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Speaker 1: It is week number nine. This is a tricky bye
Speaker 1: week for many of you. A lot of good teams
Speaker 1: on BUYE and I know you're scrambling to fine starters.
Speaker 3: We're gonna help you.
Speaker 1: And by weirre, I mean Matt Harrison and making his
Speaker 1: return after a month away from the show, Thorn Eistrom.
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Speaker 1: As always, we'll break down all the games Fantasy Football
Speaker 1: Weekly style, with letter grades on every player. We'll give
Speaker 1: you nine players upon whom you can take a chance.
Speaker 1: We'll answer three tough questions, and we've got a raucous
Speaker 1: premature speculation coming your way.
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Speaker 1: Let's begin with the Chargers taking on the Jets. Speaking
Speaker 1: of Thorn, you've got heavy duty, You've got the extra
Speaker 1: matchup this week. Let's start here. Chargers offense has been
Speaker 1: inconsistent and the tricky matchup with the Jets sure is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jeffson Herbert. We're gonna start out with him.
Speaker 7: Gonna give him a B this week Fantasy's QB three,
Speaker 7: but he's going to be tested this week. Jets have
Speaker 7: an awesome pass defense, as you guys know, they allow
Speaker 7: the third lowest yards per attempt and the fourth lowest
Speaker 7: passer rating, so we have to take Herbert from that
Speaker 7: usual aid down to a B. Keenan Allen his favorite
Speaker 7: target wide receiver six in Fantasy so far with a
Speaker 7: ludicrous thirty six point five first percent first red share
Speaker 7: without Mike Williams in the lineup, but of course it's
Speaker 7: a tough matchup for him as well.
Speaker 4: Jets have allowed the lowest PPR points.
Speaker 7: Per target to slot receivers this year, so I'm also
Speaker 7: gonna give Keenan a B. Josh Palmer still statu is
Speaker 7: still up in the air. Limited role while he was
Speaker 7: dinged up last week, did not practice Thursday.
Speaker 4: That's always an ominous sign.
Speaker 7: You're gonna have to check to see if he ends
Speaker 7: up playing when this game goes. Quentin Johnston is a
Speaker 7: bench if Palmer plays, if he's active, But if Palmer
Speaker 7: does not play, I think that Quintin Johnson is a
Speaker 7: streamable option. Last week, Quintin Johnston five catches for sixty
Speaker 7: yards on six targets, best game so far for him,
Speaker 7: season high seventy percent of the snaps versus the Bears.
Speaker 7: So you just have to check on the Palmer status.
Speaker 7: With regards to Johnston, I'm keeping both the Chargers tight
Speaker 7: ends on the bench.
Speaker 4: Gerald Everett didn't play last week.
Speaker 3: He's ify this week.
Speaker 7: He did return to practice on Thursday, but is questionable.
Speaker 7: If he plays, you get that committee thing again with
Speaker 7: him and Donald Parum, which make both unstartable. However, if
Speaker 7: Everett does not play, I think that Donald Parum is startable.
Speaker 7: I would give Parham a seat if ever it doesn't play,
Speaker 7: because then the committee it just becomes Donald Parum. Parum
Speaker 7: four catches for forty three yards and a touchdown last
Speaker 7: week against the Bears.
Speaker 4: Fourth touchdown of the season.
Speaker 7: Fifteen of Donald Parham's nineteen catches this year have either
Speaker 7: gone for a first down or a touchdown, so they
Speaker 7: like to use him in high leverage spots.
Speaker 3: Parum's just a beast, he sure is.
Speaker 4: I loved it.
Speaker 3: Six foot skyscraper, Yeah, I mean even taller, six.
Speaker 4: To eight I think. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Huge.
Speaker 4: Last guy in the Charger is Austin Eckler. We're going
Speaker 4: to give him a bee.
Speaker 7: He has not cracked forty five rushing yards in his
Speaker 7: three games back, but last week against the Bears, Eckler
Speaker 7: had a seven catches for ninety four yards and a
Speaker 7: one touchdown receiving line to retain his fantasy value. The
Speaker 7: Jets do have a good pass defense, but they're a
Speaker 7: bad run defense. Jets allow the eighth highest explosive run
Speaker 7: rate in the NFL, and the Jets have also allowed
Speaker 7: the six most reception yards and receiving yards two opposing
Speaker 7: running backs.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna give Eckler a bee.
Speaker 7: Move into the Jets, Garrett Wilson, you have to give
Speaker 7: him an a and this is a decent matchup. Of course,
Speaker 7: the Chargers very generous defense. Garrett Wilson forty five point
Speaker 7: seven percent first reach year this year is ludicrous. Absolutely
Speaker 7: ludapros plus number ten in deep targets in the NFL,
Speaker 7: number five in red zone targets, so you love all
Speaker 7: that usage. Buddy's only wide receiver twenty three in fantasy
Speaker 7: because of the poor passing environment that he's in. However,
Speaker 7: the Chargers have allowed the six highest PPR points per
Speaker 7: target to boundary wide receivers this year, so of course
Speaker 7: he's an A. You're gonna bench all your other Jets
Speaker 7: wide receivers. You're gonna bench the other tight ends as well.
Speaker 7: I'm keeping Zach Wilson on the bench as well. I
Speaker 7: know the Chargers have a terrible pass defense.
Speaker 3: I'm streaming Wilson in one league. Oh are you okay? Yeah?
Speaker 7: I mean desperation maybe, but that's a stinky cologne, as
Speaker 7: you know it is. Wilson has reached two hundred passing
Speaker 7: years only twice this season, so even with a favorable matchup,
Speaker 7: if you have better options, keep him on the bench.
Speaker 4: Brees Hall, however, must start.
Speaker 7: He is an a last three games, Breeshall has averaged
Speaker 7: twenty touches and one hundred and twenty six point seven
Speaker 7: total yards per game. Charges have a good run defense,
Speaker 7: but they have that bad pass defense. All the last
Speaker 7: two games averaged five point five receptions and sixty five
Speaker 7: receiving yards per game. The Bolts have allowed the fifth
Speaker 7: highest receiving yards to running backs this year. Love breeseall
Speaker 7: this week?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Brenshall seems to be just getting better with more
Speaker 1: confidence off that acl and just looked fantastic lately.
Speaker 5: Matt, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Mean Dolphins in Kansas City. Who's your favorite Frankfurter in
Speaker 1: this game?
Speaker 3: What the games at Frankfurt?
Speaker 4: Well, I know, but it's your favorite Frankfurter?
Speaker 6: Are you talking like hot dogs? Are you talking like
Speaker 6: people from Frankfurt. Dieter von Flurtzen got is my favorite.
Speaker 6: I think Frankfurter. I think he'll be here next week.
Speaker 6: But this week, let's start with Raheem Mostard on the
Speaker 6: Dolphins side. There's a lot to like in this game,
Speaker 6: by the way, highest point total of the week, so
Speaker 6: I really think that there's gonna be some good stuff.
Speaker 6: But I'll talk about the offenses in a minute. Raheem
Speaker 6: Moster has been limited in practice all week with an
Speaker 6: ankle injury, although he does not have an injury designation
Speaker 6: as of now, but the Dolphins have taken some of
Speaker 6: the workload off of him in the last two weeks,
Speaker 6: specifically ten touches and thirteen touches over the last two
Speaker 6: as opposed to like the twenty ish prior to that.
Speaker 6: Jeff Wilson had seven touches last week, Salvin Achmed had six,
Speaker 6: and both of them are fully healthy. So I expect
Speaker 6: a little bit more of a timeshare than we'd like here.
Speaker 6: The Chiefs have only allowed four total touchdowns the running
Speaker 6: backs this year. That's the ninth fewest in the league,
Speaker 6: but they are allowing four point five yards per carry
Speaker 6: that's the seventh most. So with the split, I still
Speaker 6: expect Moster to do well, but I can't get him
Speaker 6: above a B right now. Tyreek Hill in a revenge game.
Speaker 6: He's never played against the Chiefs before.
Speaker 3: First time.
Speaker 6: Oh man, he gets the fantasy Ardvark right off the bat.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, He's gonna just try to destroy the
Speaker 6: Chiefs right now. Jalen Wattle, he gets an A two.
Speaker 6: He scored in three of the last four even in
Speaker 6: tougher matchups, He's still seeing six or more targets per
Speaker 6: game and catching almost everything. Both Jalen Watson and Legerius Sneid.
Speaker 6: They're the corner for the Chiefs. They're both positive matchups
Speaker 6: along the outside for Waddle, specifically Jalen Watson. The other Jalen.
Speaker 3: W He's really struggling lately.
Speaker 6: He's already allowed five touchdowns in his coverage this year.
Speaker 3: I like Waddle will get another one NFL.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but let's talk a little bit about these two
Speaker 6: offenses before I get to Tua and Patrick. Here, I
Speaker 6: found a bunch of fun stats from rich Reebar on
Speaker 6: this game. Miami averaging a league high forty yards per possession.
Speaker 6: Kansas City is at thirty six. That's fourth best in
Speaker 6: the league. Seventy nine percent of the time Miami has
Speaker 6: a first down, they either get another first down or
Speaker 6: they score a touchdown.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 6: The Dolphins are averaging sixteen point six place per game
Speaker 6: that gained ten or more yards. That's best in the league.
Speaker 6: Kansas City's third best at fourteen point three per game.
Speaker 6: It's going to be just high explosive totals all over
Speaker 6: the place. By the way, Russell Wilson was able to
Speaker 6: throw three touchdown passes against this defense last week, and
Speaker 6: even though the Chiefs d looks like a tough matchup.
Speaker 5: It's an A for two.
Speaker 6: I also like Mahomes as an A grade and Travis
Speaker 6: Kelce by the way, he's also an A. Kelsey has
Speaker 6: played the Dolphins three times in his career. He scored
Speaker 6: in every game against him. Isaiah Pacheco's usage has been
Speaker 6: a bit down the last couple of weeks, but I'm
Speaker 6: still giving a strong starting grade to him. Though well strong,
Speaker 6: maybe a little bit hefty. It's probably a sea yeah.
Speaker 6: Dolphins defense is clamped down on the run as of
Speaker 6: recent Over the last five weeks, the Fins are only
Speaker 6: allowing seventy nine rushing yards per game and only two
Speaker 6: point four receptions to opposing backs. They held Remandre Stevenson
Speaker 6: to fifty total yards, DeAndre Swift was held to seventy
Speaker 6: five scoreless yards, and only one back has top sixty
Speaker 6: two rushing yards against Miami since Week two. And then
Speaker 6: the wide receivers Rashie Rice has been trending in the
Speaker 6: right way with snap counts and targets, but last week
Speaker 6: it might have plateaued a little bit. Last week, he
Speaker 6: was on the field for sixty one percent of the snaps.
Speaker 6: Compare that to Marquez Valdez Gantling at fifty seven, Skymore
Speaker 6: at fifty four percent, Justin Watson ed and m coole
Speaker 6: Hardman both at thirty six percent, and Kadarius Tony at
Speaker 6: twenty percent. That's six different wide receivers on the field.
Speaker 1: I really hope that the Watson injury wasn't the only
Speaker 1: thing propelling Rice into extra playing time. So I want
Speaker 1: to believe it's just Rice is really good, and so
Speaker 1: he's earning more playing time. We'll learn a lot more
Speaker 1: this week.
Speaker 6: And so Rice has led the Chiefs wide receivers in
Speaker 6: fantasy scoring for five of the last six weeks, so
Speaker 6: he's the best of the group. I'll throw him a
Speaker 6: secret saying it's not it's like nine PPR points a
Speaker 6: lot of the time. But if you look at the fact,
Speaker 6: oh hey, there we go. If you look at the
Speaker 6: fact that it's six wide receivers getting shares of playing time,
Speaker 6: it's going to be hard to vault him above a sea.
Speaker 6: And all the rest have to be on the bench
Speaker 6: until the foreseeable future.
Speaker 1: Let's wrap up this segment with Vikings and Falcons. It's
Speaker 1: the Jared Hall era at least for one week. For Minnesota.
Speaker 1: We begin with TJ.
Speaker 3: Howkinson.
Speaker 1: It's common for young quarterbacks to use their time end
Speaker 1: is a safety valve, and I expect a lot of
Speaker 1: targets for Hockinson from Jaren Hall. Volume is important here.
Speaker 1: The six tight ends who've seen at least five targets
Speaker 1: against the Falcons average fifty three yards and they've scored
Speaker 1: all three of the touchdowns Atlanta has allowed to the position.
Speaker 1: And Hockinson is a volume guy here. I expect him
Speaker 1: to do well, but I can't go back to the
Speaker 1: typical A grade on Hockinson because of the unknowns that
Speaker 1: Jaron Hall brings, so he comes in with a B grade. Now,
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison worries me a lot more. Addison's calling card
Speaker 1: is big down field plays. Among players with at least
Speaker 1: one deep catch this year, Addison has the league's longest
Speaker 1: day dot on deep passes. My worry is that Jaren
Speaker 1: Hall's got middling arm strength and he's just not going
Speaker 1: to get those Cousins style lasers coming his way downfield.
Speaker 1: The Falcons have one particularly good cornerback, it's AJ Terrell,
Speaker 1: and he's been shadowing opponents best receiver, and that is
Speaker 1: clearly Jordan Addison.
Speaker 3: He's good, but Terrell's not in vulnerable.
Speaker 1: He has a lot of touchdowns in back to back games,
Speaker 1: including one of the deep balls to d Hop last week.
Speaker 1: So I'm still hoping Addison can pull it together here
Speaker 1: see grade on Addison, but I am more worried about him.
Speaker 1: Acres and Madison is what I really agonized over this now.
Speaker 1: Last week we told you beware of the forthcoming time
Speaker 1: share bench Madison because we saw that, we saw trouble
Speaker 1: coming here, and it played out that way. They basically
Speaker 1: alternated series last week. The Vikings are going to run
Speaker 1: more to try to protect Jaren Hall. The problem is
Speaker 1: neither of them's doing very well. We got a touchdown
Speaker 1: out of Acres last week, but that was really just
Speaker 1: because it was his series when they were alternating carries.
Speaker 1: I don't know that it means that much. Acres ranks
Speaker 1: his next Gen stats worst overall running back in the league,
Speaker 1: averaging over one yard per carry less than expected on
Speaker 1: his runs. Madison isn't much better. He's tenth worst in
Speaker 1: yards over expectation. The Falcons have not allowed a rushing
Speaker 1: touchdown all year, and they're only giving up three point
Speaker 1: eight yards per carry. Your only glimmer of hope for
Speaker 1: cam Akers and Alexander Madison is that Falcons just put
Speaker 1: two starting defensive linemen on injured reserve Lakeal London and
Speaker 1: Grady Jackson. That's sizeable losses that should give some extra
Speaker 1: opportunity to the running backs.
Speaker 3: But with them splitting.
Speaker 1: Carries, I gotta keep Akers and Madison on the bench.
Speaker 1: Let's go over to Atlanta. I want to start with
Speaker 1: the running game here, Bijon Robinson. The Vikings run defense
Speaker 1: has been very good, allowing just three yards per carry.
Speaker 1: That's it to non DeAndre Swift runners and other than
Speaker 1: swift opposing lead runners averaging just forty rushing yards and
Speaker 1: fifteen receiving yards. Bijon has only received more than fourteen
Speaker 1: carries one time this year. Tyler Algier Algier, you know
Speaker 1: by comparison his top fourteen carries four different and times.
Speaker 1: Your best hope here for Robinson is through the air.
Speaker 1: The Vikings have allowed twelve receptions for one hundred and
Speaker 1: nine yards and a score to running backs through the
Speaker 1: air in just their last two games. So if we
Speaker 1: can give half that six receptions fifty five yards half
Speaker 1: a touchdown to b Jehn Robinson. That makes him eligible
Speaker 1: for a reasonably good game through the air, and we'll
Speaker 1: put a B grade on b John Robinson. Tyler Algiers
Speaker 1: on the bench, even though he's out touched Robinson four
Speaker 1: to one inside the five, converting twice. All three of
Speaker 1: the rushing touchdowns of Vikings have given up to running
Speaker 1: backs have come within three yards, and that's Tyler algier
Speaker 1: dear territory. But overall Vikings are really good against the run.
Speaker 1: You're only starting Algier in the hopes of getting a
Speaker 1: goal line touchdown. Let's go to the passing game expected
Speaker 1: to be led by Tyler Taylor Heineke. Although they haven't
Speaker 1: come out and just flat out set it. I mean
Speaker 1: that just seems to be like the orientation they have
Speaker 1: is towards Taylor Heinike. He's on the bench. The only
Speaker 1: quarterback to that fantasy success against the Vikings are Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts and Justin Herbert. Those are three of the
Speaker 1: I don't know six best quarterbacks in the league and
Speaker 1: nowhere near Tyler Taylor Heineke's level. Needless to say, Honey,
Speaker 1: keep not in that category. And no Drake London in
Speaker 1: this game, which is a massive dagger for any thoughts
Speaker 1: you might have had about streaming Taylor Heineke in this one.
Speaker 5: So no London, So who do we care about?
Speaker 1: The only guy the only receiver to talk about at
Speaker 1: this point is Kyle Pitts. With Drake London out, I
Speaker 1: think we get some extra looks for Pitts. Pitts averaging
Speaker 1: fifty nine yards per game over the last three that's good,
Speaker 1: and in that span he's also averaged a healthy seven
Speaker 1: targets per game. The only tight end to break thirty
Speaker 1: the thirty yard threshold against the Vikings, though Travis Kelce
Speaker 1: George Kittle obviously elite guys. Everybody else has been under
Speaker 1: thirty yards, so it's just mixed bag here. For Kyle Pitts,
Speaker 1: I'm giving him a Brian Johnson B grade, but if
Speaker 1: it were a Paul Charchion grade, it would be.
Speaker 3: A C grade. But out of respect for Brian, I'm
Speaker 3: giving him a beak shout out to Brian.
Speaker 6: Is a Brian Johnson B grade A B minus though no, yeah,
Speaker 6: I think it is.
Speaker 3: It's not a B.
Speaker 5: Huhta sounds like something between a B and a C.
Speaker 1: When we come back, there is nothing between a B
Speaker 1: and a C. Tell me the letter that's between B
Speaker 1: and a C and then we'll talk.
Speaker 3: Right on. Okay, so be minus take the chance on me.
Speaker 1: Nine players not normally in your starting line It will
Speaker 1: tell you who you can go to the waiver wire
Speaker 1: for when we come back.
Speaker 3: Nine players not nor in your starting lineup. It's a
Speaker 3: tough bye week.
Speaker 1: You need players to pick up off the waiver wire
Speaker 1: to start. Let's begin with some quarterbacks, Matt.
Speaker 6: I'm going to begin with my wife, who took a
Speaker 6: chance on me twenty one years ago. Thank Happy anniversary, Melissa.
Speaker 6: Oh oh yeah, she didn't do well there. I guess
Speaker 6: settled somebody who I think is going to do well
Speaker 6: but hasn't looked so good so far.
Speaker 5: Maybe that's kind of like me. Uh.
Speaker 6: Bryce Young hasn't looked very good as a number one
Speaker 6: overall draft pick this year. He's never top two hundred
Speaker 6: and forty seven yards and only has seven touchdown passes
Speaker 6: in six games.
Speaker 5: So why him?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 5: This week?
Speaker 6: He's playing the Colts, and the Colts games are averaging
Speaker 6: fifty four combined points per game, that's the second most
Speaker 6: in the NFL. Shootouts are a coming, and the Colts
Speaker 6: are allowing a league high five point three scoring plays
Speaker 6: per game. They're giving up six point five yards per
Speaker 6: passing play. That's seventh worst in the league. So score
Speaker 6: should be up and pass the yards should be plentiful.
Speaker 6: Let's call this the Bryce Young breakout game right.
Speaker 3: Here, thor you take a chance at me? Quarterback?
Speaker 4: Is Baker Mayfield playing the Texans?
Speaker 7: So Mayfield so far quarterback seventeen in Fantasy back, but
Speaker 7: he's been coming on three of the last four games.
Speaker 7: He's finished in the top twelve of fantasy quarterbacks, been
Speaker 7: startable in three or four.
Speaker 4: I think he started ball on this one as well.
Speaker 1: Some of us noted the easy schedule for Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: in the preseason, the fact that he was going to
Speaker 1: have the two best wide receivers he'd ever had.
Speaker 4: Correct, and this is a good matchup for him. Again.
Speaker 7: The Texans have allowed the fewest passing touchdowns the NFL,
Speaker 7: I will say, but a mediocre overall pass defense. The
Speaker 7: Texans have allowed the thirteenth highest yards per attempt in
Speaker 7: the NFL.
Speaker 4: So far, I think Mayfield has another big game.
Speaker 1: A rare startable grade for Mac JONESO. So there's no
Speaker 1: Chase Young or Montes sweat on the Washington defensive line
Speaker 1: that removes ten pressures per game away from Washington. And
Speaker 1: here's a complete list of quarterbacks who have failed to
Speaker 1: score multiple.
Speaker 3: Touchdowns against the Commanders.
Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs week one, when he had been on the
Speaker 1: team for two weeks.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's it. That's it.
Speaker 3: Everybody else has scored at least twice. But Jorge mac
Speaker 3: Jones sucks.
Speaker 1: I know what you're thinking, right Well, yes he does,
Speaker 1: but so does Washington secondary. They've given up recent big
Speaker 1: fantasy games to other sucky quarterbacks like the sense benched
Speaker 1: Desmond Ritter backup Tyrod Taylor. Mac Jones startable this week.
Speaker 1: Love it, Matt.
Speaker 3: Let's go to the running back position.
Speaker 4: Who you got?
Speaker 6: Pierre Strong will take you on. Pierre Strong will take
Speaker 6: on anyone. Last week, Strong had eleven touches for eighty
Speaker 6: two yards, which included a big forty one yard reception
Speaker 6: for the Browns. And I'll talk a little bit more
Speaker 6: about the timeshare between the Browns backs and the matchup,
Speaker 6: but what I will talk about now is the matchup
Speaker 6: against the Cards and it's just ripe. The Cardinals are
Speaker 6: allowing twenty nine touches for one hundred and forty total
Speaker 6: yards and a score and a half to opposing running backs,
Speaker 6: all of which are bottom five ranks in the leagues.
Speaker 6: And with QB Browns returning from a shoulder injury again,
Speaker 6: Cleveland will likely want to take pressure off of him
Speaker 6: again and run the ball all day long. The Browns
Speaker 6: did account for thirty six running back touches last week.
Speaker 6: I expect that, if not more for the Browns this week.
Speaker 6: So that sounds like twelve thirteen touches and a good
Speaker 6: matchup for Pierre Strong QB Browns.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if I said, like Joseph Stalin killed ten
Speaker 1: million of his own people, starved him to death.
Speaker 3: Sure, and you say Joseph Stalin.
Speaker 1: Let's go with Dictator Russia? Okay, okay, got it, all right? No,
Speaker 1: just consistency with that, all right?
Speaker 3: Are you looking forward to a lucky Pierre on Sunday?
Speaker 5: A lucky Pierre?
Speaker 3: What's lucky Pierre Strong?
Speaker 5: Are you sure? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, Well I just want to verify that. Let's go
Speaker 3: to your running back.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go with Seahawks running back Zach Charbonet against
Speaker 7: the Ravens. I think Sharboney could easily do what he
Speaker 7: did last week when he had sixty four yards on
Speaker 7: seven touches against a very good Browns defense. Charboney played
Speaker 7: a season high fifty nine percent of the snaps in
Speaker 7: that game. Reason why Kenneth Walker isn't healthy now the Seahawks.
Speaker 7: They don't have him on the practice or the injury
Speaker 7: report this week. Yeah, but they had some of that
Speaker 7: going on last week too. They've been playing really coy.
Speaker 7: Kenneth Walker only had ten touches last week. Sharbonnet getting
Speaker 7: back to him number twenty two in PFF grade among
Speaker 7: qualifying running backs so far.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's not bad.
Speaker 7: He's also number five in pass blocking grade, which you're
Speaker 7: gonna get you on the field and keep you on
Speaker 7: the field. I think sharbon is a huge breakout candidate
Speaker 7: down the stretch. If Walker is going to play in
Speaker 7: this one, but if he misses any time going forward,
Speaker 7: Sharbonnet would be an absolute smash. But I think he's
Speaker 7: streamable in this matchup against the Ravens either way.
Speaker 1: I'm giving you a two for one in my running
Speaker 1: back position. Speaking Lucky Pierre, Ramandre Stevenson and Ezekiel Elliott,
Speaker 1: both of them together who. But honestly, they both look
Speaker 1: pretty bad this year, but it's a tough bye week.
Speaker 1: I think they're startable here. The last three opposing running
Speaker 1: backs against the Commanders have either topped eighty total yards
Speaker 1: or they've scored. Zeke has scored touchdowns in two of
Speaker 1: the past three games I mentioned earlier. No Chase Young,
Speaker 1: no Montes Sweat. And by the way, Montes Sweat was
Speaker 1: a great run stuffing lineman. He ranked number three by
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus among all defensive ends and run defense.
Speaker 1: So this is a real loss for the run defense,
Speaker 1: and Washington was already bad, ranking twenty eighth in run
Speaker 1: stuff win rate. Let's go to the wide receiver slash
Speaker 1: tight end. I think your wide receiver this week.
Speaker 5: Right, I am?
Speaker 3: I got DJ Chark wiki wiki.
Speaker 6: He will face off most often against Tony Brown, who
Speaker 6: when I looked up his photo on his thing, he
Speaker 6: has the exact facial hair of a guy fox mask
Speaker 6: that long upturned mustache in the little triangle beard. He
Speaker 6: looks quite distinguished, and he also holds the distinguished honor
Speaker 6: of giving up a perfect passer rating in his coverage
Speaker 6: last week. He allowed just last week seven catches on
Speaker 6: seven targets for one hundred and eighty seven yards in
Speaker 6: a touchdown.
Speaker 3: In one game.
Speaker 5: In one game.
Speaker 3: What's this guy's name again, Tony Brown, Tony Brown. That's
Speaker 3: really really bad.
Speaker 5: Fire up some DJ shark.
Speaker 1: All right, DJ Shark, all right, let's go to thor.
Speaker 1: You take a chance with your receiver.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go with Darnell Mooney against the Saints. Mooney
Speaker 7: is Tyson Beagent's aired ELK guy. With Beagent under center,
Speaker 7: Mooney has twenty eight point five percent air yard share
Speaker 7: for the Bears. The Saints this year have allowed the
Speaker 7: fourth most receiving yards to opposing slot receivers. I think
Speaker 7: this could be a sneaky solid game for Darnell Mooney.
Speaker 1: Elijah Moore goes up against Arizona. Arizona's got the worst
Speaker 1: set of cornerbacks in the league. The trade for Donovan
Speaker 1: Peoples Jones frees up at least a handful of targets,
Speaker 1: some of which are going to go to Elijah Moore,
Speaker 1: who runs almost entirely from the slot, where he'll line
Speaker 1: up against rookie cornerback Garrett Williams, who has seen six
Speaker 1: NFL passes in his coverage in his life. Advantage Elijah Moore.
Speaker 1: Cardinals have allowed the most Fantasy points to opposing slot
Speaker 1: receivers like Elijah Moore. Let's go back to the matchups, Thore,
Speaker 1: you just mentioned Darnell Mooney. Who else do you like
Speaker 1: from this passing game against the Saints, And the correct
Speaker 1: answer might be nobody, although I'm sure you gotta start
Speaker 1: a great on Dj Moore.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at least him. We'll start out with Tyson Bagent.
Speaker 7: The aforementioned Tyson Beaijent only number twenty four right now
Speaker 7: in Fantasy points per dropback, but I will say number
Speaker 7: five and adjust a completion percentage. Yeah, pretty impressive for
Speaker 7: the UDFA coming out, But this is a very tough matchup,
Speaker 7: which is why I can't advocate anyone starting Tyson Beagent
Speaker 7: this week. Saints pass defense has allowed the lowest passer
Speaker 7: rating in the entire NFL, so I keep Beaijing on
Speaker 7: the bench.
Speaker 4: Dj Moore, I'll give him a C.
Speaker 7: I can't go higher than that because of the matchup.
Speaker 7: But Moore has been a target hond for Beijing thirty
Speaker 7: one point eight percent first read share playing with Tyson Baigent.
Speaker 7: But of course the Saints have Marshawn Latimore. They have
Speaker 7: Paulson Adebo. Very tough matchup. The Saints have allowed the
Speaker 7: lowest receiving yards per game to perimeter wide receivers, so
Speaker 7: we had to downgrade DJ More a little bit. Darnel
Speaker 7: Moodey of Courses might take a chance wide receiver. The
Speaker 7: one place you can get the Saints is in the
Speaker 7: sat at the exactly right moony likes.
Speaker 1: Remember Kristen Kirk a couple of weeks ago, right exactly
Speaker 1: Ridley got nothing and they just pounded the ball inside
Speaker 1: to Christian Kirk.
Speaker 7: It's the one way you can beat them. Yeah, you
Speaker 7: stay away from those boundary cornerbacks. Cole Commett, I'll give
Speaker 7: him a ceed this week. He was awesome last week
Speaker 7: ten for ten on receiving targets against the Chargers for
Speaker 7: seventy nine yards. Kamett has a sterling eighteen point two
Speaker 7: percent first read share playing with Tyson Beayjent, but this
Speaker 7: is not a good matchup for him either. Saints are
Speaker 7: very good against tight ends, not only this year, but
Speaker 7: going back years and years and years. The Saints have
Speaker 7: allowed the second lowest yards per game to opposing tight
Speaker 7: ends this year. Then we have our Bears running back.
Speaker 7: I don't know how much I want of this. Deontay
Speaker 7: Foreman and Rowshawn Johnson would normally be a bench unless
Speaker 7: you're desperate, in which case you could bump them up
Speaker 7: to a CE. But we got a three man committee,
Speaker 7: the dreaded three man committee. Darrington Evans is also involved,
Speaker 7: especially in the passing game. Foreman played a season i fifty
Speaker 7: nine percent of snaps. Johnson had nine touches. But neither
Speaker 7: of those two guys ranks in the top thirty of
Speaker 7: the NFL in yards after contact per attempt, even though
Speaker 7: they're both purported strong tackle breakers, et cetera among sixty
Speaker 7: five qualifiers, and the Saints run defense allows the six
Speaker 7: lowest fantasy points per game to opposing running backs. So
Speaker 7: if you have any better options at all, keep both
Speaker 7: those guys a fixed to your bench. Moving over to
Speaker 7: the Saints, I like this matchup obviously quite a bit
Speaker 7: more for the Saints.
Speaker 4: Derek Carr.
Speaker 7: I'm giving an A grade this He is number eleven.
Speaker 1: He wasn't your take a chance in me quarterback? With
Speaker 1: an A grade. I'm a little bit.
Speaker 5: Deeper than that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did go a little bit deeper.
Speaker 7: Car's been number eleven in fantasy points per game among
Speaker 7: quarterbacks this year last three games, number two in passing
Speaker 7: yards per game for mister Carr, and this is an
Speaker 7: awesome matchup. To keep the good times rolling, the Bears
Speaker 7: have cop copped up the second most passing touchdowns in
Speaker 7: the NFL this year. That's why I also think we're
Speaker 7: gonna get our breakthrough game from Chris o'lavey this week.
Speaker 3: See, I'm worried about a matching up with Jalen Johnson.
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson's great, and I'm worried he's just gonna shadow Olava.
Speaker 7: I think he's gonna be on Michael Thomas a bit more,
Speaker 7: which we'll get to in one second.
Speaker 4: Okay, so Olave, we're giving the A two.
Speaker 7: He is a disappointing wide receiver thirty three and fantasy
Speaker 7: points per game, but remains number one in deep targets
Speaker 7: in the NFL. He's also top twenty in red zone targets.
Speaker 7: So you're you're close to a breakthrough there. I think
Speaker 7: he gets it here. Olave eats up zone coverage. Bears
Speaker 7: super duper zone coverage, heavy secondary. Olave's air yard share
Speaker 7: versus zone coverage are ridiculous forty two point six percent.
Speaker 7: We give him an a charge, our boy, Rashid Shahed,
Speaker 7: I'm giving him up.
Speaker 5: Last week was great.
Speaker 4: I'm giving him a be this week.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 7: The Saints use his wheels to get him running against
Speaker 7: zone to try to push those safeties back and get
Speaker 7: him into one on one coverage with safeties in the
Speaker 7: deep sector of the field.
Speaker 4: As I just.
Speaker 7: Mentioned, the Bears run a ton of zone coverage. Yeah,
Speaker 7: they also struggle against the deep ball. So we got
Speaker 7: two checks here for the Rashid Shaheed checklist.
Speaker 4: Shahi does a.
Speaker 7: Twenty five point two percent air yard share versus his
Speaker 7: own coverage this year, and he's gonna spend most of
Speaker 7: the afternoon matched up against Kyler Gordon, who is allowed
Speaker 7: in eighty five point seven percent catch rate. This they
Speaker 7: take it, this is a smash matchup for mister Shahid.
Speaker 7: Michael Thomas, I'm giving him a bench s grade, okay,
Speaker 7: because I expect him to spend most of his day
Speaker 7: matchup against Johnson to the point before I think the
Speaker 7: Bears are going to try to stick him on Thomas.
Speaker 4: Jalen Johnson thirty seven point three passer rating.
Speaker 3: Allowed this year. What a great depress.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's been great, and he's shaken the injury concerns
Speaker 7: that we had, and he was coming out of Utah
Speaker 7: the reason that he fell down to the second round.
Speaker 4: But that kid's been fabulous whenever he's been on the field.
Speaker 7: Going back to college, Thomas's usage drops against zone team
Speaker 7: so it's sort of the opposite matchup for him as
Speaker 7: the other two Saints wide receivers because the Saints typically
Speaker 7: get more aggressive against zone coverage. Thomas has a fourteen
Speaker 7: point eight percent target share versus zone, way down from
Speaker 7: the man stuff. And of course I think he's gonna
Speaker 7: get a percentage of snaps against Johnson, So I'm gonna
Speaker 7: keep Michael Thomas on the bench. Taysom Hill at tight end,
Speaker 7: we have to give him an a. He has become
Speaker 7: a weekly must start. Yeah, since Week set in a
Speaker 7: Taysom Hill averaging nine touches for sixty five total yards
Speaker 7: and sixteen yards passing per game.
Speaker 4: Since Week six.
Speaker 7: During that span, he's tight end two in Fantasy, behind
Speaker 7: only Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 6: This is stupid, It is done. What a dumb game
Speaker 6: we play here? Good lord?
Speaker 7: The Bears are an average matchup for him. Though, but
Speaker 7: you know, the middle of the road aginst opposing tight ends,
Speaker 7: but Hills, Swiss Army usage and the heavy usage that
Speaker 7: he gets in that role demands starting at this point
Speaker 7: in fantasy every single week Elvin Kamara, same thing for him.
Speaker 4: He's getting an a.
Speaker 7: Alvin Kamara leads all running backs in the NFL in
Speaker 7: targets despite only playing five games.
Speaker 3: How about that. That's a ridiculous stat.
Speaker 7: He is also number one in the NFL in expected
Speaker 7: fantasy points per game, so that's that's ridiculous as well.
Speaker 7: The Bears do have a good run defense and should
Speaker 7: contain Kamara on the ground, but I expect Kamara to
Speaker 7: shred them through the air. The Bears have given up
Speaker 7: the most receiving yards to opposing running backs in the
Speaker 7: NFL this year. I mentioned that the Bears run a
Speaker 7: lot of zone coverage. Kamara against zone coverage twenty seven
Speaker 7: percent target share and two yards per route run. He
Speaker 7: eats up zone coverage, he finds the soft spots, then
Speaker 7: he gets into space and now you got a corralum
Speaker 7: becomes an issue.
Speaker 4: Love Kamara's matchup this week.
Speaker 1: All right, let's let's take a break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: Cardinals taking on the Browns. Is there any Cardinals to like?
Speaker 1: Is there anybody that you want to start from the
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson led Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 6: Oh man, you're gonna have to wait till after the
Speaker 6: break to find out.
Speaker 3: Wait till after the break.
Speaker 1: And I don't think it's necessarily an upgrade with Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson over PJ.
Speaker 3: Walker.
Speaker 1: Who exactly We'll find out when we come back. Fantasy
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Speaker 1: every day Guillotine leagues dot com. Well not Sunday this
Speaker 1: week because we've got that early Frankfurt game.
Speaker 5: I'm so upset.
Speaker 1: I don't know who benefits from a kickoff that is
Speaker 1: at six in the more morning Pacific time.
Speaker 5: I'm not upset about that.
Speaker 6: I'm upset that I lost in my Guillotine league because
Speaker 6: of Jacoby Myers last week.
Speaker 3: Oh, you weren't alone.
Speaker 5: I needed two catches for thirty five yards.
Speaker 7: Oh for me, it was DeVante Adam. He got me,
Speaker 7: asked Jimmy.
Speaker 4: Cap over throw it overthrow?
Speaker 3: Come on, yeah, brutal. Yeah, you weren't the only and
Speaker 3: you went into the Monday night and you're just like, oh,
Speaker 3: I need is.
Speaker 1: Two but two catches five points. Cardinals taking on the Browns.
Speaker 1: We have a change of quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Church, But I'd like to start with a personal
Speaker 6: question for you.
Speaker 5: Oh are you suffering from ed Why?
Speaker 3: Yes, I am.
Speaker 6: That's Amari de Marcato, who did not practice this week
Speaker 6: with a toe injury. The Cardinals just signed Tony Jones
Speaker 6: off the practice squad. It's gonna be Keyante Ingram and
Speaker 6: Tony Jones this week going against the best run defense
Speaker 6: in the league. Let's just leave all the Cardinals runners
Speaker 6: on the bench this week. Jonathan Taylor is the only
Speaker 6: one to top seventy rushing yards against the Browns this year.
Speaker 3: And let's note I believe James Connor back next week.
Speaker 5: I think that's correct.
Speaker 6: Clayton Tune, by the way you mentioned, takes over for
Speaker 6: the trade of Josh Dobbs this week, So tune in
Speaker 6: for his first career start, maybe his last career started with.
Speaker 1: What this kid in a position for his first start
Speaker 1: is against the Browns.
Speaker 6: And is basically his last start too, with Kyler Murray
Speaker 6: coming back next week. See the Browns have allowed multiple
Speaker 6: scores to three of the last four quarterbacks they faced,
Speaker 6: but all of them have a lot more experience than Tune,
Speaker 6: and the Browns have only allowed one quarterback to top
Speaker 6: the two hundred and fifty five yard mark this season,
Speaker 6: with four opposing quarterbacks held under two hundred yards Toon
Speaker 6: is on the bench. But I'll throw a C grade
Speaker 6: on Marquise Brown. By the way, Michael Wilson hasn't practice
Speaker 6: with a shoulder injury, which could funnel more targets his way.
Speaker 6: Plus it's possible that Clayton Tune won't be able to
Speaker 6: progress through several reads and it's just going to be
Speaker 6: a first look chuck for him, which is likely Marquise
Speaker 6: Brown or Trey McBride. By the way, Brown has seen
Speaker 6: nine or more targets in five the last seven games.
Speaker 6: He's gonna face off against Denzel Ward most often. He's
Speaker 6: allowed three touchdowns in his coverage this year. The Cardinals
Speaker 6: score a touchdown a week, that's probably all they're gonna get,
Speaker 6: and it's probably gonna be Marquise Brown.
Speaker 5: By the way.
Speaker 6: Trey McBride, he saw fourteen targets its last week, caught
Speaker 6: ten of them for ninety five yards in a score,
Speaker 6: and that was Scott Fish's premature speculation that week, By
Speaker 6: the way, a peacock for the Fish. The Browns have
Speaker 6: been the best tight end defense in the league this year, though,
Speaker 6: allowing two catches for nineteen yards per game to the position.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna see, Yeah, it's bad, amazing. I'm going to
Speaker 6: give him a C grade here. Just on the volume side.
Speaker 6: The patent did Scott fish volume see, but it's definitely
Speaker 6: a grade of C minus a lot of confidence in
Speaker 6: the matchup.
Speaker 3: See what I did there, very nicely done. How about
Speaker 3: the Cleveland side.
Speaker 6: Jerome Ford still limited with an ankle. He did play
Speaker 6: last week but only saw ten touches against Seattle was
Speaker 6: almost an equal three way snap split between four who
Speaker 6: had twenty three, Hunt who had twenty seven snaps, and
Speaker 6: Pierre Strong who might take a chance on me he
Speaker 6: had twenty four snaps. Frankly, it was kind of trending
Speaker 6: that way in Week eight as well. I expect this
Speaker 6: to be nearly a three way split again, which is
Speaker 6: why Pierre Strong was might take a chance on me
Speaker 6: Runner and I outlined the matchup. It's so strong that
Speaker 6: even with the three way split, all three of these
Speaker 6: guys get C grades.
Speaker 5: QB.
Speaker 6: Brown's taking over for PJ. Walker this week. He came
Speaker 6: back a little bit too early on that shoulder injury.
Speaker 6: In Week seven, he threw five horrible passes and then
Speaker 6: was yanked for PJ.
Speaker 5: Walker.
Speaker 6: Now, he missed Week eight and was limited all week
Speaker 6: in practice, but they named him the starter against Arizona.
Speaker 6: If you're starting him, I think you're playing with fire.
Speaker 6: The matchup is good. But he hasn't started and finished
Speaker 6: a game since Week three. And when he did start
Speaker 6: in finish games, he was averaging He was averaging two
Speaker 6: hundred twenty six yards and one score per game. That's
Speaker 6: Desmond Ritter's numbers almost exactly. And Desmond Ridders on the
Speaker 6: bench now, and.
Speaker 1: You're not getting the rushing numbers that some foolhardy people
Speaker 1: thought you were gonna get out of Uh.
Speaker 6: He did average like twenty rushing yards per game and
Speaker 6: he scored once in those three games. So there's a
Speaker 6: little bit of rushing upside, but it's it's Desmond Ridder
Speaker 6: rushing upside, right.
Speaker 3: That's a great analogy.
Speaker 6: Elijah Moore was charged to take a chance on me
Speaker 6: wide receiver and Amari Cooper. According to Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 6: Amari Cooper will face off most often against Marco Polo.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I mean Marco Wilson, allowing the most yards
Speaker 1: and most receptions in the NFL.
Speaker 6: I have in a passer rating of one thirty three.
Speaker 6: So Mark Cooper gets a B grade even with QB.
Speaker 6: Brown says, hey grade, No, it's it's just a B grade.
Speaker 6: His shoulder could fall off mid game, and then it's PJ.
Speaker 6: Walker again, and PJ Walker.
Speaker 3: Isn't that Walker might be an upgrade?
Speaker 6: Maybe all right, No, I'm sticking with the B. I'm
Speaker 6: sticking with the B. More gets a C. By the way,
Speaker 6: I'm not starting another Browns wide receiver yet, but I
Speaker 6: do have one that I'll give you as a stash
Speaker 6: in premature speculation. David and Joku. By the way, he
Speaker 6: didn't practice Wednesday. He did practice Thursday on a limited basis.
Speaker 6: He's got an ankle issue. The Cardinals have been surprisingly
Speaker 6: good against the tight end with the injury. I don't
Speaker 6: think i'd start in Joku this week.
Speaker 1: But you weren't kidding that you were going to challenge
Speaker 1: the clock on that one Washington Commander's taking on the Patriots.
Speaker 1: I want to start with the running game here. Brian
Speaker 1: Robinson is just not startable New England, giving up only
Speaker 1: three point four yards per carry this season. That's the
Speaker 1: second lowest rate and ranks third best in run defense
Speaker 1: by Pro Football Focus, seventh best in ESPN's run stuff
Speaker 1: win rate. It's a brutal matchup and he's been terrible,
Speaker 1: and he hasn't had more than ten carries since Week four.
Speaker 1: His own team doesn't trust him. Washington runs the ball
Speaker 1: at the lowest rate.
Speaker 3: In the NFL.
Speaker 1: Robinson's on the bench, and honestly, why not just drop him?
Speaker 3: Let's go by the time.
Speaker 6: I would wait until next week, so it could be
Speaker 6: a little bit of a sabotage drop so you can
Speaker 6: maybe suck some fab out of your league.
Speaker 1: Could wait till Tuesday. Yeahp on Monday, Tuesday morning, something
Speaker 1: like that. Maybe that's it, all right. Terry McLaurin comes
Speaker 1: in with an A grade mcclaury chance to explode this
Speaker 1: week against cornerback JC Jackson, ranked his Pro Football Focuses
Speaker 1: second worst cornerback in the league. Jackson's been targeted nineteen
Speaker 1: times the last two.
Speaker 5: Weeks, nineteen times, and in those.
Speaker 1: Nineteen times, he's given up three touchdowns and one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty five yards, so we'll try.
Speaker 3: We'll give an eight to Terry McLaurin, and I like
Speaker 3: some of the other receivers here too. Let me mention Curtis.
Speaker 1: Samuel has been ruled out on Friday with his toe injury.
Speaker 1: So that means Jamison Crowder who showed up mid game
Speaker 1: last week and all I did was put up seven
Speaker 1: receptions ninety five yards and a touchdown in one half
Speaker 1: of work.
Speaker 6: Did he forget to like set his alarm and showed
Speaker 6: up midgame? Oh no, to the stage up to the
Speaker 6: stadium midgame. Yes, so they're gonna rest Samuel here. Promising
Speaker 6: matchup versus slot cornerback Miles Bryant, who's allowing a massive
Speaker 6: eighty six percent completion percentage and opposer passer rating of
Speaker 6: one hundred and twenty five in his coverage, Jamison Crowder
Speaker 6: clocks in with a seat nice sneaky start in a
Speaker 6: bye week. John Dotson finally broke out last week after everybody,
Speaker 6: including me, had given up on him and I was
Speaker 6: the staunchest preseason supporter. I like him this week because
Speaker 6: the matchup and the nagging toe injury for Samuel, He's
Speaker 6: likely to get some more of JC Jackson too.
Speaker 3: Like McLaurin, it's a smash spot.
Speaker 1: And the other cornerback opposite Jac Jackson, Jack Jones, good
Speaker 1: last year, not good this year. Through two games played
Speaker 1: this year, Jones allowing a one hundred and fifty six
Speaker 1: passer rating. So Dotson startable here and also Logan Thomas
Speaker 1: by the way, C grade for Dotson, Logan Thomas with
Speaker 1: a B grade. Patriot's been vulnerable to big games from
Speaker 1: opposing tight ends, with three of them finishing over seventy
Speaker 1: five yards. All three tight ends with more than five
Speaker 1: targets against the Patriots have topped seventy five yards, and
Speaker 1: Thomas is averaging seven targets, so he should be in
Speaker 1: that seventy five yard range. I like him here, B
Speaker 1: grade for him. And then Sam Howell sacked just one
Speaker 1: time last week week against Philly, down from his average.
Speaker 3: There we go, down from his average of six sacks
Speaker 3: per game.
Speaker 5: Howel con Troy and I don't know why that howl
Speaker 5: cracks me up.
Speaker 3: I like this because I love Sam Howell.
Speaker 1: Uh, since the Patriots lost their star rusher Matthew that's
Speaker 1: a it gets so high.
Speaker 3: It's a bad that's like some kind of deceased wolf.
Speaker 5: I need we need it.
Speaker 3: We need a better howl sounds.
Speaker 5: It sounds like it's in distress. It does.
Speaker 3: I think it's in a trapper.
Speaker 5: No, I like that Robbie keeps finding us new howls.
Speaker 6: I'm no, No, I want them to be bad because
Speaker 6: the Washington commanders are bad. Robbie, find the worst howls
Speaker 6: you can and just surprise us every week with a
Speaker 6: new horrible howl as.
Speaker 3: I screen dances with a horrible hour. Uh anyway, where
Speaker 3: am I going? Oh?
Speaker 1: Since the Patriots lost Judon and defensive Rookie the Year
Speaker 1: candidate Christian Zalez, they're giving up two hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: yards two scores per game. That feels right for Sam
Speaker 1: Howeled Here. New England ranks twenty eighth in coverage by
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus. All right, it's a lot simpler for
Speaker 1: New England. We already gave out Mac Jones. This might
Speaker 1: take a chance on me quarterback. We gave out Ramondre
Speaker 1: Stevenson and Ezekiel Elliotts. Might take a chance on me runners.
Speaker 1: How about new starting wide receiver to Mario Douglas thor
Speaker 1: I'm looking at you maybe Kendrick Bourne's on ir. Devonte
Speaker 1: Parker is in the concussion protocol. Sixth round rookie to
Speaker 1: Mario Douglas is your new wide receiver one in New England,
Speaker 1: and he leads all the Patriots receivers and targets, receptions
Speaker 1: and a dot this year Washington. Of the available receivers,
Speaker 1: Washington allows the third most wide receiver yards. They allow
Speaker 1: the most wide receiver touchdowns. They've given up eighteen touchdowns
Speaker 1: to wide receivers already.
Speaker 3: That is insane.
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Forbes has been a huge bust, yes Washington. He's
Speaker 1: got a small frame Douglas has. He's not physical, but
Speaker 1: he plays bigger than his size would suggest, and he's
Speaker 1: got legit burst and some elusiveness to Mario Douglas coming
Speaker 1: in with a C grade. And lastly Hunter Henry. The
Speaker 1: loss of Bourne and Parker, who I mentioned, frees up
Speaker 1: ten targets and almost certainly some of those are going
Speaker 1: to go to Henry. The Commanders have allowed four tight
Speaker 1: end touchdowns in the last four games, including a massive
Speaker 1: game to Darren Waller two weeks ago. I think if
Speaker 1: you're really in a pinch, you could even go to
Speaker 1: Mike Kiseki or if Hunter Henry has a late downgrade
Speaker 1: in injury status, then you could consider Kiseki as well.
Speaker 1: With only two minutes, guys, I don't think we want
Speaker 1: to jump into the next matchup. I don't think we
Speaker 1: can get through it here. So there's too many good
Speaker 1: players with Dallas and Philadelphia, So why don't we take
Speaker 1: a pause on that one. I want to go to
Speaker 1: the Thursday night game. Will Levis. What are your short
Speaker 1: term thoughts. They haven't named him the starter for next
Speaker 1: week yet, but they will. What are your short term
Speaker 1: thoughts on him for this year and your long term
Speaker 1: thoughts of Will Levis and Dynasty base what you've seen
Speaker 1: through two games.
Speaker 4: I think he's a stash.
Speaker 7: He's certainly going to be their quarterback of the future.
Speaker 7: The one thing that I'm interested to see is Levis
Speaker 7: really struggle with pressure in college, and he was struggling
Speaker 7: with pressure against the Steelers. I was wanting the Steelers
Speaker 7: to send a little bit more heat on him. That's
Speaker 7: where you start to see the mistakes from him and
Speaker 7: putting the ball and you know, up for grab stuff
Speaker 7: like that. The Steelers had a couple dropped interceptions in
Speaker 7: that game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the accuracy remains a bit of an issue, yep,
Speaker 1: not for him, And even some of them he's completing,
Speaker 1: some receivers are having to contort themselves to get.
Speaker 4: The ball because of the mechanics.
Speaker 7: He's never been able to set his lower half and
Speaker 7: even in clean pockets, he'll be super nonchalant with it.
Speaker 7: And that's where you see the worm burners in front
Speaker 7: of the receivers.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the aeron c and stuff like that. He's got
Speaker 7: to do a better job with that. Obviously, Titans coaches
Speaker 7: are working on him with it.
Speaker 6: I do like Levis a lot more when he is
Speaker 6: being chalant, But salt yeah worth noting. By the way,
Speaker 6: started against Atlanta in his first game last week, Atlanta's
Speaker 6: pretty good defense. Threw for four touchdowns in that game.
Speaker 6: When was the last time a Titans quarterback through for
Speaker 6: four touchdowns in a game. It seems like McNair maybe
Speaker 6: it was only the.
Speaker 1: Second quarterback in his debut to throw for four touchdowns
Speaker 1: since nineteen seventy.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know that's leather helmet era. Practically, you
Speaker 1: know what, We're going way back.
Speaker 6: So, by the way, Falcons getting two straight weeks of
Speaker 6: quarterbacks in their first career start. Maybe Jaron All goes
Speaker 6: for four touchout.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be something?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 3: You know it's all about the Falcons.
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Speaker 1: All you have to do is not finish last, and
Speaker 1: the last team standing wins the whole thing.
Speaker 5: Can you see my tears over here? It does hurt.
Speaker 5: I had a monster team too, Really, how much fab
Speaker 5: did you have? Like five to seventy left? I was
Speaker 5: sitting pretty.
Speaker 3: You were in a really good spun.
Speaker 5: Needed Jacobe Myers to show up, and he had and
Speaker 5: he had.
Speaker 1: Been so good this year too, and the matchup was
Speaker 1: pretty favorable. I know, Jimmy garoppolo killing killing fantasy owners,
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Speaker 8: Tough question number one?
Speaker 5: Should I just.
Speaker 1: Drop every single Panther who isn't Adam Thielen Matt.
Speaker 6: I highlighted Bryce Young and DJ shark As might take
Speaker 6: a chance on many players, but that's about where they
Speaker 6: should be. Guys you would pick up in bye weeks
Speaker 6: and advantageous matchups. The only other guy you'd consider is
Speaker 6: my Sanders, but he'd look horrible over the last few weeks,
Speaker 6: basically given his job away to Chewba Hubbard. The Panthers
Speaker 6: are usually on negative game scripts and now it's a split.
Speaker 6: It best for these runners, so they're off rosters in
Speaker 6: most cases. So drop all your Panthers except dealing all right?
Speaker 3: Thor should I drop all my Panthers other than Adam Feeling?
Speaker 4: I'll keep my comment short. In standard leagues, yes.
Speaker 1: That's very short. Mostly I think we're really just talking
Speaker 1: about the two running backs, Hubbard Sanders. Correct now, Hubbard
Speaker 1: was officially named the starter this week. Sanders only got
Speaker 1: two carries last week, Sanders averaging three yards per carry
Speaker 1: thirty three yards per game.
Speaker 3: That's a total disaster.
Speaker 1: Hubbard hasn't looked really much better three point nine yards
Speaker 1: per carry. Offensive line is a major problem, ranking thirty
Speaker 1: first in run block win rate. They're not going to
Speaker 1: get much better. This week is the last positive matchup
Speaker 1: for the entire year for the running game for the Panthers, Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: If you're not starting Chewba Hubbard this week, HM drop
Speaker 1: everybody except Adam feeling tough.
Speaker 8: Question number two, The firing of.
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels and the subsequent switch to quarterback Aid and
Speaker 1: O'Donnell will spark. How much more fantasy production for the
Speaker 1: DeVante Adams? Is it none? Some or a lot? Let's
Speaker 1: go to thor.
Speaker 7: Speaking of tears, I still can't believe I got cut
Speaker 7: in that I.
Speaker 4: Only needed one even one catch for stupid got me there?
Speaker 7: Yeah, so tick to watching that game. Yeah, my answer
Speaker 7: to this question is a lot. I believe he will
Speaker 7: be fed and one piece of context that I would
Speaker 7: give for people out there. Aidan O'Connell, who coming in
Speaker 7: pure pocket passer coming out of Purdue, played for Jeff Brohm,
Speaker 7: who is a former NFL quarterback, different stuff like that.
Speaker 7: In that system, they force fed wide receiver ones Rondelle
Speaker 7: Moore before David Bell. Those guys got an enormous share
Speaker 7: of the usage. Aidan O'Connell knows where his bread is buttered.
Speaker 7: He is going to be getting the ball to Davante Adams.
Speaker 7: I believe Davante Adam will be a wide receiver one
Speaker 7: for the rest of the Seasonince.
Speaker 1: You're saying a lot, a lot, Okay, Matt, the firing
Speaker 1: of Josh McDaniels and the subsequent switch to quarterback Aiden
Speaker 1: O'Connor will spark how much more fantasy production for Devonte
Speaker 1: Adams None.
Speaker 3: Some or a lot.
Speaker 6: O'Connell did start once this season in Week four. He
Speaker 6: targeted Adams a ton in that game thirteen times in
Speaker 6: that game eight catches seventy five yards. By the way,
Speaker 6: you only targeted Jacoby Myers four times in that game.
Speaker 6: O'Connell is a one read guy at this stage in
Speaker 6: his career. He's just going to be staring down Adams
Speaker 6: a ton. He can't be worse what what Jimmy g
Speaker 6: looked like over the past few weeks. I do think
Speaker 6: it'll be some improvement, but I'm a little worried about.
Speaker 5: The accuracy of his throws. Right now, I.
Speaker 1: Am new head coach Antonio Pierce the Raiders. I'm looking around.
Speaker 1: The guy who hired me, Josh McDaniels, is now gone.
Speaker 1: The offensive coordinator that I used to work with also fired.
Speaker 1: Why because they didn't get the ball to DeVonta Adams.
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna get the ball to Devonte Adams.
Speaker 1: At DeVonta Adams level of ability, the squeaky wheel almost
Speaker 1: always gets greased because if you're a terrible player, you
Speaker 1: can squeak all you want, doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna get greased.
Speaker 1: Squeak away, that's right, the squeaky wheel's gonna get greased here.
Speaker 1: O'conno's passing can't really even be worse than Garoppolos was right,
Speaker 1: and O'Connell didn't look great in his one start, but
Speaker 1: it was mostly fumbled three times.
Speaker 3: It wasn't even so much the passing.
Speaker 1: It was he was given the ball away on the
Speaker 1: ground only a couple of tricky matchups left on the
Speaker 1: schedule for Devonte Adams. They get the Jets once and
Speaker 1: then they get Kansas City twice. Kansas City's a middle
Speaker 1: of the road pass defense, but actually Adams lit them
Speaker 1: up last year, so tonight it's really just the Jets
Speaker 1: game as a tricky spot. I think we're buying low
Speaker 1: on DeVonta Adams. Who's gonna get a lot better?
Speaker 8: Tough question number three.
Speaker 1: In a typical redraft league? Can I just drop Green
Speaker 1: Bay wide receiver Christian Watson?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 5: Aha charge?
Speaker 6: I knew this was a sneaky Joy and Love question,
Speaker 6: but you did a Jordan Love three.
Speaker 5: Tough question a few weeks back.
Speaker 6: I did, Yes, Jordan Love looks terrible and at five
Speaker 6: of his last seven games he's had under sixty percent
Speaker 6: completion percentage.
Speaker 5: That's not good for wide receivers.
Speaker 6: By the way, the Packers have a positive matchup against
Speaker 6: the pass this week against the Rams and another one
Speaker 6: in two weeks against the Chargers, but after that, it's
Speaker 6: a bunch of above average to good pass defenses they're
Speaker 6: facing from here on out. Yeah, Christian Watson can be dropped,
Speaker 6: and really, frankly, I think every part of the Packers
Speaker 6: passing game can be dropped right now.
Speaker 1: Oh that's pretty strong words, all right, Thor? In typical
Speaker 1: redraft leagues, can I just drop Green Bay wide receiver
Speaker 1: Christian Watson?
Speaker 7: Now for me, I would actually think he's a by
Speaker 7: low if your your league's trade deadline hasn't gone past yet.
Speaker 7: Watson wide receiver forty seven and fantasy points per route run,
Speaker 7: but in expected fantasy points per route run, he's wide
Speaker 7: receiver twenty.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, Jordan Love's not getting.
Speaker 6: Him to expect it, you know what, Thor, we expected
Speaker 6: some fantasy points last week in our guillotine matchups and
Speaker 6: we didn't get those either.
Speaker 1: I should not interrupt. I try not. I'm sorry I
Speaker 1: did that, though. I like to let you guys answer
Speaker 1: any sort questions.
Speaker 3: So you have well, I.
Speaker 7: Think you also have to give then, not only the
Speaker 7: Jordan Love thing, but obviously Watson started out this season
Speaker 7: with the hamstring injury, so there's been a tough acclamation.
Speaker 7: He's of course underperforming his usage so far, I believe,
Speaker 7: and maybe I'm just crossing my fingers because I have
Speaker 7: some ownership shares of him that that will improve going forward.
Speaker 1: He's a long bomb guy trying to catch passes from
Speaker 1: the quarterback with the worst passer rating on deep passes.
Speaker 5: That's good.
Speaker 1: Love is completing just twenty five percent of his deep passes,
Speaker 1: a percentage that's so bad he ranks thirty second in
Speaker 1: the league on deep balls well, heaving a league worst
Speaker 1: four picks on those throws. Watson might be a good player,
Speaker 1: but Love's not gonna unlock it unless he gets way better.
Speaker 1: Now that said, so that's redrafts. The answer is yes,
Speaker 1: go ahead and drop them in dynasty. I think ahead
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty four. The Packers are powering to the
Speaker 1: top four to five pick in the NFL draft.
Speaker 3: That's going to be a quarterback.
Speaker 4: It could be what definitely, you know.
Speaker 1: Because I don't think they're going to run this thing
Speaker 1: back with Jordan Love if it stays anything close to
Speaker 1: what it is right.
Speaker 7: Now, you're in Mayor Caleb Williams, Drake Mayor Caleb Williams territory.
Speaker 1: You are right, So okay, Now, Christian Watson gets a
Speaker 1: lot more interesting with the qualified quarterback. He's sure what
Speaker 1: I'm buying in dynasty leagues for next year, and both
Speaker 1: those guys can throw deep by the way Hell gall.
Speaker 6: And Aaron Rodgers just sitting there laughing, pointing with one foot.
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys taking on the Philadelphia Eagles. Let's start in
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys side. CD Lamb coming off a crazy game,
Speaker 1: I assume he's an obvious A this week.
Speaker 7: He of course says, and Dak Prescott I'm also going
Speaker 7: to give him an A as well.
Speaker 4: In addition to Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 7: Last four games for DAK number two in passing grade
Speaker 7: in the NFL, last two games quarterback one and quarterback
Speaker 7: three in Fantasy. The Eagles allow the ninth highest yards
Speaker 7: per game in the seventh most passing touchdowns, so I
Speaker 7: feel like this is pretty good matchup for Dak as well.
Speaker 7: Keep the other Dallas wide receivers on your bench. I
Speaker 7: do give a B grade to Jake Ferguson. He is
Speaker 7: one of Dak's favorite toys in the red zone. Ferguson
Speaker 7: ranks number two in red zone targets among tight ends
Speaker 7: in the NFL.
Speaker 4: This is an average matchup. I would say.
Speaker 7: Philly ranks sixteenth in Fantasy points per game allowed to
Speaker 7: opposing tight ends. Tony Pollard rounding out with him can
Speaker 7: only give him a grade C here Pollard is running
Speaker 7: back sixteen in Fantasy so far this year. Despite being
Speaker 7: number two in red zone touches in the entire NFL,
Speaker 7: He's sake to number forty seven in yards after contact
Speaker 7: per attempt. Was not expecting that coming into the year.
Speaker 7: This is also a brutal matchup. The Eagles are number
Speaker 7: four and stuff rate in the NFL. Moving over to
Speaker 7: the Eagles side, Jalen Hurts, AJ Brown, Dallas Goddard obvious
Speaker 7: must start weekly.
Speaker 4: DeVonta Smith I'm going to give him a grade B.
Speaker 7: He is wide receiver twenty nine to AJ Brown's wide
Speaker 7: receiver two in fantasy, but DeVonta leads the team in
Speaker 7: play action target rate with twenty five point three percent,
Speaker 7: and Dallas is very bad at defending play action passes
Speaker 7: their bottom eight and play action yards per attempt allout
Speaker 7: and passing touchdowns allowed the last one. DeAndre Swift I'm
Speaker 7: gonna give him an A in this matchup as well.
Speaker 7: He's averaging twenty point five touches and one hundred point
Speaker 7: four total yards since Week two, number seven among all
Speaker 7: running backs in the NFL in targets. This is a
Speaker 7: solid matchup for him as well. Dallas has a middle
Speaker 7: of the road run defense. They give up some catches
Speaker 7: as well to the running backs smash spot for most
Speaker 7: of the Eagles, the key guys on offense.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 1: Let's uh, by the way, let's just mention what aj
Speaker 1: Brown has done the last crazy weeks.
Speaker 3: I mean it is crazy nuts. When your bad game
Speaker 3: is one hundred and thirty one yards, it's it's this.
Speaker 3: This span is almost unprecedented. Ludacris, absolutely ludicrous.
Speaker 1: Yep, Matt in Dapolis Colts Carolina Panthers. You've already alluded
Speaker 1: to this a couple of different ways. This game could have.
Speaker 3: Some sneaky points in it. Yeah, Cuz Panthers doesn't sound
Speaker 3: like a thriller.
Speaker 5: It might be, it could be.
Speaker 6: Let's start with the running backs on the Colt side.
Speaker 6: That's Jonathan Taylor and Zach Moss. They're facing a Panthers
Speaker 6: defense that's bad. They've allowed five point one yards per
Speaker 6: carry on the year and one hundred and fifty four
Speaker 6: combo yards to opposing backs, and they've given up the
Speaker 6: most running back touchdowns in the league this year, at
Speaker 6: almost two per game. Zach Moss randomly missed Friday's practice
Speaker 6: this week, but he's had some maintenance days and some
Speaker 6: lingering elbow and hip injuries, but I expect him to
Speaker 6: go with that.
Speaker 5: Taylor gets the A.
Speaker 6: I think he gets a little bit more than half
Speaker 6: of the touches, and Moss gets a B grade as
Speaker 6: long as he's active in this one. Nobody really passes
Speaker 6: on the Panthers though. They're kind of like the Texans
Speaker 6: last year, so easy to run against that no one
Speaker 6: bothers throwing the ball. They're only seeing twenty seven pass
Speaker 6: attempts per game. That's the lowest in the league. I'll
Speaker 6: give Minshew a C grade this week, but he's definitely
Speaker 6: suffering from low C. Speaking of the Texan CJ Stroud,
Speaker 6: who's a heavy passer, only managed sixteen completions on twenty
Speaker 6: four attempts last week for only one hundred and forty yards.
Speaker 6: That's just the effect running it so much. Minshew does
Speaker 6: like to chuck the ball a lot, though this doesn't
Speaker 6: seem like the matchup. I'm guessing he throws the ball
Speaker 6: around twenty five times in this game, which is about
Speaker 6: two thirds of his normal volume, hence the C grade.
Speaker 6: Michael Pittman and Josh Downs have become his favorite receivers
Speaker 6: Downs dinged up and it looks like a game time decision,
Speaker 6: But he usually travels from the slot, where he'll face
Speaker 6: Panther's best cornerback, Troy Hill, who's only allowing a passer
Speaker 6: rating of fifty six in his coverage. So either way,
Speaker 6: I'm keeping downs on the bench, and if Minshew throws
Speaker 6: twenty five times, at least ten of them are going
Speaker 6: to Pittman in four of six. In four of Minshew's
Speaker 6: six nearly full games, Pittman's seen at least eleven targets
Speaker 6: in those games, and he scored or top to one
Speaker 6: hundred yards in each of the last three weeks. So
Speaker 6: he gets a B grade because he's the focal point.
Speaker 6: Speaking of focal points, Adam Thielan is a lot like
Speaker 6: Michael Pittman. I'll rocket theel him up up to a
Speaker 6: A grade here. He's had at least fifteen PPR points
Speaker 6: in six straight games, including at least seventy receiving yards
Speaker 6: in five straight. The Colts are allowing the six the
Speaker 6: most receiving yards to opposing wide receivers, and Thieland travels
Speaker 6: mostly from the slot. Last week, this Colts team played
Speaker 6: Rashid Shahed, who travels mostly from the slot. By the way,
Speaker 6: three catches one hundred and fifty three yards in a
Speaker 6: score for Shaheed last week. Yeah, that's why Bryce young
Speaker 6: was might take a chance on me quarterback, and dj
Speaker 6: Chuk might take a chance on me wide receiver. And
Speaker 6: then finally it's Chewba Hubbard and Miles Sanders and it's
Speaker 6: it's bad. The snap count was in favor of Hubbard
Speaker 6: last week forty to twelve. Sanders ran twice last week
Speaker 6: for zero point zero yards. Finally off the injury report
Speaker 6: and practice in full all week. I'll give Hubbard the
Speaker 6: C grade. I think it's it's a good matchup. I
Speaker 6: expect it to be at this Yeah, the Colts are
Speaker 6: allowing one hundred and thirty two conbo yards and a
Speaker 6: touchdown and a half to opposing backs this year. If
Speaker 6: it was one back, if we knew it was just
Speaker 6: gonna be Hubbard, for sure, it's probably a B grade. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but I still think it's a sixty to forty split.
Speaker 5: And Miles Sanders is involved in this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to zip through rams Ackers pretty quickly
Speaker 1: here into this segment. We don't know if Matthew Stafford's
Speaker 1: going to go. They told us that he wasn't going
Speaker 1: to practice all week, and that was the case. He's
Speaker 1: a game time decision. So what I'm really doing is
Speaker 1: copping out on the grade I'm giving to Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: and Puka Nukua. I'm gonna upgrade them both to a's
Speaker 1: if Matthew Stafford plays, and I'm downgrading him to seize
Speaker 1: if it's Brett Rippons. So by giving them a B
Speaker 1: I'm really covering my bases here for Cup.
Speaker 5: So what great is this?
Speaker 3: Well, I be grades right now. That's what I'm going with.
Speaker 3: For Cup.
Speaker 1: It's back to back down games, but he's still getting
Speaker 1: plenty of usage. Cup's got a terrific matchup against Keishawn Nixon,
Speaker 1: who's allowed over eighty percent of his targets to be caught. Now,
Speaker 1: Nuka Nuka, Sorry, I've done this twice.
Speaker 6: He's gonna Nuka your fantasy team.
Speaker 1: And Kola benefits immediately by that Rasul Douglass trade, which
Speaker 1: by the way, just ripping the heart out of that secondary,
Speaker 1: and the remaining guys in the secondary are like what
Speaker 1: just happened? Anyway, he was the Packers' best coverage cornerback
Speaker 1: and the struggling j R. Alexander's allowed an eight one
Speaker 1: percent pass completion rate in his coverage and a passer
Speaker 1: rating of one hundred and fifty four.
Speaker 5: This is almost perfect.
Speaker 3: It is almost perfect. This Pro football focus is number
Speaker 3: one cornerback last year and he's getting roasted this year.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: The only other guys to talk about, obviously, if Stafford goes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a C grade, But just beware that.
Speaker 1: You know, he this thumb injuries on his passing hand.
Speaker 1: He could reinjure it, or maybe that limits the volume
Speaker 1: that's gonna go here, or what if he starts the
Speaker 1: game but he throws errant early in with the thumb
Speaker 1: and they just ben him. So, I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of danger with Stafford. So I'm only giving him
Speaker 1: the SEA grade in what would otherwise be a very
Speaker 1: juicy matchup and the only run for the running game
Speaker 1: Royce Freeman Darryl Henderson with Stafford ailing they're gonna run more.
Speaker 1: It's an almost even split between these guys. The though
Speaker 1: Freeman's looked a little bit better. He's averaging about a
Speaker 1: yard and a half more per carry.
Speaker 5: He must have dropped the pano.
Speaker 3: He you know what, it's not. I'm changing his name.
Speaker 3: He is now Royce.
Speaker 1: Dropped the organ Freeman because I think he doesn't look
Speaker 1: like he's carrying a full baby grand anymore.
Speaker 5: An organ is smaller rop the organ it is.
Speaker 3: The organ is smaller than a piano.
Speaker 5: Okay, look a jazz organ out that.
Speaker 1: Okay, Green baysed keyboard seven in rushing yards and rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns allowed on the green Bay side.
Speaker 3: There's not much to like here. AJ Let's start with
Speaker 3: Aaron Jones.
Speaker 1: Head coach Matt Lafleur says that Jones is ready to
Speaker 1: be cut loose.
Speaker 3: That's quote.
Speaker 1: I'm tempted to believe him, because Jones. The only good
Speaker 1: thing happening is entire offense. The Rams are good, but
Speaker 1: not great run defense if they are elite versus running
Speaker 1: back receptions, which is normally something we like out of Jones,
Speaker 1: I can only get him to a C grade, But
Speaker 1: I am giving him the C grade here. Everybody else
Speaker 1: is on the bench. You could consider loose Luke Musk grade.
Speaker 5: With loose Mutton.
Speaker 3: You almost did it again. Dang it. Loose Mutton.
Speaker 1: Zero touchdowns so far, averaging just twenty eight yards per game,
Speaker 1: but the Rams have allowed the second most receiving yards
Speaker 1: and tight ends, so you could give him a try
Speaker 1: if you want to. Everybody else I got to put
Speaker 1: on the bench. We already talked about Chris and Watson
Speaker 1: and why we're not starting him earlier in the show.
Speaker 1: And Romeo Dobbs has got these a handful of touchdowns
Speaker 1: that have masked otherwise very very little production. I can't
Speaker 1: think that those touchdowns are going to keep going here.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I got Dobs on the bench too. It's
Speaker 1: all bad for the Packers right now. When we come back.
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers taking on the Houston Texans. Thor already
Speaker 1: gave us Baker Mayfield as has taken chance on me quarterback.
Speaker 1: Who does he want to throw? To find out when
Speaker 1: we come back. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly, Thorn Eistrom
Speaker 1: Tampa's taking on the Houston Texas. Well rested Houston Texans team,
Speaker 1: they sure are. Yeah, Tampa Bay, you've mentioned you liked
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield earlier. I assume you like Mike Evans Chris Godwin.
Speaker 1: Godwin sparked to life last week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he did.
Speaker 7: Mike Evans Weekly muz star wide receiver for fourteen, and
Speaker 7: I would also say Texans zone heavy team that stink
Speaker 7: versus deep balls, that's Evans this whole game. Evans' air
Speaker 7: yard share balloons to forty point eight percent versus zone.
Speaker 7: He's gonna feast. That's part of the reason why I
Speaker 7: like Baker as well. You mentioned Chris Godwin. I give
Speaker 7: him a seat god because of the matchup. Godwin's less
Speaker 7: effective against zone than he is against man. Again, the
Speaker 7: Texans zone heavy team versus zone, Godwin's target share drops
Speaker 7: to twenty point three percent with less than two yards
Speaker 7: per route run. He should have a workman like day,
Speaker 7: a little bit of volume there, but not much fireworks.
Speaker 7: That's why I'll give him a SEA A volume C.
Speaker 7: Kate Otton, I'm gonna give him a C as well.
Speaker 7: He's a mid tier fantasy option weekly mister Rotten, but
Speaker 7: the Texans stink against opposing so I think this is
Speaker 7: a pretty good matchup for him, and he's streamable if
Speaker 7: you need the bye week help. Rashad White, I'm gonna
Speaker 7: give him a Bee. Playing seventy percent or more of
Speaker 7: the snaps weekly, but he's only running back twenty four
Speaker 7: in fantasy on seventy seven total yards per game average.
Speaker 7: He is number ten amongst running backs in receiving targets
Speaker 7: and it's a solid matchup for that. The Texans have
Speaker 7: a better run defense than people think. I think, but
Speaker 7: they have a lot of the tenth most receiving yards
Speaker 7: to opposing running backs, so White could get loose in
Speaker 7: that phase of the game.
Speaker 1: The run blocking. I believe the Buccaneers are dead last
Speaker 1: in run block win rate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so White's got to win through the air.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Moving over to the text and CJ. Stroud, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: give him a bee.
Speaker 7: I think this is a really good bounce back opportunity
Speaker 7: for him against a Buccaneers defense that's number twenty five
Speaker 7: in pressure rate. Stroud has looked much better in clean
Speaker 7: pockets this year than he has in muddy pockets, which
Speaker 7: is typical for rookie quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: And mundy pockets is one of my favorite Blues guys.
Speaker 5: You're very deep.
Speaker 7: Even after the down week, Strouds still rings sixteenth in
Speaker 7: passing grade in the NFL, and the Bucks have allowed
Speaker 7: the ninth highest yards per attempt in addition to having
Speaker 7: that feeble pass rush. Nico Collins He's almost becoming a
Speaker 7: weekly must start. Not quite there yet, but I am
Speaker 7: giving him an A in this one. He's Fantasy's wide
Speaker 7: receiver seventeen on a ridiculous four point one yards per
Speaker 7: route run bucks Outside cornerbacks have struggled a little bit
Speaker 7: this year. Jamel Dean one hundred and sixteen point eight
Speaker 7: passer rating allowed, Carlton Davis one oh six point eight
Speaker 7: passer rating allowed.
Speaker 4: So not as tough as a matchup there as.
Speaker 7: Maybe you'll think Robert Woods is ruled out in this game,
Speaker 7: which might give a little bit more targets to the
Speaker 7: next two guys I'm going to talk about.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give Tank Della C.
Speaker 7: Houston uses Tank between the twenties, unfortunately not yet in
Speaker 7: the red zone and maybe never in.
Speaker 5: The rest of his size.
Speaker 4: It might be never, considering how small he is.
Speaker 7: Della is twenty seventh in the NFL in yards after
Speaker 7: catch per reception, but only one target in the red
Speaker 7: zone all see he's in Dalton Schultz.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give him a C.
Speaker 7: He's tight end eleven this year, largely because he's number
Speaker 7: four in the NFL in red zone targets among tight ends.
Speaker 7: That's where Tank Dell's red zone targets are going. But
Speaker 7: this isn't a great matchup for Dalton Schultz. The Bucks
Speaker 7: are number four DVOA against.
Speaker 4: Opposing tight ends.
Speaker 7: Speaking of being ruled out, Damian Pierce was ruled out
Speaker 7: on Friday, which brings us to Devin Singletary.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna give I'm thinking about this.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Devin Singletary is definitely startable this week. I settled
Speaker 7: on a C grade for him, but I thought about
Speaker 7: even bumping into a B. Last week was typical for
Speaker 7: Singletary with Pierce playing anyway, twelve touches for forty three yards.
Speaker 7: But Singletary's usage is going to spike this week with
Speaker 7: Pierce out. Pierce has eighteen touches per game over the
Speaker 7: last four or five games. I do expect Mike Boone
Speaker 7: to siphon Vulture thirty percent of the Snapsters, all right,
Speaker 7: but Singletary. That leaves the remaining seventy percent for him.
Speaker 7: Devin Singletary, I don't know people out there realize this.
Speaker 7: He's number ten in the NFL in misstackles force per attempt.
Speaker 7: Bucks have an average run defense, so you can definitely
Speaker 7: start singletary with some confidence if you need to.
Speaker 1: Damian Pierce stopped at the one inch line. In fact,
Speaker 1: they ruled it a touchdown, and then on review they
Speaker 1: put it at the one inch line, and then later
Speaker 1: in the game he got stopped inside the one yard
Speaker 1: line again. Tough times it would have been for those
Speaker 1: of us that were had banked on Damian Pierce. And
Speaker 1: I love the matchup, and I'm like, this is finally going.
Speaker 4: To be it that happened tough times.
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones returns to the quarterback position for the Giants.
Speaker 1: Does that give you any extra any extra juice for
Speaker 1: this passing game?
Speaker 6: Well, this is a matchup between the Giants who've scored
Speaker 6: ninety five points in eight games.
Speaker 5: Bad that's less.
Speaker 6: Than twelve per game, and then the Raiders who've only
Speaker 6: scored one hundred and twenty six points in eight games,
Speaker 6: which is about fifteen per game, So about twenty seven
Speaker 6: total points over unders thirty seven and a half, by
Speaker 6: the way, and that's super low.
Speaker 3: Iowa Minnesota's pointing in last this is gross.
Speaker 6: Daniel Jones does look like he's gonna start this week
Speaker 6: after his neck injury. The last time we saw Jones
Speaker 6: was Week five. Through his four and a half games,
Speaker 6: he was averaging one hundred and ninety six passing yards
Speaker 6: per game, and he had two touchdown passes on the season.
Speaker 5: It's so bad now.
Speaker 6: He did play a tough bunch of defenses in there,
Speaker 6: but the Raiders haven't really had that much of a
Speaker 6: defensive issue. They're only allowing two hundred and six passing
Speaker 6: yards per game. That's ninth best in the league. I'm
Speaker 6: gonna still leave Danny Dimes on the bench here, but
Speaker 6: I will give Darren Waller a B grade and his
Speaker 6: revenge trip to Las Vegas. I'm a bit nervous that
Speaker 6: in Waller's best production games this year and his only
Speaker 6: touchdown of the season, they came with Tyrod Taylor under center.
Speaker 6: But it's revenge and it's science. The Raiders have faced
Speaker 6: really three Fantasy relevant tight ends this year. Sam Laporta
Speaker 6: had eight catches for fifty seven and a score last week,
Speaker 6: Pat Fryermouth scored in Week three, and then the Bills
Speaker 6: combo of tight ends that I smushed together had eight
Speaker 6: catches fifty three yards in a score in Week two.
Speaker 6: Other than that, they faced anonymous dudes at the tight
Speaker 6: end position. So a bee for Waller.
Speaker 1: Now, I'm just going to jump in because literally, like
Speaker 1: as you're talking, Giants just ruled out Darren Waller with
Speaker 1: a hamste What oh gosh.
Speaker 3: Give him a bench?
Speaker 6: Great, Let's give Darren Waller a bee for bench. Well,
Speaker 6: then nobody in the passing game is what you want
Speaker 6: to start there? It makes Daniel Jones even worse. However,
Speaker 6: Saquon Barkley, I'm gonna give him an a grade because
Speaker 6: the Raiders suck against the run. Jamiir Gibbs roasted the
Speaker 6: Raiders last week, Deonta Foreman the week before, Ramandre Stevenson
Speaker 6: looked good the week before that, even aj Dillon looked
Speaker 6: like irrelevant back the week before that. And Barkley's on
Speaker 6: the field for ninety percent of the snaps.
Speaker 3: How about the thirty six carries they gave him last week?
Speaker 6: They're going to run him into the ground and let
Speaker 6: him go in free agency this year. Sad eight and
Speaker 6: O'Connell is the new starter again. He started in Week
Speaker 6: four against the Chargers, who are a worse pass defense
Speaker 6: than the Giants, and he managed two hundred thirty eight
Speaker 6: yards no touchdowns in one interception on thirty nine throws,
Speaker 6: so the Raiders won't be afraid to let him chuck
Speaker 6: the ball. But he only completed sixty one percent of
Speaker 6: the passes in that game. When you bake in that,
Speaker 6: the Giants are only allowing nineteen completions per game.
Speaker 5: That's like the eighth fewest in the league. He's on
Speaker 5: the bench.
Speaker 6: I do like DeVonta Adams to get the squeaky Wheel treatment,
Speaker 6: and we talked about him a little bit before. I
Speaker 6: had thirteen targets in the Week four matchup. He gets
Speaker 6: the B grade. And like I said, Meyers only saw
Speaker 6: four targets in that Week four start and I'm super
Speaker 6: ticked at him personally right now from my guillotine league. Okay,
Speaker 6: so I'm giving him a bench grade based on that.
Speaker 6: It's a SPIKEE bench. Michael Mayer gets a bench grade
Speaker 6: as well. I like the player, but I'm nervous about
Speaker 6: this one. First, it's O'Connell's first start.
Speaker 5: Sorry.
Speaker 6: In O'Connell's first start, he did not get targeted once.
Speaker 6: And Second, the Giants have only allowed three receptions per
Speaker 6: game to opposing tight ends and have only allowed one
Speaker 6: touchdown to the position to position all year. Finally, Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 6: He gets a B and this might be the last
Speaker 6: B for Josh Jacobs. His O line looks horrible. They're
Speaker 6: not opening holes for him at all. He's only averaging
Speaker 6: one point eight yards per carry before contact and then
Speaker 6: not doing much after contact, only one point three yards
Speaker 6: after contact. Giants are a great matchup, though, They're alowing
Speaker 6: four point seven yards per carry, so something's got to give.
Speaker 6: It's the fourth most per carry in the league. So
Speaker 6: Jacobs gets the B and if he doesn't perform here,
Speaker 6: it's gonna be a mere white time.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the Raiders are the bottom ranked rushing
Speaker 1: offense in the NFL.
Speaker 5: That's not surprised Jacobs. Yeah wow, who was the top
Speaker 5: running back in the league last year?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Go figure, Go figure when we come back. Final segment
Speaker 1: including some of this that's right, the Fantasy Football Weekly
Speaker 1: time Machine, premature speculation. Players you can pick up this
Speaker 1: week that elder people be trying to pick up next week.
Speaker 1: Find out who they are when we come back. Final
Speaker 1: segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. If you missed any part
Speaker 1: of the show, you can get all my play rankings
Speaker 1: available for free at getine leagues dot com. Let's jump
Speaker 1: into the Fantasy Football weekly time machine. Guys, I want
Speaker 1: a player from each of you, so you'll want to
Speaker 1: pick up this week that other people will be trying
Speaker 1: to pick up later on. But there's already on your team.
Speaker 5: Matt, where is this time machine? Last week? They could
Speaker 5: have told me about Jacobe Myers. It's a good still kicked.
Speaker 6: I got Cedric Tillman, and Thor love Cedric Tillman. He's
Speaker 6: a Browns wide receiver. Thor, who's noted draft Nick? I
Speaker 6: go a walker, Nick, Yeah, I'll go.
Speaker 3: I'll go with Nick. Nick.
Speaker 6: Thor gave him the comp of Courtland Sutton coming out
Speaker 6: of Tennessee last year eighty seven percent size adjusted athleticism grade.
Speaker 6: That's great, especially at six foot three. He was injured
Speaker 6: almost all last year at Tennessee, which is why he
Speaker 6: fell from like a second round draft spot into the third.
Speaker 6: Of his one hundred and one catches in his final
Speaker 6: two years of college, nineteen of them were contested. He
Speaker 6: caught eighteen of those. Wow, he's big, he's athletic, he
Speaker 6: can catch. Plus a spot opened up in Cleveland.
Speaker 3: Why has he been inactive for this whole season?
Speaker 6: Well, Donovan Peoples Jones was in his way, and now
Speaker 6: much is he really?
Speaker 1: How much was he in his way when he was
Speaker 1: getting no action? And they traded him for a six
Speaker 1: round pick.
Speaker 6: Well, they traded him away for a six round pick.
Speaker 6: And now Cedric Tillman's time is here. He's been a
Speaker 6: healthy scratch the last few weeks. I expect that to change.
Speaker 6: The Browns need a wide receiver too, and a deep threat.
Speaker 6: Let's try Cedric Tillman.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go over to thor your premature speculation player.
Speaker 7: I will also be going with a rookie wide receiver
Speaker 7: Hatriots wide receiver de Mario Pop Douglas. Alright, mister charging
Speaker 7: was talking about earlier, Douglas five eight, one seventy nine
Speaker 7: coming out of Liberty five eight but with a ninety
Speaker 7: six percentile burst score. You were talking about how burst
Speaker 7: he is, and you can make you missy. He was
Speaker 7: the Patriots six round pick in April at number two
Speaker 7: ten overall, but the Patriots coaches started raving about him
Speaker 7: immediately when he got into the building. Douglas ends up
Speaker 7: winning the starting slot gig right now, Damerio Douglas number
Speaker 7: twenty five PFF graded wide receiver.
Speaker 4: In the NFL, the entire NFL.
Speaker 7: The two guys Sandwich on the outside of him, Deebo
Speaker 7: Samuel and DK Metcalf to show you the kind of
Speaker 7: neighborhood he's in. Damia Douglas is out, awesome opportunity for
Speaker 7: him going forward. Pat Patriots wide receiver won Kendrick Bourne
Speaker 7: tore his ACL last week.
Speaker 4: Like you were mentioning before charge, Bourne had.
Speaker 7: Fifty five targets, which was by far the most for
Speaker 7: any Patriots wide receiver. Number two amongst Patriots wide receivers
Speaker 7: and targets to Mario.
Speaker 4: Douglas with thirty. But that's not all, folks. Stay with
Speaker 4: me here.
Speaker 7: DeVante Parker likely out with the concussion this week. Juju
Speaker 7: Smith Schuster twenty eight receiving yards since September twenty fourth,
Speaker 7: Taekwon Thornton was a healthy scratch last week, Jalen Regor
Speaker 7: is terrible, Kaishawn Butte has not been active since Week one,
Speaker 7: and Hunter Henry is not fully healthy right now. So
Speaker 7: this is a great, great situation. Plus people out there,
Speaker 7: I don't think realize this. The Patriots are top twelve
Speaker 7: in the NFL in both neutral pace and pass rate
Speaker 7: in neutral game scripts, so pretty good if you're going
Speaker 7: to lead the team in wide receiver targets. Last week,
Speaker 7: Douglas had a twenty eight point six percent first read share,
Speaker 7: even though Bourne played sixty percent of this snap.
Speaker 3: Was on the field for a bunch of that.
Speaker 7: So Douglas has been he's been ascending, ascending, and now
Speaker 7: here comes this huge opportunity.
Speaker 4: He is the Patriots new wide receiver one.
Speaker 7: As charge had mentioned before, but as of Friday morning,
Speaker 7: Douglas is still only owned in twenty six percent of
Speaker 7: Yahoo leagues, even though an awesome matchup is on deck
Speaker 7: for him, sign him ahead of the Washington game since
Speaker 7: week six, Chargs went into this a bit before. Since
Speaker 7: week six, Washington has allowed the fourth highest points per
Speaker 7: game per target and the third most receiving yards to
Speaker 7: opposing slots. And like Churchard's mentioning before, they don't have
Speaker 7: a pass rusher anymore because they traded both.
Speaker 3: Their stud edges.
Speaker 4: Yes, go and pick up to Mario pop Douglas.
Speaker 1: His nickname's pop, but you called him bursty. Now if
Speaker 1: he's bursty, should his nickname be pop or polop?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Wow, that snows, that's very gross, gross, Robb.
Speaker 6: He's not happy, though, sticking more along the lines of
Speaker 6: like popcorn and you went the gross way.
Speaker 3: We went pull up on that.
Speaker 1: If I asked you to name the top five rookie
Speaker 1: wide receivers in yards, I don't think anybody would guess.
Speaker 3: Arizona Cardinal rookie.
Speaker 1: Michael Wilson is in that top five. Grannity's fifth. Still
Speaker 1: fifty yards per game, very solid on the field constantly,
Speaker 1: he has almost as many snaps and routes run as
Speaker 1: Marquise Brown.
Speaker 3: He's learning on the job.
Speaker 1: Wilson's got room for improvement as he continues to get experience.
Speaker 1: But also you get the upgraded quarterback Kyle Murrays. Kyler
Speaker 1: Murrays coming back not this week, maybe next week, and
Speaker 1: he's and Michael Wilson's dealing with a shoulder injury. So
Speaker 1: this is not a move for like next You know
Speaker 1: you don't have to do that today, but I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna want him on your roster down the stretch.
Speaker 1: If you haven't watched Cardinals football, and I hope you haven't,
Speaker 1: you've missed a bigger, physical receiver with excellent body control
Speaker 1: in Michael Wilson. And he earned his master's degree from
Speaker 1: Stanford from Stanford before entering the draft, and his aunt
Speaker 1: Marine played soccer for the New England World.
Speaker 7: Cup, Smart kitting a very good route runner as well.
Speaker 7: Coming out at six two sixteen. Michael Wilson had ninety
Speaker 7: fourth percentile size adjusted athleticism and the really cool thing
Speaker 7: about him that caught my eye when I was down
Speaker 7: a mobile for the Senior Bowl last January, regardless of position,
Speaker 7: every player that was there they have this Zebra tracking
Speaker 7: on them so they can get all this advanced testing
Speaker 7: metrics on him.
Speaker 4: Ye, only two players out of the entire.
Speaker 7: Group again regardless of position, finished top fifteen in max
Speaker 7: speed by the Zebra system and top five in max
Speaker 7: deceleration amongst the whole group. Trey Palmer, which makes sense,
Speaker 7: Trey Palmer black water lax ball scales, but he's extremely athletic.
Speaker 7: The second one was Michael Wilson, who weighed almost two
Speaker 7: hundred and twenty pounds right utter disregard for human life.
Speaker 7: Going into roundbreaks, you constantly see the cornerback trying to
Speaker 7: stop with him and then they just like skid.
Speaker 4: It becomes like a cartoon or whatever. I really like
Speaker 4: his game.
Speaker 7: The only reason he fell down to the third round
Speaker 7: was because he ran a four to five to eight forty.
Speaker 7: Some of that is mitigated by the others up the deceleration,
Speaker 7: the agility, the footwork, different stuff like that. And he
Speaker 7: only played fourteen games over his last three seasons at Stanford,
Speaker 7: but whenever he was on the field, he did absolute
Speaker 7: damage to some of the Pac twelve's best teams.
Speaker 3: Really like that call, charge.
Speaker 1: Michael will This is like your all time low right
Speaker 1: now to buy on Michael Wilson, especially Dynasty leagues, Empire leagues. Yeah,
Speaker 1: great time to buy on Michael Wilson. Buffalo takes on
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals. This is the rematch of last year's
Speaker 1: playoff game, which was decided by Cincinnati. Stefan Digg's obvious a,
Speaker 1: but let's talry about some of the other receivers. Gabe
Speaker 1: Davis coming off a huge game and he's always a
Speaker 1: deep threat now. Fortunately, Cincinnati is allowing the third most
Speaker 1: yards per reception fifteen yards per reception running on the outside.
Speaker 1: He's going to face rookie corner DJ Turner and Cam
Speaker 1: Taylor Britt. Turner has only seen seventeen NFL passes in
Speaker 1: his life. Taylor BRIT's giving up a whopping eighteen yards
Speaker 1: per reception in his coverage. Gabe Davis the Boomer Bust Guide,
Speaker 1: this feels a lot more like Boom and a B
Speaker 1: grade on Gabe Davis. Dalton Kincaid comes in with a
Speaker 1: B grade. Everything we hope for with Dawson knocks out
Speaker 1: came to fruition last week, vaulting volume. Now, the last
Speaker 1: two weeks were his biggest target weeks of his career.
Speaker 1: Scored his first touchdown last week. He leads the position
Speaker 1: in reliability. Dalton Kincaid has a ninety percent catch rate
Speaker 1: on the season. Only George Kittle's top fifty yards against Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: but they have allowed the second most tight end scores.
Speaker 1: Dalton Kincaid B. Great love, Dalton kad. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a nice beginning of a very nice career
Speaker 1: for Dalton Kinkame. Yes, So I've given you an A
Speaker 1: and two b's for the receiving options for Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: so obviously I like him a lot. He's an A
Speaker 1: grade here you would expect as much. I've already talked
Speaker 1: about the passing. Let me mention this about the rushing.
Speaker 1: Opposing quarterbacks have had a lot of success on the
Speaker 1: ground against the Bengals, Deshaun Watson, Lamar Jackson, Brock Purdy
Speaker 1: all topped forty five rushing yards, So Josh Allen should
Speaker 1: be able to help you on the air, through the air,
Speaker 1: and on the ground. James Cook comes out of the
Speaker 1: C grade. The Bills have the third best run block
Speaker 1: win rate, which is great. The Bengals allow the ninth
Speaker 1: most rushing yards per game to opposing backs. That's also
Speaker 1: good news. On the sixth highest per carry average of
Speaker 1: four and a half yards per carry against. And the
Speaker 1: great thing about James Cook he never gets eight men
Speaker 1: in the box because teams can't afford to do that.
Speaker 1: Only eleven percent of his rushing attempts have eight men
Speaker 1: in the box. The problem with Cook and what always
Speaker 1: limits his upside is the touchdowns. This is exactly what
Speaker 1: we talked about in the preseason and that's the concern here.
Speaker 1: Just three carries from inside the five yard line all year,
Speaker 1: while other players on the Bills have sixteen carries from
Speaker 1: inside the five yard line. That's why James Cook can
Speaker 1: only get up to a C grade. Here, Latavius Murray's
Speaker 1: on the bench, He's seen five or fewer carries in
Speaker 1: five of the last six games. Not enough usage and
Speaker 1: Leo Fournette is donez. Let's go to the Cincinnati side.
Speaker 1: I want to start with the running game and Joe
Speaker 1: Mixon with a B grade, one of the more favorable
Speaker 1: opportunities of his entire year. Mixon had one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty three total yards in the playoff win last year
Speaker 1: when these teams met. The Bills have the tenth worst
Speaker 1: run defense grade per Pro Football Focus, and that bite
Speaker 1: might be why they signed lynbal Joseph this week. The
Speaker 1: Bills allow one hundred and forty two total yards per
Speaker 1: game to opposing running backs. That is sixth most, mixing
Speaker 1: facing eight or more defenders in the box and only
Speaker 1: ten percent of his rushing attempts. That's also good news
Speaker 1: for Mixon, so B grade here. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: passing game, where Jamar Chase is an obvious a T.
Speaker 1: Higgins comes in with a C grade. So for Higgins season,
Speaker 1: first he was injured and then Burrow is also injured
Speaker 1: a lot of that overlap and then lately suffering from
Speaker 1: a case of Jamar Chase itis because Chase is getting
Speaker 1: all the work and huge target loads, so that means
Speaker 1: Higgins only seeing six targets per game over the last month.
Speaker 1: But the good news is kyer Elam is out to
Speaker 1: Davius White is out from the secondary for Buffalo. That
Speaker 1: means Higgins's going to see a lot of backup grade
Speaker 1: coverage and that includes Dan Jackson allowing an opposing passer
Speaker 1: rating of one hundred and seventeen. So we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: starting t Higgins hope for better times than a C
Speaker 1: grade for him. Tyler Boyd comes in with a C
Speaker 1: grade after a very slow start to the season. He's
Speaker 1: got touchdowns and back to back games. Buffalo's slot corner
Speaker 1: tarn Johnson used to be good, but he's really slumped badly.
Speaker 1: He's allowed three scores in the past two games. He's
Speaker 1: also giving up a whopping eighty seven percent catch rate
Speaker 1: in his coverage. I like Tyler Boyd here, so I've
Speaker 1: given you positive grades on all these receivers, so I
Speaker 1: must like Joe Burrow. His last three games three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: two touchdowns and three touchdowns, and I think multiple touchdowns
Speaker 1: are coming here as well. The Bills have not allowed
Speaker 1: multiple touchdown passes in their last six but over the
Speaker 1: last two weeks They've surrendered multiple scores to mac Jones
Speaker 1: and Baker Mayfield. The Bills are now short the two
Speaker 1: starting quarterbacks that I mentioned.
Speaker 3: All of that roll together. Joe Burrow comes in with
Speaker 3: an A grade here.
Speaker 1: A little bit worried about a good Bill's pass rush,
Speaker 1: but other than that, I like Joe Burrow and his opportunities.
Speaker 1: This week our final matchup Thoor Seattle taking on Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Is that the Sunday or is that the Monday night game?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember, not the Monday. It's the Monday.
Speaker 1: Must be the Sunday night game. Usually we have Sunday
Speaker 1: or Monday as the last game. Seattle Seahawks Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 1: He already talked about Zach Sharbonay. Why don't we pivot
Speaker 1: to Let's pivot to Kenneth Walker. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: other side of that running back line.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Kenneth Walker, I'm gonna give him a grade A
Speaker 7: B was not on the injury report this week, but
Speaker 7: last week's calf injury does concern me. It led to
Speaker 7: a season low snapshare for Kenneth Walker, which allowed Zach
Speaker 7: Sharbonay to lead the backfield with fifty nine percent of
Speaker 7: the snap season high for him. Like we were talking about before,
Speaker 7: Walker is a B greade for me in this one
Speaker 7: versus the middle of the road Ravens run defense. But
Speaker 7: again you have to keep in mind that the last
Speaker 7: week thing could happen again. We'll have to see on that,
Speaker 7: but I am bullish about it. If he does. But
Speaker 7: if yeah, so both both those guys I think are
Speaker 7: startable the passing game for Seattle Gino Smith, I'm gonna
Speaker 7: give him a CE quarterback twenty one in fantasy points
Speaker 7: per game this year, but not a great matchup. The
Speaker 7: Ravens have allowed the lowest yards per attempt and the
Speaker 7: second fewest passing touchdowns to oppose quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: Good news for Gino Smith though.
Speaker 7: Today Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf both cleared off the
Speaker 7: injury report. I'm gonna give a beat to Tyler Lockett.
Speaker 7: Tyler Lockett is a guy who cooks against zone coverage.
Speaker 7: Like we talked about some this fall. Baltimore is his
Speaker 7: zone heavy team. Lockett leads Seattle with a twenty point
Speaker 7: seven percent target share thirty five percent air yard share
Speaker 7: against zone. DK Metcalf is the guy whose usage goes
Speaker 7: down against zone.
Speaker 4: He's more the man beaters.
Speaker 7: So in this game, we're gonna give dk ac wide
Speaker 7: receiver twenty seven so far this year. But again not
Speaker 7: the best matchup because of the type of coverage that
Speaker 7: the Ravens like to use. Versus zone, dk Metcalf's target
Speaker 7: share shrinks all the way down to eighteen percent. It's
Speaker 7: over twenty two percent in the aggregate and even way
Speaker 7: higher than that. When he's going against man coverage, you're
Speaker 7: gonna bench Jackson Smith and Jig Bute. You're gonna bench
Speaker 7: Seattle's tight ends. Moving over to the Ravens, Zay Flowers
Speaker 7: disappointing game last week, but could could potentially get a
Speaker 7: bounce back here. But it is a tough matchup For
Speaker 7: that reason, I have to give him a c. Flowers
Speaker 7: is top twenty in deep targets and also red zone
Speaker 7: targets so far this year.
Speaker 5: And I did.
Speaker 1: I was worried he was going to be slot guy,
Speaker 1: middle of the field stuff Dell type use there used
Speaker 1: all over the field all over, not having that big
Speaker 1: body type.
Speaker 7: Including the deep stuff. Yeah, so kind of crazy. Seattle
Speaker 7: runs more zone coverage than any team in the NFL,
Speaker 7: eighty five percent of the snap Seattle's coverages, Flowers has
Speaker 7: killed zone so far this year. He has over a
Speaker 7: thirty percent air yard share with two with more than
Speaker 7: two yards per route run against zone. But he does
Speaker 7: have to face off against the young stud outside Seattle
Speaker 7: cornerbacks Devin Witherspoon and Tarik Wallen. So that's why I
Speaker 7: downgraded him to a sea. I'm benching all the Ravens
Speaker 7: other wide receivers because the other passing usage is going
Speaker 7: to mister Mark Andrews. I'm gonna give him a bee.
Speaker 7: He's tight enders Mark Andrews. Yeah, he tight end two
Speaker 7: in fantasy. Yeah. Seattle is generous to opposing tight ends.
Speaker 7: They've allowed the six highest yards reception to tight ends
Speaker 7: despite the fifth fewest targets. Face the Ravens, I think
Speaker 7: will try to avoid Seattle's boundary quarterbacks, leading to some
Speaker 7: more Andrews targets.
Speaker 3: So why only the be here not the A Andrews
Speaker 3: is red hot.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm a little concerned about the Seattle the way
Speaker 7: that they match up against the Ravens offense, So I
Speaker 7: think that could depreciate some of the passing yards for
Speaker 7: Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 8: Here.
Speaker 7: Lamar Jackson, who's been great. That's why I give Lamar
Speaker 7: only a B in this game. Enters quarterback five and
Speaker 7: Fantasy number two in Fantasy points per dropback.
Speaker 4: But like I mentioned, tough matchup.
Speaker 7: Seattle allows the second fewest Fantasy points passing since Week
Speaker 7: four of this season.
Speaker 4: Last guy here for you guys.
Speaker 7: Gus Edwards given him a great to see the Gus
Speaker 7: buss last week twenty one touches ninety four total yes,
Speaker 7: five tuddies, three tons in the breakout game. He's averaging
Speaker 7: almost seventy two total yards per game since Week two.
Speaker 4: But of course he does split work with Justice Hill.
Speaker 7: But then again, Gus gets all the red zone work,
Speaker 7: and when the Ravens offense is human, obviously that pays
Speaker 7: fantasy dividends. Like we saw last week, thirteen red zone
Speaker 7: touches the last three games for Gus Edwards and again
Speaker 7: you're seeing that starting to flower out and manifest like
Speaker 7: last week. But not the best matchup here. Seattle has
Speaker 7: been solid in the trenches so far this year with
Speaker 7: the eighth highest stuff rate. They did a good job
Speaker 7: trying to rebuild that defensive line over the offseason and
Speaker 7: that's paying some dividends for Seattle.
Speaker 6: By the way, the Monday night game was the Chargers Jets,
Speaker 6: and that was the first one we did.
Speaker 5: Wow, that was.
Speaker 3: Weird how that worked out. We don't normally do that
Speaker 3: around here.
Speaker 5: Maybe we should maybe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, reverse order, yeah, reverse chronolog So we went the
Speaker 1: Monday night or.
Speaker 6: In Seattle Baltimore is a one pm kickoff Eastern time.
Speaker 1: We started with the Monday night and then the next
Speaker 1: one was the six am Pacific time start Frankfurt.
Speaker 4: Keeping them on their Yeah, where are we going to
Speaker 4: go next? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Never know.
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