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Speaker 1: Here's the Fans. Paul charchy in Welcome to a week
Speaker 1: thirteen version of Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Giarchi
Speaker 1: and my co host this week are Scott Fish and
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison. Hello guys, Hello, good morning. Only there was
Speaker 1: something to talk about, something to sort of take up
Speaker 1: our usual cadence of matchups and stuff. Nothing, I got nothing.
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis scored forty one points against the Miami Heat
Speaker 1: last night. Yeah. Um. In the span of less than
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, uh quite a bit less than twenty
Speaker 1: four hours, Kareem Hunt owners went from empowering into the
Speaker 1: playoffs into now feeling potentially like they're a first round
Speaker 1: loss in the playoffs. As kareem Hunt has hit the
Speaker 1: Commissioner's exemption list and released from the chiefs, and now
Speaker 1: we are, now we are we look ahead. Um, I
Speaker 1: don't think we do not have the time or the
Speaker 1: format to do a deep dive into this, the social implications,
Speaker 1: everything else. It's just not that's not what we do here,
Speaker 1: and we just don't have time for it, especially with
Speaker 1: no bi weeks and all the matchups. So we need
Speaker 1: to get to So let's let's just turn our attention
Speaker 1: this way for kareem Hunt owners and dynasty leagues and
Speaker 1: empire leagues. You're thinking about future years? Is he somebody
Speaker 1: you're dropping? I'm holding I have him in an Empire league.
Speaker 1: I was lucky enough to be able to pick up
Speaker 1: Spencer wear on the waiver wire yesterday. But I'm going
Speaker 1: to definitely hold. Um. It's not a political issue in
Speaker 1: my mind, it's just a fantasy issue. It's a guy
Speaker 1: who makes statistics, and I'm going to wait and see
Speaker 1: if he's going to make statistics in some other uniform
Speaker 1: next year. Yeah, I'm probably trading. I I've talked about
Speaker 1: this in the office before. I you know me, I'm
Speaker 1: the guy that does a lot of charitable stuff. I
Speaker 1: you know, I I have a lot of causes, and
Speaker 1: there are sometimes that like when Adrian Peterson went down,
Speaker 1: I traded all my shares and I can still get
Speaker 1: value for them. It's just the thing for me. And
Speaker 1: there are players who you know, make recompense that that,
Speaker 1: you know, they become they become better people afterwards, and
Speaker 1: they learn from their mistakes and then I can start
Speaker 1: to acquire them again and have those guys. But I'm
Speaker 1: just not a guy that ken I would be trading him.
Speaker 1: But that's the thing there. I believe he will be
Speaker 1: on an NFL roster on opening day next year. I
Speaker 1: believe he will. Um. He will uh show appropriate contrition.
Speaker 1: He will do the right things to do effectively what
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon was able to do and you know, salvaging
Speaker 1: his draft status and to a great degree and finding
Speaker 1: himself on a team and being a productive player. And
Speaker 1: you know, you have to answer a lot of tough
Speaker 1: questions when that team first makes a move to acquire you.
Speaker 1: You have to at the players to have answers ready
Speaker 1: at that point. Um. But fundamentally, we are a forgiving society.
Speaker 1: We like to give people second chances because we want
Speaker 1: them ourselves. When we make mistakes, and I believe that
Speaker 1: by the time you know, we're a half year from
Speaker 1: a half year from now or farther. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: some teams is gonna feel like, um, he's done enough
Speaker 1: and enough time has passed, and somebody will want him
Speaker 1: because the talent that he has. This is not like
Speaker 1: Ray Rice who was at the bitter end of his
Speaker 1: career and it was pretty easy to look past his talent.
Speaker 1: I think that you know, and talent, frankly, talent matters
Speaker 1: from these kinds of situations. What do you think of
Speaker 1: Spencer ware rest of season? Just give me a number
Speaker 1: on where you think he will finish for as a
Speaker 1: as a fantasy running back. Spencer where a fourth hot question?
Speaker 1: There really is a fourth hot question, But because we
Speaker 1: need to open the show with it, give me a
Speaker 1: number on where you think he will finish rest of
Speaker 1: season among running backs? What's what's what's the rest of
Speaker 1: his schedule? Looking like it's not great? Um, I can
Speaker 1: tell you Oakland this week, Oakland this week. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna absolutely have a monster game, you would assume,
Speaker 1: so I know they play Oakland again in weeks seventeen,
Speaker 1: which doesn't matter. The schedules Baltimore, Chargers, Seattle. Okay, I
Speaker 1: think he's definitely startable in that Chargers game. The Baltimore
Speaker 1: game is gonna be tough. He'll probably be a C
Speaker 1: grade there and uh, Seattle probably a B grade. So
Speaker 1: see if the number where you think maybe a number
Speaker 1: where you think he's going to finish among running backs
Speaker 1: rest of season at this point forward. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it's a little higher. I think it's more like ten.
Speaker 1: Hunt may have finished, you know, five four, um, but
Speaker 1: Spencer War is not as good as Kareem Hunt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know, you know there's that, so you know
Speaker 1: he won't put up Kareem Hunts numbers because he's not
Speaker 1: as good. There's a reason Kareem Hunt was the start uh.
Speaker 1: In addition to uh, in addition and obviously you know,
Speaker 1: we'll be breaking down Kareem Hunt's game later in this
Speaker 1: show and what you can expect this week for those
Speaker 1: of you that picked him up. Sorry, where's uh, Where's game?
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt's gotta buy. Kareem Hunt is on permanent by
Speaker 1: semi permanent by we will get to take a chance
Speaker 1: on me. We'll talk about three hot questions we are
Speaker 1: premature speculation is done for the year, but we'll in
Speaker 1: part because we have to power through all of the
Speaker 1: remaining matchups, which of which there are many. No by
Speaker 1: weeks anymore, and that begins with the Browns and the Texans. Scott.
Speaker 1: This is the first difficult matchup for Baker Mayfield in
Speaker 1: a month, and now I think we're gonna find out
Speaker 1: what we got in Baker. What do you think? I
Speaker 1: completely agree. I'm really excited to see the Mayfield v.
Speaker 1: Watson game, though. That's man, two guys I really like
Speaker 1: coming on. I mean, someday we might you know, ten
Speaker 1: years from now, this might feel like a breeze. Brady, Yeah,
Speaker 1: very well good. I love them both so much. Mayfield's
Speaker 1: throwing multiple touchball touchdown passes in all three games since
Speaker 1: he left, but I mean they were easy matchups, as
Speaker 1: he kind of alluded to there. He also threw multiple
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the two games before he left. I do
Speaker 1: admit that the offense has opened up a bit, But
Speaker 1: where I sit on Mayfield this week, I gave him
Speaker 1: a B grade. I think he's got an okay matchup,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna have to get it out quick. Clowney
Speaker 1: and Watt are two of the top five in speed
Speaker 1: to the quarterback, which I think really lays out well
Speaker 1: for Landry and Duke Johnson this week. So I gave
Speaker 1: both of those guys C grades. I'm I'm including Duke
Speaker 1: Johnson in the passing game apparently, um, although he's not
Speaker 1: much of a factor in the passing game really. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson, Yeah, No, he was a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago when he had nine targets. I think last week
Speaker 1: was more of an anomaly. I think he gets back
Speaker 1: to that this week because I think Mayfield is gonna
Speaker 1: have to get it out quick. I do only have
Speaker 1: a C grade on Duke though. They're the worry is there.
Speaker 1: We saw Mario to hit down Lewis seven times last week,
Speaker 1: so pass catching backs are are catching. It's also why
Speaker 1: I'm benching Callaway. I don't know that Mayfield is going
Speaker 1: to have the time to get it down to Callaway
Speaker 1: and he drops half of them anyway. So David Njoku,
Speaker 1: the last time I thought, David Nuke, how many times
Speaker 1: we got a plan for great matchup smash spot And Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Texans have allowed to touchdown in three straight and
Speaker 1: in those three nine receptions, eleven targets and one yards
Speaker 1: is the average to the tight end. It's a great
Speaker 1: spot for Nujoku. I'm giving him the A grade, so
Speaker 1: be prepared for the Goose egg right, A grade, Yes,
Speaker 1: I love it. He had a single eight is David
Speaker 1: and Joko it a single game this year? Whyber one game? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That was top twelve tight end. Yeah, absolutely, that's not
Speaker 1: what I mean. Yeah, alright, No, I think you're being bold.
Speaker 1: But okay, I think it is a little bold. That's
Speaker 1: why I expected goose uh chub. I'm giving a B
Speaker 1: grade and it's completely on the touches. He's gonna get
Speaker 1: twenty touch guys have had at least eighty four yards,
Speaker 1: all of them against the Texans. Only se Kwon Barkley
Speaker 1: top two hundred total yards against the Texans this year,
Speaker 1: so I think the upside is pretty limited on the
Speaker 1: Texans side. The passing game, I love this matchup. Browns
Speaker 1: are terrible against against quarterbacks and watch receivers. So I
Speaker 1: have eight grades on both Watkins and Hopkins. Um. Even
Speaker 1: Driscoll did okay in the second half of that game. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The catch on on Watson is he's had no more
Speaker 1: than twenty five passes now in six straight games. You
Speaker 1: just it's just that low of volume. It's really hard.
Speaker 1: You look through like four touchdown passes on less than that.
Speaker 1: It can be. I'm not saying it's impossible, but you
Speaker 1: know this is not This is not a one time anomaly.
Speaker 1: Six straight games with twenty five or fewer passes is troubling. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I believe in one of those games he'd at five
Speaker 1: touch jowns Deshaun Watson though he did. Yeah, so uh
Speaker 1: and this is this is a team that has thrown,
Speaker 1: has given up multiple touchdowns with three hundred yards and
Speaker 1: all but one game this year to the quarterback. So uh.
Speaker 1: As far as DT, Damarius Thomas and QT, I kind
Speaker 1: of I'm benching them both because I don't know which
Speaker 1: one is going to come off, right. Uh. DT has
Speaker 1: got Denzel Award going up against him, and QT really
Speaker 1: does demand targets when he is in there. He gets
Speaker 1: a lot of targets. So I think they might just
Speaker 1: monopolize them both. And I don't know which one is
Speaker 1: going to be the bad one. But uh, Lamar Miller.
Speaker 1: Miller now has a hundred total yards and four of
Speaker 1: his last five the Browns have allowed a hundred forty
Speaker 1: more or more total yards to seven running backs this year,
Speaker 1: including three of the last four games, five touchdowns in
Speaker 1: that span. I have an rare A grade on Lamar Miller.
Speaker 1: All right, that is rare. Yeah, let's go to a
Speaker 1: Chargers taking on the Steelers. Chargers had a tough matchup
Speaker 1: last week, but the passing game came alive anyway. Now
Speaker 1: they go to to h to Hinz Field, where every
Speaker 1: game is seemingly a shootout. Yeah, that's true. Um, the
Speaker 1: Steelers are averaging twenty nine points at home, which should
Speaker 1: force Rivers to pass and pass often as opponents in
Speaker 1: hines Field are averaging thirty six pass attempts on the season,
Speaker 1: and on the season when Rivers has had at least
Speaker 1: thirty six pass attempts, he's averaging three fifty eight yards
Speaker 1: and three touchdowns. I believe you came up with that job. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm sticking to it. Yes, that that that is a fact. Um.
Speaker 1: I gave Rivers a B grade. I could see an A,
Speaker 1: but it just seems like the the Steelers still have
Speaker 1: a very good defense. So I'm just knocking him down
Speaker 1: just a little bit. I think a B grades fair there, Uh,
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, I'm giving a B grade two as well.
Speaker 1: Allen will face off against Mike Hilton, who hasn't allowed
Speaker 1: a touchdown this season and hasn't allowed more than nineteen
Speaker 1: yards in the last seven games. That's a that's a tough,
Speaker 1: very tough, tough draw for Keenan Allen. Both the Williams brothers,
Speaker 1: Mike and Tyrrell. Mike scored twice last week versus Arizona,
Speaker 1: but he's finished under sixty yards in eight straight games,
Speaker 1: and Tyrrell was active last week despite a quad injury.
Speaker 1: He was on the field of play for nine times.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not even he had zero targets on
Speaker 1: those nine plays that he was on the field. So
Speaker 1: both of those guys are on your bench. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then the the interesting guy here, I guess is Austin
Speaker 1: Ekeler because Melvin Gordon is out this week. I'm giving
Speaker 1: Eckler a B grade because Justin Jackson is the other
Speaker 1: running back who should get play in this game. And
Speaker 1: Ekeler has been great. He's had five point eight yards
Speaker 1: per carry, but he probably won't fall into Gordon's volume. However,
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, Leonard four Nette, and Philip Lindsay have all
Speaker 1: topped a hundred and ten total yards and scored against
Speaker 1: the Steelers in the last three weeks. It's not a
Speaker 1: particularly easy looking match up on paper, but people have
Speaker 1: got it done in the last couple of weeks against him.
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler is a better inside runner. People think he's
Speaker 1: Darren Sprowls. He's not. He's a better inside runner than that.
Speaker 1: And he's stronger and more physical than that, and um,
Speaker 1: and he still has the opportunity for goal line carriage
Speaker 1: number one in the NFL, yards per touch number three
Speaker 1: in elusiveness, unbelievable. Austin Austin Nickler is really really good
Speaker 1: points or seven point eight yards per touch per touch
Speaker 1: number one in the NFL. The running back on the
Speaker 1: other side of the field, I'm more interested at him
Speaker 1: running between the tackles this week because the Chargers will
Speaker 1: be missing both starting defensive tackles this week, Brandon Mebane.
Speaker 1: And what about Jackson owners Is there a start for
Speaker 1: Jackson opens here? Now? You don't think so, not at all? All? Right.
Speaker 1: I think I think he's a I think I think
Speaker 1: he's flexible that's a really deep dart throw. It is
Speaker 1: a it's a bit of a dart throw. James Conner.
Speaker 1: I'm giving an a though, because of the aforementioned Chargers
Speaker 1: that will be missing this week, and the Chargers have
Speaker 1: allowed four point three yards per carry and the fourth
Speaker 1: most receiving yards to opposing backs. Connor's good out of
Speaker 1: catching catching balls out of the backfield too. Ben Roethlisberger.
Speaker 1: I'm giving an a grade to Ben is logged at
Speaker 1: least two hundred fifty yards and mull to pull scores
Speaker 1: in four of the last five games. In the one
Speaker 1: game where he didn't hit both of those benchmarks, he
Speaker 1: had four hundred sixty two yards and one touchdown. That
Speaker 1: was last week against Denver. So the Chargers have faced
Speaker 1: the Chargers have been good this year against the past.
Speaker 1: But here's the last handful of quarterbacks they faced. Josh Rosen,
Speaker 1: case Keenum, Derek Carr, Russell Wilson who actually had a
Speaker 1: good game, Marcus Mariota, Baker Mayfield, Derek Carr again, c J. Bethard.
Speaker 1: I think the quarterbacks are making them look a little
Speaker 1: bit better than they are pass So a grade for
Speaker 1: Ben that means in a grade for Antonio and Juju.
Speaker 1: Over the last five weeks, Brown is averaging ten targets
Speaker 1: per game. Juju is at nine point four, so they're
Speaker 1: almost equal. Uh, Casey Hayward probably ends up splitting time
Speaker 1: between these two in the game. Think so, I don't
Speaker 1: think he'll go in the slot that much. Well, they
Speaker 1: moved Juju to the outside a ton last week against
Speaker 1: Chris Harris, so they started They started flexing these guys
Speaker 1: back and forth and are moving them around the field.
Speaker 1: So I think both of these guys are pretty good
Speaker 1: plays this week, and we'll we'll probably see equal amounts
Speaker 1: of Casey Hayward. Finally, Vance McDonald. He gets a C grade.
Speaker 1: A hip injury cost Hims some on field time last
Speaker 1: week in Colorado, but he practiced fully this week. Maybe
Speaker 1: he got some meta natural pain relieving substances well. In
Speaker 1: the Rocky Mountains, Chargers have been top ten in most
Speaker 1: categories against tight end this year. That's why he only
Speaker 1: gets the C grade. All right, let's go to our
Speaker 1: final matchup of this segment, Ravens taking on the Falcons.
Speaker 1: My guy, Lamar Jackson with another A grade. You already
Speaker 1: know what his legs can do, and he can drive
Speaker 1: you to a top ten quarterback finish UH. And you
Speaker 1: know with light with with quarterback rushing, it's always something
Speaker 1: of a dart throw. But boy, what's not to like
Speaker 1: about one hundred ninety rushing yards in two games from
Speaker 1: your quarterback? And now if Jackson could do something even
Speaker 1: remotely close to that on the ground, this is a
Speaker 1: juicy matchup through the air opposed. Nine of ten opposing
Speaker 1: quarterbacks have thrown multiple touchdowns top three ards or done
Speaker 1: both against the Falcons, So you could be sitting on
Speaker 1: the potential of another explosive game for Lamar Jackson A grade.
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards also an A grade UH. Teams are frightened
Speaker 1: that Jackson's gonna pull the ball down on these read
Speaker 1: options and they're not capable of focusing on Gus Edwards
Speaker 1: and that run option UH is giving defenses a lot
Speaker 1: of problems and it's opening up things for Gus Edwards.
Speaker 1: It's something that is underrated in fantasy football that the
Speaker 1: running back with a running quarterback is always very good.
Speaker 1: It is. It's very underrated and and because intuitively you
Speaker 1: tend to think, well, there's only so many rushing yards
Speaker 1: to go around, and if the quarterbacks is gonna get
Speaker 1: all these rushing yargins gotta come out of the running back,
Speaker 1: but a lot of time it doesn't. It comes out
Speaker 1: of the passing game mostly, that is true. Uh. The
Speaker 1: Falcons terrible at stopping opposing running backs. Nick chub Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott each game more than two hundred total yards within
Speaker 1: the last three weeks against the Falcons. Uh. The receivers.
Speaker 1: Oh well, while we're talking running backs for a moment,
Speaker 1: Time Montgomery and nice sneaky play here. The Falcons have
Speaker 1: allowed the most running back receptions, the second most running
Speaker 1: back receiving yards, and just two games ago, Zeke put
Speaker 1: up eighty yards through the air against Atlanta. Montgomery, who
Speaker 1: got a lot of action last week as a receiving back,
Speaker 1: is a PPR flyer. If only somebody would have prematurely
Speaker 1: speculated on Time Montgomery last weekend. Oh wait, that was
Speaker 1: Oh that's what you do? That what do you know?
Speaker 1: And by the way, they faced Kansas City next week,
Speaker 1: and Kansas City almost as bad against pass catching running
Speaker 1: backs as Atlanta is. Time Montgomery, you might want to
Speaker 1: see if he is available in your league. The only
Speaker 1: receiver I've got a starting grade on is Willie Snead.
Speaker 1: All the wide receivers, though, have good matchups, but in
Speaker 1: Atlanta is allowed the second most wide receiver touchdowns. But
Speaker 1: snee is the only one who's getting consistent production under Jackson.
Speaker 1: So I've got a starting grade on him. You could
Speaker 1: throw darts on John Brown. I wouldn't really on crabt
Speaker 1: he who has really done nothing under Jackson. But Sneet
Speaker 1: is the safe play out of that group. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Atlanta side. Matt Ryan. It's a B grade.
Speaker 1: He's top three hundred thirty yards in five of the
Speaker 1: last six games. But here's the problem with three thirty yards.
Speaker 1: The Ravens have given up three or thirty yards one
Speaker 1: time all year. That's it. What's more, no quarterback has
Speaker 1: top two touchdowns against the Ravens since Week two. I
Speaker 1: I don't much like his wide receiver matchups one on one.
Speaker 1: You'll hear about that in a minute as well. So
Speaker 1: I'm nervous about Matt Ryan. And the B grade is
Speaker 1: actually closer to a seat. Yeah, I was gonna say it.
Speaker 1: B is very generous. B is a little bit generous here,
Speaker 1: especially considering he's my number twenty one quarterback. This week.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Let's go to the receivers, Julio Jones.
Speaker 1: The Ravens have have seated just four touchdowns to receivers
Speaker 1: since Jimmy Smith returned from suspension Week five. That's it,
Speaker 1: just four. Julio Jones will primarily be covered by Jimmy Smith.
Speaker 1: He's held opposing receivers to thirty total yards and coverage
Speaker 1: over his last two games. Brutal matchup for Julio Jones,
Speaker 1: who gets a B grade on reputation mostly in past accomplishments.
Speaker 1: Mostly all the rest of the receivers are on the
Speaker 1: bench because of the difficulty of this matchup that I've
Speaker 1: just described. But Austin Hooper startable. Ravens have only allowed
Speaker 1: four tight ends to reach the end zone on the season.
Speaker 1: All four have come in the past five games though,
Speaker 1: so four tight end touchdowns in the last five games.
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper's seen at least eight targets in four of
Speaker 1: the past seven games. By tight end standards, you're pretty
Speaker 1: much gotta start him. Unfortunately, in a difficult matchup. Last
Speaker 1: guy to mention is Tevin Coleman. Unfortunately, the Ravens have
Speaker 1: allowed the third fewest rushing yards, the third fewest rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns over the last five games, and the Ravens have
Speaker 1: given up a touchdown to the position in each of
Speaker 1: their past five games to the lead back, which bodes well.
Speaker 1: And dual threat guys like Christian McAffrey and James Conner
Speaker 1: each found the end zone through the air over the
Speaker 1: last five games, So there's an angle here for Tevin
Speaker 1: Coleman to get it done through the air more so
Speaker 1: than on the ground, and that's why he gets a
Speaker 1: B grade. Generous B grades that are trending mostly to
Speaker 1: see for most most most of those Falcons. By the way,
Speaker 1: in this game, Alex Collins just put on I r oh.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that, yeah, and Kenneth Dixon activated courtesy
Speaker 1: of Brian Johnson. Well, that's who's helping us from helping
Speaker 1: us from afar. He's he's frankly, he's more helped to
Speaker 1: us out of the studio. Studio when we come back,
Speaker 1: take a chance on me. Nine players not normally in
Speaker 1: your starting lineup will tell you who you can start
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Speaker 1: week number thirteen. For many of you, you have to
Speaker 1: have a victory this week. We will do our best.
Speaker 1: You might have to hit the waiver wire. It's not
Speaker 1: the worst thing in the world. You don't have to
Speaker 1: go with the guys who got you there. Let's find
Speaker 1: some quarterbacks running back to some god receivers who can
Speaker 1: help you out in a pinch. Beginning with Scott Fish.
Speaker 1: How about poor man's Lamar Jackson. I'm just kidding my guys.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen whose second in rushing and over the two
Speaker 1: weeks with a twenty rushing yards standard touchdown. He's got
Speaker 1: four touchdown rushing touchdowns on the year, so there's been
Speaker 1: a little bit of a floor there. He's got a
Speaker 1: lot of fourty and six yard games. Um. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: have a lot of multiple touchdowns and five the last
Speaker 1: six the third most passing touchdowns the last five weeks.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's always looking to make a play. I think
Speaker 1: this is a week where he makes a few plays. Okay,
Speaker 1: I got a poor man's Josh Allen. How about that?
Speaker 1: It's Jeff Driskell Santy Bengals. Uh, He's literally the fastest
Speaker 1: Jeff You know, he's six four to forty and he
Speaker 1: ran a four five forty at the two thousand six
Speaker 1: NFL combine In the last five years, among quarterbacks who
Speaker 1: have started at least one NFL game, only Marcus Mariota
Speaker 1: ran a faster forward than Jeff driscoll. He's taken snaps
Speaker 1: in three games this year. He scored rushing touchdowns in two.
Speaker 1: He had a decent preseason. Two. He completed sixty six
Speaker 1: percent of his throws. He wasn't embarrassing last week in relief.
Speaker 1: I thought it was good. One passing touchdown, one rushing touchdown. Mahomes, Wilson,
Speaker 1: and Watson each had solid days as will threat quarterbacks
Speaker 1: against Denver this year, I like Driskell, Colt McCoy, faces
Speaker 1: an absolutely devastated Eagles secondary. Avante Mattock, Sidney Jones, Jalen
Speaker 1: Mills all may not play in this one. Not to
Speaker 1: mention all the players have already put on I R
Speaker 1: They've allowed passing touchdowns in nine of ten games and
Speaker 1: at least two hundred sixty nine passing yards and eight
Speaker 1: straight games. I would take touchdowns and at least six
Speaker 1: two hundred sixty nine passing yards from Colt McCoy. I
Speaker 1: thought he looked pretty good. He just he just threw
Speaker 1: two touchdowns against a far better secondary Dallas last week.
Speaker 1: And he is also fleet of foot. Could run one
Speaker 1: in for you as wells go to the running back position, Scott,
Speaker 1: He's no Jeff Driskell. Come Jeff clearly, Uh Jeff Driscoll
Speaker 1: for more number one recruit uh quarterback position anyway, my guys,
Speaker 1: t J yelden uh. Mostly because the cultiv allowed the
Speaker 1: second most receptions and fourth most receiving yards per game
Speaker 1: to running backs this year, and four different running backs
Speaker 1: in the last four games fifty yards each. I think
Speaker 1: this game script plays out well for yelled in to
Speaker 1: get a decent amount of pass catching work with four
Speaker 1: that out. Okay, I actually wish I could use Jeff
Speaker 1: Driscoll as my running back to he'd by the way
Speaker 1: fanball this week. It's crazy. Yeah, Um, I got Isaiah
Speaker 1: Crowl and I don't like this at all. He touched
Speaker 1: the ball nine times in each of the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: nine times, nine time. He touched the ball fourteen times
Speaker 1: each of the prior two weeks with Sam Donald at
Speaker 1: the Helm and Donald looks like he's coming back to
Speaker 1: hand the ball off again this week. The once mighty
Speaker 1: Titans run game has given up five point one yards
Speaker 1: per carry over their last four games and allowed touchdowns
Speaker 1: to James Devlin, Marlon Mack, Jordan Wilkins, and Lamar Miller
Speaker 1: in the last three weeks. Isaiah Crowell gross gross also gross,
Speaker 1: Like Garrett Blunt, yuck. We we shouldn't have even done
Speaker 1: the running by No, it's I don't like him, but
Speaker 1: he's coming off his best game as a lie eighty
Speaker 1: eight yards and two touchdowns against an excellent Bears run defense.
Speaker 1: Now he gets a far easier matchup. In each of
Speaker 1: the past four weeks, the Rams have given up over
Speaker 1: eighties six total yards on six yards per carry and
Speaker 1: a touchdown to opposing backs. That's your Rams run defense
Speaker 1: right there. Obviously, the Lions are gonna want to be
Speaker 1: able to keep the keep the Rams offense off the
Speaker 1: field as much as they can. They're gonna try to run.
Speaker 1: Rams are giving up over five yards per carry on
Speaker 1: the season. Garrett Blunt, Let's see if we can get
Speaker 1: him in. Let's see if we can get the ball
Speaker 1: inside the three, get a sneaky touchdown, get seventy five
Speaker 1: rushing yards before they have to turn to the passing
Speaker 1: game exclusively. In that one Scott receiver, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Robert Foster, a guy that everybody in the office
Speaker 1: thinks I like way more than I actually do. It's
Speaker 1: your nude pictures, that's that's an exact tasteful nudes. Uh No,
Speaker 1: he was a highly recruited recruit, that highly recruited recruited
Speaker 1: UH four fourth speed that matches perfectly with Josh Allen's arm.
Speaker 1: In the last two games, he has a hundred ninety
Speaker 1: nine yards and a touchdown, include a forty seven yard
Speaker 1: and a seventy five yard er. Uh He's He's a
Speaker 1: great deep threat for a guy Josh Allen who has
Speaker 1: eighteen percent of his passes go for over twenty yards. Okay,
Speaker 1: Robert Foster sounds just a touch faster than Jeff Driskell.
Speaker 1: But I have Adam Humphries this week. Humphries is scored
Speaker 1: in three of his last four games and had at
Speaker 1: least fifty yards in five straight. This week, he faces
Speaker 1: off against Captain Munnerlin in the slot, and he's been
Speaker 1: getting torched. Last week Tyler Lockett ran half of his
Speaker 1: routes out of the slot and finished with a hundred
Speaker 1: and seven yards in a touchdown. The week before that,
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay ran a ton of routes out of the slot.
Speaker 1: He finished with a hundred and thirteen and one. The
Speaker 1: week before that Juju at nine one and the week
Speaker 1: before that, Adam Humphries faced these Panthers eight catches, eighty
Speaker 1: two yards and two touchdowns. Like Humphries again. Courtland Sutton
Speaker 1: is a wide receiver for the Denver Broncos going up
Speaker 1: against Cincinnati, maybe the worst secondary in the NFL. They've
Speaker 1: slumped badly. Emmanuel Sanders is my number two wide receiver
Speaker 1: on the week. Courtland Sutton can be awfully good as well.
Speaker 1: He's averaging fifty yards per game since the Damerius Thomas
Speaker 1: trade and this is the easiest defense he's seen by
Speaker 1: a mile. Bengals cornerback William Jackson is primarily he will
Speaker 1: be covering him, and he's surrendering almost fourteen yards per
Speaker 1: catching a passer rating of one hundred eight. Let's get
Speaker 1: back to the matchups Bills taking on Dolphins. Scott, you've
Speaker 1: already talked about every Bill that i'd want to have.
Speaker 1: But I like Shaun McCoy and he is a super
Speaker 1: sneaky play, and I bet he's cheap on fan ball.
Speaker 1: Maybe we can pull up what is Matt. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: working on working on that, thank you. I bet he's
Speaker 1: undervalued considering how good this. He might be a part
Speaker 1: of the fan Ball four play on fan ball this week.
Speaker 1: It might be I do have I have a B
Speaker 1: grade on him, but I don't love the B grade
Speaker 1: as much as you do. Probably, But eleven different running
Speaker 1: backs have topped eighty total yards against Miami. I like
Speaker 1: that part. And uh, in the last eight weeks, UH,
Speaker 1: six of seven or seven have topped the hundred ton
Speaker 1: total yards. Six of seven have scored. It's it's a
Speaker 1: good spot. But McCoy is only getting fourteen touches a game.
Speaker 1: He's gonna need a lot more than that. And I
Speaker 1: think that the game script might get a little behind
Speaker 1: him here because the Dolphins are known for running up big.
Speaker 1: You just told me half, you know, five minutes ago
Speaker 1: about how I'm supposed to start Josh Allen. I like
Speaker 1: the passing him a little bit more. I think I
Speaker 1: think that the Bills are going to fall behind the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: I truly do. I think you just have some unnatural
Speaker 1: hate for Lashawn McCoy that that he touched you in
Speaker 1: appropriately as a child. He's got to choose which Bills?
Speaker 1: Do you really? Do you really want me to give
Speaker 1: it an A grade to Leshaw McCoy if you think
Speaker 1: he's earned it. I don't think I've got to think
Speaker 1: I have a B grade on him. But you know
Speaker 1: I have a B grade on him. If you know,
Speaker 1: if he gets twenty plus touches, sure, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't see that it hasn't that doesn't happen. But
Speaker 1: it's the Dolphins and it can absolutely happen here. It can.
Speaker 1: This is the game that Lamar Miller got that A
Speaker 1: grade for me a long time ago, and he did
Speaker 1: have a huge day. Still you're still bragging about that one.
Speaker 1: Definitely not Oddly, I do not like the passing game
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins. Tannehill is probably gonna have an okay game,
Speaker 1: but the Bills are really good, really good against the
Speaker 1: against the past. Tannehill just doesn't have starter material here
Speaker 1: and the Bills wide receivers against the Bills are just terrible. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's no wide receivers I like for the Dolphins. I
Speaker 1: do have se grades to both Gore and Drake. Now
Speaker 1: though I had I did have them on the bench,
Speaker 1: but I am moving them to see grades because the
Speaker 1: the Bills have allowed eight touchdowns to running backs in
Speaker 1: the last five games and the third most touchdowns ruin
Speaker 1: backs and in this season. I think both have an
Speaker 1: opportunity here if they both get over ten touches. Drake
Speaker 1: is off the injury report and he's always a threat
Speaker 1: for a big play. So I've seen grades on them.
Speaker 1: Dolphins giving up the fourth most rushing attempts in the
Speaker 1: league twenty nine per game. Now you've assured me that
Speaker 1: he's not that we're not going to get enough rushes.
Speaker 1: Sean McCoy does change the grade. Is Josh Allen gonna
Speaker 1: get twenty He's gonna get probably eight or nine. Okay,
Speaker 1: so so now I'm looking at twenty rushes. Still a
Speaker 1: B grade doesn't change anything, all right. This is a
Speaker 1: there's a lot of back and forth, and we both
Speaker 1: have a B grade on Let's go, um, let's go
Speaker 1: to the Panthers taking on the Bucks. Matt Actually, let's not.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break when we come back Panthers taking
Speaker 1: on the Bucks. We'll tell you what to expect from
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston. Can you have another in consecutive solid performance
Speaker 1: his best game of the year last week? You might?
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Speaker 1: continue to hold. Let's dive back into the matchups. As
Speaker 1: we mentioned before, we went into break. Panthers taking on
Speaker 1: the Bucks. Matt Um, Let's start on the Let's start
Speaker 1: on the Buck side because I find Jamis Winston to
Speaker 1: be fascinating. Uh. And whether or not you think this
Speaker 1: is a an opportunity for a second solid game. He
Speaker 1: just just played his best game of the season. No
Speaker 1: interceptions for Jamis, which is a very big deal. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: I gave him a B grade. It was only five
Speaker 1: weeks ago when Ryan Fitzpatrick through for four touchdowns against Carolina.
Speaker 1: The following week, Big Ben topped three hundred yards and
Speaker 1: through five touchdowns against the Carolina Panthers. Russell Wilson had
Speaker 1: over three two last week, and Jamis Winston has thrown
Speaker 1: for over three hundred yards in every game that he
Speaker 1: started and finished this year. That's all three of them.
Speaker 1: So Winston I got as a B grade. Mike Evans
Speaker 1: I like as well. He's also a B uh. Evans
Speaker 1: is topped nine yards or scored in four of his
Speaker 1: last five games against the Panthers, but he has never
Speaker 1: accomplished both of those feats at the same time in
Speaker 1: his eight career game against Carolina, so in Week nine
Speaker 1: it was that weird game where Evans had ten targets
Speaker 1: caught one ball for sixteen yards. So he looks to
Speaker 1: get revenge on James Bradberry this week. Bradberry has allowed
Speaker 1: two or fifty five yards in his coverage over the
Speaker 1: last three weeks, and Evans is coming off back to
Speaker 1: back hundred yard outing, so he's closer to an A
Speaker 1: for me than a b um. DeShawn Jackson has been
Speaker 1: ruled out with an injury, and Adam Humphreys was might
Speaker 1: take a chance on me wide receiver, and Cameron Braids
Speaker 1: I'm giving a B grade two as well. As far
Speaker 1: as tight ends go, Braids has about as good a
Speaker 1: chance of any tight end at getting a touchdown. He
Speaker 1: had to end his own targets last week one touchdown
Speaker 1: out of that. Carolina has allowed the most tight ends,
Speaker 1: uh touchdowns this year. So why is he A being
Speaker 1: not an A because he only got four targets last
Speaker 1: week and you got he has to basically convert two
Speaker 1: touchdowns in my mind to get an A grade out
Speaker 1: of this? All right? Maybe? All right? Uh? In my
Speaker 1: in my mind, a touchdown from a tight end is
Speaker 1: a grade this year. That's all takes. I guess, I
Speaker 1: guess I reserve my A grades for Kelsey Kittle and
Speaker 1: Earth's I think. I think that's it. As we discussed
Speaker 1: on this show last week and five three tough questions,
Speaker 1: three hot questions. Excuse me, um, I think he's a
Speaker 1: top five guy the rest of the year, and I
Speaker 1: think most of the most of the time, he's going
Speaker 1: to be a grade requisite. I'm I'm on the I'm
Speaker 1: on the camera, Brad Bandwagon. Can we revisit the plus
Speaker 1: and minuses? Can we for tight ends only? No? Speaking
Speaker 1: of A grades, Christian McCaffrey gets an A grade after
Speaker 1: coming off a fifty point week at Fanball. Cam Newton's
Speaker 1: getting a B grade. He's not topped three hundred yards
Speaker 1: against the Bucks since two thousand twelve, and his last
Speaker 1: five games against Tampa he's been under two hundred passing
Speaker 1: yards three times, which is shocking con sering how bad
Speaker 1: that defense is. And by the way, Brent Grimes may
Speaker 1: not play in this game, which would be a huge
Speaker 1: difference the silver lining. He's topped forty rushing yards or
Speaker 1: scored a rushing touchdown in seven of his last eight
Speaker 1: against Tampa. D J. Moore, I'm giving a C grade.
Speaker 1: Curtis Samue on Devin Funchius around the bench, though more
Speaker 1: has led wide receivers and targets and receiving yards in
Speaker 1: each of the last two weeks. Impressive games out of him.
Speaker 1: But Funcas, who sat the last couple of weeks with
Speaker 1: the back injury, is back at practice and ready to play.
Speaker 1: That's just gonna muddy the waters for the Carolina wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Greg Olsen gets a B grade. Tampa's getting killed by
Speaker 1: tight ends. Vance McDonald, Ertz, Burton Hooper and Joku and
Speaker 1: Greg Olsen have all either tops ninety yards or scored
Speaker 1: against Tampa this year, many of those names did both.
Speaker 1: Greg Olsen was one of those names already, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I like him as a b Bears nick gon the Giants,
Speaker 1: and I like the Bears running game a lot since
Speaker 1: the Giants foolishly dispatched Snacks Harrison for nothing. Might I
Speaker 1: add to the Lions, they're giving up one hundred thirty
Speaker 1: four rushing yards per game, five yards per carry, and
Speaker 1: a touchdown and a half to opposing running backs. That
Speaker 1: brings Jordan Howard right into play. And I know it's
Speaker 1: been a brutal season for his owners, but don't make
Speaker 1: the mistake of leaving him on your bench. And this one,
Speaker 1: I've got a B grade on Jordan Howard. I think
Speaker 1: the Bears get up ahead and they pound Howard a
Speaker 1: lot in this game. Tariko and also startable here, although
Speaker 1: it looks like straight ahead power runners have done more
Speaker 1: damage to the Giants than speedback so I actually prefer
Speaker 1: Howard over Cohen, but both absolutely startable. I've technically got
Speaker 1: a C grade on Cohen, but in PPR leagues lifted
Speaker 1: up to a B grade. And for the passing game,
Speaker 1: I'm nervous Chase Daniels I thought played pretty well against
Speaker 1: the Lions and Thanksgiving, but he's startable only in really
Speaker 1: easy matchups. And since the Eli Apple trade, opposing quarterbacks
Speaker 1: are averaging just two hundred six yards and one touchdown
Speaker 1: pass against the Giants. That is the definition of addition
Speaker 1: by subtraction. Giants are a better secondary without Eli Apple
Speaker 1: and a lot of running coming in this game. I've
Speaker 1: got a bench grade on Chase Daniel. I've got a
Speaker 1: C grade on Anthony Miller, who was very touchdown dependent.
Speaker 1: He draws undrafted rookie cornerback Grant Haley, who was allowing
Speaker 1: a passer rating of one nine. I like that part
Speaker 1: of it. He's scored in five different games, but he's
Speaker 1: only top forty nine yards one time. So it's all
Speaker 1: about the touchdowns for Anthony Miller, and he's got a
Speaker 1: chance here, so he gets a starting grade. Taylor Gabriel
Speaker 1: has been the bears most targeted receiver over the past
Speaker 1: two weeks. He gets cornerback Generis Jenkins um more often
Speaker 1: than not. Jenkins was really shaky for the first part
Speaker 1: of the season, but as allowed just one touchdown over
Speaker 1: his last four games. C grade on Taylor Gabriel as well,
Speaker 1: and then Trey Burton and epic and colossal disappointment so
Speaker 1: far this year over the past five games, averaging just
Speaker 1: three receptions for twenty five yards. Yuck. And the Giants
Speaker 1: are keeping tight ends out of the end zone. Zach
Speaker 1: Ertz is the only tight end to score touchdown against
Speaker 1: the Giants this season. I know, um the Giants. Uh.
Speaker 1: Ideally Trey Burton would be a bench grade, but because
Speaker 1: of the dearth of talent at the position, I've I
Speaker 1: have very liberally given him a C grade. Graciously given
Speaker 1: him a C grade, but think twice if you've got
Speaker 1: other options. Let's go to the Giants side. St Kwon
Speaker 1: Barkley gets an A grade. Pat Shermer under great scrutiny
Speaker 1: for last week's loss, in which set Kwon Barkley marching
Speaker 1: up and down all over the field. They absolutely had
Speaker 1: they were dominating the game, and then despite having a lead,
Speaker 1: he went away from Sat Kwon Barkley in the entire
Speaker 1: second half and ended up losing the game. So I
Speaker 1: think we'll see plenty of Sa Kwon Barkley in a
Speaker 1: rebound here, but he'll likely struggle on the ground against
Speaker 1: a good Bears defense, although they did just give up
Speaker 1: two touchdowns little Garrett Blunt. The Bears give up six
Speaker 1: receptions per game to the receiver position, which is ninth most,
Speaker 1: and obviously s Kwan can help you that way. Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham slumps to a B grade here. In fact, let
Speaker 1: me just talk more broadly about the Giants passing game.
Speaker 1: Why I don't like it. Terrible offensive line against the
Speaker 1: team that generates the most pressure on opposing quarterbacks. Eli
Speaker 1: Manning is gonna be under siege constantly. He's gonna have
Speaker 1: no time to throw the ball. He's gonna be doing
Speaker 1: all of those inaccurate dump off passes that he does
Speaker 1: when he gets in trouble. I hate this game for
Speaker 1: the whole passing game, and Odell Beckham is only a
Speaker 1: B because that's it. There's nothing really to like here,
Speaker 1: although he will see a lot of Bears corner Kyle Fuller,
Speaker 1: who has allowed sixteen receptions in the past two weeks,
Speaker 1: So maybe that's your angle for Odell Beckham. But again,
Speaker 1: I worry about Eli Manning having an absolutely dreadful performance,
Speaker 1: which I think he's capable of, and all the rest
Speaker 1: of the receivers are on the bench. Next matchup, Colts
Speaker 1: taking on the Jaguars. Scott, I think this is the
Speaker 1: game where Andrew Lux streak, of which I believe is
Speaker 1: now at eight straight games with three or more three
Speaker 1: or more touchdowns. I believe it comes to an end
Speaker 1: right here. Wait, come on, yo, I think this is it.
Speaker 1: I think this is it. What do you think? You do?
Speaker 1: Realize the Jags have allowed this. There's third most Fantasy
Speaker 1: points to quarterbacks our last five weeks. Well that's because A. J.
Speaker 1: Bouyer was out for several of those games. He is back,
Speaker 1: and the difference in the with and without Booyer is
Speaker 1: jaw dropping. In fact, would you like to hear more
Speaker 1: about it? Sure, we really don't have time for it.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you anyway. So if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: bother to look this stuff up, then I'm gonna bother
Speaker 1: to mention it out here. In games with a J.
Speaker 1: Boullier on the field, Jacksonville averages two hundred four passing
Speaker 1: yards allowed and one touchdown per game. That's it. That's nothing. Nothing. Wow,
Speaker 1: You've almost convinced me to drop Andrew Luck to a
Speaker 1: B grade. But I'm not going to do it. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm still giving him an A grade. You have three
Speaker 1: touchdowns against them in WEEKEDN again without without I think
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck can transcend that. I still give him an
Speaker 1: A grade. He charge can't be happy with any grade
Speaker 1: we give Andrew Luck. I know, well if you do,
Speaker 1: remember he said before the season that we were wrong
Speaker 1: and he should drop. We should drop Andrew I honestly thought.
Speaker 1: I honestly thought Andrew Luck's arm problem was going to
Speaker 1: keep it. I thought now he would be good. I
Speaker 1: really thought he was going to struggle with arms strength
Speaker 1: based on everything we saw in the preseason, that it
Speaker 1: was gonna take six weeks for when you get his
Speaker 1: arm strength back. I'm i'm I mentioned this in the break.
Speaker 1: I'm the one in Fantasy football training camp that said
Speaker 1: Luck is my quarterback three And at the same time,
Speaker 1: how do we do this? The trombone and peacock interesting
Speaker 1: because because of that I do I do like Hilton.
Speaker 1: I only have a B grade on Hilton. I think
Speaker 1: where they're gonna really attack them is the tight end.
Speaker 1: Lux throwing eighteen of his touchdowns to tight ends. Moiley
Speaker 1: Cox is out. Eric Swoop just popped up now is
Speaker 1: questionable instead of likely to play, So it might just
Speaker 1: be Eric Ebron out there. He had two touchdowns and
Speaker 1: sixty nine yards in the in the previous match up
Speaker 1: with them. Uh In the Jags will out six touchdowns
Speaker 1: to tight ends in just the last four games. I
Speaker 1: love Ebron here, I gave a grade to him. I
Speaker 1: am now, however, with the likelihood that Mac is going
Speaker 1: to play, He's got one step left to clear protocol.
Speaker 1: He's like, you're gonna play now. So that makes both
Speaker 1: of the running backs against a very good Jags run
Speaker 1: defense benchable for me, I think the Colts are going
Speaker 1: to have to pass. Uh Also for me, that a
Speaker 1: grade I'm giving luck on the Jag side. I think
Speaker 1: I'm I'm benching everyone but yelled in now. I think
Speaker 1: the game script favors yelled in for for some passing
Speaker 1: game work. That's great in PPR leagues, But I'm not
Speaker 1: taking a Kessler run pass offense. And I think game
Speaker 1: script would go away from hide a little bit. If
Speaker 1: Cody Castler were any good, he'd have been the starting
Speaker 1: quarterback in Week five. The Millennium Falcon once did the
Speaker 1: Kessler run right, that's um that if for the Jaguars,
Speaker 1: you've set it up, I like the sound of that.
Speaker 1: Let's sneak in one more matchup, Matt Cardinals taking on
Speaker 1: the Packers. This is a this might be a rare.
Speaker 1: I actually have a pretty good grade on. I have
Speaker 1: starting grade on on Josh Rosen. I like him in
Speaker 1: this one. Why I do? Have you seen? Have you
Speaker 1: seen the secondary that that that they're rolling out for
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers. He was almost your take home too.
Speaker 1: He was almost at one point he was gonna be
Speaker 1: might take a chance on me. So if if you
Speaker 1: can knock like Deshaun Watson for only getting twenty five
Speaker 1: passes in a game, why do you like the guy
Speaker 1: who has thrown nineteen and twenty passes in his last
Speaker 1: two games. One of those games they lost to the Raiders,
Speaker 1: the other they were way behind on the Chargers, and
Speaker 1: game script favored him throwing the ball a ton and
Speaker 1: he didn't. They just it's it's all David Johnson all
Speaker 1: the time. And that's when Rosen had a three touchdown
Speaker 1: game two games ago. Yeah, but he's only throwing nineteen
Speaker 1: and twenty passes. That's not enough volume to give a
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen guy a starting grade plus. Guess what the
Speaker 1: matchup just got better for David Johnson because Packers defensive
Speaker 1: tackle Mike Daniels is out for the year. He's a
Speaker 1: big portion of the run stuffing defense, and the last
Speaker 1: five weeks the Packers have given up big receiving days
Speaker 1: to Todd Gurley, James White, and Dalvin Cook. So that's
Speaker 1: why David Johnson gets an A grade. I only gave
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald to see because he's only had six targets
Speaker 1: in the last two week and he's turned in a
Speaker 1: weird STA line over those two games of four catches,
Speaker 1: fifty three yards and three touchdowns. So Josh Rosen is
Speaker 1: not throwing the ball often, but when he does throw,
Speaker 1: I guess it's going for touchdowns. So Fitzgerald's got a
Speaker 1: decent shot at getting another one. Christian Kirk and Ricky
Speaker 1: Seals Jones around the bench though. Over on the other side,
Speaker 1: I wish we had some birthday music queued up because
Speaker 1: we got some birthday boys in this game, and their
Speaker 1: names begin with a A, and that's Aaron Jones, who's
Speaker 1: celebrating his twenty four birthday tomorrow. UH Cards are allowing
Speaker 1: over a hundred and eighty total yards per game to
Speaker 1: running backs Both Melvin Gordon and Austin Ekeler were top
Speaker 1: twelve running backs just last week against the Cardinals. So
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones gets a double A grade on his birthday
Speaker 1: and uh the other double a Aaron Rodgers. I'm giving
Speaker 1: him a double B grade on his thirty fifth birthday.
Speaker 1: Rogers is only top to the three hundred yard mark
Speaker 1: three times this year. He's thrown for more than two
Speaker 1: touchdowns only twice, and the Cardinals are giving up the
Speaker 1: fourth fewest passing yards and the second fewest passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: per game. So Rogers just get to be and it's
Speaker 1: probably closer to a seed. But he's at home and
Speaker 1: it's his birthday, so I'm gonna give him a little
Speaker 1: bump there, Isn't that nice. Davante Adams is still in
Speaker 1: a grade. Wow, that's really nice, so super soft, happy birthday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, Davante Adams is getting an A grade. He
Speaker 1: will score a touchdown. Adams has only been held out
Speaker 1: of the end zone in three games this year. In
Speaker 1: those three games, ten for one sixty five for eighty
Speaker 1: one in the games he didn't score, and he's beat
Speaker 1: Xavier Rhodes, Darius Slay, Xavian Howard and Stephan Gilmour for
Speaker 1: touchdowns this year. Patrick Peterson shouldn't scare him, Well he should,
Speaker 1: but he keeps He always gets John Adams always gets
Speaker 1: the best corner you got and he almost always ends
Speaker 1: up winning at least one matchup. It might be time
Speaker 1: for us to start talking about Davante Adams is the
Speaker 1: best wide receiver in the league. Well, he's talking about it.
Speaker 1: This week he said he was the best receiver in
Speaker 1: the league statistically. It's getting there, right, It's in the conversation.
Speaker 1: The rest of the passing game is on the bench.
Speaker 1: The Cards have only allowed a hundred and forty yards
Speaker 1: per game to opposing wide receivers, and they all may
Speaker 1: go through Adams and Jimmy Graham's still nursing the finger injury.
Speaker 1: Cards are top ten and receptions, yards and touchdowns allowed
Speaker 1: to the tight end position, so they're all on the bench.
Speaker 1: Buddha Baker's the star quarterback hybrid safety that the Cardinals have.
Speaker 1: Without him. Last week, Philip Rivers set an NFL record
Speaker 1: completing twenty six passes Without Buddha Baker, He's questionable and
Speaker 1: probably a game time decision in this one. I think
Speaker 1: he moves Aaron Rodgers a full letter grade up and
Speaker 1: down based on his available from the double B to
Speaker 1: a double A. Potentially, okay, potentially, all right, let's let's
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Speaker 1: Can I just drop golden tape? Scott? If you're looking
Speaker 1: at me, I'm generally too positive. Every time you do
Speaker 1: one of these, I say no. I I try to
Speaker 1: get a reason why you shouldn't this time. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: drop him? What the hell? Recently a Phillies b reporter
Speaker 1: was talking about how they're force feeding him and it's
Speaker 1: just not clicking with their offense, and they're gonna go back.
Speaker 1: They might be going back to more twalled personnel. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna be force fed. Is eight
Speaker 1: targets a game anymore? And he's he's got some I
Speaker 1: got some tough matchups coming on the rams. One might
Speaker 1: be okay in week fifteen, but Dallas and Houston have
Speaker 1: been really good decently, and even the Rams are getting
Speaker 1: to lead back. You know what, sabotage, drop him on
Speaker 1: Monday for waivers, if you're going to do it. Scott
Speaker 1: used a lot of the points I was going to use,
Speaker 1: but he came up with a different answer. I said,
Speaker 1: not yet, because he's getting eight targets per game, and
Speaker 1: I thought the schedule was pretty decent. Washington this week
Speaker 1: is a good matchup. This one's fine. The Rams in
Speaker 1: week fifteen, I think is a good matchup. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: in week fourteen. By the way, he's already played the
Speaker 1: Cowboys twice this year. He knows the Cowboys better than
Speaker 1: anybody that's not on Dallas Cowboys coaching step and Houston
Speaker 1: weeks sixteen. That might be a must win for Philly.
Speaker 1: I don't think that I'm dropping him yet. I looked
Speaker 1: at it somewhere differently than all of you guys. I
Speaker 1: think I've got him as a sea grade this week
Speaker 1: next week. As again, Dallas Golden Tate is a bench grade.
Speaker 1: Look at what they just did to Michael Thomas for
Speaker 1: Pete's sake. The following week at Los Angeles, I think
Speaker 1: Golden Tate's a see the next week after that against Houston,
Speaker 1: he's a bench. So I got two season and to
Speaker 1: two bench grades coming up pretty much where that's that's
Speaker 1: I can find guys like that at the seven eleven.
Speaker 1: I know Mike Zimmerken. That is a drop right there.
Speaker 1: He's averaging three and a half receptions and thirty one
Speaker 1: scoreless yards since he joined the Eagles. I thought it
Speaker 1: would be better than this. I was wrong, and I
Speaker 1: don't love his matchups enough. You can go find more
Speaker 1: and better help off the waiver wire. Correct answer question
Speaker 1: number two. I don't know that I like agreeing with
Speaker 1: you on that. Yeah, every time Church said that he's
Speaker 1: gonna drop somebody, every always goes the wrong way every time.
Speaker 1: Every can I just dropped Sammy Watkins. No, not again, Matt, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm dropping Sammy Watkins. He's out again this week with
Speaker 1: a foot injury. Uh toughest remaining schedule out there, maybe
Speaker 1: second toughest at Oakland. Not good for wide receivers. Baltimore
Speaker 1: Clippers and uh Seattle Chargers not Clippers. Um, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm dropping Sammy Watkins. Okay, sure, I'm gonna stay negative
Speaker 1: for dark. It's evil, Scott. It feels I don't I
Speaker 1: feel even you're wearing all black today. That was a
Speaker 1: really weird choice. Is charcoal gray? My friend? Uh? Sure,
Speaker 1: Chiefs have the toughest fantasy wide receiver player schedule against
Speaker 1: wide receivers with the Ravens, Chargers, and Seahawks, who over
Speaker 1: the last five weeks ranked number two, number one, number
Speaker 1: ten respectively. And it worries the crap out of me
Speaker 1: that he couldn't get healthy over the over the bye
Speaker 1: week either, So sure drop him reoccurring foot issues that
Speaker 1: have plagued his entire NFL career. I think there's a
Speaker 1: decent chance they just shut him down for the playoffs
Speaker 1: at one point in here anyway, and just try to
Speaker 1: get him healthy so he's ready to go in January.
Speaker 1: Christ maybe Chris Connelly is the way to go. But
Speaker 1: you can drop Sammy Watkins. When I went through the schedule,
Speaker 1: it looks like three benches and a C grade coming up.
Speaker 1: I can find guys like that at fred Alone's Ace Hardware.
Speaker 1: Let's drop him outright, Sammy Watkins. Some really athletic guys
Speaker 1: that hot. Question number three is Aaron Rodgers and every
Speaker 1: week starter Scott. This is funny. I was mentioning this
Speaker 1: to Matt. I have a super flex league where I
Speaker 1: haven't started him in weeks. Wow, so I already you're
Speaker 1: already saying no, So yeah, it's it's uh yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's an interesting one. I have luckin Watkins in that
Speaker 1: or Watson. So are we considering this a one quarterback league?
Speaker 1: Considering this a one quarterback league with twelve team But
Speaker 1: I still think he's never really started. I think that
Speaker 1: you know, there's maybe a matchup or two. They're gonna
Speaker 1: be tough, but he's gonna be right around that twelve boarder.
Speaker 1: He's at eight team plus fantasy points in all but
Speaker 1: two games. I know his body language says he's kind
Speaker 1: of giving up, and he's like the twelfth best quarterback
Speaker 1: in the league this year. But he's got a dreadful
Speaker 1: Atlanta defense, a gross Jets defense, and arrival will be
Speaker 1: match up against the Bears. That's a team he's throwing
Speaker 1: three or more touchdowns against three of the last four
Speaker 1: games and multiple touchdowns of five of the last six
Speaker 1: in Chicago. Uh, you know what, I think they're okay,
Speaker 1: matchups enough I think he's startable, all right, So yes,
Speaker 1: every week, every week start Yes, Okay, so he is
Speaker 1: not an every week starter, but I would start him
Speaker 1: every week the rest of the way. How about that? Uh,
Speaker 1: just like Scott said, this week, he gets his birthday
Speaker 1: game at home against the Cards Atlanta second worst past
Speaker 1: defense Chicago where he always does something magical on the Jets.
Speaker 1: All startable grades there? All right? Yeah, I've got a
Speaker 1: m B grades for Aaron Rodgers the rest of the
Speaker 1: way as well. And that means that, you know, even
Speaker 1: though he's roughly quarterback thirteen in your league, I think
Speaker 1: he's awfully hard to bench. What's really killed him? He's
Speaker 1: had one explosive game all year one. Normally he's you know,
Speaker 1: every third game is an explosive game with four new
Speaker 1: yards and three touchdowns. But whatever. Interesting to see how
Speaker 1: we rank Aaron Rodgers going into next season when we're
Speaker 1: doing these shows before Fantasy football training camp. Won't Football weekly,
Speaker 1: That's right, the silver anniversary we won't be talking about.
Speaker 1: I'm confident we will not be talking about him as
Speaker 1: our number one quarterback. I don't think, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe they get you know, who knows, maybe something changes,
Speaker 1: and you know we have some renewed optimism in the
Speaker 1: off season, but I don't think so. Let's go back
Speaker 1: to the matchups. Vikings taking on the Patriots afternoon game.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the Patriots side gronks and a grade
Speaker 1: start here. Now, the Vikings were really bad against tight
Speaker 1: ends earlier in the season, but they've gotten a lot
Speaker 1: better over the last four games. They've allowed just twenty
Speaker 1: three scoreless yards to tight ends. But it's a fully
Speaker 1: healthy gronk, And how do you not give him an
Speaker 1: a grade and start him for sure? A grade there?
Speaker 1: Let's go stay with the passing game. Let's move to
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Arguably the toughest matchup of the year for Brady,
Speaker 1: particularly of Savior roads goes. Over the past five weeks,
Speaker 1: the average passing game against the Vikings one hundred eighty
Speaker 1: one yards and zero point eight passing touchdowns. That's um
Speaker 1: And it's not like Brady's on fire either. Over his
Speaker 1: last month of play, including games against some really wobbly secondaries,
Speaker 1: He's only average two eight yards and zero point eight
Speaker 1: touchdowns himself. So I'm I don't love Brady in this matchup.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid I've got still gotta be grade out of
Speaker 1: respect for him, and because we don't know about Xavier Rhodes.
Speaker 1: If Rhodes plays, you could knock Brady down to a
Speaker 1: C grade in this one. Let's go to uh these receivers.
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon moves to an A grade. If Xavier Rhodes
Speaker 1: is out, He's a B grade as it stands right now,
Speaker 1: and we don't know Rhodes is allowed. Hasn't allowed more
Speaker 1: than thirty six yards in his coverage over the last
Speaker 1: five games, giving up just one score over those last
Speaker 1: five games. Gordon has been in a groove thout, getting
Speaker 1: at least seventy yards and three straight games. But you know,
Speaker 1: if Rhodes is good enough to be healthy and healthy
Speaker 1: enough to play well, then he is. There is some
Speaker 1: danger here. So the B grade on Josh Gordon right now, Julian,
Speaker 1: I don't sorry, go ahead. Rhodes did return to practice
Speaker 1: on Friday, and Zimmer gave him a decent chance to go.
Speaker 1: He sounded very optimistic, but I'm sure this is gonna
Speaker 1: be one of those you know, we'll warm up the
Speaker 1: hamstring in the pregame and you know you're not gonna
Speaker 1: know until Unfortunately, one thirty Central Time. About with the
Speaker 1: status of Xavier Rhodes. On this one, Julian Edelman is
Speaker 1: gonna see Minnesota's slot cornerback McKenzie Alexander, who has improved
Speaker 1: a lot in coverage, but still this is a positive
Speaker 1: matchup for Edelman. Over the past five games, Alexander's only
Speaker 1: allowed an average of twelve scoreless yards per game. But
Speaker 1: Edelman's a focal point of a passing attack and Alexander
Speaker 1: has not been tested very thoroughly. A B grade for
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman. And let's move to the running backs. Sony
Speaker 1: Michelle might need to attack through the air because he's well,
Speaker 1: he can't attack through the air. He he might want to,
Speaker 1: but he only has six receptions on the season, so
Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna work. And then here comes
Speaker 1: the Vikings, no back his top eighty three rushing yards
Speaker 1: against Minnesota, the Vikings giving up just three point six
Speaker 1: yards per carry. That's third best. They've allowed just three
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns all season long. And then muddying up the
Speaker 1: waters for Sony Michelle, here comes Rex Burkhead and he
Speaker 1: got who knows, I mean, Rex hits you know with
Speaker 1: with fresh legs. He's been practicing for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: He's fine. Um, this thing could be really dicey for
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle and I've only got a C grade on
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle and this one C grade and James White
Speaker 1: as well. Minnesota's allowed three running backs to gain sixty
Speaker 1: nine or more receiving yards against them this season. Um
Speaker 1: and other really good receiving backs have generally got it done.
Speaker 1: But that's the only way James White's gonna help. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna get anything on the ground. And Rex Burkhead
Speaker 1: could be a problem here too because Rex catches balls
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. So I'm showing costin on James White,
Speaker 1: and I've just got a C grade on him too.
Speaker 1: With all this talks of Rex Burkhead, do you start him?
Speaker 1: Probably not, because who knows. He's a total X factor
Speaker 1: And I'd like to see what happens to one game.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Viking side. I've got an A
Speaker 1: grade on Kirk Cousins because when he's not pressured, his
Speaker 1: quarterback rating is one eleven. And Pro Football focuses that
Speaker 1: the Patriots have just the twenty three best pass rush
Speaker 1: and they've generated just seventeen sacks on the season, that's
Speaker 1: third lowest in the NFL. So I think Cousins gonna
Speaker 1: be comfortable enough. And in those situations he's been good.
Speaker 1: And every good passer to face the Patriots has walked
Speaker 1: away with multiple touchdowns and only Derrick Anderson has failed
Speaker 1: to score against the Patriots. So I like Cousins in
Speaker 1: this matchup, and I particularly like Adam thealand an absolute
Speaker 1: a going here against inconsistent slot corner Jonathan Jones, who's
Speaker 1: allowed to touchdown catching three of his past five games.
Speaker 1: For Stefan Diggs, it's a Stephan versus Stephen game as
Speaker 1: he goes up against Stefan Gilmore and who was the
Speaker 1: best of the cornerbacks, he shadows the opposing team's best receiver.
Speaker 1: I do expect Digs to play uh in this one
Speaker 1: after missing some practice this week. Maybe volume will help UH.
Speaker 1: No receivers seen more targets over the past month than
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs, and the five receivers to get double digit
Speaker 1: targets against New England averaged almost one hundred yards and
Speaker 1: the five receivers caught five touchdowns, So maybe it'll work
Speaker 1: out well for him. That way a couple more guys
Speaker 1: to get to. Staying with the passing game, Kyle Rudolph,
Speaker 1: in six of the past seven games for New England
Speaker 1: to tight end has gained at least fifty yards and
Speaker 1: or scored a touchdown against them. Kyle Rudolph saw his
Speaker 1: usage tick upwards last week for the first time in
Speaker 1: a long time. I've got a C grade on Kyle Rudolph.
Speaker 1: Was some optimism there and then uh. The running game.
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook. His performance on the ground has so far
Speaker 1: been man but and the Patriots having allowed an eight
Speaker 1: yard rusher since Week three. Unfortunately, since his return to injury,
Speaker 1: Cook has caught all ten of his targets, and the
Speaker 1: Patriots give up the seventh most receiving yards per game
Speaker 1: to opposing running backs. So, man, I really hope they
Speaker 1: used Dalvin Cook in the in the uh in the
Speaker 1: air game here, and hopefully they will. And that brings
Speaker 1: me to a C grade on Dalvin Cook. I've got
Speaker 1: Latavius Murray on the bench. He needs a goal line
Speaker 1: run for fantasy relevancy, and only three runners have scored
Speaker 1: on the Patriots all year. We'll take a break when
Speaker 1: we come back. Rams taking on the Lions. You notice
Speaker 1: start most or almost all of your Rams, but the
Speaker 1: Lions side's a lot more interesting. What do you do
Speaker 1: with Matthew Stafford? What do you do with Kenny Golladay?
Speaker 1: We'll tell you and we come back. This is Fantasy
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show Fantasy Football Weekly. We're gonna
Speaker 1: dive right back into the matchups. Scott Fish Matt Harrison
Speaker 1: with US Scott Rams taking on the Lions. I know
Speaker 1: to start all my Rams or even any even questions
Speaker 1: here job. By the way, Josh Reynolds had great, a
Speaker 1: great opportunity in this matchup too. I have Josh Reynolds
Speaker 1: as a B start, but he's still gonna have a
Speaker 1: good day. He's gonna face Mike Ford, who's a second start,
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent rookie. Yeah, and I like his chance.
Speaker 1: The Rams have three wide receivers, their big three on
Speaker 1: the field. All the time Reynolds had percent snaps played,
Speaker 1: I would almost I'm still gonna leave him in a B.
Speaker 1: But Man Woods is an A. You know, four or
Speaker 1: seventy minimum intense straight games. Cooks is an A. He's
Speaker 1: leved the team and targets four straight weeks, averaging ten
Speaker 1: per game. Golf is an a multiple touchdowns and five
Speaker 1: straight lines of a lot of multiple touchdowns in all
Speaker 1: but one game this year. Uh did the tight ends
Speaker 1: though before before the Chiefs game, No, none of the
Speaker 1: tight ends had had more than three catches. I have
Speaker 1: them on the bench and Girly's name obviously so over
Speaker 1: over to the over the Lions side though. I think
Speaker 1: they will be playing catch up. So that's great for
Speaker 1: Pad Stafford, who is great with garbage town numbers. Uh. So,
Speaker 1: I do have a pretty solid B grade on Stafford here.
Speaker 1: He has multiple touchdowns in sixth straight earlier this year
Speaker 1: since train away Golden Tate it uh, he's only had one.
Speaker 1: But I think he's gonna be playing catch up and
Speaker 1: the Rams have been lit up for three or more
Speaker 1: touchdown is five times this year. I think I can
Speaker 1: see that happening. Kenny Golladay, I have a very strong
Speaker 1: EG grade on you can't help yourself. His worst game
Speaker 1: since Tate left is five for ninety and that's really
Speaker 1: his floor, honestly, uh, And I'm gonna read off his numbers.
Speaker 1: He has nine career games with at least five targets.
Speaker 1: Nine games of five targets, five for ninety eight a touch,
Speaker 1: six for seventy eight in a touch, seven for one fourteen,
Speaker 1: six for eighty nine in a touch in a touch
Speaker 1: that's yeah, four for sixty nine and two touches for
Speaker 1: six for fifty three in a touch. Those are games
Speaker 1: in which he got nine five, five receptions, five targets, targets,
Speaker 1: that's yeah. Those are games where he gets over five targets.
Speaker 1: Is getting five targets in this game exactly. All right.
Speaker 1: So we're starting Kenny Golladay, who I've got inside my
Speaker 1: top ten, and you're be rating me because I don't
Speaker 1: have him high enough. I've got him at seven if
Speaker 1: you watched him against James Bradberry and I had a
Speaker 1: conversation with Singing Bloom about this earlier this week. CB
Speaker 1: the CB one doesn't matter. Stafford will throw because it
Speaker 1: keeps leave comes back. I had Holiday up at number
Speaker 1: five and then on the t Lead News I nudged
Speaker 1: him down to seven. I think that was that was
Speaker 1: a slap in your face, in my face, I have
Speaker 1: an A grade on God. I have a C grade
Speaker 1: on Ellington because of the garbage time, second most targets
Speaker 1: last week. He's kind of taking over the tape roll.
Speaker 1: It's it's really PPR leaves. I'm probably I'm benching him
Speaker 1: in standard, but in PPR leagues I'm giving him a
Speaker 1: C grade because I think he will get a decent
Speaker 1: amount of receptions. Blunt was your take, com and for me,
Speaker 1: Riddick again that game script. I think it's the highest
Speaker 1: over under the week. I think he's going to be
Speaker 1: out on the field a lot when they're behind and
Speaker 1: catching passes. I gave him a C grade, so you're startable, startable.
Speaker 1: I've got to see grade on him too, and they're
Speaker 1: they're a handful of guys i'd play him over. But
Speaker 1: it is a nice opportunity for sure. All right, let's
Speaker 1: let's move to our next matchup, Broncos taking on the Bengals.
Speaker 1: For the Broncos, this feels like a great opportunity. We've
Speaker 1: already listed a couple of a couple of take a
Speaker 1: chance on me players from this matchup on the Broncos side,
Speaker 1: let alone Philip Lindsay, who I adore. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: gonna use case keenum As might take a chance on
Speaker 1: any quarterback. But then Jeff Driskell was dropped out of
Speaker 1: the clouds too. You saw the light. He ran around
Speaker 1: really fast and I was like, oh, look at that guy.
Speaker 1: Still giving case Keenum a B grade. Every quarterback except
Speaker 1: for Ryan Tannehill has had an above average game against
Speaker 1: the Bengals this year. And if you take out Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: who didn't pass at all against the Bengals, the last
Speaker 1: four quarterbacks to face Cincinnati have averaged three hundred thirty
Speaker 1: eight yards and three and a half touchdowns. It's just
Speaker 1: a great um. Philip Lindsay, he's getting an A grade.
Speaker 1: In their last three games, the Bengals are allowing two
Speaker 1: hundred three total yards per game to opposing running backs.
Speaker 1: They were the ones who started the gust bus. They've
Speaker 1: also allowed the eighth most receiving yards and the most
Speaker 1: receiving touchdowns to opposing backs. Lindsay is a great, great
Speaker 1: play this week. He's my number three running back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders, I'm giving him an A grade as well.
Speaker 1: From the slot, Sanders should face Darky's Dinard. Who's getting
Speaker 1: hard Dennard? Are you sure? Yeah? I want to say,
Speaker 1: because it's weird, and so everybody corrected me. When I
Speaker 1: had that's me with Mark Quez Valdez. I can't even know,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I said Marquez for a while and it's Marquez. Yeah. Okay,
Speaker 1: so dark queasy deaner who's given up a passer rating
Speaker 1: of a hundred and fifteen this season. So that meins
Speaker 1: Sanders is in a good spot and Courtland Sutton was
Speaker 1: charged just take a chance on me. Wide receiver Jeff
Speaker 1: Heyerman is on I R. By the way, Matt Lacos
Speaker 1: is his replacement. If you're in a two tight end
Speaker 1: mandatory league or one that requires you to use a
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos tight end. On the other side, Jeff driscoll
Speaker 1: was might take a chance on the quarterback, of course,
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon. I'm giving him a B grade. Over the
Speaker 1: last month, Denver's defense has been really good against runners
Speaker 1: only three point three yards per carry. They held James
Speaker 1: Connard only nine yards, kept Melvin Gordon out of the
Speaker 1: end zone. Uh Lamar Miller only at forty eight yards,
Speaker 1: Cream hunt On he had fifty yards on the ground,
Speaker 1: but did score touchdown through the air. A running quarterback
Speaker 1: is usually good for running backs, though, and that's why
Speaker 1: I like Joe Mixon here plus A J. Green is returning,
Speaker 1: which should help him out a lot. It should make
Speaker 1: the field a little bit more open for Joe Mixon.
Speaker 1: And like I said, A J. Green returning, he gets
Speaker 1: a B grade and it's almost an A grade. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a good matchup for perimeter wide receivers. Uh. Frankly,
Speaker 1: all wide receivers Juju, Robbie Anderson, Robert Woods, Sammy Watkins,
Speaker 1: and DeAndre Hopkins all topped one yards. Only Woods among
Speaker 1: that group didn't score. Bradley Roby will end up on
Speaker 1: Green as Tremaine Brock has been ruled out. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: Brock had played pretty well lately. Yeah, Brock has been
Speaker 1: all right, but he's out this week. So Roby has
Speaker 1: been bad. He's been just torched down the field and
Speaker 1: that might be the end for him. And so Tyler
Speaker 1: Boyd will match up with Chris Harris in the slot,
Speaker 1: so I'm not vibing him as much. He just gets
Speaker 1: a C grade in this matchup. Finally, c j Uzoma,
Speaker 1: Driskell and Uzoma our second team mates, their old buds
Speaker 1: from the second team offense. The Broncos have also allowed
Speaker 1: the eighth most receiving yards and touchdowns to the tight
Speaker 1: end position. They gave up ten targets, eight catches and
Speaker 1: eighty five yards to the Pittsburgh tight ends last week,
Speaker 1: so it was almost kind of a sneaky little play
Speaker 1: if you're desperate, all right, I'm not that desperate. I'm
Speaker 1: having UM. That's because you invest in tight ends. Because
Speaker 1: you do the opposite, I do the opposite. You're right,
Speaker 1: so I am invested in tight ends almost everywhere Chiefs
Speaker 1: take on the Raiders. Speaking of desperation, here's your Raiders. UM,
Speaker 1: let's start with Spencer, where you're new starting running back
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs. We talked about it the beat at
Speaker 1: the outset of the show. You can hear the podcast
Speaker 1: when we posted shortly after the show. Over the last
Speaker 1: three weeks, Oakland has allowed Melvin Gordon, David Johnson and
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards to gain one eighteen or more yards from scrimmage,
Speaker 1: and for the season, the Raiders are allowing five yards
Speaker 1: per carry to running backs, worse than the league. Where
Speaker 1: not nearly as good a runners hunt, but he can
Speaker 1: still be very effective in a very easy matchup um
Speaker 1: every other chief Here is an obvious eight grade. I
Speaker 1: have number one positional rankings for Mahomes for Hill, for
Speaker 1: Kelsey and even Harrison butt Car. So absolutely start all
Speaker 1: those guys, and we don't even need to talk about
Speaker 1: Sam has been ruled out. Yes, we mentioned to kick
Speaker 1: around this show, but it's the rare number one across
Speaker 1: the across the boards, and it was number one, was
Speaker 1: number one. Hunt was my number one running back? Where
Speaker 1: is not? But he's still in a grade. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Raiders side, when I only I've got, I
Speaker 1: actually have starting grades on on a handful of players here.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the running backs. Jalen Rochard gets a
Speaker 1: C grade because the Raiders will likely be playing from
Speaker 1: behind throughout the game and the game script will favor Richard.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs have been susceptible to pass catching running backs.
Speaker 1: Both David and Duke Johnson no relation gained over seventy
Speaker 1: five yards receiving over the last three weeks alone. Chiefs
Speaker 1: have been bad against running backs of the air all
Speaker 1: year long. Jalen Rochard's a nice sneaky play here. Uh.
Speaker 1: Doug Martin hasn't been half bad, but the game script
Speaker 1: is terrible for him and as they probably go working
Speaker 1: the opposite direction from Jalen Richard. I don't know how
Speaker 1: long they're gonna be able to run in this one,
Speaker 1: and he's super touchdown dependent, averaging only sixty yards per
Speaker 1: game as the starter. Um, I've got a bench grade
Speaker 1: on Doug Martin, but I could see a C grade
Speaker 1: in the hopes that they they run it enough in
Speaker 1: the first half to help him be viable. And then
Speaker 1: the guy kind of like is Jared Cook. He leads
Speaker 1: the Raiders and targets, he leads the Raiders in receiving yards,
Speaker 1: he leads the Raiders and receiving touchdowns. To be fair,
Speaker 1: there's nobody else there. There is nobody else there. He
Speaker 1: has scored one. Uh. He has scored in each of
Speaker 1: the past two games. Casey's allowed nine yards per attempt
Speaker 1: to tight ends. That's third most in the league. Cook
Speaker 1: has had two of his most successful career games against
Speaker 1: the Chiefs last season. So Jared Cook would be great.
Speaker 1: You think there's going to be some carbage time this week.
Speaker 1: I think there might be some carbage time. I could
Speaker 1: see it happen. Uh, let's see what's working. One more matchup.
Speaker 1: Forty Niner is taking on the Seahawks. Scott Matt Brita
Speaker 1: has been a fantasy find. Do you like the running
Speaker 1: game against a surprisingly tough Seahawk Runde, I actually really
Speaker 1: like Brady this week. They've allowed four straight running backs
Speaker 1: to top a hundred total yards, and each of them scored.
Speaker 1: The last two scored twice. Brada himself has top two
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty plus total yards and two straight in
Speaker 1: the last four Seattle is allowing six point six yards
Speaker 1: per carry in the last two, grade is averaging six
Speaker 1: point six yards per carry. I think it's a great
Speaker 1: spot for him. I actually have an A grade on him.
Speaker 1: I have an A grade on Kittle because it's George Kittle.
Speaker 1: I honestly not and yeah, I really can't. He's like
Speaker 1: Galladay to me. I just can't. Um. But I'm benching
Speaker 1: the rest of the passing game. A quick note, Marquis
Speaker 1: Goodwin is out but right, but I just want to
Speaker 1: sew Dante Pattis, who stepped up big last week. He
Speaker 1: led the Actually, wow, I do have a C grade
Speaker 1: on him. I missed that he led the team in
Speaker 1: targets last week and has thirteen in the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: H And with those players out, Yeah, he's he's got
Speaker 1: barely started about grade. I just want to say on
Speaker 1: Marquis Goodwin, it's I want to wish him the best.
Speaker 1: I know he's not listening, but it's great that he's
Speaker 1: speaking out about his depression and anxiety, especially after losing
Speaker 1: his kid last year. UM, if you do need help there,
Speaker 1: reach out to someone, keep the lines of communication open
Speaker 1: with with your family members and whatnot. Very very good
Speaker 1: on him speaking out and I wish him the best. UM.
Speaker 1: On the Seattle side, I have Wilson with an A
Speaker 1: grade with that that rushing ticking up. I know it's
Speaker 1: been a little down the last couple of weeks, but
Speaker 1: he had seventy seven yards and rushing in the first
Speaker 1: seven games. He has a hundred and fifty four in
Speaker 1: the last four and multiple touchdowns in ten of eleven games,
Speaker 1: including seven straight. The four Nighters allowed multiple touchdown passes
Speaker 1: in big games to Josh Rosen, Eli Manning and Jamis Winson.
Speaker 1: I think Wilson's going to eat here. I have him
Speaker 1: as an A grade. It's not not like number one
Speaker 1: A grade, but he's still in A grade. San Francisco
Speaker 1: also lost safety Jimmy Ward to a broken form and
Speaker 1: just just Coarski Tart. That guy may not play with
Speaker 1: a shoulder injury. He's good too, pretty good. Yeah, lock
Speaker 1: touchdown machine. I mean he he has eight touchdown He
Speaker 1: has touchdowns in eight of eleven games, in fifty or
Speaker 1: more yards, also in eight of eleven games. Just always
Speaker 1: a great start. A grade now for him. Uh, Baldwin
Speaker 1: is a B for me. He's he's back, He's off
Speaker 1: the injury report. He he has led the team in
Speaker 1: targets the last three weeks, but it wasn't super fantasy
Speaker 1: relevant in that but slot slot guys like Tad and
Speaker 1: Theeeling and Fits and even Adam Humphreys had great games
Speaker 1: against San Francisco, So I give him a B grade here.
Speaker 1: David Moore I liked earlier in the season. We got
Speaker 1: a ton of red zone targets. He's not getting them anymore,
Speaker 1: even though he had a big game last week. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm gonna fade him here and bench him. Chris
Speaker 1: Carson is getting a C grade, just just barely a
Speaker 1: see grade. The four Niars have allowed the second fewest
Speaker 1: fantasy points to running backs. Yeah, and and a hundred
Speaker 1: ten total yards by se Kwon Barkley was the best
Speaker 1: day nobody else's top seventy total yards. Uh. It's basically
Speaker 1: a volume play because when he's out there, he does
Speaker 1: get a ton of volumes. I'm barely given a ce,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm listening to that. Uh. And you know
Speaker 1: Arson also has got two other backs that are ready
Speaker 1: to walk in. And that's especially with the reports this week.
Speaker 1: They want to get Penny more touches this week. I
Speaker 1: know that we don't want Penny to get more. We
Speaker 1: hate when the waters get muddied. I'm moving to Carson down.
Speaker 1: I just moved him down three spots just from your
Speaker 1: just from hearing you talk that through. We'll take a
Speaker 1: break when we come back. Final segment, our last two
Speaker 1: matchups and Lightning Round will take plenty of your calls
Speaker 1: as well. Final segment, Fantasy Football Weekly. It's a win
Speaker 1: and in addition, fantasy playoffs start next week. This is
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly, presented by devanes on Man. Final segment
Speaker 1: of Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul In, Matt Fishy, Matt fish
Speaker 1: Fish Matt Harrison. You know that's what happens when I
Speaker 1: start by looking at Scott and by the time I'm done,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Matt and then that's it my brain.
Speaker 1: It's over two final matchups to get to and then
Speaker 1: we'll take your calls for lightning round. We begin with
Speaker 1: Matt Jets take on the Titans. You already told us
Speaker 1: you like Isaiah Crow. Well kind of. I don't take
Speaker 1: a chance at me running back. It was a it
Speaker 1: was a very wobbly recommendation. I was forced into taking
Speaker 1: a take a chance on me running back this weekend.
Speaker 1: They're just none. I like, all right, I kind of
Speaker 1: give Isaiah roll bench grade anyway. That's terrible. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: Alijah McGuire, he's on the bench to exactly six carries
Speaker 1: in each of his three games this year. The change
Speaker 1: of pace back in New York always gets six carries.
Speaker 1: Trendon Cannon got six carries the week before McGuire came off.
Speaker 1: I r I remember when that guy was a thing
Speaker 1: for a week. Yeah. Uh, Josh McCown or Sam Donald
Speaker 1: and Donald may return in this game. Um, they're both
Speaker 1: on the bench because there's thirty two quarterbacks playing this weekend,
Speaker 1: and you've got one that's not a Jets quarterback on
Speaker 1: your roster. The Jets offense has scored ten, six and
Speaker 1: ten points in their past four games, so everybody's on
Speaker 1: the bench, and the one bright spot on their offense
Speaker 1: this year has been Chris Herndon. He scored three weeks
Speaker 1: in a row a month ago, and now he hasn't
Speaker 1: scored in three straight. And now he plays the Titans
Speaker 1: who haven't allowed a tight end touchdown all year, and
Speaker 1: they're only allowing thirty five yards per game to the
Speaker 1: position on the Titan side. I got a C grade
Speaker 1: for Dion Lewis and a bench grade for Derrick Henry,
Speaker 1: and I dropped Derrick Henry after he was might take
Speaker 1: a chance on me running back last week. I'm just
Speaker 1: done with him. I dropped him into Empire leagues, washing
Speaker 1: our hands, picked up Dante Pettis your premature speculation, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna work out. It is gonna work out. Lewis
Speaker 1: hasn't scored a rushing touchdown since Week one, though he
Speaker 1: only has two total touchdowns on the season. He had
Speaker 1: seven carries for eight yards last week, but he gets
Speaker 1: the starting grade because the Jets have been brutal against
Speaker 1: the run lately. A hundred and thirty three and one
Speaker 1: to Sony Michelle last week, one and two to La
Speaker 1: Shawn McCoy the week before. Uh, they're almost splitting snaps
Speaker 1: Lewis and Henry, but Lewis still leads by about a
Speaker 1: fifty forty five margins, so Louis gets the nod. Marcus
Speaker 1: Mariotta gets a B grade. Multiple touchdown passes in each
Speaker 1: of his last three games he started and finished. He's
Speaker 1: the only quarterback in the league faster than Jeff Driscoll.
Speaker 1: By the way, Jets a multiple touchdown passes in seven
Speaker 1: of their last eight games. That includes fantasy studs like
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley, Blake Bortles, and case Keenum torching this defense.
Speaker 1: The one who didn't get multiple touchdown passes brock Osweiler.
Speaker 1: I'll go figure, yeah, Uh, Corey Davis, I'm getting a
Speaker 1: C grade. Two. Jets cornerback Morris Clayborne has been the
Speaker 1: best part of their shaky defense, allowing three or fewer
Speaker 1: receptions in four straight games, and Davis hasn't had two
Speaker 1: straight decent games this season. His average stat line in
Speaker 1: games after scoring a touchdown, and he scored last week
Speaker 1: three catches for forty yards. It's just absolutely every other thing. No,
Speaker 1: it's not at every other thing. It's just he's not consistent.
Speaker 1: He's wildly inconsiderton. You never know what you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: He's like a Marie Cooper on the Raiders. That's a
Speaker 1: good point, or a Marie Cooper on the Cowboys. Might
Speaker 1: I add John U. Smith he's worth mentioning he's on
Speaker 1: the bench this week. The Jets have allowed the fewest
Speaker 1: receptions and yards to tight ends this year, only four
Speaker 1: touchdowns on the season. I sabotage dropped John Smith, which
Speaker 1: is a mini Sabina really has sabotaged a little a
Speaker 1: little bit. Did they spend some money? That's the key point.
Speaker 1: I dropped him in. Uh might have been our league anyway,
Speaker 1: but you know people are so they're so hungry for
Speaker 1: any anything that resembles a plausible tight end. People still
Speaker 1: bid on it. Uh. Redskins Eagles our final matchup of
Speaker 1: this show, and then we'll go to lightning round. But
Speaker 1: it looks it's shaping up like a long lightning round,
Speaker 1: which I love because there's not a lot to talk
Speaker 1: about on the Redskin side. We can talk about all
Speaker 1: day longer if you want me to. I'd like you
Speaker 1: to keep your pants on, is what I'd like. Colton
Speaker 1: McCoy's might take a chance on the quarterback, and I've
Speaker 1: got a C grade on him. He'll be throwing to
Speaker 1: Jordan Read with a C grade, and Jordan Read's first
Speaker 1: game about Alex Smith. He continued to lead the Redskins,
Speaker 1: and Um continued to lead the Redskins for past attempts
Speaker 1: to pass receptions. But Philadelphia ranks fourth against tight ends,
Speaker 1: allowing only two touchdowns to the position. So I don't
Speaker 1: love Read here, and he's always highly inconsistent. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the running back Adrian Peterson. Coinciding with the destruction
Speaker 1: of the Redskins offensive line four weeks ago, Peterson has
Speaker 1: dipped down to three yards per carry. He's only getting
Speaker 1: the ball fourteen times per game. The Eagles were an
Speaker 1: elite run defense for most of the year, but they've
Speaker 1: been trampled by opposing running backs on the ground to
Speaker 1: pass three weeks Ezekiel Elliott, both of the Saints backs,
Speaker 1: say Kwon Barkley. They're giving a hundred forty two rushing
Speaker 1: yards per game on seven yards per carry over the
Speaker 1: last three games. So maybe there's a chance here for
Speaker 1: Adrian to get a little something back. He used to
Speaker 1: C grade Capri Bibs and Chris Thompson. Chris Thompson is
Speaker 1: now back, so that whole that whole thing gets super
Speaker 1: ugly and you want to avoid both of those guys. Uh.
Speaker 1: The only other thing I want to mention about the receivers.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't start any of him, but keep watching rookie
Speaker 1: tray Quinn. He had this amazing preseason that he got hurt.
Speaker 1: They put him on i R, they took him off IR.
Speaker 1: He had a really good game last week. He was
Speaker 1: He was arguably better than Courtland Sutton and ms U
Speaker 1: last year. Yes, there's a watch tray Quinn. If you're
Speaker 1: in a deeper dynasty or Empire league and you're carrying
Speaker 1: over players for next year, I think tray Quinn has
Speaker 1: a better than fifty fifty percent chance chance of being
Speaker 1: the starting wide receiver for the Redskins next year. Scott,
Speaker 1: you think that's crazy. No, I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's I don't think it's crazy at all. I
Speaker 1: will mention Josh Jockson had ten targets from Cole McCoy
Speaker 1: last week too. There's some interest there too. Yeah. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, Jamison Crowder last year of his contracts,
Speaker 1: so I think he's done. Tray Quinn, just keep your
Speaker 1: keep a guide to dash statue if you're in a
Speaker 1: deeper Fantasy league, dynasty league. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: the Eagles side. Anybody seems to care about right now
Speaker 1: is Josh Adams, who carried the ball twenty two times
Speaker 1: last week against the Giants. Get this, those twenty two
Speaker 1: carries the most carries by an Eagle since Ryan Matthews
Speaker 1: in September of ten, and he had exactly twenty two
Speaker 1: To get to more than twenty two, you have to
Speaker 1: back up another two years. Before that, the Redskins had
Speaker 1: given up an average of twenty three carries for four
Speaker 1: and a half yards per carry to lead backs Lamar
Speaker 1: Miller and Ezekiel Elliott. The past two weeks, Redskins run
Speaker 1: defense was really good, but also a little bit like
Speaker 1: the Eagles slumping a bit lately. So Josh Adams has
Speaker 1: a B grade here, and let's hope he continues to
Speaker 1: get the majority of the work. That's it. Darren Sproles
Speaker 1: comes back and that might factor in a little bit here.
Speaker 1: Going to the passing game, Carson Wentz gets a B grade. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: Golden Tate has not been at all impactful as we discussed,
Speaker 1: and take a chance on me, where we all recommended
Speaker 1: dropping him or two or the three of us did
Speaker 1: Nelson Aguilars move outside has been an even bigger disaster.
Speaker 1: And get this, Nelson aguilar is getting more of a
Speaker 1: snap counting Golden Tate in the last two weeks. He
Speaker 1: has one catch for twelve yards. Why ah, so frustrating.
Speaker 1: I know it's a disaster. All Sean Jeffrey. By the way,
Speaker 1: since the Tape trade, here's what all Sean Jeffrey is
Speaker 1: giving you four catches for a scoreless forty yards since
Speaker 1: the since the Golden Tate acquisition, all of that trade
Speaker 1: did was mess up everybody, everybody. That's what makes me
Speaker 1: that when you had a when you had Golden Tate
Speaker 1: as a Lion on your fantasy team, you had a
Speaker 1: basically an every week starter. He was. He was the
Speaker 1: best restart best, he was the most reliable fantasy receiver
Speaker 1: on the Lions. Butter disaster and steaming over here, right, No,
Speaker 1: he's not wrong. He's not wrong anyway. Complicating matters further,
Speaker 1: WinCE his best weapons Zacher. It's faces a defense that
Speaker 1: hasn't allowed any tight ends to top forty eight yards
Speaker 1: and they've only given up one score to the position
Speaker 1: since Week five. I'm Keith Carson, and it all sounds
Speaker 1: like I'm saying bench Carson Wentz. I'm not. I still
Speaker 1: think he's a B level start. I just got I
Speaker 1: have to believe things get better because there's too much talent.
Speaker 1: All Sean Jeffrey's great, Golden Tate's great. I gotta think
Speaker 1: they're unlock it sooner or later. Maybe it's this week,
Speaker 1: and Carson Wentz is still a fantastic quarterback, so I
Speaker 1: still have BE grade on him among others we should.
Speaker 1: We already talked about Golden Tate a lot in this matchup,
Speaker 1: but let me just let me just mention this. He
Speaker 1: goes up against Redskins slack corner Fabian Moreau, who's given
Speaker 1: up over one dred receiving yards twice in the last
Speaker 1: three weeks. So maybe this is the week that Golden
Speaker 1: Tate becomes relevant again. I would love to think. So
Speaker 1: I've got a C grade on him here, maybe that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. I've got a C grade on all Sean Jeffrey,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, slumping badly lately, making matters worse. His
Speaker 1: last two meetings, Jeffrey get held the thirty seven and
Speaker 1: thirty eight yards by the Washington Redskins. I think that
Speaker 1: wraps up that one. Let's take your calls and god,
Speaker 1: we had a lot of time. Got ten minutes. We
Speaker 1: never have ten minutes. We motored through all of these matchups,
Speaker 1: no bye weeks awfully impressive motoring. Because I'm here, maybe
Speaker 1: it is um. Ryan has been on hold for two
Speaker 1: hours and I'm not exaggerating. Thank you, Ryan, I appreciate
Speaker 1: we could let Ryan have two questions if he wanted.
Speaker 1: All right, maybe Hi Ryan, Hi? Um? I need uh
Speaker 1: three if to be all mine? Um? Well, basically just
Speaker 1: O b j R. Brandon Cooks or Tyree Kill and
Speaker 1: Man of Sanders. Yeah. Well there you have literally my
Speaker 1: number one and number two ranked receivers and those two guys.
Speaker 1: So it's O b j Or who Brandon Cooks Man.
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna do Cooks. I think has a
Speaker 1: much tougher matchup. I'm nervous. I'm super nervous about Oh
Speaker 1: b j in this matchup, Brian, because you held for
Speaker 1: two hours. If there's something else you need, we're here,
Speaker 1: for you. I have Aaron Jones if my number two
Speaker 1: RP and Sony Michels in their pants has got a
Speaker 1: good move. Yeah, I keep Aaron Jones on. He got
Speaker 1: the double A grade for his birthday game against the
Speaker 1: terrible Cardinals this week. Yeah, and I gave Sony Michelle
Speaker 1: a C grade. Absolutely, you got it right. Thank you
Speaker 1: for checking in from Portland, Ryan, I appreciate it. Regular
Speaker 1: caller Ben Hi Ben, Hey, guys, thanks again. I'll be
Speaker 1: strang to this point. Uh, touchdown heavy. Let's just do
Speaker 1: it this way. If you had to, who would you
Speaker 1: start for the rest of the year. Rogers? I think
Speaker 1: it's Rogers has a better schedule. Yeah, the schedule I think,
Speaker 1: not way better, but it's better. Yeah. I think the
Speaker 1: schedule favors Aaron Rodgers. Carolina is Cleveland, New Orleans, Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I guess maybe switching I'm going to Cam. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: maybe this Cam. Joe in Toronto. Hello Joe, thanks for
Speaker 1: your patients too, Ramsey, Is that would you go Hilton
Speaker 1: Ova Beckham? Yes, I would almost either way. I probably would,
Speaker 1: to be honest, Joe. Thank you for the column. Thank
Speaker 1: you for your patients. To also in almost almost two
Speaker 1: hours on hold, which is great. Imagine these two teams
Speaker 1: are benching. I know, well, look it's a terrible matchup
Speaker 1: and you know, special and anything could happen, right, I
Speaker 1: mean would I'd be surprised me at the twenty yards
Speaker 1: and two no sounds no, because he's Odell Beckham. But
Speaker 1: the matchup is it's their rosters are that good. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of good wide receivers in the league now, Jordan,
Speaker 1: Hello Brady or golf Brady or golf golf way higher.
Speaker 1: Yeah I do too, Yeah, absolutely, thank you. Jordan's uh
Speaker 1: Jesse your next. Yeah, Packers are rammed. It's two points
Speaker 1: per Shack bought his points were holding opposing team to
Speaker 1: low points in yardage. I think it's definitely the Packers
Speaker 1: at home against a rookie quarterback, for sure. Could I
Speaker 1: do one more? No, I'm afraid you can't. The way
Speaker 1: this way this You can call in again, I mean,
Speaker 1: like anybody can, Jesse, just que back up. We got
Speaker 1: a lot. We still got like seven more minutes a
Speaker 1: lightning round, so feel free to call back. So you
Speaker 1: know how this works. It's one question players, I didn't
Speaker 1: actually say it this time, so you should retract your
Speaker 1: packers answer, Nate, you are next. He would have got
Speaker 1: the second question. Uh, I gotta I need a flex
Speaker 1: for a standard Sony Michelle or Dalvin Cook. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: really down on Michelle in this one. I would start
Speaker 1: to Alvin Cook for reasons. I I think Belichick tries
Speaker 1: to take away the lands. I think so too, and
Speaker 1: I want to get a running game going and they
Speaker 1: should be able to pass to Cook too. Brian, Hello, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta. It's a quick one for you. Either theo
Speaker 1: ritic or it was ridd Or Whore Bret Okay, it
Speaker 1: was it breat or Drake. Oh, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: love him go because that's how that's a lightning round.
Speaker 1: You listen to the answer. You know, I'll just I'll
Speaker 1: just take Riddick then, all right, if it's bright, I
Speaker 1: would start, I would start, Yeah, I like, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: go break Riddick Drake in that order. Stephen, your next,
Speaker 1: good job, Uh, standard scoring quarterback Deshaun Watson or Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: I'm to take DeShawn Watson in this game. I think
Speaker 1: that the Cleveland defense is pretty weak. Like the matchup
Speaker 1: a little bit better. Dan, Welcome to the fan. This week.
Speaker 1: I wanna know PPR black Jordan Howard or Gallady Kenny Golladay.
Speaker 1: I like Jordan Howard a lot in this match I
Speaker 1: actually do too. I like how I never like Howard,
Speaker 1: I like him in this like him in this matchup
Speaker 1: a lot. But they'll take Kenny Golladay and what feels
Speaker 1: like a terrific matchup? Nick, you're next. Yes, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at a PPR league flex position. Neither Spencer where or
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook? Is it me where? I have where? Probably
Speaker 1: is a top five back when I when I get
Speaker 1: done with it this week, Um, I've got him, I
Speaker 1: think sitting around ten right now. But that's it's He's
Speaker 1: gonna can score so many ways though too. Yeah that's
Speaker 1: the Bob. Your next HI standards scoring quarterback Roethlisberger or
Speaker 1: Luck Roethlisberger finally next year. So that's really tough in
Speaker 1: a tougher matchup. But yeah, Luke, you're next, alright, PPR
Speaker 1: league Stills or Parker. Yeah, you know you have a
Speaker 1: Miami receiver rule in your league. You have to start
Speaker 1: a Miami a FC East only league. Uh, Parker, I
Speaker 1: do not. I think it's still still I think it's
Speaker 1: still I'm gonna go Stills, and we'll hope for one
Speaker 1: of those long times and long touchdowns that we were
Speaker 1: getting in weeks two and three that we haven't seen since.
Speaker 1: What Tannehill is back now? The Miami Dolphins on Twitter,
Speaker 1: we're trying to get Kenny Stills into the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: What they're trying to get people to vote Kenny Stills.
Speaker 1: I saw, I saw a I saw a quote from
Speaker 1: Kenny Stills yesterday saying I can't throw the ball to
Speaker 1: myself and right sometimes squeaky will squeaky will get you know,
Speaker 1: the grease. So maybe Sunny Hello, Hey guys, uh PPR,
Speaker 1: Dreen Peterson or Time Montgomery PPR, Yeah, PPR. You know
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Bold and go Montgomery. Yeah. I don't
Speaker 1: blame you, Jason, You're next, Hey, standard scoring, Tony Michelle
Speaker 1: or Dalvin Cook. We just had this one, Uh, Dalvin,
Speaker 1: we think Dalvin and what else would a squeaky wheel
Speaker 1: get besides Greece um replaced? No, yeah there. I think
Speaker 1: the other one is squeaky mouse gets the cheese, so
Speaker 1: maybe you can get cheese. As I was saying, squeaky well,
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, it's not cheese. I've never heard squeaky
Speaker 1: mouse gets the cheese once in my entire life. Now
Speaker 1: you have. Now you have made that up, Eric, I
Speaker 1: might have just made it up. Eric's next. Hello, Hey guys.
Speaker 1: Standard scoring curdis Damuel or Courtland Sutton. I think it's
Speaker 1: just not me and I like Courton Sutton. Here was
Speaker 1: my taket chance to be wide receiver. Lots sunches back.
Speaker 1: It's got to be Sutton. Yeah, I like I like him. Nick.
Speaker 1: You're next the are Cohen or Carson? Oh? I think
Speaker 1: Carson just off a pure volume. Tom you are next
Speaker 1: on the fan, Shawn Watson or a little Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: M m oh come on, oh come on, it's actually
Speaker 1: they're close. Yeah yeah Watson for me. I love Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: I know that you do. Man. I'm still man. I
Speaker 1: have a Lucky I have a league with Luck Mahomes
Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson. I can't can't get him in the roster.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing about Lamar Jackson. It's so much fun
Speaker 1: to watch him come watching every time. Every time he
Speaker 1: tucks and runs and wick it could be fifty yards.
Speaker 1: It's just so much fun. And at some point fantasy
Speaker 1: football should be fun. Lamar Jackson is fine, and you've
Speaker 1: convinced that people should play super flex. All right, Mark,
Speaker 1: you're next. Hello, you're up? Yeah? Um halfpoint PPR. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna Guillotine League. So with Antonio Brown and Tyree locked in,
Speaker 1: do I go didn't cook their Austin Ekeler? Who? Um?
Speaker 1: I would go Brandon cooks even with the tougher matchup
Speaker 1: on against Darius Slay Eckler, I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be in a fifty fifty time share. I don't think
Speaker 1: enough to cooks enough. I'm leaning, Yeah, I lean cooks.
Speaker 1: I think gets touches. And congratulations to get into this
Speaker 1: stage of the of the Guillotine League. You out survived me.
Speaker 1: I'll survive Fish, although Matt Harrison is still alive. By
Speaker 1: the way, the last time Gordon, the last time Gordon missed,
Speaker 1: Ekeler played snaps. He's Brilli in there. Okay, I like that.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that stat. That's a good stat. Uh. Mark,
Speaker 1: you are next, and our final call standard league Watson
Speaker 1: or will uh Winston. I've got Watson a couple of
Speaker 1: spots ahead. Um, I've Winston's got a nice matchup, but
Speaker 1: you know, Watson has been very good and if this
Speaker 1: turns into a game, will they actually let him throw
Speaker 1: more than twenty five times? Then? What if it's a
Speaker 1: and it's crazy beside passing yardage heavy? Well maybe yeah,
Speaker 1: he said standard, but depending on his version of standard,
Speaker 1: you know, what standard actually means is up for debate. Um,
Speaker 1: to all the Cream Hunt owners, I'm sorry that you
Speaker 1: deserve a better faith than this. It's sad that this
Speaker 1: it worked out this way in a deeply unfortunate situation.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you can cobble together some playoff wins anyway. Um,
Speaker 1: and hopefully you had you hopefully you had Spencer wear anyway,
Speaker 1: which would have been which would have been the right
Speaker 1: thing to do to begin with, to secure your handcuff
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