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Speaker 1: Paul Charching. My co host Brian Johnson almost as always,
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Speaker 1: this morning, at least the intro. The intro made sense,
Speaker 1: if only, if only this time, take a chance on me.
Speaker 1: Five tough questions, premature speculation, lightning round, and we'll break
Speaker 1: down all of the matchups. And that begins with Packers
Speaker 1: at Bears. Matt It's got no point now where no
Speaker 1: Packer feels safe. I have the entire Green Bay Packers
Speaker 1: offense on the bench except for one player. That's Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: who only gets us see number one. Wide receivers have
Speaker 1: actually got it done against the Bears more than any
Speaker 1: other position this year. Antonio Brown was the only wide
Speaker 1: receiver to top a hundred yards. Jordi had seventy five
Speaker 1: and two scores in the first meeting. Michael Thomas had
Speaker 1: seven catches for seventy seven last week. And Adams has
Speaker 1: taken over as the Packers lead wide receiver since Hunley
Speaker 1: has been the quarterback. He leads the wide receiver group
Speaker 1: and targets, catches, yards and touchdowns since Hounley took over.
Speaker 1: This is not uncommon with with young developing quarterbacks where
Speaker 1: they just can't go through three and four progressions, so
Speaker 1: they go to one A and I'll throw that guy
Speaker 1: the ball if easy, remotely open. And so I think
Speaker 1: Adams is enjoying some of that. Yeah. The bad news
Speaker 1: is the last time the Bears allowed to score to
Speaker 1: a wide receiver it was against the Packers in Week four. Geez,
Speaker 1: and they allowed four in that game. Uh. The offense
Speaker 1: is completely struggled under Hunley, and the Bears are top
Speaker 1: ten defense, especially at home, where they're only allowing fifteen
Speaker 1: points per game. Huntley faces a Bears defense it's only
Speaker 1: allowed eighty nine rushing yards total the quarterbacks this year,
Speaker 1: and that's where a lot of his value is predicated.
Speaker 1: So he's on the bench. Chicago's only allowed eight passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns this year, seven rushing touchdowns in eight games, and
Speaker 1: they held the Saints to twenty points in New Orleans
Speaker 1: in the last game. Well, Kamara and Ingram both scored
Speaker 1: in that game. Montgomery and Aaron Jones are not on
Speaker 1: par with Rob without Rogers, so they're on the bench.
Speaker 1: And that's really it for the Packers. Notice I didn't
Speaker 1: even mention Jordy Nelson. He's just an afterthoughts in this office.
Speaker 1: Is I know there there are people dropping Jordy out right.
Speaker 1: I've seen it. I've seen it happen in one of
Speaker 1: my leagues. As if someone should trade Jordy for mor
Speaker 1: Tavis Bryant. Yeah, I saw that tweet as well. I
Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't know what to say either. Pick
Speaker 1: your poison. It's not good on the Bear side. I
Speaker 1: got one starter, and it's Jordan Howard, who gets an
Speaker 1: A grade. The Packers are allowing a hundred and eighteen
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game. They've given up a running back
Speaker 1: touchdown in every game a r that's after Rogers. Howard
Speaker 1: has had thirty six and twenty three rushing attempts in
Speaker 1: the bears last three games. He's just getting the rock
Speaker 1: a lot treat. Cohen is on the bench. He's droppable.
Speaker 1: He's had exactly one catch per game. Since Mitch Drabinski
Speaker 1: took over at quarterbacks, I thought I thought it was
Speaker 1: gonna go the other way. I'll be honest. I'm so
Speaker 1: used to seeing young quarterbacks dump off balls to running
Speaker 1: backs and and you know safety safety outlet, the stuff,
Speaker 1: security blanket stuff. Now, well, trubisky safety outlet was Zach Miller.
Speaker 1: And while he still has two legs barely, he might
Speaker 1: never play again. Kendall Wright hasn't topped fifty yards or
Speaker 1: scored in Trubisky's four starts, so the rest of the
Speaker 1: passing game, including Robinsky, is on the bench. Even if
Speaker 1: I tell you this golden nugget of information that tomorrow
Speaker 1: is Kendall Wright's birthday, Oh bus, he might get the
Speaker 1: fifty yards then alright, Vikings take on the Redskins. I've
Speaker 1: got I've got an A one A grade between both teams,
Speaker 1: and it's for Kyle Rudolph. He has scored a touchdown
Speaker 1: and each of his three career games against Washington, and
Speaker 1: the Redskins have just been abused by tight ends all season.
Speaker 1: They've allowed a league worst eight yards per game to
Speaker 1: tight ends, and Rudolph averaging eight targets per game over
Speaker 1: the last four weeks. Now a lot of those were
Speaker 1: without Stefon Diggs now digs back, so that worries me
Speaker 1: a little bit about Rudolph, But still I'm giving him
Speaker 1: an A grade here. The rest of the Vikings starters
Speaker 1: C grades. Adam Feland goes up against slot corner Kendall Fuller, uh,
Speaker 1: who has been really a mixed bag here. The Redskins
Speaker 1: have given up touchdowns and Nelson Agilare twice from the slot.
Speaker 1: Doug Baldwin had a massive game from the slot, but
Speaker 1: He's also Kendall Fuller has also shut down some other
Speaker 1: good slot receivers, so it's a mixed bag here. Celand
Speaker 1: has at least five receptions in every game, and I
Speaker 1: still think it's it's gonna be a typical Theeling game
Speaker 1: where you're gonna get six seven receptions eight yards and
Speaker 1: he probably won't score. Stefan dig c gradecent healthy for
Speaker 1: the first time and over a month and runs the
Speaker 1: majority of his plays on the right side of the field,
Speaker 1: which means he'll draw Josh Norman, who almost never ventures
Speaker 1: away from that side of the field. Norman hasn't allowed
Speaker 1: a touchdown this year, and opposing number one receivers consistently
Speaker 1: shut down against Josh Norman. It is a tough assignment
Speaker 1: for Steph Diggs. He goes down to a sne like
Speaker 1: a Digs decoy. It could be it could be uh
Speaker 1: and maybe all the better for Rudolph Jerk McKenna. Let's
Speaker 1: stay with the passing him will trap up that at
Speaker 1: first case. Keenum, I've got a tentative see and maybe
Speaker 1: a bench grade here. Redskins have played a lot of
Speaker 1: good quarterbacks and they've handled almost all of them, basically
Speaker 1: all of them other than Carson Wentz, who has put
Speaker 1: up two massive games against them. The average non Winsonian
Speaker 1: game against the Redskins two hundred twenty five yards and
Speaker 1: one touchdown. That's it, And that's almost exactly what case
Speaker 1: Keenum gives you on a weekend and week out basis.
Speaker 1: So to me, that's barely C grade chart. You got
Speaker 1: your finger on the pulse of the Vikings. Is the
Speaker 1: leash for Keenum short. Now that Teddy is back, could
Speaker 1: not if he doesn't give away games, I think they
Speaker 1: can even lose games as long as he's not the
Speaker 1: three turnover guy to cause those losses. So I think he.
Speaker 1: I think cases pretty safe actually, all right, So now
Speaker 1: let's talk about Jack McKinnon for just a moment. Of
Speaker 1: the last four weeks, he's averaging twenty one touches, one
Speaker 1: six total yards, and a touchdown per game. Those are
Speaker 1: great workhorse style numbers. Elite backs like Todd Gurley, Kareem Hunt,
Speaker 1: Zeke Elliott have posted very big games against the Redskins,
Speaker 1: but nobody else has. Only the big workhorse elite level
Speaker 1: workhorse backs have gotten it done against the Redskins. You
Speaker 1: can decide on for yourself if Jerick McKinnon belongs to
Speaker 1: that conversation, is he in the conversation with Girly Hunt
Speaker 1: and Elliott? Hundred six yards in a touchdown per game
Speaker 1: would suggests he is non Girly Hunt Elliott backs against
Speaker 1: the Redskins, nobody has topped fifty yards, So that's your downside.
Speaker 1: I've got a C grade on Jack McKinnon. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Washington side, where I've got a handful of
Speaker 1: Sea grades and that's it. Kirk Cousins comes in with
Speaker 1: a sea There's a litany of problems for Cousins in
Speaker 1: this matchup. Offensive line is all kinds of banged up.
Speaker 1: I think they may only end up missing one starter,
Speaker 1: but a bunch of guys playing hurt um. The Vikings
Speaker 1: have an elite sacking defense that will test that offensive line.
Speaker 1: Of course, you may be shorthanded here without Jamison Crowder,
Speaker 1: who's shaping up as a game time decision, Jordan Reid
Speaker 1: shaping up as a game time decision. And then there's
Speaker 1: the matter of the Vikings secondary, which is very good anyway.
Speaker 1: They ranked fifth and touchdown passes allowed seventh and passing
Speaker 1: yardage allowed. A very tough game for Kirk Cousins coming.
Speaker 1: The only part of his receiving game that I've got
Speaker 1: a starting grade on is Vernon Davis because with without
Speaker 1: Jordan reading the lineup, he's still been reliable. He's averaging
Speaker 1: four catches sixty two yards in every game since the
Speaker 1: opener read game time decision hamstring injury. But it might
Speaker 1: not matter either way. The Vikings are very good against
Speaker 1: tight ends. They're holding the forty five yards per game
Speaker 1: as a position. None of top forty yards against the
Speaker 1: Vikings since the opener suggest to see grade on Davis
Speaker 1: and if read, actually we're healthy, implying you might even
Speaker 1: just take him into the bench area. Darrell Prior's out.
Speaker 1: He's collected three or fewer receptions in seven straight games.
Speaker 1: Josh Dockson's got to average more than two catches a game.
Speaker 1: I just that's just not enough volume. I also worried
Speaker 1: that he's gonna see Xavier Rhads and then it's it's
Speaker 1: game over for Josh Dockson. Lastly, go to the running game.
Speaker 1: Rob Kelly is on the bench. He's a pure touchdown play.
Speaker 1: He has scored three times in the last two games,
Speaker 1: which is great, But the good news ends there. The
Speaker 1: Vikings have only given up two rushing touchdowns all year.
Speaker 1: They ranked third and rushing yards allowed, and Rob Kelly's
Speaker 1: averaging two yards to carry two. I know you you
Speaker 1: talked about it, but I'm counting six offensive linemen on
Speaker 1: the injury report for washing. Isn't it ridiculous? Terrible? Like
Speaker 1: all of them. Chris Thompson is normally a very safe play,
Speaker 1: but he's also had this string of matchups against teams
Speaker 1: that struggle against running backs through the air that ends here.
Speaker 1: The Vikings alread elite past catching defense for running backs.
Speaker 1: I've given out these stats a few times in a
Speaker 1: lot of different formats. I'll do it again here. Here
Speaker 1: are these are I'm gonna the Vikings have faced just
Speaker 1: this litany of excellent pass catching running backs, and listen
Speaker 1: to what they've done. Alvin Camara twenty yards through the air,
Speaker 1: Lavan Bell four yards, Theoretic eight yards, Tarik Cohen negative
Speaker 1: eight yards, Tie Montgomery three yards, Bunk Alan twenty nine yards,
Speaker 1: and in their last game, Duke Johnson ten yards. So
Speaker 1: I just I I've got to see great and Chris
Speaker 1: Thompson just because I think it's a talent. But I
Speaker 1: don't expect him to do very much here. Let's go
Speaker 1: to our final matchup of this segment and it is
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints taking on the Buffalo Bills. New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints have turned into a run first offense. What
Speaker 1: do you think about Alvin Camara mark Ingram? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: like Alvin Camara a little more in this game. I'm
Speaker 1: giving him a b um. He's the league leader in
Speaker 1: yards per carry at six point. Oh, give him more
Speaker 1: carries please? Well, we don't like to see that. This
Speaker 1: matchup is really about the receiving for Camara. Buffalo was
Speaker 1: allowing running backs to catch nearly six passes per game.
Speaker 1: Camara's top five among running backs and targets, receptions, and
Speaker 1: receiving yards. So you do the math. Camara should do
Speaker 1: pretty well here. I don't like um mark Ingram as much.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a strong See Buffalo bottom six
Speaker 1: and opponent rushing play percentage. Opponents are running just thirty
Speaker 1: of the time against the Bills, and Buffalo has yet
Speaker 1: to allow an opposing running back to reach eighty rushing yards.
Speaker 1: So I like com here a little more than Ingram here.
Speaker 1: But you're definitely starting both to the passing game. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's go with to start with Drew Brees. It's no
Speaker 1: surprise Breeze has more passing touchdowns on the road this year.
Speaker 1: There's a surprise. Well, you just ruined my punch line
Speaker 1: charge but yeah, sorry, I was active. Here you go again, No,
Speaker 1: just go again. We got Wet and Bryan over here.
Speaker 1: That is a surprise. I'm giving Breeze this to see
Speaker 1: here though, even though he's better on the road. Now,
Speaker 1: that's that's a joke. Of course, bad matchup Buffalo is allowed.
Speaker 1: The third few is touchdowns passing touchdowns just seven all year.
Speaker 1: Only one of posing quarterback has topped one passing touchdown.
Speaker 1: Breeze could do it, but his ceiling isn't as high
Speaker 1: as usually is. Michael Thomas will give a b You
Speaker 1: might be borderline a if cornerback E J. Gaines misses
Speaker 1: his third straight game, he's questionable right now. Thomas owners
Speaker 1: are certainly hoping for that, but you're starting him either way.
Speaker 1: I think Thomas is gonna gonna have a nice game
Speaker 1: here too. I'm seeing him traded for nothing in a
Speaker 1: couple of a couple of my leagues. People are really
Speaker 1: down on him, and I don't think this is the
Speaker 1: time to give up. No, but he's been very consistent,
Speaker 1: has been blowing up like been very consistent. Ted Ginn
Speaker 1: also been surprisingly consistent. Uh likely to draw trade Davious White, though,
Speaker 1: who grades out as Pro Football focuses number ten cornerback
Speaker 1: and coverage. He's been much better than a boom er
Speaker 1: bust guy this year. Again has but that's kind of
Speaker 1: what he feels like this week. I'm just giving him
Speaker 1: a c I'm benching Brandon Coleman and Willie Snead. Snead
Speaker 1: went from four to eighteen snaps last week. Coleman went
Speaker 1: down from fourty gate to thirty. Maybe they meet more
Speaker 1: in the middle of this week, but just the matchup
Speaker 1: isn't right anyway, so I got both on the bench.
Speaker 1: That's it for the Saints. Over to Buffalo, starting with
Speaker 1: Lashawn McCoy. Shady returns home where he's averaging a hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty combo yards per game dating back to the
Speaker 1: start of last season. The Saints are allowing four point
Speaker 1: seven yards per carry five point five yards per carry
Speaker 1: on the road, so McCoy is an easy A. Kelvin
Speaker 1: Benjamin Oh, I'm tended to give him a SEA, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go go bench grade here and we'll wait
Speaker 1: and see what happens. The Saints are only allowing an
Speaker 1: average of six catches and zero touchdown per game to
Speaker 1: wide receivers as a whole over the past three weeks.
Speaker 1: For that reason, I have Jordan Matthews on the bench
Speaker 1: as well. Even though safety Kenny Vecaro will miss this
Speaker 1: game for New Orleans, I just don't see either with
Speaker 1: a very high ceiling in this one. And Charles Clay
Speaker 1: is supposed to make his return. UH coach Sean McDermott say,
Speaker 1: Clay is looking really good to play on Sunday, but
Speaker 1: the matchup isn't right here. New Orleans has allowed these
Speaker 1: second fewest yards to opposing tight ends, So another wait
Speaker 1: and see scenario for Clay. Even with all those bench
Speaker 1: grades for the past catchers, I do like Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him the B on paper. The Saints
Speaker 1: have the best past defense in the NFL over the
Speaker 1: last five weeks, which is but they faced Saint Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jay Cutler, Brett Hunley, Mitch Dubitsky's still still for the
Speaker 1: by ST standards. That's amazing. It is it truly is.
Speaker 1: But the one legit quarterback they faced during that span
Speaker 1: was Matthew Stafford, who threw for three d twelve yards
Speaker 1: and three touchdowns. Taylor does have some interesting weapons, and
Speaker 1: New Orleans has given up good numbers through rushing quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: So uh, and I got it. Has at least six
Speaker 1: rushing attempts in all but one game this year, and
Speaker 1: it's schoo on the ground in consecutive weeks, So I
Speaker 1: will give him a beef, all right. Uh. You had
Speaker 1: mentioned Charles Clay coming back. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: the success he had had earlier was because Jordan Matthews
Speaker 1: was out and Zay Jones had done nothing. I mean,
Speaker 1: there was nobody else even to throw too. Now you
Speaker 1: add in Kelvin Benjamin, and you add in Jordan Matthews
Speaker 1: back healthy. Now Za Jones is a bigger part of
Speaker 1: this offense, and you know Clay is still not one.
Speaker 1: I'm not feeling Clay right now, and I don't know
Speaker 1: that he's going to replicate the early season success he had.
Speaker 1: Last thing I'll mention about Kelvin Benjamin. Can you remember
Speaker 1: another time? Can you remember any time that a receiver
Speaker 1: was traded mid season? And then was a particularly effective
Speaker 1: fantasy receiver with the new team. I'm struggling to think
Speaker 1: of anybody that falls into that category. It's seven am,
Speaker 1: I'm ever traded in the history of the NFL. Uh,
Speaker 1: It's I just think this is I think it's a
Speaker 1: position that it It really helps to have timing with
Speaker 1: your quarterback, to have run all the routes together and
Speaker 1: everything else. I just think I think it's hard for
Speaker 1: a receiver to be particularly effective after after being traded
Speaker 1: mid season. A lot of Marshall he was traded, but
Speaker 1: I don't remember. I don't think it was a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of the Buffalo coaching staff came from
Speaker 1: Carolina and they brought him in for a reason. They
Speaker 1: maybe it's a good locker room guy, so he might
Speaker 1: he might fit in pretty well there right away we
Speaker 1: give my Ley gives points for a locker room guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, that'll that'll be helpful. P L R G. Yes, Yes,
Speaker 1: when we come back, take a chance on me. Nine
Speaker 1: players not normally and you're starting line up a bunch
Speaker 1: of these guys on the waiver wire. If you're in
Speaker 1: a pinch in a position you want to stay tuned
Speaker 1: take a chance on me when we come back. Last week,
Speaker 1: regular listener Michael Mike Croswell was nice enough to send
Speaker 1: in a eighties John Carpenter style take a chance on me.
Speaker 1: We played it, and now he's come back with what
Speaker 1: he calls the Voodoo mix. Take a chance on Me.
Speaker 1: I kind of like it. No, it's not the Voodoo mix.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's the vote Coder mix. I looked at it.
Speaker 1: I just glanced at it. Votal. I don't seem not
Speaker 1: positive of the vote coder is. But we must be
Speaker 1: listening to it. I think he knows better than we do.
Speaker 1: Must be this fancy pants keyboard we got going to think.
Speaker 1: So it's very eighties, it's very Cassio. Let's let's jump
Speaker 1: into the take chance on me bit. It's uh, nine
Speaker 1: players not normally in your starting line at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the quarterback position. Matt, you got I said I'd
Speaker 1: never do it, but I'm going back to the Jake Cutler. Well.
Speaker 1: The angle here is that the j Gi E subtraction
Speaker 1: was the addition that the Dolphins sorely needed. Both Kenyan
Speaker 1: Drake and Damian Williams are far better pass catchers and
Speaker 1: pass protectors than a giant, and the offense is more quick,
Speaker 1: hitting and pass oriented now is evidenced by Cutler's first
Speaker 1: three yard games since that happened last week. It was
Speaker 1: also the first time he threw three touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: last three years. He completed thirty four passes last week.
Speaker 1: A clip that's non cutl area. No five quarterbacks have
Speaker 1: thrown for multiple touchdowns against the Panthers, his opponent this
Speaker 1: week in the last seven games. So let's see Cutler
Speaker 1: do it. I'd like to see Cutler do it, all right, Brian?
Speaker 1: How did I end up with Stu Beard? Yeah? It
Speaker 1: doesn't seem normal, does it? Well? I got Stu Beard,
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick at home against the Jets in the Revenge Bowl,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure we'll talk. This is the most revengee
Speaker 1: game of all time? Is uh? Sadly? No, no Mike
Speaker 1: Evans for Ryan, It's Patrick. But the Jets have still
Speaker 1: allowed the most passing touchdowns in the NFL with nineteen.
Speaker 1: They've allowed an opponent completion percentage of sixty eight over
Speaker 1: the last three weeks. That is just one short of
Speaker 1: sixty nine if you're counting at home. New York has
Speaker 1: also allowed multiple passing touchdowns in five straight games. So yeah,
Speaker 1: Stu Beard. In an obvious revenge scenario, let's go. Josh
Speaker 1: McCown might be the safest quarterback play this week. Also
Speaker 1: now the Revenge Bowl. It's that's the other half of
Speaker 1: Revenge Bowl. No two quarterbacks have ever faced each other
Speaker 1: having played for more combined teams in the course of
Speaker 1: their career than Josh McCown and Ryan Fitzpatrick. McCowen scored
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns in five straight games, and this is his
Speaker 1: easiest opponent of the year, Tampa Bay. The Bucks ranked
Speaker 1: thirtie and past defense giving up tutor eighty yards per game.
Speaker 1: Opposing quarterbacks have scored in every game against the Bucks.
Speaker 1: It's a terrific opportunity for Josh McCown to go to
Speaker 1: the running back position. Matt, I've got Rod Smith. And
Speaker 1: this is predicated on Ezekiel Elliott's suspension actually staying a
Speaker 1: suspension this week. I think it's going to stay. Exchange
Speaker 1: between now and kickoff. Atlanta, their opponent this week has
Speaker 1: allowed the fourth most receptions to opposing running backs, and
Speaker 1: good pass catching backs tend to have a decent day
Speaker 1: against the Falcons. Christian McCaffrey had five catches last week
Speaker 1: and ended up scoring on the ground. Matt Forte add
Speaker 1: six for forty five in the air. James White had
Speaker 1: five catches and scored time Montgomery six for seventy five
Speaker 1: in a touch. Tarik Cohen eight for forty seven and
Speaker 1: a touch. Rod Smith's their pass catching back. I like
Speaker 1: him this week, all right, Ryan, I've got Cleveland's Duke
Speaker 1: Johnson at Detroit. Opposing running backs are averaging more than
Speaker 1: eight targets per game against the Lions, so it'snow surprise
Speaker 1: Detroit is top twelve and receptions and yards allowed to
Speaker 1: running backs. Duke has ten catches on twelve targets over
Speaker 1: his last two games. Cleveland wide receivers are absolutely worthless.
Speaker 1: I see a lot of volume through the air for
Speaker 1: Duke in this one. Or Lean's Dark wa is my choice.
Speaker 1: Now this is a two parter. It's also Wayne Gallman,
Speaker 1: so I'll let you do the choosing listener on whether
Speaker 1: Poor Lean's Dark Wall or Wayne Gollman is more applicable
Speaker 1: for your situation. Ship probably can't find Orleans Dark one
Speaker 1: on a lot of waiver. That's right, So and I
Speaker 1: Wayne Goldman, there's enough to go around. Let's let's talk
Speaker 1: about it. Forty Niners ranked thirty feet against the run,
Speaker 1: mostly because teams are running thirty six times per game
Speaker 1: against San Francisco. Now, the of the thirty six times,
Speaker 1: Orleans Dark has never had more than sixteen carries in
Speaker 1: a game this year, so that leaves twenty carries to
Speaker 1: get spread around. They're all going to Wayne Goldman. They
Speaker 1: might all go to Wayne Goldman, and especially if the Giants, Brian,
Speaker 1: are able to reverse last week's blowout and be on
Speaker 1: the other end of a blowout win against the windless
Speaker 1: forty Niners, maybe then they go to their backup running
Speaker 1: back Wayne Goldman and give him a bunch of work. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Orleans Orleans Dark wavaging five yards per carry, So we're
Speaker 1: excited about the prospects of both. I'm sure will do
Speaker 1: the right thing. Retire. Did Charch just find a barber
Speaker 1: blowout game flow for the Giants? I did? Wow? How
Speaker 1: about that? Brian? Sorry, Matt, let's go to the wide
Speaker 1: receiver slash tight end of position. I've got a tight
Speaker 1: end and it's Garrett Sellec. Because it's almost too easy.
Speaker 1: It's the Giants that they're playing and everyone knows that
Speaker 1: they suck against tight ends, to the tune that they've
Speaker 1: allowed a tight end touchdown every game this season. And
Speaker 1: George Kittle, the normal starting tight end, is out. So
Speaker 1: Garrett Sellek, who's virtually unowned in any league, is sitting
Speaker 1: there with the best tight end matchup of all of
Speaker 1: all time, of all time. It's I mean, if you
Speaker 1: were to look just at the defensive part of it,
Speaker 1: it probably is the best tight end matchup of all time.
Speaker 1: I'm confident in the twenty three year history of this show,
Speaker 1: we've never had a team rolling on a ten game
Speaker 1: tight end touchdown a loud streak ever, correct, Bryan, all right,
Speaker 1: let's stay with tight ends, and I'm going with Houston.
Speaker 1: C jt Dorwitz at the Rams. CJ is coming off
Speaker 1: i R after suffering a concussion in week one. He's
Speaker 1: expected to quote play a lot. So that's good news, uh,
Speaker 1: and then their story three game history together. C J
Speaker 1: Fedorowit's and Tom Savage are a duo more deadly than
Speaker 1: Dalton and Wade, whoa also a great place to grab
Speaker 1: an old fashioned had the well I do like that place.
Speaker 1: But anyways, CJ caught four passes for forty six yards
Speaker 1: for forty six yards from Savage in Week one before
Speaker 1: getting hurt early in the third quarter. Last year, he
Speaker 1: was the only Texan receiver to see at least seven
Speaker 1: targets in both of Savages starts. So he's his favorite option.
Speaker 1: And I'll see lots of volume on Sunday against the Rimps,
Speaker 1: and he's going to play a lot and play quote
Speaker 1: a lot market down. Never have more ringing endorsement. I
Speaker 1: am going with Tampa Bay receiver Adam Humphries. Evans is out.
Speaker 1: Tom fres is going to get more targets. But even
Speaker 1: more importantly, he faces Buster Screen, who ranks nineties or
Speaker 1: Busted Screen doors we'd like to call him, or we've
Speaker 1: called him Custer Screen as well. We've been picking on
Speaker 1: Fuster Screen for year. Absolutely ranks seven at the cornerback
Speaker 1: position by Pro Football. Folks. Get this, The last three
Speaker 1: slot receivers to face the Jets and Screen all have
Speaker 1: all score touchdowns and they've all topped seventy four yards.
Speaker 1: That's a liability in the defense we can exploit, folks.
Speaker 1: Adam Humble, Adam Humphries gets the screen pass. That's right. Uh,
Speaker 1: We'll take a break when we come back. More matchups
Speaker 1: to get to, including Chargers taking on the Jaguars. Do
Speaker 1: you dare start anybody from the passing game from San Diego?
Speaker 1: Find out when we come back. You're distinct of Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly on the Fan. Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 1: It is Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan. Paul Church
Speaker 1: and Brian Johnson, Matt Harrison with you. We're in a
Speaker 1: roll up our sleeves on a bunch of matchups and
Speaker 1: try to work in maybe a call or two to
Speaker 1: the people nice enough to sit on hold and listen
Speaker 1: through the show. First matchup, it's the Chargers against the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: Jaguars rank number one against the pass They've given up
Speaker 1: one passing touchdown in their last five games, not one
Speaker 1: per game, one passing touchdown in their last five games.
Speaker 1: That means if you spread that out over season, they're
Speaker 1: gonna they're averaging like three point two passing touchdowns on
Speaker 1: the season. That is correct for the Jaguars. Can you
Speaker 1: possibly start any of your Chargers no the passing games
Speaker 1: on the bench, and that includes Philip Rivers and Keenan Allen.
Speaker 1: The Jags have only allowed one touchdown to a wide
Speaker 1: receiver all year. That was way back in Week one
Speaker 1: against DeAndre Hopkins, so Allen's not in play. Hunter Henry
Speaker 1: as the best matchup, as the Jags have allowed three
Speaker 1: times as many touchdowns to tight ends as wide receivers.
Speaker 1: That would be three uh, but Henry's the target totals
Speaker 1: have just been erratic seven five and two in the
Speaker 1: last three games. The only guy to start on the
Speaker 1: Charger side is Melvin Gordon, who gets an A. Through
Speaker 1: their first six games, the Jaguars have allowed six backs
Speaker 1: to top nine dr three of them hit triple digits,
Speaker 1: and they they only held the Colts and Bengals backfields
Speaker 1: under those marks in the last two weeks. But that's
Speaker 1: as impressive as Don Trump maxing out a two character
Speaker 1: tweet right there. Let's go to the Jaguar side. Leonard
Speaker 1: four Nette. He gets an A grade. He hasn't played
Speaker 1: in three weeks due to injury, then a buy, then
Speaker 1: a team photo. The prior three weeks he was averaging
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty five total yards and one point
Speaker 1: three touchdowns per game, and the Chargers are allowing a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five yards per game to running backs.
Speaker 1: That's second worst in the league. So he's the A.
Speaker 1: But the passing games on the bench Blake Bortles uh.
Speaker 1: The Chargers have held five of eight quarterbacks to one
Speaker 1: or zero touchdown passes this season. Tom Brady is the
Speaker 1: only one to top to fifty against the Chargers. Marquis
Speaker 1: Lee is on the bench. He's the only wide receiver
Speaker 1: has been worth anything on this roster. There's a remote
Speaker 1: possibility that we could see D. D. Westbrook soon. But
Speaker 1: Marquis Lee draws Casey Hayward, who's only allowed eight teen
Speaker 1: catches this season to per game. So that's it, nicely done.
Speaker 1: Did I hit the minute mark? I wasn't timeing? He
Speaker 1: thought you were gonna time me. No, you didn't say
Speaker 1: you wanted to be time Do you want to be timed? Brian?
Speaker 1: I mean I can work this out if you'd like. Uh.
Speaker 1: Cleveland takes on the Detroit Lions. Can you do that
Speaker 1: in one minute? Yes? Or no? On your market set?
Speaker 1: Go h I say that, I say, crow L, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give him a seat. Now. This is way too
Speaker 1: distract you gotta do it, um uh cro L. What's
Speaker 1: finally useful from a fan? It's I can't do this? Yes,
Speaker 1: our thirty second reviewers do it all the time. All right,
Speaker 1: it's a bad matchup for crow l. Detroit is right
Speaker 1: top ten against the run by Football Outsiders d v
Speaker 1: o A and only two running backs up topped seventy
Speaker 1: six yards against the Lions. Uh, they're much easier thrown
Speaker 1: off right now. Taking is like, I feel like the
Speaker 1: place is gonna explode. Um, I like do Johnson more
Speaker 1: than that? I say crow wel that's plays. Might take
Speaker 1: a chance on me running back. The wide receivers are
Speaker 1: on the bench. Over the last three games, six Cleveland
Speaker 1: wide receive eivers have combined for twenty three catches and
Speaker 1: two forty nine yards. That's not even an average of
Speaker 1: eight catches and eighty five yards per game for the
Speaker 1: whole unit. They're just dreadful. And Joku, David and Joeku
Speaker 1: was on the bench. Decent matchup for tight ends, but
Speaker 1: in Joko has got the top three catches in the
Speaker 1: game and has preached the fifty yard mark just once. Uh,
Speaker 1: you didn't even get through half of the matchup in
Speaker 1: sixty seconds. That was nerve racking. He would never make
Speaker 1: it on Video Games Weekly. That's what I've learned here.
Speaker 1: You have to tell me that the tik tiking was coming.
Speaker 1: I wasn't prepared for that. You are a radio professional.
Speaker 1: You are paid to execute this show. We expect you
Speaker 1: to be able to do it with a ticking sound
Speaker 1: in the background. You could have just taken off the headphones.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm paid enough to do it with
Speaker 1: the ticking sound in the background. That's too hard. DeShone
Speaker 1: geyser on the bench. Okay, over to Detroit. Golden eight,
Speaker 1: gonna get eight Golden Tate, canna give him an a?
Speaker 1: I am so on tilt right now. Tate his top
Speaker 1: ten and receiving yards among wide receivers. You're obviously starting
Speaker 1: him against the Browns. Marvin Jones almost want to give
Speaker 1: him an a. It wasn't for the fact that he'll
Speaker 1: draw a top cover corner. Jason mccordy Jones one of
Speaker 1: my one of my sleepers in the preseason. By the way,
Speaker 1: if you want to fire up that peacock if he's awake.
Speaker 1: Over the last four weeks, Jones is fourth among wide
Speaker 1: receivers and yards and first in touchdowns. That's even more
Speaker 1: impressive considering he had his by during that span. Uh now, right,
Speaker 1: now you don't mind, you don't mind talking to the
Speaker 1: peacock sound when it's all about you. I'm so used
Speaker 1: to that. Okay, that's true. Alright, uh man, there's a
Speaker 1: certain tight end I really want to mention in this
Speaker 1: matchup for Detroit. Can I know Darren Fells? Believe you
Speaker 1: had Darren Fells doubly It's it's it's I'm not recommending
Speaker 1: him in seasonal he's started a standard bench. But on
Speaker 1: a site like fan ball where he's coming in cheap.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Ebron against the Browns, I would use Fanballs
Speaker 1: triple tight end set to get Ebron, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 1: Matt Stafful, idiot, Matt Stafford. Want to do a head
Speaker 1: to head? Yes, all right, you have to use Ebron
Speaker 1: and your triple tight end stack. Deal, all right, decent
Speaker 1: you link later, Matt Stafford. Gonna give him in a
Speaker 1: Cleveland has allowed sixteen passing touchdowns on the season, which
Speaker 1: is tied for third most in the league. Stafford has
Speaker 1: thrown for three or more yards in each of the
Speaker 1: last three games. He's an easy a. I'm here to abdul.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give him a CE fumbled in some
Speaker 1: key spots last week. It's hard to trust him in
Speaker 1: fantasy and now reality. Cleveland has actually ranked number one
Speaker 1: against the run by Football Outsiders, and it's not because
Speaker 1: teams aren't running against them. They are top twelve and
Speaker 1: carries against, but bottom five and yards allowed. That means
Speaker 1: they are a legit run defense. So I'm not liking
Speaker 1: to Abdula here and THEO Rittic I still can't do it.
Speaker 1: He's on the bench as well. He's basically been benchable
Speaker 1: all year. You might as well start THEO huxable at
Speaker 1: this point. That was very impressive. I came right off
Speaker 1: the top of the head. Really, I can't tell you
Speaker 1: didn't put hours and hours of work out of that. Uh.
Speaker 1: The yards per carry Cleveland is still number one in
Speaker 1: opposing yards per carry at two point nine. That's it.
Speaker 1: They are sneaky good run defense. Giants take on the
Speaker 1: forty niners already told you Orleans Darkwa and Wayne Goldman.
Speaker 1: Where my code take a chance on me running backs.
Speaker 1: I want to see you do this with the ticking.
Speaker 1: Come on, do you think that's gonna phase a seasoned
Speaker 1: radio like? Yeah, it doesn't mean I don't think I
Speaker 1: can get the matchup in under one minute. But I
Speaker 1: didn't say I could. All right, let's go to the
Speaker 1: passing game. After a nice start to the season, the
Speaker 1: defenses regressed badly in their last seven games. They've allowed
Speaker 1: either multiple touchdown passes or more than three hundred passing
Speaker 1: yards in every game. And here's Eli Manning who comes
Speaker 1: in short handed for a month. He's played all these
Speaker 1: good defenses, yet he's still thrown at least one touchdown
Speaker 1: in every game since the opener. And this is the
Speaker 1: easiest matchup since Week four when he faced Tampa and
Speaker 1: he rolled up two yards and two scores and that one.
Speaker 1: So I like Eli Manning. A B grade on Eli Manning,
Speaker 1: And if I like Manning means I like his really
Speaker 1: only two receiving options first, Sterling Shepherd. He was targeted
Speaker 1: nine times last week nin and the Giants don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of other options in the passing game. Only
Speaker 1: two teams have allowed more passing touchdowns than the forty
Speaker 1: Niners and their slot corner Kwan Williams, who will be
Speaker 1: guarding Shepherd, primarily ranks as cornerback one hundred twelve by
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus. I believe one fifteen is the total
Speaker 1: number that they've got. Evan Ingram isn't a great and
Speaker 1: by the way, Shepherds will be great. A grade for
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram on the season, the forty nine is are
Speaker 1: a top ten defensive against tight ends, but they've given
Speaker 1: up a touchdown to the position in three straight weeks.
Speaker 1: And here comes Ingram who has scored a touchdown in
Speaker 1: three straight weeks. He's averaging nine targets nine times over
Speaker 1: the last five weeks and that is not going to
Speaker 1: change here. Let's go to the San Francisco side. You
Speaker 1: gotta be great in Carlos High, averaging over eighteen touches
Speaker 1: per game, and he'll get the bulk of the work
Speaker 1: against the Giants, who ranked twenty four and rushing yards allowed,
Speaker 1: and they've given up over one hundred fifteen total yards
Speaker 1: to back in every single game this season. Nine. That
Speaker 1: is right, That's exactly right. Uh. Matt Breed is just
Speaker 1: an afterthought in this offense now. And I've actually got
Speaker 1: some C grades on the passing game, because Brian, your
Speaker 1: giants stink against the past all of a sudden, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden. Other than that part, uh C J.
Speaker 1: Bethard C grade, he's his rushing prowess helps make him
Speaker 1: a plausible by week fill and he's averaging thirty rushing
Speaker 1: yards per game. On the ground, he scored twice in
Speaker 1: the in three full games. But his arm can ship
Speaker 1: in a little something here too. The Giants have allowed
Speaker 1: multiple passing touchdowns or three passing yards and five consecutive
Speaker 1: games rolling into this one. And during that stretch, quarterbacks
Speaker 1: have averaged just under three touchdowns per game. So even
Speaker 1: if c J. Bethard is half that good, that's one
Speaker 1: and a half touchdowns. We'll we'll take that. That earns
Speaker 1: you a C grade around here. Since week four, the
Speaker 1: Giants are the NFL's worst past defense. So CJ about
Speaker 1: Room of the Sea, and then you mentioned Gerrit's Garrett
Speaker 1: Sellek was you take a chance on your receiver slash
Speaker 1: tight end? And then Markus God is the only the
Speaker 1: guy with a pulse. He gets a C grade as well.
Speaker 1: Since c J. Bethard took over, goodwin leads to forty
Speaker 1: niners and targets he had eight last week. Of course,
Speaker 1: Pierre Garsona's out, the Giants get to North Jenkins back
Speaker 1: from suspension team and duce suspension. What do you do
Speaker 1: by the way giant, do we, Brian, what do you
Speaker 1: we know? What he did? Uh? He laughed at Ben
Speaker 1: mcadoo's hair. Do so suspend? And then apparently I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get suspended? Don't you know? I would say that he
Speaker 1: Uh he besmirched the integrity of Ben mcadoo's barber. But
Speaker 1: Benmark mcadoo's barber is a Tupperware bowl, so he probably didn't.
Speaker 1: They have a lot five wide receiver touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: last two games. Your Giants have in seven wide receivers
Speaker 1: have hit at least fifty yards in the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: Think about that, three games, seven different receivers have hit
Speaker 1: fifty yards. Goodwin is going to do that? There's Uh,
Speaker 1: he remains a C grade. I think we had time
Speaker 1: to time for one more. Let me look at our time,
Speaker 1: our clock kind of I got this, all right? You
Speaker 1: think you can do Steelers colts reasonably reasonably quickly? Maybe
Speaker 1: all right? Uh, you don't want to commit to anything,
Speaker 1: I understand. Levan Bell is this week's fantasy Fonzie, Right,
Speaker 1: Brian the easiest day of them all? Uh. Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: also in a last year on Thanksgiving against Vante Davis,
Speaker 1: Brown had nine yards and three touchdowns. But there's no
Speaker 1: more Vante Davis Juju smith Schuster. He's getting a b.
Speaker 1: Juju got his driver's license in the bye week after
Speaker 1: torching the Lions for a hundred and ninety three yards
Speaker 1: in a touchdown. Before the bye, the Colts have allowed
Speaker 1: the most yards in the NFL to opposing wide receivers,
Speaker 1: and they've allowed a league high forty four completions of
Speaker 1: twenty yards or more. So Smith Schusters would be almost
Speaker 1: went to Martavis Bryant, but I have him on the bench.
Speaker 1: He hasn't topped fifty yards since Week two, and he
Speaker 1: could say something stupid at any time and get benched
Speaker 1: halfway through the game, maybe on Instagram during the game
Speaker 1: about how lousy Juju smith Schuster probably um Ben Roethlisberger.
Speaker 1: I gotta be on him. Three of the last five
Speaker 1: quarterbacks to face the Colts of top three yards but
Speaker 1: no quarterbacks top two touchdowns against Indie this year. It's
Speaker 1: pretty easy to run on them and they don't need
Speaker 1: to pass that much to the game flow. Could have
Speaker 1: Levian Bell touch on the ball thirty times plus over
Speaker 1: on the Colt side. It's a bench festival. T Y
Speaker 1: Hilton's on the bench. Maybe it's a bold call to
Speaker 1: put Hilton on the bench at home, where he's raked
Speaker 1: for years, but this season he's totally matchup dependent. He's
Speaker 1: topped a hundred yards in three games this season against
Speaker 1: the Browns, the forty Niners, and last week against the Texans,
Speaker 1: whose defense is just garbage right now. In his other
Speaker 1: six games, he's averaging two point five catches, thirty three
Speaker 1: yards and no scores. Any competent defense whatsoever has just
Speaker 1: locked him down. The Steelers have held every wide receiver
Speaker 1: this year to sixty one yards are less. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's it's just nuts Frank Gore and Marlon Mack around
Speaker 1: the bench. Max pass protection troubles are keeping him off
Speaker 1: the field. He allowed two sacks last week, one of
Speaker 1: which turned into a fumble and a touchdown for the Texans.
Speaker 1: That means he's not getting as many touches as Frank
Speaker 1: Gore and really no back his top to forty eight
Speaker 1: rush yards or scored against the Steelers in the last
Speaker 1: three weeks, so it's a bad matchup for sets on
Speaker 1: the bench. Stafford was the only quarterback to top to
Speaker 1: fifty against the Steelers this season. Andy Dalton is the
Speaker 1: only one who's thrown for two scores, and Jack Doyle,
Speaker 1: who might be the bright spot on that offense, he's
Speaker 1: on the bench to no tight end is top to
Speaker 1: fifty eight yards against the Steelers this season. Only Tyler
Speaker 1: Croft and Adam Shaheen have scored a touchdown from the
Speaker 1: tight end position this year against the Steelers. It's just
Speaker 1: a bad matchup for the Colts. They're all Adam Shaheen,
Speaker 1: by the way. They gotta start playing him in Chicago. Left,
Speaker 1: we'll go to the phone lines. We got a couple
Speaker 1: of people a bit nice enough to hold Genie. Hello, Hi,
Speaker 1: come hi guysa week and you guys told me to
Speaker 1: start golf over cam and that was a great call.
Speaker 1: And I'm wondering, do I do that again this week?
Speaker 1: Goff camp? Is this going to be a weekly call
Speaker 1: every week? Not frek, I have got five spots higher. Yeah,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get into that matchup a little later. And
Speaker 1: I've got good things to say about golf. I would
Speaker 1: I agree. I've got golf is my number six quarterback
Speaker 1: for this week. I like him. Good luck, Jennie, anything else,
Speaker 1: because it's lightning round you could actually ask more than
Speaker 1: one question. It's not late round. That's what I love
Speaker 1: about it. Um. I started Baldwin on Thursday night, and
Speaker 1: I have to pick one of these four. You've only
Speaker 1: talked about two of them so far. So I have
Speaker 1: punches Sterling, Shepherd, you do and Robbie Anderson. What would
Speaker 1: you do? Well? If you're looking for the home run ball,
Speaker 1: I think you go Juju Well, I think you go
Speaker 1: Shepherd against the forty niners. And you like Robbie Anderson
Speaker 1: as well. I like Robbie Anderson, and You've got a
Speaker 1: lot of good options. I would take Shepherd out of
Speaker 1: that group. Personally, I think I would do You'll see
Speaker 1: the most targets. Thank you, Jeannie, appreciate the call. Will
Speaker 1: work in one more. Ben, you've been on hold since
Speaker 1: the beginning of the show. Thank you for your patients
Speaker 1: as well. Hey, guys, appreciate it. Um. All right, I
Speaker 1: kind of got screwed with the Zeke taking over eventually,
Speaker 1: which obviously we were all kind of expecting. So uh,
Speaker 1: two of these three, Um, I'm currently playing Kenyan Drake
Speaker 1: and Funchs Or do I do like a rod Smith
Speaker 1: McGuire and the Jets or Dan Lewis, Uh Davante Booker,
Speaker 1: Mark Davis Bryant are sitting in free agency, and well,
Speaker 1: I have Kenyan Drake and Damian Williams on the bench
Speaker 1: this week, and I actually do like Funchs a little
Speaker 1: bit in this matchup. Uh, you listed so many guys
Speaker 1: that I lost track of. Sorry, sorry McGuire from the
Speaker 1: Jets or Dan Lewis. Yeah, neither of those are really
Speaker 1: doing much for me now. Uh yeah, I think Funci
Speaker 1: is the play. Then okay, can do one one quick?
Speaker 1: Yes you can. McCowen or cousins. I have to drop
Speaker 1: since I was a Zeke owner, I got Rod Smith
Speaker 1: or I could drop like a mirror dollah for to
Speaker 1: do what from McCown. Yeah, yeah, from McCown, I have
Speaker 1: cousins on my team. I'm looking at trying to get
Speaker 1: a slight upgrade. Well, I think Josh is actually a
Speaker 1: pretty big upgrade this week in particular. But I you know,
Speaker 1: as as a Zke owner, I don't recommend you drop
Speaker 1: Rod Smith. I think you could drop that duel at
Speaker 1: this point, as he's almost a sabotage drop candidate as well.
Speaker 1: It's just name value alone. He's not living up to it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, thanks, Ben, appreciate the call. When we come back,
Speaker 1: five Hot Questions the Devani's five Hot questions, see if
Speaker 1: you can go five and not with our panel of
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Speaker 1: It sounds funny. Question number one, first, I bet I
Speaker 1: guess I should explain the sabotage drop before I do
Speaker 1: the hot question number one. For people that don't know,
Speaker 1: the sabotage drop is when you drop a brand name,
Speaker 1: a player who you think is going to perform badly
Speaker 1: for all or most of the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: so that your opponents will pick them up and then
Speaker 1: mistakenly start that guy. You should have said, listen, all y'all, yeah,
Speaker 1: listen all y'all. Yeah, it's and you gotta play Beastie
Speaker 1: Boys while making a sabotage drop. It's a great point. Oh,
Speaker 1: that have been perfect. Next time we'll do better. You
Speaker 1: can boys sabotage on YouTube. Thank you. It's a good
Speaker 1: song anyway, great video, great video. Personally, I can't stand it,
Speaker 1: and I know you planned it. I like sabotage and
Speaker 1: I also like the rare, the almost totally unlistened to
Speaker 1: jazz album by the Beastie Boys that they released. Or
Speaker 1: it's not all instrumental all instrumental gez No, it's not
Speaker 1: Richard gs. I forgot about that Hot question Number one.
Speaker 1: Do you sabotage drop Will Fuller? Matt Yes, it looks
Speaker 1: like Fuller was completely touchdown dependent anyway, and that was
Speaker 1: dependent on Deshaun Watson throwing the ball. And now it's
Speaker 1: Tom Savage and he's not going to throw three touchdowns
Speaker 1: per game. If Savage can throw one per game, it's
Speaker 1: going to go to DeAndre Hopkins or c J. Fedorowitz.
Speaker 1: Hopkins is averaged twenty four targets, not averaged. He's had
Speaker 1: twenty four targets and six quarters. He's averaging four targets
Speaker 1: per quarter from Tom Savage, he's getting all the work.
Speaker 1: Let's jam up a roster spot with Will or Will Fuller. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there we go. You didn't get You should have listened
Speaker 1: to this ahead of time. Who knows where the cursing
Speaker 1: might be. Yeah, well, let's hope not. But this one's
Speaker 1: this one's pretty clean. I think it is pretty I've
Speaker 1: heard on the radio many times, although that might be
Speaker 1: a radio I didn't know if if this is Brian,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you all. Let a right. Uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: got nothing much to really add here. Um, there are
Speaker 1: some major roadblocks on fuller schedule to in Baltimore and
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and key points of the fantasy season. So yeah,
Speaker 1: he he was catching a touchdown on every other pass
Speaker 1: with DeShawn Watson that was a production that wasn't sustainable.
Speaker 1: It certainly is not with Tom Savage at the Helm.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say not yet. And here's why I got.
Speaker 1: I got two starts with him, and one of them
Speaker 1: is in the first week of the playoffs. Week eleven
Speaker 1: is Arizona. Patrick Peterson is gonna be on DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: and we all know the number two receiver, and those
Speaker 1: games get fed. I want him for that game, but
Speaker 1: most importantly Week fourteen against San Francisco, first week in
Speaker 1: my playoffs, I'm gonna go win that first game in
Speaker 1: my playoffs with Will Fuller, and then I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: the sabotage drop week fifteen. Leading into the Week fifteen
Speaker 1: game He's got Jacksonville and Pittsburgh. Think about how juicy
Speaker 1: that sabotaged drop is gonna be. After the Week fourteen
Speaker 1: thrashing against San Francisco, you drop him, some fool picks
Speaker 1: him up against Jacksonville or Pits. That's the timing for
Speaker 1: the sabotage drop on Will Fuller. Not yet, you can
Speaker 1: just keep the shop hot. Question number two, Can I
Speaker 1: sabotage drop DeMarco Murray, Brian Listen all of y'all. This
Speaker 1: is not a sabotage. No, I am not sabotage dropping
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray. He did slow and noticeably in the second
Speaker 1: half last season, but last year he had a hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty carries through his first eight games. This year,
Speaker 1: he has only carries through his first eight games. He
Speaker 1: is practicing in full after suffering a minor knee injury
Speaker 1: last week. I'm just holding on to him because we
Speaker 1: have Pittsburgh and Indian the next two weeks. Those are
Speaker 1: great matchups for Murray. I'm not too excited about Houston
Speaker 1: and in Arizona in the following weeks. But then there's
Speaker 1: that was San Francisco forty Niners again in week fifteen
Speaker 1: for DeMarco Murray. So I am holding. Despite Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: eating to his workload, He's still a viable option, although
Speaker 1: not in Elite one anymore. Brian hit all my points,
Speaker 1: but also they get the Rams and the Fantasy playoffs,
Speaker 1: and the Rams have been really bad against running backs
Speaker 1: this year too, so two great matchups in the Fantasy
Speaker 1: playoffs for DeMarco Murray. That's why you cannot sabotage dropping.
Speaker 1: He's been worse than most people realize. In eight games
Speaker 1: this year, he's had six flat out bad games out
Speaker 1: of eight where you almost certainly wish you had not
Speaker 1: started him. Six out of eight times. Here's DeMarco Murray's
Speaker 1: average game. Forty nine rushing yards, fourteen receiving yards, and
Speaker 1: a quarter of a touchdown. That's it. So what you're
Speaker 1: saying is you sabotage drafted him. You sabotage yourself. And
Speaker 1: to Brian's point, Brian was all over this in the preseason.
Speaker 1: He was banging the drum to avoid DeMarco Murray's so
Speaker 1: many sounds right now, there's so much happening right now.
Speaker 1: They the basic boy, you should have put a peacock
Speaker 1: in that song. I thought that sounded fantastic. Um. Your
Speaker 1: ideal scenario, though, is to trade DeMarco Murray to the
Speaker 1: Henry owner. Let that guy deal with this headache on
Speaker 1: who to start or just start in both. You said
Speaker 1: you you can play this angle. You don't have to
Speaker 1: pick which one. You can start them both the rest
Speaker 1: of the way. But if you can't trade him, yes,
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray is sabotage droppable. I think there's only two
Speaker 1: games on the schedule where I feel like I can
Speaker 1: reasonably start somebody who's bad six out of eight times,
Speaker 1: and that's Indian, San Francisco and the San Francisco games.
Speaker 1: Week fifteen, I'm already get knocked out of the playoffs,
Speaker 1: so we got a start in week fourteen. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: but week fourteen is the rim hot question number three,
Speaker 1: Which of the Eagles backs, if any, will emerge as
Speaker 1: the most reliable fantasy starter? Matt, I was very happy
Speaker 1: to see that you put if any on there. I'm
Speaker 1: going to take that if any option and say none
Speaker 1: of the above. I think that the Eagles will model
Speaker 1: the running game the rest of the season after what
Speaker 1: the Patriots do. From here on out, you'll see both
Speaker 1: the giant blunt splitting touches, keeping them fresh for what
Speaker 1: they hope is a deep la off run Corey Clement
Speaker 1: and Wendel smallwater there to steal receptions and be change
Speaker 1: of pace. Guys, I'm avoiding the whole running game here,
Speaker 1: if I can. I think a gi just muddled muddied
Speaker 1: the waters there. M hmm, Tony, can I get some
Speaker 1: cypress hill while we discuss Lagarrett blunt? Please? It's and
Speaker 1: it's not close here Lagarrett wants he's pretty bad. He's bad.
Speaker 1: Despite his four point six yards per carry that sounds impressive,
Speaker 1: it is not. When you take away his sixty eight
Speaker 1: yard run against the Chargers, He's averaging just four yards
Speaker 1: per carry. But wait, la Garrett one is good at
Speaker 1: the stripe, right the negative ghost Rider. He is not
Speaker 1: good at this stripe. He has eight attempts inside the
Speaker 1: vibe for negative five yards in one touchdown. He is
Speaker 1: the Snickel Fritz of running backs. Yes, nice, I don't
Speaker 1: know what that means, but I'm assuming it's a cypress
Speaker 1: hill repper have van Alright. In the old days and
Speaker 1: in the harsher crueler days of Fantasy Football Weekly, we
Speaker 1: would never have injected the if any into this. It
Speaker 1: would have just laid there like a trap waiting to spring.
Speaker 1: But for some reason, we're in a kinder, gentler time now,
Speaker 1: and I threw the off any into the question and
Speaker 1: really tipped my hand. The answer is none of these guys.
Speaker 1: Last week is a great example of how frustrating this
Speaker 1: timeshare is going to be. Even though the running game
Speaker 1: was very successful in a blowout victory over Denver, they
Speaker 1: ran the ball thirty seven times, which is not normal
Speaker 1: for any team. Here's your here's your carries split twelve, nine, eight,
Speaker 1: and five between four guys. And that's in a thirty
Speaker 1: seven carry game, which is extremely unusual most games, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be far less than that for all of them.
Speaker 1: And here's the first problem, by the way. Problem number
Speaker 1: one is, even if we were to just give you
Speaker 1: the twelve, the nine, and the eight carries, that's not
Speaker 1: enough to be successful. Twelve, nine and eight isn't enough.
Speaker 1: We know that we need running backs to get the
Speaker 1: ball more than that. The second problem is, I defy
Speaker 1: listeners right now, tell me who is the twelve and
Speaker 1: who is the nine and who is the eight? From
Speaker 1: last week's box score from the Eagles? Can you correctly
Speaker 1: assign those running backs to those spots? And if you can't,
Speaker 1: that tells you everything you need to know about the
Speaker 1: frustration you're going to have on a weekend and week out. Basis,
Speaker 1: most weeks, somebody, some one of these running backs is
Speaker 1: gonna have a good game. Good luck starting out who
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. Most of the time, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: know until after the game is over, and at that
Speaker 1: point it is too late. Des hot question number four.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, are we gonna wish
Speaker 1: we'd just dropped Jamis Winston now, Brian. Uh, Obviously we're
Speaker 1: talking redraft leagues. Uh, and I'm gonna say yes, what
Speaker 1: I hear shut down for a couple of weeks and
Speaker 1: visiting Dr James Andrews. None of that bodes well for
Speaker 1: a rebec, especially when you're dealing with a shoulder injury. Uh.
Speaker 1: And Tampa Bay looks to be a noncontender. There's no
Speaker 1: there's no reason to rush Winston back. Uh. They're on
Speaker 1: by next week, then at Atlanta at Green Bay. Those
Speaker 1: are decent matchups. So we don't even know if he's
Speaker 1: gonna be playing then. And I don't know that's a
Speaker 1: dead roster spot right now. So basically I am dropping
Speaker 1: Winston right now. Tony can I get snoop doggs drop
Speaker 1: it like it's hot. It's not really if you're in
Speaker 1: a one quarterback league, I drop him. According to Fanball
Speaker 1: strength of schedule calculator, they don't have another matchup left
Speaker 1: on the on the docket against a bad defense. It's
Speaker 1: all the middle of the packer Worse, his shoulder might
Speaker 1: not be right until next season. There's gonna be a
Speaker 1: new coach in Tampa next year. The locker room is
Speaker 1: a mess. There's the hard knocks hangover, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to try to eat any more. W's with Jamis Winston.
Speaker 1: He visited Dr Andrews and that's never good. Sam Bradford
Speaker 1: found himself on I R after visiting Dr Andrews as
Speaker 1: as he was hobbling out of the lobby. That's how
Speaker 1: factor I are, Andrew. That's right, Dr I R Andrews.
Speaker 1: Um it suggests that team doctors don't like what they're seeing,
Speaker 1: so they fly them off to Dr Andrews to see
Speaker 1: if they can find some angle that they that they
Speaker 1: haven't been able to find themselves. Um. I think Jamis
Speaker 1: doesn't play for at least several weeks, and it's already
Speaker 1: lost season for the Bucks right there. Two and six.
Speaker 1: They're not going to the playoffs. And there's a very
Speaker 1: real chance that even if he could play, let's advance
Speaker 1: the clock three four weeks, week thirteen, a week fourteen,
Speaker 1: they might say, you know what, we don't want to
Speaker 1: go Andrew Luck on this thing. We don't want to
Speaker 1: take a bad take a shoulder injury and make it
Speaker 1: worse and then lose the next season, which would be
Speaker 1: a very reasonable concern. Luck played on a bad shoulder
Speaker 1: for far too long and you end up losing the
Speaker 1: next season. And to your point earlier, the schedule is
Speaker 1: not favorable. I got one favorable matchup left the whole way,
Speaker 1: and all the rest are to your point, middle to
Speaker 1: pack or worse. At the end of the day, you're
Speaker 1: gonna wish you'd just dropped Jamis Winston hot Question number five.
Speaker 1: Should Gronk owners implement the rarely used tight end handcuff
Speaker 1: and nab mar tell Us Bennett Matt No. We thought
Speaker 1: this would work out last year, but Bennett only showed
Speaker 1: up in a couple of rare games in which Gronk
Speaker 1: was active but injured, where Gronk was playing decoy. The
Speaker 1: games which Gronk didn't play, Bennett wasn't involved. The games
Speaker 1: which Gronk did play and was healthy, Bennett wasn't involved.
Speaker 1: Plus the shoulder injury may still require surgery. That's why
Speaker 1: the Packers cut him, because Bennett wanted to have season
Speaker 1: ending surgery on his shoulder, and I don't know how
Speaker 1: he passed the physical in New England and he's going
Speaker 1: to play now, So no, don't pick him up. All right, Bryan,
Speaker 1: nothing to add, full agreement there, I'll have this. He's
Speaker 1: not good. You know, I liked him in the preseason.
Speaker 1: I really thought that with Aaron Rodgers and the best
Speaker 1: tight end Aaron Rodgers ever had, I really thought that
Speaker 1: Bennett was going to be good. I rostered him on
Speaker 1: several of my several of my own leagues, so I've
Speaker 1: watched him very closely. He dropped passes, he appeared to
Speaker 1: be in the wrong spot, he did nothing after the catch.
Speaker 1: There's nothing to see here with Martelli s. Bennett. He
Speaker 1: is all names and all He's all names and all excuses.
Speaker 1: All martellis S. Bennett is at this point, let's work
Speaker 1: in one quick matchup. That would be Jets at Buccaneers. Hey,
Speaker 1: that's me. I gotta find its hold on flipping pages.
Speaker 1: Here we go. What's the what's the revenge song we
Speaker 1: should be playing? Uh? There's a system of a down
Speaker 1: song called revenge. You I don't know if it's clean.
Speaker 1: I don't either, probably not. Um, yeah, I've got nothing
Speaker 1: for that revenge. I'm sure there are a lot of
Speaker 1: great revenge songs. I can't think of any of the
Speaker 1: top of my head. It is. It's only eight twelve.
Speaker 1: I can't be expected to be an encyclopedia of musical knowledge.
Speaker 1: At eight twelve in the morning, Jets take on the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: On the Jet side, Josh mccowns might take a chance
Speaker 1: to me quarterback, but that it doesn't end there if
Speaker 1: I like, and by the way, a grade on Josh
Speaker 1: McCown he's my number eight quarterback this week. I love
Speaker 1: him as a described earlier. Let's stick with other parts
Speaker 1: of the passing game. Robby Anderson a B grade. He's
Speaker 1: taken over as the Jets top receivers, now scored in
Speaker 1: three straight games. He's averaging almost sixteen yards per catch,
Speaker 1: and he gets a great matchup against a Buck secondary
Speaker 1: that's given up eleven touchdowns to opposing receivers. That is
Speaker 1: the second most touchdowns to receivers in the league. I
Speaker 1: also like running opposite him. Jermaine Curse with a C grade.
Speaker 1: He's a low volume guy, curses, but he has a
Speaker 1: touchdown score and has mentioned Tampa Bay secondary give me
Speaker 1: up the second most wide receiver touchdowns. So it feels
Speaker 1: like it all comes together here. All but three of
Speaker 1: the wide receiver touchdowns they have allowed have oh yeah,
Speaker 1: number one revenge. There you go, this is what I
Speaker 1: was gonna play. And then google the list and it's
Speaker 1: that top revenge. So Uncle Joe is Dave Coolier going
Speaker 1: to be at this game? All but three of the
Speaker 1: wide receiver touchdowns that the Bucks have allowed if gone
Speaker 1: to non number one receivers, So that again works in
Speaker 1: Jermaine Curse his favor for a long time, Jermaine of
Speaker 1: this week, As you guys know, Jamaine Curse was might
Speaker 1: take a chance of a receiver, and I only pivoted
Speaker 1: to Adam Adam Humphrey because I think Adam humphreeze, so
Speaker 1: I think he is a deeper selection. How though they're
Speaker 1: most perfectly good and they're both on the available on
Speaker 1: the waiver wire. Is this the one that involves a
Speaker 1: movie theater at some point? Okay, that happened already. That
Speaker 1: already happened. Okay, normally you'd think it cats that I
Speaker 1: missed it, talked right through it. Austin Seferian Jenkins while
Speaker 1: I was staying with the passing game. Revenge Game. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: and of Revenge Angle has averaged only three catches for
Speaker 1: twenty three yards the last three weeks, which is which
Speaker 1: has gotta be worrisome. Is heads into a matchup against
Speaker 1: his former team. The Bucks have allowed the third fewest
Speaker 1: yards per game to opposing tight ends. He is a
Speaker 1: C grade. Let's go to the running game. Matt Forte
Speaker 1: is out. Belal Powell is a B grade. He'll get
Speaker 1: the majority of the work. He's been very reliable in
Speaker 1: that scenario over the past two years. When he gets
Speaker 1: all the work, he's really good. Five of the six
Speaker 1: non Forte games games that Fote missed, Powell put up big,
Speaker 1: big numbers. Last week Alvin Kamara rolled up eighty four
Speaker 1: receiving yards against Tampa Bay, and the week before that,
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey rolled up fifty receiving yards. Paulo is a
Speaker 1: good dual threat. This week he gets a B grade.
Speaker 1: I'm putting Elijah McGuire on the bench. I don't know
Speaker 1: you could in a pinch, you could play him. But
Speaker 1: even with Forte out, I'm worried he doesn't do enough
Speaker 1: and he hasn't top more than two point three yards
Speaker 1: per cary since way back in Week four. I got
Speaker 1: all the good day to today it was a homecoming
Speaker 1: game for blal Powell from Wakeland, Florida, just east of Tampa.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the Tampa Bay side. Uh,
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick was Bryant's take a chance on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Some people are a little bit concerned after years there
Speaker 1: is the revenge angle. Some people who look concerned after
Speaker 1: years of throwing to the the players in green that
Speaker 1: Stu Beard will be a little disoriented and will and
Speaker 1: known for his interceptions anyway, will again throw to the
Speaker 1: players in green. Well, if he's known for his interceptions,
Speaker 1: he'll probably avoid the players in green. Maybe that's it
Speaker 1: double reverse psychology. Uh. Deshaun Jackson was already seeing a
Speaker 1: decent target number with at least six in every game
Speaker 1: heading into last week, and he'll get more. With Mike
Speaker 1: Evans out, Jackson's got a very winnable matchup against Jets
Speaker 1: cornerbacks Justin Burris and Darryl Roberts, and the Jets have
Speaker 1: allowed the fourth most receiving yards, second most touchdowns to
Speaker 1: whiteouts to Seawan Jackson, B grade here, I already gave
Speaker 1: you Adam Humphreys as might take a chance on me
Speaker 1: wide receiver in this matchup Cameron brad also a B grade.
Speaker 1: He's going up against the Jets team that's allowed the
Speaker 1: sixth most yards and tenth most receptions the tight ends,
Speaker 1: and this note from ESPN Ryan Fitzpatrick's got the league's
Speaker 1: top passer rating when targeting tight ends since nineteen touchdowns
Speaker 1: two tight ends, zero interceptions to tight ends. Think I
Speaker 1: passed that one onto you. Camer is going to be
Speaker 1: the best tight end in the league this week. I
Speaker 1: just like it. You're throwing down the gauntlet. Last guy
Speaker 1: will mention Doug Martin just eight carries for seven yards
Speaker 1: last week, but the Bucks fell behind early in the game.
Speaker 1: Script went upside down. Martin is gonna get a lot
Speaker 1: more work this week. With Winston out and Evans out.
Speaker 1: He faces a Jets team that's allowed the tenth most
Speaker 1: rushing yards. They've allowed just one rushing touchdown though in
Speaker 1: the past seven games. Doug Martin ce grade is startable,
Speaker 1: but only at a C level. When we come back,
Speaker 1: wrap up some more of our matchups, including Texans taking
Speaker 1: on the Rams. Can you start any part of the
Speaker 1: Texans passing game? Find out when we come back. Your
Speaker 1: distinct of Fantasy Football weekly on the fan Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the show Fantasy Football Weekly on Fan Culture and
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson Matt Harrison with you. Plenty of matchups to
Speaker 1: get to over the course of this segment and then
Speaker 1: uh last segment, Lightning Round Premature speculation coming up next.
Speaker 1: Let's see Texans take on the Rams. Brian Ram, secondary's
Speaker 1: pretty good in the Texans quarterback is really bad. What
Speaker 1: do you make of the passing game in this matchup? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you're still starring DeAndre Hopkins as une Everyone
Speaker 1: probably already knows he only gets a bee though he
Speaker 1: has seen twenty four targets in a game and a half.
Speaker 1: With Tom Savage at quarterback, that's sixteen targets a game. Uh,
Speaker 1: he'll probably see double digits in this one. But the
Speaker 1: Rams have only allowed four wide receiver touchdowns all seasons.
Speaker 1: So don't get your hopes too high with Hopkins this week.
Speaker 1: And you probably shouldn't have any hopes for will Fuller.
Speaker 1: I'll give him a very very tentative see just to
Speaker 1: see if you can actually don't put him on the bench.
Speaker 1: Screw it. Targets last week alright, had just two catches.
Speaker 1: Savage is not good. Uh. The one thing that maybe
Speaker 1: going for that Fuller has going for him is all
Speaker 1: four touchdowns that the Rams have allowed to wide receivers
Speaker 1: have gone to secondary options. But I'm just not liking
Speaker 1: him a lot with Savage under center. Are you saying
Speaker 1: Savage is not macho? Yeah? I'm not even gonna voice
Speaker 1: in this one. I'm just so no one knowing likes
Speaker 1: Tom Savage right now? Who has? And he's stock in
Speaker 1: the Texans. I do like c J. Fiedoroitz, so he
Speaker 1: just might take a chance of a receiver. Giants tight
Speaker 1: ends a twelve targets against the Rams last week, so
Speaker 1: Fedor Wooz could see some volume Tom Savages on the bench.
Speaker 1: The Rams are top ten against the past with having
Speaker 1: just a hundred seventy six yards per game over their
Speaker 1: past five games, just five total passing touchdowns during that span,
Speaker 1: and I'll give Lamar Miller as ce. The Rams are
Speaker 1: fifth worst against the run. Miller is a borderline b
Speaker 1: but he just doesn't put up big numbers. I know,
Speaker 1: threat from the passing game, no threat from the passing game.
Speaker 1: I threw allowing four point six yards per carry. Are
Speaker 1: the Rams only two teams have failed to rush for
Speaker 1: a hundred yards or score a touchdown against them this year,
Speaker 1: so Miller is certainly startable. Over to his counterpart at
Speaker 1: running back on the l A side, Todd Gurley gets
Speaker 1: an A despite Houston being ranked second against the run,
Speaker 1: But when you look further into that, they faced the
Speaker 1: uninspiring backfields of Cincinnati, New England, Cleveland, Seattle in Indianapolis
Speaker 1: lately girly averaging touches and a hundred twenty eight combo
Speaker 1: yards per game. He's an obvious bell cow auto start. Um.
Speaker 1: I like the receivers for sure. For l A. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give each one of the Sammy Watkins, Robert Woods
Speaker 1: and Cooper Cup. Uh. We'll start with what Watkins great
Speaker 1: matchup here? Probably the high Watkins probably has the highest
Speaker 1: ceiling but certainly the lowest floor. But the Texans have
Speaker 1: allowed five different wide receivers to top fifty yards and
Speaker 1: three to top one hundred yards over the last two
Speaker 1: games alone. So you gotta like Robert Woods, who leads
Speaker 1: the rams and targets receptions and receiving yards, and and
Speaker 1: Robert Woods is a bol so you're this is the
Speaker 1: highest scoring offense in the NFL. And Robert Woods leads
Speaker 1: the team and targets receptions and yards, and he's available
Speaker 1: right now on that team. Well, well, I think he
Speaker 1: only has the two touchdowns he scored last week. I
Speaker 1: think he might have three. But yeah, it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous that he's available in so many leagues. Anybody
Speaker 1: else think this could be the Watkins breakout game? It's
Speaker 1: worth rolling it kind of is. He's so overdue for
Speaker 1: a big game and uh, Cooper cup real quick second
Speaker 1: in the NFL and red zone targets. He's certainly is
Speaker 1: a factor there, So I like him as well. Uh,
Speaker 1: you can't and you can start Tyler Higbee. I'll give
Speaker 1: him to see. The Texans are the sixth worst defense
Speaker 1: against tight ends, allowing six catches and sixty two yards
Speaker 1: per game to the position. And for all these reasons,
Speaker 1: Jared Goff and obvious a Houston has allowed has allowed
Speaker 1: four of the last six quarterbacks they face to go
Speaker 1: over three yards and throw for multiple touchdowns. The two
Speaker 1: that didn't were Kevin Hogan and the Marcus Mariotta Matt
Speaker 1: Castle combo. A couple of weeks ago, the way the
Speaker 1: way that you were ended that sense, it sounded like
Speaker 1: there might be more so the other team, but then
Speaker 1: I won't do the Texans again. Thank you. We already
Speaker 1: we already survived that one once. It's early Cowboys take
Speaker 1: on the Falcons. No Zeke. What do you think of
Speaker 1: the running back situation there, Matt? Just in case if
Speaker 1: Zeke is suddenly not suspended, I just want to mention
Speaker 1: he's an a start. Thank you. Uh. I'm I got
Speaker 1: Alfred Morris and Darren McFadden on the bench. If that
Speaker 1: doesn't change, I think you're headed for a three headed
Speaker 1: rushing attack. Morris will probably end up with around twelve touches.
Speaker 1: McFadden will probably get six to eight. Rod Smith is
Speaker 1: to take a chance on me, guy that I would
Speaker 1: want to play. I think I'll think McFadden even gets
Speaker 1: the sixth eight. I think that's Rod Smith. Now it
Speaker 1: could be. I think Smith's gonna be second in the
Speaker 1: in the in the eating order, he may be second
Speaker 1: in command. But Deak Prescott I think is the best
Speaker 1: runner in this game. He gets an a. The Falcons
Speaker 1: have allowed the tenth most rushing yards to the quarterback
Speaker 1: position this year, and maybe the lack of Zeke and
Speaker 1: an injury to dead his forces Dak to call his
Speaker 1: own number near the goal line this week. In fact,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna call it, Dak Prescott rushing
Speaker 1: touchdown this week. I think he leads all quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: rushing yardage this year. Dez Bryant slash Terrence Williams. If healthy,
Speaker 1: des is a B. Williams is a SEA. But both
Speaker 1: are dealing with ankle injuries. If Bryant doesn't go, Williams
Speaker 1: might be bumped up to a B. If both don't go,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look at Bryce Butler, who's averaging eighteen point
Speaker 1: six yards per carry, and he's caught five touchdowns from
Speaker 1: Dak over the last two years. If either is ruled out,
Speaker 1: I'll move Butler up to a SEA. But if both go,
Speaker 1: I don't think that I'd play him. Dak Prescott is
Speaker 1: six the monst quarterbacks in rushing yards. Sorry, not even
Speaker 1: close to first. Incorrect. We're not gonna where he's number
Speaker 1: one rushing touchdown. There we go. Four rushing touchdowns for
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott one five this week, maybe even six, not
Speaker 1: six touchdowns this week. No, I might get number five
Speaker 1: and number six. We're not gonna chase Cole Beasley's two
Speaker 1: red zone touchdown past is last week because he only
Speaker 1: has eleven targets over the last three games and Jason
Speaker 1: Witten is on the bench. It's true that injuries and
Speaker 1: suspensions could mean a few more looks for Witten, but
Speaker 1: he's facing a defense that's allowing four catches and forty
Speaker 1: eight yards to tight ends this season. On the Atlanta side,
Speaker 1: I got Davante Freeman with a B and Tevin Coleman
Speaker 1: with a C. Freeman has been held to twelve or
Speaker 1: fewer carries in every game since Week four. That's kind
Speaker 1: of surprising. And Dallas is only allowing eighty rush yards
Speaker 1: per game to the running back position. Still, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are allowing the seventh most receptions and receiving yards to
Speaker 1: rush to running backs, and I thought that i'd find
Speaker 1: Tevin Coleman was leading more more of the receiving categories.
Speaker 1: It's like completely even just about by like one or
Speaker 1: two in every category. So that's why Freeman gets the
Speaker 1: B and Coleman gets the SEA because Freeman just gets
Speaker 1: more touches. Matt Ryan gets a B. It's a home
Speaker 1: game against the bottom ten defense. Dallas has allowed the
Speaker 1: tenth most passing touchdowns in the eighth worst passer rating
Speaker 1: in the league. Defensively, Julio Jones gets an A. Do
Speaker 1: you think Julio Jones is thinking fondly of his season
Speaker 1: high hundred and eighteen yards last week? I think he's
Speaker 1: thinking of the easiest touchdown pass that ever dropped in
Speaker 1: the world. He's he's got a revenge game against himself
Speaker 1: this week, and he's going to score a touchdown this week.
Speaker 1: Mohammedson new I'm giving a B to the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: been specifically bad against slot receivers and woos running about
Speaker 1: two thirds of his routes from the slot. Uh Larry Fitzgerald,
Speaker 1: Jamison Crowder, Cooper cup Sterling Shepherd all had big days
Speaker 1: out of the slot against the Cowboys. Lastly, I'll mention
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper. He's not a good play because his name
Speaker 1: is not Travis Kelsey. Non. Travis Kelsey tight ends have
Speaker 1: only scored once this year against the Cowboys, and Dallas
Speaker 1: hasn't allowed Non Kelsey's two top fifty two yards this season.
Speaker 1: So did Jason Ken Jason Kelsey do against He didn't
Speaker 1: do that. Well, OK, it's not even a matter. You
Speaker 1: can't just be a Kelsey, you have to be a
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey. That's true. At that Bengals take on the Titans,
Speaker 1: I think we squeeze. Uh uh, Nope, We're not gonna
Speaker 1: do it. We're gonna take a break, and when we
Speaker 1: come back Bengals taking on the Titans, we'll tell you
Speaker 1: if you can, if you can go back to the
Speaker 1: well with Andy Dalton after the crappy, crappy game he
Speaker 1: put up against the Jaguars. When we return your distinctive
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan, Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 1: Final segments of Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm the fans. Let's
Speaker 1: let's knock down our last couple of Oh jeez, yeah,
Speaker 1: we have three matchups to go. We gotta zip through
Speaker 1: these Bengals taking on the Titans. Uh aj Green's and
Speaker 1: obviously I'm not gonna expand on that. We'll go to
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, who was a b prior to running into
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville buzz saw last week, and they humble everybody.
Speaker 1: He was averaging. Dalton was averaging two hundred forty yards
Speaker 1: and two point two touchdowns in the Bill Laser offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator era. He faced the Titans defense that's seen some
Speaker 1: of the worst quarterbacking in the league of late Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco and DeShawn Kaiser and Cody Kessler and Jacoby Brissette
Speaker 1: and Jake Cutler. The last two competent quarterbacks that the
Speaker 1: Titans faced, Deshaun Watson and Russell Wilson each through for
Speaker 1: four touchdowns against the Titans secondary. I think Dalton's sitting
Speaker 1: on potentially a very nice game here. B grade for him,
Speaker 1: B grade for Tyler Croft. He has successfully replaced Tyler
Speaker 1: Eiffort in the over the last five weeks. He's averaged
Speaker 1: four catches fifty two yards and he's caught almost a
Speaker 1: touchdown per game. That is solid tight end production. Production
Speaker 1: in a year where it's hard to find that he
Speaker 1: faces an average tight end Titans defense against tight ends.
Speaker 1: But I think there's a game plan here that's going
Speaker 1: to be strongly emphasizing the passing game, which brings us
Speaker 1: to Joe Mixon and why he's only a C grade here.
Speaker 1: Ay he's averaging just two point nine yards per carry,
Speaker 1: which is brutal. He has top sixty rushing yards one
Speaker 1: time all year, and the Titans, coming with a good
Speaker 1: run defense, their top ten in rushing touchdowns allowed yards
Speaker 1: per rush against They're giving up just three point four
Speaker 1: yards per carry. Jeremy Hill is out for this game,
Speaker 1: and that does help makes it a little bit. If
Speaker 1: there are any goal line carries to be had, he
Speaker 1: would get them. And that's largely why he gets a
Speaker 1: C grade here. And if I'm nervous about mixing, I
Speaker 1: like his backup Giovanni Bernard, even less he's on the bench.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Tennessee side of this or I've
Speaker 1: got a handful of Sea grades, and that is it
Speaker 1: will start with the passing game. Marcus Mariotte is actually
Speaker 1: on the bench. It's a tough matchup against Cincinnati. They
Speaker 1: ranked third in passing yards allowed opposing quarterbacks averaging barely
Speaker 1: one touchdown per game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Now is
Speaker 1: Hamsting is healed, um, But I don't think the legs
Speaker 1: help here. The the Bengals have seen a bunch of
Speaker 1: mobile quarterbacks this year, Aaron Rodgers and DeShawn Kyser and
Speaker 1: Tyrode Tailor and Jacoby Brissette, and they averaged ten scoreless
Speaker 1: rushing yards. So you're only gonna get what Marcus Mariota's
Speaker 1: arm can give you. And I don't think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be that much. That's part of why Corey Davis is
Speaker 1: down to a sea level. Got his feet what last
Speaker 1: week after missing seven games and knocked some rustoff. Kind
Speaker 1: Of like him because he should match up against Adam Jones,
Speaker 1: who Pro Football Focus ranks as their ninety one cornerback.
Speaker 1: Richard Matthews barely a C grade here right side receivers,
Speaker 1: which he primarily is. I've had some luck because they're
Speaker 1: getting Drake Kirkpatrick, who ranks at Pro football Focus. So
Speaker 1: I'm lukewarm on Richard Matthews, but you know his bed.
Speaker 1: He's sixty seventy yards every game, and that's not so bad.
Speaker 1: Delaney Walker gets a C grade. Cincinnatis allowed a forty
Speaker 1: nine yard game or better to tight ends in three
Speaker 1: straight games. I like that. Walker is still not close
Speaker 1: to healthy, though he has seen four or more targets
Speaker 1: every game, so volume alone might be okay here, but
Speaker 1: hasn't scored a touchdown this season. None for your guy,
Speaker 1: mat Delaney Walker. Last night, I dropped him in several leagues.
Speaker 1: I don't blame me. He's not my guy anymore. Murray
Speaker 1: and Henry the running backs for Tennessee are on the bench.
Speaker 1: Murray narrowly outtouched Henry last week, but Henry got the touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And every week we talked about this in five hot questions.
Speaker 1: It's it's always a nightmare to figure out who it's
Speaker 1: going to be. It's a it's a timeshare, and it's
Speaker 1: a Cincinnati defense that's only allowed d rusher and only
Speaker 1: two rushing scores all season. So I don't know how
Speaker 1: you find I don't know how you could guess which one,
Speaker 1: if either is going to get anything done this week.
Speaker 1: So let's avoid both. Next Patriots taking on the Broncos. Uh,
Speaker 1: normally we would just say start all your Patriots, but
Speaker 1: it's a tricky matchup. What do you think it's a
Speaker 1: little tricky. Start with Tom Brady, who gets to be uh,
Speaker 1: pretty pretty bad history against the Broncos, who last year
Speaker 1: allowed a mean or twelve passing touchdowns. This year, they've
Speaker 1: allowed sixteen passing touchdowns so far, though only two teams
Speaker 1: have allowed more than that. So Brady, you're gonna start him. Obviously,
Speaker 1: You're definitely starting Bob Gronkowski, though he gets an A.
Speaker 1: In his last four meetings with Denver, he has finished
Speaker 1: with no fewer than eighty eight yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: When that's your bad game, eight eight yards in a touchdown,
Speaker 1: you're you're in You're in a good spot. Denver is
Speaker 1: allowed the second most receiving yards and fourth most catches,
Speaker 1: So Gronk is an easy start. Brandon Cooks not not
Speaker 1: so easy. Even with Chris Hogan out, he has been
Speaker 1: ruled out. The Broncos have allowed the fewest receptions and
Speaker 1: yards to wide receivers this year. They have a lot
Speaker 1: of fair amount of touchdowns, but Cooks really hasn't made
Speaker 1: a factor in the realm and not at all, So
Speaker 1: I'm not liking this match up a whole lot for him.
Speaker 1: I'm really not liking it for Damni m Amndola. If
Speaker 1: he even plays with that shoulder injury, he'll see a
Speaker 1: lot of Chris Harris and the slot. So I got
Speaker 1: Amundola on the bench, and I'm not getting cute with
Speaker 1: Philip Dorset or anything like that. With Chris Hogan out, Uh,
Speaker 1: it doesn't get much better for the running backs. I
Speaker 1: didn't give Dion Lewis and James White both the sea. Uh.
Speaker 1: Speaking to Lewis, he led the team and carries for
Speaker 1: the third straight week last week. He's averaging four point
Speaker 1: seven yards per carry. But Denver is giving up the
Speaker 1: fourth the US yards per game to running backs and
Speaker 1: have only allowed three rushing touch downs on the years
Speaker 1: of Not a great matchup for lewis not a great
Speaker 1: matchup for James White either, but um Denver has surrendered
Speaker 1: three scores through the air to running backs, which is
Speaker 1: tied for the second most in the league. And James
Speaker 1: White has seen eight red zone targets, which is tied
Speaker 1: for second among running backs. And Mike Gilsli real quick
Speaker 1: on the bench obviously, hasn't scored since Week two and
Speaker 1: has just two carries from inside the five yard line
Speaker 1: in the six games since then. He is just I
Speaker 1: think he's been dropped in mostly and uh quickly to
Speaker 1: Denver's side to Mary's Thomas gets it be. New England
Speaker 1: has allowed these second most yards per game to wide receivers.
Speaker 1: They've also given up either one hundred yards or a
Speaker 1: touchdown to a wide receiver in every game this season.
Speaker 1: Uh Manuel Sander is gonna give him a c despite
Speaker 1: only catching one ball from Brock Oswiler last week. New
Speaker 1: England allows these second most yards per game two receivers
Speaker 1: as I just said, and the fourth most plays of
Speaker 1: twenty plus yards, so Sanders should be more of a
Speaker 1: factor here. I'm benching brock Oswiler despite the fact New
Speaker 1: England has allowed three nine yards and two touchdowns per
Speaker 1: game to opposing quarterbacks. He's brock Oswiler. He's on the bench.
Speaker 1: So c J. Anderson Patriots of bottom ten against running
Speaker 1: backs in and have allowed at least eighty total yards
Speaker 1: to each of the last four backs that they faced.
Speaker 1: But CJ's is loo bad. He's average a meter thirty
Speaker 1: eight rushing yards per game over his last four. His
Speaker 1: snap count has dropped for seven straight weeks, and I
Speaker 1: like DeVante Booker more. Now he gets the sea, He's
Speaker 1: gonna leap frogs TJ on the depth chart. In this game.
Speaker 1: He's averaging four targets per game over his last four,
Speaker 1: He's averaging five yards per carry. New England is allowing
Speaker 1: nearly six catches per game, so Booker can be a
Speaker 1: PPR helper here. Alright, Let's go to our final matchup,
Speaker 1: and that's the Dolphins at the Panthers. Matt, you already
Speaker 1: told us you like quarterback Jay Cutler, and this one, yeah,
Speaker 1: I do like to quarterback Jay Cutler. He he got
Speaker 1: a b out of me. I got bees on DeVante
Speaker 1: Parker and Jarvis Landry as well. Parker is finally healthy
Speaker 1: and we have a kindler gentler Cutler chucking him the
Speaker 1: ball everywhere. They might be a spread offense soon. Parker
Speaker 1: has eight or more targets in every game that he's
Speaker 1: finished this season, and he's hit the sixty nine yard
Speaker 1: mark in each of his four complete games. Landry's at
Speaker 1: double digit target in every game but to the season
Speaker 1: and at least five receptions in every game this year
Speaker 1: and scored in four of his last five. They're both
Speaker 1: volume plays, and I think Cutler is going to throw
Speaker 1: in this one. The running game Kenyan Drake and Damien Williams.
Speaker 1: I got him on the bench. They're splitting touches almost evenly,
Speaker 1: fifteen to thirteen in favor of Drake last week. And
Speaker 1: as much as I like both of these guys in
Speaker 1: a PPR format, this isn't the matchup. Tarik Cohen had
Speaker 1: one seventy yard reception against the Panthers earlier this season.
Speaker 1: If you take that away, the Panthers are only allowing
Speaker 1: thirty three receiving yards per game to running back, so
Speaker 1: they're both on the bench. Over on the other side,
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey is the fantasy unicorn because he's strange, mystical.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to feel about him, but he
Speaker 1: makes magic happen. He's got at least five catches in
Speaker 1: five straight games, but only sixty five total yards per game.
Speaker 1: But he scored in three of his last five. And
Speaker 1: the Panthers are trying to distribute the vacated Calvin Benjamin targets,
Speaker 1: and a lot of them are going mccatholicks. They're also
Speaker 1: vacating James Jonathan Stewart carries after the two fumbles, and
Speaker 1: he's averaging like two yards a carry. I think they
Speaker 1: should send Jonathan Stewart on a vacucit and and because
Speaker 1: his age seems to have caught him caught up with him.
Speaker 1: He's averaging under two yards per carry in his last
Speaker 1: five games. Cam Newton, I'm giving him a B grade.
Speaker 1: Over his last six games, he's averaging nine carries and
Speaker 1: fifty rushing yards per game. He's actually their best running back.
Speaker 1: He has twice as many rushing touchdowns as the rest
Speaker 1: of the team. Combined. Granted it's only four to two,
Speaker 1: but that's still something. He's only averaging five passing yards
Speaker 1: per game, but it's the rushing that's making you money here,
Speaker 1: and so Newton's will be And Devin Funcious is the
Speaker 1: last guy I'll mention. I give him a B grade.
Speaker 1: All three of Funcioses touchdowns came in two games in
Speaker 1: which Carolina scored twenty seven or more points. So when
Speaker 1: they're scoring in bunches, you start funches. And the Dolphins
Speaker 1: have allowed twenty seven or more points in three straight games,
Speaker 1: So this is going to be another one of those games.
Speaker 1: Funcius is going to score this week. Now. We talked
Speaker 1: about it last week, and you gotta pick your spots
Speaker 1: with Funchius, and this might be a good one. Premature
Speaker 1: speculation is the only thing between now and lightning round.
Speaker 1: This is the bit where we tell you a guy
Speaker 1: to pick up now that we think he's gonna be
Speaker 1: a hot waiver wired next week. Brian, who you got
Speaker 1: kind of a hail Mary, But let's go with Dante
Speaker 1: Dante Foreman Anta the Anta foreman who is the backup
Speaker 1: currently for Lamar Miller is still in Houston. Basically, if
Speaker 1: a Lamar Miller injury happens, Foreman is gonna be a
Speaker 1: factor starting Week fourteen. He has San Francisco, Jacksonville, and
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh goes with three plus matchups. Foreman did have double
Speaker 1: digit carries in his last two full games, and Miller
Speaker 1: faded last year, so why not? All right, I got
Speaker 1: this guy that you may have drafted first overall named
Speaker 1: David Johnson. The cast came off his wrist on Monday.
Speaker 1: Online doctors are saying recovery from this injury is tricky
Speaker 1: due to all the small bones and ligaments in the wrist,
Speaker 1: but Johnson said he wants to play, even if they're
Speaker 1: out of playoff contention. He wants to get in and
Speaker 1: get reps. And it was a hand injury, not a
Speaker 1: leg injury, so he should be fresh when he comes back.
Speaker 1: He should be able to hit the ground running. I'm
Speaker 1: giving you two guys that came that got injured and
Speaker 1: placed and I are early in the season, are now
Speaker 1: coming off, Greg Olsen Danny Woodhead, both guys that will
Speaker 1: immediately go into starting roster spots and both of them available.
Speaker 1: Woodhead comes back next week, Olsen comes back the week after.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Lightning Round. You know the
Speaker 1: bit one question between two players and that is it.
Speaker 1: We're very strict about that around here, Steve. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show. Thank you for your patience. Steve. Hello, Hi,
Speaker 1: what have you got? Hello? This is Lightning Round? Yes? Oh, question,
Speaker 1: that's fine too for it. Um, my friend offered Kareem
Speaker 1: hunt for Hunt for Hide. Hunt is not scored in
Speaker 1: six weeks now. Hi, Hide's kind of a sneaky play.
Speaker 1: He's been doing really well at as of the last
Speaker 1: three weeks and it pains me to do it, but
Speaker 1: I think I like Hide better. All right, thank you,
Speaker 1: Steve e. Hello, Hey, alright, Schuster. Oh, let's go with
Speaker 1: Juju in this one. I think I would do in
Speaker 1: the matchup. It's gonna be a good dreams Jujuc. They
Speaker 1: had a turtle in the gang for me. Mike. Hello, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: just a quick questioner and pr I'm sorry Copper who
Speaker 1: I'm here? Abdullah, Abdullah, we'll take up We're you know,
Speaker 1: I think we're all pretty down at Abdullah. Yeah, Ben
Speaker 1: your next. Hey, guys, four point ppr lea. Um. I
Speaker 1: want to know if you guys would and I have
Speaker 1: Alfred Morris would you release Zeke Elliott or would him
Speaker 1: knowing that what's coming back for just the other handcuffs
Speaker 1: on the cowboy. I'm not as high on Woodhead as
Speaker 1: as Churches, so I think I'd drop Woodhead and go
Speaker 1: Rod Smith, who's going to be playing the Woodhead role
Speaker 1: on a better offense. Ken, I'm sorry I accidentally dropped you.
Speaker 1: I apologize for that. Please call back Mike. Hello, you're next?
Speaker 1: You guys? Uh Goodwin or a hump oh to two
Speaker 1: guys I gave. I gave c grades to today. Humphries
Speaker 1: are Goodwin non PPR. I would go Humphries and PPR.
Speaker 1: I'm going Goodwin with the big play potential in the
Speaker 1: standards of Goodwin. Arthur, you are next, Yeah, half point
Speaker 1: PPR lex position Latavius Murray or jud Smith. Latavius Murray
Speaker 1: is not He's not even rosterable, So let's let's move on.
Speaker 1: Not even rosterable. Wow, our guy Jrrek McKinnon's the guy.
Speaker 1: He is better every way. Lottavius, We're not going to
Speaker 1: get into it. Taco, you're next. They got standards staring
Speaker 1: Brady or job right. I can't put Brady on the
Speaker 1: bench even against Denver. I've got him close, but I
Speaker 1: got Brady ahead. Ben your next, Ben Abdullah or Alfred Morris.
Speaker 1: All I heard was Abdula and I was gonna say
Speaker 1: the other guy, whoever? Other guy is? All right, Corey,
Speaker 1: you're next guy? What's going on? Humphries or Jordy Nels.
Speaker 1: Humphrey or Jordy Nels come to this? Yeah, and I'm
Speaker 1: starting Adam Humphries over Jordy Nels. I agree, and yeah
Speaker 1: it has It's come to this for Jordy, who has
Speaker 1: been virtually phased out of the Brett Hundley is a
Speaker 1: sabotage drop that maybe maybe that'll be a preview of
Speaker 1: next week's show. We'll find out John your next ppr
Speaker 1: Juju or Robbie Anderson. Oh, I gotta go to chart
Speaker 1: on this one. Do you do you like Rabbi Anderson
Speaker 1: that much more? I love Robbie. I like Juju quite
Speaker 1: a bit, but I'll defer I think he said it
Speaker 1: was a pr ly too and Anderson. Juju Smith is
Speaker 1: not a high volume guy. He's a low volume. He's
Speaker 1: a higher upside guy that I think that I don't
Speaker 1: even know about that. So all the advantages are to
Speaker 1: Robby Anderson. I think so, Mikey, you're next, Marlene dark One.
Speaker 1: You gotta go dark one against the Niners. We talked
Speaker 1: about all the Vikings just shutting down running backs through
Speaker 1: the air this year. David your next, David? I hello, Yes,
Speaker 1: Alfred Morris or Doug Martin. I'm gonna take Doug more.
Speaker 1: I think they both got B grades from US. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take Doug Martin because it'll get all the work.
Speaker 1: I don't have to sweat a much of a time
Speaker 1: share there. I know Peyton Barber got a bunch of
Speaker 1: work last week, but that was in a blowout loss,
Speaker 1: and I don't think that's indicative. Ron Smith's gonna have
Speaker 1: a better game than Alfred Morris. Yeah, I'm put I
Speaker 1: put Alfred Morris on the bench. Okay, I like Morris
Speaker 1: more than two has done it. Dave, you're a final
Speaker 1: caller today. Hey, I love the show. Or Shepherd in
Speaker 1: a standard league? Uh, Sterling Shepherd's got terrific upside. I
Speaker 1: like I got Parker with the B grade. So matchup, Carolina, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a much tougher matchup. Let's take Sterling Shepherd nine
Speaker 1: targets last week and his first game back nine times.
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