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Speaker 1: the fans, paul In. It is the Fantasy Football Playoffs
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Speaker 1: you to the second round. Hopefully some of you have
Speaker 1: got a buy weekend. It doesn't even matter. You're just
Speaker 1: listening to see if you can have a great game
Speaker 1: when it doesn't matter. Paul Charchy in here my co
Speaker 1: host today, Scott Fish and Matt Harrison. Hello, guys, Hey,
Speaker 1: how's it going. Good morning. It's going great as a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, because it's the playoffs. It's winning in now,
Speaker 1: winning in it's it's it's win and win and continue.
Speaker 1: Can you make it in the Church League? Number one seed? What?
Speaker 1: You don't want? A bragger? But I don't know. There's
Speaker 1: like some sort of bird noise that we could play
Speaker 1: for something like that. But I know you probably have
Speaker 1: to pull it up. I'll pull it up. Pull it up.
Speaker 1: That's good, that's actually quite good. I've been really practicing
Speaker 1: at home. You know. I as a rule, I don't
Speaker 1: talk about my teams, and we don't talk about our
Speaker 1: own teams here. Um. But I followed my own preseason advice,
Speaker 1: like I banked heavily on chiefs um And and I
Speaker 1: just I loved Sae Kwon Barkley. He was my number
Speaker 1: two ranked running back in the preseason. You don't always
Speaker 1: get the one seed in the Church League. You can
Speaker 1: revel in this one yeah, so I feel good about it.
Speaker 1: But there's no bye week in the charch, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: and so I gotta play this week and my Chiefs
Speaker 1: have got to have got the tough match up with
Speaker 1: the Ravens. So uh, there's I could very well be
Speaker 1: bounced in this one. Speaking of teams that are getting bounced,
Speaker 1: one seed is getting bounced. You know who's gonna bounce them.
Speaker 1: It's Derrick Henry because Derrick Henry is on is on
Speaker 1: these bottom Derrick Henry is on these bottom seeded teams.
Speaker 1: Mostly they didn't get in right, mostly didn't get in
Speaker 1: with Henry. But if you did get in, you're a
Speaker 1: sixth seed or an eight seed, right, and and you're
Speaker 1: in and you're starting Henry. It's it's not a lot
Speaker 1: of them, but it's that's the scenario where it happens.
Speaker 1: And those guys are going up against one seeds, it's
Speaker 1: gonna there's gonna be some Derrick Henry bouncing. I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody had Derrick Henry in their lineup. In fact,
Speaker 1: I looked it up on Fanball for our Thursday through
Speaker 1: Monday slate one. But that's DFS. That's different. But how
Speaker 1: many people were A in the playoffs, and B had
Speaker 1: nothing else that they could play. But Derrick Henry going
Speaker 1: up against a Jaguars defense that was really really good
Speaker 1: and gave up zero points last week. There there there's
Speaker 1: no reason. It was totally unexplicable, but you had you
Speaker 1: should have played Henry at all. It was. It was
Speaker 1: a sheer desperation play if anybody did play him. But
Speaker 1: I asked for screenshots on Twitter at Paul Charchy and
Speaker 1: lots I got lots of screenshots of people proving that,
Speaker 1: you know, showing me the live scoring that that proves
Speaker 1: they had him. So Derrick Henry was out there. I know.
Speaker 1: I'm tempted to talk about what to do if you
Speaker 1: went against him, but mostly people didn't. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think you already know the answer to that to
Speaker 1: some degree. Anyway, your your high risk, high reward players,
Speaker 1: pour one out for a good season. Really yeah, right,
Speaker 1: you're you're probably you're almost certainly cooked. If you can
Speaker 1: come back, if you can, if you can beat Derrick Henry,
Speaker 1: that would be awfully impressive one to remember. All right,
Speaker 1: let's let's dive into uh dive into the show. You
Speaker 1: know the bit we're still continuing with take a chance
Speaker 1: on me, because there are still even though it's the playoffs,
Speaker 1: there are still people that have to find help, especially
Speaker 1: at the running back position. With everything that's happened, Uh,
Speaker 1: we'll still have three hot questions, will still lightning round.
Speaker 1: We're gonna break down fifteen different matchups, beginning with what
Speaker 1: should be an epically high scoring game Atlanta at Green
Speaker 1: Bay Scott. I see a ton of points coming in
Speaker 1: this one, and I think that I think the Packers
Speaker 1: are going to uh gonna write the ship a little
Speaker 1: bit here. What do you think? Yeah? I think so too,
Speaker 1: especially especially because that Atlanta team is really bad. It's quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I think their second worst than the season. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start with the Atlanta side. Uh. Matt Ryan's been
Speaker 1: pretty streaky as of late, but he did face like
Speaker 1: New Orleans and New Orleans, Dallas and uh, I think
Speaker 1: the other one was Baltimore. Baltimore and Dallas have been
Speaker 1: pretty tough recently, so um he has three hundred plus
Speaker 1: and five of his last seven. His touchdowns all over
Speaker 1: the map. As I was kind of mentioning, But the
Speaker 1: pack Uh, they have a lot of multiple touchdowns passes
Speaker 1: to nearly every decent quarterback this year. Right, So I
Speaker 1: like this a lot from Ryan, and you mentioned the
Speaker 1: high scoring aspect. I just want to touch on that. Uh.
Speaker 1: The line was originally forty eight. It's already up to
Speaker 1: fifty and a half. It's moving on up. So Julio
Speaker 1: was an obvious a for me. The last two times
Speaker 1: he faced the Packers were just giant two hundred plus
Speaker 1: and one eight yard games, touchdowns in both uh nine
Speaker 1: catches eleven, just huge games, so obviously they're Ridley is
Speaker 1: kind of a dart throw for me. He's man since
Speaker 1: his early season explosion. He's only top scored twice and
Speaker 1: only top fifty yards twice. In those two games where
Speaker 1: he hit fifty plus and scored, it took nine targets
Speaker 1: and thirteen targets. I don't know that he gets that
Speaker 1: in this one, but he's kind of a dart throw
Speaker 1: because it could be a really high scoring affair. A
Speaker 1: very soft Sea grade on him. Uh C grade on
Speaker 1: Hooper twyna and targets over the last four games is promising.
Speaker 1: Uh it's a resulted in two scores, but he's averaging
Speaker 1: less than forty yards in those games, so a little
Speaker 1: bit of PPR upside. Every tight end with seven or
Speaker 1: more targets against the Packers had sixty plus yards. I
Speaker 1: don't know that he gets to seven targets. Yeah, dot Hooper,
Speaker 1: I had him with a soft Sea grade. I don't
Speaker 1: love him in this one, but I could be persuaded
Speaker 1: to a bench grade. Honestly, But yeah, tight ends the
Speaker 1: way they are this year, I give a C grade.
Speaker 1: I have Coleman and Edo on the bench, even in
Speaker 1: a high scoring affair. Tevin Coleman has had four yards
Speaker 1: per carry or less in ten games this year. The
Speaker 1: last two weeks fourteen carries for fourteen yards. I was
Speaker 1: going to mention that it seems like about one point
Speaker 1: zero yards per carry. Your your math skills are uncanny, right,
Speaker 1: I didn't even use my calculator. Hey, can you try
Speaker 1: this one, Keto Smith Over the last two games, eleven
Speaker 1: carries for twenty two yards twice as good? Uh carry
Speaker 1: the one track? Where did you get that advocate so fast?
Speaker 1: And one nine? Oh you're so close? And it's only
Speaker 1: averaging three point two yards per carry on the season.
Speaker 1: I don't like them much at all. I think this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a full passing game, so they split
Speaker 1: just enough for me to bench both on the other sides.
Speaker 1: I got a lot of A grades here. I almost
Speaker 1: want to say Rogers, Adams, and Aaron Jones are so
Speaker 1: obvious I don't need to mention them. But I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna say that Falcons are second worst against fantasy quarterbacks
Speaker 1: this year. Uh. I think that with McCarthy gone, they
Speaker 1: might want on Rogers might want to on load a bit.
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, He's been so good, scored in four straight
Speaker 1: games with six touchdowns in those games. Davonte Adams, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: those are all A grades. I don't even want to
Speaker 1: waste my time, on our time on that. So Jimmy Graham,
Speaker 1: I'm giving a C grade here. Uh. We had concerned,
Speaker 1: but when he broke his thumb, he had a kind
Speaker 1: of a matt outing against the Vikings. But last week
Speaker 1: he reeled in eight of eleven targets. Atlanta has allowed
Speaker 1: fifty plus two tight ends in three the last five.
Speaker 1: I think, I think this is what Graham does this week,
Speaker 1: especially in a high schooling affair. I gave him a
Speaker 1: SE grade. I've got Aaron Jones at running back for
Speaker 1: Davante Adams at wide receiver. Three, and and Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: at quarterback three. So you know, I'm fully all those guys.
Speaker 1: I spent like thirty seconds on them. That was almost
Speaker 1: too much. That was almost too much. I think their
Speaker 1: auto starts. All right, let's go. Let's go to another
Speaker 1: guy who's normally an auto start, Andrew Luck, but got
Speaker 1: shut out last week, and now he gets a good
Speaker 1: Houston secondary. Do you like Andrew Luck going up against Houston?
Speaker 1: Matt Oh, it's me with the Andrew Luck matchup high?
Speaker 1: How's it? Yeah? Funny? You know it's always you chart.
Speaker 1: Guess what great I gave Andrew Luck this week? Um bench?
Speaker 1: I gave him an A grade? What never ever on
Speaker 1: the same page with Andrew Luck. In Week four, Andrew
Speaker 1: Luck had four hundred sixty four yards and four touchdown
Speaker 1: passes against the Texans defense. Since then, the Texans have
Speaker 1: faced maybe the best group of quarterbacks ever, Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: Nathan Peterman, Blake Bortles, brock Osweiler, case Keenum and then
Speaker 1: they broke Alex Smith's leg. And then after breaking Alex
Speaker 1: Smith's leg, they gave up three or three and two
Speaker 1: to Marcus Mariota and three seven and one to Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 1: Andrew luck is going to have a good game. He's
Speaker 1: back to an a start. He's gonna get right back
Speaker 1: on it. Okay, yeah, he's no. You kind of you
Speaker 1: kind of sold me a little bit. I've I have
Speaker 1: him ranked twelve at the quarterback position. I've got a
Speaker 1: B grade on QB one though it's QB one all right.
Speaker 1: Uh t y Hilton, I'm given a B grade two.
Speaker 1: He's top seventy seven yards and four straight and has
Speaker 1: three games of a hundred and fifteen yards or more
Speaker 1: in his last four meetings with the Texans, with three
Speaker 1: touchdowns to go along with that. A shoulder injury had
Speaker 1: him miss practice most of the week. He is a
Speaker 1: game to time decision, but he did practice on Friday,
Speaker 1: so I think Hilton's gonna go. Eric Ebron he gets
Speaker 1: an A grade. He was sick earlier in the week
Speaker 1: and he missed some practice time. He had sixteen targets
Speaker 1: last week, and it's one of those rare occurrences when
Speaker 1: two players are splitting a position and one goes down
Speaker 1: that the other player actually gets all of the work.
Speaker 1: Eric Ebron is getting everything that Jack Doyle had, and
Speaker 1: Houston is awful versus the tight end bottom eight rankings
Speaker 1: and receptions, yards and scores to the tight end. I
Speaker 1: love Ebron this week. I do a lot running games
Speaker 1: on the bench. Though Mac only had eight carries, Hines
Speaker 1: had four last week against the Jags, and that was
Speaker 1: a Jags team that just got torched by Derrick Henry. Right.
Speaker 1: They couldn't get it going right and Derrick Henry ken Uh.
Speaker 1: So the Colts are on the bench for the running game.
Speaker 1: Over on the Texans side, Lamar Miller he gets a
Speaker 1: C grade. The Colts haven't allowed a running back to
Speaker 1: top eighty one yard since Week five. That's seven games,
Speaker 1: and in those seven games, only two running backs have
Speaker 1: scored on the ground, and Miller had an underwhelming forty
Speaker 1: nine yards in the first meeting on fifteen. Ari's Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson's getting a B grade. He had his first thirty
Speaker 1: passing attempt outing since Week five. Charches probably excited about that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh And the Colts guess what, they faced a very
Speaker 1: similar schedule of quarterbacks. That's why they look good. It's ridiculous. Kessler, Tannehill, Gabbert, Bortles,
Speaker 1: car Derek Anderson, and Sam Donald are the last seven
Speaker 1: they faced. You can't. If I asked you to put
Speaker 1: such string together the seven worst opposing quarterbacks in the NFL,
Speaker 1: you'd have the last seven teams the Colts of face.
Speaker 1: The a f C South got all the bad quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, Watson had three seventy five, two through
Speaker 1: the air and one on the ground in the first meeting,
Speaker 1: so he's a B grade. DeAndre Hopkins easy a last
Speaker 1: six games against the Colts, he's averaging a hundred and
Speaker 1: four yards. However, da Marius Thomas and Kiki Cutie, I
Speaker 1: got them both on the bench. The Colts are top
Speaker 1: ten in receptions, yards and touchdowns allowed to the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position. Yeah, because they're facing Sam Donald and playing Gabbard,
Speaker 1: And yeah that's true. They've only allowed a hunt thirty
Speaker 1: two yards in a score per game. And that's about
Speaker 1: what DeAndre Hopkins should kit in this game. So there's
Speaker 1: not a lot to go around for the rest of
Speaker 1: the guy's son Leavin, Thomas and Cutie on the bench. Alright,
Speaker 1: final matchup of this the opening segment is uh at
Speaker 1: one that should cause great consternation for Chiefs owners. It
Speaker 1: is the Ravens versus the Chiefs. Let's start on the
Speaker 1: Ravens side. Lamar Jackson gets a B grade. Over the
Speaker 1: last three starts, he has scored the fourth most Fantasy
Speaker 1: points among quarterbacks, despite the fact that Lamar Jackson has
Speaker 1: thrown one touchdown. That tells you the power of rushing
Speaker 1: when you are an extremely good rushing quarterback like Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: Um one of these weeks is gonna throw a couple
Speaker 1: of touchdowns and just post a monster game. And it
Speaker 1: could be this week considering that seven there's seven touchdowns
Speaker 1: that the Chiefs defense has allowed over the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: So maybe Lamar Jackson throws two here and he ends
Speaker 1: up doing what he always does on the ground and
Speaker 1: then monster week coming. But I think he's safely a
Speaker 1: B grade no matter what, because the rushing almost insures
Speaker 1: fifty six yards seems like an automatic and I don't
Speaker 1: know how he falls below a B grade unless they
Speaker 1: absolutely shut down the rushing. Fish and I were pondering
Speaker 1: who which team might equal Derrick Henry's two thirty eight
Speaker 1: rushing yards this week as a team as a team,
Speaker 1: and Baltimore was the one that kind of came to
Speaker 1: be with Jackson and the gust Bush. They could who
Speaker 1: was Guss I'll take that as my transition. This is
Speaker 1: a B grade averaging twenty rushing attempts per game with
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson in the lineup. Uh, he doesn't catch me passes,
Speaker 1: so he's not gonna help you through the air. But
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Posing backs of top eighty five rushing
Speaker 1: yards and five of the last six against the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: So if you figure Gus is gonna go eighty five,
Speaker 1: maybe a hundred, then now I'll give you another hundred
Speaker 1: plus ab Lamar Jackson. Then there's there's your Derrick Henry game.
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe that, maybe it comes together there. But there's
Speaker 1: one other running back to start for the Ravens. There is.
Speaker 1: There is Tie Montgomery. Yeah, he posted five catches last week.
Speaker 1: And the Chiefs are allowing the most receiving yards to
Speaker 1: running backs, the most re seeving touchdowns and running backs,
Speaker 1: and the third most receptions to running backs. If only
Speaker 1: somebody would have told you to pick him up like
Speaker 1: two weeks two weeks ago, and like a prematurely speculatory
Speaker 1: kind of way. Oh yeah, that was a was a
Speaker 1: matter of fact. Everybody else in the passing games on
Speaker 1: the bench Brown, Crabtree, Snead all been a disaster under
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Combined, they have scored combined the three guys,
Speaker 1: they have one touchdown in the last five weeks. So
Speaker 1: it's not even just Lamar Jackson. That's including a couple
Speaker 1: of games with Joe Flacco in there. Get this, none
Speaker 1: of top fifty eight yards in five weeks either. If
Speaker 1: you had the ability to start all three Baltimore wide
Speaker 1: receivers as one player, they still would you do it.
Speaker 1: They would together, they'd have a sea grade. Uh, let's
Speaker 1: go to the Kansas City side, and this is the
Speaker 1: area of consternation for fantasy owners. I still have an
Speaker 1: A grade on Patrick Mahomes. You're going to start Mahomes,
Speaker 1: Kelsey and Hill flat out going to start them. I
Speaker 1: totally get it. But let's just talk about what they're
Speaker 1: up against. Sense Jimmy Smith's returned from suspension way back
Speaker 1: in Week five. The average quarterback line against the Ravens
Speaker 1: one hundred nine five yards and one point four touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That's half of what we're used to getting from Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes in any given game. The Ravens secondary doesn't have
Speaker 1: any glaring areas to exploit their solid every place, so
Speaker 1: I don't you know, you still have to start my
Speaker 1: homes and nobody be surprised if he had a three
Speaker 1: touchdown game here in three yards, but that would be
Speaker 1: a total aberration against the Ravens. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: other obvious place, Travis Kelsey obvious a. The tight end defense, though,
Speaker 1: was the only real weakness for the Ravens defense. They've
Speaker 1: given up five touchdowns in the last six games to
Speaker 1: tight ends. Kelsey is the safest play out of the
Speaker 1: big name guys. Tyreek Hill B grade. This is an
Speaker 1: excellent Baltimore secondary that's only a lot of four touchdowns
Speaker 1: to wide receivers since Week two. Allow me to repeat
Speaker 1: that four touchdowns to wide receivers since Week two for
Speaker 1: the Rains. That's unbelievable. Uh. Tyreek Hill runs from all
Speaker 1: over the field, but most commonly from the slot, where
Speaker 1: he'll draw coverage from Ravens cornerback Brandon Carr, who's allowed
Speaker 1: at least seventy six yards and two of his last
Speaker 1: four games. So there's an angle there. Uh. We'll give
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill a B grade here. Chris Conley will likely
Speaker 1: get to start with Watkins hurt, but it's a brutal matchup,
Speaker 1: and you're not gonna go all the way down to
Speaker 1: Chris Connley. Here, let's talk about Spencer Wear. I know
Speaker 1: everybody ran too the waiver wire to pick him up.
Speaker 1: He looked Mundane let Us two weeks ago, he looked
Speaker 1: Mundane last week, and then he's got an elite Baltimore
Speaker 1: run defense here, allowing just sixty five rushing yards per games,
Speaker 1: second lowest. They're giving up three point four yards per carry,
Speaker 1: also second lowest. Only one runner is top sixty four
Speaker 1: yards since Week two against Baltimore. I really should have
Speaker 1: where on the bench, but I'm giving him a C
Speaker 1: grade just out of respect for the offense as a
Speaker 1: whole and the fact that he would likely get any
Speaker 1: goal line carries were any to become available. I it's
Speaker 1: a tough, tough matchup for Spencer Wear. So look, line
Speaker 1: short of it is, Chiefs powered you into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: There's no guarantee that you're gonna continue. They could power
Speaker 1: you right out of the Yes we did. Um, we'll
Speaker 1: take a break when we come back. Plenty more matchups
Speaker 1: to get to, including New England taking on Miami Patriots.
Speaker 1: Inexplicably always struggle in this situation. We'll tell you what
Speaker 1: to expect from Tom Brady, his receivers, and especially the
Speaker 1: various running backs of the Patriots when we come back.
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Speaker 1: on the fan Take a chance. I mean nine players
Speaker 1: not normally in your starting line up, many of whom
Speaker 1: are available on the waiver wire. We begin at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. Scott, we got uh well this week, I
Speaker 1: got Jamis Winston. I think it's a great matchup for him.
Speaker 1: He has multiple touchdowns in three straight. And the Bucks,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, They have the
Speaker 1: most passing yards as a team in the end in
Speaker 1: NFL history through which do you mean? They have the wait,
Speaker 1: the defense has yielded the most. No. Buccaneers have passed
Speaker 1: for the most yards him plus Fitzpatrick in NFL history
Speaker 1: through Wow, I didn't know that they've actually been on
Speaker 1: that street for a few weeks. And they've been. They've
Speaker 1: benched their starting quarterbacks how many times this year? And
Speaker 1: they're setting the all time NFL record in passing yards combined.
Speaker 1: They set a record in interceptions to the Saints have
Speaker 1: allowed the second most passing yards this year allowed to
Speaker 1: quarterbacks bucks will be thrown from behind. I think so Winston,
Speaker 1: it's my quarterback, alright, Matt, I've got Baker Mayfield. The
Speaker 1: Panthers defense has absolutely fallen apart over the last five weeks,
Speaker 1: resulting in four losses for their team. They've allowed fourteen
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns in that span and an average of two
Speaker 1: seventy five yards per game. And since we through the
Speaker 1: Freddie kitchen sink at Baker Mayfield, he's been pretty decent
Speaker 1: multiple scores and five of his last six and the
Speaker 1: sixth was last week when he only threw for one
Speaker 1: touchdown but Tali three seven yards. I'm going with Josh
Speaker 1: Allen against the Jets. And this is the same Josh
Speaker 1: Allen who is the highest scoring quarterback in Fantasy football
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks. It might have been my
Speaker 1: tick on list. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: look you earned it. He saw that he has more
Speaker 1: top five finishes as a fantasy player per week than
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers does this this year. I'm starting him in
Speaker 1: the fantasy playoffs. Is my second quarterback and the homes
Speaker 1: Josh Allen one of my leaks. Get this His two
Speaker 1: hundred twenty four rushing yards the last two weeks is
Speaker 1: topped by only four running backs. It's unbelievable when he's
Speaker 1: bringing on the ground and it's a game against the Jets.
Speaker 1: So even if the legs don't help him, help you out,
Speaker 1: the arm will. The Jets are allowed multiple passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: and eight of the last nine games addition by subtraction
Speaker 1: to get Calvin Benjamin off the field. So I like
Speaker 1: Josh Allen on the ground through the air, he could
Speaker 1: have another game. He could have another top yet another
Speaker 1: in a series of well now to uh games since
Speaker 1: the elbow injury. Coming back from the elbow injury with
Speaker 1: a top performance, let's go to the running back position. Scott,
Speaker 1: I need to apologize to our listeners out there because
Speaker 1: I failed you last week. I had it in my
Speaker 1: notes in the forty Niners matchup to tell you to
Speaker 1: pick up Jeff Wilson. I did in all my leagues,
Speaker 1: and I I failed our listeners. That's what I did.
Speaker 1: Do you have It's just a app there's a definition
Speaker 1: of a humble brag. Yeah it really is. You knew it,
Speaker 1: but you didn't tell anybody failed to tell anybody. Uh,
Speaker 1: but man does he has. He had twenty three touches
Speaker 1: last week, turned into a hundred and thirty four yards
Speaker 1: niners a plane from behind a lot. He had eight
Speaker 1: catches for seventy three. Those eight receptions are the most
Speaker 1: by San Francisco running back in a game this season,
Speaker 1: which is crazy. But he's gonna get so much volume
Speaker 1: that I think he's a great start this week. All right,
Speaker 1: please go ahead and tweet at Scott Fish twenty four
Speaker 1: a gift of how you feel about this information that
Speaker 1: he with her holding any information from our listeners this week. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do it on purpose. Now. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: got Justin Jackson. He only had eight carries in one
Speaker 1: catch last week, but he made it count with eighty
Speaker 1: two yards total yards and a score against the Steelers.
Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn said during his Tuesday press conference that Austin
Speaker 1: Ekeler has been wearing down and he's an important part
Speaker 1: of the special team. So he's a little tired, and
Speaker 1: you'd also see an increase in Justin Jackson and possibly
Speaker 1: Detre's Newsome this week. Eckler was the clear lead back
Speaker 1: last week with thirteen carries and eight targets. But I
Speaker 1: think Jackson is going to be the lead carrier this week.
Speaker 1: The Bengals are a packing it in for the season
Speaker 1: as everybody is hurt and they've lost six to the
Speaker 1: last seven and be really terrible against the running back,
Speaker 1: allowing the most total yards per game to the running
Speaker 1: back position. The Chargers could use this as a pseudo
Speaker 1: rest week for Ekeler, so we could see a ton
Speaker 1: of Justin Jackson. Oh absolutely, I like him a lot.
Speaker 1: This week. I've got Last week, I gave you La
Speaker 1: Garrett Blunt and he ended up with like sixty rushing yards,
Speaker 1: did not score. This week, I'm giving you La Garrett
Speaker 1: Blunt again, really going because it worked out so well
Speaker 1: last week. But here's the thing. If you give me
Speaker 1: two chances at any take a chance on me, I
Speaker 1: will come through for you. And so will Garrett Blunt
Speaker 1: this week because he goes up against Arizona. Fast forward
Speaker 1: to Churches chance, Garrett Blood, Carrie and Johnson has been
Speaker 1: ruled out, so you know Blunt's going to see the
Speaker 1: majority of the work. It will get the goal line carries.
Speaker 1: He's averaged a respectable four and a half yards per
Speaker 1: carry the last two weeks without Johnson in the Cardinals, though,
Speaker 1: it's all about the matchup. The Cardinals give up the
Speaker 1: most rushing attempts, the third most rushing yards, and the
Speaker 1: most rushing touchdowns per game in the league. So it's
Speaker 1: such a juicy matchup. If you take on Blunt against
Speaker 1: uh I believe they played Minnesota the last week and
Speaker 1: Buffalo the week that to be impressive. So he's averaging
Speaker 1: eighteen carries per game when Carrie on Johnson's gone that
Speaker 1: kind of volume against these Cardinals virtually automatic. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the receiver position, Scott, second week in a row,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with a Buffalo wide receiver. So this
Speaker 1: is really scary for me. But as Charge preaches at
Speaker 1: training camp about the inside the five numbers, opportunity opportunities
Speaker 1: a big deal. Z A. Jones is third in the
Speaker 1: NFL into his team's target share, putting him in within
Speaker 1: the likes of Keenan Now and Kenny Golladay, Travis Kelsey, Kittle,
Speaker 1: Adams Beckham, digs Hill, etcetera. He gets a ton of
Speaker 1: his team's work. He has three touchdowns in the last
Speaker 1: three weeks. The Bill's just released Kelvin Benjamin and Andre Holmes.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna three up like three targets again. And
Speaker 1: remember just a couple of weeks ago against this same
Speaker 1: Dolphins team, four for sixty seven and two touchdowns. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's going up against buster screen. Yeah that helps
Speaker 1: the busted screen. Let's go, so, j z A Jones,
Speaker 1: z A Jones, Matt your receiver. Some people might need
Speaker 1: a little help at the tight end position because it's
Speaker 1: been a waste land this year. That's why I've got
Speaker 1: Ian Thomas, who takes over for and injured Greg Olsen.
Speaker 1: It's worth noting that Thomas has had at least five
Speaker 1: targets in each of the last three games that Greg
Speaker 1: Olsen did not start and finish. He caught all five
Speaker 1: of those targets last week for forty six yards. And
Speaker 1: it's a good matchup for Thomas. The Browns have allowed
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper and Jordan Thomas to score against them in
Speaker 1: the last three games, and big time tight ends like
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey and Jared Cook each scored twice against the
Speaker 1: Browns earlier in the year. So Ian Thomas, if they're
Speaker 1: gonna catch some touchdowns, might be him, all right. And
Speaker 1: my final guy, Trey Kwon Smith. And I know a
Speaker 1: lot of you have played tray Kwon Smith exactly wrong
Speaker 1: over the last month. Started him for zero to his
Speaker 1: zero catch get you didn't start him for the Washington
Speaker 1: game when he went berserk. Then you start him the
Speaker 1: next and then you've started him the next week and
Speaker 1: he gave you zero catches, and then you benched him
Speaker 1: the next week, and it's Thanksgiving and he posts ted
Speaker 1: catches hundred six yards in a touchdown. So then you
Speaker 1: put it back in your line up the next week
Speaker 1: and you got zero and got hurt. And so now
Speaker 1: we're back. Tray Kuan Smith is starting against the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: Is it gonna be all or is it going to
Speaker 1: be nothing? Tampa's allowed the second most wide receiver touchdowns
Speaker 1: eighteen of them, including touchdowns in every single game this year.
Speaker 1: And the guy tray Kuan Smith replaced Ted Kin also
Speaker 1: a straight line speed guy, just like Drake Won Smith
Speaker 1: scored in this matchup against Tampa in Week one. Tray
Speaker 1: Kuan Smith the ultimate all or nothing guy. That's our
Speaker 1: final take a chance on me this week. It's like, Ohtown,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady has been ice cold Matt and he has
Speaker 1: average over the last five weeks, he's averaging less than
Speaker 1: one touchdown pass. There's a fish game, so ok I
Speaker 1: was gonna, I was gonna pass it to Fish. Okay,
Speaker 1: Scott averaging less than one touchdown pass per game. He
Speaker 1: has failed to finish higher than QB in any game
Speaker 1: for five straight weeks. Tom Brady, do you like him
Speaker 1: against Miami in Miami? Oh? Man, in Miami. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you already know this, but he's one in four in
Speaker 1: his last five games, hasn't top two hundred fift yards,
Speaker 1: only seven touchdowns in those five games in Miami. So
Speaker 1: I had him as a B grade, but as I
Speaker 1: think about it, I think I'm lowering him down to
Speaker 1: a C grade here. Uh he should still do fair, okay,
Speaker 1: just barely startable, but man, yeah, he's been ice cold.
Speaker 1: I do. I do like his uh, some of his
Speaker 1: position players, though with no Xavien Howard, I like Josh Gordon.
Speaker 1: Over the last six games, he's averaging eighty yards per
Speaker 1: game in over nineteen yards per catch, which you can
Speaker 1: do the math, and that means he's averaging about four
Speaker 1: catches the game. But with no Zavian Howard, I like
Speaker 1: the matchup I gave him a B. They also gave
Speaker 1: Edlman a B as well in that same span, averaging
Speaker 1: six catches per game. Uh, but only about seventy yards.
Speaker 1: But in PPR leagues that's getting it done, So I'm
Speaker 1: giving him a B grade. Gronk also a B grade
Speaker 1: because he's be come very touchdown dependent. Luckily, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: have allowed seven tight end touchdowns in the last seven weeks,
Speaker 1: including multiple to Ebron, Jordan Thomas, and Michael Roberts, so
Speaker 1: I think Gronk might be able to get it done
Speaker 1: in the red zone here. Charles Clay was the only
Speaker 1: bad game in those last seven weeks for against the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: so B grade there. Sony Michelle, I'm giving him an
Speaker 1: A grade. He has over twenty touches per game since
Speaker 1: returning from injury, and before McCoy crap the bad last week.
Speaker 1: The previous five who we argued about our B grade.
Speaker 1: That the way the previous five running backs to have
Speaker 1: eighteen and more touches top two total yards against the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: I think that's in the range. For Michelle. I have
Speaker 1: Burkehead on the bench because he only had nine touches
Speaker 1: last week. What worries me here is White. I still
Speaker 1: gave him a B grade because he's so PPR dependent.
Speaker 1: But without Burkehead he was averaging forty five snaps per game.
Speaker 1: Down he's averages thirty two snaps a game with burke
Speaker 1: Head in as evidence by thirty three last week. Burkehead
Speaker 1: replaces him, not Michelle. So that's the PPR upside, is
Speaker 1: why I'd still give him a nice safe PPR floor.
Speaker 1: So I barely give him a beat on the dolphin side.
Speaker 1: I don't like anything except from maybe a dart throw
Speaker 1: on Kenny Stills, because eight percent of Stills receptions have
Speaker 1: come from Tannehill. He has four out of five touchdowns
Speaker 1: have come from Tannehill. Uh, it's a touchdown. It's almost
Speaker 1: a touchdown dependent girl. So yeah, so okay, it's a
Speaker 1: spin of the wheel or a name from the hat
Speaker 1: or whatever. But barely a sea grade on Sills. But
Speaker 1: I'm mentioned everything else, all right. I like that angle. Carolina.
Speaker 1: We'll take on Cleveland when we come back. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about Cam Newton, who has thrown exactly two touchdowns and
Speaker 1: nine of his last ten games, will he throw exactly
Speaker 1: two touchdowns? Find out when we return. This is Fantasy
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Speaker 1: an old CompuServe format. By the way, anyway, Carolina takes
Speaker 1: on Cleveland, Matt and in a statistical anomaly I may
Speaker 1: never see again, Cam Newton is thrown exactly two touchdowns
Speaker 1: and nine of his last ten games nine times, nine times,
Speaker 1: nine times. How does that happen? You can't you can't
Speaker 1: make it happen. It's unbelievable. Well, if you need three
Speaker 1: touchdowns from Cam Newton, he will give you two. Well,
Speaker 1: if you need one, he will give you two. He's
Speaker 1: the Leroy Horde of quarterbacks. Maybe he could throw like
Speaker 1: five touchdowns in any given game, but he's throttling it
Speaker 1: back and just just stop at the two. That's right.
Speaker 1: I don't want to set expectations too high. I gave
Speaker 1: him an A grade this week. The Browns have faced
Speaker 1: a few running quarterbacks this year. Uh, They've been pretty
Speaker 1: successful for the most part. Deshaun Watson had the least
Speaker 1: success with two and one passing and only thirty on
Speaker 1: the ground, but Jeff Driscoll had one fifty five and
Speaker 1: one through the air and one on the ground against
Speaker 1: the Browns in about a half of play. By the way,
Speaker 1: Mahomes had three seventy five and three. Jamis Winston had three.
Speaker 1: He had a rushing score as well as to go
Speaker 1: along with fifty five rushing yards. So yeah, Cam's a
Speaker 1: good start. So is Christian McCaffrey. He's an A grade.
Speaker 1: He's their best receiver. Uh. D J. Moore, I'm giving
Speaker 1: a C grade two. He's the only other receiver I
Speaker 1: have a starting grade on besides I and Thomas. Who's
Speaker 1: might take a chance on me player? Uh uh? When
Speaker 1: funis returned. It's good that Morris targets didn't dry up.
Speaker 1: He still had eight. It only converted to four for
Speaker 1: forty four last week, though more and forty six routes. Well,
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel ran forty one and Devin Funcius only ran
Speaker 1: twenty two. Yeah, there's a lot of steam behind Samuel.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people think Samuel's become borderline
Speaker 1: every week starter. Guy end Yeah, I was thinking Samuel's
Speaker 1: for a second, Samuels, Curtis Samuel, Yeah, Moore is the
Speaker 1: only one I want to start. UH. On the other side,
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb, I'm giving a B grade two UH. Panthers
Speaker 1: have been pretty good against the run. They have not
Speaker 1: allowed run at the top one hundred yards since Week two,
Speaker 1: but they have allowed a rushing touchdown to a back
Speaker 1: in four straight games. And Nick Chubb's getting all the work,
Speaker 1: which means Duke Johnson's on the bench because someone called
Speaker 1: Dontrelle Hilliard had more targets and receptions than Duke last week,
Speaker 1: and he was only good in those two games against
Speaker 1: Kansas City in al Ah. That was it. We thought.
Speaker 1: We all thought Duke could sort of turned the corner.
Speaker 1: He's getting dropped in my leaves understandably, so Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: was might take a chance on the quarterback, I'd give
Speaker 1: him a B grade this week. Jarvis Landry is also
Speaker 1: getting a B. Last week I told you to start
Speaker 1: wide receiver Adam Humphreys against the Panthers. They've all been
Speaker 1: terrible and slot coverage the whole season. Well, let's talk
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry though. Where this match. Tyler Boyd, Tyler Lockett,
Speaker 1: Juju Sterling Shepherd, Cole Beasley, and Humphries twice all had
Speaker 1: big days against captain Munterlin. So Landry's a B. Uh.
Speaker 1: Antonio Callaway kind of a C grade as well. I
Speaker 1: like him. He'll line up against James Bradberry, who's allowed
Speaker 1: the most yardage in the league to opposing wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Uh Callaway fumbled at the goal line on a seventy
Speaker 1: one last last week, so he was really really close
Speaker 1: to a huge, huge day. Uh David Joku also giving
Speaker 1: a B grade. Two. Good spot for in Joku facing
Speaker 1: the Panther's defense that's bottom eight in receptions and yards
Speaker 1: allowed to touch downs or two tight ends, and they've
Speaker 1: allowed the most tight end touchdowns on the season. My
Speaker 1: previous matchup had an elite offense Kansas City going up
Speaker 1: against a great defense. This one another elite offense, the
Speaker 1: Rams going up against the great defense Chicago, and this
Speaker 1: one got flex to the Sunday night game. This is
Speaker 1: your Sunday Night game, uh, and deservedly so this is
Speaker 1: a this is an epic matchup right now. Todd Gurley,
Speaker 1: obviously you have to start him, He's an A grade.
Speaker 1: But just know the Bears give up the fewest rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns and the fews yards per carry, so it's it's
Speaker 1: a brutally tough game. He will do all right through
Speaker 1: the air. I think Bears go up the eleventh most
Speaker 1: receptions per game to the position, and some other dual
Speaker 1: threat runners like David Johnson carry on. Johnson have found
Speaker 1: ways to get into the end zone. So you're obviously
Speaker 1: gonna start Todd Gurley. But after that it's all murky. Um.
Speaker 1: But let's talk about the The fascinating part about this
Speaker 1: for me is Jared Goff because and I've talked about
Speaker 1: this in past shows. In games in which Todd Gurley
Speaker 1: is held to zero or one touchdowns, which the Bears
Speaker 1: will probably do, Jared Goff makes up the difference in
Speaker 1: those Todd Gurley, those modest Todd Gurley games. Jared goff
Speaker 1: averages three hundred fifty three yards and three touchdown passes.
Speaker 1: The hope is that he can continue to do that. Here,
Speaker 1: I've got him with a B grade because I don't
Speaker 1: know that he can get to those numbers against the Bears. Um.
Speaker 1: The Bears get so much pressure on opposing quarterbacks. But
Speaker 1: he's got a great offensive line in front of him.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about his receivers. Brandon Cooks with a B
Speaker 1: grade because he's gonna see a lot of Kyle Fuller.
Speaker 1: Fuller doesn't necessarily the speed to keep up with Cooks,
Speaker 1: but he's technically very sound, and over the last seven games,
Speaker 1: Kyle Fuller has allowed averages of just forty one yards
Speaker 1: and zero point one touchdowns in his coverage over the
Speaker 1: last seven games. So a tough matchup for Brandon Cooks,
Speaker 1: whom's normally a lock a, goes down to a beat
Speaker 1: and Robert Woods, who I've I loved last week, slumps
Speaker 1: down to a C grade. Here he runs out of
Speaker 1: the slot since Cooper Cup's injury. That means he's going
Speaker 1: to see a bunch of Bryce Callahan and it is
Speaker 1: a tricky matchup against the bears best corner Callahan's allowed
Speaker 1: just one touchdown on the season. He's also given more
Speaker 1: than twenty three yards in his coverage just once in
Speaker 1: the past six games. He is an absolute shutdown slot corner.
Speaker 1: And I'm nervous about Robert Woods and Josh Reynolds goes
Speaker 1: down to the bench. He's had a nice season allowing
Speaker 1: uh he's had He has had a good season when
Speaker 1: they've asked him to play, but he doesn't get enough looks.
Speaker 1: I think it's safer to just leave him on the
Speaker 1: bench and a tough matchup. Let's let's go over to
Speaker 1: the bare side. Trek Cohen a grade. In the two games,
Speaker 1: will Chase Daniel. Cohen was targeted twenty two times, hauling
Speaker 1: a nineteen of them. Uh, Chase Daniel will not be
Speaker 1: your starter here, but it shows him trending the right way.
Speaker 1: The Rams have given up touchdowns to backs through the
Speaker 1: air in three the last four games. The Rams run
Speaker 1: defense isn't great, but shifty backs like Aaron Jones and
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamer have posted strong games against l A in
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. I love Corto Rick
Speaker 1: going in this matchup. I think he's my number nine
Speaker 1: running back overall. He is my number running back. He's
Speaker 1: my number nine running back. Let's go to the passing game.
Speaker 1: M r Bisky back as a reminder, from week four
Speaker 1: to week eleven, when he was healthy, Mitch dr Whisky
Speaker 1: was Fantasy football second highest scoring quarterback, and he's got
Speaker 1: a lot of upside against an inconsistent RAMS secondary here.
Speaker 1: I will note though, that it keep to leave his back,
Speaker 1: and that's a huge change in improvement for the RAMS secondary.
Speaker 1: In three full games with the keep to leave, the
Speaker 1: Rams allowed averages of just two thirteen passing yards and
Speaker 1: zero point three passing touchdowns. It's a much better secondary
Speaker 1: with him. Uh, but it's still still I've gotta be
Speaker 1: great on Mitch dr Whisky because he was so effective
Speaker 1: and the rushing yards that he brings in as well.
Speaker 1: Is number one receivers Allen Robinson Uh. He hopes to
Speaker 1: continue a stretch of four touchdowns in Trabisky's last five starts.
Speaker 1: It's also worth noting that l A has only allowed
Speaker 1: one receiver top fifty yards in the four games of
Speaker 1: the keep to leave, so that part working against him still.
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson's the main target for Mitch, and I've got
Speaker 1: to be great on him. Taylor Gabriel's got a sneaky
Speaker 1: good matchup. You gotta pick your spots with Gabriel, but
Speaker 1: I like him here. He'll most frequently match up against
Speaker 1: Marcus Peters, arguably most burned quarterback in the cornerback in
Speaker 1: the league. Peters has given up six passing touchdowns in
Speaker 1: his coverage and a pass a rating of one six.
Speaker 1: So Taylor Gabriel not normally some of you'd want to start,
Speaker 1: but I think you do here. I've got a C
Speaker 1: grade on him. Trey Burton has been a disaster, but
Speaker 1: in games with Mitch Drabinsky averages forty two receiving yards
Speaker 1: and half a touchdown per game, and in the past
Speaker 1: two games without Drabinsky scoreless fourteen yards. Hopefully Drabinsky comes back.
Speaker 1: It's a little something dumb here. The Rams allowed tight
Speaker 1: ends to average eighties seven receiving yards, so there is
Speaker 1: an opportunity for Trey Burton, who gets a C grade.
Speaker 1: The last guy that I haven't mentioned and should is
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard. Last week, Howard posted his highest yards per
Speaker 1: carried since Week six. I liked him a lot going
Speaker 1: into last week's game, and he finished with an okay game,
Speaker 1: he passed. He passed the eye test in my mind
Speaker 1: last week. Straight ahead power backs haven't been very successful
Speaker 1: overall against the Rams, but they have found the end
Speaker 1: zone against the Rams. Rashad Penny Jamal Williams have both
Speaker 1: scored in the past few weeks as straight ahead plotting
Speaker 1: runners like Jordan Howard. A lot there was a meeting matchup,
Speaker 1: A lot to be said, meaty, meaty. Uh, let's uh.
Speaker 1: I want to work in one more matchup and then
Speaker 1: we'll try to get in a call here at New
Speaker 1: Orleans taking on Tampa Bay in what what figures to
Speaker 1: be a massively highest scoring game. Already told you Trey
Speaker 1: Kwon Smith might take a chance on me one receiver.
Speaker 1: What do you think about Drew Breese in this matchup?
Speaker 1: Fifty five and a half over under highest of the week.
Speaker 1: So so you nailed that one? Uh? Do I need
Speaker 1: to tell you what my number one? Right? Breeze and
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas and Alvin Kamara are obvious A starts just
Speaker 1: about every week regardless of matchup, and this is a
Speaker 1: great matchup anyway. So I am benching killer Keith Kirkwood.
Speaker 1: I know that he's been pretty safe at six point
Speaker 1: five or so points every week for the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: but I got him on the bench. Trey Kwon was
Speaker 1: your take, hom Dan Arnold, He's hard to trust. Two catches.
Speaker 1: Then he had the forty five yards and a touchdown
Speaker 1: on Thursday on the Thanksgiving game. Two catches last week.
Speaker 1: I'm benching him. Mark Ingram, I'm giving him a B
Speaker 1: grade because it's a bottom three defense against fantasy running backs,
Speaker 1: and if they get ahead, maybe he gets a few
Speaker 1: extra touches. The Bucks have allot of whopping hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy eight total yards per game to running backs in
Speaker 1: the last three games, including three h yard rushers. Camaron
Speaker 1: was gonna get a lot, but Ingram should be fairly
Speaker 1: startable with a B grade. On the Tampa Bay side,
Speaker 1: Winston was my take. Hom really like him a lot
Speaker 1: this week against terrible Saints past defense, and because of that,
Speaker 1: I like Evans. He had a huge game week one,
Speaker 1: yes with Fitzer Fitzpatrick, but against Lattimore, so I'm not
Speaker 1: worried about it. If you watch If you watch him play,
Speaker 1: he can beat just about any corner. So he's just
Speaker 1: you know, Afric Couch. Yeah, A grade there, Godwin. I
Speaker 1: give a B grade to um. He's he's a real
Speaker 1: upside shot. Here He's played three games without DeShawn Jackson.
Speaker 1: Here is numbers seven for one eleven and a touchdown
Speaker 1: five for one on one in a touchdown. Those are
Speaker 1: massive games. When Jackson doesn't play, y, y, you didn't
Speaker 1: stay stated overtly. But JACKSON'STPP playing in this game. Yes,
Speaker 1: Jackson's out. So also when Jackson's out, Adam Humphreys averages
Speaker 1: five and a half catches and seventy yards. So I
Speaker 1: have I have a nice safe four B grade on
Speaker 1: him as well. Uh, Cameron Bade, I have the on
Speaker 1: the bench. The Saints have only allowed one tight untouchdown
Speaker 1: in the last calendar year, and it's been even longer
Speaker 1: since weeks seven of last year where break topped fifty yards.
Speaker 1: So I had him on the bench even though Winston's
Speaker 1: at quarterback. Uh, and Barber, I'm just benching him. He
Speaker 1: he's Barber. And the Saints allowed the second fewest runching
Speaker 1: in attempts, and when they do, they're only allowing three
Speaker 1: point two yards per carry. I don't Zeke's Zeke got
Speaker 1: like sixty one yards against them. I'm not trusting Barber,
Speaker 1: I don't think I would either. We had a caller
Speaker 1: on hold who dropped off, but his topic was very good.
Speaker 1: Should teams that have been eliminated from the playoffs be
Speaker 1: allowed to make transactions? Yes? Or no? I have my
Speaker 1: own opinion, Bell, I'll yield the floor to you guys. First, Well,
Speaker 1: dynasty keeper is obvious. Yes, I don't even think that's
Speaker 1: up for discussion in redrafts. If you have it, if
Speaker 1: you're in a toilet bowl. By the way, the reason
Speaker 1: it's not the reason that dynasty and redraft is because
Speaker 1: it's not fair to let your playoff teams effectively planned
Speaker 1: for next year exactly, continue to make transactions. Well, you can't,
Speaker 1: and you need it more than they do because you're
Speaker 1: not even in the playoffs exactly. Giving an advanta, an
Speaker 1: extra an advantage to good teams is ridiculous. You either
Speaker 1: need if you're a redraft, if you're a Dynasty league
Speaker 1: or an Empire league, and you get you get to
Speaker 1: the playoffs, either everybody gets locked down on transactions or
Speaker 1: everybody gets to make trips. It needs to be fair
Speaker 1: playing field, all right, what about redraft redraft? I'm generally
Speaker 1: in the mode that if you're in a toilet bowl,
Speaker 1: yes you can absolutely. If you're not, you know, it's
Speaker 1: up to the commissioner. For me, I I don't care
Speaker 1: either way, but i'd probably prefer they don't. In redraft,
Speaker 1: if you're not playing at all anymore, well, and I
Speaker 1: want to clarify at all, yes, if you have if
Speaker 1: you have anything to play for, including things like high
Speaker 1: score of the week gets ten bucks, whatever. If you
Speaker 1: have anything to play for, you have to let these
Speaker 1: teams put the best players they can. If they don't
Speaker 1: have anything to play for in a redraft league, then
Speaker 1: no transactions. You're out because I don't want you mucking
Speaker 1: up the works with when you have no reason to go.
Speaker 1: Get Justin Jackson. I don't want you just playing spoiler
Speaker 1: because you can play spoiler when you have nothing, you
Speaker 1: have no reason to play, you have no opponent, you
Speaker 1: have nothing to play for, then you're out. So if
Speaker 1: you've if your if your league gives any reason to play,
Speaker 1: then everybody gets every Then everybody gets to go. If
Speaker 1: there's no reason to play to playoff teams are out.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones. Bugsy, Hello, Yes that's you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, Hey, absolutely great show all year. Thank you
Speaker 1: guys are awesome. Listen to it prectly when I can
Speaker 1: thank you all right, Listen, I met you quickly. I'm
Speaker 1: met you ball iviously two years ago. I was a
Speaker 1: flight attendant on some country airlines and your buddy, you
Speaker 1: meet a lot of people, but I mean you might remember.
Speaker 1: But I was getting your bloody Marys and think he
Speaker 1: came back from Vegas outstanding. I love that does sound like? Yeah? Anyways, Um,
Speaker 1: I dodged the bullet. Okay, I'm five in the Big
Speaker 1: Man Playoffs on five seat against the four. He had
Speaker 1: Derek Henry in our league, he would have got forty
Speaker 1: seven point four points. Left him on the bench. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he left him on the bench because he's got starting
Speaker 1: right now. He's got Marlon Mack and uh and that
Speaker 1: new Gut the Wilson guy, Jeffrey whatever, she started them too,
Speaker 1: and he has had him on the bench, and uh
Speaker 1: it was the other guy. He could still put it
Speaker 1: on Sunday Kenyan Drake's anyway. So I dodged a bullet. Um,
Speaker 1: now I need help. My running backs was Alex Collins.
Speaker 1: He's word, he's gone. I have David Johnson and now
Speaker 1: the other two guys. Um, I have this really gut feeling,
Speaker 1: you know how you get it. Sometimes you guys on somebody,
Speaker 1: but you don't really talk to him about them much.
Speaker 1: But Darren Sproles or long story short, I'm um, Raiders
Speaker 1: got Doug, Doug Martin, Doug Martin, Matt What do you
Speaker 1: think Martin's way safer? Yeah, Martin's Martin's the safety play,
Speaker 1: and I think with the sound of his running backs,
Speaker 1: I think all you really need to do is take
Speaker 1: the safety play. So I think I'd go Doug Martin
Speaker 1: in this scenario. MARTINIX. I know there was some concern
Speaker 1: about his health um at one point about him playing
Speaker 1: in this game, but I'm pretty confident he is going
Speaker 1: to go. If anybody has a chance for a goal
Speaker 1: line touchdown in that Raiders uh Steelers game, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Martin. He's got any but is expected to play
Speaker 1: Doug Martin. Thank you for holding uh bugsy. I appreciate it. Um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: no problem. Hey Christmas bonus. I know it's a dumb question,
Speaker 1: but that's not the lightning round. Um, you wouldn't do.
Speaker 1: I got Lamar Jackson and and Mahomes. You just stay
Speaker 1: with Mahomes right, I would, I would, but it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not a dumb question. And if you told me
Speaker 1: had had this guy started, uh, your opponent started Derrick Henry,
Speaker 1: we'd be going to Lamar Jackson because of the the upside,
Speaker 1: the freakish upside that he has. I know Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: has freakish upside two. But against the Ravens, I might
Speaker 1: have flipped it over to a different answer when we
Speaker 1: come back. Plenty more to get to, including matchups like
Speaker 1: the Giants taking on Washington. Eli. We already talked a
Speaker 1: little bit about Eli Manning. What about sake Kwon Barkley?
Speaker 1: What about Washington's offense? Is there anybody left to play?
Speaker 1: And a Mark Sants has led team. We'll tell you
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Speaker 1: Our number two a playoff edition and Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: Scott Fish and Matt Harrison with you as well. I
Speaker 1: am Paul Charchian. Uh. This is the time first segment.
Speaker 1: We like to call three hot questions, and traditionally we
Speaker 1: like to start it right here. Hot question number one.
Speaker 1: Hold on, I'm not on the right page, Ken Paul
Speaker 1: find the right page is hot. Question number one, how
Speaker 1: much better will the Packers offense be in the post
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy era, no better, somewhat better, or a lot better? Scott.
Speaker 1: This is a weird question me for me because how
Speaker 1: much better? And one of the things is about the same,
Speaker 1: about the same, how much better? Um I put somewhat better.
Speaker 1: I mean it's not all on McCarthy. Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 1: twenty nine in the NFL and completion percentage among quarterbacks
Speaker 1: with over a hundred attempts. I mean, he's He's thrown
Speaker 1: into the ground quite a bit as well. But they
Speaker 1: have some The only tough matchup they have is Chicago. Uh.
Speaker 1: They have two games against bottom ten past defenses, and
Speaker 1: in the last four or five games Rodgers in Chicago,
Speaker 1: he's only had one bad game. I've he's gonna have
Speaker 1: three pretty good games down the stretch here. I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with somewhat better. Okay, are you looking
Speaker 1: at this from a next year standpoint? The rest of
Speaker 1: this year? Sorry, that was not clear. The rest of
Speaker 1: this year not into perpetuity or yeah, well I was
Speaker 1: a Viking fan. I was rooting for the Packers to
Speaker 1: hold on for Mike McCarthy as um he was a
Speaker 1: mediocre to bad offensive coordinator in San Francisco who looked
Speaker 1: into two of the top ten quarterbacks in last twenty
Speaker 1: five years. Great quarterback, maybe the best in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I still think he's gonna be rejuvenated by Joe Philbin,
Speaker 1: and maybe Aaron Rodgers is calling more of the plays now. Frankly,
Speaker 1: he's got possibly the best wide receiver in the league
Speaker 1: in Davante Adams at well above average running back and
Speaker 1: above average offensive line, young but decent depth receivers. I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be a lot better going forward. Uh,
Speaker 1: no stoppers in the schedule. I like him a lot.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go in some intangibles here. If Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: openly did Aaron Rodgers openly campaigned against Mike mcarthy in
Speaker 1: the media right, talking second guessing his play calling, we
Speaker 1: need to use Aaron, Aaron Jones more of that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. Imagine what was happening behind closed doors between
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy, right, and ultimately Rogers got
Speaker 1: his way. McCarthy's gone. Joe Philbin is a four game
Speaker 1: speed bump, but nothing more. You know the guy who
Speaker 1: runs that The guy who runs that offense is Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: not Joe Philban. No chance that Philban is gonna run
Speaker 1: an offense contrary to rogers wishes. So Rogers is running
Speaker 1: the show, He's going to want to prove that he's
Speaker 1: right that he was being held back by Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of motivation for Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: and he might be right by the way, there is
Speaker 1: a chance he's correct about that. And then three of
Speaker 1: the four remaining matchups are just excellent matchups for him. Falcons, Jets, Lions,
Speaker 1: all elite level matchups. Aaron Rodgers my number three quarterback
Speaker 1: this week, take Randall cob off the injury report for
Speaker 1: the first time all year Packers offense. It's going to
Speaker 1: get a lot better. Question number two, how many tight
Speaker 1: ends should be taken in the first round next year?
Speaker 1: This is the next year question, Matt, Okay, how many
Speaker 1: tight ends should be taken in the first round next year? Zero? One,
Speaker 1: two or three? Matt? How many titans will or should should, should,
Speaker 1: should not? Will? How many titans should be taken? So
Speaker 1: we hear at this little radio show we call Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly like to get to we have the ability
Speaker 1: to cause change in the world, and I think that
Speaker 1: we will do this. Uh if you looked at a
Speaker 1: mock right now, you'll see probably zero. But I'm on record,
Speaker 1: were a pinned tweet on my Twitter account or Travis
Speaker 1: Kelsey one one in two thousand, I think first, first
Speaker 1: player taken. And the difference in having a top two
Speaker 1: tight end and not having one is the playoffs. Basically
Speaker 1: in many leagues, Earth's has ninety three receptions, Kelsey has
Speaker 1: seventy nine. They average nearly two to three more catches
Speaker 1: per game than George Kittle, who's a lock at tight
Speaker 1: end number three. I think two of them should go
Speaker 1: in the first round. Kelsey will get taken first, and
Speaker 1: then Earth's will get taken almost immediately after that because
Speaker 1: of scarcity. So I think it's gonna be two tight
Speaker 1: ends taken in the first round next year. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go deeper and I'm gonna say four. I'm
Speaker 1: just kidding, uh No, and I completely agree with that strategy.
Speaker 1: I and I think, as we've seen in the mocks,
Speaker 1: once one goes, the next to go right away like
Speaker 1: Earth's and Kid will go right after. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say saying three, are you saying to I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Matt and say too. I think the third comes
Speaker 1: right around the corner in the second, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go too. That that's fun. I like that strategy. Not
Speaker 1: only is Travis Kelsey the number one scoring tight end,
Speaker 1: he's the number four scoring receiver including wide receiver. Right.
Speaker 1: So if you're one of these people like I could
Speaker 1: never take a tight end in the first round, well,
Speaker 1: would you take the number four wide receiver in the
Speaker 1: at the end of the first round? Of course you would. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I gotta take Odell Beckham in the first round? Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: So why wouldn't you take Travis Kelsey? How about zach Ertz?
Speaker 1: You mentioned the ninety three reception second only to Adam Feeling.
Speaker 1: His fantasy points make him wide receiver ten right now,
Speaker 1: of course? And Kittle will get Garoppolo back. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: Kittle gets Garoppolo back. That's all. I'll come to him
Speaker 1: in a minute. So of course you'd want to draft
Speaker 1: both of those tight ends where you get massive positional advantages.
Speaker 1: Had this year you decided to slough the tight end
Speaker 1: position and just gone for the sixth Beth tight end
Speaker 1: and for and you somehow knew the sixth Beth tight
Speaker 1: end you're sitting at. You've played Austin freaking Hooper all
Speaker 1: year to get to number six, and most likely you
Speaker 1: weren't even that good. If you really let the tight
Speaker 1: end position go this year, you were you were in
Speaker 1: the unfortunate position of starting David and Joku as the
Speaker 1: number twelve tight end all season streaming right, And it's
Speaker 1: way worse than that. I mean, that's like, that's your
Speaker 1: best case scenarios. Really, if you waited to the middle
Speaker 1: of the tight end run or the end of the
Speaker 1: tight end run, I will say, every year it seems
Speaker 1: to be a big three, you do it earlier, you wait,
Speaker 1: this year's worse. Like the gap. Well, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the gap. So if you waited to the middle and
Speaker 1: you were going to wear with Austin Hooper, you were
Speaker 1: getting outscored by a three to one margin by Kelsey
Speaker 1: and Arts. If you waited all the way down to
Speaker 1: in Joco a four to one margin, that's how big
Speaker 1: you were penalized. Now, so obviously those two guys are
Speaker 1: in should George kit will go in the first round. Well, yes,
Speaker 1: but you won't have to take him there. So because
Speaker 1: you won't need to take Kiddle there because people aren't
Speaker 1: going to because he didn't do it last year, and
Speaker 1: people can't, you know, come to grips with the concept
Speaker 1: that things might change in the next year. You won't
Speaker 1: have to take Kittle in the first But if I
Speaker 1: was in a sadity, I would absolutely consider it. But
Speaker 1: you won't have to sleep correct answer for the number
Speaker 1: of tight ends taken in the first round next year
Speaker 1: is too hot. Question number three for the rest of
Speaker 1: the year. Is Derrick Henry and RB one and r
Speaker 1: B two a flex or a bench runner? Scott bench
Speaker 1: I can't, I can't. I mean, I can't trust him.
Speaker 1: I can't trust him after one game. I mean he
Speaker 1: I don't think. I think I saw the stat that
Speaker 1: he'd never topped sixty five yards this season. Yet I
Speaker 1: might be wrong. Might actually I might be able to
Speaker 1: pull it. I'll I'll look, well, you're well, you continue
Speaker 1: to chat. Well, I have barely anything else to say
Speaker 1: I have. I haven't been able to trust him all year.
Speaker 1: Why am I going to trust him in my fantasy playoffs? Alright,
Speaker 1: it doesn't even matter because everybody had him on the
Speaker 1: bench already and their teams out of the playoffs. I'm gonna,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, I'm gonna league right now where Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: was on a playoff roster and started. Wow. So he
Speaker 1: had not topped fifty seven yards in a game prior
Speaker 1: to this one this year. That's ridiculous. It didn't help
Speaker 1: that that Indy some yard touchdown that he had was
Speaker 1: like the worst tackling I've ever seen by a team
Speaker 1: in the history of football. It was. It was so gross.
Speaker 1: The Giants is a good matchup. Washington is not particularly
Speaker 1: a great matchup. People will chase stats next week. I won't.
Speaker 1: I'm not fooled. I'm benching him. You know, he scored
Speaker 1: in five of them. He scored uh in five of
Speaker 1: the last seven games. The total yards, by the way,
Speaker 1: yeah six five total yards. Like he doesn't. He chips
Speaker 1: it nothing through the air. He had a he had
Speaker 1: a thirty three rushing, thirty two receiving. That was his
Speaker 1: best total yard. But because of the touchdowns at five touched,
Speaker 1: he has scored a touchdown at least in five last
Speaker 1: seven games. I don't think he's a bench grade guy
Speaker 1: going forward. I still want to touch on him. I
Speaker 1: still want touchdown and burned to me too many. He goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys sound like bitter Derrick Henry is he? I
Speaker 1: don't know him in anything at He goes up against
Speaker 1: the Giants without Snacks Harrison. They've turned into the worst
Speaker 1: run defense in the NFL without Snacks Harrison next week,
Speaker 1: and so I think he's gonna I think Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: is going to have a B or AC grade from
Speaker 1: US next week. Then he's got Washington, they've stumped to
Speaker 1: twenty eight in running back fantasy points allowed over the
Speaker 1: last month. I think he's gonna get a beer REC
Speaker 1: grade there too. Then he gets the Colts. They've sumped
Speaker 1: to twenty seven in fantasy points allowed to running backs
Speaker 1: in the last that's Week seventeen. Don't play fantasy football.
Speaker 1: Week's seventeen kills. I think he's gonna get a Beer
Speaker 1: C grade in that one too, although we won't be
Speaker 1: on the air for Week seventeen, but that's the right
Speaker 1: grade he'd likely get. Derrick Henry, based if nothing else
Speaker 1: on the touchdown prospects, is going to be an RB
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Speaker 1: you doing at time? Let's work in another matchup. I
Speaker 1: think our next matchup is Giants against the Washington Redskins.
Speaker 1: What do you think, Eli Manning? It just looks like
Speaker 1: a promising game, Matt game A C grade, that's it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought it might be a little higher. Washington has
Speaker 1: bottom seven and completions and passing yards allowed per game.
Speaker 1: ELI put up three, sixteen and one in the first matchup.
Speaker 1: I'd say the good numbers high two hundreds in a
Speaker 1: score is about what you're gonna get for Eli. That's
Speaker 1: just a see for me. Uh. Much like my basement
Speaker 1: apartment in college. The floor and the ceiling are way
Speaker 1: too close together for Eli um Evan Ingram. He's on
Speaker 1: the bench along with Sterling Shepherd. Sterling's a bit dinged
Speaker 1: up with a rib injury that limited him in practice
Speaker 1: this week, and he hasn't topped thirty seven yards in
Speaker 1: five games. UH. Ingraham is going to play this week
Speaker 1: after missing the last two games, but he hasn't been
Speaker 1: healthy or right yet this season and faces a Washington
Speaker 1: defense that's only allowed three scores on the on the
Speaker 1: whole year to the tight end position UH and then
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham. A. Beckham is scored topped a hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty yards or both in five of six career meetings
Speaker 1: with Washington, and he torched him in the Week eight matchup.
Speaker 1: On the other side, Adrian Peterson's the only viable start
Speaker 1: for Washington. He gets a B grade. UH. Mark Sanchez
Speaker 1: is in charge of throwing the ball now. That means
Speaker 1: he's going to hand it off and he's facing a
Speaker 1: defensive front. That is void of my cousin, Snacks Harrison
Speaker 1: and safety land and Collins ended up on it. Nobody,
Speaker 1: nobody's ever seen the two of you in the same
Speaker 1: place at the same time, Snacks. It might be the
Speaker 1: same person or not the same He's my cousin. Come on, cousin,
Speaker 1: okay um, I see the family resemblance. Absolutely, Landon Collins
Speaker 1: was a run stuffing safety. He was put on I
Speaker 1: R this week. That's a huge loss. Uh. Giants gave
Speaker 1: up a hundred and thirteen rushing yards to Bears backs
Speaker 1: last week, one nine to the Phillybacks the week before
Speaker 1: and one oh six to Peyton Barber the week before that.
Speaker 1: Those aren't impressive groups running backs. So Adrian Peterson's a
Speaker 1: solid B. I guess you could give Chris Thompson desperation
Speaker 1: D and PPR. He did return last week and had
Speaker 1: five targets, But he's part of a past of the
Speaker 1: passing game, and I hate the passing game, which is
Speaker 1: all on the bench. Sanchez, through twenty one time spanning
Speaker 1: almost a full game last week, managed only one hundred
Speaker 1: passing yards in one interception. The whole passing games dead.
Speaker 1: It's very possible that they throw less than twenty five
Speaker 1: passing attempts in this game, and the Giants have allowed
Speaker 1: the third fewest passing touchdowns in the league this year.
Speaker 1: Jets take out in the Bills, and there's not a
Speaker 1: lot to talk about in this game. Every Jet has
Speaker 1: got a bench grade here, Um the whole passing game
Speaker 1: of Sam Donald is on the bench and Isaiah crowles
Speaker 1: on the bench. He's bouncing between six and twenty one
Speaker 1: carries and back to back games. You never know what
Speaker 1: you're gonna get, but you know it won't be overwhelming
Speaker 1: no matter what. Despite playing from behind most of the season,
Speaker 1: the Bills have only allowed two players to gain eighty
Speaker 1: or more rushing yards all year against them, and Isaiah
Speaker 1: Crawl is not likely to be that guy. And Elijah
Speaker 1: McGuire is not getting enough use for consideration anyway. In
Speaker 1: a tough matchup. Chris Herndon might be the only other
Speaker 1: Jet you might even be thinking about. The Bills have
Speaker 1: allowed the fewest receiving yards at tight ends period. End
Speaker 1: of story. So Chris Herndon's out, So let's go to
Speaker 1: the Bill side. Josh Allen was might take a chance
Speaker 1: on me quarterback with a B grade. Za Jones was
Speaker 1: fishes take a chance of me wide receiver. I've got
Speaker 1: a B grade on him as well. Let's talk Lashawn McCoy.
Speaker 1: Let's he's had exactly one Fantasy relevant game all year one.
Speaker 1: The only game with a touchdown came three games ago,
Speaker 1: but it was against these same Jet Lightning could strike twice.
Speaker 1: The Jets have allowed five hundred fifty seven rushing yards
Speaker 1: to running backs in just the last three weeks. I
Speaker 1: don't have my advocus out, but I'm I'm guessing that's
Speaker 1: about a hundred and sixty seventy yards rushing each game,
Speaker 1: something like that. So Lashawn McCoy is, it's got a
Speaker 1: C grade here. Let's hope this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: second Fantasy relevant game of the year. Robert Foster the
Speaker 1: Scott Fish Special. Do you like him this week? Not
Speaker 1: as much as they three games ago he had a
Speaker 1: hundred five yards he did two games ago he had
Speaker 1: ninety four yards in a touchdown. It's the last week
Speaker 1: in one catch. It's a big play thing and Josh
Speaker 1: Allen's got a big arm, so he's gonna do that.
Speaker 1: But the dismissal of Kelvin Benjamin and Andre Holmes frees
Speaker 1: up some targets. I think Foster's I think this is
Speaker 1: the It's the first time that Robert Foster's every every
Speaker 1: down starter, which he will be this game. The Jets
Speaker 1: ran twenty nine and yards allowed to wide out receptions
Speaker 1: to white outs. Robert foster sneaky play. Scott, I think
Speaker 1: you're getting off the bandwag and just the wrong No, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not off the you're off the bandwagon, I admit it.
Speaker 1: I just think he's a boomer bust type of guy.
Speaker 1: He has a boomer bust guy. When we come back,
Speaker 1: Denver takes on San Francisco. Philip Lindsay has been one
Speaker 1: of the great stories of the fantasy season. Will it
Speaker 1: continue against the forty nine ers? Find out when we
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Speaker 1: Paul Charting with you, Matt Harrison, Scott fish Uh, Let's
Speaker 1: jump right back into the matchups. Denver takes on San
Speaker 1: Francisco and boy Emmanuel Sanders loss is I think gonna
Speaker 1: gramifications through that whole offense. They don't have to respect
Speaker 1: the past anymore. Courtland, Sulland's gonna get number one coverage
Speaker 1: all the time. And I worry frankly about about the
Speaker 1: whole offense just taking a big step backwards for Denver,
Speaker 1: maybe even in this matchup against San Francisco. What do
Speaker 1: you think it's gonna be really interesting for Lindsay, especially
Speaker 1: because he had faced one of the least stacked boxes
Speaker 1: in the NFL out of all the Out of all
Speaker 1: running backs, he had seen the least amount of stack boxes. Ironically,
Speaker 1: Royce Freeman had seen some of the most one of
Speaker 1: the highest percentages of stack boxes. You sound like a
Speaker 1: Freeman truther to me right now. There is not getting
Speaker 1: enough carries and shut up. Hey, you know me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know me. I watched the games. I know I'm
Speaker 1: all in on Lindsay. He looks so good, he um,
Speaker 1: but on this one I did just give him a
Speaker 1: B grade because I think the whole offense really suffers
Speaker 1: with them out Emmanuel standards to keep those drives alive. Um,
Speaker 1: there's there's there's some a lot to like. Though. The
Speaker 1: four nine ers have allowed hundred total yards or more
Speaker 1: to running backs every week since Week seven, when the
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy led Packers failed to do so only because
Speaker 1: he gave Jamal Williams and Time Agomer the snaps. If
Speaker 1: he hadn't done that, they probably would have done it too.
Speaker 1: So be great for Lindsay. I have the whole passing game,
Speaker 1: even uh, you know Dynasty Darling Dayshawn Hamilton's who takes
Speaker 1: over the slot for Emmanuel Sanders. I have the whole
Speaker 1: passing game except for Sutton on the bench. I think
Speaker 1: Sutton's going to take a couple of those targets, but
Speaker 1: a lot of people think it's gonna be He's gonna
Speaker 1: be ten plus a game. I don't know that that's
Speaker 1: going to happen, but he these matchups for Denver coming up,
Speaker 1: and this one especially, uh, they're all bottom eleven against
Speaker 1: uh deep deep past attempt u scoring for wide receivers,
Speaker 1: and that's that's really Sutton's game. Sutton can do that
Speaker 1: if he gets seven to ten targets, I think he
Speaker 1: could have a B game here. So that's why I
Speaker 1: like him. On the other side, I'm benching Mullins. He's
Speaker 1: had four good games, but the two four games, and
Speaker 1: two of them were great, but one was a blow
Speaker 1: Both were blowouts. Really one was. One was the Oakland
Speaker 1: game and the other was blowout behind trailing Seattle. I
Speaker 1: think this one's gonna be low scoring and close, So
Speaker 1: I don't like Mullins or much of the passing game here, Kittle,
Speaker 1: though obviously uh Pettis. With Goodwin back, I'm tentative to
Speaker 1: give them both C grades. Um Pettis has two yards
Speaker 1: and three touches the last two weeks, but that denber
Speaker 1: secondary Scotts in flux without Chris Harris, right, you've taken
Speaker 1: the best cornerback off the team. Granted he was a
Speaker 1: Pettis runs a fair amount from the slot. I like
Speaker 1: him a little better than Goodwin here, but I just
Speaker 1: wonder if taking Harris out, if that's just going to
Speaker 1: create a ripple effect of weirdness for the Broncos secondary.
Speaker 1: That's exactly kind of what I had. I had Pettis with.
Speaker 1: You're gonna say we No, I had Pettis with A
Speaker 1: being good one at the Sea. I knocked Pettis back
Speaker 1: to a C, but I put in my matchup here.
Speaker 1: I like him better than Goodwin. I think he's developed
Speaker 1: a real connection with Mullins over the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: so I give him the edge there. Uh, and Wilson
Speaker 1: was my take on Yeah, excellent, yeah. Uh. Matt Cincinnati
Speaker 1: takes on the Chargers. It's the Bengals are a team
Speaker 1: in utter and total disarray right now. They're missing offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: two starting cornerbacks, um starting quarterback. It's all bad for
Speaker 1: the Bengals right now. Not to mention A J. Green,
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh yeah, a J. Green. Oh yeah. By
Speaker 1: the way, that guy um Chart, do you have a
Speaker 1: sad trombone over there? Because my Jeff Driscoll call of
Speaker 1: last week. But he's he's so fast, he's the fastest
Speaker 1: Jeff you know, except now for Jeff Wilson Jr. In
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Uh, Chargers are top ten in passing yards,
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns, picks, rushing yards, and rushing touchdowns allowed to quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: So Driskll is on the bench just barely some C
Speaker 1: grades for some other guys. Uh. Tyler Boyd faces awesome
Speaker 1: slot corner Desmond King, who's only allowed one touchdown on
Speaker 1: the season. Boyd will suffer because of the Green loss
Speaker 1: is his numbers have dipped in games without a J.
Speaker 1: John Ross will drop Casey Hayward. So he's on the bench.
Speaker 1: C j Uzoma, I'm giving a slight C two because
Speaker 1: since Jeff Driscoll started taking snaps, whose Oma leads the
Speaker 1: team and targets with seventeen and in about six quarters
Speaker 1: of play and includes ten against the Browns and seven
Speaker 1: last week against the Broncos. So from a volume standpoint
Speaker 1: in a game, they should be playing catch up. Whose
Speaker 1: Elma is the top target? Uh? And then Joe Mixing,
Speaker 1: I'm only given him a C grade two. In the
Speaker 1: last two weeks, Mixing and the offense have lost as
Speaker 1: you said, Dalton Green and tackle Cordy Glenn. Mixing was
Speaker 1: also limited and practiced this week with a foot injury,
Speaker 1: and the Chargers have not allowed a one yard rusher
Speaker 1: since Todd Gurley in Week three. Over on the other side,
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon still sitting out this week with a knee injury.
Speaker 1: And I talked about how I like Justin Jackson as
Speaker 1: might take a chance to me running back. You know,
Speaker 1: I've got I've got him as a borderline A grade.
Speaker 1: It's still going to get half the words. You know,
Speaker 1: Eckler was really good for most of the year, and
Speaker 1: granted he didn't look as good as Jackson last week
Speaker 1: makes just a one game samp. Tired and worn down
Speaker 1: thing is problematic for me. And it wasn't a workhorse.
Speaker 1: I don't know how tired and worn down he was
Speaker 1: on eight touches a game. No, but he's been playing
Speaker 1: special team snaps the whole season and that kind of thing. So,
Speaker 1: but I covered Actler. I gave him a B as well.
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen easy A scored a touchdown in four straight
Speaker 1: since complaining publicly about a lack of targets. Bengals are
Speaker 1: allowing the ninth most wide receiver yards of this season,
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy three per game. Uh Mike and
Speaker 1: Tyrrell Williams are both on the bench the brothers Williams.
Speaker 1: Mike is touchdown dependent and has had four or fewer
Speaker 1: targets in nine straight games, and Tyrrell is in top
Speaker 1: to fifty yards since the London game in weeks seven.
Speaker 1: And game script says they'll get up big and slow
Speaker 1: down the offense. Philip Rivers. I'm still giving an A
Speaker 1: grade two. Bengals are allowing two or eighty nine yards
Speaker 1: per game through the air. Sitting on a monster game,
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, and congratulations to the Rivers family as Mrs
Speaker 1: Rivers is now pregnant with kid number nine. That's nine times. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of kids. That's a lot of kids.
Speaker 1: I got a hunch that Mrs Rivers is not is
Speaker 1: a stay at home mom. I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think she's working along with probably a nan me several nanny. Yes,
Speaker 1: a wet nurse. Uh. You just have the wet nurse
Speaker 1: on retainer and you always yes. Uh. De Drey takes
Speaker 1: on Arizona. Will zip through this one quickly because there's
Speaker 1: not a lot to talk about from either team. La
Speaker 1: Garrett Blunt's my highest rated lion. He was might take
Speaker 1: a chance on me player by running back. Matthew Stafford's
Speaker 1: on the bench. His issues include a bad back, the
Speaker 1: trade of Golden Tate, Marvin Jones, trip to i R.
Speaker 1: Two excellent past defenders he faces in this game against Arizona,
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson and Buddha Baker. You put all together and
Speaker 1: it's a deeply uphill battle for Stafford. Just a C
Speaker 1: grade on Scott On Scott Fish's guy Kenny Golladay. I
Speaker 1: can't Peter. I can't imagine Patrick Peterson not shadowing him.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't Patrick Peterson shadow in the whole game? So
Speaker 1: that's you know, you're basically dead right there. Peterson's only
Speaker 1: giving up two touchdowns in his coverage all year. The
Speaker 1: average game against Patrick Peterson is twenty three yards in
Speaker 1: his coverage. So I have I have a C grade
Speaker 1: most because I was afraid Scott would come over here
Speaker 1: and punch me the face. Then to the Arizona side,
Speaker 1: the only, uh my, only really positive player here is
Speaker 1: David Johnson. The Lions giving up a league worst five
Speaker 1: point one yards per carry to opposing backs, although much
Speaker 1: better since Snack Harrison arrived. They've also given a cousin
Speaker 1: that's right. They've also given up twenty plus carries to
Speaker 1: opposing backs three times, and in those games the backs
Speaker 1: average hundred thirty rushing yards in a touchdown per game.
Speaker 1: Hopefully David Johnson's gonna get the twenty carries I've got
Speaker 1: to I've got an A grade on David Johnson for
Speaker 1: this one. Can also be helpful through the air as well,
Speaker 1: as you already know. Uh, the only other starting grade
Speaker 1: is is Larry Fitzgerald. He's got a very positive matchup
Speaker 1: in the slot against Nevin Lawson, and or tease Tabor,
Speaker 1: but he's entirely touchdown dependent. He's top fifty yards just once.
Speaker 1: In the Josh Rosen era, Larry Fitzgerald, you can start
Speaker 1: him and hope for a score on his poultry three
Speaker 1: catches per game. But that's all you're That's all you're
Speaker 1: getting from Larry Fitzgerald is that chance for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: And Josh Rosen's on the bench. He's strown less for
Speaker 1: less than one nine yards and three straight games. Think
Speaker 1: about that, less than one nine yards and three straight games.
Speaker 1: How do you do that in the NFL these days?
Speaker 1: That's like Lamar Jackson. That is bad. Final set of
Speaker 1: matchups coming up when we come back, including the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Do you trust Golden Tate? Now find out when we
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Speaker 1: On the final segment of a playoff edition of Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly, Paul Archie and Scott Fish Matt Harrison with you.
Speaker 1: We've got a handful of matchups to knockdown, and then
Speaker 1: we will get to your calls. Lightning round, including several
Speaker 1: people from out of town nice enough to hold a
Speaker 1: long time, and I appreciate everybody's patience. Today, Scott Philadelphia
Speaker 1: takes on Dallas. Golden Tate finally looked like the guy
Speaker 1: for the Eagles that he had been for the Lions,
Speaker 1: where he was a highly productive fantasy player. Do you
Speaker 1: think it continues into this game in a tougher matchup
Speaker 1: with Dallas? Right and the and the nice thing is
Speaker 1: he's getting eight targets, eight targets and seven targets last
Speaker 1: last three weeks. He's he's getting the targets. I do
Speaker 1: kind of think it continues, But the Cowboys have been
Speaker 1: pretty tough lately. They've allowed the second fewest receptions, fourth
Speaker 1: fist yards, and third fewest touchdowns to wide receivers. Now
Speaker 1: that's the problem. I only gave Tate a C grade.
Speaker 1: I think the targets might get him there, though I'm
Speaker 1: giving whence you know, the leader of the offense. I'm
Speaker 1: giving him a B grade. He had three sixty and
Speaker 1: two against the Cowboys in Week ten. These two teams
Speaker 1: usually get up for each other, so I think that
Speaker 1: he might be able to overcome how good that Cowboys
Speaker 1: d has looked recently, especially against the Saints the other week.
Speaker 1: Right and Matt Ryan held to a one touchdown game.
Speaker 1: So I think Whence gets up for it just just
Speaker 1: enough for a B, and I think it spreads in
Speaker 1: a round a lot. You know Hurts is going to
Speaker 1: get the A grade. He had four teen for one
Speaker 1: and two against the couples last time. Although you know
Speaker 1: this is an old John Habermeyer theory, and I think
Speaker 1: he's right more often than not when these um when
Speaker 1: interdivisional rivals play each other, if one thing, you know,
Speaker 1: cause one one guy blew up, the next time they
Speaker 1: play the defense place, just to take that that away.
Speaker 1: This is classic Arts too, because and this is different matchup,
Speaker 1: but Art's against Washington for like four years was awesome
Speaker 1: and then not good. Like against Washington, his December game
Speaker 1: against Washington every year was amazing. Uh egilars two inconsistent,
Speaker 1: so I have him on the bench. Jeffrey, he has
Speaker 1: between thirty and fifty yards and no touchdowns in five
Speaker 1: straight since the since the Golden Tape trade. Hal Sean
Speaker 1: Jeffrey's average line three and a half catch up thirty
Speaker 1: eight yards scores exactly four tea for one in that span,
Speaker 1: these tight ends have outscored him. C J. John Smith,
Speaker 1: Vance Donald something named fer Sir for Tennessee, Rhett Ellison,
Speaker 1: Tyler Higbee, These these crap tight ends scoring Alshon Jeffrey
Speaker 1: since Golden Take came to town. Uh. I gave a
Speaker 1: B grade to Josh Adams and I have spoils on
Speaker 1: the bench. The B grade to Josh Adams is because
Speaker 1: he's chocked up twenty plus touches in consecutive games. The
Speaker 1: yards per carry isn't great, but I gotta give him
Speaker 1: a beyond that amount of opportunity in an in division game.
Speaker 1: On the other side, I give Prescott a C grade. UH.
Speaker 1: Since Week seven, only Drew Brees has had multiple touchdowns
Speaker 1: against Philly or over three hundred yards multiple touchdowns or
Speaker 1: over three hundred yards against Philly. That doesn't speak well,
Speaker 1: But Dak just had two of his best three games
Speaker 1: of the year. The defense is looking a lot better,
Speaker 1: which puts him on the field more, and he's tacking
Speaker 1: on rushing touchdowns touchdowns. In games in which Dak Prescott averages.
Speaker 1: In games on which he gets the rushing touchdown, he's
Speaker 1: on average, he's quarterback eight. If he does not get
Speaker 1: you are rushing touchdown, he's quarterback twenty two. And you
Speaker 1: want to know who quarterback twenty two is this year.
Speaker 1: It's Blake Bortles. So if you do not get the
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown from Doc, you're starting Blake Bortles. That's how
Speaker 1: important it is to get the rushing touchdown. So he's
Speaker 1: got to sea hoping for that. He's at five in
Speaker 1: the last seven games, so you've got to hope for
Speaker 1: it a little bit. But I think he'll, you know,
Speaker 1: be barely startable here. I gave Cooper and Zeke a's
Speaker 1: because Cooper is averaging eight targets per games since joining
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. He's had seventy five yards and or a
Speaker 1: touchdown in four those five. Eagles are allowing the second
Speaker 1: most receptions and second most yards to watch receivers. Zeke's obvious.
Speaker 1: I don't think I need Yeah, that goes without saying. Um.
Speaker 1: Speaking of obvious place, Pittsburgh takes on Oakland. It's start
Speaker 1: all your Steelers right and A grades virtually across the board.
Speaker 1: Virtually across the board. A for Antonio and Juju uh
Speaker 1: Juju is averaging a hundred eight yards per game over
Speaker 1: his last four weeks, with half a touchdown per game.
Speaker 1: Ben gets an A grade. The home road splits do
Speaker 1: not exist anymore. The low yardage mark on the road
Speaker 1: this year is two hundred seventy yards, and he's thrown
Speaker 1: at least a touchdown in every game on the road.
Speaker 1: He's also had two rushing touchdowns in the last three
Speaker 1: road games. It's a little interesting after two straight losses,
Speaker 1: the Steelers are looking at a Raiders defense that it's
Speaker 1: allowed the most passing scorers in the league. Ben's gonna
Speaker 1: get right, Vance McDonald. I'm giving an A grade. Six
Speaker 1: different tight ends have scored a touchdown on the Raiders
Speaker 1: in their last six games. Three different Colts and two
Speaker 1: different Chiefs tight ends scored against the Raiders in the
Speaker 1: last few weeks too. As an emergency dart throw. Jesse
Speaker 1: James is not a terrible play Jalen Samuel's He's getting
Speaker 1: a B. I gave Stephen Ridley a C grade. James
Speaker 1: conners out this week the Steeler said they're gonna go
Speaker 1: running back by committee. I do not believe them. They
Speaker 1: never have done that in Mike Tomlin's tenure. Uh, sam
Speaker 1: Stephen Ridley sucks. Yeah, let's just be honest. Samuels was
Speaker 1: a college running back, fullback, wide receiver, and tight end. Yes,
Speaker 1: he has the ability to be involved in the passing game.
Speaker 1: Uh and that's of a hallmark of the Steelers running
Speaker 1: backs in the past. They're usually involved in the passing game.
Speaker 1: He caught three balls for twenty and a score last
Speaker 1: week along with the two carries he had. Oakland's allowing
Speaker 1: the most rushing yards per game to running backs a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty per game, so Samuel's is a pretty
Speaker 1: good start over. On the other side, here's the deal
Speaker 1: at the Raiders. Are you chasing the stats from last week?
Speaker 1: Because Jalen Rashardon Doug Martin Martin both looked good. Derek
Speaker 1: Carr was not a complete embarrassment. He had two eighty
Speaker 1: five and three scores last week against the Chiefs. In fact,
Speaker 1: he hasn't thrown an interception since Week five, seven straight games,
Speaker 1: and the completion percentage is a very nice six on
Speaker 1: the season. Jordy Nelson did not retire, had ten catches
Speaker 1: for ninety seven yards. Jared Cook had a hundred yards
Speaker 1: in a score last week. That being said, every one
Speaker 1: of them is on the bench. The Steelers are a
Speaker 1: top twelve defense against passing yards allowed, rushing yards allowed,
Speaker 1: yards per carry, receptions for running backs and receiving yards
Speaker 1: for running backs, and in their last five games, the
Speaker 1: Steelers rank in the top ten in receiving yards allowed
Speaker 1: to wide receivers, tight ends, and touchdowns allowed to both
Speaker 1: of those positions as well. There's nothing to like here
Speaker 1: about a top ten Steelers defense and a mediocre Oakland offense.
Speaker 1: Final matchup is the Monday night game, Vikings taking on
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. It's um plenty, it's a meati matchup, and
Speaker 1: uh but we will still plenty of time for lightning rounds,
Speaker 1: so I encourage you. Lines are full now, of course,
Speaker 1: but I encourage you to dial in when you hear
Speaker 1: people drop. Uh. Wait, let's be at the passing game
Speaker 1: for the Vikings. Seahawks secondary is slumped over the past
Speaker 1: six games, giving up over the past six averages of
Speaker 1: three yards and two touchdowns. And more specifically, the Seahawks
Speaker 1: are a lot exactly two passing touchdowns in those six
Speaker 1: straight games, all of them to touchdowns. I think Kirk
Speaker 1: finds his way to at least two touchdowns here, which
Speaker 1: gives them a B grade. Uh. Kirk's receivers have got
Speaker 1: positive matchups, and I've got A grades on both digs
Speaker 1: and Theeling digs Go was primarily up against Seattle cornerback
Speaker 1: Trey Flowers, who got ruined by Dante Pettis last week,
Speaker 1: and then if when he also sees Shaquille Griffin, he's
Speaker 1: given up a score and each of the last two
Speaker 1: no team runs a higher percentage of pass plays in
Speaker 1: the vikings, and Diggs is the more targeted of the two,
Speaker 1: So we'll go with Stephan Diggs in an A grade.
Speaker 1: Adam Feeling will primarily line up against slot cornerback Justin Coleman,
Speaker 1: who's just okay um, he's the last three games he's
Speaker 1: he's been good, but this is still a strongly positive
Speaker 1: matchup for Theelan who has scored or topped one yards
Speaker 1: and eleven of twelve starts. Staying with the passing game,
Speaker 1: I've got a C grade and Kyle Rudolph. Teams are
Speaker 1: targeting their tight ends on just sixteen percent of their
Speaker 1: passes against the Seahawks, which does not bode well. Uh.
Speaker 1: Kyle Rudolph's best games have come when Feeling and Digs
Speaker 1: of each scene ten ten or more targets, and Seattle
Speaker 1: has given up the six most passes per game over
Speaker 1: the last three games. So maybe there's just just the
Speaker 1: plethora of running game work well or passing game work
Speaker 1: will ultimately helped to Routolph. But just to see grade
Speaker 1: and really preferre you kept him on the bench, let's
Speaker 1: go to Let's go to Dalvin Cook. Every Viking fan
Speaker 1: wants to see more of Dalvin Cook after last week
Speaker 1: when he averaged nine yards to carry. Since Week nine
Speaker 1: against the Seahawks, every lead back is top to one
Speaker 1: hundred yards and or scored except one. So if the
Speaker 1: Seahawks run defense has not been great, and you know
Speaker 1: after last week, there feels like a mandate to get
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook much more involved, I've gotta be grade on him.
Speaker 1: I think they will do that here. Latavius Murray's touchdown
Speaker 1: dependent will leave him on the bench. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Seahawks side, Russell Wilson. It's for me, the whole
Speaker 1: thing depends on Trey Waynes. I've got a B grade
Speaker 1: on Wilson right now. I'd i'd consider upgrading him to
Speaker 1: A if you told me Trey Waynes was not gonna
Speaker 1: go in this matchup and he is not practiced yet.
Speaker 1: But it's a Monday nighter, there's still a chance he
Speaker 1: practices today and if that happens, that opens up the
Speaker 1: door for Waynes potentially to uh to get something done
Speaker 1: in this and get on the field for this matchup.
Speaker 1: It's working his way through the concussion protocol. Now it's
Speaker 1: a tough matchup with the Vikings. Aside from that Rams
Speaker 1: meltdown in Week four, the Vikings average game against is
Speaker 1: just two hundred thirty passing yards and zero point nine
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns per game. That's it. Four The past five
Speaker 1: quarterbacks to face the Vikings haven't even topped one passing yards.
Speaker 1: But for his part, Russell Wilson has been terrific, multiple
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns in every game but one, including three or
Speaker 1: more scores, and half of his starts. Now Russell's not
Speaker 1: doing anymore is rushing. He has no rushing touchdowns this year.
Speaker 1: They don't have design rushing plays. He's got to get
Speaker 1: done with his arm in a tough matchup. But again,
Speaker 1: if Trey Waynes doesn't go, I like him more. And
Speaker 1: that brings us to Tile Lock Tyler Lockett, because that's
Speaker 1: the guy that you want. Wayne's on. Thai Locking is
Speaker 1: one of the fastest receivers in the league. Wayne is
Speaker 1: one of the faster cornerbacks in the league. That's a
Speaker 1: perfect one on one matchup for Trey Waynes. Lockett parlays
Speaker 1: these three catches of games into scores better than anybody
Speaker 1: scored in nine different games this year. So if Waynes
Speaker 1: can't go tier Lock it's an A. If Wayne's does go,
Speaker 1: I dropped Tyler Locket down to a C. Doug Baldwin
Speaker 1: may not play after missing practice the last couple of games, UM,
Speaker 1: and he runs out of the slot and he'll see
Speaker 1: a vastly improved McKenzie Alexander either way. So if Baldwin goes,
Speaker 1: you maybe a C at best. But I don't know
Speaker 1: that he's gonna play, and I think you're safer leaving
Speaker 1: him on the bench. Also, David Moore, I don't think
Speaker 1: you want to start in this matchup either. He's only
Speaker 1: playable and easy matchups. This is not one of them.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the running game. Since Week eight, the
Speaker 1: Vikings have only allowed two runners to score on the
Speaker 1: ground um, and they haven't been playing scrubs over that time. Either.
Speaker 1: They've held carry On Johnson and Check Jordan Howard, Sony Michelle.
Speaker 1: None of them found the end zone or top three
Speaker 1: point eight yards per carry. Curse Car. Carson's getting about
Speaker 1: two thirds of the snaps and then the other third
Speaker 1: go to Penny and Davis. So you gotta leave on
Speaker 1: the bench because they're just not getting enough work here
Speaker 1: and the matchups very difficult. A C grade on Carson,
Speaker 1: a bench grade on the others. That brings us to
Speaker 1: lightning round. Your calls your toughest question between two players,
Speaker 1: one question between two players. We have plenty of time
Speaker 1: to get to a lot of you. I know this
Speaker 1: is a big week, this is the playoffs. You need
Speaker 1: to win, and we're here to help. We got to
Speaker 1: bring the a game advice here. All all this year,
Speaker 1: we've been coasting, purposely giving out bad advice, waiting until
Speaker 1: the playoffs to give the good advice. Well, especially to
Speaker 1: people from Wisconsin to uh Raw Josh and Philadelphia. Hello,
Speaker 1: thank you for your patience. Josh, Hey, guys, no problem.
Speaker 1: Appreciate the insight all year. Or Winston Scott. I think
Speaker 1: I have Wilson higher. Yeah, Wilson, I'm surprised. I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm worried about that Viking defense. If we break the tie,
Speaker 1: I think it's Winston. Winston was my take so, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're really close for me. You know, if you told
Speaker 1: me for sure tray Wains was out, I'm I'm listening
Speaker 1: to the Winston side, but we don't know right now,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if we're gonna know by tomorrow
Speaker 1: morning when you gotta make that that decision. Josh, We're
Speaker 1: on Winston to play it safe. Thank you for listening
Speaker 1: from Philadelphia. I appreciate that. Tom. Hello, Hello, thanks for
Speaker 1: taking my college gentlemen, and I have a total strategy
Speaker 1: question to ask a wide receiver. My opponent has Jamie
Speaker 1: Winston and you're playing Godwin. I have Humphreys that I
Speaker 1: could throw in, or I could avoid that matchup and
Speaker 1: play tennis from San Francisco. Which would you prefer to
Speaker 1: do to play the receiver against your protos quarterback or
Speaker 1: go away from that team and take Let me Tim, Tom,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. If everybody just sort of
Speaker 1: plays out to the way they probably play out, do
Speaker 1: you think you're the favorite or are you the underdog?
Speaker 1: Exactly projected for the same score within two tenths of
Speaker 1: the point and a standard leave Matt, what do you think? Uh?
Speaker 1: In that case, I think you go upside and you
Speaker 1: cheer against the Bucks hard, So I'd go Pettis and
Speaker 1: not not play the Humphries angle and just hope that
Speaker 1: New Orleans just rolls. And actually there's supposed to be
Speaker 1: some bad weather in that game. There's potentially potential rain
Speaker 1: and weather concerned. So yeah, I go Pettis. Dave, you're
Speaker 1: on the fan, Dave? Hello, Yeah, come here all right?
Speaker 1: BlackBerry Guy? Hey, full point PPR. Austin Equer, Aaron Jones,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, I love even since I'm my top five
Speaker 1: this week, so we'll take Aaron Jones um and Blueberry Guy.
Speaker 1: So Austin, Hello, join Jackson Mixing? That was Justin Jackson
Speaker 1: or mixing? I believe. I think Justin Jackson's gotta split
Speaker 1: just enough and mixing is gonna get all the volume.
Speaker 1: It's a tough matchup, but I'd rather have mixing, all right,
Speaker 1: and the other way and hello to point PPR. I've
Speaker 1: got Listonmatory or Dare Peterson. Both of them are great,
Speaker 1: Ko or Adrian. How strongly do you feel in your
Speaker 1: your B grade of McCoy church um? Actually feel pretty
Speaker 1: good to Chest's defense bad all right? Where where do
Speaker 1: you have him in your ranks. Um, hang on, this
Speaker 1: is close. I'd lean Adrian. I know you'd probably lean McCoy,
Speaker 1: but they're really, really tight. I've got Um, I've got
Speaker 1: Adrian at twenty five, and i've got McCoy at thirty.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go Adrian. Okay, Matt, you're next. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm starting Jack right now, but something's been bugging me
Speaker 1: all week to replaced him in favor of Jamis. What
Speaker 1: do you think I would? Here's the problem. You know,
Speaker 1: Dad doesn't again, if he doesn't get the rushing score,
Speaker 1: he hurts you. So I think I would play. I'd
Speaker 1: play Jamis Winston in that one. Mark, You're next? Hi,
Speaker 1: um or ppr wow to come to this? For Joe Mixon,
Speaker 1: I'm such a trick And he said so boom er bust.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's not the safe call. He's not the same.
Speaker 1: There's nothing safe about the Bengals anymore. It depends on
Speaker 1: what you need. Do you need the safety of ten
Speaker 1: points from Joe Mixon or do you need the upside
Speaker 1: from track one? Yeah? I see if our second of
Speaker 1: three marks? Hello, oh Hi, Mark, Mark, Standard Lee, Chub
Speaker 1: or Lindsay, I'm gonna go Chub but I don't like
Speaker 1: what the what what it's looking like for the Broncos
Speaker 1: offense when when Emmanuel goes down, I think that whole
Speaker 1: offense has to run through Lindsay, and I think that
Speaker 1: they can stack the box against him. I still love Lindsay.
Speaker 1: I can't I can't not love Philip Lindsay, Chris Hello, Hight,
Speaker 1: Drake Smith or Pettist. I'm going to gainst the team
Speaker 1: with Barkley, Jones, Savante and David Johnson. Wow, that's a
Speaker 1: good See he needs the upside. Yeah, but they both
Speaker 1: have but they both have good upside in this one. See.
Speaker 1: I would take Pattis three touchdowns in the last two games.
Speaker 1: He gives you plenty of upside without all the risk
Speaker 1: that comes with Tray Kwon Smith, Brad you are next? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Four point ppr Z Jones or Allen Robinson. Okay, I
Speaker 1: like sa Jones far more, even though Chicago should be
Speaker 1: playing from behind a little bit and they're gonna need
Speaker 1: the offense. I like a Jones a lot this week. Mark,
Speaker 1: You're on the fan further playoff? Baker, Sorry, say one
Speaker 1: more time. Baker may feel a little Okay, that's tight,
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. You take a chance. I mean, guy, Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson has been a top five Fantasy quarterback since taking over.
Speaker 1: I go Lamar. I think they're safety there. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: is a certain amount of safety with a rushing quarterback
Speaker 1: who's downside feels like sixty rushing yards well, and his
Speaker 1: matchups a lot better to Dave. You are next? Okay,
Speaker 1: standard league, Landry or Tates. I have went starting at quarterback.
Speaker 1: Landry's got a fantastic matchup and we saw signs of
Speaker 1: life last week. I'm taking Jarvis Landry in this one.
Speaker 1: Josh your next? Yeah, I need two wide receivers Tyllard
Speaker 1: Boyd Smith. But yeah, you know it's been the same
Speaker 1: rules for three years. Josh, I'm sorry. It's one question
Speaker 1: between two guys. Scott you are next. Yeah, standard scoring Kelsey,
Speaker 1: Oh geez. Seriously. By the way, we talked earlier in
Speaker 1: the show about how in the first round those two
Speaker 1: guys are gonna go, a lot of people are going
Speaker 1: to try to take both. Yeah, so I would totally
Speaker 1: understand that at the player pool. Ye, absolutely, I guess Kelsey. Yep,
Speaker 1: That's where I'm going, right, go Kelsey to Ravens are
Speaker 1: good defense they're great defense. The one weakness with the
Speaker 1: Ravens tight end. As I mentioned earlier in the show,
Speaker 1: they've given up tight end touchdowns in five of the
Speaker 1: six weeks. And it's the second meeting against Dallas. Dallas
Speaker 1: might just sell out to stoppards Lavell, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 1: How are you. I'm good. Don't laugh at my selections,
Speaker 1: the the unmotivated Matt Stafford or Case Keenum. Oh no, really,
Speaker 1: you should get down four players really quick and just
Speaker 1: just I can't. I can't start Case. I can't start
Speaker 1: Case this week. No, Emmanuel Sanders Stafford against the Cardinals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't do it. I know. Well there's that, but
Speaker 1: I'll how about Kenny Golladay? Okay, see your Sutton and
Speaker 1: raise you a holiday. Correct obviously, I'm I'm I'm I
Speaker 1: have a team that's a wild card team, so it's
Speaker 1: obvious when I have Matt Staffords my quarterback. Bile Vl
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