WEBVTT - Week 9: Brown Out 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:04.880 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.760 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:15.000 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:24.799 advice Now League dot Com. Here's your host. Welcome to 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.080 Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm Paul Charchy. In my coast today 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:32.120 are Brian Johnson and Matt Harrison. Guys, Hello, Hello Governor. 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:36.040 Oh no god, it's hard to start at the preview. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:41.560 What's coming? Nothing's coming? Okay, copying at all? What is coming? 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:43.720 Later in this show, take a chance on me. Nine 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:45.800 players not normally in your starting lineup, many of whom 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:47.400 are available on the waiver way. We will take who 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:49.960 they are. You can play along with three tough questions 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.640 that I'll pepper my co host with, and premature speculation 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:55.560 where we give you guys to pick up this week 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:57.640 that everybody else is going to want to pick up 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.800 next week, but maybe on your team. Also, all of 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:05.080 the matchups broken down fantasy style, and that's the core 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.920 of the show. We do it every week, and we 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:12.280 begin with Chicago taking on Tennessee Brian Man. The entire 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:16.600 Chicago roster is a disaster with injuries, COVID and I'm 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:20.200 I'm very worried about points coming, even against a lukewarm 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.800 Tennessee defense. Yeah, but this Titans team might be the 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.280 most ragged of them all. But we'll get to Tennessee 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.320 side in a minute. I'm like in a couple of 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.880 Bears here, starting with David Montgomery. I'm going full Monty here. 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:38.959 Really don't do it. Monty and a tough matchup against 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.800 the Saints last week. Ran for eighty nine yards. Not 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:45.000 super impressive, but eighty four of those yards are after contact. 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.480 That's very impressive. He's working hard. He's gonna have to 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.120 work hard. Missing too linemen in this game. That's maybe 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.040 three yeah, yeah that missing all those linemen for the 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.120 Bengals really didn't work out for them last week anyway. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.320 Monty handling of the running back touches for Chicago and 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.480 unlike last year, the Titans are a cake matchup for 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.600 running backs, allowing one and thirty four combo yards in 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.799 the one point for total touchdowns per game to the position. 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.120 And the Bengals who just played the Titans were missing 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.679 their entire offensive line and three running backs scored a 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.960 touchdown in that game. Three running back touchdown. So I'm 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.880 giving Montgomery and a as well as Allen. Robinson might 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.040 be the best all round wide receiver in the NFL, 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.720 but just has never had a quarterback in his entire career. 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:31.079 He's on like the Andre Johnson Larry Fitzgerald trajector even 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.600 if Herman Moore going way back has not had a quarterback. 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.800 But who was throwing to Herman Moore back in the 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.200 old days, Scotty Mitchell, Yeah, you're right, I think it 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.280 was Scottie Mitchell. I don't think probably Charlie Batch maybe 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:48.120 a little bit there Rodney Pete yet made its way 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:53.840 to Detroit. Throw to him a little too late. But 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:55.880 back to a rob you can give him a second 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.880 in targets among all players. Tennessee allows two hundred plus 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.800 yards per game to wide receivers. That's the third most, 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.560 and the Titans have also yielded the six the most 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:06.840 red zone targets to wide receivers. So I love a 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.920 rob with an A, and I like Darnell Mooney. Canna 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.840 give him a ce here, rookie uh Mooney played sixty 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.720 five of seventy offensive snaps against the Saints last Sunday. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.880 That the snap count. That's a higher percentage than Anthony 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.520 Miller ever had as a rookie last year. He's definitely 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.639 usurped Miller on the depth chart. Mooney has caught two 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:28.800 or more passes in each of his first eight games 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.560 in the NFL, the only Bears rookie wide receiver to 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.680 ever accomplished that since the merger, and his usage has 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.680 been ramping up big time. And this is a great matchup. 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.040 So I like Darnell Mooney and we might talk about 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:40.440 him a little later in the show a little more 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.680 as well. Uh. Lastly, for the Bears, Jimmy Graham gets 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:47.320 a c incredibly touchdown dependent only has four red zone 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.440 targets over his last five games, so that doesn't work 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.760 for a touchdown dependent player, and may not even play 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:53.640 in this game. Might not play, but I think he 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.320 will suit up. The Titans have yielded the second most 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.760 red zone targets at tight ends and have faced and 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.200 basically I faced, no one good the position. The two 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.920 guys you've heard of, Noah Fanton Darren Fells both topped 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.200 eighty yards and scored a touchdown against Tennessee. So I'm 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.040 gonna give Graham a see if he suits up, if 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:10.880 he's out. Of course you're gonna bench him, and Nick 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.400 Foles almost gave him a cee Am I allowed to 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:17.120 give him a D? Are we doing that? Never came together? Sorry? 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:18.920 I might have a couple of DS to thrill. How 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.960 did it not come together? Nobody had decided it didn't 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.120 come together, I said. I said to our listeners, listen, 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:29.800 if you really really want d's in the show, tell 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.360 me on Twitter at Paul CHURCHI in. I got like 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.320 three people said yes, like twenty that said no, and 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.040 nobody else even bothered him answers. So that's that row? 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:42.280 Are you sure you were using your your burner accounters nothing? 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:47.040 No response to the d's All right, let's talk about 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:50.440 the Tennessee's players. The Tennessee players, So I didn't work 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.160 Derrick Henry Start with the king. He gets an A 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.240 has scored in five straight games. The Bears have given 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.680 up four point seven yards per carry to ap to 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.200 opposing lead backs in their four road games this year. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.280 Even worse, they've allowed fourteen touchdowns running backs and then 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.479 the last ten games on the road, going back back 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.400 to last year. Of course you're going to start Derrick 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:11.040 Henry ben slapping a on him A J. Brown. This 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.120 is a bad matchup for A. J. Brown and company, 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.240 But I'm still getting a be because he's such a beast. 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.080 The Bears only allowing eleven and a half catches and 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.560 a hundred and forty yards per game to wide receivers 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:24.640 and just two total touchdowns on the season to the position. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.880 But Brown a tough guy to bench. Corey Davis also 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:29.840 a tough guy to bench. One of my sleepers from 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.960 the preseason, I believe of the last preseason show warm up, 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:38.840 that Hug. But he's on the bench this week. C 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.880 Davis a bad matchup. I just can't go there, Hob. 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.479 But but hold onto him. He's healthy and he's looking good. 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.960 Blue chip prospect coming to fruition. John new Smith lastly, Yeah, 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.760 we'll have blue chips a little strong. He was the 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:54.159 first wide receiver taken in the draft like three years ago. 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:56.919 It's like a turquoise chip. You don't get much bluer 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.520 than that. He has. He has been You know who's 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:04.080 been blue? Anybody's drafted Corey Davis before this year. True, 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:08.840 but let's not worry about the past. What about your guy, Johnny? Yeah, 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.599 John JOHNU what's up with John John? Just to see 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.360 this week. Charge he's been blocking more than route running 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:16.320 as of late. But it's a good spot in a 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.840 good spot to bounce back. Opposing tight ends are averaging 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.640 more than five catches and fifty yards per game against 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:23.560 the Bears. But really, when all the past catchers have 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.560 been healthy, he's just kind of reverted back to this 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.320 blocking role because he's so good at it. He's a 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.080 great football player all around, but kind of such a 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.479 good athlete he is, but it's it's a good match 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.840 in the tight end waste land. He's more of a 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:37.960 high sea you can call him ecto cooler this week, 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:39.960 and then Ryan Tannehill got him on the bench. Chicago 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.680 allows just two forty passing yards per game and the 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.840 fewest passing touchdowns all around, so I'm benching Tannehill. Wow, 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.040 that's strong as good as Tannehill. I mean, he's like 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:53.800 fringe fourteen fifteen quarterback. Top quarterback this week, it's a 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:58.280 Tennessee did Sorry. The Chicago defense is they're they're really 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.920 it's at super Bowl level. They could winnie super Bowl 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.640 with the defense they've got. They can't with the offense 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:08.000 they've got. Pittsburgh takes on Dallas, Matt and for Pittsburgh, 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:12.160 they just they just had a successful fantasy game overall 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:16.320 against Baltimore. Here comes Dallas. Yeah, it's a start everyone's 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.760 scenario for Pittsburgh because Dallas has allowed thirty four or 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.480 more points to five of their last seven teams they faced. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.600 Ben Roethlisberger's getting a B grade um in their last 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.480 seven games. The only quarterback not to throw for multiple 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:35.120 scores against the Cowboys was Daniel Jones. The issue is 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.480 only one quarterback his top two hundred yards in the 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.520 last five games, and that kind of matches up with 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.200 what Ben Roethlisberger is doing. He's not throwing for high 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.640 yardage totals, but he's thrown for a few scores a game. 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:48.640 And it's pretty easy to run on the Cowboys too, 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:50.840 which is why I like James Conner with an A grade. 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.640 The Cowboys are allowing a hundred and thirty nine yards 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:57.120 per game, five point oh yards per carrying a rushing 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.000 score per game, and Connor is one of six backs 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.480 in the league with thirteen or more carries from inside 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.080 the ten yard line, which is why he's averaging nearly 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:10.880 a rushing score per game. Now, the wide receivers Deonte Johnson, 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.520 and I've got Deonte Johnson in so many leagues, and 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.120 it's just the highs and lows of Dante. Johnson's gonna 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.640 give me a coronery. You know, we got we got Johnson, 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.840 we got Chase Claypool, We've got Juju Smith Schuster. I'm 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.400 giving them all a B grade this week. Cop out. Yeah, 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.680 I'm I'm just kind of playing the odds here. I'm 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.160 probably gonna get right, get it right on two of 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:34.240 the three, and one of them is gonna see um. 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.880 Outside of the slot. Just about any wide receiver has 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.920 beaten the Cowboys this year. They have allowed fourteen touchdowns 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.000 to the position in eight games, but weirdly, they're only 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:47.599 allowing twelve receptions to the position per games because to 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.880 pass on them. Yeah, it's the problem. Um. So, Deonta 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.680 played seventy seven percent of the snaps last week and 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.160 he didn't do well, But according to Establish the Run, 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.960 he's averaging over ten targets per game in the games 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.480 where he crosses the seventy snap count threshold, which he 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:07.400 might not have last weeks. He was he left last 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:13.440 week last week, so he absolutely has a good shot 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.440 of doing that again this week in ten targets for 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.040 Deonte means he's an easy B. Claypool leads the team 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.480 in yards perception, are yards, and scores, and he's he's 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.800 the high volatile guy, high risk, high reward, so he 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.960 gets the B and Juju leads the team and targets 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.320 and receptions per game. Earlier this year, Tyler Lockett beat 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.720 the Cowboys for three scores from the slot, so I 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.920 can't count Juju out either. Eric Ebron is the last 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:38.600 guy I want to mention. He gets a C grade 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.520 scored last week, but I was surprised to learn that 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.040 Ebron that big red zone threat. Remember he scored all 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.320 those red zone touchdowns for the Colt last year or 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:52.840 the year before. He has one catch or one target 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.560 I'm sorry, from inside the ten yard line. This one target, 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.760 he did score on it, and Dallas is only allowing 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:01.760 four catches and half a touchdown per game to the 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.199 tight ends, so Abron's only a sea. Let's go to 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:08.120 the Cowboys side, where this is pretty easy. Ben Denucci, 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:12.520 it's more like a bench Denucci. Then that's right, that's right. 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.920 Gilbert Great might be your starter. Well, his name is 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:20.160 Garrett Gilbert or or Cooper Rush. They're still battling in 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:24.040 practice for the starting knot into the weekend. Um whatever 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:27.920 quarterback starts is on the bench. Well, Garrett Gilbert did 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.040 throw for three yards and two scores in his last 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:36.160 game for the Orlando Apollos, and that was against the 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:40.280 Memphis Express in the A A F. The Steelers are 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.679 a little bit tougher test than the Memphis Express. Uh. 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:45.600 They have not allowed a quarterback to hit the three 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.360 yard mark or three touchdown mark in a game yet 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:52.000 this year. And with Garrett Gilbert probably leaning like he's 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.360 the starter at all, the past catchers are on the bench, 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:58.400 Cooper Gallop and uh ceedee lamb, it's come to this. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:00.559 We don't know who his favorite target is going to 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.640 be there on the fourth quarterback. You don't have to 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.439 explain to anybody who's seen a minute of Cowboys football 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.160 at since Dak went down why you can't start any 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.160 of the receivers. The Steelers are only giving up twelve 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.520 receptions per game to the wide receiver position. Divide that 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:17.000 by three, maybe four catches per game. Ezekiel Elliott looks 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.480 like he's coming down to a game time decision Jerry 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:23.400 Jones says he's optimistic he'll play. He's optimistic. I have 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.800 him as just a C grade with that hamstring injury. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.360 It's a terrible matchup. The Steelers are only allowing seventy 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.600 nine yards per carry. And there's another running back that 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.439 I might talk about in the next segment who's starting 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.400 to steal touches from Ezekiel Elliott. I don't know who 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:43.600 that could be. I don't know either. Dedroy takes and 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.520 so do our listeners. They know too. Dedry takes on 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.040 Minnesota in a game in which the Vikings will be 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.840 missing their number one, number three, number four, and number 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:56.800 five cornerbacks. So Matthew Stafford, who we believe is going 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:58.840 to be able to play in this game once he 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:02.160 clears the crovid protocol, is sitting on an A grade here. 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.400 Mike Zimmer can only scotch tape this secondary together for 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.760 so long. They were aided last week by thirty winds 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.600 in Green Bay. They will have no such no such 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.439 help this week inside US Bank Stadium. Over the past 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.880 month of games, Minnesota secondaries giving up almost three hundred 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:23.079 yards and three touchdowns per game, and even without Kenny Golladay, 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.360 Stafford is sitting on a probably a strong game here 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.040 in vact. He was good last week, although in fairness 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:34.240 I should mention Stafford struggled against similarly bad secondaries Jacksonville Atlanta, 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:35.640 where we teat him up and thought he was gonna 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:37.760 have a really good game. So it's not a sure thing. 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.000 But I'm still giving Stafford the A grade here and 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.480 an A grade to the guy I think could be 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:48.199 his primary receiver, t J. Hockenson. He'll see more balls 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.079 with Kenny Golladay out. The Vikings law the fourth most 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.520 catches per game to opposing tight ends, although the yards 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:55.800 are just sort of in the middle and they've only 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:59.079 given up two scores to the position. That said, every 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.840 competent tight end faced has put up decent numbers against 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:06.760 the Vikings. Jonna Smith, Hayden Hurst, Robert Union have all 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.320 put up good numbers against Minnesota, So t J. Hockenson 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:14.440 a grade, Marvin Jones is a B grade. Without Kenny Golladay, 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:16.760 Marvin Jones becomes a focal point of the passing game, 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.840 a spot in which he's generally not done very well in, 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.439 including the first couple of weeks of this year. Minnesota 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.880 has allowed one yards per game to opposing receivers, which 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.800 is a lot fourth most, and they've allowed multiple touchdowns 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.880 to receivers in four straight games. Two receivers are gonna 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.920 score here. Marvin Jones probably gets one of them. Could 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:39.320 another Marvin get the other one? And what are the 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:43.240 odds that two guys named Marvin would be the starting 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.959 receivers for a team And it's not nineteen fifty four? 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.840 Marvin Hall will be the other starting receiver in place 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.960 of Kenny Golladay and the Vikings, as I mentioned secondaries 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:55.800 in tatters. Hall could be a dart throw here. I've 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.199 got a C grade on him. The only Vikings starting cornerback, 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.800 Jeff glad you will be manning the slot. And we'll 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.720 talk about Danny Amndolan in a future segment here in 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.400 just a few minutes. Uh, let's go to the running game. 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:12.080 DeAndre Swift gets a C grade. A really disheartening box 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:13.880 score last week. Remember you had the big game two 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:17.360 weeks ago. We're like DeAndre Swift, He's finally here, it's 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.600 all coming together, and then last week he barely touched 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:24.920 the ball. This week he gets a Vikings defense that 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.760 really has been quite good. He's since being obliterated by 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:30.960 Derrick Henry in Week three, the Vikings have allowed only 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.280 eighty three rushing yards per game and a single touch 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.520 now since Week three. Swift's a good receiver, and I 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:38.400 would like to say it's gonna catch a lot of passes, 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.920 but Vikings are pretty good there too. No back has 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:44.320 managed even thirty receiving yards against Minnesota. So just the 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.400 C grade on DeAndre Swift and a bench grade on 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:51.240 Adrian Peterson only startable if you are Brian Johnson and 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:55.480 you believe the Lions will fulfill a revenge narrative for 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.560 Adrian Peterson. Hey, I'm the one who said, played DeAndre 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.000 Swift that blow up game, and now you're giving yeah, 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.800 you have to take a chance on me Adrian Peterson 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:11.960 in that game, and he scored. But among us, among 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:17.640 us thrives on the revenge narrative. I appreciate that I 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.480 gave you a little shout out. Now you did throw face. 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.040 All right, let's go to the Vikings side. Dalvin Cookson obviously, 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:25.400 and I'm not gonna spend a lot of time and 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.040 to accept to say he's coming off a thirty carry game. 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.280 I think he's gonna get rested more in this game. 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.000 Wouldn't be surprised. We see a lot more Alexander Madison 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:35.960 in this one and a lot more passing, but I 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.320 can't put a starting grade on Madison in this one. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.200 A grade for Dalvin Cook. Let's go to the passing game. 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.000 We'll start with Kirk Cousins, who gets to see It's 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.480 almost always about volume for Kirk. With requisite passes, Kirk 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.480 Cousins as a viable starter. If the team does in 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.160 fact rest Cook some more, I think he will probably 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.920 get there. But the lines are bad run defense. They're 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.560 seeing the fourth most rushes, so I can't guarantee the 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.440 Cousins gets to an adequate level of volume when he 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:08.280 doesn't reach twenty six passes. Cousins average game one ninety 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:12.560 yards and one touchdown. Um Every quarterback other than Gardner 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.440 Minshew has thrown multiple to touchdowns or top three yards 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.840 against Detroit, so you know there is some upside for 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:19.880 Kirk this week, but I'm only going with the C grade. 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:23.560 Adam Feeling gets a B grade. His light usage is 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.400 a concern, but he's got a very positive matchup that 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.200 will most often be against rookie Jeff Okuda, who Pro 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:33.640 Football focuses ranks as their one hundred fifth rated cornerbacks. 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.960 He's uh, he does have history on his side, feeling does, 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.600 having posted at least eighty yards or a touchdown in 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:43.200 his last five straight meetings with the Lions, and Detroit's 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:47.280 giving up the ninth most yards to receivers. Then there's 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:49.720 Justin Jefferson, the last guy I'll mention in this matchup. 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:53.200 Last week, Jefferson drew shadow coverage from Green Bay's best 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.040 corner That says a lot about Jefferson right that he's 0:16:56.080 --> 0:17:00.720 drawing best coverage this week. If that were to happen here, 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:10.240 he will get Amani Horatio Amani Ruari. You totally made 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.600 that name up. There's no chance that's a real person. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.320 He is their best cornerback and he's averaging thirty five 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:23.160 yards per game. Outside of Amnio Ruariuh. The Lion's secondary 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:27.160 has been brutal, and so if that guy is on theinland, 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.240 that would open up Jefferson that I'm kind of missing 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:37.000 the Horatio middle name. There was too many Domani's that name, 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.479 no doubt about that. We'll be back more Fantasy Football 0:17:40.520 --> 0:18:00.399 Weekly coming up in moments Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly, 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:04.399 a royalty free version of take a chance on me. 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.760 This is where we give you nine players you would 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.320 not normally start, many of whom available off the waiver 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.480 wid Every time we do this show, I forget that 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:15.600 this song is gonna come on, and I cringe a 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:19.199 little bit every time, a little bit inside every single 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.120 time we begin at the quarterback position, Brian, you take 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:27.160 a chance at the quarterback is Denver's Drew Lock at Atlanta. Now, 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.159 the Falcons have only surrendered one passing touchdown across the 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:33.840 last two games to Teddy Bridgewater and Matt Stafford combined, 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.760 but that was on also a combined forty pass attempts. 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.480 That's a bit of inadbiration. Before that, they were consistently 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.960 getting carved up through the air. And now this is 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.320 the analysis you're not gonna get anywhere else. And Drew 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:50.800 Lock this week, guys, he's most famous for just nailing 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:55.000 young jeezys put on on the sideline. Okay, yeah, okay, 0:18:55.320 --> 0:19:01.159 do you know what city was wrapping about Atlanta? Yep, 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.400 And he's gonna put it on him, Drew Lock at 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.760 the Falcons in a point orgy. We'll talk about this game, 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:11.320 all right. Uh mine doesn't have anything to do with rap. 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:15.600 But Kyle Allen, in the last two games that he 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.679 started and finished, he's thrown exactly two touchdown passes in 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.560 each of those games. One of those games was against 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.480 these same New York Giants just three weeks ago, where 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:26.720 football team trusted him enough to have him throw the 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:30.280 ball forty two times and he racked up two yards. 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.639 And the Giants they're bad. They're allowing two d seventy 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.080 yards and almost two scores per game to the position. 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:40.800 So Kyle Allen, fire him up. I've got this pains me, 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:45.280 you know it does. Cam Newton. You guys know how 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:47.600 I feel about Cam. Since his hot start in the 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:51.639 season's first two games, he has been straight up garbage, 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.840 averaging one forty seven passing yards per game and a 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.520 quarter of a passing touchdown. You know how hard it 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:01.560 is to do that in today's n FL All but impossible. 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:03.679 And then, of course he had the game losing fumble 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:09.240 last week. Uh now, no, I'll mention Newton's legs have 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:13.960 helped except when they don't, and then you done anyway, 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.040 if you're never going to get a better opportunity than 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:18.200 this week against the Jets. You have to be playing 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.320 him as a running back? Really, you really are you? Really? 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:24.159 That's all you're doing here. Although the Jets have allowed 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:27.960 three hundred passing yards and or multiple touchdowns to seven 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:31.479 of eight opposing quarterbacks, that could mean upwards of like 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:37.840 two hundred passing yards that's right. And similarly, mobile quarterbacks 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:42.439 Kyler Murray and Josh Allen twice both top sixty rushing 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:46.280 yards and or a rushing touchdown. There we go running 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:50.440 back getting two passing yards. That's right. If not, now 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:54.400 when for Cam Newton and then drop him? Brian, let's 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:56.040 go to the running back position. Who has you take 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:59.360 a chance on the runner? Per usual, Christmas season has 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:03.080 come way too early, but Patrick Laird season has held 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:09.680 me even earlier. What I'd rather hear nails on a 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:15.719 chocolate because it's not Christmas time. It's not even cool. 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:17.800 You're the one who brought it up. I know I 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:19.600 was trying to make a joke and now it's failed. 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:22.400 Let's get back to Patrick. Larry failed because of Bell. 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:28.560 That's why I failed throughout your comic timing. Sorry, I 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:30.879 just say I hate Slay Bills. In November, man, what 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:34.480 can I say anyway back to the aforementioned Patrick Laird, 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:37.520 one of two healthy running backs or available running backs 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:39.239 for the Dolphins in this game. The only other one 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:41.320 is Jordan Howard. Will talk about this matchup more later, 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:43.960 but Arizona very tough against the run. They've only allowed 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:46.440 three rushing touchdowns and running backs and no loan back 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:49.560 as top seventy five yards. So I'm out on Howard entirely. 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:51.800 I like it. But there's a receiving angle here for sure, 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:56.119 especially with a rookie quarterback in two o'clock so outside 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:58.040 of the Jets game, and we just don't count the 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:00.600 Jets when it comes to opposing stats, right. The Cardinals 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.560 have surrendered running back catch totals of six, ten, and 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:06.640