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Speaker 1: Last week was like Scot Fish shot Fish. Yeah, it sounds,
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Speaker 1: charges ranks. That's right, I am updating the rankings constantly.
Speaker 1: This is for two weeks. It's my whole job. He does,
Speaker 1: just updating rankings all day. Man, we will have earned
Speaker 1: the end of this season. I'll tell you that much
Speaker 1: fun to get you over the course of the show,
Speaker 1: will still give you to take a chance on me, guys.
Speaker 1: And now maybe more important than ever, with these all
Speaker 1: of the starters going down with COVID, we'll give you
Speaker 1: nine guys you can pivot to three tough questions remain
Speaker 1: in play, including some playoffs specific fake questions coming your way,
Speaker 1: and we'll break down all the matchups, beginning with what
Speaker 1: feels like a defensive struggle Scott between Buffalo and the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots. Obviously, last game was the Arctic wind Bowl.
Speaker 1: You can glean very much from that game. I can,
Speaker 1: if if that can be a four teen to tend
Speaker 1: score in that weather, I gotta expect at least double
Speaker 1: in this indecent weather. On the Bill side, I have
Speaker 1: Josh Allen with a B grade, not not quite his
Speaker 1: usual A that he gets on this show. He's had
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns in five of his last six, and if
Speaker 1: you're thinking back, that one was a really really windy game.
Speaker 1: So uh, three straight really good rushing days for him
Speaker 1: as well. Why the B The Pats have held three
Speaker 1: of the last five quarterbacks they faced under a hundred yards.
Speaker 1: That's not yeah, and crazy under a hundred passing for
Speaker 1: three of their last five, six straight quarterbacks under a
Speaker 1: hundred seventy five. They've really shut down the pass game,
Speaker 1: and only one of those was a windy games, so
Speaker 1: there's no excuse. I will say Josh Allen was one
Speaker 1: of the better games of that with like a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty yards, but in the wind, Yeah, in the wind.
Speaker 1: B grade for Josh Allen. I gotta be grade on
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs. I don't love it because I feel like
Speaker 1: that's the guy Bill Belichick is going to try to
Speaker 1: take away. But even his bad games aren't bad. He
Speaker 1: has sixty nine plus and or a score in every
Speaker 1: game that wasn't that Monday night game. Every single one
Speaker 1: sixty nine and or score. You're you're you're getting you know,
Speaker 1: seven plus points out of him. No matter what he's
Speaker 1: he's got a C level floor. I can't give him
Speaker 1: any though, just because of the tough Pats matchup. They've
Speaker 1: allowed the fewest receptions and second fewest yards to watch receivers.
Speaker 1: I am given a C grade on Davis. I know
Speaker 1: Manuel Sanders is back, but Cole Beasley is out. I
Speaker 1: feel like that open maybe out. You don't think that,
Speaker 1: you don't think isn't that he's yeah? Uh. Gabriel Davis
Speaker 1: has the most red zon red zone targets on the
Speaker 1: team in the last three weeks, with eight every time
Speaker 1: for two years. Last year seven touchdowns when John Brown
Speaker 1: was out. Last week was Sanders was out, he had
Speaker 1: two more. When someone's out and he comes in, he
Speaker 1: steps up. I don't know how he doesn't get more
Speaker 1: playing time. We've been big on him on this show
Speaker 1: for two years now. Uh, Dawson Knox C grade. To
Speaker 1: my concern here is Davis keeps stealing his red zone looks.
Speaker 1: That's what was great for him earlier in the season.
Speaker 1: He has gained five plus targets almost every single game,
Speaker 1: and he does also have six red zone targets in
Speaker 1: the last three games. He gets those still, it's just
Speaker 1: not as many as Davis. Not a huge yardage guy,
Speaker 1: but maybe a touchdown in Knox had I think four
Speaker 1: completions in the first quarter of last week's game, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, Dawson and then he didn't catch another
Speaker 1: past No, But C grade on him, A C grade
Speaker 1: on Devin's Singletary. He completely took over that backfield last
Speaker 1: week tw plus touches. He's a good pass catcher. The
Speaker 1: team indicated this week that they want him to be
Speaker 1: the lead role. They think he's got the lead role.
Speaker 1: I've been before by this Buffalo backfield, though, so I'm
Speaker 1: keeping him in a C grade and the Pats. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Pats are likely to shut down Allen and Diggs.
Speaker 1: That's probably what they'll try to shut down, So maybe
Speaker 1: Singletary can get some pass Kennet chin work. UH. Ten
Speaker 1: running backs have topped a hundred total yards in the
Speaker 1: last twelve games against the Pats, with which that's a
Speaker 1: little surprising. You can't pass on the path exactly. You
Speaker 1: can't pass on them. So that's why I get. I
Speaker 1: give a starting grade to Devon Singletary, who I don't
Speaker 1: think has had a starting grade this season probably not
Speaker 1: not often, Yeah, not often. On the other side, I
Speaker 1: got Mac Jones on the bench. He's a decent real
Speaker 1: life quarterback. He's just not a great fantasy quarterback. Uh.
Speaker 1: And against this Bills d that they've only given up
Speaker 1: one good passing day this entire year, and that was
Speaker 1: the Tom Brady they they they've been They've struggled a
Speaker 1: little bit less a little bit with tevious white out,
Speaker 1: one good game, one bad game, and then the Wind game.
Speaker 1: So we'll see. But I don't trust Jones and this
Speaker 1: this likely tough matchup. Jacob be Myers C grade. Kendrick
Speaker 1: Born on the COVID list, not sure if he'll be back,
Speaker 1: but if he's not, it just substantiates that C grade
Speaker 1: even more. Twelve targets last week, thirty in his last
Speaker 1: five full games for Jacoby Myers, If you start anyone
Speaker 1: in the passing game, it's got to be him, just
Speaker 1: because he's probably gonna get that C grade on volume.
Speaker 1: He keeps getting six, seven, ten targets. Uh. This is
Speaker 1: a top ranked pasty though they don't have Tradavious White.
Speaker 1: They held down the Panthers. There's a lot to be concerned.
Speaker 1: I was very close to benching him, but once Born
Speaker 1: landed on COVID, I thought, all right, you might get
Speaker 1: the volume in the one last passing game. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: this is such a matchup between players. No but no
Speaker 1: playoff teams should have most mimr Henry you might have.
Speaker 1: He scored like ten nine in ten games. He scored
Speaker 1: nine touchdowns nine times in ten games. He usually doesn't
Speaker 1: top forty yards, but he's scoring consistently. The Bills have
Speaker 1: only allowed three tight end touchdowns this year, but he
Speaker 1: did score in that other in the last one. So
Speaker 1: I have a C grade on him just because he
Speaker 1: can get touchdowns. Uh, Stevenson and Harris. Harris is back,
Speaker 1: he's practicing, he's healthy. You can't run very well on
Speaker 1: the Bills. Actually, I'm both on the bench. If Harris
Speaker 1: does go, if Harris doesn't go, I'm giving Stevenson the
Speaker 1: SEA grade. I think that that makes complete sense. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: they'll split up enough work against a good defense that
Speaker 1: probably neutralizes both. Brian Jacksonville taking on the Jets. This
Speaker 1: one should be a much shorter, easier one, and it
Speaker 1: has to be Robinson might be a semi final winner
Speaker 1: right here. Yeah, why don't you go ahead and hit
Speaker 1: that fantasy Fonzi button please? James snapshare last week with
Speaker 1: urban Meyer back on the bar stool, the song remains
Speaker 1: the same. The Jets suck against running backs, allowing one
Speaker 1: combo yards and nearly two touchdowns per game. Easy a
Speaker 1: Fonzie a for James Robinson or of the wide receivers
Speaker 1: Marvin Jones. Despite getting out targeted by Laviska Chennault and
Speaker 1: the Quan Treadwell last week, Jones is still the one
Speaker 1: Jacksonville wide receiver I would play, But you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't have to. They're on the bench. The Jets
Speaker 1: are too easy to run on. But you know he
Speaker 1: was not on the bench. Dan Arnold's back. The Jets
Speaker 1: are allowing more than five catches and sixty two yards
Speaker 1: per game to tight end. So if you're in desperate
Speaker 1: need to be tight end, dan Arnold is your guy.
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence is not your guy at quarterback. He's on
Speaker 1: the bench. That's pretty easy. Let me just let me
Speaker 1: just mention this about Trevor Lawrence. I tweeted this earlier
Speaker 1: this week. He started the season with a three touchdown
Speaker 1: game and then he went one touchdown one touchdown. That's
Speaker 1: five touchdowns in his first three games. He has four
Speaker 1: touchdowns the rest of the year and one touchdown in
Speaker 1: the last two months. Trevor Lawrence the first player taken.
Speaker 1: The only reason this is not a gigantic's story of
Speaker 1: how the first overall player has taken has been this
Speaker 1: bad it is because he's in Jacksonville, right, But I mean, like,
Speaker 1: is Houston a great spot? No, Davis Mills is doing okay?
Speaker 1: Are the Bears a great spot? No? Justin Fields is
Speaker 1: doing all right? Yeah, Trevor Lawrence shaping up to be
Speaker 1: a bust. But we won't. We won't write them off
Speaker 1: just yet. But anyway, we're writing him off for this week.
Speaker 1: Over to the Jets. A lot more to write off here,
Speaker 1: including Michael Carter. He's on the bench. Just saw of
Speaker 1: the snaps last week. Jags can't be anybody to start here,
Speaker 1: is there. I'm just gonna say, James, let's cut to
Speaker 1: the chase. Thank you, James and Crowder. I'll give him
Speaker 1: to see the Jaguars are allowing fourteen catches one seventy
Speaker 1: yards and one touchdown per game to wide receiver units. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's the one I would start, even though it is
Speaker 1: a Keeling Cole revenge game. But I can't go there. Uh.
Speaker 1: Braxton Barrios, Keeling Cole, denzil Million Mims combined for two
Speaker 1: catches last week. Mims had the most targets with three,
Speaker 1: but the least catches with zero from those guys. So yeah,
Speaker 1: crowd is your only storable Jet this week. Let me
Speaker 1: mention this just briefly on the Jets for those especially
Speaker 1: in Dynasty or Empire leagues where you you drafted Zack Wilson.
Speaker 1: He's clearly played much better in these past whatever three
Speaker 1: games since he came back from injury. Zack Wilson has
Speaker 1: dramatically improved. If you wrote him off in the first
Speaker 1: two months, but you know, and then he got hurt.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you he's played far better later. I did
Speaker 1: contemplate him as might take a chance on the quarter.
Speaker 1: I'll give him that that much. But he's on the bench,
Speaker 1: all right. I'm with you on that. Baltimore Ravens take
Speaker 1: on the Cincinnati Bengals. I'm not rooting for injury here,
Speaker 1: but I am rooting that they rest Lamar Jackson for
Speaker 1: another week on Thursday. Correct And if he because you know,
Speaker 1: with him on a foot injury, if you don't have
Speaker 1: the mobility, then what you've got on average out of
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson is two hundred sixty passing out to its.
Speaker 1: He's bad and about a touch a little over a
Speaker 1: touchdown per game, which isn't great. So I just think
Speaker 1: I'd rather have a fully healthy Tyler Huntley, not just
Speaker 1: for Huntley saying, but for all the receiver's sake as well,
Speaker 1: because he's proven himself to be pretty good. Get this.
Speaker 1: In his three full games, Tyler Hunt's hunt Huntley has
Speaker 1: completed seventy of his passes. That's Drew Breeze level completion levels.
Speaker 1: It's a it's remarkable for Huntley and his running ability
Speaker 1: can spark a high end fantasy game, just like last
Speaker 1: week when he was the highest scoring quarterback in fantasy football.
Speaker 1: He's earning a paycheck next year, Well you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: he isn't, right, I mean, what will be fascinating And
Speaker 1: again not to get a hold ahead of ourselves here,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson is going to insist on getting paid this offseason.
Speaker 1: As he heads into his fifth year of his rookie deal,
Speaker 1: He's going to insist on getting paid. He's gonna want
Speaker 1: top five money. Ravens may look at all of you know,
Speaker 1: may decide we don't want to give top five money
Speaker 1: to Lamar Jackson, which would be a reasonable conclusion to
Speaker 1: draw either side of it could be reasonable. Then you
Speaker 1: gotta you work out a deal with Tyler Huntley, who
Speaker 1: will be pennies on the dollar compared to what it
Speaker 1: would cost to get Lamar Jackson. Then Jackson goes straight
Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh. It probably he probably does. It could work
Speaker 1: out that way anyway. Um, I've got to be grade
Speaker 1: on Tyler Huntley, a C grade on Lamar Jackson if
Speaker 1: he goes. Let's talk about the receivers. Mark Andrews has
Speaker 1: just turned into an obvious. Ay, I don't even think
Speaker 1: I need to elaborate on it other than to say
Speaker 1: no drop off whatsoever with Tyler Huntley, and so no,
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about that at all. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Marquis Brown. He's got ten. He's got ten receptions
Speaker 1: from Huntley last week, which is great, but his scoreless
Speaker 1: streak now sits at six straight games for Hollywood. Brown.
Speaker 1: He's faced the Bengals four times in his career. He
Speaker 1: has scored in all four games, which is good news.
Speaker 1: And he's gonna probably see a fair amount of Trey
Speaker 1: Waynes on the outside. Wayne has barely played in his
Speaker 1: two years since going to Cincinnati, and he's giving up
Speaker 1: a passer rating of one D forty three in his coverage.
Speaker 1: I've got to be great on Marquis Brown. Rashade Bateman
Speaker 1: sparked to life last week. He roasted since for eighty
Speaker 1: yards on the only three catches in their prior meeting.
Speaker 1: Uh so, maybe he doesn't need a ton of volume here.
Speaker 1: Maybe he could, you know, be all right on just
Speaker 1: three or four catches again here. Um, also on the
Speaker 1: outside see some of the same Trey Waynes, which would
Speaker 1: be helpful. Um. I've got a C grade on Bateman
Speaker 1: if you need to go that direction. The running backs
Speaker 1: devote Freeman and Lottavius Murray. Guys, we had to. If
Speaker 1: you didn't pay attention to last week's game. We have
Speaker 1: a full blown time share going on in Baltimore. If
Speaker 1: last week is any indication, both guys. Now, I believe
Speaker 1: impossible to start unless you think last week was an
Speaker 1: aberration with Ottavius Murray getting more touches. The only angles
Speaker 1: I can really offer you here is that the Bengals
Speaker 1: give up a lot of receptions and receiving yards to
Speaker 1: opposing running backs, and Freeman is the better pass catcher,
Speaker 1: so I give the preferred Neither gets a C grade,
Speaker 1: But if I had to pick one of the other,
Speaker 1: I would pick him onto Freeman. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: over to the Cincinnati side, where really the biggest storyline
Speaker 1: is the Raven defense, which in Thursday's practice had a
Speaker 1: total of thirteen available players. That's it, oh man. So
Speaker 1: there you have to watch all of the COVID and
Speaker 1: injuries that have stricken the Baltimore defense. And I've got
Speaker 1: I had strong grades on especially the passing game anyway,
Speaker 1: but you can ratchet everybody up a letter grade if
Speaker 1: it turns out that this level of injury and COVID
Speaker 1: continues to strike Baltimore. The NBA is bringing back a
Speaker 1: bunch of relics because of COVID. I think Ed Reid
Speaker 1: could maybe suit up for the Raven. They might want
Speaker 1: to go that way. Let's talk about the receivers. Tee
Speaker 1: Higgins gets an A. Prior to last week's flop, Higgins
Speaker 1: had a run of three straight one yard games and
Speaker 1: he chipped in two scores over that span. And Baltimore
Speaker 1: secondary has surrendered five receiver scores in their last three games,
Speaker 1: probably missing multiple starters here, So Tee Higgins gets an A.
Speaker 1: You can't advance him too higher than in A if
Speaker 1: a bunch of Baltimore players are out, but you could
Speaker 1: with Jamaar Chase, who's got a B grade right now.
Speaker 1: Horrific game last week. I believe it was one catch,
Speaker 1: three yards for Chase last week. I believe that's correct.
Speaker 1: Only one game with a touchdown in his last month,
Speaker 1: and over that month, here's Jamar Chase's average game three
Speaker 1: and a half catches, forty two yards. That's it, But
Speaker 1: he put up two hundred yards on the Ravens in
Speaker 1: the last matchup between these teams, So remains startable with
Speaker 1: a B. And again, if it turns out that all
Speaker 1: the starters are missing from the Baltimore secondary, go ahead
Speaker 1: and bump them up to an A. Tyler Boyd startable
Speaker 1: here as well. He's seen at least five targets in
Speaker 1: three straight games, turning those looks into nearly five catches
Speaker 1: per game for an average of seventy nine yards. As
Speaker 1: it stands, it looks like lightly used journeyman Kevin Seymour
Speaker 1: will man the slot for the Ravens. That would be
Speaker 1: a major plus matchup for Tyler Boyd, who comes in
Speaker 1: with a B as well. Then if I like all
Speaker 1: those receivers, obviously I love Joe Burrow in this game.
Speaker 1: It is a get right up ortunity for Burrow. Even
Speaker 1: when the Baltimore defense was at full strength, Burrow would
Speaker 1: have been a strong start here. But as it stands,
Speaker 1: he is an obvious A grade and I believe I
Speaker 1: have him ranked number two or three at the quarterback
Speaker 1: position this week. Lastly, Joe Mixon. This one's trickier because
Speaker 1: he has really hit a wall with injuries and time share.
Speaker 1: Over the last three games. He's averaging fifty seven rushing
Speaker 1: yards I'm three yards per carry and has one touchdown
Speaker 1: in the last three games. And the Ravens have been
Speaker 1: a great run defense, allowing the fifth newest rushing yards
Speaker 1: to opposing running backs. And he's got the ankle injury,
Speaker 1: which is always dangerous on a running back. I don't
Speaker 1: like that, so I've got him as a B grade
Speaker 1: here depending on whether or not the Baltimore defense his
Speaker 1: how many people are out, But you could lower him
Speaker 1: to a streak C grade, which is where where I
Speaker 1: originally had Joe Mixon, Like last week, a lot of
Speaker 1: if then statements in all of these matchups. If this
Speaker 1: happens this great, if this happens that great. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: doing our best, folks, and so are you. I know
Speaker 1: this is very challenging fantasy managers. You're earning your championships
Speaker 1: this year like no other season. When we come back,
Speaker 1: nine players upon whom you can take a chance we'll
Speaker 1: give you or take a chance of me players in moments,
Speaker 1: chance a chance, take a chance on me. Nine players
Speaker 1: not normally in your starting lineup. You need it this
Speaker 1: week more than most, Matt. It is uh. We're done
Speaker 1: surviving for starters, and we begin at the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: Scott Fish your take a chance of the quarterback before
Speaker 1: we start? Can I like that song? But can we
Speaker 1: petition to get the chipmunks back? I love the chipmunks.
Speaker 1: I wish we could. I want the chipmunks, like, if
Speaker 1: they're up to me, would be chipmunks every week all right,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be chipmunks every week. Take a chance on me, quarterback.
Speaker 1: I have Matt Ryan. I know it sounds gross. He
Speaker 1: has like three touchdown passes in the last six games.
Speaker 1: I get it, I get it, but he's playing against
Speaker 1: the Lions. Whoever. The last four games have allowed yards
Speaker 1: and two scores per game to opposing quarterbacks, and it's
Speaker 1: actually a pretty decent spot for him. I have Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan C grade. People like to hear that, Ryan, you
Speaker 1: take a chance for me quarterback. Used them last week
Speaker 1: and he used them again to a toungoola at the Saints.
Speaker 1: This week you will get Jalen waddle Back. That's a
Speaker 1: big boon for two. Over the last three weeks, the
Speaker 1: Saints only highest opponent passing play percentage attent and during
Speaker 1: that same stretch, and Lean says you the most past
Speaker 1: attempts per game at forty three plus. Saints very tough
Speaker 1: to run on. I just think to airs it out
Speaker 1: on Monday Night against New Orleans for once. We can't
Speaker 1: use Jimmy Garoppolo because he's Thursday night, so you know
Speaker 1: we can't do that. Well, I'm gonna go to a
Speaker 1: more desperation play than either of yours. Drew Lock going
Speaker 1: up against the Raiders. I don't know what scenario exists
Speaker 1: you need to start Drew Lock. Maybe you were you
Speaker 1: were counting on Taysom Hill or something. But here's your
Speaker 1: quasi plausible scenario you'd like to go there. Uh Locks.
Speaker 1: Everything that Teddy Bridgewater isn't. He's strong armed and mistake prone.
Speaker 1: He is a boom or bus fantasy producer with some
Speaker 1: boom opportunity this week because last year he started against
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. He put up three hundred thirty nine yards
Speaker 1: and two scores against the Raiders Drew Lock did earlier
Speaker 1: this year, Teddy posted his best game of the season
Speaker 1: against the Raiders three thirty four and three. So this
Speaker 1: team knows how to beat the Raiders. Vegas is a
Speaker 1: slumping secondary. Over the past five weeks, they've allowed the
Speaker 1: most passing touchdowns and the third most passing yards. Drew Lock,
Speaker 1: it doesn't actually kind of makes sense. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the running back position. You take a chance of me
Speaker 1: runner Scott. I am going with Jordan Howard, And as
Speaker 1: the week rolls on here that might be even more
Speaker 1: more and more like a good spot. Uh. Just listeners
Speaker 1: love this I have a C grade on They like
Speaker 1: to they like to know the actual grade. He has
Speaker 1: ten plus touches in five consecutive games he's played and
Speaker 1: has put Scott and Gainwell on the bench. Miles Sanders
Speaker 1: is dinged up with the quad injury. He had fifty
Speaker 1: seven or more yards in all five. He's got seventeen
Speaker 1: red zone touches in those last five games. And this
Speaker 1: is kind of the game against the Giants that they
Speaker 1: might pound the clock late and a lot of Howards.
Speaker 1: So Jordan Howard, if you're Kenneth Gainwell, that's gotta hurt him.
Speaker 1: Undead corpse of Jordan Howard getting repso right, Uh, Brian,
Speaker 1: you gonna take a chance of your running back? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Fish just said take home players usually get a C.
Speaker 1: And that's why I'm going with se Rex birkehead Rex Rare.
Speaker 1: I don't. We don't have this down for a t REX,
Speaker 1: but um, I'll work on that. Well, we'll get it.
Speaker 1: We'll go on later for C Rex. He's at home
Speaker 1: against the close enough. Yeah, at home against the Chargers. Uh.
Speaker 1: Last week, that was like the fourth Jurassic Park they
Speaker 1: had up. Those movies get worse by the the installments.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Burkehead led Houston with nineteen opportunities last week. Uh,
Speaker 1: those are targets and carries, by the way, opportunities. David
Speaker 1: Johnson Royce Freeman combined for just ten. The Chargers are
Speaker 1: allowing me fourth most rushing yards fifteen per game and
Speaker 1: the third most touchdowns one point three per game to
Speaker 1: opposing running back. So se Rex Rare Leonard Bernatt's not
Speaker 1: gonna play, do you? Bernard's on injury reserve. Ronaldo is
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of work against Carolina in relief.
Speaker 1: Last week, he averaged eight yards per carry, and on
Speaker 1: the season he's been good for almost five yards per carried,
Speaker 1: just like he was last year. Ronald Jones doesn't stink.
Speaker 1: They don't like him. Apparently he's always in the doghouse
Speaker 1: or whatever, but he's They gotta start him. They don't
Speaker 1: have a choice. He's not gonna come close to for
Speaker 1: nets receiving numbers, but we'll get almost all the carries
Speaker 1: against a team giving up one hundred rushing yards per
Speaker 1: game over the last five weeks. They've also allowed five
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns over the past five games. Ronald Jones could
Speaker 1: hit one hundred yards in a touchdown. If all of
Speaker 1: those trends hold, let's go to the receivers. Scott, who's
Speaker 1: gonna take a chance for me? Receiver? So I'm in
Speaker 1: this sleeper bowl one with A J. Dillon. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I mentioned about your good friend. I've number
Speaker 1: one seed that I'm playing against JJ Dillon, and he
Speaker 1: sneakily picked up Allen Lazard to play against me. I
Speaker 1: think he's got some inside knowledge in this matchup. So
Speaker 1: you should pick up Allen Lazard. By the way, mvs
Speaker 1: on the COVID list, Marquez vald sconce on the COVID list,
Speaker 1: So Lezard will see that number two work and probably
Speaker 1: like the out too, So you'll take a chance of
Speaker 1: me runner Brian receiver. And I'm not playing against this
Speaker 1: I'm not playing against this guy in any fantasy league,
Speaker 1: but I might use him on Sunday. And that Zach
Speaker 1: Pascal of the Colts at Arizona. On the season, the
Speaker 1: Cardinals have allowed the third most touchdowns to wide receivers
Speaker 1: six wide receiver touchdowns allowed over their last three games alone.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals just put starting corner Robert Alfred on i
Speaker 1: R last week, and lastly slot receivers have done very
Speaker 1: well against Arizona lately. Over the last three weeks, Jachem
Speaker 1: Grant five catches sixty two yards in a touchdown, Cooper
Speaker 1: Cup thirteen catches three yards in a touchdown, and last
Speaker 1: week Fisher's boy I'm on ros st Brown eight catches
Speaker 1: ninety yards in a touchdown. Zach Pascal is next, Pascal Man.
Speaker 1: If you hit that, I'll be very impressed. I've got
Speaker 1: Van Jefferson going up against the Vikings. He runs from
Speaker 1: all over the field, left, right, and from the slot
Speaker 1: and has positive matchups and all three spots against Patrick Peterson,
Speaker 1: Mackenzie Alexander, and Cameron Danceler. Mackenzie Alexander slumped all the
Speaker 1: way to the very bottom of pro football focuses UH
Speaker 1: cornerback rankings, and the Vikings have allowed the most yards
Speaker 1: to wide receivers one per game, and over the last
Speaker 1: five weeks that one ninety one balloons up to two
Speaker 1: hundred eight yards per game to wide receivers. They've allowed
Speaker 1: the second most touchdowns to wideouts. And we've seen a
Speaker 1: ton of depth guys tear up the Vikings just recently.
Speaker 1: Demere Bird, James Washington, Josh Reynolds, Juwan Jennings, Marquez, Valdes, Scantling,
Speaker 1: why not Vane ever since? Probably better than all those gids,
Speaker 1: you know, why not him? Uh Scott? Remember Jeremy Hill
Speaker 1: Bengals running back from a few years ago. I don't
Speaker 1: like talking about him. Yes, I don't know why. I
Speaker 1: had a a toward toward love affair. Okay, so he had.
Speaker 1: I remember at one point people cracked the code on
Speaker 1: his personal fantasy league and they found where he was
Speaker 1: running his league on ESPN, And you know, they're all
Speaker 1: quasi public. You can't change Jeremy Hill's team, but you
Speaker 1: could see his team, and so people would figure out
Speaker 1: who And he had all these Bengals on his team
Speaker 1: because he was a Bengal, and so people figure out
Speaker 1: who was in and out based on who Jeremy starting
Speaker 1: on his fantasy So adding legitimately legitimacy, I think it
Speaker 1: could be uh Detroit Lions taking on the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1: Scott for the Lions. Jared Goff looks like there's a
Speaker 1: good chance he won't go, and I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: really like any part of this this offense without him.
Speaker 1: You don't trust him, boyle I can't gonna trust the
Speaker 1: last after the last time. No, I have both quarterbacks
Speaker 1: on the bench. Actually I I don't. Course I hope
Speaker 1: so Jared Goff was not playing well enough to uh
Speaker 1: to deserve a start anyway in the passing game, though.
Speaker 1: If golf goes, I like calman Row again. If Boil goes,
Speaker 1: I kind of want to bench everybody in the passing game.
Speaker 1: But if golf goes, I have a C grade on
Speaker 1: Alman Raw. He's just clicking all the boxes right now.
Speaker 1: Hundred seventy eight targets in the last three games. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure that's accurate. Hundred seventy eight sounds right. Um,
Speaker 1: charges not paid attention to you. You can tell hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy eight targets. Um, they constantly feed him eight
Speaker 1: plus catches, seventy plus yards and all three. Uh So
Speaker 1: I have a C grade on him just because he
Speaker 1: gets crazy volume if he if golf does go, everyone
Speaker 1: else is on the bench in the passing game, but
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift I'm going to give an a grade to.
Speaker 1: If he comes back, which it sounds like he's going
Speaker 1: to be back. We're putting Netflix Craig Reynolds back on
Speaker 1: the bench uh DeAndre Swift. He had a hundred thirty
Speaker 1: six total yards in his score the last time Boyle
Speaker 1: started because he got all the work. They just kept
Speaker 1: feeding him. And my worry is, you know, with his
Speaker 1: long layoff, is he ready to get all the work
Speaker 1: immediately when he comes back? And what if if Jamal
Speaker 1: Williams is also off the COVID list, which looks like
Speaker 1: it looks like So that's my worry on Swift. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's not like an art Vark type A. It's
Speaker 1: a low end A, but it's an A for Swift
Speaker 1: just because I think he'll get a ton art Park.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that works. On the Atlanta side,
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan was na take a chance on me quarterback? Naturally.
Speaker 1: I like his past catchers just a little bit at least.
Speaker 1: I have a B grade on Gauge. Are people even
Speaker 1: watching how good Gauge is? Like he most two guys
Speaker 1: last week, He's playing out of his mind right now,
Speaker 1: sixty plus and or a score and six of his
Speaker 1: last seven ninety plus in two of the last three.
Speaker 1: With Pits taking so much attention, Ryan's turning to Gauge
Speaker 1: and he's he's making it happen. B grade on gauge,
Speaker 1: B grade on pits. I have to. Despite all that attention,
Speaker 1: he still gets targets sixty plus yards and six of
Speaker 1: his last nine this matchup man twelve different tight ends,
Speaker 1: twelve have top fifty and or scored four of them
Speaker 1: in the last three games alone. Um. He might, however,
Speaker 1: see some coverage from mamani are are ruy ru war. Sorry,
Speaker 1: who's been stillar lately, And I think if he goes
Speaker 1: on anyone it might be Pitts. But I still have
Speaker 1: it be grade there corderrel Patterson. I'm gonna keep doing
Speaker 1: it every week that I'm on this show. I pretty
Speaker 1: much give Patterson a grade because you can't. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: jigs up on Patterson's That is my concern. After last
Speaker 1: weeks we talked about this concern. Yes, but the Lions
Speaker 1: are just such a nice matchup for running backs. They're
Speaker 1: one of the worst in the league. They're like third worst,
Speaker 1: their bottom ten in almost every single category. Uh Andy's
Speaker 1: game script proof. If they fall behind, they'll pass to him.
Speaker 1: If they don't pass to him, He's not even running
Speaker 1: routes anymore. Man. That's the problem. The lines have allowed
Speaker 1: twenty two running back touchdowns this year, nine backs over
Speaker 1: a hundred yards. Right. I want to believe it's true too,
Speaker 1: but the reality is San Francisco was a tough, tough
Speaker 1: defense last week, way tougher, unquestionably. But the thing, it's
Speaker 1: not a new trends five games having virtually no impact
Speaker 1: on the passage we've talked about, and he's a timeshare
Speaker 1: running back. That's that's why I can't be I'm not
Speaker 1: on board with this. A grade on Errol Patterson. Um,
Speaker 1: let's take a break when we come back and Indianapolis
Speaker 1: Colts take on the Arizona Cardinals. Obviously, Jonathan Taylor, you
Speaker 1: know what to do, but what about elements of the
Speaker 1: passing game. Beyond Zach Pascal, who is all but a
Speaker 1: lock for a massive game? Here is Carson Wentz, somebody
Speaker 1: you're gonna go to war with. What about Michael Pittman
Speaker 1: who got one catch before getting ejected last week? What
Speaker 1: do you do with those guys? We'll talk through Colts
Speaker 1: and Cardinals when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly.
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Speaker 1: judgment as needed. Indianapolis takes on the Arizona Cardinals. Brian
Speaker 1: obviously um Jonathan Taylor goes without saying is an obvious A.
Speaker 1: But the passing game, to me is much more intriguing.
Speaker 1: What do you think about Carson Wentz, Michael Pittman and
Speaker 1: some of the other bubble guys that people might be
Speaker 1: thinking about. Well, we know why. I like Zach Pascal.
Speaker 1: He was my take a chance on me wide receiver.
Speaker 1: That's because the Cardinals have allowed the third most touchdowns
Speaker 1: to wide receivers, six to the position over the last
Speaker 1: three games alone. For that reason I gave Michael Pittmann
Speaker 1: is see, I'm not gonna give t Y Hilton a
Speaker 1: starting grade though, I just can't do it. T Y,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. And as far as the tight ends go,
Speaker 1: if but Wiley Cox and Jack they were one person
Speaker 1: starting grade, but they are not. But for as far
Speaker 1: as it goes for Carson Wentz, I still got him
Speaker 1: on the bench. There's the very real fear that Jonathan
Speaker 1: Taylor takes this game over and the Cardinals are allowing
Speaker 1: just two four yards and one and a half passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns per game. Wentz is a sure fire starting two
Speaker 1: quarterback leagues, but I don't see him cracking top twelve,
Speaker 1: top fifteen territory at quarterback, so he's on the bench
Speaker 1: for me. You hit on the key problem. It's so
Speaker 1: easy to run on the Cards. A giant game potentially
Speaker 1: coming from Taylor, and that might eat into a Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: I've gotten starting linebackers, i'd say, as Simmons and Marcus
Speaker 1: Golden for Arizona are both banged up questionable to play.
Speaker 1: Bodes well for Taylor, but he's an obvious say over
Speaker 1: to the Cardinals side. James Conner has been an obvious
Speaker 1: start in recent weeks, but I got him on the bench.
Speaker 1: Now that Chase Edmonds is back and he's still not
Speaker 1: a pent from the heel and injury they suffered two
Speaker 1: weeks ago. He's not a hundo and uh he's in
Speaker 1: that time share and it's a tough matchup. The Coults
Speaker 1: are ranked fifth ends the run by Pro Football Focus. Uh.
Speaker 1: They just held New England to thirty nine rushing yards
Speaker 1: last week, so I got Connor and Edmonds on the bench.
Speaker 1: I almost benched Christian Kirk, but uh, I did not.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a c. Over the last five games,
Speaker 1: no receiver has tallied more than fifty two yards against Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: and during that same span, the Colts have allowed these
Speaker 1: second fewest yards two wide receivers and have given up
Speaker 1: just two touchdowns of the position. Both went to Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk is not Stefan Diggs. AJ Green used to
Speaker 1: be Stefon Diggs. He certainly not anymore. He is on
Speaker 1: the bench, but zach Ertz is not. If he plays.
Speaker 1: He's got a hamstring, he should. He should played through
Speaker 1: it last week and they still targeted him I think
Speaker 1: eleven times, so apparently it's not that bad. He should
Speaker 1: be good to go, So I'm gonna give him the b.
Speaker 1: Last week, the Colts were picked apart by New England
Speaker 1: tight ends, mainly Hunter Henry not John new Smith. Sorry
Speaker 1: to say, charged for eighty yards and two touchdowns. Indias
Speaker 1: also allowed the most yards to the tight end position
Speaker 1: on the season. So a safe B for Earth's but
Speaker 1: just monitor that, Hammy, but he should be fine. And
Speaker 1: not a very safe B for Kyler Murray. But I
Speaker 1: mean give him a B here. The Colts have surrendered
Speaker 1: just three passing touchdowns over the last three games, and
Speaker 1: that includes limiting Tom Brady to just two six yards
Speaker 1: and one touchdown in Week twelve. And I kind of
Speaker 1: gets worse for Murray, who he did have a good
Speaker 1: rushing game against the Bears. They ran him a lot
Speaker 1: in that game, but on the season he hasn't been
Speaker 1: running a ton. But Indie has not allowed a quarterback
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown all season, and they faced the likes of
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill, who has seven rushing touchdowns by the way,
Speaker 1: that's like fourth among running backs for Ryan Tannehill and
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson held all those guys out
Speaker 1: of the end zone. So not not a smash spot
Speaker 1: for Murray at all, but I will still give him
Speaker 1: a B. And that's it for the Cards. Rams take
Speaker 1: on the Vikings. Matthew Stafford and Cooper Cupper obvious, a's
Speaker 1: against a struggling secondary that just Jettison to starting cornerback
Speaker 1: one week ago, and the team that'll I was the
Speaker 1: most passing yards over the last five weeks and the
Speaker 1: most yards to wide receivers specifically, So Cup and Stafford
Speaker 1: are obviously, but that also means I like Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: a lot. Not only have the Vikings given up the
Speaker 1: most yardage to wide receivers, they're giving up They've given
Speaker 1: up at least eighties six yards to a receiver in
Speaker 1: six the last seven games. Beckham is the most likely
Speaker 1: guy to get that. Over the last five games, Viking
Speaker 1: secondaries also allowed seven touchdowns to the position, so obviously
Speaker 1: over one per game. Beckham lines up on the left
Speaker 1: side of the field most often. That puts him on
Speaker 1: the Vikings best cornerback Patrick Peterson Van Jefferson's on the right.
Speaker 1: He was might take a chance on me wide receiver.
Speaker 1: He also has a B grade in this game. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the running backs Sony Walkman and Darryl Henderson.
Speaker 1: They are not locked in an unfortunate committee. Sony had
Speaker 1: the upper hand last week, out touching Henderson by almost
Speaker 1: three to one, but Henderson should be healthier now. The
Speaker 1: Vikings key run defenders are healthy and over the past
Speaker 1: three weeks they're giving up just three point nine yards
Speaker 1: per carry. But even on that, they've managed to give
Speaker 1: up decent games and Nagi Harrison David Montgomery the past
Speaker 1: two weeks. My guess is either Sony or Darryll end
Speaker 1: up with good games, but good a good game. But
Speaker 1: I don't think they both do. And I don't love
Speaker 1: either once, no way, but it's nice that he's been activated.
Speaker 1: I'd like to I bet they give him some work
Speaker 1: in week eighteen, just to get his legs back a
Speaker 1: little bit right, knock the rust off, and then see
Speaker 1: what he can do in the playoffs. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Viking side where there's a little more intrigue here.
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook, as you already know, is out. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about Alexander Madison, who averages a whopping twenty four touches
Speaker 1: in games that Cook misses, and they don't. They barely
Speaker 1: give anybody else any carries. They really trust Madison in
Speaker 1: this role. The Rams allow the third fewest yards per carry,
Speaker 1: just three point nine on the season, and since ending
Speaker 1: they're losing skid. Three weeks ago no back has topped
Speaker 1: forty one rushing yards against them. That is not good
Speaker 1: news for her. That is not good news for Alexander Madison,
Speaker 1: the last running back to hit one hundred yards against
Speaker 1: the Rams. Week four, James Conner posted ninety four receiving
Speaker 1: yards against Los Angeles, but Madison doesn't catch much, and
Speaker 1: I don't think that means much. I've got to be
Speaker 1: grade just on sheer volume for Alexander Madison, but I
Speaker 1: don't love the matchup. Let's talk through the passing game,
Speaker 1: beginning with Justin Jefferson. Hopefully the Vikings will overcorrect for
Speaker 1: last week's egregious under utilization of Justin Jefferson. Jefferson should
Speaker 1: let up a Ram secondary that has allowed the fifth
Speaker 1: most yards to receivers over the past four games. Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey remains an elite cornerback you know, probably shadow Jefferson
Speaker 1: for a lot of the game, but maybe not all
Speaker 1: the game. Sometimes he does and sometimes he doesn't do that.
Speaker 1: And I don't think it necessarily matters if Feeland tries
Speaker 1: to play or not. I think Jefferson would be his
Speaker 1: focus here. No receiver has scored in three weeks against
Speaker 1: the Rams, and bigger stats usually come from non number
Speaker 1: one receivers, like we've seen A. J. Green and Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk and THEA. Kwan Treadwell and Randall Cobb do better
Speaker 1: against the Rams the number one receivers. And that's why
Speaker 1: I don't have an A grade on Justin Jefferson. I've
Speaker 1: just got the B grade on Justin Jefferson for this one.
Speaker 1: So then what about Adam Theland if he plays trying
Speaker 1: to come back on the early side of of a
Speaker 1: high ankle sprain, So again, I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: see a lot of Jalen Ramsey. I believe that will
Speaker 1: be mostly Justin Jefferson, and that gives him far easier
Speaker 1: matchups against Deontay Dayton and David Long. Rams secondaries allowed
Speaker 1: the fifth most yards seventy eight per game and six
Speaker 1: most receptions to receivers over the last four games. And
Speaker 1: those numbers aren't going through Jalen Ramsey. They're going through
Speaker 1: the other guys like Dayton and Long. So there's a
Speaker 1: scenario here where Theeland has a decent game, but you
Speaker 1: worry about the ankle and a setback at this high
Speaker 1: ankle sprains reinjure all the time. There is real concern
Speaker 1: here about the efficacy and aggravation possibilities for Theeland in
Speaker 1: this game. I've got a C grade on the land
Speaker 1: see grade on the quarterback, Kirk Cousins. Man, it's hard
Speaker 1: to be enthused about cousins chances of success coming off
Speaker 1: a game when his offensive line delivered its worst performance
Speaker 1: of the year and Mike Zimmer only through the ball
Speaker 1: twenty four times despite a practice squad. Secondary right guard
Speaker 1: Mason Cole got destroyed by a Keem Hicks last week,
Speaker 1: and here comes Aaron Donald. So I'm I'm I'm really
Speaker 1: nervous about this game for Cousins. Now, he has scored
Speaker 1: in thirty straight games, and he's thrown multiple touchdowns in
Speaker 1: seven straight games. The floor is still high for Cousins,
Speaker 1: but I don't see the upside in this one. And
Speaker 1: I've only got the C grade on Cousins. Last guy
Speaker 1: I'll mentioned, Tyler Conklin's on the bench. Rams are middle
Speaker 1: to pack tight end defense, decent tight ends, generally fair, Okay.
Speaker 1: The problem is Conklin's volume isn't good enough. He's seen
Speaker 1: three or fewer targets in four of the past five games.
Speaker 1: Scott let's talk Brown's Packers. It looks like gonna get
Speaker 1: a fairly heavy dose of Nick Chubb in this game. Yes,
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt's gonna be out again. Passing game could be
Speaker 1: in shambles. What do you think about Nick Chubb against
Speaker 1: the Packers? I have a B grade on Chubb and
Speaker 1: I could be convinced you could convince me into an
Speaker 1: A which I think you're going to try to do,
Speaker 1: just based on based on the look on your setup,
Speaker 1: I'm sensing your face say he should be in A grade. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Packers held the last three backs they faced under
Speaker 1: total a hundred total yards and only one score if
Speaker 1: you ignore Dalvin in eleven. In week eleven, that streak
Speaker 1: goes all the way back to Week six, holding running
Speaker 1: backs under a hundred Comba yards the starting running back. So,
Speaker 1: but they don't typically see the amount of volume that
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb is gonna get. They usually see fifteen sixteen carrybacks.
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb's a twenty plus touch guy, especially with Kareem
Speaker 1: Hunt out. So with Chubb's volume, I have a B
Speaker 1: grade on him. I don't like the passing game. I
Speaker 1: think you're right. I think it runs through Chubb. I
Speaker 1: don't like the passing game. I have a bench grade
Speaker 1: on every guy in the Browns passing game. The pack
Speaker 1: has now allowed twelve quarterback touchdowns in the last three weeks,
Speaker 1: which sounds great. And Baker mass missed last week. He's
Speaker 1: going to be back because the ten days will be
Speaker 1: up on Saturday, right before the game, so he'll be
Speaker 1: He'll be back, but he's been struggling to get over
Speaker 1: two hundred fifty yards and he rarely has multiple scored games.
Speaker 1: You're just talking about cousins with a ton of them.
Speaker 1: Baker has three multiple scoring games on the season. That's
Speaker 1: not helping you in FT. I like the way he
Speaker 1: looked in the last game. He played um coming off
Speaker 1: the bye week and healthier, but the up the fantasy
Speaker 1: upside just isn't there. Yeah, Jarvis Landry a couple of
Speaker 1: good games, like right before the bye right as you're
Speaker 1: mentioning a couple of good games there before that, though
Speaker 1: he had three games in a row under twenty six
Speaker 1: total yards. He's only scored once on the season. He
Speaker 1: doesn't score because Baker is not throwing a lot of touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I have him on the bench. Donovan people Jones, he
Speaker 1: looks like he should be better than his stats. Ever
Speaker 1: show that's always disappointing. You watch him play, You're like,
Speaker 1: he seems like he should be good. He seems like
Speaker 1: he should get deep shots. But he's been sub fifty
Speaker 1: yards in three the last four and the Packers pasty
Speaker 1: against watch receivers is just too good to handle it.
Speaker 1: Donovan every day people's Jones as he's like an everyday person. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like it. Screw you guys. Austin Hooper coming back
Speaker 1: neutralizes Najoku and Hooper, so unfortunately, yeah, yeah, on the others,
Speaker 1: no more Hooper Scoopers. On the other side, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: got an A grade on him. The Browns d has
Speaker 1: kept the score low in a lot of games recently.
Speaker 1: Only one time in the last nine weeks has it
Speaker 1: has an opponent topped twenty two points against the Browns.
Speaker 1: They're keeping the score down. That said earlier in the season, Cardinals, Chargers, Chiefs,
Speaker 1: a lot of the good teams actually scored a lot
Speaker 1: of points on them. So I put the Packers more
Speaker 1: with those good teams that they've played, Uh not like
Speaker 1: Las Vegas or um. You know. The Tim Boyle lead
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions teams like that. A grade on Rogers. He's
Speaker 1: got multiple touchdowns in thirteen of his last fourteen. Davante
Speaker 1: Adams isn't obviously he's got a hundred plus and or
Speaker 1: score in fourth straight. You aren't benched him, Alan Lazard,
Speaker 1: buddy with my buddy A J. Dillon. He's taking take
Speaker 1: a chance on me player Randall Cobb. This will be
Speaker 1: his third game being on injured reserve, so he's he's
Speaker 1: definitely out MVS. Tested positive on Tuesday. He's likely out.
Speaker 1: Um So Lazard like, get him in there and the
Speaker 1: running game. Aaron Jones and A J. Dillon. This is
Speaker 1: just fun. It's like Javonte Williams and Melvin Gordon. It's
Speaker 1: just fun every week trying to figure this out. I
Speaker 1: have a B grade this week on Aaron Jones. I
Speaker 1: have a C grade on A. J. Dillon. The Browns
Speaker 1: held down Jacobson Freeman. Um, yes, Davante Freeman twice actually
Speaker 1: the last two weeks last because they played him twice
Speaker 1: in a row with a buy in the middle. But
Speaker 1: before that they gave up huge games to Swift and
Speaker 1: and Stevenson and Mixing and Harrison and the Melvin Javonte Duo.
Speaker 1: Both were startable against them, and I think that's the
Speaker 1: good comparable. The pass catcher did a little bit better work,
Speaker 1: and Aaron Jones is more of the past catcher than Dylan.
Speaker 1: I will mention Dylan gets way more red zone work
Speaker 1: out touching Jones to seven in the red zone the
Speaker 1: last five games that they played together. That's a lot
Speaker 1: of red zone. That's a big differential. That's a huge differential.
Speaker 1: Jones gets the receiving work. I think that's something you
Speaker 1: can bank on a little better. So I have the
Speaker 1: B grade on Aaron Jones. The snaps have been pretty similar,
Speaker 1: touches pretty similar, so Beyon Jones Dylan. Yeah, that all
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Speaker 1: the rest of the season, Antonio Brown will be a
Speaker 1: wide receiver one, wide receiver too, flex or bench grade player.
Speaker 1: We begin with Scott Fish. I'm going with wide receiver two.
Speaker 1: Notice how I'm answering your question right away this time
Speaker 1: so very much. Uh. He was wide receiver six overall
Speaker 1: in fantasy points per game before he went he went
Speaker 1: out on his injury. Uh, sounds like he's back. They
Speaker 1: say he's as healthy as he's been. Those extra three
Speaker 1: weeks while being suspended helped Godwin and Evans. Won't be
Speaker 1: taking the top coverage though anymore. I'm going wide receiver
Speaker 1: too on how much he'll get peppered with targets, but
Speaker 1: they may not be the same quality targets that they
Speaker 1: were at the beginning of the season. Okay, Brian, Antonio Brown.
Speaker 1: The rest of the year will be a wide receiver one,
Speaker 1: wide receiver, do flex or bench. So Brown's got the
Speaker 1: Panthers this week, the Jets next week, and then the
Speaker 1: Panthers again in week eighteen. And those are the Panthers
Speaker 1: not a great matchup, but Stephan Gilmar and stuff. Those
Speaker 1: are bad offenses. The Tampa Bay is going up again,
Speaker 1: so I don't see a positive game script for Brown.
Speaker 1: If they were, you know, shootout matchups, I would say
Speaker 1: wide receiver one because Mike Evans is banged up. We
Speaker 1: all know Chris Godwin's out for the year. Leonard Fournette
Speaker 1: probably done for the regular season. But just based on
Speaker 1: the house, the opponents are too soft f Antonio Brown,
Speaker 1: So I'm moving with Fish and going wide receiver to
Speaker 1: Brown is fresh and healthy. As you noted, he in
Speaker 1: all probability. This passing offense is going to go through
Speaker 1: Brown h and a little too Gronk. We've seen it before,
Speaker 1: by the way, in December of last year at the
Speaker 1: end of the year, weeks fifteen through seventeen, he averaged
Speaker 1: nine targets per game eight yards, and he scored in
Speaker 1: every game weeks fifteen through seventeen last year. So the
Speaker 1: schedule is a little bit tricky, and that it's Carolina twice.
Speaker 1: Stephen Gilmore is totally legit. This secondary is great and
Speaker 1: that worries me enough. I in my mind before it
Speaker 1: looked at the schedule, I was like wide receiver one.
Speaker 1: And I got to the schedule and I an't do it. Um. Granted,
Speaker 1: hopefully you're not playing in Week eighteen against Carolina, but
Speaker 1: some of you are. And the rest of the way,
Speaker 1: the rest of this this was phrased was rest of
Speaker 1: the season part two. It could happen, but we three
Speaker 1: years removed from that. Uh, the correct answer is wide receiver.
Speaker 1: To tough. Question number two, what is the ideal playoff tiebreaker?
Speaker 1: So to be clear, what I'm talking about is two
Speaker 1: teams that both scored eighty seven point six points. How
Speaker 1: do you break that tie? And by the way, the
Speaker 1: most important thing is that you have a rule in place.
Speaker 1: Any rule in place, you do not want to have
Speaker 1: to figure it out after they're already as a tie.
Speaker 1: So what is the ideal playoff tiebreaker? Brian? Some people go,
Speaker 1: how did you fair head to head against your opponent
Speaker 1: in the regular season, But in most cases you've played
Speaker 1: them twice at most maybe just once. That's too small
Speaker 1: of a sample for me. Some people go with the
Speaker 1: your highest scoring bench player. That's a two small of
Speaker 1: a sample for me too. So I just go overall
Speaker 1: points on the season. You measure who had the best
Speaker 1: season in terms of total points. So you just go
Speaker 1: back to the regular season home field advantage pretty much.
Speaker 1: So total points for the regular season is my tiebreaker. Okay,
Speaker 1: Scott that scenario, I just go top seed. I feel
Speaker 1: like they've are in the top seed, they can be it.
Speaker 1: I I don't their home field advantage. I don't have
Speaker 1: a problem with the points. Um. I I actually hate
Speaker 1: bench scoring stuff like that. I hate I don't like
Speaker 1: how many touchdowns did your starter score because that is
Speaker 1: completely dependent on how that person wanted to design their team.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a PPR league where they had Hunter Renfro
Speaker 1: who doesn't score a lot, and he's I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't like that you're dictating that I just have top seed.
Speaker 1: You can't use anything involving the bench. By the way,
Speaker 1: do decimals to two places people, Yeah, you can do
Speaker 1: hundreds of place if you want to. You can't use
Speaker 1: anything involving the bench. Wins should not be a playoff
Speaker 1: wins should not be decided by the injuries or COVID
Speaker 1: status of yours or your opponents bench. You know you're
Speaker 1: playing to get the best possible starting lineup you could have,
Speaker 1: so that's out. UM. You should not use any previous
Speaker 1: results to Brian's point earlier, um, small sample size. And
Speaker 1: Brian and I played each other in week six and
Speaker 1: I had four guys different thing and he didn't. Yeh right,
Speaker 1: so who knows. That's not good. It's got to be
Speaker 1: something that happened from this week. Total yards of all
Speaker 1: of your starters, not including kickers in defense gives me
Speaker 1: a pretty damn accurate estimation as to whose players had
Speaker 1: the best week. And you won't get a tie. And
Speaker 1: it's less flukey than the touch totally flukey than the touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And to tie, you can tie touchdowns too. You could
Speaker 1: have five and I can have five. Now you're gonna
Speaker 1: tie again. You're never gonna tie in total yards technically
Speaker 1: you could, though, sure I've got eight hundred ninety two
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have eight ninety two total yards. Not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. I that is the correct answer. Tough question
Speaker 1: number three. You're on the clock for pick four of
Speaker 1: the first round of next year's draft. So we're advancing
Speaker 1: the clock to next August. Off the board or Jonathan Taylor,
Speaker 1: Javante Williams because Melvin Gordon signed somewhere else, and Cooper
Speaker 1: cup are off the board. Who are you taking? Pick four?
Speaker 1: You're on the clock, Scott. I thought for a moment,
Speaker 1: just to be sneaky and weird, I thought about taking
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews because I love Mark Andrews. But I did
Speaker 1: not go that route. I went and played it safe
Speaker 1: with a guy who has eighty plus yards and or
Speaker 1: a score in every game but one. He's had like
Speaker 1: thirty or twelve plus Fantasy points in every game but one.
Speaker 1: He is as consistent as they come this year and
Speaker 1: next year. It might even be better the the other
Speaker 1: guy on the other side of the field. You know,
Speaker 1: he's declined a little bit. They need to make a
Speaker 1: move to talk. I'm setting it up. It is the
Speaker 1: best wide receiver in the NFL. Justin Jefferson. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson, Brian your number four of next year's draft.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, Javonte Williams, and Cooper Cupper off the board?
Speaker 1: Who are you taking? I was gonna go wide receiver
Speaker 1: to not Justin Jefferson was still gonna Davante Adams. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not going with Adams either. I'm going back to
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. Um only eight games played this year, He's
Speaker 1: still like running back seven right now, while most running
Speaker 1: backs have played thirteen fourteen games. I don't think the
Speaker 1: wheels have not fallen off Henry entirely. He's not falling
Speaker 1: off the cliff however you want to put it. Who'll
Speaker 1: be turning twenty eight going into next year. He didn't
Speaker 1: get crazy usage in his first three seasons in the NFL. Yes,
Speaker 1: his last two seasons he's seen three or three rushing
Speaker 1: attempts three hundred seventy eight last year. But I'm bank
Speaker 1: he could come back this year. By the way, for
Speaker 1: the playoffs, the big to come back this year. So
Speaker 1: assuming he doesn't seriously injured himself with the remainder the season,
Speaker 1: he goes through training camp unscathed, I'm just gonna go
Speaker 1: back to Derrick Henry. You're not gonna win your league
Speaker 1: because of him, but you're not gonna lose your league
Speaker 1: by taking Derrick Henry fourth overall. One more year Henry's
Speaker 1: got has premium production left in him, by the way,
Speaker 1: best wide receiver not named Cooper Cup I should say
Speaker 1: best wide receiver on the board, justin Jevers that is,
Speaker 1: that's probably true. Um, Derrick Henry is very tempting, and
Speaker 1: I think he will go in this spot in most drafts.
Speaker 1: But the problem is one thousand, five hundred touches for
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. The injuries have already started, and I worry
Speaker 1: they're gonna keep mounting. And I'm not taking him and
Speaker 1: picked four. Next year, we are going with Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: and inconsistent. Even in this a more inconsistent season than
Speaker 1: most of his past several he's still the top scoring
Speaker 1: tight end and all probability this year he's basically tied
Speaker 1: almost with Mark and Andrews in receptions, yards and touchdowns
Speaker 1: for number one, And just what's how do you not?
Speaker 1: I do argue with any of that? In the tight
Speaker 1: end position remains fraught with danger, agony, pain people trying
Speaker 1: to find anybody with a pulse Outside of Andrews and Kelsey,
Speaker 1: it's been a brutally or even other guys that we like,
Speaker 1: like George Kittle, Dawson Knox have missed long stretches of games.
Speaker 1: You get a guy who never misses games at the
Speaker 1: at the positions, at the position of greatest scarcity. You
Speaker 1: know who's regretted drafting Travis Kelsey over the last five years,
Speaker 1: Over the last five years, nobody ever. And that's why
Speaker 1: he is the correct answer for pick number four and
Speaker 1: next year's draft. I figured you'd go there. It wasn't hard,
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Davante Adams was gonna be my
Speaker 1: was my number two choice. By the way, see where's
Speaker 1: it gonna be? Who's this quarterback? And threw it out
Speaker 1: is I don't know who's quarterback is gonna be Patrick?
Speaker 1: I know who Patrick Mahomes is gonna be thrown to,
Speaker 1: and it's Travis Kelsey. Let's go back to the matchups. Oh, hey,
Speaker 1: it's me Pittsburgh Steels taking that Kansas City. Hey, that's
Speaker 1: my matchup. Um, you'll want to as we talk about
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers, you want to watch the status of
Speaker 1: the Kansas City secondary, specifically starting cornerbacks chair Various Warden,
Speaker 1: Rashad Fenton. They're in the COVID protocol and right now
Speaker 1: I'm assuming they're out, and so the grades you're going
Speaker 1: to hear are actually uh now my grades are in
Speaker 1: as if they are playing. You can bump everybody up
Speaker 1: a letter grade if they do not go so right now,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming they're out. No, I'm assuming they're in. I'm
Speaker 1: confusing myself. Now I'm assuming they're in. You can bump
Speaker 1: everybody up. Ben Roethlisberger on the bench. He whipped badly
Speaker 1: in a smash spot last week, and I can't recommend
Speaker 1: him in a far tougher matchup against a much improved
Speaker 1: Chiefs past defense. No opposing quarterback is top two hundred
Speaker 1: sixty three yards and seven games. Kansas City allowing just
Speaker 1: one passing touchdown per game since Week eight, and I
Speaker 1: think that's about what one touchdown feels about right for
Speaker 1: Ben here, the loss of touchdown score Pat Fryarmouth is
Speaker 1: a big loss ends up to this and he is
Speaker 1: not expected to play in this game. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: Yante Johnson. In the five games prior to last week's dud,
Speaker 1: Diante had commanded double digit targets in every game. I
Speaker 1: averaged ninety two yards and he scored three times. Nobody
Speaker 1: will benefit more then Johnson, if Ward and or Fenton
Speaker 1: can't go in this game. Chief secondaries improved a lot,
Speaker 1: but they've given up five scorers and four seventy five
Speaker 1: yard receivers in the last five games. Johnson's a B
Speaker 1: grade for now. Chase Claypool is so dangerous. It's been
Speaker 1: a brutal couple of weeks for Chase. Chase Claypool. He
Speaker 1: selfishly botched the end of the Minnesota game two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and then last week he saw the lowest snap count
Speaker 1: of his season, just thirty one plays, and he finished
Speaker 1: last week with one reception. It sure looks like he's
Speaker 1: in the doghouse. Ray Ray McLeod had more snaps and
Speaker 1: more targets than Chase Claypool last week. Claypool assuming when
Speaker 1: he is on the field to see a fair amount
Speaker 1: of the Chiefs only non COVID cornerback Mike Hughes, who
Speaker 1: has been shockingly competent. And that's why just the C
Speaker 1: grade on Chase Claypool in this game, all right, then,
Speaker 1: Nazi Harris, I think he bounces back from last week's
Speaker 1: horrific game. Despite a dominant stretch over the middle of
Speaker 1: the season, Kansas City has been giving up a lot
Speaker 1: of yards lately, to opposing running backs over the last
Speaker 1: three games, opposing runners averaging one hundred eighty one total
Speaker 1: yards per game. That is staggering. That would be the
Speaker 1: worst total if applied over a full season. One total
Speaker 1: yards per game. Steeler's offensive line, though, is so bad
Speaker 1: that I can't give Harris An a grade in this
Speaker 1: game like I would want to, and he's posted so
Speaker 1: many duds. Still, this looks like a good opportunity for
Speaker 1: him and a B grade for Nazi Harris alright, let's
Speaker 1: go over to Kansas City, which has got its own issues, well,
Speaker 1: actually a lot of issues. Uh. Tyreek Kill and Travis
Speaker 1: Kelsey in the COVID protocol both could be cleared before kickoff,
Speaker 1: so apply your own judgment and what you've learned closer
Speaker 1: to kick off. Tyreek Hills and obvious A if he
Speaker 1: can go. Um, even with all of mahomess ups and
Speaker 1: downs over the past two months, he's been by in large,
Speaker 1: very consistent obvious A for him. Travis Kelsey, though, um,
Speaker 1: I'm only giving a B grade even if he can go.
Speaker 1: Despite last week's obvious blow up game, it was just
Speaker 1: his second game with a touchdown in the last nine
Speaker 1: weeks and the steel is really good against tight ends.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a guy you should take. Justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: over correct. Josin Jefferson also would be great in this
Speaker 1: this week. I'm just kidding. That's fine. No tight end
Speaker 1: is scored in ten weeks against Pittsburgh. No tight end
Speaker 1: his top fifty yards in six games against Pittsburgh. Other
Speaker 1: excellent tight ends like Darren Waller, t J. Hockenson, Mark Andrews.
Speaker 1: Those guys averaged three catches thirty eight yards. None of
Speaker 1: them scored. That's why I've only got the B grid
Speaker 1: and Travis Kelsey. If he can go in this game,
Speaker 1: and if they can't go in this game, you may
Speaker 1: be happened to pivot to Mi Cole Hardman, Josh Gordon,
Speaker 1: Byron Pringle, or DeMarcus Robinson. But that's the whole problem.
Speaker 1: Which one would you even pivot too? In that scenario,
Speaker 1: you'd be just throwing darts and that's not worth anything.
Speaker 1: Good luck figuring out which guy would be the best one.
Speaker 1: We won't pivot to any of those guys. So what
Speaker 1: to do about Patrick Mahomes? B greade on him will
Speaker 1: upgrade him to an A. If Hill and Kelsey become available.
Speaker 1: If not, I worry about an unusually run heavy game
Speaker 1: plan favoring Clyde Edwards a layer against a terrible Steelers
Speaker 1: run defense. And let's talk about Clyde Edwards a layer
Speaker 1: for a minute. If you believe like I do, that
Speaker 1: this team is gonna run more than they usually do,
Speaker 1: you'll like Clyde. His sent snapshare last week was a
Speaker 1: great indicator, although it didn't turn into a lot of
Speaker 1: good stats for the Steelers. Every game seems to keep
Speaker 1: getting easier. This team has allowed one fifty nine total
Speaker 1: yards per game, third most to opposing running backs, and
Speaker 1: they've just been gouged over the last three weeks in particular.
Speaker 1: So Clyde Edwards Larry won't get all of the hundred
Speaker 1: fifty nine yards, but I think he could get easily
Speaker 1: to one hundred yards. And he gets a B grade
Speaker 1: in this game. And you could pivot if if necessary,
Speaker 1: to Darryl Williams as well, who continues to be a
Speaker 1: shockingly big part of this game plan and continues to
Speaker 1: be productive. And again, Steelers a terrible run defense. Let's
Speaker 1: take a break when we come back. New York Giants
Speaker 1: take on the Philadelphia Eagles, Giants passing game is a disaster.
Speaker 1: But say Kwan Barkley, what do you do about him
Speaker 1: and a tricky matchup with the Eagles. Yeah, we'll talk
Speaker 1: that through in moments when we come back to segment
Speaker 1: number two, our number two Fantasy Football Weekly, Welcome back
Speaker 1: Fantasy Fall Weekly. Paul Charchy and Scott Fish and Brian
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Speaker 1: When you got that random X, like right in the
Speaker 1: middle of things, do you want to do a lot
Speaker 1: of quick the quick origin Actually I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say what my middle name is, but it's
Speaker 1: sorts of the T. But the X. You have to
Speaker 1: pick a confirmation name, right if I didn't go to
Speaker 1: Catholic school, but I went to like Sunday School or whatever.
Speaker 1: When you get confirmed, you pick a saint and I
Speaker 1: went with with Xavier because I grew up liking the
Speaker 1: Knicks and Davior McDaniel. And you're supposed to do a
Speaker 1: speech on like why you you picked the Saint, and
Speaker 1: I did say that, and okay, thankfully it wasn't in
Speaker 1: the days where I get beaten by like a yardstick,
Speaker 1: by a note, but they were not. And that's always
Speaker 1: kind of be like my user name, so I picked
Speaker 1: us my Twitter name. You've carried it across all this time.
Speaker 1: Chargers take on the Texans, Brian, it looks like Austin
Speaker 1: Ekeler is not gonna go in this game, and man,
Speaker 1: whoever does start, he's got a juicy matchup against a
Speaker 1: bad run defense. Yeah, yeah, I was gonna give Eckler
Speaker 1: the A, but uh, basically, in his own words, it's
Speaker 1: not looking good for him to play, even though he
Speaker 1: is vaccinated, but he's not feeling too hot. So under
Speaker 1: that assumption, I'm gonna, I mean, if Eckler goes, gonna
Speaker 1: give him the A. But it's really looking like it's
Speaker 1: gonna be Justin Jackson and the Joshua Kelly. I'll give
Speaker 1: Jackson a B and Kelly a C. And this one
Speaker 1: it's a great matchup. Houston has allowed the most rushing
Speaker 1: yards and the second most rushing touchdowns to opposing running back,
Speaker 1: So just a situation you're gonna have to monitor leading
Speaker 1: up monitor leading up to kickoff. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like is gonna go though, um Keenan Allen will go
Speaker 1: knock on wood. Hopefully he goes. Uh, no reason he wouldn't.
Speaker 1: Opposing wide receivers haven't posted big numbers lately against Houston,
Speaker 1: but the competition has been pretty weak outside of Tyler Lockett.
Speaker 1: Very comparable Tyler Lockett to Keenan Allen lock It at
Speaker 1: five catches, one two yards and one touchdown against the
Speaker 1: Texans in Week fourteen. So Alan gets an a Mike
Speaker 1: Williams man major disappointment after a monstrous start to the season,
Speaker 1: just to see for him here. But Williams six four
Speaker 1: two five pounds will square off most with the five ten,
Speaker 1: two hundred pound Desmond King on the outside. He just
Speaker 1: surrendered at least fifty yards and already touchdown in three
Speaker 1: of his last four games with a safe sea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's anything safe with him. And how many
Speaker 1: times have we got to talk about positive matchups for
Speaker 1: Mike Williams that he does not make good on. I
Speaker 1: know you gotta temper your expectations with Williams, but he does.
Speaker 1: He's he's pretty much a boom or a bus player,
Speaker 1: but it is a it is a boom matchup, or
Speaker 1: it should be, but no promises there um a great
Speaker 1: matchup for Jared Cook. Because of the unfortunate and scary
Speaker 1: injury to teammate Donald Parham last Thursday, Parham unlikely to go,
Speaker 1: so Cook should see the most of the work at
Speaker 1: tight end for the Argers against the Texans, who have
Speaker 1: allowed the fourth most touch tight end touchdowns and just
Speaker 1: last week, Jacksonville's James O'Shaughnessy and Chris man Hurts combined
Speaker 1: for five catches and seventy one yards against Houston, So
Speaker 1: that's almost a safe floor for cooking this matchup. And
Speaker 1: speaking of safe, justin Herbert the air Bear get today again.
Speaker 1: The Houston secondary looks like it's been playing better as
Speaker 1: of late, but they faced the Jaguars, the Seahawks, the Jets,
Speaker 1: the Titans, the Dolphins before good quarterbacks to face the Texans.
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and Josh Allen, Kyler Murray and Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: have averaged two sixty nine yards and two and a
Speaker 1: half passing touchdowns and a half that that's a floor
Speaker 1: for the air Bear here, so he gets the a
Speaker 1: and Rex Burkhead. I'm sorry we go over to Houston now.
Speaker 1: Not a lot to talk about here. Rex Burkhead the
Speaker 1: Sea Rex was might take a chance to be running back.
Speaker 1: Great matchup for him. Brandon Cooks gets to see might
Speaker 1: not play. Probably will helped a lot of people advance
Speaker 1: or surviving their guillete league. Last week. I don't like
Speaker 1: his prospects. Prospects as much of this week he doesn't.
Speaker 1: He's not playing the Jaguars again. The Chargers have given
Speaker 1: up good wide receiver numbers as of late, but that's
Speaker 1: been to the Chiefs, the Bengals, the Steelers of the Vikings,
Speaker 1: all those teams have multiple good receivers on their team.
Speaker 1: It's all Brandon Cooks for Houston. He's gonna draw a
Speaker 1: ton of attention from Assante Samuel tend Or Derwin James.
Speaker 1: Just for the listeners. He tested positive on Wednesday, so
Speaker 1: he can test out. He could test out if if
Speaker 1: it turns out, he's just close contact whatever. No, he
Speaker 1: tested positive, Okay, so yeah'm not looking good for Cooks
Speaker 1: and if he does go, uh, temporary expectations for him.
Speaker 1: Not gonna mention any other wide receivers for the Texans.
Speaker 1: Even if Cooks somehow sits, he can't go Nico little
Speaker 1: too risky for a week sixteen And sadly, my boy
Speaker 1: Davis Mills also on the bench, and this one is
Speaker 1: not a good week. No. And we like Davis Mills
Speaker 1: and what he's been able to do, but it's it's
Speaker 1: not he has and he's been fantasy friendly and a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of spots where nobody would have
Speaker 1: expected it. Sure Scott for the Giants, I don't think
Speaker 1: we need to spend really any time on the passing
Speaker 1: game left by is it Jake from right game? No,
Speaker 1: they're being coy with it because there's a distinct is
Speaker 1: it Glenden? Is it from that's you know that's a
Speaker 1: competitive advantage, right, But let's talk about ske Kwon Barkley,
Speaker 1: the only guy that a playoff team might be considering starting. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's not been great. And we were mentioning off
Speaker 1: air that him and Booker both looked like you couldn't
Speaker 1: tell who is who because the Booker looked good, and
Speaker 1: there's their snaps and their touches were split more evenly
Speaker 1: than you'd like. I Barkley, I am giving a C
Speaker 1: grade too. And here's why he gets about three to
Speaker 1: six catches every game. He gets about thirty yards receiving
Speaker 1: most games or more forty whatever. But here's his yardage
Speaker 1: lines in the last seven or so games. Fifty seven yards,
Speaker 1: fifty two fifty five, sixty four fifty Those are the
Speaker 1: rushing stats. Just rushing, he's getting you five to six
Speaker 1: points rushing, he's getting you a few catches, he's getting
Speaker 1: you twenty thirty. You're you're already up to ten, eleven,
Speaker 1: twelve exactly. That's basically all you're getting. So I'm giving
Speaker 1: him a C grade. That's like a sea worthy amount.
Speaker 1: On the other side, Jalen Hurts. Jalen Hurts, I have
Speaker 1: an eight grade on Jalen Hurts. He has finished as
Speaker 1: a top twelve quarterback this year nine times, nine times,
Speaker 1: nine plus another two times, making eleven total. When when
Speaker 1: he doesn't get it done with his arm, his legs
Speaker 1: get it done. I don't know if did you miss
Speaker 1: that that I added to to make it eleven total.
Speaker 1: I just wanted you to play the calendar. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: get both and the Celia sky High. Four weeks ago
Speaker 1: these two Matt he had three rushing touchdowns. Since then,
Speaker 1: the Giants of alloudon average of nearly two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty yards and two scores passing. You might you might
Speaker 1: get the double deps, you might get the double dip
Speaker 1: here A grade on Hurts, C grade on DeVonta Smith.
Speaker 1: With the running game becoming a bigger and bigger thing,
Speaker 1: the passing game has really fallen off. Smith doesn't hit
Speaker 1: those AIRB categories anymore, but he has top forty yards
Speaker 1: in three straight. He's got that that upside. He's he
Speaker 1: can occasionally score touchdowns. The Giants have allowed fifty plus
Speaker 1: yards and or score to eight wide receivers in just
Speaker 1: the last three weeks. This is the only wide receiver
Speaker 1: you can start. But I'm only giving him a C grade.
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard a grade hundred plus and two straight fifty
Speaker 1: plus and or scoring eight of his thirteen games. That's like,
Speaker 1: that's that's really you just plug and play him when
Speaker 1: he's starting. The Giants has given up a lot of
Speaker 1: big plays the big days to tight ends. Ten different
Speaker 1: tight ends have gone for sixty plus and or a score.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, it's definitely a grade there. In the running game.
Speaker 1: I told you Jordan Howard was might take a chance
Speaker 1: on me runner. That's because the girls are running constantly.
Speaker 1: They're the first team with a hundred seventy five plus
Speaker 1: rushing yards in seven straight games since the Bears. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks to Adam Aser for that stat um. This is
Speaker 1: this is a team that gives the running backs over
Speaker 1: thirty touches per game. If Sanders go he should. He's
Speaker 1: he's got a quad inury he's dealing with. He played
Speaker 1: right u ntil the end of the last game. If
Speaker 1: Sanders goes, I have an A grade on him. He
Speaker 1: exploded last week. He should be in line for fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty touches. The Giants are allowing, just like the
Speaker 1: Eagles are doing thirty plus touches to running backs the game.
Speaker 1: Hundred forty plus totally yards and back to back for Sanders.
Speaker 1: So I have an A grade on Sanders a C
Speaker 1: grade on Howard, hoping he gets that ten plus touches
Speaker 1: that he normally gets. Bears take down the Seahawks, and
Speaker 1: let's talk to the Bear side of this. Beginning with
Speaker 1: David Montgomery. We'll start with the running game here. Slumping
Speaker 1: Seattle run defense allowing the fifth most rushing attempts, the
Speaker 1: most receptions, the fourth most receiving yards per game to
Speaker 1: opposing back so the last five weeks, and Montgomery a
Speaker 1: capable receiver, so I think he cashes in aaron ground here.
Speaker 1: They've also given up four touchdowns to runners over the
Speaker 1: last five games. He could find the end zone. On Tuesday,
Speaker 1: Sony Walkman and Darryl Henderson combined for a hundred forty
Speaker 1: two total yards against Seattle, and really, Montgomery doesn't share
Speaker 1: much workload with anybody else, he might get a lot
Speaker 1: of that same kind of hundred forty two. I could
Speaker 1: see him easily going over a hundred here in the touchdowns,
Speaker 1: certainly within the realm of possibility. I've got a B
Speaker 1: grade on David Montgomery. Let's go to the passing game
Speaker 1: where Justin Fields get this. I don't think most listeners
Speaker 1: would guess this. Justin Fields has been a top ten
Speaker 1: fantasy quarterback in four straight weeks. All four full games.
Speaker 1: He has thrown for at least two hundred eighty five
Speaker 1: yards and or multiple scores in his last three full games,
Speaker 1: and over the last five weeks, he's averaged eight rushing
Speaker 1: attempts in fifty six rushing yards which gives him a
Speaker 1: very safe floor for fantasy production as well. When you
Speaker 1: get those rushing yards. Seattle is allowedly three hundred passing
Speaker 1: yards and or multiple passing touchdowns in four the last
Speaker 1: five games. I've got to be grade on Justin Fields.
Speaker 1: If the Jaguars could turn back the clock, do they
Speaker 1: take Justin Fields number one overall? Don't they? I think
Speaker 1: they would. I mean it would have it probably would
Speaker 1: not be Trevor Lawrence. But I don't think Justin Fields
Speaker 1: has yet turned this into any kind of mandate. I
Speaker 1: don't know. That's a great question though, but and one
Speaker 1: for probably a different show. When we're trying to kill
Speaker 1: time in February, that's our time to talk about that
Speaker 1: that particular topic. I think, all right, let's go to
Speaker 1: Darnell Mooney, the number one receiver for Justin Fields. He's
Speaker 1: had exactly five receptions in four of the past five games,
Speaker 1: but five receptions for him could mean anything between twenty
Speaker 1: seven yards and a hundred twenty three yards. I wish
Speaker 1: you'd find the end zone more often as well. For
Speaker 1: Mooney just three touchdowns on the season, which is a
Speaker 1: little bit disappointing. Seattle, listen, give up a lot of
Speaker 1: scores to wide receivers. Prior to Cooper Cups breakout game
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, no receiver had scored in five straight games
Speaker 1: against Seattle, so I can only get him to a
Speaker 1: C grade on yardage when I don't expect Mooney to score.
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson should be off the COVID list by kickoff,
Speaker 1: but he's barely played in two months and the matchups
Speaker 1: not that favorable, so he's on the bench. Cole Commet
Speaker 1: is a startable commodity at tight end, averaging a whopping
Speaker 1: eight targets per game over the last month, or as
Speaker 1: Scott Fish would call it, nine one targets over the
Speaker 1: last month. Seattle has been hammered by high volume tight
Speaker 1: ends lately. George Kittle zach Ertz killed him. Now, granted
Speaker 1: they're way better than Cole Commet, but still only three
Speaker 1: teams have allowed more tight end touchdowns than Seattle's eight,
Speaker 1: So I like Commet. Here spots start, So Jimmy Graham
Speaker 1: guaranteed touchdown? Can probably he's so far. Hey, revenge game,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham, second second leg of the That is a
Speaker 1: good point. Revenge game, Jimmy Graham. But we're not starting
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham, We're giving the dart throw to cold Commet.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Seattle side. Okay, what to do
Speaker 1: with Russell Wilson after the great start of the season
Speaker 1: averaging a full touchdown? Oh sorry, that is sorry, wrong
Speaker 1: guy for Russell Wilson. We're gonna upgrade him to a
Speaker 1: B if a bunch of the members of the Bears
Speaker 1: secondary are out again, which is possible, and unlike Minnesota
Speaker 1: last week, Seadle is actually gonna throw on the Bears.
Speaker 1: Why the Vikings didn't to me is utterly head scratching,
Speaker 1: and I don't understand it. Seattle will not make the
Speaker 1: same mistake. The Bears have allowed the second most passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns over the last five weeks. You can start Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: I've got a C grade on him now, It'll be
Speaker 1: higher if a lot of that secondary does not come
Speaker 1: back from COVID. So how about his receivers? Tyler Lockett
Speaker 1: expected to clear the COVID protocol by kickoff. He's got
Speaker 1: a favorable matchup in the slot, a position that Chicago
Speaker 1: keeps trying and failing to fix by rotating various guys in.
Speaker 1: I think they'll try Xavier Crawford if he's available. If
Speaker 1: he can't go, they might have to go all the
Speaker 1: way down to Marquis Christian who is allowing a perfect
Speaker 1: passer rating in his coverage. So I like Tyler Locket
Speaker 1: here a lot. He was red hot before the COVID
Speaker 1: list as well, So I've got a B grade on
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett. Then the DK Metcalf, Wow, he has not
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown since Week eight, total disaster. After being
Speaker 1: a very bankable commodity at the start of the season,
Speaker 1: He's had a bunch of positive matchups and failed to
Speaker 1: come through for you. This is another one. Take it
Speaker 1: with a grain of salt. If Chicago's best cornerback, Jalen
Speaker 1: Johnson returns from COVID, he will shadow Metcalf here. Johnson
Speaker 1: had a similar assignment against Davanta Adams two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: although they're totally different receivers, and he allowed fifty eight
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown in his coverage. If Johnson can't go,
Speaker 1: we'll bump DK Metcalf up to a B. But I've
Speaker 1: got him into C grade right now. So then the
Speaker 1: Seattle running backs, so we've had Rashad Penny had the
Speaker 1: blow up game two weeks ago when he when he
Speaker 1: had two long runs for touchdowns and he did absolutely
Speaker 1: nothing last week. Then also disturbing last week, DJ Dallas
Speaker 1: had a fifty percent time share with Rashad Penny. Now
Speaker 1: kim Kiem Hicks is out, so maybe that makes things
Speaker 1: a little bit easier to run up the middle. But
Speaker 1: the Bears have been a really good run defense. It's
Speaker 1: only allowed one runner to top eighty nine yards all
Speaker 1: season long. They just bottled up way better running back
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook for three point two yards per carry last week.
Speaker 1: I just I can't. I can't advocate any of these guys.
Speaker 1: I'm keeping them all on the bench in bench grades
Speaker 1: for Penny and d J Dallas. Gerald Evard tight end
Speaker 1: also on the bench mile He's been mildly fantasy relevant lately,
Speaker 1: but Chicago has been an elite tight end defense, including
Speaker 1: a ranking fourth among all defenses in tight end defense. UM,
Speaker 1: let's try to work in one more matchup. Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Carolina can go quick, alright, good, then let's do it.
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones, was you take a chance to be running back? Charge?
Speaker 1: That's a pretty easy call. I like that one. Mike
Speaker 1: Evans not so easy. You can give him a see
Speaker 1: he's gonna try and play through this hamstring injury, but
Speaker 1: likely to be shadowed by Stephan Gilmour plus the hammy
Speaker 1: these are very very bad things, so we see both
Speaker 1: of them for Mike Evans. Antonio Brown, gonna give him
Speaker 1: a buh. Brown will seemingly step into the Chris Godwin
Speaker 1: role that Godwin had when Antonio Brown was out. Now
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown is in without Chris Godwin, so we're basically
Speaker 1: looking at guaranteed double digit targets for Brown. Caroline has
Speaker 1: surrendered seven wide receiver touchdowns over their last four games,
Speaker 1: so if you're super desperate, you can also throw a
Speaker 1: seed dart Eva harpoon at Scott, don't call me Scotty anymore.
Speaker 1: Miller uh in deeper league, Scott Miller uh Worth worth
Speaker 1: the shot, and Rob Gronkowski certainly worth the shot. And
Speaker 1: I should say divisional matchup first meeting very rare. We
Speaker 1: we mentioned it earlier in the show. They're gonna play
Speaker 1: again in week eighteen, so there's not any recent history here,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna give be Uh a gran could be
Speaker 1: a tough matchup. Over the last week. The Panthers up
Speaker 1: loudly sixteenth most Fantasy points to opposing type ends, and
Speaker 1: on the year, Carolina has only allowed two top twelve
Speaker 1: finishes to the position. But Gronk should push double digit
Speaker 1: targets in this one as well. He's an easy start,
Speaker 1: and Brady Tom Brady, of course not very easy start
Speaker 1: because of the loss of Chris Godwin. Leonard Fournett, the
Speaker 1: hobbled Mike Evans still gave him a be um despite
Speaker 1: the fact the Panthers only fourth lowest opponent passing play
Speaker 1: percentage and are allowing just one seventy nine passing yards
Speaker 1: per game. That's the second fewest. But I don't trust
Speaker 1: the Bucks run game a whole lot. I still like
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones won't get me wrong charge, and Carolina's offense
Speaker 1: should struggle to stay on the field. So let's talk
Speaker 1: about them for about five seconds. Tuba Hubbard, Uh, he's
Speaker 1: on the bench. The Bucks are allowing just ninety six
Speaker 1: combo yards and just over half a touchdown per game
Speaker 1: to running backs. Well, and he's not good enough to
Speaker 1: keep a mirror Abdula off the field. Tuba not gooding?
Speaker 1: Just stop? You know, DJ Moore if he plays, he's
Speaker 1: dealing with a hamstring injury himself. I will give him
Speaker 1: a see just based on expected volume. Uh, he should
Speaker 1: be a lot for double digit targets if he goes
Speaker 1: as far as the quarterbacks go for Carolina, we'll see
Speaker 1: the sum of Sam Darnold come back nothing and stills
Speaker 1: confidence like we're starting camp. But you'll see Sam darn
Speaker 1: cam les say about cam Well, his play on the
Speaker 1: field says a lot. It's overall this very very gross
Speaker 1: for Carolina. I know poor d J. Moore deserves better
Speaker 1: than what he's gotten through that offense. When we come back,
Speaker 1: final segment for Fantasy Football Weekly. In this semi finals edition,
Speaker 1: including Denver Broncos taking on the Las Vegas Raiders, Javante
Speaker 1: Williams is just gonna be one of his big games.
Speaker 1: He was trending towards more use last week. We'll see
Speaker 1: what Scott Fish has to say about his prospects when
Speaker 1: we return the final segment of the semi final edition
Speaker 1: of Fantasy Football Weekly. It's three matchups left, beginning with
Speaker 1: Denver taking on the Las Vegas Raiders. Scott talked to
Speaker 1: me about the running back situation. We saw Javonte Williams
Speaker 1: edge out a little bit of a lead and runs
Speaker 1: and touches last week. Do you think that continues? I do.
Speaker 1: I do. I have Williams slightly over Gordon, but I
Speaker 1: still have them both B grades. I wish I could
Speaker 1: give one of them a B plus, but appearingly I
Speaker 1: cannot do that on this show. Uh. Since Gordon has returned,
Speaker 1: Gordon has outtouched Williams four, Williams has has out gained Gordon.
Speaker 1: Williams gets more receiving work, Gordon gets a ton more
Speaker 1: red zone touches eleven to three. It's split all over.
Speaker 1: But the snaps went really down for Gordon last week,
Speaker 1: and I wonder if that's a trend because they were
Speaker 1: going down two weeks in a row before the injury
Speaker 1: as well. So I like Williams a little bit more.
Speaker 1: I do have B grades on both of them. In
Speaker 1: the passing game. This is one of those super weird
Speaker 1: I like Drew Lock. You had him as you take
Speaker 1: a chance. I don't know who to start. He was
Speaker 1: great with Sutton two years ago in the one game earlier.
Speaker 1: This year's Sutton had like fifty yards, but Judy didn't play.
Speaker 1: Judy didn't play, and at the end of last year,
Speaker 1: Locke was great with Judy. Judy like had a hundred
Speaker 1: and forty yards in this matchup last year with Locke.
Speaker 1: But can we trust it here? Can we trust Tim Patrick?
Speaker 1: Do you want to trust Fanton Albert? Oh? Together they
Speaker 1: had fifty seven and fifty eight yards last week. No,
Speaker 1: the Raiders have allowed a lot of touchdowns to tight ends,
Speaker 1: but not a lot of yards. You don't know where
Speaker 1: it's going. I'm starting no receivers for the Bronco, but
Speaker 1: I'm starting the quarterback. It makes sense. On the other side,
Speaker 1: Derek Carr, I have a bench grade on Over the
Speaker 1: last five games, the Broncos held Prescott, Hurts, Mahomes, Goff Burrow,
Speaker 1: all under two and thirty five yards. And those aren't
Speaker 1: terrible quarterbacks, won't you know? Say what you go a
Speaker 1: buck off? But the rest pretty good, three of them
Speaker 1: under two hundred. Uh Car On the other side, he's
Speaker 1: thrown for about an average of two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: yards of the last five, but just three touchdown passes
Speaker 1: over the last five. I have him on the bench.
Speaker 1: I have the tight ends on the bench. Waller is
Speaker 1: probably not gonna go, and if he doesn't, Moreau is
Speaker 1: gonna get the work. But the Broncos defense hasn't allowed
Speaker 1: to tight end over thirty yards in six weeks. Hunter
Speaker 1: renfro Though, b Grade. At this point, you just got
Speaker 1: to believe he's a stud. It was a little bit
Speaker 1: of a dud last week. Before that, he had a
Speaker 1: hundred plus yards in three straight eight plus catches. He's
Speaker 1: getting tons of targets. Even even last week he add
Speaker 1: a decent amount of targets. I think he goes back
Speaker 1: to the double digits here. Um, last time they played
Speaker 1: he at eight for seventy three. I think this is
Speaker 1: this is a spot where he's going to get bad again.
Speaker 1: Uh Josh Jacobs, b Grade. It was nice to see
Speaker 1: Jacobs get back to the eighteen plus touches after a
Speaker 1: light day in week fourteen. Drake is still out. Jacobs
Speaker 1: is getting that catching works seventeen catches and less since
Speaker 1: Jacob's gone since uh Kennan Drake has gone out. So
Speaker 1: you're gonna see three, four, five, six catches. You're gonna
Speaker 1: see B level workout of Jacob's here, all right, washington't know,
Speaker 1: I'm actually I go last sorry, we go to Miami
Speaker 1: taking on the Saints. Bryan Guy almost nailed might take
Speaker 1: a chance of running back last week with Salvin Acamed
Speaker 1: I knew a backup and running back for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: can go off, but it was Duke Johnson, which was
Speaker 1: kind of odd because Myles Gaston was running well. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe a little lingering effects of COVID UH more of
Speaker 1: a time split. I'm looking at here. I got them
Speaker 1: both on the bench. It's a tough matchup. The Saints
Speaker 1: have allowed the fourth fewest rushing yards UH and the
Speaker 1: fifth fewest touchdowns will opposing running backs. You can't trust
Speaker 1: either of the either of these guys in the semifinals
Speaker 1: this week, so both on the bench. Jalen Waddle though
Speaker 1: not on the bench. He will make his return from
Speaker 1: COVID reserve. We're gonna give him a B. He will
Speaker 1: line up most often against Saints slot corner Chauncey Gardner Johnson.
Speaker 1: Pro Football focuses on fifty first ranked corner Love Waddle
Speaker 1: and his return and DeVante Parker. Canna give him a C.
Speaker 1: He could avoid Marshawn Laddi if he stays on the
Speaker 1: left side. Primarily there's a small chance they have Lattimore
Speaker 1: shadow Parker, but either way, I think too. Of throws
Speaker 1: it a ton in this game, and Parker plays well
Speaker 1: when he's healthy, take advantage of advantage of that when possible,
Speaker 1: and he is healthy right now, So I like Parker.
Speaker 1: I will start Mike Gasicki with a s grit. I
Speaker 1: don't like him a whole lot though. Since his goose
Speaker 1: egg in Week ten, Gaski has only been averaging five
Speaker 1: targets and thirty nine yards per game. He hasn't scored
Speaker 1: since weeks seven. The Saints have only given up given
Speaker 1: up three touchdowns to tight ends all season, and over
Speaker 1: the last five weeks posing tight ends are averaging just
Speaker 1: forty three yards per game. I do like two of
Speaker 1: though he was might take a chance and met quarterback
Speaker 1: and now speak of taking a chance on a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Don't take a chance on Ian Book who's most likely
Speaker 1: will be starting this game with Tayso Hill testing positive
Speaker 1: for COVID Book, Yeah, he's on the bench. All the
Speaker 1: receivers are on the bench, and really they were gonna
Speaker 1: be on the bench anyway, even with Tayston Hill a
Speaker 1: quarterback like this also hurts Camara too, obviously. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: like to Camara a little more with Hill at quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: A book in college, like through his running backs, like
Speaker 1: twenty percent of time in the preseason. Like Lot's a
Speaker 1: good sign that he'll be leaning on Kamara a lot.
Speaker 1: But uh, but so the Dolphins who to voke key
Speaker 1: in on it's Alvin Kamara is just to see for him.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins are the only team that has not allowed
Speaker 1: a single running back touchdown over the last five weeks.
Speaker 1: Opposing backs of average the third fewest rush attempts over
Speaker 1: that span. The Dolphins have only allowed two receiving touchdowns
Speaker 1: all season. Kamara went the bed last week. You could
Speaker 1: do it again, but uh, you can't. You can't bench him,
Speaker 1: So he gets a sea Watchington takes on the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and there's not a lot to like on the Washington
Speaker 1: side of this. Uh. Antonio Gibson miss practice on Wednesday
Speaker 1: and Thursday with a toe injury. J D. Mckissics on,
Speaker 1: I are Jared Patterson might be the last minute. It
Speaker 1: is worth noting Gibbs had played almost the entire game
Speaker 1: on the toe. That is true, and I'm not reading
Speaker 1: too much too much into that at this point. So
Speaker 1: we'll we'll assume he's gonna start in this one. The
Speaker 1: only thing going for him is just volume. He's averaging
Speaker 1: twenty four touches per game since Week nine, but he's
Speaker 1: not doing anything with it. He's been below four yards
Speaker 1: per carry in four straight games, so and Dallas is
Speaker 1: giving up four and a half yards per carry. So
Speaker 1: that gives Gibson a little bit of hope here. Opposing
Speaker 1: number one receivers. Sorry, runners have scored in three of
Speaker 1: the past four for Dallas. So I've got a B grade,
Speaker 1: and Antonio Gibson under the assumption he's gonna go and
Speaker 1: get the twenty four carries he usually gets. The passing game,
Speaker 1: I don't like very much. Taylor heineke Is has cleared
Speaker 1: the protocol, but he's start exactly one touchdown in six
Speaker 1: of the past eight games, including his last game, which
Speaker 1: was against these same Cowboys. It's just one touchdown. If
Speaker 1: he's gonna get it, it'll go to Terry McLaren. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: Cowboys secondary has been vulnerable lately. McLaren has been has
Speaker 1: done by the way, but you can dust him off
Speaker 1: here with a C grade. Dallas giving up one hundred
Speaker 1: seventy eight yards per game to receivers. That's sixth most
Speaker 1: McLaren's gonna draw a lot of cornerback Trayvon Diggs. But
Speaker 1: as I like to remind people, he's allowed the most
Speaker 1: yards of any player in his coverage eight hundred yards
Speaker 1: charged to Trayvon Digs. So far, let's go to the
Speaker 1: Dallas side. Many Washington players still in the COVID protocol,
Speaker 1: and maybe most significantly among them, two starting cornerbacks. Kendall
Speaker 1: Fuller's in the COVID protocol as well, and William Jackson's
Speaker 1: just beat up. So we're gonna follow their status pretty
Speaker 1: closely here and see what we can figure out for them.
Speaker 1: For Dak Prescott continually disappointing in a month of straight
Speaker 1: good matchups on paper, he continues to disappoint, and I
Speaker 1: keep grading and fire, then he ends up finishing. He's
Speaker 1: now thrown one touchdown pass in three straight games and
Speaker 1: averaging just two two passing yards over those games, and
Speaker 1: one of those games is against Washington two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: So I love the On paper, he should be in
Speaker 1: a grade, but I'm only giving him a B grade here,
Speaker 1: and frankly, it's put recent play do he does to
Speaker 1: me personally because he's let me down. Ceedee Lamb has
Speaker 1: posted has posted seven catches for six He did post
Speaker 1: seven catches sixty one scoreless yards when these teams met
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and that's almost exactly his
Speaker 1: average game over the last three seven catches sixty one yards,
Speaker 1: which is very average. Washington's a middle of the pack
Speaker 1: receiver defense, um, but again they could be missing two
Speaker 1: key cornerbacks, at which point I would upgrade Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 1: from a B to an A. A. Marie Cooper, what
Speaker 1: a disaster season has spent for him. His fifty one
Speaker 1: yards against Washington two weeks ago is the most he
Speaker 1: has had in any of his last five games, fifty
Speaker 1: one yards. Washington has improved the middle of the pack
Speaker 1: against receivers over the last six games, is giving up
Speaker 1: a hundred fifty yards per game to the position. So
Speaker 1: just a C grade on a Marie Cooper C grade.
Speaker 1: And Michael Gallup who's getting targets, but he is not
Speaker 1: doing a lot with them unfortunately, and it hasn't scored
Speaker 1: only one tour score on the season so far. And
Speaker 1: then the last guy in the passing game dimension, Dalton Sheltz,
Speaker 1: only one catch for four score less yards when these
Speaker 1: teams first met in Week fourteen, But the football team
Speaker 1: will be playing on a short week and they were
Speaker 1: just lit up by Dallas Goddard. So there's that. Then
Speaker 1: what do you do about Zeke and Pollard? Elliot's now
Speaker 1: gone eight consecutive games a thout clearing sixty yards on
Speaker 1: the ground, which is gross. Pollard shockingly active last week
Speaker 1: coming off his and he did look good. Really they
Speaker 1: should both be bench grades, but I'm gonna put give
Speaker 1: Zeke a C grade because he continues to get the
Speaker 1: ball at the strike and that might be your best
Speaker 1: chance for him against a very good Washington run defense.
Speaker 1: I'm leaving Pollard on the bench. So there you go.
Speaker 1: Who all right? Play? Some part of this holds up
Speaker 1: for you in the semifinals, a lot of moving parts
Speaker 1: really testing your skills. Will be back next week for
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