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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio,

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Speaker 1: your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and

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Speaker 1: advice Now League dot com. Here's your host. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: week e Love and it is Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm

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Speaker 1: Paul Churchy and your host. My co host today are

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Speaker 1: Scott Fish and Brian Johnson. I've never met this guy

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Speaker 1: before and it's been a while. It has been a

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Speaker 1: long time first or something for you two to be together. Okay, man,

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Speaker 1: that's going back a ways. Holy cow. You know back

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Speaker 1: then John ou Smith was good. Um, you know there

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Speaker 1: was all the running backs are healthy. It was a

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Speaker 1: whole different landscape that Christian McCaffrey still still was a

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Speaker 1: great pick. Now it's Dan Arnold's time. There is touchdown

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Speaker 1: on Thursday night is upon us. Yes, exactly, exactly. Plenty

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Speaker 1: to get you over the course of the show, will

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Speaker 1: break down every matchup fantasy style letter grades on all

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Speaker 1: the meaningful players. Will give you nine players upon whom

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Speaker 1: you can take a chance. We'll give you three tough

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Speaker 1: questions to ponder, and of course premature speculation. Look my

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Speaker 1: track record on premature speculation has been spotty this year,

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Speaker 1: but last week DeAndre Booker and I thought about using

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Speaker 1: again this week, but decided that was too easy. It

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Speaker 1: was just the revenge game, that's all. It was the

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Speaker 1: revenge game maybe, so um, let's get Let's dive right

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Speaker 1: into the matchups, beginning with the Detroit Lions taking on

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Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. Scott, it looks increasingly like DeAndre Swift

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Speaker 1: will not play this game. Him and have both been

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Speaker 1: ruled out now, so Marvin Jones is limited in practice too,

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Speaker 1: and Matthew Stafford's got thumb injury. So it's it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a little bit of a rough one there. I

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Speaker 1: still have the C grade on Stafford. Caroline has been

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Speaker 1: destroyed the last couple of weeks through the air. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's a situation where I think he can

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Speaker 1: get some deep balls off to Marvin Jones and Marvin Hall,

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Speaker 1: the two Marvin's as you talked about the other week. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And Hockinson has been incredibly consistent this year all but

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Speaker 1: one week. He had fifty yards and or a score

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Speaker 1: in all but one week. So I have an A

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Speaker 1: grade on Hockinson. I think he's gonna have to lean

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Speaker 1: on Hockinson more with Golladay out. Both Jones and Hall

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Speaker 1: because Golladay's out, I've upped them to see grades. Marvin

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Speaker 1: Hall is averaging well over twenty yards per reception, so

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Speaker 1: it only takes a couple of them and there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be targets to go around. Uh Amndola also out, so

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Speaker 1: that means Jones and Hall are going to be on

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Speaker 1: the field the entire time. That's why they both get

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Speaker 1: C grades. DeAndre Swift would have been an A grade

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Speaker 1: with a smash spot. Yes, he was in my top

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Speaker 1: five earlier in the week. Is there any chance the

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Speaker 1: Lions bring back Drew Peacock would be the best? They

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Speaker 1: need a Drew Peacock in their lineup? They do, and

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Speaker 1: that's if not now when so Adrian Peterson has that

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Speaker 1: was that was a terrible by transition. But I just

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Speaker 1: no way to improve alright. Yeah, for the Panthers of

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Speaker 1: the fourth worst against fantasy running backs, so it was

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Speaker 1: a great spot. Peterson and carry On are going to share.

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Speaker 1: But Peterson has gotten more touches and more snaps and

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Speaker 1: carry On every week. That they've played together. So I

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Speaker 1: am giving Peterson the B grade and I'm benching carry on.

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Speaker 1: I just don't trust that he's gonna get enough work.

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Speaker 1: He could, But do you want to try? I really don't. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's such a nice matchup for Peterson. It is.

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Speaker 1: I would not be surprised if you finished eight yards

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Speaker 1: making it worse. You're taking a hole for yourself. Right now,

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Speaker 1: they're still not on the other side, they're still not

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Speaker 1: ruling out Bridgewater. If p. J. Walker is the starter,

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Speaker 1: maybe be a dart throw. But I have them both

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Speaker 1: Samuel had a down week last week, but he's had

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Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson started the league this season off really hot.

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Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson, even though I gave a C grade, is

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Speaker 1: worst in the NFL against fantasy running backs. Davis is

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Speaker 1: a good pass catcher. Lions have allowed the most receiving yards,

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Speaker 1: Mike Davis, I gave an a grade to unless you're

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Speaker 1: to Miami taking on Denver Brian for the Dolphins. We've

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Speaker 1: I want to give the seed to Jachim. Grant was

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Speaker 1: trying to give my followers last week and it almost

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Speaker 1: some more stage advices Benching Mike GISSICKI. Yes, he put

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Speaker 1: And this is a brutal matchup. Only one opposing tight

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Speaker 1: benching GISICKI, did you know dermis smite has played over

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Speaker 1: him to our last three weeks? Unbelievable this is and

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Speaker 1: then Adam is the thing too that's always threatening, Ghisicki. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's fallen off the wayside. I'm on the fence with

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Speaker 1: He does have two passing touchdowns and back to back

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Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon a very soft Sea, only averaging eleven touches

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Speaker 1: Tim Patrick as well, giving him a see. The Dolphins

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Speaker 1: only allowed twenty points game on a whole, but wide

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Speaker 1: last three weeks, surrendering three touchdowns to the position in

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Speaker 1: two one hundred yard performances. Patrick has a very safe

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Speaker 1: PPR floor. He scored double digit PPR points in five

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Speaker 1: Noah fant Uh last player with a starting grade. He

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Speaker 1: Week two. But the and and not but and the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins have allowed the ninth views receptions and fourth view

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Speaker 1: But you're hoping for a score here. Miami has given

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Speaker 1: with this quote on this matchup. Drew Lock on his

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Speaker 1: back to the show Fantasy Football Weekly, Scott Fish and

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Speaker 1: Brian Johnson with you. It's a segment we call take

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Speaker 1: a chance on me. We give you a player at

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Speaker 1: and we begin at the quarterback position. Scott, I am

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Speaker 1: What I do like is his rushing ability. It's shown

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Speaker 1: a lot of bad quarterbacks. The Eagles are allowing two

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the running back position. Who's your taking chance?

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Speaker 1: so little used the last couple of weeks. He's fresh.

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Speaker 1: Now that seems to be like when the guys pop

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Speaker 1: out of the Indianapolis rotation of backs, it's inexplicable. Might

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Speaker 1: take a chance of me. Running back is Devonte Booker.

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Speaker 1: Now you might be saying, where was that last week?

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Speaker 1: While we did talk about him last week, So take

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Speaker 1: that he's averaging six yards carry. His workload is increased

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Speaker 1: in four straight games, and in the earlier matchup with

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Speaker 1: this week's opponent, Kansas City, Booker had sixty two yards

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Speaker 1: on just seven carries. John Gruden runs the ball whopping

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Speaker 1: thirty one times per game, and the Chiefs are seeing

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Speaker 1: twenty nine rushing attempts, So we know to expect a

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Speaker 1: lot of ground and pound in this game. And Josh

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Speaker 1: Jacobs is not going to get thirty one or twenty

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Speaker 1: nine carries a bunch of it's gonna go to Davante

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Speaker 1: Booker because he's just too good to keep off the field.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the receiver position, not necessarily wide receiver Scott.

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Speaker 1: Who's gonna take a chance on me player? I'm going

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Speaker 1: with Logan Thomas. Since Alex Smith took over, he's got

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Speaker 1: twelve targets in the last two weeks. It's only culminated

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Speaker 1: in seven catches for ninety four yards. But this week

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Speaker 1: he gets a Bengals d that has given up five

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Speaker 1: games of over fifty yards to tight ends six tight

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Speaker 1: end touchdowns in just the last five weeks. And this

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Speaker 1: is a Bengals defense that has allowed eighteen passing touchdowns

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Speaker 1: over the last six weeks. Actually like Alex Smith this

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Speaker 1: week to give me, give me Ligan Thomas. I've slowly

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Speaker 1: moved Alex Smith up my rankings all week. I think

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Speaker 1: now he's like quarterback ten. All right, Brian, you take

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Speaker 1: a chance to me receiver is give me Saints tight

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Speaker 1: end taste somehow. I'm just kidding. I'm perring Prescott Perriman

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Speaker 1: with Flack at LAC. Two jets for me this week.

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Speaker 1: Perriman was my prespect a few weeks ago. Looks like

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Speaker 1: he's coming to fruition after a monster game against New

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Speaker 1: England in Week nine hundred plus yards and two touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: Not necessarily a smash spot here, as the Chargers have

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Speaker 1: only surrendered a handful of big yardage outputs two wide

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Speaker 1: opposing wide receivers, but they still allow four yards per

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Speaker 1: game to the position. That's pretty decent. And since Week four,

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Speaker 1: l A has allowed seven wide receiver touchdowns in six games,

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Speaker 1: and that's basically been to four teams. The two teams

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Speaker 1: that failed to score a wide receiver where the Michael

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Speaker 1: Thomas less Saints and the Dolphins last week, who only

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Speaker 1: had twenty pass attempts. So I'm rolling with Perriman. I'm

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Speaker 1: going with Michael Gallup against the Vikings. The Vikings secondary

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Speaker 1: is likely without its number three, number four, number five cornerbacks,

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Speaker 1: and if Cameron Danzler can make his way through the

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Speaker 1: concussion protocol, they're also without their number one cornerback and

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Speaker 1: their number one quarterbacks. Like a number four cornerbacks for

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Speaker 1: anybody else, the Cowboys can stretch thin any secondary with

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Speaker 1: their three excellent receivers. They get Andy Dalton back. What

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Speaker 1: little help the Vikings can muster will be dedicated to

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Speaker 1: stopping a Marie Cooper and Ceedee Lamb, and that leaves

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Speaker 1: Michael Gallup most often on six string cornerback Chris Boyd,

479
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Speaker 1: who is allowed to passer rating of one D thirty

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Speaker 1: four in his coverage. There you go, nine players, take

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Speaker 1: a chance on me. Let's work. In one more matchup,

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons take on the New Orleans Saints. The

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Speaker 1: Saint side is a lot more interesting, but let's start

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Speaker 1: with the Falcon side. Calvin Ridley likely back. This passing

485
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Speaker 1: attack is at full strength. Do you like Matt Ryan

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Speaker 1: I kind of do. After allowing multiple touchdowns in each

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Speaker 1: of their first seven games, this is the Saints. They

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Speaker 1: have buckled down, picking off five passes and giving up

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Speaker 1: just one touchdown in their last two h granted one

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Speaker 1: of them with San Francisco, the other was Tom Brady.

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Speaker 1: Though they're a good game against Tom Brady and um

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Speaker 1: Lattimore should be back. He should be quite I think

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Speaker 1: he's questionable. Should play. Uh, they still love Jenkins. They

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Speaker 1: have a good past defense. I'm keeping Ryan a CEE,

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Speaker 1: but it's a pretty strong cee. I could go be too.

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Speaker 1: I could go be too, but I'm gonna leave it

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Speaker 1: as a see Julio Jones plus yards and or a

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00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: touchdown in four straight, I gotta be grade on him.

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Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I don't love either Jones or

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Speaker 1: Ridley's matchups in this one, but they're just too good

501
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Speaker 1: to sit well. Unless doesn't doesn't go. At the moment,

502
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Speaker 1: I'm assuming that they go full strength. His lowest yardage

503
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Speaker 1: game of the last four weeks was the Week nine

504
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Speaker 1: game without Ridley. Weirdly, that's you think they could be

505
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Speaker 1: lower with Ridle either. Ridley sixty plus yards in six

506
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Speaker 1: of his seven games, has six touchdowns in those. Uh.

507
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Speaker 1: If he doesn't go, but he should go all along

508
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 1: day Zakis would get a C grade, but it sounds

509
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Speaker 1: like Ridley's going I gotta be great on him too.

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Speaker 1: Hayden Hurst, I'm given a C great too, even though

511
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Speaker 1: only two tight ends of top fifty yards, and both

512
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Speaker 1: were because they were the top two receiving option on

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Speaker 1: the team. Uh, they stopped six plus targets and and

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Speaker 1: players that gets six plus targets against the Saints have

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Speaker 1: done well. Hurst hit fifty yards in five of the

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Speaker 1: six games he hit six targets. I think if he

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Speaker 1: can get that, he's got a fair shot to see

518
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Speaker 1: grade there. Todd Gurley, don't super love him this week,

519
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 1: but he gets so much volume eighteen plus touches in

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Speaker 1: five straight. How he turns eighteen touches into like sixty

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00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 1: rushing yards every week? Touchdowns got nine. I think he's

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00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 1: got nine touches. It's unreally scores all the time. The

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Speaker 1: downside also only two catches per game, and over his

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Speaker 1: last four he's averaging two point six yards per carry.

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Speaker 1: As you just kind of alluded to, it's unreal. The

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Speaker 1: Saints on the other side, have given up over a

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Speaker 1: hundred total yards to just one back this year. So,

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Speaker 1: as I said, don't love the matchup, but he gets

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Speaker 1: so much volume and he gets those goal line with touches.

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Speaker 1: I gotta give him the C grade. On the other side,

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Speaker 1: Taystom Hill was my take a chance on me player.

532
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 1: At this point, we we assume he's gonna start, even

533
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: though there's mind games going out there. Adam Schefter reported

534
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 1: he'd taken all the first team snaps. I think he's

535
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 1: gonna start, so he's might take a chance on me player.

536
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 1: I have eight grades on both Michael Thomas and Alvin Kamara.

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Speaker 1: If Winston does start. Winston's ten attempts last week, I

538
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Speaker 1: believe he targeted Michael Thomas five times and and twice

539
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Speaker 1: in the end zone. So if it's Winston Thomas, and

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Speaker 1: if it's not, I feel like Taysom Hill's gonna trust

541
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Speaker 1: more as a passage where your bread is buttered right

542
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: well as a past more as a pastor Winston or Hill.

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Speaker 1: Hill has eighteen past attempts in his career. I mean, yes,

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Speaker 1: it's Winston. Hew Bizarre was the verbage from Peyton. He's like,

545
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 1: no offensive packages will Jamis Winston be involved in? That's

546
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: like a failed smoke screens. That's like, yeah, I don't. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what that means entirely, Like who says that?

548
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 1: Not anyone? So you're not gonna line them up at

549
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: a receiver? What does that mean anyway? Onto Alvin Kamara?

550
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: Why the A grade the Falcons against past catching running

551
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: backs for about five years in a row? Now, Uh,

552
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 1: they allow six running back receptions per game. They can't

553
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: seem to figure it out. And Alba Camara, I have

554
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 1: to do some more research, but I think he's good.

555
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: Can I make note? Though he has never scored against

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons in his career, which yeah, I do

557
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 1: have Murray on the bench, though he hasn't topped thirteen

558
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: touches since Week four, and uh, normally ten to twelve

559
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: touches is good. But but against against the Falcons, no

560
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Speaker 1: running back with a fewer than thirteen touches has top

561
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Speaker 1: thirty yards. So they allow three point six yards per carry.

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Speaker 1: They keep people down, but not receiving backs. So I'm

563
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,719
Speaker 1: benching they all right? Makes sense? We don't even need

564
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: to talk about Jared Cook anymore? Do No? No, I don't.

565
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Speaker 1: I think I think you're probably right about that at

566
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Speaker 1: this stage. Hopefully you're not so desperate that you're actually

567
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Speaker 1: starting him. Hey, if you want all my player rankings,

568
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Speaker 1: we encourage you to go to Guillotine leagues dot com.

569
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Speaker 1: All the players ranked and many of them explained as well.

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Speaker 1: You can you can read up on your favorite players,

571
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Speaker 1: find out who to bench, who to start, everybody's graded.

572
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Speaker 1: You should also continue to listen to the show because

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Speaker 1: coming up next we got a block of matchups, including

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Speaker 1: the Jets at the Chargers. Air Bear are is there's

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Speaker 1: the air Bear bear justin Herbert will he thrashed the Jets.

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Speaker 1: Find out when we come back. Fannessy Football Weekly, Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: Then the Football Weekly Puled Church and Scott Fish and

578
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Speaker 1: Brian Johnson with you and Brian you already told us

579
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Speaker 1: you love the Jets passing game as a dark throw

580
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 1: black over Flacco. Yeah, what do you think about the

581
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: rushing attack? Well? And and is there anybody else that

582
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: you want to talk about, like Denzel Mims maybe rushing

583
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Speaker 1: attack that's rushing attack. I got Frank Gore and le

584
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Speaker 1: Michael Pernin on the bench. He was a fifty percent

585
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Speaker 1: forty six percent snap split in favor of Gore. Last week.

586
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: Gor saw fourteen touches to just eight from peyin. I

587
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: don't know if you'd want all twenty two from just

588
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Speaker 1: one guy in this game. It's it's it's an easy

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00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: bench for me, uh, an easy be though for Jamison

590
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: Crowder only two catches on two targets UH his last game,

591
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Speaker 1: but one went for a touchdown. He's virtually a lock

592
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Speaker 1: for ten plus targets every week running went healthy, which

593
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: he is now running and the Jets coming off there by,

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Speaker 1: by the way, running from the slot, he'll avoid Casey

595
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: Hayward with Chris Harris on I R. He draws rookie

596
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Speaker 1: slot corner to Van Campbell, who's allowed two scores in

597
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Speaker 1: his last three games. So b for Crowder and Brashot

598
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Speaker 1: Perry and was might take a chance on me wide receiver.

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00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: It was a coin food between he and Denzel Mims.

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Speaker 1: We like a lot on this show. But we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk more about later, even more about Mims later. But Uh,

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Speaker 1: I went with Perim and he does lead the Jets

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Speaker 1: in first down receptions and yards per target with Flaco

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Speaker 1: at quarterback. So I'm just gonna I'm gonna bench Mims

605
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Speaker 1: for here, uh for this week, but he should be

606
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: rostered for sure. And a flac of again might take

607
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: a chance in the quarterback flack at lack over to

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Speaker 1: the Chargers side. In a for Kalin Balage, I'm flabbergacid

609
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Speaker 1: flustered all those actives. The Jets are top five and

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Speaker 1: red zone touches and red zone targets yielded per game

611
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Speaker 1: to opposing running backs. It's no surprise top five in

612
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: a good way in the most red zone touches and

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Speaker 1: red zone targets for the Chargers. For Kalin Balage in particular, yes,

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Speaker 1: it's no surprise. The Jets have allowed the eighth most

615
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Speaker 1: fantasy points to running backs, including the league's fifth most

616
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Speaker 1: receptions to running backs at fifty eight. Blage has been

617
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Speaker 1: very active catching the ball at the backfield of the

618
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: last two games, turning nine targets into seven catches for

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Speaker 1: forty nine yards and a touchdown. So in a for

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Speaker 1: Klin Balage, holy f over. Keenan Allen can give him

621
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Speaker 1: an a as well. He was wide receiver twenty like

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Speaker 1: in late August. That's criminal right now, He's Eclipse has

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Speaker 1: scored endoor Eclipse the hundred yards and six of his

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00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: last seven games. And here come the Jets, who are

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Speaker 1: bottom ten and yards receptions and fantasy points allowed to

626
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Speaker 1: wide receiver, and that's bottom ten in terms of the

627
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Speaker 1: most in a very good way for Keenan Allen and

628
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,239
Speaker 1: the Jets have also surrendered four touchdowns and two one

629
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Speaker 1: yard games to wide receivers over their last three for

630
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Speaker 1: those very same reasons of giving Mike Williams a very

631
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Speaker 1: easy B here and Hunter Henry gets a B as well.

632
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Speaker 1: Four tight ends have seen at least four targets against

633
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Speaker 1: the Jets this year. All have put up at least

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Speaker 1: sixty yards or a touchdown. Henry has four targets and

635
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Speaker 1: all but two games this year. If you get opportunities

636
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 1: against the Jets, he turned them into something. And that's

637
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: why your boy charge the air bear Justin Herbert Uh

638
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: just to be though the haircut worries be. He looks

639
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: like a looks like Sampson. Yeah, it looks like like

640
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:08,760
Speaker 1: a Juviy mug shot now for Justin. But that fourteen

641
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: year old just leading rookies, that's right. And you know

642
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: what the Jets are not leading Uh in his sacks.

643
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 1: They only have eleven on the season, that second fewest

644
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: air Bear. It's gonna have plenty of time to play

645
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: with all of his poison. The air Bear. I like it,

646
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: the air Bear. Uh. There was a little Ardvark in

647
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:30,240
Speaker 1: there for just second. If you're wondering accidental Ardvark appearance,

648
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: He's not there. It's dark cross cross mate. Uh. Getting

649
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: Dr Moreau over here. Uh, Cincinnati and Washington face each other.

650
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: Let's begin on the Cincinnati side where Joe Bernard will

651
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: get the start. With Joe Mixon nursing his foot injury,

652
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,800
Speaker 1: Bernardo face a Washington run defense that is law just

653
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: one back to top eighties six rushing yards. But we

654
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 1: just saw DeAndre Swift post a solid all purpose game

655
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: against Washington last week, so it can be done here

656
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: by Bernard, both on the ground and through the air.

657
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: Washington has given up a running back score one way

658
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 1: or another in five of their last seven games, so

659
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 1: I think Bernard gets a B grade. I like him here.

660
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 1: Going to the passing game, Joe Burrow gets a seat.

661
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 1: Good defenses have mostly held Joe Burrow in check, and

662
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: he'll face a good one this week. Washington is allowing

663
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 1: the second fewest passing yards and the sixth fewest passing touchdowns.

664
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: The Bengals struggling offensive line is gonna get ambushed by

665
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 1: those four first rounders that Washington's got on their defensive line.

666
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: And I'm worried about Joe Burrow having time to get downfield,

667
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: and that means I'm not crazy about his receivers either.

668
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: We love Tee Higgins on this show, but there's a

669
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 1: bad matchup. Now, he did practice on Friday. I think

670
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 1: he plays here. I worry about Burrow having enough time

671
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 1: to find him. He may have to settle for the

672
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: underneath stuff to Higgins. Now, Higgins runs from both sides

673
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 1: of the field, but when he runs from the left,

674
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: he faces incredibly tough coverage from Kendall Fuller, who has

675
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: been basically invincible before yielding a bit last week. Then

676
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd gets a sea great. I say c great

677
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: and tigins if I didn't use a sea see great

678
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 1: and Tyler Boyd again. Washington secondary very good. They surrended

679
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 1: the second fewest fantasy points per game to opposing receivers.

680
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: Boyd runs overwhelmingly from the slot. They'll face slot cornerback

681
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: Jimmy Moreland most often. Moreland has yet to allow a

682
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 1: score this season, and has allowed thirty eight or fewer

683
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: yards in his coverage in every game since Week two.

684
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: That is a bad matchup for Tyler Boyd and he's

685
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: just got to see a. J. Green is on the bench.

686
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: He's been held scoreless this year and he has totaled

687
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: nineteen yards over the last two games. There. That is,

688
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: isn't it? Remember when it when more and Andre Johnson

689
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: hit the wall. I'll say, yeah, that's a great point.

690
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: I haven't thought about that comparison. That's very good. Let's

691
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 1: go to Washington and start with the running game there.

692
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson with the two touchdown game last week, Yeah,

693
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 1: that felt good. He's a good player. He ranks third

694
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 1: and missed tackles per Russia attempt that's very good. And

695
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 1: he just passes the eye test. He didn't see that.

696
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: He's good. This is a This is a far tougher

697
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 1: matchup on the ground than through the air. Going all

698
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: the way back to Week three, Cincinnati is allowed just

699
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: one rushing touchdown and that was the Derrick Henry and

700
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: and only Henry's top seventy five rushing yards against Cincinnati.

701
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: So this is a tough matchup. And I've only got

702
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: a B grade on Gibson. I almost gave him a seat,

703
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: but I like him too much Gibson with his pass

704
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:20,760
Speaker 1: catching skills without Kissick, I know, and I don't understand

705
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: where they never throw to him. He's a converted wide out.

706
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: He'll catch it if you throw to him, but they

707
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: never do. Sticking with the running back, so let's go

708
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 1: to j. D. McKissick. He's been a PPR superstar over

709
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks with target totals of fourteen

710
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: and fifteen from Alex Smith up. But those numbers are

711
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 1: unsustainable and he's only scored once all year, and the

712
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 1: Bengals have been very good against receiving backs, allowing the

713
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:50,360
Speaker 1: third fewest receptions and only two receiving scores two running backs.

714
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: So I only have a C grade on J. D. Mckissic.

715
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,479
Speaker 1: We're not going to chase his production the past couple

716
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,439
Speaker 1: of weeks, all right, So let's go to the Let's

717
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 1: go to the receiving game. In the passing game, Scott

718
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: and I talked about Alex Smith a little while ago.

719
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: He has top three hundred yards in both of his

720
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: full games and now meets his easiest opponent, Cincinnati. The

721
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,919
Speaker 1: Bengal secondaries devolved before our very eyes over the past month,

722
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: they've given up three touchdowns, five touchdowns, two touchdowns and

723
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: four passing touchdowns. So lots of upside for Alex Smith

724
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: in this one. And that means I love Terry McLaurin,

725
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: who's an obvious A grade. I don't even need to

726
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 1: expound on him here. And Logan Thomas was your take

727
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:31,320
Speaker 1: a chance on me tight end receiver earlier today, Scott,

728
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,760
Speaker 1: So there you go. Let's go to a final matchup.

729
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:38,320
Speaker 1: It is the Patriots taking on the Houston Texans. Scott.

730
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 1: Sure Cam Newton the running back, right, He's right, there's

731
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: not even a reason to talk about him as a passer.

732
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 1: He he only gets a C grade from me on

733
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 1: his rushing ability and his ability to get touchdowns. Sure,

734
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 1: he might get a hundred hundred and fifty yards, but

735
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 1: it's all about all about the rushing for him. He's

736
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: only has three passing touchdowns on the season. This Houston

737
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: defense is is a defense that he can work against.

738
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: I have a B grade on Damien Harris. Such a

739
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: good much matchup for running backs, it's hard not to

740
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: like him. The main problem is Damian Harris doesn't catch

741
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: passes and he doesn't get touched on opportunities, which he

742
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:17,240
Speaker 1: should because he's built for gold line use. He's a bruiser. Yeah,

743
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: I I don't get it, but Texans are second worst

744
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: against fantasy running backs, allowing by far the most rushing

745
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,279
Speaker 1: yards to running backs, which is what Harris gets. He

746
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,399
Speaker 1: has fifty two touches in the last three weeks. I've

747
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 1: B grade on him, but I could go higher, but

748
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 1: I have a very very solid, strong B grade. Then

749
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: we get to the passing game. Because Newton doesn't throw

750
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,240
Speaker 1: a lot. I don't like a lot of the receiving

751
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: options except for the guy that has forty press plus

752
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: target share in three straight games, Jacoby Meyers. He gets

753
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: everything that they throw, so he's the only one I trust.

754
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 1: Uh sixty plus yards in four straight games, averaging over

755
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,959
Speaker 1: nine targets per game. In that uh the average stat

756
00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: line for wide receivers that get nine targets a game

757
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: eight for one thirty four and one point to five touchdowns.

758
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 1: Against these Houston Texas, we would certainly take that. Let

759
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: me ask you, I don't know that he gets it,

760
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: but I mean, do you think every time Cam throws

761
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: to Jacoby he just sales Jacoby? Do you get what

762
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: I'm saying, yeah, Kobe, I get it. I get it,

763
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: you say, Kobe Brant, Yeah, it's like going in. It's

764
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna score throwing it away, not in the garbage

765
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:29,720
Speaker 1: growing throwing it throwing period, throwing away, Jacoby. Let's assume

766
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,879
Speaker 1: there's a quarterback upgrade of some kind coming next year

767
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:37,280
Speaker 1: for the Patriots. Kobe Myers gets kind of interesting next season,

768
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 1: doesn't he does. I picked him up in a couple

769
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 1: of dynasty leagues just to just to see what happens

770
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 1: over the offseason. On the other side of the ball,

771
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm gonna be Oprah with some a's here

772
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,240
Speaker 1: getting away. If at some point you need to award

773
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:53,839
Speaker 1: the Fantasy hard Park, just let me know, because I'm

774
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: ready to go again. I don't think so. Deshaun Watson

775
00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: giving an A grade two multiple touchdowns in six of

776
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: his last seven New England has allowed the most twenty

777
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: plus yard completions on the season. Could you could one

778
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: of you guys do some research on me. Twenty plus

779
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: yard completions a team that gives up a ton of them?

780
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: Is that good for Will Fuller and Brady Cooks? That

781
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 1: might match what they do well, that might match what

782
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: they do well, so I have a grades for both

783
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 1: of them. Fuller head touchdowns and of sixth straight before

784
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: the Monsters to a grades. There you go at your

785
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 1: fantasy ard Vark right there. Ry Yeah, six straight games

786
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,280
Speaker 1: with a touchdown before the bad weather game last week.

787
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks eight targets in five at least eight targets

788
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: in five straight uh and the and in the four

789
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 1: that weren't hampered with terrible weather, he had sixty plus

790
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,360
Speaker 1: in each of them and scored in three of them. Also,

791
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,879
Speaker 1: if Gilmore misses, which he might upgrade him even more.

792
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:57,879
Speaker 1: Uh Over. On the running back side, Duke Johnson missed

793
00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 1: some practice this week with an illness. Sounds like he's

794
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 1: to go anyway. David Johnson is on it, obviously, but

795
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,280
Speaker 1: I gave him a C grade. He has thirty carries

796
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,800
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks. He's getting so much volume

797
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 1: it's hard not to give him a C grade, even

798
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:15,800
Speaker 1: though he's only averaging three point one yards per carrying UM.

799
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 1: Not that effective getting the touches. So I'm giving him

800
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:21,919
Speaker 1: a volume C. A volume C I like that when

801
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: as I look forward to next week's show, Chris Carson

802
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: likely to be back, does he immediately go right back

803
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: to being the workhorse or do you think that they

804
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:34,840
Speaker 1: saw enough from Carlos Hyde and DJ Dallas and Travis

805
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: Homer that they start distributing the ball a little bit more.

806
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 1: I think they would have seen enough from DJ Dallas

807
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago when he had that big game,

808
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 1: and then they went right back to Carlos Hides, And

809
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think so Carlos look good on Thursday,

810
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 1: I know, I don't. I think they just go back

811
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,840
Speaker 1: to Carson. Honestly, we have a lot of history that

812
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 1: suggests that that the Seahawks like their main heavy workload,

813
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: and that probably goes right back to being Chris Carson.

814
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: And he'll enjoy whatever ten days off. So he ought

815
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: to he ought to be fully healthy by then. He

816
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 1: was almost ready, So almost ready. So there's a there's

817
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: a sneaky opportunity out there for Chris Carson to dominate

818
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 1: fantasy leagues the rest of the way. This offense is

819
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: so high scoring, there's so many scoring opportunities. Carson is

820
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 1: a good running back now healthy. Look what Carlos High

821
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 1: did is fractionately as talented and pt Sunshine had to

822
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: quote this Pee Carroll obviously, pet Sunshin had to quote

823
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 1: this week about wanting to get back to the run

824
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: more when everybody wants rust to cook. He's like, I

825
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,399
Speaker 1: want to get back to the run more so if

826
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:43,720
Speaker 1: that comes to fruition. Chris Carson, Chris, back to Chris Carson,

827
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,800
Speaker 1: I just get I got this feeling. We're gonna be

828
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: get doling on a lot of a grades to Chris

829
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: Carson between now and the Fantasy Football Championship. When we

830
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Speaker 1: come back, three Tough Questions. I will pepper my co

831
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:01,319
Speaker 1: host with well, three tough questions. You get to play along,

832
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: see if you can go three and oh. When we

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00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: returned with Fantasy Football Weekly, don't don't you don't don't

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Speaker 1: you don't you do you don't don't don't if you don't,

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Speaker 1: don't you don't know you Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly.

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Speaker 1: Our number two, as usual, begins with the game we

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Speaker 1: call three tough questions. I will hit my co host

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00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:00,760
Speaker 1: with three tough questions. They will try to get them correct.

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Speaker 1: You can play along, try to go through. You know.

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Speaker 1: We begin with tough question number one and this is

841
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:09,280
Speaker 1: the big e for the weekend, isn't it? Should commissioners

842
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: in ESPN leagues where Taysom Hill is tight and eligible

843
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 1: allow Hill to be played as a tight end? Scott Man,

844
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,439
Speaker 1: If if your question was should he be allowed, I'd

845
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 1: be like no. But should commissioners in leagues that have

846
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: been set up since the beginning to allow it? I

847
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 1: gotta say yes for this one week before they change

848
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 1: it next week. I'm very against changing it. They might

849
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 1: change it after this week. That's what they said. That's

850
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:38,839
Speaker 1: what they said, and it was also in Taysom Mill's

851
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: outlook that if he starts at quarterback, they will change

852
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: they will remove strip the tight end designation. They should

853
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: and they should have done a long time ago. This

854
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,240
Speaker 1: has been a budding This has been a budding problem

855
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: waiting to happen for them for a long time. But continue,

856
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 1: I I say, I say, that's this has been the rule,

857
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 1: this is the way it was set up. You got

858
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: to play with it for this week, and when they

859
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 1: strip it next week, it's gone. I I hate I

860
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:03,360
Speaker 1: don't like the decision that ESPN made. I don't I

861
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 1: don't like any of that, But I say, you gotta

862
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 1: play with the rules that that were in place. Okay, yeah,

863
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: the site allows it. You'd have to adhere to the

864
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 1: settings unless before the season all the league members wrote

865
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: in blood, we will not start Taysom Hill at quarterback.

866
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: But uh, this isn't the first instance of something like this. Uh.

867
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,840
Speaker 1: Several years ago, Joe Webb was wide receiver eligible, but

868
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: he was starting at quarterback for the Vikings, and people

869
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: got to play Joe Webb at wide receiver. And the

870
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: most famous instance didn't involve a quarterback, but Marquez Colston

871
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,359
Speaker 1: in YAHOO leagues in like two thousand five or six,

872
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 1: it was tight end eligible when he was clearly a

873
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: wide receiver. And I remember every week someone being like,

874
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: you shouldn't do that, and I'm like, okay, but I'm

875
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 1: gonna because I'm allowed to. So that's the answer. Yes,

876
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 1: it sucks, but that's the way it goes. Well. Uh,

877
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 1: first I will say this, Yes, pen should not have

878
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: him his tight end eligible. They should have known this

879
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 1: years ago he did. The problem goes back like when

880
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: he entered the league, they didn't really know what to

881
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:02,919
Speaker 1: do with him and at what position he was gonna play,

882
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 1: and he got designated as a tight end by somebody

883
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,320
Speaker 1: somewhere who like put a finger in the win and

884
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:12,240
Speaker 1: went tight end and because well, I'm not gonna even speculate,

885
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,399
Speaker 1: but ESPN and others continue to carry that tag as

886
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 1: tight end for years and years and years forward, despite

887
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: the fact Taysom Hills never once appeared on an NFL

888
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 1: roster as listed as tight end, not once, So ESPN

889
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:31,319
Speaker 1: should never have had it this way. Taysom Hill as

890
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 1: a tight end is a loophole. If you've got Taysom

891
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 1: Hill and you're starting him as a tight end, it

892
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:41,720
Speaker 1: is a cheap and unfair advantage that you are putting

893
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 1: on your league. I personally question your personal integrity and

894
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:50,919
Speaker 1: your sense of fair play. I don't run any leagues

895
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 1: on ESPN. If I did, and I had Hill, I

896
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:57,359
Speaker 1: would only start him at quarterback. I would not start

897
00:47:57,440 --> 00:47:59,399
Speaker 1: him at tight end. I don't care who my tight

898
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 1: end is. I wouldn't do it because in my heart

899
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 1: I know he's not a tight end, and I care

900
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: about my personal integrity more than I care about trying

901
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 1: to find a loophole for a victory. That's not how

902
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 1: I want to win. Now, commissioners want to talk to

903
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:17,800
Speaker 1: you for just a minute. Who runs your league? Is

904
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 1: it you or is it your software? Who runs your league?

905
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 1: Does a software dictate who runs your league? Or do

906
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:27,479
Speaker 1: you run your league? This you need to make this call.

907
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: And simply abdicating to the software is spineless. Is like

908
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: I like, I like that My b by laws in

909
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 1: my league specifically state we are at the complete mercy

910
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: of the designations of the site, which you can do.

911
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 1: And that's great, and that from that point someone you

912
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:52,320
Speaker 1: have to know that's my private leagues too. But but

913
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: still the Tystom Hill owner would argue with me, Hey,

914
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 1: this is what your by law says. If it's in

915
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: the by laws one way or another, you live by

916
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 1: those by laws for sure. Our listeners do not have

917
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 1: this situation in their by laws. So Commissioners, you need

918
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 1: to make a call. But let me give you a

919
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: little bit of data. Taysom Hill has played forty two

920
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 1: snaps this year at quarterback, forty two. He has played

921
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:28,919
Speaker 1: fifty six snaps at wide receiver. He's played thirty two

922
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 1: snaps at tight end, so he has played at the

923
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:40,360
Speaker 1: tight end position. It's fair to say he's not a

924
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:43,839
Speaker 1: tight end, but he plays at least some tight end.

925
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:46,800
Speaker 1: You can make a case and you should make the

926
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: call commissioners that he should be allowed to be a

927
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 1: tight end. Now, my preference and the correct answer is

928
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: should Taysom Hill be allowed? Should commissioners allow him to

929
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 1: be played as a tight end? Yes, he should because

930
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 1: of the thirty two snaps at tight end. That said,

931
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: those of you that have him, I hope you will

932
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 1: play with integrity and you will not start him that

933
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: way because winning is not winning a game of fantasy

934
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 1: football is not worth the loss of integrity for yourself

935
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: or the league when you know he's a quarterback. Wo

936
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 1: tough question number two, Alex Smiths posted back to back

937
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 1: three yard games. Will Alex Smith finished the year? Is

938
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 1: a top six quarterback, a seven through twelve quarterback or

939
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:42,279
Speaker 1: worse than twelve? Brian, I have to mention that back

940
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 1: to back three yard games, Yes, but just one passing

941
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 1: touchdown across those two games. So top six. If he's

942
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 1: gonna finish top six, he's not gonna beat out Kyler, Murray,

943
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:54,399
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, Russell Wilson, and Josh Allen in particular order.

944
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:57,279
Speaker 1: That leaves two spots, and those two spots he still

945
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:00,880
Speaker 1: got to compete with Aaron Rodgers, air Bear l Jack's

946
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson, Matt Ryan, Tom Brady. He's not finishing top six,

947
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: and that really doesn't leave a whole lot of meat

948
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 1: on the bone for seven to twelve because Ryan Tannehill

949
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,479
Speaker 1: is still in the mix. Joe Burrow, I know Fish

950
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,360
Speaker 1: has a lot of stats that are probably gonna support

951
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,879
Speaker 1: the same answer. But he's worse than twelve. But he's Ah,

952
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 1: it's great to see him back. Okay plus plus all right, Scott,

953
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,879
Speaker 1: this is easy. He scored thirty four Fantasy points. QB

954
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 1: twelve has scored a hundred eighty five Fantasy points. He's

955
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: got a hundred points to bake up. Just clearly. The

956
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 1: question was why did I think of that from this

957
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:42,360
Speaker 1: point forward? Oh? Okay, So he has very positive matchups

958
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: against the Bengals, we've already I think those touchdowns are

959
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: coming this week. Uh Seattle Carolina his even a decent

960
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:52,399
Speaker 1: matchup against Dallas. San Francisco has giving up like four

961
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:54,919
Speaker 1: huge games in the past six weeks, even though they're

962
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 1: in middle of the road defense. The only tough spot

963
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: is Pittsburgh. That's said Brian gave the list. I just

964
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: don't see how he can. I don't see how he

965
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:06,360
Speaker 1: can get to top six at all, I have trouble

966
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:08,959
Speaker 1: even seeing it always in the second tier of six.

967
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:13,240
Speaker 1: I can see him getting into that ten to twelve range.

968
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,719
Speaker 1: But if I had to place money on it, and

969
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,959
Speaker 1: you do, that's how this game works, I'm gonna go worse.

970
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 1: Washington's path to victory real life victories is with an

971
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: efficient Alex Smith, which is in his DNA anyway, because

972
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: that's who he really is. You know. They want to

973
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:32,960
Speaker 1: continue to play very good defense, which Washington has. They

974
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: want to run in town Antonio Gibson a fair amount

975
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 1: because he's pretty special, and mix in a lot of

976
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 1: high percentage passing from Alex Smith. In these two games

977
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:45,799
Speaker 1: with the three yards, he's completed sevent his passes very

978
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:49,879
Speaker 1: efficient only the one touchdow. What you mentioned, efficiency does

979
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:54,080
Speaker 1: not equal fantasy stats. He doesn't have the receivers. Teddy

980
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: Bridgewater is that That's kind of what I'm saying. He

981
00:52:57,160 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 1: doesn't have the receivers to unlock big performance. He's only

982
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 1: got the one receiver, Terry McLaurin. And here's really I

983
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: think the crowning blow. In his fifteen year career, Alex

984
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: Smith has never not once finished as a top twelve quarterback,

985
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: not even the the m v P year. He probably

986
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,439
Speaker 1: got hurt at the end. Even in the old days

987
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:22,759
Speaker 1: he was in the running. I thought you made on

988
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:24,800
Speaker 1: a weekly basis for a second, but that's not what

989
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 1: I never finished the season at the top twelve quarterback

990
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: in his fifteen year career, So the answer is worse

991
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 1: than twelve. Tough question Number three. Minnesota wide receiver Justin

992
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:43,760
Speaker 1: Jefferson leads all rookie receivers by almost one hundred fifty yards.

993
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:48,399
Speaker 1: Is he an every week starter? Scott? Of the time,

994
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 1: he's aid every week starter all the time he has.

995
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 1: It's a movie that keeps on giving. Yeah, that was

996
00:53:56,760 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: the movie. But half the time he's he has boom games.

997
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: The other half the time not so much. He's he's

998
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:05,880
Speaker 1: got that Brandon Cooks, Will Fuller, Amari Cooper, Lee Evans

999
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:11,799
Speaker 1: type of remember four to six big games a year.

1000
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 1: That's it. Oh with peerless price on the other side, right,

1001
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 1: Drew Bledsoe, I believe, yes, just two negative matchups left

1002
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 1: on the schedule. One again is against the Bears, who

1003
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,920
Speaker 1: we just torched. But you can't bench Justin Jefferson just

1004
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,799
Speaker 1: because of those explosions are going to happen. I think

1005
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: he's flexworthy at minimum every single week, So yeah, he's

1006
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 1: a never a week starter. Yeah, on a PPR points

1007
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 1: per game basis. Right now, he's wide receiver twenty and

1008
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:38,879
Speaker 1: that's after a very slow start to the season, which

1009
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:41,280
Speaker 1: is understandable for rookie, where he had six targets across

1010
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:43,239
Speaker 1: his first two games, and now since Week three, the

1011
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 1: target totals have been a bit of a roller coaster ride.

1012
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 1: It's gone nine, five, five, up to eleven, then four, four,

1013
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,240
Speaker 1: then back up to ten last week. But he checks

1014
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 1: virtually every box when it comes to the eye test,

1015
00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 1: and he can turn one target into a productive box

1016
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 1: score and there's no way he falls below wide receiver

1017
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:04,760
Speaker 1: three or flex territory any given week, even based on matchups.

1018
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: So yes, and every week starter. Moving forward, Justin Jefferson

1019
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:11,960
Speaker 1: is ahead of Randy Moss's epic rookie season by yards.

1020
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 1: He's already at seven hundred sixty yards. He has a

1021
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 1: deep downfield threat averaging eighteen yards per reception, which is

1022
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:21,880
Speaker 1: fourth most in the entire NFL, not just among rookies,

1023
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 1: and despite how deep those passes are, he's got the

1024
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 1: seventh highest catch rate in the NFL. Normally, you're deep

1025
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:34,279
Speaker 1: ball receivers have a low catch rate because those are

1026
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:38,319
Speaker 1: hard to complete passes. It. But here's the problem, Dalvin Cook.

1027
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:42,439
Speaker 1: He's so good and the Vikings are so run oriented.

1028
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 1: Minnesota's dead lasting pass attempts twenty seven. When you divide

1029
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:48,880
Speaker 1: up twenty seven pass attempts among all the wide receivers,

1030
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:52,320
Speaker 1: tight ends, running backs, there are just some games that

1031
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:56,920
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson can't be a big part of. But here's

1032
00:55:56,960 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 1: why he's still an every week starter. There isn't necessary

1033
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:02,600
Speaker 1: really a script for knowing when the dud game is

1034
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:05,760
Speaker 1: going to come. It could have come against Chicago, it didn't.

1035
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 1: And even in games where Dalvin Cook has had high

1036
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 1: usage games, Justin Jefferson's posted good games and some of

1037
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:13,880
Speaker 1: those two So he isn't every week starter, But that

1038
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 1: doesn't mean he's gonna turn out every week big totals

1039
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 1: because the volume is not going to be there some games.

1040
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 1: So couldn't you have just said, okay, Scott, what you said, Well,

1041
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:26,320
Speaker 1: why I can't I can't give you that kind of credit.

1042
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, No, I can't do that. Uh. Brian green

1043
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:32,760
Speaker 1: Bay takes on the Indianapolis Colts is the toughest matchup

1044
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:34,840
Speaker 1: of the year for the Green Bay Packers. Yeah and

1045
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: this this would be a shootout in years past, but

1046
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: not so much this year. We'll start with Aaron Jones

1047
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:43,480
Speaker 1: on the Packers side, Gonna give him a beat. Despite

1048
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 1: the painstaking, painstaking over usage of Jamal Williams, Jones has

1049
00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:49,359
Speaker 1: still garnered at least fifteen touches in every game he's

1050
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: played this year, and his role is expanding at receiver.

1051
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 1: Last week he played eight snaps lined up either in

1052
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 1: the slough or out wide, so he's usage is expanding

1053
00:56:58,160 --> 00:56:59,960
Speaker 1: all over the field. In a tough spot though, against

1054
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 1: the Colts, who are ranked fourth against the run by

1055
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 1: Football Outsiders. Indias allowed just seven total touchdowns to running

1056
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 1: backs this year, but six of those seven touchdowns have

1057
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:11,960
Speaker 1: come over the last five games, so there's hope Jones

1058
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: can score in this. One's still gonna give him a b.

1059
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:17,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bench Jamal Williams, though only one opposing running

1060
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 1: back has managed to top a hundred combo yards against

1061
00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 1: the Colts, and of course Williams is not the lead

1062
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:25,479
Speaker 1: back and the one and that one back who topped

1063
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 1: the hundred compoy yards was Derrick Henry who ran for

1064
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:30,560
Speaker 1: over a hundred yards and added to to receiving yards

1065
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:33,800
Speaker 1: or something. So I will say it's if Davante Adams

1066
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: doesn't go, which he should go. Jamal Adams in his

1067
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 1: last three games without Davonte Adams has like two receiving

1068
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: touchdowns in an eight catch game like he gets involved in.

1069
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 1: If Adams does not go, You're absolutely right. Yeah, a

1070
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:48,439
Speaker 1: lot of a few players will get bumped up into

1071
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 1: sea range if Adam, Robert Tonyan would be one. Remember

1072
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 1: Tonyans big games happened without Adams. We're gonna I'm gonna

1073
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:59,440
Speaker 1: assume Adams play plays he practiced on Friday. Um, I'm

1074
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:01,480
Speaker 1: gonna give him. He's banged up and it's not a

1075
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:04,680
Speaker 1: great matchup. But Adams is an auto a at this point,

1076
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:07,560
Speaker 1: regardless of matchup or or weather, which has been proven

1077
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks. The Colts did just

1078
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:12,440
Speaker 1: hold a j. Brown to one catch for twenty one yards,

1079
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 1: but Brown did drop a seventy yard touchdown bomb twice

1080
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 1: on the same route, bobbled it, dropped it again. Uh,

1081
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 1: and Adams should see a lot of Xavier roads a

1082
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 1: very familiar face from Rhods, this time with the Vikings.

1083
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:27,760
Speaker 1: Adams has had either a hundred yards or a touchdown

1084
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 1: the lack last six times he faced off Againstxavier Roads.

1085
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 1: So I'm giving Adams in a here, and if Adams plays,

1086
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 1: I'm benching all the other pass catchers not named Adams, Alan, Lazard,

1087
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:39,120
Speaker 1: Marcus of all this gambling. I don't even know if

1088
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 1: Lazar is coming back this week, and even Robert. Yeah,

1089
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 1: but it's it's it's a tough matchup against the Colts.

1090
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:46,440
Speaker 1: So all their past catch catchers around the bench for

1091
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 1: me and Aaron Rodgers just basically off the Bench's gonna

1092
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: give him a see. The Colts defense ranks third in

1093
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns allowed and that means the fewest bad for

1094
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 1: Rodgers and first in passing yards allowed allowed the fewest

1095
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 1: and Rogers has faced one other defense that's been comparable

1096
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:04,560
Speaker 1: to the Colts, and that was Tampa Bay and they

1097
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 1: pretty much shut him out. So, uh, A tepid c

1098
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodgers, a lot of a lot of trepidation

1099
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:13,400
Speaker 1: for the Colt side. Uh nahem Hines gonna give him

1100
00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 1: a see. Looks like the lead back, but he's followed

1101
00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 1: up these monster games with duds. Remember weeks one, everybody

1102
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 1: ran to the waiver wire to get nih Hines and

1103
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 1: then in week two do you remember me touches he

1104
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:29,520
Speaker 1: had one? See, I ran to get him in week one,

1105
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:34,000
Speaker 1: knowing I was gonna stash him till week ten, arbitrarily

1106
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 1: playing in weeken and only week ten. Yes, it's a

1107
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:40,080
Speaker 1: great matchup though for running backs, but I got Jonathan

1108
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 1: Taylor's might take a chance of me running back, invite

1109
00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 1: to pick between the two. I'm I'm gonna ride with

1110
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:46,560
Speaker 1: Taylor this week. We'll see how that plays out. I'm

1111
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 1: gonna bench both Michael Pittman and t Y Hilton. Pittman

1112
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 1: is the lead receiver on this team as far as

1113
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:53,600
Speaker 1: I'm concerned at this point, he's really coming on strong.

1114
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:58,080
Speaker 1: But both starting cornerbacks for the Packers, Jaire Alexander, who

1115
00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 1: might be the best cornerback outside of j and Ramsey

1116
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 1: in the NFL, will probably be shadowing Pittman and Kevin

1117
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 1: King also making their return from injury, So both the

1118
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:08,000
Speaker 1: receivers on the bench as are the tight ends for

1119
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:11,240
Speaker 1: the Colts. Mo Aali Cox out targeted Trade Burton last week.

1120
01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 1: Jack Doyle is slated to return again. They're all on

1121
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:18,920
Speaker 1: the bench, and so is Philip Rivers. Six of the

1122
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 1: last eight quarterbacks who face Green Bay have basically finished

1123
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:25,840
Speaker 1: outside the top twenty range and that secondary was dinged

1124
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:29,800
Speaker 1: during that tenure or so easy bench for Phil. By

1125
01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:34,880
Speaker 1: the way, Michael Pittman roster, everybody go get now, Go

1126
01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:37,160
Speaker 1: get Michael Pittman. And if you're in a dynasty league,

1127
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:38,600
Speaker 1: the love it God, get him. Although we don't know

1128
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:41,120
Speaker 1: his quarterback is gonna be next year, even it'll be

1129
01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:43,920
Speaker 1: somebody better than who they got now in all probability,

1130
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 1: but I couldn't tell you who it is. That is

1131
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:48,880
Speaker 1: a That is a tricky spot for the Colts. If

1132
01:00:48,880 --> 01:00:51,000
Speaker 1: you're next year, who is your quarterbacks? You're too good

1133
01:00:51,040 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 1: to land a premier quarterback in the draft. When we

1134
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 1: come back, the Dallas Cowboys face the Vikings. Will Andy

1135
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:02,160
Speaker 1: Dalton sparked the passing game back to LFE. Find out

1136
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 1: when we returned to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy

1137
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:33,120
Speaker 1: Football Weekly on the fan. While charting with you, Scott Fish,

1138
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson, Cowboys go to Minnesota. Let's start with the

1139
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:41,800
Speaker 1: passing game. Andy Dalton back under center. He battled concussions

1140
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:47,520
Speaker 1: then covid. Now he's back, but remember he looked really

1141
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:51,000
Speaker 1: bad last time we saw him. Dallas does attack with

1142
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:53,840
Speaker 1: three excellent receivers. Each of them was far better than

1143
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:58,880
Speaker 1: the Vikings cornerback counterparts. Even if Cameron Danceler they're they're

1144
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 1: presumptive number one cornerback is able to clear the concussion protocol.

1145
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:07,080
Speaker 1: Prior to facing the completely helpless Bears offense last week,

1146
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:10,360
Speaker 1: the Vikings were allowing almost three hundred yards and two

1147
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 1: and a half touchdowns per game. That is a lot.

1148
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:16,200
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton is a legitimate starter in this offense. I've

1149
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:18,160
Speaker 1: got him against the Bikers. I've got him with the

1150
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 1: C grade, but he does have B grade upside, But

1151
01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 1: I'm giving him a C grade here to play it safe.

1152
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:26,920
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper B grade. In three games Dalton has been

1153
01:02:26,960 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 1: under center. Cooper seen eighteen targets from Dalton and led

1154
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:33,240
Speaker 1: the team with seven catches seventy nine yards in one

1155
01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:36,280
Speaker 1: touchdown in the one game Dalton started and finished. If

1156
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 1: we're gonna get the same thing from Dalton, that's I

1157
01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:42,040
Speaker 1: would take that. Seven catches, seventy nine yards and one touchdown.

1158
01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:46,400
Speaker 1: Um Cooper draws the Vikings probably the Vikings most favorable

1159
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:48,680
Speaker 1: matchup against Chris Jones, allowing a passer rating of a

1160
01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:52,240
Speaker 1: hundred thirty two in his coverage. Ceedee Lamb works out

1161
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 1: of the slot and he has actually seen the most

1162
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:58,080
Speaker 1: targets from Dalton and running from the side of face

1163
01:02:58,120 --> 01:03:00,840
Speaker 1: off against Jeff Gladden e in all probability glad and

1164
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 1: he's given up five touchdowns and is allowing a pass

1165
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:05,680
Speaker 1: writing up in his coverage. So I've got to be

1166
01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:09,000
Speaker 1: grade on Ceedee Lamb C grade and Michael Gallop he

1167
01:03:09,080 --> 01:03:12,000
Speaker 1: was might take a chance on me wide receiver against

1168
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:16,120
Speaker 1: this already thin Viking secondary. And let's go to the

1169
01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:22,040
Speaker 1: running game. Zeke. I've never been more unhappy to be

1170
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:26,680
Speaker 1: right about a preseason prediction. But this is everything we're

1171
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:29,560
Speaker 1: worried about. Was Zeke in the off season. He's failing

1172
01:03:29,600 --> 01:03:32,280
Speaker 1: the eye test and the analytics are not favorable either.

1173
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:36,240
Speaker 1: Compared to Tony Pollard running with the exact same offense,

1174
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:40,680
Speaker 1: Zeke is averaging few yards per carry, fewer yards after contact,

1175
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:45,920
Speaker 1: fewer more more, fewer forced missed tackles than Tony Pollard.

1176
01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:48,280
Speaker 1: Pollard is the better running back right now. That doesn't

1177
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: mean poll It's going to get more work. Yet I'd

1178
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:55,240
Speaker 1: even start guy ze right now. Oh yeah, I think

1179
01:03:55,320 --> 01:03:56,840
Speaker 1: I would do. And I've only ever see grade on

1180
01:03:56,920 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: Zeke Minnesota. And here's a part of it is Minnesotas

1181
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:01,040
Speaker 1: run defense suddenly very good. They have only a lot

1182
01:04:01,080 --> 01:04:03,280
Speaker 1: of one total touchdown to running backs over the last

1183
01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 1: five games, and during that span, no back has managed

1184
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:10,080
Speaker 1: to crack seventy five rushing yards. That said, the Vikings

1185
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:13,280
Speaker 1: have yielded the second most touches to running backs in

1186
01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:17,200
Speaker 1: goal to go scenarios, So maybe those touches go to Zeke.

1187
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:19,000
Speaker 1: They're still giving Zeke the ball to goal line, so

1188
01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:21,400
Speaker 1: maybe he gets a touchdown here. And that's where the

1189
01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:24,760
Speaker 1: sea grade comes from. Let's go to Minnesota. Dalvin Cook

1190
01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:27,320
Speaker 1: is fascinating, and normally this is where I would just

1191
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 1: say Dalvin Cook, he's an obvious. Hey, let's move on.

1192
01:04:30,560 --> 01:04:32,640
Speaker 1: But I want to spend a minute talking about the

1193
01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:36,360
Speaker 1: thirty two touches he had, the twenty four touches he had,

1194
01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:40,280
Speaker 1: and the thirty four touches he's had the three weeks

1195
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 1: since coming back from injury, the whole lot of touching,

1196
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:47,960
Speaker 1: and I gotta I gotta wonder if Dalvin Cook will

1197
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:50,840
Speaker 1: be rested a bit in this game, and especially if

1198
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:53,480
Speaker 1: you believe the Vikings are I don't like, like ten

1199
01:04:53,520 --> 01:04:56,720
Speaker 1: point favorites or something, especially if you if the Vikings

1200
01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:58,640
Speaker 1: are going to get ahead in this one, we might

1201
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:00,600
Speaker 1: see a lot of Alexander Mattis sin to try to

1202
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:03,040
Speaker 1: keep some fresh legs for Dalvin Cook, And that part

1203
01:05:03,120 --> 01:05:06,200
Speaker 1: does worry me a little bit. Still, if the Legis

1204
01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:09,000
Speaker 1: do get ahead, he's probably Dalvin Cook's probably already had

1205
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 1: a good game, so you know he's still in a grade.

1206
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:14,720
Speaker 1: But I'm just putting that out there that I think

1207
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:17,200
Speaker 1: there's a snare where they rest him a bit. Dallas

1208
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:20,520
Speaker 1: is allowing one d twenty seven rushing yards per game

1209
01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 1: to running backs, and they've already let three different backs

1210
01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:27,720
Speaker 1: record multiple touchdown games. So Dalvin cooking a if you

1211
01:05:27,760 --> 01:05:30,440
Speaker 1: feel like throwing darts, you could go to Alexander Madison.

1212
01:05:30,520 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 1: But I don't have a starting grade on and I'm

1213
01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:34,640
Speaker 1: gonna guess those three backs that scored multiple touchdowns were

1214
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:36,960
Speaker 1: not as good as Dalvin Well. I don't think from

1215
01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:39,720
Speaker 1: right now, I don't think. I don't think anybody's as

1216
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:41,880
Speaker 1: good as Dalvin Cook. Right now, Let's go to the

1217
01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:45,200
Speaker 1: passing game, Kirk Cousins gets a B grade. Now, Cousins

1218
01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:48,440
Speaker 1: often suffers from these Dalvin heavy game plans, but as

1219
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 1: I just explained, I think they could dial back Dalvin

1220
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:53,080
Speaker 1: and this one a lot to keep him fresh, and

1221
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:55,160
Speaker 1: I think there's an up There's a little upside on

1222
01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:57,920
Speaker 1: Cousins for volume. But even if he doesn't get it,

1223
01:05:58,040 --> 01:06:01,000
Speaker 1: that's the beauty of playing the cow Boys. They give

1224
01:06:01,080 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 1: up big games even without seeing many passes. In recent games,

1225
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, Kyle Allen, and Carson Wentz only through twenty

1226
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 1: seven passes. They all scored two times. What's more, Dallas

1227
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:17,120
Speaker 1: has allowed multiple passing touchdowns in every game since the opener.

1228
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:20,160
Speaker 1: I think Kirk Cousins is sitting on multiple passing touchdowns.

1229
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:21,880
Speaker 1: And if I like Cousins as a B grade, I

1230
01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:25,080
Speaker 1: must like his receivers Adam Theland and Justin Jefferson. They

1231
01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:27,800
Speaker 1: both come in with B grades as well. For Theland,

1232
01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:31,560
Speaker 1: he's become touchdown dependent and this is an ideal matchup.

1233
01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:34,560
Speaker 1: Theland has been Kirk cousins favorite Weds red zone weapon,

1234
01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:38,440
Speaker 1: drawing a team leading fourteen red zone targets. Dallas has

1235
01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:43,440
Speaker 1: allowed sixteen touchdowns to receivers that is the most, including

1236
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:47,560
Speaker 1: allowing multiple receiver scores in three of the past four games,

1237
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:50,440
Speaker 1: and I expect that to happen here as well. Justin

1238
01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:55,040
Speaker 1: Jefferson has it mentioned already already a B grade. Dallas

1239
01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:58,240
Speaker 1: has allowed sixteen touchdowns and receivers, which I just said, um,

1240
01:06:58,440 --> 01:07:01,040
Speaker 1: and I think this is a sellent opportunity for him

1241
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:04,720
Speaker 1: as well. Trayvon Digs is out cornerback. Jefferson has a

1242
01:07:04,880 --> 01:07:09,200
Speaker 1: dream matchup against an inexperienced, undrafted rookie and Savan Smith,

1243
01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:13,520
Speaker 1: who has played just fourteen defensive snaps in the NFL

1244
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:17,240
Speaker 1: against Justin Jefferson. That is a rookie on rookie matchup

1245
01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:22,880
Speaker 1: that heavily favors Justin Jefferson. It is Savory uh irv.

1246
01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:25,800
Speaker 1: Smith is shaping up as a game time decision. If

1247
01:07:25,840 --> 01:07:29,280
Speaker 1: he does not go, you can start Kyle Rudolph. Much

1248
01:07:29,320 --> 01:07:31,920
Speaker 1: like last week, good tight ends are generally faring well

1249
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:33,880
Speaker 1: against Dallas, and if Kyle Rudolph's going to get the

1250
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:36,920
Speaker 1: overwhelming majority of the tight end snaps, he is a

1251
01:07:36,960 --> 01:07:39,560
Speaker 1: guy that you can use. All right, Let's go to

1252
01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:42,360
Speaker 1: our next matchup, which is the Pittsburgh Steelers taking on

1253
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:45,760
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. Scott actually want to start with James

1254
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:48,520
Speaker 1: Conner and this one. He has been stone cold for

1255
01:07:48,640 --> 01:07:51,680
Speaker 1: a month, even in favorable matchups games. Do you think

1256
01:07:51,720 --> 01:07:54,520
Speaker 1: he would do really well bad field conditions where he

1257
01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:56,480
Speaker 1: should be running the whole thing, and none of it's

1258
01:07:56,520 --> 01:07:58,680
Speaker 1: works for James Connor. But here comes to Jags. What

1259
01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:00,800
Speaker 1: do you think you know what is bad? They got

1260
01:08:00,880 --> 01:08:02,800
Speaker 1: up by a couple of scores in the Bengals, didn't

1261
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:06,560
Speaker 1: kept throwing, kept throwing, didn't didn't even care. Gabe Connor

1262
01:08:06,680 --> 01:08:09,480
Speaker 1: nine carries the week before, thirteen carries last week, even

1263
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 1: up big points. They did not care. They just keep throwing.

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Speaker 1: And that's the big problem. I I am giving Connor

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01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:18,760
Speaker 1: a C grade here, but as you alluded to, under

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01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:21,559
Speaker 1: sixty yards in three straight, hasn't had more than three

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01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:24,640
Speaker 1: catches in a game since week three, So he's not

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01:08:24,720 --> 01:08:27,680
Speaker 1: even getting the receiving work. It's all going to. You know,

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01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:30,879
Speaker 1: they're amazing receivers. They just have a ton of options.

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01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:34,120
Speaker 1: Now you think that at some point they're gonna start

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01:08:34,160 --> 01:08:38,120
Speaker 1: switching to Benny Snell Anthony McFarland because James Conner is

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01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:41,479
Speaker 1: getting it done. See I don't know. I mean snow

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01:08:41,600 --> 01:08:44,240
Speaker 1: has six carries in the last two weeks for thirteen yards.

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01:08:44,439 --> 01:08:47,200
Speaker 1: You know it's not I'm just talking future out a whole.

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01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:48,840
Speaker 1: I don't know. There might be there might be a

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01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:51,640
Speaker 1: spot to speculate there. McFarland three for seven yards in

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01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:57,360
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. So I did because he's gonna

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01:08:57,400 --> 01:08:59,920
Speaker 1: get the volume he'll get. He'll get ten to all

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01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:02,240
Speaker 1: thirteen cares. He might get a reception or two. He

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01:09:02,360 --> 01:09:05,800
Speaker 1: might get you fifty sixty yards maybe. So I give

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01:09:05,840 --> 01:09:08,599
Speaker 1: him a C grade here. I'm giving Ben in a grade.

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01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:11,479
Speaker 1: I'm giving Juju in a grade. I'm giving Claypool in

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01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:14,479
Speaker 1: a grade. I'm giving Deonte Johnson in a grade. I

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01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:17,559
Speaker 1: don't even care because, as I said, they just keep

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01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:20,760
Speaker 1: throwing the ball and they keep racking up scores. The

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01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:24,200
Speaker 1: Jags are bottom ten in passing yards and passing touchdowns alone.

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01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:28,280
Speaker 1: Allowed UH Steelers hitting their stride right now. Juju has

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01:09:28,320 --> 01:09:31,200
Speaker 1: averaged over ten targets per week over the last four

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01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:35,120
Speaker 1: UH topping six for sixty seven and scoring in all

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01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:37,719
Speaker 1: scoring in two of them, topping six for sixty seven

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01:09:37,800 --> 01:09:41,879
Speaker 1: in all of them. But most importantly, Scott, it's his birthday.

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01:09:44,320 --> 01:09:47,080
Speaker 1: There you go. Uh. The reason his yardage totals are

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01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:49,840
Speaker 1: the are the low ones though, because Deonta Johnson he's

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01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:52,320
Speaker 1: the deeper guy. Claypool is the deeper guy. Deante Johnson

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01:09:52,439 --> 01:09:56,720
Speaker 1: double digit targets in every full game he's playing. That's

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01:09:57,080 --> 01:10:00,519
Speaker 1: that's the he's played one of those. He has played

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01:10:00,920 --> 01:10:03,880
Speaker 1: four of those. Uh, he has four scores in those

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01:10:03,920 --> 01:10:06,040
Speaker 1: games and at least seventy seven yards in each of

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01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:10,000
Speaker 1: those games. Uh, Claypool, Uh, let's talk about the rushing.

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01:10:10,680 --> 01:10:13,479
Speaker 1: Nine carries and two touch does rushing? Yeah, he's already

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01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:17,000
Speaker 1: like seven right now. James Conner just shaking this fist,

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01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:20,759
Speaker 1: who probably is. Uh, he's running up thirty two targets

1303
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:23,240
Speaker 1: in the last three weeks as well. They're all averaging

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01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:25,920
Speaker 1: ted plus targets a game, three scores in that span.

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01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:28,439
Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm giving all a's. Maybe one of

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01:10:28,479 --> 01:10:30,880
Speaker 1: them turns into B performance. You don't know which one

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01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:33,000
Speaker 1: is gonna blow up, though, and they should all be fine.

1308
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:38,080
Speaker 1: James Washington four touchdown, that would be That would be insane.

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01:10:39,520 --> 01:10:42,360
Speaker 1: On the other side, I'm giving I'm giving a bench

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01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:45,479
Speaker 1: grade to Jake Luton. The Steelers have not allowed a

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01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:48,439
Speaker 1: single top twelve fantasy day from a quarterback. Yet this

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01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:51,519
Speaker 1: year they're getting pressure on the quarterback thirty percent of

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01:10:51,520 --> 01:10:54,599
Speaker 1: the time, they're dialing up a blitz forty two percent

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01:10:54,680 --> 01:10:56,519
Speaker 1: of the time. If they do that on a rookie

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01:10:56,600 --> 01:10:59,439
Speaker 1: quarterback like Luton, I don't have a lot of faith

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01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:01,960
Speaker 1: in what he can do. Uh. They haven't allowed over

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01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:05,840
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty yards passing since Week five either, Uh,

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01:11:06,120 --> 01:11:08,719
Speaker 1: DJ Shark. I'm giving a B grade though, too, because

1319
01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:11,840
Speaker 1: with Luten in, Luton has just lasered in on him

1320
01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 1: seventeen targets in the two in the last two weeks.

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01:11:14,560 --> 01:11:18,360
Speaker 1: Similar size number one receivers against the Steelers have actually

1322
01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:21,280
Speaker 1: had decent days against them, So I think if Luten

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01:11:21,320 --> 01:11:23,400
Speaker 1: gives it enough volume, he could get up to that

1324
01:11:23,560 --> 01:11:26,680
Speaker 1: B grade. I don't think Cole's getting there though. He's

1325
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:29,360
Speaker 1: been a forty to fifty yard guy every week except

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01:11:29,439 --> 01:11:31,799
Speaker 1: for one blow up where he had three huge plays

1327
01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:34,559
Speaker 1: in garbage time. Otherwise he's like a forty yard guy

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01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:36,880
Speaker 1: and you hope for a touchdown. I think it's only

1329
01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 1: about Shark here in the running game. Robinson B grade.

1330
01:11:41,479 --> 01:11:44,200
Speaker 1: I won't sugarcoat it though. It's it's not a great matchup,

1331
01:11:44,640 --> 01:11:51,000
Speaker 1: but Robinson gets of the touches in percentage of work.

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01:11:51,240 --> 01:11:53,439
Speaker 1: The last four Backs to hit fifteen touches against the

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01:11:53,479 --> 01:11:58,360
Speaker 1: Steelers all had seventy plus yards UH, and fifteen touches

1334
01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:02,639
Speaker 1: for Robinson is like, and that's below his floor. He's

1335
01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:04,439
Speaker 1: he's a guy that's more likely to get twenty to

1336
01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:07,479
Speaker 1: twenty five. He gets. He's he's had twenty five or

1337
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:10,200
Speaker 1: more in three straight games. So I gave him the

1338
01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:13,120
Speaker 1: B grade. Rams take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and

1339
01:12:13,200 --> 01:12:17,120
Speaker 1: Brian we all started every part of the Rams passing game.

1340
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:21,800
Speaker 1: Last week in the seemingly obvious matchup against Seattle, we

1341
01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:25,320
Speaker 1: got nothing. Now here comes in in much much tougher

1342
01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:28,479
Speaker 1: test against Tampa Bay. Do we dare go back to

1343
01:12:28,600 --> 01:12:32,960
Speaker 1: Jared goffin company? No? Not, at least not Goff. The

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01:12:33,040 --> 01:12:35,720
Speaker 1: last time Goff flew to Florida, things did not end well.

1345
01:12:36,200 --> 01:12:37,840
Speaker 1: We'll playing across the country and we went to play

1346
01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:40,000
Speaker 1: in Miami. I think he had about four four or

1347
01:12:40,040 --> 01:12:42,880
Speaker 1: five turnovers. And I hate golf in Florida, and I

1348
01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:44,720
Speaker 1: don't like a lot of his pass catchers. The only

1349
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:47,080
Speaker 1: one to truly like his Cooper Cup and give him

1350
01:12:47,120 --> 01:12:48,920
Speaker 1: a b Cup of scene at least seven targets and

1351
01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:51,879
Speaker 1: six of the past seven games, Tampa Bay has surrendered

1352
01:12:51,920 --> 01:12:54,200
Speaker 1: a touchdown from the slot in three of the past

1353
01:12:54,280 --> 01:12:58,680
Speaker 1: four games. Couple see plenty oh Sean Murphy Bunting, who

1354
01:12:58,720 --> 01:13:01,839
Speaker 1: has yielded a total of four scores and is allowing

1355
01:13:01,960 --> 01:13:04,519
Speaker 1: a passer rating of one nine and his coverage that

1356
01:13:04,560 --> 01:13:06,680
Speaker 1: would be for Cup. You made him sound irash when

1357
01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:10,160
Speaker 1: you called him oh Sean. Well, that was kind of

1358
01:13:10,240 --> 01:13:12,080
Speaker 1: what I was going for, but the oh was like

1359
01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:18,559
Speaker 1: plenty of twenty of. But to the other receivers, Robert

1360
01:13:18,560 --> 01:13:20,879
Speaker 1: Woods and Josh Reynolds. I wanted to write a Reynolds

1361
01:13:20,920 --> 01:13:23,680
Speaker 1: wrap this week, but they're both on the bench, so

1362
01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:26,200
Speaker 1: I'll have to save that for later. Woods has seen

1363
01:13:26,320 --> 01:13:29,920
Speaker 1: nine fewer targets then Josh Reynolds over the last three

1364
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:32,560
Speaker 1: games and has failed to reach thirty five yards and

1365
01:13:32,640 --> 01:13:35,560
Speaker 1: three of those past four Robert Woods that is, and

1366
01:13:35,840 --> 01:13:37,640
Speaker 1: over the past five games as a whole. This is

1367
01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:39,920
Speaker 1: a bad matchup for both. The Buccaneers have only allowed

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01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:43,320
Speaker 1: two receivers to top seventy five yards. They'll both base

1369
01:13:43,360 --> 01:13:46,439
Speaker 1: a tricky matchup in Jamal Dean, probably more so Woods,

1370
01:13:46,520 --> 01:13:49,160
Speaker 1: but Dean is uh allowing just thirty one yards per

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01:13:49,240 --> 01:13:52,000
Speaker 1: game and his coverage and is ranked ninth among corners

1372
01:13:52,080 --> 01:13:54,600
Speaker 1: by Pro Football Focus. So Woods and Reynolds are on

1373
01:13:54,640 --> 01:13:56,800
Speaker 1: the bench for me this week, but they're both both

1374
01:13:56,880 --> 01:13:59,320
Speaker 1: should still be rostered, of course. And then Tyler Higby

1375
01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:01,920
Speaker 1: and Gerald writ I had them on the bench as well.

1376
01:14:02,320 --> 01:14:04,519
Speaker 1: H The Bucks have left three tight end touchdowns over

1377
01:14:04,520 --> 01:14:08,160
Speaker 1: the last two games, the likes of Adam Troutman, Josh Hill,

1378
01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:16,200
Speaker 1: and Colin Thompson Carolinas Colin Thompson. But opposing type and

1379
01:14:16,640 --> 01:14:19,439
Speaker 1: opposing tight ends are averaging five catches for fifty plus yards.

1380
01:14:19,479 --> 01:14:21,519
Speaker 1: That's decent, but this is just a coin flip. I

1381
01:14:21,600 --> 01:14:24,400
Speaker 1: want no part of Tyler and Gerald Everett, so they're

1382
01:14:24,400 --> 01:14:26,439
Speaker 1: both on the bench, and all the running backs with

1383
01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:29,320
Speaker 1: their rams on the bench as well. Last week, here's

1384
01:14:29,320 --> 01:14:34,599
Speaker 1: the snapshare breakdown. Malcolm Brown, Darryl Henderson percent Cam Akers

1385
01:14:35,640 --> 01:14:38,240
Speaker 1: and he's the one that got start to Yeah. Acres

1386
01:14:38,320 --> 01:14:41,000
Speaker 1: led the way with ten opportunities and opportunities either a

1387
01:14:41,080 --> 01:14:43,519
Speaker 1: carry or a target. The other two had eight. And

1388
01:14:43,640 --> 01:14:45,840
Speaker 1: this is just a brutal matchup. Tampa Bay ranked second

1389
01:14:45,880 --> 01:14:48,960
Speaker 1: against the run by Football outsiders. Opposing running backs are

1390
01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:51,880
Speaker 1: averaging less than a hundred combo yards per game. That

1391
01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:55,840
Speaker 1: is absolutely insane, rushing receiving yards under a hundred and

1392
01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:57,760
Speaker 1: less than a touchdown per game. So they're both on

1393
01:14:57,840 --> 01:15:00,960
Speaker 1: the bench, uh quickly over the Tampa base Ronald Jones,

1394
01:15:01,200 --> 01:15:03,320
Speaker 1: can you give him a ce? I need to eat

1395
01:15:03,360 --> 01:15:06,320
Speaker 1: some crow here. We're really ragging on Ronald Jones last week.

1396
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:15,160
Speaker 1: Maybe what's our anti our anti peacocks sounds? The barnyard

1397
01:15:15,280 --> 01:15:21,840
Speaker 1: is does a turkey on there, thank you. But Ronald

1398
01:15:21,960 --> 01:15:25,759
Speaker 1: Jones looks to be the Bucks lead back again. Assuming

1399
01:15:25,880 --> 01:15:29,680
Speaker 1: Jones the bulk of touches, which again is never a

1400
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:32,519
Speaker 1: safe assumption in Tampa Bay, He'll have to tough matchup

1401
01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:34,920
Speaker 1: in the Rams. Los Angeles has only allowed five total

1402
01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:37,000
Speaker 1: touchdowns and running backs this year, and since Week four,

1403
01:15:37,439 --> 01:15:40,280
Speaker 1: no loan back has managed to top eighty combo yards

1404
01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:42,840
Speaker 1: against the Ram. So it's just awful matchup for running

1405
01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:45,160
Speaker 1: backs on both sides. But I will give Jones the sea.

1406
01:15:45,520 --> 01:15:47,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bench Mike Evans because I'm gonna assume he

1407
01:15:47,840 --> 01:15:49,880
Speaker 1: sees the most of Jalen Ramsey, which is just the

1408
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:53,639
Speaker 1: hard st anyone who's gonna see the majority of Jalen Ramsey.

1409
01:15:53,680 --> 01:15:55,200
Speaker 1: You gotta benjam. I don't care who they are at

1410
01:15:55,240 --> 01:15:58,040
Speaker 1: this point. Davante Adams maybe, but we'll see if we

1411
01:15:58,080 --> 01:16:03,040
Speaker 1: ever get there. But anyway, that gives UH definitely not

1412
01:16:03,880 --> 01:16:06,600
Speaker 1: that leads me to believe Antonio Brown deserves a C

1413
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:10,720
Speaker 1: target share since uh starting to share punk beds with

1414
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:13,120
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. He should have had a fifty plus yard

1415
01:16:13,200 --> 01:16:16,000
Speaker 1: touchdown last week as well, Brady overthrew him and now

1416
01:16:16,080 --> 01:16:18,559
Speaker 1: now Brown could see an equal amount of Jalen Ramsey here.

1417
01:16:18,600 --> 01:16:20,759
Speaker 1: But I still think h Evans is of the majority

1418
01:16:20,760 --> 01:16:23,200
Speaker 1: of shadow coverage from Ramsey. But on Ahold of the

1419
01:16:23,280 --> 01:16:25,919
Speaker 1: Rams are allowing the fewest yards to opposing wide receivers,

1420
01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:28,439
Speaker 1: just one seven per game, and they haven't allowed a

1421
01:16:28,479 --> 01:16:31,120
Speaker 1: receiver to top seventy yards in the past six So

1422
01:16:31,280 --> 01:16:33,640
Speaker 1: just a CEE for Brown. Chris Godwin is gonn give

1423
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:35,479
Speaker 1: him a C too, but he feels like the safer

1424
01:16:35,600 --> 01:16:39,360
Speaker 1: sea to me. Uh, Godwins has at least six targets

1425
01:16:39,400 --> 01:16:42,200
Speaker 1: in every game. He definitely won't see Jalen Ramsey. Instead,

1426
01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:44,479
Speaker 1: he gets slot corner Troy Hill, who was allowing forty

1427
01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:46,960
Speaker 1: two yards per game and a past rating of ninety

1428
01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:49,519
Speaker 1: five in his coverage. Not amazing numbers, but it's the

1429
01:16:49,560 --> 01:16:52,479
Speaker 1: best you're gonna get. Nobody going out against the Rams. Actually,

1430
01:16:52,520 --> 01:16:54,880
Speaker 1: the best you're gonna get it is probably Rob Gronkowski.

1431
01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:57,439
Speaker 1: Gonna give him a b um a lot of mouse

1432
01:16:57,479 --> 01:17:00,720
Speaker 1: to feed in Tampa Bay, of course, but um, his

1433
01:17:00,920 --> 01:17:04,000
Speaker 1: matchup is with Kenny Young, who allows an catch catch

1434
01:17:04,080 --> 01:17:06,400
Speaker 1: rate and coverage and his Pro Football focus is worst

1435
01:17:06,760 --> 01:17:10,080
Speaker 1: graded tight end defender. So Gronk probably your safest pass

1436
01:17:10,120 --> 01:17:12,639
Speaker 1: catcher this week with a B and because I'm ragging

1437
01:17:12,720 --> 01:17:15,439
Speaker 1: all the past catchers, just a cee for Tom Brady.

1438
01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:19,240
Speaker 1: The Ram secondary has been great, blanked Russell Wilson last week.

1439
01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:24,160
Speaker 1: Non Josh Allen. Quarterbacks have averaged a paltry and Allen

1440
01:17:24,280 --> 01:17:28,360
Speaker 1: six passing touchdowns. Not good, but that list does include

1441
01:17:28,439 --> 01:17:33,200
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, Kyle Allen, Alex Smith hybrid, and Washington Nick

1442
01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:36,920
Speaker 1: Foles to uh, not too impressive. So you're not bentioning Brady,

1443
01:17:37,040 --> 01:17:40,120
Speaker 1: but temporary expectations, all right? That sounds like a very

1444
01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:43,479
Speaker 1: good plan when we come back premature speculation. This is

1445
01:17:43,560 --> 01:17:45,320
Speaker 1: the bit where we give you players you want to

1446
01:17:45,360 --> 01:17:48,040
Speaker 1: pick up now that everybody else is going to be

1447
01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:51,400
Speaker 1: trying to pick up next week, but they're already on

1448
01:17:51,800 --> 01:17:57,160
Speaker 1: your roster because you jumped into the premature speculation. Sounds

1449
01:17:57,240 --> 01:18:00,120
Speaker 1: just like that also from last segment. If you can

1450
01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:02,559
Speaker 1: figure out the natural predator to the peacock, let us

1451
01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:05,160
Speaker 1: know so we can start getting the natural predator to

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01:18:05,240 --> 01:18:07,280
Speaker 1: the peacock on at the button bar here because we

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01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:10,479
Speaker 1: we're a little bit flummixed by that. What what eats

1454
01:18:10,479 --> 01:18:12,920
Speaker 1: a peacock? What doesn't eat a peacock? I don't know

1455
01:18:12,920 --> 01:18:15,800
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna google that right now. I'm nervous about

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01:18:16,840 --> 01:18:21,320
Speaker 1: tiger and mongoose. We didn't want to go the fantasy

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01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:24,559
Speaker 1: mongoose for when we have to anti peacock. That would

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01:18:24,600 --> 01:18:28,559
Speaker 1: be awesome. The fantasy monk Ricky Ticky Tabby coming up

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01:18:28,600 --> 01:18:54,000
Speaker 1: when we come back to Fantasy Final thing in a

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01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:59,960
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly Paul church In, Scott Fish and Brian John.

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01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:03,320
Speaker 1: If you're listening over the air, we are also a podcast.

1462
01:19:03,600 --> 01:19:06,759
Speaker 1: Look for the Fantasy Football Weekly podcast or whatever platform

1463
01:19:06,840 --> 01:19:09,839
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1464
01:19:10,080 --> 01:19:12,960
Speaker 1: and thank you for subscribing, rating and reviewing the show.

1465
01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:15,280
Speaker 1: We always are grateful and we care what you think.

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01:19:15,680 --> 01:19:17,960
Speaker 1: This segment is called premature speculation. We give you three

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01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:19,639
Speaker 1: players to pick up that other people will be trying

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01:19:19,680 --> 01:19:21,799
Speaker 1: to pick up next week. But you're ahead of the game, Scott,

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Speaker 1: you got so I gotta. I got a kind of

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Speaker 1: a weird one here because he's going to be on buy,

1471
01:19:26,960 --> 01:19:29,679
Speaker 1: so I want you to get him before the Weavers

1472
01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:31,479
Speaker 1: after the buy. So I want you to get him

1473
01:19:31,520 --> 01:19:35,880
Speaker 1: now in the next five games. Jordan's Red faces three

1474
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:38,759
Speaker 1: bottom seven teams against tight ends. Two are just middle

1475
01:19:38,760 --> 01:19:40,479
Speaker 1: of the pack and the other two are just middle

1476
01:19:40,479 --> 01:19:42,920
Speaker 1: of the pack. But those teams have govern up nine

1477
01:19:43,040 --> 01:19:46,519
Speaker 1: games of sixty plus and or a touchdown uh combined.

1478
01:19:46,960 --> 01:19:49,840
Speaker 1: Those are the tough matchups. So he's got a greade

1479
01:19:49,880 --> 01:19:52,720
Speaker 1: five games late. Kittle is I would tell December, and

1480
01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:55,519
Speaker 1: if San Francisco gets eliminated, Read might be good to

1481
01:19:55,560 --> 01:19:58,160
Speaker 1: go for the entire season for you. That wouldn't surprise me. Yeah,

1482
01:19:58,280 --> 01:19:59,920
Speaker 1: So go get him now, all right, Jordan Read, I'll

1483
01:19:59,920 --> 01:20:02,439
Speaker 1: like everybody, everybody needs tight end help right now. That's

1484
01:20:02,439 --> 01:20:05,519
Speaker 1: a great angle, Brian, Mine's them a little more of

1485
01:20:05,560 --> 01:20:08,280
Speaker 1: a dynasty angle. But I'm going Autumn Tate wide receiver

1486
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:10,360
Speaker 1: for the Bengals. Now, if something happens to a j Green,

1487
01:20:10,520 --> 01:20:15,400
Speaker 1: which might very well happenings happening right, he's decomposing in

1488
01:20:15,479 --> 01:20:18,280
Speaker 1: front of our eyes. But more importantly, Tee Higgins, uh

1489
01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:21,040
Speaker 1: would would see more targets. But when he does see targets,

1490
01:20:21,360 --> 01:20:25,960
Speaker 1: he's producing. He's got good size, six five pounds and

1491
01:20:26,040 --> 01:20:28,400
Speaker 1: he leads. He's a big boy. Takes a lot of

1492
01:20:28,439 --> 01:20:31,960
Speaker 1: really nice looking catches too. Next year, Tates and Higgins

1493
01:20:32,200 --> 01:20:34,960
Speaker 1: on the boundaries of Boyd running out of the slot

1494
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:37,120
Speaker 1: with Joe Burrow is going to be scary, and Tate,

1495
01:20:37,320 --> 01:20:40,240
Speaker 1: despite his opportunities being limited, does lead the team in

1496
01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:43,240
Speaker 1: yards per pass route run. So when he gets the ball,

1497
01:20:43,320 --> 01:20:45,479
Speaker 1: he makes things happen. So if you've got a dead

1498
01:20:45,560 --> 01:20:48,559
Speaker 1: dynasty team, he's he's a good stash right now. Most

1499
01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:52,200
Speaker 1: of this year's rookie receivers started blowing up right around

1500
01:20:52,240 --> 01:20:54,640
Speaker 1: like week four. You know, they got through what was

1501
01:20:54,880 --> 01:20:57,320
Speaker 1: sort of like their version of the preseason, and you know,

1502
01:20:57,560 --> 01:21:01,960
Speaker 1: right around week four, second round pick Denzel Mims didn't

1503
01:21:01,960 --> 01:21:05,120
Speaker 1: play until three weeks ago. This is week four coming

1504
01:21:05,200 --> 01:21:08,040
Speaker 1: up for Denzel Mims. You may remember from the draft

1505
01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:11,040
Speaker 1: Denzel Mims, he's big, he's physical, he's fast, He's a

1506
01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:15,120
Speaker 1: big play down field threat. In his three games so far,

1507
01:21:15,360 --> 01:21:17,200
Speaker 1: he's been getting a bunch of targets and the Jets

1508
01:21:17,240 --> 01:21:18,639
Speaker 1: are gonna want to work him in for the rest

1509
01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:20,200
Speaker 1: of the season as they try to get some reps

1510
01:21:20,280 --> 01:21:22,439
Speaker 1: for him this year. That will pay off next year

1511
01:21:22,479 --> 01:21:26,120
Speaker 1: with Trevor Lawrence. Game scripts always favored the Jets passing

1512
01:21:26,160 --> 01:21:28,240
Speaker 1: game because they're constantly behind. They're going to be passing

1513
01:21:28,320 --> 01:21:31,200
Speaker 1: throughout and Mims has got a bunch of plus matchups left,

1514
01:21:31,240 --> 01:21:34,479
Speaker 1: including two in the playoffs. He will face Seattle and

1515
01:21:34,640 --> 01:21:38,600
Speaker 1: Cleveland in the Fantasy Playoffs weeks fourteen and sixteen. That

1516
01:21:38,760 --> 01:21:41,360
Speaker 1: might be a flex starter for you in fourteen and sixteen,

1517
01:21:41,600 --> 01:21:45,600
Speaker 1: Denzel Mims, let's get in our final two matchups of

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01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:49,880
Speaker 1: the show, including Kansas City taking on the Raiders. Patrick Mahomes,

1519
01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:53,080
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, Travis Kelsey. All obvious a's and do not

1520
01:21:53,240 --> 01:21:57,360
Speaker 1: require elaboration. They are my third, first, and first ranked

1521
01:21:57,400 --> 01:22:02,400
Speaker 1: players at their respective positions. Clyde Edwards, a layer, clocks

1522
01:22:02,479 --> 01:22:05,160
Speaker 1: in with the C grade. He's at a grand total

1523
01:22:05,439 --> 01:22:08,479
Speaker 1: of Since Bell arrived, he's had a grand total of

1524
01:22:08,560 --> 01:22:13,760
Speaker 1: nineteen carries, a lot even though Bell isn't taking the work,

1525
01:22:13,920 --> 01:22:17,000
Speaker 1: Bell's not getting it, isn't getting any work score in

1526
01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:20,519
Speaker 1: touchdowns now a little bit. Clyde Edwards Laire has posted

1527
01:22:20,640 --> 01:22:24,280
Speaker 1: eighty combo yards and no scores on thirteen touches, and

1528
01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:26,599
Speaker 1: the earlier matchup Agains Las Vegas he had eighty combo

1529
01:22:26,720 --> 01:22:29,080
Speaker 1: yards in and no score. The Raiders haven't allowed it

1530
01:22:29,120 --> 01:22:32,360
Speaker 1: back to top seventy rushing yards in their last six games,

1531
01:22:33,080 --> 01:22:34,640
Speaker 1: so there's just not a lot to like here from

1532
01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:37,400
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards Laire feels like he's sitting on fifties sixty

1533
01:22:37,760 --> 01:22:40,559
Speaker 1: yards and maybe a chance at a touchdown, let's hope.

1534
01:22:40,600 --> 01:22:43,200
Speaker 1: So um Levy on Bells on the bench, as I

1535
01:22:43,280 --> 01:22:46,800
Speaker 1: mentioned before, almost totally unused since his acquisition by Kansas City.

1536
01:22:47,479 --> 01:22:52,560
Speaker 1: Apparently not everybody who leaves Adam Gaze automatically becomes a

1537
01:22:52,600 --> 01:22:56,080
Speaker 1: star player, because Lavia Bell is doing less now with

1538
01:22:56,280 --> 01:22:59,880
Speaker 1: the high the best offense in the NFL. Go figure. Last,

1539
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:03,519
Speaker 1: I want to mention, there's a chance that both Sammy

1540
01:23:03,600 --> 01:23:06,759
Speaker 1: Watkins does not play because of his hamstring and Mikole

1541
01:23:06,840 --> 01:23:10,280
Speaker 1: Hardman doesn't clear the COVID protocol. If both of those

1542
01:23:10,360 --> 01:23:13,519
Speaker 1: things happen, then I think you could throw into Marcus

1543
01:23:13,640 --> 01:23:16,759
Speaker 1: Robinson because he'll be on the field like every snap,

1544
01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:19,719
Speaker 1: so he might be a sneaky play. If both Watkins

1545
01:23:19,800 --> 01:23:22,760
Speaker 1: and Hardman can't go, let's flip over to the Raider's side.

1546
01:23:22,760 --> 01:23:24,479
Speaker 1: We'll start with the running game, which makes sense for

1547
01:23:24,560 --> 01:23:27,960
Speaker 1: this team. Josh Jacobs posted seventy seven yards and two

1548
01:23:28,080 --> 01:23:31,800
Speaker 1: scores against the Chiefs earlier this season in Kansas City

1549
01:23:31,840 --> 01:23:34,360
Speaker 1: is allowing the sixth most rushing yards, and the game

1550
01:23:34,439 --> 01:23:37,840
Speaker 1: script almost certainly involved another run heavy attack in an

1551
01:23:37,880 --> 01:23:39,960
Speaker 1: effort to keep the ball away from Patrick Mahomes. As

1552
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:42,800
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier in the show, John Gruden runs the

1553
01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:46,559
Speaker 1: ball thirty one times per game. Kansas City sees twenty

1554
01:23:46,680 --> 01:23:50,240
Speaker 1: nine rushes per game. You figure Josh Jacobs gets like

1555
01:23:50,439 --> 01:23:53,599
Speaker 1: two thirds of the work. That's twenty touches for Josh

1556
01:23:53,720 --> 01:23:58,240
Speaker 1: Jacobs in. That's an A grade for Josh Jacobs and

1557
01:23:58,479 --> 01:24:00,880
Speaker 1: DeVante Booker was might take at Anthony player with the

1558
01:24:01,000 --> 01:24:04,280
Speaker 1: C grade. All right, let's go to the passing game.

1559
01:24:04,560 --> 01:24:06,799
Speaker 1: Derek Carr comes out of the C grade here. Posted

1560
01:24:06,840 --> 01:24:09,200
Speaker 1: his best game of the year in the earlier meeting,

1561
01:24:09,280 --> 01:24:12,760
Speaker 1: throwing for three hundred forty seven yards and three touchdowns.

1562
01:24:13,200 --> 01:24:16,040
Speaker 1: But that was an absolute anomaly for both Car and

1563
01:24:16,200 --> 01:24:19,759
Speaker 1: the Chiefs against one of the best past defenses. Cars

1564
01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:22,800
Speaker 1: average game in the month since that Kansas City win

1565
01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:26,640
Speaker 1: just one hundred seventy eight yards and one point three touchdowns.

1566
01:24:26,720 --> 01:24:29,360
Speaker 1: That's it. That's the real Derek Car here. He's been

1567
01:24:29,479 --> 01:24:32,240
Speaker 1: under one hundred sixty five yards in three straight games.

1568
01:24:32,760 --> 01:24:35,240
Speaker 1: And for the Chiefs, they've only allowed one hundred eight

1569
01:24:35,360 --> 01:24:38,160
Speaker 1: yards in one touchdown to the rest of the league

1570
01:24:38,200 --> 01:24:40,840
Speaker 1: other than Derek Carr in the previous game. So let's

1571
01:24:40,840 --> 01:24:42,599
Speaker 1: talk about his receivers. If Derek car is a Sea,

1572
01:24:42,600 --> 01:24:45,320
Speaker 1: who do we like? Darren Waller. Good tight ends have

1573
01:24:45,360 --> 01:24:47,840
Speaker 1: gotten it done against the Chiefs Hunter Henry and with

1574
01:24:47,920 --> 01:24:51,040
Speaker 1: the Chargers and Mark Andrews and the Ravens and Noah Fanton.

1575
01:24:51,080 --> 01:24:54,840
Speaker 1: The Broncos tight ends averaged seven catches seventy two yards.

1576
01:24:54,960 --> 01:24:59,519
Speaker 1: Good tight ends get it done here. Waller had five. Sorry,

1577
01:24:59,600 --> 01:25:02,840
Speaker 1: Waller's had at least five catches and sixty yards or

1578
01:25:02,880 --> 01:25:05,719
Speaker 1: a score in each of his last three against the Chiefs,

1579
01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:08,080
Speaker 1: and he did well in the previous matchup this year,

1580
01:25:08,680 --> 01:25:13,240
Speaker 1: everybody else is on the bench. Nelson Aguilar three catches,

1581
01:25:13,479 --> 01:25:17,320
Speaker 1: across his last three games and a bad matchup Henry Ruggs.

1582
01:25:17,560 --> 01:25:20,479
Speaker 1: He had the long bomb touchdown when these teams played

1583
01:25:20,520 --> 01:25:24,320
Speaker 1: each other last time, but he's done nothing else all

1584
01:25:24,479 --> 01:25:28,760
Speaker 1: season besides that one long reception. That's it. He is

1585
01:25:28,840 --> 01:25:32,200
Speaker 1: a low, low volume dart throw at best against a

1586
01:25:32,320 --> 01:25:36,360
Speaker 1: very good secondary a million times already. But just imagine

1587
01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:39,599
Speaker 1: Steedee Lamb or Jerry Judy on the Raiders or Justin

1588
01:25:39,680 --> 01:25:44,559
Speaker 1: Jefferson rookies. They got it wrong. They flat out got

1589
01:25:44,600 --> 01:25:48,479
Speaker 1: it wrong. Our last matchup of the day, Tennessee Titans

1590
01:25:48,600 --> 01:25:52,880
Speaker 1: at the Baltimore Ravens Scott. This has been a sleepy

1591
01:25:53,400 --> 01:25:57,400
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans offense and now they go at Baltimore. This

1592
01:25:57,560 --> 01:25:59,880
Speaker 1: is not a get right spot. It's really not. The

1593
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:03,960
Speaker 1: Evens have only allowed five passing touchdowns since Week three.

1594
01:26:04,560 --> 01:26:07,640
Speaker 1: That's not many. Week four is the last time a

1595
01:26:07,720 --> 01:26:11,680
Speaker 1: QB through for more than two thirty yards against them. Conversely,

1596
01:26:12,080 --> 01:26:14,920
Speaker 1: Tannehill's best yardage day in the last four weeks the

1597
01:26:15,040 --> 01:26:18,519
Speaker 1: sleep before week run two or thirty three yards. It's

1598
01:26:18,600 --> 01:26:21,160
Speaker 1: they're just really off. It's a tough draw. I have

1599
01:26:21,200 --> 01:26:24,519
Speaker 1: Tannehill on the bench. I actually have the whole passing

1600
01:26:24,600 --> 01:26:27,280
Speaker 1: game except A. J. Brown on the bench. Sorry about John,

1601
01:26:27,320 --> 01:26:29,720
Speaker 1: who I I just know I'm with you. John is

1602
01:26:29,760 --> 01:26:33,320
Speaker 1: not startable to eight catches since week five? John, John,

1603
01:26:33,600 --> 01:26:37,360
Speaker 1: Yeah John and JOHNU uh A J. Brown? Though he's

1604
01:26:37,400 --> 01:26:39,360
Speaker 1: just too good not to start. He had a terrible

1605
01:26:39,439 --> 01:26:41,760
Speaker 1: leak week last week, but he has scored in five

1606
01:26:41,840 --> 01:26:45,080
Speaker 1: straight prior to that. He has he's getting seven targets

1607
01:26:45,160 --> 01:26:48,000
Speaker 1: per game. Even in a tough matchup. If he's getting seven,

1608
01:26:48,080 --> 01:26:51,320
Speaker 1: eight nine targets, he might be able to get something done.

1609
01:26:51,400 --> 01:26:54,160
Speaker 1: And they gotta they gotta pass somewhere. So uh A

1610
01:26:54,280 --> 01:26:57,040
Speaker 1: J A J. Brown. I do have a soft be

1611
01:26:57,400 --> 01:27:01,120
Speaker 1: on Derrick Henry A grade for Derek Henry. There isn't

1612
01:27:01,160 --> 01:27:04,360
Speaker 1: benching Henry anyway. Uh. He scores most weeks, hits a

1613
01:27:04,400 --> 01:27:06,800
Speaker 1: hundred most of the time. Ravens have been good against

1614
01:27:06,880 --> 01:27:09,200
Speaker 1: running backs, but David Damian Harris just at a hundred

1615
01:27:09,200 --> 01:27:11,719
Speaker 1: and twenty two yards and and he's a big bowler

1616
01:27:11,800 --> 01:27:13,960
Speaker 1: of a running back. Henry is a little bit bigger

1617
01:27:14,000 --> 01:27:15,760
Speaker 1: and a little bit a little bit more of a

1618
01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:19,559
Speaker 1: bowler than him. Also, Clais Campbell and Brandon Brandon Williams

1619
01:27:19,720 --> 01:27:22,800
Speaker 1: might be missing from that interior defensive line if they

1620
01:27:22,840 --> 01:27:26,400
Speaker 1: are more for Henry On the other side, Lamar Jackson,

1621
01:27:26,840 --> 01:27:30,920
Speaker 1: Tennessee is bottom five against quarterbacks, but Lamar Jackson only

1622
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:34,840
Speaker 1: has two games with more than passing yards. He gets

1623
01:27:34,880 --> 01:27:38,439
Speaker 1: it done on the ground now. In his first five

1624
01:27:38,479 --> 01:27:41,000
Speaker 1: games he only had forty two rushes. He's got forty

1625
01:27:41,040 --> 01:27:43,679
Speaker 1: in his last three a round alone. He's he's starting

1626
01:27:43,760 --> 01:27:46,439
Speaker 1: to ramp up that rushing again. I'm still giving him

1627
01:27:46,439 --> 01:27:48,680
Speaker 1: an A grade. It's a bottom five pass defense, so

1628
01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:51,280
Speaker 1: he might be a little more prolific there and he's

1629
01:27:51,320 --> 01:27:55,880
Speaker 1: getting the rushing at least recently. Willie Sneed and uh

1630
01:27:56,320 --> 01:27:59,320
Speaker 1: and Marquis Brown, this is a matchup call. The Titans

1631
01:27:59,360 --> 01:28:02,599
Speaker 1: are bottom five against wide receivers. They've allowed nineteen different

1632
01:28:02,640 --> 01:28:05,879
Speaker 1: wide receivers to top fifty yards. That's sea level production.

1633
01:28:06,040 --> 01:28:07,840
Speaker 1: And the Titans are the worst team in the league

1634
01:28:07,840 --> 01:28:10,400
Speaker 1: against slot receivers, which is good for Sneed. So I

1635
01:28:10,439 --> 01:28:13,200
Speaker 1: have SEA grades on both of them. Mark Andrews gets

1636
01:28:13,200 --> 01:28:15,599
Speaker 1: an A grade, obviously a grade for me. Boil out

1637
01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:17,840
Speaker 1: for the season. And you are not touching those running

1638
01:28:17,840 --> 01:28:21,080
Speaker 1: backs with that split. No, Unfortunately, you can't use any

1639
01:28:21,160 --> 01:28:24,280
Speaker 1: of those running backs right now. We um when Ingram

1640
01:28:24,360 --> 01:28:25,839
Speaker 1: was out you you know, it gave you a glimmer

1641
01:28:25,920 --> 01:28:29,439
Speaker 1: hope for using Gus Edwards and j K both you know,

1642
01:28:29,560 --> 01:28:32,320
Speaker 1: but immediately Ingram comes back. Last week they split it

1643
01:28:32,400 --> 01:28:35,120
Speaker 1: up three ways and now they're all unusual. I can

1644
01:28:35,240 --> 01:28:38,679
Speaker 1: only hope next year we've got a little more clarity

1645
01:28:38,720 --> 01:28:41,160
Speaker 1: and frankly, one less guy in that backfield for us

1646
01:28:41,240 --> 01:28:43,479
Speaker 1: to worry about exactly. If you miss any part of

1647
01:28:43,479 --> 01:28:45,920
Speaker 1: the show, you get all my player rankings available at

1648
01:28:45,960 --> 01:28:49,320
Speaker 1: Guillotine leagues dot com. We encourage you to go there

1649
01:28:49,439 --> 01:28:51,599
Speaker 1: for that. Also, if you missed any part of the show,

1650
01:28:51,600 --> 01:28:53,880
Speaker 1: you can also read listen to the entire thing on

1651
01:28:53,960 --> 01:28:57,080
Speaker 1: the podcast version of Fantasy Football Weekly. Good luck in

1652
01:28:57,320 --> 01:28:59,760
Speaker 1: week number eleven, everybody, We'll talk to you next week,

1653
01:28:59,800 --> 01:29:04,519
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01:29:04,760 --> 01:29:07,439
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