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Speaker 3: Yes, I mentioned it's winning your in week. It's the
Speaker 3: week before the playoffs, so for a lot of you,
Speaker 3: you have to have this win. We're here to help.
Speaker 3: We'll break down all the games Fantasy Football Weekly style
Speaker 3: with letter grades on every player who matters. Plus take
Speaker 3: a chance on me nine players that you can unearth.
Speaker 3: Maybe you've been rocking Sam Howel for a long time
Speaker 3: and you need a replacement quarterback. We're here to help.
Speaker 3: Three tough questions later on in the show. Yeah, nicely done,
Speaker 3: because that's gonna be my only chance to uh to
Speaker 3: mention Sam Howel today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I dropped a half a howl half.
Speaker 3: We'll take a half how and we'll answer three tough
Speaker 3: questions later on in the show. Only one team on
Speaker 3: by so it means we've got a lot of games
Speaker 3: to break down, and we begin with Carolina taking on
Speaker 3: New Orleans Scott not a lot to like in Carolina,
Speaker 3: even the usually reliable Adam Thielen has dried up of late.
Speaker 3: Do you have many, if any starting grades for Panthers here?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Can I be honest, I don't have many starting grades
Speaker 7: in this matchup at all. I mean, we got Bryce
Speaker 7: Young top, but he's facing a top twelve pass defense.
Speaker 7: Bryce hasn't top two hundred yards since we gave He's
Speaker 7: only got one multi score game. I do have him
Speaker 7: on the bench against the Saints here, others in the
Speaker 7: past game Adam Feelen and Jonathan Mingo. I have him
Speaker 7: on the bench, but I'm gonna note quickly Saints are
Speaker 7: second best against the perimeter, but they're ninth worst against
Speaker 7: the slot, and we two thelan had himself.
Speaker 4: A day against them.
Speaker 7: So it's a good spot if you're really in desperation
Speaker 7: dart mode, dart throw mode. But I do have him
Speaker 7: on the bench because what we saw last week is
Speaker 7: the coaching staff didn't really feed him. Me I believe
Speaker 7: three targets. I think he had caught all three of
Speaker 7: those targets. But Jonathan Mingo also kind of in that
Speaker 7: dart throw ring range. I have him on the bench.
Speaker 4: He kind of broke.
Speaker 7: Out last week the coaching staff threw ten targets at him.
Speaker 7: That new coaching staff after Frank Reich was fired. He
Speaker 7: was almost my take a chance on my me player
Speaker 7: last week because the good matchup. But in this one
Speaker 7: he's gonna get Paulson Adebu, who's been great with Latimore
Speaker 7: on IR. The nice things about Mingo he's on the
Speaker 7: field ninety five percent of the time. It's just a really,
Speaker 7: really tough matchup. Again, you have to be desperate, so
Speaker 7: I do have him on the bench. Dart throw desperate Chubb.
Speaker 7: You know what I forgot this, This is where we
Speaker 7: need to charge. There's the dearth throw, Darth throw for
Speaker 7: Jonathan Mingo.
Speaker 4: Chewba Hubbard.
Speaker 7: I'm giving a B grade two once again with the
Speaker 7: coaching staff. We saw what they wanted to do last
Speaker 7: week very clearly. He gave Chewba Hubbard twenty five carries
Speaker 7: only through to running backs four times, two or twice,
Speaker 7: and both were to Miles Sanders. Cuba and Miles combined
Speaker 7: for one hundred and seven in a week two in
Speaker 7: this matchup. But a lot has changed since then. Five
Speaker 7: of six lead backs against the Saints over the last
Speaker 7: six weeks have scored, including three straight. The one who
Speaker 7: didn't totaled ninety seven yards. So it's been an OK
Speaker 7: matchup for the lead back. The Saints still give up
Speaker 7: match in the pass game twenty two point eight yards
Speaker 7: per game at pass game to running backs, but similar
Speaker 7: volume backs. What Cuba was doing last week, what he's done,
Speaker 7: you know, the twenty ish touch running backs eighty three yards,
Speaker 7: ninety yards, ninety one yards, ninety five yards. I wouldn't
Speaker 7: be surprised if he gets eighty two one hundred yards
Speaker 7: likelihood of scoring because that's what New Orleans has been
Speaker 7: allowing recently. So I got a B grade on Chewba Hubbard.
Speaker 7: On the other side, I got nothing in the pass game.
Speaker 7: I don't even care if it's car or Winston going.
Speaker 7: The Panthers are allowing one hundred and ninety one passing
Speaker 7: yards per game. That's just nothing. Teams are just running
Speaker 7: on him. They they're just.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll just say quote unquote allowing there. They're allowing
Speaker 6: that much because no one throws on them.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was gonna find the love hurts because this
Speaker 7: is really an everybody runs situation against Carolina. I hope
Speaker 7: you like my singing there so I know Kamara can
Speaker 7: be an extension through the pass game, but I don't
Speaker 7: think he's gonna do enough forget to get stats for
Speaker 7: the quarterback here, Chris a Lave is the only wide
Speaker 7: receiver I'm considering starting only receiving option. Honestly, Taysom Hill's
Speaker 7: been missing practice all week. Rashi Ya Heat is still
Speaker 7: in protocol. Chris Alave has been out with an illness
Speaker 7: but is expected to play. It's a tough match matchup.
Speaker 7: Winston targeted a Lave forty percent of the time once
Speaker 7: car went down, and Carr was already targeting him like
Speaker 7: twenty five to thirty percent of the time. One one
Speaker 7: fun stat here I got for Chris a Lave. He's
Speaker 7: averaging over two PPR points per target, not per catch,
Speaker 7: per target over the last four They're just hyper targeting
Speaker 7: him and he's getting fantasy points on those targets. The Panthers,
Speaker 7: despite holding the pass game down, are bottom eight on
Speaker 7: deep ball pass rate allowed, which Chris a Lave or
Speaker 7: Shahida if he does go. But Chris Alave definitely can
Speaker 7: make Hay with I do have a not very confident
Speaker 7: a grade on him on the assumption he's going to
Speaker 7: get ten plus touches. There are ten plus targets. Alvin Kamara,
Speaker 7: I do have an A grade on because everyone runs
Speaker 7: on Carolina. We've talked about it a couple of times.
Speaker 7: He's averaging twelve PPR points just on pass game work.
Speaker 7: If he hasn't been very explosive or very efficient in
Speaker 7: the run game, but this is the matchup for him.
Speaker 7: Sim Yeah, carolinea allows the fifth highest yards per carry,
Speaker 7: fourth highest rushing yards, and the most rushing scores.
Speaker 4: A grade on Alvin Kamara.
Speaker 3: You know, Carolina, you're talking about the good pass defense.
Speaker 3: They got J. C. Horn back and he is a
Speaker 3: terrific cornerback, so I think it's a pretty legitimate good
Speaker 3: good pass defense. Yeah, Brian, let's head over to you.
Speaker 3: Seattle takes on San Francisco. Gino Smith coming off a
Speaker 3: dramatically better game than I expected last week against Dallas,
Speaker 3: but right back into the grinder in a tough matchup
Speaker 3: at San Francisco.
Speaker 6: Yeah, tough matchup, and he's also dealing with the groin injury,
Speaker 6: still listed officially as questionable to play. And I do
Speaker 6: want to mention real quick Seattle and San Francisco just
Speaker 6: met in Week twelve. The forty nine Ers rolled the
Speaker 6: Seahawks thirty one to thirteen in that game, so starting
Speaker 6: with Gino, he only had one hundred and eighty scoreless
Speaker 6: passing yards in that first meeting against the forty nine Ers,
Speaker 6: who are ranked third and pass coverage by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 6: San Francisco has surrendered just twelve passing touchdowns all season.
Speaker 6: That's the second fewest with fifteen interceptions, the most in
Speaker 6: the league. So Gino on the bench for me even
Speaker 6: if he plays, And for his receivers dk Metcalf, Jack
Speaker 6: Smith and Jig but Tyler Lockett, I have a C
Speaker 6: on all of them. These three combined for just eight
Speaker 6: catches and one hundred and three scoreless yards in that
Speaker 6: first meeting meeting, meaning they all should have been benched. Really,
Speaker 6: but odds are at least one producers here. The forty
Speaker 6: nine Ers have yielded the third most targets to wide
Speaker 6: receivers and the fourth most red zone targets, so game
Speaker 6: script should favor the passing game, even if you know
Speaker 6: it sits. But I will give this put so I'll
Speaker 6: put a C on all three wide receivers, and I
Speaker 6: have a C on Kenneth Walker and Zach Sharbonay, who
Speaker 6: are both expected to play. Walker will be returning from
Speaker 6: an oblique injury. Sharbon Nay is dealing with a knee injury.
Speaker 6: As a bad matchup, though, you know what, I'm changing
Speaker 6: my mind. If they both play, they're both on the bench.
Speaker 6: It's a brutal matchup. If one sits, I will start
Speaker 6: the other. But if both are, if both are active,
Speaker 6: they're both on the bench.
Speaker 5: For me.
Speaker 6: Over to the San Francisco side, Christian McCaffrey is certainly
Speaker 6: not on the bench. Easy A for him not getting
Speaker 6: into that. Brandon Ayuk gonna give him a B. The
Speaker 6: game script did not favor the forty nine ers game
Speaker 6: when these teams first met. It was a CMC ground game.
Speaker 6: But Ayuk did catch two passes for fifty yards and
Speaker 6: a touchdown, and the Seahawks are allowing a healthy fourteen
Speaker 6: catches one hundred and sixty yards and one touchdown per
Speaker 6: game to opposing wide out. So B for Ayuk. Also
Speaker 6: at B for Deebo Samuel. He had a good game
Speaker 6: in that first meeting, seven catches for seventy nine yards.
Speaker 6: He added fifteen rushing yards with a rushing score in
Speaker 6: that game, So a B for Samuel just to see.
Speaker 6: For George Kittle, though, he was quiet in the first
Speaker 6: meeting three catches for nineteen scoreless yards, and he didn't
Speaker 6: do much against Seattle in the playoffs last year either,
Speaker 6: two catches for thirty seven scoreless yards. The Seahawks have
Speaker 6: surrendered just two tight end touchdowns, but they are allowing
Speaker 6: more than five catches and fifty yards per game to
Speaker 6: the position. That's decent production. So the sea for Kittle,
Speaker 6: and lastly, just a be on brock party modest two
Speaker 6: hundred and nine passing yards, had one touchdown in the
Speaker 6: first meeting. Again, it was a CMC ground game. Hopefully
Speaker 6: Seattle keeps it a little cliar. Dak Prescott has had
Speaker 6: a monster game against Seattle last week. You're not sitting
Speaker 6: Rockberdy basically, so be on him, you know.
Speaker 3: I'll note that although George Kittle did have a quiet
Speaker 3: game when these teams met earlier this year, last year
Speaker 3: in the two meetings, four touchdowns for George Kittle in
Speaker 3: these matchups.
Speaker 6: So yes, in the regular season, he was quiet in
Speaker 6: the playoffs, but uh yeah, Kittle is a Spike week player.
Speaker 5: You never know.
Speaker 6: I don't think he has a super high ceiling, but
Speaker 6: you're not gonna sit him obviously.
Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about Detroit taking on Chicago. These
Speaker 3: teams also just met a couple of weeks ago. Let's
Speaker 3: start with the passing game. I'm on Ross Saint Brown
Speaker 3: and obvious a here. He had an eight catch seventy
Speaker 3: seven yard game with a touchdown when they met three
Speaker 3: weeks ago. He runs from the slot, refaces competent but
Speaker 3: not special cornerback Kyler Gordon. Chicago allows the fifth shortest
Speaker 3: average pass and that's kind of I'm on Ross Saint
Speaker 3: Brown's game anyway, is those quick passes and then yards
Speaker 3: after the catch. So nothing here to deter you from
Speaker 3: starting I'm on Ross sat round like you normally would.
Speaker 3: Sam Laporta posted season lows against the Bears in the
Speaker 3: first matchup, but the Bears have allowed the tenth most
Speaker 3: points to tight ends this season, kind of middle of
Speaker 3: the pack. They've allowed five touchdowns on the season to
Speaker 3: tight ends, including one to TJ. Howkinson last week. Come
Speaker 3: in with a B grade on la Porta. We think
Speaker 3: in totality is probably a lot better than what he
Speaker 3: showed against the Bears last time, and all the other
Speaker 3: Detroit wide receivers are on the bench. They cannibalize each
Speaker 3: other and it's a tricky matchup. Over the past five weeks,
Speaker 3: Chicago allowing the third fewest yards per game to opposing
Speaker 3: wide receivers, in no small part because the emergence of
Speaker 3: elite cornerback Jalen Johnson just suffocating opponents. To this point,
Speaker 3: he's giving up two receptions for ten yards in his
Speaker 3: coverage over the last five weeks. It is nuts. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so everybody else on the bench, let's go to the runners.
Speaker 3: There's some reason for caution here. Well, actually, while we're
Speaker 3: doing the receiving game, let me go to Jared Goff,
Speaker 3: who comes in with a B grade. In Chicago's pass
Speaker 3: defense dramatically improved, as I mentioned. Fortunately, the individual matchups
Speaker 3: for I'm on, Russaint Brown and Sam Laporte, I think
Speaker 3: are good enough that GoF remains fairly stable here. Chicago
Speaker 3: has allowed multiple touchdown passes in three of the past
Speaker 3: five and I think Goff is in that one to
Speaker 3: two range for touchdowns, hopefully on the two sides. So
Speaker 3: given him the B grade. For David Montgomery Jamiir Gibbs,
Speaker 3: this is a tricky matchup.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: Bears run defense has been good really all year, but
Speaker 3: even better lately. They all the fifth fewest rushing yards
Speaker 3: per game, the second fewest yards per attempt. They rank
Speaker 3: number two in ESPN's run stuff win rate. No back
Speaker 3: is top seventy six yards against Chicago all season. And
Speaker 3: then the Bears only give up sixty four rushing yards
Speaker 3: per game. And if Gibbs and Montgomery have to split
Speaker 3: sixty four rushing yards, that's not great good No, Now,
Speaker 3: the good side for more Gibbs than Montgomery is that
Speaker 3: the Bears do give up the third most targets in
Speaker 3: the third most reception, so I think that helps Gibbs,
Speaker 3: and he did put up six catches for fifty nine
Speaker 3: yards when these teams met a few weeks ago. The
Speaker 3: other side that I think Brian will appreciate revenge game
Speaker 3: for David Montgomery in Chicago. So there's that angle c
Speaker 3: grades for both Montgomery and Gibbs in a very difficult matchup.
Speaker 6: It was a buzzer beater touchdown, game winning touchdown for
Speaker 6: David Montgomery, I believe in the first meeting as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're right about that. Actually, so that's science.
Speaker 3: Let's go to Let's go to the let's go to
Speaker 3: the bear side of this. This is a lot shorter.
Speaker 3: All the Chicago Runners are on the bench because it's
Speaker 3: a three way cluster boinc between Herbert Johnson and Foreman.
Speaker 3: And Detroit's a good run defense. Nobody's top. Nobody topped
Speaker 3: thirty five rushing yards in the previous meeting between these teams,
Speaker 3: and the Lions rank number two in rushing yards allowed
Speaker 3: at just sixty one per game. And if you got
Speaker 3: to split sixty one yards three ways, gross, if I
Speaker 3: had to pick one and be Foreman, who I think
Speaker 3: is the most likely to get goal line carries. But
Speaker 3: I'm keeping them all on the bench. In the passing game,
Speaker 3: you only care about Justin Fields and Dj Moore, let's
Speaker 3: start with Justin Fields. He ran for one hundred and
Speaker 3: four yards in the meeting a few weeks ago. Detroit's
Speaker 3: only faced one other mobile quarterback. That was Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 3: who also ran for a touchdown in his game. Lions
Speaker 3: are ranked twenty sixth and pass coverage by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 3: They've given up at least three passing touchdowns in three
Speaker 3: their last six games, so Fields has got some passing upside.
Speaker 3: He's got rushing upside in this one. A grade for
Speaker 3: justin fields. Let's hope they keep running him man.
Speaker 7: And then DJ call from a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 7: a bunch of A grades for fields.
Speaker 3: Yeah, DJ Moore, huge game on Thanksgiving? Was I think
Speaker 3: it was a Thanksgiving that these teams met. I think
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 3: We go nicely done? All right? On top of things,
Speaker 3: over the last five weeks, Detroit has allowed the fifth
Speaker 3: most yards and the most touchdowns per game to opposing
Speaker 3: wide receivers, and they allow the fourth highest a dot
Speaker 3: at nine yards and the deep balls DJ Moore specialty,
Speaker 3: So we like teams that are gonna give up the
Speaker 3: deep ball. He runs from the outside. That means we'll
Speaker 3: see a lot of cornerback Jerry Jacobs, who over the
Speaker 3: last five weeks, get this is allowing a passer rating
Speaker 3: of one hundred and fifty three. Fifty eight is perfect.
Speaker 4: It's almost perfect.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So Jerry Jacobs almost perfect in futility over over
Speaker 3: the past five weeks, DJ Moore A grade. All right,
Speaker 3: with that, let's take a break. When we come back,
Speaker 3: take a chance on me. Nine players you'll want to
Speaker 3: consider starting that you normally would not. Maybe you've got
Speaker 3: a problem at the running back position because you were
Speaker 3: counting on Isaiah Pacheco. Maybe you were a Sam Howell
Speaker 3: owner and you need a replacement quarterback. We're here to
Speaker 3: help you with some waiver wire level players that you
Speaker 3: can start this week when we come back to Fantasy
Speaker 3: Football Weekly. Take a chance on me, nine players not
Speaker 3: normally new starting lineup. We begin at the quarterback position,
Speaker 3: Scott Fish, Who you got?
Speaker 7: I am going with Jordan Love averaging nearly thirty eight
Speaker 7: dropbacks per game. He's passing a lot fourth in air
Speaker 7: yards and has a nine point one eight dott. He's
Speaker 7: really driving the ball his butt down the field, coming
Speaker 7: off four multi score games in a row, and gets
Speaker 7: a Giants team that yes held down Jones and Zappi
Speaker 7: last week and or two in Week twelve a New England.
Speaker 7: But before that got the Giants got violated by Sam
Speaker 7: Howell and Dak Presidot. Even Cooper Rush did some work
Speaker 7: in relief of Dak. Those two total seven hundred and
Speaker 7: eighty four yards and six scores between them. Yeah, Jordan Love,
Speaker 7: I take a chance on me.
Speaker 3: Flair all right, Brian, your take a Janson me quarterback.
Speaker 6: I've got Cleveland's, Yes, Cleveland's Joe Flacco at home against
Speaker 6: the Jaguars. Now the Browns are saying their game day
Speaker 6: quarterback is going to be a game day decision between
Speaker 6: Flacco and Dorian Thompson Brown. But it's Thompson Robinson. I'm sorry,
Speaker 6: but it's going to be Joe Flacco in my mind.
Speaker 6: But even if it's DTR, I would I would start
Speaker 6: him against Jacksonville, who have allowed multiple passing touchdowns in
Speaker 6: three of their last four games, and six of the
Speaker 6: last eight quarterbacks Jacksonville has faced have thrown for at
Speaker 6: least three hundred yards. Jacksonville could also be without starting
Speaker 6: quarterback Tyson Campbell and free safety free safety Andre Cisco
Speaker 6: of no relation to Cisco of the thong song. But
Speaker 6: I love whoever starts a quarterback for the But it's
Speaker 6: going to be Jill Blacklell.
Speaker 3: I'm going with Russell Wilson against the Chargers. Chargers ranked
Speaker 3: dead last and pass defense as they have really all season,
Speaker 3: and if you remove games against backup passers, opposing starting
Speaker 3: quarterbacks against the Chargers averaging three hundred and thirty seven
Speaker 3: yards and two and a half touchdown passes. It's a
Speaker 3: great opportunity for Wilson here. The catch with Russ is
Speaker 3: always volume. He throws the third fewest passes, just twenty
Speaker 3: nine per game, which generally caps his upside. But the
Speaker 3: Chargers see the fourth most passes thirty seven per game.
Speaker 3: So if Uss is going to be closer to thirty seven,
Speaker 3: he feels even that much safer here. He's thrown just
Speaker 3: one touchdown in three straight games against solid defenses, but
Speaker 3: he's augmented his fantasy score with rushing touchdowns at back
Speaker 3: to back games, and he's actually top twenty rushing yards
Speaker 3: in seven of the last eight games. So there, you know,
Speaker 3: he's got a little bit of the old Russell Wilson
Speaker 3: wheels going right now, which I like as well. Russell
Speaker 3: Wilson might take a chance at me quarterback, So go
Speaker 3: to the running back position, Scott, who you got?
Speaker 7: We are going with Chase Brown of the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 7: Just last week, we saw the Bengals give Brown the
Speaker 7: ball nine times.
Speaker 5: Nine times.
Speaker 4: Look at that nine bought it and.
Speaker 7: Two of them went for huge gains. On Monday night,
Speaker 7: the Colts allowed the third most running back touches, so
Speaker 7: there should be enough to go around this. Colt Steel
Speaker 7: allowing the fourth most fantasy points to running backs, including
Speaker 7: second most rushing touchdowns. By the way the secondary running back.
Speaker 7: The second running back had eighty eight yards last week,
Speaker 7: and two weeks ago had eighty eight yards. So maybe
Speaker 7: eighty eight yards here for Chase Brown.
Speaker 3: We would take that for sure, Brian, you take a
Speaker 3: chance at your running back.
Speaker 6: I'm sticking with the Browns and I'm going with Kareem
Speaker 6: Hunt again at home against the Jaguars. Jerome Ford is
Speaker 6: technically the starter, but Hunt still getting significant touches, especially
Speaker 6: in the red zone, where he and Ford have both
Speaker 6: seen nine opportunities since week nine nine and since week
Speaker 6: eight Jackson Inville has allowed the second highest explosive run
Speaker 6: rate and the highest miss tackles per attempt. The Jaguars
Speaker 6: have also yielded the most targets to running backs, so
Speaker 6: it should be no surprise that they've allowed the most
Speaker 6: receptions to the position. Love Ford and Hunt both this week.
Speaker 3: I might have to move forward up our rankings a
Speaker 3: little bit. I might have been a little softer on
Speaker 3: Ford than I should.
Speaker 6: I do it too.
Speaker 3: That's some good of some compelling stuff. Right there. Mine
Speaker 3: take a chance of me running back, going back to
Speaker 3: the well because I hit on it last week, and
Speaker 3: I need Damian Pierce. We need a late season revival
Speaker 3: to make me look slightly less of a moron for
Speaker 3: pushing the Damian Pierce narrative in the preseason.
Speaker 7: Imagine he becomes a league winner. Now I like that
Speaker 7: that you can crow, then you can peak.
Speaker 3: I would feel so validated if that happened. It's it's
Speaker 3: been a tough run for Damian Pierce, but hit last week.
Speaker 3: We'll try it again here against the Jets. Last week,
Speaker 3: he was the lead back for most of the game,
Speaker 3: and you know, David Houston was with a lead for
Speaker 3: most of the game and they ran him a lot.
Speaker 3: He almost doubled the workload of Devin Singletary and the
Speaker 3: Jets can't score. So I think Houston gets ahead in
Speaker 3: this one as well. And it's not like Pierce dazzled
Speaker 3: me with his running last week. Houston's run blocking isn't good.
Speaker 3: They're twenty sixth then run block win rate. And really,
Speaker 3: Pierce is a guy that could really you know, he's
Speaker 3: more of a straight ahead guy who needs a little
Speaker 3: bit of blocking help that he doesn't always get than still.
Speaker 3: Jets an elite pass defense and a bad run defense,
Speaker 3: so teams don't pass against them very much. In fact,
Speaker 3: the Jets see the most rushes per game thirty three.
Speaker 3: You know, if you tell me, Damian Pierce is going
Speaker 3: to get the you know, the majority of the work,
Speaker 3: maybe eighteen twenty of the thirty three. I don't know
Speaker 3: how he doesn't end up with a meaningful box score here,
Speaker 3: Damian Pierce against the Jets. Scott, who is your taking
Speaker 3: chance on me? Receiver?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going with Jayden Reed.
Speaker 7: I'm stacking him with my quarterback here, Jordan Love might
Speaker 7: take a chance on me quarterback. Giants will own sixth
Speaker 7: most receptions seventh most receiving year. Cards Reid gets the
Speaker 7: best matchup of the three with Cardell Flott in the slot.
Speaker 7: It's possible Christian Wasston misses this game, which also would
Speaker 7: add to possibly some extra touches for Jaden Reid. Giants
Speaker 7: on the season fourth easiest matchup for wide receivers, but
Speaker 7: since Week nine, they're the second easiest. Jaden Reid number
Speaker 7: one or number two in targets on the team each
Speaker 7: of the last five weeks.
Speaker 3: Let's hope that. Let's hope he's healthy enough to participate fully. Yes,
Speaker 3: game something we got yep, yeah, yep, Brian, you take
Speaker 3: a chance from your receiver.
Speaker 6: I got Houston's tight end Brevin Jordan at the Jets,
Speaker 6: Dalton Schultz not expected to play and charts. You're one
Speaker 6: hundred percent correct. Not many teams throw on the Jets.
Speaker 6: When they do, it's the tight ends we're having success.
Speaker 6: The Jets have allowed the second most touchdowns to the
Speaker 6: tight end position too over their last three games. They've
Speaker 6: also surrendered nearly one hundred and forty yards to the
Speaker 6: position over their last two games. And with Tank Dell
Speaker 6: now on ir there's targets to go around in Houston,
Speaker 6: and I think CJ. Stroud is gonna be looking Brevin
Speaker 6: Jordan's way a lot when he drops back on Sunday.
Speaker 3: My take a chance on the receiver is also a
Speaker 3: tight end. David and Joku, we've been man. We're all
Speaker 3: Browns all the time here, which is a little bit weird.
Speaker 3: Jaguars getting rocked by tight ends of late. The ranks
Speaker 3: against tight ends in tight end yards allowed, Jacksonville ranks
Speaker 3: thirty first in tight end receptions allowed. They rank thirty first.
Speaker 3: So a lot of teams throwing to the tight end
Speaker 3: and successfully. So here's just some recent box scores by
Speaker 3: tight ends against Jacksonville. Last week, the Bengals anonymous tight
Speaker 3: ends combined for six catches and fifty five yards. Two
Speaker 3: weeks ago, Pat Fryarmouth nine receptions, one hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: yards against Jacksonville Week ten, Dalton Schultz seventy one yards.
Speaker 3: Week nine, Dalton Kincaid ten catches, eighty one yards. We
Speaker 3: gave George Kittle nine catches, one hundred and forty nine.
Speaker 3: I mean, tight ends are just getting it done against Jacksonville.
Speaker 3: David and Joku. Next man up. Speaking of tight ends,
Speaker 3: last segment, when I broke down the Bears, I failed
Speaker 3: to mention Cole Kamet, So let me just do a
Speaker 3: quick little add on for Cole Kmet in the chair
Speaker 3: in the in the Chicago matchup. C grade for him.
Speaker 3: He's he was way more productive under Tyson. Bagent is
Speaker 3: not caught a touchdown pass since Week nine. He's gone
Speaker 3: touchdownless in six of his last seven games. Detroit's middle
Speaker 3: of the pack and receptions and yards allowed, but they
Speaker 3: have allowed six tight end touchdowns. This season, which is
Speaker 3: more than most anyway, but just three catches in the
Speaker 3: meeting against Detroit a few weeks ago. And again Fields
Speaker 3: doesn't go to Comet nearly as much as Bagen didn't,
Speaker 3: and so you got to be a lot more careful
Speaker 3: just to see grade on him.
Speaker 6: You have now comet expectations for that matchup.
Speaker 3: All right, Indianapolis takes on Cincinnati Scott and no Jonathan
Speaker 3: Taylor in this game. Zach Moss got bottled up significantly
Speaker 3: by a very good Tennessee run defense last week. What
Speaker 3: do you think about the prospects here against Cincinnati?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I actually have an a grade on Zach Moss here.
Speaker 7: I think it's a really really good spot for him.
Speaker 7: The nice part is he took every single running back
Speaker 7: carry last week with Taryl with Taylor out right back
Speaker 7: to his near twenty touches he was getting back when
Speaker 7: Taylor was out before. Minshew also has Moss on his
Speaker 7: fantasy team, which helps you. Could you could tell by
Speaker 7: that even the interception for a touch interception he threw
Speaker 7: at the goal line, he was trying to get it
Speaker 7: to Moss, so we know he wants to get those
Speaker 7: Moss points in there running backs with over sixteen touches
Speaker 7: against the Bengals, and I went to sixteen just to
Speaker 7: be safe. Even though Moss's touches without j TR twenty two,
Speaker 7: thirty two, eighteen, twenty five, twenty one, they're way over that.
Speaker 4: I'm being super safe.
Speaker 7: Back's with more than sixteen touches against the Bengals average
Speaker 7: one hundred and twenty five yards and mosquets all the work.
Speaker 7: So I have an A grade here for Zach Moss.
Speaker 7: It's finally happening for you.
Speaker 4: Charge. I'm so happy for you.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, I love it. I'm reveling this.
Speaker 7: Trust me over to the passing game, Gardner Minshew, I
Speaker 7: have a B grade on Bengals have allowed multiple scores
Speaker 7: in for the last five. Of course, the one that
Speaker 7: didn't was Kenny Pickett because he doesn't know how to get.
Speaker 4: Multiple score games.
Speaker 7: You really do have to pick your spots with Minshew,
Speaker 7: like Thor did last week, as is, take a chance
Speaker 7: on me player, and he delivered with three hundred plus
Speaker 7: and two scores. I think this is another one. Nine
Speaker 7: of the twelve scoring starting quarterbacks against the Colts had
Speaker 7: three hundred plus and or a score. It's a decent spot.
Speaker 7: B grade on Gardner Minshew. I do have an A
Speaker 7: grade on Michael Pittman, who's seen about one hundred targets
Speaker 7: per game with Minshew, I believe.
Speaker 4: That that is accurate.
Speaker 7: The Bengals are allowing highest A dot to lead in
Speaker 7: the league to wide receivers, which is really good for
Speaker 7: Pittman here twelve plus targets in three straight, eight plus
Speaker 7: catches in five straight, one hundred plus yards and back
Speaker 7: to back Biggels are middle of the pack, but he
Speaker 7: gets the best matchup in Shoudobi a Woozier allowing a
Speaker 7: one to twelve passer rating against. I do have Josh
Speaker 7: Downs and now Pierce on the bench. I know Eli
Speaker 7: Pierce had caught all three of his targets for one
Speaker 7: hundred yards last week. He was targeting the end zone twice.
Speaker 7: I don't know that it's sustainable. And Josh Downs, he
Speaker 7: really shows up in great slot matchups. This is the
Speaker 7: middle of the pack one I have him on the bench.
Speaker 7: It wouldn't surprise me for one of them to hit.
Speaker 7: But I have him on the bench. I don't think
Speaker 7: you can trust him here. C grade on Kylin grantson
Speaker 7: I'll touch on Granson real quick here two to four
Speaker 7: catches in every game before his injury. Came back, had
Speaker 7: three for seventy two last week. Since he is the
Speaker 7: second best matchup for tight ends. Even Evan Ingram scored
Speaker 7: last week against Cincinnati TV.
Speaker 3: That was my take a chance on me receiver last week.
Speaker 7: I am yeah, yeah, nine for Let me see if
Speaker 7: I can find a peacock real quick.
Speaker 3: It's near the top.
Speaker 4: It's near the top. Thank you.
Speaker 6: By Are you going to be able to work in
Speaker 6: a dig on Kyle Pitts in this breakdown or no?
Speaker 4: I've been this chair. I feely like diggy Dodd Pitts.
Speaker 4: It's weird how that happens.
Speaker 7: Friarmouth had nine for one to twenty the week before, Kincaid,
Speaker 7: Kittle and Schultz at seventy plus. That's just in the
Speaker 7: last six weeks, ten different tight ends have gone for
Speaker 7: seventy plus and or a score on this Bengals team.
Speaker 7: I have a C grade on Grands and I think
Speaker 7: he's a good dart throw there.
Speaker 4: Well se grade.
Speaker 7: Anyway, over to the Cincinnati side, Jake Browning I do
Speaker 7: have on the bench. I know he threw a lot
Speaker 7: of short passes last week. But this is the middle
Speaker 7: pack on the season. Defense the Colts are, but since
Speaker 7: Week five, only one quarterback has had over two hundred
Speaker 7: and twenty five yards and only three multi score games
Speaker 7: on the season. Bengals are fourth best against quarterbacks over
Speaker 7: their last five or sorry, the Colts are fourth best
Speaker 7: against quarterbacks over the last five.
Speaker 4: I have Browning on the bench.
Speaker 7: I'm still giving an A grade to Jamar Chase though,
Speaker 7: over fifty percent target chair last week, over forty percent
Speaker 7: with brown in the lineup. Also a thirty three percent
Speaker 7: end zone target share with Browning in the lineup. It's
Speaker 7: just he's just doing too good. He's gonna get Jalen
Speaker 7: Jones ninety five point eight passer rating against. But I'm
Speaker 7: still giving it an A grade here. I have the
Speaker 7: other wide receivers on the bench, though, Tyler Bord Tyler
Speaker 7: Boyd last week was a great slot matchup for him.
Speaker 7: Not so much this week. T Higgins was barely targeted.
Speaker 7: His game is deeper and the Colts that's what they
Speaker 7: what they defend the best is deeper and Browning it
Speaker 7: seems like he's throwing short a lot, so it's really
Speaker 7: not meant for t Higgins game, so I have him
Speaker 7: on the bench as well. Tanner Hudson's a little bit
Speaker 7: of a dart throw. Four plus catches in five straight
Speaker 7: but thirty to forty five yards in all of them.
Speaker 7: Feels like a safe seven points. But he doesn't score.
Speaker 7: It doesn't have a red zone target, doesn't have an
Speaker 7: end zone target, and Colts have only allowed one tight
Speaker 7: end touchdown on the year. So pure dart throw, but
Speaker 7: I have him on the bench. A grade on Joe
Speaker 7: Mixon kind of what I say about Chase Brown. Colts
Speaker 7: are fourth worst against running backs. They allow a ton
Speaker 7: of running back touches. There should be enough for both
Speaker 7: of them. But all that stuff I said in the
Speaker 7: last segment still stands for Joe mix and I have
Speaker 7: an A grade here. Hopefully there's enough for Chase Brown.
Speaker 7: Might take a chance on meat player.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, let's head to a break and when
Speaker 3: we come back, Jacksonville taking on Cleveland. We've already talked
Speaker 3: about a lot of Brown's maybe the Jacksonville side, unknown
Speaker 3: quarterback situation at this time, Who do you dare trust
Speaker 3: out of Jacksonville? No, Christian Kirk. A lot of things
Speaker 3: up in the air on the Jaguars side. Stay tuned
Speaker 3: to Fantasy Football Weekly to find out Welcome back Fantasy
Speaker 3: Football Weekly. Another big block of matchups for you, beginning
Speaker 3: with Jacksonville taking on Cleveland. Brian, we talked a lot
Speaker 3: about Cleveland already, but let's go to the Jacksonville side.
Speaker 3: No Christian Kirk and we're not sure who the quarterback
Speaker 3: is going to be in this one. What do you think?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean you would assume that Trevor Lawrence would
Speaker 6: have been ruled out by now, but he's shaping up
Speaker 6: to be a game time decision. He might go with
Speaker 6: that ankle injury. But it's a brutal matchup, the Browns
Speaker 6: allowing just one hundred and seventy three passing yards and
Speaker 6: one passing touchdown per game. They're also going to get
Speaker 6: back stud cornerback Denzel Ward, who has missed the last
Speaker 6: two games. So you just gotta prepare for Lawrence to
Speaker 6: be on your bench, and even if he starts, I
Speaker 6: got him on the bench. I think you should roll
Speaker 6: with one of our take on quarterbacks over him this
Speaker 6: week in a bad matchup. And there's gonna be some
Speaker 6: weather in this game too. It's not a total stopper
Speaker 6: by any means. It's going to be wet in Cleveland
Speaker 6: most likely, so I'm playing it safe with Lawrence. He's
Speaker 6: on the bench. The only other player in the passing
Speaker 6: game I'm giving a starting grade to is Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 6: He gets a CE. Since Week eight, Cleveland has allowed
Speaker 6: the fourth lowess PPR points per target to boundary wide receivers.
Speaker 6: That's not good. And again denzil Ward expected back, So
Speaker 6: temporary expectations for Ridley. I can't fault you if you
Speaker 6: bench it for someone else, but I will give him
Speaker 6: a C grade. But again, everyone else on the bench,
Speaker 6: including Evan Ingram. The Browns have allowed only three receiving
Speaker 6: two receiving touchdowns to tight ends all season, and two
Speaker 6: of those came from Mark Andrews back in Week four,
Speaker 6: opposing tight ends or averaging just two catches in twenty
Speaker 6: two yards per game against Cleveland, So Ingram on the
Speaker 6: bench even in the tight end wasteland. And lastly for
Speaker 6: the Jaguars, Travis Etn just to see for him. Etn
Speaker 6: has not hit eighty rushing yards since Week five, and
Speaker 6: in fact, he's only breached that mark on the ground
Speaker 6: twice this season. Etn definitely slumpling, slumping, excuse me slumping,
Speaker 6: and this isn't exactly a get right game opposing backs
Speaker 6: or averaging one hundred eleven combo yards per game against Cleveland,
Speaker 6: who has surrendered only eight total touchdowns to the position
Speaker 6: all season. Over at the Cleveland side, we already said
Speaker 6: out Joe Flacco, as might take a chance on me,
Speaker 6: quarterback David and Joku is your take a chance on me?
Speaker 5: Receiver?
Speaker 6: Over to the wide receivers for the Browns, I got
Speaker 6: a B for Elijah Moore and a CE on Amari Cooper.
Speaker 6: Cooper looks like he's trending towards playing. He practiced on Friday.
Speaker 6: He's been in concussion protocol and nursing a rib injury
Speaker 6: that he's been playing through, so it's really all about
Speaker 6: the concussion. But it looks like Cooper will be cleared.
Speaker 6: So A see for Cooper and I get a be
Speaker 6: on More. Saw twelve targets last week with Joe Flacco
Speaker 6: under center. That will likely be the case again this week,
Speaker 6: meaning Flacco will be under sender and the Jaguars have
Speaker 6: surrendered the third most wide receiver touchdowns this season and
Speaker 6: at least one wide receiver touchdown in every game they
Speaker 6: have played. And lastly to the running game for the Browns.
Speaker 6: I got to be on Jerome Ford again, a great
Speaker 6: matchup for both he and Kareem Hunt, whos might take
Speaker 6: a chance and be running back. Since week eight, Jacksonville
Speaker 6: has allowed the second highest explosive run rate and the
Speaker 6: highest miss tackles per attempt, and they've also allowed the
Speaker 6: most catches to the running back position.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all that all trends very very well. And
Speaker 3: tip of the hat to Thor last week for nailing
Speaker 3: Elijah Moore as well. Nicely done in abstentia. We will
Speaker 3: give him. Can we peacock him in an abstentia? Is
Speaker 3: that possible? I would do that. There we go, Rams
Speaker 3: taking on the Baltimore Ravens. Brian, you love this a
Speaker 3: great and Kyrone Williams.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The workload is just huge at this point. Last week
Speaker 3: he played ninety four percent of the snaps and got
Speaker 3: twenty six opportunities. Since week two, when he became the
Speaker 3: starter over Acres, Kyron has seen twenty two opportunities per
Speaker 3: game and he's averaging one hundred and sixteen total yards
Speaker 3: per game. The one area where the Ravens defense is
Speaker 3: vulnerable is against the run. They're just a middle of
Speaker 3: the pack run defense. They ranked twelfth and sixteenth in
Speaker 3: rushing and receiving yards allowed to runners, respectively. Are going
Speaker 3: to pull an up set here. It's almost certainly going
Speaker 3: to go through Kyron Williams with an A grade, and
Speaker 3: we're a lot more skeptical about the passing game in
Speaker 3: this one, a lot more. Let's start with Stafford. Brutal
Speaker 3: matchup for him. The Ravens ranked second in pass coverage
Speaker 3: by Pro Football Focus. They've only given up multiple passing
Speaker 3: touchdowns two times all year. Baltimore has more interceptions than
Speaker 3: touchdown passes allowed. In his five road games so far,
Speaker 3: Stafford has seven touchdown passes, and other than his four
Speaker 3: touchdown blow up a week or two ago, Stafford's really
Speaker 3: been really like a one touchdown guy, and that's probably
Speaker 3: where we're sitting here. Puka Nakula comes in with a
Speaker 3: C grade, coming off a great game last week. Baltimore
Speaker 3: plays overwhelmingly man coverage, and since Cooper Cup's return in
Speaker 3: Week five, Nicoua has led rams wide receivers and receptions
Speaker 3: against man and has been far more effective than Cup
Speaker 3: as well. In man coverage. The Ravens get back cornerback
Speaker 3: Marlon Humphrey from injury working against Nakua. He's very good
Speaker 3: no receiver. His top two catches or nine yards against
Speaker 3: Marlon Humphrey since way back in Week five. So a
Speaker 3: very tough matchup for Nikua. But I'm still giving him
Speaker 3: a C grade in this one. And I'm benching Cooper Cup. No,
Speaker 3: he hasn't top fifty yards fifty Cooper Cup fifty yards
Speaker 3: in six straight games. He's playing on two hobbled ankles.
Speaker 3: Safety Kyle Hamilton man's the slot often and he's just
Speaker 3: a menace. Over the past five weeks, he's allowing two
Speaker 3: receptions for twelve yards per game on a passer rating
Speaker 3: of fifty eight. And that's it. So I just I
Speaker 3: can't advocate starting Cooper Cup here at a game you need.
Speaker 3: And then Tyler Higbee doubtful, not expected to play in
Speaker 3: this game, so don't use him. Let's go to the
Speaker 3: Baltimore side. I think I'll start with I think I'll
Speaker 3: start with the running game here. How about Gus Edwards
Speaker 3: snapshare decreasing in three straight games, bottoming out at only
Speaker 3: twenty seven percent rushing share in their last game before
Speaker 3: last week's by the Rams will allow the seventh fewest
Speaker 3: total yards to opposing running backs, and more troubling edwards
Speaker 3: has become totally touchdown dependent, and the Rams only give
Speaker 3: up half a touchdown to the position per game. That's
Speaker 3: eighth best. So all you can do is hope for
Speaker 3: a touchdown. I can only give you a C grade,
Speaker 3: and it's on the hope for like two yard touchdown plunge.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 3: How about Keith Mitchell, so his snapcher increasing in four
Speaker 3: straight weeks, his gusses is going down topping out at
Speaker 3: forty six percent snap share in the last game before
Speaker 3: the buy tough matchup, though, In addition to not allowing
Speaker 3: rushing yards to touchdowns, the Rams allow a league low
Speaker 3: twenty receiving yards per game to opposing running backs. That
Speaker 3: impacts Mitchell for sure. He's a receiving back and he's
Speaker 3: had a lot of his success through the air. It's
Speaker 3: not likely to happen here. Since LA's Week ten by
Speaker 3: no back his top forty eight rushing yards, thirty or
Speaker 3: thirty three receiving yards or scored against the Rams. So
Speaker 3: this is a very tough spot Spot just got a
Speaker 3: C grade on Keaton Mitchell. Let's go to the passing game.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna start with Isaiah Likely. The Rams are terrible
Speaker 3: against the tight end, give up the six month yards
Speaker 3: and the second most scores to the position, So there's
Speaker 3: a good chance that Lamar's best path to air production
Speaker 3: is through Isaiah Likely. And the one full game likely
Speaker 3: is played without Mark Andrews. He led the Ravens and targets,
Speaker 3: receptions and receiving yards. So I like Isaiah Likely here
Speaker 3: and he comes in with a solid B grade and
Speaker 3: he's in my top five at the position this week
Speaker 3: as well. Zay Flowers. Great to see him in the
Speaker 3: end zone last week. It's kind a sight we haven't
Speaker 3: seen very often. I'm less optimistic about it here. He
Speaker 3: runs from all parts of the field and he's got
Speaker 3: neutral matchups in all three of those spots against all
Speaker 3: three of the Rams cornerbacks. Importantly, Flowers saw eight targets
Speaker 3: with Mark Andrews missing last week. That's his first time
Speaker 3: reaching that mark since Week eight. He's the only receiver
Speaker 3: with enough volume to warrant starting consideration among the Ravens.
Speaker 3: He comes in with a C grade and that just
Speaker 3: leaves us with Lamar Jackson. Over the past five weeks,
Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson's Fantasy points, he ranks as quarterback eighteen, with
Speaker 3: just four total touchdowns, none of them on the ground,
Speaker 3: which are usually worth more than the passing touchdowns. That
Speaker 3: doesn't always mean that Lamar Jackson is playing badly, but
Speaker 3: his fifty rushing yards per game is just not enough
Speaker 3: to sustain you when he's only averaging two hundred and
Speaker 3: sixteen passing yards and one passing touchdown per game. That
Speaker 3: is a Gardner Minshew level of passing, and the Rams
Speaker 3: are a pretty good pass defense. They've held nine of
Speaker 3: twelve opponents to zero or one passing touchdown and only
Speaker 3: two quarterbacks of top three hundred yards all year. LA
Speaker 3: is vulnerable on the ground. All four mobile quarterbacks to
Speaker 3: face LA have scored her top forty seven rushing yards.
Speaker 3: So I think you're gonna get another good ground game
Speaker 3: from Jackson, But like it's been a lot lately, I
Speaker 3: don't think he's going to chip in much through the air.
Speaker 3: We've got a B grade on Lamar Jackson. Okay, all right,
Speaker 3: let's move over to Tampa Bay taking on Atlanta. Scott
Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield. I think you quietly playing pretty good football,
Speaker 3: but a lot of tough matchups and it doesn't always
Speaker 3: materialize to a lot of fantasy points.
Speaker 7: Yeah here, and this would normally be a tough matchup here,
Speaker 7: I have a C grade on him. I'm willing to
Speaker 7: move to a bench. But right now the Falcons could
Speaker 7: be without cornerbacks AJ Terrell who's in concussion protocol, Jeff
Speaker 7: Alcuda with an undisclosed injury, and Mike Cues with an
Speaker 7: hand injury, So if their entire defensive backfield.
Speaker 4: Is out, I feel a little bit better about a
Speaker 4: C grade here.
Speaker 7: The Falcons haven't a lot of passing touchdown for three weeks. Okay,
Speaker 7: so they faced Kyler in his first game and Derek
Speaker 7: Carr and Tim Boyle, but before that they gave up
Speaker 7: multiple scores in three of four, so it's possible he
Speaker 7: has an OKDA. We need to watch that defensive backfield, though.
Speaker 7: A grade on Mike Evans. Evans had six for eighty
Speaker 7: two and a score received on eight targets in Week
Speaker 7: seven against these Falcons, and Aj Terrell was shadowing him
Speaker 7: that game, so if he's gone, expect better. Thirty three
Speaker 7: percent target share from Mike Evans over the last month,
Speaker 7: and we've talked about his end zone targets. He just
Speaker 7: always scores. It feels like Mike Evans does C grade
Speaker 7: on Chris Godwin. I don't love it, but held catchless
Speaker 7: last week, but he did score on a nineteen yard
Speaker 7: rushing touchdown. The matchup against a completely beat up secondary
Speaker 7: is nice. But if all those players or most of
Speaker 7: those some of those players go, maybe bench Chris Godwin,
Speaker 7: but I have a C grade on him for now
Speaker 7: with the matchup. Kate Aughten runs a ton of the routes,
Speaker 7: but goosag last week. He disappears at times too hard
Speaker 7: to trust bench for cad Aughten. B grade on Rashad
Speaker 7: White over the last five why is averaging over twenty touches,
Speaker 7: four of those being catches. He scored five times in
Speaker 7: the last five games. No other Tampa Bay back has
Speaker 7: had more than five touches in a game since Week six.
Speaker 7: Falcons are really good against fantasy running backs, but mostly
Speaker 7: it's because the scores. They've only allowed three total scores
Speaker 7: and all three were receiving no rushing scores. White total
Speaker 7: had ninety nine total yards in their first meeting on
Speaker 7: nineteen touches, nineteen plus touches against guys against the Falcons
Speaker 7: averaged ninety yards. They averaged ninety one yards. Actually, so
Speaker 7: ninety plus yards four plus catches. I can see a
Speaker 7: B grade here if he gets in the end zone.
Speaker 7: Even better over to the Atlanta side I have ridden
Speaker 7: on the bench. Good quarterbacks do well against Tampa. Bad
Speaker 7: ones do bad. Ridder did two hundred and eighty nine
Speaker 7: scoreless yards last time I have him on the bench. Sorry,
Speaker 7: Drake Lennon, I'm giving a C grade too. It's really tough,
Speaker 7: but five receivers have been over fifty yards against the
Speaker 7: Bucks in the last three weeks. He's been sea level,
Speaker 7: Drake Lennon. That is, has been sea level or worse
Speaker 7: in almost every single Gay game. But it's the sixth
Speaker 7: easiest matchup for wide receivers. Twenty three different wide receivers
Speaker 7: have top fifty yards this season in twelve games. The
Speaker 7: only other starting grade I have here is B. John Robinson.
Speaker 7: Bucks have been top ten against running backs this year,
Speaker 7: but have been bottom ten over the last three weeks,
Speaker 7: allowing McCaffrey, JT and Chupa Hubbard to blow up on them.
Speaker 7: High touch running backs have done really well against them.
Speaker 4: B Grade.
Speaker 7: There, I have Kyle Pitts on the bench. I have
Speaker 7: Tyler Lger and Cordell Patterson, who are splitting now because
Speaker 7: that's split, I have them on the bench as well.
Speaker 3: That all makes sense, Scott, I think I see it
Speaker 3: the same way. Fortunately, we're going to break, so we
Speaker 3: won't get a Kyle Pit's rebuttal from Brian.
Speaker 6: Now I'm biting my tongue.
Speaker 4: No, when we come back long enough on purpose.
Speaker 3: That's right. Three tough questions. See if you can go
Speaker 3: three and oh with our panel of experts as we
Speaker 3: dive into three of the most salient, difficult decisions that
Speaker 3: we've all got to face coming down the stretch as
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Speaker 3: Fish and Brian Johnson with you. This is a game
Speaker 3: we call three tough questions.
Speaker 5: We begin with this tough question number one.
Speaker 3: What is the appropriate level of concern for Patrick Mahomes?
Speaker 3: Is it none? Is it some? Or is it a
Speaker 3: bowel loosening level of existential dread? We begin with Scott Fish.
Speaker 7: I think at this point, we got to go with some.
Speaker 7: I don't think it's blowed. I think we've seen enough
Speaker 7: of Mahomes over his career, not this you know, twelve
Speaker 7: game sample size, that he's a pretty dang good quarterback.
Speaker 7: But all season we keep thinking, oh, it's gonna be
Speaker 7: scary once this offense gets things going, like the days
Speaker 7: of all but it just keeps not happening. Maybe Airic
Speaker 7: b Enemy leaving was a piece that hurt that more
Speaker 7: than we thought. Concern exists, but I don't think we
Speaker 7: should be like completely panicking on this.
Speaker 3: All right, Brian, what's the appropriate level of concern for
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes? Is it none? Is it some? Or is
Speaker 3: it a bowel loosening level of existential dread?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I gotta agree with Scott that it's some because Mahomes
Speaker 6: is just not a set it and forget it guy,
Speaker 6: especially if you're still alive in a guillotine league. He's
Speaker 6: almost like a depth player right now. I don't think
Speaker 6: you can bench him this week against Buffalo, but looking
Speaker 6: next week at New England, I don't know you might
Speaker 6: have a better option than Patrick Mahomes. I like his
Speaker 6: matchup in Week sixteen at home against Vegas a lot better.
Speaker 6: But again, I mean he's almost a matchup dependent player
Speaker 6: at this point. Not totally, but it's definitely some level
Speaker 6: of concern for Mahomes.
Speaker 3: For me, the correct answer is a bowel loosening level
Speaker 3: of existential.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, okay, it is.
Speaker 3: Get this over the life last five weeks, Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 3: is quarterback twenty one. That means almost certainly over the
Speaker 3: last five weeks. To this is to Brian's point, over
Speaker 3: the last five weeks, you probably would have been better
Speaker 3: off starting whoever your other quarterback is than Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3: Why where's the problem. The problem is the signature big plays.
Speaker 3: When we think in the Mahomes era of long bomb passes,
Speaker 3: the first guy you think of is Patrick Mahomes. He's
Speaker 3: been so good there, but not this year. Get a
Speaker 3: load of this. Mahomes quarterback thirty three in average depth
Speaker 3: of target at seven point three yards, thirty third. He's
Speaker 3: twentieth in deep ball completions. He's thirty second in deep
Speaker 3: ball completion percentage. He's thirty sixth, dead last among qualified
Speaker 3: quarterbacks in deep ball passer rating. Patrick Mahomes has one
Speaker 3: touchdown this year of more than twenty yards. That's it,
Speaker 3: and so much of what is gigantic explosive box scores
Speaker 3: have come because of the forty to fifty sixty seventy
Speaker 3: yard passes. Those have totally dried up. Can you snap
Speaker 3: your fingers and suddenly get better at deep passing?
Speaker 4: Not with his receiving core exactly.
Speaker 3: I mean, Rashi Rice is the most promising receiver on
Speaker 3: the depth chart, but he's not like bombs away deep
Speaker 3: downfield guy. So I don't see this thing changing. And
Speaker 3: we've got some stoppers on the on the schedule compared
Speaker 3: to where we normally have Patrick Mahomes. Your level of
Speaker 3: concern is a bowel loosening level of existential crept.
Speaker 7: By the way, Rashi Rice is at four point seventy
Speaker 7: five yards, He is not talking way way downfield.
Speaker 3: Quite the opposite.
Speaker 5: Yes, tough question number three.
Speaker 4: Oops, let's try too.
Speaker 5: Tough question number two.
Speaker 6: Yeah you thought it.
Speaker 3: I thought it was easy.
Speaker 4: It's not easy this chair.
Speaker 3: No, we're going backwards and it's doing your own matchup.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I bet rest of season, Justin Jefferson will be a
Speaker 3: wide receiver one, a wide receiver two, flex or bench player.
Speaker 3: We begin with Brian for this one.
Speaker 6: According to Fantasy Pros, the Vikings wide receivers have the
Speaker 6: fourth hardest remaining strength of schedule. But looking at their schedule,
Speaker 6: it's at Las Vegas, as you know, charge at Cincinnati
Speaker 6: versus Detroit, then versus Green Bay. I don't see that
Speaker 6: as the fourth artist. Yeah, I disagree.
Speaker 3: There another site, another site I like rodal Wire has
Speaker 3: the fourth easiest.
Speaker 6: All right, So there's some major discrepancy here. But the
Speaker 6: major concern is it's the quarterback position for the Vikings
Speaker 6: that they're sticking with Joshua Dobbs right now, which I
Speaker 6: think is the right call. But whoever is starting a
Speaker 6: quarterback is an obvious downgrade from Kirk Cousins. We don't
Speaker 6: know if Jefferson's at one hundred percent, but he's probably
Speaker 6: pretty darn close. But you got to play a little
Speaker 6: safe and go with just wide receiver two. It's not
Speaker 6: about Jefferson, it's about his quarterback for me.
Speaker 3: Okay Scott, rest of season, justin Jefferson. Will he be
Speaker 3: a wide receiver one, wide receiver two, flex or bench?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I think he goes right back to wide receiver one,
Speaker 7: And I feel like the bar isn't isn't as high
Speaker 7: as maybe he's not Justin Jefferson wide receiver one overall
Speaker 7: or two overall like Dyrek Gel, But I feel like
Speaker 7: he's going to get the target volume that Kevin O'Connell
Speaker 7: is going to scheme plays specifically to make him work
Speaker 7: with Josh Dobbs. I think finding his way to a
Speaker 7: top twelve wide receiver for the rest of the season
Speaker 7: is not going to be that difficult.
Speaker 3: Schedule is very favorable. I think no stoppers left. Cincinnati
Speaker 3: and Detroit in particular, very positive matchups for Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 3: Kevin O'Connell's offense is designed to go through Jefferson, and
Speaker 3: Lord knows, the running game is not going to displace
Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson from this offense. And remember Minnesota ranks third
Speaker 3: in pass attempts, fourth and passing play percentage. This is
Speaker 3: a pass first offense and he's the best receiver on
Speaker 3: the team. Kevin O'Connell's going to go down swinging with
Speaker 3: his best weapons, Justin Jefferson and TJ. Hockinson this season.
Speaker 3: The quarterback situation obviously not ideal, and that takes him
Speaker 3: out of the ranks of like Ceedee Lamb aj Brown,
Speaker 3: Tyreek Hill, and other clear like elite wide receiver ones.
Speaker 3: But he's really in the next tier of guys, which
Speaker 3: still puts him into wide receiver one territory where he
Speaker 3: might come in as like the eighth, ninth, tenth, eleven, twelfth,
Speaker 3: best wide receiver on the season. That's still wide receiver
Speaker 3: one territory. Oh, Scott, let's go to tough question number three.
Speaker 3: There we go, all right, Tank Dell is out for
Speaker 3: the year for rest of the season, Nicocollins, Is he
Speaker 3: a wide receiver one, wide receiver two, flex or bench?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I still have him also a wide receiver one. He
Speaker 7: was really really hyper targeted, even going up against Patzertayne
Speaker 7: last week after Tank Dell went down. Noel Brown obviously
Speaker 7: not one hundred percent healthy yet, but he should should go.
Speaker 7: Tough matchup this week though, tough matchup facing Sauce Gardner
Speaker 7: and DJ Reid on the outsides this week, but most
Speaker 7: of the games going forward he's going to be a
Speaker 7: wide receiver one. I'm not even opposed to saying he
Speaker 7: could get there this week with how much he got targeted.
Speaker 7: Outside of that, his one game without Dell was four
Speaker 7: for eighty yards. And he did that up against Marshawn Lattimore.
Speaker 7: It really would have been nice to see some games
Speaker 7: with all of these guys healthy, to be honest, that
Speaker 7: would have been great. But I still have him as
Speaker 7: a low end wide receiver one going.
Speaker 3: Forward, Okay, Brian. With Tank Dell out for the year,
Speaker 3: Nico Collins rest of season? Is he a wide receiver,
Speaker 3: one wide receiver, two flex or bench?
Speaker 6: So this season, before Dell went down, on snaps that
Speaker 6: Collins played when Dell wasn't on the field for whatever reason,
Speaker 6: Collins target share climbed from twenty percent to thirty one
Speaker 6: percent and his air yard share went from twenty five
Speaker 6: percent to forty one percent. So when Dell wasn't on
Speaker 6: the field, Collins was CJ. Stroud's favorite target and that's
Speaker 6: going to be the case for the remainder of the season.
Speaker 6: I got to disagree with Scott a little bit in
Speaker 6: that we're an agreement that it's a bad matchup against
Speaker 6: the Jets this week. We're going to break that down momentarily,
Speaker 6: so I would give him a C. But then tennessee
Speaker 6: a good matchup, but then they have Cleveland in Week sixteen.
Speaker 6: That feels like another seed to me and then Tennessee again,
Speaker 6: and the Tennessee matchups are kind of an A so
Speaker 6: ca CAA that averages out to a B to me.
Speaker 6: So I'm at wide receiver, wide receiver two cock cock.
Speaker 3: Cocky, don't talk about one of our favorite receivers that way, right.
Speaker 3: Nico is fourth in yards after catch, and that helps
Speaker 3: him turn low volume games into high yardage games because
Speaker 3: even if he doesn't get the ball a lot, because
Speaker 3: he can do so well after the catch, he can
Speaker 3: have big he can have big output. And even with
Speaker 3: the monus uptick and targets like let's say two per game,
Speaker 3: if he gets two extra targets per game with Dell out,
Speaker 3: that would be huge for Collins. Listen to this differential.
Speaker 3: For Collins' average games where he gets six or fewer
Speaker 3: targets very mundane forty seven yards point two touchdowns per game.
Speaker 3: But when he gets seven or more targets, Nico Collins
Speaker 3: explodes up to one hundred and twenty five yards and
Speaker 3: almost a full touchdown per game. So he's like double
Speaker 3: or triple the efficacy when he gets seven or more targets.
Speaker 3: And I think without Dell he's likely to get those
Speaker 3: seven targets and virtually every game down the stretch. And
Speaker 3: if you're wondering how good one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 3: yards and point eight touchdowns is, that's almost exactly what
Speaker 3: Tyrik kill is giving his fantasy owners right now. So
Speaker 3: you're getting the best wide receiver in football in those
Speaker 3: games or gets seven one targets. Now, it's not always
Speaker 3: as simple as saying, well, because Tank Dell's gone, that
Speaker 3: means he's gonna get more targets, but he probably will.
Speaker 3: He'll also get better coverage with Tank Dell out because
Speaker 3: defenses don't have to account for Tank Dell. And Robert
Speaker 3: Woods is not as good or Noah Brown is not
Speaker 3: as good. Still, I love the post prospects of him
Speaker 3: being a high volume player, and I think you could
Speaker 3: do well here. The matchups do concern me, and I
Speaker 3: think Brian really hit on a key thing. Jets and
Speaker 3: Cleveland could be major bombers for you know, any wide receiver.
Speaker 3: And because of that, you know, that's that's half of
Speaker 3: the remaining schedule, Jets Cleveland, So I can only get
Speaker 3: to wide receiver two. If it were if it were
Speaker 3: pretty much any other defenses you were facing. I think
Speaker 3: he'd be wide receiver one for sure.
Speaker 7: It's not good to know who has faith in Nico
Speaker 7: Collins and who doesn't, who truly believes.
Speaker 3: I am Yeah, long time listeners.
Speaker 6: No, right, yes, we're starting them either way.
Speaker 3: Let's go to Houston taking on the Jets. It's a
Speaker 3: perfect segue. Brian, you mentioned already you've got a C
Speaker 3: grade on Nico Collins. You want to that at all?
Speaker 6: Yeah, not a great matchup, but I will mention quickly.
Speaker 6: Torrential downpour expected in New Jersey on Sunday. That's not
Speaker 6: a stopper by any means, but rain does factor into
Speaker 6: the passing game. So just to see on Collins, but
Speaker 6: it's more about the matchup. Awful matchup. Jets allowing the
Speaker 6: second fewest catches per game to wide receivers just nine
Speaker 6: point five as a whole, and the fewest yards and
Speaker 6: touchdowns per game. New York has allowed three wide receiver
Speaker 6: touchdowns all season three.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 6: So see for Collins, Noah Brown, John metchiw Robert Woods,
Speaker 6: they're all on the bench. But I like the matchup
Speaker 6: for Brevin Jordan at tight end. He was might take
Speaker 6: a chance on me receiver, So a C grade for
Speaker 6: Jordan and CJ. Stroud. I was close to putting him
Speaker 6: on the bench, but I just couldn't do it. But
Speaker 6: just to see for him. The Jets are allowing one
Speaker 6: hundred and ninety two passing yards and one point two
Speaker 6: passing touchdowns per game. That is not good at all.
Speaker 6: But Stroud has been excellent this season. I think he
Speaker 6: can find his way to at least two touchdown passes hopefully,
Speaker 6: so a C grade for him. Charge Damian Pierce was
Speaker 6: take a chance on me running back. I like him
Speaker 6: more than Devin Singletary. As you mentioned in the take
Speaker 6: on segment, is a great matchup for the running backs
Speaker 6: on paper, but Pierce trending towards the lead back so
Speaker 6: he gets the stronger see between the backs for Houston.
Speaker 5: Over to the.
Speaker 6: Jets side, I got a few c's here, starting with
Speaker 6: Breece Hall dealing with an ankle injury but is expected
Speaker 6: to play. Not a great match up here though for
Speaker 6: Breece A posting backs or averaging one hundred and eleven
Speaker 6: combo yards per game against Houston not great, not awful,
Speaker 6: but no loan back has topped ninety rushing yards against
Speaker 6: the Texans this season. And the Texans haven't surrendered a
Speaker 6: running back touchdown since Week ten. So just to see
Speaker 6: for Breese Hall, also a see for Garrett Wilson. The
Speaker 6: Texans are allowing more than one hundred and sixty yards
Speaker 6: per game to wide receivers, and Garrett Wilson's target share
Speaker 6: is pushing thirty percent, which is a lot. So you
Speaker 6: got to like that volume. Even though we've hated the
Speaker 6: quarterbacks for the Jets all year since Aaron Rodgers went
Speaker 6: down so real quickly. Zach Wilson is on the bench obviously,
Speaker 6: but Tyler Conklin is not. Even with Wilson under center.
Speaker 6: I mean, Wilson is an upgrade over Tim Boyle. I
Speaker 6: guess you you can give him back, but yeah, I
Speaker 6: gotta see on Conklin. The Texans are allowing more than
Speaker 6: six and a half catches and sixty receiving yards per
Speaker 6: game to tight ends, and Houston is one of two
Speaker 6: teams to yield more than one hundred targets to tight
Speaker 6: ends so far this season. So I like Conklin here
Speaker 6: in the wasteland with a sea.
Speaker 3: All right, when we come back Minnesota taking on Las Vegas,
Speaker 3: we'll give you details on what to expect from Justin
Speaker 3: Jefferson in his first game in nine weeks. Nine weeks, Oh,
Speaker 3: it's been way too long. Do you automatically put Justin
Speaker 3: Jefferson back in your lineup? Find out when we come
Speaker 3: back to Fantasy Football Week. Welcome back, Fantasy Football Weekly
Speaker 3: Vikings take on the Raiders Justin Jefferson back prior to
Speaker 3: his injury. You may have forgotten just how good Justin
Speaker 3: Jefferson was average game prior to injury eight catches, one
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty six yards per game. Not going to
Speaker 3: do that with Josh Dobbs, but still a very good
Speaker 3: opportunity here. Over the last five weeks, Las Vegas has
Speaker 3: allowed the fifth most receptions per game to opposing wide receivers.
Speaker 3: They've shaken up their secondary. They're now starting former New
Speaker 3: England cornerback Jack Jones, who was waived outright and they
Speaker 3: cut Marcus Peters. This will be the first game with Jones,
Speaker 3: who was just awful with the Patriots. So there's a
Speaker 3: great opportunity for Jefferson here. Now opposite Jones is Amik Robertson.
Speaker 3: They might have him shadow Jefferson, which would make a
Speaker 3: ton of sense. And even still I mean, Robinson's good,
Speaker 3: but he's not great, and that's a nice opportunity for
Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson. A grade on him. A grade on TJ.
Speaker 3: Hockinson as well. You know, a reminder, even when Justin
Speaker 3: Jefferson was going, Hockinson getting tons of looks and that's
Speaker 3: continued NonStop, and Josh Dubb Dobbs loves his tight ends.
Speaker 3: Hockinson needed last week's by to get rest at rib
Speaker 3: injury that was really laboring on him. Las Vegas middle
Speaker 3: of the pack and all the stats against tight ends
Speaker 3: doesn't matter. Hockinson A grade for this one, not to
Speaker 3: mention it. Josh passing game Jordan Addison. Jefferson siphons off
Speaker 3: a lot of balls, but he also draws a lot
Speaker 3: of coverage, so Addison's going to likely see fewer passes,
Speaker 3: but hopefully better opportunities and maybe one won't clank off
Speaker 3: his face mask like last game. If the Raiders do
Speaker 3: decide to put a Meet Robertson on Jefferson, that would
Speaker 3: put Jack Jones on Addison and that's a great matchup.
Speaker 3: So there's an opportunity here. Jones allowing an eighty percent
Speaker 3: catch rate. High risk hy rewards start C grade. Jordan Addison,
Speaker 3: and let's talk Josh Dobbs. This is an ultra high risk,
Speaker 3: high rewards spot for Josh Dobbs. He could be benched
Speaker 3: if he continues to turn the ball over. That would
Speaker 3: be your downside scenarios you don't get a full game
Speaker 3: from him. Or he could be electric. With Justin Jefferson back,
Speaker 3: he could run in a score. You know, mostly the
Speaker 3: Raider secondary has handled middling passers like Dobbs, but with
Speaker 3: his rushing and the plethora of strong targets here, I
Speaker 3: think he's a plausible starter for those with the appetite.
Speaker 3: I give him a C grade. Can't give you a
Speaker 3: letter grade on this running game again. Alexander Madison on
Speaker 3: the bench since Week five. He's top fifty two rushing
Speaker 3: yards one time, and he came against the Broncos and
Speaker 3: they give up the most rushing yards in the league.
Speaker 3: Madison has seen ten or fewer carries in four of
Speaker 3: the last eight games unshackled from Josh McDaniels. The Raiders
Speaker 3: are much better run defense. They're giving up just seventy
Speaker 3: six rushing yards per game and three point eight yards
Speaker 3: per carry over the past five weeks without Josh McDaniels,
Speaker 3: So bench grade on Alexander Madison in this one. Let's
Speaker 3: go to the Las Vegas side. You really only care
Speaker 3: about a couple of guys. We'll hit on them now.
Speaker 3: Josh Jacobs B grade. Since Aidan O'Connell took over in
Speaker 3: Week nine, Jacob's getting a lot of work. Twenty four touches,
Speaker 3: one hundred total yards and point eight scores per game. Vikings,
Speaker 3: though very good run defense as they have been most
Speaker 3: of the season, they allowed the third fewest touchdowns per
Speaker 3: game to opposing running backs, only point four per game.
Speaker 3: The Vikings allow the fifth fewest total yards per game
Speaker 3: to opposing running backs as well. All that, you know,
Speaker 3: all the it's one hundred and three per game total.
Speaker 3: All that should go to Jacobs, who's seen at least
Speaker 3: seventy five percent of the snaps in five straight weeks.
Speaker 3: So true workhorse back in Josh Jacobs. So even in
Speaker 3: a tough matchup is a good run defense, he comes
Speaker 3: in with a B grade. You care about. DeVante Adams
Speaker 3: hasn't been the game breaker we're used to, but still
Speaker 3: providing a solid floor. With Aidan O'Connell at the he
Speaker 3: home averaging six catches eighty four yards while scoring once
Speaker 3: in the last three games. The Vikings secondary gives up
Speaker 3: over fourteen receptions per game to wideouts, that is fourth
Speaker 3: most well giving up the tenth most yards per game
Speaker 3: to the position. So I still think Adams is a
Speaker 3: very safe start here. Vikings don't give up a lot
Speaker 3: of scores to wideouts, just half a touchdown per game
Speaker 3: since September. Solid, but probably not an explosive game coming
Speaker 3: for DeVonta Adams, who comes in with a B grade.
Speaker 6: Really yeah, sorry, I had to look. I know this
Speaker 6: is the Packers. This is adams history against the Vikings
Speaker 6: with Green Bay touchdown wise one, two, three two. It's
Speaker 6: the last four games against the Lakes.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he likes playing them.
Speaker 3: Jacoby Meyers also a plausible start here, coming off his
Speaker 3: best game with Aidan O'Connell a quarterback last week. Six catches,
Speaker 3: seventy nine yards and a touchdown. Vikings allowing one hundred
Speaker 3: and eighty one passing yards per game in a way games,
Speaker 3: which is very low, and it's about eighty yards less
Speaker 3: than they give up at home. Myers has twelve red
Speaker 3: zone targets, which is solid, and they do like to
Speaker 3: use him near the stripe. I can see a plausible
Speaker 3: spot here for Jacoby Myers, but I don't expect greatness
Speaker 3: C grade for him. Ain't no Caddle's on the bench.
Speaker 3: I don't know that you'd be replacing anybody for him anyway.
Speaker 3: Here Vikings have allowed zero or one touchdown pass in
Speaker 3: eight of the last nine games. Let's go to Denver
Speaker 3: taking on the Chargers. Scott, I already told you I
Speaker 3: like Russell Wilson to take a chance on me a quarterback.
Speaker 3: What do you think of his receiving options in this game?
Speaker 7: I agree with you on Russell Wilson. I had a
Speaker 7: B grade on him, which means I got a couple
Speaker 7: of receivers I like in this game. I have a
Speaker 7: B grade on Courtland Sutton and a C grade on
Speaker 7: Jerry Judy. Chargers bottom three against wide receivers, fifth, most
Speaker 7: yards allowed, sixth most touchdowns allowed. Judy himself only one
Speaker 7: game over sixty five yards and only one touchdown on
Speaker 7: the year. So the best, even in a great matchup
Speaker 7: with a quarterback matchup that's great.
Speaker 4: The best I can.
Speaker 7: Do for him is a C grade, hoping he does
Speaker 7: those like three for sixty five four for sixty five,
Speaker 7: just barely edges double digit touch, double digit fantasy points.
Speaker 7: I do have a B grade on Sutton, though. Take
Speaker 7: away the scores and he's only averaging four catches for
Speaker 7: fifty one yards, but that's still a just barely C level.
Speaker 4: But he scores all the time.
Speaker 7: Forty seven percent of the team's end zone targets six
Speaker 7: scores in the last seven games. He probably needs the score,
Speaker 7: but I think he gets it here in this matchup.
Speaker 7: So B grade B grade on Courtland Sutton running game.
Speaker 7: I only have a B grade on Javonte Williams, Jalil McLoughlin,
Speaker 7: and Samandrea p Ryan now seem to be splitting. It
Speaker 7: was a mcglofflin game last week, it was a p
Speaker 7: Ryn game the week before. It's it seems like it's
Speaker 7: enough of a split to annoy fantasy owners that you
Speaker 7: can't start them. You can only start Davonte. He's getting
Speaker 7: a B grade, averaging over twenty touches for eighty three
Speaker 7: yards since returning to the lead back role, is getting
Speaker 7: a few catches a game as well. He's only I
Speaker 7: scored twice in those six weeks. But the Chargers, they're
Speaker 7: eleventh Thesiast against runners seventeen plus touch backs like Javonte
Speaker 7: Williams is are averaging about ninety five total yards. I'm
Speaker 7: giving him a B here. Over to the Chargers side,
Speaker 7: I have a C grade on Justin Herbert, who, like Minshew,
Speaker 7: almost seems like you have to pick your spots this
Speaker 7: weird year, which is really weird for Justin Herbert. But
Speaker 7: Broncos were terrible against the past to start the year,
Speaker 7: only one multi passing pass only one multi passing touchdown game.
Speaker 7: But over the last five weeks and over the last
Speaker 7: five weeks, they held Mahomes to two hundred and forty
Speaker 7: one scory list yards, Josh Allen one hundred and seventy
Speaker 7: seven yards and one passing touchdown, Stroud to one hundred
Speaker 7: and seventy four and one. This matchup's really tough. I
Speaker 7: just don't see Herbert having a good day here. Yeah,
Speaker 7: so I have a C grade on Justin Herbert in
Speaker 7: the passing game. I'm still giving Alan the A though.
Speaker 7: Over the past month, Broncos have allowed the second fewest
Speaker 7: fantasy points to wide receivers. But Cirtan, we just saw
Speaker 7: him give up a ton to Nico Collins, when hyper targeted,
Speaker 7: and that's what happens with Allen. Not to mention, Sirtan
Speaker 7: does not shadow into the slot very much, where Keenan
Speaker 7: Allen does forty percent of his snaps, So nine plus
Speaker 7: targets every game for Keenan Allen, He's gonna get his
Speaker 7: I trust him to still get you that A grade.
Speaker 7: I do have the other guys on the bench, though.
Speaker 7: If Palmer is his practice windows open. If he does
Speaker 7: come back, he just muddies the water even more. Quentin
Speaker 7: Johnson showed up last week, but he'll be on the
Speaker 7: outside a lot, and when Keenan Allen's in the slot,
Speaker 7: he might get sartin. So I got him on the bench.
Speaker 7: Donald Parum, I can't trust he gets a lot of
Speaker 7: in zone targets, but that's pretty ballsy. Gerald Everett, however,
Speaker 7: C grade leads all tight ends in separation. The Broncos
Speaker 7: are the easiest matchup for tight ends. Eleven tight ends
Speaker 7: eleven of them in twelve games have fifty yards and
Speaker 7: or a score.
Speaker 4: That's it's basically almost every week. Yeah.
Speaker 7: In just the last four weeks they have allowed fifty
Speaker 7: plus to each of the lead touch or tight ends,
Speaker 7: and six tight ends in those four weeks have had
Speaker 7: fifty plus end or scored. It's been four for forty
Speaker 7: yards in back to back weeks forever. I think he
Speaker 7: has a slightly bigger week this week. C grade Austin Eckler.
Speaker 7: This one's tough, right, church yep, really thorny. Yeah, I
Speaker 7: have a B grade on Eckler, but I really don't
Speaker 7: love it. It's like the highest of seas of the
Speaker 7: lowest of bees. If only there was something I could say,
Speaker 7: they could designate exactly how I feel. On paper, this
Speaker 7: is like the best matchup he's going to get. Second
Speaker 7: worst against runners. A quarter of that was the Dolphins game.
Speaker 7: I get that, but they've been hit by a ton
Speaker 7: of runners. The Houston backs went well, went really well
Speaker 7: against them. The Cleveland running backs did both of them.
Speaker 7: The Vikings duo, the Buffalo backs, all of them over
Speaker 7: the last month have done awesome against the Broncos. Here
Speaker 7: that gets almost all the touches. He only has two
Speaker 7: games over seventy five total yards, though, since returning from
Speaker 7: that ankle injury, hasn't scored in three straight. This is
Speaker 7: the get right game. If he's going to have a
Speaker 7: get right game, by.
Speaker 4: The way though.
Speaker 7: He went to school, high school, and college in Colorado
Speaker 7: and historically is great against Denver. Does that play in?
Speaker 7: Does that play in over there, Brian, I'll allow it. Yes, Yeah,
Speaker 7: he's got big games in five to the last six
Speaker 7: against Denver. I have a B grade on him because
Speaker 7: the matchup is too too good to ignore. I'm going
Speaker 7: to ignore the split talk for now. I have to
Speaker 7: see Josh Kelly get into the range before I actually
Speaker 7: trust it, so be great on Eckler.
Speaker 6: Josh Kelly did absolutely nothing when Eckler was hurt too.
Speaker 6: He had like a bell cow role, so I'm not
Speaker 6: too worried about that yet.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Plus, Eckler is second in the league behind McCaffrey in
Speaker 7: touches inside the five. The problem is only four touchdowns
Speaker 7: on those fifteen opportunities. I know Charge hates that.
Speaker 3: Philadelphia on Dallas, Brian and tons of angles and very
Speaker 3: very meaningful game a lot of ways, But I think
Speaker 3: for a lot of us, we're most excited that Dallas
Speaker 3: Goddard off the injury list altogether and he's going to
Speaker 3: be returning, and so many of us looking for tight
Speaker 3: end help. Here comes a quasi elite level tight end
Speaker 3: back for Dallas in Dallas Goddard. What do you think
Speaker 3: of his opportunity in this game?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Also another like quasi homecoming game, Dallas playing in Dallas.
Speaker 6: So a C for Dallas Goddard. But it is not
Speaker 6: a good matchup Dallas the Cowboys. The Dallas Cowboys are
Speaker 6: allowing less than four catches and forty five yards per
Speaker 6: game to tight ends. No loan tight end has topped
Speaker 6: five catches against the Cowboys this season, and Goddard last
Speaker 6: scored against the Cowboys in twenty nineteen, but in the
Speaker 6: wasteland in a suspected shootout. I will give the sea
Speaker 6: to Goddard. I will mention real quick. These teams did
Speaker 6: meet in Week nine Philly one, twenty eight, twenty three.
Speaker 6: We'll reference that a few times here, sticking with the
Speaker 6: passing game and going to the wide receivers in aj
Speaker 6: Brown a B for AJB. Tough matchup on paper. The
Speaker 6: Cowboys are allowing less than eleven catches, one hundred and
Speaker 6: thirty yards and a touchdown per game to opposing wide receivers.
Speaker 6: But of course you're not sitting Brown, who had seven catches,
Speaker 6: sixty six yards and a touchdown in the first meeting,
Speaker 6: and dk Metcalf also went off against the Cowboys last
Speaker 6: week six catches, one hundred and thirty four yards and
Speaker 6: three touchdowns. Brown could do the same. I'm not predicting that,
Speaker 6: but you're not benching him. So a B for Brown.
Speaker 6: You're not benching Devonte Smith either, Gonna give him a C.
Speaker 6: Pretty much the same story for Smith that we have
Speaker 6: with Brown. Not a great matchup, but he's tough to sit.
Speaker 6: Smith had three catches, fifty one yards and a touchdown
Speaker 6: in the Week nine game against the Cowboys, so he
Speaker 6: is certainly startable here, as is Jalen Hurts. He gets
Speaker 6: a B in that Week nine game. Hurts at two
Speaker 6: hundred and seven passing yards with two touchdowns while adding
Speaker 6: another thirty six yards and a rushing score. So a
Speaker 6: safe B for Hurts against the Cowboys, who are ranked
Speaker 6: six sixth in pass coverage by Pro Football Focus, but
Speaker 6: they've surrendered three hundred plus passing yards end or multiple
Speaker 6: passing touchdowns in four of their last five games. And
Speaker 6: lastly for Philly, a sea for DeAndre Swift, who fell
Speaker 6: flat against Dallas in the first meeting, was seventy four
Speaker 6: scoreless combo yards on twenty touches, and in fact, since
Speaker 6: Week three, Swift has topped one hundred combo yards just once.
Speaker 6: But the volume should be there against the Cowboys, But
Speaker 6: just a C four Swift and over to the Dallas
Speaker 6: side and their running back Tony Pollard gets to see
Speaker 6: he's picked up the pace recently, at least in terms
Speaker 6: of touchdowns. He's now scored in three straight games. But
Speaker 6: not a great matchup for Pollard. Philly is allowing just
Speaker 6: one hundred convo yards per game to running backs and
Speaker 6: they've surrendered just three total scores to the position all year,
Speaker 6: So a soft seed for Pollard. A very hard a
Speaker 6: though for Ced Lamb. Lamb did not score in the
Speaker 6: first meeting, but his eleven catches for one hundred and
Speaker 6: ninety one yards certainly made up for that. The Eagles
Speaker 6: are allowing nearly two hundred yards and two touchdown per
Speaker 6: game to opposing wideouts, so you know what, not a
Speaker 6: hard ay. He gets the fantasy Fonsie a CD Lamb,
Speaker 6: So you gotta like Brandon Cooks as well, Denniss Henry.
Speaker 6: Brandon Cooks gets a B. He only had one catch
Speaker 6: for seven scoreless yards in the first meeting, but Cooks
Speaker 6: has been surging since then, scoring a touchdown in three
Speaker 6: of his last four games. The only game, the only
Speaker 6: game Cooks failed to score a touchdown during that span
Speaker 6: was a blowout win against the Panthers, a team that
Speaker 6: no one throws on, so that is certainly excusable. Michael Gallup,
Speaker 6: I was close to giving a sea, but he's more
Speaker 6: of a DFS dart throw. He's on the bench for me,
Speaker 6: but Jake Ferguson is not.
Speaker 5: He gets a B.
Speaker 6: Fergie is now a top eight tight end this season,
Speaker 6: and he could climb the ranks even more after this game.
Speaker 6: Fergie had seven catches ninety one yards in a touchdown
Speaker 6: in the first meeting, and including that game, the Eagles
Speaker 6: have allowed a tight end touchdown and three of their
Speaker 6: last five. So a B for Ferguson and Dak Prescott
Speaker 6: MVP candidate three hundred and seventy four passing yards with
Speaker 6: three touchdowns in the meeting. Easy A for Deck. That
Speaker 6: was a thorny one. But I'm done.
Speaker 7: You want to put some money on money on Dak
Speaker 7: for me for MVP.
Speaker 3: You're only going to get three to one on your money.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna get.
Speaker 4: A lot can give me I want Yeah, what's the
Speaker 4: what's on tyree here?
Speaker 3: That's that's a lot charge. He's like plus twelve hundred.
Speaker 7: I'm still not you stole Ceedee Lamb from me and
Speaker 7: our guy team.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you're upset about it. I need him, baby,
Speaker 3: and I need him. I need him this week when
Speaker 3: we come back that epic game Buffalo at Kansas City.
Speaker 3: Will talk that through when we return, final segment of
Speaker 3: the win. And you're in addition of Fantasy Football Weekly
Speaker 3: Paul Jarchi and Scott Fish Brian Johnson, you can follow
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Speaker 3: Paul Jarchian, Scott is at Scott Fish twenty four, and
Speaker 3: Brian is at b t x JA. As mentioned, heading
Speaker 3: into the break, Buffalo taking on Kansas City in a
Speaker 3: wild game. Get there. These are two teams that, despite
Speaker 3: not being in the same division over the last three years,
Speaker 3: have played each other five times, which is pretty staggering
Speaker 3: for non divisional teams, and there's been a ton of
Speaker 3: points scored typically in these games. Let's start in the
Speaker 3: Buffalo bill side. Josh Allen comes in with an A
Speaker 3: grade and so does step On Digs but for Diggs,
Speaker 3: it's a little bit trickier. He is in gonna be
Speaker 3: in a dog fight with the elite cornerback Lagerius Sneak,
Speaker 3: who usually gets deployed against the opposing top wide receiver,
Speaker 3: which is clearly Stephan Diggs. Get this. Since Week six,
Speaker 3: Lagerius Sneed's average game against him two catches for twenty
Speaker 3: three scoreless yards in his coverage. Just two or three
Speaker 3: weeks ago, he did the lockdown treatment on AJ Brown
Speaker 3: and held him to one catch for nine yards. So
Speaker 3: this Lagarious Snead thing is legit. But we've seen Diggs
Speaker 3: get this kind of treatment in the past and be
Speaker 3: able to beat it. So I'm still got a low
Speaker 3: A grade on Stefan Diggs, but just know there's some
Speaker 3: sneaky downside on him if it comes to that. Now
Speaker 3: this brings Gabe Davis into play. He's, as you guys
Speaker 3: all know, he's the ultimate hit or miss player. I
Speaker 3: lean towards hit in this one.
Speaker 4: Okay, Now he had good games?
Speaker 3: Has he had good games? Yes? His last two games
Speaker 3: against Kansas City two hundred and seventy five yards and
Speaker 3: six touchdowns. So you know we lean hit on this.
Speaker 5: Now they know that.
Speaker 3: Of course you'd think that they could do something about it.
Speaker 3: But the problem is they got to put Sneed on Diggs.
Speaker 3: That puts Gabe Davis on Jalen Watson for much of
Speaker 3: this game, and I just think that's gonna put him
Speaker 3: in a really good spot. And if you go back
Speaker 3: to that Aj Brown game right where Brown had the
Speaker 3: one catch for eight nine yards, gave on to Smith
Speaker 3: six catches for ninety nine yards on the other side,
Speaker 3: So I think that's where Gabe Davis is looking at here.
Speaker 3: I think he's looking at the big game. So I've
Speaker 3: got a B grade on him. You know who goes
Speaker 3: to the bench, Dalton kN Caid far riskier proposition because
Speaker 3: Dawson Knock is gonna play in this one, and Kinkaid
Speaker 3: had five or fewer receptions in every game with Dawson Knox.
Speaker 3: He had five or more with every game with Knox,
Speaker 3: so there's some danger here. Kansas City's allowed the fourth
Speaker 3: fewest yards to tight ends, the fourth fewest receptions to
Speaker 3: tight ends, and no tight end is top thirty seven
Speaker 3: yards in two months against Kansas City. So Kaid, for
Speaker 3: as great as this was, this run was without Dawson
Speaker 3: Knox with the matchup of knocks back. He's on the bench.
Speaker 3: That leaves James Cook. His rushing output in yards per
Speaker 3: carry have dropped in three straight games, but targets, receptions,
Speaker 3: are receiving yards of all increase. The last five opposing
Speaker 3: starting running backs against the Chiefs have averaged one hundred
Speaker 3: total yards per game, with four of the five scoring.
Speaker 3: The Chiefs have the fifth worst run defense grade by
Speaker 3: Pro Football Focus and the worst run stop win rate
Speaker 3: in the entire league. So I kind of like him here.
Speaker 3: Cook facing six or more defenders in the box on
Speaker 3: a league low eight percent of his rushing attempts. That's it.
Speaker 3: So there's some nice opportunity for James Cook in this one.
Speaker 3: I know we've many people have been burned on James Cook.
Speaker 4: But I like him here here too.
Speaker 5: Great.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you, Scott. I appreciate the validation. We
Speaker 3: talked earlier in this show about the struggles of Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3: I told you over the last five games he's quarterback
Speaker 3: twenty one. His average box score over those five games
Speaker 3: two hundred and twenty two yards and one point four touchdowns.
Speaker 3: That's it. Over the past seven games, the Bills haven't
Speaker 3: given up many yards, just two hundred and twenty four
Speaker 3: per game passing yards per game, but they've yielded near
Speaker 3: the end zone, so maybe some more touchdowns coming. I
Speaker 3: worry a little bit about Travis kelcey maybe being held
Speaker 3: in check. We'll talk about him in a second. And
Speaker 3: the rest of the wide receivers for Mahomes are total
Speaker 3: wild cards. As always, Buffalo's secondary missing Tredavius White and
Speaker 3: Kite ear E limit cornerback, but they've been okay without them.
Speaker 3: Buffalo allowing the fewest yards per pass at just six
Speaker 3: point five yards per pass, and so I don't think
Speaker 3: Mahomes is gonna get much going downfield. The best I
Speaker 3: can get you is a B grade on Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3: I'm sticking with an A grade on Travis kelce because
Speaker 3: of the absolute domination he's had against Buffalo in the
Speaker 3: five matchups he's had since twenty twenty. His per game
Speaker 3: averages are ten targets, eight catches, ninety yards, and one
Speaker 3: point two touchdowns per game. Gigantic tight end numbers. Buffalo
Speaker 3: has been a very good tight end defense this year,
Speaker 3: though nobody his top fifty one yards. They've allowed just
Speaker 3: forty yards per game to the position, which is excellent.
Speaker 3: I considered giving Kelsey a B grade here, but I
Speaker 3: can't get myself to do her. Guys yet, it's still
Speaker 3: Travis Kelcey. I can't do it. Staying with the passing game,
Speaker 3: how about ra she Rice, who has now established himself
Speaker 3: as the clear wide receiver one on the Chiefs with
Speaker 3: a second straight week of at least sixty seven percent
Speaker 3: of the snaps and nine targets. His eight and eight
Speaker 3: receptions the past two games are the first time at
Speaker 3: Kansas City receiver has done that in over one year.
Speaker 3: Rice's twelve red zone targets are tied for eighth in
Speaker 3: the league. I mean that puts him in the conversation
Speaker 3: with guys like Stefan Diggs and AJ Brown, So you know,
Speaker 3: those fourteen red zone targets are excellent. The Bills allow
Speaker 3: about one touchdown per game to wide receivers, and they've
Speaker 3: given up six in the past five games. So if
Speaker 3: there's a touchdown to be had for a wide receiver,
Speaker 3: I like Rashi to be that guy, and I've got
Speaker 3: a B grade on him. The running game is unfortunately
Speaker 3: a mess in turmult here. Yeah, no, Isaiah Pacheco has
Speaker 3: been ruled out for this game. Clyde Edwards Hilaire is
Speaker 3: your starter. Pacheco is not going. As I mentioned, there's
Speaker 3: some opportunity for Clyde Edwards Ailaire, and I've got a
Speaker 3: C grade on him. The Bill's allowing one hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty five total yards per game to opposing running backs,
Speaker 3: that's ninth worst, and the Bills allow four point six
Speaker 3: yards per carry, that's fourth worst. Edwards Hilaire, he's fresh
Speaker 3: after being lightly used all season, and he's playing for
Speaker 3: an offseason contract. By the way, he's coming up on
Speaker 3: free agency, so there's a little extra motivation there. C
Speaker 3: grade for him and a C grade for Jeric McKinnon
Speaker 3: startable in PPR leagues. Buffalo allows the fourth most running
Speaker 3: back receptions, fourth most running back receiving yards, and Buffalo's
Speaker 3: allowed a running back receiving touchdown in two of the
Speaker 3: last three games. So McKinnon expected to be healthy to
Speaker 3: this for this game. And somebody you can use go
Speaker 3: to Green Bay taking on the Giants. Scott Jordan Love
Speaker 3: has been really very good over the last three games.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: He's Scott what looks to be a very favorable matchup
Speaker 3: on paper.
Speaker 4: Against the Giants.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he was might take a chance on me player,
Speaker 7: but I'm gonna make you do this real quick. McKinnon
Speaker 7: or Ceh, who do you start?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go Cech. I'm gonna take the sure carries
Speaker 3: that he brings to the table.
Speaker 7: Okay, back to the Green Bay, New York Giants matchup
Speaker 7: Jordan Love and Jaden Reid. Should he go, which he should?
Speaker 7: Were I take a chance on me players? Who else
Speaker 7: do I got? I got Romeo Dobbs with a C
Speaker 7: grade here, still get most of the snaps has scored
Speaker 7: in for the last seven He's usually getting like three
Speaker 7: to five catches a game. He's gonna get an ok
Speaker 7: matchup against Deontay Banks, who let McLaurin and Wilson. That's
Speaker 7: Garrett Wilson, DeVonta Ams, Ceedee Lambs all had great days
Speaker 7: on them. But it took seven plus targets, and I
Speaker 7: think he gets there. If Christian Watson doesn't go, who
Speaker 7: hasn't practiced all week. I don't think he goes Christian Watson.
Speaker 7: If he does go, I have a B grade on
Speaker 7: a guy that's over the last five weeks. Only the
Speaker 7: Giants are giving up more passing yards to receivers than
Speaker 7: the Giants. Christian Watson scored four times the last three weeks,
Speaker 7: but if he doesn't go, I'm giving Dobbs the see
Speaker 7: Darth throw here in Dantavian Wicks he had four plus catches.
Speaker 7: He had six catches for eighty five yards in a
Speaker 7: score in the two weeks that Watson was out. That's
Speaker 7: total like three for forty plus each game. He's an
Speaker 7: interesting Darth throw. If Watson doesn't go, bench grade for
Speaker 7: Tucker Craft, Luke Musgrave can't return, so he won't be back.
Speaker 7: But Ben Simms did steal the score last week. Giants
Speaker 7: have only allowed two tight ends scores all year, their
Speaker 7: fourth best against tight ends. I'm gonna leave him on
Speaker 7: the bench for this one. Aj Dillon, I got a
Speaker 7: C grade on seventeen plus touches and three straight is great,
Speaker 7: but it's amounted to sixty to eighty five scoreless yards.
Speaker 7: I know Stevenson went over one hundred on the Giants
Speaker 7: and Zeke added fifty. You know teams have tagged the
Speaker 7: Giants a little bit more recently. If he was more effective,
Speaker 7: or more of a pass catcher or more of a
Speaker 7: scoring threat. AJ Dillon might get a B. But you
Speaker 7: love the inside the five stats, I got one for you,
Speaker 7: and tell me if you love this charge. We saw
Speaker 7: Ben Sims score the one yarder so I had last week,
Speaker 7: so I had to check AJ Dillon. His last attempt
Speaker 7: inside the five was Week eight. Geez, he's not he's
Speaker 7: not getting those so useless and he's hurt. Yeah, over
Speaker 7: to the giant side. I have the entire passing game
Speaker 7: on the bench. Packers allowing the eighth fewest yards and
Speaker 7: fourth fewest touchdowns to quarterbacks and their top ten in
Speaker 7: both those categories as well against wide receivers. You wouldn't
Speaker 7: even know which one to start. Darren Waller's likely out
Speaker 7: another week as well, so it's only Saquon Barkley with
Speaker 7: the B grade. Over the last month, both Pittsburgh Backs
Speaker 7: torched the Packers. Both Detroit packs to torch the Packers
Speaker 7: Pacheco at one hundred plus.
Speaker 4: Even Austin Eckler had.
Speaker 7: Seventy yards, So that tells you where this defense is
Speaker 7: on that with Tommy DeVito as the full starter, Barkley's
Speaker 7: averaging sixteen for ninety four had a couple of receiving scores.
Speaker 7: He's also still getting those catches two to four catches
Speaker 7: the game.
Speaker 4: B great on sek on Barkley.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go to our final matchup, Tennessee taking
Speaker 3: on Miami. Derrick Henry been ups and down. I think
Speaker 3: this matchup Brian for Derrick Henry.
Speaker 6: Not a smash spot for Henry. Unfortunately, I just have
Speaker 6: a C grade on him. It should have looked like
Speaker 6: Henry suffered at concussion last week, but King Henry never
Speaker 6: went into protocol, so he'll be full go. But a
Speaker 6: brutal matchup for Henry. Opposing backs or averaging just twenty
Speaker 6: four touches against the Dolphins for one hundred and nine
Speaker 6: combo yards per game. The Dolphins have allowed just one
Speaker 6: touchdown to the running back position over the last five games.
Speaker 6: So a see for Henry and we love him here,
Speaker 6: but for those reasons.
Speaker 4: Ty J.
Speaker 6: Spears is on the bench in this one. It's just
Speaker 6: even though he's arguably he's probably has the second most
Speaker 6: receptions on the Titans, and it will be a positive
Speaker 6: script for the passing game. I still got Spears on
Speaker 6: the bench, but I got to see grade on DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 6: You can't love his prospects with Will Levis under center,
Speaker 6: but Nuke has seen at least eight targets and three
Speaker 6: of his last five games, and you can expect similar
Speaker 6: volume and what should be probably a positive game script
Speaker 6: for the Titans passing game. Again, so a sea for Hopkins,
Speaker 6: but he's the only one I'm starting for the Titans
Speaker 6: passing game. Traylon Burks is back, but he is on
Speaker 6: the bench. Chicko Konquo is on the bench. Will Levis
Speaker 6: is on the bench. I think we might see Ryan
Speaker 6: Tannehill come in relief in a revenge game scenario against
Speaker 6: his old team in this one. So it doesn't know,
Speaker 6: yeah both, yeah, why not both? He'll throw it to himself.
Speaker 6: You might lead the team in both categories over the
Speaker 6: Dolphins side. Ob A for Tyreek Hill. I have to
Speaker 6: mention this stat really quick. Tyreek is averaging more than
Speaker 6: at least forty yards in the first, second, and third
Speaker 6: quarters of games this year, but like four in the
Speaker 6: fourth because they're not using he should be averaging like
Speaker 6: nearly two hundred yards per game. So an easy a
Speaker 6: for Hill on a record setting pace. A for two
Speaker 6: Tungo Viola, Jalen Waddle is basically an automatic B world
Speaker 6: whenever he's healthy. He doesn't have the upside of hill,
Speaker 6: but he certainly can offer you some upside with the
Speaker 6: safe floor. And we're not going to Durham's smythe unfortunately
Speaker 6: at the tight end position for the Dolphins. But we
Speaker 6: definitely have to talk about Devin h Chan and Raheem Moster.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately just a C for both because they're gonna eat
Speaker 6: each other's lunch yet again. A Chan returned last week,
Speaker 6: played sixty one percent of the snaps, handled twenty touches
Speaker 6: for one hundred and three combo yards, so he was
Speaker 6: technically the lead back. Raheem Moster took a back seat,
Speaker 6: but Mostart got the short touchdown run finished with fifty
Speaker 6: plus conbo yards. So certainly both are viable against the Titans,
Speaker 6: who have yielded the seventh most red zone touches to
Speaker 6: running back to this season and over the last five games,
Speaker 6: Tennessee is allowing one hundred and twenty plus conboy yards
Speaker 6: per game to the running back position.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that most at Achen thing will be it'll be
Speaker 3: fascinating to say this goes down the stretch the you know, Moster,
Speaker 3: we kept waiting for him to get hurt. It's you know,
Speaker 3: we're getting close to mid Decemmer here and it hasn't
Speaker 3: happened yet, which has been fantastic for his owners.
Speaker 6: Of course, RB two Raheem mosart Is it's crazy on
Speaker 6: the air.
Speaker 3: It is. Yeah, fantastic season for him, no doubt about it.
Speaker 6: Uh.
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