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Speaker 1: It's Fantasy Football Weekly, a San Francisco edition. Would you
Speaker 1: call it a San Francisco Treats? I think I would do,
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, And that might even be
Speaker 1: the title of the show this week. Those are the
Speaker 1: voices of Matt Harrison and Scott Fish respectively. It is
Speaker 1: the title of this show, the San Francisco treat This
Speaker 1: is one of the biggest in season trades with Fantasy
Speaker 1: ramifications in memory. This is this is gigantic, potentially putting
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey into a position to be the highest scoring
Speaker 1: Fantasy player from this point forward. At if it's any
Speaker 1: indication he went to the place where running backs go
Speaker 1: to get injured. And that makes me a little nervous.
Speaker 1: The injury thing is gonna be interesting for me because
Speaker 1: like it wasn't injured playing on crass and grass in college,
Speaker 1: wasn't injured the first three years in Carolina playing on grass.
Speaker 1: They switched the turf injured multiple years in a row.
Speaker 1: He goes back to grass, but that might get injured
Speaker 1: all the time. There's so I don't know. Maybe there's
Speaker 1: a curse. So if you already, if you own Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: you can name your price right now, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I think the buzz and the optimism right
Speaker 1: and it it seems to me eight times out of ten,
Speaker 1: had you made the deal when the buzz was at
Speaker 1: its fervor to come out on the better side, what
Speaker 1: would it take to get you to trade away Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey right now? What kind of deal are you looking for?
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor plus another you know is there. I'm just
Speaker 1: not doing not doing it. I'm just not doing it.
Speaker 1: I think he has the chance to be potentially RB
Speaker 1: one coming for the through the end of the season.
Speaker 1: I want that on my roster. I feel like Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan is the type of guy that can scheme plays
Speaker 1: to make his best players really really good. And he's
Speaker 1: showing they don't pass their running backs a lot. But
Speaker 1: that's gonna change. Cam Newton never threw to running backs
Speaker 1: until they got Christie McCaffrey, So that's gonna change. Kyl
Speaker 1: Shanahan has a way of making his best players effective,
Speaker 1: and he's got a brand new toy. I want that
Speaker 1: for the ride. So I I show up and I
Speaker 1: care for you. The second the highest scoring running back
Speaker 1: today probably say, and I'm gonna throw in an elite
Speaker 1: wide receiver, Jamaar Chase. You're still you're doing that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, no one's offering that. But how about this?
Speaker 1: How about this? I mean there's there's always a price
Speaker 1: for Mark Andrews being that the tight end position. Those
Speaker 1: two guys are like different, a whole other level ahead
Speaker 1: of the next wider next tight end, Like zach Ertz
Speaker 1: is like the number three tight end right now, but
Speaker 1: it takes two zach Ertz to get to Mark Andrews
Speaker 1: right now. So like if the Travis Kelsey owners, like,
Speaker 1: I'll take McCaffrey off your hands for Kelsey, I think
Speaker 1: I do it. See I'm not. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: I think I think if you own Christian McCaffrey, I'd
Speaker 1: find out what's out there, you know, I think I'd
Speaker 1: find out. I'd find out what be blown away because
Speaker 1: somebody might do that. So you're gonna you're gonna get
Speaker 1: an overpay. We already know that it's just will somebody overpay.
Speaker 1: Do you think this is a public message board thing
Speaker 1: in your league or do you reach out privately in
Speaker 1: d m s to several owners and go, no, I
Speaker 1: want to compete against each other, so I want to.
Speaker 1: I hit it. I do it across my I do
Speaker 1: it on the message board I hit the eleven other
Speaker 1: owners in my league with hey, Christian McCaffrey is available,
Speaker 1: best offers. I'm listening. Sure, why not? And if you
Speaker 1: drafted Christian McCaffrey, he hasn't, you know, fired all that
Speaker 1: well this year, so you're probably in a bad spot
Speaker 1: right now anyway, and you probably need to get two
Speaker 1: players for Christian MC for you to maybe bolster your chance.
Speaker 1: I think I think you can do it, you know,
Speaker 1: and maybe get somebody who's already had had a bye week.
Speaker 1: DAMMI Damian Pierce is involved in this deal. Derrick Henry,
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry is involved straight up, But honestly, yes, I would,
Speaker 1: honestly I would. All right, let's talk more about what's
Speaker 1: coming up. Over the course of the show. We're gonna
Speaker 1: break down all the games as we always do. Uh,
Speaker 1: and that will begin with Bucks and Panthers in just
Speaker 1: a minute. But we also will answer three tough questions,
Speaker 1: will take a chance on nine players, and we'll have
Speaker 1: premature speculation featuring that guy right there. We love and all.
Speaker 1: We got some big names coming up. I'm premature speculation.
Speaker 1: I'm very excited about. Let's begin with the Bucks taking
Speaker 1: on the Panthers. Scott. So we've been talked talked a
Speaker 1: lot about the San Francisco side of this deal. This
Speaker 1: leaves the Panthers in a really spot. Obviously, you know
Speaker 1: they're not playing for this year. The presumed starter for
Speaker 1: the Panthers is going to be down to four A
Speaker 1: man running back. Yeah, yeah, So I've had the Panthers
Speaker 1: a few times this season, and I'm usually it's usually
Speaker 1: been start Christian McCaffrey maybe and bench everybody else early
Speaker 1: in the season, maybe Dgmore. Now it's just bench everybody,
Speaker 1: just bench the whole Panthers. I put in our little
Speaker 1: show Slack earlier this week. Is any Panther going to
Speaker 1: get a starting grade for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I'm not sure that even happens. Any Panther.
Speaker 1: There may not be even a C grade for any
Speaker 1: Panthers have to be a heck of a matchup, and
Speaker 1: this isn't a good one, Dallas is. It's it's a
Speaker 1: pretty tough d on. The Bucks are pretty tough, pretty
Speaker 1: tough d on both on both fronts. They're only allowing
Speaker 1: ninety four yards in a score on average in the
Speaker 1: run game, and that's probably gonna get split between Cuba
Speaker 1: and Dante. Another thing I saw this week, guess how
Speaker 1: many times how many plays the Panthers have run inside
Speaker 1: the five this year? You love your inside the five
Speaker 1: nine times? Oh, I can only hope two geez two
Speaker 1: plays inside the five in six weeks. So even if
Speaker 1: one is a bulldozer at the goal, you're not a
Speaker 1: guy that they're all on the bench. Let's go over
Speaker 1: to the Buck side. Can't just say they're all in
Speaker 1: you're starting line up? Pretty much? That is that how
Speaker 1: it works. Uh. Brady hasn't been lights out, but he's
Speaker 1: getting a C grade here. Um uh. This is one
Speaker 1: where the Bucks should get ahead. So he might not
Speaker 1: have like a B level grade in him, but there
Speaker 1: are ten point five favorites. Brady might get enough on
Speaker 1: the way to that lead. He's averaging um in wins.
Speaker 1: He's averaging about two yards in a score. Sadly, that's
Speaker 1: that's uh not very good. But the Panthers are allowing
Speaker 1: about two fifty yards and just short shy of two
Speaker 1: scores per game. I think he'll be a little closer
Speaker 1: to that this week. That's probably C level. He might
Speaker 1: lean into B level. The fact that they'll be leading
Speaker 1: leads me to leave him around the sea. I have
Speaker 1: a B grade on both Mike Evans and Chris Godwin
Speaker 1: as I feel like late in the game in the
Speaker 1: second half, they're gonna leave on the run here and uh,
Speaker 1: but they'll get up there against the eighth worst d
Speaker 1: against Fantasy wide receivers, allowing seven players to hit eighty
Speaker 1: yards and or a score in the last four weeks alone.
Speaker 1: So the one and the two are getting work done
Speaker 1: against this Carolina Panthers team. And Evans and Godwin get
Speaker 1: over six of the target share, so they're getting there.
Speaker 1: Is Godwin has six catches in three straight, sixty plus
Speaker 1: yards in three straight. He's really really safe. Mike Evans
Speaker 1: gets you most of his touchdowns. It should be noted
Speaker 1: that Mike Evans goes will be going against um Dante Jackson,
Speaker 1: who is considered a shutdown corner, but he let Chris
Speaker 1: Alave go for a hundred plus and two scores just
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. And the last time Evans
Speaker 1: faced him, Evans went for six and eighty nine and
Speaker 1: two scores. Alright, So and what is it about six
Speaker 1: five and five tents? So what have we got a
Speaker 1: seven inch difference there too? That helps ye, that will
Speaker 1: help Kate ont And I thought about making this guy
Speaker 1: might take a chance on me player. I have a
Speaker 1: C grade on him. Just a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: when Cameron Brad missed the week, he played of slaps
Speaker 1: snaps and he he ran more routes than any other
Speaker 1: tight end in the NFL that week. He was really
Speaker 1: out there. He has three red zone targets in the
Speaker 1: five quarters he's played without Cameron Brad in the game.
Speaker 1: He went two for twenty three last week when Brad
Speaker 1: went out, he uh he had a seven targets, six catch,
Speaker 1: forty three yard day in the whole game that Bright
Speaker 1: was out. It seems like Brady actually trust him and
Speaker 1: they actually want him running routes. Um, so I have
Speaker 1: him with a C grade. I think he gets it
Speaker 1: done here. If you're in a pinch in a bye week,
Speaker 1: then this is a perfect guy, perfect perfect guy. And
Speaker 1: and Brad might be out for a little bit. We
Speaker 1: don't know that neck injury scary, so uh, Leonard Fournett,
Speaker 1: I have an A grade on you. I told you
Speaker 1: that the Casey game for for the Casey game for
Speaker 1: four net and his three carries was simply game script.
Speaker 1: As me from a few weeks ago, I was I
Speaker 1: was very mad that that was That was all game script,
Speaker 1: only three carries. Since then, he's had a twenty four
Speaker 1: touch and a twenty seven touch game. He actually caught
Speaker 1: at least five passes in four straight games. The volume
Speaker 1: of the past game work, the likely game script of
Speaker 1: being ahead against the Panthers team six worth worst against
Speaker 1: the run, that gives a lot, gives up seven running
Speaker 1: back touchdowns over the course of these six games, and
Speaker 1: nearly a hundred fifty Comboy yards per game. Sign me up.
Speaker 1: I don't see anyway he doesn't get an A grade here.
Speaker 1: I have him ranked as the top six running back.
Speaker 1: I do have Rashod White on the bench. However, this
Speaker 1: is a close one though. If the but if you
Speaker 1: do believe the Bucks are going to blow demoralized Carolina team.
Speaker 1: That might be some fourth quarter you know me. I
Speaker 1: like Rashade White. He was a preseason sleeper. I had
Speaker 1: him on a premature speculation before. I think I might
Speaker 1: have even taken take on him. New is in his
Speaker 1: six for five catch fifty yard week anyway. Uh, he
Speaker 1: could get some late game work. But he's only gained
Speaker 1: seven to eight touches, and last week he only had
Speaker 1: two touches. It's a three touches. It's a little scary
Speaker 1: for me to, you know, throw him out there with
Speaker 1: how little the volume he is getting. It seems like
Speaker 1: Lenny's getting up into that high twenties and touches. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Jets taking on the Broncos Matt
Speaker 1: On the Jets side, Bruce Hall has turned into a
Speaker 1: freaking beast, and he's just in my mind almost in
Speaker 1: every week a great here is it Briest mode? How
Speaker 1: about that? Oh I'd like it. That's out there, that's
Speaker 1: out there, that's how I like. Oh man, I just
Speaker 1: came up with that in my brain and it is
Speaker 1: out there. But let's just give you credit for it,
Speaker 1: all right. I have not heard that before, but I
Speaker 1: love it now. The Broncos are good defense, but I
Speaker 1: still love Briefe Hall here. Yeah, I'm giving him. I'm
Speaker 1: giving him an a Here has at least twenty opportunities
Speaker 1: in each of the last three games, clearly leading the
Speaker 1: backfield over Michael Carter, who's now just the change of
Speaker 1: pace back. I will give Carter a playable see here, though,
Speaker 1: is the Broncos are kind of a strange defense against
Speaker 1: the run. They're allowing four points six yards per carry,
Speaker 1: which is the tenth worst in the league. They're also
Speaker 1: allowing the fourth most receptions per game, and both Carter
Speaker 1: and Breece are pretty good at catching the ball out
Speaker 1: of the backfield. But they haven't really allowed a big
Speaker 1: day to the running back because they don't allow many scores.
Speaker 1: Only three touchdowns allowed to the running backs on the season,
Speaker 1: all on the ground, zero through the air, zero through
Speaker 1: the sea. God no no no aqua touchdowns. Zach Wilson,
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson, Corey Davis, and the disgruntled the Eli Jahmore
Speaker 1: are all on the bench. More has essentially been given
Speaker 1: a week off to cool down. He'll be inactive this
Speaker 1: week since Geno Smith through for one and two scores
Speaker 1: in Week one. The Broncos are allowing passing yards per
Speaker 1: game and have only allowed one passing touchdown. It's five weeks.
Speaker 1: Is fantastic. Yeah, it's pretty good. They've also allowed the
Speaker 1: third fewest wide receiver yards. It's definitely a running back
Speaker 1: game against Denver. On the Denver side, the Jets are
Speaker 1: literally the middle of the pack eist defense in every
Speaker 1: category against every position by Jet standards. That's awesome. Good job, Jets.
Speaker 1: You're up the middle of the perfect. So if you'd
Speaker 1: normally start a Bronco here, you're still going to start them.
Speaker 1: And if you normally wouldn't, you wouldn't. Russ Wilson probably
Speaker 1: a C start in super flex leagues where you have
Speaker 1: to start two quarterbacks with Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts, Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford and Kirk Cousins all on by this week, Wilson
Speaker 1: would have to be startable in those situations. In single quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: I think you can leave him on the bench. He
Speaker 1: now has a hamstring injury that has him limited in
Speaker 1: practice to go along with the shoulder, and there was
Speaker 1: talk that Brett Rippon might start. Don't He's got Wolverine blood.
Speaker 1: So there we go. But Rogers managed to forty six
Speaker 1: and a score last week against the Jets, and that
Speaker 1: sounds about right for us this week. Uh, Courtland Sutton
Speaker 1: and Jerry Judy. I'll give them both C grades, but
Speaker 1: I don't feel great about it. Uh. Sutton was shut
Speaker 1: down by the Chargers last week, only three targets and
Speaker 1: two catches for fourteen yards. But he has seen double
Speaker 1: digit targets and three of the prior or. Jerry Judy
Speaker 1: has fifty three or fifty four yards in each of
Speaker 1: the last three games. Uh, they like him for fifty
Speaker 1: three and a half this week. You know, if they
Speaker 1: gave half yards he'd probably hit that mark, like perfectly.
Speaker 1: The Jets have actually allowed the seventh fewest yards and
Speaker 1: receptions to wide receivers, but the tenth most touchdowns. So
Speaker 1: low yards and a chance at a score is what
Speaker 1: you're looking at here. You can't expect more for the
Speaker 1: averages for these guys. Greg Dulcitch is a name to watch.
Speaker 1: The rookie played his first game last week and caught
Speaker 1: a thirty nine yard touchdown past when he was left
Speaker 1: wide open. Let's see if they ramp up the routes.
Speaker 1: And then finally the running backs. Nathaniel Hackett had some
Speaker 1: sort of sit down heart to heart how wow with
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon and they because he was upset about the usage.
Speaker 1: After the summit meeting, they said, Melvin will be more involved,
Speaker 1: but have they touched base with Mike Boone or come
Speaker 1: to Jesus with Latavius Murray. My guest, the Broncos will
Speaker 1: leverage their synergies correctly and all three will be involved,
Speaker 1: which means none of them are start worthy and are
Speaker 1: all on your bench. I don't want any part of that.
Speaker 1: I hope you on that. Fantasy Football Weekly Returns and Moments,
Speaker 1: including nine players upon whom you can take a chance
Speaker 1: in a tricky bye week. It's the bike Acalypse edition
Speaker 1: of Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back, Fantasy Football Weekly. Take
Speaker 1: a chance on me. This is a segment in which
Speaker 1: we unveil nine players upon whom you can take a chance.
Speaker 1: It's a brutal bye week. We haven't even talked about
Speaker 1: this yet. Bill's Rams, Vikings Eagles. These are some of
Speaker 1: the elite offenses in the NFL. You're grambling for players,
Speaker 1: and we're here to help. Beginning at the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: Scott Fish. Yeah, I'm going a little deeper this week
Speaker 1: with a little uh well, maybe it's not that deep,
Speaker 1: but Davis Mills versus the Raiders last week was a
Speaker 1: terrible spot for Davis, But this week he gets a
Speaker 1: bottom five pass defense who has allowed multiple touchdowns to
Speaker 1: all five quarterbacks they faced two, sixty, six, to three,
Speaker 1: and twenty yards and each of those as well. Mills
Speaker 1: has really been in the two to two score range,
Speaker 1: but this upcoming game is easily his easiest easiest matchup
Speaker 1: so far. All right, next quarterback, take a chance on me, Matt.
Speaker 1: I've got Marcus Mariota, who's currently a top twelve quarterback
Speaker 1: in most formats. He's really doing it with his feet.
Speaker 1: Three games of over fifty rushing yards, three games with
Speaker 1: a rushing score. He hasn't top two or twenty nine
Speaker 1: passing yards all season, and he's facing a Bengals defense
Speaker 1: that's seen one running quarterback this year. That was Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: He was able to scamper for fifty eight yards and
Speaker 1: then I dug into a deeper Here's the quarterbacks the
Speaker 1: Bengals have faced this year. Mitch True, Bisky, Cooper, rush,
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco, Teddy Bridgewater for more than half a game,
Speaker 1: and Andy Dalton. All five of those are back up quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: So I think it's a little smoke in mirrors about
Speaker 1: how good this Bengals defenses. And let's see if Marcus
Speaker 1: Mariota can put up some numbers and they may have
Speaker 1: to actually finally pass, because only the Bears are are
Speaker 1: passing less than the Falcons are, but they're probably at
Speaker 1: a deficit against a good Bengals offense, and maybe they've
Speaker 1: got to pass a little bit more, which would be helpful.
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan quietly is second in the NFL and passing
Speaker 1: yards Berg came behind only Josh Allen. Matt Ryan. His
Speaker 1: two best games of the year are both positive harbingers
Speaker 1: for this week's matchup with Tennessee. Last week, Ryan exploded
Speaker 1: for a most four hundred yards and three scores. That
Speaker 1: was just last week, and his other really good performance
Speaker 1: was against the same team he's playing this week, Tennessee
Speaker 1: three fifty yards and two touchdowns. Titans have allowed multiple
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns in every game and over three hundred passing
Speaker 1: yards in fourth straight. I love Matt Ryan this week.
Speaker 1: Great opportunity. Let's go to the running back position. Scott, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a guy here that you're probably not gonna
Speaker 1: find on waivers. But you probably also haven't started him
Speaker 1: most of the time because he just hasn't had good
Speaker 1: games or matchups. But that's Tony Pollard. Lawrence Jackson mentioned
Speaker 1: of NBC Sports mention that his bi weekly huge run
Speaker 1: is the reason that that people think he might be good,
Speaker 1: but he hasn't been good so far. Pollard wasn't the
Speaker 1: most efficient last week, but again saw thirteen touches for
Speaker 1: the third time in a row and has at least
Speaker 1: eight touches in every game. This week, he gets a
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions team allowing five point five yards per carry,
Speaker 1: second most rushing yards per game, most rushing touchdowns per
Speaker 1: game to running backs, and they're gonna and it's gonna
Speaker 1: probably be a decently high scoring game. That eight to
Speaker 1: thirteen touches at those clips should be pretty good for
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard here, all right, you'll take a chance for
Speaker 1: me running back Matt a little gross. I got Sony Walkman.
Speaker 1: Michelle Ashua Kelly was a non participant with a knee
Speaker 1: injury and Wednesday and Thursday's practice, so Sony Michelle is
Speaker 1: the clear number two to Austin Ekeler in the Chargers backfield.
Speaker 1: Michelle did tally eight carries and three receptions last week
Speaker 1: against Denver, while Austin Ekeler saw thirty opportunities in that game.
Speaker 1: But they can't use Ekeler like that. They have to
Speaker 1: give him some time off. This week, the Chargers face
Speaker 1: the Seattle defense that is allowing the most combo running
Speaker 1: back yards in the league. Had a hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: eight per game, plus four point six yards per carry
Speaker 1: an eight point one yards per reception. Michelle is gonna
Speaker 1: get ten touches at the minimum, so that's like forty
Speaker 1: to sixty yards pretty easy here if it helps. Forty
Speaker 1: yards never comes easy to Sony Walkman, but the opportunity, sure,
Speaker 1: we'll be there. Josh Kelly is going to be out now,
Speaker 1: so yeah, might take a chance to be running back
Speaker 1: is Kenyan Drake. He'll be your lead runner with j K.
Speaker 1: Dobbins ruled out and probably expected to miss more than
Speaker 1: a month. Michael on I R, and honestly, I think
Speaker 1: from a fantasy perspective, we hope he does go on
Speaker 1: I R so we can stash him. Uh Drake will
Speaker 1: are the load like he did last week. He ripped
Speaker 1: off last week Kenyan Drake to thirty yard runs and
Speaker 1: a twenty yard run. That's not the Kenyan Drake we know.
Speaker 1: The Browns defense is allowing the fifth most rushing yards,
Speaker 1: the second highest yards per carry five and a half,
Speaker 1: and the most touchdowns per game to opposing running backs.
Speaker 1: It's a premost spot for Kenyan Drake. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the receivers and Scott Fish. I am doing a tight
Speaker 1: end for my receiver this week, and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: Daniel Bellinger, who I keep talking about because I want
Speaker 1: to make him happen. I feel like then you're you're
Speaker 1: to speaking into exist. Yes, it feels like I've been
Speaker 1: talking about him a lot. Uh. Last week he had
Speaker 1: he played percent of the snaps each week. His snaps
Speaker 1: has increased. Last week, he led the team in targets,
Speaker 1: leads the Giants and wide receiver tight end red zone opportunities,
Speaker 1: scored in back to back and scored in three out
Speaker 1: of the last five. Also has a rushing touchdown that
Speaker 1: you can throw on there. This season gets a Jags
Speaker 1: d who has allowed an average of about five for
Speaker 1: fifty five to tight ends over the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: I can see that for Daniel Bellinger this week that
Speaker 1: would be all right. We take that this is the type.
Speaker 1: These five weeks are very tricky for tight ends. That's
Speaker 1: why I did It's a position. I like that your receiver, Matt.
Speaker 1: I've got Hayden Hurst in a revenge game. Uh might
Speaker 1: be a little extra revenge for this one, seeing is
Speaker 1: how he was a pretty good tight end for Atlanta
Speaker 1: in his first year there. Then they drafted Kyle Pitts
Speaker 1: and like just cast him aside like an old, moldy
Speaker 1: bag of tangerines. Can I coin a term here? It's
Speaker 1: not only a revenge game, it's a twist the knife game.
Speaker 1: We're going hard for better or worse. He's really angry.
Speaker 1: He has a mental health foundation to uh so. Hurst
Speaker 1: is facing his former defense that doesn't know how to
Speaker 1: cover the tight end position at all. They've allowed the
Speaker 1: second most receptions and the third most yards to tight
Speaker 1: ends this year and they have not faced anyone like
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey or Mark Andrews. Hurst will go for at
Speaker 1: least seven in the yards and a score this week.
Speaker 1: Mark it down. Jacoby Myers, Nobody nobody has ever excited
Speaker 1: about starting a member of the Patriots passing attack. I know,
Speaker 1: I'm not was back when Terry Glenn was plane. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: those are those are the good old days when Randy
Speaker 1: Moss the coach. Jacoby Myers runs two thirds of his
Speaker 1: place from the slot where he's gonna face Bears rookie
Speaker 1: cornerback Kyler Gordon. What's notable about him? He's allowed the
Speaker 1: most yards in coverage and the second most yards after
Speaker 1: the catch from the slot. That is rare. You have
Speaker 1: to be a special kind of bad to do that. Uh. Myers, meanwhile,
Speaker 1: has been shockingly consistent. He stopped fifty five yards in
Speaker 1: every game he stopped nine yards and two of the
Speaker 1: last three. Let's tepe Bailey's appy keeps starting because there's
Speaker 1: a little there's a little something there. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. I don't think it's gonna happen either.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna I'm miss I think mistakenly go
Speaker 1: back to Mac Jones. Nevertheless, Jacoby Myers and either spot
Speaker 1: a fine play this week. Let's get back to our matchups.
Speaker 1: Brown's taking on the Ravens will start on the Brown side.
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb is always in a grade, but let me
Speaker 1: note that Baltimore is a good run defense. Over the
Speaker 1: past month, Joe Mixon, s Kwon Barkley, Devin Singletary, ra
Speaker 1: mondre Stevenson have all failed to top seventy eight yards
Speaker 1: and that brings us to Creem Hunt, who goes on
Speaker 1: the bench. It's been a disappointing season for Hunt. I
Speaker 1: had expected that he would be better here. He hasn't
Speaker 1: topped fifty eight rushing yards all year. He hasn't topped
Speaker 1: twenty four receiving yards all year, and the worst party
Speaker 1: is running it four point two yards per carry behind
Speaker 1: the same offensive line that is powering Nick Chubb to
Speaker 1: six yards per carry. Let me heed the guy who
Speaker 1: asked for a trade in the trade and they should
Speaker 1: have done it. He's he's just like slowing down just
Speaker 1: to spite them. Kareem Hunt is touchdown dependent at this
Speaker 1: point for fantasy owners and the Ravens improved defense. There's
Speaker 1: only a lot of one running back score since Week three,
Speaker 1: so Kareem Hunt is on the bench. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the passing game here. My highest graded receiver for Cleveland
Speaker 1: is their tight end David and Joe Coku. He's got
Speaker 1: fifty five or more receiving yards and each of the
Speaker 1: last four games he's running routes on eight of Cleveland's
Speaker 1: passing plays. That is what Travis Kelsey runs. To give
Speaker 1: you a sense of how often that is. Baltimore has
Speaker 1: allowed touchdowns too tight ends and back to back games.
Speaker 1: B grade on even and Joeku. C grade on Amari Cooper.
Speaker 1: He's been a boomer bust player all year long, career
Speaker 1: long right about that. Actually, I lean on the bus
Speaker 1: side and that's why only the C grade here. Baltimore
Speaker 1: secondary has improved a lot since a horrible start of
Speaker 1: the season when everybody was hurt. Over the past three weeks,
Speaker 1: Baltimore ranks ninth best and yards allowed wide receivers. They've
Speaker 1: stymied stuff on Diggs in Jamaar. Chase Cooper lines up
Speaker 1: primarily on the right side of the field. He'll face
Speaker 1: veteran cornerback Marcus Peters, who gives up forty seven yards
Speaker 1: per game and has not given up a score since
Speaker 1: Week one. So just the C grade on a Marii Cooper.
Speaker 1: Let's go over to the Baltimore side. Mark Andrews is
Speaker 1: a big question Mark did not practice Wednesday, didn't practice Thursday,
Speaker 1: came in with a limb it did practice on Friday,
Speaker 1: and told reporters he feels good. That doesn't necessarily mean anything.
Speaker 1: You want to watch this closely. If he plays, you
Speaker 1: have to start him because he's Mark Andrews. If he
Speaker 1: does not play, your pivot could very well be to
Speaker 1: his backup rookie Isaiah Likely, who are very excited about
Speaker 1: based on some of the dazzling preseason where that we
Speaker 1: saw from Isaiah Likely. So you could pick up Likely now,
Speaker 1: wait till Sunday morning, and then make the change if
Speaker 1: you need to. If Andrews is in fact held out
Speaker 1: of this game, the rest of the passing game is
Speaker 1: a little more mundane here. For Lamar Jackson, We're gonna
Speaker 1: watch his hip injury, which could limit his mobility. He
Speaker 1: will play in this game. Jackson throwing exactly one touchdown
Speaker 1: in three straight games. But he gets Rashad Bateman back
Speaker 1: hopefully that helps. He's topped the meager milestone of just
Speaker 1: two eighteen yards one time all year. That's it for
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. I mean, all the people that get worried
Speaker 1: about Lamar Jackson's passing. It's kind of unfolding that way
Speaker 1: right now. Again, this is not uncommon for him. Cleveland's
Speaker 1: played the softest set of opposing quarterbacks I think in
Speaker 1: the league. Although you made a very good case for
Speaker 1: um who's facing Cincinnati? Was it Cincinnati? I think that
Speaker 1: has played the softest that it might be Cincinnati. Yet
Speaker 1: they still right the middle of the pack in most
Speaker 1: defensive metrics, including twenty and past coverage by Pro Football
Speaker 1: Focus B grade on Lamar Jackson, Hopefully he'll be able
Speaker 1: to run you two a little bit more than the
Speaker 1: arm is provided. I mentioned Rochad Baten's back last year
Speaker 1: is only one yard game as a rookie came against
Speaker 1: these same Cleveland Browns, and as I mentioned before, the
Speaker 1: ground Browns have played a very soft set of opponents.
Speaker 1: But there's still bottom ten in past defense by yards
Speaker 1: and Pro Football Focus grade. We're gonna monitor the concussion
Speaker 1: status of Cleveland cornerback Denzel Ward when he's out. That
Speaker 1: is a sizeable loss there, and Bateman should face a
Speaker 1: combination of Greedy Williams who allowed to score and backup
Speaker 1: duty last week, and rookie Martin Emerson, who gave up
Speaker 1: eighty one yards last week, so some good opportunities for
Speaker 1: Bateman and a B grade on him. And as I
Speaker 1: mentioned last earlier in this segment, Kenyan Drake might take
Speaker 1: a chance on me running back, Scott, can you work
Speaker 1: in Lions Cowboys in three minutes or less? Let's try it. Okay,
Speaker 1: turbo time. I don't know if it's turbot time, but
Speaker 1: let's start on the passing game on the Lions side.
Speaker 1: Jared Goff I have on the bench. He's had a
Speaker 1: couple of really good games early in the season, but
Speaker 1: this is not a plus matchup. Those were really good matchups.
Speaker 1: For five of the six quarterbacks to face the Cowboys
Speaker 1: were held under ten yards passing. Only one quarterback had
Speaker 1: multipule touchdowns and that was Jalen Hurts, which you probably
Speaker 1: expected from him. Uh Alman Ross Brown, I have a
Speaker 1: B grade. You could talk me into an A grade.
Speaker 1: But this past defense for the Cowboys have only allowed
Speaker 1: four wide receiver scores um and those were but those
Speaker 1: were in the last two weeks. They did say this
Speaker 1: week they're gonna get all the targets he can handle,
Speaker 1: which really, really it sounds tantalizing. And you know what
Speaker 1: when they say that they can do it because they've
Speaker 1: they have target He was averaging eight catches for eighty
Speaker 1: five yards and to score pre injury. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna give him an an
Speaker 1: A honest a minus. That's that's the grade here, t J. Hockenson,
Speaker 1: I'm giving How did you get that by? I don't know,
Speaker 1: t J. Hockenson. I've given a C grade to I
Speaker 1: will say, the best tight end game that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have allowed his forty six yards and they haven't allowed
Speaker 1: a tight end touchdown. But Craig Reynolds is probably not
Speaker 1: gonna go. DJ Tark is probably not gonna go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: DJ Chark is not good. They basically are not going
Speaker 1: to have anyone but Sat Brown and Hockinson in that
Speaker 1: receiving game. So I've bumped him up to a C
Speaker 1: grade even though even though it's a really terrible matchup.
Speaker 1: He's only had one good game this season. But they're
Speaker 1: gonna probably need him here. Uh. In the running game,
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift, I have a B grade on It seems
Speaker 1: like he's gonna go at this point. How is he
Speaker 1: still not healthy? I know, I know it's rough. He's
Speaker 1: been limited, but he wants to play. He's pushing to play.
Speaker 1: Gotta be and they need wins. They need wins if
Speaker 1: they like, they really want to win. So B grade
Speaker 1: on Swift c great on Williams, who gets all the
Speaker 1: goal line work. It should be noted DeAndre Swift was
Speaker 1: averaging eight point six yards per carry pre injury. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he I don't think he can do that.
Speaker 1: That's not sustainable. But this is a dallastye that has
Speaker 1: only allowed a few respectable games to running backs, and
Speaker 1: it took fifteen plus touches to get there. But the
Speaker 1: blueprint is a guy like say Kwon Barkley, who had
Speaker 1: you know, about a dozen carries for eight plus yards
Speaker 1: and then four forty five on the ground in the air.
Speaker 1: That's what Swift can get you. On the other side,
Speaker 1: I have a bree B grade on Dak Prescott. The
Speaker 1: lines of allowed three hundred plus total yards and or
Speaker 1: multiple scores to everyone whose last name is not Zappy,
Speaker 1: mostly due to the high score and shootouts that they
Speaker 1: get in. I can kind of expect that here as
Speaker 1: the second highest game total on the week. So I
Speaker 1: have a B grade on Prescott in his return I
Speaker 1: have a B grade on Ceedee Lamb. He's likely gonna
Speaker 1: get the Occuda treatment. But DK meck the first three
Speaker 1: weeks that was great. DK metcalf blew up against him
Speaker 1: and said he's getting help over the top. Last Jacobe
Speaker 1: Myers didn't care about it and he went off for
Speaker 1: for over a hundred yards on the score and he
Speaker 1: got PF graded Okuda as his worst grade in his career.
Speaker 1: Let's last week. Yeah, well it's it's only been about
Speaker 1: a dozen games total. Michael Gallup I got a C
Speaker 1: grade on he gets a good matchup here in what
Speaker 1: might be a high scoring game. His best game so
Speaker 1: far is four, but the secondary options are averaging fifteen
Speaker 1: fifty nine yards and four to five catches. I think
Speaker 1: that's fair for Gallup here. Tony Pollard was my take
Speaker 1: a chance on me player. Oh I forgot Dalton Schultz,
Speaker 1: who's coming back. He practice in full all week. He
Speaker 1: was a huge target getter last year. In Week one
Speaker 1: with Dak he had nine targets seven for sixty two.
Speaker 1: That's B level stuff, if not a if he can
Speaker 1: get in the end zone. Uh. Zekiel Elliott A grade
Speaker 1: this week he gets Detroit Lions team. I didn't think
Speaker 1: it would happen this year. A Detroit Lions team allowing
Speaker 1: almost five point five yards per second, most rushing yards
Speaker 1: per game, most rushing touchdowns per game. I mentioned in
Speaker 1: to take a chance on me segment. Dallas is seven
Speaker 1: point favorites. They're likely going to run the ball a
Speaker 1: lot late in the game, and he gets all the
Speaker 1: goal line work, almost everything inside the five. So I
Speaker 1: expect to score. If not too, I agree, well, dust
Speaker 1: them off, Dust them off. You said a lot of
Speaker 1: mean things about Zeke. This is this chance to prove
Speaker 1: us wrong, the very favorable matchup when we come back
Speaker 1: cold steak on the Titans. Jonathan Taylor expected to be
Speaker 1: back for this game. Obviously you're gonna start him, but
Speaker 1: what do you expect to get? Find out? When we
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Speaker 1: played each other once before. What do you think we're
Speaker 1: gonna get out of Jonathan Taylor on the Colt side, Man,
Speaker 1: his languishing owners could really use a signature game here,
Speaker 1: they could, right. Uh, he's not on the injury report.
Speaker 1: Nihim Hinz still is, but was listed as a full
Speaker 1: participant in practice on Thursday. Oh, by the way, Dion
Speaker 1: Jackson has a bit of a quad injury, so he
Speaker 1: popped up on the injury reports. So what do you do?
Speaker 1: I mean, you start Taylor with a B grade and
Speaker 1: you bench the rest Why a B grade? The Titans
Speaker 1: are allowing the third fewest combo yards per game to
Speaker 1: the running back position, and only one at only one
Speaker 1: fourteen on average, and they've allowed only one total touchdown
Speaker 1: to a running back ball season. Matt Ryan was charges
Speaker 1: take a chance on me pass her and I gave
Speaker 1: him an A grade before you even throw that in there,
Speaker 1: the second in the league in passing, behind only Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman also gets an A grade. Alec Pierce gets
Speaker 1: a B grade in this one. Look what Alec Pierce
Speaker 1: is turning into. He's good right now. The Titans are
Speaker 1: allowing two D seven wide receiver yards per game and
Speaker 1: I've already given up eight touchdowns to the position through
Speaker 1: five games. This might be the last chance before this
Speaker 1: Sunday to acquire some Colts wide receivers on the cheap.
Speaker 1: The schedules absolutely cake coming up getting Matt Ryan, Alec Pierce,
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman, I think this is the time you want
Speaker 1: to do it. Um. If you listen to the show
Speaker 1: three weeks ago, we mentioned Alec Pierce with I have
Speaker 1: a feeling that you're going to mention one of the
Speaker 1: tight ends for the Colts and premature speculation. I might
Speaker 1: disagree with you on this. I think that I think
Speaker 1: the tight end position is an absolute mess there and
Speaker 1: you should completely stay away from it. Last week, Moli Cox,
Speaker 1: Kylan Grandson, and Gilanni Woods had thirty one and thirty
Speaker 1: one snaps. It's almost like it's third grade football, and
Speaker 1: Frank Reich is doing equal playing time for everybody and
Speaker 1: a juice box when they come off the field. There's
Speaker 1: only two instances this year where a Colts tight end
Speaker 1: has had more than four targets per game. I just won't.
Speaker 1: I won't play any Colts. That's my deal. On the
Speaker 1: Tennessee side, Derrick Henry is an a grade back to
Speaker 1: one hundred yard outings. Prior to the Week six by
Speaker 1: he scored in four straight and over his last five
Speaker 1: games against the Colts, he's averaging one two rushing yards. Uh.
Speaker 1: Some will be forced to start Ryan Tannehill in this
Speaker 1: bye week bonanza. It's okay, you can do that. I'll
Speaker 1: give him a sea here. He managed three touchdown passes
Speaker 1: and both starts against the Colts last year. The Colts
Speaker 1: have allowed about two hundred twenty yards per game through
Speaker 1: the air and one point three passing scores. That's about
Speaker 1: in line with what Tannehill averages. But the angle would
Speaker 1: be the rushing scores is the Colts allowed two rushing
Speaker 1: scores last week to Trevor Lawrence and Tannehill is one
Speaker 1: to keep the ball and run in for a score.
Speaker 1: Robert Woods is the only Titans receiver you could consider starting,
Speaker 1: and he gets just a C grade here. He's the
Speaker 1: only Titans wide receiver to score this year. He's the
Speaker 1: only one who's top seventy yards this year, and he's
Speaker 1: topped seventy yards or scored in three straight games. So
Speaker 1: there's that Robert Woods. Only guy. I'm I'd hoped for
Speaker 1: a little more out of Robert Woods so far. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been pedestrian to this stage of the season. Packers
Speaker 1: take on the Commanders. Packers doesn't get well. Spot for
Speaker 1: this Packers offense. If they can't do it here, it's
Speaker 1: major panic time. Let's start with Aaron Rodgers, who has
Speaker 1: throwing little shoten freud to hear from the Minnesota booth. No, no,
Speaker 1: we want, we want good things for Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 1: his owners will Well, let's talk it through. He's throwing
Speaker 1: exactly two touchdowns in four of the past five games.
Speaker 1: That's not bad. Um hasn't been blank since the opener,
Speaker 1: and Washington is allowed the second most passing touchdowns. Touchdowns
Speaker 1: are coming in this game. Rogers offensive line, by the way,
Speaker 1: really oddly shaky so far, the Commanders still have some
Speaker 1: talent upfront to pressure opposing quarterbacks. Washington ranks ninth in
Speaker 1: pass rush by Pro Football Focus. So I don't think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be an easy game for Aaron Rodgers, but
Speaker 1: I do expect at least the two touchdowns he's been scoring,
Speaker 1: and that brings us to his receivers. Alan Lazard gets
Speaker 1: an A grade in this game. The Washing defense allowing
Speaker 1: the third most touchdowns per game to opposing whiteouts and
Speaker 1: also giving up the highest average depth of target almost
Speaker 1: ten yards her target, and the seventh most air yards
Speaker 1: per game, the six most yards per game to opposing receivers.
Speaker 1: All of these trends very favorable to Alan Lazard. He'll
Speaker 1: see a lot of the outside cornerbacks. That's Kendall Fuller
Speaker 1: and Ben st Juice. Fuller is allowed the second most
Speaker 1: receiving yards in the league. St Juice is moving from
Speaker 1: his normal position in the slot to the outside. Both
Speaker 1: are favorable for Alan Lazard. How about Romeo Dubbs his
Speaker 1: most favorable matchup as an entire career. Already told you
Speaker 1: about Kendall Fuller Ben st Juice. He gets all those
Speaker 1: same matchups on the outside here. No Christian Watson who's
Speaker 1: out this week. He's gonna get a lot of snaps.
Speaker 1: He's blossoming into an every down player and he's coming
Speaker 1: off career highs and targets and routes run Romeo Dubbs.
Speaker 1: Dobbs sitting on nine nine potential. Yeah not, let's call
Speaker 1: it nine catches in this game, nine time. And lastly,
Speaker 1: from the receiving game, Robert Tounnan C grade a season
Speaker 1: high in targets, receptions, and yards last week against the Jets.
Speaker 1: Randall Cobbs out, so I think he gets a few
Speaker 1: more looks across the middle of the field. But I'll
Speaker 1: mention the Commanders have been very good against the tight
Speaker 1: end position, and I'm only giving him a C grade
Speaker 1: because of the bye week. And lastly, this Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: A J. Dillon. Things got to end. Jones is averaging
Speaker 1: six yards per carry and A J. Dillon getting four
Speaker 1: yards per carry, leads the team and rushes. It's a
Speaker 1: disgrace for an offense that has been struggling. They've got
Speaker 1: to give their best player the ball and that's Aaron Jones.
Speaker 1: Hopefully correction coming here. The Commanders started the years of
Speaker 1: dominant run defense, but the past two weeks they've surrendered
Speaker 1: one d twenty two rushing yards and a touchdown per
Speaker 1: game to opposing running backs. For A j. Dillon out
Speaker 1: by the way, B grade on Aaron Jones, hopefully in
Speaker 1: a grade if they get this thing started out for
Speaker 1: Dylan hasn't scored since Week one. He's averaging two yards
Speaker 1: per carry, fewer than Aaron Jones has already mentioned. And
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks, the Commanders have surrendered at
Speaker 1: least sixty seven rushing yards of three different running backs.
Speaker 1: Maybe Dylan gets in that range, but that's it. And
Speaker 1: here's the other thing. It's killing me. Dylan's gotten all
Speaker 1: the carries inside the five. Why because he's big. That's it,
Speaker 1: all right. Last thing, Washington on the Washington side, just
Speaker 1: a couple of guys to talk about. And I've only
Speaker 1: got two c grades here. Brian Robinson seven h seven
Speaker 1: running backs of top seventy total yards against Green Bay
Speaker 1: as they allow the fourth most rushing yards on five
Speaker 1: point three yards per carry. What's more, in the past
Speaker 1: three weeks, they've given up four rushing touchdowns and they've
Speaker 1: seen the six most carries over that time. Frame. Robinson's
Speaker 1: getting has gotten every carry inside the five since he's
Speaker 1: been active, and I like him to score a touchdown
Speaker 1: in this game. And that's why I've got a C
Speaker 1: grade on Brian Robinson. The only other player you can
Speaker 1: potentially start is Terry McLaurin. Terry mcclauren with Taylor Heineke
Speaker 1: under center, McLaurin posted one of his best games of
Speaker 1: his season against the Packers last year. He went to
Speaker 1: seven for twelve with a d twenty two yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown in this meeting last year. Heineke's arm is
Speaker 1: considerably weaker than wentz is, which will limit mclaurin's downfield
Speaker 1: abilities here, but hopefully he can get a little something
Speaker 1: done with some short receiving work. And I don't know
Speaker 1: it's he could see him cobbling together like six catches
Speaker 1: for fifty sixty yards. Terry the Cobbler. Cobbler, I think
Speaker 1: cobblers traditionally our shoemakers, right, yes, correct, I think that
Speaker 1: makes sense. Everybody else is on the bench for reasons.
Speaker 1: I don't even think we need to get into with Gibson, mckissic, Dotson,
Speaker 1: Logan Thomas has been ruled out I'll mention this about
Speaker 1: Gibson declining snap counts every week of the season, down
Speaker 1: to fifteen snaps last week, so he's dead to us.
Speaker 1: All right, Now, you gotta figure out if you can
Speaker 1: do Giants and Jags in three minutes, and this time
Speaker 1: you have no wiggle room? Is that a yes or no? Yes?
Speaker 1: But it also looks like we have about five minutes
Speaker 1: I think so, all right, Yeah, I got a little
Speaker 1: time er here alright. Anyway, Daniel Jones, I barely have
Speaker 1: a C grade on, probably because Hurts and Cousins and
Speaker 1: Allen and Stafford are on by, and he's getting six
Speaker 1: rush attempts per game, and the Jags are a team
Speaker 1: who forced pressure on the quarterback nearly a third of
Speaker 1: the time. He might have to on a on a
Speaker 1: third of dropbacks, so he might have to run a
Speaker 1: few more times here. Uh. It was a good defense,
Speaker 1: top ten defense up until last week, where when he
Speaker 1: got towards the Jags got torched by Matt Ryan. So
Speaker 1: I think there might be two hundred plus yards and
Speaker 1: maybe some rushing to get you to a C grade
Speaker 1: out of Daniel Jones. However, his wide receivers are all
Speaker 1: either injured or super ineffective. So they're all on the bench.
Speaker 1: In the last three games, only one wide receiver his
Speaker 1: top three catches. That was Slayton and it was book
Speaker 1: ended on either side by a one catch game, so
Speaker 1: there's no trust there. Daniel Bellinger was might take a
Speaker 1: chance on me player. Uh, guy keep mentioning him. Uh,
Speaker 1: se Quon Barkley, Art Vark. I'm giving him the art
Speaker 1: Vark here fantasy. Ardvark, I thought was my thing. Dion
Speaker 1: Jackson last week, Deon Jackson against this Jags defense caught
Speaker 1: ten passes on his way to a twenty eight point
Speaker 1: PPR day. Incomes si Quon Barkley, averaging over twenty three
Speaker 1: touches per game with fewer competitions for targets than Dion
Speaker 1: Jackson had last week. Ard Vark for se kwon Bark
Speaker 1: Matt and I think you can then take Brian's fantasy.
Speaker 1: Can this because because Brian got mad when I used
Speaker 1: the Fonzie one. He's not here. We're we're in open show.
Speaker 1: We like to swap a little alright, alright, Uh, Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence is on the bench. He's averaging about two thirty
Speaker 1: two yards and just over just under a two scores
Speaker 1: per game, but the Giants have allowed the fourth fewest
Speaker 1: passing yards, fourth fewest completions, only seven passing touchdowns in
Speaker 1: six games. Is just isn't a good spot for him
Speaker 1: or most of his passing game. I have a grade
Speaker 1: of C on Christian Kirk. The first three first four
Speaker 1: weeks were really hot. Six plus catches, six sixty plus
Speaker 1: yards in every game, including three scores. Last three not
Speaker 1: so much, but one was game script. One was kind
Speaker 1: of a hurricane. Um, the wide receiver one is averaging
Speaker 1: five for sixty nine against the against the Giants, so
Speaker 1: I think he gets that here, Um Marvin Jones, A
Speaker 1: Jones and apparently a guy named Tim Jones who is
Speaker 1: a wide receiver for the Jacks who scored three Jones
Speaker 1: is they're all on the bench, They've all been pretty effective. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fin google Tim Jones. I'm sure he'll pop right up.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there will only be one of them too.
Speaker 1: I'm sure yea Evan Ingram in the revenge game against
Speaker 1: the Giants. I gotta be grade. The Giants have not
Speaker 1: been tested except for him against Mark Andrews, but this
Speaker 1: year tight ends so bad. Nobody's been tested, really if
Speaker 1: you think about it, Giants are seeding five and five
Speaker 1: point eight catches two tight ends weekly. Evan Ingram has
Speaker 1: thirty two of the jacks forty targets. He gets everything
Speaker 1: for the tight end work, so I have a B
Speaker 1: grade on him. In the running game, Travis C t N,
Speaker 1: I got a B grade on James Robinson, I have
Speaker 1: a C grade on I'm kind of iffy on that,
Speaker 1: but it's a it's a good It's as good as
Speaker 1: the Giants past. He is. The have been allowing five
Speaker 1: point four eight yards per carry ten point eight yards
Speaker 1: per reception to backs where E t n makes them work.
Speaker 1: He gets a few catches a game. Uh et N
Speaker 1: has seen increased snaps and touches over Robinson for four
Speaker 1: straight weeks. He's going to get the be over the
Speaker 1: C grade for Robinson here. Yeah, totally. Robinson's fading unfortunate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's even that I gave some thoughts to Snoop Connor
Speaker 1: as a pick up in deep leagues in case this
Speaker 1: Robinson thing goes totally off the rails, and because he
Speaker 1: has not looked good and they may have to find
Speaker 1: somebody else. The secondary back against the Giants has been
Speaker 1: getting like sixty nine yards seventy five like they're having
Speaker 1: legit games. That's the only reason I game the scene nice.
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Speaker 1: Congrats boys this edition of Three Tough Questions. It's quarterback themed.
Speaker 1: It is a massively down year for the position. Let's
Speaker 1: talk through some of the trickiest quarterbacks in the league,
Speaker 1: Tough Chusan number one. Well. Dak Prescott finished the year
Speaker 1: as a top five, top ten, top fifteen or worse
Speaker 1: fantasy quarterback. Scott, I'm going to top fifteen. I think
Speaker 1: the top five or so will be very difficult to
Speaker 1: crack with Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Justin Herbert, Jalen hurds
Speaker 1: uh Patrick Mahomes, those types that are probably gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: stay in that range for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott was a top three quarterback for a few
Speaker 1: years when he was running six touchdowns a year in.
Speaker 1: He was QP seven last year, but he doesn't get
Speaker 1: those rushing yards rushing as much anymore. UM. I just
Speaker 1: feel with the tenth toughest schedule left for the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: I feel like top ten or top five is gonna
Speaker 1: be really tough. He might get to top ten, but
Speaker 1: it's I'm putting fifteen, Okay, Matt rest of season will
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott finished the year is the top five, top ten,
Speaker 1: top fifteen, or worse fantasy quarterback. Last year, Doc average
Speaker 1: seventy eight passing yards and two point three passing scores
Speaker 1: per game the year before three seventy one and one
Speaker 1: point eight in nineteen three oh six and one point eight.
Speaker 1: If he just maintains those passing stats and we don't
Speaker 1: include the running at all right now, on a points
Speaker 1: per game basis, he's quarterback number five, ahead of Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1: So it was a six to eight week thumb injury,
Speaker 1: sat for six weeks. It's not an injury that's likely
Speaker 1: to recur. I will say missing Amari Cooper might hurt
Speaker 1: him a bit enough to knock some rustoff. But he's
Speaker 1: still top ten fantasy quarterback. Yeah. I couldn't quite get
Speaker 1: to ten. I was counting up the guys that the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: You think Carson Wentz will stay in the top ten
Speaker 1: for sure, no doubt about it. Absolutely, there's I ended
Speaker 1: up at eleven. There were eleven players I refused them
Speaker 1: with the DOC like, okay, that puts doc at twelve.
Speaker 1: The Dallas remaining strength of schedules exactly middle of the
Speaker 1: pack per Rhoda wire Um, and I just a little
Speaker 1: bit of worried. The hand injury on a quarterback is
Speaker 1: like a leg injury on a running back and hand
Speaker 1: and it's just throwing hand, and I'm like, yeah, jeez,
Speaker 1: and we don't know what's kind of who needs thumb?
Speaker 1: Super weird? Uh? Is Michael Gallup and Noah Brown? Are they?
Speaker 1: Can they power really power somebody to a top ten
Speaker 1: passing off? All right? I couldn't quite do it correct
Speaker 1: answer Top fifteen tough question number two? Will to A
Speaker 1: tonguo Via Looa finished the year as a top five,
Speaker 1: top ten, top fifteen or worse fantasy quarterback? Matt I
Speaker 1: think the thing we got to think about first is
Speaker 1: can we guarantee that Toa does not get another concussion
Speaker 1: this year? That's what it boils down to. Concussions are
Speaker 1: likely to recur and with increased severity. And to A
Speaker 1: had exactly one good game this year. The four hundred
Speaker 1: sixty nine yards and six touchdowns against Baltimore was an
Speaker 1: awesome game. But didn't Mike White do the same thing
Speaker 1: last year? Outside of that, He's only topped two hundred
Speaker 1: seventy yards once in his last twelve games. To me,
Speaker 1: the most likely outcome is that to Have finishes somewhere
Speaker 1: in the late teens or early twenties. So I think
Speaker 1: he's worse than the top fifteen Scott is to Tongo Violoa.
Speaker 1: Going to finish the year from this point forward, Top five,
Speaker 1: Top ten, top fifteen, or worst fantasy quarterback. I do
Speaker 1: feel like going out of that Buffalo game and coming
Speaker 1: back in having a hundred eighties six yards on eighteen attempts,
Speaker 1: it's pretty good. You know, who knows who knows what
Speaker 1: it could have possibly been. Um. I had a buddy
Speaker 1: say that on a podcast earlier this week, and I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: that is a really good point I have In this
Speaker 1: top ten I mentioned the guy top five six seven,
Speaker 1: I just I just don't see many people getting past.
Speaker 1: But Miami is second in the NFL in passing yards
Speaker 1: this year. If you combine all of the guys, you know,
Speaker 1: so if they keep up that and two is the
Speaker 1: main benefit, the main thrower of that for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. Um, well over, I think six to
Speaker 1: ten range is pretty pretty possible. They do have a
Speaker 1: fairly I have them ranked as the fifth toughest remaining schedule.
Speaker 1: I didn't use the wire, so I don't know what
Speaker 1: yours says, but it's the tougher schedule. But I think
Speaker 1: given what he's shown, his ceiling could be and the
Speaker 1: weapons he has. We're looking at what the Miami team
Speaker 1: as a whole has done. I have him just just
Speaker 1: cracking the top ten even without two up. So in
Speaker 1: the games two has missed. This Miami offense was so
Speaker 1: potent with backups. They've had passing game and a four
Speaker 1: hundred yard passed that second BAP team And you know,
Speaker 1: Matt gave you some stats. Go on the way back
Speaker 1: to last year. The difference is Mike mc daniels legit
Speaker 1: this and this offense has got Tyreek killed. This is
Speaker 1: a totally different offense. Miami is throwing at the fourth
Speaker 1: highest rate and that volume is indispensable for fantasy use.
Speaker 1: And the Miami defense is pretty bad. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of shootouts. Game script is gonna be favoring
Speaker 1: the passing game. And okay, he can't too, can't break
Speaker 1: into the territory of Hurts and Alan and Jackson in
Speaker 1: those duel rushing passing threats. But his upside with the
Speaker 1: combination volume plus Hill and Waddle is comfortably inside the
Speaker 1: top ten. Tough question number three, it's Matthew Stafford's by.
Speaker 1: You've got Matthew Stafford on your team, you need you
Speaker 1: need to pick somebody else up. You're just dropping Stafford
Speaker 1: to make that pick up Scott. I already did it
Speaker 1: in the league. We're in together charge and nobody's picked
Speaker 1: him up. Right. Uh yeah, I'm absolutely doing it. He
Speaker 1: has it by this week, then he has uh San
Speaker 1: Francisco that he's got Tampa Bay Um. His playoff schedule
Speaker 1: is the number one most difficult playoff schedule at the
Speaker 1: as currently stands versus the week's fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen
Speaker 1: against number one and number two, So I don't see
Speaker 1: any point to have him. I actually think I'll take
Speaker 1: a chance on the quarterbacks, not necessarily this week, but
Speaker 1: if you add them together each week, they're outperforming Stafford.
Speaker 1: So far on the year, he's droppable. Okay, uh Man,
Speaker 1: Is Matthew Stafford drop drop a bull for whoever you
Speaker 1: need to pick up and start this week and a
Speaker 1: super flex or two quarterback league, the answer is no.
Speaker 1: But in a single quarterback league, I think you can.
Speaker 1: He's currently the twenty seven ranked quarterback and Fantasy points
Speaker 1: per game. That's behind Daniel Jones, Jacobi Bursette, Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo, Mac Jones, Marcus Mariota, Andy Dalton, Jamis Winston,
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco, and those guys are all on the waiver
Speaker 1: wire right right, so uh in single quarterback leagues, almost
Speaker 1: all those players they're pick up a bull. And Stafford
Speaker 1: has eight interceptions to six touchdown passes, so he probably
Speaker 1: should be too. The offensive line is a massive problem,
Speaker 1: and the loss of their left tackle Joe note Boom
Speaker 1: is a lethal blow. That line is not going to
Speaker 1: get much better over the course of the season. Right now,
Speaker 1: the Rams have one starter on their offensive line healthy
Speaker 1: at this moment, getting no help from the running game,
Speaker 1: and no wide receiver two has emerged at all for
Speaker 1: the Rams. It's not really Stafford's fault. This is a
Speaker 1: case of everything around him has become a disaster scenario.
Speaker 1: And you can find to the point you both made,
Speaker 1: you can find somebody else who's gonna give you whatever,
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford's gonna give you the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: Everything went right last year, everything went wrong this year.
Speaker 1: Falcons taking on the Bengals, matt and you already told
Speaker 1: us that there's at least one Falcon player that you
Speaker 1: like a lot. Talk to me about the rest of
Speaker 1: the Yeah, that was Marcus Mariotta, who's might take a
Speaker 1: chance on me quarterback? Got a couple starting grades. Drake
Speaker 1: London just a C grade though. It seems like Colin
Speaker 1: mccockney should really do the Drake London matchups. Maybe we
Speaker 1: could see if he's available again sometime soon. Uh. Since
Speaker 1: Week two he had twelve We're sorry. In Week two
Speaker 1: he had twelve targets, eight catches, eighty six yards in
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Then defenses started keying off on London. In
Speaker 1: the four games since then, he's averaging six targets, three catches,
Speaker 1: thirty six and a half yards per game and only
Speaker 1: has one touchdown in four games. And he faces a
Speaker 1: very competent Bengals secondary this year. I'm not sure I
Speaker 1: like his chances all that much. So just to see.
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts was on everyone's bench last week and he
Speaker 1: finally scored his first NFL touchdown in America on American soil.
Speaker 1: He was mostly on everybody's bench. Yeah, first t d
Speaker 1: in the United States of America in the NFL for
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts last week. Uh, his second touchdown in twenty
Speaker 1: two career games. So you know what's gonna happen? Everybody
Speaker 1: who drafted Pits finally benched him last week, and now
Speaker 1: all those people are gonna put Pitts back in the
Speaker 1: starting lineup and he won't score for the rest of
Speaker 1: the year. For sure, he's done. You heard me highlight
Speaker 1: Hayden Hurst and might take a chance on me matchup.
Speaker 1: I have him graded higher than Pitts. Who gets to
Speaker 1: see here? Um, let's go on to the Falcons running game,
Speaker 1: where it's split pretty evenly between Caleb Huntley and Tyler
Speaker 1: l Geer, who had sixteen and fifteen carries last week.
Speaker 1: They finished with fifty nine and fifty one scoreless yards.
Speaker 1: It doesn't even matter which one had. What this is.
Speaker 1: If this was one running back, he's startable. Since it's
Speaker 1: two there on the bench, Scott, Is Tyler l Gere
Speaker 1: starting himself this week? I think not. Boy, don't wait
Speaker 1: for an answer, just keep going and all answer. Over
Speaker 1: on the angles side, Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, te Higgins
Speaker 1: all easy A grades. Higgins was healthy enough to garner
Speaker 1: ten targets last week, so I have no fear there.
Speaker 1: Chase was limited this week with a hip injury, but
Speaker 1: that might be more general soreness than anything. The Falcons
Speaker 1: have allowed the most passing yards in the league at
Speaker 1: two per game, and the most receptions to wide receivers
Speaker 1: at fifteen per contest. They just placed starting corner Casey
Speaker 1: Hayward on I R for that reason. Tyler Boyd is
Speaker 1: getting a starting grade two, but it's only a Sea
Speaker 1: Boy runs from the slot where he'll face the toughest
Speaker 1: corner Atlanta has in Isaiah Oliver, but that's not saying much.
Speaker 1: Hayden Hurst, he gets a B grade and was might
Speaker 1: take a chance on me tight end. And then Joe
Speaker 1: Mixon he's the last guy here. He gets a B grade.
Speaker 1: The numbers haven't been eye popping for mixing this season.
Speaker 1: He's been kind of league average, but he's still seeing
Speaker 1: about twenty two opportunities per game, So uh, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb and Leonard four Nett each went over a
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty total yards and scored against the Falcons
Speaker 1: in the last three weeks. So I feel like this
Speaker 1: would be an a if Mixon just looked better, but
Speaker 1: he just hasn't looked good recently. Yeah, just not passing
Speaker 1: the eye test. You don't see the usual, um, I
Speaker 1: don't know, expressiveness Yeah, do you feel like this this
Speaker 1: is this is the time maybe in dynasty to sell
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon. Yeah, could be the beginning of I like
Speaker 1: that call. By the way, Tyler Elder is starting himself,
Speaker 1: but it's over Antonio Gibson. I think that does problem.
Speaker 1: How about Antonio Gibson? Is he starting himself? Have any
Speaker 1: way to know that? We don't? Unfortunately, all right, when
Speaker 1: we come back, Chiefs taking on the forty niners. Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: What are you going to do? Do you put him
Speaker 1: in the lineup if he's active? What can you expect
Speaker 1: from Christian McCaffrey when you go If he's let's find
Speaker 1: out if he's playing himself. He landed in San Francisco
Speaker 1: on Fridays, two days enough time to am in some
Speaker 1: some plays. We'll see. We'll talk about Christian McCaffrey when
Speaker 1: we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. Paul Churchy and Scott Fish and Matt Harrison
Speaker 1: with you back to some matchups. Chiefs take on the
Speaker 1: forty nine. This is It was already a fascinating game,
Speaker 1: and now it's become even more so with the addition
Speaker 1: of Christian McCaffrey. We'll talk about him in just a minute,
Speaker 1: but let's start on the chief side, which you really
Speaker 1: want to to watch is the defense. Cornerback Emmanuel Molesley
Speaker 1: just one on injured reserve chart, Various Ward, cornerback left
Speaker 1: last week's game of the groin injury. Safety Jimmy Ward
Speaker 1: just had hand surgery. Meanwhile, the defensive line is dealing
Speaker 1: with injuries to Javon Kinlaw, Eric Armstead, and Nick Posa.
Speaker 1: That's half the defense. It is there in a tough
Speaker 1: spot for San Francisco. You'll want to track the status
Speaker 1: of those guys to get a sense of whether or
Speaker 1: not the players you might not otherwise play are playable
Speaker 1: this week. Obviously, Mahomes and Kelsey are automatic starts that
Speaker 1: goes without saying their automatic eight grades almost every week,
Speaker 1: including this one. This would have been a different story,
Speaker 1: potentially if those guys are all healthy, because the defense
Speaker 1: was awesome before they all got hurt. But the fringe guys,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Juju Smith. Schuster finally paid off his
Speaker 1: loyalists last week. This was the last time I've given
Speaker 1: him a starting grade and it finally paid off. He listens, Yes,
Speaker 1: he does listen, and I motivated him. Injuries in the
Speaker 1: nine Ers secondary should be able to help his cause here.
Speaker 1: Second year slat cornerback Domadore Lenore. No, No, that's a
Speaker 1: made up name. I think so. I was a catch
Speaker 1: rate and a passer rating of over one over his
Speaker 1: last three games, and in those three games, the leading
Speaker 1: receiver against the Niners have all been slot receivers. That's
Speaker 1: Judo Smith Schuster. I used to play asteroids on a
Speaker 1: Domadore Lenoris, remember those absolutely three bit Domadore Lemore uh
Speaker 1: C grade jud Smith Schuster. Clyde Edwards a layer uh.
Speaker 1: The last two weeks exemplify the downside in Clyde Edwards
Speaker 1: a layer. Nine carries in both games, fifteen rushing yards,
Speaker 1: thirty five rushing yards, and he doesn't chip in much
Speaker 1: through the air, just two and a half receptions twenty
Speaker 1: three yards per game over the season. That's itt Ers
Speaker 1: allowing the third fewest total yards per game to opposing
Speaker 1: running backs and the second lowest yards per carry. If
Speaker 1: most of those guys are out in a bye week,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give Clyde Edwards lacy. If most of those
Speaker 1: injured players are back, then on the Niners defense, and
Speaker 1: I you just you can't start them. Unfortunately, Sell I
Speaker 1: would say this for two weeks, sell high on. This
Speaker 1: is the third straight sell hi on Clyde Edwards everyway,
Speaker 1: it's only going the wrong direction. Get out while you can.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the San Francisco side. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start with Deebo. Samuel has an obvious A grade.
Speaker 1: But then let's go to Brandon Ayuk. I'm not just
Speaker 1: chasing last week's box score. This is another strong opportunity
Speaker 1: for Ayouk. Kansas City allowing the fifth most receptions, the
Speaker 1: seventh most yards, and the most touchdowns per game to
Speaker 1: opposing receivers. The Chiefs allow the second most yards after
Speaker 1: the catch, and they've missed the fourth most tackles per game.
Speaker 1: So you put all that together with Ayu's playmaking abilities
Speaker 1: and he could have another big game, just like last week.
Speaker 1: Brandon Aiyuk be grade George Kittle was not a coincidence
Speaker 1: that we finally got the big game from George Kittle
Speaker 1: last week with his team trailing throughout the game against
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. Forty Niners probably trailing throughout
Speaker 1: much of this game. So I like the game script
Speaker 1: for Kittle in this one repeat coming the the opposing
Speaker 1: tight ends averaging five catches nearly fifty yards per game
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. They've also allowed the third most touchdowns
Speaker 1: to the position. So a B grade for George Kittle.
Speaker 1: And if I like Deebo Samuel with an A, and
Speaker 1: I like A with a B and Kittle with a B,
Speaker 1: I gotta like Jimmy Garoppolo logs in with a B
Speaker 1: grade here. The Chiefs have allowed the most passing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: They've given up multiple scores in every game. And the
Speaker 1: Chief's terrific run defense, so we'll talk about in a minute,
Speaker 1: is funneling opposition to the past. They're seeing the most
Speaker 1: pass attempts per game, forty one per game, and they're
Speaker 1: seeing the highest opponent passing play percentage. Sixty of plays
Speaker 1: run against the Chiefs are through the air. So Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo shockingly safe pivot in this a tricky bye week
Speaker 1: B grade. Jimmy Garoppolo now the running backs for the
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty Niners, beginning with Jeff Wilson, who's now
Speaker 1: on the bench. I just mentioned teams don't run on
Speaker 1: the Chiefs to begin with, and then when they do,
Speaker 1: they're getting smoked. A brutal matchup for Jeff Wilson. The
Speaker 1: Chiefs have allowed the second fewest rushing yards per game
Speaker 1: and the second fewest rushing attempts and Chris Jones. Their
Speaker 1: defensive tackle is profoo ball focuses top ranked interior defensive lineman.
Speaker 1: Your only hope for Jeff Wilson is a kerry inside
Speaker 1: the three yard line and touchdown plunge. That is it,
Speaker 1: and that brings us to Christian McCaffrey roster, meaning he's
Speaker 1: three in your cart? Got it all right? So you
Speaker 1: can't run on on the Chiefs. They're great run defense.
Speaker 1: Here's where Christian McCaffrey and I expect, by the way,
Speaker 1: eight to ten touches for Christian McCaffrey in you know,
Speaker 1: designed plays that they've set up for him that end
Speaker 1: up in resulting in the ball in his hand. Where
Speaker 1: he's going to be held full is through the air.
Speaker 1: If you're in a PPR league C grade on Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs have surrendered over ten targets per game two
Speaker 1: running backs and that and they've given up the most
Speaker 1: receptions and the most receiving yards to running backs. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey an elite pass catching running back. I think
Speaker 1: he clocks in here with a good five ish receptions
Speaker 1: and he could turn that into something special. Fifty yards
Speaker 1: and a receiving touch show. So we're gonna go c
Speaker 1: grade in the first game for Christian McAffrey. And plus,
Speaker 1: it's Christie McCaffrey. He's on your team. You can really
Speaker 1: get a bench Christian McCaffrey. He can't, can you? But
Speaker 1: I can't on tenne touches. I can't give him more
Speaker 1: than a secret. I am a little bit fearful that
Speaker 1: just in the short time frame window, every time McCaffrey's
Speaker 1: on the field, the defenses are just gonna go, oh,
Speaker 1: they're gonna hand to him, or they're gonna pass to
Speaker 1: him this time. So we're just gonna double up McCaffrey
Speaker 1: every time he go teams thought that every time he
Speaker 1: touched the ball with CAROLINEX. You no other threats to me.
Speaker 1: Now you have to defend Deebo, Samuel and Brandon I
Speaker 1: who can George Kittle. It's gonna open up things in
Speaker 1: a big way. Question McCaffrey. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: our next matchup, which is not quite as exciting. What
Speaker 1: except for those of us who pray at the altar
Speaker 1: of Damien Piers, talk to me about Texans Raiders, Scott Well,
Speaker 1: I can start with Davis Wills, who was gonna take
Speaker 1: a chance on me? Player? But we'll get to the
Speaker 1: passing game in just a minute, because I want to
Speaker 1: start with some Damian Pierce porn for charge. Oh God,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be good. Last week against the Jaguars,
Speaker 1: Damian Pierce forced seven team miss tackles, according to p
Speaker 1: F p F that is the most miss tackles PF
Speaker 1: has credited a player in a single game, not this
Speaker 1: season ever, history of Pro Football focus more broken tackles
Speaker 1: in one game for Damian was like six or seven?
Speaker 1: He was there were that play was unbelievable. What what
Speaker 1: is that for yourself? Don't know? That sounded like paths
Speaker 1: flight off. It sounded like a lot of things. Um
Speaker 1: all that said, I actually only have a B grade
Speaker 1: here as this Raiders d lets it up in the
Speaker 1: air and not really on the ground. Of their running backs,
Speaker 1: it took Derrick Henry twenty five touches to be the
Speaker 1: only back to top seventy five combo yards against them.
Speaker 1: They're actually a pretty stout run their top five in
Speaker 1: rushing yards allowed, rushing touchdowns allowed, yards per carry it
Speaker 1: just three point nine per touch per carry. It's tough
Speaker 1: spot for Pierce, but he's a beast, lots of talent.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a B grade on talented volume
Speaker 1: in the passing game. I have C grades on both
Speaker 1: Nico Collins and Brandon Cooks. Davis Mills obviously I like
Speaker 1: him this week, so I like his receivers. UH. Cooks
Speaker 1: has been banged up and and practice has been limited
Speaker 1: with achilles and sorry Collins banged up with limited practices,
Speaker 1: but then at the end of the week finally practicing
Speaker 1: in full and back off the UH the injury reports.
Speaker 1: I trust him, trust Cooks. UH. Cooks was good in
Speaker 1: the opener, UH but but there but hasn't been as
Speaker 1: good lately. UH. Nico cons has actually led the team
Speaker 1: in targets and UH targets over the last three games.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, sorry, UH Cook's has four plus catches in
Speaker 1: all but one game, fifty plus yards in three games.
Speaker 1: Nico is averaging over sixty yards per game since that opener,
Speaker 1: So it's pretty much sea level floor turning into a
Speaker 1: contributor here. Yeah, yeah, sea level floors there. He's been
Speaker 1: more productive than than Brandon Cooks has since the opener. Uh.
Speaker 1: I'm not doing anything with the tight ends. I thought
Speaker 1: that it was a great spot for a possible tight end.
Speaker 1: Then I realized that Travis Kelsey scored four touchdowns against
Speaker 1: the Raiders, and and that's why they actually drop about
Speaker 1: a dozen spots in the rankings. When Uh, Derek Carr
Speaker 1: on the other side, I have a B grade on
Speaker 1: I actually started the week with an A grade on Car.
Speaker 1: Then I moved him to a B grade learning that
Speaker 1: Darren Waller was out. Now it looks like to renfro
Speaker 1: might not play as well. He might be a grade. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he might be a sea grade by the end of
Speaker 1: the end of me talking right here. Uh, Derek Carr
Speaker 1: has multiple scores in four the last five. The lone
Speaker 1: one he didn't was against the number two past defense
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Uh. Texans aren't far off that ranking eleventh,
Speaker 1: having allowed it allowed only four passing touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: last five games. That's pretty good. Uh. Their rank is
Speaker 1: buoyed a bit by playing fields and Wilson, who are
Speaker 1: statistically two of the worst eying quarterbacks in the NFL.
Speaker 1: UH those two combined for three twenty five yards. The
Speaker 1: other three quarterbacks they faced averaged three twenty six yards.
Speaker 1: I think Derek Carr is closer to that. Plus it's
Speaker 1: an avenge game he's playing. The Texans game kind of
Speaker 1: ruined his brother there. They did ruin him. Remember the
Speaker 1: years he would he would absorb like seventy five sacks. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was ridiculous. I have a feeling Justin Field's son
Speaker 1: is going to have some games against the Bears. Listen,
Speaker 1: listen to Derek Carr stats again, avenging his brother two
Speaker 1: five yards and three scores, two yards and three scores,
Speaker 1: two and sixty three yards in one score. But he
Speaker 1: added fifty eight on the ground, So that helps you.
Speaker 1: I have a B grade on Car four. Now, Davante
Speaker 1: Adams is an otto A. He's not an art vark
Speaker 1: because he might be the only guy out there and
Speaker 1: they might have four players covering him on any given play.
Speaker 1: It's a stingy Houston pasty that has allowed just one
Speaker 1: wide receiver touchdown and UH only four wide receivers over
Speaker 1: forty yards. Those are like Mike Williams, Michael Pittman, Corland
Speaker 1: Sun and guys who went for one. Davante Adams could
Speaker 1: have that in him. If Renfro goes, I still have
Speaker 1: him on the bench. Number two wide receivers against the
Speaker 1: Texans are only averaging two catches for thirty one yards.
Speaker 1: It sounds like he might rent for himself. Only has
Speaker 1: one game over twenty five yards, which I was surprised
Speaker 1: to find out this and it hasn't. This season has
Speaker 1: been deeply disappointing for Hunter. Renfro. Yeah, but if he
Speaker 1: doesn't go, Collins had an eight for one and a
Speaker 1: score game. Uh win. Renfro was out before. With Waller
Speaker 1: and renf Out, Hollins might see a bunch of targets.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't expect that kind of game. He's also nearly
Speaker 1: nursing a heal injury. But I'll give Hollins a C
Speaker 1: grade if Renfro does not go. Otherwise he's on the bench.
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs has gained an A grade and it's pure volume.
Speaker 1: He's top five in almost every usage category, snaps touches
Speaker 1: inside the five, work red zone work. His early games
Speaker 1: were a lot of volume without much production. We kind
Speaker 1: of railed on that, but then it boomed, then it hit.
Speaker 1: He's top two hundred seventy five total yards and scored
Speaker 1: in each of the last two weeks. The lead back
Speaker 1: the last three weeks against this Texans team hundred fourteen yards,
Speaker 1: hundred nine yards in a score, hundred sixty seven yards
Speaker 1: and two scores. Texans allowing a hundred and seventy six
Speaker 1: combo yards two running backs per game. Jacobs gets everything.
Speaker 1: He gets twenty two plus touches a game. I have
Speaker 1: an A grade on Jacobs alright. Final matchup of this
Speaker 1: seg mad Seahawks taking on the Chargers. Seahawks didn't really
Speaker 1: perform in a pretty good opportunity last week, but this
Speaker 1: Chargers defense has been bad. What do you What do
Speaker 1: you like about the Seahawks offense? Well, I like Ken
Speaker 1: Walker three. He's in a grade in this one. As
Speaker 1: expected with Rashad penny Down, Walker saw eight teen carries
Speaker 1: last week and essentially became the bell cow. This week,
Speaker 1: he gets a Chargers team that is allowing five point
Speaker 1: eight yards per carrying. That's laughable. They've allowed three of
Speaker 1: the past four lead runners they faced to go for
Speaker 1: at least a hundred and fifteen Combo yards easy A
Speaker 1: for Ken Walker. UH. Gino Smith he gets a B grade.
Speaker 1: Came back to earth a little bit last week versus Arizona,
Speaker 1: but still helped by his fantasy numbers. With forty eight
Speaker 1: yards on the ground. Gino has had multiple touchdown passes
Speaker 1: and three of his last four, and he faces a
Speaker 1: Chargers defense that is allowing almost two passing scores per game. Uh.
Speaker 1: The matchup is strong for both DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett.
Speaker 1: I'll give a B to Metcalf, but we have a
Speaker 1: game time decision on Tyler Lockett, who's nursing a hamstring injury,
Speaker 1: so just to see for him. UH. J C. Jackson
Speaker 1: has been an absolute disaster for the Chargers this year.
Speaker 1: Of the corner, well of the corners who have played
Speaker 1: at least half the snaps this year. He's Pro Football
Speaker 1: Focus his worst corner in the league and his deal
Speaker 1: was like that supposed to be the Yeah. He's allowing
Speaker 1: the eighth most passing yards in his coverage at three
Speaker 1: thirty one. On the other side, Sante Samuel hasn't been
Speaker 1: much better. He's allowing the fourteenth most passing yards in
Speaker 1: his coverage at two nine, So Lockett and Metcalf probably
Speaker 1: do for a bounce back this week after last week's disappointment.
Speaker 1: In fact, if if Lockett doesn't play, Metcalf probably goes
Speaker 1: up to an A grade. Uh. It seems like Noah
Speaker 1: Fant is taking over the tight end position in Seattle,
Speaker 1: which I correctly pointed out last week. He's about even
Speaker 1: for snaps with Will Disley, but they're sending Fant on
Speaker 1: the route tree while keeping disleyan for protection. Fant sauce
Speaker 1: seven targets last week to just one for Disley, and
Speaker 1: Fant also got the loan tight end target in the
Speaker 1: red zone. The Chargers have allowed the sixth most yards
Speaker 1: against the tight end of this season. So just like Ludacrous,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give give Noah Fant a Cee Brian would
Speaker 1: appreciate that one. I know Austin Ekeler, well, I can't
Speaker 1: give him the art Vark now, but I guess I'll
Speaker 1: give him up. I want to give him a Fonzie
Speaker 1: and an art Vark, because good Lord, Austin Ekeler is
Speaker 1: going to have a great game. I kind of highlighted
Speaker 1: it with Sony Michelle as might take a chance on
Speaker 1: me runner just an air bear. He's also an A grade.
Speaker 1: I'm going through all the sound effects in this one charge.
Speaker 1: Where's my bear? Come on? There is? Uh. Seahawks are
Speaker 1: allowing the seventh most passing yards per game at two
Speaker 1: fifty six. Keenan Allen still limited with the hamstring injury.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can think about starting him right
Speaker 1: now because he's a late game and Mike william Is.
Speaker 1: He gets a B grade, A seed to Josh Palmer.
Speaker 1: Palmer saw twelve targets last week against Denver. If Alan
Speaker 1: doesn't go, Palmer flexes into the slot a lot more,
Speaker 1: where you'd see the best corner matchup of Justin Coleman.
Speaker 1: This week, it's a similarly tough matchup to last week
Speaker 1: against Denver. Seattle's fifth round rookie Tarik Woolen has an
Speaker 1: awesome start to his career. Uh He's only allowed fifteen
Speaker 1: catches through six games. He'll mostly see Williams hence to
Speaker 1: be finally Gerald Everett. He gets a C grade here.
Speaker 1: Everett saw seven targets last week and went five catches
Speaker 1: for twenty nine yards. Donald Parham seems to be the
Speaker 1: deep threat caught all three of his targets for fifty three.
Speaker 1: But I had another concussion last week. There might be
Speaker 1: a career for Donald. I'm just so nervous about him.
Speaker 1: It's too bad. When we come back, premature speculation. Nine players,
Speaker 1: not sorry, three players, actually four. You're gonna get four
Speaker 1: players that you can pick up this week that everybody
Speaker 1: else will be trying to pick up next week. Speculation.
Speaker 1: When we come back, it's the final segment of Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. Paul Gearchi and Scott Fish and Matt Harrison
Speaker 1: with you. If you have not yet joined a guillotine league,
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Speaker 1: You can still get into a season long guillotine style
Speaker 1: league even today. This is a segment we call premature speculation.
Speaker 1: The premise is we're gonna give you three right before
Speaker 1: that you can pick up this week that everybody else
Speaker 1: will be trying to pick up next week. Why is
Speaker 1: it that all of our time machines stopped suddenly? But
Speaker 1: that's when they've reached its death. The nation time time
Speaker 1: to right now. I like that we have multiple time issues.
Speaker 1: All of our machines always just stop making noise. They
Speaker 1: don't like fade out anything. Let's begin with Scott Fish,
Speaker 1: your premature speculation player or players. Yeah. See, I like
Speaker 1: helping people with the tight ends. I know people are
Speaker 1: have a lot of issues. Gave you Kad Dot and
Speaker 1: earlier Daniel Bellinger. Now I'm going to Greg Dulcich. Some
Speaker 1: of these stats are from my good friend Andrew Cooper
Speaker 1: of Fantasy Alarm, so I want to give him some credit.
Speaker 1: But he did. He played almost He played eighty one
Speaker 1: percent of snaps, sixty one cent from wide receiver position,
Speaker 1: zero snaps pass blocking. Dulcich twelve yard average depth of target,
Speaker 1: so he's getting down field for these. He did have
Speaker 1: two catches for three yards scored a touchdown in his
Speaker 1: first game. They had Albert a queb and i'm uh
Speaker 1: inactive a healthy scratch. They didn't draft Albert. They drafted
Speaker 1: Dulctch this regime um and his loan target they didn't
Speaker 1: catch was an end zone target. So a lot of
Speaker 1: great usage and the reason I mentioned him is because
Speaker 1: if he does become a thing, you want to get
Speaker 1: him now before he becomes a thing. He might be
Speaker 1: a streamer guy. You can drop him. If he's not
Speaker 1: get him now. He did have a thirty nine yard
Speaker 1: touchdown last that was sweet to all right, let's go
Speaker 1: to the next premature speculation player man Uh Kirra and Williams.
Speaker 1: The news came out that the Rams are attempting to
Speaker 1: move on from cam Acres, not attempting. That's that ship
Speaker 1: sailed my mind. Well Acres hasn't like sailed out of
Speaker 1: l A as far as I know yet, but there's
Speaker 1: gonna be open touches in the Rams backfield. Kiren Williams
Speaker 1: currently eligible to come off I are where he landed
Speaker 1: after Week one and after having ankle surgery. The Rams
Speaker 1: are on a bye this week. In week eight fits
Speaker 1: the timeline for Williams's return. The Rams have also been
Speaker 1: a backfield by committee since Todd Gurley left. They've seen
Speaker 1: their runners wear down as the season goes on. It
Speaker 1: happened to Darrell Henderson last year. I can't imagine they're
Speaker 1: gonna let him get twenty touches per week for the
Speaker 1: next twelve weeks. So somebody's gonna have to fill in,
Speaker 1: and I think it's going to be kyr and Williams
Speaker 1: totally agree. Henderson doesn't look good and Acres is dead
Speaker 1: to them, so they did mention they want Karen Williams
Speaker 1: to have a big role when he comes back. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I think this is this is the this is the
Speaker 1: best of the premature speculations. I'm gonna give you two.
Speaker 1: One that Matt Harrison hates. Johnnie Woods is a freak
Speaker 1: athlete tight end on a team that throws the tight
Speaker 1: end all the time. Now he's got it. At some
Speaker 1: point get a bigger time share than what he's getting
Speaker 1: in a mixed time share with the Colts. But the
Speaker 1: Colts have of the ability to feed tight ends. And
Speaker 1: if Johnny Woods is as good as he can be,
Speaker 1: I think at some point he outpaces mo Ali Cox
Speaker 1: and others. If it's not, it may not even happen
Speaker 1: this year, maybe it's next year, or maybe he just
Speaker 1: gets better throughout the course of the season as a rookie.
Speaker 1: I like Jollnnie Woods. The other guy I want to
Speaker 1: mention Matt's premature a sorry take a chance on me
Speaker 1: running back was Sony Michelle it was any good. No,
Speaker 1: he's not. Isaiah Spillers. He's gonna be active for the
Speaker 1: first time this week. Now. We would have loved it
Speaker 1: had he been so good that he would have taken
Speaker 1: command of the number two job. But you know what
Speaker 1: it's he was a rookie. Sometimes it just takes a
Speaker 1: while to get the pass blocking and everything else going.
Speaker 1: If Spillers flashes something here, he may end up having
Speaker 1: the the number two job to himself with Josh Kelly out.
Speaker 1: Because Sony Michelle's no threat, I have another one for you.
Speaker 1: Charges premature speculation right back, Kenny Drake, is he any good?
Speaker 1: Justice Hill overtook him until he was injured. He's coming back.
Speaker 1: J K. Dobbins is up. Maybe go grab him? What
Speaker 1: about Gus Edwards about premature speculation? Got m last week?
Speaker 1: What about don't use any Ravens running backs? What about
Speaker 1: Jamis Jamison Williams Lions wide receiver. He'll be coming back
Speaker 1: in a few weeks. Go pick him up. We're just
Speaker 1: throwing him off. All the names in fantasy at the
Speaker 1: rest of the roster the NFL, is this come up? Oh?
Speaker 1: This is off? The Rails Bears take on the Patriots
Speaker 1: on Monday night. Um, let's talk this one through. By
Speaker 1: the way, you may not know the Patriots starting quarterback
Speaker 1: is until closer to Monday. They have not made any
Speaker 1: announcement as we have gone on the air here, But
Speaker 1: there's only a couple of Bears players to start on
Speaker 1: their side of the ball, beginning with David Montgomery with
Speaker 1: just a C grade. Patriots run defense has played well
Speaker 1: this year, including holding Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt to
Speaker 1: a combined sixty eight yards last week. Only one opponent
Speaker 1: has topped sixty rushing yards all year against New England. UM.
Speaker 1: Patriots the league's only team that has a lot of
Speaker 1: running back touchdown, ground or air. Zero touchdowns allowed. So
Speaker 1: I can't love Montgomery here, but let me mention the
Speaker 1: Patriots are not a totally impenetrable run defense. But you're
Speaker 1: upside here from Monty's probably eight scoreless combo yards and
Speaker 1: that's a C grade for Montgomery. Have they allowed any
Speaker 1: touchdowns by sea? No, uh, nor by space or by time?
Speaker 1: You know, the fourth dimension is time, so none of
Speaker 1: those places and pretty good Montgomery is only a C.
Speaker 1: That means is only one third of the snaps of Montgomery,
Speaker 1: so we can't go to him either, he's on the bench.
Speaker 1: Darnell Mooney is the only other receivers with a C grade.
Speaker 1: Three straight matchups with over fifty yards for Darnell Mooney,
Speaker 1: I like that part, whopping twelve targets last week by
Speaker 1: far as big as total of the year. Tricky matchup
Speaker 1: though against a good Patriots secondary. Mooney runs predominantly from
Speaker 1: the slot, and that matches him up against Miles Bryant
Speaker 1: and inconsistent cornerback who allowed to touchdown last week. New
Speaker 1: England's secondary has been dominant overall, though the last couple
Speaker 1: of games. Last week's opponent, Cleveland, had all three of
Speaker 1: its top pass catchers finished in the bottom fourteen and separation.
Speaker 1: So I don't love Mooney here just to see grade.
Speaker 1: Nobody else is startable on the Bears. Well, let's spend
Speaker 1: a minute talking about Cole Comet. Can we okay? A
Speaker 1: whole minute? One minute? He's on the field for of
Speaker 1: the the snaps and yet he never gets any targets
Speaker 1: or receptions because he's their best offensive lineman. Well, you
Speaker 1: would think that that's that they must be keeping him
Speaker 1: back to block, which is what I thought No, he's
Speaker 1: running routes on the passing plays and he gets one
Speaker 1: and a half targets per game. He's the ultimate decoy.
Speaker 1: Yes he is. He's been targeted on eleven of the
Speaker 1: team's passing plays. He should stop running down the field
Speaker 1: yelling hey, justin pass it to me, pass it to me.
Speaker 1: Even in a bye week, commits one catch average makes
Speaker 1: him too deep to be considered a Oh God, I
Speaker 1: got I had to break out the dark thread. I'm sorry. Uh,
Speaker 1: nobody else is starting that side. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots side. I'm gonna start with the running
Speaker 1: game here. There's a chance Damien Harris plays in this game. UM,
Speaker 1: so we'll first We'll start here. Romandre Stevenson is an
Speaker 1: auto A. If Damien Harris does not play, will downgrade
Speaker 1: him to a bee. If Harris does play, he's averaging
Speaker 1: twenty five touches without Harris and fourteen with Harris if
Speaker 1: he will face a Bears defense that's allowed the fourth
Speaker 1: most total yards per game to opposing running backs. The
Speaker 1: last five starters to face the Bears have averaged one
Speaker 1: twenty three total yards and one point two touchdowns per game.
Speaker 1: Those are mouth watering numbers. Hopefully, honestly, hopefully Harris does
Speaker 1: not go, so Stevenson can just be a have a
Speaker 1: great play here and um don't know the quarterback situation,
Speaker 1: but they're both on the bench. So whether you want
Speaker 1: Matt Jones or Bailey's Appy, we're not gonna go with
Speaker 1: either one of them in this game, although Zappy honestly
Speaker 1: has looked a little bit better. Damien Harris, if he
Speaker 1: plays just a C grade, put in a full practice
Speaker 1: on Thursday, suggesting you will be able to go UM,
Speaker 1: but he's got an ankle injury. There's the prospect of
Speaker 1: re injury here. Stevenson might be the starter because he's
Speaker 1: the healthier the two. Harris only available, only startable in
Speaker 1: a pinch. Uh, Jacoby Meyers was gonna take a chance
Speaker 1: to me wide receiver. He gets a B grade from
Speaker 1: me here. You might be tempted to go with Hunter
Speaker 1: Henry if your back to back solid games, but one
Speaker 1: of those came with John and John who out injured,
Speaker 1: and the Bears have been an elite tight end defense,
Speaker 1: allowing Chicago to Chicago, allowing um is let me back up.
Speaker 1: Chicago is top eight in tight end receptions. Tight end
Speaker 1: yards and tight end touchdowns, so we are not going
Speaker 1: to start any of them. Hunter Henry is on the bench.
Speaker 1: Final matchup is Steelers taking on the Dolphins. Scott, Yes,
Speaker 1: who's our Who's our Steelers quarterback for this game? It's
Speaker 1: gonna be Kenny Pickett. Alright, it's gonna be he cleared
Speaker 1: concussion protocol. He's gonna be the starter, and I got
Speaker 1: a C grade on him. I finally get to maybe
Speaker 1: start Kenny Pickett in a in a in a league,
Speaker 1: maybe this week. The Dolphins d has allowed multiple scores
Speaker 1: in four the last five and at least one touchdown
Speaker 1: to every quarterback. They're also allowing two d and sixty
Speaker 1: seven yards per game. That's a fairly sea level floor
Speaker 1: if you're looking to sixty plus and one to two
Speaker 1: scores minimum. Uh and pick It's also a capable runner
Speaker 1: who had a couple of touchdown runs just a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. I think this could be a game
Speaker 1: where they're you know, touchdown dogs, where he threw fifty
Speaker 1: two times just a couple of weeks ago, you know,
Speaker 1: as a trailing team. I think he could unload for
Speaker 1: forty to fifty attempts again in this one. Uh C
Speaker 1: grade for Kenny Pickett. As for the past catchers, this
Speaker 1: one's really annoying. Uh, Deonti Johnson, I do have a
Speaker 1: B grade on UM. In the loan full game that
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett played, all three had five to six catches
Speaker 1: fifty eight five yards. But Deonte Johnson has at least
Speaker 1: five in in five of the six games he has caught.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, he has caught at least five passes
Speaker 1: in each in each of those games, UM with pick
Speaker 1: it in. Uh, let's see, let's go over to Kenny Pickens.
Speaker 1: Uh wow, I'm having trouble now, George Pickens. George Pickens
Speaker 1: is gonna get to see he has eleven catches on
Speaker 1: a hundreds for a hundred seventy two yards on seventeen
Speaker 1: targets with Kenny Pickett in Chase Claypool, eight for seventy
Speaker 1: eight yards on twelve targets, a lot less volume for
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool with Kenny with Kenny Pickett in the game,
Speaker 1: So Pickens is going to get to see. Last week,
Speaker 1: pick It only targeted Claypool twice. All that all the
Speaker 1: Claypool stats came from Trabinsky, right, Yeah, yeah, pick It
Speaker 1: only targeted Claypool twice. Trabinsky only targeted Pickens twice. It
Speaker 1: seems like those two flipped depending on who the starter is.
Speaker 1: Pat Fiarmouth, I gotta bree b grade on. Before the concussion,
Speaker 1: he was averaging nearly five catches for fifty six yards
Speaker 1: per game. Uh. The Miami Dolphins allow on average six
Speaker 1: catches for fifty six yards to tight ends. That feels
Speaker 1: like you might get there. Uh, and including scores and
Speaker 1: half their games, So be great on Pat Firemouth Nag Harris. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we begged you to trade him three episodes again. Uh,
Speaker 1: this this one I hate doing like I want to
Speaker 1: mention him. I want to. But given the bye week,
Speaker 1: and given the fact he gets fourteen to seventeen touches
Speaker 1: weekly does nothing with them, but he gets you two
Speaker 1: to five catches, he's gonna get a volume. See for me,
Speaker 1: He's not explosive, Like his best day is eighty nine
Speaker 1: total yards. He's been sub fifty yards and back to
Speaker 1: back the Dolphins are allowing the tenth fewest combo yards
Speaker 1: three point six nine yards per carry. It's a bad
Speaker 1: spot too. The only thing he's got going for him,
Speaker 1: and he's volume and Jalen Warren only got two touches
Speaker 1: last week. He gets everything, so he's going to get
Speaker 1: the C grade on fifteen plus touches and we'll hope
Speaker 1: he can do something with it. Over on the other
Speaker 1: side to ah To, I'm given an A grade too.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's the start of that top ten finish.
Speaker 1: The charge and I both had in in three tough questions.
Speaker 1: This Steelers defense is allowing two nine yards and two
Speaker 1: scores per game, about two hundred nine yards and two
Speaker 1: scores per game, and they have a ton of injury.
Speaker 1: He's in their defensive backfield. They have allowed multiple touchdowns
Speaker 1: and three or six. I don't need to keep going.
Speaker 1: We saw what Too has done, what that Miami offense
Speaker 1: has done. We've talked about it. A grade for two.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get those yards and scores this week. Tyreek
Speaker 1: Kill and Jalen Waddle, I feel are automatic a's. The
Speaker 1: volume is concentrated to those guys. I know Waddle is
Speaker 1: a little banged up and he had too a couple
Speaker 1: of dods this season, but his upside is a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty plus yards in a score. You can't bench him.
Speaker 1: And this is a pretty decent matchup against his secondary
Speaker 1: that's that banged up and has allowed eight different writer
Speaker 1: receivers to top a hundred yards and or a score
Speaker 1: this season. Mike Kasecki C grade. He's about as hit
Speaker 1: and missus you get there, gonna showcase him first grade.
Speaker 1: I'd feel exactly, I'd feel better better if Wattle wasn't going.
Speaker 1: But he has four games the thirty or fewer. But
Speaker 1: he's got forty one yards or a score, forty one
Speaker 1: yards in a score in sixty nine and two scores. Uh.
Speaker 1: If Waddle doesn't go, upgrade him to a B where
Speaker 1: he mostard B grade lead the team in touches in
Speaker 1: five straight games, fifteen plus touches in three straight. He's
Speaker 1: getting all the work most most of It's gained four
Speaker 1: catches in each of the last four games. Fifteen touch
Speaker 1: guys generally get over eighty five total yards on the Steelers.
Speaker 1: That's B grade level. If he's getting a few catches
Speaker 1: in eighty five plus yards, that's that sounds about right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: James Conner, you know, Benjamin the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: what do you think. I think it's still James Connor.
Speaker 1: I think it's neither just a week ago, we saw
Speaker 1: you know, Benjamin go fifteen carries for thirty seven yards.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, do you guys not cross off offenses
Speaker 1: or backfields? Like I think I'm always the one crossing
Speaker 1: off I do, but charge forced the question. So all right,
Speaker 1: I'm team you know. I don't love him, but I
Speaker 1: thought I prefer you know too. But all right. If
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