WEBVTT - First Round Domination! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.840 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.480 source for the nation's best fantasy. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:10.520 Speculation and advice. 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:15.280 Now, along with the guys from guatin leagues dot com, 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:17.600 here's your host, Paul Chargian. 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.439 Welcome to the first round of the playoffs. Yes, we're 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:25.960 finally here. You've been working for fourteen weeks and now 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:29.800 it's do or die. Every week counts. We're here to 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:33.200 help on Paul Charchi and Coast Today, Brian Johnson and 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.800 thor Nystrom. Hey, guys, what's up boys. 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.879 I think everyone has worked very hard, the hardest everyone's 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:40.600 ever worked in they make the playoffs this year in 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:42.519 fantasy football, it deals like this year. 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:44.400 It's been a tough road. Yeah, it has been a 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.400 tough road. If you made it in congratulations. I'll say 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:51.320 this though. The big mistake that I think people make 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:53.840 is they get to the playoffs and they feel a 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:58.040 certain sense of like entitlement that because they they've gotten 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.480 their roster to the playoffs, that done, they don't need 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:03.920 to do anything anymore. They're gonna just start the guys 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:08.039 that got you there. You can't stop working now. 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:10.360 No, this is the wrong time. This is where the 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:11.000 work begins. 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.120 That's right, So don't feel like you got to just 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.200 go with the guys that got you there. You know, 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.560 were you the one that pivoted to Zamir White you 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.600 know on Thursday night? Those are the kinds of moves 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:24.200 that are gonna give you playoff wins. 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:24.600 Correct. 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.200 We're here to help. We're gonna break down all fifteen 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.560 of the remaining games, including the Saturday schedule. We will 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:32.840 give you the nine players upon whom you can take 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.240 a chance, and we'll answer three tough questions later in 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.880 this show, Brian, let's jump right into the matchups. Pittsburgh 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:42.120 Steelers taking on the Colts. The one two punch of 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:47.480 Nase Harris and Jalen Warden were pretty much stopped last week. 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.400 What do you think of the running backs in this 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:51.760 game against the Colts. 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.400 Yeah, it's a better matchup this week for Warren and Harris. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:56.520 Both should get. 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.960 Decent usage against the Colts, who have yielded the fourth 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.880 and most rush attempts by running backs, and they've allowed 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:05.160 sixteen total touchdowns to the position. That's the third most 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.560 starting with Warren. Among running backs with one hundred plus carries. 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:14.280 Warren ranks first in yards per carry, yards after contact 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:19.079 per carry and mistackles forced per carry, but he continues 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.760 to split time with Harris, who has been less efficient 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.799 but still not bad. No posting decent fantasy numbers. So 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:26.240 I got to see on both of them, but they're 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.440 gonna continue to eat each other's lunch. So just to 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.680 see for Warren and Harris, and a C for Deontay Johnson, 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.560 and I got George Pickens on the bench, So going 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.600 back to Johnson. Since his return in week seven, Pickens 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.120 has an eighteen percent target share, which is not a lot, 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.240 actually it's kind of bad. And Pickens hasn't scored since 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.600 Week eight, and during that same span, Pickens has topped 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.200 sixty receiving yards just once. So I'm just starting Johnson 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.800 out of these two, who's scored in back to back games. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:58.720 And it's a fairly neutral matchup. The Colts allowing nearly 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:00.560 one hundred and fifty yards in a touch per game 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.520 to opposing wide receiver, so I think Johnson's a safer play, 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.359 So I'm off off off Pickins this week. I will 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.880 get Pat Fryer Muth to see the cold steps surrender 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.680 just two tight end touchdowns all season, but they are 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.120 allowing more than five and a half catches and fifty 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.600 five yards per game to the position. So Muth is 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.800 viable in the wasteland. Mitch Trubisky not viable. 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.480 Oh, I don't have my true I don't have my 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:24.640 sad trombone Ski. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.960 People, it's it's ingrained in their brains at this point. 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:29.320 They can hear it already. 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.080 It's sad Trump. We don't have time for it. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.840 We're not we're not. We're beyond Trubisky. We'll talk about him, 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:39.160 I probably never again. Continue over to the Colt side, 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.040 Zach Moss. He gets a be as expected. Moss has 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.160 been getting belcow usage with Jonathan Taylor out the last 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.920 two games. He's averaging nineteen touches. Moss is on nearly 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:54.680 ninety percent of the snaps, but he's only averaging fifty 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.720 seven combo yards with no touchdowns over the last two games. 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.800 Yeah, tough opponents, though, tough opponents. 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:04.280 A little better matchup here, But just based on volume alone, 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.680 you're gonna start Zach Moss against anyone at this point. 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:07.840 So I'm gonna give him a bee. 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:09.800 I don't think he has a upside this week, but 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.200 he should provide a safe B floor or at least 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.720 a C floor over to the wide receivers. Michael Pittman's 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.200 the only one that's getting a starting grade for me. 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:17.840 For the Colts. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.839 Pittman is averaging eleven and a half targets over his 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.960 last seven games. He's just been bawling out during that span. 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.640 This is not the best matchup. Pittsburgh hasn't allowed a 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:32.680 wide receiver touchdown in fourth straight. But Juju Smith, Schuster 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.279 and Jamar Chase both had at least eighty yards against 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.520 the Steelers over the last two weeks, so that should 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.719 be a safe floor for Pittman. So I'm still going 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.040 to give him a bee here. But Josh Downs, he's 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.840 on the bench. His yardage totals over the last five 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:50.520 thirty two, fourteen, forty three, forty and ten with no touchdowns, 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.000 had a nice run. But he's just a dynasty stash 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:54.960 right now. All the tight ends are on the bench 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:59.279 because the Colts deploy four of them, none named Jolannie Woods. 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.360 I'm sorry it's only because of injury, though it's unfortunate. 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:03.760 And Gardner Minshew. 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.000 I was close to giving him a CE, but with 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.440 elite edge rushers, T J. Watt and Alex high Smith 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:14.440 expected to play. I just can't you know, I can't 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.560 tell you to sort of Gardner Minshew in the playoffs. 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:18.200 I don't think I would do it either. That's it 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.520 for that one. Jets take on the Dolphins in what 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:25.680 could be a significant rain game. Thor are we chasing 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:29.919 the box score from AFC Offensive Player of the Week 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:34.320 Zach Wilson. I can't believe that string of words just 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:35.159 came out of my mouth. 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.440 Yeah, I can't believe I heard it. We're not. 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.480 This is a tougher matchup for Zack Wilson for sure. 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.200 You're alluding to a three hundred one passing yards and 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:46.320 two touchdowns. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:47.320 Against the Texas last week. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.000 But boy did the Texas have a future a secondary 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.599 which we're gonna be talking about later on. I give 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.719 Wilson a see here because of the tougher match He 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.240 did show something last week. But Dolphins have allowed the 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:02.039 seventh fewest yards per attempts week ten, so a tougher matchup. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.679 Like I said, Garrett Wilson, I'm gonna give him a bee. 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.920 He was the biggest benefactor of Zach Wilson's resurgence last week. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.600 Season high one hundred and eight receiving yards on fourteen targets. 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.440 This is a game script that is going to skew 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.480 very pass heavy. Obviously, the Jets are big underdogs in 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:22.080 this one, but you know, again tougher match up in 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.680 terms of the on field thing. Miami's allowed the sixth 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:28.120 most opponent of justin fantasy points to wide receivers this year, 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:32.600 and contextually very important here to note Jalen Ramsey's been 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.160 balling out since he came back. He's only allowed a 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:40.039 forty two percent catch rates. It's nothing nuts. Yeah, he's 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.240 not going to be shadowing Wilson here, but they're going 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.000 to be heads up on each other quite a bit 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.360 in this game. You have to dig Garrett Wilson a 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.159 little bit. I give him a bee. Also give a 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.880 B to Breese Hall. Breese Hall fantasy running back fifteen 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.200 so far, number five in yards after contact per attempt. 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:59.240 The Dolphins are top five though in suppressing explosive runs 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.719 and yards after for the contact since Week nine. So 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.920 we're gonna stick with a B on that one. Moving 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.839 to the Dolphins, I've give to a C in this one. 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.160 Last time he played the Jets, he threw two interceptions. 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.280 The Jets have allowed an NFL low yards per attempts 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.240 since Week eight, and also two has been trending down, 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.920 as you guys know, in terms of fantasy He's been 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.160 QB sixteen or worse in three of his last five games. 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.840 And the Tyreek Hill status, you know, is still up 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.520 in the air. I give Tyreek a beat if he plays, 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.120 but he missed significant time as you guys know, against 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.600 the Titans last week after he injured his ankle in 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.440 the first quarter. Only ended up playing forty six percent 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.720 of the snaps in that game. He said afterwards that 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.520 he wasn't able to cut and change directions like normal. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.520 And that, by the way, that's his gate, that's his. 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:49.800 Entire game, and so you take away his yeah, that movement, Yeah, 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.200 that's right. Yeah, it severely hampers him. He has not 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:57.240 practiced this week. He's officially questionable. Mike McDaniel was talking 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.240 to the media like, don't read too much into him 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.640 not practicing. So you could see him out there, but 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.000 if he does play, you got to curb your enthusiasm 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.880 because it's a tougher matchup against his Jets defense, and 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.560 he's obviously not going to be one hundred percent, so 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.440 b if he plays, I'm giving Jayalen Wattle a bee 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.640 as well in this one. He's going to get pounded 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.200 with the targets if Cheetah is out, but they don't 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:18.960 ever look at him in the red zone even when 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.280 Cheata's not on the field, So that's cut down on 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.760 Wattle's fantasy value this year, only at eight red zone 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.680 targets all season. The last time against the Jets, though 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:29.280 he did go eight for eight on targets for one 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.560 hundred and fourteen receiving yards. Devin Auchay and I'm giving 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.040 him a seat if he plays. He's the other big 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:36.600 one who's up in the air right now with his 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:40.760 status questionable with a toe injury mispractice on Wednesday. He 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:44.160 did return Thursday and Friday, but was limited. Workload's going 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.000 to be slash if he does end up going in 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.880 this one. Playable if you're desperate, if you know that 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.000 he's going to be playing in this game, but monitor 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.080 that status. Rocky Moster, I'm going to give him a bee. 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.480 He played sixty four percent of the snaps with twenty 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.480 two touches and one hundred total yards last week, and 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.520 this is a game where there could be Grand Slam 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:05.000 potential for him if Auchen is out big, if there 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:09.280 Jets have a run funnel defense. Opponents average more rush 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.680 attempts per game against the Jets and anyone else in 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.000 the NFL, we're given moster to be. 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.480 Yeah, this is up. This is gonna be a tricky matchup. 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.520 I get the feeling one or two Dolphins is going 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.360 to have a down game against a very good defense. 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.599 And guys who Dolphins that carried you into the playoffs 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.240 going to let some people down this week. Agreed, Bret 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.720 Bears take on the Browns, and this is two really, 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:34.560 really good defenses. And if you think Chicago's not, you're wrong. 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.160 Continue listening on. We'll start at the bare side of 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.040 the ball, though, justin fields better matchup than it appears 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:43.640 at first glance. Cleveland has a lot of consecutive three 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.320 touchdown passing games. After giving up none of those in 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.600 the first eleven games, the Browns have allowed five quarterback 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.320 rushing touchdowns that's third most in the league, and since 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:56.240 returning from injury, fields averaging eleven designed runs per game 0:09:56.600 --> 0:10:00.200 seventy four rushing yards per game. We're getting our be 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.960 two rushing production out of justin field, so B grade 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.559 right there. Even though it's a it is generally a 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:10.240 pretty tough passing matchup, made tougher by the ankle injury 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.640 to DJ Moore. You're gonna want to follow his status 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.240 as a game time decision, but it's a brutal matchup 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:19.000 against an elite secondary, especially if Denzel Ward, who's questionable, 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.199 can return from his shoulder injury. But even if he can't, 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.400 cornerbacks Martin Emerson and Greg Newsen have played great over 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.080 the last five weeks. They're giving up a less than 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:32.280 sixty percent catch rate and a forty four passer rating. 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:36.080 That's it. They've combined to allow zero touchdowns and four 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.920 interceptions over the course of the season. Your glimmer of 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.120 hope here is that Cleveland plays almost exclusively man coverage, 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.720 and DJ Moore is the seventh highest graded wide receiver 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.000 versus man coverage by Pro Football Focus. We've got a 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.400 C grade on DJ Moore, assuming he's able to go. 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.240 Cole Comet clocks in. Only two tight ends have posted 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.960 big games against the Browns. It Commet clocking with the 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.760 C Mark and Andrews and Evan Ingram last week had 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.200 big games against the Rounds. Everybody else has just been duds. 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:09.000 The other tight ends are averaging one and a half 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.720 catches for seventeen yards a game. I it's nothing. 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:17.560 Evan Ingram essentially octupled the per game averages. Yeah, catches, yards, 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.760 touchdowns last week unbelievable. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.920 Yeah. Comt has seen at least seven targets in five 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:24.719 of the past six games, but half of those are 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.120 with Tyler Bagen, who has dumping the ball to him constantly. 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.000 Fields has got a lot more up and down usage 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.240 with Kamet. I still think this is a a playable 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.280 entity here in Parks. They're not a lot of alternatives 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.680 have passed to see great on Comet. We'll talk about 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.839 don to Foreman next segment. Let's go over to the 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:44.520 Cleveland side. Joe Flacco has been shockingly good. It's funny 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.200 how he walked into this offense and looked more comfortable 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.760 in the Browns offense than the quarterbacks who are there 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.719 all year. For sure, he's thrown for five hundred and 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.400 sixty five yards and five touchdowns, but this is a 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.440 very tough matchup against a massively improved Bear secondary that's 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.560 held their last two quarterbacks they face to less than 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:06.640 two hundred passing yards and six combined interceptions. This is 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.600 a tricky matchup for Flacco, only a C grade for him. 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:11.760 Let's talk to his receivers, who all get C grades 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:15.240 as well, including David and Joko, averaging nearly eight targets 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.800 per game in his last three games, including season highs. 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.040 So Joe Flacco. Since way back in Week seven, the 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.680 Bears are much improved against tight ends, allowing just thirty 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:27.640 five yards to the position per game. They've given up 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.000 half a touchdown per game, which isn't bad, and that's 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:31.679 your best reason to start in Joko here and is 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.520 why he still gets a C grade as the prospect 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.760 of a touchdown. Amari Cooper is coming off a fourteen 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.559 target game, but he's going to get lighter usage here 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:43.760 for sure. He probably gets shadow coverage from emerging elite 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.760 cornerback Jayalen Johnson, who's just turned into a menace, just 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.600 one score all season allowed, and he's giving up a 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:55.760 forty eight percent catch rate opposing number one outside wideouts, 0:12:55.760 --> 0:13:01.920 having topped fifty seven receiving yards against Chicago since Week two. Wow, 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.480 so fifty seven feels like your absolute max for Amari Cooper, 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.839 and it's why he's just a C grade. Elijah Moore 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.800 comes into the C grade slot receivers avoid Jalen Johnson, 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.800 they fare better than their outside counterparts, although I will 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:16.480 note I'm on ros Saint Brown just got held to 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.120 a season low last week, so even Elijah were not 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.080 a sure thing. Moore has top forty two yards in 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:23.920 five straight games, which I like, and he's had the 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.440 upticking usage and better passing frankly from Joe Flacco, but 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.600 he scored just once all season. C grade there, and 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:32.600 then the last guy I want to talk about, Jerome Ford. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:37.199 The Bears have turned into just a fantastic run stuffing defense. 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:41.319 No back his top seventy six yards all year, although 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.720 both of the Detroit backs said sixty six yards last week. 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.600 I'll mention that Chicago's only given up three rushing touchdowns 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.080 since back in Week three. Ford has cut eight of 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.480 nine targets from Joe Flacco, so I like that. And 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.440 the Bears allow the most receiving yards to opposing running 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.320 backs fifty eight per game. So you start forward in 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:02.319 PPR formats with a C raid. When we come back, 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:07.880 take a chance on me nine players not normally in 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:09.920 your starting lineup. I already tipped my hand for one 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:13.400 of them. Find out who the other eight are when 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:42.200 we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Take a chance 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:45.000 on me. Nine players not normally in your starting lineup. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.800 Find out who they are right here, beginning at the 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.480 quarterback position, and Brian Johnson take a chance. Forget about it. 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:53.600 I got Tommy DeVito at the Saints. 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:57.320 Over here, opposing quarterbacks were averaging around two hundred passing 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.520 yards and one and a half passing touchdowns per against 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.640 the Saints. That's decent production. But the real angle here 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.920 is the rushing. New Orleans has allowed the second most 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.240 rushing yards to quarterbacks. Five of the last six they 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.000 faced have run for at least forty yards. And I'm 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.920 also gonna guess Tommy Dee remembers that the Saints decided 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:19.960 to pick Jake Hayner over him with the one and 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.840 twenty seventh overall pick in the fourth round. Spike game incoming, 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:25.840 and let me take this a little further, all right, 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.320 Spike game last week for de Vito against the Packers. 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.240 They took a quarterback, and thor will do all these quarterbacks. 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:37.400 Then it's the Saints. Yeah, and then Eagles. Everyone he 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.040 faces in the Rams, Eagles, Rams, Eagles, they all took 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.440 a quarterback in the fourth round or later over Tommy DeVito. 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.200 He's going to run the table on all these fools. 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.360 All right, thor you're taking to some quarterback. 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:49.960 I'm going with Will Levis and this one another guy 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.440 was taking ahead of Tommy DeVito, and I can't believe 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.440 I'm stumping for him here. Levis and the Titans are 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.120 playing the Texans this week. Since Levis got into the 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.160 starting lineup, he's been a fantasy q you know, super 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:05.239 flex league startable, okay, fringish, you know, twelve. 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:06.480 Team super flex QB two. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.680 But there's a possibility that he could be at QB one, 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.360 I think in standard twelve team leagues this week against 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.880 a rans at Texans pass defense. And for anyone out 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.000 there right now who's thinking that is a crazy thing 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.600 to say. Zach Wilson through for three hundred plus yards 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.560 and two touchdowns against his tech Texans secondary last week. 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:23.960 They're very, very bad. 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.160 The Texans have allowed the second highest yards per attempts 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.240 since Week nine. And the last thing the Titans are 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:31.880 gonna be wearing those Oilers uniforms. 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:32.800 You want a piece of that. 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:34.280 They're gonna looking flashy. 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:37.360 This week in Houston too. That's like a it's not 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.880 a revenge game. It's like a uniform, just like I 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:41.080 like that. 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:41.760 I don't like it. 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:43.840 I love it, like it, I do it. I like it. 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.600 Matthew Stafford is kind of an obvious pick. I went, 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.120 I went obvious choice here, so just beare me out. 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.600 Washington is the opponent. They're the league's worst pass defense, 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:56.000 and it's not close. They've allowed the most passing touchdowns thirty. 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.880 With four weeks to go in the season, Washington has 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.920 already allowed more pass touchdowns than thirty one of thirty 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.359 two teams did all of last season. Nine of the 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:10.680 last ten quarterbacks to face Washington have thrown for multiple touchdowns, 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:12.480 and the only guy who didn't was Mac Jones, and 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.720 he does not count. After a very slow start, Stafford's 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.600 been red hot four touchdowns, three touchdowns, three touchdowns the 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.760 last three weeks. I think he's an obvious start. In fact, 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.280 I think he's my number five or six fantasy quarterback 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.560 This week. To go to the running back position, Brian. 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.080 I've got Atlanta's Tyler Algier at the Panthers. These teams 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.879 first met back in Week one, and Algier outproduced Bijon 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:37.480 Robinson Algier at ninety four combo yards and two touchdowns 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.399 on eighteen touches. Bijeon has been getting more of the 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.239 work as of late, as we all know, but there 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.200 should be enough meat on the bone in this very 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.680 juicy matchup, which is going to be played in torrential rain. 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.160 They're saying like two to three inches, Yeah, twenty mile 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.040 prour wins and no one throws on the Panthers anyway, 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.400 who have allowed the most rushing yards and rushing touchdowns 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.760 at running backs. And that's pretty easy to do when 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.679 you've yielded the second most red zone touches to running 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.600 backs and the second most touches in gold to ghost scenarios. 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.640 So Tyler l jeer viable this week? All right, let's 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.400 go to Thori. You take a chance with me running back. 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.200 Let's get another share of those oilers' uniforms. All right, 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:18.960 We're going with Taj Spears a frequent frequent appearances. I 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.240 think he's old, second only to Baker Mayfield. And take 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:22.399 a chance on the appearances. 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.320 Home run hitter thirteen touches for one hundred and eighteen 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.520 yards on sixty six percent of the snaps last week. 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.960 There's an opportunity for another good game here. The Texans 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:35.160 not only have the mediocre run defense, but they're bottom 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.800 ten in the league in receptions allowed and receiving receiving 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.919 yardage allowed. I'm sorry to opposing running backs. Taja has 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:44.120 been getting some of those receiving looks and he can 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:47.000 break off any touchdown he gets for a touchdown. The 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:49.080 game script is also going to be in his favor 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.000 here with the Texans starting Davis Mills and that injury 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:53.400 decimated wide receiving core. 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.200 Houston's gonna get rolled exactly. 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:56.960 Yeah, and Spears is going to get the touches, and 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.600 he has been incredible on a per touch basis this year. 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.000 Doctor Foreman is the player who's alluding to last segment. 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.359 Last week, he was the clearback for lead back for 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:09.639 Chicago fifty five percent snap rate and Rochdown Johnson and 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:14.040 Khalil Herbert combined for four carries. Since returning from injury 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:16.960 in Week eleven, Foreman's gotten one hundred percent of the 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.879 team's carries from inside the five yard line and a 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.919 touchdown is a very real possibility here. Cleveland has allowed 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.640 six rushing touchdowns in the last five games. They've also 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.960 started giving up more yards ninety seven running back rushing 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.159 yards per game over the last five weeks. That's a 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:34.679 much more yielding Brown's run defense than we were used to. 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:37.560 Let's go to the receivers, Brian, who you got. 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:41.919 I'm pairing Wandale Robinson with Tommy DeVito at the Saints slot. 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.560 Receivers have been showing up week over week against the Saints. 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.040 Adam Thielen five catches seventy four yards, a Monro Saint 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:52.000 Brown forty nine yards in a touchdown, Darnell Mooney five 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:55.359 catches for eighty two yards, Josh Downs seven catches for 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:59.320 seventy two yards, Christian Kirk six for ninety in a touchdown. 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:02.240 Robert Woods scored against the Saints. The list goes on 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:06.040 and on. So wandel Robinson, who's also balling out, Yeah, 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:07.920 and they're getting the ball in his hands, whether they're 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.359 throwing it to him, handing it off. So I like 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.320 the Vito in Robinson a lot, bearing them. 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:14.240