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Speaker 1: down every game Fantasy style, give you a letter grade
Speaker 1: on each player. Will also give you our rational preach grades.
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Speaker 1: A few minutes from now, we'll give you nine guys
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Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. We dive right into the matchups, though,
Speaker 1: beginning with Seattle taking onto Philadelphia. This is an interesting
Speaker 1: matchup in that Brian birds they're both birds, I mean,
Speaker 1: and then obviously the Avian conquest is very It's a
Speaker 1: huge theme for this one. The Eagles defense so improved
Speaker 1: over the past three or four games. You don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, A you're gonna get the version that really
Speaker 1: struggled for the first half of the season. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get the September October Version're gonna get the November version.
Speaker 1: What do you think about the Seattle side of this
Speaker 1: as they take on this new and improved Philadelphia defense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is um notly one of two West Coast teams
Speaker 1: going east for the early game, which is always a
Speaker 1: factor in my opinion. But starting with the passing game,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, um, the secondary looked pretty good. Ronald
Speaker 1: Darby back about Damatics back, but they faced Josh Allen
Speaker 1: who's up and down as a passer, then Sad Trombone
Speaker 1: Ski and then even Tom Brady last week. That Patriots
Speaker 1: offense is pretty uninspiring in my opinion, So I'm not
Speaker 1: fully sold on, you know, the Eagles being a shutdown secondary,
Speaker 1: even with Darby and Maddox back. UM safe to say
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's on a different level. Yes, guy certainly is.
Speaker 1: I'm still giving him an a here and opposing mobile
Speaker 1: quarterbacks have also padded their stats against the Eagles. Josh
Speaker 1: Allen had forty five yards, Dac had thirty yards in
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Even Aaron Rodgers rushed five times for forty
Speaker 1: six yards. So still in a for Russell Wilson over
Speaker 1: for his pass catchers. Tyler Lockett in a as well.
Speaker 1: I'm not concerned about the shin injury. Um, he will play,
Speaker 1: sure of that. It's slot corner of may injury. Like that.
Speaker 1: He's been good but not great, and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Lock it his match up proof in an automatic start
Speaker 1: when he's healthy and give him an I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: a dk metcalf of b here um. Even though Ronald
Speaker 1: Darby is back, he has about seven pounds or seven
Speaker 1: INDs on Darby and he's got about like half a
Speaker 1: second on Jalen Mills when it comes to speed before
Speaker 1: the speeds, so he's gonna dominate Derby fly by Mills. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Eagles have only allowed one wide receiver touchdown in
Speaker 1: their last four but outside of Dallas, again, the opposing
Speaker 1: receivers into quarterbacks haven't been all that great, so I'm
Speaker 1: not reading too much into those numbers. Um, Josh Gordon,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a see here, only played in
Speaker 1: thirty seven percent of the snaps, but he's come off
Speaker 1: a bye and Uh, I don't know. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: throw this dark Josh Gordon. See why not? Let's do it? Um, okay,
Speaker 1: just throwing it out there. Speaking throw darts. Remember that
Speaker 1: Jacob Polliser prespect dart I threw several weeks ago. Um,
Speaker 1: why yeah, I do recall that. I don't think you
Speaker 1: can find anything time stamped audio, Twitter, nothing that said
Speaker 1: Jacob Polliser before that show. But anyway, that was the
Speaker 1: last show, so it was about a month earlier. Uh,
Speaker 1: I just can give him a b. Though San Francisco
Speaker 1: arguably the top tight end defense. UH, Hollister somewhat shredded
Speaker 1: them for eight catches and a touchdown the last time
Speaker 1: Seattle played. Because it is a tough matchup as well.
Speaker 1: The Eagles have only one tight end touchdown over the
Speaker 1: last six weeks and only one tight ends top three
Speaker 1: receptions or thirty six yards during that same stretch, So
Speaker 1: not a ideal matchup. But hollis a locked in as
Speaker 1: a tight end one pretty much on a weekly basis
Speaker 1: moving forward. And then Chris Carson always locked in as
Speaker 1: an RB one or r B two. I would say
Speaker 1: he's an RB one in PPR leagues and just the
Speaker 1: RV two, which would be a B in a standard.
Speaker 1: He's had some. This is a tough matchups. They're tough matchups,
Speaker 1: but he always seems to find a way to be
Speaker 1: fantasy viable. He'll find a way and he'll he could
Speaker 1: find a way through the air as well. Philly is
Speaker 1: allowing six catches per game to running backs and Chris
Speaker 1: Carson still owns seventy percent of Seattle's running back target share. Uh,
Speaker 1: don't be worried about Rashad Penny there over to the
Speaker 1: Eagles side, should probably be worried about them a lot,
Speaker 1: especially their wide receivers. Let's start with Carson. What a
Speaker 1: disaster it is there. Yeah, it's a do over, so
Speaker 1: at the position for the whole team. Actually know, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start at the running game first because I don't
Speaker 1: want to talk about the receivers just yet because it's
Speaker 1: so awful. Jordan Howard was not cleared for contact on
Speaker 1: in Friday's practice, so he's looking unlikely to go here,
Speaker 1: and the signing of j Jilli is on Bode Will.
Speaker 1: Media reports at the end of the week saying that
Speaker 1: Ji is looking at his substantial workload. Gross, he's bad.
Speaker 1: Boston Scott the backup running back to Miles Sanders. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give Miles Sanders a see. Boston Scott saw too
Speaker 1: many carries in my opinion, he had seven last week
Speaker 1: to Sanders is eleven. But I think New England really
Speaker 1: game planned to shut Sanders down. Sanders was still on
Speaker 1: the field for the snaps last week, so a solid
Speaker 1: see here. Still uh silly. Seattle has allowed the fourth
Speaker 1: most rushing touchdowns and running backs, and they've allowed at
Speaker 1: least seven running back catches in five of their last
Speaker 1: eight games. The Rams backs and Bucks backs and not
Speaker 1: hit that mark. That's understandable though, and Geneveon Clowney and
Speaker 1: Geron Reid are banged up, missed most of practice all week.
Speaker 1: They might not play, but they they're They're definitely not
Speaker 1: a percent. So that's good news for Carson wins and company.
Speaker 1: Starting with his only two pass catchers, I'm gonna mention,
Speaker 1: and one of them is not Alican Jeffrey. No, it's
Speaker 1: Zackers and Dallas Goddard. I mean, that's it. Um, it's
Speaker 1: not an I Geoffrey and they both not play in
Speaker 1: this game. Even if they play, it doesn't matter. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter for Arts and Goddard. What do you want
Speaker 1: to talk about the wid receivers anymore? Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the tight ends. Not an ideal matchup though, posing tight
Speaker 1: ends have total just one touchdown against Seattle over the
Speaker 1: last five weeks, while averaging just three catches and forty
Speaker 1: two yards. But Seattle is yielding eight targets per game
Speaker 1: to tight ends over the last four weeks, so they
Speaker 1: have been involved, and uh ERTs and God are probably
Speaker 1: gonna see eight targets a piece in this one. Be
Speaker 1: my estimation. Carson Winslow, I'm putting him on the bench.
Speaker 1: Here are the passing touchdowns allowed by the Seahawks over
Speaker 1: their last seven games zero one, one, zero one, two
Speaker 1: and one. James jams in binary just spelled penis, did
Speaker 1: I really? Yeah, Winston had the two touchdowns, but he
Speaker 1: actually has wide receivers on his team, unlike the Eagles.
Speaker 1: So just uh not just a bench grade eight bench
Speaker 1: grade for Carson Wentz. I don't think two is in
Speaker 1: by it random? Do you usually not know? But that's
Speaker 1: like it's like the it's like the B plus you
Speaker 1: keep trying to get play. Yes, yeah, it's very similar
Speaker 1: to that Denver takes on Buffalo. This is not as
Speaker 1: complicated of a matchup. I don't think on the Denver
Speaker 1: side they could travel to Buffalo. Buffalo an elite past defense,
Speaker 1: a wobbly run defense. And here comes Philip Lindsay, who
Speaker 1: got a lot of work last week. I love him
Speaker 1: in this patchup. Tell me you do too, I do.
Speaker 1: I do like him. I will say, first of all,
Speaker 1: the over under on this game is thirty five. That's
Speaker 1: really lowest, the lowest of the week, And so I
Speaker 1: have a decent number of starters here that I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a little worried about that because I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be low scoring in general. But yeah, Philip Lindsay, that
Speaker 1: took what eleven weeks for him to finally establish or
Speaker 1: for the Broncos understand that he had dramatically better than
Speaker 1: Royce Freeman. Out snapped Freeman last week eight touches to
Speaker 1: just nine. I mean, he has established himself as the one,
Speaker 1: at least the one A in this backfield. Buffalo has
Speaker 1: allowed four point six yards per carry to opposing running backs.
Speaker 1: That's sort of the one area where you can move
Speaker 1: the ball against Buffalo, including three yard rushing games allowed
Speaker 1: and eight rushing touchdowns. Running Backs have also combined for
Speaker 1: twenty catches against the Bills in the last two games.
Speaker 1: So I like Philip Lindsay here. I gave him a B.
Speaker 1: I'm not quite really ready to give him an A.
Speaker 1: If there was something in between those two grades, it
Speaker 1: sure would be convenience there. He's a B. I've got
Speaker 1: Royce Freeman on the bench just fifteen touches in the
Speaker 1: last two games, and we just talked about they're basically
Speaker 1: phasing him out here. He's more of just a change
Speaker 1: of pace guy the passing game. Lad in Air Quotes
Speaker 1: by Brandon Allen completing just under fifty of his passes
Speaker 1: three touchdown passes in two starts. The Bills are top
Speaker 1: three past defense. They've only let one quarterback throw more
Speaker 1: than one touchdown passed against them, and Alan is an
Speaker 1: easy bench grade. And this one that brings us to
Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton. This one's a little difficult. Buffalo has only
Speaker 1: allowed four wide receivers to score, only one wide receiver
Speaker 1: top two hundred yards. That was kind of inexplicably Davante
Speaker 1: Parker last week. Sutton has been the apple of Alan's eye.
Speaker 1: Targeted seventeen times and two starts, he has at least
Speaker 1: seventy two yards and five of his last six games,
Speaker 1: so the stats look good. Sutton sure looks good, but
Speaker 1: this matchup is really difficult. Cornerback Travi Tradavious White of
Speaker 1: the Bills has become a shutdown guy. So just fin
Speaker 1: had to start a defense with any cornerback right now,
Speaker 1: White would be the first guy. There you go. Suton
Speaker 1: comes through in this game. Automatic first round picked for me.
Speaker 1: Next year, We're gonna talk a lot more Sutton later
Speaker 1: in this show. I gave him just a C grade
Speaker 1: in this because of the difficulty of the matchup. Number
Speaker 1: two wide receiver now it's Tim Patrick. He did have
Speaker 1: eight targets last week. I'm gonna maybe talk about him
Speaker 1: a little bit later on the show, but that was
Speaker 1: his first game off of i R last week. Let's
Speaker 1: give him another week or two before we think about
Speaker 1: putting him back in the lineup tight end Noah Funt
Speaker 1: he's an interesting one here too. He actually leads the
Speaker 1: Broncos with twenty four targets since Emmanuel Sanders was traded
Speaker 1: a couple of games ago. That's more than Courtland Sutton
Speaker 1: seven catches and a hundred and seventy five yards in
Speaker 1: Allan's two starts. So he's been very good over the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. But the Bills are also very
Speaker 1: good against tight ends. No none have topped fifty seven yards.
Speaker 1: Only one has scored. So I've got fun with a
Speaker 1: C grade here as a starter on the Bill's side.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. He's obviously in here because of what he
Speaker 1: can do on the ground, but this is a very
Speaker 1: good Denver passing defense. Outside of their second half collapse
Speaker 1: against Kirk Cousins and the Vikings. Before that, only two
Speaker 1: quarterbacks had topped even two hundred and thirty five yards
Speaker 1: and only one had thrown more than one touchdown pass.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna right Allen here on a B grade.
Speaker 1: But he's gonna have to make it work on the ground,
Speaker 1: which he has been doing all year. Seven rushing scores
Speaker 1: this year, including four in the last three, so you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to hope for more of that. I do
Speaker 1: have John Brown in with a starting grade with a
Speaker 1: B here hundred thirty seven yards and two touchdowns last
Speaker 1: week against Miami. He has at least five catches and
Speaker 1: seventy five yards in five of his last six games.
Speaker 1: Now Denver has a shutdown corner two and Chris Harris
Speaker 1: he's and he did not shadow Digs though either, so
Speaker 1: he was on part of the time and Diggs went
Speaker 1: off for one yards and a touchdown. So cautiously optimistic
Speaker 1: that Brown can avoid Harris enough to be fantasy relevant
Speaker 1: this week. Don't worry about any of the other receivers,
Speaker 1: including tight end Dawson Knox, back up running game Devin
Speaker 1: Singletary fifteen or more touches and two of the last
Speaker 1: three games, he's established himself as the number one running
Speaker 1: back here. Although Frank Gore is annoyingly still involved somewhat,
Speaker 1: mostly just at the goal line, and even then he's
Speaker 1: not good anymore. Well, and that's part of the problem too,
Speaker 1: is that Josh Allen scores some of the goal lines
Speaker 1: the goal line touchdowns as well, So single Tarry's upside
Speaker 1: here is pretty minimal because of the lack of scoring.
Speaker 1: It's yardage and Denver held Nick Chubb to sixty five
Speaker 1: yards on twenty carries. Dalvin Cooked had just twenty six
Speaker 1: yards in the last two weeks, So just a very
Speaker 1: low C grade on singletary. That's it for this matchup. Alright,
Speaker 1: Jacksonville takes on Tennessee Leonard Fournette hopefully getting back on track.
Speaker 1: He's trending the wrong direction over the last four weeks
Speaker 1: with diminishing rushing attempts, rushing yards yards per carry four
Speaker 1: consecutive weeks. But Doug Moron after last week came out
Speaker 1: and said we've got to get Leonard for Nett back
Speaker 1: on track. And now he gets a Titans team that
Speaker 1: over its last five games is allowing one hundred forty
Speaker 1: one total yards and a touchdown per game to opposing
Speaker 1: running backs. Leonard Fournette gets virtually all of the work,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna get If those averages were to hold,
Speaker 1: he'd be looking at one one and a touchdown. UM
Speaker 1: we for Nett when they these seems met in week three,
Speaker 1: put up ninety two yards, which is a solid performance.
Speaker 1: I think a better one on tap here in all probability,
Speaker 1: I've got a B grade Onlinard four Net for this week.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the passing game. I expected Nick Foles
Speaker 1: to be rusty last week, and we talked a little
Speaker 1: bit about it on this show last week, and I
Speaker 1: was wrong. You look great against the Colts secondary, throwing
Speaker 1: for almost three hundred yards, completing seventy of his passes
Speaker 1: in his first game back off I r All three
Speaker 1: of Nick foles receivers have got plus matchups. Are gonna
Speaker 1: talk about them in a little bit more too. Over
Speaker 1: the past month, the average quarterbacks start against the slumping
Speaker 1: Titan secondary three hundred twenty seven yards and two and
Speaker 1: a half touchdowns per game. WHOA, that's some solid upside
Speaker 1: for Nick Foles and that's why he has a B
Speaker 1: grade in this game. His his go to receiver, d
Speaker 1: J Shark, also with a B grade. The Titans started
Speaker 1: the season well against opposing receivers, but they've stumbled of late.
Speaker 1: They've allowed three consecutive when hundred yard games. Mike Evans,
Speaker 1: d J Moore, Tyreek Kill those are really good receivers.
Speaker 1: But d J. Chark probably belongs in that conversation. He
Speaker 1: overcame a tough matchup last week. He'll have to do
Speaker 1: it against the Dory Jackson here, who's got good speed
Speaker 1: to match Chark and speeds a super fast receiver. But
Speaker 1: Chark had the touchdown for Nick Foles in game one.
Speaker 1: He had the two touchdowns last week from Nick Foles.
Speaker 1: Tough to leave him on the bench here. He's way
Speaker 1: bigger than I thought. To DJ, he is a big
Speaker 1: four at least two pounds. But uh, and then how
Speaker 1: about this for a flyer. If somebody wants to just
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Speaker 1: you can. We have been your Chris Conley leader this year,
Speaker 1: correctly predicting all like three of Chris Conley's big games.
Speaker 1: This is shaping up well of his career. Yeah without
Speaker 1: actually it is probably career. Never happened with the Chiefs
Speaker 1: conmly overwhelmingly runs from the side of the field guarded
Speaker 1: by cornerback Lashawn Sims, who is the backup to Malcolm Butler,
Speaker 1: who just went on i R. In his first start,
Speaker 1: Sims allowed all five of the passes in his coverage
Speaker 1: to be completed. Also, Sims is a slower, bigger cornerback,
Speaker 1: and Conley is just all straight line speed. So there
Speaker 1: could be a big game for for Chris Conley in
Speaker 1: this game and he gets a sea grain. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Tennessee side, where Derrick Henry is an obvious
Speaker 1: a and the Jaguars run defense has lapsed badly. Over
Speaker 1: the past two games, all five of the running backs
Speaker 1: to get a carry against the Jaguars has scored or
Speaker 1: top to one hundred yards. Allow me to repeat what
Speaker 1: I just said because it's so absurd. In the past
Speaker 1: two games, all five running backs to touch the ball
Speaker 1: against the Jaguars have scored or top to one hundred yards.
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry obvious. I almost don't believe you. Do you
Speaker 1: want me to say it that that might be excess
Speaker 1: if um there are some starters in the passing game,
Speaker 1: but not many here. Ryan Tannehill with a C grade
Speaker 1: as a reminder, because they were on by last week
Speaker 1: Prior to that, it was a month of good starts
Speaker 1: for Ryan Tannehill, with multiple touchdowns and or three hundred
Speaker 1: yards in all four starts. Jaguars secondary has been awfully good.
Speaker 1: They'll they haven't even missed Jalen Ramsey over the past
Speaker 1: six weeks. They've allowed per game averages of just two
Speaker 1: d ten yards and one point three touchdowns. Jaguars run
Speaker 1: defense is so bad. I just think the whole game
Speaker 1: plan here tilts towards Derrick Henry and I've got just
Speaker 1: a C grade on Ryan Tannehill. And the only receiver
Speaker 1: I'm recommending that you start is Delaney Walker, and that's
Speaker 1: only if he plays as he's shaping up as a
Speaker 1: true game time decision. He's had the ankle injuries missed
Speaker 1: over a month. But if he's a full go, he
Speaker 1: faces a Jaguars defense that's been susceptible to tight ends,
Speaker 1: allowing three scores in three games. But again, it's dangerous.
Speaker 1: Walker will come into this game gimp beyond the ankle.
Speaker 1: So you're you're kind of you that's the risk you're taking,
Speaker 1: but a tight end you might not have a choice.
Speaker 1: Corey Davis and A. J. Brown are on the bench.
Speaker 1: I've mentioned the Jaguars secondary has been very good and
Speaker 1: those guys are too inconsistent. Uh Coreya is probably coming
Speaker 1: back from his hip injury, but at this point, who cares?
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Speaker 1: Who you got Next week? We'll be playing the Happy
Speaker 1: Trombone next week after goes off against the Giants this
Speaker 1: week in Chicago. Yes, true, Whisky sucks, but he has
Speaker 1: produced in good matchups through for three touchdowns against Detroit
Speaker 1: and Washington, and this is a very good matchup. Eight
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Speaker 1: top ten finishes regardless of what fantasy football format you play.
Speaker 1: And Mitch Dubinski is going to run in this game,
Speaker 1: do you think so? His fifteen carries this year, Gardner
Speaker 1: Minshew has three times carries. I know why don't they
Speaker 1: use him that way? I don't know, you know why?
Speaker 1: Because he is sad trombone ski This This is from something?
Speaker 1: Yes it is? What is it? Oh? I know this? Listener,
Speaker 1: Jim Crowley tipping me off to this? What is I
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Speaker 1: It's the world's worst trombone solo. It's from American pie too. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: to pretend to pretend that he's he's like some concert trombonist.
Speaker 1: Tromp trombonist? Is that? What are you are? Tricky? Your well?
Speaker 1: Back to the running like there's more to talk at
Speaker 1: Anyone's just stop, Giant said, seeing the second most rushing
Speaker 1: attempts by quarterbacks and allowed the most rushing touchdowns to quarterback.
Speaker 1: So he's going to sam rushing touchdown? All right, what
Speaker 1: other quarterback can we use? We can use Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: this week chart. I'm a little surprised and quite frankly
Speaker 1: saddened that you you chose here to take a chance
Speaker 1: on me guys before me and passed up a golden
Speaker 1: opportunity and collect beard. This one is all about the matchup. Well, first,
Speaker 1: let's get into a weird a little bit here. He's
Speaker 1: been wildly inconsistent, but he did manage three in twenty
Speaker 1: three yards against a very good Buffalo secondary, which I
Speaker 1: outlined in the previous matchup, and he had multiple touchdown
Speaker 1: passes in two of three games before that, so he's
Speaker 1: finding a way to move the ball to Ande Parker
Speaker 1: looks pretty good at wide receiver. But this, of course,
Speaker 1: is about the matchup with the Browns, who you may
Speaker 1: have heard have some suspensions coming into this game. Miles
Speaker 1: Garrett is out, Larry Ogan job is out. They've already
Speaker 1: been missing Olivier Vernon, Morgan Burnett. They're missing four of
Speaker 1: their top starters on defense, and even before all of
Speaker 1: that happened, they were a bottom half passing defense. They've
Speaker 1: allowed at least two touchdowns to seven of the last
Speaker 1: eight quarterbacks they faced, and that was against guys like
Speaker 1: Brandon Allen, Jimmy Garoppolo, and Jared Goff, not even good players.
Speaker 1: So Ryan Fitzpatrick this week, let's roll with Stu Beard. Jimmy,
Speaker 1: she's pretty good. I've got Jeff Chris Driskell going up
Speaker 1: against what he did? Uh, Jeff Driskell shock He played
Speaker 1: shockingly well last week. Actually, in both of his starts,
Speaker 1: he's played very well and against good defenses Chicago and Dallas.
Speaker 1: His twenty four point after last week would have beaten
Speaker 1: the Cowboys if his defense wasn't completely broken. He goes
Speaker 1: up against the Redskins. They won excellent cornerback Quentin Dunbar,
Speaker 1: two terrible ones, Fabian Moreau and Josh Norman. Josh Norman,
Speaker 1: by the way, gave up two touchdowns last week in
Speaker 1: his coverage most frequently Kenny Golladay and Danny Amandola are
Speaker 1: gonna line up against those two. Those are exploitable matchups
Speaker 1: for Jeff Durriskull. Let's go to the running back position, Brian,
Speaker 1: who you got? You actually might want to fire up
Speaker 1: the time machine for this one charge because it's a
Speaker 1: blast from the past Jets versus the Rai. He looked
Speaker 1: good last week in sort of limited action. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you watched, but I had some great runs.
Speaker 1: Should have scored if not for the turf monster at
Speaker 1: FedEx Field in Washington or Maryland for that matter. Um
Speaker 1: who has not had great runs this year's Levon Bell
Speaker 1: hasn't topped seventy rushing yards in the game this year disaster.
Speaker 1: Two weeks ago, Bell was playing playing over the snaps.
Speaker 1: He's hovering right above six right now. Oakland had a
Speaker 1: really good run defense early on, but they've allowed over
Speaker 1: five yards per carry over the last three games against
Speaker 1: some pretty bad offensive lines to like the Bengals and
Speaker 1: the Lions. And lastly, we all know Powell can catch
Speaker 1: the ball and um, let me see I had a
Speaker 1: good stat here for that. Hold on one second, the
Speaker 1: Raiders have allowed at least one receiving touchdown to a
Speaker 1: running back in four straight games. Back, that is deep.
Speaker 1: I like it. Let's go to Christian Peterson. Who's your
Speaker 1: take a chance of me running back? Let's go back
Speaker 1: to this riveting Dolphins Brown's matchup. I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: Patrick Laird all right, tell us running back for the Dolphin.
Speaker 1: He's a running back, an undrafted rookie from California. If
Speaker 1: you haven't seen him, he has similar traits physically to
Speaker 1: running backs like Christian McCaffrey, Danny Woodhead. I'm sure Meryl Hodge,
Speaker 1: Mike cal stots what, they all have a similar physical character.
Speaker 1: They're all very good football players. Yes, they all played
Speaker 1: running back. They all played running back. Yes, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the only similarities I could find between all those players.
Speaker 1: He used a lot of eye black, that's true. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so Patrick laired right now, he's somehow is still behind
Speaker 1: Kaylin Blah on the running back the chart there, despite
Speaker 1: Belage averaging last week forty three point seven inches per
Speaker 1: Touchlage is awful. At some point they have to turn
Speaker 1: the page here, and it could be this week, and
Speaker 1: it could be Patrick Laird. He had six receptions last week,
Speaker 1: so he's clearly the pass catching guy. If you're in
Speaker 1: a PPR league. God knows, it's not Bolage, not Blage.
Speaker 1: We know that. So if he keeps those catches, keeps
Speaker 1: the receiving work, and adds in ten or twelve touches
Speaker 1: against this beat up, broken down defense, you never know.
Speaker 1: Take a chance on Patrick Laird. I have to make
Speaker 1: a quick correction. I meant to say before the Bengals
Speaker 1: game last week, the Raiders had at least one receiving
Speaker 1: touchdown in fourth straight. Didn't last week against the Bengals.
Speaker 1: But that changes everything. And I know that was just
Speaker 1: it was just gnawing at me. I just saidn't. I
Speaker 1: couldn't concentrate into fix that might take a chance to
Speaker 1: be running back is A one A and one B.
Speaker 1: Two guys from the same team. Jalen Samuels, who's largely
Speaker 1: already rostered, but then Benny s l who's coming off
Speaker 1: of injury and is available much more readily, in fact
Speaker 1: available in most leagues. They go up againt Cincinnati. Now
Speaker 1: James Conner is, barring a last minute resurrection, is not
Speaker 1: going to go in this game. In fact, he's been
Speaker 1: ruled out. He's been ruled out. Jalen Samuels has average
Speaker 1: nineteen touches per game in the two full games Connor
Speaker 1: has missed, so you know he's gonna get plenty of touches.
Speaker 1: But he's no workhorse, and especially as a runner, so
Speaker 1: they will go to Benny Snell to do a lot
Speaker 1: of the running. This is a Bengals team allowing one
Speaker 1: hundred sixty three total yards per game to opposing running backs.
Speaker 1: That the third most in the league. If it's a
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty three divided by both guys, they're both
Speaker 1: value plays at that stage. The forty Niners, Cardinals, and
Speaker 1: Rams dual back fields all had lucrative fantasy days, and
Speaker 1: I think there's a good opportunity here for both Benny
Speaker 1: Snell and Jalen Samuel's to get it done. Um runners
Speaker 1: who got in the eight to fourteen carry range. This
Speaker 1: is very specific on there's who got in the eight
Speaker 1: to fourteen carry range against the Bengals average fifty rushing
Speaker 1: yards and almost one touchdown per game. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the wild receiver position. Brian who you got, I'm going
Speaker 1: Batman and Robin here and pairing Mitch Dubiskie with Taylor
Speaker 1: Gabriel was just a still playing and I went all
Speaker 1: in on the Bengals last week. It wasn't a total disaster.
Speaker 1: Tad Okay, I hope he's feeling all right, but anyway,
Speaker 1: Taylor Gabriel against the Giants. Gabriel saw fourteen targets last week,
Speaker 1: with Jalen Ramsey shadowing Allen Robinson to North Jenkins probably
Speaker 1: shadows a rob For the most part, it doesn't really
Speaker 1: matter that Jenkins is a sort of a show of
Speaker 1: his former self. It means Taylor Gabriel was he a
Speaker 1: ton of rookie corner DeAndre Baker who's getting flamed this year,
Speaker 1: allowing a touchdown in every eight point five targets he
Speaker 1: sees and a pass the rating of a hundred and
Speaker 1: forty nine point nine. So he made a play once.
Speaker 1: I guess right, I guess that subtracks point one from
Speaker 1: your something like that. Yeah, Taylor Gabriel. Taylor Gabriel, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with tight end here, Ryan Griffin with
Speaker 1: the Cardinals on a by this week, we need some
Speaker 1: other defense to pick on for our tight end streamer
Speaker 1: this week, So let's enter the Raiders. The Jets opponent
Speaker 1: this week. There a bottom three tight end defense. They've
Speaker 1: allowed seven tight end touchdowns this year, and Griffin has
Speaker 1: actually been really pretty good over the last month or so.
Speaker 1: He's kind of become what everybody thought Chris Herndon was
Speaker 1: going to be before the year before injuries side uh
Speaker 1: sidetracked his season. Griffin had five catches, a hundred nine yards,
Speaker 1: and a touchdown last week. He had three Fantasy relevant
Speaker 1: performances in the five weeks before that, topping fifty yards
Speaker 1: and two of them three touchdowns in that span. So
Speaker 1: Griffin is legit here. If you've got a buy issue,
Speaker 1: if you've got Travis Kelsey maybe on buy look to
Speaker 1: Ryan Griffin for your streamer. When Mohammed Sanu went to
Speaker 1: the Patriots, by the way, she out this week, so
Speaker 1: keep keeping out of your lineup. M Russell Gauge became
Speaker 1: the slot receiver for the Falcons. He goes up against
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay is now on their third slot
Speaker 1: corner of the year, and with Ston Hooper out and
Speaker 1: DeVonta Freeman out, there's gonna be a lot of volume
Speaker 1: to go around. Russell Gauge has seen eighteen targets over
Speaker 1: the past three games. That's all you need against Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: They're giving up two hundred forties six yards just to
Speaker 1: the wide receiver position, second most in the league. It's
Speaker 1: a great opportunity. That's over the last three games. Over
Speaker 1: the last three games, by the way, four different receivers
Speaker 1: of top one yards. It was the last three games.
Speaker 1: Eight receiver touchdowns allowed by Tampa Bay in three games.
Speaker 1: Russell Gauge, you take a chance of me and final, uh,
Speaker 1: take a chance of me player for this particular segment,
Speaker 1: we were gonna work in one quick matchup as well, Brian.
Speaker 1: The Giants are taking on Chicago. The last time we
Speaker 1: saw st Kwon Barkley, it was a disaster, and now
Speaker 1: he travels to Chicago for a very tough matchup. What
Speaker 1: do you think of se Kwon Barkley in this one?
Speaker 1: I love him a nobody wants the recency bias, and
Speaker 1: yet Chicago really not that daunting of a matchup without
Speaker 1: a Keem Hicks. They've allowed nine rushing touchdowns running backs
Speaker 1: in the six games since losing the Key Micks, and
Speaker 1: the Bears have yielded the second most targets of running
Speaker 1: backs to the season. We've seen se Quon Barkley a
Speaker 1: lot double digit passes multiple times, so I love so
Speaker 1: this year. Yep, that's true because Eli Manning is not
Speaker 1: the court. But anyway, because they can throw the ball
Speaker 1: downfield now alright, so the wide receiver situation is pretty
Speaker 1: sticky here for New York Sterling Shepherd was cleared on Friday,
Speaker 1: so he will play. I had a not even a salad,
Speaker 1: be a salad sea on Golden Tate if Shepherd sat,
Speaker 1: But now that Shepherd's playing, I don't know. Don't stay
Speaker 1: with it. Shephard probably helps Tate. Well, it's an awful
Speaker 1: matchup all around. Uh, speaking to Tate, and whoever runs
Speaker 1: out the slot, it's gonna be Tate and Shephard, probably
Speaker 1: mainly Tate. Over the last four games, Chicago has held
Speaker 1: slot receivers through thirty nine yards per game and no touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That includes guys like Keenan Allen and Cooper Cup. So
Speaker 1: see for Tate. I'm gonna put Shepherd and Slate and
Speaker 1: the bench just because the Bears have allowed only one
Speaker 1: wide receiver touchdown since Week four, and during that same
Speaker 1: stretch only Stephan Digs and Michael Thomas were able to
Speaker 1: top eighty receiving yards. And these guys aren't as got
Speaker 1: not as good. Uh. And Evan Ingram speaking of players
Speaker 1: who are out, he is out. His backup, Rett Ellison
Speaker 1: is out. I don't even know where the backup is
Speaker 1: off the top of my head right now, but you
Speaker 1: do not want to play him. Outside of a big
Speaker 1: day by zach ertz Uh a few weeks back, Chicago
Speaker 1: has not allowed any other tight end to top four
Speaker 1: catches or fifty yards. And Daniel Jones is on the
Speaker 1: bench too, and this one. Chicago is allowing less than
Speaker 1: one passing touchdown per game on average, and only one
Speaker 1: quarterback has hit three d passing yards and that was
Speaker 1: case Keenum in garbage time over the Bear side, starting
Speaker 1: with David Montgomery will give him a b. Even though
Speaker 1: over the last three weeks the snap percentage has dropped
Speaker 1: from seventy three to sixty one to forty six last week. UH,
Speaker 1: you'd expect the snap percentage to climb this week. Though
Speaker 1: the Bears are favored at home, the Giants owned the
Speaker 1: fourth highest opponent rushing play percentage and opposing lead backs
Speaker 1: have scored in or top two hundred and ten compoyards
Speaker 1: and I with the Giants last six. So let's put
Speaker 1: a b on David Montgomery. I'm putting three Cone on
Speaker 1: the bench, though there's no angle here. The Giants haven't
Speaker 1: surrendered receiving scored to a running back, and only two
Speaker 1: loan backs have topped four receptions and those were James
Speaker 1: White and Dalvin Cook. Treat Cone is not in that company.
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson. You gonna give him an a though, even
Speaker 1: with Mitch Rubisky as his quarterback, he looks great. Uh.
Speaker 1: He had Jalen Ramsey beat multiple times last week, but
Speaker 1: Sad Trombosky just couldn't find him. Might get shadowed by
Speaker 1: Genera's Jenkins. I mentioned that, but bay rob also runs
Speaker 1: out of the slot a third of the time. He'll
Speaker 1: be all over the place. I just like a Mulot
Speaker 1: on this weekend, and also like Taylor Gabriel against this
Speaker 1: awful Giants secondaries. Might take a chance on me. Wide
Speaker 1: receiver Anthony Miller almost gave him a starting grade. Eleven
Speaker 1: targets for him last week, but just uh six combined
Speaker 1: looks in the three games prior, so we got to
Speaker 1: see more from him than Ben braw Necker. That's the
Speaker 1: tight end now. They actually threw to him a punch
Speaker 1: or brow Brownecker Brown. But tight ends have actually done
Speaker 1: nothing against the Giants this year. I'm like last year
Speaker 1: they were a media match up. So he's on the bench,
Speaker 1: but Mitch Chubisky is not. Might take a chance on
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Speaker 1: matchups Miami takes on Cleveland. Christian, you already told us
Speaker 1: you like Mighty Loves Stu Beard, Ryan Fitzpatrick. You told
Speaker 1: us about Patrick Laird. Who do you like Fitzpatrick to
Speaker 1: throw too? In this game? Well, there's really only one
Speaker 1: off it really is there. We'll keep this short and sweetest.
Speaker 1: Davante Parker. Uh. Parker has been consistently Albert Wilson a
Speaker 1: loyal listener to this show, and he's pissed right now. Well,
Speaker 1: he needs to do something before he gets mentioned here.
Speaker 1: But Parker, the problem here is that the matchup is
Speaker 1: actually pretty difficult against a Cleveland secondary that hasn't allowed
Speaker 1: a one hud yard receiver since week three. They have
Speaker 1: two very good cornerbacks, Denzel Ward and Greedy Williams. Parker
Speaker 1: likely draws Ward, who has allowed just fifteen catches for
Speaker 1: two d and thirty eight yards in his coverage this year,
Speaker 1: so across ten games, that's like less than twenty five
Speaker 1: yards per game. So I gave Parker a b start
Speaker 1: here because I like there's injuries all over the Browns
Speaker 1: front seven, so they Fitzpatrick should have time to find guys,
Speaker 1: and the one guy that he looks to is DeVante Parker.
Speaker 1: Titan Mike just Sicky has actually been somewhat relevant, targeted
Speaker 1: six times each of the last three games, but he's
Speaker 1: not doing much with those looks, so let's keep him
Speaker 1: on the bench for now. That brings us to the
Speaker 1: running game. Patrick Laird was might take a chance on
Speaker 1: me running back. What do you do with Blage is
Speaker 1: the problem. He probably will get fifteen to twenty touches
Speaker 1: in this game. Yeah, against the defense that was allowing
Speaker 1: four point seven five yards per carry to opposing backs
Speaker 1: before the two suspensions here, you can't put him in
Speaker 1: your flex spot. It's like if you have to if
Speaker 1: there's no other running back. Essentially, it's when you pl
Speaker 1: kalm Bloge. It's that bad opportunity. He's not gonna get that.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna get catches. He might get a touchdown,
Speaker 1: but he might also get twenty touches for twenty three yards,
Speaker 1: which is fully capable of. Yes, so he's a high risk.
Speaker 1: He's he's a high risk, low reward on the brown
Speaker 1: side for once. I have a whole bunch of starting
Speaker 1: grades here. Uh, this could be the moment we've all
Speaker 1: been waiting here against the Dolphins. I've got Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: with just a B grade here. He's been better recently,
Speaker 1: completing over six his passes in the last five games,
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns in two straight. And the Dolphins, as we know,
Speaker 1: are just no good defensively. Seven of ten Dolphins opposing
Speaker 1: quarterbacks have thrown for at least two hundred and forty
Speaker 1: six yards the only the only two that haven't thrown
Speaker 1: multiple touchdown passes against them are Sam Donald and Bryan Hoyer.
Speaker 1: So good chance for Baker Mayfield to to get off
Speaker 1: the schneide here. And of course Odell Beckham Jr. Same
Speaker 1: kind of deal here. Only one team has allowed more
Speaker 1: wide receiver touchdowns than the Dolphins, John Brown just last
Speaker 1: week hundred and thirty seven yards and two touchdowns. Beckham
Speaker 1: Beckham owners are desperately hoping for a breakout like that,
Speaker 1: and it could come here. This is an A grade
Speaker 1: here Jarvis Landry. We've got a revenge game here for Landry,
Speaker 1: and he scored touchdowns in three straight at least five
Speaker 1: catches and three of his last four, so he's an
Speaker 1: easy start this week as a B grade. That brings
Speaker 1: me to the running game. Notably, David Najoku still out.
Speaker 1: He's on i R. Could have returned this week technically,
Speaker 1: but he's not quite ready yet, so he's out. Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb is an easy A. At least twenty rushing attempts
Speaker 1: in five straight games, He'll be the workhorse against Miami
Speaker 1: defense that that's allowed the NFL's second most running back
Speaker 1: rushing attempts and its second most yards. Chubb is an
Speaker 1: easy A. Kareem Hunt in PPR formats, he's actually outscored
Speaker 1: Chubb in the in the game since he came back,
Speaker 1: averaging nine targets a game and game and the new
Speaker 1: James White Yeah, combined thirteen catches in those games. He
Speaker 1: also has ten ten carries too, so an average of
Speaker 1: five carries. So in a game like this that's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be a blowout. Kareem Hunt, He's got a B grade.
Speaker 1: He's a very star borderline. Hey, borderline. Yeah, I love
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt in this matchup. Um, since Pittsburgh stakeing in
Speaker 1: Cincinnati already told you about Jalen Samuel's and Benny Snell.
Speaker 1: Those are my my, my one A and one B.
Speaker 1: Take a chance on me, guys, and I've got a
Speaker 1: I've got a B grade on Samuel's. I've got a
Speaker 1: C grade on Benny Snell. Let's go to the passing game.
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph's on the bench. He's not good. The Steelers
Speaker 1: don't need to pass to beat the Bengals because they're
Speaker 1: so bad against the run. Um. He'll be without Juju
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster for sure. He maybe without Deante Johnson. We
Speaker 1: don't know yet. He was last seen with blood gushing
Speaker 1: out of his ear. It's a like a waterfall of
Speaker 1: blood just shooting out of the ear, like down the
Speaker 1: side of his face. One of you somewhere in between
Speaker 1: those two things. UM, I think he's playable. Assumming get
Speaker 1: through the concussion protocol here. Over the past five weeks,
Speaker 1: the Bengals are allowing the second most yards to wide
Speaker 1: receivers two nine per game. Drake Kirkpatrick, there's best cornerback
Speaker 1: went on I r a couple of weeks ago. It's
Speaker 1: a nice opportuny to do for Deonte Johnson, assuming he
Speaker 1: goes for James Washington. I think if Juju Misses and
Speaker 1: Johnson are out, you might want to try James Washington here.
Speaker 1: But man, he's he's been mostly disappointing, although showing signs
Speaker 1: of life last week. So I do have a C
Speaker 1: grade on James Washington and to see great advance McDonald.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati is a terrible tight end defense. Six different tight
Speaker 1: ends up top fifty yards over the last two weeks alone.
Speaker 1: They've given up one hundred fifty nine yards and three
Speaker 1: touchdowns two tight ends in the last two weeks. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Cincinnati's side. We've just got a couple
Speaker 1: of startable players, Joe Mixon since benching Andy Dalton, mixing
Speaker 1: his average twenty three rushing attempts and one hundred twenty
Speaker 1: seven total yards per game. It doesn't matter how badly
Speaker 1: the Bengals are losing, they keep trying to give the
Speaker 1: ball to Joe Mixon and run out the clock to
Speaker 1: end the game quickly. They're they're quietly doing mercy rule here.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, the Steelers haven't allowed of running
Speaker 1: back touchdown in their last five games. That said, big
Speaker 1: volume guys like Marlon Mack and Todd Gurley and Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb val at nice yardage games in that span, So
Speaker 1: all the girl is not always a big volume guy.
Speaker 1: But he had a nice game, so there's an opportunity
Speaker 1: for mixing. I've got to be great on him. The
Speaker 1: only other starting grade is Tyler Boyd. Unhappy with his
Speaker 1: meager three targets last week, he complained about it vociferously,
Speaker 1: and you know, more often than not, the squeaky wheel
Speaker 1: gets some grease when you're a good player, and Tyler
Speaker 1: Boyd's their best receiver, at least the best receiver on
Speaker 1: the fields. J Green is not going again. The Steelers
Speaker 1: pass coverage has softened of late, allowing the fourth most
Speaker 1: touchdowns and fifteenth most yards per game to opposing receivers
Speaker 1: over the last three weeks. Steelers slot corner Mike Hilton
Speaker 1: allowing completion rate in his coverage. So I think Boyd
Speaker 1: could get a little something done here, and that's it.
Speaker 1: Ryan Finley and the rest of the passing game way
Speaker 1: on the bench. Brian Finley is so much worse than
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. I don't even. I mean, I understand they
Speaker 1: want to see what they got in the kid, but
Speaker 1: you know, at some point you think you've seen enough.
Speaker 1: I don't. He's I thought they were gonna give Dalton
Speaker 1: his job back earlier this week, but the announced they're
Speaker 1: starting family the rest of the year. Although teams do
Speaker 1: that and that's changed their mind when they're they're guys terrible.
Speaker 1: So we'll see about that how long that holds up.
Speaker 1: Last matchup of this segment is Carolina taking on New
Speaker 1: Orleans Kyle Allen. I was really high in Kyle Allen
Speaker 1: coming into last weeks. I thought he had played really
Speaker 1: well and he couldn't have looked worse. Well, what you
Speaker 1: need to pay attention to is marsha On Lattimore, the
Speaker 1: Saints standout cornerback. He practiced on Friday, but non contact,
Speaker 1: so he didn't Lendsday, didn't practice Thursday, nontact Friday. My hunches.
Speaker 1: He does not play in it, so that that upgrade.
Speaker 1: Let's le's assume he plays, but he's not a hundred percent.
Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll assume he doesn't play. Either way,
Speaker 1: he's not a percent, So I'll give Alan a see.
Speaker 1: But He's more of like a two quarterback super flex
Speaker 1: play on fan ball. Perhaps the Saints maybe no no,
Speaker 1: no shot shocked it out much of his see he
Speaker 1: really is. The Saints have surrendered at least two passings
Speaker 1: wars and six of ten games, so Alan, I'll give
Speaker 1: him off see um over to his past catchers d
Speaker 1: J Moore b if Latimore plays. Obviously, if Latimore is
Speaker 1: out ten plus targets in three straight games for DJ more,
Speaker 1: he and Kyle Allen really are clicking. Curtis Samuel not
Speaker 1: clicking this year. He is one of twenty wide receivers
Speaker 1: with at least seventy five targets, but he's been a
Speaker 1: disappointment for the most part. He will likely see a
Speaker 1: lot of Eli Apple. Uh. And Samuel did burn Eli
Speaker 1: Apple for a fifty three yard touchdown in the Superdome
Speaker 1: last season or whatever the Dome is called these days.
Speaker 1: And uh, Samuel is a burner. Just his fourth game
Speaker 1: in a dome, by the way, this will be so
Speaker 1: I think he'll pop off here. Greg Olsen gets the
Speaker 1: sea in the dead Sea of tight ends, New Orleans
Speaker 1: has only allowed one tight end touchdown, but they did
Speaker 1: just give up ten catches to Cameron Brait last week
Speaker 1: for seventy three yards. So in the waste land, greg
Speaker 1: Olson gets a SEA and Christian McCaffrey probably the closest
Speaker 1: he'll he'll get to a B. But I'm not gonna do.
Speaker 1: It's still gonna give him an he can't make. You
Speaker 1: can't get yourself to do. Held to a hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty combo yards in the two games against the Saints
Speaker 1: last season, though did not score. It's the Saints are
Speaker 1: still great against the run against running backs set for
Speaker 1: that uh, The Orlands hasn't give up more than nineteen
Speaker 1: receiving yards to weight back over their last four games,
Speaker 1: and only one running back has topped forty rushing yards
Speaker 1: during that span, but none of those backs were CMC
Speaker 1: and the Saints have yielded the third most red zone
Speaker 1: targets for running backs and have surrendered a receiving score
Speaker 1: to the position in back to back game. So I'm
Speaker 1: back to an A for Christian McCaffrey. I'm sorry. Charged
Speaker 1: over the stain side. Alvin Kamara, he definitely gets an A.
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara has played against the Panthers four times in
Speaker 1: his career, has only carried the ball thirty five times.
Speaker 1: In those four games, he scored five touchdowns. Scored in
Speaker 1: every game total of five touchdowns. Carolina has allowed twelve
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns and running backs over their last six games. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is this fantasy. This might be the worst run
Speaker 1: defense in the NFL right now. Never would think could
Speaker 1: be the Panthers and never has been in the past.
Speaker 1: And that makes Latavius Marius lamb dunk c probably a B.
Speaker 1: Is well, I'll give him a B here just because
Speaker 1: the matchup is so good and the matchup is always
Speaker 1: so good for Michael Thomas can give him an A here.
Speaker 1: Four catches through ten games a new record right now.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins is second with eight one, but he played
Speaker 1: on Thursday night, got extra game under his belt. The
Speaker 1: Panthers have surrendered the most catches to wide receivers this season,
Speaker 1: so that that math adds up nicely. But I can't
Speaker 1: go to bat for Ted gin or Trey Kwan Smith.
Speaker 1: No other floors are horrifying Jared Cook, It's kind of
Speaker 1: a horrifying matchup for him. Caroline has some other deposing
Speaker 1: tight ends, having only allowed one touchdown to the position
Speaker 1: since Week ten. Orry Week one and outside George Kittle,
Speaker 1: no tight end has exceeded four catches or sixty yards,
Speaker 1: and Drew Brees barely gets the sea. The last time
Speaker 1: Breeds through at least three touchdown passes against Carolina was September.
Speaker 1: The Panthers have allowed zero or one passing touchdowns and
Speaker 1: seven of ten games, and new quarterback has thrown for
Speaker 1: three all season. It's all about running on the Panthers.
Speaker 1: You get ahead, you run, then you just keep running.
Speaker 1: That's the that's the recipe, and that's what's gonna happen here.
Speaker 1: Can we up next? Let answer three tough questions you
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Speaker 1: it's uh time to roll up our sleeves. So three
Speaker 1: tough questions listeners you can play along. See if you
Speaker 1: can go three and oh off Question number one, the
Speaker 1: schedule for the Cowboys turns tough beginning this week. How
Speaker 1: worried should Cowboy owners be a not at all, be
Speaker 1: somewhat nervous, or see a bowl loosening level of existential dread.
Speaker 1: We begin with Brian Johnson. Alright, so this week it's
Speaker 1: at New England and Buffalo, at Chicago, Rams at home,
Speaker 1: then at Philly, and according to Fantasy Pros, that is
Speaker 1: the fourth hardest remaining schedule for running backs, the third
Speaker 1: hardest for wide receivers, and the second hardest for quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Of course, some of these matchups are better for the
Speaker 1: running backs and they are for the wide receivers and such,
Speaker 1: so I don't I'm just got to say somewhat nervous
Speaker 1: because it's a mixed bag of bad matchups but good
Speaker 1: for something. It depends who you're talking about. But there
Speaker 1: are a lot of almost stoppers at certain position points here,
Speaker 1: so I'll say somewhat nervous. I also said somewhat nervous
Speaker 1: like you. I went and looked at the at the
Speaker 1: schedule and New England, Buffalo and Chicago in the next
Speaker 1: three weeks, those are those are the real issues here
Speaker 1: in New England is number one against just about everything.
Speaker 1: Buffalo is number two or three against just about every
Speaker 1: position in Chicago. Uh. You mentioned in the matchup they're
Speaker 1: having a little more trouble against running backs, but but
Speaker 1: against the past they are elite level two. So it
Speaker 1: maybe depends a little bit on what your fantasy playoff
Speaker 1: prognosis is right now. I'd be a little bit more
Speaker 1: nervous if I was at like five hundred and trying
Speaker 1: to scrape into the playoffs, because the next three are
Speaker 1: pretty tough. The Rams and Philly in weeks fifteen and sixteen,
Speaker 1: they're not easy, but they're more middle of the road,
Speaker 1: so I'm less nervous about those. So overall, again, it
Speaker 1: depends if you're on easy street going into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: I'm not that worried. If you're struggling to get in
Speaker 1: right now, then then I'm pretty somewhat okay. All right, Um,
Speaker 1: here's the passing touchdowns per game allowed over the next
Speaker 1: for the next four opponents, passing touchdowns allowed per game
Speaker 1: zero point four, zero point eight, zero point nine, and
Speaker 1: one point two. That's Dak Prescott on you know you're
Speaker 1: hoping for one touchdown per game if everything, if everything
Speaker 1: had you're if you get one per game, You've outscored
Speaker 1: most quarterbacks against these teams. Here's the rushing touchdowns per
Speaker 1: game over the next month allowed for Ezekiel Elliott zero
Speaker 1: point one per game, zero point eight per game, one
Speaker 1: per game, and zero point six. Again, if you can
Speaker 1: get to one, you're far outpacing with These defenses usually
Speaker 1: give up to opposing running backs. The key here we're
Speaker 1: heading into the playoffs. One bad game. If you get
Speaker 1: the dud from Zeke, if you get the dud from Dak,
Speaker 1: your seasons over. And that is why the remaining schedule
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys should give you a bowl loosening level
Speaker 1: of existential dread. For many of you. Your your trading
Speaker 1: deadline is coming up in a a matter of hours. This
Speaker 1: is your last best chance to move your Cowboys. Do
Speaker 1: it tough. Question Number two, can fantasy owners just dropped
Speaker 1: James Conner Christian I'm gonna say no. Uh. The injury
Speaker 1: is obviously worrisome here. It's an a C joint sprain
Speaker 1: and the shoulder. The Steelers somewhat strange, they're treating this
Speaker 1: somewhat strangely. They kind they're kind of saying that he's
Speaker 1: day to day. They clearly brought him back to early
Speaker 1: last week because he reinjured it. But then this week
Speaker 1: they didn't really rule him out until very late in
Speaker 1: the week on Friday. So it doesn't seem like it's
Speaker 1: a super serious injury. But at the same time, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to trust him for at least a couple
Speaker 1: of a couple of weeks, but weeks fifteen and sixteen,
Speaker 1: I still want him in case he gets back to
Speaker 1: full health. They have, Yeah, Buffalo, that that's that's a
Speaker 1: tough matchup. But but Jets run defense has but awesome
Speaker 1: all year. They have, but nobody else has really established
Speaker 1: themselves here for Pittsburgh. Jalen Samuels can't run the ball,
Speaker 1: he can catch the ball. I just think Connor was
Speaker 1: an absolute work horse when he was healthy. He's a
Speaker 1: top ten running back when healthy. I'm not gonna just
Speaker 1: outright drop him. I need I need to hold onto
Speaker 1: him in case it comes back to So no, do
Speaker 1: not drop him, all right, And Brian, what are you saying.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say no, but for different reasons. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna hold them in hopes that he plays against the
Speaker 1: Browns next week. With all the suspensions and whatnot they have,
Speaker 1: but Arizona and Week fourteen, tough matchup Bills and Jets.
Speaker 1: The Jets are We'll get getting to that matchup later.
Speaker 1: They're really good run defense. Now, I don't know if
Speaker 1: i'd be confident starting James Conner in those bad matchups.
Speaker 1: James Conner doesn't even finish half the games he starts.
Speaker 1: It seems like he always gets no, you know which
Speaker 1: side you said? I don't know said, and then he
Speaker 1: gave nothing but reasons to drop him. But no, not
Speaker 1: because of the Browns. Even in case he plays, I'll
Speaker 1: start him next week. So no, all right, should have
Speaker 1: dropped him weeks ago, that's answer. He's been on the
Speaker 1: injury report. James Connor has been on the injury report
Speaker 1: every week of the season. This week he did, he
Speaker 1: got ruled out on Friday. He didn't even make it
Speaker 1: the game time decision this week when he comes back.
Speaker 1: How do you start James Conner not knowing if he's
Speaker 1: gonna make it out of the first quarter. And the
Speaker 1: Steelers can't possibly be so delusional that they still view
Speaker 1: James Connor as a workhorse. Come on, I know they
Speaker 1: want their workhorse backs, but obviously it can't be James Connor.
Speaker 1: He's proven it every way possible for over a year.
Speaker 1: What's more, this offense is in reverse. Mason Rudolph is
Speaker 1: so bad you can't trust him to get past the
Speaker 1: fifty yard line and any given drive. And lastly, on
Speaker 1: James Conner and another reason, you could just dagger him
Speaker 1: right now, do they just shut him down at some point?
Speaker 1: I mean there are five and five team if they
Speaker 1: lose two out of the next three or whatever, that
Speaker 1: shut just down, just just stop now with the charade
Speaker 1: of James Conner. They're gonna beat the Bengals and then
Speaker 1: they're gonna play you know that. Do you know Mason
Speaker 1: Rodolph can beat the Bengals. No, but I don't either.
Speaker 1: And then they got Cleveland after that, and you know
Speaker 1: that's I think they could easily lose one of those
Speaker 1: two and then maybe they lose an next one of
Speaker 1: that's over seasons done. James Conner. So bitter about James Conner, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm really not. You had him as you had him
Speaker 1: as like that, You're sea coming into the year and
Speaker 1: here he is a top ten fantasy. I so nailed
Speaker 1: I so nailed. The shade on James Conner in the preseason.
Speaker 1: It's like eight weeks for you to be right weeks Connor.
Speaker 1: Connor has not been anywhere close to a top ten
Speaker 1: running back from the majority of this year. Ali's Ali
Speaker 1: does is give you headaches and frustration. Question number three
Speaker 1: is Courtland Sutton a top five fantasy wide receiver? Brian
Speaker 1: all right, if we're talking top five, you were talking
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas, DeAndre Hopkins, Julio Jones, Mark Cooper, Mike Evans,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Kill, Odell Beckham, Still, Chris Godwin, Davante Adams. Sutton
Speaker 1: would probably be right with those guys, if not for
Speaker 1: the quarterback situation in Denver, which is just awful. I
Speaker 1: got lock it in tier with uh, you know, Tyler Lockett,
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay, Dealing, Dealing Diggs. He leads. Sutton leads that
Speaker 1: pack when it comes to dynasty though, by the way,
Speaker 1: and probably Redraft. But he's wide receiver eight or nine
Speaker 1: from me right now. But if they get a quarterback
Speaker 1: in Denver, watch out because he is legit. But he's
Speaker 1: outside the top five for me as of right now.
Speaker 1: All Right, I think you're just smitten after watching Sutton
Speaker 1: carve up the Vikings secondary of this past week, a
Speaker 1: Vikings secondary that, by the way, everybody onfl but overall,
Speaker 1: he's just right now in a in a standard scoring system,
Speaker 1: he's the number sixteen wide receiver. From a fantasy perspective,
Speaker 1: he has just two yard games last week was the
Speaker 1: second of the year, just four touchdowns, and then Brian
Speaker 1: hit on it as well with Brandon Allen there, you
Speaker 1: just can't depend on him as as as really anywhere
Speaker 1: near a top five guy. I've got him outside probably
Speaker 1: on in the twelve range, not even close to top five.
Speaker 1: That's interesting, almost made a top seven because I thought
Speaker 1: that was a lot closer to where he has going
Speaker 1: to be. A tougher question. Yeah, that's crazy. Uh, here's why.
Speaker 1: Above all else, you want your you want your players
Speaker 1: to not dagger your own team. And what Courtland Sutton
Speaker 1: does really well is no bad games. Since Week two,
Speaker 1: his worst game is a seventy three yard scoreless game.
Speaker 1: That's his worst game for Courtland Sutton. His average game
Speaker 1: is eighty one yards and a coin flips chance at
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Eighty one yards is well. Who else, by
Speaker 1: the way, is eighty one yards and a coin flips
Speaker 1: chance and a touchdown. Well, that's Julio Jones. That's that's
Speaker 1: actually more yards than Tyler Lockett gives you. Although Locket's
Speaker 1: got two more touchdowns, it's more yards than Tyler Lockett. Quietly,
Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton is in conversation with these guys in terms
Speaker 1: of production. I know it's not name recognition. He's not
Speaker 1: he's is he Julio Jones? No, of course that we
Speaker 1: talk about Ulio Jones a receiver for day years. But
Speaker 1: from a production standpoint, Courtland Sutton is not that far
Speaker 1: off of these guys. And if I said, right now,
Speaker 1: you could have Courtland Sutton or Tyreek Hill. Given the
Speaker 1: injury situation with Tyreek Hill, that's I think that's a
Speaker 1: trickier conversation to have. All that said, he's still not
Speaker 1: a top five guy, so you're right, he's not top five,
Speaker 1: but he's close's closer than we think. I think it's
Speaker 1: a startup. Empire might be a startup you might be in.
Speaker 1: You're in an Empire league, you're in a dynasty league.
Speaker 1: I think it would make sense. I'm just rubbing it
Speaker 1: into CEP traded Sutting to meet earlier in the season. Really, well,
Speaker 1: what do you get well, yeah, I mean, you know
Speaker 1: it was. It was. Actually it would take a hold.
Speaker 1: It would take us fifteen minutes to analyze it. I'm
Speaker 1: speaking of what's gonna take fifteen music good deal. Dallas
Speaker 1: taking on the Patriots could take fifteen minutes. Because this
Speaker 1: is the thorn thorny matchup. It's thorny, made even thornier
Speaker 1: by the fact that it came out today that half
Speaker 1: the Cowboys team is suffering from the flu late in
Speaker 1: the week. So that's something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: Although none of the none of the A players here,
Speaker 1: none of the fantasy players were really mentioned. They gave
Speaker 1: Dack some kind of magic medicine, right, the medicine. The
Speaker 1: Beat writers came out with this tweet that said, you know,
Speaker 1: six players are affected by the flu, but don't worry.
Speaker 1: They gave Dak and they found a way to cure
Speaker 1: the flu before it even happens, apparently for Dak, But anyways,
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that. Anybody else also keep an
Speaker 1: eye on. It's just so weird because all of the
Speaker 1: Cowboys players have been really, really good, but the Patriots
Speaker 1: defense is insanely good. So I basically took all the
Speaker 1: grades that I would have given the Cowboys and knocked
Speaker 1: them down a full full letter grade. So Prescott has
Speaker 1: a B instead of an A because the Patriots have
Speaker 1: allowed just four passing touchdowns all year long. We know
Speaker 1: how great Dak Prescott has been. He'd be an A
Speaker 1: under any other circumstances, but a B here, A Marii Cooper,
Speaker 1: I've got him at a B. He is battling through
Speaker 1: knee and ankle injuries, held in check by Darius Slay
Speaker 1: last week with just three catches. This week's matchup maybe
Speaker 1: even tougher against Stephon Gilmore. Per Pro Football Focus, Gilmore
Speaker 1: is allowing just forty five percent completions UH on passes
Speaker 1: thrown his well his way. He's held opposing wide receivers
Speaker 1: to averages of just thirty five yards, and none have scored. Really,
Speaker 1: really tough matchup for Cooper here, normally an A. I
Speaker 1: gave him a B here because of that matchup. Michael Gallup,
Speaker 1: Let's give him a C. Targeted twenty nine times in
Speaker 1: three in his last three games, touchdowns in consecutive games
Speaker 1: before going off for a hundred and forty eight yards
Speaker 1: last week. Well, Unfortunately he draws cornerback Jason mccordy, a
Speaker 1: lesser name than Gilmore, but according to Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 1: he's even better. He's allowed just twenty four point six
Speaker 1: so he's also very good. Only one wide receiver is
Speaker 1: top to even seventy eight yards against the Patriots and
Speaker 1: only one have scored, so again, a tough tough matchup
Speaker 1: for the wide receivers here. Jason Witten tight ends have
Speaker 1: scored three times in the last three games against the Patriots.
Speaker 1: That appears to be how people are moving the ball,
Speaker 1: and Witten has twenty one targets and fifteen catches in
Speaker 1: the last three games, so maybe that's how they're going
Speaker 1: to move the ball here. Of the touchdowns given up
Speaker 1: by the Patriots have been to the tight ends, So
Speaker 1: a c C grade out here on Witten. As much
Speaker 1: as he don't love him, Ezekiel Elliott, let's give him
Speaker 1: a B. He's been struggling in recent weeks, held under
Speaker 1: three yards per carry by both the Vikings and the
Speaker 1: Lions in his last two games, and by the way,
Speaker 1: injure both injury depleted Vikings and Lions defensive lines all right,
Speaker 1: and the Patriots they allow over four yards per carry,
Speaker 1: but only one running back has scored against them. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, Nick Chubb did go for a hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty one yards against them two weeks ago, mark
Speaker 1: Ingram a hundred and fifteen last week, so they can
Speaker 1: be beat on the ground, and it feels like that's
Speaker 1: the way Dallas is going to try to move the
Speaker 1: ball here, So b grade on Ezekiel Elliott. I know
Speaker 1: this is already a long thorny match up, but let
Speaker 1: me just enter jack. The Tony Pollard came in with
Speaker 1: it and had a couple of touches that look really
Speaker 1: really good. I and the way that Zeke is struggling,
Speaker 1: you know, Tony should already be rostered and somebody sharing
Speaker 1: to be handcuffing him at this time of year. But
Speaker 1: if he's not, Tony Pollard makes a lot of sense
Speaker 1: to be if we get an uptick and Tony Pollard's
Speaker 1: usage undefeated, when he has like six or seven touches
Speaker 1: or something, they just they use him. They win. So
Speaker 1: but he had just twelve snaps last week, he had
Speaker 1: four catches and the nice and the nice touchdown. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he's on He's on your bench for now until they
Speaker 1: prove that they're going to use them more. On the
Speaker 1: Patriots side, Tom Brady. Just to see starting grade here.
Speaker 1: Only one quarterback has thrown for more than twitter and
Speaker 1: thirty eight yards against the Cowboys since Week one. None
Speaker 1: have thrown more than two touchdowns, and Brady just quite
Speaker 1: frankly hasn't been very good in the last five or
Speaker 1: six games. Just to see here, Julian Edelman is an
Speaker 1: a basically on volume alone. He is a target hog
Speaker 1: double digit targets in five straight games. And the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are vulnerable to slot wide receivers, having yielded a seventy
Speaker 1: three percent completion rate on slot targets this year. So
Speaker 1: Edelman is in the rest of the receiving corps is
Speaker 1: really banged up. Mohammed Sanum may or may not play.
Speaker 1: He's officially questionable. Same with Philip dor Set battling through
Speaker 1: a concussion. Maybe to keep an eye on rookie to
Speaker 1: Keel Harry, who played pretty well last week in his
Speaker 1: first game after since coming off. I r but nothing
Speaker 1: to see here at the at receiver beyond Edelman. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna dig deep enough for Ben Watson here at
Speaker 1: tight end. That brings us to the Sony Walkman. I
Speaker 1: gave him a C letter starting grade here forty two
Speaker 1: yards or less than three of the last four scoreless
Speaker 1: in three straight. The numbers aren't good, but Dallas allows
Speaker 1: over four yards per carry and nine running back touchdowns
Speaker 1: in ten games, so maybe a short touchdown here is
Speaker 1: what you're hoping for from Walkman. And also, by the way,
Speaker 1: linebacker Layton Vandersch, one of their leading tacklers, one of
Speaker 1: their best players out for this one with a neck injury.
Speaker 1: James White is the guy that you want to look at, though,
Speaker 1: because the Cowboys are more susceptible to pass catching backs.
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones had seven catches against them, se Kwon Barkley six,
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook seven. So James White I gave a B
Speaker 1: starting grade two. Right, that's a that's a beefy matchup
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Speaker 1: four right ends yeah, or for or for running back.
Speaker 1: Most importantly, you start zero team defense. Yeah, this whole
Speaker 1: team defense thing and in DFS has gotta go. Um,
Speaker 1: that's a whole different story. Let's talk about Detroit taking
Speaker 1: on Washington. It's kind of a dog mud game, but
Speaker 1: there are some opportunities, particularly on the Lions side, where
Speaker 1: already gave you Jeff Driscolls might take a chance on
Speaker 1: the quarterback I really like him. Kenny Golladay gets a
Speaker 1: straight up a. He runs the majority of his routes
Speaker 1: on Josh Norman's side. Of the field. Norman's been roasted
Speaker 1: for seven touchdowns in his coverage. That's I believe the
Speaker 1: worst in the league. And get this, seven touchdowns on
Speaker 1: forty five passes defended. That's it. How do you do that?
Speaker 1: How are you giving up a touchdown every eight passes
Speaker 1: that comes your way? That's ridiculous. You get paid and
Speaker 1: then that comes your way. I'm doing some multiplication now.
Speaker 1: Uh So, Kenny Golladay and a grade. Danny Amendola gets
Speaker 1: a startable grade with a SEA and I almost gave
Speaker 1: him a b Other slot receivers have done very well
Speaker 1: here he gets. Fabian Moreau is his coverage cornerback. He's
Speaker 1: not very good. We saw Jamison Crowder score touchdown, Cole
Speaker 1: Beasley score touchdown, Julian Edelman score touchdown from the slot position.
Speaker 1: There's a great opportunity for Danny Amendola as a dart
Speaker 1: throw in the final bye week of the year. Marvin
Speaker 1: Jones though, just to see grade and really might want
Speaker 1: to be on the bench. He runs about fifty percent
Speaker 1: of his snaps up against Quinton Dunbar. That is a
Speaker 1: tough matchup. Dunbar is a great cornerback, quietly one of
Speaker 1: the better corner young quarterbacks in the league. And I
Speaker 1: don't love Jones here, but he doesn't want all of
Speaker 1: his snaps against dun Bar, so he is still startable
Speaker 1: with a C. Gray aid, let's go to boast Scarborough. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, while we're in the passing game, t J.
Speaker 1: Hockenson is it got. It's a decent matchup with Washington,
Speaker 1: but yeah, just not enough usage for Hockinson. He's just
Speaker 1: not seeing enough balls. As we well. Ryan Griffin had
Speaker 1: the big game last week. Before that, they hadn't allowed
Speaker 1: a tight end to go over sixty yards and that
Speaker 1: included Ingram George Kittle. All the more reason to keep
Speaker 1: t J. Hockenson on the bench. Both Scarborough gets a
Speaker 1: C grade here. Washington has allowed rushing touchdowns in six
Speaker 1: of the past seven. They've also given up at least
Speaker 1: a hundred ten yards two runners in four straight games.
Speaker 1: Both Scarborough will get most of the work here, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna see a rotation of guys again just to
Speaker 1: see grade for Scarborough. And it's unclear who will get
Speaker 1: the any goal line carries, but I think it would
Speaker 1: be him. So that might be your best chance here
Speaker 1: is to get a goal line carry at a Boat Scarborough.
Speaker 1: On the Washington side, there's only two guys that you
Speaker 1: care about two and a half. Adrian Peterson may or
Speaker 1: may not go. He's probably shaping up as a game
Speaker 1: time decision with his toe injury to not practice Wednesday
Speaker 1: or Thursday if he on Friday. Darius Guy is tempting
Speaker 1: because he had the eye popping touchdown reception, But what
Speaker 1: people don't realize is he also carried the ball seven
Speaker 1: times and only put up twenty four yards on the
Speaker 1: ground last week and couldn't really even hold off Windell Smallwood.
Speaker 1: No right when all Smallwood in the mix way more
Speaker 1: than he ever should have been. Now, the Lions have
Speaker 1: given up the second most running back touchdowns in the league,
Speaker 1: so there is an opportunity for guys here. But I'll
Speaker 1: note that the Lions run defense has been better the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks with Mike Daniels back at defensive tackles.
Speaker 1: So guys were just a C grade, and if Adrian
Speaker 1: Peterson is active, then honestly, I think I might just
Speaker 1: sit both of them. Then. Terry McLaren's the only other
Speaker 1: guy that you care about. He has a C grade.
Speaker 1: He draws Darius Slay probably who held him Marie Cooper
Speaker 1: in check. Slays very good for the most part. He's
Speaker 1: shut down a bunch of good receivers this year. Now.
Speaker 1: McLaren moved to the slot a lot more last week.
Speaker 1: He ran his place from the slot last week, and
Speaker 1: Darius Slay does not go to the slot, So Washington
Speaker 1: could keep using McLaurin in the slot to draw better
Speaker 1: coverage and avoid Slay. And that's why he has a
Speaker 1: C grade in this matchup. Let's go to Oakland taking
Speaker 1: on the Jets. Brian for the Raiders, it's a tricky
Speaker 1: matchup for Josh Jacobs, who has been so good you
Speaker 1: just play him every week. But the Jets defense against
Speaker 1: the run has been sneaky great, and they're so bad
Speaker 1: against the past, and you feel like this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a Derek Carr led offense. Yeah, you kind of do,
Speaker 1: but you still gotta play Jacobs. But you really have
Speaker 1: to temporar your expectations soft be here for Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 1: Jets very tough against the run. Like you said, they
Speaker 1: are ranked second by Football Outsiders against the run, and
Speaker 1: imposing running backs are averaging just a tick over three
Speaker 1: yards per carry. That said, the Jets have yielded the
Speaker 1: third most red zone touches to running backs of this year,
Speaker 1: and the Raiders should be able to move the ball
Speaker 1: through the air against New York. And that's why Tyrelle
Speaker 1: Williams gets an a Jets have allowed well before the
Speaker 1: redskin receivers didn't score a touchdown last week. They touchdown
Speaker 1: a verse redskin. The three games prior, the Jets have
Speaker 1: allowed ten wide receiver touchdowns. So I'm liking Tyrrelle Williams
Speaker 1: and this one um. Also like in Hunter Renfro, New
Speaker 1: York has conceded big games to wide receivers on the
Speaker 1: same team. Just ask the Patriots, Jaguards, Dolphins, and Giants.
Speaker 1: Renfro has at least four catches in four straight and
Speaker 1: has scored twice in that span. Safe c for Hunter,
Speaker 1: Darren Waller, Foster Moreau. Foster Moreau now has more touchdowns
Speaker 1: than Darren Waller. So wrong, so painful. But Waller Whiller
Speaker 1: is gonna find the end zone this week. Book it.
Speaker 1: Even though the Jets have only allowed just two tight
Speaker 1: end touchdowns all season, the majority of the opposition has
Speaker 1: been garbage good to great tight ends. That faredwell against
Speaker 1: New York. Mike Kasecki had six catches for ninety five
Speaker 1: yards and Zach ERT's had five catches for fifty seven
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown against New York. Those were like
Speaker 1: the only two tight ends they faced all years. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give Waller in a here and Derek Carr
Speaker 1: and give him an a too. I'm still always a
Speaker 1: little nervous when the West Coast team goes east to
Speaker 1: play the early game, but the matchup is just two ripe.
Speaker 1: Over the last four games, Jets have allowed to combine
Speaker 1: twelve touchdown passes did Gardner, Minshew, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Daniel Jones,
Speaker 1: and Dwyane Haskins. And the Jets run defense is just
Speaker 1: so good. Like you said, charge Oakland probably gets funneled
Speaker 1: to the pass and throws more often than they have
Speaker 1: all season. Over to the Jets. Levian Bell, be grudgingly
Speaker 1: going to give him a B, mentioned in take Coom
Speaker 1: that his Snapp percentage has plummeted from the nineties to
Speaker 1: the sixties um But after stuffing the run for most
Speaker 1: of the season, Oakland has allowed over five yards per
Speaker 1: carry over the last three games against battle Lines and
Speaker 1: leadbacks have scored in back to back weeks, so I'll
Speaker 1: give Levan bella be here. And before the Bengals game
Speaker 1: last week, I mentioned this in takeom To. The Raiders
Speaker 1: had allowed at least one receiving touchdown to a running
Speaker 1: back in fourth straight games, So Balal Powell is might
Speaker 1: take a chance on me running back. He also looks
Speaker 1: like the best running back on the team right now.
Speaker 1: We'll see if he usurups Bell. He just might. Jameson
Speaker 1: Crowder can give him an a been red hot five catches,
Speaker 1: at least five catches for seventy plus yards and a
Speaker 1: touchdown in three straight games. He's only twenty six years old,
Speaker 1: by the way, younger than Tyler lock It. Wow. Yeah
Speaker 1: yeah uh. Tyler Boyd inexplicably wet the bed against the
Speaker 1: Raiders last week. But outside of that, the Raiders have
Speaker 1: been a dream matchup for slot receivers. The Oakland's other
Speaker 1: nine games, slot receivers have targeted ten plus targets, seven
Speaker 1: plus catches and eighty eight yards, and they scored six
Speaker 1: total touchdowns on those nine games slot receivers. That is
Speaker 1: so A for Jameson Crowder, a C for Robbie Anderson
Speaker 1: though one or two catches and five of his last
Speaker 1: seven games just been absolutely brutal. But this could be
Speaker 1: a spike week for Robbie. The Raiders are allowing more
Speaker 1: than a hundred and seventy five yards and a touchdown
Speaker 1: per game to opposing wide receivers. But I really like
Speaker 1: him more in daily uh as a daily play on Famble.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't trust him in a seasonal line up. Um,
Speaker 1: and the Raiders have also been very generous to opposing
Speaker 1: tight ends. That's why Ryan Griffin was CPS take a
Speaker 1: chance on the receiver. And with all these starting grades
Speaker 1: of receivers, I'm gonna give Sam Donald an easy be here. Um.
Speaker 1: Nearly eight percent of the touchdowns surrendered by the Raiders
Speaker 1: have come through the air. And before the Bengals game
Speaker 1: last week, I got mentioned again. Oak has conceded passing
Speaker 1: touchdown totals of two, three, three, five, two and three.
Speaker 1: That's a lot. What does that spell? What dirty words?
Speaker 1: That spell? That's not Let's go to our next match
Speaker 1: of Baltimore taking on the Los Angeles Rams. This it's
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. You have to start him. The Rams defense
Speaker 1: is really good, is shaping up into being really good,
Speaker 1: and they're giving up the fewest rushing yards two quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: just four and a half yards per game on the
Speaker 1: ground to opposing quarterbacks. What do you think of all
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson in this one? Well, they haven't played anybody
Speaker 1: like Lamar Jackson. There is nobody like Lamar Jackson. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean the first quarterback in history to run for
Speaker 1: sixty plus yards and seven straight games, also has five
Speaker 1: rushing scores in that same span. He's also thrown for
Speaker 1: at least three touchdowns four time. I mean, he's he's met.
Speaker 1: He's as matchup proof as they come. If you can
Speaker 1: stop him on the ground, he can probably do it
Speaker 1: through the air. So you can interrupt a second first
Speaker 1: round you go next year, next August first round? Are
Speaker 1: we gonna have a quarterback taken Lamar Jackson in one
Speaker 1: quarterback leagues? You're talking about in one quarterback leagues and
Speaker 1: one quarterback leagues. Will Lamar Jackson be a first round
Speaker 1: pick next year? He? I think he very well could be.
Speaker 1: I don't have the stat in front of me, but
Speaker 1: I saw somebody tweeted it out earlier today. The list
Speaker 1: of running backs that Lamar Jackson has more it's like
Speaker 1: every yeah, I mean it's again, it's the old thing
Speaker 1: where you're getting a running back in a quarterback all
Speaker 1: in one. And so you're going we're going to be
Speaker 1: talking next August mark my words in the twenty six
Speaker 1: year Fantasy Football Weekly about whether or not Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: should be the first first taken, not first round first,
Speaker 1: there will be an argument, you're right, continue I will.
Speaker 1: Let's continue with the wide receivers who are all on
Speaker 1: the bench. You know, Marquis Brown had a couple of
Speaker 1: great games early in the year, but only one Baltimore
Speaker 1: wide receiver has even topped sixty one yards since that
Speaker 1: big game in Week one. They just aren't throwing it
Speaker 1: very much to the wide receivers. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey is on the other side of the ball,
Speaker 1: So the wide receiver's Marquise Brown, Willie sneed there on
Speaker 1: the bench mark Andrews is in play here. He was
Speaker 1: targeted seven plus times in eight of ten games this year,
Speaker 1: three touchdowns in the last two games. The Rams have
Speaker 1: allowed at least seventy four yards to a touch to
Speaker 1: a tight end three times in their last six games.
Speaker 1: So I've got an a grade on Mark Andrews, who
Speaker 1: is clearly Jackson's favored receiver. Here, mark Ingram a little
Speaker 1: bit of a tougher story here, held the fifty two
Speaker 1: or fewer rushing yards five times in the last six games.
Speaker 1: He's still scoring touchdowns. He has ten touchdowns in ten games,
Speaker 1: but it's turned into you need the touchdown for him
Speaker 1: to be relevant because he's not getting the yards. That's
Speaker 1: similar to the way the Rams defense plays. They're very
Speaker 1: tough against running backs, but they have allowed nine running
Speaker 1: back touchdowns in ten games. So yeah, it's and it's
Speaker 1: the same story here with Ingram. He's gonna get you
Speaker 1: fifty sixty yards and coin flips chance of a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So that's a B level starting grade. Gus Edwards, he's
Speaker 1: just the closer at the end of at the end
Speaker 1: of blowouts. Yep, the ramside. Jared Goff is on the
Speaker 1: bench man, just drop this guy. Scoreless in the last
Speaker 1: two outings. Ravens past defense is elite. They've held all
Speaker 1: but one opposing pastor to one touchdown or fewer. Golf
Speaker 1: is an easy bench here Cooper Cup three catches for
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup just seven targets the last two games, three catches,
Speaker 1: he'll I mean, he plays in the slot, so at
Speaker 1: least he'll avoid Marcus Peters, their shutdown corner, Peter Peters. Right, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: it's a revenge game for Marcus Peters. Yeah, there you go,
Speaker 1: a defensive revenge game. But I've got a C grade
Speaker 1: on Cup because he's really the only sort of reliable
Speaker 1: receiver that Goff has right now. Because Brandon Cooks and
Speaker 1: Robert Woods, their status is both a little bit in
Speaker 1: the air. It sounds like Cooks might is probably going
Speaker 1: to return. Sweet they're both going to play was cleared
Speaker 1: on Friday, Cooks in and the personal and Woods was
Speaker 1: back at practice after missing last frustratingly missing last week's
Speaker 1: game with a personal issue. But Woods hadn't scored all
Speaker 1: year before he missed that game, this past year or
Speaker 1: this past week. Cooks in seven plus games before his concussion,
Speaker 1: he had only one touchdown and only one game of
Speaker 1: seventy five yards or more. And the matchup is really bad.
Speaker 1: So I've got both, I've got both of those guys
Speaker 1: on the bench. I guess in desperation you can put
Speaker 1: him in, but no better than a see tight end
Speaker 1: Gerald Everett. Of course, Baltimore is a lead against opposing
Speaker 1: tight ends. None have topped four catches or twenty eight
Speaker 1: yards in the last six games. He is on the bench.
Speaker 1: That brings us to Todd Gurley touches last week, most
Speaker 1: of the year's previous high was nineteen. It appears maybe
Speaker 1: the Rams have kind of been saving him, preserving him
Speaker 1: for this stretch run. For you're a girly owner, that's
Speaker 1: what you have to hope is happening here. The Ravens
Speaker 1: can be beat on the ground. Last week they gave
Speaker 1: up a hundred and five yards in a touchdown to
Speaker 1: the Carlos Hide and Duke Johnson combo. The week before
Speaker 1: that a hundred and fifty one combined rushing and receiving
Speaker 1: yards to Joe Mix. And so I've got to be
Speaker 1: level grade here on Girle. If he's getting plus touches,
Speaker 1: he's at least to be even in a tough matchup
Speaker 1: that that that works out, That works out well. Can
Speaker 1: I get a personal you know, personal reasons? Can I
Speaker 1: miss the next segment with personal reasons to buy the reasons?
Speaker 1: I gotta work with you, two dorks. That's the reason
Speaker 1: our final topics are aad We provide you with three
Speaker 1: guys we believe will be hot waiver wire pickups next
Speaker 1: week that you will want to grab this week. Premature Speculation,
Speaker 1: Our final premature speculation of the year coming up next
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Speaker 1: It's a segment we called Premature Speculation. We provide a
Speaker 1: player we think will be a hot waiver wire pick
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Speaker 1: us was going to imply that you should take the
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Speaker 1: I don't um. All right, let's go to uh, let's
Speaker 1: go to our premature speculation, guys, beginning with Brian who
Speaker 1: you got. All Right, I don't know if it'll be
Speaker 1: a hot commodity, but he's gonna be a commodity at
Speaker 1: some point later in the season. And that's the Bengals
Speaker 1: running back trey Vin Williams, who was drafted that he
Speaker 1: was drafted in the NFL Draft. Everybody is a commodity, right,
Speaker 1: but at some point, just they gotta put mixing on
Speaker 1: ice there, oh, inten since that it is, and just
Speaker 1: trey v Williams is gonna be this cheap DFS option
Speaker 1: kind of guy who's gonna start a game for the
Speaker 1: Bengals at some point. I can just feel it. Giovanni
Speaker 1: Bernard always gets banged up. He's on a true lead back.
Speaker 1: They're just gonna let this kid get some run at
Speaker 1: the end of the season as he continue to try
Speaker 1: and go oh and sixteen. So trey ViOn Williams will
Speaker 1: be a warm bodied running back for you later in
Speaker 1: the season. Alright, Christian, Alright, I'm gonna go with Tim
Speaker 1: Patrick wide receiver for the Broncos. Here he was the
Speaker 1: only wide receiver other than Courtland Sutton to be targeted
Speaker 1: last week in his return from i R. He broke
Speaker 1: his hand in Week one and he's been on the
Speaker 1: shelf ever since. He returned. Last week turned eight targets
Speaker 1: into four catches and seventy seven yards. You may remember
Speaker 1: Patrick from such seasons as last season, when during the
Speaker 1: final four games, he led the Broncos and targets, catches,
Speaker 1: and yards, all of which were better than Courtland's Sutton's
Speaker 1: numbers over the same span. Courtland Sutton, who was a
Speaker 1: top five Fantasy wide receiver, not even the best receiver
Speaker 1: on his own team. That's Tim Patrick, all right. Okay,
Speaker 1: so maybe that's going a little overboard, but Patrick is
Speaker 1: an intriguing prospect. He's six four, he's two pounds, he's physical,
Speaker 1: he can run. He's shown that he can produce over
Speaker 1: his five last five games at the NFL level. The
Speaker 1: near term outlook is hindered a little bit by Brandon
Speaker 1: Allen at quarterback, of course, and a tough, tough couple
Speaker 1: of matchups in the next three weeks the Bills and Chargers,
Speaker 1: But after that a couple of cupcakes Texans in Week
Speaker 1: fourteen Lions Week sixteen, he might be thinking about a
Speaker 1: sneaky guy. To Tim Patrick, I think there's a coin
Speaker 1: flip chance of Benny Snell becomes the workhorse back for
Speaker 1: the Steelers. Now, the Steelers traditionally have a workhorse back.
Speaker 1: Guests who can't a workhorse back jn Samuel's and you're correct,
Speaker 1: that is a correct answer. And James Conner because well
Speaker 1: him either because he's no good. They only have one
Speaker 1: guy on roster who I think can emerge as the
Speaker 1: workhorse back, and it's Benny Snell. It starts this week.
Speaker 1: He's available in most leagues because he was out last
Speaker 1: week with injury. Benny Snell has a real chance of
Speaker 1: being the starting running back for the Steelers on a
Speaker 1: team that can't pass very well. He's got a run
Speaker 1: and it's got a good enough offensive line to make
Speaker 1: the running backs valuable. Not only that, but if you're
Speaker 1: in a dynasty league an empirely you're thinking about next year,
Speaker 1: who's your starting running back going into camp next year?
Speaker 1: Could be Benny Snell. There's at least Benny Sells as
Speaker 1: good a chance as anybody else that's currently on roster
Speaker 1: to be the Steelers starting running back. Wouldn't be funny,
Speaker 1: by the way, Jets are Jets are gonna cut Levy
Speaker 1: on Bell right, terrible contract. They never should have signed
Speaker 1: him he could What if he found his way back Steelers?
Speaker 1: Would that be fun Let's go to our final two matchups,
Speaker 1: the Sunday Nighters, green Bay taking on San Francisco. Brian
Speaker 1: for San Francisco's side. Four players come into this game
Speaker 1: as game time decisions. If you've got Emmanuel Sanders or
Speaker 1: George Kittle or Deebo Samuel or Matt Breda, we encourage
Speaker 1: you to put them in your flex spot. Now have
Speaker 1: another player that's a Sunday Night player or Monday Night
Speaker 1: player ready to go into the flex if it turns
Speaker 1: out that that guy is a last minute deactivation. So
Speaker 1: there's just some quick broad advice on that. But let's
Speaker 1: start with the green Bay side. What do you think
Speaker 1: about the Packers and a very what feels like, at
Speaker 1: least on paper, is a very tough matchup with a
Speaker 1: good forty Niners defense. Yeah, we'll start with Aaron Jones.
Speaker 1: I can give him a B. It's really not that
Speaker 1: scary matchup for running backs anymore against the forty Niners.
Speaker 1: Over their last four games, the Niners are allowing more
Speaker 1: than five and a half yards per carry and have
Speaker 1: surrendered three rushing scores for running backs. So I gotta
Speaker 1: be on Aaron Jones. And even though he hit thirteen
Speaker 1: carries which was the same amount as Jamal Williams against
Speaker 1: Caroline Week ten, but Jones had an extra thirty yards
Speaker 1: and he scored the hat trick three touchdowns. So always
Speaker 1: Jones over william still, but Williams will get to see
Speaker 1: I think we'll get enough work in this one, especially
Speaker 1: through the air, to warrant a flexor for most again
Speaker 1: because this matchup is suddenly good for running backs. Davante
Speaker 1: Adams not a great matchup for him at all. I'll
Speaker 1: I'll give him a be here. Has seen double digit
Speaker 1: targets in every game since his return. I believe no
Speaker 1: touchdowns still on the season, though absolutely brutal odds Aret
Speaker 1: doesn't come here. San Francisco has allowed a wide receiver
Speaker 1: touchdown and only two of their last eight games, and
Speaker 1: both of those games are against the Cardinals. I'm much
Speaker 1: of what to make of that, really, but whatever, Fluke Anyways,
Speaker 1: San fran also hasn't allowed a one one yard receiver
Speaker 1: since Week two, so a very soft be for Davante Adams.
Speaker 1: I'm benching all the other Adams no touchdowns this year? Zero,
Speaker 1: I think I just said that. Yeah, sorry, crazy, Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been killing people. What by the way, no touchdowns?
Speaker 1: You don't say tell me more. I'm betting all the
Speaker 1: other wide receivers for obvious reasons that I just engined
Speaker 1: in the Davante Adams right up. He hasn't scored any
Speaker 1: touchdowns by the way, Davanta Adams. But you can't bench
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham on his birthday, right We need a birthday
Speaker 1: sound effects by the way, like like about happy Birthday.
Speaker 1: That's not a sound effects, Like what's the I suppose
Speaker 1: that multi candles, that's the streamer thing or whatever. It's not.
Speaker 1: It's got the paper because it was. We would be
Speaker 1: playing that for Jimmy Graham. But it's only his birthday.
Speaker 1: It's not a good matchup. The Niners have only allowed
Speaker 1: two tight end touchdowns on the season, but the competition
Speaker 1: has been pretty atrocious. Uh. The comparable corpse of Tyler
Speaker 1: effort to Jimmy Graham caught a touchdown against Francisco, and
Speaker 1: Jacob Policer just had eight catches and a score against
Speaker 1: San France. I'll give Graham se As a birthday gift.
Speaker 1: What I'll give Aaron Rodgers, though, is a seat on
Speaker 1: the bench. Has thrown just five touchdowns across four away
Speaker 1: games this season, and this isn't an optimal setting. San
Speaker 1: France has only allowed three passing touchdowns over their last
Speaker 1: four home games, and Football Outsiders has the the Niners
Speaker 1: are ranked second against the past this season. Rogers on
Speaker 1: the bench. You mentioned all the injuries for the forty
Speaker 1: Niners chart starting with George Kittle practiced Thursday and Friday
Speaker 1: in limited fashion, non contact Jersey, but reports are optimistic
Speaker 1: that he's gonna play. So I'm just gonna go with
Speaker 1: Kittle's gonna play on Sunday night. Uh, and again hopefully
Speaker 1: he does. It's a great matchup. Green Bay has allowed
Speaker 1: seven and a half catches per game two tight ends
Speaker 1: over the last four games. Darren Waller, Travis Kelsey and
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard combined for four touchdown catches against the Packers
Speaker 1: so far this year. UH. Emmanuel Sanders another guy who's
Speaker 1: listed as question with a rib injury. I think there's
Speaker 1: a little more optimism around Sanders, and there is Kittle,
Speaker 1: so we'll go with him playing as well. Green Bay
Speaker 1: has allowed their opponent's top wide receiver to clear the
Speaker 1: century mark in four of their last six games, and
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders is the top wide receiver on San Francisco
Speaker 1: now if health so that puts Deebo Samuel on the
Speaker 1: bench for me and this one. Unless Sanders sits. I
Speaker 1: love Deebo Samuel, he should not be dropped. But there's
Speaker 1: uh the running backs before the point that I was
Speaker 1: gonna get back to the run in this one. It's
Speaker 1: bottom half an opponent past attempts per game less than
Speaker 1: thirty five per game. I don't see the volume for Deebo.
Speaker 1: But if Kittle end or Sanders is out, Samuel should
Speaker 1: be in your starting lineup. But I'm benching him in
Speaker 1: this one. I still see a ton of targets for
Speaker 1: for Deebo here should be universally owned, like I said,
Speaker 1: and Jimmy Jimmy G Jimmy Garoppolo, I'll give him a see.
Speaker 1: If Kittle plays, I really want to see Kid on
Speaker 1: this one to start Jimmy G. But again, green Bay
Speaker 1: bottom half an opponent pass attempts per game. I think
Speaker 1: it's all about the run game here for San Francis,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put Jimmy g on the bench here, even
Speaker 1: though we're throwing the ball ninety one times across the
Speaker 1: last two games. There was some overtime there though, And
Speaker 1: speaking of the running backs, Tevin Coleman can give him
Speaker 1: a see. He's been a roller coaster ride since returning
Speaker 1: from injury. But according to Football Outside Its, green Bay's
Speaker 1: ranks against the run and they have yielded the third
Speaker 1: most red zone touches to running backs and gold to
Speaker 1: go scenarios and don't underestimate this. If Kittle comes back,
Speaker 1: that would be huge for Tevin Coleman in the running
Speaker 1: game because he's a beastly blocker. He's like and uh
Speaker 1: so you gotta contemplate a backup running back for the
Speaker 1: forty Niners. Matt Breed has actually been downgraded to doubtful
Speaker 1: as of Friday, so it looks like Rhee most would
Speaker 1: be the guy again, even though Jeff Wilson is also
Speaker 1: in the mix. But again green Bay conceding nearly thirty
Speaker 1: touches per game to running backs. They've just been awful
Speaker 1: against the run, so I'll give most to see. By
Speaker 1: the way, they're called party blowers. Blowers, party blowers. It
Speaker 1: is a boring name, although you know how many times
Speaker 1: how many times you got a party blower in your mouth.
Speaker 1: Atlanta takes on time Bay and Matt Ryan gets an
Speaker 1: absolute obvious a start here. The Bucks rejiggered their secondary
Speaker 1: before last week's game and ended up with a familiar result,
Speaker 1: allowing three touchdown passes, extending their laughably dubious streak to
Speaker 1: three or more touchdowns in four straight games allowed through
Speaker 1: the air for Morgados. Here, Matt and Matt Ryan absolutely
Speaker 1: hammered Tampa last year in two games. Seven hundred thirty
Speaker 1: four passing yards in two games for Matt Ryan against
Speaker 1: Tampa last year A grade. Julio Jones and Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 1: I never do this. They're my number one and number
Speaker 1: two ranked wide receivers overall. They're probably both not gonna
Speaker 1: live up to that billing, but either one of them
Speaker 1: could be the number one that could be the highest
Speaker 1: scoring guy. So I've got them both as as one
Speaker 1: and two. And over the last three games, Tampas allowed
Speaker 1: two hundred forty six yards per game to receivers. Four
Speaker 1: receivers have topped one hundred yards. Eight receivers have scored
Speaker 1: in three games against Tampa A great opportunity for them.
Speaker 1: Russell Gage was na take a chance. I mean wide
Speaker 1: receiver there, slot receiver he's got gets a C grade
Speaker 1: in this game, and they're running back Brian Everybody started
Speaker 1: him last week, had it and things did not go well. Right.
Speaker 1: He saw the lions here of carries and snaps, but
Speaker 1: he did nothing with them. He lost a touchdown on
Speaker 1: a penalty and got yanked at the goal line for
Speaker 1: something called Cadrey Allison. For two months, Tampa Bay's run
Speaker 1: defense was red hot, but lately they're receding. They've allowed
Speaker 1: at least four point eight yards per carried it backs
Speaker 1: in three of their last four games. It'll be just
Speaker 1: like fantasy football for everybody to have gotten on Brian
Speaker 1: Hill in an easy matchup last week. Everybody gets off
Speaker 1: him now in a seemingly tough matchup that secretly isn't
Speaker 1: as tough and watched. This is gonna be the Brian
Speaker 1: Hill game. C C grade, starting grade. Brian Hill. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Tampa Bay side. First, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to decide if the Falcon suddenly elite defense is legit
Speaker 1: or not. I don't know for sure, but there is
Speaker 1: one data point for you. Their coach where he Mostard
Speaker 1: got switched to secondary coach two games ago and in
Speaker 1: two games no touchdowns allowed. So there is a reason
Speaker 1: to think that that's a legitimate switch and this defense
Speaker 1: can be better. And I've downgraded my my my expectations
Speaker 1: to just a B grade for Jamis Winston. Over the
Speaker 1: past two weeks, I mentioned the Falcons of Blank, Drew Brees,
Speaker 1: and Kyle Allen uh a stunning reversal for them. Jamis
Speaker 1: Winston comes into this game having thrown for three or
Speaker 1: more yards and five straight games, and he demolished the
Speaker 1: Falcons and their two meetings last year, so he still
Speaker 1: gets a B grade here. Mike Evans is obviously Mike Evans.
Speaker 1: You're gonna start him every week, including this week. He
Speaker 1: gets a B grade as well for the reasons that
Speaker 1: I just mentioned. Evans averaging five catches for seventy eight
Speaker 1: yards against the Falcons in his last three games. Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin also gets a B. He'll be tested in the
Speaker 1: slot by rookie cornerback Kendall Sheffield. This was one of
Speaker 1: the changes where he mostred made. He's been excellent in
Speaker 1: these last two weeks out of the slot Godwin though
Speaker 1: in his two games against the Falcons, averaging eighty five yards,
Speaker 1: and he has found the end zone three times in
Speaker 1: his two games against the Falcons. Ronald Jones gets a
Speaker 1: B grade in US one. Peyton Barber had zero rushes
Speaker 1: last week. Although Ronald Jones didn't do much with the
Speaker 1: opportunity UH last week, he gave us a grand total
Speaker 1: of two catches for one yard. That's all we got
Speaker 1: through the air. After it looked like he was gonna
Speaker 1: be a pass catcher there. Falcons had given up five
Speaker 1: yards per carry to running backs over their last four games.
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones gets a B grade under the assumption he's
Speaker 1: kind of continue to get the vast majority of the
Speaker 1: work and that is all you need to know from
Speaker 1: that matchup. I think Peyton Barber is dead to us.
Speaker 1: If Jones doesn't produce, just shoot all the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: backs into the sun. If he doesn't come through in
Speaker 1: this game, it seems like a very good opportunity for him.
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