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Speaker 1: Scott Fish. Hello, guys, what's yeah? We will We'll talk
Speaker 1: about Patrick Mahomes in just a moment, but over the
Speaker 1: course of the show, we will break down every game
Speaker 1: fantasy style, like we always do, give you letter grades
Speaker 1: on every meaningful fantasy player and an explanation for why
Speaker 1: that player got that grade, so you can decide to
Speaker 1: you on board with our thinking or not make your
Speaker 1: own decisions. We'll give you nine players upon whom you
Speaker 1: can take a chance coming up next segment, and then
Speaker 1: we'll answer three tough questions and we'll even jump into
Speaker 1: a time machine to identify the players. Everybody's gonna be
Speaker 1: trying to pick up next week, but as it turns out,
Speaker 1: he's already on your team because you've been in the
Speaker 1: time machine. I'm gonna run our time machine that sound
Speaker 1: effect into the ground. That's a good time machine sound effect.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Brian. We weren't sure for a while. Our
Speaker 1: our time machine went blamo. But really time that doesn't
Speaker 1: it's not a very I could have just done the
Speaker 1: dude dude from Wayne's World or the doctor who yeah, right,
Speaker 1: the doctor who won. It's grating, the doctor who want
Speaker 1: not of the sound. David, I'm a I'm a fan
Speaker 1: of David Tennant, who's not good to really like the
Speaker 1: news for sure. Let's start with Patrick Mahomes. Guys, we
Speaker 1: believe that he's gonna miss three ish games, but maybe
Speaker 1: it extends out to the bye week, which had been five.
Speaker 1: So there's you know, there's a little bit of wheel
Speaker 1: room on on what this means. Week twelve is Kansas
Speaker 1: City's by Week twelve is there by? You know, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't know if they would necessarily be
Speaker 1: rushing him back. They brought it back before the bye
Speaker 1: but you know a lot of teams used that by
Speaker 1: to just get to one, and I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if they did that here. Now that said, so they're
Speaker 1: five and two, that they got the Packers and Vikings
Speaker 1: coming out. Packers and Vice could be rough with Matt
Speaker 1: Moore in there, they could be. Um, those are two
Speaker 1: good past defenses that would make things tough, no matter
Speaker 1: I think, No matter what. I'm just trying to think
Speaker 1: of their their record and their playoff chances and hopes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is important in this right. You know, when you're
Speaker 1: secure in your record in your playoff hopes, it's a
Speaker 1: lot easier to bench your quarterback longer their division sucks,
Speaker 1: that helps. Yeah, So that's that's what might be the
Speaker 1: second best team in that division. Right, That's it's come
Speaker 1: to this for the poor Chargers. So all the injuries
Speaker 1: all right, so let's start here for the games he's out,
Speaker 1: is Tyreek Hill and automatic start? Yes or no? Without
Speaker 1: Patrick and assuming Matt Moore's at the helmet, I think
Speaker 1: because it's a short enough of injury, I dont think
Speaker 1: they're gonna make a move at quarterback. He's so explosive.
Speaker 1: I would have a hard time giving him less than
Speaker 1: the sea on this show. He's still had a fifty
Speaker 1: seven year touchdown with more in last night. Um, but
Speaker 1: I think I think he's still an automatic start, because
Speaker 1: these next few weeks are so bye week written and
Speaker 1: there's so many injuries. I have trouble believing you're gonna
Speaker 1: bend him. Okay, even with more same thing with Kelsey, right,
Speaker 1: even even with Kelsey, where you're still you're there's just
Speaker 1: no there's just no good tight end. However, you'd be
Speaker 1: picking up to replace Kelsey can't possibly be better than
Speaker 1: Kelsey with Matt Moore, and so he's going to be
Speaker 1: in back the hill very quickly. They're probably gonna get
Speaker 1: creative in ways of getting him the ball to putting
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands, you know, yeah, maybe, yeah.
Speaker 1: You know we've seen him more on Jet Steep Hill
Speaker 1: a lot and do some other things right, and Andy
Speaker 1: Reids brilliant. Uh, the running game to me is a
Speaker 1: real question mark here. It was already a very inconsistent
Speaker 1: running game. And now when you take the threat of
Speaker 1: the pass away and what Patrick Mahomes did to open
Speaker 1: up the fee old. Um, I don't know that I'm
Speaker 1: going to be starting or giving a starting grade to
Speaker 1: McCoy or Williams anytime soon. I barely could anyway. That
Speaker 1: was with Mahomes, right, not chance. Okay, so I think
Speaker 1: we're in agreement on McCoy is gonna have to face Miami,
Speaker 1: which they don't until I believe weeks seventeen again, right,
Speaker 1: so yeah, and then any other wide receiver, whether it's
Speaker 1: even a healthy Sammy Watkins, it's all matchup dependent at
Speaker 1: this point. Are you dropping without more dropped Sammy Watkins? Yes? No,
Speaker 1: probably it depends on the scenario, of course, right, he
Speaker 1: is droppable, but circumstances he's absolutely droppable, you know, to
Speaker 1: be factor in the in the always inconsistency, that inconsistent
Speaker 1: that comes with Sammy Watkins, in with his own injury,
Speaker 1: Mahomes injury. He's out, He's dead to us right now.
Speaker 1: Let me give you this one. You're an owner scenario.
Speaker 1: You're an owner with Patrick Mahomes and your sub five hundred?
Speaker 1: Are you pushing? Are you trading him away to a
Speaker 1: playoff bound team? I can see that move, I can
Speaker 1: see that movie. I can too. Yeah, because you you need,
Speaker 1: you need the help. Probably it's your stuffy Miami and
Speaker 1: they don't, and they and Mahomes owners aren't necessarily above
Speaker 1: five hundred this year. This is not like last year
Speaker 1: where you if you have the homes, you're almost automatically
Speaker 1: over five hundred. If you are above five hundred, I think,
Speaker 1: and you've got my homes, you just hold steady and
Speaker 1: you don't panic, and you just you just wait this
Speaker 1: thing out to be able to help you. Yeah, you've
Speaker 1: got an angle for premature speculation later on in this show.
Speaker 1: All right, So there's there's the I think, the quick
Speaker 1: breakdown and on how how we feel about the homes
Speaker 1: and all the other things related to the Chiefs. And
Speaker 1: it's a really tough break from Thursday night, but um,
Speaker 1: it could have been far far worse. Assuming things hold
Speaker 1: as expected. Let's jump into the matchups, beginning with the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams taking on the Atlanta Falcons and what
Speaker 1: should be a point fest for everybody who started Jared
Speaker 1: Goff last week. Uh, you know you're feeling awfully burned.
Speaker 1: But Scott here comes what should be the cure in
Speaker 1: the form of the Falcons. Yeah. He he did not
Speaker 1: look good last week. I think seventy eight passing yards
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly. Over the last four games, qps
Speaker 1: are averaging three hundred and twenty five yards and three
Speaker 1: in a quarter touchdowns against the Atlanta Falcons. Um, so
Speaker 1: I am starting. I'm starting golf here just based on matchup,
Speaker 1: even though it's a road game. Golf doesn't usually play
Speaker 1: well in road games, but this is a road game.
Speaker 1: I'm willing to take the chance. Uh. So I do
Speaker 1: have an A grade on golf. It's just the Atlanta
Speaker 1: Falcons defenses is where I I line up that up
Speaker 1: with cano Neel out there, they're even worse for Cooper Cup,
Speaker 1: his main guy in A grade. He had a bad
Speaker 1: week last week, but he had four straight hundred yard
Speaker 1: games before that. I think he gets back to where
Speaker 1: he was there. Um, he's a guy that's played. Uh.
Speaker 1: He leads to the team with sixty nine targets. By
Speaker 1: the way, Brian, now you're sleeping nice. Over the last
Speaker 1: three weeks, the Falcons are allowing the most yards, touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and third most receptions to wide receivers. So I have
Speaker 1: all their wide receivers starting. I have a B grade
Speaker 1: on Cooks because deep speed guys like uh like will following.
Speaker 1: Even demire Bird had a fifty eight yard cat last week.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, do you speed guys can exploit Atlanta? So
Speaker 1: I got a B grade on Cooks and see has
Speaker 1: been a little disappoint What has been a little disappointing
Speaker 1: this year no touchdowns. That's more than a little disappointed. Actly,
Speaker 1: So I'm giving him a C grade just because the
Speaker 1: matchup is good enough. You should probably still start him.
Speaker 1: Have the tight ends on the bench. Gerald Everett. I
Speaker 1: know you had that hundred thirty six yard day the
Speaker 1: other day, but in his last ten games, he has
Speaker 1: that game and then he has a hundred forty six
Speaker 1: total yards, and so him and Hagbee are on the bench. Todd.
Speaker 1: This is where it gets thorny here. If Todd Gurley goes,
Speaker 1: it looks like he's gonna go. I expect him. I
Speaker 1: expect them to only play him if he's healthy, and
Speaker 1: if he's healthy, he's gonna get like the Snaps giving
Speaker 1: him a B grade, and I'm benching the other two.
Speaker 1: If he does not go, I'm I'm giving both Brown
Speaker 1: and Henderson a C grade because I think they will
Speaker 1: have seen in the last game how much more explosive
Speaker 1: Henderson looked, and they'll give him a better split. Brown
Speaker 1: is more of the goal line guy and the two
Speaker 1: down guy, but Henderson can break off a big one
Speaker 1: against Atlanta's defense. I'm giving them both Sea grades if
Speaker 1: Gurley doesn't go. If Gurley goes, I'm throwing him on
Speaker 1: the bench over to the Atlanta side. We we kind
Speaker 1: of mentioned that this is the highest over under of
Speaker 1: the week, fifty four point over under by Vegas. They
Speaker 1: expect a lot of points scoring and Matt Ryan leads
Speaker 1: the NFL and pass attempts three d plus yards in
Speaker 1: every game, multiple touchdowns in all but one game. Take
Speaker 1: away that defensive battle against the four nine ers. They're
Speaker 1: just really good. Jalen Ramsey might be able to shut
Speaker 1: down Julio, but we got tight end one Austin Hooper
Speaker 1: and Calvin Ridley and Jalen Ramsey gonna play every play.
Speaker 1: So he's been on the team for six days days.
Speaker 1: The only scenario I can see them playing having him
Speaker 1: play extended is if they say, just go sit on
Speaker 1: Julio Jones like he any cornerback can go out there
Speaker 1: and just play man, you know, So maybe that's what happens.
Speaker 1: If he does play. Julio and him have no previous history.
Speaker 1: I'm still giving Julio and a Well, we'll talk about
Speaker 1: this later, I know, actually no, we won't talk about
Speaker 1: this later, but with how much is Ryan Ryan is throwing,
Speaker 1: Julio is a stafe option even against Jams. Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 1: wide receiver is the one area the Rams aren't being
Speaker 1: dealt death blows. Uh, only four top sixty five yards
Speaker 1: all year. But that was Godwin Evans, D J. Moore
Speaker 1: and Michael Thomas conversation. So I'm still giving Julio good
Speaker 1: grade here, really a B grade scored in four of
Speaker 1: his last six. With how high scoring this game is,
Speaker 1: I think that it's very likely he gets in the
Speaker 1: end zone again here. Uh, Snow, I'm putting on the
Speaker 1: bench slot guys have not done well against the Rams,
Speaker 1: and Snoo has been a little inconsistent. Austin Hooper, we
Speaker 1: mentioned he's tight end one right now. Yes, he might
Speaker 1: be the highest scoring on many leagues. He's the highest
Speaker 1: scoring tight end, and I think he's unvengeable. Yeah, six
Speaker 1: catches at least six catches in four straight Kittle went
Speaker 1: for one oh three against this Rams team, dis Lee
Speaker 1: for eight one. Hooper a grade. Uh. In the running
Speaker 1: game demands Freeman, I'm giving a B grade two. He
Speaker 1: has at least nineteen touches and three last four Atlanta
Speaker 1: has allowed seven touchdowns to running backs in six games,
Speaker 1: and five of the six starting running backs to face
Speaker 1: them scored. So I think there's a there's a good
Speaker 1: line here for Freeman. Okay, Uh, that was a that
Speaker 1: was a thorny matchup. There was a lot of guys
Speaker 1: to get through. With all the question marks at the
Speaker 1: Rams running back situation, I know that that was particularly tricky. One.
Speaker 1: Let's go to green Bay taking on Oakland, Brian all
Speaker 1: three of the green Bay Packers wide receivers starting receivers
Speaker 1: may miss this game. Yeah, well, let's get through the
Speaker 1: green Bay side. Uh after Oakland Oaklands on the road. Here,
Speaker 1: Let's start with Josh Jacobs um and give him a b.
Speaker 1: Green Bay allowing nearly five yards for carry, I surrendered
Speaker 1: the most rushing touchdowns and running backs. The one concerned
Speaker 1: with Jacobs is the game script flips to the past
Speaker 1: and it's not all but guaranteed he gets the passing
Speaker 1: work out of the backfield. He did see a season
Speaker 1: high three targets after John Gruden said they wanted to
Speaker 1: get him more involved in the passing game, but that's
Speaker 1: really only concerned with Jacobs. Also, his left tackle Trent
Speaker 1: Brown is questionable with the cab injury, might miss this,
Speaker 1: but you're starting Jacob's either way. Definitely starting Darren Waller.
Speaker 1: Even in a tough matchup. The Packers have allowed the
Speaker 1: fifth views receiving arts the tight ends only one tight
Speaker 1: end as top thirty seven yards and that was zach Ertz.
Speaker 1: Waller is working his way into that tier uh and
Speaker 1: green Bay will be without free safety Darnell Savage, so
Speaker 1: Waller is safe be here. Tyrol Williams is out, so
Speaker 1: he's definitely on your bench. I'm not going to advocate
Speaker 1: for hunter Renfro or the newly acquired Za Jones from
Speaker 1: Buffalo there on the bench as well, and so is
Speaker 1: Derek Carr. Even the legendary Darren Waller cannot carry car
Speaker 1: to fantasy relevance over to the green Bay side. Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones gets a sea so much with the bell cow status.
Speaker 1: Lost a fumble last week, dropped a touchdown, got out
Speaker 1: snapped by Jamal Williams. Warning nine percent outtouched fifteen to eighteen.
Speaker 1: And this is not a good matchup, believe it or not.
Speaker 1: According to Football Outsiders, Oakland has ranked sixth against the run,
Speaker 1: and over their last two games they've held Marlon Mack
Speaker 1: and David Montgomery to a combined sixty four yards on
Speaker 1: twenty two carries on the ground. Uh. So Jamal Williams,
Speaker 1: I think he got to give him a sea here. Um.
Speaker 1: As you already mentioned Charch and I'm gonna talk about more.
Speaker 1: The Packers are basically out of wide receivers, so Williams
Speaker 1: could have an expanded role coming off arguably the best
Speaker 1: game of his career. And Tariko and in ninety Mins
Speaker 1: each had six receptions against Oakland over their last two games.
Speaker 1: So Williams is a factor in PPR. Davante Adams not
Speaker 1: gonna factor. Most likely he's doubtful with that toe injury.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna go. Jerome Geronimo Allison and Mark Kee's
Speaker 1: of all this scantling both on the wrong side of
Speaker 1: questionable as well as they don't go. That leaves Alan
Speaker 1: Lazard and Jake Kumero and Darius Shephard. Uh. Lazard had
Speaker 1: four catches for sixty five yards in a touchtown the
Speaker 1: quote unquote comeback win on My Day football. Uh and
Speaker 1: his target total quote matched that of Kumarro and Shepard combined.
Speaker 1: So I'll give Lazard the sea here. He was might
Speaker 1: take a chance on me runner up at wide receiver,
Speaker 1: but did not make the cut. I'm actually a little
Speaker 1: shocked that you, with your revenge game and birthday game,
Speaker 1: didn't even mention that they picked up Ryan Grant this
Speaker 1: week who played for Oakland. That maybe it's some midside.
Speaker 1: Isn't his birthday too? If if it was, then I
Speaker 1: give him an a who is not getting as Jimmy Graham.
Speaker 1: And this is it for Jimmy Graham. If he does
Speaker 1: not douce here, he is his fantasy relevance is dead.
Speaker 1: He should be dropped in every league and never added again.
Speaker 1: Oakland allowing sixty yards per game to tight ends. They've
Speaker 1: allowed three scores to the position over their last four.
Speaker 1: So if Graham doesn't do anything here, cut ties entirely
Speaker 1: for eternity, and Aaron Rodgers just gonna get a sea
Speaker 1: here has a ragtag crew receivers. Uh, it's still Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers at home. Though Oakland has ranked against the past
Speaker 1: by Football Outsiders, they've allowed multip touchdown passes and three
Speaker 1: of five the two quarterbacks who failed to do so
Speaker 1: or Joe Flacco and then Kirk Cousins in a blowout
Speaker 1: win soft. It is a soft see no minus minus.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. You go back twelve games. Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: is barely a touchdown per game, barely a touchdown per game,
Speaker 1: and you take his number one, number two, number three
Speaker 1: receivers off the field, and then Jimmy Graham's on the field.
Speaker 1: Those are that's four pretty big strikes against you. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I can't, I can't advocate starting. There will
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Speaker 1: many of whom are available on the waiver wire. When
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks running back some receivers hit paydirt, you pay
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind if they did, though, can you? I
Speaker 1: would be nice? Go fund being or something. Let's do yeah,
Speaker 1: let's well, especially hit him and how I didn't earn
Speaker 1: much last week? Maybe not? Well, we'll do better this week,
Speaker 1: beginning at the quarterback position and Brian Johnson, who you got?
Speaker 1: I got Indies? Jacoby Brissette at home versus versus the Texans. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Texans have partaken in some point orgies over the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. Their offense is red hot, and
Speaker 1: so the over under a forty seven and a half
Speaker 1: is very enticing for this game and for the record, UH.
Speaker 1: These teams totaled a hundred and sixteen points across their
Speaker 1: two regular season games last year, so they like to
Speaker 1: run up the score. UH. Jacoby is playing great football.
Speaker 1: He is one of ten quarterbacks with double digit touchdowns
Speaker 1: UH this season. But he's the only one of those
Speaker 1: ten quarterbacks who have his bye week, so he's ahead
Speaker 1: of the pace right now. And Houston owns the second
Speaker 1: highest opponent passing play percentage at precisely, precisely sixty eight
Speaker 1: point zero one percent. Obviously, I'm gonna round that up
Speaker 1: to uh, anyone want to throw in a nice there, fish,
Speaker 1: you're sleeping at the handle. Very nice, not very nice
Speaker 1: at all. And really the text and secondary is not good.
Speaker 1: If they've allowed multiple passing touchdowns and three of their
Speaker 1: last four Kyle Allen was the one quarterback that failed
Speaker 1: to throw multiple pat touchdown passes. Starting corners Bradley Roby
Speaker 1: and Jonathan Joseph are battling injuries, limited in practice all
Speaker 1: week and lastly presented sixth among quarterbacks and rushing attempts.
Speaker 1: And although Houston hasn't truly been tested by mobile quarterback
Speaker 1: this year, they did surrender fifty six rushing yards of
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew on six carries, and Matt Ryan rushed for
Speaker 1: a touchdown a couple of weeks ago. Well that's it
Speaker 1: for the segment that is the longest ever. Take a
Speaker 1: chance on me, read out a lot. I don't even
Speaker 1: remember we're talking about anymore, alright, are we redoing it then,
Speaker 1: Who wasn't Jacoby proct Jacoby Prissette. Good heavens man, alright, jeez,
Speaker 1: let me do that one more time. I'll help you charge.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Let's we'll zip these along. Good
Speaker 1: heavens Scott, You're take a chance to be quarterback? Is
Speaker 1: I got Daniel Jones? Uh? He? He looked bad over
Speaker 1: the last few weeks. Not bad, but two yards and
Speaker 1: only three touchdowns over the last two weeks. But the
Speaker 1: Cards are the worst NFL against fantasy quarterbacks. Multiple passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns in all but one game, third, most passing yards,
Speaker 1: have not intercepted a pass yet this year. But wait,
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson's back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Patrick Peterson is back.
Speaker 1: But I think it's still gonna be okay for Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1: Second most passing touchdowns allowed the Cardinals. Cardinals, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good matchup. I've got Gardner Minshew
Speaker 1: going up against the Bengals. Bengals are gonna be without
Speaker 1: both starting cornerbacks in this game, Drake Kirkpatrick and William Jackson,
Speaker 1: and the Bengals will let you beat them on the
Speaker 1: ground and through the air. Kyler Murray ninety three rushing
Speaker 1: yards in a rushing score. Lamar Jackson hundred fifty two
Speaker 1: rushing yards and a rushing score against the Bengals. And
Speaker 1: then you can pass on them as well. We saw
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo with his only three touchdown game of the year,
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph through to Gardner Minshew by ground and by air.
Speaker 1: He's fleeting foot, you know, not by sea. Well, I'd
Speaker 1: like to see it happen. It could happen. He could
Speaker 1: get a C grade. And then how about that. Okay,
Speaker 1: it comes around there, Brian, who is you take a
Speaker 1: chance of me? Running back Phillies Miles Sanders at the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: This matchup sets up nicely on paper for Sanders, who
Speaker 1: has established himself as the clear pass catching back over
Speaker 1: their last two games. Here's Phillies target distribution among the
Speaker 1: running backs. Eight for Sanders, one for Darren Sprawls, who's
Speaker 1: not going to play in this game most likely, and
Speaker 1: then that's the end of the list. No one else
Speaker 1: has a target among running backs. So the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: second in targets and red zone targets yielded to running backs.
Speaker 1: They're also second and catches allowed to opposing running backs
Speaker 1: allowing seven catches and fifty yards per game to the position,
Speaker 1: and Sanders should see more than the three carries he
Speaker 1: received in last week's lopside had lost in Minnesota. His
Speaker 1: carry totals in the previous games are nine, eleven, thirteen, ten,
Speaker 1: and eleven. So h Sanders is a solid PPR play
Speaker 1: this week. Alright, I see. I thought you were going
Speaker 1: to go smartass on me and give me like a
Speaker 1: one sentence rationale for Sanders. No, not the case. Scott
Speaker 1: needs more than that. He deserves more than that. He needs.
Speaker 1: He needs Scott, You're take a chance for me? Running
Speaker 1: back is the guy I love this week. I'm going
Speaker 1: I gotta go with my guy. We talked about him
Speaker 1: in January. I've been liking this guy since way before
Speaker 1: the pre draft processing. Devin Singletary. You remember back a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago when I take home Tony Pollard against
Speaker 1: the Dolphins as a second running back and he had
Speaker 1: a hundred plus in a touchdown. Well, that is Devin Singletary.
Speaker 1: This week, he gets those same Miami Dolphins who have
Speaker 1: allowed the most rush attempts, rush yards, receiving yards, total
Speaker 1: yards and receiving touchdowns to running backs. Get this, He's
Speaker 1: only rushed the ball ten times this season. He's healthy
Speaker 1: again now. By the way, ten times this season seven yards,
Speaker 1: that's twelve point seven yards per tempt. Seven of them, yes,
Speaker 1: seven of them went for twelve yards or more. Three
Speaker 1: of them went for over twenty yards. For reference, Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey only has three rushes over twenty yards and Devin
Speaker 1: Singletary did it in ten attempts. Give him ten to
Speaker 1: twelve touches in this one against the Dolphins. He's gonna
Speaker 1: play for you. He's going to play, and I love him.
Speaker 1: There's week I've got Matt Breda, who granted is he's
Speaker 1: already rostered on a lot of teams, and I realized that,
Speaker 1: and so it's more just get him off your bench
Speaker 1: in this game against Washington. And yes, Tevin Coleman will
Speaker 1: get we'll get probably a little bit more work and
Speaker 1: probably get the goal line carries, but still plenty to
Speaker 1: go along around here. And and by the way, Matt
Speaker 1: Breed is a lot better then Kevin Coleman. He's just better.
Speaker 1: He's just a better at the two backs. He goes
Speaker 1: up against the Redskins defense that has allowed the seventh
Speaker 1: most fantasy points to running backs. They've allowed six scores
Speaker 1: two runners in their last five games for rank first
Speaker 1: in run ratio. First. There's gonna be plenty of action here.
Speaker 1: Matt Breed is gonna get paid in this one. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the receiver position, Brian, you got all right.
Speaker 1: Here's a guy who's probably not on anybody's teams, but
Speaker 1: that should change. Uh. That is Dallas's Cedric Wilson going
Speaker 1: up against the al right, Amari Cooper very unlikely to play.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about this matchup more later on Randall Cobb
Speaker 1: also unlikely to play, but he's a slot receivers. Drick
Speaker 1: Wilson's an outside guy, a sixth round rookie UH six three,
Speaker 1: as well as good big body if he draws the start,
Speaker 1: arguably walking into the most cake matchup for wide receivers.
Speaker 1: This year, Philly has allowed the most wide receiver touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Six different wide receivers have topped one hundred yards against
Speaker 1: the Eagles. Already, Philly has yielded the third most red
Speaker 1: zone targets and the second most red zone touches to
Speaker 1: opposing wide receivers, and when Cooper went down, it was Wilson,
Speaker 1: who came in with five catches for forty eight yards
Speaker 1: against the Jets. He looked like the next guy up,
Speaker 1: Fire him up. If Mari is out, you know that's
Speaker 1: a good chance he is Scott. You'll take a chance
Speaker 1: to the receiver. I'm going with Jamison Crowder. He has
Speaker 1: twenty six targets in the two games with Donald, resulting
Speaker 1: in twenty catches and nearly a hundred yards in each game.
Speaker 1: Golden take Cole Beasley, Jujudmith, Schuster all had three Hall
Speaker 1: had decent days against the Patriots growing up against Jonathan
Speaker 1: Joseph or Jonathan Jones. In fact, those are the three
Speaker 1: best wide receiver days against the Patriots this year. Uh
Speaker 1: if if crowd is gonna be a lock for eight, nine,
Speaker 1: ten to which he usually is, which he usually is,
Speaker 1: he is he has been this year. Uh, he's going
Speaker 1: to get a C grade for me and a take
Speaker 1: come take on play and available in most leagues. I'm
Speaker 1: sure I don't want to brag, but if you go
Speaker 1: back to Week one, I called Chris Conley's only good
Speaker 1: game of the year, and I'm doing it again calling
Speaker 1: my shot and Chris Conley, despite his zero catch performance
Speaker 1: last week. He's actually the team leader. He by the
Speaker 1: way he plays for the Jaguars. If you're not even
Speaker 1: sure he's your starting receiver opposite DJ Chark, he's the
Speaker 1: team leader in snaps ahead of d J Chark. He
Speaker 1: goes up against the Bengals, already already told you I
Speaker 1: love Gardner Minshew. I told you that without their starting cornerbacks,
Speaker 1: to tell you their backups are. The cornerbacks are gonna
Speaker 1: start for the Bengals. Tony McCrae and Tory mc flat tire. Now,
Speaker 1: how bad are they? Tony McCrae rays as cornerback by
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus, and Tory mcflat tire was cut by
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. When you're so bad that the Dolphins kick
Speaker 1: you to the curb, you don't belong in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I got a nickname for Tony better than make flat tire. Well,
Speaker 1: no that no McCray, Tony mcmccray up, McClay up. It's
Speaker 1: a clay up to start somebody against him, like Chris Conley.
Speaker 1: I'm listening to that sort of not my best work.
Speaker 1: It was, it was improblem it was improvised. You know
Speaker 1: you're working, you're you're working, your material right now in
Speaker 1: real time on the air. Let's work in one matchup.
Speaker 1: Miami takes on the Buffalo Bills and Scott you already
Speaker 1: told us some of the players on the Bills side
Speaker 1: that we like in this one. But let's go to
Speaker 1: the Miami side. Buffalo's defense is so much better than
Speaker 1: people realize. I've got to believe this is like a
Speaker 1: zero starter. There's not a starter, especially with well I
Speaker 1: shouldn't I'm sorry, but even with ste Beard coming in,
Speaker 1: there's not not a start. It's not happening. Just White
Speaker 1: is gonna knock out either Devontae Parker or Preston Williams
Speaker 1: that they can they can cover him, no problem, start,
Speaker 1: no one here, so real quick. Sorry. The Dolphins give
Speaker 1: Ryan Tanneinghill like seven years to try and to become
Speaker 1: something and Josh Rosen gets three starts and then they
Speaker 1: kick him to the her. Maybe they're just trying to
Speaker 1: not wreck Rosen. No, I'm serious. I'm kind of serious
Speaker 1: about that. I think they might be benching him out
Speaker 1: of mercy for his career. Yeah, he's had he's had
Speaker 1: a rough go, a lot of a lot of situations.
Speaker 1: On the other side, though, Josh Allen just to smash
Speaker 1: a start here against the Miami Dolphins, second worst against quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Alan has multiple passing touchdowns in five last six, but
Speaker 1: get this last year against Miami nine rushing and nine
Speaker 1: for and two rushing two touchdowns. Those are some big
Speaker 1: rushing days. He also threw two and three touchdown passes
Speaker 1: in those games, respectively. It's just a great matchup for him.
Speaker 1: Already mentioned Singletary love him as a tay com I
Speaker 1: even like I even like bore Gore. Bore Gore has
Speaker 1: sixteen or more touches in every game since Week one.
Speaker 1: Running Backs with at least fourteen touches against Miami average
Speaker 1: ten total yards. What do you think the touch the
Speaker 1: carry distribution will be between Singletary and Gore and this
Speaker 1: juicy matchup with Miami. This is a team I think
Speaker 1: runs the ball thirty plus times in this game, so
Speaker 1: I'm not too worried about it. You think it's I
Speaker 1: think it's probably more likely an eighteen twelve type of
Speaker 1: Gore to Singletary thing. But onto the wide receivers, I
Speaker 1: think Brown can have a decent day here. No Bills
Speaker 1: receiver has top seventy five yards since Week two that's
Speaker 1: a little rough. With Duke Williams coming in last week,
Speaker 1: Brown still remained the guy, so I think he has
Speaker 1: some options here against a week Miami defense. But the
Speaker 1: other guys, Beasley, Duke Williams, I can't trust them yet.
Speaker 1: I'm mentioning all of them all right, Um, I don't
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Speaker 1: For the Viking side, you want to watch the status
Speaker 1: of left tackle Riley Reef, who comes into this one
Speaker 1: is a probable game time decision um obviously if he
Speaker 1: is not able to go, all the Vikings take a
Speaker 1: bit of a step backwards here. Dalvin Cook is an
Speaker 1: obviously regardless, He's got a lifetime average of six yards
Speaker 1: per carry against Detroit. There's nothing, There's no part of
Speaker 1: Detroit that's going to dissuade you from starting him. And
Speaker 1: I'm not going to ease an obvious a grade. As
Speaker 1: for the passing game, I've got B grades beginning with
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins left for dead as recently as two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: has another good opportunity against the Lions. Now, I know
Speaker 1: the Lions held Patrick Mahomes scoreless in Week four, and
Speaker 1: so there's a temptation to think they're better than they are,
Speaker 1: but they're mostly the middle of the pack defense. They
Speaker 1: can be beaten. Four of the five passers they've faced
Speaker 1: have top two hundred eighty yards. Three of the five
Speaker 1: have thrown multiple touchdown passes. With the Lions unable to
Speaker 1: generate much of a pass rush, they've got just ten
Speaker 1: sacks on the whole season. By the way, what what
Speaker 1: How many sacks did Denver allowed? Seven just on Thursday night?
Speaker 1: I think so, yeah, nine times? I thought was it?
Speaker 1: In fact, I believe it wasn't nine times? And I
Speaker 1: guess maybe I just may I lost it. After after
Speaker 1: seven you start to lose track. I think Cousins should
Speaker 1: be comfortable in the pocket, which has been the case
Speaker 1: for two straight weeks. His Cousins played at a high level,
Speaker 1: and that's really the whole bit on Cousins startable when
Speaker 1: he's comfortable in the pocket. So there you go, and
Speaker 1: Adam thelands his number one target, who also gets a
Speaker 1: B grade. He runs out of the slot more than
Speaker 1: any other Viking receiver and that gives him the most
Speaker 1: favorable matchup on the field. Every single wide receiver touchdown
Speaker 1: the Lions have given up has come from the slot,
Speaker 1: including Alan Lizard mentioned last segment out of the slot.
Speaker 1: Theeland's track record, I'll mention though in this matchup is spotty.
Speaker 1: In ten matchups with the Lions, He's only scored one time. Nevertheless,
Speaker 1: I like the match up here. He will avoid the
Speaker 1: slag ride that Stefon Diggs will suffer, and that's why
Speaker 1: Digs is a C grade even after the big game
Speaker 1: last week. Darius Slay is great. He's only allowing forty
Speaker 1: one yards per game now. No, as I mentioned, no
Speaker 1: outside receivers scored on the Lions all years, so there's
Speaker 1: that as well. But let's watch Darius Slays hamstring injury
Speaker 1: for any reason. Slay can't go screen light on Stefon Digg,
Speaker 1: so uh Slay is dealing with that injury. Will watch him.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Lion side, beginning with krry On
Speaker 1: Johnson in the midst of a disappointing season, and I
Speaker 1: in all fairness. I was. I thought he was sitting
Speaker 1: on a much better season that he's had so far,
Speaker 1: and it just has not worked out. Johnson is just
Speaker 1: one game of more than fifty rushing yards. He's put
Speaker 1: up a dismal thirty eight yard performance in his one
Speaker 1: game against the Vikings last year. Minnesota's allowed just four
Speaker 1: rushing scores to backs in their last twelve road games.
Speaker 1: The Vikings are a good road run defense as well.
Speaker 1: It's there's nothing to like here there the Vikings giving
Speaker 1: up just three point yards per carry. I've got a
Speaker 1: C grade on carry and Johnson most just mostly just
Speaker 1: due to volume. Honestly, he should be in the twenty
Speaker 1: ish Carrie range and that's the only reason that he
Speaker 1: still gets a C grade. Let's go to the passing game.
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford's last two games featured zero touchdown passes and
Speaker 1: sixteen yards and one yard. That's it. No bad uh.
Speaker 1: Minnesota has held him to zero or one touchdowns in
Speaker 1: four of his last five meetings. So and what else
Speaker 1: is hurting staff At his low volume, He's averaging only
Speaker 1: thirty one passes per game, and since the overtime game
Speaker 1: and the opener. Since then, thirty one passes per game.
Speaker 1: It's just enough, just not enough passes to get much done.
Speaker 1: So just the C grade on Matthew Stafford here. Even
Speaker 1: if you got to start a receiver, the only one
Speaker 1: I like particularly is Kenny Golladay. She has been absolutely
Speaker 1: matchup proof this year. One receiving yards and or a
Speaker 1: touchdown in four of five games. For Golliday, I think
Speaker 1: you have to temper your expectations because he's never exceeded
Speaker 1: sixty one yards or scored against the Vikings. Ever, he's
Speaker 1: gonna draw Xavier Rhodes for most of this game. Rhodes
Speaker 1: has played better than the last few games, so I'm
Speaker 1: nervous about Holiday here. But a B grade just on
Speaker 1: talent and because he's been so productive this year. After
Speaker 1: him and the only other guy that gets a starting
Speaker 1: grade is t J. Hockenson. Tight ends are averaging eleve
Speaker 1: ben targets per game against the Vikings. And get this,
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks the Vikings have given have
Speaker 1: tight ends against the Vikings have been targeted twenty nine
Speaker 1: times and they've caught twenty nine passes. That's unbelievable. The
Speaker 1: Vikings have allowed the fifth most yards to tight ends
Speaker 1: but have yet to UH yet to surrender a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So I've got a C grade on t J Hockenson
Speaker 1: in this one. Marvin Jonson's on the bench. He's he
Speaker 1: has been Fantasy irrelevant, and I don't like his matchup
Speaker 1: against Trey Waynes. Let's go to our next matchup, Houston
Speaker 1: taking on Indianapolis. Brian uh. This is a Houston team
Speaker 1: that has got people very frustrated and flummixed with their
Speaker 1: wide receivers, Will Fuller and DeAndre Hopkins. How do you
Speaker 1: feel about the passing game in this one in particular?
Speaker 1: Before we get into that, it's worth noting these teams
Speaker 1: played three times last year, the two regular season meetings
Speaker 1: and then in the in the playoffs. Okay, so I
Speaker 1: I get the feeling there's some good historic data. There
Speaker 1: is some good historic data here. We'll start with the
Speaker 1: wide receivers that you alluded to. DeAndre Hopkins. He gotta
Speaker 1: keep riding him. As frustrating as it's been, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give him an a here. He scored in both the
Speaker 1: regular seasons and games last year against UH Indie, but
Speaker 1: he was held under forty yards in the playoff game
Speaker 1: with no touchdown. And in the Week thirteen game. But
Speaker 1: the very comparable number one receivers like Keenan Allen Julio
Speaker 1: Jones both top two hundred tony yards and scored a
Speaker 1: touchdown against the Colts this year. So just continue to
Speaker 1: give Hopkins the a treatment and everything will work out fine,
Speaker 1: I promise. Uh if it will. Fuller could give a
Speaker 1: b here. Uh. The Colts will be without starting safety
Speaker 1: Malik Hooker, who was the quarterback of their secondary. Fuller
Speaker 1: was only healthy for the first meeting between these teams
Speaker 1: last year. He did have four catches for forty nine
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown, and the Colts have allowed at
Speaker 1: least seventy five yards to two wide receivers on the
Speaker 1: same team in two of their last three games. So
Speaker 1: fire up Hopkins and Fuller, maybe even Kiki Cuti. Cutie
Speaker 1: played in two of the three games last year, the
Speaker 1: Week four game and then the playoff games, so he
Speaker 1: kind of book ended the matchups. His lines were eleven
Speaker 1: catches for a hundred and ten yards in a touchdown
Speaker 1: and eleven catch is for a hundred and nine yards.
Speaker 1: Eleven catches are a lock, but you just kidding. Kenny
Speaker 1: Stills might make his return to that really muddies those waters.
Speaker 1: If Stills comes back, cut end still is on the bench.
Speaker 1: If Stills is out, will give QTI the sea here
Speaker 1: and the tight ends are worth talking about in Houston
Speaker 1: for once. How about the Houston tight end. Houston has
Speaker 1: the most tight ends in football right now, most total
Speaker 1: tighten most total that could be true, but the most
Speaker 1: total tight end touchdowns. Okay, touchdown, that's a mouthful. They're
Speaker 1: also top eight and tight end yards. Uh. Darren Fells
Speaker 1: and Jordan Aikins have both been producing as of late,
Speaker 1: but Fells has been the alpha dog. Over the last
Speaker 1: four games. He has six catches for sixty nine nice yards,
Speaker 1: then two catches for twenty yards and two touchdowns. He
Speaker 1: did have one dud in the span with one catch
Speaker 1: for twelve yards, but then uh, the fourth game five
Speaker 1: catches for forty nine yards and a touchdown, and opposing
Speaker 1: tight ends are averaging nine targets, six plus catches and
Speaker 1: sixty seven yards against the Colts with three total touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So Darren Fells gets a starting grade with the Sea
Speaker 1: here and Deshaun Watson, I'm just gonna give him an
Speaker 1: a not get into that at all. He's in an
Speaker 1: elite spot here. Over the Colt side, Marlon Mack can
Speaker 1: give him a B. Had been nursing an ankle injury,
Speaker 1: but should be fully healthy coming off the bye week
Speaker 1: for the Colts. Houston has surrendered the most receptions running
Speaker 1: backs this season as well. Nine Hines could steal some
Speaker 1: of that work, but Mac does get third down work,
Speaker 1: and for what it's worth, he scored a rushing touchdown
Speaker 1: in all three meetings with the Texans last year. Who
Speaker 1: has scored a lot of touchdowns against the Texans in
Speaker 1: his career is t Y Hilton. He's my number one
Speaker 1: wide receiver play this week. Yeah, I'm just gonna say
Speaker 1: his lines in the three games UH from last year.
Speaker 1: In previous years he'd be putting up like two hundred
Speaker 1: yards and three touchdowns in some of these games. The
Speaker 1: last year five for eighty five, nine hundred and fifteen.
Speaker 1: Very safe floor, very high ceiling. There have been five
Speaker 1: players that have seen seven plus targets UH, five wide
Speaker 1: receivers and he seven plus targets against the Texans this year.
Speaker 1: They've combined to average eight catches for a hundred and
Speaker 1: six yards and six total touchdowns. Those five wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Hilton's gonna see seven plus targets in this game. I
Speaker 1: brought it out Paris Campbell, Dion Kane, Zach Pascal. One
Speaker 1: of these guys is going to produce, but I don't
Speaker 1: know which, so that's impossible to decode. So they're all
Speaker 1: on the bench, so is Eric Ebron and Jack Doyle.
Speaker 1: I would go Doyle if I had to pick one,
Speaker 1: but this is just a bad matchup. Doyles on the
Speaker 1: field like three quarters of the play, and you know,
Speaker 1: for Ebron, you if you don't get the touchdown, you
Speaker 1: get nothing, and you can't trust him to catch the ball.
Speaker 1: Houston has surrendered the fourth viewest yards at tight ends
Speaker 1: zero touchdowns to the position. They're both easily on the bench,
Speaker 1: but I did have Jacobe said it's might take a
Speaker 1: chance to me quarterback. I think t Y Hilton has
Speaker 1: enough to carry him to two touchdowns probably. I love Hilton,
Speaker 1: by the way, good trade candidate as well, because that
Speaker 1: nagging injury really suppressed a lot of his value, and
Speaker 1: then you sort of forget about a guy. In the
Speaker 1: bye week, it's a good time to buy on t
Speaker 1: Y Hilton. Jacksonville takes on Cincinnati and I've already I've
Speaker 1: already talked to fair amount about to the Jacksonville see
Speaker 1: because I love Gardner Minshew. Who's might take a chance
Speaker 1: of me? Quarterback? By the way on that Yeah, Carl
Speaker 1: Lawson and Carlos Downe that both likely to miss as well.
Speaker 1: So who's gonna be rushing Minshew? Nobody? It's it's crazy,
Speaker 1: you know we talked earlier. Drake Kirkpatrick is out starting cornerback.
Speaker 1: The other starting quarterback, William Jackson out. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: starting Tony McCrae and Tory mctire. D J Chark A
Speaker 1: grade for d J h R. This feels like a
Speaker 1: fantastic opportunity for him against that injury plague secondary and
Speaker 1: obviously he's been very good in every game until last week,
Speaker 1: so he's he's gotten a grade. Chris Conley was might
Speaker 1: take a chance of me wide receiver with a C grade,
Speaker 1: let's go to you know he's on the bench. I
Speaker 1: found it. I found a Jaguar de bench d D
Speaker 1: Westbrook five straight games. Thought a score heavy dud opportunity here,
Speaker 1: even with with Kirkpatrick and Jackson out, those guys are
Speaker 1: outside cornerbacks and Westbrook runs from the slot where he
Speaker 1: gets solid slot cornerback B W. Webb. You know that's
Speaker 1: just that's the path of most resistance goes through D. D. Westbrook.
Speaker 1: People always talk about the path of least resistance. Nobody
Speaker 1: wants to talk about the path of most resistance. That's
Speaker 1: D D. Westbrook, who's on the bench. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Leo Fournette. Bengals allowing the second most yards and the
Speaker 1: most touchdowns to opposing running backs on the ground. For
Speaker 1: Nott has got at least four receptions in five or
Speaker 1: six games, and Cincinnati is allowing the fifth most receptions
Speaker 1: and the second most yards and touchdowns to opposing receiving backs.
Speaker 1: It's an awesome, awesome start for Leonard four Net wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised if he finishes the day as the highest
Speaker 1: scoring fantasy running back. Let's go to the Cincinnati side.
Speaker 1: I've only got two starters for you. One of them
Speaker 1: is Joe Mixon. Now mixing is only really to this point,
Speaker 1: He's only been capable of generating a decent fantasy game
Speaker 1: against the worst defenses in the league. Guess what Jacksonville
Speaker 1: kind of qualifies. They're giving up the fifth most rushing yards,
Speaker 1: the second most yards per carry five point four yards
Speaker 1: per carry for Jacksonville. Maybe Derrick Henry broke them the
Speaker 1: end of last year. Maybe that's maybe that's dead. So
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon startable here. I've got a B grade on him.
Speaker 1: Jack again, Jaguars defense, it's not it's not that your
Speaker 1: father's knowledge. It's not only you could have a one
Speaker 1: year old and pointing go him. It's not his. It's
Speaker 1: not Jags defense that recovered every single fumble. They can
Speaker 1: remember that. Uh. The only other starting grade I've got
Speaker 1: his Tyler Boyd, who has now seen seven or fewer
Speaker 1: targets and two of his last three games, Jacksonville hasn't
Speaker 1: allowed a score to an imposing receiver in their last
Speaker 1: two games, and They're only glaring weakness is cornerback Trey Herndon,
Speaker 1: who Boyd won't see. Unfortunately, he's gonna see d J. Hayden,
Speaker 1: who yielded three catches for sixteen scoreless yards over the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. I know it's all bad news on Boyd,
Speaker 1: but I think he's the only quasi startable guy out
Speaker 1: of all of this. Because I can't start Audent Tate
Speaker 1: and I'm not starting alex ericson either. In fact, forget it,
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd's going on the bench to the whole passing
Speaker 1: offenses on the bench. Dalton's had three good Fantasy games
Speaker 1: and three bad Fantasy games. This one leads towards bad
Speaker 1: even without Jalen Ramsey, and people will be like, oh,
Speaker 1: thout Jalen Ramsey. We can do whatever we want on
Speaker 1: that defense. No you can't. It's still gonna be a
Speaker 1: tricky matchup, and I don't trust the wobbly offense in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Take advantage. I know a lot of people are enamored
Speaker 1: with Audent Tate finally uh, finally producing. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Tell people about this the I love this bit. The
Speaker 1: scientific notation for gold is AU and Auden Tate with
Speaker 1: if we switched the AU to gold would be Golden Tate,
Speaker 1: Golden Tate tated Tates in the league. I noticed that
Speaker 1: this week and I'm like, what, that's unbelievable. A J.
Speaker 1: Bouye probably hammers him. So that's probably the end of that. Um,
Speaker 1: we've got one matchup left for this segment, Arizona taking
Speaker 1: on the Giants. We've got three minutes. I think you
Speaker 1: can do it. Scott. Okay, let's do it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with the home team here, taking Jones
Speaker 1: as my take. M So don't even talk about him.
Speaker 1: Golden Tate, as we just mentioned to another, is not
Speaker 1: going to get Patrick Peterson as in the later years.
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson has not moved into this lot quite as much.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to avoid him, and he might
Speaker 1: be c startable here against the Arizona Cardinals. That that
Speaker 1: might be where Jones gets some of his yardage. Uh.
Speaker 1: The other wide receivers though, no thanks, just Slayton Shepherd,
Speaker 1: none of them. Don't don't see other Shepherd by the way,
Speaker 1: not Sterling, yes, Sterling, Darius Shepherd. The rookie Evan Ingram
Speaker 1: a grade. As everyone said in the Giant's bad tight
Speaker 1: end here death taxes and tight ends against Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: I forgot crushed but didn't do anything but against them.
Speaker 1: But Evan is much better. Barkley's in a grade hundred
Speaker 1: thirty seven total yards in each of his first two
Speaker 1: full games that he played this year. Uh. Joneses mobility
Speaker 1: should open things up a little more for Barkley here
Speaker 1: as well. A grade there on the Arizona side given
Speaker 1: an A to Murray. I'm glad he's finally regressing back
Speaker 1: to the met with those touchdowns. He was the first
Speaker 1: quarterback to have yards passing and two hundred yards rushing
Speaker 1: in NFL history. The taildowns were coming. He only had
Speaker 1: four touchdowns his first five games. They were gonna come,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad they come. Three hundred plus yards allowed
Speaker 1: by the Giants to four of the six q bs
Speaker 1: they faced, second most passing yards allowed on the season,
Speaker 1: and Murray's averaging forty attempts per game in the fastest
Speaker 1: paced offense. He's gonna rack up points. So his main man,
Speaker 1: his his safety blanket. Larry Fitzgerald. I'm giving him a
Speaker 1: B grade here. I kind of want to give him
Speaker 1: an A grade here, but he hasn't had like super
Speaker 1: A grade numbers this season. Uh, he's right on that border.
Speaker 1: Five catches bench in the rest of the wide receivers,
Speaker 1: David Johnson. I do like against the Giants, who have
Speaker 1: allowed the fourth most total yards to running backs, Chase Edmonds,
Speaker 1: maybe a sneakers sneaky yeah, eighteen touches and the last
Speaker 1: two games, if he can get you ten touches. This
Speaker 1: is a defense he can pop off, you know when
Speaker 1: a locked times they break David Johnson out as a
Speaker 1: wide receiver and Chase Edmonds loan back and then they
Speaker 1: will hand them the ball. They'll throw to Chase Edmonds.
Speaker 1: He's finding ways to get involved all the time. Eight
Speaker 1: targets per game over the last four Yeah, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Coming up next, we'll answer three tough questions. You can
Speaker 1: play along, try to go a perfect three and oh.
Speaker 1: Three tough questions coming up next on Fantasy Football Weekly.
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Speaker 1: fanball dot Com. Scott Fish and Brian Johnson comprised my
Speaker 1: panel of experts for this segment. You are a panel
Speaker 1: of two. I'm not on the panel. I'm I'm asking
Speaker 1: the questions. Three tough questions. Is there a minimum requirement
Speaker 1: a panel? Is its time compliance? I don't think it is. Actually,
Speaker 1: I exist at least three Yeah, yeah, it's something like that. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's time to get into the grinder. Three tough questions.
Speaker 1: Listeners play along see if you can go three and
Speaker 1: oh as his tradition. Question one inexplicably DeAndre Hopkins is
Speaker 1: on a five game scoreless streak, and Houston has proven
Speaker 1: it doesn't need Hopkins touchdowns to win games for the
Speaker 1: rest of the season. Will DeAndre Hopkins production remain as
Speaker 1: it is currently, will it improve slightly or will it
Speaker 1: improve dramatically? You'll notice I'm not saying you're even giving
Speaker 1: you a worse from than here scenario in this or
Speaker 1: remains steady, improves slightly, or improved dramatically. Brian all Right.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins is currently eleventh in air yards and airy
Speaker 1: yards measures how far football travels to the receiver, whether
Speaker 1: he catches it or not. You know, it measures opportunity essentially,
Speaker 1: so he's eleventh in air yards last he finished third
Speaker 1: right now, Hopkins is a target share Last year he
Speaker 1: led the league at thirty two. Of course, those numbers
Speaker 1: are propped up by Will Fuller going down with injury.
Speaker 1: Will Fuller is healthy right now, and will Fuller has
Speaker 1: more air yards, yards and touchdowns than Hopkins. There's clearly
Speaker 1: a direct correlation with the downtick in production for Hopkins,
Speaker 1: who is on pace for a hundred and six yards
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, hundred and six catches. That's on par for
Speaker 1: what you'd expect from him, but only one thousand, seventy
Speaker 1: two yards and five touchdowns right now is what he's
Speaker 1: on pace four. I do think those totals will improve,
Speaker 1: but just slightly. Mines. Will Fuller stays healthy, proved slightly, Scott.
Speaker 1: I think it's actually gonna improve dramatically. Remember Julio last year,
Speaker 1: no touchdowns in the first seven games. Not he did
Speaker 1: in his next twelve games twelve touchdowns. Positive regression is
Speaker 1: coming in this one. The Houston tight ends are scoring
Speaker 1: at a probably unsustainable rate right now. I think they
Speaker 1: have five or six, so those touchdowns, I don't know
Speaker 1: that I see that happening much longer. And I'm doing
Speaker 1: a quick check here as I look, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think that. Nope, Kiki qt, Will Filler and Kenny
Speaker 1: Stills have never had a full healthy season combined at all,
Speaker 1: so has only been in like two years constantly out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so will Fuller has been healthy. But does he stay healthy?
Speaker 1: That that might be the question. I think it improves
Speaker 1: dramatically though. I think he's He's getting the opportunity. It's
Speaker 1: just those touchdowns are going to tight ends and stuff.
Speaker 1: It's gonna come. It's funny you use the exact same
Speaker 1: phrasing that I have on the first bullet point of
Speaker 1: the correct answer. Positive regression coming for Hopkins Since his
Speaker 1: rookie year, He's only had one five game dry spell
Speaker 1: like this one, and it took brick Osweiler to do
Speaker 1: it to him. To say that DeAndre uh to say that, sorry, um,
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson is better than brick Oswiler is an understatement, right.
Speaker 1: His quarterback is terrific. He's played, Hopkins is playing nine
Speaker 1: percent of the team snaps, he's a fifth in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and targets and will Fuller's drops. I wonder if will
Speaker 1: Fuller's drops won't be sitting in the back of Watson's
Speaker 1: minds and in mind and then you know he doesn't
Speaker 1: end up throwing even a couple more over to Hopkins side,
Speaker 1: I believe the dramatic improvement is coming. Tough question number two.
Speaker 1: Thanks apart to his rushing prows, Tom Brady has posted
Speaker 1: solid fantasy numbers in five of six games for the
Speaker 1: rest of the season. Will Brady improve, hold steady, or
Speaker 1: decline in fantasy production? Scott Okay, First, though a crack
Speaker 1: something last segment, uh Stills did have a healthy season,
Speaker 1: but five of his other injured, so you did have
Speaker 1: a healthy one there. Uh me, Okay. Tom Brady is
Speaker 1: currently QB eight. All five of the games you just
Speaker 1: mentioned top bottom ten past defenses, three of them just terrible. Washington, Miami,
Speaker 1: and the Giants. That's said, he gets possible shootouts with
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, Ravens, and Texans. I can see those being shootouts.
Speaker 1: He's got nice matchups against the Bengals and Eagles. He
Speaker 1: gets the Bills in championship game weeks week sixteen for
Speaker 1: US at least, um, I'll be playing Week sixteen. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: for US at least, That's what I'm saying, not but
Speaker 1: Miami games in week seventeen, which which kind of stinks.
Speaker 1: But uh, looking at the schedule, I think he stays
Speaker 1: pretty steady with with this production. I think he finishes
Speaker 1: the top twelve quarterback. Brian. I think it's going to
Speaker 1: improve because I just look at the schedule and it's
Speaker 1: riddled with cupcake opponents. This is the easiest schedule for
Speaker 1: eight defending Super Bowl champion, easily in history. I mean,
Speaker 1: we all you know, they played Washington, Miami, the Giants,
Speaker 1: some other JV teams. Looking forward, the Jets this week,
Speaker 1: the Browns, who are not good still, the Ravens their
Speaker 1: secondaries and shambles. Then the Eagles, they have the worst
Speaker 1: secondary in the NFL. Yeah, the Cowboys their entire secondaries
Speaker 1: pretty much hurt right now, the Texans one of the
Speaker 1: worst secondaries of the NFL. It never ends. Then the
Speaker 1: Chiefs probably shoot up. Mahomes will be healthy by then,
Speaker 1: then the Bengals. But then it ends in week sixteen
Speaker 1: where you can't play bread against the Bills. But that
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. He's going to improve and I hate so
Speaker 1: we basically said the same thing in different orders. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna mention, well, other thing that you guys didn't hit on,
Speaker 1: and you're right, he's going to improve on where he
Speaker 1: is now. And he's already been good. But again, the rushing,
Speaker 1: the receivers, all of his receivers can get better. They
Speaker 1: all have room to improve. Josh Gordon, Philip Dorset, Julian Edelman,
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about Nikkill Harry a little later in
Speaker 1: the show. They all have room to get better. They've
Speaker 1: all been just okay fantasy performers. They can all get better. So, yes,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady will improve in the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: Tough question number three. Over the past two weeks, Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins has been a top five ish fantasy quarterback. Have
Speaker 1: the Vikings cracked the code to unlock his fantasy upside
Speaker 1: or is he more likely to return to the guy
Speaker 1: we're used to seeing Over his previous games with the Vikings,
Speaker 1: Brian so Cousins had thirty seven pass attempts to start
Speaker 1: the season first three weeks. Thirty seven pass attempts three games.
Speaker 1: Of course, he didn't post any real numbers during that span. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that must be completing. It's otherwise, it's only that's only
Speaker 1: twelve and I think I think he was. That's gotta
Speaker 1: it's gotta be because it's still he's couldn't attempt attempts
Speaker 1: per game on average. He needs to attempt to weigh
Speaker 1: more passes than that. Okay. And in the games coming up,
Speaker 1: there's some game scripts that get flipped pretty quick with
Speaker 1: that good Vikings defense and some piss poor opponents, uh,
Speaker 1: mainly the Redskins. The Chiefs are probably gonna be without
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes uh. And then the Broncos are coming up
Speaker 1: outside of this week's matchup with Detroit, and then the
Speaker 1: bye week. That's enough for me to already say we're
Speaker 1: gonna see more of the cousins we saw earlier in
Speaker 1: the season and not in the last two weeks. It's
Speaker 1: he's very matchup dependent, and uh, I don't see very
Speaker 1: good matchups on the rise, and they don't come till
Speaker 1: well later in the season. I don't even want to
Speaker 1: contemplate Kirk that late in season. So uh, more likely
Speaker 1: to return to thee all right, thinks I hate that
Speaker 1: you don't have a middle option. No, this is a
Speaker 1: binary one. This is this is up or down. It's
Speaker 1: very annoying because I think he's gonna land in the middle.
Speaker 1: He's not going to go back to averaging thirteen Fantasy
Speaker 1: points per game, and he's not going to be twenty five.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be like seventeen or eighteen. He's right in
Speaker 1: the frigging middle. So you got but you gotta pick
Speaker 1: one or the other. He is he going to retain
Speaker 1: Is he going to retain the up? He's not gonna
Speaker 1: He's not going to retain what he did against the
Speaker 1: freaking Eagles and the Giants. So you think he's more
Speaker 1: likely to return to the guy he was he's more
Speaker 1: likely to even though I have faith that they have
Speaker 1: figured out that he needs to throw the ball more
Speaker 1: and feed his receivers more and make it a more balanced,
Speaker 1: not run every play offense. But if I had to
Speaker 1: choose one of the two, he's probably going to drop off.
Speaker 1: The real question that we're actually asking with this is
Speaker 1: can the Vikings offensive line continue to give Kirk reasonable
Speaker 1: pass protection as they've done the last two weeks, because
Speaker 1: that is why Kirk has has played so well. That's
Speaker 1: the reason. So I analyzed the remaining schedule and get
Speaker 1: a load of this for the Vikings amazingly favorable against
Speaker 1: pass rushing defenses. Of the nine remaining opponents, six of
Speaker 1: them ranked twenty third or worse in pass rush by
Speaker 1: Pro Football folk is none of the remaining Vikings opponents
Speaker 1: rank higher than ninth in pass rush. Kirk Cousins is
Speaker 1: going to continue to get time behind this now, at
Speaker 1: least through two games improved offensive line, and if that's
Speaker 1: the case, we're going to get the kinds of numbers
Speaker 1: from Kirk Cousins that we were getting when he was
Speaker 1: with Washington, which is the Kirk Cousins the Vikings thought
Speaker 1: they were getting I think he's back. Let's sneak that's true.
Speaker 1: Let's let's sneak in one more matchup, Chargers taking on
Speaker 1: a Tennessee Brian. It's been a reck at a lot
Speaker 1: of positions for the Chargers all season long, numerous players
Speaker 1: disappointing across the board. What do you think is coming
Speaker 1: up in this one? And a tough matchup with Tennessee?
Speaker 1: Is there anybody you particularly like? Not really? Now, let's
Speaker 1: start with the running game, and it is a tough
Speaker 1: matchup for both running backs. Melvin Gordon snap percentage went
Speaker 1: up to six last week, up from the week before.
Speaker 1: He outtouched Austin ekel Even to eight as well. That
Speaker 1: delta will probably widen this week. But I'm only giving
Speaker 1: him a CE here. Over Tennessee's last four games, no
Speaker 1: starting running back has seen more than fifteen carries or
Speaker 1: top seventy yards. Austin Ekeler, I'm still going to give
Speaker 1: him a C. Only eight carries combined over the last
Speaker 1: two weeks, and the return of Hunter Henry probably hurts
Speaker 1: his receiving prospects a little bit, but the Titans are
Speaker 1: allowing more than six and a half receptions per game
Speaker 1: to running backs, and there's still some hope that head
Speaker 1: coach Anthony Lynn realizes that Heckler is the better back
Speaker 1: on roster right now and gives them more touches because
Speaker 1: it's been a disaster since Melvin Gordon and came back,
Speaker 1: you know, but the offensive line has also been, you know,
Speaker 1: a disaster to now. Russell Kun could come back this game,
Speaker 1: I don't know yet, and maybe first almost certainly the
Speaker 1: next one that will help a ton. Yeah, definitely. I
Speaker 1: was gonna mention that when I talked. But let's go
Speaker 1: over to Hunter Henry. Henry ran thirty seven pass routes
Speaker 1: in his return from injury last How impressive is that
Speaker 1: That's the most routes he's runs in September? Makes no
Speaker 1: sense and he obviously blew up how many benches did
Speaker 1: he stay on last week? And people, I'm raising my
Speaker 1: hand right now. No one can see me except you guys.
Speaker 1: But this is a neutral matchup. At worst. Tennessee is
Speaker 1: allowing a modest four catches forty six yards per game
Speaker 1: to tight ends, but they have surrendered the second most
Speaker 1: scores to the position Hunter Henry and easy A in
Speaker 1: the tight end Wasteland Keenan Allen. This is not a
Speaker 1: good matchup for him, just to see. He's been out
Speaker 1: targeted seventeen to thirty by Mike Williams by over the
Speaker 1: last three weeks, and he's yeah, I don't know. He's
Speaker 1: gonna draw Logan Ryan, who was one of the rare
Speaker 1: slot stoppers in this league. It's a brutal matchup for Keenan,
Speaker 1: but you cannot bench him. Uh. He gets to see
Speaker 1: and so does Mike Williams. He leads the NFL and
Speaker 1: air yards over the last two weeks with a whopping seven,
Speaker 1: so the opportunity for big games has been there. I
Speaker 1: don't like his prospects for a big game and this one.
Speaker 1: Tennessee has only allowed one total wide receiver touchdown over
Speaker 1: their last three games, and they've limited outside receivers like
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, Calvin Ridley, John Brown, and Courtland Sutton to
Speaker 1: be collective sixteen catches among those four players. So I'm
Speaker 1: not liking Tends this week. Still gonna give him a
Speaker 1: see though, but you know what, I'm benching Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1: The Titans have generated the sixth most sacks and allowed
Speaker 1: the sixth sixth fewest passing yards per game while surrendering
Speaker 1: just eight passing touchdowns. Even though Rivers has a safe floor,
Speaker 1: I'd take any of our take a chance on me
Speaker 1: quarterbacks over Rivers against Tennessee this week over to the
Speaker 1: Titan side. You gonna give Derrick Henry and a Henry
Speaker 1: has at least one hundred combo yards and doory touchdown
Speaker 1: in seventh straight home games. The Chargers do not present
Speaker 1: much of a threat against the run, as they are
Speaker 1: ranked twenty seven by Football Outsiders. Uh Dion Lewis, Uh No,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna talk about Dean Lewis. Sorry, Finally, you're
Speaker 1: gonna not talk about Lois? How many times you get
Speaker 1: burned on that wasting time solid five PPR points? Might
Speaker 1: take a chance some running back last. Do not wake
Speaker 1: up the peacock for that one Delaney Walker. He might
Speaker 1: as well not wake up on Sunday either. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep him on the bench. He might be out. He
Speaker 1: did not practice today. You'd be better if he's out.
Speaker 1: Don't play John Newson. If that's the case. The Charges
Speaker 1: have only allowed six tight end receptions over the last
Speaker 1: three games. Uh. Delaney looks like he's cooked too. By
Speaker 1: the way, it's kind of said after a hot start,
Speaker 1: he hasn't done anything since the opener. Corey Davis A J.
Speaker 1: Brown easily on the bench, and there's no easier bench
Speaker 1: than Ryan Tannehill. There is no easier bench, well except
Speaker 1: for Marcus Mariota, who's ben bench. Yeah. Absolutely again it's uh,
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Speaker 1: what to do when we come back. Welcome back Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. We've got a big block o matchups for you,
Speaker 1: beginning with San Francisco taking on Washington. We start on
Speaker 1: the San Francisco side. Already told you how much I
Speaker 1: love Matt Breta. He was gonna take a chance of
Speaker 1: me running back, which, really, if I'm being honest, he's
Speaker 1: a little He's way too good to be a take
Speaker 1: a chance of me running back. But part of it
Speaker 1: is I just I love talking about Matt brit Becus.
Speaker 1: I think you such a good player. Tevin Coleman gets
Speaker 1: an A grade in this game. He put up a
Speaker 1: season high one hundred fifty six total yards and two
Speaker 1: scores at FedEx Field last season when he was with Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and he was no good last season with Atlanta, and
Speaker 1: he still put up hundred fifty six against the Redskins.
Speaker 1: He faces a Redskins defense that has allowed the seventh
Speaker 1: most Fantasy points to backs. They have allowed six backs
Speaker 1: to score in five games, and the forty Niners lead
Speaker 1: the league in run ratio. So you know Coleman's gonna
Speaker 1: get fed a lot. And by the way, Brita has
Speaker 1: zero carries inside the five yard line. Coleman already has
Speaker 1: four and he's only played for what like five quarters
Speaker 1: of football or something like that. Now he's probably up
Speaker 1: to what nine something like that. So yeah, Coleman's in
Speaker 1: an obvious a let's go do the passing game. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo gets a B grade here. The problem is he's
Speaker 1: just not throwing the ball, and his low volume just
Speaker 1: isn't producing fantasy points. Garoppolo is allowing the Garoppolos throwing
Speaker 1: the third fewest passes because his defense whenever game scriptics like,
Speaker 1: the defense shuts everybody down and then they just go
Speaker 1: run their way to victory, so they don't need him
Speaker 1: to pass. Now, there is some upside against the Redskins.
Speaker 1: Washington has been busy surrendering the ninth most passing yards
Speaker 1: and the third most passing touchdowns, including four different three
Speaker 1: touchdown games. So I've still got to be greater a
Speaker 1: Garoppolo just because Washington's so bad that they he may
Speaker 1: still find his way to a very good game and
Speaker 1: they could still run the ball well. So that means
Speaker 1: I must like George Kittle, who gets an A grade.
Speaker 1: Washington is an average tight end defense. They held Evan
Speaker 1: Ingram and zach Ertz to the exact same fifty four
Speaker 1: scoreless yards. The Kittle doesn't have a single game with
Speaker 1: less than fifty four yards, and he's been targeted eight
Speaker 1: or more times in every game but one. So we
Speaker 1: love Kittle. Dan. That brings us to the wide receivers,
Speaker 1: and you can't start any of them, whether it's Goodwin
Speaker 1: or Samuel or Pettis, They're all languishing with so little
Speaker 1: volume that just can't be trusted. Get this, between Goodwin, Samuel,
Speaker 1: and Pettis combined, none of them have a five catch
Speaker 1: game in any game combined. They have one game between
Speaker 1: them with passing yards. That's just that's terrible. So they're
Speaker 1: out there on the bench. Let's go to Washington, where
Speaker 1: everybody's on the bench. I will I will say, just
Speaker 1: for Marquow that's side of the field that he plays on.
Speaker 1: Washington's allowed ten touchdowns this year, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: that's Josh. Now, before you bench everyone on Washington, can
Speaker 1: I at least inform you that Sunday is Chris Thompson's
Speaker 1: actual birthday. Does that? Does that move the needle? I
Speaker 1: will move him to a bench bench. Plus, there are
Speaker 1: no pluses. I can't and I love Chris Thompson, but
Speaker 1: I can't do it. This is an elite level defense.
Speaker 1: Needless to say, the Niners have not allowed running back
Speaker 1: to score ground or air. No back has carried it
Speaker 1: more in sixteen times against them. And Bill Kellen can
Speaker 1: talk all he wants about establishing a new running game
Speaker 1: and you can do it against Miami like he did
Speaker 1: last week. Yeah, it ends here. Do not chase Adrian
Speaker 1: Peterson's game from last week. He's on the bench. Terry
Speaker 1: McLaren might be the only gather guy you're tempted with,
Speaker 1: but you can't go there either. The Forts are allowing
Speaker 1: the fewest passing yards per game, and in the last
Speaker 1: two weeks, Baker Mayfield and Jared Goff combined for one
Speaker 1: hundred seventy nine passing yards. Think about that. To NFL
Speaker 1: quarterbacks combining for one hundred seventy nine passing yards, that's
Speaker 1: like three or four combined. McLaren has got tough matchups
Speaker 1: all over the field. There's nowhere for him to line
Speaker 1: up on the field to avoid it. He is on
Speaker 1: the bench. Let's go to our next matchup New Orleans
Speaker 1: taking on Chicago. Scott, I think the Saints are fools
Speaker 1: if they run Camara on a high ankle spring in
Speaker 1: Chicago the bye week. Loom yep I agree, and I
Speaker 1: don't think he plays. That's why I'm leaving him on
Speaker 1: the bench. I just don't think it's gonna happen even
Speaker 1: if he's active. I think he's super dangerous. Higael Springs
Speaker 1: Ranger all the time, yep I, I would not be
Speaker 1: playing tomorrow this week, especially against this Bears defense. Uh.
Speaker 1: Latavious Murray, I think it is a little sneaky just
Speaker 1: because he might get the volume. I am giving him
Speaker 1: a C grade. He turned his eleven touches into seventy
Speaker 1: nine yards last week. He's caught some passes recently. Josh
Speaker 1: Jacobs had a day after Kiem Hicks left after eight snaps,
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs had a hundred twenty six yards against his team. Uh.
Speaker 1: They've allowed a hundred total yards to the lead running
Speaker 1: back in three the last four, which is kind of surprising.
Speaker 1: Another stat in the passing game, this is really surprising
Speaker 1: as well. As I was doing my research this week,
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears have allowed the most completed passes in
Speaker 1: the NFL this year. What it's all dinking dunk stuff
Speaker 1: and they've had they've had their by to, which makes
Speaker 1: even more incredible. It's a per game basis, but that's no,
Speaker 1: it's it's unreal to me, which is perfect for Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewaters dick and dark style, but he's still benchable. You
Speaker 1: shouldn't be starting Teddy Bridgewater. UM lack of yards, lack
Speaker 1: of touchdowns make Bridgewater a bad start, but it's gonna
Speaker 1: be good for Michael Thomas. He's just gonna soak up
Speaker 1: a bunch of short catches and PPR. He's well worth it.
Speaker 1: He's caught twenty eight of the thirty four Teddy targets
Speaker 1: over the last three weeks. Expected Teddy targets like it.
Speaker 1: I wrote it. When I wrote it, I thought the
Speaker 1: same thing. It sounds cute. Ted gains on the bench
Speaker 1: though UM wide receivers not wearing number thirteen for the
Speaker 1: Saints have not topped thirty six yards in a game yet,
Speaker 1: which is crazy under Teddy, which is crazy. UM cook
Speaker 1: a C grade. I guess I don't know. Now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bench him the Bears have only allowed one touchdown
Speaker 1: this year. I thought, maybe in this terrible land escape,
Speaker 1: maybe I can get No, I can't do it. I
Speaker 1: can't do it. Over to the Bear's side, Trabisky looks
Speaker 1: like he's gonna start, which is a downgrade for the
Speaker 1: entire Bears offense in my opinion. Um, I'm not joking.
Speaker 1: Over the last calendar year, Trabinsky has average eighteen yards
Speaker 1: per game. That's fourteen games. He had a hundred sixty
Speaker 1: five or fewer in five of them. Chise Daniel in
Speaker 1: the last couple of years hasn't had a game under
Speaker 1: two thirty one. I mean, I think it's a downgrade.
Speaker 1: I legitimately think it's a downgrade. Latimer started the season bad,
Speaker 1: but over the last three weeks he's allowing twenty eight
Speaker 1: yards per game in his coverage and faced some really
Speaker 1: good in there. Yeah, I'm benching Allen Robinson. I'm benching
Speaker 1: Anthony Miller, who's who's just too inconsistent. And Mitch Robinsky
Speaker 1: has had two wide receivers have double digit Fantasy points
Speaker 1: in the same game twice in his entire career, So
Speaker 1: never start a second wide receiver for them. Tight ends
Speaker 1: are on the bench. Cohen is on the bench with
Speaker 1: his seven touches per game against a top and a
Speaker 1: top five run dye against running backs. Montgomery, you're also
Speaker 1: staying on the bench against the bad defense, against the
Speaker 1: defense that's going to hold him down. So frustrating with David.
Speaker 1: What's happened with David Montgomery the going I could just
Speaker 1: had all the Bears on the bench, really, but I
Speaker 1: went through it for I wanted to rip on Robisky
Speaker 1: for a moment. With p J. Williams, the slot cornerback
Speaker 1: out this week or expected to not play, I thought that,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like maybe Anthony Miller. They never throwed
Speaker 1: Anthony Miller ever, He's so invisible in that offense, and
Speaker 1: he was such a promising young player too, very very weird. Um,
Speaker 1: We've got one more matchup, and that is Philadelphia taking
Speaker 1: on the Dallas Cowboys. When we're matchup in this segment,
Speaker 1: that's a Sunday night game, Philadelphia coming off a tough
Speaker 1: game in Minnesota, now they go to Dallas. What do
Speaker 1: you think about the passing game, in particular for Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz in this matchup against the Cowboys. I'm liking Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz this Sunday night. I'm gonna give him an A.
Speaker 1: Dallas likely we'll be missing two starting cornerbacks Byron Jones
Speaker 1: and Anthony Brown. Earlier in the year. It looks like
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were a tough matchup on paper, but they
Speaker 1: were primarily facing paper quarterbacks like Eli Manning, case Keenum,
Speaker 1: Josh Rose, and Teddy Bridgewater. Dallas was exposed big time
Speaker 1: by Sam Donald last week. Look for Wins to continue
Speaker 1: to crush the Cowboys. He totaled five touchdowns and nearly
Speaker 1: six hundred yards in their two meetings last year. Alishan
Speaker 1: Jeffrey gets an a as well. Just mentioned the injuries
Speaker 1: at corner for Dallas, and look with the Jets wide
Speaker 1: receivers did to the Cowboys last week. They totaled six
Speaker 1: team catches for two nine yards in a touchdown. So
Speaker 1: alshon Jeffrey fire him up with an A. De Shawn
Speaker 1: Jackson sadly is out. I believe that's official. You can
Speaker 1: bank on him being out, and I cannot advocate the
Speaker 1: usage of Nelson Aglar or jj Arthega Whiteside. Uh just
Speaker 1: too much of a dart throw for me, even in
Speaker 1: a in a juicy matchup. But I can advocate the
Speaker 1: usage of zach Ertz. Cowboys are allowing six catches fifty
Speaker 1: nine yards per game to opposing tight ends. Those are
Speaker 1: healthy numbers for the record. Earth's is boomer Bus against
Speaker 1: Dallas last year had fourteen for one and two touchdowns
Speaker 1: in one game and then five for thirty eight and
Speaker 1: the other. So let's let's hope for the former. UH
Speaker 1: this week. When it comes to the box scores for
Speaker 1: Earth's Dallas, Goddard wanted to give him a C grade.
Speaker 1: He has commanded nearly fort of Philly's tight end target
Speaker 1: share over the last three weeks, but the floor is
Speaker 1: way too scary catch games in them, even in the
Speaker 1: tight end waste land. He did have like a seventy
Speaker 1: yard touchdown against the Cowboys, called back last year for
Speaker 1: one of the worst offensive past in appearance calls of
Speaker 1: all time. I'm sure he remembers that, but still not
Speaker 1: enough of a motivating factor for me to start him.
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard over the running backs just to see this week,
Speaker 1: hasn't seen a target since Week four, so his role
Speaker 1: is clearly ground and pound. UH. It's a neutral matchup
Speaker 1: at best. Aaron Jones went off a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago against Dallas. We all remember that,
Speaker 1: but Levan Bell and Alvin Kamara struggled to get things
Speaker 1: going on the ground against the Cowboys. So just to
Speaker 1: see for Howard Miles Sanders was my take a chance
Speaker 1: of me running back? UH Dallas very friendly to running
Speaker 1: backs through the air over to Dallas and they're running
Speaker 1: back Zeke just to be in this one. In four
Speaker 1: career games against Philly, Zeke is averaging a hundred and
Speaker 1: sixteen yards on the ground and six catches for fifty
Speaker 1: yards per game. That's obviously good production, but he'll struggle
Speaker 1: to meet his rushing average in this one. The Eagles
Speaker 1: have get to allow more than sixty three yards to
Speaker 1: running back on the ground of this season, and uh
Speaker 1: Zeke has been very involved in the passing game and
Speaker 1: comparable running backs have posted nice catch numbers against the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Levan Bell had seven catches, Aaron Jones had six, So
Speaker 1: safe b for Zeke here. Marii Cooper's he's not gonna
Speaker 1: go news came out on Friday. He's gonna try and
Speaker 1: suit up, so if if he does, it's an amazing matchup.
Speaker 1: The Philly secondary just brutal. Jalen Mills is gonna make
Speaker 1: his return. That could be addition or subtraction by addition
Speaker 1: referred to him as toast is his nickname, Jalen Mills. Uh,
Speaker 1: if Cooper goes, I'll of him an A, but I
Speaker 1: fear he'd be a decoy. Uh, You're you're definitely starting
Speaker 1: Michael Gallant regardless bose are not he gets an a
Speaker 1: I mentioned and take a chance of the six different
Speaker 1: wide receivers have topped a hundred yards against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: who have allowed the most wide receiver touchdowns, the third
Speaker 1: most red zone targets and second most red zone touches,
Speaker 1: should not be a surprised as if they're yielding that
Speaker 1: to opposing wide receivers as well. That is why Cedric
Speaker 1: Wilson was might take a chance on me wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Then Wilson is no longer a take on receiver. And
Speaker 1: I'm here by tabbing Alan Lazard of Green Bay as
Speaker 1: might take a chance of me wide receiver. I like
Speaker 1: that You've got a provisional take a chance of the receiver.
Speaker 1: UM a couple more guys really quick for Dallas Randall
Speaker 1: Cobb probably not gonna play I would still bench Tavon
Speaker 1: Austin his backup if Cobb sits all the all the
Speaker 1: production comes from boundary receivers against the Eagles, and Jason
Speaker 1: Witten gets to see hasn't seen the volume you'd like
Speaker 1: from a starting tight end, but he has topped fifty
Speaker 1: yards or scored a touchdown in five of six games
Speaker 1: this year, and Philly has yield did the second most
Speaker 1: red zone targets to opposing tight ends. And lastly, Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott gotta give him an a here. Four different passers
Speaker 1: have thrown for at least three twenty yards and multiple
Speaker 1: touchdowns against the Eagles this year, and as always, he
Speaker 1: is a threat on the ground as well. Remember when
Speaker 1: the St. Louis Rams gave Tavon Austin, I think fifty
Speaker 1: million dollar contract. He's gonna get a hundred catches. Remember, Yeah,
Speaker 1: right at the time, we're all looking at it, tell
Speaker 1: going this is the worst contract ever. And he was
Speaker 1: like a top ten pick in close. Unbelievable that our
Speaker 1: final topics are ahead. When we provide you with three
Speaker 1: guys we believe will be hot waiver wire pickups next
Speaker 1: week that you'll want to grab this week. Whether you're
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Speaker 1: Premature speculation is the name of this bit. We give
Speaker 1: you three players it's going to turn out to be
Speaker 1: more like five this week that we believe we're gonna
Speaker 1: be hot waiver wire pickups next week. But through our
Speaker 1: time machine, which sounds exactly like that, you will already
Speaker 1: have these players on your roster. We begin with Brian
Speaker 1: who is your premature speculation guy. I said Justice Hill
Speaker 1: last week, and I'm going with another running back that
Speaker 1: you can kind of just squad on and he could
Speaker 1: turn into a league winner as the season goes on,
Speaker 1: and that's Tony Pollard. Of course, he would need something
Speaker 1: to happen to Zeke for him to become a league winner.
Speaker 1: But I do think Pollard starts to carve out more
Speaker 1: of a handcuff with benefits role. As a season wears on,
Speaker 1: people are screaming to get him involved in the passing
Speaker 1: game more. Uh. Zeke's been taking more of the receiving
Speaker 1: game for running backs and people have been expected, but
Speaker 1: he's not doing a whole lot with him. Uh, Pollard
Speaker 1: will get involved more. He's been compared to Alvin Kamara
Speaker 1: by people in his own organization, but they're certainly not
Speaker 1: using him that way. And really the wide receivers for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are the walking wounded right now. And it
Speaker 1: started in training camp with the Marii Cooper who was
Speaker 1: gonna be questionable to start the season. Now Cooper has
Speaker 1: hurt again, Radel Cobs hurt, Michael Gallup has been hurt.
Speaker 1: Jason Witten is very old and not that good. So
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard he's gonna start to see five, six, seven
Speaker 1: targets per game, so he will be viable in PPR.
Speaker 1: And again if something happens to Zeke, giddy up. Okay,
Speaker 1: your your premature speculation, Guy Scott speculation. Going back to
Speaker 1: the preseason, who's that quarterback that I kept talking about
Speaker 1: because I like the way he ended the last season?
Speaker 1: It was Sam Donald who you love this preseason play too.
Speaker 1: I still I still like him, and after this Pat's
Speaker 1: game this week, so you're not gonna play him this week.
Speaker 1: But this is a good option for Mahomes. Owner. You
Speaker 1: started Mahomes right, you start? Yeah, you started Mahomes on
Speaker 1: Thursday night. And now as you're looking ahead to who
Speaker 1: you might has used a replacement for Homes, here's your guys,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald. He gets the Jaguars next week. You might
Speaker 1: be a little worried. Guess what, Joe Flacco and Marcus
Speaker 1: Mariota both through for over three yards on the Jags.
Speaker 1: If they can do it. He's got those two. He's
Speaker 1: got the Jaguars after then he gets the Dolphins, the Giants,
Speaker 1: the Redskins, the Raiders, the Bengals, and the Dolphins seven
Speaker 1: in a row. That are easy. All of those teams
Speaker 1: bottom to Most of those teams are bottom six. So
Speaker 1: Sam Donald is going to have A and B grades
Speaker 1: for many of those games. Only roster and twy seven
Speaker 1: percent leagues. Yeah, absolutely, I love it. You just right.
Speaker 1: You gotta sit on him. You gotta sit on him
Speaker 1: for this week. But big deal. By the way, over
Speaker 1: the last six games, Sam Donald nine touchdowns, one interception
Speaker 1: not bad. Well, I'd like to see more touch touchdown.
Speaker 1: I see more touchdowns over six games than nine. I've
Speaker 1: got two guys who went on i R at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season and are eligible to come off
Speaker 1: after week eight, And you know next week is going
Speaker 1: to be We're heading into week eight, so you're gonna
Speaker 1: start hearing about these names a lot more in the
Speaker 1: coming days. If you want to be a week ahead
Speaker 1: of the curve, go get nikkil Harry, the rookie wide
Speaker 1: receiver for the Patriots, who could end up you could
Speaker 1: end up getting meaningful playing time. Uh, it wouldn't take
Speaker 1: necessarily a lot to get him onto the field. Gordon's hurt,
Speaker 1: Dorset's just coming off injury, right, yeah, exactly. And then
Speaker 1: Darius Guys, the Redskins runner who missed all last year
Speaker 1: and then had the setback at the beginning of this year.
Speaker 1: He's eligible to come back to And I don't love
Speaker 1: any Redskin necessarily, but guys has got to be better
Speaker 1: than what Adrian Peterson's giving that team, and they do
Speaker 1: want to run more. He could walk right in and
Speaker 1: become the you become the lead running back on an
Speaker 1: NFL team, So there's a couple of team that's us
Speaker 1: getting back to normal time. Now we're back. Now, we're
Speaker 1: back to weeks and I want to what. I want
Speaker 1: to know what our machine looks like. That's the next
Speaker 1: thing we gotta get. Yeah, we don't. We have to
Speaker 1: describe to radio. I mean we have to describe it.
Speaker 1: I mean some parts kind of tricky on our time machine. Um,
Speaker 1: let's take a look at our final two matchups, Baltimore
Speaker 1: taking on Seattle. We begin on the Baltimore side and
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, who faces really a schizophrenic Seahawks defense that's
Speaker 1: allowed some alarmingly huge games to some pretty mediocre quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: How about Andy Dalton putting up four hundred eighteen yards,
Speaker 1: Jared Goff four hundred yards, Baker Mayfield to fifty and two,
Speaker 1: and two of the last three quarterbacks they faced rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns against Seattle. I have reason to believe Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: can rad Let's go to his his receiving options. Mark Andrews,
Speaker 1: also an A grade. Andrews has seen at least seven
Speaker 1: targets in every game. Draws a good matchup with the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: who struggled against tight ends. Their bottom six and receptions,
Speaker 1: bottom six in yards, bottom six in touchdowns allowed to
Speaker 1: the position. Can we just start calling him man Drew
Speaker 1: because he's a man monk boys out there man Drew's,
Speaker 1: man Drews, Andrews man. I don't don't talent. I think
Speaker 1: it's a little bit. I know you. I love my nicknames.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm not loving man Drew's. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what if any if we get to know people to
Speaker 1: hashtag man Drew's at us, then yes, but that's might be.
Speaker 1: That might be what it takes. Um Mark keats Brown.
Speaker 1: We is shaping up as a game time decision with
Speaker 1: an ankle injury. He has scored just once since the opener.
Speaker 1: He's caught four or fewer passes in four of the
Speaker 1: five games he's played in. And I don't love the
Speaker 1: matchup against cornerback Shaquille Griffin, who's got really good speed.
Speaker 1: He might be one of the fastest cornerbacks in the league.
Speaker 1: So you know, an old Brown's whole deal of speeds.
Speaker 1: So I don't love Brown in this. I've got a
Speaker 1: bench grade on markis Brown, even if he does try
Speaker 1: to play through the ankle injury. Let's go to Let's
Speaker 1: go to the running game, where mark Ingram gets a
Speaker 1: B grade. He may struggle with efficiency a little bit here.
Speaker 1: Seahawks only allowing four point three yards per carry, good
Speaker 1: for eighth best, but they are allowing the second most
Speaker 1: touchdowns to opposing ball carriers. Todd Gurley Nick Chubb each
Speaker 1: found the end zone twice in Seattle's last two contests.
Speaker 1: So I still like Ingram. I've got to be great
Speaker 1: out because I don't think he blows up here. And actually,
Speaker 1: the biggest threat to mark Ingram is Lamar Jackson. Honestly,
Speaker 1: if he if he did not have such a prodigious
Speaker 1: rushing quarterback, I would have an A grade on mark Ingram.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Seattle side, shall we beginning with
Speaker 1: Chris Carson. Last week, Carson rushed for a season high
Speaker 1: one four yards on the ground to make make it
Speaker 1: three straight one hundred yard efforts, which is an awfully
Speaker 1: impressive turnaround from a guy that everybody expected to hit
Speaker 1: the bench. He was one fumble away from hitting the bench.
Speaker 1: He hasn't fumbled since then, and now he's probably earned
Speaker 1: enough equity that even if he did fumble once, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't automatically mean the bench for Chris Carson. He has
Speaker 1: scored twelve times in his last thirteen games. In the
Speaker 1: last five games, the Ravens have allowed eight touchdowns to
Speaker 1: running backs and they've given up an uncharacteristic four point
Speaker 1: eight yards per carry over the last five games. You'll
Speaker 1: notice all these Ravens stats were going back five games
Speaker 1: because they played in Miami in the first week, and
Speaker 1: of course Miami can't do anything. So this is back
Speaker 1: in the old days of Fantasy Football Weekly, when there
Speaker 1: was Glendon quarterback JaMarcus Russell. We were we nickname him
Speaker 1: JaMarcus Astric because we have to astric all of our
Speaker 1: stats because it'd be like this team has given a
Speaker 1: three hundred three hundred passing yards in five of six
Speaker 1: games because they faced JaMarcus Russell. Miami is the new Astrix.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to the passing give of the Seahawks.
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson multiple touchdowns in five of six games, at
Speaker 1: least two hundred forty passing yards in every game since
Speaker 1: the opener. Obviously an elite fantasy quarterback regardless of matchup.
Speaker 1: As for this one with Baltimore, they held down Ryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick and Mason Rudolph and Adye Dalton, but got smoked
Speaker 1: by people at Wilson's level like Patrick Mahomes and Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield and even Kyler Murray. Those guys all put up
Speaker 1: over three hundred forty two yards. So it's an A
Speaker 1: grade for Russell Wilson here, And if I like Wilson,
Speaker 1: it means I also like his receivers. Tyler Lockett gets
Speaker 1: an A grade. The Ravens allowing the fifth most path
Speaker 1: is excuse me, fifth most yards per game to opposing
Speaker 1: wide receivers, and they've been particularly bad at the deep ball,
Speaker 1: allowing the third most passes of forty yards or more.
Speaker 1: And obviously that's lock It's game is the deep passing.
Speaker 1: He's so fast. Scent of Russell Wilson's attempts go for
Speaker 1: over twenty yards. And get this, he completes seventy two
Speaker 1: of his passes of over twenty yards. How that's nuts.
Speaker 1: Most quarterbacks are half that rate. Quarterbacks are lucky to
Speaker 1: get that completion percentage overall. Yes, that's unbelievable. Even with
Speaker 1: Marcus Peters now on the Ravens, and even if Jimmy
Speaker 1: Smith returns, I don't care. Lock It A grade here
Speaker 1: and dk Metcalf much of the same stuff I just
Speaker 1: said about lock it in the deep ball. Dk Metcalf's
Speaker 1: whole bit is run straight, run fast, so I like
Speaker 1: him and this one as well. He's already seen eight
Speaker 1: targets of twenty or more yards, including both of his
Speaker 1: touchdowns which came outside of twenty yards. I like dk
Speaker 1: Metcalf with a B grade in this game as well.
Speaker 1: I would love to tell you about will dis Lee
Speaker 1: No no point, unfortunately in this one. That is sad
Speaker 1: our final matchup is the Monday Night game, which is
Speaker 1: New England taking on the New York Jets. Scott Um.
Speaker 1: Can I get two rushing touchdowns out of Tom Brady? Yes?
Speaker 1: I mean he's He's their goal lineback right easy. Easy.
Speaker 1: Even if you don't get the touchdowns, I still have
Speaker 1: an A grade on Brady, who had three hundred yards
Speaker 1: passing and two touchdowns in Week three. And Brady has
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty plus yards and multiple touchdowns in
Speaker 1: every game except for the staunch Bills defense game. Brady
Speaker 1: is also averaging thirty eight pass attempts per game. That's
Speaker 1: gonna keep him firmly in the top twelve. For this week.
Speaker 1: For me, his main guy Edelman, Brian Poole has only
Speaker 1: the cornerback he's gonna face in the slot. Has only
Speaker 1: allowed ninety yards and no touchdowns from the slot this year,
Speaker 1: so it is a tough matchup. But I feel like
Speaker 1: he's going to get the targets and enough volume there
Speaker 1: to be probably a B start, maybe even better. But
Speaker 1: I'm definitely giving him be at least. Uh Gordon Myers
Speaker 1: Dorset all of that. Gordon didn't practice this week the
Speaker 1: Dorsets coming back from injury, but was still limited. I'm
Speaker 1: not messing with the rest of that. Those wide receivers. Uh,
Speaker 1: Sody Michelle. I'm giving a C star to he's he
Speaker 1: had seventeen touches, nineteen touches, twenty four touches over the
Speaker 1: last three weeks. He's not getting the goal line work
Speaker 1: because that's Tom Brady's job. Apparently it is. Well, James
Speaker 1: Devlin dead to us. James Devlin and I are the
Speaker 1: new fullback, is Tom Brady? Yeah? So, Uh, Rex Burke
Speaker 1: had I don't know if he'll be back. He was
Speaker 1: limited in practice this week as well. He might be,
Speaker 1: but I don't we don't know what to expect from him.
Speaker 1: He looked good when he was here earlier, but he
Speaker 1: can't start him. Whiteham's also given him a C grade
Speaker 1: because he's had nine targets in three three straight. The
Speaker 1: only resulted in fifty eight per game. But all it's
Speaker 1: going to take his one big one and and though
Speaker 1: that turns into something, so a C grade there on
Speaker 1: the Jet side, Sam Donald, this is not the week.
Speaker 1: This is the one week I don't want to start.
Speaker 1: And the Pats will only allowed one passing touchdown this
Speaker 1: year and held every QB under one sixty five yards
Speaker 1: passing since Week one. That's like Mitchell Trabisky level. They've
Speaker 1: turned every quarterback into Mitchell trabisc is what they've done.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't mitchells be the best quarterback the Patriots and face
Speaker 1: to the season. Uh, Anderson is on the bench. I
Speaker 1: actually rewatched the Jets Patriots Week three game this week.
Speaker 1: Stephan Gilmore was on him for every single snap except
Speaker 1: for one in the slot and it was a bunched
Speaker 1: up three wide receiver. So Gilmore is gonna shadow him.
Speaker 1: And the only three past catches he caught were like
Speaker 1: super short quick passes. I don't trust Anderson for anything
Speaker 1: with Gilmore all over him. Crowder was my take home
Speaker 1: to Mary's Thomas. Sorry, it's a bad matchup with mccordy,
Speaker 1: who's much faster than you, and no matter what past
Speaker 1: comes to you, he's going to get around. But revenge game, Scott,
Speaker 1: it's the quickest turnaround revenge game in history. Maybe did
Speaker 1: we didn't we have one where a guy like was
Speaker 1: cut in the next week? Oh yeah that sort of
Speaker 1: rings a bell. Yeah, probably, I don't remember. Actually, Ryan
Speaker 1: Grant is a quicker revenge game. Uh and Levyan Bell
Speaker 1: and rewatching that game they were selling out to get
Speaker 1: to Luke Fox. Levan Bell had his worst game of
Speaker 1: the year, thirty or sixty three yards on on seventeen
Speaker 1: touches or whatever. He's gonna have a lot as many touches.
Speaker 1: Probably he's averaging twenty two a game. They're not going
Speaker 1: to sell out to get to Donald like they did
Speaker 1: Luke Fox. Bell will not be jamming his face into
Speaker 1: that a man front in this game. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna have a better grade, but I'm only giving him
Speaker 1: a C grade on volume. It's such a good run defense,
Speaker 1: it sounds right. It's sad with the return of Donald,
Speaker 1: we won't be able to give Luke Fox and a
Speaker 1: moving forward well enunciated, anybody left in that matchup? We
Speaker 1: covered everything, No, we covered everything. There sounds good. Um.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the Buffalo schedule. You're talking
Speaker 1: about the easy jet schedule, particularly in the second half
Speaker 1: of the season. No team has an easier schedule over
Speaker 1: the next five weeks than Buffalo. Get this, Miami this week,
Speaker 1: five weeks from now, five games from now, Miami. What's
Speaker 1: the meat in the Miami sandwich for the schedule for
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, Eagles, Redskins, Browns. If you it doesn't
Speaker 1: get any easier than this, if you would have traded
Speaker 1: the Browns for maybe the Falcons or something maybe, like right,
Speaker 1: I mean that's about it. Yeah, that's right. And the
Speaker 1: Browns have been a competent defense, but that's it, just competent.
Speaker 1: So given that Josh Allen over those five games, will
Speaker 1: he be a top five fantasy quarterback? I thought I
Speaker 1: thought you're gonna say, will he be a QB one
Speaker 1: like he was last year for like a four or
Speaker 1: five game stretch? Well, QB one is, like, you know,
Speaker 1: that's the top twelve. I think, Well, no, I'm talking
Speaker 1: number one. I think you can make an argument that
Speaker 1: over the next five weeks maybe he is the overall
Speaker 1: to be one. For the next five weeks, he might
Speaker 1: be for the last five weeks last season, right production exactly,
Speaker 1: he gets now when he placed Miami last year, the
Speaker 1: two games he ran, that's unbelievable. If he could please
Speaker 1: run for another two thirty Josh Allen and then Devin
Speaker 1: Singletary as well, it's gonna He's gonna cash in Tingley,
Speaker 1: aren't you. I'm excited. You are excited. Um. If you're
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