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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul
Speaker 1: Charchi and co hosts today are Scott Fish and Brian Johnson.
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Speaker 4: show will not take it dark.
Speaker 1: It's all positivity on this show, well at least until
Speaker 1: we get to Patriots Giants. Then it's not so much
Speaker 1: prop positivity. But we will break down all the games.
Speaker 6: Or if we recap the games from Thanksgiving, Black Friday.
Speaker 4: Brutal, all of them one sided affairs.
Speaker 6: The first one was all right, the Packers Lions are
Speaker 6: somewhat entertaining.
Speaker 4: Give us points.
Speaker 3: At least.
Speaker 4: We will break down all the games. We'll have three
Speaker 4: tough questions.
Speaker 1: We'll have nine players upon whom you can take a chance,
Speaker 1: and for one of the final weeks premature speculation as well.
Speaker 1: Let's jump right into the matchup. Scott, You've got a
Speaker 1: particularly thorny one here with Jaguars Texans. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of players that are sort of in
Speaker 1: the middle.
Speaker 5: Yes, Yes, I have almost exclusively b's and c's in
Speaker 5: this matchup except for C. J. Stile. It's going to
Speaker 5: get any yes at this point. But Trevor Lawrence, I'm
Speaker 5: giving a C two. Texans have allowed the fifth highest
Speaker 5: pressure rate, which might force Trevor Lawrence to run around
Speaker 5: a little bit more like he did last week when
Speaker 5: he scored two rushing touchdowns. We urged you to start
Speaker 5: Lawrence last week. That was Matt's take a chance on
Speaker 5: me player, and he scored four touchdowns last week. By
Speaker 5: the way, nice job, yeah, nice peacock there. The Jags
Speaker 5: have allowed Texans, Yes, the Texans have allowed multiple scores
Speaker 5: in each of the last three two hund and sixty
Speaker 5: flush five plus yards in each. I think Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 5: can do okay here, but it's a it's a week
Speaker 5: with a lot of quarterbacks available, So just a C grade.
Speaker 4: They're not chasing last week's box score.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, we've.
Speaker 4: All been battle scarred. You don't think he's gonna run
Speaker 4: for two touchdowns?
Speaker 5: No, not pass for two and run for no. I'm
Speaker 5: thinking two sixty five and one to two scores, which
Speaker 5: is a new low C level. Calvin Ridley, I got
Speaker 5: a B grade on If Zay Jones plays, he's questionable.
Speaker 5: Matt Harmon was talking about this week, how uh the
Speaker 5: charting on it is. When Zay out there, teams cannot
Speaker 5: man press on. Kelvin Ridley. So that's where his three
Speaker 5: big games have come. He's had three huge days with
Speaker 5: a Jones out there.
Speaker 4: I think that is a statistical coincidence.
Speaker 5: It might be, but if you think about it, Kirk
Speaker 5: is a slot guy and their fourth guy is a
Speaker 5: gadgety Jamal Agnew. They don't really have a guy on
Speaker 5: the other side to take any coverage. So B grade
Speaker 5: on Ridley if he goes C grade. If he doesn't go,
Speaker 5: Christian Kirk is gonna get a C grade as well.
Speaker 5: The last four slot guys against the Texans eight for
Speaker 5: seventy two, three for fifty one, eight for one seventeen,
Speaker 5: and six for seventy six. And these are like Boyd
Speaker 5: Dorch Trey Palmer like, these are not like studs tearing
Speaker 5: them up there. Christian Kirk can do well here. B
Speaker 5: grade on Evan Ingram four plus catches in every single
Speaker 5: game this year, which is crazy to me.
Speaker 4: That's and how many touchdowns the show for Yeah.
Speaker 5: That's yeah, that's the problem right there. That'd be zero, yes, exactly.
Speaker 5: He had seven for sixty seven in the first game.
Speaker 5: But the Texans have been nice for tight ends, allowing
Speaker 5: the most receptions and fourth most yards. Trafsey TM is
Speaker 5: gonna get a C grade here. A couple tougher days
Speaker 5: in a row for him, against better run defenses. And
Speaker 5: last week we saw Denis Johnson and Tank Bigsby each
Speaker 5: get eight to nine touches each. Not good, but that
Speaker 5: was one hundred and thirty yards total, and if Etn
Speaker 5: gets a little bit more work, we can count on
Speaker 5: fifteen plus touches. He's gonna get the volume c here,
Speaker 5: especially because he gets most of the pass game work
Speaker 5: over to the Texan side. CJ. Stroud I already talked
Speaker 5: about gotten A is getting an A. But I mean,
Speaker 5: three hundred and eighty seven yards and three touchdowns per
Speaker 5: game were less three.
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
Speaker 5: That's that's insane level of production.
Speaker 1: I believe last weekend's three interception game for CJ. Stroud
Speaker 1: was his first in his life.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, yeah, yeah, that doesn't That really doesn't actually
Speaker 5: surprise me that much. JAG's allowing twelfth to twelfth most
Speaker 5: fantasy points to quarterbacks. It's a good spot for him
Speaker 5: in general. Over the wide receivers, Tank Dell and Nico
Speaker 5: Collins are both getting B grades with no Brown on
Speaker 5: the bench. I'm gonna give the slide edge to Dell
Speaker 5: if you have to choose between them. For some reason,
Speaker 5: he gets the deeper plays when Nico's on the field
Speaker 5: with him. Their wide receiver thirteen and wide receiver sixteen
Speaker 5: on the season. Tank has scored four times in the
Speaker 5: last three games, but the big perimeter guy has scored
Speaker 5: in four straight on the Jags. That's kind of where
Speaker 5: the scorings go, and the Jags have actually allowed a
Speaker 5: wide receiver touchdown in every single game this season. I
Speaker 5: think he's the more likely one to score. Fifth in
Speaker 5: yards after the catch is Nico Collins B grades on
Speaker 5: both of them. No Brown is out in case he
Speaker 5: didn't know. Dalton Schultz is going to get a C grade.
Speaker 5: He's scored in five of his last seven. He just
Speaker 5: keeps scoring. No Brown being out can only help that
Speaker 5: a little bit more. He did need to score last week,
Speaker 5: but Kittle went for four for one hundred and thirteen
Speaker 5: last week. On this Jags team, they're allowing the seventh
Speaker 5: most yards to tight ends. It's a good spot C
Speaker 5: grade for Dalton Schultz end Damian Pierce does return, I'm
Speaker 5: not gonna trust it. I'm not gonna trust it.
Speaker 4: Why we gotta see it first.
Speaker 5: We gotta see it. Even though the coach said they're
Speaker 5: still gonna split. I gotta see it first, and he
Speaker 5: did practice in fall. But Devin Singletary is gonna gonna
Speaker 5: get the sea here. The Jags allowed the most receptions
Speaker 5: for most receiving yards to backs. That's not really either
Speaker 5: of their games, but if it's one of their games,
Speaker 5: it's probably more Devin Singletaries. He's probably gonna get a
Speaker 5: little bit more workflow, probably twelve to fifteen touch volume.
Speaker 5: See there.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go over to the Saints and Falcons
Speaker 1: interdivisional matchup that could have some playoff ramifications for one
Speaker 1: of these teams.
Speaker 4: Let's start on the Saints side.
Speaker 6: Brian, Yeah, it shouldn't have playoff ramifications. The whole division
Speaker 6: needs to be nuked, the NFC South. But yeah, first
Speaker 6: meeting of the season for these division rivals, both teams
Speaker 6: coming off their bye as well. But starting with the
Speaker 6: Saints and the running game Alvin Kamara, just to see
Speaker 6: from him going back to last season, Kamara has not
Speaker 6: scored against the Falcons in three eight games and he
Speaker 6: might have trouble ending that drought because the Falcons have
Speaker 6: surrendered three total touchdowns running backs all season, zero rushing
Speaker 6: and three receiving. Of course, Cameric can catch the ball
Speaker 6: so there's some hope, but overall it's a bad matchup
Speaker 6: on paper. Opposing running backs or averaging just one hundred
Speaker 6: and nine combo yards per game against against Atlanta, those
Speaker 6: aren't great numbers. But you're not gonna sit Kamara in
Speaker 6: this one. Not gonna sit Chris Olave either, But I'm close.
Speaker 6: But I'm gonna give a love. Ac total just six
Speaker 6: catches for ninety four scoreless yards in two games against
Speaker 6: the Falcons last year, and it remains a tough matchup
Speaker 6: for him as well. Especially with AJ Terrell at corner
Speaker 6: for the Falcons, He'll probably be following Olave a Lotterrell
Speaker 6: is one of the better corners in the league. The
Speaker 6: Falcons are allowing less than eleven catches one hundred and
Speaker 6: thirty yards per game to opposing wide receivers, but they
Speaker 6: have surrendered eleven touchdowns of the position, so Olave remains
Speaker 6: startable even in a tough matchup. But I do have
Speaker 6: Rashid Shahed on the bench charge.
Speaker 4: Make him this. I do as well. I just like him.
Speaker 4: Don't like this. If you're in a pinch, starts you heating.
Speaker 6: He probably won't see a whole lot of Aj Terrell
Speaker 6: he feels like more of a DFS dark to me,
Speaker 6: not like a trustable option in a standard fantasy. Even
Speaker 6: with Michael Thomas on i R. There is a really
Speaker 6: intriguing rookie receiver for the Saints. So we'll talk about
Speaker 6: him a little later. I won't mention him now, but
Speaker 6: I got sat on the bench, so charge charge gives
Speaker 6: him a sea though, I think so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll leave it.
Speaker 6: Up to you out there to decide to start you
Speaker 6: heat or not. You have to pick your spots, but
Speaker 6: well I picked mine, You pick yours?
Speaker 4: That fair enough.
Speaker 6: Over to the tight ends. Taysom Hill, Yeah, tight end.
Speaker 6: I guess it depends where you play most sites. He's
Speaker 6: a tight end. And Jawan Johnson. I'm giving both of
Speaker 6: them a see. We all know the story with Hill.
Speaker 6: He is a lotto ticket. But he's hit in each
Speaker 6: of his last three games against Atlanta, passing touchdown, rushing touchdown,
Speaker 6: passing touchdown for Taysom Hill his last three.
Speaker 4: So you never know what you want to get, all
Speaker 4: or nothing. Guy, You got to pick your spots, right,
Speaker 4: and Taysom Hill is a definite.
Speaker 6: And that again, that's last three against the Falcons.
Speaker 4: Not in general, but I don't know.
Speaker 6: You throw throw a dart every week with Taysom mill
Speaker 6: Jawan Johnson.
Speaker 4: I like the matchup for him.
Speaker 6: The Falcons are allowing more than six catches and sixty
Speaker 6: yards per game to opposing tight ends, tight ends that
Speaker 6: actually play tight end. So a sea for Johnson and
Speaker 6: a sea for Derek Carr. Alano is allowing just sorry,
Speaker 6: just over one hundred, two hundred and fifteen passing yards
Speaker 6: per game, but they have surrendered seventeen passing touchdowns. That's
Speaker 6: the third most among teams that have played ten games,
Speaker 6: So a see for Derek Carr. Over to the Falcon side,
Speaker 6: We'll start with Jon Robinson.
Speaker 4: He gets a see.
Speaker 6: Handled twenty two carries in his last game played in
Speaker 6: Week ten, seventy five percent of that the snaps as well,
Speaker 6: both season highs for Robinson, so hopefully that trend continues
Speaker 6: after the bye.
Speaker 5: No, no, Arthur Smith lost that game. He's gonna go
Speaker 5: right back.
Speaker 4: Probably right either way.
Speaker 6: A brutal matchup for the Falcons running backs. The Saints
Speaker 6: are allowed less than four yards per carry. They've allowed
Speaker 6: us four total touchdowns all season, zero receiving. Only two
Speaker 6: opposing backs have managed to crack eighty rushing yards against
Speaker 6: New Orleans, and since Week three, no opposing back has
Speaker 6: cleared twenty five receiving yards. So for those reasons, Tyler
Speaker 6: Algier is on the bench. Even if Arthur Smith reverts
Speaker 6: back to his same old Shenanigans. He did look like
Speaker 6: a true backup in Week ten and again hopefully that
Speaker 6: trend continues for the Bejon managers. But a bad matchup
Speaker 6: for Bejon ce for him Alger on the bench. See
Speaker 6: for Drake London had two decent games against New Orleans
Speaker 6: last year, seven catches for seventy yards and five catches
Speaker 6: for seventy four, but that's likely his ceiling against standout
Speaker 6: corner Marshawn Lattimore and the same secondary allowing less than
Speaker 6: twelve catches and one hundred and forty yards per game
Speaker 6: to wide receivers. They've also also streandered just seven scores
Speaker 6: to wide receivers all year. So the softest of softest
Speaker 6: of seas for Drake London, but a solid B for
Speaker 6: Kyle Pitts.
Speaker 4: I don't care. I know he doesn't.
Speaker 6: Play on tight end technically, but the Saints have allowed
Speaker 6: at least one tight end touchdown five of.
Speaker 1: The last time you were right, or on Kyle Pits,
Speaker 1: or on your grade for Kyle Pits where he either
Speaker 1: hit your grade, or the last time the last.
Speaker 4: Time I said started me sort of touchdown.
Speaker 6: And speaking of touchdowns, the Saint se have allowed at
Speaker 6: least one tight end touchdown in five of the last
Speaker 6: seven games. Opposing tight ends are also averaging nearly five
Speaker 6: catches and fifty.
Speaker 4: Yards per game.
Speaker 6: So a seed for Pits sounds like, no, it's not
Speaker 6: well again. Whoever listeners out there, pick whatever side you
Speaker 6: want there. But I got to see on Pits Smith
Speaker 6: on the bench and Desmond Ritter got his job back.
Speaker 4: But he's back on the bench.
Speaker 5: Church. I purposely give Brian the Falcons matchup.
Speaker 4: Oh I know you did.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 1: I think you do that on purpose every time you
Speaker 1: dole these out, no doubt.
Speaker 6: At least Gott just sits there and laughs rather than
Speaker 6: charging Matt ganging up on me.
Speaker 4: But I can handle it. It's all good.
Speaker 1: I don't know's to listen by now, Listeners know to
Speaker 1: take anything you say about Kyle Pitts with the grain asilums.
Speaker 1: At least Brown's taking on Broncos. Let's start with Jerome
Speaker 1: Ford with a great, big, best matchup on paper of
Speaker 1: his season. Right here, Bronco's allowing a league worst one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty two total yards per game to opposing
Speaker 1: running backs. That's forty more than the next worst defense.
Speaker 4: Holy cow.
Speaker 1: They also allow one point three touchdowns per game to
Speaker 1: opposing running backs, third worst. So now Ford should be
Speaker 1: an A grade here, But last week Kareem Hunt got
Speaker 1: as many carries as Ford did, and so Ford and
Speaker 1: fortably managed two point six yards per carry last week.
Speaker 1: So I'm hedging a little bit on Ford with the
Speaker 1: B grade here, but Kareem Hunt also C grade because
Speaker 1: of the extremely positive matchup Ford gets should get more work.
Speaker 4: But Kareem Hunt.
Speaker 1: Absolutely startable here as well. The only two parts of
Speaker 1: the passing game you're gonna start in this DTR led
Speaker 1: passing offense David and Joku. By the way, five drops
Speaker 1: for David and Joku in the past three sorry, two games.
Speaker 1: It's been a disaster, but a staggering number of targets
Speaker 1: with DTR. Get this, David and Joku the last two weeks.
Speaker 4: Twenty four targets. Jesus unbelievable.
Speaker 1: We see this all the time. Rookie quarterbacks love their
Speaker 1: tight ends. The Broncos allow the most yards per game,
Speaker 1: the fourth most receptions, and the fifth most touchdowns the
Speaker 1: tight end. So David and Joku with a B grade.
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper comes in with a C grade. Tricky matchup
Speaker 1: has will almost certainly see shadow coverage from excellent cornerback.
Speaker 4: Patrick's certain.
Speaker 1: And here's what opposing number ones have done to Denver lately.
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison forty four scoreless yards, Stefan Diggs thirty four
Speaker 1: scoreless yards, Romeo Dobbs thirty scoreless yards. Over the past
Speaker 1: five weeks, Denvers allowing the fifth fewest wide receiver yards
Speaker 1: the third fewest wide receiver touchdowns. Two of Cooper's three
Speaker 1: lowest yardage outputs of the season have come in DTR's
Speaker 1: two starts. I had a C grade in Cooper. I
Speaker 1: just tucked myself out of it. I'm going bench grade
Speaker 1: on Amari Cooper. And then let's go over to the
Speaker 1: Denver side. Let's start with the running backs there, Devonte Williams.
Speaker 1: I see a lot of carries coming in this game.
Speaker 1: Browns are easier to run upon than throw, and mostly
Speaker 1: that's how Sean Payton's been winning games for this past
Speaker 1: month has been by running Williams, who's had a ton
Speaker 1: of catches over Denver's four game winning stretches as well.
Speaker 4: He had.
Speaker 1: Eighteen touches, thirty touches, twenty five touches just thirteen last week,
Speaker 1: suggesting he's resty and he's ready for another high volume game.
Speaker 1: Cleveland allows the seventh most yards per carry, and the
Speaker 1: and the Browns do have the best run stop win rate,
Speaker 1: but through sheer volume, I think Williams remains bankable here
Speaker 1: and he comes in with a B grade.
Speaker 4: I do like the volume.
Speaker 5: In fairness to that thirteen. They were behind all game
Speaker 5: and they were having p Ryan in the pass game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 5: That's a good point why he had thirteen.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so man, JP Ryan third among running backs and
Speaker 6: receiving yards.
Speaker 4: It is wow.
Speaker 5: Truth.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I would never have guessed that that's a it's
Speaker 6: McCaffrey or with Shad White and then some a JP run.
Speaker 1: Holy cow, I you'd have given me. I don't know,
Speaker 1: thirty guesses. I don't think I would have gotten to
Speaker 1: that conclusion.
Speaker 4: Zero receiving touchdowns but thirty yards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about the passing game for the Broncos,
Speaker 1: and we'll wrap up this segment. Courtland Sutton, I love
Speaker 1: the touchdowns and I'm not ruling one out here, but
Speaker 1: Cleveland is a very tough matchup. They've surrendered the fewest
Speaker 1: receptions the third fewest yards to opposing wide receivers. Sutton
Speaker 1: matchup most often with Denzel Ward. Ward is allowing just
Speaker 1: three scores in his coverage, none in the last four games,
Speaker 1: and just a catch rate of just fifty one percent.
Speaker 1: That's very low by cornerback standards C grade for Courtland Sutton,
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy, I was ready to get put on the bench,
Speaker 1: but I think you can attack slot cornerback Greg News
Speaker 1: him a little bit. He allows a passer rating of
Speaker 1: one hundred and five and he's been beaten for two
Speaker 1: scores in the last four games. Judy doesn't score very often,
Speaker 1: but if you're looking for five catches for fifty yards,
Speaker 1: Judy's your guy, and you can start him here with
Speaker 1: a segrat And that really only leaves Russell Wilson to
Speaker 1: discuss here. Get this, guys, he's averaging twenty completions per game.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 1: They just aren't passing and they don't need to and
Speaker 1: Cleveland allows.
Speaker 4: How about this. You want a.
Speaker 1: Crazy stats samaj p Rand level crazy stat. Brown's allowing
Speaker 1: fourteen completions per game.
Speaker 4: That's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I don't like the receiver matchups very much for Wilson,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, and he's going to face tremendous pressure.
Speaker 1: Cleveland ranks fourth in pass rush win rate and Cleveland
Speaker 1: allows the fewest passing yards the fewest passing touchdowns. So
Speaker 1: Russ is on the bench when we come back. Oh,
Speaker 1: nine players upon whom you can take a chance. We
Speaker 1: got four games already in the books, so these are
Speaker 1: going to be a little deeper dives than normal. That
Speaker 1: means a lot of these p lawyers are going to
Speaker 1: be available on your waiver wire. Find out who they
Speaker 1: are when we come back for the second segment of
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 4: Take a chance on me.
Speaker 1: Nine players not normally in your starting lineup. Let's find
Speaker 1: out who they are. Beginning with Scott Fish your quarterback
Speaker 1: this week.
Speaker 5: Yes, my quarterback for the week is Gardner Minshew. Yeah.
Speaker 5: He's playing a matchup against the Bucks who have allowed
Speaker 5: a lot of really really good games but to really
Speaker 5: good quarterbacks. But they allow the sixth highest pass right.
Speaker 5: Teams are always throwing on the Bucks. Multiple scores and
Speaker 5: three hundred plus and three the last five for Gardner Minshew.
Speaker 5: The two he didn't were the two games he barely
Speaker 5: had Josh downs. He need his will be out there.
Speaker 5: His Woodby is going to be out there for this one.
Speaker 5: I really like him in this one.
Speaker 1: You mean Jelanie Woods is coming back? No ham string
Speaker 1: in the history of mankind?
Speaker 4: What happened? They're big ham strings? Yeah, big ham strings.
Speaker 4: Good happens. You take a chance on me, quarterback, Brian.
Speaker 6: Have you got Matt Stafford at Arizona? Now, initially I
Speaker 6: was gonna take this like snarky angle, assuming Cooper Cupp
Speaker 6: was going to miss this game, because Matt Stafford averages
Speaker 6: like fifty more passing yards per game when Cooper Cupp
Speaker 6: is inactive. But Cooper Cup is going to play in
Speaker 6: this game. But I'm still gonna roll with Matt Staffe.
Speaker 6: Matt Stafford at Arizona. These teams met in Week six,
Speaker 6: Stafford only at two hundred and twenty six passing yards
Speaker 6: and one passing touchdown because Cooper Cup played in that game.
Speaker 6: But also Kyler Murray did not play in that game,
Speaker 6: and we love Josh Dobbs and in Minnesota, of course,
Speaker 6: but Kyler Murray is an upgrade over Josh Dobbs at
Speaker 6: quarterback for the Cardinals. So I see this game being
Speaker 6: a little more competitive, and the Cardinals are allowing more
Speaker 6: than one and a half passing touchdowns per game.
Speaker 4: So I'm going with Matt Stafford at Arizona.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a perfect lead into my take a chance
Speaker 1: to me quarterback? Who is Kyler Murray? Through two games?
Speaker 1: I think his passing has looked pretty good, not great,
Speaker 1: pretty good, and his runnings looked really good, totally unaffected
Speaker 1: by the AC album. It's shocking, including rushing touchdowns in
Speaker 1: both his games back, averaging forty one ground yards. I
Speaker 1: did not, I absolutely did not see the running coming
Speaker 1: from Kyler mur Murray off the ages.
Speaker 5: That one scrambled in his first game back. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 5: he's back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he looked.
Speaker 4: He looked completely like his old self.
Speaker 1: The Rams allowed four quarterback rushing touchdowns already, and every
Speaker 1: mobile quarterback they face is feasted on the Rams. Anthony Richardson,
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, Josh Dobbs all topped forty seven yards and
Speaker 1: two of the three scored rushing touchdowns against the Rams.
Speaker 1: Kyler's arms is just icing on the cake here. The
Speaker 1: Rams secondary pretty good, but every quarterback except Kenny Pickett
Speaker 1: and the then very hobbl Joe Burrow have thrown touchdowns
Speaker 1: against the Rams. Kyler, Murray, you taking chance on me
Speaker 1: quarterback to go to the running back positions?
Speaker 5: Yes, charge game him a secrete in the last segment,
Speaker 5: but he didn't go into depth because he knew I
Speaker 5: was about to about how Kareem Hunch be in your
Speaker 5: lineups this week. The Broncos allowing a league high one
Speaker 5: eighty two total yards per game to the opposing running backs,
Speaker 5: nearly forty yards per game more than the second worst team.
Speaker 5: They also allow one point three touchdowns per game to
Speaker 5: opposing running backs. That's good for third most, and the
Speaker 5: Broncos have the worst run stop win rate in per
Speaker 5: ESPN Analytics.
Speaker 4: Yeah, nice job.
Speaker 1: Totally agree with that because our previously mentioned yes, Brian,
Speaker 1: you take a chance from your running back.
Speaker 6: I've got backup Steelers running back Najie Harris at Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: Yes, offensive coordinator Matt Canada.
Speaker 6: Canada fired to everyone's the light except Matt Canada's probably
Speaker 6: hopefully benefits the entire offense. But again, at this point,
Speaker 6: Harris should be considered the backup to Jalen Warren. We'll
Speaker 6: talk more.
Speaker 4: About that a little later. Back he's I think that
Speaker 4: he's still considered the starter. Well in terms of touches,
Speaker 4: it's like equal and just. But anyway back to Harris.
Speaker 6: There still should be enough meat on the bone for
Speaker 6: Harris against the Bengals, who are allowing nearly one hundred
Speaker 6: and twenty conbo yards any touchdown per game to opposing
Speaker 6: running backs. And of course those stats came with Joe
Speaker 6: Burrow at quarterback, and no, Burrow was not good at
Speaker 6: stopping the run, but he did help keep the Bengals
Speaker 6: offense on the field, which I'm not convinced Jake Browning
Speaker 6: will do. So I think we're going to see a
Speaker 6: very run heavy game script from the Steelers. So I
Speaker 6: got Najie Harris. Most people are very scared to start
Speaker 6: at this point, and they should be.
Speaker 1: If you give me a reason to start, ty J. Spears,
Speaker 1: I will do that in Carolinas that reason. Now, normally
Speaker 1: this is the time of year when Derek Henry starts
Speaker 1: battering tired defenses, but not now. He's fading hard with
Speaker 1: back to back massive dud games totaling twenty eight yards
Speaker 1: and forty four yards and barely three yards per carry.
Speaker 1: Now over the past three weeks, Taj Spears has more
Speaker 1: more snaps than Derrick Henry, only about half the volume
Speaker 1: but half the touches, but more snaps. Spears is averaging
Speaker 1: five and a half yards per carry, a full yard
Speaker 1: more than Henry, and maybe, just maybe, a desperate Titan
Speaker 1: staff is gonna start looking for some jews from a
Speaker 1: failing running game that to support a failing rookie quarterback.
Speaker 1: Caroline has allowed the most rushing touchdowns, the second most
Speaker 1: rushing yards, and Spears also, by the way, he's just
Speaker 1: really good.
Speaker 5: Jus let's start him.
Speaker 4: Let's go to our take a chance on me.
Speaker 5: Receivers, Scott, Yeah, I'm going over to New England. Gonna
Speaker 5: get Pop Douglas in the lineups this week. Giants allowing
Speaker 5: the third most receptions and second most receiving yards to
Speaker 5: opposing wide receivers. Pop Douglas himself has had a twenty
Speaker 5: four percent target share over the last four for New England,
Speaker 5: five plus catches in three straight. His snaps targets catches, yards,
Speaker 5: everything have increased each week for the last month.
Speaker 4: Wow. Yeah, all right, Brian, your take a chance on me, receiver.
Speaker 6: I was gonna go to to at Well again. I
Speaker 6: was assuming that Cooper Cup was gonna sit, but he
Speaker 6: is not. So two to two is out. So I'm
Speaker 6: going back to the Steelers, and I got tight end
Speaker 6: Pat Fryermuth Mouth. He's might take a chance on me receiver.
Speaker 6: Just one catch in his return last week, but that
Speaker 6: was against Cleveland. He was needed as a blocker as
Speaker 6: with the other Pittsburgh tight ends, but I think he
Speaker 6: sees more work as a receiver in this one. Mouth
Speaker 6: has had at least seventy five yards or a touchdown
Speaker 6: catch in each of his four career games against the Bengals,
Speaker 6: who are allowing nearly six catches and sixty five yards
Speaker 6: per game to tight end. So I think Mouth comes
Speaker 6: in this week and shine some light on the tight
Speaker 6: end wasteland.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Likely is your new starting tight end for Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews leaves behind seven targets per game, and I
Speaker 1: think most of those seven go right to Isaiah Likely,
Speaker 1: who's got the innate athleticism to run. Andrews routes, and
Speaker 1: the Baltimore starting wide receivers are all dealing with injury
Speaker 1: right now, so this feels like a likely game coming
Speaker 1: up here against Los Angeles. Likely started two games last year.
Speaker 1: One of them he had thirteen targets at one hundred yards.
Speaker 1: The other one he scored a touchdown. Likely will face
Speaker 1: off against the Chargers team that's allowed the third most
Speaker 1: tight end receptions, the second most tight end yards, and
Speaker 1: they've allowed at least sixty yards to the position in
Speaker 1: five straight games.
Speaker 4: So I like Isac spot a lot in this one.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the matchups, and that begins with
Speaker 1: this dud New England taking on the Giants. Scott on
Speaker 1: the New England side. Oh, they're being all secretive about
Speaker 1: the quarterback. We don't want to tell you who it
Speaker 1: is so that they can't game plan. It doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna make this real easy. I'm benching the passing
Speaker 5: game for the New England Patriots, except for Pop Douglas,
Speaker 5: who I gave it to take a chance on me.
Speaker 5: Player the running game. I'm only starting Romandre Stevenson. It's
Speaker 5: a B grade. The Giants are allowing a whopping four
Speaker 5: point six yards per carry, good for fourth war worst
Speaker 5: which is allowing, which has led to them allowing the
Speaker 5: second most yards and the fourth most rushing touchdowns. After
Speaker 5: a slower start. Over the last five Stevenson has taken
Speaker 5: a hold of the backfield, averaging fifteen point six touches,
Speaker 5: four of those being receptions, and eighty seven yards. He's
Speaker 5: firmly in volume C territory, but given the matchup, he'll
Speaker 5: get the B. In eleven games, a rusher has topped
Speaker 5: one hundred yards nine times. You don't say how many,
Speaker 5: nine times, nine times, nine times over. On the other side,
Speaker 5: the entire New York Giants passing game is on the bench.
Speaker 5: I know Tommy DeVito had three touchdowns last week, somehow
Speaker 5: two of went to Barkley. Though that's the guy you
Speaker 5: want to start. By the way, it's not a good
Speaker 5: matchup anyway for opposing passers against New England. Sequon Barkley
Speaker 5: is getting an A grade here. Weirdly, even with DeVito's
Speaker 5: big day, it was Barkley scoring points through the air
Speaker 5: and on the ground over one hundred yards in four
Speaker 5: of the last five cut at least three passes in
Speaker 5: all but one Pats are kind of middle of the
Speaker 5: pack against the run, but similar volume backs have done
Speaker 5: well and five of the six last five of six
Speaker 5: lead backs, five backs of last six weeks, whatever the
Speaker 5: lead backs have scored against the Patriots.
Speaker 1: Steelers taking on the Bengals, Brian, I like, how tidy
Speaker 1: that one was not a lot to talk about there,
Speaker 1: Steelers taking on the Bengals. Brian, you already told us
Speaker 1: you like Pat Fryer mooth. So does that mean you
Speaker 1: like Kenny Pickett as a starter in this game?
Speaker 4: No, he's on the bench.
Speaker 6: Let's talk about the running backs a little more. And
Speaker 6: by the way, another divisional matchup here at another first
Speaker 6: meeting of the season for the Steelers and Bengals. So
Speaker 6: we will talk some recent recent history. But first let's
Speaker 6: talk about Jalen Warren. Easy B for Warren, borderline A.
Speaker 6: Here's where Warren ranks among running backs with fifty plus
Speaker 6: carries per Pro Football Focus, which is a lot, not
Speaker 6: a lot of carries, but a lot of running backs,
Speaker 6: but Warren more than a lot.
Speaker 4: One fifty plus carries.
Speaker 6: He's first in yards per rush six point two first
Speaker 6: and ten plus yards ten plus yard runs per rush
Speaker 6: first and miss tackles forced per rush first, in yards
Speaker 6: after contact per rush all first for Jalen Warren in
Speaker 6: those metrics insane again. The Bengals are allowing nearly one
Speaker 6: hundred and twenty convo yards and a touchdown per game
Speaker 6: to opposing running backs. To a B for Warren, there
Speaker 6: will be some meat on the bone. Like I said
Speaker 6: for Naji Harris, so he used might take a chance
Speaker 6: with me. Running back over to the passing game, Pat
Speaker 6: fairemouth was might take a chance with me receiver. I
Speaker 6: do have a C grade also on wide receivers George
Speaker 6: Pickens and Deontay Johnson. Without doing any research, I can
Speaker 6: tell you Deontay Johnson did not score against the Bengals
Speaker 6: last year or anyone else for those who for good,
Speaker 6: he had zero touchdowns. Pickens did have four catches eighty
Speaker 6: three yards and a touchdown in the most recent meeting.
Speaker 4: But I like them both the same.
Speaker 6: Here the Bengals are allowing more than one hundred and
Speaker 6: seventy yards per game to wide receivers, and they've surrendered
Speaker 6: four scores to the position over their last three games.
Speaker 6: And Bengals cornerback cam Taylor Britz should miss this game. Actually,
Speaker 6: has been ruled out with the quad injury, so a
Speaker 6: safety for Pickens and Deontay Johnson, but again Pickett is
Speaker 6: on the bench. Over to the bengalside, of course, missing
Speaker 6: Joe Burrow, but we will start with Joe Mixon just
Speaker 6: to see for him. Mixon has only scored in two
Speaker 6: of ten career games against the Steelers wow, most recent
Speaker 6: game coming in twenty twenty one. But Pittsburgh is allowing
Speaker 6: one hundred and thirty five conbo yards per game to
Speaker 6: opposing running backs and Mixon virtually has no competition for
Speaker 6: touches out of the backfield. So this is a volume
Speaker 6: based play with Jake Browning at quarterback, but just to
Speaker 6: see for Mixan Mixon, and just to see sadly for
Speaker 6: Jamar Chase. The Steelers have surrendered big numbers to wide
Speaker 6: receivers this year one hundred and eighty five yards and
Speaker 6: a touchdown per game. But again, Jake Browning is now
Speaker 6: the quarterback for the Bengals, so just a see for
Speaker 6: Chase T.
Speaker 4: Higgins.
Speaker 6: I'm likely to play with the hamstring. He's on the
Speaker 6: bench either way, even if he does suit up. Tyler
Speaker 6: Boyd on the bench.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Chargie and Scott
Speaker 1: Fish and Brian Johnson with you. If you missed a
Speaker 1: new part of the show and you want all of
Speaker 1: my player rankings, they're available for free keyteen leagues dot com.
Speaker 6: What about your pie rankings? Where do you have pumpkin?
Speaker 6: I'm just kidding. Don't get me going on pumping.
Speaker 4: I'm not.
Speaker 1: Chiefs at Raiders. Next up, Patrick Mahomes Travis Kelsey. Usually
Speaker 1: I just go wilder obvious as well. Them played like
Speaker 1: it lately, right, so let's dive in a little bit.
Speaker 1: Both of them have slumped for three games, and Las
Speaker 1: Vegas is not the slump buster that you might think.
Speaker 1: The Las Vegas secondary rank sixteenth by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: That's not bad. Max Crosby's fantastic. Now, the Chiefs to
Speaker 1: have the league's top rated run sorry pass block win rates,
Speaker 1: so you know, Max Crosby might be neutralized to some
Speaker 1: degree here, but he's terrific. Cornerbacks Marcus Peters and Nate
Speaker 1: Hobbs for Las Vegas both rank and the top third
Speaker 1: amongst starting cornerbacks in coverage by Pro Football Focus. The
Speaker 1: Raiders have been solid against tight ends this year, although
Speaker 1: they did a lot of big games recently to Tyler
Speaker 1: Conklin and Sam Laporta. But it's still Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey against the Raiders, and I can't give myself
Speaker 1: to not give them a grades. Even though that offense
Speaker 1: doesn't look right, that defense is kind of carrying the team.
Speaker 5: Which is honestly scary. Once it starts to look right, man, then.
Speaker 4: What because the defense has been really good.
Speaker 1: It's jerious sneer gonna talk about in a minute, Holy cow,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Isaiah Pacheco. Man, did I love the
Speaker 1: way he ran a Monday night oh so hard against
Speaker 1: a great Eagles to run defense. Compared to the Eagles,
Speaker 1: this game is gonna feel very easy for Pacheco. Raiders
Speaker 1: allow one hundred and forty six total yards per game
Speaker 1: to opposing running backs. That is the second most in
Speaker 1: the league, and the Raiders allow four and a half
Speaker 1: yards per carry to opposing.
Speaker 4: Running backs, six the most.
Speaker 1: The only reason I can't give Pacheco in a grade
Speaker 1: here his receiving is completely dried up. We loved that
Speaker 1: earlier in the year, were like, hey, we didn't think
Speaker 1: we're going to any receptions out of pa Checko and
Speaker 1: there they were not lately over the past three games.
Speaker 1: Pachecko has past three games, Pacheco has one receiving yard.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 1: So I can only go B grade and Isaiah Pajack McKinnon.
Speaker 1: Maybe that will give him a couple of receptions. If
Speaker 1: you think that's the case, move him to an A
Speaker 1: grade at your own discretion. We can't do anything with
Speaker 1: these wide receivers. I lament this many weeks, and it's
Speaker 1: an old story that you already know. Really had hoped
Speaker 1: that Rashid Rice at this stage, middle of his rookie year,
Speaker 1: would start taking command. Not happening, So there's really no receiver.
Speaker 4: You can know all the metrics.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 5: It's it's like the Kyle Pitts of wide receivers.
Speaker 4: Except he's good. Let's go to Las Vegas side.
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs averaging a whopping twenty two rushes in the
Speaker 1: last three games under Antonio Pierce, which you love, but
Speaker 1: Pierce has also dried up Jacob's targets. He had been
Speaker 1: averaging four catches for thirty yards per game under Josh McDaniels.
Speaker 1: Now it's like free. That's a free seven Fantasy points
Speaker 1: right there out of your running back. But under Pierce
Speaker 1: he's averaging one catch for seven yards. That's wow, one
Speaker 1: point seven fantasy points. The Chiefs pass defense is becoming
Speaker 1: smothering and the path of least resistance is on the ground,
Speaker 1: So I think we're gonna get a lot of running
Speaker 1: from Jacob's. Four straight opponents have had a runner top
Speaker 1: seventy six yards against the Chiefs, and three of those
Speaker 1: four have scored touchdowns. We've got a B grade on
Speaker 1: Jacobs again, can't go A because he's not catching the ball,
Speaker 1: but we'll go with the B grade on Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 1: Here in the passing game, there's only two guys you
Speaker 1: care about, and they're both really almost long shot starts.
Speaker 1: Here DeVante Adams thirteen targets in back to back games,
Speaker 1: which you love, eighty or more yards in both of
Speaker 1: those and a score. Kansas City secondary surrendered the sixth
Speaker 1: fewest receptions and the seventh fewest yards opposing receivers. But
Speaker 1: here's where it gets really Harry Adam's going to get
Speaker 1: a law look at Lagarius Snead and he might be
Speaker 1: the best cornerback in the league right now. It's unbelievable
Speaker 1: he has yet to allow a touchdown. He gives up
Speaker 1: a fifty two passer rating in his coverage. He just
Speaker 1: shut down AJ Brown on Monday, holding AJ Brown to
Speaker 1: one catch for eight yards. In fact, over the last
Speaker 1: five games, he's averaging in his coverage one catch for
Speaker 1: twelve yards. It's unbelievable that a starting cornerback can do that.
Speaker 1: I can only get you to a B grade on Adams,
Speaker 1: and really it should be a C grade, but I'm
Speaker 1: giving him a B just on volume. Jacoby Myers won't
Speaker 1: see Lagarius Snead, but Antonio Pierce is just killing him.
Speaker 1: All those runs for Myers, all those targets for Adams
Speaker 1: have come at the expense of Jacoby Myers since Pierce
Speaker 1: took over Meyers averaging two catches for thirty two yps.
Speaker 1: But because he won't see Lagerius Snead and instead he's
Speaker 1: gonna see cornerback Jalen Watson, He's given up five touchdowns
Speaker 1: in his coverage along with a pass rating one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty three. So I still have a C grade
Speaker 1: on Jacoby Myers. And there's no other Raiders that you
Speaker 1: would consider starting.
Speaker 4: I've got a league. I want to ask you guys
Speaker 4: about Okay, Brian's in this league.
Speaker 1: This is an Empire league, and for those that don't know,
Speaker 1: it's a dynasty league where half of the money gets
Speaker 1: paid out every year and half of it's in a
Speaker 1: rolling pot waiting for some team to win back to
Speaker 1: back years and then they get the rolling pot and
Speaker 1: the league dissolves.
Speaker 4: Don't tell him how much money is in the pot
Speaker 4: in case the irs.
Speaker 1: No kidding, because it's been going for I think like
Speaker 1: eleven years now or something. I don't know, something like that,
Speaker 1: So it's been going a long time. I am well
Speaker 1: who I am? Is my role in this is not important.
Speaker 1: You've got a team in this league, Scott, that is
Speaker 1: not a very good team.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 1: Two weeks ago, owner in this team started a bye
Speaker 1: week player no no, not cool no, and then last
Speaker 1: week started instead of benched Joe Mixon for Jeff Wilson.
Speaker 4: In just the clear of the air, it's not me,
Speaker 4: I'm not that. You're not that guy.
Speaker 1: Okay, So what is the appropriate spot response for a
Speaker 1: commissioner here?
Speaker 5: I feel like if it's if it's reported in time
Speaker 5: to do so, you you fix the lineup. I believe
Speaker 5: leagues need to have valid starting lineups unless otherwise stated.
Speaker 5: I have run leagues and had leagues that tanking is
Speaker 5: one hundred percent allowed. We're like, tank if you want to.
Speaker 5: It's understood if everybody knows going in. But like we've been,
Speaker 5: we've both been playing for over thirty years. Setting valid
Speaker 5: lineups and not tanking, not intentionally tanking, has been a
Speaker 5: rule forever. It's the one of the most known unwritten
Speaker 5: rules in fantasy football.
Speaker 1: Correct and in this case, we've got a lot of
Speaker 1: money degine that. The integrity of wins and loss is
Speaker 1: a very big deal.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to lose. You're giving wins to somebody who.
Speaker 5: Are giving free win. I get the tanking to help
Speaker 5: your team, and that's why I have leagues where you're
Speaker 5: allowed to tank. But if it's not stated, you can't
Speaker 5: be allowing that.
Speaker 4: No, I don't. So what do you do in retrospec?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's Hopefully it's reported in time that the
Speaker 5: commissioner can fix it. In leagues that I have that
Speaker 5: don't allow tanking, if it's reported before that Thursday morning
Speaker 5: stack correction, we're able to fix it.
Speaker 1: All right, But what about it's one thing if a
Speaker 1: player is just on buy right, you put a bye
Speaker 1: week player in, that's pretty easy. What about benching Joe
Speaker 1: Mixon for Jeff Wilson.
Speaker 5: Yes, so my rules have bye week injured or obviously
Speaker 5: inferior players right in my by laws. I don't know
Speaker 5: your by laws for that league, but yeah, we we
Speaker 5: generally fix a lot of those. One way, it doesn't
Speaker 5: happen too often because I vet my owners really well.
Speaker 5: But you got you get, you get a person like that. Sometimes.
Speaker 6: One way to mitigate this in this league, in any league,
Speaker 6: whether it's Empire Dynasty, redraft, is you have the last
Speaker 6: place penalty, whether it's you go to Pie Hop and
Speaker 6: Death by Waffles or or waffle House whatever, or it's
Speaker 6: a monetary penalty for coming in last place, like you
Speaker 6: gotta pay the first place team's entry fee or something
Speaker 6: like that.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that helps. I have a lot of leagues that
Speaker 5: do uh draft order by potential points instead of your
Speaker 5: starting lineup points or your win loss, and that way,
Speaker 5: when someone benches the stud it does nothing for their
Speaker 5: draft orders.
Speaker 4: So they don't really interesting. It has really interesting.
Speaker 5: That's that's what one company does, and it is completely
Speaker 5: removed tanking from the situation. Nobody tanks because it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: All right. That's I had never heard that suggestion. That's
Speaker 4: a really good one. I will say.
Speaker 6: I am playing this team this week and he's been
Speaker 6: a big boy and he has a big boy lineup.
Speaker 6: Good for you. You know who you are out there
Speaker 6: if you're listening, Oh boy, but there's a there's a
Speaker 6: compliant lineup.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that that's the case. What do
Speaker 1: you do We're roll into this week and we've already
Speaker 1: had four games played. What do you do if you're
Speaker 1: way up like you you know, if you're way up
Speaker 1: because you started you know, Dak Presscott or you started
Speaker 1: Christian mccaff or you started Jordan Love. Or what if
Speaker 1: you're way down because you started Zach Charbonay or Brian
Speaker 1: Robinson or A. J. Dillond, DK metcalf for TJ. Lockett
Speaker 1: or Gino Smith? What do you do if when either
Speaker 1: of those scenarios as you head into this weekend's play?
Speaker 5: I feel like we talk about this every year that
Speaker 5: we do right at this very at this very day.
Speaker 4: Every year we talked.
Speaker 5: About Yeah, every year it's you go for the higher
Speaker 5: upside plays even though even though the floor isn't there,
Speaker 5: you switch it up and go for the guys you think.
Speaker 5: They never up or down if you're down. Okay, I
Speaker 5: think it's that you know, it's just the reverse for
Speaker 5: both of them. You play it safe. If you're up,
Speaker 5: you do you do the best upside play if you're down.
Speaker 5: But mostly I think people don't have a lot of
Speaker 5: those bench options. You just play your best players regardless
Speaker 5: most of the time.
Speaker 4: Most of the time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, if you're down big, you got to try and
Speaker 6: stack players from the same team, Yes, you can, or
Speaker 6: you remove correlation from your opponents. Say I have the
Speaker 6: quarterback and you're beating me. Charging you've got their number
Speaker 6: one wide receiver. I gotta go another quarterback because I'm
Speaker 6: not I'm not going to catch it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, vice versa. If you're ahead, you look for that Cortlage.
Speaker 1: Uh is Geno Smith going to finish the year? Will
Speaker 1: he play out all of the games as Seattle starting quarterback?
Speaker 6: I think if healthy and they're still in the playoff
Speaker 6: on I think I think one of the other. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but they fall out of the playoff hunt, which would
Speaker 6: be hard in the NFC, even though I think if
Speaker 6: they do, then they maybe give Locke a look. But
Speaker 6: I'm gonna I'm gonna say yes for now.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm gonna say yes.
Speaker 1: It's tricky, isn't it. Yeah, I mean, right now if
Speaker 1: with Geno Smith it does not look particularly good at
Speaker 1: the moment, I don't think. No, I don't think I
Speaker 1: don't think so either. There's a there's a lot of
Speaker 1: questions around that that let's go to Jake brown how.
Speaker 5: About they catch from and jig By the other day?
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, that was fantastic. He's one hand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the little shades of Odell Beckham, don't you think?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I thought so too.
Speaker 1: Jake Browning's effect on this Bengals offense looks like it's
Speaker 1: going to be potentially severe. What are your feelings on
Speaker 1: Bengals going forward?
Speaker 4: And you know you're probably were going to.
Speaker 5: Start ja March, but everybody else is the one you
Speaker 5: trust and for mix in for for everybody else in
Speaker 5: that offense. I think the best thing you can possibly
Speaker 5: do is tune into Fantasy Football weekly every week to
Speaker 5: get our grades on those players. Like that idea, I
Speaker 5: think that's the best you can do.
Speaker 1: Browning's got a little mobility to him, the passing looks
Speaker 1: pretty suspect. So I'm I know, I'm pretty I'm pretty
Speaker 1: nervous about the rest of that group, and even Chase,
Speaker 1: I think is going to have some dud games get
Speaker 1: mixed in that are going to frustrate a lot of owners.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got a question for you, since we're just
Speaker 5: randomly asking questions at the end of the.
Speaker 4: Segment, Who's this isn't even three tough questions kind of who's.
Speaker 5: The rookie wide receiver you want most next year? Jane Reid, Pukka,
Speaker 5: Tank Dell, There's Jordan Addison, Tank Del Is it Tanked Dell?
Speaker 4: Quarterback?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, I mean you think he'll be the highest
Speaker 5: ranked rookie in Dynasty, you know, for Dynasty leagues next year?
Speaker 4: For yeah, I do, Okay, I do.
Speaker 1: Has a chance to be awesome. Like you know, if
Speaker 1: we roll the clock ahead one or two years, he
Speaker 1: might be the best quarterback. That's right, It's possible. By
Speaker 1: the way, c J. Stroud, this is an embtting show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, c J.
Speaker 1: Stroud to an MVP rookie the year has already done.
Speaker 1: Yea MVP plus eighteen hundred eighteen to one. Yep, and
Speaker 1: who's in his way? I mean, sure, Jalen Hurts, his
Speaker 1: team is nine and one, but Hurts hasn't played that
Speaker 1: well honestly, and or Patrick Mahomes, he hasn't played that well.
Speaker 4: The AFC is like it's up for grabs.
Speaker 1: Houston's one game out of first place with a tie
Speaker 1: breaker one.
Speaker 4: You know, they're one win out of first place in
Speaker 4: the AFC.
Speaker 1: So to win MVP, you've got to be a really
Speaker 1: good quarterback on a highly seeded team that could.
Speaker 5: Be stroud it absolutely, I like it eighteen to one.
Speaker 1: I like it now where if you are an illegal,
Speaker 1: you're in an area where you can bet legally. That
Speaker 1: is something you could you could give some thought to
Speaker 1: if you wanted to as a possibility. All right, so
Speaker 1: let me get you with a couple other time killers
Speaker 1: year before three. Well, I know I know this get
Speaker 1: three tough. I know it is incredible've I don't think
Speaker 1: we've ever had ever had a segment with so much
Speaker 1: free available timing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we only did one one matchup in this segment.
Speaker 1: I know we never have a one matchup segment, but
Speaker 1: that's just how it worked. I blame the Patriots and
Speaker 1: the Giants by the way for that. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: well we'll roll right back into the matchups in just
Speaker 1: a few minutes. Uh, But let's talk Browns for for
Speaker 1: just just a splash for a second here on Browns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jerome Ford is a power, you know, as a lead
Speaker 1: back on a team that now almost has to run
Speaker 1: the ball.
Speaker 4: It could be a sneaky league winner, could be.
Speaker 5: He could be And people don't see him that way.
Speaker 1: At all, not at all, But I think there's a
Speaker 1: chance Jerome Ford one of those guys where you look
Speaker 1: back and go, yeah, he powered me through into and
Speaker 1: through the playoffs.
Speaker 6: Well, they're going to run and play defense in Cleveland.
Speaker 6: That's that's the game plan.
Speaker 4: That's about all they can no shaker there, That's about it,
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 1: When we come back, three tough questions, you'll want to
Speaker 1: see if you can go three and zero against our
Speaker 1: co hosts, Scott and Brian. Also later on in the show,
Speaker 1: a segment we love premature speculation. Guys, you can pick
Speaker 1: up now that the rest is can be trying to
Speaker 1: pick up. But they'll already be on your team when
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Speaker 1: Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly our number two Paul Charchi
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Speaker 4: This is a game we call three tough questions.
Speaker 3: Off question number one.
Speaker 4: For the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Baltimore tight end Isaiah Likely will most commonly get what
Speaker 1: letter grade on this show, A B, C or bench.
Speaker 1: Now you already know he got to B grade for
Speaker 1: me earlier in the show.
Speaker 4: Do we do that one yet?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he might take a chance. When we played all
Speaker 1: we didn't break it down yet.
Speaker 5: Oh we didn't break down the beach.
Speaker 4: All right. So let's be in with Scott.
Speaker 5: Fish all right. So I think it's going to be
Speaker 5: between A being a C for most of the matchups.
Speaker 5: Here I put C though. My thoughts here are the
Speaker 5: Ravens went heavy to Beckham after Andrews left. That's where
Speaker 5: the ball started going. Once Andrews is down. They didn't
Speaker 5: immediately shove Likely into that role. And you talked about
Speaker 5: the two games last year. One of them there is
Speaker 5: one catch one touchdown, that's all was. The other one
Speaker 5: was a Week seventeen game where Anthony Brown started. They're
Speaker 5: two top wide receivers and their top tight end. We're
Speaker 5: out and the Kane Corpse of Kenyan Drake was in
Speaker 5: it running back. Because all their running backs were injured,
Speaker 5: they had to go to Isaiah likely thirteen times. I
Speaker 5: do like that they went to him, but I'm not
Speaker 5: as confident as if those two were two normal games
Speaker 5: in the middle of the season with Lamar Jackson. I
Speaker 5: feel like there's there's something to be said for the
Speaker 5: fact that they went to Beckham so much right after
Speaker 5: he went out. So I'm gonna go C grade. He's
Speaker 5: gonna get some bes though. There are some matchups, all.
Speaker 4: Right, Brian.
Speaker 1: Rest of the season, Baltimore tight end Isaiah likely will
Speaker 1: most commonly get what letter grade from this show.
Speaker 6: Definitely no worse than the Sea. We wouldn't be giving
Speaker 6: Mark Andrews a see in any matchup if you were healthy,
Speaker 6: and we know Andrews is gonna miss most of the
Speaker 6: regular season, at least through Week seventeen. Yeah, this is
Speaker 6: what we started presuming, and Fantasy just wanted to hammer
Speaker 6: that home. But so likely will be the starting tight end.
Speaker 6: But you know what, they have other tight ends in Baltimore.
Speaker 6: Charlie Kohler, I believe is one. I say it likely
Speaker 6: might be needed to play wide receiver and he can
Speaker 6: do that. Obj is banged up, Zay Flowers banged up,
Speaker 6: even though he's looking likely to play on Monday Night.
Speaker 6: Rashad Bateman just not very good. So there's some shootout
Speaker 6: potential on the horizons starting this week at the Chargers.
Speaker 6: The forty nine ers on the docket, that is actually
Speaker 6: someone of the favorable matchup for opposing pass attacks. So
Speaker 6: I got to be on the majority of the games
Speaker 6: remaining for Isaiah Likely.
Speaker 1: Five games left, including this weekend, only one difficult matchup
Speaker 1: San Francisco on the schedule. The other four are somewhere
Speaker 1: between neutral and easy. And I've already gave you a
Speaker 1: bunch of key points about Isaiah Likely earlier in the
Speaker 1: show during take a chance on Me now if you
Speaker 1: don't know, Isaiah Likely is not a blocker. He is
Speaker 1: a pure receiving tight end and athletic enough to replace
Speaker 1: Andrews routes. He can run those routes. Andrews to this
Speaker 1: point has six touchdowns. All of the rest of the
Speaker 1: receivers on the team have six touchdowns. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: an offense that offensive coordinator Todd Moncodon.
Speaker 5: Oh there's their thing.
Speaker 4: Don't ball me, thank you.
Speaker 1: Art Monkin schemes his tight ends for scores, and I
Speaker 1: don't think he's got to change it for Isaacah likely
Speaker 1: most commonly B grade.
Speaker 3: Okay, tough question number two.
Speaker 1: Rest of season Chicago quarterback Justin Fields will most commonly
Speaker 1: get what letter grade from this show?
Speaker 4: We begin with Brian Johnson.
Speaker 6: All right, looking at his last five games from a
Speaker 6: fantasy perspective again ending in week seventeen, starting this week,
Speaker 6: And this is just from a purely passing perspective in
Speaker 6: my mind.
Speaker 4: At Minnesota, I got a C. Then by then.
Speaker 6: Home against Detroit that's a bee. At Cleveland that's a C.
Speaker 6: Maybe bench, maybe bench Arizona be Atlanta C. But Justin
Speaker 6: Fields doesn't.
Speaker 4: Just rely on his arm. No, He's got legs, of course.
Speaker 6: So I'm bumping all those grades up a notch based
Speaker 6: on his legs. And if you do that, I got
Speaker 6: mostly bees for Justin Fields.
Speaker 4: Scott.
Speaker 1: Rest of season Chicago quarterback Justin Fields will most commonly
Speaker 1: get what letter grade on this show.
Speaker 5: It's almost exactly word for word what I had. I
Speaker 5: went through, but I did not split it up. I
Speaker 5: have him with four b's and one see the Browns,
Speaker 5: one being really the only tough spot where I don't
Speaker 5: feel I can, you know, confidently start justin fields.
Speaker 1: Four of the five remaining games are against teams that
Speaker 1: are in the bottom half of quarterback rushing yards allowed,
Speaker 1: and only Cleveland looks like the stopper. Even then because
Speaker 1: of the rushing he said couldn't get a C grade
Speaker 1: in that game coming into it. He might finish, might
Speaker 1: finish better than that offensive coordinator Luke Getzi. God bless him,
Speaker 1: and I haven't said that often this year. I love
Speaker 1: the fact that last week, the first game off of
Speaker 1: him missing you know, a month of service, they ran
Speaker 1: him fourteen times right off the bat too.
Speaker 5: By the way, I think the three games, if you
Speaker 5: don't count the Minnesota game where he got injured, I
Speaker 5: believe that his last three games he's had like thirty
Speaker 5: Fantasy points each.
Speaker 1: I think that's probably just last three play's average sixty
Speaker 1: five rushing yards in his last since Week four, I
Speaker 1: think that is three games he's been a top ten
Speaker 1: quarterback in every full game he's played since Week four,
Speaker 1: already B grade this week. I think he's going to
Speaker 1: finish with A grades against Detroit and Arizona, C grade
Speaker 1: against Cleveland, and a B grade against Atlanta. You mix
Speaker 1: all that together, it's almost an A, but it's almost
Speaker 1: an It's going to be a B grade as the
Speaker 1: most common grade for justin fields.
Speaker 3: Tough question number three.
Speaker 1: All right, let's fast forward to Tuesday. Should I sabotage
Speaker 1: drop Garrett Wilson? He ended up with a garbage time
Speaker 1: touchdown in the end of Friday's game, obviously, well, and
Speaker 1: again we clarified last week you weren't here for this, Scott.
Speaker 1: We clarified exactly what constitutes the seminotage drop.
Speaker 4: You know all about it.
Speaker 1: It's got to be somebody good enough that your opponents
Speaker 1: will pick them up, start them, and they'll hurt your.
Speaker 5: Opponent and also waste.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and hopefully waste bab money or roster positioning or whatever.
Speaker 4: So yes, So fast forward to Tuesday. Should I sabotage
Speaker 4: drop Garrett Wilson?
Speaker 5: Scott, I am going to lean no, and I'm not
Speaker 5: even that strong on it, but he's seen twenty five
Speaker 5: to thirty percent of Tim Boyle's targets in the game
Speaker 5: in a quarter or whatever. He had ten targets in
Speaker 5: that Friday game as well. The garbage time touched on
Speaker 5: the yard is is going to be low, but it's
Speaker 5: a lot of usage. And my thought process is you're
Speaker 5: probably replacing someone's wide receiver three or four in their lineup,
Speaker 5: and Garrett Wilson, what he's going to do going ford
Speaker 5: is probably actually helping, you know, a little bit better
Speaker 5: than what that person probably has on their team. So
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with no. But I get it. I
Speaker 5: get it.
Speaker 1: Brian, fast forward to Tuesday. Should I sabotage drop Garrett Wilson?
Speaker 6: Initially I was going to say no too, because all season,
Speaker 6: from the moment Aaron Rodgers went down which was the
Speaker 6: first drive of the season for the Jets, Garrett Wilson
Speaker 6: has managed essentially put up wide receiver two numbers before
Speaker 6: last week.
Speaker 4: That's not the Black Friday game. He total dud last week.
Speaker 6: As we mentioned, he had the garbage time touchdown on
Speaker 6: the black the Black Friday game against the Dolphins. They
Speaker 6: have the Dolphins again in Week fifteen, but looking at
Speaker 6: the two games before that, versus Atlanta versus Houston. Those
Speaker 6: are bad matchups where I might give Wilson to see
Speaker 6: if Aaron Rodgers was healthy. Then they get Miami again,
Speaker 6: where you only at the twenty nine yards in the
Speaker 6: garbage time touchdown. You can't bank on that again. Then
Speaker 6: Washington week sixteen, the only good matchup Week seventeen at Cleveland.
Speaker 6: You're not touching that. That's a Thursday night game. Two gross,
Speaker 6: So sabotage drop him. Listen to y'all, y'all, Okay, it's
Speaker 6: a sabotage.
Speaker 1: So we're at a point in the season where I
Speaker 1: think we can start talking about the playoffs and ask
Speaker 1: yourself this, can I win my league starting a Jets
Speaker 1: wide receiver three straight times?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: Huh, No, no way.
Speaker 1: And that's why we're gonna sabotage drop Okay, Garrett Wilson,
Speaker 1: unless you want to roll the dice. Maybe on like
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers coming back, you know, way earlier.
Speaker 5: So Tannehill gain released and something like that have to be.
Speaker 4: A change of quarterback, which it's not. I don't think
Speaker 4: it's coming.
Speaker 1: It seems very unlikely anyway, And as Brian mentioned, I
Speaker 1: had to this my notes too. The Washington start is
Speaker 1: the only one where you feel like I can put
Speaker 1: him in my lineup and feel good about Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 4: All the rest are bad.
Speaker 1: And then the week seventeen, and I'd like to believe
Speaker 1: I'm playing in Week seventeen. Total stopper for Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 4: Let's sabotage, drop him and see what happens. And again,
Speaker 4: don't do it just to do it. It has to
Speaker 4: benefit you.
Speaker 6: Maybe you improve your waiver position, or you're gonna knock
Speaker 6: out the fab leader in the league or anything.
Speaker 1: It's gonna hurt mine. It's gonna hurt the guy that
Speaker 1: my opponent that picks him up. That's how it benefits me.
Speaker 1: I think Bucks taking on the Colts Scott Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: something we've talked about many times in this show because
Speaker 1: he keeps popping up with these positive matchups, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna take a chance on me Staple.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're not even allowed to. You choose them chance.
Speaker 4: We're done with Baker.
Speaker 5: We're done, We're done.
Speaker 4: What do you think about him this week?
Speaker 5: It's another okay spot. I got a secret on him.
Speaker 5: Four of the last five QBS to face the Colts
Speaker 5: were hauled under one hundred and eighty five yards. The
Speaker 5: last five quarterbacks combined for five touchdowns and eight pecks.
Speaker 5: It hasn't been stellar, but Baker's getting two undred thirty
Speaker 5: to two hundred and eighty yards one to two touchdowns.
Speaker 5: Those quarterbacks that face the Colts, I would say at
Speaker 5: Baker's level or worse. And the Colts have given up
Speaker 5: the eighth most touchdowns. Yeah, I got a C grade, don't.
Speaker 5: I don't love it, but I'm gonna guess you might
Speaker 5: have a better matchup with nobody on buy so I
Speaker 5: can see Benjamin Mike Evans. I got a B grade
Speaker 5: on he's still seeing forty percent of the team's episode targets,
Speaker 5: which is he's scored in seven different games, scored in
Speaker 5: four of the last five. Lead receivers against the Colts
Speaker 5: are averaging seven for ninety eight yards on ten targets.
Speaker 5: I can see Mike Evans doing that. I got a
Speaker 5: B grade there, C grade on Chris Godwin. He scored
Speaker 5: just once this year because Mike Evans's gayed all that.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, and hasn't topped sixty yards in a month,
Speaker 5: but he's still getting six plus targets. He's getting four
Speaker 5: plus catches in almost every single game, and that four
Speaker 5: to six catches forties to seventy yards with no scores.
Speaker 5: That's like that Sea level. Yeah. Yeah, you're getting barely
Speaker 5: over double digit points from him bench grade on Kaitot
Speaker 5: and he's seen better matchups and despite playing ninety five
Speaker 5: percent of the time, he's averaging like three to thirty
Speaker 5: and you need to enough. Yeah, Rashad White B grade there.
Speaker 5: I love the usage recently, especially in the past game.
Speaker 5: Over the last five weeks, White has turned into a
Speaker 5: bell cow, averaging nineteen touches, five of them being receptions.
Speaker 5: Five receptions a game, like you had thirty yards, you're
Speaker 5: getting like eight eight points minimum, nine points minimum through
Speaker 5: the pass game. He's also scored four times the last
Speaker 5: three weeks. He converted four his four of his five
Speaker 5: attempts inside the five. I know Charch loves that. The Colts'
Speaker 5: eighth easiest matchup for opposing runners. We just watched Zeke
Speaker 5: and Ramandre Stevenson go for one hundred ninety total on
Speaker 5: this team last in the last matchup over to the
Speaker 5: other side. Gardner Minshew was my take a chance on
Speaker 5: me player and a big part of that is because
Speaker 5: he's got his wood Bee Josh downs coming back, right.
Speaker 5: I have a B grade on Josh downs. No team
Speaker 5: allows more fantasy points to the slot than the Bucks.
Speaker 5: In fact, they allow twice as many fantasy points to
Speaker 5: the slot as they do to the perimeter. The only
Speaker 5: other team in that category is the Steelers, which they don't.
Speaker 5: They're not really playing a great slot guy this week anyway.
Speaker 5: Last two weeks were not good, not good slot mach
Speaker 5: slot matchups. But this one is the two previous that
Speaker 5: he had where there was a good slot matchup. He
Speaker 5: went seven for seventy two and then he had one
Speaker 5: hundred plus yard in a score day. Bucks allowed the
Speaker 5: second most touchdowns to the slot. Just they're bad all
Speaker 5: round against the slot. Alec Pierce cardio boy running ninety
Speaker 5: percent of the route, seeing ten percent of the targets.
Speaker 5: Is on the bench, Jonathan cardio Boy. Jonathan Taylor B grade.
Speaker 5: Moss dropped from fifteen touch to eight to one touch.
Speaker 4: You know, Moss have played pretty pretty well this season.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, but since getting that full work well workload
Speaker 5: from Jonathan Taylor over the last three weeks, he's averaging
Speaker 5: over twenty touches ninety yards, scoring three of those four
Speaker 5: Tampa Bay. It's a good defense against backs. It's mostly
Speaker 5: because they don't run. Teams do not run a lot
Speaker 5: on them. It's fourth hardest, but only four backs have
Speaker 5: had more than fifteen touches against the Bucks. Those backs
Speaker 5: averaged about one hundred and ten yards. So I have
Speaker 5: a B grade on Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, Panthers take on the Titans.
Speaker 1: We'll see if there's any Panther other than Adam Thielen
Speaker 1: that you dare try in this matchup. Bryan's tempted to
Speaker 1: answer that, Now, don't you got to make people wait
Speaker 1: for an exciting.
Speaker 5: Pants just drop all the Panthers except for Adam at
Speaker 5: this point.
Speaker 4: Might be the case. We'll find out when we come back.
Speaker 1: More Fantasy Football Weekly, Stay tuned, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 4: A big block oh matchups for you.
Speaker 1: Beginning with Panthers Titans. Doesn't feel like there's a lot
Speaker 1: of meat on this bone. But Adam Thelon's been really good,
Speaker 1: so I mean there's.
Speaker 4: That, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, if there was a vegan matchup, this would probably
Speaker 6: be it. So yeah, Adam Feeling will start with him,
Speaker 6: he gets a be with head coach Frank Reich, back
Speaker 6: to calling plays, feeling his money in the bank again.
Speaker 6: He's double digit targets and back to back games and
Speaker 6: in five of his last six. The Titans are allowing
Speaker 6: fifteen catches, one hundred and eighty two yards and one
Speaker 6: touchdown per game to wide receivers. And honestly, that whole
Speaker 6: line could go to Adam Thielen in this game. It's
Speaker 6: not going to Jonathan Mingo, who's on the bench. Through
Speaker 6: nine games, Mingo has totaled twenty four catches for two
Speaker 6: hundred and twenty six scoreless yards. We're talking about the
Speaker 6: fifth wide receiver taken the thirty ninth overall pick. Wow,
Speaker 6: I mean Tank Dell who can Like the list goes
Speaker 6: on and on it. Carolina Brick to this draft bad.
Speaker 6: So that speaks to Bryce Young. He is on the
Speaker 6: bench tight end, Tommy Tremble on the bench, and Miles
Speaker 6: Sanders and Miles Sanders and Cuba Hubbard on the bench
Speaker 6: as well. Just when looked like Hubbard was going to
Speaker 6: take over a full time role, he and Sanders both
Speaker 6: touched the ball twelve times last week and played an
Speaker 6: almost equal number of snaps twenty nine to twenty seven.
Speaker 6: Tennessee's one stout run defense has somewhat eroded. But you
Speaker 6: can't trust Hubbard or Sanders against anyone at this point.
Speaker 1: I thought Sanders ran as well oh last week as
Speaker 1: I've seen him all year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you look, you look good. But it's still not
Speaker 6: a great matchup on paper.
Speaker 1: I'm not advocating starting him. I'm just noting I thought
Speaker 1: he looked. He looked kind of spry.
Speaker 6: And worth mentioning the Panthers if anyone is still contemplating
Speaker 6: starting either of these backs lost starting right guard Austin
Speaker 6: Corbett to ir so bad all around for Carolina over
Speaker 6: to the Titan side. A great fantasy fantasy bonzie for
Speaker 6: Derrick Henry. This should be a vintage King Henry game,
Speaker 6: and sadly it might.
Speaker 4: Be his last of his career.
Speaker 6: But this is a smash spot for Henry, who faces
Speaker 6: the Panthers defense allowing one hundred and fifteen rushing yards
Speaker 6: per game to running backs.
Speaker 4: That's on the ground alone.
Speaker 6: That is the fifth most opposing backs also averaging nearly
Speaker 6: five catches per game against Carolina, who have surrendered sixteen
Speaker 6: total touchdowns to the running back position that is the
Speaker 6: most and that is why TYJ. Spears was your take
Speaker 6: a chance on me running back charts. He will certainly
Speaker 6: have a role in this game.
Speaker 4: Hmmm as well.
Speaker 6: And the last Titan that I will give a starting
Speaker 6: grade to is DeAndre Hopkins. But just to see, Hopkins
Speaker 6: has seen a twenty six percent target share with Will
Speaker 6: Levis as his quarterback. That is good, but Levis is not.
Speaker 6: And this is also not a great matchup. Teams just
Speaker 6: do not throw on Carolina.
Speaker 4: I don't have to. Carolina has yielded the.
Speaker 6: Third fewest targets to wide receivers who are averaging im
Speaker 6: easily eleven catches and one hundred and thirty yards per
Speaker 6: game as a whole against Carolina. And that's why Chris Moore,
Speaker 6: Nick Westbrook, a Kine Kylo Phillips on the bench. Treylon
Speaker 6: Burks has been ruled out again, and then Jigoconquo, Trevon
Speaker 6: Westco and Josh Wiley, the tight ends all played.
Speaker 4: Exactly sixteen snaps last week. Why they're on the bench.
Speaker 6: At because I look, I want we all wanted Jigoconquo
Speaker 6: to be something, but he's sadly not at least this year.
Speaker 1: Derek Henry got me chopped in two guillotine leagues last week,
Speaker 1: and now he comes back this week with like the
Speaker 1: Primo app Tours, He's going to rub salt in that way. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: Ravens taking on the Chargers. Let's talk this one through.
Speaker 1: Speaking of guys that have been underperforming, Lamar Jackson actually
Speaker 1: playing pretty well, but it hasn't equated to Fantasy box scores,
Speaker 1: but it will this week.
Speaker 4: Chargers.
Speaker 1: Of the opponent, they allow the most passing yards and
Speaker 1: it's not close by the way, three hundred and eleven
Speaker 1: per game. The only quarterbacks who have failed to score
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns against the Chargers are backups. Jackson's got an
Speaker 1: elite matchup all over the field, including even at the
Speaker 1: tight end right Isaiah Likely, who we like. Chargers are
Speaker 1: decent run defense, so there's less likelihood of Gus Edwards
Speaker 1: dominating the touchdowns like he has of lately. Chargers lost
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa to a foot injury, so Jackson's gonna have
Speaker 1: time in the pocket. There's just so much to like
Speaker 1: about Lamar here. This is an easy a grade for him.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the receivers. Let's sart as a Flowers,
Speaker 1: who says he's going to play. Chargers have allowed the
Speaker 1: fourth most yards to wide receiver, second most scores to
Speaker 1: the position. Flowers runs from all over the field and
Speaker 1: as a particularly primo matchup against cornerback Michael Davis, who's
Speaker 1: allowed six scores, the second most.
Speaker 4: Among all play. Flowers problem though, is touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He's got one on the season, and because of his
Speaker 1: diminutive stature, I just think he's not an end zone target.
Speaker 5: He has had two called back annoyingly.
Speaker 4: Ah, that is frustrating.
Speaker 6: And if you're banking on Zay Flowers, he says he's
Speaker 6: gonna play, but this is the Sunday night game, you
Speaker 6: might want to grab Nelson Aguilar just.
Speaker 4: In the event your backup. Yeah great, cough a late
Speaker 4: scratch or something like that.
Speaker 1: Oh no, Beckham's also a game time decision, so he's
Speaker 1: got the shoulder injury. So another reason you could go
Speaker 1: get Nelson Aguilar, who's actually been fantasy startable in a
Speaker 1: couple of these spots over the course of the season.
Speaker 1: For Beckham, who's scored and or top one hundred yards
Speaker 1: and three straight. This has been an impressive run that
Speaker 1: he's on. But he's constantly dinged up like Flowers, he
Speaker 1: runs on the outside, so he's got all the same
Speaker 1: advantages that I just talked about with Zay Flowers, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, if I didn't mention it comes out
Speaker 1: with a B grade. I've got a C grade on Beckham.
Speaker 1: It would have been a bee if he were fully healthy,
Speaker 1: but only the sea because he's not. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the running backs. Gus Edwards totally touchdown dependent, but those
Speaker 1: scores have certainly been coming. Nine touchdowns in his last
Speaker 1: five halfs, all coming within the ten yard line. I
Speaker 1: can only give him a C grade here because.
Speaker 5: The day in his last five halfs he has scored
Speaker 5: nine times.
Speaker 4: It's a great one. Why wouldn't I do that? What's
Speaker 4: wrong with me? Right right there?
Speaker 1: I can only give him a C grade because the
Speaker 1: usage and yardage is shrinking. Keaton Mitchell's emergence is real.
Speaker 1: He only had a thirty eight percent snap count snap
Speaker 1: right last week for Gus Edwards, C grade for him,
Speaker 1: and then the aforementioned Keaton Mitchell also a C grade,
Speaker 1: coming up a career high third twenty four snaps last
Speaker 1: week still only got him to eight harries.
Speaker 4: So but we got a figure he's trending in.
Speaker 1: The right general direction here startable with the hopes for
Speaker 1: a sizzling highlight play Chargers allowing the eleventh most yards
Speaker 1: per game to opposing running backs, to the opportunities there,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go see grade on Keaton Mitchell.
Speaker 4: Wow, he brings in a long one.
Speaker 6: How big of a season would JK. Dobbins be having
Speaker 6: right now if he had stayed hell the planet right?
Speaker 5: Brutal we called that though? Which part of it we
Speaker 5: called JK Dobbins? Like this other multiversal world Jack Dobbins.
Speaker 5: That's a great one.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Chargers side of this game, beginning
Speaker 1: with Austin Eckler, a rare B grade in a tough
Speaker 1: matchup for him, and you got a factor in some
Speaker 1: recent dud games for Eckler too, Coming off a season
Speaker 1: low twelve touches. Eckler surprisingly has the eighth worst running
Speaker 1: grade by Pro Football Focus, and the Chargers offensive line
Speaker 1: is the second worst run block grade Ravensari middle of
Speaker 1: the pack run defense by most metrics, but they do
Speaker 1: give up four and a half yards per carry that's
Speaker 1: ninth most. So you've got an angle here on Eckler
Speaker 1: he's still obviously you're gonna start him, but I just
Speaker 1: don't have the usual optimism I normally have on Eckler
Speaker 1: in this game. All Right, let's go to the let's
Speaker 1: go to the passing game, and I want to start
Speaker 1: with Justin air Bear. Baltimore's allowed the fewest passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: point eight per game. Only one quarterback has topped one
Speaker 1: touchdown against Baltimore all season long. Your tiny window of
Speaker 1: optimism is that the Ravens haven't played any top tier
Speaker 1: quarterbacks aside from Joe Burrow, who has hurt in both
Speaker 1: of the Ravens games. And then the Keenan Allen matchups
Speaker 1: tricky too, and normally that's your go to guy.
Speaker 4: I just I don't love it all here. I can
Speaker 4: only give you a C.
Speaker 1: Grade on Justin air Bear Herbert Keenan Allen B grade
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks. He leads the league in targets, receptions, yards,
Speaker 1: and touchdowns. So you'd think it'd be an automatic A
Speaker 1: for Keenan Allen. You gotta start him, but tough matchup.
Speaker 1: Allen lines up in the slot sixty percent of the time.
Speaker 1: That means he's gonna have his hands full with Kyle
Speaker 1: Hamilton and Arthur Mallett. Hamilton gives up just a fifty
Speaker 1: seven passer rating and Mallett hasn't allowed a touchdown all year,
Speaker 1: So I mean, there's just it's a tough spot. Since
Speaker 1: Week two, Baltimore has only allowed four touchdowns to wide
Speaker 1: receivers and that brings us to the tight end position.
Speaker 1: Donald parrm If Gerald Everett is out and it looks
Speaker 1: like he's going to be out for this game, I
Speaker 1: think Parm's startable with everet out. Last week, Parm ran
Speaker 1: thirty routes. In games where Parm has run twenty three
Speaker 1: or more routes, he averages five targets, four catches, fifty yards,
Speaker 1: and half a touchdown.
Speaker 4: We'll take that. That's a win for a tight end.
Speaker 1: Over the last five weeks, Baltimore's allowed the fifth most
Speaker 1: tight end reception. So yeah, let's let's give Parm a
Speaker 1: shot with us C grade.
Speaker 4: And then what about Quinton Johnson.
Speaker 5: You wait, you're totally you're totally skipping over stone Cole Smart.
Speaker 4: I know, I was like, who is this guy? Apparently
Speaker 4: he's got a pedigree.
Speaker 1: As a OWT, as a quarterback, a running back, a receiver,
Speaker 1: a tight end something like that in his history.
Speaker 5: He's apparently he's a great ass six.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, Palm's even bigger than that. Let me get
Speaker 4: he played basketball. That's no point in list. Probably Quinton Johnson.
Speaker 1: It's we're only half a season into his rookie year,
Speaker 1: so we're not I'm not calling anybody a bust.
Speaker 4: But he might be a bust.
Speaker 1: Maybe had a game changing drop last week. This is
Speaker 1: like the prem you know, he said, so many great
Speaker 1: opportunities for Quinton Johnson to be, to Pat Johnston to
Speaker 1: make it, to be a big part of this offense
Speaker 1: hasn't happened yet, and it's not probably yet.
Speaker 4: But that's all.
Speaker 5: That's the problem When sometimes I see people being like, oh,
Speaker 5: Julio Jones only did this in his first you know,
Speaker 5: nine to ten games. There are players who only did
Speaker 5: so much in their first nine or ten games. I'm like,
Speaker 5: but Johnson's had the opportunities and hit him in the
Speaker 5: chest and dropped right. You know.
Speaker 1: That's the worry Rams taking on the cards. Brian on
Speaker 1: the Rams side, you already told us about Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: who you liked.
Speaker 4: In this matchup. Cooper Cup's gonna play.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Cooper, Cup is gonna play. I had an A
Speaker 6: on Pooka Nakua assuming Cup was gonna sit. I thought
Speaker 6: they might rest them in this game, but again they're not,
Speaker 6: so I got a B on both Cup and Nikua,
Speaker 6: and I mentioned this earlier. The Rams and Cardinals did
Speaker 6: meet in week six for the first meeting of the seasons.
Speaker 6: We'll reference that Pukah only had four for twenty six
Speaker 6: scoreless yards in the first meeting. Cuple went off for
Speaker 6: seven catches one hundred and forty eight yards in a touchdown,
Speaker 6: but that could easily be flip flop. You're not gonna
Speaker 6: sit either one when they're healthy, So just a be
Speaker 6: though for Cup and Nakua to two. At Well was
Speaker 6: going to be might take a chance with me wide
Speaker 6: receiver of Cup sat. The Cup is playing, so at
Speaker 6: Well is on the bench, and Tyler Higbee was going
Speaker 6: to get a C if Cup sat because Higbee is
Speaker 6: averaged six and a half targets and fifty yards per
Speaker 6: game with Cup on the sideline. But again, Cup playing,
Speaker 6: so he could be on the bench. But guess who's
Speaker 6: not on the bench and who is back? Kyron Williams,
Speaker 6: Kyron Williams, my boy.
Speaker 4: I wanted to give him an a.
Speaker 6: I thought he was going to walk into a full
Speaker 6: time the full time you know workload. Sean McVay is
Speaker 6: kind of hinted they'll ease him back in. I don't
Speaker 6: totally buy it. I still think he leads the Rams
Speaker 6: backfield in touches. He had one hundred and fifty eight
Speaker 6: rushing yards and a score in the first meeting. He
Speaker 6: didn't need to catch a pass because the Rams kind
Speaker 6: of rolled the Cardinals in this one. Arizona has surrendered
Speaker 6: the third most PPR points. He running back, so a
Speaker 6: safe be for Kyron Williams in his return and Royce
Speaker 6: Freeman back to the bench. He did beat out Darryl Henderson, though,
Speaker 6: which I didn't see it coming. I mean, if you're
Speaker 6: in a super deep league, Royce Freeman might be playable
Speaker 6: in a pinch, but for the most part he is
Speaker 6: on the bench. Over the Arizona side. James Connor forever
Speaker 6: gets to see. Basically did not play in the first meeting,
Speaker 6: so no recent history there, but he has touched the
Speaker 6: ball at least sixteen times in the two games since
Speaker 6: returning from ir but not the best matchup for Connor.
Speaker 6: The Rams are allowing just one hundred and nine combo
Speaker 6: yards per game, so again per usual, just a volume
Speaker 6: C for James Connor and over to the passing game.
Speaker 6: It's a little messy here. Michael Wilson ruled out again
Speaker 6: he will not play. So we got Marquise Brown, Rondell Moore,
Speaker 6: and Greg Dortsch. I kind to give all of them
Speaker 6: a cee. Brown was targeted eleven times in the first
Speaker 6: meeting but only caught four balls for thirty thirty four
Speaker 6: scoreless yards.
Speaker 4: But again, Josh Dobbs was the quarterback.
Speaker 6: Then they have a quote unquote new quarterback now that
Speaker 6: is Kyler Murray, so Hollywood would still be Murray's preferred
Speaker 6: option at wide receiver. Moore caught a long touchdown last
Speaker 6: year on his only target, but Greg Dortch he led
Speaker 6: the Cardinals in receiving. So I like Brown, then Dorsch,
Speaker 6: then more with C grades in that order, and lastly,
Speaker 6: Kyler Murray.
Speaker 4: Was your take a chance on me quarterback chart.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry not lastly Trey McBride last week didn't come
Speaker 6: through with that A grade last year, but still commands
Speaker 6: a ton of targets when Murray's the quarterback. He had
Speaker 6: four catches for sixty two yards in the first game,
Speaker 6: Trey McBride, and that was with Zach Ertz playing. Yeah,
Speaker 6: ERT's not playing in this game. The Rams allowing nearly
Speaker 6: five catches and sixty yards per game to tight ends,
Speaker 6: So a safe b for Trey McBride.
Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, a segment we like
Speaker 1: to call premature speculation. We'll give you guys you can
Speaker 1: pick up this week that would normally not be available
Speaker 1: or people try to pick up.
Speaker 4: You know how this works. Premature speculation coming up next.
Speaker 4: Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: Final segment Fantasy Football Weekly for this week, number twelve
Speaker 1: and the playoffs rooms here unbelievable close. I think it's
Speaker 1: the Galaga defender something like that.
Speaker 4: I'm not positive.
Speaker 1: Uh, this is a segment we call premature speculation. Players
Speaker 1: you want to pick up now that other people will
Speaker 1: be trying to pick up next.
Speaker 4: Week, Scott, who you got?
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with a T. Perry with Michael Thomas
Speaker 5: sideline for a bit here at Perry is the next
Speaker 5: man up? Six five, two, ten, four, four seven, forty.
Speaker 5: I know, I know. Which is the type of guy
Speaker 5: that loves those metrics? Yes, Alave and Shaheed are out there.
Speaker 5: But Perry got four four targets and a score after
Speaker 5: Thomas went down. Not just that, he led the team
Speaker 5: in snaps after Thomas went down, so he was out there.
Speaker 5: There's there's a non zero chance he becomes something.
Speaker 1: Right, right, Okay, at Perry kind of interested in that angle, Brian,
Speaker 1: who's your premature speculation player.
Speaker 6: Not super exciting, but you might just have yourself a
Speaker 6: starting running back down the stretch, and that is Cincinnati's
Speaker 6: Travion Williams. And it's this simple. The Bengals are in
Speaker 6: last place in their division right now. They're done. They're
Speaker 6: not making the playoffs, they're not What is the point
Speaker 6: of continually running Joe Mixon into the ground, who's really
Speaker 6: done nothing anyway? Why not at some point and Trayvon
Speaker 6: Williams is the only running back who's been getting touches,
Speaker 6: granted it's a change of pace other than Mixon. So
Speaker 6: Travon Williams, they might just run him out there and
Speaker 6: he'll get fifteen to twenty touches the game. And not
Speaker 6: that you're gonna he's an auto start, but he's a
Speaker 6: nice player to have on your bench at the very
Speaker 6: least Travion Williams.
Speaker 1: All right, my premature speculation is also a backup running
Speaker 1: back Kenneth Gainwell from Philadelphia. Now, do you guys remember
Speaker 1: back in August when we all he was gonna be
Speaker 1: the starter. Well, we didn't know for sure, right, you know,
Speaker 1: but we were like, there's too many guys, and most
Speaker 1: of us passed on DeAndre Swift many many times in
Speaker 1: the draft, right, so he went off the board in
Speaker 1: like round six of most fantasy drafts. I'm estimating much
Speaker 1: of our hesitation was because of Swift's history of injury,
Speaker 1: which is very real, spanning all three of US Detroit seasons.
Speaker 1: He missed significant time in all those seasons despite never
Speaker 1: even being a work horse. Fast forward to today, Swift's
Speaker 1: logging twenty touches per game since Week two, a pace
Speaker 1: that puts him behind only Josh Jacobs, Christian McCaffrey, and
Speaker 1: Travis Etn. That's it, then, DeAndre Swift. Now it's hard
Speaker 1: to guess right on when a player's going to be injured, right,
Speaker 1: but we can look at a player who had a
Speaker 1: three year track record of injury and go, okay, now,
Speaker 1: touching the ball twenty times a game.
Speaker 5: Or or a Philly team that might realize, oh, we're
Speaker 5: in it to win the super Bowl and not these
Speaker 5: last games of the season.
Speaker 4: That was my other point.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm glad I jumped in this, Stealers.
Speaker 4: I'm fine.
Speaker 1: Then the Eagles are nine and one, so at some
Speaker 1: point they might start playoff planning and want to keep
Speaker 1: Swift healthy. So there's two different scenarios where Kenneth game
Speaker 1: well can end up being a meaningful participant in the
Speaker 1: for your team.
Speaker 6: Yeah, fantasy managers who are relying on Eagles, you we
Speaker 6: want them to lose at least one game because they
Speaker 6: went out.
Speaker 4: They're sitting there.
Speaker 1: I think Dallas is so close though, right, and Dallas
Speaker 1: playing great ball right now.
Speaker 6: Eight and three, but they still need the Eagles to
Speaker 6: lose a game, which they could this week.
Speaker 4: What a great segue. Oh kick it the church just
Speaker 4: really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's Bills versus Eagles. Scott, Let's let's go
Speaker 1: to you for this game. Yeah, let's start. I want
Speaker 1: to start Bill's side of this. Okay, shout all. A
Speaker 1: lot of inconsistent performances. From a fantasy standpoint, it's all
Speaker 1: been good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it doesn't matter from a fantasy standpoint. In fact,
Speaker 5: he's got multiple scores in ten straight. In fact, he's
Speaker 5: got multiple scores in thirteen of the last fourteen games
Speaker 5: dating back to last year, so he's I was getting
Speaker 5: those for you. Yes, the Eagles have allowed multiple scores
Speaker 5: to passers in three straight and they allowed the third
Speaker 5: most touchdowns six months passing yards. It's an A grade
Speaker 5: for Josh Allen. I really didn't need to go for
Speaker 5: all of that. Stefan Diggs is going to get an
Speaker 5: A grade. He's he's Although Kincaid has been outproducing digs
Speaker 5: since Knox went down, he still digs. And this Eagles
Speaker 5: defense is allowing the most receptions, fifth most yards, second
Speaker 5: most touchdown to wide receiver, which is a little surprising
Speaker 5: because they got Bradbury and Sleigh on the outsides there,
Speaker 5: but they're allowing The part of it is game scripts
Speaker 5: are forcing teams to pass to catch up to the
Speaker 5: Eagles when they get ahead, So that's a lot. That's
Speaker 5: a big part of that. But I do have an
Speaker 5: A grade on Diggs. I have Gabe Davis on the
Speaker 5: bench despite I believe Joe Brady's the OC there now
Speaker 5: for the Bills. Yes, yes, something like Gabe Davis, who
Speaker 5: didn't have a catch, had the best game of the
Speaker 5: wide receivers last week three. The block eat he did
Speaker 5: and the rud Gabriel that's sweet.
Speaker 4: That does not help us.
Speaker 5: I know bench grade on Gabe Davis, two goose eggs
Speaker 5: in the last three weeks. I just can't trust that.
Speaker 5: Khalil Shakira, I actually have a C grade on Eagles
Speaker 5: fourth worst against the slot. He's outproduced Gabriel Davis since
Speaker 5: Knox went out and they started playing more eleven personnel.
Speaker 5: Putting Shakir in the slot, he also gets to avoid
Speaker 5: Bradbury and Slay and stay inside, and of course they're
Speaker 5: bad against the slot. So a gray Dalton Kincaid third
Speaker 5: among tight ends in separation Dawson Knox went down. Kincaid
Speaker 5: out produced digs. Since I mentioned all of that, but
Speaker 5: three straight tight ends have scored on the Eagles, Travis Kelce,
Speaker 5: Jake Ferguson, Logan Thomas. They've allowed six tight end touchdowns
Speaker 5: in the last ten games, and in those last three games,
Speaker 5: each lead tight end top sixteen pprs. I got an
Speaker 5: A grade there, James Cook, This is where it gets
Speaker 5: a little tougher. I have a C grade on James
Speaker 5: Cook's He's his rushing yards over expectation is one of
Speaker 5: the tops in the league. But the Eagles allow the
Speaker 5: fewest combo yards touchdowns and fewest touchdown touches to backs
Speaker 5: because teams try to pass on them. Cook does have
Speaker 5: one hundred plus total yards in back to back games.
Speaker 5: He's finally seen a little bit more goal line work.
Speaker 5: We saw the five yard touchdown reception last week. But
Speaker 5: what does worry me? It's a tough matchup and Ty
Speaker 5: Johnson started playing ahead of Latavius Murray last week and
Speaker 5: taking like he caught four balls. If he starts taking
Speaker 5: the those and Latavius and Cook even split the goal
Speaker 5: line work, that's rough spot for James Cook. I'm only
Speaker 5: giving him the sea hoping he gets twelve to fifteen touches,
Speaker 5: maybe a couple of catches. Yeah, it's gonna be a
Speaker 5: pretty much a volume ce for James Cook in this one.
Speaker 5: It'd be much different if time Montcomery didn't jump in
Speaker 5: for catches. Yeah. Over on the Philly side, I have
Speaker 5: a grades on Jalen Hurts and aj Brown. I don't
Speaker 5: really know how much I have to talk about it,
Speaker 5: but in the last nine games, Jalen Hurts has multiple
Speaker 5: scores nine times. He just keeps doing it. Aj Brown
Speaker 5: he does not get Lugaria Sneid this week, so he
Speaker 5: should go back closer to the one hundred plus and
Speaker 5: a touchdown streak of five games he had before that.
Speaker 5: DeVonta Smith, I'm only giving with a C grade here.
Speaker 5: He's gonna get Rozuel Douglas, who's been really stingy since
Speaker 5: he came to Buffalo. Since he came to Buffalo, he's
Speaker 5: allowing a thirteen eight point eight passer rating against. That's
Speaker 5: really good since he's been since he switched teams. Three
Speaker 5: straight A level days for DeVonta Smith, but I don't
Speaker 5: love the matchup middle pack there. I'm giving him a
Speaker 5: ceat DeAndre Swift B grade. Bill's allowing the third most targets,
Speaker 5: fifth most receptions, third most receiving yards, six most yards
Speaker 5: per reception to running backs. They don't do well against
Speaker 5: pass catching running backs, and that is something DeAndre Swift
Speaker 5: can do pretty well well. Over the last two weeks.
Speaker 5: DeVonta Williams had his best pass catching day against them
Speaker 5: last week. Breeze Hall had a great past catching day
Speaker 5: against them. Swift himself has handled over seventy five percent
Speaker 5: of the touches in the last three games. Over the
Speaker 5: last three games, each game we just kind of talked
Speaker 5: about that he's getting all that work. Maybe it tones down,
Speaker 5: but I don't think it tones down just yet. So
Speaker 5: B grade and DeAndre Swift makes sense.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Monday nighter Bears Vikings. These teams
Speaker 1: were so bad against the run last year. Bears ranked
Speaker 1: thirty first, Vikings ranked twenty six against the run.
Speaker 4: Get this.
Speaker 1: Over the last five weeks, which is a pretty big
Speaker 1: sample size in the NFL, the Vikings and Bears ranked
Speaker 1: number one and number two in run defense.
Speaker 4: That's an amazing turnaround. Amazing, it really is.
Speaker 1: I let to start the Chicago side. Let's go since
Speaker 1: we're talking about the running game. They're all on the
Speaker 1: bench unless and you may not know. You may not
Speaker 1: know Sunday when you need to set your lineup. If
Speaker 1: Don de Foreman's ruled out, then Khalil Herbert moves up
Speaker 1: to a C grade. But if he goes, then we've
Speaker 1: got just it's just split back do then we can't
Speaker 1: do it. Herbert got the majority of the work last
Speaker 1: week in part because Foreman got knocked out of the game.
Speaker 1: But then he did nothing. He only had two yards
Speaker 1: per carry over the last five games. Minnesota allowing just
Speaker 1: fifty three rushing yards per game, and non DeAndre Swift
Speaker 1: runners are averaging three point one yards per carry against Minnesota.
Speaker 1: It's a virtually nothing.
Speaker 5: That is. And that DeAndre Swift game was way beginning
Speaker 5: of the season.
Speaker 1: It was that was week two. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: passing game justin Fields B grade. It's, oh, this guy
Speaker 1: right here in his first game off that month layoff,
Speaker 1: he got dialed up for fourteen runs, one hundred and
Speaker 1: four rushing yards.
Speaker 4: We love that.
Speaker 1: If that rushing even close to that's going to keep happening.
Speaker 1: I don't even care if he passes. Doesn't he just
Speaker 1: go back there and run the whole time. He faced
Speaker 1: Minnesota for about one half of week six, and he
Speaker 1: had already rolled.
Speaker 4: Up forty eight rushing yards.
Speaker 1: So you extrapolate that and that would be ninety six
Speaker 1: on a full game. We'll Vikings are ant above average
Speaker 1: pass defense, allowing exactly one touchdown pass per game over
Speaker 1: the last six weeks. Down's about right for justin Fields.
Speaker 1: One touchdown pass and a bunch of rushing yardage B
Speaker 1: grade for justin fields, leaning towards A grade Dj Moore again,
Speaker 1: Vikings maybe without their starting cornerback at Caleb Evans, but
Speaker 1: don't know. It's a Monday nighter. You'll want to, you know,
Speaker 1: try to watch that if you can. But I think
Speaker 1: either way you're gonna start DJ Moore because he's so
Speaker 1: much more fantasy viable with justin fields than he was
Speaker 1: with Tyson Bagen. Minnesota leans zone heavy, and DJ Moore
Speaker 1: leads all Bears wide outs in targets and receptions against
Speaker 1: zone coverage, and he's tenth over all in the league
Speaker 1: against the zone. If if Evans misses, I could I
Speaker 1: could see moving up to an A grade because that
Speaker 1: puts Mackay Blackman on the field, and in that situation
Speaker 1: last week, Blackman allowed receptions on all six of his targets.
Speaker 1: I'd move him up to an A grade. You may
Speaker 1: not know in time before about whether or not Evans
Speaker 1: is enter out though.
Speaker 4: On Sunday, all.
Speaker 1: Right, let's talk talk about Cole Comett, the only other
Speaker 1: player for the Bears who probably care about much better.
Speaker 1: In the Tyson bagent games, almost exactly half of the
Speaker 1: stats in field starts. So that's the bad news, averaging
Speaker 1: just four catches thirty seven yards in the field starts.
Speaker 1: But good tight ends have fared well against Minnesota. But
Speaker 1: do you guys think is Cole Commet a good tight end?
Speaker 5: I mean edge of top twelve, he's probably twelve to
Speaker 5: fourteen range, ten to fourteen range.
Speaker 1: He has this fun yeah, like top six tight ends
Speaker 1: have done well against Minnesota and the rest really haven't.
Speaker 4: I've got a C grade on Cole Comet. Let's go
Speaker 4: to the Viking side. TJ.
Speaker 1: Hockinson a little less used last week, likely because he
Speaker 1: continues to play through a serious rib injury, and I
Speaker 1: worry a bit that it'll be less used this week
Speaker 1: too with the bye week coming.
Speaker 4: Maybe they just rest him up here.
Speaker 1: Countering that concern, Josh Dobbs averaging eleven targets to his
Speaker 1: tight end per game since coming to Minnesota, most of
Speaker 1: that going to Hockinson. Bears defense has seen the ninth
Speaker 1: most targets the tight ends, six most receptions the tight
Speaker 1: ends in a total of five touchdown the position.
Speaker 4: So a grade TJ.
Speaker 5: Hockinson.
Speaker 1: I feel pretty confident about him. Feel pretty confident justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson's not going to play in this game. They're going
Speaker 1: to have him get right for through the bye week
Speaker 1: next week. Jordan Addison has the top five receptions or
Speaker 1: scored in the Josh Dobbs era. Over the last five weeks,
Speaker 1: Chicago's allowed the fourth fewest yards to opposing wide receivers,
Speaker 1: and that's thanks mostly to emerging star cornerback Jalen Johnson,
Speaker 1: who basically just shuts down half the field. Over the
Speaker 1: last five weeks, He's allowing two receptions for thirteen yards
Speaker 1: in his coverage.
Speaker 4: That is it.
Speaker 1: So it is a tough matchup for Jordan Addison. I
Speaker 1: can only get you to a C grade on him,
Speaker 1: and that brings us to this.
Speaker 3: Guy, Toby.
Speaker 4: Josh Dobbs.
Speaker 1: The Broncos exposed some of Dobbs's passing weaknesses last week,
Speaker 1: and if you had to rely entirely on his arm
Speaker 1: I'd give Dobbs a C or a bench grade against
Speaker 1: an improving Chicago secondary. But fortunately he can run. The
Speaker 1: Bears held Kirk Cousins to just one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: one yards and one touchdown in the earlier matchup, and
Speaker 1: Cousins is obviously a lot better passer than Josh Dobbs.
Speaker 1: But Dobbs has scored rushing touchdowns in five straight games,
Speaker 1: and he's averaging forty four rushing yards and Vikings games,
Speaker 1: and the Bears haven't seen any mobile quarterbacks yet and
Speaker 1: haven't allowed a quarterback rushing touchdown this season. So Dobbs
Speaker 1: comes in with a B grade thanks mostly to the legs.
Speaker 1: I think he gets like one passing touchdown if he
Speaker 1: runs for a touchdown and one passing touchdown. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: take that. What about the running game for the Vikings?
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 1: What a frustrating experience this has been. You know, got
Speaker 1: plenty of things wrong this year. The one thing we
Speaker 1: got right Alexander Madison. No rushing touchdowns and negative five
Speaker 1: yards on runs originating from inside the ten yard line. Well, frustrating.
Speaker 1: A lot of it's been bad blocking, but that's just
Speaker 1: the reality of it. Apparently he can fumble an unlimited
Speaker 1: number of times without losing his starter status to ty Chandler,
Speaker 1: and is rushed for the third worst yards over expectation
Speaker 1: at negative eighty yards.
Speaker 4: This year.
Speaker 6: So I saw you tweet that stat and then someone
Speaker 6: accused you of cherry picking those stats. By cherry picking
Speaker 6: highlights of bad blocking, but there were highlights that he
Speaker 6: omitted that were bad vision from Alexander Madison. So it's
Speaker 6: a never ending, i know, cherry picking festival of whatever
Speaker 6: he's been bad, he's been awful.
Speaker 1: And as I mentioned at the outset of this matchup,
Speaker 1: over the past five games, Chicago ranks number one in
Speaker 1: rushing yards allowed, just fifty two per game. So the
Speaker 1: entire Minnesota running game is on the bench. I would
Speaker 1: love to see ty Chandler get a bunch of work,
Speaker 1: but apparently that's just not gonna happen in my lifetime,
Speaker 1: he says bitterly. We've got a couple of minutes before
Speaker 1: the end of the show. I was thinking about this
Speaker 1: earlier this week. First round running backs next year. We
Speaker 1: saw the running back This past draft cycle. We saw
Speaker 1: running backs fall out of the first round more than
Speaker 1: ever before, and only Christian McCaffrey of those that were
Speaker 1: drafted in the first round last year, only Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: has lived up to his draft status. If you look
Speaker 1: ahead to next year, other than Christian McCaffrey, which running
Speaker 1: backs are going to go in the first round.
Speaker 5: I thought you're gonna phrase it by which one. If
Speaker 5: there's one other one, which one, it would well.
Speaker 6: Find another one as of right now, not be John Robinson,
Speaker 6: but if he closes as a bell cow if Smith
Speaker 6: gets fired, or if Smith gets fired, but two other
Speaker 6: guys that I think could jump in, and they're both
Speaker 6: coming off major knee injury this year and getting a
Speaker 6: lot more work than I thought. Or Brestall and Javonte Williams.
Speaker 6: I think they closed strong.
Speaker 4: We can see the founders though, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 5: I think the other two candidates are Travis CTN and
Speaker 5: potentially Jimior Gibbs.
Speaker 1: But pro Gibbs it I think the problem on Gibbs
Speaker 1: is always going to be touchdowns. He's not going to
Speaker 1: get the ball to goal line and that's not changing,
Speaker 1: I think. I think, and so many people got I
Speaker 1: think just finally the world has figured out to the
Speaker 1: opposite they're gonna.
Speaker 5: That was That was me saying, these are the only
Speaker 5: ones I can think of. Yeah, maybe Jonathan Taylor, if
Speaker 5: he really just is cowish at the end of the.
Speaker 1: Season again he goes electric down the stretch, I can
Speaker 1: see that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's probably what it
Speaker 1: would take. Thanks for listening, everybody, If you miss any
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