WEBVTT - Week 12: Too Many Cooks? 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:04.880 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.600 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from my Heart Radio, 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:14.880 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:24.480 advice Leagues dot Com. Here's your host. Welcome to Fantasy 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:26.759 Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchy and my co host 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.600 today are Scott Fish and Brian Johnson. Hello, guys, what's 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.839 going on? Charge? It is a weird, weird week. Um, 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.519 we've had lots of COVID cases that have affected a 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.839 lot of things, including a Tuesday game against the Steelers 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:40.800 and Ravens that we don't know if that game is 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:44.200 going to be played, although if history is any indication here, 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.880 the league is going to do everything possible to play 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.440 this game, and I do I believe it's going to happen, 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.720 but it's it's creates a conundrum for a lot of 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.200 fantasy owners who are going to have to make decisions 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.600 for those early Sunday kickoff games to start and not 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:03.640 not knowing for sure if that Tuesday game is going 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:05.240 to go. If you have if you can make a 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:08.560 lateral move or an almost lateral move by taking players 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.959 from that game out and starting anyone else, you've just 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.200 got to do it. In my opinion, We'll have some 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.240 good pivots for you during the show, but the really 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.800 the tough ones of the Pittsburgh Wide receivers, right the 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.920 Pittsburgh Wide receivers are the biggest brought those correct, Those 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:24.800 are the guys that were ranked the highest and and 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.000 those are the toughest ones to play right now. Um, 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:31.600 in my opinion, again, we've talked about this in show's past. 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.200 For your friends and family leagues, for the majority of you, uh, 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.959 the best thing is to have a conditional selection that 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:42.600 you can make for another player who plays on Sunday 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.840 and use that player in the event that your Steelers 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.000 don't go use a conditional player who talked about it before. 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:52.520 If that's not available for you for whatever reason, then 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.880 to me, anybody who gets an A B grade I 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.000 would definitely play over Ravens and Steelers and maybe even 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:00.880 in some cases players who we give a C grate 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.559 over the course of this show over Steelers and Ravens. Yeah, 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.520 even even with the great I think that I'm probably 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.840 with you charge I I think it's getting played. I 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:11.840 still got most of them out of my lineups just 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:13.839 in case at this point if I have close enough, 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.640 you know, comparables. Yeah right, Um, Brian, Let's go to 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.760 our first matchup, which is Las Vegas taking on Atlanta. 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.360 And for Las Vegas and Josh Jacobs, there's a little 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:27.960 bit of a trickier matchup than it seems because Atlanta 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.600 is a sneaky good run defense. Yeah after being like 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.359 a bull's eye match up for five years at NACE. 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.520 But yeah, so I'm just giving Josh Jacobs a B here. 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:38.520 Just what looked like Jacob was gonna was gonna lose 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:42.120 significant carries at DeVante Booker last week. He dominates at 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.560 category SEV five. He should do the same against Atlanta. 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:47.800 But again, there's no slouch against the run. Leave allowed 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.920 just four rushing touchdowns to running backs this year. No 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:54.800 back has topped ninety rushing yards against Atlanta, which is insane. 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.880 And Atlanta has yielded the fourth most cares to running 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.600 backs in gold the ghost scenarios and Josh J. Gibbs 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:02.960 is a beast to say the least. So you're still 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.400 gonna start with a B. And uh and again I'm 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.080 like years past, like running backs would catch like ten 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:15.920 catches minimum. The game against Atlanta has uh, well it 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.959 doesn't matter because Alec Ingle had more targets than Josh 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.720 Jacobs and DeVante Booker last week combined. They don't. They 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.799 just talk about throwing to Josh Jacobs is not There's 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:27.880 no receiving angle for Jacobs when he still gets the b. 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.480 There is a receiving angle for Darren Waller. He gets 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.000 definitely gets an A. Has scored in four of his 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.040 last six and here comes the Falcons who have allowed 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.760 the fourth most reception, second most yards, and the most 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:41.240 touchdowns two tight ends, So an A for Waller. Nelson 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.800 agil are gonna give him a C. He's had three 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:45.960 games with four and more catches all year, four or 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.880 five and six for the catch totals. But he scored 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.320 in each of those games and racked up two nine 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.440 yards in those three games. So if he gets the ball, 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.400 things happen. He has six touchdowns on the year two. 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:58.520 That's a lot. That's like a lot more than like 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.800 most of the top twenty preseason wide receivers right now, 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.840 So I'm giving a la ce. Atlanta's top seven in 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.280 most targets and yards allowed to wide receivers and third 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.440 in yards allowed to the position. So see for alar 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.240 and a B for Derek Carr. Nineteen passing touchdowns to 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.479 only three interceptions. That's crazy impressive. That's like m v 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.799 P caliber numbers there. And he's been very fantasy friendly 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.240 to at least two passing touchdowns and seven of his 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.720 last nine games and the one one of the games 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:26.080 he fell short in. One of the two was the 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.520 monsoon game in Cleveland, which we always a reference. It 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.880 seems like every we always gotta go back to break. 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:32.920 It wasn't a game, it was more like a season, 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.080 a monsoon season in Cleveland for a month. And Atlanta 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.560 has allowed the second most passing touchdowns and passing touch 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.360 and passing yards. So a B for car over to 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.640 the Atlanta side. We'll start with Julio Jones. Sounds like 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:49.680 you'll play with the hamstring injured. Yeah, and if he does, 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.360 will he be the decoy? So just to see if 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.159 he suits up. Las Vegas is allowing one and seventy 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.560 seven yards per game to opposing wide receivers. That is 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:59.839 tenth most, and they have allowed of receivers to top 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.720 one hundred yards and score a touchdown in three of 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.600 the last five games. But if one Falcons receiver is 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.360 gonna do that, It's more than likely gonna be Calvin Ridley, 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.799 who gets the A has posted at least ninety yards 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.440 already touchdown in every game he has started and finished 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.559 this year, and his two healthy starts without Julio Ridley 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.440 total twenty three targets an average on twenty three yards. 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.080 He has a favorable matchup against Trayvon Mullen, who is 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:24.800 allowing a passer rating of one on nine in his 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:26.640 coverage and has given up four touchdowns. So in a 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:30.240 for Ridley Hayden Hurst just to see here coming off 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:34.640 the Goose egg Yeah, he's banged up, but he should play. 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.960 Raiders allow roughly five catches and fifty two yards per 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.599 game to tight ends. Hurst averages four catches in forty 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.800 one yards per game. That's with the with the Goose eggs. 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:44.920 So in the tight end waste land. I'll give him 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.240 a sea here, but monitor of status. Like Scott said, 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.200 he is a little banged up and Matt Ryan to 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.200 another guy he really can't trust, and give him a 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.280 seat uh the Raiders outside of the take out the 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.000 Raiders Monsoon game in Cleveland, though in Las Vegas has 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.240 allowed three twenty one passing yards and two point two 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.760 touchdowns per game him over the last seven weeks, Atlanta 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.400 throws the ball fourth most in the league. Julio's health 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.799 is obviously huge for Ryan, but even if Julio sits, 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:08.760 you still give him a c. But you can look 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.600 elsewhere in one quarterback leagues and Todd Gurley has been 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:13.400 ruled out. I was gonna give him a ce as 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.600 bad as he has been, but Brian Hill now draws 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.719 the start. Everyone's clamoring for the waiver wire already, probably 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.520 before they even heard this, so I'll give him a 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.159 CEE even though it's a bad matchup. Since Week four, 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.800 no opposing back has top seventy rushing yards against the Raiders, 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.600 but they have surrendered the second most touchdowns to running 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.080 backs this year, so how many punches in? That was 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.159 definitely the hope of Todd Gurley, because that's all that's 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.080 too though. Yeah, the thirdteen goal line carries for Gurley, 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:42.160 which is third most, and he converted six of him, 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:43.760 so he was good at the goal line. That was 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:45.440 the one place so you could count on Todd Gurley. 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.600 It certainly wasn't in a yards per carry format where 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.640 he's like three and a half yards per carry on 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.479 the season. It's been terrible. Arizona takes on New England 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:56.080 Scott last week we saw the shoulder injury for Kyler 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.159 Murray and we got his first sort of middling production game. 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.720 And now he's got a tricky but not impossible matchup 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.640 with New England. What do you think? Right? And he 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.560 came off on Friday. He came off the injury report, 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:11.280 so completely clear, finding clear. Now it's still it still 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.040 might affect him a little, but I still have an A. 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.640 He was still an A start, even middling, so I 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:18.480 still have an A grade on him. He has multiple 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:24.280 touchdowns in let's see every single game this year. Uh, 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.720 he's averaging over three per game in his last five. 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.920 He only has four games this entire year under sixty 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.840 yards rushing. That's like an extra touchdown right there, just 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:40.240 added in rushing. Uh. DeAndre Hopkins A grade. I don't 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.720 care that he's going to get stuff on Gilmore, who's 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.440 sue has been you know, he's probably Yeah, he's banged up, 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.160 so if he plays, but remember when Belichick used to 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:54.440 take away your best option anymore. Metcalfe a touch lock 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.880 at sixty seven in touch dig six two both Fuller 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.440 and Cook's over eighty yards. I meant and all those 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:04.239 games because those are games Gilmore played in so interesting 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.320 um only and in the last two weeks he's allowed 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.080 nearly a hundred thirty yards to wide receivers, So I 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.240 think Hopkins could beat him. Honestly, I know, I know 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.000 that they're looking for that matchup. I still have an 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:17.600 A grade on Hopkins, although over Hopkins last month or so. 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:24.120 Other than that, hail Mary catch numbers have been pretty pedestrian. Yeah. Yeah, Uh, 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:28.240 Pats have allowed touchdowns to twelve different receivers. They have 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.160 the third most touchdowns allowed at the position. Uh. They've 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:35.520 allowed another five to top eight score scoreless yards. So 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.000 I'm given Christian Kirkus. I think he's a sneaky play 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.840 this week, especially if Gilmore plays. You know he'll he'll 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.559 have well either way. If Gilmore does, Gilmour's not gonna 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:45.920 touch him at all, So I like him this week. 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.320 I have a B on Drake. The Patriots have really 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.440 clamped down on running backs recently. They've only allowed three 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:55.120 running backs over a hundred total yards that's rushing plus receiving, 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:59.400 and all three took nineteen plus touches. But Drake's upside 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.440 is that he gets fifteen plus touches in all but 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.640 one game he's played, and they've allowed They've allowed about 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.880 thirty six yards receiving two per game to running backs, 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.920 so I think Drake can get it done here. Um Edmonds, 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.000 I'm putting back on the bench as he was relegated 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.520 to back up two days with just six touches last week, 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.839 so frustrating. On the other side, Cam Newton is getting 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.480 a B and it's uh, it's once again his rushing. Uh. 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:25.640 Last week he did it with his passing, but listen 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.520 to his home game passing yards at Gilette Stadium on 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:36.480 Sto seven and one eighteen so bad. Conversely, on the 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:40.080 road averaging over three hundred yards per game, weird at 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:44.640 home had Gilette not getting it done. Uh, So he 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:48.520 should get more of Russian opportunities this week though, Uh. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.400 It's it's a team. Arizona has allowed a hundred eighty 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.040 rushing yards to quarterbacks over the last four weeks, and 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.120 part of that is due to their forty percent blitz rate. 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:01.760 They're forcing quarterbacks outside uh, rushing outside. Cam has played 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:05.280 three teams with similar blitz rates. He has thirty five 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.559 carries for a hundred and fifty yards and four touchdowns 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:12.080 in those three games. So uh. His passing yards totals 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.200 I've mentioned were bad. But in those games, those those 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.760 blitz those heavy blitz games, he rushed the ball on 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:23.679 average nine times. Uh. He yes, we got scolded for 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.719 missing and nine times. In fact, he has rushed the 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:32.000 ball at least nine times uh in seven different games. Uh. 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.840 So I gotta be great on him. Unfortunately, the return 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:40.440 of Harry made Myers less lovable option, and Bird had 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.520 his first big game of the year. But here's the problem. 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:47.160 H Bird had more targets over the last four games. 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:51.520 Myers has only missed four snaps, one each game. Harry 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.600 had more targets than both of them last week, but 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.320 put up just forty one yards. It's a mess. I 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.720 don't know what. And we've mentioned the passing yard shtals. 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.600 I got well on the bench Harrison White. I'm giving 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.400 both C grades to Burke. Head went down with the injury, 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.520 so he clears the way for White to grab grab passes. 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:12.160 He got six catches last week. Uh. Weirdly, James White 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.760 out snapped Damian Harris last week. I did not see 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:16.800 that coming. I didn't either. He had been so lightly 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:20.120 used for several games. Yeah, I I have C grades 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.480 on Harrison White Harris Scott twelve touches, White guy to 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.319 eleven touches. I can see them both with double digit touches. 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.720 Touches here, it's all about Michelle. If he comes in 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:33.520 and plays, uh takes away snaps. I hope it's just 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.520 that minimal five six, seven touches that that allows both 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.880 of those guys in double digits. That all makes sense. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.240 Carolina goes to Minnesota and let's start with the running 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.760 game and Mike Davis. It will be another Mike Davis game. 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:46.960 By the way, the Vikings are top ten and in 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.600 allowing rushing attempts and rushing yards to opposing running backs, 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.480 but their performance has been very volid over the past 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.719 four games. In two they held down a very good 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.160 Green Bay running attack in Chicago's running attack to just 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.200 fifty three yards game, but then in the other two 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.360 they allowed a struggling Dallas rushing attack and Detroit's rushing 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.080 attack to average a hundred forty three yards. Go figure. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:10.000 You would think those have been flipped. I don't expect 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:11.920 much through the air either way, though, No back his 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:14.760 top thirty six receiving yards against the Vikings. They've been 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.360 great at stopping opposing backs through the air, and that's 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:18.960 been a lot of where Mike Davis has helped and 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.240 that's why he gets a B grade in this game. 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.600 Let's go to the passing game. Teddy Bridgewater fully expected 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:30.320 to resume quarterbacking duties here startable against a yielding Vikings secondary. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:34.320 Aside from Chicago's non functional offense, the Vikings are giving 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.000 up two hundred eighty one yards and almost three touchdown 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:42.320 passes per game. Who Teddy is not normally that kind 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.439 of guy. UM, and each of the of his receivers 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.920 have positive matchups UM, but he tops out to Sea 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.920 because he's just not an explosive player. He has topped 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:56.280 two touchdown passes once in his last nineteen games. So 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:00.120 I know it's ultimate revenge scenario. Basically, I would love 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.920 to seeing p J. Walker se I don't. I don't 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:08.720 think Teddy has revenge in him. No, don't sad scenario. 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.000 Capitalize on it. How I'll put it to you this way, 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.679 In Minnesota, when Teddy Bridgewater runs onto the field, he 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.680 would get far more we're there, we're their fans in 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.760 the stands. He would have gotten a far bigger ovation 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.640 than Kirk Cousins would have gotten. That. It's not even close, 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.320 not even close. All right, let's talk about his receiver's 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:34.320 beginning with Curtis Samuel's got a matchup. I love Samuel 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.480 has been a top five scoring wide receiver over the 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.840 last five weeks thanks to his five touchdowns and his 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:44.960 regular use as a runner. He overwhelmingly lines up in 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.120 the slot, where he matches up against Vikings rookie Jeff Gladney. 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.400 You might be wondering, how is Jeff Gladney doing this year? Well, 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.880 he has allowed the most passing touchdowns in his coverage 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:59.840 than any cornerback well, for that matter, any player period. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:04.680 And it's by two that bad. It's given up seven stdowns. Yes, 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.440 Jeff Sadney, Oh that might that might stick. I'm afraid 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:13.360 let's hope that's not. Uh So, be great on Curtis Samuel, 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.520 Be great and DJ Moore, I like the p J 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:17.480 Walker gave him a ton of volume last week and 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.920 more than Teddy ever did, and then more responded with 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.280 a very big game last week. He runs from all 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.720 over the field. He'll most often see rookie Camelot Cameron Danzler, 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.440 who's giving up a passer rating of one thirty. So 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:30.360 I like DJ Moore here and let's just hope Teddy 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:32.720 learns from a little bit what p J. Walker showed 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.040 last week. You can target d J Moore. It's okay 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.960 to do that. Robby Anderson gets a C grade. He 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.960 hasn't scored since the opener um and his speed is 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.320 frankly a mismatch for Teddy's arm, but the matchup is 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.280 good against Chris Boyd. I believe he is startable in 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.520 a pinch. Boyd allows seventy seven percent of the passes 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.560 in his coverage to be completed. Let's go to the 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:55.640 Viking side. Dalvin Cook obvious A grade and without Adam 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.080 feeling At who is very unlikely to go. I expect 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.880 the Vikings to do it comes naturally here. That's run 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:02.720 the ball, and they don't need excuse to run the ball. 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:04.720 But we're gonna take Adam Feeland away. Expect that much 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:08.320 more running. So Cook gets the A grade. Kirk Cousins 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.400 is on the bench. I think you have to avoid 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.760 these low volume games from Kirk. And if you like 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:14.560 me and you think they're just gonna run against a 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.360 bad run defense, this is the This is when you 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.520 don't want to play Kirk. He averages twenty seven passes 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:24.920 per game when he's below twenty seven. Kirk's average game 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:28.480 two hundred two yards and one point four touchdowns. That 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:32.600 is not a starting grade. Without guard Ezra Cleveland, last week, 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.480 the Vikings offensive line looked brutal, and I'm worried about 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.600 Kirk's Kirk's ability to get in a clean pocket as well. 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.240 Justin Jefferson is the only other Viking that you'll want 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.680 to start a B grade here. He typically crushes it 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.840 when he's heavily targeted and without feeling that should happen here. 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.440 Jefferson has at least eighty six yards in five of 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.720 the six games in which he has seen five targets. UM. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.280 He also has all four of his touchdowns in games 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:57.960 where he's had those five targets. And I think he 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.560 gets the five targets here. Favorable matchup as a Panther's 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:04.720 defense allowing seventy one yards per game to receivers and um. 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.200 The only other guys that I think you'd want to 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:11.280 talk about. I know what I mean. If Smith unlikely 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.280 to go, I mean maybe a Mark Andrews pivot there. Yeah, 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.360 I think maybe maybe. I mean in a pinch, you 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.400 could go that direction if you wanted to. Um, I 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.560 don't have starting here, but that makes feeling. And if 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.040 Smith out, I mean, they gotta go to they gotta 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.080 go to something. Even if it's only twenty three passes, 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.160 there's got to be something got, you would think. So, 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.960 I'm just I'm nervous about this passing game, the vikings 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.200 in this matchup. Let's take a break. When we come back, 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.600 nine players, many of whom are available on the waiver wire. 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.040 We call it take a chance on me. Guys you 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.120 would not normally start you can this week for a 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.720 variety of reasons. Will tell you who they are. In 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:49.840 this a very tumultuous week twelve. Stay tuned to Fantasy 0:16:49.880 --> 0:17:10.920 Football Weekly. Take a chance on me. Nine players not 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:12.680 normally in your starting line. I will tell you who 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:14.719 they are and which ones you can. Many of these 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:16.399 you'll be able to pick up off the waiver wire. 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.439 We begin at the quarterback position, and Scott Fish, who 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:24.280 you got? Okay, okay, I know he's looked terrible. He 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.760 doesn't look he's probably on your waiver ward because he 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.360 looks so bad. But even really bad qbs can find 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.920 themselves startable in the right matchup. I have Carson Wentz, 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:37.280 They're going to be behind a lot. Seattle just lost 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:41.720 Dunbar and there literally every QBA to face Seattle has 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.600 had either yds or and or multiple more multiple touchdowns 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.560 are both. Uh. They have allowed six rushing touchdowns too, 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:50.479 and once runs a man from time time, He's got 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:54.560 four rushing on the year. It's a spot. As for 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.600 as bad as he's looked, he usually ends up with 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:01.000 multiple touchdowns in the game one way or another. The catches, 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.840 it's the it's the turnovers. Did you know that Carson 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:08.920 Wentz leads the league in fumbles and interceptions? You know 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.840 hard it is to to be leading in both of 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:16.840 the turnover categories. If there were a third turnover category, 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.480 Carson Wentz would lead that too. I don't know what 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:23.040 it would be. Maybe something like eating a football and 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.800 then regurgitating it into the mouth of an opposing player 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.560 like a baby bird. Maybe that would be it. Carson 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.320 Wentz would lead that too, probably like Brett Favor Dave 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.840 Craig or something Dave Craig. He was an epic fumble 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:36.840 one time years ago. I did a TV show with 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:41.359 Dave Craig, and so I teased him on air about 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:45.520 the fumbling. He was so pissed. Oh, he did not 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.760 take that well at all. So if you ever run 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:52.040 into Dave Craig or Dave Craig, if you're listening, he 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.639 had the Gym Everett reaction. He got it in. He 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:56.400 got it in. All right, Brian, you take a chance 0:18:56.480 --> 0:19:00.720 at me, quarterback? All right, seventy six degree. He's cloudy, 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:04.520 no chance of rain. That's the weather in Jacksonville. For 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:10.399 Baker Mayfield. He survived monsoon season in Cleveland understandably, barely 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.280 posted any numbers over the last month. Well, no touchdown 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.320 since Week seven. But I'm attributing a lot of that 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.080 to the weather. I believe there was a buy mixed 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:20.560 in there as well. But he's passed the weather gauntlet. 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:23.200 And before all that mess, Baker had thrown any touchdown 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:25.679 in every game. He was averaging more than two passing 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.600 touchdowns per game on the season. The last four quarterbacks 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.239 that faced the Jaguars have it lead have hit at 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.360 least two d seventy passing yards and two passing touchdowns, 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.840 and Mayfield is a bit of a road warrior over 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.000 his career. It's not the longest career, but a pretty 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.560 good sample size. He's averaging nearly two passing touchdowns on 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:43.600 the road and less than one and a half passing 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.480 touchdowns at home. So Cleveland's itching to air it out. 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:48.119 They got to break the rust off of get the 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.440 rust off of his shoulders. So Baker Mayfield at Jaguars. 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:52.720 I'm going to Philip Rivers. Over the past five weeks, 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:55.520 which includes a game against this week's opponent, Tennessee, Rivers 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.199 is average a healthy two yards and two touchdowns. He's 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.040 playing better than I think people realize. Rivers played well 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:03.800 against Tennessee two weeks ago, and prior to facing a 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:09.359 broken Baltimore passing game, Tennessee was allowing two nine passing 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:11.400 yards and two point four touchdowns per game. I would 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.840 take two nine and two point four from Philip Rivers. 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:15.680 Let's go to the running back position, Scott, who's you 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:17.080 take a chance on your running By the way, on 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:22.600 Philip Rivers minus three yards rushing on the season, it's uh, 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:26.280 my running back is Boston Scott. Last week again he 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:28.840 vultured to score had eight touches. I think this is 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:30.480 a game where he's going to get more touches. I 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.359 find the Eagles are gonna be behind, have a lot 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:37.000 of offensive snaps trying to trying to catch up there. 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:39.720 This is a Seattle team that's allowed the fifth most 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:42.920 rushing touchdowns, fourth most running back receptions, fifth most running 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:46.679 back receptions, receiving yards, and and the secondary running back 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:49.679 scored a bunch. Chase Edmonds did it last week, Malcolm 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:51.560