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Speaker 1: playoff edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Geargei
Speaker 1: in my co host today are Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson. Hello, guys, Hey,
Speaker 1: it's this is the most important time of the year.
Speaker 1: It's finally for the for the rest of the non
Speaker 1: guillotine league players, this is your your your next on
Speaker 1: the line. You're losing your out. These are the pivotal games.
Speaker 1: Do I know what's hilarious? I don't have any games
Speaker 1: this week. Either got a first round by or I'm
Speaker 1: out all my leaks, So it's like I got nothing
Speaker 1: to do, alright. Why am I the only one with
Speaker 1: the playoff mustache? I thought we agreed we're growing fantasy
Speaker 1: playoff mustaches. I thought you just thought it was November still,
Speaker 1: but no, Yeah, the fantasy it all blends together eventually
Speaker 1: get an exciting show filled with playoff relevant action. We
Speaker 1: have three games Saturday. We're gonna break those down in
Speaker 1: just a minute. Will continue to play. Take a chance
Speaker 1: on me, will answer three tough questions. Now, these Saturday games,
Speaker 1: we're not going to give them to you for reasons
Speaker 1: on board listeners with in the order they're going to
Speaker 1: be played. We're gonna juggle the order a little bit.
Speaker 1: But these are the three three games coming up on Saturday,
Speaker 1: let's do. Let's start with Baltimore taking on Cleveland. Looks
Speaker 1: like Tyler Hartley will play in this game, which is
Speaker 1: good news. Correct, Tyler Huntley off the injury report. Of course,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson is out this week. The Browns have allowed
Speaker 1: the fewest rushing yards to opposing quarterbacks this year. However,
Speaker 1: they've only really faced one running quarterback and that was
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, and he had ten carries for fifty nine yards.
Speaker 1: Huntley completes a very high percentage of throws for short
Speaker 1: yardage with vibes, which what Cleveland does defend of Lee.
Speaker 1: He's only ever thrown for more than two twenty yards
Speaker 1: in a game once in his career, so you're not
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot through the air. But this is
Speaker 1: a high risk, high rewards c grade almost based solely
Speaker 1: on the run game for Huntley here as for the
Speaker 1: rest of the passing game. Mark Andrews is really the
Speaker 1: only consideration, and he gets just a C. Here Andrews
Speaker 1: hasn't scored since Week six, which is about the last
Speaker 1: time the Ravens had a wide receiver on the roster. Uh.
Speaker 1: That is that's I mean, that's right. When you know
Speaker 1: when went down, you'd think you'd think that Mark Andrews
Speaker 1: would have been better with Bateman out, but teams just
Speaker 1: flexed coverage specifically to stop the only receiving threat. Since
Speaker 1: Week seven began, he's averaging three catches for thirty six yards.
Speaker 1: That's it. He's so pedestrian now. That includes the last
Speaker 1: meeting with Cleveland, who held Andrews to two targets and
Speaker 1: zero receptions. J K. Dobbins gets a B grade and
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards gets a C. Just after chart rode off
Speaker 1: the whole running game last week, j K. Dobbins came
Speaker 1: back and had a hundred twenty yards in a score
Speaker 1: on fifteen. I've had it with these guys. And then
Speaker 1: and then Gus took thirteen carries for sixty six. That's
Speaker 1: not bad. We'll talk more about those two later in
Speaker 1: the show. Yeah, that's what this team is going to
Speaker 1: do against Cleveland today uh Saturday. The Browns are allowing
Speaker 1: five point two yards per carry. That's the third highest
Speaker 1: mark in the league. They've also allowed seventeen total touchdowns
Speaker 1: the running backs, second most in the league. So like
Speaker 1: both of them. On the other side, Nick Chubb gets
Speaker 1: a B grade and I'm back to bench and Kareem Hunt.
Speaker 1: Chubb dominated the touch total last week versus Cincinnati's seventeen six.
Speaker 1: Hunt was startable that one week against Houston, but the
Speaker 1: Ravens are not Houston. The Ravens are a top five
Speaker 1: team in yards per carry, rushing yards allowed, and combo
Speaker 1: yards allowed per game at about hundred and ten per
Speaker 1: Chubb had a hundred and seven yards in a score
Speaker 1: in the Week seven meeting. I know it's a different
Speaker 1: defense with ro Kuan Smith, but just three weeks ago
Speaker 1: ja Michael Hasty was able to tally nine total yards
Speaker 1: in a score on seventeen touches. It feels like that's
Speaker 1: where Chub is. Uh QB Browns had looked slightly better
Speaker 1: last week, had two seventy six and a score and
Speaker 1: thirty three on the ground in his second game back.
Speaker 1: The Ravens have allowed the fifth most passing yards, but
Speaker 1: have allowed zero or one passing touchdowns in nine of
Speaker 1: the last eleven games. So it seems like a decent yardage,
Speaker 1: low touchdown passing affairs. So he gets a seat. Okay, wait,
Speaker 1: do you have you are you a conscientious objector to
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson's name. I have been all year. I have
Speaker 1: not said his name once. I've been calling him QB
Speaker 1: Browns like tech Mobile all year. Okay, Amari Cooper, he
Speaker 1: scored one touchdown in eight quarters so far, and so
Speaker 1: I don't you know, I don't think. I don't think
Speaker 1: even there's many people even considering him anyway. By the way,
Speaker 1: we said Washington football team before they were even Washington
Speaker 1: football team on this show way back in the day.
Speaker 1: It was just Wash. Yeah, it's true, Amari Cooper and
Speaker 1: Donovan People's Jones. Cooper sat out of practice on Tuesday
Speaker 1: and Wednesday was limited on Thursday. Kevin Stefanski said he'll
Speaker 1: be good to go for Saturday's game, but it's both
Speaker 1: a hip and a core injury for Cooper and he's
Speaker 1: been pretty ineffective for the brown since the new quarterback
Speaker 1: took over. On sixteen targets in those two weeks, he's
Speaker 1: only managed six catches for eighty two scoreless yards. DPJ,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, flourished last week twelve targets, eight
Speaker 1: catches and fourteen yards and has managed double digit PPR
Speaker 1: points and six of his last eight. So I'm giving
Speaker 1: Cooper a C and Donovan People's Jones a B grade
Speaker 1: in this one. Uh And David and Joku he gets
Speaker 1: just a C grade seven for seventy one on the
Speaker 1: first meeting with the Ravens and they're in middle of
Speaker 1: the pack. Tight end defense. Greg Dulcych did manage six
Speaker 1: for eighty five two weeks ago, and last week Pat
Speaker 1: friar Muth did find the end zone against Baltimore. So surprise,
Speaker 1: you're solo on in Joko, and yet you're higher on
Speaker 1: Donovan People's Jones because Donovan People's Jones puts up more
Speaker 1: numbers than David and Joku. That's why relative to their position,
Speaker 1: I guess seems like a pretty safe play. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a C grade. Are you going to cancel my
Speaker 1: name at the point, I'm a little probably. You know
Speaker 1: things that I do. And by the way, would you
Speaker 1: rather play in Joku or Mark Andrews in this one.
Speaker 1: I think that is correct. If we had levels of
Speaker 1: sea grades like pluses or minuses or something like. That's
Speaker 1: all you have to do. Are You're done right? You
Speaker 1: omitted one very important factor. What's that JK. Dobbins birthday game?
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, I forgot j K. Dobbins birthday game,
Speaker 1: which is good unless he tweets that it's his birthday.
Speaker 1: How you can't tweet about your own birthday? Okay, Miami's
Speaker 1: taking on Buffalo Brian and a weather potential weather game.
Speaker 1: Everybody's all freaked out. I think people are way over
Speaker 1: reacting to the space of what we know right now.
Speaker 1: It may not the snow might even be cleared by
Speaker 1: the time there's kickoff on this game. And even so,
Speaker 1: they're talking about like four inches of snow that you
Speaker 1: know Buffalo is build for this. I'm not sweating it yet,
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna until right before kickoff when I
Speaker 1: see what the actual conditions on the field are. I'm
Speaker 1: sweating it a little bit. It's more like a foot
Speaker 1: wins around fifteen miles per hour, which nothing um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: these teams are will be the second meeting they played
Speaker 1: in week three in Miami. There definitely wasn't any snow
Speaker 1: in that game. So a reference uh those stats a
Speaker 1: little bit. Starting on the Dolphins side, we're on the road.
Speaker 1: I got Jeff Wilson and Raheem Mostart on the bench.
Speaker 1: I will give the seed to Mostart if Wilson somehow sits,
Speaker 1: there is a possibility that happens with the Bills have
Speaker 1: allowed the eighth uist rushing yards of opposing running backs,
Speaker 1: and only three individual posing backs have top seventy yards
Speaker 1: against them. One was Zonovant Night last week though, so
Speaker 1: that that's good, and that was most likely because von
Speaker 1: Miller has been on I R. That's that's a plus
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins backs. But again, if they both play,
Speaker 1: I got them both on the bench in this one,
Speaker 1: you know they might be completely invisible as running back
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins were all white. You might not be
Speaker 1: able to see them at all. And you have to
Speaker 1: factor I know, like every Dolphins player isn't from Florida,
Speaker 1: but the state shuts down when when it drops with
Speaker 1: the sixty degrees in Florida, So they're gonna says that
Speaker 1: it's snows in Alabama. So you gotta factor that in
Speaker 1: we'll factor that. I'm gonna factor a few things with
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, who I'm only giving a C two in
Speaker 1: this game. He's nursing an ankle injury, playing on a
Speaker 1: short week, coming off Sunday night football, playing on Saturday
Speaker 1: this week. There are the weather concerns, and he only
Speaker 1: had two scoreless catches for thirty three yards in the
Speaker 1: first meeting, and that was winter debuts. Ward was not
Speaker 1: playing White. I'm sorry White was not playing. He is
Speaker 1: playing in this game one of the better corners in
Speaker 1: the league and should be covering Tyree Hill quite a bit.
Speaker 1: You definitely got to start um, unless it's a guy
Speaker 1: team league. I think it's a little dice and guilloteam leaks,
Speaker 1: but standard leagues you're starting him. But temporary expectations. I
Speaker 1: like Jalen Waddle a little more in this game, giving
Speaker 1: him a bet, even though he's been slumping big time
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks. Just three catches for forty
Speaker 1: scoreless yards. He hasn't scored in four straight games. And
Speaker 1: I hadn't realized this, but he's only scored in four
Speaker 1: games this year. All his touchdowns have come in four games. Wattle,
Speaker 1: to me, is very dangerous. You and I could not
Speaker 1: disagree more on this game. Well, it'd be fitting to
Speaker 1: do for him to do the penguin dance in the snow, right,
Speaker 1: So that's why I feel like the touchdown touchdown he
Speaker 1: didn't score in the first meeting, he did have four
Speaker 1: catches up for a hundred and two yards. He should
Speaker 1: see coverage from Dane Jackson often who surrendered three touchdowns
Speaker 1: over the last five games, and just there's no injury
Speaker 1: concern here, notre deus white concern. I like Wattle a
Speaker 1: little more. But you're starting both he entiree killer. You're
Speaker 1: not starting Mike Siki. He's on the bench and I'm
Speaker 1: only given to us see here, if you recall the
Speaker 1: uh the Bills game was the game where he got
Speaker 1: knocked out but then came back in, which became very controversial,
Speaker 1: controversial the following week when he got knocked out again.
Speaker 1: So he only finished with one sixty one passing yards
Speaker 1: in a touchdown in the first meeting, which kind of
Speaker 1: feels like his borderline ceiling here. The Bills have surrendered
Speaker 1: zero or one passing touchdowns and five of their last
Speaker 1: seven games, and the two games they allowed multiple scores
Speaker 1: during that span where the indoor games in Detroit, and
Speaker 1: they're not playing in Detroit the this week, so I
Speaker 1: just gotta see for Tua. Over to the bill side,
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary, James Cook. I'm benching Singletary and I'll give
Speaker 1: Cook the sea. The Dolphins are allowing only seventy rushing
Speaker 1: yards per game on three point eight yards per carry. Good.
Speaker 1: That's a sneaky good run defense for the Dolphins. And
Speaker 1: then they're clearly going to spit uh split time. Um.
Speaker 1: But Miami has surrendered the sixth most receiving yards and
Speaker 1: running backs and over the last two weeks alone, opposing
Speaker 1: backs have totaled twenty catches against Miami. So Cook is
Speaker 1: the past catching back here. So I like him with
Speaker 1: the Sea. I got Singletary on the bench, definitely not
Speaker 1: benching Stefon Digs. Just gonna give him a be just
Speaker 1: because of the weather concerns a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're starting him, I mean, don't work. I'm a little
Speaker 1: considered charge we can disagree here. I mean all I'm
Speaker 1: saying is, can we can we hit the panic button
Speaker 1: when we actually I feel like we've we've been through
Speaker 1: this over the last twenty years on this show, where
Speaker 1: the big snow game happens, everybody freaks out like it's
Speaker 1: gonna be low scoring. But the wide receivers are still
Speaker 1: fine because they know where they're going. It's the defensive
Speaker 1: backs who have to cut and cover. That's been true
Speaker 1: in some cases and others not so much. I don't know,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll see. There's like one game a year where
Speaker 1: whether actually like you know, totally suppresses you know, the
Speaker 1: score of the game. Maybe this is gonna be if
Speaker 1: the winds were a little lower out But anyway, all right,
Speaker 1: we've got into Weatherman territory. Modest, modest. Seven catches seventy
Speaker 1: four yards in the first meeting for Digs. He did
Speaker 1: score in both games against Miami last year. Mike Williams
Speaker 1: had a monster game against the Dolphins last week, and
Speaker 1: Diggs could certainly do the same. So fine, I'll give
Speaker 1: him an a. No concerns with Stefan Diggs. I have
Speaker 1: concerns for Gabe Davis. You should if you've started him
Speaker 1: basically in all any of other than two games this year. Uh,
Speaker 1: first off, you're not gonna play Isaiah mackenzie, especially since
Speaker 1: they signed Cole Beasley. That shows how much fame they had,
Speaker 1: and Isaiah McKenzie. But I'm still benching Gabe Davis as well.
Speaker 1: He has scored in three of his four career meetings
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins, but the game he failed to score
Speaker 1: in was the one earlier this season. And Davis has
Speaker 1: also top seventy yards or five catches just once over
Speaker 1: his last seven games. He's a touchdown dependent wide receiver
Speaker 1: and that's not someone you can trust in the fantasy playoffs.
Speaker 1: I do trust Dawson Knox giving him a sea. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins are top eight in the most catches, yards, and
Speaker 1: touchdowns allowed to tight ends on a per game basis.
Speaker 1: Miami's Eric Rowe is Pro Football focused, his seventh worst
Speaker 1: safety and coverage allowing, allowing the third most yards and
Speaker 1: receptions in his coverage, and Knox had only four catches
Speaker 1: for twenty five yards in the first meeting, but Quentin
Speaker 1: Morris and Reggie Gilliam combined for four catches and forty
Speaker 1: four yards, so hopefully that all goes to Knox. I
Speaker 1: like him with the Sea. And lastly, Josh Allen, he
Speaker 1: gets an A. I don't really think I need to
Speaker 1: go into that. The design rushing plays are coming back
Speaker 1: to come back four and forty seven total yards and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns in the first meeting. I think it was
Speaker 1: six designed rushing plays last week for him, if if
Speaker 1: I remember correctly, when we came back. We'll get to
Speaker 1: the the third of three of your Actually this it's
Speaker 1: a non Saturday matchup. I think that's next. We'll get
Speaker 1: to this. We'll get to Falcons taking on Saints coming
Speaker 1: up next. We'll work in the final Saturday game India
Speaker 1: at Minnesota a little bit later in the show. Stay
Speaker 1: tuned more Fantasy Football Weekly coming up next. Take a
Speaker 1: chance on me nine players not normally just starting lineup. Hey,
Speaker 1: even though it's the playoffs, you should have a great roster.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean injuries and other things have happened that
Speaker 1: have forced you to look for some unusual potential starters. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe lost Kyler Murray last week as as one example.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about how bad that is a little bit
Speaker 1: later in the show. I'd like to think that the
Speaker 1: daily fantasy players like this segment a lot too. It's
Speaker 1: usually your value. Yeah, let's spending at the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: Matt mac Jones has struggled a bit this season with
Speaker 1: the new offensive coordinator, but he faces his old one
Speaker 1: this week and Josh McDaniels, well, he may be able
Speaker 1: to shed some light on mac Jones's weaknesses. McDaniels has
Speaker 1: a weakness of his own. It's his defense. I like that. Uh.
Speaker 1: They've allowed the fourth most passing yards this year, eighth
Speaker 1: most touchdowns at one and thirteen games, and they've only
Speaker 1: intercepted four passes all the year. Not to mention, don't
Speaker 1: you think Bill Belichick wants to run it up on
Speaker 1: his former pupil Oh, he would never do that. Never,
Speaker 1: mac Jones. All right, let's go to Brian. Your take
Speaker 1: a chance on the quarterback. I'm going to take a
Speaker 1: chance on z Wilson. Zack Wilson, the mill hunter against
Speaker 1: the Lions. Uh, if you hadn't heard, Mike White has
Speaker 1: been ruled out with the broken rib. Tried to get
Speaker 1: cleared by ten different independent doctors. That's a guy. I'll
Speaker 1: take an eighth opinion. I'll take a ninth opinion. He
Speaker 1: needs to go see Dr Nick Riviere if he wants
Speaker 1: to play in this game. Sadly, he's a cartoon character.
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson's kind of he is. But Hey, it's a
Speaker 1: good matchup. The Lions suddenly stout run defense has funneled
Speaker 1: their opposition to the past. Since Week eight, they're yielding
Speaker 1: nearly forty pass attempts per game and opposing quarterbacks of
Speaker 1: average passing yards at one point seven passing touchdowns per game.
Speaker 1: Detroit has also allowed the most rushing attempts, yards and
Speaker 1: touchdowns and quarterbacks this season. Wilson's he's got some wheels.
Speaker 1: Not He's not justin fields by any means. He he's
Speaker 1: got some mobility. But hey, if you're desperate, it's a
Speaker 1: great matchup for for Zack. Matt Ryan faces the Vikings
Speaker 1: on Saturday. The last seven non Heike quarterbacks to face
Speaker 1: Minnesota have thrown for three nine yards, three six yards,
Speaker 1: three D seven six three hundred thirty yards. See that
Speaker 1: level of ineptitude creates the most favorable matchup of Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan's entire season, and he's had some explosive games this year.
Speaker 1: He's topped three hundred fifty yards three different times, although
Speaker 1: none under Jeff Saturday, Who's got the run heavy approach here.
Speaker 1: All three of Ryan's receivers have got positive individual matchups.
Speaker 1: Will talk about all of them a little bit later.
Speaker 1: Vikings allowed the most passing yards, the second most completions,
Speaker 1: and every opposing quarterback has scored since the opener. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the running back position. You take a chance
Speaker 1: to me runner Matt. I think it's gonna be Mac
Speaker 1: jones favorite target, Pierre Strong. Romandre Stevenson just practiced for
Speaker 1: the first time on Friday with an ankle injury. He
Speaker 1: was very limited. Damien Harris was limited in practice on
Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday, and the Patriots reporter Chris Mason of
Speaker 1: mass Live dot com said he doesn't look particularly close
Speaker 1: to and last week it was Pierre Strong and Kevin
Speaker 1: Harris who filled in. Strong might be the sneaky play
Speaker 1: because he took five carries for seventy yards, but he
Speaker 1: also chipped in two catches and twenty yards in the
Speaker 1: passing game. Kevin Harris wasn't targeted at all, and they
Speaker 1: faced the Raiders defense, who's allowed the most receiving yards
Speaker 1: to opposing runners this year. Even if Stevenson or Harris
Speaker 1: does go yet, Harris hasn't been involved in the passing
Speaker 1: game at all. I think Pierre is a strong play. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're running back, let's let's move on quickly from that Tobacco.
Speaker 1: It's not Pierre Thomas, Remember Pierre Thomas, oh Man Thomas.
Speaker 1: I I like Antonio Gibson at home against the Giants.
Speaker 1: Will get into this game more later, but it's a
Speaker 1: weird scenario where these teams last played in Week thirteen,
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, and the Commanders were on by last week,
Speaker 1: so there they got back to back games against the Giants,
Speaker 1: so they they're certainly ready to play New York and
Speaker 1: this one. Who were who? The Giants were gashed on
Speaker 1: the ground by the Eagles last week. With defensive tackle
Speaker 1: Leonard Williams out with a neck injury. He is questionable
Speaker 1: to play on Sunday night. And uh the Giants have
Speaker 1: now allowed eight straight games to an opposing running back
Speaker 1: to have at least ninety four yards or a touchdown.
Speaker 1: I know Brian Robinson will be the lead back, but
Speaker 1: I kind of just think the Commanders roll the Giants
Speaker 1: and this one and should see some significant work here.
Speaker 1: I think Brian Robinson sitting on the best game of
Speaker 1: his guy. He'll be getting a good grade later. Talk
Speaker 1: more about that later. You'll remember all preseason I begged
Speaker 1: people not to draft cam Acres, Well, it's come around
Speaker 1: to the point where now I'm I'm actually giving him
Speaker 1: a take a chance on the opportunity on Monday Night.
Speaker 1: He dominated the carries last week with twelve um. But
Speaker 1: he's been and he's been. Don't get me wrong, he's
Speaker 1: been bad like every other ram trying to run behind
Speaker 1: tenth stringers on the offensive line. But the Packers ranked
Speaker 1: twenty six and run defense by Pro Football Focus, and
Speaker 1: opposing number one runners almost always get paid. Opposing lead
Speaker 1: runners have scored or top seventy three yards in ten
Speaker 1: of thirteen games against green Bay. The last four lead
Speaker 1: runners have all scored touchdowns against green Bay. So look,
Speaker 1: you need a dart throw Monday night, cam Akers. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the wide receivers. Well, I shouldn't say that
Speaker 1: receivers because you often go tight end. Yeah, I went
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Just a mess with you. Michael Gallop six
Speaker 1: or more targets in five of his last six games.
Speaker 1: But he's really passed the eye test over the last
Speaker 1: month or so, making some great contested catches, and he
Speaker 1: scored twice against Indie just two weeks ago. Faces a
Speaker 1: Jags defense that is allowing the third most touchdowns to
Speaker 1: the wide receiver position. They're at sixteen through thirteen games,
Speaker 1: and second wide receivers have have had a lot of
Speaker 1: success against the Jags as of recent Detroit's DJ Chark
Speaker 1: had five catches for ninety yards. Even Marquees Valdez Scantling
Speaker 1: had sixty yards in a score just a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Michael Gallop, let's go all right, Michael Gallup,
Speaker 1: your take a chance of me wide receiver. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: another reclamation project from the New York Jets. And Elijah More.
Speaker 1: Compare him with Zach Wilson. You only live once again.
Speaker 1: They're at home against the Lions, who quite simply are
Speaker 1: not good covering opposing slot wide receivers. Since we gate,
Speaker 1: they've allowed the most PPR points to the position, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately More was in a smash spot with Mike White
Speaker 1: as quarterback. More has had four red zon targets over
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. But I don't know, we know
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson like hates Garrett Wilson, so I like Alijah
Speaker 1: More a little more in this one. I can't turn
Speaker 1: up anything on Pierre Thomas. I don't know whatever he's
Speaker 1: been doing he's doing it in secret. There's no there's
Speaker 1: like nothing's like he fell off the face of the
Speaker 1: earth after he retires exactly. If you're listening, tell us
Speaker 1: what's happening in your life. We're curious. We miss you, Pierre,
Speaker 1: I do miss Pierre. UM might take a chance to
Speaker 1: me wide receiver Paris Campbell, I I will, I am
Speaker 1: also come mining a wide receiver with a quarterback. I
Speaker 1: told you I loved Matt Ryan this week. The only
Speaker 1: person who's more of a Paris Campbell fan than me
Speaker 1: is Matt Ryan. Ryan has gotten more production out of
Speaker 1: Campbell than anybody in Campbell's career, and it's not close.
Speaker 1: Over Ryan's last five games, Paris Campbell averaging five receptions,
Speaker 1: fifty four yards and half a touchdown. That is solid.
Speaker 1: He's gonna face a Vikings defense that allows the most
Speaker 1: yards most receptions to opposing running backs or sorry, posing receivers.
Speaker 1: His slot matchup is against Vikings cornerback Chandon Sullivan, who
Speaker 1: has been better lately, including uh keeping I'm on Ross
Speaker 1: st Brown in check last week, but on the season,
Speaker 1: Sullivan giving up a very healthy seventies seven percent catch rate,
Speaker 1: highest one of the highest in the league. Pierre Thomas's
Speaker 1: real first name is Charles. I did not know that
Speaker 1: is his middle name, Pierre. How do you end up
Speaker 1: Charles Pierre Thomas? At some point you just go, I'm
Speaker 1: tired of people calling me Chuck. You need I want
Speaker 1: something more a jr. So you know, maybe that I
Speaker 1: wanted to be different than that. Maybe that was it.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to uh the other Saturday game,
Speaker 1: which is Indianapolis taking on the Minnesota Vikings. Already told
Speaker 1: you Matt Ryan was might take a chance of me.
Speaker 1: Quarterback Paris Campbell was gonna take a chance of me
Speaker 1: wide receiver. So you can assume I like Michael Pittman here.
Speaker 1: He posted a dud game before the by but the
Speaker 1: bounce back is coming in a big way. He runs
Speaker 1: from all over the field. He's got plus matchups at
Speaker 1: every stop, particularly on the outside against cornerback Cam Danceler
Speaker 1: came off I R last week and promptly allowed an
Speaker 1: eighty percent completion rate and a touchdown. As I already
Speaker 1: mentioned a moment ago, Minnesota allowing the most yards and
Speaker 1: receptions to opposing receivers. So a premote matchup from Michael
Speaker 1: Pittman with an A grade in this one, and to
Speaker 1: see great on Alec Pierce as a you know, it's
Speaker 1: all there's so much, there's so much to be had
Speaker 1: through the air against Minnesota, and outside receivers have been
Speaker 1: hammering the Vikings last week. DJ Chark and Josh Reynolds
Speaker 1: are unstoppable. Before that, it was Garrett Wilson, Before that,
Speaker 1: it was DeVante Parker, Nelson Agilar. Look, I go all
Speaker 1: the way back to the basically the Vikings entire year
Speaker 1: and find duo's that have performed well against the Vikings,
Speaker 1: especially from the outside. Pierce is a big bodied receiver
Speaker 1: who can match the physical play of Patrick Peterson, Camp Danceler.
Speaker 1: The tight ends are out of play here because they're
Speaker 1: all reasonably healthy, and that means Johnny Woods and Moiley
Speaker 1: Cox and Kylan Granson, it's there are they could any
Speaker 1: any of them could get use so we're gonna throw
Speaker 1: them all up. That just leaves Jonathan Taylor the path
Speaker 1: of least resistance against the Vikings, certainly through the air.
Speaker 1: But Jeff Saturday's averaging twenty four touches for Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: per game, so you figure he's gonna get some volume here. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the Vikings allowing the seventh fewest rushing yards on the
Speaker 1: fifth lowest yards per carry, so this is not an
Speaker 1: easy job for Jonathan Taylor. Still, he could chip in
Speaker 1: some receptions. Minnesota allows the fifth most receptions and receiving
Speaker 1: yards to the position, and Taylor is usually good for
Speaker 1: three catches per game. So I think in totality, this
Speaker 1: feels like a B grade for Jonathan Taylor. Viking side. Uh,
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson's in a grade, but I'll mention he's got
Speaker 1: a tough tangle with Steph Gilmore for most of this game.
Speaker 1: Gilmore shadows opposing number ones often and has not allowed
Speaker 1: a touchdown in his coverage. Still, it's justin Jefferson. You're
Speaker 1: certainly starting him well. Staying with the passing game here,
Speaker 1: Adam Thieland gets a C grade. Lines up all over
Speaker 1: the field, but will most often see cornerback Isaiah Rodgers
Speaker 1: on the right side of the field. Rogers is allowing
Speaker 1: a whopping eighty two percent of the passes in his
Speaker 1: coverage to be completed. He's only allowed one touchdown all year,
Speaker 1: but it came in his last game to Michael Gallup,
Speaker 1: who Matt just mentioned last part of the last uh well,
Speaker 1: a couple more players from the among the receivers here
Speaker 1: for the Vikings, t J. Hockenson B grade here, He's
Speaker 1: consistently in that six catch fifty range solid not amazing,
Speaker 1: only one touchdown so far. As a member of the
Speaker 1: Vikings will face the Cold's defense that has yet to
Speaker 1: allow a tight end performance above fifty eight yards. They've
Speaker 1: only given up one touchdown to tight end since Week four.
Speaker 1: I do like Hockinson's individual matchup. He'll often be covered
Speaker 1: by linebacker Bobby Oh creaky, Oh creaky, Oh creaky. He's
Speaker 1: consistently what just happened church broke on that name like
Speaker 1: it's week fifteen, I can break He's he is the
Speaker 1: backup behind Shaquille Leonard and he's allowed the second most targets,
Speaker 1: the most receptions in the seventh most yards. I'm on
Speaker 1: linebackers since he started and um and that's a good
Speaker 1: opportunity for t J. Hockenson B great on him. Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins coming up the best game of his of his
Speaker 1: season and one of the best games of his career.
Speaker 1: Really quietly Indie's past defense, though elite, allowing just one
Speaker 1: hundred eighty nine yards per game. No quarterbacks top two
Speaker 1: hundred seventy nine yards on the Colts all year. Passers
Speaker 1: have failed to top the meager milestone of one ninety
Speaker 1: yards in six the last eight games against Indie. Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson alone makes Cousins startable and I've got to see
Speaker 1: grade on him here, um and I like that. The
Speaker 1: Colts pass rushes not that good. They ranked thirty and
Speaker 1: pass rushed by profoball focus. I've got a C grade
Speaker 1: on Cousins in a sneaky, tough matchup. Lastly, Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 1: After a series of grueling matchups and without his left tackle,
Speaker 1: it's finally a strongly positive matchup for Cook. Colts are
Speaker 1: bottom twelve and rushing yards, rushing scores, receptions to running
Speaker 1: backs and receiving yards allowed to running backs and in
Speaker 1: their two games prior to the bye, and he gave
Speaker 1: up six rushing touchdowns in those two games and five
Speaker 1: and a half yards per carry. A grade for Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 1: It's about time we can finally talk about Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: with a fair amount of confidence. Let's uh, let's take
Speaker 1: a break when we come back. Final set of matchups
Speaker 1: for our number one, including the Dallas Cowboys taking on
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. Christian Kirk has been promising all season.
Speaker 1: We'll say if that's going to continue. And Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 1: who has been running hot and cold against the awesome
Speaker 1: pass rush of the Dallas Cowboys. Matt Harrison will tell
Speaker 1: you what to expect to come back to fantasy football
Speaker 1: we flee Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly Paul Charchi and
Speaker 1: Guillotine Leagues dot Com. Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson with
Speaker 1: you big block oh matchups beginning with Dallas taking on
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. Matt Tony Pollard has been electric, Zeke
Speaker 1: has been stable for fantasy owners. What do you think
Speaker 1: of that? To duo? This week in Jacksonville, they both
Speaker 1: get in a. Uh. Cowboys running backs have scored twelve
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the last five games. Man, that's crazy. Is crazy.
Speaker 1: Jacksonville has allowed the most rushing touchdowns on the year,
Speaker 1: So I have a feeling they're both going to score here.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott gets an A as well. Jacksonville bottom ten
Speaker 1: in passing yards, passing scores, and rushing yards allowed to
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. In case Dak wants to run one
Speaker 1: in UH Ceedee Lamb gets an A and Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: gets a B as might take a chance on the receiver.
Speaker 1: I mentioned Jacksonville likes to give up touchdowns to the
Speaker 1: wide receivers, and Lamb has scored or topped a hundred
Speaker 1: yards and four of his last six Dalton Schultz. I
Speaker 1: called Dalton as Deck's only touchdown passed last week. It
Speaker 1: didn't work, but Deck only did have one passing score
Speaker 1: went to Tony Pollard. Schultz did come away with six
Speaker 1: catches eighty seven yards on ten target of the end
Speaker 1: position every week over the last five weeks. Dalton Schultz
Speaker 1: is tight end too behind Travis Kelsey. He's an A grade.
Speaker 1: The Jags are allowing the third most yards to opposing
Speaker 1: tight ends on the Jacksonville side. Travis e t n
Speaker 1: faced a similarly good run defense last week and the
Speaker 1: Titans he took seventeen carries for thirty two yards. Now randomly,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have allowed the ninth most rushing yards to
Speaker 1: running backs, but they don't give up touchdowns only six
Speaker 1: total on the year. UH it's unlikely he finds the
Speaker 1: end zone, so just a C grade for e T
Speaker 1: n Trevor Lawrence is going to play despite missing some
Speaker 1: practices with a toe injury this weekend. Last week, he's
Speaker 1: faced three of the worst past defenses in the league
Speaker 1: the last three weeks. Returned two games of over three
Speaker 1: yards with three scores in each of those, but then
Speaker 1: he played Detroit and put up a stinker in one
Speaker 1: seventy nine and one. This week he gets Dallas, who's
Speaker 1: top six in passing yards and touchdowns allowed. The bright
Speaker 1: spot is the Cowboys have allowed multiple passing scores four
Speaker 1: times in the last eight games, but that's the whole season.
Speaker 1: If it's me, I leave Lawrence on the bench, but
Speaker 1: in in single quarterback leagues for sure. If it's super flex,
Speaker 1: I get one of those Fantasy Football Weekly commemorative coins
Speaker 1: and flip it. I want to tell you to start
Speaker 1: a Jags receiver. I'll give Christian Kirk the lowest possible
Speaker 1: C grade here simply because he gets the target share.
Speaker 1: In the last seven games, he's averaging a target nine
Speaker 1: times per game, nine times nine. You're absolutely playing with
Speaker 1: fire in the fantasy playoffs if you're starting z Jones, though,
Speaker 1: you're chasing the upside of the eleven for two weeks
Speaker 1: ago for the eight seventy seven and a score I
Speaker 1: had last week against Tennessee, but he could end up
Speaker 1: with the two for sixteen he had against Detroit in
Speaker 1: the middle there, Dallas has allowed fourteen touchdowns to wide receivers,
Speaker 1: which is sixth most in the league. So Za Jones
Speaker 1: is like the super high risk, super high reward play.
Speaker 1: Like if you played George Kittle last night in your
Speaker 1: fantasy playoffs and you need that swing for the fence upside,
Speaker 1: that's a Jones. I think you're underestimating Christian Kirk. You
Speaker 1: know they lost their slot cornerback Jordan Lewis Okay, and
Speaker 1: raw Doron Bland has been manning the slot. He gives
Speaker 1: up an eighty two percent catch rate, and Kirk is
Speaker 1: the nookie Blankie. He's woo yeah, the wooby for Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 1: I think I think you're underestimating Christian Kirk. You said
Speaker 1: C grade. I have him almost an A grade in
Speaker 1: my ranking. Well, I mean, how about his favorite wide receiver,
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram Okay, who rocket it up to tight end
Speaker 1: five and PPR leagues eleven catches a hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: two yards and two scores. Uh last week last week.
Speaker 1: His single game last week was more points than Darren
Speaker 1: Waller has scored all year, and kudos to Brian for
Speaker 1: picking him up mid matchup last week on the show. Uh.
Speaker 1: Likely probably to replace Darren Waller on your team, I
Speaker 1: would think, right, Yeah, I've been streaming. Ever, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have only allowed one tight end touchdown this year and
Speaker 1: only one tight end is top to fifty yards against
Speaker 1: them this year. He's a C grade, mostly because the
Speaker 1: Cowboys haven't faced any tight ends better than Dallas Goddard
Speaker 1: or t J. Hoggins, and Evan Ingram might be the
Speaker 1: best tight end they faced. All nice call in Evan
Speaker 1: Ingram last week. Actually, you two hammered your ta coms.
Speaker 1: You hammered almost all these dark tek A good week
Speaker 1: last week? Yeah, you two had about the best week
Speaker 1: I can remember you having, I mean, like ever as
Speaker 1: a combo platter. Wow, that was an amazing I appreciate
Speaker 1: that I did only give Ingram a C, but the
Speaker 1: picking him up mid show, I guess really you did.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Detroit Lions taking on the New York
Speaker 1: Jets on the Detroit side. They come off a high.
Speaker 1: Another in a series of high flying offensive games. But
Speaker 1: this is the best defense they've seen in a long time.
Speaker 1: These Jets cornerbacks are awesome. What do you think of
Speaker 1: Jared Goff and this passing game, Brian, Yeah, arguably their
Speaker 1: toughest matchup all year, starting with Jared Goff, just to
Speaker 1: see for him, With seven touchdown passes over his last
Speaker 1: three he's been lights out. But a matchup with the
Speaker 1: Jets is the last thing fantasy managers want to see
Speaker 1: on the schedule. New York has surrendered a m easily
Speaker 1: five passing touchdowns over their last ten games, and during
Speaker 1: that same span, no opposing quarterback has managed to top
Speaker 1: two d and fifty passing yards. And that's why I
Speaker 1: have just a cee on a mon ros st Brown.
Speaker 1: Over the last five weeks, New York has allowed the
Speaker 1: third fewest receptions and yards to wide receivers and just
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. Cornerback Michael Carter, not running back, has allowed
Speaker 1: a pass a rating of just sixty seven. From the
Speaker 1: slot where st Brown lines up over half of the time.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna find much space on the outside either
Speaker 1: against Sauce Gardner or DJ Read So just the sea
Speaker 1: for st Brown and uh for those reasons. I have
Speaker 1: DJ Shark and Jamison Williams, who was playing in a
Speaker 1: Spike game. By the way, Jets took Garrett Wilson a
Speaker 1: couple of picks before James and Williams. Uh, they're both
Speaker 1: on the bench, and this one is it's a brutal matchup.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift on the bench as well. I will give
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams to see. Swift has had double digit touches
Speaker 1: and just one of his last six games, so he's
Speaker 1: a pretty easy sit in a pretty tough matchup. I
Speaker 1: kept thinking, you know, a month ago, he was gonna
Speaker 1: slowly get healthier and his role was gonna expand. But
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift's role really hasn't changed in the last month,
Speaker 1: and it continues to be middling and a little random.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can start him at this point
Speaker 1: Fantasy playoffs, you know your hat on the line, No thanks,
Speaker 1: He's on the bench. But and Lions run defense has
Speaker 1: been awesome for over a month. Well they don't have
Speaker 1: to play against their own run defense. Well that helps.
Speaker 1: But Jamal Williams again gets the sea. He leads the
Speaker 1: league with thirty three carries inside the ten yard line.
Speaker 1: Leads the league and rushing touchdowns. You're praying for a
Speaker 1: goal line plunge here, but you might get it because
Speaker 1: defensive tackle Quinnin Williams hasn't practiced all week, unlikely to play.
Speaker 1: He still could, but uh that'd be a big boon
Speaker 1: for Williams. So I will get him to see over
Speaker 1: to the jet side and zonovan Bam night, Bam, bam, bam.
Speaker 1: We're waiting on this, remembering again, that's a lot of
Speaker 1: bams for just giving him to see though. I was
Speaker 1: gonna be like Bam bam from the Flintstones. I want
Speaker 1: to hear it one more time because the uh yeah,
Speaker 1: the Footstones would have been a good one too. Emerald
Speaker 1: is more recent in the memory than the Bam band
Speaker 1: from the Flintstones. But as Charts just mentioned that Detroit
Speaker 1: defense is legit no longer a soft matchup for opposing
Speaker 1: running backs. Over their last five games, the lines have
Speaker 1: allowed an easily third two combo yards are running backs.
Speaker 1: That's seventies six per game rushing and receiving and just
Speaker 1: two touchdowns of the position over the that five game
Speaker 1: spam span. But Bam has monked great. There used to
Speaker 1: be a can of spam I left in here. Someone
Speaker 1: took it. That's funny. This Minnesota Bams looked great though
Speaker 1: he has four his twenty five miss tackles over his
Speaker 1: last three games. Volume based play, but a tough matchup,
Speaker 1: So just a CEE for Bam. I was gonna give
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson an a in the in the reverse split
Speaker 1: game against Jamison Williams, Yes, until Mike White was ruled out,
Speaker 1: So I'm dropping him to a C with uh Zach
Speaker 1: Wilson a quarterback he does. The splits have proven it.
Speaker 1: Hopefully they break that trend, but it is a good
Speaker 1: matchup on paper. Over Detroit's last five games, they've surrendered
Speaker 1: five wide receiver touchdowns and have allowed a two hundred
Speaker 1: yard wide receiver performance and to one yard wide receiver performances.
Speaker 1: So see for wills in and basically I gave Elijah
Speaker 1: Morris cy he was might take a chance on me
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Uh see for Tyler Conklin as well. The
Speaker 1: Lions are allowing more than five catches and fifty five
Speaker 1: yards per game to tight ends and they have also
Speaker 1: surrendered the third most touchdowns to the position, and uh
Speaker 1: so I like the receivers enough, and that's why Zack
Speaker 1: Wilson was might take a chance for me quarterback. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna add a little something to how good does Lions
Speaker 1: run defense is because I fear that listeners don't realize
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook just ran fifteen times for twenty three yards.
Speaker 1: Before that, Travis Etienne fifty four yards, a couple of
Speaker 1: games before that, sa Kwon Barkley twenty two yards. Uh,
Speaker 1: and a couple of games for that, Aaron Jones twenty
Speaker 1: five yards. I mean, these are some of the best,
Speaker 1: most productive runners in the NFL that have been put
Speaker 1: on horrific games against the Lions run defense. They're biting
Speaker 1: their kneecaps off, just as probably happened Salute League Indianapolis
Speaker 1: cold snope not doing that one. Sorry, Plicans taking on
Speaker 1: the Saints. It is the first It's the big regular
Speaker 1: season debut for Desmond Ritter. Uh. If he was especially promising,
Speaker 1: we'd have seen him a long time ago. We have
Speaker 1: everybody on Atlanta on the bench, and this one the
Speaker 1: Ritter bit. We're not gonna start him or any other
Speaker 1: part of the passing game when we don't know a
Speaker 1: lot about what he could possibly bring. We know he
Speaker 1: has a strong arm. He has a little mobility, but
Speaker 1: that is it. And it's above average Saints past defense
Speaker 1: that foils bottom tier passers repeatedly, Drake London is the
Speaker 1: only receiver you considered. But get this, Drake London has
Speaker 1: been under forty yards and ten of the past eleven
Speaker 1: games he's killing fantasy teams. We're gonna put that whole
Speaker 1: passing game on the bench, and all the runners around
Speaker 1: the bench here too. Corderrell, Patterson, Tyler, l jeer Chet, Huntley. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Falcons run a lot, but that volume doesn't always
Speaker 1: mean big games. All the runners share carries and nobody
Speaker 1: gets a bankable amount of work. And in the last
Speaker 1: three game, New Orleans has been very good against the run,
Speaker 1: only allowing one brat back to reach even fifty yards
Speaker 1: against them. And again Desmond Ritter throws a sizeable question
Speaker 1: mark into the whole offense. They're on the bench. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Saint side where there's not a lot
Speaker 1: to like here either. Frankly, you think of the Falcons
Speaker 1: is being pretty soft, but there's and there's a few angles,
Speaker 1: but not many. Let's start with one of the fantasy
Speaker 1: assassins of this year, Alvin Kamara. It's been seven games
Speaker 1: since Alvin Kamara topped three and a half yards per carry.
Speaker 1: That's horrific. And it's been six games since he's scored,
Speaker 1: and remember he scored in one game all year. That's it.
Speaker 1: The Falcons could be a get right spot for Kimara,
Speaker 1: particularly with mark ingram Oucu will get a lot of
Speaker 1: volume here over the last seven games. Atlanta has a
Speaker 1: lot of running back to rush for at least eighties
Speaker 1: six yards or score, including three yard performances. But I
Speaker 1: can't get Camara above a C grade based on what
Speaker 1: he's done so far. Let's go to the passing game.
Speaker 1: Chrystal Lava gets a C. Atlanta feels like a positive
Speaker 1: matchup on when you just say it like Crystal Lava
Speaker 1: against the Falcons, But they've actually been excellent against whiteouts
Speaker 1: of late. Over the last five weeks, they've allowed the
Speaker 1: fewest receptions, the fewest yards, and the fewest touchdowns to
Speaker 1: opposing receivers, and a lot of that's because after early
Speaker 1: season struggles, their top cornerback A. J. Terrell has been
Speaker 1: outstanding and he likely shadows a Lava in this one.
Speaker 1: Since returning from injury and week eleven. A J. Terrell
Speaker 1: has allowed three total catches since Week eleven, no scores
Speaker 1: and a passer rating of forty in his coverage. So
Speaker 1: I can't get more than a C for chrysal Lava
Speaker 1: and a strongly considered a bench grade here. You could
Speaker 1: try a dart throw on Rashid Shahid, who blew up
Speaker 1: last week, and he'll start on the outside again. The
Speaker 1: beauty of him is he doesn't face A J. Terrell
Speaker 1: will be shadowing Crystal Lava. He'll get Darren Hall, who's
Speaker 1: not very good. He owns a Pro Football Focus ranking
Speaker 1: his quarterback sixty one, and he got burnt two touchdowns
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. I'm giving a C grade to Rashid
Speaker 1: Shahid in this game. Everybody else is on the bench.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton's on the bench. Falcons have proven they can
Speaker 1: hold bottom tier passers and check facally, mostly guys at
Speaker 1: Dalton's level. Over the past six week they've weeks they've
Speaker 1: only allowed one touchdown per game, and the two tight ends,
Speaker 1: Jown Johnson and Adam Troutman are both dealing with ankle injuries,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to watch them hobble through a
Speaker 1: game and split time between the two of them. If
Speaker 1: one of them misses entirely, I guess you could start
Speaker 1: the other one, but I think you're probably better off
Speaker 1: looking elsewhere. Final matchup is Philip of this segment, Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles taking on the Chicago Bears. This could be a
Speaker 1: massively one sided affair against a deeply slumping Chicago defense.
Speaker 1: Is there anything not to like about the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be a blood bath. Jalen Hurts and A J.
Speaker 1: Brown they're a grades and I don't feel I need
Speaker 1: to expand their do not. Miles Sanders an easy a
Speaker 1: as well. Chicago allowing the sixth most rushing yard and
Speaker 1: the third most rushing tds. Devanta Smith is the only
Speaker 1: other Eagle you might start this is This is complicated, though,
Speaker 1: I'm giving him a B. He has scored in each
Speaker 1: of the past two weeks. Has seen at least eight
Speaker 1: targets in five straight games, and that's after a bit
Speaker 1: of a roller coaster in that category earlier in the year.
Speaker 1: Over the last five weeks, which is only four games
Speaker 1: for the Bears, they've allowed six total wide receiver touchdowns
Speaker 1: and that's the fifth most in that span and They're
Speaker 1: the only team in that bottom five that played four
Speaker 1: games instead of five. So I think the catch on
Speaker 1: Devant Smith though, is when Dallas Goddard plays that dudes
Speaker 1: all over the map, including some bad games. And if
Speaker 1: Goddard comes back, I'm worried about Jalen Hurts being able
Speaker 1: to keep him fat. Yeah, God heard a little questionable
Speaker 1: and I don't know why the Eagles would rush him
Speaker 1: back in this man and this matchup at all. So
Speaker 1: doesn't that say if Goddard does play, it means he's
Speaker 1: probably probably pretty I guess if he goes, he's probably
Speaker 1: a C grade. I'm just nervous that they might go,
Speaker 1: let's what the kid gloves on and put you on
Speaker 1: the bench and stop it. With that talk, I wanted
Speaker 1: to place where I want this match up badly to
Speaker 1: Justin Fields practiced in full on Thursday and Friday. He's
Speaker 1: ready to go coming out of the bye week. Seven
Speaker 1: different quarterbacks have top twenty rushing yards against the Eagles
Speaker 1: this year. They were Cousins, Wentz, Kyler, Pickett, Tannehill, Danny Jones,
Speaker 1: and Tyrod Taylor, and Kyler and Jones are the only
Speaker 1: real running quarterbacks in that group. They're allowing six point
Speaker 1: eight yards per carried a quarterbacks this year, so I
Speaker 1: expect fields to run forever. I'm not even looking at
Speaker 1: the incredibly tough passing match up here. That's all gravy.
Speaker 1: He's a running back in this game, and he gets
Speaker 1: a B grade. And we should remember Jordan Davis is
Speaker 1: back for the Eagles. That plugs up the middle of
Speaker 1: the field, and that could affect fields as well forever forever.
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool has already been ruled out. Colt met is
Speaker 1: the only receiver in consideration here, and I don't think
Speaker 1: i'd even start him. The Eagles are top ten receptions,
Speaker 1: yards and touchdowns allowed to tight ends. If you're looking
Speaker 1: for four catches and forty yards, I think that's the
Speaker 1: ceiling for commit here. I got a tight end for
Speaker 1: you later in the show. If you're if you're banking
Speaker 1: on coal, commit all right, better option. I got a
Speaker 1: W grade on a tight end later in the show too.
Speaker 1: David Montgomery gets a B grade, though he's certainly a
Speaker 1: bell cow right now. He'll get fifteen touches and he's
Speaker 1: probably got the best chance to score outside of fields,
Speaker 1: even with what should be a negative game script, Montgomery
Speaker 1: likely serves as one of the top receiving options with
Speaker 1: all the issues at wide receiver, and in the last
Speaker 1: two games where the Bears have lost by ten or
Speaker 1: more points, he's still managing at least fourteen PPR points
Speaker 1: in those games, so he's still getting fed. Yeah, it's uh,
Speaker 1: David Montgomery has been pretty safe in this offense. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's true. When we come back for our number two
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly, three Tough Questions, and we continue to
Speaker 1: break down all of the matchups, including the Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. Naji Harris playing much better of late. Is
Speaker 1: he a safe start here? Is Carolina going to take
Speaker 1: control of their division? That all could come together? We'll
Speaker 1: tell you when we come back for our number two
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. Please stay tuned our number two Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson
Speaker 1: with you. Thank you for joining. This is a game
Speaker 1: we like to call three tough Questions. We traditionally begin
Speaker 1: with Tough Question Number one. Rest of the season is
Speaker 1: New York Jets running back Zonovian Bam Bam Bam Bam
Speaker 1: Bam Night and RB one RB two flex or bench.
Speaker 1: We begin with Matt uh So. He's been a starter
Speaker 1: for three weeks. He's only been active for three weeks
Speaker 1: in his career in PPR leagues. In the last three weeks,
Speaker 1: he's RB eleven. He's averaging eighteen touches per game, and
Speaker 1: even when Michael Carter came back last week, he led
Speaker 1: the touch count nineteen to eight. He's made James Robinson,
Speaker 1: who they traded for midseason, inactive twice in the last
Speaker 1: three weeks. This coaching staff absolutely believes in him. They're
Speaker 1: going to keep giving him the ball Detroit this week,
Speaker 1: Brian alluded to it not the best matchup. The final
Speaker 1: two weeks have him against Jacksonville and Seattle, both our
Speaker 1: bottom ten run defenses. He's a Bam Bam RB one.
Speaker 1: The rest of the way, all right, Brian, for the
Speaker 1: rest of the season is Jets running back Zonovan bam
Speaker 1: Night in RB one, RB two flex or bench. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't have much to add uh what Matt said,
Speaker 1: and I agree RB one and saying Seattle is a
Speaker 1: bottom ten rush defensive generously. The bottom defense them in
Speaker 1: Houston are like looking at each other like Jaguars are
Speaker 1: bad too. Bam, Mike might and I have a great
Speaker 1: game this week, but will make up for it against
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and Seattle in week sixteen and seventeen. So are
Speaker 1: we one? Uh, it's not a night's really good. He's
Speaker 1: really good. I mean you look at him, you go,
Speaker 1: that guy is running hard, he's fast, he's got power.
Speaker 1: So I decided, okay, that's what my eyes say. Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus think he's the eighth graded runner right now
Speaker 1: by Pro football folks. It's the schedule is favorable except
Speaker 1: for this week, the really tough matchup, and because we've
Speaker 1: only got four games left and I've got one of
Speaker 1: them this this week and really three for the fantasy playoffs,
Speaker 1: I've got him as a C this week. I think
Speaker 1: he'll be a B next week at Jacksonville. He's an
Speaker 1: A against Seattle C B and A averages out to
Speaker 1: a B. And that is a running back to for
Speaker 1: Zonovan Night. Tough question number two. Baltimore running back JK.
Speaker 1: Dobbins ran for one twenty yards and eight yards per
Speaker 1: carry in his return last week. Rest of season? Is
Speaker 1: j K Dobbins a running back? One running back to
Speaker 1: flex or bench? And for this one, we begin with
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson h Cleveland this week somewhat a somewhat neutral
Speaker 1: matchup in Atlanta and Pittsburgh. Those aren't smash spots like
Speaker 1: a Seattle or Jacksonville or Houston, but it looked like
Speaker 1: Dobbins earned the starting job back that he kind of
Speaker 1: never really had he did when he was last healthy,
Speaker 1: which was what yeah early remember. So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: conservative here and say RB two, but I like him
Speaker 1: a lot. I mean, this is a run first team
Speaker 1: now the row. It doesn't matter who's at quarterback. So
Speaker 1: I'll go I'll go safe here and say RB two
Speaker 1: for j K. But I love him on his birthday
Speaker 1: on Saturday, Matt, rest of season is JK Dobbins and
Speaker 1: RB one, RB two flex or bench. You know you're
Speaker 1: kind of onto something last week with the I don't
Speaker 1: want anything to do with this running game. Yes, Um,
Speaker 1: Cleveland this week is the best matchup for him the
Speaker 1: rest of the way. Um. And I gave him a
Speaker 1: B in that matchup, and and and that's genuinely a
Speaker 1: bottom five run defense this week. If that's the cap
Speaker 1: on what we think of j K Dobbins right now,
Speaker 1: I don't think I can even make him an RB
Speaker 1: two because I think he's just a C grade the
Speaker 1: rest of the way, so I have him as a flex.
Speaker 1: So he posted this gaudy stat line last yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: here's what really worries me. He had a like a
Speaker 1: sixty yard run through a wide open hole and he
Speaker 1: was slow, like dropped the piano slow. And he's clearly
Speaker 1: doesn't have his natural gate back yet. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: J K. Dobbins does. He's still not right on that knee.
Speaker 1: It's the explosiveness, the acceleration, the top end speed all missing.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna have to wait until next year
Speaker 1: before he comes back. So I don't think it's coming
Speaker 1: back in the next three weeks for a Fantasy playoff run.
Speaker 1: This is still a crowded backfield. Remember this like a
Speaker 1: fifty fifty split with Gus Edwards last week. Schedule. To
Speaker 1: me is is middle of the pack. It's ninth thesist
Speaker 1: by Rhoda Wire, no stoppers left. I think he gets
Speaker 1: C grades the rest of the way. You give him
Speaker 1: a B today, I'm giving him a CE today. I
Speaker 1: think he's he's BC grade. I think the rest of
Speaker 1: the way J K. Dobbins is a flex play tough
Speaker 1: question number three in Dynasty Empire and Keeper League, So really,
Speaker 1: any league we're carrying over players, should playoff teams be
Speaker 1: allowed to make roster moves and if so, should the
Speaker 1: non playoff teams be allowed to make roster moves? Matt,
Speaker 1: this is short and sweet. If next year is on
Speaker 1: the line at all, absolutely you have to let people
Speaker 1: make roster moves. And I would not play in a
Speaker 1: Dynasty or Keeper league that did not allow teams to
Speaker 1: make roster moves if they're out of the playoffs. That's
Speaker 1: it because because you you have next year on the line,
Speaker 1: If you can't make moves for next year and other
Speaker 1: teams can, that's an unfair advantage. So should should every
Speaker 1: anybody be allowed? So the question everybody should question everybody
Speaker 1: should be allowed to make? Yes, everybody should be allowed
Speaker 1: to make moves, including non playoffs. Yes, okay, Brian, same
Speaker 1: question in Dynasty Empire or Keeper leagues? Should playoff teams
Speaker 1: to be allowed to make roster moves? And if so,
Speaker 1: should everybody, including non playoff teams be allowed? Full agreement
Speaker 1: with Matt, and I don't this isn't part of the question,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna throw in my opinion that I think
Speaker 1: there should be no trade deadlines and Dynasty leagues either.
Speaker 1: And I played pretty much all the ones I play
Speaker 1: and have a trade deadline, and I don't like it,
Speaker 1: But I think there should be no trade deadline. What
Speaker 1: you're thinking, because there's no no one's gonna if your
Speaker 1: fear collusion, you deal with that after the fact. I
Speaker 1: think you should just still be able to make trades
Speaker 1: to improve your team for the future, or even if
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, right for the trade deadline, I
Speaker 1: felt I was a contender, but then you know, the
Speaker 1: s hit the fan and I want I could there's
Speaker 1: an opportunity to trade a player or prove my team
Speaker 1: for rebuild. I have an issue at that in Empire,
Speaker 1: for sure, because but your empire, your empire, your reigning
Speaker 1: Empire champion, and many but people would collude against them
Speaker 1: at that point in the point. Deal with that if
Speaker 1: that if it's if that's it's apparent that that was
Speaker 1: the case. But I don't know. But well, it's not
Speaker 1: even clusion trying to make that guy lose. How about
Speaker 1: in in Dynasty and keeper leagues, once you're out of
Speaker 1: the playoffs, you can start making trades again, Yeah, that'd
Speaker 1: be interesting. I suppose here's what would worry me about
Speaker 1: a no trade deadline dynasty. Really any league, It's championship
Speaker 1: week now, these teams just like sell I know I've
Speaker 1: made it to the championship, right, I may as well
Speaker 1: just sell out to do whatever it takes because I'm
Speaker 1: just down to me. I got one game to win.
Speaker 1: I can see just basically just a bidding war with
Speaker 1: these two teams doing whatever it takes to just win
Speaker 1: one game, and that could that could throw off some
Speaker 1: of the balance and integrity of the league at that point.
Speaker 1: So I don't I'm not I'm not. No, I'm not
Speaker 1: keen on that. Uh correct answer to the core question
Speaker 1: here and dying to see Empire and keeper leagues should
Speaker 1: playoff teams to be allowed to make roster moves, yes,
Speaker 1: and anything that you were allowing your playoff teams to do,
Speaker 1: you have to allow your non playoff teams to do
Speaker 1: as well. Let's move on to our next matchup, which
Speaker 1: is Brian Pittsburgh Steelers taking on the Carolina Panthers. Sure
Speaker 1: you want to get into this one because it's us
Speaker 1: um well, Mason Rudolph, maybe you're starting quarterback for the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah, it might be to him, or it
Speaker 1: might be you got the old sad trauma. Oh. We
Speaker 1: will always have some trombones. I think we've got about five.
Speaker 1: Get rid of the big trombone. I had to get
Speaker 1: rid of the slow dying trombone. It's good that we
Speaker 1: got rid of the three trombones. Sounders on the button
Speaker 1: bar for a guy who didn't play down to one.
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett looking doubtful at this point. Uh, probably not
Speaker 1: going to clear concussion proto call. So whether it's true
Speaker 1: Whisky or Rudolph there on the bench for me as
Speaker 1: our George Pickens and Deonte Johnson because of the quarterback situation. Uh,
Speaker 1: that is just disgusting. I want to throw this out
Speaker 1: there about Deonta Johnson real quick. Though he has the
Speaker 1: sixth sixth most targets with a hundred and thirteen, has
Speaker 1: not scored touchdown. That's hard to do. Here are the
Speaker 1: players with the most receiving yards without a touchdown. Deontay
Speaker 1: Johnson clearly his first with sixty seven. Second is Tyler
Speaker 1: Higbee with four D fifty five nearly two hundred less
Speaker 1: receiving yards. So I mean, he probably do, but I
Speaker 1: don't trust True Whisky or Rudolph to get him the
Speaker 1: ball on painted grass. So pickens Deonta Johnson on the bench,
Speaker 1: as is Pat fryar Muth. He might not play with
Speaker 1: the foot issue, but if he does, I still got
Speaker 1: him on the bench. He's been limited by it. Has
Speaker 1: barely played over the snaps over the past two weeks,
Speaker 1: resulting in consecutive games of only three receptions. The Panthers
Speaker 1: have also surrendered only three touched hounds to tight ends
Speaker 1: all season, and one of those touchdowns went to Kyle Pitts,
Speaker 1: who was actually a wide receiver. So I don't like
Speaker 1: friar Muth. He's on the bench now. J Harris is not,
Speaker 1: though he gets to see Jalen Warren returned last week
Speaker 1: and stole some touches. That's to be expected again, but
Speaker 1: Harris will lead the way. On paper, not a great
Speaker 1: matchup though, since giving up two d eleven combo yards
Speaker 1: and five scores at Joe Mixing in Week nine, the
Speaker 1: Panthers are allowing only eighty combo yards per game to
Speaker 1: running backs was zero touchdown, So a tough matchup on
Speaker 1: paper for Harris, but he's startable with the sea over
Speaker 1: to the Panthers side. All the sort out there, Sam Donald,
Speaker 1: he is on the bench. I will give a seed
Speaker 1: to DJ Moore dealing with an ankle injury, but he's
Speaker 1: trending towards playing. The Steelers are top five in the
Speaker 1: most receptions and touchdowns. Why are we starting Dj Moore?
Speaker 1: Did he have a catch last week? He got hurt,
Speaker 1: but he's he's supposed to play. It's a good matchup
Speaker 1: if we'll call it a C dart, not a see
Speaker 1: a CE dart on DJ. More of your desperate That
Speaker 1: sounds like a D grade and UH at wide at
Speaker 1: wide receiver if you're desperate, if you're desperate running back,
Speaker 1: I'll throw a couple more Sea arts at Dante Foreman
Speaker 1: and Cuba Hubbard Foreman at twenty two touches last week
Speaker 1: to the sevent team from Cuba, but Cuba rapped, racked
Speaker 1: up more yards and scored a touchdown. Props again to
Speaker 1: Matt on that call to give him the peacock there. Well,
Speaker 1: like we see a time share in a somewhat neutral matchup.
Speaker 1: The Steelers are allowing on eight combo yards and just
Speaker 1: under one touchdown per game to to uh one total
Speaker 1: touchdown per game to opposing running backs. So not a
Speaker 1: great matchup. But if you're desperate running back, you can
Speaker 1: start either Foreman and work Hubbard. We're gonna try to
Speaker 1: work in quickly Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Texans
Speaker 1: because this is pretty straightforward. Although there's one wrinkle in
Speaker 1: this matchup, and let's go right to that. It's this
Speaker 1: passing game. I almost considered a B grade on Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes because get this, Houston allows the fewest passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: in the league point nine per game. And it's not
Speaker 1: entirely because teams just run on Houston. That's a factor.
Speaker 1: That's why I gave Dak Press gotta sea last week
Speaker 1: that you guys are red hot. Last week you absolutely
Speaker 1: nailed them. Teams run on Houston at the second highest clip. Now,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are not exactly channeling Priest Holmes these days,
Speaker 1: but we are going to get a good game out
Speaker 1: of his a patico and this one and I like
Speaker 1: him a lot, and we'll talk about him in a second,
Speaker 1: but you got to expect some diminished output from Mahomes
Speaker 1: because that's how it goes for basically every quarterback that
Speaker 1: faces Houston, but still I can't not give him an
Speaker 1: A grade. Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey likely breaks out of
Speaker 1: his mini slump here. Any tight end who has had
Speaker 1: at least five receptions against Houston has turned it into
Speaker 1: at least sixty yards. So we'll give the A grade
Speaker 1: to Travis Kelsey. But again, it wasn't as strong as
Speaker 1: Eve an A grade as he often gets on this show.
Speaker 1: The only other receiver that you'll want to consider starting
Speaker 1: is Juju Smith Schuster, who finally sparked last week after
Speaker 1: a month of dud games. Uh, and that wasn't probably
Speaker 1: against a Broncos defense that is normally very good. This
Speaker 1: is a trickier matchup than it looks though, for reasons
Speaker 1: I've already discussed. Houston's allowed a league low get this,
Speaker 1: four touchdowns to wide receivers all year. It's mid December
Speaker 1: and they've given up four touchdowns and wide receivers. Read
Speaker 1: is Uh, he's got a, like I said, a trickier
Speaker 1: matchup than it. Then it looks like on paper, um,
Speaker 1: he's gonna line up outside where he usually lines up
Speaker 1: outside most often, where he's gonna see Derek Stingley and
Speaker 1: Stephen Nelson. They're both banged up. Should one or both
Speaker 1: miss this game. Juju faces journeyman Desmond King most often,
Speaker 1: who gave up five catches and a touchdown last week.
Speaker 1: That would be a positive for him, and that's why
Speaker 1: I've got a C grade on Juju Smith Schuster not
Speaker 1: technically a receiver, but another great call by Matt Harrison. Three.
Speaker 1: Jerick McKinnon, you urged people to pick him up last week.
Speaker 1: He went off on that great box score anyway, premature
Speaker 1: that crazy pass from Patrick Mahomes. Oh yeah, that was
Speaker 1: weird to Jerick McKinnon. Another opportunity here. Houston allows the
Speaker 1: tenth fewest receptions and receiving yards of the position. Uh
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard's four receptions last week we're most the most
Speaker 1: by any back since Week four against Austin Ekeler. But
Speaker 1: I think McKinnon's gonna chip in enough with his five
Speaker 1: or six carries like four receptions to be fantasy viable
Speaker 1: for a third straight week. So we'll give a C
Speaker 1: grade to Jerick McKinnon here. And then, lastly, among the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs who care about Isaiah Pacheco, a grade
Speaker 1: he has seen double digit rushing attempts in five consecutive
Speaker 1: games on a very solid nearly five yards per carry.
Speaker 1: Texans giving up twenty eight rushing attempts per game, one
Speaker 1: hundred forty rushing yards per game, and one point two
Speaker 1: rushing scores per game to opposing backs. Those are all
Speaker 1: worst in the league. It's very easy to envision in
Speaker 1: eighteen carry one hundred yard rushing game with a score.
Speaker 1: Frisaiah Pacheco in this game. A grade for him. All
Speaker 1: the other Kansas City receivers are out. And the short
Speaker 1: story in Houston's bench everybody, it's gonna be another Davis
Speaker 1: Mills and Jeff Driscoll platoon. You're not benching Jeff Driskell
Speaker 1: on Yahoo because he's tight end eligible. You gotta play
Speaker 1: Jeff Driskell at tight end because he's gonna he threw
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. He's like Taysom Hill like it's almost
Speaker 1: were passing upside with passing have passing pass uh. Brandon
Speaker 1: Cooks is out, Nico Collins is out. Chris Moore had
Speaker 1: a career game last week. Actually thought about putting giving
Speaker 1: him a starting grade here, but couldn't do it. Rex
Speaker 1: Burkhead is gonna be a starting running back. Damian Pierce
Speaker 1: has been ruled out, and I don't think I don't
Speaker 1: think they should play Pierce for the rest of the year. Uh,
Speaker 1: you could start Rex Burkhead only in desperation PPR mode.
Speaker 1: Kansas City a very good run defense, but they have
Speaker 1: given up the most receptions and the second most receiving
Speaker 1: yards to opposing running backs. So you could start Burkehead
Speaker 1: with some hope that maybe he helps you out that way.
Speaker 1: When we come back, Patriots aching on the Las Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 1: This is a thorny running back situation with the Patriots,
Speaker 1: and Matt Harrison will try to guide you through this.
Speaker 1: Romandrie Stevenson might play, Damien Harris might play. He already
Speaker 1: told us he likes Pierre Strong in this one. Find
Speaker 1: out what to do when we come back to Fantasy
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Speaker 1: Get another big block and matchups for you. Beginning with
Speaker 1: a tricky backfield with new England as they take on
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Raiders. It's a nice opportunity if you
Speaker 1: could just figure out what's going to happen here. What
Speaker 1: do you think, Matt, It's the Patriots, and you know
Speaker 1: the Patriots questionable way of life. You never know. You
Speaker 1: never know with with Belichick, so you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: check at game time. This is a late afternoon game,
Speaker 1: complicating matters. That complicates things quite a bit. If you
Speaker 1: are reliant on Romandre Stevenson, which I think a lot
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are in playoff matchups,
Speaker 1: I'd go pick up Pierre Strong as kind of the
Speaker 1: handcuff and go okay, I can flex to him if
Speaker 1: Romandre is inactive. I'll give them all C grades here
Speaker 1: provided they play. If Ramandre plays, he's a C. If
Speaker 1: if Harris plays, he's a CE. Pierre Strong I think
Speaker 1: gets a CEE and I think he's involved in the
Speaker 1: passing game. As I highlight. Didn't take a chance on me,
Speaker 1: but I don't like a lot of it, and if
Speaker 1: you have better options out there, I'd probably go at
Speaker 1: them and not try to play the Bill Belichick games.
Speaker 1: Mac Jones was also might take a chance on me Tosser.
Speaker 1: He gets a C grade as well. Uh, it looks
Speaker 1: like a good matchup for Hunter Henry, but it's actually not.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna start highlighting some things. There's teams that
Speaker 1: play against Travis Kelsey, and then there's teams that don't
Speaker 1: play against Travis Kelsey. Outside of Travis Kelsey going for
Speaker 1: twenty five yards and four touchdowns in Week five, the
Speaker 1: Raiders haven't allowed a touchdown tight to a tight end
Speaker 1: since that date, and only three players in those eight
Speaker 1: games of top fifty yards. Now Henry managed seventy yards
Speaker 1: on three catches last week, but that was a much
Speaker 1: better matchup. Matchup. Absolutely leave him on the bench. Jacoby
Speaker 1: Myers got a midweek down grade due to his concussion
Speaker 1: he suffered two weeks ago. He didn't play last week,
Speaker 1: and he hasn't practiced in more than just like off
Speaker 1: the field on his own to the side stuff. This week.
Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like he'll go. It makes Nelson Agilar
Speaker 1: kind of a deep sleeper here because I do like
Speaker 1: Mac Jones in the passing game and they got to
Speaker 1: throw it to someone. It is a revenge game for Aglar,
Speaker 1: who played with the Raiders for a while plus he's
Speaker 1: manned the slot more often than not in Meyer's absence,
Speaker 1: ended up with ten targets last week, and he should
Speaker 1: face a meek Robertson who's allowed three touchdown from the
Speaker 1: slot this year. That's the third most in the league.
Speaker 1: So I got a C grade on Nelson Agil of
Speaker 1: all things, Myers comes back is still startable. I think
Speaker 1: that the C would probably flex to Myers. I was
Speaker 1: gonna give Myers a B if he was healthy in
Speaker 1: this one because I like him a lot, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't sound good on the concussion. He went backwards on Friday,
Speaker 1: so I don't like that quite a bit. On the
Speaker 1: other side, Davante Adams is an a uh. Everybody knows
Speaker 1: the Patriots have a great defense, but top wide receivers
Speaker 1: have killed him. Justin Jefferson had nine catches, a d
Speaker 1: and thirty nine yards and a score against this team.
Speaker 1: Diggs had seven and one. Hopkins had seven for seventy nine.
Speaker 1: That's just the last three weeks, so no fear about Adams,
Speaker 1: even though the matchup looks scary. Jalen Mills and Jack
Speaker 1: Jones on the Patriots trending toward doubtful as well, that
Speaker 1: also plays in Adam's favor. Josh Jacobs also an A
Speaker 1: in many formats, he's the top running back in fantasy football.
Speaker 1: He faces a tough test in New England, who has
Speaker 1: been showing some weakness as of late. Though James Conner
Speaker 1: managed a hundred and fourteen comboy yards in a score
Speaker 1: last week, the Buffalo combo of James Cook and Devin
Speaker 1: Singletary combined for a hundred and fifty six yards in
Speaker 1: a score of the week before, So that's why Jacobs
Speaker 1: is still in A. And then the only other Raider
Speaker 1: you would start in a fantasy playoff situation is Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: He gets a B. The Patriots have allowed multiple passing
Speaker 1: scores to three of the last six quarterbacks they faced,
Speaker 1: but the other three that didn't do it were Colt McCoy,
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson, and Sam Ellinger. And by the way, one
Speaker 1: of them that did do it was also Zack Wilson
Speaker 1: cars thrown from multiple scores and five of his last
Speaker 1: six games, and in those six he's been averaging two
Speaker 1: or fifty yards per game, So he's just a solid B.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati takes on Tampa Bay. Brian Cincinnati, we had talked
Speaker 1: to that. We thought Sam j. P Ryan had earned
Speaker 1: more looks going forward, but then last week Joe Mixing
Speaker 1: got almost all the work. P Ran just got four
Speaker 1: four carries in the game. Yeah, it's four carries for
Speaker 1: p Ryan. He did score the Russian cuts, don't though, Um,
Speaker 1: I mean give p Ryan is C here and Mixing
Speaker 1: and B it's just because the Bucks are so banged
Speaker 1: up on defense. Nose tackle Vivea has been ruled out,
Speaker 1: Linebacker Carl Massive is ruled out, Linebacker Genard Avery is
Speaker 1: ruled out. There's injuries in the secondary we'll talk about
Speaker 1: in a minute. And the Bucks have allowed six rushing
Speaker 1: yards and two rushing touchdowns and running backs over the
Speaker 1: last two games. So B for Mixing and a C
Speaker 1: for p Ryan. I'm I'm a little nervous about p Ryan,
Speaker 1: Like you said, the workload, but it seems like a
Speaker 1: game that the Bengals should win handily. So I like
Speaker 1: both here. Obviously like jamaar Ches he gets in a
Speaker 1: not going into that anymore at all, Not so obvious.
Speaker 1: R T. Higgins and Tyler Boyd. Um just gonna give
Speaker 1: both of them. As see, Higgins has the hamstring, as
Speaker 1: we all learned last week he can kill you by
Speaker 1: just saying he's gonna play and then just doesn't play.
Speaker 1: But it's a good matchup. Uh. Jamal Dean, the Bucks
Speaker 1: top cornerback, has been ruled out. Antoine Winfield Junior questionable
Speaker 1: to play, as is Tampa Bay's other starting safety, Mike Edwards.
Speaker 1: He is questionable to play. So I will give Higgins
Speaker 1: and Boyd see here, but monitor their status leading up
Speaker 1: to kick off, of course, but they are startable. And
Speaker 1: I said I had a tight end for you if
Speaker 1: you're very desperate, and it's Mitchell Wilcox week, well, I
Speaker 1: mentioned him and give him the starting gride. I didn't
Speaker 1: like the matchup, but I like the match up here. Uh,
Speaker 1: Hayden Hurst doubtful to play. We just talked about te
Speaker 1: Higgins and Tyler boy They're both kind of banged up.
Speaker 1: You don't know how much you can trust them, and
Speaker 1: on paper a good matchup for Wilcox. The Bucks are
Speaker 1: allowing more than five catches and fifty yards per game
Speaker 1: to tight ends and they've surrendered to score at the
Speaker 1: position and two of their last three, So again, super
Speaker 1: desperate Mitchell Wilcox. Mitchell Wilcox could be Tyler Boyd. Can't
Speaker 1: you know if that finger joy means he can't catch
Speaker 1: a pass even they just like decoy m even if
Speaker 1: he's active. Yeah, maybe the middle of the field. We're
Speaker 1: gonna see a lot more Mitchell Wilcox, Mitchell Wilcox and
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow easier there some people called Cox. We call
Speaker 1: him will Cox on this show. We don't. We don't
Speaker 1: over to the Tampa Bay side. Not a lot to
Speaker 1: like here. I will give Rachid Chad White a see.
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournett of bench grade. Tristan Worth's offensive lineman should
Speaker 1: make his return, which would be a huge help for White,
Speaker 1: who outtouched for Net eighteen to ten last week, but
Speaker 1: not a great matchup. The Bengals have only allowed seventy
Speaker 1: of rushing yards per game to running backs over the
Speaker 1: last three weeks, but they have surrendered five catches and
Speaker 1: fifty yards per game to the position during that span,
Speaker 1: and White is the past catching back as of now,
Speaker 1: so he gets to the Sea four. Net is on
Speaker 1: the bench just to see for Chris Godwin. Even though
Speaker 1: Bengals cornerbacks Mike Hilton and Jalen Davis could miss this game,
Speaker 1: Hilton is a slot corner and he's very good. Uh
Speaker 1: So that would be a huge boon for God. When
Speaker 1: if you says I'd move, God went up to his
Speaker 1: sea if Hilton is out, but if Hilton plays just
Speaker 1: to see for godwin. Over the last five weeks, Hilton
Speaker 1: is allowing two and a half catches in twenty nine
Speaker 1: scoreless yards per game. And over to Mike Evans, I
Speaker 1: got him on the bench regardless. Sadly, he's fallen outside
Speaker 1: the top twenty four wide receivers on the season, and
Speaker 1: the Bengals have allowed these second fewest wide receiver touchdowns
Speaker 1: on the year, only six. We've had other players who
Speaker 1: have had horrific seasons that aren't injury related, like Alvin
Speaker 1: Kamarat like one A. Mike Evans is right here. I mean,
Speaker 1: it has been a disaster season because you've been starting
Speaker 1: him virtually every week or probably every week, and you're
Speaker 1: getting nothing out of him. So are you actually going
Speaker 1: bench grade? We finally go bench bench and Evans and
Speaker 1: I'm benching Tom Brady who's had a mind boggling d
Speaker 1: nine pass attempts total over the last two games, and
Speaker 1: he'll need to throw the ball fifty plus times to
Speaker 1: post any kind of serviceable numbers against Cincinnati. The Bengals
Speaker 1: have surrendered multiple passing touchdowns just once all season, and
Speaker 1: they own the lowest opponent completion percentage in the league
Speaker 1: at so Brady yet again, a very dicey start. I
Speaker 1: think there are better options in one quarterback leagues and
Speaker 1: Tom Brady somehow I drew the Colt McCoy versus Brett
Speaker 1: rippon game. Um, not a lot to talk on primetime,
Speaker 1: let me knowing this year. Yes, by the way, we're
Speaker 1: in the middle of our three straight rams primetime games
Speaker 1: this week. Uh McCoy, let me just mention this throws
Speaker 1: a massive damper on the whole offense. He has got
Speaker 1: the NFL's shortest average throw at six yards so far
Speaker 1: in his three basically fold games this year, and that's
Speaker 1: consistent with who he's been for four seasons. Now, you know,
Speaker 1: charge you had a Colt McCoy, Kyler Murray kind of
Speaker 1: tough question that you you took out and I did
Speaker 1: a little research on on Colt McCoy. Here, by the way,
Speaker 1: of the highest eight passing totals for the Cardinals this year,
Speaker 1: three of them were McCoy of James Conner's best five
Speaker 1: fantasy scores this year, three of them have been in
Speaker 1: McCoy games. All three of McCoy's games, by the way,
Speaker 1: the worst game DeAndre Hopkins had in a McCoy game
Speaker 1: with seven for seventy nine, and Marcus Brown has only
Speaker 1: played with him once at eight targets. Colt McCoy might
Speaker 1: be better for this offense than Kyler Murray. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: parry that with this. Over the last four seasons, Colt
Speaker 1: McCoy keeps finding himself into starting roles due to injury
Speaker 1: to the starter. He's thrown three hundred passes in the
Speaker 1: last four years with four touchdowns three. That's amazing how
Speaker 1: bad that is. Everybody suffers here. I think I do
Speaker 1: have starting grades and two players James Conner gonna get
Speaker 1: extra used, to be clear, but I think nobody's helped
Speaker 1: by the Colt McCoy takeover. You're a little more optimistic
Speaker 1: than I am, Att, and that's fine. Connor has been
Speaker 1: shockingly spry when healthy. To my eyes, he's looked actually
Speaker 1: pretty good. Broncos have a good, not great run defense.
Speaker 1: Over the past five weeks, they're allowing four yards per
Speaker 1: carry rushing yards zero touchdowns per game. That's why I've
Speaker 1: got to see grant On James Conner if he's gonna
Speaker 1: get most of those yards and zero touchdowns. DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: stays startable, um, but he's gonna get a big dose
Speaker 1: of Patrick Sir Tan. He's one of the best cornerbacks
Speaker 1: in the league, and he shadows opposing number one receivers,
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be the case here. Sir Tan a
Speaker 1: lot one catch for twelve yards in his coverage last
Speaker 1: week against Patrick Mahomes. This is Colt McCoy, So Tanna's
Speaker 1: in one bad game all year, but it was too
Speaker 1: Davante Adams a similarly built, physical receivers, so I've still
Speaker 1: got to see Grade and DeAndre Hopkins. Everybody else is
Speaker 1: on the bench Marky's own. His whole bid is run fast,
Speaker 1: run long. That's the opposite of the Colt McCoy six
Speaker 1: yards average throw. Randal Moore has been ruled out of
Speaker 1: this game, and that's that's it. Nobody else even matters.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Denver side. Uh, not a lot
Speaker 1: to like here in a Brett Rippon led offense, but
Speaker 1: you could start Greg Dulcych. He goes up against the
Speaker 1: team that ranks dead last and receptions, yards and touchdowns
Speaker 1: the tight end. So I gotta be grade on Greg Dulcinch.
Speaker 1: He hasn't scored since his first NFL game back in
Speaker 1: Week six, but he's coming off back to back eight
Speaker 1: target games, including many of them from Brett Rippon last week.
Speaker 1: Then Jerry Judy startable because Courtland Sutton is gonna miss
Speaker 1: another game. Ripping hit him with a touchdown late in
Speaker 1: last week's game, targeting with half his passes after relieving
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson last week. And we want to watch the
Speaker 1: status of Arizona cornerback Byron Murphy if he misses another game.
Speaker 1: It turns into a very plus matchup for Jerry Judy
Speaker 1: currently have a C grade, we'd upgrade him to a
Speaker 1: B grade if Byron Murphy is out. And then, lastly,
Speaker 1: the only other Bronco you care about is Latavius Murray.
Speaker 1: Cardinals run defense is pretty good. Only two backs have
Speaker 1: topped one yards all season. It took both of them
Speaker 1: twenty touches to get there. Murray's has seventeen touches twice
Speaker 1: since the Melvin Gordon departures, so he could creep towards
Speaker 1: a hundred yards here, but he's coming off an eight
Speaker 1: carry games, so this is he's still very risky here.
Speaker 1: And I can only get myself to give you a
Speaker 1: C grade on Littavius Murray in this game. So there
Speaker 1: was the Madden curse. Now we have the in season
Speaker 1: hard knocks curse, which got the Colts last year. Their
Speaker 1: season went up down the toilet, and we all know
Speaker 1: what's happened to the Cardinals this year. It's not good.
Speaker 1: When we come back Tennessee taking on the l A Chargers.
Speaker 1: Is there anybody outside of Derrick Henry with a glimmer
Speaker 1: of hope in that offense for Tennessee. We'll tell you
Speaker 1: when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly Final Segment,
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly Playoff Edition. We've got three more matchups
Speaker 1: to get to hopefully to power you through and into
Speaker 1: the second round the semifinals of your playoffs. Tennessee takes
Speaker 1: on the Chargers. Matt. This is an obvious great opportunity
Speaker 1: for Derrick Henry, who rebounded off a pretty tough month
Speaker 1: or so with a big game last week. There's a
Speaker 1: bad Chargers run defense. Yeah, there's a certain animal that
Speaker 1: we're going to give Derrick Henry this week. Oh you
Speaker 1: don't say it starts with two a's, does it? That
Speaker 1: are right there? Now? Wait, you're sure it's not? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure. Um. By the way, Dontrell Hilliard already been
Speaker 1: ruled out, so it's Julius Chestnut backing him up. And
Speaker 1: I mostly just wanted to say Julius Chestnut because it
Speaker 1: sounds like a competeer man from the Anchorman movie. That's
Speaker 1: Julius Chestnut from Channel six that Chargers allowing the way,
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna go hit some DFS jack pot. Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: either like sits early, they get way up, sits earlier,
Speaker 1: gets hurt, and somebody's gonna try Julius Chestnut. Well, if
Speaker 1: he gets any carries, he'll get five point five yards
Speaker 1: per carry against the Chargers day trail On Burke's already
Speaker 1: been ruled out. He was the only Titans wide receiver
Speaker 1: I would have considered this week. Another receiver that you
Speaker 1: can consider Chickasamo con Quo, who tallied six catches forty
Speaker 1: five yards in a score last week. I think he's
Speaker 1: worth my patented w grade for the tight end wasteland
Speaker 1: withdraw waste only in the waste land can you start
Speaker 1: chig conquo um. The Chargers look neutral on paper against
Speaker 1: the tight end, but we're gonna go back to the
Speaker 1: Chiefs tight ends again. If you eliminate just the two
Speaker 1: game is against the Chiefs tight ends, the Chargers are
Speaker 1: almost the best tight end defense in the league outside
Speaker 1: of the Chiefs. In the other eleven games, they're allowing
Speaker 1: two point nine catches and forty two yards per game
Speaker 1: to the tight end position and have only allowed one
Speaker 1: other tight end score, so they've been very good. Although
Speaker 1: a lot of that's Derwin James and he's trending doubtful
Speaker 1: on this one. So Chiga conquo with the W grade.
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill isn't the quarterback that got you to the
Speaker 1: Fantasy playoffs. He's a series of unfortunate events that brought
Speaker 1: you to this. I'll give him a C grade. The
Speaker 1: upside is the Chargers have allowed three of the last
Speaker 1: four quarterbacks they've faced to throw for multiple scores, and
Speaker 1: two of the last five quarterbacks have scored a rushing touchdown,
Speaker 1: and you might need that rushing score. How to Tannehill here?
Speaker 1: It's a Derrick Henry game script I'd rather use other
Speaker 1: options than Tannehill, but he's there on the Charger side.
Speaker 1: Let's fire up the passing game, justin air bearer Keenan Allen,
Speaker 1: Mike Williams all Paul eight A grades in this one.
Speaker 1: Josh Palmer a B grade. The Titans are allowing three
Speaker 1: hundred passing yards per game. That's the second most in
Speaker 1: the league, the second most touchdown passes at twenty five
Speaker 1: and thirteen games, almost two per game. The third most
Speaker 1: receptions and yards allowed to opposing wide receivers. Eighteen touchdowns
Speaker 1: to opposing wide receivers, seven different instances of a wide
Speaker 1: receiver topping sorry, four different instances of wide receiver topping
Speaker 1: seventy five yards and scoring. In just the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: All three of the Chargers wide receivers saw six or
Speaker 1: more targets last week. All three of them topped fifty yards.
Speaker 1: Of course, Mike Williams came back caught all six of
Speaker 1: his targets for one sixteen and a score. Keenan Allen
Speaker 1: saw fourteen targets and twelve of them. Palmer is the
Speaker 1: upside play, but he was still heavily involved last week
Speaker 1: and got over fifty yards They've also allowed the third
Speaker 1: most receptions and the second most yards to opposing tight ends,
Speaker 1: which brings in Gerald Everett with a B grade. The
Speaker 1: passing game all a green light here, and the passing
Speaker 1: game includes Austin Ekeler. Of course, his grades a little
Speaker 1: more tricky. He's the last guy I'm gonna mention here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a very solid B grade. The
Speaker 1: Titans are awesome against the run. They've only allowed sixty
Speaker 1: three rushing yards per game and only four total touchdowns
Speaker 1: to opposing running backs all year through land, on the sea,
Speaker 1: in the air, maybe the space force. Yeah, like all
Speaker 1: all that, only four touchdowns. They have, however, allowed the
Speaker 1: fourth most receptions to opposing backs at about six per games.
Speaker 1: Austin good at past catching. I think he might be
Speaker 1: He's gonna be very relevant in this one. The Chargers
Speaker 1: are playing for their playoff lives in the final four
Speaker 1: weeks of this season. It's all systems go. I think
Speaker 1: it's a huge game for the whole Chargers offense here. Alright,
Speaker 1: I'm with you on most all of that. The Giants
Speaker 1: take on the Commanders. Brian say Kwon Barkley just limping
Speaker 1: to the finish line, and this might be his toughest
Speaker 1: matchup of the entire year as he travels to Washington
Speaker 1: to face one of the league's best run defenses. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a weird game. I mentioned this in take coom.
Speaker 1: How these teams played in Week thirteen two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Washington was on by last week, so they're getting the Giants,
Speaker 1: so that they've essentially been scheming to play the Giants
Speaker 1: for the last three weeks. So needless to say, I
Speaker 1: don't like the Giants a whole lot in this game.
Speaker 1: And when they played in Week thirteen, they finished in
Speaker 1: a tie. So the stats I'm gonna reference are a
Speaker 1: little misleading because they especially extual quarter of football. So
Speaker 1: the numbers sound good, but they're not as good as
Speaker 1: they really are. So starting with Barkley, Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: faded big time, only played of the Snaps last week
Speaker 1: because of the neck injury. Thankfully, he hasn't been on
Speaker 1: the injury report this week, so that's good. But the
Speaker 1: matchup is not. The Commanders are allowing just seventy eight
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game, and Barkley only had sixty three
Speaker 1: yards on eighteen carries two weeks ago. In that first matchup.
Speaker 1: He did catch five passes of those, so you're still
Speaker 1: going to start them, but temporary your expectations do not start.
Speaker 1: Darius Layton, Isaiah Hodgens or Richie James are all on
Speaker 1: the bench. Hodgens actually scored in the first meeting, and
Speaker 1: he scored last week against Philly. He's an interesting dynasty
Speaker 1: stash if you're a dynasty player out there with an
Speaker 1: open bench spot six ft four, he's he's looked kind
Speaker 1: of good. But on the bench, and this one all
Speaker 1: the wide receivers are as is Daniel Bellinger to the
Speaker 1: tight end. He might not even play. Only two score
Speaker 1: of this yards in the first meeting in five quarters,
Speaker 1: and Daniel Jones on the bench as well. He did
Speaker 1: have two hundred passing yards and a passing touchdown with
Speaker 1: seventy one rushing yards, but that's uh his ceiling. And
Speaker 1: again it was five quarters of football, which likely won't
Speaker 1: happen again this week. Over to the Washington side, I
Speaker 1: love Brian Robbinson this week. I have to be on
Speaker 1: him right now. If Leonard Williams sits again, uh, it's
Speaker 1: an a for Brian Robinson is going to post his
Speaker 1: best game of his career right there. Leonard Williams did
Speaker 1: play in the first meeting, so Robinson and Antonio Gibson
Speaker 1: just had modest numbers. But with Williams out last week,
Speaker 1: we saw the Eagles tear him up. Baston Scott might
Speaker 1: take a chance of me running back even scored against
Speaker 1: the Giant last week. So like Robinson with the B
Speaker 1: A at at worst A if william sits Antonio Gibson
Speaker 1: was might take a chance to me running back. Either way,
Speaker 1: I think Washington just rolls with the Giants in this one.
Speaker 1: That's why Terry McLaurin gets an A as well. The
Speaker 1: Giants had been shredded by opposing wide out since top
Speaker 1: cornerback at Dory Jackson was lost to injury three weeks ago.
Speaker 1: He has been ruled out for this game. And since
Speaker 1: Jacks Jackson has been out, the Giants have allowed four
Speaker 1: wide receiver touchdowns over the last three and opposing number
Speaker 1: one receivers have average six catches for ninety four yards,
Speaker 1: which includes mclaurin's eight catches for a hundred and five
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown in Week thirteen. Uh So, I
Speaker 1: like John Dotson with a c here he caught a
Speaker 1: touchdown in Week thirteen on nine targets, caught five of them.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bench Curtis Samley Vell. There's just I don't
Speaker 1: know if there's enough to go around in this one.
Speaker 1: I don't think the Giants are gonna keep pace for
Speaker 1: all the past catchers on Washington to be viable. But
Speaker 1: I think Logan Thomas could be viable in the it
Speaker 1: and waste land, So I'll give him a w am
Speaker 1: I allowed to do that match, Yeah, you can do that.
Speaker 1: Ws are for everybody. The part marks are for me.
Speaker 1: Put me alone. I didn't want funds. I didn't give
Speaker 1: this week. It's not I'll give it. Terry McLaren, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin. Terry is so happy. Logan Thomas not the Fonzie,
Speaker 1: but we'll give him a See posing tight ends or
Speaker 1: averaging more than five catches and sixty yards per game
Speaker 1: against New York, we will take that in the waste land.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna bench Taylor Heine he here. He did
Speaker 1: have two hundred seventy five yards and two touchdowns in
Speaker 1: the first meeting, but for the last time, there was
Speaker 1: five quarters of football played in that game, and that's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen again, most likely Alright, final matchup Rams
Speaker 1: taking on the Packers. Cam Akers was might take a
Speaker 1: chance for me running back. I mentioned that earlier, And
Speaker 1: I've only got one of their RAMS player with the
Speaker 1: starting grade, and that's Tyler Higbee. As a high risk
Speaker 1: and part throw he's been frankly basically bad. You want
Speaker 1: to give him a W grade? Church, Why don't? Why not?
Speaker 1: Because I'm I'm called give me a C grade? Is
Speaker 1: a high risk art grow uh. Pretty much every week
Speaker 1: an imposing tight end is finding fantasy points against the Packers.
Speaker 1: In the last six games, six tight ends have scored
Speaker 1: or top seventy two receiving yards. Now, Higbie has been
Speaker 1: mostly a disaster. But if you know, if you're if
Speaker 1: you are desperate in the waste land, you can give
Speaker 1: a C grade to Tyler Higby the rest of the
Speaker 1: passing games on the bench, even though the Packers secondary
Speaker 1: hasn't been very good since the Eric Stokes injury. But
Speaker 1: I'm not a believer in Baker Mayfield. Even with last
Speaker 1: last week's magical end of that game, he's still only
Speaker 1: through yards and one touchdown in the game. And Sherry
Speaker 1: knows more of the playbook now. But it's not even
Speaker 1: a positive for Baker Mayfield. I he had his like
Speaker 1: best scenario, was like, yeah, so I just I can't
Speaker 1: get myself to put a starting grade on any of
Speaker 1: the l A receivers here, and um, I can't do
Speaker 1: it for Baker Mayfield either. By the way, Mayfield's averaging
Speaker 1: zero point eight touchdowns of production in per game this year.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Green Bay side. Aaron Jones gets
Speaker 1: a C grade. Presumably Jones comes out of the bye
Speaker 1: week healthier because he was running on empty before the
Speaker 1: bye week, and we're seeing a J. Dillon get a
Speaker 1: bunch of usage. But Jones is the way better back,
Speaker 1: and I think assuming he's he's healthy now and he's
Speaker 1: off the injury report, I think he gets most of
Speaker 1: the work. But the Rams defense has been good all year,
Speaker 1: even without Aaron Donald the past few weeks. So even
Speaker 1: if Donald doesn't go, or does even if he doesn't go,
Speaker 1: it's not a sure thing for Jones. I can get
Speaker 1: him to a C grade here, and that's it. And
Speaker 1: I'm putting A. J. Dillon back on the bench because
Speaker 1: again I think it's gonna be an Aaron Jones lead offense,
Speaker 1: and the Rams run defense is good. So I'm not
Speaker 1: starting Aaron Jones in a playoff game. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the passing game. I'm gonna start with Christian Watson. So
Speaker 1: in Watson, we have a red hot scorer against Jalen Ramsey,
Speaker 1: who's allowed the most passing touchdowns, including one score every
Speaker 1: seven receptions. So Watson's touchdown rate is absurd. It's the
Speaker 1: I think eight touchdowns on like thirty receptions, something ridiculous
Speaker 1: like that. And he's he had a rushing rushing has
Speaker 1: two rushing touchdowns this season. Yeah, impressed. If you extrapolate him,
Speaker 1: he's like eight touchdown Yeah. Um. Over the last five weeks,
Speaker 1: the Rams are allowing the most receptions per game, the
Speaker 1: fourth most yards per game, and five touchdowns to opposing wideouts.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of reason to continue to start
Speaker 1: Christian Watson in this one. I've only got to be
Speaker 1: great on him because I feel like the other shoe's
Speaker 1: gotta drop at some point. Maybe it's here, but I
Speaker 1: can't give you, honestly a reason for that other than
Speaker 1: it just feels like it's unsustainable what he's been doing.
Speaker 1: C grade on Alan Lazard, the Rams have proven themselves
Speaker 1: capable of supporting massive games from multiple receivers. They allowed
Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty yards or more to both DK
Speaker 1: Metcalf and Tyler Lockett two weeks ago, ninety or more
Speaker 1: to DeAndre Hopkins and Rondel Moore five weeks ago. So
Speaker 1: in here, Lazard can do a little something here, But honestly,
Speaker 1: Watson's killed Lazard this year. The one thing Lazard was
Speaker 1: good at was scoring touchdowns. That's all dried up now
Speaker 1: because Watson's getting all of those touchdowns. I can just
Speaker 1: get the c great on Lazard, but do consider him
Speaker 1: to be quasi startable in this game. And then that
Speaker 1: brings us lastly to Aaron Rodgers. Since getting blown out
Speaker 1: in the opener, Aaron Rodgers has thrown a touchdown pass
Speaker 1: in every game with multiple scores and nine of the
Speaker 1: last twelve. The Rams dominated Derek Carr last week, but
Speaker 1: it surrendered three hundred passing yards or more or three
Speaker 1: to passing touchdowns in three straight games. So I think
Speaker 1: Rodgers continues to do okay here, and I've gotta be
Speaker 1: grind on Aaron Rodgers in this game as well. What
Speaker 1: makes starters here? Watson's season more remarkable is how he
Speaker 1: dropped that wide open bomb touched like the first play.
Speaker 1: It was the first play of their season because the
Speaker 1: Vikings yeah, and he's like, oh, this isn't gonna work.
Speaker 1: It's bad at that moment, but and then he didn't
Speaker 1: play for seven weeks and then Watson has gone completely berserk.
Speaker 1: I want to leave you guys with this. This Jordan
Speaker 1: Mason cats pretty darn good for San Francisco. I think
Speaker 1: there's a scenario next season Christian McCaffrey is going to
Speaker 1: be drafted in like the top five of drafts next year, right,
Speaker 1: probably top five picks. You'll probably first overall if he justin.
Speaker 1: Jefferson's gonna make that and make that tricky, but you know,
Speaker 1: top five, let's from very likely gets hurt at some
Speaker 1: point because it seems to be a lot all the
Speaker 1: McCaffrey has been mostly healthy this year. Jordan Mason's canna
Speaker 1: end up. He's gonna end up being a factor at
Speaker 1: some point next season. Don't you feel like San Francisco
Speaker 1: just keeps finding running backs and keep getting rid of
Speaker 1: running backs, and it's it's just like his dad, Quick
Speaker 1: Shanahan kept finding running backs out of nowhere like olandis
Speaker 1: Gary and stuff like that. Come on, Hannigans, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a remarkable story. Elijah Mitch will be back next
Speaker 1: year too, and that's gonna muddy things up. But I
Speaker 1: think Jordan Mason it's better than Eliza Mitchell did. I
Speaker 1: don't know. That feels like one of those names that
Speaker 1: we're we're excited about now, but they're totally off the
Speaker 1: radar by this time next year. Not me. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: playing my flag. Jordan Mason next year is gonna win
Speaker 1: some games and maybe even be a league winner if
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey is a horrific injury, which we do not
Speaker 1: wish on anybody. Thank you for listening. Best of luck
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, everybody. I'm back next week because you're
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