Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome into Fantasy Pros. This is the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football podcast. We've got week fifteen quarterback and tight
Speaker 1: end rankings. I'm Chris Welsh, joined by Pat Fitzmorris and
Speaker 1: Scott Pianowski. We're going through both positions. We're looking at
Speaker 1: one through twelve at each spot, maybe poking around at
Speaker 1: some outside of the top twelve, some debates that are
Speaker 1: in there. If you guys have questions on the ranks
Speaker 1: that maybe we won't get to, or you want to
Speaker 1: see how they evolve throughout the week, go to fantasypros
Speaker 1: dot com slash rankings, where we have got the expert
Speaker 1: consensus rankings of one hundred and fifty, sixty seventy whatever
Speaker 1: it is every single week. Can kind of adjust maybe
Speaker 1: as season goes on, but every single day, these are
Speaker 1: adjusting as more ranks are put in, and you can
Speaker 1: get the expert takes and you can kind of look
Speaker 1: through if you want to pick and choose between some
Speaker 1: expert rankers. Gentlemen, let's start with the quarterback ranks. Let's
Speaker 1: just jump right into it. Obviously this is going to
Speaker 1: be very very important. There's some chalk, but then there's
Speaker 1: also some questions, and those people out there, these fantasy
Speaker 1: matchups are poking around at some big questions at quarterbacks
Speaker 1: because I feel like we've only gotten into the space
Speaker 1: where there's like seven safe quarterbacks and people are trying
Speaker 1: to see should I start Jamis Winston over really big
Speaker 1: guys Jalen Hurts. Last week, they were trying to get
Speaker 1: us with Fitz Lamar Jackson. People want to tinker with quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: So let's discuss that the big quarterback rank board. Josh
Speaker 1: Allen's number one, Lamar Jackson's at two. We got Joe Burrow,
Speaker 1: Jayden Daniels, Jalen Hurts at your top five. Two is
Speaker 1: at six, Sam Darnold at seven, Brock perty Bo, Nicks,
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, Jared Goff, and Justin Herbert. That's your top twelve.
Speaker 1: I want to ask one quick question fits that in
Speaker 1: the world of tinkering. We said this in a previous
Speaker 1: episode that we all did together. Pinowski mentioned it where
Speaker 1: people will say, hey, you know, you start your studs
Speaker 1: and don't think about it, blah blah blah. Do you
Speaker 1: think there's a line at quarterback right now where people
Speaker 1: should not be tinkering? I went, we kind of went
Speaker 1: right at somebody on that at of we have a
Speaker 1: new show on YouTube out of Bounds that they were
Speaker 1: thinking about should I go Jamis over Lamar and it
Speaker 1: was like, just don't, just don't overthink that. That's not
Speaker 1: the question, but like, what do you think the quarterback
Speaker 1: line is right now? Where you can start considering tinkering,
Speaker 1: Like is it the top five Hurts Daniels, Burrow, Jackson, Allen,
Speaker 1: Those you don't even question, and then you could start
Speaker 1: maybe tinkering with high volume guys over like a Donald
Speaker 1: or a Murray or something like that. What's your take
Speaker 1: on it?
Speaker 2: I think those five that's a good cutoff. Those are
Speaker 2: the set it and forget it guys. And then the
Speaker 2: next two for me are Tua and Donald, Like it
Speaker 2: would take a lot for me to pull either of
Speaker 2: those guys out of my starting lineup at this point
Speaker 2: too cute, Yeah, and two and Donald don't have the
Speaker 2: best matchups. I mean, Donald goes against the Bears, who
Speaker 2: are much better against the pass than they are against
Speaker 2: the run. Tua goes against the Texans, not an easy
Speaker 2: defense to face. But I feel pretty good about both
Speaker 2: of those guys.
Speaker 1: Scott, what do you think the same thing. I know,
Speaker 1: like you said this and also in another previous show
Speaker 1: that you are much more willing to bench brain name
Speaker 1: branded players like big named guys if it suits on
Speaker 1: the matchups, but like what's the line at quarterback? Because
Speaker 1: I feel like people really this is the spot where
Speaker 1: people really want to manipulate and analyze and get cute with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think my lines of demarcation we're similar to
Speaker 3: what Pat said where the top five don't even ask me.
Speaker 3: And then if you ask me about Tuah and Donald
Speaker 3: because of the matchups, I'd say, I understand why you're
Speaker 3: asking what You're still playing Tua and you're still playing Darnald.
Speaker 3: And then it's like, Okay, what do I do with Purdy?
Speaker 3: What do I do with Nicks? I never know what
Speaker 3: to do with Kyler Murray? How much help does Justin
Speaker 3: Herbert have. Mayfield is a little bit of that Winston
Speaker 3: type where he makes some splash throws and he throws
Speaker 3: them to the other guys.
Speaker 1: Every week.
Speaker 3: Goff does a lot of handing off Patrick Mahomes. We've
Speaker 3: been saying for over a year now, why isn't he
Speaker 3: producing like the Patrick Mahomes were used to? Those are
Speaker 3: all discussions. We have to have what's happened to CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud?
Speaker 3: You know, what's happened to Jordan Love? Can we trust
Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson? Can we dress Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 2: On?
Speaker 1: And on it goes.
Speaker 3: So I feel like we have five unbelievable locks that
Speaker 3: you feel thrilled that they're on your roster. Tua and
Speaker 3: Donald make up a very sturdy B plus tire, and
Speaker 3: then I think everything else is in play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well there's not a lot of wiggle room anymore.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about a couple of these quarterbacks. Here.
Speaker 1: Bo Nicks one of my favorites this week, if I'm
Speaker 1: being honest, he comes into ECR nine. You guys both
Speaker 1: have him in this general vicinity. But what I like
Speaker 1: the conversation around him is he's just outside of that
Speaker 1: super crazy comfort line that you guys talked about where
Speaker 1: it's like it's going to take a lot for Darnald
Speaker 1: or to to come off of that roster. Bo Nicks
Speaker 1: coming off of the buy is going up against Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: I'm very pro bo Nix if you watch some of
Speaker 1: the shows. But Scott, you've got him a QB nine
Speaker 1: this week. So your take on getting bo Nicks in
Speaker 1: those starting lineups.
Speaker 3: You know, I like Knicks. I'm a big Courtland Sutton guy.
Speaker 3: I'm a Sean Payton believer in the passing game. I
Speaker 3: just wish the bow Knicks, who ran aggressively and have
Speaker 3: goal line equity would come back, because he hasn't been
Speaker 3: that player over the last four weeks. And I do
Speaker 3: think we talked on the Running Back Show how difficult
Speaker 3: it is to land on a Denver running back you
Speaker 3: can trust, and that is true. I feel like somebody
Speaker 3: is going to run against the Colts, though teams have
Speaker 3: running against the Colts all year, so this feels like
Speaker 3: a knixt game where he throws for two hundred and
Speaker 3: forty five yards probably two touchdowns, won't have a ton
Speaker 3: of rushing production, won't have a rushing touchdown, and he'll
Speaker 3: be like quarterback thirteen, quarterback eleven, quarterback fifteen. He'll be
Speaker 3: perfectly fine. I just don't think the ceiling that we
Speaker 3: were excited about with bow Nicks a few weeks ago,
Speaker 3: I don't think that's present in this matchup.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna actually put two quarterbacks together here because
Speaker 1: I think this is really fascinating because when I say,
Speaker 1: what are those lines you know where you'll start to
Speaker 1: play volume. Jamis Winston, by the way, is the He's
Speaker 1: the example. He's the player that really always comes up
Speaker 1: in the question. But there's not a lot of other guys.
Speaker 1: It's usually, Hey, Jamis Winston throws forty eight times a game,
Speaker 1: there's volume. Do I play him over bo bop Fits?
Speaker 1: And we'll come back to you on Winston, Scott, but Fits,
Speaker 1: I specifically bring this up because you are very high
Speaker 1: on Jameis Winston. This week. You have Winston one spot
Speaker 1: above bow Knicks. So bow Knicks is like, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: this line of like, I'm one of the top guys.
Speaker 1: After that, I don't even think about it players yet,
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston is one. You are jumping over him. So
Speaker 1: Nicks versus Winston.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and what Scott said about bow Nicks' is curtailed running.
Speaker 2: Over the first nine weeks of the season, Nicks averaged
Speaker 2: six point four rushing attempts a game and thirty two
Speaker 2: point eight rushing yards, and he had four touchdown runs
Speaker 2: over those first nine games. Over his last four games,
Speaker 2: nine rushing attempts, nine yards, no touchdowns. So yeah, that's
Speaker 2: on the other hand, like his passing has He's become
Speaker 2: more productive as a passer, like multiple touchdown passes and
Speaker 2: six of his last nine games he's thrown for at
Speaker 2: least two hundred and seventy three yards in each of
Speaker 2: his last three. So that's good, But yeah, we don't
Speaker 2: have quite the ceiling that we did before. Meanwhile, Jamis Winston,
Speaker 2: he has averaged forty three point two pass attempts over
Speaker 2: his six starts. He has thrown forty one pass attempts
Speaker 2: or more in all but one of those games, averaging
Speaker 2: three hundred and fifteen passing yards two touchdown passes a game. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a tough matchup against Kansas City this week, but
Speaker 2: you can't run on the Chiefs. How do you think
Speaker 2: the Browns are going to try to move the ball
Speaker 2: against the Chiefs. They're gonna let Jamis throw it forty
Speaker 2: eight times this week. Yeah, maybe he has like three
Speaker 2: pick sixes mixed in there, but they're going to keep
Speaker 2: letting that dude throw it around the yard. And like,
Speaker 2: unless your league is severely penal for interceptions and pick
Speaker 2: six is I want that passing yardage in the TD
Speaker 2: potential with Jameis Winston, Like I can't believe his ECR
Speaker 2: is QB eighteen or whatever it is, Like, are you
Speaker 2: not seeing this guy like throw it every snap on
Speaker 2: offense practice?
Speaker 1: Well that's the question. Then, Caz Scott, you've got him
Speaker 1: pretty lot. I don't know if you made any rank adjustment,
Speaker 1: but you've got him around that ECR range. So you
Speaker 1: guys are like on the opposite ends of the rank
Speaker 1: side of Jameis Winston. But it's tough, and that is
Speaker 1: a really tough defense. Like, yeah, you can't run, but like,
Speaker 1: can you also thrown?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 1: Can you be efficient? What's your take on Jameis Winston
Speaker 1: with your much lower rank?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have bumped him up to QB sixteen. I
Speaker 3: realized that doesn't match the enthusiasm that Pat was giving.
Speaker 3: But you have to look at the shape of this offense, right,
Speaker 3: I mean they most games, they seem to junk the
Speaker 3: running game. Nick Chubb is a compromise player this season,
Speaker 3: which is no fun to say because we all love
Speaker 3: Nick Chubb and Winston has receivers pass catchers who can
Speaker 3: elevate him. I mean, Judy can make yards after the catch.
Speaker 3: Elijah Moore has been productive the last few weeks, David
Speaker 3: and Joku's one of the best tight ends we'll see
Speaker 3: if they get Tillman back this week. So I feel
Speaker 3: like whatever Cleveland does do against a good Kansas City
Speaker 3: defense will be through the air. It's just a matter
Speaker 3: of how much does he give back. There's going to
Speaker 3: be at least one interception, maybe two, maybe a fumble.
Speaker 3: So you there's always you're pouring water into the Winston bucket.
Speaker 3: There's a hole in that bucket. Some of it's going
Speaker 3: to leak out. That's part of the game, and you
Speaker 3: have to play to your scoring system. I just to
Speaker 3: give you an idea, I have him over Jordan Love,
Speaker 3: I have him over Anthony Richardson. I have him over
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers, Drake May. I don't really know what to
Speaker 3: do with Matthew Stafford. Him and Winston will be a
Speaker 3: call I would probably make very close to kickoff on Thursday.
Speaker 3: Of course, Stafford's tied to two really good receivers, so
Speaker 3: that helps him out, but no Russian component at all,
Speaker 3: and a lot of times Williams is going to steal
Speaker 3: the touchdowns. But so Winston. It's a cheap thing to say.
Speaker 3: Always a really good quarterback too, and mostly people only
Speaker 3: start one quarterback, and I think you probably have somebody
Speaker 3: better than Winston. The good news is you'll want to
Speaker 3: use him next week against Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Boy after watching SINCEINTI hundred percent one last quarterback question,
Speaker 1: because again our hyper focus is on like the top
Speaker 1: twelve guys is justin Herbert. So I do find this
Speaker 1: one difficult. It's a good matchup. We want to know
Speaker 1: the health of Ladd. Obviously, they've their running game is
Speaker 1: kind of black right now. Herbert comes in at twelve,
Speaker 1: and you guys are on opposite end. So Scott, let's
Speaker 1: go back to you, because you are the high man.
Speaker 1: So it's like what you guys have done is you've
Speaker 1: essentially flipped where your version of Winston is Herbert or
Speaker 1: you guys are just on the opposite ends where you
Speaker 1: have Herbert, Fitz has Winston and then the opposite end
Speaker 1: of you're really low and Fits is really low on Herbert.
Speaker 1: So talk to us about Herbert in this Tampa Bay matchup.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna need to get good news on Maconkey
Speaker 3: because if I don't, I'm not going to want to
Speaker 3: play Herbert. But Tampa Bay's the team you can certainly
Speaker 3: throw on. And Herbert's a tough call because he's been
Speaker 3: really good for efficiency, but a lot of fantasy football
Speaker 3: is volume and opportunity, and the Chargers have just not
Speaker 3: played that way.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: You would think they would lean more into the passing
Speaker 3: game with Dobbins Herd and with Gus Edwards just going nowhere.
Speaker 3: And I don't know when they're going to lean into
Speaker 3: Vidal as somebody they trust. It hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 1: But Herbert.
Speaker 3: If mconkee is a clear go, then I think Herbert
Speaker 3: is somebody you can play this week. And if he's not,
Speaker 3: you know, even with the Tampa Bay matchup, I don't
Speaker 3: trust Quinton Johnson.
Speaker 1: I know we had a touchdown last week.
Speaker 3: Guys like Palmer I feel like can disappoint anytime. Even
Speaker 3: Will Disley, who was a useful tight end, is now hurt.
Speaker 3: We'll see if Smart can be a sleep attend and
Speaker 3: for some people, but to me, it all comes down
Speaker 3: to mconkie. I'll have Herbert inside the top twelve and
Speaker 3: Maconkey's ago, and if he's not, I'm going to have
Speaker 3: to push him into that non startable range.
Speaker 1: Fits is your rank with the assumption that Mconkie is
Speaker 1: not playing or currently because he's questionable all or there
Speaker 1: a just bigger concerns.
Speaker 2: Kind of a hedge. I'm sort of that ranking is
Speaker 2: based on fifty to fifty. I'll move him up a
Speaker 2: couple of spots if Lad plays, for sure, but not
Speaker 2: that high. Like for instance, in one of the leagues
Speaker 2: where I've got a wild card game this week, we
Speaker 2: have deep rosters, so everyone carries multiple quarterbacks. I'm carrying
Speaker 2: Brock Purty and Justin Herbert, and ECR has Purty at
Speaker 2: QB eight and Herbert QB twelve, So ECR does prefer Purty,
Speaker 2: but maybe it's close enough where you would compare carefully
Speaker 2: before making a decision. For me, just a snap call
Speaker 2: with Purty. Like Herbert is banged up, he's dealing with
Speaker 2: that leg injury after the big hit by Nick Bolton
Speaker 2: last week in the game against the Chiefs, and he's
Speaker 2: not going to have Will Disley, and he may not
Speaker 2: have Ladd McConkie, and he's certainly not going to have
Speaker 2: one hundred percent Ladd McConkie since Ladd is dealing with
Speaker 2: these knee and shoulder issues. I mean, Herbert is left
Speaker 2: with a pretty poor group of pass catchers if he
Speaker 2: doesn't have Ladd in this game, because we know Quentin
Speaker 2: Johnston is wildly undependable. Josh Palmer has kind of hit
Speaker 2: or miss Jalen Rager, Darius Davis like with Herbert playing
Speaker 2: on a bad wheel and with a depleted group of
Speaker 2: pass catchers, like he's just not a guy want to
Speaker 2: bet on.
Speaker 3: You have two things fighting against each other in this game,
Speaker 3: because Tampa Bay wants to play a shootout and the
Speaker 3: Chargers are one of those Steelers type teams. They want
Speaker 3: to play seventeen thirteen football, and Jim Harbour wants to
Speaker 3: beat you with fiscality and controlling the clock and with
Speaker 3: a very boring style that's been effective and it's made
Speaker 3: the Chargers of playoff team. So what wins out? Does
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay get their carnival or do the Chargers play
Speaker 3: they're boring? Where the first game to end in our window,
Speaker 3: which is so often Charger games are. I'm curious to
Speaker 3: see which style of play wins out.
Speaker 1: On Sunday, let's go over to the tight end ranks.
Speaker 1: Here your top twelve for the week. As per always,
Speaker 1: he's very chocky at the top. Rock Bowers at one
Speaker 1: Trey mcbrided too. I think that's just no brainer. George
Speaker 1: Kittle at three again where no brainer territory. Things start
Speaker 1: to open up a little bit. Travis Kelty, Kelsey, David
Speaker 1: and Joke. Who rounds out your top five? We've got
Speaker 1: John news Smith, TJ. Howkinson, Sam Laporta, Mark Andrews, Tucker Craft,
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram and Pat Pryermouth. So the line starts to
Speaker 1: open up, I think right after seven. Obviously Andrews and
Speaker 1: Laporta have been a little bit better. The touchdown equity
Speaker 1: is up there, So that's I think where the tight
Speaker 1: end questions start to exist. So let's jump over to
Speaker 1: Tucker Craft. There's an interesting one tight end ten. Scott's
Speaker 1: got him at ten and fits you got him at eight.
Speaker 1: So talk to us about any optimism on tucker Craft.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really hard to pin down target counts with
Speaker 2: the Green Bay pass catchers. It's just really wildly unpredictable
Speaker 2: week to week. And Matt Lafleur has talked about this
Speaker 2: and like he gets angry at press conferences when people
Speaker 2: ask him about the disappearances of pass catchers such as oh,
Speaker 2: for instance, Jaden Reed, who had one target in that
Speaker 2: shootout game against the Lions last week. But Kraft has
Speaker 2: been a guy who Jordan Love has kind of leaned on,
Speaker 2: and he leans on him, especially when he gets close
Speaker 2: to the red zone. In the ten games the Packers
Speaker 2: have played since Jordan Love came back from that early
Speaker 2: season knee injury, Kraft has seven touchdowns in those ten games. Like,
Speaker 2: he does seem to be the preferred red zone target
Speaker 2: for Jordan Love, and he's averaged a pretty respectable forty
Speaker 2: four point four yards per game over those ten that
Speaker 2: ten game stretch playing with Jordan Love. Yeah, so the
Speaker 2: touchdown upside here and a decent yardage floor, I think
Speaker 2: he's a pretty solid play here. You know, not one
Speaker 2: of the guys obviously you wish you had a no
Speaker 2: brainer start like Brock Bowers or Trey McBride, But if
Speaker 2: you're one of those people who's kind of scraping by
Speaker 2: a tight end, I mean, I think Tucker Craft looks
Speaker 2: pretty good in Week fifteen, Scott.
Speaker 1: If the top four guys are the first tier Bowers, McBride, Kittle,
Speaker 1: even Kelsey, and you just like don't think about them,
Speaker 1: then there's that next tier where it's like in Djoku,
Speaker 1: john Ou Hawkinson, Okay, great, does Tucker Craft belong in
Speaker 1: this third tier, which I would say the third tier
Speaker 1: is the last of like should I get crazy and
Speaker 1: stream and that tier can theoretically consists of Tucker Craft,
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram, maybe Pat Fryarmouth in there. Do you think
Speaker 1: Kraft is in that spot where I know I created
Speaker 1: like three different tiers, but like three, the third tier
Speaker 1: is the I'm not getting too cute unless I had
Speaker 1: some incredible matchup. I'm not starting a Juwan Johnson from
Speaker 1: last week or anybody like that like that. He is
Speaker 1: trustworthy at ten, though he doesn't have the upside clearly
Speaker 1: of like, you know, Hawkinson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'm not even sure he's that far
Speaker 3: from Hawkinson. In my revised ranks, I have Craft more
Speaker 3: in line with Pat. I think he said tight end
Speaker 3: eight for me, and it's because not just of that
Speaker 3: touchdown equity, which is always going to be a huge
Speaker 3: part of any tight end question. But I love the
Speaker 3: way they use creatively Kraft, where he gets a lot
Speaker 3: of those tight end screens where the blockers are downfield,
Speaker 3: he catches it and there's a twenty yard splash play
Speaker 3: waiting to happen. He's got thirteen point four yards per catch,
Speaker 3: which is outstanding for a tight end. That's passable for
Speaker 3: a wide receiver. So in a year where the Green
Speaker 3: Bay pass, the opportunities are splintered, and Matt Laford's answering
Speaker 3: those questions he doesn't want to answer. He's getting kind
Speaker 3: of surly about it because of Jayden Reed disappearing, or
Speaker 3: you never know what you're getting from Christian Watson, and
Speaker 3: Dobbs has been in the lineup, and Wicks has been
Speaker 3: in and out of relevance. I actually feel like Kraft
Speaker 3: has a reasonable four. The thing is he's just never
Speaker 3: going to be peppered with targets. But this is the
Speaker 3: tight end position. We can live with five or eight targets.
Speaker 3: It's goal line equity. Maybe he hits one of those
Speaker 3: screenplays for twenty yards. I feel pretty confident he'll be
Speaker 3: inside the top ten if you have Tucker Craft, if
Speaker 3: you landed on him and I realized you may have
Speaker 3: picked him up and I already had a good tight end,
Speaker 3: I feel like he's probably been locked into your lineup
Speaker 3: more often than not, and I'm totally fine with it.
Speaker 3: I will sleep like a baby with Tucker Craft in
Speaker 3: my week fifteen lineup.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of Tucker Craft shares.
Speaker 2: I want to start him just for that cool kip
Speaker 2: up he did after the crushing hit he took last
Speaker 2: week against the Lions. That was very impressive.
Speaker 3: I did not know how long ago it was that
Speaker 3: I could actually do that, you know, seven or nine
Speaker 3: or eleven, I don't know.
Speaker 1: My kids are both in dance and I didn't know
Speaker 1: that that move. If people know, it's like the thing
Speaker 1: you flip back up. I didn't know that was called
Speaker 1: the kip up until they were in dance, and now
Speaker 1: I've learned it, and all I could think about is like,
Speaker 1: how difficult that had to be with a helmet and
Speaker 1: pads on.
Speaker 3: So yes, athletically, I didn't know he was called a
Speaker 3: kip up until Pat fitzmoorri said it about fifteen seconds ago.
Speaker 3: But which goes to show you for the Mary Tyler
Speaker 3: Moore references, not for the kipup references. Maybe Pat of course,
Speaker 3: showing his ability to weave in between errors, which is
Speaker 3: why he's so great.
Speaker 2: But like mister Welsh, I had a child in dance,
Speaker 2: so you know my daughter actually had to learn how
Speaker 2: to do that.
Speaker 1: So that Yeah, both of my kids are doing that
Speaker 1: all day and I'm like, please stop it. Please.
Speaker 2: You know these things when you're a dance dad.
Speaker 1: Now that's one hundred percent right, all right? Final one
Speaker 1: here is Jake Ferguson, a streaming tight end for the week.
Speaker 1: He usually is ranking outside of the top twelve. His
Speaker 1: ECR this week is fourteen. Scott, you have him, I
Speaker 1: think right on cube. But FITZI you've got him at twelve.
Speaker 1: So fits Ferguson streaming tight end this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you could stream him. And it's mainly
Speaker 2: matchup driven. The Panthers have allowed the most fantasy points
Speaker 2: to tight ends, and they've allowed a league high ten
Speaker 2: touchdown catches to tight ends. Ferguson has played three games
Speaker 2: with Cooper Rush at quarterback. He missed two with a concussion,
Speaker 2: and really it's more like two games because one of
Speaker 2: those three games he sustained that concussion after only seven snaps.
Speaker 2: So in those two games plus, he's had eight catches
Speaker 2: for sixty seven yards. Not that impressive, but like, there's
Speaker 2: not a lot of pass catching firepower on this Cowboys
Speaker 2: team other than Ceedee Lamb obviously, Brandon cook starting to
Speaker 2: work his way back in, but man like, this matchup
Speaker 2: does drive me to Jake Ferguson, who's been a pretty
Speaker 2: reliable tight end for the Cowboys in the past yet
Speaker 2: hasn't looked great so far with Cooper Rush. But I
Speaker 2: wouldn't say that it can't in this plus matchup, Scott.
Speaker 1: If you're staring at a guy like Pat Fryarmouth, is
Speaker 1: Ferguson a streaming tight end, You're getting over a guy
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's rare where Pat and I have a sharp disagreement,
Speaker 3: but I'm gonna have it here. No touchdowns for Ferguson
Speaker 3: this year. I realized he's been hurt for a decent
Speaker 3: chunk of the season and also eight point seven yards
Speaker 3: per catch. I need one or two things to work.
Speaker 3: I need to touchdown equity. I need the ability of
Speaker 3: a splash player, maybe even a quarterback to elevate. He
Speaker 3: doesn't check any of those.
Speaker 1: Boxes right now.
Speaker 3: I get it. You want to gang up on Carolina,
Speaker 3: and I think Ricco Dolla will do that. I think
Speaker 3: Ceedee Lamb will do that. Cooks did have a touchdown
Speaker 3: last week, so there's another month to feed. I just
Speaker 3: want I don't mind going set on seating some guys,
Speaker 3: but Ferguson's has been hurt so much this year. Other
Speaker 3: Schoomaker has actually looked pretty good. I think he's still
Speaker 3: going to have a role even with Ferguson back on
Speaker 3: the field. We saw that in the Monday night game.
Speaker 3: So Ferguson is somebody I have to really be in
Speaker 3: a pinch before I played him.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Friarmoth.
Speaker 3: He's an easy preference for me, even something as ugly
Speaker 3: as Evan Ingram, the Jaguars man Max Jones. I hate
Speaker 3: what he's doing to that offense. I hated what Trevor
Speaker 3: Lawrence is doing into it. I hated what Doug Peterson
Speaker 3: is doing to it. But Ingram I could play over Ferguson.
Speaker 3: I could play Friar Mooth over him. Even k dott And,
Speaker 3: who's become kind of unreliable of late, is somebody I
Speaker 3: have ranked above Ferguson.
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