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Speaker 1: Welcome to week number nine. Everybody, It's Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: I'm Paul Charchi and co hosts today are Scott Fish
Speaker 1: and Matt Harrison.
Speaker 4: Hey, guys, Hey, I have barely done any shows with
Speaker 4: Fish this year.
Speaker 5: I know I did a good job with the schedule.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I looked at the calendar. I think
Speaker 4: this is our last show together. It is our last
Speaker 4: show together. You really messed with that calendar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll try to make it as impactful as possible.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I like doing shows with thor better anyway.
Speaker 1: Yes, Now, we'll go through all of the games as always.
Speaker 1: Take a chance on me, three tough questions, premature speculation,
Speaker 1: lots of stuff to get to.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: If you are anything like me, you ha DeVante Adams
Speaker 1: going on Thursday night, you had a little heart failure
Speaker 1: there when he had the very modest game going, got
Speaker 1: knocked out and he came back scored a long touchdown.
Speaker 1: Oh man, you can even get drama on Thursday night
Speaker 1: in fantasy football. Sure, yes, absolutely, we had one. We
Speaker 1: had Catch of the Year on Thursday Night by Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 1: That was amazing.
Speaker 4: We love Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that that catch was so close it
Speaker 1: turned into a discussion on exactly where does the shin
Speaker 1: end and the me start. I mean, it's a game
Speaker 1: of inches, as they say, lots of games to get through,
Speaker 1: including the Chargers taking on Cleveland. Now, Scott, this one
Speaker 1: is fascinating a lot of different ways, most of it
Speaker 1: on the Cleveland side with Jamis Winston and the second
Speaker 1: start and we talk more about that in a second.
Speaker 1: On the Chargers side, this is JK. Dobbins has been good, right,
Speaker 1: DoD Grady came out of the gates awesome, but you know,
Speaker 1: just kind of been okay since then. What do you
Speaker 1: think in this matchup for JK?
Speaker 5: Down You still got to love his eighteen touches per
Speaker 5: game and you got to love that he you know,
Speaker 5: gets several several targets per game and he's coming off
Speaker 5: his highest target share of the year. Saw that's going
Speaker 5: in his favor. He does get that top ten defense
Speaker 5: versus fantasy backs in Cleveland. They've allowed almost nothing through
Speaker 5: the air, just to Poultry twenty four yards per game.
Speaker 5: But Jak gets a bit more work there and running
Speaker 5: backs than the other running backs Chargers have played. The
Speaker 5: highest rushing performance against the Browns is just seventy three
Speaker 5: yards and that was Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: So you need to hope for a score, maybe some catches.
Speaker 5: The Browns have given up four scores in the last
Speaker 5: four weeks. I should note the Browns have allowed the
Speaker 5: most twenty plus yard runs, so maybe they're a little
Speaker 5: ben don't break and Dobbins has five twenty plus runs
Speaker 5: on his own. I could see him breaking one here.
Speaker 5: I gave him a B grade. But I can see
Speaker 5: I can see going lower, can see it. But yeah,
Speaker 5: I give him a B grade. Here In the passing game,
Speaker 5: justin Herbert, I gave a B grade too. His last
Speaker 5: two weeks have been the best of his year, over
Speaker 5: three hundred yards in each couple scores. Two weeks ago,
Speaker 5: the Browns have allowed multiple scores in three straights to Hurts, Burrow,
Speaker 5: and Jackson. So some really good quarterbacks ruled out Denzil
Speaker 5: A Ward ruled out just a B grade here, as
Speaker 5: the Chargers do look to slow the player, slow the
Speaker 5: pace usually and run more, and the Browns are only
Speaker 5: allowing too hundred and sixteen passing yards per game, so
Speaker 5: Herbert's going to have to beat that and score to
Speaker 5: get there. But I got a B grade on him.
Speaker 5: I have an A grade on his lead guy, Lad McConkie,
Speaker 5: who thor is probably happy man smooth out running. He
Speaker 5: leads the team in targets, receptions, in yards, six plus
Speaker 5: targets in five straight, six red zone targets, which is
Speaker 5: triple any other Chargers receiver. If you do the math
Speaker 5: on that, that's two two or less on other receivers.
Speaker 5: The Browns have allowed six wide receivers over one hundred
Speaker 5: and or a score and the last three games, so
Speaker 5: you're gonna get one of those here. Probably Cleveland runs
Speaker 5: man defense on third highest rate Ladd McConkie second highest
Speaker 5: yards per route run versus man only second to Justin Jefferson,
Speaker 5: So this is where he feasts, so I got an
Speaker 5: A grade on Himkie. He's also rolling out of the
Speaker 5: slot sixty two percent of the time. That's where he
Speaker 5: finds the best matchup against Greg Newsom, who is allowing
Speaker 5: one hundred and twelve point seven passer rating against. Just
Speaker 5: a great spot for Lad McConkie. Here, Quentin Johnson, I
Speaker 5: gave a C grade to more of a big play guy.
Speaker 5: Browns have allowed the fourth most twenty plus yards twenty
Speaker 5: plus yard completions. That also goes with their runs. Allow
Speaker 5: a ton of too, a lot of big chunk plays
Speaker 5: against the Browns. Apparently he's back after a two game absence.
Speaker 5: Before that, he was outperforming Josh Palmer in all but
Speaker 5: one game they played together, so I left Palmer on
Speaker 5: the bench. Will Disley I also have on the bench.
Speaker 5: He's had two really good games last two games with
Speaker 5: her its best too, but the volume's likely to be lower,
Speaker 5: and the Browns have allowed an average of four for
Speaker 5: forty two yards to tight ends per game and only
Speaker 5: one score on the entire year. Just doesn't even have
Speaker 5: a score. Yeah over On the other side, Jameis Winston
Speaker 5: gave us C grade. Here had three hundred and thirty
Speaker 5: four yards the win last week. Deshaun Watson didn't even
Speaker 5: hit three hundred yards as a Brown.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, isn't that amazing? Watson is like one
Speaker 1: game exactly one game. Flacco did the same thing last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Flacco in his six starts, I think five were over
Speaker 1: three hundred yards and Watson couldn't do it. Ever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Chargers like to slow the game, so that's
Speaker 5: that's part of the reason. And also the quarterbacks they
Speaker 5: have faced that they allow the fourth fewest yards per
Speaker 5: game and just six passing touchdowns in seven games. That's
Speaker 5: third fewest, and that all sounds good. Yeah, you made
Speaker 5: passing reference to the quarterbacks the Chargers have faced. And
Speaker 5: this is what makes me feel like the Chargers could
Speaker 5: be a paper tiger where it looks like it could
Speaker 5: be paper Gardner Minshew opposing quarterbacks Gardner Minshew, Sense benched,
Speaker 5: Bryce Young Sence benched, Justin Fields. Sense benched last week,
Speaker 5: Spencer Rattler benched in game.
Speaker 1: I just you know, I just you know, it just
Speaker 1: feels like in the Chargers maybe they're great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe they're causing people to get benched.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 5: I will throw this out there. Mahomes went to forty
Speaker 5: five and one, Kyler Murray one hundred and forty five
Speaker 5: and one and bow Knicks two hundred and sixteen and two. Yeah,
Speaker 5: the Saints passers went two seventy eight on them last week.
Speaker 5: But I see Jameis going in that, you know, two
Speaker 5: hundred some maybe gets a score. Hope for two. But
Speaker 5: that's why I only have a C grade on him.
Speaker 5: Cedric Tillman I got a C grade on If Jamis
Speaker 5: is not getting a ton, Cedric probably is the only
Speaker 5: one I can truly love. Maybe Elijah Moore, but Cedric
Speaker 5: Tillman's seen about a quarter of the targets since Amrio left.
Speaker 5: By the way, Cedric Tillman has more Fantasy points in
Speaker 5: two games since Amrio left than Amari did before the
Speaker 5: whole season. But the whole the whole season leading up
Speaker 5: to Yoh that does not surprise me. Had nearly an
Speaker 5: eighteen yard eight out. The Chargers do allow the fewest receptions,
Speaker 5: third fewest yards, few oft scores, so there's not a
Speaker 5: lot on of meat on the bone here. But a
Speaker 5: Sante Samuel out, Christian Fulton out another another one with
Speaker 5: a foot injury, so there might be room for Cedric
Speaker 5: Tillman to get a CE And I did have a
Speaker 5: cea on Elijah Moore, who led the team in targets
Speaker 5: with Winston in few snaps and routes than Tilman and Judy,
Speaker 5: but six plus catches and double digit fantasy points in
Speaker 5: each game since. And just here, Taylor missed time last
Speaker 5: week and he's been limited all week with an injury,
Speaker 5: and that's that's the best spot for in this defense
Speaker 5: to find a hole. So I gave a se grade
Speaker 5: to Elijah Moore, David and Joku limited all week, miss
Speaker 5: Thursday's practice. Friday, he came back practiced in fall, so
Speaker 5: he's ready to go A grade. Maybe a little load
Speaker 5: management there. Chargers haven't allowed a tight end score yet,
Speaker 5: but they do allow six for fifty six yards on
Speaker 5: average to the position, which has a lot, and Joku
Speaker 5: has twenty eight targets in just last three three games.
Speaker 5: I have an A grade there. And then finally Nick Chubb,
Speaker 5: I'm giving a C grade too. Everything is stepping up
Speaker 5: for Nick Chubb. Snaps touches, he had sixteen last week.
Speaker 5: He had his highest good route participation, but only two targets.
Speaker 5: You have to be efficient against the Chargers because you
Speaker 5: don't get a lot of touches. But they are allowing
Speaker 5: four point eight yards per carry, which is the seventh
Speaker 5: highest JA great, So I think Nick Chubb can get
Speaker 5: a C grade here.
Speaker 1: All right, man, let's go over to Dallas taking on Atlanta.
Speaker 1: For Dallas, the problems here on offense have been decided.
Speaker 1: It's no running game to speak of, and that makes
Speaker 1: them predictable. The passing game has been very inconsistent. What
Speaker 1: do you think about Let's just start. Let's just start
Speaker 1: with the passing game.
Speaker 4: Let's start with the passing game. Because Cede Lambs and
Speaker 4: obvious a grade. He's had thirty one targets in his
Speaker 4: last two games. I think Dak Prescott's in a grade
Speaker 4: here too. The Falcons have allowed the fourth most completions,
Speaker 4: the seventh most passing scores, and if he were to
Speaker 4: take off running, the Falcons have allowed almost thirty two
Speaker 4: rushing yards per game to oppose in quarterbacks. That's the
Speaker 4: third most in the league. Jake Ferguson has had seven
Speaker 4: or more targets in four of his last five, so
Speaker 4: I got a solid B on him here. Kate Otton
Speaker 4: scored twice last week against this Falcons d although those
Speaker 4: were the first two scores Atlanta had allowed to a
Speaker 4: tight end this season. Now you might think about starting
Speaker 4: Jalen Tolbert, but I'd leave him on the bench this week.
Speaker 4: The last two games he's totaled forty three and forty
Speaker 4: four yards disappointing, and his matchups against AJ Tarrell and
Speaker 4: Mike Hughes are not super favorable for him. And then
Speaker 4: you talked a little bit about the running game. Rico
Speaker 4: Dowdell sat out last week with an illness. He's off
Speaker 4: the injury report.
Speaker 1: By the way, He's so sick that he just was
Speaker 1: standing on the sideline the whole game. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're so sick you can't play, should you be around
Speaker 1: the rest of the team.
Speaker 5: I think that every time there's illnesses on teams and
Speaker 5: then they stay, they stay either play or they're on
Speaker 5: the zone.
Speaker 4: It's possible he could have just had explosive output. That
Speaker 4: is possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which case I wouldn't want to be on the sideline.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he might need to run to the locker room
Speaker 4: real quick. He's off the injury report. He's ready to
Speaker 4: start this week. Dowdell, he's the best of the pass
Speaker 4: catching backs in Dallas and Atlanta. Has allowed the fourth
Speaker 4: most receptions to opposing back. So I'll give him a
Speaker 4: see in a game that should feature a lot of passing.
Speaker 4: They sent Dalvin Cook back to the practice squad. Zeke's
Speaker 4: not just good or just not good, I should say,
Speaker 4: But do you know who is good?
Speaker 1: Yell?
Speaker 4: The Atlanta running backs Bijean Robinson and Tyler Algier. They're
Speaker 4: both good. Bijon obvious a grade, but Algier he's a
Speaker 4: sea dart, which I think is a harpoon in just
Speaker 4: about any game, he's averaging almost ten touches per game.
Speaker 4: The Cowboys aren't great as a run defense, but in
Speaker 4: backup duty last week, Isaac Garndo ended up with one
Speaker 4: hundred and two total yards in a score, and he
Speaker 4: could have had another touchdown at the end of the game,
Speaker 4: but he took a knee there. So the Detroit tandem
Speaker 4: of backs also had a good day against the Cowboys
Speaker 4: in Week six as well. So I like both the
Speaker 4: running backs here, Kirk Cousins and somewhat of a revenge
Speaker 4: game against Mike Zimmer. Of course, the tour together in Minnesota,
Speaker 4: and it's come out recently that Zimmer never wanted the
Speaker 4: team to sign Cousins, so I expect it's.
Speaker 3: A revenge game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Kirk's gonna put a little extra mustard on it
Speaker 4: this week, I'll throw an A grade at Kirk. Basically,
Speaker 4: the only quarterback to not have an excellent day against
Speaker 4: the Cowboys was Danny Dimes, and even he had two
Speaker 4: hundred eighty one yards in that game. I like both
Speaker 4: Drake London and Darnell Mooney in this one too. Bab
Speaker 4: London gets an A because he'll most often match up
Speaker 4: on the right side of the field with backup corner
Speaker 4: Kaylin Carson, who's given up a passive rating of one
Speaker 4: nineteen in his coverage. On the other side, Mooney will
Speaker 4: draw uh to Von Diggs most often. Diggs coverage grades
Speaker 4: are not great on CFF. He's teetering toward the orange grades,
Speaker 4: which is just above red, and red is bad.
Speaker 1: But I like how you put that.
Speaker 4: He's all boom or bust as a corner. Either he's
Speaker 4: gonna pick you off, but he's gonna give up big
Speaker 4: plays too.
Speaker 1: And you know, Mooney's really fast, He's a four to
Speaker 1: three speed.
Speaker 4: He's a big play guy.
Speaker 1: And Diggs has got the is coming off the ACL
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm dre he's mostly recovered from that.
Speaker 4: But he's also dinged up and on the injury report
Speaker 4: this week.
Speaker 1: I wonder if Mooney doesn't zoom past him.
Speaker 4: Probably Kyle Pitts has had four straight games games with
Speaker 4: double digit PPR points. He's tight end four on the season.
Speaker 4: That includes his ninety one yards and two scores last week,
Speaker 4: although one of them he totally dropped the ball at
Speaker 4: the one yard line and they gave him the touchdown.
Speaker 1: And then Malachi Corley did the exact same thing, Maliki,
Speaker 1: thank you. Malachi did the exact same thing.
Speaker 4: Our friend Andrew Cooper tweeted that Pitts is one of
Speaker 4: four tight ends who's had three catches of forty plus
Speaker 4: yards in a season over the last five years. Only
Speaker 4: four tight ends have done it in the last five years.
Speaker 4: Three catches of forty yards and more.
Speaker 5: That's a really big play though, So.
Speaker 4: Pitts gets an A grade as well.
Speaker 5: And I mean, he's not me.
Speaker 1: What are you doing?
Speaker 4: Full start? Robby's like the fantasy Pazzi Weber Now Geez.
Speaker 1: Denver takes on Baltimore. We're gonna zip through this one
Speaker 1: pretty fast. Bon Nix is up to quarterback nine on
Speaker 1: the season, ahead of c. J. Stroud, Kirk Cousins, Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: your relative's fantasy Stalwarts.
Speaker 5: He's quarterback force this week four.
Speaker 1: Fine and Dak dak. And it's totally because he started
Speaker 1: slowly right. His first four games were a disaster through
Speaker 1: the air, the last four been good. And because he's
Speaker 1: throwing down field now. Baltimore allowing the most passing yards,
Speaker 1: the most passing touchdowns working against Knicks, though the Ravens
Speaker 1: have held other mobile quarterbacks in check. Josh Allen, Jaden Daniels,
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield all failed the top twenty two scoreless rushing yards.
Speaker 1: Got a B grade on bow Nicks in this game.
Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton went from zero catches to a one hundred
Speaker 1: yard game in back to back weeks. And if you
Speaker 1: noticed last week, physical receiver Cedric Tillman dominated the Ravens
Speaker 1: injury ravage secondary. Here's courtlandt Sutton, big physical receiver. Maybe
Speaker 1: we get similar output here. He has scored or topped
Speaker 1: one hundred yards in three of the past four games.
Speaker 1: And we'll want to watch the injury status of quarnerbacks
Speaker 1: Nate Wiggans and Marlon Humphrey. Those guys missed last week's game.
Speaker 1: That was a big part of why they're at The
Speaker 1: Browns had so much success if they can't go, I
Speaker 1: like Scotland Sutton up to a bee. If they do go,
Speaker 1: we'll put Court and Sutton at a C grade. All
Speaker 1: the other wide receivers and tight ends are on the bench.
Speaker 1: I think somebody else here probably has a good game
Speaker 1: out of this, the Denver group, but good luck picking. Yeah, exactly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Troy Franklin, Jordan will Jordan, Jordan Humphrey, Marvin Mimms, Lucas
Speaker 1: Crawl whatever. Let's just talk for a moment about Javonte Williams.
Speaker 1: He's only scored in one game all year. This is
Speaker 1: a brutal matchup. As bad as the Ravens are against
Speaker 1: the pass, they're that good against the run. They're number
Speaker 1: one in rushing yards per game, number one in rushing
Speaker 1: yards per carry, number four in run defense success rate.
Speaker 1: The only silver lining for Williams is that Baltimore has
Speaker 1: allowed six rushing touchdowns on the year, and so you're
Speaker 1: really just hoping Devanta Williams as gets a goal line
Speaker 1: and that keeps him at a sea level. Not a
Speaker 1: lot to talk about with Baltimore because most of these
Speaker 1: guys are very obvious plays. Lamar Jackson is an obvious
Speaker 1: even if against a very good defense, and so it's
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. Tricky for both, but you can't obviously bench
Speaker 1: Jackson or Henry. I'm just gonna mention this. No quarterback
Speaker 1: has thrown for more than two hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: yards against Denver. The Broncos have only seen one runner
Speaker 1: hit the one hundred yard mark. Still eight grades for them.
Speaker 1: Zay Flowers comes in with a C grade. The only
Speaker 1: real concern for Flowers that is will he draw a
Speaker 1: lot of Patrick Surtan, And if he does, that is tough.
Speaker 1: One of only a few true shutdown cornerbacks on average,
Speaker 1: Cirtan giving up one and a half catches for sixteen
Speaker 1: yards in his coverage. That's it. Flowers could shake Sirtan
Speaker 1: by lining up in the slot, which he normally does
Speaker 1: on thirty five percent of his plays. Maybe that goes
Speaker 1: up to like fifty percent here. When Flowers move to
Speaker 1: the slot, he's got a better matchup, but still not
Speaker 1: an easy one. He'd faced off against cornerback Jakwan McMillan,
Speaker 1: who is not allowed a score this year. So have
Speaker 1: only got the C grade on Zay Flowers. You might
Speaker 1: be wondering about Deontay Johnson in his first game. Well,
Speaker 1: let's look at what happened with Amari Koop and DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins in their first games in a totally new offense.
Speaker 1: They averaged three targets, two receptions, sixteen yards and no touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And that's why Deontay Johnson is on the bench in
Speaker 1: his first game in Baltimore.
Speaker 4: Don't you think you have to keep Deontay Johnson on
Speaker 4: the bench until he has a decent game in Baltimore?
Speaker 1: Probably?
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 1: I mean Jay Flowers is totally inconsistent and he's better, yeah,
Speaker 1: and he knows the whole offense.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I felt like in totality, this is a bad
Speaker 1: move for Deontay Johnson fantasy wise.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 1: Last thing, Mark Andrews, I think I've gotten this wrong.
Speaker 1: I don't know, six weeks out of seven or something.
Speaker 1: So do the opposite charge, do the opposite of the
Speaker 1: segrad I've got on him. He remains very high risk
Speaker 1: due to his low volume over the past month. Andrews
Speaker 1: is averaging just twenty four routes per game, just three
Speaker 1: and a half targets. Could see extra volume in this
Speaker 1: matchup because the Broncos cornerbacks are so good. Some teams
Speaker 1: pivot to the tight end to avoid Patrick Sutan. Brock
Speaker 1: Bauer saw twelve targets against Denver, and on the season
Speaker 1: they're seeing the ninth most tight end targets. So I'm
Speaker 1: keeping a C grade on Mark Andrews when we come back.
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Speaker 1: Tata James, I mean nine players you would not normally start.
Speaker 1: Many of these guys are available on the waiver wire.
Speaker 1: I believe two of my three are waiver wire guys
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 4: Or league, I think three of my three are.
Speaker 1: Okay, All right, Scott, let's fight out if your quarterbacks
Speaker 1: on the waiver wire.
Speaker 5: He might be. That would be Derek Carr, coming back
Speaker 5: from injury, gets a matchup this week that bo Nicks
Speaker 5: had last week and absolutely destroyed in the Panthers, who
Speaker 5: are the fifth easiest matchup for quarterbacks. They've allowed multiple
Speaker 5: scores in four or five six of the eight games
Speaker 5: this season. As well, they've allowed the third most passing scores.
Speaker 5: Carr had multiple scores in three of five, but no
Speaker 5: game's over two fifty. But this is the same Week
Speaker 5: one matchup where he went for three scores.
Speaker 1: All right, I like it. I like car a lot
Speaker 1: as a sleeper this week. Yeah, all right, Matt, you're
Speaker 1: taking chance with me quarterback.
Speaker 4: It's November, so you got to go with Gardner Minsh.
Speaker 4: Here my concern with Minshew. He doesn't throw a lot
Speaker 4: of touchdowns. He's had. He had two last week against
Speaker 4: the Chiefs, but his previous nine games he didn't hit
Speaker 4: two touchdown passes in any of his games. But what's good.
Speaker 4: The Bengals defense is not good at all. Their pass
Speaker 4: rush is real bad. Fourth fewest sacks in the league,
Speaker 4: with only twelve through eight games. They're averaging only two
Speaker 4: quarterback hurries per game, so Minshew should have tons of time.
Speaker 4: They allowed Andy Dalton to throw for two to twenty
Speaker 4: and two. They allowed a combo of three Browns quarterbacks
Speaker 4: to throw for two hundred and seventy seven yards multiple
Speaker 4: touchdown passes to four of the last six to start
Speaker 4: and to finish a game. Gardner Minshew, fireman.
Speaker 1: Minshew, I'm I'm taking a quarterback who may out even
Speaker 1: play Malik Willis.
Speaker 4: I thought about that.
Speaker 1: Jordan loves shaping up as a game time decision with
Speaker 1: his grond injury. But the next week is a bye week,
Speaker 1: so it could make sense. And if they were playing
Speaker 1: anybody else except the Lions, I'd be like, nah, they're
Speaker 1: definitely resting him. Yeah, But the problem is it's the
Speaker 1: division rival Lions. You don't want to take a loss here,
Speaker 1: which could have playoff seeding ram for US as So
Speaker 1: don't know about Jordan Love, but in Willis's two full games,
Speaker 1: he was quarterback twenty the first week, quarterback six the
Speaker 1: next week. We all know that rushing really going to
Speaker 1: much to a great degree, defines fantasy success for a
Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks. His rushings potentially, you know, he could
Speaker 1: be the best rusher of the week. In his last
Speaker 1: start he ran for seventy three yards. Last week, playing
Speaker 1: about one quarter he ran for twenty three yards. So
Speaker 1: you get that from Willis, you get the occasional deep bomb.
Speaker 1: If those connect. Willis puts up a good day against
Speaker 1: de Drop. Let's go to the running backs.
Speaker 5: Scott I have raheem mostered. He gets bills defense that
Speaker 5: is bottom ten in running back touches conboy yards and
Speaker 5: scores allowed, and he looks like he's back in his
Speaker 5: old row role on the team. Thirteen plus touches last
Speaker 5: week inside the ten yard line. Last week, Mostard had
Speaker 5: five carries devon a Chan zero and Mostard scored on
Speaker 5: two of them.
Speaker 1: Look, I'm telling you Hen is best when he's not
Speaker 1: a workhoorse. They just need to get most back doing
Speaker 1: to what he was doing. Get eight Chan back at
Speaker 1: what he did last week, nine carries. That's that's where
Speaker 1: his that's his sweet spot. All right, Matt, you're taking
Speaker 1: chance on me running back?
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: Julius Chestnut, who sounds like a drink I purchased at
Speaker 4: the mall during the holiday season. Tony Pollard took Thursday's
Speaker 4: practice off with a foot injury. Ty J. Spears already
Speaker 4: out this week with a hamstring injury. By the way,
Speaker 4: Julius Chestnut on the Titans, Yeah, it might help some people.
Speaker 4: They're playing against the Patriots, who are allowing four point
Speaker 4: seven yards per carry, the fourth most rushing yards, the
Speaker 4: third most rushing touchdowns. They're allowing one hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: one combo yards and a score and a half per game. Now,
Speaker 4: if Tony Pollard goes, he's in good shape, he's probably
Speaker 4: going to be in a grade. But I think it
Speaker 4: might be Julius chestnut season here. He might get twenty
Speaker 4: touches in this game. You can pick him up and
Speaker 4: start him.
Speaker 5: Orange Julius Chestnut smoothie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the chestnuts going to roast over your opponents.
Speaker 1: Is something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll figure it out that one.
Speaker 5: It's going to be the title of the show.
Speaker 1: Eventually, it should be. Roachean Johnson is my Chicago running back.
Speaker 1: Roshan Johnson's to take a chance of me last week
Speaker 1: against Arizona, so he's playing against Arizona. Last week against Arizona,
Speaker 1: Devon a champ ran up and down the field where
Speaker 1: he moster scored the goal line touchdowns. And we could
Speaker 1: see a similar situation against Arizona this week with Chicago
Speaker 1: Swift running up and down the field, Johnson getting paid
Speaker 1: at the stripe. As a team, Chicago's run the ball
Speaker 1: the fifth most times from inside the five yard line,
Speaker 1: and Johnson's turned into a legit goal line vulture. He's
Speaker 1: converting eighty percent of his carries inside the five to touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Roshan Johnson. DeAndre Swift thirty three percent conversion rate to touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Johnson's just better. If you're looking for a goal line plunge.
Speaker 1: He might be your guy.
Speaker 5: Okay, let's go to.
Speaker 1: The wide receivers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have Jacksonville Jaguars Ker Washington, who's Christian Kirk's
Speaker 5: replacement in the slot. The game script should be in
Speaker 5: favor of Washington here with off to pass. Brian Thomas,
Speaker 5: Travis at ETN, and Gabe Davis are all game time decisions,
Speaker 5: so there might be some open available targets in that one.
Speaker 5: And after Kirk's injury last week, on the final three drives,
Speaker 5: Parker Washington had three targets, finished with a three for
Speaker 5: forty six stat line. Might be some room for Washington
Speaker 5: this week. He might be a good Brian Thomas junior
Speaker 5: pivot if you lose him in that game. It's a
Speaker 5: late afternoon game, so I need a pivot. Now.
Speaker 1: Thomas may not go, Gabe Davis may not go. Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk got knocked out of the is done seasons over exactly,
Speaker 1: all right, Matt, let's go to your take a chance
Speaker 1: with your receiver.
Speaker 4: I've got Noah Brown. Of course, he was on the
Speaker 4: receiving end of that hail Mary throw that won the
Speaker 4: game for the Commanders. Last week. He had one hundred
Speaker 4: and twenty air yards in that game. Half of them
Speaker 4: came on that play. Yeah, but it's also worth noting
Speaker 4: that he's turned into the legit wide receiver two in Washington.
Speaker 4: He ran more routes than Terry McLaurin last week. His
Speaker 4: average depth of targets a pretty good twelve point eight
Speaker 4: yards downfield. He's had fifteen targets in his last three games.
Speaker 4: His Fantasy Life utilization score has been trending upward to
Speaker 4: a pretty decent six point eight last week, and he
Speaker 4: faces the Giant's pair of disasters at outside corners. Deontay
Speaker 4: Banks has a passer rating of one twenty eight in
Speaker 4: his coverage and has already allowed four touchdowns this year.
Speaker 4: Nick McCleod said, hold my beer. He's allowing a pass
Speaker 4: the rating of one forty nine and is giving up
Speaker 4: eighteen point nine yards per catch.
Speaker 1: Geez, all right, you kind of sold me on No.
Speaker 1: One Brown, which I did not see coming. My wide
Speaker 1: receiver has probably already taken in most leagues. Josh Downs
Speaker 1: is yeah, could potentially wreck the Minnesota Vikings. He's emerged.
Speaker 1: He by the way, he's Indy's best receiver. It's Josh Downs.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I loved that.
Speaker 5: Last week. I was like, he never performs with Anthony Richardson,
Speaker 5: and then he does it. Finally, finally did it, and
Speaker 5: he always does.
Speaker 1: That was for the best, honestly. Last week Downs scored
Speaker 1: once and he nearly scored twice. Ye Downs has the
Speaker 1: league's most favorable slot matchup this week, Minnesota. Minnesota gives
Speaker 1: up the second most Fantasy points to the slot, almost
Speaker 1: twenty per game, and the Vikings have been roasted by
Speaker 1: slot receivers this year, including Cooper Cup, I'm on Ross,
Speaker 1: Saint Brown, jayde and Reed Deebo Samuel, all of whom
Speaker 1: scored or top one hundred and ten yards. And granted
Speaker 1: those are all really really really good receivers, but Josh
Speaker 1: Down's sitting on a nice game here. Let's go to
Speaker 1: our next set of matchups, which is Scott New Orleans
Speaker 1: at Carolina. You already told us that Derek Cars you
Speaker 1: take a chance. Totally on board with that, yep. How
Speaker 1: about his receivers Chris o'lave and maybe even Mason Tipsy.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, I got an A grade on Chris Lave
Speaker 5: played his first game without rashidja heat on Sunday, missed
Speaker 5: some of it while being evaluated in blue tent, but
Speaker 5: he still had a thirty thirty seven percent target share
Speaker 5: fourteen targets in that one. The lead target getter against
Speaker 5: the Panthers in every week eight for one hundred, six
Speaker 5: for ninety eight, six for seventy four in a score,
Speaker 5: five for one, five five and two scores, three for
Speaker 5: eighty five in a score, seven for ninety six in
Speaker 5: a score, five for fifty one, and two scores three
Speaker 5: for seventy three in a score. They don't miss, they
Speaker 5: don't miss, So a grade for Chris alave C grade
Speaker 5: on Mason Tipton. The Panthers are allowing the fourth most
Speaker 5: fantasy points to the perimeter. In fact, seventy percent of
Speaker 5: fantasy points scored on Carolina come out wide in the
Speaker 5: passing game. Cedric Wilson above means not practicing to hip
Speaker 5: an ankle injuries might make Tipton the wide receiver two
Speaker 5: this week. He was second in a team in targets
Speaker 5: and receptions in each of the last two weeks, nearly
Speaker 5: a thirteen yard average depth of target. If those guys
Speaker 5: are out, he might.
Speaker 1: Be got ruled out on.
Speaker 5: Okay, there you guys out, I'm telling you Mason Tipton.
Speaker 5: Mason Tipton sitting on a really good game, see grade.
Speaker 5: He might he might become cars new Shaheed. He's four
Speaker 5: to three to three speedster.
Speaker 1: That's right, he runs the Shaheed routes.
Speaker 6: Ye.
Speaker 1: Now we got a quarterback who can get him the ball?
Speaker 5: Yep at tight end, Mason Tipton at tight end. I
Speaker 5: don't know what to do because they all this is
Speaker 5: a great matchup against tight ends, but it's Jawan Johnson,
Speaker 5: Foster Moreau and Taysom Hill splitting it up. I can
Speaker 5: see a dart throw on Johnson or Hill, but I
Speaker 5: have him on the bench just because of split. I
Speaker 5: will say three different games, two different tight ends scored
Speaker 5: against the Panthers, including this Saints team in Week one
Speaker 5: where Johnson and Moro did on the Carolina side. I
Speaker 5: have Bryce Young on the bench. Despite his best fantasy
Speaker 5: day this season, He's still averaging like one hundred yards
Speaker 5: per game and the Saints have only allowed seven scores
Speaker 5: to in eight games to passers. I have sea grades
Speaker 5: on Xavier Lagette and Jalen Cocher. Lagett's the big fast,
Speaker 5: a led athletic, large catch radius first round pick. Jags
Speaker 5: have allowed the second most twenty plus yard completions and
Speaker 5: the most forty plus yard completions, seventh most receptions, fifth
Speaker 5: most yards wide receivers. It's a good spot. Lattimore out
Speaker 5: Lagette did pop up with a toe injury, so keep
Speaker 5: an eye on that. But I have a C grade there,
Speaker 5: and I have C grade on Jalen Cocher. The highly
Speaker 5: talked about undrafted rookie out of Holy Cross, ran the
Speaker 5: second most routes for the Panthers last week. Plays the
Speaker 5: slot eighty percent slot rate. The Saints allowed the highest
Speaker 5: percentage of passes and fourth most fantasy points to the slot.
Speaker 5: The only super annoying factor is if Adam Thielen walks
Speaker 5: in and MUCKs it up with the keen pins of
Speaker 5: Adam Felen with some slot roll. C grade on Cuba
Speaker 5: Hubbard ninety four percent of the rush rushes last week.
Speaker 5: Saints allowed the second most twenty plus yard runs. They
Speaker 5: allow five point two yards per carry, which is second highest.
Speaker 5: They're also bottom ten in yards and scores. I will
Speaker 5: say Tuba has been very inefficient with his touches over
Speaker 5: the last few weeks, and he's not getting a whole
Speaker 5: lot of catches, but it's just a great spot even
Speaker 5: if he is inefficient. So a SEA grade there.
Speaker 1: I'm playing Mason Tipton in my scott Fish Bowl league.
Speaker 1: Just while you were chatting, I picked him up and
Speaker 1: I'm putting him in my starting lineup right now. I'm all,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm.
Speaker 5: Mason in crazy Mason tipped in.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, Matt, let's go to Vegas taking on Cincinnati
Speaker 1: for the Las Vegas. You already mentioned Gardner, Minshew, m hm.
Speaker 1: You like the November flow?
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 1: What about Jakobe Myers, who we kind of forgot about.
Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers re emerged last week, scored a touchdown.
Speaker 4: Yeah, dude's really good. He's the one question number one
Speaker 4: wide receiver in Vegas. Was able to battle through an
Speaker 4: injury last week, rewarded as fantasy managers with six catches
Speaker 4: fifty two yards in a score. He gets six catches
Speaker 4: per game basically every game. He's done that in the
Speaker 4: past four games. Okay, you're gonna get double digit PPR
Speaker 4: points in almost every game you get with Jacoby Myers.
Speaker 4: He's a B grade. Brock Bauers, he's an A. In
Speaker 4: the last four games, Bowers has forty one targets, thirty
Speaker 4: two catches, three games above seventy yards in a score.
Speaker 4: He's not scoring enough. He's only got one on.
Speaker 1: The year coming around.
Speaker 4: He's the most targeted tight end in the league, and
Speaker 4: the Bengals are bottom eight in receptions, yards and touchdowns
Speaker 4: allowed to the tight end.
Speaker 3: I saw the.
Speaker 1: Stat go by my Twitter feetut if it's true or not,
Speaker 1: brock Bowers is on pace to set the recept the
Speaker 1: rookie rec exception record.
Speaker 4: Like from Puka from Puca last year. It last year.
Speaker 1: Brock Bower's on pace to beat it. And nobody talking
Speaker 1: about brock Bauers as a potential Rookie of the Year
Speaker 1: because quarterbacks, you know.
Speaker 5: We didn't.
Speaker 1: Jada Daniels is running away with it, but he's quietly
Speaker 1: having a year that's as good as Jayden Daniels, but
Speaker 1: at a position nobody cares about.
Speaker 4: Brock Bowers on a team that nobody cares about. By
Speaker 4: the way, that is true too, speaking of a player
Speaker 4: nobody cares about. Alexander Madison has had nineteen or more
Speaker 4: touches in three straight games. Man's a mere white. Just
Speaker 4: blew it here. Oh, Madison gets a volume C grade
Speaker 4: against a Bengals defense that's allowing one hundred and twenty
Speaker 4: combo yards to backs every game. So there's just enough
Speaker 4: with the volume here on the Bengals side, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: start with T Higgins here, who did not practice on Friday.
Speaker 4: Does not look like he's gonna go. I believe he's
Speaker 4: doubtful now it If he did go, I don't think
Speaker 4: i'd start him on the soft tissue injury. But let's
Speaker 4: talk about Jamar Chase. Yeah, in the fire games where T.
Speaker 4: Higgins has played this year, Chase is averaging six catches
Speaker 4: one hundred and five yards and he has six touchdowns
Speaker 4: in those five games.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good, but that's when TA Higgins plays.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in the three games Higgins missed, he's averaging six
Speaker 4: catches same fifty yards and he's only had one touchdown
Speaker 4: in those three games. So it's a pretty big drop off.
Speaker 4: Raiders pass defense looks good on paper, but it's probably
Speaker 4: a product of poor run defense. Chase will probably be
Speaker 4: downgraded to a BEE because I don't think Higgins is
Speaker 4: gonna go. If Higgins hobbles out there, I'll bump Chase
Speaker 4: up to an A, but I won't go as far
Speaker 4: as starting entre Joshawash or Trenton Irwin. The McAuley Culkin
Speaker 4: look alike. Joe Burrow has struggled in the last few weeks,
Speaker 4: held under two hundred and fifty yards in each of
Speaker 4: his last three games, only three touchdown passes in those three.
Speaker 4: I'm still giving Burrow a bee here. I like his
Speaker 4: talent over the Raiders defense too. It just feels like
Speaker 4: a get right game for him. And then Chase Brown.
Speaker 4: He's taken the Bengals share of the rushload and we'll
Speaker 4: definitely get more work than Zach Moss, who's now doubtful.
Speaker 4: The Raiders are allowing almost twenty seven running back touches
Speaker 4: a game, and they're allowing four point seven yards per
Speaker 4: carry to opposing backs, the ninth most running back scores
Speaker 4: on the season with nine in eight games. Nine times
Speaker 4: Chase Brown gets an A grade.
Speaker 1: And wow, it's come to this, Chase Brown, He's head
Speaker 1: in the right direction. Yep, Like we like the improvements
Speaker 1: we've seen so far in Chase Brown. And this might
Speaker 1: be is would this be his first crack at just
Speaker 1: like a starting role, work horseback scenario.
Speaker 4: They don't have another running back that's taking a snap.
Speaker 4: This year, it's just been Brown and Moss.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, we might get a statement game
Speaker 1: out of Chase Brown right here. Maybe it's your last
Speaker 1: chance to buy low who knows well, not even low
Speaker 1: five medium on Chase Brown. When we come back. More
Speaker 1: matchups including Chicago at Arizona. What do you want to
Speaker 1: do with the Chicago passing game? Caleb Williams, Keenan Allen,
Speaker 1: Roma Dunsa. A lot of inconsistency there any opportunities to
Speaker 1: exploit will tell you when we come back.
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Speaker 1: new Guillotine leagues being formed every day. You can play
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Speaker 1: weeks of hot chopping action left Church.
Speaker 4: I'm in one Guillantine league this year. Yeah, and I
Speaker 4: drafted Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry and I remember telling
Speaker 4: you what are you And you were like, what are
Speaker 4: you doing?
Speaker 6: Going out?
Speaker 4: These two guys say they're that just the top where
Speaker 4: the team.
Speaker 1: That's right, exactly, They're the high two highest scoring players
Speaker 1: in fantasy football are on the same team.
Speaker 4: I was kind of wondering as I was driving in,
Speaker 4: how many times have Lamar Jackson or Derrick Henry been
Speaker 4: even cut this year from a team in Leakes?
Speaker 1: To get this, Henry was on the most chopped player
Speaker 1: last week?
Speaker 5: What yes?
Speaker 4: Crazy?
Speaker 5: Yeah, seventy three scoreless yards right.
Speaker 1: Something like that? Yeah, which is which was nuts? Oh no,
Speaker 1: he got I got touched on like seventy three yards,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't enough because I think that Henry. The
Speaker 1: speculation was Derrick Henry. Owners are so confident they haven't
Speaker 1: built up good teams. They haven't spent money because they
Speaker 1: haven't needed I didn't have the right because they hadn't
Speaker 1: built up the lasters that And so when Henry gives
Speaker 1: you just a mortal day, your your team gets chopped.
Speaker 1: And Henry ended up taking down like I don't know,
Speaker 1: like seventeen percent of his leagues interesting chopped last week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Guillotine's so much fun. If you're not playing, you still
Speaker 1: can't play. And if you're like, hey, I'll play next year.
Speaker 1: Just dip your toe in the water this year so
Speaker 1: you know what the hell you're doing and you'll light
Speaker 1: up super fun the rest of the league. Chicago takes
Speaker 1: on Arizona. Let's start with DeAndre Swift. He gets an
Speaker 1: A grade here. First three games of the season were disaster.
Speaker 1: He was running back thirty eight, averaging two yards per carry.
Speaker 1: The last four games for DeAndre Swift running back five
Speaker 1: averaging five and a half yards per carry, a touchdown
Speaker 1: in all four games, and a nice matchup against Arizona.
Speaker 1: Almost every opponent has run well against the Cardinals, including
Speaker 1: last week when two different Dolphins were major fantasy factors.
Speaker 1: I also talked about Roshan Johnson as might take a
Speaker 1: chance on me running back. Four of the past six
Speaker 1: opposing team, guys, this is nuts. Four of the past
Speaker 1: six opposing teams against Arizona have topped one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty four rushing yard.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 4: Wow, the first place Arizona Cardinals, by.
Speaker 1: The way, Wow, I didn't realize that they must be
Speaker 1: tied for first. Unbelievable. Let's go to the passing game,
Speaker 1: where things are much murkier and Arizona sneaky good against
Speaker 1: the pass Let's start with DJ Moore. He runs sixty
Speaker 1: percent of his routes from the left side of the field,
Speaker 1: where he'll match up against startling Thomas, a cornerback who
Speaker 1: is shockingly capable. He's allowed an excellent fifty three percent
Speaker 1: completion rate and just twenty eight yards per game in
Speaker 1: his coverage, and Morris posted back to back dud games,
Speaker 1: even in more promising matchups than this one. And part
Speaker 1: of the reason is that Caleb Williams is now getting
Speaker 1: to become good and confident enough that he's now distributing
Speaker 1: the ball to his other receivers and not just DJ Moore.
Speaker 1: So I can only get you to a C grade
Speaker 1: on DJ Moore in this one. So I just said
Speaker 1: that Caleb Williams is distributing the ball Moore and his
Speaker 1: other receivers. So what does that mean for Keenan Allen.
Speaker 1: Allen runs mostly from the slot, where he'll face Garrett Williams,
Speaker 1: another shockingly competent Arizona cornerback. The average game in his
Speaker 1: coverage is only two catches for twenty two yards, and
Speaker 1: he's only given up one score this year. So I
Speaker 1: only have a C grade on Keenan Allen Roma Dunsa
Speaker 1: gets the easiest of the cornerback matchups, either Sean Murphy
Speaker 1: Bunting if his neck injury allows him to return, or
Speaker 1: his replacement Maximelllton. You're almost hoping Murphy Bunting does play
Speaker 1: because he ranks his Pro Football focus is cornerback one
Speaker 1: hundred and eleven, Max Melton cornerback one hundred and thirteen.
Speaker 1: So duneesay, this is the only reason he's got a
Speaker 1: letter grade at all is because of these easy matchups.
Speaker 1: Murphy Bunting allows an eighty percent completion rate, Melton and
Speaker 1: eighty nine percent rate. The problem is Rome isn't getting
Speaker 1: that many balls, and it's all these short passes. Over
Speaker 1: the past month, Roma Dunzey has had one completion deeper
Speaker 1: than twelve yards. That's all.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 4: Cole Comet Romo Dunza this year is Jackson Smith and Jigba.
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe maybe you know different positions.
Speaker 4: But the same offensive coordinators.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that could be the case. I have I don't
Speaker 1: know where I put my notes, don't. I don't do
Speaker 1: this very often. I don't know where I put my
Speaker 1: notes on Cole Comet. I recall him being a B grade,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't have my notes for him.
Speaker 3: Ken.
Speaker 1: I might circle back on Cole Comet in a future segment.
Speaker 1: We'll see. Caleb Williams didn't last week, did not go
Speaker 1: very well, and this matchup with Arizona isn't quite as
Speaker 1: easy as it sounds. For the past five quarterbacks to
Speaker 1: face Arizona have thrown zero or one touchdown, and Williams receivers.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, they're all C grades right now except
Speaker 1: Cold Comedo's got a B grade last week. I want
Speaker 1: to note this is an important possible development for Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1: Shane Waldron dialed up nine designed runs, nine for Williams
Speaker 1: nine times. I love that and I hope that continues.
Speaker 1: If we can get nine design runs out of Caleb Williams,
Speaker 1: that would materially change his fantasy outlook. But as it
Speaker 1: stands right now, without knowing if that was just a
Speaker 1: one time occurrence, se grade on him. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go to Let's go to the Arizona side. Speaking of
Speaker 1: tight ends, Trey McBride a grade. He's Fantasy football's most
Speaker 1: dependable tight end. The Bears have been smoked by Zach
Speaker 1: Ertz and Evan Ingram. The past two weeks, those guys
Speaker 1: combined for seventeen catches and one hundred and seventy two yards.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Marvin Harrison. It's feasts or famine for
Speaker 1: Harry with fantasy finishes. Here's here's Harrison's weekly fantasy finishes,
Speaker 1: beginning with week one, Wide receiver eighty two, Wide receiver one,
Speaker 1: wide receiver nineteen, Wide receiver twenty four, Wide receiver fifty,
Speaker 1: Wide receiver eighty three, All wide receiver forty seven, and
Speaker 1: then last week wide receiver five. Sure, it's just totally
Speaker 1: feaster famine. This game is more likely a famine game.
Speaker 1: If Matt Eberflus corrects his key mistake from last week
Speaker 1: where he did not put Jalen Johnson on Terry McLaurin,
Speaker 1: that should be the case here. He's got Jalen Johnson
Speaker 1: at his disposal. He's awesome. He should staple him to Harrison.
Speaker 1: Hopefully that will be well. If he's smart, that'll be
Speaker 1: the case. If of of mclaurin's one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five yards last week, thirteen of them came against Johnson.
Speaker 1: On average, Johnson gives up one and a half catches
Speaker 1: for twenty yards and That's why I can only give
Speaker 1: you a C grade on Marvin Harrison, because I gotta
Speaker 1: believe eber Flus is gonna correct last week mistake. Michael
Speaker 1: Wilson gets a C grade. He's the most dependable Arizona receiver.
Speaker 1: And if Johnson's on Harrison, that puts Tyrek Stevenson on Wilson.
Speaker 1: And now we all know who Tyrek Stevenson was. Nobody
Speaker 1: any idea who he was before last week. Now we
Speaker 1: all know Tyrek Stevenson. Does last week's mental blunder by
Speaker 1: Stevenson get in his head for this one?
Speaker 5: That could be the case.
Speaker 1: Michael Wilson C grade and Greg George gets a C
Speaker 1: grade because Kyler Gordon is likely to miss another game
Speaker 1: and that's their normal slot guy. That would put Dortch
Speaker 1: up against backup Josh Blackwell, who's barely played in three
Speaker 1: NFL seasons. He could be a sneaky start for your team.
Speaker 1: Then that leaves us with Kyler Murray. His receivers have
Speaker 1: got three C grades, his tight ends in a grade.
Speaker 1: This is a tricky matchup against a defense that has
Speaker 1: allowed zero or one touchdown passes in every game but one.
Speaker 1: Murray's rushing is gonna help. But no quarterback has a
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown against Chicago, and other mobile quarterbacks have only
Speaker 1: fared okay against Chicago, so I've only got a B
Speaker 1: grade on him. Scott, Let's go to Miami taking on Buffalo.
Speaker 1: The Miami rushing attack came to life with Tua at
Speaker 1: the helm.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 1: And I'm curious what you think about Devon a Chan
Speaker 1: in this one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we can start there because rowheem Moster was my
Speaker 5: take a chance on me a player. I still have
Speaker 5: an A grade on a Chan sixteen pluses touch plus
Speaker 5: touches per game average. But in the two full games,
Speaker 5: the two full Tua games one hundred plus total yards
Speaker 5: in both, scored in both, twenty three plus fantasy points
Speaker 5: in both. He had seven targets in that week one game,
Speaker 5: eight targets last week at least six catches in each.
Speaker 5: He gets so much done through the air, and the
Speaker 5: Bills have allowed the second most receptions and the most
Speaker 5: yards to backs. He's still gonna get his, and he's
Speaker 5: gonna get it mostly through the air. If he's not
Speaker 5: getting those goal lines anymore, love it in the past game.
Speaker 5: I have a C grade on Tua It's a tough
Speaker 5: spot when only two quarterbacks of top two hundred and
Speaker 5: fifteen yards on the bills and only two at multi
Speaker 5: score games. But those both of those took a lot
Speaker 5: of attempts into his full games thirty seven attempts and
Speaker 5: thirty eight, which is a top five per game average.
Speaker 5: So if he gets there, he might be one of
Speaker 5: the one. And we saw it three hundred and thirty
Speaker 5: eight and a score two hundred and thirty four in
Speaker 5: a score, So he got there in those other two games.
Speaker 5: So I am giving him a C grade Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 5: a grade I would target it on.
Speaker 1: Board even the last week. It didn't really work out
Speaker 1: as I expect.
Speaker 5: Yes, but he's his floor is basically the nine target
Speaker 5: seventy plus yard game, and this one figures to be
Speaker 5: a high scoring game based on the over under and
Speaker 5: the projected score. One hundred and thirty yards and seventy
Speaker 5: two yards in those two TUA games. Jalen Waddle one
Speaker 5: hundred and five yards and forty five yards in those,
Speaker 5: but no end zone targets for TUA, which tracks to
Speaker 5: his zero zero scores. I only have a C grade
Speaker 5: on Wattle. He also gets Razil Douglas who's passering in
Speaker 5: his coverage is is not that good, but just a
Speaker 5: fifty two percent catch rate two for twenty three per
Speaker 5: game against him. The few touchdowns is what has led
Speaker 5: that passer rating against.
Speaker 1: To be hot and scored this year.
Speaker 5: By the way, Yeah, that's what I just mentioned. No scores,
Speaker 5: no end zone targets.
Speaker 1: I know what Rasul Douglas allowed had not allowed to score?
Speaker 5: Got you no, No, Razul. His passer rating against is
Speaker 5: poor because he's allowed a few scores. He only sees
Speaker 5: about four targets per game in his coverage. He'll see
Speaker 5: more or Waddle will run around and get his there.
Speaker 5: On the Buffalo side, Josh Allen got a B grade here.
Speaker 5: I mentioned last week the Miami pass defensive rank has
Speaker 5: a little nuance to it. They were, you know, barely
Speaker 5: scoring ten points a game. Teams didn't have to. Last week.
Speaker 5: I gave a starting grade on Kyler, who showed up.
Speaker 5: They gave up three hundred Di Gino, Lawrence, Rudolph Brissett, Richardson.
Speaker 5: They're the ones that did poor. Josh Allen had one
Speaker 5: hundred and seventy nine and a score in this matchup before,
Speaker 5: but that's because Cook went for over one hundred and
Speaker 5: three scores. He'll probably get more. Allen will probably get
Speaker 5: more this week. But I still do have an A
Speaker 5: grade on James Cook middle of the pack defense against runners,
Speaker 5: but he's scored in five of the last six. There's
Speaker 5: just not enough meat on the bone for Ay Davis though.
Speaker 5: He just didn't get it even in a good game
Speaker 5: script last week in the in the of the wide receivers,
Speaker 5: Khalil Shakira and is getting a B grade. Kean Coleman
Speaker 5: a C. Shakiro allows the fifth fewest points to the slot,
Speaker 5: but also seventh fewest to the perimeter. But Shaquille scored
Speaker 5: ten plus PPR points in all but one game this year,
Speaker 5: sixth in targets per route run. He catches everything. He
Speaker 5: even said an NFL record for most consecutive catches earlier
Speaker 5: this year. Yeah, Keon Coleman love.
Speaker 1: I love Shakira in this offense.
Speaker 5: Now I do too. Keon Coleman's seven targets and back
Speaker 5: to back one hundred and twenty five and no score
Speaker 5: seventy and one score. He's just getting major volume. It
Speaker 5: should be a C grade. It's just the side of
Speaker 5: the field that they don't allow as much and Dalton
Speaker 5: Kinkaid and finally, Dalton Kinkaid c grade six plus targets
Speaker 5: in five straights, five straight games. He hasn't topped fifty
Speaker 5: two yards. He's basically a thirty to fifty yard guy.
Speaker 5: You need the score. Miami has an allowed one. However,
Speaker 5: last week they allowed eleven for a hundred and thirty seven,
Speaker 5: So there's some room for Kinkaid to get some here.
Speaker 4: Oh, charge, I can be your hero and do this
Speaker 4: in one minute.
Speaker 1: You'd have to be literally a one minute to do it.
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4: No, no, come on, no, no, I want to do it. Oh,
Speaker 4: let's save it.
Speaker 1: Let's say it.
Speaker 5: Oh, let's say.
Speaker 3: C J.
Speaker 1: Stroud has one touchdown pass in his last three games.
Speaker 1: Two of the three have been epic disasters right now,
Speaker 1: but Nico Collins presumably his return looming. Yeah, what is
Speaker 1: your level of concern on CJ. Stroud?
Speaker 4: Well, sophomore slump here for sure, but they've definitely committed
Speaker 4: to the running game more this year with Joe Mixon
Speaker 4: than they did in years past when they just didn't
Speaker 4: have the horses there.
Speaker 1: I want to think Nico Collins is going to fix
Speaker 1: what's wrong in this offense, and I'm sure will get better.
Speaker 1: I just hope it's good enough.
Speaker 5: But by the way, I have a Mari Cooper on
Speaker 5: the bench after that done, and he's still playing under
Speaker 5: half the snaps. I want to see him be a
Speaker 5: full time player right now.
Speaker 1: That's been frustrating, hasn't it? Yeah? For sure. When we
Speaker 1: came back our number two three Tough Questions, see if
Speaker 1: you can play along and go three and oh with
Speaker 1: our panel of experts, our number two Fantasy Football Weekly,
Speaker 1: Paul Charge and Scott Fish and Matt Harrison with you.
Speaker 1: This is a game we like to call three tough question.
Speaker 3: Tough question number one.
Speaker 1: Who is Atlanta's alpha receiver? Is it Drake London? Is
Speaker 1: it Darnell Mooney or is it neither? We'll begin with
Speaker 1: Scott Fish.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I went through and I looked at their stats
Speaker 5: side by side as much as I possibly could, because
Speaker 5: I was trying to Mooney had the much better game
Speaker 5: last week, and I was trying to cook the recency bias.
Speaker 5: Mooney's had a better Fantasy Day only twice, and one
Speaker 5: was by less than half a point. Last week. The
Speaker 5: outliar Mooney's out targeted London just once this year. Mooney
Speaker 5: doesn't have any red zone targets or has has had
Speaker 5: more red zone targets zero times compared to Drake London.
Speaker 5: Almost everything from end zone targets, miss tackles, first downs,
Speaker 5: target share, everything except for a dot air yards, Mooney
Speaker 5: is behind London. But almost all those stats are really close.
Speaker 5: Almost every one of those is really close. It's very
Speaker 5: much an one A one B situation. So I think
Speaker 5: what you're going for here is for me to say neither,
Speaker 5: because there isn't like a traditional alpha. Drake Lindon's London
Speaker 5: is very clearly the one A. But they're so close,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with neither.
Speaker 1: Okay, not a true alpha. Who is Atlanta's alpha receiver?
Speaker 1: Is it Drake London, Is it Darnell Mooney or is
Speaker 1: it neither?
Speaker 4: If Brian were here, he'd say Kyle.
Speaker 1: Pitts, Yes, he would, Yeah, you would.
Speaker 4: I think Scott hit the nail on the head and
Speaker 4: the demand that we call him a receiver not it,
Speaker 4: That's right. I don't think it matters who the alpha is.
Speaker 4: And Scott used a lot of the stats that I
Speaker 4: was going to pull, but the additions of Cousins and
Speaker 4: Mooney have just helped the entire offense look good. I mean,
Speaker 4: Drake London has had six or more receptions in six
Speaker 4: of his last seven games. That's fantastic. This is just
Speaker 4: a good offense now.
Speaker 1: So your answer was it doesn't matter neither. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: maybe it's just not a good question, which it was
Speaker 1: an easy question if you tighten the scope to the
Speaker 1: last four games, and you know Kirk, it took took
Speaker 1: Kirk a couple of games to really sort of get
Speaker 1: into rhythm.
Speaker 4: I think the achilles is still kind of healing. To
Speaker 4: trust him last week. I think he's good now.
Speaker 1: I think he's in a good spot. If we tighten
Speaker 1: the scope to the last four games, London averaging eleven
Speaker 1: more yards per game, but they're effectively tied in targets,
Speaker 1: They're tied in touchdowns. London has a very slight advantage
Speaker 1: in routes run London only averages one more catch. Mooney
Speaker 1: averaging sixteen more air yards, and his four to three speed,
Speaker 1: as wed to earlier in the show, makes him the
Speaker 1: bigger downfield threat. The answer really to me is neither,
Speaker 1: and they're both getting fed and I don't think there's
Speaker 1: a true alphin this.
Speaker 5: The question is is it neither or neither?
Speaker 1: Oh? That is a question.
Speaker 5: Oh that might be the tough Are you neither neither?
Speaker 1: Guy?
Speaker 5: I think I used both. I'm not sure. I think
Speaker 5: I used both.
Speaker 4: Neither neither.
Speaker 1: We don't have any royalty here, neither, madam. I'm glad
Speaker 1: we don't.
Speaker 3: Tough Question number two.
Speaker 1: TJ. Hockinson will make his twenty twenty four debut on
Speaker 1: Sunday night. Most often, will Hockinson be a top five
Speaker 1: tight end, a top ten tight end, a top fifteen
Speaker 1: tight end, or worse? Rest of the season, We'll begin
Speaker 1: with this one with.
Speaker 4: Matt Last year, only Evan Ingram had more receptions than TJ. Hockinson,
Speaker 4: and he missed a few games at the tail end
Speaker 4: of the year. With that acl he was also fourth
Speaker 4: and tight end yardage with nine or sixty. In twenty
Speaker 4: twenty two, only Travis Kelsey had more receptions, and he
Speaker 4: was second and and Hawk was second in the league
Speaker 4: in yardage. He's sure handed, he gets open. He's a
Speaker 4: mismatch for defense. But all that happened with Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 4: We don't know for sure if we'll have the same
Speaker 4: chemistry with Sam Darnold. With that said, I think he's
Speaker 4: a top ten tight end. I think he's better than
Speaker 4: current top ten tight ends cad Otton, Cole Komet, Isaiah
Speaker 4: Likely Dalton Kinkaid. Hockinson's better than all those guys. So
Speaker 4: I think he's going to be around tight end six
Speaker 4: the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: Right on the edge, all right. So, but you're gonna
Speaker 1: put him into isay top top ten? Official answer yep Scott.
Speaker 1: Most often will TJ. Hockinson be a top five, top ten,
Speaker 1: top fifteen or worse tight end.
Speaker 5: So the average at the cusp of the top five
Speaker 5: is about eleven PPR points per game, which is like
Speaker 5: a five for sixty average. Over the last three years
Speaker 5: TJ Hockinson four years, TJ. Hockinson has averaged eleven, eleven
Speaker 5: point nine to twelve point six and fourteen point seven.
Speaker 5: So he's right on the cusp, if not above it.
Speaker 5: With multiple different quarterbacks last last few years between the
Speaker 5: Lions and Vitans, the list is really Kittles Bowers McBride
Speaker 5: and then it's pretty open after that. Hawk has proven
Speaker 5: to be on the upper end. He's got six games
Speaker 5: against teams that are bottom third against tight ends. His
Speaker 5: toughest matchup is Week eighteen, so we don't even care
Speaker 5: about that one. I'm I'm gonna push it and go
Speaker 5: tough five.
Speaker 1: All right, this is you, guys hit almost all my
Speaker 1: talking points. The Vikings had the easiest remaining strength of
Speaker 1: schedule for tight ends the rest of the way. Scott
Speaker 1: hit on this already no negative opponents, two neutral opponents,
Speaker 1: and seven easy opponents against tight ends, and this offense
Speaker 1: gets hard to defend.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: Now we're looking at Jefferson Addison, Aaron Jones, TJ. Hockinson.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have some opportunities here. And if the Vikings
Speaker 1: defense continues its current current trajectory, this team's gonna be
Speaker 1: playing from behind a lot and they're passing a lot more.
Speaker 1: This had been a very balanced offense. They may more
Speaker 1: go unbalanced, which is what Kevin O'Connell usually does. And
Speaker 1: Scott hit on the history with Hockinson right around tight
Speaker 1: end five the last couple of years, because we're right
Speaker 1: on the edge of tight end five. But because of
Speaker 1: the injury, I'm gonna knock him down into that six
Speaker 1: to throe n range. Just because of the injury and
Speaker 1: the unknowns on that leg. We will go top ten
Speaker 1: for TJ. Hockinson.
Speaker 3: Tough question number three.
Speaker 1: It's been found money for Kareem Hunt since you picked
Speaker 1: him up off the waiver wire. Should you sell now,
Speaker 1: Scott Fish?
Speaker 5: So as you as you send us this question over here.
Speaker 5: He went on the trade block in three of my
Speaker 5: leagues this week. So okay, I was I was wondering.
Speaker 5: I was wondering if that's just a trend out there.
Speaker 5: Andy Reid did say Pachecko is closer to a return,
Speaker 5: and that might have been what spurred that. But for me,
Speaker 5: they are not a feed a team who wants to
Speaker 5: win a Super Bowl. I think they let Pachecko get
Speaker 5: fully fully rel ready. I don't think they want to
Speaker 5: rush it. So you got four of his five games
Speaker 5: are against bottom ten defenses against fantasy running backs weeks
Speaker 5: fourteenth through seventeen. Our defense is ranked third, ninth, sixth,
Speaker 5: and fifteenth fourteenth through seventeen, So some pretty tough ones there.
Speaker 5: I might wait a little closer to the trade deadline
Speaker 5: in your league. I say, no, So you're not, not, Matt.
Speaker 1: It's been found money with Kareem Hunt since you picked
Speaker 1: him up on the waiver wire. Should you sell now?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: This is sneakily and Isaiah Pacheco question, like Scott sussed out,
Speaker 4: Andy Reid said he's doing fantastic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, doing fantastic, but not ready to practice.
Speaker 4: Yes, that means he's several weeks away from playing. And
Speaker 4: like Scott said, this team has aspirations to win the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl yet again. Pachiko got hurt in weeks fourteen
Speaker 4: and fifteen, missed a couple of games at the tail
Speaker 4: end of last season. They need him healthy for a
Speaker 4: playoff run where they're going to feed him twenty touches
Speaker 4: a game. They don't care if he's healthy until Week
Speaker 4: one of the playoffs for them.
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt has been succeeding on volume only among thirty
Speaker 1: three qualifying starting running backs. Here is where Kareem Hunt ranks.
Speaker 1: Yards per carry thirtieth out of thirty three, yards after
Speaker 1: contact twenty nine out of thirty three, PFF's elusiveness grade
Speaker 1: twenty seventh, PFF's overall grade for running backs thirtieth out
Speaker 1: of thirty three. Hunt is not doing much of any
Speaker 1: three point seven yards per carry.
Speaker 4: There's a reason he was a free agent.
Speaker 1: He said he was a free agent. They're going to
Speaker 1: need to replace him, I think sooner than.
Speaker 4: You guys do.
Speaker 1: But his return timetable to practice looks like mid November.
Speaker 1: That puts him on the field late November, but not
Speaker 1: a full time role until probably December. I think you
Speaker 1: guys are kind of right about that part. But if
Speaker 1: I can trade Kareem Hunt now at sort of the
Speaker 1: what should be the zenith of his value, because once
Speaker 1: Pataco starts practicing your cook you're not gonna get anything
Speaker 1: for Hunt. You still have to trade him. Well, he's
Speaker 1: got he's got some value to the acquir team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can right now.
Speaker 1: I see that trade Hunt for another good starting running back,
Speaker 1: and I'd like to make that swap to somebody.
Speaker 5: Who's okay, that's fair, fair point.
Speaker 1: Let's move on back to our matchups. Matt New England
Speaker 1: taking on Tennessee. Well, last hour, last hour, you said
Speaker 1: you could do this in one minute. You don't have
Speaker 1: to race through that.
Speaker 4: I won't, but I'm gonna go real slow.
Speaker 1: Ramandre Stevenson's the one Patriot that we care about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's an enigma, and so is this matchup for him.
Speaker 4: He had twenty three touches last week. Only managed sixty
Speaker 4: five yards on those touches, but scored twice, saving your
Speaker 4: hide there. But the prior four games you are more
Speaker 4: likely to get single digit touches than a touchdown for Remandre.
Speaker 4: Antonio Gibson limited all week with a turf toe injury.
Speaker 4: I don't think he's gonna go, so it's probably all
Speaker 4: Remandre against the Titans. Problem is Titans are the third
Speaker 4: best unit against runners in the league, allowing only one
Speaker 4: hundred and eight combo yards per game, but they have
Speaker 4: allowed running backs to score nine times this year, which
Speaker 4: is the ninth throw that all in a blender, Mix
Speaker 4: it up, pour it into a glass. It's a C grade.
Speaker 4: The passing game on the bench, Drake may or Jacoby
Speaker 4: Brissett may limited on Friday with concussion. The easy thing
Speaker 4: to do is just to not start anybody here. The
Speaker 4: Titans against Tennessee. Yeah, the Titans have given up the
Speaker 4: fewest completions and passing yards this year. They're top ten
Speaker 4: in every category against wide receivers and tight ends as well.
Speaker 4: Nothing to see here. On the other side, DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 4: was really stifling Calvin Ridley's growth. Obviously, the minute Hopkins
Speaker 4: leaves Ridley sees fifteen targets, ten catches in one hundred
Speaker 4: and forty three yards, but the passing script was in
Speaker 4: play because the Titans trailed the Lions by like one
Speaker 4: hundred and eighty five points at halftime. This one's gonna
Speaker 4: be a little bit closer, and we don't know if
Speaker 4: it's gonna be Will Levis or Mason Rudolph starting this week.
Speaker 4: Rudolph started the past two games. The Titans lost in
Speaker 4: spectacular fashion in both of those. They're talking about Levis
Speaker 4: starting again this week, but he's got a shoulder injury.
Speaker 4: I'm benching the whole passing game, even Ridley. The Pats
Speaker 4: are a run funnel. This game might break the record
Speaker 4: for rushing attempts in a game.
Speaker 5: Really might get the christianansaw shadow too.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Probably, And if Tony Pollard does go, he's a
Speaker 4: B grade for many of the reasons I liked Julius
Speaker 4: Chestnut as might take a chance on me runner. I'm
Speaker 4: worried about the foot, and I'm not talking about Shredder's
Speaker 4: gang of street tufts.
Speaker 1: It's well done, well done, teenage Mutan Naja Turtles. It's
Speaker 1: how Tampa Bay takes on Kansas City. All right, so
Speaker 1: you know how Aaron Rodgers is a rog and DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins is d hop All right, what do you think
Speaker 1: of this?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 1: Oh, see otton Cotton? No, so bold strategy Cotton pays
Speaker 1: off for him.
Speaker 5: I think we could call Kate otton cotton. Why can't we?
Speaker 1: If an.
Speaker 4: It would be, it would be do I need to pull?
Speaker 4: It would be Joe.
Speaker 1: I don't know who that is.
Speaker 5: Joe, Yeah, you come from I never heard that song.
Speaker 1: I would like to believe I've never heard that.
Speaker 5: Wow, there's no way.
Speaker 4: Charge wasn't clubbing back then?
Speaker 1: I guess not. You guys make it sound like you
Speaker 1: would river dance to that song. I don't know what
Speaker 1: A lot of sporting.
Speaker 5: Events and now the title needs to be Cotton Eye
Speaker 5: Joe themed. I think changing it.
Speaker 1: Okay, But what if I just want to play so
Speaker 1: bold strategy cotton and then I was all that all
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 4: But we have all but your formula means we would
Speaker 4: be calling him set.
Speaker 5: So the reason you want to do this is not
Speaker 5: because you think it's a good nickname. It's because you
Speaker 5: want to play a sounder.
Speaker 1: By the way, that's what we do all the time here.
Speaker 5: I know, but here you found the song. I think
Speaker 5: you found the sounder first, and then you're like.
Speaker 1: What actually happened?
Speaker 4: Now do your matchup while we listen to this.
Speaker 1: Ye, no way, we can't play this game. No, I
Speaker 1: don't think we can play this.
Speaker 5: It's gonna take a little star Rosenhouse back. So let's
Speaker 5: talk about Cotton.
Speaker 1: He's starting to look like one of the best tight
Speaker 1: ends in the league. Cotton hasn't been below a seventeen
Speaker 1: percent targets yere since Week two, and over those six games,
Speaker 1: he's averaging seven and a half targets per game, third
Speaker 1: most among tight ends. And here comes Kansas City, the
Speaker 1: team allowing the most yards and the most receptions to
Speaker 1: tight ends. Cotton gets in a grade Bucky Irving may
Speaker 1: not play in this game, which is a bummer. Got
Speaker 1: he had a great game last week, the box sort
Speaker 1: didn't show it. He looks so good on the season.
Speaker 1: He ranks third in PFF's elusiveness rankings, and he ranks
Speaker 1: third and avoided tackle rate. It's a brutal matchup, though,
Speaker 1: against the team allowing the fewest rushing yards per game
Speaker 1: just fifty yards per game for Kansas City and no
Speaker 1: back has scored against the Chiefs since Week three. So
Speaker 1: I'm with the injury. I can't I can't tell you
Speaker 1: to start Bucky Irving even if he's able to go.
Speaker 1: Rashad White also on the bench. He regains his spots
Speaker 1: Tampa's lead back, but he's not running nearly as well
Speaker 1: as Irving, and more importantly, the Chiefs are just great
Speaker 1: at stopping the run, as I already outlined. So I've
Speaker 1: only got I've got Rashad White on the bench. Now
Speaker 1: you could say, well, Rashod White's gonna catch a few
Speaker 1: passes here, but really, no back has scored via the
Speaker 1: air against Kansas City all year either, and no back
Speaker 1: has top forty yards through the air against them since
Speaker 1: the opener, So I can't even I don't even like
Speaker 1: White that way, But if Irving doesn't go, I could
Speaker 1: get you to a C grade on White just through
Speaker 1: volume alone. I'll let's go back to the passing game.
Speaker 1: I mentioned my cotton grade already. Let's go to the receivers.
Speaker 1: Jaden McMillan with Evans and Godwin out, there were no
Speaker 1: real winners of that last week, but McMillan led Tampa's
Speaker 1: receivers and snaps and targets, but this matchup's a bad.
Speaker 1: He's going to go a lot against star cornerback Trent McDuffie.
Speaker 1: McDuffie's only allowing two catches for twenty five yards per
Speaker 1: game in his coverage, and nobody has scored against McDuffie
Speaker 1: this year. So Jalen McMillan also on the bench. Sterling
Speaker 1: Shepherd not expected to play in this game. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go over to uh oh, what about Baker Mayfield then,
Speaker 1: so Evanden's and Godwin out. Everybody was bracing for the
Speaker 1: flop game. Last week didn't come, but this week it's coming.
Speaker 1: Other than Kaydon, I don't like any of the receivers here.
Speaker 1: I can only get you to a C grade on
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield against a very good defense, and even then,
Speaker 1: I think you're looking at like two hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: yards in one touchdown. Tons of respect for what Baker
Speaker 1: has done this year, but I hate this matchup. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's go to Kansas City and I'm gonna start with
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes enters this game as quarterback sixteen in passing
Speaker 1: yards and quarterback sixteen in passing touchdowns. That's it. Most
Speaker 1: weeks in your twelve team league, you'd have been best
Speaker 1: off benching Patrick Mahomes, but not this week. It's all
Speaker 1: together against the Bucks. Tampa ranks bottom five and quarterback
Speaker 1: fantasy points allowed, passing yards allowed, passing touchdowns allowed, quarterback
Speaker 1: rushing yards allowed, and quarterback rushing touchdowns allowed. Three of
Speaker 1: the past four quarterbacks to face Tampa have scored four
Speaker 1: or five touchdowns. He gets an A grade in this game.
Speaker 1: Travis kelce In the four games since Rashi Rice went down,
Speaker 1: Kelsey's had three big games with no less than nine targets.
Speaker 1: The Bucks allow the fourth most fantasy points to tight ends,
Speaker 1: including allowing Kyle Pitts to score his first ever two
Speaker 1: touchdown game last week. Travis Kelcey gets an A grade.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins comes in with a C grade. You know,
Speaker 1: we've seen from Amari Cooper and DeVante Adams that it
Speaker 1: takes a couple of weeks to start getting fully immersed.
Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster is not gonna play in this one,
Speaker 1: and so I think with him out, Hopkins is on
Speaker 1: the field enough you could dart throw against the Tampa
Speaker 1: secondary that is bottom eight in receptions, yards and touchdowns
Speaker 1: allowed to receivers and Xavier Worthy yard you know what,
Speaker 1: the deal isn't Worthy, you get low relatively low volume,
Speaker 1: and then you're just hoping for the big game. But
Speaker 1: let me note this, he's really trending up in targets.
Speaker 1: In October he averaged seven targets per game after averaging
Speaker 1: just three targets in September. But it hasn't translated into
Speaker 1: big box scores yet. But I like this opportunity and speed.
Speaker 1: Guys have had success against Tampa Jamison Williams, Darnell Mooney
Speaker 1: with big games, So I'm gonna try Xavier Worthy at
Speaker 1: a C grade level here, and then Kareem Hunt, who
Speaker 1: we mentioned earlier, three straight starts, three straight games with
Speaker 1: at least twenty one carries and a touchdown, and just
Speaker 1: through sheer volume. He's a good start again here, even
Speaker 1: against a decent but not great Tampa run defense. Runners
Speaker 1: are killing the Bucks through the air and Hunt does
Speaker 1: chip in a few receptions every game. Samaji p Runt
Speaker 1: could be a desperation play through the air, but I
Speaker 1: don't think you want to go there, and he is
Speaker 1: on the bench, And if I didn't say it's specifically
Speaker 1: be great at Kareem Hunt in this matchup?
Speaker 5: Is Juju Smith Schuster a sneaky pickup right now? If
Speaker 5: you could return to that role, he's zero percent roster
Speaker 5: or he's twenty two percent rostered.
Speaker 1: Again, Yeah, he might very well be. And we saw
Speaker 1: the one game where he came back before he got hurt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a big game running from the slot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, he might be a sneaky pickup in leagues.
Speaker 1: Planning for next exactly, you know, hopefully we'll have a whole.
Speaker 5: Segment, Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should talk about him there. When we come back,
Speaker 1: Scott Fish will tell you if Evan Ingram is a
Speaker 1: smash starter with all these injured Jaguars players. Stay tuned
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Welcome back to the show Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: We've got a block of matchups for you, beginning with
Speaker 1: Jacksonville at Philadelphia. Scott, going into the break, I highlighted
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram in his matchup. You have all the hurt
Speaker 1: wide receivers for just so yep, we think the offense
Speaker 1: is gonna largely passing OFFENSI funnel through Evan Ingram, but
Speaker 1: the Eagles know that. What do you think?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 5: What Christian Kirk has Evan Ingram has done with Christian
Speaker 5: Kirk out average ten over ten targets per game like historically.
Speaker 5: Yeah wow, yeah, So I have an A grade on
Speaker 5: Evan Ingram. He's got twenty targets in the last three games,
Speaker 5: catching nineteen of those twenty targets for one hundred and
Speaker 5: seventy three yards. Competition for targets is decreased. We already
Speaker 5: mentioned we got a bunch of players who are maybe
Speaker 5: unlikely to go some game time decisions. All three tight
Speaker 5: ends with at least five targets against the Eagles had
Speaker 5: double digit Fantasy points. So eight grade for Evan Ingram.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 5: Also to just start off with Trevor Lawrence here bench grade.
Speaker 5: Eagles rank top ten in attempts, completion's, yard scores, and
Speaker 5: rushing touchdowns and rushing yards allowed two quarterbacks, So definitely
Speaker 5: a tough matchup here.
Speaker 1: Rosman's offseason. You know, mandate was fixed the second area
Speaker 1: and he's largely done it.
Speaker 5: Yep, yep. Overall, third toughest matchup for opposing passers wide
Speaker 5: receiver group is dinged up. Lawrence is coming off his
Speaker 5: best game and has multiple scores in four of the
Speaker 5: last six, but the matchup's just too tough. I do
Speaker 5: have a C grade on Brian Thomas Junior. If he goes,
Speaker 5: He's a game time decision. I've already mentioned. Might take
Speaker 5: a chance on me wide receiver as Parker Washington as
Speaker 5: being your pivot from Brian Thomas in that afternoon game.
Speaker 5: But the Eagles have given up. Gave up seven scores
Speaker 5: in the first four games and just into wide receivers
Speaker 5: and just one in the last three. That was Jamar
Speaker 5: Chase and it took eleven targets to get there. But
Speaker 5: I think it could be Brian Thomas. He saved his
Speaker 5: day last week with a big score and he does
Speaker 5: score a decent amount, So C grade on Brian Thomas.
Speaker 5: I've Gabe Davis on the bench. He is one of
Speaker 5: the game time decisions. Didn't have a target before he
Speaker 5: left last week. Too risky to start here. Over to
Speaker 5: the running game, Tank Bigsby.
Speaker 1: This is hard, isn't it?
Speaker 5: Both Tank and ETN are coming in with injuries. Etn
Speaker 5: there's word out there that Etn will retake his starter role,
Speaker 5: which is gross. He's the guy that gets the pass
Speaker 5: catching work, but Travistn that every time man Travis. ETN
Speaker 5: is a game time decision. If somehow Bigsby doesn't go,
Speaker 5: then ETN might get a C grade if Big. If
Speaker 5: ETN and Bigsby are both in, I have a C
Speaker 5: grade on Bigsby and a bench on ETN, but I
Speaker 5: don't love it. They haven't a lot, the Eagles having
Speaker 5: a lot of back over fifty yards since Week three
Speaker 5: and that took Alvin Kamara twenty six aries to get
Speaker 5: there to fifty three yards to fifty third Uh yeah,
Speaker 5: to get over fifty yards. I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 5: I think it was some like eighties or something. But
Speaker 5: charges is espoused tanks metrics over and over, so I
Speaker 5: won't walk over on that.
Speaker 1: It's a brutal matchup.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the two games without ETN, so if ETN doesn't go,
Speaker 5: Tank had twenty and twenty six touches, so there's there's
Speaker 5: a lot of room there, but C grade for the
Speaker 5: tank Big. On the Philly side, I just have four
Speaker 5: grades and they're all going to be a's. Okay, that's
Speaker 5: just where it is. Jalen hurts. I really don't need
Speaker 5: to go too deep, but I'll note the Jags are
Speaker 5: the second easiest matchup for fantasy quarterbacks, allowing multiple scores
Speaker 5: in five of their last six sixteen scores total in
Speaker 5: that stretch. By the way, Jalen hurts five rushing touchdowns
Speaker 5: in just the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: The touch pushes back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's unreal. AJ Brown gets an A. The Jags
Speaker 5: have allowed the second most twenty plus yard completions, second
Speaker 5: most forty plus yard completions, bottom five in yards and
Speaker 5: receptions allowed to wide receivers, allowing the third most yards
Speaker 5: to the fantasy points to the perimeter. AJ Brown five
Speaker 5: plus catches in all games, eighty four plus in all
Speaker 5: but in all games, in all three of the four
Speaker 5: and only in all four of his games, and he
Speaker 5: scored in three of his four games. DeVonta Smith led
Speaker 5: the Eagles and targets last week nearly a forty percent
Speaker 5: target share. We've I've gone over for a couple of
Speaker 5: years now what he does with Goddard out, And I'm
Speaker 5: gonna ignore the Barkley revenge game where he had a dud.
Speaker 5: I think part in part because of that and sequon
Speaker 5: Barkley's an auto a averaging twenty one touches for one
Speaker 5: hundred and twenty four yards against a bottom three Rundy
Speaker 5: that's allowed ten scores to running backs.
Speaker 1: Obviously, you know Barkley. I think Barkley's my number one
Speaker 1: player overall for the week. Yeah, all right, Matt, let's
Speaker 1: go to Washington taking on the Giants. Jayden Daniels back
Speaker 1: and on automatic start here, I assume.
Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously his prayers are being answered by the football gods.
Speaker 4: We can't get in the way of that. Terry McLaurin
Speaker 4: gets a B grade. Terry has double digit PPR points
Speaker 4: in five of his last six games. The one he
Speaker 4: did not get to double digit PPR points, he had
Speaker 4: nine point eight PPR points, So he's right there. And
Speaker 4: I spouted off some stats about how terrible the Giants
Speaker 4: corners were when I talked about Noah Brown as might
Speaker 4: take a chance on me wide receiver. So like the
Speaker 4: passing game here, including Zach Ertz, the best two tight
Speaker 4: ends the Giants have faced this year, Jake Ferguson and
Speaker 4: zech Ertz. Both of them managed double digit PPR points,
Speaker 4: but really they faced no one else, which is why
Speaker 4: they haven't allowed a tight end touchdown this year. I
Speaker 4: think Ertz changes that this week. He's coming off eleven targets,
Speaker 4: seven catches seventy seven yards. Last week, I got a
Speaker 4: B grade on zach ertz Ok. Brian Robinson gets a
Speaker 4: B grade. I'm gonna give Austin Eckler a C. The
Speaker 4: Giants are allowing five point four yards per carry. That's
Speaker 4: the worst mark in the league, and that's great for
Speaker 4: both of them. They're allowing the eighth most receptions and
Speaker 4: the sixth most receiving yards to opposing backs, and that's
Speaker 4: why Eckler's in play too. But why not A and
Speaker 4: B grades. Giants have only allowed four total touchdowns to
Speaker 4: the running back position all year. They're a very classic bend,
Speaker 4: but don't break defense. On the other side, it's Tyrone
Speaker 4: Tracy's team now, Bye bye Devin Singletary. Tracy ran the
Speaker 4: ball twenty times for one hundred and forty five yards
Speaker 4: in a score last week. He looked good too. He's
Speaker 4: still available in about a third of leagues and the
Speaker 4: matchup is pretty good. This week. The Commanders are allowing
Speaker 4: these second most yards per attempted five point three, and
Speaker 4: they're giving up the sixth most rushing yards and the
Speaker 4: seventh most rushing score. So a B grade for Tracy.
Speaker 4: The last time Danny Dimes threw a touchdown pass in
Speaker 4: MetLife Stadium was January first, twenty twenty three. That's exactly
Speaker 4: twenty two months ago. Why since he threw a touchdown
Speaker 4: pass at his home stadium.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, we think like last year, like
Speaker 1: missed the whole season. He played six games last year. Yeah, wow, terrible.
Speaker 4: He also hasn't thrown a touchdown in three straight games
Speaker 4: of real time. The Commanders have given up exactly three
Speaker 4: touchdown passes in their last five games. They held Kyler
Speaker 4: Watson and Lamar to one passing score apiece. They held
Speaker 4: Caleb Williams two one hundred and thirty one passing yards
Speaker 4: and no scores last week. Daniel Jones gets a bench grade.
Speaker 4: And it's making it very difficult to start some of
Speaker 4: these wide receivers. And the wide receivers have been good.
Speaker 1: Is Drew Locke a pick up in deep like you know,
Speaker 1: two quarterback leagues superflex?
Speaker 4: I think they're gonna stick with Dimes the rest of
Speaker 4: the year. If they were going to do something to
Speaker 4: get Drew Locke in, they would have done it by now.
Speaker 4: Malik Neighbors, I'm still giving him a B grade. He's
Speaker 4: seen double digit targets in four of his six career games.
Speaker 4: He gets the easiest matchup against Benjamin Saint, just Darius
Speaker 4: Slayton coming off a one hundred and eight yard game
Speaker 4: but a week removed from a one catch for eleven
Speaker 4: yard game. Andy gets the toughest matchup against Mike Seine Restill,
Speaker 4: so he's on the bench, and Wandale Robinson's matchup again
Speaker 4: in the slot against Noah Igbogany. I'm gonna go with that. Yes,
Speaker 4: it's right in the middle. Considering he's at at least
Speaker 4: five receptions in six straight games, I think he's worthy
Speaker 4: of a volume C in PPR leagues, but you're absolutely
Speaker 4: lucky if one of them finds the end zone.
Speaker 1: Indianapolis takes on Minnesota, there's some nice opportunities on the
Speaker 1: Colts side. I'm gonna start with Joe Flacco is a
Speaker 1: great opportunity. Viking's ring thirty first in passing yards allowed,
Speaker 1: they're twenty seventh in passing touchdowns, and it's gotten worse lately.
Speaker 1: Four straight quarterbacks have thrown multiple touchdowns against Minnesota, and
Speaker 1: when Flaco faced the similarly bad Jaguars defense in Week five,
Speaker 1: he threw for three hundred and sixty yards and three scores.
Speaker 1: So Joe Flacco A grade in this one. Josh downs
Speaker 1: was might take a chance to be wide receiver. I
Speaker 1: love him here, Jo, but let's go to Michael Pittman,
Speaker 1: who also very startable here. Under Anthony Richardson, Michael Pittman
Speaker 1: is wide receiver fifty one, that's Van Jefferson. In the
Speaker 1: Flacco starts, Pittman goes to wide receiver twenty one, that's
Speaker 1: steph On Diggs. Vikings are allowing the second most yards
Speaker 1: to wide receivers, third most touchdowns to wide receivers. He'll
Speaker 1: match up with Stephan Gilmore most often. His past two
Speaker 1: games have been bad, with touchdowns allowed in both games,
Speaker 1: and nine of eleven targets have been caught against Stephan Gilmore.
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman B grade in this one. You might be
Speaker 1: thinking you want to throw a dart at Alec Pierce
Speaker 1: or Donny Mitchell. I wouldn't blame you. I can't get you.
Speaker 1: Their volume is so low. I can't get you to
Speaker 1: a C grade. But if you want to, the metrics
Speaker 1: would suggest the Vikings could get beat on this, So okay,
Speaker 1: I could see it but I can't get it to
Speaker 1: a letter grade on those guys. Jonathan Taylor A grade.
Speaker 1: The Vikings run defense had been awesome all year until
Speaker 1: they lost middle linebacker Blake Cashman a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and then since then the whole thing's disintegrated. The past
Speaker 1: two lead backs to face the Vikings, Jimi or Gibbs
Speaker 1: Hyan Williams, have posted big games. Gibbs scored twice and
Speaker 1: rolled up one hundred and fifty yards. Williams scored once
Speaker 1: put up one hundred and sixteen yards. Jonathan Taylor A
Speaker 1: grade on the Vikings side, Justin Jefferson's and obvious A.
Speaker 1: But you can start Justin Addison at a sea level now.
Speaker 1: The cold secondary is improved lately. Over the past three games,
Speaker 1: they're the sixth best fantasy defense against wideouts, and over
Speaker 1: those three games, only one receiver scored. Nobody's topped eighty
Speaker 1: one yards. Addison runs from all parts of the field equally.
Speaker 1: He'll see all three of Indie's starting cornerbacks and they're
Speaker 1: all good. More Womack Jones. I'll have top twenty four
Speaker 1: cornerback grades. In fact, I'm moving. I'm moving, Justin I'm
Speaker 1: moving Justin ats Jordan.
Speaker 5: Let's call him Jordan.
Speaker 4: You called him justin three times nine times?
Speaker 5: You know what I think after the three three thing?
Speaker 5: This is a squeaky greasy wheel cheese game.
Speaker 1: It could be that, right, Yeah, it's a cheese game.
Speaker 5: Well, squeaky squeaky wheel.
Speaker 4: I just like calling it the cheese squabr squeaky wheel.
Speaker 4: By the way, it was horrible and I'm glad it's gone.
Speaker 5: You hate it, Yeah, it's now Cotton. It's a cotton,
Speaker 5: bold strategy, Cotton.
Speaker 1: Let's see off a new sound on the board.
Speaker 4: TJ.
Speaker 1: Hockinson. You might be wondering if you can start him
Speaker 1: in his first game back. I originally had him as
Speaker 1: a bench and then you know, I think he's going
Speaker 1: to get half to three quarters of the snaps and
Speaker 1: I'm kind of I'm kind of starting to think maybe
Speaker 1: you could get Hockinson in at a sea grade.
Speaker 4: Now that's a bold strategy, Cotton.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so bold Cotton.
Speaker 1: Let's see of decent tight ends are having big games
Speaker 1: against Indianapolis. John new Smith, Cole kmet Patrick, Firemouth all scored.
Speaker 1: They're good, not great, and really the Colts have been
Speaker 1: a yielding tight end defense they haven't played any they
Speaker 1: haven't played a single tight end as good as Hockinson
Speaker 1: is when healthy, so I've got a C grade on him.
Speaker 1: Last couple of guys, Sam Donald singing with the passing game.
Speaker 1: Colts looked improve against the pass lately, but their last
Speaker 1: three games were against backup grade quarterbacks like Will Levis,
Speaker 1: Tyler Huntley, and then last week CJ. Stroud missing Snicocllins
Speaker 1: and Stefan Diggs. So prior to that they've been giving
Speaker 1: up over three hundred and twelve yards and just three
Speaker 1: straight passers. So I'm optimistic that Donald's going to do
Speaker 1: well here, even though they lost left tackle Christian Darisow,
Speaker 1: big loss, but the Vikings traded for tackle Cam Robinson
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. Hopefully can play a few snaps here and
Speaker 1: keep Sam Donald up right long enough to people ap grade.
Speaker 4: They're gonna start him. He's gonna play the whole game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe, I don't know, that could be the case. Lastly,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, Colts run defense isn't that bad if you
Speaker 1: take out workhorsebacks with twenty five or more carries, which
Speaker 1: is a lot, and Aaron Jones never gets near that.
Speaker 1: Only two runners have posted meaningful fantasy days against Indy
Speaker 1: that was Tank bigs B and Tony Pollard. Because Minnesota's
Speaker 1: missing Christian darris On. As they're left tackled, they might
Speaker 1: run more often as to not expose Sam Donald's blind
Speaker 1: side to a bunch of attacks. So I like Jones
Speaker 1: here at a B grade level.
Speaker 5: When talking about TJ. Hockinson, you said the Colts haven't
Speaker 5: faced any tight ends. They played John U two weeks ago.
Speaker 5: I know, and he did great seven for nice at
Speaker 5: hockets level, but it felt like shots fired John. Why
Speaker 5: would I do that?
Speaker 1: Why would I do?
Speaker 4: You're upset with him?
Speaker 1: When we come back the Fantasy Football Weekly Time Machine
Speaker 1: premature speculation, Guys, you want to bring up now that
Speaker 1: other people will try to pick up next week? Final
Speaker 1: segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Chargi and Scott Fish
Speaker 1: and Matt Harrison with you. It's time to jump into
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Football Weekly Time is she Es. Guys who
Speaker 1: want to pick a mount that other people will try
Speaker 1: to pick up later in the week. We begin with
Speaker 1: Scott Fish.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm going with the Norland Saints. Mason Tipton maybe
Speaker 5: four through three. Speedster, You're you're picking him up, hoping
Speaker 5: that he takes the car's new Rashid Shahid role. UH
Speaker 5: eighty percent snaps last two weeks, led targets two weeks ago,
Speaker 5: as second in targets last week. UH could be could
Speaker 5: be a good pick up.
Speaker 1: I'm starting him over Romandra Stevenson in your in your league.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel about Mason Tipton. We'll see if
Speaker 1: it pays off. Matt your premature speculation player.
Speaker 4: My guy already played on Thursday, so this is kind
Speaker 4: of a next week. It's Braylen Allen and the people
Speaker 4: are gonna probably be dropping him because he ran the
Speaker 4: ball four times for nine yards. But prior to that,
Speaker 4: as snap counts, we're climbing. He saw his first inside
Speaker 4: the five snap in Week eight and he scored on it.
Speaker 4: And the upcoming schedule is fantastic for the Jets too, Arizona, Indie,
Speaker 4: Seattle and then dates with Miami, Jacksonville and Buffalo down
Speaker 4: the stretch round. This is the time of the year
Speaker 4: that you acquire backup running backs that have a lot
Speaker 4: of talent and a good schedule. He fits the bill.
Speaker 1: My premature speculation player is Carolina wide receiver Jalen Cocher. Yes,
Speaker 1: probably not up to speed on your holy Cross wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Now the Deantae Johnson's out, we've seen a huge spike
Speaker 1: in usage from Jalen Cocher. I asked Thor about him
Speaker 1: because Thor knows, Hey, well, this Holy Cross receiver. Yea,
Speaker 1: so here's what he said. Coker went undrafted because he
Speaker 1: comes from an FCF school, doesn't have high end speed,
Speaker 1: but he has ball skills. Coker has late hands, preventing
Speaker 1: dbi's from playing the ball, and he doesn't drop anything.
Speaker 1: He extends his catch radius by spearing the ball outside
Speaker 1: his frame. He's been Carolina's highest graded Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: wide receiver on the year, Jalen Cocher. All three games
Speaker 1: he's played a factor in, which is Week five, Week seven,
Speaker 1: a Week eight, Poker played seventy nine percent or more
Speaker 1: of the snaps in the slot and he and even
Speaker 1: if Thelan comes back, he's more of a natural outside receiver,
Speaker 1: so they could just flip him outside when theland returns.
Speaker 1: Let's get to our final two matchups, Scott. We begin
Speaker 1: with the Los Angeles Rams at Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm starting with Matthew Stafford off here with a
Speaker 5: B grade. With Cooper Cup and Poka Nakua back, it
Speaker 5: seems like he's back. He had four scores last week,
Speaker 5: albeit a very easy defense for him. He only had
Speaker 5: four passing scores on the season prior to that. Seattle
Speaker 5: on that side started off the year holding down early
Speaker 5: season Week one version of bon Nicks and then Brissett,
Speaker 5: Skylar Thompson, etc. The last five weeks they've allowed Goff, Jones,
Speaker 5: Perty Cousins, Josh Allen to average two hundred and sixty
Speaker 5: three yards and two scores, including multiple scores to four
Speaker 5: of them. I have a B grade here. You could
Speaker 5: talk me into an A. But the pooka nakoua thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: If if he is limited or doesn't go, That's why
Speaker 5: I'm dropping Matthew down to a B. Puka nakua. If
Speaker 5: he does go, if you start him, he's he's not
Speaker 5: gonna go off. If you don't start him, please, if
Speaker 5: you if you bench him, he's absolutely going off. But
Speaker 5: we will see if he does go. I do it.
Speaker 5: I do still have an A grade. Even with that
Speaker 5: knee injury. He only ran twenty two routes against the Vikings,
Speaker 5: but he cut seven of them for one hundred and
Speaker 5: six yards. Real yeah, so so so I do like
Speaker 5: him if he goes. The Seahawks have allowed eight wide
Speaker 5: receivers wide receivers to top one hundred and or score
Speaker 5: in just the last five games, So I'm given an
Speaker 5: A grade also to Cooper Cup. He's gonna get the
Speaker 5: tough matchup with Devin Witherspoon. Body does move around a lot,
Speaker 5: and the Seahawks do allow the fewest points to the
Speaker 5: slot because that bit's Cooper Cup. So A grade there.
Speaker 5: If Puka doesn't go, Jordan Whittington's an interesting interesting play here.
Speaker 5: Bench grade. But if Pook doesn't go, the two games
Speaker 5: prior to Whittington's injury, six for sixty two and seven
Speaker 5: for eighty nine on eighteen targets, he was getting the targets,
Speaker 5: not Robinson, who will only add three targets last week,
Speaker 5: but two were touchdowns. I have Robinson on the bench
Speaker 5: in the running game, Blake Korn's not getting anything anymore,
Speaker 5: that's all. So it's just all. Karen Williams, averaging twenty
Speaker 5: two touches for eighty nine yards, has scored in every
Speaker 5: game this year. In fact, ten ten total scores, but
Speaker 5: he scored in ten regular season games dating back to
Speaker 5: last year, ten straight. Seattle's allowed the most rushing yards,
Speaker 5: most combo yards. I can go on, but it's an
Speaker 5: A grade because it's just just a really good spot
Speaker 5: for him. Over on the Seattle side, I only have
Speaker 5: a C grade on Gino. Smith failed to throw a
Speaker 5: touchdown pass for the first time this season last week.
Speaker 5: He's only got one multi score game, though he usually
Speaker 5: only throws one touchdown.
Speaker 1: And he's the NFL leader in yard yards, passing yardage,
Speaker 1: air yards. Everything's getting in the end.
Speaker 5: Zone exactly exactly. He averages forty five fewer yards in
Speaker 5: games with Kenneth Walker, but that's still two hundred and
Speaker 5: sixty three yards a game. The Rams boast the second
Speaker 5: highest pressure rate, but our bottom ten in Saxon knockdowns.
Speaker 5: They're pressuring, they're just not getting into the quarterback. In
Speaker 5: the three games last year against the Rams, Gino failed
Speaker 5: to top two hundred and thirty three yards had just
Speaker 5: one score in each, So that two sixty three and
Speaker 5: one sounds pretty fair here against the Rams top ten
Speaker 5: pass defense against passers allowing two hundred and twenty eight
Speaker 5: yards per game, so C grade on Gino Smith, d
Speaker 5: Gay Metcalf has been ruled out, so I got starting
Speaker 5: grades on Jackson Smith, Injigba, and Tyler Lockett. Here, six
Speaker 5: wide receivers have had eight or more targets against the Rams.
Speaker 5: They averaged one hundred and four yards in a score.
Speaker 5: I think the more likely target for that is Jackson
Speaker 5: Smith and Jigba, who has six plus targets in five
Speaker 5: straight and he's led the team in snaps six of
Speaker 5: the last seven with Metcalf sideline. Last week he had
Speaker 5: a twenty six percent target chair, so I like him
Speaker 5: with a C grade here, and I like Tyler Lockett
Speaker 5: because the Rams allowed the sixth most fantasy points to
Speaker 5: perimeter wide receivers even though I was targeted by JSN
Speaker 5: and with Metcalf out last week he had a bad week.
Speaker 5: This is a little bit better spot for him and
Speaker 5: he's going to have to step up. His four for
Speaker 5: fifty average is going to come into play a little
Speaker 5: higher with the kout potentially Kenneth Walker, Yeah, unreal. This
Speaker 5: year he is leading running backs in fantasy points per
Speaker 5: game because he missed a couple leading running backs in
Speaker 5: points per game second in miss tackles forced per touch
Speaker 5: behind James Connor, who is shaky. He's just shook three
Speaker 5: tackles as I was talking. It's unreal what he's doing,
Speaker 5: averaging seventeen touches, but four and a half are catches,
Speaker 5: which just gives him insane production. He scored seven times
Speaker 5: in six games, and every lead back against the ram
Speaker 5: Rams has had eighty eight plus total yards. Every single
Speaker 5: one that his face. Lead back that has faced the
Speaker 5: Rams cell a grade for Kenneth Walker. There. I would
Speaker 5: have a dart throw on Noah Fan, but he hasn't
Speaker 5: been just seemed to end the week, So I'm gonnayeah mention.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Walker so good?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm so good.
Speaker 1: I love Kennth Walker. I love Kenneth Walker. All Right,
Speaker 1: Matt Detroit takes on Green Bay. You have not yet
Speaker 1: doled out a fantasy fonsie yet. Are we going to
Speaker 1: get one out of this matchup?
Speaker 4: We might here, Let's start on the Green Bay side
Speaker 4: because this one's a little thornier. Josh Jacobs limited all
Speaker 4: week with an ankle injury. It seems like he's trending
Speaker 4: toward going in this one, but keep an eye. It's
Speaker 4: a terrible matchup, though the Lion's top five in rush yards, receptions,
Speaker 4: receiving yards, combo yards. Just a C grade for Jacobs
Speaker 4: if he goes. If he's unable to go, it's Emmanuel
Speaker 4: Wilson or Chris Brooks who might pop into some full
Speaker 4: time duties. That's gross. You don't want to do that.
Speaker 4: Jordan Love also limited this week with the grand injury
Speaker 4: that knocked him out of last week's game. He did
Speaker 4: throw on Thursday and Friday, so it seems fairly likely
Speaker 4: that he's the starter question mark if not Malik Willis,
Speaker 4: and that changes everything. So if Love goes, he's got
Speaker 4: the declining pressure rate that the Lions have been experiencing
Speaker 4: since losing eight. Hutchinson going in his direction, and I'll
Speaker 4: give him a B grade then, because I think he'll
Speaker 4: dink and dunk his way down the field on this
Speaker 4: Lions defense. If it's Willis, Willis gets a C grade,
Speaker 4: mostly because of his rushing ability. He was charged to
Speaker 4: take a chance on me guy, but he's a good
Speaker 4: helper in the run game. The wide receivers. If it's Willis,
Speaker 4: you bench them all. In the two games that Willis
Speaker 4: started and finished, only one wide receiver touchdown. Only one
Speaker 4: wide receiver got to four receptions, and no wide receiver
Speaker 4: top seventy yards. If it's love, I think Romeo Dubbs
Speaker 4: and Jayden Reid are both worth B starts. I'd even
Speaker 4: throw a C grade at Christian Watson. All three of
Speaker 4: the Lions starting corners opposing passer rating of either one
Speaker 4: oh three or one oh four. Finally, Tucker Kraft, who's
Speaker 4: emerged as a tight end savior this year. He's a
Speaker 4: C grade for both quarterbacks. Actually, he did catch Willis's
Speaker 4: only touchdown pass last week, but the Lions have been
Speaker 4: the best tight end defense in the league. No tight
Speaker 4: end is top fifty yards this season. Only aj Barner
Speaker 4: has scored. They haven't played a ton of great tight ends,
Speaker 4: but they held Trey McBride to twenty five yards and
Speaker 4: Jake Fergus into eleven yards. So it's it's tough just
Speaker 4: to C grade now. On the other side, there's a
Speaker 4: lot of A grades here. I bet there are at
Speaker 4: Jared Goff. I don't remember ever seeing a passing line
Speaker 4: of eighty five yards and three touchdowns, but that's what
Speaker 4: Goff did last week. By the way, in his last
Speaker 4: four games, ten touchdown passes, thirteen incompletions. That's nuts, that's insane.
Speaker 1: It should be in the MVP conversation where.
Speaker 4: He should be. I don't know how you can't give
Speaker 4: him an A grade. The fact that he's almost as
Speaker 4: likely to throw a touchdown as an incomplete pass from
Speaker 4: the slot A moon Ross Saint Brown is about to
Speaker 4: make some grilled cheese of Keyshawn Nixon. He's allowed a
Speaker 4: passer rating of one eleven in his coverage. Son god
Speaker 4: gets an A grade. Laporta scored in two of his
Speaker 4: last three weeks, but last week was his first really
Speaker 4: good game of the season. He caught all six of
Speaker 4: his targets for forty eight in a score. The Packers
Speaker 4: have allowed the fourth most receptions in fifth most yards
Speaker 4: to opposing tight ends this season, and they have not
Speaker 4: played good time tight ends. These are the tight ends
Speaker 4: with eight or more PPR Fantasy points against Green Bay
Speaker 4: this year. Nick Vennette, Josh Wiley, Josh Oliver, Colby, Parkinson,
Speaker 4: Trey McBride, Evan Ingram, Brenton Strange. Five of those guys
Speaker 4: you'd never start. Laport is an A grade and it's
Speaker 4: been ridiculously easy for the run game so far this year.
Speaker 4: I'm giving Jamier Gibbs the fantasy Ardvark he gets. Wait
Speaker 4: he or a fantasy FONSI too, Sure, well they both get.
Speaker 4: He gets an A grade. David Montgomery comes in with
Speaker 4: a B. Five different runners have hit one hundred combo
Speaker 4: yards against the Packers this year. They've allowed the seventh
Speaker 4: most receiving yards to the running back position too, so
Speaker 4: whoever they flex in is going to get good yardage.
Speaker 4: The Packers have been good against runners in the scoring department, though,
Speaker 4: only allowing six touchdowns to the position this year. But
Speaker 4: it doesn't feel like you can stop the Lions momentum
Speaker 4: of this offense right now, especially the running game.
Speaker 1: All right, do we.
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