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Speaker 1: today are Scott Fish and Brian Johnson. Hello, guys, what's
Speaker 1: going on? Charge? It is a weird, weird week. Um,
Speaker 1: we've had lots of COVID cases that have affected a
Speaker 1: lot of things, including a Tuesday game against the Steelers
Speaker 1: and Ravens that we don't know if that game is
Speaker 1: going to be played, although if history is any indication here,
Speaker 1: the league is going to do everything possible to play
Speaker 1: this game, and I do I believe it's going to happen,
Speaker 1: but it's it's creates a conundrum for a lot of
Speaker 1: fantasy owners who are going to have to make decisions
Speaker 1: for those early Sunday kickoff games to start and not
Speaker 1: not knowing for sure if that Tuesday game is going
Speaker 1: to go. If you have if you can make a
Speaker 1: lateral move or an almost lateral move by taking players
Speaker 1: from that game out and starting anyone else, you've just
Speaker 1: got to do it. In my opinion, We'll have some
Speaker 1: good pivots for you during the show, but the really
Speaker 1: the tough ones of the Pittsburgh Wide receivers, right the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Wide receivers are the biggest brought those correct, Those
Speaker 1: are the guys that were ranked the highest and and
Speaker 1: those are the toughest ones to play right now. Um,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, again, we've talked about this in show's past.
Speaker 1: For your friends and family leagues, for the majority of you, uh,
Speaker 1: the best thing is to have a conditional selection that
Speaker 1: you can make for another player who plays on Sunday
Speaker 1: and use that player in the event that your Steelers
Speaker 1: don't go use a conditional player who talked about it before.
Speaker 1: If that's not available for you for whatever reason, then
Speaker 1: to me, anybody who gets an A B grade I
Speaker 1: would definitely play over Ravens and Steelers and maybe even
Speaker 1: in some cases players who we give a C grate
Speaker 1: over the course of this show over Steelers and Ravens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even even with the great I think that I'm probably
Speaker 1: with you charge I I think it's getting played. I
Speaker 1: still got most of them out of my lineups just
Speaker 1: in case at this point if I have close enough,
Speaker 1: you know, comparables. Yeah right, Um, Brian, Let's go to
Speaker 1: our first matchup, which is Las Vegas taking on Atlanta.
Speaker 1: And for Las Vegas and Josh Jacobs, there's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a trickier matchup than it seems because Atlanta
Speaker 1: is a sneaky good run defense. Yeah after being like
Speaker 1: a bull's eye match up for five years at NACE.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so I'm just giving Josh Jacobs a B here.
Speaker 1: Just what looked like Jacob was gonna was gonna lose
Speaker 1: significant carries at DeVante Booker last week. He dominates at
Speaker 1: category SEV five. He should do the same against Atlanta.
Speaker 1: But again, there's no slouch against the run. Leave allowed
Speaker 1: just four rushing touchdowns to running backs this year. No
Speaker 1: back has topped ninety rushing yards against Atlanta, which is insane.
Speaker 1: And Atlanta has yielded the fourth most cares to running
Speaker 1: backs in gold the ghost scenarios and Josh J. Gibbs
Speaker 1: is a beast to say the least. So you're still
Speaker 1: gonna start with a B. And uh and again I'm
Speaker 1: like years past, like running backs would catch like ten
Speaker 1: catches minimum. The game against Atlanta has uh, well it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because Alec Ingle had more targets than Josh
Speaker 1: Jacobs and DeVante Booker last week combined. They don't. They
Speaker 1: just talk about throwing to Josh Jacobs is not There's
Speaker 1: no receiving angle for Jacobs when he still gets the b.
Speaker 1: There is a receiving angle for Darren Waller. He gets
Speaker 1: definitely gets an A. Has scored in four of his
Speaker 1: last six and here comes the Falcons who have allowed
Speaker 1: the fourth most reception, second most yards, and the most
Speaker 1: touchdowns two tight ends, So an A for Waller. Nelson
Speaker 1: agil are gonna give him a C. He's had three
Speaker 1: games with four and more catches all year, four or
Speaker 1: five and six for the catch totals. But he scored
Speaker 1: in each of those games and racked up two nine
Speaker 1: yards in those three games. So if he gets the ball,
Speaker 1: things happen. He has six touchdowns on the year two.
Speaker 1: That's a lot. That's like a lot more than like
Speaker 1: most of the top twenty preseason wide receivers right now,
Speaker 1: So I'm giving a la ce. Atlanta's top seven in
Speaker 1: most targets and yards allowed to wide receivers and third
Speaker 1: in yards allowed to the position. So see for alar
Speaker 1: and a B for Derek Carr. Nineteen passing touchdowns to
Speaker 1: only three interceptions. That's crazy impressive. That's like m v
Speaker 1: P caliber numbers there. And he's been very fantasy friendly
Speaker 1: to at least two passing touchdowns and seven of his
Speaker 1: last nine games and the one one of the games
Speaker 1: he fell short in. One of the two was the
Speaker 1: monsoon game in Cleveland, which we always a reference. It
Speaker 1: seems like every we always gotta go back to break.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a game, it was more like a season,
Speaker 1: a monsoon season in Cleveland for a month. And Atlanta
Speaker 1: has allowed the second most passing touchdowns and passing touch
Speaker 1: and passing yards. So a B for car over to
Speaker 1: the Atlanta side. We'll start with Julio Jones. Sounds like
Speaker 1: you'll play with the hamstring injured. Yeah, and if he does,
Speaker 1: will he be the decoy? So just to see if
Speaker 1: he suits up. Las Vegas is allowing one and seventy
Speaker 1: seven yards per game to opposing wide receivers. That is
Speaker 1: tenth most, and they have allowed of receivers to top
Speaker 1: one hundred yards and score a touchdown in three of
Speaker 1: the last five games. But if one Falcons receiver is
Speaker 1: gonna do that, It's more than likely gonna be Calvin Ridley,
Speaker 1: who gets the A has posted at least ninety yards
Speaker 1: already touchdown in every game he has started and finished
Speaker 1: this year, and his two healthy starts without Julio Ridley
Speaker 1: total twenty three targets an average on twenty three yards.
Speaker 1: He has a favorable matchup against Trayvon Mullen, who is
Speaker 1: allowing a passer rating of one on nine in his
Speaker 1: coverage and has given up four touchdowns. So in a
Speaker 1: for Ridley Hayden Hurst just to see here coming off
Speaker 1: the Goose egg Yeah, he's banged up, but he should play.
Speaker 1: Raiders allow roughly five catches and fifty two yards per
Speaker 1: game to tight ends. Hurst averages four catches in forty
Speaker 1: one yards per game. That's with the with the Goose eggs.
Speaker 1: So in the tight end waste land. I'll give him
Speaker 1: a sea here, but monitor of status. Like Scott said,
Speaker 1: he is a little banged up and Matt Ryan to
Speaker 1: another guy he really can't trust, and give him a
Speaker 1: seat uh the Raiders outside of the take out the
Speaker 1: Raiders Monsoon game in Cleveland, though in Las Vegas has
Speaker 1: allowed three twenty one passing yards and two point two
Speaker 1: touchdowns per game him over the last seven weeks, Atlanta
Speaker 1: throws the ball fourth most in the league. Julio's health
Speaker 1: is obviously huge for Ryan, but even if Julio sits,
Speaker 1: you still give him a c. But you can look
Speaker 1: elsewhere in one quarterback leagues and Todd Gurley has been
Speaker 1: ruled out. I was gonna give him a ce as
Speaker 1: bad as he has been, but Brian Hill now draws
Speaker 1: the start. Everyone's clamoring for the waiver wire already, probably
Speaker 1: before they even heard this, so I'll give him a
Speaker 1: CEE even though it's a bad matchup. Since Week four,
Speaker 1: no opposing back has top seventy rushing yards against the Raiders,
Speaker 1: but they have surrendered the second most touchdowns to running
Speaker 1: backs this year, so how many punches in? That was
Speaker 1: definitely the hope of Todd Gurley, because that's all that's
Speaker 1: too though. Yeah, the thirdteen goal line carries for Gurley,
Speaker 1: which is third most, and he converted six of him,
Speaker 1: so he was good at the goal line. That was
Speaker 1: the one place so you could count on Todd Gurley.
Speaker 1: It certainly wasn't in a yards per carry format where
Speaker 1: he's like three and a half yards per carry on
Speaker 1: the season. It's been terrible. Arizona takes on New England
Speaker 1: Scott last week we saw the shoulder injury for Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray and we got his first sort of middling production game.
Speaker 1: And now he's got a tricky but not impossible matchup
Speaker 1: with New England. What do you think? Right? And he
Speaker 1: came off on Friday. He came off the injury report,
Speaker 1: so completely clear, finding clear. Now it's still it still
Speaker 1: might affect him a little, but I still have an A.
Speaker 1: He was still an A start, even middling, so I
Speaker 1: still have an A grade on him. He has multiple
Speaker 1: touchdowns in let's see every single game this year. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's averaging over three per game in his last five.
Speaker 1: He only has four games this entire year under sixty
Speaker 1: yards rushing. That's like an extra touchdown right there, just
Speaker 1: added in rushing. Uh. DeAndre Hopkins A grade. I don't
Speaker 1: care that he's going to get stuff on Gilmore, who's
Speaker 1: sue has been you know, he's probably Yeah, he's banged up,
Speaker 1: so if he plays, but remember when Belichick used to
Speaker 1: take away your best option anymore. Metcalfe a touch lock
Speaker 1: at sixty seven in touch dig six two both Fuller
Speaker 1: and Cook's over eighty yards. I meant and all those
Speaker 1: games because those are games Gilmore played in so interesting
Speaker 1: um only and in the last two weeks he's allowed
Speaker 1: nearly a hundred thirty yards to wide receivers, So I
Speaker 1: think Hopkins could beat him. Honestly, I know, I know
Speaker 1: that they're looking for that matchup. I still have an
Speaker 1: A grade on Hopkins, although over Hopkins last month or so.
Speaker 1: Other than that, hail Mary catch numbers have been pretty pedestrian. Yeah. Yeah, Uh,
Speaker 1: Pats have allowed touchdowns to twelve different receivers. They have
Speaker 1: the third most touchdowns allowed at the position. Uh. They've
Speaker 1: allowed another five to top eight score scoreless yards. So
Speaker 1: I'm given Christian Kirkus. I think he's a sneaky play
Speaker 1: this week, especially if Gilmore plays. You know he'll he'll
Speaker 1: have well either way. If Gilmore does, Gilmour's not gonna
Speaker 1: touch him at all, So I like him this week.
Speaker 1: I have a B on Drake. The Patriots have really
Speaker 1: clamped down on running backs recently. They've only allowed three
Speaker 1: running backs over a hundred total yards that's rushing plus receiving,
Speaker 1: and all three took nineteen plus touches. But Drake's upside
Speaker 1: is that he gets fifteen plus touches in all but
Speaker 1: one game he's played, and they've allowed They've allowed about
Speaker 1: thirty six yards receiving two per game to running backs,
Speaker 1: so I think Drake can get it done here. Um Edmonds,
Speaker 1: I'm putting back on the bench as he was relegated
Speaker 1: to back up two days with just six touches last week,
Speaker 1: so frustrating. On the other side, Cam Newton is getting
Speaker 1: a B and it's uh, it's once again his rushing. Uh.
Speaker 1: Last week he did it with his passing, but listen
Speaker 1: to his home game passing yards at Gilette Stadium on
Speaker 1: Sto seven and one eighteen so bad. Conversely, on the
Speaker 1: road averaging over three hundred yards per game, weird at
Speaker 1: home had Gilette not getting it done. Uh, So he
Speaker 1: should get more of Russian opportunities this week though, Uh.
Speaker 1: It's it's a team. Arizona has allowed a hundred eighty
Speaker 1: rushing yards to quarterbacks over the last four weeks, and
Speaker 1: part of that is due to their forty percent blitz rate.
Speaker 1: They're forcing quarterbacks outside uh, rushing outside. Cam has played
Speaker 1: three teams with similar blitz rates. He has thirty five
Speaker 1: carries for a hundred and fifty yards and four touchdowns
Speaker 1: in those three games. So uh. His passing yards totals
Speaker 1: I've mentioned were bad. But in those games, those those
Speaker 1: blitz those heavy blitz games, he rushed the ball on
Speaker 1: average nine times. Uh. He yes, we got scolded for
Speaker 1: missing and nine times. In fact, he has rushed the
Speaker 1: ball at least nine times uh in seven different games. Uh.
Speaker 1: So I gotta be great on him. Unfortunately, the return
Speaker 1: of Harry made Myers less lovable option, and Bird had
Speaker 1: his first big game of the year. But here's the problem.
Speaker 1: H Bird had more targets over the last four games.
Speaker 1: Myers has only missed four snaps, one each game. Harry
Speaker 1: had more targets than both of them last week, but
Speaker 1: put up just forty one yards. It's a mess. I
Speaker 1: don't know what. And we've mentioned the passing yard shtals.
Speaker 1: I got well on the bench Harrison White. I'm giving
Speaker 1: both C grades to Burke. Head went down with the injury,
Speaker 1: so he clears the way for White to grab grab passes.
Speaker 1: He got six catches last week. Uh. Weirdly, James White
Speaker 1: out snapped Damian Harris last week. I did not see
Speaker 1: that coming. I didn't either. He had been so lightly
Speaker 1: used for several games. Yeah, I I have C grades
Speaker 1: on Harrison White Harris Scott twelve touches, White guy to
Speaker 1: eleven touches. I can see them both with double digit touches.
Speaker 1: Touches here, it's all about Michelle. If he comes in
Speaker 1: and plays, uh takes away snaps. I hope it's just
Speaker 1: that minimal five six, seven touches that that allows both
Speaker 1: of those guys in double digits. That all makes sense.
Speaker 1: Carolina goes to Minnesota and let's start with the running
Speaker 1: game and Mike Davis. It will be another Mike Davis game.
Speaker 1: By the way, the Vikings are top ten and in
Speaker 1: allowing rushing attempts and rushing yards to opposing running backs,
Speaker 1: but their performance has been very volid over the past
Speaker 1: four games. In two they held down a very good
Speaker 1: Green Bay running attack in Chicago's running attack to just
Speaker 1: fifty three yards game, but then in the other two
Speaker 1: they allowed a struggling Dallas rushing attack and Detroit's rushing
Speaker 1: attack to average a hundred forty three yards. Go figure.
Speaker 1: You would think those have been flipped. I don't expect
Speaker 1: much through the air either way, though, No back his
Speaker 1: top thirty six receiving yards against the Vikings. They've been
Speaker 1: great at stopping opposing backs through the air, and that's
Speaker 1: been a lot of where Mike Davis has helped and
Speaker 1: that's why he gets a B grade in this game.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the passing game. Teddy Bridgewater fully expected
Speaker 1: to resume quarterbacking duties here startable against a yielding Vikings secondary.
Speaker 1: Aside from Chicago's non functional offense, the Vikings are giving
Speaker 1: up two hundred eighty one yards and almost three touchdown
Speaker 1: passes per game. Who Teddy is not normally that kind
Speaker 1: of guy. UM, and each of the of his receivers
Speaker 1: have positive matchups UM, but he tops out to Sea
Speaker 1: because he's just not an explosive player. He has topped
Speaker 1: two touchdown passes once in his last nineteen games. So
Speaker 1: I know it's ultimate revenge scenario. Basically, I would love
Speaker 1: to seeing p J. Walker se I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think Teddy has revenge in him. No, don't sad scenario.
Speaker 1: Capitalize on it. How I'll put it to you this way,
Speaker 1: In Minnesota, when Teddy Bridgewater runs onto the field, he
Speaker 1: would get far more we're there, we're their fans in
Speaker 1: the stands. He would have gotten a far bigger ovation
Speaker 1: than Kirk Cousins would have gotten. That. It's not even close,
Speaker 1: not even close. All right, let's talk about his receiver's
Speaker 1: beginning with Curtis Samuel's got a matchup. I love Samuel
Speaker 1: has been a top five scoring wide receiver over the
Speaker 1: last five weeks thanks to his five touchdowns and his
Speaker 1: regular use as a runner. He overwhelmingly lines up in
Speaker 1: the slot, where he matches up against Vikings rookie Jeff Gladney.
Speaker 1: You might be wondering, how is Jeff Gladney doing this year? Well,
Speaker 1: he has allowed the most passing touchdowns in his coverage
Speaker 1: than any cornerback well, for that matter, any player period.
Speaker 1: And it's by two that bad. It's given up seven stdowns. Yes,
Speaker 1: Jeff Sadney, Oh that might that might stick. I'm afraid
Speaker 1: let's hope that's not. Uh So, be great on Curtis Samuel,
Speaker 1: Be great and DJ Moore, I like the p J
Speaker 1: Walker gave him a ton of volume last week and
Speaker 1: more than Teddy ever did, and then more responded with
Speaker 1: a very big game last week. He runs from all
Speaker 1: over the field. He'll most often see rookie Camelot Cameron Danzler,
Speaker 1: who's giving up a passer rating of one thirty. So
Speaker 1: I like DJ Moore here and let's just hope Teddy
Speaker 1: learns from a little bit what p J. Walker showed
Speaker 1: last week. You can target d J Moore. It's okay
Speaker 1: to do that. Robby Anderson gets a C grade. He
Speaker 1: hasn't scored since the opener um and his speed is
Speaker 1: frankly a mismatch for Teddy's arm, but the matchup is
Speaker 1: good against Chris Boyd. I believe he is startable in
Speaker 1: a pinch. Boyd allows seventy seven percent of the passes
Speaker 1: in his coverage to be completed. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: Viking side. Dalvin Cook obvious A grade and without Adam
Speaker 1: feeling At who is very unlikely to go. I expect
Speaker 1: the Vikings to do it comes naturally here. That's run
Speaker 1: the ball, and they don't need excuse to run the ball.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna take Adam Feeland away. Expect that much
Speaker 1: more running. So Cook gets the A grade. Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: is on the bench. I think you have to avoid
Speaker 1: these low volume games from Kirk. And if you like
Speaker 1: me and you think they're just gonna run against a
Speaker 1: bad run defense, this is the This is when you
Speaker 1: don't want to play Kirk. He averages twenty seven passes
Speaker 1: per game when he's below twenty seven. Kirk's average game
Speaker 1: two hundred two yards and one point four touchdowns. That
Speaker 1: is not a starting grade. Without guard Ezra Cleveland, last week,
Speaker 1: the Vikings offensive line looked brutal, and I'm worried about
Speaker 1: Kirk's Kirk's ability to get in a clean pocket as well.
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson is the only other Viking that you'll want
Speaker 1: to start a B grade here. He typically crushes it
Speaker 1: when he's heavily targeted and without feeling that should happen here.
Speaker 1: Jefferson has at least eighty six yards in five of
Speaker 1: the six games in which he has seen five targets. UM.
Speaker 1: He also has all four of his touchdowns in games
Speaker 1: where he's had those five targets. And I think he
Speaker 1: gets the five targets here. Favorable matchup as a Panther's
Speaker 1: defense allowing seventy one yards per game to receivers and um.
Speaker 1: The only other guys that I think you'd want to
Speaker 1: talk about. I know what I mean. If Smith unlikely
Speaker 1: to go, I mean maybe a Mark Andrews pivot there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think maybe maybe. I mean in a pinch, you
Speaker 1: could go that direction if you wanted to. Um, I
Speaker 1: don't have starting here, but that makes feeling. And if
Speaker 1: Smith out, I mean, they gotta go to they gotta
Speaker 1: go to something. Even if it's only twenty three passes,
Speaker 1: there's got to be something got, you would think. So,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm nervous about this passing game, the vikings
Speaker 1: in this matchup. Let's take a break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: nine players, many of whom are available on the waiver wire.
Speaker 1: We call it take a chance on me. Guys you
Speaker 1: would not normally start you can this week for a
Speaker 1: variety of reasons. Will tell you who they are. In
Speaker 1: this a very tumultuous week twelve. Stay tuned to Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. Take a chance on me. Nine players not
Speaker 1: normally in your starting line. I will tell you who
Speaker 1: they are and which ones you can. Many of these
Speaker 1: you'll be able to pick up off the waiver wire.
Speaker 1: We begin at the quarterback position, and Scott Fish, who
Speaker 1: you got? Okay, okay, I know he's looked terrible. He
Speaker 1: doesn't look he's probably on your waiver ward because he
Speaker 1: looks so bad. But even really bad qbs can find
Speaker 1: themselves startable in the right matchup. I have Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: They're going to be behind a lot. Seattle just lost
Speaker 1: Dunbar and there literally every QBA to face Seattle has
Speaker 1: had either yds or and or multiple more multiple touchdowns
Speaker 1: are both. Uh. They have allowed six rushing touchdowns too,
Speaker 1: and once runs a man from time time, He's got
Speaker 1: four rushing on the year. It's a spot. As for
Speaker 1: as bad as he's looked, he usually ends up with
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns in the game one way or another. The catches,
Speaker 1: it's the it's the turnovers. Did you know that Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz leads the league in fumbles and interceptions? You know
Speaker 1: hard it is to to be leading in both of
Speaker 1: the turnover categories. If there were a third turnover category,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz would lead that too. I don't know what
Speaker 1: it would be. Maybe something like eating a football and
Speaker 1: then regurgitating it into the mouth of an opposing player
Speaker 1: like a baby bird. Maybe that would be it. Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz would lead that too, probably like Brett Favor Dave
Speaker 1: Craig or something Dave Craig. He was an epic fumble
Speaker 1: one time years ago. I did a TV show with
Speaker 1: Dave Craig, and so I teased him on air about
Speaker 1: the fumbling. He was so pissed. Oh, he did not
Speaker 1: take that well at all. So if you ever run
Speaker 1: into Dave Craig or Dave Craig, if you're listening, he
Speaker 1: had the Gym Everett reaction. He got it in. He
Speaker 1: got it in. All right, Brian, you take a chance
Speaker 1: at me, quarterback? All right, seventy six degree. He's cloudy,
Speaker 1: no chance of rain. That's the weather in Jacksonville. For
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. He survived monsoon season in Cleveland understandably, barely
Speaker 1: posted any numbers over the last month. Well, no touchdown
Speaker 1: since Week seven. But I'm attributing a lot of that
Speaker 1: to the weather. I believe there was a buy mixed
Speaker 1: in there as well. But he's passed the weather gauntlet.
Speaker 1: And before all that mess, Baker had thrown any touchdown
Speaker 1: in every game. He was averaging more than two passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns per game on the season. The last four quarterbacks
Speaker 1: that faced the Jaguars have it lead have hit at
Speaker 1: least two d seventy passing yards and two passing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and Mayfield is a bit of a road warrior over
Speaker 1: his career. It's not the longest career, but a pretty
Speaker 1: good sample size. He's averaging nearly two passing touchdowns on
Speaker 1: the road and less than one and a half passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns at home. So Cleveland's itching to air it out.
Speaker 1: They got to break the rust off of get the
Speaker 1: rust off of his shoulders. So Baker Mayfield at Jaguars.
Speaker 1: I'm going to Philip Rivers. Over the past five weeks,
Speaker 1: which includes a game against this week's opponent, Tennessee, Rivers
Speaker 1: is average a healthy two yards and two touchdowns. He's
Speaker 1: playing better than I think people realize. Rivers played well
Speaker 1: against Tennessee two weeks ago, and prior to facing a
Speaker 1: broken Baltimore passing game, Tennessee was allowing two nine passing
Speaker 1: yards and two point four touchdowns per game. I would
Speaker 1: take two nine and two point four from Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the running back position, Scott, who's you
Speaker 1: take a chance on your running By the way, on
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers minus three yards rushing on the season, it's uh,
Speaker 1: my running back is Boston Scott. Last week again he
Speaker 1: vultured to score had eight touches. I think this is
Speaker 1: a game where he's going to get more touches. I
Speaker 1: find the Eagles are gonna be behind, have a lot
Speaker 1: of offensive snaps trying to trying to catch up there.
Speaker 1: This is a Seattle team that's allowed the fifth most
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns, fourth most running back receptions, fifth most running
Speaker 1: back receptions, receiving yards, and and the secondary running back
Speaker 1: scored a bunch. Chase Edmonds did it last week, Malcolm
Speaker 1: Brown and Darrell Henderson did a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Ja Michael Hasty and Jack McKinnon like the backup running.
Speaker 1: The second running back comes in and get scores. Why not, Brian,
Speaker 1: you take a chance of me running. Frank Gore at
Speaker 1: home against Miami. Count them up. This will be Frank
Speaker 1: Gore's sixth revenge game of the season. It's been two
Speaker 1: Buffaloes and it's a homecoming of sorts. If it's it's
Speaker 1: it's in Jersey. On the second time I played, we
Speaker 1: had two Buffaloes at Miami, a San fran and an
Speaker 1: Indie this year for revenge games for but Lea Michael
Speaker 1: Perne on I R right now for the Jets, So
Speaker 1: it looks like we'll have a bell cow on our
Speaker 1: hands against the Dolphins, who are fresh off allowing one
Speaker 1: dred and sixty plus rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: to Denver running backs last week. These teams met in
Speaker 1: Week six, Gore had forty six rushing yards on sixteen carries.
Speaker 1: Not great, but Perrine and Ty Johnson combined for sixty
Speaker 1: nine very nice yards on ten carries in that game.
Speaker 1: So give all that to Gore and this one, why
Speaker 1: not Adam Gaze, Frank Gore, Frank or all right? I
Speaker 1: am going with Wayne Gallman against Cincinnati. The Bengals are
Speaker 1: allowing one hundred twenty six rushing yards per game, fourth
Speaker 1: most on five point two arts per carry, that second most. Uh,
Speaker 1: not about Freeman again, he's on I R. Gollman has
Speaker 1: scored four in four consecutive games, and over those four games,
Speaker 1: his rushing attempts have increased every week. He was up
Speaker 1: to eighteen rushing attempts last week, and he gets back
Speaker 1: to that kind of territory this week, and he's a
Speaker 1: very good start. In fact, I think he's inside my
Speaker 1: top ten this week. Wayne Gallman. Your gall in. I'm
Speaker 1: gall in on Gollman. Let's go to the receiver position. Scott,
Speaker 1: who you got. I'm going with Jalen Reagor. It's sensing
Speaker 1: a trend here with my three picks. Yes, I am
Speaker 1: once again picking. You're picking on you on a bad,
Speaker 1: bad Seattle Seattle defense in secondary uh, even if its returns,
Speaker 1: it more than likely means Richard Rogers six targets are
Speaker 1: going over to earths. Maybe there's a little extra forts there,
Speaker 1: but Rigor is at least five targets in each of
Speaker 1: the last three weeks. His yardage hasn't been there yet,
Speaker 1: but the Seahawks have allowed the most yards and second
Speaker 1: most touchdowns to watch receivers. The Jeffrey return only took
Speaker 1: away fall of him. It didn't affect at all at all.
Speaker 1: Rigors to go to guy. I like him in this
Speaker 1: game a lot. All right, Brian, you take a chance
Speaker 1: for me. Receiver Cleveland's Richard Higgins at Jacksonville. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to mention why Richard Higgins hasn't done anything over
Speaker 1: the last month, because I will it was a stupid monsoon.
Speaker 1: But over Jacksonville's last four games, they're allowing more than
Speaker 1: fifteen catches and two and ten yards per game to
Speaker 1: opposing wide receivers. They've surrendered six total touchdowns to the
Speaker 1: position over those four games, and the Jaguars have also
Speaker 1: allowed one one yard receiver in each of their last
Speaker 1: six games. Yes, Jarvis Landry could be that guy for Cleveland,
Speaker 1: but it's not gonna be Cadarrel Hodge. It very well
Speaker 1: could be Richard Higgins at Jacksonville. Yeah, I like that play.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a good one, um. And you know
Speaker 1: it's not like Jarvis Landry's got big upside in him.
Speaker 1: Higgins has got more upside, big play potential than Jarvis.
Speaker 1: It's he or Hooper in the in the red zone
Speaker 1: for sure. My uh my, take a chance for me
Speaker 1: receiver in our final one for this segment is Jachiem Grant,
Speaker 1: the Miami water Bug who goes up against the Jets.
Speaker 1: Since Preston Williams injury, Jachim Grant has been on the
Speaker 1: field for eight percent of the Jets plays. And sorry,
Speaker 1: Miami's place, I said, Jets for Miami's place. Grant is
Speaker 1: a sneaky play against the Jets defense that has lost
Speaker 1: starting cornerbacks Bliss, Suan Austin who when and I are
Speaker 1: And then they just outright cut Pierre de Seer and
Speaker 1: he earned it. New York second day was already bottom
Speaker 1: five with those guys, and in their first game without them,
Speaker 1: they got smoked by Keenan Allen and Mike Williams, who
Speaker 1: combined for two seventeen yards and two touchdowns. And there's
Speaker 1: a chance Stu Beard comes back for that game. Oh,
Speaker 1: I would like that too, of may not play this one,
Speaker 1: and we'll find out. Also, let's find out what's happening
Speaker 1: more between Cleveland and Jackson. You've already talked about some
Speaker 1: of the players you like in this one, Brian, but
Speaker 1: let's start with Nick Chubb and the running game. Chubb
Speaker 1: has been very good since coming back. Yeah, definitely, twenty
Speaker 1: carries last week. Cream Hunk still siphoned off thirteen and
Speaker 1: the rushing score unfortunately, but uh, Chubb basically seeing Bell
Speaker 1: cow rushing usage. Even with Kareem Hunt in the fold.
Speaker 1: He was not targeted though for the second time in
Speaker 1: three games last week. In fact, Chub has not seen
Speaker 1: more than one target at any point this season. That's
Speaker 1: just not an aspect of his game. Unfortunately, but but
Speaker 1: what although he is a he's a service of all,
Speaker 1: they definitely not. They barely throw it a Kareem Hunt either.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about in the second the second, but the
Speaker 1: Jaguars do only fifth highest opponent and rushing play percentage
Speaker 1: and have allowed five rushing touchdowns to running backs over
Speaker 1: as many games. So in A for Chub and a
Speaker 1: B for Kareem Hunt mentioned the thirteen carries in a
Speaker 1: touchdown last week, he was the only Cleveland back to
Speaker 1: see a target, although it was just one. But the
Speaker 1: Jags have yielded the fifth most red zone targets to
Speaker 1: running backs, and there should be plenty of meat left
Speaker 1: on the bone for Hunt on the ground and this
Speaker 1: one who would be for Hunt? And I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: Jarvis Lanjury a B as well. I just talked about
Speaker 1: how bad the Jaguars have been against wide receivers, have
Speaker 1: allowed a one yard receiver in eat their last six games,
Speaker 1: six wide receiver touchdowns over their last four and for
Speaker 1: that reason, Richard Higgins was might take a chance on
Speaker 1: me wide receiver. And I really like Austin Hooper's matchup
Speaker 1: as well, and give him a B. There's a potential
Speaker 1: here though the Jaguars are awful against the position. They're
Speaker 1: allowing the most yards per catch and touchdowns two tight ends,
Speaker 1: and they've surrendered at least one tight end touchdown in
Speaker 1: six of their last nine games. And for all those
Speaker 1: positive matchups for the past catchers, Baker Mayfield was might
Speaker 1: take a chance on me quarterback and over to the
Speaker 1: Jaguar side. Not a lot to talk about here. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay have a new quarterback. We have a
Speaker 1: new quarterback. Uh yeah, I was, he was. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be the grand finale. I'll stay with James the order
Speaker 1: you want, I'll stay with James Robinson. Through ten weeks,
Speaker 1: Robinson his RB four overall, in RB six on a
Speaker 1: points pre game basis and PPR. That's crazy. Just that
Speaker 1: says more about the state of running backs in fantasy
Speaker 1: football this year than it does about James Robinson being
Speaker 1: a great talent. It does with only running back in
Speaker 1: NFL history to log one thousand plus combo yards through
Speaker 1: his first ten career games, the only undrafted running back
Speaker 1: to do so in the NFL history, and he's battling
Speaker 1: negative game scripts everyvery all the time, and sadly, he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna do that and in this one as well.
Speaker 1: The Browns have only allowed one total running back touchdown
Speaker 1: over their last four games, and during that same four
Speaker 1: game stretch, only Josh Jacobs has top seventy rushing yards
Speaker 1: against Cleveland and he did that on thirty one carry.
Speaker 1: So I'll give a bet to Robinson based on his volume,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna have to work to really come through.
Speaker 1: D J. Chark was gonna get a be but he
Speaker 1: has been ruled out. Um he had a great matchup
Speaker 1: because there's basically no one to match up against him
Speaker 1: or any other wide receiver. Denzel Award, the best cornerback
Speaker 1: on Cleveland, was the last guy standing. He's been ruled
Speaker 1: out of this game. So it's Laviska Chanlts and Chris
Speaker 1: connolly is I'll give yeah, they are both. He's been
Speaker 1: decent this year. To guy, he's the more safer PPR
Speaker 1: option between the two. But Chanalt has a very high
Speaker 1: floor in this one. As Jacksonville likely plays catch up
Speaker 1: with Mike Glennon at quarterback. He's on the bench. I
Speaker 1: do like said, yeah, you gotta like that from the
Speaker 1: last chance in the NFL starts, He's gonna let it rip.
Speaker 1: You know he's gonna be playing bon Jovi's Blaze of
Speaker 1: Glory on repeat pregame, over and over. You know, I
Speaker 1: hope I like a guy that's self aware enough to
Speaker 1: know this might be my last chance in the NFL.
Speaker 1: That's Mike Lennon. Hey one, bonus, take a chance on
Speaker 1: me player. I want to throw out to you guys,
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt's kicker Sarah Fuller. Yeah, I would love. I can
Speaker 1: only hope she gets in the game, she makes her kicks.
Speaker 1: It would be fantastic. We are rooting for Vanderbilt kicker
Speaker 1: Sarah Fuller this weekend. She will be our our tenth
Speaker 1: take a Chance on Me player. More Fantasy Football Weekly,
Speaker 1: coming back in Moments, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly Scott Fish,
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson and Paul Georgie and you can follow us
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Speaker 1: I don't blame you, honestly, Uh, if it comes down
Speaker 1: to those two at Brian Johns is at b t
Speaker 1: x J and I'm at Paul Chargion. We've got a
Speaker 1: number of matchups to get to over the course of
Speaker 1: this segment, beginning with Tennessee taking on Indianapolis. This is
Speaker 1: a tricky matchup for Tennessee and particularly in the passing game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's why I have Ryan Tannehill on the bench.
Speaker 1: It's tough draw for him. Tannehill has failed to top
Speaker 1: two and sixty yards in five straight and the Courts
Speaker 1: have allowed the fourth fewest passing yards to quarterbacks. Not
Speaker 1: a good spot. Tannehill multiple touchdowns in all but two games.
Speaker 1: Both Stafford and Rogers head good game games against the Colts,
Speaker 1: but this last four or five weeks for Tannehill, I
Speaker 1: just can't trust it. I am. I am giving c
Speaker 1: grades to A. J. Brown and Corey Davis, though uh
Speaker 1: Brown has scored in six of his seven. I know
Speaker 1: he's a little dinged up, but he should be fine.
Speaker 1: Outside of the one Dudd game, which was which was
Speaker 1: a dropped the sideline bomb that he likely would have housed. Yep, yep,
Speaker 1: I did. I did have it in here that he
Speaker 1: went one for twenty one in that in that game.
Speaker 1: Besides that one Dudd game, he's been very, very solid
Speaker 1: in all other games. Davis had five for sixty seven
Speaker 1: in that game, a very solid startable C grade stat line.
Speaker 1: He's actually been in that range in four the last
Speaker 1: five games, lead the Titans in targets for the last
Speaker 1: five games, which is surprisingly so C grade there Jonah Smith,
Speaker 1: he basically needs to be saved by touchdowns to to
Speaker 1: be relevant. In fact, Fuser has more catches over the
Speaker 1: last five weeks than Johnny Smith does. He does, he's
Speaker 1: he is. He is a tight end dependent, touched and
Speaker 1: touchdown dependent tight end, right, which is ridiculous consigned how
Speaker 1: skilty is which I agree completely. Of course, you know
Speaker 1: how I feel about this with John O JOHNU. But
Speaker 1: let me mention this. He does have more touchdowns than
Speaker 1: any tight end except Travis Kelsey. Yeah, and it's not bad.
Speaker 1: And here dependent tight end, Yeah, that helps. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: doesn't hurt to run him into. I have an A
Speaker 1: grade on Henry I. I don't think it matters anymore
Speaker 1: who he plays and divorce Buckner is on the COVID list,
Speaker 1: so he'll be out for this game. In the middle
Speaker 1: of that defense that Henry should be able to to
Speaker 1: run up. Colts have allowed nine rushing touchdowns all three
Speaker 1: backs of seventeen t more touches top nine yards. Henry
Speaker 1: average is like twenty four game. He's gonna get his.
Speaker 1: On the other side, you like Philip Rivers this week
Speaker 1: he do take a chance on me player rightly, So
Speaker 1: I have an A grade on Michael Pittman, maybe the
Speaker 1: first A grade on the show. Yeah, as you can imagine,
Speaker 1: the Titans are just as bad against wide receivers as
Speaker 1: Charge mentioned they were in the past against the past
Speaker 1: with his take a chance on me, second most receptions,
Speaker 1: fourth most yards allowed to watch receivers. Two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: Pittman broke out with seven catches for one yards against
Speaker 1: this very same defense. A grade there, Burton, Ali, Cox,
Speaker 1: Doyle tight Ends, they're on the bench. There's splitting too much.
Speaker 1: Taylor and Hines. Right after they say Hines is going
Speaker 1: to get the workload, Taylor gets twenty six touches. I
Speaker 1: do have a C grade on both here, hoping that
Speaker 1: Hines can get just enough out of the air and
Speaker 1: Taylor maintains that twenty twenty touch looad, which is no guarantee. No,
Speaker 1: it's no guarantee, but but you could probably rack them
Speaker 1: up both for wreck Taylor up for double digits regardless
Speaker 1: he gets those in his down games. Usually h Titans
Speaker 1: are really really bad against past sketching backs, one of
Speaker 1: the worst in the league, and hindes his top thirty
Speaker 1: five yards through the air and a couple of grabs
Speaker 1: in every single game but one. And uh so I
Speaker 1: have Sea grads on both of them. San Francisco takes
Speaker 1: on the Rams. The Rams have become the best overall
Speaker 1: defense in the NFL. Coults are close. I think it's
Speaker 1: Colts Rams one and two. Um. And also, as you're
Speaker 1: as you're looking at San Francisco players, watch for left
Speaker 1: tackle Trent Williams COVID status. If he cannot go in
Speaker 1: this one, it hurts in an already difficult matchup, almost
Speaker 1: everybody becomes unplayable. I think at that point ce Grade
Speaker 1: right now on Rackee Mostert, who comes back here. Now
Speaker 1: what's not clear is in his first game back, is
Speaker 1: he ready to withstand a big workload or not. Yes.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say with most Remember Michael Kaiser,
Speaker 1: they're leading tackler in the line in the linebacking corps
Speaker 1: is out is out for for the ramp for the Rams, Yes,
Speaker 1: which which is helpful. It was probably in your notes
Speaker 1: and I just thought okay, it's a there's a tough
Speaker 1: matchup for where he most the Rams allowing uh only
Speaker 1: an average of seventy five rushing yards per game, that's
Speaker 1: seventh fewest and zero point four touchdowns, second fewest to
Speaker 1: opposing running backs. They've been even better lately. No back
Speaker 1: his top forty eight rushing yards since all the way
Speaker 1: back to Week six, and Rahee Mostard who had sixty
Speaker 1: five yards, which is just okay, and only three point
Speaker 1: eight yards per carry, which is about what I expect
Speaker 1: in this game for Mostart. The only other player I
Speaker 1: have a starting grade on is tight end Jordan Read.
Speaker 1: It's because he's a tight end. We don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of options. The Rams are playing white outs, so well,
Speaker 1: the Niners might just choose to send the ball to
Speaker 1: Jordan Read go to the tight end instead. In the
Speaker 1: earlier matchup, George Kittle went berserk monster game against the
Speaker 1: Rams ten catch game that said Read is not George Kittle,
Speaker 1: and Kittle's big game is the only high volume tight
Speaker 1: end game the Rams have allowed all season long. So
Speaker 1: just to see grade on Jordan Read, it's a dart
Speaker 1: throw there. Everybody else is on the bench. Nick Mollins
Speaker 1: is a backup quarterback against the NFL's best past defense.
Speaker 1: That's not good. Deebo Samuel is trying to overcome a
Speaker 1: hamstring injury, and if he does start, he projects to
Speaker 1: draw Jalen Ramsey. That's death to him and then for
Speaker 1: Brandon I Ken needs to clear the COVID protocol before
Speaker 1: we even know if he can go, and then he
Speaker 1: might get Jalen Jalen Ramsey. If Deebo Samuel doesn't go,
Speaker 1: just let's just not play any of them. Let's be
Speaker 1: one of the worst Super Bowl hangovers in history. Are suffering. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know, in fairness, I mean all the injuries offensively
Speaker 1: and defensively. You know, it's but it's it is, it's gone.
Speaker 1: It's gone ugly fast for them. I was optimistic it
Speaker 1: wouldn't go this way, but it has. Let's go over
Speaker 1: to the ram side. Then, beginning with the passing game,
Speaker 1: Let's let's start with Jared Goffin gets a C grade
Speaker 1: in back to back games. We've gotten good Jared. And
Speaker 1: when he's good, you want to believe in that guy.
Speaker 1: And three yard against Seattle, monster game against Tampa. But
Speaker 1: then when he looks bad like he did in the
Speaker 1: earlier matchup with San Francisco. Here, like you just want
Speaker 1: to gouge your eyes out, and the Niners make at
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman backed for this game. That could be a
Speaker 1: that could be a serious game changer for that defense.
Speaker 1: Even without Sherman since the opener, San Francisco's past defense
Speaker 1: has been very good. They're giving up the second fewest
Speaker 1: passing yards without Sherman. Three quarterbacks Ryan Fitzpatrick, Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson. Those are three good quarterbacks have scored
Speaker 1: two thirds of the touchdowns given up by the Niners
Speaker 1: all year. The other eight quarterbacks are averaging one yards
Speaker 1: and zero point seven touchdowns. Jared Goff is not in
Speaker 1: the caliber of Aaron Rodgers Russell Wilson, so I think
Speaker 1: he is potentially sitting at a dud game here. Just
Speaker 1: to see grade for him B Grade and Cooper Cup.
Speaker 1: Over the past three games, Cup is seeing forty targets
Speaker 1: and he's averaging a hundred two yards. The problem is
Speaker 1: he's never found success against the forty Niners. In four
Speaker 1: career games against San Francisco, Cup has topped out at
Speaker 1: just thirty one yards as his best game. Against the Niners.
Speaker 1: That includes his eleven yard game against San Francisco earlier
Speaker 1: this year in the slotty matches up with Jamar Taylor.
Speaker 1: That's a neutral matchup. Taylor allows a lot of catches,
Speaker 1: but he does not give up big games. I think
Speaker 1: Kwan Williams might be back for this one after they
Speaker 1: reversed his suspension too. That would be very helpful. Not
Speaker 1: for the Rams. No, yes, um, Robert Woods gets a
Speaker 1: C grade in this one under the assumption that Richard
Speaker 1: Sherman returns because he Woods only runs even of his
Speaker 1: plays on the other side of the field, which means
Speaker 1: he'd be on the Sherman side. Upgrade Woods to a
Speaker 1: B without Sherman. Though some good news. Woods has tallied
Speaker 1: one yards or a touchdown in each of the past
Speaker 1: three meetings against San Francisco, so he's been successful here.
Speaker 1: In the Week six meeting, he only had four catches
Speaker 1: for twenty nine yards, but he did score a touchdown. Now,
Speaker 1: let's talk about all the people on the bench, all
Speaker 1: the Rams runners on the bench since Week eight. Get this,
Speaker 1: This tells you why you can't trust these guys. Sense
Speaker 1: Week eight cam akers Darryl Henderson, Malcolm Brown, have split
Speaker 1: touches exactly in thirds. It's impossible to trust any low
Speaker 1: volume back against a very good forty nine run defense
Speaker 1: allowing the fifth fewest rushing yards and the eighth fewest
Speaker 1: touches per game. Henderson posted a decent game against the
Speaker 1: Niners in the earlier meeting, but Acres wasn't getting the
Speaker 1: ball back then. So I don't trust any of them here.
Speaker 1: And they're on the bench and the two tight ends,
Speaker 1: same deal. They cannabalize each other. They are on the
Speaker 1: bench as well. Um today, I feel like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: missed anybody. No, I got everybody. That's all the Rams.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to Miami taking on the New
Speaker 1: York and Jets. Brian for Miami, we have some changes
Speaker 1: at the running back position. Yes, Salvin Ahamed probably not
Speaker 1: gonna play. He's out. He's ruled out and ruled out.
Speaker 1: So we're looking at Patrick Lair DeAndre Washington. They might
Speaker 1: be able to get Myles Gas back and come off.
Speaker 1: But that's I think he's here. I think they're going
Speaker 1: to press him into service, full time service. I not,
Speaker 1: but I feel like they don't like the other backs.
Speaker 1: That's what they should they flat out. It feels like
Speaker 1: a week to to not go to go all in
Speaker 1: on one of them, because it seems like it's going
Speaker 1: to be a platoon in my mind. Uh. And the
Speaker 1: Jets run defense is actually shaped up quite nicely over
Speaker 1: the last month, and it's not as easy of a
Speaker 1: run matchup for Miami as it is a pass matchup. No. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the opportunities are there for running backs. New York is
Speaker 1: one of twelve teams with an opponent rushing flavors centage
Speaker 1: north oft. They've also yielded the most red zone targets
Speaker 1: to running back, so that that plays into the past game.
Speaker 1: But again, picked your poison. It's probably gasking if you
Speaker 1: gonna go with one of these three guys. But I
Speaker 1: think you just got to see how this pans out
Speaker 1: and move forward with the Miami Backs next week. Uh.
Speaker 1: Speaking of more questionable players to don't go, Viola probably
Speaker 1: will play and assume he does with the thumb injury,
Speaker 1: UNA give him a c. The Jets have allowed the
Speaker 1: third most passing yards and the tenth most passed passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns this year. Seven straight quarterbacks have thrown for three
Speaker 1: hundred yards end or multiple touchdowns against the Jets, yes
Speaker 1: two of us bench last week. It was probably more
Speaker 1: attributed to the thumb injury than his play, which wasn't
Speaker 1: looking too good, but again hopefully that was because of
Speaker 1: the thumb. So A c for two of a very
Speaker 1: soft one. DeVante Parker just to be here, only three
Speaker 1: catches for three five score of the yards in the
Speaker 1: first meeting these teams played in Week six. By the way,
Speaker 1: Parker only has one touchdown across his last four games
Speaker 1: against the Jets and hasn't topped sixty yards against them
Speaker 1: either during that span. But as long as the game
Speaker 1: script isn't completely flipped, Miami won this game twenty four
Speaker 1: nothing in the first matchup, so there was like no
Speaker 1: need for offense really on the Miami side. Parker should
Speaker 1: be fine against the Jets, so if the script is
Speaker 1: not flipped. The Jets recently lost starting corners blasan awesome
Speaker 1: tie Are and uh Pierre de si Here who just
Speaker 1: was released, so we didn't really lose him, they jettisoned him,
Speaker 1: so neither were any good anyway when they were playing.
Speaker 1: But the Chargers wide outs top two hundred yards and
Speaker 1: scored twice against the Jets last week, so b for
Speaker 1: Devanta Parker and Jakeem Grant. Was your take a chance
Speaker 1: of baby wide receiver? I like that definitely. And again
Speaker 1: the sneaky, sneaky daily angle with a guy like Grant,
Speaker 1: as he returns kicks as well, and you pair him
Speaker 1: with the defense, you can double up on that bonus. Uh,
Speaker 1: Mike Gisicky can give him a sea has put up
Speaker 1: at least forty yards and three straight games and has
Speaker 1: recorded at least four targets in each of those games
Speaker 1: as well. Of all the tight ends to garner at
Speaker 1: least four targets against the Jets, and that's a lot
Speaker 1: of them, only one has failed to hit six yards
Speaker 1: or score a touchdown. But keep in mind Kausik he
Speaker 1: was blanked in the first meeting. But again Miami did
Speaker 1: not need much offense in that one. Over to the
Speaker 1: Jet side real quick. Frank gore As might take a
Speaker 1: chance to running back, he'd probably be a bell cow.
Speaker 1: In his sixth revenge game of the season, Jamison Crowder
Speaker 1: Uh finds himself in a very crowd dead wide receiver
Speaker 1: room all of a sudden give him as see though
Speaker 1: Uh target totals of two and three since returning from injury,
Speaker 1: but as with Joe Flacco, uh Sam Darnald Donald is
Speaker 1: going to make his return. Cooper Cup and Keenan Allen
Speaker 1: have top two hundred yards or scored against Miami in
Speaker 1: recent weeks from the slot, So Crowder gets a see,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bench Breshad Perriman and Denzel Mims. Perriman is
Speaker 1: coming on strong, was developed developing a nice rapport with Flacco,
Speaker 1: but those days are over. He had three touchdowns over
Speaker 1: his last two games. Perriman probably sees a lot of
Speaker 1: Avian Howard, who has ranked fifth and coverage among back
Speaker 1: by Pro Football Focus. And Mims again a guy we
Speaker 1: like on this show, an up and coming prospect, but
Speaker 1: not this week. Keep him on your bench, but make
Speaker 1: sure he has rostered and then Sam Donald will make
Speaker 1: his return. Did not play in the first meeting that
Speaker 1: was a Flacco game, but we got to see something
Speaker 1: first from Sam before we insert him into our starting lineup. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe a few times before, but I think we need
Speaker 1: to see a lot before we put him in starting lineups. Um,
Speaker 1: we have a moment or two before the break Scott.
Speaker 1: Among running backs, there's a hierarchy of Derrick Henry Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 1: maybe Aaron Jones, Alvin Kamara as four elite backs. Is
Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson the next backup. He's a roughly top five
Speaker 1: at this point. He's getting there, and it's it's weird
Speaker 1: because he's one of those guys that we kind of
Speaker 1: saw this extreme. We were like, either he's gonna bust
Speaker 1: or he's gonna be big because he's such an athletics
Speaker 1: him and so good in the receiving game that he's
Speaker 1: not being used in yet. So once mckissic leaves town
Speaker 1: or they figure out to you, like I think, I
Speaker 1: think Gibson is still just he's learning how to build
Speaker 1: early down NFL running back and he's big enough to
Speaker 1: handle that load. Once he gets his full game around him.
Speaker 1: I think it's absolutely possible. Yeah, I do too. There's
Speaker 1: that kid is going to be very good. I've seen
Speaker 1: this thrown around out there, and I think it's absolutely right.
Speaker 1: He's kind of like this year's Miles Sanders. Miles Sanders
Speaker 1: did in the receiving game and now he's got the
Speaker 1: full compliment. This year, Gibson is doing the running game
Speaker 1: and he'll get the receiving later. He's a converted wide
Speaker 1: receiver for Pete's sake, throwing him the ball. Who would
Speaker 1: you you know, if you're Washington and your Ron Rivera
Speaker 1: and Scott Turner, who would you rather have get the
Speaker 1: ball in space at the end of a reception? J D,
Speaker 1: Mick suck Itt or Antonio Gibson He's back, Yeah, well
Speaker 1: when I need him to sound bad, kissics making it work.
Speaker 1: And I think they want Gibson to focus on learning
Speaker 1: this role and that's why he hasn't gotten it yet.
Speaker 1: But it's coming. I think it is coming. Um. If
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Speaker 1: is a game. We call three tough questions. I will
Speaker 1: pepper my co host, with three tough questions. They will
Speaker 1: try to get them right. You'll try to get the
Speaker 1: right player along. See if you can go three you know,
Speaker 1: tough question number one. Dalvin Cook's playoffs schedule is brutal.
Speaker 1: Should his owners trade him Scott? Yes, definitely. If you're
Speaker 1: the fantasy manager that's definitely going to miss the playoffs
Speaker 1: and you're done with the season and you don't care,
Speaker 1: sure why not. It's a Mike McCarthy move, Matt Patricia move,
Speaker 1: It's it's mostly an out of games move. Just trade
Speaker 1: trade Cooking. You know, let's let's make our team worse
Speaker 1: for no good reason. Uh the way this year is
Speaker 1: going a healthy back getting twenty plus touches. I don't
Speaker 1: care what the matchup is. I'm keeping Dalvin Cook on
Speaker 1: my roster. I know you could probably get a decent
Speaker 1: amount for him, but I just trust him through through,
Speaker 1: even through the bad matchups. In most scenarios, the answer
Speaker 1: is no, many many scenarios, just you hold on too,
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook. But since there are a couple, I'll have
Speaker 1: to make my answer. Yes, you should trade Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 1: If you're really on the outside looking in but you're
Speaker 1: clinging to playoff hopes, you have no right to be there,
Speaker 1: but you are because of Dalvin Cook. And if you can,
Speaker 1: and I never like doing a three for one or
Speaker 1: two for one rom heavy where I'm getting two or
Speaker 1: three players for one. But if you basically have no
Speaker 1: chance to make the playoffs, would you could? But you
Speaker 1: want to both threw yourself up and based on the
Speaker 1: bad matchups. If I can get a QB one and
Speaker 1: a wide receiver one in like an RB two for
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook and someone's gonna pay that, that's the right hatch.
Speaker 1: If you need depth, you can get a lot. But
Speaker 1: if you're already gonna be in the playoffs, I have
Speaker 1: no problem starting Dalvin Cook in those matchups if he's healthy.
Speaker 1: But uh, I guess that's my answer is yes, though,
Speaker 1: yes you should trade Dalvin Cook in some instances. Week fourteen,
Speaker 1: he faces Tampa. Tampa is number one defense in yards allowed,
Speaker 1: number one defense and yards per carry number three and
Speaker 1: fantasy points allowed. Then Week fifteen, Vikings have the Bears.
Speaker 1: This is the easy game. The Bears have given up
Speaker 1: the second fewest touchdowns to running backs. Then Week sixteen.
Speaker 1: If you get that far for the champion hip game,
Speaker 1: all you have to do is play the Saints. The
Speaker 1: Saints are number two in yards allowed and number one
Speaker 1: in fantasy points allowed. Their last one yard game was
Speaker 1: allowed to a runner was three years ago. Who did it, Scott? Go? Figure? Now,
Speaker 1: if the offensive line for the Vikings were better, I'd
Speaker 1: be defiant and I would just say, you know what,
Speaker 1: they're gonna run on that team, and they're gonna run
Speaker 1: through those teams anyway. But I don't see that in
Speaker 1: this Vikings offensive line. This is not a team that
Speaker 1: can just exert their will that way. And if you've
Speaker 1: got Cook, you're probably headed to the playoffs because Cook
Speaker 1: has powered due to the playoffs. You don't need week
Speaker 1: twelve wins. You don't need week thirteen wins. You're playing
Speaker 1: to get to the playoffs and then go get the championship.
Speaker 1: You need three straight wins in the playoffs. Is it
Speaker 1: is Dalvin Cooking the Vikings going to dud in any
Speaker 1: of those three matchups? Well, probably yes, in any of
Speaker 1: them he could. Chicago and Minnesota played in Week ten,
Speaker 1: Cook had nineties six yards. That's great rushing yards on
Speaker 1: thirty carries, yeah, thirty carry yet three or whatever three
Speaker 1: point three perk and no touchdowns. Of course, right this
Speaker 1: isn't This is all about getting to win at the
Speaker 1: end of Week sixteen, and you can't have your best
Speaker 1: player hitting you with a dudd in one of those weeks.
Speaker 1: So you can name your price on Cook. When you
Speaker 1: dial up the Derrick Henry owner and offer him Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 1: he's got to think about that offer. That's like the
Speaker 1: one one for one you can listen with. Derrick Henry's
Speaker 1: got in the playoffs Jacksonville, Detroit, Green Bay. That's money
Speaker 1: right there. Nobody. Derrick Henry is gonna win a lot.
Speaker 1: He's gonna win a lot of leagues. And that's a
Speaker 1: trade you might be able to pull off right now.
Speaker 1: You could trade for Aaron Jones, he's got Detroit, Carolina,
Speaker 1: Tennessee very favorable. You could trade for Josh Jacobs, hope
Speaker 1: he gets through Indi so he can get the Chargers
Speaker 1: in the Dolphins, Alvin Kamara, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Minnesota. They're
Speaker 1: just there are other options all you care about at
Speaker 1: this stage. If you have Dalvin Cook and you're going
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, he is getting to week sixteen, and
Speaker 1: I don't think he cannot hit you with duds in
Speaker 1: three straight brutal matchups. Tough question number two. Washington head
Speaker 1: coach Ron Rivera says that he'd like Alex Smith to
Speaker 1: be his quarterback next year for Terry Mclaurin's Keeper League,
Speaker 1: Dynasty League, Empire League managers. Does this hurt help or
Speaker 1: really neither? Brian, But we can just throw help out
Speaker 1: the window, And no one's ever been like, oh, we
Speaker 1: got Alex Smith, that's really gonna bode well my wide
Speaker 1: receiver one next year. So it's between hurt and neither.
Speaker 1: So since Alex Smith has had three full ish seasons
Speaker 1: with twenty plus passing touchdowns, seventeen he finished with twenty
Speaker 1: six passing touchdowns, so he's not been a great quarterback
Speaker 1: from a fantasy perspective, but has been able to support
Speaker 1: a wide receiver one in those years. And twenty thirteen
Speaker 1: Jamal Charles led the team in catches, yards and receiving touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I think that was the year he had like five
Speaker 1: receiving touchdowns against the Raiders though or something like that,
Speaker 1: but Dwayne bow was the leading wide receiver that year.
Speaker 1: His numbers are not spectacular, so not off to a
Speaker 1: good start. But in Jeremy Macklin led the team with
Speaker 1: eighty seven catches, eleven yards and eight touchdowns. Those are
Speaker 1: wide reaper one numbers. Uh. And in seventeen and Travis
Speaker 1: Kelsey was in the mix that year from Macklin, he
Speaker 1: hadn't quite popped off like we've seen him now. But
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, Tyreek Hill seventy five catches, twelve yards,
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns with a very explosive Travis Kelsey in the lineup.
Speaker 1: So Smith has supported wide receiver one numbers and what
Speaker 1: we've seen so far, he's locked in on Terry McLaurin.
Speaker 1: And if he does that next year, I think it
Speaker 1: cannot hurt him with Alex Smith as his quarterback, all right. Uh,
Speaker 1: First off, that's Perryan stat courtis sa Adams or I
Speaker 1: like to credit where credit is due. Uh On this
Speaker 1: one though, I actually kind of disagree that. I think
Speaker 1: it can help him because it's a lot more consistency
Speaker 1: from al Smith then what he's had to deal with
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position previously. They've played three and three
Speaker 1: quarters games. So Alex Smith came in after the first
Speaker 1: quarter at the very very very end of the first
Speaker 1: quarter of the game. So he played three quarters of
Speaker 1: one game and then three straight games. McLaren's worst game
Speaker 1: of those four five eighty four from Alex Smith. The
Speaker 1: Alex Smith in that in that game through and a
Speaker 1: score in that three quarters, and then he's been eighty
Speaker 1: four more and five or more catches in the three
Speaker 1: after that. Uh. I did put neither though, because you
Speaker 1: know there's gonna have to be some dud's coming. Uh,
Speaker 1: it will happen. But he was very up and down
Speaker 1: with the Hodgepodge, so I I think it's right middle
Speaker 1: of the road. It's definitely not like a stud young
Speaker 1: quarterback that they can grow with. And he can be
Speaker 1: a target hog like air bear to to Keenan Allen,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna be just fine. Um. Having Alex Smith
Speaker 1: as the quarterback next year for the was in Keeper Leagues,
Speaker 1: Dynasty Leagues, Empire Leagues hurts. McLaren isn't producing any better
Speaker 1: statistically under Smith than he was under Dwayne Haskins or
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen. It's all been the same, and with Smith's
Speaker 1: age and diminishing arm, he's not able to unlock the
Speaker 1: best to McLaurin. The sooner Washington finds a young talented quarterback,
Speaker 1: the sooner McLaren become becomes a bonkers, elite, top five receiver.
Speaker 1: To be fair, I don't think he's ever had the
Speaker 1: arm that's been one that's to diminish. Actually, you actually
Speaker 1: have to have a presence in the arm for to diminish.
Speaker 1: My problem with those other quarterbacks where their averages. He
Speaker 1: had a bunch of under forty yard games with Dog Smith.
Speaker 1: He's never been under eighty four. Well, he's only at
Speaker 1: one game under sixty one yards all year. One game.
Speaker 1: It's performed the same with all of them. As here's
Speaker 1: what we want. Look at Keenan Allen under Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: and Tyrod Taylor, and look at Keilan, Keen and Allen
Speaker 1: under Air Bear. This is what we want for Terry McLaurin,
Speaker 1: arguably the most talented receiver in the league. I mean,
Speaker 1: just from a talent standpoint, we until they get a
Speaker 1: quarterback who can unlock his potential, he's gonna languish as
Speaker 1: this second tier receiver. You have to get that young guy,
Speaker 1: and killing years with Alex Smith doesn't get you where
Speaker 1: you want to be. When you're a keeper league, Dynasty League,
Speaker 1: or Empire League manager. Question number three. Luckily, Washington's on
Speaker 1: pace for a top five pick or a bottom bottom
Speaker 1: could go any direction right three tough Question number three
Speaker 1: one more? Do we sabotage drop every Ram and buccaneer
Speaker 1: running back? Scott? I wanna. I don't know how to
Speaker 1: even answer this, because I say yes, no questions, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you how to answer. What you're asking is barely possible,
Speaker 1: like the type of fantasy manager that would pick up
Speaker 1: a Bucks or Raps already back, probably as a dubster
Speaker 1: fire going on already, So you're just throwing a match
Speaker 1: into a dumpster fire that they already have. Uh you can? I?
Speaker 1: I would? I. I really don't want anything to do
Speaker 1: with them, even though the Rams, like Clayss schedule is
Speaker 1: very good, Like if one of them can separate themselves,
Speaker 1: that would be a nice stash, But I'd rather have
Speaker 1: nothing to do with those backs right now, Brian, can
Speaker 1: we sabotage drop every Rams and buccaneer running back the Rams? Definitely? Yes,
Speaker 1: that's easy. And even though between Leonard Fournette and Ronald
Speaker 1: Jones it's been there's been like six instances where it's
Speaker 1: like the stars have perfectly aligned for it to be
Speaker 1: player X is week, but then it's player Y who
Speaker 1: goes off. If I roster both of them and in
Speaker 1: both of them, meaning for Net and Jones, I will
Speaker 1: hold and just hope one can truly establish himself, and
Speaker 1: it's probably have to come through injury. It would have
Speaker 1: to be so that that that's so, I guess I
Speaker 1: will say. I'm gonna say yes, even though that one
Speaker 1: rare instance would be a no. But yes, you can
Speaker 1: drop them all though there their trash. Yes, you can
Speaker 1: sabotage drop every Rams and buccaneer running back. Does this
Speaker 1: mean that every Rams and bucket you're running back is terrible?
Speaker 1: No it doesn't. Does this mean that none of them
Speaker 1: will ever have a good game? No, some of them
Speaker 1: will have good games. Will you be able to predict
Speaker 1: which player is going to have a good game and
Speaker 1: when No, No you're not, And you're gonna get it
Speaker 1: wrong way more than you're gonna get it right. The
Speaker 1: playoffs are almost here, and in the playoffs you have
Speaker 1: to win three games in a row. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: starting any Ram or Buccaneer player running back confidence for
Speaker 1: three games in a row. There always gonna produce three
Speaker 1: games in a row for that teams. Those teams. No
Speaker 1: ram or buccaneer running back has a starting grade this week,
Speaker 1: which tells you plenty as well, you're not starting them
Speaker 1: this week. You're not starting and beyond yes, you can
Speaker 1: sabotage drop them all. That's work in one more matchup
Speaker 1: into this segment, and it is the Chargers taking on
Speaker 1: Buffalo Scott for the Chargers, justin air, Bear has become
Speaker 1: an unbending Come on, yes, he's unbengeable. I I gave
Speaker 1: him a grade just because he's so unbengeable. He's he's
Speaker 1: he's a guy who has thirty three plus yards and
Speaker 1: or multiple multiple touchdowns in let me check my notes
Speaker 1: on this one again, every single game he's played. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Bills are actually bottom five against quarterbacks bits,
Speaker 1: mostly because they have a lot of ton of rushing
Speaker 1: stuff to quarterbacks that is that has put them there.
Speaker 1: And Herbert it's usually like a ten to twenty yards guy,
Speaker 1: So don't count on that. But I I trust Herbert
Speaker 1: right now. Uh keenan Allen a grade. He's averaging ten
Speaker 1: plus targets per game with Herbert leads the NFL and
Speaker 1: targets and receptions, you can't bench him. C grade for
Speaker 1: Williams has at least four catches in five of the
Speaker 1: last six, and in those five games, he averaged nineteen
Speaker 1: yards per reception, good for eighty yards and scored four times.
Speaker 1: Uh second wide receiver has four catches or more in
Speaker 1: seven in the last seven Bills games. Now, you don't
Speaker 1: think Mike Williams is gonna at trade Avious White coverage
Speaker 1: in this one. It's possible. But have you how many
Speaker 1: how many wide receivers do you think are better at
Speaker 1: contested catches in the NFL that Mike Williams so big
Speaker 1: they go up and get it. I said that, I
Speaker 1: said this, What was it last year? I think it
Speaker 1: was last year with Kenny Golladay when he went up
Speaker 1: against White. I said, I don't care contested catches. They
Speaker 1: can they can overcome that. So I trusted Mike Williams
Speaker 1: for the C grade here, Henry, I gotta B grade
Speaker 1: to the problem with Henry is he hasn't topped fifty
Speaker 1: yards since Week three. That's what That's what gets me
Speaker 1: with this. Otherwise, the Bills have allowed the most receptions,
Speaker 1: most yards, and third most touchdowns to tight ends. They
Speaker 1: have allowed quite as much since Week six, but they
Speaker 1: faced Chris Herndon, Ryan is Oh, Jacob Hollister, and Dan Arnold,
Speaker 1: so so I will go more with what they did
Speaker 1: early in the year. Clergan's better tight ends. Uh. The
Speaker 1: tight ends that are more on bar with Henry in
Speaker 1: that early part average seven and a half catches and
Speaker 1: eighty yards and a touchdown. So that's where they give
Speaker 1: it up. The running back position is where it's really
Speaker 1: tough for this one. Ekeler might play. They don't. He
Speaker 1: probably won't, but he might. Blage probably not going to play,
Speaker 1: but he might eat. He's he's been hurt all week.
Speaker 1: The the internet doctors don't think he's gonna go. If
Speaker 1: if Blage goes, I'm starting him because he's got sixteen
Speaker 1: plus touches in three straight good for seventy yards in each.
Speaker 1: That's right along with what the Bills are doing. All
Speaker 1: the starters they allowed fifteen plus touches, two did seventy
Speaker 1: to twenty yards. You can count on that. Uh. If not,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Pope and Kelly. It's Troy Mayne, Pope's birthday.
Speaker 1: On your angle and there. Yeah, and he he had
Speaker 1: more touches than Joshua Kelly the one game that uh
Speaker 1: ballot the game before ballots really took over. So maybe,
Speaker 1: but I have them both on the bench. I don't
Speaker 1: know who to trust if Blage is out. So on
Speaker 1: the other I'd like to think at this point, you're
Speaker 1: nobody listening. Has to start Troy main Pope, Yeah, that
Speaker 1: would be that's that's that's really reaching. But the running
Speaker 1: back landscape, man, it's it's it's bad. Yeah. On the
Speaker 1: other side, josh Allen John Brown is going to be
Speaker 1: out for this game, so it makes it a little
Speaker 1: rougher for Allan. But the charges have allowed multiple touchdowns
Speaker 1: in five straight uh, none of them top two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty yards. But Allen has seven fifty total yards
Speaker 1: and six touchdowns in the last two games. He's he's
Speaker 1: really coming on strong right now, Digs, you're not mentioning him.
Speaker 1: I got an a grade their second in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and targets, receptions and yards double digit PPR points in
Speaker 1: let me check my notes on this one. Every same
Speaker 1: go game. He only has one game with fewer than
Speaker 1: six catches. He just gets it done. I do have
Speaker 1: a C grade on Gabriel if John Brown sits. He
Speaker 1: has produced in the games John Brown has been gone
Speaker 1: five one all three of those games over fifty yards
Speaker 1: cut three touchdowns like he's produced. One of his touchdown
Speaker 1: was not in one of those games was a game
Speaker 1: that John Brown left early. But uh, like a six
Speaker 1: yard touchdown or whatever. Beasley I'm putting on the bench
Speaker 1: just because he's been so hit or miss. With John
Speaker 1: Brown out, he might see a little extra work. But
Speaker 1: I I did Gabriel a little bit more here. Uh Moss,
Speaker 1: Zack Moss, you know that guy. I'm familiar and I
Speaker 1: kind of like him in this matchup. I do. I
Speaker 1: have a B grade on him. Moss has outtouched Singletary
Speaker 1: in two straight games, out snapped him in three straight.
Speaker 1: He's the guy you want to start against the Chargers
Speaker 1: defense that has allowed eight touchdowns to running backs in
Speaker 1: just the last five games, six running backs over sixty
Speaker 1: yards in that five game stretch. As well, I have
Speaker 1: Singletary on the bench. Yeah, the Cody Ford is going
Speaker 1: to be out for the rest of the season, which
Speaker 1: is a loss to that build's offensive line. But still
Speaker 1: hoping that they have an opportunity to get something done here.
Speaker 1: And this might be for those that were patient with
Speaker 1: Zack Moss, this might be your chance to finally get
Speaker 1: the big payoff. You only had to wait twelve weeks.
Speaker 1: That's right. He's been Yeah, it's been okay, you know,
Speaker 1: more so lately. And I know that first half of
Speaker 1: the season was tough, but you know, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, we're gonna get paid. On Zach Mass.
Speaker 1: I believe that the preseason you called him a league winner.
Speaker 1: It's coming. That's right, that's right. I meant it meanted
Speaker 1: the Fantasy playoffs attack that we meant. When we come back,
Speaker 1: Kansas City takes on Tampa Bay. Tough matchup for Clyde
Speaker 1: Edwards A laire. Do you start him here? We'll tell
Speaker 1: you when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome
Speaker 1: back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Church and Scott Fish and
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson with you another block of matchups, beginning with
Speaker 1: Kansas City taking on Tampa Bay. Patrick Mahomes, Tie Reek Hill,
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey all a's I'm not going to spend much
Speaker 1: time in any of those three guys, because you're gonna
Speaker 1: start up no matter what the Bucks secondary is the
Speaker 1: middle of the pact group that eventually yields big games
Speaker 1: most of the time. They've given up multiple passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: in five straight games. Homes should be fine here. Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill obviously a grade as well in a fantastic matchup
Speaker 1: against slumping slot corner Sean Murphy. Bunting Hill could be
Speaker 1: sitting in a very big game, and Travis Kelsey always
Speaker 1: in a grade. He's red hot right now. The bigger
Speaker 1: conundrum is really Clyde Edwards a layer. What are you
Speaker 1: gonna do with him in this situation? Very tough. No
Speaker 1: back has managed to top sixty rushing yards against the Bucks,
Speaker 1: and that's a team that has faced Christian McCaffrey at
Speaker 1: full health, Aaron Jones, Josh Jacobs, Alvin Kamara, and Alvin
Speaker 1: Kamara again, and none of them top sixty rushing yards.
Speaker 1: Tampa's number one in yards per carry aloud at three
Speaker 1: point three. They've yielded the most receptions to running backs, though,
Speaker 1: but Clyde isn't even getting that involved in the passing game,
Speaker 1: averaging just three catches for twenty three yards through the air.
Speaker 1: If you are cool with fifty total yards, which is
Speaker 1: what I think you're gonna get out of Clyde Edwards
Speaker 1: a layer ground in air and no touchdown. Okay, see grade,
Speaker 1: that's about where I think you find a lot finishes
Speaker 1: on this one. The receivers are on the bench and
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins comes back for this, and I think that
Speaker 1: muddies the water for me. Cole Hardman, DeMarcus Robinson, Um,
Speaker 1: those guys worse quasi viable dart throws while Watkins was out.
Speaker 1: But now Watkins comes back, fewer balls to go around.
Speaker 1: I don't know how exactly how much Watkins is gonna play,
Speaker 1: but enough that I think you're not gonna want to
Speaker 1: start any of them, and they start cannibalizing each other.
Speaker 1: Watkins was also very unreliable after his big week one
Speaker 1: which he always has, and after that he was mostly
Speaker 1: missed than hit. All right, Now, let's go to the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers side. The Bucks maybe without guard Ali Marpett, who's
Speaker 1: got a trying to get through the concussion protocol, and
Speaker 1: he might and tackle Donovan Smith who's got an ankle injury.
Speaker 1: Those if they're both out, that's that's a sizeable loss
Speaker 1: for this offensive line. Let's start with Tom Brady. He
Speaker 1: gets a B grade, accepting his inexplicable dot against the
Speaker 1: Saints on national television. Brady has been very good uh
Speaker 1: and occasionally explosive, multiple touchdowns in five of the past
Speaker 1: six games. The addition of Antonio Brown stretches opposing secondaries
Speaker 1: very thin even to go to him like Kansas City,
Speaker 1: and Brady's got some positive matchups with his receiver's beginning
Speaker 1: with Antonio Brown a grade each week. Antonio Brown is
Speaker 1: getting more and more attention from Tom Brady and he's
Speaker 1: turned into the number one target. He led the team
Speaker 1: last week with thirteen targets, averaging just fifty two yards.
Speaker 1: Though in the three games with his bucks, it hasn't
Speaker 1: translated to a lot of production, but it might hear
Speaker 1: because most often he's gonna get coverage from chart Various Ward,
Speaker 1: who's allowing a passer rating of one fifteen. He's given
Speaker 1: up three touchdowns in his coverage. This is the best matchup,
Speaker 1: one on one matchup Antonio Brown has seen, so I've
Speaker 1: I'm giving him an A grade in this game. Mike
Speaker 1: Evans gets a B grade. The one thing we count
Speaker 1: on from the Buccaneers offense is that Mike Evans is
Speaker 1: the red zone target. He has seen thirteen targets from
Speaker 1: inside the ten yard line, which is crazy, that's the most.
Speaker 1: And he has scored eight of his nine touchdowns from
Speaker 1: inside the ten yard line. That's some dependable. He's really
Speaker 1: a goal line back. He's the Larry Kinnerbrew receivers. That's unreal.
Speaker 1: More often Evans. Evans gets gonna have a tricky matchup
Speaker 1: with Bashad Breland, but I think he gets into the
Speaker 1: end zone here, so I do have a B grade
Speaker 1: on him. The guy who Antonio Brown's killing it's Chris Godwin.
Speaker 1: He should be playing through a finger injury injury, but
Speaker 1: um Antonio Brown's targets are coming right out of Godwin.
Speaker 1: With Brown in the lineup, Godwin has fallen to third
Speaker 1: in the packing order, trailing both Brown and Evans and targets.
Speaker 1: Over the last three games, He's failed to reach fifty
Speaker 1: five yards since Brown showed up in two of the three.
Speaker 1: Since Brown showed up, I'm nervous about him in this
Speaker 1: matchup as well. C grade for him. And then the
Speaker 1: last of the receivers to talk about is Rob Gronkowski.
Speaker 1: Like god when Gronks numbers are also down since Brown
Speaker 1: arrived and increasingly Gronk has got a divvy up looks
Speaker 1: with Cameron Brad who annoyingly is on the field for
Speaker 1: about the plays. The low volume means that Gronk is
Speaker 1: touchdown dependent. Good tight ends have generally fared well against
Speaker 1: against Kansas City. They've given up two tight end touchdowns
Speaker 1: last week. So so I've got to c grade on
Speaker 1: Gronk and you can start him on the bench. Though,
Speaker 1: are the runners as I alluded to last segment, Ronald
Speaker 1: Jones LEO four nett for Jones. If you take away
Speaker 1: his improbable yard touchdown run against Carolina, He's averaging only
Speaker 1: thirty seven rushing yards over the last five weeks and
Speaker 1: only one touchdown over the last five weeks, So don't
Speaker 1: get fulled by the highlight here. Predominantly he has been
Speaker 1: a struggling runner. Kansas City's run defense has been a
Speaker 1: lot better over the last six weeks. No back his
Speaker 1: top seventy seven yards, and they've only allowed three rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns in those six games. Leonard Fern normally a safe
Speaker 1: play for some PPR production, but the Chiefs have been
Speaker 1: awesome against pass catching runners and he dropped five balls
Speaker 1: last he did it wasn't that something? Um? Only one runner,
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, has scored a receiving touchdown against Kansas City.
Speaker 1: So for Nets on the Beach. Our next matchup the
Speaker 1: New York Giants taking on the Cincinnati Bengals. Brian, I
Speaker 1: told you I liked Wayne Gallman in the running game.
Speaker 1: What do you think about the passing game here? Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones has got a chance against a reeling Cincinnati secondary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some angles here at the passing game. Let's start
Speaker 1: with Danny Dimes as pass catchers. Darius Slayton and Sterling Shepherd.
Speaker 1: Gonna give them both the sea, but they both have
Speaker 1: b upside here. Outside of the opener, the Bengals have
Speaker 1: surrendered at least one wide receiver touchdown in every game,
Speaker 1: and seven wide receiver touchdowns over their last three games alone. Uh,
Speaker 1: so there's there's opportunity for both of these guys to produce.
Speaker 1: Shepherd sees more targets, averaging eight per game over his
Speaker 1: last three, but Slayton has five catches in back to
Speaker 1: back games. Arguably the higher ceiling too for Slayton. So
Speaker 1: Shepherd the safer PPR guy, But Slayton has a pretty
Speaker 1: safe floor and a high ceiling here. Evan Ingram a
Speaker 1: pretty high ceiling as well, has nine or more targets
Speaker 1: and three of his last four games. The Bengals are
Speaker 1: allowing the ninth most receptions and fourth most yards to
Speaker 1: tight ends, who have also scored six touchdowns on the season.
Speaker 1: That's a healthy number, so would be for Evan Ingram
Speaker 1: and a very safe c for Daniel Jones. The Bengals
Speaker 1: have surrendered surrendered multiple passing touchdowns and six of their
Speaker 1: last seven games at least three passing touchdowns and three
Speaker 1: of their last four games. Alex Smith was the only
Speaker 1: quarterback who failed to throw multiple scores during that seven
Speaker 1: game span, and they really haven't faced a ton of
Speaker 1: quarterback mobile quarterbacks. Lamar Jackson didn't run much in a
Speaker 1: blowout win against the Bengals, but Carson Wentz had nine
Speaker 1: carries for sixty five yards in a rushing touchdown against
Speaker 1: the Bengals, and Jones can run for at least ninety
Speaker 1: yards that and then his legs get out, but we'll
Speaker 1: take it. I'll take a ninety yard run, but getting
Speaker 1: the end zone next time if you've got that much daylight, Danny,
Speaker 1: And like you said, charge Wayne Gallman. Gallman, you take
Speaker 1: a chance of me running back over the Bengal side.
Speaker 1: By the way, do you have a grade on him?
Speaker 1: I'd give him a B grade, Yeah, definitely. He's usually
Speaker 1: I put a C on take on guys, but he's
Speaker 1: a B take on this week. I looked, I looked
Speaker 1: since we chalked last about Wayne Gollman. He's my number
Speaker 1: fourteen running back. At the moment, he looks pretty good. Um,
Speaker 1: Jooe Bernard has not really looked so good with Joe
Speaker 1: Mixon injured. He has uh, he is in concussion protocol.
Speaker 1: He looks like he's trending towards playing. You gotta monitor
Speaker 1: that for sure. If he doesn't go, it's Somaj p Ryan,
Speaker 1: the aforementioned Somaj p Ryan on this show. Um, whoever
Speaker 1: can gets significant touches is in a decent spot against
Speaker 1: the Giants. Gonna give him both the sea. Whoever gets
Speaker 1: the start, basically, we'll get a see here. The Giants
Speaker 1: have allowed three rushing touchdowns are running backs over the
Speaker 1: last two weeks, and since Week six, opposing backs have
Speaker 1: average average nearly seven and a half catches and sixty
Speaker 1: receiving yards per game against New York. So see for
Speaker 1: whoever ends up starting at running back for the Bengals.
Speaker 1: Just to see for Tyler Boyd. He's been at least
Speaker 1: a b every week this year, considering he has six
Speaker 1: or more catches and four straight games. But it's Brandon
Speaker 1: Allen time. Now it's not Joe Burrow and Giants rookie
Speaker 1: slot corner Darnay Holmes has held opponents scoreless through his
Speaker 1: last nine games. So just a see for Boyd, and
Speaker 1: I got see Higgins on the bench. He had worked
Speaker 1: his way into every week's starter status. Now before last
Speaker 1: Sunday's game, he was among rookie receivers third in reception,
Speaker 1: second in yards, and second in touchdowns. But now he's
Speaker 1: got Brandon Allen on the bench, and he's going to
Speaker 1: see the most of James Bradberry most likely. So Higgins
Speaker 1: is on the bench, A J. Green will not be
Speaker 1: seeing James Bradberry. They're eight teen players right now with
Speaker 1: at least eight end zone targets this year, okay, and
Speaker 1: all of them have caught at least two end zone touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Most have at least four or five except A. J. Green.
Speaker 1: He's the only player among those eighteen players been targeted
Speaker 1: nine end zone targets, zero end zone touchers. That is nine.
Speaker 1: I will say there's a little whole. Brandon Ellen made
Speaker 1: Tim Patrick and Kurt and Corlett Sutton valuable a few times.
Speaker 1: He's better than It's better than Ryan Finley. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what's I'm blanking on the principle's name. It's not Mooney
Speaker 1: in Ferris. I think it was Principal Moon. It sounds right.
Speaker 1: He's more disappointed in those nine times than the nine
Speaker 1: times Ferris has missed school, that's for sure. And Brandon
Speaker 1: Allen on the bench, Sandy, Sandy, excuse me. Seattle takes
Speaker 1: on Philadelphia Scott Um Chris Carson may come back for
Speaker 1: this game. Will but it's a tough matchup against a
Speaker 1: really good run defense. Yeah. I still like Carson though.
Speaker 1: They when they do have a running back go, they
Speaker 1: tend to make him the bell cow. They don't, they
Speaker 1: don't flip it up. They don't have multiple guys going.
Speaker 1: So if he's the lead back here here's an interesting thing.
Speaker 1: The lead back for Seattle has scored a touchdown every
Speaker 1: single week since Week three. It's interesting. I think in fact,
Speaker 1: Week three was the only game the lead back didn't
Speaker 1: score a touchdown this year for Seattle, so I think
Speaker 1: is a likelihood there. The Eagles are are actually actually uh,
Speaker 1: the middle of the pack against running backs running the ball,
Speaker 1: but one of the best stopping them through the air.
Speaker 1: Chris Carson does most of his damage running the ball.
Speaker 1: So that's that's uh, that's enough for me to give
Speaker 1: Chris Carson probably a be in a likelihood fifteen plus
Speaker 1: touches uh, and and I think a likelihood for a
Speaker 1: touchdown in the passing game. You're not benching Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: You're not benching dk metcalf. I still have a grades
Speaker 1: on both of them. The Eagles have held eight qbs
Speaker 1: under two and forty five yards, and six of the
Speaker 1: ten they faced had just one or fewer touchdowns. But
Speaker 1: they have not faced Russell Wilson. In fact, the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: they have faced, let's just say they're not a murderer's row.
Speaker 1: I won't go through the list. They're not great rushing quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: They faced like Jackson and Jones twice Daniel Jones twice
Speaker 1: all had sixty plus rushing yards and they combined for
Speaker 1: two scores. Russell Wilson can run, too, so Uh. Dk
Speaker 1: metcalf also in a grade scored in all but three games,
Speaker 1: has ninety were more yards in all but three games
Speaker 1: as well. Tyler Locket, I'm given a B grade to
Speaker 1: He's top sixty five yards in six of ten games.
Speaker 1: Even his bad games are his are your four for
Speaker 1: forty types. His boom games are one yards and three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So because of that range, that that possibly that floor
Speaker 1: of a C grade and the boom of a high A,
Speaker 1: I'm giving him a B grade right in the middle.
Speaker 1: It's very spineless of you, very spineless. Uh. He gets
Speaker 1: a decent matchup against Nicol Roby Coleman as well. On
Speaker 1: the other side, whence it was might take a chance,
Speaker 1: I mean quarterback Rigor was my take a chance on
Speaker 1: me wide receiver Boston Scott was might take a chance
Speaker 1: on me running back. So that leaves us with none
Speaker 1: of the wide receivers. You can't stand no more wide
Speaker 1: receivers can't start them. Uh. If Earth's goes, and it
Speaker 1: sounds like he will, I have a C grade on
Speaker 1: Earth's and Goddard, I think they will share both. Se
Speaker 1: six plus touches are six plus six plus targets. You
Speaker 1: go the Seahawks haven't faced tight ends like the Eagles have.
Speaker 1: You almost the Eagles tight ends are on a different
Speaker 1: platform than most tight ends in the league, really because
Speaker 1: they target him so much. Despite a Richard Rodgers, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they the Seahawks face Kittle, but he went down real
Speaker 1: early in that game, so it's hard to It's hard
Speaker 1: to decipher much from that. Uh. The Seahawks have allowed
Speaker 1: a tight end touchdown in three of the last four
Speaker 1: grades weeks, so sea grades for both of those guys.
Speaker 1: I think they'll get it done. Sanders, I'm given a
Speaker 1: B grade to The Seahawks have allowed the fourth fewest
Speaker 1: rushing yards. Seems good, right, But much like a tight end,
Speaker 1: they haven't faced anyone. I mean, they faced Elliott on
Speaker 1: a bad day. They Cooking Madison destroyed them. Outside that
Speaker 1: it's like Girly Michelle Drake, Hasty Acres Zack Moss on
Speaker 1: a bad day. So they have allowed the fifth most
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns. However, the fourth most most running back receptions
Speaker 1: and the fifth most running back receiving yards. So it's
Speaker 1: is rushing yardage that they hold down. Well, Sanders can
Speaker 1: do it all over the field. He's gonna get fifteen
Speaker 1: plus touches. I got a B grade on him in
Speaker 1: one note we mentioned went earlier. Has leads in interceptions
Speaker 1: and fumbles. Yes, he also leads in sacks sacks absorbed. Yes.
Speaker 1: During one of our breaks, I looked it up. I
Speaker 1: did not know this beforehand. In Dave Craig led in
Speaker 1: interceptions and fables. Right, I don't know that he was
Speaker 1: an impressive poll right there. That's a crazy poll. That
Speaker 1: is well done. Twenty one and sixteen. How about that sixteen,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of the worst. His worst was eighteen.
Speaker 1: It really, man, You've got to be a pretty good
Speaker 1: quarterback to have anybody trust you to put the ball
Speaker 1: in your hands continually when you fumble sixteen and eighteen
Speaker 1: times in seasons. Principal Rooney, see, I think what the
Speaker 1: problem where I'm getting him confused is Darnell Mooney is
Speaker 1: in Chicago and that show you know that, or the
Speaker 1: movie was based in Chicago. That's where it's all blending
Speaker 1: right there. Abe froman The Sausage King of Chicago. When
Speaker 1: we come back. Premature speculation, one of our final premature
Speaker 1: speculations of the year. We're tapping out on these soon.
Speaker 1: These are players you'll want to pick up this week
Speaker 1: that other people are gonna try to pick up next week.
Speaker 1: We'll tell you who they are when we come back
Speaker 1: to Fantasy Football Weekly. Final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: This is a segment we call premature speculation. We'll give
Speaker 1: you three guys we think you should pick up now
Speaker 1: that others will be trying to pick up later, but
Speaker 1: they'll already be on your team. Scott, who is your
Speaker 1: premature speculation player? I'm going with Visca La Visca chanlt.
Speaker 1: I think we might be seeing a like a Chase
Speaker 1: Claypool thing again where you're gonna want him for a
Speaker 1: few weeks. And this week, Uh, he's gonna play this
Speaker 1: game against the Browns. Uh. They're already missing DJ Shark
Speaker 1: and they're missing Chris Conley for that game. He could
Speaker 1: be started this week. After that, he gets the Vikings
Speaker 1: and the Titans for your fantasy playoffs. Those two those
Speaker 1: the first two weeks at least, it seems like good
Speaker 1: matchups there. The last rookie wide receiver you did this
Speaker 1: with was Chase Claypool. I remember you can start on
Speaker 1: this week, but then he had four touchdowns. Yeah, Brian
Speaker 1: you're premature speculation player not very exciting. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: say the Titans Dante Foreman, who was the backup to
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, it's it's handcuff season and we're getting there.
Speaker 1: And if you if you roster Henry, you should probably
Speaker 1: grab former. Now we mentioned the ridiculous schedule when it
Speaker 1: comes to ease for running backs to the Titans and
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and if you're planning on being in the
Speaker 1: playoffs and you don't roster Derrick Henry, odds are you're
Speaker 1: gonna run into the Derrick Henry Owner and you could
Speaker 1: essentially end all his hopes right now if you go
Speaker 1: grab Deanta Foreman, put him on a dead bench spot
Speaker 1: because uh, Henry Owner was gonna want him and he's
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to get him. The Rams have
Speaker 1: the easiest remaining schedule for wide receivers, with three deeply
Speaker 1: favorable matchups Week thirteen against Arizona, Week fifteen against the Jets,
Speaker 1: Week sixteen against Seattle Josh Reynolds available, Incent of Leagues
Speaker 1: will be a flex starter in three of those games,
Speaker 1: including the two playoff games. He's on the field of
Speaker 1: the snaps easy matchups and if anything happens to Cup
Speaker 1: or Woods, Josh Reynolds could easily end up being a
Speaker 1: B grade A grade player in that scenario, and even
Speaker 1: with even if they're healthy, he would make some sense
Speaker 1: to Chicago takes on Green Bay. Now a lot to
Speaker 1: talking about the Chicago side, except yes, it's the return
Speaker 1: of Sad trombone Ski. The he will start for the Bears,
Speaker 1: if you've forgotten his three starts. He looked good against
Speaker 1: Detroit the opener. They look pretty bad against the Giants
Speaker 1: and they got benched in Week three, and I'm not
Speaker 1: expecting a lot here to see grade for Allen Robinson.
Speaker 1: Robinson crushed division rival Green Bay last season with Drew
Speaker 1: Britsky under center, topping one hundred yards in both meetings.
Speaker 1: Robinson will have his work cut out for him against
Speaker 1: j R. Alexander. Pro Football focuses number one rated cornerback
Speaker 1: who is allowing less than twenty yards per game at
Speaker 1: his coverage. Um feeding Robinson makes sense anyway. Though Robinson
Speaker 1: has been able to average seventy two yards this season,
Speaker 1: We've seen at least seven targets. I think Sad trombone
Speaker 1: Ski will hit him plenty all the rest of the
Speaker 1: parts of the passing game are off the board with
Speaker 1: Mitch Drabinsky, including Jimmy Graham, who has become a tight end,
Speaker 1: a touchdown dependent tight end who has only scored once
Speaker 1: in the last five weeks, and Green Bay's only allowed
Speaker 1: three tight untouchdowns on the year. David Montgomery is a
Speaker 1: B grade. He sees eight of the Bears running back touches.
Speaker 1: He'll face a bad Packers run defense, allowing one hundred
Speaker 1: fifty seven total yards to running backs. That his fourth most. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: Matt Neegie can't be trusted to go with the obvious
Speaker 1: best advantage he has on the field, which is the ball.
Speaker 1: Naggie's Bears ranked dead last in rushing attempts, and that's
Speaker 1: why I can only give Montgomery a B grade. Let's
Speaker 1: go over to the Packers side for Aaron Rodgers just
Speaker 1: to be great here, no opposing quarterback has hit three
Speaker 1: yards against Chicago, nor has any throne more than two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Only the Rams have allowed fewer passing yards than Chicago,
Speaker 1: and even then, the Bears haven't allowed running back to
Speaker 1: score through the air. He retains. Uh Rogers contains a
Speaker 1: B grade here because of Davante Adams, who you have
Speaker 1: to start every week, and he does get an A
Speaker 1: grade in this one, even with a tricky matchup. Going
Speaker 1: to his other receivers, Alan Lazard C grade, he runs
Speaker 1: mostly from this slot where he will see a struggling
Speaker 1: busted screen door. He's been dreadful lately over the past
Speaker 1: four games. Busted screen doors allowed his passes to be completed, sorry,
Speaker 1: the passes to be completed, and four touchdowns in four games.
Speaker 1: So Alan's are I'm tempted to move into a B
Speaker 1: grade right now? Let's keep him see see C grade
Speaker 1: and then Robert Touny in five targets last week in
Speaker 1: a touchdown in a tougher matchup than this one. Chicago
Speaker 1: has actually been yielding two tight ends, allowing three tight
Speaker 1: end scores in the past four games. And let's moving
Speaker 1: over to the running game. Aaron Jones B grade. Despite
Speaker 1: the pains taking over usage of Jamal Williams, Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: has garnered at least fifteen touches in every game he's played.
Speaker 1: Um Jones is in a tough spot here. He's he
Speaker 1: goes up against the Bears that ranked fourth against the
Speaker 1: run by Football Outsiders, allowing just seven total touchdowns to
Speaker 1: running backs. Um Jamal Williams on the bench, not getting
Speaker 1: enough work for him to be startable and just getting
Speaker 1: enough to be a nuisance to Aaron Jones. Marcus Veiled
Speaker 1: a scantling by the way, also on the bench dealing
Speaker 1: with an achilles injury, and I think Lazard is going
Speaker 1: to eat his lunch. Okay, let's go to our next matchup,
Speaker 1: which is let me see New Orleans and Denver. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the one. Let's go Alvin Kamara just to be
Speaker 1: for him. He was clearly banged up last week with
Speaker 1: the foot injury, only played for of the snap share
Speaker 1: for the Saints, and he's not out of the woods yet,
Speaker 1: so I'm a little concern him for Camara and a
Speaker 1: bad matchup at well as well. Only two running backs
Speaker 1: have top thirty one receiving yards against the Broncos. Las
Speaker 1: Vegas did have four rushing touchdowns against Denver in Week ten,
Speaker 1: but outside of that game, Denver has only surrendered three
Speaker 1: other ground scorers two running backs all season, and only
Speaker 1: one lead back has top ninety rushing yards against Denver
Speaker 1: since Week three. So just to be for Kamara, Octavius
Speaker 1: Murray is on the bench, of course, Michael Thomas just
Speaker 1: to be for him here as well. A fifty two
Speaker 1: percent target share last week. Thought like that, definitely gotta
Speaker 1: like that. His owners deserved that, Yep, languishing owners. But
Speaker 1: Denver has only allowed two wide receivers to reach seventy
Speaker 1: yards in the in their past six games, and most
Speaker 1: often most often, Thomas will face a very difficult matchup
Speaker 1: in Bryce Callahan, who was Pro Football, focuses number two
Speaker 1: rated cornerback and is allowing a passer rating them just
Speaker 1: forty nine in his coverage. Ray b for Michael Thomas
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders in a revenge game here, I'm pretty torn.
Speaker 1: At least four catches and five of his last six games,
Speaker 1: including last week, he has double digit PPR points and
Speaker 1: all five of those games, but I gotta bench him here.
Speaker 1: With Taysom Hill at quarterback, I'm benching Jared Cook uh
Speaker 1: to just three catches over his last three games with
Speaker 1: zero touchdowns, hasn't topped two catches and seven of his
Speaker 1: last eight. So in the tight end wasteland, you thought
Speaker 1: you at least Jared Cook stay viable if healthy, but
Speaker 1: he is not this week. And and Taysom Hill of course,
Speaker 1: we got to mention him just to see though Denver
Speaker 1: has only surrendered one passing touch shown over the last
Speaker 1: two weeks. But anything Hill does passing wise is gravy.
Speaker 1: It's all about the running, just like Cam Newton, and
Speaker 1: why don't you know it, Cam Newton based lebron Goes
Speaker 1: this year had seventy six rushing yards and a touchdown
Speaker 1: against Denver. Sam Donald somehow, somehow had eighty four rushing
Speaker 1: yards dripped off like a seventy yards, But that was
Speaker 1: probably the game we were talking about before. So see
Speaker 1: for Hill. But of course he's got a upside. Who
Speaker 1: knows in this world? Over to the Denver side, definitely
Speaker 1: not a lot to talk about. I got Melvin Gordon
Speaker 1: and Philip Lindsay just on the bench. It's that simple.
Speaker 1: Don't even mess with these guys. This week against New Orleans,
Speaker 1: allowing only three point five yards per carry to running backs,
Speaker 1: the only allowed five total touchdowns to the position, both
Speaker 1: rushing and receiving all season. Let me just jump in
Speaker 1: on Gordon Lindsay for a second. Their playoff run uber easy.
Speaker 1: If your trade deadline isn't come yet and you just
Speaker 1: want to have some match, some options and flexibility for
Speaker 1: runners in the playoffs. Those are guys you can get.
Speaker 1: We don't have time. But if you can only pick
Speaker 1: up one, and that's any next trade Kirk for both
Speaker 1: of them, stop um to the receiving game really quick.
Speaker 1: I like Tim Patrick a lot. I think he's startable.
Speaker 1: This week he gets to see the same simple out
Speaker 1: twelve wide receiver touchdowns this year. That's a lot, just
Speaker 1: one over their last three games. But Patrick is startable.
Speaker 1: He has double digit PPR points in six of his
Speaker 1: last seven games. In five of those six games, he's
Speaker 1: either top one yards indoor scored a touchdown. So see
Speaker 1: for Tim Patrick. Yeah, six four to fifteen good size.
Speaker 1: I like him. I like him more than Jerry Judy.
Speaker 1: I also give Judy a seat. I thought if he's out,
Speaker 1: your not playing him. If he suits up, be wary.
Speaker 1: You know, it's at eight targets in four straight games.
Speaker 1: But he'll see Chauncey Gardner Johnson in the slot a lot,
Speaker 1: who is yielding forty seven scoreless yards per game. But
Speaker 1: as Scott said, he might not play. So definitely monitor that.
Speaker 1: And I'll give Noah fantasy. Only one tight end has
Speaker 1: top two catches or twenty two yards against New Orleans
Speaker 1: over the last four games. That was Jordan Reed. Fant
Speaker 1: is in that realm, but it's such a waste land
Speaker 1: that I'll give fantasy here when as fantasy Andrew lock
Speaker 1: my boy on the bench. Yeah, Judy is questionable. So
Speaker 1: Baltimore takes on Pittsburgh and knows what is now a
Speaker 1: Tuesday night game. Let's presume it's gonna happen. Scott came down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'll start with the running game. Yeah, because it
Speaker 1: doesn't looks like RG three. Yeah, it looks like r
Speaker 1: G three is going to be the guy. We'll just
Speaker 1: start there. Whatever. The Steelers are top three against quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: running backs, and tight ends, so this is not a
Speaker 1: good matchup for anyone on on the Baltimore side. The
Speaker 1: wide receivers they're not top three against, but the wide
Speaker 1: receivers for Baltimore are not very good. They don't get
Speaker 1: it done. Griff and I have on the bench. Uh
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews. I am given a B grade though too.
Speaker 1: He had five six and a score last week playing
Speaker 1: the Snaps. Because Boil is out for the season, he's
Speaker 1: basically their only weapon. Uh So I think he's startable
Speaker 1: on volume here. Uh, he'd probably get a better grade
Speaker 1: if it was, you know, a different situation. Uh. In
Speaker 1: the running game though, So mark Ingram and J. K.
Speaker 1: Dobbins have the potential, they have the possibility to play.
Speaker 1: We won't know that until possibly Sunday or Monday Tuesday.
Speaker 1: So at this point I'm going to assume they're out.
Speaker 1: If they are completely out and not playing, I'm giving
Speaker 1: Edwards a C grade. It's a tough fifteen plus touch
Speaker 1: volume ce because it's a terrible matchup. But Edwards is
Speaker 1: scored in every game, he had more than ten carries.
Speaker 1: He showed an ability to handle full load. He ran,
Speaker 1: He ran through Bitsburg in the earlier matchup this Yeah,
Speaker 1: both the end of ten and the end of nineteen
Speaker 1: as well. He did it. Uh yeah, So he's He's
Speaker 1: a guy that if he gets the volume, I think
Speaker 1: he's a C grade. If either of those two do play, though,
Speaker 1: I want nothing to do with the whole backfield. Uh.
Speaker 1: And and likewise, if they don't play, Hill is justice.
Speaker 1: Hill is on the bench. I know they haven't allowed
Speaker 1: the Steelers have allowed thee the fewest running back receptions
Speaker 1: and the second fewest running back receiving yards. Terrible spot
Speaker 1: for that too. On the other side, I barely need
Speaker 1: to go over this because Big Ben's in a Johnson's
Speaker 1: in a clay Pools B. I don't care how tough
Speaker 1: the matchups is. Uh. Juju is a C because he's
Speaker 1: been practicing limited, he's injured, and if history has showed
Speaker 1: us anything with Juju, he tends to be more of
Speaker 1: a decoy when he's when he plays hurt, so I
Speaker 1: have a C grade on him. Johnson has ten plus
Speaker 1: targets in every full game over a hundred and back
Speaker 1: to back Claypool. Just that he can't stop scoring, isn't it?
Speaker 1: With feeling out, he might get a touchdown and tie
Speaker 1: feeling for the league lead at eleven at this point.
Speaker 1: The Pittsburgh Steers I mentioned this last week. They just
Speaker 1: keep throwing. In fact, the Seahawks and Bengals are the
Speaker 1: only two teams that pass more when they're tied or ahead.
Speaker 1: Eric Hebron is the king of thirty to fifty yard games.
Speaker 1: He scores half the time. He's scoring three the last four,
Speaker 1: so I'm giving him a B grade here. James Conner
Speaker 1: C grade on volume. Tough matchup against the Ravens. But
Speaker 1: if he gets twenty fifteen Dwane Carries, I'm giving him
Speaker 1: the sea. Yeah. That's what all he's good for is
Speaker 1: to see these days, and he needs all of that
Speaker 1: to do it because he's not producing effect efficiently. If
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