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Speaker 1: Welcome to a week eight edition of Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: I am Paul Jarchian. Co host today Scott Fish and Thor.
Speaker 1: Nice from you.
Speaker 3: It's been a while. Good to have you back. It
Speaker 3: has all the way SAIDs week six. I only missed
Speaker 3: one week, but it was with Matt, so I understand
Speaker 3: that feeling like it took forever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Colin mccockney obliterates everybody around him. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I missed you guys though. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Nice to have you back. Yes, Oh and you are Oh.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 3: It was the first time in my eight years on
Speaker 3: this show you've let me have my birthday weekend off.
Speaker 1: I know, normally I work you on. We had a
Speaker 1: lot to get two no bye weeks, so we gotta
Speaker 1: cram in all the games, so we're gonna just roll
Speaker 1: up our sleeves and get started. Of course, over the
Speaker 1: course of the show, we will give you take a
Speaker 1: chance to meet the three tough questions, premature speculation, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna begin here. Scott Yes Skills take on the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals in a game that should have a lot
Speaker 1: of fantasy factors in it.
Speaker 3: Well, you would think so, you'd think so. These are
Speaker 3: two offenses that have been pretty good lately. On the
Speaker 3: Philadelphia side. The Bengals are allowing the most rushing attempts
Speaker 3: and rushing yards to quarterbacks. I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 3: Let me look at the numbers to see if that's
Speaker 3: something that would help Jalen Hurts. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 3: That makes sense for him averaging seven rushing attempts per
Speaker 3: game average or averaging ten per game minimum of seven
Speaker 3: in every game, Jalen Hurts has multiple scores in all
Speaker 3: but one game, and the Bengals are a top five
Speaker 3: fantasy matchup for quarterbacks, allowing four multiple score days out
Speaker 3: of seven and including a couple three hundred yard day.
Speaker 3: So I do have an A grade on Jalen Hurts
Speaker 3: his wide receivers AJ Brown and DeVonta Smith. I got
Speaker 3: an A grade on AJ Brown Cincinnati allowing the eighth
Speaker 3: most fantasy points to the perimeter as well. Brown has
Speaker 3: five plus catches in all three games. His yardage total
Speaker 3: in his three fall games one hundred nineteen, one hundred
Speaker 3: and sixteen, and eighty nine, so he scored in all
Speaker 3: three of them. Scored in each one. Yeah, DeVonta Smith
Speaker 3: with a B grade actually playing more snaps than Brown,
Speaker 3: but less stats. More inconsistent. But history has shown us
Speaker 3: that when Dallas Goddard is out, which he is again
Speaker 3: this week, his volume goes up. It didn't quite show
Speaker 3: up last week, oh, in negative two yards exactly. But
Speaker 3: I'm gonna blame a little bit of Barkley, them wanting
Speaker 3: to get Bartley Barkley his numbers against his old team.
Speaker 3: Maybe a little bit of game script that would led
Speaker 3: to less passing. I got the B grade over here
Speaker 3: on DeVonta Smith. With Dallas Goddard out again, I don't
Speaker 3: have grand Calcata starting. He put up a pretty poor game.
Speaker 3: I thought, given what he did the week before with
Speaker 3: Goddard out, maybe there'd be a chance. But no played
Speaker 3: almost the entire game. Didn't do anything last week. On
Speaker 3: the Cincinnati side, Joe Burrow Philly does boast a top
Speaker 3: three fantasy defense against quarterbacks, with the fifth fewest yards
Speaker 3: and eight fewest scores. But let's take a deeper look
Speaker 3: at those six games, the three of them with Jordan Love,
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins, and Baker Mayfield. Those guys averaged two hundred
Speaker 3: and eighty two yards and two scores, even got extra
Speaker 3: one on the ground. Deshaun Watson, Daniel Jones, and Derek
Speaker 3: Carr averaged one hundred and thirty six yards and only
Speaker 3: scored once total.
Speaker 1: Point being good quarterbacks have plenty of success, and Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow might be the best of all of them, so
Speaker 1: I do have an eight grade here on him.
Speaker 3: I have A and B grades on Jamar Chase and
Speaker 3: T Higgins. Jamar Chase's fantasy fantasy's wide receiver one with
Speaker 3: six scores. In the last five games, the Eagles have
Speaker 3: allowed eight wide receiver scores, but they've kept the yardage
Speaker 3: fairly low. Part of that is due to Cleveland and
Speaker 3: New York Giants matchups of the last couple weeks New
Speaker 3: York Giants without neighbors obviously, prior to that, in their
Speaker 3: first four games, every wide receiver one scored. Three of
Speaker 3: the wide receiver twos scored in those four games, so
Speaker 3: scores might be likely here. T Higgins leads the NFL
Speaker 3: and targets per game over the last four and more
Speaker 3: targets than Chase in four straight. He's averaging six and
Speaker 3: a half catches for seventy five yards with three scores
Speaker 3: in those last four games. So good grades on both
Speaker 3: of those guys. Right now. On the running game, Chase
Speaker 3: Brown's the only one. I'm sorry starting sorry Zach Moss
Speaker 3: there charge seven to twelve touches last three weeks, but
Speaker 3: he hasn't been able to top fifty two yards this season.
Speaker 3: Chase Brown Over the last four games, Brown's averaging over
Speaker 3: fifteen touches, has four scores. Three of the four games
Speaker 3: were inefficient, though Philly's d ranks third best against runners.
Speaker 3: His volume pass catching plus propensity to score though, I'm
Speaker 3: going to give him the seed, the volume seed, you know,
Speaker 3: and hope he gets some pass game work in a score.
Speaker 1: That makes sense.
Speaker 5: Four.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Tennessee taking on Detroit. The Tennessee offense
Speaker 1: is erect, their defense is pretty good, and I'll be
Speaker 1: I'm interested to hear what you have to say about
Speaker 1: the Lions. But back on the Tennessee side, anybody to
Speaker 1: play here?
Speaker 6: Oh, it's grizzly you're certainly not going to play Mason Rudolph.
Speaker 6: I think one guy that is playaball Tony Pollard. Give
Speaker 6: him a see. Sixteen carries for sixty one yards last
Speaker 6: week against Buffalo's bad run defense. Yeah, that was what
Speaker 6: Taja Spears sideline. Spears is backish questionable return to practice
Speaker 6: Friday with a hamstring. Because of the uncertainty there, I
Speaker 6: would keep Taj Spears on the bench, but I would
Speaker 6: start Pollard. The matchup is much tougher in this game, though,
Speaker 6: Lions are allowing the third fewest fantasy points to running
Speaker 6: backs Kelvin Ridley. I struggle with this one. I did
Speaker 6: give them a see though he returned to practice on
Speaker 6: Friday had the foot injury. Wide receiver sixty nine fantasy
Speaker 6: points per game. It's a tough scene, obviously, and even
Speaker 6: if you.
Speaker 1: Give him all of DeAndre Hopkins catches, he'd move to
Speaker 1: like wide receiver sixty three.
Speaker 6: Now this might just be the optimistic part of me,
Speaker 6: and this might be considered a logical leap, but I
Speaker 6: hope they start using him in the offense as he
Speaker 6: is intended to be used.
Speaker 4: Now getting some of those.
Speaker 6: Targets, certainly the targets will go up, but hopefully targets
Speaker 6: that are more advantageous to Ridley's game. He's just been
Speaker 6: used as a deep bult guy to this point. You're
Speaker 6: wasting his route running. Not that they have the quarterback
Speaker 6: play to hit him on the hands every play, but
Speaker 6: obviously he becomes a clear wide receiver one with Hopkins
Speaker 6: gone clear, clear clear, this is a decent matchup for him.
Speaker 6: Detroit has allowed the eighth most receiving yards per game
Speaker 6: to perimeter wide receivers, so I did stick Ridley with
Speaker 6: a see the rest of the guys in the Titans
Speaker 6: bench grades.
Speaker 4: Moving over to the Lions, Jared Goff give him a B.
Speaker 6: At least twenty two point eight fantasy points in three
Speaker 6: straight games.
Speaker 4: This is a sneaky bad matchup, though.
Speaker 6: The Lions run the ball at the third highest rate
Speaker 6: in the NFL, and when they're up, it goes up
Speaker 6: even more.
Speaker 4: It's just run, run, run, run, run.
Speaker 6: Detroit to double digit favorites in this game, and the
Speaker 6: Titans have a good pass defense. We're still wondering if
Speaker 6: Lagerius sneed will play, but a good pass defense nonetheless,
Speaker 6: and will the pass volume be there for golf That's
Speaker 6: why I had to downgrade him to a B. I
Speaker 6: also gave a BA to David Montgomery RB thirteen and
Speaker 6: Fantasy points per game. He's averaging sixteen touches for eighty
Speaker 6: six total yards. Tennessee has the third highest stuff rate,
Speaker 6: though they have a pretty strong run defense, and that
Speaker 6: defense has allowed only one running back to rush for
Speaker 6: over sixty yards all season long, Jamiir Gibbs.
Speaker 4: I give him an A.
Speaker 6: I obviously must start and along with aman Ras Saint Brown,
Speaker 6: especially in this with Jamis and Williams suspended.
Speaker 3: On Montgomery and Gibbs. How do we feel about the
Speaker 3: Sonic and Knuckles nickname David Montgomery calls them.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like that too.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we're you know, we've moved past thunder Lightning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's unique, it's different, it's video games.
Speaker 3: I love it. I like it.
Speaker 4: I like it too.
Speaker 1: Last one, which one Sonic and which ones? I assume
Speaker 1: Sonic David Knuckless, OK, I got it.
Speaker 6: The couple of games where Jameis Williams is out. I
Speaker 6: wonder if that will help Sam Laporta, a guy who
Speaker 6: has not gotten as many targets this seasons. Why he's
Speaker 6: only tight end twenty one in Fantasy points per game
Speaker 6: and only participating in roughly two thirds of the routes
Speaker 6: available for Detroit. But Laporta does ring number ten in
Speaker 6: separation rate, So you wonder, now if he gets more
Speaker 6: targets with that Jamison Williams vacates, could he be more
Speaker 6: viable for fantasy.
Speaker 4: I'll give Laporte a B A B this week.
Speaker 1: I know Scott I are dying. We all took Laporte
Speaker 1: in a lot of leagues.
Speaker 3: Well, Laporta and Richardson might be my worst calls a year.
Speaker 1: Oh that's it, Okay, okay, Let's move over to the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Lot's going on here.
Speaker 1: I've got a grades on the pack two parts of
Speaker 1: the Packers passing game, Jordan Love Jaden Reid. In totality,
Speaker 1: the Jaguars the worst pass defense in the league. They
Speaker 1: give up the most passing touchdowns. They drank thirtieth and
Speaker 1: passing yards their thirty second in imposer passer ratings. So
Speaker 1: for Reid, he runs almost entirely from the slot, he'll
Speaker 1: face a defense that gave up a slot touchdown last
Speaker 1: week to kJ Osborne the leak before two touchdowns to
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen from the slot. So we like and read
Speaker 1: this one. It's always hard to figure out who who
Speaker 1: are the Green Bay wide receivers you can trust? I
Speaker 1: trust Romeo Dobbs.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 1: Dobbs is the most reliable target earner across the board
Speaker 1: among all of them. He leads the team in routes run,
Speaker 1: he is second in targets and targets per route, and
Speaker 1: he'll match it most stopping against Ronald Darby, who ranks
Speaker 1: his Pro Football Focuses cornerback ninety five. He's given up
Speaker 1: three scores already, an opposer passer rating of one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty three B grade on Romeo Dobbs and a
Speaker 1: C grade on Dune Tavian Wicks and Christian Watson. They're
Speaker 1: down at sea because they just get less targets, so
Speaker 1: you get a massive variation in volume and output. But
Speaker 1: if you're not going to start them against the Jaguars,
Speaker 1: why are they on your roster?
Speaker 3: Fair?
Speaker 1: I mean, this is it. This is the best matchup
Speaker 1: you're gonna get all year. So Watson and Wix get
Speaker 1: C grades in this one. Tucker Kraft comes in with
Speaker 1: an A grade three good games in the last four weeks,
Speaker 1: and with Luke Musgrave hurt, his routes run if basically doubled,
Speaker 1: and as you can guess, the Jaguar are awful against
Speaker 1: tight ends. They're getting rocked by basically tight ends in
Speaker 1: every week since Week three. Last week, the Patriots offense
Speaker 1: generated twelve catches and one hundred and twenty four yards
Speaker 1: to tight ends against the Jaguars. Two weeks ago, the
Speaker 1: Jaguars gave up two touchdowns to Cole Kmet, so Tucker
Speaker 1: Craft definitely in play. That only leaves us with Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 1: Jaguars are a better run defense than a pass defense,
Speaker 1: but Jacobs is a likely beneficiary no matter what happens here.
Speaker 1: Jaguars haven't allowed a runner at the top ninety one yards,
Speaker 1: which is good. They shut down the Patriots last week,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean a lot, and they've also faced
Speaker 1: a lot of garbage runners. Two weeks ago, DeAndre Swift
Speaker 1: rolled up one hundred nineteen total yards. Jacobs is probably
Speaker 1: closer to that. I think he hits about one hundred
Speaker 1: yards of this game, and I've got an eight.
Speaker 3: Grade h well, he finally score.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, color shot, Tank Bigsby moving to the Jacksonville side.
Speaker 1: All right, so now you guys all though I feel
Speaker 1: about Tank Bigsby. Yes, So now we got Travis ETN
Speaker 1: coming in as a game time decision. Let me ask
Speaker 1: you too, knowing Doug Peterson, if ETN is available, who starts?
Speaker 3: I think I think it's probably mostly Bigsby, But I
Speaker 3: think ETN still gets the past game work somehow.
Speaker 4: I'm going to say ETN.
Speaker 1: I don't trust Doug Peterson to get this right. I either,
Speaker 1: but it's so obvious that Tank Bigsby is the better back.
Speaker 1: Let me give you some bitta.
Speaker 3: I will say we Tank Bigsby has taken over and
Speaker 3: ETN has not logged a full practice since this takeover,
Speaker 3: so we have not seen a healthy ETN. But yes,
Speaker 3: Bigsby's numbers are awesome.
Speaker 1: They are, and let me tell you more about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Jaggars have won two games. In those two games,
Speaker 1: Tank Bigsby one hundred one yards and one hundred eighteen
Speaker 1: yards four touchdowns in those two games. Doug Peterson, you
Speaker 1: think just like survival instinct, right, natural selection, survival the
Speaker 1: fittest right, his jobs on the line, you would think
Speaker 1: he would go to Tank Bigsby no matter what. In
Speaker 1: yards per rush, tank Bigsby ranks number two in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Travis ETN twenty ninth avoided tackle rate, Tank Bigsby is
Speaker 1: second in the NFL ETN is twenty seventh. In yards
Speaker 1: after contact, Tank Bigsby is number one in the NFL
Speaker 1: ETN is thirty fifth. I want to believe Tank Bigsby
Speaker 1: is going to get plenty of use in this game,
Speaker 1: and he's got a B grade for me. Let's go
Speaker 1: to if Travis Etn plays. You can start him at
Speaker 1: a C grade level if he's active for this game.
Speaker 1: But again, I'm basing that mostly on me, not trusting
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson to get this thing right. Green Bay is
Speaker 1: a middle of the pack round defense, but volume backs
Speaker 1: tend to do well. The four backs with more than
Speaker 1: twenty two carries against green Bay have had monster games,
Speaker 1: averaging one hundred and twenty five yards and one a
Speaker 1: half touchdown. So if ETN doesn't go, I like Bigsby
Speaker 1: a lot better. All right, let's go to the passing
Speaker 1: game here, or I've got some starters for Jacksonville Lawrence.
Speaker 1: This is an unpopular narrative, but over the last three weeks,
Speaker 1: Lawrence has been good, completing seventy four percent of his
Speaker 1: passes two hundred and sixty six yards per game, two
Speaker 1: to two and one score. Over the last three weeks,
Speaker 1: Packers have improved their pass defense by benching Eric Stokes.
Speaker 1: In the two stokeless games, green Bay has completely shut
Speaker 1: down Kyler Murray and c J. Stroud. Those are two
Speaker 1: pretty good passers better than Trevor Lawrence. So I can
Speaker 1: only get you to a C grade here. Even with
Speaker 1: his improved play, Brian Thomas gets a seed grade. He's
Speaker 1: Thomas has looked great and he's going to be a star.
Speaker 1: I don't love this matchup. He's going to see a
Speaker 1: lot of Jay R Alexander. The past two number one
Speaker 1: receivers to face Green Bay have fared very poorly. Marvin
Speaker 1: Harrison didn't catch a pass, and then last week Stefan
Speaker 1: Diggs and Tank Dell combined for twenty three yards. C
Speaker 1: grade on Brian Thomas. Christian Kirk is always a risky start,
Speaker 1: but I like this matchup enough for a C grade.
Speaker 1: The Packers new slot coverage man is safety Javon Bullard.
Speaker 1: Since the move move to the slot. Bullard has allowed
Speaker 1: eight of nine passes in his coverage to be completed.
Speaker 1: We'll try Christian Kirk at a sea level here. The
Speaker 1: guy I really like seven Ingram. He's finally healthy and
Speaker 1: a massive contributor for the Jaguars offense. In the past
Speaker 1: two weeks, He's been targeted fifteen times. He's caught fifteen passes.
Speaker 1: The Jaguars have allowed a tight end touchdown or over
Speaker 1: fifty yards or both to a tight end in four
Speaker 1: of the last five games. Some kind of optimistic about
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram continuing to play well, big part of this offense.
Speaker 1: When we come back, take a chance on me nine
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Speaker 1: me players, beginning with Scott Fishing. You take a chance
Speaker 1: on me quarterback.
Speaker 3: Yes, But before I give you a player to take
Speaker 3: a chance on, I'm gonna mention Saquon Barkley, who I
Speaker 3: didn't in the last segment, who was an automatic a
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty seven yards a game of Bengals
Speaker 3: defense allowing a rushing touchdown every game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I thought I had just missed him because
Speaker 1: you had said something like super fast, like automatic idea,
Speaker 1: So I just thought I missed it. But now we've
Speaker 1: clarified not that anybody was going to bench him.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so my my take a chance on me, quarterback.
Speaker 3: I'm going with to a tongue of Biloa. In his return,
Speaker 3: he gets a Cardinals defense allowing multiple scores and or
Speaker 3: three hundred yards in five of seven games, leading them
Speaker 3: to be a top five easiest matchup for fantasy passers.
Speaker 3: His first and only full game, he had three hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty eight in a score. I expect a good
Speaker 3: game here from him.
Speaker 1: All right, thorn Eistrom, you'll take a chance I me quarterback.
Speaker 4: I can't believe I'm doing this.
Speaker 6: Boys, I'm gonna advocate for Bonix for the first time
Speaker 6: in my professional career.
Speaker 1: Wait, who's he playing.
Speaker 4: He's playing the Panthers.
Speaker 3: Ah, this makes sense as good.
Speaker 4: A matchup as you can get. Now everybody knows.
Speaker 6: I don't think Bonix is an NFL caliber thrower, but
Speaker 6: the rushing production is making him fantasy relevant. He's either
Speaker 6: a clip sixty yards rushing or ran for a touchdown
Speaker 6: in five games so far this season, and has multiple
Speaker 6: passing touchdowns in two of his last three games. The Panthers,
Speaker 6: of course, have a terrible defense both against the run
Speaker 6: and the pass. Last week, Carolina allowed twenty fantasy points
Speaker 6: to Marcus Mariota. On the season, the Panthers have allowed
Speaker 6: the fourth most fantasy points per game to quarterbacks. The
Speaker 6: one thing I was wondering, will the Panthers score enough
Speaker 6: for the Broncos to do anything on offense? But the
Speaker 6: scrambling a boat next, He's gonna accrue the yards anyway.
Speaker 3: Do you want two fun stats on that?
Speaker 1: No, Well, well it depends if involved in this matchup,
Speaker 1: then Russian does not related. We're gonna talk more.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about later. We'll talk.
Speaker 1: I've got a guy I did not think i'd be
Speaker 1: picking at any point this season as might take a
Speaker 1: chance on me, and that is justin Herbert against the
Speaker 1: Saints normally a very tough start because the low passing
Speaker 1: volume in this Jim Harbaugh offense, Los Angeles rinks twenty
Speaker 1: ninth in pass attempts per game and air Bears average
Speaker 1: game is a depressing one hundred and ninety seven yards
Speaker 1: of one score. But the Saints normally pretty capacity defense
Speaker 1: just all banged up with injuries. Marshall Latimer is going
Speaker 1: to try to play, but he's hurt. Paulson Adabo went
Speaker 1: on injury reserve. Three of the past five opposing passers
Speaker 1: have topped three hundred eleven yards or more against the Saints.
Speaker 1: We'll try Justin Herbert here, by the way, get all
Speaker 1: his receivers back and off. I don't know if they're
Speaker 1: fully off the injury report, but they all came back
Speaker 1: to practice on Friday, so that helps to Let's go
Speaker 1: to the running back position, Scott, who.
Speaker 3: You got, Yeah, I got Buffalo's Ray Davis. He goes
Speaker 3: up against the Seahawks defense allowing five point two yards
Speaker 3: per carry, second, most rushing yards allowed, first, most combo
Speaker 3: yards allowed, and they're allowing over thirty touches per game
Speaker 3: to running backs. After James Cook has done, there's gonna
Speaker 3: be some meat on the bone left for him. And
Speaker 3: he outtouched Ty Johnson last week seven to one. He's
Speaker 3: he's gonna be the guy that gets the extra work.
Speaker 1: You know what's a really objectively terrible barbecue sauce?
Speaker 3: Okay, sweet baby rays, Okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that tag. Yeah, to catch up
Speaker 1: of barbecue sauce. I just wanted to add that on
Speaker 1: to the Ray Davis analysis.
Speaker 4: It's the correct tag.
Speaker 1: I think it was important. Ye okay, all right, Thor
Speaker 1: you're taking chance with me running.
Speaker 6: Back going with a guy that I don't think has
Speaker 6: a barbecue sauce named after him. But I'm gonna go
Speaker 6: with b not yet anyway, maybe after this game Braylen
Speaker 6: Allen against the Patriots.
Speaker 4: Now, Braylan only.
Speaker 6: Had three touches for six yards last week against Pittsburgh,
Speaker 6: and he's played in less than twenty percent of the
Speaker 6: Jets is now the past two weeks, so I would
Speaker 6: understand trepidation here. However, the Steelers have one of the
Speaker 6: best run defenses in the NFL. Well, the Patriots have
Speaker 6: one of the worst. New England also has a funnel defense.
Speaker 6: They're good against the pass, but rancid against the run.
Speaker 6: In Week three against the same Patriots, Allen had eleven
Speaker 6: carries for fifty five yards and three catches for thirteen yards.
Speaker 6: The Patriots have allowed an average of one hundred and
Speaker 6: ninety five yards per week and seven total touchdowns to
Speaker 6: running backs ever since then. The Jets are a touchdown
Speaker 6: favorite in this game. The game script will be advantageous
Speaker 6: for Allen and certainly the matchups as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Todd Downey has largely ignored Braylan Allen to this point,
Speaker 1: so we'll need to have a little reversal here. But
Speaker 1: the game script could bring that up.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, absolutely, I.
Speaker 3: Like using the word rancid. Yeah, and the band. Let's
Speaker 3: get the band back in there too.
Speaker 1: Thory, you're gonna like this choiceyeh. Might take a chance
Speaker 1: to be running back. Come Oni Videll. Yeah. Also against
Speaker 1: the Saint than I gave you justin Herbert and I
Speaker 1: don't know that Herbert and Videll. Videll can both have
Speaker 1: big games. So man, I don't know what was his
Speaker 1: first play? I play it was a thirty eight yards.
Speaker 1: The Saints so bad against the run that backup runners
Speaker 1: are having good games and this one could be lopsided,
Speaker 1: with Videll getting a lot of fourth quarter work against
Speaker 1: the Saints. Last week against New Orleans, Denver's backup running
Speaker 1: backs total sixty four yards. The week before that, both
Speaker 1: Sean Tucker and Bucky Irving topped one hundred total yards
Speaker 1: and scored. Both of them Tyler Ljeer had a seventy
Speaker 1: four total yard game against the Saints, So come on,
Speaker 1: e Videll, why not let's give him a try. We've
Speaker 1: been talking about him for six months.
Speaker 4: Yeah, from your lips to God's ears, sir, let's hope,
Speaker 4: so at.
Speaker 1: Least your ears, Scott. Let's go to your take a
Speaker 1: chance with the receiver.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna get a little deeper here on a
Speaker 3: passing offense you wouldn't expect. I'm going with Alec Pierce
Speaker 3: against Houston. They allow the ninth most fantasy points to
Speaker 3: the perimeter. They also allowed the highest average depth of
Speaker 3: target to receivers. Alec Pierce, as you know, leads the
Speaker 3: NFL and a dot average upth of targets and yards
Speaker 3: per recap. Indianapolis throws at the throws the highest average
Speaker 3: up of target, as does Anthony Richardson, and they've allowed
Speaker 3: five plays of over forty yards. Two of those were
Speaker 3: actually Alec Pierce. So I like him this week.
Speaker 1: I had that huge week one, right, Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: let's go to your take a chance with the receiver.
Speaker 6: So I'm gonna go with Jalen McMillan against the Falcons.
Speaker 6: Mike Evans is out multiple weeks course, and Chris Godwin
Speaker 6: on IR, so McMillan probably becomes the wide receiver one
Speaker 6: here and it's in the position he's most comfortable. I
Speaker 6: believe he will take over the slot role. He has
Speaker 6: been miscast as an outside receiver. You move him into this.
Speaker 6: I talked about this all spring. He is a natural
Speaker 6: slot and I think he steps into Godwin's target heavy
Speaker 6: slot role. McMillan got targeted eight times last week when
Speaker 6: those guys went down, he only had three catches for
Speaker 6: fifteen yards. But the Bucks tip their hand that he
Speaker 6: will be heavily used going forward, and this is an
Speaker 6: incredible matchup. The Falcons have been absolutely lit up by
Speaker 6: slot receivers.
Speaker 4: All season long. I think it happened once more.
Speaker 1: You and I are gonna go ahead to head on this.
Speaker 1: Later we'll find out wid wide receiver and I'm I'm
Speaker 1: so stoked about this possibility. Cedric Tillman's the Ravens.
Speaker 3: Yes. Uh.
Speaker 1: He appears to be the primary beneficiary of Amari Cooper's trade.
Speaker 1: He's running Cooper's routes. Last week he immediately garnered sixty
Speaker 1: nine snaps. He ran eighty two percent of the routes,
Speaker 1: and he saw eleven targets in his first game as
Speaker 1: the starter, and with Winston at the helmet, it's going
Speaker 1: to be bombs away for his physical receiver Cedric Tillman,
Speaker 1: who can battle for deep contested catches in heavy coverage.
Speaker 1: Because Whenson doesn't care if there's heavy coverage, he'll throw
Speaker 1: into it anyway.
Speaker 3: Not exactly a burner, but six three, two fifteen, he'll
Speaker 3: he'll go up and get.
Speaker 1: Something exactly great.
Speaker 4: Boss goes on.
Speaker 1: Now, the Ravens have cornerback Marlin Humphrey ruled out and
Speaker 1: three other cornerbacks are listed as questionable in this game.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited for this. I like this Oneed Tilden
Speaker 1: has going to take a chance with me. Guy receiver,
Speaker 1: Guy receiver, Guy receiver, guy receiver, Scott Indianapolis Colts taking
Speaker 1: on the Houston Texans. You just told us about Alec
Speaker 1: Pearce go to the quarterback position. Anthony Richardson has struggled
Speaker 1: significant He has a passer, but he's not chipping in
Speaker 1: running help either. What do you think this week against Houston?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, so he had two hundred and twelve and
Speaker 3: two scores in Week one against the Texans, and they've
Speaker 3: allowed a nine completed pass I know, and they've allowed
Speaker 3: multiple scores in five of seven games. Texans have also
Speaker 3: been hit on the ground by running quarterbacks Caleb Williams
Speaker 3: at forty four yards, Josh Allen fifty four May thirty eight.
Speaker 3: Richardson had fifty six and a score in Week one.
Speaker 3: I think there's room here for him to get to
Speaker 3: his Z grade, even though the passing side of it
Speaker 3: has not been good. Also, in his first two full games,
Speaker 3: he only had five designed runs. In his last two
Speaker 3: he's had sixteen. They're starting to actually go back to
Speaker 3: using the way they should, agreed. I already mentioned Alec Pierce.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go to Josh Downs, who I have on
Speaker 3: the bench. He has not reached six Fantasy points in
Speaker 3: a game with Anthony Richardson playing in full three for
Speaker 3: twenty two.
Speaker 1: Is his best this year or is that included last year?
Speaker 3: Includes last year?
Speaker 1: Did he put that into context? Six Fantasy points? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's he catches for thirty yards. He getting there.
Speaker 3: He disappears with Anthony Richardson and Alec Pearce comes up.
Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor. Yeah, over to the running game. Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 3: on a per game basis, no running back sees more
Speaker 3: inside the five work than Jonathan Taylor. Of course he's third,
Speaker 3: but he did miss three games, so per game basis
Speaker 3: is what I'm going with here. It's not an easy
Speaker 3: spot as the Texans wearing top ten in yards per carry,
Speaker 3: rushing yards, scores, receiving yards, receiving scores, back but basically everything.
Speaker 3: But when Taylor is healthy, and he is now he
Speaker 3: averages nearly twenty touches for over one hundred yards, I'm
Speaker 3: still gonna give him the B in a tough matchup.
Speaker 3: Michael Pittman, I skipped over for a second, but he
Speaker 3: he's off the injury report completely. But I think it's
Speaker 3: kind of a workload thing that they're not having a
Speaker 3: practice as much since coming back after hurting his back.
Speaker 3: He didn't go on IR, but he was three for
Speaker 3: thirty five and one three for sixty three in the
Speaker 3: other without a score, only five targets in each game.
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be a little bit better here
Speaker 3: for him. I have a C grade on him because
Speaker 3: he's just not quite getting the volume since he's hurt
Speaker 3: his back. I could see him having a B day
Speaker 3: though over to the Houston side just.
Speaker 1: Seems to wither and die with Richardson. I like him, he.
Speaker 3: Does, but you're still getting five six, you're getting sixty yards,
Speaker 3: you're getting touchdown looks. It's really tough to not start
Speaker 3: Michael Pittman over to the Houston side.
Speaker 5: C J.
Speaker 3: Stroud, I have an A grade on Last week was
Speaker 3: definitely rough, but he had three hundred plus yards and
Speaker 3: or multiple scores in three straight before that Packers game.
Speaker 3: The Colts rank eighth easiest for fantasy quarterbacks, and that
Speaker 3: rank would be even worse if it wasn't for three
Speaker 3: games of Malik Willis, will Levis and the Miami duo.
Speaker 3: Last week would probably be a bunch worse than even eight.
Speaker 3: Stefan Diggs gets the B grade. He's scored on four
Speaker 3: of his five touches inside the five. He has five
Speaker 3: plus catches in all but one game, so that's a
Speaker 3: really nice PPR floor. And five different wide receivers have
Speaker 3: scored against the Indianapolis Colts. Two more had one hundred
Speaker 3: plus games against the Colts, so that's seven different receivers
Speaker 3: with very good games. Digs should get his here. A
Speaker 3: C grade for Tank Dell last week. I know he
Speaker 3: put up the goose egg, but he was still second
Speaker 3: in targets, still saw a couple of red zone looks.
Speaker 3: He just didn't He just didn't get the catches. But
Speaker 3: the volume is there. On the running game. Joe Mixon
Speaker 3: Colts are fifth worst in miss tackles week two. He
Speaker 3: got hurt on the first drive of the second half,
Speaker 3: but he's had fifty yards at that point, so if
Speaker 3: you count that, if you double that, that's one hundred.
Speaker 3: Joe Mixon's other three fall games, his worst game is
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty four yards and he's scored in
Speaker 3: all four three of them.
Speaker 1: I think he's my number one or number two running Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have an a grade on him for sure. For sure.
Speaker 1: Thor if we wanted to sneak in Jets Patriots, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we could do that, like three minutes.
Speaker 4: I could certainly try. I mean there's not a lot
Speaker 4: to talk about, Yeah, mostly.
Speaker 1: In Jets Patriots, and you've already hit on at least
Speaker 1: one take a chance on me play for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so certing with the Jets.
Speaker 6: Aaron Rodgers give him a be only quarterback twenty one
Speaker 6: and fantasy points per game, right, now, but it should
Speaker 6: be in for a big game here week three against
Speaker 6: the same Patriots, Rodgers scored a season I twenty five
Speaker 6: Fantasy points this time around. Of course, he has a
Speaker 6: buddy Deavonte Adams running out there, and the only question
Speaker 6: will the Pats score enough to keep the Jets throwing?
Speaker 6: But I give Rodgers to saw Be Brees solid course
Speaker 6: is a must start. A Braylen Allen was my take
Speaker 6: a chance on me. I gave both DeVante Adams and
Speaker 6: Garrett Wilson bees in this We'll start with Adams ran
Speaker 6: ninety percent of routes in his first game as a Jet.
Speaker 6: He had a twenty three percent first read share. The
Speaker 6: Patriots have allowed the tenth highest PPR point points per
Speaker 6: target and thirteen more thirteenth most receiving ars per game
Speaker 6: to perimeter wide receivers. As for Garrett Wilson twenty seven
Speaker 6: percent first read share in his first game with Davonte
Speaker 6: Adams last week. Wilson got shadowed by Christian Gonzalez in
Speaker 6: Week three. But the point I want to make is
Speaker 6: that will almost assuredly not happen this time, at least
Speaker 6: for Garrett Wilson and Gonzalz probably stays on the same side.
Speaker 1: So I'm a believer that Garrett Wilson death gets helped
Speaker 1: by DeVante Adams for sure.
Speaker 6: I totally agree with that. Yeah, Rising tide lifts all boats.
Speaker 6: You got it, Blizzard and Gronklin, We're keeping them on
Speaker 6: the bench. We are also benchally got Drake May. Drake May.
Speaker 6: He had the two good Fantasy games, but this is
Speaker 6: a very, very tough matchup, especially with the Jets getting
Speaker 6: Hassan Reddick back, So keeping May on the bench.
Speaker 4: Ramandra Stevenson, I'm gonna give him a see. He gigged
Speaker 4: a great matchup last week against Jacksonville.
Speaker 6: Only seven carries for eighteen yards, two catches for seven yards,
Speaker 6: played only half the snaps that they took offensively. The
Speaker 6: Jets have a middle of the road run defense, but
Speaker 6: Stevenson did struggle against it last time. Six carries for
Speaker 6: twenty three yards end of fumble versus the Jets in
Speaker 6: Week three, but I had to give him a seat.
Speaker 6: I'm also given a seat to Pop Douglas returns from
Speaker 6: illness this week. The passing environment has improved for the Patriots,
Speaker 6: of course, but this is a bad matchup, even versus
Speaker 6: the Jets defense working through injuries in their secondary. Jets
Speaker 6: allow the seventh fewest Fantasy points to opposing wide receivers.
Speaker 6: You keep Boute and Polk on the bench. Hunter Henry
Speaker 6: last One gave him a bee. He has two consecutive
Speaker 6: top eight Fantasy tight end showings. He has been Drake
Speaker 6: May's favorite target. I expect that to continue, and the
Speaker 6: Jets defense has struggled against tight ends.
Speaker 4: In recent weeks.
Speaker 1: Patriots, I believe, have six injured offensive linemen. Who is
Speaker 1: just killing everybody to play. Is so bad.
Speaker 6: Pas On Reddick saw that and magically yeah magic back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, funny how that works.
Speaker 1: That's that's a real limiting factor on this Patriots offense
Speaker 1: and it causes a lot of hesitation.
Speaker 3: Got to believe.
Speaker 1: I'm still believing that, like romad Receievens is a good play.
Speaker 4: Just definitely and maybe their best on offense at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, it's just nobody can be successful
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Speaker 1: at Paul Jarchie, and Scott is at Scott Fish twenty
Speaker 1: four and Thor is thor Ku. You love it. You smile,
Speaker 1: big smile every single time Ravens take on the Browns.
Speaker 1: The highest scoring player in fantasy football is Lamar. The
Speaker 1: second highest player scoring player in fantasy football is Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1: And they're on the same team. Unbelievable. And they're both
Speaker 1: automatic a's. I'm not even gonna get into descriptions about
Speaker 1: why they remain a's. You're gonna start them anyway, and
Speaker 1: they're good starts here. How about Jake Flowers?
Speaker 3: Which can I mention something that Derrick Henry and I
Speaker 3: wish I could get this at exactly correct, but I
Speaker 3: saw the top three running backs in the last like
Speaker 3: four years or whatever. Is Derrick Henry? Then Nick Chubb,
Speaker 3: then Derrick Henry's yards after contact.
Speaker 1: Shut up. That's amazing, that's amazing.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 1: Zay Flowers super hit and miss, but he generally fares
Speaker 1: better when Derrick Henry isn't dominating. But unfortunately that's not
Speaker 1: very often. The Browns run defense is good enough that
Speaker 1: Henry shouldn't completely run away with the game. Flowers was
Speaker 1: a huge dub last week, but over the prior two
Speaker 1: weeks he had garnered twenty one target, sixteen receptions two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty three yards. I've got a C grade
Speaker 1: on Zay Flowers in this matchup Mark Andrews so frustrating.
Speaker 1: You know what's gonna happen. As soon as you pivot
Speaker 1: back to Mark Andrews, He's gonna dud and dud hard.
Speaker 4: We call it the Kyle Pitts corollary.
Speaker 1: Oh, I like it. That's exactly right. But he's posted
Speaker 1: three straight good starts, including last week's two touchdown game.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Still super dangerous because he's only
Speaker 1: running fourteen routes per game over the last month, and
Speaker 1: the Browns are very good tight end defense. They shut
Speaker 1: down brock Bauers, Jake Ferguson zach Ertz. Only one tight
Speaker 1: end has scored against Cleveland. I've got a bench grade
Speaker 1: on Mark Andrews's go over over to the brown side.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with Nick Chubb. Great to see him
Speaker 1: get so much use in his first game back last week,
Speaker 1: But this gets thorny a few different ways. First, Dromford
Speaker 1: has been ruled out, so he's not really a factor
Speaker 1: in this, so let me just mention that he's out
Speaker 1: of the picture here. But the Ravens are a fantastic
Speaker 1: run defense. Baltimore ranks number one in rushing yards allowed,
Speaker 1: just fifty two per game. No back has top forty
Speaker 1: six yards against the Ravens. They are getting beat up
Speaker 1: through the air like for on Monday Night. But that's
Speaker 1: not Nick Chubb's game. So I've just got the C
Speaker 1: grade on Nick Chubb. That's all I can do. Cedric
Speaker 1: Tillman was might take a chance at me. Wide receiver
Speaker 1: Jerry Juday originally had on the bench, but with Marlon
Speaker 1: Humphrey out in three other cornerbacks questionable, I've moved him
Speaker 1: up to a C grade. He saw season highs and
Speaker 1: snap counts last week. With Amari Cooper out, so like,
Speaker 1: if you're looking for like a mundane like five catches
Speaker 1: for fifty yards, Jerry Duty could be your guy. David
Speaker 1: and Joku comes in with a C grade. Unclear if
Speaker 1: Jameis Winston will favor in Djoku, but and Joku's had
Speaker 1: twenty one targets the past two weeks, so you know
Speaker 1: he remains a strong play. The Ravens are getting destroyed
Speaker 1: by tight ends, including the one hundred yarder by Kate
Speaker 1: Atten last week and Baltimore allowing the second most tight
Speaker 1: end yards for a game. In fact, I'm moving in
Speaker 1: Joco up to a B. Yeah, Jameis Winston unless he's changed,
Speaker 1: he's the ultimate yolo quarterback. We saw him two years
Speaker 1: ago in three starts for the Saints before they yanked him,
Speaker 1: he averaged twelve passing yards per attempt. To give you
Speaker 1: an idea what that is. Only Anthony Richardson is averaging
Speaker 1: twelve yards per attempt this season. Gunslinger gunslinger and does
Speaker 1: not matter if guys are covered or not. He'll throw
Speaker 1: into triple coverage.
Speaker 4: Doesn't care.
Speaker 1: For the past five opposing quarterbacks to face the face,
Speaker 1: the Ravens have thrown multiple touchdowns against them this is
Speaker 1: a bad pass defense, allowing the most passing yards three
Speaker 1: hundred and eight per game. We haven't seen Winston in
Speaker 1: two years, but you know, knocks the rust off here.
Speaker 1: I think he's a really really interesting start, and I've
Speaker 1: got a C grade on him here. You could convince
Speaker 1: me to make him a B grade. Probably should have
Speaker 1: made him take a chance at me quarterback.
Speaker 6: One of my favorite quotes is your own Ford telling
Speaker 6: reporters that Jamis Winston calls plays in the huddle like
Speaker 6: he has a surprise to tell Yes.
Speaker 1: I love that, Yeah, I love that. That's great. Let's
Speaker 1: go to our next matchup, Scott, it's the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: taking the Miami doll Hang him the Dolphins. Yeah, Miami
Speaker 1: defense is tricky. Good tell me it. Well they might paper, Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: they played a lot of bad teams. What do you
Speaker 1: think about the Cardinals?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was going to be part of my point.
Speaker 3: They ranked best against fantasy quarterbacks, no multi score games,
Speaker 3: only one passer over one hundred and sixty yards. They
Speaker 3: haven't allowed a QB to score in over a month.
Speaker 3: They did just give up fifty six yards on the
Speaker 3: ground of Richardson, which might be helpful for Kyler Murray. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I do have a small caveat on their high ranks.
Speaker 3: Though they've only scored six touchdowns the Dolphins have in total,
Speaker 3: They've scored seventy points in six weeks. That's nineteen fewer
Speaker 3: than any other team. They played, the Jags, Pat the Pats,
Speaker 3: the Titans, a bunch bunch of really low win teams.
Speaker 3: They've been held to twelve points, are fewer in all
Speaker 3: the non tour games. Teams don't have to score on them,
Speaker 3: they don't have to pass on them at all.
Speaker 1: That's part of it game.
Speaker 3: So between bad teams and not having to score on
Speaker 3: the Dolphins, maybe their defense isn't that good, but the
Speaker 3: numbers are good right now. So I have a C
Speaker 3: grade on Kyler Murray. I think he can get out
Speaker 3: over that. I'm not even going to go one of
Speaker 3: the call of duty stuff.
Speaker 1: No, what about Marvin Harrison, which has become extremely thorny.
Speaker 3: He's had like two good quarters all year exactly. I
Speaker 3: have a C grade on him. I actually had a
Speaker 3: bench grade on him most of the week, and I've decided,
Speaker 3: you know, and I just got to throw a C
Speaker 3: grade on him. He's getting six plus targets in most games,
Speaker 3: all but one game. Miami does a lot of the
Speaker 3: fewest Fantasy points wide receiver and all that. Mike Clay
Speaker 3: of ESPN thinks that Ramsey may shadow him as he's
Speaker 3: shadowed the last two weeks. HiT's a tough matchup. Only
Speaker 3: DK Metcalf got past sixty three yards and that was
Speaker 3: due to that seventy one yard score. But Marvin Harrison
Speaker 3: forty five percent of his targets have been uncatchable. He's
Speaker 3: shown a little frustration out there. Maybe there's a little
Speaker 3: squeaky wheel and it's got to be the only He's
Speaker 3: just about all they can throw to outside of McBride
Speaker 3: and Connor. Trey McBride, I do have an A grade here.
Speaker 3: Third toughest matchup for tight ends, but Trey has been
Speaker 3: fairly consistent and the Dolphins have faced basically no tight ends.
Speaker 3: Kincaid fans like Barner Fair, Mallory Granson like just nothing.
Speaker 3: So we really don't know how great they're against tight ends.
Speaker 3: McBride himself averaging five for fifty over seven targets a game,
Speaker 3: twenty five percent target share. Yeah, I got an a
Speaker 3: grade there. James Connor is going to get an A grade.
Speaker 3: He has forty missed tackles on the season. Wow, that's
Speaker 3: fifteen last week, eleven more than anybody else, which is God.
Speaker 1: Blessed Jane Connor. Connor for extending his career like this
Speaker 1: and still being a viable good running back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, averaging eighteen for eighty two is basically a coin
Speaker 3: flip to score each week. Over one hundred total yards
Speaker 3: and three the last four and Dolphins allow and a
Speaker 3: whopping four point seven six yards per carry. I got
Speaker 3: an A grade there. I think he can get it
Speaker 3: done as well. Over on the Miami side, Tua was
Speaker 3: my take a chance on me player. Tyreek Hill and
Speaker 3: Jalen Waddle I have B grades on him both. I
Speaker 3: could give an A to Tyreek, but he's got this
Speaker 3: foot issue that I'm worried. How much is he gonna play?
Speaker 3: Will will he come out at times? He's the kind
Speaker 3: of guy that likes to be a gamer, but he
Speaker 3: will come to the sideline.
Speaker 1: So I am more skeptical on Tyreek just automatically being
Speaker 1: the version we saw last year. The most people are
Speaker 1: and it's frustrated that even with two out they couldn't
Speaker 1: find ways to get the ball right, Yreek Hill right.
Speaker 3: I will note part of that B ranking for both
Speaker 3: of them is Arizona ranks bottom ten in yards receptions
Speaker 3: and scores allowed to wide receivers. Hill and Waddle both
Speaker 3: went over one hundred yards and Hill scored in that
Speaker 3: first two A game. And Arizona allows the fourth most
Speaker 3: Fantasy points to the slot where Hill goes about thirty
Speaker 3: five to forty percent of the time, and they do
Speaker 3: have favorable matchups. Hill's gonna get Max Melton, who allows
Speaker 3: eighty three percent of passes to complete it in his coverage.
Speaker 3: They have three cornerbacks with neck with injuries right now
Speaker 3: who are questioned about coming in, and Waddle's going up
Speaker 3: against Darling Thomas who's allowing one hundred and twenty nine
Speaker 3: passerra in his coverage one hundred and twenty three last year.
Speaker 3: So they have some good matchups, so B grades on
Speaker 3: both of them. And in the run game, I have
Speaker 3: Devon ah Chan. Devon a Chan with an A grade
Speaker 3: averages twenty six point eight PPR points when he gets
Speaker 3: ten plus carries and a healthy TUA. I saw that
Speaker 3: stat this week. I wish I could remember exactly where
Speaker 3: I saw it, but he has more than five times
Speaker 3: the targets and averages just under four catches per game
Speaker 3: compared to most It, so I'm giving him the A grade. Also,
Speaker 3: he's got almost all the inside the five looks. Mostard
Speaker 3: only has one.
Speaker 1: So which is bizarre what happened last year.
Speaker 3: I'm still giving most of the Sea because this is
Speaker 3: a team that just like might take a chance on
Speaker 3: me runner, a team that allows thirty running back touches
Speaker 3: a week. Montgomery and Gibbs both were able to make
Speaker 3: it work. Jacobs and Emmanuel Wilson were able to make
Speaker 3: it work. Both be viable. So a C grade on most.
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. And a Chan's not a
Speaker 1: workhorse back. I don't know how many different ways they
Speaker 1: can prove it. Yep, Thor. Let's sneak in one more matchup,
Speaker 1: Carolina taking on Denver should not take very long. Got
Speaker 1: about four minutes here. Let's start on the Carolina side
Speaker 1: where they're back to Bryce.
Speaker 5: Hey.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and of course you're keeping them on the bench.
Speaker 6: I don't think I have enough to go into that,
Speaker 6: especially in this matchup.
Speaker 1: Yontae Johnson out, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Cuba Hubbard, we're gonna give him a c RB sixteen
Speaker 6: and fantasy points per game. He needed a touchdown against
Speaker 6: the Commanders to salvage fantasy value last week.
Speaker 4: This is a bad.
Speaker 6: Matchup versus a very good defense. The Broncos allowed the
Speaker 6: tenth fewest rushing yards per game. You mentioned Deontay Johnson
Speaker 6: being out, which means that Xavier Lagette, Jalen Coker, and
Speaker 6: Jonathan Mingo are your receiving corps this week. Of course,
Speaker 6: Adam Thielan is also out from before last week against
Speaker 6: the Commanders of the Non Johnson wide receivers, Lagett led
Speaker 6: the team with thirty well let the non Johnson receivers
Speaker 6: with thirty six snaps. Cocher was second at twenty two.
Speaker 6: Even though Jonathan Mingo started, he had only eleven snaps
Speaker 6: in that game. Through four games and one hundred and
Speaker 6: four snaps, Coker has the highest PFF grade of Panthers
Speaker 6: wide receivers of all of them, including Deontay Johnson.
Speaker 1: Howre you calling a breakout game for Coke right here?
Speaker 6: He's the one that I would sniff around because Patrick
Speaker 6: Surtan is likely to erase Xavier Lagette from this game.
Speaker 4: And here's the other thing.
Speaker 6: Coker has played seventy three and a half percent of
Speaker 6: his snaps in the slot so far. The Broncos pass
Speaker 6: defense is awesome, of course, but Denver is one of
Speaker 6: eleven NFL teams who have allowed forty five percent or
Speaker 6: more of the fantasy point points per game to opposing
Speaker 6: receivers to come to the slots as opposed to the boundary.
Speaker 6: That's how you attack them. Jalen Cocher deployed out of
Speaker 6: the slot. I think he's gonna get some targets in this.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna give Coker a see and I'm gonna say
Speaker 6: keep Loaguett on the bench because of that, Bonix might
Speaker 6: take a chance on me.
Speaker 3: Quarterback.
Speaker 6: I'm giving Javonte Williams an a at least thirteen carries
Speaker 6: for at least sixty yards and three of the past
Speaker 6: four games one hundred and eleven total yards and two
Speaker 6: touchdowns last Thursday against the Saints.
Speaker 4: This is a tremendous matchup.
Speaker 6: To keep the momentum going, the Panthers are allowing the
Speaker 6: most fantasy points to opposing running backs Courtland Sutton. The
Speaker 6: afore mentioned Cortland Sutton, I'm gonna give him a sea
Speaker 6: was blanked in the box score last week it was
Speaker 6: even worse than that at zero first read targets. Wow,
Speaker 6: first read looks, I'm sorry, and zero targets. Bonus didn't
Speaker 6: even look at him, and that's despite a seventy percent
Speaker 6: route share.
Speaker 1: Why it was.
Speaker 6: Crazy, but this should be a bounce back spot. Carolina
Speaker 6: has allowed the most PBR points per target and the
Speaker 6: fourth most yards per game to perimitter wide receivers both
Speaker 6: throw Courtland the ball, So we're gonna get We're gonna
Speaker 6: give him a seat.
Speaker 4: Troy Franklin, I'm gonna keep him on the bench.
Speaker 6: Last week he had the five catchup for fifty yards
Speaker 6: twenty three percent target share. He is a flex option
Speaker 6: in deeper leagues, but in standard leagues I would advise
Speaker 6: keep him on the bench. This Panthers defense has given
Speaker 6: up over thirty four points per game. How much does
Speaker 6: Bonix air this thing out. We'll have to see on that,
Speaker 6: but only in deeper leagues.
Speaker 4: When I start Franklin as a.
Speaker 1: Flex, Yeah, we're gonna watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how did you let me get through Miami without
Speaker 3: mentioning Johnasmith?
Speaker 1: Well, I thought he just wasn't relevant.
Speaker 5: Enough for you.
Speaker 3: I did have him on the Backshie cards have only
Speaker 3: allowed two ten ends over thirty six yards, just one score,
Speaker 3: and we only had one catch in the full two
Speaker 3: a game earlier this year.
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Speaker 3: We do.
Speaker 1: We only hope for good things for.
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Speaker 5: And oh tough question number one rest of season?
Speaker 1: Will new Chiefs receiver DeAndre Hopkins finished most often in
Speaker 1: fantasy scoring? Is a wide receiver, one wide receiver, two
Speaker 1: flex or bench. We begin with Scott Fish.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, this this one was a little bit tough
Speaker 3: for me. I could. I don't see it being much
Speaker 3: higher than flex, if at all, it might be bench.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with flex, though he'll be flex worthy
Speaker 3: of he'll finish his flexworthy a few times. His hands
Speaker 3: are still there. He has twenty one targets, sixteen of
Speaker 3: which were catchable, and he caught fifteen of the sixteen
Speaker 3: catchable balls, so his hands are still there. His yards
Speaker 3: per route run still fairly decent, especially given the team.
Speaker 3: I will say worthy is there. They tried the worthy
Speaker 3: in the last couple of weeks. Didn't seem to work out.
Speaker 3: Juju's coming back. No Gray has stepped up. There's and
Speaker 3: when if we ever truly trusted wide receivers from Kansas City.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's going to enter what Ray Rice
Speaker 3: was doing. But I think he's gonna end multiple weeks
Speaker 3: with some good PPR scores.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I'm not the only one that is called
Speaker 1: Rashid Rice Race.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I was gonna say, you don't want to replicate him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've done it. I know, I don't know why. Uh, Well,
Speaker 1: the last name Rice, I mean there is that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Rest of season.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 1: New Chiefs wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins most often finished in
Speaker 1: fantasy scoring as a wide receiver one, wide receiver two,
Speaker 1: flex or bench.
Speaker 6: Jerry Rice, by the way, has a great cameo in
Speaker 6: the Uber Eats commercial.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's tremendous.
Speaker 6: I just had to say I feel like a SAPP
Speaker 6: for I thought about this question too long, and I'm
Speaker 6: just gonna say in advance, I feel like a sapp
Speaker 6: But I'm.
Speaker 4: Gonna say wide receiver two. Oh okay to say wide receiver.
Speaker 6: Two, and this I might be getting manipulated by Andy Reid,
Speaker 6: so I will also say that as a caveat. But
Speaker 6: Andy Reid did say that Hopkins is going to be
Speaker 6: used in the quasi Rashi Rice role with some added
Speaker 6: looks that MVS used to get downfield. You look at
Speaker 6: what Rice would do in the first three games twenty
Speaker 6: nine targets and those so almost ten per game only
Speaker 6: a five point two a dot mvs. You look at
Speaker 6: his two seasons with Kansas City, he had a dots
Speaker 6: of fifteen, a little over fifteen, and then almost eighteen.
Speaker 4: Yards per target.
Speaker 6: So if Hopkins indeed get some of those balls chucked
Speaker 6: up to him and he I mean, the ball scales
Speaker 6: on Hopkins have always been insane, and they're also manufacturing
Speaker 6: touches for him closer to the line, he might be washed.
Speaker 6: But just from the volume, if Andy Reid is telling
Speaker 6: the truth, I think he's going to be super fantasy
Speaker 6: relevant going forward.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, just yes or no for both of you.
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3: Yes, wide receivers, so tough for Twell of Fame. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go not yet, We'll see. It's such a tough
Speaker 3: position to get. He could keep playing, right, it's such
Speaker 3: a tough position.
Speaker 1: Right now where he ranks. There are a couple of
Speaker 1: receivers that have better stats than him that aren't in.
Speaker 1: Irving Fryar shockingly, Henry Ellard not in.
Speaker 3: I mean, just look at how long it took Tim
Speaker 3: Brown to get in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, long time they didn't have to play with will Levis, though,
Speaker 4: to be.
Speaker 1: Fair, I know there is not every year. This is
Speaker 1: what will Levis has done to him. Hopkins averaging two
Speaker 1: catches for twenty eight yards in Tennessee per game. That's it.
Speaker 1: He's wide receiver seventy five. Now we don't know is
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins cooked or is he just the victim of
Speaker 1: terrible quarterbacking or both. We don't know. That's we'll find
Speaker 1: out now. Right now, it's year twelve. I don't see
Speaker 1: Hopkins turning into a target magnet here. He has not
Speaker 1: averaged more than four and a half receptions per game
Speaker 1: in four years, so the volume's probably going to stay
Speaker 1: pretty low now. He should be able, and Thorn made
Speaker 1: this point. I totally agree. He's got that big frame.
Speaker 1: He can box out defenders, he can bring down contested catches,
Speaker 1: he can. I think he turns into a touchdown dependent
Speaker 1: wide receiver that you can play in the right matchups
Speaker 1: as a flex option, but only as a flex option
Speaker 1: and as a touchdown dependent receiver. Correct answer flex.
Speaker 5: Tough question number two.
Speaker 1: Has Russell Wilson unlocked the Steelers offense?
Speaker 4: Or no?
Speaker 6: Bring back our King justin Fields, But no, I am
Speaker 6: going to say no. I obviously appreciate what he did
Speaker 6: after the slow start against the Jets in that blowout win,
Speaker 6: but only completed fifty five point two percent of his passes,
Speaker 6: and there could have been some some advantageous running after
Speaker 6: the catch there as well.
Speaker 4: To have the stats, I'm gonna say, no, Okay.
Speaker 1: Scott is has Russell Wilson. I've lost My question. Is
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson unlocked the Steelers offense?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he kind of took some of my points with
Speaker 3: the fifty five percent completion and the yards after the
Speaker 3: catch I had fifty five. You actually went to the
Speaker 3: decimal point. You knew it better than I did. Just
Speaker 3: the week before they beat the Raiders thirty two to thirteen,
Speaker 3: and this week was thirty seven. Like it's they were
Speaker 3: very similar. Fields was a top twelve fantasy quarterback three
Speaker 3: times that I don't think he unlocked it, but in
Speaker 3: a one game sample size that looked good. And it
Speaker 3: looks like they finally unlocked George Pickens to a degree.
Speaker 3: So if that connection can keep going, maybe, but I
Speaker 3: wouldn't say he's full on unlocked it yet.
Speaker 1: So I know it's a no. Yes, First, Russell Wilson's
Speaker 1: arm looks noticeably weaker and slower than the previous versions
Speaker 1: of that Russell Wilson arm, and I didn't like that.
Speaker 1: George Pickens had to be a freaking superhero to bring
Speaker 1: down all those contested catches. But the new the numbers
Speaker 1: are indisputable. His tight ends combined for eighty seven yards.
Speaker 1: George Pickens and Van Jefferson posted season best numbers. Man,
Speaker 1: When you can ring out fantasy points out of Van Jefferson,
Speaker 1: you're doing something right now. Granted that was against a
Speaker 1: Jets secondary that was missing four starter, so maybe that
Speaker 1: was part of it. Now this week he's got the Giants.
Speaker 1: This is a much better, shockingly better defense pass efense,
Speaker 1: and they're getting in tons of pressure on opposing quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: So this is the real test for Russell Wilson. But
Speaker 1: for the moment, we're gonna say no.
Speaker 5: Tough question number three, This is a.
Speaker 3: Question I did not think i'd be asking.
Speaker 1: Is bow Knicks a top twelve fantasy quarterback for the
Speaker 1: rest of the season. So basically, I'm saying, is he
Speaker 1: an every week's starter the rest of the way? Bow Nicks?
Speaker 1: We begin with Scott fish.
Speaker 3: Now, can I bring up those two stats that I
Speaker 3: wanted to cover live? First of all, answer your question
Speaker 3: with a probably not unless you're going to depend a
Speaker 3: ton on his running. He averages one hundred and seventy
Speaker 3: eight passing yards a game. His rushing has kind of
Speaker 3: been all over the map to He's got a bunch
Speaker 3: of low rushing yard edge days that were saved by
Speaker 3: touchdowns supplemented with a score he is. Here comes the
Speaker 3: two stats. He is second in the league and designed runs,
Speaker 3: behind only Jaydon Daniels, and he is second all time
Speaker 3: in rushing yards in his first seven games for a quarterback,
Speaker 3: behind only Cam Newton. Newton, however, top forty five yards
Speaker 3: rushing nine times in his rookie season and was quite
Speaker 3: consistently rushing for decent amounts. This seems all over the
Speaker 3: map so far this year. We'll see if this trend
Speaker 3: continues and he you know, keeps rushing more and more
Speaker 3: and keeps scoring. But I'm gonna go with no. Top
Speaker 3: twelve is a really high benchmark.
Speaker 1: That is a high benchmark. But he's that's about worry.
Speaker 1: I know your love of bo Dicks, Well, just well,
Speaker 1: now we fight.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Four is bow knicks a top twelve fantasy quarterback for
Speaker 1: the rest of the year. We know you like him
Speaker 1: this week against the Panthers. I don't care about that
Speaker 1: rest of the year.
Speaker 6: I don't want to live in a world where Boneck
Speaker 6: is a top to fantasy quarterback.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say no.
Speaker 6: You know you think of like a standard league, would
Speaker 6: he be startable every week? I do think he's an
Speaker 6: I forgot I'd say this streamable based on Advantage's matchups.
Speaker 6: But no, not not top twelve rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, quarterback thirteen right now. Despite averaging less than one
Speaker 1: touchdown pass per game, fourth and rushing yards Scott mentioned
Speaker 1: second in designed runs, passing is getting better and here's why.
Speaker 1: In the first month of games, Bonis average was averaging
Speaker 1: four and a half yards per pass. That's it couldn't
Speaker 1: get anything done on that. But over the past three
Speaker 1: weeks that he's improved it by fifty percent. He's up
Speaker 1: to six point eight yards. That puts him into like
Speaker 1: legitimate NFL passing territory when you're about seven yards per pass,
Speaker 1: So you know he's up there with Kyler Murray and
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert. So there's glimmers of hope emerging with Troy
Speaker 1: Franklin Devon Vley. But the reality is rushing quarterbacks get
Speaker 1: it done in fantasy football. Lonix is going to be
Speaker 1: a top twelve quarterback the rest of the work.
Speaker 3: We've talked. We've talked about this before in preseason about
Speaker 3: how the rushing you hit a certain benchmark and you're
Speaker 3: basically locked for top twelve.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: By the way, can I mention the Derrick Henry yards
Speaker 3: yards after contact stat from last segment and the bone No,
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean I can, But the bon Knicks
Speaker 3: Cam Newton stat on this segment. Those both came from
Speaker 3: the f F newsletter. I just wanted to give credit
Speaker 3: where credit is due. I hate when people don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. Oh yeahs f F newsletter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a newsletter. But I can, I can clarify
Speaker 3: that it was actually Derrick Henry and eighty five yards
Speaker 3: most rushing yards since twenty eighteen Henry after contact with
Speaker 3: over seven thousand at number two, and Nick Chubb at
Speaker 3: number three with about sixty five hundred. It's insane, But yeah,
Speaker 3: those came from the f F newsletters.
Speaker 1: It should be in the Hall of Fame. Saints take
Speaker 1: on the Chargers. Now this broadly about the Saints. Five
Speaker 1: offensive linemen are on IR and both guards are currently
Speaker 1: listed as questionable. So you know the Broncos last weekend
Speaker 1: Spencer Rattler running for his life on every snap, and
Speaker 1: I'm afraid that's exactly what's going to happen here. Derek
Speaker 1: Carr not expected to play. The only letter grade I've
Speaker 1: got for you is Alvin Kamara, and just to see,
Speaker 1: in the first month of the season, Kamara's average finish
Speaker 1: was running back six. Since then running back twenty one.
Speaker 1: His rushing yards over the last three games twenty six,
Speaker 1: forty and ten.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's bad.
Speaker 1: We've learned that Khmara's got a broken hand, which, weirdly,
Speaker 1: they're still throwing to him and he can catch. How
Speaker 1: do you catch on a broken hand?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know a professional athlete.
Speaker 1: I guess, and maybe a lot of painkillers. He's caught
Speaker 1: at least five passes in four straight games. And that's
Speaker 1: the only reason you can flex Kamara here at all
Speaker 1: is the presumption of about eight PPR points and up hopefully,
Speaker 1: like I don't know, forty rushing yards maybe, but that's
Speaker 1: it the rush. The Chargers run defense has been very good.
Speaker 5: Chris A.
Speaker 1: Lobby is going to return here, but I hesitate to
Speaker 1: start him with Spencer Rattler at the helm behind a
Speaker 1: makeshift offensive line, And even if A Lobby gets a
Speaker 1: lot of looks, I worry about an inefficient date. Marshall
Speaker 1: Lattimore is expected to play in this game, and he'll
Speaker 1: almost certainly shadow a Labbe. Last week against the Chargers,
Speaker 1: no receiver topped twenty one yards. Chris A. Lobby's on
Speaker 1: the bench. Let's go to the LA side. I've got
Speaker 1: a couple of starters for you. JK. Dobbins a grade.
Speaker 1: Over the past five weeks, the Saints are allowing the
Speaker 1: second most rushing yards one hundred and forty three per game.
Speaker 1: Dobbins should get most of the one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: three yards, and they're giving up a whopping six yards
Speaker 1: per carry. The Saints run defense is totally up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert was might take a chance on me. Quarterback
Speaker 1: Lad mcconkee coming in with a C grade. He does
Speaker 1: have hip injury, but expected to play. He's been the
Speaker 1: only quasi reliable Charger receiver. He runs primarily from the
Speaker 1: slot where he'll have a positive matchup against cornerback alanse
Speaker 1: Alante Taylor, who gives up an eighty one percent catch
Speaker 1: rate and gave him a touchdown in his coverage last
Speaker 1: week to Chris Godwin. That was just two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin C grade on Ladd McConkie scout.
Speaker 3: Let's work in one more matchup.
Speaker 1: I think we have time buffalo bills taking out of
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. You already told you like Ray Davis. Yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously that tells me you like James Cook.
Speaker 3: I yeah, the same stuff. Five point two yards per Carrie,
Speaker 3: second most rushing yards, first most combo yards. Just a
Speaker 3: lot of touches to be had, and James Cook is
Speaker 3: getting fifteen plus touches for seventy five plus yards per game,
Speaker 3: scored in four of his last five. Yeah, he got
Speaker 3: an A grade on James Cook over to the passing game.
Speaker 3: Josh Allen, I'm giving a B grade to Seahawks. Pressure
Speaker 3: a lot their top three and knockdowns, hurries and pressures.
Speaker 3: So that might lead to Alan to scramble a few
Speaker 3: times and get you some get you a few rushing yards,
Speaker 3: which is good. Goff Jones Perty and cousin spent the
Speaker 3: last month averaging two hundred and fifty nine yards and
Speaker 3: two scores on the Seahawks, so he should get some
Speaker 3: in the air too. So I got a B grade there.
Speaker 3: You could probably talk me into an A grade, but
Speaker 3: I'm going to go with a B grade for now.
Speaker 3: In the passing game as well, Amari Cooper, I have
Speaker 3: a B grade on in just nineteen snaps thirteen dropbacks,
Speaker 3: he saw five targets a thirty eight percent target chair
Speaker 3: on that very limited work week. But that four for
Speaker 3: sixty six is likely to increase this week. Six different
Speaker 3: wide receivers have scored on Seattle in the last four games,
Speaker 3: and Reek Wooland but was it, Tarik, Like did that
Speaker 3: switch it? I just said, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: So now he's reaked.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been Reek all season. And I was like, see,
Speaker 3: I didn't notice fisher is all season. In Week three,
Speaker 3: Dalton kincaid, I got a B grade on Seahawks allow
Speaker 3: the sixth most receptions and fourth most yards two tight ends.
Speaker 3: Henry just went and Henry went eight for one oh
Speaker 3: nine against them, and over the last month, Laporta four
Speaker 3: for fifty three. Theo Johnson five for forty eight, Kittle
Speaker 3: five for fifty eight, Pitch seven for sixty five. Basically,
Speaker 3: everybody's post everybody's posting. Good game.
Speaker 1: God, do we need a big Dalton Kincaid game? Please?
Speaker 3: Yes, Yes. Over on the Seattle side, Gino Smith gets
Speaker 3: a C grade. He's second in the league in air yards,
Speaker 3: first in the league in passing yards two hundred and
Speaker 3: eighty three per game. Three of the Bill's four worst
Speaker 3: passing days came in the last three week three weeks
Speaker 3: to Stroud, Rogers and Root, so they're trending down and
Speaker 3: allowing a lot of passing yards. So C grade there
Speaker 3: on Gino Smith. Not a lot of touchdowns though, so
Speaker 3: that's that's why the C grade in the passing game
Speaker 3: as well. Tyler Lockett, it sounds like DK Metcalf is
Speaker 3: not gonna go. He does sometimes play hurt mcl sprang,
Speaker 3: but he went down to doubtful on Friday, so I
Speaker 3: think he'll be out. So over to Tyler Lockett, who
Speaker 3: I'm given the B grade to four plus catches forty
Speaker 3: five plus yards in all but one game. He's the
Speaker 3: consistently safe one. Last three games, wide receivers have five
Speaker 3: wide receivers have seventy five plus yards or a score
Speaker 3: against the Bills, So I'm giving a C grade as
Speaker 3: well to Jackson Smith in JIGBA, A few slot guys
Speaker 3: like Greg Dorsch, Christian Kirk, and Stefan Diggs all had
Speaker 3: pretty decent days against them. They're one of the league's
Speaker 3: worst in yards per route run. He'll get Tarren Johnson, who's,
Speaker 3: you know, one of the tougher spots, a twenty nine
Speaker 3: QB rating against but just a fifty percent completion rate.
Speaker 3: So C grade is maybe he's forced to move around
Speaker 3: in a void, him and his seven D eight targets
Speaker 3: might bump up to double digits over in the run game.
Speaker 3: Kenneth Walker averaging eighteen touches with nearly five of them
Speaker 3: being Walker receptions.
Speaker 1: He's so good and if they're using him now in
Speaker 1: the passing game, as you're just mentioning, yeah, Kenneth Walker is.
Speaker 3: The nearly five receptions a game on average, He's.
Speaker 1: The best league running back nobody talks about.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, And the Bills allow the second most receptions
Speaker 3: and yards through the air to back's fourth most combo yards,
Speaker 3: So I have an A grade on him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, As well, you should nothing at Jake Bobo and
Speaker 1: I guess I don't play.
Speaker 3: I didn't. I wrote it down that if you wanted
Speaker 3: a dart throw it could be Jake Bobo on the outside.
Speaker 3: But I feel it's, you know, no buys this week,
Speaker 3: so not you got options?
Speaker 1: Probably am I wrong to want Jake Bobo to be
Speaker 1: traded to the Broncos so I could have a touchdown
Speaker 1: pass that is Jake bo Bo Bo Nicks. Oh nice,
Speaker 1: I like that?
Speaker 3: Ask you also in that Seattle offense, no fans who's
Speaker 3: had two great games in a row could be at
Speaker 3: Darth with gk Metcalf out. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: When we come back, Atlanta takes on Tampa Bay. This
Speaker 1: is a very important game for both of these teams.
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins has played well the majority of the season,
Speaker 1: and the Bucks secondary has been pretty shaky. We'll find
Speaker 1: out where Kirk Cousins ranks when we come back to
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Beat. Welcome back Fantasy's Football Weekly. Another block
Speaker 1: of matchups for you in this Week eight with no buys, weird,
Speaker 1: We're gonna be dealing with buyes at Week fourteen. But
Speaker 1: ow we gate thor Atlanta takes on Tampa Bay. Very
Speaker 1: important game for playoff positioning between these teams. Basically since one,
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins looked pretty darn good. This passing offense has
Speaker 1: been good. Bucks pass defense.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you said it. Kirk Couzins will lead him off
Speaker 6: with an a here. He did have the off day
Speaker 6: against Seattle with with nine fantasy points, but this is
Speaker 6: the perfect get right game week five against these same Bucks.
Speaker 6: You guys will recall forty two point four fantasy points
Speaker 6: for Kirk Cousins. That was the five hundred nine passing
Speaker 6: yards in four touchdown games.
Speaker 4: Bijon.
Speaker 6: Of course, he's gonna be obvious start and an a
Speaker 6: two hundred and forty eight yards from scrimmage over the
Speaker 6: last two weeks for him starting to cook a little bit.
Speaker 4: Tyler Ljier. I gave him a CE.
Speaker 6: He only played on twenty three percent of the snaps
Speaker 6: last week, but that's gonna spike against the injury decimated
Speaker 6: Bucks here and could be a sneaky flex start in
Speaker 6: standard leagues. Great eljierfaces the Bucks defense. It's giving up
Speaker 6: more than five yards per carry, so yeah, they get
Speaker 6: that lead in the second half and he could he
Speaker 6: could churn out numbers.
Speaker 4: Drake London obvious a must start. Same for Kyle Pitts.
Speaker 6: I can't believe I'm saying that Kyle Pitts has eight
Speaker 6: plus PPR points in five to seven games this year
Speaker 6: and ten plus in four of seven, and then Darnell
Speaker 6: Mooney giving him a bee. The last six weeks, Mooney's
Speaker 6: fourteen point eight PPR average ranks in the top sixteen
Speaker 6: of NFL receivers. Tampa has allowed the fifth most Fantasy
Speaker 6: points to wide receivers. And last time Mooney played the
Speaker 6: Bucks in that game where everybody went ballistic, nine catches,
Speaker 6: one hundred five yards and two touchup. But I couldn't
Speaker 6: give everybody an A, so he's got.
Speaker 4: To be a bee. Moving over to the Bucks, Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 4: I give him a C.
Speaker 6: Leeds NFL the NFL with eighteen passing touchdowns and its
Speaker 6: top six impasser rating en yards per attempt. The issue,
Speaker 6: of course, is the injuries to Mike Evans and Chris Godwin.
Speaker 6: That's really gonna hurt, so I had to downgrade him
Speaker 6: to a C in this matchup because of that. Rashad White,
Speaker 6: I give him a C. Bucky Irving is questionable didn't
Speaker 6: practice on Thursday.
Speaker 4: Well we'll end up seeing on that.
Speaker 6: If Irving is out, this committee gets cut to White
Speaker 6: and Sean.
Speaker 3: Tucker's But yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: But you know I either way, White is the receiving
Speaker 6: guy there, and with Evans and Godwin both out, there
Speaker 6: is going to be increased targets the two games.
Speaker 4: So there's only been two games so.
Speaker 6: Far this season where a shot White finishes a top
Speaker 6: twenty eight Fantasy wide receiver. He had six catches for
Speaker 6: seventy plus yards in both of those, so the targets
Speaker 6: are going to be coming here.
Speaker 4: But it's a tough matchup.
Speaker 6: I will say the Falcons have been the best team
Speaker 6: in the NFL against receiving running backs, so a PPR
Speaker 6: he's a for sure mustart White because of that. But yeah,
Speaker 6: standard league, standard scoring. I give him a sea. Jalen
Speaker 6: McMillan was might take a chance on me. Receiver Trey Palmer,
Speaker 6: I'm giving him a See he's never been targeted heavily,
Speaker 6: but he does give you that home run utility. He
Speaker 6: could hit a dinger at any time, and they obviously
Speaker 6: need to generate offense, so he's probably gonna get a
Speaker 6: couple looks there. Atlanta has allowed the second highest PPR
Speaker 6: points per target to perimeter wide receivers and nineteenth in
Speaker 6: receiving yards per game allowed for the Falcons, so at
Speaker 6: least it's an advantageous matchup Sterling Shepard.
Speaker 4: I'm keeping him on the bench.
Speaker 6: I know there's some optimism for him out there in
Speaker 6: terms of being Baker Mayfield's college teammate and all the
Speaker 6: injuries he could get on the field. I think Jalen McMillan, though,
Speaker 6: is going to the slot, and if I'm right about that,
Speaker 6: where do you play Sterling Shepherd. That's where it gets
Speaker 6: really hairy for him. I just wouldn't mess with it.
Speaker 6: And then Kate Atton giving him a B in this matchup.
Speaker 6: Top five Fantasy tight end the past five weeks, had
Speaker 6: twenty six catches and is averaging eleven Fantasy points per
Speaker 6: game during that span, more targets, of course coming with
Speaker 6: Evans and God went out.
Speaker 4: It's also a good matchup.
Speaker 6: Aten has been targeted four times more versus zone than
Speaker 6: man coverage, four times more versus zone coverage then man coverage.
Speaker 6: The Falcons run zone at the third highest rate in
Speaker 6: the NFL this season. I don't know why I put
Speaker 6: a B. I'm upgrading him to an A.
Speaker 1: Kad talk to yourself right in. I did, Yeah, nicely done.
Speaker 1: Kate on surging lately. A couple of Tyler L. Geerstats
Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, please among players with his runners. With
Speaker 1: his fifty six carries, Tyler L. Geer ranks third and
Speaker 1: missed tackle rate and fifth in yards per carry. Dude,
Speaker 1: it's just good.
Speaker 3: He's good.
Speaker 1: He's just good. And everybody's like, well, if like, if
Speaker 1: you said anything good about Tyler lg Or, people think
Speaker 1: you're saying something bad about Jon Robinson.
Speaker 5: I'm not.
Speaker 1: They're both really good players and they're both being productive.
Speaker 4: Played with Pook and the cool in college too, always
Speaker 4: U time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I played in Fantasy league with me, Yeah, played
Speaker 3: with you, yeah.
Speaker 1: And then left one experience of being in a league
Speaker 1: with you, and he's out.
Speaker 3: We both left.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Chicago Bears taking on Washington Commanders.
Speaker 1: That is my game. We begin on the Chicago side
Speaker 1: with DeAndre Swift getting an A grade in this one.
Speaker 1: Chicago's run blocking so much better and this is a
Speaker 1: very positive matchup. Washington ranks twenty seventh in yards per carry,
Speaker 1: they ranked twenty seventh and run defense success rate, and
Speaker 1: they ranked twenty eighth in yards after contact. The way
Speaker 1: you beat Washington unlike per previous years, it's on the ground.
Speaker 1: You just go run at him. DeAndre Swift, great play
Speaker 1: this week A grade. Let's go to the receivers, Beginning
Speaker 1: with dj Moop. He continues to dominate the wide receiver
Speaker 1: looks for Chicago, averaging eight targets per game. He's the
Speaker 1: only Bears receiver who's reliably finished as a wide receiver
Speaker 1: two or flex level player pretty much every week. He
Speaker 1: runs the majority of his play from the left side
Speaker 1: of the field. That puts him up against cornerback Ben
Speaker 1: Saint Juic, who has allowed three scores already along with
Speaker 1: the fourth most receiving yards of any player in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So DJ Moore B grade. I've got a C grade
Speaker 1: on Keenan Allen. Now, last time we saw Alan before
Speaker 1: Chicago was by He had his first big game for Chicago.
Speaker 1: He scored twice, but his volume is just okay, five
Speaker 1: targets per game. It gets enough to keep him startable
Speaker 1: in a positive matchup. Washington slot corner is rookie cornerback
Speaker 1: Mike Sandris. Still, he's allowed three scores, a seventy nine
Speaker 1: percent completion rate, and an opposed passer rating of one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty two. So Keenan Allen comes into the
Speaker 1: C grade. I've got a bench grade in roll of Dunsa,
Speaker 1: even though I think long term he's gonna be just fine.
Speaker 1: But low volume a real problem here, averaging just three
Speaker 1: catchuple targets per game. It's an okay matchup facing off
Speaker 1: against Washington cornerback Noah iigbin Oghnay. I think I got
Speaker 1: that right. He's Pro Football focuses cornerback eighty four. But
Speaker 1: igbinoga Away is much better this year, allowing per game
Speaker 1: averages of three catches for just twenty two yards in
Speaker 1: his coverage. I'm going with it. Hopefully his parents did too.
Speaker 1: Cole Comet comes out of the Sea grade. Usage is
Speaker 1: pretty low and he's a touchdown dependent player, but he's
Speaker 1: on the field enough to keep him relevant. Fortunately, the
Speaker 1: Commanders have given up three straight good not great games
Speaker 1: to tight ends, including touchdowns in two of the past three.
Speaker 1: So we'll keep a C grade on cole Comet. And
Speaker 1: then where does that leave us with Caleb Williams He's
Speaker 1: made incremental improvements in just about every game this year,
Speaker 1: and I've got BC and C grades on his receivers,
Speaker 1: so certainly startable here. Washington secondary isn't the doormat of
Speaker 1: past seasons, and no quarterback has topped one touchdown against
Speaker 1: Washington in a month, which is super weird. Three of
Speaker 1: the past four quarterbacks did not top one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty two passing yards.
Speaker 3: Really really low, really really.
Speaker 1: I mean, what are we talking about here? An emerging
Speaker 1: elite pass defense for Washington seems weird. Maybe let's go
Speaker 1: to the Washington side. Love Brian Robinson in this game, Massive,
Speaker 1: Massive game potentially incoming. The way to beat the Bears
Speaker 1: is on the ground, where Chicago far more vulnerable than
Speaker 1: against the pass, where they're elite. In the past month
Speaker 1: of games, Chewba Hubbard, Kyron Williams, and Jonathan Taylor of
Speaker 1: all posted touchdowns at least ninety seven rushing yards. Love
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson with an A grade in this one, and
Speaker 1: staying with the running game, Austin Eckler comes in with
Speaker 1: a C. You know, we'll see a run orientation for
Speaker 1: Washington with or without Jayden Daniels. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: in a minute. Eckler's been a really nice PPR helper
Speaker 1: except last week when they blew out the Panthers and
Speaker 1: then basically he just rested. His three catches for forty
Speaker 1: yards per game gets you seven PPR points right away,
Speaker 1: and all the rushings, gravy Bears run defense, middle of
Speaker 1: the pack, and pretty much every meaningful metric, Austin Eckler
Speaker 1: gets a sea grape. Now, if Jaydon Daniels goes, he's
Speaker 1: a game time decision. Certainly start, but I worry that
Speaker 1: the team will protect his ribs by not letting him run,
Speaker 1: and then if I just have to rely on Jade
Speaker 1: and Daniels passing, this is a tough matchup against a
Speaker 1: really good secondary the Bears. The Bears do have injuries
Speaker 1: in their secondary. Slack cornerback Kyler Gordon just got put
Speaker 1: on IR and starting safety Jaquan Brisker got put on IR.
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping that we can get a B grade
Speaker 1: out of Jalen Daniels one way or another. But he's
Speaker 1: got some flop to him here, some dud potential if
Speaker 1: he does not run to protect the ribs that I
Speaker 1: want you to be aware of. If he does go
Speaker 1: in this one. If he doesn't go, I've got a
Speaker 1: C grade on Marcus Mariota and a B grade on
Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels. But let's talk through where this gets really thorny.
Speaker 3: Oh Boys.
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin, he's got a brutal matchup with the best
Speaker 1: coverage cornerback in football outside of maybe Patrick certain and
Speaker 1: that's Jalen Johnson. He will shadow in this spot because
Speaker 1: there's nobody else worth shadowing. And look at what he's
Speaker 1: done to a They're good number one receivers Deontay Johnson
Speaker 1: twenty three yards two weeks ago, two games ago, previous game,
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas twenty seven yards on average. Jalen Johnson gives
Speaker 1: up one and a half catches for eighteen yards in
Speaker 1: his coverage. That's it. Now the Bears slot corners. I
Speaker 1: mentioned Kyler Gordon's out, so maybe they move Terry McLaurin
Speaker 1: into the slots to try to grid him of Jalen Johnson,
Speaker 1: and that could That's why I'm giving a SE grade
Speaker 1: to Terry McLaurin, But otherwise this will be a bench
Speaker 1: grade against Jalen Johnson. Zach Ertz comes in with a
Speaker 1: c grade and Ertz could be helpful against the team
Speaker 1: that just gave up eleven catches and a one hundred
Speaker 1: yard game. The Jaguars tight ends. If mclaurin's neutralized, you know,
Speaker 1: mariot Ar Daniels will need to find alternative receiving options
Speaker 1: and that could be zach Ertz in this game. I
Speaker 1: think it's time to.
Speaker 3: Go to a break sure, straight, Yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 3: Final block of matchups.
Speaker 1: Coming up, including Cowboys and Niners. Lots of moving parts
Speaker 1: with this Niners situation.
Speaker 3: Will we speculate prematurely?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we will speculate prematurely. Oh, we are very excite.
Speaker 1: In fact, the contentious version of premature school comic Thord
Speaker 1: is a he and I are gonna go Mono Imano
Speaker 1: when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly, final segment
Speaker 1: of Fantasy Football Weekly, we always start this one with
Speaker 1: a trip to the Fantasy Football Weekly time Machine.
Speaker 3: Premature speculation.
Speaker 1: Players you want to pick up now that other people
Speaker 1: be trying to pick up next week, but they're already
Speaker 1: on your team. Yes, Scott Fish, who you got?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Khalil Herbert, who has been talks
Speaker 3: of trade rumors of the last couple of weeks. Maybe,
Speaker 3: just maybe you can grab him, stash him and he
Speaker 3: becomes the Dallas back before the trade deadline. That'd be
Speaker 3: the place, right, Yes, but mostly I'm going to take
Speaker 3: my mid year, mid fantasy regular season time to say,
Speaker 3: go pick up backup running backs if they're out there.
Speaker 3: The Jalen Rights, the Blake Corms, the Kamani Videls, the
Speaker 3: Arodrick Estimates, the Tyler Goodson, Sean Tucker, Ray Davis, Braylan
Speaker 3: all and Tyler Lgier, Warren Rashawn Johnson, any of those guys.
Speaker 3: Pick them up. Injuries happen, things happen at the end
Speaker 3: of the season. Every year, one or two of the
Speaker 3: backups become very fantasy relevant at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: Justice Hill would be Oh Justice.
Speaker 3: Hill another one.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's pretty goood.
Speaker 3: Yeah, credit him.
Speaker 1: I thought he was very mundane with you first few
Speaker 1: years in the league. Man, he's like, no dynamic to
Speaker 1: that offense. All right, your premature speculation player for I
Speaker 1: liked it.
Speaker 6: Fish did a former rock Chalker in Khalil Herbert finish
Speaker 6: his career a Virginia Tech.
Speaker 4: But Sara at Kansas, I'm going with you would aybody
Speaker 4: ever leave Kansas? I don't know.
Speaker 6: Well, I suppose I came to back to Minnesota, but
Speaker 6: I'm going with Ricky Piersow for respect. He's only owned
Speaker 6: in five and a half percent of ESPN leagues. Oh yeah,
Speaker 6: at least when I looked it up a day or
Speaker 6: two ago. Brandon Ayuka Korus out for the season, Juwan
Speaker 6: Jennings out with a hip injury, Deebo and George Kittle
Speaker 6: both questionable. Pearsall needs to be rostered in all formats.
Speaker 6: Six foot, one hundred, ninety pounds, he was ninety ninth
Speaker 6: percentile athlete coming out. I comped him to Adam Thielen.
Speaker 6: The last three years. Pearsall was the wide receiver one
Speaker 6: in college for Jayden Daniels at Arizona State, then for
Speaker 6: Anthony Richardson and Graham Mertz at Florida. He swaps. You
Speaker 6: can use them both in the slot or on the boundary.
Speaker 6: Exceptional hands. He had an eighty six point eight PFF
Speaker 6: hands grade in twenty twenty three. This from my scouting
Speaker 6: report over this spring at Vansfield. For route running and
Speaker 6: coverage designs, he will modify his path to get into
Speaker 6: open grass against zone and flick unpredictable and unsettling tempo
Speaker 6: changes at defenders in man like a toddler in control
Speaker 6: of your car's volume. Nub pier saw Mary's head deep
Speaker 6: head and shoulder deeks with sudden cuts at the peak
Speaker 6: of his stem to Coke's false steps, deliberate footwork in
Speaker 6: and out of breaks. On extended plays, He'll throw the
Speaker 6: He'll throw the plane out the window and freelance himself open.
Speaker 6: I really really like Ricky Piersow. He has the opportunity.
Speaker 6: Now I expect him to put up numbers.
Speaker 1: It's come to this. The healthy forty nine er receiver
Speaker 1: is the gunshot victim. Yeah, crazy, crazy turn of all right,
Speaker 1: so this are you and I are going to different thought.
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay slot receiver last year, Chris Godwin. They foolishly
Speaker 1: moved him outside where it's productivity. Wait wait, wait, moved
Speaker 1: him back inside this year and Godwin went through the roof.
Speaker 1: The guy who played the slot last year four hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve snaps, Trey Palmer. Now they got all these
Speaker 1: moving parts with Evans and Godwin, but going out in
Speaker 1: the same game. I don't know that they automatically move
Speaker 1: McMillan even though his college he ran the slought a
Speaker 1: lot and ran effectively there. But I don't know if
Speaker 1: they want to change like all three receivers, and what
Speaker 1: they do could be they just asked Trey Palmer to
Speaker 1: walk into the Chris Godwin rolled because that's what he
Speaker 1: did last year with all the snaps that he got.
Speaker 1: So I'm throwing a little speculative love at Trey Palmer
Speaker 1: to see if he hits the slot.
Speaker 3: You don't think he would.
Speaker 1: I think we'll find out. Yeah, but we both want
Speaker 1: the slot reces. Yes we do in the Tampa.
Speaker 3: If you need it.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the final set of games
Speaker 1: Sunday Night football, Dallas taking San Francisco Scott.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So Jamie Eisenberg mentioned this this week, how dak's
Speaker 3: worst game after a bye and and this is a
Speaker 3: no small sam this like eight years is twenty two
Speaker 3: fantasy points. He averages twenty eight in the last three
Speaker 3: is at like twenty eight, thirty four thirty. He comes
Speaker 3: out of the by just blazing firing. It is a
Speaker 3: tough matchup, though, against the forty nine Ers defense, who's
Speaker 3: only allowed one QB to throw for multiple scores. That
Speaker 3: was of course, Sam Darnold only one passer over two
Speaker 3: hundred and seventy yards. It was Gino Smith and it
Speaker 3: took fifty two attempts. But Deak Prescott is way up
Speaker 3: on that list in attempts and passing yards. He they
Speaker 3: throw a lot because they don't have a run game,
Speaker 3: so I'm gonna give him a C grade. He might
Speaker 3: even end up it with a B if this becomes
Speaker 3: it becomes a little bit of a shootout, but C
Speaker 3: grade for him. In the past game, Ceedee Lamb with
Speaker 3: the A grade, and Jalen Tolbert is going to get
Speaker 3: the C grade. San Francisco allows the third highest percentage
Speaker 3: of Fantasy points to the slot. It's where teams kind
Speaker 3: of attack them. The tenth most fantasy points to the slot.
Speaker 3: Ceedee Lamb. That's where he's gonna live double digit Fantasy
Speaker 3: points weekly. I don't really need to go for him much.
Speaker 3: He's just good. Jalen Tolbert. The run game is not
Speaker 3: gonna do much here, so they'll need the pass game,
Speaker 3: and Tolbert is the two second on the team. Basically
Speaker 3: every category technically gets the toughest matchup in Javarius Ward,
Speaker 3: but Jalen Tolbert moves around thirty thirty one to thirty
Speaker 3: nine percent all over the field. He's gonna be able
Speaker 3: to avoid him and get to his four for fifty
Speaker 3: average at minimum. Jake Ferguson, I got a B grade on.
Speaker 3: He averaged six for seventy one yards in three games
Speaker 3: prior to last week's dud. And he's going against a
Speaker 3: team that ranks top five in multiple categories. But over
Speaker 3: the last three weeks they've let up four for sixty six,
Speaker 3: six for sixty three, and six for fifty three against
Speaker 3: the tight ends leading tight end. So I do have
Speaker 3: a B grade here for him. I have Daudo on
Speaker 3: the bench. Really really, his only good game was the
Speaker 3: twenty two touch day. I don't think that's in for
Speaker 3: him here.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So over to the San Francisco side, Brock Perty, I
Speaker 3: got the B grade on Cowboys have the third highest
Speaker 3: pressure rate, but Perty throws a ton. He's got this.
Speaker 1: No Lawrence and no Bicah Parsons, no Micah Parsings, exactly
Speaker 1: pure rate was built on these.
Speaker 3: I was just getting there, yep. Pretty second highest in
Speaker 3: average depth of target behind only Richardson, second in pass yards,
Speaker 3: second in yards per attempt air yards, They throw a lot,
Speaker 3: and the Cowboys have allowed multiple scores in four of
Speaker 3: the last five, and those quarterbacks had twenty seven or
Speaker 3: fewer attempts. They didn't even need a lot of volume
Speaker 3: to be able to do it. So b grade for perty.
Speaker 3: If Debo goes Deebo's dealing with that pneumonia. It sounded
Speaker 3: like he might be to go, but he is questionable
Speaker 3: in a game tight decision. If he goes, Dallas allows
Speaker 3: the fourth fewest Fantasy points to the slot, which could
Speaker 3: mostly affect him or Piersoll if Debo doesn't go, but
Speaker 3: without Brandon Ayuk on the field, he gets about forty
Speaker 3: percent of the target share and air yards. That could
Speaker 3: be a lot of volume there for Debo, and the
Speaker 3: target leader against the Cowboys has scored or hit one
Speaker 3: hundred plus yards in five of six games. Ricky piersall
Speaker 3: Thorpe pretty much took every one of my talking points,
Speaker 3: but I will note after Ayuk left he had three
Speaker 3: for twenty one on four targets. He even got the
Speaker 3: two point conversion attempt, and he led the forty nine
Speaker 3: ers in routes run. George Kittle also questionable with that
Speaker 3: foot injury, but this is a great spot for him.
Speaker 3: If he goes, I will still give him the A.
Speaker 3: They've allowed three tight the Cowboys have allowed three tight
Speaker 3: end scores in the last two weeks. Kittle leads on
Speaker 3: the all tight ends and targets inside the twenty, inside
Speaker 3: the ten, inside the five, red zone, target, red zone scores,
Speaker 3: all of it. So a grade there, and Jordan Mason
Speaker 3: is getting a grade.
Speaker 1: I love him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he's been giving their but the rock nine
Speaker 3: times inside the five, which is good for fourth most.
Speaker 3: But he's only scored twice. That's the problem.
Speaker 1: No, because he's some touchdowns.
Speaker 3: He sees forty of eight man boxes. He's just that's
Speaker 3: what it is. But a lot of backs have done really,
Speaker 3: really well against Dallas, Montgomery, Henry Kamara all had multiple
Speaker 3: scores and backs with major volume like Mason does in
Speaker 3: the two in his two full healthy games where they won. Uh,
Speaker 3: he got twenty six and twenty eight touches. That kind
Speaker 3: of volume A grade, Thord.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Monday Nighter Giants taking on the
Speaker 1: Steelers Molakue neighbors. Will they quiet game last week? Do
Speaker 1: you see a bounce back coming here against the Steelers.
Speaker 4: Definitely.
Speaker 6: Yeah, for and the targets right, So for me, Neighbors
Speaker 6: is in the must art territory.
Speaker 4: You know, he gets a weekly a for me. Daniel
Speaker 4: Daniel Jones, I'll give him a seed.
Speaker 6: The past two weeks he only has three four yards,
Speaker 6: zero touchdowns, thirtieth in yards per attempt and fantasy points
Speaker 6: per dropback. Pittsburgh has allowed the eleventh fewest passing touchdowns
Speaker 6: and seventh lowest passer rating. Not the best matchup, but
Speaker 6: some of the other quarterbacks around the league not the
Speaker 6: best this week, so I did give Jones a C.
Speaker 6: Singletary and Tracy, I don't know. I toss this to
Speaker 6: you guys if you disagree with me, I'm keeping both
Speaker 6: of them on the bench this week. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 6: you had the split usage against the Eagles last week
Speaker 6: to kill both their fantasy values. They only had fifty
Speaker 6: three total yards combined. Now the Giants played the third
Speaker 6: ranked Steelers run defense. Pittsburgh allows the seventh fewest fantasy
Speaker 6: points to opposing running backs. So yeah, it's just hard
Speaker 6: to trust either of them, so I'm keeping them on
Speaker 6: the bench. Also, Darius Slayton bench, He's going to be
Speaker 6: a race by Dante Jackson here and Jan Dale will
Speaker 6: give him a C wide receiver eighteen and PPR, but
Speaker 6: only as two weeks as a top thirty Fantasy wide receiver.
Speaker 6: Bad matchup to project Robinson's volume to turn into anything. Here,
Speaker 6: the Steelers have allowed the third fewest adjusted yards per
Speaker 6: attempt to opposing slot receivers. Moving over to those Steelers,
Speaker 6: Russell Wilson gave him a blow start slow start last week,
Speaker 6: but would you go a see okay, okay, Yeah, I
Speaker 6: won be slow start last week, but ended up having
Speaker 6: that really good debut the return against the Jets debut
Speaker 6: in Pittsburgh, two hundred and sixty four passing years, two touchdowns,
Speaker 6: had the rushing touchdown as well, twenty nine fantasy points.
Speaker 4: Obviously a very good matchup.
Speaker 6: The Giants have allowed the ninth most fantasy points to
Speaker 6: opposing quarterbacks this season.
Speaker 1: I'm a little worried the Giants pass rush is just
Speaker 1: gonna new They're gonna just wreak havoc at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Yeah, that's the that's the part that worries me.
Speaker 6: Could good for sure nausea. I gave him a b
Speaker 6: RB twenty five and Fantasy points per game. He gets
Speaker 6: the red zone work sixty one percent of snap of
Speaker 6: the snaps inside the twenty yard line.
Speaker 4: A solid matchup for him as well.
Speaker 6: Giants have allowed the eighth most rushing yards per game
Speaker 6: and have the second highest misstackle rate in the NFL,
Speaker 6: so we could see some broken tackles and getting the
Speaker 6: second level for Nase. I gave Jalen Warren a see
Speaker 6: finally appears to be one hundred percent off his ribs
Speaker 6: injury Week seven against the Jets, he had twelve carries
Speaker 6: for forty four yards and two catches for fifteen yards.
Speaker 6: Warren is worth using as a flex this week. I
Speaker 6: believe that Giants have allowed six running backs to score
Speaker 6: thirteen PPR points. George Pickens I gave him a be
Speaker 6: wide receiver thirty four and fantasy points per game. He's
Speaker 6: a target hound of Chorus thirty five plus percent first
Speaker 6: read share. And here is an interesting thing about this matchup.
Speaker 6: His target share spikes to almost thirty three percent against
Speaker 6: single high. The Giants have the sixth highest single high
Speaker 6: rate in the entire NFL. Oh wow, very advantageous matchup
Speaker 6: for George Pickens and then Pat Fryarmouth I gave him
Speaker 6: a C. He only has one top ten tight end
Speaker 6: showing this year, and this isn't the best matchup for him.
Speaker 6: The Giants have allowed the seventh fewest fantasy points to
Speaker 6: opposing tight ends.
Speaker 1: And the last game that we haven't gotten to you
Speaker 1: Chiefs taking on the Raiders, Kareem Hunts just turned into.
Speaker 3: Like obvious ace Yes, huge belco.
Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty seven and twenty two.
Speaker 3: Care Remember Carson Steele, Look, I must see this coming.
Speaker 3: I heard someone say that on a show. Remember Carson Steel.
Speaker 1: I know right, Look, I I'm shocked by this turn
Speaker 1: of events for Kareem Hunt A grade. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the passing game. Patrick Mahomes B grade, which are starting
Speaker 1: to feel generous, these B grades they keep giving Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: He's playing well, but it's just not translating into fantasy
Speaker 1: points because he's not throwing downfield. Mahomes ranks twenty seventh
Speaker 1: in completions of more than twenty yards. He used to
Speaker 1: kill the Raiders in the old days, but they've held
Speaker 1: him in check last year and they've been much improved
Speaker 1: as a pass defense this year. The last four quarterbacks
Speaker 1: to face Vegas have averaged one hundred and seventy yards
Speaker 1: and less than one touchdown per game can only get
Speaker 1: you to a B grade on Mahomes, and if it
Speaker 1: were anybody else, I'd probably be giving a C grade.
Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey is going to maintain a B barely hasn't.
Speaker 1: The Raiders haven't played any great tight ends, but they've
Speaker 1: been terrific against the position. No tight end is top
Speaker 1: thirty two yards since Week two. They've only allowed one
Speaker 1: tight end touchdown all year. But Kelsey's on the field
Speaker 1: almost every snap of the game, and he's only one
Speaker 1: game removed from back to back tight end top ten
Speaker 1: tight end efforts, So gonna be optimistic that he bounces
Speaker 1: back here be grade on him. Then I've got C
Speaker 1: grades on Justin Watson, me Cole Hartman, and Xavier Worthy
Speaker 1: because Juju Smith, schuster Is and Sky Moore have both
Speaker 1: been ruled out of this game. Watson was already on
Speaker 1: the field a lot, averaging a seventy one percent route
Speaker 1: raid over the past three weeks. He's a sneaky DFS
Speaker 1: play here Harden and seeing the field a lot less,
Speaker 1: but he gets more targets and he's a bigger threat
Speaker 1: after the catch and Xavier Worthy exactly is feared. He
Speaker 1: is all or nothing downfield bomb guy, and that's it.
Speaker 1: Over the past month he has done. He has been
Speaker 1: a hit or missplayer, and the Raiders have been a
Speaker 1: much improved pass defense. They've allowed just one wide receiver
Speaker 1: score in a month and no wide receivers top seventy
Speaker 1: two yards. So C grades Watson, Hardman, Worthy, DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I think he only gets about fifteen routes
Speaker 1: in this game, so he is on the bench for
Speaker 1: me in this one. Let's go to the Las Vegas side.
Speaker 1: I've only got one starting grade and that's Brock Bowers.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs are the worst tight end defense in the league,
Speaker 1: including allowing George Kittle ninety two yards last week. They're
Speaker 1: giving up the most yards and the most receptions to
Speaker 1: the position. Bowers has eight, nine and ten receptions the
Speaker 1: last three weeks. Since the DeVante Adams hamstring injury, Bowers
Speaker 1: getting even more usage. He is an A grade in
Speaker 1: this one, and everybody else is on the bench in
Speaker 1: a very tough matchup. Gardner Minshew is your starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: Obviously you're not going to start him. Alexander Madison has
Speaker 1: taken over the running bad lead running back role from Zamirwait.
Speaker 1: Completely confirmed last week when Zumir White was healthy and
Speaker 1: had four carries in the game. The Kansas City run
Speaker 1: defense is awesome and only on volume alone can you
Speaker 1: consider Alexander Madison here. Kansas City ranks number one in
Speaker 1: Fantasy points allowed to runners, They're third in yards per carry,
Speaker 1: fifth in yards after contact, and don't runners top fifty
Speaker 1: three yards against Kansas City. Alexander Madison is firmly on
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