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Yeah, 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.959 this is little Fantasy best Friends Forever here in the 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:12.080 Fantasy Spot's right you network alongside Frankie Staffle. I am 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.600 Greg Sauceman, Frankie, we missed it. We missed it. I 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.200 thought that was the promo that was beforehand, and I 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.480 heard it and I'm like, wait a minute, that's that. 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.360 That's Mike Mike Hue and they missed it. We're offered 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.720 to a riveting start on a Friday afternoon. What are 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:30.840 you gonna do? Man? Yeah? I think I think that's fair. Babona, Yeah, 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:32.680 put the put the graphic back up to Yeah. Well, 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.600 let's let's pretend we're starting up. We're starting now show 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:52.200 starting here we go Fantasy best Friends Forever, h to 0:01:52.440 --> 0:02:01.160 to to to to to to to to to too. Yeah, 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:06.760 this is the Fantasy best Friends Forever here on the 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:11.240 Fantasy Sports Network alongside Frankie Staffell. I am Greg Saucemangga. 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:16.320 What's going on? Man, Greggay whatever your name is? T G. 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:21.440 I fight again? Yeah? Whatever? What he's going on? It's 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.040 a it's a freaky Friday, you know whatever. That's a 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:28.359 different song. Actually, yeah by Little Dickie, Little Dickie sure 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.239 or whatever. That guy. You don't know who Little I 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.000 know who he is. But I'm just I'm out. You're 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.720 clearly out. What's going on with you? Did you watch 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.040 the game last night? I did? Actually, you know, we 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:41.720 got some we got some stuff to talk about. So 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.120 I'm a little fired up, all right? Frank walked In't 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:45.800 he very determined today? I can tell you that much. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.160 Frank looks like a little kindergartener dancing during the song. 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:49.680 Well you should see his shoes. He looks like nine 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.320 year old grandpa. And you wouldn't have known that if 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:54.080 I didn't bring it up itself, I wouldn't I would 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.120 not have I would have known that. On the program 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.200 today we cord will go over Thursday football will make 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.600 our picks for this weekend. We'll give you our survivor 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.840 pick as well, and we'll answer your start sick questions. 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:05.480 Will line of the phone lines come up, but like 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.160 footy minutes or so, a line of the phone lines 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:11.480 and take your calls. Of course, the last tournaments the program, 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:12.960 we have a wide receiver ranks we want to get 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.920 to as well. So it's a jam pack program today, Frank, 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.639 Yes it is. And you know I want to start 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:20.960 off with the Ravens and Bengals. Obviously I had an 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.200 index card full of stats that I wanted to talk 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:27.639 about downstairs. Left it downstairs. You're a mess, Like, what 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.000 the hell is going on? Do you want? I need 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.200 a personal intern? Grad you want I need a personal 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:34.359 You know how Corey talks about like I need some 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:38.000 superstar treatment. Do you want Alex to read the next 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.000 card to us? I need a personal intern, Alex? Do 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:41.800 you be a favorite? And I'm not gonna understand because 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.360 I I wrote it all over the place. I only 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:45.920 I can understand what's going on in me. So you 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:47.520 don't want him to read us see the next card 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.560 he can try to. All Right, Alex, you you you 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:54.320 were working on or video video producing. There's an index 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.680 card at Frank's desk, A yellow one is a yellow 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.240 indext card. If you could read some of that gibberish 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.880 to us and we will then be able to make 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:06.520 sense of it, hopefully, please sir. All Right, here we go, 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:12.000 says Buck Allen. Three point nine yards per carry, four 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.840 point two yards per touch. All Right, we'll stop right there. 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.120 That was last year's stats. Was last year's stats. So 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:20.560 Buck Allen last year did what Frank. He sucked. Okay, 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.720 he sucked. He also had if you if you read 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.800 on like the top left like right to the next 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.040 of Buck Allen's name average, he hasn't averaged more than 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.000 five point four yards perception in each of the past 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:36.280 three seasons. Greg In Alex Collins career, he's averaging eight 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:40.280 point seven yards perception. But but keep going, Alex, Alex 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.960 Collins four point six yards per catch, yards per carry, 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:47.160 five yards per carry, five yards per touch, five yards 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.920 per touch. A little bit better than Buck Allen. I 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.520 would series about a yard per touch better than Can 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.760 we get some of the some of the evaded tackle numbers. There, 0:04:55.760 --> 0:05:00.800 Alex got sixteen breakaway runs and seventy six of aided tackles. 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:05.760 That's for Alex, but what was for Buck Allen? Last year? 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:11.840 Five bak breakaway runs forty two and he was on 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:17.520 the field more forty two evaded seventy six for Alex Collins. 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:21.960 Greg here's my issue, right, it's you don't even a 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.920 blind person can tell just from listening to the game 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.240 that Alex Collins is a better running back then Buck Allen. 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.000 The only difference is which, if you read in the 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:36.680 bottom right of each section, is the fumbles. Alex Collins 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:40.480 seven fumbles for twenty eight games. Buck Allen two fumbles, 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:42.960 but that was back in two thousand and fifteen forty 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.560 two games, so he hasn't fumbled since his rookie season, 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.120 has two fumbles in forty two games. That is the 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.640 lone reason that he is being used on the goal 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.880 line in the red zone in favor of Alex Collins, 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:58.080 because John Harbaugh is scared that Alex Collins is going 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:00.560 to fumble the football in the red own and I 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:04.560 guess I can't fault him for that, But just watching 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.360 the game, the burst, the the tenacity that Alex Collins 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.560 runs with. If the guy got fifteen carries per game 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:13.680 and five or six targets per game, because we saw 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.240 yesterday the guy can catch the ball and after he 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.280 makes the catch, he can make things happen in the 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.560 open field. Alex Collins, it is if he would just 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:27.880 get used correctly, he would easily easily out perform the 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.240 third round draft price that he had on draft day. Greg. 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.560 So I'm here to tell you hashtag, get the buck 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:39.880 outta here. So here's my my problem. I don't think 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.200 anyone's arguing with you. I'm certainly not arguing with you. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.679 It's just frustrated that Alex Collins is better than Buck Allen. 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:49.599 But what you need to you can yell and scream, 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.040 give all these statistics, and they're right. It's true. It's 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.960 the Kenyan Drake situation too last year. It doesn't matter. 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.520 It makes no difference how good you're telling me Alex 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.960 Collins is, because the fact of the matter is Buck 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.720 Allen has a role on this team. You had a 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.280 one yard touchdown round last night. He was involved in 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.720 the passing game. And Alex Collins, who was drafted in 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.800 the third round as an RB two. He's given you 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.440 RB two numbers. In fact that no one's talking about. 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.440 Where people started realizing it later this morning is that 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.200 Alex Collins had a better game game last night that 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.840 Joe Mixon did, despite how good Joe Mixon looked when 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.200 he was in the game forgetting the knee injuries. So 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.120 say what you want, you know, any snack you want. 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.880 Nobody's going to disagree with you that Alex Collins isn't 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.640 better than Buck Allen. It's true. It doesn't matter one 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:40.679 Buck Allen has a very my opinion, very very secure 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.840 role in this offense. I'm not here to defend myself. 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:45.760 I mean you I mentioned I referenced a lot of 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.440 these numbers before the season even started. I'm just further 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.440 enhancing that the stupidity that is going on in the 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:53.880 Ravens offense right now. And I know, you know, game 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.560 flow played into the game last night earlier. You know 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:58.720 that game got a hand in the first half, so 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:00.880 they weren't using Alex Collins all that much, and then 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.840 in the second half they were actually using him, you know, 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:05.720 in the past game, something that we haven't really seen 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.440 out of Alex Collins in the past. But I was 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:10.520 encouraged by that, the fact that you know, he only 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.720 had one drop last night. It was on a target 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.040 on the sideline. It wasn't it wasn't the easiest catch, 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.240 but everything else that he had come his way he caught. 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.640 He looked good in the past game. He looked explosive 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:23.840 when he was running the football. He runs hard, he 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:27.040 runs strong, he initiates contact, he doesn't shy away from it. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.600 In every single facet of the game. He is a 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:34.400 better running back than Buck Allen except for ball security. 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.080 And that's the reason why Buck Allen has his role 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:38.800 on this team. And I'm not going to dispute that. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.080 I'm just thinking, I'm just painting the pictures, whatever pictures 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.040 you want, of how much better Alex Collins is then 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.400 Buck Allen. And I'm just gonna sit here and hope 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.319 that the Ravens coaching staff is listening. What did you 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.240 think of the other side in the running games, Joe 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.480 Mixon left the game twice with knee injury. He came 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.160 back both times. It looked like it was just some 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.120 sort's nothing serious. Certainly with ten days off before their 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.960 next game, Joe Mixon will be fine. Everybody was absolutely 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.720 love the way Joe Mixon looked last night. He was patient, 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.800 he was fast, but when he got the numbers, they 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.160 weren't exactly there, which is interesting in a game that 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.920 they were leading pretty significantly throughout. What do you think 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.599 Joe Mixon's game last night? I thought it was a 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.080 mixed bag. I will agree that he looked incredibly patient. 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.679 He hit the hole's hard. Even with Billy Price going down. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.160 The offensive line looks pretty good for the Cincinnati Bengals. 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.920 Twenty one carries for eighty four yards, He's right around 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.280 four yards per carry there. He had a long of 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.240 twenty one, so he showed some explosiveness. I was impressed 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.800 that he battled a knee injury, came back in and 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.040 still looked as explosive as he did. So I wouldn't 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.480 be worried about that knee injury moving forward because he 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.560 did enter back in the game and he showed off 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.599 some of that explosiveness. What I did worry about is 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.720 that Jio Bernard was much more involved in this game, 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.920 even once Joe Mixon came back in the game. Geo 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:53.120 Bernard's seven targets, four receptions for fifteen yards and Joe 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.720 Mixon had just one target, one reception for three yards. 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.480 That was the biggest difference. Last week was their Week 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:02.720 one usage. Joe Mixing absolutely dominated both on the ground 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.840 through the passing game. He had seven targets last last week, 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.400 five receptions fifty four yards, and then last night he 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.199 only had one target, one reception and three yards. I 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.160 think that's kind of game flow related. I think in 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.880 games where it's a little bit closer, or if they're 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.000 playing catch up a little bit more, Joe Mixing will 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:20.559 be on the field and he will be targeted in 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.960 the passing game. So overall, I thought he looked fine. Um, 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.120 the fact that he ran for eighty plus yards against 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.920 a pretty stout Ravens run defense, I'm fine with it. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:31.920 Obviously you wanted him to get in the end zone. 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.960 But I think considering, you know, everything happened throughout the night, 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.320 the knee injury, the score kind of getting out of hand, 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.760 him coming back in the game to still get you know, 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.160 close to ninety total yards, I think it's fun. Yeah, 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.800 I thought so. She didn't bother me seeing Giovanni Bernard's 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:48.640 roll in the offense. I kind have expected it, right, 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.000 like like this isn't unexpected. I thought the numbers were good. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.360 Ravens defense, he's a good one, and mixing who lost 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:55.920 some weight in the off season. I think I think 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.720 you saw it last night, right like he looked thinner, 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.599 he looked have more burst. And you didn't see that 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.760 last year coming in early in the season for Joe 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:06.480 Mixon and the Bengals. So those that believe that Joe 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.360 Mixon was going to jump and take that next step, 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.480 I think you gotta prea view of that potentially last night. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:13.520 And it's amazing. We started up the show talking about 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:15.560 Alex Collins and talking about Joe Mixon and not about 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.959 the player that scored three touchdowns last night, and that 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.319 was a J. Green. You came went all passionately and 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.319 I turned the game on about ten and a half 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.400 minutes to go in the first quarter. Bengals are up 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.160 seven nothing. They were actually kicking off after their first drive, 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:30.600 and I, oh, man, I wonder who scored. I'm like, god, damn, 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.160 it was a J. Green. I'm I'm playing a J. 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.080 Green in both of my two home leagues. All right, 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.120 you know, whatever, one catch, touchdown and hopefully the rest 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:42.240 is limited, right next next catch was also for a 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:46.280 touchdown as as was the next catch was was also 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:48.880 over touchdown. And I'm sitting there and of course you were. 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:50.960 I mean a group chat with both of those leagues, 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:55.720 and all they're doing is just sitting laughing, just laughing 0:11:55.760 --> 0:12:00.400 at me, laughing at like, congratulations group who was at you? 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:05.680 Everybody you know? Having Max Max Max, Oh, Max money 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.040 Max who goes around throwing his fab around. Philip Lindsay, 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:12.800 Welcome to the stage. Philip Lindsay's been as he made 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:17.599 a trade. He traded away Austin Ekelay, it's gonna be 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.320 a slober knocker of a trade to the Melvin Gordon 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:25.319 owner for Keeling Cole fine, Okay, don't make fun of 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.800 great Susan Max. So he was. He got nervous after 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.000 the fact because last year he traded away Alvin Kamara 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.559 for Alan Hearns, so a backup running back for a 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.959 jacksonvill wide receiver. And now he's done it again. So 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.440 Melvin Gordon like tears his a c L or something 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.559 like that over the weekend and aust becomes his RB 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.240 one Mac Max did it again. I think it's a 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.520 fair trade. I mean whatever Keiling Coals like a high 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.440 end wide receiver. Four, He's gonna be a bye week replacement. Again, 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.280 I don't really want much to do with the Jaguar's 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.360 passing attack. I feel like it can be one week 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.160 this guy, one week that guy. Um but Austin Ekeler 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.640 has standalone value even with Melvin Gordon, and we saw 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.079 that last week. There are actually some people who think 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.679 Austin Ekeler is a better all around running back to 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:08.160 Melvin Gordon. They think he's more explosive, which it's kind 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.800 of crazy to say, but um No, Austin Ekeler has 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:12.559 has looked pretty good and he has a role in 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.200 his offense. So I think, especially in PPR leagues, he's 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:16.960 he's going to be in that low and flex discussion 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.760 every single week. Yeah, I think he will be. Let 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.760 listen last week against Kansas City, the perfect matchup for them, 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:25.880 the perfect matchup for the Chargers, and everybody love him 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:27.760 this way. He liked Philip Rivers a lot, and that's 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.640 why I think the dfs of Ben Roethlisberger plays. He's 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.680 an awesome start this week against that Kansas City secondary. 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.120 Austin Ekeler has his role, but let's not forget Melvin 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.880 Gordon had his nine receptions last week, he had thirteen targets, 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:43.079 career high, absolutely ridiculous usage in the passing game. And 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.079 you know, again, we spoke about it early in the 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.439 draft season, Greg, we didn't understand why people were pushing 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.679 Melvin Gordon down the draft board. We saw in some 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.520 early drafts him going in the second round. It just 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.360 it didn't make sense. Based on the continued increase in 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.640 passing game usage for Melvin Gordon year in a year out, 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.920 and the fact that he has scored twelve touchdowns in 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.040 each of the past two years. He's just as safe 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:04.800 as it comes when it comes to a first round 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:06.800 running back. Greg I didn't want to touch on the 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.680 secondary receivers for both teams here, that being John Brown 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:12.880 and Tyler Board And maybe you know, you can argue 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.120 John Brown isn't the secondary receiver on this team. You 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.240 can argue that he's the first receiver. He was tied 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.080 for the team lead with ten targets in this game, 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.640 tied with Michael Crabtree, but he had four receptions for 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.600 ninety two yards and a touch on. It's very clear 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.560 that Joe Flacco always has a guy he likes to 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.720 throw down the field in this offense, and John Brown 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:33.640 is that guy, and now we've seen back to back 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.000 weeks where he has scored a touchdown. I think once 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.360 they get inside the red zone, Michael Crabtree is more 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.280 of that guy. Or they did target John Brown and 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.560 drop they did. I believe Michael Crabtree had a Did 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:44.960 he have a target inside the red zone? I feel 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.440 like I believe he did. I believe he did John 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.600 Brown target right there, he dropped. It wasn't a great throw, 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.320 but he did drop it. It's basically we just passed 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:52.800 right or a J. Green by the lay after you 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:54.680 let me do my diet drip. I mean, what else 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.040 are you gonna say about him? Like, start your studs 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.720 us the second round wide receiver? You were a little 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:01.960 bit off of them this year come cofinitely, definitely, I mean, 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:03.920 but you still had him in that kind of you know, 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.640 top ten range. Um. So, I look, he's an underappreciated 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:09.720 wide receiver. One year in and year out. I saw 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.160 Evan Silva tweeting about how he's probably gonna be the 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.120 most underappreciated Hall of Fame wide receiver of all time. 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:17.120 And I don't really know that we can dispute that. 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.240 So A. J. Green just continuing to get it done. 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.800 Tied for the team lead for the Bengals with nine targets, 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.720 the three touchdown receptions as you mentioned, and sixty nine yards. Nice. 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.320 But I do have to just reiterate I tweeted this 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.040 out last night. I was disrespecting John Brown before the 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.680 season started. Um. When it comes to the sickle cell, 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.160 I didn't know how he was gonna be used in 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:40.080 this offense overall. How healthy can he stay? Again? I 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.600 mean he looks him and Michael Crabtree, in my opinion, 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.840 are both top thirty six wide receivers. Right now, I 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.040 will throw in the caveat Obviously, the Ravens are not 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:49.760 going to be throwing the ball fifty five times in 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.120 every single game, but for them to get up in 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.040 games or if they're traillion games, it's obvious that John 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.440 Brown and Michael Crabtree are the top two targets in 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.720 this offense. And then on the other side, you need 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.360 to pay attention to Tyler. You absolutely need to pay 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.000 attention to him. Nine targets, tied with A. J. Green, 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:09.280 six receptions, yards a touchdown. We wanted Tyler effort to 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.520 be a thing again this year. Greg we wanted John 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.680 Ross could be a thing this year, and Mike Clay 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.880 tweeted out earlier today. Week one eight percent target share 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.520 for Tyler Boyd. Last night pent target share for Tyler 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:26.480 Boyd on the season, Tyler Croft just ten percent of 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.960 the target share, John Ross eight and a half percent 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.040 of the target chair. Tyler Boyd is clearly the number 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.280 two wide receiver in this offense. I'm not ready to 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.400 push him into that wide receiver three range with John 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.560 Ross and Michael Crabtree. I think he's right outside of that. 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:41.800 But he's going to be in the low end wide 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.520 receiver three discussion and he's going to be usable as 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.040 a bye week wide receiver. So if he's on your 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:48.440 waiver wire, that's going to be a guy that you 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.280 are targeting next year. I'm pretty excited about him as 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.320 the number two receiver in this offense. Right there, you 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.640 go something you have to look at. Tyler Boyd for Cincinnati, 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.000 maybe not John Ross. We'll take a break here. When 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:00.560 we come back, we'll he the the latest on the 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:04.480 injury updates with Leonard Fournette, with DeVante Freeman, and with 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.560 Aaron Rodgers, and we'll get to Frankie's wide receiver ranks. 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.240 That's coming your way when we come back the Fantasy 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:19.040 best Friends forever on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. 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So trust all right, whatever, greg I had 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:37.160 DeVante Freeman as running back twenty four right now, Tevin 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.760 Coleman will undoubtedly be higher than that. I'll move him 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:51.879 what running back seventeen? Okay, So a a RB to 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.040 the solid RB two this week. I'm gonna move him 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:56.399 right behind j H I and Royce Freeman. I'm very, 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:58.240 very bullish on Royce Freeman this week. I think he 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:00.600 gets in the end zone against Oakland, and I'm gonna 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.720 have Tevin Coleman just ahead of Lamar Miller, Carlos Hide, 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:06.560 Kenyan Drake. My thinking with that is regardless of the 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:09.960 bad matchup against Carolina. We just saw Ezekiel Elliot score 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:12.359 touchdown against him last week, and we've seen that whenever 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:16.240 Tevin Coleman fills in for Devancy Freeman, he gets big workloads. 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:18.760 We're talking twenty plus touches. So the fact that he's 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.280 going to see that amount of work is going to 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:23.720 outweigh the fact that he's playing the Carolina Panthers. Greg Yeah, 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:27.600 I completely agree that Carolina Panthers play too. Tevin Coleman's 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:29.960 a great DFS play, as is the other side. I 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:32.560 really like Christian McCaffrey as well. Against the Falcons without 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:35.440 Kyan O'Neil and without the other linebacker, John Thompson was 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:39.520 sand Day Thompson, John Jones, who also is hurt both 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:43.440 um Both of those running backs in that game. Really 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:47.240 really like them. Now. The other big running back injury 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:49.400 from last week, Leonard four Nette. It was a mild 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:52.359 hamstring injury that calls him not to practice Wednesday or 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:56.480