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Speaker 1: I'm Paul Georgie and my co host today are Scott
Speaker 1: Fish and Brian Johnson. Hello, guys, hello again. Same as
Speaker 1: last week, same as last week. God's it drags so
Speaker 1: long with you two gee, one show feels like twenty.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot to get to. Over the course
Speaker 1: of the show. We will break down all the matchups
Speaker 1: like we always do, letter grades for all the fantasy
Speaker 1: relevant players. We will take a chance on nine players
Speaker 1: you would not normally start. We'll answer three tough questions
Speaker 1: and at the end of the show will give you
Speaker 1: players to pick up that aren't already on rosters and
Speaker 1: you'll want to grab this week when other people are
Speaker 1: trying to pick that up next week. That's the second
Speaker 1: speculation coming up later on in the show. But let's die.
Speaker 1: Let's go right into the matchups. If you're ready, let's
Speaker 1: let's jump in. Saints taking on the Panthers. Scott and
Speaker 1: for the saints. Jamis Winston playing with a broken back,
Speaker 1: four fractures. Yeah, bad game last week. It seemed to
Speaker 1: affect him and kind of a tricky matchup against the panther. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was sitting on a C grade with him. I
Speaker 1: think I've downgraded it to a bench at this point.
Speaker 1: The panthers fourth best against quarterbacks, but I mean they
Speaker 1: faced Jacoby Brissette and Daniel Jones, I suppose on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Jacobe prisctte actually looked pretty good. He looked he looked
Speaker 1: terrible in week one, though. So like, uh, they have
Speaker 1: started the year as the fourth best against quarterbacks and
Speaker 1: the third best against wide receivers. Um since getting lace,
Speaker 1: Winston falls into two and two and seventy yards and
Speaker 1: a score range most games. Yeah, yeah, I'M gonna put
Speaker 1: that in there. Like since getting lacing, that's about where
Speaker 1: he falls. I had him as a C grade. I've
Speaker 1: moved him to a bench because of what you said.
Speaker 1: He just did not look right with that injured back
Speaker 1: last week. But I do have some starting grades on
Speaker 1: some of his wide receivers. Over here. I have a
Speaker 1: B grade on Michael Thomas. You could probably talk me
Speaker 1: into an age just because he's so dang reliable with
Speaker 1: his eight plus targets, his fifty plus yards, his score
Speaker 1: in each game. But he's only scored four times in
Speaker 1: the twelve games without drew brees, and Jamis isn't looking
Speaker 1: as good. He did score last week, of course, but
Speaker 1: he's been in that fifty to seventy yards and you
Speaker 1: hope for a touchdown range. That's more B range to me.
Speaker 1: He's not exploding. I don't expect Jamis to explode for
Speaker 1: him and honestly, last week the surprise was three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty five air yards to Chris, a lava, who
Speaker 1: leads the NFL in that they are taking shot after
Speaker 1: shot deep to try to get a lava involved. He's
Speaker 1: the one that's more likely to have the giant boom
Speaker 1: bust game and I have C grade on him just
Speaker 1: because of that opportunity with the deep targets, thirteen targets
Speaker 1: last week. Here's the risk, though. This is why it's
Speaker 1: only a C grade. He's going up against Dante Jackson,
Speaker 1: who took out Donovan People's Jones last week. I mean
Speaker 1: that's not a big deal, but he is arguably the
Speaker 1: fastest corner in the league. was that in the air
Speaker 1: yards record. It's got to be for one one game, right.
Speaker 1: I don't like in six air yards in one. I
Speaker 1: do have Jarvis Landry on the bench one week after
Speaker 1: leading the team in targets, receptions in yards. He felt
Speaker 1: a third in all three and he gets the toughest
Speaker 1: matchup he's got so far this year, at least against
Speaker 1: the number one team against the slot so far here
Speaker 1: in two Um. But let's check how they were last year. Oh,
Speaker 1: they were number two against the slot last year. So
Speaker 1: bad matchup all around for Landry. I'm throwing him back
Speaker 1: on the bench because what Winston does get, I'm expecting
Speaker 1: it to go to Thomas and the lave. I think
Speaker 1: you could drop him. Honestly, you might be able to.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna note here. Uh, not startable, but keep
Speaker 1: your eye and Jowan Johnson beat reporters like Oh man.
Speaker 1: I'm good for his name. I think Nick Johnson be
Speaker 1: reporter in new ORLEAND Saints Reporter. Nick Johnson. Yeah, had
Speaker 1: had mentioned that. He had mentioned that he got a
Speaker 1: full offseason this offseason. He's a six, five frame, big
Speaker 1: target that they want involved in the red zone, etcetera.
Speaker 1: He's getting more and more work, so more and more usage.
Speaker 1: To keep an eye on that. But Bench for for
Speaker 1: this week? Is that a premature, premature speculation right there?
Speaker 1: It might be. Let's just make that my premature. All right.
Speaker 1: Let's go with a B grade on Alvin Kamara, who
Speaker 1: should be back after practicing this week. Nick Chubb and
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt Destroyed Carolina in week one. Sikan Bark, they
Speaker 1: had a pretty fine day last week. Seventy plus yards,
Speaker 1: a few catches. I expect that here for Kamara. Double
Speaker 1: digit touches Um, with his talent, a few catches, maybe
Speaker 1: a score. That's a B level day. UH SO B
Speaker 1: level on Kamara. On the panthers side, I have the
Speaker 1: whole pass game on the bench. Honestly, Mayfield is averaging
Speaker 1: under two hundred yards game. Has just unbroken coverage passing
Speaker 1: touchdown that seventy five yard robby adderson. Otherwise he's done
Speaker 1: virtually nothing. The saints just held Brady to a hundred
Speaker 1: ninety yards. Dj Moore consistently wet three for forty three
Speaker 1: each of the last two weeks. Exactly. Um. He's gonna
Speaker 1: get a good amount of marshawn Lattimore, but as m
Speaker 1: clay mentioned lattimore. In all their games that sts and
Speaker 1: pethers and played has never shadowed dj more so um,
Speaker 1: which I found respect him enough. Yeah, maybe that's it.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's it. So maybe he finds some room at
Speaker 1: the Times Latimore is not, but I don't think that's enough.
Speaker 1: I actually have a bench grade on DJ more this week. Uh.
Speaker 1: And and as far as Christian McCaffrey, it's an Otto A.
Speaker 1: you're you're going up against the team nearing allowing nearly
Speaker 1: thirty running back touches. McCaffrey is going to get like
Speaker 1: twenty five of those. With what he does in the
Speaker 1: past game and that amount of touches. It's it's an Agrid.
Speaker 1: Did you see the video breakdown of how Matt rules
Speaker 1: tipped his hand on the run pass out of the shotgun?
Speaker 1: It was it's staggering. He was he was lining up
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey right next to Baker Mayfield in the shotgun
Speaker 1: on every passing play and a yard deep behind Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield on every running play. Tipped his hand. Yes, that rules.
Speaker 1: The problem it's that's a pretty good roster and Matt rules.
Speaker 1: The problem with that. I saw under his reign of terror.
Speaker 1: The panthers are like one and like twentysomething. When they
Speaker 1: give up seventeen points, which isn't a ton of points,
Speaker 1: not a lot of points, he's gonna get canned at
Speaker 1: some point. Got To get a shut out. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the bengals and the jets, speaking of frustrating offenses,
Speaker 1: the Bengals, with all the firepower man that offensive line,
Speaker 1: it'll click at some point with all the talent they've got.
Speaker 1: It's looked terrible to this point and the fantasy players
Speaker 1: for Cincinnati have suffered. Yeah, let's start with the player
Speaker 1: that they're supposed to protect most of that offensive line,
Speaker 1: and that's Joe Burrow. CAN GIVE HIM A B here.
Speaker 1: He just needs to stay off his back in this game. Basically,
Speaker 1: he's been sacked thirteen times the first across the first
Speaker 1: two games. UH, since he's since he's revamped, line needs
Speaker 1: to jell and this should be a good spot. The
Speaker 1: jets of total just four sacks. So I like burrow
Speaker 1: with the B and I like all his past catchers.
Speaker 1: They are all gonna get a starting grade, starting with
Speaker 1: the Jamar Chase. Easy Amari Cooper went off for nine
Speaker 1: catches a hundred one yards and a touchdown against New
Speaker 1: York last week, so chase could do the same, as
Speaker 1: could tee higgins. He gets an A. It's unlikely that
Speaker 1: he and chase provide a level production, but they both
Speaker 1: have that potential in this matchup. Bengals wide receivers have
Speaker 1: been targeted twelve times in the red zone this season.
Speaker 1: That's tied for the most in the NFL. And we
Speaker 1: still have to mention Tyler Boyd when Talking Cincinnati Wide
Speaker 1: Receiver is just to see for him, though. Boyd has
Speaker 1: run the third most routes among all players, but it's
Speaker 1: just seen nine targets so far at this season. Um,
Speaker 1: he's clearly not burrows first or second read, but he's
Speaker 1: always on the field for a dynamic offense. So a
Speaker 1: C for Boyd and also a C for Tight End
Speaker 1: Hayden Hurst, who has run the seventh most pass routes
Speaker 1: among all players in the NFL, and the jet have
Speaker 1: yielded target totals of eleven and nine to opposing tight
Speaker 1: ends through their first two games. So I like Hurst
Speaker 1: in this matchup. And lastly, for the Bengals, Joe Mixon,
Speaker 1: easy a for him. He's seen averaging twenty eight touches
Speaker 1: per game so far. Nick Chubb just carved the jets
Speaker 1: up on the ground last week, as did mix in
Speaker 1: when he faced them last year, scoring two touchdowns. Now
Speaker 1: over to the jet side, starting with their running backs.
Speaker 1: Brees haw and Michael Carter. Are gonna give both in
Speaker 1: terms of talent, I think I do well. You know
Speaker 1: Michael Carter's actually pretty dope. He is, and they're both good. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Briest Hall scored one of his targets
Speaker 1: last week and whole average seven point one yards per
Speaker 1: carry last week, but only got seven carries, which was
Speaker 1: the same total for Carter, who averaged just over three
Speaker 1: yards per carry. And, as Scott just mentioned, Hall caught
Speaker 1: a tenure touchdown on his loan target, but Carter was
Speaker 1: targeted five times. Ty Johnson got in the mix with
Speaker 1: three targets. That's not great for hall. Um Hall is
Speaker 1: likely the better player, but he's stuck in a time
Speaker 1: share for now. But it's not a great matchup for
Speaker 1: either hall or Carter. The bengals have allowed just one
Speaker 1: six rushing yards through the first two weeks and that
Speaker 1: was against the steelers, who have Nagy Harris and the cowboys,
Speaker 1: who have the corps of Zeke Elliott. So it just
Speaker 1: just to see for hall and Carter, but a a
Speaker 1: B for Garrett Wilson, who has become the Alpha wide
Speaker 1: receiver already for the jets. Last week he became the
Speaker 1: first rookie in jets history to catch two touchdowns, to
Speaker 1: go over a hundred yards. Pretty impressive. Ever, ever, now
Speaker 1: that the jets of first jets rookie to have over
Speaker 1: a hundred receiving yards and two touchdowns, that's not saying
Speaker 1: a lot. I mean, I thought where I thought you
Speaker 1: were going with that is Garrett Wilson became the fastest
Speaker 1: jet rookie to ever posts a hundred yards and two
Speaker 1: touchdowns in a games. Jets. Jeez, that's a lot about
Speaker 1: the jets history. Not even a two. What about I
Speaker 1: was at I used to go to jets games. This
Speaker 1: is what I'm gonna get into it, but I was
Speaker 1: at a game where Al tune became he had like
Speaker 1: he set the record at the time for the most
Speaker 1: receptions in like consecutive games or like he had at
Speaker 1: least a catch, you know, an x amount of games. Anyway,
Speaker 1: a little known fact about Johnson, yes, but anyway, back
Speaker 1: to Garrett Wilson, leads jets wide receivers and targets with
Speaker 1: twenty two. Elijah Morris total just twelves, even as more
Speaker 1: targets and Elijah more the cowboys whiteouts were able to
Speaker 1: produce against Cincinnati last week. Knew Brown had five for nine,
Speaker 1: one in a touchdown. CEEDEE LAMB had seven for seventy five.
Speaker 1: So really like Garrett Wilson, you with the B C.
Speaker 1: I think Elijah more bounces back. I think there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some squeaky wheel here. You know what we need, Robbie?
Speaker 1: We need a mouse, I need a I need a
Speaker 1: squeaky mouse. Sounder um on the button bar. I've just
Speaker 1: done a jets rabbit hole like Johnson didn't do it
Speaker 1: like it's yeah, what about? He was always kind of
Speaker 1: a bust, at least with his better years are in
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. But anyway, mentioned Elijah more. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: he and Corey Davis to see. More is definitely the
Speaker 1: bigger name, but again Davis has more targets, albeit at
Speaker 1: one or two. If I had to pick one in
Speaker 1: this matchup, would be more, but Davis could be a
Speaker 1: decent dart throw in deeper leagues. I think the jets
Speaker 1: will be thrown a ton, as they have been so
Speaker 1: far this season, and for that reason I like Tyler
Speaker 1: Conklin to gonna give him a see. CONKLIN is the
Speaker 1: fourth most targeted tight end in the NFL right now
Speaker 1: and the Bengals have allowed the seventh most artists of
Speaker 1: the tight end position. So conklin is startable this week,
Speaker 1: just as we wrote it up right tyler the leading
Speaker 1: target getter, Tyler Conlin fourth leading. That's the year of
Speaker 1: the Tyler's at tight ends and U Joe flacco remained startable.
Speaker 1: Not that anyone who's really been starting him, but you
Speaker 1: should continue. You should start starting him now. He leads
Speaker 1: the league with a hundred and three pass attempts. The
Speaker 1: next guy up is joe burrow with eighty nine, who
Speaker 1: have played an extra quarter of football in the first week.
Speaker 1: So flacco is airing it out. Cooper rush went for two,
Speaker 1: thirty five and one against the bengals last week with
Speaker 1: no picks, so that should certainly be a safe floor
Speaker 1: for FLACCO, who could throw multiple uch downs in this
Speaker 1: matchup if New York sustains that past volume, and I
Speaker 1: don't see why they don't. Colts, colts and chiefs meet here.
Speaker 1: Colts obviously coming off a devastating loss to the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: For the chiefs, Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey are obvious a's,
Speaker 1: and we're not even gonna expand on those two. They
Speaker 1: both come in red hot. Uh. The only other guys
Speaker 1: that get a grade here juju Smith Schuster. You know,
Speaker 1: Juju leads all Kansas City wide receivers with eleven targets
Speaker 1: and nine receptions, but he's only turned eleven targets and
Speaker 1: nine receptions into forty five scoreless yards per game. Juju
Speaker 1: spends about half his time playing in the slot, where
Speaker 1: he'll see Kenny Moore. So far the season, more has
Speaker 1: given up an eighty two percent catch rate in his
Speaker 1: coverage and he's responsible for yielding a touchdown in each
Speaker 1: of the two games this year. So juju stays is
Speaker 1: the only viable Kansas City wide receiver you'd want to start.
Speaker 1: Will give him a C grade in this game. All
Speaker 1: the other past catchers are on the bench. The problem guys.
Speaker 1: Fourteen different players have caught pass is in the chiefs.
Speaker 1: Two Games told us, and that diversity is awful. For
Speaker 1: fantasy use. Clyde Edwards a layer gets a C grade here.
Speaker 1: Only eleven touches per game so far, which is not good,
Speaker 1: and he's masked his low usage behind the two touchdowns
Speaker 1: in week one and the fifty yard gain that he
Speaker 1: had in week two. But if those kinds of plays
Speaker 1: don't materialize, C E H is more like m e
Speaker 1: h Ma. The colts are seeing the second most carries,
Speaker 1: twenty nine per game, despite only giving up two point
Speaker 1: eight yards per carry. That's the NFL's lowest number, so
Speaker 1: they've been a good run defense so far. The Kansas
Speaker 1: City is a pretty dynamic offense, more so than Houston
Speaker 1: and Jacksonville. Clyde Edwards a layer still has a chance,
Speaker 1: but I can only get him up to a C
Speaker 1: grade on the modest eleven touches per game he's had
Speaker 1: so far. Let's go to indy. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: train wreck right now for Matt Ryan in this offense
Speaker 1: hopefully gets better with the return of Michael Pittman and
Speaker 1: Alec Pierce. And Alec Pierce, we're we're excited something. India's
Speaker 1: offense totally inept without Pittman. Jaguars just sold out to
Speaker 1: stop Jonathan Taylor and and they helped out. The only
Speaker 1: ran him nine times in the game. You're not gonna win, Jaguars,
Speaker 1: sorry colts, running Jonathan Taylor nine times. The Indianapolis offense
Speaker 1: should bounce back with Pittman X and a lot of
Speaker 1: focus coming his way. He'll match up against all three
Speaker 1: of the starting chiefs corners as he moves around the field.
Speaker 1: But all three of those guys allowed these similarly big
Speaker 1: bodied Mike Williams to catch two or more balls against
Speaker 1: them last week against all three of those cornerbacks, and
Speaker 1: Williams racked up over a hundred total yards. I like
Speaker 1: Pittman here, with a similar size and ability advantage to
Speaker 1: what Mike Williams had. The chiefs have allowed the fifth
Speaker 1: most wide receiver receptions, so pittman comes in with a
Speaker 1: B grade here. Um, none of the other receivers are startables.
Speaker 1: Are Not getting any kind of consistent use from them.
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, I originally end as a bench grade, but
Speaker 1: your figure the chiefs are gonna be way ahead. It's
Speaker 1: gonna throw a lot of passes. I'M gonna throw a
Speaker 1: C grade on Ryan. The chiefs have given up solid
Speaker 1: fantasy days to Kyler Murray and Justin Herbert, who are
Speaker 1: way better than Matt Ryan. Granted, Um, you can make
Speaker 1: you get, I guess. I just think there's gonna be
Speaker 1: enough garbage time. Yeah, there's six point favorites. Is the fifty,
Speaker 1: fifty point over under. It's in a dome. There's a
Speaker 1: lot to be a lot to be said for that.
Speaker 1: Sticking with the passing game, and part of the reason
Speaker 1: I think you can start Matt Ryan, Nike Heines Sitting
Speaker 1: out a potentially nice game here with a C grade,
Speaker 1: because Kansas City keeps building these big leads. They're seeing
Speaker 1: a ton of passes, including from running backs. Well, Kansas
Speaker 1: City has already seen twenty running back receptions. That's an
Speaker 1: NFL high. They're giving up sixty four running back receiving
Speaker 1: yards per game. That's third most, and Kansas City is
Speaker 1: gonna have the lead here. So a lot of dump
Speaker 1: off garbage time stuff coming to Nike Heind Se n Oh.
Speaker 1: I kind of like it. Ni Jonathan Taylor, I spent
Speaker 1: a lot of time on this. Between an A and
Speaker 1: B grade. You know I can't anymore. I normally we
Speaker 1: just say Jonathan. There's only a way to just you know,
Speaker 1: but there's not a bridge. The gap between A and B.
Speaker 1: Howard is not to find a spot. Kansas City's big
Speaker 1: lead means the teams aren't running a lot. Um Taylor
Speaker 1: only got the nine carries last week despite netting six
Speaker 1: yards per carry. So you figure Frank Reich will overreact
Speaker 1: to that this week and call his number a lot.
Speaker 1: So I'm keeping I'm keeping the A grade. Kensa city's
Speaker 1: run defense has been good. No running backs top thirty
Speaker 1: nine yards, and that includes Austin Nickeler and James Conner.
Speaker 1: So there's certainly risk here, but I see Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: running the ball eighteen, twenty times in this game. Again,
Speaker 1: the overcorrection coming, and an a grade for Jonathan Taylor
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Speaker 1: if we'll tell you who they are. Are beginning with
Speaker 1: Scott Fish in the quarterback position. Who You got? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going with Ryan Tannehill in a game I think
Speaker 1: could be. Could be a high scooling affair here. Tannehill
Speaker 1: kind of craft the bed last week going against the
Speaker 1: bills on Monday night. UH, week one he had respectable
Speaker 1: two in sixty six yards and two scores. And all time,
Speaker 1: the all time against the radar. Against the radars, he
Speaker 1: averages over two touchdowns per games thus far in two
Speaker 1: thraders are allowing an average of tuna in seventy eight
Speaker 1: passing yards and two point five quarterback touchdowns per game.
Speaker 1: Solid spot for Tannehill to get the taste out of
Speaker 1: his mouth from that bill was a bad, bad game.
Speaker 1: It's been a tough start to the season for the
Speaker 1: whole team. All right, Brian, who's your take a chance
Speaker 1: at me. quarterback after doing the jets matchup. I should
Speaker 1: have went with Joe Flacco, but I did. But I
Speaker 1: went with Justin fields, who, from a family seat perspective,
Speaker 1: has not been a complete dud, unlike a reality football
Speaker 1: two passing touchdowns in week one at a rushing score
Speaker 1: in week two. But he's had two tough two tough matchups.
Speaker 1: Not The case this week of far easier matchup in
Speaker 1: the Texans, who are yielding forty one pass attempts per
Speaker 1: game and based on your math charts, that would be
Speaker 1: a increase for fields. Based Office passes better game I did,
Speaker 1: hence using it on the show. And of course, fields
Speaker 1: always a threat with his feet. The Texans have a
Speaker 1: decent secondary but a terrible run defense. So far they're
Speaker 1: tackling as a team is ranked twenty five by pro
Speaker 1: football focus. Marcus Mariota takes on Seattle. He's played well
Speaker 1: for Atlanta, especially considering he's had brutal matchups against the
Speaker 1: saints and the Rams so far. And that all changes
Speaker 1: here against Seattle, after drawing just three targets in week two.
Speaker 1: and Kyle Pitts probably has a squeaky wheel game coming.
Speaker 1: Very plus matchup. Well, that's the whole point of the
Speaker 1: squeaky wheels. It's supposed to be annoying. So then you
Speaker 1: you grease it so you don't have to hear the
Speaker 1: squeaky wheel again. That's that's how it works. UH, drake
Speaker 1: London looks like he's gonna be good. Seattle surrender three
Speaker 1: forty yards and a touchdown to Russell Wilson in week one,
Speaker 1: then last week Jimmy Garoppolo air and C touchdowns didn't
Speaker 1: even play the whole game. So, Marcus Mariota, I'll take
Speaker 1: a chance at the quarterback. Let's go to the running
Speaker 1: back position. Scott. Yeah, I'm going with the mere white
Speaker 1: running back for the Las Vegas Raiders. Reports came out
Speaker 1: on Friday from several beat reporters that Josh Jacobs was
Speaker 1: who's been suffering had an illness all week, was not
Speaker 1: traveling with the team. He may still catch up with
Speaker 1: the team, but at this point it's looking like he
Speaker 1: may not play. He's listed as questionable. says. A mere
Speaker 1: white jumps into a role against the Titans team allowing
Speaker 1: twenty five touches and a hundred and fifty five, hundred
Speaker 1: fifty four yards per game to running backs. Brandon bolden
Speaker 1: also questionable with that hamstring injury. It looks like it
Speaker 1: just might be as a mere white and a mere
Speaker 1: Abdula for that backfield. So and why? We get all
Speaker 1: the carries. Yeah, it might be touches for Zamere white
Speaker 1: in this one if Jacobs does not go alright. I've
Speaker 1: had the vegas flu before and it's it's no joke.
Speaker 1: So Gosh Jacobs right now, because you're drinking that Yard
Speaker 1: High Margarita thing that you see people walking around with. Yes,
Speaker 1: and some other dangers, Jamal. Yeah, you're take a chance
Speaker 1: of me running back. Hey, I'm sticking with the Falcons.
Speaker 1: I think there's a sneaky shootout potential in that game
Speaker 1: with the seahawks. I'm going Tyler Algier. Got Do you?
Speaker 1: What do you know about him? I just know I
Speaker 1: played the league with him. Is he starting himself this week?
Speaker 1: I should check. Well, I'm going to start him. Got
Speaker 1: Ten carries last week, the same amount as cordarrel Patterson.
Speaker 1: Algier didn't catch a pass, but he certainly has that ability.
Speaker 1: But a great matchup on paper for for both Falcons backs.
Speaker 1: The yeah, uh, the seahawks have allowed three running backs
Speaker 1: to top seventy total yards so far this season. They've
Speaker 1: surrendered the third most receptions to running backs through the
Speaker 1: first two weeks, and the seahawks will also be without
Speaker 1: safety Jamal Adams, who is pro football focusest best run
Speaker 1: defender last year. For you, he is starting Joe Mix
Speaker 1: and David Montgomery and Antonio Gibson over himself. I probably
Speaker 1: that I would too, even if he's active for this game,
Speaker 1: and if he was in a deeper league he'd start himself,
Speaker 1: though I'm going to Jamal Williams against the Vikings. Jamal
Speaker 1: Williams leads the NFL and carries from inside the five
Speaker 1: yard line with four of them, and he scored on
Speaker 1: three of the four runs. So if you're if you're
Speaker 1: knocking into these goal line runs at a seventy clip,
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell's gonna keep them coming. The Vikings have allowed
Speaker 1: red zone rushing touchdowns and back to back weeks and
Speaker 1: are likely without safety Harrison Smith due to a concussion.
Speaker 1: Vikings giving a five and a half yards per carry
Speaker 1: right now. So you know, Jamal Williams looking pretty good
Speaker 1: and by the end, if, if, and I'm not wishing
Speaker 1: injury on anybody, to be clear, but if deandre swift's
Speaker 1: ankle goes belly up, that could be a very big
Speaker 1: game for Jamal Williams. Let's go to the receiver's slash
Speaker 1: tight ends. Who You got? Yes, I should. I just
Speaker 1: go back to Jawan Johnson. No, I'm just kidding. I'm
Speaker 1: just kidding. I'm actually going with a guy who is
Speaker 1: shockinglyto percent rostered in leagues. When I saw that, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta tell people. Why don't you have
Speaker 1: this guy rostered? It's Traylon burks. He's he's gonna be
Speaker 1: playing against the raiders, who have allowed eighty three percent
Speaker 1: of their wide receiver fantasy points this year to the
Speaker 1: slot and he's been playing. He played eight slot in college.
Speaker 1: He's only been playing percent so far this year. But
Speaker 1: Kyle Phillips is out, so him and Nick Westbrook and
Speaker 1: keene will share those duties. Plus, every metric you look
Speaker 1: at for Traylon burks, his yards after the catch, he's
Speaker 1: top five in the NFL. Um The raiders have allowed
Speaker 1: five different or five different plays over fifteen plus yards.
Speaker 1: They're they're bad against yards, against yards after the catch.
Speaker 1: Every metric you look at for Burkes says a breakout
Speaker 1: is coming. Bottom five raiders or bottom five against the
Speaker 1: posing wide receivers to everything is in line for this
Speaker 1: to be the tray Lion Burke's breakout week. Wagon Falcons
Speaker 1: in this segment, which is pretty weird. Pretty Soon Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts is going to qualify for take it aunts on
Speaker 1: metop it. Who Do you got? Not Kyle Pitts? Uh,
Speaker 1: this guy was my prespect last week and he's been
Speaker 1: promoted to a take on player already, and that's Richie James.
Speaker 1: I'm rich James Versus of the cowboys on Monday night.
Speaker 1: I should see a full time role from the slot
Speaker 1: in this game. Kadarius Tony Likely will be out with
Speaker 1: a hamstring injury yet again, but when given the opportunity,
Speaker 1: rich James has played well. He's seventeenth among all wide
Speaker 1: receivers and yards per route run and should match up
Speaker 1: with Dallas Slot Corner Jordan Lewis, who has allowed a
Speaker 1: seventy catch rate and owns a passer rating of one
Speaker 1: oh eight in his coverage. I'm rich James. Are You
Speaker 1: you know where I'm gonna? You know what that's from, right,
Speaker 1: Rick James, am I allowed to say the B word
Speaker 1: on this show. That's why I didn't don't do that.
Speaker 1: Sharks taking in Minnesota. We saw last week we saw
Speaker 1: Philly's number two receiver, Davante Smith, rebound from a goose
Speaker 1: egg in week one. It's the Vikings D J chark
Speaker 1: goose egg last week. Maybe he has the big rebound here.
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier that the vikings maybe missing elite Safety
Speaker 1: Harrison Smith. They may be press pressing rookie Lewis scene
Speaker 1: into his very first game of action, and starting cornerback
Speaker 1: Cam Dancler got benched last week. There's a good opportunity
Speaker 1: for D J chark in this game. Don't get scared
Speaker 1: off by the zero catches last week. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go to our next matchup, Scott, that is the bills
Speaker 1: taking on the dolphins. The bills offense is in pretty
Speaker 1: good shaped, even battered. We'll talk about that in a minute,
Speaker 1: but I think I know what you're gonna tell me
Speaker 1: about Stefan diggs and Josh Allen. Those are obvious, a
Speaker 1: grades obvious. There's no need to talk about it. which
Speaker 1: it's a fifty two point five over under, one of
Speaker 1: the highest of the weeks. There's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of points in this especially given the secondary for the
Speaker 1: bills this week. Over on, you know, other receivers for
Speaker 1: the bills. I have a B grade on Cabe Davis,
Speaker 1: who just limited all week but he said he's a
Speaker 1: hundred percent and ready to go. All indications from around
Speaker 1: the team say he is going to play. Um. Did
Speaker 1: you know he started eighteen career games and in those
Speaker 1: eighteen starts, just his starts, he has fourteen touchdowns. Pretty
Speaker 1: good right? Show that's a really good he has nineteen
Speaker 1: touchdowns total, but fourteen in his eighteen starts. Um. So
Speaker 1: I have a B grade on Davis. Maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit because he's, you know, gampy, and a little bit
Speaker 1: because Miami has allowed the fewest receptions per game to
Speaker 1: wide receiver this year and just two wide receiver touchdowns.
Speaker 1: But for giving him a B grade, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think the bills played by any of those rules.
Speaker 1: Like they don't. They don't even care what your defense is,
Speaker 1: they're gonna score on it. Mackenzie and crowd are back
Speaker 1: on the bench. They're in a true slot committee. Miami's
Speaker 1: mill of the pack against the slot in last week
Speaker 1: in a just a choice matchup against the slot. They
Speaker 1: split and didn't do very well. So, yes, Dawson Knox
Speaker 1: sounds like he's not gonna go. Even if he does,
Speaker 1: he's not really performing very well and with that injured foot,
Speaker 1: I I think he'll be limited and not a good start.
Speaker 1: Have Him on the bench. I have the bills runners
Speaker 1: on the bench too. There's just too much splitting going on.
Speaker 1: James Cook really only got in for like ten touches
Speaker 1: after the game was completely out of hand, but even
Speaker 1: before that they just don't run the ball. They just
Speaker 1: passed the ball. That's that's really all they do. They're
Speaker 1: kind of the bills and the and the UM raiders.
Speaker 1: Derek Carr just they throw it inside the five. That's
Speaker 1: what they do on the other side. Uh, to a
Speaker 1: lit it up last week. Uh. I have obvious a's
Speaker 1: for wattle and hill. I I don't think I need
Speaker 1: to go much into that tune. Four yards and three
Speaker 1: touch every week, particularly get, say, a defense that's missing
Speaker 1: five starters. Yes, yes, let's let's get into that. They're
Speaker 1: missing on their on their fur their offense. They're missing
Speaker 1: at Oliver or further defense, at Oliver Defensive Tackle. They're
Speaker 1: missing Jordan Phillips, defensive tackle. They're missing Lane Jackson, they're
Speaker 1: missing treevious, why is still out, and they're missing Um
Speaker 1: Micah Hyde also out. So basically it's Jordan Poy. You're
Speaker 1: sitting back there at safety going it's like the John
Speaker 1: Travolta meme or the Will Smith MEME, like in an
Speaker 1: empty room. What's going on? Where is everybody? Uh? So
Speaker 1: I have waddle and Hill with pretty obviously a grades,
Speaker 1: with that entire secondary basically gone to UH. I had
Speaker 1: a B grade on Um. This is a bill's defense
Speaker 1: that held Stafford and Ted Hill down combined for only
Speaker 1: three seven yards, only one touchdown and five picks. But
Speaker 1: because it's so depleted, I'm bumping to a backup to
Speaker 1: you know, I thought about B plus, but I'm going
Speaker 1: to give him the a minus. Here you're giving him
Speaker 1: an a grade. You know how these things work on
Speaker 1: this year. Okay and Ay, you know, just own it.
Speaker 1: I'm giving I'm giving two of the A grade. It's good.
Speaker 1: It's a negative game script in a lot of points
Speaker 1: being scored. Given him the A grade. I'm actually benching
Speaker 1: the rest of the team, though. Mikeasecki is blocking most
Speaker 1: of the time. We saw in week one. He had
Speaker 1: a few catches. Last weekend he got that score, but
Speaker 1: he's mostly blocking now and that's the role mcdaniels wanted
Speaker 1: him to have and talked about offseason. And the most
Speaker 1: diard Edmunds guys. Oh Man, I'm benching them both. Edmund's
Speaker 1: got the only red zone touch. MOSTER got the only
Speaker 1: red zone touch in week one. Edmunds played thirteen more snaps.
Speaker 1: In Week one, most are three more snaps. In Week
Speaker 1: Two Edmonds Ten more touches and week one mostard eight
Speaker 1: more and week two they're like. Everything is back and
Speaker 1: forth between these two. It's a true committee and I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a lot more passing. So I'm
Speaker 1: on the bench until one of them emerges. I think.
Speaker 1: I think MOSTARD has already emerged. It's just this is
Speaker 1: a very tough matchup against very good bill. Here's the problem.
Speaker 1: Mcdaniels only gives the runners about nineteen to twenty total touches.
Speaker 1: If they split it all like you, I don't think
Speaker 1: they're need one guy. I think Mostar it's gonna emerge
Speaker 1: out of this. We'll find out. If no, I think
Speaker 1: you absolutely could, but this is a bill's defense is
Speaker 1: his third best against running backs. And just tell Darns
Speaker 1: Henrys next week, but I'm already calling where he mostart
Speaker 1: as might take a chance on me running back for
Speaker 1: next week's show. All I got from that was you
Speaker 1: saying owned the A and I think they for that.
Speaker 1: That's an actually really good run defense too. I might
Speaker 1: have to push that forward another couple of weeks. Texans
Speaker 1: take on the bears. This is we'll find out I'm right,
Speaker 1: but I'm rubbing my temples. Damian Pierce. This is the
Speaker 1: breakout game coming against the bears. You might be rubbing
Speaker 1: something else after this game. Charge I gotta be on
Speaker 1: Damien Pierce. After to brutal, brutal matchups against the Colton pragoes,
Speaker 1: Pierce gets a cake matchup and the bears, who are
Speaker 1: allowing a hundred rushing yards perty game to opposing backs.
Speaker 1: Pierce played in over six the snaps last week and
Speaker 1: got fifteen carries. T REX burkhead, the extinct back for
Speaker 1: the Texans, zero carries last week. He's obviously on the
Speaker 1: bench and my thoughts are with those who burned any
Speaker 1: fab or a waiver claim on burkhead last week. But
Speaker 1: Pierce will break out this week with the B H
Speaker 1: Brandon cooks. I'M gonna give a B to him for
Speaker 1: the birthday boy. Sunday is Brandon Cook's birthday. He had
Speaker 1: a brutal drop touchdown last week, but he should have
Speaker 1: a chance to make up for it against the bears,
Speaker 1: who do have one solid coverage corner in Jaylon Johnson,
Speaker 1: but he only players on one side of the field.
Speaker 1: They moved cooks all over the place. Opposing wide receivers
Speaker 1: haven't done much against the bears, but that smoking mirrors.
Speaker 1: They played in a monsoon in week one. Last week
Speaker 1: Green Bay ran all over them. No one really had
Speaker 1: to throw against Chicago. So a bee for cooks, and
Speaker 1: I gotta see on Nico Collins, who saw nine targets
Speaker 1: last week and led the Texans and receiving yards. He's
Speaker 1: at the clear cut number two in Houston and the
Speaker 1: Texans have passed the ball over of their offensive plays
Speaker 1: through two weeks. So I do like Nico in this game.
Speaker 1: I was close to giving tight end o j Howard
Speaker 1: is c Grade UH spetch with Brevin Jordan's trending towards
Speaker 1: not playing with an ankle injury, but I got O
Speaker 1: J on the bench. This is just a bad matchup
Speaker 1: on paper. Posting tight ends average just three point four
Speaker 1: catches and thirty four yards per game against the bears
Speaker 1: last year, who also allowed just five total touchdowns to
Speaker 1: the position. And Davis Mills, I was close to the
Speaker 1: sea here, but I got him on the bench this week.
Speaker 1: But I hope he proves me wrong. But I think
Speaker 1: there are better options this week at quarterback. Over to
Speaker 1: the bear side. Not a ton to talk about here. Uh,
Speaker 1: David Montgomery certainly worth talking about. He gets to be Um.
Speaker 1: So here are the running back target share leaders in
Speaker 1: the NFL through two weeks. Javonta William John Tay Williams,
Speaker 1: twenty three and then David Montgomery at and he leads
Speaker 1: the bears and receptions as of right now. And Houston
Speaker 1: has allowed the most rushing yards on the most carries
Speaker 1: by opposed running back so far. So a safe B
Speaker 1: for Montgomery. But Herbert is it might be a sneaky
Speaker 1: play here. He could be because I've got all the
Speaker 1: past catchers on the bench, including Darnell Mooney, Canada of
Speaker 1: the year. So far for bust busted. The year only
Speaker 1: has only seen five targets some of US told you
Speaker 1: to stay far away from Darnell Mooney. I hope, I
Speaker 1: hope we really said we hate the bears and love
Speaker 1: the Texas. It's what we said all PAS. That is true.
Speaker 1: Two catches for Mooney, so of OAR for four yards.
Speaker 1: One catch was for negative four yards. Eight yard catching,
Speaker 1: the negative four yard catch, Um and then. But that's
Speaker 1: better than Cole commit, who has zero catches so far.
Speaker 1: Not Dropping commit yet, but he's on the bench right
Speaker 1: now until he can, he can prove something. And for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, I did have justin fields as might take
Speaker 1: a chance and be quarterback. I think it's more about
Speaker 1: the rushing in this. I think he cobbles something together passing,
Speaker 1: but it's really what he'll do on his feet here.
Speaker 1: So Uh yeah, there we go. When we come back,
Speaker 1: lions taking on the Vikings. Is this a bounce back,
Speaker 1: a game for Minnesota after being humiliated on national television?
Speaker 1: Will the lions continue to score points in abundance as
Speaker 1: they traveled to Minnesota? Find out when we returned fantasy
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Speaker 1: Scott Fish and Brian Johnson. You can follow us on twitter.
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Speaker 1: Twenty Four. Were there really twenty three others at Scott
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Speaker 1: play growing up. So I don't blame you. Lions. Take
Speaker 1: on the Vikings. Deandre swift is an obvious ay, even
Speaker 1: with the Gimpie ankle and even while losing goal line
Speaker 1: carries to might take a chance on me runner Jamal Williams.
Speaker 1: Minnesota giving up almost five and a half yards per carry,
Speaker 1: and swift is gained the third most rushing yards over expectation,
Speaker 1: which means he's he's getting even more than what's getting
Speaker 1: blocked for him. The lion's offense is averaging almost four
Speaker 1: yards per harry before contact, four yards before you hit contact.
Speaker 1: That offensive line is dominating right now. And I'm on
Speaker 1: Ross at Brown, is also an obvious a already mentioned.
Speaker 1: Um Jamal Williams might take a chance, and you're running back.
Speaker 1: Dj chark. Might take a chance of the wide receiver,
Speaker 1: and that means I gotta like Jared Goff. He comes
Speaker 1: in with a B grade. He's got the second most
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns and with I'm on Ross St Brown blossoming
Speaker 1: into a superstar before our eyes, golf has become a
Speaker 1: viable fantasy option when the matchup is right, and this
Speaker 1: feels like one. Minnesota just surrendered a career best game
Speaker 1: to Jalen hurts, and you figure with his sturdy offensive line,
Speaker 1: golf should have time to make plays, and so we.
Speaker 1: I like him here be grade on golf, and that
Speaker 1: only leaves us with T J Hockenson. He ranks eighth
Speaker 1: and targets among tight ends. Minnesota has allowed the fourth
Speaker 1: most yards to tight ends so far, including Dallas. Got
Speaker 1: It with the big game last Monday night against Minnesota.
Speaker 1: The last time Hawkinson played against the vikings, four catches,
Speaker 1: fifty yards and a touchdown, and that feels about right
Speaker 1: in this game as well. We'll put C grade on
Speaker 1: T J Hockenson. Let's go over to the Vikings Justin Jefferson,
Speaker 1: with an obvious a grade, we won't elaborate on that,
Speaker 1: and what should be a bounce back game. But let's
Speaker 1: talk about kirk cousins, who played poorly down the stretch
Speaker 1: of last week's game. Some mixed trends here to trade
Speaker 1: secondaries allowing the fifth most passing yards, almost three hundred
Speaker 1: per game, but the lions have generated forty eight quarterback
Speaker 1: pressures already. That is the most in the NFL. Plus,
Speaker 1: the last time cousins through three interceptions, he came back
Speaker 1: the next week with three touchdowns and we hope that's
Speaker 1: going to be the case here. Cousins has thrown for
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns in three of his last four against the lions.
Speaker 1: I like him here with a B grade and which
Speaker 1: should be a solid effort and a bounce back for Kirk. Cousins.
Speaker 1: Had him feeling. You can't not be troubled by his
Speaker 1: lack of usage, aside from some late game stuff last week.
Speaker 1: He runs predominantly from the slot or the right side
Speaker 1: of the field, and both are strong matchups against either
Speaker 1: Mike Hughes, now in his third team in three years,
Speaker 1: or Jeff of Kuda, trying to salvage his career after injury.
Speaker 1: A coudas allowed a seventy percent completion rate on balls
Speaker 1: thrown his way. So we're gonna keep feeling in our lineups,
Speaker 1: but just with the C grade in this game. Last
Speaker 1: member of the passing game I want to talk about
Speaker 1: deserves Smith. A massive eight targets. Last week he scored
Speaker 1: a touchdownody also dropped the sure fire sixty yard bomb touchdown.
Speaker 1: That nine eight percent of the time we've been a
Speaker 1: completed pass for a touchdown. The lions have given up
Speaker 1: strong games to opposing number one tight ends and both
Speaker 1: of their games so far Dallas Goddard, Logan Thomas. So
Speaker 1: we'll keep we'll give a starting great on nerve Smith
Speaker 1: on the assumption they're gonna want to go back to
Speaker 1: him and maybe build a little confidence in the kid
Speaker 1: after that drop. Now let's talk about let Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 1: and this gets a little bit thorny, a great track
Speaker 1: record against the Lions but did not play in either
Speaker 1: of the matchups last week. He averages over one career
Speaker 1: rushing yards against the lions, but again didn't play. ENST
Speaker 1: him last year. Figures to be improved in a better
Speaker 1: game script against Detroit than last week and only had
Speaker 1: the nine carries. Well, Detroit has taken steps to improve
Speaker 1: their league worst run defense from a season ago. They
Speaker 1: have still allowed four different running backs to run for
Speaker 1: touchdowns in two games. Detroit ranks twenty one in tackling
Speaker 1: by pro football focus, and you know they're going to
Speaker 1: get the ball back into Dalvin Cook's hands after he
Speaker 1: got out rushed by Kirk cousins last week. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put the A grade on cook. A really gave
Speaker 1: a lot of thought to just the B grade. Oh,
Speaker 1: critical Dalvin Cook staff for you guys. The Vikings have
Speaker 1: run nineteen plays in the red zone. Dalvin Cook has
Speaker 1: one touch on the nine plays. That is troubling right there.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to our next matchup. That is
Speaker 1: the raiders taking on the titans. We've already talked about
Speaker 1: a lot of angles in this game. Already Skilled Zamir White,
Speaker 1: the expected starting running back from las ve gets. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the passing game. Yep, what do you think?
Speaker 1: What do you like out of the passing game for
Speaker 1: the raiders? For the raiders, I have a B grade
Speaker 1: on Derek Carr. I actually really like him this week.
Speaker 1: I wish I could give him some sort of positive
Speaker 1: or negative not the case really. The titans have allowed, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: the titans of allowed six passing touchdowns on their way
Speaker 1: to be in seventh worst against quarterbacks KR himself averaging
Speaker 1: two seventy eight yards and two point five scores per game.
Speaker 1: Uh Yeah, a very sturdy, strong, positive B grade there
Speaker 1: for Derek Carr his main weapon. Davante Adams is an
Speaker 1: obvious A. I don't think I need to talk about him.
Speaker 1: Hunter Renfro out for this game. Yeah, so we are
Speaker 1: left with Mac Hollins, who's actually had a lot of
Speaker 1: he's had a lot of targets. He had seven targets
Speaker 1: last week and oddly enough, car seems to only be
Speaker 1: throwing to four options. He might be playable here. I
Speaker 1: have him on the bench, but if you're in a
Speaker 1: real pinch he might be playable with Renfro oh. But
Speaker 1: I think the other a grade actually just goes to
Speaker 1: Darren Waller. He's at at least four catches for fifty
Speaker 1: yards in both games. That's basically his floor. With renfrow
Speaker 1: out he's just gonna see a huge uptick in targets.
Speaker 1: I have a grades on Adams and waller. I talked
Speaker 1: about Zamir White. Um, Josh Jacobs. If he does go,
Speaker 1: he would have gotten the B grade. Um, he likely
Speaker 1: to see fifteen to twenty touches. He would have gotten
Speaker 1: a B grade there. If he does go on the
Speaker 1: other side, Ryan Tannehill and UH treylon Burke's will take
Speaker 1: a chance on me players for myself. I do have
Speaker 1: Robert Woods on the bench. I Have Hooper on the bench.
Speaker 1: I basically have the rest of the passing game on
Speaker 1: the bench. Um, it doesn't hurt woods that he's tied
Speaker 1: for the team lead and targets, but he disappeared in
Speaker 1: week one and last week, despite all those targets, ended
Speaker 1: with four for thirty nine, like it wasn't fantasy relevant.
Speaker 1: Despite he's getting a bunch of he's getting some opportunities. Um,
Speaker 1: and in the running game, I kill you might miss again.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't, I don't know that it really matters.
Speaker 1: The raiders are bad against the past. Yeah, is a throwback. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry, Dontrelle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's also a throwback. Yeah, raiders, throwback. Yeah, raiders allowing
Speaker 1: the fifth most receptions in yards to running back. So
Speaker 1: you might have a thought of it, but I actually
Speaker 1: think it's a little bit of a Henry squeaky wheel
Speaker 1: game or squeaky mouse game here talking about how he
Speaker 1: wants the workload. Uh Really, last week Hassan Hassan Haskins
Speaker 1: came in because of the blowout. Otherwise Henry was on
Speaker 1: his way to another twenty plus touch effort. I'm giving
Speaker 1: him the B grade on what is likely another twenty
Speaker 1: plus effort this week. I like Don trelle Hilliard. I
Speaker 1: think we gotta keep keep our eyes on it. I do.
Speaker 1: It is a good spot for him. So in a
Speaker 1: pinch like this, isn't a good team against against, against
Speaker 1: the pass game. And it's not even like it wasn't
Speaker 1: just Austin Neck Claire. It's like two catches. Austin only
Speaker 1: had four. Four catches. It was like two catches, three catches,
Speaker 1: two catches. Six different running backs had a couple of
Speaker 1: catches against them. So they're battle around against the past.
Speaker 1: Have quite time to sneak in another matchup. But let
Speaker 1: me ask you a couple of questions stemming from Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper now, after a silent week, one too big
Speaker 1: back to back games. Jacoby brissette looking good. I was
Speaker 1: very high in Cooper in the preseason. I look like
Speaker 1: a more on in week one. I'm looking pretty smart
Speaker 1: right now. What do you what do you think is
Speaker 1: more more of who the Real Amari Cooper is going
Speaker 1: to be in this offense, the week one version, the
Speaker 1: guy we got in weeks two and three. I think
Speaker 1: you hold Cooper and not sell high. Basically, he look
Speaker 1: looks great and it was a tough matchup against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: It was on Thursday night. So yeah, cooper a steel
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't sell high on him. I would hold.
Speaker 1: I will say, did you see that he's the first
Speaker 1: Brown's wide receiver to have a hundred plus yards and
Speaker 1: a score in back to back Games since Josh Gordon?
Speaker 1: That that's absurd. That has been is that nine? Is
Speaker 1: that nine years that has passed between back to back,
Speaker 1: when hundred yard games is a long time. That is terrible.
Speaker 1: Another genius move by Jerry Jones and company in the
Speaker 1: Dallas Front Office. They've got to have so much seller's
Speaker 1: remorse right now now. So they made a critical, junk,
Speaker 1: critical decision a couple of years ago on who they
Speaker 1: were going to pay, Amari Cooper or Ezekiel Elliott, and
Speaker 1: they already had Tony Pollard, they already had a good
Speaker 1: running back that could have taken over, taken over the reins,
Speaker 1: and they ultimately made the decision to give Zeke the
Speaker 1: big contract in knowing the running you know the lifespan
Speaker 1: of the running back and everything else. I think that
Speaker 1: was a pretty epic blunder by Jerry Jones. I'M gonna
Speaker 1: go back to your question about Cooper. I think the
Speaker 1: question is, is Brissett the guy we just saw or
Speaker 1: I think that's what is leading cooperst was terrible in
Speaker 1: week one. He was terrible. So if he's this guy,
Speaker 1: then cooper is going to be that guy. Person I
Speaker 1: look at a really nice game on Thursday, Really Nice game.
Speaker 1: I was very impressed and Cooper got open a lot,
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Speaker 1: This is a game we like to call three tough questions.
Speaker 1: We encourage you to play a long tough question. Number One,
Speaker 1: first round running backs have been a complete disaster this year.
Speaker 1: Which of the struggling first rounders is going to stay
Speaker 1: every bit as a mnemic as he's looked so far?
Speaker 1: Let's begin with Scott Okay. So for me this goes
Speaker 1: down to the two offenses. I find probably two of
Speaker 1: the three worst here, and that would be the titans,
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry and Naji Harris. We're talking about Jonathan Taylor,
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, Astikeler, Davin Cook, Joe Mix and types. Um,
Speaker 1: those are probably the two worst offenses, and of them
Speaker 1: I do like the titans offense more, but Henry just
Speaker 1: doesn't catch passes, and that's my problem. The other guys
Speaker 1: catch a bunch of passes. I know that Jalen Warren
Speaker 1: looked really good for Pittsburgh the other night. Um, I
Speaker 1: still don't think he's going to take a ton of
Speaker 1: away from uh Naja Harris. I think it's got to
Speaker 1: be Derrick Henry, just because his usage isn't what it
Speaker 1: is he's in. He's not averaging twenty seven touches a game.
Speaker 1: He's averaging, you know, yet twenty one in the first
Speaker 1: week and thirteen the second. He's closer to, you know,
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty now, and you bring him down there
Speaker 1: and take away the pass catching where he had last year.
Speaker 1: I think it's Derrick Henry Brian, which of the struggling
Speaker 1: first round running backs is going to stay every bit
Speaker 1: as anemic as he's looked so far? I was down
Speaker 1: to Derrick Henry, Naji Harris too, and I almost want
Speaker 1: to go najy just to hedge our our answers here,
Speaker 1: but I gotta go with with Derrick Henry too. He's
Speaker 1: twenty eight years old. The titans offensive line is not
Speaker 1: as good as it was in the past. Now they're
Speaker 1: without Taylor Luan, who was feared to be lost for
Speaker 1: the season. That doesn't seem to be the case just yet,
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, I don't know. Henry is just looking
Speaker 1: a lot more washed than the Naja Harris. I'm going
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. The correct answer is Derrick Henry. Three yards
Speaker 1: per carry. Last week he had one point nine yards
Speaker 1: per carry. His lowest measure in three seasons. And get this,
Speaker 1: there's the next GEN staff that we referred to sometimes
Speaker 1: as yards over expectation. The leader in yards over expectation
Speaker 1: is Aaron Jones, who has produced eighty eight rushing yards
Speaker 1: over expected. Derrick Henry's yards over expectation is negative, Ted
Speaker 1: last in the NFL. And just look at the eye
Speaker 1: test Derrick Henry's. It looks like to me the beginning
Speaker 1: of the end for a guy who has been a
Speaker 1: workhorseback since middle school. I think it's finally caught up
Speaker 1: to him and this terrible offensive line. We talked about
Speaker 1: this in the preseason as well. He's he's a bat
Speaker 1: who needs a lot. He needs his line to open up,
Speaker 1: open up, yes, and he's not going to get it correct. answered.
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. Tough question number two. Christian Kirk is currently
Speaker 1: inside the top ten for fantasy points through two weeks.
Speaker 1: Is that a trend or Mirage? Brian? I'm going trend.
Speaker 1: Kirk currently owns twenty seven percent of Jacksonville's target chair.
Speaker 1: That's a very healthy number. He's top twelve and yards
Speaker 1: per out run, yards per reception and yards after the
Speaker 1: catch per reception and there's something cooking down in Jacksonville
Speaker 1: right now with new head coach Doug Peterson, and they've
Speaker 1: got kirk lined up outside in the slot, even at
Speaker 1: running back. And Uh and I'm a Jaguars Fan now
Speaker 1: and I bring nothing but success when I become a
Speaker 1: fan of a team. So I worked for the Bengal. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not a Falcon, I'm just Pitts Fan. I'm a
Speaker 1: Fan Falcons. I don't want to get into that. We'll
Speaker 1: get into that later. But I'm saying trend Kirk is
Speaker 1: the real deal. I think you could finish inside the
Speaker 1: top ten at wide receiver in PPR. Leagues, Scott, Jacksonville
Speaker 1: wide receiver, Christian Kirk, currently inside the top ten for
Speaker 1: fantasy points scored through two weeks. Is that a trend
Speaker 1: or Mirage? Yeah, so I I if you might have
Speaker 1: been able to hear on the MIC, I laughed as
Speaker 1: Brian listed off almost every statistic that I had in
Speaker 1: my every salient talking point in church Um. The only
Speaker 1: one I don't think he mentioned is that he's running
Speaker 1: around on almost every single drop back, like ninety seven
Speaker 1: percent drop backs. He's going out there and running around
Speaker 1: eight targets per game. Six catches per game, a hundred
Speaker 1: plus in weeks one and two. Um, the hundred plus
Speaker 1: week one and two, scores in seventy yards and a
Speaker 1: week too. He'll have down games. Don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have down games and I don't know that
Speaker 1: he's going to finish as a top ten wide receiver
Speaker 1: like he is now, but it is a trend. He
Speaker 1: is probably going to be a top twenty four wide
Speaker 1: receiver come end of the season. Well, there's a big
Speaker 1: Gulf between top twenty four and the question which said
Speaker 1: top ten, trend or Mirage. Are you sure you're on trend?
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure where we stand on
Speaker 1: this man. Top Ten is the is the sticking point. Um,
Speaker 1: do it. He leads the NFL and yards from the
Speaker 1: slot over Justin Jefferson. All Right, let's be bold and
Speaker 1: say it's a trend. The correct answer is trend. On
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk. He will finish at or close to wide
Speaker 1: receiver time. Close. I think it will be close. Now
Speaker 1: I think he'll be in the teams. Had the part
Speaker 1: where I struggled on this, and you guys already get
Speaker 1: all my talking points. But where where I struggle on
Speaker 1: this a little bit. Is Are there really only nine
Speaker 1: players that I would trade? Nine receivers I would trade
Speaker 1: for exactly. But at the end of the day I
Speaker 1: get the feeling he's gonna end up finishing right in
Speaker 1: that like nine, ten eleven, twelve range. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: go with trend. On Christian Kirk start of the season.
Speaker 1: Tough question number three. What is the appropriate level of
Speaker 1: concern for Russell Wilson? Is it none, some, or a
Speaker 1: bowl loosening level of existential dread? Scott so I went
Speaker 1: over this in the preseason. Wilson was on my don't
Speaker 1: draft list in our preseason show. He disappears in the
Speaker 1: second half of season. Uh Final eight games of average
Speaker 1: two hundred five yards and passing in thirty three rushing.
Speaker 1: The final eleven games of one last year average two
Speaker 1: D and One yards and thirteen yards rushing. That's the
Speaker 1: big problem. He doesn't run the ball anymore and if
Speaker 1: you watch it doesn't look like he's good at running
Speaker 1: the balling. But look, he's looking old. He's he's a
Speaker 1: quarterback rushing yards. Last year, H man, it dropped down
Speaker 1: to I lost in my notes, but it dropped down considerably.
Speaker 1: Over half, over half. He lost the next year. Um,
Speaker 1: this year, five rushing yards in two games. That part
Speaker 1: of his game is gone. He's not the quarterback he
Speaker 1: was anymore. Denver has talent around him, but they had
Speaker 1: talent around him in the end of last season, in
Speaker 1: Seattle last year too. Um, in his last nineteen games
Speaker 1: he's averaging ten rushing yards per game. People see Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson and dream about the Super Bowl Ross with marshawn
Speaker 1: and the Legion of boom boom. They don't see what
Speaker 1: he did at the end of last year. They don't
Speaker 1: see what he's doing early this year. This is who
Speaker 1: he is now. I think it's blowed. Brian. What's the
Speaker 1: appropriate level of concern for Russell Wilson? Is it none,
Speaker 1: some loosening blow of existential dread? I agree with everything
Speaker 1: Scott said, but I'm not blowed on Russ just yet.
Speaker 1: I mean, he does have he's not gonna run as
Speaker 1: much spike. He's got playmakers in Sutton and Jerry Judy
Speaker 1: and they're thrown to Javonte Williams a ton. As I
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier. He leads all running backs in the target
Speaker 1: share percentage and he's electured with the ball in his hands.
Speaker 1: So Russ is gonna do it on his own like
Speaker 1: he did in Seattle. But he's got he's got the
Speaker 1: playmakers around him. So for now I'm at some but
Speaker 1: but blowed. I'm on blowed watch, but I'm not there,
Speaker 1: just blowed watch. The correct answer is some. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of it just depends on what you're expecting.
Speaker 1: When you drafted Russell, drafted him his QB seven and
Speaker 1: twa and car and cousins or went in the early teens.
Speaker 1: And if we go back to this date last year,
Speaker 1: week three of last year, he's quarterback fourteen and and
Speaker 1: and that's you know, okay, that's you know, that's about
Speaker 1: that's just who Russell Wilson is right now. Am I
Speaker 1: do you go full blown blowed on quarterback fourteen? No,
Speaker 1: that's it's not that bad yet. Um, he often complained.
Speaker 1: You guys already hit a lot of my talking points.
Speaker 1: We wanted to mention this. Um. He's often complained about
Speaker 1: his poorest offensive line in Seattle, which was accurate profootball
Speaker 1: focus grades. The Denver Offensive Line is the second best
Speaker 1: past blocking units so far. U Kj Hammler may return
Speaker 1: this week. Jerry Judy may return, and it looks like
Speaker 1: both of them are going to be back by next
Speaker 1: week and I think that's I think with those guys
Speaker 1: coming back at in courtland Sutton, who's already there, unhealthy
Speaker 1: at that point. I think the level of appropriate level
Speaker 1: of concern for Russell Wilson is just some. It absolutely is.
Speaker 1: I just here's what you really wanted. You just wanted
Speaker 1: some affirmation. Is All you wanted. You're right. The Jaguars
Speaker 1: take on the chargers. Brian Uh this has been a
Speaker 1: it's been a shocking turn of events for James Robinson,
Speaker 1: who I had zero interest in drafting because of the Achilles.
Speaker 1: And as bad as cam acres has looked off his Achilles,
Speaker 1: James Robinson has looked equally good. Yeah, I was with you,
Speaker 1: but yeah, under the circumstances of coming back from a
Speaker 1: torn Achilles, Robinson looked great last week with sixty four
Speaker 1: rushing yards and a touchdown. But what's crazy is he
Speaker 1: had sixty five rushing yards after contact. Sixty four rushing yards.
Speaker 1: What a Comeback Story. So far, three total touchdowns. Already
Speaker 1: decent matchup against the chargers this week. They're only yielding
Speaker 1: fourteen rushing attempts to bring game, but they're allowing five
Speaker 1: point eight yards per carry. But Robinson, he's almost a
Speaker 1: bell cow right now. We'll get into Travis Eton in
Speaker 1: a second, but I gotta be on Robinson just a
Speaker 1: just a see on travis e t N. despite Robinson's resurgence,
Speaker 1: et n was still involved last week. saw just nine
Speaker 1: carries to the twenty three from Robinson, but e t
Speaker 1: n did catch all three of his targets for thirty
Speaker 1: three yards. That said, J rob had two catches as well,
Speaker 1: but UH E T N is pro probably the preferred
Speaker 1: pass catcher out of the Jaguars Backfield, and the chargers
Speaker 1: have allowed a receiving touchdown to a running back in
Speaker 1: both games so far. As US et N is startable
Speaker 1: with the C Christian Kirk, who we just talked about.
Speaker 1: Don't love the matchup for him this week. Just gonna
Speaker 1: give him a B here. As I said, he owns
Speaker 1: scent of Jacksonville's target share. Is Top twelve and tons
Speaker 1: of metrics, but he does have a tough matchup in
Speaker 1: H chargers slot corner bryce Callahan, who owns a catch
Speaker 1: rate of just thirty eight percent and has allowed a
Speaker 1: passer rating of zero point zero when playing in the slot.
Speaker 1: So we'll find out if kirk is the real deal
Speaker 1: on Sunday. For sure, I was going to bench. I'm
Speaker 1: still gonna bench. The Jones is, Marvin Jones and Z Jones.
Speaker 1: I wanted to give one of them to see because, UH,
Speaker 1: starting corner J C Jackson is gonna miss this game.
Speaker 1: He missed week one, came back in week two. Probably
Speaker 1: wasn't ready, but Marvin Jones and Z Jones kind of
Speaker 1: just equalize each other fulter each other's opportunities. So I
Speaker 1: have both of those guys on the bench in this game.
Speaker 1: I Will Give Evan Ingram a C though. The chargers
Speaker 1: allowed four catches for seventy nine yards at Darren Waller
Speaker 1: in week one and Travis Kelsey and Noah gray combined
Speaker 1: for seven catches for sixty three yards against l a
Speaker 1: last week. So Ingraham gets the C grade. And lastly,
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence looked great last week. I really want to
Speaker 1: give him a starting grade here, but I do have
Speaker 1: him on the bench. He's just outside the C C
Speaker 1: level grade for me. The charters are ranked eighth against
Speaker 1: the past in D v O A, so a bench
Speaker 1: this week for Trevor Lawrence. Now were to the chargers side,
Speaker 1: where things have gotten interesting. On Friday the line moved
Speaker 1: from L A minus seven to minus three point five,
Speaker 1: which it suggests to suggests, suggests the sharps know something
Speaker 1: about Justin Herbert not playing it. Yeah, uh, did not
Speaker 1: practice on Friday. Um, yeah, it sounds like he might
Speaker 1: not go and if he doesn't go, Chase Daniel is
Speaker 1: the backup quarterback. But even if Herbert does play, he
Speaker 1: will be, uh, somewhat limited, probably wearing a flat jacket.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I'm under the assumption right now
Speaker 1: he's not playing, but if he does, you gotta start.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a B. I would give him
Speaker 1: an a if it wasn't so Mur so murky the situation.
Speaker 1: But this affects all of his other players, other teammates,
Speaker 1: of course, Austin Ekeler. I'll give him a B. I
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna give him an a, but now would be. If, if,
Speaker 1: if Herbert misses, misses this game. Despite matchups against Antonio
Speaker 1: Gibson and Jonathan Taylor, the Jacksonville run defense has been great,
Speaker 1: only allowing fifty nine rushing yards per game to opposing backs.
Speaker 1: That's the sixth fewest, but the Jacks are allowing the
Speaker 1: second most receiving yards to the position, sixty nine per game,
Speaker 1: and last week Ekela saw a double digit target, so
Speaker 1: he remains a dual threat. Um Now to the wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, his status is up in the air. Um
Speaker 1: He did not play last week with the hamstring injury.
Speaker 1: He's basically been called a coin flip chance of playing.
Speaker 1: I'M gonna go under the assumption he doesn't go either,
Speaker 1: because if Herbert's out, you might as well not throw
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen out there and get hurt. So I'M gonna
Speaker 1: say he's I'm gonna assume he's out. So He's on
Speaker 1: the bench for me now. If he ends up suiting up,
Speaker 1: I'll give him a b just because he's Keenan Allen.
Speaker 1: You can't bank on that just yet. So Mike Williams,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him an a even if Alan plays.
Speaker 1: If Alan is out, I'll still give Williams an a,
Speaker 1: even if chase Daniel is the quarterback, though I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is has gotten really messy, but Williams average two
Speaker 1: point four yards per route run last week, which is elite.
Speaker 1: Jacksonville held indie's no name wide receivers in check last week,
Speaker 1: but that's nothing to write home about. Washington's wide houtse
Speaker 1: total the hundred and fifty plus yards and four touchdowns
Speaker 1: against Jacksonville Week one. So Williams gets today either way.
Speaker 1: Josh Palmer, you gonna give him a see if keen
Speaker 1: and Alan is out. He saw eight targets last week
Speaker 1: and scored a touchdown. Deandre Carter is still a thing,
Speaker 1: but Palmer is the guy you want to start if
Speaker 1: Alan remains out. And lastly, Gerald Everett, just to see
Speaker 1: for him this week. He gets a bump when Alan
Speaker 1: is out, but it's not a great matchup on paper
Speaker 1: for Everett. The Jaguars surrendered the ninth fewest tight end
Speaker 1: touchdowns last year and so far this season they've allowed
Speaker 1: just seven catches for scoreless yards across two games. I
Speaker 1: hope you played Justin the air, bear Herbert, though. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Welcome back fantasy football weekly. Paul charchy and Scott Fish
Speaker 1: and Brian Johnson with you. Next matchup up is ravens
Speaker 1: taking onto the Patriots, and for the Ravens we've got
Speaker 1: a couple of obvious a's Lamar Jackson is the highest
Speaker 1: scoring fantasy quarterback in many leagues. You're obviously gonna start him,
Speaker 1: although it is a tricky year matchup than what he
Speaker 1: has seen so far this year, and Marco Andrew's obvious
Speaker 1: a as well at the tight end position. Let's go
Speaker 1: to some of the thorniers starts, including Rashad Bateman touchdowns
Speaker 1: of fifty five and seventy five yards, which I did
Speaker 1: not necessarily expect coming into this season. Last week he
Speaker 1: posted the second fastest speed of any ball carrier. Patriots
Speaker 1: secondary influx after losing star cornerback J C Jackson in
Speaker 1: the off season, but has played pretty well, allowing just
Speaker 1: one and one passing touchdown in the two games so far.
Speaker 1: Bateman will show down with Patriots cornerback Jonathan Jones most often.
Speaker 1: Jones has allowed four of six targets to be completed
Speaker 1: this year and last year he was pro football focuses
Speaker 1: one ranked cornerback. So I like Bateman to stay hot.
Speaker 1: I've got a B grade on him and a sneaky
Speaker 1: play with Devin Duvernay. He scored twice in week one,
Speaker 1: then last week he suffered a concussion. He's cleared that
Speaker 1: and he will return for this game and he did
Speaker 1: get a touchdown returned last week. Yes, uh Duvernesse, the
Speaker 1: team's leading slot receiver by a lot, and slot cornerback
Speaker 1: jalen mills by far the weakest link of the Patriots Secondary,
Speaker 1: and currently jalen mills ranks dead last in quarterback ranking
Speaker 1: by pro football focus. He has allowed a touchdown and
Speaker 1: one hundred fifty two yards in his coverage already. C
Speaker 1: grade on Devin Duvernay, H J K Dobbins and all
Speaker 1: the other runners are on the bench. Dobbins won't get
Speaker 1: enough use in his first game back and the other
Speaker 1: runners are just horrible, averaging a combined two and a
Speaker 1: half yards per carry. Let's go to the Patriots side.
Speaker 1: Damien Harris A grade. Teams haven't been running on the Ravens,
Speaker 1: as they're seeing just seventeen rushing attempts per game to
Speaker 1: opposing running backs. That seventh few ut but they should
Speaker 1: be running more because they're giving up five yards per carry,
Speaker 1: and that's come against the dolphins and the jets. These
Speaker 1: are not great backfields. Pro Football Focus ranks the Patriots
Speaker 1: is the fourth best run blocking line and you're gonna
Speaker 1: see a lot of carries from Damien Harris in this game.
Speaker 1: Remandre Stevenson saw a big uptick in snaps last week
Speaker 1: and fifteen more than Harris actually got last week. Still,
Speaker 1: Harris got fifty percent more touches than Stevenson did, but
Speaker 1: it was good to see Stevenson getting on the field.
Speaker 1: Baltimore is allowed the second most receptions and the third
Speaker 1: most receiving yards to runners, so maybe this is finally
Speaker 1: the game. We talked all preseason about Stevenson getting more receptions.
Speaker 1: Maybe it all comes together here. It feels like this
Speaker 1: could be the case. A C grade on Romandre Stevenson.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the passing game for the Patriots, Mac
Speaker 1: Jones gets a B grade. Baltimore is allowed the most
Speaker 1: fantasy points to quarterbacks, and that's saying a lot, considering
Speaker 1: opposing quarterbacks have not run on them really at all.
Speaker 1: It's all come through the air. Baltimore has given up
Speaker 1: the most passing touchdowns, the most yards and the most completions,
Speaker 1: and a lot of that was to a last week,
Speaker 1: but still. Joe flacco pasted the ravens for three D
Speaker 1: yards in the opener as well. Ravens secondary has got
Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts. Kyler fuller, Kyle Fuller out,
Speaker 1: Marlon Humphrey hurt, Marcus Peters trying to get his sea
Speaker 1: legs back. There's a lot of reasons to like Mac
Speaker 1: Jones in the passing game. In this one, Jacoby Myers
Speaker 1: looks to build on an impressive outing from last week,
Speaker 1: finishing with yards as highest finished in two years. Myers
Speaker 1: currently leads the team and targets Um. He's found mainly
Speaker 1: in the slot, where you can have uh, where he'll
Speaker 1: see a lot of fourth round rookie cornerback de Marian Williams,
Speaker 1: who has been struggling, including yielding two touchdowns last week
Speaker 1: in a catch rate of six. We'll put a C
Speaker 1: grade on Jacoby Myers and a C grade on Nelson
Speaker 1: aglar who's posted is once once a month. Blow up
Speaker 1: game last week, but maybe he banks October, now the
Speaker 1: favorable matchup here. He's always a dart throw but, as
Speaker 1: I mentioned, this is a lot of moving parts in
Speaker 1: this raven secondary and I don't mind going back to
Speaker 1: back with Nelson AGL are in this game as well.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to our next matchup, and that
Speaker 1: is rams taking on the cardinals. Scott, what have you
Speaker 1: got on the Ram side? Yes, the Stafford's gonna get
Speaker 1: in a grade once again. gave him one last week.
Speaker 1: He bounced back last week. Gets cardinals team ranked against
Speaker 1: quarterbacks after allowing six hundred plus yards and seven scores
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks. Uh Stafford had two plus
Speaker 1: yards and multiple scores in both games against cards last year.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's well within his scope for this
Speaker 1: one here, with an over under around fifty points. His
Speaker 1: Breakfast Buddy Cooper Cup, is an obvious A. Allen Robinson
Speaker 1: gets a B grade. He would have had two touchdowns
Speaker 1: if not for an unrelated penalty. Last week. He's running
Speaker 1: broutent of his drawbacks. Has Been on the field for
Speaker 1: all but five offensive snaps. He's always out there. The
Speaker 1: opportunities there. It's gonna come. I've gotten a grade for
Speaker 1: Tyler Higbee, who leads the NFL and targets. Yeah, at
Speaker 1: the tight end position, with twenty and two weeks and
Speaker 1: that's eleven and nine. It's not like yet one huge
Speaker 1: game and then a dot. NOPE, consistent targets there. This
Speaker 1: card's team just led Travis Kelsey and Darren Wallard loose
Speaker 1: for a hundred and seventy one yards and two scores
Speaker 1: in the first two weeks, but even the backups had
Speaker 1: forty one yards and a score. Tyler higbee gets it all.
Speaker 1: Ten plus target game or ten target game here could
Speaker 1: be because should easily be in a grade. Over to
Speaker 1: the running game for the Rams, I have Darryl Henderson
Speaker 1: with a C grade and acres with a bench grade.
Speaker 1: The cardinals have allowed a hundred forty five yards per
Speaker 1: game to back so far, but a third of that
Speaker 1: is through the air and that's more Henderson's game. Henderson
Speaker 1: had seven had uh lead in touches eighteen to three
Speaker 1: weeks in week one, Cam acres lead in touches, seventeen
Speaker 1: to ten, and week two, but it should be noted
Speaker 1: Henderson played more snaps. He played double double the snaps
Speaker 1: inside the ten. He played the third down role and
Speaker 1: he played the two minute drill role. Henderson really played
Speaker 1: more acres, just got touches on the snaps he did play.
Speaker 1: So it's more of Henderson's role. I'm giving him the
Speaker 1: SE grade acres the bench over to the cardinals side. Uh,
Speaker 1: kyler Murray got a B grade. My favorite court of
Speaker 1: the week was a scouting report the surface that compared
Speaker 1: Murray running around, Murray's running ability in college to be
Speaker 1: to running around like a toddler who stole his parents phone,
Speaker 1: which I thought was it seems that when you watch
Speaker 1: it it kind of looks like that. Uh, that's said weirdly.
Speaker 1: He has had less than thirty rushing yards in each
Speaker 1: game this year, but as Mobile Mobile Allen and Mark
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Marcus Mariotta showed that decent ground days
Speaker 1: had multiple touchdowns. Murray playing from behind. I think his
Speaker 1: season average of tune and thirty five yards and two
Speaker 1: scores is probably about where we'll see him in this one.
Speaker 1: That's a B grade for me. Greg George leads the
Speaker 1: team and targets, receptions, yards and died for and gain. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with with Hopkins Out, I guess he is filling the
Speaker 1: void in a in a game with a nearly fifty
Speaker 1: point total over under the cardinals playing from behind. Dorte
Speaker 1: should find another day similar in that, you know, four
Speaker 1: to five catches, forty fifty yards. I got a C
Speaker 1: grade on him. C grade on Brown as well, who's
Speaker 1: gone forty plus in his score in week one, six
Speaker 1: for sixty eight in week two, but the eleven targets
Speaker 1: last week makes you feel a little bit more confident
Speaker 1: about him. He's playing over of snaps, running routes of time. Um,
Speaker 1: he might see a lot of Ramsey, but that hasn't
Speaker 1: been a deathbell in the first two weeks. So I
Speaker 1: got a C grade on Brown. Zach Ertz. I gotta
Speaker 1: be grade here. Rams ranked second against tight ends so far,
Speaker 1: but they faced Dawson Knox and Kyle Pitts and that's
Speaker 1: just that's that's really do the right home about so far.
Speaker 1: Um Earth's went five for forty, two on seven targets
Speaker 1: last last year against this team and now that he's healthy,
Speaker 1: he should be in line for more targets. As for
Speaker 1: the running game, James Conner and that injury, he's questionable.
Speaker 1: He may not go. He they said he was day
Speaker 1: to day. He may not go. If he does go,
Speaker 1: I can see a C grade because he's likely to
Speaker 1: have a double digit touch touch workload here. Um Andy
Speaker 1: does get pass catching. If he doesn't, Williams and Benjamin
Speaker 1: are on the bench. They really suit. They split down
Speaker 1: the line almost every metric. So that's that's what we hate.
Speaker 1: His fantasy on it. Honestly, I would probably bench connor too,
Speaker 1: because if he does go, maybe he's gimp in. They split.
Speaker 1: So's changing. You're changing connor to he starts. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: I flipped it. Now that's stuff more definitive. I like that.
Speaker 1: Falcons take on the SEAHAWKS. Brian and we've already mentioned
Speaker 1: three Falcons back from take a chance on me. That
Speaker 1: really basically only leaves Kyle Pitts. So let us start
Speaker 1: the Kyle Pitts apologist and cordarrel Patterson and drake London
Speaker 1: and now. But let's start with cordarrel Patterson. I want
Speaker 1: to start with Pitts. We'll start with Patterson. His touch
Speaker 1: total went way down last week, but I think we
Speaker 1: see him bounce back this week. Uh. The seahawks have
Speaker 1: allowed three running backs to the top sotal seventy total
Speaker 1: yards and have surrendered the third most receptions the position
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier and take on. They will also be
Speaker 1: without safety Jamal Adams, who was PFF's thirteenth best run
Speaker 1: defender last week. So I have a B on Corderol Patterson.
Speaker 1: I've tyler Algiers might take a chance wain running back.
Speaker 1: I still think he factors in this game for all
Speaker 1: the reasons I just mentioned. For Patterson, I like the
Speaker 1: matchup for him. I also like to match up for
Speaker 1: Drake London. He gets to be he looks like a
Speaker 1: home run so far for the Falcons. Owns a thirty
Speaker 1: three point three percent target share in his top twelve
Speaker 1: in yards per route run. San Francisco's wide receivers didn't
Speaker 1: do much against Seattle last week, but they didn't really
Speaker 1: have to. In Week one. The seahawks surrendered a hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy plus yards and a touchdown to Denver's wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Now over to Atlanta's other wide receiver, who you can
Speaker 1: play at tight end, Kyle Pitts gets an a in
Speaker 1: the sneaky wheel game. Talking this into the universe. It's coming.
Speaker 1: So we have it is awful. I don't really like that,
Speaker 1: but well, let's just say the words and not listen
Speaker 1: to the sounds. Anyway. Pitts has had two brutal matchups
Speaker 1: to start the season in the saints and the Rams.
Speaker 1: He finally gets a soft place to land in Seattle,
Speaker 1: who allowed seven catches for eighty five yards to Denver's
Speaker 1: tight ends in week one and surrendered a touchdown to
Speaker 1: Ross dwelly last week. And, as mentioned, there will be
Speaker 1: without stars, if you Jamal Adams. So Kyle Pitts will
Speaker 1: pay off this week. He gets the A grade. And
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariotta, I love him. In the sneaky matchup, as
Speaker 1: you charge, he was gonna take a chance on me.
Speaker 1: quarterback over to the Seattle side, I do not love
Speaker 1: the running backs, for shot Penny or Kenneth Walker the
Speaker 1: third they're both on the bench. Penny's snapchat dip to
Speaker 1: forty one percent last week, so the time share is
Speaker 1: officially on. I can't recommend starting either guy, especially with
Speaker 1: Travis homer stealing work on passing down. So let's just
Speaker 1: wait and see. With the seahawks running back situation, DK
Speaker 1: Metcalf Tyler Lockett, I can give both of them to
Speaker 1: be met tests. Usage has been has been puzzling. His
Speaker 1: a dot is just five point five yards and he
Speaker 1: hasn't seen a red zone target yet. But this is
Speaker 1: a good matchup for both. Lockett has been the big
Speaker 1: play receivers so far. Atlanta's corners are not great, uh
Speaker 1: a J Tarrell or Terrell. A J Terrell owns a
Speaker 1: two pass rating in his coverage and, although Casey Haywards
Speaker 1: is better than that, his pass rating in coverages one
Speaker 1: oh six. So at metcalf and Lockett have decent games
Speaker 1: in this one, and for those reasons I like Geno Smith.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a C grade. He has failed
Speaker 1: the top two d passing yards in both games, but
Speaker 1: he has been efficient, completing over of his passes. Was
Speaker 1: Zero Interceptions. Uh Smith understandably struggled against the forty niners
Speaker 1: last week, but this is a much better matchup for
Speaker 1: him at home against the Falcons. Over the first two games,
Speaker 1: ATLANTA has surrendered two hundred sixty nine yards and two
Speaker 1: touchdowns to James Winston and last week Matt Stafford went
Speaker 1: off for two seventy two and three scorers. I think.
Speaker 1: Just give you this, the highest scoring game, sneaky high
Speaker 1: scoring game, highest game of the week. It's crazy talk
Speaker 1: eagles taking on the commanders. Jalen hurts, a J Brown,
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard, all obvious a's and we do not spend
Speaker 1: any more time on them. Let's talk about some of
Speaker 1: the other eagles, though. There's three other startable eagles beyond
Speaker 1: those three, including miles sanders, who clocks in with a
Speaker 1: B grade. Washington giving up almost seven yards per carry,
Speaker 1: and sanders is a near lock for a big yardage
Speaker 1: game here. Last week he reached eighty rushing yards for
Speaker 1: the fourth time in his last five games going back
Speaker 1: to last year. Dominates the snaps and the usage among
Speaker 1: the eagles runners. touchdowns remain elusive with his quarterback housing
Speaker 1: all those easy runs, and that's the only reason miles
Speaker 1: sanders is not an a grade is because of the
Speaker 1: improbability of a touchdown. But the yardage is so secure
Speaker 1: here for Sanders, a B grade for him. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the other running back, Kenneth Gainwell, if you're in
Speaker 1: a pinch consider him. In the two games, Washington has
Speaker 1: played four different runners of top sixty yards, so the
Speaker 1: depth runners are also getting paid against Washington. I would
Speaker 1: take sixty yards from gaine well, and that's why he's
Speaker 1: got a C grade in this matchup. The last guy
Speaker 1: I want to talk about is Davanta Smith. Washington has
Speaker 1: been gashed by opposing passing attacks, largely due to the
Speaker 1: struggles of cornerbacks Kendall Fuller and William Jackson, but most
Speaker 1: of the damage has been done by a singular number
Speaker 1: one receiver. That is a J Brown for sure. Smith
Speaker 1: averaged three receptions for forty seven yards against two late
Speaker 1: season matchups with Washington last year. I think he does
Speaker 1: a little better than forty seven yards, enough to get
Speaker 1: him into see range in this game. Washington side. We
Speaker 1: got a handful of sea grades to talk about here
Speaker 1: in a tough matchup with a very good eagles defense,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, who has been, you know, red hot, and
Speaker 1: the recipe for success for Wentz is kind of still
Speaker 1: in play here. An Awful Commander's defense ranks twenty nine
Speaker 1: and points allowed. Then Wentz has to battle back with
Speaker 1: tons of throws. He's thrown the third most passes, which
Speaker 1: has led to his improbable league leading seven touchdown passes.
Speaker 1: Almost certainly the eagles are going to score a bunch
Speaker 1: of points here and Wentz is gonna have to throw
Speaker 1: a ton just through sheer volume. He gets to C
Speaker 1: grade in this one. The receiver I would start is
Speaker 1: not Terry mclarin, he's on the bench, not Johan Dotson,
Speaker 1: who's on the bench. It's Curtis Samuel. Only four wide
Speaker 1: receivers have a fewer target air yards per route than Samuel's,
Speaker 1: but he's so athletic he still manages to separate. He's
Speaker 1: got the seventh best four and a half yards per
Speaker 1: separate Asian, even though he's getting short passes his way.
Speaker 1: So Athletic cornerbacks Darius slay and James bradberry tranquilize outside receivers,
Speaker 1: which is why McClaurin and Dotson around the bench. But
Speaker 1: Samuel attacks the slot and that's a much better matchup.
Speaker 1: Will face off against Savante maddox and C J Gardner Johnson.
Speaker 1: I like that matchup for Samuel. C grade on him.
Speaker 1: And lastly, Antonio Gibson. Hard to know where you stand
Speaker 1: with Antonio Gibson, you look great in week one than
Speaker 1: inexplicably crashed against the lions in week two, including giving
Speaker 1: up seven receptions that j d mcsuckett. The Eagles have
Speaker 1: only allowed three running backs to surpass sixty rushing yards
Speaker 1: in their last ten games, so I don't think he's
Speaker 1: even gonna get to necessarily sixty yards here. And the
Speaker 1: run defense got even better when they drafted Jordan Davis,
Speaker 1: who was already sitting at a top twenty ranking against
Speaker 1: the run for in Tier alignement says a really. It's
Speaker 1: a tough spot for Antonio Gibson, but I think he
Speaker 1: cobbles together a sea level game here with fifty ish
Speaker 1: rushing yards, maybe ten receiving yards and I don't know,
Speaker 1: coin flips chance at a touchdown one way or another.
Speaker 1: So one way or another we'll help because that uh
Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson can just do enough to be quasi salient here.
Speaker 1: It's all we get. When we come back premature speculation,
Speaker 1: we'll tell you pick up this week. That will be
Speaker 1: people everybody else is trying to pick up next week,
Speaker 1: but they're already on your roster because you listen to
Speaker 1: fantasy football weekly. Welcome back, this is a segment we
Speaker 1: like to call premature speculation. We're gonna give you three
Speaker 1: players to pick up this week that everybody else will
Speaker 1: be trying to pick up next week. Scott got yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going with Brian Robinson, who returned to practice this week.
Speaker 1: He was slated to be the starter for Washington before
Speaker 1: being tragically shot right well, maybe tragically shot right before
Speaker 1: the season. He was shot. That's not that's a fact.
Speaker 1: He was dropped in a ton of league so many
Speaker 1: he was only thirty three percent rostered earlier this week.
Speaker 1: Now thirty seven percent roster, as news is starting to
Speaker 1: pick up. Go get him now, before next week when
Speaker 1: he's on those waiver runs like that. Uh, Brian, your
Speaker 1: premature speculation player. I'll make it short and sweet. Go
Speaker 1: Grab Michael Gallup. He's only thirty three percent owned leagues
Speaker 1: right now. He might play this week. I hope he
Speaker 1: doesn't because any of you going on a short week's
Speaker 1: rest next week. He plays Monday night, but he should
Speaker 1: be back soon for Dallas. Cincinnati Tight End Hayden Hurst
Speaker 1: is available and eighty two percent of leagues plays in
Speaker 1: a high octane offense. He's run the seventh most routes
Speaker 1: of all players. He's has had seven targets in both games,
Speaker 1: ranking him seventh among all tight ends and targets. So
Speaker 1: plenty of use in a high octane offense. And IF
Speaker 1: KYLE PITTS GOES belly up one more time, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be hitting the waiver wire looking for a new tight end.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the San Francisco Forty niners taking on
Speaker 1: the broncos. Scott. Yeah, this is an interesting one because
Speaker 1: the forty niners have played the bears and seahawks. The
Speaker 1: broncos have played the Texans and Seahawks, so neither team
Speaker 1: has been really truly matched, truly truly tested, I should say.
Speaker 1: Going back to last year, though, the Broncos only allowed
Speaker 1: six multi score days and they held ten passers under
Speaker 1: two hundred fifty yards, six passers under two undred yards. Weirdly,
Speaker 1: on the other side of the ball, almost the same
Speaker 1: exact stats for that defense. Both defenses were top ten
Speaker 1: against the quarterbacks last year. I Have Jimmy G on
Speaker 1: the bench, but I think he should concentrate his targets
Speaker 1: enough just to uh, just to make a few viable
Speaker 1: players here. Deebo Samuel, I have a B grade on
Speaker 1: despite the low yardage days, he's had fifty plus rushing
Speaker 1: yards in each game tacked on a score. If he
Speaker 1: runs for three eight yards this year he gets an
Speaker 1: extra six. So I think he's trying to do that
Speaker 1: by Halloween to throw a party or something. Be Great
Speaker 1: on Debo, just because he's so very stone he gets
Speaker 1: just enough targets that he should make it work. Brendan, I,
Speaker 1: Youk have a C grade on it's a note that
Speaker 1: broncos allowed to plays over twenty five yards in each
Speaker 1: game um, but they haven't allowed a wide receiver over
Speaker 1: sixty yards yet. Brendon, I, you a lot of air
Speaker 1: yards so far this year and he's accounted for a
Speaker 1: twenty five plus yard play in each week. Patrick's certain
Speaker 1: might miss the game too, so that that should open
Speaker 1: things up. George kittle back off the injury report. B
Speaker 1: grade on him. You're starting him if he goes, because
Speaker 1: when he goes, even injured, he produces. He had eight catches.
Speaker 1: The broncos allowed eight catches the tight ends in week one,
Speaker 1: six last week. That should be all kittle here. Jeff
Speaker 1: Wilson Jr. B grade there. UH, fifteen plus carries and
Speaker 1: a couple of catches last week. That's basically his usage
Speaker 1: when he's a starting running back the broncos. Rashad penny
Speaker 1: averaged five yards per cary against that broncos front. UH,
Speaker 1: Damian pierced averaged four point six yards per carry. The
Speaker 1: you give me fifteen plus touches of Jeff's Jeff Wilson,
Speaker 1: at those clips, I gotta be grade there. Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: I mentioned before that the foint ires defenses were basically
Speaker 1: top ten last year. He doesn't get rushing yards anymore.
Speaker 1: I think we're looking at a two yard or so
Speaker 1: and maybe a score day. It's a bench grade. I
Speaker 1: haven't missed my QB sixteen this week. Uh, courtland Sutton, though,
Speaker 1: I get. I gotta B grade for him if judy
Speaker 1: is out and KJ Hamler doesn't go, which it sounds
Speaker 1: like that's where they're leaning right now, but you mentioned
Speaker 1: it might flip. You never know. Uh, if if they
Speaker 1: don't go, he's gonna get all the targets. They are
Speaker 1: really a one in and one B, though. So if
Speaker 1: Judy does go, I'm giving him a C grade based
Speaker 1: on what he did week one. UH, he had even
Speaker 1: in week too at eleven yard, catching three targets right
Speaker 1: away and before going out with that knee injury. The
Speaker 1: tight ends are on your bench. They are splitting way
Speaker 1: too much for the running backs. Javonte Williams B grade.
Speaker 1: His snaps increased a ton. In Week two. He managed
Speaker 1: to touch the ball uh eighteen times for a hundred
Speaker 1: eight yards. In Week One, sixteen times for eighty five
Speaker 1: yards in a week too. The big deal is Melvin
Speaker 1: Gordon dropped his snaps almost in half for week too,
Speaker 1: but he's still managed seventy two yards and fifty three yards.
Speaker 1: He's still getting a secret because he gets he gets
Speaker 1: some goal line work and fifty plus yards. If he's
Speaker 1: getting eight to ten touches, that's bordering on a C
Speaker 1: grade against the defense that's allowing about thirty running back
Speaker 1: touches per game. So be great for Javonty Williams, C
Speaker 1: grade for Gordon. I don't even love the secret on
Speaker 1: Gordon Bay is getting it. Let's go to the cowboys
Speaker 1: and giants. Brian Cowboys offense a little better under cooper
Speaker 1: rush than what people expected. Zeke did very little last week.
Speaker 1: What do you see in this game against the giants?
Speaker 1: Starting with Zeke. He's looking pretty washed. He's forced just
Speaker 1: one miss tackle so far, so that's terrible. Just to
Speaker 1: see for Zeke it is. It should be a good matchup, though.
Speaker 1: The giants have give him an up over five yards
Speaker 1: per carry and maybe without the defensive tackle Leonard Williams,
Speaker 1: who left last week's game with the leg injuries. So
Speaker 1: see for Zeke and a sea for Tony Pollard. But
Speaker 1: I like Tony Pollard more than Zeke and and most
Speaker 1: should at this point. Pollard turned it, turned his thirteen
Speaker 1: touches into nine eight comboy yards and a touchdown last week.
Speaker 1: He basically just needs to get the ball more. I
Speaker 1: think he'll be very active in this game. New York
Speaker 1: has in the past game. New York has allowed the
Speaker 1: eighth most receiving yards and the most receiving touchdowns. are
Speaker 1: running back so far this season. Over to the wide receivers,
Speaker 1: for Dallas CEEDEE, lamb gets a B had a decent
Speaker 1: game with Cooper Cooper rush under center last week. I
Speaker 1: don't think the giants secondary is anywhere near the level
Speaker 1: of the bengals and in four career games against the giants,
Speaker 1: lamb is averaging six catches and seventy five yards. I
Speaker 1: think that's a safe floor for him on Monday night.
Speaker 1: and and Noah Brown startable unless Michael Gallup comes back,
Speaker 1: but I don't think if he will, it won't be found.
Speaker 1: He won't be yeah, he won't be playing the snaps.
Speaker 1: Noah Brown has five catches in both games start the season,
Speaker 1: including a touchdown last week. He has emerged as a
Speaker 1: number two wide receiver for for the cowboys as of now,
Speaker 1: and I think he has some of that second string
Speaker 1: chemistry with Cooper Rush, you know, where they probably ate
Speaker 1: a bunch of breakfast together in the in the preseason. UH,
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz. He might play through his knee injury Um,
Speaker 1: but since it's a Monday night game, I gotta put
Speaker 1: him on the bench. There's not many pivot options at
Speaker 1: tight end between Dallas and the giants, so you want
Speaker 1: to get your backup plan in place right now. I
Speaker 1: would just anticipate Schultz on the real life bench and
Speaker 1: on your fantasy bench as well. And Cooper Rush. The
Speaker 1: Cup always wants to come out after Cooper. Cooper rush
Speaker 1: played well last week over in the winter of the bengals.
Speaker 1: Bes on the bench in this one and over to
Speaker 1: the giant side. Not a lot to talk about. See
Speaker 1: Kawan Barkley, we will talk about. Of course he gets
Speaker 1: an a. He has seen overcent of the backfield touches.
Speaker 1: The cowboys have not surrendered to running back touchdown yet,
Speaker 1: but they have allowed the tenth most rushing yards to
Speaker 1: the position. They'll ride Barkley as much as they can
Speaker 1: in this game. Sterling Shepherd can give him a see.
Speaker 1: He's healthy for now, so you might as well take advantage.
Speaker 1: He's seencent target share, which is also very healthy, and
Speaker 1: should continue to operate as a giant's wide receiver one
Speaker 1: so he gets to see, as did Richie James. I'm
Speaker 1: rich James might take a chance to me wide receiver.
Speaker 1: I like him a lot this week, with Ka Darius
Speaker 1: Tony expected to sit with the Hammy. And lastly, we're
Speaker 1: not going to talk about New York's tight ends, and
Speaker 1: especially not about their quarterback, Daniel Jones. They're all on
Speaker 1: the bench. They are on the bench. Um, yeah, let's
Speaker 1: go to the let's go to the I think our
Speaker 1: final game on the matchup slate here is packers bucks.
Speaker 1: Let's talk those through. It's uh, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: weird one. There are combined nine wide receiver injuries and
Speaker 1: Mike Evans is suspended between these two games and it's
Speaker 1: a late afternoon starts. You you may be lacking a
Speaker 1: lot of its solid information when you need to set
Speaker 1: your lineup on these guys. Aaron Rodgers just the C grade.
Speaker 1: Four of his top five whiteouts are on the injury report.
Speaker 1: In Tampa is an excellent past defense, will excellent run
Speaker 1: defense to Um that's held its opponents to one total
Speaker 1: touchdown in two games. So I can only muster a
Speaker 1: C grade for Rogers, and that's on the assumption Alan
Speaker 1: Lalon lazard even plays, of which I think he will.
Speaker 1: For this game. He'll face off against cornerbacks Jamal Dean
Speaker 1: and Carlton Davis, who have combined to already see a
Speaker 1: whopping thirty five targets on them, but between them just
Speaker 1: two interceptions they've had. They've got they've had two interceptions,
Speaker 1: they've had four passes broken up. They've only given up
Speaker 1: the one touchdown so far. You're hoping for the short
Speaker 1: touchdown from Alan lazard with a C grade on him.
Speaker 1: Romeo Dobbs is a DART throw. You'RE gonna see a
Speaker 1: big uptick in playing time here. He's the one healthy receiver.
Speaker 1: If you want to throw a dart, you t would
Speaker 1: be the guy to throw it at, although this is
Speaker 1: still a very tough matchup against a good past defense.
Speaker 1: I've got a C grade on Romeo Dobbs. Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: and a J dillon share a C grade between them.
Speaker 1: Jones has been the better runner, but this is such
Speaker 1: a good run defense it's hard to start a workhorse
Speaker 1: back against the bucks, let alone Jones and dillons sharing
Speaker 1: work here. The bucks have only allowed one rushing touchdown
Speaker 1: to opposing running backs in their last seven regular season games,
Speaker 1: and none this year. No back is top sixty three
Speaker 1: total yards are caught more than two passes against them
Speaker 1: this year. So all I can do is give you
Speaker 1: the C great on Jones and Dylan and only one
Speaker 1: of them is even gonna earn the sea. The other
Speaker 1: one is going to have a bad game in all probability.
Speaker 1: On the buck side, I don't think I've ever said this.
Speaker 1: Bench Tom Brady and I have none of his receivers
Speaker 1: as a starting grade. HEAVANS is out, Godwins, almost certainly
Speaker 1: won't play. Julio Jones are saying is a ruled him out.
Speaker 1: Julio Jones a game time decision, but I think that's
Speaker 1: a bunch of Flim Flam to keep the packers guessing.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna go. So that means we're
Speaker 1: looking at an injured Russell gauge and injured, injured Breshad
Speaker 1: Perriman and Scottie Miller and the newly acquired Cole Beasley.
Speaker 1: I can't start any of those guys against a good
Speaker 1: packers secondary. None of them make any sense to me.
Speaker 1: Is Tyler Johnson that bad? Well, he's not even but
Speaker 1: you know your start left tackle for the bucks, by
Speaker 1: the way, Donovan Smith may not play and his backup,
Speaker 1: Josh Wells, may not play either. To add to the
Speaker 1: injury woes for that offensive line. Leonard Four net registered
Speaker 1: an eight seven percent snap share. That is uh last week.
Speaker 1: That's the second highest of the of anybody last week.
Speaker 1: Green Bay has been eviscerated by Dalvin Cook and David
Speaker 1: Montgomery so far this year and they've each gone over
Speaker 1: ninety yards rushing, but they haven't given up a touchdown
Speaker 1: yet to running back and they've held all opposing backs
Speaker 1: to just seven total receptions. Remember Leonard, for not, used
Speaker 1: to be a reception hog. That's that is not materialized
Speaker 1: this year at all. But I can see some dump
Speaker 1: off stuff coming from Brady here. As he's under a
Speaker 1: lot of dress behind that bad offense, doesn't he have
Speaker 1: to throw to somebody, and maybe that's gonna be him?
Speaker 1: Let me ask you. I think that is our last matchup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is our last matchup. We actually have a little
Speaker 1: extra time, which is awfully nice. Let me ask you
Speaker 1: a couple of packers related questions. What would you what
Speaker 1: at this point? What is your level of con cern
Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodgers in a passing offense that at this
Speaker 1: point it's not looked very sharp? I wasn't too high
Speaker 1: on him going into the season. He was definitely outside
Speaker 1: my top twelve quarterbacks and that's I think that's where
Speaker 1: he's gonna remain. He just he misses Davante Adams. It's
Speaker 1: that simple. And Green Bay has got a good defense
Speaker 1: and a great run game and I think that's their
Speaker 1: new identity. It's not Rogers, not rodgers is gonna be,
Speaker 1: I think, in and out of starting lineups this year,
Speaker 1: and he's also hallucinating half the time. Who knows how
Speaker 1: often he's popping those shroll yeah, it's out there. It
Speaker 1: does feel like it's the start to the end of
Speaker 1: that era. The Rogers, the Russell Wilson, Tom Brady Etter.
Speaker 1: Where we'RE gonna they're more, you know, matchup plays than
Speaker 1: they are just automatic starts. Now are we gonna have
Speaker 1: take a chance on me with Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady?
Speaker 1: He combined seven M v P s between them. Probably not,
Speaker 1: just because of their rostership percentage will be like everybody's.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'd start all our taking on quarterbacks over both
Speaker 1: of those guys. I Have Marcus Mariotta ranked like twelve
Speaker 1: this week. Neither of these. I think they're both in
Speaker 1: the twenties. So yeah, I think that's the case. By
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