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Speaker 1: Guys lots to get to over the course of the show.
Speaker 1: Take a chance on me, three hot questions, premature speculation,
Speaker 1: lightning round at the end, and of course all of
Speaker 1: the matchups and we dive right into the first of them.
Speaker 1: Dallas taking on Atlanta. Brian Dak Prescott has been dramatically
Speaker 1: improved over the last month, especially from a fantasy standpoint,
Speaker 1: and now he gets maybe his easiest matchup of the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: multiple touchdown passes and three of his last six for
Speaker 1: DAC and uh Samari Cooper thing is actually kind of
Speaker 1: working out for Dallas and yeah, a great matchup for Dock.
Speaker 1: Like you said, since week two. Atlanta has allowed at
Speaker 1: least three passing touchdowns in six of eight games. Uh.
Speaker 1: Eli and Alex Smith were the only two that failed
Speaker 1: to record a hat trick. And I'll slow you down
Speaker 1: on that. Yeah, we got hat tricks three touchdowns in
Speaker 1: all but two games. So Dack's in a very good spot.
Speaker 1: Also has a rushing touchdown and three of his last
Speaker 1: four games. UH. And Atlanta is allowing more than twenty
Speaker 1: rushing yards pretty game to quarterbacks. That's half a passing
Speaker 1: touchdown right there at least, So Dak easy B borderline
Speaker 1: A grade this week potential shootout over his past catchers.
Speaker 1: And Mark Cooper just mentioned him h. Atlanta has allowed
Speaker 1: at least one wide receiver touchdown in eight straight games,
Speaker 1: multiple wide receiver touchdowns and half of those games. Uh.
Speaker 1: Cooper has eighteen targets so far in two games with Dallas,
Speaker 1: so they're using him plenty. So he's a safe B
Speaker 1: in this game as well. I don't think i'd ever
Speaker 1: see a Mark Cooper is a safe B, but I
Speaker 1: just did it is early. Uh. The other wide receivers though,
Speaker 1: called basilely Michael Gallup, Alan Hearns. UH. You would think
Speaker 1: there'd be enough to go around for one of these guys,
Speaker 1: but I have no idea who would be since Cooper
Speaker 1: was acquired. Here's the target total in the two games
Speaker 1: for these other guys. Gallop twelve, Beasley five, Perns three.
Speaker 1: Zeac has more targets than all those guys, so Gallup
Speaker 1: would be the one, but they're all on the bench
Speaker 1: for me Ei, they're all dart throws and as is,
Speaker 1: Jeff Swain made his return last week, played an eight
Speaker 1: percent in the snaps. Not a great matchup for tight ends.
Speaker 1: And of course Zeke gets an a rolled up a
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty plus and two touchdowns against a tough
Speaker 1: Philly run d last week. Uh, if you've been playing
Speaker 1: fantasy football the last few years, Atlanta is not a
Speaker 1: tough rundy on the ground or through the air, so
Speaker 1: particularly through the air, particularly through the air. All World
Speaker 1: middle linebacker Dion Jones is back for Atlanta, which does matter,
Speaker 1: but Zeke still in a in a smash spot in
Speaker 1: this game over to the Falcons. Julio and in a
Speaker 1: easy a fastest player to ten thousand receiving yards in
Speaker 1: NFL history passed Megatron last week. Pretty impressive. Dallas not
Speaker 1: a great matchup for wide receivers. But the last comparable
Speaker 1: wide out to face UH the Cowboys was DeAndre Hopkins,
Speaker 1: who caught nine passes fred fifty one yards. So you're
Speaker 1: starting Julio, barely starting Calvin Ridley and this one has
Speaker 1: been held under fifty yards and four of his last
Speaker 1: five games and has just one touchdown during that span.
Speaker 1: But this feels like a shootout, so Ridley gets a
Speaker 1: soft seed for me and this one even though he's
Speaker 1: kind of a boom robust option and uh mohammas, and
Speaker 1: New has been hammered by a head injury, has been
Speaker 1: playing through it. Saw a healthy eight targets last week,
Speaker 1: caught six of them, but he's failed to top fifty
Speaker 1: yards for the fourth straight game, hasn't scored in three
Speaker 1: straight and again Dallas really controls the clock well, not
Speaker 1: a ton of volume expected, but I'll give him a
Speaker 1: soft seed two. But they're both Darth throws in my mind.
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper, a little less of Darth throw, he'll get
Speaker 1: a b Shawn Lee out for Dallas. That's huge. And
Speaker 1: zach Ertz has went off for fourteen catches a hundred
Speaker 1: forty five yards and two touch How about that Hooper
Speaker 1: is no arts but uh, but Hooper has been shockingly
Speaker 1: competent this year. Absolutely leads the land and red zone
Speaker 1: targets and it's been targeted ten plus times in three
Speaker 1: of his last five games. So he's in a great spot.
Speaker 1: And Matt Ryan easy and I can get into that
Speaker 1: one has been absolutely amazing this year. I don't expect
Speaker 1: him to be this good. Don't think anyone really did
Speaker 1: coming off of down here last year. And then Tvin Coleman,
Speaker 1: can I go be minus her charge? He heeds a minus?
Speaker 1: Not at all? Yeah, you allow it. Dallas allowed him
Speaker 1: just three and a half yards per carry and opposing
Speaker 1: running backs have total just six touchdowns in nine games.
Speaker 1: But again, Shawn Lee is out. That is huge for Coleman.
Speaker 1: And he has really distanced himself from Edo Smith touch wise.
Speaker 1: So the volume play is there. So he's a safe
Speaker 1: RV two play. We'll not safe base I save, Okay,
Speaker 1: Carolina takes on Detroit Matt Um Cam Newton. Do you
Speaker 1: want two touchdown passes? He's your guy? You want to
Speaker 1: think more than two touchdown passes or less than two
Speaker 1: touchdown passes. He's not your guy? Is he like the
Speaker 1: Leroy Horde of quarterbacks. Yeah, really is. If you need
Speaker 1: three touchdown passes, he'll get you two. You need one,
Speaker 1: he'll get you two. Okay, perfect. I still got him
Speaker 1: as an A grade this week. Detroit has allowed multiple
Speaker 1: passing scores in five of the last six. So Cam
Speaker 1: Newton is gonna get too, I would I would say, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: including and they also gave up a rushing touchdown to
Speaker 1: Mitch Trubisky last week, so that bodes well for Cam's
Speaker 1: rushing ability. Christian McCaffrey also in A The Lions are
Speaker 1: allowing a hundred and sixty five total yards per game
Speaker 1: to the running back position. That all goes to McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: Greg Olsen, I'm giving a B grade two as well. Uh.
Speaker 1: Lions defense has allowed fifty plus yards or a score
Speaker 1: two opponents tight ends in seven of the last eight games.
Speaker 1: And Olson, I mean, frankly, he's the top five tight
Speaker 1: end in the league right now, just because we're out
Speaker 1: of tighten it's he's by defaulty I'm number six, you are, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's you know, the the in the worst year in
Speaker 1: the history of me, in the twenty five years I've
Speaker 1: been in this business, I've never seen any one position
Speaker 1: is devastated as the tight end position this year from
Speaker 1: a talented injury standpoint, and it always seems to get worse.
Speaker 1: It seems like every other week we lose another guy.
Speaker 1: So because of that, I think next year it's more
Speaker 1: than feasible that we see maybe Earth's and Kelsey as
Speaker 1: first round picks. Yeah. I think, oh, it's not even close.
Speaker 1: He might be in that. He might be in that conversation,
Speaker 1: you know, and imagine, Well, doesn't Grons even it doesn't
Speaker 1: even matter. Even if you don't, I don't think you'll
Speaker 1: be there next year. But even if he did, who
Speaker 1: how can you rely on Gronk at this point? You
Speaker 1: can't know? Uh, you can't really rely on the Carolina
Speaker 1: receivers either. In the last three weeks, no Carolina wide
Speaker 1: receiver has top six targets in a game. Only one
Speaker 1: has topped forty four yards. And last week Fun just
Speaker 1: d J. Moore, Curtis Samuel, and jerryus Right all had
Speaker 1: either three or four catches, none of them scored, and
Speaker 1: nobody topped thirty two yards. It's just an absolute mess
Speaker 1: in the wide receiver position there. Over to the Lions side,
Speaker 1: carry On Johnson. I'm only giving a C grade to
Speaker 1: this week. Over their last five games, the Panthers are
Speaker 1: only yielding total yards per game to the running back position,
Speaker 1: that second fewest in the league over that span. Now,
Speaker 1: the bright spot is that carry On has had as
Speaker 1: many catches as theoretic did last week, and he scored
Speaker 1: a touchdown via the passing games, so he's getting closer
Speaker 1: to Bell Cow status than he ever has been. Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: he's getting a B grade. Something has been exposed in
Speaker 1: the Carolina defense in the past two games, as they
Speaker 1: have allowed quarterbacks to throw touchdown passes nine times, nine times,
Speaker 1: nine times. That's four and five touchdown passes in each
Speaker 1: of the last two weeks against Carolina. Nicely, Marvin Jones
Speaker 1: he's on the bench. He's out with a knee injury
Speaker 1: this week. That means Kenny Golladay, he's really the only
Speaker 1: wide receiver there. He gets a B grade. There's no
Speaker 1: one left besides him and the other Jones, t J. Jones.
Speaker 1: After Marvin Jones went down with an injury last week,
Speaker 1: Golliday was targeted eight times in the final quarter of
Speaker 1: the game, so he's on pace for thirty two targets
Speaker 1: this week. No, No, eight times eight times. Shot it right. Sorry,
Speaker 1: Now here's the problem was. You know, if there gets
Speaker 1: to be a point where if you don't have enough
Speaker 1: talent left at any position, in this case the receiver position,
Speaker 1: the defense just pounds that guy. We saw with Adam
Speaker 1: Feeling when Stephan Diggs was out and the Viking's three
Speaker 1: wide looked like the Kwan treadwell Aldrick Robinson on the
Speaker 1: outside and and then Feeling on the inside and became
Speaker 1: really easy to take Feeling out of the game plan.
Speaker 1: And I worry that's what's gonna happen to Golliday here. Well,
Speaker 1: Riddick is essentially there's a lot receiver Now I think
Speaker 1: I think there is a lot of Riddick play for this,
Speaker 1: and I think Riddick and uh and Johnson are going
Speaker 1: to get a ton of passes. You know, there's one
Speaker 1: more guy that I want to mention who's kind of
Speaker 1: a desperation. See start maybe a bonus take a chance
Speaker 1: and makes me a tight end. But it is it's
Speaker 1: Michael Roberts. He gets a C grade. Uh, you could
Speaker 1: do worse than Roberts. He should see some opportunity with
Speaker 1: Marvin Jones out and Carolina has allowed the most receptions,
Speaker 1: second most yards, and the most touchdowns to opposing tight
Speaker 1: ends this season. So Michael Roberts kind of in a
Speaker 1: good spot. If you're in the tight end waste land.
Speaker 1: He's a zombie. You could pick up, double check his status.
Speaker 1: Believe he will play, but um has been injured. He
Speaker 1: might have missed last week's game or got knocked out
Speaker 1: last week. It's Luke one L Wilson E L Wilson,
Speaker 1: my bed l l u k e no Wilson. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: that be weird? It's like a Llama Luke. This is
Speaker 1: why I'm at with one T, just to alleviate all
Speaker 1: this stuff. Oh yeah, that doesn't cause any problems for anybody.
Speaker 1: That's all it does is alleviate problems. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know why you're Paul with two els. News to me,
Speaker 1: but I'll run with that. Knowing Matt's a long One
Speaker 1: T is a norm to me. Now when I did it,
Speaker 1: I'm turning people around. I know to one teas. You're
Speaker 1: not the only one, do you? Why even you introduced
Speaker 1: me to this other one team? We need to like
Speaker 1: get a one TA convention. You should have a one
Speaker 1: tea convention. Houston takes on Washington, and I'll note once
Speaker 1: again like I did last week, Washington's offensive line of disaster,
Speaker 1: star left tackle Trent Williams is going to miss another
Speaker 1: game with thumb injuries. Uh and both of their guards
Speaker 1: are on i R for the year. So you know
Speaker 1: that does limit I think the upside of what Washington
Speaker 1: can do here, and it's why Adrian Peterson's just a
Speaker 1: C grade. Texans have limited opposing teams to less than
Speaker 1: one hundred rushing yards in four of the past six games.
Speaker 1: They're a good run defense. Only run one runner has
Speaker 1: hit twenty carries against the Texans this season. And when
Speaker 1: Adrian doesn't get to twenty carries, when he has nineteen
Speaker 1: or fewer carries, here's your average game. Fifty four yards,
Speaker 1: zero point three touchdowns. That's it. And that's why Adrian
Speaker 1: is just to SEE grade. The only other startable player
Speaker 1: for the Redskins is Jordan Reid. He posted a mediocre
Speaker 1: fifty one yards in a primo matchup against the second
Speaker 1: worst defense against tight ends last week in Tampa. We
Speaker 1: talked about it last week. Is sort of a if
Speaker 1: not when, if not then when and he still didn't
Speaker 1: do much matchup here is not is not any better
Speaker 1: than that, that's for sure. Even more depressing that fifty
Speaker 1: one yards last week. That's his high water mark for
Speaker 1: the last six games. Houston hasn't faced a team that
Speaker 1: really utilizes the tight end in five straight games, and
Speaker 1: despite that, the Texans still at Jeff Hireman go for
Speaker 1: ten catches in their last week's game. So there's a
Speaker 1: glimmer I hope for Jordan Read. Normally he'd be on
Speaker 1: the bench, but I've got to see grade just because
Speaker 1: at the position you pretty much have to start him.
Speaker 1: You mean top ten and tighten option, Jeff, Yes, that's right,
Speaker 1: it is. At this point, it is ridiculous. Everybody else
Speaker 1: is on the bench, including the rest of the passing offense. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's almost no talent at wide received where Alex Smith
Speaker 1: has in top of one touchdown in a month, and
Speaker 1: that was against far easier defenses like Tampa in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and oddly enough, get this statistical oddity, Alex Smith has
Speaker 1: thrown for exactly one hundred seventy eight yards in three
Speaker 1: of his last four games. So let's go with a
Speaker 1: hundred seventy eight yards. By the way, one seventy eight
Speaker 1: yards sucks. That's a terrible number for a quarterback to
Speaker 1: hit once a year, let alone three times in one month.
Speaker 1: On the Houston side of the ball, it's a much
Speaker 1: more rosy outlook. Deshaun Watson gets an A grade from me.
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien. I think was guarding him for the last
Speaker 1: month because he had all these chests and rib injuries
Speaker 1: and he was only throwing four twenty and twenty four
Speaker 1: pass attempts. That's it. But now that he's healthy, after
Speaker 1: the out of the bye week, I think I think
Speaker 1: Watson stretches out with a lot more throws here close
Speaker 1: to what Washington normally sees. Thirty eight is how many
Speaker 1: passes Washington typically sees, and that kind of lack a
Speaker 1: very good game for him. In Deshaun Watson's games with
Speaker 1: thirty eight or more attempts, he averages three hundred seventy
Speaker 1: eight passing yards and two touchdowns. And that's why Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson is a rock solid A for your fantasy team.
Speaker 1: I like his receivers as you can imagine. And it
Speaker 1: goes without saying DeAndre Hopkins is an obvious A. Uh,
Speaker 1: but I'll note here Quintin Dunbar, the best coverage cornerback
Speaker 1: for Washington, may not play in this game, and all
Speaker 1: the more reason to like Hopkins. I also like to
Speaker 1: Marry's Thomas, though with a B grade uh he goes
Speaker 1: up predominantly against Josh Norman, super inconsistent, and the kinds
Speaker 1: of guys that he struggles with are bigger, physical receivers
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham, Julio Jones, hundred yard games primarily on Josh Norman.
Speaker 1: I think the physical Thomas has got a nice opportunity
Speaker 1: against him, but we're not done with the passing game yet.
Speaker 1: Kiki Cutie limited with a hamstring injury and has a
Speaker 1: chance of playing if he does go. Working out of
Speaker 1: the slot, he draws inconsistent Redskins cornerback Fabian more Row.
Speaker 1: Moreau gave up one hundred yards last week in his
Speaker 1: coverage and the week before that allowed to touchdown, So
Speaker 1: if Kiki Qti goes you could start him in this game. Lastly,
Speaker 1: Lamar Miller C grade. Washington is a good run defense
Speaker 1: and sometimes an awesome run defense. No runners topped eighty
Speaker 1: yards all year, and they've only given up one rushing touchdown.
Speaker 1: In the last month of games of late, the Redskins
Speaker 1: have been a bit more yielding, giving up a healthy
Speaker 1: four point seven yards per carry over the last three games.
Speaker 1: Prior to that, they're giving up just three point nine.
Speaker 1: So they are they've been a little bit easier. And
Speaker 1: that's the only reason Lamar Miller is not on the
Speaker 1: bench is that the Redskins have been a little easier lately.
Speaker 1: When we come back, take a chance on me. Nine
Speaker 1: players not normally in your starting lineup will tell you
Speaker 1: who they are and who you can start when we
Speaker 1: come back. This is Fantasy green Bill Premium on the van.
Speaker 1: This sounds pretty innocuous right now. I could go for
Speaker 1: I could do this. I feel like I'm riding a
Speaker 1: horse through a meadow with your long locks flowing, my
Speaker 1: golden locks, the locks, yes, flowing behind you. Just take chance.
Speaker 1: I mean, nine players not normally in your starting line
Speaker 1: at Many of these guys are on the waiver wire.
Speaker 1: One of mine is definitely on the waiver wire. One
Speaker 1: and a half mine are on the waiver wire. I
Speaker 1: got a couple that are good. All right, go ahead,
Speaker 1: let's see here. You got starting at the quarterback position, Brian,
Speaker 1: This guy is probably in the waiver wire. It's Eli
Speaker 1: Manning in his last stand at home against the Bucks,
Speaker 1: because if he doesn't call are you calling this his
Speaker 1: last game? It's gonna be if he doesn't come through,
Speaker 1: it's going to be uh loud that Kyle, what the time?
Speaker 1: If Eli can't come through against the Bucks in Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay road games, UH teams are averaging seventy combined points
Speaker 1: in the five road games the Bucks have played so far,
Speaker 1: Opposing quarterbacks have totaled sixteen touchdowns. That's more than three
Speaker 1: per game. And this is, like I said, this is
Speaker 1: basically it for Eli. All his weapons are healthy, so
Speaker 1: let's go old man. Yea, I feel like I gotta
Speaker 1: unbuttoned like a couple of buttons on my shirt because
Speaker 1: of the horse riding. Yeah, it's not quite as disco
Speaker 1: as that, though. This is more like musical star Stream.
Speaker 1: It's from the eighties. I'm just thinking to get get
Speaker 1: the pecks out there, like Fabio, Like, honestly, all, wow,
Speaker 1: maybe your chest hair is flowing in the wind in
Speaker 1: this scenario. Yeah, I like how we we went with
Speaker 1: singular chest hair to Matt has pecks. There's a unicorn
Speaker 1: in the corner right exactly with Matt's pecks. Uh. Speaking
Speaker 1: of unicorns, I got big game Blake Bortles. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: that is like finding unicorn. I can find one of
Speaker 1: Blake portals. No, no, but Blake Bortles has played to
Speaker 1: count them too, really good teams this year. That was
Speaker 1: Kansas City and that was New England. And in those
Speaker 1: two games he put up four yards in a touchdown
Speaker 1: and three seventy seven and four touchdowns respectively. And the
Speaker 1: Steelers are a really good team as well, and the
Speaker 1: Jags have a history with them. It will be emotional.
Speaker 1: The Steelers have allowed multiple touchdowns and three of their
Speaker 1: last four games. But let's not talk about what Bortles
Speaker 1: did against the Steelers last year because it was hot
Speaker 1: guard bort lige yards in his first meeting to fourteen
Speaker 1: and one in the second meeting, and there was a
Speaker 1: playoff win. That was a playoff win. They were both wins,
Speaker 1: both big wins. I don't know he's gonna He's gonna
Speaker 1: do great, it's gonna I've got Lamar Jackson, you're presumed
Speaker 1: but yet unannounced starter for the Ravens. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: with Lamar Jackson here. Um, this is he goes up
Speaker 1: against Carolina. The only other rushing quarterback, I'm sorry, goes
Speaker 1: up against Cincinnati, and that's key to this. The only
Speaker 1: other rushing quarterback to face the Bengals, Cam Newton, scored
Speaker 1: twice on the ground, and even if shockingly Lamar Jackson's
Speaker 1: legs don't produce a much of fantasy points, his arms
Speaker 1: certainly can. Cincinnati's devolved into the worst past defense in
Speaker 1: the league. Over the past five games. The Bengals rank
Speaker 1: last or second to last in all of these passing categories.
Speaker 1: Completions allowed, passing yards allowed, passing touchdowns allowed. Joe Flacco
Speaker 1: in the earlier matchup for Baltimore against Cincinnati a season
Speaker 1: high three hundred seventy six yards in the earlier matchup
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Now, if Lamar Jackson doesn't go, I've got
Speaker 1: a provisional for you, a little bit like golf. I
Speaker 1: have a provisional shot justin no, Marcus Mariota is my provisional.
Speaker 1: Take a chance, do it, Robert I would. I would
Speaker 1: literally go any Baltimore quarter quarterback, any of them, whichever
Speaker 1: one starts, it doesn't matter. You really can go RG three.
Speaker 1: And by the way, what are these guys cost in
Speaker 1: and ball. What does Lamar Jackson costs? Right, there's gotta
Speaker 1: be dirt cheap. RG three will be below five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Lamar's I think, Lamar Yeah, I mean to me, that
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Speaker 1: the running back position. Brian I got Chase Edmonds of
Speaker 1: the Cardinals at home against Oakland. Don't fret, DJ owners,
Speaker 1: He's okay and we'll play. But there there should be
Speaker 1: a lot to go around in this game. The Raiders
Speaker 1: are allowing one hundred and seventy combo yards per game
Speaker 1: to opposing running back gang. That's a lot that's passing numbers.
Speaker 1: They're giving up on the ground, and their collective spirit
Speaker 1: is more broken by each word that Gruden utters. They
Speaker 1: just hate him more and want this season to be over.
Speaker 1: They had a really good fake punt last week. There
Speaker 1: you go. That was That's like the one highlight. That's
Speaker 1: the highlight real for the whole season over the last
Speaker 1: five games. Bosses backup running backs at average third team
Speaker 1: plus touches against the Raiders, who have scored point totals
Speaker 1: of six three somehow three ten in the last five.
Speaker 1: There was gonna garbage time here and Edmonds is gonna
Speaker 1: get some all right, I've got spencer ware. And the
Speaker 1: thought process here is this game is going Is that
Speaker 1: Is that the same spencer where that I used last week? Why? Yes?
Speaker 1: It is? Wow? How about that? That's pretty good? Um,
Speaker 1: so the thought processes the game is gonna be so
Speaker 1: high scoring that you want to get every piece of
Speaker 1: it that you can. And secondary backs have gotten it
Speaker 1: done against the Rams. Mike Davis had fifty eight yards
Speaker 1: last week, Ingram only at thirty six total yards in
Speaker 1: that game, but Jamal Williams scored against them in the
Speaker 1: previous week. Raheem must Yet had fifty nine yards the
Speaker 1: week before that, and then Mike Davis again had sixty
Speaker 1: eight in a touchdown the week before that. All the
Speaker 1: secondary backs, So I think you can make a case
Speaker 1: of a shot Penny was really the secondary back last
Speaker 1: week because Davis started the game, but Penny end up
Speaker 1: rolling up the hundred yards. Yeah, Penny ended up getting
Speaker 1: more carries. So I Dana Davis is the secondary back
Speaker 1: all right? Either way? Yeah, I'm going Doug Martin. I
Speaker 1: know he's rostered everywhere and he's but why would you
Speaker 1: have ever wanted to start him before? Now? Cardinals ranked
Speaker 1: thirty feet and rushing yards allowed, thirty second in rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns allowed, And for once, volume will not be a
Speaker 1: problem for Doug Martin because Arizona sees the most total
Speaker 1: rushes by a mile, thirty two per game. If Doug
Speaker 1: Martin is gonna get most of thirty two rushes, I'm interested. Now.
Speaker 1: Since Marshawn Lynch's injury, Martin has had double digit touches
Speaker 1: in every game. He's averaged more than four yards per
Speaker 1: carrying every game. And just for once, the game script
Speaker 1: is not gonna have the Raiders down by twenty at
Speaker 1: halftime because the Cardinals are the lowest scoring team in
Speaker 1: the NFL. So it all is coming together for Doug
Speaker 1: Martin in this matchup. Let's go to the wide receiver position.
Speaker 1: We're gonna We're gonna stay with the slop fest in
Speaker 1: Arizona and go with Seth Roberts of the Raiders. No,
Speaker 1: no Jordy Nelson, no Mark Tavis. Bryant for Oakland this week.
Speaker 1: Some people will say Brandon the Fells the guy then,
Speaker 1: But I still worry about Pat p dusting off his
Speaker 1: old shadow cleats and following with Fell around because he's
Speaker 1: gonna be option really in the passing game. So it's
Speaker 1: Seth Roberts. We should see plenty of run in this game.
Speaker 1: At first glance, it appears to be a tough matchup
Speaker 1: for Whiteouts on paper, as Arizona has only allowed seven
Speaker 1: touchdowns to wide receivers. But all those seven wide receiver
Speaker 1: touchdowns have come up with the last five weeks, and
Speaker 1: five of those seven went to secondary indoor slot receivers,
Speaker 1: and Arizona will be without standing starting standout safety Buddha
Speaker 1: Baker in this one. So Seth Roberts in line for
Speaker 1: a good game. Buddha Baker is their slot, is their
Speaker 1: slot cornerback, and Seth Roberts generally runs out of the slot.
Speaker 1: I like it. Okay, well it's deep. I'll say that
Speaker 1: for it. D W s s let's go deeper. And
Speaker 1: this one I gotta give credit is courtesy of Scott Fish.
Speaker 1: He he found some crazy stats on this guy. Cameron Batson.
Speaker 1: Cameron Batson you say, yeah, he's the new slot wide
Speaker 1: receiver for the Tennessee Titans. He's come from virtually nowhere
Speaker 1: to getting forty three and fifty of the slot snaps
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks. And the Cults have struggled
Speaker 1: mightily against slot wide receivers, allowing an average of fifteen
Speaker 1: Fantasy points per game to slot wide receivers and PPR leagues.
Speaker 1: And they've allowed some no names to have good days,
Speaker 1: to Seth Roberts, Germaine, Curse, Kiki Cutie, all those guys
Speaker 1: have gotten it done against the cult. So from the slot,
Speaker 1: those are all slot receiver. Cameron Batson is he? Is
Speaker 1: he the spawn of Batman and bet Girl? Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: definitely bat Son, bat Son bat girls of legal age. Right,
Speaker 1: that's a good point. It's not Batwoman. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Backgirl might not be. I think didn't. Let's not don't
Speaker 1: play back she was definitely Okay, let's just well, let's
Speaker 1: not knock up Backgirl. Okay, on this show, it's not
Speaker 1: too much trouble. Well, maybe it's just Batman and Vicky Vale.
Speaker 1: How about that. My wide receiver is Michael Crabtree. I
Speaker 1: don't care if it's Lamar Jackson at quarterback. I don't
Speaker 1: care if it's RG three quarterback. I don't care if
Speaker 1: it's Joe Flacco on a shattered hip. Anybody can pass.
Speaker 1: Against Cincinnati, they ranked thirty first and receptions allowed to
Speaker 1: wide receivers. They ranked thirty second in yards allowed to
Speaker 1: wide receivers, thirty one in receiving touchdowns to wide receivers.
Speaker 1: That's over the last three weeks. This includes five scores
Speaker 1: to receivers over the last three weeks. Michael Crabtree draws
Speaker 1: coverage from William Jackson, who allowed a touchdown, was a
Speaker 1: lot of touchdown in his coverage and back to back games.
Speaker 1: Michael Crabtree since dropped in virtually all leagues. All right,
Speaker 1: let's see we can sneak in, Actually we can sneak
Speaker 1: in one more matchup because we're very long winded, as
Speaker 1: we talked about the genealogy of baton bats in bats
Speaker 1: in genealogy. But when we come back, we will tell
Speaker 1: you about Philadelphia at New Orleans, a scoring frenzy. But
Speaker 1: in particular, people want to know about Josh Adams running
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Speaker 1: number eleven, dive back into the matchups. Philadelphia takes on
Speaker 1: New Orleans and Brian, I think people are pretty keen
Speaker 1: on the idea of starting most of the passing elements
Speaker 1: of the Eagles, and I will certainly touch on that.
Speaker 1: But Josh Adams is the guy that I'm getting a
Speaker 1: lot of questions about this week. What do you think
Speaker 1: about his prospects in this matchup? Yeah, he's really done
Speaker 1: well with his touches thus far, and Doug Peterson says
Speaker 1: he'll see more carries moving forward. But I don't like
Speaker 1: him in this game. It seems like a trap running backs.
Speaker 1: That tough time against the stats is very like guys
Speaker 1: like Todd Gurley. We're talking tough time like eighty combo yards.
Speaker 1: He really did manage to score, but Clement and small
Speaker 1: which is still a factor in this game. So I
Speaker 1: got all three on the bench still, but certainly hold
Speaker 1: on to Adams. He's the one you want moving forward.
Speaker 1: Can you drop everybody else? I think you can drop
Speaker 1: everyone else, but hold on to Adams without a doubt. Uh. Well,
Speaker 1: let's go to the passing game for Philly, which has
Speaker 1: a much better spot than the running game, starting with
Speaker 1: zach Ertz uh. Tough matchup on paper, The Saints have
Speaker 1: about just one touchdown to tight ends this season. Uh.
Speaker 1: They also haven't allowed a tight end to top forty
Speaker 1: eight yards since the opener. But they really haven't seen
Speaker 1: a ton of tight ends of Earth's ilk. There aren't
Speaker 1: many out there. There's about one and a half out
Speaker 1: there other than Arts pretty much. So he's pretty much
Speaker 1: an auto a every week with this tight end landscape.
Speaker 1: Alshon Jeffer, you're gonna give him a b uh. Last
Speaker 1: week was Golden Tate's first game with Philly, but Jeffrey
Speaker 1: still led all Eagle wide receivers and targets with eight.
Speaker 1: That was half of the sixteen targets Earth saw, but
Speaker 1: still a healthy amount for him. In New Orleans has
Speaker 1: allowed six different wide receivers to tally at least sixty
Speaker 1: five yards over the past three games, and primary boundary
Speaker 1: receivers have still fared le against marsha On Ladimar. As
Speaker 1: of late Brandon Cooks had six for one fourteen in
Speaker 1: a touchdown, Stefan Digs ten for one nineteen in a
Speaker 1: touch and John Brown had seven for a thirty four
Speaker 1: in a tutdy. So alshon Jeffrey gets a B. Alright,
Speaker 1: I said touch too many times, so I have to
Speaker 1: mix it up a little bit. Golden takes this is
Speaker 1: a tough one. I'm gonna give him a see just
Speaker 1: because it's gonna be a shootout. By the way, home
Speaker 1: games in New Orleans for New Orleans are averaging more
Speaker 1: than sixty seven total points, so take gets a c.
Speaker 1: Even only played about of the snaps, but they say
Speaker 1: it's that it's gonna go way out here. It has double,
Speaker 1: if not triple. Uh. Tate should see a lot of
Speaker 1: Eli apple in the slot. Uh. Eli has allowed twenty
Speaker 1: one completions on twenty two targets in his past protection
Speaker 1: as a saint. So I'll give Tate a c uh
Speaker 1: even though we don't really know how much usage you'll see,
Speaker 1: and for that reason, and give Nelson a LAC two. UH.
Speaker 1: He's averaging nearly seven targets and five catches over the
Speaker 1: last three weeks, which gives him a somewhat safe PPR floor,
Speaker 1: But he hasn't scored since week two. And again, maybe
Speaker 1: Tate takes looks from him, Maybe Tate open things up
Speaker 1: for him. But is gonna be a shootout, so he's
Speaker 1: in play as well with the Sea. Uh, Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: canna give him an a. I'm gonna take this verbatim
Speaker 1: from your ranking start, but I'm gonna change up one.
Speaker 1: That's always a very good idea. We're gonna change up
Speaker 1: one word. See if you can pick out which one
Speaker 1: it is. Keeping up with Drew Brees means passing the
Speaker 1: ball and the scenes I've seen at least thirty nine
Speaker 1: passes and five of the past six games. If Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz is going to throw the ball three nine times,
Speaker 1: I love his prospects for explosive output. That Matt. That
Speaker 1: was a I put that in there. It's a little
Speaker 1: tribute to Matt. I don't think anybody catch that. And
Speaker 1: in the two games in which he's throwing thirty nine
Speaker 1: plus times, Wentz has snuffed fifty four yards and two
Speaker 1: scores snuffed. Yeah, I'm going I'm getting tire of saying averaging,
Speaker 1: because when you're up to snuff, you're up to average,
Speaker 1: so sometimes you look down to snuff. Yeah, I don't know, alright,
Speaker 1: so we're snuffing snuffing. I well, you're not talking about
Speaker 1: the peculiar up to snuff. I guess alright, alright, I'm
Speaker 1: not quite there yet. He for wentz uh. Speaking of
Speaker 1: A's album Kamara, Michael Thomas, Drew Brees a fancy fancies
Speaker 1: for life or those guys. Uh. Jalen Mills still out
Speaker 1: for Philly, by the way, So Michael Thomas is just
Speaker 1: going to oh yeah, well, and Ronald Darby out for
Speaker 1: the year. It's uh, he's gonna have a monster day. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the other guys. Mark Ingram just gonna
Speaker 1: give him a c in this matchup was practically left
Speaker 1: for dead until his huge day in the blowout at
Speaker 1: the Bengals last week, but tougher match up here. The
Speaker 1: Eagles allowed the second fetus rushing yards, but they have
Speaker 1: allowed the ninth most receiving yards and running backs. Uh.
Speaker 1: This could be much more of a camary game usually are,
Speaker 1: but uh, Ingram should still see double digit carreas and
Speaker 1: has caught three passes in three or five games, so
Speaker 1: I'll give him a see here. Tray Kuan Smith on
Speaker 1: the bench. Zero targets last week, just seven total targets
Speaker 1: in the two games prior. Brandon Marshall on the bench
Speaker 1: until we see what he can do. And I got
Speaker 1: Ben wet At Wetson Watson, Ben Ben wet Ben Benson
Speaker 1: Watson's been went in the bed all season. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: really has that. Yeah, And we were saying every tight
Speaker 1: end is viable except Ben Watson. Philly is top five
Speaker 1: and the fewest allowed of everything to tight ends. So
Speaker 1: he's on the bench. Next matchup, Pittsburgh taking on Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: Matt We've already talked about some of the players in
Speaker 1: this for Pittsburgh. This is an away game, so you
Speaker 1: always worry about Ben Roethlisberger and Jacksonville gets back A J. Bouyer.
Speaker 1: I'll throw out my A J. Buoy a stat I've
Speaker 1: been given out all week. Throw it at me. He
Speaker 1: missed two games and the Eagles gave up six the Jaguars, sorry,
Speaker 1: thank you. The Jaguars gave up six wide receiver touchdowns.
Speaker 1: It took the whole season up to those two games,
Speaker 1: before they had given up six wide receiver touchdowns. Boullier
Speaker 1: is that big of a difference, and it's another reason
Speaker 1: to be worried about Ben Roethlisberger. So you you already
Speaker 1: kind of snuffed around. That's a way, a different way
Speaker 1: to do it. Uh. The Ben Roethlisberger home road splits
Speaker 1: will get this. He's topped three hundred yards or throwing
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns in seven straight road games, or multiple multiple
Speaker 1: touchdowns or three d yards. I'm street that I understand
Speaker 1: that that multiple is either is too and the three
Speaker 1: hundred yards oftentimes comes with zero or one touchdown at
Speaker 1: that It's not as bad as you think. No, it's
Speaker 1: pretty bad. No, it's it's it's actually not. He's just
Speaker 1: been that good at home. Oh, he's great at home.
Speaker 1: I still got him as a B. Like you said,
Speaker 1: a J. Bouyer was gone before. But they did give
Speaker 1: up two eighty five yards to Carson Wentz, two six
Speaker 1: yards to Andrew Luck and three touchdowns to each of
Speaker 1: those guys. So I'm gonna give Roethlisberger a B. They
Speaker 1: put up a lot of points in that game last year. Uh,
Speaker 1: it was a fun game, and I think it's it's
Speaker 1: it's going to be more of it. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: funds and not in my scoring system. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a crazy yeah. Antonio Brown, I'm giving a B. Juju
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster, I'm giving a C. On paper. This is
Speaker 1: one of the toughest matchups for a wide receiver. Last year,
Speaker 1: in the two meetings with the Jags, Brown had ten
Speaker 1: catches for a hundred and fifty seven yards and seven
Speaker 1: catches for one thirty two and two touchdowns. Now Juju,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, had four for fifty eight re
Speaker 1: for five and a touchdown in that playoff game. So
Speaker 1: I like Brown quite a bit better, but it's it's
Speaker 1: still tough matchup, but Antonio Brown never goes uh. Jacksonville
Speaker 1: is top three in the NFL and receptions, yards and
Speaker 1: touchdowns allowed to wide receivers, though. Vance McDonald I'm giving
Speaker 1: a B though. A few weeks back, I had a
Speaker 1: Jags matchup and we talked about how good they were
Speaker 1: against tight ends, but they hadn't really faced any good
Speaker 1: ones as of yet. And then Travis Kelsey must have
Speaker 1: heard that and exposed something because he went for a
Speaker 1: hundred yards in Week five, and then the Jags last
Speaker 1: two weeks, four different tight ends have scored touchdowns against them,
Speaker 1: including including two for Eric Ebron. Well, it's because you've
Speaker 1: got Boollier and Ramsey on the outside, so you know,
Speaker 1: you peep your throw us find other you find other angles.
Speaker 1: They were good at tight ends before, they're not good
Speaker 1: against tight ends now. So James Conner I'm giving a
Speaker 1: B two as well. The Jags are top ten in
Speaker 1: the league against running backs and basically every category, but
Speaker 1: they've only shut down split back fields. They have trouble
Speaker 1: with bell cow. They faced four of them this year.
Speaker 1: They faced se kwan Zeke Lamar Miller who's a bell
Speaker 1: cow for what it's worth, and Kareem Hunt. Each of
Speaker 1: those players top ninety four yards and scored. So I
Speaker 1: think Connor that's that's kind of the low mark for
Speaker 1: Connor this week. Over on the other side, Blake Borrows
Speaker 1: might take a chance on a quarterback Leonard four Net.
Speaker 1: I'm giving a B grade to t j yelled in
Speaker 1: like an emergency D grade. Four Net bounced back in
Speaker 1: a big way last week, probably from uh most fantasy benches.
Speaker 1: Actually he probably wasn't started. Had twenty nine touches, a
Speaker 1: hundred and nine total yards and two scores, one on
Speaker 1: the ground one through the air. Both four net and
Speaker 1: yelled and each had five catches last week versus Indy.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. Four Net of course killed Pittsburgh both
Speaker 1: times last year, had five touchdowns in the two games,
Speaker 1: eighty one yards and one one on nine and the other.
Speaker 1: So he's snuffing two and a half touchdowns per game. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Steelers have allowed of running back rushing score in
Speaker 1: four the last five too, so I like for net
Speaker 1: here and then Dante Moncrief and d D. Westbrook, each
Speaker 1: giving a C grade two. Moncrieff scored three times against
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and four career games he's had ninety eight yards
Speaker 1: and a score last week for nets return seems to
Speaker 1: have helped him, and Westbrook led the team with ten
Speaker 1: targets last week. The Steelers have allowed a hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy three yards per game for the to the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position. That's eleventh most in the league. So there's
Speaker 1: gonna be something to go around here to the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position. And I think they're both kind of desperation
Speaker 1: see starts yeah best, Yeah. I don't like banking on
Speaker 1: the Jaguars passing game in any capacity does have to. Uh,
Speaker 1: Cincinnati takes on Baltimore. That's my matchup, and already talked
Speaker 1: about some of the players in this one, but I
Speaker 1: want to start first on the Cincinnati side, which we
Speaker 1: haven't talked about as much. Where'd that page? You go? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's there? We go right there. U. Joe Mixon is
Speaker 1: gonna play through his knee injury. The Ravens don't have
Speaker 1: the offensive firepower to put the Bengals into a deep
Speaker 1: hole early, I don't think so. Hopefully Mixing can remain
Speaker 1: involved throughout the game. The Ravens run defense that has
Speaker 1: been a lead all year, giving up just three point
Speaker 1: five yards per carry just three rushing touchdowns allowed all year,
Speaker 1: but they've been slightly more yielding the past three weeks
Speaker 1: after facing Alvin camer, Mark Ingram, Christian McCaffrey, and James Conner.
Speaker 1: Think about that run over the last three weeks for
Speaker 1: the Ravens run defense, Kimeara, Ingram, McCaffrey, Connor brutal and
Speaker 1: here comes Joe Mixon. They gave up four scores to
Speaker 1: those guys, two on the ground, two through the air,
Speaker 1: and like all of them Mixing is a dual threat back,
Speaker 1: so I kind of like him here. He's a B
Speaker 1: start in a tough matchup. Let's go to the passing game.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton's on the bench. Just not enough weapons here
Speaker 1: to overcome a very good Ravens defense and a good
Speaker 1: raven secondary. John Ross is on the bench. He's still
Speaker 1: only getting one in two receptions per game. If he
Speaker 1: doesn't get you that touchdown, you get nothing. And this
Speaker 1: is a defense that's only allowed six receivers to score
Speaker 1: on them all season, so John Ross is unlikely to
Speaker 1: get that touchdown you need. And then Tyler Boyd's the
Speaker 1: only other Bengal you care about, and he gets a
Speaker 1: B grade. Primarily works out of the slot where he'd
Speaker 1: normally face solid cornerback Tavon Young, but Young is battling
Speaker 1: an ankle injury, and Boyd could be in line to
Speaker 1: face back up Cyrus Jones, and I like that matchup
Speaker 1: a lot. The Ravens have a normally stout pass defense,
Speaker 1: but they have lumped a little bit lately, allowing fifteen
Speaker 1: receptions to wide receivers over the last three weeks. Trust
Speaker 1: me when I tell you that is a lot. And
Speaker 1: and Tyler Boyd's the only receiver of the Pulse. He
Speaker 1: might get all fifteen no opposing receivers at one hundred
Speaker 1: yards against the Ravens all season long. Although I'll note
Speaker 1: that Tyler Boyd did score in the first meeting, So
Speaker 1: again a B grade on Tyler Boyd. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the raven side. I already told you might take a chance.
Speaker 1: I mean quarterback Lamar Miller, Notain Miller, Lamar Jackson, Lamar Miller. No,
Speaker 1: that is not my guy. Let me be extreme, it
Speaker 1: never has been. Let me be very clear about that.
Speaker 1: UM and I for reasons I explained earlier in Michael
Speaker 1: Crabtews might take a chance of me wide receiver. I
Speaker 1: strongly prefer though, John Brown over Michael Crabtree. Just he's
Speaker 1: he's he's already rostered everywhere. Now. I think Brown will
Speaker 1: probably see a few less passes with Jackson at the
Speaker 1: home because Jackson's just not gonna pass as much. They're
Speaker 1: not gonna have Jackson throw his arm out of socket.
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco was throwing the second most passes in the NFL.
Speaker 1: They're not going to do that to a first start
Speaker 1: rookie here. So I think he sees fewer passes, but
Speaker 1: it's still such a savory matchup. The Bengal secondaries allowed
Speaker 1: five scores to wide receivers in their last three games,
Speaker 1: and it looks like he'll match up against Drake Kirkpatrick,
Speaker 1: who looks like his career is all but done and
Speaker 1: he's trying to work his way through the concussion protocol
Speaker 1: right now, so I don't even know that he's gonna go,
Speaker 1: and they might be able to go to a backup
Speaker 1: behind him. I like John Brown a lot for at
Speaker 1: least one good deep play and then from the running game.
Speaker 1: Alex Collins struggled against the Bengals defense earlier in the season,
Speaker 1: which is a weird phrase that we don't say very often.
Speaker 1: Struggled against the Bengals defense. You only had thirty five yards,
Speaker 1: But I don't care. First again, I don't think Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson's throwing a lot in this game. I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna run Collins a bunch. Second, the Bengals run defense
Speaker 1: is regressed badly as well. Over the last month of games,
Speaker 1: they ranked twenty nine and rushing attempts thirty and rushing
Speaker 1: yards allowed and twenty nine and rushing touchdowns allowed, and
Speaker 1: the Bengals can be without all three of their starting
Speaker 1: linebackers in this game. Nick Vigil and Preston Brown have
Speaker 1: already been ruled out in Vontes. Perfect is questionable. So
Speaker 1: it's set up for a potentially very good game for
Speaker 1: Alex Collins with a B grade. We're gonna work in
Speaker 1: one phone call, as we sometimes do at this very spot,
Speaker 1: and it's Joe in Toronto. That was the going guys,
Speaker 1: good Thanks for getting up early for us, even if
Speaker 1: you are in Eastern time. I'm in a half point
Speaker 1: per reception league, but we get bonus points for long touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I've I've been as my flex. I was gonna go
Speaker 1: with Emmanuel Sanders, but I'm liking Riddick. What do you think? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of like your angle there. First off, you're
Speaker 1: you do not sound like you're from Toronto at all.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of upset by this from Yeah, you're the transplant.
Speaker 1: I can can you put her on the phone, Riddick
Speaker 1: or Sanders. Riddicks can see I do not like Sanders.
Speaker 1: That matchup in a little bit. It is not It's
Speaker 1: not good news for Sanders. Riddick is essentially a wide
Speaker 1: receiver now and he's a wide receiver three this week,
Speaker 1: and if a Charge doesn't like Sanders and we'll find
Speaker 1: out more, I'm he's going to get a C grade
Speaker 1: for me later in the show. And Riddy is a
Speaker 1: C grade two and I think I like the games
Speaker 1: with more for the Lion, so I'll go ridic here. Okay,
Speaker 1: I can apple one more question, yes, because it's not
Speaker 1: lightning round. Okay, your thoughts on Howard this week? Jordan Howard? Uh,
Speaker 1: I did not have that game? I do. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts when Jordan well, and again, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't necessarily want to tip tip my entire hand on this,
Speaker 1: but I'm lukewarm on Howard and I think he's going
Speaker 1: to be somebody that you want to show a high
Speaker 1: degree of caution with against a very good Vikings run
Speaker 1: defense is the long and short of that. I've got
Speaker 1: a C grade coming for Howard. Okay, I appreciate it, guys,
Speaker 1: Thank you a lot. YEP. Bye, Joe Um. Joe will
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Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, a top seven fantasy running back. Brian No
Speaker 1: his past protection is too port I'm just kidding. Yeah,
Speaker 1: moving forward, he's gonna be top seven option, and looking
Speaker 1: at his schedule of vikings next week probably a mutual matchup.
Speaker 1: But the next week, December twelve, they played the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: and guess that's Aaron Jones birthday, So he has points birthday,
Speaker 1: give you wide Receiver seven rest of season, Aaron Rodgers birthday,
Speaker 1: by the way, same day they share a birthday for
Speaker 1: they share the same first name and the same birthday.
Speaker 1: Cardinals and and that's against and that's against the Cardinals
Speaker 1: again and then Falcons next week for Aaron Jones. That's
Speaker 1: that's all you need to know. Yes, RB seven moving forward,
Speaker 1: I'm done, uh No, because there's other running backs that
Speaker 1: are better, uh Todd Gurley, Kareem Hunt, Alvin Kamara, Melvin Gordon,
Speaker 1: James Conner, Christian McCaffrey, se Kwon Barkley, Ezekiel Elliott, David Johnson,
Speaker 1: Joe Mix and that's den So, James White, Naron Jones
Speaker 1: are kind of the next They're like eleven twelve in
Speaker 1: my mind. So I think he's an RB one, but
Speaker 1: he's not a top seven running back and it's because
Speaker 1: he's not getting enough carries. Twelve carries, fourteen, fifteen and
Speaker 1: eleven in his last four games. That's just not enough
Speaker 1: handoffs for me to make him a top se even back.
Speaker 1: The reason I landed on top seven, which sounds arbitrary,
Speaker 1: right you Normally we're you know, we were a base
Speaker 1: ten society. We work in top tens or maybe a
Speaker 1: top five, because it's half of that. You have seven fingers.
Speaker 1: That's why you you ended there on each hand. And
Speaker 1: the reason I finished at seven is I I look,
Speaker 1: I extrapolated his last month of games and then applied
Speaker 1: that too and created that average when his average game
Speaker 1: has been and he's got the seventh highest if you
Speaker 1: extrapolate the last month of games, he ranked seventh in
Speaker 1: running back scoring. So that's how we ended up at
Speaker 1: top seven. And I think is I looked at this,
Speaker 1: there are four guys for sure behind ahead of Aaron Jones.
Speaker 1: You had a list of ten. I think Girley, Camaric,
Speaker 1: Gordon and Connor to me are just far ahead, and
Speaker 1: by scoring, just by by points they are they are farmed.
Speaker 1: Hunt actually is a hair lower than the than Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones is average over the last month, and as is Barkley,
Speaker 1: and so is Christian McCaffrey. Because the touchdowns hadn't always
Speaker 1: been there. So when I went through that, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: well this thing gets a little bit trickier. And even
Speaker 1: if I set aside Girly Camara, Gordon Connard, now I
Speaker 1: gotta look at scheduling between Aaron Jones and Barkley and
Speaker 1: Haunt and Christian McCaffrey. Barkley has the toughest schedule left
Speaker 1: period of any of any runner. He doesn't play the
Speaker 1: Cardinals on his birthday, and he does not play the
Speaker 1: Cardinals on his birthday. Um Haunt has the sixth toughest.
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones only plays one defense in the top fifteen
Speaker 1: the rest of the year defense Jimmy. That might be
Speaker 1: a factory correct answer. Yes, question number two, should playoff
Speaker 1: bound teams attempt to acquire a j Green Matt Yes,
Speaker 1: because the schedule is so favorable at Baltimore, Cleveland, Denver
Speaker 1: at Chargers, Oakland at Cleveland, and that's Cincinnati Cleveland. The
Speaker 1: game in Week sixteen is going to be the game
Speaker 1: that decides many, many, many fantasy championships because both of
Speaker 1: those defenses are horrible, and both of those offenses are
Speaker 1: competent uh the standings too. They need to win to
Speaker 1: stay in the playoff hunt. And their defense is, like
Speaker 1: I said, absolutely horrible. Their bottom five against the run
Speaker 1: and the pass, so they're gonna need to chuck the
Speaker 1: ball to stay in these games. Yeah. Absolutely should try
Speaker 1: to get A J. Green Okay, Yeah, not a ton
Speaker 1: to add. He's doubtful this week, could still play. I
Speaker 1: hope he doesn't against the Ravens, that's what he gets healthy.
Speaker 1: But like Matt said, the rest of the schedule is great.
Speaker 1: The only road stop, the roadblock on the way is
Speaker 1: at at the Clippers, which has become a tough matchup.
Speaker 1: But yeah, go get them, go, get them correct the
Speaker 1: correct answers. Yes, And I don't know that I would
Speaker 1: have said that had they not upgraded him too doubtful
Speaker 1: this week. Yeah, that helps. That helps me feel a
Speaker 1: lot better. I was at this time three days ago.
Speaker 1: I was really nervous, like maybe A. J. Green doesn't
Speaker 1: play again, and maybe not well never not this year.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's still scenario that's out there, but that doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to be the case anymore. It looks like he's
Speaker 1: just gonna miss a couple more games well, and this
Speaker 1: might be already to match up this week. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: fin Yeah, right, So miss this one. Go ahead. I
Speaker 1: want you on the field for Oakland and Cleveland in
Speaker 1: my semifinals, in my championship, in my league, and I've
Speaker 1: already put a couple of trade offers out there to
Speaker 1: try to get a j Green in real life. Vanes Hot.
Speaker 1: Question number three. If Lamar Jackson starts the rest of
Speaker 1: the games for the Ravens, where will he rank among
Speaker 1: quarterbacks from this point forward? Will he be a top
Speaker 1: ten quarterback? Will he be ranked eleventh through sixteen to
Speaker 1: twenty or worse than twenty? So you got four different options,
Speaker 1: top ten or eleven through fifteen, or sixteen through twenty
Speaker 1: or worse than twenty, Ryan, I so want to go
Speaker 1: eleven to fifteen here, just because we're doing a lot
Speaker 1: of rest of season schedule, as we should be in
Speaker 1: the Ravens. Rest is eason is absolutely insane when it
Speaker 1: comes to uh easiness for quarterbacks Bengals, Raiders, Falcons, Chiefs, Bucks,
Speaker 1: that's just that's nuts. But Jackson is a rookie. He's
Speaker 1: probably gonna put up more points running than throwing. I feel,
Speaker 1: so I gotta put him just outside eleven fifteen range
Speaker 1: and go sixteen to twenty which makes him very startable
Speaker 1: in two quarterback formats the rest of season, very to
Speaker 1: your sixteen to twenty. All right, I know I know
Speaker 1: where Charch is gonna fall in this. He's gonna get
Speaker 1: really excited and he's going to talk about the rushing numbers.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna talk about the passing numbers. If you
Speaker 1: take that schedule, that rest of season schedule that Brian
Speaker 1: just talked about, and you add up what there's these
Speaker 1: averages are going to be, what these snuffs are gonna be.
Speaker 1: Two nine four passing yards and two point one touchdowns
Speaker 1: per game is what the average quarterback is throwing against
Speaker 1: these two nine four and two point two point one
Speaker 1: two point one against these last six teams. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: not top ten, that's top five. He might be that good,
Speaker 1: so you're going top ten for sure. Okay. Uh, let's
Speaker 1: just say hypothetically for Lamar Jackson. If right now he's
Speaker 1: getting about five touches a game in those in those
Speaker 1: and yet he's still rushing for fifteen to thirty yards
Speaker 1: in every game on five plays, What's how many rushing
Speaker 1: yards can we safely say he's going to have if
Speaker 1: he's the quarterback for every play forty forty. Okay, I've
Speaker 1: got forty five close, so let's do that. I got
Speaker 1: forty three point seven that'll work to But to be
Speaker 1: cleared out, he's got seventy yard upside eight yard up
Speaker 1: rushing rushing yard upside for Lamar Jackson. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: run for forty fifty sixty seventy eight yards, you've got
Speaker 1: a coin flips chance of a touchdown in any game.
Speaker 1: So let's give him half a rushing touchdown in every game.
Speaker 1: Then he's not even though the opposing teams are giving
Speaker 1: up two passing yards, he's not as good a passer
Speaker 1: as the teams that have faced these guys. Let's just
Speaker 1: let's knock him all the way down to two ten alright,
Speaker 1: So let's knock him all the way down to two
Speaker 1: passing yards and about half as many touchdowns, about one
Speaker 1: and a half what these teams are giving up. Just
Speaker 1: to be conservative, if Lamar Jackson's gonna average forty rushing yards,
Speaker 1: half a touchdown, two passing yards, and one and a
Speaker 1: half passing touchdowns per game, easily attainable very modest numbers.
Speaker 1: He's quarterback nine. That's nine, and those are times. I
Speaker 1: think that. I think those are all almost like bottom
Speaker 1: basement floor type numbers four Lamar Jackson. He will be
Speaker 1: a top ten fantasy quarterback the rest of the year
Speaker 1: if he starts the rest of the games. Who watch
Speaker 1: him start this game and get yanked half way through
Speaker 1: for our uh? But this it illustrates what a rushing
Speaker 1: quarterback can do that a a immobile quarterback cannot do.
Speaker 1: Why was Dak Prescott a top seven quarterback last week?
Speaker 1: Was last year? Wasn't his arm? It was the rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns outside of Kansas City, l A. I cannot watch,
Speaker 1: wait to watch accident. It's gonna be fun, fun, fun watching.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the matchups, including Tampa taking on
Speaker 1: the Giants. UH Stu Beard another chance to take apart
Speaker 1: your secondary. I contend your secondary is better that the
Speaker 1: Eli apple was additioned by subtraction. But what do you
Speaker 1: think about Ryan Fitzpatrick in the passing game? In this one?
Speaker 1: About this? That? Uh? For Fitzpatrick four passing games of
Speaker 1: four indred passing dred plus passing yards of this season
Speaker 1: has already matched the record set for most of the
Speaker 1: season done by Peyton Manning and Dan Marino. Well, and
Speaker 1: by the way, his four yard passing games have come
Speaker 1: in four full games. He's at four full game and
Speaker 1: did he started forwarder yards and all of them? Ye,
Speaker 1: So you gotta give him at least to see in
Speaker 1: this one. Uh, I'll give him a B, all right,
Speaker 1: I just need to worry about the bucks on the
Speaker 1: road a little bit. Well, you want me to give
Speaker 1: him an aid, don't you know? Actually don't. All right,
Speaker 1: I'll give him a B. Is not even the Giants
Speaker 1: are allowing over three passing yards for the game and
Speaker 1: two an half touchdown, So I'll give Fitzpatrick the B
Speaker 1: for chart here be also for Mike Evans. Opposing number
Speaker 1: one receivers have struggled against the Giants. Only one is
Speaker 1: top the hundred yards and they only given up two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So I only have the B for Evans in this game.
Speaker 1: I'll get to Seawan Jackson to see has had some
Speaker 1: success against the Giants in the past in the Meadowlands. Uh,
Speaker 1: specifically that returned touchdown in twenty ten. That ripped my
Speaker 1: heart out and I kept Hi out of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But anyway, outside of Alshon Jeffrey, the only wide receivers
Speaker 1: and not to touchdown against New York were secondary options
Speaker 1: of the speedier variety. So I like Jackson here he
Speaker 1: gets a see I got Chris god went on the bench,
Speaker 1: did top a hundred yards last week but was last
Speaker 1: and routes run by Tampa Bay wide receivers. So he's
Speaker 1: on the bench and this one as is Adam Humphreys.
Speaker 1: Giants are only allowing twelve catches per game to wide receivers,
Speaker 1: so the not enough to go around for humphrees. Here
Speaker 1: it's only uh Jackson and Evans for white outs from
Speaker 1: e they're playing in this game, o J. Howard, give
Speaker 1: him a B. It's a birthday eve game for o
Speaker 1: J birthday on Monday. On paper, the Giants have been
Speaker 1: tough against tight ends, but guys like George Kittle, zach Ertz,
Speaker 1: you know Howard's kind of in that realm. They've done
Speaker 1: all right. So I like Howard in this game. I'll
Speaker 1: give him a B because again, any tight end with
Speaker 1: the pulse is stortable in this day and age, except
Speaker 1: Cameron Brad. I have him on the bench, and then
Speaker 1: then Peyton Barber. He's looking good. I was running hard
Speaker 1: last week. He's healthy, He's run hard. The Giants have
Speaker 1: surrendered fourteen total touchdowns to running backs. And even though
Speaker 1: he's Rogers is a threat to take some of the
Speaker 1: passing game work, I like Barbara in this game to
Speaker 1: give him a B over the Giants. And before you
Speaker 1: go to the Giants, let me mention this about Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: who rolls in with a streak of four four hundred
Speaker 1: yard games and all four of his full games. The
Speaker 1: last time the Giants gave up a four hundred yard
Speaker 1: passing game was forty nine games ago. So I think
Speaker 1: the street could very easily come to an end here,
Speaker 1: but you never know. Like uh, like I mentioned in
Speaker 1: take hom seventy points is what teams are snuffing in
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Roads. So it's catching on. So for that reason,
Speaker 1: kwon o b j A, I'm not gonna go there,
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepard, he gets some be slot receivers have slayd
Speaker 1: the Bucks of this season. Evan Ingram give him a
Speaker 1: B as well. Tamp tight ends. Eight different tight ends
Speaker 1: have top fifty yards against Tampa Bay this year. That's
Speaker 1: a lot of tight ends stopping fifty yards. Great spot
Speaker 1: for Ingram and for all those reasons, Eli was my
Speaker 1: take a chance on the quarterback, get get it done.
Speaker 1: Eli that let's hope. So if not, now when right?
Speaker 1: This is it? Tennessee takes on Indianapolis Matt. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: kind of like Marcus Mariotta. He was my provisional, my provisional.
Speaker 1: Take a chance on me in case this whole of
Speaker 1: Mark Jackson thank blows up and he doesn't start. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Before I get into that, I wanted to say thanks
Speaker 1: to Skip Lisa and Mr Timmers on Twitter. Uh they
Speaker 1: donated to uh the American Red Cross Fund for the
Speaker 1: California wildfire is in northern California. I spent a year
Speaker 1: at Chico State and uh it's right next to uh
Speaker 1: where I went to school out there, So uh, thanks
Speaker 1: to those guys for helping out. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: people really suffering in that part of the country. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think it's text c A wildfires to nine to
Speaker 1: donate ten bucks anyway, Um, Marcus Mariott to Chart gave
Speaker 1: him a B grade. I think would that would that
Speaker 1: be fair? You like Mario to that much? No, I've
Speaker 1: got I've got a I've graded him as an eight
Speaker 1: point five, which is safely right in the middle of
Speaker 1: the B grade. Yeah. Over the past six games, non
Speaker 1: Bills quarterbacks are averaging three hundred twelve yards and two
Speaker 1: point four touchdowns against the Colts. That includes multiple touchdowns
Speaker 1: to Blake Bordles, Sam Donald, and Derek Carr. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Mario does a solid B. Dion Lewis I'm giving
Speaker 1: a C grade too. He's averaging over twenty touches since
Speaker 1: Week seven. The problem is he's only scored one touchdown
Speaker 1: in the last eight games and only topped one hundred
Speaker 1: total yards three times on the season. The Colts are
Speaker 1: allowing only a hundred and fifty four total yards per
Speaker 1: game to opposing backs, so that's gonna be split with
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry a little bit, who's also a CEE. Henry's
Speaker 1: had three touchdown runs in his last sixteen carries, which
Speaker 1: includes four touchdowns in the last three weeks. No, I
Speaker 1: don't want to. I don't want to bank on him
Speaker 1: getting the ultimate vulture. He hasn't ran for more than
Speaker 1: fourteen yards in any carry this season, though, and the
Speaker 1: Colts have been good against power runners. Adrian Peterson held
Speaker 1: the twenty yards four net had UH fifty three running
Speaker 1: yards last week on twenty four carries. Hi Brian you
Speaker 1: know what we call the ultimate vulture vol tron vault tron. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: So by the way, Dean Lewis, but you know, since
Speaker 1: we've already broke the cadence here, I think Dan Lewis
Speaker 1: is sitting at a big game through the air, six
Speaker 1: different runners of top fifty receiving yards, three different runners
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks. If top fifty receiving yards,
Speaker 1: and that's all Lewis has, bit Henry's not taking any
Speaker 1: of that action. Here's what I think I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna come up with. I think he's gonna come up
Speaker 1: with like total yards and no touchdowns. Maybe. But if
Speaker 1: he if he does that on six receptions, you said,
Speaker 1: you gotta pretty, you gotta B grade right there, I
Speaker 1: think I think it's a C grade for me. Right
Speaker 1: He doesn't score enough to get a B grade. That's
Speaker 1: the problem. B grades are for scores. I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry I ever interrupted you. Right now, Corey Davis,
Speaker 1: he gets a C grade. Davis averages a hundred and
Speaker 1: forty three yards in the two games in which he
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown. He get averages forty one yards in
Speaker 1: the seven games where he hasn't scored a touchdown. It's
Speaker 1: the middle of the road matchup for him, so only
Speaker 1: gets the C grade. And Cameron Batson was already might
Speaker 1: take a chance on me quarterback or wide receiver. Over
Speaker 1: on the other side, Andrew Luck, he's getting a B grade.
Speaker 1: Luck has never lost to the Titans. Never. You are
Speaker 1: killing me on your luck, hatred. What is wrong with you?
Speaker 1: What he has? Last week? You had him on the bench.
Speaker 1: This week he's filled throwing three or four touchdowns and
Speaker 1: extraight games. B grade this week? Yes, yeah, this week? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What's to not make him an A grade in this matchup?
Speaker 1: The Titans have allowed two touchdowns two touchdown passes in
Speaker 1: five games this year. They've only they've allowed zero or
Speaker 1: one in the other four. So I like him to
Speaker 1: score throw two touchdowns in this game. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I like him to throw three or four, which
Speaker 1: he's had to do to be fantasy relevant. He can
Speaker 1: get three or four against Malcolm Butler by himself. He's
Speaker 1: gonna catch the ball to t Y Hilton. I'm giving
Speaker 1: a B speaking of Malcolm Butler. Hilton will likely draw Butler,
Speaker 1: who's allowing a passer rating of a hundred and forty
Speaker 1: two on passes in his coverage, and Hilton has had
Speaker 1: to yard games and four scores in his last three
Speaker 1: times against Tennessee. Jack Doyle and Eric Ebron both getting
Speaker 1: B grades. The only worthwhile tight end the Titans have
Speaker 1: faced zach Ertz. He had ten catches in a hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve yards Abrons seventh overall in red zone targets
Speaker 1: in the league this season and second red zone touchdown catches,
Speaker 1: and Doyle had a hundred and forty four yards in
Speaker 1: him score in the two meetings with the Titans last year.
Speaker 1: Marlon Mack is on the bench. Though Alex Collins is
Speaker 1: the only fantasy relevant running back to score against the
Speaker 1: Titans this year, They've been very good against the run.
Speaker 1: Only one back his top seventy yards against them all year.
Speaker 1: So Marlon Mack is on the bench. Bench, bench man,
Speaker 1: he's not a touchdown. You need to work, You need
Speaker 1: a therapist to work through whatever you got against the Colts.
Speaker 1: Did the did the Colts touch you appropriately as a child?
Speaker 1: Gave everybody but Marlon Mack a B grade and I'm negative, Yes,
Speaker 1: it's just a grades for everybody. Then in charges world,
Speaker 1: start them all this is the Colts have been an
Speaker 1: awesome offense that I don't know how you end up
Speaker 1: with Colts matchups every week, but I demand the Colt
Speaker 1: matchup next week, right the wrongs done by you to
Speaker 1: this team over the last two weeks. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to get some coffee. What I miss nothing, absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1: When we come back Denver taking on the Chargers. Philip
Speaker 1: Lindsay has been one of the bright finds of the
Speaker 1: fantasy season, but a tricky matchup will tell you if
Speaker 1: you dare start him this week when we come back.
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Speaker 1: with you. Let's dive right back into the matchups, beginning
Speaker 1: with Denver taking on the Los Angeles Chargers. A note
Speaker 1: on the Denver side of this that you probably don't know.
Speaker 1: Two weeks ago they lost their starting center. This week
Speaker 1: they're starting guard Max car see it towards a c
Speaker 1: L in practice, and so the Broncos starting offensive line
Speaker 1: is gonna have three players that are playing at their
Speaker 1: unnatural positions and two of them are backups, so the
Speaker 1: offensive line is a wreck for Denver right now, and
Speaker 1: that has pushed down my expectations for everybody, including Case Kingdom,
Speaker 1: who's on the bench. He's averaging one touchdown per game
Speaker 1: since the opener and the Charges are allowing just one
Speaker 1: touchdown past per game since Week five, so it feels
Speaker 1: like a one touchdown game coming for Case Kingdom here.
Speaker 1: Only one quarterback has hit three hundred yards against the
Speaker 1: Chargers all year, and Keendom short is you know, one
Speaker 1: of his best weapons to Marius Thomas, and the offense
Speaker 1: didn't look quite right without him last time we saw them,
Speaker 1: so I don't love this matchup for Keendom or any
Speaker 1: of his receivers. Let's go to Emmanuel Sanders, who has
Speaker 1: just got a C grade here in a brutal matchup
Speaker 1: against Desmond King out of the slot. King is only
Speaker 1: allowed one touchdown in his coverage all year. And what's more,
Speaker 1: get this, the average game in his coverage is three
Speaker 1: hatches for thirty one yards. That's it. So brutal matchup
Speaker 1: for Emmanuel Sanders. The C grade is only out of
Speaker 1: respect for him and the fact that this offense largely
Speaker 1: goes passing offense largely goes through his hands. As you
Speaker 1: can imagine if I only have a sea on Emmanuel Sanders,
Speaker 1: Courtland cut certain Courtland Sutton is safely on the bench,
Speaker 1: especially with shadow coverage from Casey Award coming. I want
Speaker 1: no part of Courtland Sutton in this one. Um, Jeff Hireman,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to mention him here. He's seen twelve
Speaker 1: red zone targets in the past seven games, and in
Speaker 1: the past six games, the Chargers have allowed four fifty
Speaker 1: yard games and four scores to the tight end position.
Speaker 1: As alluded to earlier, we're at a stage where Jeff
Speaker 1: Hireman's a top ten tight end because he's there. That's
Speaker 1: all that's left. I think he's legit though, and he's
Speaker 1: a name doesn't scream uh sex appeal when it comes
Speaker 1: to fantasy football. But he's wait wait wait, Heierman is
Speaker 1: German for sex appeal. It actually is. Yeah, there, looked
Speaker 1: it up. Yes, just looked it up my translator. So
Speaker 1: Jeff Hireman is a C is a C grade. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the running game for Philip Lindsay. You need
Speaker 1: to know that Royce Freeman will return in this game,
Speaker 1: and when he comes back. It turns what had been
Speaker 1: eighteen rushes per game for Philip Lindsay back to where
Speaker 1: he normally is, which is twelve. That that hurts a bit. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: the Chargers are beatible run defense or giving a five
Speaker 1: yards per carry over the last three weeks, and I
Speaker 1: really like Lindsay through the air. The Chargers have allowed
Speaker 1: the second most receiving yards to runners, including at least
Speaker 1: fifty one yards in seven of the past eight games.
Speaker 1: If we can get to fifty one or more for Lindsay,
Speaker 1: he's probably sitting at a one hundred yard total game.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. With the offensive line problems I mentioned,
Speaker 1: I see a lot of short dumpop stuff coming to
Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay. I actually looked up what means in German.
Speaker 1: It means this year. Doesn't really he's this year man.
Speaker 1: He's this year man. Man didn't start playing football until
Speaker 1: ninth grade. That's fascinating. Third round pick out of Ohio State. Now,
Speaker 1: how about that he's this year's man six five and
Speaker 1: weights Manu Royce Freeman back on the bench. He's he
Speaker 1: before his injury, his foot injury, he was getting about
Speaker 1: nine ish carries a game, and he was totally touchdown dependents.
Speaker 1: He wasn't doing a lot with the nine carries. Here's
Speaker 1: the problem for a touchdown dependent back. The Chargers have
Speaker 1: allowed one rushing touchdown in their last six games, so
Speaker 1: a terrible time to start Royce Freeman. Unfortunately, let's go
Speaker 1: to the let's go to the Chargers side of this.
Speaker 1: I like the passing game. Philip Rivers only quarterback in
Speaker 1: the NFL multiple passing touchdowns in every game this year.
Speaker 1: Denver secondary has improved since being pretty wobbly at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the year. Russell Wilson, Deshaun Watson, Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: twice did quality passers like those guys, averaging two yards
Speaker 1: two and a half touchdowns. That's why I still like
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers here, and he still gets an A grade
Speaker 1: because I think he's in that Wilson, Watson Mahomes level
Speaker 1: of production. To eighty and two and a half sounds right. Uh.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Rivers average game this year almost
Speaker 1: exactly two eighty and two and a half, So I
Speaker 1: like him. I like Keenan Allen to a B grade.
Speaker 1: In two meetings with the Broncos a season ago, Alan
Speaker 1: did very little, averaging four catches for thirty eight yards,
Speaker 1: although he did score once. The broncos best cornerback is
Speaker 1: Chris Harris, who plays the slot, and that's where Alan
Speaker 1: lines up the most. So I don't love this matchup,
Speaker 1: but I'll note that Larry Fitzgerald scored from the slot
Speaker 1: against the Broncos three weeks ago. Tyrone Williams startable in
Speaker 1: this game. Williams has been held scoreless in his last
Speaker 1: four with Denver and averages twenty five yards per game
Speaker 1: in those but that was what they when they had
Speaker 1: to keep to leave and they're not as good this year.
Speaker 1: Denver secondaries allowed seven scores and four one hund yard
Speaker 1: games to receivers in the last five weeks. So I
Speaker 1: like Tyrolle Williams, and if you're really in a pench,
Speaker 1: although I've got a bench grade on him, you could
Speaker 1: throw a flyer at Mike Williams. Um I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna get helped out both on the ground and through
Speaker 1: the air by Melvin Gordon. Tough matchup on the ground.
Speaker 1: Will acknowledge that the last four weeks, the Broncos have
Speaker 1: allowed running backs to gain an NFL worst two and
Speaker 1: a half yards per carry and zero scores. But here
Speaker 1: comes Gordon, who has scored in every game since the opener.
Speaker 1: He's got eleven touchdowns, third most among all runners, and
Speaker 1: crushing it in the passing game with more than fifty
Speaker 1: receiving yards and half his games. Plus he gets in
Speaker 1: incredibly consistent usage with at least fifteen carries in every
Speaker 1: game but one. You've got a start them, and you've
Speaker 1: got an A grade on Melvin Gordon. Even though the
Speaker 1: Broncos run defense has improved a lot, Remember when Austin
Speaker 1: Ekeler was a thing? Not anymore. We're old enough to
Speaker 1: remember that. Yeah, six rushing attempts over the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: That's it. And now you get a good run defense
Speaker 1: or improved run defense and Ekeler safely on the bench.
Speaker 1: Next matchup is the Oakland Raiders taking on the Arizona Cardinals. Brian,
Speaker 1: this is the NFL's worst run defense against the NFL's
Speaker 1: second worst run defense. Already gave Doug Martin as might
Speaker 1: take a chance on the runner. What other Raiders do
Speaker 1: you like? If any what other Raiders? Yeah? These are
Speaker 1: both bad teams on paper, but only one of these
Speaker 1: teams was sacked ten times by the forty Niners, so
Speaker 1: they're a way worse than the So I'd like the
Speaker 1: Cardinals in this game. Don't like a ton of raiders
Speaker 1: outside of a muscle Hamster. Let's start with Jared Cook,
Speaker 1: who uh hopefully you sold high on during his hot
Speaker 1: streak and acquired someone like Jeff Heierman or something like that,
Speaker 1: because he's been h pretty bad lately and it's gonna
Speaker 1: continue in this game. Tough matchup on paper for Cook.
Speaker 1: Cardinals were allowing only forty yards and under four catches
Speaker 1: per game to tight ends. George Kittle and Zach Ertz
Speaker 1: crap the bed by their standards against the Cardinals, so
Speaker 1: I'm not liking cooking this game. Just to see for him.
Speaker 1: Over the wide receivers, nothing to like hear outside of
Speaker 1: Seth Roberts might take a chance on the receiver George's
Speaker 1: Brandon Felt gets Patrick Pain Buddha Baker out. That's uh,
Speaker 1: bodes very well for Seth Roberts. Also bodes well for
Speaker 1: Jalen Richard, who I will he's not as good as
Speaker 1: play as Muscle Hamster as this week, but I say
Speaker 1: he's a PPR hail Mary Dart throw in this game
Speaker 1: for sure, but Derek Carr is still on your bench
Speaker 1: for Oakland, quickly over to Arizona. David Johnson easy a
Speaker 1: two three combo yards in the two games with Byron left,
Speaker 1: which as the o C the Raiders are allowing on
Speaker 1: seventy combo yards per game to opposing back, so you
Speaker 1: do the math there, ej is in a smash spot
Speaker 1: for that reason, Chase Edmonds was might take a chance
Speaker 1: on me running back over to the wide receivers. Give
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald the b uh. He has also benefited from
Speaker 1: the left witch craft with nearly a thirty witchcraft with
Speaker 1: nearly a thirty percent target share with left, which by
Speaker 1: ronning the plays for Arizona, so which by n bye
Speaker 1: ronning left, which by n by running right. That was
Speaker 1: too much. That was well below snuff. It's gets to
Speaker 1: be for the Raiders. Wou allowed six wide receiver touchdowns
Speaker 1: in the last four games. But I still love Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk on the bench, love him long term. But just
Speaker 1: five catches so far in the left with left which
Speaker 1: era and I don't see the volume needed in this one.
Speaker 1: So he's on the bench. Ricky Seals Jones will give
Speaker 1: him a see though opposing tight ends have totaled six
Speaker 1: touchdowns on the Raiders last six games. Probably more they
Speaker 1: could be with the basically at the tight end. And
Speaker 1: then uh, Josh Rosen though still on the bench for me,
Speaker 1: all right, uh really I like to I think Josh
Speaker 1: Rosen's absolutely startable against the Raiders. Well and what yeah
Speaker 1: two quarterback leads? Yeah, I see great, I see. I
Speaker 1: never see grade on him anybody against the Raiders, any
Speaker 1: functional quarterback with two arms, you know, we only need
Speaker 1: one one armed, a non zero armed. You might not
Speaker 1: even need a quarterback? Is the problem to beat the Raiders?
Speaker 1: Now there is that. There's apic. That's a team that
Speaker 1: can't if they're going to stake out a big lead.
Speaker 1: Then I think Rosen's already got his two quarterback. He's viable.
Speaker 1: And uh, I think dart Throve for sure he has
Speaker 1: a DFS dart throw. I kind of I like that
Speaker 1: him and Christian Kirk is a df as a cheap
Speaker 1: DFS play. There's a little something there. I about je
Speaker 1: Edmonds instead, maybe when we come back the Sunday Night
Speaker 1: and the Monday night game, including the epic Monday Night
Speaker 1: game no longer in Mexico, city that won't stop having
Speaker 1: a fantasy fiesta, will it? Matt, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yea. When we come back. This is Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly presented by Devani's On the Man. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the show. Fantasy Football Weekly. Final segment of the day.
Speaker 1: Uh and that means lightning rounds coming. We because of
Speaker 1: the early start, we have two free phone lines right
Speaker 1: now where we normally do not, so encourage you to
Speaker 1: get queued up for that. We always start the final
Speaker 1: segment with premature speculation. These are players you want to
Speaker 1: pick up now that the rest of your rest of
Speaker 1: your league will try to pick up next week. And
Speaker 1: you already got him, Brian desperate for a win next week?
Speaker 1: Why don't you add Pierre Garzon who has the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers on tap. Garson should be fully uh fully
Speaker 1: practicing this week. San Francisco is on there by. He
Speaker 1: hasn't been much of nothing this year, but uh, great
Speaker 1: matchup and you'll be viable play next week, all right.
Speaker 1: I got Ricky Seals Jones, who's twenty six percent own
Speaker 1: had five catches for fifty one yards last week as
Speaker 1: they started targeting him more since Byron left, which took
Speaker 1: over the offense rest of season schedule against the tight end,
Speaker 1: Oakland worst against the tight end, Chargers seventh worst. Packers
Speaker 1: they're the best against tight ends. But then in the
Speaker 1: fantasy playoffs Lions fifth worst, Atlanta tenth worst, and the
Speaker 1: Rams who have given up some super huge games to
Speaker 1: the tight end so far this season. So you could
Speaker 1: do worse than Ricky Seals Jones at your tight end slot.
Speaker 1: What if I told you there was a kicker available
Speaker 1: right now who has made one percent of his field
Speaker 1: goal attempts this year, plays for one of the best
Speaker 1: offenses in the NFL, will play six of seven games
Speaker 1: either indoors of this of the remaining games this year,
Speaker 1: six of seven or either indoors or warm weather outdoor games.
Speaker 1: He's got one cold weather game left. That's it. That's
Speaker 1: what I was going to say. What if I told you?
Speaker 1: What if I told you in a world where Matt
Speaker 1: Bryant is available in almost every league. He hasn't played
Speaker 1: since Week six because of a think growing injuries. I
Speaker 1: recall he is now back. He will kick for the
Speaker 1: Falcons for the first time in whatever six weeks, and
Speaker 1: because of that long layoff, he's available in almost every
Speaker 1: league you can get one of the best kickers and
Speaker 1: never have to sweat any of the any of the
Speaker 1: weather games except one. The rest of the way, Matt Bryant,
Speaker 1: all right, let's get our final two matchups in, beginning
Speaker 1: with the Vikings taking on the Chicago Bears, And for
Speaker 1: this one, it's UM, the game of which I feel
Speaker 1: pretty good about. The Vikings passing attack. Good quarterbacks like
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson and Tom Brady and Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford are have hit the Bears pretty hard, averaging two
Speaker 1: seventy yards and two and a half touchdowns, and I
Speaker 1: think Kirk Cousins is right in that mix. And the
Speaker 1: only worry for you for me is that is whether
Speaker 1: the offensive line can hold up and stop kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: from UM. We'll make forced kirk Cousins into bad plays,
Speaker 1: and hopefully that will not be the case and he
Speaker 1: won't end up short circuiting a bunch of drives that way.
Speaker 1: I really like Stefan Diggs in this matchup, and here's why. First,
Speaker 1: he's played well against the Bears historically, has scored a
Speaker 1: touchdown in four or five career games against the Bears. Uh.
Speaker 1: And they Bears have got one really good outside corner,
Speaker 1: Kyle Fuller, but he only plays one side of the field.
Speaker 1: His snaps are on one side of the field. So
Speaker 1: we're just gonna hang the kwant treadwell out to dry
Speaker 1: on that side, and we'll put Diggs on Prince Amukamara
Speaker 1: on the other side of the field. And that is
Speaker 1: a winnable matchup for Stefan Diggs and a grade for Digs,
Speaker 1: a B grade for Cousins, and a B grade for
Speaker 1: Adam Theland in the slot because he matches up with
Speaker 1: one of the best slack corners in the league, Bryce Callahan,
Speaker 1: who has only allowed one touchdown into his coverage all year,
Speaker 1: and in the four games the Eland has played against
Speaker 1: the Bears is average game four exceptions thirty six yards
Speaker 1: and he's never scored against Chicago. So that's all that together,
Speaker 1: and I can only get to a B grade on
Speaker 1: Adam Feeling that's a snuff game right there for sure. Uh.
Speaker 1: Staying with the passing game, Kyle Rudolph just to see
Speaker 1: grade here, as he is now not scored or top
Speaker 1: forty one yards and five straight games, and I'm a
Speaker 1: little bit worried that he's gonna get stuck blocking and
Speaker 1: for a lot of this game as well. He did
Speaker 1: post six catches forty five yards and to score last
Speaker 1: year in Chicago. Though, Um so there's your ray of optimism.
Speaker 1: And the Bears have given up a tight end touchdown
Speaker 1: in five of the last eight games, so you've got
Speaker 1: a little bit of hope there as well. As we
Speaker 1: look at the rushing game. Everybody seems to believe and
Speaker 1: I do too, they're gonna try hard to get Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook going in this one. In the four games he's
Speaker 1: played this year, he's topped one yards from scrimmage at
Speaker 1: all but one. And Chicago has only allowed one rushing
Speaker 1: touchdown to running backs, and they've allowed the fourth fewest
Speaker 1: rushing yards the position, and that I don't take that lightly,
Speaker 1: but I'll mention this. Over the last three games well,
Speaker 1: and this Chicago has allowed just two point seven yards
Speaker 1: per carry. Your glimmer hope, though, is that they have
Speaker 1: been gashed through the air by running backs, allowing the
Speaker 1: most receptions to runners over the last five weeks. So
Speaker 1: there's your angle with Dalvin Cook is through the air
Speaker 1: and they will throw to him copiously. I believe in
Speaker 1: this game. So that's your angle, and that's why I'm
Speaker 1: sticking with a B grade for Dalvin Cook. Without that,
Speaker 1: he would have been a C grade. Latavius Murray goes
Speaker 1: on the bench, you know you need touchdowns when when
Speaker 1: Cook is back, you need touchdowns from Murray. And that's
Speaker 1: tough to do against the team that's given up one
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown all year. Let's go to the bare side
Speaker 1: of this matchup from Mr Biscuit. He's been absolutely terrific
Speaker 1: ever since the Week four blow up game against the Bucks,
Speaker 1: in which he has put together such good stats that
Speaker 1: he's basically been rushing and receiving. He's basically basically been
Speaker 1: like starting Philip Rivers with a free patent Barber rolled
Speaker 1: into it. Because of the rushing numbers. Happy Trombone, I
Speaker 1: would say, I reckon, Well, I think you're right. It's
Speaker 1: happy trombone for Mits Troubinsky. Um, now here's where it
Speaker 1: gets tricky. I like the subtle Peyton Barber dig by
Speaker 1: the way, Peyton Barber is only good enough to be
Speaker 1: a outputsk is happy trombone in the fantasy industry, Yes
Speaker 1: he is. But it could come to an end here
Speaker 1: the Vikings. Other than the meltdown game to Jared Goff
Speaker 1: and the Rams, the Vikings are only allowing an average
Speaker 1: of two hundred thirty six passing yards and zero point
Speaker 1: eight passing touchdowns. That's crazy. The Vikings only allowed twelve
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game two quarterbacks, so I don't know
Speaker 1: that Robinsky is gonna have a lot of success there now.
Speaker 1: If Anthony Barr can't go, I think that could open
Speaker 1: up some running lanes um at the second level for
Speaker 1: Mitch Drabinsky. A B grade for Drobinsky. I thought you
Speaker 1: were going to get down to like a C grade
Speaker 1: and it was gonna be sad trombone Ski, I can't
Speaker 1: because he's been so dark good ever since week four.
Speaker 1: I can't go down to a C grade on Mitch Drabisky.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about his receivers. Allen Robinson likely gets xavier
Speaker 1: roads and a size versus size matchup, and Rhodes hasn't
Speaker 1: allowed to touchdown in his covered since Week two and
Speaker 1: since the Vikings again the debacle against the Rams, they
Speaker 1: haven't allowed a single wide receiver touchdown, which is amazing,
Speaker 1: and only three receivers are top fifty yards against the Vikings.
Speaker 1: It's their past defense has been really good, so Robinson
Speaker 1: only gets a C grade here. Taylor Gabriel is on
Speaker 1: the bench zero catches last week, and he likely gets
Speaker 1: Trey Waynes and his speed versus speed matchup. Waynes is
Speaker 1: only allowed uh touchdowns in his coverage in one game
Speaker 1: again the Rams game. Outside of that, he isn't given
Speaker 1: up any touchdowns any other receivers. Trey Burton and a
Speaker 1: grade for Trey Burton, although he has failed to top
Speaker 1: forty yards and four of his past five games, but
Speaker 1: he has found the end zone in five of the
Speaker 1: last eight. Vikings have struggled against tight ends all year.
Speaker 1: They've allowed at least sixty nine yards or a touchdown
Speaker 1: in six games. Now let's go to the running game.
Speaker 1: Tariko and gets a B grade. Vikings have been fantastic
Speaker 1: against the run, allowing just three point three yards per
Speaker 1: carry over the last five and only one running back
Speaker 1: all season is top sixty rushing yards against the Vikings,
Speaker 1: and so I can't trust Cohen on the ground, but
Speaker 1: through the air, I think he's got a chance. Vikings
Speaker 1: ranked twenty in running back receiving yards, and he leads
Speaker 1: the entire team and receptions at all positions. Tarik Cohen's
Speaker 1: are leading receiver, so he gets a B grade based
Speaker 1: on the reception prowess I see coming for Tarik Cohen,
Speaker 1: and just to see grade for Howard. You're really hoping
Speaker 1: for a rushing touchdown here and not much more. For
Speaker 1: the reasons I just mentioned. Vikings run defense has been
Speaker 1: very good. Howard chips in almost nothing through the air
Speaker 1: final matchup Kansas City taking on the rams. Start everybody.
Speaker 1: I apologize for all of this in advance. By the way,
Speaker 1: the Kansas City hef as and the Los Angeles Carneros
Speaker 1: said asta la vista to Estadio Azteca, and Bill will
Speaker 1: be uganda ing this partido in the Los Angeles Coliseo.
Speaker 1: The last I guess arriba bajo is sixty three and
Speaker 1: a half per this game. That's the highest over under
Speaker 1: since nine. So there are muccio a grottos in this fuego.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the coriando a tress position. That's the
Speaker 1: running backs. Todd Feminino, he gets the moss grodo. In fact,
Speaker 1: Gurley might be this year's Fantasia Fonzi. As for the
Speaker 1: amplio receptors, the wide receivers Brandon Cocineros and Roberto Bosque.
Speaker 1: They get Bay Grottos. Uh, they're going to miss Cobra Vasso.
Speaker 1: That's Cooper Cup. He tore his as l a in
Speaker 1: his Rodilla. Cooks was held to quatro or less receptions
Speaker 1: in each game that Cup missed this year, and quatro
Speaker 1: of his Sienniard games came when Cup was healthy. Woods
Speaker 1: he moves to the slot the espasio more often, so
Speaker 1: he'll match up with Chiefs top corner or Esquina Kendall
Speaker 1: Fuller much more often this week, and Josh Reynolds. He
Speaker 1: gets a say Grotto, he hit five targets, I mean
Speaker 1: no objectivos in Verde Bahia. That's Green Bay. When Cup
Speaker 1: sat out, he gets a starting grade simply due to
Speaker 1: the over under the Wagador d attack a quarterback, which
Speaker 1: actually means player of attack. Jared Goff multiple touchdowns in
Speaker 1: quadrou straight games. The Rams maybe in Rick cupo our
Speaker 1: mode this game. If they get behind earlier, that's bodes
Speaker 1: well for golf. Let's go over to the chief side.
Speaker 1: Patricio majo Gars he gets an a grado. The biggest
Speaker 1: news this week is that Majo garis like Salsa di
Speaker 1: Tomte on his carne asada and macarones kareem kazar. He
Speaker 1: gets an a grado. The Rams are giving up an
Speaker 1: NFL worst five point two yard dots per transportador guards
Speaker 1: per carry. Spencer Marquancia was already in my ari gasta
Speaker 1: conmego running back. Let's take a chance on me, and
Speaker 1: I hope next week at this time I will be
Speaker 1: doing my pavo real peacock noise. Ty Tyreek Colina he
Speaker 1: gets an a grado too. Tonto's last week against the Cardinales.
Speaker 1: He's better in lay host games than cossa games. That's
Speaker 1: away games, so that helps out Tyreek. Uh. The operatitado
Speaker 1: extreme oh tight end, that's Travis Kelsey Grande baby Gronk.
Speaker 1: He gets an al grodo. He's an easy al grodo. Uh.
Speaker 1: And Sammy Watkins gets a bay grodo coming back from
Speaker 1: his p lasciando his injured foot. Uh. He's prior to
Speaker 1: the injury, he was averaging six catches in eighty one
Speaker 1: yards per game over his previous six contests. He's a
Speaker 1: B grade in this contest. You know the deal, everybody. Uh,
Speaker 1: It is one question between two players. We don't have
Speaker 1: a ton of time. Will be quick on all of these,
Speaker 1: beginning with Andrew Hello, Hello, Joe Mixon or Leonard Bournett. Okay, mixing, agreed, Brian,
Speaker 1: you're next, uh Mr Jackson or Andrew lock Ha ha Church,
Speaker 1: Now what are you gonna do? I'm taking I'm still
Speaker 1: taking log but I like Jackson. I like Jackson. Plenties
Speaker 1: my number thirteen quarterback this week can get all the
Speaker 1: rankings at fanball dot com. There's it's a possibility that
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson doesn't start. Yeah, well that's true. Tom, you're next,
Speaker 1: Uh standard scoring, Mariota or Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins, Greg Craig,
Speaker 1: you're next, Joe Mixon or Dion Lewis Uh mixing. Just
Speaker 1: put that answer on repeat for me. Apparently you're gonna
Speaker 1: get every mixing question. Bill. Hello, Bill, I need you
Speaker 1: to speak a lot. Louder can't hear you. It was
Speaker 1: Lindsay or mark Ingram. I'm gonna go Lindsay. In particularly,
Speaker 1: I would go Lindsay Trevor. You're next, Lamar Miller or
Speaker 1: Jalen Richards PPR. Because of the PPR, I would go
Speaker 1: Jalen Richard there's been rock solid that way ever since
Speaker 1: the Lynch injury. Eric, you're next standard scoring go Cooper
Speaker 1: Cooper in Well, they're boys, but I'll trust Cooper more
Speaker 1: than what. All Right, our final caller is Eric, Hello,
Speaker 1: I want to drap with your Bonnie Bernard when they
Speaker 1: have a match up. And then what should I do?
Speaker 1: Were able to catch that? Man, I'm not exactly sure
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