing
Speaker 1: order behind st. Brown, Hawkinson and Swift. So I need
Speaker 1: to see that first. St. Brown, I'm giving a C
Speaker 1: grade to The Eagles were second best against wide receivers
Speaker 1: that year. Fourth fust receptions, third fewest yards, fifth fuse touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Is not a great spot. However, they should fall behind,
Speaker 1: and Amanra is the type of guy that gets a
Speaker 1: lot of short volume passwork. I can see the his
Speaker 1: receptions alone getting him up into that sea range. I
Speaker 1: could even see like a nine for fifty eight game
Speaker 1: where he just he just gets a bunch of receptions
Speaker 1: and there's your points. Uh. T J. Hockenson a B grade.
Speaker 1: Last year, the Eagles gave up the most receptions and
Speaker 1: touchdowns to tight ends. They were a constant take a
Speaker 1: chance on me. Let's find the tight end playing the Eagles,
Speaker 1: and this is it this week. Yeah. T J. Hockenson
Speaker 1: was a little harder to trust last year, but in
Speaker 1: a perfect matchup like this, he gets a B grade. Uh.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift also a B grade. Despite possibly missing two
Speaker 1: offensive linemen, swiftest sob versatile out of the backfield. They
Speaker 1: catches so many passes while behind. At one point last
Speaker 1: year mid season, he sevent of his receptions came in
Speaker 1: the second half wall trailing. They used him a ton
Speaker 1: once they get behind, and I see that happening here.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get you to that B grade with the
Speaker 1: rush yards, receiving yards and the receptions. I don't trust
Speaker 1: j Will just quite yet, and I need to see
Speaker 1: a rollout of that. Certainly we'll have to Raiders and Chargers.
Speaker 1: Matt played one of the most thrilling games of last
Speaker 1: regular season in the Epic Week A team winning in
Speaker 1: overtime game, they immediately get the rematch here Raiders Chargers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: um well, the Chargers only allowed eleven touchdowns the wide
Speaker 1: receivers last year. Three of them went to Hunter renfro By.
Speaker 1: The way he gets a B grade, Davante Adams gets
Speaker 1: an A. Bryce Callahan was their week link. Hy Man's
Speaker 1: the slot that's renfro j C. Jackson might not go
Speaker 1: in this one. He's looking pretty doubtful, which would leave
Speaker 1: A Sante Samuel Jr. In likely shadow coverage on Adams.
Speaker 1: Sante was the nine ranked corner by Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: last year, so I like Adams a lot. In his
Speaker 1: first game with his new team, Darren Waller not on
Speaker 1: the injury report hurt, so I'll give him a B grade.
Speaker 1: Waller has scored in three of his past four meetings
Speaker 1: with the Chargers. Drew Tranquill usually covers the tight end
Speaker 1: for the Chargers, and he allowed twenty nine of the
Speaker 1: thirty three targets in his coverage to be caught last season.
Speaker 1: And the Chargers allowed thirteen touchdowns to the tight end
Speaker 1: position last year. That was second most in the league.
Speaker 1: Derek Carr gets a B grade. A couple of bad
Speaker 1: news is and a good news here. Bad news he's
Speaker 1: been held under two d passing yards in each of
Speaker 1: his last four meetings with l A good news he's
Speaker 1: thrown for multiple touchdowns and three of those four and
Speaker 1: now he's got Davante Adams. But then the bad news.
Speaker 1: His offensive line looked terrible so far in the preseason,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna have to get rid of the ball
Speaker 1: quite quickly in this one. So just a B grade there,
Speaker 1: even though I like his receivers a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs and Zamir White, I'm gonna keep them both
Speaker 1: on the bench. Um. I don't trust the fact that
Speaker 1: this might be a straight up committee approach under Josh McDaniels,
Speaker 1: Brandon Bolden, and Amir Abdullah could factor in a bunch too.
Speaker 1: It would not shock me to see each of the
Speaker 1: raid Is runners held to fewer than ten touches in
Speaker 1: this game. So I'll take this week off of their
Speaker 1: runners and what should be a shootout. Even Josh Jacobs,
Speaker 1: even Josh Jacob on the other side, Air Bear, he
Speaker 1: gets an A. Justin Herbert Keenan Allen he gets an A.
Speaker 1: Mike Williams he gets an A. Josh Palmer he gets
Speaker 1: a C. He're just handing out a A is all
Speaker 1: over the Josh Palmer, who apparently you hate. The cornerback
Speaker 1: group of rock yaw Sin, Anthony Everett, Nate Hobbs and
Speaker 1: a Meek Robertson who's only five eight are all positive
Speaker 1: matchups for the Chargers wide outs that must might be
Speaker 1: one of the worst secondaries in football. They might try
Speaker 1: to flex their best corner Hobbs in on Keenan Allen,
Speaker 1: but that's still a mismatch. So I like everybody in
Speaker 1: the passing game, including Gerald Everett, who will give a
Speaker 1: C grade too. It doesn't look like Donald Parham will
Speaker 1: play this week. I know, and I love Donald Parham.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for the big breakout to come. Do we
Speaker 1: just get healthy, please, Ladarius Green? When's his breakout? Of
Speaker 1: so Everet's gonna get all the tight end snaps this
Speaker 1: week against the Raiders defense that allowed the third most
Speaker 1: touchdowns to tight ends last year. Uh in a year,
Speaker 1: in a week where I have George Kittle in a
Speaker 1: lot of leagues, Gerald Everett's the guy I've been pivoting
Speaker 1: to a lot for my roster. If Kittle doesn't go,
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler he's the last guy I'm gonna mention he
Speaker 1: gets an A grade. The Chargers must not have been
Speaker 1: totally enthusiastic about Isaiah Spiller since they signed Sony Walkman
Speaker 1: Michelle Layton camp. That leads me to believe it's all
Speaker 1: Eckler this week. In his two meetings with the Raiders
Speaker 1: last year, a hundred and forty five total yards and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns total yards and two touchdowns. He's gonna have
Speaker 1: a great week. In fact, I'm gonna give Austin Ekeler
Speaker 1: my fantasy ardvark Um. Yes you are there, he is.
Speaker 1: There's the fantasy yard park making his first appearance of
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Speaker 1: forty Niners take on the Bears. Weather expected to be
Speaker 1: a big factor in this game. Be sure to track
Speaker 1: it is there currently forecasting heavy rain and winds in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Let's begin on the San Francisco side. Deebo Samuel and
Speaker 1: obvious a. He put up a hundred seventy one yards
Speaker 1: in last year's meeting against Chicago. Elijah Mitchell also in
Speaker 1: a grade in this game. Last year, the Bears had
Speaker 1: a league high opposing run rate and Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: is thirty first ranked defensive line. It's uh, and honestly,
Speaker 1: the the the off season changes might make that even
Speaker 1: a worse a wors group now. Mitchell tally day season
Speaker 1: best one hundred thirty seven yards in last year's meeting,
Speaker 1: including almost eight yards per carry, which I believe is
Speaker 1: pretty good. Mitchell does not chip in with a lot
Speaker 1: of catches, but you will not need them. A grade
Speaker 1: for Elijah Mitchell. A lot of people drafted tray Lance
Speaker 1: on the hope and promise of big things and it
Speaker 1: should start nicely here. Uh, this is a very soft
Speaker 1: landing spot. Chicago allowed the second most passing touchdowns and
Speaker 1: the second most rushing quarterback rushing touchdowns last year. Combined
Speaker 1: that together with tray Lands and it's a high deal
Speaker 1: opera tunity. The Bears added two second round picks to
Speaker 1: their awful secondary, but they're gonna get completely overwhelmed by
Speaker 1: the forty nine years talented receivers. Hey get this. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo Randy in two touchdowns against the Bears last year.
Speaker 1: If Garoppolo can do it, I like Trey Lance's chances
Speaker 1: of doing the same. If he doesn't, there should be
Speaker 1: a quarterback controversy. I'm just kidding, Brandon a Um. I
Speaker 1: think star quarnerback Jalen Johnson's gonna attract Deebo Samuel pretty closely.
Speaker 1: That puts ay on a lot of second round rookie
Speaker 1: Kyler Gordon making his first ever NFL start. Are you
Speaker 1: coming off a great training camp? By all reports, He's
Speaker 1: got the deep speed to get under Trey Lances long passes,
Speaker 1: something we never got from Jimmy Garoppolo. B grade. I'm
Speaker 1: Brandon George Kittle nursing a groin injury. Doesn't look like
Speaker 1: he's gonna go here, But even if he plays, that
Speaker 1: groin injury could limit his running and his downfield abilities here,
Speaker 1: You're probably gonna have to watch this one from the
Speaker 1: side line unless we get late word that Kittles in
Speaker 1: good shape. It's covered to Chicago, where we've only got
Speaker 1: a couple of starters. Here, we're gonna start with Justin Fields,
Speaker 1: who is on the bench. It's Nick Bosa against fifth
Speaker 1: round rookie left tackle Braxton Jones in a massive mismatch.
Speaker 1: That's gonna have Justin Fields running for his life throughout
Speaker 1: this camp. This game, this is your best chance of
Speaker 1: fantasy success. Really is just scrambling for Justin Fields. We
Speaker 1: can't count on that. Um. If his legs don't provide
Speaker 1: fantasy points, you might be stuck. Because the pocket time
Speaker 1: for Fields is going to be a massive issue in
Speaker 1: this game. It could be negative negative passing time. He
Speaker 1: could be sacked before the ball gets to him. I
Speaker 1: like the sound of that, Nick Bose, Nick Boson could
Speaker 1: do that in this game. I've got just a C
Speaker 1: grade on Darnell Mooney. A lot of optimism around the
Speaker 1: league for Mooney, but I see Fields getting terrorized, and
Speaker 1: then I see a lot of double coverage for Mooney coming,
Speaker 1: including solid cornerback and manual Mosley Mooney put up a
Speaker 1: modest six catches six four yards and did not score
Speaker 1: in the meeting last year. And the only other receiving
Speaker 1: option to note is Cole Commet put up in totally
Speaker 1: nondescript game against the Niners last year, but I'll note
Speaker 1: that they now departed. Jesse James got a short touchdown
Speaker 1: in that game, so at least a tight end did
Speaker 1: score as he left the team. I don't think he's departed,
Speaker 1: He's just not dearly departed. Jesse James. Uh Niners were
Speaker 1: an elite tight end defense last year. After Week one,
Speaker 1: they only gave up two Only two tight ends topped
Speaker 1: the meager milestone of twenty seven yards all year, and
Speaker 1: they only gave up four touchdowns all year to the
Speaker 1: position C grade on Cole Commet and lastly, David Montgomery
Speaker 1: also a C grade here. San Francisco boast last year
Speaker 1: a run defense last year that ranked top six according
Speaker 1: to Pro Football Focus. They gave up the seventh fewest
Speaker 1: rushing yards to running backs last year, and by ESPNS
Speaker 1: team run stop win rate, the forty Niners of the
Speaker 1: third best defensive line and then return all seven of
Speaker 1: their front line starters here, so a brutal game script
Speaker 1: coming that could easily turn against David Montgomery. There's not
Speaker 1: a lot to like here and just the C grade
Speaker 1: for David Montgomery in this game. When we come back,
Speaker 1: take a chance on me. Nine players you would not
Speaker 1: normally start. Will tell you who all of these players are.
Speaker 1: You get three quarterbacks, through running backs, three receivers. Find
Speaker 1: some guys you got maybe you got injury issues, maybe
Speaker 1: the maybe the draft just sidn't follow your way at
Speaker 1: some positions. We are here to help take a chance
Speaker 1: on me. Coming up next on Fantasy Football Weekly, it's
Speaker 1: take a chance on me. Nine players not normally do
Speaker 1: starting line up. Many these players available on the waiver
Speaker 1: wire right now. In fact, all three of mine are
Speaker 1: probably i'd say sevent on waiver wires, maybe more for
Speaker 1: all of my players. We begin to the quarterback position, Scott,
Speaker 1: Who's gonna take a chance on the quarterback? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: going with Jamis Winston. People like to rag on his
Speaker 1: thirty three touchdown thirty interception year with Tampa, but last
Speaker 1: year he had a fourteen to three touchdown interception ratio
Speaker 1: and averaged over two touchdowns per game. His yardage wasn't
Speaker 1: there at the start, but progressively got better. He averaged
Speaker 1: about five rush attempts per game, so it's gonna get
Speaker 1: you an extra three to nine points on the ground. Um,
Speaker 1: he gets a Falcons d with the league's worst pressure rate,
Speaker 1: so they're not gonna get to him. And that allowed
Speaker 1: the fourth most fantasy points to quarterbacks last year. Um,
Speaker 1: they're projected but to be the worst defense again this
Speaker 1: year by multiple outlets, and people worried about does he
Speaker 1: still sling it well last year? Um? Last year he
Speaker 1: was top ten in deep ball throws, so he still
Speaker 1: slings it. He He was top ten in average depth
Speaker 1: of average depth of target as well, that which does
Speaker 1: not surprise anybody given Jamis Winston's yolo passing styling. It
Speaker 1: wasn't gone. Michael Thomas Yoo is a good nickname for him.
Speaker 1: It is your take a chance for me, quarterback, Matt.
Speaker 1: I've got General Davis Mills who's playing against the Colts
Speaker 1: this week. He's never thrown a touchdown pass against the
Speaker 1: Colts and two tries. Well, he didn't start either game
Speaker 1: of note, he'd started one maybe okay, Um, the Colts
Speaker 1: had an iffy pass defense early in the year last year,
Speaker 1: but allowed no three yard games from Week ten on
Speaker 1: last season. So why am I using General Mills here?
Speaker 1: Because there's a few bright spots. First, the Colts gave
Speaker 1: up the second most touchdown passes in the league last year. Second,
Speaker 1: the addition of a decent running game should help Mills
Speaker 1: see the field quite a bit better. Third, I don't
Speaker 1: trust the Colts secondary. Stephen gilmour is thirty two years old.
Speaker 1: Kenny Moore, who I'm gonna cover a little bit later,
Speaker 1: gave up the most yards in slot coverage. And finally,
Speaker 1: in five of mills Is last seven games of one
Speaker 1: he topped three passing yards or through for multiple scores.
Speaker 1: He's just putting up good numbers. My quarterback. He was
Speaker 1: originally Davis Mills, and I got off and I still
Speaker 1: like Davis Mills, but I decided to amp up the difficulty.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm just taking the easy that's right with
Speaker 1: Davis Mills. Trevor Lawrence a horrific fantasy performer last year,
Speaker 1: but a possible spot starter against a woefull secondary that
Speaker 1: returns the same players from last year, including one of
Speaker 1: the biggest free agent busts of one, William Jackson playing
Speaker 1: against Washington. By the way I should mention, PFF graded
Speaker 1: Washington is the twenty seven ranks past defense last year
Speaker 1: and that closely corresponds to their thirtieth ranking in yards
Speaker 1: allowed in dead last ranking and touchdowns allowed. And as
Speaker 1: a bonus, Lawrence is fairly nimble, and the Commanders finished
Speaker 1: dead last in quarterback rushing yards allowed and second to
Speaker 1: last in quarterback rushing touchdowns allowed. You know, one way
Speaker 1: or another, Trevor Lawrence could get end up getting it
Speaker 1: done here. It's a good pick. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: running back position. You take a chance on me, runner Scott. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going over the Seattle Seahawks with Travis Homer. It
Speaker 1: sounds like ken Walker is not going to go at all.
Speaker 1: And where he's playing, Travis Homer is playing against the
Speaker 1: Broncos who allowed the ninth most receiving yards and receiving
Speaker 1: touchdowns and highest yards per reception to running backs last year.
Speaker 1: Travis Homer, receiving back specialist. Uh, Travis. I believe that
Speaker 1: Rashad Penny and Travis Hommer are gonna split because there's
Speaker 1: there's a lot of injuries in that backfield right now
Speaker 1: and they're gonna want to keep Penny healthy and tell
Speaker 1: Walkers back that the Denver Broncos allowed twenty six touches
Speaker 1: per game to running backs. I think they split it
Speaker 1: pretty evenly. And Homer gets get some points out there.
Speaker 1: All right, Matt, you're running back, take a chance of me, player,
Speaker 1: I've got raheem must start most start tonight. There's a
Speaker 1: couple of things working in Mostart's favor this week. First off,
Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds popped up midweek with a groin strain. Now
Speaker 1: he was back practicing in full on Thursday, but those
Speaker 1: kind of injuries tend to have a way of recurring
Speaker 1: and rearing their ugly head. Uh So that makes me
Speaker 1: pause a little bit on Chase Edmunds. Second, new head coach,
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel comes from San fran where most It was
Speaker 1: on the roster for years and years. There's familiarity with
Speaker 1: this offense. He's not going to be surprised by anything.
Speaker 1: And finally, the Pats gave up some odd games down
Speaker 1: the stretch to back up style runners. D Ernest Johnson,
Speaker 1: Dontrelle Hilliard and de Anta Foreman each put up over
Speaker 1: a hundred and ten total yards against New England from
Speaker 1: week ten on, so most are kind of an intriguing
Speaker 1: play this week. Might take a chance of me runner
Speaker 1: is Baltimore running back Mike Davis your probable starter for
Speaker 1: this game. Don't think j K. Dobbins is going to
Speaker 1: have a big workload in his first game back from
Speaker 1: the torn a c L and the opponents of Jets,
Speaker 1: it's They were the league's worst run defense last year.
Speaker 1: They gave up one hundred sixties seven total yards to
Speaker 1: unning backs per game. If Mike Davis is gonna get
Speaker 1: half of just half of the hundred and sixties seven
Speaker 1: yards the Jets gave up last year. If roles to
Speaker 1: this year, that's great. They gave up one point seven
Speaker 1: scores to running backs, also league worst. If Mike Davis
Speaker 1: is gonna get half of that, that puts him on
Speaker 1: a touchdown and eight eighty three and a half yards. Well,
Speaker 1: well will certainly take that. Um, yeah, we'll The Jets
Speaker 1: be a little better than that, but probably but not
Speaker 1: a lot. Let's go to the wide receiver position. Just
Speaker 1: to add on to that. I don't think Dobbin's plays honestly,
Speaker 1: you think Lamar Jockson said he's probably a few weeks away,
Speaker 1: So I'm I don't know that he plays that even
Speaker 1: even better if if that happens Kenyan Drake also because
Speaker 1: an option absolutely absolutely. Uh, my wide receiver is Chris lave.
Speaker 1: I just mentioned Jameis Winston's deep ball actually understold it.
Speaker 1: He was fifth in average depth of target last year
Speaker 1: and second in deep throw race. Look this up now, No, no,
Speaker 1: I had him in two different play is on my
Speaker 1: piece of paper and I was trying to remember it
Speaker 1: off top of my head. Uh, Atlanta was Atlanta allowed
Speaker 1: the sixth most touchdowns. Wide receiver's fifth most receptions yardage
Speaker 1: was pretty middle of the pack, But because of that
Speaker 1: yolo ball ability and Mike Thomas's injury his hamstring, he
Speaker 1: only practiced limited all week. Crystal Love is really only
Speaker 1: gonna need one big play, and if there's if Thomas
Speaker 1: doesn't play the full game, he might get a lot
Speaker 1: of work, all right, Uh, Matt, you take a chance
Speaker 1: to me receiver that would be Chase Muddy Waters Claypool.
Speaker 1: Claypool looks destined for slot duties this year if they've
Speaker 1: jettisoned Juju, which means the six four two seven pound
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool We'll match up with five seven pound Mike Hilton.
Speaker 1: That's a mismatch of seven inches and forty pounds. Hilton
Speaker 1: gave up the third most yards in the NFL in
Speaker 1: slot coverage last year, and in Claypool's four career games
Speaker 1: against the Bengals, he had one outstanding game with two
Speaker 1: touchdowns and two other games himes over eighty receiving yards.
Speaker 1: Chase clay is going to be a problem in the
Speaker 1: slot this year. That is a big That is a
Speaker 1: big slot receiver and mostly we thought was a bigot.
Speaker 1: Claypool is a big slot Absolutely, that's gonna be an issue.
Speaker 1: My and our final take a chance on me player,
Speaker 1: Mark has Valdez Scantling. You gotta pick your spots here.
Speaker 1: He brings exactly one skill set to the table. Run
Speaker 1: fast and run straight. That's good enough to put mvs
Speaker 1: into the end zone against a very shaky Arizona secondary.
Speaker 1: Over the off season, Arizona lost its best pass rusher,
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones and it's best cornerback, Robert Alford, and what
Speaker 1: remains looks like a deeply flawed Cardinals secondary. Cornerbacks Marco
Speaker 1: Wilson and Byron Murphy were PFF's one ninth ranked cornerbacks
Speaker 1: last year, and their other cornerback in is other quarterback
Speaker 1: expect to be journeyman Antonio Hamilton's who has three NFL
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Speaker 1: absolutely free. Saints take on the Falcons. Scott and You've
Speaker 1: already talked about a bunch of Saints here, so why
Speaker 1: don't your piggyback off the Let's go with the rest
Speaker 1: of the guys we haven't talked about yet. Yeah, so Winston, James, Winston,
Speaker 1: and Chris will take a chance on me players. Let's
Speaker 1: go over to Michael Thomas, who I'm only giving a
Speaker 1: C grade too because he hasn't played in two years
Speaker 1: and he's dealing with a hamstring injury that has led
Speaker 1: to zero full practices this last week. So if he,
Speaker 1: assuming he goes, I've already mentioned Atlanta bottom six in
Speaker 1: most touchdowns, most receptions, yardage, etcetera. Last year. The vast
Speaker 1: majority of that damage was done on the outside, which
Speaker 1: could be good for Thomas and lave Um, where they
Speaker 1: ranked second worst than the league. They were actually twelfth
Speaker 1: best against the slot last year, which has Landry on
Speaker 1: the bench for me Um. Yeah, this Thomas, if he
Speaker 1: does go, is likely going to Basically Thomas and Lava
Speaker 1: are going to have to deal with a J. Terrell
Speaker 1: and Casey Hayward on the outsides, which is pretty decently
Speaker 1: tough matchups. That's why they're getting C grades for me. Uh.
Speaker 1: In the running game, Alvin Kamara, I got him with
Speaker 1: an A grade. I do the Falcons allowed the tenth
Speaker 1: most rushing yards and the seventh most rushing touchdowns. They
Speaker 1: also allowed the ninth most sceptions in twelve most receiven
Speaker 1: their bottom twelve against running backs in rushing and receiving
Speaker 1: last year prime spot for Camara, who against the Falcons
Speaker 1: who had lost their best starting linebacker, Dion Jones, who
Speaker 1: has played stunt I r just recently. UH. He gets
Speaker 1: replaced with former undrafted free agent Rashaan Evans, who they
Speaker 1: signed you a one year deal off the Titans, where
Speaker 1: he was mostly a part time player. Uh I have
Speaker 1: missed the top ten back this week. He averaged a
Speaker 1: hundred and ten yards and scored five times in his
Speaker 1: six full games with Winston last year six. Also, his
Speaker 1: average is a hundred ten yards and basically a touchdown
Speaker 1: per game. Also four catches a game with Winston. Ay
Speaker 1: grade there over on Atlanta side. Honestly, there isn't a
Speaker 1: lot for me to start. I have Marriotta on the bench.
Speaker 1: I need to see how he runs that offense. And
Speaker 1: the Saints were a top ten d against fantasy quarterbacks
Speaker 1: last year. UH. They traded Chauncey Gardner Chauncey Gardner Johnson
Speaker 1: lost with their starting safety. He's brought in Tyron Matthews,
Speaker 1: so it's a slightly different defense. But in the second
Speaker 1: half of last season, no QB top two hun six
Speaker 1: yards and only had one had multiple touchdown day. I
Speaker 1: got married, Yeah, I got Marriott on the bench. I
Speaker 1: got Drake London on the bench as well, because it's
Speaker 1: gonna be his first game and he also dealing with
Speaker 1: a knee injury that he got in the first preseason game.
Speaker 1: He might remember. It looked really bad, but they were
Speaker 1: optimistic about it. But he's still been not practicing and
Speaker 1: limited practice and that's all he's been putting in so far.
Speaker 1: He may play, but I can't trust him in this one. Uh.
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts, Yeah, I'm I'm probably going to a grade
Speaker 1: here just he's the only guy I trust to actually
Speaker 1: make plays here. Uh. He probably just deserves an A
Speaker 1: grade on talent and scarcity at the tight end position
Speaker 1: this week alone. Uh, adding the fact they'll be trailing
Speaker 1: and uh trailing and the Saints were fourth worst against
Speaker 1: the slot wide receivers last year, Let's put Pitts on
Speaker 1: a grade here. Uh. Cordarrell Patterson and the whole running
Speaker 1: game I actually have on the bench. Uh. The Saints
Speaker 1: allowed the fourth fewest rushing yards and they actually allowed
Speaker 1: very few receiving yards to back day the only two
Speaker 1: games they allowed a lot of receiving yards to backs
Speaker 1: where Patterson last year and McCaffrey last year. But they
Speaker 1: stopped using Patterson like that, and I have no faith
Speaker 1: that they're going to bring that back the way they
Speaker 1: used it last year until I see it. So I
Speaker 1: have him on the bench too. You know, one thing
Speaker 1: going back to the Saint side of this that I
Speaker 1: think Bears Bears watching is the status of their left tackle.
Speaker 1: You know, tearing Arms. Armstead left in free agency. His
Speaker 1: backup was Trevor Penning. They got a first round pick
Speaker 1: on two. He's on I R and he's gonna miss
Speaker 1: at least half the season as the expectation. They're down
Speaker 1: to a third string guy named James Hurst and he's
Speaker 1: hurt too. This left tackle could be a big problem
Speaker 1: for this whole Saints. This whole Saint's offense more like
Speaker 1: left turn style. Maybe that may be the case. That'll
Speaker 1: be something we'll want to watch going up to Sunday
Speaker 1: when we come back. We'll continue motoring through the various
Speaker 1: matchups around the NFL, including Patriots taking on the Dolphins.
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Speaker 1: is the Patriots at the Dolphins, and there's a sneaky
Speaker 1: revenge a angle a Brian Johnson patented revenge le depended.
Speaker 1: He got the patent. That's good, It's I think it's
Speaker 1: that impending. Obviously, we're gonna start with the Davante Parker
Speaker 1: revenge game. He's on the bench as he most likely
Speaker 1: will draw his former teammates Avian Howard for most of
Speaker 1: the game, and Howard is one of the better shut
Speaker 1: down corners in the league, and he's the only one
Speaker 1: Miami has. If he flex into the slot, you'll find
Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers facing off against Nick need Um, who allowed
Speaker 1: seventy of his passes and coverage should be caught last year.
Speaker 1: Myers was targeted seventeen times in the two meetings with
Speaker 1: the Dolphins last year, and I think that volume could
Speaker 1: be expected again. So I'll give Myers a C grade.
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry could be a desperation start if you're missing
Speaker 1: a guy like George Kittle. This week, in his last
Speaker 1: meeting with the Dolphins, he was able to go for
Speaker 1: five catches and eighties six yards and and of course
Speaker 1: he did score nine times last year times fascinating, so
Speaker 1: I can give him a low grade. See, let's see
Speaker 1: if all the preseason talk about integrating John new Smith
Speaker 1: more into this offense actually comes to life. I don't
Speaker 1: believe that will happen at all. Okay, Mac Jones is
Speaker 1: on the bench. Nobody like what they saw from Jones
Speaker 1: in the preseason. He didn't put up huge numbers against
Speaker 1: the Finns last year either. Plus, every quarterback in the
Speaker 1: league is healthy right now, so you're starting someone else.
Speaker 1: Ramandre Stevenson and Damien Harris both get a B from me.
Speaker 1: Both will probably see in the neighborhood of fourteen to
Speaker 1: fifteen touches unless time Montgomery just bombs the whole thing
Speaker 1: and becomes the past catching um. So Harris scored an
Speaker 1: eight of nine games last year when getting fourteen touches
Speaker 1: are more. Stevenson scored in two of three games last
Speaker 1: year when getting fourteen touches are more. All indications point
Speaker 1: to the Pats running the ball at least seventy five
Speaker 1: times per game, So this seems like a lock. That is, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all their place of them. Uh Tyreek Hill and
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle on the other side. I'm giving Hill in
Speaker 1: a waddle B. Waddle returned to practice earlier in the
Speaker 1: week and seems ready to go. It looks like he'll
Speaker 1: match up most often with Jonathan Jones, who is New
Speaker 1: England's weakest cover corner according to Pro Football Focus. Last year.
Speaker 1: Hill moved around a lot in Kansas City, and I
Speaker 1: expect him to be deploy boyd in even crazier ways
Speaker 1: in Miami. He'll match up with Jalen Mills for the
Speaker 1: most part. He's a better run stopper than a cover corner.
Speaker 1: He's also slow, and Tyreek Kill is not correct. I'm
Speaker 1: leaving Mike Gasicki on the bench though. Pat safety Kyle
Speaker 1: Dugger does most of the tight end coverage and he's
Speaker 1: one of the better cover safeties in the league. In
Speaker 1: six career games against New England has only scored once
Speaker 1: and as a high water mark of thirty four yards
Speaker 1: to UH he gets a C grade. And with Hill
Speaker 1: getting an A and Waddle getting a B, why does
Speaker 1: TWA get the C. Well, it's low depth of target.
Speaker 1: He's reliant on his receiver's breaking big ones. What if
Speaker 1: they deploy Hill from the backfield like Debo and five
Speaker 1: of us touches our runs and he breaks one of
Speaker 1: those and Hill gets the good points there, and TWA
Speaker 1: gets no credit for it. Uh to only top two
Speaker 1: fifty yards once in the final nine games of and
Speaker 1: the New England pass rush is really good, so I
Speaker 1: think two is gonna be under pressure a lot and
Speaker 1: then uh rahee moster it was might take a chance
Speaker 1: on me runner. There's also the running back situation of
Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds, Miles Gaskin, Salvin Akhmed. Edmonds popped up on
Speaker 1: the injury report with the groin strain which I mentioned,
Speaker 1: but was a full participant. I'm gonna give Edmonds a
Speaker 1: C grade because I think he'll catch enough passes to
Speaker 1: be relevant. The Pats allowed the ninth most receptions to
Speaker 1: the running back position last year, so I think he'll
Speaker 1: still be in play in the passing game, but I
Speaker 1: think most are it probably gets more rushing in this game.
Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds, that's uh, that'll be if this most the
Speaker 1: thing plays out the way you're describing, that will be
Speaker 1: surprising too many, Yeah, but interesting, probably surprising to everybody.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm more on too than you are. But okay,
Speaker 1: just planning my flag in that. Uh, let's go to
Speaker 1: the Ravens taking on the Jets. This is a gonna
Speaker 1: be a one sided affair and all expectation. Mark Andrews
Speaker 1: is an obvious a Lamar Jackson obviously did not get
Speaker 1: the contract extension on Friday, that deadline, that self imposed
Speaker 1: deadline has passed, and it appears, unless something changes, that
Speaker 1: he's headed to free agency in the off season. Oh man,
Speaker 1: he's headed for a franchise tag and a possible trade
Speaker 1: that's possible in time. Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner will probably
Speaker 1: help a struggling Jets secondary, but in his first NFL game,
Speaker 1: I don't think he can overcome all the other problems
Speaker 1: in that Jet secondary. Cornerback DJ Read isn't half bad,
Speaker 1: but Seattle let him walk, which says plenty about dj Read.
Speaker 1: The rest of the secondary's just flying bad. Seattle is
Speaker 1: a bad defense if they don't want you bad sign Obviously,
Speaker 1: Jackson will win fantasy matchups with his legs as well,
Speaker 1: So a grade on Lamar Jackson already told you that
Speaker 1: Mike Davis was might take a chance on me. Running
Speaker 1: back j K Dobbins, let's talk about him for a
Speaker 1: minute now, Scott, you've got a theory that j K.
Speaker 1: Dobbins may not go in this game. Just lamar statements
Speaker 1: that that he might be a couple of weeks away
Speaker 1: from being ready. I know they's practice limited, and uh,
Speaker 1: there's a chance. I know he's going to be listed
Speaker 1: as question. Well, I just I don't see them risking it.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about I. I think Dobbins gets six, eight,
Speaker 1: maybe ten touches. I think he's active and he gets
Speaker 1: if he is active, it won't be a lot. And
Speaker 1: I think the safe approach is to just take a
Speaker 1: week to wait and see on JK. Dobbins. But I
Speaker 1: think if all those dunks he made on the media
Speaker 1: actually emotionally, I think he's out that if if Dobbins
Speaker 1: is active, I believe he plays in this game, because
Speaker 1: why not otherwise just leave him inactive so he's active,
Speaker 1: then you can and you think eight touches can help you,
Speaker 1: that might be enough for a C grade Against the
Speaker 1: Jets terrible run defenses I outlined earlier, Rashad Bateman gets
Speaker 1: a B. The Jet secondary was great at as the
Speaker 1: third worst unit by full Pro Football Focus last season.
Speaker 1: A lot of as I mentioned, Sauce Gardner, Gardner super fast,
Speaker 1: uh tall, But Bateman should have the edge against a
Speaker 1: rookie making his first ever start, So we'll give a
Speaker 1: B grade to Rashad Bateman as the only other target
Speaker 1: that seems likely to get any action here. And speaking
Speaker 1: of likely, Isaiah Likely, I have to start him did
Speaker 1: I'm doing the same thing because Kidles is Kidles a
Speaker 1: problem for a lot of people. Isaiah Likely is a
Speaker 1: is a frequent pivot. Many of us believe, and I'm
Speaker 1: in this group that he's going to be a designated
Speaker 1: A tight end. But he's going to stand up in
Speaker 1: the slot a lot and there's not any other receivers.
Speaker 1: He mini Kyle Pitts, I think he is. He's a
Speaker 1: slightly smaller version of Kyle Pitts, and I I can't
Speaker 1: put his I can't put a letter grade on him.
Speaker 1: I've got Isaiah Likely on the bench Andlation I can't.
Speaker 1: But he's on the bench. But I'm we're still gonna
Speaker 1: watch Isaiah Likely very closely here. Uh. Jet side, Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco gets the start, and he has a C grade
Speaker 1: here undrafted in most leagues, quasi viable, maybe just for
Speaker 1: garbage time and his last three starts all with the Jets,
Speaker 1: by the way, spanning the last two seasons. Joe Flacco
Speaker 1: to two and three touchdowns in his last three starts.
Speaker 1: Ravens middle to pac defense and middle to pack pass
Speaker 1: rush defense. UM I am worried about his blindside left
Speaker 1: tackle is a real issue. Who McKay Beckton is out
Speaker 1: in his backup? Who they signed Dwayne Brown looks like
Speaker 1: a question mark to play with the shoulder injury, so
Speaker 1: that could be a problem for Flacco. But garbage time
Speaker 1: should ensue here. And I like Elijah Moore with a
Speaker 1: B grade finished last year they dominating December. You may
Speaker 1: recall runs from all over the field, so the Jets
Speaker 1: can scheme him towards the Ravens worst cornerback last year
Speaker 1: that was Kyle Fuller. But he's also going to see
Speaker 1: some of the veterans Marlon Humphrey and Marcus Peters and
Speaker 1: really just lukewarm about those matchups. Peter's missed all of
Speaker 1: last year with injury. Um although it's been pretty good
Speaker 1: prior to that, but still comes off him could be
Speaker 1: rusty in this game. I like Elijah Moore at a
Speaker 1: B grade level. UM I don't have any starting grades
Speaker 1: on any of the other receivers, including rookie Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 1: You could roll the dice on a deep hook up,
Speaker 1: and he's got deep speed. But I think I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna watch and wait for a better matchup on him
Speaker 1: and see how this thing ends up looking. And to
Speaker 1: the running backs, Michael Carter atop the depth chart at
Speaker 1: least for the moment. He's your lead back here, not
Speaker 1: Breece Hall. Quietly by the Michael Carter non sucky on
Speaker 1: a very sucky Jets team. Last year, he was a
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus top twenty running back overall. He ranked
Speaker 1: eleventh in yards after contact, third in Pro Football Focuses
Speaker 1: elusiveness rating last year. For Michael Carter, um the good
Speaker 1: news kind of ends there. Ravens were a top ten
Speaker 1: run defense last year by yards, touchdowns, and PFF grade,
Speaker 1: and the game script could easily turn against Carter if
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco is not up to the job and they
Speaker 1: end up having to pass. So a C grade on
Speaker 1: Michael Carter and just a for Breece Hall, just a
Speaker 1: B grade ore, sorry bench grade, because we have to
Speaker 1: wait and see until it seems like Michael Carter's Yeah,
Speaker 1: we gotta watch this thing play itself out. So that's
Speaker 1: our that's our current situation with that. We've got about
Speaker 1: two minutes left. I don't think we have time to
Speaker 1: work in another matchup, but let me if you can
Speaker 1: go quickly, Scott your next it's Brown's Panthers. Yeah on
Speaker 1: the brown side. Yeah, on the brown side. Jacoby Purcette
Speaker 1: last year average tune in eighteen yards and a touch,
Speaker 1: just under a touchdown a game. You're not starting him
Speaker 1: against the Carolina defense. That was third against QB, sixth
Speaker 1: against wide receivers, and fifth best against running backs. I
Speaker 1: actually have the whole passing game on the bench except
Speaker 1: for Marii Cooper, who I think sees a decent enough
Speaker 1: amount of volume as basically the only option. I have
Speaker 1: a C grade on him. Nick Chubb I have a
Speaker 1: B grade and Hunt a C grade. The Browns average
Speaker 1: thirty two are just under thirty five touches per game,
Speaker 1: split about twenty to fifteen between those two. That kind
Speaker 1: of volume against this team, especially with catches out of Hunt,
Speaker 1: gives him a B grade in a segrede. I think
Speaker 1: they get the lead, and I think they run this
Speaker 1: game on defense and running the ball over. On the
Speaker 1: Carolina side, there's a lot better QB options than Mayfield,
Speaker 1: especially against the especially against the Cleveland team that was
Speaker 1: top ten against quarterbacks last year. I have a B
Speaker 1: grade on DJ Moore. He's just a stud win healthy,
Speaker 1: He's gonna get Greedy Williams or Denzel Award, which is
Speaker 1: a top matchup. But Mayfield's gonna target him enough. He's
Speaker 1: gonna get enough volume that I have a B grade
Speaker 1: on him. They're just basically on volume. And Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: and a Grade Tough five fantasy back four of his
Speaker 1: five healthy games last year, and he has proven to
Speaker 1: be almost completely matchup proof when healthy, even against top
Speaker 1: ten defenses. Masterful jobs, sneaking that matchup in well done,
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Speaker 1: down the remaining games, including very pivotal Jaguars at Commanders.
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Speaker 1: Harrison with you. This is a game we like to
Speaker 1: call three tough questions. Tough question number one to help
Speaker 1: if I had the questions in front of me. Okay,
Speaker 1: tough question number one, blame Yeah, it's all Robbie's fault. Um,
Speaker 1: that's we're gonna go with Robbie's fault. Which falcons running back?
Speaker 1: We'll finish with the most fantasy points. Scott and by
Speaker 1: the way, the ore let's our last chance. You like
Speaker 1: season long predictions, right, this is this is it. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna do Bears. We're not gonna do Bills Rams
Speaker 1: because they already played. Uh So these all three of
Speaker 1: these questions are season long. Although Bills and Rams would
Speaker 1: be good running back questions right now now, I almost
Speaker 1: did pivot to some of those. Uh, Which Falcons running
Speaker 1: back we'll finish with the most Fantasy points? Got pass you? Okay?
Speaker 1: I put Cordell Patterson just on hopes they figured out
Speaker 1: how to use them again, and he is the listed starter.
Speaker 1: They want to get him more involved in the passing game,
Speaker 1: which in most fantasy leagues they exist right now, have
Speaker 1: half her fall PPR, So those receptions are they bring
Speaker 1: him in they have on the goal line. He has
Speaker 1: a lot of usage there. I fear that, and we
Speaker 1: thought this all offseason that the Williams was gonna be
Speaker 1: the guy early, the early down worker early in the season.
Speaker 1: Algier would take over later. I think the fact that
Speaker 1: he's gonna they're gonna split like that and Patterson's gonna
Speaker 1: have a role all season makes it Patterson, alright, Matt,
Speaker 1: which Falcons running back is going to finish with the
Speaker 1: most Fantasy points? Scott touchedown few, but I got Cordarrel Patterson.
Speaker 1: Out Of the top fourteen running backs in PPR scoring
Speaker 1: last year, only two finished with fewer than thirty five
Speaker 1: receptions on the season, and was only three of the
Speaker 1: top fourteen. Patterson had fifty two receptions last year that
Speaker 1: was tied for sixth most among all running backs, and
Speaker 1: he finished at the number twelve running back overall. I
Speaker 1: don't see a massive downturn in the reception part of
Speaker 1: his game. So unless Tyler l Gier scores thirteen touchdowns, somehow,
Speaker 1: I think Patterson's the top Falcon runner. I wanted to
Speaker 1: say somebody other than Corderrel Patterson, but I just I
Speaker 1: can't make a convincing case for Damien Williams or rookie
Speaker 1: Tyler l Gier based on the information we have today. Anyway,
Speaker 1: unless unless, unless the Falcons are being super tricky with
Speaker 1: their depth chart and they secretly love Tyler Algier and
Speaker 1: they know he's awesome, but they're being crafty and putting
Speaker 1: him third on the depth chart. You know what, I
Speaker 1: know a guy really close to this situation, close to Tyler,
Speaker 1: and that would be Tyler lg Year, and he drafted
Speaker 1: himself so well over Cordarrel Patterson. I don't know that
Speaker 1: I check that you should check that we're gonna rule
Speaker 1: out Williams on his fourth team in five years and
Speaker 1: for alge years, just nothing. He had a very vanilla
Speaker 1: preseason preseason games didn't look special. Nobody talking him up
Speaker 1: through training camp. It just it leaves Patterson, even though
Speaker 1: we all expect less volume than last year in an
Speaker 1: effort to keep him productive pass Thanksgiving. But I just
Speaker 1: think there's nobody there. I'm gonna mention this. You know,
Speaker 1: we all think of him as a pass catching running
Speaker 1: back because he played wide receiver the last half of
Speaker 1: last year, and he was. He was very good early
Speaker 1: on the last half of last year, which is a
Speaker 1: long time by the way, the second half of the
Speaker 1: season he averaged one point eight catches per game. That's it.
Speaker 1: Tough question number two, which Seahawks running back we'll finish
Speaker 1: with the most fantasy points? Matt Well ken Walker's returning
Speaker 1: from some sort of hernia or maybe not hernia injury.
Speaker 1: There be in kind of coy about that. Who knows
Speaker 1: how long that'll take for him to return. Rashad Penny
Speaker 1: isn't injured quite yet, but he's only played six games
Speaker 1: in a row twice in his three year career. That
Speaker 1: doesn't bode very well, and he's already been injured once
Speaker 1: this Yeah, Travis Homer will be their leading rusher in
Speaker 1: at least one game this year for sure. Okay, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Walker because I think that he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be back to full strength by October, which
Speaker 1: is about the time that Penny will get hurt, and
Speaker 1: then I think ken Walker never gives the job back.
Speaker 1: Scott which Seahawks running back? We'll finish with the most
Speaker 1: fantasy points. I put Rashad Penny, but I hate it
Speaker 1: um in games he has at least fourteen touches. He
Speaker 1: has absolutely crushed, averaging over a hundred yards and scoring
Speaker 1: it all but one. Uh. As long as he's healthy,
Speaker 1: he's likely to put up numbers. I'm worried about this
Speaker 1: injury with Walker when he's going to be ready, if
Speaker 1: he's going to be dealing with stuff like that all year.
Speaker 1: These are just gross? Why did you do this to us?
Speaker 1: They were actually tough, and they were tough. They were
Speaker 1: three gross questions, right, They're not mutually exclusive things gross
Speaker 1: and tough? Is that it? Scotty Day? I am also
Speaker 1: a Rashad Penny skeptic. He had the massive surge from
Speaker 1: December twelve forward last year, but here are his averages
Speaker 1: in Rashad Penny's thirty one games that preceded last December twelve.
Speaker 1: Five carries, twenty eight yards and zero point two touchdowns
Speaker 1: per game. That's it. I'm not buying the recency, and
Speaker 1: especially when Penny needs to succeed behind Profoball focuses thirty
Speaker 1: second ranked offensive line. Oh, they're worse than the Bears.
Speaker 1: They're worse than the I don't think they actually are,
Speaker 1: but profoball focus things they are. The Seahawks first four
Speaker 1: games are all against run defenses that finished in the
Speaker 1: top half of the league and yards per carried aloud.
Speaker 1: So when Penny is ineffective or heard in October, as
Speaker 1: Matt correctly said, Kenneth Walker is going to be healed
Speaker 1: from his or whatever and then come back and never
Speaker 1: give up the lead, the correct answer is Kenneth Walker.
Speaker 1: Whatever which Eagles running back, we'll finish with the most
Speaker 1: fantasy points. Scott stop stop. Just an update. Tyler L.
Speaker 1: Gear took himself ten oh one. Patterson went in the
Speaker 1: mid seventh. I don't know. I did not take. He
Speaker 1: didn't he could have taken. He passed on court. Darry
Speaker 1: had seven chances, have seven chances and did not. Uh.
Speaker 1: This one's Miles Sanders for me. I don't want to
Speaker 1: count on them on the Eagles, remembering how he was
Speaker 1: used in the past game in twenty nineteen, which was
Speaker 1: fifty catches and highly efficient. It's more of a bet
Speaker 1: that they said they wanted gad Will involved as a
Speaker 1: past schedule last year and it didn't do it. When
Speaker 1: Sanders did go out last year, it was Jordan's Howard
Speaker 1: they picked up a week before and Boston Scott, not
Speaker 1: Kenneth Gainwell your accent. No, Uh, Kenneth Gainwell is really
Speaker 1: more of a part time player in the ASK game
Speaker 1: if he gets those raps in Boston Scott, I really
Speaker 1: don't like unless he's playing the Giants ugly split. But
Speaker 1: I'm going to slime. Slime also known as Miles Sanders.
Speaker 1: It's an anagram, Matt, which Eagles running back will finish
Speaker 1: with the most Fantasy points. I'm going the other direction.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Kenneth Gainwell. I talked up the PPR
Speaker 1: aspect and how important receptions are. Gainwell had more receptions
Speaker 1: on much fewer snaps than Miles Sanders last year. Gainwell
Speaker 1: is also built better for goalne use. Miles Sanders totaled
Speaker 1: negative five yards on five rushing attempts inside the five
Speaker 1: last year. Miles Sanders will score a touchdown this year,
Speaker 1: but Gainwell will be a major part of that committee.
Speaker 1: And seeing how he'll probably catch more passes and he
Speaker 1: has a shot at the goal line work, I'll take
Speaker 1: Kenny g five ft six Boston Scott seems unlikely to
Speaker 1: get continued goal line use unless like you did last year. Uh,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't chip in much of anywhere else. Kenneth
Speaker 1: Gainwell just did pass the eye test last year, and
Speaker 1: he didn't contribute much via the ground especially and only
Speaker 1: modestly through the air. And here's the thing that really
Speaker 1: bothered me about gain Well. When I went back and looked,
Speaker 1: I wanted to sell myself. I wanted the answer to
Speaker 1: be coming into this question Kenneth Gainewell, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to sell myself on him improving over the course of
Speaker 1: his rookie year. But really it was the opposite. In fact,
Speaker 1: his snap count went down dramatically in the second half
Speaker 1: of the year as he lost faith with his coaching staff.
Speaker 1: We gotta follow the snaps and the opportunities, and that's all.
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders, who averaged thirty seven snaps per game, that
Speaker 1: was double that of gain Well's and triple that of
Speaker 1: Boston Scott's. And now, by the way, the correct answer
Speaker 1: is Miles Sanders a totally unsubstantiated theory that has no
Speaker 1: basis in anything other than me talking off the top
Speaker 1: of my head. The Vikings and the Eagles have already
Speaker 1: consummated a trade for Alexander Madison and they're waiting for
Speaker 1: the Week two game between these two teams to pass. Oh,
Speaker 1: I love it now, I love it so much. Madison.
Speaker 1: Madison took a when unexplained and we don't it's the
Speaker 1: second half of the last Thursday. Maybe he found out
Speaker 1: about that trade last Thursday or something like that, and
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it wigged him out and he
Speaker 1: took a day off. I don't know. Maybe he wanted
Speaker 1: to bear, or he had a fantasy draft going on
Speaker 1: with Scott Fish. Maybe that was let me check, unsubstantiated
Speaker 1: theory of of a trade. But it's out there now.
Speaker 1: It's it's basically fact, basically fact. It's right, even though
Speaker 1: I have made it very clear the no facts involved
Speaker 1: in this at all. Matt Colts take on the Texans
Speaker 1: already told us you like me, love Davis Mills in
Speaker 1: this love like Davis Mills in this game. Colts in
Speaker 1: the two games combined last year, the score to the
Speaker 1: score the combined score in the two games sixty two
Speaker 1: to three. It wasn't good. No, it was not good. Um.
Speaker 1: I'll stay on the Texan side to start. Since we
Speaker 1: mentioned Davis Mills, he he gets a see, Brandon Cooks
Speaker 1: gets a B and Nico gets a C. As well,
Speaker 1: I mentioned Gilmore who should cover Cooks. Mostly I'm not
Speaker 1: so sure Cooks at age twenty eight isn't better at
Speaker 1: his position than Gilmore at thirty two. To Cook saw
Speaker 1: almost twenty seven percent of mills targets last year. Uh.
Speaker 1: Nico Collins plays the slot and he gets burnable. Kenny
Speaker 1: Moore gave up the most slot yards and touchdowns last year. Uh.
Speaker 1: The other Texan that we have to mention is Damian Pierce,
Speaker 1: and baby, he's like the He's one of the few
Speaker 1: rookies that I think is startable this week. Like overall,
Speaker 1: I'm giving him a B grade. The Colts are going
Speaker 1: to be missing All Pro middle linebacker Shaquille Leonard for
Speaker 1: this game. That's a huge loss to that defense and
Speaker 1: Indie looks great overall on paper against the run, but
Speaker 1: last year they allowed double digit PPR fantasy days in
Speaker 1: seven of the last final seven of the final eleven
Speaker 1: games to running backs. And what we saw in the preseason,
Speaker 1: Oh that was good stuff. Uh. He he might be,
Speaker 1: you know, just as good as the running back on
Speaker 1: the other side, Jonathan Taylor, who gets an obvious A grade.
Speaker 1: By the way, Nahem Hines is startable in a pinch
Speaker 1: in this one. The Texans were bottom five against running
Speaker 1: backs last year. Hind saw at least six touches in
Speaker 1: four of the last five games against Houston. And they're
Speaker 1: talking about Hines getting a lot of work spelling John Taylor,
Speaker 1: you know who drafted nine Himes on his fantasy team.
Speaker 1: Night head coach Frank Riich. Remember a month, we'll see
Speaker 1: if that pans out. Do you think he'd draft Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: who I'm giving a B grade two here. Uh. The
Speaker 1: Texans were a bottom ten past defense last year and
Speaker 1: they'll be missing their best cover corner this week. That's
Speaker 1: Tavier Thomas. Matt Ryan loves September and October games. By
Speaker 1: the way, in the past three years he's passed for
Speaker 1: over two eight yards or more eighteen times in twenty
Speaker 1: four games. That's very good. You know what happened in
Speaker 1: in November December. Julio Jones was always broken down by then,
Speaker 1: and Calvin Ridley was off the team. So, uh, Michael
Speaker 1: Pittman is the only Cults receiver I'm gonna start, and
Speaker 1: I'm giving him an A grade. Pittman will likely line
Speaker 1: up against rookie Derek Stingley Jr. Or Desmond King the
Speaker 1: second and they both might need their dads to come
Speaker 1: help cover Pittman. King was the one hundred and nineties
Speaker 1: second ranked cover corner by Pro Football Focus last year.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to start Alec Pierce or Paris Campbell
Speaker 1: this week. I'd like to see tempting though, isn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to see how each is deployed first, But
Speaker 1: it's Pittman. And I don't think there's a league that
Speaker 1: people are in where they're like, I need to start
Speaker 1: Alec Pierce this week because you're not in enough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta be these week one. These week one decisions
Speaker 1: are tricky. I will say they'll go get him. Premature
Speaker 1: premature speculation. No, there's a lot of wow, double time
Speaker 1: machine Jaguars taking on the commanders. Let me mention this
Speaker 1: before we dig into the juicy goodness of Jaguars commanders.
Speaker 1: We saw what happened with cam Akers coming off his
Speaker 1: Achilles injury right, totally unused and with a little a
Speaker 1: little action that he got on Thursday night amounted to
Speaker 1: literally nothing. No yards James Robinson is looking at. I
Speaker 1: believe the same kind of thing they will. I think
Speaker 1: they may just try to give him some carries out
Speaker 1: of loyalty. You know, we don't the same thing with Acres,
Speaker 1: you know whatever. I just here's the thing. Travis at
Speaker 1: TNS already roster, So how can you work this to
Speaker 1: your advantage? I know what it is. It's superpop loop baby.
Speaker 1: Look it's before Sunday free agencies open in most leagues.
Speaker 1: Go get Snoop Connor. Because, if you believe like I do,
Speaker 1: the James Robinson is not going to work out at
Speaker 1: some point in the probably early stages of this this year,
Speaker 1: and maybe even in Week one, like ham Akers, that
Speaker 1: means it's time not yet. Does it also mean streaking
Speaker 1: through the quad? No, it does not. Matter of fact,
Speaker 1: Jaguars side of this, we are not starting Snooper loop. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: what I know not yet, but we are starting Travis
Speaker 1: Etten while we're talking about Jaguars running backs. The Commanders
Speaker 1: had one of the best run defenses in the league
Speaker 1: last season, holding opposing running backs to just seventy five
Speaker 1: yards per game. That was fifth lowest on only three
Speaker 1: point eight yards per carry, which is outstanding. Uh. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: Etiens receiving makes them startable here. Last year, Watchington gave
Speaker 1: up a league worst nine receiving touchdowns two running backs,
Speaker 1: and in Doug Peterson's last season in Philadelphia, Miles Sanders
Speaker 1: had his best year, averaging sixteen touches per game. Et
Speaker 1: Ten Miles Sanders similar skill set. I think some of
Speaker 1: that trans lates. He probably gets plenty of usage here.
Speaker 1: Travis Etienne a B grade in this game. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the passing side for the Jaguars. Trevor Lawrence was
Speaker 1: might take a chance on me quarterback. You heard that earlier.
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk gets a B grade. He's got a favorable
Speaker 1: matchup against the Commander's secondary that finished bottom six in receptions,
Speaker 1: yards and touchdowns allowed to opposing receivers. And assuming Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk continues to run predominantly from the slot, he will
Speaker 1: face second year cornerback Ben st j who surrendered a
Speaker 1: one hundred fifteen passer rating in seven games as a
Speaker 1: rookie last year. Even if he gets a little better
Speaker 1: on that, Christian Kirk with a nice opportunity from the slot,
Speaker 1: and Marvin Jones gets a C grade. If last year's
Speaker 1: usage holds, Marvin Jones ran most often from the left
Speaker 1: side of the field, which should line him up against
Speaker 1: William Jackson, who finished his Pro football focuses cornerback number
Speaker 1: eight last year Jones. Finally, Jones was starting at a
Speaker 1: hundred twenty times last year. The productivity did not come
Speaker 1: with it. He just turned it into eight hundred yards
Speaker 1: and four touchdowns on a hundred and fifty balls his way.
Speaker 1: But if you figure Lawrence's play gets better in year two,
Speaker 1: if we still get a hundred twenty passes to Marvin Jones,
Speaker 1: it's he'll the efficiency will be better, the numbers will
Speaker 1: be better. I don't think he's gonna get a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty passes again. He might not, now that Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk is there to sniffen off some of the work,
Speaker 1: but I think he gets close to that. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Washington side. Antonio Gibson maybe a chip on
Speaker 1: his shoulder after all that preseason talk of him losing
Speaker 1: his job or you know, him getting moved to special teams.
Speaker 1: The Jaguars are generous to running backs on the ground.
Speaker 1: In particular, Jacksonville allowed the eleventh most rushing yards and
Speaker 1: the fifth most rushing touchdowns to running backs last year.
Speaker 1: They had a bottom three defensive line according to Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus, and Gibson's gonna get all the rushing work here.
Speaker 1: The passing down work will go to j D McKissick.
Speaker 1: By the way, Gibson with a B grade. J D
Speaker 1: mckissic with a C grade. Last year, January is shockingly
Speaker 1: good against receiving running backs, finishing fifth best in receptions,
Speaker 1: sixth best in yards, and number one in touchdowns allowed,
Speaker 1: but just one. Jaguars additions of two first round picks
Speaker 1: at edge linebacker Trayvon Walker and Devin Lloyd suggests they
Speaker 1: can maintain that. So, just to see, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm moving m kissick to a bench forget I talked
Speaker 1: to myself into benching him. In fact, I'm literally moving
Speaker 1: him down to the bench area of my notes right now.
Speaker 1: J D. McKissick. You're on the bench. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the passing game. Carson Wentz for a bad quarterback. He
Speaker 1: was a shockingly competent fantasy producer last year, scoring in
Speaker 1: fifteen of seventeen games, multiple touchdowns and over half his games.
Speaker 1: But Carson wentz inexplicable kryptonite was the Jaguars. That's true.
Speaker 1: He posted miserable numbers in the two meetings last year,
Speaker 1: hundred eighty yards and a hundred eighty five yards, zero
Speaker 1: touchdowns in one game, one touchdown in the other game.
Speaker 1: This is kind of like a weird revenge game angle.
Speaker 1: It's very much of revenge game for him. Brian would
Speaker 1: come up with a new adjective for it. Keep in mind,
Speaker 1: by the way, people for me have forgotten, the Colts
Speaker 1: were winning in versus the Jaguars in Week eighteen of
Speaker 1: last year, and they lost to the Jaguars, who were
Speaker 1: in the middle of an eight game losing streak. For Wentz,
Speaker 1: this is very much a revenge game. Uh. John Dotson
Speaker 1: a C grade. The rookie will start the game, but
Speaker 1: his role is unclear. And it's been since Art Monk
Speaker 1: and Gary Clarkson's Washington has reliably fled fed to fantasy
Speaker 1: wide outs here. Ditto for Carson Wentz. You know what,
Speaker 1: I'm moving him to the bench to John I talked
Speaker 1: myself into benching him to John doubtson bench. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the only receiver that you really care about, and
Speaker 1: that's Ty McLaren. McLaren's new quarterback. Carson Wentz posted the
Speaker 1: seventh highest PF grade under pressure last year. So even
Speaker 1: if the commander's line is as bad as we think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be, white Men's might be okay and able
Speaker 1: to still help feed McLaurin here. Second year cornerback Tyson
Speaker 1: Campbell has been a training camp stand out, but McLaren
Speaker 1: will test Campbell's and Shack Griffin's propensity to of a
Speaker 1: big plays in Indy. Wentz was laser focused on one target,
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman, his number one go to receiver. That's clearly
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin in this offense, and the numbers should be
Speaker 1: there for him in a B grade on Terry McLaurin.
Speaker 1: Last guy I'm gonna mention is Logan Thomas. It's his
Speaker 1: first game off of a reconstructed a c L and
Speaker 1: m c L. We will sit him on the bench
Speaker 1: and we will watch and see what happens with him.
Speaker 1: All right, I think maybe we have time to sneak
Speaker 1: in one more. No, nope, okay, all right, let's let's not.
Speaker 1: We'll move it to the next We'll move it to
Speaker 1: the next. Break that happens sometimes Giants tightened so much
Speaker 1: to unpack it nearly needs its own segment. I think
Speaker 1: to get to the bottom of everything that Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: is going to bring to the table, all of the
Speaker 1: three starters had to I'm surprised between both teams, you
Speaker 1: have three between both teams. It's not it's not gonna
Speaker 1: be great Giants Titans. When we come back, we'll break
Speaker 1: that matchup down along with Steelerspango, Packers, Vikings More Fantasy
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Speaker 1: let's get back into the matchups, beginning with Giants at
Speaker 1: Titans Scott last segment. You said you only have three
Speaker 1: starters between both teams, and Derrick Henry's one of them.
Speaker 1: So who does that leave anybody on the Giants at all?
Speaker 1: The only I I have on the Giants I have
Speaker 1: a B grade on Kwan Parkley. We're starting Barkley the Titans,
Speaker 1: I mean on the bedside. Titans were surprising the second
Speaker 1: best against fantasy running backs last year, allowing the second
Speaker 1: fewest rushing yards and only three point eight yards per
Speaker 1: Gary uh just ten total running back touchdowns, but rushing
Speaker 1: and receiving combined, they went back to middle of the pack. Um,
Speaker 1: you're starting Barkley. It's not a great matchup, but he
Speaker 1: should get most of the work in this one. We're
Speaker 1: talking a twenty twenty plus touch guy, So he gets
Speaker 1: a B grade there and in probably a tougher matchup
Speaker 1: in the passing game, I have Jones on the bench.
Speaker 1: You're I mean you were gonna start Jones anyway? You're
Speaker 1: not starting Daniel Jones with all the quarterbacks out there.
Speaker 1: But it's of note that the Titans allowed one passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns in seventeen games last year. That's not a lot,
Speaker 1: and nine of them came from Murray, Wilson and Allen
Speaker 1: so everybody else, everybody else was going zero or one.
Speaker 1: Jones qualifies for the everybody else. Uh Canarius Tony I
Speaker 1: have a C grade because he's been he's holly healthy
Speaker 1: and fully practicing. Now, um he moves around. Uh Sterling
Speaker 1: Shephard isn't in practicing fully. He's coming off that Achilles injury.
Speaker 1: Kenny Holiday, I'm convinced is now just a Mandela fact.
Speaker 1: We're pretty sure Getty Alladay existed, but right, Um, but
Speaker 1: they moved him all around. And the Titans were worst
Speaker 1: in the NFL against the slot last year, which Tony
Speaker 1: sometimes goes there. One Deale Robinson could have some sneaky
Speaker 1: volume there. He was a high volume guy in college.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't start him. I'm just saying, keep in your head.
Speaker 1: But see great on Tony. On the other side the Titans,
Speaker 1: I have Tannehill on the bench too. He's going to
Speaker 1: be to take a chance on me quarterback to type
Speaker 1: a lot this year, I don't think it is here. Um.
Speaker 1: Last year he only had three games over two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy yards. Uh. He saved you with the rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He has seven touchdowns and he's been consistent yet seventh
Speaker 1: the year before to Yeah, but so fu exactly what
Speaker 1: I wrote. It's really hard to predict things like that. Uh.
Speaker 1: So I have almost the entire passing Gabe on the
Speaker 1: bench for a few reasons. Westbrook, a Keen ankle Breaker, Phillips,
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper. You can't trust them. Uh Robert Woods is
Speaker 1: coming off at torn A c on November and did
Speaker 1: he somehow came back from already and he's practicing folly
Speaker 1: but he may see shadow coverage from a Dorry Jackson.
Speaker 1: I'm not starting him with confidence. Trail on Burke's I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of Burks, loved what is on college. He
Speaker 1: was like my one A one B coming out of college.
Speaker 1: But between the way, the asthma, the up and down preseason,
Speaker 1: I can't start him here with any confidence until I
Speaker 1: see how he plays. He should. If a Dorry Jackson
Speaker 1: covers Woods, maybe he gets you know, maybe he gets
Speaker 1: a good match up there. But I have him on
Speaker 1: the bench to the guy. Only guy I'm starting on
Speaker 1: the Titans is Derrick Henry, who averaged twenty seven touches
Speaker 1: per game early in the season before that injury that
Speaker 1: he ended up caming coming back from and they went
Speaker 1: right back to that. Uh So an a grade on
Speaker 1: a guy who's gonna get twenty five plus touches against
Speaker 1: a team who gave up the sixth most explosive plays
Speaker 1: to running backs last year. All it takes is one
Speaker 1: or two of those twenty five touches and you've got
Speaker 1: a good game out of Henry. I don't think he
Speaker 1: gets twenty seven anymore. I think those days are probably
Speaker 1: You don't think they run him down. I don't. I
Speaker 1: think they're going to be a little more careful. Who
Speaker 1: who Who's Who's getting at that? Dontrell Hilliard is a
Speaker 1: sneaky He's a sneaky should be on rosters. Haskins Son, Haskins,
Speaker 1: I think it's Hilliard. Um, I've been a fan since
Speaker 1: the days in Cleveland. Okay, Steelers take on the Bengals,
Speaker 1: Matt this is uh this is. This has turned into
Speaker 1: a fairly sizeable rivalry now that the Bengals are are
Speaker 1: good and the Steelers are struggling. Yeah, we're gonna start
Speaker 1: with Deonte Johnson here. He had a shoulder injury that
Speaker 1: limited his practice availability for most of the week, but
Speaker 1: he was a full participant on Thursday, and it looks
Speaker 1: like he's going to play. It was a shoulder sprain
Speaker 1: from the last preseason game. He'll likely draw a combo
Speaker 1: of Eli Apple, who's settled in as an average NFL corner,
Speaker 1: and the semi elite Hidobe Woozy, a who graded out
Speaker 1: as Pro Football Focuses Number fourteen corner last year. With
Speaker 1: that said and the spraying shoulder, I'm downgrading Deonte to
Speaker 1: a C grade in this one. I just got to
Speaker 1: see if he can get through it. Um. If Johnson
Speaker 1: is a surprise scratch on Sunday, I'd probably put a
Speaker 1: circle around or a plus sign next to each of
Speaker 1: these other wide receivers and their letter grades. Maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know, George Pickens and Chase Claypool. Claypool was might
Speaker 1: take a chance on the wide receiver. He gets a
Speaker 1: B grade. I'll give Pickens a C this week. I
Speaker 1: think he'll see a high snap count, but as I
Speaker 1: mentioned before, he'll see the A Woozier Apple combo on
Speaker 1: the perimeter, so a tough start for him. Pat fryar
Speaker 1: Muth gets a B grade. He scored in both meetings
Speaker 1: against the Bengals last year. And since he was bottom
Speaker 1: six and tight end receptions yards and touchdowns allowed last year.
Speaker 1: Mitch Drubisky, I'm gonna keep him on the bench, but
Speaker 1: he was very close to like take a chance on
Speaker 1: me style C grade. Uh, the offensive line just worries
Speaker 1: me deonte status. Everyone else in the league is healthy
Speaker 1: and you have to bench some quarterbacks. So true Whisky
Speaker 1: is on your bench, somebody's gotta be Yeah, it's gotta
Speaker 1: be right. You know what. That's a sad trombone ski
Speaker 1: right there. Uh, Naji Harris, I'm giving him a B
Speaker 1: grade in it. In the first meeting with the Bengals
Speaker 1: last year, Harris caught fourteen passes for a hundred and
Speaker 1: two yards on nineteen targets, but they bottled him up
Speaker 1: in the second game. In the second meeting, the Bengals
Speaker 1: held him to almost nothing eleven touches for thirty seven yards.
Speaker 1: I think you two or three rushes over twenty yards
Speaker 1: all year too. Yeah, it's gonna be a weird year
Speaker 1: for Naji. Joe Mixon. On the other side, he gets
Speaker 1: an a the Steelers weak spot on defenses against the run.
Speaker 1: Last time mixing saw the steel Curtain carries a hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty five yards and two scores. The wide receiver
Speaker 1: group of Chase Higgins and Boyd. All of them get
Speaker 1: a B grade, including Boyd. Including boy please well, Chasing
Speaker 1: Higgins move around a fair amount, so both should see
Speaker 1: the coverage of top corner a Kello Witherspoon, who gave
Speaker 1: up only sixteen receptions last year in the nine games
Speaker 1: he played. On the other side, they'll see the very
Speaker 1: ordinary Levi Wallace, and that's where Joe Burrow is going
Speaker 1: to be attacking. Boyd gets the B because he plays
Speaker 1: from the slot and Arthur Mallet will be covering him.
Speaker 1: Mallets allowed a passer rating of one eighteen in his
Speaker 1: coverage last year. With all that said, Joe Burrow gets
Speaker 1: a B grade. I like all of his receivers, so
Speaker 1: I gotta like the thrower at least a little bit
Speaker 1: worth noting. In both meetings last year, though, Burrow was
Speaker 1: held to under two yards passing. But I'm still not scared.
Speaker 1: I think a B grades fine, but I think Joe
Speaker 1: Mixon just goes nuts in this game. I'm kind of
Speaker 1: with you. I'm not I'm kind of with you. I
Speaker 1: had Joe Mixon right number two on my preseason cheat sheet,
Speaker 1: and you got him in your weekly rankings this week.
Speaker 1: It's got to be up there, you know. I don't
Speaker 1: know off top of my head. I'm sure it is
Speaker 1: up there. If you're listening, you can find you can
Speaker 1: look for yourself. I'm sure it is. I'm sure it
Speaker 1: is a top five ish ranking for Joe Mixon Vikings
Speaker 1: and Packers another rivalry game. Viking is trying to employ
Speaker 1: an entirely new three four scheme on defense, mostly with
Speaker 1: the same four three personnel they had last year, and
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be some moments of discombobulation for
Speaker 1: the Vikings. But while we're talking about the Packers and
Speaker 1: their chances to take advantage of that, also checking the
Speaker 1: status they're offensive line el Elton Jenkins and David bakti
Speaker 1: Um are both unknowns at the time of at the
Speaker 1: time of our taping here on Friday, so we don't
Speaker 1: know for sure if they're gonna be able to go.
Speaker 1: Hopefully that will be the case for the sake of
Speaker 1: the Packers. Um, Aaron Jones and A J. Dillon. Let's
Speaker 1: start there. The Vikings are a bad run defense last year,
Speaker 1: but the offseason edition of Buffalo defensive tackle Harrison Phillips
Speaker 1: should help. He was Pro Football focuses fifth ranked run
Speaker 1: stuffer last year and in the past years when Davante
Speaker 1: Adams miss games, Jones saw a big workload Spike and
Speaker 1: the Runners did in general. Um and I think he
Speaker 1: gets a big workload here, but he shares with A J.
Speaker 1: Dillon and perhaps almost evenly in this game. In two
Speaker 1: games a Insta Minnesota last season, A J. Dillon wrecked
Speaker 1: up thirty three touches, a hundred eighty yards and two scores. Now, granted,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones was out for one of those two games,
Speaker 1: but still very impressive numbers against the Vikings. For A J. Dillon,
Speaker 1: I prefer Jones because of his PPR upside, but Dylan's
Speaker 1: gonna see plenty of work as well. Both of them
Speaker 1: be grades in this game. For Aaron Rodgers, I've got
Speaker 1: just the C grade on him. With Alan Lazard not
Speaker 1: expected to play, he's doubtful for this game. Rogers starting
Speaker 1: wide receivers are Sammy Watkins, Romeo Dobbs, and Randall Cobb.
Speaker 1: And maybe you know, we don't know for sure the
Speaker 1: status of what we could possibly get out of Robert
Speaker 1: Tony in It looks like he's gonna go, but he's
Speaker 1: gonna give you coming off a c L. I just
Speaker 1: think there's not enough talent here. Aaron Rodgers is great, obviously,
Speaker 1: and the matchups a fine one for him, but I
Speaker 1: worry about all these receivers. I think you may have
Speaker 1: better options than Aaron Rodgers in this game, just to
Speaker 1: ce grade for him, Sammy Watkins, C grade your legendary
Speaker 1: Week one performer, Sammy Watkins last three Week ones combined
Speaker 1: for twenty catches, almost four hundred yards and three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That sounds good that we'll take a third of that
Speaker 1: if Lazard. With Lazard out, Watkins looks like an every
Speaker 1: down receiver. Minnesota returns the same starting cornerbacks last from
Speaker 1: last season, Patrick Peterson and Cam Cam Danceler, and they're
Speaker 1: hardly shutdown guys. If you're ever gonna start Sammy Watkins
Speaker 1: literally ever again for the rest of your life. Week
Speaker 1: one matchup against the Vikings with Lound Lazard out is
Speaker 1: as good as it gets. So Sammy Watkins in Romeo Daubs,
Speaker 1: you're presumed starter that I mentioned earlier again exploitable matchups
Speaker 1: and I can see them trying to get the rookie
Speaker 1: cook in early. Maybe built some confidence here. If you
Speaker 1: a lot of people say, you know, you gotta show
Speaker 1: me first. I think this is a good opportunity for
Speaker 1: Romeo Dobbs and I've gotta see great on him and
Speaker 1: let's see what happens with him. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: Viking side, dalking obvious a. Kirk Cousins brings the NFL's
Speaker 1: longest touchdown streak into this game. Third one games, lots
Speaker 1: of passes coming in this game. Green Bay was one
Speaker 1: of eight teams to yield an opponent passing play north
Speaker 1: of six and Kevin O'Connell almost certainly is going to
Speaker 1: employ more pass heavy UH scheme than Mike Zimmer did.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, Cousins B grade in this game. This
Speaker 1: is a very good green Bay secondary um and they
Speaker 1: can get to the quarterback. But Kirk Cousins actually very
Speaker 1: good in when pressured. Will will continue with him on
Speaker 1: a B grade. Justin Jefferson obviously a grade, but let
Speaker 1: me just mention Jerry Alexander is no picnic and that
Speaker 1: is a tough one on one matchup. Still, Jefferson was
Speaker 1: very good against this team last year, but also Alexander
Speaker 1: did not play in one of the two Viking games
Speaker 1: last season, So if somebody tries to sell you on
Speaker 1: the eight hundred sixty two and two line that Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson put up against the Packers last year, note that
Speaker 1: Alexander did not play in that game. Adam Feeling also
Speaker 1: a B grade. Feeling gets more of Eric Stokes in
Speaker 1: this game coming off a promising rookie year. Still advantage
Speaker 1: of the veteran who had ten touchdowns in eleven games
Speaker 1: last year, including scoring in this matchup last year. BE
Speaker 1: grade for Adam Feeling and a C grade for kJ Osborne.
Speaker 1: He will see a lot of Russell Douglas in the slot.
Speaker 1: Douglas had a long NFL career, virtually none of it
Speaker 1: coming from the slot. Though, um he was one of
Speaker 1: the league's best reclamation projects of last year. It was
Speaker 1: a great story for him. He got paid this past
Speaker 1: offseason by the Packers. But I don't know how great
Speaker 1: he is in the slot. I like kJ Osborne. Here
Speaker 1: slight advantage for Osborne startable with a C grade and
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook obvious a grade you know to start him
Speaker 1: in pretty much all situations. Yeah, we do expect more running,
Speaker 1: but there are more passing, but still plenty to go
Speaker 1: around for Dalvin Cook in this game. Do not start
Speaker 1: Alexander Madison as I hear he's headed to the Eagles
Speaker 1: hundred percent fact on that last thing. Or Smith not
Speaker 1: even on the injury reports, so it looks like that
Speaker 1: thumb of his is fine, but he missed all of
Speaker 1: training camp. Let's take this one off all of last year,
Speaker 1: have you, and also all of last year, So let's
Speaker 1: let's take a wait and see on IRV Smith when
Speaker 1: we came back. Final segment, which includes the time Machine.
Speaker 1: We'll tell you the guys you want to pick up
Speaker 1: this week that everybody else will be trying to pick
Speaker 1: up next week. Premature speculation coming up next. It's the
Speaker 1: final segment Fantasy Football Weekly, a week one edition. This
Speaker 1: is a segment that we call premature speculation. We give
Speaker 1: you three guys you'll want to pick up this week
Speaker 1: that everybody else will be trying to pick up next week.
Speaker 1: But dirty on your team A Scott. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Eno Benjamin. Running Backs are hard to come by.
Speaker 1: You need to spend mad waiver money when they become available.
Speaker 1: To Edmonds last year, head over nine yards last year
Speaker 1: and forty three catches as the number two in that
Speaker 1: Arizona offense. Let year was Connor's first health year. The
Speaker 1: year before he had injuries to six different body parts.
Speaker 1: He's he doesn't even have that man. You know, Benjamin
Speaker 1: could be a flex matchup play if Connor goes down.
Speaker 1: He's a starter. It's hard to injure your gallbladder, but
Speaker 1: he managed to do it all right. You're premature speculation
Speaker 1: player Matt Randall Cobb, who's rostered and only fourteen percent
Speaker 1: of sleeper ly EU exam was Art's probably not going
Speaker 1: this week, leaving Aaron Rodgers with Sammy Watkins, a bunch
Speaker 1: of rookies that he doesn't trust. And Randall Cobb, who
Speaker 1: only saw thirty nine targets last year, but he figures
Speaker 1: to blow that figure out of the water by mid October.
Speaker 1: The likelihood of Cobb being Aaron rodgers most targeted wide
Speaker 1: receiver this year, it's very high, and he's absolutely free
Speaker 1: right now. In the preseason, when evaluating rookies, you're looking
Speaker 1: for special talent that transcends the crappy second or third
Speaker 1: string defense that player might be going up against. Isaiah
Speaker 1: likely Baltimore tight end showed that in the preseason. He
Speaker 1: looks like a special talent who we believe is going
Speaker 1: to get on the field primarily standing running from the slot.
Speaker 1: So that is my premature speculation. Player. We have three
Speaker 1: more matchups to get to, including every the big the
Speaker 1: biggest of many revenge games this week Broncos taking on
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. Scott. Yeah, we got Russell Wilson returning to
Speaker 1: play Seattle. A Seattle team that allowed the second most
Speaker 1: passing yards and their defensive unit saw downgrades this offense.
Speaker 1: Uh the uh the The Seattle defense was also bottom
Speaker 1: ten pressure rate. Uh So basically I have a B
Speaker 1: grade on Wilson. Uh, mostly because I think that they're
Speaker 1: gonna get up there there six point favorites. They're gonna
Speaker 1: run the ball a lot more once they get ahead.
Speaker 1: So only a B grade on Wilson here, Uh, Sutton
Speaker 1: with a B grade and Judy with a C grade. Sutton,
Speaker 1: I'm a team Sutton over Judy. Guy that all the
Speaker 1: all the b reporters have said the chemistry is between
Speaker 1: Wilson and Sutton. It's such a positive matchup against the
Speaker 1: poor secondary that will be starting like Adney Jones and
Speaker 1: Justin Coleman and rookie Terek Woolen. Those guys aren't scaring anyone.
Speaker 1: SO B grade on Sutton, C grade on Judy. I
Speaker 1: just don't know how much they're gonna be able to throw,
Speaker 1: how much they're gonna need to throw in this one.
Speaker 1: Albert Oh, I've toyed with a C grade. What do
Speaker 1: you think, charge Dulcin John? I are Seattle tea sal
Speaker 1: team that allowed the fourth most touchdowns, eleventh most yards,
Speaker 1: and the tenth most receptions to tight ends. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm in on a C grade. That's that was a
Speaker 1: tough one for me. But Javonty Williams B grade and
Speaker 1: Gordon a C grade. The Seahawks were bottom ten in
Speaker 1: yards and touchdowns allowed to running backs. They lost Bobby
Speaker 1: Wagner and Carlos dunlop As. I was kind of prefacing
Speaker 1: earlier but didn't get to it yet until now. This
Speaker 1: should be good for the splitting duo of Javonty and Melvin,
Speaker 1: But all reports say Javonty is going to be the
Speaker 1: A back and Gordon will be the B back. So
Speaker 1: B grade for Williams, C grade for Gordon. Yes, I
Speaker 1: I realized that was probably confusing the way I stated that.
Speaker 1: On the other side, Gino Smith with a bench grade.
Speaker 1: In his three starts last year, his best game was
Speaker 1: two hundred eight total yards, but he threw a lot
Speaker 1: of touchdowns, and I actually I kind of like him
Speaker 1: in garbage time. He threw four touchdowns in his three starts.
Speaker 1: That yes, he did have one rushing touchdown. Uh, so
Speaker 1: I have dk Metcalf with a B grade and lock
Speaker 1: it with a C grade. Dk Metcalf actually had darted
Speaker 1: shuttles of nine and forty three and scored three times
Speaker 1: in those three games, so I think he's pretty safe.
Speaker 1: Lock it a C grade because he disappeared for two games,
Speaker 1: but then he exploded for a hundred forty plus and
Speaker 1: a couple of scores, So that's always a possibility with locket.
Speaker 1: So I'm giving him the C grade here as they'll
Speaker 1: be behind and trying to catch up. Rashot Penny with
Speaker 1: a B grade in his last six games with at
Speaker 1: least fourteen touches. Here's his average stat line hundred forty
Speaker 1: seven yards and one point five touchdowns. Yeah, we'll take that.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get that kind of volume in this one.
Speaker 1: Travis Homer was my take a chance on me player,
Speaker 1: and that's it because and walkers out. Yeah, I like
Speaker 1: Travis Homer is a sneaky play in this matchup. The
Speaker 1: next game is Chiefs taking on the Cardinals Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: and Travis Kelsey. Here obvious is that we will not
Speaker 1: spend time on, but let's talk about Juju Smith Schuster.
Speaker 1: Arizona secondary bad last year, giving up twenty seven scores
Speaker 1: to opposing receivers. That was four more than the next
Speaker 1: worst team, and they looked to be even worse this
Speaker 1: year with their offseason defections. Juju primarily ran from the
Speaker 1: slot in Pittsburgh, and the Chiefs have a ton of
Speaker 1: available slot reps with Tyreek Hill out Byron Murphy's the
Speaker 1: cornerback who man's a slot for the Cardinals and he
Speaker 1: ranked as cornerback sixty six by Pro Football Focus, So
Speaker 1: there's a good chance for Juju to have some headway here.
Speaker 1: Sky Moore's an interesting dart throw in a smash spot.
Speaker 1: We talked earlier, not a lot of rookies we trust here,
Speaker 1: but man, I don't like this. I don't like the
Speaker 1: secondary at all. And if you wanted me to try
Speaker 1: one rookie receiver. This is the one I would try
Speaker 1: more figures to face second year corner Marco Wilson on
Speaker 1: the left side a lot. He allowed a one thirty
Speaker 1: passer rating and the second most touchdowns in his coverage
Speaker 1: of any cornerback. Give a shot to Sky Moore and
Speaker 1: Marcus Veldes Scantling was might take a chance of the
Speaker 1: wide receiver earlier in this game. Earlier in the show.
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards Despair is a C grade. By the way,
Speaker 1: Sky wears a C grade and Juju will be grade
Speaker 1: if I did say that Clyde Edwards despair C grade.
Speaker 1: Cardinals were pretty average and most running back metrics last season,
Speaker 1: but did keep teams out of the end zone. But
Speaker 1: touchdowns aren't really Clyde Edward Hilaire's calling card anyway, So
Speaker 1: we'll hope he can chip in some all purpose yardage
Speaker 1: against a team that ranked twenty one in total yards
Speaker 1: to running backs. And then all the rest of the
Speaker 1: running backs for the Chiefs are on the bench. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Arizona, where James Conner gets an A grade.
Speaker 1: Chiefs run defense was very bad again at four point
Speaker 1: eight yards per carry, second worst in the league. Will
Speaker 1: start him. Um Kyler Murray gets a B grade. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be without DeAndre Hopkins. Randal Moorsman ruled out zach
Speaker 1: Ertz looks like he will play hurt if at all.
Speaker 1: Kansas City ranked twenty four and passing yards allowed last season,
Speaker 1: and it was a result they completely rebuilt their secondary
Speaker 1: and with all of the changes, at least three starting
Speaker 1: new faces starting in that secondary, there's gonna be some
Speaker 1: opportunities for Murray, even with the second tier sets of
Speaker 1: receivers that he's gonna have. Chief screen secondary could end
Speaker 1: up making some mistakes here, So we'll start Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: with a B grade. I really like Marquis Brown these
Speaker 1: as again, all the receivers are gone except Marcus Brown
Speaker 1: is still standing, and four of the Chiefs six leaders
Speaker 1: and defensive snaps are now gone. This is a This
Speaker 1: is a good spot for him. I think there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some coverage lapses opposing number one receivers last year
Speaker 1: had had put up a hundred and seven total average
Speaker 1: hundred seven total yards against the Chiefs in the first
Speaker 1: four games of last season, and they were rebuilding their secondary.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna struggle here to Kyler Murray sorry,
Speaker 1: Marquis Brown a grade in this matchup. And then lastly, Zacherts,
Speaker 1: who got in a limited practice on Friday game time decision,
Speaker 1: averaged over fifty yards per game and at the most
Speaker 1: targets per game after being traded from Philly in Week
Speaker 1: seven among all tight ends. Kansas City did not allow
Speaker 1: his score to the position over the last ten games
Speaker 1: of last year, but they also lost Tyronne Matthew over
Speaker 1: the last in the off season and he did a
Speaker 1: lot of that tight end coverage work. So not clear
Speaker 1: that Kansas City is gonna be as effective here, and
Speaker 1: so we'll give zach Ertz a C grade based on
Speaker 1: the matchup and based on the fact that he comes
Speaker 1: in injured in this game. Let's go to the Monday
Speaker 1: night game in our final matchup of the week. Matt
Speaker 1: minds the Sunday night game. It's the Cowboy. Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and Mike Evans are each going to get a grades
Speaker 1: in this one. Brady has fourteen touchdown passes in six
Speaker 1: career games versus Dallas and he's never lost to them.
Speaker 1: And Mike Evans is still Brady's favorite target and in fact,
Speaker 1: when Godwin and Brown were gone. Last year, he averaged
Speaker 1: ten targets per game. Speaking of Godwin, he might not
Speaker 1: be ready to come back from the A c L
Speaker 1: quite yet. Still. Gauge is dealing with a hamstring injury
Speaker 1: and has been limited all week. His status is also
Speaker 1: in doubt. So since this is the Sunday Night er,
Speaker 1: I can't advise starting either Godwin or Gauge, but I
Speaker 1: will throw a dart at Julio Jones, who I'll give
Speaker 1: a C grade to. Evans moves around a lot on
Speaker 1: the field, and if Godwin engaged, don't go. I'd expect
Speaker 1: Evans to move into the slot more, which means Jones
Speaker 1: is on the outside where he'll face Trevon Diggs, who
Speaker 1: is Pro football focuses eight seven ranked cover corner Leo Fournette.
Speaker 1: He gets a C grade. I'd expect no less than
Speaker 1: a two thirds share in Week one snaps for four net,
Speaker 1: where chidd White probably gets the rest. Problem is Cowboys
Speaker 1: run defense was pretty good last year. Only three running
Speaker 1: backs top the eight yard mark against Dallas last year,
Speaker 1: and they only allowed eight rushing touchdowns to the position
Speaker 1: on the season. On the other side, I'm really nervous
Speaker 1: about the offensive line going up against the Tampa front seven,
Speaker 1: so Zeke and Pollard only get C grades. I think
Speaker 1: Zeke gets more run here here, but Pollard is heavily
Speaker 1: involved in the passing game and that's about the only
Speaker 1: way for running backs to score on Tampa. The Bucks
Speaker 1: allowed the fewest rushing yards to running backs in the
Speaker 1: league last year, but the second most receptions, so that's
Speaker 1: the bright spot. Dak Prescott gets a B grade. The
Speaker 1: Bucks aren't nearly a stout against the pass, and Dak
Speaker 1: through for over four hundred yards and three scores in
Speaker 1: the Week one meeting last year, but it's a completely
Speaker 1: different offensive line and he'll be missing Amari Cooper who's
Speaker 1: in Cleveland and Michael Gallup who's recovering from an a
Speaker 1: c l Ceedee Lamb gets an A grade. The most
Speaker 1: likely matchup for Lamb is against Burnable Sean Murphy Bunting.
Speaker 1: He's going to be in line for ten targets at
Speaker 1: a minimum, but many could be in double coverage. And finally,
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz. He got Pro Football Focus his second highest
Speaker 1: positional advantage ranking this week for tight ends. He'll get
Speaker 1: Devin White a lot in coverage, and White is a
Speaker 1: great defender, but not good in coverage, earning a thirty
Speaker 1: seven PFF grade in coverage that Dalton Schultz b grade.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be very solid this week. We're heading into
Speaker 1: the Week one Sunday. We all love our teams right now,
Speaker 1: and by midday Sunday it'll be like, oh God, what
Speaker 1: did I do? But do not despair. We will be
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