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Speaker 3: Now along with the guys.
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Speaker 3: Yet it is a win and in addition of Fantasy
Speaker 3: Football Weekly Week number fourteen playoffs for next week.
Speaker 4: You need a win to get.
Speaker 3: In and we're here to help. Scott fish Thor nice
Speaker 3: Yeah you got any You got any teams that need
Speaker 3: a win this week?
Speaker 4: No? No, no, Ragger already no. I yeah, I had
Speaker 4: not a great year. I did make it to the
Speaker 4: playoffs in one league and that's already set. So okay,
Speaker 4: all right, I'm just enjoying the ride this week.
Speaker 3: You know what. I'm enjoying the ride Round three of
Speaker 3: the Scott Fishball playoffs.
Speaker 4: Same here. I didn't think I made it, and then
Speaker 4: I found out last week I had made it and
Speaker 4: not set my lineup for two weeks because I thought
Speaker 4: I was out no way somehow, So you coasted in.
Speaker 3: I'm still it makes all that trivializes all my efforts
Speaker 3: to find a way into round three. Thor, you got
Speaker 3: any you got any winning in scenarios.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't not winning in but I do have to
Speaker 5: take this opportunity to break about our work. Guillotine League
Speaker 5: where I was I was the last guy standing with
Speaker 5: like four hundred and sixty bucks left, and Matthew Berry
Speaker 5: had been in it, he had like four hundred five dollars.
Speaker 6: He gets eliminated last week.
Speaker 5: The next highest person, Dwayne, Sorry Dwayne if you're listening,
Speaker 5: only have fifty So I got to go seven different
Speaker 5: fifty one.
Speaker 6: Dollars beds and just stack up the roster.
Speaker 5: I have never had a Guillotine team even close to this, gud.
Speaker 3: I am so excited when you get to this stage
Speaker 3: of the season and every one of your players is
Speaker 3: a freaking super stud.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It is so much, absolutely and that's a whole new problem.
Speaker 5: Like it is, yeah, going through and like deciding which
Speaker 5: of these studs is the best matchupsack Yeah, yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Know, like I'm debating Chase Brown, who I love this
Speaker 3: week awesome matchup.
Speaker 5: Last night, I started Jremior Gibbs, did not start Montgomery
Speaker 5: because my roster is just so good, and then they
Speaker 5: scored about the same amount of points, so I was like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: well we'll see what my replacement guy does.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's so much fun and actually you can
Speaker 3: still you could start a new eighteen league right now.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'll still let you do that.
Speaker 3: Leagues dot Com, yep, we're here to help with all
Speaker 3: of your Week fourteen needs. We know this is an
Speaker 3: important week for many of you. We're going to break
Speaker 3: down all the games like we always do Fantasy Football
Speaker 3: weekly style, with letter grades on all of them. We'll
Speaker 3: go through and take a chance to me players, three
Speaker 3: tough questions, and our final week of premature speculation. Guys
Speaker 3: that you want to pick up this week that other
Speaker 3: people will be trying to pick up later, but they're
Speaker 3: all ready on your team. Let's dive into the matchup
Speaker 3: Scott with the Jets at the Dolphins. For the Jets,
Speaker 3: it looks like Breese Hall will not go in this game,
Speaker 3: and that takes off the board the most compelling of
Speaker 3: the Jets players.
Speaker 4: Possibly possibly so Breese Hall is doubtful. I mean, keep
Speaker 4: an eye on it, but it sounds like he might
Speaker 4: not go. If he doesn't go, Braylan Allen is likely
Speaker 4: your starter. We might see some Isaiah Davis, but over
Speaker 4: the last eight games, basically two months Braylan Allen's averaged
Speaker 4: two point eight yards per carry and just five catches,
Speaker 4: and he's been very, very inefficient with his limited work.
Speaker 4: He did have flashes earlier in the season, and he's
Speaker 4: probably going to be a fifteen touchback if he does
Speaker 4: get the main role, starting only two backs of top
Speaker 4: ninety total combo rush receiving yards and it took twenty
Speaker 4: one and twenty three touches to get there. But the
Speaker 4: amount of volume that Braylan Allen should see gives me
Speaker 4: the volume volume ce here. Over to the passing game,
Speaker 4: I'm a C grade on Aaron Rodgers. It's kind of
Speaker 4: the same story as last week. He's averaging barely over
Speaker 4: two hundred yards per game, but he's got eight multi
Speaker 4: score games, including four the last five. He leads the
Speaker 4: NFL and passes in pass attempts inside the five yard line.
Speaker 4: It's almost like he just wants to know up his
Speaker 4: passing touchdown numbers, regardless of winning the game or not.
Speaker 3: Savage Savage not watching his new series on Netflix.
Speaker 4: No, probably not. Probably not. Earlier in the season, we
Speaker 4: talked about Miami's past being possibly a little over their
Speaker 4: skis a little overrated due to matchups in the context
Speaker 4: that teams didn't have to pass a lot to beat
Speaker 4: them without Tua. Well, they've now allowed multiple scores in
Speaker 4: to for the last six passers. The first six passers
Speaker 4: against them one hundred and sixty yard average, the last
Speaker 4: six two and sixty eight yard average against them, So
Speaker 4: they're lighting them up a lot more. I have a
Speaker 4: se grade on Rogers over to DeVante Adams. He's now
Speaker 4: scored more Fantasy points than Wilson in four straight five
Speaker 4: plus catches in all of them, leads them in targets,
Speaker 4: red zone targets, end zone targets all over Garrett Wilson
Speaker 4: for those four he's definitely taken over his one A
Speaker 4: role in that offense. This is a Miami defense as
Speaker 4: a whole. They're allowing the fewest scorers just seven wide
Speaker 4: receiver scorers tied with the Jets, and second fewest yards,
Speaker 4: so they don't allow quite a lot to the wide
Speaker 4: receiver position. But Adams bounces around the slot the last
Speaker 4: two weeks. Did find eighty two yards and two scores
Speaker 4: over the last two weeks, and mostly he'll be lined
Speaker 4: up on the outside against storm Duck.
Speaker 3: Storm Cuck is storm Duck awesome name for a terrible player.
Speaker 4: Yes, who's allowing a one hundred and six passer rating
Speaker 4: in his coverage. So I have a B grade on
Speaker 4: Adams and the C grade goes to Garrett Wilson. It's
Speaker 4: that same tough matchup, but he does have four plus
Speaker 4: catches in all the games, has had nine plus Fantasy
Speaker 4: points in all but one game this entire year. So
Speaker 4: like your floor is basically the nine point level, so
Speaker 4: C is easy there. It could get to a B.
Speaker 4: We'll see. Tyler Conklin. I'm giving a C grade to
Speaker 4: the tight ends in the last six weeks against Miami
Speaker 4: six for seventy eight, nine for one zho three in
Speaker 4: a score, fourteen for one, thirty one in a score,
Speaker 4: five for thirty four, six for thirty seven in a score,
Speaker 4: and eleven for one to thirty seven.
Speaker 3: All right, Miami's getting rocked by tight ends getting rocked.
Speaker 4: Those are Those are team totals. But Tyler Conklin gets
Speaker 4: mostly everything eighty five percent of the work in this offense,
Speaker 4: so I'm gonna give him a C grade. The promise
Speaker 4: he's never had more than three targets, so he need
Speaker 4: he really needs to show up in this one over
Speaker 4: to the Miami side. I got a C grade on
Speaker 4: Tua Techno Di Looa. He's averaged over three hundred yards
Speaker 4: and three scores per game over the last three. If
Speaker 4: the road gets tougher against this top jets passed allowing
Speaker 4: the fewest passing scores and the second fewest passing yards,
Speaker 4: so I can only give him a see here they're
Speaker 4: gaining absolutely tagged on the ground from quarterbacks, but to
Speaker 4: His highest rushing yard day in his entire career is
Speaker 4: twenty eight yards, so I can't really count on that.
Speaker 4: His dump offs to a Chan and John U or
Speaker 4: where he gets his two two hundred and fifty yards
Speaker 4: and you could probably count in a score or two.
Speaker 4: So I got a C grade there, plus sauces questionable,
Speaker 4: which you know could should.
Speaker 3: Probably downgraded to doubtful.
Speaker 4: Doubtful, Yes, he is doubtful. Tyreek Hill, who would have
Speaker 4: lined up against Sas Gardner most of the time forty
Speaker 4: percent on that side, he's probably gonna see fifth rounder
Speaker 4: quantest stiggers quantestiggers. Okay, So definite upgrade there for Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 4: He's the safer one out of him and Wattle. Five
Speaker 4: plus catches in three straight twenty three targets in in
Speaker 4: the last three games where Tua has been lighting it up.
Speaker 4: Do the Jets allow the fewest receptions and fewest scores,
Speaker 4: though third fewest yards to posting wide receivers. So it's
Speaker 4: just a tough matchup. I'm I'm gonna leave Wattle on
Speaker 4: the bench. I mean, he had his breakout game in
Speaker 4: Week twelve, but that was one of only two games
Speaker 4: this year where he's top fifty five yards. He only
Speaker 4: has three scores on the season. It's just really tough
Speaker 4: and against DJ Reid, I just I don't want him
Speaker 4: in there. John new Smith, though, how we're talking baby
Speaker 4: one hundred and one yards and two scores eighty seven
Speaker 4: in a score one thirteen.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: The last three games, he's he's Tua's wooby with eighteen
Speaker 4: right an right now, He's got two whoobies out there. Basically,
Speaker 4: he's throwing fast and he's throwing short. Despite having you know,
Speaker 4: the deep red and hill. This Jets team is top
Speaker 4: five and several categories against tight ends, though no tight
Speaker 4: end is top seventy five yards. Only two have scored,
Speaker 4: but none really see John Who's volume. So I'm still
Speaker 4: gonna give Johnny the CE. You could talk me easily
Speaker 4: into a B though, and Devon achan Chan I got
Speaker 4: a B grade on the Jets only allow about one
Speaker 4: hundred and thirty combo yards per game, but mostard is questionable.
Speaker 4: And a Chan is a fifteen plus touch guy that's
Speaker 4: averaging averaging six catches per game.
Speaker 3: He's number two with Tua among running backs. He's number
Speaker 3: two in targets, receptions, and receiving yards and number one
Speaker 3: in receiving touchdowns.
Speaker 4: Yeah, is that overall? That's overall running back? Yeah, his
Speaker 4: numbers with Tua and six catches per game, that's insane.
Speaker 4: Scores seven times in the last six games. So B
Speaker 4: grade there.
Speaker 3: Cleveland takes on the Pittsburgh Steelers Store. I'm guessing you
Speaker 3: and I are going to diverge on this.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Jameis Winston is the biggest all or nothing quarterback out there.
Speaker 6: He's so fun.
Speaker 3: He's so fun. We love Jameis Winston, love watching Jameis
Speaker 3: Winston for the good and the bad and the potential
Speaker 3: divine intervention.
Speaker 4: I if I.
Speaker 5: Gotta go on deliver me from Pick six's Dear God,
Speaker 5: one of the great clotes I've ever heard, it's so good.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: If I gotta go all or nothing on Jameis Winston
Speaker 3: against the Steelers, I'm on the nothing side.
Speaker 6: I'm closer to the nothing.
Speaker 5: So okay, I put a C on Jamis Winston this
Speaker 5: week against the Steelers Week twelve. Now there is weather,
Speaker 5: of course, but two hundred and nineteen yards, no touchdowns,
Speaker 5: an interception. He did have a rushing touchdownd Nope, so
Speaker 5: no passing touchdowns, thirteen point four fantasy points. Pittsburgh has
Speaker 5: allowed the fewest fantasy points to opposing quarterbacks over the season.
Speaker 5: Winston is averaging, to our point before about the Yolo
Speaker 5: of the Yolo game plans forty seven point eight pass
Speaker 5: attempts per game in the four non snow games that
Speaker 5: they played. Any of course, if he has passed for
Speaker 5: four to ninety seven yards, four touchdowns but three interceptions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's actually one point three pick sixes per game.
Speaker 5: So we're gonna to drop a sea on him in
Speaker 5: this matchup. Likewise, for Nick Chubb, since returning from his
Speaker 5: knee injury in Week seven, Chubb is averaging just three
Speaker 5: yards per carry three flat.
Speaker 6: Last week, he plays only.
Speaker 5: Thirty four percent of the Snaps had eleven touches for
Speaker 5: forty five total yards. He did have nineteen PPR points
Speaker 5: against the Steelers in Week twelve. Now, of course there
Speaker 5: was the game script stuff with the weather, uh but
Speaker 5: uh so, Yeah, anyway, I'm gonna give him a ce
Speaker 5: in this one. The guy's close to shot for sure,
Speaker 5: but he's gonna get a little volume here, give him
Speaker 5: a sea. Jerry Judy gonna give him a b Forty
Speaker 5: point five PPR.
Speaker 6: Points against the Broncos. Absolutely insane.
Speaker 4: How come the Broncos didn't put Sartan on it?
Speaker 3: That's what I kept wondering.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's ridiculous. It's so dumb.
Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, I swear sometimes.
Speaker 5: He looked like the vintage Alabama Jerry Judy in that game,
Speaker 5: the way he was zooming around the field like it was.
Speaker 5: It was just good to see. Jameis Winston is his
Speaker 5: muse apparently for mister Judy. And speaking of that, Judy
Speaker 5: scored thirteen plus PPR points in all five starts with
Speaker 5: Jamis Winston. This is, of course a tough matchup. The
Speaker 5: Steelers are number nine and fewest Fantasy points allowed to
Speaker 5: opposing receivers and to your guys. You know you guys
Speaker 5: were mentioning the thing last week about certain in the
Speaker 5: previous matchup against the Steelers, Judy only saw Joey Porter
Speaker 5: Junior on thirty thirty six percent. I'm sorry of his routes,
Speaker 5: and Cleveland does cool stuff with Judy where they'll have
Speaker 5: him on the boundary, they'll move them into the slot,
Speaker 5: they'll move them all around the formation. So it's really
Speaker 5: difficult for the opposing team to be able to just
Speaker 5: shadow because of that, and so you would expect a
Speaker 5: similar percentage of covers looks from Porter, but probably not
Speaker 5: more than half. Elijah Moore, I'm gonna give him a c.
Speaker 5: Since Week eight, wide receiver thirty five and fantasy point
Speaker 5: thirty five and fantasy points per game. The Steelers in
Speaker 5: general are good against opposing slot receivers. However, I found
Speaker 5: this interesting. Pittsburgh runs single high coverage at the NFL's
Speaker 5: highest rate more against single high since Week a two
Speaker 5: point twenty one yards per route run and almost twenty
Speaker 5: four percent first read share. More does really good against
Speaker 5: single high. So even though the Steeers have a good
Speaker 5: pass defense, even though they're good against opposing slots, the
Speaker 5: coverage look should be advantageous for him, so we're gonna
Speaker 5: give more a. Seeds gonna give David and Joko an A.
Speaker 5: Nine catches for fifty two yards and two touchdowns on
Speaker 5: seventeen count them seventeen targets last week, and Djoko has
Speaker 5: scored nineteen plus PPR points two of his last three games.
Speaker 5: This is also a decent matchup for him. Tight ends
Speaker 5: have scored at least ten PPR points against Pittsburgh in
Speaker 5: six straight games. So I love and Joco. We're giving
Speaker 5: them an A. On the other side, with the Steelers,
Speaker 5: Russell Wilson, give him a B. Three for four hundred
Speaker 5: fourteen yards and three touchdowns last week. You go back
Speaker 5: two weeks ago when they played these same Browns two
Speaker 5: hundred and seventy yards and a touchdown Cleveland. Though, however,
Speaker 5: now is dealing with injuries to both Grant Delpit and
Speaker 5: Denzel Ward, so you have the compromise secondary. Wilson should
Speaker 5: do better this time. The Browns last week against Bonex,
Speaker 5: my boy gave up two hundred ninety four yards and
Speaker 5: a touchdown. I love that to miss their next so
Speaker 5: we're giving him a B. We're also given Najre Harris
Speaker 5: a b naj RB twenty five and Fantasy points per game,
Speaker 5: averaging nineteen point seven touchdows and a bit over eighty
Speaker 5: nine total yards per game. This is a good matchup
Speaker 5: for him. Since Week eight, Cleveland has allowed the second
Speaker 5: highest explosive run rate and the fourth highest misstackle and
Speaker 5: has done the fourth highest misstackle rate. Jalen Warren, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna give him a C. He scored ten point four
Speaker 5: plus PPR points three games in a row. Week twelve
Speaker 5: at Cleveland was his best game of the season fifteen
Speaker 5: point four PPR points. He did have this a season
Speaker 5: high snap share in that game, but his workload diminished
Speaker 5: last week. That's something you want to keep an eye on.
Speaker 5: The Browns, however, have allowed eight rushing touchdowns their last
Speaker 5: four games, so a good matchup for him. Three running
Speaker 5: backs over that span scored at least thirteen PPR points
Speaker 5: against Cleveland. George Pickens is an A and a must start.
Speaker 5: He is Pat Fryarmouth I'm gonna give him a beef.
Speaker 5: Four catches for fifty nine yards on four targets in
Speaker 5: Week twelve against these Cleveland Browns. The last two games,
Speaker 5: pat Ryermuth leads the Steelers in receptions of receiving yards, and.
Speaker 3: Early the first three games with Russell Wilson, he wasn't
Speaker 3: getting any action.
Speaker 5: Yeah is now Yeah, And we had talked like heading
Speaker 5: in when they made that swap of how Russell Wilson
Speaker 5: traditionally hadn't looked for tight ends over his career as much.
Speaker 5: I don't know if friar Mouth is, you know, he's
Speaker 5: like closing up to him like at the team meals
Speaker 5: and stuff. But Russell Wilson has clearly started to look
Speaker 5: his way more h and that has led to ten
Speaker 5: plus PPR points three or four games for Pat Fryarmuth.
Speaker 5: This is an okay matchup for him. Of course, Browns
Speaker 5: have allowed three tight ends to score eight plus PPR
Speaker 5: points last three games.
Speaker 3: All right, let's take a break. When we come back,
Speaker 3: Falcons taking on the Vikings Bjon Robinson in a bough.
Speaker 5: Kirk Cousins revenge and the Kirk Cousins Revenge jangle.
Speaker 3: We'll talk that through along with the nine players upon
Speaker 3: whom you can take a chance when we return to
Speaker 3: Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 7: Nine winners who are not only start.
Speaker 3: Many of these guys available on the way for Why, yes,
Speaker 3: you can get at the quarterback position and stuff it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going with Aid O'Connell, something I didn't think
Speaker 4: I would say this season. We just saw O'Connell go
Speaker 4: for three hundred and forty yards and two scores against
Speaker 4: a much better pass defense than the one they faced
Speaker 4: this week in the Bucks, who allowed the third most
Speaker 4: passing yards on their way to allowing the most fantasy
Speaker 4: points to quarterbacks. Five of the last six quarterbacks to
Speaker 4: face them had multiple scores. That was sixteen total QB
Speaker 4: scores over the last six weeks.
Speaker 3: I like it and I need that in scott Fish Bowl. Yeah,
Speaker 3: by three starting quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: Your six dollars bid we probably he popped up with
Speaker 4: an illness this week.
Speaker 3: That scared me and then they already stated hill placement ritter.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he's gonna go.
Speaker 4: All right, he's gonna go.
Speaker 3: You take a chance at me. Quarterback Tour.
Speaker 5: I'm going with Cooper Rush against the Bengals. And when
Speaker 5: I was doing my research on this, I started gett
Speaker 5: nostalgic for the twenty fourteen Bahamas ball Central Michigan against
Speaker 5: Western Kentucky, Okay, where Central Michigan led by this Cooper
Speaker 5: Rush had one of the wildest fourth quarter comebacks that
Speaker 5: you'll ever see.
Speaker 6: Last twelve minutes of the game, they see him.
Speaker 5: You scored five unanswered touchdowns, what to get within one
Speaker 5: point of WKU and they scored the last one with.
Speaker 6: No time left on the clock.
Speaker 5: They sent Cooper Rush back out for the two point
Speaker 5: conversion to potentially win by one, and the ball.
Speaker 6: Got knocked away.
Speaker 5: They came up here short on the most epic Yeah,
Speaker 5: come back up all the time.
Speaker 4: You gonna come up just short this week.
Speaker 5: Not for your fantasy teams out there. Since Week eleven,
Speaker 5: Cooper Rush quarterback twenty five four fantasy points per game.
Speaker 5: But Rush scored eighteen plus fantasy points in two of
Speaker 5: his last three games, and this is a very very
Speaker 5: good matchup for him. In the last three games that
Speaker 5: the Bengals have played, Lamar Jackson, Justin Herbert, and Russell
Speaker 5: Wilson we just talked about have all scored twenty eight
Speaker 5: point four plus fantasy points against the Bengals. You go
Speaker 5: back to Week eight with the Bengals, Cincinnati's allowed the
Speaker 5: second highest yards per attempt in the NFL and the
Speaker 5: highest passer rating in the NFL.
Speaker 6: Like Cooper rush.
Speaker 3: This week, Bengals might be the worst pass defense in
Speaker 3: the NFL. Right this minute, He's gonna feel.
Speaker 6: Like he's playing WKU again in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: Last week I used Will Lovis. This week, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: use Will Lovis. Yeah, last week we got two touchdowns
Speaker 3: and now he's got Jacksonville. So as a reminder, over
Speaker 3: the last month, Will Lovis quarterback eleven in fantasy football points. Wow,
Speaker 3: fantasy points. That makes him starter worthy in typically sized leagues.
Speaker 3: Here's some metrics to back up his improved play again
Speaker 3: this over the last month. Passer rating eight touchdowns, eighth best,
Speaker 3: touchdown to interception ratio tenth best, yards per pass fourth best.
Speaker 3: And that's the thing I like the most. He's still
Speaker 3: throwing the ball down field. He's a strong arm quarterback.
Speaker 3: And it's not like they've just said we need you
Speaker 3: to dink and dunk your way to confidence, Will Levis.
Speaker 3: He's still throwing down field and he's completing these passes.
Speaker 3: On the season, Jacksonville has allowed the most fantasy points
Speaker 3: to quarterbacks. They've improved slightly over the last five weeks,
Speaker 3: nudging from dead last to twenty seventh in fantasy points allowed.
Speaker 3: Let's go to the running back position, Scott.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'm going with hear me out here, I'm
Speaker 4: going with Kenneth Gainwell back.
Speaker 3: Up sell me the backup to Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 4: The Panthers have played twelve games, sixteen running backs have
Speaker 4: double digit fantasy points against them, So backups they're getting played.
Speaker 4: They allow the most fantasy points to backs, most yards,
Speaker 4: and most scores. They are just dreadful. This might be
Speaker 4: a blowout where the Eagles are twelve and a half
Speaker 4: point favorites and he gets work. In previous blowouts against
Speaker 4: the Giants, he got fourteen touches on thirty plus naps.
Speaker 4: Two weeks ago, the seventeen point win over the Rams,
Speaker 4: he got thirty plus naps and got a score in
Speaker 4: that one. I think it's a blowout where he gets
Speaker 4: work at the end, gets just enough to make it
Speaker 4: worth it, all right? On a week with six teams on.
Speaker 3: Body, sure, right, we gotta go a little deeper than normal,
Speaker 3: all right, Scott, your Scott, sorry, thor your take a
Speaker 3: chance on me running back Bobby Fish for this.
Speaker 4: One, thinks a compliment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna go at Seahawks running back Zach Sharboney
Speaker 5: against the Cardinals.
Speaker 6: Charboney is still available in more than.
Speaker 5: Half of the Yahoo leagues, and depending on how the
Speaker 5: news that we get in the lead up to kickoff,
Speaker 5: might be a must start in this game. With the
Speaker 5: status of Kenneth Walker. But speaking to Sharboney, two catches,
Speaker 5: forty one scrimmage yards and a touchdown last week, he
Speaker 5: played in forty four percent of the snaps in that one,
Speaker 5: and you go back to the last five games, he's
Speaker 5: had multiple catches in four of those games. The Cardinals
Speaker 5: have allowed the fifteenth most fantasy points to opposing running
Speaker 5: backs this year, and the Cardinals have allowed the seventh
Speaker 5: more yards per carry. If Kenneth Walker doesn't play, and
Speaker 5: Kenneth Walker did not participate in Thursday's practice, he has
Speaker 5: been labeled the game time decision, Charburney would become a
Speaker 5: must start. But even if Kenneth Walker does play, he
Speaker 5: will clearly not be one hundred percent, and I would
Speaker 5: expect Cherburney's usage to rise this week.
Speaker 6: In what is a good matchup.
Speaker 3: Hillary Rico Dowdell plays the Bengals. Is it possible Rico
Speaker 3: Dowdell is league winner? Good? Yeah, Uncle Rico all ready
Speaker 3: to go league winner, but I like him this week.
Speaker 3: Dowdell last week against the Giants twenty two carries, a touchdown,
Speaker 3: three catches for eleven yards, career high twenty five total
Speaker 3: touches for Rico Dowdell. And last week against the Bengals,
Speaker 3: Najie Harris, Jalen Warden, Corderell Patterson combined for one hundred
Speaker 3: rushing yards and a touchdown thirteen catches for one hundred
Speaker 3: and forty six yards. Dowdell's facing the Bengals. As I mentioned,
Speaker 3: the middle of the pack defense that's allowed rushing touchdowns
Speaker 3: are one hundred yard games in a whopping Get this,
Speaker 3: The Bengals have allowed rushing touchdowns are one hundred yard
Speaker 3: games in nine straight games.
Speaker 4: Wow, jeez, nine times.
Speaker 3: And just go to the wide receiver position.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna go with my take a chance on
Speaker 4: me quarterbacks wide receiver at least one of them. Trey
Speaker 4: Tucker again trying to dig deep for people here.
Speaker 3: Did DJ Turner get knocked out last week? Maybe? All right,
Speaker 3: keep going anyway.
Speaker 4: It's just a great matchup for a guy who had
Speaker 4: a fifty eight yard score last week and seven for
Speaker 4: eighty two the week before, he plays over ninety percent
Speaker 4: of the snaps. The Bucks allowed the sixth most explosive
Speaker 4: plays with thirty nine plays over twenty yards and seven
Speaker 4: plays over forty yards, and they allow the fourth most
Speaker 4: fantasy points to perimeter receivers. I think it's a good
Speaker 4: spot for him.
Speaker 3: It is, and explosive plays are what he's.
Speaker 4: All about exactly. That's why I mentioned that, Yep, let's
Speaker 4: go to.
Speaker 3: Thor your take a chance on me receiver.
Speaker 5: I am also, like my friend Scott Fish, going to
Speaker 5: stack a receiver with my take a chance on me quarterback,
Speaker 5: and I'm going with Cowboys wide receiver Brandon Cooks against
Speaker 5: the Bengals. Cooks last week returned from a seven game
Speaker 5: knee absence against the Giants three catches, sixteen yards and
Speaker 5: a touchdown. He had a fifty one point four percent
Speaker 5: route share in that game. That should spike in this
Speaker 5: matchup now that he's been back, been ingratiated back and
Speaker 5: closer to one hundred percent. And the matchup is ideal
Speaker 5: as we all gang up on the Bengals defense in
Speaker 5: this thing. But the Bengals have allowed the tenth most
Speaker 5: fantasy points to appuzzing wide receivers, and they've been getting worse.
Speaker 5: Cincinnati has allowed six touchdowns to receivers in the past
Speaker 5: four games, and you go back to Week eight, since
Speaker 5: he has allowed the third most fantasy points per game
Speaker 5: to the wide receiver position, like Brandon Cooks.
Speaker 3: This week, Kean Coleman, We're hoping he's going to come
Speaker 3: back from his wrist injury. He's really fallen out of
Speaker 3: memory cause he hasn't played him five weeks, but a reminder,
Speaker 3: in the two games before getting hurt in Week nine,
Speaker 3: Kean Coleman posted one hundred and twenty five yards and
Speaker 3: then he came back with a five catch, seventy yard
Speaker 3: one touchdown game and a target rate of twenty four
Speaker 3: percent and twenty five percent. He was just.
Speaker 4: Ascending, Keon Coleman.
Speaker 3: Was when he hit this wrist injury. Hopefully comes back
Speaker 3: here because it's a juicy matchup with the Rams. They've
Speaker 3: given up a wide receiver touchdown in six straight games,
Speaker 3: and rems outside cornerback Kobe Durant and Darius Williams aren't great.
Speaker 3: They rank his Pro Football focuses eighty fifth and sixty
Speaker 3: second coverage cornerbacks. They're just guys. To this point, a
Speaker 3: Mary Cooper total non factor. All of those wide all
Speaker 3: of the wide receivers that went down in the trade deadline,
Speaker 3: none of it really doing much of anything, including DeAndre Hopkins,
Speaker 3: who's been the best of a bunch of those guys.
Speaker 3: Continue with our matchups, including Falcons and the Vikings. It's
Speaker 3: the revenge game for Kirk Cousins, and he enters the
Speaker 3: game ice cold. Over the past three games, he's thrown
Speaker 3: zero touchdown six interceptions. The Vikings lead the league in
Speaker 3: blitz rate at thirty seven percent, and cousins immobility will
Speaker 3: be tested for sure. Teams have had success against Minnesota
Speaker 3: by throwing fast with first read passes. Kirk can read
Speaker 3: the play fast enough, but on that arm, it just
Speaker 3: doesn't have the zip on it anymore. No, I don't know.
Speaker 3: And plus you know, if the Vikings blitz and they
Speaker 3: start to get through, Cousins does not have the mobility.
Speaker 3: He never had a lot of mobility. He used to
Speaker 3: be able to like slide a little bit or step
Speaker 3: up in a pocket just to gain half a beat.
Speaker 3: That's gone. This is a brutal game for Kirk Cousins
Speaker 3: and potentially and I've got a bench grade on him.
Speaker 3: As for his receivers, let's go to Drake London and
Speaker 3: Darnell Mooney, who have got B grades.
Speaker 2: For me.
Speaker 3: Vikings likely without starting cornerback Stephan Gilmour, which opens up
Speaker 3: a very exploitable matchup. Gilmore's replacement, Fabian Moreau, got roasted
Speaker 3: last week, including allowing a touchdown. Moreau is on his
Speaker 3: fifth team in five years. He was Pro Football Focus's
Speaker 3: eighth worst ranked cornerback last year. Minnesota's been yielding to
Speaker 3: receivers all year and that has not changed recently. Even
Speaker 3: the inconsistent receivers on Arizona, Chicago and Tennessee the last
Speaker 3: three weeks have posted good games against Minnesota. Mooney and
Speaker 3: London get B grades. Even though I don't love the
Speaker 3: quarterbacking here. Kyle Pitts is a tough call.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 3: Normally the tough calls just should I drop him or not?
Speaker 3: This week it's should I potentially start Pits. He's been
Speaker 3: invisible in the past two games. He's only scored two
Speaker 3: games all year, but the Vikings have struggled with tight ends,
Speaker 3: including recently. Two games ago. Cole Kmet came out of
Speaker 3: a deep slump and put up a seven catch game
Speaker 3: on the Vikings and then last week Trey mcbridewold berserk
Speaker 3: on the Vikings twelve targets twelve catches. So Kyle Pitts
Speaker 3: comes in with a C grade. Bijon Robinson gets a
Speaker 3: B grade in this one. Minnesota will be his toughest challenge.
Speaker 3: Only two runners have scored on the ground against the
Speaker 3: Vikings since way back in Week two, and good runners
Speaker 3: like Josh Jacobs, David Montgomery, Jonathan Taylor, DeAndre Swift, and
Speaker 3: last week James Connor all held to sixty eight scoreless
Speaker 3: yards or less on the ground. Minnesota ranks number one
Speaker 3: and run defense success rate. They ranked number one in
Speaker 3: run defense EPA, and the Vikings are pretty good against
Speaker 3: pass catchers as well. Nobody's top forty four yards through
Speaker 3: the air all year and most don't come getting We're
Speaker 3: close to the forty four yards on average. Opposing teams
Speaker 3: average twenty two air yards against the Vikings. Be John
Speaker 3: Robinson make get most of that, but it's still not
Speaker 3: a lot, and just to be great for him and
Speaker 3: for all those reasons, Tyler Algiers on the bench, even
Speaker 3: though he's a good player, not getting used a lot
Speaker 3: right now, by the way, which is a little odd.
Speaker 3: Let's go to the Viking side, beginning with the running game,
Speaker 3: where Aaron Jones comes in with only a SEA. He
Speaker 3: might be one fumble away from a protracted benching, which
Speaker 3: actually he had last week he had a one quarter benching.
Speaker 3: It could be worse than that if he fumbles here.
Speaker 3: Hopefully it won't be the case, but either way, Atlanta
Speaker 3: a sneaky good run defense. No runner has hit one
Speaker 3: hundred yards all year, none of top fifty nine yards
Speaker 3: or scored against Atlanta in a month. When did Atlanta's
Speaker 3: run defense get so good? Falcons have allowed a league
Speaker 3: leading three rushing touchdowns all year. Aaron Jones, I can
Speaker 3: only get you to a sea and I strongly considered
Speaker 3: a bench here. As for the receivers for the Vikings,
Speaker 3: let's start with Jordan Addison, who comes in with a C.
Speaker 3: He's posted Fantasy relevant output in four of the past
Speaker 3: five weeks, which corresponds to Justin Jefferson scoring drought which
Speaker 3: goes back six games. He's got a neutral match up
Speaker 3: against cornerback Clark Phillips, who allows US seventy four percent
Speaker 3: catch rate, but it's given up just one score this year.
Speaker 3: Addison remains a C grade because of his low volume,
Speaker 3: which creates a little bit of risk.
Speaker 4: Here, less risk is.
Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson his scoring drought, as I mentioned six games,
Speaker 3: but could find the end zone against the secondary that's
Speaker 3: only got one really good cornerback and that's aj Terrell.
Speaker 3: But Terrell doesn't usually shadow, so Jefferson's going to have
Speaker 3: going to hit all of the cornerbacks. So the Falcons
Speaker 3: and most of them really just aren't that good. I
Speaker 3: already mentioned Clark, Phillips, d Alford also not great.
Speaker 4: Clear cut number one.
Speaker 3: Receivers almost always farewell against the Falcons, and that is
Speaker 3: obviously Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 4: TJ.
Speaker 3: Howkinson comes in with a B grade here. The Falcons
Speaker 3: look like an elite tight end defense on paper, but
Speaker 3: they face some of the league's crappiest set.
Speaker 4: Of tight ends.
Speaker 3: But if you go back four and five weeks ago,
Speaker 3: the Falcons faced Jake Ferguson and Ky Dootton, two of
Speaker 3: the best tight ends they've faced all year. Those guys
Speaker 3: combined for twenty targets, sixteen catches, one hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: two yards, and two touchdowns. So we'll try Hawkinson here
Speaker 3: and then Sam Donald b great on him. I'll credit
Speaker 3: the Falcons secondary for an unexpectedly good game last week
Speaker 3: against the Chargers, but this is a much tougher matchup,
Speaker 3: and the Falcons are a reliably yielding pass defense and
Speaker 3: Donald playing at a very high level right now. I've
Speaker 3: given his receivers A B and C grades and that
Speaker 3: settles Sam Donald into that B range right in the middle.
Speaker 3: Falcons allow the fourth highest completion percentage on passes more
Speaker 3: than ten yards downfield, and Sam Donald is the fifth
Speaker 3: best completion percentage on passes of ten or more yards,
Speaker 3: so we could see some downfield aerial attacks for him
Speaker 3: in this game. All right, let's take a break. When
Speaker 3: we come back, we've got another set of matchups for you,
Speaker 3: including the Los Angeles sorry, Las Vegas Raiders at the
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Scott Fish, you already told us you
Speaker 3: like Aiden O'Connell. We'll find out about Jacoby Myers potentially
Speaker 3: when we come back as well. Is he somebody you
Speaker 3: dare start. He's been a big part of this passing game.
Speaker 8: We'll find out too.
Speaker 3: And Miley's banged up right now too. We'll find out
Speaker 3: when we returned the Fantasy.
Speaker 8: Football Week with.
Speaker 3: Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly Paul Chargy and Scott Fish
Speaker 3: and thorn Eystrom with you block a matchups beginning with
Speaker 3: the Raiders at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Scott, you've already
Speaker 3: told us about two Raiders and you take a chance
Speaker 3: on me segment that you do like you did not
Speaker 3: yet mention Jacoby Meyers. No our favorites on this show.
Speaker 3: We love the way he plays, we love the usage.
Speaker 3: He's been pretty fantasy reliable. What do you like about him?
Speaker 3: If anything? This week? I think you like him this week,
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 4: It's just a terrible pass defense and there's a lot
Speaker 4: of shootouts with the Bucks, especially recently. I mentioned in
Speaker 4: the last segment the Bucks allow the sixth most fantasy
Speaker 4: points to wide receivers, including fourthmost to the perimeter. It's
Speaker 4: also Jacoby Myers. He moves around a little, but he's
Speaker 4: coming in with a bit of an injury. He's questionable,
Speaker 4: but they said he will play, so I'm gonna trust
Speaker 4: him on that in a good matchup. He's got five
Speaker 4: plus catches in seven of his last eight, and his
Speaker 4: three games with O'Connell seven for sixty two in a score,
Speaker 4: six for fifty two in a score and six for
Speaker 4: ninety seven plays almost every snap. Twenty six targets in
Speaker 4: the last two games. Somehow more targets than Bowers in
Speaker 4: the last two games, which is hard to do, really
Speaker 4: really hard to do. Who I have an a grade
Speaker 4: on the league leader in receptions against a team allowing
Speaker 4: the fourth most yards to tight ends. Let's go over
Speaker 4: to the running game now, where Alexander Mann has been
Speaker 4: practicing on a limited basis and it's starting to look
Speaker 4: like he will go, which put makes me want to
Speaker 4: put Sincere McCormick and a mirror dula on the bench.
Speaker 4: If there is a dart throw, if Madison plays, I
Speaker 4: have him on the bench. If Madison doesn't play, I
Speaker 4: have a little bit of a dart throw on a
Speaker 4: mirror Abdullah. There are six teams on buy a lot
Speaker 4: of good players on buy. Bucks are tenth easiest matchup
Speaker 4: for running backs, but it's nuanced. Their ninth fewest rushing yard,
Speaker 4: sixth fewest rushing score. They're good there, but they've allowed
Speaker 4: the most receiving yards. Yeah, the third most receptions and
Speaker 4: the sixth most receiving scores. They get torched in that area,
Speaker 4: four different backs of scores, seven different ones over thirty yards,
Speaker 4: fourteen different packs with at least three catches. I think
Speaker 4: he can get you there in the past game work,
Speaker 4: and I think it's a game script. They might be
Speaker 4: behind her in a shootout where he's playing. So let
Speaker 4: me ask you about Sincere McCarthy.
Speaker 3: At this time last year, Zamir White got all the
Speaker 3: work down the stretch for Antonio Pierce.
Speaker 4: And here still's excited about it.
Speaker 3: Debuted effectively. David put himself in a position debut for
Speaker 3: the next year. Yes, right, I don't know dave is
Speaker 3: quite the right word, but now is since Here McCormick,
Speaker 3: perhaps in that spot where Antonio Pierce gives him a
Speaker 3: long look to see why.
Speaker 4: I absolutely think that there was word. He was getting
Speaker 4: a good amount of work in practice this week, but
Speaker 4: of course the mere White and Alexander Madison have been limited.
Speaker 4: Emir Abdulla still is more than tripling him in routes
Speaker 4: run even last week with that extended run. So it's
Speaker 4: just a matchup where they're tough against the run, they're
Speaker 4: bad against the past. That's why I have the dart
Speaker 4: throw on Abdullah. But I do like picking up mccure
Speaker 4: mack in case of what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, over
Speaker 4: the Tampa side. Yeah, on the Tampa side. I have
Speaker 4: a Oh I think I have a B grade on
Speaker 4: Baker Mayfield. Yeah, I have a B grade on Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 4: I wrote, see, but I had to be Five straight
Speaker 4: quarterbacks have scored multiple times or hit three hundred yards
Speaker 4: against the Raiders. In fact, eight of twelve times over
Speaker 4: the course of the season, a lot of quarterback points
Speaker 4: against the Raiders. Mayfield himself has five straight multiple score
Speaker 4: games and just in the middle of the season. Sorry,
Speaker 4: he had five. I have straight multiple score games in
Speaker 4: the middle of the season, but over the last three
Speaker 4: games just one score in each. Because what changed is
Speaker 4: the running backs are amassing two hundred and nine total
Speaker 4: yards per game. They're running an absolute ton. This is
Speaker 4: a defensive backfield, however, that is missing two starters. It's
Speaker 4: it's missing Nate Hobbs and Jakoorin Bennett. So Decameron Richardson
Speaker 4: is going to be on Mike Evans. Richardson has allowed
Speaker 4: two hundred and forty three yards in the last three games,
Speaker 4: and he's allowed two scores in the last four. Evans
Speaker 4: is coming in a little injured. But he didn't practice
Speaker 4: on Wednesday and Thursday limited practice on Friday. He's going
Speaker 4: to play, He'll go, Yeah, he'll play with that calf
Speaker 4: injury and you know, whatever's left of the hamstring injury.
Speaker 4: The last couple weeks five for sixty eight, six for
Speaker 4: one hundred, and we're not really worried about him. I
Speaker 4: got a B grade on Evans over to Kate Aughten.
Speaker 4: I know that every time we seem to prop him up,
Speaker 4: he doesn't really respond the bold strategy. I love him
Speaker 4: in this man, I do too. It's the Raiders are
Speaker 4: bottom five in receptions, yards and scores allowed to tight ends.
Speaker 4: Kelsey and Gray combined for one hundred and twenty six
Speaker 4: last week. Johnu a couple weeks ago had one hundred
Speaker 4: and one and two scores since either week before that
Speaker 4: had one hundred and fifty plus and three scores. The
Speaker 4: week before that Kelsey had ninety in a score. They
Speaker 4: give up a ton. I'm giving a B to Kate Otten.
Speaker 4: I just think it's a good matchup for him, especially
Speaker 4: because he's the loan tight and he gets a ton
Speaker 4: of targets eighteen target Yeah, ton of targets over to
Speaker 4: the running game. Bucky Irvin's coming in questionable. He has
Speaker 4: been limited and missing a lot of practice time.
Speaker 3: By the way I had, I can, I just yeah.
Speaker 3: Last week at this time I called the Bucky Irving
Speaker 3: breakout game and gave him an A.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We got twenty five touches from Lucky Irving and he
Speaker 3: freaking rocked.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Last week.
Speaker 4: Yep, the last two to fifteen plus touchbacks against the Raiders.
Speaker 4: Both went over one hundred and both scored. Obviously, Bucky
Speaker 4: Irvin's doing what he's doing on a hundred fifty plus
Speaker 4: total yards. Last week, he finally out snapped, out, touched,
Speaker 4: out routed uh Rashad White, so he gets the A
Speaker 4: grade here. I still think there's gonna be enough for
Speaker 4: Rashad White, who's gained enough pass game work and enough snaps.
Speaker 4: He's still kind of splitting the snaps, just one less
Speaker 4: than Irving last week, and he was still double digit
Speaker 4: touches even in the last three weeks when Bucky Irvin's
Speaker 4: come on.
Speaker 3: Right, we love Bucky Irving. Yeah, Rashad White's not bad.
Speaker 3: Ten different back listening. We still like your guy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's not about Rashad White. No, it's fine. No, ten
Speaker 3: different backing is awesome.
Speaker 4: Yep. Ten different backs have scored against the Raiders. And
Speaker 4: if Bucky Irving somehow doesn't go or come is more
Speaker 4: limited because of the injury, then White's gonna get more.
Speaker 4: So I have a C grade on Rashad White.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go to the Saints taking on the Giants.
Speaker 6: Store.
Speaker 3: I've got Alvin kamer Way up at running back two
Speaker 3: this week. He's an auto start, right, yeah, yeah, fast
Speaker 3: spot sure.
Speaker 5: Is yeah, I must start on him. The passing game
Speaker 5: maybe not quite as attractive for the Saints. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: give Derek Karrasi though, since we on car is quarterback
Speaker 5: eighteen and fantasy points per game. But the Giants have
Speaker 5: a horrible pass defense, a really really bad one, and
Speaker 5: they are particularly susceptible to deep passing. Will return to
Speaker 5: that car is only a few dingers away from being
Speaker 5: startable in fantasy, so I'm gonna give him a CEE.
Speaker 6: And speaking of that, the deep ball.
Speaker 5: Thing, Marcus Valdez Scantling, We're gonna give him a C
Speaker 5: as well. Now Taysom Hill is out for the season,
Speaker 5: He's joining all the other guys who are out for
Speaker 5: the season that pass catching corps. MVS get this, This
Speaker 5: is the best statphoned all week. MVS has four touchdowns
Speaker 5: in the past three games. You know how many he
Speaker 5: scored with the Chiefs in thirty three games?
Speaker 6: Three four three?
Speaker 5: Oh okay, yeah wow, yeah, some more in the last
Speaker 5: three games. And he had it as a Chief period
Speaker 5: eighteen point one fantasy points per game since Week ten.
Speaker 5: The Giants, for their part, have allowed the eleventh fewest
Speaker 5: fantasy points to opposing wide receivers, but they have allowed
Speaker 5: the fifth most deep passing yards per game. MVS is
Speaker 5: your dinger guy, so he might be able to get
Speaker 5: loose deep. Keep the other receivers on your bench. I
Speaker 5: will give Juwan Johnson a see bigger roles coming with
Speaker 5: Taysom out for the year. This isn't the best matchup
Speaker 5: though the Giants, despite having the rans to pass defense.
Speaker 3: This is the one thing organizationally, Yeah it stopped.
Speaker 5: Yeh, It's put the clamps on tight ends they've allowed
Speaker 5: this season. They've allowed the second view is fantasy points
Speaker 5: per game to opposing tight ends. Moving over to the Giants,
Speaker 5: of course, here keeping mister Drew lock on the bench.
Speaker 5: He was sacked six times last week. He lost the fumball,
Speaker 5: he threw up pick six. We got the full drew
Speaker 5: locked experience. He did have fifty seven rushing yards and
Speaker 5: a run touchdown to get him to quarterback twenty one.
Speaker 6: But it did help. But yeah, keep him on the bench.
Speaker 5: Tyrone Tracy my former Iowahawkeye boy, giving him a B.
Speaker 5: Tracy has scored fourteen point five plus PPR fantasy points
Speaker 5: in two of the last three games, and this is
Speaker 5: a good matchup against the Saints. New Orleans has allowed
Speaker 5: the seventh most fantasy points to opposing running backs. You
Speaker 5: go back to Week five, eight running backs have scored
Speaker 5: seventeen plus PPR points against New Orleans. I'm also given
Speaker 5: a B to Molik Neighbors. He ranks number ten amongst
Speaker 5: NFL receivers in PFF grade and this is a good
Speaker 5: matchup for an against this in flux New Orleans secondary.
Speaker 5: When Neighbors is on the outside, he'll be paired up
Speaker 5: against Alante Taylor. The Saints moved Taylor to the boundary recently.
Speaker 5: Taylor is dead last in the NFL and both the
Speaker 5: yards allowed per coverage snap and also explosive play rate
Speaker 5: against in the last three games.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: So if there's a time for neighbors to get loose,
Speaker 5: but you're you're meeting the guy who's gonna facilitate it.
Speaker 4: He just to know what he is questionable. He has
Speaker 4: didn't practice Thursday or Friday, so but he should he
Speaker 4: should go his question.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that's I'm thinking he's gonna play. But
Speaker 5: I mean it is a good point, Neighbors, and then
Speaker 5: you know, speaking to his situation. Since Daniel Jones got bench,
Speaker 5: Neighbors hasn't seen hasn't seen one target of twenty plus
Speaker 5: air yards bomber. Yeah, I mean it's uh yeah, the
Speaker 5: Dink and Dunk Show. Hopefully we can get Drew locked
Speaker 5: to air it out in this one. Neighbors averaging only
Speaker 5: thirteen point nine Fantasy points per game during that span.
Speaker 5: Since since Jones's bench, Ken the Giants get him rolling here.
Speaker 5: If he plays, we'll find out. Wandale Robinson. I did
Speaker 5: give him a seed. Tyron Matthew the honey Badger. He
Speaker 5: is expected to play, but he's less than one hundred
Speaker 5: percent injured his shoulder Week thirteen. Matthew hasn't been good
Speaker 5: in coverage this season. Even when he is fully healthy.
Speaker 5: Fifty eight point four PFF coverage grade. No team has
Speaker 5: allowed more PPR points to wide receivers than the Saints
Speaker 5: since Dennis Allen was fired. So I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 5: speculatively give mister Wandale to see.
Speaker 4: All right, Just to note Malik Neighbors, Let's say he
Speaker 4: does miss He's missed two games this year, and Darius
Speaker 4: Slayton got eleven targets in each of those two games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great point.
Speaker 6: That'd be a pivot.
Speaker 3: That would be your pivot.
Speaker 8: All right.
Speaker 3: One more matchup for this segment, Jacksonville taking on the
Speaker 3: Tennessee Titans. There's not a lot to like on the
Speaker 3: side for Jacksonville with Mac Jones at the helm, but
Speaker 3: we are going to cobble together a couple of C grades.
Speaker 3: Brian Thomas. I love his game and he's gonna have
Speaker 3: a great career, but this is not a great spot.
Speaker 3: He did score last week, but he also got underthrown
Speaker 3: for a touchdown and overthrown for a touchdown on.
Speaker 4: Wide open bombs.
Speaker 3: Had those connected, Brian Thomas would have had like a
Speaker 3: two hundred yard three touchdown game. He posted fantasy relevant
Speaker 3: stats in the two of mac Jones's three games in
Speaker 3: which mac Jones played significant reps. So there is that.
Speaker 3: So there is a little bit of history of success
Speaker 3: with Brian Thomas and mac Jones.
Speaker 4: In my Missed Connections fantasy league. He's gonna be a.
Speaker 3: Touch twice right league winner right there because he runs
Speaker 3: from every spot on the field. Brian Thomas can find
Speaker 3: positive matchups, including against struggling cornerback Jarvis Browne, who we
Speaker 3: talked about last week as a liability against Terry mcclaurin,
Speaker 3: and that worked out great. Brownley's allowed a touchdown in
Speaker 3: back to back games and could give up one to
Speaker 3: Brian Thomas here. Evan Ingram comes in with a C grade.
Speaker 3: In three games with protracted mac Jones play, Evans is
Speaker 3: well depressingly quiet, failing to top forty one yards andy
Speaker 3: scored in none of those three. The Titans have allowed
Speaker 3: tight end touchdowns and consecutive games zach Ertz cade Stover,
Speaker 3: But in totality, the Titans have been a good tight
Speaker 3: end defense, ranking tenth best in fantasy points allowed. With
Speaker 3: six teams on buy. I don't know how you could
Speaker 3: bench Evan Ingram I've got a C grade on him,
Speaker 3: and speaking of the bench, that's where I've got Travis
Speaker 3: Etn and Tank Bigsby.
Speaker 4: Pains me to say it, because you know how I
Speaker 4: feel about Dank.
Speaker 3: Etn was the hot hand last week, but the snap
Speaker 3: counts were almost identical. In an easier matchup, you could
Speaker 3: start ATN. But the Titans are pretty good run defense,
Speaker 3: ranking top ten in yards per carry allowed defensive run
Speaker 3: EPA run defense success rate. Last week, Washington got up
Speaker 3: early and ran copiously and with success against Tennessee. But
Speaker 3: I don't trust the Jaguars offense to get ahead and
Speaker 3: run the ball. So I'm leaving Etn and Tank bigs
Speaker 3: beyond the bench in this game. Parker Washington's coming off
Speaker 3: his best game of his career, but it's a total aberration,
Speaker 3: and I'm not going to chase last week's months on that.
Speaker 4: You like him, he was my prespect it's like four
Speaker 4: weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it came together in week thirteen. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I think if I recall correctly last week third last
Speaker 3: week was twelve targets. In the week before was like
Speaker 3: one catch something like that. Yeah, yeah, all right, let's
Speaker 3: go over to Tennessee. So with Tony Pollard, Taja Spears
Speaker 3: active last week but only saw one touch So you
Speaker 3: want to watch this development because Pollard has been averaging
Speaker 3: roughly half his fantasy points when Spears plays, So you
Speaker 3: have to base a little bit of your thinking on
Speaker 3: with Pollard on spears activity level. Either way, this matchup
Speaker 3: is very favorable. So you'll start Pollard no matter what.
Speaker 3: And some way, somehow, opposing runners always get paid against
Speaker 3: the Jaguars. It's touchdowns or yardage or receiving or all that.
Speaker 3: The Jaguars ranked twenty fourth in run defense success rate.
Speaker 3: They ranked nineteenth and run defense EPA and sixteenth in
Speaker 3: misstackle rate, twenty fifth in yards before contact. It's a
Speaker 3: lot of positives for Tony Pollard. If Tadj Spears does
Speaker 3: not play, then well he's gonna play. So we'll just
Speaker 3: leave it at a beet for Tony Pollard. I mentioned
Speaker 3: earlier Will Lebis might take a chance at me quarterback.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about Calvin Ridley. It's a revenge game for
Speaker 3: Kevin Ridley. Jaguars are ranked thirty second in defensive dropback
Speaker 3: EPA and could be without number one cornerback Tyson Campbell
Speaker 3: in this game, and since DeAndre Hopkins was traded away,
Speaker 3: Ridley has a ninety five percent route rate and a
Speaker 3: very healthy twenty nine percent target share on the season.
Speaker 3: Jaguars allowing the third most fantasy points to wide out,
Speaker 3: So Ridley comes in with a B and that just
Speaker 3: leaves us with Nick Westproo. Kakine Im probably is scored
Speaker 3: in seven of the last eight games.
Speaker 4: On twenty receptions.
Speaker 3: Two catches per game.
Speaker 9: That's mathematically impossible. Unreal, it's all deep bombs. He's averaging
Speaker 9: eighteen yards per reception. Normally I hate these all or nothing,
Speaker 9: low volume players. But again, if the top corner for
Speaker 9: the Jaguars, Tyson Campbell is out, and by the way,
Speaker 9: top safety Darnold Savage might not play in this game either.
Speaker 4: In that case, let's give it a shot. The Jags
Speaker 4: allow the most twenty plus yard plays in the most
Speaker 4: forty yard plus.
Speaker 3: Past perfect Yeah see Gray, Yeah, Westboro, kakine why not
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Speaker 3: icetrom is at thor k U. Rock Yard is a
Speaker 3: game we call three tough questions.
Speaker 2: Tough question number one next.
Speaker 3: Year, what round will Bucky Irving be drafted in? We
Speaker 3: begin with Scott Fish.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so guys like Barkley Mix and Henry Gibbs, Byjon
Speaker 4: Bauers and others might make their way into the first
Speaker 4: with your normal wide receivers like Chase Jefferson, a Monra,
Speaker 4: maybe Limb. I don't know guys like that. And unless
Speaker 4: he fully takes over for Rushad White at the end
Speaker 4: of the year here, we're going to have slight question
Speaker 4: marks on him. But my answer is still going to
Speaker 4: be second round, kind of where I was reaching to
Speaker 4: take a Chan, only I feel a little more secure
Speaker 4: with Bucky knowing that he can take a full workload
Speaker 4: if he's the fall back, He's got that same possible
Speaker 4: receiving prowess, Maybe not as much as a Chan, but
Speaker 4: I think second round is where people are going to
Speaker 4: start to take shots at him.
Speaker 3: Okay, thor next year? What round will Bucky Irving be
Speaker 3: drafted in?
Speaker 5: So you have to consider the Rashad White thing. Rashad
Speaker 5: White has one year left on his deal. He is
Speaker 5: not happy with his role. He recently fired his agent
Speaker 5: and I didn't know that. I believe that Rashad White
Speaker 5: is going to push for a trade this offseason with
Speaker 5: that one year left on his deal.
Speaker 6: We'll see if he's successful or not. But this is
Speaker 6: the way that I parse it.
Speaker 5: If White is still there, I would say early round
Speaker 5: three for Irving, if he's not late round two and
Speaker 5: maybe or I'm sorry, early round two or maybe even
Speaker 5: late round one, depending on what we see down the stretch.
Speaker 3: Here correct to answer late round one for Bucky Irving
Speaker 3: middle and that's this reminds me of Bejon Robinson from
Speaker 3: last year. We knew Beijon wasn't going to be a
Speaker 3: workhorse back, but his talent was so good we didn't
Speaker 3: care and we just wanted to get Bjon Robinson on
Speaker 3: our teams. And I think that's where we're gonna fly
Speaker 3: where this is going to roll this time too, now.
Speaker 3: Last week, as we alluded to earlier in this show,
Speaker 3: Bucks offensive coordinator Liam Cohen, I think he just succumbed
Speaker 3: to the awesomeness of Bucky Irving and just like I
Speaker 3: gotta get him on the field. The Buccaneers are six
Speaker 3: and six, tied for first place. They can't mess around.
Speaker 3: They got to get their best players on the field,
Speaker 3: and that's Bucky Irving. And what's going to happen over
Speaker 3: the offseason. These people are going to start catching up
Speaker 3: to how good Bucky Irving is statistically metrically, and we're
Speaker 3: gonna be like, Wow, he is a top five talent
Speaker 3: in the NFL and he's gonna end up getting drafted
Speaker 3: in at the end of the first round.
Speaker 2: Tough question number two.
Speaker 3: Rest of season. San Francisco running back Isaac Garndo will
Speaker 3: most often be a running back one, a running back two,
Speaker 3: flex or bench thor you get to start this one.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go with RB two.
Speaker 5: Garendo very boom or bust type playing style, and I
Speaker 5: think he's going to be the same for fantasy owners
Speaker 5: where they need the explosive plays out of him. And
Speaker 5: I don't know, maybe I'm crazy. I don't think he
Speaker 5: is guaranteed to finish the year as the starter. He
Speaker 5: is a frustrating player who frequently frustrated as college coaches.
Speaker 5: He was stuck behind brayln Allen at Wisconsin, but part
Speaker 5: of the reason why is because of the lack of vision.
Speaker 5: And then he goes to Louisville's last year, he was
Speaker 5: competing against Juar Jordan, who does not have NFL ability.
Speaker 5: George Jordan played ahead of him the entire last season.
Speaker 5: It's why Girndo fell down. Now, Girndo is the SI
Speaker 5: speed freak four three three forty yard dash two hundred
Speaker 5: twenty one pounds. He almost had the perfect ten RAS score,
Speaker 5: but you do have some of that stuff where I
Speaker 5: wonder if Shanahan could get frustrated with him.
Speaker 6: But I settled on.
Speaker 3: RB two RB two after all that, RB two Okay Scott.
Speaker 3: Rest of season, Isaac Garndo will most often be an
Speaker 3: RB one, RB two flex or bench.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I was debating RB two and flex just because
Speaker 4: RB two is like thirteen through twenty four. He's a
Speaker 4: starting calver running back with the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Speaker 4: So I ended up love landing on RB two as well,
Speaker 4: although you could talk me into bench. Part of the
Speaker 4: thing is he's got a bunch of he's got like
Speaker 4: four ten plus runs and very short like he's got
Speaker 4: that explosive ability in him.
Speaker 5: He's like Dave Kingman, you know, go back to it's
Speaker 5: the three true outcomes. He's hitting a ding er, he's
Speaker 5: striking out.
Speaker 4: Adam done? Was that?
Speaker 6: Adam John Adams done?
Speaker 4: Love it?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 4: And the game where CMC was out and Mason left early,
Speaker 4: he ran seventeen routes, caught three or four targets, went
Speaker 4: fourteen for eighty five on the route on the ground,
Speaker 4: including two explosives. So I can see if he's getting
Speaker 4: fourteen fifteen touch volume and he's running the routes at
Speaker 4: that level. RB two seems well within range. Isaac Grendos.
Speaker 3: You mentioned converted wide out twenty two receptions last year Louisville,
Speaker 3: so he can catch a little bit. It's the sprinter
Speaker 3: speed on that frame.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You sort of blew through the numbers quickly.
Speaker 3: Four scrolled down four to three. Three.
Speaker 5: Yes, forty yard legitimate world class athlete, and he is skilled.
Speaker 5: I mean, like you mentioned earlier in his college career,
Speaker 5: he was the receiver. They converted him over to running
Speaker 5: back at Wisconsin.
Speaker 3: Right we've seen him get Isaac Grendo gets significant work
Speaker 3: in two games this year where Jordan Mason got knocked
Speaker 3: out early. In those games, he averaged seven point seven
Speaker 3: yards per carry. But it is a little all or nothing.
Speaker 3: If he gets that crease, he's gone, and that's you know,
Speaker 3: you're hoping that those happen some games. It may not,
Speaker 3: but I think there's probably enough opportunity here. Patrick Taylor,
Speaker 3: you know, Izzy about Akanda just joined the team. I
Speaker 3: don't know how quickly he could even get up to
Speaker 3: speed if they wanted him to. Schedule's pretty positive. I
Speaker 3: like him against Chicago this week Rams Miami Lions. Lions
Speaker 3: are normally a tough run defense, but if they're still
Speaker 3: this injured a week seventeen, anything to go here. I
Speaker 3: think if I if I were to end up grading
Speaker 3: Isaac Grendo the rest of these games, and I've got
Speaker 3: him this week, I'm going to give him a bee
Speaker 3: this week. I think it's going to be a bee
Speaker 3: most weeks, and so we'll go RB two for Isaac
Speaker 3: Grendo going forward.
Speaker 2: Tough Question number three.
Speaker 3: This comes from brock Timmian on Twitter, Hi, Rock, should
Speaker 3: teams that have locked in their playoff seed be required
Speaker 3: to set the best possible lineup? So here to this
Speaker 3: week fourteen, you already know you are the one seed,
Speaker 3: or you're the two seed, or you're locked into the
Speaker 3: three seed, whatever, Should you be required to set the
Speaker 3: the best winning lineup that you can?
Speaker 4: Scott this is this is right.
Speaker 3: This is a Scott Fish natural kind of question. What
Speaker 3: do you think here?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and this is honestly one. I can definitely see
Speaker 4: both sides on. Brian Johnson, our co host, replied to
Speaker 4: it you know on Twitter and said he can probably
Speaker 4: do it as there's probably not there. The guy replied
Speaker 4: that there's no by law on it, so you can
Speaker 4: probably do it, but maybe fix that rule in the future.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of with that. If he can, if this
Speaker 4: site allows him to do it and there's no by law,
Speaker 4: that's probably fair game. I'm generally in the camp of
Speaker 4: the team of no tanking. Uh. In fact, I won
Speaker 4: a game in a homely in my home league against
Speaker 4: you when you were we were fighting for the one
Speaker 4: oh one, and I won it because I will not tank,
Speaker 4: but did not tank to be clear, but neither did I. Okay, no,
Speaker 4: we fought we fought out. We're making moves to actually
Speaker 4: play it play three though, even though we want the
Speaker 4: number one pick. But here's the difference here. The argument
Speaker 4: here is not dropping the kipper kicker. You're trying to
Speaker 4: give yourself a better chance to win the championship. And
Speaker 4: it's kind of under the lines of strategy. So the
Speaker 4: absence of bylaws against it and the site allowing to
Speaker 4: do it, and it is a legitimate strategy, I think
Speaker 4: I'm fine with it in this case.
Speaker 3: All right? So, or should teams that have locked in
Speaker 3: their playoff seed be required to set the best possible lineup?
Speaker 5: No, they absolutely should not. First of all, the were
Speaker 5: best qualify our best. It's subjective. You can't force a
Speaker 5: paying owners lineup decisions if you don't like that owner
Speaker 5: that much and what he's doing.
Speaker 6: Dan schneiderm over the off season.
Speaker 3: Well, that is true. That is the biggest mistake, the
Speaker 3: single biggest mistake fantasy leagues make. Yes, they don't get
Speaker 3: rid of bad on get rid.
Speaker 6: Of bad owners.
Speaker 5: I mean, if someone's doing something that's hurting the competitive
Speaker 5: integrity of the league, get rid of the owner.
Speaker 6: In the off season. You could.
Speaker 5: Make it a rule of any lineup that isn't fully
Speaker 5: filled out is invalid, you know, because that's that was
Speaker 5: a part of this thing. Although that could open up
Speaker 5: the possibility that folks are intentional taking an invalid lineup
Speaker 5: if they thought that that helped their playoff chances. I
Speaker 5: just think you can't stop people from seeing to their
Speaker 5: own interests and you should not try.
Speaker 3: You should always play to win your games. Intentionally losing
Speaker 3: to win the game baby, is never okay. Intentionally losing
Speaker 3: is never okay to me, as even if you prefer
Speaker 3: that your opponent wins, you should not just be handing
Speaker 3: out free victory.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 3: The integrity of the league is at stake, and you
Speaker 3: can't do that now. So that's there's just beween intentionally
Speaker 3: losing and things like this.
Speaker 5: But if you think it helps your playoff matchup to
Speaker 5: punt the last regular season game, you wouldn't do it.
Speaker 6: No, I would last.
Speaker 4: Last week, you had this exact question in an Empire
Speaker 4: league where you didn't want to cut someone.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: Let's say it's this week, six teams are on by
Speaker 3: and you your kicker is on buy. You don't want
Speaker 3: to drop some valuable player to go pick up a kicker.
Speaker 3: I'm totally fine with that. You're not artificially, You're not.
Speaker 3: You're harming yourself. I don't want you to harm yourself
Speaker 3: and harm your own team by dropping a player you need.
Speaker 3: But I can't see my way to tank purposely losing
Speaker 3: games because you would like to have your opponent win
Speaker 3: so they have a better chance of getting the playoffs,
Speaker 3: because you think you can beat them later.
Speaker 4: Whatever this was, because you don't want to drop anyone else.
Speaker 3: Because you don't want to drop somebody else, you don't
Speaker 3: have to make that move.
Speaker 4: All right, Let's get back to the matchups.
Speaker 3: Carolina Panthers taking on the Philadelphia Eagles. Panthers should have
Speaker 3: won last week. They could have won the week before that.
Speaker 3: They did win the two games before that. Carolina's turned
Speaker 3: into a middle of the pack team. It's they've had
Speaker 3: some really nice games. They have talk to me about
Speaker 3: Bryce Young, who's playing awfully well right now.
Speaker 4: Yes, back to back solid games. But again, both of
Speaker 4: those pass defenses were bottom twelve.
Speaker 3: That face, Yeah, the Eagles are not the Eagles.
Speaker 4: Fourth ranked Eagles passed allows just two hundred yards per
Speaker 4: game and just thirteen passing scores in twelve games.
Speaker 3: And since the week six when Cooper dejan moved to
Speaker 3: the slot starting slot their number one against them.
Speaker 4: I was gonna get there, but I will, I wake
Speaker 4: up rutting. I'll let you have that. So I have
Speaker 4: the entire passing game on the bench. Xavier Legatt is
Speaker 4: basically a three to four catch guy, but it's thirty
Speaker 4: three yards a game and sixty six is his season high.
Speaker 4: He doesn't really score. He scored four times though, so
Speaker 4: but I have him on the bench. Adam Thielen four
Speaker 4: targets in his return, saw ten last week, going eight
Speaker 4: for nine, nine to one. He's becoming Bryce Young's will
Speaker 4: be once again like he was at the start of
Speaker 4: last season. So if there is a play here, it's him,
Speaker 4: But he is getting Cooper de Jon in the slot,
Speaker 4: who has really stepped up recently. So your hope is
Speaker 4: maybe Thielan on a dart throw with everybody else on
Speaker 4: by Cocher injured may or may not play, probably not
Speaker 4: going to play. But the big problem with the running
Speaker 4: game over here Chuba Hubbard and Jonathan Brooks. They split everything.
Speaker 4: Last week, Jonathan Brooks had no nine touches, Cuba had twelve.
Speaker 4: Jonathan Brooks got three receptions on three targets. Cuba lost
Speaker 4: the pass game work and their snaps really started to
Speaker 4: come back up. Brooks still below him in snaps, but
Speaker 4: it seems like that trend line is Brooks taking over
Speaker 4: and in this matchup, a tough matchup for the run
Speaker 4: I just think that they're going to monopolize each other.
Speaker 4: So I got them both on the bench over on
Speaker 4: the Philly side. Jalen Hurts Man, this is this is
Speaker 4: a story for running game quarterback, rushing quarterbacks because he's
Speaker 4: averaging barely over two hundred yards a game, but all
Speaker 4: these rushing scars and all this rushing yards is really
Speaker 4: doing it for him. I still have an A grade
Speaker 4: on him. For the last six quarterbacks against Carolina had
Speaker 4: fifty plus yards and or a score on the ground,
Speaker 4: So that's going to help him right there. And their
Speaker 4: bottom ten against the pass anyway, so it's a good
Speaker 4: spot A grade for Jalen Hurts as well as AJ Brown,
Speaker 4: who may see shadow treatment from J. C. Horn according
Speaker 4: to make Mike Clay, but in the last two shadow
Speaker 4: games for j C. Horn five for twenty five and
Speaker 4: one to DeAndre Hopkins eight for one hundred and eighteen
Speaker 4: and one to Mike Evans.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 3: So no fear of that really.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And they're giving the fifth most fantasy points up
Speaker 4: to the perimeter, So I have to see a secret
Speaker 4: on DeVonta Smith. In the two games prior to his injury,
Speaker 4: they were not very good, but Goddard was playing. And
Speaker 4: we've talked about this a lot of the last three years.
Speaker 4: They've monopolize each other. It's one or the other. Goddard
Speaker 4: is out for this game that the four games got
Speaker 4: it missed three for sixty four and one one for
Speaker 4: two in that Giants blowout where hurts only three four
Speaker 4: hundred and fourteen yards, But that's six for eighty five
Speaker 4: and a score, and four for eighty seven in a score,
Speaker 4: so like sixty ninety yards in a score. So I'm
Speaker 4: in with Dallas Goddard out. Grant Calcatara is gonna get
Speaker 4: in here with one of the best tight end matchups
Speaker 4: you can get. Carolina's allowed nine tight end scores in
Speaker 4: twelve games. That's nine times if you want to throw
Speaker 4: that button on there, and the eighth most yards to
Speaker 4: the position. I thought about it, take a chance on
Speaker 4: me here, but I'm just gonna give him a ce.
Speaker 4: He plays over ninety percent the snaps when Goddard is out.
Speaker 4: He had eight plus fantasy points in three of those
Speaker 4: four games without Goddard. So it's okay. Spot a grade
Speaker 4: on Saquon Barkley. I don't really need to go over
Speaker 4: it because it's an awesome matchup. And that's why Kenneth
Speaker 4: Gainwell was might take a chance on me player in
Speaker 4: a backup role at the end of that game.
Speaker 3: Speaking of take a chance on me players, you mentioned
Speaker 3: Zach Scharbonay earlier or for the Seattle Seahawks. If Kenneth
Speaker 3: Walker is able to go, do you like him.
Speaker 5: Here, Kenneth Walker or Sharbone Kenneth Walker, Kenneth Walk, Yes, Yes,
Speaker 5: I yes, I to me, he'd be a must start
Speaker 5: a if Kenneth Walker does end up going. He was
Speaker 5: a limited participant in practice on Wednesday, didn't practice Thursday
Speaker 5: with the ankle and calf injuries. He has been deemed
Speaker 5: a game time decision, officially questionable on the injury report
Speaker 5: RB eleven and average Fantasy points, but has said to
Speaker 5: RB twenty seven over the past five weeks.
Speaker 3: He looks run down, and yes he does.
Speaker 5: During that span three point nine yards per carry. The
Speaker 5: play is clearly regret He might need a week off.
Speaker 6: Honestly, he might.
Speaker 3: I ques your A grade here. I think he feels
Speaker 3: like more like a B grade with the injury to
Speaker 3: the potential of aggravation to the injury a unkload reduction.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna toggle it to a bee.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, yeah, because I do think you know, I
Speaker 5: mentioned this during the sharp and anything that if Walker goes,
Speaker 5: I do expect less usage for Walker more for sure. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 5: So we're gonna go down to a bee. Going to
Speaker 5: the passing game there with the Seahawks, I'm gonna bench
Speaker 5: keep Geno Smith on the bench. Gino only scored fourteen
Speaker 5: point six fantasy points in Week twelve against the same
Speaker 5: Arizona Cardinals. He only has four games all season over
Speaker 5: twenty fantasy points. And then the Cardinals. They've allowed just
Speaker 5: four quarterbacks all season to go over twenty fantasy points.
Speaker 5: I don't think Gino gonna get there this week. Sam
Speaker 5: Darnold last week was the first quarterback in six weeks
Speaker 5: to get more than sixteen fantasy points against the Cardinals.
Speaker 5: Dk metcalf taken off the injury report on Friday, so
Speaker 5: he is gonna go. Of course, he had dinged up
Speaker 5: his knee week thirteen against against the Jets. He has
Speaker 5: a shoulder injury as well, but again he's going to play.
Speaker 5: Scored ten point five PPR points or less in the
Speaker 5: last two games. The Cardinals have only allowed one touchdown
Speaker 5: to a wide receiver in the past six games.
Speaker 2: So the.
Speaker 4: Rounding, yeah, yeah, it is. It's turning quite good.
Speaker 6: Sure is.
Speaker 5: So we're gonna give DK a b We're also going
Speaker 5: to give JSN a B Smith and Jigbait wide receiver
Speaker 5: sixteen fantasy points per game.
Speaker 6: This is a better matchup for him.
Speaker 5: I feel like since Week ten, Arizona has run the
Speaker 5: highest too high coverage in the entire NFL.
Speaker 6: JSN leads the Seahawks.
Speaker 5: With a twenty one percent target share against too high.
Speaker 5: Which makes sense. He beats you in the intermediate range,
Speaker 5: you keep the two guys back, you have less guys
Speaker 5: there to defend him. Last time against the Cardinals, JSN
Speaker 5: was wide receiver thirteen for the week with almost twenty
Speaker 5: PPR points. Tyler Lockett and Noah fan, I would suggest
Speaker 5: that you bench them. Yes, keep them on the bench.
Speaker 5: Moving over to the Cardinals. Kyler Murray great of C
Speaker 5: ten point three fantasy points at Seattle in Week twelve.
Speaker 6: That was good for or bad for? I guess quarterback
Speaker 6: twenty three.
Speaker 5: He's been held under twenty fantasy points three of the
Speaker 5: past four games Seattle.
Speaker 6: The last three.
Speaker 5: Games so the Seahawks pass defense allowed only eight passing
Speaker 5: touchdowns in his intercepted the ball seven times.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so they've been they've been playing better.
Speaker 5: James Connor, I'm gonna give him a b RB seventeen
Speaker 5: fantasy points per game. The Seahawks shut down Connor two
Speaker 5: weeks ago, but overall, Seattle has a middle of the
Speaker 5: pack run defense, and Seattle's interestingly struggles against gap runs,
Speaker 5: which why I was surprising they shut down Connor last time.
Speaker 5: Fourth highs yards after contact per attempt against gap runs.
Speaker 6: That's the Seahawks run defense.
Speaker 5: Connor seventy one percent of his carries are gap concepts.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give him a be I think he bounds
Speaker 5: it back this time. Tray Benson, I'm gonna give him
Speaker 5: a bench. I did think about a speculative see here
Speaker 5: in sort of the desperation flex van only seven carries
Speaker 5: total the last couple of weeks, and Emery de Mercado
Speaker 5: was on the field more last week against the Vikings,
Speaker 5: but at Benson snaps were to go up in this game.
Speaker 5: I do think that he could do a little damage
Speaker 5: himself on some of those gap concepts against the Seattle defense.
Speaker 6: Marvin Harrison. Gonna give him a see.
Speaker 5: The Seahawks shutdown Harrison Junior last time that they played.
Speaker 5: Harrison's yards per route run fall all the way to
Speaker 5: one point four to five against Too High, which it's
Speaker 5: the Seahawks have been running a ton of since Week ten.
Speaker 5: During that span, since the Seahawks have gone more to
Speaker 5: this predominant too high look, the Seattle has held perimeter
Speaker 5: wide receivers of the six fewest PPR points per target
Speaker 5: and the lowest yards per game the entire NFL. But
Speaker 5: I will give him a see. I'm going to advise
Speaker 5: a bench for Michael Wilson. This is a bad matchup
Speaker 5: for Wilson. Seattle's pass defense ranks first in EPA allowed
Speaker 5: per play. Seattle ranks number four in yards allowed per
Speaker 5: cover snap to opposing wide receiver as well mentioned that
Speaker 5: they've been doing better recently, so benjam and then Trey McBride,
Speaker 5: my boy who is a part of my hall in
Speaker 5: the Guillotine League, the Afrementary Guillotine League.
Speaker 6: When I got my pick at seven guys, Trey McBride
Speaker 6: is one of them. Are that great? A must start
Speaker 6: love Trey McBride.
Speaker 4: Does he gonna score a touchdown? Yet?
Speaker 6: You're gonna score a touchdown in this.
Speaker 4: Ge Josh Allen has a receiving touchdown and no catches.
Speaker 6: On no catches, He's got to receiving touchdown.
Speaker 3: And we're at like seventy catches right now for Trey
Speaker 3: McBride without a score, which is I'm calling.
Speaker 6: It this week.
Speaker 3: That is hard to fall all right, tell you shot,
Speaker 3: I like it. I meant when we come back Chicago
Speaker 3: taking on the San Francisco forty nine Ers, Chicago's offense
Speaker 3: getting a little bit better, We'll tell you whether or
Speaker 3: not you can start Caleb Williams, DJ Moore, Keenan Allen.
Speaker 4: When we returned to Fantasy Football.
Speaker 8: Weekly, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 3: The block of matchups for you, beginning with the Bears
Speaker 3: at the forty nine Ers. I'm gonna start with the
Speaker 3: running game and DeAndre Swift Roshan Johnson's out and that
Speaker 3: that helps DeAndre Swists prospects quite a bit because Johnson
Speaker 3: have been housing all the goal line.
Speaker 4: With Whi's questionable too. Now she should go that I
Speaker 4: mention should go.
Speaker 3: So now if you can't go, then Travis Homer would
Speaker 3: be your pivot guy in this game. And it's a
Speaker 3: late afternoon game, so you might just want to pick
Speaker 3: up Travis Homer just in case you need to make
Speaker 3: that last minute pivot. The Niners are a shockingly soft
Speaker 3: run defense that's allowed rushing touchdowns in seven straight games.
Speaker 3: The past two opponents have run for one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty eight yards and one hundred and ninety eight yards
Speaker 3: against the forty nine Ers. DeAndre Swift a B grade
Speaker 3: in this one. Let's go over to the passing game.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna start with Keenan Allen, who gets my highest
Speaker 3: grade of the week, because slot receivers are killing the
Speaker 3: forty nine ers even in Buffalo's blizzard conditions. Last week,
Speaker 3: Khalil Shakir led the Bills in receiving decent. Recent slot
Speaker 3: performances against the Niners include Jackson Smith and Jigba ten catches,
Speaker 3: Ceedee Lamb thirteen catches. So I like Keenan Allen, here's
Speaker 3: coming on strong lately with a B grade. DJ Moore
Speaker 3: has got a quad injury. You're gonna want to watch that,
Speaker 3: and even if even if he plays, quad's reinjured, So
Speaker 3: be careful here. He's become pretty bankable of late as
Speaker 3: the primary beneficiary of Caleb Williams improved play. He's had
Speaker 3: seven or eight catches in three straight games. He runs
Speaker 3: overwhelmingly from the left side of the field and that
Speaker 3: puts him on cornerback Ronardo Green.
Speaker 4: A neutral matchup.
Speaker 3: He's allowing a sixty seven percent completion rate and a
Speaker 3: couple of scores over the course of the season. But
Speaker 3: Green is a skinny kid and DJ Moore a little
Speaker 3: more physical, and he could beat him that way potentially.
Speaker 3: But let me note that you should know this since
Speaker 3: Thomas Brown took over for the Bears offense. DJ Moore's
Speaker 3: a dot. His average distance of target is three yards.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, three that's it. I did not expect that, and.
Speaker 3: That's why he's a C grade. Roma Dunesay's on the bench.
Speaker 3: His role is starting to come into focus as the
Speaker 3: team's down field receiver, but that also makes him the
Speaker 3: least reliable of the group, and he's got the toughest
Speaker 3: matchup against Shaveria's Ward and then Latt leaves us with oh,
Speaker 3: I just mentioned Cole kmet forty nine ers a lead
Speaker 3: tight end defense, So do not play him. We'll keep
Speaker 3: him on the bench. Caleb Williams, I've got BC's and
Speaker 3: two bench grades on his receiving options, so I don't
Speaker 3: love him here, but he is playing way better lately.
Speaker 3: Hasn't thrown a touchdown in six games, which is a
Speaker 3: rookie quarterbacking record all time, and his rushing brings up
Speaker 3: his floor a little bit here. So Niners have allowed
Speaker 3: four quarterback rushing touchdowns in the last eight games, so
Speaker 3: you might get a little something done with his legs.
Speaker 3: But I see like a two hundred yard one touchdown
Speaker 3: passing performance and only a C grade on Caleb Williams
Speaker 3: On the Niner side, George Kittle obvious a Isaac Grendo. Well, actually,
Speaker 3: I'll stay with the receivers. Juwan Jennings back to back
Speaker 3: bummer games for Jennings. First was the Brandon Allen start
Speaker 3: two weeks ago. That was no good. Then he got
Speaker 3: the Blizzard game that was no good. This time, the
Speaker 3: force of nature he's going to be dealing with is
Speaker 3: star cornerback Jalen Johnson. Johnson only lows two catches for
Speaker 3: twenty six yards per game in his coverage. He's not
Speaker 3: allowed more than two catches in his coverage all year long.
Speaker 3: Now my hope is with Matty Eberflu's gone, the Bears
Speaker 3: are gonna let Johnson play more man coverage, which they
Speaker 3: almost never do. And I think it's moronic because he's
Speaker 3: the perfect guy to put on Juwan Jennings. And I've
Speaker 3: only got a C grade on Jennings on the assumption
Speaker 3: that they're going to let Jalen Johnson cover him more often.
Speaker 3: But I still love Jennings as a receiver, and you
Speaker 3: could talk me into a bee if you had to.
Speaker 3: Deebo Samuel C grade. He's been an epic disappointment, in
Speaker 3: part because it doesn't run the ball at all, But
Speaker 3: maybe the loss of CMC and Jordan Mason means that
Speaker 3: he will start running more often. Grendo's backup is Izziabanaconde.
Speaker 3: He's been with the team for four days so I
Speaker 3: don't think he's going to be a factor here. I
Speaker 3: think we might get a few extra runs out of
Speaker 3: Deebo Samuel And honestly, it's the only reason I've even
Speaker 3: got the C grade on him. And that brings us
Speaker 3: to Brock Purdy in the passing game. He's off the
Speaker 3: injury report with his shoulder injury. But Perty's only posted
Speaker 3: explosive output in three games this year, and they were
Speaker 3: all against easy yielding defenses. That's a little tribute to.
Speaker 4: Matt Yeah, I was, I was londering if it was
Speaker 4: it was.
Speaker 3: That's the opposite of what Chicago is. They are a
Speaker 3: tough defense. They were giving up zero point nine passing
Speaker 3: touchdowns per game. I've got an A and two C
Speaker 3: grades on his receiver, so I've only got the C
Speaker 3: grade on Rock Perty in this one. And as I
Speaker 3: alluded to earlier in the show, Isaac Grendo absolutely startable.
Speaker 3: Hottest Waiver Wire pickup of the week, and this is
Speaker 3: a great opportunity. The way you beat Chicago is on
Speaker 3: the ground. Last week, the Lions runners combined for two
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty eight combo yards against Chicago. Week before that,
Speaker 3: Aaron Jones snapped a month long funk against Chicago, and
Speaker 3: the week before that, Josh Jacobs put up one hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty four total yards. That's your opportunity for Isaiah
Speaker 3: Garendo A grade.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: I like Girndo a lot in this matchup. He's my
Speaker 3: running back eleven at this moment. All right, let's go
Speaker 3: over to the Buffalo Bills taking me on the Los
Speaker 3: Angeles Rams Scott Fish. Yeah, in the Snow Bowl last week,
Speaker 3: we got the scoring oddity. Yeah, rushing a lot of
Speaker 3: rushing yards. What do you think in this one?
Speaker 4: Yeah, for a lot of this, I might throw some
Speaker 4: of that out. It was, It's it's not as attributable here.
Speaker 4: Josh Allen is gonna get the A grade. Probably just
Speaker 4: deserves an automatic. He's got multiple scores in almost every
Speaker 4: single week. Rams middle of the pack, two hundred and
Speaker 4: thirty four yards per game. Half their game's multiple scores.
Speaker 4: Josh gets the rushing and sometimes receiving value. H Keon Coleman,
Speaker 4: was you take a chance on me wide receiver? The
Speaker 4: only Yeah, The only other starter I had was Khalil Shakir.
Speaker 4: Last week is snow game, and he still managed to
Speaker 4: get seven Fantasy somehow. He's uh the leading target getter,
Speaker 4: has scored in three straight against the Rams. Fourteen different
Speaker 4: wide receivers have scored against them total. Khalil doesn't score often,
Speaker 4: but he does get six plus catches, seven plus targets
Speaker 4: and fifty plus yards in most games, including the five
Speaker 4: before that snowball snow Bowl. Amari Cooper, you can't really
Speaker 4: start snowballs. Yeah, snowballs when they score touchdowns. That was awesome. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: Amari Cooper. I'm not gonna start until he gets more
Speaker 4: than half the snaps.
Speaker 3: That would be nice.
Speaker 4: Dalton Concaine shed the non contact injury vest. He might
Speaker 4: he might return this week, but he's still gonna split
Speaker 4: with knocks and only one tight end. His top forty
Speaker 4: five yards in the last six weeks against the Rams,
Speaker 4: and it took being targeted nine times to get there.
Speaker 4: I don't think that's going to be in the cards
Speaker 4: for either of them. James Cook. Cook has scored in
Speaker 4: all but three games this year, including seven of the
Speaker 4: last eight. His yardagen had been dipping down recently one
Speaker 4: hundred plus last week. Over the last two weeks, the
Speaker 4: Rams have given up three hundred and two yards to
Speaker 4: total yards to Barkley one hundred and nineteen to Kamara.
Speaker 4: They're getting crushed by runners right now. So I got
Speaker 4: an A grade on Cook. Ray Davis got a bunch
Speaker 4: of quality work in that blizzardy blowout, but that was
Speaker 4: his highest total of the season. Before that, he wasn't
Speaker 4: getting much, so he's on the bench. Over to the
Speaker 4: Rams side, I have a B grade on Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 4: who's been really hot lately. Multiple scores in five the
Speaker 4: last six, eight scores in just the last three weeks.
Speaker 4: Likely to trail here. You know, they're five point underdogs.
Speaker 4: It's supposedly going to be a blowout of Corn to Vegas,
Speaker 4: but the Bills. Bills have given up multiple scores in
Speaker 4: three straight prior to the Blizzard game, but only three
Speaker 4: quarterbacks have topped the super low bar of two hundred
Speaker 4: and fifteen passing yards. So I'm not sure how much
Speaker 4: we can fully expect out of Stafford, but I have
Speaker 4: a B grade there, and he hyper targets his two
Speaker 4: main guys, Cooper Cup and Pooka Nikua. Nikua has ninety
Speaker 4: eight plus yards and or a score and also sixteen
Speaker 4: plus Fantasy games in every game that he's played over
Speaker 4: thirty five percent of the snaps, like he came out
Speaker 4: that one, so I'm gonna push it to the side.
Speaker 4: So he's basically an ottaway Cooper Cup Rough week for
Speaker 4: Cup last week in that snow game, or rough not
Speaker 4: in the Snow game, but before that, he was on
Speaker 4: a five week absolute tear, scoring four times in those
Speaker 4: five games, fifteen plus in all of thomse game script
Speaker 4: should be in his favor. I know that it's a
Speaker 4: tougher Bills matchup.
Speaker 6: I still but.
Speaker 3: Taron Johnson in the slot has really really dropped off.
Speaker 3: He used to be great. That's an exploitable matchup for
Speaker 3: Cooper Cup. I think he bounces back nicely here.
Speaker 2: Sure. Sure.
Speaker 4: And for Nick Westbrookakine West DeMarcus Robinson another three target
Speaker 4: game last week, another score. Who would be East? Who
Speaker 4: would be the East version?
Speaker 3: If well, that's that's Nick Westbrookakina, Well.
Speaker 4: I mean Tennessee's. I suppose it seems pretty centimes. Yeah, yeah, sure,
Speaker 4: the matchup is tough. Regression should happen, but six teams
Speaker 4: on by and based on Nick and him, just ride
Speaker 4: it till bucks you. I'll give him a dart throw.
Speaker 4: I don't love it. Though I don't love it at all.
Speaker 4: Karen Williams gets an A grade fifteen plus touches last
Speaker 4: week notching you had another score, and he had another
Speaker 4: one hundred plus game yard game, scoring in back to
Speaker 4: back eleven touchdowns in twelve games, basically a lock for
Speaker 4: seventy to one hundred every week. The only thing that
Speaker 4: was starting to worry me he had eleven catches in
Speaker 4: the in weeks eight through eleven. He's only had one
Speaker 4: catch in the last three weeks. If that disappears, I
Speaker 4: don't know, I'm gonna worry a little bit. The Bills
Speaker 4: are bottom three against backs in the passing game, so
Speaker 4: maybe this is the rebound game for him. Korm got
Speaker 4: some workload last week, but I think it's more of
Speaker 4: a fluke, so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably yeah, Bench, all right, when we come back.
Speaker 4: I think we can do it. I think we're nine
Speaker 4: minutes in. You think so, are we?
Speaker 3: All right, Let's do a Laurent. Let's work in one
Speaker 3: more Cincinnati takes on Dallas store points everywhere. We already
Speaker 3: are already identified all the cowboys that we love, and
Speaker 3: take a chance on me. Let's go to the Bengals
Speaker 3: side first. It start everybody. I've got Chase Brown at
Speaker 3: running back four this week?
Speaker 5: All right, yeah, and I could definitely see that he
Speaker 5: a for me. Brown has gotten over eighty percent of
Speaker 5: the snaps in every single game since Zach Moscott hurt.
Speaker 5: This is an awesome matchup for him with a game
Speaker 5: total pushing fifty against a bottom three run defense in Dallas.
Speaker 6: Giving him a name.
Speaker 5: Joe Jamar, Chase t Higgins are all a's and must starts.
Speaker 6: Mike kis sick. I'm gonna give him a bench and
Speaker 6: the only reason I bring him up.
Speaker 5: Last week five catch at fifty three yards against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5: That was the first time all season Kasiki has scored
Speaker 5: double digit PPR points with t Higgins on the field.
Speaker 5: I'd assume that Kasiki's production returns to its previous mediocre
Speaker 5: levels in this game.
Speaker 6: Go over to the Dallas side.
Speaker 5: Cooper Rushers might take a chance on me, guy ric
Speaker 5: o'dowdell with Chargers take a chance and Brandon Cooks was
Speaker 5: another one of my take a chance on me guys.
Speaker 5: Ceedee Lamb is an A and a must start if
Speaker 5: he plays a questionable he said.
Speaker 6: That he's gonna play, so I trust him.
Speaker 5: Jalen Tilvert, he's a bench unless Ceedee Lamb was lying
Speaker 5: to us with that shoulder injury. But yeah, CD said
Speaker 5: on Thursday that he was going to play. So and
Speaker 5: then lastly Jake Ferguson, who is questionable. Gonna give him
Speaker 5: a be It looks like he'll be back this week.
Speaker 5: Before his Week eleven concussion, Ferguson had at least seven
Speaker 5: targets in five of seven games. Cincinnati's allowed thirteen plus
Speaker 5: half point PPR points to seven tight ends in the
Speaker 5: last eight games, and the Bengals have allowed the fourth
Speaker 5: highest catch ade to opposing tight ends.
Speaker 4: All right, we like Ferguson in this one, we do?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bergie Ferd Yeah, good to have him back, sure
Speaker 3: is Yeah, we love the Schooner mocker. Yeah, it'll be
Speaker 3: good to have Jake back.
Speaker 4: Would we come back?
Speaker 3: We'll jump into Fantasy Football Weekly time machine. As we
Speaker 3: go back in time, find out who you want to
Speaker 3: do this week that everybody else will be trying to
Speaker 3: pick up next week when we return to hand a
Speaker 3: final set of matchups. Fantasy Football Weekly. Final segment of
Speaker 3: Fantasy Football Weekly for this week Scott Fish Fantasy Cares. Yes,
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Speaker 3: It's time jump football Weekly Talk. Jane for pregnanture speculation
Speaker 3: for who would you like to talk about? For premature speculation,
Speaker 3: Scott was.
Speaker 6: Just talking about charity.
Speaker 5: The forty nine ers got some this week by claiming
Speaker 5: israel lebonaat for free from the New York Jets.
Speaker 6: He is my prespect this week.
Speaker 5: So I think Abana Conda is a really good fit
Speaker 5: for the forty nine ers system. I mean, in some
Speaker 5: ways Grindo is too, and Abana Conda not as physically
Speaker 5: talented as Grendo. He has better vision, right, and it's
Speaker 5: the same thing of the guy who's looking for the
Speaker 5: crease to hit the dinger.
Speaker 6: They're both home run hitters.
Speaker 5: So I don't think it's out of the question that
Speaker 5: Abona Conda, he's in the building there for a couple
Speaker 5: of weeks, that they could start to maybe get frustrated
Speaker 5: by Grendo's lack of vision. Maybe maybe they end up
Speaker 5: giving a Bona Conde shot Bonaconda fifth round pick in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty three out of Pittsburgh. Like I said, home
Speaker 5: run hit or four four five speed at two hundred
Speaker 5: and sixteen pounds, ninety eighth percentile, vertical ninety six percentile,
Speaker 5: brought nine to six one ras. Overall, that means he's
Speaker 5: a ninety six percentile athlete when compared to every other
Speaker 5: running backs entered the NFL since like the eighties, with
Speaker 5: the jets of Bonaconda average four point one yards rushing
Speaker 5: outside only two point eight inside the tackles, which again
Speaker 5: just underscores the home run hitting thing which the forty
Speaker 5: nine ers system facilitates, right, I mean they sort of
Speaker 5: they facilitate that, so so I think a Bonicicona is
Speaker 5: a really good fit, and that's a guy that you
Speaker 5: could look to go out and get in the dumpster
Speaker 5: and pick up for free.
Speaker 4: Okay, this year's up, Tim high Tower or Ronde maybe.
Speaker 5: Potentially Ron Day shutout Ron Dan, Yeah, no kidding, Yeah, great, Dan?
Speaker 3: All right, Scott your premire speculation player.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna break rules again, and I'm going to
Speaker 4: go two of them. The first one was our last
Speaker 4: week of doing this, so you should Okay, Well, it's
Speaker 4: really only one and a half, So Braylan Allen is
Speaker 4: twenty to forty percent roster, depend depending on where you
Speaker 4: are are playing. But I think with two and a
Speaker 4: half three weeks now of Brice Hall dealing with this
Speaker 4: knee injury, it's possible they're eliminated from the playoffs as
Speaker 4: of last week. Maybe he gets shot down and Braylan
Speaker 4: Allen takes the workload for the rest of the season
Speaker 4: and you've got a starting running back. The other one
Speaker 4: is a player I didn't mention in the Buccaneers in
Speaker 4: the Buccaneers breakdown earlier because I don't have any kind
Speaker 4: of grade on him. But it's Sean Tucker. If Bucky
Speaker 4: Irving doesn't play. He missed Wednesday and Thursday, and he
Speaker 4: was limited on Friday. If Bucky Irving doesn't play, Sean
Speaker 4: Tucker might get a role this weekend, so possible pick
Speaker 4: up there.
Speaker 5: There was some I forgot to mention with mine if
Speaker 5: I can just jump in quickly, which was I found
Speaker 5: this quote from Kyle Shanna hand really interesting about a
Speaker 5: bonaconda after they made that claim, so I just wanted
Speaker 5: to circle back really quick. Kyle Shanahan quote. I liked
Speaker 5: him coming out of college. I haven't studied him a
Speaker 5: ton in the NFL, but he was a guy that
Speaker 5: I had good notes on coming out of college and liked,
Speaker 5: and I know our scouting department thought he was the
Speaker 5: best guy out there being available. So in our situation,
Speaker 5: I'm especially glad to get him in here.
Speaker 3: All right, Well that's promising. You know what else is promising?
Speaker 3: Will Lovis. I already mentioned him once in the show and.
Speaker 6: You Love Will You Love the mail Man?
Speaker 3: By way, I'm so far off of Will Levis in
Speaker 3: the preseason do not draft, do not draft, do not draft,
Speaker 3: And for half a year that was the right decision.
Speaker 3: But you have to be able to say I'm wrong,
Speaker 3: and Will Levis has just gotten better. He's just gotten
Speaker 3: back to the point that even though the Titans are
Speaker 3: going to be sitting in the top like seven of
Speaker 3: the draft, I don't know they're going quarterback that pick. Wow,
Speaker 3: Levis has done enough. This thing is this thing is
Speaker 3: looking a little interesting. So, as I already mentioned earlier
Speaker 3: in the show, vastly and proved he's quarterback eleven over
Speaker 3: the past four weeks. But here's the best part, easiest
Speaker 3: remaining schedule against the pass Will Levis. You get Jacksonville
Speaker 3: twice and Cincinnati Woods and then a neutral matchup with Indy.
Speaker 6: Pretty good. It's all great day, pretty good.
Speaker 4: You know this was this was my prespect on Ta
Speaker 4: Jay Spears last week. Just the matchups are so good.
Speaker 3: I my take a chance on me. Quarterback for the
Speaker 3: rest of the year is Will love for the rest.
Speaker 6: Of your life. Will loves baby.
Speaker 4: My son was confused this last weekend why he had
Speaker 4: MAO commercials? Why does Will Livis get commercials? Because I
Speaker 4: had to expect?
Speaker 5: And why does he eat bananas with the peel. There's
Speaker 5: so many questions about Will Levis and will never be answered.
Speaker 4: It's Perry never be answered.
Speaker 3: We've got one matchup we do get too. Let's let's
Speaker 3: talk it through Chargers Kansas City to the Sunday night game.
Speaker 4: These met.
Speaker 3: These teams met in a low scoring game back in
Speaker 3: Week four. On the Chargers side, not a lot lot
Speaker 3: to love here. Lad McConkie has got an AC injury
Speaker 3: that could knock him out on any tackle. You have
Speaker 3: to be really careful. Remember Jordan Mason earlier this year
Speaker 3: was trying to play through his AC injury and he
Speaker 3: got knocked out twice. So you have to be a
Speaker 3: little bit careful there. And we saw McConkie plays on
Speaker 3: Sunday night. You'll want to watch his status up until then,
Speaker 3: and you might want to pick up Quintin Johnston as
Speaker 3: an emergency pivot if you need to. He's been great,
Speaker 3: He's coming on strong, lots of catches and yards. He's
Speaker 3: only scored in three games this year and not at
Speaker 3: all since Week eight, and that's the only real knock
Speaker 3: against him here. Chiefs secondary has been more yielding of
Speaker 3: Yate late. Of the past five games, the Chiefs have
Speaker 3: allowed the fourth most yards to wide receivers. So Lad
Speaker 3: mcconakee comes in with a b grade the other guy
Speaker 3: in sneaky fashion. You could start Will Disley even though
Speaker 3: he had zero catches last week, but startable here because.
Speaker 4: You just like guys name Will Well that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there is that. I guess I do. I didn't
Speaker 3: know that, but I do. Chiefs have allowed the fourth
Speaker 3: most fantasy points the tight ends. Brock Bauers just hammered
Speaker 3: the Chiefs for ten catches one hundred and forty yards
Speaker 3: at a touchdown. Disley seeing the vast majority of tight
Speaker 3: end snaps and routes for the Chargers. His route rate
Speaker 3: the past two games is seventy one percent in each,
Speaker 3: which is very good by tight end standards.
Speaker 4: Let's go to our Let's go to clear bear.
Speaker 3: Justinart, it feels like a low upside game for Herbert,
Speaker 3: who only threw for one hundred and seventy nine yards
Speaker 3: in one touchdown in the earlier meeting with Kansas City.
Speaker 3: If Lad mcconcky were healthier, I'd bump up Herbert to
Speaker 3: a B. But as it stands, it's a C. Because
Speaker 3: that wide receiver depth chart is so thin for the Chargers.
Speaker 3: I worry there just aren't enough quality targets to go
Speaker 3: around against a decent but slightly shakier lately. Kansas City
Speaker 3: secondary so c grade on Justin Herbert Gus Edwards, who
Speaker 3: even with JK. Dobbins out last week, Gus only saw
Speaker 3: five carries in a close game. The last three weeks,
Speaker 3: Gus has totaled thirty two yards, eleven yards and twenty
Speaker 3: seven yards. He doesn't catch. He's got two receptions on
Speaker 3: the year. Kansas City is an excellent run defense. They
Speaker 3: ranked number one in yards per carry, tenth in run
Speaker 3: defense EPA, second in yards after contact, seventh in yards
Speaker 3: before contact. Gus Edwards is on your bench?
Speaker 4: What about command Kamani vidals so soon? Well, we're watching
Speaker 4: my boy.
Speaker 3: We're watching because the Amani gorvad there, but we're not
Speaker 3: We're watching him, but we're not.
Speaker 6: Starting love Kimani all.
Speaker 3: Right now, Kansas City side people are are reading this
Speaker 3: so wrong with Kareem Hunt and Isaiah Pacheco. Hunt Pacheco
Speaker 3: came in last week and Andy Reid had said that
Speaker 3: he was on a snap count of about twenty snaps.
Speaker 3: He's made no such declaration this time, and Hunt is
Speaker 3: going to get obliterated by Pacheco now here. It is
Speaker 3: last week Pachecko and when the two ran last week,
Speaker 3: but Checko ran for six yards per Carrie Hunt ran
Speaker 3: for two, and Hunt had turned four targets into zero catches.
Speaker 3: This thing is over. Pachecko's going to run away with
Speaker 3: this job, and I love him in this matchup because
Speaker 3: the Chargers, while they are a good run defense, listen
Speaker 3: to what teams are doing against them. To beat this
Speaker 3: Chargers team, they're using workhorsebacks against them, and it's working.
Speaker 3: Three weeks ago, Chase Brown twenty seven touches against the Chargers,
Speaker 3: one hundred and forty three yards. Two weeks ago, Derrick
Speaker 3: Henry twenty four touches, one hundred and forty yards. Last week,
Speaker 3: Fijon Robinson thirty two touches, one hundred and thirty five
Speaker 3: combo yards. The way you beat the Chargers is with
Speaker 3: work horse backs and repetition, and it's going to be
Speaker 3: Isaiah Pacheco for an A grade in this matchup. Oh boy,
Speaker 3: let's go to the passing game. And by the way,
Speaker 3: Hunt on the bench, Travis Kelcey B grade, Noah Gray
Speaker 3: is turning into a problem. Is it's a problem. He's
Speaker 3: ciphoning off five targets per game over the last three weeks,
Speaker 3: still Kelsey getting enough work with at least eight targets
Speaker 3: in five of the last six games where Kelsey's not
Speaker 3: getting anywhere end zone. He's been targeted in the end
Speaker 3: zone only five times all year. Travis Kelcey Noah Gray
Speaker 3: four times this year.
Speaker 4: I'm the one to blame for no Gray because after
Speaker 4: I finally gave up and dropped him from all my
Speaker 4: Dynasty teams.
Speaker 3: That's when he took off as good. The Chargers have
Speaker 3: been giving up just one touchdown, have given up just
Speaker 3: one touchdown to tight ends all year, so I expect
Speaker 3: Kelsey to do the same thing he's been doing. He's
Speaker 3: going to give you plenty of catches in yards, but
Speaker 3: he is not going to be able to help you
Speaker 3: in terms of touchdowns. In all probability, Let's go to
Speaker 3: the other receivers. Andre Hopkins remains the Chiefs wide receiver
Speaker 3: leader in utilization and is the only Kansas City receiver
Speaker 3: you can hope to get any kind of reliable production from.
Speaker 3: He's coming off consecutive serviceable Fantasy games for the first
Speaker 3: time this year with either of his two teams. Hopkins
Speaker 3: runs from the left, the right, and the slot but
Speaker 3: the Chargers have got good cornerbacks at all three spots,
Speaker 3: so I don't love his individual matchups at any of them.
Speaker 3: Hopkins wins contested catches a lot with his size, but
Speaker 3: you know, the Charges cornerbacks are all bigger guys. They're
Speaker 3: all over six foot. I can only get you to
Speaker 3: a C grade on DeAndre Hopkins. Xavier Worthy. Last three
Speaker 3: games have represented a nice uptick in usage. We spent
Speaker 3: the first half of the season where like Xavier Worthy
Speaker 3: needs to score on two touches and that's not gonna
Speaker 3: happen most times. Now last three weeks four four and
Speaker 3: five receptions for Xavier Worthy, so that's a huge improvement.
Speaker 3: Chargers cornerbacks play physical defense, which either means for a
Speaker 3: guy like Worthy who's just straight speed, he's either gonna
Speaker 3: get like bumped off his routes and it's gonna be
Speaker 3: a disaster, or he's just gonna run by these physical
Speaker 3: Charger receivers and make a big play. So I've got
Speaker 3: a C grade on Xavier Worthy as an all or
Speaker 3: nothing play, high risk, high reward. That brings us to
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes, the final chief to discuss here. I've got
Speaker 3: b's and c's on his receiving options. I've got a
Speaker 3: B grade on Mahomes. The Chargers smoked Kirk Cousins last week,
Speaker 3: but had been uncharacteristically yielding in the two games before that.
Speaker 3: Along the season, the Chargers are a very improved secondary,
Speaker 3: allowing just one touchdown pass per game. Mahomes threw for
Speaker 3: two hundred and forty five yards and a score in
Speaker 3: the earlier matchup. That feels about right here. Maybe gets
Speaker 3: to two touchdowns, but I don't see it. I don't
Speaker 3: see an explosive game coming for Patrick Mahomes. Hey, we're
Speaker 3: so forming new guarantee leagues at leagues dot com. Yeah,
Speaker 3: to know that the season four team gets.
Speaker 5: Maybe my coworkers should get in one of those, because
Speaker 5: our league is over.
Speaker 3: It's over.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're gonna get to see give me that crown
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