WEBVTT - He's Always Red Zone Guy 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:04.880 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.480 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:14.680 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.600 Now along with the guys from fanball dot Com. Here's 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:23.720 the host for Fantasy Football Weekly. It is time for 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:27.800 America's longest running fantasy show, Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm your host, 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:30.680 Paul charge in fanball dot Com. I co hosts are 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:35.400 Christian Peterson and Brian Johnson. Hello, gentlemen, PRX, how are 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.560 you hello? Friends? I am doing well because it is 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.360 week nine. It is uh, this is this is for 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:42.559 many teams. This is sort of make or break. You're 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:46.160 like a three win operation right now. You need this game, trouble, 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:48.520 you need this game. We're here for you. The playoffs 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.760 start for a lot of people in some ways. Yeah, 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.600 I mean, we're getting to that point point of the season. 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:55.640 Over the course of today, we're gonna break down every 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:58.960 game fantasy style. We give letter grades for every meaningful player, 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:05.440 whole letter grades for every player, and the rationale for 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.360 each whole letter grade, so you can decide whether or 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:10.160 not you agree. Why are you looking at me when 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.600 you say that no reason we give you nine players 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:14.479 upon whom you can take a chance. Later in the show, 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.880 we'll answer three tough questions. Will jump into our time machine, cep. 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.840 If you heard our time machine yet, I have not, Baby, 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:26.520 we have upgraded from the Blamo time Machine significantly better 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:32.160 than Yeah, that is and it kind of turns into 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.840 a little bit of like a Chicago Bulls basketball game 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.280 right at the end, you know, like that part's a 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.000 little weird. But this is up until then, it was great, 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:41.880 way off topic. But if you ever look at the 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:44.840 Bulls will go upside down? Yeah, what is it supposed 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:46.240 to be? As I heard that? I don't know if 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.040 I can say it on the radio. Still look at 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.960 the Bulls will go upside Down't all right? Well maybe 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:56.400 I should have done that a while. I go from 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.440 the time machine. By the way, like if we can 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.800 run the time machine, and we're gonna go with the 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.480 Bulls theme if it if it's a time machine, has 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.960 to be related to the Bulls. Let's make Michael Jordan 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:11.040 a tight end. Let's plant the seed inception style in 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.880 his mind that he loves football and he should be 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.280 a tight end. Michael Jordan could have been if maybe 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.480 an awesome tight end in the NFL, it would have 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.200 been a lot more interesting than the whole baseball first 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:24.480 when he got when he got banned from the NBA, 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.960 when he got quote banned from the NBA. That was 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.960 definitely not gambling related. Yeah that yeah, that band, I 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.880 remember that. Let's jump into the matchups, beginning with Tennessee 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:40.560 taking on Carolina. Christian this feels like a solid game 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.160 for Derrick Henry to me, what do you think? Yeah, 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.600 solid game for the running backs here and really not 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.000 much else on either side. Let's start with Derrick Henry. 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.080 This projects is a big game for him. The Panthers 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.040 allow four point nine yards per carry. They've given up 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:57.320 a league leading ten running back rushing scores. Just last week, 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.640 the forty niners destroyed Carolina for two hundred and six 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:04.600 rushing yards five total tds. Derrick Henry gets an easy 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:08.119 A grade here. Not so much for the passing game. 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.720 Ryan tanny Hill has actually been pretty good touchdown passes 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.960 in two starts, but Carolina knows how to stop the 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.000 pass They haven't led a QB throw for more than 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.880 two touchdown passes all year. They've held five of seven 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.120 passers two hundred eight yards or less. I think you 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.240 can find a better player and a better matchup than 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.880 Tanny Hill, so I've got him on the bench. Same 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.040 for Corey Davis and A J. Brown. It's tough to 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:32.519 rely on either one of these guys. A couple of 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.040 weeks ago, it looked like Davis was going to emerge 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.040 in tanny Hills first start, and then he laid an 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.400 egg the last start. So one catch last week. Yeah, 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.760 he's only topped forty four yards and two of his 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:44.880 last seven games he's he just has to be on 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.520 the bench. Same with A J. Brown. His snap braid 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.000 is still hovering in the sixty to sixty five percent 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.840 range or fewer yards and five of his last seven games. 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.160 The Panthers secondary has given up some big games to 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.920 two guys. DJ Shark a hundred and sixty four yards 0:03:59.920 --> 0:04:03.280 and two touchdowns and Chris Godwin twice went for over 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.560 a hundred and twenty yards and they've shut everybody else down. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.840 So there's just nothing here, uh to make me think 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:11.520 that Corey Davis or a J. Brown are going to 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.960 break out. They've got a they've got a nice Panthers. 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:15.720 You've got a nice one two punch of cornerback they're 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:21.080 developing in Bradbury and uh Um Cockrell as a as 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:26.080 to right. Uh John H. Smith at tight end hopefully 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.400 will not have to deal with either one of those guys. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:32.080 He led Tennessee and Targets with seven catches six yards 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.359 seventy eight last week and scored a touchdown, all with 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:40.040 Delaney Walker sideline. Walker is still likely out. In fact, 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.520 officially it's officially out there we go and the Panthers 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.920 gave up eighty six yards to George Kittle last week, 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.280 eighty two yards and a touchdown to Tampa's Tampa's tight 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:49.840 ends the week before that, So I gave a B 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.559 grade to John Smith. Let's go to the Panthers side. 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:56.479 Christian McCaffrey an easy a starter here. The Titans are 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.320 good against the run. They allow you less than four 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.800 yards per carry, but it doesn't matter. McCaffrey's an a 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.840 every week. The passing game, I've got Kyle Allen on 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:08.400 the bench. Alan just can't be trusted. The matchup isn't horrible. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:11.799 Jamis Winston and Philip Rivers have each top three yards 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.320 with two touchdowns in the last two weeks against the Titans. 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.320 But I can't do it for Kyle Allen. Just a 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.919 hundred yards per game with three touchdowns since that great 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:22.839 debut that he had in Week three. So he's on 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:26.120 the bench just enough here for a starting grade on 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.400 d J Moore. He has at least eight targets in 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.520 three straight games. With that kind of usage, I think 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.680 he can start him against the secondary that just got 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.520 torched for a hundred yards and two touchdowns by Mike 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.440 Evans last week. They could be missing one of their 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.320 starting cornerbacks, Adrey Jackson for the second straight week. So 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.800 I've got a starting grade on DJ Moore. Not so 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.799 much on Curtis Samuel, who may or may not play 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.160 in this game. He's questionable. It sounds like they're saying 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.440 they think he's gonna play. He hasn't been good enough 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:55.440 to justify the risk that he starts this game and 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.719 doesn't finish it because of that injury. Tight End Greg Olsen, 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:00.680 I've got on the bench on He had a big 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.400 outburst in Week three, but has done literally nothing since then. 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.839 Eight catches for seventy yards in the last four games. 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.480 He is on your bench. All right. Let's take a 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.640 look at Indianapolis taking on the Pittsburgh Steelers. No t 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.320 Y Hilton this week and probably for a few weeks. 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.000 What do you think at Jacobi Prissett, who quietly been 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.360 one of the most reliable Fantasy producers at the quarterback position. 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.559 But Brian, without t Y Hilton, you're taking the best 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:27.040 receiver off the field. Yeah, without a doubt, by a mile. 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.320 T Y Hilton the best receiver on the team. Let's 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.720 talk about the guys behind him. Zach Pascal was the 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:34.880 number two receiver when Hilton was healthy. It looked like 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:39.240 played as number two. Played played over the snaps last week. 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.480 Following is a hundred yard outing in Week seven. Then 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.640 of course there's Paris Campbell, Dion Kane. It's a mess. 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.880 Though I didn't like the matchup for Hilton, I was 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.120 gonna bench Pascal of Hilton played, I will give a 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.360 pascalice c. But no opposing wide receiver has topped eighty 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.840 yards against Pittsburgh since Week one. Um only three wide 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.800 receivers have topped five catches against the Steelers all season. 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:03.520 Uh Stephen nell Sin and the somewhat resurrected Iron Hayden 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.080 of the years past dust Off the nickname have only 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:12.800 allowed touched Iron. Fitzpatrick went after him on the Monday 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.680 night game and had some success throwing at Hayden. He 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:19.320 did uh, Albert Wilson did score touchdown on Hayden. I believe, 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.400 but again I'm just I'm not. I'm worried about all 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.880 the receivers for the Coals. I'll give Pascal to Sea, 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.440 but you gotta see who rises between Dion Kane, Paris Campbell, 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.720 those guys that are on the bench for me um 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.239 Eric Ebron and give him a CEE. Pittsburgh has surrendered 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.880 some nice box scores to opposing tight end units. Seattle 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.360 tight ends had six catches for sixty three yards and 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.520 two touchdowns, basically George Kittle at six for fifty seven. 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.320 Baltimore tight ends combined for nine catches seventy seven yards, 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.080 and the Chargers tight ends combined for nine catches a 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.800 hundred and fifteen yards and two touchdowns. So see you 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.480 for Ebron. I was gonna bench Jack Doyle, but now 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.840 that t Y Hilton's out, Hilton has the third most 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.640 targets inside the ten yard line this year. That brings 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.440 Doyle into play, doesn't it bring Ebron even more to play? 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.680 He's always read zone guy. Yeah, but he's just so 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:06.120 bad though. Yeah, he season play, he's in play. But okay, 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:11.000 I'll give them Ebron and Jack Doyle both whole hard sees. 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.920 All right, I like it. That's a definitive answer, thank you. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:17.000 Uh Jacoby Rissette. Canna give him a C. Two. Since 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:20.040 acquiring Minca Fitzpatrick, Pittsburgh has not allowed more than two 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.600 passing touchdowns in a game, and three of the five 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.080 quarterbacks um they faced and acquiring Minca were held under 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.200 two under passing yards. So uh se for Brissette, and 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:30.520 I was gonna give him a SE even with t 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.040 Y Hilton playing, so it's not a great match up 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.280 for him and Marlon Mack. Very quickly, I'll give him 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.360 a B. Even though Pittsburgh has only allowed one rushing 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.440 touchdown to running back over the last four games and 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.080 no loan back has topped sixty two rushing yards during 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.679 that span. The Steelers are also holding running back to 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.520 under forty five receiving yards per game, and that's really 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.040 more of a concern for Nahem Hines, not Mac. So 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.760 Mac not a great matchup for him, but the volume 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:55.719 will be there. So we get to the b um 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.200 who's probably not gonna be there for Pittsburgh. Is James 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.280 Conner now listed as doubt full with the shoulder injury. 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.240 Let's just assume he does not play. That would put 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.240 Jalen Samuels in the starting role. He took all the 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.920 first team reps at practice on Friday. Benny Snell is 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.040 not going either, so this could be. It could be 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:15.199 a game for Jalen Samuels And if you're not deeper 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.320 leagues and really hurting for running back, Trey Edmonds would 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:20.320 be the the ad. But that's that's very deep. But 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.760 not a great matchup for Samuel's uh No loan opposing 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.080 back as top ninety rushing yards against the Colts this 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.840 year and they've only surrendered one running back touchdown over 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.320 their last five games, and no loan back has top 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.080 thirty receiving yards or scored through the air since Week 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.920 one against the Colts. So just to see for Samuel's 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:38.520 even though he should be the starter in this one, 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.760 Hona give Juju would be Volume has been a bit 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:43.920 of an issue with Mason Rudolph at quarterback, but if 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.280 Juju can see seven to eight targets, he should be 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.840 in line for a very good game. Only five opposing 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.480 wide receivers have seen seven or more targets against Indie, 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.360 and those rackenan Allen who had eight for one, three 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:58.080 and one, Julio Jones eight one, Tyroll Williams three for 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.560 thirty six and one, Byron Ringle six one oh three 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.560 for one, and DeAndre Hopkins for nine, one oh six 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.360 and one. And they're also been four wide receivers you 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.640 see six targets. Three of those four hit at least 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:12.079 seventy receiving yards, so that's probably your floor for Juju here, 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.520 but there is a ceiling um Deante Johnson. Nice call 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:17.800 last week by the chart take a chance my wide 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.840 receiver not playing the Dolphins this week though I got 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.280 him on the bench in in this matchup, but he 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.760 should be rostered in in most leagues and vans McDonald. 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:32.880 He's been pretty bad since scoring twice in uh Rudolph's debut, 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.200 just ten targets over his last four games, but it's 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.480 a good matchup. Though. The Colts have allowed a seventy 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.319 completion rate to tight ends. That's the seventh highest mark 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:43.680 in the league, and that's led to uh per game 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.000 average of six catches and six yards. The position, So 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:47.719 I'll give McDonald to see if he doesn't get it 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.480 done here, he's probably droppable, and Mason Rudolph he's on 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.560 the bench. The Colts have allowed one or zero passing 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.040 touchdowns and more than half their games, and Rudolph has 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.079 failed to throw for more than two thirty yards in 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.160 any game this year. The least interesting game of the 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.520 weekend is Washing Been taking on Buffalo, and this won't 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.800 take long. There's only one Washington redskin you care about. 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:10.520 That's Adrian Peterson under Bill Callaghan. His usage has doubled, doubled, 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.880 and he's actually rewarded Callahan with four point eight yards 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.280 per carry in the three Bill Callahan games. Those are 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:22.680 great numbers for Adrian. But it's Dwayne Hatskins making his 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.920 first ever start, so you know the game plan will 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.199 go through Adrian, for sure. But the defense knows that 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.520 Buffalo has allowed a back to score in six of 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.760 their seven games. So I think Adrian finds his way 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:37.520 just through volume. I think he finds his way to 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.160 a decent game here, and I've got a B grade 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.680 on him. Both Haskins at the helm. The entire passing 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:43.880 attack is on the bench, and the only guy you 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.200 would have atempted to start is Terry McLaurin. We'll talk 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:50.120 about him. His prospects are tremendously bleak. No opposing receivers 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.160 hit one hundred yards against Buffalo, only two have scored 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:57.200 all year, and he likely draws one of the toughest 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.760 matchups in the NFL against Tradevius White, who has limited 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:07.360 opposing passers to completion percentage and the lowest passer rating 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.839 of any cornerback in the league. Terry McLaren does he 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.960 does he need a nicknames White? Yeah, he probably does. 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.319 I like it. I was on White House. I'm like, 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.800 that doesn't make any sense. I like the I like 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.320 the white out white Out. You could get white House. 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:30.320 That is pretty good. Get white House man. Well, let's 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.719 work on that first. Let's work shop that work work 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:34.679 shopping it on air. Right now, let's go to the 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.160 Buffalo side, where Josh Allen gets a be entering the 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.679 game with exactly two touchdowns in three straight easy games, 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.080 and here comes another easy matchup, Washington, allowing the fifth 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:48.160 most passing touchdowns. Now, Washington's got one really good cornerback, 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:52.440 Quentin Dunbar. Everybody else in the secondary cornerback safeties. They're 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:57.120 all awful. Josh Norman is completely cooked. Jimmy Moreland's last 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:00.080 name looks like the league's most literal example of what 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.440 a player allows in his coverage. More Land, So, yes, 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.079 thank you very much. Yeah, that's right. Josh Allen gets 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:07.920 a B, and so does John Brown. He's hauled in 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.240 at least five passes in six of seven games. He's 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:15.240 averaging seventy six yards per game. Those are very safe, solid, low, 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:19.760 high floor numbers. Brown will most often face Redskins cornerback 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:23.160 Josh Norman and who has already given up five scores 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.920 in his coverage this year. Staying with the passing game, 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.160 Cole Beasley gets a C grade. He rolls into this 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.000 matchup with touchdowns and back to back games, and again 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.800 favorable matchup. Here a lineup against slot cornerback Fabian Moreau, 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.920 who is allowing seven percent of his passes in his 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.600 coverage to be completed. He's only been credited with one 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:45.200 pass breakup on the season. Fabian Moreau, So we'll start 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.280 Cole Beasley if you need to, then let's go to 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.079 the running game. Frank Gore gets a B because the 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:52.240 Skins have been obliterated by opposing running backs. They allow 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:55.480 the most rushing attempts, the fourth most rushing yards, and 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.120 Gore still getting the lie and share of the rushing work. 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.720 Very safe floor here. The last two teams to face 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:06.520 the Redskins ran the ball thirty six and thirty three times. 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:08.880 Gore is getting almost all the work he's set for 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.640 an easy twenty carries and probably more. Then let's talk 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:16.120 about Devin Singletary, also startable with a C grade. He's 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.160 to this point mostly been used as a receiver, including 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.520 last week when he got targeted six times. Washington allows 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:26.960 the second most receptions seventh most receiving yards to running backs. 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.000 I think his explosive play here gives him a chance 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.400 to turn a short pass into a touchdown. And if 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.480 Buffalo is gonna run the ball thirty plus times like 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.600 the last two opponents, Frank Court is not running at 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.280 thirty times, So I think Devin Singletary chips and some 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:44.160 carries as well. Everything charge, Hey, that's me. Everything charged 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.360 available at fanball dot com. But going to fanball dot 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.320 com slash charts you get instant access to my free 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:53.520 weekly rankings, my free one thousand dollar weekly contest, all 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:59.280 of our podcast and it's your portal to fantasy auctions 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.360 fanball dot com slash a chart. Coming up next, it's 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.280 a segment we called take a Chance on Me. Nine 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.960 players who wouldn't normally start but you can. This week, 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:33.360 you're listening to Fantasy Football Weekly, Fantasy Equetball Weekly returns 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.600 on Paul Archi in. My co hosts are Brian Johnson 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.560 and Christian Peterson. You're gonna hear from them momentarily. It 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:43.560 is time for our very very royalty free version of 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.400 take a Chance on Me. When these three sleeper quarterbacks 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.320 running back to receivers hit paid dirt, you pay us nothing, 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:52.640 which is the exact same amount of what we paid 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.000 for this song, which is definitely positively in a very 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:59.440 legally binding way, not abbas classic take a Chance on 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:04.240 Me song. We begin at the quarterback position. Brian Johnson, 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:06.960 who is your take a chance in the quarterback? All right, 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:08.960 this isn't the boldest of calls. I usually like to 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:10.920 try to go pretty deep, but I'm gonna go Matt 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:15.160 Stafford at Oakland UM Oakland pretty good run defense. They're 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.160 essentially funneling all of the plays from the opposition to 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.600 the past, and for that reason, they are allowing nearly 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:24.000 three passing yards per game and three passing touchdowns per game. 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.200 Over their last two games, they've allowed eight passing touchdowns, 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:31.400 saying and uh nearly of Stafford's pass attempts or twenty 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.680 plus yards. That is the highest clip in the league. 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.800 And Oakland has surrendered the second most twenty plus yard 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:40.120 completions at thirty five, So that math adds up nicely 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.880 for me. Matt Stafford say that he's my number three 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.120 quarterback this week, by the way, I was gonna say, 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.840 take a chance on him over every other quarterback. He's 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:51.480 my number one, is my number one. Matthew Stafford went 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.440 undrafted in most fantasy leagues, and I went back and 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.760 looked at my my preseason rankings. I had him at 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:58.840 twenty four, and we all thought they were gonna We 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:00.480 believed him. We thought they were gonna run the ball. 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.440 But it turns out they can't run the ball, so 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.760 they have to pass. And Stafford has been good working 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:08.840 out j though news came out on Friday, very gross 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:12.159 not don't get involved. Don't get involved in that. That 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.760 is not even a three tough question. That's just don't 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:16.879 do it all right, Christian, you take a chance to 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.960 me quarterback. Yeah, I'm gonna go with Sam Donald this week. 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.320 Not because I really like Sam Donald's game or his 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:27.119 seven interceptions over the last two games, but because of 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.200 his opponent. This is this is your weekly take a 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:33.160 chance on me cheet code at quarterback Dolphins. Every quarterback 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.640 to face Miami has thrown at least two touchdown passes. 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.360 Dolphins allow over two hunter and sixty passing yards per 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:42.960 game despite yielding the third fewest passing attempts. So if 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:46.080 case Keenum, Josh Allen, and Mason Rudolph can all toss 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:50.199 multiple touchdown passes against Miami, soaking Sam Donald, he probably can. 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:52.800 It takes a little gutch because of how badly he's 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:56.240 played lately, but it's Miami. Derek Carr is throwing multiple 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.240 touched down by the way, use Derek Carr last week 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.359 going back to the well again garbage Town. He's thrown 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.679 multiple touchdowns and four of the past five games and 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.840 a juicy matchup against the Detroit Lions team seeing the 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:15.800 second most passes per game forty Do you get that 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.000 kind of volume from Car? He remains very safe and 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.200 especially if Darius Slay can't go their stark cornerback. Without 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.119 Darius Slay, that whole secondary is just garbage. Over the 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.840 past two weeks without Slay, Kirk Cousins and Daniel Jones 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:32.960 have combined for eight touchdowns and six hundred sixty yards. 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.600 A great opportunity for Derek Carr. Let's go to the 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:39.280 running back position, Brian, I've got Phillies Miles Sanders at 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:41.800 home against the Bears, who have yielded the fifth most 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.440 perceptions to running backs in the fourth most red zone 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.080 targets of the position. Sanders has proven to be a 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.520 very good pass catcher. Just look at the fact that 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:54.479 he has more catches of yards than Julio Jones, Odell Beckham, 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:58.240 Larry Fitzgerald, Adam Theeland, Michael Thomas, Juju Smith, Schuster, and 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:01.120 DeAndre Hopkins. Was our first round right there, baby Yeah. 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.199 And Chicago's run defense has gone south thought. They've allowed 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.160 six rushing touchdowns running backs over the last three. Of course, 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.680 Jordan Howard in his revenge game, but Standers will still 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:11.119 get some work on the ground as well. So I 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.480 got him as my take onm rb Okay, Christian, I 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.560 am sticking with this Jets Dolphins game. I'm single handedly 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.120 making it so that people can pay attention to this game. 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:22.240 The O and eight Dolphins against the one and is 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:24.000 a one and six or one in seven Jets. I'm 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.679 gonna go with Mark Walton running back for the Dolphins. 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.000 He played eight percent of the snaps last week, and 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:32.560 that was before they traded Kenyan Drake away. It's his 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:38.240 backfield garbage. He's garbage. But the only issue is he's 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.880 still getting some carries at the stripe, which is super annoying. 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:43.640 But Walton has been pretty good. He's averaging over four 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:46.199 yards per carry, has been targeted thirteen times in the 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:49.119 passing game, and that was with Drake involved, so figures 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:51.080 to be even more involved in the passing game here. 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.720 The Jets allow an average of one rushing touchdown per game. 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.720 They've let five different backs catch five passes or more 0:19:57.760 --> 0:19:59.480 against them. We just talked about how Walton will be 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:02.679 involved in the passing games and blotched actively does not 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.320 want to catch if you have to throw passes at 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:09.199 him and he'll just like arms out right. Yeah, And 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:11.200 this is this is the rare game where the Dolphins 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:13.720 may not be in desperation catchup mode. They might be 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:15.880 able to try to establish the run a little bit. 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:18.800 Maybe Walton will gets you know, fifteen sixteen touches here, 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:20.800 so let's roll with them. I'm a little bit worried 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:23.960 if if Mark Wallen's any good, they'll bench him. Could 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:26.920 be so I think a weird spot where if he's 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.040 doing too well, they'll just set him down. You can't 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:31.959 they can't trade you anymore. Now if you're too good, 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:33.920 they'll bench you. Would be devastating for them to win. 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.800 It would be devastating to their chances. Uh there, there there. 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:40.439