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Speaker 1: you hello? Friends? I am doing well because it is
Speaker 1: week nine. It is uh, this is this is for
Speaker 1: many teams. This is sort of make or break. You're
Speaker 1: like a three win operation right now. You need this game, trouble,
Speaker 1: you need this game. We're here for you. The playoffs
Speaker 1: start for a lot of people in some ways. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, we're getting to that point point of the season.
Speaker 1: Over the course of today, we're gonna break down every
Speaker 1: game fantasy style. We give letter grades for every meaningful player,
Speaker 1: whole letter grades for every player, and the rationale for
Speaker 1: each whole letter grade, so you can decide whether or
Speaker 1: not you agree. Why are you looking at me when
Speaker 1: you say that no reason we give you nine players
Speaker 1: upon whom you can take a chance. Later in the show,
Speaker 1: we'll answer three tough questions. Will jump into our time machine, cep.
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Speaker 1: than Yeah, that is and it kind of turns into
Speaker 1: a little bit of like a Chicago Bulls basketball game
Speaker 1: right at the end, you know, like that part's a
Speaker 1: little weird. But this is up until then, it was great,
Speaker 1: way off topic. But if you ever look at the
Speaker 1: Bulls will go upside down? Yeah, what is it supposed
Speaker 1: to be? As I heard that? I don't know if
Speaker 1: I can say it on the radio. Still look at
Speaker 1: the Bulls will go upside Down't all right? Well maybe
Speaker 1: I should have done that a while. I go from
Speaker 1: the time machine. By the way, like if we can
Speaker 1: run the time machine, and we're gonna go with the
Speaker 1: Bulls theme if it if it's a time machine, has
Speaker 1: to be related to the Bulls. Let's make Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: a tight end. Let's plant the seed inception style in
Speaker 1: his mind that he loves football and he should be
Speaker 1: a tight end. Michael Jordan could have been if maybe
Speaker 1: an awesome tight end in the NFL, it would have
Speaker 1: been a lot more interesting than the whole baseball first
Speaker 1: when he got when he got banned from the NBA,
Speaker 1: when he got quote banned from the NBA. That was
Speaker 1: definitely not gambling related. Yeah that yeah, that band, I
Speaker 1: remember that. Let's jump into the matchups, beginning with Tennessee
Speaker 1: taking on Carolina. Christian this feels like a solid game
Speaker 1: for Derrick Henry to me, what do you think? Yeah,
Speaker 1: solid game for the running backs here and really not
Speaker 1: much else on either side. Let's start with Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1: This projects is a big game for him. The Panthers
Speaker 1: allow four point nine yards per carry. They've given up
Speaker 1: a league leading ten running back rushing scores. Just last week,
Speaker 1: the forty niners destroyed Carolina for two hundred and six
Speaker 1: rushing yards five total tds. Derrick Henry gets an easy
Speaker 1: A grade here. Not so much for the passing game.
Speaker 1: Ryan tanny Hill has actually been pretty good touchdown passes
Speaker 1: in two starts, but Carolina knows how to stop the
Speaker 1: pass They haven't led a QB throw for more than
Speaker 1: two touchdown passes all year. They've held five of seven
Speaker 1: passers two hundred eight yards or less. I think you
Speaker 1: can find a better player and a better matchup than
Speaker 1: Tanny Hill, so I've got him on the bench. Same
Speaker 1: for Corey Davis and A J. Brown. It's tough to
Speaker 1: rely on either one of these guys. A couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, it looked like Davis was going to emerge
Speaker 1: in tanny Hills first start, and then he laid an
Speaker 1: egg the last start. So one catch last week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's only topped forty four yards and two of his
Speaker 1: last seven games he's he just has to be on
Speaker 1: the bench. Same with A J. Brown. His snap braid
Speaker 1: is still hovering in the sixty to sixty five percent
Speaker 1: range or fewer yards and five of his last seven games.
Speaker 1: The Panthers secondary has given up some big games to
Speaker 1: two guys. DJ Shark a hundred and sixty four yards
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns and Chris Godwin twice went for over
Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty yards and they've shut everybody else down.
Speaker 1: So there's just nothing here, uh to make me think
Speaker 1: that Corey Davis or a J. Brown are going to
Speaker 1: break out. They've got a they've got a nice Panthers.
Speaker 1: You've got a nice one two punch of cornerback they're
Speaker 1: developing in Bradbury and uh Um Cockrell as a as
Speaker 1: to right. Uh John H. Smith at tight end hopefully
Speaker 1: will not have to deal with either one of those guys.
Speaker 1: He led Tennessee and Targets with seven catches six yards
Speaker 1: seventy eight last week and scored a touchdown, all with
Speaker 1: Delaney Walker sideline. Walker is still likely out. In fact,
Speaker 1: officially it's officially out there we go and the Panthers
Speaker 1: gave up eighty six yards to George Kittle last week,
Speaker 1: eighty two yards and a touchdown to Tampa's Tampa's tight
Speaker 1: ends the week before that, So I gave a B
Speaker 1: grade to John Smith. Let's go to the Panthers side.
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey an easy a starter here. The Titans are
Speaker 1: good against the run. They allow you less than four
Speaker 1: yards per carry, but it doesn't matter. McCaffrey's an a
Speaker 1: every week. The passing game, I've got Kyle Allen on
Speaker 1: the bench. Alan just can't be trusted. The matchup isn't horrible.
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston and Philip Rivers have each top three yards
Speaker 1: with two touchdowns in the last two weeks against the Titans.
Speaker 1: But I can't do it for Kyle Allen. Just a
Speaker 1: hundred yards per game with three touchdowns since that great
Speaker 1: debut that he had in Week three. So he's on
Speaker 1: the bench just enough here for a starting grade on
Speaker 1: d J Moore. He has at least eight targets in
Speaker 1: three straight games. With that kind of usage, I think
Speaker 1: he can start him against the secondary that just got
Speaker 1: torched for a hundred yards and two touchdowns by Mike
Speaker 1: Evans last week. They could be missing one of their
Speaker 1: starting cornerbacks, Adrey Jackson for the second straight week. So
Speaker 1: I've got a starting grade on DJ Moore. Not so
Speaker 1: much on Curtis Samuel, who may or may not play
Speaker 1: in this game. He's questionable. It sounds like they're saying
Speaker 1: they think he's gonna play. He hasn't been good enough
Speaker 1: to justify the risk that he starts this game and
Speaker 1: doesn't finish it because of that injury. Tight End Greg Olsen,
Speaker 1: I've got on the bench on He had a big
Speaker 1: outburst in Week three, but has done literally nothing since then.
Speaker 1: Eight catches for seventy yards in the last four games.
Speaker 1: He is on your bench. All right. Let's take a
Speaker 1: look at Indianapolis taking on the Pittsburgh Steelers. No t
Speaker 1: Y Hilton this week and probably for a few weeks.
Speaker 1: What do you think at Jacobi Prissett, who quietly been
Speaker 1: one of the most reliable Fantasy producers at the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: But Brian, without t Y Hilton, you're taking the best
Speaker 1: receiver off the field. Yeah, without a doubt, by a mile.
Speaker 1: T Y Hilton the best receiver on the team. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about the guys behind him. Zach Pascal was the
Speaker 1: number two receiver when Hilton was healthy. It looked like
Speaker 1: played as number two. Played played over the snaps last week.
Speaker 1: Following is a hundred yard outing in Week seven. Then
Speaker 1: of course there's Paris Campbell, Dion Kane. It's a mess.
Speaker 1: Though I didn't like the matchup for Hilton, I was
Speaker 1: gonna bench Pascal of Hilton played, I will give a
Speaker 1: pascalice c. But no opposing wide receiver has topped eighty
Speaker 1: yards against Pittsburgh since Week one. Um only three wide
Speaker 1: receivers have topped five catches against the Steelers all season.
Speaker 1: Uh Stephen nell Sin and the somewhat resurrected Iron Hayden
Speaker 1: of the years past dust Off the nickname have only
Speaker 1: allowed touched Iron. Fitzpatrick went after him on the Monday
Speaker 1: night game and had some success throwing at Hayden. He
Speaker 1: did uh, Albert Wilson did score touchdown on Hayden. I believe,
Speaker 1: but again I'm just I'm not. I'm worried about all
Speaker 1: the receivers for the Coals. I'll give Pascal to Sea,
Speaker 1: but you gotta see who rises between Dion Kane, Paris Campbell,
Speaker 1: those guys that are on the bench for me um
Speaker 1: Eric Ebron and give him a CEE. Pittsburgh has surrendered
Speaker 1: some nice box scores to opposing tight end units. Seattle
Speaker 1: tight ends had six catches for sixty three yards and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, basically George Kittle at six for fifty seven.
Speaker 1: Baltimore tight ends combined for nine catches seventy seven yards,
Speaker 1: and the Chargers tight ends combined for nine catches a
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen yards and two touchdowns. So see you
Speaker 1: for Ebron. I was gonna bench Jack Doyle, but now
Speaker 1: that t Y Hilton's out, Hilton has the third most
Speaker 1: targets inside the ten yard line this year. That brings
Speaker 1: Doyle into play, doesn't it bring Ebron even more to play?
Speaker 1: He's always read zone guy. Yeah, but he's just so
Speaker 1: bad though. Yeah, he season play, he's in play. But okay,
Speaker 1: I'll give them Ebron and Jack Doyle both whole hard sees.
Speaker 1: All right, I like it. That's a definitive answer, thank you.
Speaker 1: Uh Jacoby Rissette. Canna give him a C. Two. Since
Speaker 1: acquiring Minca Fitzpatrick, Pittsburgh has not allowed more than two
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns in a game, and three of the five
Speaker 1: quarterbacks um they faced and acquiring Minca were held under
Speaker 1: two under passing yards. So uh se for Brissette, and
Speaker 1: I was gonna give him a SE even with t
Speaker 1: Y Hilton playing, so it's not a great match up
Speaker 1: for him and Marlon Mack. Very quickly, I'll give him
Speaker 1: a B. Even though Pittsburgh has only allowed one rushing
Speaker 1: touchdown to running back over the last four games and
Speaker 1: no loan back has topped sixty two rushing yards during
Speaker 1: that span. The Steelers are also holding running back to
Speaker 1: under forty five receiving yards per game, and that's really
Speaker 1: more of a concern for Nahem Hines, not Mac. So
Speaker 1: Mac not a great matchup for him, but the volume
Speaker 1: will be there. So we get to the b um
Speaker 1: who's probably not gonna be there for Pittsburgh. Is James
Speaker 1: Conner now listed as doubt full with the shoulder injury.
Speaker 1: Let's just assume he does not play. That would put
Speaker 1: Jalen Samuels in the starting role. He took all the
Speaker 1: first team reps at practice on Friday. Benny Snell is
Speaker 1: not going either, so this could be. It could be
Speaker 1: a game for Jalen Samuels And if you're not deeper
Speaker 1: leagues and really hurting for running back, Trey Edmonds would
Speaker 1: be the the ad. But that's that's very deep. But
Speaker 1: not a great matchup for Samuel's uh No loan opposing
Speaker 1: back as top ninety rushing yards against the Colts this
Speaker 1: year and they've only surrendered one running back touchdown over
Speaker 1: their last five games, and no loan back has top
Speaker 1: thirty receiving yards or scored through the air since Week
Speaker 1: one against the Colts. So just to see for Samuel's
Speaker 1: even though he should be the starter in this one,
Speaker 1: Hona give Juju would be Volume has been a bit
Speaker 1: of an issue with Mason Rudolph at quarterback, but if
Speaker 1: Juju can see seven to eight targets, he should be
Speaker 1: in line for a very good game. Only five opposing
Speaker 1: wide receivers have seen seven or more targets against Indie,
Speaker 1: and those rackenan Allen who had eight for one, three
Speaker 1: and one, Julio Jones eight one, Tyroll Williams three for
Speaker 1: thirty six and one, Byron Ringle six one oh three
Speaker 1: for one, and DeAndre Hopkins for nine, one oh six
Speaker 1: and one. And they're also been four wide receivers you
Speaker 1: see six targets. Three of those four hit at least
Speaker 1: seventy receiving yards, so that's probably your floor for Juju here,
Speaker 1: but there is a ceiling um Deante Johnson. Nice call
Speaker 1: last week by the chart take a chance my wide
Speaker 1: receiver not playing the Dolphins this week though I got
Speaker 1: him on the bench in in this matchup, but he
Speaker 1: should be rostered in in most leagues and vans McDonald.
Speaker 1: He's been pretty bad since scoring twice in uh Rudolph's debut,
Speaker 1: just ten targets over his last four games, but it's
Speaker 1: a good matchup. Though. The Colts have allowed a seventy
Speaker 1: completion rate to tight ends. That's the seventh highest mark
Speaker 1: in the league, and that's led to uh per game
Speaker 1: average of six catches and six yards. The position, So
Speaker 1: I'll give McDonald to see if he doesn't get it
Speaker 1: done here, he's probably droppable, and Mason Rudolph he's on
Speaker 1: the bench. The Colts have allowed one or zero passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns and more than half their games, and Rudolph has
Speaker 1: failed to throw for more than two thirty yards in
Speaker 1: any game this year. The least interesting game of the
Speaker 1: weekend is Washing Been taking on Buffalo, and this won't
Speaker 1: take long. There's only one Washington redskin you care about.
Speaker 1: That's Adrian Peterson under Bill Callaghan. His usage has doubled, doubled,
Speaker 1: and he's actually rewarded Callahan with four point eight yards
Speaker 1: per carry in the three Bill Callahan games. Those are
Speaker 1: great numbers for Adrian. But it's Dwayne Hatskins making his
Speaker 1: first ever start, so you know the game plan will
Speaker 1: go through Adrian, for sure. But the defense knows that
Speaker 1: Buffalo has allowed a back to score in six of
Speaker 1: their seven games. So I think Adrian finds his way
Speaker 1: just through volume. I think he finds his way to
Speaker 1: a decent game here, and I've got a B grade
Speaker 1: on him. Both Haskins at the helm. The entire passing
Speaker 1: attack is on the bench, and the only guy you
Speaker 1: would have atempted to start is Terry McLaurin. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about him. His prospects are tremendously bleak. No opposing receivers
Speaker 1: hit one hundred yards against Buffalo, only two have scored
Speaker 1: all year, and he likely draws one of the toughest
Speaker 1: matchups in the NFL against Tradevius White, who has limited
Speaker 1: opposing passers to completion percentage and the lowest passer rating
Speaker 1: of any cornerback in the league. Terry McLaren does he
Speaker 1: does he need a nicknames White? Yeah, he probably does.
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Speaker 1: that doesn't make any sense. I like the I like
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Speaker 1: That is pretty good. Get white House man. Well, let's
Speaker 1: work on that first. Let's work shop that work work
Speaker 1: shopping it on air. Right now, let's go to the
Speaker 1: Buffalo side, where Josh Allen gets a be entering the
Speaker 1: game with exactly two touchdowns in three straight easy games,
Speaker 1: and here comes another easy matchup, Washington, allowing the fifth
Speaker 1: most passing touchdowns. Now, Washington's got one really good cornerback,
Speaker 1: Quentin Dunbar. Everybody else in the secondary cornerback safeties. They're
Speaker 1: all awful. Josh Norman is completely cooked. Jimmy Moreland's last
Speaker 1: name looks like the league's most literal example of what
Speaker 1: a player allows in his coverage. More Land, So, yes,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. Yeah, that's right. Josh Allen gets
Speaker 1: a B, and so does John Brown. He's hauled in
Speaker 1: at least five passes in six of seven games. He's
Speaker 1: averaging seventy six yards per game. Those are very safe, solid, low,
Speaker 1: high floor numbers. Brown will most often face Redskins cornerback
Speaker 1: Josh Norman and who has already given up five scores
Speaker 1: in his coverage this year. Staying with the passing game,
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley gets a C grade. He rolls into this
Speaker 1: matchup with touchdowns and back to back games, and again
Speaker 1: favorable matchup. Here a lineup against slot cornerback Fabian Moreau,
Speaker 1: who is allowing seven percent of his passes in his
Speaker 1: coverage to be completed. He's only been credited with one
Speaker 1: pass breakup on the season. Fabian Moreau, So we'll start
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley if you need to, then let's go to
Speaker 1: the running game. Frank Gore gets a B because the
Speaker 1: Skins have been obliterated by opposing running backs. They allow
Speaker 1: the most rushing attempts, the fourth most rushing yards, and
Speaker 1: Gore still getting the lie and share of the rushing work.
Speaker 1: Very safe floor here. The last two teams to face
Speaker 1: the Redskins ran the ball thirty six and thirty three times.
Speaker 1: Gore is getting almost all the work he's set for
Speaker 1: an easy twenty carries and probably more. Then let's talk
Speaker 1: about Devin Singletary, also startable with a C grade. He's
Speaker 1: to this point mostly been used as a receiver, including
Speaker 1: last week when he got targeted six times. Washington allows
Speaker 1: the second most receptions seventh most receiving yards to running backs.
Speaker 1: I think his explosive play here gives him a chance
Speaker 1: to turn a short pass into a touchdown. And if
Speaker 1: Buffalo is gonna run the ball thirty plus times like
Speaker 1: the last two opponents, Frank Court is not running at
Speaker 1: thirty times, So I think Devin Singletary chips and some
Speaker 1: carries as well. Everything charge, Hey, that's me. Everything charged
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Speaker 1: take a Chance on Me. When these three sleeper quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: Me song. We begin at the quarterback position. Brian Johnson,
Speaker 1: who is your take a chance in the quarterback? All right,
Speaker 1: this isn't the boldest of calls. I usually like to
Speaker 1: try to go pretty deep, but I'm gonna go Matt
Speaker 1: Stafford at Oakland UM Oakland pretty good run defense. They're
Speaker 1: essentially funneling all of the plays from the opposition to
Speaker 1: the past, and for that reason, they are allowing nearly
Speaker 1: three passing yards per game and three passing touchdowns per game.
Speaker 1: Over their last two games, they've allowed eight passing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: saying and uh nearly of Stafford's pass attempts or twenty
Speaker 1: plus yards. That is the highest clip in the league.
Speaker 1: And Oakland has surrendered the second most twenty plus yard
Speaker 1: completions at thirty five, So that math adds up nicely
Speaker 1: for me. Matt Stafford say that he's my number three
Speaker 1: quarterback this week, by the way, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: take a chance on him over every other quarterback. He's
Speaker 1: my number one, is my number one. Matthew Stafford went
Speaker 1: undrafted in most fantasy leagues, and I went back and
Speaker 1: looked at my my preseason rankings. I had him at
Speaker 1: twenty four, and we all thought they were gonna We
Speaker 1: believed him. We thought they were gonna run the ball.
Speaker 1: But it turns out they can't run the ball, so
Speaker 1: they have to pass. And Stafford has been good working
Speaker 1: out j though news came out on Friday, very gross
Speaker 1: not don't get involved. Don't get involved in that. That
Speaker 1: is not even a three tough question. That's just don't
Speaker 1: do it all right, Christian, you take a chance to
Speaker 1: me quarterback. Yeah, I'm gonna go with Sam Donald this week.
Speaker 1: Not because I really like Sam Donald's game or his
Speaker 1: seven interceptions over the last two games, but because of
Speaker 1: his opponent. This is this is your weekly take a
Speaker 1: chance on me cheet code at quarterback Dolphins. Every quarterback
Speaker 1: to face Miami has thrown at least two touchdown passes.
Speaker 1: Dolphins allow over two hunter and sixty passing yards per
Speaker 1: game despite yielding the third fewest passing attempts. So if
Speaker 1: case Keenum, Josh Allen, and Mason Rudolph can all toss
Speaker 1: multiple touchdown passes against Miami, soaking Sam Donald, he probably can.
Speaker 1: It takes a little gutch because of how badly he's
Speaker 1: played lately, but it's Miami. Derek Carr is throwing multiple
Speaker 1: touched down by the way, use Derek Carr last week
Speaker 1: going back to the well again garbage Town. He's thrown
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns and four of the past five games and
Speaker 1: a juicy matchup against the Detroit Lions team seeing the
Speaker 1: second most passes per game forty Do you get that
Speaker 1: kind of volume from Car? He remains very safe and
Speaker 1: especially if Darius Slay can't go their stark cornerback. Without
Speaker 1: Darius Slay, that whole secondary is just garbage. Over the
Speaker 1: past two weeks without Slay, Kirk Cousins and Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: have combined for eight touchdowns and six hundred sixty yards.
Speaker 1: A great opportunity for Derek Carr. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: running back position, Brian, I've got Phillies Miles Sanders at
Speaker 1: home against the Bears, who have yielded the fifth most
Speaker 1: perceptions to running backs in the fourth most red zone
Speaker 1: targets of the position. Sanders has proven to be a
Speaker 1: very good pass catcher. Just look at the fact that
Speaker 1: he has more catches of yards than Julio Jones, Odell Beckham,
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald, Adam Theeland, Michael Thomas, Juju Smith, Schuster, and
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. Was our first round right there, baby Yeah.
Speaker 1: And Chicago's run defense has gone south thought. They've allowed
Speaker 1: six rushing touchdowns running backs over the last three. Of course,
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard in his revenge game, but Standers will still
Speaker 1: get some work on the ground as well. So I
Speaker 1: got him as my take onm rb Okay, Christian, I
Speaker 1: am sticking with this Jets Dolphins game. I'm single handedly
Speaker 1: making it so that people can pay attention to this game.
Speaker 1: The O and eight Dolphins against the one and is
Speaker 1: a one and six or one in seven Jets. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with Mark Walton running back for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: He played eight percent of the snaps last week, and
Speaker 1: that was before they traded Kenyan Drake away. It's his
Speaker 1: backfield garbage. He's garbage. But the only issue is he's
Speaker 1: still getting some carries at the stripe, which is super annoying.
Speaker 1: But Walton has been pretty good. He's averaging over four
Speaker 1: yards per carry, has been targeted thirteen times in the
Speaker 1: passing game, and that was with Drake involved, so figures
Speaker 1: to be even more involved in the passing game here.
Speaker 1: The Jets allow an average of one rushing touchdown per game.
Speaker 1: They've let five different backs catch five passes or more
Speaker 1: against them. We just talked about how Walton will be
Speaker 1: involved in the passing games and blotched actively does not
Speaker 1: want to catch if you have to throw passes at
Speaker 1: him and he'll just like arms out right. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: this is this is the rare game where the Dolphins
Speaker 1: may not be in desperation catchup mode. They might be
Speaker 1: able to try to establish the run a little bit.
Speaker 1: Maybe Walton will gets you know, fifteen sixteen touches here,
Speaker 1: so let's roll with them. I'm a little bit worried
Speaker 1: if if Mark Wallen's any good, they'll bench him. Could
Speaker 1: be so I think a weird spot where if he's
Speaker 1: doing too well, they'll just set him down. You can't
Speaker 1: they can't trade you anymore. Now if you're too good,
Speaker 1: they'll bench you. Would be devastating for them to win.
Speaker 1: It would be devastating to their chances. Uh there, there there.
Speaker 1: Their primary goal in Miami this year's to get that
Speaker 1: first pick. For Alexander Madison has at least forty nine
Speaker 1: yards rushing in five games this year, including three of
Speaker 1: his last four. Your backup to Dalvin Cook and he
Speaker 1: goes up against the Chiefs their bottom five in rushing yards,
Speaker 1: receiving yards, fantasy points allowed to running backs and get
Speaker 1: this opponent's backup run backs have scored four times in
Speaker 1: the last three Chiefs games. This is a great opportunity.
Speaker 1: If you gotta go fere bye week, you got to
Speaker 1: find a backup. Was on the waiver wire and by
Speaker 1: the way, Alexander Madison probably at this point as they're
Speaker 1: starting to look more towards handcuffing season in fantasy football.
Speaker 1: He's one of the two or three most valuable handcuffs
Speaker 1: out there. Alexander Madison, you could pick him up and
Speaker 1: start him this week. Let's go to the receivers. Brian,
Speaker 1: who you got. I'm going back to the point orgy
Speaker 1: in Oakland. I'm taking Detroit's Danny Ammendla, who has become
Speaker 1: a big part of Detroit's offense since the running game
Speaker 1: has disappeared. Over the last two weeks, he has nineteen
Speaker 1: targets for sixteen catches and two hundred yards, and Oakland
Speaker 1: has allowed a sixty seven pc completion rate on slot
Speaker 1: targets for six five yards and five touchdowns. Okay, I
Speaker 1: like it. I'm gonna go with the tight end here
Speaker 1: instead of a wide receiver. Cameron Braid going up against
Speaker 1: the Seahawks this week. O. J. Howard is still nursing
Speaker 1: a hamstring injury, hasn't practiced this week, is unlikely to play.
Speaker 1: That brings Bright into the crosshairs. He was targeted six
Speaker 1: times with Howard out of the lineup last week. He
Speaker 1: didn't do much with that, but I like the match
Speaker 1: up here. Seattle has been killed by tight ends this year.
Speaker 1: They have allowed the fifth most receptions the third most
Speaker 1: yards to the position. In the last four games, opposing
Speaker 1: tight ends have averaged over a hundred yards per game
Speaker 1: against them. And it's not like it's really good tight ends,
Speaker 1: it's bad Ones. Gerald ever at a hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: six yards, c j used almost sixty six yards, Austin Hooper,
Speaker 1: he's good sixty five and a touchdown, Ricky Seals Jones
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown. Vince McDonald scored two touchdowns. Cameron Bright
Speaker 1: tight end this week just quickly related Hooper. Somebody was
Speaker 1: asking me Um doing Chicago radio this week, who's the
Speaker 1: biggest surprise of the year, And I started to think
Speaker 1: things through. It's a super chalky year, like the you know,
Speaker 1: the good running backs are the good running backs. Normally
Speaker 1: every year it's a bunch of just you know, out
Speaker 1: of the woodwork running backs. Not this year, maybe maybe,
Speaker 1: but els trailed off so much in the last month
Speaker 1: that I can't count Deckler. I went Ston Hooper, he
Speaker 1: is Hooper is wide receiver nine in PPR. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: tight end one. He's wide receiver nine. And he went
Speaker 1: off the board on average as tight end twelve in
Speaker 1: the preseason. Well, you have two good games last year,
Speaker 1: like two really good games here, like he was a
Speaker 1: consistent performer, but he just like what the bed in
Speaker 1: every other game. But yeah, not the case. I think
Speaker 1: it's name feels like he's like the mailman or something.
Speaker 1: Well from Mr Hooper from Sesame wasn't a Sesame Street
Speaker 1: probably was. He's still around. I don't know. Did this
Speaker 1: is his son? You know Sesame Street has been on
Speaker 1: so long, there's probably been like five Mr Hooper, five
Speaker 1: guys who have played Mr Hooper. That's my guests. Uh,
Speaker 1: final take a chance on me is a guy we've
Speaker 1: used before and a guy that we are absolutely locked
Speaker 1: in on, Chris Conley. If we bother to mention his
Speaker 1: name on this show, you started because we've nailed his
Speaker 1: three good outings all year and we're calling another one here.
Speaker 1: Over the last two weeks, averaging ninety three yards and
Speaker 1: a score Texas, the Texans secondary is obliterated by injury.
Speaker 1: They've surrendered a league high thirteen scores one two yards
Speaker 1: per game to opposing receivers, and Conley's going to end
Speaker 1: up missing two of the starting three cornerbacks. Bradley Roby
Speaker 1: is out. Lonnie Johnson is out, which is actually too
Speaker 1: bad because Lonnie Johnson might have been the worst cornerback
Speaker 1: in the in the NFL, we're starting cornerback. He's out
Speaker 1: in this game as well. Chris Conley sitting in potentially
Speaker 1: another in a series of good games. Let's work in
Speaker 1: one final matchup into this segment. It is Houston Chake
Speaker 1: taking on Jackson, billed the aforementioned Chris Conley's name Convenience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you want to if you want to start there?
Speaker 1: You can if you want, absolutely why not? And you didn't?
Speaker 1: You didn't even mention that Houston now has lost J. J.
Speaker 1: Watt as well. Yeah, great point. Yeah, there's the pass
Speaker 1: for us impacted right there. Yeah, so Conley is in
Speaker 1: for sure, as is DJ Shark. Targeted twelve times last week,
Speaker 1: he scored for the sixth time in eight games. I
Speaker 1: don't need to say anymore about this. DJ Shark is
Speaker 1: an easy, a level starter that brings Gardner Minshew into play.
Speaker 1: I gave him a B again. Houston just lost J. J. Watt.
Speaker 1: They weren't good before they lost him, surrendering averages of
Speaker 1: three and three yards and three point to five touchdowns
Speaker 1: per game to the last four quarterbacks they faced. Minshew
Speaker 1: was off there for a little couple of weeks, didn't
Speaker 1: play real well, and bounced back last week with that
Speaker 1: three touchdown performance. Yep, he's back in the lineup here
Speaker 1: with a B starting grade. That brings us to the
Speaker 1: running game, Leonard four Net. I gave him an A.
Speaker 1: It's based on volume here. He still has just one
Speaker 1: touchdown these two teams met back in Week two. He
Speaker 1: rushed for forty seven yards added another forty through the air.
Speaker 1: Houston is actually much better against the run than they
Speaker 1: are against the pass, yielding just seventy four rushing yards
Speaker 1: per game and only two rushing scores. So I don't
Speaker 1: love four net ceiling here. But because of volume, he's
Speaker 1: a guy that you're gonna put in there every week.
Speaker 1: So I gave him an A grade. If if if
Speaker 1: there was something between an A and a B, it
Speaker 1: would probably be that. But I'm gonna give him or
Speaker 1: a soft day. Yeah, that's a whole I just want
Speaker 1: to thank you for not speaking in Cockney, by the way,
Speaker 1: shakingly said in Jacksonville. Jacksonville because it's it's the early
Speaker 1: London game too, so be sure to note the early
Speaker 1: start time in that. Yeah. On the other side of
Speaker 1: this early start game London game is are they are
Speaker 1: the Texans with Deshaun Watson. Now this is a little
Speaker 1: weird because again, these two teams played in Week two
Speaker 1: and and Houston didn't do much of anything. But you
Speaker 1: can't possibly even dream of benching Deshaun Watson. He's an
Speaker 1: a level start here, sixth in passing yards, second in
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns. They had been rushing yards first and rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns among QB's in a level start everywhere Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 1: at the time. So they did a sizeable loss for
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville second Yeah, big part of the reason why
Speaker 1: they held DeAndre Hopkins to just five catches and forty
Speaker 1: yards in that previous matchup. Now he's been Hopkins has
Speaker 1: been targeted at least twelve times in three straight at
Speaker 1: least nine catches in each of those games. He is
Speaker 1: also an easy a level start. We are not going
Speaker 1: to roll with Kenny Stills this week after he disappointed
Speaker 1: everybody last week just three catches on five targets against
Speaker 1: this secondary that is still pretty good even without Ramsey.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go any deeper than DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: except at tight end, where Darren Fells is in the mix. Here,
Speaker 1: I gave him a B level starting grade. Point the
Speaker 1: Snaps last week fifty eight yards two touchdowns, and the
Speaker 1: Jaguars have allowed some big tight end games this year.
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey went for eighty eight yards to Laney Walker
Speaker 1: sixty four and from out of nowhere last week Ryan
Speaker 1: Griffin sixty six yards and two touchdowns. So Darren Fells
Speaker 1: I gave a B level starting grade. Finally, the running game,
Speaker 1: Carlos Hyde. Yeah, the Jaguars run Carlos hide it does
Speaker 1: I mean he's gonna get twenty plus touches, He's gonna
Speaker 1: get seventy five or eighty yards and a coin flips
Speaker 1: chance at a touchdown, So I gave him a B
Speaker 1: level starting grade. The yuck that is yuck. Did we
Speaker 1: get Duke Johnson in there? Duke Johnson I have on
Speaker 1: the hasn't top ten touches in a game. He has
Speaker 1: scored twice in the last three games. He did nothing
Speaker 1: in the week two matchups, so he's just not getting
Speaker 1: enough volume from me. Did they have a third rounder
Speaker 1: the Texans, and then and then they're not using it.
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Speaker 1: more matchups, including Detroit taking on the Oakland Raiders. Will
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Speaker 1: let's dive into a few more, few more matchups, including
Speaker 1: Detroit taking on the Oakland Raiders. Brian we alluded to
Speaker 1: this earlier Detroit not able to get a running game going.
Speaker 1: I've got to believe you don't like any of the
Speaker 1: running backs, but you love the passing game here. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Let's start with Kenny Holiday, who gets a birth day.
Speaker 1: His birthday is on Sunday, his real life birthday, baby
Speaker 1: birthday bonus up against Oakland, allowing the fourth most yards
Speaker 1: per game. Two wide receivers and opposing number ones have
Speaker 1: blown up the block box score over the last three weeks. DeAndre,
Speaker 1: they've blown out the candles are blown up the box.
Speaker 1: I wish I want that, all right, Well, just trying
Speaker 1: to help you did. Yeah, the Raiders are the gift
Speaker 1: that keeps on giving on your On Kenny Golladay's birthday, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they gave gifts to DeAndre Hopkins eleven catches for a
Speaker 1: hundred nine yards, marqueesz Valdez Scandling who was the number
Speaker 1: one receiver in that game, one thirty three and a touchdown,
Speaker 1: and then Allen Robinson had seven for nine seven and
Speaker 1: two over the last three weeks, so easy A for
Speaker 1: the birthday boy, Kenny Golladay. Marvin Jones gets a B.
Speaker 1: The Raiders traded starting cornerback Garyon Connley to Houston recently,
Speaker 1: which has pushed Trayvon Connley into a starting role. Conley
Speaker 1: has seen just nine targets so far, but it's allowed
Speaker 1: six catches in a touchdown, so he's not very good.
Speaker 1: And uh, he figures would be covering Martin Jones quite
Speaker 1: a bit. So Jones gets a very safe BE and
Speaker 1: Danny Amndla also startable. It might take a chance on
Speaker 1: me wide receiver and even though he's been pretty frustrating,
Speaker 1: pretty brutal, t J. Hockinson gonna give him a See
Speaker 1: this is a great matchup for t J. Oakland has
Speaker 1: ranked twenty nine and d v o A against tight ends,
Speaker 1: and the last four tight ends to face the Raiders
Speaker 1: were Darren Fells who had six for fifty eight and two,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham four for sixty five and one. Trey Burton
Speaker 1: wet the bed, but that's understandable, and then Eric Ebron
Speaker 1: had one for one for forty eight and touchdown and
Speaker 1: Jack Doyle had eight I'm sorry, four catches for twenty
Speaker 1: two yards in a touch and then that same game,
Speaker 1: so a great matchup for t J. And that makes
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford a very easy take a chance on me quarterback.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I went so easy there, but I would
Speaker 1: sorry him over anyone. Just put it that way. And
Speaker 1: for your daily players out there all day, Stafford um
Speaker 1: and the running backs all on the bench. Here's the
Speaker 1: snap counts, uh last week without carry on Johnson Ty
Speaker 1: Johnson twenty five, Trey Carson nineteen, j D McKissick sixteen,
Speaker 1: Paul Perkins got six carries. Just avoid that whole situation entirely.
Speaker 1: And j J I uh, we won't even mentioned that.
Speaker 1: We talked about huh. We will talk about John Jacobs
Speaker 1: on the other side, he gets an A. Since Week five,
Speaker 1: only four players have accounted for a higher percentage of
Speaker 1: team touches. And Josh Jacobs, who is garnering overt of
Speaker 1: Oakland's touches right now and he's been doing it plan
Speaker 1: half hurt too. Yeah, and his his passing work has
Speaker 1: ramped up. Catching the ball at the backfield. The posing
Speaker 1: running backs are averaging more than twenty nine touches per
Speaker 1: game against Detroit, who have allowed eight total touchdowns to
Speaker 1: running backs over their last four So smashed spot for
Speaker 1: Jacobs here. Uh. Probably another smash spot for Darren Waller
Speaker 1: as well. He gets an A. Detroit is allowing more
Speaker 1: than six yards per game to tight ends and they've
Speaker 1: allowed tight end touchdowns and back to back games to
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram and Kyle Rudolph Tyler. I'm sorry Tyrrell Williams
Speaker 1: gets a B because all he does is score touchdowns
Speaker 1: if he's healthy. He's healthy this week. Uh. We mentioned
Speaker 1: Darius Slay in an earlier segment pretty questionable with a
Speaker 1: hamstring injury to play in this one, so Williams would
Speaker 1: get an A if Slays out, but still would be
Speaker 1: even if Slay goes. Detroit has to render five scores
Speaker 1: to wide receivers over the last three games and um
Speaker 1: and if Slay is to sit, that would lead another
Speaker 1: start for Rashaan Melvin, who only allowed a hat trick
Speaker 1: in his coverage last week. Three touchdowns allowed by Rashaan Melvin.
Speaker 1: So great spot for Tyrod Williams and a pretty good
Speaker 1: spot for Hunter. Renfro. I'm gonna give him a see
Speaker 1: Hunter runs primarily out of the slot in Detroit, has
Speaker 1: been vulnerable covering the seams. Larry Fitzgerald at eight for
Speaker 1: one and a touchdown, Keenan Allen eight, Golden Tate eight
Speaker 1: for eighty five, Nelson Aglare eight for fifty and two,
Speaker 1: and even B. C. Johnson for for forty and one
Speaker 1: against the Lions. And that's why Derek Carr was your
Speaker 1: take a chance on me quarterbacks, Yes he was. Vikings
Speaker 1: taking on the Kansas City Chiefs. Dalvin Cooks sitting out
Speaker 1: potentially huge game if trends continue here, Kansas City has
Speaker 1: allowed the opponent's starting running back to amass at least
Speaker 1: one hundred thirty combo yards, and all four of their
Speaker 1: home games they've given up the third most rushing yards,
Speaker 1: the second most receiving yards to running backs, and the
Speaker 1: fourth most fantasy points to backs. And here comes the
Speaker 1: Vikings with arguably the most potent rushing attack in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So Dalvin Cook a lock a and as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: and take a chance, I mean Alexander Madison as a
Speaker 1: deep reach is a plausible sleeper as well. We go
Speaker 1: to the passing game. Kirk Cousin Cousins comes in with
Speaker 1: a b here. He enters the game as the NFL's
Speaker 1: hottest quarterback. Aaron Rodgers just through for three hundred yards
Speaker 1: and three scores against the Chiefs, but it did take
Speaker 1: some Hall of Fame level passing from for Uh for
Speaker 1: Rogers to get there. And prior to that, the chief
Speaker 1: secondary was dramatically improved, averaging just two hundred fifty yards
Speaker 1: and one point one passing touchdowns. That's it now. Part
Speaker 1: of it was because seems just run on the Chiefs
Speaker 1: and run successfully. Um, if there is more balance, there
Speaker 1: is some upside here. Also, it looks like Frank Clark,
Speaker 1: their star defensive alignment will not go in this one.
Speaker 1: And when Kirk Cousins has time, he was usually pretty good.
Speaker 1: Um adam feeling expected to play. He injured his hamstring
Speaker 1: two games ago. Um, he is technically questionable. Everybody assumed
Speaker 1: he'd be like but after limited practice all week, not
Speaker 1: one percent sure he's gonna go. And you want to
Speaker 1: watch him up to game time. He had found the
Speaker 1: paint in three consecutive weeks prior to that seventy five
Speaker 1: yards and or he touchdown in six of seven games
Speaker 1: this year and Chief slot. Cornerback Kendall Fuller missed last
Speaker 1: week and is questionable for this one as well. And
Speaker 1: if Fuller can't go, that would set him up against
Speaker 1: sixth round rookie Rashad Fenton, who got forced into action
Speaker 1: last week and allowed to touchdown, and theland would get
Speaker 1: an upgrade if that were the case. Stefan Diggs has
Speaker 1: over one hundred yards in four of his last five
Speaker 1: games and a franchise record four hundred fifty two yards
Speaker 1: over the last three games. Over the last four weeks,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are allowing just one hundred twelve yards per
Speaker 1: game to opposing receivers. They haven't allowed to receiver to
Speaker 1: find the end zone. But Shot Bryland is questionable for
Speaker 1: this game. Is a lot of Chiefs injuries. He's questionable,
Speaker 1: and he would be with a cornerback who would get
Speaker 1: a lot of play on Diggs and if he can't go,
Speaker 1: upgrade Digs to an a here as well. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Kansas City side. Travis Kelsey is an obvious
Speaker 1: A using tight ends, averaging a healthy nine and a
Speaker 1: half targets per game against the Vikings. Although the Vikings
Speaker 1: have not allowed to touch down to a tight end yet,
Speaker 1: but big games in terms of receptions and yards to
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper, Darren Waller, Evan Ingram all fared well against Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey is obviously an elite play no matter who
Speaker 1: the quarterback is. And let's go to the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: where if it's Patrick Mahomes, you'd see it's an a
Speaker 1: start because it's Patrick Mahomes in the Vikings secondary has
Speaker 1: had a variety of problems over the course of this year. Um, Now,
Speaker 1: if Mahomes doesn't have his mobility, he's playing with a
Speaker 1: brace on his knee, He's not gonna do these things
Speaker 1: where he's running at a full speed on one direction
Speaker 1: and then throws a laser forty yards downfield the other
Speaker 1: side of the field. I don't think that stuffs in
Speaker 1: play here, but I still think he would be an
Speaker 1: A grade player Mahomes would be if he goes that said,
Speaker 1: I don't think he goes. Let's talk about Matt mooreher
Speaker 1: gets a B as the probable starter. The only quarterbacks
Speaker 1: who have failed to throw multiple touchdowns against Minnesota Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones and like his second NFL start or third NFL
Speaker 1: are Chase Daniel in a backup role, and then the
Speaker 1: combo platter of case Keenum and Dwayne Haskins. Everybody else
Speaker 1: has thrown multiple touchdowns. All other quarterbacks are averaging two
Speaker 1: eighty five yards and two point four touchdowns. We take
Speaker 1: two eight five and two point four to Matt More
Speaker 1: that would be a solid day and that's why he
Speaker 1: gets a B here. Um he does not have the
Speaker 1: downfield sling and ability that Patrick Mahomes has, but Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill still remains an A grade regardless of the quarterback.
Speaker 1: He plays from all over the field, has strong matchups
Speaker 1: at every spot. From the slot, Hill has a huge
Speaker 1: speed and speed advantage over Mike Hughes and or Mackenzie Alexander.
Speaker 1: Trey Waynes has got straight line speed to hang with Tyreek,
Speaker 1: but not the moves. And the Vikings are allowing the
Speaker 1: third most receptions to wide receivers the third most touchdowns
Speaker 1: to wide receivers. Continue to start Tyreek Hill. Sammy Watkins
Speaker 1: gets a C grade, even though he's been completely and
Speaker 1: totally unreliable this year. But the Viking secondary is just
Speaker 1: unusually yielding and I think he's startable here and Watkins
Speaker 1: had been playing the slow Tyreek Hill out. We think
Speaker 1: he gets goes outside and that puts him up against
Speaker 1: slumping cornerback Xavier Rhodes who's allowing of the passes in
Speaker 1: his coverage to be completed and a passer rating of
Speaker 1: one five in Xavier roads coverage. I've been to have
Speaker 1: a new nickname for Xavier Xavior Rogue. Rogue. He's gone
Speaker 1: rogue because he's just running around the field, not covering anybody.
Speaker 1: What about roads open, roads are open, It's open for
Speaker 1: business on his side of the field. Um, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put I'm gonna put McCole, Hardman and Damian Williams on
Speaker 1: the bench. For Hardman just eight snaps on offense last
Speaker 1: week with Tyree kill back, So if that's all the
Speaker 1: usage he's gonna get, I can't count on him. Damian Williams,
Speaker 1: by the way, So we shift over to the running game,
Speaker 1: who scored last week, but the usage incredibly low. He
Speaker 1: has the top nine rushes since the opener, just one
Speaker 1: catch per game over the last three weeks. Lea Shawn
Speaker 1: McCoy though, gets a C grade, vikings near the top,
Speaker 1: and almost every running back defensive metric they've only allowed
Speaker 1: a single rushing touchdown this year, and one back is
Speaker 1: topped one hundred rushing yards, Aaron Jones. Both of those
Speaker 1: both to touch. I on the hundred yard game. They're
Speaker 1: giving up just seventy nine rushing yards per game. I
Speaker 1: think McCoy probably needs a goal line carry here for
Speaker 1: fantasy relevance, but I am giving him a c start
Speaker 1: anyway due to the overall potency of the Kansas City offense.
Speaker 1: Christian Chicago takes on Philip Delphia. The Chicago offense has
Speaker 1: been a wreck here and they finally got back to
Speaker 1: David Montgomery, who we're going to talk a lot more
Speaker 1: about in a few minutes. But tough matchup for David
Speaker 1: Montgomery against the good Eagles run defense, Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: Although Philadelphia's run defense their top five Rundy, they allowed
Speaker 1: just sixty nine rushing yards per game. It's partly because
Speaker 1: teams can just pass all over them. The one team
Speaker 1: that committed to it was the Cowboys, and Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 1: turned twenty eight touches into hundred and forty seven yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown. So will they commit to David Montgomery
Speaker 1: again this week? Let's they sure did last week one
Speaker 1: touches play of the snaps. If they do that, I
Speaker 1: think Montgomery can get get some work done here, but
Speaker 1: I'm not sure they will. So just a B level
Speaker 1: starter here the passing game, I've got a bunch of
Speaker 1: bench grades. You cannot start Mitchell Trobinsky shout out of
Speaker 1: the end zone and four of his six starts, he's
Speaker 1: on pace for thirteen touchdowns this whole season. Obviously, he
Speaker 1: sad trombone Ski is out of your lineup despite the
Speaker 1: nice matchup here. He's doing just enough to keep Allen
Speaker 1: Robinson relevant here. Robinson has reached sixty yards in all
Speaker 1: but one game. He has three touchdowns in his last
Speaker 1: three games. The Philadelphia secondary has allowed the fourth most
Speaker 1: wide receiver yards, the second most wide receiver touchdowns, including
Speaker 1: six yard games. Allen Robinson getting half of the wide
Speaker 1: receiver targets just going to him, That's right. So I've
Speaker 1: got I've got to be grade on him just because
Speaker 1: I can't trust Trabisky, but he certainly is in your lineup,
Speaker 1: and there's not enough here for Taylor Gabriel or Anthony Miller,
Speaker 1: although I will note that Miller is becoming more involved.
Speaker 1: Nineteen targets in a hundred and eighty three yards in
Speaker 1: his last three games, so keep an eye on that
Speaker 1: if Rabisky can manage to turn things around here in
Speaker 1: the unlikely event that he can on the eagle side,
Speaker 1: kind of much of the same here. I've got the most.
Speaker 1: I've got the passing game mostly on the bench. The
Speaker 1: Bears defense remains elite against the past. They've allowed just
Speaker 1: seven passing touchdowns in seven games. Three of the last
Speaker 1: four quarterbacks they've faced were scoreless. Carson Wentz has just
Speaker 1: not done enough to deserve being in your lineup, held
Speaker 1: under two hundred yards with one touchdown and three of
Speaker 1: his last four, so don't force him into your lineup.
Speaker 1: He's on the bench all Sean Jeffrey just to see here,
Speaker 1: he hasn't topped seventy six yards all year, just eleven
Speaker 1: targets in the last two weeks. Chicago has given up
Speaker 1: some big games over a hundred yards by Stefan Diggs
Speaker 1: and Michael Thomas in the last couple of weeks, but
Speaker 1: we just haven't seen that type of upside from Jeffreys
Speaker 1: just a level. But it's a revenge game. I know
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna get too that soon. Also, one Tray
Speaker 1: Burton by the way who you yeah, Riddle, Riddle. Trey
Speaker 1: Burton hasn't topped twenty yards this season. I'll take my
Speaker 1: chances with him on the bench. Nelson Aghilor and Sean
Speaker 1: Jackson are both on your bench. Jackson may actually return
Speaker 1: this week for the first time since Week two, but
Speaker 1: given his questionable injury status, I'm not going to throw
Speaker 1: him in there in his first game back. I have
Speaker 1: both Zach Ertz and Alice Goddard on the bench here.
Speaker 1: Urt's just one touchdown, hasn't topped seventy two yards all year,
Speaker 1: season lows and targets. Over the last two weeks he
Speaker 1: went six targets and then four touchdowns, while Goddard has
Speaker 1: scored in both of those games. So I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know if the torches being passed here or what's happening,
Speaker 1: but Chicago is too good against tight ends. They haven't
Speaker 1: allowed a tight end touchdown since Week one. No opposing
Speaker 1: tight end has topped even forty seven yards. So with
Speaker 1: Arts and Goddard splitting the looks here, I've got them
Speaker 1: both on the bench. And now we get to the
Speaker 1: running game, where we have a revenge game of sorts
Speaker 1: for Jordan Howard straight up revenge game, and Chicago has
Speaker 1: been just crushed by running backs recently. They have allowed
Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty three yards and two touchdowns to
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs, then one nineteen and two to Latavious Murray,
Speaker 1: then two touchdowns to Melvin Gordon and Austin Ekeler. Howard
Speaker 1: had a coming off a season high twenty three carries
Speaker 1: last week. He figures to be a focal point. I've
Speaker 1: got a B level starting grade on him and Miles Sanders.
Speaker 1: We talked about how the Bears are vulnerable against past
Speaker 1: receiving running backs. Brian's take a chance on me running back.
Speaker 1: I've got a C grade on Miles Sanders. I have
Speaker 1: to This is so close to the double bonus for
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard. Tomorrow is his birthday. We almost want the
Speaker 1: birthday Saturday, one day from the birthday revenge game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but don't go out drinking. Jordan's apparently not. Um Cam
Speaker 1: Newton is going to see a foot specialist, which you
Speaker 1: think is something he would have done a long time ago.
Speaker 1: But now he's going to see a foot specialist, and
Speaker 1: it's really cast some doubt on the remainder of his season. Christian,
Speaker 1: you are the official Cam Newton apologist desk around here.
Speaker 1: Tell me in thirty seconds or so, the dynasty value
Speaker 1: that Cam Newton has as we start to look forward
Speaker 1: to and maybe by the way the Bears starting quarterbacks. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess it could could depend on if he winds
Speaker 1: up somewhere else. But over the last two years ago,
Speaker 1: he was the number two fantasy quarterback. Last year, despite
Speaker 1: battling through injury, on a points per game basis, he
Speaker 1: was the number seven guy. So I'm not dumping him
Speaker 1: out right in Dynasty. I'm holding You're holding him. You're
Speaker 1: gonna You're gonna burn that roster spots. The biggest struggle
Speaker 1: running the spot absolutely coming up nuts. Let's answer three
Speaker 1: tough questions. You can play along, try to go a
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Speaker 1: panel of experts today, Christian Peterson, Brian Johnson, Boys, I've
Speaker 1: gotten especially difficult set of tough questions. They're extra tough listeners.
Speaker 1: You can play along see if you can go three
Speaker 1: and oh. We like to begin with tough question Number
Speaker 1: one was last week's game The turnaround game for David
Speaker 1: Montgomery's season. We begin with Brian Johnson. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: it was, and you know, it wasn't like someone else
Speaker 1: was getting the work over David Montgomery all year long.
Speaker 1: Montgomery total carries, Mike Davis and three co and have
Speaker 1: combined for forty all season. So it's always been Montgomery
Speaker 1: has always been the guy. But Chicago's has never been
Speaker 1: running the ball their top eight and passing play percentage
Speaker 1: top five over the last three weeks. But that's clearly
Speaker 1: not working for them. Uh. They just they have to
Speaker 1: rely on their defense and the run game. Don't have
Speaker 1: any chance of making the playoffs this year. Their quarterbacks suck.
Speaker 1: Their schedule does not suck moving forward though for running backs.
Speaker 1: According to Fantasy Pros, the Bears at the third easiest
Speaker 1: remaining schedule for running backs. You know, Mike Davis and
Speaker 1: threat and aren't a threat to steal his carries. So
Speaker 1: I think this is a turnaround from Montgomery, and the
Speaker 1: bye little window is probably closed. But I'm saying he's
Speaker 1: turning it around. Yeah, I mean, as you probably heard
Speaker 1: in the matchup that I did with the Bears, I'm
Speaker 1: not totally convinced that that the Bears are gonna suddenly
Speaker 1: start committing to him the way that they should. I mean,
Speaker 1: it looked like they were going to do that in
Speaker 1: Week four when they gave him twenty four touches, and
Speaker 1: then in the next two games he got fifty and
Speaker 1: touches combined. So I'm not totally convinced that they're sold
Speaker 1: that this is the way that they're gonna win games.
Speaker 1: I agree that I think it is with the running
Speaker 1: game in the defense. I just don't know if Matt
Speaker 1: Naggi agrees with that. But Brian, you mentioned that the
Speaker 1: schedule is really favorable here. This week is pretty tough
Speaker 1: against Philadelphia, but he gets Detroit twice by thanksgiving their
Speaker 1: bottom five against the run, really no stoppers on the schedule,
Speaker 1: and then in the fantasy playoffs, Green Bay sixth worst
Speaker 1: against running backs and Kansas City fourth worst against the
Speaker 1: running backs, so he has a very favorable schedule here.
Speaker 1: So I say, from a fantasy perspective, yes, this is
Speaker 1: the turnaround for David Montgomery. If Eddie Pinneo just made
Speaker 1: his damn kick, I'd feel a lot better about Matt
Speaker 1: Nagy learning a valuable lesson here. And you can win. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. You can go win games with a run
Speaker 1: with an especially at David Montgomery spearheading your running game.
Speaker 1: And you know, unfortunately, you know, we don't really know
Speaker 1: that for sure. But I still want to believe that
Speaker 1: they go back and look at the tape and agree
Speaker 1: that the best, maybe the best thing that's happened to
Speaker 1: them offensively all year was this game by David Montgomery.
Speaker 1: You don't, you know, for Mattenegge, God, you don't have
Speaker 1: to be the smartest guy in the room all the time.
Speaker 1: You don't have to like overthink every single thing and
Speaker 1: always be contrarian offensive guy. Sometimes everything is as obvious
Speaker 1: as it looks. Sad trombon Ski is not the path
Speaker 1: to victory. It's all about and Brian has said, well,
Speaker 1: elite defense and running game. San Francisco forty Niners are undefeated,
Speaker 1: the Vikings are six and two. That it's not complicated,
Speaker 1: that's all you need. I want to believe Matt Aggie
Speaker 1: is not so bullheaded and or dumb that he can't
Speaker 1: figure that out. We will go with Yes. Last week's
Speaker 1: game Wilma Park to turn around for David Montgomery. Tough
Speaker 1: question Number two. Should fantasy owners add new Seahawks wide
Speaker 1: receiver Josh Gordon or stay away Christian So if this
Speaker 1: question was worded slightly differently, I would say to stay away.
Speaker 1: If if you said, is he going to be a
Speaker 1: fantasy starter the rest of the year, I think the
Speaker 1: answer is no, then why roster him? Well, because there
Speaker 1: is there is upside. We've seen his upside over the years.
Speaker 1: Right over the last couple of years playing with the Patriots,
Speaker 1: He's had a couple of big games here and there,
Speaker 1: and we know that he's talented. He gets added to
Speaker 1: a Seahawks roster where he's almost certainly number two in
Speaker 1: the pecking order behind Tyler Lockett. But at the same
Speaker 1: time Tyler Lockett plays in the slot, they do have
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf who's basically just an end zone presence, and
Speaker 1: they don't really have a tight end after Will Disley
Speaker 1: went down, they don't have anybody to throw too there,
Speaker 1: so they do kind of need a pass catcher, and
Speaker 1: I just think the upside is certainly enough for me
Speaker 1: to add him to the end of my roster just
Speaker 1: to see what happens. Okay, yes, I'm probably gonna stay away.
Speaker 1: The only you know wide receiver traded mid season that's
Speaker 1: done well that I can remember, has been a Mari Cooper,
Speaker 1: and that's because he had a massive upgrade going from
Speaker 1: Derek Card to Dak Prescott. Going from Tom Brady to
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's pretty much alateral move. It's certainly not a
Speaker 1: upgrade or down, you know what I'm saying here, But uh,
Speaker 1: in the schedule pretty tough. You want him against the
Speaker 1: Bucks this week, but there's no way he's gonna know
Speaker 1: the plays. He's playing forty Niners next week. That's a
Speaker 1: bench Eagles is a good matchup. That might be the
Speaker 1: one game you want to start them, But then Vikings
Speaker 1: and other sort of a neutral matchup. But then the Rams,
Speaker 1: who just required Jalen Ramsey. The Panthers have emerging duo
Speaker 1: of cornerbacks. I just don't see him wearing the plays
Speaker 1: well enough for the remainder of the season. So I'm
Speaker 1: just staying away, saying entirely away. What's legal in Washington
Speaker 1: State that you can think of, that's a good point.
Speaker 1: Throw that in there. It's Leland Boston too. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: why he got good. The average game for Josh Gordon
Speaker 1: Well of the last two years, the average game two
Speaker 1: years of Tom Brady passing three catches fifty seven yards
Speaker 1: and zero point to five touchdowns. That's it with Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: You are, so let me give you a comparable from
Speaker 1: this season. Who else is three catches fifty seven yards
Speaker 1: and zero point to five touchdowns? This year it's Curtis Samuel,
Speaker 1: who's dropped in half of leagues and not a regular starter.
Speaker 1: Um Curtis Samuel's wide receiver forty three. So to tell
Speaker 1: you what three catches fifty seven yards and zero point
Speaker 1: two five touchdowns gets you. It gets you to wide
Speaker 1: receiver forty three by fantasy points per game. There are
Speaker 1: still people reliving Josh Gordon's twenty thirteen season. Allow me
Speaker 1: to give you a very distinct way of understanding how
Speaker 1: long ago that was. This is twenty nineteen, seventeen. Six
Speaker 1: seven years ago was the last time Josh Gordon was
Speaker 1: particularly good. I don't know that he's better than John Brown.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you that. No, you're going to stay
Speaker 1: away from Josh Gordon. I don't. By the way, He's
Speaker 1: got to go like learn a whole new playbook and
Speaker 1: learn all that. A scholar of the game Josh Gordon.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Tough question number three. To this point,
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon has been so ineffective it would have been
Speaker 1: better if his fantasy for his fantasy units, if he
Speaker 1: had just continued to hold out honestly for the season though,
Speaker 1: going forward, will he be an RB one and r
Speaker 1: B two, a flex or a bench level player? Melvin Gordon?
Speaker 1: We begin with Brian Johnson, all right, the schedule moving forward,
Speaker 1: starting on Sunday, Green Bay, Oakland, Kansas City, Denver, Jacksonville, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: Oakland again, and there's a by mixed in there, so
Speaker 1: that's clearly a zero point week for Gordon and really
Speaker 1: just two good matchups, one being Green Bay on Sunday,
Speaker 1: but I'm a full confident Gordon's up to bell Cow
Speaker 1: status yet and then Kansas City is another favorable matchup.
Speaker 1: But outside of those, he's a flex player at best.
Speaker 1: And the Chargers have just gotten very bad, and so
Speaker 1: bad they've been forced to pass nearly seventy of the
Speaker 1: time over their last three games, their third and pass
Speaker 1: play percentage overall in the season. Austin Ekeler clearly a
Speaker 1: threat to the passing with Crew Gordon, so I'm just
Speaker 1: saying flex flex, and that's barely uh great. I want
Speaker 1: to give him close to bench, but flex. Ok. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say he's gonna be on the bench. I
Speaker 1: I just don't see how he ever, bites off enough
Speaker 1: of those looks to become fantasy relevant. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: been horrible two point five five yards per carry since
Speaker 1: ending us holdout. The Chargers have lost three of his
Speaker 1: four games. At some point, I think they're going to
Speaker 1: figure out that they need to stop feeding him the
Speaker 1: ball and give it back to Eckler a little bit more,
Speaker 1: who has been the the much more superior runner. So
Speaker 1: maybe there's a matchup or two here, But I think
Speaker 1: as the season goes on, the time split is gonna
Speaker 1: skew more and more towards Ekler. So I've got Gordon
Speaker 1: on the bench the rest of the way. That's a
Speaker 1: great point. It was once something in my notes as well,
Speaker 1: that it's sooner or later you'd think that they get
Speaker 1: desperate enough that they just stopped this whole Melvin Gordon
Speaker 1: experiment and just go to Eckler. They're not bringing them
Speaker 1: back next year. They're not bringing them back next year.
Speaker 1: And that was why I think they were running him
Speaker 1: into the ground. You know, what do they care if
Speaker 1: they run him into the ground and he's gonna go
Speaker 1: be a free agent, But sooner or later, they gotta
Speaker 1: win games. Now, offensive line should get a little better
Speaker 1: with Russell o'com returning, but every time he tried to
Speaker 1: returning gets hurt again. So you know, we need him
Speaker 1: to get back and get healthy. That would help a
Speaker 1: ton um. The loss of Ken Wizzen Hunt can only help.
Speaker 1: That's addition, by subtraction, his offense ranked twenty eight and
Speaker 1: rushing yards and twenty eight and rushing touchdowns, that's probably
Speaker 1: helps this offense, and I think that works in his favor.
Speaker 1: You guys, I think hit the schedule just about right.
Speaker 1: A couple of good spots in there, a couple of
Speaker 1: bad spots in there. It doesn't do a lot for me.
Speaker 1: From Melvin Gordon, I've got a flex level grade on him.
Speaker 1: They were going to be in these easy matchups. I
Speaker 1: still think he's going to be the goal line guy
Speaker 1: and will be playable in those easy matchups. And in
Speaker 1: the rest of him, you're probably gonna bench him, but
Speaker 1: there's enough there where he's going to get lex. He's
Speaker 1: gonna get He's gonna be a B grade and a
Speaker 1: C grade a few times, and a bench grade a
Speaker 1: few times, and it will net out to a flex
Speaker 1: level play for Melvin Gordon. Let's work getting one more
Speaker 1: matchup into the segment, Cleveland taking on the Denver Broncos Brian.
Speaker 1: The Cleveland passing attack has just been an utter wreck
Speaker 1: so far, and now they get a tough matchup against
Speaker 1: a good secondary in Denver. Yeah, let's start with Odell Beckham,
Speaker 1: who's on pace for seventy eight catches eleven hundred yards,
Speaker 1: which is decent but not the numbers you're expecting. But
Speaker 1: two point three touchdowns is the pace he's on. Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Sanders had two touchdowns on Thursday night, and he didim
Speaker 1: Garoppolo didn't even know each other's name before the game started.
Speaker 1: I think his name was Babe. But Beckham just been
Speaker 1: brutal and this is not a spot for him to
Speaker 1: bounce back. Opposing wide receiver units are averaging just nine
Speaker 1: catches for a hundred eleven yards. That's all the wide
Speaker 1: receivers on the team per game, and number ones have
Speaker 1: been blanked from a touchdown perspective. A Rob Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: d J Chark, Keenan Allen, t Y Hilton failed to
Speaker 1: score against Denver and Beckham probably will too, so just
Speaker 1: to see for him, he'll be shadow by Chris Harris
Speaker 1: all game. Harris just you know, eliminates you from um
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry. I'll give him a sea as well. Should
Speaker 1: see plenty of Duke Dawson, who man's the slot if
Speaker 1: Harris does not. Dawson was a second round pick of
Speaker 1: the Patriots last year, but went on I R and
Speaker 1: then was traded in the off season. He's only seen
Speaker 1: six targets in coverage, so we don't really know what
Speaker 1: we have there. But I'll give yeah, definitely so l
Speaker 1: Angel will get to see. That's because Beckham is gonna
Speaker 1: be blanked by Harris. The tight ends. I actually wanted
Speaker 1: to suggest one um. Over the last three weeks, opposing
Speaker 1: tight ends are averaging six catches for sixty nine yards. UM.
Speaker 1: Demitrius Harris scored last week for Cleveland, but he played
Speaker 1: the fewest amount of snaps. Ricky Seals Jones played twenty
Speaker 1: nine snaps and Farrell Brown played twenty six, so it's
Speaker 1: a three headed monster. So the tight ends are on
Speaker 1: the bench. And to the running backs. Nick Chubb gets
Speaker 1: a B, worth noting this is his last game before
Speaker 1: the return of Kareem Hunt, the last solo game before
Speaker 1: cream Hunt is eligible to play. UM. Not a great
Speaker 1: matchup for Chubb at all, even though the Broncos have
Speaker 1: yielded the most rushing attempts to opposing backs. UM. Everyone
Speaker 1: outside of Leonard four Net has, who had a monster
Speaker 1: game against Denver is struggled mightily. Take out the four
Speaker 1: net game. The Broncos are allowing amasily three yards per
Speaker 1: carry and no back has topped thirty five yards or
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, eighty five yards. Read that wrong? And then
Speaker 1: who were over to the Denver side get my notes
Speaker 1: in order here. Let's start with the running backs, Philip
Speaker 1: Lindsay and Royce Freeman. Give them both a B. I
Speaker 1: want this to be a huge game for Lindsay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know it could be Freeman is out snapping him,
Speaker 1: but it's it's a pretty good spot for both. Denver
Speaker 1: is going to want to run the ball with Brandon
Speaker 1: Allen at quarterback. We'll talk about him in a second. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say bench when I mentioned him again.
Speaker 1: But they're gonna want to run the run the rock.
Speaker 1: Cleveland probably gonna struggle to keep their offense on the field.
Speaker 1: The Browns are yielding a healthy twenty five carries per
Speaker 1: game to running backs four point seven yards per carry,
Speaker 1: so Philip Lindsay and Royce Freeman both very startable with
Speaker 1: a B. Courton Sutton just gonna give him a C
Speaker 1: sadly because of the Brandon Allen factor. Um. He has
Speaker 1: provided a safe floor all season with at least sixty
Speaker 1: yards and seven of eight games. But again, Brandon Allen
Speaker 1: first ever start for bench and Allen I don't, I
Speaker 1: don't love it. I don't, I don't. But something's like
Speaker 1: he's a wide receiver. He's the top twelve wide receivers.
Speaker 1: I was. It's not like Joe Flacco is good either.
Speaker 1: Liked Williams. Greedy Williams comes back, which puts Cleveland secondary
Speaker 1: at full strength for the first time all year. I'm
Speaker 1: still gonna give him a CE, though charge. I can't
Speaker 1: fault anyone for bet looking else or if you have
Speaker 1: better options, But if you don't, you can start Sutton.
Speaker 1: Uh Dave Shawn Hamilton's do not start him. He's on
Speaker 1: the bench in his first game without Manny Sanders. Everyone thought,
Speaker 1: you know, Hamilton's gonna do something. Forty five seventy three snaps,
Speaker 1: zero catches on one target. He's dead to us. We'll
Speaker 1: never mention him on this show for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season, I'm sure. And Noah Fant in his first
Speaker 1: game without Manny Sanders, he said season high and snaps
Speaker 1: slot snaps fourteen, targets a team high eight and catches
Speaker 1: with five. But the only tight ends to produce against
Speaker 1: Cleveland were a healthy Delaney Walker in week one and
Speaker 1: then George Kittle and Mark Andrews. No a fan is
Speaker 1: even even the same universe as those guys. Yeah, probably
Speaker 1: never will be so, but I am going to give
Speaker 1: him a sea in the waste land if you're super desperate. Desperate,
Speaker 1: but uh, I don't know. More down bench, he's on
Speaker 1: the bench, and so Brandon Allen, he and Brandon Allen
Speaker 1: can hang out on the bench. I kind of like
Speaker 1: Ben Allen, does that work? Yeah, Brandon brand don't Brandon
Speaker 1: don't Allen? All right? That? I kind of like that better,
Speaker 1: Brandon d Allen. Yeah, it doesn't roll off. The tongue
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Speaker 1: Aaron Jones at this point has become an obvious a um,
Speaker 1: although the only thing I'm gonna mention him is that
Speaker 1: his reception pace is just unsustainable the way they've used
Speaker 1: him here, and with Davante Adams likely return earning, I
Speaker 1: think it's going to drop off a bit here, but
Speaker 1: he's still an obviously. And then we go to Aaron Jones,
Speaker 1: whos vaulted into the NFL m v P conversation. Any
Speaker 1: doubts about his greatness have been eliminated over the last
Speaker 1: two weeks, during which he scored nine touchdowns and throwing
Speaker 1: zero picks charges past events. Looks good on paper, but man,
Speaker 1: they face some crappy quarterbacking. The only two quarterbacks they
Speaker 1: faced who are remotely close to Rogers, Matthew Stafford Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson averaged two yards and two and a half touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I think that feels very comfortable for Aaron Rodgers here,
Speaker 1: especially if Davante Adams comes back. By the way, a
Speaker 1: grade for Aaron Rodgers if I didn't say that explicitly,
Speaker 1: Davante Adams gets to be assuming he plays, even though,
Speaker 1: and though we will note there's some small chance of
Speaker 1: a setback here, but generally Turftoe doesn't have the setback
Speaker 1: a lot of times. It's a pain management thing. So
Speaker 1: on Friday there was video of him at practice leapfrogging.
Speaker 1: I think, I think he's good. It's a lot of
Speaker 1: the turf toe is really about cutting and uh and planting,
Speaker 1: and those are big things of receivers, and you can
Speaker 1: leap your coach without cutting or planting, So you know,
Speaker 1: I think he goes here he will draw Casey Hayward,
Speaker 1: very good corner who shadows opposing top receivers. But the
Speaker 1: weird thing is, even though Casey Hayward's good and he
Speaker 1: goes after the top receivers, the top receivers usually end
Speaker 1: up with good games. T Y Hilton two touchdowns, Kenny
Speaker 1: Golladay hundred yards, touchdown, DeAndre Hopkins six sketches, sixty seven yards,
Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton ninety two yards and a touchdown. They're all
Speaker 1: able to get it done against Seattle's uh sorry, the
Speaker 1: charger secondary. So I think Davante Adams finds his way
Speaker 1: to a good game here. The other receivers, though, Marquez Veldez,
Speaker 1: scant Laning, Geronimo Allison, Jake Kumero, Alan Lazard, I think
Speaker 1: they neutralize each other. Sure one of those guys probably
Speaker 1: does something, but they're all sharing playing time and none
Speaker 1: of them are getting consistent targets. They're not getting consistent snaps,
Speaker 1: so they're all on the bench. The only other receiver
Speaker 1: to mention here is tight end Jimmy Graham, who's having
Speaker 1: a better season than expected. And the Chargers appeared tough
Speaker 1: on paper against tight ends, but the opposition has been
Speaker 1: completely uninspiring, especially at the tight end position, so this
Speaker 1: is maybe one of the better tight ends they've seen.
Speaker 1: The tennesse See tight ends total ninety yards against Los
Speaker 1: Angeles recently in the Houston tight ends combined for hundred
Speaker 1: yards and three touchdowns against them in Week three, So
Speaker 1: I think Jimmy Graham's a C level start. Jamal Williams
Speaker 1: is the only other Packer player that I probably ought
Speaker 1: to touch on and haven't yet. He scored a short
Speaker 1: receiving touchdown UM. In three straight games he has scored
Speaker 1: a receiving touchdown, and four the last five he hasn't
Speaker 1: scored UM. He hadn't scored receiving touchdown in the twenty
Speaker 1: previous games, however, so it feels a little bit unsustainable.
Speaker 1: Williams has been seeing the field on roughly fifty of
Speaker 1: the offensive snaps. I think you can give him a
Speaker 1: start here against a wobbly run defense. I've got a
Speaker 1: C grade on Jamal Williams. Let's flip over to the
Speaker 1: Chargers side. I know Melvin Gordon has been a disaster,
Speaker 1: and we just talked about him a lot not that
Speaker 1: long ago, but this is a really good opportunity for him.
Speaker 1: This is one of the handful of games where we
Speaker 1: talked about him getting B grades. This is one of them.
Speaker 1: Two Packers defense that's giving the up the eleventh most
Speaker 1: rushing attempts, sixth most yards per game, and at four
Speaker 1: point nine yards per carry, it all trends to a
Speaker 1: bigger Melvin Gordon game here, unless they've just had it
Speaker 1: with him, which is a possibility. The Packers have also
Speaker 1: given up one hundred or more rushing yards and or
Speaker 1: he touchdown to the lead back in every game since
Speaker 1: the opener. So I'm Melvin Gordon gets it done here.
Speaker 1: It's a it's not a homecoming, but Melvin Gordon hailing
Speaker 1: from Kenosha, that's a good point. Played as a college
Speaker 1: ball at Wisconsin. Um As for the backup, Austin Ekeler
Speaker 1: averaging just four rushes since Gordon's return, which is completely deflating.
Speaker 1: He's basically James White now Ekeler is so you only
Speaker 1: get what he gives you through the air. And since
Speaker 1: the opener, the Packers are allowing opposing running backs to
Speaker 1: manage just four catches for thirty three yards combined, all
Speaker 1: of them through the air. That's nothing. Only one has
Speaker 1: scored a receiving touchdown against the Packers. So I've got
Speaker 1: equally with just a C grade here, and I just
Speaker 1: I should give him a bench grade. I really should.
Speaker 1: But I love Austin that Clara did the video of
Speaker 1: him doing one man. Austin Ekeler is so good, So
Speaker 1: I just I don't on talent alone, I don't have
Speaker 1: the heart to put him on the bench. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the let's go to the passing. Is that more
Speaker 1: difficult to do while reading a book? But I bet,
Speaker 1: I think I mean enough items totally relevant? What else
Speaker 1: could he be doing with that one hand while doing
Speaker 1: the set ups? Are the pull ups that would make
Speaker 1: it harder? I don't know. I don't juggling, juggling I'd
Speaker 1: be harder video games? If he turned the page with
Speaker 1: the Army was using to do the pull ups really
Speaker 1: quickly and then grab it again. Then Philip Rivers goes
Speaker 1: up against the Packers defense that's allowed multiple passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: and four of the past five games. And here's Rivers
Speaker 1: who's somehow managed to cobble together solid fantasy numbers in
Speaker 1: five different games despite all the injuries, the offensive line
Speaker 1: in tatters. You know, I worry about rivers protection breaking
Speaker 1: down against Preston Williams and sorry, Preston and Zadarius Smith,
Speaker 1: who have combined for fifteen sacks and seventy two pressures
Speaker 1: between them per Pro Football Focus. Dang, that's a lot
Speaker 1: so B grade on Philip Rivers. Here a sorry, A
Speaker 1: C grade on Rivers, a C grade on Keenan Allen,
Speaker 1: who is not eclipse sixty one yards in any of
Speaker 1: his last five games. That is a serious drop off
Speaker 1: from a guy who is averaging a hundred thirty six
Speaker 1: yards in his first three games of the season. He
Speaker 1: goes up against Packers slot cornerback Traymont Williams, who surrendered
Speaker 1: eleven scoreless yards per game over the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: That's it. No slot receiver has scored against the Packers
Speaker 1: this year, So just to see grade on Keenan Allen
Speaker 1: as well. Mike Williams is on the bench. He has
Speaker 1: yet to score, which is tru bling for a touchdown
Speaker 1: dependent receiver like him, and the Packers secondary has yielded
Speaker 1: just five scores to receivers. That's the fifth fewest in
Speaker 1: the league. So Mike Williams also on the bench. The
Speaker 1: Jets take on the Miami Dolphins. You've already identified Christian.
Speaker 1: Many take a chance on meat level sleepers in this game, several. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One guy that fantasy owners desperately need to get right
Speaker 1: is leaby On Bell, and this is the best opportunity
Speaker 1: of his season. You're right, I mean, if he can't
Speaker 1: get it done here, we might be talking about Levan
Speaker 1: Bell as a sabotage drop candidate. Well, we're not for
Speaker 1: the fact that he plays Miami again later, so there's
Speaker 1: that you might want to hold him for that, but
Speaker 1: that might be it. He's been so bad. Just eight
Speaker 1: carries twenty three yards last week. That may have been
Speaker 1: the low point of a stunningly disappointing season. But faces
Speaker 1: a Dolphins run defense that's allowed the most rushing attempts
Speaker 1: in the NFL. The most rushing yards in the NFL.
Speaker 1: They've given up five runners ten running back touchdowns. This
Speaker 1: is it for for leve Onbell owners. This is your
Speaker 1: a level start again. If he can't get it done here,
Speaker 1: there's there's not much hope for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: The passing game, I talked about Sam Donald, he was
Speaker 1: might take a chance on me quarterback against the secondary
Speaker 1: giving up over two and fifty yards and two touchdowns
Speaker 1: per game. That brings both Jamison Crowder and Robbie Anderson
Speaker 1: into play. The Dolphins lead the NFL and wide receiver
Speaker 1: touchdowns allowed with thirteen, including seven to the slot receiver position.
Speaker 1: So Jamison Crowder had that huge Week one, that's seventeen
Speaker 1: target Week one. He's been virtually invisible since then, just
Speaker 1: five targets in each of the last two games. So
Speaker 1: it's a big roll of the dice here, but the
Speaker 1: matchup sure favorite Crowder. I gave him a sea level start.
Speaker 1: Same with Robbie Anderson. He's been targeted twenty two times
Speaker 1: in the three starts since Donald returned to the field,
Speaker 1: and he's the primary beneficiary of the Dolphins shutting down
Speaker 1: star corner Zavian Howard due to injury in air quotes.
Speaker 1: Now he to face backup Ken Webster, who's ranked a
Speaker 1: hundred and sevent among cornerbacks by Pro Football Focus. I
Speaker 1: gotta believe they don't even rank many more than I
Speaker 1: don't think they do. You know, Anderson is, He's He's
Speaker 1: a boomer Bus guy, right, He's the deep threat. So
Speaker 1: you're depending on a touchdown here. So again, just a
Speaker 1: sea level grade here. Even to Marius Thomas, He's been
Speaker 1: targeted eighteen times in the last three games, had five
Speaker 1: catches for sixty three yards last week. So not all
Speaker 1: of these guys are going to do anything. I know that,
Speaker 1: but one of them is, and two of them might.
Speaker 1: So Thomas could even be a dart throw. We're not
Speaker 1: quite there yet. On Chris Herndon, it looks like he's
Speaker 1: unlikely to play this week still with that hamstring injury.
Speaker 1: He's on the bench. So that brings us to the
Speaker 1: other side of the matchup. We talked about the running game.
Speaker 1: I've got Mark Walton and as gonna take a chance
Speaker 1: on me running back. The passing game Church Stu Beard.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen vintage Stu Beard average less than two
Speaker 1: hundred yards per game toss just five touchdown passes in
Speaker 1: the four games in which he's seen extensive time. Now,
Speaker 1: I would argue that that is vintage Sard. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what we should expect. I know you would have a differentendion.
Speaker 1: What I love about what I love about Stu Beard
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick is he just throws deep ball after deep fall,
Speaker 1: regardless of interceptions, whatever. It just all. It takes one
Speaker 1: hook up and the Jets are capable of giving it up.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm not advocating going on starting Ryan Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't be surprised if he cobbles together a
Speaker 1: couple of touchdown passes. And may I mean Gardner Minshew
Speaker 1: did have three touchdowns against the Jets last week, but
Speaker 1: before that they had only allowed one opposing quarterback to
Speaker 1: throw more than one touchdown pass, So they haven't been
Speaker 1: horrible against the past. And honestly, Fitzpatrick is always at
Speaker 1: risk of an in game bench. You know, he might
Speaker 1: be out by the end of the first quarter. At
Speaker 1: wide receiver Davante Parker and Preston Williams, these guys are
Speaker 1: tough to analyze because they're both pretty similar. They're okay,
Speaker 1: but not great. Neither his top six catches for eighty
Speaker 1: two yards all season, Parker has scored in three of
Speaker 1: his last four. He ranks fourteenth in the NFL and
Speaker 1: are yards. So if I was going to start one
Speaker 1: of them, he would be the guy, except that he
Speaker 1: has a tougher cornerback matchup against Truemayin Johnson. Preston Williams
Speaker 1: draws Darryl Roberts on the other side, So the cornerback
Speaker 1: matchup favors Williams at sea level starting grade on both
Speaker 1: of them, I don't rudg. I don't love it, and
Speaker 1: Mike just sicky at tight end. He's not doing anything.
Speaker 1: Jets have allowed the fourth fewest yards to it. He's
Speaker 1: not even owned by anybody in my dynasty league. I've
Speaker 1: been I've had stashed all year Preston Williams, and he's
Speaker 1: eating up a roster spot and this isn't easy. But
Speaker 1: I'm looking towards next year when the Dolphins, like it,
Speaker 1: will have the first or the second overall pick, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna draft a quarterback, and whoever that young kid
Speaker 1: is is probably gonna be pretty good, and that guy
Speaker 1: will be looking at Preston Williams I think his you know,
Speaker 1: his long term combo. He's been good enough in in
Speaker 1: his rookie year that you want to hold him looking
Speaker 1: forward to next year. I think you're you're in rebuild
Speaker 1: mode and you don't need the roster spot to compete.
Speaker 1: Now now I see, I do. Okay, that's it's different.
Speaker 1: It's been a pain. It's been a little bit painful
Speaker 1: to Wold Preston Williams, but I think it's important to
Speaker 1: do it. Our final topics are had. No, wait, we
Speaker 1: got one more matchup. We've got one more matchup to
Speaker 1: work in Dallas taking on the New York Giants. Brian,
Speaker 1: the Giants have got arguably the worst starting three cornerbacks
Speaker 1: in the NFL. You've got to love every part of
Speaker 1: the Dallas passing game here. Yeah, these teams met in
Speaker 1: week one. Um, let's talk about the receivers for Dallas
Speaker 1: real quickly. Mary Cooper easy a six for one oh
Speaker 1: six in one in Week one. Since then, the Giants
Speaker 1: have probably faced two true comparable receivers to Cooper, and
Speaker 1: those were Mike Evans and Kenny Golladay, who only combined
Speaker 1: for fourteen catches, three yards and five touchdowns. Those two guys.
Speaker 1: Easy A for Cooper, easy for Gallup, who had seven
Speaker 1: for one fifty eight in Week one. The Giants have
Speaker 1: allowed the most completions of twenty plus yards at thirty six.
Speaker 1: If you bench Gallop you should probably quit playing fantasy football.
Speaker 1: He gets in a Randall Cobby even gets a starting grade.
Speaker 1: He's healthy. Uh. He gets to see slot receivers against
Speaker 1: New York to kill them. Danny Amndola eight, Edelman nine
Speaker 1: for one thirteen, Adam Feeling seven for one thirty and two.
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley had four for eighty three, and oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Randall copp at four for sixty nine and one in
Speaker 1: Week one as well. So startin Randall Copp with the Sea.
Speaker 1: I'm benching Jason Witten, though witness scored in three straight
Speaker 1: games against the Giants dating back to seventeen. He did
Speaker 1: score touchdown in Week one, but that's the last game
Speaker 1: the Giants surrendered a tight end touchdown, and no wan
Speaker 1: tight end has top three catches against them all season.
Speaker 1: So I'm benching Witten this week and Dak Prescott obvious A,
Speaker 1: and so is zeke Um. The Cowboys will get left
Speaker 1: tackle Tyron Smith and right tackle Lyle Collins back, which
Speaker 1: is huge. Zeke only at thirteen carries for fifty three
Speaker 1: yards in the opener, but he did score, which means
Speaker 1: he's topped a hundred rushing yards or hit paydirt and
Speaker 1: every game he's played against the Giants, but shockingly, he
Speaker 1: hasn't done both in the same game. A touchdown against
Speaker 1: the Giants, but it's probably gonna happen this week. Even
Speaker 1: though the Giants traded for defensive tackle Leonard Williams, no
Speaker 1: one really cares about that though they're they're just getting
Speaker 1: shredded by any running back who doesn't play for Detroit
Speaker 1: or Washington. Remember when they gave up snack snacks Harrison
Speaker 1: four free. Basically, I think he had a fifth round
Speaker 1: pick for one of the best runs stuffing d tackles
Speaker 1: in the league. One of the many reasons I've abandoned
Speaker 1: ship as a Giants fan um kan the Bengals, But whatever. Still,
Speaker 1: I'm still happier being a Bengals fans. At A lateral
Speaker 1: moves at an upgrade is that A I had to
Speaker 1: go to a barren landscape. I can't, you know, just
Speaker 1: jump on a successful bandwagon. I gotta go along this
Speaker 1: on fire and sinking at the same time. Anyway over
Speaker 1: the giant side, se Kwon Barkley, I'm gonna give him
Speaker 1: an A in PPR, but a B in standard leagues.
Speaker 1: Dallas is allowing the fourth most receptions per game to
Speaker 1: running backs at six point seven, and Barkley is averaging
Speaker 1: seven targets and five catches in his four full games
Speaker 1: this year. UH. The Cowboys are very tough on the ground,
Speaker 1: though only two loan backs have received more than fourteen
Speaker 1: carries this year, and se Kwon Barkley wasn't one of
Speaker 1: those running backs in Week one, UM, but he did
Speaker 1: top a hundred yards on eleven carry, So you're starting
Speaker 1: sae Kwon Barkley regardless of sterling. Shepherd will play. He
Speaker 1: has cleared concussion protocol. Uh. He logged just six for
Speaker 1: forty two in the opener, ran primarily out of the slot,
Speaker 1: which just convolutes things because Golden Tate wasn't playing. Then
Speaker 1: he was suspended. Now he's a slot receiver. It is.
Speaker 1: It's messy. I'll give them both a seed. Dallas has
Speaker 1: surrender just three wide receiver touchdowns, and the receivers that
Speaker 1: have done well have been Burner boundary receivers. That is
Speaker 1: not Sterling Shepherd or Golden Tape, but they probably be
Speaker 1: playing from behind, and I'll give them both a soft sea.
Speaker 1: Darius Layton, who had two touchdowns last week, is on
Speaker 1: the bench now now that Sterling Shepherd has returned. Evan Ingram,
Speaker 1: though easier opposing tight ends, are averaging more than six
Speaker 1: yards per game against the Cowboys. Anger went off against
Speaker 1: Dallas in Week one, catching eleven balls for a hundred
Speaker 1: and sixteen yards. He's scored in every career game against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, But I'm benching Danny Dimes in this one.
Speaker 1: Even though Eli Manning managed the top three yards and
Speaker 1: throw a touchdown against Dallas in Week one, Dallas was
Speaker 1: missing some key members on their defense due to injury
Speaker 1: or suspension. That's not the case of this week. Uh.
Speaker 1: Dallas has allowed one or zero touchdown passes in five
Speaker 1: of six games, and outside of cake matchups against Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Detroit, Danny Dimes is averaging a yards one touchdown
Speaker 1: in one point seven five interceptions per game five or
Speaker 1: six games outside of the Giants game. I should have said, yeah,
Speaker 1: got it, got it. That was a comprehensive breakdown of
Speaker 1: the Giants right there and otherwise somewhat mundane offense. Our
Speaker 1: final topics are had. We provide you with three guys
Speaker 1: we believe will be hot waiver wire pickups next week,
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Speaker 1: give you a player we believe will be a hot
Speaker 1: waiver wire pick up next week. But Blamo already on
Speaker 1: your team together of that machine sound effect right there,
Speaker 1: you will already have him. Brian, who is your premature
Speaker 1: speculation player this week? Well, the hotness might be dumbed
Speaker 1: down a little bit since the acquisition of Josh Gordon
Speaker 1: by the Seahawks, but I have there now starting tight end.
Speaker 1: Jacob Hollister is my premature speculation, um starting you actually
Speaker 1: stream him this week against Tampa Bay, but including uh
Speaker 1: this week's game against Tampa Bay, four of Seattle's next
Speaker 1: seven opponents are top six and yards allowed to tight ends,
Speaker 1: and they've combined to surrender sixteen touchdowns to the position.
Speaker 1: So you have Tampa Bay this week, Minnesota and week twelve,
Speaker 1: the Rams in Week fourteen, and the Peace that Resistance
Speaker 1: the Cardinals in weeks Baby, everybody wants that Cardinals tight end.
Speaker 1: And you know, Josh Gordon Muddies of Water is a
Speaker 1: little bit probably, but more than half of your league
Speaker 1: is desperate for tight ends on a weekly basis, and
Speaker 1: Hollister has got some pretty prime matchups about half of
Speaker 1: his matchups. So Jacobs, that's deep. I like it. That's
Speaker 1: a deep call. I'm gonna go with running back Darius
Speaker 1: Guys here. Of course, we haven't seen him since Week one,
Speaker 1: when I think it was a meniscus injury in the knee.
Speaker 1: That's not put him on I R. But he is
Speaker 1: eligible to come off of I R. And it looks like,
Speaker 1: or it sounds like he's going to suit up in
Speaker 1: week eleven after the Redskins week ten, by four of
Speaker 1: his final six opponents rank in the bottom twelve against
Speaker 1: opposing running backs. And more importantly, the Redskins have absolutely
Speaker 1: nothing to gain by continuing to hand the ball to
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson. We've got to see what they have in guys.
Speaker 1: We're almost two years into this experiment here. They need
Speaker 1: to know the right and so you're gonna hear a
Speaker 1: lot about this next week when they're actually on there. By,
Speaker 1: go grab him now before everybody else realizes it. Uh
Speaker 1: speaking of a guy who's returning. Kareem Hunt's ownership at
Speaker 1: the draft. At coming out of drafts was you know
Speaker 1: where it is now nine weeks later, it's down to
Speaker 1: almost because you know you're the rutrition, right, you need
Speaker 1: that roster spot. By weeks are coming. You're tired of
Speaker 1: getting a zero out of that roster spot. Half of
Speaker 1: the people out there have dropped Kareem Hunt outright. He's
Speaker 1: coming back and he's already practicing with the team. You're
Speaker 1: going to hear this story next week about him coming
Speaker 1: back for eligibility next week, but you're already going to
Speaker 1: have Kareem Hunt now. He will make his debut against Buffalo.
Speaker 1: That's coming up next week, Buffalo. You can't pass on him.
Speaker 1: You gotta run. Now. Some people will tell you that
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt is nothing more than a product of a
Speaker 1: great Andy Reid offense, and he's not He's really not good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a bunch of ps. Tell that to Damien Williams
Speaker 1: in his two yards per carrying an Andy Reid offense.
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt is a very good player. Now, Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: has been a workhorse and he's been great, and I'm
Speaker 1: not taking anything way from him it but Hunts too
Speaker 1: good to ride pine. They're gonna work him into this offense,
Speaker 1: and you know, Chubb can't keep going at this pace.
Speaker 1: Probably they're going to want to have more of an
Speaker 1: even split. And Kareem Hunt is an awfully good player.
Speaker 1: So would you rather have Hunts or guys hunt? Because Hunts,
Speaker 1: I know, Hunts really good and he's not coming off injury.
Speaker 1: He's hitting the too. I know he's in a time.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Sure, he's splitting time with Nick Chubb.
Speaker 1: I would contend that Geiss is splitting time with Dwayne
Speaker 1: Haskins in that Haskins is so bad that I think
Speaker 1: Haskins is going to be a total grade a bust
Speaker 1: based on what we've seen so far, which is very small.
Speaker 1: I think that's the case. Let's jump out back into
Speaker 1: some matchups. We've got just got two left. New England
Speaker 1: takes on Baltimore on Sunday night. Let's start with Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: and despite the Patriots undefeated record, Brady's passing has been
Speaker 1: pretty pedestrian. His completion percentage is that it's low US
Speaker 1: point in five years, he's averaging one point six touchdown
Speaker 1: passes per game. And here comes a raven secondary that's
Speaker 1: been pretty good. Only Patrick Mahomes has thrown multiple touchdowns
Speaker 1: against them. They get cornerback Jimmy Smith back. Brady's only
Speaker 1: truly reliable receiver is Julian Edelman, and he's got a
Speaker 1: very tough matchup. In fact, let's go to him. Brady
Speaker 1: gets a B, so does Edelman with just a B.
Speaker 1: Here he faces exceptional slack corner Brandon car. Not only
Speaker 1: has Car surrendered fewer than forty four yards in four
Speaker 1: straight games, Brandon Carr has given up one touchdown in
Speaker 1: his coverage in two years. Julian Edelman is tied for
Speaker 1: the lead with thirteen red zone targets. We like that part.
Speaker 1: Brady is connected with him one of those red zone targets.
Speaker 1: We like that, and he's converted four of those targets
Speaker 1: into touchdowns. Let's hope for a touchdown here for Edelman,
Speaker 1: who gets a B grade. Sticking with the receiver's Mohammed
Speaker 1: sanu is on the bench. He played two thirds of
Speaker 1: his snaps from the slot last week, his first game
Speaker 1: as a Patriot, and that puts him behind Julian Edelman
Speaker 1: for slot work. I don't think he's on the field
Speaker 1: enough to matter here, unfortunately, and Philip ur said also
Speaker 1: on the bench, he runs almost entirely from the outside,
Speaker 1: where he faces a tough matchup with either Marlon Humphrey
Speaker 1: on one side or much improved Marcus Peters on the
Speaker 1: other side. I don't love door set here. I've got
Speaker 1: a bench grade on him as well. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the running backs, Sony Walkman, just to see the Baltimore
Speaker 1: Ravens allow the third fewest rushing attempts the fifth fewest
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game to opposing backs. Since being obliterated
Speaker 1: by Nick Chubbins in Week four, the Ravens have limited
Speaker 1: far more talented backs than Sony Walkman, James Conner, Joe
Speaker 1: Mix and Chris car Carson averaging forty three rushing yards
Speaker 1: per game. That is it. That's at the absolute max
Speaker 1: for Sony Michelle. I think his ceiling Michelle totally touchdown dependent.
Speaker 1: He only he only gives what his offensive line gives him.
Speaker 1: And this is a tough matchup. Speaking of tough matchups,
Speaker 1: James White almost gave him a bench grade here. The
Speaker 1: Ravens allow the fifth fewest receptions and the seventh fewest
Speaker 1: receiving yards to opposing backs. They've only allowed a single
Speaker 1: back to have more than three receptions. It's only out
Speaker 1: of just respect for James White and how much they
Speaker 1: use him that he maintains a C grade in this game.
Speaker 1: Let's flip it over and go to the Baltimore side
Speaker 1: where we start with Lamar Jackson. Now, we all remember
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson's epic Week one against Miami Kindness. Since then,
Speaker 1: it's been a slow degrade in his passing performances over
Speaker 1: the course of the year. His completion percentage has dropped
Speaker 1: in four consecutive games. He's thrown one touchdown in his
Speaker 1: last three games. Meanwhile, the Patriots have somehow allowed two
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns on the entire season, a staggering level of
Speaker 1: success no matter the competition. And you might say to yourself, well,
Speaker 1: I don't need Lamar Jackson to pass, he will run
Speaker 1: me to fantasy victory. Well, New England's giving up ten
Speaker 1: quarterback rushing yards per game ten. I've got a B
Speaker 1: grade on Lamar Jackson because anything can happen, But I
Speaker 1: can't say I like him in this matchup at all.
Speaker 1: His primary receiver wide receivers Marquis Brown. He gave us
Speaker 1: Fool's Gold in Week one and has been limited by
Speaker 1: an injury ever since. He is back to for this game, however,
Speaker 1: and will play. He's averaged just three catches per game
Speaker 1: since Week two, and his targets have dropped in every
Speaker 1: week since Week two. You know, hopefully he's healthy and
Speaker 1: ready for a second half of the season resurgence for
Speaker 1: Marquis Brown. But I don't think it happens this week
Speaker 1: against a ridiculously good Patriots secondary that's yielded a league
Speaker 1: low one score to wide receivers on the season. That
Speaker 1: brings us to Mark Andrews. The only other part of
Speaker 1: the receiving game that you might play. He's been held
Speaker 1: under forty five yards and four of the past five games.
Speaker 1: He's slumping his well, I told you Jackson is slumping,
Speaker 1: so is his best receiver, Mark Andrews. There's no positive
Speaker 1: angles I've got here from Mark Andrews. Although the one
Speaker 1: other touchdown the Patriots have yielded is to a tight end.
Speaker 1: So fifty percent of Patriots touchdowns going to tight ends.
Speaker 1: It's not a silver lining, not a bronze lining. I
Speaker 1: don't even gotta keep going down the same periodic table
Speaker 1: of zinc um lining. Maybe I don't know. For Mark
Speaker 1: Andrew's a C grade on Andrew's lastly mark Ingram with
Speaker 1: a B grade. He's been great. But the Patriots the
Speaker 1: only team to allow a touchdown, only team not to
Speaker 1: allow a touchdown to a running back, and they're also
Speaker 1: allowing the second fewest rushing attempts and the third fewest
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game. Here, here's your end, here's your
Speaker 1: silver lining. Levyan Bell and Nick Chubb over the past
Speaker 1: two weeks five and a half yards per carry against
Speaker 1: the Patriots. So I think you are going to see
Speaker 1: a lot of mark Ingram here. I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: for a decent game, and he gets a B grade.
Speaker 1: Let's go to our final matchup of today's show, and
Speaker 1: that's Tampa Bay taking on Seattle Christian. For Jamis Winson,
Speaker 1: it's been all over the board with highs and lows.
Speaker 1: What do you think about Jamis Winston and the passing
Speaker 1: game against Seattle. I've got a pretty high grade on
Speaker 1: him here this First of all, this game has the
Speaker 1: highest over under total of the week at fifty two
Speaker 1: and a half. There's gonna be some points scored here. Secondly,
Speaker 1: Seattle just allowed four hundred and sixty yards to Matt
Speaker 1: Shab last week. They also allowed three yards to Jared
Speaker 1: Goff earlier in the year and four hundred and eighteen
Speaker 1: to Andy Dalton. None of those guys are any good either,
Speaker 1: So I've got Winston as a B level grade. He
Speaker 1: has top three yards four times in his last five games.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a danger that he throws two interceptions
Speaker 1: in the first quarter and he ends up on the bench.
Speaker 1: So but the matchup is great here. That of course
Speaker 1: brings Mike Evans and Chris god Went into play, both
Speaker 1: as A level starters. The Seahawks are bottom five against
Speaker 1: wide receivers. They have allowed the sixth most receptions, the
Speaker 1: third most yards and touchdowns to opposing wide outs. So
Speaker 1: you don't need me to tell you that Mike Evans
Speaker 1: and Chris Godwin are in your lineup as A level starters.
Speaker 1: I will mention this about Evans. They've Seattle's got these
Speaker 1: super physical, big cornerbacks and that's so much of like
Speaker 1: evans games, just out muscling the slappy cornerbacks around. That
Speaker 1: might not happen here, and I like Godwin over Evans
Speaker 1: because of that angle. Okay, all right, we can dig it.
Speaker 1: Tight end. Camon Bright was my take a chance on
Speaker 1: me tight end, so he's in your lineup as well.
Speaker 1: I gave him a B level start. Both running backs
Speaker 1: are on the bench. Neither one is doing anything. Neither
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones nor Peyton Barber has top thirty five rushing
Speaker 1: yards in three weeks. They are both on the bench.
Speaker 1: So let's go to the Seahawks side, where we've got
Speaker 1: all sorts of starters here. Russell Wilson is an easy a. Now,
Speaker 1: the Bucks past defense is really bad. They have allowed
Speaker 1: three yards and an average of three hundred yards and
Speaker 1: two touchdown passes. Per game, which is even worse when
Speaker 1: you consider who they've faced Jimmy Garoppolo, Cam Newton, Daniel Jones,
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, Teddy Bridgewater, Kyle Allen, Ran, Ryan Tanny Hill.
Speaker 1: These guys aren't any good. Imagine what a good passer
Speaker 1: will do. Wilson's an A. Tyler Lockett, his top receiver
Speaker 1: is an A. The Bucks have allowed six wide receiver
Speaker 1: touchdowns in their last three games. DK Metcalf, you could
Speaker 1: start him in desperation. I don't even think it's desperation, well,
Speaker 1: only because he has got more than four passes in
Speaker 1: a game all year, hasn't top sixty nine yards since
Speaker 1: Week one, but he leads the NFL and end zone targets.
Speaker 1: Just had two touchdowns last week, so he's an all
Speaker 1: or nothing touchdown guy. Uh. Let's go to the running
Speaker 1: game here, which is a little tricky. With Chris Carson,
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay has easily the league's best run defense. They
Speaker 1: allowed just fifty six yards per game, held Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: to thirty seven yards and thirty one yards Todd Gurley
Speaker 1: to sixteen, Alvin Kamar at a sixty two. Seattle just
Speaker 1: lost their starting center to I r So that doesn't
Speaker 1: bode well for Chris Carson. But they're probably gonna be
Speaker 1: up big on the clock. They'll be in clock killing mode.
Speaker 1: Carson's gonna get his twenty plus touches and we've seen
Speaker 1: what he can do with that. So B level starting
Speaker 1: great on Carson. Yeah, I was tempted to make him
Speaker 1: more like a Sea guy. I know it is back
Speaker 1: for the Tampa. It's a really bad match it is.
Speaker 1: It's a really bad matchup, and I just worry that
Speaker 1: offense is gonna flow through Russell Wilson in his arm
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