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Speaker 1: Paul Churchy and your host. My co host today are
Speaker 1: Scott Fish and Brian Johnson. I've never met this guy
Speaker 1: before and it's been a while. It has been a
Speaker 1: long time first or something for you two to be together. Okay, man,
Speaker 1: that's going back a ways. Holy cow. You know back
Speaker 1: then John ou Smith was good. Um, you know there
Speaker 1: was all the running backs are healthy. It was a
Speaker 1: whole different landscape that Christian McCaffrey still still was a
Speaker 1: great pick. Now it's Dan Arnold's time. There is touchdown
Speaker 1: on Thursday night is upon us. Yes, exactly, exactly. Plenty
Speaker 1: to get you over the course of the show, will
Speaker 1: break down every matchup fantasy style letter grades on all
Speaker 1: the meaningful players. Will give you nine players upon whom
Speaker 1: you can take a chance. We'll give you three tough
Speaker 1: questions to ponder, and of course premature speculation. Look my
Speaker 1: track record on premature speculation has been spotty this year,
Speaker 1: but last week DeAndre Booker and I thought about using
Speaker 1: again this week, but decided that was too easy. It
Speaker 1: was just the revenge game, that's all. It was the
Speaker 1: revenge game maybe, so um, let's get Let's dive right
Speaker 1: into the matchups, beginning with the Detroit Lions taking on
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. Scott, it looks increasingly like DeAndre Swift
Speaker 1: will not play this game. Him and have both been
Speaker 1: ruled out now, so Marvin Jones is limited in practice too,
Speaker 1: and Matthew Stafford's got thumb injury. So it's it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a little bit of a rough one there. I
Speaker 1: still have the C grade on Stafford. Caroline has been
Speaker 1: destroyed the last couple of weeks through the air. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a situation where I think he can
Speaker 1: get some deep balls off to Marvin Jones and Marvin Hall,
Speaker 1: the two Marvin's as you talked about the other week. Uh.
Speaker 1: And Hockinson has been incredibly consistent this year all but
Speaker 1: one week. He had fifty yards and or a score
Speaker 1: in all but one week. So I have an A
Speaker 1: grade on Hockinson. I think he's gonna have to lean
Speaker 1: on Hockinson more with Golladay out. Both Jones and Hall
Speaker 1: because Golladay's out, I've upped them to see grades. Marvin
Speaker 1: Hall is averaging well over twenty yards per reception, so
Speaker 1: it only takes a couple of them and there's gonna
Speaker 1: be targets to go around. Uh Amndola also out, so
Speaker 1: that means Jones and Hall are going to be on
Speaker 1: the field the entire time. That's why they both get
Speaker 1: C grades. DeAndre Swift would have been an A grade
Speaker 1: with a smash spot. Yes, he was in my top
Speaker 1: five earlier in the week. Is there any chance the
Speaker 1: Lions bring back Drew Peacock would be the best? They
Speaker 1: need a Drew Peacock in their lineup? They do, and
Speaker 1: that's if not now when so Adrian Peterson has that
Speaker 1: was that was a terrible by transition. But I just
Speaker 1: got back to work just right. I'm sorry, I can
Speaker 1: no way to improve alright. Yeah, for the Panthers of
Speaker 1: the fourth worst against fantasy running backs, so it was
Speaker 1: a great spot. Peterson and carry On are going to share.
Speaker 1: But Peterson has gotten more touches and more snaps and
Speaker 1: carry On every week. That they've played together. So I
Speaker 1: am giving Peterson the B grade and I'm benching carry on.
Speaker 1: I just don't trust that he's gonna get enough work.
Speaker 1: He could, But do you want to try? I really don't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's such a nice matchup for Peterson. It is.
Speaker 1: I would not be surprised if you finished eight yards
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns. Yeah, their bottom five in in rushing yard,
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns, and yards allowed. I think they've allowed like
Speaker 1: nine touchdowns to running backs and last like five weeks
Speaker 1: or carry on. Carry on, Jesus, no, I'm can We're
Speaker 1: making it worse. You're taking a hole for yourself. Right now,
Speaker 1: they're still not on the other side, they're still not
Speaker 1: ruling out Bridgewater. If p. J. Walker is the starter,
Speaker 1: he might get a good amount of rushing yards to
Speaker 1: maybe be a dart throw. But I have them both
Speaker 1: on the bench just because you don't know. At this point,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do the cop out that Matt did
Speaker 1: with the Petsburgh Steelers wide receivers a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and I'm giving all three wide receivers for Carolina Panthers
Speaker 1: C grades. Oh, I know you hate it. DJ Moore
Speaker 1: his top fifty five yards in in all but one game.
Speaker 1: He gets fifty plus yards every single week, three four
Speaker 1: five catches. That's solid enough for a SEA grade. Curtis
Speaker 1: Samuel had a down week last week, but he's had
Speaker 1: fifty total yards in six of his seven games. Like,
Speaker 1: we're talking about guys that are going to get you
Speaker 1: three four receptions, fifty plus yards. Maybe they get us
Speaker 1: or that's Sea level production. And it sounds like we've
Speaker 1: got to a point with Curtis Samuel where you can
Speaker 1: count on Russia. Last week it was a little bit
Speaker 1: of a dog in the red zone too. Inside the tea,
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson started the league this season off really hot.
Speaker 1: He's been weekly, you know, just week or later. But
Speaker 1: he's still top five in yards, catches, and targets in
Speaker 1: the NFL, which is which is pretty crazy. And a
Speaker 1: step I I heard this week is that most of
Speaker 1: his yards and catches and have come against man coverage,
Speaker 1: and that's what the Lions mostly play and Bridgewater's best
Speaker 1: games are against man coverage. So if Bridgewater does go,
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson, even though I gave a C grade, is
Speaker 1: probably the one of the three you want because that's
Speaker 1: the type of that's the type of defense that he
Speaker 1: excels against. Mike Davis, I have an A grade against
Speaker 1: against the Lions here. This is the Lions are the
Speaker 1: worst in the NFL against fantasy running backs. Davis is
Speaker 1: a good pass catcher. Lions have allowed the most receiving yards,
Speaker 1: most receiving touchdowns over the last five weeks to running backs.
Speaker 1: On the ground, they're no not much better most rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns six, most rushing yards and if if p J.
Speaker 1: Walker does start, rushing quarterbacks have opened stuff up for
Speaker 1: running backs. It's just what they do. Happen. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: Mike Davis, I gave an a grade to unless you're
Speaker 1: care unless you're Kenyan Drake, at which point there there's
Speaker 1: no such thing as a as a good enough rushing
Speaker 1: quarterback apparently to open things up for him. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Miami taking on Denver Brian for the Dolphins. We've
Speaker 1: got a lot of moving parts here, injuries at wide
Speaker 1: receiver and running back. We've got two at the at
Speaker 1: the helm. What are your thoughts on this offense as
Speaker 1: they faced the Broncos. Let's start at the running back
Speaker 1: position for Miami, because we've got a Bell cow on
Speaker 1: our hands and Salivin Akhmed Jordan Howard is gown. Matt
Speaker 1: Brady spends more time in the blue tend than on
Speaker 1: the gridiron, and we'll see Ahmed operating his Miami's bell
Speaker 1: cow once again. And he scored from the one yard
Speaker 1: line last week. He's not a between the twenties pony here.
Speaker 1: So Denver's d rundy has been very leaky over the
Speaker 1: last three weeks too. They've allowed one rushing yards per
Speaker 1: game to opposing back to go to go along with
Speaker 1: five ground scores. They've also allowed more than five catches
Speaker 1: per game to the position. Patrick Layard and DeAndre Washington
Speaker 1: might steal some third down work, but a very safe
Speaker 1: b for Salvin Achmed uh be for Davante Parker as well.
Speaker 1: He hasn't posted big numbers with two at quarterback, but
Speaker 1: his air yard shares have risen each week since two.
Speaker 1: It took over from eighteen percent to thirty one percent
Speaker 1: to thirty seven percent last week. The Broncos held Raiders
Speaker 1: wide receivers scoreless last week. That's not hard to do,
Speaker 1: but before that, Denver surrendered six wide receiver touchdowns over
Speaker 1: their last three games. Uh Denver's top corner A J.
Speaker 1: Booyer might not play as well. He's questionable with the
Speaker 1: hip injury, so be for Parker with a upside, and
Speaker 1: I want to give the seed to Jachim. Grant was
Speaker 1: on the field. I'm really interested in Grant. Jackim the
Speaker 1: dream And there's a great daily angle which I was
Speaker 1: trying to give my followers last week and it almost
Speaker 1: came through. But played in more than seventy percent the
Speaker 1: snaps last week and he returned kicks. So if you
Speaker 1: play a cheap wide receiver like Grant, we can produce
Speaker 1: on the field. And Miami's got a very viable team
Speaker 1: defense play this week and if he returns to kick,
Speaker 1: you get the double bonus points there. So if you're
Speaker 1: a daily player, that's some stage advice for you. Uh,
Speaker 1: some more stage advices Benching Mike GISSICKI. Yes, he put
Speaker 1: together consecutive games with more than one catch for the
Speaker 1: first time since weeks one and two. That's where the
Speaker 1: bar is right now with catch totals of two and three.
Speaker 1: And this is a brutal matchup. Only one opposing tight
Speaker 1: end is cracked fifty yards against Denver, who also has
Speaker 1: not allowed a tight end touchdown since week one on
Speaker 1: benching GISICKI, did you know dermis smite has played over
Speaker 1: him to our last three weeks? Unbelievable this is and
Speaker 1: then Adam is the thing too that's always threatening, Ghisicki. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's fallen off the wayside. I'm on the fence with
Speaker 1: two a tongueo violoa. I'll put him on the bench. Though.
Speaker 1: He does have two passing touchdowns and back to back
Speaker 1: games with at least six rush attempts in each of
Speaker 1: those games, but he hasn't hit thirty pass attempts yet.
Speaker 1: He's the sound of volume there to trust him in
Speaker 1: standard formats for me, So bench or two U over
Speaker 1: to the Denver side. Not a lot to love here,
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon a very soft Sea, only averaging eleven touches
Speaker 1: over the last three weeks. Miami is not allowed back
Speaker 1: to top ninety rushing yards in their last twelve games
Speaker 1: and has held the positions scoreless and four straight. So
Speaker 1: you're getting a little bit of volume from Gordon, but
Speaker 1: I don't expect much. Did you consider instead of a
Speaker 1: soft Sea giving him a strong D or a hard D. No,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he didn't because we don't use d S.
Speaker 1: I would never do such a thing Scott never ever, ever,
Speaker 1: and I would never play Philip Lindsay at least not
Speaker 1: right now. Four carries for two yards of one target.
Speaker 1: Last week, he's on the bench. Jerry Judy uh see
Speaker 1: for him. Played through a shoulder injury last week. Looks
Speaker 1: like I will play through an ankle issue that has
Speaker 1: limited in practice this week. But he has commanded a
Speaker 1: target share of nearly over the last three weeks, so
Speaker 1: you have to start him. If he suits up, he
Speaker 1: will see a lot of his Avien Howard probably, but
Speaker 1: Howard has surrendered his score in two of his last
Speaker 1: three games, so I'm still starting Judy. I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: Tim Patrick as well, giving him a see. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: only allowed twenty points game on a whole, but wide
Speaker 1: receiver has had have had success against Miami over the
Speaker 1: last three weeks, surrendering three touchdowns to the position in
Speaker 1: two one hundred yard performances. Patrick has a very safe
Speaker 1: PPR floor. He scored double digit PPR points in five
Speaker 1: of his last six games, including three touchdowns in that span.
Speaker 1: Noah fant Uh last player with a starting grade. He
Speaker 1: gets a C he's pretty banged up, but should play.
Speaker 1: Hasn't delivered a score or a fifty yard game since
Speaker 1: Week two. But the and and not but and the
Speaker 1: Dolphins have allowed the ninth views receptions and fourth view
Speaker 1: as yards to opposing tight ends. So that's not good.
Speaker 1: But you're hoping for a score here. Miami has given
Speaker 1: up three touchdowns to opposing tight ends over the last
Speaker 1: two games. And then Drew Lock, No, young, jeez, this
Speaker 1: week he's on the bench, and I gotta leave us
Speaker 1: with this quote on this matchup. Drew Lock on his
Speaker 1: bad plays quote. Half the time, right as the ball
Speaker 1: leaves my hand, I'm like, oh no, half the time.
Speaker 1: You don't want to hear that. Your half of your
Speaker 1: quarterbacks passes he instantly knows are in trouble. No, this week, no,
Speaker 1: I'm afraid not. Philadelphia takes on Cleveland. This will be
Speaker 1: our last matchup of this segment. Let's start with the
Speaker 1: running game in Miles Sanders. In his four full games,
Speaker 1: Sanders has averaged sixteen rushes. Each of the backs who
Speaker 1: have hit sixteen rushes against Cleveland have topped one hundred yards.
Speaker 1: Sanders is averaging five targets per game in the last
Speaker 1: two opposing backs. That's off five targets per game combined
Speaker 1: for a hundred thirty yards in a touchdown. He's got
Speaker 1: to start catching him. Fourteen catches on thirty targets is
Speaker 1: not good. Well, but you know what, in that offense,
Speaker 1: it's probably much more on. Carson Wentz has been tremendously
Speaker 1: inaccurate so far this year. Pressure, a ton of pressure.
Speaker 1: So let's go right, let's go right to Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: I love that Wentz has got all of his available targets,
Speaker 1: but it hasn't changed his horrible protection. He is constantly
Speaker 1: being harassed. Wentz his bottom four in sacks and hits
Speaker 1: absorbed per Pro Football Focus, or you top four if
Speaker 1: you're getting the most, get top top, but tops usually
Speaker 1: good if you're the tops of something. So when either way,
Speaker 1: he's getting hit and sacked a lot. Now, Fortunately Cleveland
Speaker 1: star defensive end Miles Garrett is out for this game,
Speaker 1: so maybe WinCE gets a cleaner pocket here, puts things together.
Speaker 1: That would be nice. Now, Cleveland's had their last two games,
Speaker 1: the last three weeks have been monsoon, bye week, monsoon,
Speaker 1: so we really don't have an accurate reado where this
Speaker 1: defense is right now, but maybe they'll treat it like
Speaker 1: a bye week with that. Maybe prior to those two
Speaker 1: Bonsoon games in the bye week, they had allowed three
Speaker 1: to four passing touchdowns to half of the opposing quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Once got some nice upside here. I'm gonna give him
Speaker 1: a C grade in this matchup. Let's talk about its
Speaker 1: receivers a little bit. Jalen Reagor gets a B grade.
Speaker 1: Remove removing the past two games where there was all
Speaker 1: the wind and everything else in Cleveland. The monsoon games,
Speaker 1: they had been averaging two yards per game to receivers,
Speaker 1: which was third most. And since returning from injury, Jalen
Speaker 1: Reagor has led Ladelphia and targets, and last week he
Speaker 1: led the team with ninety six air yards. I think
Speaker 1: they're starting to my great towards Jalen Reagor. He is good.
Speaker 1: He's not as good as Justin Jefferson who was taken
Speaker 1: after him, but he's good. And next, Travis Fulgan moves
Speaker 1: down to a C grade here. He had been very
Speaker 1: reliable when everybody else was hurt, but now that they're
Speaker 1: all back, Fulgan fell off the face of the earth
Speaker 1: last week. One catch his usual safe floor is gone here.
Speaker 1: He runs from both sides of the field and is
Speaker 1: generally outmatched by both of Cleveland's quarterbacks, cornerbacks Terrence Mitchell
Speaker 1: and Denzel Ward. Let's go to Dallas Goddard, who is
Speaker 1: uh depressingly not produced with zach ertz out. I really
Speaker 1: thought with Earth's out that Goddard was gonna go like
Speaker 1: into tighten one territory. They need to be pushing each
Speaker 1: other in the lineup. I guess, right, maybe, I guess.
Speaker 1: The Browns have allowed the fifth most receptions to opposing
Speaker 1: tight ends, but most of the damage was done earlier
Speaker 1: in the season. They haven't done much lately. They've given
Speaker 1: up just one score and one fifty yard game over
Speaker 1: the last five weeks, including shutting down Darren Waller and
Speaker 1: Eric Ebron over that stretch. All right, let's go over
Speaker 1: to the Cleveland side. We begin with Austin Hooper. He's
Speaker 1: got an opportunity, which is odd to start with the
Speaker 1: tight end, but am he's got an opportunity to start
Speaker 1: to get back to his pre Appendix surgery form against
Speaker 1: a soft Eagles back seven. Philadelphia is allowing the fourth
Speaker 1: most receptions and touchdowns as well as the ninth most
Speaker 1: yards to opposing tight ends. They've been using Jalen Mills
Speaker 1: to cover tight ends in man looks lately, and Hooper's
Speaker 1: sixty pounds heavier than the former cornerback. So if Jalen
Speaker 1: Mills ends up lining up against Hooper, that is a mismatch.
Speaker 1: And I like Hooper and I start with him because
Speaker 1: he's got the highest grade of any of the receivers here.
Speaker 1: I will talk about Baker Mayfield in just a few
Speaker 1: minutes as well. Kareem uh see the receivers. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Jarvis Landry still scoreless on the season and has
Speaker 1: been held under sixty yards and seven of nine games,
Speaker 1: but he's set to face Philadelphia slack cornerback Cravan le Blanc,
Speaker 1: who's been generous to his opposition. Lebron yields a one
Speaker 1: fourteen passer rating and is allowing catch rate. So even
Speaker 1: though the Eagles secondary surrendered the third fewest touchdowns opposing receivers,
Speaker 1: Landry's got a positive match up here and this could
Speaker 1: be the one where he finally breaks his touchdown made
Speaker 1: in Plus, he's had like a targets here in the
Speaker 1: last three three weeks in a row. He break his
Speaker 1: touchdown maiden. Yeah like that? Do there? You go? Richard
Speaker 1: Higgins is a startable commodity this week. He's the only
Speaker 1: other wide out who gets targeted really at all in
Speaker 1: this offense. Anytime he lines up on the left side
Speaker 1: of the field, he's got a very positive matchup against
Speaker 1: cornerback and Vante Maddox, who Pro Football Focus ranks as
Speaker 1: cornerback one eleven. And Maddox yields five inches and twenty
Speaker 1: pounds to Higgins. So I kind of like Higgins is
Speaker 1: a dart throw in this one. And then let's go
Speaker 1: to the running backs and we'll wrap this up. Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb has one hundred plus rushing yards in each of
Speaker 1: his last three full games, but the Goals have not
Speaker 1: a lot of back more than sixty three rushing yards
Speaker 1: in their last seven straight and just one back has
Speaker 1: gone over ninety two yards in the Eagles last twenty
Speaker 1: eight games. That's incredibly impressive run defense. They're giving up
Speaker 1: just three point three yards per carry game. Script could
Speaker 1: be a problem for the as the Eagles are are
Speaker 1: far easier to pass upon than run. So I'm nervous
Speaker 1: about Nick Chubb and he drops to a B grade here.
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt is um has maintained all pretty much all
Speaker 1: of his workload with Chubb back. In Chubb's four full games,
Speaker 1: Hunt his average fifteen carries for seventy seven yards, which
Speaker 1: is exactly what he was doing without Chubb. But again,
Speaker 1: tough matchup against a terrific run defense. And mysteriously Hunt
Speaker 1: has not been using the passising game, which I don't understand.
Speaker 1: He's an incredibly gifted pass catcher. He's scored though. He
Speaker 1: like when they target him, he produces, but don't target him.
Speaker 1: They don't target him. It's it's baffling. They need to
Speaker 1: unfurl that sooner or later. Uh. The Eagles have allowed
Speaker 1: just two receiving touchdowns to running back in their last
Speaker 1: twenty six games. So it's not happening this week. And
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt is just a C grade, all right? When
Speaker 1: we come back, take a chance on me. These are
Speaker 1: nine players not normally in your starting lineup. Many of
Speaker 1: these guys are on the waiver wire. We've got some
Speaker 1: deep calls this week, and there are a lot of
Speaker 1: guys on the waiver wire. We'll tell you who they
Speaker 1: are when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the show Fantasy Football Weekly, Scott Fish and
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson with you. It's a segment we call take
Speaker 1: a chance on me. We give you a player at
Speaker 1: each position we believe you should take a chance on,
Speaker 1: and we begin at the quarterback position. Scott, I am
Speaker 1: gonna go with Taysom Hill. I know that you can
Speaker 1: play him a tight end in some silly places, but
Speaker 1: come on, he gets the Falcons. They've allowed eight three
Speaker 1: plus yard passing days, six multi touchdown games. I don't
Speaker 1: expect him to be a huge pastor if he does
Speaker 1: get the start, but if he's gonna have to pass,
Speaker 1: it might as well be against an easy past defense.
Speaker 1: What I do like is his rushing ability. It's shown
Speaker 1: good floors for for fantasy quarterbacks. He has seven yards
Speaker 1: per carry over the last three and the fact of
Speaker 1: the average is that in in that last three games,
Speaker 1: says to me, if he gets the ball, and he's
Speaker 1: averaging seven carries per game also over the last three,
Speaker 1: so if he gets seven to ten carries and some
Speaker 1: passing yards, he's an okay take on. Okay, I like it.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about his his position eligibility in some
Speaker 1: leagues later in the show, thee there and there isn't
Speaker 1: There is an issue there, and my phone is blown
Speaker 1: up with people that want guidance on this. Uh all right, Brian,
Speaker 1: your take a chance. And the quarterback is Joe Flacco
Speaker 1: at the Chargers. He's a Black Leagues flack at lack.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to say that flack at lack. But
Speaker 1: the Chargers are one of twelve teams with an opponent
Speaker 1: passing play percentage north of sixty percent. They've also surrendered
Speaker 1: multiple touchdown passes and five of their last six games,
Speaker 1: and with a suddenly somewhat dangerous trio wide receivers in
Speaker 1: New York now with Crowder Perriman and MEM's, Flacco has
Speaker 1: looked pretty good, especially his last game out when he
Speaker 1: had to sixty two passing and three touchdowns against the Patriots.
Speaker 1: The return of starting left tackle McKay Beckton has been huge,
Speaker 1: and Flacco's airing it out. He leads the NFL in
Speaker 1: most air yards per attempts at nine point five. He's
Speaker 1: the third lowest and checkdown percentage among all quarterbacks. I
Speaker 1: do not trust the run game for the Jets, and
Speaker 1: they'll be playing from behind. Joe Flacco's gonna win someone
Speaker 1: a million dollars this weekend. I hope it's me. Okay,
Speaker 1: I might take a chance to be quarterback. Is Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield who I alluded to last segment. It's tough to
Speaker 1: evaluate the O b J. Liss Brown's offense when they've
Speaker 1: had a bye week in two months soon since his injury.
Speaker 1: But in Baker Mayfield's last normal game, Week seven, when
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham got knocked out very early, Mayfield still piled
Speaker 1: up five touchdowns without Odell Beckham, So he's got some
Speaker 1: sneaky upside against a Philadelphia secondary that looks good on paper,
Speaker 1: but it's seen very few good passers. If we take
Speaker 1: away Philadelphia's games against Daniel Jones, Daniel Jones, Bend Nucci,
Speaker 1: C J. Bethard, Nick Mullins, and Dwayne haskins Man, that's
Speaker 1: a lot of bad quarterbacks. The Eagles are allowing two
Speaker 1: fifty one yards and two and a half touchdown passes
Speaker 1: per game. The Eagles are a fantastic run defense, and
Speaker 1: the path of least resistance runs through Baker Mayfield's arm.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the running back position. Who's your taking chance?
Speaker 1: I mean, runner, Scott, I am going a little deeper
Speaker 1: here with a backup Rex Burkhead. Uh. He plays against
Speaker 1: the Texans who have allowed the second running back, the
Speaker 1: backup running back to average well over fifty yards per game.
Speaker 1: That's how many yards they give give up rack backs.
Speaker 1: The backups are getting over fifty yards per game. Birkhead
Speaker 1: is getting a bunch of goal line work. Has three
Speaker 1: touchdowns the last two games. He's getting the goal line
Speaker 1: work when Cam Newton doesn't. Basically, Uh, he is now
Speaker 1: playing thirty more snaps than James White over the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. James w has kind of disappeared in
Speaker 1: that offense. Yeah, he's gone straight Casper on that and
Speaker 1: Birkhead's had eight targets in the last two games. He's
Speaker 1: getting those targets. So I got Rex Burkhead. All right, Brian,
Speaker 1: you take a chance for me runner. It's come to
Speaker 1: this for Jonathan Taylor, has he take He's take a
Speaker 1: chance worthy as I was thinking using Klein balage, but
Speaker 1: that's too obvious these days. Taylor get contrarian with everyone's
Speaker 1: favorite rookie nup from not long ago. But u niheem
Speaker 1: Heinz technically the starter now for the FLTs. But the
Speaker 1: Colts will look to run the ball as much as
Speaker 1: possible against the Packers, keep Aaron Rodgers and company off
Speaker 1: the field for as long as they can. And yes,
Speaker 1: Taylor only handled of the running back touches for the
Speaker 1: Colts in the last game, but in his eight game career,
Speaker 1: his illustrous eight game career Jonathan Taylor here, he has
Speaker 1: more double digit carry games at nih Hinz or Jordan
Speaker 1: Wilkins and both of their respective careers. So there's a
Speaker 1: good chance he leads the team and carries against the Packers,
Speaker 1: who have allowed these second most fantasy points to running
Speaker 1: backs and have been especially bad since the week five
Speaker 1: by So now we're never Jonathan Taylor. It's like dropable
Speaker 1: in redraft formats. If it's not this week, you could
Speaker 1: almost start Taylor just on the fact that he's gotten
Speaker 1: so little used the last couple of weeks. He's fresh.
Speaker 1: Now that seems to be like when the guys pop
Speaker 1: out of the Indianapolis rotation of backs, it's inexplicable. Might
Speaker 1: take a chance of me. Running back is Devonte Booker.
Speaker 1: Now you might be saying, where was that last week?
Speaker 1: While we did talk about him last week, So take
Speaker 1: that he's averaging six yards carry. His workload is increased
Speaker 1: in four straight games, and in the earlier matchup with
Speaker 1: this week's opponent, Kansas City, Booker had sixty two yards
Speaker 1: on just seven carries. John Gruden runs the ball whopping
Speaker 1: thirty one times per game, and the Chiefs are seeing
Speaker 1: twenty nine rushing attempts, So we know to expect a
Speaker 1: lot of ground and pound in this game. And Josh
Speaker 1: Jacobs is not going to get thirty one or twenty
Speaker 1: nine carries a bunch of it's gonna go to Davante
Speaker 1: Booker because he's just too good to keep off the field.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the receiver position, not necessarily wide receiver Scott.
Speaker 1: Who's gonna take a chance on me player? I'm going
Speaker 1: with Logan Thomas. Since Alex Smith took over, he's got
Speaker 1: twelve targets in the last two weeks. It's only culminated
Speaker 1: in seven catches for ninety four yards. But this week
Speaker 1: he gets a Bengals d that has given up five
Speaker 1: games of over fifty yards to tight ends six tight
Speaker 1: end touchdowns in just the last five weeks. And this
Speaker 1: is a Bengals defense that has allowed eighteen passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: over the last six weeks. Actually like Alex Smith this
Speaker 1: week to give me, give me Ligan Thomas. I've slowly
Speaker 1: moved Alex Smith up my rankings all week. I think
Speaker 1: now he's like quarterback ten. All right, Brian, you take
Speaker 1: a chance to me receiver is give me Saints tight
Speaker 1: end taste somehow. I'm just kidding. I'm perring Prescott Perriman
Speaker 1: with Flack at LAC. Two jets for me this week.
Speaker 1: Perriman was my prespect a few weeks ago. Looks like
Speaker 1: he's coming to fruition after a monster game against New
Speaker 1: England in Week nine hundred plus yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Not necessarily a smash spot here, as the Chargers have
Speaker 1: only surrendered a handful of big yardage outputs two wide
Speaker 1: opposing wide receivers, but they still allow four yards per
Speaker 1: game to the position. That's pretty decent. And since Week four,
Speaker 1: l A has allowed seven wide receiver touchdowns in six games,
Speaker 1: and that's basically been to four teams. The two teams
Speaker 1: that failed to score a wide receiver where the Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas less Saints and the Dolphins last week, who only
Speaker 1: had twenty pass attempts. So I'm rolling with Perriman. I'm
Speaker 1: going with Michael Gallup against the Vikings. The Vikings secondary
Speaker 1: is likely without its number three, number four, number five cornerbacks,
Speaker 1: and if Cameron Danzler can make his way through the
Speaker 1: concussion protocol, they're also without their number one cornerback and
Speaker 1: their number one quarterbacks. Like a number four cornerbacks for
Speaker 1: anybody else, the Cowboys can stretch thin any secondary with
Speaker 1: their three excellent receivers. They get Andy Dalton back. What
Speaker 1: little help the Vikings can muster will be dedicated to
Speaker 1: stopping a Marie Cooper and Ceedee Lamb, and that leaves
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup most often on six string cornerback Chris Boyd,
Speaker 1: who is allowed to passer rating of one D thirty
Speaker 1: four in his coverage. There you go, nine players, take
Speaker 1: a chance on me. Let's work. In one more matchup,
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons take on the New Orleans Saints. The
Speaker 1: Saint side is a lot more interesting, but let's start
Speaker 1: with the Falcon side. Calvin Ridley likely back. This passing
Speaker 1: attack is at full strength. Do you like Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: I kind of do. After allowing multiple touchdowns in each
Speaker 1: of their first seven games, this is the Saints. They
Speaker 1: have buckled down, picking off five passes and giving up
Speaker 1: just one touchdown in their last two h granted one
Speaker 1: of them with San Francisco, the other was Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: Though they're a good game against Tom Brady and um
Speaker 1: Lattimore should be back. He should be quite I think
Speaker 1: he's questionable. Should play. Uh, they still love Jenkins. They
Speaker 1: have a good past defense. I'm keeping Ryan a CEE,
Speaker 1: but it's a pretty strong cee. I could go be too.
Speaker 1: I could go be too, but I'm gonna leave it
Speaker 1: as a see Julio Jones plus yards and or a
Speaker 1: touchdown in four straight, I gotta be grade on him.
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I don't love either Jones or
Speaker 1: Ridley's matchups in this one, but they're just too good
Speaker 1: to sit well. Unless doesn't doesn't go. At the moment,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that they go full strength. His lowest yardage
Speaker 1: game of the last four weeks was the Week nine
Speaker 1: game without Ridley. Weirdly, that's you think they could be
Speaker 1: lower with Ridle either. Ridley sixty plus yards in six
Speaker 1: of his seven games, has six touchdowns in those. Uh.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't go, but he should go all along
Speaker 1: day Zakis would get a C grade, but it sounds
Speaker 1: like Ridley's going I gotta be great on him too.
Speaker 1: Hayden Hurst, I'm given a C great too, even though
Speaker 1: only two tight ends of top fifty yards, and both
Speaker 1: were because they were the top two receiving option on
Speaker 1: the team. Uh, they stopped six plus targets and and
Speaker 1: players that gets six plus targets against the Saints have
Speaker 1: done well. Hurst hit fifty yards in five of the
Speaker 1: six games he hit six targets. I think if he
Speaker 1: can get that, he's got a fair shot to see
Speaker 1: grade there. Todd Gurley, don't super love him this week,
Speaker 1: but he gets so much volume eighteen plus touches in
Speaker 1: five straight. How he turns eighteen touches into like sixty
Speaker 1: rushing yards every week? Touchdowns got nine. I think he's
Speaker 1: got nine touches. It's unreally scores all the time. The
Speaker 1: downside also only two catches per game, and over his
Speaker 1: last four he's averaging two point six yards per carry.
Speaker 1: As you just kind of alluded to, it's unreal. The
Speaker 1: Saints on the other side, have given up over a
Speaker 1: hundred total yards to just one back this year. So,
Speaker 1: as I said, don't love the matchup, but he gets
Speaker 1: so much volume and he gets those goal line with touches.
Speaker 1: I gotta give him the C grade. On the other side,
Speaker 1: Taystom Hill was my take a chance on me player.
Speaker 1: At this point, we we assume he's gonna start, even
Speaker 1: though there's mind games going out there. Adam Schefter reported
Speaker 1: he'd taken all the first team snaps. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna start, so he's might take a chance on me player.
Speaker 1: I have eight grades on both Michael Thomas and Alvin Kamara.
Speaker 1: If Winston does start. Winston's ten attempts last week, I
Speaker 1: believe he targeted Michael Thomas five times and and twice
Speaker 1: in the end zone. So if it's Winston Thomas, and
Speaker 1: if it's not, I feel like Taysom Hill's gonna trust
Speaker 1: more as a passage where your bread is buttered right
Speaker 1: well as a past more as a pastor Winston or Hill.
Speaker 1: Hill has eighteen past attempts in his career. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: it's Winston. Hew Bizarre was the verbage from Peyton. He's like,
Speaker 1: no offensive packages will Jamis Winston be involved in? That's
Speaker 1: like a failed smoke screens. That's like, yeah, I don't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means entirely, Like who says that?
Speaker 1: Not anyone? So you're not gonna line them up at
Speaker 1: a receiver? What does that mean anyway? Onto Alvin Kamara?
Speaker 1: Why the A grade the Falcons against past catching running
Speaker 1: backs for about five years in a row? Now, Uh,
Speaker 1: they allow six running back receptions per game. They can't
Speaker 1: seem to figure it out. And Alba Camara, I have
Speaker 1: to do some more research, but I think he's good.
Speaker 1: Can I make note? Though he has never scored against
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons in his career, which yeah, I do
Speaker 1: have Murray on the bench, though he hasn't topped thirteen
Speaker 1: touches since Week four, and uh, normally ten to twelve
Speaker 1: touches is good. But but against against the Falcons, no
Speaker 1: running back with a fewer than thirteen touches has top
Speaker 1: thirty yards. So they allow three point six yards per carry.
Speaker 1: They keep people down, but not receiving backs. So I'm
Speaker 1: benching they all right? Makes sense? We don't even need
Speaker 1: to talk about Jared Cook anymore? Do No? No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I think I think you're probably right about that at
Speaker 1: this stage. Hopefully you're not so desperate that you're actually
Speaker 1: starting him. Hey, if you want all my player rankings,
Speaker 1: we encourage you to go to Guillotine leagues dot com.
Speaker 1: All the players ranked and many of them explained as well.
Speaker 1: You can you can read up on your favorite players,
Speaker 1: find out who to bench, who to start, everybody's graded.
Speaker 1: You should also continue to listen to the show because
Speaker 1: coming up next we got a block of matchups, including
Speaker 1: the Jets at the Chargers. Air Bear are is there's
Speaker 1: the air Bear bear justin Herbert will he thrashed the Jets.
Speaker 1: Find out when we come back. Fannessy Football Weekly, Welcome back.
Speaker 1: Then the Football Weekly Puled Church and Scott Fish and
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson with you and Brian you already told us
Speaker 1: you love the Jets passing game as a dark throw
Speaker 1: black over Flacco. Yeah, what do you think about the
Speaker 1: rushing attack? Well? And and is there anybody else that
Speaker 1: you want to talk about, like Denzel Mims maybe rushing
Speaker 1: attack that's rushing attack. I got Frank Gore and le
Speaker 1: Michael Pernin on the bench. He was a fifty percent
Speaker 1: forty six percent snap split in favor of Gore. Last week.
Speaker 1: Gor saw fourteen touches to just eight from peyin. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you'd want all twenty two from just
Speaker 1: one guy in this game. It's it's it's an easy
Speaker 1: bench for me, uh, an easy be though for Jamison
Speaker 1: Crowder only two catches on two targets UH his last game,
Speaker 1: but one went for a touchdown. He's virtually a lock
Speaker 1: for ten plus targets every week running went healthy, which
Speaker 1: he is now running and the Jets coming off there by,
Speaker 1: by the way, running from the slot, he'll avoid Casey
Speaker 1: Hayward with Chris Harris on I R. He draws rookie
Speaker 1: slot corner to Van Campbell, who's allowed two scores in
Speaker 1: his last three games. So b for Crowder and Brashot
Speaker 1: Perry and was might take a chance on me wide receiver.
Speaker 1: It was a coin food between he and Denzel Mims.
Speaker 1: We like a lot on this show. But we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk more about later, even more about Mims later. But Uh,
Speaker 1: I went with Perim and he does lead the Jets
Speaker 1: in first down receptions and yards per target with Flaco
Speaker 1: at quarterback. So I'm just gonna I'm gonna bench Mims
Speaker 1: for here, uh for this week, but he should be
Speaker 1: rostered for sure. And a flac of again might take
Speaker 1: a chance in the quarterback flack at lack over to
Speaker 1: the Chargers side. In a for Kalin Balage, I'm flabbergacid
Speaker 1: flustered all those actives. The Jets are top five and
Speaker 1: red zone touches and red zone targets yielded per game
Speaker 1: to opposing running backs. It's no surprise top five in
Speaker 1: a good way in the most red zone touches and
Speaker 1: red zone targets for the Chargers. For Kalin Balage in particular, yes,
Speaker 1: it's no surprise. The Jets have allowed the eighth most
Speaker 1: fantasy points to running backs, including the league's fifth most
Speaker 1: receptions to running backs at fifty eight. Blage has been
Speaker 1: very active catching the ball at the backfield of the
Speaker 1: last two games, turning nine targets into seven catches for
Speaker 1: forty nine yards and a touchdown. So in a for
Speaker 1: Klin Balage, holy f over. Keenan Allen can give him
Speaker 1: an a as well. He was wide receiver twenty like
Speaker 1: in late August. That's criminal right now, He's Eclipse has
Speaker 1: scored endoor Eclipse the hundred yards and six of his
Speaker 1: last seven games. And here come the Jets, who are
Speaker 1: bottom ten and yards receptions and fantasy points allowed to
Speaker 1: wide receiver, and that's bottom ten in terms of the
Speaker 1: most in a very good way for Keenan Allen and
Speaker 1: the Jets have also surrendered four touchdowns and two one
Speaker 1: yard games to wide receivers over their last three for
Speaker 1: those very same reasons of giving Mike Williams a very
Speaker 1: easy B here and Hunter Henry gets a B as well.
Speaker 1: Four tight ends have seen at least four targets against
Speaker 1: the Jets this year. All have put up at least
Speaker 1: sixty yards or a touchdown. Henry has four targets and
Speaker 1: all but two games this year. If you get opportunities
Speaker 1: against the Jets, he turned them into something. And that's
Speaker 1: why your boy charge the air bear Justin Herbert Uh
Speaker 1: just to be though the haircut worries be. He looks
Speaker 1: like a looks like Sampson. Yeah, it looks like like
Speaker 1: a Juviy mug shot now for Justin. But that fourteen
Speaker 1: year old just leading rookies, that's right. And you know
Speaker 1: what the Jets are not leading Uh in his sacks.
Speaker 1: They only have eleven on the season, that second fewest
Speaker 1: air Bear. It's gonna have plenty of time to play
Speaker 1: with all of his poison. The air Bear. I like it,
Speaker 1: the air Bear. Uh. There was a little Ardvark in
Speaker 1: there for just second. If you're wondering accidental Ardvark appearance,
Speaker 1: He's not there. It's dark cross cross mate. Uh. Getting
Speaker 1: Dr Moreau over here. Uh, Cincinnati and Washington face each other.
Speaker 1: Let's begin on the Cincinnati side where Joe Bernard will
Speaker 1: get the start. With Joe Mixon nursing his foot injury,
Speaker 1: Bernardo face a Washington run defense that is law just
Speaker 1: one back to top eighties six rushing yards. But we
Speaker 1: just saw DeAndre Swift post a solid all purpose game
Speaker 1: against Washington last week, so it can be done here
Speaker 1: by Bernard, both on the ground and through the air.
Speaker 1: Washington has given up a running back score one way
Speaker 1: or another in five of their last seven games, so
Speaker 1: I think Bernard gets a B grade. I like him here.
Speaker 1: Going to the passing game, Joe Burrow gets a seat.
Speaker 1: Good defenses have mostly held Joe Burrow in check, and
Speaker 1: he'll face a good one this week. Washington is allowing
Speaker 1: the second fewest passing yards and the sixth fewest passing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: The Bengals struggling offensive line is gonna get ambushed by
Speaker 1: those four first rounders that Washington's got on their defensive line.
Speaker 1: And I'm worried about Joe Burrow having time to get downfield,
Speaker 1: and that means I'm not crazy about his receivers either.
Speaker 1: We love Tee Higgins on this show, but there's a
Speaker 1: bad matchup. Now, he did practice on Friday. I think
Speaker 1: he plays here. I worry about Burrow having enough time
Speaker 1: to find him. He may have to settle for the
Speaker 1: underneath stuff to Higgins. Now, Higgins runs from both sides
Speaker 1: of the field, but when he runs from the left,
Speaker 1: he faces incredibly tough coverage from Kendall Fuller, who has
Speaker 1: been basically invincible before yielding a bit last week. Then
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd gets a sea great. I say c great
Speaker 1: and tigins if I didn't use a sea see great
Speaker 1: and Tyler Boyd again. Washington secondary very good. They surrended
Speaker 1: the second fewest fantasy points per game to opposing receivers.
Speaker 1: Boyd runs overwhelmingly from the slot. They'll face slot cornerback
Speaker 1: Jimmy Moreland most often. Moreland has yet to allow a
Speaker 1: score this season, and has allowed thirty eight or fewer
Speaker 1: yards in his coverage in every game since Week two.
Speaker 1: That is a bad matchup for Tyler Boyd and he's
Speaker 1: just got to see a. J. Green is on the bench.
Speaker 1: He's been held scoreless this year and he has totaled
Speaker 1: nineteen yards over the last two games. There. That is,
Speaker 1: isn't it? Remember when it when more and Andre Johnson
Speaker 1: hit the wall. I'll say, yeah, that's a great point.
Speaker 1: I haven't thought about that comparison. That's very good. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Washington and start with the running game there.
Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson with the two touchdown game last week, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that felt good. He's a good player. He ranks third
Speaker 1: and missed tackles per Russia attempt that's very good. And
Speaker 1: he just passes the eye test. He didn't see that.
Speaker 1: He's good. This is a This is a far tougher
Speaker 1: matchup on the ground than through the air. Going all
Speaker 1: the way back to Week three, Cincinnati is allowed just
Speaker 1: one rushing touchdown and that was the Derrick Henry and
Speaker 1: and only Henry's top seventy five rushing yards against Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: So this is a tough matchup. And I've only got
Speaker 1: a B grade on Gibson. I almost gave him a seat,
Speaker 1: but I like him too much Gibson with his pass
Speaker 1: catching skills without Kissick, I know, and I don't understand
Speaker 1: where they never throw to him. He's a converted wide out.
Speaker 1: He'll catch it if you throw to him, but they
Speaker 1: never do. Sticking with the running back, so let's go
Speaker 1: to j. D. McKissick. He's been a PPR superstar over
Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks with target totals of fourteen
Speaker 1: and fifteen from Alex Smith up. But those numbers are
Speaker 1: unsustainable and he's only scored once all year, and the
Speaker 1: Bengals have been very good against receiving backs, allowing the
Speaker 1: third fewest receptions and only two receiving scores two running backs.
Speaker 1: So I only have a C grade on J. D. Mckissic.
Speaker 1: We're not going to chase his production the past couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, all right, So let's go to the Let's
Speaker 1: go to the receiving game. In the passing game, Scott
Speaker 1: and I talked about Alex Smith a little while ago.
Speaker 1: He has top three hundred yards in both of his
Speaker 1: full games and now meets his easiest opponent, Cincinnati. The
Speaker 1: Bengal secondaries devolved before our very eyes over the past month,
Speaker 1: they've given up three touchdowns, five touchdowns, two touchdowns and
Speaker 1: four passing touchdowns. So lots of upside for Alex Smith
Speaker 1: in this one. And that means I love Terry McLaurin,
Speaker 1: who's an obvious A grade. I don't even need to
Speaker 1: expound on him here. And Logan Thomas was your take
Speaker 1: a chance on me tight end receiver earlier today, Scott,
Speaker 1: So there you go. Let's go to a final matchup.
Speaker 1: It is the Patriots taking on the Houston Texans. Scott.
Speaker 1: Sure Cam Newton the running back, right, He's right, there's
Speaker 1: not even a reason to talk about him as a passer.
Speaker 1: He he only gets a C grade from me on
Speaker 1: his rushing ability and his ability to get touchdowns. Sure,
Speaker 1: he might get a hundred hundred and fifty yards, but
Speaker 1: it's all about all about the rushing for him. He's
Speaker 1: only has three passing touchdowns on the season. This Houston
Speaker 1: defense is is a defense that he can work against.
Speaker 1: I have a B grade on Damien Harris. Such a
Speaker 1: good much matchup for running backs, it's hard not to
Speaker 1: like him. The main problem is Damian Harris doesn't catch
Speaker 1: passes and he doesn't get touched on opportunities, which he
Speaker 1: should because he's built for gold line use. He's a bruiser. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I don't get it, but Texans are second worst
Speaker 1: against fantasy running backs, allowing by far the most rushing
Speaker 1: yards to running backs, which is what Harris gets. He
Speaker 1: has fifty two touches in the last three weeks. I've
Speaker 1: B grade on him, but I could go higher, but
Speaker 1: I have a very very solid, strong B grade. Then
Speaker 1: we get to the passing game. Because Newton doesn't throw
Speaker 1: a lot. I don't like a lot of the receiving
Speaker 1: options except for the guy that has forty press plus
Speaker 1: target share in three straight games, Jacoby Meyers. He gets
Speaker 1: everything that they throw, so he's the only one I trust.
Speaker 1: Uh sixty plus yards in four straight games, averaging over
Speaker 1: nine targets per game. In that uh the average stat
Speaker 1: line for wide receivers that get nine targets a game
Speaker 1: eight for one thirty four and one point to five touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Against these Houston Texas, we would certainly take that. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you, I don't know that he gets it,
Speaker 1: but I mean, do you think every time Cam throws
Speaker 1: to Jacoby he just sales Jacoby? Do you get what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, yeah, Kobe, I get it. I get it,
Speaker 1: you say, Kobe Brant, Yeah, it's like going in. It's
Speaker 1: you're gonna score throwing it away, not in the garbage
Speaker 1: growing throwing it throwing period, throwing away, Jacoby. Let's assume
Speaker 1: there's a quarterback upgrade of some kind coming next year
Speaker 1: for the Patriots. Kobe Myers gets kind of interesting next season,
Speaker 1: doesn't he does. I picked him up in a couple
Speaker 1: of dynasty leagues just to just to see what happens
Speaker 1: over the offseason. On the other side of the ball,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm gonna be Oprah with some a's here
Speaker 1: getting away. If at some point you need to award
Speaker 1: the Fantasy hard Park, just let me know, because I'm
Speaker 1: ready to go again. I don't think so. Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: giving an A grade two multiple touchdowns in six of
Speaker 1: his last seven New England has allowed the most twenty
Speaker 1: plus yard completions on the season. Could you could one
Speaker 1: of you guys do some research on me. Twenty plus
Speaker 1: yard completions a team that gives up a ton of them?
Speaker 1: Is that good for Will Fuller and Brady Cooks? That
Speaker 1: might match what they do well, that might match what
Speaker 1: they do well, so I have a grades for both
Speaker 1: of them. Fuller head touchdowns and of sixth straight before
Speaker 1: the Monsters to a grades. There you go at your
Speaker 1: fantasy ard Vark right there. Ry Yeah, six straight games
Speaker 1: with a touchdown before the bad weather game last week.
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks eight targets in five at least eight targets
Speaker 1: in five straight uh and the and in the four
Speaker 1: that weren't hampered with terrible weather, he had sixty plus
Speaker 1: in each of them and scored in three of them. Also,
Speaker 1: if Gilmore misses, which he might upgrade him even more.
Speaker 1: Uh Over. On the running back side, Duke Johnson missed
Speaker 1: some practice this week with an illness. Sounds like he's
Speaker 1: to go anyway. David Johnson is on it, obviously, but
Speaker 1: I gave him a C grade. He has thirty carries
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks. He's getting so much volume
Speaker 1: it's hard not to give him a C grade, even
Speaker 1: though he's only averaging three point one yards per carrying UM.
Speaker 1: Not that effective getting the touches. So I'm giving him
Speaker 1: a volume C. A volume C I like that when
Speaker 1: as I look forward to next week's show, Chris Carson
Speaker 1: likely to be back, does he immediately go right back
Speaker 1: to being the workhorse or do you think that they
Speaker 1: saw enough from Carlos Hyde and DJ Dallas and Travis
Speaker 1: Homer that they start distributing the ball a little bit more.
Speaker 1: I think they would have seen enough from DJ Dallas
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago when he had that big game,
Speaker 1: and then they went right back to Carlos Hides, And
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think so Carlos look good on Thursday,
Speaker 1: I know, I don't. I think they just go back
Speaker 1: to Carson. Honestly, we have a lot of history that
Speaker 1: suggests that that the Seahawks like their main heavy workload,
Speaker 1: and that probably goes right back to being Chris Carson.
Speaker 1: And he'll enjoy whatever ten days off. So he ought
Speaker 1: to he ought to be fully healthy by then. He
Speaker 1: was almost ready, So almost ready. So there's a there's
Speaker 1: a sneaky opportunity out there for Chris Carson to dominate
Speaker 1: fantasy leagues the rest of the way. This offense is
Speaker 1: so high scoring, there's so many scoring opportunities. Carson is
Speaker 1: a good running back now healthy. Look what Carlos High
Speaker 1: did is fractionately as talented and pt Sunshine had to
Speaker 1: quote this Pee Carroll obviously, pet Sunshin had to quote
Speaker 1: this week about wanting to get back to the run
Speaker 1: more when everybody wants rust to cook. He's like, I
Speaker 1: want to get back to the run more so if
Speaker 1: that comes to fruition. Chris Carson, Chris, back to Chris Carson,
Speaker 1: I just get I got this feeling. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: get doling on a lot of a grades to Chris
Speaker 1: Carson between now and the Fantasy Football Championship. When we
Speaker 1: come back, three Tough Questions. I will pepper my co
Speaker 1: host with well, three tough questions. You get to play along,
Speaker 1: see if you can go three and oh. When we
Speaker 1: returned with Fantasy Football Weekly, don't don't you don't don't
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Speaker 1: Our number two, as usual, begins with the game we
Speaker 1: call three tough questions. I will hit my co host
Speaker 1: with three tough questions. They will try to get them correct.
Speaker 1: You can play along, try to go through. You know.
Speaker 1: We begin with tough question number one and this is
Speaker 1: the big e for the weekend, isn't it? Should commissioners
Speaker 1: in ESPN leagues where Taysom Hill is tight and eligible
Speaker 1: allow Hill to be played as a tight end? Scott Man,
Speaker 1: If if your question was should he be allowed, I'd
Speaker 1: be like no. But should commissioners in leagues that have
Speaker 1: been set up since the beginning to allow it? I
Speaker 1: gotta say yes for this one week before they change
Speaker 1: it next week. I'm very against changing it. They might
Speaker 1: change it after this week. That's what they said. That's
Speaker 1: what they said, and it was also in Taysom Mill's
Speaker 1: outlook that if he starts at quarterback, they will change
Speaker 1: they will remove strip the tight end designation. They should
Speaker 1: and they should have done a long time ago. This
Speaker 1: has been a budding This has been a budding problem
Speaker 1: waiting to happen for them for a long time. But continue,
Speaker 1: I I say, I say, that's this has been the rule,
Speaker 1: this is the way it was set up. You got
Speaker 1: to play with it for this week, and when they
Speaker 1: strip it next week, it's gone. I I hate I
Speaker 1: don't like the decision that ESPN made. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't like any of that, But I say, you gotta
Speaker 1: play with the rules that that were in place. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: the site allows it. You'd have to adhere to the
Speaker 1: settings unless before the season all the league members wrote
Speaker 1: in blood, we will not start Taysom Hill at quarterback.
Speaker 1: But uh, this isn't the first instance of something like this. Uh.
Speaker 1: Several years ago, Joe Webb was wide receiver eligible, but
Speaker 1: he was starting at quarterback for the Vikings, and people
Speaker 1: got to play Joe Webb at wide receiver. And the
Speaker 1: most famous instance didn't involve a quarterback, but Marquez Colston
Speaker 1: in YAHOO leagues in like two thousand five or six,
Speaker 1: it was tight end eligible when he was clearly a
Speaker 1: wide receiver. And I remember every week someone being like,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't do that, and I'm like, okay, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna because I'm allowed to. So that's the answer. Yes,
Speaker 1: it sucks, but that's the way it goes. Well. Uh,
Speaker 1: first I will say this, Yes, pen should not have
Speaker 1: him his tight end eligible. They should have known this
Speaker 1: years ago he did. The problem goes back like when
Speaker 1: he entered the league, they didn't really know what to
Speaker 1: do with him and at what position he was gonna play,
Speaker 1: and he got designated as a tight end by somebody
Speaker 1: somewhere who like put a finger in the win and
Speaker 1: went tight end and because well, I'm not gonna even speculate,
Speaker 1: but ESPN and others continue to carry that tag as
Speaker 1: tight end for years and years and years forward, despite
Speaker 1: the fact Taysom Hills never once appeared on an NFL
Speaker 1: roster as listed as tight end, not once, So ESPN
Speaker 1: should never have had it this way. Taysom Hill as
Speaker 1: a tight end is a loophole. If you've got Taysom
Speaker 1: Hill and you're starting him as a tight end, it
Speaker 1: is a cheap and unfair advantage that you are putting
Speaker 1: on your league. I personally question your personal integrity and
Speaker 1: your sense of fair play. I don't run any leagues
Speaker 1: on ESPN. If I did, and I had Hill, I
Speaker 1: would only start him at quarterback. I would not start
Speaker 1: him at tight end. I don't care who my tight
Speaker 1: end is. I wouldn't do it because in my heart
Speaker 1: I know he's not a tight end, and I care
Speaker 1: about my personal integrity more than I care about trying
Speaker 1: to find a loophole for a victory. That's not how
Speaker 1: I want to win. Now, commissioners want to talk to
Speaker 1: you for just a minute. Who runs your league? Is
Speaker 1: it you or is it your software? Who runs your league?
Speaker 1: Does a software dictate who runs your league? Or do
Speaker 1: you run your league? This you need to make this call.
Speaker 1: And simply abdicating to the software is spineless. Is like
Speaker 1: I like, I like that My b by laws in
Speaker 1: my league specifically state we are at the complete mercy
Speaker 1: of the designations of the site, which you can do.
Speaker 1: And that's great, and that from that point someone you
Speaker 1: have to know that's my private leagues too. But but
Speaker 1: still the Tystom Hill owner would argue with me, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is what your by law says. If it's in
Speaker 1: the by laws one way or another, you live by
Speaker 1: those by laws for sure. Our listeners do not have
Speaker 1: this situation in their by laws. So Commissioners, you need
Speaker 1: to make a call. But let me give you a
Speaker 1: little bit of data. Taysom Hill has played forty two
Speaker 1: snaps this year at quarterback, forty two. He has played
Speaker 1: fifty six snaps at wide receiver. He's played thirty two
Speaker 1: snaps at tight end, so he has played at the
Speaker 1: tight end position. It's fair to say he's not a
Speaker 1: tight end, but he plays at least some tight end.
Speaker 1: You can make a case and you should make the
Speaker 1: call commissioners that he should be allowed to be a
Speaker 1: tight end. Now, my preference and the correct answer is
Speaker 1: should Taysom Hill be allowed? Should commissioners allow him to
Speaker 1: be played as a tight end? Yes, he should because
Speaker 1: of the thirty two snaps at tight end. That said,
Speaker 1: those of you that have him, I hope you will
Speaker 1: play with integrity and you will not start him that
Speaker 1: way because winning is not winning a game of fantasy
Speaker 1: football is not worth the loss of integrity for yourself
Speaker 1: or the league when you know he's a quarterback. Wo
Speaker 1: tough question number two, Alex Smiths posted back to back
Speaker 1: three yard games. Will Alex Smith finished the year? Is
Speaker 1: a top six quarterback, a seven through twelve quarterback or
Speaker 1: worse than twelve? Brian, I have to mention that back
Speaker 1: to back three yard games, Yes, but just one passing
Speaker 1: touchdown across those two games. So top six. If he's
Speaker 1: gonna finish top six, he's not gonna beat out Kyler, Murray,
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, Russell Wilson, and Josh Allen in particular order.
Speaker 1: That leaves two spots, and those two spots he still
Speaker 1: got to compete with Aaron Rodgers, air Bear l Jack's
Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson, Matt Ryan, Tom Brady. He's not finishing top six,
Speaker 1: and that really doesn't leave a whole lot of meat
Speaker 1: on the bone for seven to twelve because Ryan Tannehill
Speaker 1: is still in the mix. Joe Burrow, I know Fish
Speaker 1: has a lot of stats that are probably gonna support
Speaker 1: the same answer. But he's worse than twelve. But he's Ah,
Speaker 1: it's great to see him back. Okay plus plus all right, Scott,
Speaker 1: this is easy. He scored thirty four Fantasy points. QB
Speaker 1: twelve has scored a hundred eighty five Fantasy points. He's
Speaker 1: got a hundred points to bake up. Just clearly. The
Speaker 1: question was why did I think of that from this
Speaker 1: point forward? Oh? Okay, So he has very positive matchups
Speaker 1: against the Bengals, we've already I think those touchdowns are
Speaker 1: coming this week. Uh Seattle Carolina his even a decent
Speaker 1: matchup against Dallas. San Francisco has giving up like four
Speaker 1: huge games in the past six weeks, even though they're
Speaker 1: in middle of the road defense. The only tough spot
Speaker 1: is Pittsburgh. That's said Brian gave the list. I just
Speaker 1: don't see how he can. I don't see how he
Speaker 1: can get to top six at all, I have trouble
Speaker 1: even seeing it always in the second tier of six.
Speaker 1: I can see him getting into that ten to twelve range.
Speaker 1: But if I had to place money on it, and
Speaker 1: you do, that's how this game works, I'm gonna go worse.
Speaker 1: Washington's path to victory real life victories is with an
Speaker 1: efficient Alex Smith, which is in his DNA anyway, because
Speaker 1: that's who he really is. You know. They want to
Speaker 1: continue to play very good defense, which Washington has. They
Speaker 1: want to run in town Antonio Gibson a fair amount
Speaker 1: because he's pretty special, and mix in a lot of
Speaker 1: high percentage passing from Alex Smith. In these two games
Speaker 1: with the three yards, he's completed sevent his passes very
Speaker 1: efficient only the one touchdow. What you mentioned, efficiency does
Speaker 1: not equal fantasy stats. He doesn't have the receivers. Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater is that That's kind of what I'm saying. He
Speaker 1: doesn't have the receivers to unlock big performance. He's only
Speaker 1: got the one receiver, Terry McLaurin. And here's really I
Speaker 1: think the crowning blow. In his fifteen year career, Alex
Speaker 1: Smith has never not once finished as a top twelve quarterback,
Speaker 1: not even the the m v P year. He probably
Speaker 1: got hurt at the end. Even in the old days
Speaker 1: he was in the running. I thought you made on
Speaker 1: a weekly basis for a second, but that's not what
Speaker 1: I never finished the season at the top twelve quarterback
Speaker 1: in his fifteen year career, So the answer is worse
Speaker 1: than twelve. Tough question Number three. Minnesota wide receiver Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson leads all rookie receivers by almost one hundred fifty yards.
Speaker 1: Is he an every week starter? Scott? Of the time,
Speaker 1: he's aid every week starter all the time he has.
Speaker 1: It's a movie that keeps on giving. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: the movie. But half the time he's he has boom games.
Speaker 1: The other half the time not so much. He's he's
Speaker 1: got that Brandon Cooks, Will Fuller, Amari Cooper, Lee Evans
Speaker 1: type of remember four to six big games a year.
Speaker 1: That's it. Oh with peerless price on the other side, right,
Speaker 1: Drew Bledsoe, I believe, yes, just two negative matchups left
Speaker 1: on the schedule. One again is against the Bears, who
Speaker 1: we just torched. But you can't bench Justin Jefferson just
Speaker 1: because of those explosions are going to happen. I think
Speaker 1: he's flexworthy at minimum every single week, So yeah, he's
Speaker 1: a never a week starter. Yeah, on a PPR points
Speaker 1: per game basis. Right now, he's wide receiver twenty and
Speaker 1: that's after a very slow start to the season, which
Speaker 1: is understandable for rookie, where he had six targets across
Speaker 1: his first two games, and now since Week three, the
Speaker 1: target totals have been a bit of a roller coaster ride.
Speaker 1: It's gone nine, five, five, up to eleven, then four, four,
Speaker 1: then back up to ten last week. But he checks
Speaker 1: virtually every box when it comes to the eye test,
Speaker 1: and he can turn one target into a productive box
Speaker 1: score and there's no way he falls below wide receiver
Speaker 1: three or flex territory any given week, even based on matchups.
Speaker 1: So yes, and every week starter. Moving forward, Justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: is ahead of Randy Moss's epic rookie season by yards.
Speaker 1: He's already at seven hundred sixty yards. He has a
Speaker 1: deep downfield threat averaging eighteen yards per reception, which is
Speaker 1: fourth most in the entire NFL, not just among rookies,
Speaker 1: and despite how deep those passes are, he's got the
Speaker 1: seventh highest catch rate in the NFL. Normally, you're deep
Speaker 1: ball receivers have a low catch rate because those are
Speaker 1: hard to complete passes. It. But here's the problem, Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 1: He's so good and the Vikings are so run oriented.
Speaker 1: Minnesota's dead lasting pass attempts twenty seven. When you divide
Speaker 1: up twenty seven pass attempts among all the wide receivers,
Speaker 1: tight ends, running backs, there are just some games that
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson can't be a big part of. But here's
Speaker 1: why he's still an every week starter. There isn't necessary
Speaker 1: really a script for knowing when the dud game is
Speaker 1: going to come. It could have come against Chicago, it didn't.
Speaker 1: And even in games where Dalvin Cook has had high
Speaker 1: usage games, Justin Jefferson's posted good games and some of
Speaker 1: those two So he isn't every week starter, But that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean he's gonna turn out every week big totals
Speaker 1: because the volume is not going to be there some games.
Speaker 1: So couldn't you have just said, okay, Scott, what you said, Well,
Speaker 1: why I can't I can't give you that kind of credit.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, No, I can't do that. Uh. Brian green
Speaker 1: Bay takes on the Indianapolis Colts is the toughest matchup
Speaker 1: of the year for the Green Bay Packers. Yeah and
Speaker 1: this this would be a shootout in years past, but
Speaker 1: not so much this year. We'll start with Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: on the Packers side, Gonna give him a beat. Despite
Speaker 1: the painstaking, painstaking over usage of Jamal Williams, Jones has
Speaker 1: still garnered at least fifteen touches in every game he's
Speaker 1: played this year, and his role is expanding at receiver.
Speaker 1: Last week he played eight snaps lined up either in
Speaker 1: the slough or out wide, so he's usage is expanding
Speaker 1: all over the field. In a tough spot though, against
Speaker 1: the Colts, who are ranked fourth against the run by
Speaker 1: Football Outsiders. Indias allowed just seven total touchdowns to running
Speaker 1: backs this year, but six of those seven touchdowns have
Speaker 1: come over the last five games, so there's hope Jones
Speaker 1: can score in this. One's still gonna give him a b.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bench Jamal Williams, though only one opposing running
Speaker 1: back has managed to top a hundred combo yards against
Speaker 1: the Colts, and of course Williams is not the lead
Speaker 1: back and the one and that one back who topped
Speaker 1: the hundred compoy yards was Derrick Henry who ran for
Speaker 1: over a hundred yards and added to to receiving yards
Speaker 1: or something. So I will say it's if Davante Adams
Speaker 1: doesn't go, which he should go. Jamal Adams in his
Speaker 1: last three games without Davonte Adams has like two receiving
Speaker 1: touchdowns in an eight catch game like he gets involved in.
Speaker 1: If Adams does not go, You're absolutely right. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of a few players will get bumped up into
Speaker 1: sea range if Adam, Robert Tonyan would be one. Remember
Speaker 1: Tonyans big games happened without Adams. We're gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: assume Adams play plays he practiced on Friday. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give him. He's banged up and it's not a
Speaker 1: great matchup. But Adams is an auto a at this point,
Speaker 1: regardless of matchup or or weather, which has been proven
Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks. The Colts did just
Speaker 1: hold a j. Brown to one catch for twenty one yards,
Speaker 1: but Brown did drop a seventy yard touchdown bomb twice
Speaker 1: on the same route, bobbled it, dropped it again. Uh,
Speaker 1: and Adams should see a lot of Xavier roads a
Speaker 1: very familiar face from Rhods, this time with the Vikings.
Speaker 1: Adams has had either a hundred yards or a touchdown
Speaker 1: the lack last six times he faced off Againstxavier Roads.
Speaker 1: So I'm giving Adams in a here, and if Adams plays,
Speaker 1: I'm benching all the other pass catchers not named Adams, Alan, Lazard,
Speaker 1: Marcus of all this gambling. I don't even know if
Speaker 1: Lazar is coming back this week, and even Robert. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's it's it's a tough matchup against the Colts.
Speaker 1: So all their past catch catchers around the bench for
Speaker 1: me and Aaron Rodgers just basically off the Bench's gonna
Speaker 1: give him a see. The Colts defense ranks third in
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns allowed and that means the fewest bad for
Speaker 1: Rodgers and first in passing yards allowed allowed the fewest
Speaker 1: and Rogers has faced one other defense that's been comparable
Speaker 1: to the Colts, and that was Tampa Bay and they
Speaker 1: pretty much shut him out. So, uh, A tepid c
Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodgers, a lot of a lot of trepidation
Speaker 1: for the Colt side. Uh nahem Hines gonna give him
Speaker 1: a see. Looks like the lead back, but he's followed
Speaker 1: up these monster games with duds. Remember weeks one, everybody
Speaker 1: ran to the waiver wire to get nih Hines and
Speaker 1: then in week two do you remember me touches he
Speaker 1: had one? See, I ran to get him in week one,
Speaker 1: knowing I was gonna stash him till week ten, arbitrarily
Speaker 1: playing in weeken and only week ten. Yes, it's a
Speaker 1: great matchup though for running backs, but I got Jonathan
Speaker 1: Taylor's might take a chance of me running back, invite
Speaker 1: to pick between the two. I'm I'm gonna ride with
Speaker 1: Taylor this week. We'll see how that plays out. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bench both Michael Pittman and t Y Hilton. Pittman
Speaker 1: is the lead receiver on this team as far as
Speaker 1: I'm concerned at this point, he's really coming on strong.
Speaker 1: But both starting cornerbacks for the Packers, Jaire Alexander, who
Speaker 1: might be the best cornerback outside of j and Ramsey
Speaker 1: in the NFL, will probably be shadowing Pittman and Kevin
Speaker 1: King also making their return from injury, So both the
Speaker 1: receivers on the bench as are the tight ends for
Speaker 1: the Colts. Mo Aali Cox out targeted Trade Burton last week.
Speaker 1: Jack Doyle is slated to return again. They're all on
Speaker 1: the bench, and so is Philip Rivers. Six of the
Speaker 1: last eight quarterbacks who face Green Bay have basically finished
Speaker 1: outside the top twenty range and that secondary was dinged
Speaker 1: during that tenure or so easy bench for Phil. By
Speaker 1: the way, Michael Pittman roster, everybody go get now, Go
Speaker 1: get Michael Pittman. And if you're in a dynasty league,
Speaker 1: the love it God, get him. Although we don't know
Speaker 1: his quarterback is gonna be next year, even it'll be
Speaker 1: somebody better than who they got now in all probability,
Speaker 1: but I couldn't tell you who it is. That is
Speaker 1: a That is a tricky spot for the Colts. If
Speaker 1: you're next year, who is your quarterbacks? You're too good
Speaker 1: to land a premier quarterback in the draft. When we
Speaker 1: come back, the Dallas Cowboys face the Vikings. Will Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton sparked the passing game back to LFE. Find out
Speaker 1: when we returned to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly on the fan. While charting with you, Scott Fish,
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson, Cowboys go to Minnesota. Let's start with the
Speaker 1: passing game. Andy Dalton back under center. He battled concussions
Speaker 1: then covid. Now he's back, but remember he looked really
Speaker 1: bad last time we saw him. Dallas does attack with
Speaker 1: three excellent receivers. Each of them was far better than
Speaker 1: the Vikings cornerback counterparts. Even if Cameron Danceler they're they're
Speaker 1: presumptive number one cornerback is able to clear the concussion protocol.
Speaker 1: Prior to facing the completely helpless Bears offense last week,
Speaker 1: the Vikings were allowing almost three hundred yards and two
Speaker 1: and a half touchdowns per game. That is a lot.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton is a legitimate starter in this offense. I've
Speaker 1: got him against the Bikers. I've got him with the
Speaker 1: C grade, but he does have B grade upside, But
Speaker 1: I'm giving him a C grade here to play it safe.
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper B grade. In three games Dalton has been
Speaker 1: under center. Cooper seen eighteen targets from Dalton and led
Speaker 1: the team with seven catches seventy nine yards in one
Speaker 1: touchdown in the one game Dalton started and finished. If
Speaker 1: we're gonna get the same thing from Dalton, that's I
Speaker 1: would take that. Seven catches, seventy nine yards and one touchdown.
Speaker 1: Um Cooper draws the Vikings probably the Vikings most favorable
Speaker 1: matchup against Chris Jones, allowing a passer rating of a
Speaker 1: hundred thirty two in his coverage. Ceedee Lamb works out
Speaker 1: of the slot and he has actually seen the most
Speaker 1: targets from Dalton and running from the side of face
Speaker 1: off against Jeff Gladden e in all probability glad and
Speaker 1: he's given up five touchdowns and is allowing a pass
Speaker 1: writing up in his coverage. So I've got to be
Speaker 1: grade on Ceedee Lamb C grade and Michael Gallop he
Speaker 1: was might take a chance on me wide receiver against
Speaker 1: this already thin Viking secondary. And let's go to the
Speaker 1: running game. Zeke. I've never been more unhappy to be
Speaker 1: right about a preseason prediction. But this is everything we're
Speaker 1: worried about. Was Zeke in the off season. He's failing
Speaker 1: the eye test and the analytics are not favorable either.
Speaker 1: Compared to Tony Pollard running with the exact same offense,
Speaker 1: Zeke is averaging few yards per carry, fewer yards after contact,
Speaker 1: fewer more more, fewer forced missed tackles than Tony Pollard.
Speaker 1: Pollard is the better running back right now. That doesn't
Speaker 1: mean poll It's going to get more work. Yet I'd
Speaker 1: even start guy ze right now. Oh yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I would do. And I've only ever see grade on
Speaker 1: Zeke Minnesota. And here's a part of it is Minnesotas
Speaker 1: run defense suddenly very good. They have only a lot
Speaker 1: of one total touchdown to running backs over the last
Speaker 1: five games, and during that span, no back has managed
Speaker 1: to crack seventy five rushing yards. That said, the Vikings
Speaker 1: have yielded the second most touches to running backs in
Speaker 1: goal to go scenarios, So maybe those touches go to Zeke.
Speaker 1: They're still giving Zeke the ball to goal line, so
Speaker 1: maybe he gets a touchdown here. And that's where the
Speaker 1: sea grade comes from. Let's go to Minnesota. Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: is fascinating, and normally this is where I would just
Speaker 1: say Dalvin Cook, he's an obvious. Hey, let's move on.
Speaker 1: But I want to spend a minute talking about the
Speaker 1: thirty two touches he had, the twenty four touches he had,
Speaker 1: and the thirty four touches he's had the three weeks
Speaker 1: since coming back from injury, the whole lot of touching,
Speaker 1: and I gotta I gotta wonder if Dalvin Cook will
Speaker 1: be rested a bit in this game, and especially if
Speaker 1: you believe the Vikings are I don't like, like ten
Speaker 1: point favorites or something, especially if you if the Vikings
Speaker 1: are going to get ahead in this one, we might
Speaker 1: see a lot of Alexander Mattis sin to try to
Speaker 1: keep some fresh legs for Dalvin Cook, And that part
Speaker 1: does worry me a little bit. Still, if the Legis
Speaker 1: do get ahead, he's probably Dalvin Cook's probably already had
Speaker 1: a good game, so you know he's still in a grade.
Speaker 1: But I'm just putting that out there that I think
Speaker 1: there's a snare where they rest him a bit. Dallas
Speaker 1: is allowing one d twenty seven rushing yards per game
Speaker 1: to running backs, and they've already let three different backs
Speaker 1: record multiple touchdown games. So Dalvin cooking a if you
Speaker 1: feel like throwing darts, you could go to Alexander Madison.
Speaker 1: But I don't have a starting grade on and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna guess those three backs that scored multiple touchdowns were
Speaker 1: not as good as Dalvin Well. I don't think from
Speaker 1: right now, I don't think. I don't think anybody's as
Speaker 1: good as Dalvin Cook. Right now, Let's go to the
Speaker 1: passing game, Kirk Cousins gets a B grade. Now, Cousins
Speaker 1: often suffers from these Dalvin heavy game plans, but as
Speaker 1: I just explained, I think they could dial back Dalvin
Speaker 1: and this one a lot to keep him fresh, and
Speaker 1: I think there's an up There's a little upside on
Speaker 1: Cousins for volume. But even if he doesn't get it,
Speaker 1: that's the beauty of playing the cow Boys. They give
Speaker 1: up big games even without seeing many passes. In recent games,
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, Kyle Allen, and Carson Wentz only through twenty
Speaker 1: seven passes. They all scored two times. What's more, Dallas
Speaker 1: has allowed multiple passing touchdowns in every game since the opener.
Speaker 1: I think Kirk Cousins is sitting on multiple passing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And if I like Cousins as a B grade, I
Speaker 1: must like his receivers Adam Theland and Justin Jefferson. They
Speaker 1: both come in with B grades as well. For Theland,
Speaker 1: he's become touchdown dependent and this is an ideal matchup.
Speaker 1: Theland has been Kirk cousins favorite Weds red zone weapon,
Speaker 1: drawing a team leading fourteen red zone targets. Dallas has
Speaker 1: allowed sixteen touchdowns to receivers that is the most, including
Speaker 1: allowing multiple receiver scores in three of the past four games,
Speaker 1: and I expect that to happen here as well. Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson has it mentioned already already a B grade. Dallas
Speaker 1: has allowed sixteen touchdowns and receivers, which I just said, um,
Speaker 1: and I think this is a sellent opportunity for him
Speaker 1: as well. Trayvon Digs is out cornerback. Jefferson has a
Speaker 1: dream matchup against an inexperienced, undrafted rookie and Savan Smith,
Speaker 1: who has played just fourteen defensive snaps in the NFL
Speaker 1: against Justin Jefferson. That is a rookie on rookie matchup
Speaker 1: that heavily favors Justin Jefferson. It is Savory uh irv.
Speaker 1: Smith is shaping up as a game time decision. If
Speaker 1: he does not go, you can start Kyle Rudolph. Much
Speaker 1: like last week, good tight ends are generally faring well
Speaker 1: against Dallas, and if Kyle Rudolph's going to get the
Speaker 1: overwhelming majority of the tight end snaps, he is a
Speaker 1: guy that you can use. All right, Let's go to
Speaker 1: our next matchup, which is the Pittsburgh Steelers taking on
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. Scott actually want to start with James
Speaker 1: Conner and this one. He has been stone cold for
Speaker 1: a month, even in favorable matchups games. Do you think
Speaker 1: he would do really well bad field conditions where he
Speaker 1: should be running the whole thing, and none of it's
Speaker 1: works for James Connor. But here comes to Jags. What
Speaker 1: do you think you know what is bad? They got
Speaker 1: up by a couple of scores in the Bengals, didn't
Speaker 1: kept throwing, kept throwing, didn't didn't even care. Gabe Connor
Speaker 1: nine carries the week before, thirteen carries last week, even
Speaker 1: up big points. They did not care. They just keep throwing.
Speaker 1: And that's the big problem. I I am giving Connor
Speaker 1: a C grade here, but as you alluded to, under
Speaker 1: sixty yards in three straight, hasn't had more than three
Speaker 1: catches in a game since week three, So he's not
Speaker 1: even getting the receiving work. It's all going to. You know,
Speaker 1: they're amazing receivers. They just have a ton of options.
Speaker 1: Now you think that at some point they're gonna start
Speaker 1: switching to Benny Snell Anthony McFarland because James Conner is
Speaker 1: getting it done. See I don't know. I mean snow
Speaker 1: has six carries in the last two weeks for thirteen yards.
Speaker 1: You know it's not I'm just talking future out a whole.
Speaker 1: I don't know. There might be there might be a
Speaker 1: spot to speculate there. McFarland three for seven yards in
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. So I did because he's gonna
Speaker 1: get the volume he'll get. He'll get ten to all
Speaker 1: thirteen cares. He might get a reception or two. He
Speaker 1: might get you fifty sixty yards maybe. So I give
Speaker 1: him a C grade here. I'm giving Ben in a grade.
Speaker 1: I'm giving Juju in a grade. I'm giving Claypool in
Speaker 1: a grade. I'm giving Deonte Johnson in a grade. I
Speaker 1: don't even care because, as I said, they just keep
Speaker 1: throwing the ball and they keep racking up scores. The
Speaker 1: Jags are bottom ten in passing yards and passing touchdowns alone.
Speaker 1: Allowed UH Steelers hitting their stride right now. Juju has
Speaker 1: averaged over ten targets per week over the last four
Speaker 1: UH topping six for sixty seven and scoring in all
Speaker 1: scoring in two of them, topping six for sixty seven
Speaker 1: in all of them. But most importantly, Scott, it's his birthday.
Speaker 1: There you go. Uh. The reason his yardage totals are
Speaker 1: the are the low ones though, because Deonta Johnson he's
Speaker 1: the deeper guy. Claypool is the deeper guy. Deante Johnson
Speaker 1: double digit targets in every full game he's playing. That's
Speaker 1: that's the he's played one of those. He has played
Speaker 1: four of those. Uh, he has four scores in those
Speaker 1: games and at least seventy seven yards in each of
Speaker 1: those games. Uh, Claypool, Uh, let's talk about the rushing.
Speaker 1: Nine carries and two touch does rushing? Yeah, he's already
Speaker 1: like seven right now. James Conner just shaking this fist,
Speaker 1: who probably is. Uh, he's running up thirty two targets
Speaker 1: in the last three weeks as well. They're all averaging
Speaker 1: ted plus targets a game, three scores in that span.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm giving all a's. Maybe one of
Speaker 1: them turns into B performance. You don't know which one
Speaker 1: is gonna blow up, though, and they should all be fine.
Speaker 1: James Washington four touchdown, that would be That would be insane.
Speaker 1: On the other side, I'm giving I'm giving a bench
Speaker 1: grade to Jake Luton. The Steelers have not allowed a
Speaker 1: single top twelve fantasy day from a quarterback. Yet this
Speaker 1: year they're getting pressure on the quarterback thirty percent of
Speaker 1: the time, they're dialing up a blitz forty two percent
Speaker 1: of the time. If they do that on a rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback like Luton, I don't have a lot of faith
Speaker 1: in what he can do. Uh. They haven't allowed over
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty yards passing since Week five either, Uh,
Speaker 1: DJ Shark. I'm giving a B grade though, too, because
Speaker 1: with Luten in, Luton has just lasered in on him
Speaker 1: seventeen targets in the two in the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: Similar size number one receivers against the Steelers have actually
Speaker 1: had decent days against them, So I think if Luten
Speaker 1: gives it enough volume, he could get up to that
Speaker 1: B grade. I don't think Cole's getting there though. He's
Speaker 1: been a forty to fifty yard guy every week except
Speaker 1: for one blow up where he had three huge plays
Speaker 1: in garbage time. Otherwise he's like a forty yard guy
Speaker 1: and you hope for a touchdown. I think it's only
Speaker 1: about Shark here in the running game. Robinson B grade.
Speaker 1: I won't sugarcoat it though. It's it's not a great matchup,
Speaker 1: but Robinson gets of the touches in percentage of work.
Speaker 1: The last four Backs to hit fifteen touches against the
Speaker 1: Steelers all had seventy plus yards UH, and fifteen touches
Speaker 1: for Robinson is like, and that's below his floor. He's
Speaker 1: he's a guy that's more likely to get twenty to
Speaker 1: twenty five. He gets. He's he's had twenty five or
Speaker 1: more in three straight games. So I gave him the
Speaker 1: B grade. Rams take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and
Speaker 1: Brian we all started every part of the Rams passing game.
Speaker 1: Last week in the seemingly obvious matchup against Seattle, we
Speaker 1: got nothing. Now here comes in in much much tougher
Speaker 1: test against Tampa Bay. Do we dare go back to
Speaker 1: Jared goffin company? No? Not, at least not Goff. The
Speaker 1: last time Goff flew to Florida, things did not end well.
Speaker 1: We'll playing across the country and we went to play
Speaker 1: in Miami. I think he had about four four or
Speaker 1: five turnovers. And I hate golf in Florida, and I
Speaker 1: don't like a lot of his pass catchers. The only
Speaker 1: one to truly like his Cooper Cup and give him
Speaker 1: a b Cup of scene at least seven targets and
Speaker 1: six of the past seven games, Tampa Bay has surrendered
Speaker 1: a touchdown from the slot in three of the past
Speaker 1: four games. Couple see plenty oh Sean Murphy Bunting, who
Speaker 1: has yielded a total of four scores and is allowing
Speaker 1: a passer rating of one nine and his coverage that
Speaker 1: would be for Cup. You made him sound irash when
Speaker 1: you called him oh Sean. Well, that was kind of
Speaker 1: what I was going for, but the oh was like
Speaker 1: plenty of twenty of. But to the other receivers, Robert
Speaker 1: Woods and Josh Reynolds. I wanted to write a Reynolds
Speaker 1: wrap this week, but they're both on the bench, so
Speaker 1: I'll have to save that for later. Woods has seen
Speaker 1: nine fewer targets then Josh Reynolds over the last three
Speaker 1: games and has failed to reach thirty five yards and
Speaker 1: three of those past four Robert Woods that is, and
Speaker 1: over the past five games as a whole. This is
Speaker 1: a bad matchup for both. The Buccaneers have only allowed
Speaker 1: two receivers to top seventy five yards. They'll both base
Speaker 1: a tricky matchup in Jamal Dean, probably more so Woods,
Speaker 1: but Dean is uh allowing just thirty one yards per
Speaker 1: game and his coverage and is ranked ninth among corners
Speaker 1: by Pro Football Focus. So Woods and Reynolds are on
Speaker 1: the bench for me this week, but they're both both
Speaker 1: should still be rostered, of course. And then Tyler Higby
Speaker 1: and Gerald writ I had them on the bench as well.
Speaker 1: H The Bucks have left three tight end touchdowns over
Speaker 1: the last two games, the likes of Adam Troutman, Josh Hill,
Speaker 1: and Colin Thompson Carolinas Colin Thompson. But opposing type and
Speaker 1: opposing tight ends are averaging five catches for fifty plus yards.
Speaker 1: That's decent, but this is just a coin flip. I
Speaker 1: want no part of Tyler and Gerald Everett, so they're
Speaker 1: both on the bench, and all the running backs with
Speaker 1: their rams on the bench as well. Last week, here's
Speaker 1: the snapshare breakdown. Malcolm Brown, Darryl Henderson percent Cam Akers
Speaker 1: and he's the one that got start to Yeah. Acres
Speaker 1: led the way with ten opportunities and opportunities either a
Speaker 1: carry or a target. The other two had eight. And
Speaker 1: this is just a brutal matchup. Tampa Bay ranked second
Speaker 1: against the run by Football outsiders. Opposing running backs are
Speaker 1: averaging less than a hundred combo yards per game. That
Speaker 1: is absolutely insane, rushing receiving yards under a hundred and
Speaker 1: less than a touchdown per game. So they're both on
Speaker 1: the bench, uh quickly over the Tampa base Ronald Jones,
Speaker 1: can you give him a ce? I need to eat
Speaker 1: some crow here. We're really ragging on Ronald Jones last week.
Speaker 1: Maybe what's our anti our anti peacocks sounds? The barnyard
Speaker 1: is does a turkey on there, thank you. But Ronald
Speaker 1: Jones looks to be the Bucks lead back again. Assuming
Speaker 1: Jones the bulk of touches, which again is never a
Speaker 1: safe assumption in Tampa Bay, He'll have to tough matchup
Speaker 1: in the Rams. Los Angeles has only allowed five total
Speaker 1: touchdowns and running backs this year, and since Week four,
Speaker 1: no loan back has managed to top eighty combo yards
Speaker 1: against the Ram. So it's just awful matchup for running
Speaker 1: backs on both sides. But I will give Jones the sea.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bench Mike Evans because I'm gonna assume he
Speaker 1: sees the most of Jalen Ramsey, which is just the
Speaker 1: hard st anyone who's gonna see the majority of Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 1: You gotta benjam. I don't care who they are at
Speaker 1: this point. Davante Adams maybe, but we'll see if we
Speaker 1: ever get there. But anyway, that gives UH definitely not
Speaker 1: that leads me to believe Antonio Brown deserves a C
Speaker 1: target share since uh starting to share punk beds with
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. He should have had a fifty plus yard
Speaker 1: touchdown last week as well, Brady overthrew him and now
Speaker 1: now Brown could see an equal amount of Jalen Ramsey here.
Speaker 1: But I still think h Evans is of the majority
Speaker 1: of shadow coverage from Ramsey. But on Ahold of the
Speaker 1: Rams are allowing the fewest yards to opposing wide receivers,
Speaker 1: just one seven per game, and they haven't allowed a
Speaker 1: receiver to top seventy yards in the past six So
Speaker 1: just a CEE for Brown. Chris Godwin is gonn give
Speaker 1: him a C too, but he feels like the safer
Speaker 1: sea to me. Uh, Godwins has at least six targets
Speaker 1: in every game. He definitely won't see Jalen Ramsey. Instead,
Speaker 1: he gets slot corner Troy Hill, who was allowing forty
Speaker 1: two yards per game and a past rating of ninety
Speaker 1: five in his coverage. Not amazing numbers, but it's the
Speaker 1: best you're gonna get. Nobody going out against the Rams. Actually,
Speaker 1: the best you're gonna get it is probably Rob Gronkowski.
Speaker 1: Gonna give him a b um a lot of mouse
Speaker 1: to feed in Tampa Bay, of course, but um, his
Speaker 1: matchup is with Kenny Young, who allows an catch catch
Speaker 1: rate and coverage and his Pro Football focus is worst
Speaker 1: graded tight end defender. So Gronk probably your safest pass
Speaker 1: catcher this week with a B and because I'm ragging
Speaker 1: all the past catchers, just a cee for Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: The Ram secondary has been great, blanked Russell Wilson last week.
Speaker 1: Non Josh Allen. Quarterbacks have averaged a paltry and Allen
Speaker 1: six passing touchdowns. Not good, but that list does include
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, Kyle Allen, Alex Smith hybrid, and Washington Nick
Speaker 1: Foles to uh, not too impressive. So you're not bentioning Brady,
Speaker 1: but temporary expectations, all right? That sounds like a very
Speaker 1: good plan when we come back premature speculation. This is
Speaker 1: the bit where we give you players you want to
Speaker 1: pick up now that everybody else is going to be
Speaker 1: trying to pick up next week, but they're already on
Speaker 1: your roster because you jumped into the premature speculation. Sounds
Speaker 1: just like that also from last segment. If you can
Speaker 1: figure out the natural predator to the peacock, let us
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Speaker 1: the peacock on at the button bar here because we
Speaker 1: we're a little bit flummixed by that. What what eats
Speaker 1: a peacock? What doesn't eat a peacock? I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna google that right now. I'm nervous about
Speaker 1: tiger and mongoose. We didn't want to go the fantasy
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Speaker 1: This segment is called premature speculation. We give you three
Speaker 1: players to pick up that other people will be trying
Speaker 1: to pick up next week. But you're ahead of the game, Scott,
Speaker 1: you got so I gotta. I got a kind of
Speaker 1: a weird one here because he's going to be on buy,
Speaker 1: so I want you to get him before the Weavers
Speaker 1: after the buy. So I want you to get him
Speaker 1: now in the next five games. Jordan's Red faces three
Speaker 1: bottom seven teams against tight ends. Two are just middle
Speaker 1: of the pack and the other two are just middle
Speaker 1: of the pack. But those teams have govern up nine
Speaker 1: games of sixty plus and or a touchdown uh combined.
Speaker 1: Those are the tough matchups. So he's got a greade
Speaker 1: five games late. Kittle is I would tell December, and
Speaker 1: if San Francisco gets eliminated, Read might be good to
Speaker 1: go for the entire season for you. That wouldn't surprise me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So go get him now, all right, Jordan Read, I'll
Speaker 1: like everybody, everybody needs tight end help right now. That's
Speaker 1: a great angle, Brian, Mine's them a little more of
Speaker 1: a dynasty angle. But I'm going Autumn Tate wide receiver
Speaker 1: for the Bengals. Now, if something happens to a j Green,
Speaker 1: which might very well happenings happening right, he's decomposing in
Speaker 1: front of our eyes. But more importantly, Tee Higgins, uh
Speaker 1: would would see more targets. But when he does see targets,
Speaker 1: he's producing. He's got good size, six five pounds and
Speaker 1: he leads. He's a big boy. Takes a lot of
Speaker 1: really nice looking catches too. Next year, Tates and Higgins
Speaker 1: on the boundaries of Boyd running out of the slot
Speaker 1: with Joe Burrow is going to be scary, and Tate,
Speaker 1: despite his opportunities being limited, does lead the team in
Speaker 1: yards per pass route run. So when he gets the ball,
Speaker 1: he makes things happen. So if you've got a dead
Speaker 1: dynasty team, he's he's a good stash right now. Most
Speaker 1: of this year's rookie receivers started blowing up right around
Speaker 1: like week four. You know, they got through what was
Speaker 1: sort of like their version of the preseason, and you know,
Speaker 1: right around week four, second round pick Denzel Mims didn't
Speaker 1: play until three weeks ago. This is week four coming
Speaker 1: up for Denzel Mims. You may remember from the draft
Speaker 1: Denzel Mims, he's big, he's physical, he's fast, He's a
Speaker 1: big play down field threat. In his three games so far,
Speaker 1: he's been getting a bunch of targets and the Jets
Speaker 1: are gonna want to work him in for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season as they try to get some reps
Speaker 1: for him this year. That will pay off next year
Speaker 1: with Trevor Lawrence. Game scripts always favored the Jets passing
Speaker 1: game because they're constantly behind. They're going to be passing
Speaker 1: throughout and Mims has got a bunch of plus matchups left,
Speaker 1: including two in the playoffs. He will face Seattle and
Speaker 1: Cleveland in the Fantasy Playoffs weeks fourteen and sixteen. That
Speaker 1: might be a flex starter for you in fourteen and sixteen,
Speaker 1: Denzel Mims, let's get in our final two matchups of
Speaker 1: the show, including Kansas City taking on the Raiders. Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, Travis Kelsey. All obvious a's and do not
Speaker 1: require elaboration. They are my third, first, and first ranked
Speaker 1: players at their respective positions. Clyde Edwards, a layer, clocks
Speaker 1: in with the C grade. He's at a grand total
Speaker 1: of Since Bell arrived, he's had a grand total of
Speaker 1: nineteen carries, a lot even though Bell isn't taking the work,
Speaker 1: Bell's not getting it, isn't getting any work score in
Speaker 1: touchdowns now a little bit. Clyde Edwards Laire has posted
Speaker 1: eighty combo yards and no scores on thirteen touches, and
Speaker 1: the earlier matchup Agains Las Vegas he had eighty combo
Speaker 1: yards in and no score. The Raiders haven't allowed it
Speaker 1: back to top seventy rushing yards in their last six games,
Speaker 1: so there's just not a lot to like here from
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards Laire feels like he's sitting on fifties sixty
Speaker 1: yards and maybe a chance at a touchdown, let's hope.
Speaker 1: So um Levy on Bells on the bench, as I
Speaker 1: mentioned before, almost totally unused since his acquisition by Kansas City.
Speaker 1: Apparently not everybody who leaves Adam Gaze automatically becomes a
Speaker 1: star player, because Lavia Bell is doing less now with
Speaker 1: the high the best offense in the NFL. Go figure. Last,
Speaker 1: I want to mention, there's a chance that both Sammy
Speaker 1: Watkins does not play because of his hamstring and Mikole
Speaker 1: Hardman doesn't clear the COVID protocol. If both of those
Speaker 1: things happen, then I think you could throw into Marcus
Speaker 1: Robinson because he'll be on the field like every snap,
Speaker 1: so he might be a sneaky play. If both Watkins
Speaker 1: and Hardman can't go, let's flip over to the Raider's side.
Speaker 1: We'll start with the running game, which makes sense for
Speaker 1: this team. Josh Jacobs posted seventy seven yards and two
Speaker 1: scores against the Chiefs earlier this season in Kansas City
Speaker 1: is allowing the sixth most rushing yards, and the game
Speaker 1: script almost certainly involved another run heavy attack in an
Speaker 1: effort to keep the ball away from Patrick Mahomes. As
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier in the show, John Gruden runs the
Speaker 1: ball thirty one times per game. Kansas City sees twenty
Speaker 1: nine rushes per game. You figure Josh Jacobs gets like
Speaker 1: two thirds of the work. That's twenty touches for Josh
Speaker 1: Jacobs in. That's an A grade for Josh Jacobs and
Speaker 1: DeVante Booker was might take at Anthony player with the
Speaker 1: C grade. All right, let's go to the passing game.
Speaker 1: Derek Carr comes out of the C grade here. Posted
Speaker 1: his best game of the year in the earlier meeting,
Speaker 1: throwing for three hundred forty seven yards and three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: But that was an absolute anomaly for both Car and
Speaker 1: the Chiefs against one of the best past defenses. Cars
Speaker 1: average game in the month since that Kansas City win
Speaker 1: just one hundred seventy eight yards and one point three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's the real Derek Car here. He's been
Speaker 1: under one hundred sixty five yards in three straight games.
Speaker 1: And for the Chiefs, they've only allowed one hundred eight
Speaker 1: yards in one touchdown to the rest of the league
Speaker 1: other than Derek Carr in the previous game. So let's
Speaker 1: talk about his receivers. If Derek car is a Sea,
Speaker 1: who do we like? Darren Waller. Good tight ends have
Speaker 1: gotten it done against the Chiefs Hunter Henry and with
Speaker 1: the Chargers and Mark Andrews and the Ravens and Noah Fanton.
Speaker 1: The Broncos tight ends averaged seven catches seventy two yards.
Speaker 1: Good tight ends get it done here. Waller had five. Sorry,
Speaker 1: Waller's had at least five catches and sixty yards or
Speaker 1: a score in each of his last three against the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: and he did well in the previous matchup this year,
Speaker 1: everybody else is on the bench. Nelson Aguilar three catches,
Speaker 1: across his last three games and a bad matchup Henry Ruggs.
Speaker 1: He had the long bomb touchdown when these teams played
Speaker 1: each other last time, but he's done nothing else all
Speaker 1: season besides that one long reception. That's it. He is
Speaker 1: a low, low volume dart throw at best against a
Speaker 1: very good secondary a million times already. But just imagine
Speaker 1: Steedee Lamb or Jerry Judy on the Raiders or Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson rookies. They got it wrong. They flat out got
Speaker 1: it wrong. Our last matchup of the day, Tennessee Titans
Speaker 1: at the Baltimore Ravens Scott. This has been a sleepy
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans offense and now they go at Baltimore. This
Speaker 1: is not a get right spot. It's really not. The
Speaker 1: Evens have only allowed five passing touchdowns since Week three.
Speaker 1: That's not many. Week four is the last time a
Speaker 1: QB through for more than two thirty yards against them. Conversely,
Speaker 1: Tannehill's best yardage day in the last four weeks the
Speaker 1: sleep before week run two or thirty three yards. It's
Speaker 1: they're just really off. It's a tough draw. I have
Speaker 1: Tannehill on the bench. I actually have the whole passing
Speaker 1: game except A. J. Brown on the bench. Sorry about John,
Speaker 1: who I I just know I'm with you. John is
Speaker 1: not startable to eight catches since week five? John, John,
Speaker 1: Yeah John and JOHNU uh A J. Brown? Though he's
Speaker 1: just too good not to start. He had a terrible
Speaker 1: leak week last week, but he has scored in five
Speaker 1: straight prior to that. He has he's getting seven targets
Speaker 1: per game. Even in a tough matchup. If he's getting seven,
Speaker 1: eight nine targets, he might be able to get something done.
Speaker 1: And they gotta they gotta pass somewhere. So uh A
Speaker 1: J A J. Brown. I do have a soft be
Speaker 1: on Derrick Henry A grade for Derek Henry. There isn't
Speaker 1: benching Henry anyway. Uh. He scores most weeks, hits a
Speaker 1: hundred most of the time. Ravens have been good against
Speaker 1: running backs, but David Damian Harris just at a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty two yards and and he's a big bowler
Speaker 1: of a running back. Henry is a little bit bigger
Speaker 1: and a little bit a little bit more of a
Speaker 1: bowler than him. Also, Clais Campbell and Brandon Brandon Williams
Speaker 1: might be missing from that interior defensive line if they
Speaker 1: are more for Henry On the other side, Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: Tennessee is bottom five against quarterbacks, but Lamar Jackson only
Speaker 1: has two games with more than passing yards. He gets
Speaker 1: it done on the ground now. In his first five
Speaker 1: games he only had forty two rushes. He's got forty
Speaker 1: in his last three a round alone. He's he's starting
Speaker 1: to ramp up that rushing again. I'm still giving him
Speaker 1: an A grade. It's a bottom five pass defense, so
Speaker 1: he might be a little more prolific there and he's
Speaker 1: getting the rushing at least recently. Willie Sneed and uh
Speaker 1: and Marquis Brown, this is a matchup call. The Titans
Speaker 1: are bottom five against wide receivers. They've allowed nineteen different
Speaker 1: wide receivers to top fifty yards. That's sea level production.
Speaker 1: And the Titans are the worst team in the league
Speaker 1: against slot receivers, which is good for Sneed. So I
Speaker 1: have SEA grades on both of them. Mark Andrews gets
Speaker 1: an A grade, obviously a grade for me. Boil out
Speaker 1: for the season. And you are not touching those running
Speaker 1: backs with that split. No, Unfortunately, you can't use any
Speaker 1: of those running backs right now. We um when Ingram
Speaker 1: was out you you know, it gave you a glimmer
Speaker 1: hope for using Gus Edwards and j K both you know,
Speaker 1: but immediately Ingram comes back. Last week they split it
Speaker 1: up three ways and now they're all unusual. I can
Speaker 1: only hope next year we've got a little more clarity
Speaker 1: and frankly, one less guy in that backfield for us
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