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Speaker 1: Brian Johnson and Matt Harrison, Good morning guys. Hello, I'm
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Speaker 1: year coming up in six segments. We got plenty to
Speaker 1: get to. As always, will break down all the matchups,
Speaker 1: three hot questions, we'll have um the lightning round at
Speaker 1: the end, and of course take a chance on me
Speaker 1: the maybe we maybe. We just start with one quick
Speaker 1: note from Thursday's games. A lot of chief Owners are
Speaker 1: in a little bit of trouble. Patrick Mahomes just an
Speaker 1: okay game. Tyrek Hill didn't do much. Kelsey was modest. Um,
Speaker 1: so some Chiefs players unless you started Damian Williams. What
Speaker 1: about the Keenan Allen owners who are Keenan Allen owners.
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen owners are found themselves in a really tough
Speaker 1: spot um as we as we will frequently say after
Speaker 1: these Thursday games, if you find yourself on the wrong
Speaker 1: side of that, you might want to introduce a little
Speaker 1: risk reward in your lineup. Guys like Josh Allen and
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson that potentially can have really big or really
Speaker 1: bad games might be the right answer for you. And
Speaker 1: you also pair up the quarterback in the wide receiver
Speaker 1: to go double dip. You have tried to double dip.
Speaker 1: And again, if you know, if they hook up a
Speaker 1: couple of times, you've got a big game. But they
Speaker 1: don't hook up at all, maybe you end up losing.
Speaker 1: But if you're gonna lose anyway, why not. And regardless
Speaker 1: of who you played, if you played anyone in your
Speaker 1: flex spot from Thursday night, stop doing it. And if
Speaker 1: you have anyone in today's games in your flex spot,
Speaker 1: get him out. Speaking of which, there's games today. We
Speaker 1: got an afternoon game in an evening game today, So
Speaker 1: don't be caught. Go set your line up without a doubt.
Speaker 1: Let's jump right into the matchups, beginning with the Packers
Speaker 1: taking on the Bears. Brian disaster scenario for Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: In all of whatever ten years he's been at starting quarterback,
Speaker 1: I've ranked him every single week, He's never been ranked
Speaker 1: as low as I've got him this week at quarterback
Speaker 1: number two D one. And it's part in part because
Speaker 1: it's a great Bears team, but also in part because
Speaker 1: they're missing their starting two of their starting guard. Well wait,
Speaker 1: one starting guard and the right tackle and then the
Speaker 1: right tackles the guy who's gotta be uh. It's Brian Blaga.
Speaker 1: He's the guy in Khalil Mack. So that feels like
Speaker 1: a disaster scenario against the Bears to be missing too
Speaker 1: starting lineman. Yeah, I've certainly recommended starting other quarterbacks over
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers this week, this game, not on Saturday, by
Speaker 1: the way, but yeah, but uh, we'll start with Rogers.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a C for all the reasons
Speaker 1: you said and then some just look with the Bears
Speaker 1: into the Rams last week, that is a serious cause
Speaker 1: for concern. But Rodgers does have this going for him.
Speaker 1: One of three quarterbacks to throw with three touchdowns against
Speaker 1: the Bears this year. Tom Brady did it, and Brock
Speaker 1: Oswiler obviously did it as well. Um, they're very good,
Speaker 1: if not great, quarterbacks have thrown multiple touchdowns against the
Speaker 1: Bears as well, Russell Wilson, Kirk Cousins, Matt Stafford, and
Speaker 1: even Sam Bradford before he died. So I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: Rogers the sea. But yeah, you gotta be very worried
Speaker 1: and explore other options if you have it. But if
Speaker 1: you don't have a bench on him, yeah, I was
Speaker 1: borderline benching him, but it is let's move on. I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk. Well, what about Davante Adams then,
Speaker 1: so you know he's been he has been money in
Speaker 1: every situation. He's had a plethora of great number one
Speaker 1: cornerbacks that he's had to overcome, and he almost always does.
Speaker 1: Can we queue up the peacock from last year's Shells
Speaker 1: Brewery Show when I said Adams is a top ten
Speaker 1: wide receiver in twenty seventeen preseason last witness. I can't
Speaker 1: do that right off the top of it, like like
Speaker 1: an old man peacock, like packing and wheezing. But Adams
Speaker 1: is so money in the bank it's unreal. Matt's gonna
Speaker 1: put him as his number one wide receiver next year.
Speaker 1: He said he beat me to that. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: one game, Davante hadhams dat Adams has with less than
Speaker 1: ten Fantasy points this year, and that's in standard leaks.
Speaker 1: His worst game this year was eight catches for eighty
Speaker 1: one yards. Yeah, that is his worst game this season.
Speaker 1: I understand. What about the Bears, Well, he caught five
Speaker 1: for nine d in a touchdown in his last meeting
Speaker 1: with the Bears Week one. But I don't know I'm
Speaker 1: playing Davanta Adams. I'm gonna give him a very hard beat.
Speaker 1: He deserves an a. But for all the the reasons
Speaker 1: we said you gotta worry about the Packers, I'm giving
Speaker 1: Adams would be but the only format you're not starting
Speaker 1: him might be guillotine leaks. That's about it. But he's
Speaker 1: a solid b Randall Cobb on the bench. He did
Speaker 1: have nine for one forty two in Week one end
Speaker 1: a touchdown a week one against the Bears, but he's
Speaker 1: on the bench easily as is Jimmy Graham. Just two
Speaker 1: catches for eight yards in the Week one matchup. Chicago
Speaker 1: hasn't allowed a tight end touchdown since Week eight, and
Speaker 1: Nick O'Leary has the most yardage recorded by a single
Speaker 1: tight end against the Bears. You want to guess how
Speaker 1: many yards he had over under two a little higher
Speaker 1: forty nine yards. Yeah, So Jimmy Graham on the bench.
Speaker 1: Explore other options at tight end and Aaron Jones again,
Speaker 1: awful matchup for him as well. I'm gonna give him
Speaker 1: a c uh just because he's gonna get touches likely,
Speaker 1: But he's another guy that if you have other options,
Speaker 1: I would explore them willingly over the Bears. Treet Cohen
Speaker 1: canna give him a B. Double digit touchdowns and five
Speaker 1: straight and team highs and targets and catches over the
Speaker 1: last three weeks. And uh, I don't know why we
Speaker 1: didn't nickname him this earlier locally TC the Bear. It's
Speaker 1: not bad. It's not bad. Moving on, Doc good quicksip
Speaker 1: of because you're here in the middle of a five
Speaker 1: minute match. Is the sticky one man Jordan Howard Ce
Speaker 1: Packers just put starting defensive tackle Mike Daniels on i R.
Speaker 1: Opposing running backs were already averaging nearly five yards per
Speaker 1: carry against the Packers, so Howard is startable this week.
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson startable as well. Listen as questionable. It was
Speaker 1: a full participant Friday. Friday had a modest four for
Speaker 1: sixty one in the opener. That's probably his floor in
Speaker 1: this matchup. Is that secondary is absolutely decimated for Green Bay.
Speaker 1: And for that reason, I will give Taylor Gabriel a
Speaker 1: long shot. See at least seven targets in four straight games. Uh.
Speaker 1: He caught five passes in the Week one matchup, for
Speaker 1: what it's worth, so I'll give him a see. I'm
Speaker 1: benching Anthony Miller, though too much of a dart throw
Speaker 1: Trey Burt on the bench. He's been absolutely brutal. Just
Speaker 1: two catches and twenty yards per game are his averages
Speaker 1: over his last seven. So he's on the bench and
Speaker 1: Mitch Truebhisky gets a b uh. Green bands allowed multiple
Speaker 1: touchdowns and three of the last four games three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and two of those three Josh Rosen was the only
Speaker 1: one who failed to do so. He's failed to do
Speaker 1: anything this year, though, and Rubisky, always a threat with
Speaker 1: his legs, ran for a touchdown in the first meeting
Speaker 1: as well. I like, I like your whiskey. Now you've
Speaker 1: just uh, you've just said. We've been doing this twenty
Speaker 1: four years. In the twenty four year history of this show,
Speaker 1: we've never had somebody do such a long rambling matchup
Speaker 1: that they actually dehydrated on the air. And all time
Speaker 1: first set by Brian Johnson, I've heard much longer rambles
Speaker 1: on this show. Trusting Dallas taking on Indianapolis Matt uh
Speaker 1: Dallas and Marie Cooper Dak Prescott about as hot as
Speaker 1: any tandem in the NFL. But it's an indie secondary
Speaker 1: that's been shockingly good, albeit against bad opposition. What do
Speaker 1: you make of this one? Yeah, it's well. First off,
Speaker 1: it's worth note that All Pro guard Zack Martin will
Speaker 1: be out for this game. That's a big hit to
Speaker 1: the Dallas line. You know, Uh, I have Doc with
Speaker 1: a C grade. It's tough to bench a guy who
Speaker 1: just h torched his career high in passing yards by
Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty yards. But is that today? That's
Speaker 1: maybe all the more reason to to be cautious because
Speaker 1: it was such an anomaly, And to be fair, it
Speaker 1: was a five quarter game. Only one quarterback topped three
Speaker 1: hundred yards in the last eight games against the Colts,
Speaker 1: and we highlighted it last week. If Dac doesn't score
Speaker 1: on the ground, he's not a startable quarterback In most cases.
Speaker 1: The Colts haven't allowed a rushing touchdown to a quarterback
Speaker 1: in five games. They've allowed three on the air two
Speaker 1: of the three they did allow. We're a Derek Carr
Speaker 1: lean over the goal line and a Tom Brady lean
Speaker 1: over the goal line. So unless we're getting that, and
Speaker 1: I think that's when they handoff to Zeke, anyway, we're
Speaker 1: we're not played Doc, uh Cooper. I'm giving a B.
Speaker 1: He's been the best wide receiver in Fantasy over the
Speaker 1: last five weeks. He runs into a Cults secondary though
Speaker 1: that has an allow out a hundred yard receiver since
Speaker 1: Week four, and over the last month, the Colts are
Speaker 1: allowing an average of only ninety total yards to the
Speaker 1: position per game. Still so hot, I have to give
Speaker 1: him a B. Zeke's getting an A grade. He's averaging
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy two total yards over his last
Speaker 1: five games. He's awesome, Andrew luck Chart. Here we are again,
Speaker 1: here we are. What do you think Andrew lux great
Speaker 1: is this week? Um, I'm gonna guess you're gonna give
Speaker 1: him a C. I gave him an A. I'm giving
Speaker 1: I gave him an A grade last week, and you
Speaker 1: laughed at me for kind of the same reason. Charch
Speaker 1: scoffed at me. And he had two against a very
Speaker 1: good Texans defense in Indy. He's averaging nine yards per
Speaker 1: attempt in his last four home games. That's better, that's good. Uh.
Speaker 1: Dallas has given up multiple touchdown passes in four of
Speaker 1: their last six games, including three touchdown passes to Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz last week. So I like lux ability to throw
Speaker 1: the touchdown passes and get it going. Now. The problem
Speaker 1: is is e y. Hilton's in a little bit of
Speaker 1: a sticky situation here. If you take Hilton out of
Speaker 1: that offense, I like him a lot less luck a
Speaker 1: lot less. He hasn't practiced all week with an ankle
Speaker 1: injuries listed as a game time decision. If he plays,
Speaker 1: I'm giving him a B grade. Uh if he does go,
Speaker 1: Hilton's seen about of his targets from the slot this year,
Speaker 1: where the Cowboys have allowed seventy five plus yards or
Speaker 1: a touchdown in nine of their last eleven games. So
Speaker 1: if Hilton's in, I like Hilton. Eric Ebron's an easy A.
Speaker 1: Cowboys have allowed the second most catches in the eighth
Speaker 1: most yards to tight ends, and the running game Marlon
Speaker 1: Mack and company is on the bench. MATC had to
Speaker 1: touchdown last week, which kind of saved it. But sixty
Speaker 1: six total rushing yards from the running backs over their
Speaker 1: last two games, that's an average of thirty three per game.
Speaker 1: You can't start any of that against the good Dallas defense.
Speaker 1: Agree on all of that. Lions take on the Bills
Speaker 1: in a game in which there are virtually no starters.
Speaker 1: In fact, none of the Lions are startable this week.
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford Kenny Golladay are out on this one. They
Speaker 1: if bench grades they're playing, They're not out. They're playing.
Speaker 1: You might not know they're playing when you see the
Speaker 1: box score. Bill's debt past defense has been awesome all year. Quietly,
Speaker 1: the Bills allow the fewest fantasy points to opposing quarterbacks
Speaker 1: on the full season, and in the last month they
Speaker 1: ranked number one in fantasy points allowed. And here comes
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford with only one good receiver, Kenny Golladay, and
Speaker 1: who does he get Tradus White all game? Game over,
Speaker 1: it's over, it's done. You can't start. You can't start
Speaker 1: any of those guys. Uh. And so they're all out.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Stafford's other starting wide receiver, Bruce
Speaker 1: Ellington out with a hamstring. So it's just an utter
Speaker 1: disaster for the Lions offense right now. All the runners
Speaker 1: are out. Carrie On Johnson is ruled out of the
Speaker 1: game with his knee injuries. Zentner and Blunt are gonna
Speaker 1: split carries of notedges in that scenario either, So all
Speaker 1: the lines are on the bench. Let's talk Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: because this is fascinating. Your highest scoring fantasy quarterback over
Speaker 1: the last three weeks and it's not close. Is Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: He's the second leading rusher behind Akuon Barkley over the
Speaker 1: last three hundred thirty four rushing yards over the last
Speaker 1: three weeks since he returned from his elbow injury. Now
Speaker 1: that all sounds great until you realize the Lions have
Speaker 1: allowed the fewest rushing yards. Two quarterbacks. Get a load
Speaker 1: of this. Cam Newton mobile quarterback right two yards. I
Speaker 1: think that was pre snacks Harrison even too, I think
Speaker 1: that was Dak Prescott mobile quarterback right two yards. Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson fifteen yards, m R. Bisky eighteen yards. Listen, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of danger for if Josh Allen does not
Speaker 1: run like he has been running, and he may not
Speaker 1: against the Lions. Needs a hundred yards for him to
Speaker 1: be fantasy startable. I don't you need almost a hundred
Speaker 1: rushing yards. It's a little bit like Lamar Jackson. The
Speaker 1: numbers indicated, But those guys when we ran like two
Speaker 1: or three times each two, they weren't even attempting to
Speaker 1: run the ball against Detroit. So yeah, so there is
Speaker 1: that as well, and so they may not even try
Speaker 1: to run Josh Allen in this game now. They don't
Speaker 1: do a lot of design runs for Josh. Most of
Speaker 1: the yards he picks up are just him just doing
Speaker 1: improvisation behind the line of scrimmage. But he's not a
Speaker 1: gifted passer. He's completing only fifty of his throws. He's
Speaker 1: been held to zero or one touchdown pass in seven
Speaker 1: of his eight games. It's worth noting that Detroit plays
Speaker 1: a lot of zone coverage, so there might not be
Speaker 1: breakdowns for him to go through holes and run down
Speaker 1: the field either. So I'm nervous. I've gotta be great
Speaker 1: on Josh Allen out of respect for what he could
Speaker 1: do on the ground, But just know that I think
Speaker 1: this is the biggest high risk, high reward player on
Speaker 1: the entire slate this week. Josh Allen. The only other
Speaker 1: Bill I'm gonna mention is Robert Foster, a fast downfield
Speaker 1: threat who just needs one, really one deep reception to
Speaker 1: make an impact, but he's gonna see shadow coverage from
Speaker 1: Darius Slay. Slays sometimes great, but he also gives up
Speaker 1: a lot of big plays. He's given up six touchdowns
Speaker 1: in his coverage, which is a lot for anyone cornerback
Speaker 1: at this stage of the season. Um, so he could
Speaker 1: go any direction there. I've got to see great on
Speaker 1: Robert Foster, and the running backs are on the bench,
Speaker 1: neither McCoy or Ivor are healthy, and Snacks Harrison shuts
Speaker 1: down the run anyway. You don't see slay on Za No,
Speaker 1: because of the slot z's and I like slaves a
Speaker 1: though the slaves I think you wanted. When we come back,
Speaker 1: take a chance on me. Nine players not normally in
Speaker 1: your starting lineup, and yes, even in the Fantasy semi finals.
Speaker 1: These are guys that can help you tell you who
Speaker 1: they are when we come back. This is take a
Speaker 1: chance on me. Let me, let me try that again.
Speaker 1: It's a statement. This is take a chance on me.
Speaker 1: I'm Ron Burgundy. There's typing the question mark in the telepropter.
Speaker 1: Did you get see the stephen A. Smith Ron Burgundy
Speaker 1: match up? No? Oh god, it's brilliant. I would gonna
Speaker 1: Henry bit. I was gonna do my first matchup as
Speaker 1: stephen A. Smith. I'm banking on a big game from
Speaker 1: Bubba Franks week. That would have made if we would
Speaker 1: have had a Charger game today, you had to have
Speaker 1: done it right. But the Charger game already happened. If
Speaker 1: we would have, that would have been great. Marry and
Speaker 1: Potts is gonna have a big game. Natron means Natron
Speaker 1: means business. Let's go to uh, let's go to the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. Nine guys, well not nine quarterbacks, three quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: nine total players you can start in your lineup that
Speaker 1: you normally would not Brian, Who's our first contestant? I'm
Speaker 1: going with Nick Mullins at home against the Seahawks. In
Speaker 1: his five starts, Mullins is averaging more than two passing
Speaker 1: yards per game, which put some top five during that span.
Speaker 1: Before Kirk Cousins only threw one touchdown last week against Seattle,
Speaker 1: the Seahawks had conceded two passing touchdowns in six straight games,
Speaker 1: which included a two touchdown game from Mullins in Week thirteen,
Speaker 1: who also had four fourteen passing yards in that game.
Speaker 1: How worth noting. I'm not predicting four hundred in this one,
Speaker 1: but there are some injuries to Seattle secondary safety Bradley
Speaker 1: McDougald could be inactive after being added to the injury
Speaker 1: report late this week, and backup safety Maurice Alexander's out,
Speaker 1: so they could be thin there. So I'm like in Mullins,
Speaker 1: Nick Mollins, I've got Baker Mayfield for about the fifth
Speaker 1: time this year. It really doesn't qualify. H you can
Speaker 1: give me a anti peacock, maybe a sad trombone though,
Speaker 1: because he was might take a chance on me guy
Speaker 1: last week. Uh. He topped three hundred yards thrown for
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns in six of the last seven games except
Speaker 1: for last week, and he totally did not. Um. I'm
Speaker 1: going back to the well though. In the in their
Speaker 1: last six games, four quarterbacks have topped the three yard
Speaker 1: mark and four quarterbacks have had multiple scores against the Broncos.
Speaker 1: And over the last five weeks, in fact, the Broncos
Speaker 1: have allowed the most passing yards in the league, and
Speaker 1: that includes games against the aforementioned. Nick Mullins and Jeff
Speaker 1: Driskell Um mentioned this about your your selection of Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1: Last week. He threw four in completions for the whole game.
Speaker 1: He actually had a really good game. It's not a
Speaker 1: fantasy and fantasy. He had a good start to the
Speaker 1: game and it just like dried up. Now here's a
Speaker 1: real take a chance and he played Derek Carr with
Speaker 1: back to back strong fantasy games and a potential cupcake
Speaker 1: on the schedule. He's throwing five touchdowns over the last
Speaker 1: two weeks. The Bengal secondary without Drake Kirkpatrick Tony McCrae
Speaker 1: last week. They may both be missing this week as well.
Speaker 1: Even though the Bengals shocked me by containing Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: somewhat last week, they're only two games removed from getting
Speaker 1: destroyed by Baker Mayfield and then Drew Breese a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks before that. Needless to say, starting any Raider
Speaker 1: comes with a certain amount of danger. But Derek Carr
Speaker 1: things are lining up for him. The Raiders are actually
Speaker 1: playing competent quasi competent football right now. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the running back position, Brian, they're going to raise a
Speaker 1: banner next year in the stadium saying they played That's
Speaker 1: right what stadium? Which good point? What we're doing running back?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Elijah McGuire at home against the Texans today,
Speaker 1: so you better add him if you can. Uh. He's
Speaker 1: probably not available in a ton of leagues, but Isaiah
Speaker 1: crow Well is no more. Uh. McGuire stepped in last
Speaker 1: week and logged eight plus combo yards in the game,
Speaker 1: winning touchdown and a tough matchup against the Bills. This
Speaker 1: is a tough matchup on paper as well. On the
Speaker 1: ground at least, UH Texans are allowing less than four
Speaker 1: yards per carry, but they have allowed four rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: running backs over the last four weeks, and they do
Speaker 1: allow the tenth most catches of running backs nearly six
Speaker 1: per game. And McGuire is a able receiver. Able, I'd
Speaker 1: leave it at able. I've got t J. Yeldon against
Speaker 1: Washington team. Washington is on their fourth string quarterback, a
Speaker 1: guy who hasn't started a game in seven years, the
Speaker 1: longest span since Doug Flutie came back to the league. UH.
Speaker 1: Their line is toast, their defense has been brutal, and
Speaker 1: they just gave up forty points of the Giants last week.
Speaker 1: So the game script favors the Jags jumping out to
Speaker 1: a lead, and even if they don't spell for net
Speaker 1: Yellen could play in the passing game pretty well. Washington's
Speaker 1: allowed receiving yardage days of one oh, two, sixty and
Speaker 1: seventy three two running backs this year. Two of those
Speaker 1: were Chuck Quiz Rogers and Tevin Coleman. And if this
Speaker 1: game is tight, Yeldon could be involved in that passing
Speaker 1: game too. He's had eight targets and seven catches just
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, so I think that he'll be involved.
Speaker 1: I love Kenneth Dixon this week. I believe he's right
Speaker 1: around running back twenty seven for me by the and
Speaker 1: dirt cheap on Van ball Head coach John Harbaugh at
Speaker 1: the end of last week's game said, we gotta get
Speaker 1: we gotta have an expanded role for Kenneth Dixon. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if he starts the game over Gus Edwards,
Speaker 1: but I think we could be coming to that. Dixon
Speaker 1: has scored in back to back games since coming half off.
Speaker 1: I R and he gets Tampa Bay, the team allowing
Speaker 1: the second most rushing touchdowns, and Guest Edwards does not
Speaker 1: catch at all. Kenneth Dixon does Tampa bottom five against
Speaker 1: running back receptions dead la Auston running back receiving touchdowns.
Speaker 1: A great opportunity for Kenneth Dixon in this game. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the wide receiver position. Brian all Right, this
Speaker 1: could be a guy for those Keenan Allen owners who
Speaker 1: are hurting. I'm going Dublin down on the Jets. Robbie
Speaker 1: Anderson today baby uh Sam Donalds had eyes for Anderson
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. He leads the team in targets
Speaker 1: and air yards nearly two hundred air yards this week,
Speaker 1: and burner receivers have had success against the Texans. T
Speaker 1: Y Hilton, Corey Davis, Antonio Callaway, something called Zach Pascal,
Speaker 1: Rochard Higgins all scored touchdowns in recent weeks. In the
Speaker 1: last two weeks the Texans. The Texans steps surrendered a
Speaker 1: career or league high thirteen completions of twenty plus yards.
Speaker 1: So this is a boomer Bus play. He could wet
Speaker 1: the bed, or he could pile up the points as
Speaker 1: if he were striping drives at Top Golf in Brooklyn Center,
Speaker 1: my favorite place on Earth. I'm going back to the
Speaker 1: Jaguar as well as as well. D D Westbrook against Washington.
Speaker 1: Westbrook is the slot and possession receiver in an offense
Speaker 1: that has a quarterback that does not throw downfield. That's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons he saw ten targets, seven catches
Speaker 1: and eight eight yards last week against Tennessee and garbage time.
Speaker 1: He did score in that game as well. Working from
Speaker 1: the slot has worked well against Washington as a recent sterling.
Speaker 1: Shepherd scored last week. Golden Tate had seventy five in
Speaker 1: a touch in week thirteen. Kiki cut at seventy seven
Speaker 1: yards two weeks prior to that, so good little matchup
Speaker 1: for deed. Are you dehydrated after that lengthy d D Westbrook?
Speaker 1: Right up? Wasn't that? Wasn't that bad? Come on? Curtis
Speaker 1: Samuel's usage has exploded in the last two games nineteen
Speaker 1: targets and that's resulted in two solid games for Curtis
Speaker 1: Samuel eighty eight and eighty yards operating from the slot.
Speaker 1: You'll match up against the Saints weakest cornerback P. J. Williams,
Speaker 1: who is allowing a passer rating of one hundred twenty
Speaker 1: five in his coverage. Curtis Samuel, excellent play, Kurt Sam,
Speaker 1: Kurt Sam, you get a great opportunity to go with
Speaker 1: the d D hydrated their d D hydrated. That would
Speaker 1: have been good. Um, let's talk Cardinals, Falcons, Lion. I
Speaker 1: think David Johnson is an absolute lock here. Falcons give
Speaker 1: up the most receptions to do you know why he's
Speaker 1: such a lock? Church? Yeah, all right, No greater gift
Speaker 1: for running back then facing the Falcons on your birthday,
Speaker 1: especially a pass catching back. So there was injury concerns
Speaker 1: with dj ear in the week. He fully practiced Friday.
Speaker 1: He's good to go. He's a gay grade play without
Speaker 1: a doubt. I can give Larry Fitzgerald to B as well.
Speaker 1: He has four touchdowns over his last seven games. Uh
Speaker 1: No scored four and four of his last seven five
Speaker 1: total touchdowns during that span. It's the only top fifty
Speaker 1: five yards twice. Yeah, that's the He's two catches and
Speaker 1: a touchdown in most games. Three catches and he's the
Speaker 1: Cameron Breights of wide receivers. He has a plus match
Speaker 1: up with Brian Pool though, the Atlanti slot corner who
Speaker 1: conceded a big game to Randall Cobb last week, so
Speaker 1: there is a fits is viable this week. I'll give
Speaker 1: him a B. Trent Sutfield not some people think he
Speaker 1: could be I could take a chance to me type
Speaker 1: play air. He led the team in receiving yards last week,
Speaker 1: but I'll see plenty of Desmond Trudfont running majority of
Speaker 1: these routes on the right side. So he's on the
Speaker 1: bench as his Ricky Seals Jones. I'm done with him.
Speaker 1: Has totaled just five catches in his last three games.
Speaker 1: He's on the bench, as is Josh Rosen, obviously going
Speaker 1: over to the Falcons. Let's start with the running backs.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lead off with Edo Smith because he's outtouched
Speaker 1: Tevin Coleman better than I have him ranked higher than
Speaker 1: Tevin Coleman. But there I'll give him both the seed
Speaker 1: just for the fact that Arizona is conceding more than
Speaker 1: thirty three touches and a hundred seventy combo yards per
Speaker 1: game to running backs. I'm forced to start Tevin Coleman
Speaker 1: in one league if you have to, I can't fault you,
Speaker 1: but you gotta be a little worried about that. But
Speaker 1: they both get to see Julio Jones gets an a
Speaker 1: regardless of the Pat Pete shadowing. I don't care you're
Speaker 1: playing Julio this week, but if Pat Pete shadows Julio,
Speaker 1: that could put Calvin Ridley in a very big spot
Speaker 1: and then give him a b uh. Ridley should see
Speaker 1: a ton of David Anderson, who is sitting on his
Speaker 1: couch until about mid November when he was signed by Arizona.
Speaker 1: So love and Ridley here and I'll give Mohammed Sanow
Speaker 1: a soft sea and PPR very very safe floor. Ten
Speaker 1: points in PPR not a very high ceiling. He's top
Speaker 1: four catches just three times this season. Buddha Baker is
Speaker 1: playing hurt hasn't been as effective. So you can use
Speaker 1: Snow in a pinch, I wouldn't you can, I said, so,
Speaker 1: I would okay in a pinch, but Snow could see
Speaker 1: more targets. Because I do not like Austin Hooper, I
Speaker 1: have him on the bench this week. He's very iffy
Speaker 1: with a knee injury already and only four tight ends
Speaker 1: I've hit the fifty yard mark against Arizona this year,
Speaker 1: Actually only three tight ends did it because George Kittle
Speaker 1: did it twice and Austin Hooper is not George Kittle.
Speaker 1: So I got Hooper on the bench. I'm gonna exploring
Speaker 1: other options there and Matt Ryan and give him a
Speaker 1: b uh. Teams aren't forced to throw on Arizona their
Speaker 1: bottom five and opponent pass pttempts per game. But you
Speaker 1: gotta love Ryan at home, where he's averaging over three
Speaker 1: fifteen yards and two touchdowns per game. Be based on volume. Um,
Speaker 1: I've got him at a quasi bench grade. We'll find out.
Speaker 1: This is based on the volume, is based on everything.
Speaker 1: A game script, that's all. It should be a lot
Speaker 1: of running, Patrick Peterson, I like pudde Baker more than
Speaker 1: you do. We'll see I'm nervous about Matt Ryan in
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Speaker 1: takes on Denver. Matt and you already said you like
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. Does you take a chance on the quarterback?
Speaker 1: Quasi take a chance? I mean quarterback? And he's little
Speaker 1: too good for that. But I love Jarvis Landry in
Speaker 1: this matchup. Talk to me about him. I gave him
Speaker 1: a B grade. What my number ten wide receiver this week? Well,
Speaker 1: maybe there's not that many good wide receivers this week chart. Actually,
Speaker 1: that is kind of true. Landry bounce back with his
Speaker 1: first touchdown in six games last week against the Panthers
Speaker 1: only gets the B here because I'm worried that his
Speaker 1: target total has just been awful over the last five
Speaker 1: weeks four, nine, five, five, and seven. While he had
Speaker 1: double he had double digit targets and eight games. Dr
Speaker 1: John Ross about an awful target target total dropped significantly
Speaker 1: charged It's it's bad for Jarvis Landry. He faces backup
Speaker 1: slot corner Justin Simmons, who gives up a passer rating
Speaker 1: of one hundred six and a catch rate of eight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the Brits are allowing almost two hundred yards per
Speaker 1: game to the wide receiver position. Landwards a C grade
Speaker 1: as of like two or three weeks ago. I'm giving
Speaker 1: him a B. I think that's generous. He hasn't got
Speaker 1: the target total. Not seeing this correctly four targets last week,
Speaker 1: Charch loud noises for David and Joko Uh. I'm giving
Speaker 1: him a C grade even though I don't like it
Speaker 1: at all. Last week, the Broncos almost allowed a single
Speaker 1: game record for tight end yards to George Kittle. They
Speaker 1: should have Uh, in joke, who has been a constant
Speaker 1: disappointment this season though you've never been able to play
Speaker 1: him in the right spot. He goes off in the
Speaker 1: games he shouldn't. He doesn't score in the games that
Speaker 1: he should That's an understatement. How many games you've gone
Speaker 1: often too? Yeah, that's about it. Uh, Nick Chubb, I'm
Speaker 1: giving him a B grade. Broncos are middle of the
Speaker 1: pack matchup, although they have not a lot of running
Speaker 1: back rushing touchdown in seven straight games. However, Chubb has
Speaker 1: scored in six of the seven games since Carlos Hyde
Speaker 1: was traded, so something's got to give there. I think
Speaker 1: Chubb gets a touchdown over on the other side, there's
Speaker 1: one starter, and it's Philip Lindsay. I gave him an
Speaker 1: A grade, but I'm nervous about two things. First, he
Speaker 1: was bottled up last week. Uh. That was the first
Speaker 1: week Emmanuel Sanders was gone for the offense. He only
Speaker 1: had fourteen carries for thirty yards. Did get a touchdown
Speaker 1: against the not great San Fran run defense. And Second,
Speaker 1: while Cleveland has been bad against the run overall on
Speaker 1: the season, they've been a bit better lately. McCaffrey did
Speaker 1: score twice. Last week it was held to sixty three
Speaker 1: yards on sixteen carries, and the prior couple of weeks
Speaker 1: they didn't give up a touchdown to mix in the
Speaker 1: land of backer Lamar Miller. So he's still in a grade.
Speaker 1: But I can see a path where it's not an
Speaker 1: a quality uh stat line that he puts out case
Speaker 1: Keenum in the passing game is all on the bench
Speaker 1: though Keenom has been held under two hundred yards in
Speaker 1: three straight weeks. The Browns give up a lot of yards,
Speaker 1: but they're tied for the seventh fewest passing scores allowed,
Speaker 1: and Brown's corner T. J. Kerry will be covering Sutton.
Speaker 1: He's yet to allow a score in his coverage all year.
Speaker 1: So uh, Courtland Sutton and day Shawn Hamilton's are both
Speaker 1: on the bench. Vikings play play the Dolphins and plenty
Speaker 1: of moving parts with the Vikings because we have a
Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator who's never called a play ever. And no,
Speaker 1: he has the Pro Bowl last year. Oh alright, I'll
Speaker 1: take that left, okay, And then he was in the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl Pro Bowl o C where they let the
Speaker 1: fans like vote the play. I'm pretty sure they should.
Speaker 1: I think they do that. But I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: You want to make the Pro Bowl a lot more interesting,
Speaker 1: Let the fans call all the offensive plays. They've done
Speaker 1: the fun, they've done a thing where you like tweet
Speaker 1: the play. I think they should. You know, it should
Speaker 1: be a Madden. They should build a Madden like in
Speaker 1: her face where we've all got you know, all this
Speaker 1: fans have got five six, seven seconds. You know, if
Speaker 1: there are play ends to call the next play and
Speaker 1: that's what they're running. You want to get people watching
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl that doing a second. Anyway, start with
Speaker 1: the passing game for the Vikings. I like Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: at a B level here, uh now. Granted, over the
Speaker 1: past two games, Kirk is posted just two D one
Speaker 1: and two hundred eight yards UM, and a lot of
Speaker 1: those yards came in garbage time. Fortunately, Miami secondary suffering
Speaker 1: with injuries Xavien Howard out and all probability, and that
Speaker 1: does give some hope here. And if you subtract out
Speaker 1: a Sam Donald game over the past two months, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are giving up three passing touchdowns per game and
Speaker 1: two D seventy one yards. So are they cut Cousins bounces?
Speaker 1: Bounces back nicely here in part because the help that
Speaker 1: he gets from Adam thieland with an A grade, Stefan
Speaker 1: Diggs will will have a lot of successes well, in fact,
Speaker 1: also have an A grade. In fact, let me start
Speaker 1: with Stefan Diggs with an A grade here because Xavian
Speaker 1: Howard is out. Um, this is a great opportunity. He'll
Speaker 1: go up again Tory mctire, who really should be Tori Retire. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Savage burn. He got hammered by Tom Brady last week
Speaker 1: and on the season. Tory mctire giving up a passer
Speaker 1: rating of one four. We're getting closing in on perfect
Speaker 1: passer rating in his coverage. Stefon Diggs A grade, theeling
Speaker 1: A grade. He goes up against slack corner Bobby McCain,
Speaker 1: who's given up a touchdown in three of the past
Speaker 1: four games. I think the bouncebacks coming for Kirk in
Speaker 1: his passing game. How about treadless mctire. I kind of
Speaker 1: like that. I like Tori Retire quite a bit though. Um.
Speaker 1: Kyle Rudolph, I know he's been the forgotten man in
Speaker 1: the Vikings offense, but maybe that change is here with
Speaker 1: the jainted offensive coordinator and a struggling Dolphins team team
Speaker 1: against tight ends, They've allowed the most tight end scores
Speaker 1: this year, including four in the last three weeks. They've
Speaker 1: allowed three multiple touchdown games to a tight end this year.
Speaker 1: Kyle Rudolph c Grade and then finally Dalvin co. His
Speaker 1: thirteen rushing attempts against Seattle were his most since Week one,
Speaker 1: which is depressing. Cook should get volume against a Dolphins team.
Speaker 1: They're giving up twenty five rushing attempts per game one
Speaker 1: yards per game to opposing running backs. Again, We're not
Speaker 1: sure how Kevin Stefanski will use him, but it's probably
Speaker 1: more than the usage was getting under John d Filippo.
Speaker 1: On the Miami side, everybody's on the bench. In the
Speaker 1: Dolphins five game road losing streak, they're scoring an average
Speaker 1: of sixteen points, and the Vikings are the toughest defense
Speaker 1: out of that group by a lot. In the passing game,
Speaker 1: the Vikings pass defense has been terrific against against far
Speaker 1: better quarterbacks than Ryan Tannehill. The only receiver you might
Speaker 1: be tempted to start as Kenny Stills, but he's gonna
Speaker 1: get Xavier Roads all games, so I think he's dead
Speaker 1: to us anyway. Kenyan Drake and Frank Gore are both
Speaker 1: on the bench. Drake is scoring some touchdowns, um, but
Speaker 1: he's only averaging nine touches per game. For whatever reason,
Speaker 1: they won't play him, and so at nine touches per game,
Speaker 1: you can't start him, not against the Vikings. Frank Gore
Speaker 1: is still looking for his first rushing touchdown and if
Speaker 1: Kings are unlikely to give it up there on the
Speaker 1: bench as well. I don't know if you can count
Speaker 1: miracle touchdowns either players. Well, they score, but you can't
Speaker 1: really bank on one happening. If it happens in back
Speaker 1: to back games, how much of a miracle is it really.
Speaker 1: Texans take on the Jets. That is a game for today.
Speaker 1: Be sure you set your lineups on that the early game.
Speaker 1: It is the early one which starts it I think
Speaker 1: three or something, and we highlighted the Cleveland Denver game.
Speaker 1: That's also the Saturday games. That is the Saturday night game.
Speaker 1: Don't put any of these players in your flex Yeah, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you probably don't want hammering that home today. That's fine.
Speaker 1: Texans take on the Jets of Brian What are your
Speaker 1: thoughts on Lamar Miller? I think this could be a
Speaker 1: fantastic game for a player who has been very good
Speaker 1: for a couple of months. You want my overall thoughts
Speaker 1: on Lamar Mill, I really don't, because I remember how
Speaker 1: much you loved him last year. I remember how much
Speaker 1: you loved Monty Ball a couple of years before. Okay,
Speaker 1: but anyway, that was not a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: That was a couple of years before, years ago, a
Speaker 1: couple of years before that. Yes, and it's years ago,
Speaker 1: Monty Ball your number one running what's really number one?
Speaker 1: It was a bad call that officially neutralizes my say,
Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley number two this year. That's the ace up
Speaker 1: my sleeve when it comes to Lamar Miller. And anyway,
Speaker 1: today's game, I'm giving him a B and I hear
Speaker 1: I'm praising Lamar Miller and you got to pull out
Speaker 1: the Monty ballgard. Well, what is this with this latent hostility?
Speaker 1: You know it's week fifteen. You know you praised him
Speaker 1: today and nice and overall. Then you took the first stab.
Speaker 1: You took the first step. Okay, let's get along. B
Speaker 1: Over the last four games, the Jets are allowing a
Speaker 1: hundred three plus rushing yards and five rushing touchdowns have
Speaker 1: allowed that two opposing running backs. Miller is a lock
Speaker 1: for eighteen to twenty touches. Dante Foreman has been activated
Speaker 1: off the pub list, but he'll eat into Alfred Blues
Speaker 1: workload more than Miller. So if you're worried about Alfred
Speaker 1: Blues workload, you should be worried about Dante Forman. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Miller gets the B over the receiving game. Jandre Hopkins
Speaker 1: obvious A uh. Damarius Thomas can give him a B.
Speaker 1: Kind of quiet since his two touchdown game in Week twelve.
Speaker 1: Not kind of quiet, how about very quarry quiet. But
Speaker 1: secondary boundary receivers have not been quiet against the Jets,
Speaker 1: topping one hundred yards and three of New York's last
Speaker 1: four games. It was done by Robert Foster, Taiwan Taylor,
Speaker 1: and Robert Foster. So there you go, and oh yeah
Speaker 1: to Mary's Thomas. Thomas actually had a good game as
Speaker 1: a Bronco against the Jets, catching fast for a hundred
Speaker 1: and five yards and a touchdown. He's got a better
Speaker 1: quarterback now, so I like Thomas. He gets a B,
Speaker 1: as does DeShawn Watson. On paper, you're likely to get
Speaker 1: to fifty and a touchdown and a half through the air,
Speaker 1: regardless of who he plays. New York is bottom seven
Speaker 1: an opponent passing touchdown percentage, which doesn't bode well for Watson,
Speaker 1: but he's still a threat with his legs. Despite having
Speaker 1: two rushing touchdowns on the season, he could do some
Speaker 1: damage here. Mobile quarterbacks have had success against the Jets
Speaker 1: in recent weeks, most notably Josh Allen's nine carries for
Speaker 1: a hundred one yards and a touchdown. Marcus Mariotta had
Speaker 1: four p plus yards mitched whisky top fifty yards, so
Speaker 1: Watson can certainly do the same. And real Quick Kiki
Speaker 1: Qti has been ruled out, so you don't want to
Speaker 1: contemplate him whatsoever. Over to the Jets really Quick Elijah
Speaker 1: McGuire and Robby Anderson, where both might take a chance.
Speaker 1: Of the players, McGuire is the more safer floor, Anderson's
Speaker 1: the boomero bust option there, and then Chris Herndon is
Speaker 1: viable in the tight end waste Land. I'll give him
Speaker 1: a see. Houston has allowed seven touchdowns a tight ends
Speaker 1: over the past seven games, and over the past month
Speaker 1: they are allowing over eighty five yards per game to
Speaker 1: the position and They've allowed a tight end to score
Speaker 1: in four of their six road games this year. You
Speaker 1: remember this preseason when Deshaun Watson, the question was whether
Speaker 1: or not he should be the number one ranked fantasy
Speaker 1: quarterback because of all of the explosiveness that he showed
Speaker 1: last year. None of that explosiveness has shut up this year.
Speaker 1: He's got one explosive game on the season. In all reality,
Speaker 1: people in the semi finals are probably not contemplating starting
Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson's probably not. He's just been He's been utterly
Speaker 1: mundane a c LS last year at the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: and Watson and both of those guys are kind of
Speaker 1: down this year and they and both of them had
Speaker 1: done really well in no small part because of their mobility,
Speaker 1: and you take that mobility away and it's just not
Speaker 1: the same for those guys. Could be next year, could
Speaker 1: be next maybe maybe another year removed, but I don't
Speaker 1: know that they'll ever be this runners. They were Donovan
Speaker 1: McNabb to go old school, how about r G three.
Speaker 1: For a couple of years, Donovan McNabb was a really good, rushing,
Speaker 1: mobile quarterback and then he got hurt, had a major
Speaker 1: knee injury and never really ran again at r G
Speaker 1: three is an extreme example of that. One good season
Speaker 1: as an amazing rusher and then nothing. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of times they don't ever become rushing quarterbacks. Again.
Speaker 1: Let's go to stay. A couple of phone calls people
Speaker 1: nice enough to be in hold for quite a while.
Speaker 1: Uh Colin in Indiana, Hello, good morning, Thank you for
Speaker 1: taking my call. I appreciate it, no problem. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: in a little bit of a pickle here. I had
Speaker 1: like many Keenan Allen getting a zero. Yeah, the only
Speaker 1: uh bonus was my homes had a bad game for
Speaker 1: my opponent. So I am starting an a rated Andrew
Speaker 1: Luck and the Chicago Bears defense. But I don't know
Speaker 1: if I should rely on Hilton with the ankle or
Speaker 1: popping Aaron Jones versus the Bears and hope for the best.
Speaker 1: I think if Hilton is playing, you go Hilton, and
Speaker 1: because you're down already, UM, maybe you do do that
Speaker 1: and you double up on the Luck Hilton combo. The
Speaker 1: Jones matchup just sucks. I I don't I don't really
Speaker 1: want any part of that unless it's desperation time. Well
Speaker 1: mark Ingram playing into this at all then no, he's
Speaker 1: so touchdown dependent. I didn't think so bad, but I ask, yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: I think I think you got I think you have
Speaker 1: very good advice for something that needs to come back
Speaker 1: from a deficit. I think that's the right way to go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, thanks Colin. Appreciate the calling from Indiana, Bennon, Wisconsin. Hello,
Speaker 1: hey guys, hopefully I can call in tomorrow next week
Speaker 1: rather than and uh, if not, marry Christmas. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that so really quick. Um, I have to try
Speaker 1: to decide on a defense. All the rankings outside of Years,
Speaker 1: which I usually go with, Years suggest Bears defense Packers
Speaker 1: over the Ravens. Mm hmm. Well given given to the
Speaker 1: Redskins as well, given the newer news about the Bear
Speaker 1: the Packers being without their starting right tackle against Khalil Mack.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine I'd want to start anybody over the Bears.
Speaker 1: You you don't like the Ravens at home against Jamis
Speaker 1: Winston the pick machine, I do, although Winston has been
Speaker 1: a lot better in that regard. The point is, as
Speaker 1: I went against Mike Williams and I sat the running
Speaker 1: back for the Chiefs. Williams so really quick. If I
Speaker 1: can quick jump in, I'm I'm starting Tyler Boyd. Would
Speaker 1: you start him over Ridley or Pettis or maybe ye
Speaker 1: Ridley if he needs the ceiling. I think Ridley's got
Speaker 1: the high ceiling here boys got the Boy's got the
Speaker 1: Raiders and Nick Nelson in the also got Jeff driscoll Is.
Speaker 1: This is true. Still, Yeah, I go Boyd, but that's
Speaker 1: just that's just. If you want super high upside, I'd
Speaker 1: go Ridley. I just hope that they throw away from
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson the whole game. Yeah, there's an angle there. Thanks, Ben,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Yeah. Um. When we come back, Titans take
Speaker 1: on the Giants without Odell Beckham. Does that help or hurt?
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd and say Kwon Barkley in a tricky matchup?
Speaker 1: Find out more when we come back. This is Fantasy
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Speaker 1: think I would hold on, Let's do this more time.
Speaker 1: Hot question number one in the chart league where we
Speaker 1: use free agent blind bidding, I've been holding onto my
Speaker 1: final dollar of free agent money for several weeks in
Speaker 1: the event my kicker gets hurt because I only got
Speaker 1: one kicker. And at that way, if I need to
Speaker 1: make an emergency transaction, I've got my dollar for that
Speaker 1: one transaction. Should non waiver free agent claims just be
Speaker 1: free hold and cost of dollar? Brian, I'll address your
Speaker 1: kicker scenario when you tell me that I'm wrong for
Speaker 1: saying you should get rid of the mandatory one dollar
Speaker 1: for claims, or even as I'm all for zero dollar
Speaker 1: claims and zero dollar first come, first serve. As Once
Speaker 1: Weaver is run, you have to let teams give them
Speaker 1: a chance to field a roster in the event of emergency,
Speaker 1: and really out there there could be teams that at
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham, Kareem Hunt, A. J. Green, Melvin James, James
Speaker 1: Conner keeping it going mat rita A J. Green. And look,
Speaker 1: if you let these guys make zero dollar claims, they're
Speaker 1: not gonna get anybody good. And if they do, they
Speaker 1: deserve those players because everyone else in your league is
Speaker 1: asleep at the wheel. And then first come, first serve.
Speaker 1: It should just be open for anyone. You just need
Speaker 1: to allow people to field a full roster. And if
Speaker 1: you make it where you have to pay one dollar,
Speaker 1: then that's impossible. Yes, and obviously you're talking about fictional
Speaker 1: money based on your for your your hundred dollar or
Speaker 1: whatever cap that you use, uh in your league for
Speaker 1: free agent plan bidding. I think this question came about
Speaker 1: because Chart you and I had lunch the other day
Speaker 1: and I asked you, is the Chart League the epitome
Speaker 1: of like the perfect redraft league? And the first thing
Speaker 1: that you came up with was, I don't know if
Speaker 1: we should allow zero dollar bids in FAB and I
Speaker 1: think you should. It's something that we made a change
Speaker 1: on safe leagues. Uh. We used to have one dollar
Speaker 1: minimum bids, and now we have zero dollar bids on
Speaker 1: all Safe Leagues transactions. And it's just really well received
Speaker 1: by the fantasy community. And I think that's the uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's the it's the more popular way to go
Speaker 1: right now. The case for having to charging a dollar
Speaker 1: for free agent transactions after the waiver wire has run
Speaker 1: is this, every transaction should have cost, it should have
Speaker 1: weight to it. By living within the cap, you're proving
Speaker 1: something extra about your abilities as a team manager. Right
Speaker 1: you know, there's still some extra strategy involved in my
Speaker 1: case saving they're saving this dollar just in case I
Speaker 1: need it, or at some point do I risk the dollar?
Speaker 1: Right so, you know, do I do I right now?
Speaker 1: You know, do I risk that dollar and just say
Speaker 1: I think my Dallas kicker is gonna be okay the
Speaker 1: rest of the way. Um, there is some strategy to that.
Speaker 1: But there's also the zero dollars. The zero dollar side
Speaker 1: of it is that, you know, transactions still do have
Speaker 1: a cost to built into them because I have to
Speaker 1: drop somebody right now. A lot of leagues used to
Speaker 1: you know what I think is, you know, it's not
Speaker 1: how I like to play when you've got twenty two
Speaker 1: guys on your roster dropping somebody doesn't even have any weight,
Speaker 1: And I don't like it there, But um, you know
Speaker 1: for my leagues that are almost universally with short rosters,
Speaker 1: uh you do have you know, it does cost you something.
Speaker 1: And I like the idea of eliminating some element of
Speaker 1: luck because you know, this kicker situation I'm in is luck.
Speaker 1: The situation that Brian just described, with all the eight
Speaker 1: injuries that all hit one team, or even just three
Speaker 1: that hit one team at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: it ends up being really a matter of just bad luck.
Speaker 1: And that's not how I want to decide leagues. So
Speaker 1: after a lot of consternation and a lot of thinking,
Speaker 1: I believe the correct answer are zero dollar waiver wire bids,
Speaker 1: not waiver wire, post waiver wire free agent costs. Question
Speaker 1: number two, Carson wentz season is almost certainly over next year.
Speaker 1: Is he a top five quarterback, top ten quarterback or
Speaker 1: lower than ten? Matt uh. Here are the quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: I will have ranked higher than Wentz next season. Mahomes,
Speaker 1: big Ben, Matt, Ryan, Luck, Newton, Breeze, Goff, Watson, Rivers, Rogers,
Speaker 1: Brady Cousins Wilson. That's a thirteen right there, so I
Speaker 1: guess he's below ten. Yeah, I don't have much to add.
Speaker 1: And I think Jimmy Garoppolo could even All those guys
Speaker 1: I named, by the way, have more Fantasy points per
Speaker 1: game than Wentz this year too. Yeah, I think this
Speaker 1: year is gonna be tricky this year. In my league,
Speaker 1: charch League, he's quarterback twelve in the weeks he's played
Speaker 1: weeks third, three through fourteen, so that puts him in
Speaker 1: the conversation for top ten. Um there are I gotta
Speaker 1: I got my list of guys as well, but they're
Speaker 1: in My list is very very similar to your list.
Speaker 1: But here's why I'm gonna take some of the guys
Speaker 1: out of your list. Brady and Breeze. I think I'd
Speaker 1: rather be a week a year early than a week
Speaker 1: too late on the end coming for those guys, and
Speaker 1: so I think they're going to be outside of my
Speaker 1: Outside of that group you just mentioned, Golf I think
Speaker 1: is going to be outside because Girly just siphons off
Speaker 1: too many scores in some games and he leaves you
Speaker 1: with a bad box score in too many games. So
Speaker 1: I think Golf is gonna be on the outside of that.
Speaker 1: So that takes my thirteen Mine was thirteen two down
Speaker 1: to ten and I have exactly right now number ten.
Speaker 1: Now that's it. If you told me Golden Tate's not
Speaker 1: coming back, that might be enough to get me out.
Speaker 1: He's in a contract year. But I'm just I'm gonna
Speaker 1: assume that the team that's got his rights now and
Speaker 1: could potentially either transition tag him or franchise tag him,
Speaker 1: is gonna keep Golden Tate. And I think given that
Speaker 1: top ten is the correct answer. Oh wait, did you go?
Speaker 1: Did I skip you? Vanni's hot question? Number three? Odell
Speaker 1: Backham season is probably done. What I know next year
Speaker 1: is he a top five wide receiver, a top ten
Speaker 1: wide receiver or lower than ten. We go to our
Speaker 1: Giant's desk and Brian Johnson, Uh, his injury is not
Speaker 1: threatening the start of next season. So I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: keep it short and sweet and say he's definitely inside
Speaker 1: my top five. Just think I mean, Michael Thomas, DeAndre Hopkins,
Speaker 1: you know Julio. People have mixed emotions about Julio will
Speaker 1: be in the top five wide receiver. But I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna say, yes, I will have Odell Beckham inside my
Speaker 1: top five unless something unforeseen happens over the summer, which
Speaker 1: is very well could with him. Actually, here are the
Speaker 1: wide receivers I for sure want over Odell next year.
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown, Michael Thomas, Julio Jones, Davante Adams, Adam Theelan
Speaker 1: Tyreek Killed, DeAndre Hopkins, and Juju Smith Schuster. That's eight
Speaker 1: right there. There's a whole bunch of wide receivers that
Speaker 1: are kind of in that same tier with Beckham, Keenan Allen, A. J. Green,
Speaker 1: Mike Evans, and Mark Cooper Stefon Diggs. So that comes
Speaker 1: down to who's the quarterback in New York next year?
Speaker 1: Can I Can it get worse than Eli? It certainly could.
Speaker 1: Is that Joe Flacco? Is it Blake Bortles? Is that
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston? I don't know yet, So I think he's
Speaker 1: lower than tent Right now, did you really put Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper in the same categories Odell Beckham? Absolutely, he's a
Speaker 1: better wide receiver right now? Yeah? Right? Sample size all right? Whatever? Okay? Uh.
Speaker 1: Matt summed this up almost point by point through my list,
Speaker 1: including your list of receivers, was identical to mind with
Speaker 1: one exception. And I had also had my secondary list
Speaker 1: filled with all the same guys that you talk except
Speaker 1: Robert Woods. And then you throw in this mystery at
Speaker 1: quarterback where I think there's a decent chance that an
Speaker 1: even older and worse and more noodle arm lay Man,
Speaker 1: he's still your quarterback. I think that he will not
Speaker 1: crack my top ten Odell Beckham outside of the top
Speaker 1: ten next year. And by the way, and as somebody
Speaker 1: that's i've owned him in in in my twenty team
Speaker 1: league in back to back years, got him. I tired
Speaker 1: of his injuries. Jeez, it's you know, Willie play, won't play?
Speaker 1: Will he finish a game? You know? And then he
Speaker 1: missed all last year most of last year. We might
Speaker 1: as well say a J. Green sucks too. I don't
Speaker 1: even have Green. I don't have Green out my list.
Speaker 1: I don't even have Green in this list. I noticed.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean that there's something I didn't mention to.
Speaker 1: The addition se Kwan makes it not as important for
Speaker 1: Odell to be the feature in that offense because Kuan
Speaker 1: is so good and he's gonna be probably RB one.
Speaker 1: If he's not RB one, you're doing it wrong. Next year,
Speaker 1: well Odell was on a ridiculous stretch from his injury too,
Speaker 1: So don't forget that. But I'm gonna forget it. Titans
Speaker 1: take on the Giants, matt Um, I don't really, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I was gonna try to lead
Speaker 1: in with something compelling about the Titans. How about this
Speaker 1: last week the Derrick Henry bit, will he have one
Speaker 1: third of the yardage? Maybe I gave him a B grade.
Speaker 1: I started looking at the backfields the Giants have faced recently,
Speaker 1: and let me know if any of these like stick
Speaker 1: out to you. Is super good backfields? Washington, Chicago, Philly, Tampa,
Speaker 1: San fran Washington again, Atlanta, Philly again. Those are the
Speaker 1: last eight games. Chicago is pretty good backfield. It's not
Speaker 1: super impressive though, right there's not There's not a fantasy
Speaker 1: stuff it in there. Mostly those are not good back
Speaker 1: Eight different running backs have topped eighty total yards in
Speaker 1: that list right there. That's crazy. Uh So this stat's
Speaker 1: courtesy of Evan Silva. By the way, uh Derrick Henry's
Speaker 1: averaging five point four yards per carry and a touchdown
Speaker 1: per game in career December games and four point one
Speaker 1: yards per carry with a quarter touchdown in games in
Speaker 1: any other month. So Henry gets the B grade. But
Speaker 1: he's still splitting touches with Dion Lewis, and so Dean
Speaker 1: Lewis gets us C grade as well. I just highlighted
Speaker 1: the giants deficiency against backs since Snacks left. I'll add
Speaker 1: that they've allowed the third most receiving yards to opposing
Speaker 1: running backs in their last five, so Dean Lewis is
Speaker 1: in play. Marcus Mariota barely startable. The Giants have allowed
Speaker 1: an average of twenty seven points per game over their
Speaker 1: last three while facing Josh Jackson, Chase Daniel, Nick Mullins,
Speaker 1: So that's good for Mariota. But on the other hand,
Speaker 1: he's throwing twenty four or fewer pass attempts in four
Speaker 1: of the last five, and the Giants have only allowed
Speaker 1: multiple passing scores in one of their last eight games.
Speaker 1: With at Corey Davis is just a C grade two.
Speaker 1: It's really tough to rely on him. He's super inconsistent,
Speaker 1: and he faces generous Jenkins this week, who over the
Speaker 1: last three weeks has only allowed twenty two yards in
Speaker 1: his coverage, and granted, remember the quarterbacks he faced over
Speaker 1: those three, So it's uh, it's not great. Uh. Anthony
Speaker 1: Firkser is a real life person. And if you're extremely
Speaker 1: desperate for a tight end, John H. Smith had I
Speaker 1: r we are in the playoffs. Yeah, the Giants allowed
Speaker 1: the fifth most receptions to tight ends. But Anthony ferks
Speaker 1: is not in your line up. Play him over Jimmy Graham. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's probably yeah. Uh. O'Dell's ruled out with a quad
Speaker 1: injury and very quickly, ELI in the passing game are
Speaker 1: all on the bench. Maybe Evan Ingram. Uh. Titans are
Speaker 1: top five in passing yards and touchdowns allowed. Stirling Shepard
Speaker 1: hasn't topped thirty seven yards since weeks seven. Evan Ingram
Speaker 1: did catch three passes for seventy seven yards last week
Speaker 1: and tends to be only relevant when Odell Beckham is
Speaker 1: not in play. O'Dell's not playing this week, So if
Speaker 1: I'm playing any part of that passing game, it's Evan Ingram. Uh. People,
Speaker 1: I've had a bunch of people reach out on Twitter
Speaker 1: or just personally that they want to start Sterling Shepherd
Speaker 1: because Odell Beckham's gone. I'm like, that doesn't help him,
Speaker 1: that hurts him. This is that's no help with Sterling.
Speaker 1: Sterling was good last year when Beckham was gone for
Speaker 1: for quite a bit of the season, but he just
Speaker 1: hasn't been there the last couple of months. No, and
Speaker 1: I think he I frankly, I just think if you're
Speaker 1: gonna stop somebody in that passing him means take away
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd and you go make Russell Shepherd beat you.
Speaker 1: And there was no virtually no running game for the
Speaker 1: Giants last year, and that has completely changed this season.
Speaker 1: Of course, that is true. Raiders take on the Bengals.
Speaker 1: I already mentioned Derek Carr might take a chance on
Speaker 1: me quarterback. I've got a C grade on him. Jared
Speaker 1: Cook all the way up in an a. There are
Speaker 1: only three quality tight ends who have faced the Bengals
Speaker 1: all year. All three of them scored. Eric Keebron, Travis Kelsey,
Speaker 1: O j Howard. Cook has been on a tear for
Speaker 1: the last month. Touchdowns in three games out of four
Speaker 1: and back to back one hundred yard games for a
Speaker 1: tight end. That's awesome. A grade on Jared Cook. Jordy
Speaker 1: Nelson clocking in with a C grade. Finally healthy in
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, He's been targeted eighteen times, while
Speaker 1: posting how many is that per game? Nine times, while
Speaker 1: posting almost one hundred fifty yards in the two games.
Speaker 1: He is a plausible dart throw against a very inconsistent
Speaker 1: Bengals secondary. Let's go to the running game, Doug Martin
Speaker 1: all the way up to a B this week. Bengals
Speaker 1: have given up at least one touchdown to a running
Speaker 1: back in twelve straight games, and no team has allowed
Speaker 1: more fantasy points to running backs this year than the Bengals.
Speaker 1: After a very promising start, though, Doug Martin has reverted
Speaker 1: to his old self. He's averaging just barely three yards
Speaker 1: per carry over the last two games, and he hasn't
Speaker 1: topped seventy two rushing yards or ninety two combine yards
Speaker 1: all season, So that does tap his upside a little bit.
Speaker 1: But a very strong matchup and for once, the Raiders
Speaker 1: probably aren't playing from a big deficit. So I like
Speaker 1: Doug Martin here, and I think he's a sneaky play.
Speaker 1: Do you know, is what's his what's his cost in
Speaker 1: on fan ball? Do you know? Look really look it
Speaker 1: up really quick. I know Georgy is a great play.
Speaker 1: I think Doug might be too let's while you're looking
Speaker 1: at I'll mentioned Jalon or Shard while we're talking Raiders
Speaker 1: and wrap it up there. The Bengals have allowed the
Speaker 1: most touchdowns to opposing runners through the air. Six. That's
Speaker 1: the bid on Richard who never scores, but still six
Speaker 1: h six passing touchdowns to running backs is a lot.
Speaker 1: They've also allowed forty four or more receiving yards to
Speaker 1: a runner six different times. Jalen Richard, Jalen Richard is
Speaker 1: a is A is a reasonable play here in PPR
Speaker 1: leagues to muscle Hamster. That's it's also a goodbye. I
Speaker 1: just I just think people just see Raiders and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm out. But I think this is when you
Speaker 1: see Bengals defense, you go, I'm in. I'm in. This
Speaker 1: game is the reason fantasy football exists as oaklind Cincinnati
Speaker 1: without it down that the only people watching, the only
Speaker 1: people who care. People in Oakland don't even care anymore.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Bengal side. Joe Mixon gets a beat.
Speaker 1: He saw a season high thirty one touches last week
Speaker 1: with this is with a j green out, Uh that
Speaker 1: you know this offense really does go through Joe Mixon.
Speaker 1: He's also topped one hundred thirty eight yards and two
Speaker 1: of the last three weeks in Oakland's LAS two games,
Speaker 1: they held backups Spencer wear and Jalen Samuel's in check.
Speaker 1: But overall, let's remember the Raiders rank bottom three and
Speaker 1: rushing attempts and rushing yards per game, and their twenty
Speaker 1: seven yards per carry. This is a very plus matchup
Speaker 1: for Joe Mixon. We'll give him a B grade. Tyler
Speaker 1: Boyd also with a B. Raiders secondaries a lot of
Speaker 1: four scores and one one yard game to opposing receivers
Speaker 1: and just their last three games. Tyler Boyd runs mostly
Speaker 1: from the slot, where he'll see struggling slot cornerback Nick Nelson.
Speaker 1: Nelson allows a passer rating of one hundred thirty and
Speaker 1: he's given up at least eighty three yards in two
Speaker 1: of his last four games. So Tyler Boyd a nice
Speaker 1: B grade. Here. John Ross is on the bench. I
Speaker 1: know he has scored in six different games, but and
Speaker 1: so you might be thinking John Ross is better than
Speaker 1: he is. What you probably don't realize those touchdowns are
Speaker 1: masking one point eight receptions per game and twenty yards
Speaker 1: per game for John Ross. That's it. If he does
Speaker 1: not score, he daggers your team. How we do not time?
Speaker 1: Let's take a break. When we come back, more matchups,
Speaker 1: including Seahawks taking on the forty Niners. Does Tyler Lockett
Speaker 1: continue his strong season? Russell Wilson? Will he bounce back
Speaker 1: after a dreadful fantasy game against the Vikings? Find out
Speaker 1: when we come back. This is Fantasy my green bill
Speaker 1: Premium on the van. If your league did not knock
Speaker 1: out Todd Gurley last week, you got a big problem coming.
Speaker 1: We'll tell you about the Rams game in um a
Speaker 1: little later in the show. But that's that was your
Speaker 1: big opportunity. Knockout Todd Gurley last week. This week he's
Speaker 1: my number one ranked running back. It's gonna be tricking.
Speaker 1: Why did you whisper that a little seductively there? Because
Speaker 1: what what he's what he the box score he's gonna
Speaker 1: put up is it's going to be borderline sexual for
Speaker 1: his owners? Yeah? There, uh yeah. In most cases the
Speaker 1: guys who guys and girls who you know, the Rams
Speaker 1: propelled them to the playoffs. Most of them probably had
Speaker 1: a bye last week. Was there is there a better
Speaker 1: times Fantasy Football by wedding of the Rams. Absolutely, absolutely
Speaker 1: Seahawks take on the forty Niners. Brian Russell Wilson, speaking
Speaker 1: of bad last week's seventy passing yards last week scoreless
Speaker 1: passing yards, probably bounces back nicely here against the forty
Speaker 1: Niners though, right, Yeah, these teams just played in week
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. I hate it when they do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of bizarre, real quick. The Saints and Panthers.
Speaker 1: They're playing for the first time this week, right week seventeen.
Speaker 1: It is a second game. That's even weird. But anyway,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, I'm gonna give him an a. Despite just
Speaker 1: seventeen pass attempts a couple of weeks ago, he did
Speaker 1: throw for four touchdowns, and the only quarterbacks who have
Speaker 1: failed to throw for multiple touchdowns against the forty Niners
Speaker 1: are case Keenum, Derek Are and Josh Rosen. So Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson still an elite play giving him an a. His
Speaker 1: wide receiver Tyler Lockett can give him an a as well.
Speaker 1: Only had one catch in the first meeting, but it
Speaker 1: was for a fifty two yard touchdown. There's just should
Speaker 1: be more volume passing for Seattle in this game to
Speaker 1: lock it is an obvious A. I'm benching Doug Baldwin.
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll's optimistic Baldwin will play. He actually played in
Speaker 1: that first meeting and scored a touchdown on one catch
Speaker 1: as well. But I'm not trusting them in in the
Speaker 1: fantasy playoffs and groin injuries and receivers reinjure all the time,
Speaker 1: and and I I'm not going as far as uh
Speaker 1: the more h Moore or John brown Um. And then
Speaker 1: tight end, I don't remember who starts for tight end
Speaker 1: for Seattle either, not recommending you start him either whoever
Speaker 1: it is in this gamet or Ed Dixon or who knows.
Speaker 1: And then Chris Carson. Lastly, he gets an a thirteen
Speaker 1: carries for sixty nine nice yards against the Niners in
Speaker 1: that Week thirteen game. Penny eight into his workload in
Speaker 1: that game with seven carries for sixty five yards in
Speaker 1: a touchdown. But Rashott Penny has been ruled out, so
Speaker 1: Chris Carson is an elite play this week, giving him
Speaker 1: an A. Uh. Speaking of elite, let's go over to
Speaker 1: the forty Niners and George Kittle. George Kittle has over
Speaker 1: seven hundred yards after the catch. Wown high tight ends
Speaker 1: have seven hundred yards probably none. The second highest is
Speaker 1: juju in like the five fifty range. Wow. There are
Speaker 1: twenty seven players with seven hundred regular receiving yards in
Speaker 1: the NFL this year. Are Jugo has seven hundred after
Speaker 1: the catch? Make your call right now that you're gonna
Speaker 1: have Kittles your number one tight end next year. There
Speaker 1: are only three other tight ends besides Kittle that have
Speaker 1: and that's what Kidle has after the catch. I've already
Speaker 1: put him. I got him ahead of Earth's. I still
Speaker 1: gotta go Kelsey first. But yeah, Kittle, I got killed
Speaker 1: bub Earth right now. But anyway, he's in a uh
Speaker 1: despite having just six catches for seventy yards in the
Speaker 1: first meeting. That's probably his floor in this one. You're
Speaker 1: clearly not gonna bench Kittle, and if you are, I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear about what league you're in. So
Speaker 1: he gets in a Marky's Goodwin. Sadly on the bench.
Speaker 1: Added to the injury report on Thursday with the calf injury.
Speaker 1: Just the lost season for him. Pretty sad he's on
Speaker 1: the bench. Dante Pettis is not, by the way, He'll
Speaker 1: be a nice last pick of your draft next year. Definitely,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be way off radars next year to himself
Speaker 1: and Dante Pettis. I canna give him a be He's
Speaker 1: a kind of that hail Mary play you might be
Speaker 1: looking for if you're a Keenan Allen owner. He's certainly
Speaker 1: paid off two weeks ago with a hundred twenty nine
Speaker 1: yards and two touchdowns. Not guaranteeing that repeat performance, but
Speaker 1: he is a viable play as the top pass catcher
Speaker 1: when it comes to wide receivers for of course, uh
Speaker 1: and for that reason, I like those two. I like
Speaker 1: Nickmullins might take a chance let me quarterback. You can
Speaker 1: go back and listen to the podcast if you missed that.
Speaker 1: And then for the running backs, Matt Brita limited all
Speaker 1: we can practice. You just don't he could pop up
Speaker 1: and play. You never know, you never know. That's so frustrating.
Speaker 1: I think he plays in this one and every other
Speaker 1: time that he's been active, he ends up starting the game,
Speaker 1: but then you never know if he's gonna finish it.
Speaker 1: When frustrating. Yeah, So if you're banking on Justin Williams
Speaker 1: as a Justin Wilson as a starter, you better be
Speaker 1: wary of that. But it is a good matchup for
Speaker 1: running backs. Since week nine, the Stoks are giving up
Speaker 1: a hundred sixty plus combo yards and one plus touchdowns
Speaker 1: per game, and uh Wilson had a hundred three or
Speaker 1: four compo yards in that first meeting, So you got
Speaker 1: you got a monitor of that situation very closely. Though
Speaker 1: for sure Washington takes on the Jaguars Matt. In my mind,
Speaker 1: there's one startable player in this entire matchup, Leonard four Nett.
Speaker 1: Nobody else you like yelled in though I had yell
Speaker 1: starting great on anyone else other than for Net and
Speaker 1: yelled in. I had yelled in, and then I Westbrook
Speaker 1: as might take a chance on the wide receiver as well.
Speaker 1: I don't even feel that great about those guys. So
Speaker 1: if you shouldn't know, I I try to take these
Speaker 1: stabs to to find some some lower level guys that yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfielah, you know, I'm I'm I'm I'm a man
Speaker 1: of the people. Uh four Nett. I gave the A
Speaker 1: grade two. Over the last three weeks, Washington's allowed one
Speaker 1: to Zeke one se both Lamar Miller and Josh Adams
Speaker 1: top to eighty five yards apiece. UH. Tackle Jeremy Parnell
Speaker 1: is out for the Jaguars. That's a that's a little
Speaker 1: bad for for net, but he's gonna get thirty touches
Speaker 1: in this game. UH. Cody Kessler in the passing game,
Speaker 1: all on the bench forty three passing attempts. Last week
Speaker 1: for Kessler, all I could manage was to forty and one.
Speaker 1: In the prior week when they kept the ball on
Speaker 1: the ground, he only had twenty four attempts. That's probably
Speaker 1: what we're gonna see this game, and he only two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards. So basically the passing game is
Speaker 1: all on the bench. On the other side, it's Adrian Peterson.
Speaker 1: I gave a C grade two, although if you take
Speaker 1: away his nine d yard run. It's been a disaster
Speaker 1: APS averaging under two yards per carry since Colt mccoig
Speaker 1: broke his leg. But a similarly big running back did
Speaker 1: torch this Jaguars defense for two d some yards and
Speaker 1: four touchdowns. When was that last week? Really? We never
Speaker 1: saw it coming, So yeah, I mean you the Jaguars
Speaker 1: really mail it in again and play with as as
Speaker 1: as little energy and effort as they did last week.
Speaker 1: It's possible. Uh, Josh Johnson and the passing game are
Speaker 1: on the bench. Yeah, stop, just right there. Good, Okay,
Speaker 1: Buccaneers taking on the Ravens. Let's start with Jamis Winston
Speaker 1: with a C grade here in a brutally tough matchup.
Speaker 1: Now to Jamis is Jamison's Jamis's credit. Jamison is whiskey. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's delicious. Whiskey is what it is. Since his most
Speaker 1: recent unbenching, Winston has limited his mistakes with just one
Speaker 1: pick in three full games. He's also thrown exactly two
Speaker 1: touchdowns in each of them, which isn't bad, but you
Speaker 1: don't get two touchdowns against an elite raven secondary very easily.
Speaker 1: Since Jimmy Smith's returned from suspension, the Ravens are giving
Speaker 1: up just two sixteen passing yards one and a half
Speaker 1: touchdowns per game. There are several injuries though in the
Speaker 1: Ravens secondary. Check their status on Sunday. On Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: they had a bunch of questionable guys. Three three starters
Speaker 1: and their secondary. They're all questionable. Check their status. That
Speaker 1: might give you a ray of hope for Winston. If
Speaker 1: some of those guys do miss time Mike Evans gets
Speaker 1: a C grade, it feels like a major letdown coming here.
Speaker 1: No receiver has scored a touchdown. Get this, No receivers
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown against Baltimore in the last three weeks,
Speaker 1: and that includes Julio Jones and Tyreek hill Church. Come on,
Speaker 1: let's be ballsy. Mike Evans is on the bench. He's
Speaker 1: on the bench in this game. You don't start him
Speaker 1: in this I don't know if I can flat out
Speaker 1: put him on the bench. I don't think I can.
Speaker 1: I'm not, I'm not. I'm close. Evans hasn't faced the
Speaker 1: defense that ranks in the top ten against receivers all season,
Speaker 1: so this should be tougher than what he's seen. Baltimore's
Speaker 1: only allowed three catches of more than forty yards on
Speaker 1: the season, so the deep ball is not going to
Speaker 1: be there either. But if you think Winston's gonna have well,
Speaker 1: the thing is, here's the catch. If you think Winston
Speaker 1: is good for a touchdown, it's going to the guy
Speaker 1: with an A grade, Cameron Braid. He has scored three
Speaker 1: touchdowns in four games since Winston took over. Again, his
Speaker 1: senses unbenching Baltimore although a great secondary shockingly bad against
Speaker 1: tight ends. They've allowed the third most fantasy points to
Speaker 1: tight ends over the last five weeks. Four straight opponents
Speaker 1: have posted tight end scores against Baltimore. Really, so break
Speaker 1: it's an A grade here. I don't how much left
Speaker 1: over Mike. Are you worried about his receiving totals? Had
Speaker 1: two three three two one three for reception totals. It's
Speaker 1: not strong. He has to score touchdowns on every catch
Speaker 1: for him to get a grade every He had two
Speaker 1: catches twelve yards, two touchdowns last week. He's got to
Speaker 1: score every time. Adam Humphreys is on the bench in
Speaker 1: this tough matchup. I don't think I need to expand
Speaker 1: on that. A lot of them to say that slot
Speaker 1: receivers have struggled against the Ravens and better ones than him.
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd did nothing, snow nothing, conly nothing. So uh,
Speaker 1: Adam Humphreys on the bench, Peyton Barber's on the bench.
Speaker 1: He's failed to top three yards per carry in three
Speaker 1: straight games, and that street continues here against the defense
Speaker 1: that gives up less than three and a half yards
Speaker 1: per carry. He faces a run defense that's top three
Speaker 1: and rushing yards allowed, top three yards per carry allowed,
Speaker 1: top three and rushing touchdowns allowed. It's a brutal matchup
Speaker 1: for Peyton Barber. Let's flip it over to the other side.
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson is fascinating in this game. Tremendous upside and
Speaker 1: potentially heartbreaking downside in Lamar Jackson. The two mobile quarterback
Speaker 1: quarterbacks who have faced the Bucks, Mitch Robinsky and Cam
Speaker 1: Newton on two different occasions, average six yards per carry,
Speaker 1: and that's about what Lamar Jackson averages, right around six
Speaker 1: yards per carry. If he's going to continue to get
Speaker 1: seventeen ish carries at six yards per carry, the MAT says, sixty,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do this before you start. That's a
Speaker 1: one hundred two yard rushing day. Hundred two yard rushing
Speaker 1: day potentially on tap for Lamar Jackson. Meanwhile, the Bucks
Speaker 1: secondary is allowed passing touchdowns in every single game. Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson's coming off his first ever two touchdown passing effort,
Speaker 1: so it all feels like it's going well for Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: We've got an A grade on. But Joe Flacco is healthy.
Speaker 1: There's a scenario out there where Lamar Jackson throws a
Speaker 1: pick early or can play has a four completion first half,
Speaker 1: which is in him. He is not a good passer,
Speaker 1: and here comes Joe Flacco. Just be aware there is
Speaker 1: a Flacco. There is a Flacco scenario out there that
Speaker 1: that kills Lamar Jackson. It seems like injury for me.
Speaker 1: They've totally changed their offense to be a Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: based offense now, and it seems to tell like they
Speaker 1: don't have a Joe Flacco offense at their disposal. They
Speaker 1: running Flacco offense for ten years through that in the
Speaker 1: garbage can and lit it on the fire. It's gone.
Speaker 1: Kenneth Dixon was my Yes, Kenneth Dickson was might take
Speaker 1: a chance of me running back? Uh, And I've got
Speaker 1: a B grade on him. I've got Gus Edwards down
Speaker 1: to a sea grete I mentioned earlier in the show,
Speaker 1: Kennet Dickson could be your starter in this game. And
Speaker 1: Gus is trailing, is going the wrong direction with his attempts,
Speaker 1: his yards per carried decreasing over the last three weeks um.
Speaker 1: The Bucks have given up one yard rushing game and
Speaker 1: four the last seven games. They've also given up a
Speaker 1: very very robust five point seven yards per carried backs
Speaker 1: in those last seven games, so Gus Edwards can still
Speaker 1: get something done here, but I prefer Dixon, especially through
Speaker 1: the air, and all of the wide receivers and tight
Speaker 1: ends are on the bench because Lamar Jackson does not throw.
Speaker 1: I'm old enough to remember when Gus Edwards was in
Speaker 1: an exciting bill Cow. He wasn't exciting. He wasn't exciting
Speaker 1: bell Cow for about a week and a half and
Speaker 1: then that was it. We'll take a break when we
Speaker 1: come back our final set of matchups and lightning round looming.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned. Final segment of the semifinals edition of Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. This is Fantasy Football Weekly, presided man. Final
Speaker 1: segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. We've got three matchups left
Speaker 1: to get to. Paul Ciarchi and Matt Harrison and Brian
Speaker 1: Johnson with you. We begin with the game with the
Speaker 1: highest over under for the weekend, Patriots Steelers. Brian, is
Speaker 1: there anybody you don't play in this one? Not when
Speaker 1: it comes to the passing game, but there are some
Speaker 1: questions in the running games on both sides. We'll start
Speaker 1: with um New England side uh in the game is
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, Real quick, Tom Brady Gronk obvious as they
Speaker 1: are feeding off each other. Now that Gronk is healthy,
Speaker 1: Brady's back to posting monster numbers. Amazing those two running
Speaker 1: parallel Brady's success absolutely and UH. For the wide received ris,
Speaker 1: Julian Edelin and Josh Gordon both get very strong vise.
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh secondary has been struggling lately, having allowed for wide
Speaker 1: receiver touchdowns over the last three games. It's hard to
Speaker 1: imagine you're benching Edelman or Gordon if you have them
Speaker 1: on roster. Uh. Now over the running backs, though, starting
Speaker 1: with James White, give him a B and PPR, a
Speaker 1: C and standard though it's not a great matchup for
Speaker 1: him through the air the Pittsburgh Pittsburgh is only allowing
Speaker 1: twenty seven yards per game through the air to opposing
Speaker 1: running backs. So I'm not loving James White and this one.
Speaker 1: And I'm definitely not loving Sony Michelle because of James Devlin,
Speaker 1: the ultimate vulture who saw that coming. If you have
Speaker 1: told me Rex Burke had was had done this, I'd
Speaker 1: be like, Okay, I can see that Burke had has
Speaker 1: been invisible and James Devlin, so yeah, insert Fantasy Football
Speaker 1: Weekly talking about Bill Belichick running backs for the last
Speaker 1: ten years. And then let's not forget Rex Burkhead is
Speaker 1: active to he could always but yeah, Pittsburgh is not
Speaker 1: allowed to. They've a lowed one one hud yard rusher
Speaker 1: all season, I believe, so your hope from Michelle is
Speaker 1: a goal line plunge. But now that's that's not who knows,
Speaker 1: So it wouldn't surprise me if Devlin doesn't get a
Speaker 1: touch though either. Yeah, absolutely definitely not allow to get
Speaker 1: a touch at all. But I'm gonna give him Michelle
Speaker 1: a see, but certainly explore other options. He's not a
Speaker 1: He's not a slam dunk start by any means. Uh.
Speaker 1: Speaking of slam dunk starts on the Pittsburgh side, Ben Roethlisberger,
Speaker 1: Juju Smith, Schuster, and Antonio Brown obvious a's Vans McDonald
Speaker 1: borderline A and the tight end WASTELANDE. I'll give him
Speaker 1: a B though, with the Patriots have allowed seven touchdowns
Speaker 1: to tight ends this year and opposing tight ends are
Speaker 1: averaging nearly sixty yards per game, so McDonald is viable
Speaker 1: in the shootout. And then more questions at running back
Speaker 1: for Pittsburgh is James Connor gonna play. I do not know,
Speaker 1: nobody knows. Uh, he's a game time decision right now.
Speaker 1: Uh if he goes, I would give him a B
Speaker 1: in a pretty good matchup. New England's getting gashed lately
Speaker 1: by running backs, most notably Frank Gore running all over
Speaker 1: the place last week, So I'll give Connor the B,
Speaker 1: even though you gotta be a little worried that he's
Speaker 1: not a But if Connor is out, Jalen Samuel's the
Speaker 1: starting running back slash tight end. Depending on what fantasy
Speaker 1: site you play on, I'd give him the see uh,
Speaker 1: just in this matchup because he can't catch the ball.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. You just gotta wait and see
Speaker 1: what you can't really wait and see because this is
Speaker 1: a night game. It's a very scary proposition if you
Speaker 1: don't own both Connor and Samuel. So right, see what happens.
Speaker 1: Eagles take out the Rams, Matt Nick Foles at the
Speaker 1: helm for the Eagles. That does not help the fantasy
Speaker 1: prospects of any of the Eagles. And I don't think
Speaker 1: I would start anybody in the passing game outside of
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz. But that's just me. How do you got it?
Speaker 1: How you got it. Do you just want to do
Speaker 1: this matchup for me? I got zach Ertz is an
Speaker 1: a uh. It feels like we're due for a giant
Speaker 1: Earth's game. There is virtually no change in his production
Speaker 1: uh in both last year and this year when Falls
Speaker 1: was in versus Wentz. So that's a good thing for
Speaker 1: Earth's and Falls targeted Earth's more than any player and
Speaker 1: his two starts this season, however, Nick Foles only through
Speaker 1: one touchdown pass and two starts earlier this year. And
Speaker 1: the Rams secondary is really good again now. Uh. In
Speaker 1: their four complete games with a keep to leave in
Speaker 1: the lineup, the Rams have not allowed a wide receiver
Speaker 1: touchdown and no wide receiver has topped fifty yards. Nickel
Speaker 1: Robie Coleman lines up against Golden Tate. He hasn't allowed
Speaker 1: more than twenty yards in coverage in eleven of twelve
Speaker 1: games this year. So the whole passing game is on
Speaker 1: the bench. It's all benched except for zach Ertz, and
Speaker 1: in the running game, Josh Adams and Darren Sprawls are
Speaker 1: on the bench too. It's worth noting that Corey Clement
Speaker 1: will be out and Sprawls led the team in snaps
Speaker 1: last week figure. But the Rams are top five in
Speaker 1: every category against pass catching running backs over the last
Speaker 1: five weeks, which leaves Adams to pick up the scraps.
Speaker 1: I kind of I kind of like Adams here. I
Speaker 1: don't he's gonna be on the field for like a
Speaker 1: third No, I think the climent out. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be on the field more than that. Rams are
Speaker 1: giving up five and a half yards per carry over
Speaker 1: the last month of games. It's it's just too tough shot.
Speaker 1: Penny rode over them. So did La Garrett Blunt, so
Speaker 1: did Jordan Howard. You're straight ahead bigger runners, and I
Speaker 1: think Josh Adams has got a chance here. I'm going
Speaker 1: to give the advice to not start Josh Adams in
Speaker 1: a playoff matchup chart will and you can direct the
Speaker 1: hate mail too at Paul Charchy and on Twitter. On
Speaker 1: the other side, Todd Gurley obvious a worth noting that
Speaker 1: the Eagles have the fifth most missed tackles in the
Speaker 1: league this season. That's good for Gurley to get back
Speaker 1: on the horse here. Jared Goff, I'm giving an a
Speaker 1: grade two as well. The Eagles have allowed the third
Speaker 1: most yards and the seventh most passing touchdowns over the
Speaker 1: last five weeks, although it's worth noting one of them
Speaker 1: will probably have a really good game, the other one
Speaker 1: will probably have a okay game because that's how it's
Speaker 1: gone this year for Goff and Gurley. Uh. All the
Speaker 1: wide receivers, Robert Woods, Brandon Cooks, and Josh Reynolds all
Speaker 1: get a B grade. Woods has led the team in
Speaker 1: targets since Cooper cups a c L tear forty six
Speaker 1: for Woods, a thirty eight for Cooks, and then twenty
Speaker 1: six for Reynolds, and Philly's secondary has allowed the second
Speaker 1: most catches and yards to wide receivers this season. So
Speaker 1: Reynolds gets the because he's had two thirty three air
Speaker 1: yards over the last three weeks. That's top thirty in
Speaker 1: the NFL during that span. And uh, it's just a
Speaker 1: good matchup for everybody. It is. It really is. If
Speaker 1: you didn't, as I mentioned earlier, if you didn't knocked
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley out last week, like you said, I think
Speaker 1: that team is more than likely going to the champion.
Speaker 1: It's worth noting that Woods is probably a borderline A
Speaker 1: and Cooks is the huge upside guy, so for sure. Yeah. Uh,
Speaker 1: final final game to break down before we go to
Speaker 1: your call, Saints taking on the Panthers Monday Night Football. Obviously,
Speaker 1: grades for Drew Brees, Michael Thomas, Alvin Kamara. All of
Speaker 1: them rank inside my top four this week. In fact,
Speaker 1: Breeze and Thomas are my number one players at their position.
Speaker 1: Let's go to mark Ingram, who's got a trickier, trickier outlook.
Speaker 1: Since his big games in weeks ten and eleven, He's
Speaker 1: averaged only forty four yards on a very mundane and
Speaker 1: four point two yards per carry, also not chipping in
Speaker 1: the passing game at all, having not seen more than
Speaker 1: three target it's in a game all season long. The
Speaker 1: Panthers give up the fifth fewest rushing attempts in the
Speaker 1: sixth fewest rushing yards per game. So if he's just
Speaker 1: got to get it done on the ground, I don't
Speaker 1: know the market Ingram does. He drops down to a
Speaker 1: C grade here, and I'd have a lot, a lot
Speaker 1: of hesitancies starting mark Ingram. He will be somewhere else
Speaker 1: on some other team and will be a leading running
Speaker 1: back on some other team next year, and you all
Speaker 1: the better season then, um, all the rest of the
Speaker 1: wide receivers besides Michael Thomas around the bench, bre he
Speaker 1: spreads the ball around too much. He can't trust Tray
Speaker 1: Kwan Smith, Kith Kirkwood, Austin Carr and who they just signed.
Speaker 1: They just signed some kid off the practice squad from
Speaker 1: the Redskins him either. Alright, not that guy, Not that guy,
Speaker 1: whoever that guy is. Let's go to the Carolina side.
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey. Have still got an A grade on him,
Speaker 1: But dark is this a tough matchup? The Saints rank
Speaker 1: number one in rushing attempts per game, number one in
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game, number one in rushing yards per carry.
Speaker 1: But who cares. He's like the fifteen ranked wide receiver
Speaker 1: this season. That's where he helps you out. Fortunately, as
Speaker 1: a dual back threat, he does have a shot here.
Speaker 1: Say Kwon Barkley, Todd Gurley, Ezekiel Elliott all managed to
Speaker 1: top one hundred total yards and each found the end
Speaker 1: zone against the Saints last season. McCaffrey averaged eighty three
Speaker 1: yards scored in each game against them as well. He's
Speaker 1: got to get it done through the air, where you
Speaker 1: can get a little something done against the Saints. But
Speaker 1: make no mistake, a very tough matchup, and the A
Speaker 1: grade I have a Christian McCaffrey is only because he
Speaker 1: is so talented. Let's go to the passing game. Cam
Speaker 1: Newton gets a B. He's produced exactly two passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: and nearly every game this year, and that feels about
Speaker 1: right against the defense that's averaging one point eight passing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So let's go for two touchdowns for Newton. He's not
Speaker 1: getting many carries this year, but I will note that
Speaker 1: the Saints have allowed the most quarterback rushing touchdowns four
Speaker 1: of them, so maybe maybe Newton surprises us with a
Speaker 1: rare rushing touchdown in this one. D J. Mort gets
Speaker 1: a B. It's a juicy matchup for him. They're allowing
Speaker 1: Saints allowing the most fantasy points to receivers on the season.
Speaker 1: Saints secondary has improved a bit lately, allowing just one
Speaker 1: touchdown to receivers over the last four weeks, but receivers
Speaker 1: are still wrecking a tent plenty of yards. Sick players
Speaker 1: have totaled at least seventy four yards against the Saints
Speaker 1: in just the last three weeks, so two players a
Speaker 1: game topping seventy four yards. I think Dj Moore will
Speaker 1: get to that point as well. Maybe he gets lucky
Speaker 1: with a with a touchdown, and Curtis Samuel Was might
Speaker 1: take a chance of me wide receiver, and I've got
Speaker 1: to be greade on him too. So a lot of
Speaker 1: guys to go to there. If you're going to Ian
Speaker 1: Thomas at tight end, don't Only one tight end is
Speaker 1: top forty yards against the Saints all season, and only
Speaker 1: two have scored against them all year as well. It
Speaker 1: is time for Lightning Round semifinals edition. You know the rules.
Speaker 1: One question between two players. We will move on and
Speaker 1: hang up on you right about the time you finish
Speaker 1: your question. You can listen on the delay on your
Speaker 1: in your car at your home streaming device. Will take
Speaker 1: plenty of calls zero five, three to six h Jessica,
Speaker 1: you've been on hold for the better part of two hours.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your patients. Sure, I'm looking at uh
Speaker 1: and it's flying Jush Edwards or James White standard scoring.
Speaker 1: We're looking for touchdowns. Yeah wow, I'm gonna go Edwards
Speaker 1: against the Bucks. The Bucks give up so many rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's the right flying touchdown
Speaker 1: as possible. Tom, You are next. Hi, guys, Um, I'm
Speaker 1: up pretty big and I'm actually in an all play leaf.
Speaker 1: I have to be two out of my three opponents. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm looking for actually a lower risk between the two
Speaker 1: pretty high risk players out the two Kennis Kenneth Diskenny
Speaker 1: Golladay in my flex. I have a strong opinion on this.
Speaker 1: I think though, the highest risk is Kenny Golladay, So
Speaker 1: I would definitely go Dixon in this matchup. Matt, thank
Speaker 1: you for your patients. You've been on hold a long
Speaker 1: time too. Oh sure you, guys, I gotta drop Austin Hooper. Uh.
Speaker 1: Not very good choices, really, its choices Vernon Davis or
Speaker 1: Ryan Griffin. Oh man, I'd go Griffin. He's actually been
Speaker 1: quas i active lately. And you can't How do you
Speaker 1: start a redskin on a fourth string quarterback who hasn't
Speaker 1: started a game in seven years? I we can't do that. Chris,
Speaker 1: your next hey, half point PPR Kyle Rudolph or that
Speaker 1: McGuire cat. That McGuire cat. Now, I'm waking my part
Speaker 1: right now and back to the quick call it before
Speaker 1: check for Foster too. Brookser intrigues me? Or can can
Speaker 1: we help Chris out here. I said the cat you did, OK,
Speaker 1: just making cat and not say the cat. He just
Speaker 1: mean yeah right and said he's licking his I don't
Speaker 1: think i'd randomly MEO. So that's you. You do your wife,
Speaker 1: you do it a lot. Yeah, Joe in Toronto, thank
Speaker 1: you for your patience. You also have been holding virtually.
Speaker 1: I'll show thank you. Beck. Um. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he Wi is playing tomorrow. UM, I gotta choose between
Speaker 1: these two receivers today in a fifty fifty league, UM,
Speaker 1: Hamilton's or b Anderson Robbie Anderson and the huge Upside
Speaker 1: like him a lot better than Hamilton's. Thanks your patience, Joe, Mike,
Speaker 1: You're next on the fans. Hey, guys, Uh standards Uh
Speaker 1: Jante Pettis or Dickson, Uh Pettis or Ed Dixon Non Dixon,
Speaker 1: Kenneth Dixon. Uh. If you need the ceiling, if you
Speaker 1: need the safer play, it's it's Dixon. I would say,
Speaker 1: I think it's Dickson. Either way I would take. I
Speaker 1: would take Dixon on either side of that. Mark your
Speaker 1: next standard Lee Plex Aaron Jones or Julian Edeleman. I
Speaker 1: like this soft Jay Jeman Aaron Jones or Julian Edelman.
Speaker 1: What if he has Julio Jones on his team. Rich,
Speaker 1: you're on the fan, Hello Hard Rich Rich, Yeah that's you. Sorry,
Speaker 1: mandatory tight end, PPR great or Thomas Thomas. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: just had him as a bench five three minutes ago.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, this one, this one's I think pretty clear.
Speaker 1: I like how you had to tell Rich who he was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's you. Yeah, that is you, Rich, Dan. Your next
Speaker 1: Dan is not is listening and listening to the radio,
Speaker 1: which doesn't Jordan Howard or what he was. Just a
Speaker 1: bad connection. Yeah, I'm sorry, Dan, I'm sorry tweet us
Speaker 1: at explosive output. I thought I thought I heard ourselves
Speaker 1: back at that. Sorry Dan, Dave, you're next. Yeah, Hi,
Speaker 1: thanks everything. That's your guys. Oh, thank you. I'm enjoying
Speaker 1: watching your bracket right now. I love it. Um I
Speaker 1: got for the fourth grade week the mar Jackson or
Speaker 1: Cameron the cat mutiny. Brian, are you gonna meet out again? No,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go l Jacks just because of the shoulder
Speaker 1: injured or the shoulder concerns with Newton's there's something. Hi, Trevor,
Speaker 1: You're next, Standard League, Ivory or McGuire, a right, I'd
Speaker 1: go McGuire, Yeah, I would do Jared that you are
Speaker 1: like uh standard league Coin or Howard against US Slackers
Speaker 1: because it's standard. I would take Howard in a cold
Speaker 1: weather Chicago game and let's see if he can get
Speaker 1: his way into the end zone. Bill, you're next on
Speaker 1: the fan. Hey, fellows, we are not penalized for turnovers
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston or Derek Carr. Not. Anytime you're talking about
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston, you need to clarify it's Car in that matchup.
Speaker 1: I'm not trust and Winston in Baltimore, even with no penalty.
Speaker 1: I think the upside here might be Winston, though, especially
Speaker 1: if you're not penalized for turnovers against the Ravens. Come on, upset,
Speaker 1: Derek Car's got the Bengals upside fine, thank you. They
Speaker 1: issued Patrick Mahomes in this Kansas game and he just
Speaker 1: threw a touchdown. Stand that's amazing. Brent, you're next. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: hate to do this half point PPR. This is really ugly.
Speaker 1: But Gus Edwards or Tony Michelle, Um, I'm really down
Speaker 1: on I'm really down at Edwards and I I think
Speaker 1: Dixon is gonna is going to get the majority of
Speaker 1: the work. But that's very speculative. This is just my
Speaker 1: personal opinion brand, so I don't know that you should
Speaker 1: necessarily automatically do that. But if you're with me on this,
Speaker 1: then we're taking Sony Michelle. It's r Beloved Meat Sauce,
Speaker 1: two co workers, and Tonio Brown or Adam Steeling because
Speaker 1: I need one of them to score more points, so
Speaker 1: one of my co workers doesn't have to write a
Speaker 1: thirty seven and a half bus right charges pointing at
Speaker 1: me because this is a conflict of interest. I think
Speaker 1: that's right exactly, because I am concerned that Miami will
Speaker 1: struggle mightily to score points. I'm going on Brown in
Speaker 1: the shootout meets us good luck Man, good Luck Sauce.
Speaker 1: No Saturdays with Sauceday or else would have just walked
Speaker 1: into the studio and asked his question Wild versus Calgary
Speaker 1: coming up after this, Dan, thank you for calling back,
Speaker 1: and I'm sorry again about hanging up on you. That's
Speaker 1: all right. I was going with the soft j Jordan
Speaker 1: Howard or Elijah McGuire M half PPR. I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna go at the McGuire cat meal. Look what's happened.
Speaker 1: Look what's happened? Thank you? This Hey, it will be forgotten,
Speaker 1: says no, that says this is not gonna stick. Jerry,
Speaker 1: you're next, that McGuire, Jerry, Yeah, PPPR League, Austin Hooper
Speaker 1: or Evan Ingram. Don't play Hooper, Yeah, don't play Ooper.
Speaker 1: You might not even right. We'll go Evan Ingram here
Speaker 1: and hope that without Odell they just throwed him that
Speaker 1: much more might be on. A good game might be,
Speaker 1: but what a disaster season for a guy that I
Speaker 1: thought was gonna be good. Yeah, I thought that injuries though,
Speaker 1: I didn't think he'd be Monty ballgood. Chris your next,
Speaker 1: Raapert Evan Ingram? All right, it's great. We gave him
Speaker 1: the A grade. Gary, you're on the fan. Guys, I've
Speaker 1: tried to call a hundred times in this last two hours.
Speaker 1: Man enough you didn't get in that physic. I'm glad
Speaker 1: you got through. Gary. Thank you for don't hang out
Speaker 1: on him, Charch Yeah, don't hang out on Gary, and
Speaker 1: don't ask about three players. Yeah, don't blow it now.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a mail carrier. Don't make me go. Uh
Speaker 1: just a quarterback question. It's a big one. Hot Jah
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan or uh, Josh Allen says, guys, I don't
Speaker 1: like him here you don't Nope, Yeah, and I've listened,
Speaker 1: listened to all week Charch, that's all you said. If
Speaker 1: you don't like Matt Ryan all week, nervous you might
Speaker 1: die on the Josh Allen hill. That's the problem. I may,
Speaker 1: I may, Okay, Well, it's just I think if it's me,
Speaker 1: I'm taking Josh Allen. I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: you got Shane, you're up? Uh, Samuels, I can start
Speaker 1: him a tight end or kittle cattle? How dare you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I agreed you can kittle. There should be a rule
Speaker 1: that you can't ask about kittle on lightning ground. Pete
Speaker 1: your next, Elsha and Jeffrey or Chris Gotlin Scotwin's got
Speaker 1: a brutal matchup in Baltimore. Go to the wire man.
Speaker 1: All of our take a chance on me, guys. All
Speaker 1: of them are better. Churtis Samuel, who are you guys again?
Speaker 1: Robby Anderson, Me Anderson and west Field? Over those Let's
Speaker 1: come on, Nick Foles regular collar taco. Hello, Hey guys,
Speaker 1: Uh non ppr lock it or boyd? I got lock it? Uh?
Speaker 1: Did you say it was non PPR, then unlock it.
Speaker 1: If it's PPR, then I would I'd go a different way, Megan,
Speaker 1: your next high Hi one point PPR? Do I do
Speaker 1: steel Ard digs Theling or Diggs? Is that is that
Speaker 1: we asked full PPR? If Xavian Howard doesn't go, Diggs
Speaker 1: as our guy against Tory mc tire, retire, retread. You
Speaker 1: pointed Brian on that. Brian, I think I think Howard's
Speaker 1: not going to go. I would take Diggs. Stevie are
Speaker 1: last caller today? Hey, half point PPR Aaron Jones or
Speaker 1: kind of six H Jones. I'd still play Jones. Yeah,
Speaker 1: more guaranteed volume even in a brutal match. Good luck
Speaker 1: in the semifinals. Everybody, it's um you know it's Stewart.
Speaker 1: I well, thank you, thank you for a great season.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Scott Fish will be in your place
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