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Speaker 1: and the listeners. It's a Feast or Famine edition Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Did you feast with guys like Dak Prescott, Dawson Knox,
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson, Cedric Wilson or Bragger? Or did you get
Speaker 1: famine on Thanksgiving? DeAndre Swift, Darren Waller? Did you fall
Speaker 1: for the Tony Jones hype right before gamesh I hope not.
Speaker 1: I hope not. That's that was a trap, right, there
Speaker 1: was that offense broken. I stopped crying about Waller like
Speaker 1: two minutes ago, and you gotta bring that up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sorry about that. We were here to help in either case.
Speaker 1: If you are if you feasted on Thursday, We're here
Speaker 1: to help you protect your lead. If you got famine
Speaker 1: on Thursday and Thanksgiving Day, we're here you to help,
Speaker 1: here to help you make up ground on your opponents.
Speaker 1: We will do that over the course of the show
Speaker 1: with take a chance on me, three tough questions, premature speculation,
Speaker 1: and we will break down all the remaining games for
Speaker 1: this weekend. Gentlemen, Let's start with the Falcons and the Jaguars. Scott,
Speaker 1: this was a Falcons offense that looked hopelessly broken last
Speaker 1: time we saw them. They face a surprisingly stout Jaguars defense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they do. The The Jack's defense has been really good lately.
Speaker 1: In fact, they've helped three of their last four quarterbacks
Speaker 1: they faced under two hundred yards. Josh Allen was the
Speaker 1: one that got over, but he didn't even throw a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So I have Matt Ryan and basically most of the
Speaker 1: passing game on the bench. Gauge Wrestler. Gauge has a
Speaker 1: better forties and seventy yard guy three out of the
Speaker 1: last five games, but the two he didn't get in
Speaker 1: that range, he got complete goose eggs, not even a catch.
Speaker 1: How can you trust him here? And if you go
Speaker 1: by the rule of every other like we were with
Speaker 1: gasket last week. Then then we got a zero on
Speaker 1: our hands. Uh Zakias. He did have that nice two
Speaker 1: touchdong game a while back, but he hasn't had over
Speaker 1: thirty two yards in any game this season. He's on
Speaker 1: the bench. Uh. Cordarrel Patterson is the question mark. He's questionable.
Speaker 1: He's put in some limited practices this week. I do too.
Speaker 1: I think I think it's gameplays. The last week I
Speaker 1: didn't think he was gonna play at all, and he did,
Speaker 1: and this week I'm I'm hesitant. I would give him
Speaker 1: a C grade if he plays, because I feel like
Speaker 1: he's the kind of guy like if they get ahead,
Speaker 1: he's going to run the ball. If they are behind,
Speaker 1: they're gonna throw the ball to him. So like he
Speaker 1: stays in the game no matter what. I'd give him
Speaker 1: a C grade if he goes. Uh. The other running backs, however,
Speaker 1: Quadrea Allison and Mike Davis, I have them on the bench.
Speaker 1: It was too much of a split. They said they
Speaker 1: want to get Allison more work, but they were really
Speaker 1: ineffective with that amount of work last week. I have
Speaker 1: them both on the bench. It's a lot of bench
Speaker 1: grades so far. Now over to Kyle Pitts, Brian, It's
Speaker 1: a nice spot in that seven tight ends have had
Speaker 1: fifty plus and or a score the Jacks. Here's the
Speaker 1: problem with Pitts. He's being treated like an elite receiver.
Speaker 1: The average PF grade of cornerbacks he's getting is facing
Speaker 1: is in the top twelve of receivers I, meaning he's
Speaker 1: seen Deebo Samuel DeAndre Hopkins level seventy plus grades from
Speaker 1: the corners on on him a few weeks ago, stuff
Speaker 1: on Gilmore shadowed him a week or two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Lattimore covered him the majority of the time he sees
Speaker 1: double coverage or help. On twenty of his routes against
Speaker 1: the Pats last week, thirty one percent of the time
Speaker 1: he saw double coverage or help. This is this is
Speaker 1: why all the people that told you, oh, with Calvin
Speaker 1: Ridley out, Kyle pitch is gonna blow up. No, it doesn't.
Speaker 1: You know, for the millionth time, it doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1: You know, when you take the best receiver off a team,
Speaker 1: it only hurts everybody and by the waiver, but yeah,
Speaker 1: still hurt. That kind of proves the point of Pelijack
Speaker 1: taking away your best receiver if he threw doubles out
Speaker 1: of the time. That's right. Um. The Jags may take
Speaker 1: a similar role with Shaquille Griffin and throw him on pits.
Speaker 1: So I have merely a C grade despite an okay matchup.
Speaker 1: It's just he's the top end talent and in some
Speaker 1: of those games he would go three for sixty, which
Speaker 1: is a decent game even against that top coverage. But
Speaker 1: there's it's he's getting too much double coverage and top
Speaker 1: top cornerbacks will break down Kyle Pitts in more detail
Speaker 1: later in this show. On the other side, I have
Speaker 1: the whole passing game on the bench for the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence hasn't topped a hundred and sixty five yards
Speaker 1: passing in three straight. That is nothing. That's nothing. That's
Speaker 1: that's like half a deck press sky game. That's it's
Speaker 1: basically nothing. Uh. He just lost Jamal Agnew for the year.
Speaker 1: The Falcons. I don't care that their bottom ten against
Speaker 1: against quarterbacks. Uh. Lawrence is similar to like the Zach Willis, Wilson,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald types who all through for under two hundred
Speaker 1: against them as well. Um, So I had the whole
Speaker 1: passing game on the bench. I don't care that they
Speaker 1: say they want to get Chanelt Moore in that agnew
Speaker 1: role and get him touches at running back. I can't
Speaker 1: trust it till I see it. James Robinson, No, I'm
Speaker 1: giving a C grade too. He's been pretty ineffective with
Speaker 1: his injured angle and knee despite lots of touches. Uh
Speaker 1: in the two two weeks since returning from injury, those
Speaker 1: thirty touches on total yards and scoring two games. But
Speaker 1: he gets a seat here on the volume. I'm a
Speaker 1: volume see guy. If you if you tell me you
Speaker 1: guys getting fifteen plus touches and it's a bottom ten rundee,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you the C
Speaker 1: grade that that's that's about all I can give you
Speaker 1: as long as you're still hurt. Bucks take on the Colts, Bryan.
Speaker 1: This Bucks passing offense hasn't looked quite right without antone
Speaker 1: Yo Brown. And so does that mean we're gonna get
Speaker 1: a little more Leo four net in this game? I
Speaker 1: don't know if we'll get more of him, but uh,
Speaker 1: I don't love the matchup for for Net. I don't
Speaker 1: have the matchup for running. We'll get to the most
Speaker 1: elite running back in the NFL in a second on
Speaker 1: the cold side, but starting with four net just to
Speaker 1: see for him, he's failed the top fifty rushing yards
Speaker 1: over his last three games. He's had some tough matchups
Speaker 1: mixed in there. The Saints were one of them. Ronald
Speaker 1: Jones did steal a touchdown from four net last week.
Speaker 1: That didn't help matters much, but the Colts are ranked
Speaker 1: fifth against the run by Pro Football Focus. But receiving wise,
Speaker 1: India is allowing four catches for yards per game to
Speaker 1: running back, so that should provide some opportunities for for
Speaker 1: Net to produce through the air. Among running backs, he's
Speaker 1: fourth in targets, behind only DeAndre Swift, and that was
Speaker 1: before Swift played on Thursday Night. Nag Harris and Austin
Speaker 1: Ekela then it's Leonard four NET. No one really would
Speaker 1: have predicted that going into the season, especially after Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay signed Geo Bernard. So for Net, very active in
Speaker 1: the passing game. He's startable, but just a C grade
Speaker 1: for him, uh, not the opposite of the C but
Speaker 1: in a for Mike Evans. The Colts are allowing one
Speaker 1: and a half touchdowns per game to wide receivers the
Speaker 1: highest clip in the league. They've surrendered six scores to
Speaker 1: the position over the last four games. Not much more
Speaker 1: to say here for Evans, he gets an A and
Speaker 1: so does Chris Godwin, especially now that Antonio Brown has
Speaker 1: been ruled out yet again. Uh just mentioned the monster
Speaker 1: numbers posted by opposing wide receivers against the Colts, who
Speaker 1: have also been smoked by slot guys like Tyler Lockett
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup. So love god when this week he gets
Speaker 1: an A. Really like Gronk as well, be for him.
Speaker 1: In his four healthy full games this year, Gronk is
Speaker 1: averaging seven targets and has finished inside the top eight
Speaker 1: at the tight end position, and three of them. The
Speaker 1: Colts are allowing the sixth most points Fantasy points per
Speaker 1: game two tight ends. So be for Gronk, and then
Speaker 1: an A for Brady because all of the plus matchups
Speaker 1: for his past catchers. But just for fun now, all
Speaker 1: these games I'm gonna mention with the Patriots, of course,
Speaker 1: but the but Brady has thrown multiple touchdown passes in
Speaker 1: nine of his last ten games, thank you, and he
Speaker 1: had a hat trick and more in more than half
Speaker 1: of those games against the Colts, so he's been kind
Speaker 1: of slaying them over his career. So in A for Brady.
Speaker 1: Now over to the coult side and we'll start with
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor or not a lot we need to even
Speaker 1: say here, right Jonathan hey Lord like that. With Vida
Speaker 1: Veya not potentially playing in this game, probably not playing
Speaker 1: in this game that opens he's likely to come back
Speaker 1: in this game. And Quentin Nelson aggrevated an angle injury
Speaker 1: last week against the Bills. He was on the card
Speaker 1: parted him off. He's looking unlikely to play. I'm still
Speaker 1: going to give Taylord the A though has been going
Speaker 1: absolutely preserved since Week fourteen, totally fifteen touchdowns in eight games,
Speaker 1: scoring at least once in each of them. But Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay is an elite run defense, allowing just fifty five
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game, less than a hundred combo yards
Speaker 1: per game the position. But you can't give Taylor anything
Speaker 1: less than A at this point. He's gotta he's got
Speaker 1: to earn the B. I guess you can put it
Speaker 1: that way. So and A for Taylor. I will give
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman a B though I was posting big numbers
Speaker 1: not long ago. But Taylor is totally stole in the
Speaker 1: show in recent weeks, but this could be a bounce
Speaker 1: back spot that the Colts are unlikely to get back
Speaker 1: starting corner Carlton Davis and um. They haven't faced a
Speaker 1: ton of tough wide receivers over the last month. Terry
Speaker 1: McLaurin is really the only good wide receiver they faced.
Speaker 1: He did have six catches for fifty nine yards. I'll
Speaker 1: get Pittman that as a safe floor, but he does
Speaker 1: have touchdown upside. He is a monster in the red zones.
Speaker 1: Would be for Pittman. I so I don't. I wasn't
Speaker 1: where that t Y Hilton made his like third or
Speaker 1: fourth return from injury last Yes, he's back, uh, but
Speaker 1: I still got him on the bench and every other
Speaker 1: Colts wide receiver. I also have Moale Cox Jack Doyle
Speaker 1: on the bench as well. It is a decent matchup
Speaker 1: that they kind of vulture each other, whether it's at
Speaker 1: the goal or you know, in the red zone or
Speaker 1: just out side of the twenties. So they're on the bench,
Speaker 1: but Carson Wentz is not. I'll give him a see.
Speaker 1: Indie might be forced to throw more against Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: who have still a run defense. Like I said, they
Speaker 1: own the highest opponent passing play percentage at six. So
Speaker 1: I'll give wins the sea. Alright, Steelers take on the Bengals.
Speaker 1: Love this game for Nazi Harris. He destroyed the Bengals
Speaker 1: in the earlier matchup. He remember that was his fourteen
Speaker 1: reception game earlier this year. That's they're not gonna let
Speaker 1: that happen again because he's not gonna get nin targets.
Speaker 1: They're gonna watch the tape. They're gonna take that away
Speaker 1: to some extent anyway, But the Bengals are allowing the
Speaker 1: most receptions and fourth most receiving yards per game. That well,
Speaker 1: that that did pad some of those stats for sure.
Speaker 1: Um and just in general, they've struggled against running backs,
Speaker 1: allowing one five total yards to runners, second most over
Speaker 1: the full over a full season here and and that's
Speaker 1: just over the last three games. So Harris is an
Speaker 1: obvious sight. Let's go to the passing game. I want
Speaker 1: to start with Deante Johnson. Get is since Week six,
Speaker 1: which is a while ago now, says you know, over
Speaker 1: the past five weeks, only Tyree Hill and Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: have more targets than Deonte Johnson. Now it's only scored
Speaker 1: once over that span, and it's touchdowns have never really
Speaker 1: been his game. But he gets you to a solid
Speaker 1: eighty two gay average of eighty two yards per game,
Speaker 1: and we'll take that. Um. He missed the first earlier
Speaker 1: matchup with the Bengals, he was out for that game,
Speaker 1: but last year crushed him went over one hundred yards
Speaker 1: and both of the games. So this is a good
Speaker 1: opportunity for Deontae Johnson, who comes in with a B grade,
Speaker 1: just a C grade on Chase Claypool. Here Bengals start
Speaker 1: Shadobe Awuzier and Eli Apple on the outside and they've
Speaker 1: combined to allow two scores in the last three games,
Speaker 1: so there's a decent chance there. The best reason to
Speaker 1: start Cha Pool Chase Claypool is just because he's so
Speaker 1: much bigger than those guys, four inches and thirty pounds
Speaker 1: on both of them. And perfect problem recently, even before
Speaker 1: the injury, is he's not getting separations, so it's a
Speaker 1: lot of contested catches. With that size advantage, you can
Speaker 1: get those catches. Absolutely. I had a big game against
Speaker 1: the Bengals the previous meeting, but again, Deante Johnson wasn't
Speaker 1: on the field for that one. Pat Friar Muth I
Speaker 1: like him here a lot. Eric Ebron has been ruled
Speaker 1: out and over the last five weeks Firemouth averaging over
Speaker 1: seven targets per game, and over those last five weeks,
Speaker 1: he's the third highest scoring fantasy tight end. And over
Speaker 1: that same span, averaging five receptions per game, he scored
Speaker 1: four times. And the last time these teams met he scored.
Speaker 1: So Friar Muth b grade in that one. Roll all
Speaker 1: of that together and I've got a C grade on
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger with some B upside, But we're calling it
Speaker 1: a straight seat. This is not a We're not changing
Speaker 1: anything here. This is still just a seat. Very good.
Speaker 1: Over the last two games of multiple touchdowns for Ben Roethlisberger,
Speaker 1: he rarely does that as one touchdown game guy. Prior
Speaker 1: to that, he had thrown for exactly one score and
Speaker 1: six of the first seven games, including the earlier matchup here.
Speaker 1: Bengals held Derek Carr in check last week, but in
Speaker 1: their two prior games, they've given up combined five touched
Speaker 1: to Baker Mayfield and Mike White. So Roethlisberger has got
Speaker 1: some a little better upside than the Sea. But on
Speaker 1: the law on the whole, I still can't get in
Speaker 1: past that CE grade. Let's go to the Cincinnati side.
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon is an obvious A. He's arguably the second
Speaker 1: hottest running back behind only Jonathan Taylor, averaging a hundred
Speaker 1: seven total yards and one and a half touchdowns per
Speaker 1: game over the last five games. He's an obvious start here.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the passing game. Jamaar Chase gets a
Speaker 1: B grade. He's matchup proof, but he'll face two capable
Speaker 1: veterans in the form of Joe Hayden and Cameron Sutton.
Speaker 1: Haydn missed the last game of the foot injury. Sutton
Speaker 1: gives up a seventy percent catch rate, so Chase has
Speaker 1: got the upper hand on in those scenarios. Over the
Speaker 1: last three weeks, He's averaged just thirty seven yards, though,
Speaker 1: which is a bit of a worry. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's hitting the rookie wall per se, but I think
Speaker 1: there is a little bit of concern there. Fortunately, still
Speaker 1: getting lots of targets, and with enough volume he should
Speaker 1: be able to overcome a capable but not great secondary
Speaker 1: B grade on Jamaar Chase. C grade on tee Higgins
Speaker 1: with the assive dud last week. Prior to that, he
Speaker 1: had notched at least fifty eight yards and or a
Speaker 1: score in five of the previous seven games. Uh He
Speaker 1: was inactive for the earlier game against Pittsburgh, but his
Speaker 1: career best game came against Pittsburgh last year. Higgins has
Speaker 1: slightly positive matchups against the aforementioned Hayden and Sutton on
Speaker 1: the outside. He's got to see Gray Tyler Boyd startable
Speaker 1: in this game. He runs from the slot, and he's
Speaker 1: scored in two of the last three full games against
Speaker 1: the Steelers and fellow slot receivers Keenan Allen thumped him
Speaker 1: for a season high one hundred twelve yards last week.
Speaker 1: The main slot defender is usually Train Norwood, who gave
Speaker 1: up one hundred yards, a score and a perfect passer
Speaker 1: rating against the Chargers last week. Put all those receivers together,
Speaker 1: and I've got a b ish grade for Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1: What's that mean? It means a B. He's the ice
Speaker 1: cold with back to back duds, and the Steelers don't
Speaker 1: really feel you know what I'm going see grade, see
Speaker 1: grade on Joe Burrow. Steelers are not a get right
Speaker 1: spot especially with makeup. Fitzpatrick coming back for this game,
Speaker 1: and he will for this one. Burrow posted three touchdowns
Speaker 1: in the earlier meeting, but he was way hotter than that.
Speaker 1: Given how cold he's been and how luke warm I
Speaker 1: am on his receivers, I'm just going with a C
Speaker 1: grade on Joe. Speaking of sea grades, Scott Fish really
Speaker 1: should have given one to Dan Arnold. Them a little
Speaker 1: pod right now, but I guess I should have. I
Speaker 1: should have given him a sea grade. All right, great,
Speaker 1: all right, there you go. Thanks, Okay, if you that's
Speaker 1: what you wanted. The bench dan Arnold have last week
Speaker 1: zero targets wasn't his fault, but three the five tight
Speaker 1: ends to see at least five targets against the Falcons
Speaker 1: have finished top six, and Arnold's gonna see is at
Speaker 1: least at least week. I'm fine with it. I had
Speaker 1: a bench grade. I'm fine with you. But Jaguars didn't
Speaker 1: get the ball until like a minute left in the
Speaker 1: first quarter. Then we come back, take a chance on me.
Speaker 1: Nine players not in really and you're starting lineup will
Speaker 1: tell you who they are when we return. Take a
Speaker 1: chance on me. Nine players not normally in your starting lineup.
Speaker 1: We'll give your quarterbacks running back to receivers you can
Speaker 1: pick up off the waiver wire in many cases and
Speaker 1: give a start. This week, we begin at the quarterback
Speaker 1: position and Scott Fish. Yeah, I'm gonna start with Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 1: Trod Taylor. Excuse me? It gets a Jets matchup. The
Speaker 1: Jets of allowed two fifty plus yards and multiple scores
Speaker 1: to six straight quarterbacks. Taylor has multiple scores in all
Speaker 1: four of his fall games this year. Actually, even the
Speaker 1: game that it wasn't full game, he had multiple scores
Speaker 1: uh six passing and three rushing. He's also averaging twenty
Speaker 1: to thirty rushing yards per game and a score per
Speaker 1: game four touchdowns rushing. Give me to Taylor, all right,
Speaker 1: I like it your quarterback, Brian. I got big mac
Speaker 1: Jones at home against the Titans. Now, I'm a little
Speaker 1: worried about how this game script might turn out for
Speaker 1: the New England pass attack. We'll talk about this game later.
Speaker 1: They're not going to need to pass much, but still,
Speaker 1: mac Jones has looked great over his last two games,
Speaker 1: has completed eighty four percent of his past attempts, and
Speaker 1: he didn't get a chance to light up the box
Speaker 1: score in last week's spanking of the Falcons. H Jones
Speaker 1: did have a hat trick in Week ten against Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Would have had four touchdown passes, but Brian Hoyer came
Speaker 1: in for in for relief. It wasn't really relief. He
Speaker 1: threw a touchdown pass, so it should have been a
Speaker 1: four touchdown game for mac Jones. Tennessee does own the
Speaker 1: third highest opponent passing play percentage at sixty that this well, well,
Speaker 1: the Patriots jumped out ahead and they will. It could
Speaker 1: be through the air from mac Jones. Uhlons have allowed
Speaker 1: at least two passing yards indoor, multiple passing touchdowns and
Speaker 1: three of the last four games, So I'm going mac
Speaker 1: Jones where he could get paid off. They might run
Speaker 1: up to the goal line, let mac Jones throw. You know,
Speaker 1: he could get a three touchdown game on eight yard,
Speaker 1: five yard and four yard touchdowns. Jacks might let him
Speaker 1: have some fun in this one. They might know, they might.
Speaker 1: I've got Jimmy Garoppolo going up against the Vikings. Vikings
Speaker 1: will be missing all four of their starting defensive linemen
Speaker 1: in this game. Garoppolo is gonna have plenty of time
Speaker 1: and over the last three games with Garoppolo healthy, Samuel healthy,
Speaker 1: are you healthy? And George Kittle healthy. He's throwing multiple
Speaker 1: touchdowns in every game, and he's top three hundred twenty
Speaker 1: two yards in two of the three games. He's proving
Speaker 1: to be, begrudgingly too many, proving to be a serviceable
Speaker 1: fantasy quarterback. There a lot of people who do not
Speaker 1: like to think of Jimmy Garoppolo that way. Uh, this
Speaker 1: is a very good opportunity. Minnesota just got eviscerated by
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers last week. I don't think we're gonna see
Speaker 1: like four hundred yards and four downs here, but a
Speaker 1: solid game from Jimmy Garoppolo coming up. Scott, Let's go
Speaker 1: to the running back position. Who you got? I have
Speaker 1: Ty Johnson in that same game the Jets the Jets
Speaker 1: Texans game. Uh, Michael Carter is going to be out
Speaker 1: for a few weeks. Here. The Texans are allowing over
Speaker 1: four point eight yards per carry, which is good for
Speaker 1: most in the league. They've allowed the second most rushing yards.
Speaker 1: It's Coleman might get some work, but even before Carter
Speaker 1: went out, Ty Johnson was stealing not just receiving work,
Speaker 1: but goal line work. He was sharing the goal line
Speaker 1: carries with Michael Carter, so I think he takes that
Speaker 1: on now. Mike White is the only quarterback that was
Speaker 1: targeting running backs in that offense. Like their games were
Speaker 1: like two catches, two catches, three catches, two catches total
Speaker 1: for the running backs except for Mike White, who threw
Speaker 1: you know, four completions per game to the running back.
Speaker 1: But he he gets that work, he gets the goal
Speaker 1: line work. I've c grade on him. So he's Johnson
Speaker 1: makes sense. All right, Brian, you take a chance of
Speaker 1: me running back. I got Dontrelle Hilliard. Who a lot
Speaker 1: of people are you saying Tennis Clinton's running back at
Speaker 1: the Patriots the game I just mentioned, Jeremy Jeremy McNichols
Speaker 1: has been ruled out. Uh McNichols was out last week.
Speaker 1: Hilli had played more than six of the snaps in
Speaker 1: his first game with Tennessee. In that game, he was
Speaker 1: also very active in the passing game, catching eight of
Speaker 1: eight targets uh we mentioned I mentioned earlier. The Titans
Speaker 1: likely to fall behind in this one will be a
Speaker 1: positive game script for Hilliard. The Patriots have allowed the
Speaker 1: seventh most receptions and third most receiving arts of opposing
Speaker 1: running backs this year, So Dontrelle Hilliard and PPR. Of course,
Speaker 1: in standard leagues maybe not so much, but most people
Speaker 1: play some form with PPR these days. So I think
Speaker 1: we've put a different Titans running back into this spot
Speaker 1: three straight weeks. We might not be done either. I
Speaker 1: have not. Lamar Miller is still out there waiting in
Speaker 1: the wind, and if anybody's gonna do it, it'll be you.
Speaker 1: I've got J. D. Mckissic going up against Seattle coming
Speaker 1: off a season high and rushing yards, which is great,
Speaker 1: but where mckissic is always gonna be more reliable through
Speaker 1: the air. Um, if Seattle can just manage to like hold,
Speaker 1: serve or maybe even take a lead for a little while,
Speaker 1: which is not a given, but if they can, that
Speaker 1: will keep Washington from grinding out the game. With Antonio Gibson.
Speaker 1: Seattle gives up the sixth most receptions and the most
Speaker 1: receiving yards two running backs, and that's where mckissic comes
Speaker 1: in here, of course, and mckissic is gonna get most
Speaker 1: of what is there. They're averaging seven receptions and seventy
Speaker 1: three yards. I'll take seven receptions in seventy three yards
Speaker 1: out of j D mckiss. That would be fantastic or
Speaker 1: something close to that. If he's got it, let's go
Speaker 1: to the receivers. You omitted one very important fact there
Speaker 1: as well. It's a revenge game for JD mkiss and
Speaker 1: he had one last year with Washington against he had
Speaker 1: a great game. I think Gibson was ruled out entirely
Speaker 1: of that game. So let's still I love the call.
Speaker 1: All right, good, let's go to the receiver position. I
Speaker 1: am piggybacking off of charges prespect from last week to
Speaker 1: go pick up Evan Ingraham and we're gonna start start
Speaker 1: him here now. Not just start him. I actually have
Speaker 1: an A grade on him in this matchup. It's death
Speaker 1: taxes and tight ends scoring against the Eagles. Uh, we
Speaker 1: got okay. Uh. The Eagles have allowed eight touchdowns on
Speaker 1: the season, two seven different tight ends. Uh. They just
Speaker 1: give up a ton of yards. And also, Kyl Rudolph
Speaker 1: might not be playing in this which opens up even more.
Speaker 1: I'm almost certain Rudolph he's doubtful. He's doubtful at that moment. Christmas,
Speaker 1: it's Christmas time. He can't be playing football. Sorry, Rudy,
Speaker 1: rudoh sorry nine touchdowns. My favorite UH Eagles tight end
Speaker 1: stat was against the Chargers. They allowed to to finish
Speaker 1: inside the top five and neither were Jared Cook. Jared
Speaker 1: Cook finished still top in that game too. All right, Brian,
Speaker 1: your receiver not a tight end. I got um Carolina
Speaker 1: is Robbie Anderson at Miami. Opposing wide receivers are averaging
Speaker 1: more than fifteen catches, one and ninety yards and a
Speaker 1: touchdown per game. Against the Dolphins, Anderson has seen twelve
Speaker 1: targets over the last two games to the fourteen of
Speaker 1: d J. Morris was right on on pace with him
Speaker 1: in terms of targets. Both have nine is across those
Speaker 1: two games. So I see major upside for Robbie, who
Speaker 1: looks rebooted with Cam Newton at quarterback. He and Sam
Speaker 1: Donald did not click at all. And quick site note
Speaker 1: on Robby Anderson. Since the start of he's tied for
Speaker 1: seconds in touchdowns of forty plus yards. Tyreek kills in
Speaker 1: first by a mile, but then it's Robbie Anderson. And
Speaker 1: when you think about Robbie's quarterbacks during that span, like
Speaker 1: Sam Donald, yadda YadA YadA, Sam Donald again. So p J.
Speaker 1: Walker in that safe floor. Huge. So Robby Anderson, one
Speaker 1: of those guys if you're a deep hole after Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: is upside and he's available. Brandon I who goes up
Speaker 1: against the Vikings. And at this point we can safely
Speaker 1: say Brandon Ayou has got four paws out of the doghouse.
Speaker 1: He's actually get this as actually out snapped Deebo Samuel
Speaker 1: in four straight games. He's managed eighty five yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown in two of the past three games. And
Speaker 1: I passes the eye test. I mean, if you watch
Speaker 1: him play, he looks, he looks fantastic. Um, he's working hard.
Speaker 1: And here's the Vikings giving up the most yards to
Speaker 1: opposing receivers two hundred four per game, and they've allowed
Speaker 1: five one hundred yard receivers in their last four games.
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayuk nice play. In fact, you could couple him
Speaker 1: with might take a chance, I mean quarterback, the garoppolo
Speaker 1: to Ayuk angle. And there's another one Brian was just
Speaker 1: talking about. You're down from Thursday's games. Here's your chance
Speaker 1: to make up a little bit of ground. Right there,
Speaker 1: Let's turn our attentions to a to not a great
Speaker 1: game Jets taking on the Texas Texas Scott on the
Speaker 1: Jet side, you already told us you like starting running
Speaker 1: back Ti Johnson. What what do you think about the
Speaker 1: passing game for the Jets with Zack Wilson back at
Speaker 1: the helmet. I've gotten so many questions about whether or
Speaker 1: not they can trust Elijah More. Yeah. I like Zach
Speaker 1: Wilson's arm talent. I don't know that I can trust
Speaker 1: his fantasy production or the amount of interceptions get based
Speaker 1: on earlier than the season, So I'm I'm still gonna
Speaker 1: have him on the bench. Despite a plus match up
Speaker 1: against the Texans. But really that was Stafford and Murray
Speaker 1: and Alan Josh Allen, Kyler, Murray and Matt Staffew there
Speaker 1: that went for an average of three hundred yards and
Speaker 1: they had eight scores combined between them. The other seven
Speaker 1: quarterbacks against the Texans two sixty seven yards, one touchdown
Speaker 1: in two picks was their average. The Texans defense has
Speaker 1: been shocked competent. They weren't good against the three really
Speaker 1: elite quarterbacks, but others. So I have Wilson on the bench. However,
Speaker 1: Elijah Moore, He's your wide receiver. One week's eight through
Speaker 1: eleven wide receiver receiver three weeks, tons and tons of targets,
Speaker 1: but he hasn't played with Zach Wilson for since earlier
Speaker 1: in the season when they weren't on the same page
Speaker 1: and he wasn't getting a lot of work. Uh. All three,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with all three of these guys, More,
Speaker 1: Davis and crowd are all all three have six plus
Speaker 1: targets in five straight full games they played, which they're
Speaker 1: they're all getting spread out work. I'm giving More the
Speaker 1: B grade as the guy who's done it a ton recently.
Speaker 1: They really trust him. He scored four touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: last three weeks, getting the most of the targets. He's
Speaker 1: also kind of the big play guy, so I have
Speaker 1: a B grade on him. I'm gonna give the this
Speaker 1: the C grade to Davis. If he goes, he might
Speaker 1: not go in this one. He's he's dinged up right
Speaker 1: now with a couple of injuries. Uh, if he goes.
Speaker 1: He's the guy that's got forty plus yards in six
Speaker 1: of eight games, and he's scored in you know, four
Speaker 1: of the in half his games, so I have a
Speaker 1: B grade on him. Jamson Crowder I have on the bench, Uh,
Speaker 1: He's really a spot play against bad we we called
Speaker 1: it last week against Miami. They're terrible against the slot
Speaker 1: we had. We had Crowder starting here. He gets slot
Speaker 1: corner uh Tavier Thomas who switched to swap slot corner
Speaker 1: in week four and since then it has been PF
Speaker 1: seventeenth ranked corner since since jumping into the slot. The
Speaker 1: outside corners are seventy five or below. That's why I
Speaker 1: got grades on them. I got Crowder on the bench
Speaker 1: over to the Texans side. I already told you I
Speaker 1: like to Taylor in this game, his receivers. I like
Speaker 1: both of them a little bit, A little bit I
Speaker 1: do have. I have C grades on both Cooks and
Speaker 1: cons you can if if you were allowed, if we
Speaker 1: were allowed, I would give Cooks a B B minus.
Speaker 1: I mean, other than last week, Cooks has been mostly
Speaker 1: dependable this year. Here's here's the problem over the last
Speaker 1: Over the last uh four weeks, he's only seen five
Speaker 1: downfield looks past twenty yards and that's where he makes
Speaker 1: his hey and he's not because the line is not
Speaker 1: blocking for any of them long enough to get those
Speaker 1: D balls. Alright, fine, I'll give it a be because
Speaker 1: I originally added to be as a being changed it. Um,
Speaker 1: let's hope, let's hope he gets one of those big plays,
Speaker 1: but against this Jets team. The Jets. The Jets have
Speaker 1: allowed fifty plus yards from the top two receivers seven
Speaker 1: consecutive weeks, So the top two receivers are getting work done.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm giving Collins a C grade two. He
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown last week even though the refs took
Speaker 1: it away for no good reason. Um Johnson, Burke read
Speaker 1: and maybe even Royce Freeman, you're on the bench. You're
Speaker 1: on the bench. I I don't even want to get
Speaker 1: into it. They were so in eighteen carries for for
Speaker 1: Burke last week made forty yards. Like they're so ineffective.
Speaker 1: That Jets around defense is terrible. Somebody I think somebody
Speaker 1: probably gets a little something done. Oh but it could
Speaker 1: be anybody. And losing really doesn't really change anything. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be like forty six yards in a score. The
Speaker 1: score will get it done and we don't know who's
Speaker 1: getting it. Yeah, I'm I'm with you on that. When
Speaker 1: we come back Panthers take on the Dolphins, Brian will
Speaker 1: tell you whether or not Cam Newton is going to
Speaker 1: continue the hot start he has had for the Carolina Panthers.
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Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. Last segment of our number one begins
Speaker 1: with a dissection of the Panthers taking on the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Panthers offenses look rejuvenated with the return of Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: and Cam Newton at the quarterback position. Brian, let's break
Speaker 1: it down, beginning at the beginning with Cam Newton, who
Speaker 1: has been fan who's we liked him last week and
Speaker 1: he paid off? You like him here? Yeah? I do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a be He certainly has a upside,
Speaker 1: but I like the matchups for his three primary pass
Speaker 1: catching weapons. None of them are tight ends, by the way,
Speaker 1: but we'll get into those guys in a minute. And
Speaker 1: like I just said, Cam's legs are certainly still a weapon.
Speaker 1: Miami has faced three mobile quarterbacks over their last three games,
Speaker 1: Trod Taylor, Lamar Jackson and Josh Josh Allen. None of
Speaker 1: them really popped off, with still combine to average thirty
Speaker 1: nine rushing yards, which equals a passing touchdown in most
Speaker 1: fantasy format. So I think Newton's a safe be here
Speaker 1: with a upside. Uh, it's it's it feels like I
Speaker 1: said that in three tough questions last week. There you
Speaker 1: go right, and I didn't, so I'm proven wrong. So
Speaker 1: far be grade for d J Moore as well. Opposing
Speaker 1: wide receivers are averaging more than fifteen catches a hundred
Speaker 1: ninety yards in a touchdown per game against the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: More caught a touchdown from Cam last week, so no
Speaker 1: concerns there. And for those reasons, Robby Anderson was might
Speaker 1: might take a chance of me wide receiver seeing about
Speaker 1: just as many targets as d J Moore. So I
Speaker 1: love the both receivers, and you gotta love Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: but it's not an easy a. It's not a Fonzie
Speaker 1: for Christian McCaffrey in the in this game. Even though
Speaker 1: McCaffrey is scored five McCaffrey has scored twenty five and
Speaker 1: twenty six PPR points over the last two games. But
Speaker 1: that's with just one touch down, which is insane. Seven
Speaker 1: team catches across the last two games for McCaffrey just
Speaker 1: just an absolute beast when healthy, and Quickside notes once
Speaker 1: the short sellers do cover a mc will be an
Speaker 1: absolute beast as well, not financially Anyways, back to football, McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: it is a tough matchup against Miami. The Dolphins run
Speaker 1: defense has really stiffened over the last month. Over their
Speaker 1: last five games, opposing running backs have averaged just forty
Speaker 1: six rushing yards and no rushing touchdowns during that span.
Speaker 1: And granted we're talking about the backfields of the Jets,
Speaker 1: the Ravens, the Texans, UH and the Bills and the Falcons.
Speaker 1: H McCaffrey better than all those guys combined, like through
Speaker 1: the history of those franchises. Basically, it is worth mentioning
Speaker 1: also that no opposing running back has topped fifty receiving
Speaker 1: yards or scored through the air against Miami all season.
Speaker 1: So if anyone's gonna snap that streak, it's Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: So I'm still give him an a, but it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not a slam dunk for CMC. But went healthy,
Speaker 1: you're you're clearly going to start them over to the
Speaker 1: Dolphins side. We'll start with Miles Gaskin. Just to see here,
Speaker 1: it's an even numbered week for Miles, which I'm very
Speaker 1: concerned about. Science has proven that he goes off an
Speaker 1: odd numbered weeks. Struggles, struggles and even the number of weeks.
Speaker 1: But uh, at least Caroline has run. Defense has softened
Speaker 1: since Week three. They've allowed one d eighteen rushing yards
Speaker 1: per game since then. But be wary of what Gascon
Speaker 1: might do through the air. The Panthers are allowing the
Speaker 1: fewest receptions and receiving yards per game to opposing running.
Speaker 1: Anything to do with Myles gask this week, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a softest. Just I'm not too worried about
Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay. I mean probably, but you get you get
Speaker 1: released by the Texans. You're not You're not very good,
Speaker 1: um Gaskin. I'm gonna give him a C based on
Speaker 1: expected volume, and just to see for Jalen Waddle, who
Speaker 1: has pretty much been a safe B play at the
Speaker 1: very least. But u G Team Leagues writer Jake Naggy
Speaker 1: of no relation to Matt Naggy, so Jake actually knows
Speaker 1: what he's doing. This is what he had to say
Speaker 1: about Jalen Wattle. Wattle has developed one of the safest
Speaker 1: floors around, posting between sixty and eighty five yards and
Speaker 1: five of his last six games and at least seven
Speaker 1: receptions and four of his last six. He'll need that
Speaker 1: safe floor against the Panthers defense, though that is fairly
Speaker 1: stinge against opposing receivers, but that's largely a result of
Speaker 1: playing just four top sixteen passing offenses all season. Uh.
Speaker 1: Carolina has been consistently cooked by quality wide receivers like
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks, Adam thieland Justin Jefferson, and most recently Terry McLaurin. A. J.
Speaker 1: Bouyer and Jeremy Chin had been splitting slot duties for Carolina.
Speaker 1: As of late, both are allowing a passive rating of
Speaker 1: at least ninety five on the season. Great work by
Speaker 1: Jake Naggy on that there's uh. This cornerback group for
Speaker 1: the Panthers suddenly uber d right. They added Stefan Gilmore,
Speaker 1: they added they added in C. J. Henderson, A J.
Speaker 1: Blue Ya, Dante Jackson. This is and they already had
Speaker 1: a very good safety in Jeremy Chin. This is a
Speaker 1: This is turned into a very good second. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I'm not getting hued at wide receiver too with Albert
Speaker 1: Wilson or President Williams. They're both on the bench. Mike
Speaker 1: Mikes he's really wide receiver to for the Dolphins, but
Speaker 1: of course he's tightened eligible in fantasy football. That's the
Speaker 1: only thing he's eligible as only one opposing tight and
Speaker 1: his top fifty eight yards against the Panthers all year.
Speaker 1: Carolina also recently shut down the comparable Kyle Pitts, held
Speaker 1: him to two catches for thirteen score of the Stards,
Speaker 1: Like Pitski runs the vast majority of his routes from
Speaker 1: this slot or out wide. So just to see if
Speaker 1: you kisiki and two uh is on the bench for me,
Speaker 1: and this one when you're over under prop is set
Speaker 1: at two passing yards, you just stay away from that
Speaker 1: guy entirely fantasy football. Okay. I've got the Vikings taking
Speaker 1: on the forty Niners Sdalvin Cook. Just a big rare
Speaker 1: B grade for Dalvin Cook and a tough matchup. Only
Speaker 1: two runners have topped seventy two yards against the Niners.
Speaker 1: That is not a particularly high threshold, and this could
Speaker 1: be a trickier matchup than it sounds like. San Francisco's
Speaker 1: biggest weakness is at the goal line, where they are
Speaker 1: allowing a touchdown on half of the rushing attempts inside
Speaker 1: the ten, and the Vikings run the ball constantly inside
Speaker 1: the tent, so there's a good chance for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Though for Dalvin Cook, um I'll note that Cook's only
Speaker 1: ranked twenty nine in attempts per broken tackle, and normally
Speaker 1: we think of him as somebody who breaks a lot
Speaker 1: of tackle hick Alexander Madison many times, right, So I'm
Speaker 1: not saying something's wrong with him, but it doesn't. It
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to have the same level of explosiveness and
Speaker 1: big plays off of making somebody miss. Profo ball focus
Speaker 1: ranks is the fourth best tackling defense. So I don't
Speaker 1: see the big game coming from Dalvin Cook here. Where
Speaker 1: I see it coming is through the air as the
Speaker 1: like this is gonna be a high scoring game. I
Speaker 1: love so many players here, justin Jefferson obvious a coming
Speaker 1: out back to back games with over one hundred forty yards.
Speaker 1: Jefferson runs almost evenly from every spot on the field, left, right,
Speaker 1: and slot and has got positive matchups at every single stop.
Speaker 1: How about this stat as legendary as Randy Moss is.
Speaker 1: In Randy Moss's first two years of football, he had
Speaker 1: eleven games with one hundred yards. Justin Jefferson's already there
Speaker 1: with whatever seven games left in the season to go
Speaker 1: on a better than Moss like clip for Justin Jefferson,
Speaker 1: he's an A grade. I've got to be grade in
Speaker 1: Adam Feeling. San Francisco has given a big games to
Speaker 1: receivers with competent quarterbacking all year, allowing a ninety yard
Speaker 1: receiver or multiple touchdowns to receivers when they've faced Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, Kyler, Murray, Carson Wentz, Matthew Stafford. I think
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins in that mix. San Francisco's cornerback trio of
Speaker 1: Josh Norman, Emmanuel Moseley, and Kwan Williams all rank they
Speaker 1: rank respectively by Profo Ball Focus. So I like Theeland
Speaker 1: and many of these matchups. The only reason he doesn't
Speaker 1: have it and A grade here is he is somewhat
Speaker 1: touchdown dependent. When he does not score, you usually get
Speaker 1: a good not great box score from Adam Feland and
Speaker 1: Tyler Conklin on the bench. Nine US have been fantastic
Speaker 1: against tight ends since an opening week garbage time drubbing
Speaker 1: by d J. Hockinson. San Francisco's only giving up per
Speaker 1: game averages of three catches for twenty four yards and
Speaker 1: zero point three touchdowns per game to the position. We're
Speaker 1: gonna sit Conklin in this one, and that leaves Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins at a B grade. The beauty of starting Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins is that he never torpedoes your team with a
Speaker 1: terrible game. He's throwing at least one touchdown in thirty
Speaker 1: four of his last thirty five games. Then then he
Speaker 1: periodically pops off for a monster game like the like
Speaker 1: the likes of which he had last week. He's found
Speaker 1: his way to three or more touchdowns on five different
Speaker 1: occasions this year, and as I mentioned, I like the
Speaker 1: wide receiver matchups. So I do like Kirk Cousins with
Speaker 1: a B grade in this one. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: over to the Niners. I told you I thought this
Speaker 1: is gonna be high scoring game both ways, and it is.
Speaker 1: Vikings are without all four of their starting defensive lineman
Speaker 1: in this game. That's not good and That's why I
Speaker 1: love many players here. Deebo, Samuel's and obvious a best
Speaker 1: receiver after the catch. And it's not even do You
Speaker 1: can't even have a rational conversation with anybody about anybody
Speaker 1: else in that conversation with the possible exception entire kill
Speaker 1: for just speed. But nobody's more lethal at By the way,
Speaker 1: I read a stat that the defensive line for the
Speaker 1: Vikings with all the backups and dropped about seventy pounds
Speaker 1: per player. Oh no, kidding, Wow, that's amazing. Already told you.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolos may take a chance to the quarterback. Brandon
Speaker 1: I who was may take a chance to be wide receiver.
Speaker 1: They have B grades in this game. George Kittle's gotta
Speaker 1: be grade. He scored in all three of his games
Speaker 1: since returning from injury, re cementing his elite status. Minnesota
Speaker 1: has found a way to keep tight ends out of
Speaker 1: the end zone, at least until last week, when they
Speaker 1: surrendered their first score to the position um. Much of
Speaker 1: this is because they've only yielded to red zone touches
Speaker 1: and four red zone targets two tight ends. Anthony Barr
Speaker 1: comes back, he will be covering George Kittle extensively in
Speaker 1: this game. Still advantage Kittle, but the Vikings have been
Speaker 1: very good against the position. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: Alves Mitchell. I believe he will play in this game
Speaker 1: off of the finger injury that kept him out last week.
Speaker 1: Jeff Wilson had all of the run last week and
Speaker 1: did nothing with it, which is great for Elijah Mitchell owners.
Speaker 1: That means that Mitchell should get the vast majority of
Speaker 1: the work here. Wilson does have a history as a
Speaker 1: goal line vulture, though, so I'll mention that, and I
Speaker 1: could see Wilson coming in and sniping touchdowns. But that's
Speaker 1: my only worry. When Mitchell is healthy, he gets all
Speaker 1: the work and he's established a safe floor, averaging seventeen
Speaker 1: touches in ninety yards per game. The Vikings have not
Speaker 1: allowed of running back to run for eighty yards since
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb did in Week four, but the Vikings missing
Speaker 1: all of those players on the defensive line, Mitchell could
Speaker 1: be sitting on a really nice game. Let's hope he's
Speaker 1: able to go. If he can't go, you can put
Speaker 1: a C grade on Jeff Wilson. Although I didn't love
Speaker 1: what I saw last week Alright, final matchup of the
Speaker 1: segment is the Eagles taking on the Giant Scott Eagles
Speaker 1: have suddenly reversed the early season all passing, no running.
Speaker 1: Now they're all no passing. Yeah, they gotta find some
Speaker 1: balance sometime, right, although this is working way better for them? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it absolutely is. Jalen Hurts obvious. If he doesn't get
Speaker 1: it done passing like he didn't last week, he gets
Speaker 1: it done on the ground like he did last week
Speaker 1: with three rushing touchdowns, he gets it. He's He's been
Speaker 1: a top twelve quarterback ten weeks or not nine or
Speaker 1: ten weeks of this season so far. Obviously there, you're
Speaker 1: not benching him. Tavanta Smith, I also have an A
Speaker 1: grade on He's He's Hurts main guy has sixty plus
Speaker 1: yards in six or eight games, and now he's scoring
Speaker 1: a lot more as Hurts. His progressing as a passer
Speaker 1: um last last week was a little fluky with Hurts
Speaker 1: running three in but he is the guy that Hurts
Speaker 1: looks too in the end zone. A grade on Smith
Speaker 1: Watkin Quest Watkins, I'm sorry, just when I start buying
Speaker 1: into him, his targets are ticking up and schedule gets
Speaker 1: easier then he goose eggs on us. So I'm throwing
Speaker 1: touchdown two weeks. Yeah, I'm throwing him back on the bench.
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard B grade here the Giants been allowed a
Speaker 1: touchdown since week four. But Waller and Gronk just ripped
Speaker 1: up the Giants the last two weeks for ninety two
Speaker 1: yards and seventy two yards and a budget. The other
Speaker 1: tight ends did work too. It seems like that's a
Speaker 1: that's the area there. They've been beaten recently in UM
Speaker 1: and you get a lot of targets out of Goddard. Yeah, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of volume that that there was.
Speaker 1: Where my point is going is he those are the
Speaker 1: two guys that compare with Goddard as far as volume goes.
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders B grade. Howard is out. That should mean
Speaker 1: a bigger look workload for Sanders. Scott does a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff that that Sanders does. The reason Jordan Howard
Speaker 1: was coming coming in is because he does the bang
Speaker 1: through the middle stuff buston. Scott really doesn't do that.
Speaker 1: So Sanders isn't gonna lose a lot of work to
Speaker 1: Scott on that angle. I think he might get up
Speaker 1: to his early season numbers of of snap counts in
Speaker 1: this one. Um, the Eagles have been going to the
Speaker 1: running back to thirty five times per game, as we
Speaker 1: kind of alluded to. If he gets even half of
Speaker 1: that sixteen plus touches, Um, you're talking about a Giant's
Speaker 1: team that all the backs of that sixteen plus touches. Uh,
Speaker 1: they averaged a hundred and seven yards. So I like
Speaker 1: miss Sanderson, he catches passes to my only concerned this
Speaker 1: hurts stealing goal like Harries, it's legit. On the other side,
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, I have a C grade. He's got his
Speaker 1: weapons back. Yeah, sharps out or not sharp Sterling Shepherd.
Speaker 1: Shepherd's oh, yeah, that's right. I you know, I wrote
Speaker 1: this down before I saw Tony went doubtful. You know what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bench him now, just should be on the bed.
Speaker 1: Andy's Daniel Jones. The play has been so bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Eagles have allowed seven seven quarterback touchdowns in just
Speaker 1: the last three weeks. But yeah, with with Tony out
Speaker 1: now to Yeah, Shepherd's Shepherds. Don't trust Freddie Kitchens to
Speaker 1: materially change, and you can't trust Holiday. You can't trust Slaton,
Speaker 1: So the only past catcher I trust is might take
Speaker 1: a chance on me receiver. I guess tight end Evan Ingram,
Speaker 1: because he's gonna be the only one out there that
Speaker 1: can really make plays, can throw, they don't have to
Speaker 1: run something. I don't know. I should look up his
Speaker 1: passing stats. I have a B grade on s Kwon Barkley.
Speaker 1: Not the greatest return against the tougher Bucks run d
Speaker 1: last week, but it lightens up here. Illegals are allowing
Speaker 1: the fourth most Comboy yards to running backs at over
Speaker 1: a hundred forty yards per game. They're not gonna have
Speaker 1: Booker on the field. Barkley is gonna get He's another
Speaker 1: week removed from that injury. He got some play in him.
Speaker 1: He had six catches in his first game back. He's
Speaker 1: a dual threat. B grade. There be grade there, hey.
Speaker 1: From the Thursday games, Dallas has lost three of the
Speaker 1: last four. Tony Pollard is simply a better running back
Speaker 1: than Ezekiel Elliott. Do you know how many yards rushing EZEKIELA.
Speaker 1: Elliott has in the last five weeks? No under five games,
Speaker 1: under two hundred and five games. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he meant to do it. But you called
Speaker 1: him Elliott there, and I like Ezekiel that would be
Speaker 1: that's that is a tough guy name right there. At
Speaker 1: some point, at some point, they gotta flip the usage
Speaker 1: on these guys. Jerry Jones, do you think you want?
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Speaker 1: three tough questions. We encourage you to play a long question.
Speaker 1: Number one, better tight end prospect in future years Kyle Pitts.
Speaker 1: Our Pat friar Mouth will begin with our Kyle Pitts apologist,
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson. Um, I'm gonna have more counterpoints to this
Speaker 1: ridiculous question. Pat fire movie conclearingly gonna have a great year.
Speaker 1: He's having a great rookie year as an actual tight end.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna say he is the better tight end
Speaker 1: prospect in future years because I truly believe that Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts to wide receiver because that is what he plays,
Speaker 1: and yes, he's he is through among uh quote unquote
Speaker 1: tight ends and yards despite having his by and despite
Speaker 1: being the only past catcher that's drawing double coverage Pits, Yes,
Speaker 1: and his his quarterback is dust In Matt Ryan. But
Speaker 1: I I honestly believe, and I don't like it, trust me,
Speaker 1: that Pitts is gonna be moved to wide receiver even
Speaker 1: in fantasy football couple world. I disagree with you there
Speaker 1: because he for the contract. Falcons won't do it for
Speaker 1: the contract. His contract will be up in a couple
Speaker 1: of years, but they don't want to have to pay
Speaker 1: him like a wide receiver they want to pay. If
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey hasn't moved age, then he won't, he won't
Speaker 1: resign with Atlanta, and it will go somewhere else receiver,
Speaker 1: because alright, okay, maybe we should have gone we should
Speaker 1: have gone to me first. Then I figured that better
Speaker 1: tight end prospect in future Kyle Pitts or Pat Friarmouth.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, so I'm still sticking with See, I love
Speaker 1: both these guys. I think this is talking to like,
Speaker 1: you know, who's better for the future, Hill or Adams,
Speaker 1: you know, like it's splitting hairs from me, because I
Speaker 1: really I have both these guys in a lot of leagues.
Speaker 1: I love both these guys. Kyle Pitts just runs so
Speaker 1: many more routes. Uh, he he runs, He runs so
Speaker 1: many more routes. He gets so much more air yards,
Speaker 1: he gets targeted on more routes um. His target share
Speaker 1: for the team is much higher. His catch percentage is
Speaker 1: about the same. But where the difference is is really
Speaker 1: touchdowns and and the red zone looks are even like
Speaker 1: way in a way for Pat Okay, Pat fern With
Speaker 1: gets all the red zone looks. He gets so much
Speaker 1: touchdown targeting. That's kind of what you look for in
Speaker 1: tight ends because but touchdowns aren't super sticky The problem
Speaker 1: is both we don't know who their cardobacks will be
Speaker 1: next year. So I'm going to take the guy that
Speaker 1: I already know gets an elite level, elite level number
Speaker 1: of routes, you know, targets. Um, he's a bigger part
Speaker 1: of the offense, and I think he's just a better
Speaker 1: all around talent because I don't know what each offense is,
Speaker 1: you know what the touchdown offense is gonna look for,
Speaker 1: like for Pittsburgh next year. This was a hard question.
Speaker 1: I think this is a legitimately tough question. Touchdowns aren't
Speaker 1: as sick as loophole aside. Uh, first off, let's start here.
Speaker 1: I'm declaring victory and are heated preseason debates about Kyle Pitts.
Speaker 1: That's already over. That's not it is not even up
Speaker 1: for contest. It's third in yards among tight ends. What
Speaker 1: what Yeah, you're leaving out the one touchdown. Darren Waller
Speaker 1: has two? Are you calling Waller? That is? That is?
Speaker 1: Waller has nothing to do with this conversation. He has
Speaker 1: been over the past month. Over the past month, Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts is tight end thirty two in Fantasy scoring three two.
Speaker 1: That is, he has if you started Kyle Pitts every
Speaker 1: week of the season he has hurt your team. That
Speaker 1: is indisputable. That is, he has hurt your team over
Speaker 1: the past past five weeks, which is a sizeable sample size.
Speaker 1: Pat Friar Muth is tight end two in Fantasy Points
Speaker 1: tight end two over the previous five weeks. Kyle Pitts
Speaker 1: is tight end thirty two. So this is not to me.
Speaker 1: This isn't close. That is a five weeks sample. But
Speaker 1: they both have two top five weeks at tight end.
Speaker 1: They both have four top twelve weeks at time end
Speaker 1: tight end, and Pitts has eight top twenty four weeks.
Speaker 1: Has played four games over the last five weeks start
Speaker 1: he had his bidering that span. So talk about skewed numbers,
Speaker 1: he's got triple the did you start him in his
Speaker 1: bye week? Um? Okay, now here's here's the X factor here.
Speaker 1: And this I really struggled, I really, I honestly struggled
Speaker 1: with with much of this. We know the Steelers have
Speaker 1: got a huge problem at quarterback beginning next year, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, and I mean they this is it, this
Speaker 1: is the end of the run there. But they also
Speaker 1: know that and they will do They'll take some corrective measure.
Speaker 1: Now the prrective measure may not work, but they're going
Speaker 1: to do some thing about it next year. So then
Speaker 1: we look at Kyle Pitts with Matt Ryan. Matt Ryan.
Speaker 1: There's a chance they move on from Matt Ryan next year,
Speaker 1: but they will probably start him again next year. But
Speaker 1: we're at that stage where any year is where it
Speaker 1: could totally fall off for Matt Ryan. So then do
Speaker 1: you ride out Kyle Pitts not knowing when the end
Speaker 1: is here for Matt Ryan, or you better off with
Speaker 1: Pat Friar Muth and whatever rebuilding measure that they end
Speaker 1: up taking. And that's not obvious as to what the
Speaker 1: right answer is on that. And Steelers have always had
Speaker 1: consistent tight not not not necessarily elite, but even back
Speaker 1: to the Heath Miller days, they've had pretty consistent tight
Speaker 1: end and they you know, they've targed there tight end
Speaker 1: the red zone for twenty years. And your case against
Speaker 1: Pitts in the summer was just he was a rookie
Speaker 1: tight end. It wasn't that Matt Ryan was gonna be
Speaker 1: absolute trash, that Calvin Ridley away from the team, that
Speaker 1: Cordell Cordell Patterson was gonna be this ridiculous X factor
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. You can't take like that. That's just
Speaker 1: where we are today. And I won that, Dilton. I
Speaker 1: won the preseason bet on whether or not he would
Speaker 1: live up to your ranking of tight end four, your
Speaker 1: preseason ranking of tight end four. It's just it's just two.
Speaker 1: He's tight end eight right now. No, I bet he's
Speaker 1: not even that high, but that's it's still not four
Speaker 1: either way. That is soundly seven. Okay, boy, after all
Speaker 1: of this, the correct answer is Kyle Pitts Top question
Speaker 1: number two, sabotage drop, Russell Wilson, Scott Fish. What do
Speaker 1: you think I believe I said in the preseason just
Speaker 1: not to draft him, because that's that's a whole other
Speaker 1: conversation to take one of these This this is not
Speaker 1: like now. This is what we this is when we
Speaker 1: talked about the preseason is the second half of the
Speaker 1: year is bad for him almost almost every year now,
Speaker 1: and now he's dealing with a finger injury. Um, there
Speaker 1: are enough qubs out there with the same that are
Speaker 1: gonna put up similar or better production without the name value.
Speaker 1: So I I say, sure, I don't trust the run
Speaker 1: game anymore. I don't trust pe Carroll anymore. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sabotage drop him, Brian sabotage drop Russell Wilson. Uh No,
Speaker 1: next week, don't do it this week. You're gonna play
Speaker 1: him this week against Washington, who is given of the
Speaker 1: most passing touchdowns two quarterbacks. Of course, So sabotage. Don't
Speaker 1: sabotage drop at the end of the week anyway. Your
Speaker 1: sabotrast draft window is next week after the big game
Speaker 1: against Okay, yeah, I'll say yes if we're under that,
Speaker 1: yes notion, but yes after Sunday. Yes, sabotage rop Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson for sure, especially because I mean Russell Wilson and
Speaker 1: his career is ten and two on Monday night with
Speaker 1: absurd stats like and it's a great matchup. Again, for
Speaker 1: those that are not familiar, the point of the sabotage
Speaker 1: drop is to cost make other people spend some kind
Speaker 1: of capital their waivers spot or a bunch of fat
Speaker 1: and a guy who's not going to perform for that,
Speaker 1: And so you can't drop him at the end of
Speaker 1: the week because those pickups are free. You gotta drop
Speaker 1: him at the beginning of next week. The second half
Speaker 1: of the sabotage is that they start him and they
Speaker 1: don't and that's delicious as well. And by the ways,
Speaker 1: tenth right now and points per game among tight ends
Speaker 1: and non PPR, he has had his by And despite
Speaker 1: that fact, he's third in yards and seventh in catches.
Speaker 1: Guess the one touchdown? Matt Ryan has missed him on
Speaker 1: multiple occasions in the end zone watching past I'm very
Speaker 1: upset with this. What was what was the correct answer?
Speaker 1: I know, but still you're all over my boy. Listen.
Speaker 1: He wasn't that he never should have been ranked tight
Speaker 1: end four. That was ludicrous. Darren Waller been ranked you
Speaker 1: guys talked to me up to say, I'm preci I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure I had him at six and moved him
Speaker 1: to five. Right, No, I moved him back to six
Speaker 1: with the entry to alight factor. Russell, We're still time
Speaker 1: get this guy. Whatever over his last fifteen games is
Speaker 1: a healthy sample size. It goes back to Halloween's Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson's average output is two hundred fifteen yards and one
Speaker 1: point four touchdowns. Who else is two hundred fifteen yards
Speaker 1: and one point four touchdowns? Who is the statistical comparables
Speaker 1: Sam Darnald to a Tonguo Violoa and Jimmy Garoppolo. None
Speaker 1: of them may be starters next year. That is your
Speaker 1: comparable to what Russell Wilson has delivered over the last
Speaker 1: year and change of games. I just have to throw
Speaker 1: this in because it's hilarious. Josh Norris, you know, Josh
Speaker 1: Norris formally wrote a word. He tweeted out a meme
Speaker 1: a picture of let Russ cook next to a bowl
Speaker 1: of cereal with two uncooked Hodd dogs and a piece
Speaker 1: of not melted cheese in it. And I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: that's about right now. Get this the schedule another reason
Speaker 1: to sabotage drop Russell Wilson. To schedule only one strongly
Speaker 1: positive game left at Houston. Every other game left is
Speaker 1: neutral or negative for Russell Wilson. And ask yourself this,
Speaker 1: with playoff time approaching, you need to get your quarterback
Speaker 1: to help you win three straight games in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: You can't trusts. He can't put together three straight good games.
Speaker 1: His offensive line ranks twenty four and pass blocking by
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus. He's only got one reliable target, TK Metcalf.
Speaker 1: So many things working against him. No running game, Yes,
Speaker 1: sabotage drop Russell Wilson no matter what he does against
Speaker 1: the terrible Washington secondary this weekend. Tough question number three,
Speaker 1: what is the appropriate level of concern for Darryl Henderson? None?
Speaker 1: Some or a bowl loosening level of existential dread? Brian,
Speaker 1: I'm going none. He scored zero points last week, but
Speaker 1: that's because he was on by UM. Apparently only Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts docked for that, but anyway, third easiest remaining strength
Speaker 1: of skal for running backs according to Fantasy Pros and
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle, no threat to really steal touches from Henderson,
Speaker 1: and without Robert Woods, he could see the Rams have
Speaker 1: deployed him as a wide receiver on multiple occasions, put
Speaker 1: him out wide and completed long passes to him. He's
Speaker 1: got a lot of area yards for running back. So
Speaker 1: I have no concern with Darren Darryl Henderson. I see
Speaker 1: where you're going with this, and it's because his touches
Speaker 1: and his production came down the last two weeks last
Speaker 1: pretty pretty pretty precipitously. Um. But the even even three
Speaker 1: to even four weeks ago, he's still got like eighteen touches.
Speaker 1: The week after that, he got sixteen touches like the
Speaker 1: last two weeks were the ones that really killed people. UM.
Speaker 1: And the reason for that, the reason Michelle was getting
Speaker 1: nine touches per game, is because they fell behind by
Speaker 1: two scores. I don't see the Rams doing that a
Speaker 1: lot going forward. I don't think they're that broken. I
Speaker 1: think this is a question of do you think that
Speaker 1: the Rams are a little bit broken and they're gonna
Speaker 1: be falling behind in games where Darrell Henderson isn't good
Speaker 1: to get the usage he does. And I don't think
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. I think they'll be ahead a lot.
Speaker 1: I think he'll get his usage back. He's been a
Speaker 1: little dinged up. Um. Nobody else in that backfield gets
Speaker 1: the receiving work. I'm gonna say some, but only because
Speaker 1: maybe the offense is broken and Darrel Henderson gets injured.
Speaker 1: It's it's something he does. He does. He's gotten hurt
Speaker 1: this year already a couple of times, played through it.
Speaker 1: He got hurt in previous seasons. Uh. The correct answers
Speaker 1: some diminishing carries in five straight games. Hasn't top ninety
Speaker 1: rushing yards all year, but may or maybe more than
Speaker 1: anything else, I'm just worried that Sean mcveigh's got this
Speaker 1: knee jerk willingness to bail on his running game the
Speaker 1: moment his team is down. Will the Rams fall behind
Speaker 1: at any point during this playoff schedule Seattle, probably not.
Speaker 1: How About at Minnesota with a good Vikings offense. Maybe
Speaker 1: at Baltimore maybe? And if they fall behind, does Darryl
Speaker 1: Henderson let you down in one of those games where
Speaker 1: suddenly it turns into a seven touch game. That's a
Speaker 1: good point, and that's what worries me. So I don't
Speaker 1: know that you can get through a playoff gauntlet where
Speaker 1: you can't afford any loss in three straight games. And
Speaker 1: that's why three. The answer is the appropriate level of
Speaker 1: concern for Darrell Henderson is some s working one final
Speaker 1: matchup in this this segment, it's not our final final matchup.
Speaker 1: The Tennessee Titans take on the Patriots. Brian, there's nothing
Speaker 1: left with this, There's nothing left of this, This Titan's
Speaker 1: offense missing. It's number one and number two wide receivers,
Speaker 1: it's number one tight end And I don't know we're
Speaker 1: down to like running back seventeen here? Should I just say,
Speaker 1: I'm just going with the doctor was might take a
Speaker 1: chance of Men's. Yeah, you can go to look at
Speaker 1: the other wide receivers, but suddenly they're like the top
Speaker 1: option that it's gonna get shut down by cornerback J. C.
Speaker 1: Jackson's looked great. So yeah, you can't trust anyone in
Speaker 1: the passing except Hilliard. Out of the backfield me Marcus Johnson,
Speaker 1: number one, two and three receivers are out. Johnson put
Speaker 1: on I R by the way, you would have had
Speaker 1: a good game. You had the right call, but he
Speaker 1: got hurt. Last weeks Fitzpatrick and n W I had
Speaker 1: a great game. But anyway, basically you're benching all Titans
Speaker 1: unless Hilliard. If you're desperate running back, he's a He's
Speaker 1: take on Worthy over to the Patriots side the uh.
Speaker 1: Damien Harris and Mndre Stevenson both get a C for
Speaker 1: me in a likely time share in this one. Teams
Speaker 1: have been having way too much fun throwing on the Titans,
Speaker 1: but Tennessee just yielded thirty five running back touches in
Speaker 1: a loss to the Texans and in this game should
Speaker 1: offer the same type of script for the New England
Speaker 1: running back, So a C for both just because they're
Speaker 1: gonna kind of vulter each other on this one. Stevenson
Speaker 1: maybe even gets the edge with the pass catching, but
Speaker 1: then again, they might never not even have to pass
Speaker 1: in this game, that's true. Uh. And with that said,
Speaker 1: just to see for Hunter Henry. For me, the Titans
Speaker 1: are allowing the fifth viewest Fantasy points per game to
Speaker 1: tight ends and John and Smith might get some extra
Speaker 1: reps in this one. It is a revenge game after
Speaker 1: but he's still on the bench though, Jonas Smith that is.
Speaker 1: I'll give the seed Hunter Henry, and now for Nelson Aguilar, Ja,
Speaker 1: Kobe Myers and Drick Borne. Kind of tricky situation here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give each one to see, but I don't
Speaker 1: know which one is actually gonna have the the seaworthy game.
Speaker 1: The Titans are allowing the most of everything to opposing
Speaker 1: wide receivers on the season, but again, the game script
Speaker 1: could get flipped upside down. I'll go with Kendrick Bourne,
Speaker 1: who has the most targets over the last two weeks
Speaker 1: among the wide receivers in the most yards uh at
Speaker 1: a hundred and forty, and he scored a touchdown. Also
Speaker 1: four rushes for fifty yards, so Kendrick Borne, if your
Speaker 1: ultra needy gets to see and I'm sort of saying,
Speaker 1: I'm worried about how much the Patriots are gonna throw,
Speaker 1: but I still had Mac Jones. This might take a
Speaker 1: chance to meet quarterback. I think they might let him
Speaker 1: have some fun here aired out a little bit sounds good.
Speaker 1: It's uh, it's just gonna be as one side of
Speaker 1: a game as as we'll see. Things were looking so
Speaker 1: promising for the Titans right before when they beat They
Speaker 1: hammered Patrick Mahomes and dominated that game, and it looked
Speaker 1: like they were as good as any team in the
Speaker 1: a f C. Fast forward, what three weeks and it's
Speaker 1: a complete disaster, clinging exact same team absolutely. When we
Speaker 1: come back, the Browns take on the Ravens. Brown's offense
Speaker 1: trying to rebound from a dug game, but they get
Speaker 1: back Kareem Hunt. We'll tell you what to expect from
Speaker 1: him and Nick Chubb in this matchup with the hated Ravens.
Speaker 1: When we return to Fantasy Football Weekly, Welcome back Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. We've got a block of matchups for you,
Speaker 1: letter grades and all the players who matter. Browns take
Speaker 1: on the Ravens now here's the schedule. Oddity with this
Speaker 1: is the Browns are gonna play the Ravens in consecutive games.
Speaker 1: They're gonna go Ravens Bye week Ravens, which is I
Speaker 1: as far as I can remember, and I'm not an
Speaker 1: authority on this, I don't ever remember that happening before
Speaker 1: I playing the same team consecutively. That's it is. It
Speaker 1: is bizarre. This is the first of the two matchups.
Speaker 1: UM A grade on Nick Chubb Um, although this is
Speaker 1: a little bit of a tricky matchup as Baltimore allows
Speaker 1: the seventh fewest rushing yards and only Dalvin Cook has
Speaker 1: allowed fifty as top fifty nine yards. Chubb has always
Speaker 1: shown up though against Baltimore. Is his career average hundred
Speaker 1: yards and one point three scores per game against his
Speaker 1: division rivals. So we'll keep an A grade going there.
Speaker 1: Cream Hunt comes into a B grade. He's off fire,
Speaker 1: he's activated, he's going to go. Hunt can help on
Speaker 1: the ground, but I really like him here as a receiver.
Speaker 1: The Ravens allowing the fifth most receiving yards, the tenth
Speaker 1: most receiving touchdowns to running game to running back, so
Speaker 1: I think he finds a way to help out here.
Speaker 1: He's um the hobble. You know, Baker Mayfield comes in
Speaker 1: somewhat at least somewhat hobbled, and I believe that means
Speaker 1: that they're going to end up emphasizing the run a
Speaker 1: little more than usual here and maybe some dump offs
Speaker 1: to Hunt as well. Also, because Baker is not good,
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to go quite there yet. He's been
Speaker 1: playing for all season long and I don't know, I
Speaker 1: mean he has. He's been injured and inefficient, let's put
Speaker 1: it that way. And that's why he's on the bench here.
Speaker 1: He's had he's trying to play through knee, foot, and
Speaker 1: shoulder injuries. There. There's a scenario where he may not
Speaker 1: even finish this game. Who knows, but um, he was
Speaker 1: unable to do anyth against the Lions last week. I
Speaker 1: can't trust him in Baltimore, so he's on the bench.
Speaker 1: I've got C grade on Jarvis Landry. Ravens have allowed
Speaker 1: the second most yards and eighth most touchdowns per game
Speaker 1: to opposing receivers over the last five weeks, and much
Speaker 1: of that production has come from outside receivers because Tavon
Speaker 1: Young is not allowed fifty yards or a score over
Speaker 1: those five games. And that's Jarvis Landry is a slot
Speaker 1: receiver and that's why he's only a C grade. If
Speaker 1: you are really in a dart throw need Donovan People's
Speaker 1: Jones if he plays through his groin injury, and we
Speaker 1: don't know that he will. But the outside cornerbacks to
Speaker 1: the Ravens are just getting roasted. Over the past five weeks.
Speaker 1: They've allowed the second most yards two receivers, two fifteen
Speaker 1: yards per game. And I just said, I'm not crazy
Speaker 1: about Landrying this lot. It's gonna go to outside guys,
Speaker 1: and Donovan People's Jones is the best they've got. Let's
Speaker 1: go over to the Baltimore side. Lamar Jackson full practices
Speaker 1: all week after the crippling injury of our illness of
Speaker 1: last week. A. He's kind of an amazing track record
Speaker 1: against Cleveland and it probably doesn't stop in this game.
Speaker 1: Cleveland is understandably shut down the likes of Tim Boyle
Speaker 1: and Justin Fields, but good quarterbacks like Patrick Mahomes, Mac
Speaker 1: mac Jones even counts here. Uh, Teddy Bridgewater just good
Speaker 1: competent quarterbacking Teddy Bridgewater, Kyler Murray, Justin Herbert have combined
Speaker 1: for eighteen touchdowns against the Browns passing and rushing. So
Speaker 1: I I like Lamar Jackson a lot in this one,
Speaker 1: and I like his receivers, especially Mark Andrews. Since Baltimore's
Speaker 1: Week eight by He's gone from averaging seven targets per
Speaker 1: game to nine targets per game. That nine targets per
Speaker 1: game for a tight end is a ton. On top
Speaker 1: of that, he's seen thirty one percent of the team's
Speaker 1: red zone targets on the season, which is amazing. Andrew's
Speaker 1: has a great matchup against the Browns, who have given
Speaker 1: up the eleventh most red zone targets to tight ends,
Speaker 1: which have resulted in the third most touchdowns to the position.
Speaker 1: In Andrew's last three matchups was Cleveland, He's dominated them
Speaker 1: with five or more receptions for at least seventy five
Speaker 1: yards in every game. A grade for Mark Andrews Mark's
Speaker 1: Brown is going to enter Sunday's game is questionable and
Speaker 1: really maybe even a game time decision. We're hoping he
Speaker 1: goes here. Obviously, Cleveland hovers around league average and every
Speaker 1: meaningful stat against opposing receivers. Brown's most common individual matchup
Speaker 1: will be Denzel Ward, and that is a challenging matchup.
Speaker 1: Ward is not allowed to score and coverage all year
Speaker 1: and is not giving up more than forty five yards
Speaker 1: since Week two. In his coverage, Brown averages three catches,
Speaker 1: forty five yards and just a quarter of a touchdown
Speaker 1: against four in four career games against the Browns. I
Speaker 1: would give him normally I would give him a seed,
Speaker 1: but I'm giving him a be just because he's been
Speaker 1: so good all season and almost every game. But in reality,
Speaker 1: if I just throw out the past and I look
Speaker 1: at a injured player in a two very tough matchup,
Speaker 1: he deserves a see. But I'm giving him a beat
Speaker 1: because of his past work. Quick just to pile on
Speaker 1: the domination of the Browns by Mark Andrews five touchdowns
Speaker 1: across his last four. He scored two touchdowns in two
Speaker 1: of those games. Geez, just just he's fantastic matchup for him,
Speaker 1: and again a grade there, rosch out Bateman. We thought
Speaker 1: the breakout, we keep thinking the breakout games coming, and
Speaker 1: it might have come last week if Lamar Jackson had
Speaker 1: actually played it got got thwarted by Tyler Huntley. Um.
Speaker 1: With Jackson back, this matchup is just fair. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: worried about his matchup with on the outside with impressive
Speaker 1: rookie Greg Newsome. It's a rookie on rookie, first round
Speaker 1: rookie Greg Newsom has been good. He hasn't given up
Speaker 1: a score since week two. He's allowing him modest forty
Speaker 1: six yards per game in his coverage, and he will
Speaker 1: also see some of Denzil a Ward, who I just
Speaker 1: was talking about as a very good matchup. So I'm
Speaker 1: nervous about Bateman here just the C grade on him
Speaker 1: in this game. And the only running back you'll consider
Speaker 1: staring his DeVonta Freeman. So last week Lataviasmurray came back
Speaker 1: and I thought Marie would go back to the depth
Speaker 1: chart top of the depth chart and get most of
Speaker 1: the work, but that was not the case. It was
Speaker 1: actually Freeman who got much more work and more it
Speaker 1: was more effective than Murray. So he's your lead running back.
Speaker 1: The Browns are pretty tough on paper as a run defense,
Speaker 1: allowing the eighth fewest rushing yards on the six lowest
Speaker 1: yards per carry, but lately they've been gashed by high
Speaker 1: leverage starters over the last four games. Nazi Harris, Joe Mixon,
Speaker 1: Romandri Stevenson and DeAndre Swift. We're all way better than Freeman. Granted,
Speaker 1: but they've had a hundred twenty yards and one and
Speaker 1: a half touchdowns per game. So if we can get
Speaker 1: half that out of DeVonta Freeman, there's your C grade
Speaker 1: for Freeman right there. Next matchup and it's a doozy
Speaker 1: Rams taking on the Packers, Scott. The Rams offense has
Speaker 1: gotten itself in big holes in each of the last
Speaker 1: two games and been out of sync. Do they get
Speaker 1: healthy here against the Packers? Yeah? Just throw everyone in
Speaker 1: this game pretty much, no kidding um so on on
Speaker 1: the Rams side, I have a B grade on Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 1: Even though Cousins torched the pack last week, they'd only
Speaker 1: allowed three passing touchdowns in the previous five weeks combined
Speaker 1: and an average of two hundred eight passing yards per
Speaker 1: game during that stretch. Also, Stafford and the Rams offense
Speaker 1: hasn't looked good in the last two weeks. It's looked off.
Speaker 1: Something's been off the bye week. No, Robert Wood is
Speaker 1: certainly a far part of that. Don't you think you
Speaker 1: can't just go, hey, Odell Beckham, go be Robert Woods. No,
Speaker 1: he's not that guy. So I have a B grade
Speaker 1: on Stafford because his worst game this year's two three
Speaker 1: yards in a score, which, like, if that's his floor,
Speaker 1: then I'm still going to give him a B and
Speaker 1: hope that that offense turns around. Uh, Cooper Cup is
Speaker 1: an obvious A. I don't think we need to talk
Speaker 1: to about him at all. Yeah, oh, b J and Jefferson.
Speaker 1: Here's where it gets interesting for me. But no, I agree.
Speaker 1: Normally when people are teams are you know, have wide
Speaker 1: receivers that are gonna split them like you're gonna monopolize
Speaker 1: each other. I don't like you. This is the rare
Speaker 1: opportunity where I'm going C grade on both, but I
Speaker 1: know that one might fail. Yeah it's probably true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: somebody will probably have some success. Yes, but I do
Speaker 1: that all the time. You can give multiple sees. Two
Speaker 1: guys on the same team. They have that potential, but
Speaker 1: doesn't mean they're both gonna produce it. I I do that.
Speaker 1: I do that, but I I believe in this one
Speaker 1: they actually have a pretty decent shot shot because a
Speaker 1: lot of times the number two receiver in this offense,
Speaker 1: who was usually Robert Woods, but sometimes it was Van Jefferson,
Speaker 1: and in past it was you know, Brandon Cooks, the
Speaker 1: number two receiver performs in this offense, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be one of those two guys. So I think one
Speaker 1: of these guys that's going to perform on a B level,
Speaker 1: and I think the others can perform on a C level.
Speaker 1: I just don't know which one is which because we
Speaker 1: don't know's role at all. We just have no up.
Speaker 1: He hasn't top to eighty one yards in two years, right,
Speaker 1: I think I don't. I don't think O b J
Speaker 1: is ready for it yet. Yeah, he's he's had like
Speaker 1: Freddie Kitchen's level coordinators, not Sean McVeigh. That is a factor.
Speaker 1: But Stefanski's no slouch. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, and this
Speaker 1: is the best quarterbacking he's had ever. Yeah. Uh, Henderson,
Speaker 1: I'm giving a C grade to just we We've already
Speaker 1: talked on this show exhaustively how he's been the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks and that's why he's I would normally
Speaker 1: give him a BE but the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: have been that way, and I could see them falling
Speaker 1: behind behind, and it could be it could be a
Speaker 1: replay of the last two weeks. Michelle still in nine
Speaker 1: touches per game over the last three. That's why he
Speaker 1: gets to see you. For me, he's going to get
Speaker 1: the volume. But maybe maybe it's another game like the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. Rogers, on the other side, I
Speaker 1: have a B grade for after that one week one
Speaker 1: to bacle against the Saints. Rogers has thrown multiple touchdowns
Speaker 1: in all but one game. That game, he's still a
Speaker 1: two or nine two yards. That's a good game game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in a tough spot against the Rams of just allowed
Speaker 1: three multiple score games and just to three plus yard
Speaker 1: days this season. I'm only giving Rogers the B instead
Speaker 1: of an A because his ceiling remains just through the
Speaker 1: roof when he's on, he's on. Yeah, this is this
Speaker 1: is so tricky with Rogers no no left, no left
Speaker 1: in practice and von Miller coming at you from that
Speaker 1: same spot. And finally von Miller has got some like
Speaker 1: he wasn't greatest first game, right, but he's had two
Speaker 1: weeks to get healthy. As a big part of it,
Speaker 1: I'm nervous of. I think Rogers has Brady big downside
Speaker 1: in this always has upside. The only two quarterbacks on
Speaker 1: Rogers level that played the Rams. Tom Brady and Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray had seven hundred total yards and four scores against
Speaker 1: the Rams. So they performed to Davante Adams like Cooper
Speaker 1: Cup is just an obviously you're not shadowing him virtually
Speaker 1: all game. Yeah, they can double him and I'd still
Speaker 1: trust Davanta Adams to get red zone targets that might
Speaker 1: score touchdowns. I do have ENVS on the bench, though,
Speaker 1: I I it's just too tough of a matchup. Uh
Speaker 1: And if Lazard comes, Lazard comes back, which it sounds
Speaker 1: like he will, MVS pops off when Lazard is out,
Speaker 1: he quiets down when Lizard is in. They spread it
Speaker 1: around a little too much. So I have MVS on
Speaker 1: the bench. A J. Dillon and Aaron Green. Aaron Green, Wow,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, that's a flashbacker right there. Um, Aaron Jones,
Speaker 1: this is a really tough one. Aaron Jones has practiced
Speaker 1: the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, but a lot of injury experts,
Speaker 1: including Stefani Bells, have said the Green Bay Packers are
Speaker 1: notorious for being very conservative, and they've got the bye week. Come,
Speaker 1: They've got a bye week. The only way Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: plays is if he's at or near one. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly where my mind the looming bye week, there's no
Speaker 1: way they play him unless he's almost full health. That
Speaker 1: I think you we're of same mind here. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what I was gonna say. So my belief is he
Speaker 1: is out. So I am giving A J. Dylon the
Speaker 1: B grade here. Uh. Neither Wilson nor Mitchell were very
Speaker 1: effective in von Miller's first game with the Rams, but
Speaker 1: Mitchell had an okay day due to huge volume. This
Speaker 1: is where Dylan stands out from those guys. Where Dylan
Speaker 1: stands out from those guys is he gets receiving work
Speaker 1: those guys didn't at all. A J. Dylon had six
Speaker 1: catches in his in his full game there, six forty
Speaker 1: four yards um. He's basically a lock for six team
Speaker 1: plus touches. Uh. Backs without receiving workload and touches have
Speaker 1: done fairly decently, So B grade on A J. Dylon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Dylan looked okay last week, but as we
Speaker 1: talked going into last week's game, it's the receiving work
Speaker 1: that's gonna keep him safe. It's mostly the catches. I
Speaker 1: feel like Aaron Jones is a much more effective receiver.
Speaker 1: But for sure he's a very natural dy. Dylan can catch,
Speaker 1: but Owns is just it's so fluid with he's meant
Speaker 1: to catch the ball. Well. When we come back, Premature
Speaker 1: Speculation will give you three players to pick up this
Speaker 1: week that everybody else is going to be trying to
Speaker 1: pick up next week. And Chargers taking on the Broncos
Speaker 1: will tell you what to expect from Justin Herbert and
Speaker 1: that passing game. Can Mike Williams make it two in
Speaker 1: a row? All that and more for the final segment
Speaker 1: of Fantasy Football Weekly Coming up next. Welcome in final
Speaker 1: segment of Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul church In, Scott Fish,
Speaker 1: and Brian Johnson with you. You missed any part of
Speaker 1: the show. You get all my player rankings available for
Speaker 1: free at Guillotine leagues dot com. This is a segment
Speaker 1: we like to call premature Speculation, where we give you
Speaker 1: three players you want to pick up now that your
Speaker 1: opponents will be trying to pick up next week. Scott Fish,
Speaker 1: who you got? As always? I sometimes I really like
Speaker 1: to go deeper on this segment because because I feel
Speaker 1: there are people in deep leagues. This guy is available
Speaker 1: in nine percent of leagues of the snap snaps the
Speaker 1: last three weeks. Second in targets over the last three
Speaker 1: weeks on his team, DeAndre Carter. He's got touchdowns in
Speaker 1: three straight weeks. And get this, since week four, he
Speaker 1: leads the Washington football team into in red zone targets.
Speaker 1: All Right, the they have said, the Bears have said,
Speaker 1: Heineke and him have a great rapport. Curtis Samuel is
Speaker 1: likely still out. He's only put in two limited practices
Speaker 1: since the ree aggravation of his injury. It's and here's
Speaker 1: the thing. They play Monday night. If he blows up
Speaker 1: on Monday night, you already got him. Yeah, I like
Speaker 1: it perfect. Uh, you know what I'm gonna go next,
Speaker 1: because I'm just gonna piggyback off another Washington player. Alright,
Speaker 1: Logan Thomas Brian had mentioned him a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: but he's finally getting to the point where he's ready
Speaker 1: to play at this stage. Although he may not go
Speaker 1: in this game, but I don't. This game has no
Speaker 1: no bearing on on this. I'm looking forward beyond this week.
Speaker 1: We all need tight ends. Remember, in his three full
Speaker 1: games this year, he scored twice. He's according two of
Speaker 1: the three games, and he was very good last year.
Speaker 1: Washington desperately needs more receiving options, although you just mentioned
Speaker 1: um that there there are well um in his stead
Speaker 1: Ricky Seals Jones was freaking viable for fantasy and he's
Speaker 1: a fract He's framctionally as good as Logan Thomas. So
Speaker 1: Logan Thomas is Mike would fifth. I think it's it's
Speaker 1: seven sixteen, Brian, you're taking Sorry, you're premature speculation player.
Speaker 1: I think you had people on the edge of their
Speaker 1: seats when you're said you can use the Washington player
Speaker 1: and they're like st Beard And then it wasn't I
Speaker 1: thought he was coming back anytime soon. They keep pushing
Speaker 1: his timetable back. Well, speaking of a guy come back,
Speaker 1: probably not this week. And when he comes back, I
Speaker 1: can't promise you he's gonna stay healthy. And that's Miami
Speaker 1: wide out Davante Parker uh most likely coming back next week.
Speaker 1: You can grab him now. According to Fantasy Pros, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins have the easiest remaining strength of schedule among wide receivers,
Speaker 1: So if you're needy at the position, Davante Parker charges
Speaker 1: take on the Broncos. Brian Uh, we already know what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do with Austin Ekeler. There's a lot more
Speaker 1: intrigue in the passing game here. Talk to me about
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, and I'm especially interested in in whether or
Speaker 1: not we can get a good game out of Boom
Speaker 1: or Bust guy. Mike Williams. Yeah, this is the first
Speaker 1: meeting of the year between these divisional rivals, so we
Speaker 1: can go back to recent history. But in Herbert's last
Speaker 1: or bone trip to Denver last year, he threw for
Speaker 1: two state two eight yards and three touchdowns. So air
Speaker 1: Bear can handle the thin air. The Broncos have rendered
Speaker 1: multiple passing touchdowns and four of their last six games,
Speaker 1: only Taylor Heineke in case Keenum failed to hit the
Speaker 1: multiple touchdown mark, but they each had one, and the
Speaker 1: Chargers are likely or they are the most high octane
Speaker 1: offense UH Denver has seen during that same time Spanzo
Speaker 1: and A for air Bear, uh A A for Keenan Allen.
Speaker 1: Per next Agen stats, Alan is ranked among the top
Speaker 1: fifteen pass catchers and percentage of his team's air yards
Speaker 1: over the last three weeks. That pairs nicely with the
Speaker 1: fact that Denver gives up the third highest average depth
Speaker 1: of target at nine point three yards. Alan has also
Speaker 1: scored in his last two games at Mile High or
Speaker 1: whatever they call it now like Corpo dot Com at
Speaker 1: Mile High Stadium. But E d A for Alan uh,
Speaker 1: not an A for Mike Williams. I gonna give him
Speaker 1: a b Denver has allowed six wide receiver touchdowns over
Speaker 1: their last five games. Williams has averaged five catches and
Speaker 1: eighty six yards over his last four games against the Broncos.
Speaker 1: So I like Williams and this one you're don't you know,
Speaker 1: you're a lot. You're You feel a lot more confident
Speaker 1: about Williams than I do or anybody else who started
Speaker 1: him for the last six weeks. I do. I like
Speaker 1: him this one. That's why I gave him to be
Speaker 1: And I don't like Jared Cook. He's on the bench.
Speaker 1: Denver is not allowed tight in touchdown all year, so
Speaker 1: that's pretty easy bench. Great for him, in an easy
Speaker 1: A for Austin Ekeler over the last Over their last
Speaker 1: seven games, Denver is allowing hundred and sixty two combo
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown per game to opposing running backs,
Speaker 1: and that has been to the incomparable likes of Ernest Johnson,
Speaker 1: J D. Mkissick, Kenyan Drake, and Boston Scott and by
Speaker 1: saying that you can't compare those guys to Austin Ekeler
Speaker 1: of course, over to the Denver side. And this Denver
Speaker 1: side is fascinating because what felt like a massive opportunity
Speaker 1: for the running backs gets blunted a little bit by
Speaker 1: the loss of both of the starting tackles for the Broncos.
Speaker 1: And so when I went into the week, I'm like,
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon and Vante Williams are sitting on giant games.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not so sure. What do you think? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had to. I had bees for both of them
Speaker 1: based on both tackles being out. Like you just said,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give each a sea. The Chargers are
Speaker 1: yielding thirty touches per game to opposing running backs who
Speaker 1: are averaging a hundred forty five compo yards and one
Speaker 1: and a half total touchdowns per game. Uh So, just
Speaker 1: to see if you're both it is revenge game from
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon. Javante Williams on a per touch basis has
Speaker 1: been out of this world like the best running back
Speaker 1: in the NFL. But the problem is Gordon gets a
Speaker 1: lot of the touches, but uh, and in fair as
Speaker 1: much as I want Davonte Willing to just earn and
Speaker 1: keep that job and just be the starter, Melvin Gordon's
Speaker 1: look good. Yeah, I mean if he was not bad,
Speaker 1: but yeah, he's He's looked good, but not as good
Speaker 1: as Williams, who's looked awesome. But he's looked I don't
Speaker 1: not so bad that there's any reason to bench Gordon.
Speaker 1: Williams will have his day as a bell cow someday,
Speaker 1: but it's probably not gonna be for the to the
Speaker 1: wide receivers for the Broncos, Jerry Judy, just to see
Speaker 1: for him, he will draw a tough coverage from slot
Speaker 1: corner Chris Harris. Judy is the top option at wide receiver,
Speaker 1: but this is a better matchup for the Broncos boundary
Speaker 1: receivers actually, Courtland Sutton and Tim Patrick. Over the last
Speaker 1: three weeks, DeVonta Smith, Justin Jefferson and Deonte Johnson, ever
Speaker 1: combined to average seven catches on nineteen yards and point
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns against the Chargers, who could also be without
Speaker 1: Assante Samuel who's concussed last week. UM not a lot
Speaker 1: of history to to base uh on for Sutton Patrick.
Speaker 1: These two combined for just one game into the Chargers
Speaker 1: last year. Patrick had three catches for three nine yards.
Speaker 1: But just to see still for both of those guys,
Speaker 1: I think they might vulture each other. B for Noah Fan. Though,
Speaker 1: the Chargers have been bleeding points to the tight end position,
Speaker 1: allowing these second most fantasy points, the fifth most red
Speaker 1: zone targets, and the second most touchdowns at eight uh.
Speaker 1: Four of those eight touchdowns have come over the last
Speaker 1: two weeks from opposing tight ends against the Chargers. So
Speaker 1: I like Fans who, in his two games against the
Speaker 1: Chargers last year average six and a half catches and
Speaker 1: fifty six yards. And now to Teddy b uh not
Speaker 1: even Teddy c I've got him on the bench. Even
Speaker 1: though I gave all his past catchers a starting grade,
Speaker 1: doesn't mean they're all gonna earn that starting grade. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's and with the with the beat up line as well,
Speaker 1: I still think they lean on the run a little
Speaker 1: more on this one. So you can find better options
Speaker 1: with quarterback than Teddy. I concur final segment. The final
Speaker 1: matchup is the Seahawks taking on Washington. So let's let's
Speaker 1: begin with Let's begin with Russ. We already hammered Russ
Speaker 1: pretty good earlier in this show, but this matchups very,
Speaker 1: very tempting to call a slumpbuster. It's uh. It goes
Speaker 1: watching the ranks and passing yards allowed thirty first and
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns allowed, and they just let legendarily inaccurate passer
Speaker 1: Cam Newton throw a six in incompletion game. That is
Speaker 1: not cool. So I've gotta be grade on Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: I think he's obviously startable in this matchup, and this
Speaker 1: might be it for the year. Uh. Dk Metcalf, also
Speaker 1: with a B grade, is has only fifty seven total
Speaker 1: yards in the two games since Russell Wilson came back
Speaker 1: from that finger injury, really injury. Fortunately, Washington allowing one
Speaker 1: ninety yards to opposing receivers that is fourth most, and
Speaker 1: they've allowed a receiver to score in nine of ten games.
Speaker 1: And if there's a touchdown to be had from a
Speaker 1: receiver here, dk Metcalf is likely the guy title lock it,
Speaker 1: just the C grade, you know, you know the story
Speaker 1: unlock it. It's all bloomber bust, And obviously he's got
Speaker 1: boom capability against a bad secondary um but they aren't
Speaker 1: giving him necessarily explosive games like the kind lock it
Speaker 1: usually needs. So you know the drill, plenty of risk,
Speaker 1: plenty of reward. Um, I've just got the C grade
Speaker 1: unlock it, and I think there's more likely to bust
Speaker 1: than boom and the whole running games on the bench,
Speaker 1: these guys have been a disaster. Alex Collins, despite double
Speaker 1: digit carries in seven straight games, has only topped the
Speaker 1: meager threshold of forty seven yards one time, and he's
Speaker 1: scored just twice in those seven games. And Washington's actually
Speaker 1: turned into a very good run defense. For all the
Speaker 1: problems we've got against the past, nothing against the run.
Speaker 1: Their fourth in rushing yards allowed over their last three
Speaker 1: games and only one rushing scoring that time. On Only
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara has topped sixty two rushing yards against them.
Speaker 1: On the Washington side, let's credit Taylor Heineke for playing
Speaker 1: very well over the last two games. I thought three
Speaker 1: games ago, I'm like they were talking about benching Taylor Heineke.
Speaker 1: Now he's played well these last two games, seventy seven
Speaker 1: percent completion rate, four touchdowns and no picks over the
Speaker 1: last two games. Still he's still like makes some crazy
Speaker 1: bone headed overthrows and mistakes with the ball, but didn't
Speaker 1: didn't cost him the last two games we know he
Speaker 1: didn't both wins. Even more impressively, he's done so against
Speaker 1: two solid defenses, Tampa and Carolina, and he faces an
Speaker 1: improved Seattle secondary that's playing very well. Well until yielding
Speaker 1: to Colt McCoy last week, they had been playing well.
Speaker 1: Even if you include McCoy's performance last week. The average
Speaker 1: passing game against Seattle over the past five weeks is
Speaker 1: a modest two D sixty one yards and just one
Speaker 1: touchdown past per game. So I like Heinekee here with
Speaker 1: a C grade. Terry McLaurin gets a C grade as well.
Speaker 1: It's been a roller coaster ride all year, with over
Speaker 1: one hundred yards and a touchdown in four games and
Speaker 1: sixty two or fewer scoreless yards in the other six.
Speaker 1: I know that's the that's the risk reward you get
Speaker 1: out of Terry McLaurin, which I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: about you, Scott. I didn't necessarily expect that for him
Speaker 1: because previously he had always been a very safe play.
Speaker 1: What do you think this week you go and boom
Speaker 1: or bust. No, I'd be more on the boom side.
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be more of a shootout
Speaker 1: than than people think. Um, what will you give? What
Speaker 1: will you give DeAndre Carter for this game? How about
Speaker 1: a see? I don't think i'd even give. I would
Speaker 1: have tough time even doing that. But my point on
Speaker 1: that is like, if people watch him on Monday Night,
Speaker 1: they're going to realize he exists, and that would be
Speaker 1: his fourth straight game with the touchdown. If he scores.
Speaker 1: It's tough to trust him though. I don't have him starting,
Speaker 1: But okay, they gave him on the I had a
Speaker 1: bench grade. But you know, but you kind of talked
Speaker 1: me into it during premature speculation. So I wanted to
Speaker 1: give you the chance. Um J D. McKissick, was manna
Speaker 1: take a chance of me running back? Let's talk about
Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson. In two games since Washington's by both upset victories,
Speaker 1: how Gibson's handled at least nineteen touches and total at
Speaker 1: least seventy eight yards, and most encouragingly, He's handled both
Speaker 1: of Washington's carries inside the tent seven of the eight
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown Seattle has allowed to come from inside the tent,
Speaker 1: and if there's a touchdown to we had from inside
Speaker 1: the tent, it probably goes to Gibson. So a B
Speaker 1: grade for Gibson in this game, Logan Thomas, we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep on the bench until we know for sure that
Speaker 1: he's a go. And it's a Monday night game. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna know until Monday night, so we can't start him.
Speaker 1: Um alright, final few moments of this show. Let me
Speaker 1: hit you guys with a couple of a couple of topics.
Speaker 1: Can we just straight up drop Zack Moss? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: think so, Yeah, I don't. I don't love that situation
Speaker 1: at all. The coaches have indicated they want to get
Speaker 1: bread of more work, and when they did, he still
Speaker 1: looks good. But it's enough of us split that you
Speaker 1: don't love starting either Moss or Singletary. But if he's
Speaker 1: back in this he's he's back to all four paws,
Speaker 1: back into the dog house. He's back. He's deep in
Speaker 1: the doghouse after being inactive on third I'm holding him,
Speaker 1: you know, if I'm not competing in a Dynasty League
Speaker 1: and just praying for next year, but in redraft, absolutely,
Speaker 1: here's why. Here's why. I'm not even holding him in
Speaker 1: a dynasty league with running backs within two years. For
Speaker 1: running backs, if you know in two years what you got,
Speaker 1: some guys the rookie or doesn't pan out, and then
Speaker 1: the second year it does. If you don't do it
Speaker 1: in two years, you're not going to do it as
Speaker 1: a running back in this league. I didn't say I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I'd hold him through the draft next year, the draft,
Speaker 1: and I'm holding him until at least through the off season.
Speaker 1: I don't think you start able at the end of
Speaker 1: the year. And honestly, this feels like they keep just
Speaker 1: throwing stuff out there to try to figure out the
Speaker 1: run game within what's already a good offense. They just
Speaker 1: need the run game. I think they draft or go
Speaker 1: out and get someone. I think they draft somebody too.
Speaker 1: If Devin Singletary can average five yards per carry and
Speaker 1: Zack Moss is three and a half, watch watch the
Speaker 1: Melvin Burns contract up. But uh, Darren Waller is gonna
Speaker 1: miss some period of time. As as we're recording this,
Speaker 1: we don't know exactly how long is Foster Moreau and
Speaker 1: automatic ad definitely, I mean he's proven when Waller has
Speaker 1: been out. Moreau has put up big numbers in a
Speaker 1: tight ends. A big part of that offense that is
Speaker 1: missing pass catchers. I gotta throw out real quickly. Brian
Speaker 1: Edwards just getting dunked on by Za Jones and Seawan Jackson.
Speaker 1: How about that is killing me? Killing me? Yes? Add
Speaker 1: Boston Moreau as Foster. Moreau is the best backup tight
Speaker 1: end in the league by talent, and he's a beast.
Speaker 1: He is huge, by the way, So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I think Foster Morowe becomes a priority tight end ad
Speaker 1: for those people in a pinch people people probably forget
Speaker 1: even in Waller's big year, Morose still at five touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Like no kidding. That says plenty, doesn't it. If you're
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