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Speaker 3: From dat leagues dot com, here's your host, Paul Judge.
Speaker 2: Yet Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, Week number ten. Some
Speaker 2: of you are coasting.
Speaker 4: This weekend, Jamar Chase owner, that's right, Jamar Chase.
Speaker 2: That's a you are You get to just kick back
Speaker 2: and enjoy a stress free weekend, Matt Harrison.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope so right. Do you think you could
Speaker 4: just like start all of your scrubs and let let
Speaker 4: the rest of your guys have a week off so
Speaker 4: they can get healthy for the playoffs.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have, We're gonna have. We're gonna have a
Speaker 2: veteran rest day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's the plan for the rest of your starters.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a good position to be in Thornights
Speaker 2: from will join us in a couple of minutes, Matt.
Speaker 2: If you are down, say fifty points to.
Speaker 4: Jamorrow, I think on Guillotine Leagues he scored fifty five
Speaker 4: point four.
Speaker 2: Yes, he did fifty five. You're already set. One of
Speaker 2: the teams in my league had the Burrow Chase combo. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I saw that eighty five.
Speaker 4: Ye, now you're good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're set. There's probably there's probably no way you're
Speaker 2: gonna make up the difference. No, but if there's a
Speaker 2: way you're gonna do it, what do you do?
Speaker 4: I mean, it's hero ball. We talk about this all
Speaker 4: the time. When somebody has just like a huge Thursday
Speaker 4: night game, you take the highest risk, highest reward guys
Speaker 4: that you can find, and you just hope that somebody
Speaker 4: mimics it and gets you know, one hundred and two
Speaker 4: and you get another wide receiver that does the same thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know you're gonna go combo platter of
Speaker 2: quarterback with a receiver, and you might even have to
Speaker 2: go waiver wire. It might be like, might take a
Speaker 2: chance on me quarterback who's probably available. Yeah, maybe one
Speaker 2: of his receivers as well, and hope to God that
Speaker 2: they hook up three times.
Speaker 4: Well, I have a guy in this upcoming matchup that
Speaker 4: I think might be a guy that is just like
Speaker 4: the longest of long shots, and I wouldn't recommend starting
Speaker 4: him in any other scenario, but maybe if you're playing
Speaker 4: Jamar Chase.
Speaker 2: All right, well, let's hear all about it is San
Speaker 2: Francisco taking on Tampa Bay.
Speaker 4: No, it's the Lions and the Texans.
Speaker 2: It's I mean by that event, it's the Lions. Of course,
Speaker 2: it's the Lions and the Texans. Yeah, of course it is.
Speaker 5: That's what I meant.
Speaker 2: Lots of Lion opportunities here, But how many Lions could
Speaker 2: I possibly pick up?
Speaker 4: Not that many. Let's start with the passing game in
Speaker 4: Jared Goff My concern. He hasn't had more than twenty
Speaker 4: five passing attempts in a game since Week two, and
Speaker 4: he's had yardage totals of eighty five and one hundred
Speaker 4: and forty five yards the last two weeks. The Texans
Speaker 4: defense fits exactly what Jared Goff does, though they've allowed
Speaker 4: the sixth fewest completions the seventh fewest passing yards, but
Speaker 4: that doesn't scare Goff because they've allowed the second most
Speaker 4: pass scores perfect, which is what Goff does. So he
Speaker 4: gets a B because he'll probably throw at least two
Speaker 4: touchdowns in this one. One of them will go to
Speaker 4: a Monross Saint Brown, who also gets a bee. But
Speaker 4: like I said, the lines just aren't passing. Saint Brown
Speaker 4: is only averaged running twenty two routes per game over
Speaker 4: the last five weeks and just five point four targets
Speaker 4: per game in that span. Good news is Saint Brown
Speaker 4: has caught a touchdown pass in six straight games, But
Speaker 4: there's a stinker game coming soon for him just because
Speaker 4: of the low volume, and that low volume basically kills
Speaker 4: everybody else, like Jamison Williams, Tim Patrick, Khalif Raymond, especially
Speaker 4: now that Williams is back. Yeah, And it's kind of
Speaker 4: the same thing with Sam Laporta, and we're going to
Speaker 4: talk a little bit more about him later in the show. Correct,
Speaker 4: he's catching everything, but there's no targets. He's only averaging
Speaker 4: three point two targets per game this season, and the
Speaker 4: Texans are one of the league's best tight end defenses,
Speaker 4: allowing only two point six catches and twenty yards per
Speaker 4: game to the position.
Speaker 3: Total.
Speaker 4: I've got Laporta on the bench this week.
Speaker 2: I can understand it. Get you want to you how many
Speaker 2: targets Sam Laporta had last year.
Speaker 4: A lot more than three point two per game.
Speaker 2: One hundred and forty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I say like eight or nine targets per game.
Speaker 4: It's cut in half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, and we will talk more about
Speaker 2: Laporta later on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jimi or Gibbs and David Montgomery both A grades
Speaker 4: though they're basically splitting snaps. But get this, every single
Speaker 4: week of the season, all eight of Detroit's games, both
Speaker 4: of them have hit double digit PPR points. Wow every game. Wow,
Speaker 4: it's amazing. The Texans look good on paper against the run,
Speaker 4: but those numbers are propped up by some games against
Speaker 4: some run offenses that either hadn't found their groove yet
Speaker 4: or still haven't found one in the Bears, the Jags,
Speaker 4: and the Patriots, So I got them A grades for
Speaker 4: both of those guys. Joe Mixon gets a B grade.
Speaker 4: If the Texans hope to win this game, I think
Speaker 4: it's probably because they've fed mixing the ball about thirty times.
Speaker 4: They have to keep the score close and beat one
Speaker 4: of the best run defenses in the league. The Lions
Speaker 4: are third best in the league in conbo yards allow
Speaker 4: at one hundred and five per game. But I think
Speaker 4: Mixon gets all of that by himself, so he almost
Speaker 4: always does.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 4: CJ. Stroud gets a C grade. I'm worried about the
Speaker 4: offensive line. Eight sacks last week. Yes, god seven other
Speaker 4: scramble plays. That's fifteen alone lot out of forty five dropbacks.
Speaker 4: A third of the time he's either getting hit or
Speaker 4: running for his life.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: The pressure led to only a thirty seven percent completion
Speaker 4: percentage last week.
Speaker 2: That's horrible. And you'll remember two weeks before that, CJ.
Speaker 2: Stroud had an eighty seven yard game against the Packers
Speaker 2: and Nico Collins, though, may play in this game, and
Speaker 2: how much does that change your thinking on.
Speaker 4: Stret It doesn't look like Collins is going to go,
Speaker 4: but I think the Lions are going to pin their
Speaker 4: ears back in blitz a ton, so I'm not enthusiastic
Speaker 4: about the Lions and only allowing six passing touchdowns through
Speaker 4: eight games, so just the sea for Stroud take Dell
Speaker 4: will get the ball a lot. I got a B
Speaker 4: grade on him. His matchups against Terry and Arnold Amik
Speaker 4: Robertson both very good. He saw one hundred and thirty
Speaker 4: one air yards last week and a utilization score of
Speaker 4: eight point five. Because he's only the real he's like
Speaker 4: the only guy in town. Basically, Nico Collins still looks
Speaker 4: like he's a week from week away from returning. They
Speaker 4: still have him on IR He hasn't practiced and they
Speaker 4: just oh they did.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I mean that doesn't mean they need to
Speaker 2: play him.
Speaker 4: So it's a Sunday night game. The problem is you
Speaker 4: have to really gamble on Nico Collins to play, and
Speaker 4: I don't really like the matchup all that much either way. However,
Speaker 4: if you're desperate for the Jamar Chase Chaser, yes, I
Speaker 4: think I'd go with Xavier Hutchinson wow, because the Lions
Speaker 4: do give up some big chunk plays deep and Hutchinson
Speaker 4: saw an average depth of target of nineteen yards in
Speaker 4: Week eight and thirty two yards in Week nine. They're
Speaker 4: using him as the long bomb throw. I wouldn't necessarily
Speaker 4: start him, but if you went against Chase and you're
Speaker 4: just toast, Xavier Hutchinson's a guy you could turn to,
Speaker 4: and then Dalton Schultz is the last guy I'll mention.
Speaker 2: Do we have to?
Speaker 4: I mean we do. The Texans were one of the
Speaker 4: best tight end defenses in the league, like I said before,
Speaker 4: but the other one is Detroit. The Lions are only
Speaker 4: allowing three point six catches for thirty yards per game
Speaker 4: to the tight end position. They've only allowed one tight
Speaker 4: end touchdown this year. Dalton's on the bench.
Speaker 2: Too, he is. Broncos are taking on the Chiefs. Get this,
Speaker 2: it's week ten. This is the first early game of
Speaker 2: the Chiefs year on Sunday.
Speaker 4: That's how wow.
Speaker 2: You know it's all Jets, all Chiefs all the time
Speaker 2: on national games. Yeah, late games, Yeah, absolutely, I can
Speaker 2: understand why with the Chiefs a little better. Let's go
Speaker 2: to the Denver side here, and I'm gonna start with
Speaker 2: Javonte Williams, who's firmly on the bench. Struggled last week
Speaker 2: in a tough matchup. This is a worse matchup against
Speaker 2: a better run defense. Chiefs rank number one in rushing
Speaker 2: yards allowed at fifty per game.
Speaker 4: No, and you think like, oh, the Chiefs, they've been
Speaker 4: up by so much that everybody's passing on them. Not really,
Speaker 4: they haven't been blowing anybody out a.
Speaker 2: Lot of close games. No backs top fifty eight yards
Speaker 2: against the Chiefs all year.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: And six of the past seven lead runners against the
Speaker 2: Chiefs haven't topped thirty four yards.
Speaker 4: Dude, Spags has that defense just he's so good?
Speaker 2: Sean Payton says he wants to get Audric estimate more
Speaker 2: reps as well. So that doesn't bode well for Javonte Williams.
Speaker 2: He it's a little early for the sabotage to rop,
Speaker 2: but I'm not saying you shouldn't do it here. All right,
Speaker 2: let's go to the passing game.
Speaker 4: But you could trade Javonte Williams if people are interested
Speaker 4: in running back right now. Yeah, so he's had record,
Speaker 4: Yeah right, a chance to get out of that.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the passing game. I want
Speaker 2: to start with Bo Nicks, who has been an all
Speaker 2: or nothing fantasy producer so far, and this looks like
Speaker 2: a dangerous game more likely to be nothing to me.
Speaker 2: Kansas City's a good secondary. No quarterback has topped two
Speaker 2: two hundred and twelve passing yards and five straight matchups.
Speaker 4: Now, so you would say, ixnay on the knock.
Speaker 2: I like it, nix nay on the nick nay. Fortunately,
Speaker 2: every opposing quarterback has scored a touchdown one way or another,
Speaker 2: and Kansas City's given up a couple of decent quarterback
Speaker 2: rushing games. So I've got a see grade on Nicks,
Speaker 2: mostly for his legs. I don't think he tops more
Speaker 2: than one passing touchdown in this game. The one receiver
Speaker 2: you care about. For denver Is Courtland, Sutton also comes
Speaker 2: out of the C grade heavily use the past two
Speaker 2: games twenty one targets me fifteen receptions two hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty two yards. But those two games where he's been
Speaker 2: good the last couple of weeks have come up against
Speaker 2: bottom ranked pass defenses Baltimore and Carolina. By the way,
Speaker 2: seven Baltimore just gets shelled every week, is weird. This
Speaker 2: is a far sterner matchup, especially if Sutton hooks up
Speaker 2: with excellent cornerback Trent McDuffie, who could very well shadow him,
Speaker 2: because why not take Crowton Sutton away and make.
Speaker 4: Hum deshun Vley or will Jordan I don't free.
Speaker 2: Free beat you. That's right. McDuffie often travels with opposing
Speaker 2: number one wideouts. That could be a problem here. McDuffie
Speaker 2: allows he allowed a one yard touchdown last week, but
Speaker 2: that was his first touchdown allowed of the year and
Speaker 2: it was only from one yard.
Speaker 4: Really, that's just a one yard reception.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it happens to be in the end zone. On average,
Speaker 2: McDuffie gives up two and a half catches twenty three
Speaker 2: yards per game. Here's your weird dart throw of the day,
Speaker 2: Adam Troutman. It takes a lot for Adam Troutman to
Speaker 2: hit the board of the letter grade or even get
Speaker 2: discussed on this show. But the Kansas City defense is
Speaker 2: a rare opportunity starting because Kansasy's awful against tight ends.
Speaker 2: They ranked dead last against tight ends and receptions allowed,
Speaker 2: yards allowed. Half the opposing tight ends that they've faced
Speaker 2: have top seventy seven yards, and that includes It's a
Speaker 2: bold strategy. Last we're back to Cott.
Speaker 4: So where Adam Troutman in Sam Laporta dons come to
Speaker 4: what is going on actly?
Speaker 2: Let's go to the Kansas City side. I loved lots
Speaker 2: of Chiefs last week. I'm down on many more of
Speaker 2: them this week. Let's start with Kareem Hunt, who's been
Speaker 2: a very good fantasy back but not such a good
Speaker 2: reality back. It's his volume that's made him fantasy relevant.
Speaker 2: He hasn't topped three point nine yards per carry in
Speaker 2: a month. That's three point nins bad. He hasn't been
Speaker 2: over that in a month. And Denver is a good
Speaker 2: run defense, not great, but they're good if you throw
Speaker 2: out Derrick Henry running all over the Broncos because he
Speaker 2: does that to pretty much everybody. The Broncos have held
Speaker 2: opposing top runners to forty one rushing yards per game
Speaker 2: and zero point one rushing touchdowns per game. Kareem Hunt
Speaker 2: only a b Let's go to the passing game. Travis
Speaker 2: Kelcey love the high usage since the Rashit Rice injury,
Speaker 2: but this is his trickiest matchup since then. Over the
Speaker 2: last month, Denver has held every opposing tight end to
Speaker 2: thirty eight yards or less. None have scored.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: Most commonly, Denver uses safety Randon Jones to cover tight ends,
Speaker 2: and he's great. He his Pro Football Focus is fifth
Speaker 2: highest ranked safety in coverage. Get this, Matt. He's allowing
Speaker 2: nine yards per game in his coverage.
Speaker 4: Nine times, nine times.
Speaker 2: Nine yards, Yes, nine yards. DeAndre Hopkins was awesome last week,
Speaker 2: but it was the perfect storm last week against a
Speaker 2: bad Tennessee defense, Matt that was also missing Jamel Dean
Speaker 2: as one of their starting cornerbacks, and there was no
Speaker 2: Jujusmith shoes. I mean, everything worked out his way. Juju
Speaker 2: won't play this one either. Here you flip it over
Speaker 2: to the other side. He's gonna draw Patrick Sirtan. That
Speaker 2: is a brutal matchup, maybe the hardest individual matchup in
Speaker 2: the NFL. Last week, the Ravens did not throw a
Speaker 2: single pass to Patrick Surtan's coverage. And if Patrick Sutan's
Speaker 2: going to be on DeAndre Hopkins and they similarly shy away,
Speaker 2: that doesn't leave Hopkins with much. Now, the Ravens last week,
Speaker 2: we're able to get Zay Flowers to a big game
Speaker 2: against the Broncos because they moved Jay Flowers into the slot,
Speaker 2: and maybe, especially with Juju Oup, maybe they'll do that
Speaker 2: with DeAndre Hopkins. We'll move him to the slot, and yeah,
Speaker 2: he could have some success there. And that's the only
Speaker 2: reason he's got a C grade. Xavier Worthy comes into
Speaker 2: the C grade coming off his highest utilization game of
Speaker 2: the year, and since Sir Tan is going to be
Speaker 2: on Hopkins, that puts Xavier Worthy on Riley Moss a
Speaker 2: lot more. Moss has allowed the eleventh most coverage yards
Speaker 2: and the nineteenth most air yards among all cornerbacks, all right,
Speaker 2: and that's critical for the downfield stylings of Xavier Worthy.
Speaker 2: So this is every week I'm like, hey, you know,
Speaker 2: you know what you're in for here. Zavi Worthy low
Speaker 2: volume it's all risk, it's all reward. This I feel
Speaker 2: is good about Worthy as any game this year. But
Speaker 2: he's still only a SE grade.
Speaker 4: So if you're Jamar chasing, you go find Xavier Worthy
Speaker 4: see if you can trade for him this week.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right. Last guy, and that's Patrick Mahomes. He's
Speaker 2: coming up his best Fantasy game of the year. But again,
Speaker 2: everything was perfect against the Bucks. This is a far
Speaker 2: tougher matchup. In two games against Denver last year, Mahomes
Speaker 2: held to zero and one touchdown. Denver's allowing the fifth
Speaker 2: fewest fantasy points to quarterbacks, and as I've already mentioned,
Speaker 2: all of his receivers have negative matchups except if you're
Speaker 2: Worthy in this one.
Speaker 4: So it sounds like you're hitting the under on this game.
Speaker 2: I am hitting the under on this game, and I've
Speaker 2: only got a C grade. I'm Patrick Mahomes. When we
Speaker 2: come back, take a chance on me. Nine players not
Speaker 2: normally in your starting lineup. Plus we'll sprinkle in some
Speaker 2: thor Nystrom. When we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 3: You'll be smiling with these.
Speaker 2: Take a chance on me players, nine players not normally
Speaker 2: in your starting lineup. Many of these guys available on
Speaker 2: the waiver wire. One and a half of mine are
Speaker 2: on the waiver wire. Matt Harrison, let's start with you.
Speaker 2: Who's your take a chance for me quarterback?
Speaker 4: I don't know if this guy's gonna make you smile.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Bryce Young. Wow that guy?
Speaker 2: Okay, it was Then Pickens this week, and I stole
Speaker 2: the obviously stole.
Speaker 4: My You stole my guy. So I I did look
Speaker 4: at this, and I mostly wanted to point out some
Speaker 4: encouraging signs for Bryce Young. His completion percentage has been
Speaker 4: solid sixty four percent.
Speaker 2: Okay, wait, wait, wait, you're you've offered me an open
Speaker 2: trade involving Bryce Young in our dynasty.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to convince you. You trying to exact me exactly.
Speaker 4: You've figured it out, You've sussed out charge Young's completion
Speaker 4: percentage solid sixty four percent. Andy Dalton was at sixty six.
Speaker 4: Young's yards per attempt have gone up in his second
Speaker 4: go around. It was four point four yards per attempt
Speaker 4: in his early starts. It's up to six point three
Speaker 4: in his last two, and Andy Dalton on the season
Speaker 4: was at six point one. For a little frame of reference,
Speaker 4: Young's average depth the target has gone up as well.
Speaker 4: In the last two games. They've started to send him
Speaker 4: on a few designed runs as well, so they're not
Speaker 4: crazy numbers, but there's some steady improvements and his matchup
Speaker 4: against the Giants is a little bit better than Okay,
Speaker 4: they're middle of the pack against basically everything, but there's
Speaker 4: two things that go in Young's favor. The Giants have
Speaker 4: only had one interception the whole season, and it was
Speaker 4: week one. It was Sam Darnold in Week one. And
Speaker 4: there's a little bit of an ability to get some
Speaker 4: rushing numbers as a quarterback. Against the Giants, six different
Speaker 4: quarterbacks have had twenty or more rush yards. So if
Speaker 4: they do a couple more designed runs for Bryce Young,
Speaker 4: he and a couple of scramble plays, I think he'll
Speaker 4: be able to cobble together an okay day in Germany.
Speaker 2: All right, Thorp, who is to take a chance on
Speaker 2: me quarterback to a Tago Bayla against the Rams.
Speaker 5: I don't know why that's so hard for me to say.
Speaker 6: Well, his name is hard but since returning in week
Speaker 6: A two has completed eighty percent of help.
Speaker 2: If he used his brother's name from was it Maryland.
Speaker 6: Or yeah, te Leah turned the ball over as we
Speaker 6: called him all right, yeah but yeah, complete in eighty
Speaker 6: percent of the passes, and a shootout is assuredly coming here.
Speaker 6: This game has the third highest total of the week.
Speaker 6: Rams defense over the past four games is surrendered the
Speaker 6: second most passing yards per completion, and the Rams have
Speaker 6: allowed multiple touchdown passes in three of those four games.
Speaker 5: So I like two of this week.
Speaker 2: I feel badly about taking the obvious choice off the
Speaker 2: board for Matt anthor insert quarterback here against the Panthers.
Speaker 4: Yes, my god, don't worry, I'm going to be doing
Speaker 4: that later in this segment.
Speaker 2: Okay, that would be Daniel Jones. This week, Caroline has
Speaker 2: allowed passing touchdowns in every game. The Lak neighbors healthy
Speaker 2: great matchup individually for him Jones rushing has been all
Speaker 2: over the place, but Carolina has faced two good rushing quarterbacks. Recently,
Speaker 2: Bonick scored a touchdown, Jaden Daniels had fifty yards on
Speaker 2: the ground. So one way another Daniel Jones can help
Speaker 2: you this week. Let's go to the running back position.
Speaker 4: Man, I'm gonna double dip with both of the Giants
Speaker 4: running backs, Tyrone Tracy and Devin Singletary. Tracy still only
Speaker 4: rostered in seventy one percent of leagues, and I didn't
Speaker 4: think he really was take a chance on me eligible,
Speaker 4: but I wanted to note that. Okay, so if you're
Speaker 4: in a casual league, you have to pick him up
Speaker 4: if he's on your waiver. Where Singletary probably the change
Speaker 4: of pace back from here on out, but he's been
Speaker 4: good at that throughout his career. Both are startable against
Speaker 4: the Panthers, who are the worst run defense in football.
Speaker 4: Opposing backs as a group are averaging thirty three touches,
Speaker 4: one hundred and sixty nine combo yards, and almost two
Speaker 4: touchdowns per game. All three are the worst marks in
Speaker 4: the league. Fire up your giants runners, all.
Speaker 2: Right, thor you're taking chance on me running back.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go with Tyler Eljier against the Saints. Like
Speaker 6: Elgier has gotten forty percent of the red zone rushes
Speaker 6: this season, and this matchup should provide a pro l
Speaker 6: gier game script. The Falcons may and probably will crush
Speaker 6: the injury depleted, reeling Saints, and the Saints are allowing
Speaker 6: one hundred and twenty seven rushing yards per game and
Speaker 6: a league high five point five yards per carry should
Speaker 6: be a lot of touches for Lger in the second
Speaker 6: half of this one.
Speaker 2: Also, Tyler l Giers really good, really good, just not
Speaker 2: the play that Bijon is right, Yeah, Jalen Warrens might
Speaker 2: take a chance on me running back. He gets half
Speaker 2: as much work as Najie Harris, but that's enough to
Speaker 2: make him startable against the league's worst run defense. The
Speaker 2: Commanders are allowing the fifth most year. We've already got
Speaker 2: fifth most yards and the most yards per carry. Washington
Speaker 2: ranks thirtieth in defensive run success rate, and we've seen
Speaker 2: two We've seen number two backs get paid against Washington
Speaker 2: throughout the year. We've seen Bucky Irving, Zach Moss, Trey Benson,
Speaker 2: Trey Benson, Rashawn Johnson all with meaningful fantasy games against
Speaker 2: Washington as number two backs. So Jalen Warren and Ills
Speaker 2: sprinkling a couple of receptions here and there help out
Speaker 2: of a few PPR points as well. Let's go to
Speaker 2: the receiver position.
Speaker 4: Matt stand with the Giants Wan Dale Robinson, Darius Slayton's
Speaker 4: gonna miss this week with a concussion. When the Giants
Speaker 4: have had one of their three wide receivers missing, it
Speaker 4: usually just means an uptick and play for the other two.
Speaker 4: When Malik Neighbors missed weeks five and six, Robinson had
Speaker 4: seventeen targets in each of those games. Slayton had twenty
Speaker 4: two targets, and both had double digit PPR points in
Speaker 4: each game. So Robinson almost exclusively runs from the slot,
Speaker 4: where he'll face Chow Smith Wade, a name I most
Speaker 4: certainly did not make up. Wow, he's allowing seventy five
Speaker 4: percent of the passes in his coverage to be caught
Speaker 4: in a one to twelve passer rating.
Speaker 2: That sounds promising. I like Wendell Robinson here. All right,
Speaker 2: let's go to Thorpe. You'll take a chance from your receiver.
Speaker 6: Gonna go with Alec Pierce against the Bills. I think
Speaker 6: he's worth a long look here with Michael Pittman out
Speaker 6: Peers for sure is a one trick pony.
Speaker 5: Deep ball guy.
Speaker 6: And while the Bills have been good against perimeter wide receivers,
Speaker 6: they have shown that they.
Speaker 5: Can beat be beat deep. So a big player too
Speaker 5: could be coming here for Alec Pierce.
Speaker 2: Is this the game where Donny Mitchell shows up?
Speaker 5: No, probably not all right, Okay, just fun to ask.
Speaker 2: I'm going with Juwan Jennings expected to play in this game,
Speaker 2: but will want it or his injury status. He goes
Speaker 2: up against Tampa Bay and number one outside receivers are
Speaker 2: hammering the Bucks, especially lately Jandre Hopkins last week, Darnold
Speaker 2: Mooney's done it twice recently, Drake London. Starting cornerback Jamel
Speaker 2: Dean remains out for Tampa and starting safety Jordan Whitehead
Speaker 2: may not play in this game. And you'll remember back
Speaker 2: in Week three, the last time Juan Jennings started in
Speaker 2: place of Brandon Ayuk, he went for eleven catches, one
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy five yards or three touchdowns. Hmmm, Jown
Speaker 2: Jennings four read to jump into a matchup, Let's do it, Okay,
Speaker 2: the Atlanta Falcons taking on the New Orleans Saints. You've
Speaker 2: already told us you like Tyler l Jeer. Why don't
Speaker 2: we go from that conversation right over to Bjhon Robinson.
Speaker 2: Who's I have? So I've never I've been doing this
Speaker 2: a long long time. I've never had more running backs
Speaker 2: highly ranked than this week. And I'm talking like in
Speaker 2: my career doing this, this is it's an insane week.
Speaker 2: So I was going to say, Bijon Robinson's like a
Speaker 2: top five running back, but in any other week he
Speaker 2: would be, but maybe not here. What do you think?
Speaker 6: No, I mean you have to keep him in your lineup.
Speaker 6: So he's a clear A for me here. Yes, and
Speaker 6: LG of course is to take a chance on me.
Speaker 6: Kirk Cousins, I have a great at B on him.
Speaker 6: He struggled in his first game against the Saints in
Speaker 6: Week four, but at that time he was still getting
Speaker 6: used to the new offense, new targets, new scheme, all
Speaker 6: that sort of stuff. Atlanta didn't score an offensive touchdown
Speaker 6: in that game, but since then, Cousins has the second
Speaker 6: most passing yards in the NFL and the Saints defense
Speaker 6: allows the fourth most passing yards in the NFL. Drake London,
Speaker 6: he's he's questionable with a hip injury. He's an obvious
Speaker 6: A and a must start if he goes Darnol Mooney.
Speaker 5: I gave him a grade A B.
Speaker 6: He has eighteen or more fantasy points in executive games.
Speaker 6: The Saints defense is allowing the fifth most receiving yards
Speaker 6: to wide receivers, and of course they just traded Marshawn
Speaker 6: Lottimore on Tuesday, So the cornerbacks this weekend, for sure,
Speaker 6: we're going to get a Lotte Taylor on one side
Speaker 6: and on the other side.
Speaker 5: We'll have to see.
Speaker 6: It could be kool aid mcinnistry, but he's been questionable
Speaker 6: with a hamstring, so.
Speaker 5: We'll find out on game day, I guess. And then
Speaker 5: Kyle Pitts gave him a bee.
Speaker 6: He only had eleven yards on one target against Dallas
Speaker 6: in Week nine, and only fifty This is maybe the
Speaker 6: more troubling thing, only fifty one percent of snaps over
Speaker 6: the last two weeks, but he did have sixty five
Speaker 6: plus yards in each of his previous four games prior
Speaker 6: to the Dallas game. It's a boomer Bus play, so
Speaker 6: I'm sort of split in the middle and giving him
Speaker 6: a bee. Moving over to the Saints Derek Carr, I
Speaker 6: would keep him on the bench here since Week two
Speaker 6: less than fourteen fantasy points per game. The Falcons aren't
Speaker 6: a bad matchup for quarterbacks, so I could understand someone
Speaker 6: thinking about it, But Carr has been playing well and
Speaker 6: the saywide receiver corps has suffered.
Speaker 5: I don't know how else to call it a biblical play.
Speaker 5: Of intraphic.
Speaker 2: Yes, catastrophic. I like it. Yes.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Elvin Kamara is an A and a must start. But
Speaker 6: Chris o'lave appears to be out, likely out. He has
Speaker 6: a concussion. He was sent to a concussion specialist late
Speaker 6: in the week, a very ominous sign. No Saints wide
Speaker 6: receiver appears startable to me.
Speaker 4: If he is out.
Speaker 5: Mason Tipton could be her deep league.
Speaker 2: I tried last week on all that's the thinking against
Speaker 2: an easier defense. Yeah, Tipton was targeted three times for
Speaker 2: no catches.
Speaker 5: Not good. Yeah, I mean yeah, it would have to
Speaker 5: be a deep league.
Speaker 2: I started him in two leagues.
Speaker 6: The one other guy that I think is started ball
Speaker 6: on the same side is Taysom Hill, who I'm given
Speaker 6: a B. He was tight end five and weekly fantasy
Speaker 6: scoring last week. They need to manufacture offense somehow, I mean,
Speaker 6: outside of Kamara, you need a playmaker somewhere, and Taysom
Speaker 6: Hill can at least manufacture some yards. Last week, five
Speaker 6: rushing attempts, nineteen rushing yards, forty one receiving yards, and
Speaker 6: a rushing touchdown. With that Saints wide receiver room decimated,
Speaker 6: I think that Taysom Hill is worth gambling on again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's probably the facts of that situation.
Speaker 2: Taysom Hill is you get running back two on the Saints,
Speaker 2: you get tight end two on the Saints, you get
Speaker 2: quarterback two on the Saints, and I guess maybe even
Speaker 2: wide receiver two on the Saints. In Taysom Hill, all
Speaker 2: in one, guy, Matt, let's go to the Jets Cardinals.
Speaker 2: Have I got this?
Speaker 4: Sure we can do that?
Speaker 2: All right? Good, Let's go to Jets Cardinals. Cardinals defense
Speaker 2: turning a little bit pluckier than then we expected at
Speaker 2: the start of the season. I'll be interested to see
Speaker 2: what you think here. You want to start with the
Speaker 2: most notable of the well, I was gonna say Breece
Speaker 2: Hall's the most notable. Maybe Garrett Wilson start with whatever
Speaker 2: you want.
Speaker 4: That's okay. I got a lot of A grades here.
Speaker 4: Brece Hall gets an A grade in this one. He's
Speaker 4: getting enough touches. He's averaging five yards per carry over
Speaker 4: the last two weeks. But since DeVante came over, Hall
Speaker 4: hasn't really been involved in the pass game, only three
Speaker 4: catches in the last two games after eleven in the
Speaker 4: previous two. But I think some course correction happens this week.
Speaker 4: The Cards are bottom eight against receiving backs and are
Speaker 4: allowing one hundred and forty eight combo yards per game
Speaker 4: to the running back position. I think Breese Hall is
Speaker 4: gonna be just fine here. Garrett Wilson caught some fire
Speaker 4: since DeVante Adams got here the Michael Jordan jumpman catch
Speaker 4: last week that was amazing nine for ninety and two,
Speaker 4: while Adams put up seven for ninety one and one,
Speaker 4: so it's obvious there's room for both to eat, especially
Speaker 4: since Malachi Corley will never see the field again after
Speaker 4: dropping the ball at the one yard line. A grades
Speaker 4: for both Wilson and Adams against the Cards defense that
Speaker 4: has allowed the eighth most receptions and seventh most yards
Speaker 4: to wide receivers, I got it like Rogers two, I'm
Speaker 4: only gonna give him a bee though. It's been the
Speaker 4: mobile quarterbacks that have had the explosive days against the Cardinals,
Speaker 4: so we're probably looking at something like two point fifty
Speaker 4: and two for Rogers here, which just kind of seems
Speaker 4: be worthy to me. But speaking of mobile quarterbacks, Kyler
Speaker 4: Murray is one of those. I'll give him a B
Speaker 4: grade as well. I think it's his mobility that will
Speaker 4: give him enough time to maneuver and wait for his
Speaker 4: receivers to get open. In this one plus, Kyler gets
Speaker 4: about five rushing attempts per game if you look at
Speaker 4: what the five, But if you look at what the
Speaker 4: Jets have given up to quarterbacks who run, it's looking
Speaker 4: at like the forty to sixty yard range of rushing
Speaker 4: yards with a puncher's chance at a touchdown. So a
Speaker 4: B grade for Kyler. They've been moving Marvin Harrison Junior
Speaker 4: all over the place, so he will flex into the
Speaker 4: slot a little bit where he'll see his best matchup
Speaker 4: against Michael Carter two. Carter has been dealing with a
Speaker 4: backer injury, but he did return to practice on Thursday.
Speaker 4: The best that we can hope for, though, is that
Speaker 4: the Cards run Harrison from the slot a ton. He
Speaker 4: only usually runs from there about twenty six percent of
Speaker 4: the time. Other than that, I wouldn't want to start
Speaker 4: him against Saucer or DJ Reid, So just a C
Speaker 4: grade for Marvin Harrison. The Jets are good against tight ends,
Speaker 4: so Trey McBride limps in with a C grade. His
Speaker 4: fantasy day was saved last week from a disaster with
Speaker 4: a touchdown run. But the Jets have locked down time
Speaker 4: ends all year. Kittle four for forty, Dalton Schultz three
Speaker 4: for twenty one. The best day a tight end had
Speaker 4: against the Jets Dalton Kincaid six for fifty one, and
Speaker 4: the Jets have only allowed one tight end score all year.
Speaker 4: And then finally, James Connor. He's still the workhorse here
Speaker 4: despite rushing touchdowns being scored last week by McBride, Imari
Speaker 4: de Marcato and Trey Benson. Yeah, how about that, James
Speaker 4: Connor didn't. But he's top twenty touches in three straight
Speaker 4: weeks and every one of the five games that the
Speaker 4: Cardinals have won this season, Connor got twenty touches. In
Speaker 4: the four games that they lost. He did not get
Speaker 4: to twenty touches. Workhorse backs to face the Jets mix
Speaker 4: and had one oh six in a score last week.
Speaker 4: Bromandre had two touchdowns the week before Nase he had
Speaker 4: one oh two in a score of the week before that,
Speaker 4: Ray Davis and Phil in Duty for Buffalo had twenty
Speaker 4: three touches in one hundred and fifty two convo yards
Speaker 4: feed James Connor. He gets the A grade here.
Speaker 2: God bless James Connor is still going hard and running,
Speaker 2: playing at some of his best ball at this late
Speaker 2: stage his career.
Speaker 4: You're acting like he's ninety five years old.
Speaker 2: Think he kind of is ninety five years old. When
Speaker 2: we come back, we've got another block of matchups for you,
Speaker 2: including the Vikings taking on the Mac Jones led Jaguars.
Speaker 2: Are there any Jaguars you want to start in this game?
Speaker 2: Find out when we come back. Welcome back to Fantasy
Speaker 2: Football Weekly. Paul Charchie, Matt Harrison, and thor Nystrom with
Speaker 2: you got another block of matchups here, beginning with the
Speaker 2: Bills taking on the Colts. For Bills offense has been
Speaker 2: quite a bit more potent lately, Indianapolis defense has struggled
Speaker 2: a lot. You want to start running game, passing game?
Speaker 2: Where do you want to go here?
Speaker 6: Both Alan and James Cook are our days and must
Speaker 6: starts and yeah, and James Cook could be could be
Speaker 6: getting some extra work here.
Speaker 5: If this game becomes a laugher.
Speaker 2: Ol Ray Davis. If it's a laugh for potentially.
Speaker 6: Ray Davis could get involved. We'll we'll see the receiving
Speaker 6: court for the Bills. It's interesting. Keon Coleman has been
Speaker 6: ruled out with a risk injury, and Amari Cooper has
Speaker 6: his own risk injury that he's he's questionable with that
Speaker 6: he did Amari Cooper, I'm talking about return to practice
Speaker 6: on Friday. If Cooper plays, I think he could be
Speaker 6: in line for a big player too. In this game,
Speaker 6: no team allows a higher air yards per attempt than
Speaker 6: the cold steal. So I'm gonna give Cooper a b
Speaker 6: if he indeed is able to give it a go.
Speaker 5: Also going to give a bee to Khalil Shakir.
Speaker 6: Yeah, baby, twenty catches on twenty one targets his last
Speaker 6: five games. Uh, but twenty two I'm sorry in the
Speaker 6: first five games, but twenty two catches on twenty four
Speaker 6: targets in the three games since. With Keyon, Coleman out
Speaker 6: and Amari Cooper questionable, there could be even more targets
Speaker 6: this week for Khalil Shakir Dalton k Kate, I'm gonna
Speaker 6: give him an a tight end ten in fantasy. He
Speaker 6: leads the Bills and targets, averaging about seven of those
Speaker 6: since Week four, but he remains third on the team
Speaker 6: in receiving yards only two touchdowns. Those were five weeks apart,
Speaker 6: hasn't gotten more than fifty two yards in any game.
Speaker 5: There could be a chance.
Speaker 6: For a breakout here, though the Colts have given up
Speaker 6: the most catches do opposing tight ends in the entire NFL.
Speaker 6: Moving over to the Colt side, Joe Flacco got a
Speaker 6: bench on him. Of course, KB eighteen and QB thirty
Speaker 6: two in fantasy scoring the last two weeks, and this
Speaker 6: is not a great matchup. To turn it around, the
Speaker 6: Bills have allowed the eighth lowest yards per attempt to
Speaker 6: opposing quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: Jonathan Taylor?
Speaker 2: Is he and a second on Flacco? Is this his
Speaker 2: last start of the year should be? I think this
Speaker 2: is it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he shouldn't have even gotten the first time with you.
Speaker 2: I think he struggles here against the Bills. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: then they just go richards and rest away. You have
Speaker 2: to give him an evaluation period. How are you going
Speaker 2: to know what to do with Richardson next year if
Speaker 2: you don't play him down the stretch? You have to Okay,
Speaker 2: it's easy to say that now, but when you're completing
Speaker 2: forty is he down to forty six percent of his passes?
Speaker 4: Do you notice Richardson was doing all the right things
Speaker 4: last week though, just like being a team leader giving
Speaker 4: high fives to his guys coming on and off the field,
Speaker 4: like everything like that, Like I could do that, Yeah
Speaker 4: you could, but you can't throw no even forty six
Speaker 4: percent charge.
Speaker 6: No, I can't appreciate the break there. Boys, I was tired.
Speaker 6: Jonathan Taylor would give him an A. Obviously, want to
Speaker 6: start really.
Speaker 5: Out.
Speaker 6: Michael Pittman has been reled out with a back injury.
Speaker 6: Josh Downs a be He's finished as a top twenty
Speaker 6: Fantasy wide receiver four of the past six weeks. Solid
Speaker 6: matchup here against the Bills. Allen Lazard, Jackson Smith and
Speaker 6: Jagba and Christian Kirk all had sixty plus receiving yards
Speaker 6: just from slot targets alone, and Alec Pierce was might
Speaker 6: take a chance on me receiver.
Speaker 2: Minnesota takes on Jacksonville justin Jefferson's an obvious a grade
Speaker 2: that we don't need to expand upon to. Let's go
Speaker 2: to some of the other receivers, including Jordan Addison. So
Speaker 2: on uptaking usage last week, and this is probably the
Speaker 2: easiest matchup of the year for Jordan Ada. So if
Speaker 2: you was on your roster, we'll start him here. The Vikings.
Speaker 2: This opportunity for Jordan Addison. He plays both. He plays
Speaker 2: the X, the Y, and the Z, all favorable matchups
Speaker 2: against cornerbacks Ronald Darby, Jerry and Jones, Tyson Campbell. They
Speaker 2: have Pro Football Focus rankings of cornerbacks forty seven, forty one,
Speaker 2: and one hundred. Darby got murdered by Devontae Smith last week.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna try Jordan Addison at a see grade here,
Speaker 2: See you can stay hot? What about TJ. Howkinson twenty
Speaker 2: five snaps last week in his debut off the ACL
Speaker 2: he suffered last December. You figure if those twenty four
Speaker 2: routes nudge up by maybe fifty percent, now he's at
Speaker 2: like two thirds of the snaps and it's game on
Speaker 2: for TJ. Hockinson at that point. Good, not even great,
Speaker 2: just good tight ends hammering the Jaguars Tucker Craft, Hunter,
Speaker 2: Henry Cole, Kmet Dalton Kincaid averaging five catches, seventy yards
Speaker 2: and a full touchdown per game.
Speaker 5: TJ.
Speaker 2: Hockinson b great and that leaves us with in the
Speaker 2: passing game, Sam Darnald. Jaguars have allowed the most passing
Speaker 2: touchdowns and the second most yards passing the last six
Speaker 2: quarterbacks to play full games against Jacksonville have all thrown
Speaker 2: multiple touchdowns. It's a great opportunity for Sam Donald this game,
Speaker 2: and that brings us to Aaron Jones. Now I have
Speaker 2: two schools of thought on this. One is Jaguars are
Speaker 2: a horrible pass defense and it's so much easier to
Speaker 2: pass on them than run. The other side of it
Speaker 2: is the Vikings may get out way ahead and just
Speaker 2: run the ball.
Speaker 4: And there's also another angle that you're not talking about,
Speaker 4: the Cam Robinson revenge game. Yeah, there is that he's
Speaker 4: an over left tackle that's every time.
Speaker 2: Behind running behind. Cam Robinson traded from the Jaguars for
Speaker 2: the Vikings. Jaguars are a much better run defense than
Speaker 2: pass defense, and they ranked ninth best in run defense
Speaker 2: success rate, tenth best in yards per carry. The last
Speaker 2: two runners to face Jacksonville, Saquon Barkley Josh Jacobs, had
Speaker 2: twenty and twenty seven carries. So obviously, if Aaron Jones
Speaker 2: is anywhere near that he's he would be an easy
Speaker 2: A grade and with Mac Jones at the helm, it
Speaker 2: could go that way. But for everybody else who is
Speaker 2: not Saquon Barkley and Josh Jacobs lead runners with less
Speaker 2: than twenty five carries, are averaging forty six rushing yards
Speaker 2: and the Jags half a touchdown. Jones averages way less
Speaker 2: than twenty five carries. He averages fifteen per game. That's it.
Speaker 2: So I've only got a B grade on Jones. You
Speaker 2: could buying most people's minds. It's probably a worthy but
Speaker 2: I've got to be all right. So now we got
Speaker 2: Mac Jones. Believe it or not, he's already faced the
Speaker 2: Vikings once and he threw for over three hundred yards
Speaker 2: in that game, but it was two years ago when
Speaker 2: he was with the Patriots. The Vikings pass defense has
Speaker 2: been yielding all year. They allow the fourth most passing yards,
Speaker 2: multiple touchdowns and four straight games before last week. But
Speaker 2: here's the thing and why I can't even give you
Speaker 2: a dart throw on mac Jones. It's Brian Flores against
Speaker 2: Mac Jones. That feels like a so Ismac mismatch. So
Speaker 2: we're gonna go bench on Mac Jones as you would expect.
Speaker 2: And sadly I had to move Evan Ingram and Brian Thomas.
Speaker 2: They were in the ab range down to seas in
Speaker 2: this game. For Evan Ingram. Minnesota is a good tight
Speaker 2: end defense. They're allowing the third fewest tight end receptions
Speaker 2: the eighth fewest tight end yards. They shut down Sam
Speaker 2: Laporta two weeks ago. Although Tucker Craft and George Kittle
Speaker 2: posted good games, those are way back in Week two
Speaker 2: and week four. I could see Mac Jones dumping the
Speaker 2: ball off a lot to Evan Ingram, though under durest
Speaker 2: just you know, getting it. Getting the ball to somebody.
Speaker 4: Seems like a random ten catch game for it, and it.
Speaker 2: Might be only ten catches for like sixty yards, no
Speaker 2: score something, but that's We're still in solid sea range
Speaker 2: for Evan Ingram. I love Brian Thomas. We may talk
Speaker 2: more about him later in this show. With Mac Jones
Speaker 2: slides down to a seag right. The Vikings handled Indies
Speaker 2: receivers last week, but in the four prior games they
Speaker 2: allowed the opponent's best receiver, and Brian Thomas is the
Speaker 2: best receiver in the Jags to top one hundred yards
Speaker 2: three the last four scored touchdowns. By most measures, Thomas
Speaker 2: is the best rookie receiver in many in by many metrics,
Speaker 2: and there is still he is starter worthy in my mind,
Speaker 2: even with mac Jones, and then we go to Tank
Speaker 2: Bigsby and Travis Etn. I'm a little sad about this,
Speaker 2: you guys know I feel about Tank Bigsby. M hm.
Speaker 2: He's back in this stupid time share with Travis Etn,
Speaker 2: who he's way better than. But does Doug Peterson care?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Does Doug Peterson want to keep his job?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: So uh?
Speaker 2: And this one I'm gonna with a split backfield against
Speaker 2: a good Vikings run defense. We got to put bench
Speaker 2: grades on both Bigsby and Travis Etn. Minnesota's got the
Speaker 2: fourth best run stuff win rate, they ranked third in
Speaker 2: run defense EPA, they ranked number one in run defense
Speaker 2: success rate, and they Minnesota sees the league's lowest run
Speaker 2: play percentage. So there's not even a lot of carries
Speaker 2: to go around for Bigsby and Etn. So plus, by
Speaker 2: the way, they're both you know, they both him and
Speaker 2: hobble into this game. They're both on the bench. Our
Speaker 2: final matchup.
Speaker 4: Oh, I gotta go get our German correspondent, Our German correspondent,
Speaker 4: Deeter von Fortsen got did I do? I?
Speaker 2: Did I get that?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: Deader is yagging?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 1: Hair chachy in do they all yell in Germany, gutten
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Speaker 1: York recon schlock de Carolina, Schwartz Katza mark this do
Speaker 1: off de toilette get gang in.
Speaker 2: Do we have anybody here that knows German?
Speaker 5: I actually took some German classes in y'all.
Speaker 2: Get out perfect? Can you help us decode that I can?
Speaker 6: Dieter says hello, and he mentioned that the Giants are
Speaker 6: facing off against the carolinap Black Cats, and in all
Speaker 6: he also mentioned that Daniel Jones was Churches take a
Speaker 6: chance on me quarterback, and Wandale Robinson was Matt's take
Speaker 6: a chance on me receiver.
Speaker 5: It was nice of him to get all that out
Speaker 5: of the way off the top.
Speaker 2: That really was. And I didn't even hear my own
Speaker 2: name come out of that, so wow, very impressive.
Speaker 1: Teter maleak knock bin aarn Er halt Denota bay Dekattson
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Speaker 5: He's saying that Malik Neighbors gets a B grade.
Speaker 6: It's been too easy to run against Carolina this season
Speaker 6: that only three opposing wide receivers have even seen double
Speaker 6: digit targets against them all year, but they're still allowing
Speaker 6: a touchdown per game to the position. JC Horn could
Speaker 6: shadow Neighbors in this one, which makes things difficult. Through
Speaker 6: nine games, Horn has only allowed fifteen receptions in his
Speaker 6: coverage and a seventy seven passer rating. He's even got
Speaker 6: THEO Johnson as a dart throw C grade. The Panthers
Speaker 6: have allowed the most tight tight end touchdowns in the
Speaker 6: league this season with seven.
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Speaker 2: I know that last part.
Speaker 5: Don't y'all.
Speaker 6: Tyron Tracy, he said, Tyrone Tracy and Devin Singletary where
Speaker 6: Matt's take a chance on me runners and Bryce Young
Speaker 6: was to take a chance on me quarterback and for
Speaker 6: some reason, even though he's not playing in this game,
Speaker 6: Dieter still hates Mac Johnston when he played here last year.
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Speaker 1: boest mina un Travasha.
Speaker 6: He's got Xavier Leaguette and Jalen Cocher iss c grades.
Speaker 6: Panthers have traded Deontay Johnson and Jonathan Mingo. And by
Speaker 6: the way, why did he didn't? This isn't what Dieter said.
Speaker 6: When did the Cowboys got all the worst trades and memories? King?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 6: So there's obviously a lot of routes and targets available
Speaker 6: for the two rookie here. Deontay Banks and Cordell Flott
Speaker 6: are very beatable corners. Banks alone has already allowed six
Speaker 6: touchdowns and coverage this year.
Speaker 5: That's the second most in the league.
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Speaker 1: Balkan the reason zint shtink to you you and zitzelflish
Speaker 1: caba ein schnappies las uns zoom friedhof Gayan und einpat
Speaker 1: cheeseburger Essen?
Speaker 2: Did you say his say cheeseburger in Essen? The city
Speaker 2: of Essen?
Speaker 6: Tuba Hubbard and Jonathan Brooks. He gives Hubbard a bee
Speaker 6: and Jonathan Brooks might get to play in this one.
Speaker 6: Remember it's an early start, so if you're thinking of
Speaker 6: playing him, you may want to set an early alarm.
Speaker 6: If Brooks does indeed go, Matt believes he's worth a
Speaker 6: see teah Right, the Giants are allowing five point one
Speaker 6: yards for carry and our bottom ten in rush yards,
Speaker 6: receptions and receiving yards allowed to opposing runners.
Speaker 1: Darfic minu bleischiff spitzen alviras chu spis.
Speaker 5: Bye Dieter.
Speaker 2: Dieter von Fortzen go to the official German Germany correspondent
Speaker 2: for Fantasy Football. That, guys, we're in later hosen and
Speaker 2: only laters. That's the worrisome part.
Speaker 4: Well, you had the hat with the little feather, and
Speaker 4: yeah he did.
Speaker 2: Of course Germany has got that. Yeah, I believe that
Speaker 2: is the case. We've got just a moment here before
Speaker 2: we need to take a break. Is it time to
Speaker 2: start reconfiguring your bench with handcuffed players rather than your
Speaker 2: low upside players? You know, a lot of time. You know,
Speaker 2: there's still there's still bye weeks left, and so that's
Speaker 2: why I think we're in the gray area. Want to
Speaker 2: get by the bye weeks. It's really obvious. But as
Speaker 2: we start getting closer to the playoffs, you start wanting
Speaker 2: to have more of those high value backup players than say,
Speaker 2: you know, those third tier wide receivers, those second tier
Speaker 2: running backs. What do you think little roster construction.
Speaker 5: I think so yeah.
Speaker 6: I think you could definitely start that right now, and
Speaker 6: you can get a jump on it and avoid one
Speaker 6: of your league mates swooping in and grabbing one of
Speaker 6: your dudes.
Speaker 4: I kind of challenge it a little bit further and go,
Speaker 4: maybe it's not handcuffs. Maybe it's just those running backs
Speaker 4: of other players like picking up like Braylan Allen and
Speaker 4: Blake Koram and a couple of the guys that we've
Speaker 4: talked about on this show, Like if something happens to
Speaker 4: the guy in front of them, they're twenty touch a
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Speaker 2: Matt Harrison and Thorne Eystrom with you. This is a
Speaker 2: game we call three tough questions.
Speaker 4: Tough question number one.
Speaker 2: Matt, you can redraft your dynasty roster from scratch today,
Speaker 2: which rookie wide receiver would you take first?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: I have Malik Neighbors because, uh, he looks like the
Speaker 4: best one. And I think the Giants are one of
Speaker 4: those teams who draft a quarterback in the first round
Speaker 4: and make a pretty big improvement there. Uh, they could
Speaker 4: bring in a free agent too. Harrison hasn't dazzled yet.
Speaker 4: Oh Doonese really hasn't either. And I think there could
Speaker 4: be a new coaching staff in Chicago. But the guy
Speaker 4: considered as kind of my one b here was Brian
Speaker 4: Thomas Junior. I like him a lot. Lat McConkie could
Speaker 4: be as good as well. But really we want to
Speaker 4: hear what Thorn Eistrom has to say.
Speaker 2: All right, thor, Well, then, for you, if you were
Speaker 2: going to redraft your dynasty roster from scratch, which rookie
Speaker 2: receiver would you take first?
Speaker 6: Well, this is an obvious answer, right, Jalen Colcher's for you.
Speaker 5: No, I'm just getting Mylik Neighbors.
Speaker 2: I used him as my premature speculation for you last week.
Speaker 5: I love that show. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I love you know I'm a Colkutt, so yeah,
Speaker 6: president of the kol Katts.
Speaker 5: But yeah, no, it's it's Malik Neighbors.
Speaker 6: He gets the elite usage even in games where the
Speaker 6: production hasn't been there. I don't think he scored a
Speaker 6: touchdown in four straight weeks something like that, but yeah,
Speaker 6: he's still getting that elite usage. And Matt's point is
Speaker 6: the correct point on this. The Giants will have improved
Speaker 6: quarterback play going forward. They're going to get a new
Speaker 6: quarterback this offseason who will help matters. And I'd expect
Speaker 6: the Giants also to get another wide receiver to keep
Speaker 6: defenses and coverages from rolling over to Neighbors.
Speaker 5: So it's Moleague Neighbors man.
Speaker 2: I struggled with this was a hard question, but it's
Speaker 2: really to me. It's just so it's only down to
Speaker 2: two guys, and Marvin Harrison's not even in this conversation.
Speaker 2: I don't believe. And he was the first one taken
Speaker 2: in the real NFL draft. So here's the catch on
Speaker 2: Neighbors and the only hesitation. I have a neighbors besides
Speaker 2: the fact that I like to be a general contraring
Speaker 2: because he looks great. Okay, they are going to change quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: But are we going to get an upgrade?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 2: Right now they pick seventh in the draft. The Giants do.
Speaker 2: They probably going to win against Carolina, not necessarily. Probably,
Speaker 2: there's nine to two win teams right now in the NFL.
Speaker 2: They could be the first pick in the draft by
Speaker 2: the end of the weekend. Well, the Catches, they might
Speaker 2: win three of their next four games. Ooh, the Giants might. Right,
Speaker 2: They've got Dallas and Cooper Rush, and we know it's
Speaker 2: going to be Cooper Rush. They've got New Orleans. These
Speaker 2: are in the next three weeks. Carolina, Dallas, New Orleans.
Speaker 2: This team may find itself picking at like twelve thirteen.
Speaker 2: The Giants might. I know, you might be able to
Speaker 2: land the quarterback of the future there, but that's not
Speaker 2: a sure thing. If that matter, one on one's not
Speaker 2: a sure thing. I don't even know. Kay Williams has
Speaker 2: got an NFL career at this point. So that brings
Speaker 2: me to Brian Thomas. Okay, he's got his quarterback and
Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence is good. It's not great, but he's good enough.
Speaker 2: Right now, Brian Thomas ranks among rookie receivers number one
Speaker 2: in yards, number two in yards per reception, number two,
Speaker 2: and first downs and get this, yards per target this year.
Speaker 2: Number one is Justin Jefferson. Number three is Jamar Chase,
Speaker 2: the guy between Justin Jefferson and Jamar Chase. Brian Thomas, Hmmm,
Speaker 2: dude's awesome. I I'm taking the shirt. I'm taking Brian
Speaker 2: Thomas on this because I don't trust the Giants to
Speaker 2: draft and cultivate a quarterback.
Speaker 4: I think that you are biased here because he's on
Speaker 4: your dynasty roster and the league.
Speaker 1: We're in tough question number You are correct, yea tough
Speaker 1: question number two.
Speaker 2: Is there a league winning running back who hasn't popped
Speaker 2: yet that you could trade for and ride through the playoffs? And,
Speaker 2: as a note to you, the listeners and my co host,
Speaker 2: no is an acceptable answer. You can just go nope,
Speaker 2: there's nobody like that. If you need to, is there
Speaker 2: a league winning running back who hasn't popped yet that
Speaker 2: you could trade for and ride through the playoffs? We
Speaker 2: start with.
Speaker 6: Thor I'm gonna say no. But that's barring injury. And
Speaker 6: that goes back to our previous conversation about grabbing the
Speaker 6: handcuffs on your roster. Obviously, if there was an injury,
Speaker 6: that that guy could emerge, and you probably want head
Speaker 6: that off all.
Speaker 2: Right, Matt, is there a league winning running back who
Speaker 2: hasn't popped that you could trade for?
Speaker 4: I mean, Christian McCaffrey is a pretty easy answer here, right,
Speaker 4: hasn't popped off at all yet?
Speaker 2: Can I trade for him?
Speaker 4: It's probably pretty hard to trade for him, but there
Speaker 4: are a couple guys that might be a little cheaper
Speaker 4: than normal to acquire. The one that sticks out the
Speaker 4: most Jonathan Taylor, who's coming in at RB twenty two
Speaker 4: in most leagues right now. He hasn't been bad, but
Speaker 4: he missed a few weeks due to injury, and the
Speaker 4: Colts offense has been weird with the Flacow and Richardson thing.
Speaker 4: Their schedule is great the rest of the way. Detroit
Speaker 4: is the only real stopper for them in week twelve,
Speaker 4: and I got some honorable mentions to Nick Chubb and
Speaker 4: Raheem Mostert.
Speaker 2: I think you guys have missed the correct answer. Oh good,
Speaker 2: Your correct answer is Bucky Irving. Bucky Irving is freaking awesome.
Speaker 2: This guy is so slippery for a North South runner.
Speaker 2: He is so elusive. He's such a difficult tackle. He
Speaker 2: powers for where he can break tackles, you can make
Speaker 2: people miss. He's third best in avoided tackle rate in
Speaker 2: the NFL at thirty three percent. He's running at five
Speaker 2: yards per carry right now. And sometimes a player's talent
Speaker 2: is simply so much better than the players around him
Speaker 2: that it breaks a committee scheme. You know, Liam Cohen
Speaker 2: went into this year and still to this day has
Speaker 2: got a running back by committee offense. But sometimes it's
Speaker 2: just this guy's so good, I gotta play him, and
Speaker 2: Bucky Irving's that good. I think there's a scenario where
Speaker 2: Irving becomes the go to starter, where Shad White gets
Speaker 2: downgraded to really passing down back, although Irving can catch
Speaker 2: two and he ends up being a top ten running
Speaker 2: back the rest of the way.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Bucky, Bucky Irving's like the spinning top at the
Speaker 6: end of inception.
Speaker 5: It's just impossible to get him down. Get on your tone, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: That's a great analogy. That's fantastic.
Speaker 5: Tough question number three, and.
Speaker 2: This is tough. Are you buying low on Sam Laporta
Speaker 2: or you just glad you don't have him?
Speaker 4: Matt, I have him in all places. So that's my answer,
Speaker 4: what do I do you are selling? The talent is there,
Speaker 4: he's not injured, but the philosophy has changed in Detroit
Speaker 4: and they just don't pass enough. He's not running enough routes.
Speaker 4: His A dot has been super low. He hasn't topped
Speaker 4: six targets in a game all year. If I could
Speaker 4: buy super super low and use him as a bench
Speaker 4: tight end and a guy that I can cycle in
Speaker 4: for a couple of the late bye weeks or maybe
Speaker 4: he starts getting hot at the end of the year,
Speaker 4: I'd love to buy him super low. But I don't
Speaker 4: think that people who have him are going to sell
Speaker 4: him super low.
Speaker 2: All right, Thorp, So that's a no.
Speaker 4: I would buy. I would buy low, but I don't
Speaker 4: think it's going to be low enough.
Speaker 2: So no, you're not buying low. Sure, I think you're saying, okay,
Speaker 2: thor are you buying low on Sam laporter Are you
Speaker 2: just glad you don't.
Speaker 6: Have absolutely one hundred percent? In Dynasty formats? And I
Speaker 6: might and read it would depend on the price, of course, but.
Speaker 4: He's he's wearing an Iowa shirt and Iowa hat.
Speaker 6: Actually sure, actually might be slightly biased on this side
Speaker 6: memoriam of air call right now, this.
Speaker 5: Is every team has an Iowa tight end.
Speaker 6: But yeah, he's been on the field roughly as much
Speaker 6: as last season, and he's running his many routes, and
Speaker 6: he has an awesome separation rate. But the Lions have
Speaker 6: weirdly skewed their target distribution. More are going to the
Speaker 6: running backs. Laporta's targets per per route run has dropped
Speaker 6: from twenty three percent to thirteen percent, and the touchdowns
Speaker 6: per game are down by almost half. Tight end eighteen
Speaker 6: right now. But I'm super play, super ballish on this
Speaker 6: player long term. So I would look to buy low
Speaker 6: for sure in Dynasty, Yeah, and and redraft, I'd hold
Speaker 6: I wouldn't trade them, and if the price low enough,
Speaker 6: I would pull the trigger.
Speaker 2: I love bo buying low on really good players, and
Speaker 2: Sam Laporta is a really good player. I think, I
Speaker 2: think objectively he's a good player. I mean, as a reminder,
Speaker 2: last year he was the only player with more than
Speaker 2: eight touchdowns. He had eleven. Nobody else had more than eight.
Speaker 2: He was Pro Football Focus's fourth highest graded tight end
Speaker 2: Last year, Slaporta was behind only George Kittle, TJ. Hockinson,
Speaker 2: and Travis Kelcey. It's an elite territory. He's legitimately good.
Speaker 2: But the variance that Matt outlined very well is just
Speaker 2: so high on Laporta that my philosophy feels like it's
Speaker 2: broken here on just trying to acquire good players on
Speaker 2: the cheap because son God needs the ball, Gibbs needs
Speaker 2: the ball, Manty needs the ball. There's just so many
Speaker 2: mouse to feed. And you know what I hate in
Speaker 2: my team is guys I can't count on every week.
Speaker 2: It pains me to say you hate mouths. I hate mouths.
Speaker 2: That's what it pains me to say. I hate mouths.
Speaker 2: Out on that kills me. I hate it, hate it.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go back to our matchups. Thor I
Speaker 2: believe you are next Tennessee taking on the Los Angeles Chargers.
Speaker 2: We now know that Will Levis will be back under
Speaker 2: Helm for Tennessee. Honestly, that's not a good thing for
Speaker 2: the fantasy players on this on this roster, But.
Speaker 5: You can pop your Mayo jars.
Speaker 2: Wow, Poppier Mayo Popier Mayo Jars sounds dangerously FCC.
Speaker 5: Of course you're keeping mister Levis on the bench.
Speaker 6: You know he's coming back from the shoulder injury, but yeah,
Speaker 6: you want no part of that guy. Tony Pollard giving
Speaker 6: him a be. Tajay Spears has been sidelined all week
Speaker 6: with a hamstring injury. Pollard himself is questionable, but his
Speaker 6: practice late in the week, it appears we're getting signals
Speaker 6: that he's going to play. And last week, last week
Speaker 6: it was started the same deal and they gave him
Speaker 6: thirty one touches and he had one hundred and fifty
Speaker 6: four total yards. Yeah, on the season, averaging twenty one
Speaker 6: touches per game and ninety five total yards. Chargers have
Speaker 6: an above average run defense, but I do believe the
Speaker 6: volume will be there. So I gave Paul to be
Speaker 6: And the only other guy we're talking about here is
Speaker 6: Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 5: I gave him a c.
Speaker 6: He does have two strong weeks since DeAndre Hopkins was
Speaker 6: traded to Kansas City, thirty five targets, nineteen catches, two
Speaker 6: hundred and sixty three receiving yards with Mason Rudolph in
Speaker 6: three games. But this is where you get trepidacious eleven targets,
Speaker 6: eleven catches, one hundred and twenty seven more yards more
Speaker 6: than what he had with Will Levis and all the
Speaker 6: previous time prior to that.
Speaker 5: This is a tough matchup.
Speaker 6: In addition to that, the Charges have allowed the fewest
Speaker 6: points per game this year of any defense and are
Speaker 6: number one as well in EPA per play in the NFL.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that. Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 5: They've been playing awesome. Yeah, Jim harbor Baugh.
Speaker 4: They haven't given up twenty one points in a game
Speaker 4: yet this year.
Speaker 5: Crazy, Yeah, it's nuts.
Speaker 6: And that the Charges have also held opposing wide receivers
Speaker 6: the sixth fewest fantasy points. So we're just gonna give
Speaker 6: Ridley a CE and then moving over to the Chargers
Speaker 6: justin Herbert also gets to see this is not a
Speaker 6: good fantasy matchup. This game has the second lowest over
Speaker 6: under on the slate. The Chargers are favored by a
Speaker 6: touchdown plus, and they always run just a whole bunch
Speaker 6: in the second half with Leeds as is hardbass prerogative.
Speaker 6: And lastly, the Titans have the NFL's top range pass defense.
Speaker 5: JK.
Speaker 6: Dobbins he gets a big time a here. Dobbins has
Speaker 6: averaged one hundred and one rushing yards per game win
Speaker 6: the Chargers have won. When they have lost, he's only
Speaker 6: averaging thirty nine rushing yards per game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they're gonna win here. They're gonna win.
Speaker 6: The Chargers are seven and a half point favorites and
Speaker 6: arguably should be higher than that, And so Dobbin's gonna
Speaker 6: get the ball plenty here.
Speaker 5: Lad McConkie, I'm gonna give him a B.
Speaker 6: He has played eighty percent plus at the Chargers offensive
Speaker 6: snaps in two of the past three weeks, after prior
Speaker 6: to that never breaching the eighty percent, So that's a
Speaker 6: good sign. Caught at least five passes in all three
Speaker 6: of those games another good sign, and the Titans could
Speaker 6: In addition, for this matchup, the Titans could struggle with
Speaker 6: covering him in the slot here because their safety room
Speaker 6: right now is badly banged up. They have multiple injuries
Speaker 6: in there.
Speaker 2: And one of their starting cornerbacks, Lugerious sneed ruled out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, which could help Quinton Johnson here. I did give
Speaker 6: him a great at sea, though in large part because
Speaker 6: of the expected game script that we have going here
Speaker 6: with the charters not throwing much in the second half.
Speaker 6: But Johnson has four touchdowns in six games this season,
Speaker 6: but he hasn't had six targets in any game, and
Speaker 6: it's not gonna get six targets in this one. He's
Speaker 6: crossed the twelve and a half fantasy points in just
Speaker 6: two games, and yeah, there's just not gonna be much
Speaker 6: second half passing.
Speaker 5: So I gotta give Quinton a seat.
Speaker 2: Let's go to New England taking on the Bears, and
Speaker 2: which should be a very defense oriented game. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: start on the Patriots side. Drake May, I don't like
Speaker 2: any part of the passing game against a good and
Speaker 2: sometimes dominating Bears secondary. Bears have allowed the fewest passing
Speaker 2: touchdowns just five all year. That's nothing, and one of
Speaker 2: those five was the Noah Brown Hail Mary that they
Speaker 2: gave up, so kind of like four legit touchdowns. Drake
Speaker 2: May's rushing has been great, but the Bears are very
Speaker 2: good in that respect. Jaden Daniels, Kyler Murray, and Anthony Richardson,
Speaker 2: three of the most mobile quarterbacks in the league, all
Speaker 2: failed to score on the ground and averaged just twenty
Speaker 2: seven rushing yards. So Drake May unfortunately on the bench
Speaker 2: along with all of his receivers. As you can imagine,
Speaker 2: you're not normally starting Patriots receivers anyway, but particularly against Chicago,
Speaker 2: a team that's only allowed three wide receiver touchdowns since
Speaker 2: Week two, and cornerback Jalen Johnson might be the best
Speaker 2: cornerback in the league and coverage, So all the new
Speaker 2: England receivers are on the bench. The only part of
Speaker 2: the passing game that has a letter grade is Hunter
Speaker 2: Henry under Drake May, Henry's improved into a top ten
Speaker 2: fantasy tight end, topping forty five yards and or scoring
Speaker 2: in every Drake may start. The Bears are very good
Speaker 2: tight end defense. But your glimmer of hope is this.
Speaker 2: In recent games, Evan Ingram and zach Ertz were massively
Speaker 2: featured with ten and eleven targets each, and they ended
Speaker 2: up with one hundred and two and seventy seven yards, respectively.
Speaker 2: If Hunter Henry's gonna look at ten targets, obviously I'm
Speaker 2: interested see grade on him. And then ramondre Stevenson. You
Speaker 2: guys know I love ramondre Stevenson. Toiling behind the league's
Speaker 2: worst offensive line every week, and he still manages to
Speaker 2: post decent games most weeks. New England ranks dead last
Speaker 2: in ESPN's run block win rate because their offensive line
Speaker 2: is terrible, six players on injured reserve, and because the
Speaker 2: Bears are a very good pass defense. They're only like
Speaker 2: middle of the pack and run defense, and there's gonna
Speaker 2: be plenty of carries for Stevenson. Opposing runners with sixteen
Speaker 2: or more carries against Chicago average ninety one rushing yards,
Speaker 2: fourteen more receiving yards, and almost a full touchdown per game.
Speaker 2: Stevenson should be well over that sixteen carrier carry threshold,
Speaker 2: so I think he's sitting on a decent game and
Speaker 2: a B grade here. Let's go to the Chicago side.
Speaker 2: DeAndre Swift, a gray. Patriots are a pretty good pass defense,
Speaker 2: which we'll talk about in a second, and a pretty
Speaker 2: bad run defense, so Swift should see a lot of
Speaker 2: work in this game. New England sees the sixth most
Speaker 2: rushes per game, thirty per game. Out of thirty, DeAndre
Speaker 2: Swift figures to get twenty, so that's plenty against a
Speaker 2: run defense that ranked second to last in rushing yards allowed,
Speaker 2: second to last and rushing touchdowns allowed. And third from
Speaker 2: last in fantasy points allowed. So game on for DeAndre
Speaker 2: Swift with the A grade. The passing game, jeez, it's
Speaker 2: just been awful. So Caleb Williams had two good games
Speaker 2: where you're like, oh, it's hard to come together. For
Speaker 2: Caleb Williams, it was against the Panthers and the Jaguars.
Speaker 2: The rest of his games have just been dreadful, far
Speaker 2: worse than expected. And this pass defense for the Patriots
Speaker 2: remains the strong part of its entire really of the
Speaker 2: whole either side of the ball. Let's talk about some
Speaker 2: individual matchup like DJ Moore, by the way, see grade
Speaker 2: on Caleb Williams, and and one other thing I meant
Speaker 2: to mention about Kaleb Williams last week nine designed rushes.
Speaker 2: They need to do this more. We are here. That's
Speaker 2: where they could unlock some fantasy potential for Caleb Williams
Speaker 2: that we haven't seen yet. And I would love that
Speaker 2: if we get more rushing out of Caleb Williams. Let's
Speaker 2: talk about DJ Moore. He's the eighth highest paid receiver
Speaker 2: in the league. His yardage the last three games twenty
Speaker 2: scoreless yards, twenty seven scoreless yards, and thirty three scoreless yards.
Speaker 2: That's it for DJ Moore. That's how bad and broken
Speaker 2: this passing game has been. Now more runs from the outside,
Speaker 2: where he's going to face two good cornerbacks, Christy Gonzalez
Speaker 2: and Jonathan Jones. Gonzalz only allows a fifty eight percent
Speaker 2: completion rate and just one touchdown in the last six games.
Speaker 2: Jones is a little easier. He's allowing a seventy four
Speaker 2: percent completion rate and he gave up a touchdown last week.
Speaker 2: And that's why I've still got a C grade on
Speaker 2: DJ Moore despite the deep slump that he's in.
Speaker 4: There's some squeaky wheel coming here too, because the little
Speaker 4: shoulder check that he gave Caleb Williams while walking off
Speaker 4: the field in the in the game last week. There
Speaker 4: there's some some drama.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's gonna be a retribution that he walked
Speaker 2: off the field midplay.
Speaker 4: I think they're gonna try to get him involved.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's maybe that's how it's gonna go. The NFL's
Speaker 2: weird that way. It could be the case Roma dunes
Speaker 2: Ay and Keenan Allen. We're not even We're not even
Speaker 2: gonna go down that path for the most part until
Speaker 2: things get a lot better with these guys. Impossible to
Speaker 2: start with their meager production, they're not getting catchable passes
Speaker 2: their way. Rome Dunsa is getting three catchable passes per game.
Speaker 2: Keenan Allen's getting caught. That's it, that's not it's just
Speaker 2: not enough usage.
Speaker 4: I don't think you want to.
Speaker 2: I don't want to. Cole Comet. Last week a glorious
Speaker 2: matchup for Cole Comet, which I outlined in great detail.
Speaker 2: But apparently I'm smarter than Shane Waldron because they never
Speaker 2: threw to col Comet and they got their asses handed
Speaker 2: to them. A Hopefully Shane Waldron will overcompensate this week
Speaker 2: against a mediocre Patriots tight end defense that's allowed back
Speaker 2: to back touchdowns to the position Comet has scored in
Speaker 2: two games this year. In his other six games, he's
Speaker 2: averaged tight end twenty three all or nothing C grade
Speaker 2: on Cole Kamet. I think it's time to take a break.
Speaker 2: Let's do that. Let's take a break. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we'll get back to some matchups, including Eagles taking on
Speaker 2: the Cowboys. Can you start any Cowboys including CD Lamb
Speaker 2: in this matchup? He comes in injured Cooper Rushes his quarterback.
Speaker 2: Is he going to continue to be Ceedee Lamb or
Speaker 2: will he suffer the same fate as Tyreek Hill when
Speaker 2: he didn't have his starting quarterback. Find out when we
Speaker 2: come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 2: Paul Jarchi and Matt Harrison Thorn Eistrom with you another
Speaker 2: block of matchups in this segment, beginning with Philadelphia taking
Speaker 2: on the Dallas Cowboys store Jalen Hurts comes of this
Speaker 2: game a little hobbled.
Speaker 4: A J.
Speaker 2: Brown will hobble. They're both expected to play in this game,
Speaker 2: but it feels like an A plus matchup against a
Speaker 2: Cowboys really franchise that's reeling right now.
Speaker 6: That's right, and both of those guys would be a's
Speaker 6: and must starts if they play. We'll talk us first
Speaker 6: about Hurtz. He's dealing with an ankle injury. He had
Speaker 6: a rest. It's weird they gave him. They let him
Speaker 6: have Wednesday off of practice, but they said it was
Speaker 6: a rest designation. But now this ankle injury has come out.
Speaker 6: Kenny Pickett the past couple of days have been getting
Speaker 6: the first team snaps in practice. The Eagles were coming
Speaker 6: out where they played the two games in a span
Speaker 6: of five days. So if he at Heart's plays, of
Speaker 6: course you have to start him. And of course same
Speaker 6: thing with Brown. Brown's dealing with a knee issue. If
Speaker 6: he goes, he's a must start, so is Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 5: With an A.
Speaker 6: I also gave an aid to Devonte Smith. I feel
Speaker 6: like Oprah thrown out. As to everybody here, you get
Speaker 6: an A. Yeah, Davante six or more targets and back
Speaker 6: to back games, eighteen plus fantasy points in both those ones,
Speaker 6: and a longtime Cowboys killer. Smith has averaged fourteen fantasy
Speaker 6: points per game in his career against Dallas, so I
Speaker 6: had to give him a name and Dallas Goddard another
Speaker 6: ify guy and very if he missed his third consecutive
Speaker 6: game with a hamstring injury last week, I don't think
Speaker 6: it looks great for him, but I would give him
Speaker 6: a CEE if he ends up giving it a go.
Speaker 6: Moving over to the Cowboys, Cooper Rush keep him on
Speaker 6: or have him on the bench, but nearly he's the
Speaker 6: starter for at least the next four weeks with Dak
Speaker 6: Prescott now on injured reserve. Last time we saw Cooper Rush.
Speaker 6: He was quarterback thirty three and fantasy points per game,
Speaker 6: but you're not starting him.
Speaker 2: I'll mention this about yeah Rush. So he played five
Speaker 2: games place of Dak Prescott two years ago, twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: and in those five games, Dallas won four of them.
Speaker 2: He only averaged one hundred and ninety one yards in
Speaker 2: one touchdown, but Ceedee Lamb was able to be pretty
Speaker 2: good in those games. But here's the key difference between
Speaker 2: Cooper Rush twenty twenty two and Cooper Rush twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Back then, Zeke and Pollard were going berserk, and all
Speaker 2: he had to do was just keep the passing game
Speaker 2: like Quasi functional and let those guys just go run
Speaker 2: for yards. Now Dallas is the worst rushing offense in
Speaker 2: the NFL. Hey, Cooper Rush isn't gonna be able to
Speaker 2: overcome that with his passing.
Speaker 4: His arm.
Speaker 2: His arm is basically Christian Ponder. There's not I think
Speaker 2: there's a real chance that this whole offense for the
Speaker 2: Cowboys while Dak is out is just brutally bad, like
Speaker 2: ten points, twelve points, fourteen points a game.
Speaker 6: Trel definitely could be, but there will be no Cooper
Speaker 6: rush Lander for me because he is a product of
Speaker 6: Max shout out to the Chips Chips up Rico Dade
Speaker 6: gave him a seat. He the aforementioned Ezekiel Elliott is
Speaker 6: expected back this week and this is a tough matchup
Speaker 6: for Dubto. Over the last four weeks, Philadelphia is the
Speaker 6: number one run defense in the NFL. Ne Eagles have
Speaker 6: allowed the fewest points per game to opposing running backs
Speaker 6: during that stretch.
Speaker 2: So why are we a C grade and not a
Speaker 2: bench grade.
Speaker 5: Because he's I don't know.
Speaker 6: I think I think you'll get They're going to try
Speaker 6: to establish the run with Cooper rush there, so I
Speaker 6: don't know.
Speaker 5: I could bump him up to a sea there.
Speaker 4: I bet he cobbles enough in the passing game too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're gonna get some check down.
Speaker 2: Cobbler is a shoemaker.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he definitely a cobbler.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, uh ceedee, Lamb questionable banged up with
Speaker 6: that shoulder ailment. You are of course starting him if
Speaker 6: he plays, so we'll give him an a if he does.
Speaker 6: Shoemaker nobody, Yeah exactly. Jalen Tolbert bench for him. Since
Speaker 6: Week three, Philadelphia has allowed the second lowest yards per
Speaker 6: attempt and the fifth fewest fantasy point per game to
Speaker 6: a wide receiver. So yeah, I wouldn't touch him with
Speaker 6: Cooper Rush in there. Jake Ferguson, I can get him
Speaker 6: up to a sea. I don't love the offensive environment here,
Speaker 6: but I'll get him to see tight end ten and
Speaker 6: fantasy points per game so far, but not a great
Speaker 6: matchup for him either. Eagles have held opposing tight ends
Speaker 6: to the sixth fewest receiving yards per game in the
Speaker 6: eleventh lowest yards per reception.
Speaker 2: Uh, Trey Lance. At some point, right, you gave up
Speaker 2: the fourth rounder to get him. He was taken with
Speaker 2: the fourth pick of the draft, third pick of the
Speaker 2: draft few years ago.
Speaker 5: Now, wheel you, Trey Lance? Your older brother is Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly. I would not be surprised if at
Speaker 2: some point, out a desperation they turned to him, because
Speaker 2: for the reasons we were just talking about, if it
Speaker 2: plays out the way I think it's going to play out,
Speaker 2: and it's ten points twelve points for the Dallas offense,
Speaker 2: what do you got to lose?
Speaker 6: Yeah, let it be a beautiful train wreck to fire McCarthy,
Speaker 6: get a high draft pick and then hire coach Prime
Speaker 6: to take over.
Speaker 2: There you go, All right, Matt, Let's go over to
Speaker 2: San Francisco, Tampa Bay and the return of Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 4: It's official he will return this week. He has been
Speaker 4: limited in practice this week, but is officially active. In
Speaker 4: my mind, I don't think they bring him back unless
Speaker 4: he's nearly one hundred percent ready, So I think he's
Speaker 4: gonna get mostly the full workload here, especially since Jordan
Speaker 4: Mason has been in the non contact jersey and practice
Speaker 4: all week with a shoulder injury. He only saw nine
Speaker 4: snaps in his last outing. I'm giving Christian McCaffrey an
Speaker 4: a grade coming in in his first game.
Speaker 2: What what if Jordan Mason is active for this game,
Speaker 2: because I think that makes this thing way way trickier
Speaker 2: because Mason's been running at five point one yards per carry,
Speaker 2: and that would take a lot of burden off of
Speaker 2: Christian McCaffrey to have to carry the offense in his
Speaker 2: first game back.
Speaker 4: My guess is they're going to spell him, but there's
Speaker 4: plenty of plenty of a grades to go around on
Speaker 4: the San Francisco then day, All right, let me ask this, Yeah.
Speaker 2: If Mason doesn't go what about Isaac garen I have
Speaker 2: I have him on here too, Then go ahead, Doug.
Speaker 4: I think if I think they do, probably spell Mason
Speaker 4: this week, if he's still in a non contact jersey,
Speaker 4: and Isaac Garendo, I think is a guy who gets
Speaker 4: five ten touches this week. I think that's worth a
Speaker 4: dart throw at least for Isaac Garendo. Oh oouch, brock Purdy,
Speaker 4: he gets an A grade with McCaffrey back and the
Speaker 4: whole offense opened up, I think it's all systems go
Speaker 4: for perty. He's facing a Bucks team that's allowed the
Speaker 4: most completions, the third most yards, and the fourth most
Speaker 4: touchdown passes on the year. They've also allowed the second
Speaker 4: most rushing scores for qbs. So if the Niners get
Speaker 4: down to the stripe and they want to take some
Speaker 4: hits off of McCaffrey or Jordan Mason who's in a
Speaker 4: non contact it's a purty plunge time. It's time for
Speaker 4: the party plunge.
Speaker 2: You're calling it yeah.
Speaker 4: And hey, by the way, you know what it sound
Speaker 4: this is?
Speaker 2: Is that the fantasy yard bark Yeah appearance this week?
Speaker 4: It's George Kittle the fantasy yard Bark this week. It
Speaker 4: he's the only fully healthy forty nine ers receiver who
Speaker 4: hasn't been shot this season, and the Boks are horrible
Speaker 4: against tight ends. In the last three games, three different
Speaker 4: tight ends have topped twenty PPR points against Tampa. They
Speaker 4: happen to be Mark Andrews, Kyle Pitts, and Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 2: Okay, but he's as good or better than all of them.
Speaker 4: George Kittle's in that camp right there. Charge likes Juwan
Speaker 4: Jennings has to take chance on me wide receiver. I
Speaker 4: like him too, but I'm a little worried that he's
Speaker 4: not fully healthy from the hip injury that took him
Speaker 4: out of Week seven and eight. He did have the
Speaker 4: bye last week, so he's been limited in practice this week.
Speaker 4: The good thing the Bucks primarily plays zone defense, and
Speaker 4: Kyle Shanahan absolutely tears up zone defenses. Deebo has a
Speaker 4: one zero six passer rating when targeted against zone schemes.
Speaker 4: Ricky Piersall is at one oh one, Juwan Jennings is
Speaker 4: at one twenty five. Oh.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 4: If Jennings is in, he's a B grade. If he's out,
Speaker 4: I think you shift that B grade right to Ricky
Speaker 4: Pearsall and Deebo gets an A grade here because Debo's
Speaker 4: gonna just torch zone ones on the other side. Since
Speaker 4: Chris Godwin and Mike Evans got hurt. Cad Aughten's Fantasy
Speaker 4: Life utilization score the.
Speaker 2: Bold strategy there go. You don't know about this store,
Speaker 2: I've decided, see Aden is Cotton.
Speaker 4: There we go.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm calling him Cotton.
Speaker 2: Catch my guy Cotton.
Speaker 4: So the Fantasy Life utilization score, it measures how involved
Speaker 4: a player is on the offense. It goes as high
Speaker 4: as ten in those last two weeks. Aughten's utilization score
Speaker 4: nine point nine.
Speaker 2: I don't think it can technically get to the ten,
Speaker 2: so the highest I think possible. Thank for Kate, move
Speaker 2: from nine point nine to the ten in the utilization score.
Speaker 2: I think he has to take the hike under center,
Speaker 2: and then he's got to drop back to pass, and
Speaker 2: then he's got to throw the ball up in the
Speaker 2: air like we used to do with the Nerf ball,
Speaker 2: and then run under it himself catch it.
Speaker 4: I saw mister Perfect do that once in the Vikings
Speaker 4: facility at.
Speaker 2: Zach you could I think, I think that's what you
Speaker 2: have to do to get the ten.
Speaker 4: By the way, Oughten has seen twenty one targets in
Speaker 4: those two games has had two games with over twenty
Speaker 4: PPR points. The Niners have been good against the tight end,
Speaker 4: but they haven't faced the tight end that's seen double
Speaker 4: digit targets yet this season. Cotton gets an A grade.
Speaker 4: Baker Mayfield he gets a C grade. Though he's battling
Speaker 4: through a lot. He just doesn't have anyone besides Oughten
Speaker 4: to throw to, and he's facing a Niners defense that
Speaker 4: is top ten in basically every passing metric on defense.
Speaker 4: So just to see for Baker, Jalen McMillan and Sterling
Speaker 4: Shepherd both didn't practice on Thursday, both with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 4: It's doubtful that either play, leaving Mayfield with his fifth
Speaker 4: and six string wide receivers. And if you need one
Speaker 4: of those crazy deep dart throws. Rakeem Jarrett yep is
Speaker 4: the Week nine wide receiver who led in routes ran.
Speaker 4: He was on the field for eighty six percent of
Speaker 4: the pass plays and he probably starts. I wouldn't play
Speaker 4: him unless you're in an NFC South only league. Finally,
Speaker 4: let's talk runners. Bucky Irving. He's been limited with a
Speaker 4: toe injury all week. Church loves him. He's slippery. According
Speaker 4: to uh, mister Charchion, that's a fact. Okay, that's that's objective.
Speaker 4: It's like a like a snake or a lizard or
Speaker 4: something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or like a moist sponge of some kind.
Speaker 4: Okay. Uh. So, Irving had the same issue last week
Speaker 4: heading into their game against Kansas City. He did end
Speaker 4: up playing, but he only saw thirty five percent of
Speaker 4: the snaps. Rashad White he's fully healthy. He took about
Speaker 4: sixty percent of the snaps over the last two weeks.
Speaker 4: He's had touchdowns and back to back weeks, booying him
Speaker 4: to double digit PPR points in both games. Problem is,
Speaker 4: for White, the rushing attempt totals have been six and
Speaker 4: three in the last two games. Even with just about
Speaker 4: no one left in the receiver department, the Bucks aren't running.
Speaker 4: I'll give a C grade to White for receptions a lot.
Speaker 1: I have to.
Speaker 4: I think I can do the same thing for Bucky
Speaker 4: if he plays. I think he's gonna play because he
Speaker 4: catches actually more passes than Rashad White. So segrades to
Speaker 4: both of those guys.
Speaker 2: All right, that is that's a lot of guys to
Speaker 2: talk about. Baker Mayfield has been awesome. Yeah, this year
Speaker 2: and particularly for fantasy and even in real life. Boy
Speaker 2: Cleveland messed that up, did they every man? Although I
Speaker 2: think in fairness he needed a change of scenery. Baker
Speaker 2: needed the change of scenery to get his head into
Speaker 2: the right place to be as successful as he is today.
Speaker 2: When we come back, final set of matchups and premature
Speaker 2: speculation will hit the Fantasy Football Weekly time Machine to
Speaker 2: keep some players you should pick up now that other
Speaker 2: people try to pick up next week. Coming up next
Speaker 2: Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back to the show Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 2: Paul Jarchie and Matt Harrison, Thorpe Nystrom with you. Guys.
Speaker 2: It's time to jump into the official, trademarked registered Fantasy
Speaker 2: Football Weekly time Machine where you're going to pick up
Speaker 2: guys now is going to be trying to pick up
Speaker 2: Next week We go to Matt Harrison.
Speaker 4: I've got Hayden Hurst here. Hurstcott dinged up, missed a
Speaker 4: few weeks, returned last week to limited snaps and by
Speaker 4: the way, he's the tight end for the Chargers.
Speaker 2: Now, if you're wondering where he is, where he is,
Speaker 2: Where in the world is Hayden Hurst.
Speaker 4: While he was gone, Will Disley filled in. He did
Speaker 4: all right, But in the meantime, the Chargers learned how
Speaker 4: to pass over the last three weeks, justin Herbert top
Speaker 4: two hundred and seventy five yards in every game. That's
Speaker 4: something he didn't do once in weeks one through six.
Speaker 4: The Chargers tight end matchups down the line. They look
Speaker 4: really tempting to Tennessee this week, but then the woeful
Speaker 4: Bengals tight end defense next week, and then matchups with Baltimore,
Speaker 4: Kansas City, who he talked about as a great tight
Speaker 4: end defense to play against, Atlanta and Tampa Bay on
Speaker 4: the horizon. None of those are stoppers against the tight end.
Speaker 4: It should be some green lights here. Hayden Hurst is
Speaker 4: gonna be a guy that somebody's gonna feature and take
Speaker 4: a chance on me coming up.
Speaker 2: Soon, all right, Thor your premature speculation player is Jake.
Speaker 6: Wires wide receiver Parker Washington, who has owned in about
Speaker 6: thirty percent of leagues, and I think that should be
Speaker 6: a lot higher. This is the time to pounce on him,
Speaker 6: and I would put him in your lineup immediately that
Speaker 6: Jaguars have been trusting Washington more and more. Last week
Speaker 6: he had a ninety one point four percent route share
Speaker 6: and twenty three percent first read share, and the upcoming
Speaker 6: matchup here, which is why you need to grab him now.
Speaker 6: Minnesota has allowed the fourth most receiving yards per game
Speaker 6: in Fantasy points per game to opposing slot receivers, and
Speaker 6: Mac Jones coming in, I don't think that's a bad
Speaker 6: thing for Parker Washington because Mac Jones is gonna be
Speaker 6: looking for the conservative passes. Parker Washington is a manufacturer
Speaker 6: touch slot receiver. He's a glorified running back. But you
Speaker 6: just shuttle him the ball short and him run, and
Speaker 6: Mac Jones almost assuredly going to be targeting that slot
Speaker 6: more than the usual offense does.
Speaker 5: So I think now is the time to grab Parker Washington.
Speaker 2: Parker Washington, I'm going Taj Spears dropped in tons of
Speaker 2: leagues because of his injury and then in effectiveness. He's
Speaker 2: been hurt all season long. Last year, Tase Spears was
Speaker 2: pretty electric and he really looked good and we were
Speaker 2: excited for what could happen this year, but then hamstring
Speaker 2: injury at the beginning of the season, then nagging ankle injury.
Speaker 2: He's just rounding into health now. But here's the thing
Speaker 2: I want to mention in Taj Spears. This is a
Speaker 2: play for the playoffs because the schedule over the next
Speaker 2: few weeks is not is very difficult. It's Chargers and
Speaker 2: Vikings coming up after coming up in these next couple
Speaker 2: of weeks for the Titans. But then listen to the
Speaker 2: rest of the schedule down the stretch and through the playoffs. Washington, Jacksonville, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Jacksonville.
Speaker 2: That's your final five games. They are all plus plus
Speaker 2: for Tennessee. If anything were to happen to Pollard, Spears
Speaker 2: could be a gigantic contributor. And even if nothing does
Speaker 2: happen to Pollard, he could be somebody that you could
Speaker 2: slot in as a as a flex play for Tony Pollard.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to our last two matchups. Thor,
Speaker 2: I know you've got one left too, is it? I
Speaker 2: don't have it in front of me.
Speaker 5: It's the Dolphins against the Rams.
Speaker 2: There we go, all right, Dolphins Rams, let's hear about it.
Speaker 6: Two oh is might take a chance at me quarterback
Speaker 6: not going to try the last name again.
Speaker 5: Devin Achane is an A and a.
Speaker 6: Must start Rahe mostert is a see and a couple
Speaker 6: of stats here regarding both of those guys. As far
Speaker 6: as this matchup goes, the Rams have allowed the third
Speaker 6: most yards per reception to opposing running backs. Running backs
Speaker 6: against the Rams have caught ninety one percent of their targets.
Speaker 6: As for Achan and he ranks number three in the
Speaker 6: NFL in running back receptions. The Rams have also allowed
Speaker 6: the ninth most rushing yards per game. So it's a
Speaker 6: good matchup for both Tyreek Kel A must start Jaylen Wado,
Speaker 6: I'll give him with trepid day. Just see what a disaster.
Speaker 5: So the most trepidacious of season that we're down to.
Speaker 2: The very end of last week's game, Jaalen Waddall has
Speaker 2: no catches. Then he gets hurt on the field in
Speaker 2: this leg whip and he's down on the ground writhing
Speaker 2: around him like, oh, he's gonna fish with no catches. Yeah,
Speaker 2: But then he gets a touchdown and they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: thank god, he got saved. But then he's part of
Speaker 2: the Stanford band bit on the last play of the
Speaker 2: game and waddle loses twenty yards and he finishes at negative.
Speaker 5: Four yards, which it is there's all season.
Speaker 6: Yeah there, it altered a prop too on that one
Speaker 6: of the player props. Yeah, because it must have been two.
Speaker 6: I took him beneath the passing yardede Onne. Yeah, a
Speaker 6: friend called me and was complaining about that. But this,
Speaker 6: I mean, you know again, you're gonna have to kind
Speaker 6: of hold your nose and jump. But this is a
Speaker 6: good matchup. You have to say. The Rams secondary has
Speaker 6: allowed the eleventh most Fantasy points per game to receivers.
Speaker 5: Ken Watt will take advantage.
Speaker 6: We'll have to see trepidaceous see John new Smith. I
Speaker 6: will give him a bold be four straight games of
Speaker 6: at least six at least four receptions in all those games.
Speaker 5: And the Rams.
Speaker 6: Defense has struggled throughout this season with tight ends that
Speaker 6: can catch the ball.
Speaker 5: So I almost thought about it.
Speaker 6: I'm closer to an A than a see will I
Speaker 6: love it, love Johnny, we'll get but yeah.
Speaker 2: Well we'll settle with be.
Speaker 5: We'll try to what was his rast?
Speaker 2: Do you remember? Like a nine?
Speaker 5: It was good? It was really good. Crazy. Yeah, he's
Speaker 5: such a skilled receiver. Uh.
Speaker 6: Going over to the Rams side, Matthew Stafford give him
Speaker 6: a B. Finished as the quarterback five and the quarterback
Speaker 6: thirteen in Fantasy. Over the last two games, he ranks
Speaker 6: first in passing yards per or he ranked first and
Speaker 6: passing yards per game in those two games. But Miami
Speaker 6: has been a tough pass defense since roughly Week five,
Speaker 6: So for that reason, I downgraded him to a B.
Speaker 6: Uh Kyron Williams, Cooper Cup and Pooka cour all a's
Speaker 6: and must starts. And then the only other one to
Speaker 6: talk about is DeMarcus Robinson, and I was between a
Speaker 6: bench and.
Speaker 5: A see here, I settled with C.
Speaker 6: But over the last two games, he's finished as the
Speaker 6: wide receiver eighteen, wide receiver five and weekly, scoring four
Speaker 6: touchdowns receiving in those games.
Speaker 5: That's why.
Speaker 2: Okay, but Pooka got ejected last week, so that's why
Speaker 2: I I don't have a C grade on DeMarcus Romins.
Speaker 2: I'm just worried that that was you just pilled. He
Speaker 2: just filled the Pooka rolling. Pooka's unlikely to throw another
Speaker 2: punch in this game.
Speaker 6: We'll see, Yeah, don't rule it up, but yeah, he's
Speaker 6: Demaricus is coming back to Earth in this game, one
Speaker 6: way or the other. Miami is allowed the fifth fewest
Speaker 6: fantasy points per game in the sixth fewest receiving hears
Speaker 6: per game to perimeter wide receivers. In fact, you know what,
Speaker 6: scratch it bench grade for the Marcus.
Speaker 2: Sorry I talked into it. I wasn't trying to necessarily, No,
Speaker 2: you got me, But all right, okay, good uh I've
Speaker 2: got the final match up here, which is Steelers and Commanders.
Speaker 2: Let's start with uh Nasei. Harris running great lately. We
Speaker 2: have found a Harris who's going to get a win
Speaker 2: in Washington too soon. Sorry about that, folks. He's looked
Speaker 2: completely rejuvenated in these Russell Wilson games. He's topped one
Speaker 2: hundred yards three straight, averaging six yards per carry. In
Speaker 2: the Russell Wilson games. Commander's run defense might be the
Speaker 2: league's worst, as I mentioned earlier in the Jalen Warren discussion,
Speaker 2: fifth most yards, most yards per carried allowed, and they
Speaker 2: ranked thirtieth in defensive run success rate. Then let's go
Speaker 2: to the passing game. How about George Pickens. Now, fortunately
Speaker 2: for Pickens, marsh On Lattimore will not play in this
Speaker 2: game because that would have been a much tougher matchup
Speaker 2: with a very good, physical cornerback. I think they're saving
Speaker 2: marsh On Latimore for next Thursday, Washington versus Eagles, potentially
Speaker 2: for first place not only in short term, but maybe
Speaker 2: even playoff seating for the NFC East. But even without Latimore,
Speaker 2: Pickens is a tricky play against a massively improved Washington
Speaker 2: secondary over the past five weeks Washington. Remember this is
Speaker 2: the worst by a mile, the worst pass defense in
Speaker 2: the league last year. Last five weeks, Washington ranks fifth
Speaker 2: in yards allowed to wide outs, second in fantasy points
Speaker 2: allowed to wideouts, and number one in touchdowns allowed to
Speaker 2: wide outs over the last five weeks with zero Washington,
Speaker 2: so Pickens only a B grade. Here I considered C
Speaker 2: and if if Latimer were playing would I would have
Speaker 2: moved him down to a C grade. Let's talk about
Speaker 2: Pat Fryarmuth commanders and above average tight end defense with
Speaker 2: some no name guys who have hit the board like
Speaker 2: Theo Johnson, Jatavian Sanders, Jordan Aikens, all with meaningful fantasy games.
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson's dramatically improved the overall offense, but Friar Mooth's
Speaker 2: target percentage has actually gone down his two Russell Wilson starts.
Speaker 2: His target percentage is eight percent and eight percent. M
Speaker 2: So put all that in a blunder only because of
Speaker 2: the bye week? Am I putting a c on Pat Fryarmuth?
Speaker 2: And by the way, Thor, I love that Darnell Washington
Speaker 2: is getting some action in these Russell Wilson.
Speaker 5: Gate, big O, big athletic.
Speaker 2: Oh man, what a freaking moosey is?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: He has six huge seven maybe yeah, power forward type, Yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: I love that guy, Russell Wilson ce grade. Wilson's been
Speaker 2: very good through the two games, throwing for two hundred
Speaker 2: sixty four and two hundred and seventy eight yards four
Speaker 2: total touchdowns, surgical before last week's by with a seventy
Speaker 2: one complete shit percent completion rate. Commanders, as I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 2: shockingly tough matchup, giving up just one passing touchdown per
Speaker 2: game over the last five weeks. But they've also faced
Speaker 2: a lot of bad quarterbacks. Here's what your good quarterbacks
Speaker 2: have done to Washington. And by good, i'm talking about
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield, Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson. Really the only
Speaker 2: three good quarterbacks they've faced. They're averaging three hundred and
Speaker 2: twelve yards and two point six passing touchdowns. So you know,
Speaker 2: while Wilson isn't at the Mayfield Burrow Lamar Jackson level,
Speaker 2: he's better than the rest of the guys Washington's played,
Speaker 2: and he could still get to a solid game here.
Speaker 2: And I've got a B grade on Russell Wilson. Mike
Speaker 2: Williams was newly acquired, not going to have enough snaps
Speaker 2: in his first game to be under considered here to
Speaker 2: go over to the Washington side. Jaden Daniels obviously every week.
Speaker 2: At this stage, I don't think we even need to
Speaker 2: spend a lot of time on Jayden Daniels in any matchup,
Speaker 2: other than oddly maybe some thorny ones from here from
Speaker 2: time to time, and there aren't going to be many
Speaker 2: of those. Then let's stay with the passing game and
Speaker 2: Terry McLaurin, Who's Herry Terry. He's gonna get a fair
Speaker 2: amount of coverage from cornerback Jerry Joey Porter, a good
Speaker 2: but not elite cornerback. He's only given up one touchdown
Speaker 2: in his coverage, and the Steelers' last game he helped
Speaker 2: hold the leak Neighbors in check, only giving him one
Speaker 2: catch for ten yards. In his coverage, McLaurin has been
Speaker 2: exceptionally consistent, finishing between wide receiver five and wide receiver
Speaker 2: nineteen in seven straight weeks. Wow, that's amazing. Mclaurin's been very,
Speaker 2: very safe, and he comes in with a B grade
Speaker 2: in this matchup zach Ertz. On paper, the Steelers look
Speaker 2: like a very good tight end defense, but the only
Speaker 2: the three good tight ends that they have faced were
Speaker 2: Kyle Pitts has scored a touchdown, Jake ferguson seventy yards,
Speaker 2: and Brock Bauers, who caught nine passes for seventy one
Speaker 2: yards nine times nine. Brian Robinson has been ruled out
Speaker 2: of this game and will not play, and that makes
Speaker 2: Austin Eckler pretty interesting. He's safe anyway in most weeks
Speaker 2: because of his receiving prowess, which gives you a safety
Speaker 2: net of three catches and thirty yards per game, and
Speaker 2: he's averaged a healthy eight rushes per game over the
Speaker 2: last month. If Robinson gets ruled out, which he'd has,
Speaker 2: I think Eckler moves here to a B grade. Steelers
Speaker 2: are a good run defense. They're allowing only eighty one
Speaker 2: rushing yards per game. Tyron and Tracy just ripped the
Speaker 2: Steelers in the last game, though, and Eckler and Tyrol
Speaker 2: and Tracy have got some are kind of similar stylistically,
Speaker 2: so I kind of like that comp right there. Prior
Speaker 2: to Tracy's big game, though, no runner in top eighty
Speaker 2: eight yards against the Steelers all year, and the previous
Speaker 2: two lead backs to face the Steelers, Alexander Madison and
Speaker 2: Breese Hall, only had thirty eight and thirty three rushing yards,
Speaker 2: so not great that way. All right, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of talking. Yeah, a lot too much, too much charge.
Speaker 2: That's what I think. It's easy to have too much charge.
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