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Speaker 1: Paul Joshi. It's a week four edition of Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: It's just a bloodbath out there with so many injuries. Man,
Speaker 1: you have to be nimble. The people are gonna win
Speaker 1: this year are the people who are staying on top
Speaker 1: of all of the news, that are responding quickly, that
Speaker 1: are making changes to their lineups. There's never been a
Speaker 1: worse year that I can remember to just like have
Speaker 1: your draft and then just stick with those guys. My
Speaker 1: co hosts today are Matt Harrison and Thorne Eystrom. Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it is. It is nuts.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Our pre show meeting was like this guy's injured,
Speaker 2: and this guy's injured, and this guy's injured, and like
Speaker 2: the Cleveland Raiders game is going to be.
Speaker 1: Just horrible, but yes, and what a what a disaster.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: As always, we're going to bring you through all of
Speaker 1: the remaining games on the NFL schedule. We'll answer three
Speaker 1: tough questions. We'll give you nine players upon whom you
Speaker 1: can take a chance, and as always premature speculation near
Speaker 1: the end of the show, we dive in with a
Speaker 1: game without as much injury drama, I'm happy to say,
Speaker 1: And for the Bengals, it's been a while since we
Speaker 1: haven't had any. They come back after a tricky loss
Speaker 1: against Washington, the Bengals now facing Carolina Panthers. Two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: This looked like a layup. Now it's a little bit trickier.
Speaker 1: Let's start with Zach Moss. We talked about him as
Speaker 1: a Bilow candidate a week or two ago. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he had a really nice game last week. Do you
Speaker 1: like Zach Moss here against the Panthers.
Speaker 2: I think it's funny that you say that the Bengals
Speaker 2: are healthy at their zero to three one and two Panthers. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Zach Moss is the guy in Cincy right now. He's
Speaker 2: seen seventy five percent of the snaps and faces of
Speaker 2: Panthers defense. There really hasn't been good against the run
Speaker 2: since Jake Delane was in town. Carolina gave up one
Speaker 2: hundred and ten total yards to Kamara one thirty one
Speaker 2: to JK. Dobbins, both of them scored. Mos gets an
Speaker 2: A here and oh, by the way, Chase Brown is
Speaker 2: a desperation C grade because backups Jamal Williams he had
Speaker 2: fifty one total yards in a score, Gus Edwards fifty
Speaker 2: nine yards, Alexander Madison forty four in a score. If
Speaker 2: you're desperate for a running back, Chase Brown, a lot
Speaker 2: of people are right now. Might be a guy that
Speaker 2: you can start. Jamar Chase. He gets an A grade.
Speaker 2: T Higgins gets a B. Higgins was on the field
Speaker 2: for ninety percent of the snaps. He saw six targets
Speaker 2: in his first game back. It was encouraging to see
Speaker 2: him get seventy six air yards on those six targets.
Speaker 2: Burrow was targeting him downfield. Speaking of downfield, this Panthers
Speaker 2: defense got toasted by Rashid Shaheed in Week one and
Speaker 2: it's mostly been J. C. Horn getting roasty and toasty.
Speaker 2: He's allowing an average of thirteen yards per catch in
Speaker 2: his coverage and he and Mike Jackson will take turns
Speaker 2: with Chase and Higgins. But the Bengals have the advantage
Speaker 2: in every combo here, so good grades for them. It's
Speaker 2: not a revenge game for Joe Burrow, but the oh
Speaker 2: and three Bengals definitely have something to prove. If I
Speaker 2: liked his receivers, I'm giving Burrow a start. He gets
Speaker 2: a B grade. It's because the two quarterbacks who have
Speaker 2: beat the Panthers this year, they've tallied two hundred and
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty yards through the air. That's it,
Speaker 2: but both they haven't needed to they haven't needed to pass.
Speaker 2: Both Derek Carr and Justin Airbear did manage multiple scores
Speaker 2: in those games, though, so that's why a B for Burrow.
Speaker 2: It is a revenge game for his counterpart Andy Dalton.
Speaker 2: It's actually his fourth crack at the Bengals with his
Speaker 2: fourth different team. Wow. He saw time against Cincy while
Speaker 2: in Dallas, Chicago, and New Orleans. He has thrown a
Speaker 2: touchdown in every game against them when he's played the Bengals,
Speaker 2: but he's never top two hundred yards in any game
Speaker 2: against his former team. The Bengals were able to hold
Speaker 2: Mahomes mostly in check in Week two. Jade and Daniels
Speaker 2: ended up having a good day against them last week,
Speaker 2: but he brings a totally different dimension than the almost
Speaker 2: thirty seven year old Dalton. It's a good story, but
Speaker 2: I'm leaving him on the bench. Deontay Johnson I will
Speaker 2: give a C grade too. He's played the Bengals a
Speaker 2: lot in his career since he's figured out how you
Speaker 2: neutralize him pretty well. He hasn't topped sixty yards or
Speaker 2: scored in six straight outings against them. Game script alone
Speaker 2: should be in Johnson's favor. So so is the fact
Speaker 2: that Adam Thielen hit Ir this week with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 2: And when Johnson goes up against Dax Hill on the
Speaker 2: left side of the coverage, yeah, he's got a great matchup.
Speaker 2: Hill has allowed a passer rating of one to twenty
Speaker 2: one in his coverage so far. And Chewba Hubbard. He
Speaker 2: gets a B grade and was given full belcow usage
Speaker 2: last week and it paid off. He had twenty six touches,
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty nine total yards and a receiving score.
Speaker 2: Every running back that's had double digit targets or sorry,
Speaker 2: double digit touches against the Bengals this year has either
Speaker 2: topped ninety total yards or scored, so Chuba Hubbard is
Speaker 2: definitely in play with a B grade here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Chuba Hubbard we were talking. There was those first
Speaker 1: two weeks are like I can never ever start you
Speaker 1: bubb it again. And then all it took was that
Speaker 1: one Andy Dalton starting me like, okay, well, game back on.
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess all right there, Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos at the Jets. Bonix coming off. I
Speaker 1: think indisputably his best game. But you're come Sauce Gardner
Speaker 1: and DJ Reid and on, no way am I starting
Speaker 1: Bonix here? No, you can't.
Speaker 3: You mentioned a first decent game in the NFL. Last
Speaker 3: week he finished quarterback twelve in Fantasy and that in
Speaker 3: large part because of his rushing output. Terrible matchup here
Speaker 3: against that Jets pass defense that is absolutely awesome. The
Speaker 3: Jets are tied for second fewest passing touchdowns allowed in
Speaker 3: the NFL this year. The Jets profile to immediately corral
Speaker 3: Nicks is pattent a quick hitters and checkdowns, so he's
Speaker 3: gonna have to run for a touchdown to return thee
Speaker 3: value here. I keep him on the bench as well.
Speaker 3: Javonte Williams, I'm gonna give him a great tot. See
Speaker 3: only Jordan Mason has seen more loaded boxes by the
Speaker 3: numbers this year than mister Javonte Williams.
Speaker 1: And your team's bothering to load the box against Javonte Williams.
Speaker 3: It's a manifestation of a Bonix offense, right.
Speaker 1: You don't have to keep guys deep for that.
Speaker 3: And because of that, Javante held under seven PPR fantasy
Speaker 3: points for the second time this season against Tampa Bay.
Speaker 3: No touchdowns yet for him, sharing snaps of Julia mclafflin
Speaker 3: and Tyler Baiting.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: In addition to that, the Jets have allowed the eighth
Speaker 3: fewest fantasy points to running backs. Startable if you need to,
Speaker 3: but of course you have to keep your expectations in check.
Speaker 3: I'm going to give Javanti Williams a see Cortland Sutton.
Speaker 3: I'm also going to give him a best game of
Speaker 3: the season last week against the Buccaneers, seven of eleven
Speaker 3: targets caught for sixty eight yards. But again Bonick's offense,
Speaker 3: it's the short stuff.
Speaker 2: And I worry.
Speaker 1: I worry about Sauce and DJ Reeve. That's the other thing.
Speaker 3: You know, he will be across from Sauce Gardner and
Speaker 3: so you know a guy in Sutton who had less
Speaker 3: than eight fantasy points in each of the first two games.
Speaker 3: I think he's headed back into that neighborhood. We'll we'll
Speaker 3: give him a see though. Also going to give a
Speaker 3: seat to Aaron Rodgers in this game flipping over to
Speaker 3: the Jets. Rogers had two hundred and eighty one yards
Speaker 3: with two touchdowns, no interceptions and that win over the
Speaker 3: Patriots last Thursday. But this is a far worst matchup
Speaker 3: for him. The Broncos also have an awesome pass defense,
Speaker 3: and this should be another This should be a low
Speaker 3: scoring game. The Vegas total is under forty. Breece Hall
Speaker 3: going to give him an A. Of course, twenty plus
Speaker 3: touches in a TD in all three games. Talking a
Speaker 3: lot about Brayleen aw and we're gonna be talking more
Speaker 3: about him later because he might take a chance on
Speaker 3: me running back. But Breeseall needs to stay in your lineups.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna downgrade Garrett Wilson to a B in this matchup.
Speaker 3: Hasn't gotten over sixty receiving yards in any game this
Speaker 3: year or finished as a top twenty five fantasy receiver
Speaker 3: in any week this season. This is also not a
Speaker 3: good matchup for a breakout game for him. Patrick Sir
Speaker 3: Patrick Sirtan is waiting right across from you. He is
Speaker 3: shut down three straight. Number one outside wide receivers. DK
Speaker 3: Metcalf had three catches for less than thirty yards. George
Speaker 3: Pickens had two catches for less than thirty yards. Mike
Speaker 3: Evans had two catches for less than twenty yards against
Speaker 3: mister Patrick Cirtan, who will be shadowing Wilson in this game.
Speaker 1: I actually think your B grade is kind of generous
Speaker 1: for Garrett Wilson, and I love Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that one's almost on principle, right, but I
Speaker 3: mean somewhat. You know, you could say principal the other
Speaker 3: one and downgrade him even more than that, Ellenlizzard. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna give him a C wide receiver eighteen in Fantasy
Speaker 3: so far, seventeen percent target share, one point eight yards
Speaker 3: per route run. Decent matchup for him here against Riley
Speaker 3: Moss and Rogers, of course, maybe looking his way more
Speaker 3: with Patrick Sirtan on the other side of the field.
Speaker 3: Got to keep Mike Williams on the bench, but don't
Speaker 3: cut him quite yet. We just need proof of life
Speaker 3: before we can start him again. But I wouldn't be
Speaker 3: starting him this week and then Tyler Conklin. I'vevacillated between
Speaker 3: an A and a B here, I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go with a B. But I'm super high on Gronklin
Speaker 3: as we call him this week. He had the ninety
Speaker 3: three receiving yards last week. Now ranks as the number
Speaker 3: one tight end in the NFL in route participation, which
Speaker 3: portends well for future fantasy output. Avoiding Patrick Sirtan is
Speaker 3: going to lead to more looks for Conklin, I think
Speaker 3: from Rogers. Keep in mind this Bucks tight end Kate
Speaker 3: Outon had a twenty four percent target share last week
Speaker 3: against the Broncos, easily the highest of the season because
Speaker 3: the bronc the Buccaneers were avoiding Sir Tan and the
Speaker 3: other thing. Broncos will be without their starting middle linebacker
Speaker 3: Alex Singleton, which I think could also help Conklin in
Speaker 3: this matchup.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give him a bee wow. And so
Speaker 1: many people need help at tight end. Yes, Trey McBride
Speaker 1: out all the problems the tight end position has had.
Speaker 1: That is some that's some good, good advice on Conklin.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Rams taking on the Bears here,
Speaker 1: there's a lot to not like. I do like Kyron Williams.
Speaker 1: On the Rams side, the way to beat the Bears
Speaker 1: is on the ground, as Jonathan Taylor proved last week,
Speaker 1: Chicago giving up four point six yards per carry. They
Speaker 1: rank ninth worst in yards before contact at one point
Speaker 1: eight yards. Williams is getting a whopping eighty seven percent
Speaker 1: of the running back snaps from Los Angeles, seventy nine
Speaker 1: percent of the carries, and seventy percent of the routes
Speaker 1: run amongst running backs. So just the heavy usage here
Speaker 1: and the way to beat the Bears is on the ground.
Speaker 1: A grade for Kyron Williams. Let's go to the passing game,
Speaker 1: where there's not a lot to like. My only letter
Speaker 1: grade is on Colby Parkinson. On paper, the Bears look
Speaker 1: great against tight ends, but they've not played anybody better
Speaker 1: than Dalton Schultz, who they held to twenty one yards.
Speaker 1: Parkinson averaging a healthy thirty one routes per game but
Speaker 1: still only seeing four targets per game and only at
Speaker 1: a depth of four point eight yards. I've got a
Speaker 1: desperation C grade in a brutal week for tight ends.
Speaker 1: For Colby Parkinson, you can give him a D grade.
Speaker 1: That's fine, I really can't because there is no such
Speaker 1: thing as a D grade on this show. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the rest of the passing offense here, DeMarcus Robinson.
Speaker 1: He's the de facto number one wide receiver for the Rams,
Speaker 1: which normally would be good, but against Chicago that means
Speaker 1: you get Jalen Johnson, and that's bad. He's awesome. Currently
Speaker 1: Pro Football focuses eleventh ranked cornerback, allowing per game averages
Speaker 1: of just two catches, twenty five yards and no touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Robinson dominating the routes run. He leads the team in
Speaker 1: targets as well. But just the tough matchup here. I've
Speaker 1: got Robinson on the bench, I've got two two out
Speaker 1: Well and Tyler Johnson on the bench as well. Now,
Speaker 1: last week, two weeks ago, it was Tyler Johnson over
Speaker 1: two to at Well. Last week it was two to
Speaker 1: at Well over Tyler Johnson in terms of targets, routes, run,
Speaker 1: and receptions. I don't they could flip flop back Atwell
Speaker 1: looked looked like he fit in the offense a little
Speaker 1: bit better last week either way, kind of a neutral
Speaker 1: matchup against Tyreek Stevenson He's a good, not great cornerback.
Speaker 1: He's giving up a fifty nine percent catch rate, which
Speaker 1: is above average. He's given up one touchdown so far.
Speaker 1: But to me, I just don't trust this passing offense.
Speaker 1: And I've got both Atwell and Johnson on the bench.
Speaker 2: Why isn't two two Atwell's number twenty two?
Speaker 1: Two to two? Yeah, great question.
Speaker 2: He's number five. What is he doing?
Speaker 1: Is is twenty two of valid wide receiver number?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can do that. I think that's Rashid Shaheed's number.
Speaker 1: That's they got to make that change. That's a great question.
Speaker 1: It's a great question. Lastly, Matthew Stafford on the bench.
Speaker 1: Bear's pass defense very good. They ranked top ten in
Speaker 1: completions allowed, yards allowed, touchdowns allowed. Obviously, Pukinuku is out,
Speaker 1: Cooper cups out, tricky matchups for the wide outs. I
Speaker 1: just I can't get behind Matthew Stafford. Your offensive line problems,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Let's go to the Bear side. A lot
Speaker 1: of moving parts here. I'm optimistic about the Bears in
Speaker 1: this game. Rams defense all beat up. DJ Moore and
Speaker 1: Rome Adunza have a nice opportunity. The Rams secondary has
Speaker 1: four guys on injured reserve, so I particularly like well.
Speaker 1: I like both cornerback to Davius White has allowed a
Speaker 1: league worst four touchdowns in his coverage already with an
Speaker 1: approaching perfect passer rating against him, but one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty seven. The other cornerback is Kobe Durant, who ranks
Speaker 1: as cornerback eighty six by Pro Football Focus. A Donsay
Speaker 1: sparked to life last week with a big game eleven targets,
Speaker 1: six catches, one hundred and twelve yards. I like both
Speaker 1: A Dunza and DJ Moore at B level grades in
Speaker 1: this game. Now for that to happen, I need Caleb
Speaker 1: Williams to come around a little bit. If it's not
Speaker 1: too much trouble, he might take a chance on me quarterback,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you about him in just a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes. Cole Kamett, after two weeks of splitting duty
Speaker 1: with Gerald Everett, Camet got almost all the work last week,
Speaker 1: and he rewarded the Bear confidence in him with a
Speaker 1: very big game. Comet's got a nice opportunity against Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: They've allowed forty or more yards to an opposing tight
Speaker 1: end in every game, including a backup Eric Saubert last week,
Speaker 1: so Cole kamet back on the radar. He is a
Speaker 1: C grade in this game. Keenan Allen, they're hoping he's
Speaker 1: going to be able to play. He's going to come
Speaker 1: into Sunday's game questionable. He runs mostly from the slot,
Speaker 1: where he's got a neutral matchup against cornerback Quinton Lake,
Speaker 1: who's allowing a sixty nine percent catch rate, has not
Speaker 1: given up a touchdown yet this year. Hopefully Keenan Allen
Speaker 1: can come back here and I kind of like him.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift is dead to us.
Speaker 2: M hmm.
Speaker 1: He is last in rushing yards over expectation at negative
Speaker 1: two point four yards. That means he's leaving two and
Speaker 1: a half yards on the table every time he gets
Speaker 1: the ball.
Speaker 2: Well, when you go backwards ten yards on a fourth
Speaker 2: and goal rush, it's not that's not not a hell thing.
Speaker 1: His first down run rate is two percent, his yards
Speaker 1: after contact dead last amongst starters. DeAndre Sift's avoided tackle
Speaker 1: rate is second to last among starters, and importantly, he
Speaker 1: got pulled from the game at the end of last
Speaker 1: week's game for Rochan Johnson, a favorite of a favorite
Speaker 1: of thorn Eystrums.
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna have to change DeAndre Swift's last name.
Speaker 1: That could be the case. Taylor runs like Taylor Rochon Johnson,
Speaker 1: I think it's a dart throw. If you're buying into
Speaker 1: the notion and some of the media reports out of
Speaker 1: Chicago that Rochan Johnson's going to be the starter this week,
Speaker 1: that they're going to bench DeAndre Swift and his three year,
Speaker 1: twenty million dollar contract, then Rochan Johnson hopefully can get
Speaker 1: a little something done here. The Bears offensive line has
Speaker 1: not been good, but the Rams defense has been bad,
Speaker 1: allowing the second most fantasy points to opposing runners. All
Speaker 1: three lead backs LA has faced have topped seventy seven
Speaker 1: rushing yards, and the Rams rank thirty first in one
Speaker 1: defense success rate. LA ranks thirty first in yards after
Speaker 1: contact allowed. There's a lot to like about the North
Speaker 1: South power running of Roshan Johnson, potentially in this game.
Speaker 1: How would you feel about a Roshan Johnson breakout.
Speaker 3: I'd feel good, especially with all the injuries we have
Speaker 3: this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's take it. Let's get the Bears a running
Speaker 1: game again too. Wouldn't that be nice? It's been a while,
Speaker 1: been a while we would take that. Yeah, when we
Speaker 1: come back, take a chance on me. We've already alluded
Speaker 1: to some of the players we're going to refer to here.
Speaker 1: Nine players not normally in your starting lineup. Stay tuned
Speaker 1: to fight out who the other seven are when we
Speaker 1: come back to Fantasy Football Weekly, Take a chance on me.
Speaker 1: Nine players not normally in your starting lineup. Many of
Speaker 1: these guys available on the waiver wire right now. Let's
Speaker 1: find out who they are. Beginning with Matt Harrison, you got, I.
Speaker 2: Got Trevor Lawrence. The last time Lawrence faced this Texans team,
Speaker 2: tally three hundred and sixty four yards, a touchdown through
Speaker 2: the air, and one on the ground. And I found
Speaker 2: out some interesting stuff about the Texans defense. In three games,
Speaker 2: they have allowed six touchdown passes and they've all come
Speaker 2: in situations where a linebacker or a safety has been
Speaker 2: in coverage. In Week one against the Dolphins, Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 2: went after linebackers in safeties eleven times, including his only
Speaker 2: passing score in the game. In Week two the Browns,
Speaker 2: he targeted non corner sixteen times. In Week three against
Speaker 2: the Bills, it was twenty three times, and Bill's safety
Speaker 2: Cam Lewis was burned for nine catches in ninety nine yards.
Speaker 2: So the Jags are putting in the effort to create
Speaker 2: the mismatches nine and those mismatches are in their favor
Speaker 2: when the Texans play in zone. So if Lawrence attacks
Speaker 2: the linebackers and safeties in zone coverage, I think he's
Speaker 2: gonna have a good day.
Speaker 1: All right, sounds good. Let's go to thorn Eistrom. Your
Speaker 1: take a chance at me quarterback justin fields like it
Speaker 1: at the Colts starting him in a bunch of leagues.
Speaker 3: Nineteen point four fantasy points last week, and I think
Speaker 3: more big games are coming here. Despite the of course
Speaker 3: modest one hundred and seventy two passing yards per game
Speaker 3: that he's putting up so far, Fields his top five
Speaker 3: among quarterbacks in design, run attempt share, and scramble rate.
Speaker 3: He's averaging right now eight point three rushing attempts per game.
Speaker 3: That that's a huge fantasy floor for him. In addition,
Speaker 3: in this coming matchup, the Colts have allowed the second
Speaker 3: most rushing yards per game. There rushing defense stinks, and
Speaker 3: their pass defense is allowing thirty four more passing yards
Speaker 3: to opposing quarterbacks than the average opponent. I like Field
Speaker 3: a lot this week as a start.
Speaker 1: If only somebody had told us in the preseason that
Speaker 1: Justin Fields would get and hold the job. Matt Harrison, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I did say that a few times.
Speaker 1: You did.
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson is bad at quarterbacks, so and Justin Fields
Speaker 2: is not as bad.
Speaker 1: The Bears fans Speaking of Bears fans, who I you know?
Speaker 1: Right now? There's a lot of consternation at Chicago about
Speaker 1: the quarterback? Did they pick? Should they have picked Jalen
Speaker 1: Jayden Daniels? Should should they have kept Justin Fields? There's
Speaker 1: a lot of questions going on.
Speaker 2: Could they have just traded out?
Speaker 1: They could have traded out, and they've just done it
Speaker 1: again right to who knows a lot of options here,
Speaker 1: But Caleb Williams might take a chance to be quarterback
Speaker 1: this week because it's the Rams. Now. He's coming off
Speaker 1: a three hundred yarder with two touchdowns. The Rams have,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned last segment, four members of their secondary
Speaker 1: are on injured reserve. They've allowed the second most passing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: including back to back three touchdown games. They've allowed the
Speaker 1: fifth most passing yards. And even though he's not running
Speaker 1: a lot now, nearly as much as I wanted Kayla
Speaker 1: Williams to run. The Rams have allowed the fifth most
Speaker 1: rushing yards to quarterback. Let's go to the running back position, Matt.
Speaker 2: I've got Tony Pollard. A backfield we weren't so sure
Speaker 2: about at the beginning of the year is pretty clear now.
Speaker 2: Pollard is getting about two thirds of the snaps, Spears
Speaker 2: is getting the other third, and lead backs against the
Speaker 2: Dolphins have all had good days so far. Travis etn
Speaker 2: fifty nine total yards and a score, and he almost
Speaker 2: had a second score which he did not get into
Speaker 2: the end zone in and fumbled. In week one. James
Speaker 2: Cook did have two scores though, and ninety seven total yards.
Speaker 2: And oh by the way, Zach sharbonet last week he
Speaker 2: had two scores one hundred and seven total yards. So
Speaker 2: two scorers guaranteed for Tony Pollard this week.
Speaker 1: Now, it would be nice. He has got tons of usage.
Speaker 1: It's not really We thought it might be like evenly
Speaker 1: split between Pollard and Tase Sharp. Not close right now,
Speaker 1: You take a chance with me running back Thorn Eistro.
Speaker 3: Going with Brailan Allen here host The Jets are hosting
Speaker 3: the Broncos last week Allen had one more rushing yard
Speaker 3: than Brees Hall on five fewer carries in that run
Speaker 3: heavy game script, and the blowout went over the Patriots.
Speaker 3: Last Thursday, Allan threw his first three games in the
Speaker 3: NFL one hundred and forty one yards from scrimmage and
Speaker 3: two touchdowns, and he scored at least nine point eight
Speaker 3: PPR point fantasy points in each of the last two games.
Speaker 3: This is, of course, a very decent matchup against a
Speaker 3: mediocre run defense. Broncos are seventh worst in the NFL
Speaker 3: in miss tackle rate. Jets also likely to open up
Speaker 3: a double digit second half lead that'll flip the game
Speaker 3: script to Brailan Allen touches. He's got to be in
Speaker 3: fantasy lineups this week as a flex if nothing else.
Speaker 1: Right after the draft, you and I talked about how
Speaker 1: much you like Braylan Allen and disliked the landing spot
Speaker 1: that he found himself in behind Breeze Hall, one of
Speaker 1: the best runners in league. Off the top of your head,
Speaker 1: how many teams would Braylan Allen start on right now?
Speaker 3: Are we talking about in a vacuum? Were we talk
Speaker 3: about this week when everyone's in that right Definitely be
Speaker 3: Lord than half the NFL this Yeah, I mean eight
Speaker 3: to ten probably at least.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's like half the league. I think
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, we're getting close. He's really good. You know,
Speaker 1: else is pretty good. Bucky Irving pretty aren't good going
Speaker 1: up against Philadelphia this week. Rashod White, by the way,
Speaker 1: not good so far. Two point one yards per carry.
Speaker 1: That's horrible, bottom five in rushing yards over expectation at
Speaker 1: negative one point five. Rashod White and his struggles are
Speaker 1: even more obvious when Bucky Irving is crushing with six
Speaker 1: point two yards per carry in the same offense. Last week,
Speaker 1: Bucky Irving broke nine tackles nine tackles nine on the season,
Speaker 1: He's got an avoided tackle rate of thirty two percent.
Speaker 1: So slippery, so slippery, so slippery, and especially for kind
Speaker 1: of a north south runner, where you'd think you could
Speaker 1: get better angles on him, but it doesn't work out
Speaker 1: that way. Meanwhile, Rashot White's broken tackle rate twelve percent.
Speaker 1: That's it. I just he's the better runner. The switch
Speaker 1: is coming. At some point. Rashad White is going to
Speaker 1: turn into third down past catching guy, and it could
Speaker 1: be this week against an Eagle's defense. That ranks twenty
Speaker 1: eighth in yards allowed at one hundred and twenty two
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game, their twelfth in run defense success rate,
Speaker 1: their twentieth and rushing yards after contact, and Bucky Irving
Speaker 1: brings the contact baby, so I like him this week.
Speaker 1: Love it. Let's go to our receivers, Matt.
Speaker 2: I've got Jahan Dotson because no one in Philly is healthy,
Speaker 2: so it's Dotson's time to shine. AJ Brown isn't practiced
Speaker 2: in two weeks, DeVonta Smith is out with a concussion.
Speaker 2: Next man up is newcomer Dotson, who's been on the
Speaker 2: field for eighty one percent of the snaps in week two,
Speaker 2: eighty seven percent of the snaps in Week three. Andy
Speaker 2: gets Jamel Dean this week, who's allowed to pass the
Speaker 2: rating of one to oh three that's in his coverage
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to thorneiserm your receiver.
Speaker 3: I'm going with Jackson, Smith and jigbut at the Lions
Speaker 3: in this game, I think a big bounce back is
Speaker 3: coming for JSN after a quiet Week three, despite the
Speaker 3: Week three passing script going away from him, he led
Speaker 3: all Seahawk receivers in both snaps and routes in that game.
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna get peppered with safe targets in
Speaker 3: this game and what is an expected shootout on Detroit's
Speaker 3: fast track. Keep in mind, the lines have allowed the
Speaker 3: fourth most yards to opposing slots this year on the
Speaker 3: second most targets, so the slots are getting a lot
Speaker 3: of targets. And don't forget JSN was pepper with sixteen
Speaker 3: targets for twelve catch in one hundred and seventeen yards
Speaker 3: as recently as Week two.
Speaker 1: So I think a big game is coming for JSN here.
Speaker 1: I like it. I've got Michael Wilson against the Commanders
Speaker 1: because I want any carbon based life form who is
Speaker 1: starting against the Commanders. Yeah, they've allowed nine wide receiver
Speaker 1: touchdowns in three games. Think about that. How bad is
Speaker 1: nine wide receiver touchdowns in three games. That's more than
Speaker 1: eleven NFL teams combined. They've also allowed the third most
Speaker 1: receiving yards to opposing touchdowns. Michael Wilson's gonna line up
Speaker 1: most often against Washington cornerback Noah igbin A Ganay. You
Speaker 1: made that name nice right as all focus is ninety
Speaker 1: nine ranked cornerback. So I like Michael Wilson in this game.
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Speaker 1: Matt Yeah, Jacksonville taking on Houston. You already told us
Speaker 1: how you feel about Trevor Lawrence, So if you like him,
Speaker 1: then some of the receivers have to be in play here,
Speaker 1: and I gotta believe Brian Thomas is your favorite of
Speaker 1: the group.
Speaker 2: Well, I mentioned before that attacking zone coverage was key
Speaker 2: for the Jags. The Jags have played against or sorry,
Speaker 2: the Texans have played in zone coverage for defense sixty
Speaker 2: seven percent of the time this year. Brian Thomas Junior,
Speaker 2: by the way, has not caught a single ball in
Speaker 2: man coverage this year. All of his all of his
Speaker 2: receptions have all been in zone. Christian Kirk is the
Speaker 2: only guy that Trevor Lawrence looks for in man coverage. Okay,
Speaker 2: so that being said, this is it. Yeah, Thomas, I'm
Speaker 2: going to give him a C grade. I'm leaving Kirk
Speaker 2: on the bench. The Texans are going to stay close
Speaker 2: to their tendency. It should be more of a Thomas
Speaker 2: than a Kirk game. It is worth noting that Evan
Speaker 2: Ingram's still out with a hamstring injury. It's possible that
Speaker 2: Tank Bigsby is contractually obligated to only do stuff in
Speaker 2: Week one because Travis etn is back as the bell
Speaker 2: cow whoa. He out snapped Bigsby forty nine to seven
Speaker 2: last week, and even Deernest Johnson got more time in
Speaker 2: mop up duty. The Texans did allow Jonathan Taylor to
Speaker 2: score in Week one and let Aaron Jones go off
Speaker 2: for one hundred and forty eight total yards and a
Speaker 2: receiving touchdown last week. The Bears horrible stable of runners
Speaker 2: were the only team that couldn't get anything going on
Speaker 2: the ground. Etn gets a B grade on sheer volume
Speaker 2: in a decent matchup. On the other side, the Texans
Speaker 2: running back Dujure looks like Cam and it looks like
Speaker 2: it's gonna be Cam Akers, who saw eighty two percent
Speaker 2: of the carries for the Texans last week. With both
Speaker 2: Mixon and Pierce out. All the Texans really said about
Speaker 2: Mixon was that he was present at practice on Friday's good.
Speaker 2: That's not good at all. He didn't go Wednesday or Thursday.
Speaker 2: I don't think he goes, which means it's Cam Akers again.
Speaker 2: He only had twenty nine yards on ten touches last week,
Speaker 2: but he did score through the air. The Jags haven't
Speaker 2: allowed to run her to top sixty four yards on
Speaker 2: the ground this year, but they have allowed four touchdowns
Speaker 2: to the position and a bunch of receiving yards to
Speaker 2: posing back acres is worth a sea start if Mixing
Speaker 2: is out. If mix and Miraculous miraculously returns, he gets
Speaker 2: the C instead. Speaking of c's, it's C J. Stroud.
Speaker 2: Josh Allen just torched the Jags for two sixty three
Speaker 2: and four. That was almost all in the first half
Speaker 2: of that game, to a put up three thirty eight
Speaker 2: and a score. Stroud is an A grade here in
Speaker 2: a big bounce back week. Nico Collins also getting an A.
Speaker 2: So is Stefan Diggs. Yeah, who's primarily been running from
Speaker 2: the slot this year, which puts him in the best
Speaker 2: matchup against Jerry and Jones. But it doesn't even matter.
Speaker 2: The three Jaguars corners with more than fifty coverage snaps
Speaker 2: have allowed pass the ratings of one O eight, one
Speaker 2: thirteen and one thirty three. Well, that's not good at all.
Speaker 2: Tank Dell, he's out with a rib injury. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: It's a tank versus tank game. Tanks for it never happens. Well,
Speaker 1: actually it happens twice a year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you don't want to play either of them. Uh.
Speaker 2: Tank Dell out and Dalton Schultz top mark this year
Speaker 2: three catches for sixteen yards and I think we need
Speaker 2: to see some explosive output before we throw him in
Speaker 2: your lineup.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. Saints taking on the Falcons Store and
Speaker 1: Chris Alave on Friday suffered a hamstring injury. I don't
Speaker 1: like Friday injuries. That always worries me. The short time
Speaker 1: table to return. Don't know what his status is gonna be.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to watch that one very closely going
Speaker 1: up to Sunday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if he plays, I'm gonna give him a be
Speaker 3: But that's again something that you have to monitor very closely.
Speaker 3: He's being reported as day to day officially questionable for Sunday.
Speaker 3: Of course, not the best news forty eight hours before kickoff,
Speaker 3: but Olave does have eighty plus receiving guard get each
Speaker 3: of the last two weeks. The Falcons pass defense. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: on the other side, it's been good so far. Anticipate
Speaker 3: a close game script would lead to a bunch of
Speaker 3: targets for a Lave if he's able to play, and
Speaker 3: the Falcons have allowed the ninth most PPR points to
Speaker 3: opposing perimeter wide receivers this season. Derek Carr with some
Speaker 3: of this stuff up in the air, giving him a
Speaker 3: c crash back down to earth with only one hundred
Speaker 3: and forty two passing yards and five point six yards
Speaker 3: per attempt against the Eagles last week. In that game,
Speaker 3: the reason why he came back to earth he was
Speaker 3: pressured at the fifth highest rate in the NFL. Last week,
Speaker 3: Philly provided the recipe to the rest of the NFL
Speaker 3: on how you defend this Saints team. Carr is not
Speaker 3: going to face as much pressure this week against the Falcons. However,
Speaker 3: The Saints love to use that play action game to
Speaker 3: get their easy looks, and the Falcons they have seen
Speaker 3: more play action than any defense in the NFL this season,
Speaker 3: and they've allowed the eighth fewest yards per attempt on
Speaker 3: play action attempts. For all those reasons, I'm keeping Car
Speaker 3: out a sea. Elvin Kamara. He's listed with two injury
Speaker 3: Everyone listed with injuries this week, ribs and a hit
Speaker 3: pointer listed as questionable. If Kamara plays, we expect him
Speaker 3: to will. I'm giving him an a in this game.
Speaker 3: They have to give him a billion touches year, especially
Speaker 3: in lieu of the Olave injury. Kamara RB one and
Speaker 3: Fantasy twenty seven point two Fantasy points per game number
Speaker 3: eight in rush here number two in target share as
Speaker 3: a receiver. The Falcons their defense surrendering more than one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty rushing yards per game, and the Falcons
Speaker 3: have a poor front seven that projects poorly against that
Speaker 3: wide zone system that the Saints like to use. So
Speaker 3: expect to see Kamara out on that edge and ripping
Speaker 3: off gashing yards there. Rashid shahied I'm going I upgraded
Speaker 3: him to a bee when we got the old Lave
Speaker 3: news here. Of course, he went zero for five on
Speaker 3: targets last week. But despite that, Rashid Shaheed our boy,
Speaker 3: still wide receiver twenty seven and fantasy points per game.
Speaker 3: Solid match up here to get back on track. Falcons
Speaker 3: run the sixth highest rate of single high in the
Speaker 3: entire NFL. Of course, Shaheed is better against single high.
Speaker 3: You get the pre delineated one on one looks that
Speaker 3: he feasts on. You're gonna need that bomb here to
Speaker 3: return the fantasy value. But he's going to get those looks,
Speaker 3: in particular if Chris Olave is not playing, so I'm
Speaker 3: gonna give him a bee. Taysom Hill, stop me if
Speaker 3: you've heard this one before. Injury surrounding that, but Hill's
Speaker 3: going to be back after he missed last week with
Speaker 3: a chest injury. We'll assuredly see more looks if indeed
Speaker 3: Chris o'lave is out in this game. For that reason,
Speaker 3: I gave him a sea. I wouldn't have game him
Speaker 3: or I wouldn't gamble on him if Olave was indeed playing.
Speaker 3: But in the games where Taysom Hill has been healthy
Speaker 3: averaging five touches, twenty seven and a half total yards,
Speaker 3: well healthy flipping over to the falcon side, Kirk Cousin's
Speaker 3: gonna give him a see in this game. QB twenty
Speaker 3: seven and fantasy points per game. Not a great week
Speaker 3: for a statistical bonanza there. Saints have a great passing
Speaker 3: defensive allowed only one passing touchdown this year. Bjon Robinson
Speaker 3: is a must start, of course, Tyler Lger. I would
Speaker 3: keep him on the bench in this matchup. Drake London
Speaker 3: another must start. He's returned to himself after the quiet
Speaker 3: week one that he had in Cousins' debut under speed
Speaker 3: wide receiver one there of course Darnell Mooney.
Speaker 1: I think Mooney's looked really good. He has looked really.
Speaker 3: Good and he might be the wide receiver two there,
Speaker 3: the pass catcher number two over Pitts.
Speaker 1: Even there, I'm gonna give him a see.
Speaker 3: He has, like you know that being what it is,
Speaker 3: twenty three percent target share and the Saints have given
Speaker 3: up the fifth most receiving yards per game. Kyle Pitt's
Speaker 3: gonna give him a see. This might be the last
Speaker 3: week where I give him a seed. He only hit
Speaker 3: Church get this seven point four percent first read share.
Speaker 3: They're not even looking at them. And even if there's
Speaker 3: a tertiary option there, Cousins isn't getting down to him
Speaker 3: on the progression chart there, and Pits start to lose
Speaker 3: snaps last week. In addition, this is though a solid
Speaker 3: matchup if you can stomach it. The Saints have allowed
Speaker 3: the fourth most receptions and third most receiving yards to
Speaker 3: opposing tight ends this year, so we're gonna give Pitts
Speaker 3: a tentative seat.
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Speaker 1: Football Weekly, Paul Jarchi and Matt Harrison throw an ice
Speaker 1: room with you. Vikings go to Green Bay. Justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: obviously a great every week. But let me note this.
Speaker 1: JayR Alexander may not play the superstar cornerback. He's got
Speaker 1: quad and groin injuries and enough fear injuries, and Andy's
Speaker 1: scared he's wetting them at the prospect of facing Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Note that depth cornerback Carrington Valentine, also not expected to go.
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson might be the best play of the week.
Speaker 1: If this thing pans out without those two players.
Speaker 2: Sounds like a fantasy ardvark.
Speaker 1: You know what it does, sound like a fantasy ardvark
Speaker 1: right there, Yeah, fantasy ardvark on Justin Jefferson. Let's stay
Speaker 1: with the passing game. Sam Donald leads the NFL in
Speaker 1: touchdown passes. It feels weird to say, at multiple touchdowns
Speaker 1: in every game. We want our fantasy passers to be
Speaker 1: able to deliver downfield, and that's what Sam Donald is doing.
Speaker 1: In total opposition to everything we ever saw about Sam
Speaker 1: Donald before he got to Minnesota, he actually leads the
Speaker 1: NFL in completion percentage on passes over fifteen yards. Green
Speaker 1: Bay's pass defense looks suspect, and obviously if jy R.
Speaker 1: Alexander doesn't go, or if he's playing in a limited fashion,
Speaker 1: it looks even better for him. Then. Even though green
Speaker 1: Bay faced almost non functional passers and Will Levis and
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson, they still rank twenty fourth in passing yards
Speaker 1: allowed and twenty fourth in pass touchdowns allowed, and twenty
Speaker 1: second in opposer passer rating. Sam Darnold's a B right now,
Speaker 1: and it moves up to an A if JayR Alexander
Speaker 1: can't go. This also brings into play Jordan Addison, who's
Speaker 1: completely off the injury report as a Friday. He's gonna
Speaker 1: start in this game, and I think Jalen Naylor is
Speaker 1: also potentially startable. He has been so good. I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna get a lot of eleven personnel to get Addison, Naylor,
Speaker 1: and Jefferson on the field at the same time. It'll
Speaker 1: also press Eric Stokes into x extra coverage and he
Speaker 1: was awful last year and he doesn't look any different
Speaker 1: this year. Just gave up a touchdown to the undead
Speaker 1: corpse of DeAndre Hopkins last week. Addison and Naylor come
Speaker 1: in with C grades. Aaron Jones it's a revenge game,
Speaker 1: of course, when he comes up against a run defense
Speaker 1: that ranks twenty fourth in yards per carry allowed and
Speaker 1: the other metrics all look roughly middle of the pack
Speaker 1: for the Green Bay Packers. Two of three opposing teams
Speaker 1: have run for over one hundred yards against Green Bay.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna flirt with the one hundred yard
Speaker 1: mark here himself and I've got an A grade on
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones. Let's go over to the Packers. If it's
Speaker 1: a Molik Willis start, then the only starting grade I
Speaker 1: can give you is Josh Jacobs. If it's a Jordan
Speaker 1: Love start, I can only get you to a SEA
Speaker 1: on Jordan Love because I'm worried that his knee will
Speaker 1: not be one hundred percent. It'll take away some of
Speaker 1: his mobility. He's going to be a stationary figure for
Speaker 1: Brian Flores to attack. Minnesota is the only team over
Speaker 1: the last twenty years to have five or more sacks
Speaker 1: in each of the first three games. Wow, that's a stat.
Speaker 1: That's a stat right there. This defense is absolutely swarming.
Speaker 1: And if Love doesn't have some of the mobility that
Speaker 1: he uses to extend plays, I'd be worried about him here.
Speaker 1: If Love does go, I can get you to C
Speaker 1: grades on Jayden Reid as a run pass combo Romeo Dobbs.
Speaker 1: Maybe they've been the only two Green Bay receivers who
Speaker 1: are getting consistent playing time and routes. I don't see
Speaker 1: a lot of upside for these guys, and that's why
Speaker 1: I'm only giving C grades here. And if Reid gets
Speaker 1: about half of the slot use, which he normally does.
Speaker 1: It's not a great situation because Minnesota does a fantastic
Speaker 1: job against slot receivers in general, Dobbs is going to
Speaker 1: have better options against the outside cornerbacks Stefan Gilmour and
Speaker 1: Shack Griffin, who are giving up a seventy one percent
Speaker 1: catch rate. But again, if it's Malik Willis, then the
Speaker 1: whole passing game is on the bench, and that leaves
Speaker 1: us with Josh Jacobs tough matchup against an elite run defense.
Speaker 1: Minnesota ranks number one in run defense by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: They're number seven in tackling, their number five in run
Speaker 1: defense success rate. They're number three in yards per carry
Speaker 1: allowed at just three point six. Two of three opposing
Speaker 1: teams against Minnesota have failed to top forty five rushing
Speaker 1: yards as a team. It's that bad. With Jordan Love
Speaker 1: at the helm, Minnesota should provide a somewhat looser box,
Speaker 1: which can help Jacobs reverse declining yards per carry in
Speaker 1: every game, which has been the case so far. And
Speaker 1: don't start, but let's just let's just note Emmanuel Wilson
Speaker 1: looks pretty darn good. Keep your eye on that cat.
Speaker 1: I liked I like what I've seen so far.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brian had him as take a chance on me
Speaker 2: last week and he.
Speaker 1: Scored pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Did he score the time you.
Speaker 2: Scored a touchdown?
Speaker 1: Scott?
Speaker 2: Not three times? Not like you did?
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Speaker 1: takes on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 2: Matt Yeah. Saquon Barkley is an A grade. He's on
Speaker 2: the field for eighty five percent of his team snaps
Speaker 2: his cow bell rings the loudest. Jalen Hurts gets an
Speaker 2: A grade too, even with all of his wide receivers
Speaker 2: dinged up. Hurts faces the Bucks that have allowed one
Speaker 2: hundred and forty rushing yards and three scores on the
Speaker 2: ground two opposing quarterbacks in the first three weeks. That's
Speaker 2: second most in yards in the most touchdowns. Dallas Goddard
Speaker 2: should be heavily involved again. He had ten catches and
Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy yards last week. Probably could have
Speaker 2: scored on a long catch and run, but I think
Speaker 2: he got tired the last ten yards. The Bucks have
Speaker 2: done a good job keeping the tight end off the
Speaker 2: board so far. Zach Ertz and Sam Laporta didn't do much,
Speaker 2: but they won't receive the volume that Goddard will see
Speaker 2: in this game. So Goddard gets a B. Johan Dotson
Speaker 2: was might take a chance on me wide receiver I
Speaker 2: mentioned aj Brown and DeVonta Smith, both unlikely to go.
Speaker 2: Paris Campbell, by the way, will serve as wide receiver
Speaker 2: two in a juicy matchup against the Bucks. Campbell manned
Speaker 2: the slot last week where Britton Covey got hurt and
Speaker 2: the Bucks secondary allowed eleven catches for one hundred and
Speaker 2: nineteen yards to Detroit slot wide receiver a mon Ross
Speaker 2: Saint Brown last week. Now, Paris Campbell's not a mon
Speaker 2: Ross Saint Brown. But yeah, you know the other slot
Speaker 2: receiver on the other side, Chris Godwin. He gets an A.
Speaker 2: He's seen thirty three percent of his team's targets so
Speaker 2: far this season. He's caught every ball thrown his way
Speaker 2: but three, and he scored a touchdown in each of
Speaker 2: his first three weeks, and from the slot he gets
Speaker 2: a lot of Avante Maddox, who gave up a touchdown
Speaker 2: in Week one to a similarly talented slot receiver, Jaden Reid,
Speaker 2: who had four catches for one hundred and thirty eight
Speaker 2: yards in that one. Mike Evans dealing with a knee injury.
Speaker 2: He's been limited Wednesday and Thursday. He might not go
Speaker 2: in this one. If he does, he deserves at least
Speaker 2: a C grade. But Jalen McMillan does too. It's been free.
Speaker 2: Darius Sleigh rides all over town that year as Slaves,
Speaker 2: given up a passer rating of one forty one in
Speaker 2: his coverage.
Speaker 1: Wow, I do it's bad, and I think it was
Speaker 1: that bad.
Speaker 2: It's real bad.
Speaker 1: We used to have a slay bells on our button barble.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not anymore. We don't anymore. It's we're not very
Speaker 2: Christmasy over here. Baker Mayfield gets a solid B in
Speaker 2: all of this. Kirk Cousins and Jordan Love cobbled together
Speaker 2: some decent days against this defense. In twelve of the
Speaker 2: last twenty quarterbacks who faced the Eagles d if thrown
Speaker 2: for multiple touchdown passes lastly Rashadway and Bucky Irving. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Irving was charged to take a chance on me running back.
Speaker 2: I will note that he did sit out Thursday's practice
Speaker 2: with a hamstring injury, but he did return to practice
Speaker 2: on Friday. We think he'll be good to go. The
Speaker 2: snapshare still favors White two to one, but as Charge mentioned,
Speaker 2: the touch totals tell a different story. What I will
Speaker 2: mention in Tampa's most dominant win, White touched the ball
Speaker 2: twenty one times and he's definitely been more involved in
Speaker 2: the passing game than Bucky. But it's just a C
Speaker 2: grade because I don't trust the workload thor.
Speaker 1: We got to be quick on this one. But and
Speaker 1: maybe that's all we have to do, because the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns are areck right now. They're going to be missing
Speaker 1: three offensive linemen in this game against the Raider, sure.
Speaker 3: Are Yeah, you got to keep Deshaun Watson on the bench,
Speaker 3: and this one despite it being a decent matchup here
Speaker 3: against that Colts defense, But keep him on the bench.
Speaker 3: Jerome Ford, Listen, it's questionable here. He did return to
Speaker 3: practice in limited capacity on Thursday. He has that knee issue.
Speaker 3: If he plays. I'm giving him a seat if he doesn't,
Speaker 3: because Pierre Strong has already ruled up for this game
Speaker 3: with the hamstring. Deontay Foreman, I would give the Sea too,
Speaker 3: so we'll see how that goes. Amari Cooper, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: give him a b. The opportunities finally turned into production
Speaker 3: last week. Seven catches for eighty six yards, two touchdowns
Speaker 3: against the Giants on twelve targets, and the Raiders have
Speaker 3: allowed the fourth most Fantasy points per game. Two wide
Speaker 3: receivers over expectation have to temper expectation because of the
Speaker 3: quarterback play. But the matchup is there, and in particular
Speaker 3: because David and Joke who's not going to play. So
Speaker 3: when the balls in the air, it is going to
Speaker 3: Cooper going to the Raiders side. Gardner Minshew is a
Speaker 3: bench and his leash is not long. Zamir White. I
Speaker 3: would also keep Zamir White on the bench in this week.
Speaker 1: Disappointment.
Speaker 3: Only played twenty two percent of snaps last week. Yeah
Speaker 3: ten ten carries for thirty four yards and the loss
Speaker 3: of the Panthers. He needs positive game scripts to get
Speaker 3: production whatsoever. Because he's the early down guy. The passing
Speaker 3: scripts aren't going to work for him. DeVante Adams ruled
Speaker 3: out he had the hamstring injury. He's not playing in
Speaker 3: this game, which makes brock Bauers really the only guy
Speaker 3: that you want to start in this Jim.
Speaker 1: Kobe Myers too.
Speaker 3: I guess with with Adams being out, you could put Myers.
Speaker 1: As a sort of a desperation.
Speaker 3: See brock Bauers, he is the mus star fifteen catches
Speaker 3: last two game and is going to get a ludicrous
Speaker 3: amount of targets in this game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you on all of that. You know,
Speaker 1: we like to peacock the things we got right. This
Speaker 1: is us eating pro right here on Zamir White, and
Speaker 1: I'm talking to Matt and I. We spent the preseason
Speaker 1: talking of Zamir White as somebody who was gonna get
Speaker 1: a ton of carries in this offense. We thought that
Speaker 1: Zamir White was what we saw in December was productivity.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy was running, you know, twenty times
Speaker 1: a game for one hundred and ten total yards a game.
Speaker 1: Are like, okay, I extrapolate that over sixteen weeks he
Speaker 1: was a He was one of those guys that I
Speaker 1: targeted and might do the opposite drafts in round seven,
Speaker 1: Zamir White. I'm contemplating dropping him all together. Yeah, based
Speaker 1: on that's getting closer White we've seen.
Speaker 2: I think this week's gonna be the week. I'm still believing.
Speaker 2: I still believe there's so many raiders out it's gonna
Speaker 2: be this week.
Speaker 1: When Antonio Pierce said that he's he's the people that
Speaker 1: made business decisions on the field, we're gonna get bench.
Speaker 1: The first thing I thought of was Zamir White. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: thor Ku. Yeah, Rock Chalk at Rock chalk, babe. This
Speaker 1: is a game we call three tough questions.
Speaker 2: Tough question number one, what's.
Speaker 1: The appropriate level of concern over Patrick Mahomes? Is it none?
Speaker 1: Is it some? Or is it a bowel loosening level
Speaker 1: of existential dread? We begin with Matt Harrison.
Speaker 2: I was confused when I saw this question. It was
Speaker 2: three confusing questions. I'm trying to come up with. Wide
Speaker 2: be concerned. I know he hasn't thrown for three hundred
Speaker 2: yards yet, but he has had at least two hundred
Speaker 2: and ninety one yards or multiple scores in every game,
Speaker 2: and he played three good defenses so far in Baltimore, Sincy,
Speaker 2: and Atlanta. The schedule isn't easy, but the matchups he
Speaker 2: has left, He's got the Saints two at the Raiders,
Speaker 2: the Bucks, the Panthers, the Texans that are suddenly terrible
Speaker 2: at defense. He's not going to break fantasy. He won't
Speaker 2: be the number one scoring quarterback, but he's gonna get
Speaker 2: you reliable fantasy points every week. And nobody was drafting
Speaker 2: him like he was going to break fantasy this year.
Speaker 2: So I'm not concerned at all.
Speaker 1: Zero concern for you, all right, Thorp, what's the appropriate
Speaker 1: level of concern over Patrick Mahomes. None, some or blowed
Speaker 1: that was well sept by Matt.
Speaker 3: You know, as long as he was being viewed as
Speaker 3: a sort of neighborhood to tier two type fantasy quarterback.
Speaker 3: In that context, I don't have any about him. There
Speaker 3: was always going to be some sort of acclamation process
Speaker 3: with adding Xavier Worth the end of the offense, and
Speaker 3: then of course the unexpected loss of Hollywood Brown while
Speaker 3: you were trying to acclimate him in. If the expectations
Speaker 3: were realistic, you're not disappointed right now. You're only disappointed
Speaker 3: if the expectations weren't.
Speaker 1: I think most people did not see him as a
Speaker 1: quarterback two. I don't think he was conviewed as a
Speaker 1: second tier quarterback. He went off the board his quarterback
Speaker 1: five in fantasy drafts. He was viewed as an extremely safe,
Speaker 1: every week starter, but the data does not back that up. Now,
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey's part of the problem. He's tight end twenty
Speaker 1: seven right now. It's been bad behind Nick Vannette and
Speaker 1: Johnny Munt. What are we even talking about here? I
Speaker 1: know some people are suggesting that Travis Kelce is suffering
Speaker 1: from a Super Bowl hangover. That he's spent his whole
Speaker 1: off season partying with Taylor Swift and sipping Dom Perignon,
Speaker 1: and that he's not in football shape. But let me
Speaker 1: be clear, if I had spent an entire off season
Speaker 1: dating Taylor Swift, my cardio would be outstanding right now.
Speaker 3: As we've discussed earlier in the episode, Swift is not
Speaker 3: good for offenses.
Speaker 1: No, Swift is not good for offenses. I could go
Speaker 1: hit the seventh stage of the Tour de France if
Speaker 1: I had been dating Taylor Swift all offseason. So I
Speaker 1: don't think that's the problem. But I will tell you
Speaker 1: what's killing Patrick Mahomes. We think of Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 1: these legendary deep passes, ideally to Tyreek Hill in the
Speaker 1: old day. Since Tyreek has left, those have dried up.
Speaker 1: But listened to this on passes of over fifteen yards,
Speaker 1: and we think of Patrick Mahomes like forty yards downfield,
Speaker 1: there's only fifteen yards. Mahomes ranks twenty seventh in attempts
Speaker 1: and fifteenth in completions. That's it. And these deep balls
Speaker 1: are what unlocks all these big fantasy games gains where
Speaker 1: you get one completion and you get you know, sixty yards.
Speaker 1: None of that's none of that's happened. You mentioned Xavier Worthy.
Speaker 1: He has not helped yet and that might come down
Speaker 1: the road. And that's fair to say that Xavier Worthy
Speaker 1: could turn into the deep threat that he hasn't had yet.
Speaker 1: But this is not a new problem for Mahomes. Let's
Speaker 1: go back to Week eight of last year and the
Speaker 1: eleven regular season games since then, Thor and Matt In
Speaker 1: the last eleven Patrick Mahomes regular season games. You want
Speaker 1: to guess how many times Patrick Mahomes has been a
Speaker 1: top ten quarterback Fantasy quarterback and points score. I'll go too, yeah, two, one, Oh,
Speaker 1: we're really close his jo, his average Patrick Mahomes average start,
Speaker 1: going back to the middle last season, quarterback sixteen more
Speaker 1: often than not. If you had another viable alternative, you
Speaker 1: probably would have outscored Patrick Mahomes. You need to have
Speaker 1: some concern about this outBut he's not hurting you. But
Speaker 1: he's not Patrick Mahomes and you either. I just question
Speaker 1: his name. How I did that? Are you buying low
Speaker 1: and Mark Andrews? Are you just glad you don't have
Speaker 1: him for We'll be in this one with Thor.
Speaker 3: I'm happy that I do not have him. I do
Speaker 3: not have him in one league, the Ravens. They have
Speaker 3: more aerial options now in the offense is always going
Speaker 3: to be run leaning as far as you know, as
Speaker 3: long as Lamar Jackson is running it, Andrews always should
Speaker 3: have been viewed, in my opinion, as a situation specific
Speaker 3: fantasy played this year, and I think that's what he's
Speaker 3: going to continue to be. I fully believe he's going
Speaker 3: to have a couple of big games this year, but
Speaker 3: that's going to be on the owner in advance to
Speaker 3: suss out those matchups that facilitate those looks. I don't
Speaker 3: own him, and I would only buy low if the
Speaker 3: price was pretty dang low.
Speaker 1: All right, Matt, are you buying low on Mark Andrews
Speaker 1: or are you just glad you don't have him.
Speaker 2: I think everybody's trying to remember what happened two years
Speaker 2: ago and three years ago when it was Lamar Jackson
Speaker 2: running and all of his passes went to Andrews, and
Speaker 2: those days are over. The addition of Derrick Henry that
Speaker 2: might be the thing that's killing him, or the emergence
Speaker 2: of Isaiah Likely, or the fact that Zay Flowers was
Speaker 2: drafted last year and he doesn't suck. There's also Lamar
Speaker 2: being able to run. Still I don't want him. I
Speaker 2: am glad I don't have him.
Speaker 1: There's part of me that rationally feel like you can
Speaker 1: get him for almost free right now, and so why
Speaker 1: not roll the dice. But the numbers just don't back
Speaker 1: it up. Get this, For the three games this year,
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews has declining snaps, routes, and targets in all
Speaker 1: three games now. In fairness, last week the Ravens got
Speaker 1: way out ahead of the Cowboys. They's ram the ball
Speaker 1: the rest of the game, so I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: the game script turned very much against all the receivers,
Speaker 1: so maybe that was part of it. But also Isaiah
Speaker 1: Likely's emergence means that they're just splitting opportunities and there
Speaker 1: just weren't enough opportunities to go around to begin with
Speaker 1: correct and Likely's really good, and so even though Andrews
Speaker 1: might still be a good tight end, there's just not
Speaker 1: enough opportunity. And we've sent it for a million times
Speaker 1: over the thirty years of this show. Opportunity is more
Speaker 1: important than talent for fantasy use, yes, and we just
Speaker 1: don't have it with Mark Andrews correct answer, be glad
Speaker 1: you don't have them tough. Question number three, Is Malik
Speaker 1: Neighbors already the number one dynasty wide out?
Speaker 2: Matt speaking of opportunity and talent? I mean he's pretty good, right.
Speaker 1: Yes, that that is the X and Y axis coming
Speaker 1: together right here.
Speaker 2: It really is. But my answer is no, he's not
Speaker 2: the number one dynasty wide out because Daniel Jones is
Speaker 2: still so bad. He threw a pass to Neighbors that
Speaker 2: got him concussed on Thursday night. It was a pass
Speaker 2: that it just it toasted him. You think that won't
Speaker 2: happen again with Danny Dimes at the Helm, No, it's
Speaker 2: gonna happen again. Neighbors is probably in the top five though.
Speaker 2: If it's me, I have Jefferson, Chase, Lamb, and Harrison
Speaker 2: above Malik Neighbors. But that's it.
Speaker 1: That's it, Okay, Foor. Is Malik Neighbors already the number
Speaker 1: one dynasty wideout?
Speaker 3: He's not, But I'm so dang impressed with him. Even
Speaker 3: that ball where he got concussed. He did that Chris
Speaker 3: Carter thing where his body went lamp in order to
Speaker 3: get the feet behind him in and if he had
Speaker 3: held onto that ball. He would have have been a
Speaker 3: catch because he got those feed him. But that's why
Speaker 3: his head bunked off the ground. Justin Jefferson's ahead of
Speaker 3: him for sure, Ceedee Lamb and Jamar Chase. It's hard
Speaker 3: to sort of gauge their value here based on acclimating
Speaker 3: back early in the season.
Speaker 1: Love neighbors, absolutely love him.
Speaker 3: But contextually you think about Dynasty, They're going to have
Speaker 3: a different quarterback in the future. I think they're also
Speaker 3: going to have a different coaching staff in the future.
Speaker 3: Then there's going to be an acclamation process of that
Speaker 3: young quarterback that they draft ostensibly in the top five
Speaker 3: to six this coming year. That could hurt neighbors. And
Speaker 3: then also when you get more weapons around him. One
Speaker 3: Dale look decent on the Thursday night football game, but
Speaker 3: they need other weapons around him. Once they do, those
Speaker 3: guys will get the balls as well. Some neighbors. He's
Speaker 3: moven up there, but I can't call wide receiver one
Speaker 3: in Dynasty.
Speaker 1: For receivers, I'd rather have neighbors than almost everybody, but
Speaker 1: not quite everybody. And the criteria is I need any
Speaker 1: other receivers gotta be young, and I put the cut
Speaker 1: off at twenty five. Gotta be twenty five or younger,
Speaker 1: and you have to have a stable, good quarterback throwing
Speaker 1: you the ball. So my list is not that different
Speaker 1: than yours. Justin Jefferson, I think is in whether it's
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold in the future or it's JJ McCarthy in
Speaker 1: the future. Ceedee Lamb is in. Dak Prescott's got a
Speaker 1: fat new long contract, he's set. Jamar Chase is in
Speaker 1: with Joe Burrow. He's only twenty four. Jamar Chase I
Speaker 1: also had. I'm on Ross Saint Brown in he's only twenty,
Speaker 1: that's true. And Jared Goff's great, He's not great. I'm
Speaker 1: on Ross great. Jared Goff's good enough. I don't have
Speaker 1: Harrison in mind quite yet, but I've got the Leak
Speaker 1: Neighbors number five. Those are the only four receivers that
Speaker 1: I would say no to on a trade for the
Speaker 1: Lak Neighbors and the list. That's it, just the four guys. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's get back to the matchups coming up next. Hey,
Speaker 1: it's me New England Patriots taking on the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: There is not a lot to talk about with the
Speaker 1: Patriots side. Ramondre Stevenson. When I went into this matchup, Matt,
Speaker 1: I thought Ramondre Stevenson was going to be a bench guy.
Speaker 1: But then I started digging into the data.
Speaker 2: But we all wish we left him on the bench last.
Speaker 1: Week, and boy, oh god, I survived a couple of
Speaker 1: guillotine leagues by the skin of my teeth Romondre because
Speaker 1: I got him in a lot of leagues forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: Run defense is just okay. They're giving up four point
Speaker 1: four yards per carry. They've given up the eleventh most
Speaker 1: fantasy points to opposing runners. They ranked twenty fifth in
Speaker 1: run defense success rate. They're dead last in rushing yards
Speaker 1: before contact at two point three. They've allowed the second
Speaker 1: fewest missed tackles, and Stevenson's been great with miss tackles,
Speaker 1: so they're tackling well. I'm also a little bit worried
Speaker 1: about the Patriots offensive line, which is decimated by injury
Speaker 1: right now, but I think Stevenson gets enough use here.
Speaker 1: If the Patriots have any prayer of pulling the upset here,
Speaker 1: they've got to run the ball and run well, and
Speaker 1: they got to hope that Romandri does some special things.
Speaker 1: So I just think through sheer volume. They're gonna that
Speaker 1: romondre Stevenson is gonna be a play here. C grade
Speaker 1: on rimondre Stevenson. The entire passing games on the bench
Speaker 1: for the Patriots.
Speaker 2: Do you think it is the Drake may Real getting
Speaker 2: into this game.
Speaker 1: I hope not, because they're doing the right thing by
Speaker 1: not putting him in these terrible positions behind a bad
Speaker 1: offensive line that's all banged up. Let's hope that we
Speaker 1: don't see Drake may here. The whole passing game on
Speaker 1: the bench, including Hunter Henry, which I think would be
Speaker 1: the guy you'd be most inclined to play here. Forty
Speaker 1: nine ers rank number one in tight end defense, allowing
Speaker 1: the fewest receptions, the fewest yards, and the fewest touchdowns
Speaker 1: zero to opposing tight ends. So this is not and
Speaker 1: by the way, they were the six bet tight best
Speaker 1: tight end defense last year by Fantasy points. It's the
Speaker 1: whole thing's dead, including Pop Douglas. You might be tempted
Speaker 1: to start, We're not going to go there either. So
Speaker 1: all the passing game out for the Patriots. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the niner side. A grade on Jordan Mason. He
Speaker 1: leads the league in rushing attempts, and why not. He's
Speaker 1: averaging almost five yards per carry. He's posted the sixth
Speaker 1: best avoided tackle rate. He's got the fourth highest rushing
Speaker 1: yards over expectation. Patriots are not a bad run defense,
Speaker 1: to be clear, but they've allowed rushing touchdowns in every game.
Speaker 1: They're not a good They're not dominating run defense. The
Speaker 1: Jordan Mason just too much volume. He's too good a grade.
Speaker 2: With the news that Christian McCaffrey is going to Germany
Speaker 2: to get his achilles looked at, does this make Jordan
Speaker 2: Mason League winner a top five runner the rest of
Speaker 2: the year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it absolutely does. Absolutely does. Does anybody
Speaker 1: ever go to like some foreign country to have some
Speaker 1: procedure that's an illegal in America and come away better
Speaker 1: for it? I mean it's like such a desperation dart throw.
Speaker 1: It doesn't ever seem like it works, like you're going
Speaker 1: to some shirpa in a yurt in Mongolia because you
Speaker 1: found some guy who's willing to give you the procedure.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know, man, I figure like the German
Speaker 2: embassy would be like something you could go to instead.
Speaker 1: Maybe that would be me. Yeah, I think absolutely Horse placentis.
Speaker 1: Let's go Robby, let's go with the past. Let's go
Speaker 1: with the passing game. And I'll start with Brock Party,
Speaker 1: who has look great currently. Pro football focuses quarterback two
Speaker 1: overall seventy two percent completion rate that he's throwing the
Speaker 1: ball deep down field. He's still completing a ton of passes.
Speaker 1: He's got the third and longest average depth of target,
Speaker 1: and those big downfield plays have unlocked gobs of fantasy points.
Speaker 1: Patriots have struggled against Geno Smith and Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 1: back to back games, and this looks like their toughest
Speaker 1: test yet. I've got a solid B borderline A grade
Speaker 1: on Brock Purty. Juwan Jennings. Now, we got to watch
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel's status for this game. Now, if Deebo goes
Speaker 1: in this game, he only gets a C grade because
Speaker 1: I'm worried that he's not going to be one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: But if Deebo's out, Juwan Jennings back to being a
Speaker 1: solid play like he was last week. Jennings get the
Speaker 1: big uptick in usage and routes, run and plays last week.
Speaker 1: He's a big body, he's athletic. He wins contested catches.
Speaker 1: Jenny runs about half his place from the slot, where
Speaker 1: he would match up against cornerback Marcus Jones, who's allowing
Speaker 1: a seventy three percent catch rate. Again, if Debo comes back,
Speaker 1: then Deebo runs from the slot and they'll kick Jwan
Speaker 1: Jennings outside. That would drop Jennings to a crade in
Speaker 1: this game. How about Brandon Ayuk. I get the feeling
Speaker 1: if the Niners could do it again, they would not
Speaker 1: pay Ayuk the money they just paid him. Because Juwan
Speaker 1: Jennings looks every bit is good and he's practically free,
Speaker 1: He's gonna get a lot of coverage from the Patriots'
Speaker 1: best cornerback, Jonathan Jones, who often shadows opponents' best outside receiver.
Speaker 1: Jones was great last year, allowing only a single touchdown,
Speaker 1: and Jones hasn't allowed a touchdown this year so far.
Speaker 1: He's been similarly didn't allow a touchdown last year and
Speaker 1: this year he's giving up just two catches for twenty
Speaker 1: nine yards per game in his coverage. I can only
Speaker 1: get you to a C grade on Ayuk. Ayuk looked
Speaker 1: like the smash spot last week ended up being Juwan Jennings.
Speaker 1: He's looks like George Kittle's gonna go, which is great.
Speaker 1: Excited for him to go. If he can't, you could
Speaker 1: throw Eric Sauberd in again, but.
Speaker 2: He is off the injury report.
Speaker 1: Now, very positive news there. Patriots have allowed the six
Speaker 1: most tight end receiving yards, including getting hammered by Tyler
Speaker 1: Konklin last week. So Kittle goes, be great on Kittle,
Speaker 1: game on and hopefully that will be the case in
Speaker 1: this game. One final matchup for this segment, and that's you,
Speaker 1: Matt Okay Washington Commanders at Arizona Cardinals, and we got
Speaker 1: to a stage with Jayden Daniels in game number four.
Speaker 1: We just go, well, he's an obvious A and we
Speaker 1: just move on with the rest of our matchup.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. He's completed eighty percent of his
Speaker 2: passes this season. He's twenty third in the league in
Speaker 2: passes attempted, but he's been super efficient, sixth in the
Speaker 2: league in yards per attempt at eight point seven yards.
Speaker 2: He's also scored the most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback
Speaker 2: and second in the league in rushing yards by a quarterback,
Speaker 2: behind only Lamar Jackson. He's an auto A grade unless
Speaker 2: he plays a heavy hitter of a defense. This Cardinals unit,
Speaker 2: ain't it. Terry McLaurin. Terry McLaurin, he's fifth in the
Speaker 2: league in average depth of target at sixteen point four yards.
Speaker 2: That means he's sixteen yards downfield from the line of
Speaker 2: scrimmage when targets get to him. That's a long way
Speaker 2: is a long way. Problem is he's only had eighteen
Speaker 2: targets in his first three weeks, and I don't know
Speaker 2: if I expect a huge target load this week. It's
Speaker 2: been so easy to run again sins the Cards. Hardly
Speaker 2: any receivers have done anything. Son God managed seventy five
Speaker 2: in a score last week, but that's really the only
Speaker 2: notable game thus far for wide receivers. They're not even
Speaker 2: really getting targeted against Arizona. So I'll give Terry a C.
Speaker 2: But I don't feel super enthusiastic about it. And you're
Speaker 2: not starting Diami Brown, who's eating into Luke McCaffrey snaps,
Speaker 2: I'm sad about that. Zach Ertz is getting you four
Speaker 2: or five targets a game, which means he'll get you
Speaker 2: four or five receptions per game, and that's a lot
Speaker 2: in this tight end class really is. It's a revenge
Speaker 2: game for him too. But it's the same problem I
Speaker 2: have with McLaurin. No one's passing against the Cards. I'll
Speaker 2: throw a cee here for PPR leagues because he will
Speaker 2: get you four catches, so you got four points plus
Speaker 2: the ardage For the Runners. Austin Eckler is out with
Speaker 2: a concussion, so Brian Robinson is in line for bell
Speaker 2: Cow usage. He had fifty two percent of the team's
Speaker 2: rushing attempts last week while Eckler was still healthy. Bell
Speaker 2: Cow's James Cook and Kyron Williams had decent fantasy days
Speaker 2: against the Cards, but the combo of David Montgomery and
Speaker 2: Jamior Bibbs both had a field day against Zona last week.
Speaker 2: Both over one hundred total yards, both scored. It's worth
Speaker 2: noting they combined for thirty nine carries. That's so many.
Speaker 2: B is for bell Cow and B is for Brian.
Speaker 2: On the other side, Kyler Murray, he's getting an A
Speaker 2: grade opposing quarterbacks if thrown a touchdown pass against the
Speaker 2: Commanders nine times this year, most in the league by
Speaker 2: a bunch through three weeks. Even Danny Dimes had a
Speaker 2: relevant game against this defense, Michael Wilson was charges take
Speaker 2: a chance on me wide receiver and Marvin Harrison an
Speaker 2: obvious A grade. I mentioned mclaurin's average depth of sixteen
Speaker 2: point four. Well, Marvin is at sixteen point one. That's
Speaker 2: sixth best in the league. All nine of the receiving
Speaker 2: touchdowns the Commanders have allowed, they've all gone to wide receivers.
Speaker 2: Top wide receivers have not failed yet against Washington, Mike Evans,
Speaker 2: Chris Godwin, Malik Neighbors, Jamar Chase. They all managed at
Speaker 2: least twenty PPR points. And Trey McBride is out with
Speaker 2: a concussion this week, so it's all going Harrison's way.
Speaker 1: By the way, Trey McBride's backup, Elijah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I should know this. Yeah, we're I'm not going there.
Speaker 2: I had I.
Speaker 1: Needed to pivot to him in one of my I'm
Speaker 1: desperate in some of my boke I've had a pivot
Speaker 1: to him against Thank you, Elijah Higgins. He was heavily
Speaker 1: used last week after McBride went out. Look, if you
Speaker 1: are desperate, this is a plausible start against Washington, Okay,
Speaker 1: Elijah Hidgen Higgins.
Speaker 2: Uh, if it's so easy to pass against Washington as
Speaker 2: James Connor doomed. No, he gets an A grade two.
Speaker 2: Rashad White, Devin Singletary, Zach moss All had at least
Speaker 2: ninety total yards against the Commanders. Connor should bounce back
Speaker 2: after a dismal week against a good Lions d He's
Speaker 2: ready to go. Give him an A.
Speaker 1: All right, we need to wrap up for this segment
Speaker 1: when we come back. Pittsburgh Steelers at Indianapolis Colts. This
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson has become one of the trickiest starts. So
Speaker 1: this week he's facing probably the best defense in the
Speaker 1: NFL and he has played badly. We will find out
Speaker 1: if you dare put Anthony Richardson in your lineup when
Speaker 1: we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. Paul Jarchi and Matt Harrison, Thor and Einstrom
Speaker 1: with you. Steelers take on the Colts. We already talked
Speaker 1: a little bit on the passing game of the Steelers. Thor,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the running game. Naji Harris looks like
Speaker 1: he's sitting on a big workload here. With Jalen Warren
Speaker 1: ruled out of this game, he.
Speaker 3: For sure is and it looks like Harris will play.
Speaker 3: He had his own injury, the right arm injury, but
Speaker 3: withheld him from practice on Wednesday, but he came back
Speaker 3: on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Looks like he's gonna play.
Speaker 3: And Harris is averaging twenty plus touches per game had
Speaker 3: a season high thirteen point six PPR points against the Chargers.
Speaker 3: This is a very good matchup against a bad Colts defense,
Speaker 3: in particular with Jalen Warren out of the game. And
Speaker 3: could that last development there lead to more playing time
Speaker 3: for Cordero Patterson. I think that's what ESPN Steelers beat
Speaker 3: reporter believes reporting on Friday the Patterson will likely play
Speaker 3: more in this game. Patterson had four carries for thirty
Speaker 3: three yards against the Chargers and three catches on five
Speaker 3: targets for fifteen additional yards. So someone to keep an
Speaker 3: eye on if your roster is injury decimated like most
Speaker 3: of ours.
Speaker 1: And it helps that the Colts are giving up the
Speaker 1: second most rushing yards, including two different one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty yard rushing performances against them. Correct, I think Cordaryl
Speaker 1: Patterson dart throw CE.
Speaker 3: Dart throw. C. We're giving him at dart throw. See
Speaker 3: of course, justin Fields might take a chance at me.
Speaker 3: Quarterback George Pickens his top wide receiver really his only
Speaker 3: wide receiver there he gets an a wide receiver fifty
Speaker 3: and fantasy points per game. But the underlying metrics to
Speaker 3: just that a breakout game is imminent for George Pickens,
Speaker 3: and why not against this terrible Colts defense. Pickens is
Speaker 3: number ten in separation rate and route win rate. He
Speaker 3: has a bonkers two point nine yards per route run
Speaker 3: against single high coverage as you will see throughout this
Speaker 3: game against a Colts defense that loves to run it.
Speaker 3: Pat Fryermouth given him a B tight end fourteen and
Speaker 3: fantasy points per game, but he's number three and route
Speaker 3: win rate, and this is another good matchup for him.
Speaker 3: Indy is allowing the seventh most fantasy points per game
Speaker 3: to tight ends anyone playing against the Colts defense.
Speaker 1: It's a good matchup.
Speaker 3: Moving over to the Colt side, I do believe that
Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson is startable. I'm not giving up on Anthony
Speaker 3: Richsons okay, and in particular sort of the paradigm that
Speaker 3: we find ourselves in this week, he might even be
Speaker 3: an attractive start for you, depending on the rest of
Speaker 3: your ross. I'm giving him a bee this week, mister Richardson. Now,
Speaker 3: of course he's been QB twenty one and QB thirty
Speaker 3: one in Fantasy the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: The struggles through the air.
Speaker 3: Go without saying, he's not even completing fifty percent of
Speaker 3: his passes. And of course you mentioned the Steelers how
Speaker 3: good that their defense is. They also have the NFL's
Speaker 3: number two run defense. However, again in lieu of the
Speaker 3: context of this thing, I was looking at advanced metrics
Speaker 3: on this where the Colts do have an advantage on
Speaker 3: the deep passes in this game that is obviously Richardson's game,
Speaker 3: and I think he's going to break a runner two
Speaker 3: I think in this game against the Steelers on scrambles.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give him a be.
Speaker 3: Again in the context that we're existing and now Jonathan
Speaker 3: Taylor's an obvious mus start gets an a Michael Pittman,
Speaker 3: he's the one.
Speaker 1: That really really suffers.
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, because of the Richardson passings, I'm gonna give
Speaker 3: him a C. It's bordering on I'm closer to bench
Speaker 3: than I am to be for Pittman. Anthony richards inconsistency
Speaker 3: short and intermediate is killing Pittman's production, and Pittman overall
Speaker 3: does not seem like a good.
Speaker 1: Fit for Richardson's game. I agree, just as.
Speaker 3: A general sort of comment there, Pittman had four catches.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, has not had more than four catches nor
Speaker 3: thirty six receiving yards in any game this year, zero
Speaker 3: touchdowns so far in this game. Of course, he's going
Speaker 3: to be shadowed by Joey Porter Junior. The not great
Speaker 3: likely needs a touchdown to be to return value in fantasy,
Speaker 3: but I'll give him a seat. I'm gonna keep Josh
Speaker 3: Downs on the bench here. He's been richardson sort of
Speaker 3: accuracy helper. And you know in his first game Downs
Speaker 3: his first game back, had forty percent design target rate,
Speaker 3: but only one point eight a dot. It's right near
Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage. This is not a good matchup
Speaker 3: for Downs. Steelers have all of the tenth fewest receiving
Speaker 3: yards per game to opposing slots. If you're super duper desperate,
Speaker 3: you could try Alec Pierce here again because of the
Speaker 3: thing of the deep balls with the Colts, and if
Speaker 3: your your roster is decimated, I could see you starting
Speaker 3: him in deep league, standard leagues. I think you have
Speaker 3: to keep Pierce on the bench, but keep in mind
Speaker 3: the possibility of a bomb there, and of course he's
Speaker 3: gonna return the value if he does. Twenty five point
Speaker 3: two A dot for Alec Pierce so far they year,
Speaker 3: you're saying, yeah, it's it's pray for the home run
Speaker 3: proposition with him here, No Colts tight end is startable.
Speaker 1: So that's all we got for that matchup. Kansas City
Speaker 1: takes on the Chargers. Let's start with Travis kelce I
Speaker 1: can only get you to a C grade, and honestly,
Speaker 1: it's only because he's running a ton of snaps, tons
Speaker 1: of routes run. He's on the field so much you
Speaker 1: feel like he's gotta get rolling at some point, hopefully.
Speaker 1: Sunday Chargers have been a middle of the pack tight
Speaker 1: end defense so far. The most capable tight end the
Speaker 1: Chargers have faced so far. Brock Bauers six catches, fifty
Speaker 1: eight yards, got it right now. I would love that
Speaker 1: from Travis Kelsey. It's like his whole season right now.
Speaker 1: I've got to be sorry. C grade on Travis Kelcey,
Speaker 1: C grade on Xavier Worthy. Our worst fears have been
Speaker 1: realized it's very low volume and nothing to show for it.
Speaker 1: When Xavier Worthy doesn't catch a long bomb like he
Speaker 1: did in week one, it's basically he's mvs all over again.
Speaker 1: All you know, you could your total total dart throw stuff.
Speaker 1: Really hard to figure out when when these things could
Speaker 1: come together. And after two dud games, I still give
Speaker 1: him a C grade here because he's running a lot
Speaker 1: of routes second only to Rashi Rice on this team,
Speaker 1: and the Chargers secondary has only faced Gardner Minshew, Bryce
Speaker 1: Young and and Justin Fields and they're gonna be without
Speaker 1: safety Derwin James, so maybe without their starting safety in
Speaker 1: this game, that does unlock a deep catch for Xavier Worthy.
Speaker 1: So I'm throwing a dart throw sea on Xavier Worthy
Speaker 1: in this game. That's it for the receiving portion. Oh,
Speaker 1: Rashi Rice every week A grade. I'm Arashi Rice. We're
Speaker 1: at this point now where it's just obviously every week
Speaker 1: unless something strange happens. Love Rashee Rice every week. The
Speaker 1: six yard slant that he turns into twelve yard games
Speaker 1: over and over again all game. We love it for
Speaker 1: Rashi Rice. Let's go to the running game. Carson Steel
Speaker 1: seventeen carries even even thousands of miles separated from Krocky Jay.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Man of Steel, Man of Steel. Uh. He got two
Speaker 1: thirds of the workload last week and he ran even
Speaker 1: ran more routes than samajip Ran. Was shocked me. I
Speaker 1: did not expect that Steel would be really involved in
Speaker 1: the receiving game at all. He is a bruising, vertical runner,
Speaker 1: just a battery ram, and if there's a rushing touchdown
Speaker 1: to be had, which is not always the case with
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, He's probably going to be the guy to
Speaker 1: get it. The Chargers haven't allowed a rushing touchdown yet,
Speaker 1: but they've also played three to totally anemic rushing attacks.
Speaker 1: They're giving him four and a half yards per carry,
Speaker 1: middle of the pack. It's an opportunity for a C
Speaker 1: grade on Carson Steele. Kareem Hunt's going to be active
Speaker 1: in this game, and I think he eats directly into
Speaker 1: samaj pe Rand's role because they're very similar. They're pass
Speaker 1: catching backs, third down backs. I don't think you can
Speaker 1: start either one here. P Rand looked got enough use
Speaker 1: that you could cobble together a start from him last week,
Speaker 1: but Hunt, I think daggers him here and they're both
Speaker 1: on the bench. Patrick Mahomes just the C grade I've
Speaker 1: only got you. I can only get you that far.
Speaker 1: We already talked about him extensively in this show, so
Speaker 1: I'm not going to spend a lot more time on
Speaker 1: it here. But as again Derwin James out, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some opportunities for Mahomes, but I don't love him
Speaker 1: here in this matchup. Let's go to the Charger side. JK.
Speaker 1: Dobbins with a tough matchup. He's been great seven and
Speaker 1: a half yards per Carrie. What are we talking about
Speaker 1: for JK. Dobbins? But this is a tough matchup because
Speaker 1: a good Kansas City run defense that ranks fifth best
Speaker 1: in run defense sixs rate, no opposing runner has topped
Speaker 1: forty six yards against the Chiefs. They've allowed the fourth
Speaker 1: fewest rushing yards. So I can only get you to
Speaker 1: a B grade on JK. Dobbins, who's been honestly the
Speaker 1: Cinderella story at the running back position so far this year.
Speaker 1: And then for the Chargers the entire passing games on
Speaker 1: the bench justin Herbert hopes to play through his ankle injury,
Speaker 1: but there's warning signs everywhere. Volume a big problem. Chargers
Speaker 1: ranked thirty first in pass passing plays. Herbert's three games
Speaker 1: have been painfully low on volume and yards. Here's air
Speaker 1: Bear's average game. Fourteen completions for one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: three yards. That's it. Kansas City's a good pass defense,
Speaker 1: and no opposition wide receiver has topped even sixty seven yards.
Speaker 1: Elite cornerback Trent McDuffie probably locks up Quinton Johnston because
Speaker 1: he looks like the best of the receivers so far,
Speaker 1: and that's a death sentence for Quint Johnson. And who's
Speaker 1: going to lose that battle? Nine times out of ten,
Speaker 1: I would not chase Johnson's recent success in a much
Speaker 1: tougher matchup. All right, final matchup of this segment. We
Speaker 1: go to a Monday night game, one of our two
Speaker 1: Monday night games. If we've got two Monday night games,
Speaker 1: is it Monday Night feetball?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, let's never do that again. Tennessee takes on the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Matt will Levis is startable in a thirty two team
Speaker 2: league with a mandatory quarterback starter, but he's not startable
Speaker 2: in most other leagues. He's thrown six touchdown passes this year,
Speaker 2: two of them went to the other team. He has
Speaker 2: eight turnovers through three games, and Mason Rudolph could be looming.
Speaker 2: If that keeps up. Miami much easier to run against
Speaker 2: than pass. If you like playing with fire, maybe start
Speaker 2: Calvin Ridley and DeAndre Hopkins. On one hand, one of
Speaker 2: them will end up with seventy of yards in a
Speaker 2: score in all likelihood. It's happened to both of them
Speaker 2: once in the last two weeks. But what happened to
Speaker 2: the other one? In both cases they had one for
Speaker 2: nine yards. Wow, So you're playing with fire. Ridley had
Speaker 2: the stinker last week. He figures to line up with
Speaker 2: Jalen Ramsey most often this week. The best wide receiver matchup,
Speaker 2: by the way, is Tyler Boyd in the slot against
Speaker 2: Cater Koho. But I wouldn't start any piece of this
Speaker 2: passing game at all. Tony Pollard was might take a
Speaker 2: chance on me runner. Ty J. Spears is a real
Speaker 2: live person, but he's on the bench. He's getting two
Speaker 2: to six touches per game and that's not enough. On
Speaker 2: the Dolphins side, who is the quarterback? Skyler dealing with
Speaker 2: a rib injury that knocked him out of last week's game,
Speaker 2: Tim Boyle came in and completed about half of his throws.
Speaker 2: Then there's Tyler Huntley, who they signed off the Ravens
Speaker 2: practice squad a week ago. Huntley is the most intriguing
Speaker 2: if you have to start a Dolphins quarterback because he
Speaker 2: can run a little just because of the rushing upside,
Speaker 2: but he SAPs the value I think of everyone else
Speaker 2: at this moment, I can't advise starting any of these guys,
Speaker 2: which also means you are benching Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle.
Speaker 1: I'm with the Waddle. All I need Hill to do
Speaker 1: is catch a bubble screen, break a tackle, and run.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm keeping Hill in my lineups. But
Speaker 1: I'm with you on Waddle.
Speaker 2: The problem is he managed only three catches for forty
Speaker 2: yards last week, and that was with Skuyler and Boyle
Speaker 2: in a passing game script where they lost by three
Speaker 2: touchdowns Like that would be where you get the bubble
Speaker 2: screen to Tyreek Hill. It didn't work. Plus, the Titans
Speaker 2: pass defense is good.
Speaker 1: Well that was also well, well, that is true. The
Speaker 1: Titans defense is sneaky gut.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have yet to allow a wide receiver to
Speaker 2: top seventy yards, and not one wide receiver has scored
Speaker 2: against them through three games. Devon Ahchan, he still gets
Speaker 2: a B grade. Though Raheem Mostert still limited. They'll probably
Speaker 2: hold him out for another week, which should mean Belkow
Speaker 2: status for eight Chan. Again, the Titans have been beaten
Speaker 2: by running backs through the air, an area where a
Speaker 2: Chan excels. Three different backs have scored passing touchdowns in
Speaker 2: the last two weeks. Breise Hall, who I think we
Speaker 2: give a similar pedigree to in the passing game, he
Speaker 2: had seven catches for fifty two yards, and eight Chan's
Speaker 2: already had seven catches in a game twice this year,
Speaker 2: so I like him with a B grade.
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Speaker 1: Time Machine Premature speculation Matt Harrison who said people pick
Speaker 1: up this week that will also going to be trying
Speaker 1: to pick up next week.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be Jameis Winston. Oh because the
Speaker 2: current QB Browns hasn't hit the two hundred yard mark
Speaker 2: in any game this season and only has three passing
Speaker 2: touchdowns in the first three weeks. The Browns, by the way,
Speaker 2: haven't topped eighteen points in a game yet. There's also
Speaker 2: a few legal things that have come up in the
Speaker 2: past couple of weeks against him. Compare this bad start
Speaker 2: for Cleveland to the backup quarterback of the Browns last year,
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco, who started six games, had multiple touchdowns in
Speaker 2: five of six and passed for over three hundred yards
Speaker 2: in five of six, Kevin Stefanski. He's a good offensive coach.
Speaker 2: You can get a lot out of the quarterback position.
Speaker 2: Watson just doesn't care anymore, and Winston will be up
Speaker 2: maybe this week, maybe next week.
Speaker 1: Thorn Eistrom, your premature speculation player, is the wide receiver
Speaker 1: one for his NFL team, Tomio Pop the douglast Okay
Speaker 1: love Pop.
Speaker 3: There's also flashing knee signs here that Pop will have
Speaker 3: some level of sustained production going forward, even if the
Speaker 3: Patriots quarterback play doesn't improve.
Speaker 1: A whole lot.
Speaker 3: Last week, Pop had nine targets, he cut seven of
Speaker 3: them sixty nine yards against the Jets. Seventy percent routes
Speaker 3: here and forty five percent first read share in that game,
Speaker 3: by far the highest of any Patriots wide receiver that week.
Speaker 3: He finished wide receiver twenty six in fantasy. Douglas has
Speaker 3: as many receptions as the next two highest Patriots receivers combine,
Speaker 3: and nearly triple as many yards as the next highest
Speaker 3: Patriots wide receiver. Ceiling, of course, is cap by the
Speaker 3: offensive feeble passing attack, et cetera. But the Patriots need
Speaker 3: to generate efficiency on offense, and the only way that
Speaker 3: they could do that outside of try to force the
Speaker 3: ball to Henry, is for Pop Douglas to be a
Speaker 3: primary conduit in that this might be your last shot
Speaker 3: to get Douglas for free. The forty nine ers have
Speaker 3: allowed the most yards to slot wide receivers this season,
Speaker 3: and again, the only other guy they throw to is
Speaker 3: Hunter Henry, but in part because of large part because
Speaker 3: of Fred Warner, the forty nine ers of race opposing
Speaker 3: tight ends. So the only the guy the Patriots throw
Speaker 3: to is Pop Douglas, and I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 3: be throwing to Henry in this game.
Speaker 1: I gave him a bench grade, but it was only
Speaker 1: only because against the Jets, you don't want to throw
Speaker 1: against these outside corners that they've got, you know, Reed
Speaker 1: and Sauce Gardner. So that's why I figured they went
Speaker 1: to the slot a lot. But Pop's the best and
Speaker 1: most reliable of the guys they have. I just wish
Speaker 1: they didn't have three slot receivers. kJ Osborne involved sometimes,
Speaker 1: but Pop's the best, is the best and most reliable
Speaker 1: of the group for sure, Matt. We could have gone
Speaker 1: with Joe Flacco, by the way, as my premature speculation,
Speaker 1: because Joe Flacco could end up in could end up
Speaker 1: in this game at some point.
Speaker 2: I don't think that there's a chance that the Colts
Speaker 2: are gonna bail on Richardson after what his you know,
Speaker 2: his fifth.
Speaker 1: That would be a tough game in his career, well seven,
Speaker 1: He's had seven starts, five full games. You know, here's
Speaker 1: the scenario, is he's playing the best defense in the league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he throws a couple of early picks, and you just go,
Speaker 1: you know what, We're gonna let you. We're gonna let
Speaker 1: you sit for a little bit. We're gonna let you
Speaker 1: learn from a seasoned veteran. You're gonna watch how Joe
Speaker 1: flack go puts together a game plan. Blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. There's a scenario where they just feel like
Speaker 1: the best thing for Anthony Richardson is to learn from
Speaker 1: the bench. We call that the Bryce Young the Bryce
Speaker 1: Young treatment could be coming his way. And Shane Steichen
Speaker 1: is on the hot seat. His team's one and two.
Speaker 1: They squeaked out that one win last week. Yep, there's
Speaker 1: a scenario where Shane Steiken's like, I'm not going down
Speaker 1: with the ship on Anthony Richardson completing forty nine percent
Speaker 1: of his passes because we're gonna lose too many games.
Speaker 1: So that's one scenario. The other guy, though the guy
Speaker 1: planned to talk about Roshawn Johnson, I already talked about
Speaker 1: him in this game, DeAndre Swifts. We're starting running back
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Roshan I think his next man up.
Speaker 1: Let's go to our matchups store Seattle Seahawks taking on
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. Nobody talking about the three and oh
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. Enough right, Yeah, let's start with the running game.
Speaker 1: We don't yet know it's a Monday night, or we
Speaker 1: don't yet know if Kenneth Walker's gonna go in this one,
Speaker 1: which makes it a little bit thorny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been out with that oblique injury that he
Speaker 3: suffered in Week one. He's being officially listed as questionable,
Speaker 3: and while Walker did return to practice on Thursday, was
Speaker 3: as a limited participant, same thing on Friday.
Speaker 1: Not terribly promising.
Speaker 3: If he goes, I would give him Asy and Charbonne
Speaker 3: a see if if Walker does not go, Charboney gets
Speaker 3: a B in this one. On volume alone, last two games,
Speaker 3: Charbonney is averaged ninety percent of the offensive snaps taken
Speaker 3: by Seattle and average twenty touches in eighty eight total
Speaker 3: yards per game. He ranked RB six and Fantasy points
Speaker 3: per game during that stretcher. He gets that volume bu
Speaker 3: Gino Smith can to give him a B as well.
Speaker 3: Quarterback thirteen in Fantasy right now. Recent success in this scenario,
Speaker 3: you guys recall last September, the Seahawks had that wild
Speaker 3: thirty seven to thirty one overtime win in Detroit, and
Speaker 3: you beat this Lion's defense through the air, of course,
Speaker 3: so Seattle's game script is going to call for plenty
Speaker 3: of passes on that fast track.
Speaker 1: He gets a B.
Speaker 3: Dk Metcalf is the obvious start at an A and
Speaker 3: is on pace for his best career season seventeen two
Speaker 3: sixty two two line through three games so far.
Speaker 1: I love Ryan Grubb, Yes all, it's a coordinator and
Speaker 1: the Bears gonuper I'm guessing their decision to pick up
Speaker 1: Shane Walla super sharp.
Speaker 3: But maybe you should have been the Washington Huskies choice
Speaker 3: to be their next head coach. But yeah, and said,
Speaker 3: Seattle gets to profit off that. Tyler Lockett, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: give him a seat. He had the great game last week,
Speaker 3: of course, but my supposition is that Jackson Smith and
Speaker 3: Jigba returns to the clear wide receiver two in the
Speaker 3: passing attack this week. That's why Smith and Jigbos might
Speaker 3: take a chance on me guy. This is a decent
Speaker 3: matchup though, of course for all the receivers there. Detroit
Speaker 3: has allowed the ninth most PPR points to boundary wide receivers.
Speaker 3: Of course, Detroit secondary starting three new guys there. That's
Speaker 3: something that you can exploit no offense. You got to
Speaker 3: keep him on the bench. Even though he had six
Speaker 3: catches for sixty receiving yards last week, hasn't done much
Speaker 3: outside of that. Was also a limited participant in practice
Speaker 3: on Friday with a toe injury, keep him on your
Speaker 3: bench unless you're desperate, and he's ultimately active. Flipping over
Speaker 3: to the Lions side, Jared Goff gets to see slow
Speaker 3: start for him this season, only quarterback twenty four right
Speaker 3: now in fantasy. There's some pessimism surrounding that Detroit offense
Speaker 3: right now. Sportsbooks have adjusted the totals down this game
Speaker 3: totals only in the mid forties.
Speaker 1: We've been seeing in the mid fifties and touch like that.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 3: The Seahawks also have a nasty pass defense. They've allowed
Speaker 3: the second lowest epa per drop back in the NFL. Goff,
Speaker 3: if I have better options, I would keep them on
Speaker 3: the bench, but I'm gonna give them a seat because
Speaker 3: there's very few viable options out there in the NFL
Speaker 3: right now. David Montgomery also gets to see he's OURB
Speaker 3: ten and fantasy points per game, averaging almost twenty touches
Speaker 3: ninety five total yards per game. You have to play
Speaker 3: them on volume, but Seattle's run defense has gotten a
Speaker 3: lot better over the offseason into this year, fourth highest
Speaker 3: stuff rate in the NFL, and the underlying metrics suggests
Speaker 3: that Motgomery has lost maybe half a step, maybe a
Speaker 3: quarter step not quite as good as in years past.
Speaker 3: Jamior Gibbs is the must dark guy there gets the
Speaker 3: a only one less touch inside the five yard line
Speaker 3: this season than Montgomery had to point that out, and
Speaker 3: Gibbs has also surpassed one hundred scrimmage yards in consecutive games.
Speaker 3: Amon ra Saint Brown, of course another A and must start.
Speaker 3: Jamison Williams is gonna give him a seed coming off
Speaker 3: a down game, and this is not a good matchup
Speaker 3: against that fearsome Seahawks pass defense. Seattle's giving up the
Speaker 3: second few is wide receiver points in Fantasy last one.
Speaker 3: Sam Laporta, he is, of course a must start, and
Speaker 3: he's an A left last week's game with the low
Speaker 3: ankle springs. I just wanted to give a brief update
Speaker 3: on that return to practice as a full participant on Friday.
Speaker 1: Great signs, we have great sign.
Speaker 3: Likely indication that he's playing, and this is a good
Speaker 3: matchup Seattle. That cornerbacks are great, and they're great, you know,
Speaker 3: at mitigating the wide receivers, but they struggle against opposing
Speaker 3: tight ends. The aforementioned Hunter Henry remember his eight catch,
Speaker 3: hundred nine yard explosion in Week two that came against
Speaker 3: the Seahawks.
Speaker 1: Hmm, I like that angle Laporta is killing fantasy owners.
Speaker 1: We need a big game here, Yes, I hope you're
Speaker 1: right with that A grade. The Sunday night football game
Speaker 1: is Buffalo at Baltimore. Great game shaping up Josh Allen
Speaker 1: obvious A grade in an MVP caliber season. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about some of his receivers, including Khalil Shakir. Loved him
Speaker 1: in the preseason. Touchdowns in two of three games. Currently
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus is twelfth highest graded receiver. Khalil Shakier
Speaker 1: has been targeted fourteen times, fourteen catches. Baby, oh love it.
Speaker 1: This is the year at Boise State. Well am I missing? Well? Well,
Speaker 1: the team itself has been doing great. Oh yeah, there
Speaker 1: we go. He's fifth in yards after the catch. He
Speaker 1: he's gonna match up in the slot. They actually use
Speaker 1: a lot of different defenders in the slot. Use Marlin humph
Speaker 1: for the use Kyle Hamilton, but both those guys are
Speaker 1: struggling unusually. Kyle Hamilton's great, but he's allowing an eighty
Speaker 1: seven percent catch rate and an a post passer rating of
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty four. So game on for Khalil
Speaker 1: Shakir with a B grade. Keon Coleman scored a touchdown
Speaker 1: last week, but note that was his only target of
Speaker 1: the game, and he goosegged you the week before that.
Speaker 1: He has seen declining routes run in every game, down
Speaker 1: to just eleven routes last week. Khalil, Sorry, Keon Coleman
Speaker 1: on the bench. Curtis Samuel disaster here, only averaging a
Speaker 1: couple of catches per game and his average target three
Speaker 1: yards downfield. Yeah, you can't get anything done on that.
Speaker 1: Matt Collins actually more startable than Samuel or Coleman, but
Speaker 1: he doesn't not get his starting grade here either. You
Speaker 1: know who does and is sitting out a big game.
Speaker 1: Dalton Kincaid, Yes, I think this is a big ee comment.
Speaker 1: Ravens allowed the second most tight end receptions twenty three already,
Speaker 1: that's seven and a half per game, and the Ravens
Speaker 1: allowed the second most tight end yards ninety three per game.
Speaker 1: Love this, yes, And it's not like the Ravens have
Speaker 1: played Rob Gronkowski and Tony Gonzalez in their prime. The
Speaker 1: tight ends against them have been Jake Ferguson, Brock Bauers,
Speaker 1: Noah Gray, and they're still giving up all this. I
Speaker 1: got an A grade on Dalton came fully healthy after
Speaker 1: getting nicked up in the week one and that was
Speaker 1: affected him in Week two as well. James Cook is tricky.
Speaker 1: Four touchdowns the past two weeks, and that's a great
Speaker 1: sign for a player who hadn't been seeing the end
Speaker 1: zone regularly throughout his career until now. But this is
Speaker 1: a very difficult matchup against a Ravens team allowing the
Speaker 1: fewest rushing yards per carry just two eight and they
Speaker 1: rank sixth best ten yards after contact. No opposing runner
Speaker 1: his top forty five yards against the Ravens now In fairness,
Speaker 1: the only good runner they've seen was Isaiah Pacheco in
Speaker 1: the opener, but he only got three yards per Kerry two.
Speaker 1: I think there's a very good run defense C grade
Speaker 1: on James Cook. All right, let's flip it over to Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson gets an A grade now. Buffalo Steymied has
Speaker 1: stemied all the quarterbacks they faced through the air, and
Speaker 1: there's a really good pass defense Kyler Murray Tua before
Speaker 1: they knocked two out of the game. And then there
Speaker 1: was Trevor Lawrence and they shut him down. He ultimately
Speaker 1: had to get left the game just because it was
Speaker 1: out of hand, but Kyler did run for fifty seven yards,
Speaker 1: and Jackson remains an A grade even if gets a
Speaker 1: very good secondary. Dereck Henry is an obvious A grade
Speaker 1: most weeks, including this one, although this is a good
Speaker 1: Bills run defense but not elite, and Henry gets a
Speaker 1: full head of steam going in this one. Zay Jones
Speaker 1: just a C grade. The path of least resistance is
Speaker 1: on the ground, and I think we're gonna see a
Speaker 1: lot of Dereck Henry here and Zay Jones has to
Speaker 1: go up against Rasul Douglas and kri Benford. Those cornerbacks
Speaker 1: are great. They haven't allowed a touchdown and they're giving
Speaker 1: up less than a fifty percent reception rate. And as
Speaker 1: we talked earlier in the show, these Baltimore tight ends
Speaker 1: are on the bench until we get more clarity and
Speaker 1: more use out of these guys. They're seeing declining use.
Speaker 1: And only John hus Smith in garbage time and a
Speaker 1: garbage time of a blowout game his top thirty yards
Speaker 1: against Buffalo. There you go. We snuck it off games.
Speaker 1: We get bye weeks next week, good games we get, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we get some bye weeks. We'll get to talk about
Speaker 1: fewer games for a little bit longer.
Speaker 2: We get a London game next week, London, and get
Speaker 2: what does that mean?
Speaker 1: Colin McCartney's coming, Ackney making his return next week. You'll
Speaker 1: want to stay tuned for that. Fantasy Football Weekly continues
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