WEBVTT - St. Nix 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.960 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:11.160 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:15.840 source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. Now 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:20.040 along with the guys from U leagues dot com. Here's 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.079 your host, Paul. 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.080 Welcome to a week eight edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:30.319 I am Paul Jarchian. Co host today Scott Fish and Thor. 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:30.960 Nice from you. 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:33.159 It's been a while. Good to have you back. It 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.920 has all the way SAIDs week six. I only missed 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:37.960 one week, but it was with Matt, so I understand 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:39.280 that feeling like it took forever. 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:44.360 Yeah, and Colin mccockney obliterates everybody around him. Yeah. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:45.960 I missed you guys though. Yeah. 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:48.560 Nice to have you back. Yes, Oh and you are Oh. 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:48.920 Thanks. 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:52.640 It was the first time in my eight years on 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:54.800 this show you've let me have my birthday weekend off. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:59.520 I know, normally I work you on. We had a 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.040 lot to get two no bye weeks, so we gotta 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.960 cram in all the games, so we're gonna just roll 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.399 up our sleeves and get started. Of course, over the 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:09.440 course of the show, we will give you take a 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.399 chance to meet the three tough questions, premature speculation, but 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:15.039 we're gonna begin here. Scott Yes Skills take on the 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.120 Cincinnati Bengals in a game that should have a lot 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:19.520 of fantasy factors in it. 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.480 Well, you would think so, you'd think so. These are 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:25.360 two offenses that have been pretty good lately. On the 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.960 Philadelphia side. The Bengals are allowing the most rushing attempts 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.720 and rushing yards to quarterbacks. I'm trying to figure out. 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:33.400 Let me look at the numbers to see if that's 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.280 something that would help Jalen Hurts. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.560 That makes sense for him averaging seven rushing attempts per 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.000 game average or averaging ten per game minimum of seven 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.560 in every game, Jalen Hurts has multiple scores in all 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.360 but one game, and the Bengals are a top five 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:55.560 fantasy matchup for quarterbacks, allowing four multiple score days out 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:57.960 of seven and including a couple three hundred yard day. 0:01:58.000 --> 0:01:59.800 So I do have an A grade on Jalen Hurts 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.280 his wide receivers AJ Brown and DeVonta Smith. I got 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.120 an A grade on AJ Brown Cincinnati allowing the eighth 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.079 most fantasy points to the perimeter as well. Brown has 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.920 five plus catches in all three games. His yardage total 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.040 in his three fall games one hundred nineteen, one hundred 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.680 and sixteen, and eighty nine, so he scored in all 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:20.080 three of them. Scored in each one. Yeah, DeVonta Smith 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.440 with a B grade actually playing more snaps than Brown, 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:27.000 but less stats. More inconsistent. But history has shown us 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.160 that when Dallas Goddard is out, which he is again 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.919 this week, his volume goes up. It didn't quite show 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:36.400 up last week, oh, in negative two yards exactly. But 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.800 I'm gonna blame a little bit of Barkley, them wanting 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.520 to get Bartley Barkley his numbers against his old team. 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.480 Maybe a little bit of game script that would led 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:48.280 to less passing. I got the B grade over here 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:50.880 on DeVonta Smith. With Dallas Goddard out again, I don't 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:55.560 have grand Calcata starting. He put up a pretty poor game. 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.840 I thought, given what he did the week before with 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.320 Goddard out, maybe there'd be a chance. But no played 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.080 almost the entire game. Didn't do anything last week. On 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.680 the Cincinnati side, Joe Burrow Philly does boast a top 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:10.760 three fantasy defense against quarterbacks, with the fifth fewest yards 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.079 and eight fewest scores. But let's take a deeper look 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:15.720 at those six games, the three of them with Jordan Love, 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.880 Kirk Cousins, and Baker Mayfield. Those guys averaged two hundred 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.079 and eighty two yards and two scores, even got extra 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.440 one on the ground. Deshaun Watson, Daniel Jones, and Derek 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.000 Carr averaged one hundred and thirty six yards and only 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:28.200 scored once total. 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.920 Point being good quarterbacks have plenty of success, and Joe 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:32.919 Burrow might be the best of all of them, so 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.400 I do have an eight grade here on him. 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.160 I have A and B grades on Jamar Chase and 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:42.600 T Higgins. Jamar Chase's fantasy fantasy's wide receiver one with 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.480 six scores. In the last five games, the Eagles have 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.720 allowed eight wide receiver scores, but they've kept the yardage 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.160 fairly low. Part of that is due to Cleveland and 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.440 New York Giants matchups of the last couple weeks New 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.760 York Giants without neighbors obviously, prior to that, in their 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:00.600 first four games, every wide receiver one scored. Three of 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.640 the wide receiver twos scored in those four games, so 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.840 scores might be likely here. T Higgins leads the NFL 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:08.920 and targets per game over the last four and more 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.840 targets than Chase in four straight. He's averaging six and 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.800 a half catches for seventy five yards with three scores 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.279 in those last four games. So good grades on both 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.920 of those guys. Right now. On the running game, Chase 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.799 Brown's the only one. I'm sorry starting sorry Zach Moss 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:28.360 there charge seven to twelve touches last three weeks, but 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.640 he hasn't been able to top fifty two yards this season. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.840 Chase Brown Over the last four games, Brown's averaging over 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:39.120 fifteen touches, has four scores. Three of the four games 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:43.440 were inefficient, though Philly's d ranks third best against runners. 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.800 His volume pass catching plus propensity to score though, I'm 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.120 going to give him the seed, the volume seed, you know, 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.360 and hope he gets some pass game work in a score. 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:52.159 That makes sense. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:52.800 Four. 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:56.040 Let's go to Tennessee taking on Detroit. The Tennessee offense 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.400 is erect, their defense is pretty good, and I'll be 0:04:58.480 --> 0:04:59.840 I'm interested to hear what you have to say about 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:03.760 the Lions. But back on the Tennessee side, anybody to 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:04.200 play here? 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:08.440 Oh, it's grizzly you're certainly not going to play Mason Rudolph. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.560 I think one guy that is playaball Tony Pollard. Give 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.440 him a see. Sixteen carries for sixty one yards last 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.440 week against Buffalo's bad run defense. Yeah, that was what 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:23.120 Taja Spears sideline. Spears is backish questionable return to practice 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.040 Friday with a hamstring. Because of the uncertainty there, I 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.640 would keep Taj Spears on the bench, but I would 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.600 start Pollard. The matchup is much tougher in this game, though, 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.200 Lions are allowing the third fewest fantasy points to running 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.520 backs Kelvin Ridley. I struggle with this one. I did 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.279 give them a see though he returned to practice on 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.960 Friday had the foot injury. Wide receiver sixty nine fantasy 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.800 points per game. It's a tough scene, obviously, and even 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:49.120 if you. 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.920 Give him all of DeAndre Hopkins catches, he'd move to 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.200 like wide receiver sixty three. 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.520 Now this might just be the optimistic part of me, 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.320 and this might be considered a logical leap, but I 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.160 hope they start using him in the offense as he 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:04.520 is intended to be used. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.440 Now getting some of those. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.360 Targets, certainly the targets will go up, but hopefully targets 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.600 that are more advantageous to Ridley's game. He's just been 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:13.360 used as a deep bult guy to this point. You're 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.800 wasting his route running. Not that they have the quarterback 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.279 play to hit him on the hands every play, but 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.680 obviously he becomes a clear wide receiver one with Hopkins 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.800 gone clear, clear clear, this is a decent matchup for him. 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.440 Detroit has allowed the eighth most receiving yards per game 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.200 to perimeter wide receivers, so I did stick Ridley with 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.719 a see the rest of the guys in the Titans 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:33.520 bench grades. 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.520 Moving over to the Lions, Jared Goff give him a B. 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.080 At least twenty two point eight fantasy points in three 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:40.880 straight games. 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.440 This is a sneaky bad matchup, though. 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.080 The Lions run the ball at the third highest rate 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.400 in the NFL, and when they're up, it goes up 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:48.960 even more. 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:50.799 It's just run, run, run, run, run. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.800 Detroit to double digit favorites in this game, and the 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.320 Titans have a good pass defense. We're still wondering if 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.240 Lagerius sneed will play, but a good pass defense nonetheless, 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.440 and will the pass volume be there for golf That's 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.359 why I had to downgrade him to a B. I 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.480 also gave a BA to David Montgomery RB thirteen and 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.480 Fantasy points per game. He's averaging sixteen touches for eighty 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.600 six total yards. Tennessee has the third highest stuff rate, 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.080 though they have a pretty strong run defense, and that 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.280 defense has allowed only one running back to rush for 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.840 over sixty yards all season long, Jamiir Gibbs. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:22.040 I give him an A. 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.760 I obviously must start and along with aman Ras Saint Brown, 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.560 especially in this with Jamis and Williams suspended. 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.520 On Montgomery and Gibbs. How do we feel about the 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.240 Sonic and Knuckles nickname David Montgomery calls them. 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:35.280 I like it. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:36.280 I like it. 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:37.040 Yeah, I like that too. 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.920 I'm glad we're you know, we've moved past thunder Lightning. Yeah, 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.000 it's unique, it's different, it's video games. 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:43.920 I love it. I like it. 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:44.640 I like it too. 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.440 Last one, which one Sonic and which ones? I assume 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.240 Sonic David Knuckless, OK, I got it. 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.160 The couple of games where Jameis Williams is out. I 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.680 wonder if that will help Sam Laporta, a guy who 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.120 has not gotten as many targets this seasons. Why he's 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.360 only tight end twenty one in Fantasy points per game 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:05.320 and only participating in roughly two thirds of the routes 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.760 available for Detroit. But Laporta does ring number ten in 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:12.400 separation rate, So you wonder, now if he gets more 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:16.000 targets with that Jamison Williams vacates, could he be more 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:17.000 viable for fantasy. 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.040 I'll give Laporte a B A B this week. 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.239 I know Scott I are dying. We all took Laporte 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:22.280 in a lot of leagues. 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:26.080 Well, Laporta and Richardson might be my worst calls a year. 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.640 Oh that's it, Okay, okay, Let's move over to the 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.280 Green Bay Packers and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Lot's going on here. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.719 I've got a grades on the pack two parts of 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.520 the Packers passing game, Jordan Love Jaden Reid. In totality, 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.160 the Jaguars the worst pass defense in the league. They 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.559 give up the most passing touchdowns. They drank thirtieth and 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.920 passing yards their thirty second in imposer passer ratings. So 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.240 for Reid, he runs almost entirely from the slot, he'll 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.520 face a defense that gave up a slot touchdown last 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.679 week to kJ Osborne the leak before two touchdowns to 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.400 Keenan Allen from the slot. So we like and read 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.640 this one. It's always hard to figure out who who 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.840 are the Green Bay wide receivers you can trust? I 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:07.040 trust Romeo Dobbs. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:07.240 Here. 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.240 Dobbs is the most reliable target earner across the board 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.760 among all of them. He leads the team in routes run, 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.520 he is second in targets and targets per route, and 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.120 he'll match it most stopping against Ronald Darby, who ranks 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:22.760 his Pro Football Focuses cornerback ninety five. He's given up 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.960 three scores already, an opposer passer rating of one hundred 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:29.040 and thirty three B grade on Romeo Dobbs and a 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.480 C grade on Dune Tavian Wicks and Christian Watson. They're 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.840 down at sea because they just get less targets, so 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:38.800 you get a massive variation in volume and output. But 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:40.959 if you're not going to start them against the Jaguars, 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:42.480 why are they on your roster? 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:43.079 Fair? 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.040 I mean, this is it. This is the best matchup 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.719 you're gonna get all year. So Watson and Wix get 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.360 C grades in this one. Tucker Kraft comes in with 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:54.240 an A grade three good games in the last four weeks, 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.920 and with Luke Musgrave hurt, his routes run if basically doubled, 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.880 and as you can guess, the Jaguar are awful against 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.080 tight ends. They're getting rocked by basically tight ends in 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:08.319 every week since Week three. Last week, the Patriots offense 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:13.080 generated twelve catches and one hundred and twenty four yards 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.520 to tight ends against the Jaguars. Two weeks ago, the 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.959 Jaguars gave up two touchdowns to Cole Kmet, so Tucker 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.400 Craft definitely in play. That only leaves us with Josh Jacobs. 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:25.880 Jaguars are a better run defense than a pass defense, 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.520 but Jacobs is a likely beneficiary no matter what happens here. 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.760 Jaguars haven't allowed a runner at the top ninety one yards, 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.800 which is good. They shut down the Patriots last week, 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:37.680 but that doesn't mean a lot, and they've also faced 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.560 a lot of garbage runners. Two weeks ago, DeAndre Swift 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.920 rolled up one hundred nineteen total yards. Jacobs is probably 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:44.720 closer to that. I think he hits about one hundred 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.160 yards of this game, and I've got an eight. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:47.400 Grade h well, he finally score. 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:53.960 Yes, okay, color shot, Tank Bigsby moving to the Jacksonville side. 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.120 All right, so now you guys all though I feel 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:01.200 about Tank Bigsby. Yes, So now we got Travis ETN 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.040 coming in as a game time decision. Let me ask 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:12.320 you too, knowing Doug Peterson, if ETN is available, who starts? 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.040 I think I think it's probably mostly Bigsby, But I 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.160 think ETN still gets the past game work somehow. 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:21.080 I'm going to say ETN. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.680 I don't trust Doug Peterson to get this right. I either, 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.800 but it's so obvious that Tank Bigsby is the better back. 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:30.240 Let me give you some bitta. 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:35.000 I will say we Tank Bigsby has taken over and 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.120 ETN has not logged a full practice since this takeover, 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.920 so we have not seen a healthy ETN. But yes, 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:43.240 Bigsby's numbers are awesome. 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.439 They are, and let me tell you more about that. Yeah, 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.959 the Jaggars have won two games. In those two games, 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.640 Tank Bigsby one hundred one yards and one hundred eighteen 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.560 yards four touchdowns in those two games. Doug Peterson, you 0:11:55.559 --> 0:12:00.800 think just like survival instinct, right, natural selection, survival the 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.880 fittest right, his jobs on the line, you would think 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.880 he would go to Tank Bigsby no matter what. In 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.960 yards per rush, tank Bigsby ranks number two in the NFL. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:15.680 Travis ETN twenty ninth avoided tackle rate, Tank Bigsby is 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.600 second in the NFL ETN is twenty seventh. In yards 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.360 after contact, Tank Bigsby is number one in the NFL 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.720 ETN is thirty fifth. I want to believe Tank Bigsby 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:26.120 is going to get plenty of use in this game, 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.720 and he's got a B grade for me. Let's go 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.480 to if Travis Etn plays. You can start him at 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.120 a C grade level if he's active for this game. 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.720 But again, I'm basing that mostly on me, not trusting 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.599 Doug Peterson to get this thing right. Green Bay is 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.160 a middle of the pack round defense, but volume backs 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.320 tend to do well. The four backs with more than 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.160 twenty two carries against green Bay have had monster games, 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:53.959 averaging one hundred and twenty five yards and one a 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.120 half touchdown. So if ETN doesn't go, I like Bigsby 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:57.600 a lot better. All right, let's go to the passing 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.480 game here, or I've got some starters for Jacksonville Lawrence. 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.800 This is an unpopular narrative, but over the last three weeks, 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:09.200 Lawrence has been good, completing seventy four percent of his 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.000 passes two hundred and sixty six yards per game, two 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.280 to two and one score. Over the last three weeks, 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.960 Packers have improved their pass defense by benching Eric Stokes. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.360 In the two stokeless games, green Bay has completely shut 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.400 down Kyler Murray and c J. Stroud. Those are two 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.720 pretty good passers better than Trevor Lawrence. So I can 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:28.440 only get you to a C grade here. Even with 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.319 his improved play, Brian Thomas gets a seed grade. He's 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.720 Thomas has looked great and he's going to be a star. 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:35.760 I don't love this matchup. He's going to see a 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.600 lot of Jay R Alexander. The past two number one 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:42.440 receivers to face Green Bay have fared very poorly. Marvin 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.640 Harrison didn't catch a pass, and then last week Stefan 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:50.360 Diggs and Tank Dell combined for twenty three yards. C 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.720 grade on Brian Thomas. Christian Kirk is always a risky start, 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:55.679 but I like this matchup enough for a C grade. 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:59.240 The Packers new slot coverage man is safety Javon Bullard. 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:01.760 Since the move move to the slot. Bullard has allowed 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.400 eight of nine passes in his coverage to be completed. 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:07.400 We'll try Christian Kirk at a sea level here. The 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.000 guy I really like seven Ingram. He's finally healthy and 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.079 a massive contributor for the Jaguars offense. In the past 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:17.560 two weeks, He's been targeted fifteen times. He's caught fifteen passes. 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.000 The Jaguars have allowed a tight end touchdown or over 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.760 fifty yards or both to a tight end in four 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:28.840 of the last five games. Some kind of optimistic about 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:32.280 Evan Ingram continuing to play well, big part of this offense. 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.720 When we come back, take a chance on me nine 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.600 players not normally in your starting lineup. Find out who 0:14:38.640 --> 0:15:21.400 they are when we come back Fantasy Football Week. We 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.160 will guarantee a smile with these take a chance on 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.640 me players, beginning with Scott Fishing. You take a chance 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:28.840 on me quarterback. 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.440 Yes, But before I give you a player to take 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.880 a chance on, I'm gonna mention Saquon Barkley, who I 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.640 didn't in the last segment, who was an automatic a 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:38.840 one hundred and twenty seven yards a game of Bengals 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:40.760 defense allowing a rushing touchdown every game. 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.360 Yeah, and I thought I had just missed him because 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:47.200 you had said something like super fast, like automatic idea, 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.320 So I just thought I missed it. But now we've 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.600 clarified not that anybody was going to bench him. 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.560 Yeah. Yeah, so my my take a chance on me, quarterback. 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.600 I'm going with to a tongue of Biloa. In his return, 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.800 he gets a Cardinals defense allowing multiple scores and or 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:04.280 three hundred yards in five of seven games, leading them 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:08.040 to be a top five easiest matchup for fantasy passers. 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.000 His first and only full game, he had three hundred 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:12.760 and thirty eight in a score. I expect a good 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:13.600 game here from him. 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:17.040 All right, thorn Eistrom, you'll take a chance I me quarterback. 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:18.240 I can't believe I'm doing this. 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.440 Boys, I'm gonna advocate for Bonix for the first time 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.040 in my professional career. 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:24.960 Wait, who's he playing. 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:26.200 He's playing the Panthers. 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.320 Ah, this makes sense as good. 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.000 A matchup as you can get. Now everybody knows. 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.640 I don't think Bonix is an NFL caliber thrower, but 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.960 the rushing production is making him fantasy relevant. He's either 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:38.680 a clip sixty yards rushing or ran for a touchdown 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.440 in five games so far this season, and has multiple 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:45.000 passing touchdowns in two of his last three games. The Panthers, 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.440 of course, have a terrible defense both against the run 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.880 and the pass. Last week, Carolina allowed twenty fantasy points 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.920 to Marcus Mariota. On the season, the Panthers have allowed 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.240 the fourth most fantasy points per game to quarterbacks. The 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.320 one thing I was wondering, will the Panthers score enough 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.280 for the Broncos to do anything on offense? But the 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.320 scrambling a boat next, He's gonna accrue the yards anyway. 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:05.919 Do you want two fun stats on that? 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.000 No, Well, well it depends if involved in this matchup, 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.159 then Russian does not related. We're gonna talk more. 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:14.640 We'll talk about later. We'll talk. 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:16.840 I've got a guy I did not think i'd be 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:18.600 picking at any point this season as might take a 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:20.720 chance on me, and that is justin Herbert against the 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:24.440 Saints normally a very tough start because the low passing 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:28.800 volume in this Jim Harbaugh offense, Los Angeles rinks twenty 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:32.240 ninth in pass attempts per game and air Bears average 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.400 game is a depressing one hundred and ninety seven yards 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:38.560 of one score. But the Saints normally pretty capacity defense 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.199 just all banged up with injuries. Marshall Latimer is going 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.760 to try to play, but he's hurt. Paulson Adabo went 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.440 on injury reserve. Three of the past five opposing passers 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:51.280 have topped three hundred eleven yards or more against the Saints. 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:53.399 We'll try Justin Herbert here, by the way, get all 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.320 his receivers back and off. I don't know if they're 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.200 fully off the injury report, but they all came back 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.000 to practice on Friday, so that helps to Let's go 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:02.600 to the running back position, Scott, who. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.440 You got, Yeah, I got Buffalo's Ray Davis. He goes 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.720 up against the Seahawks defense allowing five point two yards 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.879 per carry, second, most rushing yards allowed, first, most combo 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.800 yards allowed, and they're allowing over thirty touches per game 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.879 to running backs. After James Cook has done, there's gonna 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:19.320 be some meat on the bone left for him. And 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:23.040 he outtouched Ty Johnson last week seven to one. He's 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.080 he's gonna be the guy that gets the extra work. 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:30.159 You know what's a really objectively terrible barbecue sauce? 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.040 Okay, sweet baby rays, Okay. 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.879 Yeah, I agree with that tag. Yeah, to catch up 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.560 of barbecue sauce. I just wanted to add that on 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:39.800 to the Ray Davis analysis. 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:40.640 It's the correct tag. 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.320 I think it was important. Ye okay, all right, Thor 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:44.840 you're taking chance with me running. 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:46.240 Back going with a guy that I don't think has 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.119 a barbecue sauce named after him. But I'm gonna go 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.080 with b not yet anyway, maybe after this game Braylen 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:53.560 Allen against the Patriots. 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:54.760 Now, Braylan only. 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.439 Had three touches for six yards last week against Pittsburgh, 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:59.440 and he's played in less than twenty percent of the 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:01.560 Jets is now the past two weeks, so I would 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:04.639 understand trepidation here. However, the Steelers have one of the 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.439 best run defenses in the NFL. Well, the Patriots have 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:10.320 one of the worst. New England also has a funnel defense. 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.720 They're good against the pass, but rancid against the run. 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.639 In Week three against the same Patriots, Allen had eleven 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:20.119 carries for fifty five yards and three catches for thirteen yards. 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:22.280 The Patriots have allowed an average of one hundred and 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.439 ninety five yards per week and seven total touchdowns to 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.440 running backs ever since then. The Jets are a touchdown 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:31.040 favorite in this game. The game script will be advantageous 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.040 for Allen and certainly the matchups as well. 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:36.760