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Speaker 1: now from dat leagues dot com. Here's your host, Paul.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Giarchi and
Speaker 1: co host today Scott Fish and Matt Harrison. Welcome back. Matt, Hi,
Speaker 1: been a long time. It's been two weeks, man, Like,
Speaker 1: where you just missed me that much? I think he's
Speaker 1: just tired of me. He looked at me for a
Speaker 1: seconds like, oh many. Not only is it the two
Speaker 1: of you, but we also have London corresponding Colin mccockney
Speaker 1: really calling in from wait, Tottenham Hotspur Live. Wow, he's there.
Speaker 1: There's understanding. Wow, that's amazing because there a little early
Speaker 1: for the game. It's it looked just getting warmed up.
Speaker 1: That's it all all. He's dedicated. I've never understood a word,
Speaker 1: he says. Nobody Scott does. I'm pretty sure because noted
Speaker 1: Noted Cockney translator. Yeah, Scott, Scott, it's the translation. Key
Speaker 1: It is that Scottish heritage in me. I know everything
Speaker 1: about the UK exactly as long as it was in Braveheart.
Speaker 1: You know anything else? No idea, boy, and don't even
Speaker 1: ask omaguay is Over the course of the show, did
Speaker 1: you say like like Gizmo the Magway. Well, I tend
Speaker 1: to think of the Edinburgh based, no Glasgow based band,
Speaker 1: but okay, you know that's how I tend to think
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, okay. Over the course of the show,
Speaker 1: we're gonna break down all of the matchups Fantasy Football
Speaker 1: Weekly style with letter grades on all the players. Plus
Speaker 1: you will get nine players wait, letter grades plus yea.
Speaker 1: Finally hard fine guys and oh that's it. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: just you can't say that I'm not a man of
Speaker 1: my word. Plusses are in play today and you'll see
Speaker 1: it changes nothing. This show is no better. He did
Speaker 1: not say minuses are I'm gonna refuse to use them.
Speaker 1: One I have. This is amazing. Three tough questions and
Speaker 1: premature speculation all looming over the course of this very
Speaker 1: excited We begin with our first matchup, Titans taking on
Speaker 1: the Colts Scott For the Titans, things are generally not
Speaker 1: going very well, but we got a better game on
Speaker 1: a Derrick Henry last right, but a tough matchup against
Speaker 1: a good culture on defense here. Yeah, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's gonna I think actually it's gonna win out in
Speaker 1: Henry's favor. Though he's got the usage back, it's hard
Speaker 1: not to start him. I still have an A grade
Speaker 1: on him. I joked last week that it would be
Speaker 1: a squeaky game and he got his usage back. But
Speaker 1: he got usage plus. He got twenty plus carries plus. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he got that pass game rollback that he had
Speaker 1: to a degree last year, catching five of his six passes.
Speaker 1: That's gonna put Hilliard on the bench, who scored twice
Speaker 1: through the air in Week one but had just three
Speaker 1: touches last week. It doesn't seem like that passing game
Speaker 1: is his role. Seems like it's just gonna be all
Speaker 1: Henry against the Colts d surrounding thirty plus touches per
Speaker 1: game to the running back, that's just gonna be all Henry.
Speaker 1: As far as the passing game, Ryan Tannehill's basically been
Speaker 1: a two hundred and fifty yards and one score guy
Speaker 1: and one of those games you had to hope for
Speaker 1: the rushing touchdown to get it. Uh. Colts have been
Speaker 1: allowing about two hundred and fifty yards as well, but
Speaker 1: but a couple scores. Honestly, I don't know that I
Speaker 1: can give Tannehill to the second score. Maybe he'll run
Speaker 1: it in, but um, he'd need that second score to
Speaker 1: get a C grade For me, I'm not gonna trust it.
Speaker 1: So I have him and the whole passing game on
Speaker 1: the bench. Get this. Tan Hill hasn't thrown a touchdown
Speaker 1: to a wide receiver yet, Robert Woods, Traylon Barks, you're
Speaker 1: on the bench. Oh and by the way, the Colts
Speaker 1: have only allowed to wide receiver touchdowns. It's just a
Speaker 1: bad spot for everything involved. I'm only starting Henry on
Speaker 1: that team. On the other side, I have a B
Speaker 1: grade on Matt Ryan against the Titans d that has
Speaker 1: allowed multiple touchdowns every single week this year, all three
Speaker 1: of them, and back to back three hundred plus yard days. See,
Speaker 1: I'm throwing the plus is all over this thing now
Speaker 1: that I know it's it's a thing. Ryan has been
Speaker 1: lights Ryan hasn't been lights out, starting slow with his
Speaker 1: new team, but bounced back last week with the three
Speaker 1: and fifty two yard day couple scores. Uh, they kind
Speaker 1: of found a role for Gelanni Woods. He got Alec Pierce. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he only played like nine snaps, but touchdowns, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: It's it's just a sign it's coming, I know, but
Speaker 1: it's it's a role there. It's actually a terrible role
Speaker 1: for the tight ends. If he's playing fifteen snaps and
Speaker 1: getting the touchdowns and moy Ali Cox is not doesn't
Speaker 1: have any touchdown upside, both of that is now unpredictable,
Speaker 1: and I have them both on the bench. He got
Speaker 1: Alec Pierce back finally, uh, first game of the season.
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman got back. Uh. I do have an a
Speaker 1: grade on for Michael Pittman, who grabbed eight balls last week,
Speaker 1: nine balls in Week one. That's elite volume against the
Speaker 1: Titans d that is allowing one hundred forty eight or
Speaker 1: more yards to the last two number one wide receivers.
Speaker 1: They played a hundred and forty eight yards to each
Speaker 1: of them or more, yeah, to the last two that
Speaker 1: they faced. A grade for Pittman. I do have Pierce
Speaker 1: and Campbell on the bench, but I'm gonna note Campbell's
Speaker 1: pretty drop herble and Pierce did more with his thirty
Speaker 1: two snaps last week than Campbell had. Pierce later, I
Speaker 1: don't want to say exactly, okay, but save one interesting
Speaker 1: data fect for that or I'll save it for that
Speaker 1: then germane to this matchup. No, alright, let's do it
Speaker 1: obvious a for now. Healthy Jonathan Taylor, he rested up,
Speaker 1: He's all healthy for this, obviously for him, but he hines,
Speaker 1: I'm throwing him on the bench. I know he's getting
Speaker 1: four to six catches a week if you're in full
Speaker 1: PPR maybe in a pinch, but he's only getting like
Speaker 1: thirty to fifty yards five to nine touches. He's not
Speaker 1: playing a lot of snaps. It has to be full
Speaker 1: PPR in a pinch to even consider him. I'm on
Speaker 1: the bench, alright, and Matt, let's go over to the
Speaker 1: Jets taking on the Steelers for this one, and we
Speaker 1: get the season debut of Zack Wilson. Yes, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna start Zach Wilson in his first game back. Oh
Speaker 1: no way. The Steelers are allowing two d seventy yards
Speaker 1: per game through the air, which is that's the ninth
Speaker 1: most in the league, but they've intercepted as many balls
Speaker 1: as they have allowed to go for a touchdown this year.
Speaker 1: And the Jets are missing their top three tackles, so
Speaker 1: they have sixth rounder Connor McDermott and fourth round rookie
Speaker 1: Max Mitchell guarding the outside for Wilson. That doesn't feel great.
Speaker 1: In his first game back with no tackles. I'm not
Speaker 1: feeling very confident in Zach Wilson. I will get his
Speaker 1: His brother, Garrett Wilson is starting grade, but just to see,
Speaker 1: I'm leaving Elijah Moore and Corey Davis on the bench.
Speaker 1: Haven't yet seen a Wilson Wilson game, but Garrett is
Speaker 1: averaging ten Joe Flacco targets per game. The problem is
Speaker 1: Cameron Sutton has been a very good corner so far
Speaker 1: this year, and he figures to see Garrett Wilson the most.
Speaker 1: He's only allowing fifty eight yards per game in his coverage.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna leave Tyler Conklin on the bench as well.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's Flacco's woobee or if yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a Scott Fish. Yes, yes, his safety blanket.
Speaker 1: It's safety. So we could see c j Uzoma like
Speaker 1: fill that role. Who knows, We don't know if it's
Speaker 1: Tyler Conklin. There By the way, on on Elijah Moore.
Speaker 1: He tweeted out on Friday, tough times don't last. Trust me.
Speaker 1: He starting him himself and his own fantasy. I hate
Speaker 1: that sound effect. Hate this you guys keep bringing it up.
Speaker 1: I mean going to give it some grease? Please do?
Speaker 1: I don't uh it would it be like this man
Speaker 1: just bucket of lou But the running back tandem of
Speaker 1: Breece Hall and Michael Carter both get C grades here.
Speaker 1: They'll probably want to keep the hits off Zack in
Speaker 1: his first game back. Plus, the Steelers have uncharacteristically allowed
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty four combo yards per game to opposing backs.
Speaker 1: That's third most in the league, and they're currently seeing
Speaker 1: about thirty four touches per game the Steelers defenses by
Speaker 1: opposing runners. So even if they split this evenly like
Speaker 1: they usually do, we're probably looking at a minimum of
Speaker 1: fifteen touches for both players in this game and then
Speaker 1: somewhere in the neighborhood of seventy eight yards. So they're
Speaker 1: both C plus grades. I would say, why that is
Speaker 1: accept That felt so good? Oh man? That really changed nothing.
Speaker 1: There's nobody that was not gonna that didn't want to.
Speaker 1: There's nobody was like, yeah, c plus, then I'll put
Speaker 1: him in his in my line. If it's not, it
Speaker 1: is better than a seed. You know what changes nothing honestly,
Speaker 1: and I hate to be this guy and I know
Speaker 1: where you know we're into the show now. But as
Speaker 1: you say, see plus, I'm starting to lean the charge
Speaker 1: his side, like I change is nothing. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know that it adds anything. Thank you. This is
Speaker 1: the greatest movement show. I love you, scotten never. I
Speaker 1: never thought I'd do that way until I heard it
Speaker 1: come out right. It just if you, if you liked
Speaker 1: him enough to start him as a scene. It felt
Speaker 1: so good before and now it's now it feels all bad.
Speaker 1: You know what else feels bad? Naji Harris this year, uh,
Speaker 1: he only gets a B grade here. He's just been
Speaker 1: an average back so far. But a snap count reached
Speaker 1: in week three that's the highest it's been all year.
Speaker 1: Also had eighteen touches in each of the last two games.
Speaker 1: And it's a very average Jets defense. Their middle of
Speaker 1: the pack on everything. So just a solid bee for Harris.
Speaker 1: Deante Johnson gets a C grade, so does Chase Claypool.
Speaker 1: But I'm leaving George Pickens on the bench. Johnson has
Speaker 1: seen double digit targets in every game but done almost
Speaker 1: nothing with it, and faces rookie Sauce Gardner this week,
Speaker 1: who's been pretty impressive so far. The best matchup for
Speaker 1: the wide receivers goes to Claypool, who comes out of
Speaker 1: the slot and sees the other Michael Carter, who's allowing
Speaker 1: a passer rating of one fifty one in his coverage.
Speaker 1: And Pickens made that highlight catch last Thursday, But that's
Speaker 1: more because Mitch Truebiskie is a bad ball thrower. He's
Speaker 1: a sad trump. By the way, Mitch is on the bench.
Speaker 1: Mitch is on the bench. Um Pat Friarmouth gets a
Speaker 1: C grade though Firemouth averaging seven targets per game. That's
Speaker 1: sixth most in the league amongst tight ends, and the
Speaker 1: Jets haven't allowed of tight end score yet, but we're
Speaker 1: one of the worst units against the position. Command is
Speaker 1: taking on the Cowboys. I've got a bunch of CE
Speaker 1: grades on commanders you probably do not want to start.
Speaker 1: Are there any that are slightly better? They're all exactly season,
Speaker 1: So when you do your your rankings at Guillotine leagues
Speaker 1: dot com, you rank all these guys as a tie.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Okay. Uh. Let's begin with the running
Speaker 1: game and Antonio Gibson, who has basically given up all
Speaker 1: the passing game work to J. D. Mckissic. And what's more,
Speaker 1: he's been ineffective at the goal line. In seven attempts
Speaker 1: from inside the ten yard line, he has scored two
Speaker 1: times and total negative to rushing yards. That's terrible. So
Speaker 1: he's only helping you and whatever he gets on the
Speaker 1: ground until he gets the goal line, and that's not
Speaker 1: a lot. The only touchdown Dallas is allowed to running
Speaker 1: back this season was a spectacular dash by se Kwon
Speaker 1: Barkley last week. So just the C grade on Gibson
Speaker 1: I can't give you J D. McKissick either. Get this over.
Speaker 1: Dallas has past fifteen games, they've given up one running
Speaker 1: back receiving touchdown, and nobody has topped already five receiving
Speaker 1: yards and the average is under twenty yards. So nothing
Speaker 1: for J. D. Mckissi, who's on the bench. And let's
Speaker 1: go to the passing game, where I've got C grades
Speaker 1: on everybody who matters. We begin with Terry McLaurin. McLaren
Speaker 1: that's our guy. If Carson went and it's a big
Speaker 1: if has enough time in the pocket to set up McLaurin.
Speaker 1: And I like his downfield matchups because Dallas's three corners
Speaker 1: are all allowing at least a two thirds of their
Speaker 1: passes to be completed and at least a hundred and
Speaker 1: seven passer rating. I just worry about Carson Wentz staying
Speaker 1: upright in this game because the Dallas defenses look terrific,
Speaker 1: completely shutting down Tom Brady, Joe Burrow and Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1: And if they're doing with their pass rush, and we're
Speaker 1: talking about the same Carson Wentz. We got sacked nine times,
Speaker 1: nine times last week. So I've got a C grade
Speaker 1: at Carson Wentz. I would like him better, and he
Speaker 1: did eviscerate the Jaguars and the Lions, and that Jaguars
Speaker 1: win is not looking better in bread room spect uh.
Speaker 1: John Dotson consider him a boom or bust option. I
Speaker 1: love the three touchdowns in three games, don't And I
Speaker 1: like the matchup against those Cowboys corners, But again, we
Speaker 1: gotta keep Carson Wentz upright for this game. Curtis Samuel
Speaker 1: has been a great story so far at least seven
Speaker 1: receptions and forty yards in each game this season, and
Speaker 1: the Dallas defense can generate a ton of pressure which
Speaker 1: could be dump offs to Samuel. But the catches all
Speaker 1: stuff is so short. He's catching the ball in the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage all the time and then trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, make up five yards on the catch. It's
Speaker 1: very deebo Samuel light. I was gonna say, this is
Speaker 1: very much what chritis Samuel's done is the career. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know, you know, if you're happy with like
Speaker 1: five six catches for fifty ish yards, then he's your guy,
Speaker 1: and there's your there's ten PPR points all of those
Speaker 1: guys see grades. Let's go over to Dallas, where we've
Speaker 1: got a handful of starters for you, including a a
Speaker 1: C grade and both Tony Pollard and Ezekiel Elliott. Elliott
Speaker 1: continues to dominate the red zone usage, which keeps them viable,
Speaker 1: but Pollard far more efficient with his carries. Commanders allow
Speaker 1: five even a half yards per carry, although they're only
Speaker 1: giving up one rushing touchdown so far, but that figures
Speaker 1: to change here. Washington more susceptible through the air. They've
Speaker 1: given up two receiving touchdowns are running back through the air.
Speaker 1: That would be more Pollard's territory. Get that Zeke has
Speaker 1: got negative receiving yards on the season. It's changed a
Speaker 1: lot for him. You know when he was a young
Speaker 1: star runner twenty what it was at sixteen when he
Speaker 1: entered the league. Dude caught a lot of passes, a lot.
Speaker 1: That sounds right Pollard, I think is my profride to
Speaker 1: pick one. I take Pollard overall, but they both get
Speaker 1: see grades for the opportunity here. Uh Cooper Rush turns
Speaker 1: out couple rushes in half bad. He looks like he
Speaker 1: uasi belongs in the NFL. And his two starts, he's
Speaker 1: completing sixtent of his passes. He's got a touchdown in
Speaker 1: each game. And it's not all Lincoln Dunk underneath stuff.
Speaker 1: He's got a bigger a dot then Patrick Mahomes, Josh
Speaker 1: Allen and Justin Herbert. So he's slinging at downfield. Something's
Speaker 1: the new Yolo quarterback. He might be with Winston out.
Speaker 1: He's the first undrafted quarterback to start his career three
Speaker 1: and no since Kurt Warner. So that's the path super Bowl. Clearly,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be the same thing Um and
Speaker 1: I were talking about data A dot. The Commanders are
Speaker 1: yielding the deepest A dot ten yards per pass, so
Speaker 1: some downfield stuff could become unlocked in over the course
Speaker 1: of this game. We're gonna talk a little bit more
Speaker 1: about Noah Brown later in the show. Who I do
Speaker 1: like Seedee Lamb. Commanders have allowed the seventh most receptions,
Speaker 1: the third most yards, the fourth most passing touchdowns, and
Speaker 1: they've allowed the highest average depth of target. As I
Speaker 1: mentioned before, Outside cornerback Kendall Fullers allowed the second most
Speaker 1: yards this far, and William Jackson is questionable to play
Speaker 1: opposite him. So I like the matchups for Seedie Lamb
Speaker 1: and he comes in with a B grade in this one.
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz is still is shaping up as a game
Speaker 1: time decision. I prefer you don't start him, and he
Speaker 1: still hasn't taken a full practice yet, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep Dalton Sheltz on the bench until is healthy. All right,
Speaker 1: when we come back, take a chance on me. Nine
Speaker 1: players not normally in your starting lineup. We will tell
Speaker 1: you who they are when we come back. Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: It's take a chance on me nine players not normally
Speaker 1: in your starting lineup. These are all guys that you
Speaker 1: can find, in many cases on the waiver wire or
Speaker 1: maybe sitting on your bench that deserves start. This week,
Speaker 1: we begin at the quarterback position in Scott Fish. Who
Speaker 1: you got? Yes, I am going with. Geno Smith gets
Speaker 1: a match up against the Lions, the third words d
Speaker 1: against fantasy quarterbacks. After looking pretty legitimate self one of
Speaker 1: this season, Gino Smith has coming off his best game
Speaker 1: of the bunch against a similarly lowly ranked defense last week,
Speaker 1: where he dropped two five yards and two scores. Add
Speaker 1: to that, the Lions haven't had trouble scoring at will.
Speaker 1: Who thought we'd be saying that about the Lions. Uh?
Speaker 1: And the Seahawks are four point dogs, four and a
Speaker 1: half point dogs in the second highest Vegas toll for
Speaker 1: the week, so they'll probably be throwing to stay in line.
Speaker 1: All right, Matt, you'll take a chance at the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I've got Andy the Redcoat Dalton Jamis Winston looking doubt
Speaker 1: in London. He's the red coat. Get it, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: get it. Yeah. Winston looking doubtful for Sunday mornings game
Speaker 1: in London, So you gotta get him out of your lineups.
Speaker 1: For sure, you could throw in Andy Dalton, who faces
Speaker 1: of Vikings defense that is allowing two passing yards per game,
Speaker 1: plus Vikings pass rushers. That Darius Smith has been banged
Speaker 1: up a little bit this week in practice, and the
Speaker 1: Vikings pass rush has been ineffective at best, with only
Speaker 1: seven in sacks and four quarterback hits on a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty two drop backs so far this season. That's
Speaker 1: not good. That's not good, and he's gonna have a
Speaker 1: lot of time. I've got Cleveland quarterback Jacoby Brissette, who
Speaker 1: has played extremely well and back to back games now
Speaker 1: presents never gonna be a guy who just like breaks
Speaker 1: open a box score, but you can get good numbers
Speaker 1: out of him, and especially against the Falcons, They've allowed
Speaker 1: the fourth most passing yards and the third most passing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and that despite the fact they faced Gino Smith and
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston, who have been able to put up good
Speaker 1: box scores against them. If Geno and Winston can walk
Speaker 1: away from Atlanta with decent fantasy games, so can jacobys
Speaker 1: And as you'll hear later, Marii, Cooper, David and Joco
Speaker 1: plus matchups in this game plus matchups, it's a T. Scott.
Speaker 1: Who's your taking chance to be running back? I'm going
Speaker 1: over to that same Seattle Detroit game with Craig Reynolds.
Speaker 1: I know the big pick up this week was Jamal Williams,
Speaker 1: but if available, he was league for some reason. I
Speaker 1: don't understand why. I had a couple of big Craig Reynolds,
Speaker 1: that is, had a couple of big days last year
Speaker 1: when thrust into action, really productive, had to nine yard day,
Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen yard day, and he was productive in
Speaker 1: the others the Lions. The Lions seem to want to
Speaker 1: use two backs, and so he should get some work.
Speaker 1: Lions number two back going back to last year, routinely
Speaker 1: saw ten plus touches. Swift is out until probably after
Speaker 1: the week six by so he should be playable here
Speaker 1: against the sixth worst team against fantasy running backs. Give
Speaker 1: me ten plus touches at that five one point five
Speaker 1: point one yard's precared the Seahawks are allowing. What would
Speaker 1: that be? It's right around fifty probably probably fifty one. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta gotta hope for more. Yeah yeah. Alright, Matt,
Speaker 1: who's your takeing chance with me running one. Are your
Speaker 1: favorites charged Sony Walkmand Michelle. He might look a little
Speaker 1: bit more like a discman this week one with the
Speaker 1: thirty second anti skip protection because Houston's run defense is bad,
Speaker 1: so bad that Sony might be able to take thirty
Speaker 1: seconds and actually skip into the end zone five point
Speaker 1: four yards per carry. They're allowing a league high on
Speaker 1: fifty nine rushing yards allowed per game to the running
Speaker 1: back position and Austin Necklace. Snap count went from forty
Speaker 1: seven in Week two to thirty four in Week three,
Speaker 1: and Sony Michelle's went up from nine to fourteen. Now
Speaker 1: that he's been on the offense for about a month,
Speaker 1: I think that they're trusting him a little bit more.
Speaker 1: And the Chargers have ran the ball one time from
Speaker 1: inside the five yard line this year. It went to
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle Gross I'm going with Philadelphia running back Kenneth
Speaker 1: gain Well. Now, every year there's a team that struggles
Speaker 1: to contain opposing runners through the air. This year it's
Speaker 1: shaping up to be Jacksonville. As good as good of
Speaker 1: a season as that defense is having. This seems to
Speaker 1: be the problem. The thing they're struggling with. They've allowed
Speaker 1: the second most running back receptions and the most running
Speaker 1: back receiving yards sixty seven per game game. They've also
Speaker 1: given up a seven catch game to running back in
Speaker 1: an eight catch game to a running back. Kenneth Gainwell
Speaker 1: is averaging eleven routes per game. That's enough to give
Speaker 1: him three four five receptions on those eleven routes, and
Speaker 1: that could be forty fifty receiving yards. Throw in a
Speaker 1: couple of extra rushes. Maybe I'll give us a touchdown
Speaker 1: and Kenneth Gainwell serviceable play this week, Scott Fish, let's
Speaker 1: go to your take a chance on me receiver just
Speaker 1: to add on your Gainwell Boston. Scott is out for
Speaker 1: this one. No, No, not especially like it. Not gonna
Speaker 1: do that. Might take a chance on wide receiver. No,
Speaker 1: we have people who call in to do that for us.
Speaker 1: I am staying in that same game with a different Reynolds,
Speaker 1: not Craig Reynolds this time. Josh Reynolds. I actually gave
Speaker 1: him a secret. He's more utilized last week lead the
Speaker 1: team in snaps and chart has been limited in practice
Speaker 1: all week. Uh. Josh Reynolds had thirty eight to scoring
Speaker 1: we to six for nine six last week. Dan Campbell
Speaker 1: wants to get him more involved, calls calls him the
Speaker 1: praying mantis spider of death, which is that's that's badass
Speaker 1: right there. I'm on Ross st Brown out for this one,
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift out for this one. And the top wide
Speaker 1: receiver going against the Seahawks the last three weeks hundred
Speaker 1: two yards, sixty three yards, fifty four yards in far
Speaker 1: lower passing volume than the lines put up. I think
Speaker 1: there's a good weekend store here for Josh Reynolds, who's
Speaker 1: probably on your waiver everywhere. Al Right, so you've gone
Speaker 1: back to back Reynolds. Yes, I think that's a wrap.
Speaker 1: I wrapped it, wrapped it up with man. I couldn't
Speaker 1: find the Reynolds at quarterback to start. I tried. I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry that you did that. All my favorite Reynolds
Speaker 1: are in Philadelphia. Some of you know what I'm talking
Speaker 1: about right now. Okay, Matt, who is your taking a
Speaker 1: chance to be running back? I'm gonna go, well, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with a tight end for my receiver here,
Speaker 1: and that's Robert tons of funny and Tonyan uh Tonyan
Speaker 1: getting healthier every week we've watched a snap count rise
Speaker 1: from thirty six to forty percent last week, while seeing
Speaker 1: declining rates from Marcedes Louis, Tyler Davis and Josiah Deguara.
Speaker 1: Safety's Adrian Phillips and Devon mccordy have each allowed a
Speaker 1: tight end touchdown in their coverage so far this season.
Speaker 1: In fact, in just the last two weeks, three different
Speaker 1: tight ends have four touchdowns against the Patriots. So Tonya
Speaker 1: and a guy that you can pick up and throw
Speaker 1: in if you need a tight end this week. No,
Speaker 1: I like it they've shown. I saw some footage of
Speaker 1: Tonyan looking downright, spry and practice this week healthier every
Speaker 1: He's good and they need targets my I alluded to
Speaker 1: my take a chance of me? Why receiver last segment
Speaker 1: Dallas wide receiver Noah Brown. I don't know why more
Speaker 1: people aren't starting to Brown. His worst game all year
Speaker 1: is five catches for fifty four yards. That's his bad game.
Speaker 1: It's also, by the way, about his good game. But
Speaker 1: that's probably why I met earlier. Cooper Rush has turned
Speaker 1: out to be a functional starter. The Commanders have allowed
Speaker 1: the seventh most receptions, the third most yards, and the
Speaker 1: fourth most passing touchdowns, and the highest average depth of target.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe gets a long pass in this Brown Gallup
Speaker 1: is playing, but no Brown. I think no Brown and
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush have that practice chemistry. Yes, that that might
Speaker 1: be what it is. Look at look at Thursday night
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater walks in and all he can find is
Speaker 1: Trent Shurfield. There's something to be said for that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there is, absolutely there is. Okay, let's go to our
Speaker 1: next matchup, which is the Lions. You've already talked about three. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: there anywhere Reynolds that we can start. I tried, man,
Speaker 1: I just couldn't find any Always start Ryan Reynolds. The
Speaker 1: Seattle passing offense gets a great match up here against
Speaker 1: Lions D that's third worst against quarterbacks. That's why Geno
Speaker 1: Smith was my take a chance on me player. But
Speaker 1: they've also allowed six different wide receivers to top seventy
Speaker 1: five yards and or score so far just in three games.
Speaker 1: That's led to a bottom eight ranking. Uh that's where
Speaker 1: I give Tyler Lockett in a grade. I can't believe
Speaker 1: I'm doing that, but he has been Gino's safety valve.
Speaker 1: He's crawled nine balls on eleven targets in back to
Speaker 1: back games. Yeah, that's a lot of catches. Nine catches. Uh.
Speaker 1: He hasn't scored yet, but that should probably come with
Speaker 1: that kind of volume. I will say, as far as
Speaker 1: scoring goes, dk Metcalf caught Gino's loan touchdown. He caught
Speaker 1: a couple of touchdowns in Gino's three games last year.
Speaker 1: Dk Metcalf has six red zone targets. All other Seattle
Speaker 1: wide receivers have one. And I'm really excited to watch
Speaker 1: him versus Jeff Alcuda this weekend because when asked about
Speaker 1: facing off against Jeff Okudo, dk Metcalf said, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: playing well. He's getting a lot of help over the top.
Speaker 1: I saw that nice nice shot there. Uh so I
Speaker 1: have a B grade on dk Metcalf for his likelihood
Speaker 1: to get in the end zone. Um, as long as
Speaker 1: the tight ends continue to split they are and as
Speaker 1: like they are, they will be on the bench. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna note this because Cleveland had this thing yet last year.
Speaker 1: See tight ends combined for nine for a hundred and
Speaker 1: five and a score. Last week they combined for eight
Speaker 1: and a hundred two and two scores in a week.
Speaker 1: One Like, if there's some injuries and it turns into
Speaker 1: one person. Keep an eye on that. They are using
Speaker 1: the tight end a lot um in the run game. Uh.
Speaker 1: I haven't, Oh man, I can't believe I have an
Speaker 1: A grade on rhot Penny. How is it possible? Oh no,
Speaker 1: it's a B grade. It's a B grade. It's do
Speaker 1: I have I have a yet? I have a B
Speaker 1: grade on a shot Penny, who gets almost all the
Speaker 1: work against the Detroit Rundy that's allowed two rushing scores
Speaker 1: in each of its first three games to two and two.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of Russian Dutch stands. Uh. The yards
Speaker 1: are kind of middle of the pack though, twenty six
Speaker 1: touches per game hundred thirty five yard average. The B
Speaker 1: comes because Penny's role seems to be dwindling. They're not
Speaker 1: giving him more than fourteen or fifty in touches. D J.
Speaker 1: Dallas took over all the passing down work last week,
Speaker 1: and Ken Walker he's looming. He's getting more snaps and touches.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not getting much yet, but that's why
Speaker 1: the B grade comes in. On the other side of
Speaker 1: the ball, Jared Goff, I got a B grade on him.
Speaker 1: He's even with I'm on Ross Brown out. This offense
Speaker 1: seems to tick. I think they're just gonna move it
Speaker 1: down the line. He's averaging about two fifty yards and
Speaker 1: over two scores per game against the Seattle d that's
Speaker 1: been mostly untested. They held Jimmy g and Mariotta's passing
Speaker 1: days down. But against Russell Wilson, Russell Wilson had three
Speaker 1: forty yards and a score. And I compare Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: and Jared Goff pretty close, at least the courage version
Speaker 1: of Russell Wilson to this current version of Jared Goff.
Speaker 1: I think that's actually fair. The concerns here are you
Speaker 1: know swift is swift is missing this one. I'm on razow.
Speaker 1: T J. Hawkinson's coming in GAMEP so I can't give
Speaker 1: him an A, but he's going to get a B
Speaker 1: in the t J. Hockenson uh C grade. Here the
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks are allowing about five catches for eighty
Speaker 1: yards per game to tight ends and Hockinson is going
Speaker 1: to get all the work instead of that being split up.
Speaker 1: And I'm an ros out, so I have a I
Speaker 1: have I had a Sea grade. Maybe I should give
Speaker 1: him a B. What do you think charge if he
Speaker 1: has something in between there. No, okay, let's go with
Speaker 1: the toy, but not grade. In the run game, Jamal
Speaker 1: Williams is getting a B grade. Seattle has been destroyed
Speaker 1: by running backs this year, especially if you count debos
Speaker 1: fifty yards fifty four yards rushing the lead back against
Speaker 1: the Seahawks hunter eight yards, hunting three yards hundred fifty
Speaker 1: three yards. That's Williams role, and he gets the goal
Speaker 1: line work. But the secondary back is averaging sixty seven
Speaker 1: yards and himself. And that's why Craig Reynolds was might
Speaker 1: take a chance on me, Blair, Uh, Jamal Williams, like
Speaker 1: I said, B grade? If I didn't I think I said,
Speaker 1: I think he did, yeah, um, and he was a
Speaker 1: very solid start. Greig Reynolds might be the starter, by
Speaker 1: the way, he might just take swift role. I almost that,
Speaker 1: I almost put that in might take a chance. I
Speaker 1: mean there is a non zero chance that Craig Williams
Speaker 1: is the starter, and they just keep Jamal Williams doing
Speaker 1: what he's been doing because it's it's working. My my
Speaker 1: only caveat against that is last year Jamal Williams started
Speaker 1: and and Craig Williams only started the games that Jamal
Speaker 1: Williams didn't play. That's my only caveat. When we come back.
Speaker 1: Checking in from jolly old England. It's our London correspondent,
Speaker 1: Colin mccockney. Do you have us everything you need to
Speaker 1: know about Vikings versus Saints at Tottenham Hotspur. I don't
Speaker 1: know how to I don't know how to say it
Speaker 1: whatever that means. Those are two words that do not
Speaker 1: mean anything to me if it's just all gibberish. So
Speaker 1: I don't even know what to come foods, but charge
Speaker 1: we will. We'll find out what's going to happen. From
Speaker 1: Colin mccockney when we come back Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome
Speaker 1: back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Churchy and Scott Fish and
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison with you, Oh man, I'm so excited. I
Speaker 1: know you man, it's very exciting. As a reminder of exciting,
Speaker 1: you can still join a guillotine league, Matt. You're in
Speaker 1: a few guillotine leagues. I got chopped in weeks two
Speaker 1: in one and then my Scott Fish Bowls super Chop
Speaker 1: still alive and well picked up four guys in my
Speaker 1: fab run this week. That's all right, I'd love to
Speaker 1: hear those kinds of stories. Thank you for chiming in, Matt.
Speaker 1: We are now are ready to go to Vikings taking
Speaker 1: on the Saints. And Colin mccogney are resident, are residents
Speaker 1: specialist for all things London related. Yeah he's in Britain
Speaker 1: this time, right, Yes, he's live in the UK. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're calling him right now, Colin, Colin mccockney to get
Speaker 1: him on the show. It's um, of course, it takes uh,
Speaker 1: it takes a little while. Yeah, Dailian. Internationally, you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta to act type in like forty seven numbers.
Speaker 1: I feel. I think that's exactly right. You always get
Speaker 1: the weird ringing sounds when you're you know, working in
Speaker 1: Europe or whatever. So you try to get Colin here, Colin,
Speaker 1: I think we do. We have Colin, Colin mcco Colin,
Speaker 1: good to talk to you in London, Colin, Man, it's
Speaker 1: so awesome. And then Darien Tomes of French. Oh, I
Speaker 1: don't know what that means. It's not but I know
Speaker 1: the Vikings are taking on the Saints at Totton Spurs
Speaker 1: something something Tadertot Spurs, Wake out dustin Living Pullucky Lions,
Speaker 1: play a little Collin boy, give you a lap of
Speaker 1: vice boys. Yeah you me? Then put no box the
Speaker 1: toys for you? You hear me, I do, I do.
Speaker 1: I'll translate for you. Try that mean uh. He's just
Speaker 1: about to start and he wants me to translate. And
Speaker 1: I said, okay, okay, alright, alright, I wasn't sure if
Speaker 1: that was there was a player in there. Okay, no, no,
Speaker 1: So Colin, what do you think about the Vikings and
Speaker 1: what do you think the Vikings might do? Here? Hurts me? Uncle?
Speaker 1: Kids goes up into apples and fats. You're seeing a
Speaker 1: face in a grazy cee that goes borrow and bag
Speaker 1: bottle and stop up. Well, basically you just said Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins is getting a C grade. He's facing the Saints
Speaker 1: defense that's top three in completions yards and touchdowns allowed
Speaker 1: through the air. That's what he said. Okay, yeah, daddy
Speaker 1: boy Jefferson gets up pipple and block fell mostly boat right,
Speaker 1: batty roby stop and oil rag from Jemmy Dodger Williams
Speaker 1: and Nightcap Williams has allowed a chopping only to tap
Speaker 1: you might weep and whale with your rats and Mike
Speaker 1: can you say, chuffing on the air. Is that is that?
Speaker 1: Does that something we can say? Is that an FCC violation?
Speaker 1: Chuf That's not what he said, but he said. Don't
Speaker 1: understand what he said. No, it's I I do it,
Speaker 1: I do It's all that Scottish Scottish. Basically, you just said,
Speaker 1: justin Jefferson gets a B, he'll mostly face Bradley Roby,
Speaker 1: but make it bracketed by p J. Williams. That he
Speaker 1: had an interesting name for p J. Williams. But that's
Speaker 1: that's what he said. Yeah, Roby's allowing twelve yards per
Speaker 1: receptions and reception and Williams is allowing only two passing
Speaker 1: scores given up by the Saints this year in his coverage. Um,
Speaker 1: he also may be the squeaky wheel. I think he
Speaker 1: said squeaky wheeling. There. There might have been a squeaky whale,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what I heard he said.
Speaker 1: He said with the rats and mice. So I think
Speaker 1: that's BA and came on the chop in bench right,
Speaker 1: including Addie Feeling right, Ozzy Osborne right, and JR. It's
Speaker 1: not enough myths for Turkies, flirty all around, number two
Speaker 1: pig and roasts getting three and tea times gets the
Speaker 1: French Scott. Yeah, yeah, you understood all that, right. I
Speaker 1: think if I think we're supposed to bench Adam feeling
Speaker 1: kJ Osborne, that's exactly what he said. He said, bench dealing,
Speaker 1: bench Osborne, bench I Smith. Not enough passing stats to
Speaker 1: go around number two receivers averaging like three catches for
Speaker 1: thirty yards against the Saints. Uh tight ends averaging three
Speaker 1: catches for twenty one yards as a position group. That's
Speaker 1: that's really all I said, just benjam All, I got it,
Speaker 1: got it. He feels like he could have shortened that.
Speaker 1: I think Dalvin Cook is that we haven't touched on
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook yet, have we? Ruby Murray tell me all
Speaker 1: mom got playing hurt birthday on Friday, picked as a
Speaker 1: fisherman's daughter, or Maddie gets in and out give and
Speaker 1: take an America round. Okay, So he said Dalvin wasn't
Speaker 1: listed on the injury report Thursday or Friday. But you
Speaker 1: think there's a good chance that Madison might get some
Speaker 1: more work for this game. I can't believe he thinks that.
Speaker 1: I kind of agree with you agree with I think
Speaker 1: Madison gets a little bit more work and interesting. All right, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I suppose he's got the shoulder. The Saints have seen
Speaker 1: a high amount of touches go to the running back
Speaker 1: position in each game, averaging over thirty per contest, so
Speaker 1: I guess maybe he's right. Um, they've allowed the ninth
Speaker 1: most streshing yards on the season to running backs at
Speaker 1: a hundred nine per game. So Colin gave Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: and Alexander Madison both secrets both. I don't know Colin
Speaker 1: on this one. I think I think Colin has been tilting,
Speaker 1: tilting the gales, if you know what I mean. Yes,
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, that's what he calls his take off. Okay,
Speaker 1: got it, got it, Colin? Yes, last time Alvin down
Speaker 1: and six on the floor the school, the shopping cuts
Speaker 1: and scratches have been bottom ten copper flower pot, Alvin
Speaker 1: gets a collar and top. Okay, that time he definitely
Speaker 1: did say chuffing. It's it's we're doing a lot of chuffing. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he said. Last time Alvin faced the Vikings, he had
Speaker 1: a hundred fifty five yards and six touchdowns, and he
Speaker 1: predicts exactly the same amount for Alvin Kamar this. I
Speaker 1: think that's what he said, I know. He said that
Speaker 1: Kamara was limited in practice in averaging seventeen opportunities per game,
Speaker 1: and the Vikings have a bottom run bottom ten run defense.
Speaker 1: He gave Alvin an a but I'm pretty sure you
Speaker 1: also guaranteed hundred fifty yards. That sounds like something, Colin. Alright, Colin,
Speaker 1: what do you think about the passing game? Mikey Tom
Speaker 1: Pony and jobs on a raspberry, Jarvis has been on
Speaker 1: the knocko Ryot Tinkle and trek Uan will spot a
Speaker 1: sugar basin Roy he gets starkey with Dandy land Patty
Speaker 1: pat stays on the bloom and left and Dancy Camera
Speaker 1: stays on the bleeding right. So the Bloody French will
Speaker 1: have a chuff and daisies for Plasta, Bristol City and
Speaker 1: a chuck farm. Wow. Wow, So he's just said, you know,
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas has ruled out with Jarvis. Landry has been
Speaker 1: limited with an inkle injury. Yeah, so Crystal Lava and
Speaker 1: Trey con Smith will see a lot of work. He said,
Speaker 1: This is man, this is a lot. He said. If
Speaker 1: Landry goes, he gets to see you with a favorite
Speaker 1: matchup against the Vikings Slot Corner Tin and Sullivan, Patrick
Speaker 1: Peterson stays on the left side and Cameron Danzler stays
Speaker 1: on the right, So the scenes will have opportunity to
Speaker 1: move a Lava and Smith to whatever side they like
Speaker 1: to get the coverage they want. Gets the B grade
Speaker 1: from Colin and Smith. Trae Kwon Smith surprise grade Colin
Speaker 1: with some uncanny insight. Maybe Colin says he's on the
Speaker 1: ground in London. Maybe he spied, spied on their practices
Speaker 1: and saw something could be He noted that the vikings
Speaker 1: of a lot of the third most passing yards in
Speaker 1: league this year. Maybe that's part of it. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: a gypsy kids calling out, calling out, calling out? What
Speaker 1: were we talking about? Colin? Like, he wasn't on the
Speaker 1: phone with us just now, and we're talking about in
Speaker 1: the third person. He was right there, asked Colin a
Speaker 1: lot of these questions myself. What I think I like basketball? Colin,
Speaker 1: you needed me to translate, because if you ask me,
Speaker 1: I can give you the answer. If Colin would just repeat,
Speaker 1: they can never understand what he says. No, it's very
Speaker 1: hard to understand what Colin says. But what I like
Speaker 1: best about him is no pluses or minuses. That's the
Speaker 1: best thing about Colinies is straight Well, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: at all. I think that's probably just a metric system
Speaker 1: type of thing. Browns take on the Falcons, and uh,
Speaker 1: let's start with the Cleveland side. Nick Chubb is an
Speaker 1: obvious Amari Cooper has backed back one hundred yard games,
Speaker 1: something that never happened in Dallas, never had a back
Speaker 1: to back one hundred yard game, but he's done it.
Speaker 1: Here turns out Cooper needed Jacoby Brissette as his trigger man.
Speaker 1: Atlanta secondary is atrocious against receivers, giving up the third
Speaker 1: most receptions, fifth most yards, and being gassed for a
Speaker 1: league high six touchdowns of the position. So Marie Coopers
Speaker 1: gets an A grade here. Already told you Jacoby Brissette
Speaker 1: was might take a chance on me quarterback. I've got
Speaker 1: a B grade on him and a B great on
Speaker 1: David and Joco. Falcons have been destroyed by tenant tight
Speaker 1: ends so far, giving up seventy four yards per game
Speaker 1: to the position, fifth most in the league, and jok
Speaker 1: Wu leads the team in red zone targets while the
Speaker 1: fourth most among all tight ends. So this seems like
Speaker 1: a very good spot for in Joku to keep the
Speaker 1: momentum going. And if you need potentially a dart throw,
Speaker 1: how about I just got stabbed. That's not a snap.
Speaker 1: That is clear. I got hit by a spear dart again.
Speaker 1: You hit me again. I mentioned the Falcons secondary non
Speaker 1: number one wide receivers have had a good fantasy game
Speaker 1: in every matchup against Atlanta and Jarvis Landry, Allen Robinson,
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett, Donovan People Jones dart throw opportunity here and
Speaker 1: then the only other Brown player I'll mention Kareem Hunt. Troublingly,
Speaker 1: he's seen his snapshare decrease in every week. You can't
Speaker 1: even count on the handful of receptions he was getting.
Speaker 1: He's averaging just three catches for eighteen yards. That's not much.
Speaker 1: And Atlanta has been great against receiving running backs anyway.
Speaker 1: Chubb doesn't all the goal line work, but he gets
Speaker 1: more of it than Hunt does. So I've just got
Speaker 1: the C grade on Kareem Hunt here. I believe Kareem
Speaker 1: Hunt has faced the most eight man fronts in the league.
Speaker 1: That seems improbable according to Next Gen stats. Wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know why I would, but okay, they're stopping him.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's working. Maybe that's it. On the Atlanta side,
Speaker 1: Cordell Patterson has been great, but he popped up on
Speaker 1: the injury report. He has expected to go for this one. Uh.
Speaker 1: The only time Cordell Patterson has been held below one
Speaker 1: rushing yards was Week two when he faced ProFootball focus
Speaker 1: is best run defense. In the other two games, he's
Speaker 1: averaging almost seven yards per carry. I'm thirty nine carries
Speaker 1: in those two games. I'm just gonna add to the
Speaker 1: Patterson thing. Yeah, he's got a slight anything, but the
Speaker 1: team confirmed it was mostly just rest good. I'm glad
Speaker 1: to hear that. And as Tyler l Ger starting himself,
Speaker 1: he is not. Cleveland hasn't given up more than sixty
Speaker 1: two rushing yards to any runners, so this is not
Speaker 1: a smash spot and a B grade on Cordarrel Patterson. UM,
Speaker 1: let's go to the receivers in this one. Beginning with
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts. Cleveland is allowed over forty yards to a
Speaker 1: tight end in every game. Pits will see coverage from
Speaker 1: linebacker Jeremiah Owusu Coromoa, who has struggled, giving up an
Speaker 1: eighty three percent catch rate and two touchdowns when targeted,
Speaker 1: or their safety Grant Delta, who also covers tight ends
Speaker 1: and he's yielding a catch rate in his coverage, So
Speaker 1: a B grade on Kyle Pitts, who saw the big
Speaker 1: ups up tick in Houston's last week. Drake London B grade.
Speaker 1: Browns allowing the sixth most air yards and second highest
Speaker 1: average depth of targets, so some downfield opportunities for Drake London.
Speaker 1: They're also allowing a hundred seven yards after the catch
Speaker 1: per game, and London flash some playmaking ability last week.
Speaker 1: I like him in this one for a B grade.
Speaker 1: And then Marcus Mariota. If I like Pitts in London
Speaker 1: in a very grade, I gotta like Mariota again. It
Speaker 1: was gonna take a chance, I mean quarterback. Last week.
Speaker 1: Mariota's performed like a starting fantasy quarterback. Is He's best
Speaker 1: quarterback twelve and most scoring systems. This despite Atlanta throwing
Speaker 1: the second fewest passes, just twenty six per game, so
Speaker 1: he's been efficient. He's running the ball some. Um it's
Speaker 1: a good opportunity for him. So we'll continue starting Marcus
Speaker 1: Mariota even though it doesn't feel like you know, I
Speaker 1: love that they throw this second fierce passes at twenty
Speaker 1: seven per game. The Bears have completed exactly twenty seven
Speaker 1: passes this season. The Jets are twenty seven per half
Speaker 1: A are are good? Are good? Friend Andy Barns looked
Speaker 1: it up. He looked up the Bear stats in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy seven, and this isn't even a nineteen seventies seven offense.
Speaker 1: This is like prehistory. Mike Zimmer and Bill Belichick are
Speaker 1: just like drooling over this Bears offense right now. Just
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Speaker 1: three tough Questions. Tough Question number one from this point forward.
Speaker 1: J K. Dobbins Baltimore running back j K. Dobbins will
Speaker 1: finish as a top ten runner eleven through twenty runner
Speaker 1: or worse twenty one plus. I see you're using plus
Speaker 1: again twenty one or more? Does that make you feel better?
Speaker 1: All right, Scott, let's begin with you. Yeah. So my
Speaker 1: initial thought process here was top ten, Um, I think
Speaker 1: he's got that potential. They run a ton, etcetera. And
Speaker 1: then I started looking they don't run as much as
Speaker 1: they did last year. Lamar's passing has improved quite a
Speaker 1: bit and they're able to do it that way. Uh,
Speaker 1: it really depends on other injuries to other players as well.
Speaker 1: Baltimore runners have also been pretty dang ineffective this year,
Speaker 1: including j K. Dobbins. Their line is not getting good
Speaker 1: run blocking for them. So I went with eleven to
Speaker 1: twenty simply because I think his volume bumps up to
Speaker 1: that fourteen to eighteen touch range, including a full a
Speaker 1: few catches. But they're gonna still split that backfield and
Speaker 1: they're not running as much or as efficient as in
Speaker 1: previous years. All Right, Matt Well j K. Dobbins from
Speaker 1: this point forward finishes a top ten runner, and eleven
Speaker 1: through twenty one or or worse. I think Scott hit
Speaker 1: on a lot of my points that he's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be split in time with Justice Hill or Kenyan Drake
Speaker 1: or Gus Edwards when everyone's healthy and Mike Davis is
Speaker 1: still there. Right now, the Ravens are the worst running
Speaker 1: back group in the league, and it leads me to
Speaker 1: believe that there's just a chance that Dobbins could take
Speaker 1: over the backfield and put up some decent points. But
Speaker 1: I just think there's too many things working against him
Speaker 1: with the injury, so I'll stay he stays outside the
Speaker 1: twenties at one plus You, Tony, You're over over and
Speaker 1: I'm not feeling good about it. Yeah, because of the
Speaker 1: monumental challenge of getting by Mike Davis and Justice Hill
Speaker 1: and Kenyan Drake. Yes, that's what That's how I feel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: j K. Dobbins will finish as a top ten runner,
Speaker 1: and in part because name me the other top ten runners,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson will finish as a top ten runner. He
Speaker 1: that's their top runner. I think right now the top
Speaker 1: ten running back situation is wide open. Nobody who wants it.
Speaker 1: James Robinson for Darrell Patterson, Jamal Williams, Khalil Herbert, fly
Speaker 1: to Edwards Hilaire the top right, What how much sticking
Speaker 1: power does Clyde Edwards Laire have as a top ten
Speaker 1: running back almost none. He's stuck on that team despite
Speaker 1: not doing much for years. You're right that the Ravens
Speaker 1: are passing more this year and running less. It's because
Speaker 1: they've had to. When Dobbins gets rolling, they're going to
Speaker 1: go back to who they are and who Greg Roman
Speaker 1: is and that is a run first team. Tough question
Speaker 1: Number two. Should we sabotage drop Alan Robinson? Matt No,
Speaker 1: because he's still above in snap counts every game this year.
Speaker 1: And yeah, his targets have only been five and five
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks, but fundamentally this offense likes
Speaker 1: to pass the ball. Robinson scored a touchdown in Week
Speaker 1: two and I can't cut a guy on a good
Speaker 1: offense with a snap share Scott. Should we sabotage drop
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson? Arguably my biggest miss of the year, my
Speaker 1: anti peacock. What do we call that a mongoose or
Speaker 1: something that we've got? No, we do have the mongoose.
Speaker 1: This is the eating froll sound right, And as a
Speaker 1: double up, I was that's just bad um. I will
Speaker 1: know what he did score touchdown. He actually had another
Speaker 1: touchdown that got called back on a penody that didn't
Speaker 1: matter another that he was just missed, like he could
Speaker 1: be staying on three touchdowns. And maybe we're looking at
Speaker 1: this a little differently right now. Um Matt mentioned he's
Speaker 1: he's playing almost the entire game in a in a
Speaker 1: really good passing offense. He's running routes on almost every
Speaker 1: single play. My initial thought was yes on this, but
Speaker 1: when I weighed all that, and I'm like, he's not
Speaker 1: quite droppable level. Like he's bench level, but he's probably
Speaker 1: not quite droppable level. Sabotage drop level. The stats for
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson hard damning, and the eye test is even worse.
Speaker 1: He's a He's averaging two catches for twenty seven yards,
Speaker 1: that's all. And when you look at him, and I
Speaker 1: hate to the project into the mind of a player,
Speaker 1: but what he from the outside. He looks slow and disinterested.
Speaker 1: You do not see obvious signs of interest, passion, excitement, effort, determination.
Speaker 1: I don't see any of that stuff in Allen Robinson.
Speaker 1: I don't need those guys on my team. I can
Speaker 1: find a guy to get I find a lot of
Speaker 1: guys can be two catches for twenty seven yards. I
Speaker 1: can tell you that much. I am dropping. I'm the
Speaker 1: whole point of the sabotage. Drop is the sucker guys
Speaker 1: like you and using waiver wire equity on him. I
Speaker 1: hope he scores. He scores an easy touchdown this Sunday.
Speaker 1: You drop him on Monday or Tuesday, make somebody use something.
Speaker 1: I hope he has a great game this week and
Speaker 1: then drop him. Yeah, I like the idea of it.
Speaker 1: To question number three, James Robinson Jacksonville running back James
Speaker 1: Robinson currently the third highest scoring running back. Will he
Speaker 1: finish the year inside the top ten? We begin with
Speaker 1: Scott Fish. So in order to do that, he needs
Speaker 1: a couple of things to happen. He needs this Jags
Speaker 1: offense to be what it was the last two week.
Speaker 1: And if this is the real Trevor Lawrence and the
Speaker 1: real Jags offense, he needs that. He needs Travis c
Speaker 1: e ten to not continue to progress forward and step up.
Speaker 1: He needs c ten to continue being bad. Um. We've
Speaker 1: already kind of mentioned who's in the top ten right now?
Speaker 1: Like can he stay? Can he stay with the people
Speaker 1: there in the top ten right now? Another thing I
Speaker 1: looked at is in the net for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. He has nine games against bottom twelve run defenses,
Speaker 1: including games against the worst, second worst, third worst, fourth worst,
Speaker 1: and fifth worst teams as their current run defenses anyway, um,
Speaker 1: He's currently RB three with twenty and twenty five touches
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks. If he can stay in
Speaker 1: the fifteen to twenty one twenty touch range, I think
Speaker 1: he can finish the year inside the top ten. I
Speaker 1: didn't think I would come away from this at the start,
Speaker 1: but I think he can, all right, So that's a yes.
Speaker 1: It's a yes, Matt Jacksonville running back James Robinson, currently
Speaker 1: the third highest scoring running back. Will he finish the
Speaker 1: year inside the top ten? No meaningful player has ever
Speaker 1: come back to relevance after an achilles injury until now.
Speaker 1: According to Next Gen Stats, James Robinson average time behind
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage is two point eight three seconds.
Speaker 1: The best in the league is two point five seconds,
Speaker 1: so three tenths of a second. He's top twenty in
Speaker 1: that category. He's ahead of Jonathan Taylor, Derrick Henry, Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler, Alvin Kamara. Do I want a lot of
Speaker 1: time behind the line of scrimmager? Very little time, little
Speaker 1: little little. He's gettingetting out forward, getting out of the
Speaker 1: back moving forward quickly. Yes, first he's getting out of
Speaker 1: the backfield. The line is opening holes and he's hitting them.
Speaker 1: He's also scoring touchdowns, which he did in each game
Speaker 1: so far this year, which he did last year, and
Speaker 1: that's what he did the year before. That's the trend.
Speaker 1: He's gonna finish top ten because he scores touchdowns. You know,
Speaker 1: we in the preseason we frequently said he's achilles injuries.
Speaker 1: Nobody ever comes back. We hoped, you know, we were like,
Speaker 1: we hope here wrong. I hope at some point it's
Speaker 1: going to change. Most of that was talking about Cam Akers,
Speaker 1: not James Robinson. I test, Yeah, it looks great, and
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville offense is clearly better. Doug Peterson's in the
Speaker 1: in the running for the Coach of the year to
Speaker 1: this point, and the fifth winning is Jaguars coach of
Speaker 1: all time already three games. I'm gonna say so the
Speaker 1: little hot take you. I think he looks almost a
Speaker 1: little bit more explosive than he did before for some reason,
Speaker 1: maybe just all that training to get it back. The
Speaker 1: correct answer is yes, James Robinson top ten running back
Speaker 1: right now. And what that really means. If you think,
Speaker 1: for example, Christian McCaffrey is not going to be in
Speaker 1: the top ten, imagine the deals you can swing right
Speaker 1: now with James Robinson get a top ten wide receiver
Speaker 1: and James Robinson CMC right now. It could be exactly
Speaker 1: my point. Broncos are taking on the Ravens. Scott. Let's
Speaker 1: start on the Broncos side. Russell Wilson has been a
Speaker 1: massive disappointment for its fantasy owners, as discussed on this
Speaker 1: show last week. I mean, like, is it a disappointment?
Speaker 1: He average two hundred three yards weeks four through seventeen
Speaker 1: last year. He's averaging two seven yards this year. He's
Speaker 1: actually looking better than he did last year. Um no, uh.
Speaker 1: Still on the Bronco side, I'm actually giving Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: a B, which might be the highest grade I give
Speaker 1: him all year. So that probably says something about how
Speaker 1: like how much I like him in this one. Every
Speaker 1: QB to face the Raiders this year has had between
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty and two yards right in that
Speaker 1: zode and and two to three touchdowns each. Granted two
Speaker 1: of those were Russian touchdowns, and that's not Russ's game anymore,
Speaker 1: but it's still a great matchup. Who showed in week
Speaker 1: one with that Thur enter plus in the score game
Speaker 1: that he's still capable of it in the right matchup,
Speaker 1: and I think this is that right matchup B grade
Speaker 1: for Russell Wilson. As for his receiving options, the only
Speaker 1: starting grade I gave is Courtland Sutton, the top wide
Speaker 1: receiver against the Raiders last three weeks. Sixty six yards,
Speaker 1: sixty eight yards, eighty five yards. That's actually not that stout,
Speaker 1: but the volume wasn't there for those guys. Sutton is
Speaker 1: getting double digit targets every week, well at least the
Speaker 1: last two. Anyway, Judy figures to siphon off some of them,
Speaker 1: but it hasn't happened yet. Yeah, I'm getting there, but
Speaker 1: Juty another week back in Hammler as well, there will
Speaker 1: be a little more target competition. That's why Sutton is
Speaker 1: only getting the B instead of the A in in
Speaker 1: what should be a decent matchup. I have Judy. I
Speaker 1: had him with a bench grade. I've moved him up
Speaker 1: to a C grade because as I thought about it,
Speaker 1: he still commanded six targets in his return last week,
Speaker 1: only playing fiftent of snaps and he missed a forty
Speaker 1: there's a forty five yard play to him that didn't connect,
Speaker 1: that connects. We look at his box score way different
Speaker 1: this week than we than we do. So I gave
Speaker 1: a C grade to Jerry Judy, who should factor in
Speaker 1: once again. Uh the tight ends splitting on the bench,
Speaker 1: that just drop them. Uh the run game. I have
Speaker 1: a B grade on Javanti and a C grade on
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon because of the split. They split eighteen touches
Speaker 1: to seventeen touches last week. We hoped for more of
Speaker 1: a Javante Lean. It didn't happen last week. This is
Speaker 1: the third easiest matchups for runners and the fifth best
Speaker 1: for receiving backs. But Gordon's getting receiving where two but
Speaker 1: he was due? Yes, that's what That's exactly what I'm
Speaker 1: going to Uh that Melvin Gordon has been limited in
Speaker 1: practice with a neck injury. All expectation are he's gonna
Speaker 1: go and be fine, But neck injuries are tricky and
Speaker 1: if he doesn't go, it is wheels up a grade
Speaker 1: for Javonte Williams, I would like to think. But Mike
Speaker 1: Boone has been making an appearance and Mike Boone might
Speaker 1: just walk into that role. The interesting part about Boon
Speaker 1: is he's not playing very many snapps, but when he does,
Speaker 1: he actually touches the ball. That's very weird that he
Speaker 1: comes in for like ten steps and then gets like
Speaker 1: seven touches or something. I made up those numbers, but
Speaker 1: that's pretty close to what it is. The Raiders allowing
Speaker 1: thirty one touches per game, you can expect probably a
Speaker 1: similar workload to last week. If Gordon does play on
Speaker 1: the Raiders side. Car is basically attempting about forty passes
Speaker 1: game high two yards, gets two scores per week. That's
Speaker 1: B level uh B level stats right there. And his
Speaker 1: opponents opponent this week, the Devon Broncos, hard to judge.
Speaker 1: They played Geno Smith, Davis Mills, Jimmy g um Car
Speaker 1: will be their first test, So I'm gonna lean towards
Speaker 1: his B level averages and just give him a b um.
Speaker 1: Davante Adams is gonna get an A. The yards haven't
Speaker 1: been there, but he's scoring all three He's getting eleven
Speaker 1: targets per game. It is the toughest matchup, but again,
Speaker 1: who have they played? Um? Nobody's hit seventy five yards
Speaker 1: against the Broncos. I'm gonna give mack Helen's a C grade.
Speaker 1: With Hunter Renfro two weeks now, he's been out with
Speaker 1: his concussion. I'm a little worried there. But mccollins is
Speaker 1: finding himself with a C grade here. Eighty of his
Speaker 1: yards last week came on winging a prayer type plays,
Speaker 1: but it says something that car trusted him in those
Speaker 1: and the volume has been there for two straight weeks
Speaker 1: for him, So C grade there. Davante Adams is the
Speaker 1: most double teamed receiver other than Cooper Cup and then
Speaker 1: so Mark macollins got these one on one matchups and
Speaker 1: cars like, fine, I'll sling it downfield exactly exactly. I'm going.
Speaker 1: I'm giving Darren Waller a B. It's mostly his upside
Speaker 1: and talent because the Broncos have not really faced any
Speaker 1: tight ends yet, but they did sellar render two scores
Speaker 1: in those three games. Josh Jacobs is getting a C
Speaker 1: game in C grade. In the run game. For me,
Speaker 1: the Broncos are tops against fantasy running backs, but mostly
Speaker 1: because they just haven't allowed to touchdown. That's if you
Speaker 1: don't allow any touchdowns over three games, that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: They allowed a hundred and six total yards to Jeff Wilson,
Speaker 1: uh Rashad Penny and Damian Pierce had sixty to seventy yards.
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't count on a score. Derek Carr leads
Speaker 1: the NFL in attempts inside the five, inside the ten,
Speaker 1: inside the fifteen, and inside the twenty. Just really once
Speaker 1: they get inside the red zone, car passes all right,
Speaker 1: And and to make things worse, Josh Jacobs now make
Speaker 1: carries he has inside the five and three games two
Speaker 1: for negative one yards. They do not run the ball
Speaker 1: anywhere near the goal. So don't count on a score
Speaker 1: this week either, Alright, C grade, C grade on Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 1: H a predictably disappointing season for Josh Jacobs to this point.
Speaker 1: He gets the volume, it's just not a lot of
Speaker 1: yards and not you know, midyards, and not much scoring. Man.
Speaker 1: Let's try to sneak in Chargers taking on the Texans. Here.
Speaker 1: Is this an Austin Ekeler rebound game? Um, yes, it
Speaker 1: certainly is. I gave him in a grade here. Uh,
Speaker 1: I kind of went over the Texans run defense and
Speaker 1: might take a chance on the segment featuring Sony Walkman
Speaker 1: Michelle who also gets a C grade. Here uh stand
Speaker 1: on the Chargers side, Let's start with Keenan Allen, who's
Speaker 1: out again. So Mike Williams gets a solid B. Uh.
Speaker 1: He'll do most of his work against rookie Derek Stingley Jr.
Speaker 1: Of the fifteen players who have dropped in the coverage
Speaker 1: for the Texans this year, Stingy ranks the worst by
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus grade by a lot. He's allowing fourteen
Speaker 1: yards per reception. Josh Palmer gets a C as well. Uh.
Speaker 1: With Alan gone, Palmer flexes into the slot more will
Speaker 1: where he'll face a positive matchup against Desmond King. King
Speaker 1: basically had the last two weeks off against the Bears
Speaker 1: and the weird Broncos pass game, but in Week one
Speaker 1: he was torched for ninety one yards from the indie
Speaker 1: slot receivers. Jalen Guiton, by the way, placed on a
Speaker 1: R with are I r with an a c L injury.
Speaker 1: By the way, Gerald Everett, He's an interesting player. I'm
Speaker 1: going to leave him on the bench this week. The
Speaker 1: Texans have only allowed eight catches to tight ends all season,
Speaker 1: plus we might see the return of Donald Parham this week,
Speaker 1: and I are like the only people who can that
Speaker 1: were big Donald Park that could reduce a few of
Speaker 1: Everett snaps in this one. I like enough of the
Speaker 1: receivers though, to give just an air Bear a B
Speaker 1: grade here. Uh, there he is. He was definitely not
Speaker 1: his normal self last week against the Jags, but definitely
Speaker 1: uh still put up some decent numbers. Two nine seven
Speaker 1: yards on forty five dropbacks. Uh. The Texans have been
Speaker 1: good against the pass on paper, but again they played
Speaker 1: the Bears, and they played Russ Wilson, who hasn't been
Speaker 1: very good the week before. Over on the Houston side,
Speaker 1: it's pretty quick Damian Pierce, he gets a B grade.
Speaker 1: The Chargers are allowing five point three yards per carry
Speaker 1: to opposing backs and the sixth most receiving yards per game.
Speaker 1: That means Rex Burkhead and his five targets per game
Speaker 1: might be a desperation ploy if you're in dire straits,
Speaker 1: but Pierce took over the backfield over the last two
Speaker 1: weeks with forty eight touches to Birkhead's nine. Davis Mills
Speaker 1: hasn't looked great this year, but he catches the Chargers
Speaker 1: without Joey Bosa, So I'll throw him a C grade here. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you're into two sixty yards and two scores, that's
Speaker 1: probably what you'll see from Mills here. Is that's that's
Speaker 1: a good game. That's a C grade? Yeah? Or is
Speaker 1: it a maybe a C plus today? Enjoy it. Brian
Speaker 1: is going to be in. That's what the Chargers are
Speaker 1: given up on a per game basis. It means I
Speaker 1: have to like our receiver. It will be Brandon Cooks,
Speaker 1: who gets a B almost ten targets per game. He's
Speaker 1: facing a Chargers defense that is bottom eight in receptions
Speaker 1: and touchdowns allowed to the wide receiver position. I can't
Speaker 1: go as far as Niko Collins, who's still not quite
Speaker 1: getting a full snap share. He's splitting it with Chris
Speaker 1: Moore right now, and it's just just not enough to
Speaker 1: get going all right. When we come back, plenty more
Speaker 1: matchups to get to, including the Bills taking on the Ravens.
Speaker 1: Ravens defense has been bad, giving up the most yards
Speaker 1: per play in the NFL, and you're come to Bills.
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Speaker 1: at explosive Output True. Bills take on the Ravens. The
Speaker 1: Ravens defense is awful against everything right now, so there's
Speaker 1: a lot of this is gonna be pretty short. Josh
Speaker 1: Allen and Stephan Diggs are obvious eight grades. If Gabe
Speaker 1: Davis were healthy, I would also just be saying he's
Speaker 1: an obvious A grade too, but we'll talk it through
Speaker 1: because he's not one. He is the NFL's leader in
Speaker 1: routes run per game. Gabe Davis fifty four routes per game. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Of course, it helps win. The Bills had ran I
Speaker 1: think nine offensive plays last game. Baltimore surrendered the most receptions,
Speaker 1: the most yards, and the second most touchdowns to wide receivers.
Speaker 1: So Gabe Davis, if you want to roll the dice
Speaker 1: on him, not rolling his ankle. B grade on Gabe Davis.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Mackenzie comes in with a B grade. Baltimore slock
Speaker 1: cornerback is named Marion Williams. He's allowed the tenth most
Speaker 1: yards and two touchdowns already. He's also allowed the third
Speaker 1: most yards after the catch from the slot. Mackenzie's got
Speaker 1: game breaking athleticism and if you are looking for a
Speaker 1: dart throw player now, Jamison Crowder also runs from the slot.
Speaker 1: He could be a modest fantasy helper with a C
Speaker 1: grade himself and rounding out the receiving options. For C grades,
Speaker 1: we've got Dawson Knox. Baltimore is held opposing tight ends
Speaker 1: to less than forty five yards in every game, but
Speaker 1: they've already given up two touchdowns and Patrick Queen linebackers
Speaker 1: turned out to be a massive um liability and coverage.
Speaker 1: He's given up two hundred yards in his coverage so far.
Speaker 1: So Dawson Knox, who hasn't done much, gets a C
Speaker 1: grade in this game, and Devin Singletary it's time to
Speaker 1: start him with confidence in this one. The Ravens have
Speaker 1: been hemorrhaging yards to running backs, allowing one hundred forty
Speaker 1: eight total yards per game that is the eighth most
Speaker 1: to running backs, and Singletary appears to retaken the Buffalo backfield.
Speaker 1: He saw seventy three percent of the snaps last week.
Speaker 1: Singletary was also render do so the passing game. Eleven targets,
Speaker 1: nine receptions, seventy eight receiving yards, all career highs for
Speaker 1: Singletary last week. Again, these Ravens aren't great. I've got
Speaker 1: an optimistic B grade on Devin's Singletary for this game.
Speaker 1: Over to the Baltimore side, Lamar Jackson and Mark Andrews
Speaker 1: are obvious A grades. Will give a B grade to
Speaker 1: Rashad Bateman. Normally I'm pretty cautious with Bateman and I
Speaker 1: would be in this matchup. But starting cornerback Dane Jackson
Speaker 1: is out. Rookie key year tight year Elam will make
Speaker 1: his second career start. That is a matchup Bateman should
Speaker 1: be able to exploit and beyond Dane Jackson. Micah hides
Speaker 1: out for Davious White's out. Granted, Baltimore did a great
Speaker 1: job against Miami's weapons last week, but still, Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: is just so hot right now. I want part of
Speaker 1: all of his receivers. I gotta be grade and Rashad
Speaker 1: Bateman here. Devin DuVernay is the number two receiver for
Speaker 1: the league's not his quarterback, so we're gonna start him
Speaker 1: as well. CE grade. And lastly, JK. Dobbins nine touches
Speaker 1: in his first game back last week. It's not saying
Speaker 1: a lot, but he still lead the team in touches.
Speaker 1: This is a very tough matchup though. The Bills are
Speaker 1: only giving up fifty eight total yards per game to
Speaker 1: opposing running backs. That is fewest league wide and nearly
Speaker 1: thirty yards fewer than the second best team. So they
Speaker 1: are crushing and posing running backs. So I got J. K.
Speaker 1: Dobbins on the bench for one more week and then
Speaker 1: it's gonna be all gravy for Dobbins. After that, things
Speaker 1: will get better, I promise. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: our next matchup, and that is the Cardinals taking on
Speaker 1: the Panthers. Scott, what do you like about the Cardinals
Speaker 1: passing game and Kyler Murray in this matchup? If anything,
Speaker 1: if anything, I like it. I don't love this one
Speaker 1: for him. See see, I I like you probably more
Speaker 1: than you. I do have a C grade on it
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray simply because Kyler Murray's passing yards have been there,
Speaker 1: his rushing yards have not. He's been under thirty a week,
Speaker 1: but I feel like it's gonna come back at some point.
Speaker 1: Maybe this is the week, maybe it's not. But the
Speaker 1: Panthers pasty was great last year, held downber setting Danny
Speaker 1: dimes this year, but he got torched by Jamis Winston
Speaker 1: last week. And I think Kyler is better than Jamis Winston. Um.
Speaker 1: He's closer to that level, if not above. My My
Speaker 1: issues is with the passing game. Though it's a j
Speaker 1: Brown is out, Marquis Brown is is coming in with
Speaker 1: a foot injury. We got Rondel Moore supposedly making making
Speaker 1: his return, also injured. Greg Doorche also injured, all of
Speaker 1: them limited practices. I do have a B grade on
Speaker 1: Marquise Brown twenty eight targets in the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: That volume alone is probably a worthy but given the
Speaker 1: injury and the matchup, I knocked him down a peg
Speaker 1: to a b um. Uh. As far as Greg Doorche
Speaker 1: and uh Rondell Moore, Rondell Moore plays the position that
Speaker 1: Greg Doorge has been feasting off of. If they if
Speaker 1: he comes back and they split that role in a
Speaker 1: tough matchup, I think they both have to be on
Speaker 1: the bench at this point. I have a C grade
Speaker 1: on Murray, bench grades on them B grade. I'm more
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I don't love the offense as much you're
Speaker 1: gonna say there. If anything, they're not startable. But I
Speaker 1: do like zach Ertz, I do like Curs. I had
Speaker 1: a B grade on him. I actually bumped it up
Speaker 1: to an A grade because of all the other injuries.
Speaker 1: He commanded ten targets and eleven targets in his two
Speaker 1: full complement of snap games the last two weeks um
Speaker 1: and he turned that into fourteen catches. That's huge for
Speaker 1: a tight end. Six catches and eight catches and everybody
Speaker 1: else is injured. I got an A grade on Earth
Speaker 1: in this one. James Conner, who managed to play last
Speaker 1: week but despite being questionable, still took the full workload.
Speaker 1: But he and he's playing a Panthers D got destroyed
Speaker 1: by chubbin hunting week one, but they held the last
Speaker 1: two backs to about eighty yards. Sadly, this kind of
Speaker 1: seems like Connor though he's had touches in the mid teens,
Speaker 1: like fifteen touches productive fifty seven yards, fifty five yards,
Speaker 1: fifty one twards. Maybe we're starting to see what James
Speaker 1: Connor is here. I'm giving him a C grade because
Speaker 1: he's gonna get the volume and it'll be fifty seventy
Speaker 1: eight yards on the other side of the ball with
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey not likely to miss. I actually I think
Speaker 1: he's out now. Maybe he's just still likely to miss
Speaker 1: at this point and he's doubtful. I have no starting
Speaker 1: grades for the Carol line of Panthers. Not. I can't
Speaker 1: blame you. Not. Why what about the squeaky wheel d J. Moore?
Speaker 1: Yeah that lost this week. Yeah, Baker Mayfield is is
Speaker 1: thrown basically two hundred yards a game. I'm not trusting
Speaker 1: that offense. He can't get it into d J. Moore,
Speaker 1: He's not getting into anyone. And as far as the
Speaker 1: run game with Foreman and Hubbard, the answer is no,
Speaker 1: it's just no. They're they're going to share the load
Speaker 1: against the Cards. D that hasn't allowed to runner over
Speaker 1: seventy yards. No, thanks, No, I don't blame you, Matt.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Jaguars and the Eagles. Jaguars offense
Speaker 1: has been a lot better than people expected, as has
Speaker 1: the play of Trevor Lawrence. Yes, I'm only going to
Speaker 1: give Lawrence to see this week actually though. Tough matchup,
Speaker 1: yeah it is. Lawrence is averaging thirty seven pass attempts
Speaker 1: per game. That's pretty good. The Eagles are seeing the
Speaker 1: second most pass attempts against them per game because they're
Speaker 1: staking giant leads. They have games yea, So the volume
Speaker 1: is probably going to be there for Lawrence this week.
Speaker 1: That's why he still gets a starting grade here. But
Speaker 1: the Eagles defense has just been solid. The best quarterback
Speaker 1: game they've seen against him this year was Jared Goffs
Speaker 1: two fifteen yards and two scores, and that was mostly
Speaker 1: garbage time fourth quarter heroic. It was Christian Kirk, also
Speaker 1: just a C grade. Top targeted wide receivers against the
Speaker 1: Eagles have seen twelve, twelve and ten targets. They've only
Speaker 1: emerged with sixty four and forty eight yards, though, and
Speaker 1: that's because Avonte Maddox has been He's been awesome. He's
Speaker 1: the Eagle slot corner who will go against Kirk. I
Speaker 1: think is out for this one. That would be good news.
Speaker 1: I think I think he's dinged up, but it sounds
Speaker 1: like he's gonna play. He's got a sore ankle, but
Speaker 1: they think he's going, Oh wow, all right, well that's
Speaker 1: all let's crump crumple this all up and throw it
Speaker 1: all away. Z Jones He's been limited this week with
Speaker 1: an ankle injury. He's expected to go. Maybe Christian Kirk's
Speaker 1: up to a B. But Za Jones and Marvin Jones
Speaker 1: are on the bench. James Robinson gets a B grade.
Speaker 1: Travis E t N is on the bench. But if
Speaker 1: there were D grades, I don't know. Can we get
Speaker 1: those this week? Too? You have? Let's we got the
Speaker 1: we got the plus minus. Let's work on. I'm pressing.
Speaker 1: Travis d t n uh is a D grade. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Eagles have allowed four ground touchdowns to running back
Speaker 1: so far this year. That's all the James Robinson angle.
Speaker 1: But the angle for e. T N is that the
Speaker 1: way to beat the Eagles defense might be in the
Speaker 1: screen game. Four different running backs have cut three or
Speaker 1: more passes in the first three games. E t N
Speaker 1: is more involved there than Robinson, hence the imaginary D grade.
Speaker 1: On the other side, Jalen Hurts gets an A. A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown gets an A. DeVonta Smith gets an A. The
Speaker 1: Jags are allowing one sixty three yards and almost two
Speaker 1: scores per game to the wide receiver position. Most of
Speaker 1: that damage was done by Washington in Week one, but
Speaker 1: backup level players Ashton Doolan, Josh Palmer, Jalen Guiton all
Speaker 1: had nice days against Jacksonville. Dallas got he's getting a
Speaker 1: C grade. He's only seeing just over that's it. He's
Speaker 1: only seeing just over four targets per game on the
Speaker 1: young season, but does have at least three catches in
Speaker 1: every game, at least sixty yards or a touchdown in
Speaker 1: every game. But Jacksonville has been really good against the
Speaker 1: tight end. They haven't faced anything scarier than Gerald Everett yet,
Speaker 1: but still they've only allowed an average of three catches
Speaker 1: for thirty eight yards to the position. I got it
Speaker 1: to me, it just is every week like averaging four targets.
Speaker 1: That's not enough to be sustainable at the tight end position.
Speaker 1: Charge I think it is for him in that uh
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders, I'm giving him a C grade. He's getting
Speaker 1: most of the work. It's almost all on the ground,
Speaker 1: averaging fifteen carries in seventy four yards by land. The
Speaker 1: Jags have been stout against runners, allowing only three point
Speaker 1: six yards per carry this year. Sixth best so far,
Speaker 1: and they've faced good backs to Jonathan Taylor, Austin Ekeler,
Speaker 1: and Antonio Gibson, so this isn't a fluke that their
Speaker 1: defense is pretty good, but they are beatable through the air,
Speaker 1: which charge mentioned and and that's why Kenny Gainwell was
Speaker 1: just take a chance in the runner. Yes it was.
Speaker 1: Final matchup of this segment is the Chiefs taking on
Speaker 1: the Bucks. Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey obvious eight grades.
Speaker 1: The only other guy you want to start here is
Speaker 1: Juju smith Schuster, the only quasi reliable target for Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes outside of Travis Kelsey. Smith Schuster has commanded eight
Speaker 1: targets twice in the three games. He's coming off his
Speaker 1: best yardage output as a Chief, and Tampa Bay's defense
Speaker 1: very good, but he'll run against cornerback Jamal Dean fairly often.
Speaker 1: He's allowed to scores last week. So we'll try Juju
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster with the sea grade. Nobody else gets a
Speaker 1: gets a startable grade, including Clyde Edwards Hilaire top ten
Speaker 1: fantasy running back on your bench this week. He's barely
Speaker 1: seeing eleven touches per game, thirty five among running backs
Speaker 1: and he's gonna need a fluke scoring play, which is
Speaker 1: not his bag. People should be picking up McKinnon in
Speaker 1: particco they might want to. McKinnon has led the team
Speaker 1: in snaps running back snaps three straight weeks and make
Speaker 1: you guys already know Tampa Bay's run defense is awesome.
Speaker 1: I don't need to spend a lot of time on it.
Speaker 1: Allowing the second fewest total yards to opposing running backs,
Speaker 1: they haven't given up a touchdown. Brutal matchup for a
Speaker 1: guy who doesn't touch the ball enough. Clyde Edwards a
Speaker 1: layer on the bench. Let's go to the buck side.
Speaker 1: Mike Evans comes back and he's fully healthy, which I
Speaker 1: love this week that week off that gives him what
Speaker 1: I hope is a d percent health. The Chiefs have
Speaker 1: been average against opposing receivers thus far, but they got
Speaker 1: torched for eight catches, hundred thirteen yards and one touchdown
Speaker 1: by the similarly big body Mike Williams two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: On the outside, cornerback Rashad Fenton has allowed at least
Speaker 1: forty yards and a one hundred passer rating in every
Speaker 1: game this year. And then on the other side, Mike
Speaker 1: Evans is gonna go up against rookie cornerback Jalen Watson.
Speaker 1: They're both sizeable mismatches. A grade on Mike Evans, get
Speaker 1: him back in your lineups. And the other receivers Chris Godwin,
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, their game time decisions. I can't trust them
Speaker 1: until they've proven to come back healthy and stay the
Speaker 1: and productive they are on the bench. Tom Brady Clarkson
Speaker 1: with the C grade here, just the one receiving target
Speaker 1: of Mike Evans. So and he's just got two touchdowns
Speaker 1: in three games. That's not good enough. A rebound possible
Speaker 1: here against this rebuilt Chief secondary. Chiefs have exactly one
Speaker 1: reliable cornerback, Lagarius Sneed, and even he's getting burned from
Speaker 1: time to time. So yeah, just the C grade on
Speaker 1: Tom on Tom Brady C grade on Leo. Four nette
Speaker 1: for net has been held under three yards per carrying
Speaker 1: back to back weeks, and the Chiefs have been stingy
Speaker 1: on the ground, giving up only three point four yards
Speaker 1: per carry. That's the fourth lowest rate, and they've given
Speaker 1: up just the one rushing touchdown so far. And for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, they're not throwing a four nette this year,
Speaker 1: and they've also talked about just this week getting more involved.
Speaker 1: So I can I can only give Leo Fournett a
Speaker 1: C grade and hope that he gets to be more
Speaker 1: productive here running behind that that all banged up offensive
Speaker 1: line for Tampa Bay. But can't count on it. C
Speaker 1: grade Leonard Fournette. When we come back, we'll jump into
Speaker 1: the my machine. Give you three players you pick up
Speaker 1: this week that everybody will be trying to pick up
Speaker 1: next week. It's premature speculation. In the final segment of
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly, Final segment Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchy
Speaker 1: and Scott Fish and Matt Harrison with you. This is
Speaker 1: a segment we like to call premature speculation. We give
Speaker 1: you three players you should pick up this week that
Speaker 1: everybody else will be trying to pick up next week.
Speaker 1: But ha ha, I'm already on your team. There's the
Speaker 1: mic again. Uh. We just talked about him. He was
Speaker 1: one of my sleepers during the off season shows, the
Speaker 1: preseason shows. Rashad White. The Bucks want to get him
Speaker 1: more involved. He's the only other running back for the
Speaker 1: Bucks who have even taken a snap this year. Um,
Speaker 1: he's a pass catching back. Hot forty three balls his
Speaker 1: final year of college the and Lee Leonard four Nette
Speaker 1: as you just mentioned, hasn't been super productive or effective.
Speaker 1: I think if he plays Sunday night in the lights
Speaker 1: of Sunday night football, the national audience is going to
Speaker 1: see him. If they do get him more involved and
Speaker 1: he starts to be a ten touch guy, you're gonna
Speaker 1: want him on your roster. Get him, Matt who is
Speaker 1: your premature speculation player. This one might be a little
Speaker 1: out there, but Malik Willis. If the Titans fall to
Speaker 1: the Colts this week, they'll be one in three. The
Speaker 1: team with the that was the a f C Number
Speaker 1: one seed last year, we'll be down to one in three.
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill's averaging only two fifteen yards, one touchdown, one
Speaker 1: pick per game. He's really turned into a caretaker quarterback
Speaker 1: on a team whose best weapon in Derrick Henry is
Speaker 1: aging before our eyes like the dude in Indiana Jones
Speaker 1: the last Crusade. No no, wait, was is the guy
Speaker 1: who had his face melted off? No? No, no, he
Speaker 1: was the guy who took took the drink from the
Speaker 1: wrong cup and he aged like a hundred years in
Speaker 1: like ten seconds. Um. The offense is gonna need a
Speaker 1: spark soon or they will not be contenders in the
Speaker 1: a f C South. The Titans have a Week five
Speaker 1: matchup against the Commanders, which is favorable, and then a
Speaker 1: week six by So if you're gonna try out a rookie,
Speaker 1: maybe you throw him in the soft matchup in Washington
Speaker 1: and have have a week to play around over the
Speaker 1: bye week to tweak the offense, or you tweak the
Speaker 1: offense in the bye week. So I think Ryan Tannehill
Speaker 1: could be on a shorter leash than we think. It
Speaker 1: might be one or two more games for him. You know,
Speaker 1: that's kind of brilliant. I like where you're going with that.
Speaker 1: And if you're gonna, if you're gonna roster a backup quarterback,
Speaker 1: I want him to be a rushing quarterback because in
Speaker 1: that same mold was a little interesting. I think that
Speaker 1: probably makes sense, alright. My my premature speculation player is
Speaker 1: Indianapolis wide receiver Alec Pierce. Is there any doubt that
Speaker 1: rookie receivers can be productive early? When we see what
Speaker 1: Krystal Lava and Garrett Wilson and Drake London and Romeo
Speaker 1: Dubbs and John Dotson have done. And now he's back
Speaker 1: to full health. The Colts desperately need a second receiver
Speaker 1: to step forward, and it's clearly not Paris Campbell at
Speaker 1: this point. As much as it breaks my heart, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what want to fund stat on Alec Pierce. He leads
Speaker 1: the team in reds on targets and he's played thirty
Speaker 1: two snaps. Wow not last week on the season. Oh
Speaker 1: that's not true. I just look. Oh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's right. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I looked up a snack cowt before the show and
Speaker 1: I thought at like forty last week, So I don't
Speaker 1: know about that either way. No, yeah, all right, that's okay, Alec.
Speaker 1: But we agree out. This is what we agree on,
Speaker 1: Alec Pierce, go pick him up now we think we
Speaker 1: think he's gonna Oh yeah he did, Yeah he got
Speaker 1: he got some snaps there we go. Okay, But he
Speaker 1: does leave the team and reds on targets. That is good.
Speaker 1: That's the important part. What do you think about? Just
Speaker 1: quick side note, what do you think about Johnny Woods
Speaker 1: is a pickup and dash? While we're talking about interesting?
Speaker 1: Interesting if he keeps that, if he keeps that role, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm interested in that though. All right, let's go. Let's
Speaker 1: go back to the matchups in our Flet's see I
Speaker 1: believe we left off on We're gonna go to Giant. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go to me for Bears Giants. But before that,
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you a prespect bonus. We saw
Speaker 1: what happened with the Bears with Khalil Herbert and Jamal Williams,
Speaker 1: with the Lions and maybe McCaffrey with Hubbard and and Foreman.
Speaker 1: Now is the time to get those were shod whites,
Speaker 1: those Justice Hills, those Jalen Warrens, those McKinnon's pachecos, Tyler lgs.
Speaker 1: Go get him now, just get him now, because you
Speaker 1: never Yeah, get all those before bye week's head and injuries. Head. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's go to the Bears Giants. On the Bears side,
Speaker 1: the whole passing game is on the bench. Not shockingly,
Speaker 1: they've completed just passing game anymore. Yeah, they've completed just
Speaker 1: twenty seven passes on the season. Not even a good
Speaker 1: matchup against the Giants stee allowing two nine yards and
Speaker 1: one point three touchdowns per game. The targets, receptions, and
Speaker 1: especially touchdowns aren't even concentrated they're going to like touchdowns
Speaker 1: to e q st Brown and Dr Pettis Like that
Speaker 1: doesn't help, It helps no one. I dropped Darnell Mooney
Speaker 1: outright in an in an empire. I dropped Cole Comet
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. I wish I had listened
Speaker 1: to Matt in the preseason. I was dead wrong. That
Speaker 1: was dead right on that one. Uh, Khalil Herbert is
Speaker 1: getting in a grade. It's it's Herbie fully loaded or groundbar,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call in last week he came in,
Speaker 1: had a better Fantasy day than David Montgomery did in
Speaker 1: his entire career to this point. It wasn't even a
Speaker 1: full game Herbert. Last week the Cowboys duo destroyed the
Speaker 1: Giants to the tune of a hundred eighty yards and
Speaker 1: a score. In Week two, CMC had a hundred twenty
Speaker 1: eight yards. In Week one, Henry and Hilliard combined for
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty one yards and two scores. It's
Speaker 1: a good spot for Hilliard this week. Not a Killiard,
Speaker 1: not not Donard. It's it's Khalil Herbert. I don't even
Speaker 1: know why I said Hillier. Uh for the Giants. Oh,
Speaker 1: I know why because I was talking about the Titans. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for the Giants. The only starting grade I have is
Speaker 1: the A for State Kwon Barkley, whose worst game is
Speaker 1: like eighty eight yards is lost. Touchcount is eighteen plus yards.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I'm not even gonna go into that more.
Speaker 1: But in the past game I have him on the bench.
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones has been sub two hundred yards every week.
Speaker 1: He has just three touchdowns. You know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: talk myself into a C grade here on the on
Speaker 1: the passing way, you know I I should. They only
Speaker 1: have three week wide receivers going into this game. That's
Speaker 1: Richie James, h David Sills, and Daniel Bellinger. Richie James
Speaker 1: has been consistent with four to five catches in each game,
Speaker 1: thirty to fifty yards in each game. And now like
Speaker 1: Tony's out, Shepherd's out, there's gonna be volume who also
Speaker 1: is out. Chicago's one good cornerback Jalen Johnson for this game.
Speaker 1: That means it's Kendallville door is rank is cornerbacks seven
Speaker 1: and nine by Pro Football Focus. That's why I I
Speaker 1: think Richie James, I think his Sills are both startable
Speaker 1: in a pinch. I will not go there for Sills,
Speaker 1: but Richie James with his four to five should turn
Speaker 1: it to six to seven. Why are you throwing? You
Speaker 1: know every time I swear that is true, every time
Speaker 1: I go to the bar, I hear that noise over
Speaker 1: and over. Who throws a shoe? Honestly, Daniel Bellinger's interesting.
Speaker 1: I do have a bench grade on him, but he's
Speaker 1: finally started getting involved. You should keep an eye out there.
Speaker 1: That's it there, all right. Our next matchup and second
Speaker 1: to last, is the Patriots taking on the Packers. Matt Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mac Jones is out for this one, so we get
Speaker 1: Brian Hoyer. Last time Hoyer started a game was he
Speaker 1: ended up with one under in thirty yards and an interception.
Speaker 1: So all of the Patriots passing games on the back
Speaker 1: believe he's lost eleven straight starting. Yeah, don't you even
Speaker 1: think about starting any Patriots pass catchers. The running backs, however,
Speaker 1: Damien Harris and Romandre Stevenson each get a C grade.
Speaker 1: The Packers are giving up five point four yards per
Speaker 1: carry to opposing backs. That's fourth most in the league.
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick did coach a game in the last year
Speaker 1: where his healthy quarterback through three passes. That might be
Speaker 1: the recipe this week. Harris and Stevenson will each see
Speaker 1: double digit touches, and this one problem is they're splitting
Speaker 1: it almost evenly, and they're hovering right around sixty total
Speaker 1: yards per game. That's Sea level production. Even in a
Speaker 1: favorable matchup Aaron Jones and a J. Dillon on the
Speaker 1: other side, they get se grades as well for similar
Speaker 1: yet different reasons. Dylan is average, actually touching the ball
Speaker 1: about three times more per game, but Jones is averaging
Speaker 1: thirty more total yards. Dylan has been shockingly pedestrian. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Pats are tough on the run, allowing only sixty
Speaker 1: four yards on the ground to opposing backs. So we
Speaker 1: go to the passing game where Aaron Rodgers gets a
Speaker 1: B grade, Alan Lazard and Romeo Obs get a C grade.
Speaker 1: In this one, the Pats just gave up four touchdown
Speaker 1: passes to Lamar Jackson last week. Aaron Rodgers at home,
Speaker 1: we'll get at least two. They'll probably go to Lazard
Speaker 1: and Dabbs, or maybe it might take a chance on
Speaker 1: me Guy Robert Touny. In Lazard two games two touchdown
Speaker 1: passes or touchdown catches. He flexes into the slot on
Speaker 1: of his routes, where he'll face Miles Bryant, who has
Speaker 1: seen a passer rating of one thirty two in his
Speaker 1: slot coverage and game on. Dobbs caught a touchdown last week,
Speaker 1: and we saw his snap percentage skyrocket from thirty seven
Speaker 1: percent in week two nothing nine percent in week three.
Speaker 1: He is a starter. Now. Nothing brings like there's a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff about Aaron Rodgers and rookies lack of trust.
Speaker 1: Nothing brings trust like pulling down all eight of your
Speaker 1: target does. That does help a lot? So do you
Speaker 1: give me a letter grade on Romeo dubs see see
Speaker 1: grad rams take down the forty nine ers. Let's start
Speaker 1: on the ramside. Cooper cop obvious a look, But everybody else,
Speaker 1: all the other people you might start just get C
Speaker 1: grades here, including Matthew Stafford. Now the Niners rank number
Speaker 1: one in passing yards and passing touchdowns allowed, and granted
Speaker 1: they haven't faced any good passers, but still their ranked
Speaker 1: number one, so this is not gonna be an easy trip.
Speaker 1: They also have Pro Football focuses number one ranking in
Speaker 1: pass coverage, and their Nick Bosa lad pass rushes daunting
Speaker 1: as well, so I'm nervous about Stafford this week, so
Speaker 1: just the C grade, even though Cooper Cup is the
Speaker 1: A grade. Tyler Higbee comes out of the C grade.
Speaker 1: He hasn't scored yet, but he ranks top five in targets, receptions,
Speaker 1: and yards among tight ends. San Francisco is shut down
Speaker 1: the tight end position so far, allowing only twenty three
Speaker 1: yards and no touchdowns. That is fewest in the league.
Speaker 1: The number one there too. Um However, no loan tight
Speaker 1: end has been targeted more than twice in a single
Speaker 1: game against the forty nine, and Higbie should be getting five,
Speaker 1: six seven targets if everything continues to hold, so he's
Speaker 1: averaging eight. So Higby gets a C grade. Hopefully can
Speaker 1: get a little more done than anybody else has against
Speaker 1: San Francisco to this point. For the other receivers, Allen
Speaker 1: Robinson cannot be trusted, as outlined in three tough questions,
Speaker 1: do not start him, and especially not in this matchup,
Speaker 1: saying with Ben screw won. And then for the running backs,
Speaker 1: Darryl Henderson diminishing snaps and carries in every game so far.
Speaker 1: He is on the bench just four carries last week,
Speaker 1: cam Akers Sean McVeigh stubbornly sticking by acres. He got
Speaker 1: rewarded last week with a solid effort against a terrible
Speaker 1: Cardinals defense. A few teams have seen as has been
Speaker 1: as nasty against the run as the forty Niners. They're
Speaker 1: giving a fewer than three yards per carry this season,
Speaker 1: and only one running back in their last ten games
Speaker 1: his top fifty yards. That's how good the run defense
Speaker 1: is for the Niners. Cam Akers, I'm in back. I'm
Speaker 1: moving onto the bench. I had a great on him.
Speaker 1: I'm moving on to the bench. I have been to leak.
Speaker 1: He's on my bench and both I think that's a
Speaker 1: good call here. Let's go to San Francisco. Side um,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna begin with the running game. Jeff Wilson
Speaker 1: gets a B grade. Generally productive as the starter, but
Speaker 1: the Rams are profball focuses top run defense, allowing only
Speaker 1: three point six yards per carry no back his top
Speaker 1: sixty two yards, spearheaded by PFF's third and fourth ranked
Speaker 1: run stopping linebackers Ernest Jones and Bobby Wagner. Tough matchup,
Speaker 1: but Jeff Wilson averages one ten yards in games in
Speaker 1: which he gets fifteen or more carries, so hopefully you'll
Speaker 1: get a touchdown and get something close to that. We
Speaker 1: like that part. Deebo Samuel Obvious a Brandon ayouk in
Speaker 1: both his games. Jimmy Garoppolo has thrown Brandon ayous Way
Speaker 1: eight times in that volume. I think that should be
Speaker 1: enough to get it done. Against Jalen Ramsey, I think
Speaker 1: shadows ay in this game. I'll give him a B
Speaker 1: grade there. And the last guy that you want to
Speaker 1: know about it's George Kittle. He faced l A three
Speaker 1: times last year but only average twenty nine yards per game,
Speaker 1: but did score in two of those three. Will hope
Speaker 1: for the touchdown here. Graham's haven't allowed to tight end
Speaker 1: score though this year and the third fewest yards to position,
Speaker 1: so it is a tough matchup for George Kittle. Forty Niners.
Speaker 1: Jordan Mason another one to pick up. That is another
Speaker 1: one to pick up if you missed any part of
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Speaker 1: job today, Robbie for your help as well. We'll talk
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