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Speaker 1: over the course of the show will answer three tough questions.
Speaker 1: We'll give you a premature speculation. We'll give you nine
Speaker 1: players upon whom you can take a chance, and of
Speaker 1: course we'll break down every game fantasy style with letter grades.
Speaker 1: You know how it works. We begin Scott with the
Speaker 1: Lions taking on the Browns. It looks like Jared Goff's
Speaker 1: not gonna go on this one. And I don't think
Speaker 1: there's hardly a Brown to start outside of maybe Swift,
Speaker 1: and that's got to be it Browns or Lions. It's
Speaker 1: it's bad on both sides. The passing game, I have,
Speaker 1: I have three starting grades. I have DeAndre Swift with
Speaker 1: an A grade. He's coming out, still get to night,
Speaker 1: still help from the quarterback position, no help from the
Speaker 1: quarterback position, but he still gets all those those balls
Speaker 1: thrown to him. Who of his three backups are injured.
Speaker 1: Two of his three other running backs in that backfield
Speaker 1: are injured running backs who have grabbed at least four
Speaker 1: balls against the Browns, basically the dual threat backs. They
Speaker 1: have torched the Browns. Those four backs scored eight touchdowns
Speaker 1: at averaged about a hundred yards, So I got an
Speaker 1: A grade on Swift. I have a C grade on
Speaker 1: Hockinson despite the disastrous goose egg. I think it might
Speaker 1: be a little bit of a squeaky wheel game. Maybe
Speaker 1: Tim Boyle depends on Hockinson is a safe option I have.
Speaker 1: I have a C grade on him. It's I'm not confum,
Speaker 1: but the Browns have allowed six catches for sixty yards
Speaker 1: and a score two in each of the last three weeks,
Speaker 1: two tight ends. That's the average stat line. So but
Speaker 1: in the passing game, I have everyone else on the bench,
Speaker 1: mostly because of Boil but also the it's it's not
Speaker 1: a good spot. On the other side, I have the
Speaker 1: whole passing game on the bench. Again, Baker's top two
Speaker 1: hundred fifty yards just once in the last nine weeks
Speaker 1: and only two multiple score games. Most teams basically just
Speaker 1: run on the Lions. They don't have to throw. I
Speaker 1: can't trust Baker, he's still banged up. I have Landry
Speaker 1: on the bench because his best game is seventy one
Speaker 1: yards and he hasn't scored all year. I've Donovan People's
Speaker 1: Jones on the bench, who came up with an injury
Speaker 1: this week and once he had that full job, they
Speaker 1: were they were shifting the top coverage to him. So,
Speaker 1: by the way, yeah, rightfully so, But I don't I
Speaker 1: don't trust him. But a grade on Nick Chubb, who
Speaker 1: will be back? Uh? Last time Chubb got twelve plus
Speaker 1: touches and failed to get seventy five total yards was
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. He's gonna get twelve, He's gonna get sixteen.
Speaker 1: The six seven backs who had sixteen plus touches against
Speaker 1: the Lions, seven of those backs scored nine times, and
Speaker 1: six of them had a hundred plus total yards. Now,
Speaker 1: is there a chance that backup role demails? That I
Speaker 1: knew you would go there? In the two games the
Speaker 1: Deanist Johnson played with Nick Chubb this year and Kareem
Speaker 1: Hunt out, he had thirty five total snaps, not touches snaps,
Speaker 1: thirteen touches for forty seven yards in those two games.
Speaker 1: Even against the Lions, good matchup should get ahead. Tim
Speaker 1: Boyle could score easily zero points in this game. I
Speaker 1: think it's a Chub day. No, I would Alba argue
Speaker 1: in the Nick Chubb side of this, Yes, I I would.
Speaker 1: I would not be flexing Deernest Johnson. But I can
Speaker 1: see your arguments. So if you're really entire straights, let's
Speaker 1: go over to the Tech. That was very brisk, thank you.
Speaker 1: Let's go over to the Texans taking on the Titans.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of great starters here, but there are
Speaker 1: some Texans. Oh wait, we were not. What game are
Speaker 1: we doing next? Jets, Dolphins, Jets, Dolphins Jets, you say
Speaker 1: let's go to all right, let's go to Dolphins Jets then,
Speaker 1: Because Texans Titans is a take confest, we'll get to
Speaker 1: that a little later. So Dolphins at Jets, first meeting
Speaker 1: between these two divisional rivals, so we can't reference recent
Speaker 1: history in this matchup. Starting with the Miami side, the
Speaker 1: road team in to a toungo. Viola was going to
Speaker 1: we might take a chance of the quarterback, but it's
Speaker 1: too easy in this matchup. I'm giving him a B
Speaker 1: here for to New York. New York has allowed multiple
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns in five straight games. Over those five games,
Speaker 1: opposing passers are averaging a whopping three five yards and
Speaker 1: two point four passing touchdowns. Solid B for Tua uh,
Speaker 1: Solid B for Jalen Waddle as well. It really doesn't
Speaker 1: matter who's playing quarterback from Miami, Waddle produces consistently. Uh.
Speaker 1: The one glaring difference though between Twa and Brissette is
Speaker 1: all of the touchdown receptions for Waddle worth thrown by Tua,
Speaker 1: and the Jets have surrendered five scores to wideouts over
Speaker 1: their last four games. Love Waddle in this game. Now
Speaker 1: for Miami's wide receiver to Albert Wilson and Isaiah four
Speaker 1: both had four catches and eighty plus yards in Week ten.
Speaker 1: But not gonna throw any se darts or or harpoons
Speaker 1: here both around the bench. But Mike Kisiki is not
Speaker 1: who is really truly the wide receiver to for Miami.
Speaker 1: Runs most of his routes from the slot or outside. Uh,
Speaker 1: he gets a b was more like Mike goose Egg
Speaker 1: last week like that, but finds himself I think I
Speaker 1: someone tweeted me that, so I can't take full credit
Speaker 1: for it. But use Kasecki finds himself in the perfect
Speaker 1: bounce backspot against the Jets, who over the last five
Speaker 1: games have streundered four touchdowns to the tight end position.
Speaker 1: During that same span, the very comparable Kyle Pitts posted
Speaker 1: a monster game with nine catches or nineteen yards in
Speaker 1: a score, and like Kasecki, Pits runs most of his
Speaker 1: routes from the slaughter outside. So a great matchup for
Speaker 1: the quote unquote tight end Mike Gisicki. And lastly for Miami.
Speaker 1: I'll give Miles gascon to be only because it's an
Speaker 1: odd numbered week. He only goes off in odd numbered weeks,
Speaker 1: and the even numbered weeks he he wets the bed.
Speaker 1: But it is an amazing matchup that Jets are allowing
Speaker 1: one and eighty nine combo yards and two point two
Speaker 1: touchdowns per game to opposing running backs. I will say, though,
Speaker 1: I will not be shocked if Salvin Akhmed how performs
Speaker 1: Miles gas Gas to me is the is the hardest
Speaker 1: guy to start this week because you know, the opportunity
Speaker 1: so good, and he's flopped so hard so many times
Speaker 1: to get not an odd numbered weeks. So that scientific
Speaker 1: fact in a week eleven. Here over to the New
Speaker 1: York side, shockingly a f you guys to talk about.
Speaker 1: Of course, we'll start with Michael Carter, the most fantasy
Speaker 1: relevant player on New York. Can give him a see though,
Speaker 1: just to see very strong splits with Mike White at quarterback.
Speaker 1: But New York is going with Joe Flacco in this game,
Speaker 1: and let's get it out of the way. Flacco was
Speaker 1: on the bench, by the way, so uh, just to
Speaker 1: see for Carter. The Dolphins run defense has become very
Speaker 1: stout against opposing backs, holding them to sixties scoreless yards
Speaker 1: per game over the last several weeks. Uh, the Seas
Speaker 1: continue with Corey Davis. The Dolphins have yielded the third
Speaker 1: most red zone targets too wide receivers, and over their
Speaker 1: last five games, they've surrendered five scores to the position.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins secondary has also surrendered to one yard receivers
Speaker 1: and five touchdowns to wide receivers over the last five
Speaker 1: So I do give Davis a starting grade with the
Speaker 1: sea and the once. I mean he'll likely be shadow
Speaker 1: by Xavian Howard, who was once corner. He's allowed seven
Speaker 1: touchdowns in his coverage, the most among quarter cornerbacks this year.
Speaker 1: And uh one more starting grade for Jets receiver. It's
Speaker 1: not Alijah More, it is Jamison Crowder. Miami has been
Speaker 1: very generous you slot receivers. They've yielded the most targets
Speaker 1: and allowed the most receptions. Two receivers running from the
Speaker 1: seams and I did mention Flacco earlier. He's on the
Speaker 1: bench shock right now. You can't can't without saying Ravens
Speaker 1: take on the Bears. And Lamar Jackson missed Wednesday and
Speaker 1: Thursday's practice. We came back Friday with whatever his mysterious
Speaker 1: illness is. We don't know what the illness is. Um
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with um blumbago. He gets sick more
Speaker 1: than a high schooler with a test. It's crazy. A
Speaker 1: grade for Lamar Jackson. I like all receiving options as
Speaker 1: you're here in a minute, and I'll mention that Chicago
Speaker 1: has allowed the third fewest quarterback rushing yards, just seven
Speaker 1: per game, but they also haven't faced any mobile quarterbacks
Speaker 1: all year. So still like Jackson with an A grade.
Speaker 1: Marquis Brown missed Thursday, Thursday's practice, and Wednesday's practice with
Speaker 1: thigh injury, but came back Friday. He's expected to go now.
Speaker 1: Chicago could shadow Marquis Brown with their best cornerback, Jalen Johnson,
Speaker 1: but they tried that against Mike Evans a few games
Speaker 1: ago and Evans crushed him. So I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: keep the They're gonna keep Jalen Johnson on one side
Speaker 1: of the field, and then that means that Marcus Brown
Speaker 1: is gonna get plenty of plays against Kendallville Door, a
Speaker 1: frequent whipping boy on this show vild Or, giving up
Speaker 1: a passer rating of one hundred forties six in his coverage.
Speaker 1: His Pro Football focuses ranked cornerback, and that's why Marcus
Speaker 1: Brown gets an A grade. Richade Bateman will also get
Speaker 1: plenty of kindall Ville Door. He's getting increasingly involved each
Speaker 1: week and just based on his normal deployment lots of
Speaker 1: wildore in this game, only five teams have allowed more
Speaker 1: wide receiver touchdowns than Chicago, and I think Bateman could
Speaker 1: easily find the Enzo for the first time in his career.
Speaker 1: Permission to throw out a nickname Preville Door. Oh please,
Speaker 1: the Ville door is a jar? Doors a jar? I mean,
Speaker 1: how about it? Can't he just be like an open book?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, isn't that? Isn't that? You know?
Speaker 1: Is he bad at read coverage? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's I mean, I think there's I think
Speaker 1: there's a better angle on killed Kendallville Door. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go back to the lab. All right, thank you, yeah,
Speaker 1: workshop that please Mark Andrews. If I didn't say Bateman's
Speaker 1: a B, he's a BAT. Mark Andrews also be uh
Speaker 1: second in yards among all tight ends. He remains an
Speaker 1: a leite option, but it could be a tough matchup.
Speaker 1: The Bears had only allowed one tight end touchdown until
Speaker 1: their previous game before the bye, when Pat Fryarmouth scored twice. Uh.
Speaker 1: Since Week two, they failed every opposing tight end under
Speaker 1: fifty yards and that includes the like of Darren Waller
Speaker 1: and t J. Hockenson. So just the B grade on
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews, but I still like him enough here. Now
Speaker 1: the running backs is a it's a messy situation and
Speaker 1: I'll do my best here for the With Baltimore's running backs,
Speaker 1: if Latavius Murray is healthy, presumably he returns to the
Speaker 1: starting role, but he's shaping up as a game time decision,
Speaker 1: we don't know yet. And if so, he gets a
Speaker 1: C grade, and then Devonte Freeman would probably get enough
Speaker 1: touches where you've attempted to play and you probably shouldn't.
Speaker 1: But if Murray is out, then will upgrade Freeman all
Speaker 1: the way up to a B grade. Since he would
Speaker 1: get the overwhelming Lions share of the touches. The Bears
Speaker 1: are allowing one rushing yards per game on four point
Speaker 1: six yards per carry to opposing running backs, both sixth most,
Speaker 1: and as people probably know by now, uh, they have
Speaker 1: ruled out Khalil Mack for the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: so whatever run support he would have lent will not
Speaker 1: be there. Okay, so let's go to the bare side
Speaker 1: of the field. I like David Montgomery here B grade.
Speaker 1: Last we saw him before the bye, he put up
Speaker 1: an impressive game against a good Steelers defense, and he's
Speaker 1: even healthier now after the bye. Baltimore's top five and
Speaker 1: rushing yards allowed, giving up only four yards per carry,
Speaker 1: but they've given up eight rushing scores, which bodes wall
Speaker 1: for Montgomery as Chicago calls running plays at the highest
Speaker 1: rate inside the five yard line. So I like Montgomery
Speaker 1: to score in this game, and so a B grade
Speaker 1: for him. Let's go to the passing game. I originally
Speaker 1: had a C grade on justin Fields, but I've lowered
Speaker 1: him to a bench on news that Allen Robinson will
Speaker 1: not play in this game or is not expected to
Speaker 1: play in this game. Listed as doubtful. Baltimore is allowing
Speaker 1: the most passing yards almost three per game. Where Fields
Speaker 1: kills you is he's only averaging twenty four passes a game.
Speaker 1: That's the lowest among all starting quarterbacks. Now, Baltimore usually
Speaker 1: sees thirty six a game, So maybe Fields gets into
Speaker 1: the low thirties on on attempts and that could get
Speaker 1: him to an okay game here, but he's gonna have
Speaker 1: to do it on Darnell Mooney and Cole Commit and
Speaker 1: I don't know that those guys can carry a passing
Speaker 1: offense um. And also, Baltimore has been very good against
Speaker 1: rushing quarterbacks to this point of the season, allowing the
Speaker 1: second fewest quarterback rushing yards just seven per games. So
Speaker 1: I don't know the field is gonna help you there either,
Speaker 1: and that's why he's on the bench. Mooney comes in
Speaker 1: with a C grade. Baltimore giving up one d eighty
Speaker 1: four yards per game to opposing receivers, that is eighth most.
Speaker 1: They've also allowed a receiver to post at least eighty
Speaker 1: four yards or multiple touchdowns two receivers in four the
Speaker 1: last five, so there are opportunities for Mooney here. Marlon
Speaker 1: Humphrey who used to be a great cornerback, has allowed
Speaker 1: five scores in a passer rating of over one hundreds coverage,
Speaker 1: which is not like it is. It is a little
Speaker 1: bit odd. So an opportunity for Mooney there and then
Speaker 1: Cole Commet. I had him. I had him on the
Speaker 1: bench originally and then ultimately decided on a C grade
Speaker 1: coming off a career best game eight targets, six catches,
Speaker 1: eighty seven yards against Pittsburgh, And it's a good opportunity
Speaker 1: for defense that struggled against tight ends. Ravens are bottom
Speaker 1: seven in receptions, yards and scores to tight ends, and
Speaker 1: the Ravens had really brutal Yeah, that's exactly what's gonna say. Yeah, there,
Speaker 1: you know, at one point early on, I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: it's like Travis else. Ye really even since then, exactly,
Speaker 1: I like the way you think, Scott Fish. When we
Speaker 1: come back, hopefully you'll like the way we think about
Speaker 1: nine players not normally in your starting lineup. It's called
Speaker 1: take a chance on me, find some guys off the
Speaker 1: waiver wire that can help you this week. When we
Speaker 1: return Fantasy Football Weekly, it's take a chance on me.
Speaker 1: Nine players not normally in your starting lineup. I want
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Speaker 1: that was nice enough to record the US for us,
Speaker 1: which is pretty damn moss awesome. And I have not
Speaker 1: given them a shout out by name yet this year,
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Speaker 1: We should help the band reach out, let us know,
Speaker 1: let us know how we can support you, because you've
Speaker 1: helped us and now we're gonna help you. At the
Speaker 1: quarterback position, Scott Fish, give us a player under the
Speaker 1: radar that could be available for people to pick up
Speaker 1: and play. I'm not sure exactly how under the radar
Speaker 1: he is, but he's he's still under about owned, which
Speaker 1: is just ridiculous. And we've talked about this before that
Speaker 1: he needs to be more rostered more. Jimmy Garoppolo, Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Jags held down Went and Allen recently, but before that,
Speaker 1: they've given up five plus yr days, five multi touchdown scores.
Speaker 1: Even Alan got a bunch of work done on the ground,
Speaker 1: and Jimmy g seems to be running it in now
Speaker 1: that he knows that Trey Lance is on his field
Speaker 1: on his heels. He's running scores in But Jimmy has
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns in three straights and all his weapons are healthy. Now,
Speaker 1: so give me Jimmy. G Yeah, the fact that all
Speaker 1: the weapons are healthy. To me, it's a big part
Speaker 1: of that story. I should just at that and moved on.
Speaker 1: You got right. There was quarterback position Brian the Raiders
Speaker 1: Derek Carr at home against the Bengals. It is carbage
Speaker 1: time yet again, since he is coming off their BIS
Speaker 1: so they've had some time to prepare for this one.
Speaker 1: But still over the Bengals last two games, they surrendered
Speaker 1: five passing touchdowns to Baker Mayfield and Mike White. Uh.
Speaker 1: This game should be pretty high scoring is very simple
Speaker 1: Vegas things. Though. It has the second highest over under
Speaker 1: on the Sunday Slate at fifty point five points. I
Speaker 1: like the Raiders to rebound here at Derek Carr. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with Cam Newton. You guys know, I've been
Speaker 1: very skeptical of Newton in the past, but this is
Speaker 1: such a fascinating matchup. He gets to go up against
Speaker 1: arguably the worst past defense in the NFL. Washington ranks
Speaker 1: twenty nine and passing yards allowed and dead last in
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns allowed. Um. What makes this particularly fascinating is
Speaker 1: he's going up against his old coach. Ron Rivera knows
Speaker 1: where all the bodies are buried with camwy All, the deficiencies,
Speaker 1: all the problems in his game, and the good things
Speaker 1: in his game. So can the old coach scheme up
Speaker 1: away to stop Cam Newton. I don't know that you
Speaker 1: can stop him from running into touchdown, and I think
Speaker 1: there's a good chance he does that. Here the last
Speaker 1: mobile quarterback that Washington has seen, well, the only mobile
Speaker 1: quarterback that Watchington scene was Daniel Jones. And you maybe
Speaker 1: remember earlier too he ran all over to yards in
Speaker 1: touchdown in that game. So I think one way or another,
Speaker 1: Camp finds his way to a good game. Well, two
Speaker 1: snaps two touchdowns last week, that the first two. At
Speaker 1: one point he was two for two. That's right. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the running back position, Scott, who you got?
Speaker 1: I have Jeff Wilson Jr. Which is starting to turn
Speaker 1: into even better start. Now Mitchell is now doubtful. Of course,
Speaker 1: James Hasty is out. Hasty is out, and uh. The
Speaker 1: only other backs are Trey Sermon, who has done nothing
Speaker 1: all year and they don't. They seem to hate him
Speaker 1: and the doghouse. And then Trenton Cannon, who's a special
Speaker 1: team's guy. This is a This is a four team
Speaker 1: that has had the run back touch of the ball
Speaker 1: twenty seven times per game over the last four and
Speaker 1: every back that has had ten plus touches against the
Speaker 1: Jags has top sixty plus yards. I think Wilson gets
Speaker 1: t touches easy. I could be first half if Mitchell plays.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't play, he could get twenty plus ye Mitch,
Speaker 1: and I don't think Mitchell goes if I don't need.
Speaker 1: He's doubtful at this point. He's been banged up for
Speaker 1: a long time. He just he needs a week off
Speaker 1: to heal. Let's go to your running back, Brian, who
Speaker 1: doesn't want to go back to Vegas. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do the same. Kenyan Drake of the Raiders tried all
Speaker 1: the second times the charm. I know I'm saying goes,
Speaker 1: but it will be this week. I like Drake against
Speaker 1: the Bengals, who over the last two games have allowed
Speaker 1: two thirty one combo yards and two touchdowns per game
Speaker 1: to opposing running backs. I know Josh Jacobs is the
Speaker 1: lead back for Las Vegas, but there should be some
Speaker 1: scraps left over for Drake Drake on the ground, But
Speaker 1: this is all about the receiving angle. Despite having their
Speaker 1: by the Bengals have yielded these second most targets and
Speaker 1: the second most red zone targets running backs, and our
Speaker 1: top three in the most catches and yards allowed to
Speaker 1: the position. Your lead running back for Tennessee is not
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson, it is Donte Foreman, and Foreman gets a
Speaker 1: great opportunity against the Texans, allowing the second most rushing
Speaker 1: yards and the fourth most rushing touchdowns per game. And
Speaker 1: basically this Texans defense, they've shut down half the defense
Speaker 1: or traded away or otherwise or without half their defensive starters.
Speaker 1: At this point, Foreman had seventy eight total yards last
Speaker 1: week against a far tougher Saints defense, and he had
Speaker 1: tripled the output of Adrian Peterson and Jeremy McNichols. And
Speaker 1: the icing on the cake. McNichols isn't playing this week
Speaker 1: and Adrian cat catch, so the passing work out of
Speaker 1: the backfield may very well go to Foreman as well,
Speaker 1: a delicious opportunity. He almost looked like Derrick Henry out there.
Speaker 1: I was I forgot how big Foreman is, dudes, giant.
Speaker 1: I forgot he was in the league too. Yeah, that too.
Speaker 1: That's because the Achilles injury. Man, you guys don't come
Speaker 1: back from that as all. It bodes well for cam
Speaker 1: Akers a little. But Formans, like three years off his
Speaker 1: achilles has taken him a long time to get back.
Speaker 1: We'll find out. Let's go to the receiving options, Scott,
Speaker 1: I'm going with Adam Troutman. I can't believe I'm adding
Speaker 1: Adam Troutman in here. But the Eagles have been basically
Speaker 1: the seventeen Giants or the twenty nineteen Cardinals right now.
Speaker 1: They've allowed the most yards, receptions, and touchdowns to tight ends.
Speaker 1: Seven different tight ends have tallied nine touchdowns, scored nine times.
Speaker 1: Truman has six plus targets in three straight. He has
Speaker 1: nine catches in the last two weeks. He's coming on.
Speaker 1: We don't have all all of our fish sounds, are not, sorry,
Speaker 1: not fishing all of our animal sounds that we've got.
Speaker 1: You know that. You know we have a number of
Speaker 1: them at our disposal here right. We don't have a fish.
Speaker 1: We don't talk about trout anywhere, No trout to be.
Speaker 1: If we talked about kickers, we'd have to either bass
Speaker 1: to It makes total sense. Scott Fish going with Adam Trapp.
Speaker 1: Go figure h Bryan, Who's gonna take a chance of
Speaker 1: the receiver. We said the Texans and Titans were a
Speaker 1: take comfest on I'm going with Houston's Nico Collins at Tennessee. Now,
Speaker 1: Houston's Danny Amendolas all the second most targets among Houston
Speaker 1: wide receivers last week and charged one of your favorite players,
Speaker 1: Chris Connolly is still getting some targets, but my gut
Speaker 1: is telling me to throw the harpoon at Collins. In
Speaker 1: a very plus matchup, opposing wide receivers are averaging more
Speaker 1: than twenty five targets, six team catches, and two hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve yards per game versus the Titans. Whiteouts are
Speaker 1: also averaging one and a half touchdowns per game against
Speaker 1: Tennessee and que up that peacock because might take a
Speaker 1: chance of me wide receiver. Last week, Marquez Callaway scored
Speaker 1: against the Titans. Nico Collins is gonna do the same.
Speaker 1: I'm in the same game opposite side of the field.
Speaker 1: Marcus Johnson, the name many of you are not even
Speaker 1: familiar with. Your's. Your is your Julio Jones replacement for
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. And he goes up against Houston like
Speaker 1: Don to Foreman does. And this is secondary that surrendered
Speaker 1: six receiver scores in their last four games. And Johnson
Speaker 1: has quietly been a favorite of Tannehills in the non
Speaker 1: Julio Jones games, where he's garnered a target share percentage
Speaker 1: of six and pent for Marcus Johnson got him one
Speaker 1: yard game last week. I think he has another good
Speaker 1: one here, Marcus Johnson. I was dumb enough to sit
Speaker 1: Marcus Johnson over Cole Beasley, Chris Godwin and Tyler Lock
Speaker 1: in the Dynasty League last week. But you but you left.
Speaker 1: You still got him. I'm holding it. I'm gonna play
Speaker 1: this week. You're right. I like the call. Fantastic. Let's
Speaker 1: go onto our next matchup, Scott, which is the Colts
Speaker 1: taking on the Bills. Colts passing offense went belly up
Speaker 1: hard last week and a much tougher matchup this week.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say it's it's not getting much better here.
Speaker 1: The Bills have only allowed six passing touchdowns this year
Speaker 1: through nine games. That's it's amazing. That's ridiculous. So I
Speaker 1: hope you're not counting on Carson Wentz. He did, he
Speaker 1: had a nice streak in there, but it came to
Speaker 1: an end last week. He's not getting anything this week.
Speaker 1: I'm still giving Michael Pittman a B though, he's he
Speaker 1: just gets such a huge percentage of that team's volume.
Speaker 1: It's not the best matchup of Pittman is almost a
Speaker 1: lock for eight to nine targets, five to six catches weekly,
Speaker 1: and the players that have gotten that kind of volume
Speaker 1: against the Bills have done pretty decently. So there's hope there.
Speaker 1: But don't hold for a score though, because that just
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. Jonathan Taylor, however, I have a B grade
Speaker 1: on I could be talked into an A bit it's
Speaker 1: just such a tough matchup. The reason I could be
Speaker 1: talked into an A I'm doing a B is that
Speaker 1: Derrick Hunt Derrick Henry crushed them for a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty six yards and three scores. That's the only comparable
Speaker 1: to Jonathan Taylor that has played the Bills. Michael Carter
Speaker 1: had eighty two and a score against the Bills. Um
Speaker 1: easier to run on the Bills than past. Yeah, all
Speaker 1: the other runners are not even remotely like Michael Carter
Speaker 1: is probably maybe Antonio Gibson and had a hundred total
Speaker 1: yards too, So there are backs that have done it
Speaker 1: against the Bills, and Taylor's right in that field, so
Speaker 1: I give him a beat. On the other side, there's
Speaker 1: a whole lot of stuff that you just don't know
Speaker 1: where the scoring is going. I like, I like Alan
Speaker 1: for an a grade Like once Alan struggled against the
Speaker 1: jag two weeks ago, but he rebounded big last week.
Speaker 1: This game, he gets a cold steve that is bottom
Speaker 1: tending almost every passing category, including allowing the most passing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So a grade on Allan Diggs gets an A because
Speaker 1: he's coming back around. He has eight five plus yards
Speaker 1: and or score in four straight grabbing at least seven
Speaker 1: balls in each of them, and he's top sixty sixty
Speaker 1: yards in every single game, like he's got a super
Speaker 1: safe floor. So this team is allowing the sixth most receptions,
Speaker 1: eight most yards, and second most touchdowns and wide receivers,
Speaker 1: but I sadly just can't trust the other three wide
Speaker 1: receivers that you know every time you think you gotta
Speaker 1: read on which receiver might have a good game turns
Speaker 1: around and flops. Yeah, Sanders had a lot of touchdowns
Speaker 1: earlier in the year. Um last week Sanders snaps went
Speaker 1: down to Beasley had a couple of huge plays. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Davis had a couple of huge plays. Beasley had a
Speaker 1: couple of good games. But now he's got the rib
Speaker 1: injury that really took him out last week, and he
Speaker 1: might be slowed this week. So I have them on
Speaker 1: the bench. I didn't believe me for that. One might
Speaker 1: pop up. We just don't know who Dawson knocks. I
Speaker 1: have a C grade on last week. Dan Arnold had
Speaker 1: had a decent five for sixty seven stat line. Earlier
Speaker 1: in the year, Mark Andrews and Mike Gasecki had had
Speaker 1: really good days against them. I view knocks closer to
Speaker 1: those guys than all the mesh of tight ends that
Speaker 1: did twenty to forty yards. Uh, so he's gonna see
Speaker 1: for me here. Hey, don't forget about the two point
Speaker 1: conversion for dan Arnold touchdown, he touchdown. You need to
Speaker 1: get every little bit in. Uh, I'm on the running game.
Speaker 1: I have them on the bench too. Just like the
Speaker 1: wide receivers. Uh. Part of the reason the past game
Speaker 1: should have a field day is because the Colts are
Speaker 1: sneakily a top five run defense right now. Um and
Speaker 1: with Breta coming on last week stealing snaps and touches
Speaker 1: and touchdowns, it's a three way split. Last week it
Speaker 1: was six touches to seven touches to eight touches. I
Speaker 1: don't like that, so I have them on the bench. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, it's not the Jets again. So
Speaker 1: even though there were whatever four or five, you know,
Speaker 1: was it four running back touchdowns for each of them
Speaker 1: scored and Breda got two twice. I'm just like we
Speaker 1: knew it was gonna happen. Who didn't call Matt Brita
Speaker 1: everyone first game that he hasn't been inactive since Week three,
Speaker 1: scoring twice. Let's let's squeeze in one more matchup, Brian,
Speaker 1: because I think this one's gonna be pretty short, based
Speaker 1: in the fact we've already talked about half of the
Speaker 1: players in this game. Texans taking on the Titans. I
Speaker 1: already told you two different Texans that I liked, including
Speaker 1: starting running back down to foreman. Yeah, we'll started on
Speaker 1: the Texans side with the guys we haven't talked about.
Speaker 1: Brandon Cook's gonna give him a B. The move back
Speaker 1: to Taylor at quarterback did not affect Cook's massive targets share.
Speaker 1: He saw thirteen targets last week at Miami. I said
Speaker 1: this earlier. Opposing wide receivers are averaging more than twenty
Speaker 1: five targets, sixteen catches, and two twelve yards per game
Speaker 1: against the Titans. That's why Nico Collins was gonna take
Speaker 1: a chance on me wide receiver. It also makes Tarad
Speaker 1: Trod Taylor worthy of a Sea dart. The Titans have
Speaker 1: surrendered the fifth most fantasy points to quarterbacks and mobile
Speaker 1: quarterbacks like Kyler Murray and Trevor Lawrence both scored on
Speaker 1: the ground against Tennessee. But all the Texans running backs
Speaker 1: are not worthy of any darts unless they're like elephant tranquilizers. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're all on the bench. Over to the Tennessee side,
Speaker 1: A J. Brown and easy a here. Brown has seen
Speaker 1: the Texans four times in his career and has totaled
Speaker 1: five touchdowns against them, scoring in every game. He's also
Speaker 1: topped one yards and three of those four games, So
Speaker 1: this is a smash spot for Brown and it could
Speaker 1: be a smash spot for Marcus Johnson. Charge here, take
Speaker 1: a chance of me wide receiver. And I had a
Speaker 1: great write up written for Jeff Swain night end but
Speaker 1: has been ruled out. Unfortunately he had distance some distanced
Speaker 1: himself from Anthony Ferkser and Michael Pruett. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give ferks to receive though here kind of a sleeper
Speaker 1: tight end that has been a massive disappointment, but an
Speaker 1: amazing matchup for the tight end uh for Tennessee, and
Speaker 1: I will go with frokes Are again. Despite having their
Speaker 1: by Houston has yielded the second most red zone touches
Speaker 1: and have allowed the third most touchdowns to tight ends
Speaker 1: with a sit with six, and five of those six
Speaker 1: tight end touchdowns have come over the last six games
Speaker 1: for Houston. We're opposing tight ends are also averaging nearly
Speaker 1: five catches and sixty yards. So Anthony Brokeser could finally
Speaker 1: come through for those that are probably draft him in
Speaker 1: best Ball. But if you're desperate tight end, go out
Speaker 1: and grab ferks Er. Uh, Dante Foreman, Like you said,
Speaker 1: charge was yourna take a chance on me running back
Speaker 1: and of course, you have to mention Ryan Tannehill, who,
Speaker 1: outside of Jacoby Brissette, Baker Mayfield and Mac Jones Houston
Speaker 1: has surrendered multiple passing touchdowns in every game. Tannehill has
Speaker 1: been kind of a disappointment touchdown wise. The rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: have been saving him from Fantasy irrelevancy. But uh, and
Speaker 1: I should have mentioned this is the first meeting between
Speaker 1: these divisional opponents. But the last time Tannehill saw the
Speaker 1: Texans at home last season, he went for passing yards
Speaker 1: and four passing touchdowns. Might do that again. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's got the receivers to do that at this point,
Speaker 1: but you never know. He's got Marcus Johnson. What are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Well, there's that he doesn't have Jeff
Speaker 1: Swain though that hurts, That does hurt. Uh. Final chances
Speaker 1: to join a Guillotine league is this week. We've got
Speaker 1: drafts over the weekend. If you still want to join
Speaker 1: and there's still what eight weeks of play left, plenty
Speaker 1: of time, plenty of fun. You can still join a
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Speaker 1: More matchup breakdowns, including Packers taking on the Vikings what
Speaker 1: to expect from Kirk Cousins, Justin Jefferson, and Adam Feeling
Speaker 1: in a tricky matchup when we returned to Fantasy Football Weekly,
Speaker 1: Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul charchy and Scott Fish
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Speaker 1: Packers take on the Vikings in a in a matchup
Speaker 1: that has a number of fascinating angles. But let's start
Speaker 1: with A J. Dillon assuming the workhorse role with Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones out, and maybe more important than the rushing opportunities
Speaker 1: is he's proven himself to be a capable receiver with
Speaker 1: one hundred receiving yards over the last two games, and
Speaker 1: if he can pick up Aaron Jones receiving duties, it
Speaker 1: cements Dylan as a high floor, high upside play. This week,
Speaker 1: the Vikings run stuffer Michael Pierce had a setback on
Speaker 1: his injury and will miss several more games in the
Speaker 1: last three weeks. Minnesota's bottom ten in rushing ards and
Speaker 1: rushing scores allowed to running back, So a nice opportunity
Speaker 1: for a J. Dell. In fact, he's my number four
Speaker 1: ranked running back this week. Love him A grade for
Speaker 1: a J with him and he did not draft himself.
Speaker 1: Now he's got, he's got. Well, we gotta hope he
Speaker 1: faces himself. He did last week, but he won. He
Speaker 1: wanted he himself. Let's go to the passing game for
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers a B grade. The Vikings really tattered defense
Speaker 1: has overperformed for several weeks now, and they get Harrison
Speaker 1: Smith backs, their safety, they get their number one quarterback,
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson back, and since Week three, Minnesota's allowed just
Speaker 1: two hundred thirty five passing yards and one point one
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns per game. That's it, and that was largely
Speaker 1: without those guys. Maybe the other shoe falls against a
Speaker 1: familiar rival here, Aaron Rodgers and Rodgers was awesome against
Speaker 1: Minnesota last year, but that was a totally different Minnesota
Speaker 1: defense than this year. Rodgers has thrown exactly two touchdowns
Speaker 1: in five of seven games, and I've I've got him
Speaker 1: on about two touchdowns of this game as well. Davante
Speaker 1: Adams is an obvious A and I don't even need
Speaker 1: to expand on that really. Um, but let's talk more
Speaker 1: about Randall Cobb and MVS. That are they were flirting
Speaker 1: with CS, but I can't quite get there because they
Speaker 1: just have so many one, two and three catch games
Speaker 1: that even in even in favorable matchups where you look
Speaker 1: going and go, oh, this looks like a good one
Speaker 1: in the slot for Randall Cobb and then you get
Speaker 1: two catches for twenty three yards. Jeez, no reliability for
Speaker 1: these guys. And mostly the Vikings are getting beat by
Speaker 1: opposing number one receivers and not the not the other guys.
Speaker 1: So I've got bench grades on Cobb and MVS and
Speaker 1: Alan Lazard is not expected to go in this game.
Speaker 1: Let's go to uh, let's go to the Viking side
Speaker 1: and Dalvin Cook. Five career games against the Packers, Cook
Speaker 1: averaging nineteen touches for one D twenty six yards and
Speaker 1: more than a touchdown per game. So I like Cooks here.
Speaker 1: He's an obvious A start and we'll we'll be watching
Speaker 1: injuries here to uh. Whitney mer Mersey is out and
Speaker 1: Rashan Gary is shaping up as a game time decision
Speaker 1: that could really weaken the front end of a defense
Speaker 1: that allows four point one yards per carry but has
Speaker 1: given up seven rushing scores. I still think the Vikings
Speaker 1: best path to victory lies through Dalvin Cook, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of use from Dalvin Cook in
Speaker 1: this game A grade. It's a lot trickier for Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins in this one. The Packers have become the league's
Speaker 1: most hostile past defense over the past three weeks. They've
Speaker 1: completely shut down Kyler Murray, Patrick Mahomes and Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: holding them two averages of one hundred passing yards and
Speaker 1: one touchdown between the three of them. The best way
Speaker 1: to shut down Kirk Cousins is to get pressure on Cousins,
Speaker 1: at which point he gets skittish and he started starts
Speaker 1: throwing checkdowns and dump offs. And the Packers pass rush
Speaker 1: has been phenominal of late. Even if for Shane Gary
Speaker 1: can't play, I worry that Cousins won't have time to
Speaker 1: get his receiver's open down field. Green Bay ranks number
Speaker 1: one in completion percentage and number two in yards per attempt,
Speaker 1: and this it's the yards pert tempt that worry me.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a lot of dump off
Speaker 1: stuff from Kirk, and I'm nervous about that. So I've
Speaker 1: got just the C grade on Kirk Cousins. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about his receivers. Justin Jefferson was great last week, but
Speaker 1: I'm dramatically tougher matchup against a team that has not
Speaker 1: allowed any receiver more than thirty seven yards in the
Speaker 1: past two weeks. Despite facing Patrick Mahomes and Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: Green Bay hasn't given up a touchdown to a receiver
Speaker 1: in three weeks. Cornerback Kevin King is allowed just one
Speaker 1: touchdown and rookie Eric Stokes has a passer rating of
Speaker 1: just seventy five against him. These are good. These cornerbacks
Speaker 1: are playing way over expectation. What a roller coaster ride
Speaker 1: for King went from like down's been good. Jefferson has
Speaker 1: been super steady, and that's why he gets a B
Speaker 1: grade here. At least eighty yards are a touchdown in
Speaker 1: six of the last seven. Jefferson posted just twenties six
Speaker 1: yards in each of his two matchups against Green Bay
Speaker 1: last year, though, so be great on Justin Jefferson. Ce
Speaker 1: grade on feeling he's become somewhat touchdown dependent and the
Speaker 1: Packers having a lot of wide receiver touchdown in three
Speaker 1: straight games. As I had mentioned earlier, there's just no
Speaker 1: soft matchups in the Packers secondary, and as I said before,
Speaker 1: I worry about dump off passes, which don't necessarily bode
Speaker 1: well for feeling. Tyler Conklin gets a C grade coming
Speaker 1: off a two touchdown game. Packers have only a lot
Speaker 1: of four touchdowns the tight ends, but they've surrendered the
Speaker 1: second most red zone touches two tight ends, and they've
Speaker 1: given up the ninth most targets and the six most
Speaker 1: receptions to tight ends. So I think Conkling can get
Speaker 1: a little something done, So we'll give him a C grade.
Speaker 1: You're gonna blow into the conk shell. I don't have
Speaker 1: anything like that, but you should have that. If you're
Speaker 1: going to get the cock shell right there, that could
Speaker 1: be Adam Troutman right there. Thank you to Brett, to
Speaker 1: your engineer. Do you know what Bob Harris calls him
Speaker 1: football die hards? Bob Harris the fish missiles. That's pretty
Speaker 1: good like that. I like it. What is your what
Speaker 1: is your wife nicknamed? The fish missile? This joke came
Speaker 1: up when I found that out, I bet it did
Speaker 1: come up. I am not that joke right now. The
Speaker 1: stats take on the Eagles, Yes they do. Trevor Simeons
Speaker 1: should be on your bench. I don't care that he
Speaker 1: had that. He's average two seventy five yards and two
Speaker 1: scores in his two full games last two weeks. The
Speaker 1: Eagles have allowed multiple scores six times. But they were
Speaker 1: all really good quarterbacks Dak Mahomes, Brady Herbert types, the
Speaker 1: Jimmy G Donald Golf Bridgewater types, six or fewer yards
Speaker 1: for all of them, and I come bind two passing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So they've held down the quarterbacks they should held hold down.
Speaker 1: I have seen me in on the bench. Same with
Speaker 1: all of his wide receivers. Sorry, Noah, take on for
Speaker 1: callaway this this week, Brian. Here's the fullest of wide
Speaker 1: receivers to top just sixty yards against the Eagles. See
Speaker 1: who am uh Tyreek Hill, A J. Brown, Keenan Allen
Speaker 1: and uh Deepo Samuel. Those are Those are all top
Speaker 1: ten wide receivers in the league. And the Saints don't
Speaker 1: have anybody close to that under sixty yards against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: So I have them on the bench and the run,
Speaker 1: and of course Adam the fish missile troutman was might
Speaker 1: take a chance on me player. I have an A
Speaker 1: grade on mark Ingram in somehow, somehow, I have an
Speaker 1: A grade. But here's the thing. I'm neither starting tackle
Speaker 1: is in this game to down a whole letter grade.
Speaker 1: Oh Man kamares out. Tony Jones is designated to return,
Speaker 1: but I don't think he gets returned for this game.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be all Ingram. He had eighteen touches last week.
Speaker 1: This this Eagle's defense has allowed the seventh most rushing
Speaker 1: yards and the seventh most strushing touchdowns, the sixth most receptions,
Speaker 1: eleventh most receiving yards. And he's You're like, mark Ingram,
Speaker 1: why you mentioned receiving stuff. He's had nine catches in
Speaker 1: the two games with Trevor Simeon. He's actually catching passes
Speaker 1: from Trevor Simeon. He's getting the goal line work. Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe it's not the sexiest A grade out there, but
Speaker 1: it's an A grade alright, alright. On the other side,
Speaker 1: on the other side, Jalen Hurts is an obvious A
Speaker 1: to me. But if you if you didn't already know
Speaker 1: he has finished as a top twelve twelve quarterback in
Speaker 1: nine of ten weeks. No other quarterback has done that
Speaker 1: six times this year. He's just always getting there with
Speaker 1: the rushing yards. Now he's added passing to that production.
Speaker 1: Um and this is a This is a matchup against
Speaker 1: the team that's given up over nine yards and eight
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the last three weeks two quarterbacks uh in
Speaker 1: the passing game for all the wide receivers, DeVonta Smith.
Speaker 1: A grade for DeVonta Smith. The Saints of allowed a
Speaker 1: hundred yard receiver in three straight games, five wide receiver
Speaker 1: touchdowns in that stretch. In just the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: Smith has nine catches for a hundred and eighty two
Speaker 1: yards and three scores. He's coming on right as Hurts.
Speaker 1: His passing is growing up. I do have Quess Watkins
Speaker 1: on the badge, even though I admit he could break
Speaker 1: a big one. They're gonna get passing yards here. It's
Speaker 1: just tough to trust because he's only top three catches
Speaker 1: once in in this this season. Dallas Goddard. He gets
Speaker 1: to see if he goes, which it should. It sounds
Speaker 1: like he's gonna go, so I have a C grade.
Speaker 1: He generally gats two to six balls um. In his
Speaker 1: last three full games, he averaged over sixty yards per uh.
Speaker 1: So I got him with a C grade, and I
Speaker 1: have Jordan Howard and and Boston's got on the bench
Speaker 1: because Miles Standers might come back. It sounds like he's
Speaker 1: gonna play. Yeah, but even if you didn't, it's a
Speaker 1: bad matchup against the Saints are on defense only really
Speaker 1: only Christian McCaffrey did well against him, and it took
Speaker 1: him twenty four attempts. Yeah. Yeah, nobody's gonna get twenty
Speaker 1: four attempts. Although the Eagles have shockingly turned into a
Speaker 1: pretty run heavy team, very run heavy. Jalen Hurts. You
Speaker 1: can't tell from the box score if you didn't watch
Speaker 1: his game. He's coming up the best game of his career.
Speaker 1: He looks like the quarterbook game. Yeah. The poise, the
Speaker 1: decision making, the accuracy all really remarkably improved for for
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. He's his ascension could be starting right and
Speaker 1: they might have three top fifteen picks. If they don't
Speaker 1: need a quarterback, that would be I don't mean a lot, Brian.
Speaker 1: We've got four minutes to work through. Bengals Raiders. I
Speaker 1: think you can do it. Let's give it a go.
Speaker 1: Starting on the Bengal side, Joe Mixon gets an A.
Speaker 1: The Raiders are allowing on forty three compoyards and more
Speaker 1: than one total touchdown per game to oppose running backs.
Speaker 1: Uh mixing a rare breed of bell cow in these
Speaker 1: times meeting. He's also a very good receiver. Last week,
Speaker 1: Kansas Cities Darryl Williams caught nine balls for one hundred
Speaker 1: plus yards and a touchdown in Las Vegas. Easy A
Speaker 1: for Mixing, just to B for Jamaar Chase. Las Vegas
Speaker 1: is only allowed one receiver to top one hundred yards
Speaker 1: that came back in Week two, but they have allowed
Speaker 1: six wide receiver touchdowns over their last four games, so
Speaker 1: for that reason, I'll give t Higgins a B as well.
Speaker 1: Over the last three weeks, Higgins has seen just three
Speaker 1: fewer targets than Jamaar Chase and is averaging nearly eighty
Speaker 1: yards per game during that span. Higgins has in scored
Speaker 1: since Week two, but it's due for some positive touchdown
Speaker 1: regression in my opinion, and Tyler Boyd can give him
Speaker 1: a C. Only in PPR leagues that we're not play
Speaker 1: him in standard, but uh he will face Raider slot
Speaker 1: corner Nate Hobbs, who owns an eighty eight percent catch
Speaker 1: rate in his coverage. So I like Boyd in PPR
Speaker 1: with the C. I also like cj Uzoma enough to
Speaker 1: give him a See. The Raiders have surrendered six touchdowns
Speaker 1: to tight ends, which is the third most, and all
Speaker 1: those touchdowns have come over their last six games, and
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow gets a B. Not much explaining here when
Speaker 1: all of his weapons got starting us so easy started
Speaker 1: for Burrow over to the Raiders side, and Darren Waller,
Speaker 1: who has been pretty much a disappointment disappointment this year,
Speaker 1: but still gets a B here. Over their last three games.
Speaker 1: Since then, Cincinnati has allowed nearly sixty yards per game
Speaker 1: to tight ends, as well as a touchdown to the
Speaker 1: position in each of their last two hunter Renfro gets
Speaker 1: a B as well. The Bengal Bengals have allowed a
Speaker 1: wide receiver touchdown and four of their last five games
Speaker 1: only the Detroit wide receivers had not scored during that span,
Speaker 1: which is totally understandable. And if the if a Raiders
Speaker 1: wide out it's going to score, it's going most likely
Speaker 1: gonna be renfro who, despite having his by, has seen
Speaker 1: the fourth most targets inside the ten yard line among
Speaker 1: all players this year, and Brian Edwards gonna give him
Speaker 1: a c uh. Edwards has seen the second most targets
Speaker 1: among Raiders wide receivers since the Henry Ruggs incident, and
Speaker 1: he did have eighty eight yards in a touchdown last week,
Speaker 1: so he's worth a harpoon toss or is it a heave?
Speaker 1: Would you throw a harpoon? You talk said you heave it.
Speaker 1: I don't know I launched shoot. I mean it comes
Speaker 1: out of some kind of a gun like mechanism. I
Speaker 1: think you shoot it, but hard I mentioned it earlier.
Speaker 1: This is a suspected shootout with a fifty point five
Speaker 1: over under. So Edwards gets to see Josh Jacobs limited
Speaker 1: with a knee injury all week, but he should play
Speaker 1: in this game. Gonna give him a b over. The
Speaker 1: last two games, the Bengals have allowed two thirty one
Speaker 1: compo yards and two touchdowns per game to running backs.
Speaker 1: Huge numbers, huge numbers. Kenyan Drake is the more more
Speaker 1: of the receiving back for Las Vegas, but Jacobs has
Speaker 1: average four targets. Over his last few games, and despite
Speaker 1: having their by the Bengals have yielded these second most
Speaker 1: targets and red zone targets running backs and our top
Speaker 1: three in the most catches and yards allowed the position.
Speaker 1: That is why Kenyan Drake was might take a chance
Speaker 1: of me running back, and I coupled that altogether with
Speaker 1: Derek carrs might take a chance on me quarterback. Nicely done,
Speaker 1: I would say there was a lot of talking in
Speaker 1: a very short time. Take us the water here, all right,
Speaker 1: you go, you go do that and we will prepare
Speaker 1: for our number two when we start our number two
Speaker 1: In moments for three tough questions, including some insight onto
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, find out if you can go three and
Speaker 1: oh as you play along with our co host three
Speaker 1: tough questions our number two Fantasy Football Weekly coming up next.
Speaker 1: Do you welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly? Pult Charchi and
Speaker 1: Scott Fish and Brian Johnson with you. This is a
Speaker 1: game we like to call three tough questions. Tough question
Speaker 1: Number one? What Fantasy Football Weekly letter grade? Will Cam
Speaker 1: Newton most often get A, A, A, B, A C
Speaker 1: or A bench grade? Scott so, Cam Newton last year
Speaker 1: finished as a top four team quarterback nine times, nine times,
Speaker 1: a top ten quarterback six times. And that's with almost
Speaker 1: no repast weapons. Eight passing touchdowns last year, yep, and
Speaker 1: and twelve rushing. We gave him a C and a
Speaker 1: ton of bench grades last year because we could never
Speaker 1: tru trust the passing. That's that's what he was getting
Speaker 1: last year. Now, I think we can trust the passing
Speaker 1: just a little bit more, even without Dan Arnold. Even
Speaker 1: without even without Dan Arnold, He's got all these weapons
Speaker 1: he's got, He's got McCaffrey, he's got Joe Brady, who
Speaker 1: you know. I I feel like truy well. I supposed
Speaker 1: Josh mcdown's okay over and he's done. He's done okay
Speaker 1: for himself. But mostly his entire schedule is filled with
Speaker 1: bottom seven defenses. During the fantasy season, he plays the Ants, uh,
Speaker 1: he plays the Bills. Those are maybe the only two
Speaker 1: matchups that are tough. The rest are bottom seven pass defenses.
Speaker 1: I'm going with B grade. Okay, I'm gonna go high
Speaker 1: on this, Brian, which letter grade will cam Newton most
Speaker 1: often get on this show the rest of the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: When I first saw this question, I was like it's
Speaker 1: got to be a bench because he just can't trust
Speaker 1: Cam Newton. But then you looked at the schedule which
Speaker 1: Scott just mentioned, and it's it's pretty soft at Buffalo
Speaker 1: and at Miami to two tough matchups remaining for him.
Speaker 1: But outside of that, he's got a very plus schedule.
Speaker 1: And I would have went B as well if if
Speaker 1: they held onto the the surging Dan Arnold. But since
Speaker 1: he's he's in Jacksonville now, I'm just gonna go to
Speaker 1: see for the most part for Cam Newton. But he
Speaker 1: is startable and who would who would have thunk it
Speaker 1: cam Newton starting quarterback for the tail end of the season.
Speaker 1: I did not expect it either. I've got C grade
Speaker 1: is the correct answer. Tampa twice as a C grade,
Speaker 1: in part because they're getting that whole secondary back healthy.
Speaker 1: Finally Sean Murphy bunting coming back. And this is a
Speaker 1: This is a trickier Tampa defense to throw upon than
Speaker 1: it used to be. And nobody of any Gilk runs
Speaker 1: on Tampa very much. So the Tampa once Buffalo is tough,
Speaker 1: you say Miami is tough. I don't agree C grade
Speaker 1: here this week he's got a C grade we already
Speaker 1: give that. Do we do that matchup? No? Yes, we
Speaker 1: haven't done. Yeah, yeah, he was might take a chance
Speaker 1: on you guys. C grade for this week. Atlanta and
Speaker 1: New Orleans also C grades. I I was going a
Speaker 1: little high. I think you were going to question number
Speaker 1: two tread trade deadlines are approaching and you could turn
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel into almost any receiver in the league. Are
Speaker 1: you selling high or are you holding Brian? Yeah, Deebo
Speaker 1: has been pretty incredible. His worst receiving game was he
Speaker 1: had three catches for fifty eight yards, but he ran
Speaker 1: a touchdown in that game to salvage that stat line.
Speaker 1: He's all. He had another rushing touchdown last week on
Speaker 1: top of a receiving touchdown. His worst UH statistical output
Speaker 1: was five catches for fifty two yards. That's still double
Speaker 1: digit points in PPR. I'm there's only one wide receiver
Speaker 1: I would trade him for, and that's Cooper Cup, who
Speaker 1: just has a slightly higher floor and ceiling than Debo.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, I don't know what my
Speaker 1: answer would be, So I guess I would say, yes,
Speaker 1: I would trade him for Cooper Cup. But that's I
Speaker 1: don't think it's pretty much a no, I'm holding holding strong,
Speaker 1: Samuel Scott. What about you? Are you holding Samuel? Will
Speaker 1: you selling high? I'm holding Uh, he's doing it all.
Speaker 1: He's hard to guard all with kittl and are you
Speaker 1: taking up taking up defenders? They can't pin him down
Speaker 1: with the top receiver. The running back issues are somehow
Speaker 1: giving him goal line carries inside the five as well.
Speaker 1: The fourty Niners have seven games left in our fantasy season,
Speaker 1: and only one of those teams ranks in the top
Speaker 1: half of the league against wide receivers. More than that,
Speaker 1: this is the time of year where I start to
Speaker 1: like want to bolster my starting line up, and deepos
Speaker 1: the kind of guy i'd want to trade for. I'd
Speaker 1: trade two pieces. I'm not going for depth, so I'd
Speaker 1: rather I'd rather just keep neither of You mentioned the
Speaker 1: injury issues that have haunted Deebo Samuel in the past,
Speaker 1: and I think that's the only reason you to trade
Speaker 1: Samuel is you put your finger in the wind and
Speaker 1: you just go, you know what, I'm not. I'm not
Speaker 1: rolling the dice on Samuel anymore. And it's it's a
Speaker 1: thing until it's not, it's right, and that's but that's
Speaker 1: and that's that's how I look at almost everybody with
Speaker 1: injuries until you get to like a will Fuller level
Speaker 1: of injury history, I tend to say, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to bank on a guy getting hurt. Yeah, we care
Speaker 1: so a little about the injury thing. We didn't even
Speaker 1: mention you, didn't even mention you guys hit on the
Speaker 1: schedule stuff. I looked through this. He's gonna have an
Speaker 1: A grade in every game to week eighteen, and in
Speaker 1: week eighteen you shouldn't be playing anyway, don't matter. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and Cooper Cup would be the only guy that I
Speaker 1: would exchange him for. And that's we're not saying. The
Speaker 1: question was not phrased. Is there any player you would
Speaker 1: have you would possibly trade it for? So the answer
Speaker 1: on real Deebo Samuel is real quick. I went look
Speaker 1: back at preseason ADP Brandon Auk wide receiver twenty three,
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel, wide receiver thirty five. Who Although, by the way,
Speaker 1: it's a quick side note, this easy, easy schedule for
Speaker 1: San Francisco also applies to Brandon, Are you yeah? You
Speaker 1: know I mean by low and I you right now
Speaker 1: while you're at it, maybe that should have been the
Speaker 1: tough question. Question three, What is the appropriate level of
Speaker 1: concern for Mike Williams None, some or a bowl loosening
Speaker 1: level of eggsistential dread Scott. It depends on the manager
Speaker 1: going with what Brian was just talking about. For the
Speaker 1: manager who drafted Mike Williams a hundred and twenty overall
Speaker 1: on the ten eleven corner where his ADP was right
Speaker 1: along guys with Callaway, Marvin Jones, John H. Smith, Curtis Samuel,
Speaker 1: Michael Gallop, Sonny Michelle, Jamal Williams, Devin Singletary, Tyler Higbee.
Speaker 1: For the people that drafted him among those, they should
Speaker 1: be fine. They understood over the last two years he's
Speaker 1: a thirty to sixty yard guy who occasionally has blow
Speaker 1: up games and touchdowns, so they there they should only
Speaker 1: worry some because maybe they're concerned as his blow up
Speaker 1: games were all of the earlier of the season and
Speaker 1: now he's done for the year with the big blow
Speaker 1: up games. For the manager who traded him after traded
Speaker 1: for him after that hot start, they traded real, they
Speaker 1: should be at woke up eights, some leftover Chipotle, dracob
Speaker 1: a pot of coffee and then they jumped out of
Speaker 1: treadmill level of existential bow loosening dread. That's where those
Speaker 1: managers should be. But I think for most managers that
Speaker 1: should be some, because people realize what Mike Williams is.
Speaker 1: Some is your official answer to that in a very
Speaker 1: roundabout circuitous way, Brian, what's the appropriate level of concern
Speaker 1: for Mike Williams? None, some or blowed? That's a very
Speaker 1: tough response to follow up to. I I gotta go
Speaker 1: with just some too, considering he had a hundred and
Speaker 1: sixteen roughly PPR points Mike Williams in these first five
Speaker 1: games and over his last four like twenty four total
Speaker 1: PPR points and injury, always some sort of concern with
Speaker 1: Mike Williams. Knock on wood, he won't get hurt uh
Speaker 1: for the remainder of this season. But like Fish said,
Speaker 1: it's not like he's under performing based on a super
Speaker 1: high a DP, so you can't be blowed on him
Speaker 1: unless he traded for him. But like Fish said as well,
Speaker 1: but just in a nutshell, just some. Uh, it's still
Speaker 1: a high poetent offense and uh, hopefully you can regain
Speaker 1: some of that early season magic. So where you drafted.
Speaker 1: Mike Williams has nothing to do with your appropriate level
Speaker 1: of panic right now is you're staring into the gaping
Speaker 1: mall of the Fantasy playoffs. It doesn't make any difference.
Speaker 1: The correct answer is blowed. He said. Other than weeks
Speaker 1: one to three and five, which is a long time ago,
Speaker 1: he's wide receiver nine nine zero. He has always been
Speaker 1: a bloom er bust player. And here's the key part
Speaker 1: that you guys missed. Can you count on Mike Williams
Speaker 1: to power you in three straight playoff games? Hell no,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't hope for my tenth or eleventh. Jeff,
Speaker 1: you out spent a little off. I think he starts
Speaker 1: to come around too, and that should raise the bar
Speaker 1: from make Washington takes on the Panthers, and for Antonio Gibson.
Speaker 1: What a freaking head scratcher this guy is. When you
Speaker 1: think you should bench him against the Saints and the Bucks,
Speaker 1: he scores twice in both games, and these other matchups
Speaker 1: that look highly exploitable, you get nothing out of Antonio Gibson.
Speaker 1: So what do you think against the Panthers. Let's take
Speaker 1: a look. He did look much healthier last week, and
Speaker 1: he got a lot of usage. Panthers um should continue
Speaker 1: as a plus opportunity for him. In the last three games,
Speaker 1: Caroline is allowed the eighth most yards per carry despite
Speaker 1: seeing only the twenty first most carries. Caroline is very
Speaker 1: tough to pass upon, and the game script should favor
Speaker 1: Gibson here with plenty of work. I'm giving him a
Speaker 1: B grade in this game. Taylor Heineke in the passing game,
Speaker 1: is on the bench and a brutal matchup against the
Speaker 1: league's number one past defense by yards. They're giving up
Speaker 1: just one hundred passing yards per game. That's Carolina over
Speaker 1: the past four games. That number drops even lower over
Speaker 1: the last month of games. Carolina is giving up one
Speaker 1: hundred fifty eight passing yards per game. That's nothing. It's
Speaker 1: a disaster for opposing quarterbacks, and less than one touchdown
Speaker 1: per game. The mid season acquisitions of Stephan Gilmour and c. J.
Speaker 1: Henderson give the Panthers arguably the deepest set of cornerbacks
Speaker 1: in the league. Heineke is on the bench, Ricky Seals
Speaker 1: Jones is out with a hip injury. They might ask
Speaker 1: Logan Thomas to come back a week early, but they
Speaker 1: can't start him either. That just leaves Terry McLaurin just
Speaker 1: to c grade here, and it's just based on his
Speaker 1: personal talent. Despite averaging nine targets in the last five games,
Speaker 1: McLaren only has reached sixty yards once and scored once.
Speaker 1: Those aren't great stats. The Panthers are allowing the fewest
Speaker 1: yards to receivers, just eighty per game. And I mean,
Speaker 1: if if McLaren and the rest of the receivers have
Speaker 1: to divvy up eighty yards, McLaren gets forty half of
Speaker 1: it himself, and that's it. It's tough. In fact, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm putting McLaren on the bench. Forget I've
Speaker 1: just talked about bench great Terry McLaurin. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Caroline and Christian McCaffrey is an obvious A. Let's move
Speaker 1: on to the passing game. We've already talked about Cam Newton.
Speaker 1: He was my take a chance to the quarterback. If
Speaker 1: I didn't make this clear though, Matt Rules come out
Speaker 1: and said that P. J. Walker is gonna get play
Speaker 1: in this game too. But I don't think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be translate into enough, especially obviously nothing on the ground.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it won't take any rushing work away
Speaker 1: from Cam that I think you need necessarily downgrade Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: so C grade there, and p J. Walker siphons off
Speaker 1: some but hopefully not too much work. D J. Moore
Speaker 1: gets a B. Washington's allowing two one yards per game
Speaker 1: to receivers that is second most, and is allowed multiple
Speaker 1: touchdowns to the position in five of the last seven games.
Speaker 1: Were should have no trouble exploiting Kendall Fuller giving up
Speaker 1: a passer rating of ninety two and William Jackson, whose
Speaker 1: Pro Football focuses one rated cornerback. So I like DJ
Speaker 1: Moore here. I was tempted to let you throw a
Speaker 1: dart on Robbie Anderson, but I just can't do it.
Speaker 1: That would have been great. Betch Terry McClard start Robby Yaders,
Speaker 1: it would It would have been tempting, but he's coming
Speaker 1: off a two yard game. In a zero yard game,
Speaker 1: I can't do it. I just it's all. But the
Speaker 1: matchup is clearly bent in Anderson's favor, and I'd like
Speaker 1: to tell you to start him, but I can't do it.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, and anything to the Cam and Robbie stood
Speaker 1: next to each other for press conference, so that that
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Speaker 1: take on the Jaguars will tell you what to expect
Speaker 1: from the passing attack of the forty nine years. When
Speaker 1: we returned Fantasy Football Weekly, Welcome back. Fantasy Football Weekly,
Speaker 1: pulled Charchi and Brian Johnson and Scott Fish with you.
Speaker 1: We continue through the matchups fantasy style letter grades on
Speaker 1: all the players who matter. Forty niners Take on the Jaguars. Scott,
Speaker 1: you already told us about the running game. We love
Speaker 1: Jeff Wilson in this opportunity. Although the Jaguars run defense
Speaker 1: is better than people think by a sizeable margin, just
Speaker 1: three point seven yards per Gary. But if you tell
Speaker 1: me any one forty niners back is going to get
Speaker 1: the vast majority of the work, I'm interested which they
Speaker 1: run it. So let's sell's talky about the passing game.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo, he was my ticket chance on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Obviously I like him. Here his receiving options. Deebo Samuel,
Speaker 1: I have a I have a bench grade on. I
Speaker 1: think it's just obvious at this point he's an eight grade.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna move on to Brandon Aiyuk, who have
Speaker 1: a C grade on. He has nineteen targets in the
Speaker 1: last three weeks. Fifteen wide receivers have topped sixty yards
Speaker 1: and or scored on the Jags this year, fifteen of them.
Speaker 1: That's that's basically two week so are closer one and
Speaker 1: a half two a week. Whatever um the target volume
Speaker 1: he's getting, I think he's in for a decent day. Um.
Speaker 1: Most of those days were off of yards because the
Speaker 1: Jags have only allowed six touchdowns to wide receivers and
Speaker 1: that's four different players, so only four wide receivers have
Speaker 1: scored on the Jags, so you gotta hope for yards. Quietly,
Speaker 1: the Jiants defense is pretty good. It's not it's not terrible.
Speaker 1: It's not terrible. George Kittle, I have an A grade
Speaker 1: on he scored in back to back games for the
Speaker 1: first time in his career, which is crazy. Uh, seventeen
Speaker 1: targets in the last two games. Four tight ends have
Speaker 1: seen six or more targets against the Jags. Their average
Speaker 1: that their average stet line five and a half catches
Speaker 1: for seventy five and a half yards. Yeah, and those
Speaker 1: those four tight ends that did that, they scored three times.
Speaker 1: A better big day for Kittle over on the Jags side.
Speaker 1: I have Dan Arnold as the only player in the
Speaker 1: passing game with a grade. Yes, that's it to not
Speaker 1: even James Robinson passing game Trevor Lawrence bench grade because
Speaker 1: the fours have allowed one multiple passing touchdown games since
Speaker 1: week since Week four, and in those in those six
Speaker 1: games of posing quarterbacks are averaging a hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: nine yards per game. That's terrible. Dred fifty nine from
Speaker 1: and the wide receivers Marvin Jones hasn't top thirty five
Speaker 1: yards in three straight nat hasn't top twenty five yards
Speaker 1: in three straight. Uh. Agnew is the wild card. If
Speaker 1: you need a real dart throw. He's getting five plus targets,
Speaker 1: he gets runs, he can break off big places. He's
Speaker 1: had a great, great game in four of the last five.
Speaker 1: He's the gadget player we thought Lavis was gonna be.
Speaker 1: He's the gadget player that Urban wanted Etn to be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a tough matchup. But if you're I have
Speaker 1: them on the bench. But a dart throw c is
Speaker 1: okay too. Uh. Dan Arnold is the B grade I
Speaker 1: gave here. You gotta buy in if you haven't yet.
Speaker 1: Sixty plus in four five, four plus catches in those
Speaker 1: same four games. Um sure. Last week all of his
Speaker 1: stats came in one drive. Who cares he got him?
Speaker 1: We don't care for fans. He was tagged with the
Speaker 1: one yard line too, don't leave that out. He should
Speaker 1: add a touchdown. The forty Niners have a lot of
Speaker 1: tight end touchdown in three of the last four. Dan
Speaker 1: Arnold has no touchdowns on the year, but maybe he
Speaker 1: gets it this week the one yard line and had
Speaker 1: the mini touchdown. James Robinson a B grade this is
Speaker 1: my I don't care that he's got two injuries he's nursing.
Speaker 1: He keeps playing through him, and he gets so much work.
Speaker 1: Three of the four six team plus touchbacks had a
Speaker 1: hundred plus yards and scored. So I think Robinson gets
Speaker 1: that kind of volume and has a decent day. I'll
Speaker 1: give him a beef because of his injuries. And don't
Speaker 1: don't forget Dan Arnold in depth knowledge of the forty
Speaker 1: Niners from his time spend Cardinals last year Cardinals and
Speaker 1: they met twice a year, and yeah, huge advantage for
Speaker 1: my man. Damn. Okay, speaking of Cardinals, Cardinals take on
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. We already know for shoe word that Hopkins
Speaker 1: is out of this one. There's stay say, Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: is a game time decision here, but with the looming
Speaker 1: bye week, I don't think he's gonna go. We'll find out.
Speaker 1: I'm reading he's trending towards playing. This is a pretty
Speaker 1: important game for it more important with last week's loss.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give Murray the Sea assuming he plays.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't play, he's on your bench, of course,
Speaker 1: and I would bench um Colton McCoy. Uh if McCoy
Speaker 1: gets the start because over Seattle's last six games they've
Speaker 1: allowed zero, one, one, one and one. I think I
Speaker 1: left another one off their passing touchdowns. Let's give Seattle
Speaker 1: some credit. They were a disaster in the opening four
Speaker 1: fitch weeks of the season and they've gotten a lot better.
Speaker 1: Not not quite back the legion of boom days, but
Speaker 1: that secondary is playing pretty well. But I will give
Speaker 1: Murray the see if he goes, but don't expect too
Speaker 1: much running from Murray. He wasn't doing that before the
Speaker 1: ankle injury. And like you said, DeAndre Hopkins ruled out.
Speaker 1: That's uh. That doesn't bode well for Murray. So let's
Speaker 1: talk to or talk about the wide receivers that will
Speaker 1: play and give Christian Kirk and A. J. Green both
Speaker 1: a sea. I'm gonna give Kirk the high Sea in
Speaker 1: honor of the re release of Ecto Cooler for the
Speaker 1: the new Ghostbusters movie. So the high Sea for Christian Kirk.
Speaker 1: Uh tough matchup on paper for both just mentioned. The
Speaker 1: Seattle secondary has played well. They have surrendered just one
Speaker 1: wide receiver touchdown over their last five games, and over
Speaker 1: their last four games, only one wide receiver has topped
Speaker 1: forty one yards and that was Davante Adams, who had
Speaker 1: seventy eight scoreless yards last week on eleven targets. So
Speaker 1: don't expect too much from Christian Kirk or A J.
Speaker 1: Green in this one, and don't expect too much from
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz either, but I will give him a sea.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks have surrender just three touchdowns all season, but
Speaker 1: fantasy relevant options like Tyler Conklin, Tyler Higbee, and Dan
Speaker 1: Arnold all had pretty good games against Seattle. Relevant absolutely,
Speaker 1: Dan are Old, very fantasy relevant. Gotta be from my
Speaker 1: boy Scott Fish. They'll get more relevant than that. James Conner,
Speaker 1: talk about fantasy relevant, leads all running backs with twelve
Speaker 1: total touchdowns eleven rushing. What are the odds on James
Speaker 1: Connor to lead the NFL and rushing touchdowns prior to
Speaker 1: the like, I'm sure something like that. Man, he's he's
Speaker 1: been a league winner at this point. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: him the way. People that listen to the show in
Speaker 1: the preseason, we talked about the red zone and the
Speaker 1: inside the five usage, and we told you Chase Edmonds
Speaker 1: never touches the ball, and we told you Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: doesn't run inside, so we identified that early on this show. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and we expect Connor to touch the ball a lot
Speaker 1: in this one. The Seahawks are allowing plus combo yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown per game to opposing running back, So
Speaker 1: an a for Connor. No starting grade for backup running back,
Speaker 1: you know, Benjamin, but he should be rostered in most
Speaker 1: leagues because if something would happen to Connor. We got
Speaker 1: starting running back on our hands with Chase Edmonds on
Speaker 1: I R and should be for a couple more weeks. Um,
Speaker 1: that's it for the Arizona side over to Seattle DK.
Speaker 1: Metcalf gonna give him a b uh. Metcalf most of
Speaker 1: his routes from the left side of the field. Three
Speaker 1: has a strong matchup against Marco Wilson, who has allowed
Speaker 1: touchdowns in five different games wide receiver touchdowns. That is,
Speaker 1: in five different games this year. Metcalf did scored his
Speaker 1: latest meeting with the Cardinals last year. I should have
Speaker 1: mentioned again, I think every matchup has been like a
Speaker 1: divisional matchup. It feels like in the show almost everyone
Speaker 1: this is uh. This is the first meeting between these two.
Speaker 1: But Metcalf did score his last meeting with the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: our latest meeting with the Cardinals last year. But in
Speaker 1: three career games against Arizona, d case total just six
Speaker 1: catches and seventy five yards outside of that touchdown. Kind
Speaker 1: of a brutal history, but I will give him a
Speaker 1: B here just to see. For Tyler Lockett, he has
Speaker 1: a tougher matchup in the slot against Byron Murphy, but
Speaker 1: it's tough to ignore lockett stat lines against Arizona from
Speaker 1: last season when he had nine catches, sixty seven yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown and then fifteen catches, two yards and
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, the one that really propped up his overall
Speaker 1: numbers from last year. Uh. See for Lockett, Gerald Everett
Speaker 1: is on the bench. There are better tight end options
Speaker 1: out there, and Russell Wilson, uh gonna give him a B.
Speaker 1: Was shut out for the first time in his career
Speaker 1: last week, but that was somewhat excusable considering he was
Speaker 1: practicing against invisible players for a few weeks, but he
Speaker 1: was coming back from finger surgery. Was a cold weather
Speaker 1: game in Green Bay. The three best passers to face
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, who were Kirk Cousins, Matthew Stafford and Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers all managed to toss multiple touchdowns, and Arizona could
Speaker 1: be without all pro safety Buddha Baker, which would obviously
Speaker 1: bode well for Wilson. Wilson through for three and two
Speaker 1: touchdowns in his two games against Arizona last year. Uh.
Speaker 1: And now Chris Carson, UH was maybe gonna make it
Speaker 1: make his return is most certainly not now. Uh season
Speaker 1: ending next surgery for him, wasn't gonna give him a
Speaker 1: starting grade. Uh if he went, I'm not giving a
Speaker 1: starting grade to any Seattle running back anyway. Even with
Speaker 1: Carson out, Arizona has allowed the eighth fewest fantasy points
Speaker 1: to running backs. Pete Carroll better let Russ cook in
Speaker 1: this one, because if not, let's hope Russ's finger responds
Speaker 1: a little better than last Well, he was rehabbing for
Speaker 1: nineteen hours a day, see now and he got shut out?
Speaker 1: What if he had rehabbed for twenty hours a day.
Speaker 1: Russell Alex cons has become like the game long lead
Speaker 1: right hard Give him ten Carreys, He'll get your forty
Speaker 1: something yards given it feels that way, doesn't it. I
Speaker 1: like I would have given Collins a C grade just
Speaker 1: based on the prospects of a rushing touchdown, but that's me.
Speaker 1: Cowboys take on the Chiefs, and let's mention Marie Cooper's
Speaker 1: out for this game. He was a late week addition
Speaker 1: to the COVID list, so he's out. But I still
Speaker 1: like Dak Prescott with an A grade along with Ceedee
Speaker 1: Lamb and Zeke is obviously in A grade as well.
Speaker 1: But let me just mention the return of left tackle
Speaker 1: Tyrone Smith helps everybody, so that's all good news there.
Speaker 1: Chiefs secondary has gotten a lot better. First, from comparing
Speaker 1: the first five games the year to the second five
Speaker 1: games the year, they're allowing ninety fewer passing yards and
Speaker 1: almost half as many touchdowns, so this has turned into
Speaker 1: a trickier matchup. But they've also seen a lot of
Speaker 1: wobbly quarterbacks in that span, so I still I still
Speaker 1: like Prescott in a level here, but it's not as
Speaker 1: strong and a as it was when Cooper was playing.
Speaker 1: And filling in for Cooper will likely be Cedric Wilson,
Speaker 1: and he is a dart throw if you want to
Speaker 1: give him a try, and he had to fill in
Speaker 1: for Michael Gallup for long stretches of the season. Then
Speaker 1: he was getting you two and three catches a game,
Speaker 1: he found the end zone once in a while, and
Speaker 1: favorable matchups. You could prespect Cooper. Cooper is gonna miss
Speaker 1: Thursday's game against the Chiefs too, and that's a that's
Speaker 1: a good point to um. Michael Gallup bumps up. He
Speaker 1: was a C grade. I bumped him up to a
Speaker 1: B grade here. In his two games of work this year,
Speaker 1: he's print run predominantly from the left side of the field,
Speaker 1: where he sees chart various Ward, whose play is improved
Speaker 1: enough that it makes it so that it's not a
Speaker 1: slam dunk for Gallop. But I'm like Gallop pretty good,
Speaker 1: and they threw to him plenty last week in his
Speaker 1: first game back. So we'll give a B grade to
Speaker 1: Gallop here. Dalton Shall gets a little bit more um
Speaker 1: likable as well. With Amari Cooper out. Sheltz quiet over
Speaker 1: the last three weeks, producing two of his lowest yardage
Speaker 1: outputs of the season, but should bounce back against Kansas City.
Speaker 1: Chiefs have surrendered the fifth most yards the third most
Speaker 1: touchdowns to tight ends. Let's go over to the chief
Speaker 1: side of the ball. We're back to the point where
Speaker 1: now all I have to do is just say Mahomes, Hill,
Speaker 1: Kelsey obvious. As I've been mailing in the chiefs conversations
Speaker 1: most of the year, the last couple of weeks, I've
Speaker 1: had to explain in more detail why Mahomes was a
Speaker 1: wobbly A or Mahomes was a B, or why Kelsey
Speaker 1: was a B instead of an A. But you know,
Speaker 1: after last week, I think they're all right back here
Speaker 1: to obvious A starts. Let me mention this about the
Speaker 1: Cowboys secondary for all to talk about Tavon Austin, and
Speaker 1: we bring this up a lot in the show. But
Speaker 1: and Austin's eight interceptions, it's awesome, but he's giving up
Speaker 1: the second most yards of any cornerback, and opposite him,
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown's giving up the fourth most yards of any cornerback.
Speaker 1: So Mahomes, Hill, Kelsey all obvious a's, and they remained
Speaker 1: highly startable. Darryl Williams as we're probable starting running back
Speaker 1: technically Clyde Edwards Hilayers a game time decision, but after
Speaker 1: getting very light use during the week in practice, I
Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna go, And even if he does,
Speaker 1: I don't think he gets a big workload here. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep Clyde Edwards layer on the bench, Darryl
Speaker 1: Williams with the C grade. Besides struggling against really run
Speaker 1: heavy offenses in Denver and New England, Dallas has been
Speaker 1: very good against runners in all their other games. They're
Speaker 1: giving up just sixty two rushing yards and a third
Speaker 1: of a touchdown per game on the ground. That would
Speaker 1: be third fewest and the fewest over the full season.
Speaker 1: So just to see grade on Darryl Williams here and
Speaker 1: all the other wide receivers, the random dart throw you
Speaker 1: can attempt on Josh Gordon, me, Coole Hardman, DeMarcus Robinson,
Speaker 1: Byron Pringle. No way has Gordon even been playing. I
Speaker 1: think he's had I think he's got two catches as
Speaker 1: a chief. That's it for Gordon, Well Pringles the guy,
Speaker 1: right guy. But the other guy, Hartman is the most
Speaker 1: active out of that group, I guess. But what you know,
Speaker 1: for everybody always tries to play any kind of guessing
Speaker 1: game with those guys. Dah, forget about it. Forget about it.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna jump into the time
Speaker 1: machine as we talk through some premature speculation players that
Speaker 1: you will want to pick up this week that everybody
Speaker 1: else will be trying to pick up next week when
Speaker 1: we return to Fantasy Football Weekly. Fast segment. Fantasy Football
Speaker 1: Weekly Paul Charging, Scott Fish, and Brian Johnson with you.
Speaker 1: This is a segment we like to call premature speculation.
Speaker 1: We give you three players you want to pick up
Speaker 1: this week that other people will be trying to pick
Speaker 1: up next week, but they're already on your roster. Scott Fish, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Lativus Murray, who somehow has only
Speaker 1: rostered in of leagues. I think people just starting running
Speaker 1: back on a run ahead of offense. He was starting
Speaker 1: before he got injured. They just released Levian Bell. They're
Speaker 1: not giving Tyson Williams any work. It's DeVonta Freeman had
Speaker 1: took the role while he was out, but they seemed
Speaker 1: to Latvia's look the best and they gave him the
Speaker 1: most work before he went out. He might be coming
Speaker 1: back this week, but you want to get him now
Speaker 1: before people realize. All right, your premature speculation player, Brian,
Speaker 1: I wanna go with the Giants Sterling Shepherd, who's only
Speaker 1: rostered in Yahoo leagues right now. Shepherd was a top
Speaker 1: twenty wide receiver to start the season has been been
Speaker 1: dinged up. He might make his return this week against
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. We'll talk about that game in a little bit,
Speaker 1: but he's the best wide receiver on the Giants went
Speaker 1: healthy and Daniel Jones looked looked his way early and
Speaker 1: often early in the early in the year, he had
Speaker 1: target totals of nine, ten, fourteen, and it was it
Speaker 1: was like three pretty much full games and uh, the
Speaker 1: Giants usually playing from behind. I know se Kwan Barkley's
Speaker 1: coming back, but Shepard could be a big time helper,
Speaker 1: and he's available, and like I said, almost seventy percent
Speaker 1: of leagues right now, he's gonna be my Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: pivot this week. There you go, There you go. It
Speaker 1: does make sense. Yeah, for what possible reason in the
Speaker 1: tight end apocalypse that we are living in is Evan
Speaker 1: Ingram only rostered in twenty percent of fantasy leagues. That's absurd.
Speaker 1: He's scored in back to back games. And here's your clincher.
Speaker 1: Rest of the way schedule is second easiest for the
Speaker 1: Giants for tight ends. The only stopper he's got left
Speaker 1: to Chicago and deeply plus matchups against Philadelphia the Chargers
Speaker 1: Philadelphia again, along with a bunch of just generally positive
Speaker 1: matchups Damn Babay this week Miami, Dallas, Washington. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunities for Evan Ingram. The Eagles isn't just
Speaker 1: a good matchup. It's most yards, touchdowns and receptions to
Speaker 1: time and twice and normally like you get docked for
Speaker 1: playing Travis Kelsey, which the Eagles did. Kelsey had four catches,
Speaker 1: twenty three yards, no touchdowns, and they're still putting or
Speaker 1: giving up insane numbers in that game. So, you know,
Speaker 1: I think this is a it's a go get Evan Ingram.
Speaker 1: Let's let's go game on. Our last couple of matchups
Speaker 1: begin with the Steelers taking on the Chargers. Scott. We
Speaker 1: still at this stage, as Lesa's we're talking right now,
Speaker 1: we don't know the starting quarterback is gonna be. We
Speaker 1: don't doesn't matter at this stage. Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: it matters. They're preparing for Big Ben too to be
Speaker 1: the starter, but they have not at this moment, they
Speaker 1: have not activated him. That could happen as latest you know,
Speaker 1: tomorrow or what ever. Uh I have either one on
Speaker 1: the bench. It doesn't matter. I'm not surprised. The Chargers
Speaker 1: allow the fuse completion second fewest attempts, third fewest yards,
Speaker 1: and third fewest touchdowns, mostly because they give up everything
Speaker 1: to running backs. That's what happens. So I have Nase
Speaker 1: Harris with an A grade and obvious A grade charges
Speaker 1: run of the week are Is he your fantasy yard
Speaker 1: park right here? I let's do it, fantasy yard Vark.
Speaker 1: Chargers have a bottom six Rundy in almost every single category,
Speaker 1: including allowing the most rushing yards and second most rushing tds.
Speaker 1: A grade on Harris. Let's go back to the passing game.
Speaker 1: Though we're gonna bounce around a little. I'm still giving
Speaker 1: Deonte Johnson a B grade. I can't help it. If
Speaker 1: Big Ben's in, Big Ben targets him all the time,
Speaker 1: and exactly Mason Rudolph. Mason Rodolph did too. I like
Speaker 1: him more with Ben, obviously, but he's a lock for
Speaker 1: five to nine catches no matter who's in. And every
Speaker 1: receiver with five plus catches against the Chargers had sixty
Speaker 1: five plus yards and or scored um. The top target
Speaker 1: against Chargers has gone over a hundred yards two weeks
Speaker 1: in a row. It's I believe DeVonta Smith and Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson if I'm remembering correctly, UM, Chase Claypool, Raybary McCloud.
Speaker 1: I'm not doing either of them. Chase Claypool, I don't
Speaker 1: trust him with his toe injury, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: trust him uh in a tough matchup. Yeah, and and
Speaker 1: the second receiver usually does very little against the Chargers. Um.
Speaker 1: They've only allowed four wide receiver touchdowns all year. That's so,
Speaker 1: I don't even know if Deanta is gonna score, but
Speaker 1: he should get the targets and yards. Pat Firemouth though
Speaker 1: B Grade twenty nine targets in the last four weeks,
Speaker 1: resulting in four plus catches in all four thirty to
Speaker 1: sixty yards, and he scored thrice. Yes, Big Ben really
Speaker 1: targets him in the red zone. But guess what Mason
Speaker 1: Rudolph did two, three, three times last week. He's got
Speaker 1: seven red zone targets in the last three weeks. If
Speaker 1: they're going to use him down there, I'm going to
Speaker 1: give him a b uh uh. Justin Herbert B Grade.
Speaker 1: The Steelers d has been really stout in their last
Speaker 1: five games, barely allowing over two hundred yards and score
Speaker 1: two checking notes here, let's two Teddy Gino Baker Fields
Speaker 1: and golf. Before that, they got torched for two four
Speaker 1: yards per game and two point to five touchdowns per
Speaker 1: game to Alan Carr, Burrow Rogers. Those types. I put Herbert,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be missing t J. Watt. They're gonna
Speaker 1: be missing Joe Hayden. Uh make a fit. Patrick's probably
Speaker 1: not going to be activated in time. He's on the
Speaker 1: COVID list. He'll probably He's probably gonna be out. I
Speaker 1: have no problem giving Herbert a B. I might even
Speaker 1: I'm teetering on an A honestly, with all those players out.
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen's an obvious A for me. Eleven plus targets
Speaker 1: in three straight, five plus and catches and all of
Speaker 1: them in all but one game this year, and seventy
Speaker 1: five plus yards and four of his last. He's back.
Speaker 1: He's back with Mike. When Mike Williams went down, Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen came back. Mike Williams c grade. If Hayden and
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick don't go, I'm sorry, I know it's it's Mike's.
Speaker 1: Here's the problem. We've get We give se grades two
Speaker 1: guys that are gonna get you yards a lot on this.
Speaker 1: We think three four catches forty three four catches for
Speaker 1: sixty yards. We will give him a C grade. Maybe
Speaker 1: they Mike Williams has a better shot of blowing up
Speaker 1: than most of those guys. His ceiling is so much higher,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna give him the C grade on. He's
Speaker 1: that guy. Plus he has a chance to be much
Speaker 1: with the battered secondary. I'm listening to that. Austin Ekeler
Speaker 1: obviously a grade. The only downside is the Steelers don't
Speaker 1: give up a lot of receiving work. But they've faced
Speaker 1: like two to three good past they faced Swift, Aaron Jones,
Speaker 1: maybe Kenyan Drake. They haven't faced receiving backs, so that's
Speaker 1: why they haven't given up a lot. A grade on
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler. All right, Giants take on the Bucks on
Speaker 1: Monday night, Brian, this is a Giant's running game that's
Speaker 1: expected to get Sae Kwon Barkley back. What do you
Speaker 1: think about him in his first game back against a
Speaker 1: usually tough Bucks defense that was a bit yielding last week?
Speaker 1: They were a bit yieldly in terms of touchdowns. Antony
Speaker 1: Gibson at the two, but he's still only average two
Speaker 1: points six yards for carry. You got the like sixty
Speaker 1: five yards on twenty carries. A little flukey there. Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay could be without defensive line invite eve A. That
Speaker 1: would certainly bode well for Barkley either way. I'm giving
Speaker 1: Barkley a c uh if he comes back. But he
Speaker 1: is trending in the right direction. But as you're alluding to,
Speaker 1: a brutal match up on the ground, but the Bucks
Speaker 1: have yielded eight plus targets per game to running backs.
Speaker 1: We all know Barkley is a very able catcher, so
Speaker 1: a c floor he does have be maybe even a
Speaker 1: upside in this one. But I play it cautious, um,
Speaker 1: but I think you can trust that he will play.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like, as you said, it's a Monday
Speaker 1: night game, so a little dicey. But if if he's
Speaker 1: a scratch, I don't know if you can be a
Speaker 1: scratch if you haven't come back from injury yet, you
Speaker 1: probably can. They're being very, very cag with his status,
Speaker 1: but I think it's a lot of showmanship. There was
Speaker 1: talk that, you know, if they needed him last week
Speaker 1: it was a bye week, they could have started him potentially.
Speaker 1: I think Barkley goes in this game, and I think
Speaker 1: he's closer. People know the Giants don't need Barkley, they
Speaker 1: need a new g think. But anyway, I don't even
Speaker 1: I don't even have a doubt. They've mentioned using two backs.
Speaker 1: They mentioned that week one when Booker got four carries. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I think I think it's anymore. We're not
Speaker 1: going to talk about the the other backs though, but
Speaker 1: good point there. Um, it's not a brutal matchup for
Speaker 1: the wide receivers, but what a mess at the positions
Speaker 1: for the Giants. We'll start with Kenny Golladay. I'll give
Speaker 1: him a c. I guess I had no idea that
Speaker 1: Golladay came back in week nine. Did Yeah, he did.
Speaker 1: The Giants are coming off there by they didn't play
Speaker 1: in week ten, but Golly didn't make his return in
Speaker 1: week nine. The Bucks are allowing more than one touchdown
Speaker 1: per game to wide receivers. Richard Sherman just went on
Speaker 1: I R I don't know if that's addition by subtraction.
Speaker 1: It most likely it wasn't playing much for the last
Speaker 1: month or so. Anyway, it's a it's a banged up
Speaker 1: secondary for Tampa Bay. But is it Sean Murphy Bunting
Speaker 1: probably comes back for this game. They've got both their
Speaker 1: starting outside corners. I think this. I think this secondary's
Speaker 1: rounding into form. Okay, Uh, just my way taking. So
Speaker 1: I will still give Golliday the sea. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: the other receivers in a minute. Just because he's healthy
Speaker 1: and Gettleman, Dave Gettleman, that is probably gonna want to
Speaker 1: justify this horrific signing in primetime. I guess, so A
Speaker 1: see for Golladay as we expect, or at least I
Speaker 1: expect the Giants to be playing and catch up mode
Speaker 1: in this one. Um Sterling Shepherd we talked about in
Speaker 1: uh premature speculation might make his return from a quad injury.
Speaker 1: He did practice on Friday, so he's leaning towards playing.
Speaker 1: I still would pick him up right now either way,
Speaker 1: even if he doesn't play in this game. But if
Speaker 1: he does play, he's still on the bench for me.
Speaker 1: You can't trust him to play going into Monday night.
Speaker 1: You certainly can't trust him to finish the game coming
Speaker 1: off a quad injury. So a bench great for Sterling Shepherd.
Speaker 1: Uh can Darius Tony there's too many wide receivers to
Speaker 1: talk about. On the Giants, they're also yogurt uh Tony.
Speaker 1: Tony can be special, but they've hardly targeted him since
Speaker 1: he's come back. He hasn't been special since popping off
Speaker 1: in Week five when he went ham against the Cowboys
Speaker 1: no other receivers were healthy, and since then he's been
Speaker 1: injured and when he has played, he's totaled eight catches
Speaker 1: for sevent scoreless yards across three games. He's on the bench. Um,
Speaker 1: we could talk about Darius Slayton, but I don't really
Speaker 1: want to. Do you guys want to talk about Darius Slayton. Nope, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's on the bench too. We will talk about Evan
Speaker 1: Engram again, who charged had as his premature speculation player.
Speaker 1: I like that call, and I do like him enough
Speaker 1: in this game to give him a see. The Bucks
Speaker 1: are allowing six and a half catches per game to
Speaker 1: opposing tight ends. Ingram could very well lead the team
Speaker 1: in targets if it's not se Kwon Barkley in this one.
Speaker 1: And lastly, we'll go to Daniel Jones. Got him on
Speaker 1: the bench. UM. Over their last six games, Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: is allowing less than two passing touchdowns per game. Uh,
Speaker 1: the competition at quarterback hasn't been great. We're talking Taylor High, Ninky,
Speaker 1: Trevor Simeons, Slash, Jamis Winston, justin Fields, Jalen Hurts, Jacoby Brissette,
Speaker 1: Mac Jones. How did the defending Super Bowl chance kept
Speaker 1: this kind of a primrose path of Uh, pretty pathetic competition.
Speaker 1: But guess what, Daniel Jones pretty pretty So he's on
Speaker 1: the bench. Jalen Hurts did rush for two touchdowns against
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay's that's the angle for Jon But he's really
Speaker 1: only viable as a in super flex two quarterback formats,
Speaker 1: and he's a deep breach even even in those kinds
Speaker 1: of kinds of leagues. He's on the bench. All right,
Speaker 1: Enough about the Giants. Over to the buck side. I
Speaker 1: wanna give Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, both of the
Speaker 1: Godwin on the injury report again he was last week
Speaker 1: with the foot injury. I expect him to play. Evans
Speaker 1: likely will be shadowed by James Bradberry, who is a
Speaker 1: very good cornerback, but he doesn't cover guys like Mike
Speaker 1: Evans every week, who has scored seven times over his
Speaker 1: last five games. Chris Godwin his second in red zone targets,
Speaker 1: behind only Cooper Cup. The Giants have surrendered seven wide
Speaker 1: receiver touchdowns over the last five so be for both
Speaker 1: Evans and Godwin. Antonio Brown pretty much hasn't been ruled out,
Speaker 1: but most likely not going to play this week with
Speaker 1: the ankle injury. Has not practiced all week. This personal
Speaker 1: chef going to play. We're not gonna get into any
Speaker 1: of that stuff. At least I don't want to. I've
Speaker 1: got I got enough flak about things I say. How
Speaker 1: about just pay your help exactly? Don't just pay your help?
Speaker 1: That's all. Yeah, Antonio Brown, I have a defeated joke,
Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna go there. Uh. Rob Gronkowski though,
Speaker 1: didn't see him like he was gonna play earlier in
Speaker 1: the week, but he's practicing full on Thursday and Friday,
Speaker 1: looking like he will be a go on Monday night.
Speaker 1: I'll give him a see. If he does play, he'll
Speaker 1: have a neutral matchup against the Giants who have surrendered,
Speaker 1: who haven't surrendered a tight end touchdown since Week four,
Speaker 1: but they are allowing five catches and fifty yards per
Speaker 1: game to the position, So see for gronk Tom Brady
Speaker 1: gonna give him a beat. It's not the easiest matchup,
Speaker 1: believe it or not. The Giants have allowed just two
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns over their last three games, and that's with
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and Derek Carr in the mix during that span.
Speaker 1: The Giants have good cornerbacks and James Bradbury to Dorry Jackson.
Speaker 1: So not a smash spot for Brady, but he's pretty
Speaker 1: tough to bench, borderline impossible to bench really, so a
Speaker 1: B for him. And lastly for Tampa Bay, Leonard Fournette
Speaker 1: going to give him a B. New York is top
Speaker 1: ten and the most touches and yards allowed to backs,
Speaker 1: and this should be a positive game script for Lenny,
Speaker 1: who still dominated the backfield touches in a shockingly negative
Speaker 1: game script against Washington last week. Basically the bell cow
Speaker 1: for the Bucks. So safe B for for net. We've
Speaker 1: got a couple of minutes here at the end of
Speaker 1: the show, guys, let's talk about some of the developments
Speaker 1: from Thursday night. Patriots backfield almost a dead even snap
Speaker 1: count for Damien Harris and Romandra Stevenson. Scott, do you
Speaker 1: believe that this is going to be a roughly even
Speaker 1: split going forward. That's tough. So Damian Harris got in
Speaker 1: a limited practice and then one full practice right before
Speaker 1: that game, Like that's that's all he got in for
Speaker 1: a workload for a game plan for that game. I
Speaker 1: mean it's only a practice and a half more than
Speaker 1: the other players. But week before that, Romandri Stevenson got
Speaker 1: zero and then came and dominated the snap count. What
Speaker 1: I'm saying is maybe that's why Harris was a little
Speaker 1: bit more limited, is he he wasn't prepped for that
Speaker 1: game plan. But that's a good point. Um, I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be a pretty decent split, and it
Speaker 1: puts us in a position where we don't know who
Speaker 1: to start for any of the Patriots going forward because
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry is so touchdown dependent, um, all the wide
Speaker 1: receivers or mishmash and if this is a split now,
Speaker 1: it's just confusing his Heck, I would bank I would
Speaker 1: still bank on Harris, But man, Romandre Stevenson looks. It
Speaker 1: looks good, doesn't he looks? The thing about Stevenson why
Speaker 1: I think he's not going away exactly. He's the better
Speaker 1: pass catcher of the two. They're throwing to him. You know,
Speaker 1: coming out of college, we didn't necessarily expect Steve Ininsen
Speaker 1: to be a pass catcher, and if James White were healthy,
Speaker 1: he probably wouldn't be. But there they've decided they're going
Speaker 1: to throw to him. And if he's gonna keep getting
Speaker 1: three four, five ish, you know, targets and receptions per
Speaker 1: game or Mondari Stevenson is going to be a guy
Speaker 1: to contend well, if I recall correctly too. And he
Speaker 1: missed the second half of his last year in college
Speaker 1: due to injury, and if that hadn't happened, he would
Speaker 1: have been a much higher traffic I do have a
Speaker 1: fun fact for you on that Roger Stevenson had five targets,
Speaker 1: and we tend the full game he played, not this,
Speaker 1: not Thursday Night. Five targets. Damian Harris has never had
Speaker 1: five targets in NFL life, college or high school. That
Speaker 1: does not surprise me. What do you think about Mac
Speaker 1: Jones going forward? We love the fact that he's a
Speaker 1: high completion rate guy, but the downfield passing hasn't happened yet,
Speaker 1: and at the end of the day, to get the
Speaker 1: kinds of box scores we want from a passing game,
Speaker 1: you've got to be able to complete some twenty yard passes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have the most impressive weapons either. He's he's
Speaker 1: a gay man draw. I mean, he's a great quarterback.
Speaker 1: You might be the best rookie quarterback in the class
Speaker 1: ahead of Fields and Trevor Lawrence. But uh, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough for him to crap crap crack the top
Speaker 1: twelve on a weekly basis. So he's kind of more
Speaker 1: of a really yeah second quarterback. Feels like he had
Speaker 1: a lot of those at Alabama, though. It feels like
Speaker 1: a decent amount of hitting Jalen Wattleship that worked out okay,
Speaker 1: so maybe it will come later. Absolutely, if you want
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