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Speaker 2: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm Paul Charchi and co
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Speaker 3: Hey, what's going on, Paul? Twice? I've seen you twice
Speaker 3: in the last couple of days here.
Speaker 2: I know it's weird twice the last couple of hours.
Speaker 3: Forget to say a guess, see you down at the
Speaker 3: Fantasy Feast or the football feast there hanging out with
Speaker 3: my new friends Rich and Josh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't that nice. You make friends easily.
Speaker 3: It was they're good guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you bought their beer the exact off it.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, Thank you, going to be back. You can't
Speaker 2: really be any hotter than you have been so far.
Speaker 2: In the show, you have.
Speaker 3: Hey, Paul, big down charge.
Speaker 2: Geez, some of your early preseason picks. H and we're
Speaker 2: excited to see what you've got on taps. Over the
Speaker 2: course of the show, we'll have three tough questions like
Speaker 2: we always do. We'll give you nine players upon whom
Speaker 2: you can take a chance. We'll give you premature speculation
Speaker 2: players to pick up, including at least I'm very excited
Speaker 2: about my player. I think I know who you guys
Speaker 2: are going to go with two. These are some great opportunities.
Speaker 2: Hope to work in the Jamison Williams News if you
Speaker 2: want to pick him up a week early, if you can.
Speaker 2: If you can, yeah, we'll find out if We'll talk
Speaker 2: about that a little bit as well. So plenty to
Speaker 2: get to over the course of the show. Of course,
Speaker 2: we give you letter grades on every meaningful players. We
Speaker 2: break down every matchup. We begin with the London game. Yes,
Speaker 2: Falcons taking on the Jaguars. This is the Drake London
Speaker 2: in London game.
Speaker 3: There we go, Drake London in London and yes, yes, god,
Speaker 3: yes we can start on that side of the ball
Speaker 3: where I'm leaving Desmond Ritter on the bench. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I know the Jags have a bottom ten pass thee
Speaker 3: and have a lot of multiple scores to all three
Speaker 3: quarterbacks they but they haven't played Desmond Ridder. This should
Speaker 3: help improve their rank. This week, Ritter averaging like one
Speaker 3: hundred and eighty four passing yards a game. He's not
Speaker 3: doing too well. You weren't even considering.
Speaker 2: Sneaky landing spot for Kirk Cousins, just.
Speaker 3: Saying yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's the rumor out there
Speaker 3: that you're pushing. No, no, it's actually there are lots
Speaker 3: of other people saying that kind of stuff too. Drake London.
Speaker 3: I am given the C grade too though, because I
Speaker 3: want Drake London to score a touchdown in London. That's
Speaker 3: most of most of my data there. No but top
Speaker 3: wide receiver get target getters against the Jags have all
Speaker 3: gone for seventy plus yards, all three of them scored.
Speaker 3: It's it's an okay spot for him. Giving him a
Speaker 3: C grade though, just because it's a decent pesty it
Speaker 3: has been so far anyway, the against wide receivers. I
Speaker 3: should say Kyle Pitts also getting a C grade here.
Speaker 3: I know you're looking at me like you should just
Speaker 3: betch him.
Speaker 2: It's only because you had a good game in London
Speaker 2: two years years ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah he did, he did. He had nine FO one
Speaker 3: hundred and nineteen yards and one touchdown two years ago
Speaker 3: to London. Yeah, exactly, it was two years ago. Actually,
Speaker 3: has nothing to do with that it has everything to
Speaker 3: do with just the Titan landscape is absolutely garbage this year,
Speaker 3: and he's he's probably the best tight end you have
Speaker 3: on your roster. Every bit about it, about his metrics,
Speaker 3: his talent, his usage, everything screams good. He got nine
Speaker 3: targets last week. But guess what, he only fifty three
Speaker 3: percent of his passes. The passes to him are catchable.
Speaker 3: Like if that, if Desmond improves just the slightest tick,
Speaker 3: he should be able to notch down a C grade.
Speaker 3: I don't think you're wrong, Donald parum At least you
Speaker 3: know he's tied for the league lead in red or
Speaker 3: targets inside the five yard line. You have a decent
Speaker 3: chance of a touchdown with Donald Parhum. Over on the
Speaker 3: other side of the ball, we got Trevor Lawrence. I'm
Speaker 3: giving him a D grade. Is that okay? Charge?
Speaker 2: It's not okay? You have a here allow me to
Speaker 2: read it, because yeah, he's a bad example. You have
Speaker 2: a choice of a B, C and bench. That's the
Speaker 2: more opportunities to place your guy in the right spot.
Speaker 2: All right, are we put in Trevor Lawrence?
Speaker 3: So Trevor Lawrence, he's playing a Falcons D That held
Speaker 3: Jordan Love, Bryce Young and Jared Jared Goff each to
Speaker 3: their worst passing days of the year. So it's not
Speaker 3: actually a great matchup. It's one of the lowest over
Speaker 3: unders of the week. He's looked off, and he's looked
Speaker 3: off so far, Trevor Lawrence has because it's such a
Speaker 3: tough grade. I'm giving it the dart throw grade.
Speaker 2: That would be a seed timately, because you're saying, start
Speaker 2: a ball.
Speaker 3: But he's startable, he's got he's got the weapons. I
Speaker 3: think he can overcome. Unlike those. I consider him a
Speaker 3: better quarterback than those. Maybe not golf, but you know,
Speaker 3: better than Love and Bryce Young. I'll give him the grade. Fine,
Speaker 3: I'll bump in them. Travis Etn a grade. The Falcons
Speaker 3: allowed ninety eight yards to Miles Sanders, eighty two to
Speaker 3: Jamior Gibbs, and even aj Dillon, Yes, twenty twenty three
Speaker 3: A J. Dillon somehow had sixty three yards on them.
Speaker 3: The only buggle boo is Falcons have only allowed an
Speaker 3: RB to score once and just eight receptions. It's not
Speaker 3: a lot of passing passing work, but Travis Etn gets
Speaker 3: seventy two percent of the opportunity share about four pass
Speaker 3: catches per game. That's gonna boost you up. I got
Speaker 3: him with a B. I could move him up to
Speaker 3: an A though, just because that volume is high and
Speaker 3: it's going to be a low scoring close game where
Speaker 3: he should get a decent amount of work. Tank Bigsby
Speaker 3: on the bench. I know he's converted two of his
Speaker 3: three carries inside the five yard line, but his snaps
Speaker 3: keep going down, his touches keep going down. It's he's
Speaker 3: just on the bench for now. Over to the passing
Speaker 3: game or over to the wide receivers. Calvin Ridley and
Speaker 3: Christian Kirk. I love that you got multiple tank.
Speaker 2: Well, we have to put the bad tanks the bad
Speaker 2: right and on. Unfortunately, the bad tank sounders winning right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So with Zay Jones missing last week, he's also
Speaker 3: going to miss this week. Christian Kirk really bumped up
Speaker 3: his napshare. It was only sixty percent week one. It's
Speaker 3: been it's been over eighty percent, eighty six percent the
Speaker 3: last two weeks, and he's really delivered with an eleven
Speaker 3: catch one hundred and ten yard performance and a four
Speaker 3: catch fifty four yard and a touchdown performance. I expect
Speaker 3: much of the same here. I have Covin Ridley also
Speaker 3: with a C grade. Two straight duds for Ridley, but
Speaker 3: he dropped four passes last week. Dropped two passes. Drops
Speaker 3: are not a sticky stat. He dropped what what should
Speaker 3: have been a touchdown. Without those, he would have had much, much,
Speaker 3: much better days. It's he doesn't look like the guy
Speaker 3: that he did in Week one and in the preseason.
Speaker 3: I expect him to at least bounce back a little bit,
Speaker 3: so I'm at least giving him the season ricky.
Speaker 2: Matchup with AJ Terrell's turning into one of the best
Speaker 2: cornerbacks in the league.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when the Falcons drafted him that first year, they
Speaker 3: avoided passing his way, and yeah, he's pretty decent. Evan
Speaker 3: Ingram C grade. I think we gotta kind of watch
Speaker 3: him now. Five plus catches in all three games, forty
Speaker 3: nine to fifty seven and sixty seven yards. He's going
Speaker 3: into the week. Before last night or before Thursday night,
Speaker 3: excuse me, he was right there with Laporta had eighteen
Speaker 3: catches one hundred and eighty six yards, Ingram eighteen for
Speaker 3: one seventy three. They were right in the same zone.
Speaker 3: The only problem is Evan Ingram zero red zone targets
Speaker 3: this year. That's not helpful at all.
Speaker 2: Dallas Goddard, by the way, zero red zone.
Speaker 3: I know it's weird, isn't It's just downright weird. So
Speaker 3: Sea grade on.
Speaker 2: Him, all right. Dolphins take on the Bills Store. Dolphins
Speaker 2: scored ten touchdowns last week and are underdogs in Buffalo.
Speaker 2: So this is a quot. Now you're new to the show,
Speaker 2: we don't chase last week's box score. You gotta just
Speaker 2: we gotta look at this Dolphins Bills game as its
Speaker 2: own entity. Let's start on the Dolphins side. What do
Speaker 2: you got?
Speaker 4: I don't think they're scoring seventy again, but this is
Speaker 4: a really good fantasy match hold, So we'll start with
Speaker 4: two fantasy QB four so far this season. Number one
Speaker 4: passing grade in the NFL. Number one big time throw
Speaker 4: rate in the NFL. Solid matchup here. Bills have allowed
Speaker 4: the tenth highest adjusted completion rate in the NFL. Last year,
Speaker 4: the Bills allowed the second highest adjusted completion rate on
Speaker 4: throws twenty plus yards downfield. Obviously, the Dolphins offense is explosive.
Speaker 4: Tua is an a Tyreek kill. Obviously, a weekly must
Speaker 4: start Tyreek kill. On pace for two thy three hundred
Speaker 4: and thirty five receiver yards.
Speaker 2: It's pretty good this year, pretty pretty good.
Speaker 4: So he's obviously an A, as is Jalen Waddle Sterling
Speaker 4: eighteen point one percent air yard share so far this
Speaker 4: season three point zero four yards per route run.
Speaker 2: That's excellent for Waddle. And last year, if.
Speaker 4: You guys recall both games the Dolphins played the Bills,
Speaker 4: Jalen Waddle went over one hundred receiving yards both times, so.
Speaker 2: He's an A as well.
Speaker 4: Julian Hill, the tight end the Dolphins have been using
Speaker 4: the most, can't start him. The running back situation, of course,
Speaker 4: very interesting in Miami right now. I'm gonna give both
Speaker 4: mostart and eight Chan as we've learned as the pronunciation,
Speaker 4: who apparently.
Speaker 2: Has decided after every four touchdown game he's going to
Speaker 2: change the pronunciation of his name.
Speaker 3: This is it then?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, this will probably be after the game he
Speaker 2: just had. That's that's cool with me.
Speaker 4: But you know, as for Most, obviously he's in the
Speaker 4: time share with a Chan. Moster played fifty one percent
Speaker 4: of the snaps last week. He is the team's clear
Speaker 4: pass down running back. Most are top five in explosive
Speaker 4: run rate, top ten in miss tackles, force per attempt excellent.
Speaker 4: I'm giving him a beat, especially in this matchup where
Speaker 4: and you guys know how topical this is going to be.
Speaker 4: The Bills are coughing up the second worst explosive run
Speaker 4: rate in the NFL so far, so that's topical to
Speaker 4: both Mostert and a chany as for a chance, you
Speaker 4: guys remember twenty two touches two hundred and thirty three
Speaker 4: total yards on forty one percent of the snaps last
Speaker 4: week eight. Chan number one in the NA in miss tackles,
Speaker 4: force per attempt, yards after contact per attempt, and PFF
Speaker 4: grade for qualifying running backs. I mentioned that the Bills
Speaker 4: run defense gives up home runs regularly. I have to
Speaker 4: give him a be just because you know the time share.
Speaker 4: But both those guys, it's a good matchup for moving
Speaker 4: to the Bills. Josh Allen obviously a weekly must start.
Speaker 4: He's an A here number five and Fantasy points per
Speaker 4: dropback since Week two.
Speaker 2: You guys recall the Week one.
Speaker 4: Dodd Jets clearly an admiration there for Alan Miami has
Speaker 4: an average pass defense. They rank number fifteen in both
Speaker 4: yards per attempt allowed and pass A rating allowed Stefan
Speaker 4: Diggs weekly must start. He's an a here, top five
Speaker 4: in the NFL, and first read share.
Speaker 2: Gabe Davis. I'm gonna give him a ce.
Speaker 4: He's been about what we expected so far. I think
Speaker 4: you guys would agree wide receiver forty.
Speaker 2: Well for Scott and I, yes, he has been what
Speaker 2: we expected. But we both thought he was gonna have
Speaker 2: a much better year than last year. So we're both
Speaker 2: buying Gabe Davis in the preseason. He's been better than
Speaker 2: he was last year by a margin for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and this one, most of his routes are going
Speaker 4: to come against the dalphin cornerback Xavian Howard and Kadeer Cahu.
Speaker 4: Howard seventy two point seven catch rate against COOHU eighty
Speaker 4: two point four catch rate allowed on targets got good.
Speaker 4: Gave Davis could have a big, solid game here, but
Speaker 4: I'm giving them a seed just because those targets are
Speaker 4: going to be going to Digs. I also have to
Speaker 4: give a sea to both Dalton Kincaid and Dawson Knox.
Speaker 4: We have a bit of a quag Meyer situation here.
Speaker 4: I was hoping the Bills were going to go to
Speaker 4: twelve personnel and every single play that has not happened yet.
Speaker 4: They love running out the different formation every single time,
Speaker 4: so one of those guys can end up on the
Speaker 4: bench on any given step. When they're out there and
Speaker 4: they're used on routes, the Bills aren't really using them.
Speaker 4: Dalton Kincaid was a guy in college who the utility
Speaker 4: was downfield catching. Yeah, he only has a three point
Speaker 4: six a dot right now. That's nice, so he's just
Speaker 4: be using as a dump up. As for knocks, zero
Speaker 4: points six to one yards per route run.
Speaker 2: Not great.
Speaker 4: You can't trust either of those guys right now, but
Speaker 4: in a deeper league they would potentially be startable if
Speaker 4: he didn't have another option. And lastly, James Cook given
Speaker 4: him a grade of A here one hundred and eleven
Speaker 4: point three total yards per game on average on sixty
Speaker 4: percent snapshare, but he only has won a Buffalo seven
Speaker 4: carries so far this season inside the five yard line.
Speaker 4: But on the other hand, the Dolphins cough up the
Speaker 4: fourth highest yards per reception to running backs. James Cook
Speaker 4: obviously a very skilled receiver, so a decent matchup for him.
Speaker 4: We just hope we can get a little more carries
Speaker 4: inside the five.
Speaker 2: This was exactly the worry about James Cook going into
Speaker 2: the season that we articulated repeatedly is what's the touchdown
Speaker 2: total going to end up being? As he gets sitting
Speaker 2: in like a six touchdown year, and I think it's
Speaker 2: going to play out about that way. Yeah, he won.
Speaker 3: A crazy to us stat I heard this week, and
Speaker 3: I double checked to make sure it was accurate. Through
Speaker 3: the first three weeks. Last year, he was seventy two
Speaker 3: for one hundred and one with eight touchdowns seventy two
Speaker 3: what seventy two completions, Oh, seventy two percent completion, No,
Speaker 3: seventy two completions out of one hundred and one attempts, yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: and eight touchdowns and two interceptions. This year, seventy two completions,
Speaker 3: one hundred and one attempts, eight touchdowns, two interceptions. The
Speaker 3: yardage is about one hundred off.
Speaker 2: I forgotten you started that hot last year.
Speaker 3: Too, almost the exact same starts last.
Speaker 2: Year, and then right around now is when he had
Speaker 2: his first concussion. Yeah, I've got to pray for health
Speaker 2: this year, Vikings take on the Panthers. Viking side's getting
Speaker 2: to be pretty easy. Kirk Cousins TJ. Hockinson and Justin
Speaker 2: Jefferson are just now obvious. A's all of them producing
Speaker 2: at top three levels at their position. Nothing about the
Speaker 2: Panthers suggests a different outcome here. Let's go to the
Speaker 2: murkier guys, including Jordan Addison. Now, I love that his
Speaker 2: snapcount has risen in three straight games thirty six snaps
Speaker 2: to forty snaps to fifty six snaps last week. Still
Speaker 2: trailing kJ Osbourne and snapcount, but heading in the right
Speaker 2: direction here. And of course, the Panthers are without star
Speaker 2: cornerback J. C. Horn who's still on IR and the
Speaker 2: outside starters CJ. Henderson and Dante Jackson both allowing a
Speaker 2: passer rating of at least one hundred and sixteen. So
Speaker 2: there's optimism for Jordan Adison, who I'm putting a B
Speaker 2: in this game. Alexander Madison comes in with a B grade.
Speaker 2: Even if cam Akers is active, Madison should get most
Speaker 2: of the work, and he will be acted by the
Speaker 2: way they've they've announced as much. Should get most of
Speaker 2: the work in a very plus matchup. Carolina has allowed
Speaker 2: multiple running back scores in every game this season, allowing
Speaker 2: the second most on the entire year. They're inside linebacker.
Speaker 2: Frankie Louvu left last week's game with a hip injury,
Speaker 2: and Shaq Thompson is on injured reserve. Carolina ranks twenty
Speaker 2: third run stopping by Pro Football Focus. I like Alexander
Speaker 2: Madison in this game.
Speaker 3: I also heard they weren't playing on playing Cam on
Speaker 3: passing downs.
Speaker 2: At least that, which would make sense as well. Actually,
Speaker 2: that's a more sophisticated sort of route pickups and things
Speaker 2: that he'd have to do with that pass protection and
Speaker 2: other things for Carolina. I originally had an A grade
Speaker 2: on Adam Field, but now with the news that it's
Speaker 2: going to be Bryce Young as the probable starter here,
Speaker 2: everybody in the passing game goes down and notch because honestly,
Speaker 2: Calton was better, right, I mean, the Panthers offense play
Speaker 2: their best game last week under Dalton, but still Bryce
Speaker 2: Young startable here. I've got a C grade on Bryce
Speaker 2: Young just because the Vikings secondary is so soft right now. Miami, sorry, Minnesota,
Speaker 2: allowing a staggering seventy six percent completion rate. They ranked
Speaker 2: dead last in pass rush by Pro Football Focus. They've
Speaker 2: only generated fourteen quarterback pressures per game. It's not nearly
Speaker 2: good enough, especially for a team blitzing as much as
Speaker 2: the Vikings are. Bryce Young will have time to scan
Speaker 2: the field find his receivers in a pinch. You could
Speaker 2: go to Bryce Young this week. Back to Adam Thielen
Speaker 2: B grade revenge game, obviously as he plays Minnesota. He's
Speaker 2: coming off back to back solid games. Really blossomed with
Speaker 2: Dalton last week. Again, wish Dalton was playing here. Fourteen
Speaker 2: targets last week. Feland remains an elite goal to go
Speaker 2: receiving threat, just like he was in Minnesota. Primarily playing
Speaker 2: the slot for Carolina. The Vikings just got nuked out
Speaker 2: of the slot by Keenan Allen last week, who exploited
Speaker 2: a half dozen different Vikings dB. He's trying to guard
Speaker 2: him from the slot. See B grade for Adam Thieln
Speaker 2: C grade for DJ Chark. As an outside option here,
Speaker 2: he runs from the outside. He's going to see cornerbacks
Speaker 2: at Caleb Evans the most, and a little bit of
Speaker 2: Makai Blackman. Evans has allowed touchdowns in consecutive games. Blackman
Speaker 2: has allowed an eighty six percent completion percentage, both positive
Speaker 2: for DJ Hark. You could give a try on Miles Sanders.
Speaker 2: You're gonna want to follow this. He's got a groin injury.
Speaker 2: He was a Friday, he was a Friday missed practice.
Speaker 2: We don't like guys to get downgraded on Friday. You're
Speaker 2: heading the wrong direction into the weekend. This groind injury
Speaker 2: is a very real threat to re injure for running
Speaker 2: back because you have to do all the cutting. Sanders
Speaker 2: has experienced a decline in carries and yards per game
Speaker 2: in every game this year. Panthers run blocking has been bad.
Speaker 2: That hasn't helped him either. He is a capable receiver,
Speaker 2: but this is one thing the Vikings defense has been
Speaker 2: great at. They've allowed the second fewest receptions to running backs,
Speaker 2: the fewest receiving yards to running backs, giving up a
Speaker 2: touchdown to running backs. So if Sanders, even if if
Speaker 2: Sanders starts the game, he still gets a bench grade.
Speaker 2: Now if he's out, Juba Hubbard presumably gets like all
Speaker 2: the work and he would turn into a C grade
Speaker 2: in that event. When we come back, nine players upon
Speaker 2: whom you can take a chance. Find out who these
Speaker 2: guys are. Maybe you have injuries, maybe you have illness,
Speaker 2: maybe you've got underperformers. We're gonna dig up some deep
Speaker 2: dives for you to inject into your lineup when we
Speaker 2: come back to Fantasy Football Weekly, Take a chance on me.
Speaker 2: Nine players not normally in your starting lineup. These are
Speaker 2: all guys well in many cases you can pick up
Speaker 2: off the waiver wire injected into your lineup for possible
Speaker 2: success this weekend, we begin with the quarterback position at
Speaker 2: Scott Fish.
Speaker 3: I like that you say nine players, and I'm going
Speaker 3: to give you two quarterbacks wo, because I have to
Speaker 3: hatch here. I have to hetche all right. Derek Carr
Speaker 3: is expected to play. Yes, if he starts, he gets
Speaker 3: the ninth easiest matchup against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who
Speaker 3: allow two hundred and seventy seven yards and almost too
Speaker 3: actually two fall if you count the rushing two touchdowns
Speaker 3: per game to the quarterback position. Derek Carr at three
Speaker 3: hundred and four yards and two hundred and twenty eight
Speaker 3: yards in his two full games. His weapons will be
Speaker 3: healthier getting Kamara back as well. The other option here
Speaker 3: is Jimmy Garoppolo, who also might not play, so hopefully
Speaker 3: I want to go Jameis Winston. No, no no, no,
Speaker 3: no no no. I'm going with two guys that you
Speaker 3: hope play one of them. They both have great matchups.
Speaker 3: Jimmy Garolo versus the Chargers. They ranked fourth worst in
Speaker 3: the defensive DVOA. Jimmy g is second in fifteen plus
Speaker 3: yard throws. He's really getting the ball deep down.
Speaker 2: There, Jaybe. It was Kyle Shanahan that was holding him.
Speaker 3: Back to all his betting concussion protocol, but he practiced
Speaker 3: the last two days of the week. Chargers allowing an
Speaker 3: average of three hundred and sixty yards and two point
Speaker 3: seven scores per game on their way to being the
Speaker 3: worst against fantasy quarterbacks. Hopefully one of them goes and
Speaker 3: go pick them up, because I'm sure those two guys
Speaker 3: are available.
Speaker 2: Well, they probably are, actually, Derek car Jimmy all right,
Speaker 2: you're taking chance at me quarterbacks, So nice.
Speaker 4: Last segment we talked about the Bells and the Dolphins,
Speaker 4: which is the obvious fantasy game of the week. I
Speaker 4: think the Colts in the Rams is this is non.
Speaker 2: Obvious sneaky game of the sneaky.
Speaker 4: So with that being said, Matthew Staffords might take a
Speaker 4: chance on me. Quarterback number six in passing grade this
Speaker 4: year for Matthew Stafford, number nine yards per attempt for
Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford this year.
Speaker 2: And this is a really good matchup.
Speaker 4: As we're sort of alluding to, the Colts are allowing
Speaker 4: the fourth most fantasy points to opposing core this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a nice start for him. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson taking on Chicago. This is for all the
Speaker 2: problems the Broncos have, like, none of it is on
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson. He's thrown multiple touchdowns and or three hundred
Speaker 2: passing yards in every game. The Bear secondary in ruins
Speaker 2: with injury and ineptitude. They've allowed seven passing touchdowns already.
Speaker 2: Two of Wilson's three receivers have got strongly positive matchups
Speaker 2: in this game. Chicago's pass rush ranks thirtieth by Pro
Speaker 2: Football Focus, and they've generated one sack and seven quarterback
Speaker 2: hits in three games. Think about how bad that is. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the running back position, Scott Fish.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I have Elijah Mitchell here, the San Francisco
Speaker 3: forty nine ers against the Arizona Cardinals. They're more than
Speaker 3: two touchdown favorites. Now, I will say Dallas didn't do
Speaker 3: so well against last week.
Speaker 2: Rico, Dowolves probably sounded pretty good last.
Speaker 3: Week, and Donald actually didn't do too bad last week.
Speaker 3: Elijah Mitchell more than two touchdown favorite CMC likely to
Speaker 3: get some rest here where Mitchell can come in. He
Speaker 3: did see fourteen touches last week in a similar game
Speaker 3: script where they won by what sixteen points or whatever?
Speaker 3: It was nineteen points? I believe it was. I saw
Speaker 3: fourteen touchdowns in a similar game script last week, and
Speaker 3: the Cardinals sixth worst against fantasy quarterback running backs.
Speaker 2: All right, Surry, you're taking chance on me running back
Speaker 2: speaking of Rea, Sorry mode, you're a lot a bit there, Yeah.
Speaker 4: And going along the same thought process the Fish had
Speaker 4: for his Obviously, Dowdell is Tony Pollard's handcuff, but I
Speaker 4: think he could have standalone value in this game against
Speaker 4: the Patriots. Dowdell is playing really well in his limited looks,
Speaker 4: number sixteen in PFF grade for running backs this year.
Speaker 4: You guys mentioned his game last week, forty six total
Speaker 4: yards on seven touches. En Rico scored his first career touchdown.
Speaker 4: If the Cowboys throttle the Patriots in this game, which
Speaker 4: is definitely in play, Dowdell could threaten fifteen touches.
Speaker 3: Also, just to help his point, New England and Dallas
Speaker 3: are number one and number two in pace of play,
Speaker 3: so there's gonna be a lot of plays, a lot
Speaker 3: of opportunity.
Speaker 2: I would never guess the Patriots are that high in Pamela.
Speaker 2: They picked up this year. They really have. You're gonna
Speaker 2: love this one for Roe Sean Johnson. Baby love it.
Speaker 2: Broncos ranked thirty first against the run by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 2: They ranked dead last in tackling.
Speaker 3: Shockingly, have twelve tackles of the year.
Speaker 2: It feels that way, doesn't it. Shockingly, Chicago's offensive line
Speaker 2: holds the league's second best run block win rate. I
Speaker 2: never would have guessed that, a seventy six percent win
Speaker 2: rate behind Philadelphia. Come on, how is the Bears offensive
Speaker 2: line doing that? Broncos have been gashed by opposing running
Speaker 2: backs through the air, allowing the fifth most running back receptions,
Speaker 2: the most running back receiving yards, and the most running
Speaker 2: back receiving touchdowns. And Johnson's been shockingly active in the
Speaker 2: Bears passing attack, averaging eighteen routes per game. Roe Sean Johnson, Now,
Speaker 2: when this one hits thor that'll complete some kind of
Speaker 2: trifecta that you have a preseason predictions for you. I
Speaker 2: love it. Let's go to the receivers, Scott so.
Speaker 3: I originally had Josh Palmer in this spot because I
Speaker 3: think he's got a good spot. And then I noticed
Speaker 3: that Jacoby Myers is forty percent started this week. What
Speaker 3: is going on with that? Yeah, he doesn't.
Speaker 2: Realize how good Jacoby Meyers.
Speaker 3: I think he's boring to people or something. He I
Speaker 3: don't know what it is. But ten plus targets and
Speaker 3: seven plus catches and eight plus yards in both games.
Speaker 3: He's got that McDaniel Jimmy G. Myers connection. For New
Speaker 3: England Chargers have allowed six wide receiver touchdowns on their
Speaker 3: way to being second worst against wide receivers. And he's
Speaker 3: got good matchups. He's he's either going against the Sante
Speaker 3: Samuel Junior or Michael Davis, both allowing well allowing one
Speaker 3: hundred and thirteen point four passer rating the other one
Speaker 3: hundred and forty nine point two passer rating against. It
Speaker 3: just a good spot for him.
Speaker 2: I like it. Hey Myers. By the way, not only
Speaker 2: fantasy owners missing the Jacoby Myers thing, how about general
Speaker 2: manager Bill Belichick? Who basically traded in on. He even
Speaker 2: contracts Joe Kobe Myers let him leave him breaking Juju
Speaker 2: Smith schusteron not good? Oh come on yeah, anyway, Thornier
Speaker 2: your final take a chance with me player. We're going
Speaker 2: back to the Well in that Rams Colts game.
Speaker 4: I'm going with two to two at Well, which people
Speaker 4: out there might be surprised. He is wide receiver twelve
Speaker 4: and half point PPR scoring so far this season. Two
Speaker 4: to has drawn at least eight targets in every single
Speaker 4: game so far this season.
Speaker 2: His role is not changing.
Speaker 4: I think he's becoming a weekly must start type of player.
Speaker 4: He certainly is this week against a terrible Colts pass
Speaker 4: defense that's already allowed thirteen plus PPR fantasy points to
Speaker 4: multiple opposing receivers twice this season, so usually two receivers
Speaker 4: are going to eat when they play the Colts. I
Speaker 4: think that's happening again this week.
Speaker 2: Totally with you on that. You know, when Cooper Cup
Speaker 2: comes back and now it sounds like he's going to
Speaker 2: start practicing next week, things will get a little bit trickier.
Speaker 2: But at Well's not running from the slot at all, basically,
Speaker 2: so he'll stay on the field.
Speaker 4: And he's the burner. They don't have another guy to
Speaker 4: fill his stretch once he does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right point. Nico Collins is a long time favorite
Speaker 2: of this show, and we're going to go right back
Speaker 2: to him here against Pittsburgh. Currently tenth in receiving yards
Speaker 2: through three games, the average yards of separation Collins creates
Speaker 2: on his receptions four and a half yards. That is
Speaker 2: over a yard and a half more than league average,
Speaker 2: so he's getting open. Pittsburgh's defense has allowed the second
Speaker 2: most rushing yards to this point, so there is somewhere
Speaker 2: he used to could do the damage on the ground,
Speaker 2: but the Houston running game has not been able to
Speaker 2: generate much to this point. Collins is a great matchup
Speaker 2: on the outside against Levi Wallace and Patrick Peterson. Wallace
Speaker 2: just got thumped for one hundred and four yards and
Speaker 2: two touchdowns last week. Meanwhile, Patrick Peterson is giving up
Speaker 2: a passer rating of one hundred and forty four and
Speaker 2: has given up three touchdowns already. So Nico Collins, I'm
Speaker 2: very very intrigued. Let's go back to the matchup Steelers.
Speaker 3: Tail Let's stick in the taks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, same game. Let's go to the Steelers side to
Speaker 2: start on this one and what has been an absolutely
Speaker 2: brutal start for basically every Steeler you could have, possibly Drac.
Speaker 3: I had so much high hopes for this Steeler offense.
Speaker 3: The way they looked in preseason against basic vanilla defenses
Speaker 3: at backups, we just thought they'd be so that would translate.
Speaker 3: But at least Kenny Pickett hit through his first multi
Speaker 3: score game last week, so I guess I jinxed that streak,
Speaker 3: but I talked about it last week. Probably got fifteen
Speaker 3: straight weeks with one score. He basically needs it because
Speaker 3: he throws two hundred and twenty to two hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty five yards every single game. So if he doesn't
Speaker 3: get that second score, he's not worth a start. And
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna say he's not worth a start here.
Speaker 3: I know the Texans are twenty fifth in defensive DVOA,
Speaker 3: but despite that low rank, they bring the heat, having
Speaker 3: a seventh best pressure rate in the NFL. I don't
Speaker 3: know that that offensive line and Kenny Pickett can handle
Speaker 3: that heat.
Speaker 2: Probably not.
Speaker 3: So I have I basically have only have a couple
Speaker 3: of grades here. I have George Pickens with a C grade.
Speaker 3: He's gonna need a big skill. He's either gonna need
Speaker 3: that one touchdown from Pickett or he'll need a big play.
Speaker 3: But he just gets tons of targets. He's the target
Speaker 3: yardage leaders since Deontay Johnson went out only one wide
Speaker 3: receiver his top sixty yards against the Texans. But if
Speaker 3: he's seen near double digit touchdowns, that volume alone should
Speaker 3: four or five six catches. He's gonna get in that
Speaker 3: C grade. Yeah. In the run game, man, Jalen Warren,
Speaker 3: I had more hope, but he just didn't get it
Speaker 3: done last week.
Speaker 2: Now, and he didn't give that many carries. It's like
Speaker 2: they doubled down on Naji Harris.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the other like, let's let's keep going to that
Speaker 3: that Naji Harris. Well, so I can't trust in Jalen
Speaker 3: Warren and I'm still gonna give naj the sea, but
Speaker 3: you could tell me to bench him and I would
Speaker 3: do it. Here's yeah, exactly why seventh worst against Backs
Speaker 3: seven Zach Moss and Travis etn just dropped one hundred
Speaker 3: and plus in each of the last two weeks. Just
Speaker 3: that thirteen touches for forty seven scoreless yards being his
Speaker 3: average is just gross though, But he should get the
Speaker 3: volume C and it's a better matchup over on the
Speaker 3: other side. C. J. Stroud, I do have. I could
Speaker 3: tell you I have Friar with on the bench. I
Speaker 3: and he scored two touchdowns. But he's got he's got
Speaker 3: five catches on the year, like he's just not getting all.
Speaker 2: They're not using him better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and more.
Speaker 1: C J.
Speaker 3: Stroud, I have a C grade on Steelers. Rank eighth
Speaker 3: in defensive DVOA, fifth highest pressure rate. All both good spots.
Speaker 3: But I think C. J. Stroud has looked really, really good.
Speaker 3: And Jimmy G just went for three forty two and
Speaker 3: two on them, and I think J. Stroud is at
Speaker 3: least Jimmy G level, So he looks good. So I'm
Speaker 3: gonna give him a C grade. Here, Damian Pierce, I
Speaker 3: have the D grade dart throw that's you said, that's
Speaker 3: okay right, No now, now, I'll get okay, okay grade
Speaker 3: if you want, I'll give him an he's not a
Speaker 3: dart row guy. I'll give him a C grade. His
Speaker 3: negative yards over expectation is one of the five worst
Speaker 3: in the league, five worst, and time spent behind the
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage. But McCaffrey, Jerome Ford Nick Chubb, Josh
Speaker 3: Jacobs Dale did really great work against the Steelers. They're
Speaker 3: eighth worst against running backs. It's a good spot. I'll
Speaker 3: give him a CEA.
Speaker 2: Hopefully he'd finally giving up five point five yards per perry.
Speaker 2: If this Houston offensive line can't give Damian Peterson with here,
Speaker 2: that's I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3: It's exactly what I was gonna say, Like, this is
Speaker 3: the spot for Damien Harrison. If it isn't, I'd be
Speaker 3: really really worried. Nico Collins, you'll take a chance on
Speaker 3: me player. I also like tanked ol I got the
Speaker 3: C grade on him too. I both him. Both of
Speaker 3: them looking good. They both get plus matchups because they'll
Speaker 3: switch on Levey Wallace and Patrick Peterson, and you've already
Speaker 3: talked about the salient points about them. Robert Woods is
Speaker 3: going to get Chandon Sullivan there on the slot. It's
Speaker 3: the fifth easiest matchup for wide receivers, uh Davante Adams,
Speaker 3: Brandon ayuk Amari Cooper. I'll torch them. The smaller speedy guys,
Speaker 3: the Debo and Myers drop fifty five yards and eighty
Speaker 3: five yards everybody. They're both very wildly viable here in
Speaker 3: this matchup.
Speaker 2: Agreed. Yeah, So our final matchup of this segment taking
Speaker 2: on the Colts, as you alluded to earlier. Well, you
Speaker 2: didn't allude, You set it out right, and you're right.
Speaker 2: There's sneaky points to be had here. You've already touched
Speaker 2: on two to two at well, tell me about the
Speaker 2: rest of the passing game here for the Rams and
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford you already hit that too. Yeah, my two
Speaker 2: take a chance on me, guys.
Speaker 4: Moving to Puka Nakua, great of a weekly must start,
Speaker 4: already wide receiver seven in fantasy this thus far number
Speaker 4: four in first read share in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Love it.
Speaker 4: Another big games coming for Puka this week Indianapolis is
Speaker 4: his zone heavy coverage defense, and they're not a good one.
Speaker 4: Puka's the Rams zone beater. We've already seen that this year.
Speaker 4: He has a forty three point nine first read share
Speaker 4: against zone and also three point four to four yards
Speaker 4: per route run.
Speaker 2: Against zone coverage.
Speaker 4: And as I mentioned before, the Colts have already allowed
Speaker 4: six different wide receivers to score at least thirteen PPR
Speaker 4: Fantasy points this year, and multiple ones in two games
Speaker 4: so Pukah is a good obviously a must start to
Speaker 4: two is a good matchup as well. Keep Van Jefferson
Speaker 4: on your bench or preferably cut him at this point. Yeh,
Speaker 4: Tyler Higbee, I'm going to give him a grade of B.
Speaker 4: He does have a solid fifteen point four first read
Speaker 4: share this year, and this is also a good matchup
Speaker 4: for him. Indianapolis allows the eighth most receiving yards to
Speaker 4: opposing tight ends. Moving to Brian's boy, Kyron Williams. If
Speaker 4: there's such thing as a volume B grade, here's a
Speaker 4: B grade. Okay, I mean that's available. You can just
Speaker 4: use B.
Speaker 2: Fish is a bad influence on me.
Speaker 3: Yes, he is well the secret the volume C is
Speaker 3: a C grade. I'm just clarifying that it's because he's
Speaker 3: gonna get volume. I don't actually love him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Kyen's a sort of a better version of that.
Speaker 4: Ninety five percent plus snaps each of the last two weeks.
Speaker 4: There's okay, here's a crazy stat. There's only been five
Speaker 4: games in the NFL this year where a running back
Speaker 4: has taken every rushing attempt to carry from their team
Speaker 4: in that game. Does he have two of the five
Speaker 4: of them where Kyron's last two weeks, so that's kind
Speaker 4: of crazy. And he still play got Nuber's special teams UITs.
Speaker 4: So I don't know how that kid's but you know,
Speaker 4: doing it, or how long he can stay healthy.
Speaker 2: Now let's assume he does go down. Do I want
Speaker 2: Evan Hall? Not Evan Hall, sorry, Zach Evans.
Speaker 4: I think that would be the next one up at
Speaker 4: this point. Yeah, at this point. The player though for Kyroen,
Speaker 4: has been a little bit mediocre, you know, and this
Speaker 4: goes back to his athletic limitations and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: He's averaged eighty two point five total yards in those
Speaker 4: two games, even though he's getting all the snaps, getting
Speaker 4: the opportunities, he's outside the top forty in miss tackles,
Speaker 4: force per attempt and yards after contact per attempt. There's
Speaker 4: only fifty some qualifiers for that, so he's down near
Speaker 4: the bottom. He is an absolute cell high candidate. I agreed,
Speaker 4: if you can get anything for him in trade, like
Speaker 4: you can get a lot, you can get a lot
Speaker 4: for Kyen Williams right now, I would move.
Speaker 2: It's because people are so desperate at running back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, the usage for sure is going to
Speaker 4: be there, but yeah, I have questions about the other
Speaker 4: stuff moving to the colt side. Anthony Richardson coming back
Speaker 4: from the concussion. I give him a grade A in
Speaker 4: this matchup, only twenty eighth in the NFL in passing
Speaker 4: grade to this point, but number one in the NFL
Speaker 4: in fantasy points per drop back. The Rams have a
Speaker 4: good pass defense, but as you guys know, Richardson's legs
Speaker 4: set an extremely high floor in every game from a
Speaker 4: fantasy perspective, and a top three ceiling weekly.
Speaker 3: In terms of that, you'd mentioned the fantasy points per dropback,
Speaker 3: fantasy points per snap. He's at zero point four to
Speaker 3: six per fantasy points per snap, which means lot. He
Speaker 3: snaps the ball, he gets you half a fantasy point.
Speaker 2: That's right, no matter if he could be handing it off, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he got.
Speaker 3: You half of It's unreal.
Speaker 2: It's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get Michael Pittman an A grade as well
Speaker 4: in this one wide receiver twelve in fantasy. He's proven
Speaker 4: the past couple of years he has quarterback proof. It
Speaker 4: does not matter, he is going to produce. Pittman has
Speaker 4: scored at least thirteen point six PPR Fantasy points in
Speaker 4: every game this season. This is a great matchup for
Speaker 4: him as well. The Rams predominantly run zone coverage. Pittman
Speaker 4: versus zone coverage has a crazy forty one point two
Speaker 4: percent target share.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's huge, huge, Josh Downs.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give him a c. He has a solid
Speaker 4: twenty percent first read share as Indyanapolis is starting slot
Speaker 4: slot this season, and he has a good matchup here
Speaker 4: against Kolbe Durant the opposing nickel. Durant has allowed a
Speaker 4: seventy one point four percent catch rate and one hundred
Speaker 4: and one point five passer rating against. You're gonna keep
Speaker 4: Alec Pearson Kylon grantson on your bench. I'm gonna give
Speaker 4: Zach Moss though an a rounding this thing out. Last
Speaker 4: two games, Zach Moss seventy six percent plus snaps both
Speaker 4: times for an average of one hundred and twenty six
Speaker 4: total yards per game. The Rams run defense is not good.
Speaker 4: They're allowing the tenth most yards after contact per attempt.
Speaker 4: As we all know, Moss is a tackle breaker.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well that's what I was telling everybody when he
Speaker 2: was in Buffalo, and I was like, he's gonna get
Speaker 2: used in Buffalo. W it's never panned out. People are
Speaker 2: stillting it now with me. Now he's getting his opportunities.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's only for like one more game, but we'll
Speaker 2: we'll find out. Would we come back more matchups for you,
Speaker 2: including the Broncos taking on the Bears. These are two
Speaker 2: of the arguably the worst and the second worst defense
Speaker 2: playing against each other, so opportunities abound. Will tell you
Speaker 2: about that matchup when we come back too, Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 2: Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly Paul Jorgi and Scott Fish
Speaker 2: and throw an eistrom with you. Broncos take on the Bears,
Speaker 2: two of the worst defenses in the league playing each other.
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson was already might take a chance on me quarterback.
Speaker 2: Let's go too his receivers. I got an eight grade
Speaker 2: on Jerry Judy with a phenomenal matchup running largely out
Speaker 2: of the slot against cornerback Josh Blackwell, who gives up
Speaker 2: a one nineteen passer rating and has yet to force
Speaker 2: an incomplete pass. So there's a really nice opportunity for
Speaker 2: Jerry Judy. A graade for him. B great for Courtland
Speaker 2: Sutton against the secondary. Sutton likely gets shadow coverage from
Speaker 2: the only good Bears cornerback Jalen Johnson. He's giving up
Speaker 2: just twenty four scoreless yards in his coverage per game.
Speaker 2: So I can only get the B grade on Courtland Sutton,
Speaker 2: but Marvin Mims B grade and this could be a
Speaker 2: biggie here. He's your Hail Mary home on to plan more.
Speaker 2: Say no, that's the catches like he's on the field
Speaker 2: like fifteen snaps a game, but a dream matchup against
Speaker 2: rookie cornerback Tyreek Stevenson. He's allowing an almost perfect passer
Speaker 2: rating in his coverage of one hundred and forty eight
Speaker 2: including touchdowns and back to back games. Let's try a
Speaker 2: little Marvin Mims here. Let's get staying with the passing game.
Speaker 2: Adam Troutman zero catches in back to back weeks, so
Speaker 2: he's nothing more than a desperation dark brow. But he's
Speaker 2: running a ton of routes and Chicago's allowed the third
Speaker 2: most tight end receptions and three different tight ends of
Speaker 2: top forty yards, so in the tight end wasteland. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go see grade on Adam Trautman. Lastly, Javonte Williams.
Speaker 2: I like him here, Bears allowing the tenth most rushing
Speaker 2: yards and the second most receiving yards to opposing backs.
Speaker 2: It's one hundred and fifty seven total yards per game.
Speaker 2: Javonte Williams is going to get most of that. The
Speaker 2: Bears have also given up almost two and a half
Speaker 2: touchdowns per game to posting running back second most. Javonte
Speaker 2: Williams seeing forty four percent of the snaps, will take
Speaker 2: him here. This should be a good opportunity for him.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the Chicago side. Rochan Johnson was might
Speaker 2: take a chance on me. Running Back Khalil Herbert clocks
Speaker 2: in with a C grade, averaging five more snaps than
Speaker 2: Roshan Johnson along with a couple more carries. But of note,
Speaker 2: Johnson out carried Herbert last week by one carry. And
Speaker 2: I already discussed the broncos many row woes against the
Speaker 2: run when I was talking about Roshan Johnson. So you know,
Speaker 2: if you've got little Herbert on on your roster, you
Speaker 2: may as well start him here. It's the easiest matchup
Speaker 2: of the year, all right. What to do about justin Field?
Speaker 2: So it's been a disaster for fantasy owners who went
Speaker 2: to bat for justin fields to the first set of games,
Speaker 2: and you know if you finally bench him, he's gonna
Speaker 2: blow up. Right here, He's gon to run for hundred
Speaker 2: and forty yards and two touchdowns. The best reason to
Speaker 2: keep him in your lineup is this. After getting two
Speaker 2: and then three designed runs through the first couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: he got seven last week. We're here for the running
Speaker 2: for Justin Fields.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: The Broncos held mobile quarterback Sam Howell to thirteen rushing yards,
Speaker 2: but he had zero design runs in that game. Denver
Speaker 2: Rank's twenty seventh in pass rush by Pro Football Focus
Speaker 2: and dead last in pass block win rate. So Justin
Speaker 2: Fields should have time. Doesn't mean he's doing anything with it,
Speaker 2: but I'm giving him a C grade here on just
Speaker 2: the totality of his opportunity. DJ Moore gets a C
Speaker 2: grade Denver Rank's thirty first and pass coverage by Pro
Speaker 2: Football Focus, but more will draw. The only competent cornerback
Speaker 2: on the team, Patrick Certain, who's more than competent. He's
Speaker 2: borderline awesome in shadow coverage. Now. Certain got worked last week,
Speaker 2: but he's proven over the course of his career to
Speaker 2: be very good. And he held the Washington and Las
Speaker 2: Vegas receivers to sixteen yards and seventeen yards in his coverage.
Speaker 2: It's potentially a tricky game for DJ Moore only a
Speaker 2: C grade, and Cole Comet is on the bench diminishing
Speaker 2: targets receptions in yards. In three games so far, for
Speaker 2: all at Denver's defensive woes, they've held down opposing tight ends,
Speaker 2: allowing just modest forty one yards per game to the position.
Speaker 2: Cole Comet, nothing special on the bench. Let's go to
Speaker 2: Bucks taking on to these Saints. Scott.
Speaker 3: Yes, this is actually kind of one of my favorite
Speaker 3: matchups because because we have Mike Evans versus Marshaw Lattimore
Speaker 3: and all their drama. Yea. And on the other side
Speaker 3: you got Carlton Davis who held Michael Thomlas to zero
Speaker 3: receptions and then called him slant boy. I love it.
Speaker 3: So we got some drava. The wide receiver, the cornerback matchups.
Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield I do have on the bench, though. I
Speaker 3: love what Dave Canalis has done the oc higher from Seattle,
Speaker 3: who made Gino Smith be awesome last year. He's really
Speaker 3: done it with Baker this year too. But New Orleans
Speaker 3: is holding opposing quarterbacks to two hundred and three in
Speaker 3: yards and one score stat lines. They ranked sixth in
Speaker 3: defensive DVOA and honestly Baker's stats, I mean he's averaging
Speaker 3: two hundred and twelve yards and one point. Like it's
Speaker 3: not even that that spectacular, but it's it's better.
Speaker 2: Than we expected.
Speaker 3: Ben, It's just not the match This is not the
Speaker 3: matchup for it. I do have Mike Evans with a
Speaker 3: C grade in that Marshaan let like, he's been a
Speaker 3: level all year, So a C grade is really low.
Speaker 3: It's just because it's Marshawn Lattimore and we've seen a
Speaker 3: ton of benchworthy games and even injections and fights from
Speaker 3: these two since twenty seventeen. He's scored four times in
Speaker 3: those ten matchups against Latimore, averaging about sixty five yards
Speaker 3: each or was under sorry, I was under sixty five
Speaker 3: yards in eight of the ten. That's that's where the
Speaker 3: stab was. So C grade there. I hope you can
Speaker 3: hope you can get some in this better year for him.
Speaker 3: B grade on Chris Godwin. If Paulson Dable goes, it
Speaker 3: may be tougher sledding, but he is dealing with a
Speaker 3: hamstring injury, so maybe not you never know, but he's
Speaker 3: allowing six catches for seventy one scoreless yards. If not,
Speaker 3: it's Isaac ye Yeaedamy item im think it's m I
Speaker 3: might be Yaem who allowed four for thirty in a
Speaker 3: score last week in replacements. So it's an okay spot
Speaker 3: for Chris Godwin's he usually has the better he scores.
Speaker 3: He's scored more Fantasy points than Evans in four straight
Speaker 3: of those Saints Lattimore matchups, So B grade there Over
Speaker 3: to the other side, New Orleans Saints side. Derek Carr
Speaker 3: was kind of a take chance on me, Hedge.
Speaker 2: He really was.
Speaker 3: Is that what it is? Because it's a decent matchup
Speaker 3: for quarterbacks there. I love his I love Chris lave
Speaker 3: He's gonna get an A grade for me. Justin Jefferson
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty yards. DJ Moore one hundred and
Speaker 3: four yards. AJ Brown one hundred and thirty one yards.
Speaker 3: The number ones are doing what they do against the
Speaker 3: Bucks defense and Chris LaVey in general. Seven plus catches,
Speaker 3: one hundred plus yards. He just hasn't every game. He
Speaker 3: just hasn't scored. Well, he kind of scored but stepped
Speaker 3: out of bounds. At the leg. That cost me a
Speaker 3: game in our home league. Charge that step out did out,
Speaker 3: I'd be three and oh, I hate that, hate that.
Speaker 3: I was high fiving my son and then nope, nope.
Speaker 3: His worst game is eight for eight or six for
Speaker 3: eighty six. That's his worst game. So a grade there,
Speaker 3: Michael Thomas C grade in that Carlton Davis matchup, He's
Speaker 3: got at least five for fifty yards in every game
Speaker 3: Number two is against the Bucks. Sixty one yards, thirty
Speaker 3: six yards, fifty eight yards, all four to five catches.
Speaker 3: That's good. All three scored. They're letting the number two
Speaker 3: score and they're not letting the number None of the
Speaker 3: number one scored, all the number two scored. So it's
Speaker 3: kind of a weird situation.
Speaker 2: What do you think about the number three Rashid No, Now,
Speaker 2: he scored on a punt return, he scored in every
Speaker 2: game punt return last week, but no catches to go
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 3: Heart, Yeah, I'm keep him on the bench, but if
Speaker 3: you want to dart throw him in a decent matchup,
Speaker 3: you can dart throw him. But I have a bench
Speaker 3: grade on him.
Speaker 2: I don't think we have time to work in one
Speaker 2: more matchup.
Speaker 3: Can I ask you one question then if we're like
Speaker 3: we got a minute here, right? Yeah? I told you
Speaker 3: I play in the league with Darren Waller, and I
Speaker 3: was gonna offer Darren wall to himself so I could
Speaker 3: get some fined that information. I picked him two picks
Speaker 3: before he picked yeah, and he picked TJ. Hockinson. Can
Speaker 3: I trade him Darren Waller for TJ.
Speaker 2: Hocketts because he has to take himself?
Speaker 3: Yeah. J. Hockinson is better than that.
Speaker 2: He's got. I want you to do it on this break,
Speaker 2: and then I want you to report back whether or
Speaker 2: not he actually takes the trade because he kind of
Speaker 2: has to take himself, doesn't he.
Speaker 3: TJ.
Speaker 2: Hawkins is the highest scoring tight ended fantasyball. That would
Speaker 2: be great. Jamison Williams gets a is coming back a
Speaker 2: week early now. He's probably locked in your system because
Speaker 2: he played on Thursday night. The lanes happened to have
Speaker 2: played Thursday night. He probably can't pick him up. But
Speaker 2: note that he's coming back. I think it could be
Speaker 2: a slow It might be slow to get him working
Speaker 2: back into the system because Josh Reynolds is good. Cliff
Speaker 2: Raymond's making big plays. I don't know that he walks
Speaker 2: into a big starting role very quickly.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know either, but we do have to
Speaker 3: remember he averages forty one yards per catch.
Speaker 2: Against the Biking.
Speaker 3: Against all teams. That's a touchdown at every every catch.
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Speaker 2: can still join a new league. Back for our number
Speaker 2: two in Moments, our number two Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul
Speaker 2: Charchi and Scott Fish and Thor Nystrom with you. This
Speaker 2: is a game we like to call three tough questions.
Speaker 2: Tough question Number one is Derrick Henry cooked? Scott Fish?
Speaker 3: Sure? Sure, Normally I don'ly I like to, you know,
Speaker 3: delve onto the positive. But Spears got more snaps last week.
Speaker 3: The eyebe doesn't. He doesn't look as dominant, his metrics
Speaker 3: are down. He's always like been buoyed by these late
Speaker 3: in game wearing down of the defenses or you know,
Speaker 3: a big, huge play. He had that one big catch
Speaker 3: in week one, but that's it. Otherwise, mostly short runs
Speaker 3: and even when he was wearing down in week two,
Speaker 3: twenty five carries here we got like seventy yards. He's
Speaker 3: not getting what he used to get to be dominant, all.
Speaker 2: Right, So you're yes, sure works as a yes on
Speaker 2: this sure thor is Derek Henry cooked?
Speaker 4: I would say he's medium rare cooked, not fully cooked.
Speaker 2: Well that's not that's that's evehen that's on the that's
Speaker 2: medium rare is that's barely barely cooked. He's barely he's
Speaker 2: partially cooked.
Speaker 4: I mean he's seventeenth in PFF run grade right now,
Speaker 4: he's thirteenth in yards after contact. They're obviously spelling him
Speaker 4: more as Fish was alluding to before, and attempting to
Speaker 4: protect him more, and he's already starting to pick up
Speaker 4: some of these nagging injuries.
Speaker 2: Partially cooked, not all the way cooked answers, Yes he is.
Speaker 2: He's carried the ball fifty one times. How many broken
Speaker 2: tackles He's got five, Dereck Henry five broken tackles on
Speaker 2: fifty one carries in PFF's elusiveness rating. Only four starting
Speaker 2: running backs are rated lower than Derrick Henry in yards
Speaker 2: over expectation. Dereck Henry is a flat zero. Guess who's
Speaker 2: third running in the same offense. Taj Spears is sitting
Speaker 2: behind Christian McCaffrey and Bijon Robinson. Last week in a
Speaker 2: one sided loss, granted was a one sided loss, and
Speaker 2: they were behind early. Henry was on the field eleven snaps,
Speaker 2: Spears thirty three snaps. Holy cow, this is a very
Speaker 2: And by the way, do you think Tennessee's going to
Speaker 2: fall behind frequently?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 2: Hell yeah they are. This is Look, I'm not saying
Speaker 2: Derek Henry will never have another good fantasy game, But
Speaker 2: what I am telling you is the end is effectively here.
Speaker 2: Right Derrick Henry, You've enjoyed the last four years. That's over.
Speaker 2: This is this He's not the best running back on
Speaker 2: roster right now. Tough question Number two. Alvin Kamara makes
Speaker 2: his return on Sunday. On balance for the rest of
Speaker 2: the season, will Alvin Kamara be an RB one RB
Speaker 2: two flex or will he be a bench player? We
Speaker 2: begin with Thorne Eistro.
Speaker 4: I think he's a low end RB one. The rest
Speaker 4: this season. He has a skill set that they really
Speaker 4: really need. You've seen especially with the injuries when Williams
Speaker 4: didn't play, But even when Williams is playing, he's just
Speaker 4: trying to carve stuff out with the lack of explosion
Speaker 4: last week, you know, trying Kendrick Miller, trying some of
Speaker 4: these other guys. They really need him. They used to
Speaker 4: just going to dictate that low end RB one designation.
Speaker 2: All right, Scott Alvin Kamara on balance for the rest
Speaker 2: of the season. Will he be an RB one, an
Speaker 2: RB two, yeah, flex or bench.
Speaker 3: I was right with Tho. I was like, low end
Speaker 3: RB one, high end RB two. I'm gonna sit at
Speaker 3: RB two, just a hedge a little. I guess he's
Speaker 3: got five bottom seven matchups that are going to be
Speaker 3: great for him, only two against top ten defenses. Granted,
Speaker 3: we're working on a three game sample size, so a
Speaker 3: lot of that can change by the time it gets
Speaker 3: to him. But he's a guy who's likely to see
Speaker 3: fifteen plus touches. That's what he did almost every week
Speaker 3: that he suited up last year. Averaged nineteen touches per
Speaker 3: game last year, and he had mark Ingram and David
Speaker 3: Johnson there, so even when Jamal Williams gets back, he
Speaker 3: should see the same type of touchload he got last year.
Speaker 3: Three out of his four final weeks were RB one
Speaker 3: weeks last year. I think he's going to be an
Speaker 3: RB two quite often, and RB one a decent amount
Speaker 3: as well, but RB two I'll go with just high
Speaker 3: end RB two.
Speaker 2: Assuming Jamal Williams returns in three weeks, which is a
Speaker 2: huge factor in this.
Speaker 3: I think the most key's better than old mark ingram
Speaker 3: from last year.
Speaker 2: He is a lot better the most common grade Alvin
Speaker 2: Kamara is going to get the rest of the year
Speaker 2: is going to be beat and that makes him an
Speaker 2: RB two. Of course, Jamal Williams stealing goal line work,
Speaker 2: but he also have Taysom Hill stealing goal line worker.
Speaker 2: And remember last year. Do you guys remember how many
Speaker 2: games in which Alvin Kamara scored a touchdown last year?
Speaker 2: He scored in two games last year. That's it. Kendry
Speaker 2: Miller's now playing that dilutes the backfield further. Tony Jones
Speaker 2: might still be a factor. Kamara is gonna help Vie
Speaker 2: of the pass because he's really gifted that way. But
Speaker 2: get this second half of last year this was all
Speaker 2: Alvin Kamara was giving you through the air. Two catches
Speaker 2: for twenty two yards second half of last season. That's
Speaker 2: our most recent sample size. There's still a lot of
Speaker 2: reason for concern here at the touchdowns. Maybe not as
Speaker 2: much help in the air game as we think, but
Speaker 2: still starting running back for an NFL team RB two.
Speaker 2: Tough question number three. Miami running back Devon A Chan
Speaker 2: stunned everybody with four touchdowns last week. On balance for
Speaker 2: the rest of the season, is he gonna be an
Speaker 2: RB one, an RB two, A flex or a bench player?
Speaker 2: Devon a Chan, Scott Fish.
Speaker 3: Devon A Chan. It's gonna take me a while to
Speaker 3: get it, really is I put flex? Given the injury
Speaker 3: history of moster at Wilson and Auchmed, I think there's
Speaker 3: a decent chance he gets, you know, some okay workloads.
Speaker 3: It's on a you know, a good offense. It's gonna
Speaker 3: be a lot of scoring opportunities to his talent and
Speaker 3: skill set, especially for the scheme they scheme. That offensive
Speaker 3: scheme all great, but there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 3: splitting in and Mike McDaniel himself even this week was like,
Speaker 3: I feel like we got a five running back rotation
Speaker 3: that he wants to utilize their skill sets differently for
Speaker 3: different teams so that teams can't you know, plan for them,
Speaker 3: and that scares the crap out of us fantasy owners
Speaker 3: if that's his plan once Jeff Wilson gets back to
Speaker 3: just be using all five of them like that. So
Speaker 3: I went with flex. He's gonna have his moments all right.
Speaker 2: Thor for Miami running back Devon a Chan on balance
Speaker 2: for the rest of the season, will he be in
Speaker 2: RB one, an RB two, a flex or evene.
Speaker 4: I'm going to say RB two on balance where I
Speaker 4: think it's gonna come as like half the weeks you're
Speaker 4: going to get the RB one production that half the
Speaker 4: weeks it's going to be less than that, I think,
Speaker 4: But I think it's going to balance out to RB
Speaker 4: two value. The whole thing with the platoon and the
Speaker 4: time share there. It's pragmatic with regards to A Chan.
Speaker 4: I mean at Texas A and m Jimbo Fisher phone
Speaker 4: he kept wanting to give eight Chan all the touches
Speaker 4: because it was the only way the Aggies could generate
Speaker 4: offense well. Han and the last season he missed two
Speaker 4: games with an injury he'll get He's one hundred and
Speaker 4: eighty five pounder. He's going to get hurt. I'm soaking wet.
Speaker 4: He's gonna get hurt if they use him too much.
Speaker 4: So the time share thing works out for him. Some games,
Speaker 4: what he does is hit dingers. So when he does,
Speaker 4: like the last game, hits a couple of them, he's
Speaker 4: gonna have the good value. There's other games where I
Speaker 4: don't think the ball is going to go over the
Speaker 4: fence as it were.
Speaker 2: So last week he had the gigantic game, the Dolphins
Speaker 2: rolling up seventy on the hapless Broncos was an empty
Speaker 2: calorie box score for Miami's backups. Robbie chosen one of
Speaker 2: my guillotine leagues, went for ninety bucks. Yeah, come on,
Speaker 2: this is going to be that game. You know, we
Speaker 2: all what is it? What we were influenced by what
Speaker 2: happened recent The recency bias, Right, we all have some
Speaker 2: recency bias. Here are you going to know when Devon
Speaker 2: Achan's big games are coming.
Speaker 3: Not less his injuries?
Speaker 2: And that's the problem, right, you know when this, when
Speaker 2: they've got a healthy rotation of backs, you almost need
Speaker 2: guys like Achman to be out like he was last week.
Speaker 2: Wilson to be out like he was last week. That
Speaker 2: clarifies it. But that's not always going to be the case.
Speaker 2: He's still the backup to a running back who looks
Speaker 2: frankly amazing and Raheem Mostert, And you know, you got
Speaker 2: a factor in Mostar. It's likely to get injured too,
Speaker 2: but so you know, he might as well love the burst.
Speaker 2: I love that he can catch. I also got a
Speaker 2: factor in Jeff Wilson returning from ir in one week
Speaker 2: from now. Basically we're just going to the flex level
Speaker 2: and you might want to sell high by the way,
Speaker 2: Devon a Chan. Let's go back to the matchups. Bengals
Speaker 2: taking on the Titans. Joe Burrow completely off the injury report.
Speaker 2: Does that give Thorne Neistrom some renewed interest in that
Speaker 2: passing game?
Speaker 4: Well, so with Burrow, he's an interesting case this week.
Speaker 4: This is definitely an a matchup by you know, any
Speaker 4: paper quantifiable, Yeah, exactly because of the awful Titans pass defense.
Speaker 4: But of course the Bengals have been getting the ball
Speaker 4: out super duper quick to protect Burrow in the pocket.
Speaker 4: So I'm because of that, I'm going to downgrade him
Speaker 4: to a B in this matchup. Jamar Chase, though, of course,
Speaker 4: is an A and a weekly must start. T Higgins,
Speaker 4: I'm going to give him a grade of B. He's
Speaker 4: their downfield guy. He is not a yet guy. And
Speaker 4: the way that Burrow has been playing so far, getting
Speaker 4: the ball out so quick, it's it doesn't really facilitate
Speaker 4: those downfield looks for T.
Speaker 2: Higgins.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's just not not throwing well downfield, maybe
Speaker 3: because of the injury, because he can't plant and drive it.
Speaker 3: But he's out two for seventeen on the season with
Speaker 3: an interception throwing more than fifteen yards.
Speaker 2: Fifteen yards isn't even that deep it is. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know what we generally call you know, we use
Speaker 2: the term deep when we're talking analytically, it's usually twenty
Speaker 2: yards or more. Fifteen is not even that deep. And
Speaker 2: you've completed two passes through three games.
Speaker 3: Teams for five for five to two for seven a pick.
Speaker 4: And that bites him too, Higgins' game more than anybody else,
Speaker 4: because he's your downfield, jump jump all kind of guy.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna keep Tyler Boyd and then the banged of
Speaker 4: Cincinnati tight end room on the bench, Joe Mixon.
Speaker 2: We're gonna give him the volume C grade here.
Speaker 4: Seventy five percent plus of snaps in each of the
Speaker 4: last two games, average eighteen and a half touches and
Speaker 4: eighty two point five total yards those games. But the
Speaker 4: Titans run defense is awesome, number two stuff rate in
Speaker 4: the NFL this year, and of course last year, as
Speaker 4: we've talked about a couple of times, they were the
Speaker 4: number one run defense DVOA in the NFL. Moving to
Speaker 4: the Titan side of things, Ryan Tannehill, you're keeping on
Speaker 4: the bench. I think DeAndre Hopkins is the only potential
Speaker 4: startable guy in you know, amongst the receiving core. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna give him a volume seed. Keep in mind, DeAndre
Speaker 4: Hopkins was limited in practice Thursday. He did practice in
Speaker 4: full on Wednesday, likely to play in this game, but
Speaker 4: only nine point eight PPR Fantasy points per game. That's
Speaker 4: the second lowest of his career. But he already has
Speaker 4: twenty five targets to easily lead the team this year.
Speaker 4: Second place trail On Burks has thirteen. Burks is out
Speaker 4: for this game, so is Kyle Phillips. So that so
Speaker 4: Hopkins at least gonna get the targets. Chicka Konquo been
Speaker 4: disappointing so far. Yes, this is the breakout game is
Speaker 4: Oh boy, I'm gonna give him a be. He only
Speaker 4: has zero point six rams at zero point six to
Speaker 4: eight yards per route run this year and zero red
Speaker 4: zone targets. But again, I think this is where it
Speaker 4: changes against Cincinnati defensive coordinator Ana Rumos defense. If I
Speaker 4: can say that what you do is you attack the
Speaker 4: tight ends and the slot receivers, they're really good against
Speaker 4: the boundary guys. This year, the Bengals have allowed the
Speaker 4: six most fantasy points to opposing tight ends. I think
Speaker 4: Chick gets back on track in this one. We talked
Speaker 4: a bit about Derreck Henry so far on this show.
Speaker 4: I'm going to give him a great be assuming that
Speaker 4: he plays. Of course, he has that turf toe injury
Speaker 4: miss Thursday's practice was limited earlier in the week. Last
Speaker 4: week did not look good, look very sluggish. Twenty total
Speaker 4: yards on eleven rushing attempts, zero touchdowns against the Browns.
Speaker 4: But this is a good matchup assuming he plays against
Speaker 4: an average Bengals defensive line. But again, on the other
Speaker 4: hand of it, there's always a chance he gets game scripted.
Speaker 4: If the Bengals jump out to a lead, Tajy Spears
Speaker 4: has been the receiving back. And speaking of Taj, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna give him a C whereas I gave Henry a B.
Speaker 4: Taj was Vish's prespec. Last week I mentioned that Henry
Speaker 4: was limited in practice. Spears, of course, is his handcuff.
Speaker 4: He is also the Titans undisputed receiving back. If Henry
Speaker 4: needs his workload cut down because of that toll, or
Speaker 4: the game script goes past heavy like we've seen a
Speaker 4: couple of these other ones where all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: Spears starts getting all the snaps, then Spears could be
Speaker 4: worth starting in flex and deeper leaks.
Speaker 3: Yeah. See, my prespects are long play. They're gonna pan
Speaker 3: out eventually. Four over here is like I'll give you
Speaker 3: immediate points. But no, we don't want that over here.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, Ravens take on the Browns. Get this.
Speaker 2: The Browns are the number one defense in fantasy points
Speaker 2: allowed to the quarterback position, the running back position, the
Speaker 2: wide receiver position, and the tight end.
Speaker 3: Sounds like good defense.
Speaker 2: That's an amazing They're also.
Speaker 3: Number one in defensive DVOA yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm not surprised. Shocking for Lamar Jackson. I was tempted
Speaker 2: to put him on the bench and I couldn't quite
Speaker 2: do it. I've got the C grade on him, and
Speaker 2: part of it is because I love is whopping seventy
Speaker 2: three percent completion rate, but some of that has come
Speaker 2: at the expensive downfield passing. His A dots just seven
Speaker 2: yards and really everything else is bad news. Get a
Speaker 2: load of this. It's just it's staggering. In three games,
Speaker 2: the Browns have allowed one passing touchdown, one hundred and
Speaker 2: one passing yards per game, and minus eight quarterback rushing yards.
Speaker 2: What's I mean? Unbelievable? He faced Cleveland once last year.
Speaker 2: He threw for one hundred and twenty scoreless yards ran
Speaker 2: for fifty nine. That would be That's That's all I
Speaker 2: can do to get you to the C grade on
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson's If something like that, he'll have to do
Speaker 2: it without. Rashod Bateman and OBJ have both been ruled
Speaker 2: out for this game. Zay Flowers comes in with a
Speaker 2: C grade. Now he runs from all parts of the field,
Speaker 2: watches it. The injury status though of excellent corner Greg
Speaker 2: Newsom for the Browns if he can't go, it helps
Speaker 2: Flowers a lot because then he'll go to backup Cameron Mitchell,
Speaker 2: normally just a special teams guy, and Mitchell allowed all
Speaker 2: three passes in his coverage to be completed last week.
Speaker 2: So Jay Flowers if again were not normally attuned to
Speaker 2: cornerback health. But if Greg Newsom goes, I really i'd
Speaker 2: consider benching Zay Flowers. If Newsom does not go, then
Speaker 2: I would start him with a C grade. Mark Andrews
Speaker 2: production is way down. He has failed to top forty
Speaker 2: five yards in either of his two games, and Cleveland
Speaker 2: has allowed the least fantasy points to tight ends this year.
Speaker 2: They've only allowed twenty six yards to tight ends, not
Speaker 2: per game wow on the season, twenty six yards to
Speaker 2: the tight end positions in two games last year. Andrews
Speaker 2: posted zero yards against Cleveland and thirty one yards against
Speaker 2: Cleveland and did not score only a C grade because
Speaker 2: of the wasteland of the position. Gus Edwards is on
Speaker 2: the bench just eleven carries last week, with the undead
Speaker 2: corpse of Melvin Gordon getting ten and averaging a full
Speaker 2: yard per carry less than Edwards, and yet they still
Speaker 2: kept trotting out Melvin Gordon. The Browns run defense looks amazing.
Speaker 2: They're giving up two point eight yards per carry, just
Speaker 2: fifty five yards per game. No runners scored against Cleveland.
Speaker 2: Edwards would need a goal line carry to get much
Speaker 2: of anything done here. Justice Hill might come back. Don't care.
Speaker 2: Melvin Gordon might play in this game. Don't care they're
Speaker 2: out as well. Let's go to the Cleveland side. Jerome
Speaker 2: Ford immediately stepped into Nick Chubb's usage with six percent
Speaker 2: of the snaps. That was good. Kareem Hunt saw twenty
Speaker 2: percent by the way. Ravens shut down Damian Pierce in
Speaker 2: the opener, but they've struggled against Joe Mixon and Zack
Speaker 2: Moss since then, and that gives you some glimmer of
Speaker 2: hope for Jerome Ford in this one. The Ravens have
Speaker 2: allowed only a single touchdown to opposing running backs, but
Speaker 2: they otherwise are middle of the pack, and most running
Speaker 2: back defensive metrics will go B grade on Jerome Ford.
Speaker 2: DeShawn Watson. We were optimistic about Watson and last week's
Speaker 2: easy matchup against Tennessee, much less so this week against
Speaker 2: a good but not great Baltimore secondary. You'll want to
Speaker 2: watch the health status of safety Marcus Williams and cornerback
Speaker 2: Marlin Humphrey. They're both healthy enough to return. I think
Speaker 2: you just move Watson down to a bench grade. Otherwise
Speaker 2: we'll go C grade here if they both miss another matchup.
Speaker 2: And I know you drafted Deshaun Watson for his rushing, No,
Speaker 2: but that's largely you miss conception. He's averaging two and
Speaker 2: a half designed runs a game. That's it. That's not
Speaker 2: enough to get it done on the ground. Chat No, honestly,
Speaker 2: he's not. Right now, how about a Mari Cooper who
Speaker 2: is good. He's reached the seven reception mark in each
Speaker 2: of his last two games, and he's averaging one hundred
Speaker 2: three yards per game over that span, and it's a
Speaker 2: home game. Well yeah, way better O the trade to Cleveland.
Speaker 2: The Ravens have allowed the most receptions to wideouts in
Speaker 2: the eighth most yards to wideouts, and Cooper's boasting a
Speaker 2: healthy forty target share on the season, So we'll take
Speaker 2: a B grade.
Speaker 3: Should have had another touchdown, He should have.
Speaker 2: Had another one. Everybody else is on the bench, including
Speaker 2: David and Joku, averaging just three catches for thirty yards.
Speaker 2: He has not a good matchup, and the league's shortest
Speaker 2: average throw to any player is David and Joku at
Speaker 2: one yard. You know it is to be Fantasy relevant
Speaker 2: on one yard passes virtually impossible. We're gonna try to
Speaker 2: squeeze in a shorty here Thor can.
Speaker 3: You do Pills? No?
Speaker 2: No, oh no, Raiders, Chargers, can you do d Chargers
Speaker 2: in three minutes or less? And if you can't, then
Speaker 2: we're gonna push it to the next time. No sure.
Speaker 3: On the Raiders side, Jimmy Garoppolo is one of my
Speaker 3: two quarterback hedges for take a chance on me players,
Speaker 3: and so was Jacoby Myers, my wide receiver. Because this
Speaker 3: is a terrible defense against the pass. The Chargers and
Speaker 3: Derwin James unlikely to play. Joey Bosa is questionable and
Speaker 3: might not play, so lose the pass rush too. DeVante
Speaker 3: Adams Auto maca, we don't need to talk about him.
Speaker 3: Let's let's go to the run game for the charge
Speaker 3: for the Las Vegas Raiders. I almost said Oakland, Oakland
Speaker 3: versus San Diego. Here, Josh Jacobs has been really inefficient.
Speaker 3: He's at four carries inside the five converted none. He's
Speaker 3: averaging eighteen touches per game playing that bell cow role
Speaker 3: eighty percent of snap so I am gonna give him
Speaker 3: the B grade even though his like rates and yards
Speaker 3: per carry, miss tackles, yards after contact, all that is
Speaker 3: really low. When you're getting eighteen to twenty touches, you
Speaker 3: can almost you can almost pencil in a C if
Speaker 3: not a B. High volume, inefficient, mediocre backs have destroyed
Speaker 3: the Chargers, as Derrick Henry and Alexander Madison have shown
Speaker 3: in the last two weeks. So B grade for josh
Speaker 3: Jacobs over to the charger side justin Herbert is an
Speaker 3: automatic A I believe as well, same as Keenan Allen,
Speaker 3: but I can I can go into how they're You know,
Speaker 3: the Raiders are fifth worst in defensive DVOA. They don't
Speaker 3: even pressure third worst pressure rate. So Herbert's gonna have
Speaker 3: time to throw unlike the Blitz is that the Vikings senter,
Speaker 3: He's gonna have more time to adjust over Also with
Speaker 3: the wide receivers Joshua Palmer, he's going to immediately fill
Speaker 3: in there. He did. At the end of last week,
Speaker 3: he was sixty percent snapshare to Johnston's twenty two percent.
Speaker 3: After Mike Williams went out, he was the guy that
Speaker 3: came in. He's the replacement. Had some good games in
Speaker 3: that replacement role for each of Alan and Williams last
Speaker 3: week last year. Raiders, I ready mentioned bad pass defense
Speaker 3: DVOA wise, they're also top five in pace of play,
Speaker 3: which means there's gonna be a lot of opportunity. Also,
Speaker 3: Josh Palmer historically very good against man coverage, seen a
Speaker 3: one percent target share. Raiders play a lot of man,
Speaker 3: so it's a good spot for him. They've allowed five
Speaker 3: wide receiver touchdowns in the last this season. Four went
Speaker 3: to the number two wide receiver with Josh Palmer. Will be.
Speaker 3: The last thing I'll touch on quickly is Donald Parum.
Speaker 3: I have a bench grade on him, but he leads
Speaker 3: the NFL in like tied for the lead in targets
Speaker 3: inside the five. This is a top top five matchup
Speaker 3: against tight ends. He might see another red zone target
Speaker 3: and touchdown. If you really really desperate, he might see
Speaker 3: a touchdown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could see it, all right. Let's take a break.
Speaker 2: When we come back, Patriots take on the Cowboys Ramandre Stevenson.
Speaker 2: It's been an inconsistent season so far. Maybe that might
Speaker 2: even be a nice word for what we've gotten out
Speaker 2: of Ramandre Stevenson. Find Out if thorn Eistram thinks that
Speaker 2: a bounce back is coming against a normally tough Cowboys defense,
Speaker 2: We'll get our intel on that. And for the Cowboys,
Speaker 2: tricky matchup in a variety of ways for them too.
Speaker 2: What do you want to do with Dak Prescott coming
Speaker 2: off a dead game? Find out when we come back
Speaker 2: for another segment a Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy
Speaker 2: Football Weekly. Another block oh matchups for you, beginning with
Speaker 2: the Patriots taking on the Cowboys. Thor Are with the
Speaker 2: running game for the Patriots and Ramandre Stevenson.
Speaker 4: We're gonna give him a great b in this game
Speaker 4: because even though he's only averaging two point nine yards
Speaker 4: per carry to this point, he obviously averaged five yards
Speaker 4: per carry last year and this year he ranks RB
Speaker 4: sixteen in PPR scoring despite his struggles, and I'm bullish
Speaker 4: on a turnaround for him the Patriots passing game, however,
Speaker 4: I'm not bullish out a tear out for that. Everyone
Speaker 4: is on the bench for me in there, except for
Speaker 4: Hunter Henry. I'm willing to give him a volume C
Speaker 4: in this The good news is number seventeen in target
Speaker 4: share amongst tight ends. The bad news is the Cowboys
Speaker 4: allow the ninth lowest yards per reception to opposing tight ends.
Speaker 4: I'm also going to keep Ezekiel Elliott on the bench
Speaker 4: in his revenge game. Six point one PPR points per
Speaker 4: game for Ezekiel Elliott the Cowboys Dak Prescott. I'm giving
Speaker 4: him a CEE under seventeen fantasy points in two of
Speaker 4: his three games so far. Obviously, he was bad against
Speaker 4: the Cardinals last week. Obviously, the Cowboys offensive line is
Speaker 4: banged up. The Patriots have not allowed a quarterback to
Speaker 4: throw for two hundred and fifty plus yards this season,
Speaker 4: but we'll give Daca see Ceedee Lamb and Tony Pollard
Speaker 4: are both obviously must starts. I'm keeping Brandon Cooks at,
Speaker 4: Michael Gallup and Jake Ferguson on the bench. Rico Duto, though,
Speaker 4: is a guy I'm willing to take a chance on.
Speaker 4: That's why it was might take a chance on me
Speaker 4: running back.
Speaker 2: All right, Commander's taking on the Eagles. It's time to
Speaker 2: break down a little. Sam Howell, the league's most sacked quarterback,
Speaker 2: faces the Eagles pass rush That does not sound good,
Speaker 2: yet through sheer volume, Howell could be a desperation fantasy start.
Speaker 2: Nobody can run on the Eagles, so teams are passing
Speaker 2: copiously forty one times per game, fourth most and a
Speaker 2: staggering seventy three percent pass rate, second most in the league.
Speaker 2: Against Philly, they're actually giving up the eighth most fantasy
Speaker 2: points to quarterbacks. They're not running Sam Howell, which is
Speaker 2: a real killer for part of the reason I was
Speaker 2: so optimistic about him in the preseason. C grade for
Speaker 2: Sam Howell, segrade for Terry mcclaurin, who crushed the Eagles
Speaker 2: last year with one hundred yard games a bit both matchups.
Speaker 2: Most impressively, half those catches and over half of those
Speaker 2: yards came against Darius Slay, So even if he goes
Speaker 2: on the sleigh ride this year, you can still beat it.
Speaker 2: C grade for Terry McLaurin and everybody else is on
Speaker 2: the bench, including both running backs Bijon Robinson sorry, Brian
Speaker 2: Robinson and Antonio Gibson. Eagles rank number one against the
Speaker 2: run by Pro Football Focus. They've allowed the fewest fantasy
Speaker 2: points to opposing running backs, including zero touchdowns, and they're
Speaker 2: giving up two point eight yards per carry best in
Speaker 2: the league. So Robinson Gibson on the bench for Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts obvious A. I don't think we need to
Speaker 2: expend a lot more time on that, but I will
Speaker 2: mention that opponents are running through the Commanders. Opposing quarterbacks
Speaker 2: are running through the Commanders and Jalen Hurts his next up,
Speaker 2: DeVante Smith and A. J. Brown get B grades here.
Speaker 2: Smith scored in both games last year. Washington favors zone coverage,
Speaker 2: and Smith fares much better against zone. Twelve catches versus
Speaker 2: zone this year already three just three against man covers
Speaker 2: so far for Smith, I like him. A. Brown comes
Speaker 2: in with the B grade as well. Rookie Emmanuel Forbes
Speaker 2: is the better matchup that He's gonna get a lot,
Speaker 2: but his bigger size makes him one of the few
Speaker 2: corners who could potentially match up with Brown. But he's
Speaker 2: just a rookie making his fourth NFL start, and Brown
Speaker 2: gets the advantage here for sure. Forbes allowing a seventy
Speaker 2: five percent catch rate and Dallas Goddard staying with the
Speaker 2: passing game for a minute. Yeah, that's a safe sigh
Speaker 2: right there. Here's his yardage totals in three games, zero
Speaker 2: twenty two and forty one yards. Not great.
Speaker 3: Oh so he's so this is this going to be
Speaker 3: sixty or eighty? Is it doubleing or adding twenty proughly that.
Speaker 2: The good news is he's running a lot of routes.
Speaker 2: He's getting targets, but they're all short targets. He's averaging
Speaker 2: less than six yards per catch. Commanders have only allowed
Speaker 2: forty one receiving yards to tight ends total this year.
Speaker 2: That includes the eighth least Fantasy points to tight ends.
Speaker 2: He's only gotten one red zone target. Earlier the show,
Speaker 2: I said zero. He's gotten one red zone target on
Speaker 2: the year. That's it for Dallas Goddard and I can
Speaker 2: only get him to a sea grade here.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: And then lastly, DeAndre Swift averaging seven yards per carry
Speaker 2: running behind Pro Football Focus is top ranked run block unit,
Speaker 2: featuring the league's highest run block win rate of seventy
Speaker 2: eight percent. It's all positive there. Swift leads the Eagles
Speaker 2: in back at the Eagles backfield in targets, and he
Speaker 2: leads all Philly runners in red zone carries and that
Speaker 2: includes Jalen Hurts as well. Washington just gave up almost
Speaker 2: seven yards per carry to James Cook. The only reason
Speaker 2: I can't give you an eight grade on on DeAndre
Speaker 2: Swift is because his quarterback steals is up close rushing touchdown.
Speaker 3: DeAndre Swift went down at the one yard line three
Speaker 3: times this season and Hurts got the touchdown after it.
Speaker 2: Oh man, jeez, all right, Scott, let's see what's next is.
Speaker 3: The Arizona taking on the Stanford score. We get to that.
Speaker 2: We missed out on Josh Kelly from the previous segment.
Speaker 2: You want to give us a quick thirty to twenty
Speaker 2: seconds on Josh Kelly, Yeah.
Speaker 3: We can. I do have a C grade on him
Speaker 3: because it's the fifth easiest or the fourth easiest matchup
Speaker 3: for running backs facing those facing those Raiders. But it's
Speaker 3: mostly due to volume. He you know, the last two
Speaker 3: games though eleven carries twelve yards, thirteen carries thirty nine yards.
Speaker 3: Even with the volume, he didn't do well. Right and
Speaker 3: even the matchup two hundred and thirty three yards and
Speaker 3: two scores were the Bills against the Raiders. They are
Speaker 3: most of what makes up that that bad ranking, right,
Speaker 3: So the best I could give him is a C
Speaker 3: grade on ten to fifteen touches because he's gonna get
Speaker 3: eighty two percent of the carries.
Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, all right, let's go to the Cardinals
Speaker 2: taking on the forty nine ers. Cardinals offense not as
Speaker 2: dreadflows to be expected. Now all the forty nine ers
Speaker 2: matchup is just brutal.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The four nine is ranked fourth in defensive DVOA,
Speaker 3: behind the Browns, Bills, and Cowboys. They're right up there.
Speaker 3: And we saw what the Cowboys did with the Cardinals
Speaker 3: last week. But I got Joshua Dobbs on the bench.
Speaker 3: I got all the pass catchers on the bench. Marquise
Speaker 3: Brown may not play, but if he does, go like
Speaker 3: he's gonna get match up with Lenoir Lenoir or Tarvarius
Speaker 3: Ward and both of those guys seventy six, seventy six
Speaker 3: passer rating against, fifty nine passer rating against. It's not
Speaker 3: a good matchup for Marquise Brown. Michael Wilson, no Rondo Moore,
Speaker 3: no zach Ertz, no tight end his top twenty yards
Speaker 3: against the forty nine ers, and he has declined in snaps,
Speaker 3: targets and catch. It's three weeks in a row, so
Speaker 3: he's on the bench. James Carter, James Connor is getting
Speaker 3: a C grade here. He's one of those rare true
Speaker 3: bellcow horse whatever workhorse backs. He's averaging over twenty touches
Speaker 3: per game, but San Francisco is allowing the fewest rushing
Speaker 3: yards to back. James Connor is fourth in explosive run rate, though,
Speaker 3: so if he can peel off a couple and he
Speaker 3: gets enough volume. He's converted two of his three carries
Speaker 3: inside the five for touchdowns, He's got some positive stuff there.
Speaker 3: I'll give him the C grade. Over on the other side,
Speaker 3: brock Perty gets the C grade. Forty nine ers may
Speaker 3: win big, but how do they get there? You know,
Speaker 3: brock Party gets two touchdowns all but one game that
Speaker 3: you know, like every single he started eight games. He's
Speaker 3: gotten two touchdowns or more in seven of those eight games.
Speaker 3: I'm giving him the C grade. I think he gets
Speaker 3: his stats on the way to getting there. Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 3: is an automatic A at this point. Elijah Mitchell was
Speaker 3: gonna take a chance on me player. I think there's
Speaker 3: a room for him at the end of this game
Speaker 3: to make them hey over into the passing game, Deebo Samuel.
Speaker 3: If he goes, I'm gonna give a B grade too.
Speaker 3: He missed practice both the last couple of days of
Speaker 3: the week, but they still think he might go. Arizona
Speaker 3: plays zone and that's not only where Deebo Samuel shines.
Speaker 3: He has a forty percent first read share. That's awesome
Speaker 3: when they face up against zone coverages and debos and
Speaker 3: the meaning for those listening, meaning when they drop back
Speaker 3: to back and they see a zone and Deebo Samuel's
Speaker 3: out there. Deebo is the first read they looked at him,
Speaker 3: first B grade there. Brandon I limited on Thursday, but
Speaker 3: Friday looks like he's good to go. Now. Yeah, love,
Speaker 3: it's good. He's gonna get either Katrell Clark or Marco
Speaker 3: Wilson for most of his uh most of his plays
Speaker 3: there one hundred passer rating allowed for Clark, one hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty point four passer rating allowed for Wilson. I
Speaker 3: have a B grade on Ayuk. If Samuel doesn't go,
Speaker 3: you could bump me up to an A on Ayuk.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't blame you.
Speaker 3: George Kittle A grade Listen to this. He has five
Speaker 3: touchdowns in his last three games against the Cardinals. That
Speaker 3: includes back to back two touchdown games. He has eight
Speaker 3: touchdowns in his last five games without Deebo Samuel Oh.
Speaker 3: That includes Rangle three of those with two scores. So
Speaker 3: if Devo doesn't go, I got an a grade on
Speaker 3: Kittle either way. Okay, but if Devo doesn't go, like
Speaker 3: launch him in, it's just wheels up, wheels up.
Speaker 2: When we come back, Premature Speculation will jump in the
Speaker 2: Fantasy Football Weekly time machine to tell you players you'll
Speaker 2: want to pick up now that everybody else be trying
Speaker 2: pick up next week when we come back Fantasy Football Weekly.
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Speaker 3: We're still alive in ours.
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Speaker 3: My starting lamp's fine. My bench is terrible. That's zero
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Speaker 2: Well, probably better that than to lose with pent points
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Speaker 3: Yeah right, we should. We should do some kind of
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Speaker 2: Premature speculation is where we give you players that you
Speaker 2: want to pick up now that other people be trying
Speaker 2: to pick up later. We begin with Scott Fish who
Speaker 2: you got?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, So I'm gonna go with Josh Downs
Speaker 3: And I actually thought he was a waiver wire pickup
Speaker 3: this but his this last week, but his roster ship
Speaker 3: jumped like up to eight percent or something. It's barely anything.
Speaker 3: He had twelve he had you know, twenty four targets
Speaker 3: in three weeks, increasing catches, snaps, target share, everything, increasing
Speaker 3: eighty eight percent route participation. He's the main slot guy
Speaker 3: on a team that plays one of the highest percentages
Speaker 3: of three wide receiver sets. He should he should be roster.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying stard him every week, but there's gonna
Speaker 3: be matchups for him going forward. I'm gonna add one
Speaker 3: extra one in there, just just throwing there. Keaton Mitchell,
Speaker 3: speedy guy out of East Carolina. I know that Thor
Speaker 3: calls him like discount Devon h Chan that that Baltimore backfield.
Speaker 3: You know he can he can make some work. There's
Speaker 3: there's there's a lot of questions there. There's there's room
Speaker 3: for him to jump up.
Speaker 2: All right, your premature speculation, player, Thor, it's not going
Speaker 2: to be as good as my last two Pooka Naku
Speaker 2: and Jayden Reid. This week. Oh you can't really top that.
Speaker 2: I can't top that, So lower your expectation to give
Speaker 2: you a little that. But you've earned the peacock, baby.
Speaker 4: This one is more of a long term one that
Speaker 4: could hit. I'm going with Raiders. Running back Zamir White
Speaker 4: obviously will not be a stud this coming week like
Speaker 4: those other guys, but he is absolutely worth a stash.
Speaker 4: The Raiders' upcoming schedule is absolutely amazing. What you should
Speaker 4: keep in mind for all their players Chargers, Packers, Patriots, Bears, Lions, Giants, Jets,
Speaker 4: Dolphins sets up really well. Josh Jacobs is not playing
Speaker 4: well right now. Josh Jacobs number thirty seven PFF grade
Speaker 4: out of fifty six qualifiers. Jacobs is also and you
Speaker 4: hate putting this out in the universe, it's just a
Speaker 4: fact though, elevated injury risk following a league leading three
Speaker 4: hundred and ninety three touches last season. If Jacobs were
Speaker 4: to go down, Zamir White would become the undisputed workhorse
Speaker 4: of this offense and would be worth a lot in
Speaker 4: fantasy world.
Speaker 2: Would it be any good Zamir White? Yeah, you could say,
Speaker 2: if he's a lead back, can he be a workhorse back?
Speaker 2: He can handle the load for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The receiving stuff is the one thing I would question,
Speaker 4: but grinding out the yards the goal line guy, for sure.
Speaker 2: He can do your meat and potato stuff. Absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 2: My premature speculation players Miami running back Jeff Wilson, who
Speaker 2: at this time week will be off the IR.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: And that Muddy's the backfield. But here's the deal. Those
Speaker 2: are guys who all get hurt constantly. Raheem Mosart hurt
Speaker 2: all the time. Jeff Wilson, you'll remember goes h has
Speaker 2: the San Francisco Roots, got traded to Miami middle of
Speaker 2: last season, and promptly from that trade forward, he averaged
Speaker 2: ten carries per game and almost five yards per carry.
Speaker 3: Is more effective than he was, more.
Speaker 2: Effective than moster was. Yeah, he can catch a little.
Speaker 2: Not a gifted receiver, but he can catch a little
Speaker 2: as well. You know, Jeff Wilson, if you believe all
Speaker 2: the injury stuffs can happen, you might just have a
Speaker 2: guy that you could plug in for some big volume
Speaker 2: here and there.
Speaker 3: Yep. Pick him up, throw him on IRY. By the way,
Speaker 3: Keith Mitchell also on IR. That's why, that's why he
Speaker 3: hasn't factored in since the injury to JK. Dobbins. Right,
Speaker 3: you can pick him up and put him on IR
Speaker 3: for a week and some time, taking him some will.
Speaker 2: Let you do that, will YEAHO does I think? I
Speaker 2: think ESPN does not let go directly from IR or
Speaker 2: in free agency right to ir. But we've got two
Speaker 2: more matchups left get to including the Monday nighter that's
Speaker 2: the Seahawks taking on the Giants. Store to this point,
Speaker 2: the Seahawks running game behind Kenneth Walker has been really nice.
Speaker 4: Sure has yeah, and Kenneth Walker becoming a week we
Speaker 4: must start here. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean great a
Speaker 4: for sure for Kenneth Walker. He's averaging eighteen point four
Speaker 4: touches per game, ninety two point three total yards per
Speaker 4: game on fifty one between fifty one and sixty three
Speaker 4: percent of the snaps depending on the game number eleven
Speaker 4: in the NFL in miss tackles force per attempt. The Giants,
Speaker 4: on the other hand, this week's opponent, they ranked number
Speaker 4: eighteen in yards after contact per attempt allowed to the
Speaker 4: opposing running backs. So I'm giving Kenneth Walker an a Charboney,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna advise people to keep him on your bench,
Speaker 4: but he's absolutely someone to keep an eye on. Last week,
Speaker 4: his jumps, I'm sorry, his snaps jumped all the way
Speaker 4: up to forty three percent, and Sharboney has five red
Speaker 4: zone carries, So someone to keep an eye on. But
Speaker 4: in this game, I would advise the bench for him
Speaker 4: unless you're in a super duper deep league. DK Metcalf
Speaker 4: must start grade of A here. Giants run a lot
Speaker 4: of man coverage concepts. DK eats that alive sixty one
Speaker 4: percent air yard share versus man coverage for the Seahawks.
Speaker 4: Tyler Lockett, on the other hand, I'm gonna give him
Speaker 4: a B. Not quite as good of a matchup for
Speaker 4: him as we've talked about in the past. Lockett is
Speaker 4: Seattle zone beater. Obviously, the Giants are man heavy here,
Speaker 4: but Lockett will run a majority of his routes against
Speaker 4: Giants cornerbacks Trey Hawkins and Deontay Banks, the rookie. Both
Speaker 4: those guys have allowed quarterback ratings on targets over ninety
Speaker 4: five flat. Jackson Smith and Jigbuck got to give him
Speaker 4: a bench grade middle and thirteen point six target share
Speaker 4: and two point two a dot. Not the best yet,
Speaker 4: they're still waiting for his wrist to heal on different
Speaker 4: stuff like that bench all the Seahawks tight ends, and
Speaker 4: then as far as the Giants, Daniel Jones, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: give him an eight grade for this game.
Speaker 2: He hasn't been great this year, I.
Speaker 4: Will say, but the Lakes set a very high floor,
Speaker 4: and they certainly will in this game. Daniel Jones top
Speaker 4: five quarterbacks and carries per game, red zone carries per game,
Speaker 4: and rushing yards per game. The Seahawks allow the eighth
Speaker 4: most Fantasy points per game to opposing quarterbacks. All the
Speaker 4: usage is going to get funnel through Daniel Jones and then,
Speaker 4: by extension, Darren Waller. Because of that, I have to
Speaker 4: advise you have to bench all the Giants wide receivers
Speaker 4: in this game.
Speaker 2: Okay, wait, but you just gave Daniel Jones an A
Speaker 2: grade and a bench all on the ground.
Speaker 4: I think Daniel Jones' utility in this game, Yeah, it
Speaker 4: comes through the rushing and a rushing touchdown at least
Speaker 4: one of them. Darren Waller, he is the dude that
Speaker 4: you want to start as far as the pass catchers.
Speaker 4: Giving him a grade of A in this tight end
Speaker 4: ten in Fantasy so far, but number six target share
Speaker 4: amongst NFL tight ends. And this is a fabulous matchup
Speaker 4: for Darren Waller, which is one of the reasons. It's
Speaker 4: just going to be all the usage funnel to him
Speaker 4: and then the Giants receivers are a Hodgepodge is always.
Speaker 4: The Seahawks allow the highest yards per reception to opposing
Speaker 4: tight ends in the entire NFL.
Speaker 2: Man do we need this, Darren Waller, Managers host, they
Speaker 2: need a big game. This is why you need to
Speaker 2: do that offer for TJ.
Speaker 4: Hawkinson to Darren Waller, he accepts that. You know that
Speaker 4: he loves his matchup this. Yeah, Saquon Barkley, I'm giving
Speaker 4: him a grade of B. Return to practice in a
Speaker 4: limited capacity on Thursday. Of course, he missed last week
Speaker 4: with a great two high ankle sprain. But if he plays,
Speaker 4: and I'm assuming that he will, I'm giving him a
Speaker 4: bee here. The Seahawks run defense allowing two point nine
Speaker 4: yards per carry after allowing four point nine last year.
Speaker 4: It has gotten a lot better early on. So maybe
Speaker 4: not quite as good of a match up here for
Speaker 4: Saquon as you otherwise would think. But the Seahawks, we
Speaker 4: talked about this in the past two their pass defense
Speaker 4: stinks against receiving running backs, So I think Saquon is
Speaker 4: gonna get a lot of receiving production in this game.
Speaker 4: If Barkley somehow didn't play, Matt Brita would become a
Speaker 4: desperation play. But last week, when Barkley did, and Brito
Speaker 4: only had seven touches for eighteen yards as the Giants
Speaker 4: is RB one. He did score a touchdown to start
Speaker 4: a salvage like flex.
Speaker 2: Right, that's all he had got. That's it. Who was
Speaker 2: the other the big running back that they were They
Speaker 2: used a couple of times in that game, Bright Well
Speaker 2: or something. Yeah, Arizona. Yeah, guy's got that. Guy's a
Speaker 2: freaking beast. At least he's built. You will fight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have a Giants wide receiver question since he
Speaker 3: threw them all on the bench, And that's fine.
Speaker 2: You start slating.
Speaker 3: No, no, Wandelle Robinson got his first play of the year,
Speaker 3: first playtime of the year, last play last week. Eleven snaps,
Speaker 3: five targets, four catches on eleven snaps now eleven percent.
Speaker 3: Yeah h yeah, whatever it is. But if you extrapolate
Speaker 3: that he that's like forty catches if he plays the
Speaker 3: whole game.
Speaker 2: But it tells you, I mean, they were clearly trying
Speaker 2: to scheme him.
Speaker 3: The ball and yeah, that's that's actually that's actually more
Speaker 3: my actually could be snaps eleven snaps.
Speaker 4: I think at the end of one of the Giants
Speaker 4: receivers will be startable. It's just impossible to see which
Speaker 4: they just have a bunch of slot receivers and you
Speaker 4: know it's situation.
Speaker 3: My question is just do you think that's do you
Speaker 3: think that's something or just the one game? I think
Speaker 3: is there's something.
Speaker 4: There, too much something among too many guys in the
Speaker 4: slot for But yeah, I don't know that it has
Speaker 4: predictive value week to week here.
Speaker 2: Too, Jets take on the Chief Sunday night. Mahomes and
Speaker 2: Kelsey are obvious says that we do not need to
Speaker 2: spend time on. And here's the painful part is there's
Speaker 2: no other receiver to start, you know, last week against
Speaker 2: it's the Bears. So I'm like, go ahead and start MVS.
Speaker 2: Let's take a flyer. If not now when he's the
Speaker 2: leading receiver by snaps, by targets, go get him. Didn't
Speaker 2: do much of anything, None of them do. No chief
Speaker 2: receiver was able to stand out against the Bears corners,
Speaker 2: So we're not going to roll the dice in them
Speaker 2: succeeding against Sauce Gardner and DJ Reid. So they're out.
Speaker 2: So that only leaves me to talk about Isaiah Pacheco.
Speaker 2: His touches have increased in each game. He's putting some
Speaker 2: distance between himself and Ceh, who was pesky early on.
Speaker 2: The Jets are allowing the seventh most rushing yards and
Speaker 2: the fifth most receiving yards to opposing running backs, good
Speaker 2: for one hundred and forty four total yards per game,
Speaker 2: but Checko should get most of that one hundred and
Speaker 2: forty four. Kansas City's offensive line is a top ten
Speaker 2: run block win rate and the Jets have a bottom
Speaker 2: ten run stuff win rate, so it should be a
Speaker 2: dominating run performance here. The Jets are seeing a lot
Speaker 2: of runs as opponents get ahead early, Zach Wilson cannot
Speaker 2: mount to come back, and then the Jets just get
Speaker 2: run on for the rest of the game. And that
Speaker 2: should be the formula here. Isaiah Pacheco a grade boom
Speaker 2: this game boom, I like his champions. Let's go to
Speaker 2: the Jets.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: At three and a half weeks ago, when you were
Speaker 2: looking at the Jets, you thought there were probably like
Speaker 2: five rosterable guys, and you're like, you know, we could go,
Speaker 2: we could thrown a little I don't know, Tyler Conklin,
Speaker 2: even if we needed to. That's all dried up. There's
Speaker 2: only two guys that you care about now, and that's
Speaker 2: Breshall and Garret Wilson. Let's start with Breshall gets a
Speaker 2: C grade. He's got one hundred and fifty three rushing
Speaker 2: yards on the season, one hundred and fifty seven after contact.
Speaker 2: He's so good though. He leads the league in yards
Speaker 2: after contact and he's over four yards per carry after contact.
Speaker 2: But if you take away that eighty three yard run
Speaker 2: that he had in Week one against Buffalo, Briest Hall
Speaker 2: has only been able to average two point eight yards
Speaker 2: per carry. That's it because defense is stacked to stop
Speaker 2: Breese Hall because literally like the only thread on the team.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: As long as Jack Zach Wilson is at the helm,
Speaker 2: Chiefs are allowing the eighth fewest total yards to opposing
Speaker 2: running backs, including shutting down Travis Etn and Khalil Herbert.
Speaker 2: For the past two weeks, he's only getting two targets
Speaker 2: per game, which is unfortunate because he was five targets
Speaker 2: per game last year and they're just not throwing to
Speaker 2: Breese Hall, which is sad because that would have been
Speaker 2: another avenue for him, but it's not one here unfortunately.
Speaker 2: So just the see grade on him, and of course
Speaker 2: Garrett Wilson's awesome, but his situation couldn't be worse now.
Speaker 2: To his credit, he's managed touchdowns in two of three games,
Speaker 2: and he's been targeted eight and nine times the past
Speaker 2: two weeks. Like that nine times. So the judge are
Speaker 2: trying to manufacture touches for Wilson, which we gratefully appreciate. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: this is a tough matchup. Kansas City's two outside corners,
Speaker 2: Lagarious Need and Joshua Williams, have allowed forty scoreless yards
Speaker 2: per game combined. In the first three games. They have
Speaker 2: been lights out. I can only get you to a
Speaker 2: C grade on Garrett Wilson, and that is a sad
Speaker 2: story of woe for what should have been a great
Speaker 2: season for Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 3: Wide receiver, twenty seven on the year.
Speaker 2: I think we thought it'd be seven yep, yeah, or
Speaker 2: two twenty seven exactly. All right, let me get we
Speaker 2: got a couple of minutes here. Let me hit you
Speaker 2: with a couple of quick hitters. Jamiir Gibbs. Owners are
Speaker 2: apoplectic about what went down on Thursday. What do you
Speaker 2: believe that is indicative of what you can expect going
Speaker 2: forward from the Jamiir Gibbs David Montgomery time share.
Speaker 3: I can go first, probably for a bed like you
Speaker 3: look at the Lions schedule and I have them, as
Speaker 3: you know, possible favorites, and a lot of them which
Speaker 3: wouldn't be game script for Montgomery. They're going to use Gibbs,
Speaker 3: but they don't need to bring them along. They don't
Speaker 3: need him what he brings to the past game right now,
Speaker 3: they can just use Montgomery in that positive game script.
Speaker 2: All right, thor are you feeling it differently?
Speaker 4: The usage has been really dumb so far. I'm still
Speaker 4: bullish on Gibbs.
Speaker 3: Well, I am too. I just don't think they need
Speaker 3: to know.
Speaker 2: You can't be upset when David Montgomery scoring the touchdowns.
Speaker 2: When you know David Montgomery was going to score the touchdowns.
Speaker 2: I know you want more total touches from Gibbs. I
Speaker 2: probably will come along. Remember the Lions staked out a
Speaker 2: big early lead and then just went into grind mode
Speaker 2: at the right round. That's not gonna happen every game.
Speaker 2: Although their schedule is cake the rest basically the rest
Speaker 2: of the season, the lines might be favored in all
Speaker 2: but one of the rest of their games for this year.
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