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Speaker 1: Sports Radio Network. Although excited, Reggie Sample, I am Greg Sam.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Money, Greggy, you must be in a
Speaker 1: great mood. Have no idea why you're wearing the tire today.
Speaker 1: He popped in the studios. The champs here. It was
Speaker 1: the first thing he he put on. This was not
Speaker 1: speaking of the champs being here here. We come hot
Speaker 1: at the right time. League myself, you Michael Florio's sharing
Speaker 1: the squad. That is fun. But we it's going the
Speaker 1: right way, I think, man, But I think the team
Speaker 1: is going the right way. I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 1: Are early round picks not great, really not great at all.
Speaker 1: But the later told you not to take DeVante Freeman.
Speaker 1: That was you. No question about Brown. He's great, he's
Speaker 1: doing his threat. Agreed, But somebody I really wanted for
Speaker 1: many rounds Adrian Peterson. Awesome. I was on board with that.
Speaker 1: I was with you one him the lit bit later.
Speaker 1: You know, I tried to get in like dead round straight,
Speaker 1: but it's fine, Like I, you really want fifth round
Speaker 1: with those second Adrian Peterson, Like I you really wanted
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones crushing it. Awesome job by you. I really
Speaker 1: wanted Bobby Woods doing his things. Foia won on the squad,
Speaker 1: by the way, he wasn't not the draft, and there
Speaker 1: you go. So he gets nobody. Yeah he hasn't got
Speaker 1: any credit. John Smith, Mike I was gonna pick up
Speaker 1: on Mike. Yeah, so we're all gonna the Golden Tate things.
Speaker 1: Frustrating now that yeah, Golden Satan Philly not the same guy. No,
Speaker 1: no it's not. But how's your weekend, Frank? How was
Speaker 1: my weekend? Friday was nice, little game night a night
Speaker 1: in UM got to play some of the new the
Speaker 1: new Pokemon game for the Switch too, so that was great.
Speaker 1: And in Saturday, went out for a birthday, went to
Speaker 1: my first ever like one of those rooms where you
Speaker 1: do karaoke. It's like karaoke bar. No, like it's like
Speaker 1: in Koreatown where like they give you your own room.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so you get to it was like ten people,
Speaker 1: one of King King of his friend's birthday. So lots
Speaker 1: of karaoke Saturday night and then Sunday all day long.
Speaker 1: How were you? What did I do? I was? I
Speaker 1: had a wedding in so on Thursday here you heard
Speaker 1: the shout out that was great. So on. So it
Speaker 1: was great because on Thursday we got down there and
Speaker 1: I got past the snow. I just made it past
Speaker 1: the snell and we went down. We had we had
Speaker 1: a nice dinner, and then we took a Jitney to
Speaker 1: a c and we had up a sports bar there
Speaker 1: which was cool. It was like five dollar pictures, which
Speaker 1: is awesome. And then we went to Boogie Nights. It
Speaker 1: was for you, Scott Angel, but we really did good
Speaker 1: a Boogie Nights which is ridiculous, went to Live Music,
Speaker 1: had the wedding the next day. I spent the rest
Speaker 1: of the weekend in Philadelphia. Oh you know what you know?
Speaker 1: Did we read the weekend? I read that a car
Speaker 1: and drove there. Um, but did you know you didn't
Speaker 1: couldn't tell you this yet. The bride and groom, so
Speaker 1: after all, like the groom has been in parents and stuff,
Speaker 1: we're announced the brandan groom then came out wearing their
Speaker 1: Eagles T shirts jersey jersey for the groom and a
Speaker 1: T shirt for the bride. And then as they went
Speaker 1: back to their to their suit and dress, they played
Speaker 1: Fly Eagles Fly, and it was very, very invigorating. So
Speaker 1: he didn't enjoy that. Maybe they jinx the Eagles, but
Speaker 1: at least they showed up to the wedding. The Eagles
Speaker 1: never made it to New Orleans. But it's funny because
Speaker 1: Judy's father a couple of years ago I pull the
Speaker 1: story in the air before. But Judy's father bet against
Speaker 1: these a big Eagles fan, bet against the Eagles. He
Speaker 1: has the Patriots a couple of years ago because they
Speaker 1: were they lost to in a row. They were in
Speaker 1: New they were in New England. They were only seven
Speaker 1: point dogs and they went up winning the game. And
Speaker 1: he but he hasn't been than anything. Right that fifty
Speaker 1: bucks he was, I've never seen him so angry. So
Speaker 1: yesterday during breakfast, he's like, all right, how do I bet?
Speaker 1: Like what do I have to do to bet? And
Speaker 1: you want to bet? Like I got a guy you
Speaker 1: could bet a big deal because I want to bet
Speaker 1: against the Eagles again in New Orleans. There's no way
Speaker 1: they cover seven and a half. There's no way, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not gonna I'm not letting you do
Speaker 1: this again. Like it's the same recipe for disaster again.
Speaker 1: I'm not letting you. He's like, I'm not, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna do it. You're right, you're right as nah he was,
Speaker 1: but he knew, he knew were laying low, staying out
Speaker 1: of his line of sight. No, we left early. It
Speaker 1: was all good. But over the last the Eagles got
Speaker 1: trounced yesterday by the New Orleans Saints. They didn't show
Speaker 1: up at all. Frank, what happened in this one with
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints. I think I think it's two
Speaker 1: teams that are trending in opposite directions. Obviously, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the easiest thing to say, but the Saints are
Speaker 1: now nine and one. Think about this, Greg, but their
Speaker 1: lone loss was in Week one to the Tampa Bay Years.
Speaker 1: It's just it's football, right, like it's football. They they've
Speaker 1: they've rattled off nine wins in a row. Now their
Speaker 1: defense is playing better, offensive seemingly unstoppable through a breeze.
Speaker 1: Another three or sixty yards and four touchdowns two weeks
Speaker 1: in a row. Now, mark Ingram getting it done a
Speaker 1: hundred yards and two touchdowns, but Alan Kamara continuing to
Speaker 1: get it done as well. Um, even against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: who it's a tough matchup against running backs. And then
Speaker 1: Kwon Smith. You know this really was It wasn't just
Speaker 1: the week of the rookie wide receiver. A lot of
Speaker 1: rookie wide receivers played well, but really just the week
Speaker 1: of rookies overall. I mean Lamar Jackson getting the first
Speaker 1: start of his career. Say Kwon Barkley doing his thing,
Speaker 1: um and Justus Edwards doing his thing. We get to
Speaker 1: later on trae Kwon Smith Greg thirteen targets, ten receptions,
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty seven yards and a touchdown. You
Speaker 1: know I mentioned him on Friday kind of in passing
Speaker 1: with Elliott, but I mentioned you know, I don't hate
Speaker 1: him because the Eagles secondary was so banged up. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, have injuries there, but you look at what
Speaker 1: he's done, I mean especially in home games his past
Speaker 1: three home games. Obviously yesterday was a home game and in
Speaker 1: in the Rams you only had three yards in that one,
Speaker 1: but scored a touchdown. And then his previous home game
Speaker 1: before it was against Washington where he went off for
Speaker 1: a hundred and eleven yards and a touchdown. So, uh,
Speaker 1: this is looking like a home road split kind of
Speaker 1: thing where when tray Kawon Smith is at home in
Speaker 1: the fast track, it's what we used to say about
Speaker 1: Ted Ginn and now he's filling that Ted gain roll.
Speaker 1: He's a legit wide receiver three when he's at home
Speaker 1: in the Dome. I think so too. And listen, Philly,
Speaker 1: the secondary has been burnable all year. We've targeted this.
Speaker 1: You want to cost you want to target them like
Speaker 1: you're targeting the Eagle secondary. Even before the injuries. The
Speaker 1: way to beat Philly was, Look, they're very stout up front.
Speaker 1: They have a strong defensive line, strong linebackers, so they're
Speaker 1: gonna be They're gonna be good against the run. Way
Speaker 1: you want to attack Philly is through the air with
Speaker 1: wide receivers. So we look at who is playing Philly
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks. You got the Giants, so
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham gonna fire him up, obviously, but Sterling Shepherd
Speaker 1: is gonna come even more so into play in its
Speaker 1: matchup against the Eagles. Washington Cope McCoy is the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Maybe not, but then you get the Cowboys with the
Speaker 1: Marie Cooper to the Rams obviously gonna I mean they
Speaker 1: do it against everybody, the Texans later on in season.
Speaker 1: So those are the matchups that were looking at next
Speaker 1: that we're gonna target against the Eagles secondary, no question,
Speaker 1: no question about mark Ingram very very good. Once again,
Speaker 1: Jackasmith certainly the story. But my man Josh Adams only
Speaker 1: bright spot for Philadelphia played of the snaps for the
Speaker 1: running backs yesterday for Philadelphia. And what's crazy about this, Frank,
Speaker 1: it was a negative game script for him all game long.
Speaker 1: He still played the majority of touchdown for the Eagles
Speaker 1: twenty eight yard run and he looks good. I know
Speaker 1: you don't trust Philly running backs, but he looks pretty good.
Speaker 1: He does. But here's here's the problem, right, we're talking
Speaker 1: about how bad the defense is right now, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be in a lot of negative game scripts. And I
Speaker 1: know you just preface it with that seven for fifty three.
Speaker 1: He scored the loan touchdown in this game. But if
Speaker 1: he doesn't score that touchdown, they're playing from behind the
Speaker 1: whole game. I do like the fact that he was
Speaker 1: finally used in the past game in this game six targets.
Speaker 1: That was more, you know, the only other running backs
Speaker 1: to be targeted in this game, Corey Clement, had two targets,
Speaker 1: so coming into this game, Josh Adams only had one
Speaker 1: target all season. So to see the six targets being
Speaker 1: used more in the past, yea, he continues to run efficiently.
Speaker 1: If we can never get a game where you know,
Speaker 1: he gets you know, ten to twelve carries and now
Speaker 1: what three four targets, then yeah, I mean you're you're
Speaker 1: looking at Josh Adams as a flex plan. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to rule out the possibility of Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: doing Doug Peterson things, but he said that he wanted
Speaker 1: to get Josh Adams more involved in That's exactly what
Speaker 1: he did. Yeah, he did. You gotta take him at
Speaker 1: his word moving forward, not all the ways, but at
Speaker 1: least in this case for nothing to not get the ball.
Speaker 1: That's basically it like he's running efficiently. I know coming
Speaker 1: into this game. It was the past three games he
Speaker 1: was over six yards per carry. This game seven point
Speaker 1: six yards per carry against a stout run defense in
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints. So everything is going right for
Speaker 1: Josh Adams. But the Eagles defense is banged up, so again,
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be in a lot of negative games, Scrip.
Speaker 1: I'll also say this, Corey Clement, the only other person
Speaker 1: that more than one carry in this game. He had
Speaker 1: to when Smollen only had one. Seven of the nine
Speaker 1: running back carries in this game, it certainly looks like
Speaker 1: Josh Adams backfield. Whatever that means they placed. They faced
Speaker 1: the Ice next week, so it should be more in
Speaker 1: their favor. We'll see. I like that call too, because
Speaker 1: since next Harrison left, we just saw yesterday Peton Barber
Speaker 1: destroyed the your New York Giants, who are about to
Speaker 1: go on a serious run. Greg. People were looking at
Speaker 1: the playoffs here that craving at me and people are
Speaker 1: buying in. They could have lost the box. Absolutely are
Speaker 1: I had biting my house set. He's like, dude, they
Speaker 1: can win out. No, no, they're not. It's so annoying. Man,
Speaker 1: You're gonna win just enough to like get the sixth
Speaker 1: overall pick in the draft. Exactly. You can't do hey, man,
Speaker 1: you look actually I'm roofe for the Giants. Now does
Speaker 1: every game that the Giants win's keep losing? Don't I
Speaker 1: don't compete in the same whatever. Yeah, but now now
Speaker 1: nervous the Jats gonna do enough and they're like, that
Speaker 1: was bad. What you probably got like two more years
Speaker 1: left and don't have the best quarterback raining of his
Speaker 1: career this season because he's been when he had one
Speaker 1: completion yesterday, right, but it was against Tampa Bay. Because
Speaker 1: his completed percentage is the best it's ever been. Here's
Speaker 1: someone he because he throws past it to se Kwon
Speaker 1: Barkley eight yards behind the line of scrimmage. You do that, John,
Speaker 1: It's beat the Bucks thirty eight to thirty five. Say
Speaker 1: on Barkley, the best game of his career. A hundred
Speaker 1: yards on the ground. They rushed the balls twenty seven times.
Speaker 1: He's scoring two touchdowns on the ground, one through the air.
Speaker 1: This is only one of two catches on the day
Speaker 1: for Barkley. He was outstanding. You're certainly gonna ride him.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this. I don't want to get
Speaker 1: into this because I hate when people do that in
Speaker 1: the middle of playoff post. But I was thinking about,
Speaker 1: like the top five picks for next year. There's a
Speaker 1: really good running backs like in that class, in that
Speaker 1: top five for fantasy football. Yes, yes, you're talking Gurly
Speaker 1: and Barkley. It's gonna happen this first round. We've already
Speaker 1: kind of seen that transition like where it used to
Speaker 1: be used to be kind of even like McGee, like
Speaker 1: six running back, six wide receiver or something like that.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be heavy running probably running back. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I was just thinking you like that, those against it
Speaker 1: right now, the top five Todd Gurley, Barkley, Kareem Han, Melvin,
Speaker 1: Gordon Camar is in there too. I mean, in those
Speaker 1: five are media and I'm sure there's many many others
Speaker 1: that I'm just forgetting here. David Johnson starting to play
Speaker 1: well now he might mean to the back end of
Speaker 1: the first We'll worry about that, no doubt later on.
Speaker 1: But interesting, very interesting on the other side for Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: Peyton Barbera rushed eighteen times for over a hundred yards.
Speaker 1: He had a touchdown as well. And listen, tam Bay
Speaker 1: was a comeback mode all game long, and he still
Speaker 1: got his job, got the job done. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: this is just more of a product of who they
Speaker 1: were facing, right, talk about the Giants. Since they've lost
Speaker 1: next Harrison, they've given up higher yards per carry, more
Speaker 1: likely to give up these, uh, these bigger runs. They
Speaker 1: face the forty niners next week, so Peyton barber is
Speaker 1: likely in play as a flex option again. We got
Speaker 1: a few more teams on by in week twelve. Obviously
Speaker 1: the Rams and the Chiefs will be on buy, so
Speaker 1: you miss out on Komreem Hunt and Todd Gurley, So
Speaker 1: you might you might feel right about Peyton barber in
Speaker 1: that matchup, but most weeks, I mean, he's nothing more
Speaker 1: than a low end flex option. I will say that
Speaker 1: he saw us eighteen of the twenty one team's running
Speaker 1: back carry, so he is that guy for the team.
Speaker 1: But I mean, look, it's how many times has this
Speaker 1: happened already this year? Fitzpatrick turns the ball over a
Speaker 1: ton and he gets benched at halftime. I mean, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if at some point you're gonna get
Speaker 1: a season Jamis Winston gets benched again for right, just
Speaker 1: a carousel can't make a need a quarterback. And then
Speaker 1: we're gonna fight for them for three yards. So for
Speaker 1: some and now they have the same they have the
Speaker 1: same record, and the Giants, that's not so good. I
Speaker 1: heard something that, um, if Jamis Winston were to get hurt,
Speaker 1: this is the only pause that they might have for
Speaker 1: playing him is if he gets hurst and his options
Speaker 1: guaranteed for fifteen million next year. But I had read
Speaker 1: if they were really concerned about that, they would have
Speaker 1: made him the inactive quarterback rather than the backup they
Speaker 1: want to play and do that because then it's too obvious.
Speaker 1: But here's you can do whatever. One number one, we're two.
Speaker 1: Dirk Hutter's funny for his job. Now we all know
Speaker 1: he's gone, but he probably doesn't know that. He probably
Speaker 1: doesn't have that. You know, it sucks in my home league.
Speaker 1: I'm the commissioner, so I guess it's a bad job
Speaker 1: by me. But we never really had this come up,
Speaker 1: Like no one's ever complained about it, but it happened
Speaker 1: to me a serious so now I noticed it. We
Speaker 1: don't have the little I didn't have the checkmark on
Speaker 1: for offensive fumble recovery touchdowns. That's not so Mike Evans,
Speaker 1: who I have would have hadn't even bigger and had
Speaker 1: a monster game. I mean six for one touchdown. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm just being great, But why wouldn't you For fantasy
Speaker 1: football you need all the points you can get. I
Speaker 1: don't have offensive fumbled recoveries turned on in my league,
Speaker 1: so something I have to put to a vote next year.
Speaker 1: You have that turned on. I didn't even know there
Speaker 1: was a thing to turn on. I think if you
Speaker 1: have the Commissioners Service for CBS, you have to turn
Speaker 1: on everything. But I mean, it's it's good that you
Speaker 1: have the option to like tooggle anything on or off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Evans game six for one jar was good as
Speaker 1: well five for seventy eight and I'm humfries man. He
Speaker 1: started him in the in the flex for you for
Speaker 1: six a touchdown. I didn't start him. I texted me,
Speaker 1: started t J. Jones and yeah, I have three tight
Speaker 1: ends and I started in the one time, and I
Speaker 1: started five yesterday. Man, it was like it was last
Speaker 1: second and they were talking about how Marvin Jones wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna be ready for Thursday either. So I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe t J. Jones could pop off or something.
Speaker 1: It just happens that Bruce Ellington ended up being that guy.
Speaker 1: Not that he did anything, but he did have nine
Speaker 1: t Yeah, I'm gonna get to that in a moment.
Speaker 1: But at twelve forty seven, I switched out uh Josh
Speaker 1: Dockson for Advance McDonald I took out for Josh Dockson
Speaker 1: McDonald's with a touchdown. Doxton did nothing? You started the
Speaker 1: higher man, and I started hiring in over Jordan Read
Speaker 1: and the first time didn't played Jordan Read all the years,
Speaker 1: so obviously he scored a touchdown. So I started the
Speaker 1: wrong tight end out of all three that I had,
Speaker 1: um but I I want anyway, thankfully, I take what
Speaker 1: barg I started. Jeff Hireman over Jordan Reading another league
Speaker 1: as well Stocks and of course McCoy when he came in,
Speaker 1: he started targeting Jordan Read. Yeah, he started. He targeted
Speaker 1: jocks Doxon a lot as well. He targeted both of them.
Speaker 1: Gonna get to that, and had eleven past attempts five
Speaker 1: to docks in three to read. When you get to
Speaker 1: that in just a second. I want to get to
Speaker 1: the Washington I want to get to Detroit as well. Um,
Speaker 1: but in my league, I faced somebody I always, for
Speaker 1: some reason, it's always happens to me, naturally. I faced
Speaker 1: somebody that left Marvin Jones in their line up yesterday,
Speaker 1: and he was ruled out on Friday. This wasn't one
Speaker 1: of those like twelve thirty things. This is like he was.
Speaker 1: He was ruled out on Friday. So somehow I get
Speaker 1: crap from not texting him, be like, hey, dude, Mark
Speaker 1: Joe isn't playing. Oh no, what what I think it's
Speaker 1: my fault? May the commissioner should have done it correct.
Speaker 1: I didn't do anything. I all I did start up.
Speaker 1: I do that. I don't tell people to set their lineups.
Speaker 1: But it's happened already twice this year with the same person,
Speaker 1: and he's out of it, has not set his line up.
Speaker 1: So I don't text him beforehand, but I'll text him
Speaker 1: after line up slock and I'll say this is your
Speaker 1: second strike one more time. You don't set your line
Speaker 1: up this year, and I'm gonna find someone else. So
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna set your
Speaker 1: lineup for you. I'm not I want here to hold
Speaker 1: your hand to play fantasy football. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: care enough, you'll set your line up. Despite not having
Speaker 1: Morvin Jones, Lions defeated the Panthers yesterday twenty and nineteen.
Speaker 1: We never saw this coming for Carolina specifically, Yeah, man
Speaker 1: carry On Johnson seven and the touchdown, then got hurt
Speaker 1: for the most of the second half. Doesn't he's gonna
Speaker 1: play thirsty either, And it doesn't. There's no way. We're Thursday,
Speaker 1: we'll see if he's ready for for week thirteen. It
Speaker 1: could be. It could be pretty serious too. Hopefully now
Speaker 1: they don't think it's an A c L and f CL.
Speaker 1: I think it's he's he's been so, he's so, he's
Speaker 1: really legit. He's good And I was excited about carry
Speaker 1: On before the year. I worried the closer that we
Speaker 1: got uh to to the start of the season that
Speaker 1: you know, they were talking Abou Lagarre Blond and Theo Riddick.
Speaker 1: But he is all the talent that we expected to be.
Speaker 1: Exactly what I said last week about Anthony Miller. When
Speaker 1: a team trades up in the NFL draft to acquire
Speaker 1: a player, The Lions traded up to get carry On Johnsony.
Speaker 1: You bet your asset they're going to be in on
Speaker 1: carry and Josy and get them as much work as
Speaker 1: they could. He's been phenomenal. We'll take a break here.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll figure out what the bucks.
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Speaker 1: us come on, counculus count you LUs. We talked at
Speaker 1: this before. Does a boy band thing from the men's
Speaker 1: Is it like a mock boy boy band? You plus
Speaker 1: e equals us. This is Chris Farley's brother was in
Speaker 1: this Kevin Farley. Oh, I was gonna ask guy from
Speaker 1: Forget It, what are you asking? Brooklyn nine nine and Shamburg? Yeah,
Speaker 1: is that like him before? Andy? Samburg knows he and
Speaker 1: Samburg does like these like parody songs. You know he
Speaker 1: does for sure? For sure? You know they made a
Speaker 1: whole like fake movie about like bring your Boy that Together,
Speaker 1: and they came out with That's all Calculus and actually
Speaker 1: made the Billboard charts, the whole deal, and it was
Speaker 1: all too really fake. It was great. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: let's go back into football. Cool. Yeah, I think we
Speaker 1: should go back to this, uh, this Lions and Panthers
Speaker 1: game for a second thing. It's exactly what I want
Speaker 1: to go because there's a lot to take take away
Speaker 1: from here. So the Lions one twenty and nineteen over
Speaker 1: a Carolina team that we all thought was really good.
Speaker 1: But they can't win away from Carolina, just one in
Speaker 1: four on the road and Detroit, who was land three
Speaker 1: wins coming into the year and they've just been lambasted
Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks. Get away with the victory.
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladays just unbelievable. Man. He's eight for one thirteen
Speaker 1: with a touchdown, fourteen targets on the day. He's going
Speaker 1: to be a monster and REGI half leagues next year.
Speaker 1: He is a high quality wide receiver two in my estimation. Um,
Speaker 1: but the wide receiver to on Detroit without Marvin Jones available, well,
Speaker 1: it's kind of nobody. Now. We we invested in t J.
Speaker 1: Jones on the BFS when Golden Take got traded. Marvin
Speaker 1: Jones was outside picked up t J Jones across the
Speaker 1: cool of other spots. He wasn't the guy. Bridge Ellington
Speaker 1: was activated yesterday and immediately went to work on that
Speaker 1: first drive shut out after that, immediately went to work
Speaker 1: in the first drive after halftime. Shout out after that.
Speaker 1: Six receptions fifty two yards though for Bruce Ellington on
Speaker 1: nine targets, second on the team, including more than theo
Speaker 1: Rick Bruce Ellington, I know he said didn't really do much,
Speaker 1: but he was targeted quite a bit. He definitely was.
Speaker 1: And I think the process here us thinking t J.
Speaker 1: Jones over Bruce Ellington was correct. I mean, he's been
Speaker 1: with the Lions for a couple of years now. They
Speaker 1: just picked up Bruce Ellington at a note like he
Speaker 1: got let go from the Texans earlier on this season
Speaker 1: and the Lions picked him up. So t J. Jones
Speaker 1: knows the offense, He's been with the team for a while.
Speaker 1: You figured Marvin Jones is out, t J. Jones is
Speaker 1: the next guy up. He actually played more snaps than
Speaker 1: Bruce Ellington as well, but was out targeted nine to one.
Speaker 1: So look, if you picked up t J. Jones, I
Speaker 1: think you're dropping it out obviously. But if Marvin Jones Mrs. Thursday,
Speaker 1: which I think is likely Bruce Ellington, he's a bye
Speaker 1: week final, bye week week twelve, you know, borderline whatever,
Speaker 1: wide receiver three like you, you're realistically don't want to
Speaker 1: use Bruce Ellington. But Kenny Golladay four teen targets last week,
Speaker 1: posted a career high in terms of targets with thirteen
Speaker 1: this week top that again set a new career high
Speaker 1: with fourteen targets was phenomenal. A hundred and thirteen yards
Speaker 1: in a touchdown. I don't know if you saw the
Speaker 1: player where he came back to a ball and basically
Speaker 1: took it out of the other person's hands like it
Speaker 1: was it was Bradberry. So quarterback of the Panthers, where
Speaker 1: he basically jumped over him, took the poll back, caught
Speaker 1: it and then continued running as well. It was just
Speaker 1: Anny Golladay. There's a reason why he's baby tron like.
Speaker 1: He is absolutely legit. I'm with you. He's wide receiver too.
Speaker 1: On the other side, shout out to the Maryland Turps Man,
Speaker 1: huge game for d J. Moore. Mget winning this weekend though, Man,
Speaker 1: that was devast that they can't. Saturday is like the
Speaker 1: only day of the week where I kind of have
Speaker 1: to take a break from football. Get it. And it's
Speaker 1: like there's too much. There's too many teams, too many.
Speaker 1: They were beating Ohio State all game and they well
Speaker 1: I did I did see the highlight of this though,
Speaker 1: and they like lost. They went overtime, went overtime, Ohigher
Speaker 1: States scored a touchdown and Marilyn came back for their
Speaker 1: present and actually good this year. No, they're terrible. How
Speaker 1: that happened. They scored, they scored. The running attacks amazing.
Speaker 1: Book McFarland's son and Anthony McFarland's like, what are the
Speaker 1: best pressure in the country. He's amazing running profect um
Speaker 1: and his hands messed up to um anyway, so that
Speaker 1: Maryland score touchdown it over time and then went for two.
Speaker 1: And as a kid, just almost like this game with
Speaker 1: Carolina was why I bring it up. They go for
Speaker 1: to to win the game at the end and our
Speaker 1: quarterback rolled out. A guy just popped in there. He's
Speaker 1: just sitting there, just sitting there, and quarterbacks just blew
Speaker 1: it by him. John Man sitting right there, wide opens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely brutal. And it's like like Carolina lost going for
Speaker 1: to going for to go for the wind. Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: I've never seen him have all day in the pocket
Speaker 1: like he did yesterday and not just walk in the
Speaker 1: end zone like I don't know what he was waiting for.
Speaker 1: Why don't just walk right in? Yeah, well, well to
Speaker 1: be fair, like there was a line in front of him,
Speaker 1: like he could have rolled outside, and yeah, we did
Speaker 1: have old days. Yeah that's what I'm say. I was
Speaker 1: obviously the Lions pen. They're like, look, we're gonna back up,
Speaker 1: we're gonna play as much coverage as possible, and if
Speaker 1: he runs like we'll trying to attack him. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly what he did because he didn't roll left, he
Speaker 1: didn't all right, he just sat in the pocket and
Speaker 1: that's that's how you beat the guy threw it to.
Speaker 1: I believe it was jarious right wide open. And that's
Speaker 1: where you're reminded of why is Cam Newton not talked
Speaker 1: about in the discussion of elite quarterbacks in terms of passing,
Speaker 1: And it's always been the accuracy issues. So right there,
Speaker 1: you were reminded of that once again. In terms of
Speaker 1: all around what he can do, yeah, he's absolutely elite
Speaker 1: what he can do with his legs, but in terms
Speaker 1: of his arm I mean, this is the one drawback
Speaker 1: to Cam Newton is the fact that sometimes he misses
Speaker 1: these wide open guys. But d J. Moore, Now, eight targets,
Speaker 1: seven receptions are fifty seven yards in a touchdown. I
Speaker 1: think if the season goes along and we're already starting
Speaker 1: to see this, yes, Functions Functions still had eight targets
Speaker 1: in this game, had a ton of drops, only had
Speaker 1: two for thirty nine. Actually kind of liked Functions this week.
Speaker 1: I wrote him up last week in the rankings because
Speaker 1: why the Lions were struggling mightily against wide receivers. Again,
Speaker 1: the process was right, it was just the wrong wide
Speaker 1: receiver was d J Moore who went off. Curtis Samuel
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown in this game, and David Devin Funchis
Speaker 1: is an unrestricted free agent at the end of this season,
Speaker 1: so I wouldn't be surprised if you know, over these
Speaker 1: last couple of games, we start to see Funcius you know, uh,
Speaker 1: they started to face him out a little bit, and
Speaker 1: we started to get a little bit more of d J.
Speaker 1: Moore and look good, Why wouldn't you, I mean, he's
Speaker 1: explosive after the camp, he made plays down the field.
Speaker 1: He scored a touchdown on Darius Slay, one of the
Speaker 1: maybe top five top ten cover corners in the NFL
Speaker 1: right now. So the arrow is pointing up for d J. Moore.
Speaker 1: I will say, I still think there's a little bit
Speaker 1: boom bust nature to him, just because Cam Newton spreads
Speaker 1: the ball around. I'll agree in DJ Moore the two
Speaker 1: yard catch and running from the goalie that Darius like
Speaker 1: caught up to him and stopped them from scoring a
Speaker 1: touchdown there, which is crazy a d J. Moore just
Speaker 1: a really really big game. Also shout out to Curtis
Speaker 1: Samuel who had the touchdown five fifty five and I
Speaker 1: feel like, just using the eye test, he's come on
Speaker 1: a little bit as of late. Um, I thought so too,
Speaker 1: And then I looked at his game blog and I'm like,
Speaker 1: nobody could have predicted he hasn't hasn't done anything wrong.
Speaker 1: You know why, It's because he scored a touch from Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: I didn't know he scored a touchdown in favorus LASTI games.
Speaker 1: That's why it just seems that way he has not.
Speaker 1: Jerryus Wright dominated the snap snap count inside the slot. Yes,
Speaker 1: so there you go. Carolina loses to Detroit yesterday. The
Speaker 1: Washington football team, they fell at home to Houston, and
Speaker 1: here's the three reminds me kind of your fantasy football team.
Speaker 1: We're like, they're not very good, but they just keep
Speaker 1: finding ways. Yeah. I don't think that they're good that
Speaker 1: good man. I think they're a little bit better than
Speaker 1: you can give them credit for. Greggy like Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: is not putting up monster numbers. Um, and the look
Speaker 1: the offense is kind of like vanilla right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And and Gabe talks about this a lot like Bill
Speaker 1: O'Brien is the only one who's holding this team back
Speaker 1: from being truly great. Like why don't you just unload
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson and let him do what he can do.
Speaker 1: But defense is playing well and now they've rattled off
Speaker 1: seven straight wins. Like Houston Texans. The Texans are trending
Speaker 1: in the right direction at the right time. I know
Speaker 1: that they faced the Colts in a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: and that matchup is going to be so so pivotal
Speaker 1: in the a f C South standings obviously, and you know,
Speaker 1: we're reminded of what happened earlier on the on the
Speaker 1: in the season with Frank Reich, Uh, you know, going
Speaker 1: for the win in overtime and ultimately losing that game.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the Colts are training in the right direction.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that as well. Um, but the Texans
Speaker 1: are playing good ball. E QT returned in this game
Speaker 1: and he played. Um. He played less naps in both
Speaker 1: to Mary Thomas and DeAndre Hopkins, but led the team
Speaker 1: in all receiving categories, tied for the league the lead
Speaker 1: in targets with with interceptions with five. He tied DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins what had seventy seven yards. Reminder of that when
Speaker 1: he's healthying on the field, he's he's Shawn Watson's go
Speaker 1: like him and DeAndre Hopkins are the go to guys,
Speaker 1: and we continuous loously say that about slot receivers is
Speaker 1: these are the guys that can get open, and Shaun
Speaker 1: Watson is gonna continue to look his way. We do
Speaker 1: have the note to Marius Thomas did was not officially
Speaker 1: targeted yesterday. I leave he was targeted on on a
Speaker 1: pass that went where there's a penalty, honest and an
Speaker 1: account big donut for complete zero ford Marius Thomas yesterday,
Speaker 1: and that hurts QC back in the lineup, back healthy.
Speaker 1: And you see there's that comfort factor with QC, much
Speaker 1: like there was Will Fuller when he was there. So
Speaker 1: usually feel comfortable playing Kekey in my opinion, and I
Speaker 1: will continue to do so going forward. And obviously DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins is just a superstar in this league. On the
Speaker 1: other side, let's let's get to Washington here. Alex Smith
Speaker 1: suffers a gruesome leg injury on the same day Joe
Speaker 1: Hasmond did thirty three years later, and it looks so random.
Speaker 1: How does that happen? It was ended up being the
Speaker 1: same final score as that game from before we part.
Speaker 1: Alex Alce was rattling stuff off downstairs h during during
Speaker 1: the morning after about how it happened on the same
Speaker 1: yard line. Really it happened. It was also done by
Speaker 1: two former three time Defensive Players of the Year in
Speaker 1: Lawrence Taylor, and this is like, there's way too many parallels.
Speaker 1: It's super weird. The only thing that would have been
Speaker 1: crazy is Alex smanth is thirty four years old. It
Speaker 1: happened thirty three years ago. Imagining was thirty three. Like
Speaker 1: this is crazy, Yeah, this is some crazy juju stuff
Speaker 1: going on here. Jordian Reed was torrited everywhere. Then amal
Speaker 1: short stuff that you're used to with Alex Smith. Once
Speaker 1: Colt McCoy came in, he's talking a bit more down
Speaker 1: the field. Read led the way with seven or seventy
Speaker 1: one and the touchdown. He did have a leven targets
Speaker 1: to lead the team. Josh Dockson was pretty quiet until,
Speaker 1: as Frank mentioned a few moments ago, Colte McCoy came
Speaker 1: in seven targets for the Boxton that was second on
Speaker 1: the team. It's clearly what this offense is, which Josh
Speaker 1: Dockson and Jordan Read with a lot of Adrian Peterson. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you own these guys as I do. Um, you
Speaker 1: don't feel horrible the Coult McCoy because he's a capable backup.
Speaker 1: He's not one of these brutal guys that will kill you.
Speaker 1: Um do you feel okay? So you're a Jordan redowner.
Speaker 1: I don't think much has changed in all. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: would argue it's better with Colton McCoy. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying he's a better quarterback than Alex Smith, but I
Speaker 1: think he's willing to take more chances. And I know
Speaker 1: that Washington is going to continue to try and win
Speaker 1: their style football. They're gonna play defense, they're gonna run,
Speaker 1: They're gonna give it a lot to Adrian Peterson. But
Speaker 1: I do think Colton McCoy is more likely to pass
Speaker 1: the ball down the field to take a few more chances.
Speaker 1: And yes, maybe he turns the ball over more than
Speaker 1: Alex Smith. And I'm not saying Colton McCoy is like, oh,
Speaker 1: you need to go out and pick this guy up
Speaker 1: by any means, but I think it might actually help
Speaker 1: the weapons here a little bit more. Again, he threw
Speaker 1: eleven past attempts. I know it says twelve, but one
Speaker 1: of those was a spiked ball. But on the top
Speaker 1: on the targets, it was five for docks and it
Speaker 1: was three for Jordan Read. What sucks for Jordan Reid
Speaker 1: is like I did, like you did. Um, he was
Speaker 1: only starting in fifty seven percent of leagues. He still
Speaker 1: owned everywhere, but hetty and rightfully so like I don't
Speaker 1: blame people who bench Jordan read yesterday, but it will
Speaker 1: say I think the fact that he was targeted eleven
Speaker 1: times overall, Colton McCoy stepping in, I think it's actually
Speaker 1: arrow up for him. I didn't want to mention Trey Quinn,
Speaker 1: who played predominantly slot receiver for Washington yesterday. If Jamison
Speaker 1: Crowder is out again or for the foreseeable future, Tray
Speaker 1: Quinn is that slot receiver, and he was targeted four
Speaker 1: times for receptions forty nine yards. Moe Harris actually struggled
Speaker 1: moving to the outside receiver. He was targeted for times
Speaker 1: when only brought in one for thirteen yards. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: you were like me and watching this game and wanting John,
Speaker 1: I started Josh Dockson, as I said over Jordan Read yesterday,
Speaker 1: because I thought the inventor has a touchdown. Obviously that
Speaker 1: was incorrect Um, but I was hoping so so I
Speaker 1: watched a lot of this game, and just like, who
Speaker 1: the F is this little white dude catching all these
Speaker 1: past seventh It was it was the week of rookie players, man,
Speaker 1: and he's a rookie wide receiver. I remember watching the
Speaker 1: preseason they were talking him up a little bit. Um.
Speaker 1: This kind of fits the mold of the slot receiver.
Speaker 1: I guess. Right. Then, let me get right into you
Speaker 1: talk about the day of the rookies, and Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: got his first start over the year for Baltimore, who
Speaker 1: went on to defeat Cincinnati four to twenty one. And
Speaker 1: the Ravens and Marty morning Wegg ran a college style obviously,
Speaker 1: you've ever seen it. They did not want Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: to throw the ball early threw at nineteen times for
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty yards. But it was what he
Speaker 1: did on the ground. He carried the ball twenty seven
Speaker 1: times yesterday. This is more more than round the ball
Speaker 1: in college, you know, honestly. And they ran a strict
Speaker 1: college style offense. He rushed for a hundred and seventeen yards.
Speaker 1: Somebody asked me yesterday before the games, do I start
Speaker 1: Lamar Miller, Ben Roethlisberg. I'm sorry Lamar Jackson, Ben Roethlisberger
Speaker 1: or Marcus Mariota. I said you should start Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: and I think Ben Ben wounded having more points ultimately,
Speaker 1: but Lamar Jackson had a good look. It looked good
Speaker 1: for for most for most of that Steelers game. If
Speaker 1: it wasn't for that final rushing touchdown from Ben, you
Speaker 1: probably would have been right, Greg. As of right now,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson is the eleventh best quarterback this week. Obviously,
Speaker 1: with Mahomes and Golf still to go, you'd imagine he's
Speaker 1: gonna get pushed down to QB thirteen, but still not
Speaker 1: a terrible start if you started him. But I don't.
Speaker 1: The question is gonna be cut we're gonna get this week?
Speaker 1: What do we think Lamar Jackson going forward? Like we
Speaker 1: expect him to start next week? They do, They do
Speaker 1: not think Joe Flack will be ready for Week twelve.
Speaker 1: And is this one of those Michael Vick situations or
Speaker 1: is Lamar Jackson's flash in the pan? I guess I
Speaker 1: think he did exactly what we expected out of him.
Speaker 1: And if you remember last week, Greg, we said for
Speaker 1: the Ravens pass catchers. The best thing that could happen
Speaker 1: is Joe Flaccos back because Lamar Jackson is not there
Speaker 1: throughout nineteen times in this game, you ran the both
Speaker 1: twenty seven times. Ravens, what are you guys doing? Like
Speaker 1: you you brought your winning you brought Robert Griffin in.
Speaker 1: I assume this is my assumption. You bring Robert Griffin
Speaker 1: into kind of mentor Lamar Jackson and tell him like, look, dude,
Speaker 1: you can't take the hits that you're gonna take at
Speaker 1: the NFL level because I was there. I lived through it.
Speaker 1: Like there's a reason why my third string quarterback now
Speaker 1: at the NFL level, like I got crushed because I
Speaker 1: was taking these huge hits. If you just watch the
Speaker 1: first drive of that game, Greg Lamar Jackson took two
Speaker 1: huge hits to start that game, twenty seven rushing attempts.
Speaker 1: I understand it's a college style offense and and they
Speaker 1: ended up winning this game, So can you really question it?
Speaker 1: But you also got to think about the future of
Speaker 1: this kid. He's a rookie and he we know that
Speaker 1: he's still raw in terms of a pastor his footwork,
Speaker 1: you know, working inside of the pocket, and he did
Speaker 1: some good things. Yesterday, he still had the interception and
Speaker 1: it was kind of a It was kind of a
Speaker 1: prototypical play that you would imagine, like he starts running
Speaker 1: around a little bit, kind of jumps up in the
Speaker 1: air and throws at the same time and it ends
Speaker 1: up being an interception. But man twenty seven rushing attempts.
Speaker 1: He took some big hits. I mean, he needs some
Speaker 1: more work as a pastor. But I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know how long he's gonna last if he continues to
Speaker 1: take and that's the problem. Like the Bengals were not
Speaker 1: prepared for what Lamar Jackson threw at them. Not literally
Speaker 1: is in your throw, but physically yesterday, they were not
Speaker 1: prepared for that. I wonder it was all like it
Speaker 1: was really really fun, don't He would do the three
Speaker 1: step drop and then to see the middle open up
Speaker 1: and just take off. And he did that multiple times,
Speaker 1: especially early on in the game. But again, he's either
Speaker 1: got to slide, he's gotta get out of bounce because
Speaker 1: he was taking big, big hits. I will say next
Speaker 1: week Baltimore does face Oakland at home, so good spot
Speaker 1: for him. It's a good spot for sure. I mean
Speaker 1: the Raiders defense is not great and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we assumed they were tanking. They ended up winning yesterday,
Speaker 1: but that was pretty much the tank of though on
Speaker 1: the Raiders between and the Cardinals. Outside of Lamar Jackson, though,
Speaker 1: the big story was Gush Edwards in this game. And
Speaker 1: I texted both you and h and Florida and used
Speaker 1: the word f It was a big capitalized uh F word.
Speaker 1: Who f is? Gush Edwards scores a touchdown in the
Speaker 1: in the first quarter, seven carries for eighteen yards, and
Speaker 1: then every time you watch this game, it's Gus Edwards
Speaker 1: getting the job done. He carried the ball seven times.
Speaker 1: The Raider. The Baltimore rushing attack had fifty four carries yesterday.
Speaker 1: Seventeen of those went to Gus Edwards, who had a
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen yards rushing uh and a touchdown as
Speaker 1: well a time. Montgomery was not involved, Buck Allen was
Speaker 1: not involved, Alex Collins was not involved. Who the F
Speaker 1: is Gus Edwards? And do do we need to figure
Speaker 1: that out asap? Thus Edwards the man who had sixty
Speaker 1: two of the snaps yesterday, Greg Alex Collins just twenty
Speaker 1: two percent of the snaps And this was pretty much
Speaker 1: the process of a results week because a lot of
Speaker 1: what I thought would have happened happened, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: the right player on the right you know. It was
Speaker 1: the guy was in the right spot. It was the
Speaker 1: right team in the right matchup, but it ended up
Speaker 1: being the wrong player. And I don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously nobody foresaw this coming. I believe Gus Edwards had
Speaker 1: sixteen carries coming into yesterday and he had seventeen carries
Speaker 1: overall rush for a hundred and fifteen yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Every single time you think that it was about to
Speaker 1: be Alex Collins time he has that first drive where
Speaker 1: he scores a touchdown, has a phenomenal schedule upcoming. I
Speaker 1: don't know what. Like Alex Collin, like him and John Harball,
Speaker 1: like they must have something behind closed doors that like
Speaker 1: they just hate each other. Every time it looks like
Speaker 1: it's about to happen for Alex Collins, something happens. The
Speaker 1: worst part about this is that Gus Edwards performed well, Like,
Speaker 1: how how can I sit here and realistically say, like
Speaker 1: I'm excited about Alex Collins moving forward, even what the
Speaker 1: schedule he has, You can't because thus Edwards got the
Speaker 1: seventeen carries over a hundred yards rushing. Alex Collins hasn't
Speaker 1: had a hundred yards rushing in any game this season
Speaker 1: six point eight yards per carry, and after the game,
Speaker 1: John Harball talked him up about how this is this
Speaker 1: is the North South runner that we've wanted all season.
Speaker 1: That's very telling, right when you say stuff like that
Speaker 1: that we've wanted all season. It's basically like Alex Collins
Speaker 1: has not been the guy that you've wanted all seasons.
Speaker 1: So it's hard for me to really back Alex Collins
Speaker 1: at this point. I think he's I think everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: have to go out and pick up Gus Edwards especially everything. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at this point, he could be the running back that
Speaker 1: takes off the second half for the Ravens and then
Speaker 1: we get stuck back into him next year and taking
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Edward. The sad day for Alex Collins, Truthers everywhere. Greg,
Speaker 1: I still think Alex Collins is a talented running back too,
Speaker 1: and he's super young. So maybe not with the batsmore Ravens,
Speaker 1: maybe with somebody else. But for whatever reason, every time
Speaker 1: it looks like it's about to happen, it doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: Something else pops up. It's Buck Allen stealing goal line carries.
Speaker 1: Now we have Gus Edwards, who was a four year
Speaker 1: player at Miami. But then also I guess it wast
Speaker 1: of like red shirt. I don't really know out like
Speaker 1: the semantics of college. But he played his final year
Speaker 1: at Rutger's. Last year he has a rookie running back.
Speaker 1: He's six two thirty five. Again. John Harbaugh said that
Speaker 1: this is the North South runner that we've been looking
Speaker 1: for for a while. He also did say we have
Speaker 1: four talented running backs, so I'm not gonna sit here
Speaker 1: and tell you that Gus Edwards is definitely the guy.
Speaker 1: Like it could be a complete mess, it could be okay. Well, oh,
Speaker 1: Alex Collins is running well in the first series of
Speaker 1: this game. Well, let's see what he could do the
Speaker 1: rest of the game. Oh he's not. Let me give
Speaker 1: the second series to Gus Edwards and and oh he
Speaker 1: looked good. Let me let me give it to Gus
Speaker 1: Edwards for the rest of the for the rest of
Speaker 1: this game. So it stocked because, uh, you know, the Ravens,
Speaker 1: especially with Lamar Jackson, like this is this is a
Speaker 1: situation where you want to have the running bag for
Speaker 1: fantasy of course, because of course you know it looks
Speaker 1: like a great situation, but you have to pick up
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards. But you have to also be realistic with
Speaker 1: your expectations, all right, So there you go. Uh, the
Speaker 1: Ravens can turn back to Alex Collins at a moment,
Speaker 1: and that would obviously be a disaster for fantasy owners.
Speaker 1: I'm Montgomery touches this week in the bag that that's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. Atlanta lost Dallas at home yesterday twenty
Speaker 1: two to nineteen. Jason Garrett. The Clatha goes from all
Speaker 1: the hot seat to arguably the favorites to win the
Speaker 1: NFC East at this point is a Marie Cooper. The
Speaker 1: difference in Dallas. Obviously the numbers weren't great yesterday three
Speaker 1: for thirty six, but just the threat of Mark Coover
Speaker 1: seems to be a big deal for the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and shout out to Elliott christ the Quantit Edge t
Speaker 1: q E. Go check out their stuff. They have these
Speaker 1: really awesome analytical tools where you can look at splits
Speaker 1: and I saw someone tweet this out last week. You
Speaker 1: can look at the Cowboys offense with Mari Cooper since
Speaker 1: he's joined them and without a MARII Cooper, and you
Speaker 1: know the amount of explosive plays, their yards per attempt,
Speaker 1: basically everything has gotten better since a Mari Cooper was acquired.
Speaker 1: So I know we were all very critical of that trade,
Speaker 1: the fact that they gave up a first round pick
Speaker 1: and while you know his play his first two games
Speaker 1: were great. This one was not great by any means.
Speaker 1: I think the threat of him being on the field,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, great certainly has changed the outlook of
Speaker 1: the Cowboys offense specifically. I love what they're doing with
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott. The past two weeks at least six receptions
Speaker 1: in two straight games. He was targeted eight times. In
Speaker 1: this game. He led the Cowboys in all receiving categories.
Speaker 1: This is a new facet of Ezekiel Elliott's game, which
Speaker 1: we were somewhat expecting this year because Jason Witten and
Speaker 1: Dez Bryant a large majority of their targets from last
Speaker 1: year for the past couple of years were now gone,
Speaker 1: and we assumed that Ezekiel Elliott would be used more
Speaker 1: in the past game. But he's kind of evolving into
Speaker 1: that Todd Gurley esque running back where he's getting eight targets,
Speaker 1: seven receptions, eighty yards. He just you know, he had
Speaker 1: a monster game against the Cowboys receiving as well. So
Speaker 1: if you own Ezekiel Elliott, I will admit that up
Speaker 1: until they Marty acquired Amari Cooper, you were probably you know,
Speaker 1: a little underwhelmed by what Ezekiel Elliot was giving you.
Speaker 1: But now with Amari Cooper and the fact that they're
Speaker 1: using him as a receiver as often as they are,
Speaker 1: he is going to end up winning lots of people
Speaker 1: fantasy championships down to stretch here now. Ezekiel Elliott another
Speaker 1: one of those running backs we talked about earlier going
Speaker 1: in the top half of the first round next year
Speaker 1: because he has the ability to do stuff like he
Speaker 1: did yesterday, both in the passing game and in the
Speaker 1: running game. He's just simply fantastic. Yesterday, Coe Beasley drop
Speaker 1: a touchdown which her owners certainly weird. You don't really
Speaker 1: see cold be easy job all that many five or
Speaker 1: fifty one yesterday. Dak Prescott helped Dak Prescott, who I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people were streaming him. I was
Speaker 1: about the side. I used him in cash yesterday too,
Speaker 1: so I could have used him. I could use that
Speaker 1: extra touchdown as well. On the other side for Atlanta,
Speaker 1: tep and Colin off the backfield eight for fifty eight.
Speaker 1: His yards for Carris actually pretty good. He's just not
Speaker 1: getting enough carries. Think they in weird game scripts reftly
Speaker 1: obviously no one expected them to be down against the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. Nobody expected them to be down against the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. There were three and three and a half
Speaker 1: point home favorites in this game, and a lot of people,
Speaker 1: you know, we're on the falcon side in this game.
Speaker 1: It's the classic. You know, the Cowboys, UH builled you
Speaker 1: up the week before. They have a great performance against
Speaker 1: the Eagle, so we expected them to crash back down
Speaker 1: to earth. That didn't happen yesterday. They went into Atlanta
Speaker 1: and actually got the job done. So it was a
Speaker 1: negative game script for Keevin Coleman. But I still do
Speaker 1: think he's in that you know, mid range to low
Speaker 1: end RB two discussion. Still does see majority of the
Speaker 1: snaps and we know that when they get down near
Speaker 1: to the goal line, Keevin Coleman is the preferred option.
Speaker 1: Julio Jones Gregg has now scored a touchdown in three
Speaker 1: straight games. If you had to describe this with an emoji,
Speaker 1: it's the one with the blue face like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: what's happening? Julio Jones positive touchdown regression. The last time
Speaker 1: he scored three weeks in a row, Greg wasen weeks twelve, thirteen,
Speaker 1: and fourteen. So just to put that in perspective, the talent,
Speaker 1: the spectacle that is Julio Jones. The last time he
Speaker 1: scored a touch on three straight games was back in
Speaker 1: He's now done that. Positive touchdown regressions. What is hitting
Speaker 1: his waight? What is Julio on the year? Why receiver? What?
Speaker 1: I could pull that up for you. I'd imagine he's
Speaker 1: easily top three. I mean, he'd be top three. You know.
Speaker 1: It's amazing because I know we talked a lot about
Speaker 1: him in the preseason. We don't want him, we don't
Speaker 1: want to do this isn't the but but when we
Speaker 1: were like, okay, he was bad, but he's been last
Speaker 1: year and was still a top with six seven wide receiver.
Speaker 1: I agree, but you look, I'm looking at the numbers now.
Speaker 1: I mean this year he's he's been better than ever.
Speaker 1: Like I know, the touchdowns will be frustrating. The last
Speaker 1: three It took him until It's crazy you would think
Speaker 1: that Greg, he's why receiver seven? Why receiver seven? Trying
Speaker 1: to name the seventh ahead of him? To be fair,
Speaker 1: that's in the standards scoring. So let me put it
Speaker 1: in a PPR. He's still seven. He was six wide
Speaker 1: receivers ahead of Julio Jones. Okay, Antonio Brown, Yes, he's
Speaker 1: wide receiver four. Oh, DeAndre Hopkins's wide receiver five. It's
Speaker 1: kind of the has to be based on touchdowns. So
Speaker 1: Davante Adams, he's wide receiver three. He has nine touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and that's it has to be what it is the
Speaker 1: only reason Uleo Jones is the only wide receiver in
Speaker 1: the top ten who has less than five touchdowns. I mean,
Speaker 1: you look at this. He's had a hundred yards in
Speaker 1: every game but three of them. One of them we
Speaker 1: had ninety six EPR. I mean, consistently, he's averaging twenty
Speaker 1: points six Fantasy points perso. And that's with him only
Speaker 1: scoring three touchdowns. Again, and he's been healthy for the
Speaker 1: most part around out that top six, right, Tyree Hill,
Speaker 1: are you Hills? Number six? He's just ahead of Juleo
Speaker 1: numbers do I have to get? So we're still one
Speaker 1: and I've gotten to one yet, right, you haven't got one,
Speaker 1: you haven't got two? Have we got one or two?
Speaker 1: That's interesting? Oh? Okay, it's easy when you're on the spot.
Speaker 1: You see, it's not those people who watch NBA Twitch
Speaker 1: Fantasy feud. You know it's not as easy when you're
Speaker 1: on the spot one and two. Um, Brandon Cooks, Brandon
Speaker 1: Cooks is wide receiver fourteen only has three touchdowns as well.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. Yeah, that's the thing right there. Um alright,
Speaker 1: other wider Adam Feeling obviously receiver one feeling. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was obvious. Michael Thomas. There you go. Interesting. Everybody inside
Speaker 1: the top six has at least seven touchdowns. Ye okay,
Speaker 1: let's psin you on, Franky. Let's have that Pittsburgh Jacksonville game,
Speaker 1: which is a weird game. Jacksonville up sixteen nothing and
Speaker 1: they were just beating down the Pittsburgh Steelers. And in
Speaker 1: all honesty, at that points, I was patting myself on
Speaker 1: the back saying, I read this game skirt right. I
Speaker 1: wanted nothing to do with Ben Roethlisberger. I want nothing
Speaker 1: to do with Vance McDonald. And then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden the third and fourth quarter, uh, Pittsburgh was able
Speaker 1: to hold Jacksonville off the scoreboard, and they were able
Speaker 1: to do just enough to win. Ben Roethlisberger through three interceptions,
Speaker 1: two more were called back to the penalties, including in
Speaker 1: the end zone on that final drive where he ran
Speaker 1: an in for the touchdown. He threw at forty seven
Speaker 1: times in Pittsburgh get enough to get the win, a
Speaker 1: B five for one, seventeen and a touchdown. I say
Speaker 1: that the Jaguars deserve to lose this game because if
Speaker 1: you just juxtaposed this game with what they did with
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots earlier on in the season, two
Speaker 1: completely different teams, you could tell right now they're hesitant,
Speaker 1: they're not confident. Their offense is not the same that
Speaker 1: it was at that point. Blake Bortos put up over
Speaker 1: three passing yards and I believe it was three touchdowns
Speaker 1: in that game. They did not take their foot off
Speaker 1: the pedal. In this game, he threw the ball eighteen times.
Speaker 1: And I understand the way the way to win is
Speaker 1: we want to pound the rock. We want to give
Speaker 1: it to Leonard four nette a ton. But at some
Speaker 1: point Blake Bortos is gonna have to make a player
Speaker 1: two or you know, you're gonna have to get an
Speaker 1: extra first down. You'renna have to score a little bit more.
Speaker 1: You can't score sixteen points and expect to beat the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. Even with the Jaguars defense playing as well
Speaker 1: as they did. They sacked Ben Roethlisberger two times. They
Speaker 1: picked him off three times. This comes in a game
Speaker 1: where you know Jalen Ramsey was in the news all week.
Speaker 1: He had the cryptic tweet and we gotta report late
Speaker 1: Saturday or Sunday morning that the Jaguars were gonna be
Speaker 1: shopping him in the off season, and then they denied
Speaker 1: that report. He had two phenomenal interceptions in this game
Speaker 1: as well. Jaguars deserved to lose this game, Greg, because
Speaker 1: they just weren't aggressive enough. And I'll say that as
Speaker 1: a Blake Portals owner. In my super eight carriages on
Speaker 1: the day yards nine total touches. Since last week, since
Speaker 1: coming back, Carlos hid eight carries for forty four yards.
Speaker 1: The game plan was clear, pound the rock and three
Speaker 1: much success. Already three total rushing attempts in this game, Greg,
Speaker 1: And the thing is Leonard Leonard Fournett on the field.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows what the Jaguars recipe is like. There's no
Speaker 1: element of surprise whatsoever. They know he's gonna run. So
Speaker 1: obviously averaging three point four yards for carrying this game,
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily his fault. The guy is probably facing
Speaker 1: stacked fronts every single time he touches the ball. I
Speaker 1: will say again another game where he's up around thirty
Speaker 1: touches per game, and it's because of that volume, even
Speaker 1: if he's not running efficiently, that he's gonna be a
Speaker 1: top twelve running back. It's just how long can he
Speaker 1: keep this up before his legs, his feet, his hamstrings,
Speaker 1: before they give out. Because it's gonna happen eventually. Given
Speaker 1: the fact that he's dealt with the hamstring this year,
Speaker 1: foot and ankle injuries dating back to L s u U,
Speaker 1: I think there's you know, there's something to be worried
Speaker 1: about with four net here. But while he's healthy and
Speaker 1: getting this much work, he is a legit, you know,
Speaker 1: low end RBD one at worst. And this is how
Speaker 1: he sneaks back in the first round. By the way,
Speaker 1: when you see these workloads and not with me, you
Speaker 1: know I was the guy all four and I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna do it next year. I get it. I get it.
Speaker 1: I'm never going to be that guy, even even if
Speaker 1: even if he proves me wrong it makes me look dumb.
Speaker 1: I'll take that l because running back who deals with
Speaker 1: hamstring and foot injuries, chronic injuries, I'm just I'm getting involved.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be the guy on Jujuice Schuster eight
Speaker 1: from one of four last night. It's four or seeding
Speaker 1: game in this season, and I was number two wide receiver.
Speaker 1: I wasn't the Juju guy at all coming into this year.
Speaker 1: But you read the stat lines, sixty four for eight
Speaker 1: sixty six only three touchdowns was a little which, a
Speaker 1: little disappointing. Um, but he's really good and unfortunately the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh like there's simply only so many touchdowns to go
Speaker 1: around between between James Conner and Sony around. Whyde receiver
Speaker 1: Levin with just three to touchdowns on the season. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's not sorry. He's five one hundred yard games this season.
Speaker 1: Rank five, Yeah, he's got five. He started off the
Speaker 1: first three. Must looked at the game log yesterday before
Speaker 1: they updated and added this game, So yeah, it was four.
Speaker 1: Then he added yep, it's five five. Yea, he's had
Speaker 1: two games under only two games all year under fifty yards.
Speaker 1: Pretty good receiver. Speaking of James, brutal for him game,
Speaker 1: but game script did not favor him in this one.
Speaker 1: I know he had a drop in this game as well,
Speaker 1: but we still targeted nine times six receptions for twenty
Speaker 1: four yards, So the usage was there. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: blame it on the fact that he's been concussed or anything.
Speaker 1: I just think it was a rough Uh it was.
Speaker 1: It was a rough game flow throughout this game that
Speaker 1: the Steelers pretty much did not play in the first half,
Speaker 1: Like they just didn't show up early on. And that's
Speaker 1: just more of the same for these one PM road
Speaker 1: starts for a big bend in the Steelers offense, but
Speaker 1: then they came alive late. There just wasn't enough time
Speaker 1: to get James Conner involved given the game flow. Ye,
Speaker 1: still on RB one, I'm fine with it. Yeah, I agree,
Speaker 1: he's James James Conner, one of those running backs they're
Speaker 1: gonna be in the top half of the first round
Speaker 1: next year. Well, it's hard to say right now, right
Speaker 1: because we also we also got a report over the
Speaker 1: weekend that the Steelers would transition Tag Levy on belt
Speaker 1: He's like, how can you say definitively he's not Because
Speaker 1: I'm I'm in one of my home leagues. I'm in
Speaker 1: the position where it's a keeper league and I can
Speaker 1: try and acquire James Conner if I think that he's
Speaker 1: going to be a Steelers starting running back next year.
Speaker 1: Because I believe he's a ninth round keeper. It moves
Speaker 1: up one round. He was drafting the tenth round, So
Speaker 1: that sounds awesome, right, I could get the Steelers starting
Speaker 1: running back. I might look at another Should you should
Speaker 1: do that? Just no one knows for sure. Look, if
Speaker 1: you have him in keeper or dynasty, don't sell him
Speaker 1: like you're obviously if he is a starter, like you're
Speaker 1: very excited about that. But nothing in the NFL would
Speaker 1: surprise me, especially given this Levian Bell situation. Nothing would
Speaker 1: surprise me. Leave it at that. With that that, I
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Speaker 1: There are four more outstanding games left. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: hit on Arizona and Oakland because I don't want to,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna move on from there. I got a
Speaker 1: hit on the drubbing of the Titans yesterday three eight
Speaker 1: to ten by Indie and Andrew Luck once again three
Speaker 1: more touchdowns. Frank, Andrew Luck is your comeback player of
Speaker 1: the year with his outstanding he's been And here's the
Speaker 1: difference in the offensive line. He hasn't been sacked at
Speaker 1: all in the last five games, I believe, and in
Speaker 1: that in that time frame is only throwing three interceptions
Speaker 1: and a hell of a lot more touchdowns. I believe
Speaker 1: it's eighteen touchdowns or so. He's been unbelievable. He's like
Speaker 1: getting touched right now. I do know their center Ryan
Speaker 1: Kelly got hurt yesterday. Um, but he's just been outstanding.
Speaker 1: And I mentioned to Mary as Thomas is a big
Speaker 1: zero or hebron no it yesterday. Yeah, and also played
Speaker 1: less snaps than both Jack toil and for the second
Speaker 1: consecutive week. So look, and you called me out for
Speaker 1: it that I had him ranked too high and it
Speaker 1: was reaction before you had him right. But I had
Speaker 1: him as a top five tight end this week. But again,
Speaker 1: like calling tight ends is a craps you like, again,
Speaker 1: we we bench Jordan Reed. I don't know that many
Speaker 1: who could have seen that coming, but it's gonna be
Speaker 1: frustrating because now people are gonna bend next week and
Speaker 1: it could be the week where he scores again. Like,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna be used in the red zone. That's
Speaker 1: the problem. Ibron's only being used in the red zone
Speaker 1: at this point. Jack Doors, Jack Doyles the every down
Speaker 1: tight end, Moley Cox is the second Titan, and Eric
Speaker 1: Ebron is the red zone specialist. T Y Hilton and
Speaker 1: and my man Jim Sans was all over to you,
Speaker 1: why Hilton last week? I can't. I spoke him up
Speaker 1: on Friday too, so I kept trying to kind of
Speaker 1: look into it. I didn't see it in all, Honestly,
Speaker 1: I couldn't see why. People the outside corners, Malcolm Butler,
Speaker 1: you knew, had struggled, and then the Dory Jackson people
Speaker 1: were like they were kind of shying off to hilt
Speaker 1: and they were like, well a door Jackson shadowed whoever
Speaker 1: it was the week before in the second half, and
Speaker 1: he played well, just not well enough to guard to
Speaker 1: I hild him because he was shadowing him. But he
Speaker 1: got burned. He was outstanding yesterday, nine receptions for a
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five yards and two gorgeous touchdown catches.
Speaker 1: One nicer than the other, keeping his feeding bounds. He
Speaker 1: was out of ridiculous as he I'm not going amazing, amazing, um,
Speaker 1: Marlon Mack, by the way, sixteen carries yesterday sixty wanted
Speaker 1: to touch from the Domino game, but he did enough.
Speaker 1: The Titans are tough defense. I know you don't see
Speaker 1: it because of how this game and but in terms
Speaker 1: of run defense, like they have a strong front line,
Speaker 1: they have strong linebackers. They've been very good against the
Speaker 1: run this year. Marlon Max still had a great game.
Speaker 1: I know he had a dud last week, but again,
Speaker 1: don't overreact. We're still in that discussion for a mid
Speaker 1: range RB two with Marlon macran. Absolutely, especially the way
Speaker 1: the offensive line is playing. According to Football Outsiders, they
Speaker 1: have the third best run blocking offensive line in the
Speaker 1: other I mean, they're incredible. Jordan Wilkins got in the
Speaker 1: end zone for the first time all season. Uh and
Speaker 1: that hem Hines also caught a past for twenty yards.
Speaker 1: Don't there you go in the hinds, um. Marlon Mack
Speaker 1: clearly the the hop running back on this team, and
Speaker 1: they don't shy away from him in the red zone.
Speaker 1: Of Frank right just doing a really really good job
Speaker 1: play calling. Portas Colts team took a little while age going,
Speaker 1: but now that they have uh them, there are two
Speaker 1: days back right now. I believe the Texans in the
Speaker 1: a f C South that will be a fun battle
Speaker 1: to watch down the stretch. Call. It's one of the
Speaker 1: hottest teams in the NFL. Huge dud from the Tennessee
Speaker 1: Titans side because we spoke up Dak Prescott is the
Speaker 1: streaming quarterback. We also like Becus Mariotta, who was trending
Speaker 1: in the right direction. I find it interesting suffered a
Speaker 1: stinger in the first half, so I didn't play the
Speaker 1: second half to be fair. So and and we'll find
Speaker 1: out if that's like something that's going to linger now,
Speaker 1: like because he was like flexing his hand. He was
Speaker 1: doing that thing again. We thought it was it was
Speaker 1: an issue. They said it was not. They've come back
Speaker 1: said it's not the same nervu issue. He suffered a stinger.
Speaker 1: He does not. He's not in the concussion protocol. So
Speaker 1: I think it's just if the sting was just last
Speaker 1: day or two, you're fine. If it lasts for a while,
Speaker 1: that that could be true. It's just like a convenient
Speaker 1: excuse though, for Mariotta, like anytime he's playing well, like oh,
Speaker 1: he's suffered a stinger, like he's injured, like he's dealing.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say that about a stinger, but okay,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm not gonna look, you don't know what
Speaker 1: he feels like. We're not inside Marcus Mariot's body. But
Speaker 1: every time anything goes bad, it's oh, it's uh, it's
Speaker 1: a nervous too. It's a stinger. It's one of some.
Speaker 1: So look, if Blayne Gabbert has to play quarterback for
Speaker 1: any period of time here, you're obviously downgrading Corey Davis
Speaker 1: big time. All Right, Um, the probably shocked your charges
Speaker 1: by the way yesterday, and then Kirk Cousins gets smacked
Speaker 1: around agains Chicago. Keenan Allen is about to do that
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen thing. It's not about to he's doing yeah,
Speaker 1: because he's had He's had at least a hundred twenty
Speaker 1: four yards receiving or he touched on in three straight games.
Speaker 1: He loves the second half. Yeah, and I love Keenan Allen.
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