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Speaker 1: It's championship Week. We are here to help you bring
Speaker 1: home the hardware in this the ultimate week of the
Speaker 1: fantasy football season. I Paul Cherochi and my co host
Speaker 1: today Matt Harrison and Scott Fish. Hello, guys, Hi, I
Speaker 1: am sure you're both alive in several leagues. I'm playing
Speaker 1: in several leagues as well. Nope, none, none, not one, Nope.
Speaker 1: It's the fantasy playoffs of hell this year. And it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how good of a team you've built, it's
Speaker 1: all blown up in this. It's kind of true. I
Speaker 1: mean you you could have assembled the perfect roster and
Speaker 1: just had Covid chip away at it over these past
Speaker 1: few weeks to the point that it doesn't matter. I
Speaker 1: thought I did. That's what happened. It's it's tough. It's
Speaker 1: this is it's as difficult a year as there's been
Speaker 1: in many ways, as unjust a year as there's ever
Speaker 1: been in fantasy football. History, because there's you know, there's
Speaker 1: no justice or knowing who's going to get COVID who's not.
Speaker 1: It's you know, there were just so many things up
Speaker 1: in the air this week and this year. So we're
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Speaker 1: official end of year twenty seven. Yes, this is the
Speaker 1: this is the end of twenty seven. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if twenty eight begins until next August, so maybe this
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Speaker 1: end of twenty seven years. I was realizing this is
Speaker 1: my ninth year, so I've gone through nine times worth
Speaker 1: of Fantasy Football Weekly so far. Feels like a lot more,
Speaker 1: I can tell you that much. Man, it drags, it
Speaker 1: really does. Speaking of things that drag, the Panthers take
Speaker 1: on the Saints and wait game I will put the
Speaker 1: over under on your starters for this game. Both teams
Speaker 1: are two and a half. Well, since I already uh
Speaker 1: maybe clued you in on this, I have two starters
Speaker 1: in this game. It's pretty bad here. The first starter
Speaker 1: is DJ More of the Carolina Panthers. Last week, with
Speaker 1: the hybrid of Cam and Sam at quarterback, the Panthers
Speaker 1: actually attempted forty five passes against Tampa Bay, which led
Speaker 1: to eleven targets for more actually ten targets for Robby
Speaker 1: Anderson to more seen at least ten targets in four straight.
Speaker 1: The quality of the targets just hasn't been there though.
Speaker 1: The match up against the Saints is similar to the
Speaker 1: Bucks last week, easier to pass on than run, so
Speaker 1: I expect another high volume passing day, but just to
Speaker 1: see grade for more because these throws haven't been great.
Speaker 1: Olive Anderson on the bench, but if you need an
Speaker 1: absolute home run dart throw, I could see throwing him
Speaker 1: in some lie and ups Chuba Hubbard. He's obviously on
Speaker 1: the bench. In the last two weeks, he's totaled fourteen
Speaker 1: carries for forty nine yards. That's total in two weeks.
Speaker 1: Gross and the Saints are very stingy against the run.
Speaker 1: On the other side, Alvin Kamara, he gets just a
Speaker 1: C grade here with you on this, especially if those
Speaker 1: tackles don't play Tara Armstrong, Ryan ram Check. They've arm instead,
Speaker 1: They've been They've missed the better part of a month. Now.
Speaker 1: They both could come back for this game, and then
Speaker 1: I'm a little more interest in Kimara. Without them, I'm
Speaker 1: nervous even with uh He's been held at bay by
Speaker 1: two good defenses in Tampa and Miami in the last
Speaker 1: two weeks, and in rolls in Carolina, and the Panthers
Speaker 1: have allowed the fewest rushing touchdowns, the fewest reception receptions
Speaker 1: and receiving yards to opposing backs, and they have not
Speaker 1: allowed one receiving touchdown to an opposing running back on
Speaker 1: the year. That eats into a lot of Camara's awesomeness.
Speaker 1: In eight career meetings with the Panthers, Camara has topped
Speaker 1: sixty seven rushing yards once. Geez, that's it, and in
Speaker 1: the meeting with the Panthers back in Week three, he
Speaker 1: was held to twelve total touches and thirty total yards.
Speaker 1: He does get a sea because the Panthers will be
Speaker 1: missing what looks like four of their starting front seven
Speaker 1: in this game, So there's a little hope there. Uh,
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill and Marquez Callaway would be the only guys
Speaker 1: you would consider in the passing game, but I have
Speaker 1: them both on the bench. The Panthers are allowing under
Speaker 1: two passing yards per game, and the only really good
Speaker 1: game allowed by the Panthers this year to quarterbacks where
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts in Week five and Kirk Cousins in Week six.
Speaker 1: Since then, no quarterback has topped two two yards and
Speaker 1: only two quarterbacks have been able to manage multiple touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And since that Hurts game, no quarterback has scored on
Speaker 1: the ground either, So that hurts Taysom Hill. So they
Speaker 1: are on your bench, and that is it for that
Speaker 1: terrible game which might hit twenty total points. I think
Speaker 1: maybe maybe maybe defensive points. Didn't think of that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's probably how most of the points are scored here.
Speaker 1: Scott Falcons take on the Bills, and the storyline to
Speaker 1: the biggest storyline for the Falcons, Haman, the disappearance of
Speaker 1: cour Darrel Patterson was you know, I think through September,
Speaker 1: October and much of November was the best story in
Speaker 1: fantasy football, and now virtually I'm starting. I'm finally I'm
Speaker 1: finally ready charged. The last few weeks, I've been giving
Speaker 1: you to ben him, but he keeps scoring. So I
Speaker 1: have not been wrong on those starts because he scored
Speaker 1: each of them one touchdown in twelve yards. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: he maybe he deserved to see last week instead of higher,
Speaker 1: but uh, I'm finally with you on this one. This week.
Speaker 1: Patterson over the last five weeks has been held up
Speaker 1: by his four scores. That's that's the only thing holding
Speaker 1: him up. He's Uh. His usage has gone way down,
Speaker 1: both receiving and running the ball. He gets Sea level
Speaker 1: amounts of touches still, though the scoring keeps him in lineups.
Speaker 1: This week, I think he's his his ceiling is closer
Speaker 1: to his see. I have the volume C grade on
Speaker 1: him because of how much red zone usage he gets,
Speaker 1: but his ten plus touches red zone usage, I'm barely
Speaker 1: given him a SEA this week. I would I would
Speaker 1: give him a bench grade. But that's all right. That's fine.
Speaker 1: That's fine. That's if people can mention, if they have
Speaker 1: the options to bench him, that's that's fine. I'm okay
Speaker 1: with it. I have Matt Ryan on the bench a
Speaker 1: couple more games, a couple more qbs facing the Bills
Speaker 1: under a hundred and seventy five yards. That's now five
Speaker 1: games in the last six where the Bills of health
Speaker 1: quarterback under a hundred seventy five yards. Brady is the
Speaker 1: only one that got past that market. And Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: he hasn't had multiple touchdowns since Week nine. You're just
Speaker 1: not starting him. You're not starting him any week. Russell Gauge,
Speaker 1: I have a C grade on He had a nice
Speaker 1: run when the volume was there, top twelve wide receiver
Speaker 1: three out the last four weeks, but he crashed last week.
Speaker 1: He still had five plus targets, he had like forty
Speaker 1: nine yards. It's it wasn't that bad of a game.
Speaker 1: I have a sea level start on him here. It
Speaker 1: is a tough matchup, but he's really going to be
Speaker 1: the only guy out there in the ride wide receiving
Speaker 1: corps and almost every week he's getting forty to sixty
Speaker 1: plus yards possible scores, and the Bills are allowing forty
Speaker 1: to sixty yards to their top wide receiver each week.
Speaker 1: If you're looking at four to five catches, forty to
Speaker 1: sixty yards. That's sea level. In my mind, that's like
Speaker 1: a zero elevation start sea level. Yes, they're sure that works,
Speaker 1: cal Pits, I have a B grade. Um, there we go.
Speaker 1: Bills are tough against tight ends, but they here's how
Speaker 1: they've done against top twelve types Top twelve when they
Speaker 1: played Gasecki. Both times, Kelsey and Gronk all had forty
Speaker 1: to sixty five yards and several scores. Among them, Logan
Speaker 1: Thomas had a six dr day and score against them.
Speaker 1: All the other tight ends, the non twelve top twelve
Speaker 1: guys average about eleven yards per name. That's why they're
Speaker 1: That's why overall they're great. So the Kelsey, Grondkasecki, I
Speaker 1: put Pits up with them. I have a B grade
Speaker 1: on him because he gets six plus touches in all
Speaker 1: but two games. The tight ends that have had that
Speaker 1: volume have had the good days against the Bills. Over
Speaker 1: on the Bill side, A grade for John John this season,
Speaker 1: he's just had just one game where he didn't have
Speaker 1: at least three d total yards that's passing plus rushing
Speaker 1: for multiple scores. Just one game, and that was the
Speaker 1: windy New England game, so it doesn't count he's done
Speaker 1: in every game. Now he gets the third easiest matchup
Speaker 1: for quarterbacks. I'm loving his top guy digs here against
Speaker 1: the Falcons team that's fourth easiest against wide receivers. Uh,
Speaker 1: it feels like he's had kind of a down year
Speaker 1: for some reason. I feel like Diggs. It feels like
Speaker 1: it started last year. It's not as good as last year, right,
Speaker 1: and it started slowly for Diggs as well. He's seen
Speaker 1: over seven targets in every game. He's had fifty plus
Speaker 1: yards and or score in literally every game this year's
Speaker 1: he has hundred fifty three touchdowns games like last year,
Speaker 1: but he's been solidly consistent. He's got nine touchdowns. I
Speaker 1: do have an A grade on him here against this
Speaker 1: matchup now with Sanders likely out, he's questionable, but he's
Speaker 1: likely gonna be out. He hasn't practiced this week. Davis
Speaker 1: is going to be back, Beasley is going to be back,
Speaker 1: and they they're really digging Isaiah Mackenzie this week in practice.
Speaker 1: They used him a fair amount last week. They used
Speaker 1: him a ton last week, and they really liked what
Speaker 1: they got out of him. I have them on the
Speaker 1: bench because I think they're gonna just each other. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just monopolize each other's targets. Um, I liked it
Speaker 1: better when a couple of them were out. We could
Speaker 1: make a dart throw out of one of them, but
Speaker 1: we can't. Here, Dawston Knox be grade. What happened last
Speaker 1: week is basically what exactly what we called. We didn't
Speaker 1: think he'd have high volume, but we thought he could
Speaker 1: score because he's been scoring a lot. He got a
Speaker 1: one year touching on at the very end of the
Speaker 1: game and really saved some folks. The Falcons, however, allowed
Speaker 1: scores and big games to Gronk Gasecki got her. Kittle
Speaker 1: had six for ninety two two weeks ago. Good tight
Speaker 1: ends play against the Falcons. Gotta be greade on Knox here.
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary. Over the last three weeks, he has forty
Speaker 1: four rush attempts. Breda has four, Zack Moss has four.
Speaker 1: That's it. It's all his back backfield now, and somehow
Speaker 1: it's still he's still not fantasy relevant since Terry just
Speaker 1: can't find his way to be somebody you want to
Speaker 1: put in your lineup. I know, but this week I
Speaker 1: kind of like him because he's a good pass catcher,
Speaker 1: He's got five plus catches in three to last four games.
Speaker 1: Atlanta is It's shocking. Atlantic is bad against pass catching
Speaker 1: running backs for the twentieth year in a row. It
Speaker 1: seems like their bottom ten, allowing the seventh most receptions
Speaker 1: and yards to pass catching running backs. Given his full
Speaker 1: workload and the amount of receptions he's probably gonna get
Speaker 1: in this one, I gotta be grade on Signletary this weekend.
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty bold considering what he's done. Giants
Speaker 1: take on the Bears will still be our last matchup
Speaker 1: of this segment, Thank god. Yeah, no kidding and ending
Speaker 1: on an awfully exciting one, aren't we yea Giants? What
Speaker 1: I meant? Right? Every part of the passing game for
Speaker 1: the Giants is obviously on the bench, and we don't
Speaker 1: even have to explain that, but I will mention this.
Speaker 1: The team's leading receiver last week had twenty eight yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it's come to this for the passing game. But
Speaker 1: what about Sae Kwon Barkley? You may ask, is this
Speaker 1: your last chance to get value out of that lace
Speaker 1: first round pick you put into Sae Kwon Barkley? Hell? No,
Speaker 1: no bench grade for sake, Kwon Barkley with declining rushing
Speaker 1: and receiving yards in three consecutive weeks. He's hit the
Speaker 1: end zone once since Week four. DeVante Bookers stealing carries
Speaker 1: and receptions, not just doing carries. They was talked this
Speaker 1: week that they're gonna split the workload between the two.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't surprise me if se Kwon Barkley is in
Speaker 1: a similar offense with Daniel Jones next year. What round
Speaker 1: is he taken in next year? I mean, if it's
Speaker 1: basically this same team, is he a third round pick? Fourth, fourth, fifth, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's probably about where he'll go. Unfortunately, it's
Speaker 1: just the reality of where it is because we replay
Speaker 1: the previous season with drafting um Chicago's the middle of
Speaker 1: the pack run defense, but the Bears are six in
Speaker 1: receiving yards allowed to running backs and they're giving up
Speaker 1: just thirty yards through the air, and a lot of
Speaker 1: what Barkley has been able, what little values had has
Speaker 1: come through the air. Can't even count on that. So
Speaker 1: I'm leaving him on the bench. You got here without
Speaker 1: him somehow to the championship week. You shouldn't need him here.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Bears yeah, no kidding. Uh, David
Speaker 1: Montgomery gets an A grade. He's surpassed twenty touches in
Speaker 1: four of the last five games. I love the volume.
Speaker 1: He's turned those opportunities into an average of nine seven
Speaker 1: total yards per game and two touchdowns over that five
Speaker 1: game span. He's also seen his role in the passing
Speaker 1: game explode, leading the Bears with thirty four targets and
Speaker 1: twenty nine receptions over that same five game span. Only
Speaker 1: three teams have allowed more running back touches than the
Speaker 1: nearly thirty per game that New York permits here. So
Speaker 1: all the volume and opportunities for David Montgomery and a
Speaker 1: grade for him this week. I like justin fields here.
Speaker 1: We liked. We talked about this last week and then
Speaker 1: he didn't end up playing. But he's back for this
Speaker 1: week or expecting to be back for this week. Um,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure Andy Dalton was named starter? Is he okay?
Speaker 1: All right, let's go, Edie Dalton. I was gonna let
Speaker 1: me let me you might be right about I haven't
Speaker 1: looked today for new news. It's possible you're right about that.
Speaker 1: It's uh. I was hoping you'd be able to go.
Speaker 1: He had had had top ten fantasy quarterback finishes in
Speaker 1: four straight weeks, and they have named Dalton starter. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton doesn't bring a lot to the table here
Speaker 1: and we're gonna give him no more than a C grade.
Speaker 1: Against the Giants. New York secondary isn't terrible, but they've
Speaker 1: given up multiple touchdowns in into a bunch of middling
Speaker 1: pastors like Teddy Bridgewater and Taylor Heineke and Matt Ryanan
Speaker 1: and to a tongueo Via Loa. So I can see
Speaker 1: a C grade on Andy Dalton, but no higher than that,
Speaker 1: and you're not going to start him here in the
Speaker 1: championship week. Darnell Mooney gets a C grade. He's seen
Speaker 1: at least seven targets in five of his last six games,
Speaker 1: including nine from Nick Foles last week. Nine times. That's
Speaker 1: three times as many as the next highest receiver at
Speaker 1: the Bears. So really, this passing offense goes through Mooney
Speaker 1: and Montgomery. Over their last four games, New York allowing
Speaker 1: the eleventh most yards to receivers hundred sixty per game.
Speaker 1: They've given a five scores to the position as well,
Speaker 1: so in the last four games, so there's a there's
Speaker 1: a nice opportunity for for Mooney here. He doesn't always
Speaker 1: make the best of these good opportunities on paper because
Speaker 1: I I think I've recommended him a lot over the
Speaker 1: last month or so, he hasn't done much for us here.
Speaker 1: He'll go up against James Bradbury and Logan Ryan the most.
Speaker 1: They're both allowing a passer rating of at least in
Speaker 1: their coverage. When we come back, take a chance on me,
Speaker 1: and you would think at the end of the year
Speaker 1: in the championship game, you wouldn't have to go dumpster
Speaker 1: diving for players. Yeah you do, No, no, no. With
Speaker 1: COVID out there and Amicron, yes, suddenly we need all
Speaker 1: those guys that you can find off of the waiver wire.
Speaker 1: Will help you identify nine players that you would not
Speaker 1: normally start in the championship game, but you can this
Speaker 1: week when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly, on
Speaker 1: me nine players not only in your starting lineup, we
Speaker 1: will tell you who they are be going to get
Speaker 1: the quarterback position and Matt Harrison, who you got. Derek
Speaker 1: Carr has the fifth most passing attempts on the year
Speaker 1: and the third most yards, and the Raiders are not
Speaker 1: afraid to air it out. They face the Colts team
Speaker 1: that scuffled a bit in the last half of the
Speaker 1: year since Week eight, the Colts allowed Ryan Tannehill to
Speaker 1: have his only good game in the second half of
Speaker 1: the season. Then Jet Josh Johnson through for three seventeen
Speaker 1: and three against them, and Mac Jones hit his high
Speaker 1: water mark for the last mark with and two in
Speaker 1: week fifteen. So fire up, Derek Carr. All right, Scott,
Speaker 1: you're get chance at the quarterback. I'm going with Tyler
Speaker 1: Snoop Puntley if we're gonna throw out their nicknames, and
Speaker 1: might as well throw out Tyler Snoop Puntley. His worst
Speaker 1: rushing game on the years forty yards, his worst passing
Speaker 1: game on the year fifteen yards. In the in games
Speaker 1: he start started, He's a threat to score with his
Speaker 1: legs at all times. He's got three scores in the
Speaker 1: last three games. They're gonna they're likely going to be
Speaker 1: chasing points in this one. Um. And also that rams
Speaker 1: pass runch pass rush I think makes Huntley get outside
Speaker 1: the pocket and run front for his life. A nickname thought,
Speaker 1: I thought you said Josh Jet Johnson. No, he was
Speaker 1: a Jet at the time, Okay, I I think we're
Speaker 1: just throw it out there. Okay, no, not everybody on
Speaker 1: the Jets is nickname Jet. I'm going with Tray Laser
Speaker 1: Lance because apparently everybody has to have a nickname now,
Speaker 1: and I've just given one to Tray Lance. With Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo out, Lance is your starter against Hugh Houston. We've
Speaker 1: seen Lance for major parts of two games. In the
Speaker 1: first game, he threw two touchdowns. Second game, he ran
Speaker 1: for eighty nine yards. So what if he rolls that
Speaker 1: all together into one game. What if we get rushing
Speaker 1: and passing against Houston. It's certainly possible. Houston secondary is competent.
Speaker 1: It's not great, it's competent. And the Niners receivers are
Speaker 1: dramatically better than anybody basically the Houston seen all year,
Speaker 1: and Lance has got the big arm. All he needs
Speaker 1: to do is a couple of deep connections and a
Speaker 1: couple of rushes. Get the ball into the hands of Deebo, Samuel,
Speaker 1: George Kittle, Brandon. I let them do something specially. You
Speaker 1: can find your way to a good game with Tray
Speaker 1: Lance on the ground and through the air. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the running back position, Matt. I've got a double
Speaker 1: up here. I've got the gatekeeper, Ronald Jones and the
Speaker 1: key master Keyshawn Vaughan. Uh, we can do double again,
Speaker 1: do the double there. Jones is the more obvious one here,
Speaker 1: he's roster and of the leagues, but Vaughn is widely
Speaker 1: available and startable in a pinch against the Jets because
Speaker 1: the Jets are terrible against the run. How terrible are they?
Speaker 1: They're more terrible against the run than Charge's attitude when
Speaker 1: we even try to say the words plus or minus
Speaker 1: on the quiet. They're more terrible against the run than
Speaker 1: Scott Fishes with the food pyramid. They're more terrible against
Speaker 1: the run than Matt was in the Big Bore Guillotine League.
Speaker 1: They're even worse than Colin mccockney. Running backs are averaging
Speaker 1: a hundred and sixties six Comboy yards and two scores
Speaker 1: a game against the Jets. Yeah, I mean, I mean
Speaker 1: that was my Rodney dangerfield. It's really right there, nicely done. Uh,
Speaker 1: you're running back, Scott, you take a chance of be're
Speaker 1: running back. I'm going with Boston, Scott, and apparently to
Speaker 1: add Jordan Howard to it, all right, why not? Wait? Wait, wait,
Speaker 1: Boston what's his nickname? Boston? Boston. He's the only fully
Speaker 1: healthy back right now for this team with Sanders is
Speaker 1: out with a broken hand. Howard has a stinger and
Speaker 1: kind of Gainewell has an ankle injury. So and he
Speaker 1: was very useful, very productive in his loans darts. If
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard does go, they both might be usable. This
Speaker 1: is This is an Eagles team that lit up Washington
Speaker 1: for two hundred yards in their last out, and over
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, Washington d has been free
Speaker 1: falling against the run. They've allowed a couple of touchdowns,
Speaker 1: a bunch of sixty and a hundred yard rushers. UM
Speaker 1: good spot for both of them, but I like Boston's
Speaker 1: got a little bit more. Howard is top fifty six
Speaker 1: total yards in every game in which he's seen the field.
Speaker 1: And so if he is a lot of stripe work too,
Speaker 1: he does. Who doesn't like stripe work? We all do?
Speaker 1: Does he have a nickname? Stripe work? I like it?
Speaker 1: All right, great, we'll go with that. I'm going with
Speaker 1: h Do you dare to start? Darre on goon? Dare
Speaker 1: to dream? How dare to dream? Dar to dream? Work?
Speaker 1: Chopping on the fly oh, Jordan Howard's nickname was the
Speaker 1: Bulldozer was well, it makes sense. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: like the strip striper's way better way. After Robinson left
Speaker 1: the ton Achilles. Last week, dare goombo wal A played
Speaker 1: every offensive snap except one. He put up seventy two
Speaker 1: total yards and a score. Last week they gave him
Speaker 1: nineteen touches in a reserve role, so this is there. Obviously,
Speaker 1: will have no hesitancy to use him copiously against the Jets,
Speaker 1: arguably the worst run defense in the league. Sorry the Patriots.
Speaker 1: The Jets last week worst one of the worst run defenses,
Speaker 1: and the lead. You wouldn't think it. They're giving up
Speaker 1: the six most total yards one fifty three per game
Speaker 1: to opposing running backs. They don't give up a ton
Speaker 1: of touchdowns here, but anybody who's having that much success
Speaker 1: on the ground's got a chance to score. Now, you
Speaker 1: may remember dar A to dream oh goonbow A had
Speaker 1: a similar role at the end of last year. They
Speaker 1: had to go to him in a pinch and he performed. Well, there,
Speaker 1: here's another opportunity just to pile on. He was a
Speaker 1: great pass catcher in uh in Tampa a few years
Speaker 1: ago and the paths are missing four linebackers on COVID.
Speaker 1: There we go, that another opportunity. There you go, another
Speaker 1: reason to day to dream. Let's go to the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position, Matt, I've got Davante Carnival Parker. Parker has
Speaker 1: played in two consecutive games. Well, sorry, Parker has not
Speaker 1: played in two consecutive games since Week three and Week four.
Speaker 1: This is true. I would not have guessed. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: but he's had at least seventy seven yards or a
Speaker 1: score in three of his last four games played. They've
Speaker 1: been spaced out a bit though. Uh. This week he
Speaker 1: gets a tightened secondary that could be missing starting cornerback
Speaker 1: Jack Rabbit Jenkins. And that's not a nickname with an
Speaker 1: ankle injury, and it is a nickname that he's turned
Speaker 1: into his full name. That's true. And I think that's
Speaker 1: sort of weird. And did he go to the d
Speaker 1: m V and like, um, you know, I think you
Speaker 1: got to go to the judge. You can't go to
Speaker 1: the d m V and change change it there. Uh. Then,
Speaker 1: and and back up Busted green Door, who is currently
Speaker 1: on the COVID list, so he's gonna probably see Christian
Speaker 1: Fulton Fulton gave up seven catches for a hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty three yards in his coverage just last week against
Speaker 1: San Francisco, So fire up, Davante Parker. Your is that
Speaker 1: his full name? Carnival Partner? Um? All right, Scott, You'll
Speaker 1: take a chance to be a wide receiver. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with Noah nickname Fant. The Charger's sea has allowed
Speaker 1: the second most and the second most receiving yards and
Speaker 1: the second most scores to tight ends. And oh, they
Speaker 1: have Jerry Judy on COVID, Tim Patrick on COVID, and
Speaker 1: Sutton is likely to be on COVID by the time
Speaker 1: possibly you're listening to this, so they're gonna have very
Speaker 1: few other options to go to. I am using Arizona
Speaker 1: wide receiver Christian Captain Kirk uh huh as he that works,
Speaker 1: it does. He's been the long listeners are pleased off.
Speaker 1: He's been the leading every time I'm on this show.
Speaker 1: Charch does a Star Trek reference. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: with him. He's been the leading receiver since DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: was placed on injured reserve, and he is gonna go.
Speaker 1: Kobayashi Maru the Dallas Cowboys Kirk has at least nine
Speaker 1: targets and seven catches in each of these games. Without
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, he's averaging seventy one yards. And you might think, oh,
Speaker 1: but Chart, we can't start anybody against the likes of
Speaker 1: of of Trayvon Diggs. He's too good. But what do
Speaker 1: we always remind people on this show? Trayvon Diggs a
Speaker 1: lot more yardage in his coverage than any cornerback. And
Speaker 1: Kirk works out of the slot a lot, and there
Speaker 1: he faces Anthony Brown, who's allowed the third most yardage
Speaker 1: in his coverage. Christian Captain Kirk is our final take
Speaker 1: a Chance of Me player Charch. We're never going to
Speaker 1: remember this, but I think that we should always give
Speaker 1: a nickname to every take a Chance on Me player
Speaker 1: from But we're not going to remember Brick because it
Speaker 1: is the last show of the year. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: a listener to remind us. Please do but if somebody
Speaker 1: put this in your calendar for next for next August,
Speaker 1: and remind us that that we've talked about doing this
Speaker 1: but have not committed to doing this. All right, let's
Speaker 1: work too through a couple more matchups. Raiders take on
Speaker 1: the Colts Matt you already told us you like Derek
Speaker 1: Carr in this one, so I means you must like
Speaker 1: at least some of his receivers. Some of them Hunter
Speaker 1: Renfro has been clamped down by a couple of good
Speaker 1: secondaries in Cleveland and Denver over the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: The Colts have actually been one of the best secondaries
Speaker 1: in the league against wide receivers in the last month
Speaker 1: and change. In their last four games, wide receivers have
Speaker 1: averaged as a group only nine three total receiving yards,
Speaker 1: and they've only allowed one total touchdown to wide receiver
Speaker 1: in the last four weeks. With that, I can't give
Speaker 1: Renfro more than a C grade, but I hope the
Speaker 1: volume goes up here. Darren Waller landed on the COVID
Speaker 1: list on Wednesday, which means he has a very outside
Speaker 1: chance to play Sunday. If he does go, he gets
Speaker 1: an A grade. If he doesn't go, Foster Kobe I
Speaker 1: she Morow becomes start worthy against with a C grade
Speaker 1: here because the Colts have allowed the most receptions and
Speaker 1: yards to the tight end position this season. The only
Speaker 1: on the Raider to start as uh Josh Jacobs. He's
Speaker 1: back to Bell Cowing only gets a C grade. Here
Speaker 1: twenty eight touches last week, the one back has top
Speaker 1: Only one back has topped sixty rushing yards against the
Speaker 1: Colts in their last seven games. They have given up
Speaker 1: a fair amount of receiving work though in the last
Speaker 1: month to opposing backs, and Jacob has been a very
Speaker 1: good receiver in the latter half of the year. Jonathan Taylor,
Speaker 1: he gets the fantasy art vark. That's pretty easy. He's
Speaker 1: the best running back in football. It's one of the
Speaker 1: worst run defenses in football. We don't need to even
Speaker 1: expand on that. Carson Wentz has an outside chance of
Speaker 1: playing Sunday after landing on the COVID list if he
Speaker 1: does clear the protocols. But either way, I'm leaving the
Speaker 1: Colts quarterback on the bench. If it's not Wentz, it's
Speaker 1: Sam Ellinger. But the Raiders are great against the past
Speaker 1: and porous against the run. Wentz is only top two
Speaker 1: or twenty yard once in his last six games, and
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman is the only other guy we need to mention.
Speaker 1: He gets a C grade. I considered downgrading him if
Speaker 1: Ellinger does start, but in that scenario, I think it's
Speaker 1: a pass funnel to only Pittman uh and only three
Speaker 1: wide receivers have hit the one yard mark on the
Speaker 1: Raiders all year. They've allowed the third fewest touchdowns to
Speaker 1: the position. If you have another option, play your other option.
Speaker 1: But he's still seaworthy, um Scott, I'm guessing we can
Speaker 1: get Jaguars Pats done in like two and a half
Speaker 1: a minute. So let's try to squeak it into this
Speaker 1: segment if you would. Yeah. So, the only startable grade
Speaker 1: I had for the entire Jags team was Daria Goombo
Speaker 1: Walle had a C grade on Dream Yes Starry to
Speaker 1: dream the whole past game. The Pats are top four
Speaker 1: against QBS wide receivers and tight ends. They are twelfth
Speaker 1: easiest for running backs though, so I was starting grade
Speaker 1: on on goomble l A. On the other side, I
Speaker 1: have Mac Jones on the bench. We've talked at length
Speaker 1: for the last few weeks about how the Jags d
Speaker 1: has has held down opposing you know, quarterbacks and one
Speaker 1: receivers and whatnot. In the last seven weeks, only Stafford
Speaker 1: top two passing yards against the Jags. Uh. So I
Speaker 1: have Jones on the bench. I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 1: run a lot. Also, I think our passed a lot.
Speaker 1: I think the game script will beat them ahead so
Speaker 1: they won't have to pass. So I have Jones on
Speaker 1: the bench. I have a C grade on Jacoby Myers.
Speaker 1: With Nelson egil are out and Kendrick Born on COVID,
Speaker 1: who else is gonna throw? By the way, Josh McDaniels saying,
Speaker 1: this week we've we've dramatically underutilized John Smith, which I'm like, duh,
Speaker 1: but it's another another week. It was another week, another
Speaker 1: five to six catch game for Myers, another eight plus
Speaker 1: targets from our ears and no scores because he you know,
Speaker 1: just doesn't do that. But you're getting a four to
Speaker 1: six catch guy with forty eight yards. That's a C
Speaker 1: grade there for Myers. I have Henry on the bench
Speaker 1: last week. Is why Henry is so tough to start.
Speaker 1: If he does not score, which he's done a lot
Speaker 1: of times, like seven eight times this year, when he
Speaker 1: does not score, he completely tanks your team. I don't
Speaker 1: want to start him in a championship week, especially against
Speaker 1: the defense that has allowed one tight end touchdown since
Speaker 1: Week five, and that was kittle Uh in the running game.
Speaker 1: Harrison Stevenson. I have c grades on both. Stevenson's off COVID.
Speaker 1: He's gonna play. He might be a little run down,
Speaker 1: he was fatigued at practice whatnot. We are seeing some
Speaker 1: of that where you know, some guys snap right back
Speaker 1: and others others are fatigued and and you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: the quotes from what was It Brandon Cooks about how
Speaker 1: tired he was on the field and Tyreek Hill, Um, yes, um.
Speaker 1: I have a secret on both. Though Harris's questionable. He's
Speaker 1: gonna go, though we saw him play last week with
Speaker 1: that injury. It's going to be a great grant, great
Speaker 1: game script with them ahead, they'll run both runners. The
Speaker 1: Jags are ten top ten against running backs, but I
Speaker 1: see them both getting tent plus touches. So I have secrets,
Speaker 1: all right, that makes sense to me. I think you
Speaker 1: can probably use both guys when we come back. Chiefs
Speaker 1: take on the Bengals. They, you know, to start the
Speaker 1: obvious guys I'm fascinated by dar Old Williams will tell
Speaker 1: you what to do about him and whether or not
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow will maintain the hot hand from last week
Speaker 1: five yards and four touchdowns against a much tougher defense.
Speaker 1: Ob another double double, thousand yards and eight touchdowns coming
Speaker 1: your way. We'll tell you what to expect from some
Speaker 1: of the trickier plays out of this matchup when we
Speaker 1: come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: Paul Charchy in with you. My co host today are
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison and Scott Fish. If you want to follow
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Speaker 1: Fish twenty four. Apparently there were twenty three others who
Speaker 1: had already been at Scott Fish and man uh and
Speaker 1: and Ken gurk Fish. That's really are you talking about? Ken?
Speaker 1: Scott Fish's uh Chiefs take on the Bengals. You know
Speaker 1: what to do With Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, and Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: They all returned to obvious a status probably anyway. Bengals
Speaker 1: have given up big passing games to Jimmy Garoppolo and
Speaker 1: Josh Johnson in the past three weeks, and Homes just
Speaker 1: put up a very good game without Kelsey and mostly
Speaker 1: without Hill and now back. Although Hill says he's still
Speaker 1: not totally over COVID yet, so a little bit of
Speaker 1: caution there, but you're gonna start those guys, and I've
Speaker 1: got a grades in all of them. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the trickier play, which I think is Darryl Williams. Clyde
Speaker 1: Edwards a layers out and in games he's missed, Darryl
Speaker 1: Williams averaging nineteen touches total yards and half a score
Speaker 1: per game. Pretty solid numbers. Bengals allowing the fifth fewest
Speaker 1: rushing yards, but the fourth most receptions and the fifth
Speaker 1: most receiving yards to opposing backs. And Williams a capable receiver,
Speaker 1: and he's the probable goal line back for any running
Speaker 1: opportunities that may present themselves. So I've got a B
Speaker 1: grade on Darryl Williams. Derek Gore is tricky because last
Speaker 1: week he got a bunch of usage and a blowout win.
Speaker 1: I don't see a blowout wind coming and I don't
Speaker 1: trust him to get anywhere near the same kind of usage.
Speaker 1: So he will he be on the field. Yes, maybe
Speaker 1: at a goal line situation because he has a bigger back,
Speaker 1: But I don't think you want to start Derek Gore
Speaker 1: in a championship week, and we're not gonna I love
Speaker 1: Byron Pringle. We're not going to chase his two touchdowns
Speaker 1: from last week. I mean Byron Stacks Pringles. Oh yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: Stacks are better than Pringles. Stat is a great fact.
Speaker 1: And the people, the people that are Pringles supporters have
Speaker 1: never had Stacks. No, or they don't like crispinus who
Speaker 1: doesn't like Crispy too? And I don't understand. See the
Speaker 1: Stack is thicker and a little salty here. I like
Speaker 1: it about it. Oh yeah, let's go to the Cincinnati
Speaker 1: side hungry. Now, let's start with Joe Mix and just
Speaker 1: get his bit out of the way here. He isn't
Speaker 1: a grade. His eight two snapshare last week tells you
Speaker 1: that he's finally back to full health. And I think
Speaker 1: he came back to a big role in the passing
Speaker 1: game as well, which I liked. He's got a positive
Speaker 1: match up here against a Kansas City team that has
Speaker 1: struggled against backs lately. Over their last four games, Kansas
Speaker 1: City allowing one hundred seventy total yards per game to
Speaker 1: the position, which would be second most if we applied
Speaker 1: that over a full season. So I like Joe makes
Speaker 1: it a lot in this game. A grade. Now, let's
Speaker 1: go to Joe Burrow. Obviously the monster game last week
Speaker 1: against an injury ravaged Ravens secondary, but he's gonna go
Speaker 1: one d eighty degrees here against a much, much tougher defense.
Speaker 1: As a reminder, prior to last week's explosion from Joe Burrow,
Speaker 1: he had thrown zero or one touchdown in five of
Speaker 1: the previous six games. Here comes Kansas City. They've allowed
Speaker 1: the second fewest fantasy points per pass attempt over the
Speaker 1: last six weeks, and since Week six, no posing quarterback
Speaker 1: has managed the top two hundred seventy yards, and no
Speaker 1: quarterback his top two touchdown since all the way back
Speaker 1: in Week five. I'm the two touchdowns is your upside
Speaker 1: on Joe Burrow in this game, and one touchdown might
Speaker 1: be more likely and he's gotta be grade. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Tee Higgins, my preferred receiver out of the group here.
Speaker 1: He ranks second only to Cooper Cup in receiving yards
Speaker 1: since Week twelve, and he's tied for second with four
Speaker 1: touchdowns in that span. He's gonna facere various word in
Speaker 1: Mike Hughes on the outside. They've allowed just one score
Speaker 1: between them in the last three games. Most of the
Speaker 1: wide receiver damage that's being done to Kansas City is
Speaker 1: coming in garbage time of thirty point blowouts, and that's
Speaker 1: not likely to happen here. So I do have some trepidation.
Speaker 1: But Tee Higgens so hot over the last month. I've
Speaker 1: got him maintaining the A grade, so we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: him at A. Joe Higgins, Yeah, No, I was thinking
Speaker 1: we need a Handsel. Uh you know, Handsel so hot
Speaker 1: right now? Button, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Hand I didn't see zoo man. I can't help you
Speaker 1: on that, all right. Uh. Paul rudds seems pretty cool though,
Speaker 1: and he loves fantasy football, So no, it wasn't Paul
Speaker 1: Rodd that was It was Ben Stiller. Yeah, maybe he
Speaker 1: likes Maybe he plays in Paul Redd's league. That's possible.
Speaker 1: I mean you you assume they're friends because they Jamaar Chase, Uh,
Speaker 1: Jamaar Car Chase. There you go, We'll go with it.
Speaker 1: Uh is clearly the number two options in this offense,
Speaker 1: and his box scers have been wildly inconsistent. Many of
Speaker 1: the same defensive worries I've got for Higgins apply to
Speaker 1: Chase because Chase is also on the outside. You didn't
Speaker 1: see the same guys here. Um, there's a good secondary.
Speaker 1: It's giving up very little. So I've got to be
Speaker 1: great on Chase just because of the upside that he brings.
Speaker 1: But I really toyed for a long time with making
Speaker 1: his see and I'm worried about Chase in this game.
Speaker 1: Tyler boy is a C grade. He's now a clips
Speaker 1: eighty five yards and or scored in three of the
Speaker 1: past four games, which I like. He'll see Legarius Snead
Speaker 1: out of the slot, and he's been good. He's given
Speaker 1: up just one score in his last eight games. Your
Speaker 1: glimmer of hope is that Snead has allowed a sev
Speaker 1: catch rate in that stretch of the last eight games,
Speaker 1: but not touchdown. So maybe Tyler Boyd will help you
Speaker 1: out that way. Let's move on to our next matchup,
Speaker 1: which is the Bucks taking on the Jets. Matt And
Speaker 1: for this one, Ronald Jones coming off a big workload
Speaker 1: last week and a juicy matchup this week. You're talking
Speaker 1: about the gatekeeper. Yeah, he and the key Master might
Speaker 1: take a chance on me, right, that's right, you went
Speaker 1: one two on that. Jones gets a be Von gets
Speaker 1: a c UH. Tom Brady, he gets a B grade.
Speaker 1: It's so easy to run on the Jets that they
Speaker 1: faced to the seventh fewest passing attempts this year, but
Speaker 1: they've also allowed the seventh most passing yards this year. Brady,
Speaker 1: by the way, has twenty one career multiple passing touchdown
Speaker 1: games against the Jets in his career twenty one UH.
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown gets an A stepped right back into relevancy
Speaker 1: last week with fifteen targets, ten catches a hundred and
Speaker 1: one yards against Carolina. Marvin Jones and DeVante Parker have
Speaker 1: both had good Fantasy days against the Jets in the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. Both were target hogs for their respective teams,
Speaker 1: which I think Brown would be again this week. So
Speaker 1: I'm feeling that Brown's gonna Brown's gonna really take it
Speaker 1: to him because Mike Evans, I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: go um almost. He did clear COVID protocols, still dealing
Speaker 1: with a hamstring injury, was only a limited participant in
Speaker 1: practice on Thursday, and Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Times reported that he looked fatigued catching passes from practice.
Speaker 1: God quarterback Ryan Griffin if Evans is active, but you
Speaker 1: have other options, I'd play them over Evans, but I'll
Speaker 1: give him a C grade, but it's the lowest CE
Speaker 1: I can give. Though about that. Rob Gronkowski, I want
Speaker 1: to leave him on the bench, but I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: him a C grade. The Bucks have removed Gronk from
Speaker 1: the game plan once the game is out of reach
Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks, taking hits and mileage
Speaker 1: off his body, kind of saving him for the playoff run.
Speaker 1: And last week's blowout win in Carolina, Gronk was only
Speaker 1: targeted twice, but he was still on the field for
Speaker 1: the snap, so they're just kind of have him run
Speaker 1: out into the pasture and not get hurt. I see
Speaker 1: him suiting up, I see him playing. The Jets are
Speaker 1: bottom twelve and receptions, yards and touchdowns allowed to the
Speaker 1: tight end, so I will give him a SE grade.
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson on the other side, several members of the
Speaker 1: Bucks secondary looked like they're gonna miss this game, Sean Murphy, Bunting,
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman, Jamal Dean, and Antoine Winfield. But he's starting
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson in their championship game. He's had a stretch
Speaker 1: of four decent games in the last five weeks, including
Speaker 1: four rushing touchdowns in there, But no, keep him on
Speaker 1: the bench and you're benching Jamison Crowder and Braxton Barrios
Speaker 1: in a championship to also Michael Carter. He's on the bench,
Speaker 1: his snapcounts and touch totals are back up. But tam
Speaker 1: defense is just too tough against the run. They allow
Speaker 1: an average of fifty two rushing yards and one third
Speaker 1: of a rushing score per game. That's just not enough
Speaker 1: for Michael Carter here. All right, let's get in the
Speaker 1: door our final matchup of this segment, Broncos taking on
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Scott. It's a backup quarterback throwing to his
Speaker 1: number four or five and six wide receivers in this game,
Speaker 1: so I assume the Broncos are gonna be looking really
Speaker 1: just to run the ball. It's also a backup quarterback
Speaker 1: that only had a hundred and fifty three scoreless yards
Speaker 1: last week. Yeah, the whole passing games on the bench.
Speaker 1: I have SEA grades on both Williams and Gordon. I
Speaker 1: actually had a B grade on Williams before all these
Speaker 1: wide receiver COVID issues. Now I just don't think they'll
Speaker 1: be able to move the ball very well. So the
Speaker 1: opportunities at the stripe. Why do I keep using stripe
Speaker 1: for goal? You're very stripe heavy, tod. We're using a
Speaker 1: lot of nicknames and a lot of the stripe talk. Um,
Speaker 1: it's hard to use stripe as a nickname. Wants. By
Speaker 1: the way, I don't want you to get through this
Speaker 1: to go well, Jamal stripe, Williams everybody's strip. Last week
Speaker 1: they both both both of these runners kind of killed you,
Speaker 1: but Williams at least saved you with a little bit
Speaker 1: of a touchdown there. Uh. That was one of the
Speaker 1: only games where they didn't both give you flexworthy numbers.
Speaker 1: I think they get back to it this week because
Speaker 1: this is this is the only part of their offense
Speaker 1: that's going to be able to function very well. Um.
Speaker 1: I I do have C grades on both because they
Speaker 1: went back last week to splitting everything right down the middle. Snaps, touches,
Speaker 1: basically everything. Uh. The Chargers have allowed the second most
Speaker 1: touchdowns of running backs on their way to be in
Speaker 1: the fifth easiest matchup against the position. But again, I
Speaker 1: don't think they'll move the ball very well. So C
Speaker 1: grades on them. On the other side, I only have
Speaker 1: a B grade on Justin Herbert three hundred plus yards
Speaker 1: and or multiple scores in all but two games. Uh.
Speaker 1: He hit both those marks last time against Denver. But
Speaker 1: Denver on defense lately have held four straight quarterbacks to
Speaker 1: varying levels of under two yards and they only had
Speaker 1: three touchdowns between those four quarterbacks. Is a better defense.
Speaker 1: And I also think they'll get ahead and not need
Speaker 1: to pass quite as much. So with Keenan Allen also
Speaker 1: a B grade on that because they don't think they'll
Speaker 1: need to pass that much and Broncos sit top ten
Speaker 1: against wide receivers on the season. Is gonna miss it.
Speaker 1: Alan had seven for eighty five last time. I can
Speaker 1: see him running into an A grade, but I think
Speaker 1: he's safer placed as a B grade guy. They've allowed
Speaker 1: seventy plus to five different guys who run from the slot.
Speaker 1: I think that's about where Allan probably ends up. Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, Let's go with Williams. C grade on Williams,
Speaker 1: but I don't blame me for want him to bench
Speaker 1: him in your championship game because he had a really
Speaker 1: bad middle of the season. But over the less five weeks.
Speaker 1: He had three good fantasy days. His bad ones are
Speaker 1: like four for thirty nine three forty nine in PPR.
Speaker 1: That's like eight points. But that's not Yeah, but that
Speaker 1: was two of them. The other three were really good days.
Speaker 1: So I have a C grade on him, but it
Speaker 1: is risky. I wouldn't blame me for bention him. Austin Ekeler,
Speaker 1: I have an A grade back on He seems healthy.
Speaker 1: He's done interviews where he looks completely healthy. He's gonna
Speaker 1: get the interview, well, I hope. So he's the one
Speaker 1: that told everyone to start Justin Jackson last week. I
Speaker 1: am I kind of no, No, he has he has
Speaker 1: a Yahoo Fantasy Football show. Yeah no, but I think
Speaker 1: it's funny to say that, right. He looks healthy in
Speaker 1: the interview. Yeah, I meant he's uh yeah. The ankles
Speaker 1: still he got. He got an extra week to heal
Speaker 1: up that ankle while he was out with COVID as well,
Speaker 1: So that's gonna help. Um, you're not gonna bench you,
Speaker 1: guys number two of his position either. Bradley Chubb also
Speaker 1: out for Denver in the middle of that core there
Speaker 1: so decent spot that counts for something. Let's let's stay
Speaker 1: with those guys in our final moments that we've got in.
Speaker 1: We've got maybe two more minutes, and in this segment, uh,
Speaker 1: Javonte Williams draft position with and without Melvin Gordon on
Speaker 1: the team next year. I like the phrase it that
Speaker 1: way because I think there's a decent chance they pull him,
Speaker 1: they keep him, they keep him. I think there's a
Speaker 1: gens they keep them too. Which first, how much they
Speaker 1: try to spend on a quarterback in the field, which
Speaker 1: is a big issue, right, you know, if they have
Speaker 1: to spend on a quarterback, they just spend a ton
Speaker 1: of money on all three of the receivers. So give
Speaker 1: me the draft position for Javonte Williams. If Melvin Gordon's gone,
Speaker 1: I think he's the middle of the first round, late
Speaker 1: first round kind of guy you stop five. I think
Speaker 1: he's number two, all right. If if Melvin Gordon is back,
Speaker 1: then where does Javonte Williams go? Probably slips into the
Speaker 1: second for me. I think I think someone on the
Speaker 1: back corner is gonna take him in the second around
Speaker 1: that corner just because they because they don't believe Melvin
Speaker 1: Gordon exists. It's the same thing as Kyle Pits this
Speaker 1: last year. There's someone in near league that's going to
Speaker 1: be super hyped on Javonte Williams and hope for you know,
Speaker 1: Gordon to crash. But you know that's awfully early. I mean,
Speaker 1: do you take you're in the second round. You should
Speaker 1: be taking a sure thing player, right, should be a
Speaker 1: sure thing. Do your own. You're gambling that Melvin Gordon
Speaker 1: gets hurt early in the season and stays hurt. If
Speaker 1: you're taking Javonte Williams in the second round, if they
Speaker 1: don't address the quarterback position, I don't think I want
Speaker 1: anything to do with that Broncos offense. Either. They need
Speaker 1: they need to upgrade their else Javonte Williams is going
Speaker 1: to be stuck. Don't let don't let our Minnesota listeners here.
Speaker 1: You're talking about Tenny Bridgewater that way. I wasn't talking
Speaker 1: about talking about all of them. Okay, all right, Uh,
Speaker 1: that's it's this. It's a trick you want to follow,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be one that's gonna be very interesting
Speaker 1: to see. My hope is that Melvin Gordon costs too
Speaker 1: much for the Broncos and then he finds himself on
Speaker 1: some other team. That's got a little more money. He
Speaker 1: won't be super expensive, but it'll probably be like, you know,
Speaker 1: four or five million dollars, and that might be more
Speaker 1: than the Broncos have an appetite. Four could be Maybe
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon doesn't want to share backfield either. There were
Speaker 1: reports of that when when Philip Lindsay was there that
Speaker 1: he didn't love sharing the backfield with the fan favorite
Speaker 1: that was from that stage, that which would makes sense
Speaker 1: the favorite again. Tons of of new news coming out
Speaker 1: all of the time towards up to Sunday. Be sure
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Speaker 1: all of the latest COVID and injury information. Will help
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Speaker 1: do care. This is a segment we like to call
Speaker 1: three tough Questions. Tough Question Number one, what is the
Speaker 1: one offseason rule change that every league should consider? Matt,
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding about this. I had two really weird
Speaker 1: dreams last night. The first one, I was at a
Speaker 1: butcher shop someone handed my son a suitcase full of
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars. But in the second one, I was
Speaker 1: dreaming about this tough question, and I'm not kidding. My
Speaker 1: answer in this was, the top five teams make the
Speaker 1: playoffs in your league, then the remaining six seed those
Speaker 1: teams all the teams in your league who are not
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. They get together and they play a
Speaker 1: game of Texas Hold Him Poker, and you get as
Speaker 1: many chips as the amount of points you scored for
Speaker 1: the season. Now, that sounds fun, but don't think many
Speaker 1: leagues could handle that. So I will say, if you
Speaker 1: don't do any of the one following thing. Make one
Speaker 1: of these changes, add a super flex two single quarterback leagues,
Speaker 1: do an auction instead of a draft, unlimited I R spots,
Speaker 1: or use free agent blind bidding next year. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: that was four or five answers, and well I stayed
Speaker 1: away from those because I feel like the free agent bidding,
Speaker 1: the don't do your championship the last week or just
Speaker 1: way too But I think that we in our leagues
Speaker 1: have all gone to that way and it's way too
Speaker 1: obvious for us. But I think the bulk of our
Speaker 1: listeners probably aren't playing with all of those. By the way,
Speaker 1: the auction thing, uh still with you. I was talking
Speaker 1: on I was talking on the Fantasy Prose podcast last
Speaker 1: week that people want fab blind bidding, they want they
Speaker 1: love auctions over snakes. Yet so many people do their
Speaker 1: rookie drafts as snake drafts. That auctions grow a pair,
Speaker 1: grow up like it, become a big boy. Do your
Speaker 1: rookie draft is a rookie auction. I love it. Give everybody,
Speaker 1: give everybody a chance to swing and missing Trevor loris
Speaker 1: just like the worst team gets the most money. Still
Speaker 1: they got over twice Tony, but at least they can
Speaker 1: take shots at multiple guys if they want to, if
Speaker 1: they What is the answer to the que anyone? Here?
Speaker 1: Here's where, Here's where I went. It's I went simple.
Speaker 1: Just add more flexes and reduce your required positions just
Speaker 1: a tad, not too much because you you don't want
Speaker 1: to inhibit trading, but just a little bit to make
Speaker 1: more flexibility for roster construction in dealing with injuries and illnesses.
Speaker 1: More flexes, pull back the roster requirements a little bit. Um.
Speaker 1: You guys hit on several of my favorite mandatory rules,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to touch on one. You guys did
Speaker 1: not say no trade vetos. You've got trade veto in
Speaker 1: your league. Get rid of that albatross right now. That
Speaker 1: is incredibly unfair and other teams have no business voting
Speaker 1: whether or not sending team owners should make a deal.
Speaker 1: Get rid of that. People always say inclusion. I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's a different issue. Deal with colusion. The commissioner deals
Speaker 1: with the inclusion. Lusian right. If you have collusion, that's
Speaker 1: not even a trade veto situation. There's nothing to do
Speaker 1: with trade. Don't even bring that up. Tough question Number
Speaker 1: two give me the order of the first, that the
Speaker 1: first four tight ends should be drafted in next year.
Speaker 1: Give me the order of the first, will well you want,
Speaker 1: I did give you will I want. I want to
Speaker 1: know what you should do. I was gonna say those
Speaker 1: are two very what you should do, Okay, So will
Speaker 1: do I put Kelsey Andrew's Kittle Pits because I think
Speaker 1: that's how it's gonna go down. What they should do, however,
Speaker 1: is Andrew's Kelsey Kittle pits. Al Right, so you're flipping him,
Speaker 1: you're if you're going Andrew's Kelsey Kittle. I like, I
Speaker 1: like Andrews a little more going for it. I think
Speaker 1: you could you could talk me into switching Pits and
Speaker 1: Kittle too, just like I think we saw Pits to
Speaker 1: talk into anything, right, Yeah, this year? So pits one
Speaker 1: four this year. No, I'm saying, I think we've seen
Speaker 1: just about his floor. Um Hockinson and Waller that just
Speaker 1: they burned to make people to make concerns, and Knox
Speaker 1: and Firemouth. I love him, but that's getting a little
Speaker 1: too cute. Man. Give me the order that the first
Speaker 1: four tight ends should be drafted in next year. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: I got Kelsey first. And because I can hear charge
Speaker 1: saying next summer, do you know who has ever regretted
Speaker 1: taking Travis Kelsey? No? Yeah, ever Kelsey and Andrews? UM
Speaker 1: number two for will I had Andrews, But should I
Speaker 1: think it's kittle because on a per game basis, I
Speaker 1: think he's the scariest tight end in the league. And
Speaker 1: if you catch him on the year that he stays
Speaker 1: healthy and puts it all together, then you've got Demo Samuel,
Speaker 1: got Divo Samuel if he stays healthy. Number three who
Speaker 1: should be taken? Third is Mark Andrews because fantasy ball
Speaker 1: is filled with sheep and we just follow the last
Speaker 1: year's stats. Currently make Mark Andrews is the number one
Speaker 1: tight end, but it's all on those touchdowns and they
Speaker 1: can be a little flukey. And then number four because
Speaker 1: we all are going to say that there's positive regression
Speaker 1: coming on that one touchdown he scored this year and
Speaker 1: the fact that he's the top eight tight end and
Speaker 1: basically every scoring format with just that one score. Um,
Speaker 1: I've still got Travis Kelsey number one. And I understand
Speaker 1: the thinking about getting out a year too early than
Speaker 1: a year too late. You know, I was thinking about
Speaker 1: this when I wrote your quote, your quote that you
Speaker 1: always say who is regretted ever taking Travis Kelsey, no
Speaker 1: one that always happens the year that we should get
Speaker 1: out that guy. I swear to God it. The reason
Speaker 1: I'm sticking out one more year is because Patrick Mahomes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and none of the rest of these guys have got
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that are anywhere even in this ballpark. And let's
Speaker 1: be flat out honest, we have eyeballs. Were watched him
Speaker 1: play like Kelsey, that hunter and for nine our game,
Speaker 1: the game when he looked like he looks fine, you
Speaker 1: look fine. Mark Andrews is second eat no matter who
Speaker 1: the quarterback is. And I think there's a way better
Speaker 1: chance than other people do that it's not Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: Then George Kittle when healthy, used the league's best tight end,
Speaker 1: and then Kyle Pitts third and targets six and receptions
Speaker 1: third in yards. Touchdowns will come in time. So yeah, honestly,
Speaker 1: your question confused me because I don't see an avenue
Speaker 1: for anyone but those four should have gone five deep. Yeah,
Speaker 1: then I think I probably would have put Waller in next.
Speaker 1: I probably would have put Hackinson, But I have no
Speaker 1: problem with Waller, I would have gone Waller tough. Question
Speaker 1: number three. Next year's draft, it's the fourth round and
Speaker 1: you need a wide receiver, and here's DK Metcalf available.
Speaker 1: Are you drafting him? Matt? We begin with you. Well,
Speaker 1: it's Russell Wilson's worst season to date, and Metcalf still
Speaker 1: ranks fourteenth and standard leagues and twenty one PPR leagues
Speaker 1: amongst wide receivers. And if you're drafting properly or probably
Speaker 1: drafting some safe guys in the first two to three rounds,
Speaker 1: and then you start swinging for some upside in round
Speaker 1: four and beyond, and Metcalf really has that wide receiver
Speaker 1: one overall upside. If if he has someone throwing him
Speaker 1: the ball, maybe Wilson's gone next year and there's a
Speaker 1: new quarterback in town. Maybe Wilson's hand injury was actually
Speaker 1: the thing that tanked the season, and he's back to
Speaker 1: full health yet next year. So yes, I will take
Speaker 1: him in the fourth Scott, are you taking It's the
Speaker 1: fourth round, you need a wide receiver. DK metcalfs there,
Speaker 1: you're taking him. I think this is interesting because the
Speaker 1: way I see it, I think Metcalf's here has been
Speaker 1: so disappointing. I wouldn't be fault. I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if he slips further than the fourth round next year.
Speaker 1: Last last year, in the fourth round, we saw guys
Speaker 1: like Higgins and or not Higgins, but like, uh ceedee
Speaker 1: Lamb and stuff. We're going in the flour the Robert
Speaker 1: what like. Really productive players were going in and some people,
Speaker 1: based on people have told me on Twitter, not in
Speaker 1: my league, but yeah, yeah, I got him in the
Speaker 1: third most leagues, but he was going in the fourth.
Speaker 1: In a lot of leagues, super productive guys are going
Speaker 1: in the fourth round. I think DK slips further. I
Speaker 1: don't know that I love him because I think this
Speaker 1: year it's gonna be guys like Higgins and Waddle and
Speaker 1: stuff like that they go on the fourth and I
Speaker 1: probably rather have them. I'd rather have DK in like
Speaker 1: the fifth or even Godwin with his injury, is gonna
Speaker 1: slip to the fourth or fifth round? Could be saying
Speaker 1: probably not um. The answer. The correct answer is hell no.
Speaker 1: I want consistent production above all else, and this is
Speaker 1: the opposite of what he's given us to his entire
Speaker 1: current Yes, Chris Godwin is consistent production. That's what I want,
Speaker 1: and I don't want a guy who's gonna disappear for
Speaker 1: long stretches of seasons. This year, he has scored one
Speaker 1: time in the previous seven games. He hasn't topped sixty
Speaker 1: yards since weeks seven. Last year, Dk Metcalf had almost
Speaker 1: the exact same scoring drought, with one touchdown in six games.
Speaker 1: We have no idea whose quarterback is gonna be. That's
Speaker 1: not gonna be Russell Wilson. I don't think then it
Speaker 1: probably anybody better than Russell Wilson. This is there. I
Speaker 1: think they're much more likely to melt down this roster
Speaker 1: than they are to try to find a quarterback improvement
Speaker 1: on Russell Wilson. So that's going backwards as well. And
Speaker 1: at some point, it just doesn't matter how good your
Speaker 1: wide receiver Lurked looks with his shirt off. That's just
Speaker 1: not relevant. No, is the correct answer. I traded DK
Speaker 1: Mack for Javonte Williams this year in the league. Jeez,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be weird when Aaron Rodgers is a Seahawk
Speaker 1: Eagles Sagan the Washington football team. Let's this will not
Speaker 1: take very long. Let's start with Let's start and as
Speaker 1: a reminder the duel take a chance on me of
Speaker 1: Boston Scott and Jordan Howard from Scott Fish earlier in
Speaker 1: this show Striper Stryper and Boston Market. That's right. They
Speaker 1: both have C grades for me in this game. If
Speaker 1: Howard doesn't go elevate, Boston's got to a B grade
Speaker 1: in this game. I think I'm running back if both
Speaker 1: of them. If Howard doesn't go, oh, you have Scott
Speaker 1: up to twenty f Okay, that makes sense. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the passing game Jalen Hurts. In the three games
Speaker 1: prior to last week, Washington had allowed to be very
Speaker 1: modest per game average of two hundred fifty two passing
Speaker 1: yards and half a passing touchdown. That's it. So they've
Speaker 1: been playing well prior to last week when they obviously
Speaker 1: got totally blown up, but they were also decimated by COVID.
Speaker 1: That includes a two yard, one touchdown passing game for
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts in Week fifteen, just two weeks ago. He
Speaker 1: ran for two touchdowns in that game. But now he's
Speaker 1: got the bulky ankle, and last week he only had
Speaker 1: two rushes. So I don't know what if if Janale
Speaker 1: Hurts is not gonna run for much of anything, and
Speaker 1: I just have to rely on his arm. That is
Speaker 1: a super sketchy proposition now is his ankle should be
Speaker 1: better one week later, so I think I'll have some
Speaker 1: of the mobility back. So I'm putting him into the
Speaker 1: B range here, which is a little nebulous B him
Speaker 1: giving him a B. The rages there is, there's a
Speaker 1: giant range. It's B from Jalen Burns. Dallas Goddard is
Speaker 1: my preferred target of his. He destroyed Washington two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: um and although again they had a lot of COVID
Speaker 1: at the time, but even so, Washington has yielded big
Speaker 1: games to quality tight ends all year, including Dalton Sheltz
Speaker 1: last week when bananas on him. Then DeVante Smith is
Speaker 1: the only other receiver I think you want to consider here.
Speaker 1: Over the last five games, again, COVID is marred some
Speaker 1: of that. The football teams allowed the second most yards
Speaker 1: to wide receivers one nine per game, and they've given
Speaker 1: up five touchdowns to the position over those five games.
Speaker 1: During that same span, they have allowed four receivers at
Speaker 1: top of eighty two yards or more. If it's gonna
Speaker 1: be any wide receiver to top eighty two yards. Smith
Speaker 1: is the only candidate for the Eagles. He comes in
Speaker 1: with a C grade um on the Washington side. Antonio
Speaker 1: Gibson's out. We're not starting any part of this pass
Speaker 1: of the passing game, including h Taylor, Heineke and Kyle
Speaker 1: Allen as well, and regardless of who goes here, and
Speaker 1: it might be a split quarterback scenario according to Ron Rivera, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's never good. Can take Ron Rivera out of Carolina,
Speaker 1: but you can't take Carolina Rivera. It's a great point there.
Speaker 1: Guys are on the bench, and so is Terry McLaurin.
Speaker 1: In his last for Terry, in his last eight games,
Speaker 1: eight games, it's half a season. He's top sixty yards. Once.
Speaker 1: I disagree with you on this. I think you dropped
Speaker 1: Terry McLaren sabotage the only one receivers posted more than
Speaker 1: sixty five yards against the Eagles in the last six games.
Speaker 1: And in honor of the holidays, Terry McLaren is gonna
Speaker 1: give the sleigh ride this week. Yeah, it's the sleigh ride.
Speaker 1: A brutal one on one matchup with Darius Slay. Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus is third ranked quarterback I love it. Let's
Speaker 1: sabotage drop Terry McLaurin. Then the last guy to talk
Speaker 1: about is Jared Patterson. You're starting running back for Washington
Speaker 1: um He is expected to start with Antonio Gibson sidelined
Speaker 1: with COVID missing Eric Flowers from the offensive line, that's
Speaker 1: almost additioned by subtraction. Patterson has looked decent in spot
Speaker 1: duty throughout the year. He did score a touchdown against
Speaker 1: these same Eagles two weeks ago. Washington's offensive line is
Speaker 1: returning from COVID, which is good, and they are actually
Speaker 1: one of the best, one of the best run blocking
Speaker 1: offensive lines in football when healthy. Unfortunately, the EGL Eagles
Speaker 1: run defense is equally terrific, allowing the third fewest rushing
Speaker 1: yards over the last three weeks, just fifty five rushing
Speaker 1: yards per game and three point one yards per carry.
Speaker 1: That's it. J D. Mckissicks is sidelined on injured reserves,
Speaker 1: so you might be tempted to think that Jared Patterson
Speaker 1: will catch some passes, but he never catches any passes
Speaker 1: and they will use when Dell Smallwood in that role instead.
Speaker 1: So just the C grade on Jared Patterson, which should
Speaker 1: be decent volume, but in a tough matchup. Um, I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna hold off on the next matchup. I
Speaker 1: was tempted to try to squeak it in, but let's
Speaker 1: just we want to talk dolphins. Oh and a little
Speaker 1: bit later. We gotta let that marinate. You really do,
Speaker 1: because you're trying to figure out which dolphin running back
Speaker 1: is gonna get is gonna get the work in any
Speaker 1: given week does take a lot of temple rubbing. And
Speaker 1: I want to give you this, this entire break to
Speaker 1: rub temples. It's going to be not mine, your own,
Speaker 1: by the way, super people. Yeah, we look, you have
Speaker 1: two temples on your head. You can use plural temples,
Speaker 1: and your three of us could not rubbing temples. Then
Speaker 1: we'll be back for more of this insanity in moments.
Speaker 1: It's definitely our last show. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly,
Speaker 1: Paul Charchi in Matt Harrison and Scott Fish with you.
Speaker 1: There is copious amounts of temple rubbing happening in this
Speaker 1: studio right now as Matt Harrison tries to help you
Speaker 1: figure out which dolphin is going to be the one
Speaker 1: that you want to start this week, if any against
Speaker 1: the Titans. What do you think, uh to Uh he
Speaker 1: can start him? I guess, I mean I'm giving him
Speaker 1: a C grade. Uh. He's not the biggest producer via
Speaker 1: the air, but going through the air is the way
Speaker 1: to beat the Titans. Jimmy g was able to notch three,
Speaker 1: two and one last week. Mac Jones had three ten
Speaker 1: and two a couple of weeks ago. Even Trevor Simeon
Speaker 1: was able to muster and two. The list goes on.
Speaker 1: Mediocre quarterbacks have been able to cobble some good stats.
Speaker 1: So a C for two uh startable and super flex
Speaker 1: or two quarterback leaks. Jalen Waddle is an A and
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker I mean Davante Carnival Parker was might take
Speaker 1: a chance on me, and he's seaworthy. Wattle has had
Speaker 1: eight or more catches in four of his last five games,
Speaker 1: and Wattle has topped ninety yards in three straight games.
Speaker 1: While All spends about two thirds of his time in
Speaker 1: the slot, where he'll square off against Elijah Molden. Molden
Speaker 1: has a passer rating of one oh eight in his
Speaker 1: coverage this year. Advantage Waddle Mike GASSICKI I have him
Speaker 1: squarely on the bench hasn't scored since week seven, hasn't
Speaker 1: topped fifty five yards since week seven, and the Titans
Speaker 1: are somewhat good ish against the tight end position, allowing
Speaker 1: an average of four catches and thirty five yards to
Speaker 1: the position. And then Duke Johnson is now splitting carries
Speaker 1: evenly with Miles Gascons. Both are on the bench. You
Speaker 1: just you see, you're copping out of this whole running
Speaker 1: back situation. I'm saying, just benjam all Well, Tennessee is
Speaker 1: also a really good run defense. So if it was
Speaker 1: one of them, you could maybe trust them with a CE.
Speaker 1: But since it's both of them, they're both on the bench.
Speaker 1: All right. How about the Titans side? A J. Brown
Speaker 1: gets an A. If you were ballsy enough to start
Speaker 1: him last Thursday, you're probably still alive in your fantasy championships.
Speaker 1: Sixteen targets, eleven catches and a score. Julio and Nick
Speaker 1: Westbrook Keen are on the COVID list currently. I think
Speaker 1: Nick came off. Now, okay, that's good. I mean it's
Speaker 1: still pass funnel to A. J. Brown here. Dolphins are
Speaker 1: bottom ten and receptions and yards allowed to the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position. De Aonta foreman, Jeremy McNichols, and Dontrell Hilliard
Speaker 1: are basically in a three way hot hand time share,
Speaker 1: and they're all on the bench because the Dolphins are
Speaker 1: great against the run. No running back has topped seventy
Speaker 1: three yards on the ground against Miami since Week four,
Speaker 1: and they haven't allowed a running back touchdown through land,
Speaker 1: sea or air since Week six. Al Right, it's been
Speaker 1: a lot, and the Dolphins would be very good at
Speaker 1: sea defense, by the way, because but you would think,
Speaker 1: you would think, so, how do we not? I got
Speaker 1: every other animal on. Come. I don't have a dolphin
Speaker 1: sound in here because I don't need one. I've got
Speaker 1: you excellent Matt Dolphins. Uh. And Ryan Tannehill can't be
Speaker 1: trusted and can't be started. He's topped two yards once
Speaker 1: in his last seven games. Just nothing, by the way,
Speaker 1: I was starting to talk dolphin there for a little bit. Uh.
Speaker 1: In those seven games, he's thrown five touchdown passes total. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're only in it for the rushing touchdown that you
Speaker 1: might get, which is so weird. Yes, No, you don't
Speaker 1: want to start him, all right, So you're done right?
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Texas taking the forty nine
Speaker 1: Scott Rex Burke head breakout game last week. A lot
Speaker 1: of work. Finally, Yeah, and so we you know, we've
Speaker 1: actually got a text in running back to talk about
Speaker 1: he reaped this week against the forty you're talking about
Speaker 1: text Rex, I will say text I like it. Brandon
Speaker 1: Cooks was out for that one, so that that may
Speaker 1: have helped a little bit. Uh. Yes, he did explode
Speaker 1: last week, but he's really owned the backfield for three
Speaker 1: straight weeks right now. However, the four Niners d over
Speaker 1: the last seven weeks have allowed only one back over
Speaker 1: sixty yards and that was due to a sixty seven
Speaker 1: yard fake punt right. Otherwise none of them have done it.
Speaker 1: And there's some good running backs in that span. James Robinson,
Speaker 1: um mix in, Dalvin Cook, Corderyll No. Uh, but he's
Speaker 1: gonna get a C grade here on sheer volume. But
Speaker 1: don't expect high level flex numbers. He's flex worthy because yes,
Speaker 1: Davis Mills, I got a C grade on He's looked
Speaker 1: pretty good. He's no, he's looked very good. If the
Speaker 1: half reheld today, Davis Mills would be in the same cluster.
Speaker 1: In the first half of the first round as these
Speaker 1: other guys were probably right now. Asked the Jets would
Speaker 1: they rather Zack Wilson or Davis Mills asked the Jaguars
Speaker 1: would they rather have They have to think about right,
Speaker 1: at least think about it right. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: not obvious answers to that. And and he's he's fighting
Speaker 1: for a job for next year. He wants he wants
Speaker 1: to take take hold of this job for next year.
Speaker 1: So over the last five games, he's had three hundred
Speaker 1: plus yards and or multiple scores in four of them,
Speaker 1: which is pretty damn Goods have allowed multiple scores in
Speaker 1: three the last five, but they're not allowing a ton
Speaker 1: of passing yards. I think you can expect about forty
Speaker 1: day and a couple of scores. The game script should
Speaker 1: also be good here for Miles, they'll probably be behind.
Speaker 1: I have c grade on Miles. Thought about making my
Speaker 1: take a chance on me player. I don't like him
Speaker 1: this week. Brandon Cooks was out last week with COVID,
Speaker 1: but before that he had seven plus catches in a
Speaker 1: hundred plus yards and back to back the top targeted
Speaker 1: receiver against the forty nine has scored seven touchdowns in
Speaker 1: the last five games, um, and I expect Brandon Cooks
Speaker 1: to be a ten plus target guy. Yet again, all
Speaker 1: of those guys against the foreigners had five plus catches
Speaker 1: and sixty plus yards. I have a B grade on Cooks.
Speaker 1: You could talk me into an A. On the other side,
Speaker 1: Trey Lance, was you gonna take a chance on me? Player?
Speaker 1: I also really like him this week. I would have
Speaker 1: I would have had a B plus grade on him
Speaker 1: if there were uh Deebo Samuels. I think he's an
Speaker 1: obvious A grade. He either gets it done through the
Speaker 1: air or the rushing. He has sixteen targets in the
Speaker 1: last two weeks that has come back. We were worried
Speaker 1: about that for a little while charge his targets had disappeared.
Speaker 1: They're back. So A grade on Debot, A grade on Kiddle,
Speaker 1: which is just too obvious, like he'll be the best
Speaker 1: tight end to face Houston, and even without that Gaseki
Speaker 1: knox Er, it's all had top five, like top five
Speaker 1: tight end weeks against the Houston Texans. Kittle in line
Speaker 1: for that there too. Brandon Auk I have a C
Speaker 1: grade on but I really kind of want to bench him.
Speaker 1: The second receiver has been about fifty yards each week
Speaker 1: against the Texans since Week eight, So I expect maybe
Speaker 1: that's where you is gonna land. But I'm not super
Speaker 1: comfortable of it. You know what, I'm actually I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw him on the bench. I I just yeah, he's
Speaker 1: averaging about four for fifty. He's probably gonna land in that.
Speaker 1: I can see either way. In the running game, this
Speaker 1: one's super easy for me. This week. Eli Mitchell is questionable.
Speaker 1: They think he's gonna go. If he goes, I have
Speaker 1: a B grade on him because it's an awesome matchup
Speaker 1: a bottom defense. But here are some of the concerns.
Speaker 1: Talk that he's been limited in practice. Talks this week
Speaker 1: are about I'm splitting with Wilson and Trey Lance keeps
Speaker 1: stealing goal line touchdowns earlier in the season. I can
Speaker 1: see him doing it this week too. I'm a little
Speaker 1: worried for Mitchell not scoring on that front. However, let
Speaker 1: me jump in for a second. It seems like every
Speaker 1: time Elijah Mitchell's active, he's the workhorse back exactly. And
Speaker 1: you know, there isn't a there has not been a
Speaker 1: split carry backfield really in this offense all year. That's
Speaker 1: where I'm going with this. On the flip side, he
Speaker 1: was injured and played a few weeks ago and got
Speaker 1: twenty seven carries when he came into the game injured,
Speaker 1: So you're upside is a high A grade. But I'm
Speaker 1: going to give him a BE just on the concerns.
Speaker 1: But I think there's a good chance you get more
Speaker 1: than that. If he does go. He's inside my top
Speaker 1: ten this wee. I've I have Wilson with a C grade.
Speaker 1: If he goes, I think he's gonna get just enough work.
Speaker 1: I'm a little hesitant. It's a really shaky sea if
Speaker 1: Mitchell doesn't go. I have a B grade on Wilson
Speaker 1: because the matchup is just too good. Rams take on
Speaker 1: the Ravens, and this is the same Ravens team that
Speaker 1: just gave up five hundred twenty five passing yards and
Speaker 1: four touchdowns or is five touchdowns at one point, but
Speaker 1: he got one of the touchdowns got called back. So
Speaker 1: that makes Matthew Stafford and Cooper Cup obvious a's. But
Speaker 1: I'm only gonna mention this about Cup to make it
Speaker 1: even better. The Ravens just got destroyed by slot receiver
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd, and here comes Cooper Cup. Who I think
Speaker 1: should be the league m v P this year. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think with Brian not here, you can give the
Speaker 1: last Fantasy Fonzie of the year to Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Absolutely love him. Hell of a season by Cooper Cup.
Speaker 1: Where was this? And credit to you, Matt for this preseason.
Speaker 1: You love Cooper Cup and we all we all liked him, Matt.
Speaker 1: I think it was most vocal about it the last year.
Speaker 1: I loved him. Last year was talking to them all up,
Speaker 1: but it was Jared Goff and then he got dinged
Speaker 1: up for Monch of the Year, so it didn't come
Speaker 1: together last year like I did this year. Anyway. Staying
Speaker 1: with the passing game, Van Jefferson Noo Beckam were both bees.
Speaker 1: Neither has put up really consistent yardage, but they're helping
Speaker 1: with touchdowns, and I think they can get both yardage
Speaker 1: and touchdowns in this game because the Ravens secondaries in
Speaker 1: such bad shape. They are allowing the fourth most yards
Speaker 1: the third most touchdowns to whiteouts and there without Marlon Humphrey,
Speaker 1: Marcus Peters and very possibly Anthony ever aver It also
Speaker 1: out for this game, so we like him to putting
Speaker 1: Tyler Higbee on the bench he's getting very little use
Speaker 1: in The Ravens have largely reversed in early season struggles
Speaker 1: against tight ends. Only two have scored since Week seven.
Speaker 1: And then that brings us to Sony Michelle. Now at
Speaker 1: full health. The Ravens are very tough run defense. Only
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook is top seventy one yards against Baltimore, and
Speaker 1: prior to COVID falling on the Ravens, they had gone
Speaker 1: six straight games without allowing a running back to score. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle's volume makes him a startable player anyway. Over
Speaker 1: the past four weeks, he's average twenty three carries and
Speaker 1: one hundred six yards and half a touchdown per game.
Speaker 1: Twenty three carries will be more carries and any back
Speaker 1: has had against the Ravens all year, So I don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna get that much. But just through sheer volume,
Speaker 1: he is startable and I've got a C grade on
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle. Let's go over to Baltimore and we will
Speaker 1: begin with the desolate running back position. DeVonta Freeman's on
Speaker 1: the bench in Your Your Championship week, diminishing snap counts
Speaker 1: in four straight games, just six rushes last week, although
Speaker 1: it was a blowout rams. Allowing the six fewest rushing
Speaker 1: yards and the second lowest yards per carry to opposing backs.
Speaker 1: Do not start DeVonta Freeman. And this one, let's go
Speaker 1: to the passing game. Doesn't look like Lamar Jackson is
Speaker 1: going to be able to go, and even if he does,
Speaker 1: his mobility would be seriously affected by the foot injuries,
Speaker 1: So then you're relying just on his arm. And remember,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson has thrown exactly one touchdown in nine of
Speaker 1: twelve games this year. So that brings us to Tyler Huntley,
Speaker 1: who look good honestly to the point that I think
Speaker 1: that resigning Lamar Jackson this next offseason is not a
Speaker 1: given for this team. I think I think Huntley has
Speaker 1: at least raised the question of whether or not you're
Speaker 1: putting you're better off organizationally of giving Huntley low end
Speaker 1: starting money versus giving Lamar Jackson top three quarterback, which
Speaker 1: is probably what he would demand. Back Huntley in this game,
Speaker 1: um l A has allowed just one passing touchdown in
Speaker 1: their last four games, which is not good. And it's
Speaker 1: not like the quarterbacks they faced during that stretcher Chopp Liver.
Speaker 1: We're talking about Kyler Murray, Russell Wilson, Kirk Cousins. That said,
Speaker 1: the only true rushing quarterback the Rams have seen all
Speaker 1: year was Murray, and he ran. He ran average fifty
Speaker 1: rushing yards across the two games in which they played,
Speaker 1: and that could mode well for Huntly a year two.
Speaker 1: It's pretty easy to envision a ground air combo that
Speaker 1: gets Huntley into like top ten quarterback territory. So I've
Speaker 1: got a B grade on him. Mark Andrews, We're gonna
Speaker 1: keep the A grade on because Huntley, Uh, what is
Speaker 1: that you like to use this word funnel? Today he's
Speaker 1: funneling to Mark Andrews. So we'll we'll, we'll keep the
Speaker 1: funnel alive with an A grade there, Mark Keiths Brown
Speaker 1: slumps all the way down to a C grade. He's
Speaker 1: now average fifty six scoreless yards in his last seven games,
Speaker 1: a brutal fall from grace for a guy who was
Speaker 1: scorching hot in the first half of the season. He'll
Speaker 1: face a Ram secondary that surrendered eight scores two receivers
Speaker 1: all season, that is second fewest in the league, and
Speaker 1: of course, Jalen Ramsey likely going to be on Marquees
Speaker 1: Brown for much of this game. Illness. Yeah, Brown has not, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it could be another X factor here. So I've
Speaker 1: just got the C grade on Brown, but it's probably
Speaker 1: closer to a bench grade. But we'll give him a
Speaker 1: SEA because we work in full letters around here. Our
Speaker 1: final matchup of the segment Cardinals taking on the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Matt Yeah, let's start with Kyler Murray, who peaked in October,
Speaker 1: but I'm still giving him a B grade here. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys have allowed the ninth most passing yards per game
Speaker 1: at two eight, and mobile quarterback quarterbacks have had some
Speaker 1: interesting days against Dallas. Taysom Hill add a hundred and
Speaker 1: one rushing yards, Sam Donald scored twice in the ground.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts was able to run for only thirty five,
Speaker 1: but his threat of running allowed him to pass for
Speaker 1: three and two. James Conner hasn't practiced yet this week
Speaker 1: with a heal injury, although Cliff Singsbury says he's a
Speaker 1: game time decision. I'd be shocked if he plays. Chase
Speaker 1: Edmund should get another go as the workhorse, but the
Speaker 1: horses back is hurting and Edmonds has been limited this
Speaker 1: week with a back injury, So I'll throw a C
Speaker 1: grade on Edmonds, that is, if James Conner doesn't go.
Speaker 1: As Dallas is a better than average defense against the run.
Speaker 1: The bright spot they're allowing around five receptions per game
Speaker 1: to opposing backs and a four point four yards per carry,
Speaker 1: so he should be able to cobble together like a
Speaker 1: hundred combo yards if he's the lead back. And we
Speaker 1: saw Chase Edmunds get goal line work with James Conner
Speaker 1: out last week, and that's always the thing that has
Speaker 1: capped his upside no touchdowns. And if Connor is not
Speaker 1: going to go and Edmunds can get goal line work,
Speaker 1: that gives him a much much higher threshold. Yeah, Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk was charges take a chance on me wide receiver
Speaker 1: and is the only Cardinals wide receiver I have a
Speaker 1: starting grade on. He gets a B for me. It's
Speaker 1: worth noting that DeAndre Hopkins is still out in ron Dale.
Speaker 1: Moore has been limited with an ankle injury this week.
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz has been the beneficiary of all the wide
Speaker 1: receiver injuries, getting eleven and thirteen targets in the last
Speaker 1: two weeks, averaging seven catches for sixty four yards in
Speaker 1: those two games. I'm only gonna throw a C grade
Speaker 1: on him, though, as j Ron Curse has been tasked
Speaker 1: with following the tight end for the most part and
Speaker 1: Curses Pro Football focuses third highest graded player in tight
Speaker 1: end coverage. Yeah, so only a SEA on zach Ertz.
Speaker 1: No didn't need him at all. Dak Prescott, he gets
Speaker 1: an A grade. Uh. Noted quarterbacks Andy Dalton, Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, and Carson Wentz each managed multiple passing scores
Speaker 1: against the Cardinals in the last four games. That's all
Speaker 1: four of them in the last four games in the
Speaker 1: last four weeks. For the wide receivers of the Cowboys win,
Speaker 1: all three were healthy and on the field. Seedee Lamb
Speaker 1: averaging nine targets, six catches and sixty seven yards. Mary
Speaker 1: Cooper six targets, four forty six Gallop seven targets, four
Speaker 1: forty five. That's not really great. Lamb's averages are teetering
Speaker 1: on the good side, but Cooper and Gallop are eating
Speaker 1: each other's lunch. I'll give Lamb the A and sees
Speaker 1: to both Cooper and Gallop in this one. The Cards
Speaker 1: have allowed eight wide receiver touchdowns in the last four weeks,
Speaker 1: so there should be some scores to go around here,
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz gets a B grade. Eight catches and back
Speaker 1: to back weeks touchdowns and back to back weeks. The
Speaker 1: Cards look good on paper against the tight end, but
Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons has struggled recently against tight end coverage. Uh
Speaker 1: The Niners, Bears, and Panthers each targeted him eight times
Speaker 1: in coverage, and he's allowed passer ratings of over ninety
Speaker 1: and four of his last seven games. And then finally,
Speaker 1: the running backs Zeke and Tony Pollo, this one's tough.
Speaker 1: Zeke is seeing about six of the snaps. Hasn't seen
Speaker 1: a twenty carry game since Week five, and that's unfortunate
Speaker 1: because the Cards have seen four straight runners get twenty
Speaker 1: or more carries, and three of those four top two
Speaker 1: hundred total yards. Even Craig Reynolds went for one seventeen
Speaker 1: against Arizona. The Cards have allowed the fewest touchdowns to
Speaker 1: the running back position this year, at only six total
Speaker 1: between rushing and receiving. So with that's split, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give Zeke a B grade here. I'm going to keep
Speaker 1: Pollard on the bench because Pollard would need a score
Speaker 1: to stay relevant and he's not getting enough work. And
Speaker 1: with the cards not allowing touchdowns to opposing backs, that
Speaker 1: seems like a tall order. Zeke's got the better chance
Speaker 1: of punching one in. He's still averaging seventeen touches per game,
Speaker 1: so I think he gets more yards and the chance
Speaker 1: to get a touch down here. So he just gets
Speaker 1: the B grade. Yeah, that's uh, that's the backfield that
Speaker 1: It has been very frustrating. I don't know if I'll
Speaker 1: drafted Dallas back next year. Probably not. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: too tricky. Keep in mind Zeke's average draft position this year,
Speaker 1: five fifth spot of the first round. We were all
Speaker 1: worn and everybody about, you know, our our final peak
Speaker 1: act of the year. We've you know, we warned, we
Speaker 1: warned our listeners against that when we came back. Final
Speaker 1: segment of the year, and that includes the ice ball
Speaker 1: brewin with the Vikings and the Packers. Lots of intrigue
Speaker 1: and this one, especially on the Packers side, what to
Speaker 1: do with a bunch of players that are going to
Speaker 1: have to try to put up some points in miserable conditions.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about how safe Aaron Rodgers, Davante Adams, the receivers,
Speaker 1: the running backs, particularly on the Packers side are when
Speaker 1: we come back for the final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly,
Speaker 1: final segment of the year for Fantasy Football Weekly, it's
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Speaker 1: final three sets of matchups again with Scott Fish and
Speaker 1: the Lions taking on the Seahawks. Yeah. So most of
Speaker 1: the passing game here is on the bench, with Tim
Speaker 1: Boyle being the starter over Jared Goff. Uh, but I
Speaker 1: do have a B grade. I'm on on, I'm on
Speaker 1: ros st Brown, my boy, I love that guy nickname.
Speaker 1: Here's here's the downside. Alman ra with with DeAndre Swift
Speaker 1: in the game averages three and a half catches in
Speaker 1: thirty two yards. And he did not score in any
Speaker 1: of those games. But that was with Hawkinson and that
Speaker 1: was a bunch of the other receivers. Reynolds and Raymond
Speaker 1: are on COVID, they're out. Alman Roth is gonna be
Speaker 1: the only receiver and and they just talked lowingly about him.
Speaker 1: He's got ten plus ten plus targets in three straight
Speaker 1: um and he's had a natural progression. I think he
Speaker 1: gets another ten plus target game here. I got a
Speaker 1: B grade on him. DeAndre Swift practiced all week in
Speaker 1: full Dan Campbell said he's completely ready to go and
Speaker 1: take on the full workload. I have Jamal Williams on
Speaker 1: the bench because of this now, and I think he
Speaker 1: goes right back to his pre injury seventeen plus touches
Speaker 1: that he had an eight straight games before the injury.
Speaker 1: And remember before that injury he had like a hundred
Speaker 1: thirty yards and two straight or whatever. I think he
Speaker 1: goes straight back to that. Against the Seahawks defense that
Speaker 1: ranked second easiest against running backs, Swift is a great
Speaker 1: pass catchers. Seahawks are allowing the most receptions and receiving
Speaker 1: yards two running backs. What a week to get him
Speaker 1: back for your championship. I have an A grade on him.
Speaker 1: On the other side, Russell Wilson, I have C grade.
Speaker 1: It's the back half of the season, so you know
Speaker 1: he's not gonna ry as well. Never does. Lions are
Speaker 1: top ten against quarterbacks on the year, but over the
Speaker 1: last eight weeks they've been better nine passing touchdowns starting
Speaker 1: grade here. Here's why they're averaging. They're averaging allowing about
Speaker 1: two hundred sixty yards per game. I think Wilson's better
Speaker 1: than the quarterbacks they faced in that stretch. That could
Speaker 1: be argued, I guess because he doesn't. I think he's
Speaker 1: giving that two fifty yards one to two touchdown range.
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty close to see whethy Um Tyler
Speaker 1: Lockett B grade. He's combined for eleven catches in the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. Uh, he played a lot, but he's
Speaker 1: coming off the COVID list. He was really fatigued. He
Speaker 1: should be up for a better game here Um nine
Speaker 1: yards and or a score for four straight weeks for
Speaker 1: the lead receiver against the Lions. I think that's about
Speaker 1: where Lockett gets. I have a C grade on Metcalfe.
Speaker 1: I don't love it, but he's been a forty to
Speaker 1: sixty yard guy. That's how the second receiver usually does
Speaker 1: against the Lions. I put him in the four to
Speaker 1: five catches forty to sixty yard range. Hopefully he can
Speaker 1: get a touchdown. Rashop Penny I toyed with an A
Speaker 1: grade here, but I didn't. I gave him a B
Speaker 1: grade every game where rashot Penny has had at least
Speaker 1: fourteen touches. He's topped a hundred yards in his career
Speaker 1: and scored. Yeah, it's only four games, but he scored
Speaker 1: six times in those. I think he gets fourteen touches here.
Speaker 1: And this Lions defense is one of the worst than
Speaker 1: the lead their boom against a running I think Penny
Speaker 1: feats on bad run defenses and he's been stuffed against
Speaker 1: the good ones. Yes, I think it's that simple lines
Speaker 1: are bad. All right, that's it for that matchup. Uh,
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb is an obviously grade against one of the
Speaker 1: worst defenses in the league, right, Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Um.
Speaker 1: Chubb best part of the Brown's offense against Green Bay
Speaker 1: last week twenty touches total yards in a score. The
Speaker 1: Browns still control their playoff destiny despite sitting in last
Speaker 1: place in the f C North right now, so they're
Speaker 1: gonna lean on Chubb to try to get them a
Speaker 1: Division crown. Five running backs have seen twenty or more
Speaker 1: touches against the Steelers this year. The average line for
Speaker 1: those backs one fifty total yards and his score the
Speaker 1: passing game. It's tricky for the Browns. Baker Mayfield, he's
Speaker 1: on the bench walking it watching him on Christmas Day,
Speaker 1: one thing is certain. He's not healthy and not a
Speaker 1: good player right now. You can't play DPJ either, as
Speaker 1: he's reliant on the big plays and Baker's arm strength
Speaker 1: just isn't there right now. Jarvis land Tree gets the
Speaker 1: only starting grade. It's a lower case see averaging eight
Speaker 1: targets per game over the last month. It's more of
Speaker 1: a volume play here. He has had at least five
Speaker 1: receptions in three straight matchups with the Steelers, and I
Speaker 1: do love his matchup against slot corner Arthur Malla, who
Speaker 1: is Pro Football focuses on six ranked quarterback Naja Harris
Speaker 1: gets a B. He's as reliable as they come for
Speaker 1: touch totals, seeing twenty or more touches in twelve of
Speaker 1: his last fourteen games. In the first meeting with the Browns,
Speaker 1: he managed a hundred and twenty total yards in a
Speaker 1: score on twenty nine total touches. And it's worth noting
Speaker 1: that three members of the Browns front seven Miles Garrett,
Speaker 1: Malik Jackson and Jeremiah Ooosu Coamoa, they're all dealing with
Speaker 1: some nagging injuries and if active, they might not be
Speaker 1: as effective The only other starting grade is Deonte Johnson.
Speaker 1: He's been very reliable for targets uh with double digits
Speaker 1: in that category in ten of fourteen games this year
Speaker 1: and at least five receptions in every game but one.
Speaker 1: He'll get Greedy Williams for the most part. Greedy has
Speaker 1: been roasted twice in the last three weeks with passer
Speaker 1: ratings over a hundred against Baltimore and Green Bay. He
Speaker 1: tallied yards on six catches in the first matchup. That's
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry, so I'll give him a B grade as well.
Speaker 1: Pat Friarmouth still struggling to come back from the second
Speaker 1: concussion in three weeks. I'm nervous. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he'll go in this one. Claypool, Roethlisberger, everyone else in
Speaker 1: the passing game there on the bench, you know, without
Speaker 1: friar Mouth, it really takes the touchdowns out of the
Speaker 1: passing game for Ben Roethlisberger, who had been really improved
Speaker 1: in that area because of friar Mouths in the second
Speaker 1: half of the season, and then as soon as friar
Speaker 1: Mouth got hurt, they've dried up again. Absolutely. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: that's that's been unfortunate, alright, so that was the Monday nighter.
Speaker 1: Backing up to the the Sunday nighter is this arctic
Speaker 1: game at lambeau Field against the Vikings and the Packers.
Speaker 1: The game time tempts are around four degrees and then
Speaker 1: it's just gonna get colder as the game goes on.
Speaker 1: Because it's a night game, wind chills are expected to
Speaker 1: be around negative fifteen for this one. This means the
Speaker 1: running game probably gets emphasized for both teams. And get
Speaker 1: this thanks to stat head Um, the average passing game
Speaker 1: in single single digit temperatures over the last eight years
Speaker 1: is sixteen completions, one hundred sixty yards and zero point
Speaker 1: three touchdowns. It would be the high water mark for
Speaker 1: Seaun Mannion in this Yes, it would a is a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, Sean Mannion just started for the Vikings.
Speaker 1: He has never thrown a touchdown pass. He has two
Speaker 1: career starts, granted they were both week seventeens, with other
Speaker 1: backups around on every other year every Yeah. So um,
Speaker 1: I don't like any part of the passing game except
Speaker 1: justin Jefferson. I had numbered A seventeen by I had
Speaker 1: downgraded Jefferson from an A to a B just on
Speaker 1: the weather and knowing passing games due Now I'm downgrading
Speaker 1: in from a B to a C on Sean Mannion
Speaker 1: because I I, you know, I just don't think Sean
Speaker 1: Manion is very good and it's not breaking news and
Speaker 1: that and I believe that the the the Packers will
Speaker 1: scheme to stop Jefferson now they have, they do throw
Speaker 1: to him a ton or they have at least they
Speaker 1: were with kirk thirteen targets per game over the last month.
Speaker 1: Green Bays allowed six receivers to post at least seventy
Speaker 1: five yards over the last month of games. But I
Speaker 1: don't know, I mean, I'm nervous. It's justin Jefferson, He's great.
Speaker 1: I think you still start him because he kind of
Speaker 1: has to. But ah, this is a tough spot. Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 1: I've got a B grade on him. The Packers are
Speaker 1: gonna sell out to stop Dalvin Cook at all costs
Speaker 1: and make Sewan Mannion beat them. The Packers normally see
Speaker 1: the third fewest rushing attempts here, but it's Mike Zimmer
Speaker 1: and Cook's got a great history against the Packers, but
Speaker 1: that was with kirk Um and so Cook averaging twenty
Speaker 1: six touches per game in his full games. If he's
Speaker 1: at twenty six, you still have to play him because
Speaker 1: enough good things can happen just to be great on
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook and what should be a one sided game.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the other side. We think.
Speaker 1: I think this thing is a thornier and a little
Speaker 1: bit trickier to deal with. So here's how I see
Speaker 1: this game going. Packers are going to get ahead because
Speaker 1: they're the better team. The Vikings are gonna have a
Speaker 1: punchless offense with Sean Mannion, and then the Packers will
Speaker 1: just run on a cold field and not even have
Speaker 1: to worry. We talked about how how all passing games get.
Speaker 1: This is a point when you get to single digit degrees,
Speaker 1: like four degrees, the passing game just doesn't come together
Speaker 1: almost always. So I've got Aaron Rodgers with a B
Speaker 1: grade in this one. He's thrown three or four touchdowns
Speaker 1: and three straight games against Minnesota in Minnesota Secondary. He's
Speaker 1: ill equipped to deal with Davante Adams, who remains an
Speaker 1: A grade even in spite of everything else. Um, I
Speaker 1: think you have to decide for yourself and just how
Speaker 1: much you think the passing is going to be affected
Speaker 1: by the weather in this one. I'm keeping a B
Speaker 1: grade on Aaron Rodgers. Most of you will continue to
Speaker 1: start because you're not gonna have a better option, But
Speaker 1: just know this, there's a point where it gets so
Speaker 1: cold that the passing games almost always get affected. Um.
Speaker 1: The other receivers I had starting grades on markis Felt,
Speaker 1: the Scantling and Alan Lazard before the weather crystallized here. Um,
Speaker 1: And I'm worried about the running game taking over, but
Speaker 1: they've got great matchups and if you if you need
Speaker 1: desperation dart throws, consider Scantling, especially. The Vikings have really
Speaker 1: struggled against him in particular in the past, and he's
Speaker 1: their deep yardage, big play guy. So if you are
Speaker 1: a twenty point underdog Marcus Velda, Scantling could make some
Speaker 1: sense even in the arctic conditions. By the way, the
Speaker 1: line in the game went from six and a half
Speaker 1: to thirteen and a half. Yeah, amazing, right, and just yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know that's what Kirk does. Oh yeah, seven
Speaker 1: and a half point. Apparently he is or seven and
Speaker 1: a half points. Okay, so don't stop about running backs.
Speaker 1: So Aaron Jones has still got a bulky need Um,
Speaker 1: but we've seen his his rushing increase week over week.
Speaker 1: I worry that they're going to on a frozen field,
Speaker 1: bad need They're gonna turn to quad Zilla, just like
Speaker 1: they did in that cold snow game last year in
Speaker 1: late December when he got almost all the work. I've
Speaker 1: got a B grade on a J. Dillon and a
Speaker 1: C grade on Aaron Jones. I think you should call
Speaker 1: six touchdowns for a J. Dillon, just like against the
Speaker 1: Vikings UH at this time last year. Um, So there
Speaker 1: you go. Last thing, I want to mention my fantastic
Speaker 1: co host Brian, Matt and Scott. Thank you for your
Speaker 1: year of service. Is a very very tough show to
Speaker 1: work on for you guys are amazing co host, your insight,
Speaker 1: your dedication, very much appreciated. Max, thank you today. Appreciate
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